Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3014 CWSA 11⧸10⧸25

00:00:00.160 We got room. Lots of room today.

00:00:03.960 But people will be coming in because they need to hear what I have to say.

00:00:07.660 Because it's better than what other people have to say, as far as I know.

00:00:12.820 All right, let's see how your stocks are doing.

00:00:16.100 Wait, today's Monday, right?

00:00:19.040 It's funny that the company named Snap is probably moving on the news about Snap.

00:00:23.740 That has nothing to do with the company.

00:00:25.900 Whoa, stocks are up.

00:00:28.060 Hello.

00:00:30.000 What? Rumbles up 14%.

00:00:32.280 But it's still from low.

00:00:36.400 And then the Tesla's up too.

00:00:39.000 Not bad.

00:00:41.360 Last week was devastating, so not that good either.

00:00:46.020 All right, everybody.

00:00:47.400 Did you find a seat?

00:00:50.660 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

00:00:55.540 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.

00:00:58.800 But if you'd like to take a chance on elevating your experience here to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains,

00:01:07.440 all you need for that is a copper mug or a glass of tankard shells or stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.

00:01:16.520 Fill it with your favorite liquid, fill it with your favorite liquid, I like coffee.

00:01:21.600 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine the other day.

00:01:25.640 The thing that makes everything better.

00:01:27.880 If only I could lift my arm.

00:01:29.240 It's called the simultaneous sip.

00:01:35.040 And it happens now.

00:01:36.860 I'll give you a second one.

00:01:41.820 See, you weren't ready.

00:01:43.200 You weren't ready.

00:01:44.680 But now you are.

00:01:45.480 All right, let me check my situation here.

00:01:51.040 Do we have any kind of news about coffee being healthy for you?

00:01:55.420 Oh, it turns out that coffee is really good for you, according to Dr. Marcus.

00:02:01.460 That your odds of surviving a heart problem if you've got a cup of coffee in you is way better.

00:02:07.180 Not because of that one cup of coffee.

00:02:09.980 But people that have coffee, coffee, coffee.

00:02:13.100 Yeah, I said coffee.

00:02:15.080 I grew up in upstate New York.

00:02:16.620 I can say coffee.

00:02:17.860 Can we agree on that?

00:02:20.600 All right.

00:02:21.580 So despite my maximum coffee influence,

00:02:25.080 I had a really good nap this morning.

00:02:28.300 I didn't think I was going to be awake for the show.

00:02:30.540 But I made it.

00:02:32.780 Pain level is currently manageable.

00:02:37.180 It's been pretty bad lately, but maybe it's a little bit less today.

00:02:41.360 That would be good.

00:02:43.100 Well, apparently Microsoft, according to Tech Explorer,

00:02:46.280 Microsoft is going to look into what they call super intelligence after the open AI deal.

00:02:52.640 So their current deal, I guess, allows them to explore with ChatGPT.

00:02:57.680 So this would be Microsoft plus ChatGPT.

00:02:59.880 Allows them to explore sort of ordinary AI, as if there's anything ordinary about it.

00:03:05.920 But if they want to go all the way to super intelligence, super intelligence,

00:03:12.440 then it looks like they would make another deal.

00:03:15.960 And that super intelligence would look different.

00:03:18.620 That would be the good stuff.

00:03:20.500 Do you know what that means?

00:03:21.720 It means they don't know how to do super intelligence.

00:03:23.760 And that whatever they're doing now is the best they know how to do at the moment.

00:03:29.340 Does that mean they'll ever be able to do super intelligence?

00:03:33.220 Probably they will eventually.

00:03:35.240 But I don't know if it's going to happen on Tuesday or anything.

00:03:39.680 All right.

00:03:40.100 So that would be when robots can do everything we can do, super intelligence.

00:03:47.120 Well, Trump is pardoned, or is it called a pardon?

00:03:51.780 I always get the pardons and the clemencies and all that mixed up.

00:03:55.200 But basically he pardoned a whole bunch of his cronies before they've been charged with anything.

00:04:01.420 So they haven't been charged.

00:04:02.580 This would be a situation where it's just getting ahead of it, just in case.

00:04:08.120 But it includes Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Ken Chesibro, a whole bunch of people, some of the names you've heard.

00:04:15.760 But they seem to have all been involved in one way or another with the, quote, fake electors plot.

00:04:23.220 Now, that's what Democrats call it.

00:04:24.800 They call it fake electors.

00:04:26.800 Why?

00:04:27.740 Because they're word thinkers.

00:04:29.420 If they can get you to accept that a good label for what happened was that it was that,

00:04:37.080 there's a bunch of people who did some illegal stuff and they need a pardon, well, then they win.

00:04:43.240 So I did wonder if this is actually a good play.

00:04:46.280 Because it does, even though they're not even charged with anything relevant to these actions,

00:04:53.360 they're not charged with anything, it kind of makes them look a little guilty, doesn't it?

00:04:57.800 That they accepted it.

00:04:58.740 So Trump himself did not pardon himself, but does that matter if you can pardon yourself anytime you want?

00:05:05.780 He can kind of, you know, if he got in trouble, he could bang that out in a few minutes.

00:05:10.040 So I wouldn't make too much of the fact that he excluded himself from that.

00:05:14.360 He could do it anytime.

00:05:16.120 Anyway, that was good programming.

00:05:19.960 So it's one of those stories that reminds you that the Trump people may have been mistreated.

00:05:27.560 So it's kind of good that way.

00:05:29.300 But it also makes it look like maybe they needed a pardon.

00:05:33.260 What'd they do?

00:05:34.860 So this one works both ways.

00:05:37.080 But if Trump thought this was a really good timing for it, because we're too distracted with other things, he'd be right.

00:05:46.320 The distractions are all over the place.

00:05:49.040 So this one just, it isn't going to move any, you know, move anything.

00:05:53.000 So if some people he liked got some pardons, well, he wins.

00:05:58.340 I don't know if the juice is worth the squeeze, as the boring people say.

00:06:01.740 But the Democrats will get to sell this as authoritarian, right?

00:06:07.620 Because they sell everything as authoritarian.

00:06:09.960 What?

00:06:11.260 What?

00:06:12.080 He's giving pardons to his friends?

00:06:14.280 Not to his friends.

00:06:15.800 That would look like he's some kind of authoritarian.

00:06:19.660 Authoritarian.

00:06:21.240 So that's coming.

00:06:23.320 Well, here's another story.

00:06:24.780 I don't believe it all, but Dylan Butts over at CNBC is talking about China, allegedly.

00:06:32.120 Suspended some critical mineral export curbs.

00:06:35.980 How many times have we heard that China or the U.S. made some kind of change to their tariffs and their, you know, their minerals?

00:06:46.720 I feel like none of it is believable.

00:06:49.380 Are you having the same reaction?

00:06:51.380 It's like, yeah, maybe somebody did something.

00:06:53.620 But more likely, they're all just going to go ahead and do what they were going to do anyway before any of this was announced.

00:06:58.740 I just don't believe anything that comes out of, oh, China decided to do a totally reasonable trade deal with us.

00:07:06.700 Did they?

00:07:07.740 Did they really?

00:07:09.960 Well, we'll find out.

00:07:10.720 Allegedly, you were easing, somebody's easing some restrictions and blah, blah, blah, I don't believe.

00:07:17.020 So I don't believe any of it.

00:07:18.840 But it would be great if it were true.

00:07:21.260 All right.

00:07:22.200 Here is the big payoff.

00:07:24.880 So how many of you were with me in 2015 when I changed the world by introducing the reframe that it's not about the policies, it's about the persuasion.

00:07:38.120 And if you didn't see that Trump was coming, oh, he was coming in 2015.

00:07:42.440 If you didn't recognize how much power he was bringing to the domain, you were probably really surprised when he won.

00:07:51.600 But famously, I was not surprised.

00:07:54.380 So I had a worldview that predicted, would you say?

00:07:57.680 Would it be fair to say my worldview, that he's persuasive, predicted that he would win even outside of his domain?

00:08:04.380 And then he did.

00:08:07.380 So I often say that the closest you can get to reality is prediction.

00:08:14.000 So if I was able to predict that Trump would do well based on his persuasion skills, and I think most people agree that that's exactly why he's doing well, his persuasion skills.

00:08:26.100 That's now a done deal, wouldn't you say?

00:08:27.680 Okay, even the AI acknowledges that I changed the argument from policy to persuasion.

00:08:36.040 But there's one more coming.

00:08:39.160 You ready?

00:08:41.340 I've got another reframe that you haven't heard yet.

00:08:47.980 This will blow your mind.

00:08:51.560 I'm going to have to tiptoe into it a little bit.

00:08:54.520 Because once it settles in, you're going to be like, whoa, whoa, why did I never think of that?

00:09:01.700 You ready?

00:09:03.020 All right.

00:09:07.480 So here's what he does.

00:09:12.640 Do you know who Thomas Sowell is?

00:09:16.400 Thomas Sowell, famous economist.

00:09:20.020 He's a conservative.

00:09:20.840 And he does a really good job of explaining stuff, doesn't he?

00:09:27.400 He's like a really good explainer.

00:09:29.580 And I always wonder, who do the Democrats have on their side who's a good explainer?

00:09:36.000 And how important would it be if in 2015 you started training half of the country, but not the other half,

00:09:44.880 in how to think better, how to think better, which is not really persuasion per se.

00:09:56.020 You know, persuasion would be part of thinking better, but it's much bigger.

00:10:00.720 All right, let me give you some names here.

00:10:04.000 And then you're going to see this come together pretty fast.

00:10:06.080 Why did I put the thing I wanted to do first?

00:10:11.700 Last.

00:10:13.420 Because that's how I am.

00:10:14.900 All right, here it is.

00:10:16.740 So the other day, I was, remember I was naming some well-known conservative podcasters?

00:10:23.340 And I started realizing how many there are and how skilled they are.

00:10:26.840 But let me just go down the list, and I want you to see if you can find the pattern.

00:10:33.620 The pattern is that conservatives have been teaching each other how to think better and more productively for about 10 years.

00:10:42.360 And I don't think that the Democrats have even tried.

00:10:45.920 So when I look at the conservatives, Republicans, trying to figure out a new thing,

00:10:51.740 you know, let's say there's a new policy thing pops out,

00:10:54.140 you can see them thinking better than they used to.

00:10:57.980 You can see it, right?

00:10:59.420 But let me give you some names of people who are identified with the right,

00:11:03.920 and then you can see why you can see this, but the left can't.

00:11:08.820 Why are they blind to it?

00:11:10.300 I'll give you some names.

00:11:11.600 Newt Gingrich can explain, you know, any kind of history thing,

00:11:17.540 and he's got the whole context of everything from the Clintons, from the Congress, and everything else.

00:11:22.620 So when Newt Gingrich is explaining something to you, you know,

00:11:27.540 whether it's in a blog or he's doing an appearance, he's making you smarter, right?

00:11:34.620 How about Ben Shapiro?

00:11:37.260 Now, you can hate on Ben Shapiro, so I put him near first so he can get over it faster.

00:11:42.560 Just get over it.

00:11:43.740 I'm only talking about smartness.

00:11:46.680 Wouldn't you rather have Ben Shapiro on your team if you're trying to be the smart team?

00:11:53.080 Now, you could disagree with him on all kinds of policies because people are different,

00:11:57.160 but don't you want the smart team on your side?

00:12:00.260 You know, like the whole Daily Wire cast?

00:12:02.600 Like they're all smarter than, way smarter than average.

00:12:05.860 Don't you want them on your team?

00:12:07.060 Of course you do.

00:12:08.180 What about Jordan Peterson?

00:12:09.400 Now, Jordan Peterson, I don't think he tries too hard to be a Republican or a Democrat,

00:12:15.340 but he seems to get along better with the conservatives.

00:12:19.320 Who in the world is as productive in terms of telling you how to live your life

00:12:24.280 and understand reality and be effective than Jordan Peterson?

00:12:29.920 What do they have on the left?

00:12:32.580 I mean, just think of some of these names.

00:12:34.520 It's incredible the difference in skill.

00:12:37.540 And you go right down the line.

00:12:39.200 You know, you're Megyn Kelly.

00:12:40.640 She knows the law.

00:12:41.580 She knows the news.

00:12:42.420 She knows the news business.

00:12:45.480 Tim Pool.

00:12:47.400 You can do a deep dive on anything with the right set of guests.

00:12:51.520 PBD, amazing.

00:12:53.020 He has great guests.

00:12:55.820 Sean Ryan, a bunch of people.

00:12:57.760 So I would add myself to the list of people who help you think.

00:13:02.500 If you look at all of my books on the shelf behind me,

00:13:05.800 they're all in that domain.

00:13:06.940 They're what is loser think, what is persuasion, you know, systems versus goals, talent stack.

00:13:16.160 Now, let me just put it in the simplest form.

00:13:19.200 So those of you who have consumed my content for the last 10 years,

00:13:23.140 most of you have read maybe at least one of my books.

00:13:26.040 Can you validate that if every Republican read my books, that Republicans would have like a superpower?

00:13:35.260 It would just be crazy.

00:13:36.580 Well, they don't.

00:13:38.580 I'll read my books.

00:13:39.720 But they read other books from other people who are also very good at explaining things.

00:13:45.160 Thomas Hull would be a good example.

00:13:46.900 And it seems to me that we've got 10 years of conservatives teaching people how to think and operate better,

00:13:55.300 and no years of the Democrats doing that, like none.

00:14:00.640 The Democrats are more like arguing if you're a racist or not.

00:14:04.720 How many legs does that have? 1.00

00:14:08.940 If your whole strategy is arguing the other side is a bunch of racist, sexist, does that last?

00:14:14.800 I mean, is that a long-term strategy?

00:14:18.720 I don't know.

00:14:19.160 I also think that one of the reasons that we note that conservatives seem to tolerate more dissenting voices

00:14:28.920 is because they're trained.

00:14:32.280 Let me give you a specific example.

00:14:36.260 If someone who had never been introduced to Nick Fuente's content, let's say a Democrat,

00:14:42.140 were exposed to it with no preparation, just exposed to it, would you be happy with that?

00:14:48.160 I mean, it's free speech, but beyond the free speech, would you be happy with that influence?

00:14:55.220 Maybe yes.

00:14:56.540 Maybe no.

00:14:57.600 Right?

00:14:58.280 But suppose you heard that I went on, and I'm not going to do this, by the way,

00:15:04.040 but suppose you heard that I went on a show to talk to Nick Fuente's,

00:15:08.700 and you know who I am, so you know everything about me.

00:15:11.960 Would you be worried that his opinion would change my opinion?

00:15:16.600 Would you?

00:15:18.160 Do you think that might happen?

00:15:20.320 No.

00:15:20.860 There's not a chance.

00:15:21.980 But might my opinion change his opinion?

00:15:24.420 Totally.

00:15:25.520 I'm not saying it would, but if you're going to guess who is likely to change the person's opinion,

00:15:31.400 it would be the one who's trained to do it, although he's very good at it.

00:15:34.440 He's very good at it as well.

00:15:35.540 So I think the reason I can watch Candace and Nick and Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro,

00:15:44.500 and they're all arguing, and it sounds like somebody's anti-Semitic and somebody's not.

00:15:48.920 You know, it sounds like terrible stuff.

00:15:50.280 But I'm just trained to not treat it that way.

00:15:55.360 It's just training.

00:15:56.880 And I think a lot of conservatives are just trained the same way.

00:16:00.220 It's like, you know, I'm not saying it's a nothing.

00:16:04.200 I'm just saying that the conservatives can handle it better.

00:16:07.500 They can handle the friction better.

00:16:08.660 All right.

00:16:11.900 I'm going to go way back to where I started, because then I'm going to maybe have some more examples of this.

00:16:17.400 So as you know, the government's going to reopen maybe on Monday.

00:16:21.220 Not sure yet.

00:16:26.020 So eight Democrats crossed over and voted to reopen, which, if that holds, they'll reopen today sometime.

00:16:34.260 It might take a day or so.

00:16:35.620 I don't know.

00:16:35.920 There's only eight of them, and, of course, you should see.

00:16:40.260 Have you seen how angry the Democrats are at the ones who voted for this?

00:16:44.480 Oh, my goodness.

00:16:45.460 They're very angry.

00:16:47.280 They're calling their own team traitors and everything.

00:16:51.880 And, well, if that's how you want to play it, that your own team is traitors if they do something that's, first of all, perfectly predictable.

00:17:02.140 Perfectly predictable.

00:17:05.920 And then it happens.

00:17:07.680 All right.

00:17:08.940 Even on MSNBC, one of the hosts said, it seems like the president was kind of getting what he wanted.

00:17:15.260 Yeah.

00:17:16.960 That's what that looks like.

00:17:17.960 That's the president kind of getting what he wanted.

00:17:19.560 And he still hasn't given up on getting rid of the filibuster.

00:17:25.220 I thought he wanted to get rid of the filibuster.

00:17:28.040 It was just sort of opportunistic.

00:17:30.080 He might want to do it anyway.

00:17:31.180 But even though he gets his government reopened, he's still like, well, while we're at it, maybe we'll kill that filibuster while we're at it.

00:17:41.500 Anyway, Fetterman is one of the ones who famously cross-sized to vote for opening the government.

00:17:49.000 Good for Fetterman.

00:17:49.860 As long as he doesn't want any future in the Democrat Party, it's good for him.

00:17:56.120 He basically eliminated himself from higher office as a Democrat, I think.

00:18:00.920 Because the Democrats believe that fighting is just doing annoying things while people are watching, I guess.

00:18:09.040 I guess that's what they think fighting Donald Trump is.

00:18:11.220 All right.

00:18:13.340 So did it work that Trump threatened the filibuster or threatened to end it?

00:18:18.320 Did that work?

00:18:20.740 There's no way to know if anybody changed the vote just because of the filibuster.

00:18:25.640 But it might have.

00:18:26.720 It might have worked a little bit.

00:18:28.160 People might have thought, well, if we give him this, maybe he won't also try to get the filibuster.

00:18:34.060 To which I said, have you met Trump?

00:18:36.400 Have you heard about him?

00:18:37.360 No, he's not going to give up on the filibuster just because he got something else.

00:18:42.960 He'll try to get everything he can get, whatever is the most aggressive stance, of course.

00:18:49.060 Anyway, the other thing that's funny, going back to my theme,

00:18:54.280 is that Democrats will have no idea what's happening today

00:18:58.900 because they don't have a worldview that incorporates what they're witnessing.

00:19:04.400 They just don't have any worldview that explains this.

00:19:08.000 Like, why did all my heroes say, there's no way, no way we're going to cave,

00:19:14.240 and then they caved?

00:19:16.400 Was it ever important?

00:19:18.860 Don't you think it leaves the Democrats with some big questions about their own side?

00:19:24.060 Yeah, some big questions.

00:19:26.520 So the Democrats are going to look at their side as a bunch of wimpy losers.

00:19:29.980 There's going to be more pressure on Schumer to get the heck out of that job

00:19:35.340 because he's an embarrassment. 0.58

00:19:37.060 Bernie Sanders pointed out that the Republicans ruined health care.

00:19:44.800 He ruined health care.

00:19:47.800 Correct me if I'm wrong, but one of the things I'm watching

00:19:50.420 is that every time the Democrats ruin something,

00:19:56.400 don't they blame Republicans?

00:19:59.600 Every time the Democrats ruin something?

00:20:01.460 Because who ruined climate change?

00:20:05.080 That wasn't Republicans.

00:20:08.780 How about the border?

00:20:10.980 Not Republicans.

00:20:12.380 How about inflation?

00:20:14.140 It wasn't Republicans.

00:20:15.120 So there seems to be a clear pattern here,

00:20:18.040 which is the Democrats do these things which have gigantic downsides,

00:20:23.260 and then they sell as hard as they can that the problem was from the Republicans.

00:20:28.260 That's their whole game,

00:20:30.420 is doing dumb shit and trying to blame it on the other side. 0.58

00:20:33.960 That's it.

00:20:34.760 That's all they have, and they use it a lot.

00:20:38.760 Anyway, and apparently there's somebody who admitted

00:20:41.140 that the real play for Schumer and the Democrats

00:20:44.580 was to get crime out of the news

00:20:49.020 because I guess the Democrats thought they were losing

00:20:51.320 if they were talking about crime

00:20:53.440 because nobody liked crime.

00:20:56.700 So if they said it's really about health care,

00:21:00.540 that would be the strongest emotional pull

00:21:03.140 to pull the headlines away from anything

00:21:07.820 except what they wanted to focus on.

00:21:09.420 In this case, it was health care.

00:21:11.140 So if that's what they were doing,

00:21:13.520 it was kind of a good play, you know, politically,

00:21:16.900 if that's what they were doing.

00:21:19.920 But boy, did they get savaged.

00:21:23.300 Schumer's going to get savaged.

00:21:25.020 They're all just going to get totally thrown under the bus.

00:21:29.000 Now, on top of that,

00:21:31.260 and again, I'll go back to my main theme,

00:21:33.880 how do Democrats understand what they're seeing?

00:21:36.400 And this is something that the Republican model of the world

00:21:42.140 can completely explain.

00:21:44.740 I think it can.

00:21:45.940 Can it?

00:21:46.940 The Republican model is that Trump is very persuasive,

00:21:50.280 and if you wait long enough,

00:21:52.120 he's going to win the negotiation,

00:21:54.540 and the government will open,

00:21:56.540 and we will look back and say,

00:21:58.840 oh, why did we ever think he was going to lose this negotiation?

00:22:01.400 He's better at that than we are.

00:22:03.600 And then that's what happened.

00:22:05.400 So the Trump sort of version of the world,

00:22:09.220 where Trump is persuasive and it matters,

00:22:11.580 and he actually wins because of it,

00:22:13.680 here we are.

00:22:15.320 So isn't it true that my worldview predicted?

00:22:21.000 My worldview predicted, again.

00:22:23.440 So that doesn't mean it's true,

00:22:26.120 but it's the closest thing to being true.

00:22:30.100 All right.

00:22:31.300 So the BBC, this is hilarious.

00:22:33.960 The BBC actually,

00:22:36.740 and the fact that this is a government-funded news entity

00:22:39.920 in Great Britain,

00:22:41.220 the BBC edited some text from Trump's speech on January 6th

00:22:48.620 to make it look like he was encouraging people

00:22:51.160 to go there and be violent when nothing like that happened,

00:22:54.840 meaning that there was no language like that.

00:22:57.380 They just spliced together some existing stuff

00:22:59.620 and made it look like he was calling on violence.

00:23:04.680 Now, weirdly, but it's good,

00:23:09.360 who's the guy they call Tater?

00:23:14.380 Who's the guy on CNN that Greg Garfield always mocks Tater?

00:23:19.800 So Tater is one of the ones who bought into

00:23:23.220 the fine people hoax completely.

00:23:26.260 Then he went away, but then he came back.

00:23:28.700 And now, believe it or not,

00:23:31.060 Tater is completely supporting the point of view

00:23:35.680 that this was a fake, spliced together thing,

00:23:39.560 and it was never true,

00:23:41.280 and it was exactly the same as the fine people hoax.

00:23:44.500 Exactly the same.

00:23:45.260 They just took some words that he did say

00:23:48.180 and crafted them together in a way that he didn't say them

00:23:51.480 and then claimed they did.

00:23:53.320 Now, do you know why this didn't work?

00:23:55.660 Why didn't it work?

00:23:57.520 The only reason that didn't work,

00:24:00.680 the way it did work,

00:24:02.420 was the fine people hoax for about four years.

00:24:05.060 It did work for about four years.

00:24:07.300 The reason it didn't work

00:24:08.480 is that conservatives,

00:24:11.060 you're waiting for it?

00:24:13.420 I'm tying it all together now.

00:24:15.140 The reason it didn't work

00:24:16.520 is that we had trained conservatives

00:24:19.040 what it looks like

00:24:20.240 when they do this kind of hoax,

00:24:23.580 this specific kind of hoax.

00:24:25.940 You've all seen it.

00:24:28.080 Once you've seen how they can do it,

00:24:30.860 you, first of all,

00:24:32.140 you can see all the parts,

00:24:33.700 and then you're like,

00:24:34.220 oh, okay, I see how this works.

00:24:36.880 But you can see all the parts.

00:24:40.440 There's nothing you have to guess at.

00:24:42.260 It's all right there.

00:24:43.960 So even CNN,

00:24:45.180 who is trying to find the middle ground,

00:24:47.160 and I would say is succeeding.

00:24:48.980 I think CNN has succeeded

00:24:50.320 in finding middle ground news place.

00:24:54.400 And I give them credit for that

00:24:56.640 because they did talk about this

00:24:59.040 as sort of a scandal.

00:25:01.260 I mean, it's a competitor there,

00:25:02.940 so that's easier.

00:25:04.220 But they did talk about a scandal.

00:25:07.160 And if that had never existed,

00:25:09.000 the find people hoax,

00:25:09.900 you wouldn't have even known

00:25:10.960 that the BBC did that.

00:25:13.500 You just wouldn't have even known.

00:25:19.580 All right.

00:25:20.540 Surprisingly,

00:25:21.840 Turning Point USA has an event today

00:25:23.580 at UC Berkeley,

00:25:25.160 of all liberal places.

00:25:27.160 Now, UC Berkeley is where

00:25:28.420 I went to go get my MBA.

00:25:31.580 But I've parted ways with them.

00:25:33.320 I am not happy with UC Berkeley.

00:25:36.000 But it is good to see

00:25:37.040 that they would have welcomed

00:25:38.180 a conservative group,

00:25:40.920 which I'm not sure

00:25:42.180 they would have done that before.

00:25:43.400 So that looks like progress.

00:25:45.640 Looks like progress.

00:25:46.980 But still,

00:25:48.880 this is what I talk about

00:25:49.960 when I say that

00:25:50.780 Republicans would be haunted.

00:25:54.140 I would not feel safe

00:25:55.740 if somebody knew me by sight

00:25:58.960 and I went to a

00:26:00.440 conservative event in Berkeley.

00:26:03.000 Do you think I should feel safe

00:26:04.600 if I did that?

00:26:06.240 We're not there yet.

00:26:08.380 We're heading there.

00:26:09.380 I feel like we're heading there.

00:26:10.760 It's definitely safer

00:26:11.680 than it used to be.

00:26:13.500 But it's definitely not safe.

00:26:16.520 So is there anybody on the left

00:26:18.920 who ever experiences that,

00:26:21.540 which is they've never,

00:26:22.640 haven't broken any laws,

00:26:23.900 they're not planning to.

00:26:25.000 They just have a different opinion.

00:26:26.780 But they can't go in public

00:26:27.980 in a way that they could

00:26:29.540 express that opinion

00:26:30.560 because they get hunted.

00:26:32.640 You just can't do it.

00:26:34.580 The fact that Democrats

00:26:36.640 are not aware

00:26:37.780 that I couldn't walk outside

00:26:40.060 and go to Berkeley

00:26:40.760 with a MAGA hat,

00:26:42.780 you know,

00:26:43.020 they would think,

00:26:43.780 oh, you know,

00:26:44.500 you're whining about too much.

00:26:46.220 That's a pretty legitimate whine,

00:26:48.660 isn't it?

00:26:49.700 If you can't go outside

00:26:51.060 in your own relative neighborhood

00:26:53.340 because you might get beat up

00:26:54.920 for your political opinion,

00:26:56.060 that's completely legitimate.

00:26:58.000 Yeah, that's getting hunted.

00:27:01.180 But getting better, maybe.

00:27:02.800 Who knows?

00:27:03.980 So this is funny.

00:27:05.000 Kathy Hochul,

00:27:06.100 governor of New York,

00:27:07.580 is saying that

00:27:08.140 Zoran Mamdani's idea

00:27:09.440 of free buses,

00:27:10.440 well,

00:27:11.840 well,

00:27:12.280 maybe you won't see

00:27:13.160 any free buses.

00:27:14.500 Well,

00:27:15.300 I'm not sure

00:27:17.480 you'll ever see

00:27:18.020 any free buses.

00:27:19.180 She says,

00:27:19.980 and I quote,

00:27:20.620 I cannot set forth

00:27:21.640 a plan right now

00:27:22.640 that takes money

00:27:23.760 out of a system

00:27:24.540 that relies on the fares

00:27:25.660 and the buses

00:27:26.200 and the subways.

00:27:27.980 So all it takes

00:27:29.100 is some bureaucratic reason

00:27:30.520 and it all goes away.

00:27:33.400 So do you think

00:27:34.080 that Mamdani

00:27:35.020 will find a way

00:27:36.000 to do these things

00:27:38.100 that are not funded

00:27:38.980 but if you did fund them

00:27:41.040 you'd have to take away

00:27:41.880 something substantial

00:27:42.900 from people

00:27:44.080 who are already funded?

00:27:45.560 Do you think

00:27:46.120 he can pull that off?

00:27:48.320 I doubt it.

00:27:49.860 I doubt it.

00:27:51.300 But reality

00:27:52.140 has come to visit

00:27:52.980 the socialists.

00:27:54.740 I hope they enjoy it.

00:27:56.800 Speaking of reality,

00:27:57.880 Trump is,

00:27:59.380 I saw that he's promising this.

00:28:01.760 I don't know

00:28:02.360 if that's yet the right word

00:28:04.420 but he's teased

00:28:05.740 at least

00:28:06.560 that consumers

00:28:08.120 or taxpayers

00:28:08.820 might get a $2,000 check

00:28:12.200 back from taxes

00:28:14.300 as part of their

00:28:15.560 tariff payoff.

00:28:18.740 What do you think of that?

00:28:20.660 Just everybody

00:28:21.300 gets a $2,000 check.

00:28:22.880 Now it would not include

00:28:24.100 high income people.

00:28:26.360 So I don't know

00:28:27.080 if I'm in that

00:28:27.760 or not in that.

00:28:28.660 I think my current income

00:28:29.800 is zero.

00:28:30.240 Once you actually

00:28:32.720 look at the expenses.

00:28:34.220 Like actually zero.

00:28:35.480 Not cheating on my taxes.

00:28:37.640 I think it's actually zero.

00:28:41.600 Because I have a staff

00:28:42.740 and the income went down

00:28:45.720 when I got canceled.

00:28:46.740 Blah, blah, blah.

00:28:47.420 So it's somewhere around

00:28:48.680 break even basically.

00:28:49.940 Which is fine.

00:28:51.100 Because I'm not looking

00:28:51.920 to build assets.

00:28:52.760 I'm just looking

00:28:53.260 to not lose them.

00:28:55.380 All right.

00:28:57.600 What do you think

00:28:58.260 of that idea?

00:28:58.940 Somebody mocked me

00:29:00.000 and said,

00:29:01.240 Scott,

00:29:02.060 do you think

00:29:02.620 it's really a good idea

00:29:03.580 to give all these people

00:29:05.020 $2,000?

00:29:05.980 What will happen?

00:29:07.140 To which I said,

00:29:08.240 I don't know.

00:29:09.260 What will happen?

00:29:10.680 I have no idea

00:29:11.540 what would happen

00:29:12.080 if he gave everybody

00:29:12.840 $2,000.

00:29:15.480 Inflation?

00:29:16.960 I think the right answer

00:29:18.280 is inflation.

00:29:19.860 Maybe.

00:29:21.420 But sometimes

00:29:23.300 the inflation

00:29:24.020 is worth it.

00:29:25.660 So Trump's smart

00:29:26.580 about reading the room.

00:29:27.840 If he can find

00:29:28.700 any way at all

00:29:29.940 to give somebody

00:29:30.720 a few bucks,

00:29:31.760 they're going to be happier

00:29:32.700 than if they didn't

00:29:33.360 get a few bucks.

00:29:35.180 And that's all it is.

00:29:37.620 All right.

00:29:38.380 So I've been trying

00:29:40.220 to figure out

00:29:40.740 if our economy

00:29:41.460 is good or bad.

00:29:43.260 Have any of you

00:29:43.900 figured that out yet?

00:29:46.340 The U.S. economy,

00:29:47.540 is it good or bad?

00:29:48.500 Because when

00:29:50.440 the Republicans talk,

00:29:51.500 they say it's good.

00:29:53.160 And they give

00:29:53.580 some examples.

00:29:54.900 When the Democrats

00:29:55.920 talk about it,

00:29:56.920 they say it's bad.

00:29:58.480 And they give

00:29:58.940 some examples.

00:30:00.360 Who's right?

00:30:02.840 Don't you think

00:30:03.620 we should at least

00:30:04.260 know the most

00:30:05.520 basic thing

00:30:06.340 about our reality?

00:30:07.560 The most basic

00:30:08.580 thing about our reality

00:30:09.480 is that either

00:30:10.960 the economy is good

00:30:11.940 or it's bad.

00:30:12.960 And we can't decide

00:30:14.400 if it's good or bad.

00:30:16.020 Was it Mark Twain

00:30:19.520 who said that

00:30:20.100 we can't tell

00:30:20.800 the difference

00:30:21.240 between good news

00:30:22.260 and bad news?

00:30:23.780 That humans

00:30:24.320 can't tell the difference?

00:30:25.540 Well, it feels like that.

00:30:27.820 But I did see a post

00:30:28.960 that says that

00:30:29.820 I think this might have

00:30:31.300 been from a screen grab

00:30:32.720 on Fox News.

00:30:34.380 That coffee is up

00:30:35.120 19 percent.

00:30:36.040 Utility is up 12.

00:30:37.920 Electricity, 5.

00:30:39.380 Vehicle repair, 12 percent.

00:30:41.300 So although our growth

00:30:42.560 in the economy

00:30:43.800 seems okay,

00:30:45.100 it's not making

00:30:47.900 a lot of jobs.

00:30:49.440 People are holding

00:30:50.400 off to see if AI

00:30:51.320 is going to make

00:30:51.780 any difference, I think.

00:30:53.380 So they call it

00:30:54.260 a jobless economy,

00:30:55.660 but it's not really.

00:30:58.480 Anyway, what do you think?

00:31:00.300 If I just asked you

00:31:01.460 is the economy

00:31:02.140 better under Trump

00:31:04.540 or worse?

00:31:06.200 And let's say

00:31:07.020 you were not doing

00:31:07.700 just team play.

00:31:09.220 So you're not just

00:31:10.140 arguing to win your side.

00:31:12.900 If you're really,

00:31:13.900 really being honest,

00:31:15.100 is the economy

00:31:16.860 better or worse

00:31:17.840 since Trump took over?

00:31:20.660 I don't know.

00:31:22.060 I have no idea.

00:31:23.520 I really don't.

00:31:25.480 And the fact that

00:31:26.360 we don't know that,

00:31:28.360 the most basic thing

00:31:29.740 you should know

00:31:30.200 about your country,

00:31:31.540 is it going up

00:31:32.540 or is it going down?

00:31:33.700 I can't tell.

00:31:35.360 Well, I think we need

00:31:36.360 a little more information.

00:31:37.660 That's what I say.

00:31:38.280 Anyway, there's a big

00:31:44.460 climate change convention,

00:31:46.280 I guess you'd call it that,

00:31:47.120 the COP30 climate thing

00:31:49.900 in Brazil.

00:31:51.600 And, of course,

00:31:53.680 everybody's going to be

00:31:54.480 talking about all the

00:31:55.640 carbon that they burn,

00:31:57.180 doing it for rich people,

00:31:58.320 and then that will be

00:31:59.240 the story that entertains us

00:32:00.880 for about two days.

00:32:01.820 Oh, here's my list.

00:32:05.220 Geez.

00:32:06.360 I had a whole different list

00:32:07.420 of the conservatives

00:32:08.240 that are teaching us

00:32:09.040 how to think better.

00:32:10.200 And I left out

00:32:10.840 the best ones.

00:32:12.640 So, did I mention

00:32:13.640 Mike Benz?

00:32:16.380 Democrats don't have

00:32:17.300 a Mike Benz.

00:32:18.840 It's like having a super

00:32:20.640 hero on your side.

00:32:22.820 How about

00:32:23.320 Charlie Kirk

00:32:24.540 when he was doing

00:32:25.540 the debates?

00:32:27.740 Charlie Kirk

00:32:28.480 doing debates?

00:32:30.740 They didn't have that,

00:32:31.940 did they?

00:32:33.160 Now, I know that

00:32:34.080 Steven Crowder

00:32:35.080 did some debates too,

00:32:36.200 but he was more

00:32:36.840 team play.

00:32:38.460 That was kind of

00:32:38.880 a different vibe.

00:32:40.860 Joe Rogan, Glenn Beck,

00:32:42.820 they all bring people on

00:32:43.960 who can explain

00:32:44.540 all kinds of things.

00:32:46.120 That's good.

00:32:47.400 I would also say

00:32:48.580 that Gutfeld's

00:32:49.300 a good explainer.

00:32:50.200 Maggie Hemingway,

00:32:51.500 Victor Davis Hanson.

00:32:53.320 Do you see the pattern yet?

00:32:55.040 I was trying to make

00:32:56.000 the point without

00:32:56.720 having the right list

00:32:57.560 in front of me.

00:32:58.660 But, yeah.

00:33:01.020 These are all

00:33:01.720 the smartest people

00:33:02.420 in the game

00:33:02.920 and they're teaching you

00:33:03.740 how to think,

00:33:05.020 not just what to agree with.

00:33:07.280 Pretty strong stuff.

00:33:09.700 Anyway,

00:33:11.040 Newsom

00:33:11.400 is going after Trump.

00:33:14.160 Trump's having a good day,

00:33:15.580 but they're going to have

00:33:16.520 to find something bad

00:33:17.360 to say about him.

00:33:18.740 So, Newsom said,

00:33:19.660 Donald Trump said

00:33:20.380 he would make us

00:33:21.080 wealthier and healthier.

00:33:23.320 But we're poorer

00:33:24.160 and sicker. 0.72

00:33:25.600 And I don't want to see

00:33:26.320 this sickness extend

00:33:27.460 to ending our republic

00:33:29.160 and our democracy.

00:33:31.300 Okay.

00:33:32.680 All right.

00:33:33.260 Whatever.

00:33:38.880 Meanwhile,

00:33:39.620 the Gateway Fund

00:33:40.280 is reporting

00:33:40.860 that there's a

00:33:42.000 gang

00:33:43.820 called the Latin Kings

00:33:45.460 operating in the U.S.,

00:33:47.820 I guess,

00:33:48.140 who

00:33:49.060 must be in Chicago

00:33:51.140 and they put out

00:33:52.400 a hit

00:33:52.800 on some of the

00:33:53.860 ICE people. 0.60

00:33:56.660 So,

00:33:57.500 that better not

00:33:58.480 to happen.

00:34:00.060 Do you think

00:34:00.580 that's going to turn

00:34:01.300 into a thing?

00:34:02.360 That the

00:34:03.120 criminals are going

00:34:04.240 to start putting

00:34:04.780 hits on the ICE people?

00:34:07.640 I wouldn't be

00:34:08.500 totally surprised

00:34:09.420 if it happens.

00:34:10.640 But, boy,

00:34:11.360 is it going to get

00:34:11.860 a savage

00:34:12.260 if they do?

00:34:13.600 If they kill

00:34:14.380 one ICE agent

00:34:15.280 in something

00:34:15.800 that looks like

00:34:16.480 a hit,

00:34:18.460 Trump's just

00:34:18.940 going to go

00:34:19.320 full Viking on them.

00:34:21.340 And they have

00:34:22.040 to know that.

00:34:22.820 I mean,

00:34:23.040 they have to know.

00:34:23.920 That's the end

00:34:24.520 of their operation

00:34:25.160 if they do that.

00:34:26.540 At least they can,

00:34:27.580 you know,

00:34:28.040 struggle along

00:34:28.920 a little bit

00:34:29.360 if they don't do that.

00:34:30.820 But we're still

00:34:31.340 going to take them

00:34:31.780 out one way

00:34:32.380 or another.

00:34:32.640 So, in China,

00:34:35.340 apparently they have

00:34:35.960 some version

00:34:36.440 of the LSATs,

00:34:37.720 the test you take

00:34:38.460 to become a lawyer

00:34:39.340 or the test you take

00:34:40.880 to see if you qualify

00:34:41.640 for law school.

00:34:43.100 And apparently

00:34:44.000 some Chinese prep

00:34:45.140 companies stole

00:34:46.020 the test.

00:34:48.780 They stole the test.

00:34:50.460 They were selling

00:34:51.020 the results.

00:34:52.940 So,

00:34:53.600 do you trust

00:34:54.900 your lawyer now?

00:34:56.360 Now that you know

00:34:56.900 your lawyer could have

00:34:57.640 bought the test results

00:34:58.980 in China?

00:35:00.720 I'm not sure

00:35:01.440 if he could,

00:35:01.920 but there's

00:35:02.540 some allegation there.

00:35:04.920 Anyway,

00:35:07.220 the chipmaking industry

00:35:09.000 is mad

00:35:10.680 because apparently

00:35:11.440 somebody in the

00:35:12.500 administration

00:35:13.200 is raising the idea

00:35:15.560 just as a proposal

00:35:17.660 that the U.S. taxpayers

00:35:21.420 would take some equity

00:35:23.420 in some of the

00:35:24.460 chipmaking business.

00:35:26.520 So,

00:35:27.180 the semiconductor business

00:35:28.360 would sort of say,

00:35:29.780 okay,

00:35:30.600 you have a little

00:35:31.420 ownership of that.

00:35:32.360 Do you think

00:35:32.600 that's going to work?

00:35:34.120 I don't.

00:35:35.680 I think there'll be

00:35:36.440 too much pushback

00:35:37.220 on that.

00:35:38.600 That will not happen.

00:35:41.920 All right.

00:35:45.220 Then Mayor Brandon Johnson,

00:35:48.420 he wants to tell us

00:35:50.340 how bad things are

00:35:51.200 in Chicago

00:35:51.740 because of Trump.

00:35:53.700 He says,

00:35:54.180 whether it's the

00:35:54.840 unconstitutional acts

00:35:56.760 that are being

00:35:57.220 carried out

00:35:58.140 by the Trump administration

00:35:59.180 or the fact

00:36:00.300 that food and medicine

00:36:01.240 has been cut off.

00:36:03.280 Has it?

00:36:05.000 Has anybody died yet?

00:36:07.720 I'm pretty sure

00:36:08.540 nobody has starved.

00:36:10.400 When was the last time

00:36:11.440 somebody starved to death

00:36:12.360 in the United States?

00:36:14.460 Sort of never.

00:36:16.020 I mean,

00:36:16.520 it's not true.

00:36:17.140 Not never.

00:36:18.140 But I don't think

00:36:19.560 they're going to

00:36:19.880 starved to death

00:36:20.380 this year.

00:36:22.240 But I hope

00:36:23.220 the post-millennial

00:36:25.820 is writing about that.

00:36:27.520 All right.

00:36:27.840 Ladies and gentlemen,

00:36:30.720 let me go back.

00:36:32.060 Let me circle back

00:36:33.000 to my main point today

00:36:34.300 and see if it's stuck.

00:36:35.660 Okay?

00:36:36.440 And then we're going

00:36:36.920 to do some reframes

00:36:37.800 because I know

00:36:39.240 you like them.

00:36:39.720 So the reframe

00:36:41.120 is that conservatives

00:36:44.160 have spent 10 years

00:36:45.480 training their base

00:36:48.480 how to think better.

00:36:52.080 And that if you were

00:36:53.180 to extend that,

00:36:55.160 let's say that variable

00:36:57.140 over time,

00:36:58.040 it would perfectly predict

00:36:59.720 who's going to be in charge.

00:37:01.880 Let me say that again.

00:37:03.440 In the same way

00:37:04.360 that persuasion skill

00:37:05.740 predicted that Trump

00:37:07.360 would be in charge,

00:37:08.160 the fact that

00:37:10.020 we've been training

00:37:10.880 other conservatives

00:37:11.940 and most of us

00:37:13.560 are the right people

00:37:14.280 to do the training,

00:37:15.520 the fact that

00:37:16.000 we've been training

00:37:16.640 other conservatives,

00:37:18.180 oh, and I would

00:37:18.580 throw Michael Schellenberger

00:37:20.520 in there too.

00:37:23.800 Conservatives are

00:37:24.540 way, way smarter

00:37:26.320 about how to just

00:37:28.640 look at a topic

00:37:29.520 and pull it apart.

00:37:31.740 Would you agree?

00:37:33.240 Even if you disagree

00:37:34.400 with them,

00:37:35.720 they have been training

00:37:36.720 for 10 years

00:37:37.720 with the right people

00:37:39.040 to tell them

00:37:40.200 how to enter

00:37:41.240 this argument,

00:37:42.500 how to deal

00:37:42.960 with climate change,

00:37:43.760 for example.

00:37:45.040 Have you noticed

00:37:45.800 that the climate change

00:37:47.000 arguments tend to,

00:37:49.480 at least now,

00:37:50.900 cluster around

00:37:51.940 a few people's opinions

00:37:53.720 that you've seen before?

00:37:55.440 Because they're the ones

00:37:56.480 who are good at teaching

00:37:57.800 you how to think about it?

00:37:59.580 Yeah.

00:38:00.040 So, I don't think

00:38:03.380 that the Democrats

00:38:04.860 see this coming.

00:38:07.460 If you were not

00:38:08.320 looking for the pattern,

00:38:09.980 you wouldn't know

00:38:11.060 there was a pattern.

00:38:12.060 You would just say,

00:38:13.340 oh, a lot of people

00:38:14.300 are talking about

00:38:15.020 climate change now.

00:38:16.420 A lot of people

00:38:17.220 are talking about this.

00:38:18.440 It wouldn't look

00:38:18.940 like a pattern.

00:38:20.360 But if you understand

00:38:21.740 that only half

00:38:22.600 of the country

00:38:23.120 is treating the topics

00:38:25.280 as a class,

00:38:28.960 yeah, that's what it is.

00:38:30.260 It's the conservatives,

00:38:31.240 they treat the topic

00:38:32.020 as a class

00:38:32.940 where you can learn

00:38:34.220 about the topic

00:38:34.900 and how to respond to it

00:38:36.280 if somebody

00:38:36.720 is on the other side of it.

00:38:38.680 It's just not happening

00:38:39.600 on the other side.

00:38:40.600 I don't believe

00:38:41.080 they're learning

00:38:41.480 how to do that.

00:38:42.880 But almost every day,

00:38:45.280 almost every day,

00:38:46.960 I teach somebody

00:38:48.020 on the right

00:38:48.660 how to do that

00:38:49.700 or give them some,

00:38:51.560 maybe some,

00:38:52.440 you know,

00:38:52.840 contacts they didn't

00:38:53.620 have before,

00:38:54.180 which is the same thing.

00:38:55.280 All right.

00:38:59.920 Don't mess with the lawyers.

00:39:02.500 Good idea.

00:39:05.020 All right,

00:39:05.560 ladies and gentlemen,

00:39:06.180 we're going to do

00:39:06.740 a reframe.

00:39:08.880 I usually do these

00:39:09.980 at the front.

00:39:10.980 By the way,

00:39:11.460 if you didn't know,

00:39:12.600 the Dilbert 2026 calendar

00:39:14.900 is available

00:39:16.480 only on Amazon.

00:39:19.780 Only on Amazon.

00:39:20.960 Nowhere else.

00:39:22.000 Only on Amazon.

00:39:22.920 And I wouldn't wait

00:39:25.840 because we're going

00:39:27.780 to run out.

00:39:28.740 We really are.

00:39:29.660 We're going to run out.

00:39:30.780 If I'm wrong,

00:39:31.660 I'll let you know.

00:39:32.940 But I think we will run out.

00:39:35.920 All right.

00:39:36.560 Oh,

00:39:37.560 here's one.

00:39:45.520 This one is so simple

00:39:46.940 and yet so sublime.

00:39:49.540 So the usual frame

00:39:50.820 is that history

00:39:51.720 is important.

00:39:52.980 Wouldn't you say?

00:39:54.000 If you're looking

00:39:54.480 at the Middle East,

00:39:55.600 history is pretty important.

00:39:56.940 If you're looking

00:39:57.320 at World War II,

00:39:59.740 history is important.

00:40:01.060 So in most cases,

00:40:03.020 you're looking at

00:40:03.680 anything with history

00:40:04.760 in it,

00:40:05.620 it's going to be

00:40:06.220 pretty important.

00:40:07.900 But the reframe

00:40:08.920 is this.

00:40:10.040 History doesn't exist.

00:40:12.580 History doesn't exist.

00:40:14.600 Try getting

00:40:15.060 a handful of history.

00:40:17.820 Where is it?

00:40:18.940 Where is this history

00:40:19.740 you're talking about?

00:40:21.020 Can you fill up

00:40:21.720 a bucket with history?

00:40:23.420 No.

00:40:24.400 History isn't even real.

00:40:25.620 So there are people

00:40:27.880 who go through

00:40:28.500 their life

00:40:29.080 tortured by

00:40:31.140 things that have

00:40:31.980 gone before.

00:40:33.440 The things that they

00:40:34.200 experience,

00:40:34.880 the things they worry

00:40:35.620 about will happen.

00:40:36.920 But none of those

00:40:37.960 things are real.

00:40:40.360 If it's something

00:40:41.280 that did happen

00:40:42.360 in the past,

00:40:44.120 it's not real now.

00:40:46.080 It might have

00:40:46.520 actually happened,

00:40:47.280 but it's not

00:40:48.500 happening now.

00:40:49.480 It just doesn't

00:40:50.780 exist.

00:40:52.200 Once you realize

00:40:53.040 that history

00:40:53.900 is completely

00:40:54.840 artificial,

00:40:55.620 and also,

00:40:57.460 I don't know

00:40:57.720 if you knew this,

00:40:58.300 but there is

00:40:58.980 scientific evidence

00:40:59.860 that we make up

00:41:01.980 our minds

00:41:02.400 after the decisions.

00:41:06.720 That we decide

00:41:07.820 first,

00:41:08.860 and then we come

00:41:09.700 up with weird

00:41:10.440 explanations of

00:41:11.280 why we decided.

00:41:12.440 That's actually

00:41:13.140 how decisions are made.

00:41:14.860 We just think

00:41:15.700 it's the other way

00:41:16.280 around.

00:41:17.640 It's an illusion.

00:41:20.000 So that's your

00:41:20.740 reframe of the day.

00:41:22.880 Has anybody

00:41:23.160 heard that one

00:41:23.660 before?

00:41:23.900 It's so effective.

00:41:27.640 I use it all

00:41:28.420 the time.

00:41:29.600 And I just go,

00:41:30.220 no, that doesn't

00:41:30.780 even exist.

00:41:32.200 Does not exist.

00:41:33.420 Don't have to

00:41:33.760 worry about it.

00:41:36.540 All right.

00:41:37.980 People,

00:41:39.380 I'm going to go

00:41:41.220 think about getting

00:41:42.920 some breakfast,

00:41:44.260 because I deserve it.

00:41:45.540 And the rest of you,

00:41:47.820 I guess I should

00:41:48.720 talk to the

00:41:49.320 locals people

00:41:50.060 privately.

00:41:51.480 I've been

00:41:52.040 cheating them

00:41:52.660 a little bit.

00:41:54.580 So,

00:41:55.060 locals people,

00:41:55.980 oh, I can't

00:41:56.560 lift my arm,

00:41:57.220 though.

00:41:58.420 I'm going to

00:41:58.920 try to turn

00:41:59.460 this off.

00:42:01.820 Let's see if I

00:42:02.560 can do this

00:42:03.060 and keep the

00:42:03.520 locals people.

00:42:04.220 I literally

00:42:07.340 can't lift my

00:42:08.200 arm above

00:42:09.440 my nipples. 0.85

00:42:13.460 How many of

00:42:14.180 you have seen

00:42:14.880 me drawing on

00:42:15.960 here?

00:42:19.920 So,

00:42:27.040 in case you

00:42:27.540 missed it.

00:42:29.920 Oh,

00:42:30.880 you can't see it

00:42:32.380 at all.

00:42:33.560 I would put my

00:42:34.440 hand up to the

00:42:35.120 camera so you

00:42:35.660 could see it,

00:42:36.140 but it just hurts

00:42:37.020 too much.

00:42:37.500 I can't reach

00:42:37.980 over there.

00:42:39.620 So,

00:42:40.140 I've been doing

00:42:40.600 some drawing on

00:42:41.280 camera.

00:42:41.760 People seem to

00:42:42.340 like it.

00:42:45.760 The good news

00:42:46.580 is I can still

00:42:47.320 draw,

00:42:49.140 despite

00:42:49.680 the limitations

00:42:51.000 in my hand.

00:42:52.360 Didn't know

00:42:52.980 if I would,

00:42:53.700 but yesterday

00:42:55.200 I could.

00:42:56.460 All right,

00:42:57.020 so,

00:42:59.180 did locals

00:43:01.020 not work?

00:43:05.400 Did locals

00:43:06.260 not work

00:43:06.740 today?

00:43:07.740 I heard

00:43:08.380 somebody say

00:43:08.880 that locals

00:43:09.360 didn't work.

00:43:10.800 Is that

00:43:11.340 true?

00:43:14.840 Because I

00:43:15.460 don't see it

00:43:16.040 here.

00:43:18.860 Hmm.

00:43:19.340 That's

00:43:19.840 weird.

00:43:21.400 All right,

00:43:21.960 I guess

00:43:22.300 we're not

00:43:23.040 talking.

00:43:25.460 Huh.

00:43:27.060 All right,

00:43:27.620 so I'm

00:43:27.920 going to

00:43:28.040 figure out

00:43:28.500 what's wrong

00:43:28.880 with all

00:43:29.180 my devices.

00:43:30.580 All right,

00:43:30.940 people,

00:43:31.600 I can't hang

00:43:32.220 around today.

00:43:32.880 I wish I

00:43:33.260 could,

00:43:34.120 but I can't.

00:43:35.260 I'll talk to

00:43:35.820 you tomorrow.

00:43:37.560 I should have

00:43:38.020 your calendar

00:43:38.800 uploaded by then.

00:43:41.240 Bye for now.

00:43:42.080 Oh,

00:43:42.140 come on,

00:43:47.020 hand,

00:43:47.460 work,

00:43:48.860 work,

00:43:50.520 work.

00:43:51.240 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - November 10, 2025

Episode 3014 CWSA 11⧸10⧸25

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