Episode 3025 CWSA 11⧸21⧸25
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1 hour and 15 minutes
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141.21988
Summary
In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, Scott Adams talks about the impending arrival of the cyborgs, the impending end of the world, and what it means for the future of the human world. Scott Adams is a stand-up comedian, writer, podcaster, and all-around goofball.
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i'm not late you're late why am i too lit on one side i'm totally lit hold on
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a little less there we go a little less lit today all right here's what we're going to do
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since i'm at least a minute late i thought i had my studio all set up but turns out i hadn't started
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i was having fun chatting with the local subscribers and at the time i didn't feel
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like i needed anything else all my needs had been complete
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well gas prices are projected to go down a little bit by thanksgiving and then trump administration will
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get to brag about their thanksgiving gas prices so gas will be heading down speaking of gas heading
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down eric swalwell has announced he's going to run for governor of california
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well california needs some extra gas and i don't think anybody has more of it than he does if you know
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what i mean so eric swalwell will be teaching us that you can do literally everything wrong for years
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and be a front runner in the democratic party for anything really governor senator
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why you want to run for president sure i don't see why not it's not like you've done anything wrong
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such as lying to the american people about the most important things in the history of the republic
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but none of that is disqualifying i mean come on we're a big tent the democrats say we're a big big
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tent you can come in if you if you're even one of the designated liars you know he's one of the the
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handful of people i i label the designated liars they're different than normal political people
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the designated liars will tell the lie that the top of the party wants to tell but most of the
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people in the party would be a little uncomfortable with it because it's just such an obvious lie
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but if you've got some designated liars they'll say anything and eric swalwell has been one of those
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designated liars who will say absolutely anything that role is currently being filled by jasmine
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crockett has anyone noticed that jasmine crockett just became the person who says the most ridiculous
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things today there's some new ones i think we'll get to that unbelievable all right so good job democrats
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and uh apparently somehow rewarding your designated liars you know i'm not sure that uh ai is ever
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going to be super useful the way we imagined it would be it'll be super useful for sure but not necessarily
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the way we imagined it like you've got a little ai buddy and you just tell it to do stuff like that's
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the world i wanted where i just tell my ai hey ai uh go make some dinner reservations or whatever
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and then it opens up my apps and has access to my my wallet how many of you would ever allow ai to have
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access to your money now maybe if you had some kind of smallish limited credit card that was just for
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that you know so you could limit your damage if something happened maybe but can you imagine a
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world where all the things that you do during the day all the approvals all the times you use your
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credit card can you imagine having that connected to some ai that was built by somebody else managed as
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some other office possibly in another country and you're going to connect that stuff to your money
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all right well i have a potential insight potential insight coming up you know how i always say that
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we've entered the cyborg era where we're already part machine part people it's not really our future
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we're already there i mean if you have a phone in your hand or you've got any kind of a you know
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headphone earplug kind of thing you've kind of already started to merge with the machines if you've got
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any kind of meta glasses on you're another step closer so we're sort of already committed to the
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cyborg half human half half robot world but what if here's the part i'm going to add what if
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the only way you could prove the ai part of you is real and it's what you want to happen is if it
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comes from your cyborg self what if you were not the human versus the you know the machine but rather
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you were human and machine if you're human and machine but there's only one of you that is that
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combination of that machine and that human it's still just you so could it be that to unlock the benefits
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of ai where the ai will do all the things that you would have done as a human you know spend your
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money that sort of thing could it be that you can only get there when you are unambiguously committed
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to being a cyborg because then the cyborg part of you is no more different from your hands or your feet
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it's just part of you so you know under those conditions would you always have access to knowing that
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your cyborg part was trying to spend some money yeah suppose suppose the organic part always had to
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approve any money expenses that'd be pretty safe yeah i don't know so i don't know if we can ever get
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there but i feel like you have to go through being cyborgs before you can unlock the real benefit of ai
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so that's my prediction must be a cyborg to get the full benefit of ai and i wouldn't want to be in a
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military battle just to further my point with a bunch of soldiers who were cyborgs if you are not
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you know what i mean so as soon as i say that you totally understand which is oh yeah i definitely
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would not want to be in a in a military battle with cyborgs they're going to be good and what
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happens when ai gets combined with the crispr technology the gene editing stuff it clearly
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that's already being done in some in some small ways but what happens when ai can use crispr to make
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anything it wants to make any kind of living creature or to solve any disease well i know what i'm
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going to do i'm going to create a monster island so i'll create a monster island made entirely by ai
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and crispr technology and i'll just give it some general rules like all right make sure at least
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some of the monsters have are cyclopses why do you need them to be cyclopses that's cool
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uh make some of the some of the monsters have really big tails why do they need to have big
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tails again how cool would it be if they did that's all the reason i need and then i'd put a
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bunch of robots in there with high definition cameras and have the robots film the final battle
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for monster island to see who is left which monster will survive is that the most unethical
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thing you ever heard in your life no i'm not really going to create monster island you're a monster
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you're a monster if you think that was even real who's the monster maybe you are yeah makes you think
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doesn't it well here's some good news from fox news jasmine bear is writing that uh apparently our
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social security people are bragging that they've fixed things up way more efficient than it used to be
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how many of you were waiting here today to find out if the social security system had become more
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efficient i was waiting for it one of the most exciting things i've ever seen in my life
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yep but uh apparently they've made a whole bunch of improvements since the pandemic actually that's
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a pretty big deal so congratulations social security people for what looks like a big improvement in a
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small amount of time they say their in-office wait times are down almost 27 percent uh that's not really
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impressive kind of depends where it started from doesn't it uh but they do say it's down to 22 minutes
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remember i always say that if they give you the percentage without the wrong number or vice versa then
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that's just propaganda they have to give me the raw number and the percentage
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or else they're just sort of lying to you you know in a clever way here they're giving you the
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percentage and the wrong number 22 minutes so that would be a indication of being forthright
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um all right let's not talk about social security anymore don't you don't you think
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there's got to be a story in here that's better than that does anybody think i can top that hey social
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security is 27 no no i'm gonna top that so hard uh i'm gonna give you something to think about today
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that you'll probably never stop thinking about yeah it's coming um well trump is a teasing some kind of
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ukraine peace plan and uh as you might imagine it is light on final details but it looks like what
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they're doing if i just have to guess is they might be uh the administration might be floating some trial
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balloons to see what people could handle in terms of a ukraine deal so some of the things that are being
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kind of whispered around i guess uh ukraine would get a 10-year security deal that would be modeled in
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some way on nato's article 5 meaning if they got attacked uh the west would come to their aid the us
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specifically is that real well it's sort of being discussed so it's just something that's on the table i
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guess um ukraine reportedly got rid of what was a proposal to uh for the the us wanted to demand an
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audit of all wartime aid and ukraine said oh no we can't oh but we just want to audit we just want to
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make sure that our billions of dollars are going to the right place and not being stolen how about that
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that no no we uh we can't stand for that okay you have a whole war that's going on are you telling me
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that you would continue a war in your own country that's on your that's in your homeland against a
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unbeatable foe you know in the long run russia and you'd rather do that as long as you don't have
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to have an audit of where you spent the money that we gave you yeah yeah that's about right
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so i don't think we should do any kind of a deal with ukraine that does not include
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our ability to audit where the money goes are you with me indeed nobody should ever give away billions
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of dollars without an you know airtight audit system it would be just absurd it would be the
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height of stupidity to give away billions of dollars and have no mechanism for checking
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where it goes which is pretty close to the current system i guess um and then also this is almost
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humorously uh ridiculous that ukraine also is pushing for quote full amnesty for actions committed
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during the war so ukraine wants to make sure that not only is there no way to audit
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the wartime aid but that if anybody already stole some they've kept full amnesty
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come on come on is that even real is that actually what you think the u.s is going to agree to how
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about i don't know i'm just just going to test this out i'll run it by you run it up the flagpole what if
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we let you steal all the money that we give for wartime aid and we don't check
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and then on top of that we give you full amnesty for stealing our money how about that
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hmm i don't know i'd like to get a little more than that you want more than that that that's a lot
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we should be lining you against the wall no just kidding all right and here's my here's my real
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curiosity i have about the whole ukraine mess on one hand it seems just observably obviously
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objectively true that trump is better than maybe anybody at getting deals at you know bullying people
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into deals would you say that that's generally true that even his critics would agree especially
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after gaza even his critics would agree all right you know he is good at it we might not like where
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he ends up we might not like how he does it but we gotta admit he's pretty good at it so when i see
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ukraine and what's happening that looks like the biggest waste of time ever and it doesn't look like
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it really doesn't look like they're heading even in the right direction does it like i don't have a
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sense of what the right direction would look like in this case but does it really look like they're
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getting closer to a deal i don't see anything that would suggest it's getting close to a deal but
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that's the same thing i saw in gaza right before they made a deal and the thing that we i think all of
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us were blind to i certainly was is that trump could convince people there was going to be a deal
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before those same people had agreed on what their end of the deal would be and it was almost like
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he got everybody a little bit pregnant and then and then there was something that happened
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where they they somehow went past some psychological line that maybe nobody even knew existed in the
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first place that made it impossible to go back so they sort of blundered into a peace deal that nobody
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had expressly nobody had expressly said let's do this right and and even now like even today correct me
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if i'm wrong the gaza leadership is still saying they haven't agreed to it right but yet it's going forward
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we we have a peace deal it's being implemented we can see what you know where they're putting together
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the security peace force and all that but at the same time it's not really happening because hamas
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has not agreed to it they've not agreed to give up their weapons and that was from the very beginning
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that was a key requirement so is it possible and i'm not going to assert this as a fact it's more of a
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question is it possible that trump alone and because of his personality because of on a force of will
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because he can be a bully when he needs to um because he understands negotiations like nobody ever has
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is it possible that he's literally invented a way to get deals peace deals that nobody's ever seen before
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and it involves just confusing people and pushing them at the same time hey bob uh how do you like
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that deal we just uh introduced what i didn't see the details push all right so looks like you're halfway
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on board with the deal i haven't really seen the the details of the deal what what deal are you talking
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about push push stand over there bob no just stand over there so now you're standing with the other
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people who agree with us on this deal wait hold on hold on uh i have not yet seen the deal can somebody
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explain to me what is being proposed absolutely absolutely bob can you stand over there with the other
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people who have agreed with everything great right there right i know you have questions we'll get
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to your questions but it's it's encouraging that we've all agreed to do this deal this way uh hold
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on i have not agreed to do the deal this way all right looks like everybody's on board is that what's happening
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i mean i i'm doing it humorously but doesn't it feel like that's actually what's happening
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that trump is convincing people that no progress is progress and that once they feel there's progress
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there's nothing like success to get you more success so it feels like he's literally just
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creating this structure purely psychological that only he could do no one else could do it and that once
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you buy into the structure that there is something happening that you are moving toward peace that
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it is possible to have peace that trump is the one person who could make it happen that there might
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be a phase where it looks like it's impossible but that's not really predictive what's more predictive is
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that trump is part of it because he can he predicts good outcomes at least for peace deals maybe
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so but you at least see where i'm going on this right that he's in such uncharted territory
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that i don't know if we just blundered into it and maybe something good could happen or does he
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intentionally create these narratives or structures or psychological let's say
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a labyrinth where once you're in it you're in his world and then he can decide which which hallway you
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go down because there's not infinite hallways they're just the ones he's created
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it's gonna get better hold on all right so so we don't know what the details would be of any ukrainian
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plan but uh keep an eye on that we'll see if he has in fact invented a new way to solve problems
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or it's just confusing and it's hard and that's all there is so so i guess uh jd vance might have some
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a largest role in a creating a republican health care plan this is what jd said uh he was teasing that
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the republicans have a quote great health care plan that the trump administration has in the works
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how many of you believe that how many of you believe that the republicans already have this great
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but for reasons that are entirely unclear they've chosen not to tell you
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we got this great health care plan oh my goodness can we uh take a look at the details the details
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yep yep the details will follow but it's a great great plan is it is it how exactly are you going to be
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saving all the money well you know how our current health care plan is too expensive yes i do know that
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so yeah the republicans gotta they got a great health care plan gonna roll that baby in any minute now
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all right but but there are several things that republicans are doing and can doing or can do that would
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lower your health care costs the problem is they don't combine very well into a package or a message
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so for example um trump is considering lowering some tariffs on some food related items coming into the
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country would that lower your grocery bill well could could make a big difference um let's say that he
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lowered some tariffs and that that helps you a little bit on the margins um what if he uh negotiated some
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prices down let's say the the meat packers let's say he just negotiated with them and got the price down
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well that would be useful and that would go toward his you know his improving things at least on uh food
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but uh and food would just be you know i suppose if you indirectly uh improve people's nutrition
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they don't need as much health care so in some indirect ways or things that um the republicans
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can do they can negotiate the pharma prices down which which he did there can be higher employment
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if trump uh if trump's economy results in more people being hired then they buy their own health
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care in many cases so there's a whole bunch of things they can do that would
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sort of be in that direction but you wouldn't be able to claim credit for it so well because it'd just
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be this grab bag of miscellaneous things so i think jd is smart enough because you need your smartest
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people working on health care no doubt about it um but i would love somebody to explain to me where all
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the money is going have you ever wondered about that like how did we get to the point where
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health care costs this amount and then suddenly it's three times that amount and not much time has
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gone by where exactly do those extra dollars go has anybody ever shown you on a chart it would have
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to be a highly simplified chart um you know the dollar leaves your pocket and then where does it go
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i have no idea is there is there any element of where your health care money goes that any reasonable
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person could say aha if we stop this going over there we can just save all that money is there anything
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like that see the trouble with the health care plan is that unless it costs less money it's a nothing
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would you agree that's the whole game the game is to you know make sure we have some pretty good
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health care but separately we need to vastly you know grossly reduce the price well whose pocket is
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that going to come out of and who has ever even told us whose pocket that's going to come out of
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if you say generic stuff like oh uh the insurance companies are getting rich well show that to me
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show me show me that the insurance companies collectively are making so much money that if
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you were to let's say cut their profit in half that the price that people would pay for health care
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would go down by 50 percent would it or would it go down by one percent we don't really even know
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where the money's going do we so i would say job one if you were a jd vance or whatever republican
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works on this job one would be to figure out where the money's going and then you have to come up with
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a plan that address each of those buckets such as all right you can see that all this money goes into
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this particular thing this money goes into this particular thing so yesterday i needed a little bit of
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health care uh how many people do you think get involved like 12 to 20 people by the time i'm done
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for any little health care item and it's just because the system is trying to be very careful
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and it's trying to make sure all the right people get pulled into decisions and make sure that not
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nobody drops the ball or anything but but the end result of just taking care of everything really
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scrupulously is that it could cost a hundred thousand dollars to do something that looks like
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should cost a hundred dollars it looks like it now i'm not talking about the cost of a machine or the cost
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of the the meds but the the human cost and the the physical capital yeah the the healthcare system in
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this country really needs to be understood at a different level than we do so job one jd vance and
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somebody like him would be perfect you're gonna need something like a silicon valley guy or gal you need
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something like somebody who can look at a complicated business and say aha here's where all that money's
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going so we'll concentrate on here to get some back and that sort of does scream silicon valley venture
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capitalist but people who are on your side so that's what i'd be looking for i wouldn't believe any
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health care plan from republicans that did not go through somebody who really understands money
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and and how to how to manage it anyway um here's some fake news
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how many times have you read an article or seen on social media that the company blackrock
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owns all the meatpacking businesses in the united states and maybe all the pharma
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how many of you have seen that on social media that looks true that this one company blackrock
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owns all of the meatpacking companies there are only four of them
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only four of them but how many of you think that's true that's not true
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how could you think that was true that the one company owns all the meatpacking and that one
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company owns all the big pharma and that one company owns all the food companies how in the
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world do you think that was true i mean seriously that is so far from being true do you know it is true
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the blackrock probably owns you know a little piece of equity in just about every major
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u.s company because they're so big they kind of have to have their their beak and everything
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the truth is they do own part of a whole bunch of big companies in the united states
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do they have do you think that blackrock has controlling interests of the meatpacking
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nobody ever told me one way or the other because all i hear is this ridiculous thing that they own them
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them they don't own them they can't tell the meatpacking company what to do the meatpacking
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company has lots of stockholders and they all have an opinion all right now how many of you are slapping
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yourself uh on the forehead and saying thank you scott i've been listening to everybody say that one
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company owns all the other fortune 500 companies i've been listening to that for five fucking years i knew
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that couldn't possibly be true thank you for saying that in public because now now maybe i'll feel
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braver to say it in public too but really did you really think that that one company owned all those
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other companies like all the pharma all the food companies all the meatpacking companies a lot of people
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believe that there are other things in that category but i don't want to give them all to you at once
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if you know what i mean all right job markets looking good you heard that yesterday job report came good
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i don't know if you believe anything about jobs how many of you believe anything about jobs
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oh yeah and all the real estate yeah and then there's separately there's another belief that's also false
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that all of the single single family homes got bought up by not by blackrock but uh what's the other
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company that starts with black but has something else in the end yeah that's another one where they just
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own they own some percentage of things all right so zoran mamdani speaking of jobs he says he's going to the
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white house uh that might be today i think i may have seen a post on it yesterday that referred to
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today so either either today or tomorrow mondani is going to the white house and he wants to tell
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trump that deportations will no longer be permitted in new york city after he takes power no longer be
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permitted so that should work out great all right uh and and blindly supports trump
00:32:47.600
blindly did do you think that saying that i blindly support trump is an insightful comment
00:32:55.440
i literally talk about every element of trump top to bottom every day for 10 years
00:33:05.600
you don't think i've looked into it yeah you don't think i did a little analysis that you know maybe
00:33:12.000
i can answer some questions on this topic you don't think maybe i know more than you do
00:33:18.000
some of the critics are are so funny they're so bad at even being critics anyway
00:33:26.400
my guess is that trump is going to have fun with mom donnie by being somewhat professional but
00:33:33.040
somewhat insulting and i cannot wait for the insulting part are you waiting for that too
00:33:39.920
there's good there's gonna be maybe a there might be a picture opportunity i definitely want to see the
00:33:46.880
handshake if there's a handshake i definitely want to see that uh and then i want to see what i want to see
00:33:53.680
what trump says about mom donnie while the press is listening to him and mom donnie is standing right
00:33:59.920
next to him i mean i just can't wait for that because he's not going to be he's not going to hold
00:34:06.320
back he's going to do something you've never seen before he's just going to dump all over him and mom
00:34:12.480
donnie will just have to stand there because it's the white house and he can't really walk out
00:34:16.720
well scott besant secretary of the treasury he uh he held up i think it was on fox news and he held up
00:34:25.840
the first usa made rare earth magnet in 25 years so apparently the united states already now has a rare
00:34:36.240
earth magnet manufacturer the question i have is was that already being built or did we go from we have
00:34:47.600
no idea how to make a rare earth magnet to here's a magnet did did american ingenuity which we worry is
00:34:57.760
on the wane uh did we just figure this out i'm very curious is is this really the success story it looks
00:35:06.000
like and is it something that's repeatable because i'll tell you i've had a curiosity about the whole
00:35:12.480
rare earth domain and the curiosity is this if if the government said we're really going to support you
00:35:21.760
if you make any kind of rare earth stuff because we need it desperately we're going to get rid of all
00:35:26.560
the government red tape uh we're going to give you loans we're going to make sure you can find
00:35:32.800
markets there'll be plenty of markets don't worry about markets um if you created that situation
00:35:40.240
how long would it take before the normal free market just flooded the zone with products
00:35:46.960
because it's what we do best historically what i don't know is if we still have that i don't know
00:35:54.160
that gene that intuition that um that just sort of magical ability that's transported us to this
00:36:01.680
point in history so far i don't know but there's some possibility that it's going to look more like
00:36:09.520
world war ii when the u.s entered the war if you ever i'm sure most of you have watched the history
00:36:17.280
channel and history shows about the u.s was sort of you know we were good at manufacturing things
00:36:25.840
but when uh world war ii hit and the winner would be who could make the most stuff i mean i'm simplifying
00:36:31.920
but but if we could make more stuff as in tanks and artillery shells we probably would win so we just
00:36:40.000
went crazy making more stuff and made an unbelievable amount of stuff airplanes and tanks and and shells
00:36:48.400
so how many of the experts in world war ii would have known blackstone yeah blackstone's that other
00:36:58.000
company with black in the beginning of the name uh how many of the experts would have known
00:37:03.600
that the free market could have plus the government being supported could have created that much uh
00:37:09.840
production do you think that was known at the time or is it like today where there's just something
00:37:16.480
about the situation where you can't wrap your brain around how effectively we could tackle it
00:37:24.080
because i do wonder if we can just jump in there and just shock everybody with how well we do and how
00:37:30.480
quickly we develop an industry i don't know i'm gonna say that maybe we can maybe we can uh jasmine
00:37:39.840
crockett i told you i was going to talk about her uh so now she's looks like she's auditioning to
00:37:45.680
become one of the designated liars for the for the democrats and uh she says she was just on some
00:37:53.760
interview saying that trump and bolton's hate uh is why there are random black bodies being strung up in
00:38:02.480
the south so jasmine crockett believes that there are random black bodies being strung up and like today modern day
00:38:12.720
uh uh i hope not i'm not aware of any so and her point was that uh trump is creating a dangerous
00:38:24.400
situation so dangerous that that's why black bodies are being strung up in the south well first of all
00:38:31.760
there as far as i know there are no black bodies being strung up in the south presently we hope that
00:38:37.920
will be the the future as well um but don't you think that she's creating some danger here
00:38:45.360
by suggesting that we have this hitler-like character in charge of the country
00:38:50.480
and half the country is supporting him don't you think that creates a little danger
00:38:59.840
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so i guess something happened recently with the soros organization the open whatever it is
00:40:01.280
open society and alex soros was um just saying something defiant on the x platform and what alex the
00:40:10.720
son of george soros said was uh he said uh come on i wrote this down uh well he basically said that uh
00:40:27.280
the soros organization wasn't going to go anywhere the most important thing that i didn't write down
00:40:32.800
um all right seriously oh yeah his exact words alex soros they put on x was quote we aren't going
00:40:43.360
anywhere meaning that the soros organization was not in any mortal trouble i don't know what trouble
00:40:49.840
they were in but they were getting some pushback so anyway he was uh sort of celebrating that they
00:40:55.920
were not in any danger of going away but elon musk owner of x commented on alex's comment and he said
00:41:05.120
quote can you stop trying to destroy the civilization for like five minutes
00:41:13.120
that would be great thumbs up he puts a little icon now think about that comment you ready
00:41:21.680
think about that comment the richest man in the world says can you stop trying to destroy
00:41:28.720
civilization for like five minutes now how could it be that the soros's could exist at the same time
00:41:38.000
that elon musk exists because these are two completely different views of reality it's not just a different
00:41:47.520
political view it's a different view of reality how many of you think that it's objectively obviously
00:41:57.280
true that the soros's appear to be determined to destroy western civilization a lot of you right now
00:42:06.880
i'm not saying that that's the true version of the world i'm saying that you know i often talk about
00:42:12.800
two movies on one screen we're still playing on one screen but when uh a lot of people on the
00:42:20.240
let's say trump supporting side look at it it does look it does look that way like soros's are not
00:42:28.160
trying to help that they're going to destroy western civilization now i'm not saying that's necessarily
00:42:33.520
true but it looks like it so if somebody decides to treat that as the reality you can understand why
00:42:42.800
now obviously the soros's do not see that in themselves i think that's fair to say i can't
00:42:49.520
read their mind but i doubt they think like when they're well i doubt when they're eating breakfast
00:42:55.520
they're thinking so uh alex what have you done to help destroy society today probably they don't think
00:43:02.720
of it that way probably they think of it in i don't know maybe gaining power maybe accomplishing some
00:43:11.040
social goods might be a variety of things they think about it but they're not thinking
00:43:16.000
well i'll eat this egg and destroy society so how could both of these views so completely different
00:43:23.520
i'm destroying the world with my billions versus i'm saving the world with my billions
00:43:28.720
how could they both exist at the same time well
00:43:42.720
i saw elon say about uh grokipedia now i'm going to tie this all together in a moment all right so we
00:43:50.800
started with soros and and musk now we're going to talk about grokipedia so that's uh elon musk's uh
00:43:58.240
version of wikipedia it's still still in uh under work but uh elon was talking about it he said uh
00:44:06.560
that it's going to be way better than wikipedia blah blah blah and then elon talks about the
00:44:11.440
phenomenon where you would know that grokipedia is better than wikipedia if you were a public figure
00:44:18.960
or an expert because you would understand your own domain and if you understood your own domain
00:44:25.040
and then you read about what wikipedia said this would be his claim and then you read what grok said
00:44:32.240
grokipedia you would come away from it thinking that um wikipedia was wrong and grokipedia was
00:44:40.960
closer to right more often now this is uh there's a name for this the phenomenon i'm describing what is
00:44:50.400
the name and watch this watch how many of you know the answer to this question what's the name
00:44:57.840
for the phenomenon where you know that the news is fake because you're an expert or the news is about
00:45:03.600
you but uh the rest of the world might not know that what's that called i'm looking there it is it
00:45:12.000
it took like one second for it to appear it's a gel man amnesia now gel man is a hyphenated last name
00:45:21.120
of a physicist g-e-l-l dash m-a-n-n i i always forget how many double letters there are but something like
00:45:31.440
that so here's the important part um how many people have in in the public
00:45:42.240
mentioned gel man amnesia maybe without using the words but described it in a way that you knew
00:45:48.800
that's what they're talking about recently i'll give you some examples so uh elon musk has talked
00:45:55.120
about it a number of times i've talked about it a number of times mike cernovich has talked about it
00:46:02.400
a number of times and has properly credited michael crichton the author michael crichton i think
00:46:08.800
michael crichton might have also borrowed it somebody said there was some prior claim to
00:46:14.320
it doesn't really matter um i'm just saying that a lot of smart people have referenced it
00:46:19.440
i'm pretty sure greg gotfeld has mentioned it on his show or shows um i've seen some other silicon
00:46:27.200
valley people mention it but you've also seen bill murray do you remember actor bill murray when he
00:46:35.520
talked about his own experience uh reading some stories about john belushi and he knew belushi personally
00:46:43.520
and very well so when he read the stories he knew they were fake and then he had the gel man amnesia
00:46:50.400
effect it was like wait wait a minute what are the odds that the only stories that are fake
00:46:57.280
are john belushi stories because it happens to be one of the few things i'm an expert on
00:47:02.320
what are the odds that's the only thing isn't it more likely that everything's fake and the way you
00:47:08.240
find out about it is being an expert in one thing you're like hey wait a minute i i am an expert in
00:47:13.440
this this stuff's wrong um what about bill maher i saw him recently was it on his club random or maybe
00:47:22.400
the regular show he's mentioned that because he's a public figure he has extra vision on this the fact
00:47:31.600
that the news is so often fake that wouldn't be obvious to people who are not public figures because
00:47:36.320
they don't read news about themselves like people like me and people like him do all right now so you've
00:47:42.560
got elon musk joe rogan's mentioned it uh bill murray's mentioned it on joe rogan's show uh gufffeld
00:47:50.480
fox news me my books cernovich etc this is teaching people a way to think and a way to see the world
00:48:05.200
if what if what uh if what comes out of all this grokopedia stuff is simply that more people
00:48:12.320
understand what gel man amnesia is it completely changes how we see the world it will change how
00:48:19.200
you see the soros versus musk how in the world could both of them exist if they have this view that
00:48:26.560
that's just a complete opposites so i say that what's different about the era you're in
00:48:36.480
is that the trump supporting part of the world not not all of it oh somebody's saying that dr drew has
00:48:42.400
mentioned uh gel man i think yes i think yes so you're probably all thinking of other examples right
00:48:50.640
now if i went over to the democrat influencers how many of the democrat influencers
00:48:58.880
have taught their audience the gel man amnesia any any so what happens over time if one side of the
00:49:10.400
political world gets trained in how to think which is exactly what elon musk does every time he talks to
00:49:16.880
you he also teaches you how to think like how you should think of entering ai how you should think of that
00:49:24.640
risk etc that's completely different than just telling you what to think the the right leaning or
00:49:33.200
i'll just say trump supporting common sense part of the uh political world is really about teaching the
00:49:40.240
other people in it how to think about stuff that's all i do all day i teach you how to think not necessarily
00:49:48.240
what to think all right so what happens with that um do you think that the people on the political
00:49:57.120
right are more able to identify a hoax yes they are because because they're actually trained on what the
00:50:04.560
hoaxes were how they were created and then how they were supported by the media so you've got an entire
00:50:12.240
political class that while the democrats weren't paying attention and this is the fun part the
00:50:19.120
democrats don't see this coming that that half of the world has been trained to recognize
00:50:26.720
bullshit and the other half has been trained to accept it if you just fast forward that tape let's see
00:50:35.280
one half of the country trained to accept bullshit as the truth uh the other half of the country
00:50:40.720
trained to identify bullshit as soon as they see it and to avoid it as quickly as possible
00:50:47.360
fast forward that where do you end up the where you end up is what you observe right now which is the
00:50:56.320
the team that can't avoid the hoaxes just goes right off the cliff what happened to the democrats this
00:51:03.120
year they went off the cliff did they not right now are you having the feeling that i was hoping that you
00:51:13.360
would have right about now if i'm doing this right and i think i am the feeling that many of you are having
00:51:21.200
right now is wait a minute did you just connect all the dots it is that the fact that one part of the
00:51:29.680
country has learned how to think how to for example if if i use the phrase two on the nose
00:51:38.080
how many of you would know what i'm talking about if i said uh that story it's two on the nose
00:51:45.280
you tell me in the comments you tell me how many of you would know exactly what i meant how many democrats
00:51:51.120
would know what i meant none there wouldn't be any democrats who know what that meant because again
00:51:57.440
two on the nose is teaching you how to spot bs it's just one of many ways uh so there's this entire
00:52:06.240
i don't want to say army because then you know what the democrats will say if i say army but in the
00:52:11.760
very conceptual way an army of uh people have been trained to spot hoaxes and even to know specifically
00:52:20.240
why there's a whole bunch of you have been trained in persuasion right that you actually know what
00:52:27.920
works and what doesn't and it's not an accident and the other part of the country is just flailing
00:52:34.640
poop at you i guess because they don't have training in that domain and i think people always imagined
00:52:41.040
before i came on the scene people imagine that persuasion was something you're either born with
00:52:48.000
or maybe you just have it uh it was not really thought of as a learnable skill but i'm here to
00:52:56.400
tell you it's a learnable skill and i've watched people learn it and then i've watched them employ it
00:53:01.920
and then i've watched them succeed get elected get promotions get the get the partner they wanted
00:53:07.760
now let's let's uh let's take this a little bit further rinse takes your laundry and hand delivers
00:53:15.920
it to your door expertly cleaned and folded so you could take the time once spent folding and sorting
00:53:21.200
and waiting to finally pursue a whole new version of you like tea time you or this tea time you
00:53:30.240
or even this tea time you said you hear about dave or even tea time tea time tea time you
00:53:35.920
hmm so update on dave it's up to you we'll take the laundry rinse it's time to be great
00:53:45.600
um when grokopedia becomes sort of the standard for and i think it will become the standard for
00:53:53.680
checking things then elon will i think have come close to completing one of the greatest
00:54:00.720
reframes of all time which is the reframe is democrats teach you what to think
00:54:15.280
do you feel it democrats tell you what to think and at least in 2025 this was not always the case
00:54:24.480
this was not historically true at the moment and i would say that musk is primarily the you know the
00:54:32.640
the reason for this is that we've all been taught how to think and a lot of it comes from him
00:54:40.000
i think there were probably three probably three separate stories i saw today that all were some little
00:54:48.160
clip of elon explaining how to think about a thing how to think about the let's say the economics of
00:54:54.880
space how many of you understood before let's say this year uh the importance of reusable rocket ships
00:55:06.480
and it wasn't just that you learned that you know there's a thing called reusable
00:55:11.440
uh spaceships it's that you learned that that's important enough that if you don't understand that
00:55:18.240
part of the question you can't really see what's coming how many of you knew that if you put your
00:55:25.440
solar panels in space you didn't have to worry about cooling them uh being blocked by clouds or that it's
00:55:35.520
night well now you know and it's because you've learned how to sort of look at things like an
00:55:42.240
engineer uh that's what elon does more than anything else looks at it like an engineer once you learn that
00:55:48.960
and it becomes your go-to so all right what would an engineer do in this case changes everything
00:55:54.000
all right so i'm gonna i'm gonna call the uh the reframe we we have now entered the golden age
00:56:05.440
and one of the defining factors of the golden age is that the left is being told what to think
00:56:12.560
and the right is being taught how and how is going to be what every time eventually but every time
00:56:24.000
mission accomplished all right did i give you something to think about today
00:56:36.800
you know the we're closer to the beginning of this teaching people how to think but if you look at my
00:56:42.640
books you know i've got five books that are sort of in that domain of teaching you how to think
00:56:53.520
anyway there's some question now about epstein and some red flags that should have been seen by his
00:57:00.080
bank jp morgan chase they're they're being uh accused by senator wyden democrat uh jp morgan is being
00:57:10.160
accused of failing to report more than a billion dollars in suspicious transactions tied to jeffrey epstein
00:57:16.960
so isn't literally everything that has to do with epstein sketchy it feels it feels to me that you
00:57:28.480
could pick up any category if it had to do with epstein there would be something about it you're like
00:57:34.160
hmm that looks a little sketchy like you you could go to his barber and talk to his barber and uh you'd say
00:57:43.600
all right is there anything sketchy about the way epstein got a haircut and the barber would say
00:57:49.760
sketchy about a haircut well how could there even be anything sketchy about a haircut and you say you
00:57:55.760
know just something non-standard oh no it's exactly like everybody else's haircut he'd come in with three
00:58:04.560
bodyguards and three underage women uh they'd get a private room in the back and i go wait wait wait
00:58:11.120
that sounds very sketchy does it does it just a haircut it's like there's no category you could
00:58:19.360
pick where it wouldn't immediately devolve into wait a minute wait a minute why was he doing that
00:58:26.960
wait a minute wait a minute why did he have a billion dollars for flowing through jp morgan
00:58:33.280
everything is sketchy and then that made me come up with the following question
00:58:37.360
that will also plague you to the end of your days you ready here's the epstein question you'll never
00:58:44.000
get out of your head who taught epstein to be epstein
00:58:50.480
yeah yeah roll that one around in your head a little bit who taught epstein how to be epstein
00:58:58.560
meaning who taught him how to move gigantic amounts of money around money laundering without
00:59:04.560
getting caught who taught him to make these connections we think don't know for sure with
00:59:11.760
various intelligence groups who would even know how to do that is that something you work out on your own
00:59:18.880
how do you do it so uh and then how do you blackmail famous people it can't be that obvious
00:59:28.480
how to blackmail a public figure you know what i'd worry about if you said scott it's not it's not
00:59:35.920
rocket science it's just blackmail so here's some tapes of this famous billionaire now go blackmail him
00:59:42.560
scott i'd say hold on hold on i know you think that's easy but i have questions and then somebody
00:59:50.080
would say there's no questions black everybody knows how to blackmail blackmail is the simplest thing you
00:59:55.520
could ever just threatened that if he doesn't do everything you want you'll release the tapes that's
01:00:01.520
it to which i say question question is this a billionaire who has access to private armies and unlimited
01:00:09.440
security yes why do you ask would this black would this person also be completely aware that i'm the one
01:00:18.960
blackmailing them well yeah i mean that's why it works because they know who's blackmailing them
01:00:26.000
so let me get this straight uh if i were to blackmail this person and let's say something went
01:00:33.200
bad and i released these uh released these images what would that billionaire do to me and my family
01:00:41.200
oh well obviously they'd be rounded up and tied to chairs and after that well no promises but they
01:00:48.240
would be tied to chairs if you know what i mean so in my mind i can't even come up with a scenario in
01:00:56.960
which i would know how to blackmail anybody how do you blackmail somebody without them killing you
01:01:03.440
right because if you gave me a billion dollars and then somebody blackmailed me
01:01:15.680
i might i might talk to some of my people there might be some people in my world if i were a billionaire
01:01:25.120
who wanted to owe me a favor i wouldn't have to specifically ask for somebody to take care of my enemies
01:01:33.360
people would figure out that if they did i'd hear about it and probably be quite grateful
01:01:43.920
yeah but you see my point right how did epstein learn to be obscene how did he learn to be obscene
01:01:51.520
there's no way that you just work that out on your own all right so most of you are saying cia but
01:01:58.720
uh that is that is the fun question here all right i'm gonna do a little test for you
01:02:07.920
here's the test if you see a news story with that involves the following words now these will be out
01:02:15.840
of order they're just gonna be words not in sentences if you see the following words
01:02:21.360
what do you know about the story here are the following words minnesota taxpayer dollars
01:02:29.600
somalia investigation scheme is there anything else i need to say about that
01:02:38.960
no that's the whole story and i feel like there's one of these every day i i pick up you know where i
01:02:46.400
look at the screen like there's another story it's a minnesota taxpayer dollar somalia investigation
01:02:53.200
scheme millions of dollars missing is this yesterday's story yeah and fraud is it yesterday's
01:03:01.760
story or is it just every day how many days in a row do we get stories about somali uh migrants
01:03:10.800
stealing money from minnesota taxpayers if you're a minnesota taxpayer i have one word advice for you
01:03:20.640
run run all right um according to the new york post emily crane there's a new report that warns that the
01:03:32.240
uh the uh the the muslim brotherhood has infiltrated u.s colleges and it aims to quote to transform western
01:03:41.120
society from within and that it's halfway done with its 100 year plan so 50 of its 100 year plan has been
01:03:50.640
done and they claim to be about half done in conquering the west um via the educational systems
01:03:59.520
is that real do you believe that uh the inevitable future is that uh islam let's say muslim brotherhood
01:04:10.160
in particular because that's who this is about do you believe that the natural arc of history
01:04:17.200
is that they will infiltrate they will they will reproduce slowly but methodically they will take over
01:04:24.880
various institutions until the u.s is islamic well unless there was a counter force i don't see how
01:04:34.240
you could stop it because islam is a very uh i'm going to try to use the most respectful language
01:04:43.920
so you're going to watch me struggle here to to pick the right words but islam is a very successful
01:04:51.440
system now there i did it i wanted to make it not sound like it was biased islam is a very successful
01:05:00.400
design for a system for example if you're if you're in the more extreme elements and you tried to leave
01:05:07.920
the religion they'd kill you right i mean that's not not the normies but you know for some part of the
01:05:16.240
islamic world you can't really leave and even if they're not going to kill you it's not going to be
01:05:22.400
very very fun so it's a system that says if you leave you're going to pay a price and if if you're
01:05:29.920
competing against when i say competing against i mean just trying to own the future uh if you're competing
01:05:37.680
against some other religion or a system that lets you go in and out if you like
01:05:42.880
in theory the one that kills you for leaving is going to do better in the long run and has a
01:05:49.440
number of other advantages such as the high reproduction rates and um i won't get into all
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of it but but if you were to design it on paper on paper islam would conquer the other systems
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just by being introduced and then you wait am i right that it would conquer all the other systems one at a
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time just by being introduced now it takes a while but it's very design guarantees that it dominates
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over time so that's going to happen um i would say we're probably halfway to that and uh if you were
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going to ask me scott is there any way the west can save itself to not be destroyed by this superior
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system and the answer is there might be one way there might be one and only one way that the west
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could save itself from an islamic just guaranteed system design takeover do you know what that is
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what is the one system that could defend against that it's not christianity because christianity is a
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a little too peace loving for for that to work i'll tell you what it is
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it's elon musk and it's ai if ai becomes maximum truth seeking which is what elon is after he says
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it almost every day that the ai has to be maximum truth seeking you can't give the ai
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uh morality you can't program morality into ai that would just cause the potential for the biggest
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problems in the world but if you if you program it for ultimate truth you could come up with something
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that's just purely additive ideally we don't know but be worth a shot um so now imagine that it becomes a
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normal thing that half of the country is teaching its own half how to think better my prior conversation
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do you think that that is also a system that can reproduce yes yes if you learn how to think better
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and you're sitting in the room with somebody who doesn't know how to do it and an opportunity comes
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up where you can kind of explain to them you know the way you should think about this might be this way
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instead of that you'll do it so there's something about the common sense learning how to think uh
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approach to life which would be elon's and the other people i mentioned as well uh that is in its
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in its own way sticky and it doesn't require a specific educational structure in fact the whole college
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system might fall apart in 10 years who knows but the idea of thinking better probably will just keep
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going because it's good for everybody who's exposed to it and it's easy to teach the the whole the the
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technique of something being too on the nose i haven't described that here but it's really easy to teach
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somebody how to spot things using a certain set of tools so that is a way that the west could possibly
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become immune from any external systems be they islam or anything else
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all right um the cdc has apparently i don't want to say caved somebody said that that's always the wrong word
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uh the cdc has altered its statement about vaccines and autism uh now it's scrubbing the bold statement
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that they used to have the cdc the vaccines do not cause autism and they've replaced it with vaccines uh
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do not do not cause autism is not an evidence-based claim so there may be the primary claim that the cdc has
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made for my entire life the primary thing uh i mean i've been hearing it since i was in my 20s i think
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that uh they would have said that the vaccines all the vaccines not just the covered ones they would
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say that all the vaccines do not cause autism but they would say it as a statement of fact
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should they have said it as a statement of fact no no because they hadn't tested it they just didn't
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have any evidence that it was there's a real big difference between not having evidence that it is
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and saying we've proven and it's a fact that it isn't and it's so unscientific the way they were doing
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it to imagine that they knew for sure there was no connection despite not having run
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the right kind of tests to know one way or the other so it feels like a step in the right direction
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that they're simply saying it in a in a truthful way they didn't know if it caused autism i'm not
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claiming it does or it doesn't i'm saying i don't know but i'm pretty sure they didn't know either
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and now that's what that looks like all right i had no idea what time it was
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but uh let me do a little uh check with you on today did anybody have a uh have a let's say a brain
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event today where you said to yourself holy cow i had not thought of things that way did you like my
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reframe the reframe that uh democrats teach you what tell you what to think and republicans teach you how to
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think now that might not be true when it comes to something like religion but that would be its own
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special case right all right uh i said no yes epiphany yes
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very much so all right good not really for those of you who are not affected it probably had more to
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do with the fact that you were already there uh for most of the people i'm taking them to where a few
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people already were if you were in the group of a few people who were already there no no travel time
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all right um just looking at your comments here oh you're too nice
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okay um i'm gonna talk to the uh the locals people privately in a moment everybody else thanks for
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joining uh and i hope you have a tremendous weekend i think you will all right people
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uh locals coming at you privately uh locals coming at you privately
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and the rest i will disappear in 30 seconds and i'll see you tomorrow