Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3034 CWSA 12⧸02⧸25

00:00:00.000 buddy come on in there you are is locals working I've got a problem with 1.00

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00:00:23.400 good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called

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00:01:03.040 me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine here today the thing that makes

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00:01:16.120 well somebody gave me this this Tim pool like podcasting hat and I said you know I can't really

00:01:30.700 watch I can't really wear that when I'm podcasting because it will look like I'm copying Tim pool but

00:01:38.140 I decided today I'll just be a Tim pool tribute podcast or something all right it looks like the

00:01:46.600 comments stopped working see if I can make that fixed all right we're good we're good to go all right I

00:01:58.060 I don't know how many of you are following me on Locals the subscription site but if you are you notice that I not only show you the today's Dilbert but I show you the Dilbert that ran exactly 10 years before

00:02:17.060 how many of you have noticed that the Dilbert comic from 10 years ago exactly 10 years ago is matching the headlines today it is literally all about AI and robots and the robot becomes a co-worker and becomes a regular character in Dilbert's environment

00:02:47.060 clu that it is they don't know what a clue that it was written 10 years ago and it's kind of wild you know it's kind of wild you have to see it to believe it anyway speaking of the future Samsung as a new phone I guess it's gonna launch in the next several months but it's a triple fold phone smartphone

00:03:17.060 It's a three-parter, so you can make your smartphone about the size of a small iPad.

00:03:24.420 All you have to do is unfold it.

00:03:26.360 Now, do you know how much I want that?

00:03:29.920 I want that a lot, but I'm stuck in the Apple ecosystem, and it would be such a pain in

00:03:39.980 the ass to get out of that ecosystem.

00:03:43.420 Let me tell you how much I love the Apple ecosystem.

00:03:47.140 I got an Apple Watch right here, and I didn't think I would love it, but it has some cool

00:03:55.220 features, so I'm kind of hooked.

00:03:57.140 This morning, the alarm went off on my phone, which is paired to the watch, so it has an

00:04:04.940 alarm that goes off at the same time, but you have to turn them off separately.

00:04:08.600 So I turn off my phone, and now I have to turn off the alarm on the watch, which was

00:04:16.100 being charged at the moment.

00:04:18.600 So I go to turn off the alarm, and it doesn't turn off, but it goes to the password, you

00:04:25.860 know, four-digit code.

00:04:27.500 And of course, obviously, I know my four-digit code.

00:04:31.000 I use it every day.

00:04:32.140 There's no doubt about it, but it acted like it was the wrong code.

00:04:37.800 So I tried again, and still said it was the wrong code, and I tried again, and I pushed

00:04:43.940 buttons, and I poked at it, and I could not turn off the alarm until I came up with the

00:04:51.120 following idea.

00:04:52.060 Now, I don't know if your devices work the same as mine.

00:04:55.680 This is just something I do.

00:04:57.880 I took my watch off of my wrist, and I threw it as hard as I could against the wall, which

00:05:06.980 successfully turned off the alarm.

00:05:10.160 So I can't say I don't know how to do it.

00:05:13.820 Now, it didn't seem to break, but it did turn off the alarm.

00:05:17.420 So if any of you have an Apple Watch, and you have that same problem where it won't turn

00:05:22.140 off the alarm, for whatever reason, it won't even accept your password, take it and heave

00:05:27.880 it at a wall.

00:05:30.060 That's my recommendation.

00:05:32.420 I'm just saying it worked for me.

00:05:34.860 I can't guarantee it's going to work for everybody.

00:05:38.100 But you can get a Samsung if you don't like that.

00:05:42.000 All right, let's look at the news, especially science.

00:05:47.640 Did you know how much I love the science?

00:05:49.280 Well, there's a study that York University Amina Gamelin is writing about, that if you

00:05:59.360 plan for sex, if you're a couple in a committed relationship, let's say, and you make plans

00:06:05.960 to have sex, you will end up having more sex than if you try to spontaneously have sex. 0.69

00:06:14.340 Now, how many of you didn't know that?

00:06:17.220 How many of you didn't know that if you make plans to have sex, you will end up with at

00:06:25.160 least one more per month on average than if you had not planned it?

00:06:30.840 I think you could just ask Scott about that one, Scott.

00:06:35.360 Now, would it be as satisfying as unplanned, spontaneous sex?

00:06:40.840 No, but I'm talking about people who are in a long-term relationship.

00:06:45.320 They're sort of over the, they sort of got past the spontaneous part.

00:06:50.940 You can't have that forever.

00:06:53.200 So if you can plan it and have it, do it.

00:06:57.320 Here's another one.

00:06:58.500 Curtin University is looking at a study that says where you live influences your body weight.

00:07:06.680 So they did a study in Australia, and they found out that if you live in a town where

00:07:12.920 people are heavier, you will gain weight toward their average.

00:07:17.500 And if you move to a town where people were lighter, you would actually start losing weight.

00:07:23.140 Now, how many of you didn't know that?

00:07:26.060 That your weight is at least partially dependent, and actually in a fairly big variable,

00:07:31.900 dependent on the people around you.

00:07:35.360 Well, I think it was maybe decades ago, the first time I saw a study that said that people

00:07:42.500 will tend toward the average of their friends.

00:07:46.260 So if you've got five friends who have a weight problem, and you don't, well, there's a pretty

00:07:53.100 good chance you're going to start drifting toward their weight.

00:07:55.960 And it makes sense.

00:07:57.340 They're the people who influence you the most.

00:07:59.340 If your friends want to eat fast food, and, you know, there's five of them, and only one

00:08:05.360 of you, maybe you eat some fast food.

00:08:07.720 So there's pretty obvious reasons why that works.

00:08:10.700 So why wouldn't it work were you moving to a town where people are bigger or smaller?

00:08:15.460 Of course it would.

00:08:16.860 You didn't have to do this study.

00:08:18.900 You could have asked me, or you could have asked the last 50 years of science, which has

00:08:23.380 known this for a long time.

00:08:26.440 What else we got?

00:08:27.340 And by the way, that would have been obvious to a hypnotist.

00:08:31.160 A hypnotist would have known that the people around you influence your weight.

00:08:36.200 That would just be basic hypnotist stuff.

00:08:40.660 How about this one?

00:08:41.840 How many of you wouldn't have known this?

00:08:43.360 According to Psy Post, Karina Pichova, men who are in a family life situation have lower

00:08:52.860 testosterone than when they're single.

00:08:56.320 Did you know that?

00:08:57.960 So if you're a husband type, let's say, and you're spending time around the little kids

00:09:04.200 and your family, your testosterone will drop.

00:09:07.620 Now, how many of you didn't know that?

00:09:12.400 I knew that.

00:09:13.960 They didn't need to do a study.

00:09:16.420 If you're a man and you've spent time around small children, especially your own small children,

00:09:23.340 if your testosterone doesn't go down, I wouldn't let you babysit my children.

00:09:29.520 You know what I mean?

00:09:32.080 If you did not feel a total decrease in your overall sexual desire when you're spending

00:09:39.220 time, let's say, feeding breakfast to little kids, if that doesn't lower your sexual desire

00:09:45.040 and, let's say, your testosterone, I'd worry about you a little bit.

00:09:50.020 So yeah, that was obvious.

00:09:51.200 I mean, you can even feel it when you're doing it.

00:09:55.020 Am I right?

00:09:56.620 Men, back me up in the comments.

00:09:59.140 Am I right that you can actually feel the difference when you're doing dad stuff and around kids?

00:10:05.800 Your testosterone drops like a rock.

00:10:08.540 Likewise, your testosterone will go up if you're doing single things and you're winning competitions

00:10:14.600 and let's say you're giving a speech in front of a crowd.

00:10:18.320 There's a whole bunch of stuff that we know raises your testosterone, and you can kind of feel it.

00:10:25.160 So this study did not need to be done.

00:10:28.340 Just ask Scott.

00:10:31.020 You see how much money I can save the scientific community?

00:10:35.420 All right, here's one.

00:10:38.260 Did you know, according to Fox News, it's interesting that this is on Fox News,

00:10:43.880 heavy drinkers cut alcohol use by nearly 30% after adopting one new habit.

00:10:51.900 Do you know what the habit is?

00:10:54.380 If you saw the story, don't cheat.

00:10:57.720 But if you had not seen the story,

00:11:00.220 what one habit will reliably cause heavy drinkers to drink less?

00:11:05.720 The answer is smoking marijuana.

00:11:11.040 And again, it's funny that Fox News will carry that story.

00:11:14.600 But apparently there's a pretty big difference.

00:11:17.920 So the heavy drinkers who replaced it with marijuana drank less.

00:11:23.240 Now, do you know how they could have determined that without doing a scientific study?

00:11:28.220 You could have asked me, because there's a shelf space issue.

00:11:37.620 You only have so many hours in the day.

00:11:40.840 If you add smoking marijuana to your heavy drinking,

00:11:45.720 well, I suppose some people will just spend more hours a day inebriated.

00:11:50.360 But more likely, if you've decided that this will be the time you're going to be inebriated,

00:11:56.100 if you use one kind of drug, it probably takes your desire away from the other drug.

00:12:02.780 So, and they don't mix very well.

00:12:04.860 If you've ever tried, do not mix. 0.97

00:12:09.080 If you're already drinking and somebody offers you some marijuana at a party,

00:12:14.520 totally legal if you're above a certain age and you're in the right state,

00:12:18.780 it would be totally legal.

00:12:20.520 But don't do it.

00:12:22.000 But do not, do not, do not mix marijuana and alcohol.

00:12:29.420 You're going to have a really bad night.

00:12:32.040 Now, some people can do it, but I think they're unusual people.

00:12:36.220 So, yes, of course, marijuana reduces alcohol consumption.

00:12:40.040 Well, OpenAI's Sam Altman,

00:12:42.980 apparently he has put out a memo to his staff,

00:12:46.940 sort of a red alert it's being called, code red, code red.

00:12:50.180 And it was a company-wide memo among the OpenAI staff

00:12:55.940 telling them that they're kind of falling behind the competition.

00:13:01.340 The Wall Street Journal is reporting this.

00:13:03.600 The competition in this case would be Google.

00:13:08.180 So, if you're not paying attention to the AI race,

00:13:11.980 and I didn't know this actually,

00:13:14.360 and I do pay attention, but I didn't know this.

00:13:16.720 The latest Gemini AI, that's Google's version of AI,

00:13:22.980 apparently it just trashed OpenAI in benchmark tests.

00:13:27.680 So, imagine being OpenAI,

00:13:30.040 and you've sucked up all the training material in the known universe, 0.75

00:13:34.980 and you're behind your competition.

00:13:37.480 What do you do then?

00:13:40.920 Panic.

00:13:42.020 You send out a company-wide memo,

00:13:43.740 and you say,

00:13:44.320 we'd better figure out how to do something better,

00:13:49.220 because you don't want to get behind Google.

00:13:53.120 I just have a presumption.

00:13:55.520 I don't have any data for this,

00:13:57.680 but my presumption is

00:13:59.240 that whenever Google gets ahead of a competitor,

00:14:03.320 it stays that way.

00:14:04.360 Don't you think?

00:14:06.880 How would you like to be a competitor to Google,

00:14:09.720 and find that Google just pulled ahead of your product?

00:14:13.660 How many people are going to make up that gap,

00:14:16.300 and then go back into a leadership position?

00:14:19.880 To Google?

00:14:21.900 I mean, Google probably will always have the most access

00:14:25.500 to new training material, I'm guessing.

00:14:27.940 But they're not going to run out of money.

00:14:33.260 So, that's pretty interesting.

00:14:35.100 Well, the competition is heating up.

00:14:39.560 Did you know,

00:14:42.080 if you're following the story about Minnesota,

00:14:45.680 and Minnesota apparently lost, I don't know,

00:14:48.340 a billion dollars in money they thought

00:14:50.820 was going to go to charity and good use,

00:14:53.720 but it got stolen by Somali refugees, mostly.

00:15:00.860 And the accusation is that the governor, Tim Walsh,

00:15:05.380 had been informed about all these potential corrupt things,

00:15:09.520 but decided to punish the whistleblowers,

00:15:13.400 allegedly,

00:15:14.700 instead of going after the corrupt people.

00:15:17.060 And now we have a very direct accusation

00:15:23.540 from the Minnesota state government employees

00:15:25.940 that some of them had been trying to warn the DNC

00:15:30.100 and warn Kamala Harris

00:15:31.760 when she was picking Walsh for vice president running mate.

00:15:38.380 Now, first of all, do you believe that's true?

00:15:41.840 Do you believe that the Kamala Harris campaign

00:15:45.360 and the DNC had received multiple,

00:15:48.500 not one,

00:15:49.780 not one,

00:15:50.740 but multiple letters saying,

00:15:53.480 don't do it, don't do it.

00:15:54.780 Tim Walsh is a big old corrupt,

00:15:56.640 incompetent,

00:15:58.180 untrustworthy guy.

00:16:00.000 You know, the state is full of corruption.

00:16:02.180 We've told him he's not doing anything about it.

00:16:04.280 In fact, he's punishing us

00:16:05.840 for bringing it up.

00:16:08.320 Now, do you think that happened?

00:16:09.620 And that the Kamala Harris campaign

00:16:13.180 was in fact warned multiple times.

00:16:17.740 Well, just because it's in the news

00:16:19.660 doesn't mean it happened.

00:16:21.160 So that's the first thing we should all understand.

00:16:24.780 And I think most of my audience understands that.

00:16:27.940 Doesn't mean it really happened.

00:16:30.360 But it is a claim made by not one person,

00:16:34.880 but a bunch of people.

00:16:36.320 So the fact that a bunch of people

00:16:39.120 are saying it happened,

00:16:41.220 I would say that increases the odds

00:16:42.980 that it might have actually happened.

00:16:44.740 So how would you explain

00:16:47.340 the complete non-response

00:16:49.920 and non-action

00:16:51.680 from the Kamala Harris campaign

00:16:56.140 and from the DNC?

00:16:57.820 How do you explain it?

00:16:59.460 Well, I don't know,

00:17:00.500 but there are several possibilities.

00:17:01.920 One is that they got so many emails

00:17:05.620 and so many letters

00:17:06.820 that nobody could really look at it at all.

00:17:11.240 So it could be

00:17:12.000 that they were in fact

00:17:14.360 contacted many times,

00:17:16.600 but it was within an avalanche

00:17:19.860 of other communications.

00:17:21.560 They didn't know how to know

00:17:23.000 which ones were the important ones.

00:17:25.680 Maybe it was just too much data

00:17:27.480 and got lost in the mix.

00:17:29.060 That's possible.

00:17:29.660 That's possible.

00:17:31.700 The other possibility

00:17:32.820 is that there's some corrupt reason

00:17:37.120 that we don't know about

00:17:39.280 that Tim Walsh was going to be the choice

00:17:42.680 no matter what.

00:17:44.500 And the no matter what

00:17:45.740 might have included

00:17:46.840 he's a big old crook. 0.56

00:17:51.020 There might have been

00:17:52.140 some compelling reason

00:17:53.920 that had nothing to do

00:17:56.440 with his talent

00:17:57.300 as a politician

00:17:59.280 because he didn't have

00:18:00.620 a lot of talent

00:18:01.280 as a politician.

00:18:03.140 And it makes you wonder

00:18:04.560 if the big reason

00:18:08.020 why they picked him

00:18:09.820 is that he was

00:18:11.080 knowingly corrupt.

00:18:14.060 Is it possible

00:18:15.220 that corruption

00:18:16.840 was a feature

00:18:18.480 and not a flaw?

00:18:19.540 Because, you know,

00:18:22.340 I can't prove it.

00:18:24.360 That's just sort of

00:18:25.300 a conspiracy theory

00:18:27.000 you know,

00:18:28.260 kind of thinking.

00:18:29.520 But there seems

00:18:31.480 to be a pattern developing.

00:18:34.700 You know,

00:18:35.340 the pattern is

00:18:36.100 that wherever there's

00:18:37.000 any big organization,

00:18:39.140 be it the DNC

00:18:40.300 or be it Minnesota

00:18:41.420 or be it anything big,

00:18:44.000 all the NGOs,

00:18:44.960 that wherever you find

00:18:46.820 Democrats

00:18:47.600 and a big pile of money,

00:18:51.540 somebody's stealing it.

00:18:54.320 And it's hard to pretend

00:18:56.980 we don't see the pattern

00:18:58.200 because the pattern

00:18:59.780 is everywhere.

00:19:01.320 Everywhere you find

00:19:02.480 a whole bunch of Democrats

00:19:03.500 and a whole bunch of money,

00:19:05.360 one of those Democrats,

00:19:06.900 maybe more,

00:19:08.220 has their beak in it

00:19:09.280 and they're just sucking it 0.98

00:19:10.360 like it's, you know,

00:19:12.520 the last ham sandwich

00:19:13.500 in the world.

00:19:14.960 You don't really suck

00:19:17.440 on a ham sandwich,

00:19:18.480 but it was all I could do.

00:19:20.220 It was the best I could do.

00:19:24.300 So I'm just going to say

00:19:26.300 the, you know,

00:19:28.400 people always say

00:19:29.500 it's not just

00:19:30.460 avoiding corruption,

00:19:31.920 but you should avoid

00:19:32.800 the appearance of corruption.

00:19:34.980 This is one of those times

00:19:36.700 where they need to avoid

00:19:38.680 the appearance of corruption too.

00:19:41.120 And I'm not so sure

00:19:42.100 they did it in this case

00:19:43.260 because this is sketchy as hell.

00:19:44.960 Well, let's change topic

00:19:47.840 to Kirsten Sinema,

00:19:50.540 who, as you know,

00:19:51.900 had retired from

00:19:53.300 her government service.

00:19:55.160 And I guess she's working

00:19:55.960 for some law firm now.

00:19:57.500 But on top of her work

00:20:00.160 for a law firm,

00:20:01.940 she's apparently looking

00:20:03.400 to be an advocate

00:20:04.220 for psychedelics.

00:20:07.300 Specifically,

00:20:08.200 she likes something

00:20:09.000 called ibogaine.

00:20:10.620 It's an African shrub.

00:20:13.320 And I wonder

00:20:14.720 if that's legal.

00:20:16.220 Do you think you could

00:20:17.360 grow an African shrub

00:20:18.760 in your backyard

00:20:19.540 and not get arrested?

00:20:22.040 Could you grow

00:20:22.940 your own ibogaine?

00:20:24.860 I know,

00:20:25.240 it's just a shrub.

00:20:26.580 If it's a shrub,

00:20:27.500 I imagine it's pretty

00:20:28.340 easy to raise.

00:20:29.540 Anyway.

00:20:29.780 apparently she went

00:20:32.800 down to Mexico

00:20:33.480 and tried it herself

00:20:34.620 so she knows

00:20:35.780 what she's talking about.

00:20:37.580 And she and other 0.97

00:20:38.620 advocates want to

00:20:39.860 get it state-funded

00:20:41.620 for clinical trials

00:20:43.880 and eventually hope

00:20:45.840 to get FDA approval

00:20:47.120 to make a drug.

00:20:48.160 And she thinks

00:20:50.200 that she's got

00:20:51.320 a chance

00:20:51.720 of getting that done

00:20:52.540 with the Trump administration,

00:20:56.040 which means

00:20:57.060 RFK Jr., right?

00:20:59.180 So if RFK Jr.,

00:21:00.680 and by the way,

00:21:01.400 I'm not familiar

00:21:03.600 with RFK Jr.'s opinion

00:21:05.400 on psychedelics,

00:21:07.000 but I feel like

00:21:08.140 I know what it is

00:21:09.360 without knowing

00:21:12.160 what it is.

00:21:13.780 Do you think

00:21:14.560 that would be fair to say?

00:21:16.120 I'll tell you

00:21:16.700 what I think it is.

00:21:18.160 without any real data

00:21:20.100 or information

00:21:21.100 or story or anything.

00:21:22.740 If RFK Jr. is consistent

00:21:25.040 and he does seem

00:21:26.860 to be consistent,

00:21:28.240 then he would say,

00:21:29.960 we don't know

00:21:31.780 if it's good or bad,

00:21:33.820 but if we tried it

00:21:36.160 and it worked,

00:21:37.260 we could maybe

00:21:38.160 get it approved.

00:21:39.400 So I think he would be

00:21:40.760 pro, let's test it. 0.85

00:21:44.100 And he wouldn't be pro,

00:21:46.920 oh, let's make it legal

00:21:48.120 without knowing

00:21:49.520 the downside.

00:21:52.440 So probably,

00:21:53.900 as long as there's

00:21:55.280 some data to back it,

00:21:57.600 she might be able

00:21:58.380 to get this through.

00:21:59.320 And that would be

00:21:59.780 a good bipartisan thing

00:22:01.200 to do.

00:22:02.440 One of the better things

00:22:03.640 that could come out

00:22:04.280 of current government.

00:22:06.060 there's a GOP senator,

00:22:11.620 I think he's a state senator,

00:22:13.880 Senator Marino,

00:22:16.140 and he's introducing

00:22:17.580 some legislation

00:22:18.600 to end dual citizenship

00:22:22.680 for Americans.

00:22:24.580 In other words,

00:22:25.580 there are people

00:22:26.060 who are citizens of America

00:22:27.680 in at least one other place,

00:22:30.920 often Israel,

00:22:32.020 but it could include

00:22:33.280 other places as well.

00:22:35.540 And he would like

00:22:36.660 to make it such that

00:22:38.040 if you're a dual citizen

00:22:39.480 and after a certain warning

00:22:42.580 and a little time

00:22:44.400 to get it done,

00:22:45.360 if you do not renounce

00:22:47.160 your other nation's

00:22:48.820 citizenship,

00:22:49.340 you would automatically

00:22:50.780 lose your American

00:22:52.960 citizenship.

00:22:55.680 What do you think of that?

00:22:58.880 I'm going to say

00:22:59.740 that's too far.

00:23:01.540 I feel like that's too far.

00:23:04.940 But I would,

00:23:06.140 here's what I would

00:23:07.100 prefer instead.

00:23:08.820 I would prefer that

00:23:09.860 if you're a dual citizen,

00:23:11.520 you cannot run for office.

00:23:14.800 And there might be,

00:23:16.340 you know,

00:23:16.580 maybe you can imagine

00:23:17.540 some other public service

00:23:19.600 kind of job

00:23:20.400 that's not an elected job,

00:23:21.900 but maybe something

00:23:22.560 you wouldn't want

00:23:23.200 a dual citizen in.

00:23:24.180 But wouldn't it be,

00:23:26.640 wouldn't it be cleaner

00:23:27.860 and easier

00:23:28.640 if you just said

00:23:29.820 you can be a dual citizen,

00:23:31.860 but if you run for office,

00:23:35.640 you just can't do it.

00:23:37.740 You've got to be

00:23:38.720 an American citizen,

00:23:40.440 not just for the presidency,

00:23:42.700 but for every elected office.

00:23:45.240 I'd be fine with that.

00:23:47.060 And then people can choose.

00:23:48.880 You know,

00:23:49.080 if you really need

00:23:49.800 to be a senator,

00:23:51.380 you better be our senator. 0.89

00:23:53.640 Right?

00:23:54.720 If you need to be

00:23:56.180 a house of representatives,

00:23:58.120 you just got to be

00:23:59.320 our house of representatives.

00:24:01.240 But for an ordinary person,

00:24:03.180 I don't know how many

00:24:04.000 dual citizenship

00:24:05.120 people there are

00:24:06.880 in the whole country.

00:24:07.880 It's not a lot,

00:24:09.160 is it?

00:24:10.400 It's not like the immigrants 1.00

00:24:12.020 are coming over

00:24:12.740 with dual citizenship.

00:24:14.500 I think it's kind of

00:24:15.420 a rare situation,

00:24:16.640 like, you know,

00:24:17.340 one percent or something.

00:24:19.820 So I wouldn't worry

00:24:20.960 too much about

00:24:21.620 just ordinary citizens,

00:24:23.160 but definitely don't want

00:24:24.560 my elected people

00:24:25.480 to be dual citizens.

00:24:30.560 Here's a story

00:24:31.640 that you could all,

00:24:33.280 you almost could have guessed

00:24:34.580 that this was going to happen.

00:24:36.400 So you know

00:24:37.440 Senator Mark Kelly.

00:24:40.160 He's one of the six people

00:24:42.220 we call the seditious six

00:24:44.240 who did the video

00:24:46.240 telling the people

00:24:47.340 in the armed forces

00:24:48.980 to be careful

00:24:50.840 about any illegal orders.

00:24:54.460 Now,

00:24:54.860 now we find out

00:24:56.280 that he,

00:24:57.160 of course,

00:24:57.680 we already knew

00:24:58.180 he had a twin brother,

00:24:59.100 but his twin brother

00:25:01.060 is allegedly,

00:25:02.320 according to the

00:25:03.080 Amuse account on Axe,

00:25:04.760 that's where I first saw it,

00:25:06.560 apparently he had been hired

00:25:08.580 to help Zelensky

00:25:12.040 propagandize America

00:25:15.760 and maybe more than America.

00:25:19.040 So he was part of some NGO

00:25:21.140 kind of funded sketchy thing.

00:25:25.000 So they used a USAID

00:25:27.280 funded infrastructure.

00:25:28.620 So it wasn't USAID,

00:25:30.260 but it was a,

00:25:31.600 oh yeah,

00:25:32.380 it was.

00:25:33.500 It was a USAID

00:25:34.540 funded infrastructure.

00:25:35.860 Okay.

00:25:37.580 But it looks like

00:25:38.740 maybe this was

00:25:40.300 based on donations,

00:25:43.300 not based on tax dollars,

00:25:45.020 but that's not

00:25:45.880 the important point here.

00:25:47.400 The important point

00:25:48.600 is they raised

00:25:49.560 $2.72 billion

00:25:51.680 for the purposes

00:25:57.600 of helping Zelensky

00:25:59.100 and Ukraine.

00:26:01.340 Now,

00:26:02.060 the fact that his brother

00:26:03.600 is a senator,

00:26:05.940 does that bother you,

00:26:07.480 especially his twin brother?

00:26:09.840 Well,

00:26:11.240 you know,

00:26:11.680 if it's,

00:26:12.120 if it's all

00:26:12.680 disclosed

00:26:13.700 and it's legal,

00:26:14.420 there's no crime involved.

00:26:15.880 but didn't you know

00:26:17.980 without actually knowing,

00:26:20.960 didn't you know

00:26:21.580 that the Mark Kelly

00:26:23.220 and or his brother

00:26:24.320 probably were up to their neck

00:26:26.980 and something

00:26:27.940 that you wouldn't love?

00:26:30.300 Didn't it feel like

00:26:31.300 that was just

00:26:31.860 going to happen?

00:26:33.860 If you waited long enough,

00:26:35.700 there would be a story

00:26:37.100 about either he

00:26:38.560 or his brother

00:26:39.400 or a spouse

00:26:40.400 or,

00:26:40.940 you know,

00:26:41.080 some damn thing

00:26:41.880 that had been

00:26:43.200 maybe not doing

00:26:44.980 anything illegal,

00:26:47.100 but,

00:26:47.620 you know,

00:26:49.140 had their nose

00:26:50.380 and stuff

00:26:50.920 that makes you

00:26:51.440 a little uncomfortable.

00:26:52.840 Sure enough,

00:26:53.580 there it is.

00:26:54.820 And apparently

00:26:55.420 they tried,

00:26:56.260 the organization

00:26:57.160 he was in,

00:26:58.360 running,

00:26:58.980 I guess,

00:27:00.080 tried to sell themselves

00:27:01.460 as fact checkers

00:27:02.880 and anti-corruption efforts,

00:27:05.560 but really

00:27:06.720 it was just

00:27:07.600 a propaganda engine

00:27:08.920 to support Ukraine.

00:27:12.120 So,

00:27:13.000 I'm going to call that

00:27:13.900 not ideal.

00:27:16.720 Probably legal.

00:27:18.900 Probably.

00:27:20.260 I don't see an allegation

00:27:21.720 that it's illegal,

00:27:22.920 but not ideal.

00:27:25.300 Yeah.

00:27:27.600 Apparently,

00:27:28.380 the Treasury Department

00:27:29.880 and the House panel

00:27:32.320 are going to look

00:27:32.860 into Tim Walsh's

00:27:34.400 handling of that

00:27:35.940 billion dollars

00:27:36.920 of stolen food aid

00:27:38.960 in his state

00:27:40.120 and

00:27:41.340 it might

00:27:42.220 end up

00:27:44.620 in criminal referrals.

00:27:47.180 So,

00:27:47.500 Tim Walsh

00:27:48.120 may go from

00:27:49.220 almost

00:27:50.300 vice president

00:27:51.160 to,

00:27:52.700 well,

00:27:54.180 jail.

00:27:55.240 I doubt that

00:27:56.300 he'll be

00:27:58.040 indicted

00:27:58.700 or sent to jail

00:27:59.760 or anything

00:28:00.140 because I think

00:28:02.160 it's just going to

00:28:02.900 look like

00:28:03.500 incompetence.

00:28:04.360 there'll just

00:28:06.040 be a bunch

00:28:06.420 of questions

00:28:07.080 like,

00:28:08.460 didn't you know

00:28:09.160 this was happening

00:28:09.920 and why are you

00:28:11.660 punishing the

00:28:12.280 whistleblowers? 0.96

00:28:13.000 But there will be

00:28:13.500 reasons.

00:28:15.120 And if there

00:28:15.960 are reasons,

00:28:17.140 they don't have

00:28:17.700 to be good ones,

00:28:18.900 but probably

00:28:19.940 that would be

00:28:20.340 enough to get

00:28:20.860 him off.

00:28:21.560 He just has to,

00:28:22.660 he has to use

00:28:23.520 the typical

00:28:24.420 Democrat defense

00:28:26.080 in these situations.

00:28:27.580 Do you know

00:28:27.880 what it is?

00:28:29.340 What is the

00:28:30.100 most typical

00:28:30.960 Democrat

00:28:32.400 defense

00:28:34.340 when accused

00:28:35.940 of being,

00:28:37.560 let's say,

00:28:37.960 complicit by

00:28:38.960 incompetence

00:28:39.820 for letting

00:28:41.420 a billion dollars

00:28:42.180 get stolen?

00:28:44.520 The defense

00:28:45.500 is always the 0.65

00:28:46.100 same.

00:28:47.360 Well,

00:28:48.060 I'm not a

00:28:48.920 criminal.

00:28:49.800 I'm just

00:28:50.520 really bad

00:28:51.120 at my job.

00:28:53.600 You know

00:28:54.360 that's where

00:28:54.780 it's going,

00:28:55.420 right?

00:28:56.100 You know

00:28:56.920 it's going

00:28:57.520 toward,

00:28:58.200 I didn't

00:28:59.180 break any

00:28:59.720 laws.

00:29:00.160 I'm just

00:29:01.300 super bad

00:29:02.260 at doing

00:29:02.620 my job.

00:29:03.780 So,

00:29:04.640 no crime,

00:29:06.160 no crime,

00:29:06.980 just

00:29:07.200 incompetence,

00:29:08.660 the usual

00:29:09.120 baseline.

00:29:11.060 All right.

00:29:12.520 Meanwhile,

00:29:13.140 Russia has 0.96

00:29:14.080 claimed,

00:29:15.640 and there's

00:29:16.380 no pushback

00:29:17.080 on this,

00:29:17.460 they claim

00:29:17.840 to have

00:29:18.200 taken

00:29:19.240 another

00:29:20.180 city,

00:29:21.260 the key

00:29:21.840 city of

00:29:22.660 Pokrovsk.

00:29:25.060 Pokrovsk.

00:29:26.620 Well,

00:29:27.620 I know

00:29:27.980 that makes

00:29:28.400 you sad

00:29:28.960 that the

00:29:30.040 city of

00:29:30.580 Pokrovsk

00:29:31.340 has been

00:29:32.700 taken over.

00:29:34.240 Because I

00:29:34.620 remember,

00:29:35.280 I remember

00:29:37.000 it seems like

00:29:37.660 it was only

00:29:38.040 yesterday,

00:29:39.240 that Pokrovsk 1.00

00:29:40.120 was a

00:29:40.980 free

00:29:41.480 Ukrainian

00:29:42.580 city.

00:29:43.940 Not

00:29:44.460 anymore.

00:29:45.680 Pokrovsk

00:29:46.360 is now

00:29:48.100 totally owned

00:29:49.480 by the

00:29:50.240 Russians.

00:29:52.160 Now,

00:29:52.880 let me give

00:29:54.080 you a 0.57

00:29:54.800 persuasion

00:29:55.880 negotiation

00:29:56.860 tip.

00:29:58.400 If you

00:29:59.460 were

00:29:59.760 Wyckoff 0.99

00:30:00.600 and the

00:30:01.320 other

00:30:01.500 negotiators,

00:30:02.880 and you

00:30:03.120 were trying

00:30:03.480 to get

00:30:03.780 a peace

00:30:04.260 deal done,

00:30:05.920 and then

00:30:06.300 you found

00:30:06.740 out that

00:30:07.140 right in

00:30:07.460 the middle

00:30:07.820 of the

00:30:08.100 peace

00:30:08.320 deal,

00:30:09.240 Russia

00:30:09.500 had

00:30:09.760 captured

00:30:10.200 another

00:30:10.680 important,

00:30:11.660 they called

00:30:11.980 a key

00:30:12.440 city.

00:30:13.320 It's not

00:30:13.980 that populated,

00:30:15.840 there's 60,000

00:30:16.740 people there,

00:30:17.420 but it seems

00:30:18.360 to be

00:30:18.660 strategically

00:30:19.320 important.

00:30:20.080 so if

00:30:22.180 one side

00:30:23.260 conquered a

00:30:24.540 city and

00:30:25.300 occupied it

00:30:26.100 while you

00:30:27.240 were doing

00:30:27.640 the

00:30:27.820 negotiations,

00:30:28.980 what would

00:30:29.680 you do?

00:30:30.860 Well,

00:30:31.600 you might

00:30:32.080 reflexively

00:30:33.620 say,

00:30:34.220 I'm walking

00:30:35.100 away,

00:30:36.080 I'm not

00:30:36.520 going to

00:30:36.760 negotiate

00:30:37.140 with you

00:30:37.820 darned

00:30:39.780 stealers

00:30:40.520 of land,

00:30:41.340 you're not

00:30:41.840 taking it

00:30:42.300 seriously.

00:30:42.980 You could

00:30:43.400 do that,

00:30:44.260 but that

00:30:44.900 would also

00:30:45.300 be the end

00:30:45.760 of the peace

00:30:46.140 process.

00:30:46.660 If you

00:30:47.680 wanted to

00:30:48.140 get a

00:30:48.540 peace

00:30:48.820 deal

00:30:49.180 done,

00:30:50.040 but this

00:30:51.480 happened,

00:30:52.300 how would

00:30:52.960 you handle

00:30:53.440 it?

00:30:54.460 I'm going

00:30:54.860 to give

00:30:55.160 you a 0.57

00:30:56.940 persuasion

00:30:57.540 trick that

00:30:58.360 somebody like

00:31:00.060 Trump and

00:31:01.600 probably somebody

00:31:02.420 like Wyckoff,

00:31:04.260 but not many

00:31:05.200 people could

00:31:06.200 pull off.

00:31:07.580 You ready

00:31:07.880 for this?

00:31:09.060 It's a little

00:31:09.880 bit of a

00:31:10.400 fake because,

00:31:11.460 but not

00:31:11.880 exactly.

00:31:13.540 Here's what I

00:31:14.220 would say in

00:31:15.240 the negotiations.

00:31:16.660 Well, I

00:31:17.800 understand that

00:31:18.460 you took a

00:31:19.060 new city

00:31:19.560 today.

00:31:20.440 We're adding

00:31:21.400 to the

00:31:22.000 negotiation a

00:31:23.400 29th point,

00:31:24.980 which is that

00:31:25.920 anything captured

00:31:27.000 after we

00:31:28.300 started negotiating

00:31:29.440 has to be

00:31:30.600 given back.

00:31:32.600 And then the

00:31:33.040 Russians would 0.99

00:31:33.580 say, oh,

00:31:34.300 yeah, yeah,

00:31:35.480 no, we lost

00:31:36.380 a bunch of

00:31:36.840 people, we've

00:31:37.920 been fighting

00:31:38.420 for months to

00:31:39.420 capture the

00:31:39.980 city, we're

00:31:41.040 not going to

00:31:41.400 give back the

00:31:41.960 city.

00:31:42.680 And then you

00:31:43.100 look at them

00:31:43.560 and say,

00:31:44.200 that's a

00:31:45.560 requirement.

00:31:46.660 You cannot

00:31:47.260 take any

00:31:48.100 land after

00:31:49.400 we started

00:31:50.400 negotiating.

00:31:52.540 Now, is

00:31:53.500 there a

00:31:53.780 reason for

00:31:54.220 that?

00:31:54.920 Not really.

00:31:56.720 No, there's

00:31:57.140 no reason for

00:31:57.880 it.

00:31:58.300 It's a

00:31:58.800 purely

00:31:59.240 emotional

00:32:00.140 request.

00:32:02.740 But you

00:32:03.380 just stick to

00:32:04.160 it and you

00:32:04.900 never change.

00:32:06.820 And at the

00:32:07.260 end, if

00:32:08.340 Russia and

00:32:09.400 Ukraine, let's

00:32:10.080 say they

00:32:10.360 agreed on

00:32:10.920 every other

00:32:12.080 thing, and

00:32:13.600 then you say,

00:32:14.180 just one

00:32:14.780 more thing,

00:32:16.240 just one

00:32:16.660 more thing,

00:32:17.580 got to give

00:32:18.020 back everything

00:32:18.620 you took from

00:32:20.040 the time we

00:32:20.720 started negotiating

00:32:21.620 seriously till

00:32:22.580 now, every

00:32:23.480 bit of it.

00:32:24.460 That stuff just

00:32:25.460 doesn't count.

00:32:27.480 Could you get

00:32:28.240 them to back

00:32:28.840 down on that?

00:32:30.540 Well, it would

00:32:31.380 depend how much

00:32:32.020 they wanted the

00:32:32.540 peace deal, and

00:32:33.740 I don't think

00:32:34.200 they want it

00:32:34.680 badly enough yet.

00:32:36.300 But if they

00:32:36.980 ever got to the

00:32:37.500 point where it

00:32:38.520 looked like Russia 0.86

00:32:39.260 really seriously

00:32:40.400 for the first

00:32:41.160 time, wanted

00:32:42.580 an actual

00:32:43.060 peace, you

00:32:44.480 could use this

00:32:45.260 irrational reason.

00:32:47.020 No, we're not

00:32:47.600 going to give

00:32:48.680 you anything that

00:32:49.300 started after we

00:32:50.500 started talking

00:32:51.160 peace, because

00:32:52.620 that's not even a

00:32:53.320 fair fight.

00:32:53.920 We were barely

00:32:54.460 trying.

00:32:56.340 Yeah.

00:32:56.860 So as illogical

00:32:58.540 as it is, you

00:33:00.520 could probably get

00:33:01.160 away with it, but

00:33:02.440 you would need

00:33:02.980 just the right

00:33:03.660 negotiator saying

00:33:05.540 it just the right

00:33:06.280 way, inserting it

00:33:08.160 at just the right

00:33:08.780 time, but you

00:33:09.840 can get away

00:33:10.340 with it.

00:33:10.700 It's doable.

00:33:13.860 All right,

00:33:14.500 what else?

00:33:18.200 So Venezuela's

00:33:20.020 leader, Maduro,

00:33:21.260 apparently he's

00:33:22.080 not dead and he

00:33:23.180 has not escaped

00:33:24.040 the country, so

00:33:24.800 he's been spotted

00:33:25.680 doing some public

00:33:27.940 thing like

00:33:28.560 chanting.

00:33:30.360 He was somewhere

00:33:31.240 in the country

00:33:31.980 giving away

00:33:32.580 prizes and

00:33:33.560 singing with

00:33:34.900 the locals.

00:33:38.440 What do you

00:33:39.140 think is going

00:33:39.580 to happen there

00:33:40.160 with Maduro?

00:33:43.120 I feel like

00:33:44.120 something has to

00:33:45.160 happen pretty

00:33:45.680 quickly, but

00:33:47.100 they've kind of

00:33:47.840 given him two

00:33:48.540 choices.

00:33:49.640 You can stay and

00:33:51.140 get killed or 0.54

00:33:52.360 maybe jailed because

00:33:54.160 we're coming in

00:33:54.860 hard and probably

00:33:56.280 believes that land

00:33:58.280 forces are ready

00:33:59.820 to strike, and

00:34:00.820 they probably are.

00:34:01.840 or he can leave

00:34:03.980 the country.

00:34:05.060 Apparently, Trump

00:34:06.740 has said, you

00:34:08.020 know, we

00:34:08.200 won't stop you

00:34:08.920 from leaving the

00:34:09.720 country, but we're

00:34:11.440 also not going to

00:34:12.140 pardon you and

00:34:13.560 we're not going to

00:34:14.180 protect you.

00:34:15.260 So you're sort of on

00:34:15.960 your own.

00:34:16.480 You just have to get

00:34:17.200 out of here, and

00:34:17.920 then Venezuela can

00:34:19.480 have a new start.

00:34:21.000 don't you think

00:34:22.840 the odds of him

00:34:24.100 being killed or

00:34:25.560 captured is pretty

00:34:27.560 high if he leaves

00:34:29.460 Venezuela?

00:34:30.780 Like, how in the

00:34:31.700 world could he be

00:34:32.360 protected unless he

00:34:33.380 went, I don't know,

00:34:34.300 directly to China and

00:34:35.540 lived there forever or

00:34:36.640 went directly to

00:34:37.900 Russia and lived

00:34:38.520 there forever?

00:34:39.520 But short of those

00:34:40.820 two countries, is

00:34:42.860 there anywhere he

00:34:43.860 could go that he

00:34:46.460 wouldn't be captured

00:34:47.600 and killed no matter

00:34:48.580 what?

00:34:50.100 So if, you know,

00:34:51.800 I've said this a

00:34:52.700 million times, but

00:34:53.700 we need the retired 1.00

00:34:56.020 dictator island, an

00:34:58.380 island where all the

00:34:59.740 dictators that, you

00:35:01.380 know, know they have

00:35:02.000 to leave because

00:35:02.840 otherwise they'll get

00:35:03.800 killed, they want to 0.98

00:35:04.940 go somewhere where

00:35:06.920 they won't be killed.

00:35:07.960 We should have one

00:35:08.800 island with nothing

00:35:10.820 but dictators and

00:35:11.940 their servants, no

00:35:13.540 military, just

00:35:14.980 dictators and

00:35:15.900 servants.

00:35:16.320 They can even take

00:35:17.520 their stolen money

00:35:18.560 to support

00:35:19.940 themselves and

00:35:20.740 nobody will bother

00:35:21.460 them.

00:35:22.220 They just can never

00:35:23.060 leave. 0.99

00:35:24.680 They can never leave

00:35:26.100 and maybe, maybe

00:35:28.080 prevent them from

00:35:29.000 communicating so

00:35:30.100 they don't start a

00:35:30.840 coup.

00:35:32.540 Yeah, like Elba

00:35:33.680 Island, exactly.

00:35:35.540 Cuba.

00:35:37.680 Yeah.

00:35:38.280 Oh, you know,

00:35:38.800 that's a possibility,

00:35:39.640 right?

00:35:40.840 Venezuela's been a 0.98

00:35:41.900 big supporter of

00:35:42.960 Cuba.

00:35:44.100 So I guess there's

00:35:45.320 a possibility that

00:35:46.180 Maduro could go to

00:35:48.080 Cuba and be

00:35:48.740 protected, but I

00:35:50.580 wouldn't feel very

00:35:51.420 safe if I were in

00:35:52.440 Cuba, so close to

00:35:53.840 the United States.

00:35:55.140 I feel like we

00:35:56.220 could get to him if

00:35:57.180 we wanted to.

00:36:00.480 So we'll see where

00:36:01.620 that goes.

00:36:03.300 Let's see.

00:36:05.880 According to the

00:36:07.060 Brussels signal,

00:36:08.520 which I know you

00:36:09.200 all read, the

00:36:09.840 Brussels signal,

00:36:10.780 the head of France,

00:36:14.080 Macron, has

00:36:15.580 proposed labeling

00:36:16.840 news outlets for

00:36:18.580 their reliability.

00:36:21.340 What do you think

00:36:22.080 of that idea?

00:36:25.320 It's almost funny

00:36:26.400 that it's even, he's

00:36:27.660 even floating the

00:36:28.520 idea.

00:36:30.180 So Macron wants an

00:36:31.700 official media label

00:36:33.400 that would tell

00:36:34.740 people if the, if the

00:36:36.740 news site was

00:36:37.480 trustworthy.

00:36:41.100 Doesn't that sound

00:36:42.020 like that can't be

00:36:43.360 real?

00:36:44.440 That can't be real.

00:36:45.680 In 2025, are there

00:36:47.980 people who don't

00:36:48.900 know that if the

00:36:50.240 government tells you a

00:36:51.480 site is trustworthy,

00:36:52.720 that's the last thing

00:36:53.680 you should trust?

00:36:55.320 I mean, even in a

00:36:56.360 democratic type of

00:36:58.400 civilization, if the

00:37:00.540 government tells you

00:37:01.480 this is the one to

00:37:02.380 believe, that's the

00:37:04.020 one to not believe.

00:37:06.500 But that's, that's

00:37:07.740 his idea.

00:37:09.060 And he wants to do

00:37:09.720 that to teach young

00:37:10.640 people how to spot

00:37:11.580 fake news.

00:37:13.220 No, that's not what

00:37:14.800 you're teaching them.

00:37:15.800 You're teaching them to

00:37:16.900 be fooled by fake

00:37:18.200 news, so long as it's

00:37:19.920 the government

00:37:20.540 approved fake news.

00:37:22.520 That's what this is.

00:37:24.380 And it makes you

00:37:25.540 wonder, does Macron

00:37:27.200 not know what he's

00:37:28.900 doing?

00:37:29.760 Does he not know

00:37:31.060 that these, you

00:37:32.900 know, official,

00:37:34.020 sites are going to

00:37:35.200 be obviously

00:37:36.180 propaganda?

00:37:37.680 Does he not know

00:37:38.340 that?

00:37:39.220 I feel like he does

00:37:40.080 know it.

00:37:40.960 Like, because

00:37:41.600 everybody in that

00:37:42.340 position would know

00:37:43.120 that.

00:37:44.560 So he's, I don't

00:37:47.420 know, this is a

00:37:48.320 terrible idea.

00:37:49.340 Terrible idea.

00:37:50.680 What, if he really

00:37:51.740 wanted young people to

00:37:52.860 be able to spot fake

00:37:54.080 news, they should

00:37:56.720 watch my, they

00:37:58.240 should watch my

00:37:58.860 podcast.

00:37:59.800 They'd have to learn

00:38:00.980 English or get it

00:38:02.860 translated, but let

00:38:04.480 me teach the young

00:38:05.540 people in France how

00:38:07.220 to spot fake news.

00:38:08.480 You ready?

00:38:09.420 This will be a little

00:38:10.060 lesson, so they won't

00:38:11.120 have to, they won't

00:38:12.500 have to look for what

00:38:13.880 news sites are labeled

00:38:15.360 trustworthy.

00:38:16.420 I will teach them how

00:38:18.020 to spot it.

00:38:19.080 And all I have to do is

00:38:20.320 tell you about the very

00:38:21.240 next story that I was

00:38:22.980 going to talk about

00:38:23.700 anyway.

00:38:25.000 Did you know that,

00:38:25.840 did you know that the

00:38:28.420 Washington Post is

00:38:30.300 reporting that there

00:38:31.300 are two anonymous

00:38:33.000 whistleblowers that say

00:38:35.240 that Pete Hegseth gave

00:38:36.680 the order to kill the

00:38:38.160 two survivors from a

00:38:40.140 narco boat that the,

00:38:42.360 that our military blew

00:38:43.500 up coming from

00:38:44.300 Venezuela?

00:38:45.900 Did, did you learn your

00:38:47.580 lesson?

00:38:48.840 It's in the Washington

00:38:50.100 Post and there are two

00:38:53.600 anonymous sources and I

00:38:57.100 could add that it's bad

00:38:58.260 for Republicans and it's

00:39:00.240 bad for Republicans.

00:39:04.120 So young people in 1.00

00:39:05.560 France, if you're watching

00:39:06.600 this, that's what fake

00:39:08.380 news looks like.

00:39:10.080 Now, I don't know what's

00:39:12.040 true and what's not.

00:39:13.520 So I like to put things in

00:39:14.900 the frame of credible

00:39:17.820 versus not credible.

00:39:19.920 Maybe sometimes the, the,

00:39:22.940 the Washington Post gets

00:39:24.620 the story right and maybe

00:39:26.800 sometimes they have

00:39:27.740 anonymous sources who are

00:39:29.760 completely legitimate.

00:39:31.480 But if you ever see a

00:39:33.180 story that's bad for

00:39:35.160 Republicans and weirdly,

00:39:37.360 not just bad for

00:39:38.400 Republicans, but bad for

00:39:40.460 Republicans in a way that

00:39:41.700 perfectly fits the

00:39:43.060 narrative coming from the

00:39:44.320 Democrats.

00:39:45.640 You know, the narrative is

00:39:46.760 that the military might be

00:39:48.880 asked to do illegal things

00:39:50.380 by the Trump

00:39:50.980 administration.

00:39:51.640 And then, well, well, lo

00:39:54.240 and behold, by amazing

00:39:56.180 coincidence, at the exact

00:39:58.140 time the narrative is being

00:39:59.520 formed, that maybe these

00:40:02.160 illegal acts will be ordered.

00:40:04.320 Well, we've got a story in

00:40:05.880 the Washington Post with two

00:40:08.300 anonymous sources saying that

00:40:10.720 something that looked sort of

00:40:12.780 illegal-ish may have happened.

00:40:15.320 And that's some fake news

00:40:18.280 looking stuff.

00:40:19.200 So again, I don't know what's

00:40:20.220 true and what's not, but I

00:40:22.540 can say that this is not a

00:40:23.880 credible story.

00:40:25.460 It's not credible.

00:40:26.900 We don't know what's true, but

00:40:29.320 we can certainly say that you

00:40:30.600 should treat it like it's not

00:40:32.000 true because it's just so not

00:40:34.400 credible, not even a little bit.

00:40:37.040 So let's see France do that. 0.69

00:40:39.120 And the latest update on that

00:40:43.320 story is that Hegseth was not

00:40:45.920 directly involved in any orders

00:40:47.760 at all.

00:40:48.620 So he was not watching the

00:40:50.860 action and saying, hey, you know,

00:40:54.060 there's two guys that got away.

00:40:55.680 Blast those two guys.

00:40:57.000 So apparently that never happened.

00:40:59.000 Or at least that's the counter to

00:41:02.820 the allegation is that he wasn't

00:41:04.560 involved at all.

00:41:05.220 He did give, you know, orders for

00:41:08.000 the attacks, but there were

00:41:09.760 general orders.

00:41:10.560 They were not about kill those

00:41:12.460 survivors or anything like that.

00:41:14.720 There was an admiral who was more

00:41:17.460 directly involved or he was the

00:41:19.780 direct leader of this.

00:41:23.760 And I don't know what his name is,

00:41:25.660 but apparently there was an admiral

00:41:27.340 who if anybody gave any orders and

00:41:29.940 there's no indication that he gave

00:41:31.480 the orders to kill those people, no

00:41:33.340 indication of that.

00:41:34.180 But if anybody did, it would have

00:41:36.680 been him, not Hegseth.

00:41:39.120 Do you believe that?

00:41:42.320 Yeah.

00:41:43.980 Well, that entire story seems to

00:41:46.880 have taken over the news.

00:41:48.920 So if you notice that the Democrat

00:41:50.460 narrative has successfully

00:41:52.120 conquered all the news, there's

00:41:55.720 basically not a lot else happening.

00:41:58.420 But we're going to talk about the

00:41:59.720 seditious sex. 0.60

00:42:00.700 We're going to talk about Hegseth

00:42:02.460 and the, you know, and Maduro and

00:42:05.840 what legal or illegal things we're

00:42:07.940 going to do.

00:42:09.120 So that play is completely taken over

00:42:13.880 the news.

00:42:15.160 And you don't do that unless it's a 0.97

00:42:17.280 coordinated effort, in my opinion.

00:42:20.160 That doesn't happen by itself.

00:42:21.860 So, so Elon Musk continues to make news.

00:42:28.800 He did this one podcast who's, and I

00:42:31.900 still don't know who the host of it

00:42:33.280 was.

00:42:35.360 Oh, recent interview with investor

00:42:37.740 Nikhil Kamath.

00:42:40.760 Anyway, so one of the things that

00:42:42.180 Elon said is that he's looking at

00:42:46.220 creating what he's calling a galaxy mind,

00:42:48.660 which would be shooting AI into space

00:42:52.460 on satellites.

00:42:54.140 So you'd have AI in space.

00:42:56.040 But the, the tough part about AI is

00:42:58.820 having enough energy.

00:43:00.780 But apparently if you get your assets

00:43:04.380 outside of Earth's cover and, and

00:43:08.120 atmosphere, the amount of energy that

00:43:11.260 you have access to directly from the sun

00:43:13.860 is practically unlimited.

00:43:16.800 So the idea is they put some solar

00:43:18.960 panels in space that would be super

00:43:21.960 effective because they would be beyond

00:43:23.780 our atmosphere and they would be, um,

00:43:26.560 toward the sun all day long instead of

00:43:28.620 half the day.

00:43:29.740 So you would have just enormous,

00:43:32.460 enormous parts of energy if you did it

00:43:34.520 in space.

00:43:35.400 So you essentially link together your

00:43:38.080 satellites with their AI components and, uh,

00:43:41.980 link it with the, uh, the power that

00:43:44.360 they're getting from the sun.

00:43:45.660 And you can build this enormous

00:43:47.920 space faring data center that would be

00:43:52.520 way smarter than anything you could ever

00:43:55.760 do on Earth because on Earth, you're

00:43:58.180 always going to be bound by energy.

00:43:59.980 But as soon as you take it out of the

00:44:01.720 atmosphere, the sky is the limit, so to

00:44:05.540 speak.

00:44:06.400 So Elon is basically saying that's where

00:44:09.120 it's going because that's where the

00:44:11.320 economics will drive it.

00:44:13.340 And coincidentally, um, the companies

00:44:16.400 that he owns would, would have rockets

00:44:19.540 for sending things to space.

00:44:21.200 They would have the satellites, you know,

00:44:23.280 the, uh, he's got the satellite

00:44:24.920 business.

00:44:25.560 He's got the Tesla engineering.

00:44:27.920 He's got the, uh, the AI that's also

00:44:31.240 under his control and all of those

00:44:33.820 components and the solar stuff.

00:44:35.600 He even has the solar panels that's

00:44:38.340 under Tesla.

00:44:38.920 So every part of this so-called galaxy

00:44:43.480 mind, he already has.

00:44:46.720 So you don't have to wonder if this is

00:44:49.780 going to happen.

00:44:51.840 Elon says it's going to happen.

00:44:53.880 The economics would be overwhelming.

00:44:56.520 I mean, it's not even close.

00:44:58.020 You're definitely 100% going to be having

00:45:01.060 data centers in space.

00:45:02.480 There's no doubt about it.

00:45:03.760 And he has every, every asset to make

00:45:06.460 that happen.

00:45:07.980 Now, in a related story, which I find

00:45:13.180 super interesting, is that, uh, the CEO

00:45:18.060 of Google, um, has also started talking

00:45:21.720 about data centers in space for exactly

00:45:24.540 the same reason.

00:45:25.300 So Google is already starting their own

00:45:28.540 little test of putting data centers in

00:45:31.680 space.

00:45:32.360 They're just going to do it at a very

00:45:33.820 small scale.

00:45:35.400 You know, literally it might be some

00:45:36.800 racks on a, on a satellite, but they're

00:45:40.020 going to put it up there and see if it

00:45:41.800 works on a small scale, which would be

00:45:44.400 getting the energy from space, getting it

00:45:47.660 inside your satellite into your AI, uh,

00:45:51.260 the circuitry and then seeing if it works

00:45:54.980 or it doesn't, if it doesn't, it's

00:45:57.360 infinitely, if it does work, it seems

00:46:00.360 like it's infinitely scalable.

00:46:02.640 You need, need some more energy, put up

00:46:05.660 another rocket with solar panels on it.

00:46:08.820 You need some more AI, put up another

00:46:11.860 rocket.

00:46:12.400 You need to, um, upgrade the AI software.

00:46:16.500 Just send it a message.

00:46:17.860 So you're going to have, uh, uh, Elon Musk

00:46:22.420 and Google fighting it out for domination

00:46:25.620 of AI in space.

00:46:27.800 And I will go further.

00:46:30.340 Whoever wins the AI in space race, and one

00:46:33.840 assumes that, you know, China is going to

00:46:36.040 be all over this as well.

00:46:37.620 Whoever wins that is going to kind of own

00:46:40.360 earth because if you own everything

00:46:44.040 outside of earth, I don't know how earth

00:46:47.160 can survive that.

00:46:48.740 Like if, if they decided to attack the

00:46:51.300 earth with infinite energy, imagine

00:46:54.060 having your AI in space and you have

00:46:57.120 this, you know, uh, this intelligence

00:46:59.900 that you can never build on earth.

00:47:01.940 And it comes up with a way to build an

00:47:04.200 efficient, let's say space laser.

00:47:07.820 And then you build it on earth, but AI

00:47:09.960 told you how to, and then you ship it up

00:47:11.600 there and then you've got this galaxy mind

00:47:14.500 with, uh, you know, AI built laser

00:47:18.880 weapons pointed at earth.

00:47:21.060 Well, I don't think Tesla would do that,

00:47:23.740 but somebody will China certainly will.

00:47:28.580 Um, and certainly our defense people are

00:47:31.240 probably looking at it.

00:47:32.820 So yeah, whoever owns a space seems like

00:47:36.960 they're going to own earth eventually.

00:47:42.840 Well, according to, I don't know what

00:47:45.660 source this is, but, um, there's an

00:47:51.520 allegation that 36% of new voter

00:47:54.240 registrations last year in Michigan, uh, did

00:47:58.320 not have valid social security numbers.

00:48:00.660 36% of all the new voter registrations

00:48:06.280 did not have valid social security, which

00:48:09.580 kind of means they were not citizens, right?

00:48:13.860 Uh, I don't think those were typos.

00:48:17.380 They're not citizens.

00:48:19.220 And then on top of that, Michigan has

00:48:21.700 allegedly half a million more voters

00:48:24.340 registered than they have voting age adults.

00:48:26.700 So there's a whole bunch of sketchy

00:48:31.780 non-voters, um, or people maybe shouldn't

00:48:36.420 have voted in Michigan.

00:48:37.900 So a state Senator Johnson is the one

00:48:41.040 sounding the alarm about this.

00:48:42.760 And he's pointing to the help America

00:48:44.780 vote verification system.

00:48:46.720 So I guess there's something that would

00:48:48.520 solve this.

00:48:50.140 Um, the 36% applied to a hundred thousand

00:48:53.500 people.

00:48:53.960 So 100,000 people registered to vote

00:48:56.780 in Michigan and 36% of them, 36,000

00:49:01.200 people did not have a valid, uh, social

00:49:04.840 security number and they were allowed to

00:49:08.620 register anyway.

00:49:10.220 Now, how in the world do you imagine that's

00:49:15.400 a credible voting system when you're asked

00:49:19.400 to give your social security number, but

00:49:22.200 when your social security number is invalid, it

00:49:25.580 doesn't change whether you can vote.

00:49:28.580 Does that look like they're even trying to

00:49:30.900 have a credible system or does it look like

00:49:33.580 no matter what the situation is, if you're

00:49:36.640 going to vote Democrat, you're definitely going

00:49:38.280 to be able to vote.

00:49:40.020 It kind of looks like the latter.

00:49:43.740 Pretty sketchy looking, but you know, um, I

00:49:49.320 feel like there's a, there's a version of

00:49:52.020 Gell-Mann amnesia that applies here to our

00:49:54.860 election systems.

00:49:55.980 Now I'll remind you what Gell-Mann amnesia is. 0.98

00:49:58.880 Most of you have heard it a hundred times, but

00:50:01.900 that's the idea that, um, there was this

00:50:04.500 physicist, his name was Gell-Mann and he

00:50:07.180 noticed that when he saw stories about

00:50:08.920 physics and he knew what was true and what

00:50:11.640 wasn't, he could tell that the story was fake or

00:50:14.540 full of errors, but then he would turn the page

00:50:17.100 on what was the newspaper at the time and

00:50:19.920 he'd see the next story and he would just assume

00:50:22.660 that the next story is probably accurate.

00:50:25.700 And then finally, after seeing that pattern for

00:50:28.120 years, wait a minute, could it be true that every

00:50:32.160 time I see a story that I know the truth, I can

00:50:35.280 tell the reporting's wrong, but every time I see a

00:50:38.460 story where I don't have any expertise, I assume

00:50:41.560 it's true, isn't it more likely that they're all

00:50:46.360 fake or nearly all fake?

00:50:49.280 And so that's the, the Gell-Mann amnesia, but 0.86

00:50:52.620 there's a version of that that we do.

00:50:55.360 Um, and it's not that, but I'm sort of reminded

00:50:57.940 of it and it needs its own name.

00:50:59.600 We'll call it the, the, the Scott Adams, uh, the

00:51:04.240 Scott Adams amnesia.

00:51:05.900 Yeah, that's it.

00:51:06.960 We'll call it, let's call it Scott Adams amnesia

00:51:09.040 because you get to name it after who comes up with

00:51:10.960 it, right?

00:51:12.060 So Scott Adams amnesia is that you read a story in

00:51:15.700 the newspaper about, let's say, um, the, the

00:51:20.160 charities in Minnesota stealing a billion dollars.

00:51:23.800 And then you turn the page and it's a story about,

00:51:27.160 um, some other criminal behavior in the government

00:51:30.780 and you turn the page and you find out that some

00:51:34.140 other big money entity was also stealing your money.

00:51:37.980 And then you turn the page to the story about the, our

00:51:41.840 elections and it says, our elections are pristine, even

00:51:46.080 though they're run by different people with different

00:51:48.300 processes and different states and precincts, every one of

00:51:52.320 them has got a pristine, perfect record.

00:51:55.840 And, uh, even if there was some little problem, it wouldn't be

00:51:59.400 anything important.

00:52:01.220 And, uh, so we live in a world in which everything is corrupt

00:52:05.920 except for our election systems.

00:52:11.400 Now, Scott Adams amnesia says you could not possibly believe that

00:52:17.100 our election systems are pristine.

00:52:19.180 If you've noted that every other fucking thing is not right, you 0.81

00:52:26.660 don't have to have specific information about what's wrong with

00:52:30.500 their elections.

00:52:31.020 You don't need that.

00:52:32.060 You don't need specific proof.

00:52:35.280 You don't need a court case.

00:52:38.180 If everything else is corrupt, come on, everything else is corrupt.

00:52:45.560 This is the one thing that's not.

00:52:47.240 You, you would have to have some form of amnesia about everything

00:52:51.400 else you'd seen in the world to imagine that this one thing is the

00:52:55.780 non-corrupt thing.

00:52:57.460 Sorry, not buying it.

00:53:01.700 There was a man, according to a new scientist, there was a man who

00:53:06.600 was, quote, unexpectedly cured of HIV after a stem cell transplant.

00:53:12.940 Now, unknown to me, and I don't know why I didn't know this, but did

00:53:17.060 you know that several people have been cured of HIV with stem cell

00:53:24.800 transplants that were specifically modified for, you know, that particular

00:53:30.140 patient?

00:53:31.560 But what's different is this patient got a stem cell for the, I guess,

00:53:36.900 wasn't even intended to fix his HIV.

00:53:40.600 So it wasn't tuned for that purpose, but just getting the stem cells seemed to

00:53:45.740 have cleared him of HIV.

00:53:48.100 That's the claim.

00:53:49.160 I'd have to see.

00:53:50.300 I'd have to see a few more people get cured before I believe that's true.

00:53:53.680 But were you aware that five people had their HIV completely cleared by getting a

00:54:01.620 specific kind of stem cell?

00:54:02.960 I guess the stem cells came from people who had some natural defense against HIV.

00:54:13.140 But you could take a stem cell from someone who does not have a natural defense, and

00:54:18.800 apparently it still worked.

00:54:21.120 So I don't know how often that works, but that'd be amazing.

00:54:25.360 According to new scientists also, we now have an understanding of how exercise

00:54:33.200 fights cancer.

00:54:35.800 So now they know the mechanism.

00:54:38.020 So if you have cancer or you want to avoid it, exercise turns out to be super

00:54:43.660 effective.

00:54:45.380 And they've got a pretty good idea why it works.

00:54:48.460 So the problem is, as someone who has cancer, I can tell you that the last thing you want to

00:54:54.700 do is exercise.

00:54:58.820 I get it.

00:55:00.440 Exercise would be good for me.

00:55:02.720 But it's sort of the last thing you want to do, and especially if your particular form

00:55:09.720 started with testosterone blockers.

00:55:13.200 Yeah, try that.

00:55:15.440 My last story is about, you may have seen the story about the high-rise buildings in Hong

00:55:21.460 Kong that caught on fire.

00:55:24.700 And I guess there were several of them that were near each other.

00:55:28.760 They all caught on fire.

00:55:30.380 Well, guess what is the name of that Hong Kong center?

00:55:36.720 It's called the Wang Fuk. 0.98

00:55:39.400 W-A-N-G space F-U-K. 1.00

00:55:42.720 And I'm being charitable by calling it Fuk.

00:55:48.600 The Wang Fuk Fire.

00:55:50.980 And that is all I have for you people.

00:55:54.640 I'm in quite a bit of discomfort at the moment.

00:55:58.440 So I'm going to call it.

00:56:01.140 That will be my show for the day.

00:56:02.860 And I will see you tomorrow.

00:56:07.240 Locals, I can't join you after the show.

00:56:10.240 So I'm going to need to meditate some pain away.

00:56:14.960 But thanks for joining.

00:56:16.360 We'll see you tomorrow.

00:56:16.960 Bye.

00:56:22.640 Bye.

00:56:29.700 Bye.

00:56:31.800 Bye.

00:56:36.020 Bye.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - December 02, 2025

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