Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3042 CWSA 12⧸10⧸25

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00:01:09.240 Everybody feeling like they want to find out what's

00:01:12.580 happening in this world?

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00:01:16.080 I've got my notes.

00:01:17.700 I'm not printing them out anymore.

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00:01:32.860 I saw a quote on X from Aaron Gwynn.

00:01:36.860 I don't know who Aaron is, but Aaron says funny things.

00:01:41.040 And the quote was, we know psychology is a scam for two reasons.

00:01:49.720 Do you believe that?

00:01:51.420 Do you think psychology is a scam?

00:01:53.840 Well, Aaron gives two reasons, but I think they might come from somebody else. 0.99

00:01:59.260 Number one, all the children of psychologists are insane.

00:02:03.940 Well, it's a little bit harsh, isn't it? 0.99

00:02:07.940 But it does seem to me that the children of psychologists tend to be a little insane.

00:02:15.060 OK, I'm not going to say that's true, but I'm not going to say it's not true.

00:02:19.560 And then the second reason that psychology is a scam, this is according to David Mamet,

00:02:27.820 in 100 years of psychoanalysis, no one has ever gotten better.

00:02:33.060 Do you believe that?

00:02:35.100 Have you ever known anybody who had bad psychological problems, and they went to their psychoanalysts,

00:02:46.200 and then they got better?

00:02:48.780 I've never heard of it.

00:02:49.780 Have you?

00:02:50.780 Well, let's assume maybe it's working for somebody.

00:02:55.340 But I do think sometimes that just the mere act that you're doing something to try to improve

00:03:02.300 your situation, maybe that does something for your psychology, because you feel like at

00:03:08.800 least you're taking it into your own hands.

00:03:13.400 Well, Samsung is reportedly making millions of OLED displays for an Apple foldable phone.

00:03:23.900 I don't know when that Apple foldable phone is coming out, but I saw it being mocked as

00:03:30.000 Apple's finally caught up to 2019.

00:03:33.800 Did we have a foldable phone?

00:03:35.500 Not an Apple phone, but did Samsung or somebody have a foldable phone in 2019, and Apple is

00:03:42.000 just catching up to it seven years later?

00:03:45.720 Is that real?

00:03:46.600 I gotta say, Apple doesn't make bad decisions.

00:03:52.680 So probably there was some problem like supply chain, or maybe they weren't reliable, they

00:03:58.620 broke or something.

00:04:00.380 Maybe something like that.

00:04:02.400 But it does feel like Apple's not exactly the leading edge at the moment, does it?

00:04:10.500 All right.

00:04:12.660 I don't know who was asking for a foldable phone, but I'd like one.

00:04:19.180 How many of you would not want a foldable phone?

00:04:24.860 Is there a reason not to have one?

00:04:27.340 Because if it's not folded, it's sort of exactly like a regular phone, right?

00:04:33.640 Almost exactly, except the screen would be using up too much real estate compared to the

00:04:37.860 battery.

00:04:38.860 All right.

00:04:39.860 Well, here's sort of a big day, but it kind of comes with a small squeak instead of a roar.

00:04:48.800 And it goes like this, Elon Musk was at some event, he was talking.

00:04:56.700 And he said that full unsupervised driving is pretty much solved at this point.

00:05:05.040 And that robo-taxis with no safety monitors, that would be a human who's sitting there just

00:05:09.880 for safety, will roll out in Austin in about three weeks.

00:05:15.560 So in three weeks, that day will finally have come.

00:05:20.920 We're at least in Austin, and we assume it will roll out pretty quickly other places.

00:05:26.500 Maybe not quickly in California, because we're bad at everything.

00:05:30.340 But that does seem like an impressive point in history, doesn't it?

00:05:36.280 Like one of those days that will be remembered forever.

00:05:38.880 The day that full self-driving became ordinary.

00:05:46.540 Like nobody's even, I don't think anybody's even complaining that it would be less safe than

00:05:52.200 a human.

00:05:52.600 Have you heard anybody make that argument?

00:05:56.040 I think that argument is solved.

00:06:00.000 So, of course, self-driving would have to be, you know, ten times safer, or some number,

00:06:06.620 than human driving, or else we won't trust it.

00:06:10.100 But I think it's there.

00:06:11.020 So, this is a whole new world, just in time, because I'll need that self-driving car.

00:06:22.420 All right, and then Elon says we can add a lot of reasoning and more to the car.

00:06:30.500 To get to serious scale, Tesla will probably need to build, this is what Musk says, to build

00:06:37.240 their own giant chip fab, to have a few hundred gigawatts of AI chips per year.

00:06:43.720 And Elon says, I don't see that capability coming online fast enough, so we'll probably

00:06:48.580 have to build a fab.

00:06:50.660 Now, how would you like to be that confident about your business abilities?

00:06:57.500 Let me read this again, and just try to hold this in your head, that there wouldn't be

00:07:03.260 anyone else who would be able to make enough of the giant chips.

00:07:09.040 So, they're going to get into the business and scale up faster than people who are already

00:07:14.980 in the business, and it will get to a superior place so fast that it would be better than

00:07:21.360 waiting for them.

00:07:23.120 That's pretty confident.

00:07:26.000 Can they do it?

00:07:27.780 Probably.

00:07:29.180 Probably.

00:07:29.620 I do think they probably can.

00:07:32.200 So, it'll be impressive when they do.

00:07:35.280 Well, here's a story that just keeps popping up, and I didn't believe it the first time,

00:07:42.240 and I don't believe it the second time.

00:07:45.940 And that is, I don't know, was it on Joe Rogan's show again?

00:07:50.600 It was on somebody's podcast.

00:07:51.800 That new radar scans reveal a massive engineered substructure beneath the Giza pyramids.

00:08:01.040 Does that sound familiar?

00:08:03.180 Like it's not the first time you've heard this exact story?

00:08:06.980 Maybe the picture is different.

00:08:08.860 But do you believe that we can, with any kind of technology that we have, do you believe

00:08:16.320 that we can look under the pyramids and see a giant structure, and we've determined that

00:08:21.340 it might be an energy grid beneath the pyramids?

00:08:24.460 So far, I've got a pretty good record of when I say, nope, just on the surface, I don't have to

00:08:38.900 do any research.

00:08:40.900 It's definitely not true.

00:08:43.420 So far, I've been right.

00:08:44.560 But we do have a question mark about the, what was it called, the sonic weapon under the embassies?

00:08:55.720 I'm still open to that being a sonic weapon.

00:08:59.060 But my first impulse, and I'm staying with it, is that it was fake, and that there was no

00:09:05.320 sonic weapon.

00:09:06.940 Possible, though.

00:09:08.200 It's possible.

00:09:09.240 But I'm going to stick with no sonic weapon.

00:09:14.560 Yeah.

00:09:18.460 And the claim about the pyramids seems a little complex.

00:09:24.000 Yeah.

00:09:25.240 I don't believe it.

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00:09:57.860 So it's going to be all fake news today.

00:10:00.800 How many of you remember when I used to bug the hell out of you by claiming that the slippery

00:10:09.600 slope is not a logical structure, meaning that if your reasoning comes from the slippery

00:10:16.700 slope, that you haven't done any reasoning at all?

00:10:20.800 Do you remember I used to say that all the time?

00:10:22.580 And people would get so mad.

00:10:24.760 And they'd say, what about this example?

00:10:26.880 What about this example?

00:10:28.160 It's obvious that if you go down the slippery slope, you can predict where it's going to go

00:10:34.120 because it's slippery.

00:10:35.640 It's slippery.

00:10:37.040 And I kept saying, that's not a thing.

00:10:41.020 There's no kind of logic called the slippery slope.

00:10:44.700 Well, you can still argue with me on that.

00:10:47.820 But Eric Nolan at SciPost is talking about a study in which they found that conservatives

00:10:55.540 are more prone to slippery slope thinking.

00:10:59.380 Do you think that's true?

00:11:01.320 That if you're a conservative and something starts going in the direction you don't want

00:11:06.660 it to go, you're more likely to think it's going to keep going.

00:11:09.960 Well, I don't know how much more, but apparently there's an identifiable difference.

00:11:16.620 Now, that would explain everything because I didn't really spend much time interacting

00:11:21.360 with anybody conservative for most of my early adulthood.

00:11:28.660 But as soon as I did, I kept seeing people claim the slippery slope.

00:11:34.760 And I kept saying, there's no logic called the slippery slope.

00:11:38.120 Well, sometimes things keep going the way they're going, and sometimes they don't.

00:11:44.300 There's no logic to it.

00:11:45.920 You can't use that to predict.

00:11:48.620 But people did.

00:11:50.040 They did use it to predict.

00:11:51.580 And sometimes they would get it right because there were only two ways that something could go.

00:11:56.840 You're either going to get more of it or you're not.

00:11:59.820 So since there are only two ways a thing can go, there's either going to be more of it

00:12:05.260 or there's not going to be more of it.

00:12:08.920 You had at least something like a, it's not literally true, but it's something like a 50-50 chance

00:12:14.560 that you're going to get the right answer for no logic whatsoever.

00:12:20.080 So half of you are going to say, yeah, I told you.

00:12:22.860 There's a slippery slope.

00:12:23.860 And look, as soon as we let our 17-year-old get a tattoo, next thing you know, she comes 0.98

00:12:31.480 home and she's all tatted up.

00:12:34.480 Well, you know, yeah.

00:12:37.560 It's not as if things never go in one direction.

00:12:42.120 Sometimes they do.

00:12:43.940 But it doesn't mean you can predict it based on slippery slope.

00:12:47.400 Anyway, so the only reason I'm bringing this up is that I'm pretty sure almost every one of you...

00:12:53.780 Oh, actually, I'm kind of curious.

00:12:55.960 Show me in the comments how many of you believe that the slippery slope is a way for predicting the future,

00:13:06.740 that that's a valid kind of a logical way to predict the future.

00:13:11.880 How many think that?

00:13:13.080 I'm just looking at your comments now.

00:13:22.200 All right.

00:13:22.700 It'll take a while for the comments to catch up to where we are.

00:13:27.620 But you might be right.

00:13:29.900 As far as I can tell, the slippery slope is not part of logic.

00:13:38.360 President Trump continues to be quotable.

00:13:43.080 So here's something Trump said about Somalia.

00:13:50.540 He said, quote,

00:13:51.800 I've also announced a permanent pause on third world migration, including from hell holes like Somalia. 1.00

00:13:58.780 To which I say, oh, well, it feels like a step in the right direction. 0.99

00:14:03.240 Because if he called it a shit hole, well, that would obviously be racist. 0.99

00:14:07.500 But if you call it a hell hole, not so bad, right? 0.99

00:14:13.180 So maybe he's going in the right direction. 1.00

00:14:15.920 He's going from shit hole to, well, no, shit hole would be below hell hole. 1.00

00:14:20.600 Well, no, hell hole would be pretty low. 1.00

00:14:23.420 What is worse, a hell hole or a shit hole? 1.00

00:14:25.440 I think we need to know that. 1.00

00:14:28.240 Hell hole or a shit hole. 1.00

00:14:29.900 I'm going to run a, I think I'll run a poll. 1.00

00:14:34.020 Or maybe one of you can.

00:14:35.440 Run a poll. 1.00

00:14:36.600 What's worse, a hell hole or a shit hole? 1.00

00:14:40.960 All right. 1.00

00:14:41.500 Trump is also, at some event, he said that he believes that New York Times and the legacy media have committed treason with their fake news.

00:14:55.960 And the fake news that he's mad about is that they seem to be reporting that his health is slowing him down.

00:15:04.240 Do you believe that?

00:15:05.280 Do you believe that Trump's health is slowing him down?

00:15:08.880 Hmm, I'm not really seeing it.

00:15:13.820 I mean, it wouldn't be unusual that somebody has, you know, one week that's different than the other week.

00:15:20.500 But, you think so?

00:15:24.120 Do you think he's slowing down?

00:15:26.520 I can't tell if your comments are to what.

00:15:31.680 Sometimes I see the answer, but then I've lost the thread of what it was to.

00:15:37.600 All right.

00:15:38.880 People confuse intentional with being slippery.

00:15:44.900 Yeah.

00:15:45.560 Intentional would be predictable.

00:15:47.460 If you knew somebody was intentionally driving something in some direction, that would be somewhat predictable.

00:15:56.660 All right.

00:15:57.320 So, I don't know that New York Times has committed treason by reporting that they think he's slowing down at the age of 80-ish.

00:16:15.500 I don't think that's the worst problem in the world.

00:16:18.660 If you've got a president who is so experienced and so good that at age 80, people are saying, yeah, that's a good president.

00:16:27.160 I don't think I don't think I'd worry about him slowing down.

00:16:30.840 So, all right.

00:16:33.320 But, definitely not a treason.

00:16:36.120 I think he goes too far when he calls stuff like that treason.

00:16:39.200 And, clearly it's political, and clearly it's fake news.

00:16:44.000 But, treason?

00:16:45.960 Treason is a little bit of a threat.

00:16:48.320 Treason is a little bit of a threat, and I don't think we need that.

00:16:52.040 Although, you could argue that they're just using free speech.

00:16:55.920 You could argue that he's just using free speech.

00:16:58.300 But, it's not the kind of free speech I appreciate.

00:17:03.020 It's legal, but I don't appreciate it.

00:17:08.340 All right.

00:17:11.940 Did you know that there is, apparently, a sophisticated smuggling network that was operating in the country?

00:17:19.140 And, the attorney general for, it looks like, Texas got a hold of him, and justice will be coming.

00:17:31.680 But, did you know that that's a big thing?

00:17:35.260 So, a bunch of chips for AI, I think, were being stolen and sent to China, it looks like.

00:17:44.420 I feel like we should just steal our own stuff and give it to China. 0.99

00:17:49.140 Cut out the middle man.

00:17:50.160 Because, it always ends up there, right?

00:17:54.060 How would you like to be the person who receives the new technology?

00:18:00.200 You know, the stuff that China doesn't have, but you're a Chinese scientist.

00:18:04.120 You're like, all right, here's a chip.

00:18:07.600 Reproduce this chip.

00:18:12.500 How do I do that?

00:18:14.120 Ah, just copy it.

00:18:16.080 It doesn't really work that way.

00:18:17.480 It can't be easy to copy a microchip, can it?

00:18:22.960 Is there some way to actually, like, take a photo of it, and then, you know, move it directly over to another machine to make a copy?

00:18:31.580 It might be.

00:18:32.660 Maybe that's the thing.

00:18:34.700 I don't know how you copy a microchip.

00:18:36.540 Well, CIA director, or former CIA director, he's not there now, but John Brennan, actually, according to Wall Street Apes, I saw them, they found a video of him recently, in which he said the CIA pays people to be spies and then blackmails them if they change their mind.

00:18:58.860 And so what they try to do, the CIA, according to Brennan, is that they try to make sure that the spy takes some money when it's early on in the relationship.

00:19:12.400 Because if the spy has taken money, and then they get cold feet later, and they, you know, think maybe it's too risky, and they don't want to do it, then the CIA can just sort of whisper to him, so then you don't want to take money for spying against your home country.

00:19:31.140 Is that what you're saying?

00:19:31.920 No, no, no, no, don't tell anybody.

00:19:34.660 I thought we had a deal.

00:19:36.120 Oh, we do have a deal.

00:19:37.540 Yeah, I'm just trying to get clear.

00:19:39.420 Are you saying that you're no longer going to take money for spying against your home country?

00:19:48.760 Now, just that question alone, I'm making this part up.

00:19:52.160 This did not come from Brennan.

00:19:53.380 But if you simply frame the situation that way, a spy is going to assume that you're going to turn them in if you stop spying for them, or at least they'll be at risk.

00:20:07.300 So if you wondered, is the CIA a spy organization that's also a blackmail organization?

00:20:16.100 The answer is, apparently yes, apparently yes, that the CIA uses blackmail as part of their normal operations, which is no surprise to anybody who's ever watched a movie about a spy.

00:20:30.380 I mean, is there anybody who didn't know that?

00:20:33.940 So that puts the whole Epstein thing in a different light, doesn't it?

00:20:38.340 It's one thing if you knew, well, I suppose it's possible that these intelligence agencies are using blackmail, and I guess it's possible they might have used Epstein for that.

00:20:51.900 But if you go from it's possible to it's the routine way we do this and always have, well, that looks pretty different, doesn't it?

00:21:02.460 Yeah.

00:21:03.200 So I saw a factoid today that I did not fact check.

00:21:07.120 Can somebody give me a fact check on this?

00:21:10.940 Is it true that famous gangster Whitey Bulger, Bulger or Bulger, from Boston, who was an informant for the FBI, but also a top criminal in the area,

00:21:28.960 is it true that the day he got to prison he was murdered?

00:21:34.480 So that I wasn't aware of.

00:21:36.520 But it might not be true.

00:21:38.720 Can somebody give me a fact check on that?

00:21:41.020 Did Whitey Bulger get murdered like the day he walked in?

00:21:46.240 Because there's a big difference between going to jail for a number of years and then something happens to you one day versus being killed the same day you go into jail.

00:21:58.100 Well, that feels like it's sending a message, doesn't it?

00:22:01.540 Well, one of them is just the way things work, and the other one is sending a message.

00:22:08.940 Okay, well, yeah, maybe you were a, what do you call him, a weasel? 0.83

00:22:15.940 Maybe you were a weasel. 0.97

00:22:18.180 Maybe you were a rat, but, and then, you know, 10 minutes after you reach jail, you get murdered. 0.99

00:22:25.660 Yeah, that's a message. 0.96

00:22:28.260 So it makes me wonder if Epstein was just more of that, that there's no point in having this blackmail situation unless all the people involved can be murdered the first day that they resist it.

00:22:42.500 So, all right, according to Rasmussen poll, 43% of voters believe that Pete Hegseth should be impeached over the narco boat attacks, 43%.

00:23:02.020 Now, you know, these are the kinds of polls that I say to myself, I don't know what it's measuring exactly.

00:23:12.500 This is not exactly measuring people's opinion.

00:23:15.600 It's kind of, you know, what they want to happen.

00:23:19.740 So it'd be one thing if the people were looking at some other planet and they were just analyzing, oh, and this other planet, 43% think this should happen.

00:23:30.980 But if it's political, as this is, it's purely political, all it really tells you is how many people are Democrats

00:23:40.960 and how many are Republican, with a little bit of adjustment for an independent who will fall one way or the other.

00:23:49.520 Is it really telling you anything?

00:23:52.440 Yeah, I don't think people's opinion, well, politically it matters.

00:23:58.540 So if you're following the politics of it, of course it matters.

00:24:02.840 All right.

00:24:05.900 How many of you are following the Candace Owens Turning Point USA drama?

00:24:14.320 I've been trying not to.

00:24:16.880 I've been trying not to.

00:24:18.300 For all the usual reasons.

00:24:21.760 The stories about individuals I find just less compelling because it doesn't really affect the world.

00:24:33.120 But it seems to me that Candace continues to make this so interesting that it's very hard to ignore.

00:24:41.880 So I'm not really caught up on it at all, but I'll give you a little bit of an update.

00:24:51.860 So let's see if I have this right.

00:24:54.900 Is the story that Candace believes that some people who worked with Charlie Kirk at Turning Point USA

00:25:03.340 were somehow complicit in his murder?

00:25:08.720 Is that the accusation?

00:25:10.540 So in the comments, tell me if I have that right.

00:25:14.640 Because that's sort of the starting point for this.

00:25:17.580 And again, I don't have any sense.

00:25:20.940 My instinct is that they did not.

00:25:25.200 Because it just seems too wild.

00:25:27.980 But, you know, we live in a wild world.

00:25:30.280 I suppose it would be hard to rule out anything these days.

00:25:36.040 It seems like there's just always something going on.

00:25:40.540 Boger was transferred.

00:25:44.560 All right.

00:25:45.120 Let's see.

00:25:45.500 I got an answer to my question.

00:25:48.260 He was transferred and murdered.

00:25:55.480 And murdered.

00:25:56.880 Yeah.

00:25:57.180 I just can't stop the comments from going by.

00:25:59.480 It looks like he was transferred and then quickly murdered.

00:26:02.540 I think that's what you told me.

00:26:05.080 That would make sense.

00:26:06.800 All right.

00:26:07.220 So the Turning Point USA.

00:26:10.240 And I don't know if this story still assumes that some other country is involved or is Israel involved.

00:26:17.020 I don't have any evidence to suggest that.

00:26:19.640 But according to Natalie Jean Beisner, who I don't know who that is, but somebody on X, noted that Candace, she's got a claim that she has in her possession.

00:26:42.980 That she's in possession, or people at Turning Point USA are in possession, of text messages sent the day before Charlie died, in which he allegedly wrote down to somebody, and also to security guards, that he thought that they were going to kill him tomorrow.

00:27:04.720 And then that was the day that he was murdered.

00:27:09.700 Now, Natalie asks the following completely reasonable question.

00:27:15.560 If it's true that Turning Point USA has in their possession actual screenshots or something that would show that he knew he was going to be killed that day, don't you think we would have seen them by now?

00:27:28.900 Don't you think somebody would have produced that screenshot if that were true?

00:27:35.700 So I think that's what Natalie is pointing out, that if that were true, we would have seen it by now.

00:27:44.180 Now, there's always a possibility that there's some reason we wouldn't, but I don't know what that would be.

00:27:49.680 And then Trump apparently got involved with this drama, and he didn't like the accusation that Erica, the widow of Charlie Clark, didn't like the idea that she was involved in anything sketchy.

00:28:07.900 So I guess he likes her.

00:28:09.640 Trump likes her.

00:28:10.340 And what did, so Candace is actually asking people who donated to Turning Point USA that they ask for a refund for their donations.

00:28:29.100 Now, that's a pretty serious allegation, so bad that you should ask for your money back.

00:28:35.280 I don't know about that.

00:28:36.280 And then what it was that Trump got involved in is that there was some accusation that there were four tax-exempt organizations under TPUSA and that there was some allegation that they were under investigation.

00:28:54.900 So if you were donating to an organization and you found out that there were four entities under their umbrella and that some or all of them were being investigated for criminal behavior, would you donate again?

00:29:12.360 Probably wouldn't.

00:29:13.980 So it's a pretty big deal whether that's true or false, and I guess Trump debunked it.

00:29:20.780 So now the government has said, nope, none of the four tax-exempt organizations are under investigation.

00:29:29.120 So I don't want to – he was beaten to death in his prison cell.

00:29:36.020 This is Whitey. 1.00

00:29:40.420 I can never read the last sentence of your comments because they go by too fast, and I don't have a way to stop them.

00:29:46.900 All right.

00:29:50.000 But you can read the comments yourself, and you'll see the corrections on the Whitey Bulger story.

00:29:57.620 So I don't believe that there's necessarily anything bad going on with Turning Point USA, but let me give you this context.

00:30:07.500 When was the last time a large, well-funded organization was not corrupt?

00:30:20.640 That's a tough question, isn't it?

00:30:22.500 Because almost every time there's a story in the news, and it's about, oh, there's this big, well-funded political organization, isn't the story always that it was corrupt?

00:30:36.720 Like every time.

00:30:38.920 Now, when I say every time, there does seem to be maybe an exception.

00:30:43.540 And the exception would be if it's a conservative organization.

00:30:52.000 Now, I'm saying that with maybe a little wishful thinking because I don't know that that's true.

00:30:57.260 But it seems to me that in the bubble that I live, the news bubble I'm in, I see left-leaning organizations being corrupt essentially 100% of the time.

00:31:07.940 But what percentage of the time are large, well-funded, established, conservative groups also corrupt?

00:31:19.300 It seems like not as much, right?

00:31:22.360 In fact, I can't even think of one.

00:31:25.580 But if you said, can you name some left-leaning organizations that are corrupt?

00:31:29.680 I mean, I'd be here for a while.

00:31:30.900 Well, so you would have to believe that Turning Point USA was somehow an exception to the rule, and that it would be an exception that it wasn't corrupt, because it seems like everything else has money and funding.

00:31:48.920 It seems like they're all corrupt.

00:31:51.320 But there is no, I don't think there's a specific, valid accusation about Turning Point USA.

00:31:57.240 And it could be that it just doesn't happen that much in conservative organizations.

00:32:04.460 I hope that's the case.

00:32:06.880 But I don't know.

00:32:08.220 Fog of war?

00:32:09.040 Yeah, there's probably a little of that going on.

00:32:12.620 Well, Tucker Carlson, according to the Vigilant Fox on X, has, quote,

00:32:18.320 made the Jeffrey Epstein death impossible to ignore again.

00:32:24.080 So this is what Tucker believes.

00:32:26.840 He was on some podcast.

00:32:29.060 He said that they did it on purpose, and he was murdered, clearly, by another inmate.

00:32:34.900 All right.

00:32:35.680 And Tucker says, I've been a journalist my whole life.

00:32:39.260 It was not a perfect storm of screw-ups, because that's the official story.

00:32:45.440 It was just this weird coincidence of screw-ups.

00:32:48.000 They never did the investigation into how this guy died.

00:32:51.340 Is that true?

00:32:52.560 They never investigated it?

00:32:53.920 Maybe they didn't investigate it enough?

00:32:58.140 I don't know that they never investigated it.

00:33:01.820 Do you investigate things if you think you know exactly what happened?

00:33:08.160 Maybe they didn't.

00:33:09.480 Maybe his standard for how much is enough investigating was not met.

00:33:14.460 Here's something I didn't know, according to Tucker.

00:33:20.320 They redressed him in clothes that he wasn't wearing when he died for the pictures in the hospital infirmary.

00:33:27.960 Do you believe that they dressed him in clothes for the photographs after he was dead?

00:33:37.320 Maybe.

00:33:38.920 I mean, I don't know.

00:33:40.060 Would that be a mistake?

00:33:41.600 Would that be a crime if they did that?

00:33:43.840 Well, it would certainly change how you felt about it.

00:33:49.420 Tucker says he asked former Attorney General Bill Barr for the names of the inmates on Epstein's block, and Barr wouldn't give them to him.

00:34:00.400 And I'm not sure if you're allowed to do that.

00:34:03.480 Do you think that would be legal?

00:34:05.580 Are you allowed to give the names of people and what block they're in?

00:34:10.040 I feel like that would be dangerous.

00:34:13.720 So I'm not so sure that Bill Barr had an option there, but Tucker says, they're convicted felons, dude.

00:34:21.160 This is not secret information or national security.

00:34:24.660 Why can't you tell me that?

00:34:27.400 All right.

00:34:28.220 Then Tucker says, this is his view, they allowed him, Epstein, to be murdered in federal lockups.

00:34:35.260 How can we continue to live in a country where a high-profile inmate can be murdered in our prison system by someone who is powerful enough to do that?

00:34:45.620 So that is the big question, isn't it?

00:34:48.340 Who would be powerful enough to murder the most watched person in the entire world?

00:34:54.200 Well, speaking of Minnesota and Somalia, Right Angle News is reporting,

00:35:24.140 that there's this scam going on in Columbus, Ohio.

00:35:28.660 So this one's not Minnesota.

00:35:32.860 This is Columbus, Ohio.

00:35:34.680 That there's Somali families that own a restaurant and a grocery store right next door, sometimes literally attached.

00:35:43.640 And usually a daycare for a home health business, too.

00:35:46.640 The wives and kids get loaded up on EBT cards, that's food stamps or on a debit card, paid for you by your taxes.

00:35:55.760 But instead of going to Kroger or Walmart, they, quote, shop at their own family grocery store with those cards.

00:36:02.600 All that food immediately walks 10 feet into the restaurant kitchen, and boom, you've got free inventory for the restaurant, paid 100% by taxpayers.

00:36:12.960 I've got to tell you, you know, I certainly don't like the Somalians ripping off the taxpayers, especially me. 1.00

00:36:23.120 But you have to kind of give them credit, because they are some good scammers.

00:36:29.800 They've got some clever stuff going on here.

00:36:31.540 And the fact that it went as long as it did, without being shut down, is just amazing.

00:36:38.460 Anyway, so the grocery store reports giant losses every year, which is a perfect tax write-off.

00:36:45.060 And so Uncle Sam gets food twice.

00:36:48.660 All right.

00:36:49.640 And then the same families often run the daycare and the home health companies that also pull in government cash.

00:36:56.220 So they basically built a city block of scammers, and the scammers would, you know, be complementary to each other.

00:37:06.520 I mean, that's some good Somalian crime there. 1.00

00:37:12.560 Wait, these are Somalians, right?

00:37:14.320 Or are they not?

00:37:16.100 I hope I didn't.

00:37:17.000 Yeah, they're Somali.

00:37:17.860 Okay.

00:37:18.720 I want to make sure I'm not blaming the wrong bunch of people.

00:37:21.320 All right.

00:37:23.900 Well, Trump is becoming more and more uncensored.

00:37:27.000 Every day he gets closer to the end of his second term.

00:37:30.680 This is pretty uncensored.

00:37:32.740 Trump said, I guess yesterday, quote, I love this Ilan Omar, whatever the hell her name is.

00:37:38.340 The first part is to imagine that he doesn't know her actual name.

00:37:45.800 I love this Ilan Omar, whatever the hell her name is, with the little turban. 1.00

00:37:51.320 With the little turban. 1.00

00:37:55.220 Can you imagine that your president actually said this in public?

00:37:59.780 I love this Ilan Omar, or whatever the hell her name is, with the little turban. 1.00

00:38:04.400 I love her. 1.00

00:38:05.540 She comes in, does nothing but bitch. 1.00

00:38:08.400 She's always complaining. 1.00

00:38:10.760 We ought to get her the hell out. 1.00

00:38:13.020 She married her brother in order to get in. 1.00

00:38:15.100 Now, I don't know if there's any truth to the fact that she married her brother to help him get into the country, or to get her into the country, or somebody.

00:38:26.720 I don't know if there's any truth to that.

00:38:28.380 But does the news debunk it?

00:38:33.700 I feel like I've been reading about the allegations of Ilan Omar and her brother and immigration.

00:38:41.220 I've been reading about this for years now.

00:38:43.300 And what I've never seen is the mainstream news debunk it.

00:38:51.240 Has it been debunked?

00:38:52.940 I kind of assumed it must have been debunked, or there would have been some action taken by now.

00:39:00.020 But maybe not.

00:39:02.360 What do you think?

00:39:04.840 Is that story real, or is that just a hoax?

00:39:07.660 Because that might be one of the, you know, the hoax bubbles that the conservatives are in.

00:39:13.620 I don't know.

00:39:14.440 I'm not going to automatically believe the brother, Somali brother part.

00:39:20.660 But it is very dismissive to talk about her little turban.

00:39:26.560 I don't know why that makes me laugh.

00:39:29.540 Her little turban. 0.93

00:39:33.380 Why is it funnier when he calls it little?

00:39:37.660 Does that make you think her brain is little or something?

00:39:41.140 With her little turban. 1.00

00:39:43.560 Anyway.

00:39:46.940 So now there's a new bombshell from Alpha News.

00:39:50.500 I saw Eric Doherty writing about this on X.

00:39:54.340 But apparently Ramsey County gave $38.4 million to 213 NGOs.

00:40:03.320 Now, it kind of depends where the money came from, how you feel about that.

00:40:10.220 But apparently the proposed budget for next year's budget, the proposed budget for next year, let me say that in English,

00:40:19.100 is that apparently they're being told that their property tax money will go to NGOs.

00:40:30.420 Do you think that your property tax money should ever go to an NGO, especially 213 of them?

00:40:36.920 And when you hear that there are 213 NGOs, does your brain go, oh, there must be 213 worthy things for funding?

00:40:47.980 Do you?

00:40:49.340 Or do you automatically say, wow, the fact that there are 213 NGOs pretty much guarantees that something suspicious is happening?

00:41:00.400 Yeah, something suspicious is happening.

00:41:04.660 And apparently the state is not auditing these NGOs receiving the money.

00:41:09.020 Oh, surprise.

00:41:11.080 Surprise.

00:41:12.140 So a huge amount of your tax money, at least if you are in this state, your Minnesota tax money,

00:41:18.420 will go to these 213 hard-to-understand, impossible-to-audit entities.

00:41:28.080 You know what that is, right?

00:41:30.960 That couldn't be more obviously corrupt.

00:41:35.180 It couldn't be.

00:41:36.480 That's as corrupt as you can make something look. 0.54

00:41:40.340 Wow.

00:41:43.160 I wish Minnesota well, but I don't know how you're going to unwind all of that.

00:41:48.160 Once it gets to the point where the criminals clearly have more control than the honest people,

00:41:54.840 and we're definitely there in Minnesota, how do you ever fix it?

00:41:58.880 Because even if you got rid of the people there, they would be replaced with other criminals because the criminal thing is totally working out.

00:42:09.040 It's totally working out.

00:42:10.480 Why would you change it?

00:42:14.220 So you believe she married her brother.

00:42:19.540 Why would you believe it that Omar married her brother?

00:42:23.680 If you believe it because you saw a story in the news, is that credible?

00:42:31.320 I'm going to say no.

00:42:33.520 It might be true, but it's not credible just because it was in the news.

00:42:37.820 Anyway, Trump is funny when he talks about her.

00:42:44.200 You know, there was a time when I would have agreed with even Trump's critics who said,

00:42:50.480 you know, you really just shouldn't talk about people like that.

00:42:53.600 It just gives them something to complain about, and then it makes all of your supporters look like we're just as bad.

00:43:01.920 But I'm completely over that.

00:43:04.160 I'm totally over it.

00:43:05.500 If he wants to talk that way, fine.

00:43:08.700 If people don't want to, if they don't want to vote for him, fine.

00:43:13.960 They have the option.

00:43:15.100 But I do like him being funny.

00:43:20.500 That part I'm unambiguously in favor of.

00:43:23.360 Be funny.

00:43:25.000 Well, economist Stephen Moore, Republican type, I think he's Republican, maybe he's independent.

00:43:32.240 But he points out that an MRI can cost $600 at one hospital.

00:43:38.920 In other words, the cost of getting an MRI could be $600 at one hospital,

00:43:43.720 but $6,000 at another.

00:43:47.940 And if you're the patient, you wouldn't know which one you went to.

00:43:54.300 Now, I've had some MRIs, a number of MRIs this year, a few of them.

00:43:59.700 And nobody ever told me what they cost because my insurance covered it.

00:44:04.420 But do you think that if something is wildly different prices, wildly different, and the

00:44:12.800 numbers are pretty big, do you think that that lack of transparency is going to create

00:44:19.820 a bunch of fraud?

00:44:21.420 Of course it will.

00:44:22.540 100% chance if you have wildly disparate pricing, and you don't have any transparency, and it

00:44:35.680 doesn't look like there's any auditing, at least any important auditing, and you as the

00:44:42.000 customer don't get to choose the MRI you're using most of the time.

00:44:48.180 Of course it's corrupt.

00:44:50.420 Of course the entire thing is a mess.

00:44:53.140 So, Stephen Moore, you are correct about that.

00:45:00.220 Stephen Moore suggests that the fix would be that if the patients are not told in advance

00:45:06.420 what the cost of the MRI is, that the provider doesn't get paid, well, good luck with that.

00:45:14.780 I mean, they'd find a way to get paid anyway.

00:45:17.840 People are too afraid of not paying bills.

00:45:22.200 I don't think they'd want to be the ones who, you know, not every person is going to want

00:45:25.700 to fight that battle.

00:45:27.080 You know what I mean?

00:45:27.580 Rand Paul has a suggestion for a Republican-looking healthcare plan.

00:45:37.540 He said, what if you could join Costco?

00:45:40.180 He said this on a recent interview.

00:45:42.580 What if you could join Costco?

00:45:43.960 It has 44 million members.

00:45:46.260 Wow.

00:45:46.800 44 million members in Costco?

00:45:50.260 In one country?

00:45:52.280 Is that just America?

00:45:54.360 I don't know.

00:45:54.660 44 million seems like a lot.

00:45:57.580 And they, and let's say the 44 million bought a group healthcare plan like Toyota or General

00:46:04.540 Motors, they would be the largest collective entity in the country, and they would drive

00:46:10.140 prices down by sheer might.

00:46:13.680 Do you believe that?

00:46:15.920 Now, that makes sense to me from an economic perspective, that if you have more competition,

00:46:23.320 prices should go down.

00:46:24.340 If you had more transparency, prices should go down.

00:46:28.800 If you've got one negotiator for a large group of people, price should go down.

00:46:34.120 So it makes sense.

00:46:35.820 But I'm a little bit skeptical that it could be that easy.

00:46:40.220 Because here's what I say.

00:46:41.800 The minute you did this, let's say tomorrow you could snap your fingers, and suddenly Costco

00:46:48.960 was offering healthcare.

00:46:51.880 Do you think that Costco alone could massively lower their prices, and that the rest of the

00:47:01.120 industry would be unhurt?

00:47:04.900 I don't know.

00:47:06.100 It feels to me like the current system, this will be hard to express, but it seems to me

00:47:12.020 that the current terrible healthcare system is so entrenched that if you were to change

00:47:18.340 any large part of it, even with the best intentions and even with the best philosophies and the

00:47:25.220 best economic theories, that you could create some unintended problems.

00:47:31.640 And I don't know what they would be, but does it not feel to you that it couldn't possibly

00:47:38.900 be as easy as just changing the number of people who are in each organization?

00:47:43.560 How in the world could that be enough?

00:47:46.880 I mean, I can see that it would make some difference.

00:47:49.000 But we're talking about, you know, the Obamacare subsidies, you know, doubling your healthcare.

00:47:57.460 There's nothing in that neighborhood.

00:47:59.560 It's not like, it's not as if a Costco healthcare plan would lower your healthcare by, you know,

00:48:08.180 50%.

00:48:08.940 I don't think that's going to happen.

00:48:11.280 And if there were this big bunch of money that is just essentially sitting there waiting

00:48:19.900 to be picked up, why wouldn't somebody have picked that up already?

00:48:25.120 See, I feel like the industry is very corrupt and inefficient, but I don't think there's a

00:48:34.320 whole bunch of, I don't think there's a whole bunch of money being made in healthcare that

00:48:40.100 you could just, you know, cut your expenses in half and everybody would still get paid.

00:48:45.480 I feel like people wouldn't get paid if you made that big of a difference in the pricing.

00:48:52.780 So I'm no expert in this domain and nobody else is either, which I think is why nothing

00:48:57.860 ever happens.

00:49:00.920 Because you would have to know, you would have to know so much to make a good decision on

00:49:06.800 any of this stuff.

00:49:10.100 All right.

00:49:12.080 So let's talk about Ukraine.

00:49:17.240 So I've been watching with some amusement that the U.S. plan for peace with Ukraine started

00:49:25.220 in as 28 items.

00:49:28.600 And then we haven't seen any of the items, but then the reporting was, no, it's not 28.

00:49:35.100 28, it might be 19 or 20.

00:49:38.280 And then I say to myself, hmm, 19 or 20.

00:49:41.800 But I keep waiting for that 19 or 20 to collapse to maybe three.

00:49:49.060 Because if you could get the three most important things, whatever you thought they were, if you

00:49:54.700 could get the three most important things, you could probably work out the rest.

00:49:59.260 But it doesn't work the other way.

00:50:01.760 It doesn't work that if you get the 17 least important things, that that will make it easy

00:50:07.820 to do the three most important things.

00:50:10.100 It doesn't work both ways.

00:50:12.060 So here's my question.

00:50:13.300 Can you identify three things that Ukraine could say yes to, that maybe Russia would say yes

00:50:20.720 to, and then that would be enough, because it's the biggest three, that that would be

00:50:25.940 enough to force the others down their throats?

00:50:29.440 Maybe they want it to be forced down their throats.

00:50:32.820 All right.

00:50:32.980 So here are the three that I think it's starting to settle on.

00:50:39.760 So the things they want are, we definitely want an election in Ukraine.

00:50:49.580 But Zelensky says, yes, we'll definitely get a, better catch up with the news.

00:50:57.740 Did something happen in the news today?

00:50:59.620 So if somebody's yelling at me in all caps, I need to catch up with the news.

00:51:06.640 Is there a big headline story happening right now?

00:51:11.580 Tell me, is there something happening right now?

00:51:17.760 All right.

00:51:18.380 Well, let me know if you see something.

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00:52:03.220 Give me a text and tell me if I missed something.

00:52:07.080 All right. 0.78

00:52:07.620 Could be just a troll. 0.57

00:52:08.820 I don't know.

00:52:09.700 But, so on one hand, what Zelensky needs to know is that Russia won't take over the rest of the country.

00:52:21.320 There has to be some, obviously a property deal.

00:52:24.800 Who gets what?

00:52:25.440 And, yeah.

00:52:35.200 So those are the big things.

00:52:36.420 It does seem like it's really down to real estate.

00:52:40.060 And does Zelensky ever want to leave office? 0.91

00:52:49.000 Idiocracy, did it? 0.70

00:52:51.600 Oh, add Sam's Club. 0.60

00:52:52.880 Oh, yeah.

00:52:56.580 All right.

00:52:59.340 Speaking of military, I guess the U.S. military now has a thousand-mile drone boat for attacking other boats or ships, I guess.

00:53:10.860 And it can go a thousand nautical miles, and it can carry a thousand-pound bomb payload, and it can go up to 35 knots.

00:53:22.260 Boy, I'd hate to see that coming at me.

00:53:23.660 It feels like every day there's a breakthrough in military drones.

00:53:33.220 If we don't have a good military drone fight war, I don't know.

00:53:39.340 That's a lot of work.

00:53:41.240 Costco sells auto and home, and it is cheaper.

00:53:48.720 Yeah.

00:53:50.220 But insurance, we'll see.

00:53:53.920 Well, I'm not sure how much cheaper it would be.

00:53:56.700 I would agree that it would have to be cheaper.

00:53:58.620 But I don't know if we're talking 5% or 50%.

00:54:02.760 It would be lawyer-free.

00:54:08.500 I don't know if you want that.

00:54:09.780 All right.

00:54:18.100 I guess that's why they put the Costcos far away from each other, so you don't get all their samples and live on it.

00:54:29.660 No, this is not the warm-up.

00:54:31.220 This is the actual show.

00:54:32.280 This is not very good.

00:54:33.520 All right.

00:54:35.380 There's a new pill, according to NoRidge, that lowers your blood sugar and burns your fat without appetite loss or muscle loss.

00:54:45.920 So does it seem to you like we went hundreds of years not having any good way to lose weight except for exercise and diet?

00:54:56.600 And then suddenly there's a pill, and then there's another pill, and then there's another pill, and then there's another pill,

00:55:02.480 and then there's pills that do it different ways.

00:55:06.020 So we went from, well, there's no way you're going to lose weight with a pill, to, wow, there sure are a lot of ways to lose weight with a pill.

00:55:19.080 All right.

00:55:22.420 I'm looking at your comments.

00:55:23.620 All right, and, you know, Trump was a little angry at Bondi because the Attorney General's not indicting anybody.

00:55:38.020 Does it seem to you that Pam Bondi is stalling, or does it seem to you that there's no good reason for why we haven't seen some of the bad guys

00:55:49.080 back from the Russia hoax era, why have we not seen any of them get indicted? 0.58

00:55:55.720 Is the problem that the person to indict is going to be Obama?

00:56:00.660 Or is the problem, could it be, that what Brennan was warning us about in that interview about the CIA and about blackmail,

00:56:11.040 was Brennan warning people that they do have blackmail on anybody who would try to take down the ex-CIA people?

00:56:22.540 Because when Trump talks about, hey, we need to, you know, indict these ex-people,

00:56:29.500 some number of them are intelligence people, right?

00:56:32.240 And if it's true that the intelligence people use blackmail to stay in charge,

00:56:39.200 it seems like he is warning them that they're definitely going to have some blackmail come out the minute they go after Brennan.

00:56:47.280 Does it feel like that?

00:56:48.800 So here's the thing I'd be watching for.

00:56:52.860 I'm still going to presume that we don't see indictments for the biggest players.

00:57:00.040 So I think we won't see an Obama, Susan Rice, I don't even know if she's on the list, Brennan, Clapper.

00:57:10.760 I don't think any of them will be indicted.

00:57:13.560 And the reason is, it's what Brennan said, that they have blackmail on everybody important.

00:57:20.880 So I suspect that there's no real way that we're ever going to see what Trump wants,

00:57:29.040 which is the normal, you know, a normal Department of Justice process,

00:57:34.040 where they look at evidence and they indict people and then they go to trial.

00:57:38.460 I don't think that's possible.

00:57:41.440 I think that the only thing possible is that they might wave their hand at it and then just dismiss everything.

00:57:48.040 I do not see that any of that can really happen in the real world.

00:57:53.040 In a world where Epstein is killed in this jail cell and we act like we don't know anything about it,

00:58:00.960 in that world, I don't see Brennan going to jail.

00:58:06.080 Do you?

00:58:06.720 Elon Musk also, at one of his recent events, said that the assassination of Charlie Kirk has made it even more impossible

00:58:17.820 for people like him to go out in public.

00:58:21.960 He says there are serious security issues.

00:58:24.180 It's not that I don't want to.

00:58:25.860 I simply can't.

00:58:27.740 Now, can't must mean that his security people say, you cannot do this.

00:58:33.020 We're not going to let you walk out in this situation.

00:58:36.780 So it looks like he's taking their advice.

00:58:40.520 And he says that Charlie's assassination has reinforced the severity of the situation where life is on hardcore mode.

00:58:49.280 You can make one mistake and you're dead.

00:58:51.360 It only takes one mistake.

00:58:52.920 So imagine being Elon Musk and you go from, hey, I'm just a rich guy and everybody likes me.

00:59:00.680 I've got some security issues, but everybody rich does.

00:59:03.620 Two, I can't go out.

00:59:08.040 I can't go out because I might get murdered.

00:59:11.880 Now, I saw Sean Davis from The Federalist had a comment about this on X.

00:59:18.520 And he said this is only the case, meaning there's this big security problem.

00:59:25.280 He said this is only the case for people on the right.

00:59:28.400 No left-wing podcaster, politician, or journalist have to look around every corner or hire private security everywhere they go.

00:59:35.660 Only conservatives are forced to live this way.

00:59:38.620 Is that true?

00:59:42.420 Is that an exaggeration or are we just in a bubble?

00:59:46.640 Because I could certainly name several conservative people who can't go outside without security.

00:59:54.440 The Daily Wire guy is, and I don't know if any of the Federalists have that problem.

01:00:04.120 But, you know, obviously Elon Musk has that problem.

01:00:08.380 Charlie Kirk had that problem.

01:00:09.760 So, are we at a point where it's true that conservatives can't go outside, but liberals can?

01:00:19.360 That might be a bit of an exaggeration.

01:00:22.320 Surely there have to be some liberals who need security. 0.96

01:00:26.420 If you were, let's say, Mark Benioff, that of Salesforce, you don't think he has security?

01:00:36.400 No, I don't know.

01:00:37.840 But I would guess he does.

01:00:40.260 Now, is that because he's just a rich guy and CEOs always need security?

01:00:45.280 I mean, it might be that.

01:00:46.480 Or are there specifically death threats that people on the left are getting?

01:00:53.320 Well, I don't know.

01:00:54.640 Do you know?

01:00:56.420 Yeah, I don't know.

01:01:00.060 So, anyway, Pam Bondi is, I think, is in a tough spot.

01:01:05.220 I believe that she doesn't have the option of going after the people that Trump wants her to go after.

01:01:10.860 Because I think that it would be dangerous.

01:01:13.960 And that, ultimately, they would get released or pardoned or something.

01:01:18.860 So, it could be that the option of justice is just not possible.

01:01:23.660 And it wouldn't matter if Trey Gowdy was replacing Pam Bondi or not.

01:01:28.120 But I did note that Trey Gowdy is a golf partner of Trump.

01:01:34.020 And it feels to me like the very best people that Trump could have in his cabinet or any of his appointees would be somebody who can golf with him.

01:01:46.260 Because if you golf with somebody, you get to know him pretty well.

01:01:51.720 And, you know, you'd spend a lot of time with him.

01:01:54.800 I kind of like the idea of Trump having golf partners who are also very capable.

01:02:01.300 I mean, Trey Gowdy would be super capable.

01:02:04.720 It feels like that would be a stronger team if he golfs with him.

01:02:10.920 All right.

01:02:12.260 Wealthy people are at the mercy of their security personnel.

01:02:15.260 Yeah, that's true.

01:02:20.220 All right.

01:02:22.380 What else we got?

01:02:26.720 So, I guess there was a journalist who went to an L.A. city council recently.

01:02:31.820 Wall Street Apes is reporting on this.

01:02:33.560 And he said at the public hearing, he said, so far we have spent $450 million to permanently house 1,144 people.

01:02:45.480 Does that sound like we did a good job?

01:02:48.920 $450 million and it housed 1,100 people.

01:02:53.840 That doesn't sound good.

01:02:55.560 That sounds sort of the way we do bullet trains and everything else.

01:02:59.680 And he said, that money is going somewhere.

01:03:02.020 It's not like that money is falling into the abyss.

01:03:05.200 That money ends up being somebody's profit.

01:03:08.620 The nonprofit industrial complex is making a ton of money out of this.

01:03:12.980 And most of those people are politically connected to Hugo and Nithya and Karen Bass.

01:03:19.140 I don't know.

01:03:19.660 Karen Bass is the mayor, but I don't know the others.

01:03:22.520 Of course, and actually all of you people.

01:03:24.940 And he talked about how in his area, in L.A., not a single streetlight works.

01:03:34.960 Not a single streetlight.

01:03:37.600 Well, I got a feeling if you fix the streetlights in those neighborhoods, somebody would shoot it out in about a minute.

01:03:43.280 So, I'm not sure if fixing it is even an option.

01:03:45.460 All right, people.

01:03:51.300 I'm going to end it here.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 01, 1970

Episode 3042 CWSA 12⧸10⧸25

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