Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3104 - The Scott Adams School 02⧸27⧸26

00:00:00.300 Investing is all about the future.

00:00:02.400 So, what do you think is going to happen?

00:00:04.320 Bitcoin is sort of inevitable at this point.

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00:00:16.280 Robotic pollinators might be a thing. 1.00

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00:00:30.220 When you let arrow truffle bubbles melt,

00:00:32.460 everything takes on a creamy, delicious, chocolatey glow.

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00:00:37.940 You didn't forget to fold it.

00:00:39.360 Nah, it's a new trend.

00:00:40.860 Wrinkled chic.

00:00:42.240 Feel the arrow bubbles melt.

00:00:44.040 It's mind bubbling.

00:00:46.780 Tell me if you guys can hear.

00:00:49.760 Marilyn.

00:00:51.240 How many of you have ever thought,

00:00:53.380 or maybe gagged when you heard somebody else say it,

00:00:55.860 that they were trying to find themselves?

00:00:59.000 I need to find myself.

00:01:02.040 I need to figure out who I am.

00:01:07.340 Bad idea.

00:01:09.460 Can you guys hear that?

00:01:11.280 Here's a reframe.

00:01:12.660 Instead of being an explorer and trying to figure out who you are,

00:01:16.720 how about authoring yourself to be what you want to be?

00:01:22.500 You can author your situation.

00:01:25.820 You don't have to discover who you are.

00:01:30.440 You can make yourself what you want to be.

00:01:32.740 Crank the volume, they say.

00:01:51.200 Yeah, it's kind of low.

00:01:55.900 Bump it up.

00:01:56.560 You don't have to be.

00:01:58.420 No.

00:02:16.880 I love these words.

00:02:17.080 Owen is dancing.

00:02:37.920 I can barely hear it.

00:02:41.260 Believe me, Owen's dancing.

00:02:43.540 I know.

00:02:43.980 This is for 10.

00:02:44.640 And you guys, all right, I'll turn it off.

00:02:48.260 But how fun is that?

00:02:50.680 That's nice.

00:02:51.560 That's Akira's song, you guys, featuring Scott Adams, author yourself.

00:02:57.620 Instead of finding yourself, author yourself.

00:03:00.160 I love it.

00:03:00.980 Okay, let's get right to it.

00:03:03.180 Bree, take it away. 0.99

00:03:11.800 Hey, everybody, come on in here.

00:03:14.320 Happy Monday.

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00:03:58.880 I feel all of my pleasure circuits firing up.

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00:04:13.440 Thank you, Marcela.

00:04:14.860 It's Friday.

00:04:16.180 I didn't know if you knew you were being listened to.

00:04:18.980 I felt like at that point, we should all just chime in and chant it with Sergio.

00:04:26.400 Welcome, you guys.

00:04:28.160 It's Friday.

00:04:28.540 Sergio versus the mute button.

00:04:29.820 I know.

00:04:30.640 God bless Sergio, the mute.

00:04:32.440 Or not the mute.

00:04:33.720 We love you, Sergio.

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00:04:36.760 You guys, we made it to Friday.

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00:04:39.360 So welcome to the Scott Adams School.

00:04:42.440 My name is Erica.

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00:05:15.220 So that being said, let's kick off the school today.

00:05:18.620 We have our our fabulous news crew, the family.

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00:05:25.400 We have Sergio looking.

00:05:28.520 Hello, everybody.

00:05:29.760 Spring.

00:05:30.260 Look at you guys.

00:05:30.940 Look at the stuff on Sergio's shelves, his cameras, his drones, his little S monogram.

00:05:36.800 Gorgeous.

00:05:38.500 Marcella, our little Marcella.

00:05:40.400 Good morning.

00:05:42.280 Multi-talented, beautiful Marcella.

00:05:45.220 And Owen Gregorian, you are more stoic than ever.

00:05:49.720 Good morning, Owen.

00:05:50.560 Happy Friday, everyone.

00:05:52.280 Happy Friday.

00:05:52.780 Happy Friday.

00:05:53.580 Happy Friday, Owen.

00:05:55.440 So you guys, that was Akira's drop today.

00:05:58.720 That was author yourself.

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00:06:05.820 I've been singing it all morning.

00:06:08.880 We do.

00:06:09.220 Yeah.

00:06:10.440 So you guys, we're ready with some news today.

00:06:14.420 And we want you to chime in with us.

00:06:16.980 And Marcella and Owen, I think Owen is going first, Marcella.

00:06:22.880 Owen's going first today.

00:06:24.620 Give it to us.

00:06:26.860 All right.

00:06:27.720 I need a minute to get ready.

00:06:28.980 Just a second.

00:06:30.360 Let's see.

00:06:30.880 You guys.

00:06:32.900 So we have a story that red states are gaining babies in the post-COVID shuffle.

00:06:39.060 The Institute for Family Studies is talking about this.

00:06:42.680 Looks like red states are seeing population growth in young families and children post-COVID,

00:06:46.640 while blue states are losing them due to high costs and migration.

00:06:49.680 It looks like compared to 2019, the 20 states that voted most for Kamala Harris saw declines in their people in their 20s and kids under 18.

00:07:03.140 Red states saw growth among millennials in their 30s.

00:07:05.980 And so I guess my take on this is that, you know, we're all focused on the short term all the time, which is fine.

00:07:13.720 I mean, you know, we're kind of fighting the battles of today, like the midterms that are coming up.

00:07:18.540 And certainly we should be focused on that.

00:07:20.380 But I think longer term, the trend seems to be going positive.

00:07:24.780 It seems to be going in the Republican direction.

00:07:27.240 So don't lose sight of that.

00:07:29.940 You know, we all know that there's all sorts of rigging going on with the census.

00:07:34.280 And, you know, there was a story I saw recently about that, where it looks like one person was responsible for kind of rigging the census to give a whole bunch of seats to Democrats they shouldn't have gotten based on illegal immigrants and things like that.

00:07:46.220 That he rigged the algorithm of the census to totally change the result in terms of the electoral counts and things.

00:07:54.940 But I think everything is moving in our direction longer term.

00:07:59.160 And there's another census coming up in 2030.

00:08:01.880 And all the projections are that it's going to shift way red at that point.

00:08:05.720 And it looks like the trend is even longer term than that with these babies that we're going to have a lot more kids coming up the ranks in Republican families and a lot less in blue.

00:08:16.220 So it seems like a real positive trend to me.

00:08:19.760 What do you guys think?

00:08:21.960 I've seen more babies around.

00:08:23.840 Yeah.

00:08:24.360 Have you?

00:08:25.420 I've seen them.

00:08:26.440 I used to ask myself, what are the babies?

00:08:29.480 And I've seen like a couple on the last two days.

00:08:32.500 I went to a shoot the other day and there were like actually two ladies with babies together. 1.00

00:08:36.920 And I haven't seen that in a long time.

00:08:38.640 So, Owen, I think that's the great news.

00:08:41.560 An uptick in babies, Sergio is noticing.

00:08:43.940 But have you found Mrs. Guthrie?

00:08:46.220 No, she's still, there's no signs of her.

00:08:49.920 I will look at everywhere and we're never going to find her.

00:08:53.260 I think she's in Mexico now in a tourist destination maybe.

00:08:58.200 Great news.

00:08:59.340 Different name.

00:09:00.400 But with the babies, that's a, I used to think that the only reason why people was not having babies right now was because they were not drinking enough anymore.

00:09:11.200 Right?

00:09:12.060 That was something that was getting all these people loosened up, going to bars and they will do it.

00:09:19.320 And because of scat, you know, people stopped drinking.

00:09:22.420 Oh.

00:09:22.960 And you see, and everybody stayed home, you know, they just, and it wasn't happening.

00:09:27.640 So now I think that there's a big drive right now for, to create more, more babies.

00:09:33.800 Especially when you see guys like that colonel, no, that, the guy that got the medal yesterday.

00:09:40.980 I mean, on the day.

00:09:43.160 Yeah.

00:09:43.320 So that Superman, that kind of man like that is, you know, is going to be making a lot of babies and a lot of people is going to want to keep going along with us.

00:09:52.540 This is very, this is very scientific.

00:09:55.640 I mean, I do think a big part of it is just, do you have a positive outlook about the future or do you have a negative outlook about the future?

00:10:01.840 And that can be financial in terms of, do I think I'm going to be able to have a good job going forward?

00:10:06.840 Do I think my income is going to go up?

00:10:08.700 Do I think I'm going to be able to afford things?

00:10:10.620 But it also is just, you know, do I feel good about the future?

00:10:14.420 And the leftist media is very negative all the time, just telling you the world's ending, everything's terrible, it's just all getting worse, the AI apocalypse is coming, no one's going to have a job.

00:10:27.000 And they're just beating down their base constantly.

00:10:30.980 And it's just all negativity all the time, climate change, you know, it's just all end of the world, everything.

00:10:38.140 And it really does affect people.

00:10:40.280 I mean, you know, young kids are dropping out of college because they think AI is going to take all the jobs or that there's no point.

00:10:46.900 And it just leads to all this depression and nihilistic thought.

00:10:51.860 And I think that really affects people when they think about having kids.

00:10:55.520 Whereas if you have religion and if you have, you know, faith and you have just a positive outlook, which if you just, you know, listen to Trump, like in the State of the Union, you get such a different picture, right?

00:11:08.560 Like just it's the golden age is here and everything's great and we're running hot in the economy and we've got all this investment coming in and we're, you know, making the world safe all over the world.

00:11:18.840 And we're just winning, winning, winning.

00:11:22.000 And that's just such a different vision.

00:11:24.440 And it inspires people to say, you know what, I'm going to start a family.

00:11:28.340 I'm going to raise kids.

00:11:29.220 I'm going to, you know, be part of this and bring children into this great new world.

00:11:33.980 And so that's the way I look at it is that it's just the people who are positive and are optimistic about the future are much more likely to say, yeah, let's have some kids.

00:11:44.160 But have you also seen how women are depicted now in the media, right?

00:11:48.960 There's no more praising fatness anymore, right?

00:11:52.600 There's no more worshiping, you know, being overweight.

00:11:55.980 We're getting healthier, everybody, right?

00:11:58.920 The Maha, the Maha movement, that creates a change.

00:12:02.040 Even if everybody was doing it for health, just everybody losing weight like that is going to create people wanting to have sex with them.

00:12:10.460 And that's maybe that's what's going on too.

00:12:12.040 It is so funny listening to two dudes talk about this more, Stella, isn't it?

00:12:16.520 It's hysterical.

00:12:18.220 Tell us more.

00:12:19.340 Oh my God, I'm dead.

00:12:20.860 I mean, all the OSEMPIC, right?

00:12:23.660 All the OSEMPIC.

00:12:24.480 Oh my God.

00:12:25.160 You guys should hear the stuff Sergio says.

00:12:27.540 It's so funny.

00:12:27.820 Well, it wasn't in blue states, right, Owen?

00:12:30.360 That's where OSEMPIC is.

00:12:31.600 Red states. 0.61

00:12:32.540 Red states, which.

00:12:34.180 People, in the red states, they love OSEMPIC, right?

00:12:36.700 They do?

00:12:37.920 Yeah.

00:12:38.640 I don't know.

00:12:39.600 The Facha? 0.75

00:12:40.820 I don't know if I've seen any mapping of where the OSEMPIC is, but I think.

00:12:45.340 Definitely in LA.

00:12:46.620 I would argue against that.

00:12:48.200 I would argue that, I mean, sure, there's plenty of obese people and it's a problem. 0.80

00:12:52.820 But I think if you, if I was honest about that, it's probably a much bigger problem in

00:12:56.960 the red states in terms of obesity.

00:12:59.620 And, you know, maybe they are going to OSEMPIC more in the future, especially.

00:13:03.340 They're getting hotter.

00:13:04.100 Trump Rx and all the stuff keeping the cost down.

00:13:06.900 But, but I think generally speaking, if you just looked on a population basis, I think you'd

00:13:13.060 probably find that there's more attractive women in the big cities than there are in the 1.00

00:13:17.840 rural areas and, you know, even just blue states versus red states.

00:13:22.040 But there's a lot more than looks.

00:13:24.300 I mean, you know, you can say, oh, that's a hot woman. 1.00

00:13:27.580 But when you're, when you're talking about starting a family and getting married, you

00:13:33.180 know, you need to have a real connection.

00:13:34.560 You need to have a good relationship.

00:13:35.740 You need to have someone who's mentally healthy, too. 0.99

00:13:37.960 You don't, I mean, I don't want to, I don't want to raise a family with a crazy woman. 1.00

00:13:41.140 And, you know, I'd much rather have someone who, with a little extra fat around her belly 1.00

00:13:47.880 and, you know, childbearing hips and all the rest. 1.00

00:13:50.480 And then just, you know, and if I, if I have a choice between someone who looks really good, 0.97

00:13:55.480 but has crazy liberal thoughts and thinks everything's going to crap, it's an easy choice 0.96

00:14:03.040 for me. 0.97

00:14:03.460 If any of you were unsure where these guys stand, now, you know, this is.

00:14:09.300 No, you don't.

00:14:10.480 Well, I want to hear the female point of view. 1.00

00:14:12.820 I do.

00:14:13.520 What do you think, Erica?

00:14:14.440 I mean, I think feminism has a lot to do with it. 1.00

00:14:18.640 Women wanting careers, feeling pressured to have careers, people needing to have more than 0.99

00:14:23.180 one income, societal pressure, all of that stuff.

00:14:27.600 I, and I think like you guys are more like, oh, is she crazy or not? 0.97

00:14:31.700 Is she fat or skinny? 1.00

00:14:32.740 I'm just generalizing.

00:14:34.860 I just think that, yeah, it's probably really like if you're someone based in reality, you're

00:14:41.280 like, can we afford it?

00:14:42.760 We don't have a house.

00:14:44.080 Maybe we're renting.

00:14:45.040 We can't even afford our rent.

00:14:46.680 How are we going to afford a kid?

00:14:47.900 So I think it's society.

00:14:52.660 I think it's the economy and I think it's fear of the future.

00:14:57.180 And then also, I think in the blue states, this is just my opinion, but the men and the

00:15:05.060 women who are dug in, like let's say on the left, they're so miserable. 1.00

00:15:11.080 Um, they don't believe in any kind of traditional values and, you know, kids are our future and, 0.55

00:15:19.620 um, we need families and we need to pump up family values.

00:15:24.940 And, you know, I, I think that's, I think when people went back years ago and they're like,

00:15:30.200 oh, we lost family values and we lost eating dinner together and raising your kids and all

00:15:35.720 of that stuff.

00:15:36.320 That's the problem.

00:15:37.880 Um, there's too much tick tock, too much social media, too much.

00:15:41.880 Like, I don't care what my dinner tastes like.

00:15:44.420 How does it look in a picture?

00:15:45.660 And I'm, am I at the right restaurant? 1.00

00:15:47.200 And it's like, you know what, put that shit down, focus on yourself, you know, become a 0.99

00:15:52.480 better person, literally for everybody, be useful and try to be happy. 0.99

00:15:58.260 And then maybe you'll attract the right partner through happiness and not misery.

00:16:02.540 And then maybe you'll want to have a family because you'll want the two of you to go on.

00:16:06.500 So I don't know.

00:16:08.080 I think it has nothing to do with looks or ozempic.

00:16:10.860 And I get you guys are saying more than that, but I just think that's what it is.

00:16:13.800 I think it's connected, I think it's connected to the rise of Christianity in, um, the red

00:16:20.000 states.

00:16:20.680 I really think religion, there's been a resurgence after Charlie was assassinated.

00:16:26.220 And even before that, there was a resurgence of young men going into, uh, religion and, um,

00:16:33.840 thinking of preparing a family, um, early on.

00:16:38.420 Gen C is very different than Gen X and millennials. 0.81

00:16:41.520 Gen X and millennials, they want to start a family early in their twenties instead of waiting.

00:16:46.820 That's my thoughts.

00:16:48.020 They're, they're my hope, you know?

00:16:50.680 And I mean, listen, somebody who was it yesterday?

00:16:53.520 Someone, it might've been Megan Kelly. 0.99

00:16:55.180 And I was like, totally spot on with the hockey team.

00:16:59.000 Okay.

00:17:00.060 Like if you're a woman and you're like that age of these hockey players and your thought

00:17:05.660 is like, oh, they were sexist or they laughed at Trump or whatever you are, you are so out

00:17:12.920 of your mind right now. 0.97

00:17:14.340 Your thoughts should be like, those guys are hot.

00:17:17.500 They're masculine. 0.91

00:17:18.300 They're fighters.

00:17:19.340 They're winners.

00:17:20.160 They're bad-asses.

00:17:21.140 Like, you know, like I want to breed with them. 0.98

00:17:23.740 That should be your thought.

00:17:25.020 But if you're, what are you wearing?

00:17:27.100 Oh, it's a Charlie Kirk shirt.

00:17:28.680 It says Kirk.

00:17:30.600 Oh, okay.

00:17:31.540 Yeah.

00:17:32.080 Um, cause you mentioned Charlie.

00:17:33.720 Um, so that, that, if that wasn't your instinct, I mean, listen, I'm a married woman and I was 0.98

00:17:38.760 like, damn, like these guys are fired up. 0.85

00:17:41.400 Eric, I'm glad you mentioned that because that instinct you, you mentioned the word instinct 0.99

00:17:45.860 and that's, uh, is Kat's, uh, filter on this, the mating instinct. 0.75

00:17:50.360 He always talk about the mating instinct being, by the way, everything I say does not represent

00:17:54.440 my own views, you know, legally.

00:17:59.600 They are your opinions, you know, analysis.

00:18:02.400 Okay.

00:18:03.360 Wait, whose views are they?

00:18:05.800 Whose views are they?

00:18:07.420 His ex-wife, maybe? 0.89

00:18:08.800 I don't know.

00:18:09.720 I mean, I, that's, I couldn't do this if I wasn't, you know, single.

00:18:13.600 Uh, so the, the thing with, um, the mating instinct is so powerful that we always, it's

00:18:20.360 always there and we rationalize it, right?

00:18:22.860 We can always come up with a reason to rationalize that part.

00:18:26.180 So all I'm saying is that if you see on TV, a lot of, uh, um, women's parts, right? 0.86

00:18:34.420 Like, or guys and everybody looking great, America is going to start feeling, you know,

00:18:39.760 more excited to, you know, to be out there and to go out and, um, and that has an effect

00:18:45.540 in is, and it's just, uh, always there and you don't think about it, but it's always affecting

00:18:50.760 you.

00:18:51.020 What do you think, Owen?

00:18:52.020 You mean quiet a little bit?

00:18:53.500 Well, I, I, I, I mean, I think all of these things are true.

00:18:56.960 I think that affordability is a big part of it.

00:18:59.780 I think that, um, feminism certainly has had a major detrimental impact for decades against, 1.00

00:19:07.540 you know, starting families in your twenties when women are most fertile. 1.00

00:19:11.980 Um, I saw an article or maybe, I don't know, it was an ex post, maybe by somebody, it might

00:19:16.560 have been Stefan Molyneux replying to it or something about how you, maybe you can have

00:19:22.300 it all, but you should basically have kids first and then the career. 0.92

00:19:24.860 And that works, but if you try it the other way, it really doesn't work because if you

00:19:29.340 wait till your late thirties or forties, it's really not easy to have a kid.

00:19:33.240 And I think feminism and even scientists have kind of lied to women about that and said, 0.99

00:19:39.420 oh yeah, you can wait if you need to, you can freeze your eggs and that doesn't work.

00:19:44.480 You do get less fertile as you get into your thirties.

00:19:46.980 It gets worse as you go and even worse in your forties.

00:19:49.660 And you reach the point where you just can't have kids anymore.

00:19:52.280 And, um, you know, if you do it the other way, you, you've got plenty of time to have

00:19:57.840 a career.

00:19:58.480 I mean, my wife went back to work after she had kids.

00:20:02.060 Um, you know, she had a nice college education. 0.95

00:20:04.760 She had some work experience before that.

00:20:06.720 She took a long break.

00:20:07.700 She actually mostly, you know, didn't work at all while the kids were little, um, until

00:20:12.520 they were really in like high school and college.

00:20:14.380 So she took a long break and she still was able to get a job with Harvard.

00:20:18.200 And, um, you know, so I think if, if you come out of college and maybe work for a couple

00:20:25.280 of years or something, that's fine.

00:20:26.500 But if you meet a guy and you want to have a family, um, I think it's a much better plan

00:20:31.700 in general to just start the family right away.

00:20:34.700 And, um, let's start propping that up.

00:20:37.360 You guys, let's make that normal and okay.

00:20:40.240 And, you know, let's take the pressure off of having a career first, because if you have

00:20:45.040 a career first and your career is growing, are you then going to want to take a backseat

00:20:50.220 to it?

00:20:50.580 You're not.

00:20:51.000 So do, do the family first, but can we move on to another subject?

00:20:55.120 Sure.

00:20:55.560 Thank you.

00:20:56.560 I have a story.

00:20:57.560 My, my first story is the SAVE Act and, um, saving the SAVE Act is part of the story.

00:21:05.600 It's been stalled in the Senate.

00:21:07.560 Um, the Congress passed it again on February 11th and, uh, John Toon doesn't want to keep,

00:21:17.900 make it to the floor.

00:21:18.900 So, um, there is this, uh, you know, going back and forth of where the zombie filibuster

00:21:24.880 or the talk filibuster, but the main thing is that, um, you know, the question that everybody's

00:21:31.740 asking is that 94% of Republican voters supported and a big number of Democrats, uh, not, not

00:21:39.980 in the Senate, but Democrats in general support the SAVE Act, which is if you don't remember,

00:21:46.760 it's basically needing an ID to vote.

00:21:50.480 And the question is, as James would ask, why, who owns John Toon and what's going on with

00:21:59.100 him?

00:22:00.100 I think, um, Erica posted some story on Tom Tillis, um, having time for a dog parade instead

00:22:08.120 of having time to pass the SAVE Act.

00:22:11.460 It was one of the things that were said in the Senate, uh, by the majority leader, John

00:22:16.480 Toon, um, sorry, I'm mispronouncing his name, but he said that there was not enough time for

00:22:22.860 this, you know?

00:22:24.140 So somehow, you know, we don't, we have time for dog parades, but we don't have time to

00:22:29.560 pass this on.

00:22:30.940 So those of you that don't know, that's what they did yesterday.

00:22:33.540 They had a parade, bring your dog to the, you know, the Capitol and, uh, parade your

00:22:41.380 dog around and we're going to take pictures and photos.

00:22:44.240 And James was, I have his tweet here.

00:22:46.980 He wrote the SAVE Act is the single most important issue to 95% of Republican voters.

00:22:53.040 If you can't pass it with the majority in the house, the Senate, the Supreme court, and a 0.97

00:22:58.200 Republican president, then somebody owns your ass buddy who owns John Toon. 0.97

00:23:03.540 And that's all the money. 0.99

00:23:05.300 Yeah.

00:23:05.920 Why?

00:23:06.880 Like, why?

00:23:08.580 To give his side of the story, I believe he said there's four Republicans in the Senate

00:23:13.760 that aren't on board with the whole talk.

00:23:16.920 McConnell.

00:23:17.680 And yeah, McConnell and Tillis, I think we're two of them.

00:23:21.660 I don't remember the other two, but, but I think, you know, Thune, I still hold accountable

00:23:27.120 because he's the leader and he's obviously a very weak leader.

00:23:30.460 If he can't get everybody in line to say, this is what we're all going to do.

00:23:34.200 Um, but I do think, you know, it's also those other four people, those other four senators

00:23:39.560 that, you know, supposedly we have the votes, right?

00:23:42.320 We have 50 or 51 votes and we have Vance for a tiebreaker if we needed it.

00:23:47.740 Um, and so we should have everything we need that they've said that they'll vote for it.

00:23:53.560 And so the question would be, why would they not then say, yeah, I'll go along with the

00:23:59.820 filibuster too, because that's the way we get to that 50 vote majority vote.

00:24:05.300 But the only alternative that Thune seemed to be pushing was like just forcing a vote.

00:24:12.720 But I think that method would mean you need 60 votes to pass it.

00:24:16.480 And so it was almost like a show vote to just say, oh, we're going to make the Democrats

00:24:21.020 show that they don't like this thing.

00:24:22.500 But in reality, they were just going to sacrifice the bill.

00:24:25.260 They were just going to let it fail.

00:24:27.880 And so everyone was upset about that, of course.

00:24:30.600 And so Thune then was responding, well, I don't have enough support from these other four

00:24:35.620 people.

00:24:36.480 And so I can't make this happen because it's just not going to work.

00:24:40.900 And I do think we should be holding all these people accountable, including Thune.

00:24:45.400 Markoski?

00:24:45.860 What is the name somebody was saying in the chat?

00:24:48.920 Cornyn is one.

00:24:49.920 Cornyn and Markoski.

00:24:52.520 Well, she's always supposed to.

00:24:53.920 They're being weasels.

00:24:55.260 I mean, they're being weasels to just say that they won't support it.

00:24:58.560 Because if we have enough votes to pass it, then we should also have enough votes to do

00:25:03.660 the filibuster.

00:25:04.540 Don't you just think that these people are just trying to wait out Trump's term and then

00:25:10.200 they think they're going to go back to being, you know, establishment rhinos again. 0.90

00:25:15.840 But it's not going to happen.

00:25:16.940 No one's going back to the way it was.

00:25:19.680 Yeah, they're being snakes.

00:25:21.280 I mean, they're just being deep state snakes.

00:25:24.000 The only explanation is that they want the cheating to continue.

00:25:28.720 Yeah, exactly.

00:25:30.340 Cheating is the only reason why you will stop this.

00:25:34.080 Right.

00:25:34.300 And that's the only reason why you have a mailing ballot.

00:25:36.820 That's the only reason why no IDs.

00:25:39.000 That's the only reason why you wouldn't purge the roll, the border rolls.

00:25:43.920 Right.

00:25:44.100 They're all a mess right now.

00:25:45.300 Right.

00:25:45.540 So they have to be cleaned up.

00:25:47.080 And that's a big part of it, too.

00:25:48.960 And they don't want that.

00:25:50.200 They don't want a clean system and using those four people as an excuse. 0.99

00:25:54.100 That's a fake because the real reason is, yeah, most likely is corruption, like Scott

00:25:58.900 will say.

00:25:59.420 Right.

00:25:59.580 But we shouldn't call them snakes.

00:26:02.980 We shouldn't call them rhinos anymore.

00:26:05.140 I'm really loving.

00:26:06.420 I saw this.

00:26:07.420 Somebody called it rat, you know, Republican against Trump.

00:26:12.480 Okay.

00:26:13.180 So I made this mean.

00:26:14.660 This is Republican against integrity and against election, against America.

00:26:20.580 Yeah.

00:26:20.780 Trump is for America.

00:26:22.120 Trump is for America.

00:26:23.160 Trump is pushing for this.

00:26:24.660 Right.

00:26:25.040 So if anybody is against Trump, they're against America right now.

00:26:28.860 That's the way I see it.

00:26:30.300 Right.

00:26:30.500 So if you're against Trump, you're against America at this point.

00:26:33.660 Right. 0.56

00:26:34.040 Unless if Trump goes crazy and starts doing things that, I mean, if he goes crazy some

00:26:38.400 day, I will stop, you know, we will stop him.

00:26:41.220 We will try to stop him.

00:26:42.180 Right.

00:26:42.700 But right now, who's stopping us right now is this guy, Tom Thune.

00:26:47.020 And he's not a rhino.

00:26:49.660 That's too cool. 0.98

00:26:51.100 He's a rat. 0.99

00:26:52.020 Right. 1.00

00:26:52.580 He could be a rat. 0.99

00:26:54.240 He's acting like a rat. 1.00

00:26:55.960 A rat person is somebody that is going to stab you in the back. 0.99

00:27:00.500 You know, when you're not looking and they're acting like, oh, everything's fine, but it's 0.95

00:27:05.140 not.

00:27:05.420 So I'm just saying that if we want to reframe this in a way that has any effect on people

00:27:13.660 to get motivated to go out and vote, we need to do something like that, you know, to show

00:27:21.320 them that evil, you know?

00:27:23.540 Yeah.

00:27:23.720 I don't know.

00:27:24.380 I love rat, by the way.

00:27:24.700 And you want to show them, somebody post the meme that Sergio made.

00:27:30.580 Also, just so you know, in Somalia, I believe you need two forms of ID to vote in Somalia.

00:27:37.000 Just FYI. 0.85

00:27:37.760 Oh, I thought you were going to say they needed two rats to. 0.94

00:27:40.820 Nope.

00:27:41.400 But you need two forms of ID to vote in Somalia.

00:27:44.660 You know, and remember the story about the dogs voting?

00:27:50.180 You know, there were dogs that were not voting or voting.

00:27:52.940 And now we have this dog parade.

00:27:55.480 Again, the simulation is always giving us these wings all the time, right?

00:28:00.760 All right.

00:28:02.020 Let's keep an eye on that and we'll move on.

00:28:06.620 All right.

00:28:07.040 Well, there's more going on with the whole AI apocalypse narrative on both sides, I would

00:28:14.140 say.

00:28:14.860 One of the big stories is that Jack Dorsey, he has this fintech called Block, and he announced

00:28:20.260 40% staff cuts.

00:28:21.860 He's getting rid of 4,000 people.

00:28:23.520 And he said, it's all because of AI that, you know, we can use these AI intelligence

00:28:29.800 tools to work better.

00:28:31.860 And he didn't want to do it gradually.

00:28:34.060 He thought a lot of companies were sort of making, you know, making it bad for morale

00:28:39.500 to like do all these rifts over time and just gradually get rid of people.

00:28:43.900 And so he said, I'm just going to cut it all at once and grow from this lower base.

00:28:49.300 And the stock market rewarded him big time that it's his stock jumped like 23%.

00:28:55.000 So a lot of people are speculating that other companies are going to do it.

00:28:59.340 Jack Dorsey said a lot of other companies are probably going to come to the same conclusion.

00:29:04.520 And so there's a lot of fear, I think, that there's going to suddenly be this massive

00:29:08.500 wave of layoffs.

00:29:09.820 We've certainly seen some layoffs recently that have been blamed on AI.

00:29:15.160 I think a lot of them probably weren't really because of AI.

00:29:18.620 But, you know, it's an easy excuse for CEOs to make it seem like the company's doing fine.

00:29:24.720 But, you know, I just need to get rid of these people because I don't need them anymore.

00:29:29.020 But, you know, there's a lot of fear now.

00:29:31.640 I think that there's going to be another wave coming of a lot of layoffs, especially in the

00:29:36.220 tech sector, because I think that's where AI is making the biggest.

00:29:39.820 What's the biggest impact?

00:29:41.460 Zero Hedge posted a graph in regards to Block, and he indicated that, you know, he made it.

00:29:49.200 He doesn't say it in statement, Zero Hedge, but Zero Hedge on X.

00:29:54.980 And he indicates that the company Block spent $68 million for a party.

00:30:00.380 And 200 days later, Jack Dorsey fires 40% of the workers, and then three blames AI.

00:30:09.560 So, like Owen was saying, and Scott has said before, you know, the AI fake because sometimes

00:30:17.660 it's not due to AI, you know.

00:30:21.480 It's a good excuse.

00:30:22.920 I mean, I think certainly you could have a skeptical lens on it like that and say, you know, that

00:30:29.000 it's not really because of AI.

00:30:30.920 But I think, I don't see Jack Dorsey as the type of person who would just make up a story

00:30:35.080 like that, especially when he made such a big splash like this and said, we're going to get

00:30:39.300 rid of basically almost half our workforce.

00:30:40.980 And I think, you know, because the stock was rewarded by it significantly, like this massive

00:30:50.720 pop in value.

00:30:52.840 And Jack, by the way, also explained along the way, hey, we were already profitable.

00:30:57.520 We were growing, we're profitable.

00:30:59.820 We were profitable and growing before these layoffs.

00:31:03.080 So it wasn't, you know, a survival move.

00:31:06.000 It wasn't like we have to do this.

00:31:07.560 It was that this is better and this is going to be, you know, the better path.

00:31:13.780 And so he's kind of recognizing the trend of saying, okay, this is the direction we're

00:31:18.040 going and we're already at the point where one person on my staff can use a whole team

00:31:23.160 of AI agents to get a lot of stuff done really well and really quickly.

00:31:26.900 And so I don't need all these thousands of extra people.

00:31:30.700 And so he certainly seemed credible to me in terms of telling the truth about why he was

00:31:36.940 doing what he was doing.

00:31:38.420 I think the problem is that, again, a lot of companies might copy him or might be forced

00:31:43.760 to copy him, even if they don't want to, because for public companies, you have this

00:31:49.380 responsibility to the shareholders to maximize shareholder value.

00:31:53.540 And now that you've seen what happened to Block, pretty much anybody who wants to be an

00:31:58.940 active investor could just say, you need to do the same thing to this other tech company.

00:32:03.860 And it would be hard for them to fight it.

00:32:06.320 You know, they would have to say, well, you know, if you can get a 23% jump in your stock

00:32:10.700 price and still be able to grow and be profitable and, you know, have a much lower expense, then

00:32:20.360 of course you need to do that.

00:32:22.360 And so I am expecting there probably will be more companies following suit.

00:32:26.720 I think so.

00:32:27.320 Also, when you think of all the money that frees up now, so people can get big fat raises, they

00:32:33.640 could put money back into the company.

00:32:35.980 And this ties into where, you know, I keep trying to drive home, you know, learn a trade,

00:32:41.820 become, you know, someone who's always essential.

00:32:45.900 Because here's the thing, AI, you know, it's not taking maternity leave. 0.96

00:32:51.800 It's not complaining, it's not going to sue you, it's not going to, you know, whine about,

00:32:57.660 you know, needing a vacation and everything else.

00:33:00.180 AI is just going to work.

00:33:02.160 So I think this is going to be a big wake up call for the generations of people that are

00:33:09.100 like, you know, things aren't fair and I need a safe space and I'm working eight hours a day

00:33:14.060 as a barista.

00:33:14.940 I'm exhausted.

00:33:15.620 It's like, listen, AI will do it and they won't say a word.

00:33:18.720 So it's going to be hard because you're going to have to really, if you're, if you're trying

00:33:23.480 to stay at your corporate job, you're going to have to be so freaking valuable.

00:33:28.500 You're going to have to work so hard and so smart.

00:33:31.100 And my advice to you is to really, really become an expert in how to use AI and how to

00:33:37.640 prompt it.

00:33:38.640 So you're like the best AI prompter in the world.

00:33:42.540 And if that's not you and you don't have a good work ethic or you're lazy or you're trying

00:33:47.880 to skate by, you'll be found out quick and you'll be out the door.

00:33:51.940 So start now looking for a trade, um, work on your talent stack, get some other skills

00:33:57.280 behind you and become valuable as part of the, the whole wheel of this country that keeps

00:34:03.800 the country moving forward by learning how to build, how to weld, how to, you know, be

00:34:09.200 a nurse, be a, be a whatever, but not everybody's going to fit into that corporate box.

00:34:15.120 And AI is going to save a lot of companies, a lot of money and a lot of headaches.

00:34:20.260 And like, yeah, I mean, yeah, if you're pregnant and you want maternity leave, you can have

00:34:24.420 your maternity leave, but AI and another employee is going to take your job and someone else's. 0.99

00:34:29.760 I'm just saying, so if you're worried about it, start finding a backup plan now and then

00:34:35.420 find a backup plan to that backup plan.

00:34:37.480 It's just the way it's going to be moving forward.

00:34:39.520 But the lazy safe space days are over if you want to be employed in this country.

00:34:45.180 Yeah.

00:34:45.300 And there are a lot of companies that are racing to implement AI now and they're often,

00:34:51.000 they don't know how to do it.

00:34:53.120 Um, but I think it's almost becoming a competition internally in a lot of companies to say who can

00:34:58.020 do it fastest and if you can be guiding them along the way or seen as the expert, then

00:35:04.840 you're going to do much better and be much less likely to get laid off if these things

00:35:08.160 do happen because they're going to say, oh yeah, you know, this guy's really good at it.

00:35:12.280 I I've tried to do that in my company.

00:35:14.180 I mean, I, I've, you know, just did a project that was doing agentic AI and, and I am trying

00:35:19.580 to leverage that as much as I can reputationally to say, oh, you know, he, he really understands

00:35:25.260 this stuff.

00:35:25.760 He knows this better than anybody.

00:35:26.980 And, um, so I'm looking to do more of that.

00:35:31.600 I'm looking for more projects in that space.

00:35:34.700 Um, and I'm also kind of setting the narrative, even in other projects I've done where there

00:35:39.420 have been elements of AI involved to just say, I did this AI thing.

00:35:43.120 I did this other AI thing.

00:35:44.180 And now I have this whole track record of being an AI expert.

00:35:47.580 And, um, I think that gives me a lot more job security and I can, I've already noticed

00:35:54.140 that I've been successful with several people that are higher up than me recognizing that

00:35:58.580 I have technical expertise with AI that they don't have.

00:36:02.200 And so I think, you know, they would be the first to jump in and protect me just because

00:36:07.900 they're like, oh yeah, he's, he's, he's one of our best people with that.

00:36:11.160 And, um, so I think there's a lot of companies that don't know at all what they're doing with

00:36:15.900 AI.

00:36:16.200 And if you can develop some expertise, now is the time because you can get ahead of

00:36:20.300 everybody else and, and become that expert that can help your company do it.

00:36:25.720 And hopefully that means you'll survive whatever cuts are coming.

00:36:30.000 Um, I will present the other side though, like the David Sachs made a post recently that

00:36:35.380 said, here's a narrative violation.

00:36:37.200 And it showed that there was a huge number of job listings, uh, for software engineers.

00:36:42.340 Um, I think it was, uh, you know, indeed, I think this is the same, probably the same

00:36:48.280 graph where it said software jobs are up 11% year over year, and it's much more than other

00:36:54.400 jobs.

00:36:54.720 Like it looked to me like the trend for overall job listings was going down, but there was

00:36:59.780 a sudden spike over the last few months for software jobs, like software engineering, programming

00:37:04.700 jobs.

00:37:05.780 And that makes sense to me because when you have AI able to, you know, make you, let's

00:37:14.200 say 50% more productive or a hundred percent more productive or 500% more productive than

00:37:19.040 a lot of things that used to not be worth doing or suddenly worth doing, or they're just much

00:37:24.420 cheaper.

00:37:25.080 And so you can get a better return on what you're doing, or you might want to do more things

00:37:29.680 internally that you might've outsourced to some other software company or some other,

00:37:34.480 you know, out outside thing before, um, or even, you know, a contract with another company

00:37:40.560 to do some service for you where you're like, well, now we can do that ourselves for much

00:37:43.980 cheaper.

00:37:44.700 And so I think this is all also creating the opposite opportunity that for a lot of companies

00:37:51.840 where they said, well, you know, I'm not going to hire another programmer cause I'm not

00:37:55.780 going to get enough of a return on my investment.

00:37:57.340 Now they're saying, well, you know, now I can get five times as much return on that investment.

00:38:02.960 And so I'm going to hire lots of programmers.

00:38:05.620 And I also want people who can help me implement AI throughout my business.

00:38:09.400 So now I need more programmers to be able to do that.

00:38:12.040 And so I think it is a double-edged sword where tech companies, they may have a lot of

00:38:18.920 more layoffs coming.

00:38:20.220 Um, because, you know, if they already have armies of, of people and they have lots and

00:38:25.160 lots of expertise, then they can leverage the expertise of their most senior people.

00:38:29.520 And they might not need all the junior programmers.

00:38:31.760 I would, I would go back to when I was at a startup and I had one really super programmer

00:38:35.720 that worked for me and he understood the whole system and he could do everything.

00:38:39.700 And like, if I, you know, if I had five of them, I would have obviously much preferred

00:38:43.920 that.

00:38:44.200 But, um, there was a lot of the work that I wouldn't give to him, even if he did have

00:38:50.060 time for it.

00:38:50.660 Cause I knew he would get bored by it.

00:38:52.240 Like it was like really easy stuff. 1.00

00:38:54.760 He would just be like, Oh, this is stupid. 0.98

00:38:56.980 Why do I have, you know, it takes time to do it, but it's just not stimulating me mentally. 0.99

00:39:01.360 And for other people that I would call average programmers, they were smart people, but they

00:39:05.720 just weren't these exceptional programmers.

00:39:07.340 Right.

00:39:07.600 But that, that was exactly the right task to give to those people.

00:39:12.520 And when I look back on what they were doing, if I had AI, AI could have automated almost

00:39:19.180 all of that normal average stuff.

00:39:20.880 Like it was basically just copy this code, make these changes, you know, add this new

00:39:26.220 feature.

00:39:27.100 It's really simple.

00:39:28.400 It's just adding a new button to a form or adding a new document type or whatever it would

00:39:32.980 be.

00:39:33.600 But it's not like rocket science.

00:39:35.560 It's, you know, it's not like I need super expertise for that.

00:39:38.020 I just need somebody to be the hands on the keyboard that will type in all the code.

00:39:41.720 But now I don't need that anymore.

00:39:43.260 Like if I was going to do it again today, I could probably have done the whole thing

00:39:46.800 with just that one guy.

00:39:48.360 Right.

00:39:49.080 And again, we just want.

00:39:50.340 Yes.

00:39:50.700 Go ahead, Sergio.

00:39:51.340 Then we'll move on.

00:39:51.740 Last thing that I wanted to, you know, we're talking about cognitive dissonance might

00:39:55.740 get time to it.

00:39:58.440 This self-assessment that is important to do right now is to look at all your work, right?

00:40:03.040 You said it, Erika, we need to look at our work.

00:40:06.660 And if your work can be done by sitting at a desk in front of a computer, that job is

00:40:12.500 in jeopardy of being lost, right?

00:40:14.920 And Owen is right.

00:40:15.920 If you are the one that knows how to do the AI, your job is the last one to go, right?

00:40:21.780 It's still going to go.

00:40:23.000 You're still going to, you're going to lose it at some point, but it's going to be one

00:40:27.520 of the last ones, right?

00:40:28.360 So you always want to be there.

00:40:30.080 And that's all I wanted to do.

00:40:31.180 Don't let cognitive dissonance lie to you and start rationalizing like, oh, no, I'm safe.

00:40:37.820 That's all I'm saying.

00:40:38.640 Or author yourself, you guys, right?

00:40:41.000 So don't let it happen to you.

00:40:42.420 Author yourself.

00:40:43.320 All right, let's move on to another story.

00:40:44.880 So my, my, I guess my next story, um, if Owen allows, uh, the seven tells for cognitive

00:40:53.520 dissonance, um, from Scott Adams.

00:40:56.460 I posted a picture and, uh, my ex and it got a lot of, uh, likes, um, and I was excited

00:41:05.520 that everybody was excited about the post.

00:41:09.220 I, you know, I love everything Scott ever made.

00:41:11.920 Uh, so I don't discern which one is, which, but listening to Scott talk about the seven

00:41:17.880 tells of cognitive dissonance as the greatest accomplishment of his to civilization makes me

00:41:26.500 think about it more and more.

00:41:28.500 And there are seven and, uh, we can go over them.

00:41:32.740 But one of the things that happened yesterday when I posted this is that Owen made a brilliant

00:41:38.940 post using all seven, uh, I would have to say coming from a brilliant mind as Owen, it was

00:41:46.180 very, um, at first I was like, did he get hacked?

00:41:50.340 Oh no, wait, that's what he's doing. 0.99

00:41:53.180 Cause he goes, oh, you fool. 0.99

00:41:55.640 Or so, or so, or so the, I forget, I'm sorry. 0.99

00:41:58.780 I, I should, uh, bring it up.

00:42:00.780 Uh, um, or you have it there, Owen.

00:42:05.240 I'm not sure.

00:42:05.820 I got it.

00:42:06.100 If you want me to go through it first.

00:42:07.440 Yeah.

00:42:07.700 If you want to read it.

00:42:08.680 Yeah.

00:42:09.840 Yeah.

00:42:10.080 Break it down.

00:42:10.860 This is a visual thing and no one's seeing it.

00:42:13.340 So if you could actually, yeah.

00:42:15.120 Do you want to put, um, let me see.

00:42:19.540 Tina helped me put the, uh, wait.

00:42:24.640 But I mean, yeah.

00:42:25.600 Okay.

00:42:25.960 So the seven tells are change.

00:42:29.080 If you change the, if someone changes the topic or if they make an ad hominem attack and

00:42:33.920 ad hominem means you're attacking the person rather than the argument.

00:42:36.960 And basically when they do that, right, Owen, you already won.

00:42:41.400 Yeah.

00:42:41.880 Well, that's certainly what Scott was saying is that, you know, probably most of these

00:42:46.620 would fall under that category of if they do these things, you can just declare victory

00:42:50.000 and walk away.

00:42:51.140 But, um, the third one is mind reading.

00:42:55.600 Um, mind reading is where you imagine that, you know, what the other person's thinking

00:43:00.220 and you act like, you know, what's in their head, um, which is really never true.

00:43:05.220 And you're often very wrong when you think, you know, what someone else is thinking.

00:43:09.000 And, um, the fourth is word salad, which Scott explained is where you say a bunch of words,

00:43:13.960 but it really doesn't mean anything.

00:43:15.920 Um, again, that's, this is, these are all tells of cognitive dissonance.

00:43:18.880 Like if you trigger someone at a cognitive dissonance, it typically, that means you've said

00:43:23.880 something that doesn't agree with their worldview, doesn't agree with what they thought was

00:43:29.220 true and they really can't accept what you're saying.

00:43:32.460 So they go into this thinking mode of like, almost like a brain reboot, um, where they

00:43:38.780 do these really irrational things.

00:43:41.060 But someone who's in cognitive dissonance can't tell that they're in cognitive dissonance,

00:43:45.280 but other people certainly can tell.

00:43:47.200 Sergio, who comes to mind when you, when we say word salad?

00:43:52.740 Kamala.

00:43:53.460 Uh, Kamala.

00:43:54.500 So, A plus.

00:43:56.200 Okay, go on.

00:43:57.180 Sorry.

00:43:57.400 So that's word salad.

00:43:59.060 And then the next one is using an analogy instead of reason.

00:44:03.140 Um, so again, it's kind of avoiding actually directly addressing an argument.

00:44:07.640 It's more just trying to use an analogy, like saying, oh, it's like this.

00:44:11.940 And really all analogies are wrong.

00:44:15.560 You know, there's always something different about them.

00:44:17.240 Otherwise it wouldn't be an analogy.

00:44:19.400 And it really is an ineffective argument.

00:44:22.160 It's not persuasive.

00:44:22.900 And so it's another tell for when someone's in cognitive dissonance to be like, well, it's

00:44:27.280 just like this.

00:44:28.100 And, um, it really doesn't make any impact, but, um, people often do it.

00:44:33.380 And then, um, the sixth one is insisting something's complicated and can't be summarized.

00:44:40.220 Um, Scott has often talked about the most persuasive arguments are simple.

00:44:45.360 Um, Trump is probably the poster child here where he can say, build the wall or something

00:44:50.640 very simple and visual that, um, gets right to the point.

00:44:55.100 I think Scott was certainly huge on this himself with Dilbert.

00:44:57.920 He honed the skill of, of distilling something down to its essence with just a few words every

00:45:04.320 single day, because that's what he had to do for his comic.

00:45:07.240 You know, he has to make a joke, but he has to do it very briefly, very concisely.

00:45:11.100 Um, and I think it's kind of the essence of humor too, is just getting to the very core

00:45:15.960 of something and saying, here's the essence of it.

00:45:18.640 That's true, but it's also funny, um, when you can do it.

00:45:22.320 But when someone says, oh, it's complicated, you know, and, and it's, it's, it's, it's

00:45:27.000 complicated, Owen, no way to do it.

00:45:29.000 And I mean, even scientists, like I think Richard Feynman and others have said, if you

00:45:32.440 can't explain it, then you don't understand it yourself.

00:45:36.740 Um, and, and so that's a sign that someone's in cognitive distance.

00:45:41.920 People make a vision of that, yeah, right.

00:45:44.420 Let's, let's wait.

00:45:45.820 Number seven.

00:45:47.000 Well, number seven is the Sotel.

00:45:48.740 And that's where, um, you, you start what you're saying with, so, and so you want to

00:45:55.840 be racist. 0.78

00:45:57.340 Yeah.

00:45:57.840 And it's always a straw man argument.

00:45:59.300 It's like, you're setting, you're, you're using that as a way of framing what the other

00:46:03.500 person said in something as something that they didn't say at all.

00:46:07.480 We do need a whiteboard.

00:46:08.860 You guys, I need to buy one more of like a locals topic.

00:46:11.920 So I don't want to spend too much time on it.

00:46:13.780 Cause I think we're actually going to do something on locals with this.

00:46:16.240 It's very hard to do a visual story without visuals, but I love that.

00:46:21.860 And it's important.

00:46:22.760 And I, I'm going to play the clip on locals, you guys, for you of Scott giving this presentation,

00:46:27.560 which obviously will be more effective with his whiteboard.

00:46:31.540 Um, but I love that.

00:46:33.060 I love the post.

00:46:33.880 I just, I replied to, to Marcello's post with some, a sentence.

00:46:37.840 You want to read your post?

00:46:39.100 I want you to read your post.

00:46:40.500 Sure, I can do that. 1.00

00:46:41.800 So I, I replied with, so you're obviously that moronic fool thinking we should switch 0.99

00:46:46.660 to discussing pineapples now, since it's all like comparing apples to quantum entanglement 0.98

00:46:52.060 gibberish nonsense, which is way too complicated to ever summarize properly.

00:46:56.340 So I tried to work in all seven and I'm glad you picked up on it, Marcello.

00:47:01.400 At first I was like, did he get hacked?

00:47:06.780 Oh my gosh.

00:47:08.200 All right.

00:47:08.600 Let's keep moving.

00:47:09.520 Cause there's some other big news going on in the world today.

00:47:12.680 And I want everybody to feel a little bit informed as they go at the door.

00:47:16.660 So do we have anything that they need to know about?

00:47:20.440 Well, there's of course, Iran, um, is on the verge of war.

00:47:25.080 Um, we are on the verge of war with them.

00:47:28.360 Uh, I think the, you know, the, the talks have pretty much broken down in Geneva and

00:47:34.160 I think that might be the last one.

00:47:35.640 And there's some speculation that maybe we want Israel to attack Iran first so that then

00:47:42.020 Iran will retaliate. 0.84

00:47:43.300 And then we can say, oh, look, they attacked us or they attacked Israel. 0.76

00:47:47.380 Um, but either way, I don't know that that really matters.

00:47:49.380 I don't really put a lot of stock into that.

00:47:50.880 That's like one of those gossip things where they're claiming that's what the U S is thinking,

00:47:56.020 but I don't put any stock in that.

00:47:58.500 If I think if Trump wanted to attack, he would just attack.

00:48:01.300 And, but definitely all signs are pointing in that direction as I've been predicting for

00:48:06.060 a while that, um, you know, the statements you hear coming out of the government are basically

00:48:11.060 saying Iran's very close to having uranium enriched and being able to have nukes again.

00:48:16.660 And, um, you know, there are other people saying that's not really true and they would

00:48:23.180 take them a long time to get the ICBMs to be able to reach the United States.

00:48:27.000 I don't even know if that matters.

00:48:28.300 Cause I think we probably would be wanting to defend Israel and people a lot closer to

00:48:32.180 Iran anyway, that they probably already have the capability to strike if they had a nuke.

00:48:36.160 And certainly if anybody I think was asked the question, would we just allow Iran to nuke 0.93

00:48:41.660 Israel? I think even the people who aren't behind our support of Israel would probably

00:48:46.760 still say, no, we can't allow that to happen. Um, and so, you know, whether or not all that's

00:48:52.320 true, how close they are to having enriched uranium or being able to have nuclear weapons.

00:48:56.060 I don't know. I don't know that there's, it's possible to know, but that's the narrative

00:48:59.880 that's coming out, which to me is the justification for attacking. And so I think we're going to

00:49:05.120 see that relatively soon.

00:49:06.040 Yeah. We're in a wait and see pattern right now. There's really not much to add to this right

00:49:09.840 now. Um, but that's, what's happening, um, with Iran. And, um, I think who Jared Kushner and,

00:49:19.300 um, Oh my God, what's his name? Uh, Whitcoff were just in talks and negotiations. So we have to

00:49:26.760 wait to hear what happens, but, um, I, I just want to say Kev ETF. I, I just want to shout out to

00:49:35.420 the NYPD. Um, because this really crushed me was that snowball fight by kids, just some kids having

00:49:43.020 a snowball fight in the park. If you don't know the NYPD were literally attacked by like a gang of

00:49:49.840 what Mondami called kids having a snowball fight. These were like people, these were grown adults

00:49:54.600 pelting them with like snowballs, icy snowballs, whatever. They caught one guy who, what he had

00:50:03.160 been arrested like three times for other criminal things. And Alvin Bragg, let this guy go, even

00:50:11.000 though he basically attacked and injured one of the many people that injured the NYPD. And I just want

00:50:17.260 to say, leave, like come across the river to New Jersey. It's new, not too far for you. And you'll be

00:50:23.180 treated much better. NYPD deserves so much respect and they don't have it. And I'm so sorry to them

00:50:30.880 because they're, they're just the best group of people. So leave that city. You are not going to

00:50:36.580 be protected or backed up. Okay. I know there's another story in there. The, the, the criminal

00:50:43.260 we're talking about is Guzmine Koulibaly. Um, he, he was charged with assault on the NYPD officers,

00:50:51.860 but it was downgraded to harassment and obstruction. He has other charges pending. I think there was what

00:50:56.600 they called a strap hanger shakedown, which I assume means he was robbing people on a subway

00:51:01.360 or a bus or something. And, um, the, you know, these, these officers were injured by the way,

00:51:07.180 and they were saying that these snowballs were packed with ice and rocks. Um, so, you know,

00:51:12.200 it is dangerous. I mean, it's, this isn't just, you know, Hey, let's have some fun. And you know,

00:51:16.400 it's, it's not the, what the elf sort of snowball fight or maybe it is. If you, if you go to the end of

00:51:23.840 that, where they were just totally pummeling people and, you know, went way overboard, but,

00:51:27.780 um, this is dangerous. It was assault. I don't know why the DA is, is doing this. I mean, I do

00:51:34.200 know why, but, um, it's horrible that they're letting these people off. Um, and it's just getting

00:51:40.400 bad there. And I would add another story to that. Yeah. Add it. But I'm just saying like,

00:51:44.760 that's just how it starts. Oh, they they're literally attacking NYPD. Like, I don't even know.

00:51:50.180 There was probably like 75, a hundred people there and everyone's laughing and recording it

00:51:55.140 and like point blank range, like throwing these like icy snowballs in their faces, right over

00:52:01.100 their heads. They were like completely outnumbered and trying to stay stoic as best that they could.

00:52:08.180 And, um, so what's next, you know, so Alvin Bragg lets that guy get off what's next. Right. So go

00:52:13.940 ahead. Well, that's, I mean, I think it's a signal that it's okay to do that. Um, and then he probably

00:52:19.180 wants more of it. And, um, the, the other statistic I would add to that is apparently a

00:52:23.860 third of New Yorkers want to get out of New York. Um, they're citing things like cost of living and

00:52:29.660 quality of life, but over half the people in the survey that this is based on say that the quality

00:52:35.560 is worsening, that things are getting worse in New York. So it's well over half the people think

00:52:39.860 that very few people are saying it's getting better. There's some that say it's the same,

00:52:44.280 but, um, you know, there's a lot of people talking about the costs going way up and the quality of

00:52:50.480 life going way down and the taxes going up. And I think 86% said it's unaffordable for families. So

00:52:57.000 it's just, you know, very bad sentiment across the board. And I think up to a third of them are saying

00:53:02.340 they're planning to leave within the next five years. So, um, might want to get ahead of the curve

00:53:07.460 there, um, to hold onto whatever property value you're selling or whatever it is. But, um, it does

00:53:14.120 seem like there's going to be a more of an exodus coming out of New York. They're going to go to a

00:53:18.240 red state. I see you. I'm not Bob. They're going to go to a red state and they're going to come here

00:53:23.000 with their blue voting, not here cause I'm not in a red state, but then they're going to go there

00:53:26.700 with like a, the blue voting track record that they always do. And I was thinking today all about this,

00:53:32.540 about how many people have to leave New York. They have to, it's, it's unbearable already.

00:53:37.460 Um, but I'm like, Oh, wouldn't it be so great if you could just have some kind of way of saying

00:53:42.500 like, Oh, well, you know, I'm not sure if we can sell you this house here. We need to like,

00:53:47.220 look at who you voted for when you left New York, because I just, you voted for it. Like stay there

00:53:54.280 and deal with it. Try to be a changed maker, but you know, you can't, uh, I can't, I just can't with

00:54:00.300 these people. Sorry. Yeah. All right. Well, if we're ready for the next story, I think, uh, last

00:54:07.180 story. Yeah. There's more coming out about the FBI spying scandal that they were spying on cash

00:54:13.340 Patel and Susie Wiles. Uh, apparently it's gotten worse that now they found out that they were, um,

00:54:19.800 actually listening to Susie Wiles phone calls with her attorney. Um, which I think Marcella could tell

00:54:25.920 us is a no, no. Um, obviously Susan Wiles knew nothing about this, never consented to it. And they 0.98

00:54:32.240 were recording her phone calls with her attorney. Um, the, the lawyer denies that, um, he knew

00:54:38.920 anything about it or ever gave permission for it. I think that's the story on the other side is that

00:54:42.600 supposedly the lawyer said it was okay to record these phone calls. Um, but he, he denies that.

00:54:48.640 And, um, as a result, I think that they've fired 10 FBI agents that were involved with this. So

00:54:55.160 they're continuing the purge of the FBI for the people who have abused this thing and weaponized

00:55:00.120 the government government against Republicans. Um, but it's, you know, more and more is coming

00:55:06.580 out all the time and it seems like it's gotten really bad or it did get really bad. And, um,

00:55:11.780 I, my only question with that is like, okay, what, what have they done against ordinary citizens?

00:55:15.660 I mean, if they're doing this to people like cash Patel and Susie Wiles, um, which I think they

00:55:20.800 were private citizens at the time, but obviously they were high profile, you know, people

00:55:24.800 that in theory, you would think they might give a little bit more or be a little more careful

00:55:30.760 about, um, you know, how many hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of ordinary Americans are,

00:55:36.580 are having the same abuse done on them. And we just don't know about it.

00:55:41.100 Your relationship with your attorney should be sacred. And they did this to Trump too, by,

00:55:45.440 you know, going through and making them release all the conversations he had with his attorney.

00:55:50.900 I just think like, Oh my God, the justice system is so broken and just these activist judges,

00:55:59.300 and then listening to attorney client conversations and emails. I don't know. How do you have a,

00:56:06.960 uh, Marcella, how do you have, um, confidence, you know, like how would I have confidence in this

00:56:12.980 system with all these things being infringed upon? I mean, do you feel like it's secure?

00:56:19.000 Well, like Scott would tell you nothing secured, even signal and telegram, anything that, you know,

00:56:27.400 our ex chats and all that, you know, the, the government usually has a, a back, uh, door.

00:56:35.260 Um, but in regards to the privilege of, uh, confidentiality between client and attorney,

00:56:41.300 the attorney, even if the attorney wanted to cooperate with the authorities, let's just say

00:56:46.940 that he or she wanted to do that. The privilege cannot be broken unless it's the client that breaks

00:56:53.460 it. So if Susie Wiles says, okay, now everybody can understand and hear everything and use it in court,

00:57:01.760 um, as evidence, then she or any other client can say that. Um, in, in law school, we're, we're,

00:57:10.800 and even while practicing, the key is always to keep a client's, uh, privacy, um, is, is number one

00:57:20.500 mí creator. So, um, youres are people working in law school and 하니까, you know, or, you know,

00:57:22.720 yourahs plush you and I brought them out on your media and votre bara homeissa?

00:57:26.900 Um, yeah, right. So if you're good at, uh, you're going to listen and say to the

00:57:40.160 profession around whether it's spouse or relevant or really important, whether it's

00:57:43.280 family or church because it's one, it's one of the dentro of their staff and the

00:57:45.920 family that they, we actually vote, uh, if you would, can see what's on alert date?

00:57:49.720 erica can be the post um just like they deposed hillary hillary and bill um whatever hillary now 1.00

00:57:58.040 there is in regards to that there is uh what i call what is called um spousal privilege

00:58:05.880 spousal privileges um the same with your uh priest or pastor there is that privilege between

00:58:14.520 you and them but again it's the person in the client attorney client privilege it's the client

00:58:20.760 that needs to break it right so the fbi just bombards its way in and just is like yeah we're

00:58:27.240 gonna listen and we're gonna lie and nothing's gonna happen but what do they do with it they

00:58:32.360 can't use it in court you cannot use these statements in court but what they do is they

00:58:36.440 bootstrap it to find investigate you in that way um meaning that if they hear something while they're

00:58:44.120 listening to you they go and look for this they look for other ways to bring it in to bring in the

00:58:51.880 evidence now if your attorney can can like um if your defense can actually connect the new evidence to

00:59:03.320 the old uh illegal uh you know wiretap or listening to you then then it can be uh basically throwing

00:59:14.360 out of court the whole thing even the new evidence yeah because that's you need to know about the

00:59:19.000 wiretapping and that means the fbi agent would need to disclose that i know they're supposed to with

00:59:23.880 brady and everything but they you know if someone's willing to break the law that way they're probably

00:59:27.640 also willing to just lie and not tell what they're supposed to to the defense just like we saw with

00:59:32.280 general flynn where they just didn't disclose eons you know like just piles of information that would

00:59:37.880 have exonerated him they just didn't say any of that they did the same thing with all the j6ers 1.00

00:59:43.160 um you know they just presented a very one-sided case they didn't let the defense have all the

00:59:47.080 information they wouldn't let them have the videos they wouldn't let them you know it was just all

00:59:52.120 horrible can i add one thing that scat will give us as an advice on privacy he always said that

00:59:59.000 consider everything you type everything you talk to like it's going to be uh up there in the um

01:00:06.120 you know in trial right it's going to be shown so that's it just don't write anything that you

01:00:11.400 wouldn't want the whole world to see so it's time you guys it's time it goes by so fast but you know

01:00:17.560 we'll be back next week too but i just also want to say i love this um great news 56 members of the

01:00:23.880 u.s coast guard have been reinstated after they were kicked out of service for refusing the covet jab

01:00:29.560 under biden they'll also be receiving full back pay um i just think that there's going to be more

01:00:35.480 of that coming and i'm i'm happy for these guys for standing their ground so owen do you want to tell

01:00:41.000 us about tomorrow what you have going on well tomorrow will be the after party spaces on x so if

01:00:46.440 you want to talk about the news um we can talk about some of these stories or other ones from the

01:00:50.600 week um but i'll be having that at the normal time so 7 a.m pacific and 10 a.m eastern perfect

01:00:59.000 so you can see owen there tomorrow with uh sergio and sjb i love you guys i love you guys and we will

01:01:06.760 be back on monday um with a fresh new week be useful you guys thank you so so much for being here with us

01:01:14.680 and please a closing sip to scott who we love and honor every day love you guys be useful and thanks brie

01:01:22.840 be useful thank you brie

01:01:27.720 bye guys

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 28, 2026

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