Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3116 - The Scott Adams School 03⧸17⧸26

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00:00:30.000 funny mm-hmm don't tell anyone we said so oh oh that's steven did i think we're live

00:00:43.600 did they hear that i hope not that was a secret surprise

00:00:48.560 good morning top of the morning to you i can finally say that and it's the actual day

00:00:55.600 you guys i have the only green thing i could find

00:01:02.400 look at bookish we're gonna pinch owen oh my god bookish i'm obsessed

00:01:09.040 good morning everybody good morning patrick's day come on in top of the morning to you

00:01:17.040 all right i love it you guys oh we should have had a green background it'll be too much green

00:01:26.260 too much green welcome in everybody we're just gonna wait for you to filter in and if you guys

00:01:32.040 have your reframe books we'll get those ready too for after the sip we're gonna be at page 46

00:01:39.340 in the paperback everybody better be wearing green or i can pinch you oh yeah you know who's

00:01:47.740 happy about a pinch from you marcella just about i bet no one all right guys you think we're all in

00:01:56.840 here it's time let's do it if you want to enjoy the simultaneous sip you're also going to need

00:02:07.020 a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chalice or stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel

00:02:11.320 of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like my coffee. And somebody says I interrupted

00:02:21.760 them listening to my book, Loser Think. That's a lot of me. That's too much of me. You got

00:02:28.620 to choose. All right, get ready. It's time for the dopamine hit of the day, the thing

00:02:34.280 that makes everything better. The Simultaneous Sip. Here it comes.

00:02:42.580 Oh.

00:02:45.860 Never too much of Scott, right?

00:02:48.480 Never. Okay. Is he still on the screen?

00:02:52.440 Okay, there we go. Okay, you can't get enough of that, man.

00:02:56.280 All right, you guys. Welcome. Happy St. Patrick's Day. You are at the

00:03:00.180 Scott Adams School. My name is Erica, and I'll soon be able to change

00:03:04.240 this little thing maybe by tomorrow. Okay. So you guys grab your reframe your brain book. I just

00:03:11.660 figured it's the three of us today. We're hanging out. We have an amazing rest of the week also

00:03:17.000 planned for you, but let's get a little more Scott time with one of his amazing reframes.

00:03:22.340 And I chose the one on luck being St. Patrick's day. So I'm going to try to read this quick so

00:03:28.140 we could talk about it and then move on to some fun news. Okay. Page 46 in the paperback. Have

00:03:35.080 you ever experienced a losing streak in life that seemed to be a message from the universe that

00:03:39.960 success and happiness are not for you? If so, I can help. It's easy to get stuck in negative

00:03:45.680 thinking when events in your life keep going wrong. You might come to believe the universe

00:03:49.920 is conspiring against you. It's not. That alone is certain to translate into less happiness and

00:03:55.840 success. So what do you do? I recommend the following reframe, which I have used all my

00:04:01.000 adult life. Okay. So this is a reframe. Scott uses whole adult life. Usual frame. The universe is

00:04:07.240 acting against me. Reframe. The universe owes me. We love this one. If you flip a coin and it comes

00:04:14.860 up heads 10 times in a row, the universe owes you some tails. And if everything we know about physics

00:04:20.560 and statistics is true, you will eventually end up with the same number of heads and tails. If

00:04:25.700 you keep going. People are not coins, but the general idea is that one person cannot be

00:04:30.520 continuously lucky or unlucky for an extended period. That isn't a thing. Bad luck can certainly

00:04:37.140 arrive in clusters, but like the coin flips, the odds must revert to something normal over time,

00:04:42.640 and that means the universe might owe you some good luck. The strange thing about feeling lucky

00:04:47.520 or unlucky is that your experience so often matches your expectations. Yesterday, as an

00:04:53.060 experiment, I started repeating to myself and people I encountered that everything is going

00:04:58.180 my way today. And sure enough, my day turned out to be spectacular. Did I create my own good luck

00:05:03.980 that day or did I adjust my filter so I noticed all of the good and ignored the bad? Or was it

00:05:09.980 pure chance? I have no idea. All I know is that acting as if you expect good luck seems to produce

00:05:16.200 more of it, whether you are writing affirmations, praying to a God, or simply using the power of

00:05:21.960 positive thinking. If acting as if good luck is coming your way, doesn't it produce any luck

00:05:27.460 for you for weeks in a row? Should you just continue to be positive? No, your loved ones

00:05:32.840 probably noticed the change and liked it, as did your co-workers, boss, and everyone else you

00:05:37.720 encountered. And it probably helped keep you in better spirits than if you expected doom.

00:05:42.380 In other words, this is a can't lose reframe. Your payoff will either be good or great,

00:05:49.360 and it might be either real or imagined, but none of the outcomes are bad. This reframe is

00:05:55.520 extra powerful for those of us who has suboptimal childhoods or a bad adult life so far. The feeling

00:06:02.420 that the universe owes you some luck will be the strongest when you feel the most wronged.

00:06:08.780 I love that. Sorry. Okay. Don't make the mistake of sitting on the couch waiting for luck to hunt

00:06:14.300 you down. Luck needs you to do your part. And that generally looks like this. Work on your

00:06:19.540 fitness and health. Build your talent stack. Meet more people. Go where there's more energy.

00:06:26.020 Create systems for your success. If you follow that recipe all your life and keep telling yourself

00:06:31.080 the universe owes you some luck, I like your odds. Few things are more important to our happiness

00:06:36.020 and success than pure luck. Luck is real in the sense that some people win lotteries and others

00:06:41.360 do not and some are born smart and attractive while others are not but if you think luck is

00:06:46.160 something you cannot control you are wrong you can control the heck out of luck i do it all the time

00:06:51.600 it involves moving from a place in which luck can't find you to a place where it can i've written

00:06:56.880 this book while hoping as authors do that it performs well in the marketplace luck will play

00:07:02.720 a large role because it might only take one major book review or recommendation to light the fuse on

00:07:08.720 it. Or maybe events in the world will line up to make this content more appealing through no effort

00:07:14.580 of my own. But there is one thing I know for sure, not writing a book gives me a smaller chance of

00:07:21.260 luck finding me. And it's so true, you guys. I feel like I just said this to a friend of mine

00:07:28.420 who might be listening right now, and I will not say your name, Mindy. But sometimes people are

00:07:35.320 like, oh, I want my daughter to meet someone or whatever. And I'm like, you've got to create those

00:07:40.700 scenarios. Someone's not going to find you sitting at home or in your office. You've got to create

00:07:48.420 your luck. You've got to go out, meet people, mingle. And I like the idea that the universe

00:07:53.660 owes you. So if you feel like things are downtrodden for you, the universe does owe you.

00:07:59.380 So try to focus on the good around you and create it.

00:08:05.960 You can totally create it.

00:08:07.300 Like Scott said, he does it all the time.

00:08:10.120 He did it all the time.

00:08:11.140 I mean, look at, he said that he hopes this book takes off or whatever.

00:08:14.980 We're still reading it.

00:08:16.460 I've seen a million people referring to Scott's reframes on their podcast, TV shows, radio,

00:08:24.400 everywhere.

00:08:24.760 So he created that by putting his thoughts in the right place.

00:08:31.020 And so, Marcella, I'm going to start with you this time.

00:08:33.560 So I think that, you know, you've had trials and tribulations in your life and the universe

00:08:40.080 owed you.

00:08:41.200 And I never see you as being sad or down.

00:08:45.500 I'm like, you have moments, I'm sure, in private, but I genuinely see you as a positive person.

00:08:51.160 And so how did you handle these things in your life?

00:08:54.760 You know, I realized they have to always be positive. Otherwise, you know, I'll crush you. So I just saw the positive and the opportunities that it gave me. Whenever a situation, you know, turned bad, I saw a positive like being a teacher and not being able to do what I wanted.

00:09:17.840 uh meaning like teaching what i wanted because the government tells you what you want then i

00:09:25.220 became an attorney and now i can do more things and try to change the laws here in california

00:09:30.880 so everything that you think is negative you can turn it around and think of it as an opportunity

00:09:39.140 um as jock would say good you know so uh if you feel like you didn't have uh you got fired or you

00:09:51.760 uh went through a breakup you know sometimes things happen for a reason that's always been

00:09:59.100 my thing and you got to turn it around you also can't just stay home and wait for something to

00:10:04.640 change, like Erica said, and Scott said, you got to go where the energy is, which is the other

00:10:10.100 reframe after this one, it's luck, you have to go. And you have to believe the universe does owe you,

00:10:18.100 it owes me big time. So that's how I think of it.

00:10:22.360 Oh, and tell us about how you handle this kind of a reframe.

00:10:28.780 Yeah, well, I mean, first, I think I would just say the way I would phrase this maybe is

00:10:33.720 expectations create your reality. That if you have bad expectations of what's going to happen,

00:10:39.860 you're much less motivated to even get out there and try. And if you think things are going to go

00:10:45.840 well, you're much more likely to take action and put more irons in the fire, whatever it is that

00:10:50.700 you're trying to do. And that's the only way that things are going to happen. And I've certainly

00:10:54.840 seen this in my life. I've had ups and downs in my career. I've been laid off. I've been fired.

00:10:58.660 but I've also had lots of great jobs and opportunities that most people would probably

00:11:04.540 envy. And when I was first laid off, I was kind of stung by that, partly because it had nothing

00:11:11.880 to do with my performance. Like I had the top performance rating I could possibly get for five

00:11:15.480 years in a row, which is really rare actually for a firm like the one I was in. And then I got laid

00:11:20.720 off right after that. And so I certainly felt like, oh, this is unfair. Why did they do this

00:11:26.660 to me. And for a little while, I was just kind of sulking in my office, not really doing much

00:11:31.780 and not taking action. And I was okay financially for a while because they did give me some

00:11:36.660 severance. But eventually I said, you know what, I just got to take action and do something about

00:11:43.420 this. And it was so much easier than I thought once I did that because I called up some friends

00:11:48.040 that I had worked with before that had moved on to other companies. I talked to them and they're

00:11:51.800 like, oh yeah, I'll hire you. I mean, that was pretty much literally what the first response

00:11:55.760 was when i called one of the people i had been working with he's like sure yeah come on in i'll

00:12:00.160 figure out what the process needs to be and it was like a super easy process too it was like okay you

00:12:05.040 just have to come in and talk to this one guy and as long as he likes you you're in that's what

00:12:09.440 happened right and uh you know there was another time that i was fired which i thought was very

00:12:14.320 unfair and you know i didn't like my boss and all that but um amazingly um and this is probably

00:12:23.920 pretty rare it didn't take um I went back to work the next day you know I mean I at that time they

00:12:30.920 were probably only giving me like two weeks um but I was being replaced by somebody else I met

00:12:36.780 with that person and in the course of one conversation I just like laid out okay here's

00:12:42.420 all the problems we have here's all the stuff you're gonna have to do and it was a pretty long

00:12:45.600 list and he he just turned to me and said can i can i just offer you a job i was really confused

00:12:54.160 by that i was like what and he's like oh yeah you know can you do you want to work for me and i'm

00:13:00.160 like well i can't take a pay cut he's like oh no you can keep your same salary i'm like really so

00:13:06.880 like what would i be doing and he's like just keep doing what you're doing okay so i i actually stayed

00:13:13.360 at that company like another couple of years and uh you know it it was just like it it and and

00:13:21.600 after that you know i i actually got fired again by the same person at the same company and i just

00:13:27.200 by then i was like immune to it yeah and i just you know started talking to people and got another

00:13:33.520 job pretty quickly and um but i think you know the other thing i would say about this is beyond just

00:13:39.200 what happens, you also create your reality by your expectations, just by how you think about

00:13:46.620 things and what you focus on. So apart from what actually happens to you in the future,

00:13:50.540 which that is very true, that if you're expecting things to go well, you're more likely to actually

00:13:56.560 get out there and do it and have it go well. But I think even apart from that, just whatever

00:14:03.660 happens to you in the course of your life, you can focus on the good parts or you can focus on

00:14:07.740 the bad parts and that's going to make a huge difference to how you think about things and how

00:14:12.260 happy you are. I mean, I could look at that same course in my career and say, oh, I was laid off.

00:14:17.840 It was so unfair. I got fired. I could focus on all those negative things and I could tell a story

00:14:23.340 like that if I wanted to and say, look at all this bad stuff that happened to me. But I could also

00:14:27.840 totally ignore all that, which I usually do, and just focus on all the good things that have

00:14:32.920 happened and the fact that I have a great job right now and, and, you know, I have lots of

00:14:37.220 opportunities. And if I ever needed another job, I have lots of people I could call and it would

00:14:41.460 probably go well. And so, you know, that your, your enjoyment of your life is another benefit

00:14:48.880 of this reframe that it's beyond just what actually happens. It's also how you feel about

00:14:54.360 what happens. Yes. And like two, so two comments I'm looking at one from star painter. I love you.

00:15:00.100 um you know it's not that anyone she said i don't think anyone owes me anything it's not that anyone

00:15:06.560 owes you anything but it's like scott was saying like when you're flipping the coin it's just

00:15:11.460 physics like eventually like it this is only only really pertains to if you feel like your luck is

00:15:18.240 going the wrong way and things aren't working out like it it just corrects itself at some point but

00:15:23.180 you have to be open to it and seeing it and then googly eyes on everything on youtube said that

00:15:29.600 Scott said the universe rewards action, which was brilliant and simple way of putting it. And it's

00:15:35.440 so true. Like you, you know, yeah. Okay. The universe owes you or like your, your luck's

00:15:40.820 going to turn, but you gotta, you gotta move and start with your pinky. If you have to move your

00:15:45.560 pinky first and then go, go after it and get it. And you will be rewarded for it. And Owen,

00:15:51.660 your stories remind me of, you know, Greg Gutfeld often saying that like, you know,

00:15:56.960 getting fired really worked out well for him. And it sounds like it did for you too. So not

00:16:01.800 everything that's disappointing is bad because it could just lead to the next thing. And sometimes

00:16:06.900 you have to have those bumps to get to the next thing. So you guys, it's St. Patrick's Day. And

00:16:13.620 I think we should focus on that luck. And if you're kind of feeling like the universe owes you

00:16:19.140 and you don't know what to do, make sure you're doing your part and take some action. Just start

00:16:25.200 with one step and let us know how it goes because you guys are all amazing and i know you'll get

00:16:30.240 everything you want okay we are going to switch to some very important news these first two stories

00:16:36.800 are amazing that marcella is going to tell us so take it away sister all right um before i went

00:16:43.920 before starting the the news is i picked a few light new stories for all of us to just laugh

00:16:50.400 about but i do want to highlight that um we're all wishing fast and full recovery to the white 0.97

00:16:57.260 house chief of of staff suzy wiles uh came out yesterday that she was diagnosed with breast 1.00

00:17:03.320 cancer and she will stay on the job as a true patriot would and um you know um i hope everything

00:17:13.400 uh goes well yes and we soon yeah hear recovery i know i heard that it was caught early so

00:17:20.020 hopefully she has pretty good odds. Yes. Yes. Excellent. What excellent prognosis Trump said

00:17:27.920 in his post. But the same goes for Styx. Styx, Hex and Hammer, some of you know him.

00:17:35.780 He posted yesterday that he had a stroke and we're hoping for his full recovery as well.

00:17:41.860 as um and he says he's gonna have a stroke uh youtube show now so i don't know what that if

00:17:50.500 you guys don't know sticks and hammer he's like an og poster like an og person on x very

00:17:57.780 controversial for some people scott didn't always enjoy him but you know what he's he's always stayed

00:18:04.900 true to himself and he's just like one of the originators who would come on and like post and do

00:18:10.820 uh streams and everything so you know we wish him well he's he's got quite a journey ahead for

00:18:16.900 himself too but moving on to the to the happy news um uh there's a puff the magic kitten that

00:18:24.580 deflated and lives to tell another tale uh nine lives again there was a calico kitten uh sue

00:18:33.620 rolled into the palm springs animal shelter looking like she swallowed a bicycle pump 0.93

00:18:38.020 and someone hit max inflate and this wouldn't do justice if you didn't see the picture so I'll have

00:18:46.260 to show you the picture puff the magic kitten yeah you won't get to see the video but if I'll post it

00:18:56.000 oh this is a little kitten like it's supposed to be normal size and it like had blew up with air

00:19:05.440 anyways so the vet calls us so something blah blah blah emphysema transition translation to

00:19:15.060 air got trapped under her skin and then the vet goes on to tell us how did you ever help the kitty

00:19:23.260 and he goes just like you have to see the the news story so just like a uh you deflate a balloon

00:19:32.040 he like started poking into her and she started deflating and now she is fully recovered after

00:19:40.100 a week and she there's a line out the door to adopt her and she's still under the nickname

00:19:46.960 puff kitten and then the next news story that is happy news is punch has a girlfriend okay wait

00:19:56.280 let me just show you guys punk monkey okay this i just want to show you because the

00:20:01.320 this is the charisma of this little what's he called owen macaque macaque monkey i think it's

00:20:07.560 macaque maybe but i could be wrong i like to add an extra e on a macaque you might be right i don't

00:20:12.820 really know the pronunciation i'm obsessed with this monkey you guys um but look at the charisma

00:20:18.320 on him seriously ready look at this little bugger look how he's walking around with his stuffed 0.93

00:20:24.540 animal wait where's his girlfriend oh wait oh hello look she's coming but look at him when 0.99

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00:21:36.360 okay ready he's got a girlfriend he's the darker one well they don't look 1.00

00:21:45.240 look at them playing domestic violence there but maybe playful violence yeah he'd hardly like leave

00:21:52.400 his little stuffy but now he's off playing he's part of a gang now not a bad gang a good gang

00:21:57.800 and he's got a friend i think her is that momo is that her name anyway so we're really happy

00:22:04.520 there's a name to the girlfriend it'll be mrs punch soon yep so that was an important story

00:22:11.720 to my heart so i'm very happy about that in in that's you know he has a girlfriend he's moving

00:22:18.760 on uh nvidia just uh in the next story nvidia launched ai into space and it's gonna change

00:22:26.280 everything as you know um scott had been telling us about stories of elon saying to put uh data

00:22:33.400 centers in space basically because you don't have you have full power the sun and everything else

00:22:41.880 up there and they would help with the power grid and all that well nvidia yesterday announced at

00:22:49.080 their gtc conference which is an annual conference they have in san jose california the company

00:22:57.160 unveiled vera rubin space one the world's first radiation hardened ai super chip built specifically

00:23:06.840 for space for orbit this isn't just another graphic card it's a complete module designed

00:23:12.840 to run massive ai models directly in space cooled only by radiation with no fans no liquid no

00:23:20.680 earth style tricks early specs suggest that the orbital units could be used up to 25 times more

00:23:28.840 power efficient than anything we run on the ground right now this can change the data centers that

00:23:35.560 are already using a lot of huge chunk of electricity and the biggest tech leaders say

00:23:41.000 we're years away from enough clean energy to feel the next leap and you know the the main person

00:23:49.880 that is to be used by, I guess, Tesla or SpaceX,

00:23:54.420 but any other company can try to use it.

00:23:59.500 So do you think they'll try and use the AI

00:24:01.820 as the heating system on the moon

00:24:03.440 when they have their moon base?

00:24:06.720 Maybe when you want it to get warmer,

00:24:08.740 you just got to prompt the AI, fire up the systems.

00:24:12.500 I suppose so.

00:24:14.900 It's kind of like Space Odyssey a little bit.

00:24:19.100 hopefully it doesn't get rid of us uh tesla unleashes the terra fab uh this is from nick

00:24:26.220 cruz patane the last story was also for another person i follow on x sawyer merit is really good

00:24:33.420 follow um this tesla unleashes terra fab tesla has a new terra fab uh semiconductor plant which

00:24:42.540 officially comes online on march 21st and this isn't just another factory's game changing chip

00:24:48.300 making facility in Texas already running early text test wafers for the powerful AI five chip

00:24:56.360 that will run in the new Tesla's coming up. And one of the things that we had issues with is

00:25:02.900 most of the chips, if not all were being done in Taiwan, or, you know, and then there was this

00:25:11.900 China thing with Taiwan.

00:25:14.080 And so now Elon is creating his own chip factory in Texas.

00:25:20.760 Uh, and that can change everything.

00:25:23.920 Um, it could be enormous, uh, having an easier access, faster, cheaper for the

00:25:30.040 robot taxis, for the optimist robot, for the AI XAI super computer.

00:25:36.000 So lots going on.

00:25:38.060 Can I just laugh for a second on YouTube? Roger Sam said about the other story, he said that thing is going to go into space. And while it's in space, humans will have a war and forget about it. And when we rebuild and it comes back to us, we're going to think it's an alien visiting. That would be so funny and probable. I love that.

00:25:59.820 Maybe that's what aliens are.

00:26:03.040 Forgotten projects.

00:26:04.560 Yeah, Antarctica.

00:26:05.500 And, you know, we didn't even mention Skynet yet.

00:26:09.240 All right.

00:26:11.140 Well, I mean, the whole, you know, the whole movie about the Terminator was based on Skynet where you put AI in the sky and then it takes over.

00:26:19.800 But, yeah, I don't know.

00:26:22.720 I mean, I'm interested in this whole Elon chip fab thing just because it seems so amazing.

00:26:29.440 And it seems like it came out of nowhere.

00:26:31.620 And I kind of wonder if it did or if they've been planning this for a long time.

00:26:35.020 and it it strikes me as another like impossible thing that elon's gonna do um because and and

00:26:43.940 the article i saw about it was very negative like oh elon thinks he can do this chip fab thing and

00:26:48.540 he only and you know announced it just like a week ago and now he's thinking he can just or he's

00:26:54.140 saying he can just put it up in a week and i'm like well of course he's not putting the whole

00:26:57.780 thing up in a week like he's probably been planning this for a long time and maybe there's

00:27:02.640 this last phase to put up the actual facility in a week or that he just announced it a week before

00:27:08.320 it's going to be open but i have to imagine he's been thinking about this and working on it for a

00:27:13.240 long time but i also do think it seems like a really almost impossible thing to do um because

00:27:20.860 i you know i think tsmc tried to stand up some chip fabs in arizona and maybe they are but

00:27:25.680 they've been complaining they can't find enough people they don't have enough engineers they got

00:27:29.500 bring everybody in from Taiwan and that it's going to take many years to stand up their facility.

00:27:37.740 And so, you know, I don't know how Elon's going to do it and I'm not going to bet against Elon,

00:27:43.420 but you know, it just seems like another one of these amazing things, like how, you know,

00:27:48.060 how can he, how can he pull this off? You know, where is he getting the people? How is he setting

00:27:53.500 up this billion dollar chip fab, which I mean, I'm just imagining it's a billion dollars. Maybe

00:27:57.980 Maybe he came up with some cheaper way to do it, but you know,

00:28:02.380 it's always been the storyline that there's this massive amount of capital.

00:28:08.180 It's this really rare skillset and it's really hard to make chips like that.

00:28:12.520 And so I'm interested to see how he pulls it off,

00:28:16.200 but I certainly think he's probably got a good chance.

00:28:19.340 Yeah. If we could just make, I mean, if he could start that off,

00:28:22.720 I know nothing about this stuff, so I'm kind of talking out of my ass, 0.95

00:28:25.680 But anyway, if he could make those chips here, can we make all of our chips here? 0.98

00:28:30.440 Can we change what the chips need to be made and make everything here?

00:28:34.200 And then another way to eliminate having these wars would be amazing if we could.

00:28:38.620 That's the idea. Yeah. Right.

00:28:40.940 I mean, I think that was Trump's intent with a lot of his, you know, reindustrializing and bringing manufacturing back.

00:28:48.380 And I think he very much encouraged TSMC to try and build plants here.

00:28:53.320 because i think the reality is i think everybody kind of sees the writing on the wall politically

00:28:58.580 that eventually china is going to take over taiwan and eventually we're potentially going to

00:29:03.000 lose that as a source for chips and so we need to have alternatives and so i think they you know

00:29:10.700 they started building facilities here but um i don't think we're nearly doing it fast enough or

00:29:16.660 big enough to be able to move all our chips here um and certainly most of the expertise is still

00:29:23.080 over there and so i you know i think it is going to take many years to scale up the facilities but

00:29:30.080 also to scale up the skill sets of all the engineers and all the people designing these

00:29:35.340 things and even just knowing how to operate the equipment to be able to do that but i think we're

00:29:40.740 at a good time to do that because we're kind of transitioning into this ai world where the chips

00:29:46.160 are different like meta is making their own chips and it's like you know a little bit with like what

00:29:52.180 happened with um crypto mining where they does they they came up with what they called an asic

00:29:59.740 which is like an application specific integrated circuit which just means it's like a different

00:30:04.140 kind of chip that's specifically designed to do some special thing and i think we're at the same

00:30:09.900 point with ai where they're saying okay we need to do all this ai inference and it's a different

00:30:14.160 type of task than we're used to and so we got to come up with different types of chips that are

00:30:18.880 not just like a cpu it's it's like a different thing that's specifically designed to do this

00:30:23.860 really well or really efficiently or really cheaply and um i know nvidia is working on their version

00:30:30.240 and that is working on their version and now x is working on their version and so everybody's kind

00:30:35.620 of trying to stick put their stake in the ground and say i'm going to have my chip that's better

00:30:39.440 than your chip which is great for competition and innovation and you know i know there are some of

00:30:44.940 these new chips rolling out now that claim they can do things like 100 times faster or 100 times

00:30:51.160 cheaper or 100 times less energy. And so I think we will start seeing some of these major innovations

00:30:56.580 that could also honestly save the industry. Because I think right now there's no way for

00:31:02.360 these companies to make a profit with the chips they have now. And so I think they need to have

00:31:07.720 like 100 times better chips just to be able to say, okay, we can actually do this and make a profit.

00:31:12.840 it i'm wondering what are the odds that elon could just buy taiwan

00:31:17.180 wouldn't that be amazing he can buy taiwan that the taiwan people the hong kongers can stay jimmy 0.99

00:31:25.640 lie gets out we've got chips and i see you bob lawler you're still gonna have to figure out the

00:31:31.680 salsa for the chips that's that's a you problem oh my gosh all right so um in the other news

00:31:41.700 everything's going wrong for cuba um yeah they had an earthquake today 5.9 um but the new york

00:31:52.080 times is reporting allegedly with four anonymous sources saying that president trump wants the

00:32:01.220 current president of cuba to step down and then he would make a deal with the rest of the

00:32:06.900 administration in Cuba to stay on and to basically make deals with the U.S. a la Venezuela.

00:32:16.700 However, you know, you have to take it. You can't really trust the New York Times based on the fact

00:32:23.520 that there's only four, there's four anonymous sources. But the other main story in Cuba

00:32:30.240 is that there's nationwide blackouts. Cuba got plunged into total darkness yesterday,

00:32:39.960 and it's basically leaving 11 million people without power. They're at their wit's end.

00:32:46.760 They've had blackouts before, like about three of them before in the last year or the year before.

00:32:54.260 But the United States has tightened the oil restrictions because Venezuela used to give them a lot of oil, but now the U.S. and Venezuela are together and they've created sort of a blockade from Venezuelan supplies to come to them.

00:33:11.180 So they're basically on the edge of, you know, giving in to Trump's demands.

00:33:18.420 Trump yesterday at the White House and the Oval Office talked about that he believes he will be the first American president to bring a free Cuba to come to pass.

00:33:31.180 Some people are already saying that's going to be the next thing in April.

00:33:35.080 And so, however, you know, a lot of Cuban Americans aren't very happy with hearing that the communist government's going to stay in, kind of like in Venezuela, but it's small steps, you know?

00:33:50.700 Well, Trump tossed out, he could just take it. And I'm like, oh, there's that.

00:33:56.780 Have you heard anything about humanitarian aid being brought in?

00:33:59.760 Because, I mean, the story I'm hearing is they have no electricity.

00:34:05.520 Like the whole grid has collapsed, so they're just totally blacked out.

00:34:09.320 They have no oil.

00:34:10.320 That's the difference.

00:34:11.320 Yeah.

00:34:12.320 And now they have an earthquake.

00:34:13.320 Yes.

00:34:14.320 Like, 5.9 isn't the worst in the world, but it's pretty bad, and how do you even recover

00:34:19.560 from that if you don't have oil, if you don't have gasoline?

00:34:24.220 I don't know what they're going to do.

00:34:25.760 i'm very suspicious about what's going on in cuba because it's not a blackout it was like you know

00:34:32.240 i'm i'm this is just my opinion wait i have a little sign where is it it's just my opinion y'all

00:34:38.560 my opinion um i think that their grid yeah this is my opinion okay so i think the grid was more or

00:34:47.120 less attacked and so then not having oil means like your generators can only run for x amount

00:34:54.160 of time that's going to be over soon for the few few places that have it and then there's an

00:34:59.840 earthquake come on what is happening so i feel like they're just you think the earthquake was a

00:35:07.360 engineered thing too they're saying that it was some some people on x are speculating that it's

00:35:13.040 engineered um every hot spot has had earthquakes but i don't know well i mean i definitely think

00:35:22.400 I definitely think it's likely there'll be a deal and it's likely to be

00:35:26.120 nonviolent. And I think that's a great thing, but I think that, you know,

00:35:29.540 the reason I think that is just this broader picture, like,

00:35:32.740 look what just happened to Venezuela and then look what just happened to

00:35:37.020 Iran, you know? And I think it's, 1.00

00:35:43.000 it's this interesting strategy that I think is kind of brilliant on Trump's

00:35:46.180 part to put all these things in motion together because, you know,

00:35:49.980 Venezuela kind of was like a setup to Iran to say, we're going to cut off your oil first 0.78

00:35:54.200 or cut off your trading partner.

00:35:57.780 And that was also broader in the sense of with Russia and China, because, I mean, they're

00:36:02.220 both, Iran and Venezuela are both oil producers and they both serve China.

00:36:08.760 And, you know, they're getting various weapons from Russia or Russia's getting them for Iran.

00:36:16.020 I mean, I'm probably reversing some of these things, but you know what I'm talking about.

00:36:18.600 and so he's disrupting all these things kind of in a in my opinion a strategic way

00:36:24.920 but all of this you just have to imagine if you're the president of cuba like looking at all this and

00:36:31.100 saying okay i'm next because that's very much the message from trump is you're next and you know

00:36:37.520 cuba's right next door so it would not be hard once we turn those aircraft carriers around

00:36:41.900 to just resupply and strike Cuba, right? 0.92

00:36:46.920 We probably wouldn't even need,

00:36:48.000 I mean, I'm guessing we could do it

00:36:48.960 with whatever ships we didn't bring to Iran.

00:36:50.740 Do we need to strike Cuba?

00:36:53.040 Well, I mean, I don't think we would,

00:36:54.740 but we might, I would guess

00:36:56.400 if we did do something violent,

00:36:57.980 it would be more like Venezuela

00:36:59.180 where we just go in with a helicopter

00:37:00.720 and take the president, right?

00:37:03.160 Extraction.

00:37:04.100 I doubt Cuba could do anything about it, 0.95

00:37:07.320 you know, and they have nowhere to go.

00:37:09.720 They're on an island.

00:37:10.260 they are right next door so it's not that hard to get some aircraft there and um we could probably

00:37:17.340 just have our way with it and i i think uh if i were that president i'd be like okay i gotta make

00:37:22.200 a deal here i gotta do whatever is necessary and stepping down and at least keeping your life and

00:37:28.300 not being locked up in prison like maduro would probably be very preferable to you know trying to

00:37:34.320 hold on and resist the united states so imagine cuba like literally liberated like how amazing

00:37:41.020 that would be my brother used to go there um often back when you could go for that window

00:37:46.280 and he was just like man like everything's like held together with like bubble gum and scotch tape

00:37:52.200 like you see all these like old amazing cars but they don't have the parts to fix it and he's like

00:37:57.220 you know if i could or this is not my brother so this guy i know and he's like you know so if i

00:38:02.660 could bring in like some screws or bolts or little things that people needed and just like kind of

00:38:07.920 leave them there for them and you know he just said the nicest nicest people with the most crazy

00:38:13.300 conditions but they have so much pride you know and it's like they should they that would be

00:38:19.400 amazing for them to live free and return to like having their country and freedom and i don't know

00:38:26.580 i i feel like i don't know what i'm saying but i feel like cuba could be like an easy get

00:38:31.700 you know like they could like pull that pull the dictators out i don't know like with their

00:38:37.000 proximity i would i would entertain like maybe they could be the 51st state yeah and you know

00:38:43.180 or at a minimum a territory like the philippines where we're kind of in control there or like

00:38:47.960 yeah because it would it would be pretty easy to do that with the proximity right it's not

00:38:53.820 like i mean the philippines is all the way across the world and we do it there but um puerto rico

00:38:58.780 is probably the better model where it's like they're right next door and we can you know kind

00:39:03.320 of give them certain rights or certain privileges and also i mean we could totally transform that

00:39:09.980 country probably pretty quickly new place to vacation not too far i like it the left is

00:39:17.320 claiming that he's a dictator and he's taking over different countries left and right i mean

00:39:23.520 that's kind of true i mean he did say i swear to god i like hear him talking for two seconds i think

00:39:30.560 it was peter deuce no i don't know who it was someone talking to you i think so yeah and he's

00:39:34.800 like well you know uh i don't even know what he said he's like well you know we could we could

00:39:40.480 have them change their leadership i i could take it you know we could take it and they were like

00:39:44.720 you could take it he's like yeah we we could take it i'm like oh my god like what else are we getting

00:39:50.720 what else if we're shopping we're gonna get more i want the continent that's really that's my first

00:39:58.300 goal is to have our whole entire continent because i'd feel much safer that way like then we know

00:40:03.880 what our border actually is greenland okay let's take cuba i definitely am glad that mexico is part

00:40:10.640 of the continent if we get the whole thing i love mexico um so that's my little wish list

00:40:16.780 can't we have to take canada that i mean we have to they're they're there do we really have to

00:40:23.960 we have to because we have to get the border i know but that's that's my little wish

00:40:32.140 i certainly do not want them to become part of the united states officially at least as a state

00:40:37.980 i mean maybe we'll make them a territory but don't give them voting rights no voting right

00:40:42.120 no one gets voting rights. Just the North American, USA, America gets to vote. And then 0.56

00:40:48.720 the other ones are our little brothers and sisters and they get certain privileges and

00:40:53.900 it's all good. Do you guys like that plan? There's the Don Rowe doctrine.

00:40:59.880 I know we have to save BJ Dixter. Yeah. We got to save Mike Burr and Montreal Galaxy. We got

00:41:05.960 save our canadian people and then um we not we why did i say we israel the idf killed uh

00:41:17.880 security the security chief larry johnny um and they also killed a basish uh leader

00:41:26.280 that was very prominent uh israel claimed that they killed the leader the acting leader because

00:41:33.720 there's the mustaba committee was just sort of there was this rumor that he was in the hospital

00:41:41.320 or he's just uh and then they showed a paper cut uh carbon um a box version of him and they didn't

00:41:52.200 show him he hasn't spoken there said there's this rumor what we talked about that he might be

00:41:57.960 hospital in Russia or something like that, right, Owen? And so the acting leader was

00:42:05.640 Ali Larijani, and he has allegedly been killed. But just this morning, he allegedly posted

00:42:14.100 something on his X account, which was like a written note about some Marines that were killed.

00:42:20.980 So basically, Iran is kind of saying that it's not true, but they're not actually answering

00:42:26.280 or confirming either way they just posted that on x uh as a as a proof of life but it wasn't

00:42:33.920 really a video um i'm just wondering what what the next rumor is going to be because it seems

00:42:38.460 like they've run out of ideas you know he's apparently disfigured he's lost a leg he's in 0.73

00:42:44.640 a coma he's dead he's gay he's impotent what's left i heard a good theory so the gay atola 0.99

00:42:52.540 Khomeini he could so they said that they had to send all right so his wife couldn't get pregnant 1.00

00:43:00.340 was that because of the erectile dysfunction to which they sent him to the UK I think I heard

00:43:07.880 this on the ruthless program and then in the UK they're like yeah he can't get her pregnant it's

00:43:15.180 not erectile dysfunction. He's gay. So how'd they find out he was gay? Who had to do the testing? 0.99

00:43:23.180 I'm not sure. How do you test someone for people? Well, somebody had to take a hit.

00:43:31.020 So anyway, I'm like, oh, that's interesting. So I want to see the gay test. 1.00

00:43:35.960 There's a gay test. So you put like a sexy man in front of him versus his wife, 1.00

00:43:40.940 and then you see what happens. And then that's how you cure the erectile dysfunction. So, you

00:43:46.480 know, it works. And then they said that, you know, the, the first son was supposed to be the chosen

00:43:52.160 one, but we aced him, right? Like, isn't he gone? So that's why this second one, they didn't want

00:43:59.040 him. No, no. He's alive. I think. Oh, the first was alive. First, first born. Yeah. Well, I heard

00:44:04.240 they didn't want this one because daddy knew that he was gay and blah, blah, blah. Listen, this is, 0.66

00:44:09.500 this is just my opinion and what I heard. So I'm just like, interesting, erectile dysfunction,

00:44:17.020 maybe just gay. Just to clarify, Larry Johnny is not the gay, alleged gay leader. He's just 0.99

00:44:25.340 the acting leader, the security chief. Oh, they are. We're not talking about the gay Atola. 0.99

00:44:32.020 No, no, we're talking about a different guy. The Larry Johnny, but the most of the most of the 0.57

00:44:40.980 the alleged gay leader, he's still alive, allegedly, and he's with the missing leg, no wife,

00:44:50.340 maybe has issues with Edie. But Larry Johnny was actually the acting leader, 0.75

00:44:57.380 the one that actually went to work and so that's a big deal that they that the idf claims they took

00:45:04.400 them out uh usually when they make a claim it's usually uh correct but iran again hasn't confirmed

00:45:11.580 annie i'm on it i see why aren't we hearing anything about his other kids because apparently

00:45:16.440 he has two other sons that we never hear about um masood and maysam and he also apparently has

00:45:23.760 two daughters also gay i'm just kidding i don't know i mean maybe i have no idea there's a whole

00:45:32.220 rainbow that could be you know bi trans right you know they might be protecting them obviously you 0.91

00:45:39.820 know from them being the next to die you know apparently they're all still alive you know if

00:45:48.500 you if at least if you think this you know second son is still alive then the reports are they're

00:45:53.680 all still alive some say the bubbles in an arrow truffle piece can take 34 seconds to melt in your

00:45:58.820 mouth sometimes the very amount you're stuck at the same red light rich creamy chocolatey arrow

00:46:05.260 truffle feel the arrow bubbles melt it's mind bubbling yeah i don't know about the first son

00:46:14.120 why he didn't get uh to be supreme leader maybe because they wanted to keep him alive i have no

00:46:20.240 No idea. I really think, Erica, you're onto something that it's a ruse that they made this Mustafa Khamenei, the supreme leader, and they actually are actually being led by someone that's alive.

00:46:35.540 He's the Joe Biden of Iran.

00:46:37.500 He's the Joe Biden, the auto pen leader.

00:46:40.480 They didn't want to throw him off the roof in an obvious way. So they're like, we'll make you the leader and then we'll just take care of him.

00:46:46.720 it would be a good strategy especially if he's dead i mean if he's dead it would be perfect

00:46:51.440 right because there's no way that you can kill him and you can't necessarily verify that he's 0.73

00:46:55.680 dead so you know just he's the auto pen auto pen president forever in it's sort of a backward 0.52

00:47:01.280 science segment unintentionally you know like you throw in my opinions and then some facts and god

00:47:08.160 only knows what's going to happen no your opinion might be right that's what i would do all right

00:47:15.120 what else do we have going on well uh jd vance uh yesterday became the fraud czar

00:47:22.240 officially the uh trump administration or president trump met with jd vance in the

00:47:28.160 obo office signed an executive order for fraud and it was interesting they tried to set a little

00:47:36.400 divide the press imagine that tried to divide jd vance vice president jd vance and president trump

00:47:43.920 by claiming that jd vance was against the iran war and he quickly said you know you're trying

00:47:50.400 to divide us don't divide me um and then they moved on divide us you will not divide us we are

00:47:58.240 one um so president don trump just signed an executor again creating the national task force

00:48:04.880 to wipe out fraud and federal programs uh leading the charge would will be the vice president as the

00:48:12.080 fraud czar who will head up this aggressive effort to stop billions in taxpayer dollars

00:48:18.400 being stolen through waste abuse scam all sorts of things the system this the design of the system

00:48:27.520 is basically too big so you're always gonna have that type of fraud come into it you know nobody's

00:48:35.840 really checking everything that's going in and out and all sorts of things so it will be interesting

00:48:42.960 to see they're gonna put uh more uh more of their more of their doj their their investigation into

00:48:55.280 minnesota new york california but there's so many other states that do it through the federal

00:49:01.760 government they find it to be easy because um you know as we found out through doge that

00:49:09.040 there are certain payments are being made by the treasury without a reason like you just have to

00:49:15.360 tell the trash the u.s treasury hey pay us x amount and they'll send it out without having a

00:49:21.200 real there's no knowledge no memo no no boy yeah just send me three million dollars and they're 0.93

00:49:28.000 like here you go i'm sure nick shirley will uh help him out with that because i mean nick's

00:49:32.960 taking on california i mean that's huge literally the latest was pretty sad the video that he posted

00:49:39.760 where he he found a daycare center where the kids were alone it was like this one bedroom apartment

00:49:46.160 that supposedly is somehow certified to have eight kids and the video only showed a couple kids but

00:49:52.080 they were like just there by themselves they were like toddlers and they were there was no adults

00:49:56.640 there at all so sad yeah um you know for for you know i don't recall but scott didn't want there to

00:50:05.600 be a fraud star i forget why i don't know if anybody remembers in the chat but i guess he

00:50:10.240 didn't want one person to be over it um but now there is so it'll be interesting to see what jd

00:50:17.840 vance does what vice president does but as you said nick churley uh debuted a video yesterday

00:50:25.280 40-minute video on X. Everybody should watch it. It was regarding California. There was a shocking

00:50:32.240 100. What he counted as he went on, he counted the millions in scamming. 170 million hospice scam

00:50:42.880 exposed in California. So there's the daycares in Minnesota and there's daycares here in California,

00:50:50.560 But there's also hospice care in California, which he found there to be different through the CMS, through the Medicare, you can find where the providers are.

00:51:06.480 so he went to the providers with their addresses he looked at the amount that they each make he

00:51:11.920 looked at what they do he went to visit each of them each of these places and all of them were

00:51:19.440 you know nobody wanted to answer there was no actual business run through them

00:51:24.640 they had no answers for him um all he found was lots of luxury cars in the places where

00:51:33.120 there were supposed to be run businesses like he went to one of the buildings one of the office

00:51:37.440 buildings and um there's allegedly like three or four things that are having to happen there like

00:51:46.240 uh adult care hospice care all sorts of things he they kept asking him who are you who are you and

00:51:54.000 they're like he's like nick shirley who are you and they're like and i'm telling you and so he

00:52:00.000 he was like somebody wanted to call 9-1-1 when he was there i don't know um there was one building

00:52:07.120 where um it was just like kind of like a ick average office building and you know sort of

00:52:13.760 a long hallway door door door door door door door and like every one of them was hospice care

00:52:20.720 all of them were locked they all had the same sign saying like um we're on a break we'll be back

00:52:26.880 in two hours like not knowing when that sign was put there kind of all the similar sign

00:52:31.280 every single one was locked all on the same floor in one building and it's like what the hell is

00:52:36.960 happening it's uh it's pretty amazing that i mean just the fraud alone our country's our country

00:52:44.460 will come back to being in the being in the black you know it's just all the fraud is killing us

00:52:50.860 I think it's a great idea to have Vance have this portfolio. I don't remember what Scott said about

00:52:58.740 why he didn't want a person to be in charge of it. Maybe it was that he didn't want that person

00:53:02.280 to be a target, kind of like Elon. But I think to me, it's the type of system, kind of like Trump

00:53:11.240 with his trade deals, where there's going to be a new headline every day, right? There's going to

00:53:17.520 be another fraud here's more fraud here's more fraud here's more fraud and here's some in

00:53:22.040 California here's some in Maine here's some in Illinois here's some in New York and like

00:53:25.620 it's just going to be hit after hit after hit of success for for Vance um and so I think it's the

00:53:34.000 type of system where it's like that's perfect because it's going to show that Vance can get

00:53:39.800 stuff done and it's just going to be positive story after positive story of you know look how

00:53:46.240 much money i saved look how much i cleaned up corruption look how much fraud waste and abuse

00:53:50.260 i got rid of um and i think it positions vance really well for 2028 yeah it's like the the

00:53:56.420 auditions for 28 between rubio and vance at this point and i would like to see vance have more

00:54:03.500 spotlight um you know because as secretary of state rubio is obviously so in the spotlight with

00:54:10.980 the wars and the conflicts and this and that so we see a lot of him and i feel like jd i'm like

00:54:17.100 come on jd like come on i don't even know why i'm saying come on jd i don't really have a

00:54:22.100 horse in this fight but i'm like come on jd show us what you got you know so i want him to have a

00:54:26.820 chance and when i put those two things together it seems like this really benefits vance too

00:54:31.180 in terms of being the candidate because rubio is going to have to answer for all the wars

00:54:36.720 you know people are going to say well if we elect you president where are you going to attack next

00:54:40.620 And he's going to get those kinds of attacks.

00:54:43.040 But how do you attack someone and clean up fraud?

00:54:45.740 Like you can't really fault him for that.

00:54:48.440 You can't say, you know, you were mean about it.

00:54:50.440 I mean, what are you going to say?

00:54:51.840 Right, right.

00:54:52.920 So I think it sets up Vance perfectly for 2028.

00:54:56.920 It probably raises the odds that he'll be the candidate rather than Rubio.

00:55:00.220 I wonder if anyone else will go up against those two.

00:55:03.180 What do you think?

00:55:04.640 Oh, I definitely think there will be people running.

00:55:08.200 I don't know.

00:55:08.520 Kennedy said he was going to run.

00:55:10.620 I don't know if that would be as a Republican or as an independent at this point, but I think

00:55:14.860 Crenshaw will run. Stop it. Yeah. Oh, my God. And maybe Cruz will come back again. There's all

00:55:22.740 the usual suspects, right? We'll have a primary, but I think Vance is going to dominate.

00:55:27.020 Lindsey Graham. What do you guys think in the chat? Who else is going to try to run DeSantis?

00:55:32.520 Duffy? I don't know, but I think there'll probably be a big crowd and I think Vance

00:55:40.360 is going to dominate that i mean just imagine the debates with vance nikki haley i don't think so

00:55:48.320 who said that sjv i don't think so he said whoever trump endorses wins not anymore not anymore well

00:55:55.880 i know that rubio said if vance runs he's not going to run he did say that and you know it'll

00:56:02.020 be a question i'm sure trump will probably put some pressure on assuming that he does endorse

00:56:06.780 fans which he probably will um you know he may try and pressure other people not to run against him

00:56:12.660 just like he did with DeSantis right but um you know I don't know if they'll listen to him because

00:56:17.180 he's not going to be president again so all right Sean Duffy that's the first I've heard of that

00:56:23.240 forget it forget Sean Duffy uh Thune Tillis MTG I think Rand Paul would be interesting because he

00:56:32.340 he might be one that would really talk about the debt and balancing the

00:56:37.560 budget, right? Like, and I think, you know,

00:56:41.820 Vance isn't necessarily going to do that. And I'm sure they all could talk a good

00:56:46.640 game and especially Vance, if he has lots of fraud that he cleaned up,

00:56:50.540 he could say, look what I already did. I'm going to do more of this. But you know,

00:56:55.360 I don't know if the fraud would be enough to balance the budget and certainly

00:56:58.840 not to pay off the 38 or maybe 39 trillion by now of national debt. And Rand Paul may be able to

00:57:06.040 come up with a better story about, I'm going to actually make these cuts. I'm going to actually

00:57:11.360 fix all these things and get to the point where we don't have this overwhelming debt. But that's

00:57:16.560 the other issue that nobody wants to talk about, because there's really no solution for it. And

00:57:20.920 because I think realistically, it's like, yeah, it would be great to clean up all the fraud,

00:57:25.060 waste and abuse. And it would help a lot. And so would tariffs. And so would all these other

00:57:29.280 things. And, you know, some people say, oh, we got to have more economic growth. That's the only

00:57:32.940 way out. But I don't think any of these things, even if you put them all together, are enough.

00:57:37.040 And so I think the only way to do it, which I don't think is politically viable,

00:57:42.400 is to cut Medicaid, cut Medicare, cut Social Security. And those are all going to be like

00:57:48.440 political suicide to even talk about doing. Everybody, including Trump and everybody,

00:57:55.800 really just says, we're going to protect Social Security. We're going to protect Medicare. We're

00:57:59.240 not going to cut it. And I think the only one that's helping along those lines is Kennedy

00:58:06.260 because he's trying to reduce Medicare spending and Medicaid spending just by making people

00:58:12.820 healthier. And maybe that's a good line, but I would want to see actual results over the next

00:58:18.940 several years. And I don't think I've seen much yet. I don't know. I don't think he's a great

00:58:23.480 candidate. What do you think, Maricela? What were you saying? He's funny. He's funny. You know,

00:58:28.960 a lot of the times they run to get attention on a certain subject, not really to win. So I think

00:58:35.400 having Rand Paul and even Kennedy run forces the actual candidates that will go for office like

00:58:43.280 JD Vance or Rubio or whoever it is that becomes a lead to answer those questions and to push a

00:58:51.660 certain legislation or a certain topic or opinion to the forefront. But I really think that it's

00:59:00.960 interesting um that jd vance is gonna do fraud um i still think that there's two movies on one screen

00:59:10.160 the other side will see it as oh you're putting just like they saw doge and elon oh you're cutting

00:59:17.740 back on these poor people that are needing all this help and so they're gonna create their own 0.98

00:59:25.140 hoax, that he is cutting them back. And, you know, to be honest, a lot of the Medicare

00:59:33.560 costs that we have, the majority might be fraud. I mean, I hate to say it, but it looks like it.

00:59:42.800 One of the things that came out of the Nick Shirley situation is that if you're a senior

00:59:48.380 and you have your Medicare number, if someone calls you up or sends you an email or some kind

00:59:55.380 of item or something and they get your Medicare number, that's all they need in order to sign you

01:00:01.780 up without you knowing to get money on your behalf. That is so scary. Is that Beverly?

01:00:09.200 Does she just say you're sick of everyone from Kentucky? I love that. All right, you guys. I 1.00

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 18, 2026

Episode 3116 - The Scott Adams School 03⧸17⧸26

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