Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 25, 2026


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00:00:00.000 Excellent. 103 beloveds waiting. I love that. Good morning. So I know YouTube needs a couple
00:00:06.520 extra seconds to come in. And you guys, before we say all of our hellos, can we just watch this
00:00:12.460 video while YouTube comes in? Look at this. This guy is right up my alley. Ready?
00:00:17.560 I noticed there was a frog living in our fence. So I made him a house.
00:00:20.840 my mind do run around with my ear up to the ground i'm searching to behold the stories that
00:00:26.380 but he hated it then one week later but tiktok was like he needs easier access a patio that
00:00:35.500 fills with water they're really good ideas so we started on v2 busted out these walls added
00:00:42.740 a patio increased rivet amplification and introduced additional arm comfort also the
00:00:49.140 people named him Frodrick so we printed it ripped off this garbage and installed
00:00:55.740 v2 and now it was pool he needs a pool seriously you guys that's an even better idea so we made
00:01:03.480 a pool with plants and this infinity edge waterfall and Frodrick liked it even had a
00:01:09.080 friend over and now it was possible without knowing the possum's intentions we built Frodrick
00:01:17.860 an emergency cave, then Frod, he's called Frod now, had a pool party, all the Frods were
00:01:27.680 there, but then, use the escape cave Frods, use the cave, oh, he's just thirsty for some
00:01:37.060 frog tea, so Possum turned out to be friend, and the people named him King Julian, now
00:01:45.300 the house was perfect. Here's a Bud Light! Then we started on the Bug Attractor. After
00:01:50.100 lots of designs we ended up with this spaceship and also added this pond and then this happened.
00:01:57.460 Awkward. Then we had eggs and then tadpoles. So we added a tadpole ramp and then there were
00:02:03.540 baby frogs everywhere. All frogs are now called frogs now. Shhh, frogs. Then it turned out there
00:02:10.180 There was also a pregnant female possum.
00:02:12.660 We named her Queen Julia.
00:02:14.440 She had the baby.
00:02:15.600 We named him Mort.
00:02:16.680 Now there's a live stream where Mort and QJ have dinner each night with their hands.
00:02:20.420 And then we made Fraud House V3.
00:02:22.460 And that's it.
00:02:23.620 That's how fraud went from this to this.
00:02:29.340 Oh, I love that, you guys.
00:02:32.540 Isn't that just like when you try to renovate one thing in your house?
00:02:35.940 That's exactly what happens.
00:02:37.080 I'm glad a homeless man is not living in front of his house
00:02:41.900 if you want to avoid spending a lot on your house sometimes it's best just to ignore all
00:02:48.500 the problems because once you start then you're like well what about this what about that
00:02:52.200 duct tape works wonders for problems at your house oh my gosh well that gave everybody a
00:02:57.880 chance to come in I was dying to show you guys fraud and his whole journey now and so now
00:03:04.340 I've been waiting for you because I've been waiting for Scott. Let's do it. You found the
00:03:10.420 right place of all the places on earth, nay, in the universe that you could be. You found the very
00:03:19.280 best place at the right time. Congratulations to you. Your instincts are perfect. And if you'd
00:03:27.220 like to enjoy this even more, I know it's hard to believe, right? Because you're already enjoying
00:03:32.940 is so much, you're thinking, wait, did you say more? I could enjoy this more than I already am.
00:03:40.560 Wait, wait. I know it's hard to believe, but all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass of
00:03:46.960 tank or chalice or santa, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite
00:03:53.120 liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the
00:03:58.400 day, the thing that makes everything better, everything, except for Rudy Giuliani's shirt.
00:04:06.600 It's called the Simultaneous Sip, and it happens now.
00:04:08.980 Go.
00:04:12.400 Ah.
00:04:15.060 Ah.
00:04:17.840 Okay, extra credit if anyone knows what happened to Rudy Giuliani's shirt.
00:04:24.420 I have no memory.
00:04:25.660 Do you, Marcella?
00:04:27.220 No, I don't remember.
00:04:28.900 Owen?
00:04:30.220 Oh, I muted you, Owen.
00:04:31.520 Sorry.
00:04:34.160 I don't know what happened to his shirt.
00:04:35.920 Was it his hair dye running down?
00:04:37.640 I don't know.
00:04:38.380 I hope he wasn't shirtless.
00:04:40.200 Oh.
00:04:42.160 It might have been the hair dye.
00:04:43.740 I think there was an incident like that that I remember.
00:04:46.340 Or was it like, no, I don't want to bring up bad memories.
00:04:49.640 Okay.
00:04:50.580 So did I see SJV in the comments saying something about harassing Marcella?
00:04:56.940 If you guys don't know SJV, everybody on Locals knows him.
00:05:01.000 A lot of you that listen to Owen's after party on the weekends know him.
00:05:07.600 But SJV, I found a fascinating clip of you I have never seen before.
00:05:13.540 Who knew you were talented like this?
00:05:15.620 Watch this.
00:05:26.940 ladies and gentlemen SJV
00:05:35.620 yep it's an older video but yeah
00:05:42.960 it's an older video where he looks older oh my gosh that is amazing you guys how how do I end
00:05:53.800 up with these things. I don't know. But that was not SJV. That was Hermeto Pascola. And that was
00:06:02.220 some kind of bringing Brazilian tradition into playing music with his face, I guess. 0.99
00:06:11.240 I think I need a Brazilian to verify that that's a real thing down there. 0.97
00:06:15.280 I mean, good Lord. I don't think it's a Brazilian thing. I just think he's Brazilian. 1.00
00:06:19.960 am um pro tip to the women who sometimes get a fuzz on their face and like you can feel it but
00:06:26.940 you can't get it off get yourself a little mascara brush aka a spoolie and i can feel it
00:06:33.760 and i'm gonna go like this and i got it ta-da that's makeup makeup tips with erica that's your
00:06:41.480 pro tip of the day so by the way good morning my name is erica and you're at the scott adams school
00:06:47.820 Scott's probably like, really, Erica? But anyway, it's Friday and we always are a little silly on
00:06:54.500 Friday. We can't help it. We get excited. And I'm joined today by co-hosts, Marcella and Owen, 0.85
00:07:02.020 the teams together all week this week. I love it. So gosh, there is like so much going on
00:07:09.700 in the news yet so little. I don't know if that makes sense to you. It's just like,
00:07:15.060 I feel like everything's like at a standstill. It's like all these stories, but nothing's really
00:07:20.160 happening. A lot of speculation, the news media is still crying and, um, and Jimmy crack corn and
00:07:28.020 I don't care. But, um, so Owen, um, I am going to come to you first, but I know you and Marcella
00:07:35.700 have some news stories for me and I have little things to interject with you too. But, um, tell
00:07:42.260 us what you have at the top of your list today. I think the top one I had was Millay calling the
00:07:50.380 UN a cast of parasites. He said they were a useless organization that only serves to feed 1.00
00:07:56.540 a cast of fatally arrogant parasites disguised as well-intentioned bureaucrats. And he talked 1.00
00:08:03.460 about the genocide of the COVID-19 restrictions and the forced lockdowns and was accusing the
00:08:09.640 you end up sheltering what he called bloodthirsty dictatorships and voting systematically against
00:08:15.500 Israel. So pretty powerful speech. I think it was pretty well received, at least for the people who 0.88
00:08:21.980 like that sort of point of view. I'm sure there were probably others that were not appreciating
00:08:26.980 that. And Netanyahu had a pretty powerful speech as well. So it seems like-
00:08:33.000 just say um i i love that he said that and i i feel like don't you feel like trump ushered in
00:08:42.040 this like truth-telling ability for other people to just speak so freely like that i feel like he
00:08:49.160 started it um i mean i know other leaders and dictators obviously have been brutal but i just
00:08:56.360 i love that he just came into the u.n and said that um or marcella don't you love that
00:09:05.400 um yeah but i don't think uh you know for latin america they always tell you that
00:09:11.000 the truth the they they don't care they don't they you know melee is its own being but i think uh
00:09:19.960 You know, for American politicians, I think that's a new thing, you know, for for Trump brought a new way of being because in the past they were always, you know, they were weren't able to answer certain things that the media would say to them.
00:09:38.640 But the whole notion of fake news came with Trump and that gave a lot of ammunition to all politicians.
00:09:47.080 Yeah.
00:09:47.560 I would also just add, to me, it's a symptom of what happened at the UN because I think, frankly, my opinion is originally the UN was essentially an extension of the United States.
00:09:57.940 Like we were kind of running everything and it was our way of projecting our power around the world.
00:10:02.860 And, you know, it was designed that way from the start.
00:10:05.060 Like we have veto power over pretty much anything important.
00:10:07.360 And we gave that same veto power to a few other big countries just to make it all work.
00:10:12.580 But, you know, essentially the UN can't do anything that we don't agree with. That's significant. They can talk, they can do little things, but not much. But I think what happened over the years is it became kind of taken over by the globalists. It became taken over by this thing where it no longer is really a projection of American power. It's almost like an adversary. And again, still we have that veto power. So nothing super important bad can happen because they don't really have any authority, really.
00:10:42.200 I mean, it's kind of all fake because, you know, there's no like laws behind it or anything.
00:10:46.640 It's just whatever we actually agree to go along with.
00:10:48.800 But I think Trump was the first one to really call that out.
00:10:52.900 I think we, you know, people, unfortunately, a lot of people in the U.S. were going along
00:10:56.680 with all this globalist stuff and just letting it happen and not complaining about it.
00:11:00.680 And I think Trump was the one that kind of said, this is all BS and we need to put a
00:11:04.660 stop to this.
00:11:06.160 I think that we have too many groups.
00:11:08.740 I think there's too many organizations like the UN, and the world has shifted so much
00:11:16.860 since these things were formed that they really should just take them all out and let's just
00:11:21.960 start over and just see who really is aligning with whom. Okay, Marcella, any more on that,
00:11:28.960 or should we hear what Bibi said? No, we can finally hear what he said.
00:11:35.320 And then into the empty room. OK, so what did Bibi say?
00:11:41.480 Well, I actually don't have the details on that. I just know that he had a very powerful speech as well.
00:11:45.960 It was pretty effective. I think a lot of it was that he was essentially saying that Israel was being treated unfairly and they were being accused of genocide and other things.
00:11:58.000 But they, you know, I just think it was interesting to me that the UN was taking center stage, you know, in the past, a lot of it was kind of just in the background, nobody really paid attention unless you were a political junkie or something. And it seems like it's making a lot more headlines now. And it probably is because, you know, she is here. I don't know that he's been to the UN anytime recently. So that's kind of different.
00:12:21.400 And then, you know, you obviously just got so many things going on with the Ukraine war, the Israel Gaza stuff, the, you know, the Iran war and all that.
00:12:33.320 And so lots of drama at the UN is really what I'm getting at. 0.99
00:12:37.300 Bibi did slam Mamdami and rightfully so. 0.99
00:12:40.900 Like what a New York mayor has to do with, you know, saying he was going to arrest Netanyahu if he came. 1.00
00:12:47.100 I mean, what are we doing, people?
00:12:48.520 um yeah i do remember the story about that with with mom donnie that he was kind of calling him
00:12:53.920 out specifically as saying that he was you know essentially being anti-semitic but um that he it
00:13:01.480 was kind of like his fault but a lot of this sentiment is going against him and you know i
00:13:05.700 know a lot of people don't like netanyahu i don't particularly have like any strong opinion one way
00:13:11.160 or the other and i'm not really a fan and i think he probably is done as soon as this conflict is
00:13:16.000 considered over. But, you know, I do think he did a good job sort of defending himself and coming
00:13:22.080 across well. Yeah, he's good at that. All right. Marcella, anything on that? Or do you want to
00:13:27.260 give us more news? Well, just in general, I don't think he I think he's over for him in October 26
00:13:34.140 unless the polls are completely wrong, which that could totally be right. The elections are coming
00:13:40.380 up in Israel. One thing is he called cowers the people that left the room. That was interesting
00:13:48.420 because they left this. I guess they waited for him to come in and talk and then they
00:13:53.120 like made their little march. He talked against France and all these other groups and he told
00:13:58.560 them like they're calling the Israel colonizers, but France and England are the ones that created
00:14:05.020 the notion of colonizing so that was interesting but did he really hold up a beeper or are you
00:14:11.580 kidding no but he was like i'm gonna take out the pager if you guys don't oh because jean
00:14:18.220 just said he held up a beeper but i think she's kidding okay like lord so i know that there's a
00:14:25.100 lot of you and a lot of important news you guys yeah but one news that hasn't been covered is fat
00:14:31.500 bear week. Fat bear? Yeah, bear, like a bear. So there's fat bear week of 2026. The contenders
00:14:42.780 are announced. There's 16 brown bears in Katmai National Park in Alaska, and they're competing
00:14:49.080 for who's the fat is. There's no Sempic bear anymore. So there's 32 chunks, Gully, Electra, 0.99
00:14:56.120 marshmallow you can vote online up to september 29 and it's been million votes last year from over
00:15:04.520 100 countries so vote for your fat bear oh wait i guess you can vote online i'll post the link
00:15:11.620 so that you can do your vote but one of the funniest things is like they eat only berries
00:15:17.660 and salmon and certain like vegetables and you're like how do they get this big with what they eat
00:15:24.260 maybe eating more berries salmon don't eat just berries and salmon because you could be
00:15:30.140 fat bear um but that was salmons are a fatty fish so it's probably a lot of salmon
00:15:36.140 um and by the way uh you guys are confirming he did hold up a beeper okay that's interesting i
00:15:45.740 guess when you when you hear the uh because i hear i heard his his speech it's not the same as
00:15:52.580 when you see it yeah I just saw clips of it I didn't I didn't know that but that's that's
00:15:57.260 interesting thank you for letting us know um and sending a signal of some kind perhaps um so
00:16:05.640 Marcella yeah definitely do the link because I want to vote for the fat bears that's like right
00:16:10.700 up my alley are they are they like live streaming these bears or is it just a picture I think there
00:16:17.240 some yeah they're live streaming some parts of the internet the you know like uh i think youtube
00:16:24.400 they have the live stream of the salmon area yeah is there a polly market or a calci that's
00:16:30.380 following along us i'm sure they there is because everybody's in on it so all right at least kind
00:16:38.120 of wondering if there's somebody trying to rig it you know give an extra salmon to their favorite
00:16:41.980 bear oh right no like just yeah chunk 32 like he won last year or like feed them like is it by
00:16:51.820 way or how they look right now i have questions i'm like like who names them that's the question
00:16:56.760 but um you know yesterday erica i know you were saying and in regards to service and how
00:17:02.860 i don't know if it was erica but they were playing video games and like
00:17:07.040 yeah they need to be serviced well there was a story today uh u.s deploying xbox operated laser
00:17:15.620 weapons in hormuz and basically um they cite new york post says the u.s forces are using high energy
00:17:24.860 lasers in the strait of hormuz against drones incoming cruise missiles operated reconfiguring
00:17:31.540 an xbox controller interesting see now look so it pays off couch and go go do that for a year i like
00:17:40.660 it i like it all right see that's that's good um i did want to show a clip i had from yesterday
00:17:47.620 we were talking about christopher not talking about him but we had a shown christopher rufo
00:17:53.300 on Bill Maher. He's great, you guys. Give him a follow. But this is more fraud in California. Oh,
00:18:02.100 my Lord. But you know what? We should be so angry, like a directed energy angry at the waste. This is
00:18:11.160 the people's money, taxpayers' money. Just remember that when you watch this, okay, you guys? Let's
00:18:16.220 take a look at. Callie. This is a brand new smartphone. And here in Los Angeles, the
00:18:23.180 government is giving them away to undocumented migrants for free. No proof of citizenship
00:18:28.560 required. And the phones are only the beginning. In the past decade, the California state
00:18:35.160 government has built a shadow welfare system for the undocumented that costs the state
00:18:41.020 billions. They're giving away free food, cash, housing, health care, college tuition, even car
00:18:48.880 insurance. No questions asked. We wanted to see exactly how this system worked, so we went to the
00:18:54.960 welfare office here in Los Angeles. They told us that many state welfare programs do not require
00:19:01.160 American citizenship, and some, like the cash assistance program for immigrants, which provides
00:19:06.980 nearly $14,000 a year in cash
00:19:09.700 are for migrants only. 0.99
00:19:12.320 I don't care about legal or not. 1.00
00:19:14.520 Not being a citizen.
00:19:16.420 If you know where to look,
00:19:17.540 the system isn't exactly a secret.
00:19:20.080 The government is advertising it.
00:19:22.460 No social security number.
00:19:24.520 No problem.
00:19:25.480 And Governor Newsom brags about it.
00:19:27.700 We only stay in America
00:19:28.980 providing universal health care
00:19:30.480 regardless of pre-existing condition,
00:19:31.800 ability to pay,
00:19:32.340 and your immigration status.
00:19:33.560 I know how offensive that is to people
00:19:35.420 and I get how controversial that is.
00:19:36.780 This is an outrage. California families are working long hours, depleting their savings and taking out record amounts of debt to survive while the government takes from their paycheck and hands out free everything to migrants who have no legal right to be here. 0.99
00:19:55.880 I couldn't hate Gavin Newsom any more than I do. I mean, what a cocky, condescending.
00:20:01.760 oh my god all right i caught myself i mean how he's like oh i know that offends you yeah it 0.93
00:20:08.880 offends people that are grinding out their jobs and trying to make ends meet and you're taking
00:20:14.940 their tax money that they have to pay or they'll be put in jail and just throwing it away to 0.98
00:20:21.640 whatever you want you are so vile and disgusting you will never be president never um marcella i'm 0.98
00:20:29.860 going to come to you first on this just because you live in california i don't know i feel like 0.99
00:20:33.920 you should be running around the streets screaming i want to know where they give out the new phones
00:20:39.640 i i need a new phone you're legal sorry you can't have one i could pretend i could pretend
00:20:45.380 dress up as a homeless person i want to see you as a homeless person i can i can pretend to be an
00:20:50.900 immigrant oh they'll give it to me um just speak spanish you'll get by yeah yeah solo en espanol
00:20:58.340 um no i mean it it's not gavin only i mean this has been going on for thousands of years in
00:21:06.460 in california and i think people just don't understand free stuff doesn't come from it's
00:21:12.560 like they think that there's money growing on trees or something because it's like they don't
00:21:17.280 understand they want free stuff but they also don't want to be taxed so it's like where is this
00:21:23.380 coming from like you need to understand that this is the money is deriving from somewhere
00:21:29.940 um and the more that you give out free stuff the more people move in the more homeless that come
00:21:37.480 of course the more everything so it's like i don't think they that people mean well when they're
00:21:44.300 voting they just don't understand that empathy is wrong like the things that you want to help
00:21:52.200 these people um they don't connect that um altruism is not always it's never good like they
00:22:02.680 they do not connect those things they are like oh we have an immigration problem and they are poor
00:22:08.760 let's help them know you know it's like well that's not how you do it how about the commercial
00:22:14.760 no social security card no problem oh great oh and you know and and the thing that the
00:22:22.440 before you go to on that the thing that that pushes all this there's a lot of people that
00:22:27.800 work all day they vote they don't understand what they're voting for they're not informed right
00:22:32.600 and i'm not i'm not excusing them but there are ngos uh government the government itself
00:22:42.760 certain government officials, certain people, like nonprofits and all that, they're making,
00:22:49.220 they push these things because they're making money out of it. So they follow the money.
00:22:56.600 Go ahead, Ellen. Yeah, I mean, I think this is part of the problem with socialism. And I think
00:23:01.540 some of this probably is somewhat intentional to push socialism. But, you know, people, a lot of
00:23:07.200 people seem to complain about rich people saying, oh, they've got all the money, we don't have the
00:23:11.060 money? Why do they have this K-shaped economy where the rich people are doing great and everyone
00:23:16.020 else is suffering? But I think it makes it a lot worse when you see people on the low end that are
00:23:20.420 getting all this stuff for free that a lot of other people in the middle class are not able to
00:23:24.820 get. I mean, it was kind of amazing to me to say like, you know, what's considered a poverty level
00:23:31.200 and how high that is, frankly. And because again, I think it started out that all this social stuff
00:23:37.800 was just meant to be a safety net like we don't want people to starve and die on the street or
00:23:41.740 whatever so let's give them some food of course but when you keep extending this and giving them
00:23:46.620 free phones and all sorts of stuff it's it's kind of a discouragement to work because you're taking
00:23:53.260 away the benefits as they're more successful so it makes it harder to get out of that cycle
00:23:57.980 and it encourages more people to just not work hard or not achieve things and i really feel like
00:24:05.580 it's like the government is just playing both sides. Legitimately, sure, there are a lot of
00:24:12.780 benefits to rich people in terms of business, at least. They always look out to try and make sure
00:24:17.800 the stock market's healthy. There's a lot more corporate benefits and breaks and subsidies,
00:24:24.140 much more than I'd like to see. But on the other end, they're also saying, okay, let's just give
00:24:28.280 all kinds of money and benefits and free stuff to people that are at the low end. And then the
00:24:34.040 people in the middle, what do they get? Nothing. It's not even the people at the low end. It's
00:24:38.320 people that aren't even American. You know, it's like Americans last is their motto. 1.00
00:24:44.660 Middle class, once again, does not exist. Like I said, I never felt so unseen as when Obama was 0.98
00:24:51.520 president. I was just like, what the hell is happening here? And you know, you got to remember
00:24:56.680 you guys, the more money people have, like let's, let's just say about like the, the upper
00:25:02.360 percentage of people. I'm not talking Elon and Bill Ackman, but yes, them too. But the more money
00:25:09.220 you have, more people with money will do great things for other people because they have money
00:25:19.240 to do it. So the more money I have, the more I can donate or I can create something for someone.
00:25:25.480 And, um, you know, same with all of you. Like if, if I had a hundred thousand dollars and you wanted
00:25:31.220 me to donate something versus if I had $20,000 and you wanted me to donate something, you're
00:25:36.920 going to get a different result. So when people poo poo wealth and it's not like us on here,
00:25:42.140 but the Democrats, Oh, the rich tax, the rich, you know, the rich people are giving more because
00:25:47.420 they have more, they're creating jobs. Hopefully they're paying more taxes. Even if you think
00:25:52.000 they're not paying enough taxes, their taxes are probably like quadruple most people's salary.
00:25:58.360 So it's like, it's not like they're not paying their taxes. Even if they find a loophole,
00:26:03.920 like Trump said, close the loopholes, Congress. If you don't like the loopholes, you guys have
00:26:08.380 them there. So it's just interesting. And it's really gross to watch Newsom, who's so wealthy
00:26:16.280 and privileged to just say sorry to the people that don't like that we're going to give medical 0.95
00:26:23.620 stuff to illegals, no matter what their status. It's just like, oh my God, Denise just reminded 1.00
00:26:30.560 me of when Obama, or let me just tell you something, Denise. It was like when Kennedy
00:26:35.200 got shot, when Charlie got shot, when Obama said, you didn't make that. I know exactly where I was
00:26:42.020 sitting when I heard him say that because I was sitting in front of my business in my car doing
00:26:48.320 something for the business and getting ready to leave to go to a meeting. And I hear on the news
00:26:53.160 Obama going, you didn't make that or you didn't create that. And I was like, this MF-er, is this 0.99
00:27:00.460 a joke? What am I even doing here? So yeah, I remember it like that. That's how hard I remember 0.97
00:27:07.360 him saying that as a small business owner so i don't know yeah it really obviously this really
00:27:12.640 gets to me as a person who creates jobs always has and has been working my ass off my whole life it
00:27:20.240 just really really grinds my gears i've said many times and i'll say again i think california's
00:27:26.800 government is hostile to its citizens yeah yep um okay so let let me just let me just get the
00:27:33.920 frustration out and just just turn to this little clip and we'll file this one under if i had to see
00:27:40.240 it you have to see it you know when i do these clips you love it but here's drunk wine lady
00:27:47.360 kamala and like watch her do her little shimmy shake and she's gonna tell you about algorithms
00:27:54.000 take a listen they're trying to dumb people down with the assumption that people don't have any
00:28:00.880 interest beyond what they've already seen think about that oh yeah the algorithm right but the
00:28:05.360 algorithm suggesting i have no more interest because i'm looking at this yellow flower
00:28:12.080 i'm only interested in yellow flowers so here's more yellow as though my brain can't handle the
00:28:16.960 fact that there may be a pink flower right right that i might be interested in looking at
00:28:23.920 right and so part of it is understanding how the algorithm is manipulating us
00:28:29.840 and figuring out how we're going to psych it out a bit.
00:28:34.660 Oh, sorry.
00:28:35.140 You caught me.
00:28:35.580 I was doing my behind-the-scenes charades.
00:28:39.260 Owen, I'm just coming to you first.
00:28:41.080 You love her.
00:28:42.500 Yeah.
00:28:42.840 No, I think the tech companies should hire her to fix their algorithms. 1.00
00:28:45.780 It would be so much better if Kamala was in charge. 1.00
00:28:48.220 Holy cow.
00:28:49.120 I can't.
00:28:50.060 What's so funny?
00:28:52.460 Ugh.
00:28:53.080 All right.
00:28:53.320 I mean, we'd have pink flowers everywhere, right? 0.70
00:28:55.580 Marcella, more pink flowers? 0.99
00:28:57.500 Purple. 0.97
00:28:58.680 Purple. 1.00
00:28:59.840 she's a mess i don't know why she talks to people like she's a kindergarten teacher 1.00
00:29:05.760 like they're stupid like very slowly to the guy's like uh-huh like he's just um so there 1.00
00:29:14.500 was a clip yesterday uh that i saw from abdul sayed and he had her next to her and he even 0.99
00:29:22.480 looked like what is she on like you could tell that he was like perturbed by her um even a
00:29:28.400 socialists. Yeah. Well, now he has to pretend he likes her when he was very vocal about
00:29:35.060 just abstaining from Biden and Kamala when they were running. So now he's got to do the old
00:29:41.880 pivot rue. Yeah. So, Owen, why don't you give us another one of your news items?
00:29:50.340 Well, I don't want to skip over that they signed the agreement with Greenland. So that's official
00:29:55.160 now. And that's huge news. And I posted an article about this that has quotes from like,
00:30:02.240 I don't know, dozens of people talking about how great this is. Denmark, Greenland, the United
00:30:08.400 States, the UN, a whole bunch of people in Europe, they're just all complimenting this saying, wow,
00:30:13.360 this is massive. This is a game changer. We're going to have this security that we really need
00:30:18.700 And it's a great solution. And it's just such a massive Trump victory. And, you know, it makes me remember when when Trump first got elected or was running and and people were saying, oh, all the foreign leaders are going to be laughing at him and laughing at us and they're not going to take him seriously.
00:30:35.440 And look what he's done. He just fixed a massive security problem. And everyone is happy about it
00:30:41.320 on all sides, it seems like. I don't think anybody's really complaining about this deal,
00:30:45.120 except maybe the Democrats that are sore that he was able to accomplish it.
00:30:49.400 Or Russia and China.
00:30:50.880 Yeah. And so I think this is just a massive victory where he basically got everything he
00:30:56.200 wanted for free by using the Trump negotiation method of trying to say, we're going to take
00:31:03.020 over Greenland. We're going to own Greenland. We're going to do this stuff and pushing for
00:31:06.340 something much more than what he really wanted. And then he ended up getting what he wanted for
00:31:10.220 free. He didn't even have to pay anything. I think it's such a great victory that he pulled
00:31:16.400 that off. I'm thrilled about it. I was never, you know, like I never thought about Greenland
00:31:24.520 being so important to protect us until he pointed it out. And then you're looking at the map and
00:31:29.760 you're like, holy crap, that would really be beneficial. So that's pretty amazing. Congratulations
00:31:35.680 to him. I love that. Anything on that, Marcella? Are we going there?
00:31:44.000 I've been there. Yeah, it's good. Is it better than Iceland?
00:31:48.780 No. You love your Iceland.
00:31:50.880 Maybe it'll be better one day.
00:31:53.600 What's in Greenland?
00:31:54.640 um houses and snow nature yeah i thought it was just like all ice and then there were like a
00:32:04.040 couple towns here and there is that accurate or is it different than what i expect that's accurate
00:32:08.920 okay so did you see all of the stuff in greenland then no you can't travel to certain areas because
00:32:16.060 of the weather so there's not many roads so you have to actually fly to another area like
00:32:24.700 there's not a road that takes you to all the areas because there couldn't be a road.
00:32:30.780 But if you have Green Line, you have oil, you have tons of power. And the people in Green Line
00:32:40.940 they're making a lot of money from that oil. Thank goodness now that they are making a lot
00:32:48.860 lot of money now so there's there's a lot more immigrants coming in um there's a lot more people 1.00
00:32:54.400 moving in uh-oh from where mostly the philippines to greenland that's gonna be a shock don't you 0.94
00:33:04.460 think they don't always stay there you know but because it's like who wants to stay in greenland
00:33:10.440 wait why are i know why are they going there as workers oh there's there's there's a lot of
00:33:18.680 work to be done you know and some of them are uh danish that come from denmark you know the
00:33:26.920 filipino danish or filipino norwegian or whatever it is yeah so oh my god that is all right that's
00:33:33.880 so confusing to me filipino or norwegian i mean like one has nothing to do with the other but
00:33:39.400 Norway looks like like Greenland looks so cute and quaint and the little houses with the snow
00:33:46.920 like it should be on a calendar and I'm sure it is but then there's like Norway that also has that
00:33:52.600 but I think that that's the place you want to go visit you can do more so that's just if you want
00:33:57.320 the vibe of Greenland without suffering the elements of Greenland go to Norway okay it's not
00:34:04.120 Not that bad.
00:34:05.100 Did they tell you the story of why Greenland is covered in ice and Iceland is all green?
00:34:11.120 That was part of Leif Erikson's, or I forget, I should know this, but it was on purpose
00:34:19.240 so that people wouldn't go to Iceland.
00:34:21.840 Instead, they would go to Greenland.
00:34:24.040 So they named Greenland, Greenland, and Iceland, Iceland on purpose so that nobody would go
00:34:30.420 to Iceland because they didn't want anybody there.
00:34:33.360 Okay.
00:34:34.120 Well, it worked.
00:34:35.080 I kind of wonder how much of our history is just like stuff we did to foil pirates.
00:34:42.520 Maybe.
00:34:43.340 We'll never break it now.
00:34:45.200 But save your books, everybody.
00:34:46.740 In regards to the Greenland story, there's, you know, they signed this.
00:34:53.140 You know, one thing I have to, two things.
00:34:56.320 When President Trump was signing this with the Prime Minister of Greenland, the Prime Minister of Denmark,
00:35:01.540 um there was a moment where the prime minister of denmark she's a woman meta frederickson and 0.96
00:35:10.420 he like she was gonna sit they had a table and then they had like a speaker side and she was 0.98
00:35:16.200 gonna sit on her chair he like brought the chair and like a gentleman president trump and and let 1.00
00:35:22.860 her put her in there as you know i just found maybe she found it you know like machismo or
00:35:30.300 something but i think it was a nice touch that he was looking out for them no i like that my father
00:35:37.080 was so like that like and he taught my brother to be that way i'm full on full on i don't care if
00:35:43.480 it's a power or like no you you push in a lady's chair i like it you open the door for a lady um
00:35:49.340 but in the u.s is to reopen two cold war era bases in greenland so they were bases already
00:35:57.580 but they're going to reopen them there's going to be even more work for people now um so it it
00:36:04.300 brings a lot more money all right so let me do one more semi-international story technically
00:36:12.380 um i just thought this was so funny um so uh this is admiral
00:36:19.180 papero admiral papero u.s admiral papero um he's getting asked a question about so carney from
00:36:30.560 canada is like suddenly putting fear porn into people that the u.s is going to attack canada
00:36:38.940 okay and i just like this guy's like i just can't take it anymore like just watch would you obey an
00:36:46.380 to launch military action against Canada?
00:36:52.400 Yeah, I find that scenario to be absolutely and utterly preposterous.
00:37:02.380 And so I follow the orders of the Commander-in-Chief,
00:37:08.780 but that is a needlessly emotional question.
00:37:13.740 I don't find, forgive my saying it, too.
00:37:16.380 is that uh is that uh also uh canada is a close ally thank you
00:37:28.140 i'm sorry i didn't mean to be insulted but no no but but uh
00:37:32.700 you didn't answer the question i'm sorry you didn't answer the question but i said i follow
00:37:36.780 the orders of the president and i find it to be a uh you would you ask me please also
00:37:42.140 what my attack plans are for the martians
00:37:44.460 yes sir i don't dismiss you i don't dismiss you but uh i do dismiss the question i'm sorry
00:37:55.440 i don't think that's the right approach at all this is a serious question but a serious issue
00:38:00.680 we've had threats of annexation i know it's not i know it's hypothetical but nonetheless if you've
00:38:05.200 not thought about it thank you i i just love it like he's like i can't take it anymore like
00:38:11.920 what are you know would we attack Canada and he just laughs because he knows too the news is
00:38:17.760 batshit crazy um Owen thoughts on that I just thought his little giggles were hysterical
00:38:24.280 yeah I think he handled it well because that's it's another one of those gotcha questions right
00:38:29.180 they're trying to get the little clip they're trying to get the little quote that they can say
00:38:32.560 oh you know either you know either he said he wouldn't follow the order or he said he would
00:38:37.040 follow the order and either way I've got a story and the way he answered it was I think
00:38:41.480 kind of how a lot of politicians do where you don't directly answer the question you basically
00:38:45.620 just point out the ridiculousness of it and anybody with a brain knows that he did answer
00:38:50.460 the question right but he just didn't give the journalist the gotcha quote that he was looking
00:38:54.520 for so then a journalist is like well you didn't answer the question it's like you're just you're 0.99
00:38:59.720 just an idiot and i you know i think um you know if i were in that situation i probably would have 0.99
00:39:05.560 been stronger i wouldn't have been so deferential and saying i'm not insulting you or whatever i 1.00
00:39:09.120 would have been like dude that's stupid i would have been more like trump and be like what come 0.99
00:39:13.040 up with better questions yeah like how can i answer this seriously like it's so stupid like 0.99
00:39:18.300 what should we yeah we're gonna invade we're gonna annex canada now so marcella what do you what do 0.98
00:39:24.000 you i know bj says canada is as batshit crazy as the media so that's that's our canadian 0.79
00:39:31.360 correspondent right there weighing in marcella no i'm glad he mocked them because that's the only 0.95
00:39:37.680 thing you can do is mock their questions because you can't take it seriously so i'm glad he did
00:39:42.340 that i love it i love that okay so marcella why don't you give us one of your news stories
00:39:48.600 um so there was a new story that um in maine as you would know that there's the midterms coming
00:39:56.820 up susan collins is up for re-election in there and of course there was a there was a september
00:40:04.980 surprise before the october surprise um there was a there's alleged scandal that pro publica
00:40:11.620 investigated and has came out with this uh this week and it's a pay-to-play dealings
00:40:19.700 between the main republican which is susan collins and a defense contractor it is uh
00:40:25.860 And basically this Martin Cowell, a former CEO of a contractor, a military contractor, Navatech, he's actually was convicted of making illegal campaign contributions already.
00:40:39.400 So he is already a convicted felon. So he made statements to ProPublica saying that basically she kind of, Susan Collins, did favors for him and that he met with senior members of her Senate Appropriations Committee and he was given all these projects in exchange for these donations that he created.
00:41:08.920 he created a shell company where he donated to her through uh pretending to be different people
00:41:17.000 um anyways he is a felon and everything else so susan collins was asked about this and she's
00:41:23.240 denied it um and pro publica doesn't have a really good record it's a very i i think it's
00:41:31.960 the very leftist so it may be you know nothing but it it might cost her her election i'm not sure
00:41:40.120 you know um it's not good but who knows what october brings for the democrat candidate so
00:41:46.440 she might have something under her sleeve but uh basically she denied it categorically there is no
00:41:54.120 such thing the donations uh she gave them back when she knew that he was a felon and that it
00:42:02.280 was done through a shell company and that's that so he's basically what she's saying is don't
00:42:08.520 believe a felon okay well you know she found that out and gave him back that's good with me
00:42:14.440 um and why did we vote for the republic it's fine not a problem and why did we keep susan
00:42:21.800 Collins. I mean, she's never going to give up power either. She's going to be like Dianne 0.99
00:42:25.760 Feinstein. Um, but keeping her in there was just ridiculous that nobody ran against her. Nobody 0.95
00:42:33.080 could get her out because she's, uh, she's one of those pain in the ass Republicans. That's like 1.00
00:42:39.800 anti-Trump and sometimes she'll do the right thing, but she's just, you know, uh, it's just,
00:42:46.180 she should have been long gone her and murkowski um owen any thoughts on that story well it sounds
00:42:53.400 like it is just one of these october surprise attempts you know they're just trying to shove
00:42:58.100 something in late enough that you can't even really fact check it voting starting now in some
00:43:02.780 states and it's starting in a couple weeks and in many other states and um so they're just timing
00:43:08.640 this perfectly to bring out this story right at the right time so that's the way i would interpret
00:43:12.820 it is it's just a political move it's nothing else it's not a real revelation because I'm
00:43:17.680 guessing whatever they knew about this they've known for a long time and they've waited until
00:43:21.180 now to bring it out and I think you know from what you told me Marcella it sounds like
00:43:26.760 if there was anything that went on it sounds like maybe they were just trying to set Susan
00:43:30.880 Collin up yeah but it might have been an intentional play from the beginning to say
00:43:35.120 okay I'm going to try and do these things through a shell company and I'm going to try and hide this
00:43:38.280 stuff and i'm going to try and see if she'll accept it and then i can get her later and
00:43:42.000 you know i would wonder if this felon ceo made some kind of deal with the democrats
00:43:47.160 so and you are 100 correct owen the the donations the alleged well they're not alleged they're
00:43:55.000 actually donations that she gave back were back in 2020 to 2021 fbi has investigated this thoroughly
00:44:01.660 this is under biden he's investigated the guy went to you know was convicted um if biden would
00:44:10.280 have known anything biden's fbi would have caught anything susan collins doing wrong i'm sure he
00:44:15.780 would have brought it up so you're 100 correct they knew about this for a while yeah she doesn't
00:44:20.660 come across to me as someone who's gonna do like nefarious things per se but she's never leaving 1.00
00:44:28.580 And she's always going to put up a stink about everything. 1.00
00:44:31.740 Like, she's just such a pain in the ass. 0.99
00:44:34.140 I mean, and again, I will say, gave one of the most amazing speeches I ever heard after the Kavanaugh hearings. 0.99
00:44:44.320 And it was brilliant. 0.96
00:44:46.800 So anyway, she's not stupid. 1.00
00:44:49.160 She's just annoying. 1.00
00:44:50.040 Okay. 1.00
00:44:50.480 So.
00:44:51.240 Well, I would just say, you know, what's the alternative?
00:44:53.200 Isn't one of those major socialists?
00:44:54.820 Is that the Graham Plattner or is it?
00:44:57.200 No, he's out.
00:44:58.220 it's um well that same area though like i think the person that replaced grant platter was even
00:45:03.340 worse or something in terms of socialist policies um so you might not like susan collins i certainly
00:45:09.200 don't appreciate how she votes but um you know the alternative is a lot worse yeah you gotta vote for
00:45:15.160 her you have to don't sit it out maine you i mean i think if you live in maine you're gonna be
00:45:20.460 running vote for troy jackson who married his cousin allegedly oh yeah they're calling him
00:45:26.640 the cousin effort. I did not make that up, but that's, I've heard it everywhere. Yes. I've heard
00:45:32.200 it everywhere. Um, allegedly I didn't make it up. Okay. So, um, Owen, why don't you give us some
00:45:40.240 more in news? Sure. Well, we're talking about the news. Um, there've been 257 stories that were
00:45:49.260 about all the Trump administration cracking down on fraud. I think that covers like 51 key actions
00:45:57.360 they've taken since February. How many of those 257 stories that have been published in the news
00:46:02.220 in general by major news outlets, how many of those do you think appeared on Google News?
00:46:07.020 Oh, two. The answer is zero. Oh, I was so close, but I went over. Damn it. Yeah. Well,
00:46:18.100 Price is right, I think he might still win. But yeah, no, none of them have been on Google News. So I think this is MRC Media Research Council who's been pointing this out that says like they did this analysis. And, you know, when there's 257 major news stories, and none of them at all show up on Google News, I think you can say that's not just a algorithm glitch. It's, it's a policy.
00:46:42.740 it's an editorial choice to say we're not going to let any of the good news from the trump
00:46:46.960 administration hit the news for anybody who reads that um that's a shame and this is the problem 0.93
00:46:54.620 and this is why probably most no showcase showdown for me damn um but this is you know this is why 0.78
00:47:01.800 when trump kicks them out uh you know those three outfits out you know you're just like good because 0.93
00:47:08.420 we can all see news here, there, and everywhere, and then go talk to our friends who have no clue
00:47:15.500 what we're talking about. I've said things that were so, I thought, mainstream, maybe because
00:47:22.000 I'm seeing it from quality people on X. And then I'll say to a friend like, oh my gosh, did you
00:47:28.680 hear about that? And they're like, what? And I'm just like, oh my God, where are you getting your
00:47:34.580 news. And obviously it's like CNN and this and that, but it's, it's really a disservice. And so
00:47:41.440 I would, I was going to say yesterday, I wish that I, maybe I did say that they could just say,
00:47:48.320 okay, everybody's out. Okay. There's no press right now. And we are going to now
00:47:53.100 pick people or outlets based on their news accuracy. And that there's some kind of like
00:47:59.880 independent group that's like they covered x amount of stories on this on that so like at
00:48:05.240 all the important topics and and things that are happening around the world and how many
00:48:09.800 of the the different outlets um reported on those things how many times and the people that had like
00:48:15.800 the most reporting on it are the ones that get in because like you're talking about google
00:48:21.080 ignoring almost 300 stories that were positive you know that were in informative um about fraud
00:48:29.560 and not one was published as terrible the good news is nobody is reading google news there was
00:48:35.880 a story saying that nobody is doing nobody's reading any news anywhere they're just going to
00:48:41.880 their ai their chester their chat upt their grok to read news or to ask what the news is so there's
00:48:49.800 a lot less traffic going to google news any other news website or site or or app so well it is what
00:48:59.480 it is. I have a little, I think this is my last clip. Okay, so let's just see what it is and what
00:49:05.740 it says. Well, as environmental experts sound the alarm on data centers and more Americans are
00:49:12.160 coming out in protest of them, one tech giant has an interesting solution. Google is saying don't
00:49:18.500 build them in people's backyards, put them miles above the earth instead. News Nation's Brooke
00:49:24.900 Shafer joins me with the latest on this story. Brooke, what does this look like? And tell us a
00:49:30.380 bit more about this project. Hey, Marky, good morning. So researchers admit that they don't
00:49:35.100 expect to have AI data centers in space in the next year, the next few years. But this is
00:49:40.040 definitely a step towards that. Next week on Thursday, Google is set to launch a test satellite
00:49:45.700 with specialized AI chips into outer space. Google calls it Project Suncatcher. It would use
00:49:52.660 energy from the sun to power it. The New York Times reports each panel will have a relatively
00:49:58.220 small amount of power. Think about enough to run a hairdryer, but it should be enough to complete
00:50:03.680 simple AI tasks from space. Marky? My hairdryer needs quite a lot of energy, so I got a lot of
00:50:10.160 questions there still. Talk to me a bit more. Why space? Is this in response to all the backlash
00:50:16.680 that people have had against it, or is it more advantageous up there in some way,
00:50:22.260 I mean, listen, it depends who you ask, but, you know, the solar energy in space is a lot more powerful.
00:50:28.860 You've got unfiltered, uninterrupted solar power, right?
00:50:32.000 But it could also help relieve some of those concerns about our power grids here on Earth.
00:50:37.160 We know that there has been a lot of talk about the strain from these data centers.
00:50:42.320 Something else, though, Marky, Google told The New York Times that if they do eventually put a data center in space, it wouldn't be up there forever.
00:50:49.100 Their satellite would last about six years.
00:50:51.420 It would eventually burn up in the atmosphere.
00:50:54.540 So this test next week, we'll see how this hardware survives, not only the rocket launch,
00:50:59.380 some time in orbit, but also really to see if it's reliable all the way up there in space.
00:51:04.200 All right.
00:51:06.100 That was more coincidental Google news.
00:51:08.760 Google seems like they're really trying to get a foothold into so many different things.
00:51:14.680 We had that other thing the other day where they weren't they going to be releasing some kind of mosquitoes into neighborhoods?
00:51:22.880 Yeah, we had a story that the Google vans driving with like delivering mosquito.
00:51:27.440 I mean, I don't know. Everyone's just too crazy.
00:51:30.040 But somebody in the chat. Brilliant. Can't we put data centers in in Greenland? 0.89
00:51:36.400 Be perfect. Marcella, what are your thoughts?
00:51:40.160 well you know it's it's interesting how the news acts when google says something they're like oh
00:51:47.020 it's a wonderful idea elon says it like oh he's crazy um so that's interesting part but yeah they
00:51:54.260 could put it in antarctica they could put it in greenland um you know having these things in space
00:52:02.600 you know it should be a b tested let's try it and see because the thing is like we don't really know
00:52:08.280 what can possibly, you know, with the debris that's coming in and out, you know, it's good
00:52:17.360 that we have options. But I think Brian Romley, I love you, Brian. He said to you on the show that
00:52:32.120 eventually it won't need a big site you know the data centers will become smaller kind of like
00:52:38.440 computers were a whole room full of computers and it became smaller and smaller so that's the other
00:52:45.080 thing that could occur but i'm for anything you know technologically advancing anything but i
00:52:52.520 would like i i've said this before but i would like like maybe we could slow down on the amount
00:52:58.680 of data centers we're doing right now, because like you said, technology is going to go so fast
00:53:03.580 where those, you know, they're going to disrupt entire towns, you know, probably clear out a lot
00:53:10.020 of, um, trees and environmental stuff, create a lot of chaos for people, people uprooting their
00:53:17.000 lives, people coming for jobs. Then the jobs are going to be obsolete because the data center is
00:53:21.980 going to be built. And now when you just launch your little data center into space, you're left
00:53:27.640 with this big factory looking thing. And I would like to see these companies have an exit plan
00:53:36.220 because just mark my words, there's going to be all these empty factory settings that are going
00:53:42.020 to look terrible in neighborhoods that are going to devalue property for people again. And if there
00:53:48.660 was a way to say like, you know what, we're going to then remove them and take them away. And we're
00:53:53.160 going to plant a beautiful park and trees there for you like give them an exit plan because these
00:53:58.300 things are going up into space before we know it or like we were saying marcella they're going to
00:54:03.040 be shrunken down so small so like slow down on the land clearing but owen um i just when she was
00:54:09.940 saying that like the satellite might burn out in six years i picture that right when your army is
00:54:16.400 about to take off that you're building behind the scenes like you'll be like and go and then the
00:54:22.260 satellite burns out what will happen yeah well i mean you know you'll see when it comes time but
00:54:28.800 um no i i think uh i was gonna ask i'm like was that a real news story or was that a scene from
00:54:34.600 the terminator it's like you know you remember like when skynet was launched it was supposed to
00:54:39.380 be this great thing that was going to help us and this seems like it would just you could slot that
00:54:43.760 story right into the terminator at the beginning and show how it happened and how nobody thought
00:54:48.520 was any big deal, right? Like, yeah, we're going to have a couple of stuff in space. We're just
00:54:52.760 setting up a little bit of AI and all of a sudden there's thousands of them and it's covering the
00:54:57.120 whole planet. And it seems like we're moving steadily in that direction where you're not
00:55:02.220 going to be able to reach out and touch these things. You're not going to be able to turn them
00:55:04.840 off unless you're the ones in control. And who knows, maybe you won't be in control at some
00:55:09.080 point. And so, you know, a little scary, but I do think that the data center issue is a big issue.
00:55:16.360 So I'm glad they're looking for solutions. I just think this probably is going to take longer than we need in terms of alleviating that issue.
00:55:24.760 I think we need to come up with shorter term solutions, because certainly I think most people probably don't want a huge data center in their backyard.
00:55:32.260 And it's a big issue. I mean, I think we need to find places that we can still build the data centers that we need,
00:55:40.320 but they're not just reducing all the property values and causing noise issues and causing all
00:55:46.360 kinds of other issues. I mean, I think I personally don't think the water issues are as big as people
00:55:50.920 often make them out to be. I do think the electricity cost issue is real because we
00:55:55.920 only have a limited amount of energy and there's really no way you can say, okay, we're just going
00:56:00.760 to use more energy and it's not going to drive up prices. I mean, I think I know their government
00:56:05.980 is trying to work on that. But the most recent story I just posted about that was that the
00:56:10.700 government's killed that. There was a bill that passed the House, and it was all about saying,
00:56:18.020 you know, you're basically not allowed to just put the cost of a data center into everybody's
00:56:23.280 electric bill. And it seemed like a popular thing. It was at least enough to pass the House,
00:56:27.920 which means you got probably most, if not all, of the Republicans to vote for it, and at least a few
00:56:32.580 the democrats and in the senate the democrats killed it and i think the the story was at least
00:56:38.580 that they just didn't want republicans to be able to take credit for it they wanted to be able to
00:56:41.780 use this as a public political issue to say oh look how much your electricity prices are going
00:56:46.180 up and it's all those bad republicans that are behind it when they were literally the people
00:56:49.700 who made that happen right and so owen what like what's the worst thing that could happen um
00:56:59.540 um with all this going so quickly and like if we can't turn them off and you know they are not i'm
00:57:08.240 not talking about like robots get deployed and they come after us with ak-47s but like
00:57:12.960 in general like if we can't turn these things off like and they are in space and i don't know what
00:57:21.120 happens like the the grid has an issue like what does it do it hacks everything yeah i mean there's
00:57:28.400 think there's a lot you could do without any robots um i've often cited my reference for this
00:57:34.740 which is the book uh demon d-a-e-m-o-n by daniel suarez and freedom is the sequel to that um and
00:57:41.660 it kind of plays out that kind of scenario where it essentially takes control of the world and um
00:57:48.200 you know i i was kind of taken aback by that book just because it seemed like okay even before then
00:57:53.880 this was written before ai came out and like all this gpt and everything after that um and i was
00:58:00.500 like thinking about it i'm like there's nothing that doesn't exist already today that could be
00:58:05.620 used to do exactly this like there's no there's no futuristic sci-fi technology that would have
00:58:11.080 to be invented to make this happen like this could happen right now and now that we have ai it's like
00:58:15.300 well yeah now it would be almost trivial to do that sort of thing and um so i think what i would
00:58:21.400 worry about more is, you know, number one, like we've seen stories where it's able to do persuasion
00:58:28.080 better than humans. So you could potentially just not really know when you're interacting with
00:58:33.380 anybody how real that is. And so it could persuade people to do things. But if people are unethical
00:58:39.680 and don't mind breaking the law, it could certainly be used to hack companies. It could be used to
00:58:44.240 blackmail people. It could be used to create new technologies, new weapons, new, you know,
00:58:49.560 all sorts of things. So there certainly is a lot of potential risk. And I think that's why so much
00:58:54.580 attention and news is being put on alignment to make sure we can try and make these AIs
00:58:58.980 not become the dystopian sci-fi future that a lot of writers have talked about.
00:59:04.000 I feel like the more dystopian we talk about it, the more Marcella's eyes light up. She's like,
00:59:09.260 yes, give it to me. Right, Marcella? Right, Erica.
00:59:14.920 marcella what are you gonna what are you gonna do what are you gonna do what are you gonna do
00:59:20.920 when the robots come for you the robots will make me queen what can i say queen marcella
00:59:27.500 robot i mean i can't wait when i can become part robot so that's just me that you guys she's not
00:59:36.220 kidding like that marcella is not kidding she's like our sci-fi girl so i was talking a while
00:59:44.120 bag of sorry to somebody that view me from elementary school and they were like marcella
00:59:50.520 you're always talking about the future and all this and all that and sci-fi and all and i was
00:59:56.680 like i was when i was in elementary school talking about all this and they're like yeah you're like
01:00:01.800 never stopped talking about the the space the aliens the this the that i was like yeah no you're
01:00:09.720 definitely my self-driving car yeah oh yeah i can't wait i i really think it's the golden age
01:00:16.360 you know like to me i the advances that it can bring also curing cancer curing certain things
01:00:24.520 that um i think that's what they're afraid of is that it can bring back stuff like ai and all that
01:00:32.920 but it can also take care of a lot of issues that people make money from right yeah right i mean i
01:00:41.880 would like to see advancements in medical so much i mean people that are blind people with als people
01:00:49.240 with alzheimer's you know people that are quadriplegic paraplegic i mean the the the things
01:00:55.240 at neural link you know are hoping is hoping to do is so exciting um so i love that possibility
01:01:03.720 the most oh boy it's a lot all right so you guys here we are again um let me just remind you first
01:01:11.080 please hit the thumbs up um like subscribe hit the little heart on locals um i hope everybody
01:01:19.320 if you didn't know yesterday, we announced that there is now a brand new, wait, you'll see it
01:01:24.960 right here. 2027 Dilbert calendar, you guys. And there's also a wall calendar. See it hanging there
01:01:34.300 first time ever. Um, I didn't get the, the links in the show notes today. I was running late,
01:01:40.340 but, um, I will make sure that we drop them into the show notes. You can only buy it on Amazon.
01:01:44.960 um so they're ready to be ordered now a lot of you've ordered them already that is so great
01:01:51.000 and getting them for gifts and they do come now in a i know someone yesterday i think it was
01:01:58.300 robo goon he's like let's hear more of he robo goon is also the one that doesn't love the akira
01:02:02.840 songs um robo was late today yeah this is this is another box conversation for you but the calendars
01:02:10.020 now come in this box so when they're shipped they'll get to you perfect and this is really
01:02:16.320 solid okay because this is their collector's items for a lot of people can it be used as a weapon
01:02:21.180 yeah yes again yeah we don't promote that um what i was gonna say is like share pictures of your
01:02:29.120 calendar and you with the calendar or with your pet or whoever you wanted to you know keep it
01:02:35.480 clean young people but yeah keep it clean especially if your pets are involved and um
01:02:39.980 put a mug in there for extra credit a simultaneous swaddle blanket whatever you want swaddle season
01:02:45.900 is upon us now um so for also for anybody like in the northeast i'm not really sure where this
01:02:51.980 storm is going but be careful and i think there's another one on the uh pacific um coast too i
01:02:58.580 forget the name of Hawaii of Hawaii. Everybody buckle up buttercup. We already have, uh, emergency
01:03:06.720 crews here from like other States on standby in my town, just in case something crazy happens.
01:03:13.180 Um, Owen tomorrow, tell us what you're doing. Uh, we will be having the after parties. So if
01:03:19.700 you want to have a voice and give us feedback on these stories we've been talking about or any of
01:03:23.760 the other news. Join me at 9 a.m. Central, 7 a.m. Pacific, whatever that is, Eastern.
01:03:29.720 10. And we'll talk. So that will be over the weekend.
01:03:36.320 Yeah. Don't miss it. It's a good time. Lots of you guys are there chatting it up. And
01:03:41.300 I was reading the chat. Sorry. And also tonight, tonight, subscribers only.
01:03:48.780 We have an 8 p.m. Eastern time, 5 p.m. I was going to say Western time and Central is what, Owen?
01:04:00.160 Seven.
01:04:01.420 Seven. Okay. So tonight, Jim Wyman is going to join me. We're going to do a very basic preliminary, just super basic, Jim.
01:04:12.260 Jim, I know you're in the chat. We're not doing anything crazy. We're talking 45 minutes
01:04:16.960 of starters for crypto to understand crypto, Bitcoin, the lingo. When we hear people talking
01:04:24.580 about it, if you're like me and you're like, I don't know, I hear crypto and I kind of check out,
01:04:29.700 I hear the word Bitcoin and I'm like, I don't know what it really means. We're going to just
01:04:33.820 dip our toe into the crypto pool tonight. So that will be on Scott's Locals channel,
01:04:39.140 which is um scottadams.locals.com so join us there at 8 p.m eastern and um so jim and i will
01:04:48.180 be on live and we can see your questions in the chat okay and if you can't watch it live it'll
01:04:53.480 be there on replay all right so um i know oh and you probably have to run so let me say thank you
01:04:59.400 to scott and shelly for allowing the show to continue thank you to every single person who
01:05:03.840 shows up here, who chats, who doesn't chat, who just likes to hear our voices because we're all
01:05:10.760 friends and we're all in this thing together. Thank you so much for being here. And let's have
01:05:15.100 a super useful closing sip to our beloved Scott Adams. To Scott. To Scott. To Scott.
01:05:25.340 All right, guys. Thank you. Have a great Friday. Bye. You too. Bye. If anyone wants to hang out,
01:05:31.280 I'll do an Akira song. And I think I'm going to go with repetition and simplicity
01:05:39.300 right into the weekend. Let's do it. This is coming to you, Robo-goon.
01:05:51.160 You want to make sure that you always inject novelty. It's what triggers memory.
01:05:56.700 because your brain will get bored of the sameness so you need to trigger memory and attention
01:06:03.560 contrast is a way to get people to move from where they are to where you want them to be
01:06:08.920 you just say well it's much much less expensive than this so contrast is one of the most important
01:06:16.080 buttons use contrast often hey you don't want to be this bad you could be over here
01:06:22.940 no repetition and simplicity our brains are just simple machines
01:06:29.540 no repetition and simplicity our brains are just simple machines
01:06:34.700 the more you repeat the more the wiring gets solidified
01:06:40.480 no repetition and simplicity our brains are just simple machines
01:06:45.480 and if you keep things simple the brain can process it and deal with it
01:06:49.700 and if you keep things simple the brain can process it and deal with it
01:06:55.040 if it's complicated your brain has a tendency to just flush it out you can't deal with it flush it
01:07:02.360 out the fake because is a form of pseudo logic sometimes you need to get people moving with a
01:07:15.920 fake reason that doesn't even actually pass logical standards, but people don't need logical
01:07:23.080 reasons. Just look at politics. People have incredibly different opinions, and many of
01:07:32.920 them are smart. So if you've got smart people on opposite sides of basically every issue,
01:07:39.420 you can see that they don't need real reasons we're not a species that operates on real reasons
01:07:46.640 we just we'll take a fake reason we'll take one we made up we'll take a guess we'll follow our
01:07:53.740 friends once you understand that people don't need real reasons it frees you because if you're
01:08:00.020 locked in a little world at a lower level of awareness where you say well i'm not going to
01:08:04.380 convince somebody unless I have a real reason. Sorry, that's not the reality any of us live in.
01:08:11.880 Real reasons are good. If you have them, use them. But we don't need them.
01:08:16.980 Real reasons are good. If you have them, use them. But we don't need them.
01:08:22.300 Real reasons are good. If you have them, use them. But we don't need them.
01:08:27.220 Once you know you don't need them and that reality can be authored, you're in better shape.
01:08:32.360 No repetition and simplicity.
01:08:35.200 Our brains are just simple machines.
01:08:37.820 No repetition and simplicity.
01:08:40.540 Our brains are just simple machines.
01:08:43.240 The more you repeat,
01:08:44.580 the more the wiring gets solidified.
01:08:48.580 No repetition and simplicity.
01:08:51.160 Our brains are just simple machines.
01:08:53.500 No repetition and simplicity.
01:08:56.960 Our brains are just simple machines.
01:08:58.800 This is a machine.
01:09:00.380 Repetition and simplicity.
01:09:02.360 our brains are just simple machines the more you repeat the more the wiring gets solidified
01:09:08.240 repetition and simplicity our brains are just simple machines
01:09:15.080 aww i love that akira's voice is so sweet too like i love his singing voice on there
01:09:24.920 so nice i gotta post that fat bear week thing oh yeah so marcel will post the link so we can
01:09:32.100 vote for the Chunky Bears. Yes. Straight Hair Friday, Sean. Let's go. Okay. Oh, I miss you,
01:09:44.840 bookish. Very smooth. His voice is so... You know what? And every song is so different. He's got
01:09:50.680 these great layers to the songs. I love Akira. He said, if I could give him some clips of us
01:09:58.160 that I like, he'll make us a song, Marcella. Oh, that'd be interesting. But I don't have time
01:10:05.360 to pick through clips. If anyone wants to pick through clips of fun, touching, interesting,
01:10:12.680 silly things we said and just send us little clips, we'll send them to Akira and see what
01:10:17.140 he comes up with. But I just, I can't, I don't have time. But that would be amazing. That would
01:10:22.640 be amazing um all right you guys so have a great great weekend i hope a lot of the locals can come
01:10:29.800 tonight or watch on the replay if you want to learn more about bitcoin uh could you have picked
01:10:36.460 the worst picture of me jeez and that was was that really the size of your yes yeah all right
01:10:43.640 it was but they made it bigger nope i had three of them like i can't wait to watch you tonight
01:10:51.120 on Friday night.
01:10:53.740 Marcel, you know a lot about it, right?
01:10:56.460 Yeah, but I need to learn from Jim.
01:10:59.920 Yeah.
01:11:02.220 Make a song out of Erica reprimanding me.
01:11:04.760 I mean EJ.
01:11:06.540 I'm pretty easy on you.
01:11:08.940 The EJ song.
01:11:11.160 The EJ song.
01:11:13.040 All right, guys.
01:11:14.020 Have a great day.
01:11:14.860 So if I don't see you tonight
01:11:15.960 and I don't see you at Owen's after party tomorrow,
01:11:20.040 what the heck are you guys doing? But no matter what, we'll see you on Monday. Okay. All right.
01:11:26.160 Be careful if you have that bad weather coming and just be careful anyway. Yeah. Just be,
01:11:30.720 just be careful while you're being useful. Okay. All right, guys. We love you. Okay. Bye guys.
01:11:50.040 Thank you.