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Episode 2426 CWSA 03/27/24

Episode #2426 Mar 27, 2024 1:29:27 31,273 views

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Opening General Commentary

Good morning everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and I'm pretty sure there's never been a finer time in your life. Oh, I always forget to turn down my sound on that device. Now we're perfect. If you'd like to take this experience up to…

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SimultaneousSip General Commentary

body can even understand, all that you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tanker, a chiller, a stein, a canteen, jug or flask or vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that m…

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NewsReaction Media & Fake News

Post is reporting there was an animal lover who was trying to care for a sick baby hedgehog. And so she took the baby hedgehog to the veterinarian, and the veterinarian had to give her the bad news about the hedgehog. It was very bad news. Very bad news. It turns out that the hedgehog was actually…

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MainContent Politics as Persuasion

country, he's just perfect, isn't he? Like he just knows how to make us feel better and to talk about our pain. So here's an example of how Joe Biden calmed the fears of the community, showed his empathy. He said that he had commuted over that collapsed bridge to Baltimore many times by train. Okay…

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NewsReaction AI & Technology

it might be a tie. Meanwhile, Elon Musk says that the new version of Grok is coming and it's going to be a banger. He's calling it Super Grok. And if you, I don't know, Premium Plus or whatever user, you can get it. Will Super Grok be the AI of all AIs? I don't know, but it might be the most unfilt…

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MainContent General Commentary

iends are doing it, you really are going to have to fight full-time and do nothing else but fight about that. Because a modern teenager in the modern world, if you say they can't have their social media after they've experienced it, all right, it's too late. After they've experienced it and they're…

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MainContent AI & Technology

tunities. So the people that you've chosen to teach your children don't believe that AI will significantly affect their employment opportunities. What do you even say about that? Did we intentionally find the dumbest people to become teachers? How in the world could they have that opinion that the j…

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MainContent AI & Technology

the people watching this broadcast are the exceptions. I don't know how that happened. But everybody else, they're doing some sketchy stuff. Do you know who never got arrested before? Puff Daddy. Do you think the AI could have figured out what was going on there? Probably. Probably I think so. So I…

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NewsReaction Media & Fake News

hat I get to say and put things the way I want to. It's a great, great, great experience, you know. So I feel bad for anybody who feels like it's a job. Now the other thing that makes this fun is that I do it live. I wouldn't like this at all if I were recording it right now and then you just got t…

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MainContent Media & Fake News

a, Donald Trump had some things to say. Nobody makes politics as fun as Trump does. I don't know why even his enemies haven't at least appreciated the fun of it. Like even if you don't want him to be president, I get that. I get that. We all understand. But you can't enjoy the good parts, like the p…

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MainContent Economics & Finance

y and energy go together. So when you see how much energy was put into the DJT stock, that's the story. It's not even a dollar thing. It's the energy. That energy is unmistakable and growing. Meanwhile Trump got hit with a gag order in New York over his Stormy Daniels quote hush money case because…

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NewsReaction Politics as Persuasion

said you know what I worked on this equality but the more I think about it maybe we should take a different approach. If she said that I'd be fine with it. Because somebody in their 30s who changes their mind about what works because they tried the other thing and it didn't work, that would be a str…

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MainContent Politics as Persuasion

two pluses. He picked smart and he picked young. I don't hate that. And somebody who wasn't a creature of Washington DC. I don't hate that. So there's a lot to like about it but there's just a huge red flag with this racial equality background stuff. Now if you're new to my show and you just casual…

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NewsReaction General Commentary

t of the time. So your starting point should be 99 percent likely not true. If you started with it's probably true because it's in the news and it's probably true because the intelligence people say it's true, as probably true because the CIA says it's true, as probably true because all of the netwo…

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MainContent Cognitive Reframing

cause that is exactly what a mass hysteria is. It's exactly that. It's people who should know better falling for it. That's what it is. So the fact that all the doctors were falling for it, let me think, do you have any recent experience in which all the doctors seem to be wrong? Yes, all the time.…

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MainContent Politics as Persuasion

they didn't leave any trace but yet Putin was sure it was true, would he do a similar attack in which you couldn't tell if it was real or not? You couldn't tell who did it. It would be kind of perfect. Yeah there is a little of a perfect payback symmetry to it but I'm still thinking coincidence beca…

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NewsReaction Media & Fake News

e are just differences in ability to understand your world. Nothing else. Now a lot of it is experience. When we talk about the old saw that says if you're young and you're not a liberal you don't have a heart but if you're older and you're not a conservative you don't have a brain. You've heard th…

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NewsReaction Climate & Environment

more illegal migration. Does he know he's doing that? Who knows? Can't read his mind. But I can tell you that anybody who understands anything about anything says you shouldn't incentivize criminals to come to your country. Now I'm not saying all immigrants are criminals. Obviously that would be rid…

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MainContent Media & Fake News

r that she wasn't a popular member of the show. Could be. But I suspect yeah you would think that a show like that would benefit from having a pro-Trump person in it because that would be a source of stories and conflict. So to imagine that they thought they would lose money by having a source of co…

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NewsReaction Politics as Persuasion

We did. Apparently there was also a strong flow. It was at the tide so there was a water effect. There was a night effect. There was a technology effect. There was an anchor effect. So looking at the video isn't going to tell you as much as you think it would. Yeah wrong anchor I don't know was tha…

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Closing General Commentary

guy. He survives one of the biggest disasters in the country, brushes himself off and says all right I'm ready to go home now. All right ladies and gentlemen on YouTube and Rumble and X I'm going to say goodbye to you and I'm going to keep the feed open for the local supporters only subscribers whi…

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Good morning everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and I'm pretty sure there's never been a finer time in your life. Oh, I always forget to turn down my sound on that device. Now we're perfect.

If you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand, all that you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tanker, a chiller, a stein, a canteen, jug or flask or vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now.

Oh, that's so good. Oh, somebody's having Diet Coke. Oh my God. My God.

All right, let's talk about all the things. Favorite story of the day: The New York Post is reporting there was an animal lover who was trying to care for a sick baby hedgehog. And so she took the baby hedgehog to the veterinarian, and the veterinarian had to give her the bad news about the hedgehog. It was very bad news. Very bad news.

It turns out that the hedgehog was actually a hat. It was a fuzzy hat, a pom-pom hat. Oh no, it was a pom-pom for a hat. So it wasn't so much a baby hedgehog as it was a part of a hat.

Now I saw the picture of the nice woman who was caring for the baby hedgehog that turned out to be a pom-pom from a hat, and I looked at her face. Biden supporter. You could see it in the face. Look at the face of the hedgehog lover who turns out was actually loving a pom-pom from a hat. I don't know how long she fed it and cared for it, but it's quite a story.

So I'm going to say Biden supporter. And my theme for today is the stuff that people believe, the things that people think are true. No, sometimes it's not a baby hedgehog. It could look just like one. It could act just like a sick one that doesn't move around much. But sometimes it's just a pom-pom from a hat.

All right, let's talk about Joe Biden. You know, thank goodness we have a commander-in-chief and a president, a leader of our country, who whenever there's a big disaster in the country, he's just perfect, isn't he? Like he just knows how to make us feel better and to talk about our pain.

So here's an example of how Joe Biden calmed the fears of the community, showed his empathy. He said that he had commuted over that collapsed bridge to Baltimore many times by train. Okay, we don't know how he did that because there are no train lines that run over that bridge and there never have been. But somehow he managed to make it not only about himself but about a version of himself that doesn't exist and never has.

I think that's a new record for bad leadership. Let me try to give you the ranking. Good leadership would be you show up right away, you show empathy, and you talk about the victims. That's A-plus leadership. You've seen Trump do that a number of times, yeah, including East Palestine. But the way Biden does it is he shows up, and if he had just talked about himself you'd say that's not as good. No, I'd rather that empathy, talking about the victims. That's number one.

But number two, talking about yourself? Well, at least you showed up. At least he showed up. But Biden managed to find a new low ground where not only do you not show the empathy that you need to, and you don't even talk about yourself, you talk about an imaginary version of yourself that everybody knows didn't exist. So I don't know if that's better than not going there at all, but it might be a tie.

Meanwhile, Elon Musk says that the new version of Grok is coming and it's going to be a banger. He's calling it Super Grok. And if you, I don't know, Premium Plus or whatever user, you can get it. Will Super Grok be the AI of all AIs? I don't know, but it might be the most unfiltered one. It might be the closest to at least attempting to be honest.

We hear that the new Claude AI is beating ChatGPT and the others. So apparently Claude is the number one AI right now just in terms of capability. I'm thinking about subscribing to it, but I don't know how many AIs I want to subscribe to. I don't know. By the way, what would happen if one AI just subscribed to other AIs? So your personal AI just has a subscription and can answer any question by querying the other AIs. It's what it's going to be, right? It'll probably be something like that.

Well, Chamath, one of the All-In Podcast guys, one of the most successful Silicon Valley investor guys, he said this, and I want to see how many parents agree or disagree. He says as a parent with teenagers, so he's got some teens, he said being the bad guy by limiting their social media has been a path to exhaustion and constant bickering, at least in my home. So having the government back me up and do the obvious and sensible thing that will give me as a parent more reinforcement would be to ban social media under 16. Because if something's literally illegal, it's way easier for a parent to say you can't do that. It just makes it easy.

But if it's legal and all your friends are doing it, you really are going to have to fight full-time and do nothing else but fight about that. Because a modern teenager in the modern world, if you say they can't have their social media after they've experienced it, all right, it's too late. After they've experienced it and they're hooked, they will know that they cannot have a normal social life. They would know that their ability to deal with their peers the way everybody else is dealing with them would be gone. I don't even think they could date. I think they wouldn't be able to date because it would look weird. Like I'm not going to hang out with a weirdo who doesn't use social media. It would make you a freak in your own school.

So there's no right answer. And I've had enough acquaintance with this topic in my personal life that I don't think there is a way to take a phone away from a teenager now. I think somebody like a Mike Cernovich, I'll use him just because he talks about his family situation a lot in a very productive way. Now I think in his case, if you've got homeschooling and you start early and they don't have social media and you build some kind of a life that they think is their life that doesn't involve it, you know, doing stuff with Dad, etc., you can make that work. Probably you could probably make that work. But unless you go full Cernovich, I don't see any way to make it work.

So I agree with Chamath that the government banning social media for kids is just smart, obvious, and it's the right thing for the government to do. It's exactly what you want your government to do, to help you out instead of hinder you. Give me a hand. Give me some help. That's what you want.

I guess Florida has already banned social media for kids under 14. Do I have that right? Kids under 14 are banned from social media in Florida. I don't know how that's going to work, but we'll see.

So just like I was in favor of testing drug legalization, it didn't work, but good job testing it. At least we found out what doesn't work. I think there might be some model where legalization could work if you changed a bunch of other things, right? But if you don't change a bunch of other things and you just change that one thing, I think we could say that it doesn't work. We tried it. We tried it. It didn't work. Now we know. We don't have to try that again. But if you tried something where you changed everything but also that one thing, maybe someday. We got to keep trying stuff because what we're doing now isn't working.

There's a new study about educators, in other words teachers mostly, and the study finds that half of all educators believe AI will not significantly affect their employment opportunities. So the people that you've chosen to teach your children don't believe that AI will significantly affect their employment opportunities. What do you even say about that? Did we intentionally find the dumbest people to become teachers? How in the world could they have that opinion that the job that's most likely to disappear entirely is their job? Am I wrong? The most likely thing to disappear entirely is teachers.

Now to me it seems like the model of the future is somewhat obvious. Getting a spam call, the model that would work is obvious. You get rid of bad teachers and you replace them with good AI. Now the AI might look like people but it'll be on a screen. It might be VR someday. But in the short run, the best AI that learns from all the teachers that there are and puts together a class that is the best of the best.

But let's say you could also change who the teacher is just by pushing a button. So let's say I think it will hold my attention better if the teacher is an attractive female, so I just choose that option because I think it will keep me sitting there looking at it longer. Why not? You might pick the man with a deep voice because you're sexist and you just think that sounds more authoritative, so maybe you'd learn better in that case. Maybe if you're a member of some minority group you might say, you know, I just want somebody who looks like me to teach me. It makes me feel more comfortable. Good, you have the option. Whatever works for you.

So the fact that AI could be instantly modified for the specific person, and then let's say that you say to the AI, you know what, the way I learn best is when you put it in a story form, or the way I learn best is when you put it into a practical real world example, or I need to hear it or I need to see it or I need to write it down. The AI could work with you to figure out what your learning process is and where you need a little extra and whether it needs to repeat. It could look at your eyeballs. The AI teacher could be looking at your eyeballs as you go because if you have a camera and it could determine if it's working or not.

Imagine the AI seeing that you're starting to zone out a little bit and so it says, oh I got to change pace. I got to mix it up. I got to excite you. I got to give you a little shock. Your teacher can't do that because they're teaching to one person or they're teaching to the whole class, so they can't adjust for any one person. But AI could. They could adjust instantly to one person.

So I don't think there's any chance that in the long run teachers will do what teachers have been doing now. They might have great opportunities, but you know they might be the person running the AI or managing the process or overseeing that the classes are right. There might be something like that. But it's not going to look the same, that's for sure.

Over in New South Wales they had a program to predict crime. They were going to use AI plus state surveillance stuff to figure out who is likely to be a criminal so they could watch them a little extra. Now I have mixed feelings about this. Number one, could you build a technology with current technology that would accurately determine who is likely to commit a crime? What do you think? Do you think our current technology can identify people who are likely to commit a crime? Of course it can. Of course it can. Do you know why? Because I could do that. I could just read your damn messages and I'll tell you if you're going to commit a crime. Bet I get it right 80 percent of the time. AI could do a little better than that. Yeah, absolutely.

People totally broadcast their criminal intentions in their words and actions, very much so. It would be obvious to the AI. But we can't really live in a world in which every part of us is surveilled and every bad behavior is caught. Because the problem is that we're all bad behavior people. Not you. I mean you're the exception. And I'm the exception. But amazingly only the people watching this broadcast are the exceptions. I don't know how that happened. But everybody else, they're doing some sketchy stuff.

Do you know who never got arrested before? Puff Daddy. Do you think the AI could have figured out what was going on there? Probably. Probably I think so. So I think the risk of AI and predictive crime is that you would find out that most average people are criminals. They're either cheating on their taxes or they're doing a little something at work. They're fudging their expense accounts. They're doing something. They're speeding. Who knows? They're drinking and driving. I don't know. But yeah, if we had a society where every bad thing you did got caught every time, we'd all be in a lot of trouble. Except for, like I said, except for those of you who are watching this now and me. Luckily for us we're the exceptions. But other people, they'd be in a lot of trouble.

Well apparently the Don Lemon show is not the roaring success that Don Lemon had hoped, and that its audience has almost disappeared after three shows. And maybe this is what we can learn from that. Did you think that Don Lemon had a natural audience or do you think that people watched him because he was on primetime on CNN? And do you think that people watched his Elon Musk interview because it was Elon Musk or because it was him? What do you think?

Well I would say that his recent performance suggests that he did not have an audience that would follow him. Rather he had an experience on a platform that brought a sizable audience to anybody who was at 8:00 or whatever his time zone was, whatever his time was. So it seems that through the process of trial and error Don Lemon has determined that literally nobody wants to watch him. Now I'm exaggerating a little bit, right? I think his show is bigger than mine. I think even his failed show is bigger than mine. But he started from a higher base so it looks worse. I started from nothing and grew it up, at least this part of my work. He started from a higher base and so it looks like failure. But he's still doing better than I'm doing. I mean if he did nothing but continued his low-rated show he'd be killing me with numbers probably. So we'll see. Anything could happen.

I still wish him well. So we'll see. I don't really like to see anybody who's doing what I'm trying to do, you know, this sort of a job, if you could call it a job. I'm not even sure if I call this a job. If any of you noticed that I literally am doing this for my own entertainment. I don't really have to work. I don't really have to get up at 4:30 to do this. I don't have to. But I actually love it. It's a highlight of my day usually. Like right now in this very moment. You know I'm hoping that you're enjoying something you're watching, but I'm having a better time than you are because I'm getting all the attention and I get to say what I get to say and put things the way I want to. It's a great, great, great experience, you know.

So I feel bad for anybody who feels like it's a job. Now the other thing that makes this fun is that I do it live. I wouldn't like this at all if I were recording it right now and then you just got to see it an hour later. No fun at all. I wouldn't have any interest in that whatsoever. It's only the live direct experience that gives me any kind of joy. But it gives me a lot. So I do appreciate all of you tremendously.

All right, I'm loving the dunking on the Democrats that's going on with the Ronna McDaniel situation. As you know, NBC hired her from her Republican world as head of the RNC. And they like to sometimes, the networks like to bring in a voice that's opposite of their normal voices to, you know, just so you could hear everything. But Glenn Greenwald is dunking on Jen Psaki. He says, hilarious today Jen Psaki said there's a difference between NBC hiring her, Jen Psaki, right from the Biden White House versus hiring Ronna McDaniel right from the RNC. And here's the difference according to Psaki: that she doesn't lie like McDaniel does.

That's all she does is lie. What exactly is the lie that McDaniel told? Does anybody know of one? I don't know of one. The only thing that I think what they call a lie is her debunking their hoaxes. So I think that her debunking their hoaxes is what they call lies that they can't handle.

And watching Glenn Greenwald, he's been dunking on them for like a couple days. He just has the funniest in-your-face "you hypocrite piece of crap" posts, you know, but they sound sort of professional and funny anyway. The fact that Jen Psaki can say that with a straight face and her audience can go "uh-huh, uh-huh, you know that's a good point." Because Jen Psaki, when she's, as Greenwald points out, the same Jen Psaki spread the CIA lie two weeks before the 2020 election, you know, the laptop lie. Yep, that is funny.

But speaking of Ronna, Donald Trump had some things to say. Nobody makes politics as fun as Trump does. I don't know why even his enemies haven't at least appreciated the fun of it. Like even if you don't want him to be president, I get that. I get that. We all understand. But you can't enjoy the good parts, like the pure entertainment of it all? All right, watch the show that Trump puts on.

So this is, he says, talk about her. He says fired after two days. Wow, Ronna McDaniel got fired by fake news NBC. She only lasted two days. And this after McDaniel went out of her way to say what they wanted to hear. It leaves her in a very strange place. It's called Never Neverland and it's not a place you want to be. These radical left lunatics are crazy. Crazy.

That's interesting. Do you wonder if more people will be willing to say that the real problem is mental illness? Because when I say it I don't get a lot of pushback, weirdly. But he's saying crazy. And the top people in NBC are weak. They were broken and embarrassed. My low ratings, highly overpaid quote talent. Bring back free and fair press. Make America great again.

Just watching him have his third act fun is pretty amazing. He's just sort of enjoying this week. I mean he's got other legal jeopardy of course. There's always going to be more. But he's having a good week.

So for me the takeaway of the whole NBC thing, which by the way they did fire her after two days so she's gone, is that the NBC management gave up the game and their own employees were so embarrassed by it that they had to reverse it. And what I mean by gave up the game is for what, two and a half years or something, MSNBC and NBC had been reporting that January 6 was an insurrection. So how did management justify hiring a known, according to them, insurrectionist to put on the show next to their fine good people who would never tell you a lie? How could they justify that?

There's only one way. NBC management knew that it was never true, anything their hosts were saying about the news. Am I wrong about that? Is there any other way to see it? Because there's a little bit of a mind reading going on with this, right? But it's process of elimination. What else could it be? What else could it be? It has to be that the NBC management knew that their own product, their news, were lying to you and telling you a hoax. Because if any of that were true there's no way they would hire the insurrectionist to work on the network next to the people who had been calling them insurrectionists for years. Couldn't possibly happen.

So but it did happen because the management was completely aware that it was not true, I assume. Now that's a little mind reading, I grant you. So if you're going to call me out on it that would be the correct thing to do. But I ask you, what's the other way to look at it? How else can you explain that they would bring on somebody that their hosts had been calling the worst criminals in the world, insurrectionists who they believe should be in jail? How do you explain it? You can only explain it by they didn't believe the insurrectionist hoax story that was their main content for two and a half years. There isn't another way to explain that.

It's not just a difference of opinion. It would be like they had decided to put Charles Manson on to talk about the other side of crime. Would they do that? No, because Charles Manson. But they did it in the case of Ronna. Their own hoax was that it was real. So I think that was an embarrassing admission.

Well, Trump's third act is going well. I haven't caught up today. Give me an update. How is the DJT Trump stock? Because yesterday was up 50 percent and at one point his 58 percent stake was worth nine billion dollars. How is it today? Is it up or down so far? Does anybody know? Too soon to know or do we know? We should know by now, right? Somebody says up now.

How do you explain that a media stock that is primarily Truth Social, which is only half a million users, has never made money? How do you explain that the market has valued it as up to 15 billion dollars, maybe even higher today? How do you explain that?

Let me tell you how I explain it. If you ask me, Scott, does this look like a good investment? No, no, no, it doesn't look like a good investment. Are you kidding me? Now you ask me the second question: Scott, are you going to buy any stock? Yes, yes I am. As soon as I get off the show there's very likely that no matter what is happening with the price I'll probably buy a thousand dollars because I don't want to have a lot because it's kind of risky. But do I want Trump to not be crushed by the system? Yes I do.

Do I think that it's a better way to donate to his campaign to just buy an investment in something that might go away? I mean it could go to zero, right? Anything could go to zero. But it might go up. It might go up. I might be able to double my money. That was a campaign donation. So in my world where I try to do things that make the world a little better place, I'm going to disregard the normal risk-reward analysis for this stock and I'm going to buy it to just poke my finger in the eye of the people who are trying to break him. Because when they try to break him they're trying to break you.

They already took a whack at me. They took a whack at me. Do you know why I'm still here? Because of you. The reason I'm still here is that you collectively gathered around and said no, we're not going to let him be cancelled. And many of you joined my subscription service even if you didn't want to, didn't even think that was what you wanted. And some people just signed up to subscribe purely to support free speech more than supporting me, supporting the concept that you don't want to see people you agree with get crushed by the evil system.

So I'm very much a beneficiary of the good judgment and let's say the impulse to set things right that exists out there. You know, the good that's still in people. The good in people that will, if they see you stuck on the road, will pull over and help. Right now here's the thing again that maybe the Democrats didn't count on because they don't understand Republicans. If your car is broken down on the side of the road, the first truck that's going to stop is going to be a Republican. Now if you didn't know that, welcome to the real world.

The reason that I'm protected and I can still get to do this is because of you, period. It's not because of me. It's entirely because of you collectively decided I'm still in business. And that's what apparently a third of the country just decided, that Donald Trump will not be broken by this system. That is the public deciding. So if you think this is about Truth Social being a great investment, I can't tell you it is. But if you think it's about Americans trying to finally say this is too much, this is too much, you've pushed too hard Biden and your goons, and we're just going to put up a break wall. So it's like a firebreak. Buying DJT stock is an act of pure patriotism to act as a firebreak against the Democrats setting the whole country on fire. And it works. It is a firebreak. It absolutely worked. And it also warns them what's coming. You know what I mean? It warns them what's coming because it's a signal of energy.

And if I've taught you anything it's follow the energy, not the arguments. Don't follow the arguments. Don't follow the science. Follow the energy. Now usually the energy is revealed in money because money and energy go together. So when you see how much energy was put into the DJT stock, that's the story. It's not even a dollar thing. It's the energy. That energy is unmistakable and growing.

Meanwhile Trump got hit with a gag order in New York over his Stormy Daniels quote hush money case because he said some things in public slamming the judge. Thank you. Thank you for the gag order. What do you think happens every time Trump gets a new gag order that tells him he can't say what he thinks is true in public? His numbers go up. His fundraising goes up. Yeah, that's what happens. So yeah, more gag orders please. Every time you take away his freedom of speech you take ours away. That's how I feel.

Trump is just sort of the canary in the coal mine. Whatever they do to him it is going to come back to you, right? It's going to get you. Now you saw it got me, right? It's the same energy that got me and I'm way down below Trump in the effectiveness category. So yeah it will just keep going down until they get everybody.

Meanwhile Trump is selling Bibles and Axios says it's not for the campaign. But he's selling Trump Bibles for 60 bucks. Now if it's not going toward his campaign what is it going toward? The legal bills I assume. So you could actually pay Trump's legal bills and get yourself a nice Bible too. How smart is that? I don't think I've ever seen anybody read a room better than that guy. Talk about how to read a room.

If you said to me Scott, donate some money to Trump's legal fund, I'm not too happy about that, right? Because I feel like everybody's got a legal fund they want me to contribute to. But if you tell me that he's selling a Bible to his fans and followers who love Bibles, then you know you're always in the market for a new one if Bible's your thing. It's sort of perfect. It's exactly correct. Who's going to complain about the Bible? I mean somebody will but it looks silly, right? Lawyers. Yeah lawyers will I guess. Lawyers will anyway. It's another perfect reading of the room. It's a perfect business model for paying off his legal bills if that's what he's doing. I assume so. I like it. Well done.

Meanwhile RFK Jr. picked his running mate who is Sergey Brin's ex-wife Nicole Shanahan. Now she's an attorney and a tech entrepreneur and seems to have tons of qualifications etc. She's in her 30s so she's young. And there are some rumors that I'm not going to share but I heard it in the comments earlier. But that didn't seem credible enough that I want to share any of those.

But let me say that in general everything you hear about public figures is fake, right? So you're going to hear a whole bunch of things about Nicole Shanahan. Some of it might be true in terms of she was once married to Sergey Brin and now she's not. That would be true. But I would look out for anything that's more interesting than that. Probably not true. So the rule with public figures is that the stuff that's public such as a marriage or divorce probably is true. If somebody died, probably true. Somebody got a new job, probably true. But once you get past name, salary, and social security number, everything about why anything happened, that's all, it's always the why of anything, the context, never reliable.

So just remember that when you're evaluating her. But I was looking at her background and apparently she highlights that she has worked on racial equality. Wow. So that's a hard no for me in our current environment. That's just a hard no, unfortunately. I wanted to say yes. I wanted to be pro whoever you picked. But that, unless she comes out and says the way I was doing it was a mistake, which would be fine by the way. If she came out and said you know what I worked on this equality but the more I think about it maybe we should take a different approach. If she said that I'd be fine with it. Because somebody in their 30s who changes their mind about what works because they tried the other thing and it didn't work, that would be a strong signal. Very strong signal. I like people who can change their minds and do it publicly and show their work. So if something like that happened it would be awesome.

But I'm a little bit worried about the background and racial equality and the fact that she lists that on, I don't know if that means DEI in any way or not. But she is also big into regenerative agriculture because we have to fix our food supply and RFK Jr. is right about that. Maybe the biggest issue in the world, food supply and the quality of it and children's and maternal health. Those are things she's interested in. Those are good. And she's worked on behalf of honest governments. Well good luck with that, right?

So let's see in the comments what's your opinion of his VP pick. Have you had any time to do that? Are you worried that she was once married to a founder of Google and Google's Gemini AI tells you what Google's all about, that they're sort of a racist cesspool? Yeah. So Google being a racist cesspool, I don't think they can correct themselves. But you wonder if Sergey was part of that and if you're married to that are you part of that world? Did you come out of the racist cesspool world right into the vice president role? That would be a bad look.

So I very much want to support RFK Jr. at least on the policy level, even if he doesn't have a legitimate shot at the top job. And by the way he does. Don't let us sneak up on you. RFK Jr. is not a long shot. He's not a long shot like whatever you think is a long shot he's not that. No, he has an absolute walking path to the White House. The walking path is that Biden falls apart, there's not enough time to replace him, and Trump gets some bigger attack or scandal that the public believes. What are the odds that there's some new hoax about Trump brewing right now? 100 percent. What are the odds that a huge part of the country will believe the hoax at least initially? 100 percent. Certainly all the Democrats. So you know a hoax is brewing. You know that a big part of the country is going to believe it because they always do. They always fall for it again. And you might see the two main candidates so bruised by election day that anything could happen. Anything could happen.

But I'm very uncomfortable with the VP choice so I would say it's a move backwards. What would you say? I would say that my casual support for RFK Jr. as not just a personality, seemingly a good person to have in the fight, but also policy-wise, there was a lot to like, not all of it but a lot to like, I think it's a step backwards. But it might be a step forward for his base and it might help him fund things and it might help him get on the ballot. So it could help his campaign. That part I don't know. But my own opinion of the package goes down a little bit with the choice.

And by the way I'm sure she's very smart and very good at what she does. That's not really the issue. So at least he picked quality and he picked youth. So I would say those are two pluses. He picked smart and he picked young. I don't hate that. And somebody who wasn't a creature of Washington DC. I don't hate that. So there's a lot to like about it but there's just a huge red flag with this racial equality background stuff.

Now if you're new to my show and you just casually came in and you heard me mocking racial equality, it's not because I don't want people to be equal. It's about the policies to get there. The policies to get there are absurd and really you're just a way to humiliate Black men basically. Because DEI looks good on women because when women complain and whine and then something gets fixed it feels like a natural situation. When men complain about the past as the reason that they're not successful they look pathetic. They look that way to other men. And there's a reason you don't hear men complain as much about being held back. It's because it's a bad look. It's pathetic. The whole point of being a man is that you're supposed to go through the wall. You're not supposed to quit. Oh there's a little wall in front of me. No, going through the wall is what makes you a man. Sorry if you stand there and whine and just join the women. And if you're in the Democrat Party it's basically a woman's party. So a female strategy for success is complaining about how unfairly you've been treated and it's a very good strategy and we've seen it work. And women certainly had a right to complain. Do we all agree about that? Women definitely had a right to complain and so they did and so everybody said okay. Well not only do I feel a certain way because women are unhappy because men are just primed to want to solve problems like that but also it's valid. You look at it you go okay you didn't even have the vote. You really couldn't. There was a time in my lifetime where a woman really would have a hard time getting a job that was a male-centric job. But not anymore. They're in pretty good shape right now.

But if you're a Black man I think it's just embarrassing for anybody to think that you got a leg up from the government. To me that would be embarrassing. So I wouldn't want to be in that situation.

Well let's talk about Puff Daddy. We still don't know. Diddy. Yeah, did he or did he not? There's an old video of Puff Daddy saying that white men like Trump need to be banished. White men like Trump. Who would be a white man who was in his opinion like Trump? Would it be Republicans? Would I be on that list? Would he say people like me should be banished? Well I don't know. But having heard that video I'm going to change my admonition yesterday when I said no matter how guilty he looks in this situation you should reserve your judgment until, because that would make him innocent till proven guilty and that is the standard which we should hold to no matter how many rumors you hear. Let the court decide and until then innocent until proven guilty no matter how bad this looks.

Well I was wrong. Turns out he's a racist and I don't care if he gets burned. So he can die in jail with a broomstick up his ass and I'd be happy about that. I don't really need any more racists. So let's get rid of him. Mal-informed is what I call him.

The story that I hear the most, if I'm reluctant to believe all the sex claims, you know there are claims about underage people at his parties and there's claims about raping and stuff. But the one allegation that I've heard from several sources who seem to know him personally is drugging the drinks of women at his parties. And who was it who was describing that? The way they do it is they put the drug in the mixer and then the women drug themselves. So you have the place where anybody can go up and pour themselves a drink and they make women always make mixed drinks. So women typically are not going to do vodka straight up. They're always going to add some juice to it. So they put the drug in the juice. That's the allegation. I can't prove that it happened but that would make them drug themselves so that it wouldn't be obvious who drugged them. Like they wouldn't have any memory of somebody putting something in their drink and they wouldn't have any memory of anybody giving them a drink. So the men would just drink without the juice, you know, which is typical, straight up or maybe add their own Diet Coke or something. And the women would just naturally add the juice and then bad things would happen is the allegation.

I don't know if any of that's true. I just know that on video he seems to be a major racist so for that alone you can fry him.

Michael Shermer who is one of the most notable skeptics, I think he leans, I don't know if he's an independent or leans a little Democrat but don't judge him by that because there might be only a few people who are not Republicans who can actually look objectively at stuff and he's one of them. So he's a good follow. So if you want to see somebody who may not be on the same team as you, and I don't know by the way, I just think he's not Trump, he's not a Trump supporter but I don't know if he's independent or what. But he tells us today, and Robert Bartholomew has an article on this, that Havana syndrome, that thing where they thought there was the secret sonic weapon, turns out there have been studies and they now know for sure it did not exist and that all of that was a psychological event. It was all a psychological event.

Now you know I'm the first person to tell you that right the day the story broke. I said this isn't real. This is a mass hysteria. Not only is it a mass hysteria but it's a classic one. It's an obvious one. It's like it's right on the nose. It's so classic hysteria that I don't know how you could miss it. Well how you could miss it is to not be familiar with mass hysterias. If you've never seen one or never learned about one or never studied the history of mass hysterias you don't know that they're not just common. It's closer to being the operating system of humanity. We just do one mass hysteria after another. There are several of them percolating right now. This isn't the only one. It's just the most obvious one.

So let me tell you how I spotted it so you can use these tricks for yourself in the future. Number one it's an extraordinary claim. It's a claim similar to I have a Bigfoot in my backyard or UFOs abducted me. It's in that class. So when you first hear it you say huh that would be an extraordinary claim. Well extraordinary claims are going to be wrong 99 percent of the time. So your starting point should be 99 percent likely not true. If you started with it's probably true because it's in the news and it's probably true because the intelligence people say it's true, as probably true because the CIA says it's true, as probably true because all of the networks are reporting it, if you started from that perspective you've learned nothing. None of those are good sources. None of them are credible even a little bit. Not even directionally. They are not useful for this sort of thing.

So you should have said on the surface of it 99 percent likely fake. Leave open a little chance. 100 percent would be stupid. No, 100 percent would be wrong because you know we could be surprised. You've been surprised before. But start with 99 percent fake. Don't believe anything the fake news tells you because they're not part of the information structure. They're part of the disinformation system. Let me say it again. The point of the news is to keep you uninformed. That's not hyperbole. That's not politics. That is an actual accurate description of what the news is intended to do. It is intended to mislead you for the benefit of the country or for the benefit of rich people or for somebody's benefit. Usually somebody thinks it's good for something. But no, the news is not its purpose to tell you what's true. It's to frame the stories in ways that are good for the people in power and that's it.

So number one, extraordinary stories are almost always false. Number two, it fit the classic form of a mass hysteria. It was a whole bunch of people who said oh you got hurt by a sonic weapon. I think I'm hurt by a sonic weapon. And then the third person hears it goes you know I didn't get to sleep last night. I wonder if it's that sonic weapon. And then somebody else says my sinuses have been acting up all week. It's probably that sonic weapon. And then the next thing you know the sonic weapon's being used at other embassies in other parts of the world. Okay this is the classic, most obvious, perfect form of a mass hysteria.

And now you say to yourself but Scott there were early reports of people with actual brain damage and it showed up in the scans and the physical damage was unquestionable and it was lots of doctors in different places were all getting the same answers. Yes something happened. They're damaged. And what did I say? Nope, nope, none of that's true.

And then you could have said in your mind Scott this is a whole bunch of doctors, doctors operating independently on all kinds of different people in different parts of the world and you're telling me that all of those doctors who have nothing to gain by being wrong that they all just fell for this mass hysteria? Is that what you're trying to get me to believe Scott? Yes because that is exactly what a mass hysteria is. It's exactly that. It's people who should know better falling for it. That's what it is.

So the fact that all the doctors were falling for it, let me think, do you have any recent experience in which all the doctors seem to be wrong? Yes, all the time. Is the most common thing in the world for all the doctors to be wrong. Very ordinary. You know it's not ordinary a secret sonic weapon used by Bigfoot. That's not ordinary. But all the doctors being wrong, I hate to tell you that's ordinary. It's very ordinary. Yeah go get some statins if you don't believe me.

Anyway and then the final tell, the intelligence people blamed Russia. Is there anything else I needed to say? If you add that it looks exactly like a mass hysteria, it's an absurd ridiculous extraordinary claim on its face and then the intelligence people blame Russia. People, the next time this happens you can do this on your own right? Have you learned? Extraordinary claim, fits the mass hysteria perfectly, and the CIA blames Russia. That's the triple header right there. So it was exactly what it looked like.

Well are there any mass hysterias that are brewing right now? Is there any mass hysteria right now that is obviously fitting the pattern? Let's see the pattern would be lots of capable experts think it's happening. They've got lots of specific examples of it happening. It's an extraordinary claim like what are you kidding me that I don't believe that that's incredible. And sometimes they blame Russia. It's called the January 6 insurrection hoax. It just got Ronna McDaniel fired. You don't think it's still active and changing things in our world? It is. It's changing things in our world and it's a mass hysteria.

Now this mass hysteria was initiated by the news. So the news very intentionally caused this mass hysteria. But I'd say at least a third of the country was told that an insurrection had happened and that Trump wants to stay in power forever and that he was planning an insurrection and that's exactly what he planned.

Well Jeff Clark, Jeffrey Clark, he's a former Justice Department official who worked with Trump around that time. Excuse me I'm allergic to the news anyway. Jeffrey Clark's being investigated now and some of the things we learned from one of his co-workers is that you know there was this attempt to try to organize these alternative electors. So that was true. They did try to get them. They were a placeholder to keep their rights active so that it would be obvious there's a dispute. That the dispute could be worked out the way we work out all disputes usually in Congress or in the courts. But it wasn't meant to be nefarious and it wasn't meant to be illegal and it wasn't meant to be overthrowing the country.

But what we learned today is from somebody who worked with Clark who's in a lot of trouble by the way if things don't go his way. What we learned is that his coworker believed that Clark was serious and truly believed that the election had been stolen and that his work was trying to correct what looked like an insurrection, a stolen election. So he was, and paint that same set of actions as being somebody trying to take over the country and keep Trump in power. They got to sell that narrative.

But now we know what he was thinking based on the fact that people were with him and working at the time. That all of his everything he did suggested that he genuinely believed there was this great injustice and he was trying to figure out how to fix it. Now what does that do to the narrative of January 6? The entire narrative is that it was planned and that people knew the election was fake. I'm sorry the allegation is that they knew the election was fair which is stupid. Nobody could have known that even whether it was fair or not you couldn't know it. It wasn't knowable. But the news told us you could know the unknowable and so their idiots believed them.

So now we know for sure that a main character, and indeed there has not been one set of evidence that anybody who was trying to reverse the January 6 results, not a single person has any evidence, there's no evidence that's been presented that any of them believe that they were doing something wrong as opposed to trying to correct a wrong. Every bit of evidence from every testimony from every person supports the narrative that Trump thought the election was truly rigged and thought they were avoiding an insurrection not causing one.

Has your news told you that? Did your news tell you that we know for sure that the January 6 main theme that Trump knew it was a fair election and was trying to overthrow it anyway, the main theme has been completely debunked by a complete lack of any evidence? That should be the biggest story because now we know that all of the prosecutions were illegitimate. We know that once you know the people's intentions were to correct a wrong not to create a wrong but to correct a wrong and that's definitely in evidence now, widespread in evidence. The whole narrative is gone. And yet the news treats it like none of that happened and the whole tent pole that was holding up the hoax is completely gone. Not a single bit of evidence. Nothing in writing. Nothing. Nothing even people speculating about what somebody else was thinking. No evidence at all that it was anything except what it looked like: somebody trying to correct a wrong in his mind.

All right we'll talk about that Baltimore bridge. How many of you think it was a terrorist act? That something got hacked and maybe Putin was getting revenge. It was all kind of perfect because it was the Francis Scott Key bridge so that gets to the real patriotism. And it was a critical bridge because apparently it's going to have a massive impact on the supply chain. I think we'll adjust but it could affect prices and timing and stuff.

I'm going to say not likely it was a terrorist attack. And the reason I'm going to say not likely is that terrorists like you to know it was intentional. That's sort of the whole point of terrorism because people don't get the same amount of fear for a natural accident. They just say well stuff happens.

Personally I would say that my suspicions were raised but as of today even the FBI says no it wasn't a terrorist act. Can you give me a fact check on that? I believe the FBI has ruled out terrorist attack. Is that true? Which would suggest they've talked to the captain and the crew and they have a better idea that it may maybe it was some ordinary mistake or mechanical problem. I think it was just bad timing.

Yeah you're saying that the FBI lies. Well that's true but would they lie about this? They might. They might yeah. The FBI is no longer credible on any political stuff. All right would Putin do this though? On some level it would be a perfect response because if the CIA was behind hiring these terrorists that went into Moscow and some people say they were I don't know if that's true and they didn't leave any trace but yet Putin was sure it was true, would he do a similar attack in which you couldn't tell if it was real or not? You couldn't tell who did it. It would be kind of perfect. Yeah there is a little of a perfect payback symmetry to it but I'm still thinking coincidence because you can read into these situations anything you want.

Well more climate catastrophe. It turns out that ABC News is worried that rising global temperatures could change where the majority of the world's wine is produced. So France for example might be less of a good wine growing place but maybe some other places would get better.

So let me put this in context. The climate alarm went from I think your cities will be underwater in 12 years to I don't want no Swedish wine. I feel like they're slowly backing out. It wasn't long ago everything was going to crash down on you. The water level would rise. It would be super hurricanes and you would fry in your sleep. But now I'm a little worried that I won't be able to call anything champagne because nothing will be grown in the Champagne region. What if I have to drink wine that came from Mongolia instead because it's so warm there? I feel like the cat's on the roof. That's what it feels like. It feels like the cat's on the roof and the predictions are not coming true at a level that would support the narrative. So maybe they need to back off the narrative too.

Well when I said super hurricanes I meant your chardonnay might taste different. See what I mean? It's going from really bad to I don't know you might have less access to poison. Just think about it. Alcohol is poison. And one of the big problems of global temperature rise if it's happening is that you might have to get your poison from a different source. That's your biggest problem right there. Well I don't know if I have to poison myself by putting a little extra work into it. That's no good anyway.

Mike Benz talking about the whole of government censorship effort. So did you know that the Department of Homeland Security censorship agency CISA, did you know Mike Benz reports that they put a Washington Post reporter on its taxpayer-funded domestic disinformation conference in 2020 where they formulated social media censorship strategies for the 2020 election? Just hold that in your mind. That the government created very expensive, well-funded, gigantic entities, if you count the entire web of connected people, for the specific purpose of censoring 2020 information. And one of the participants was the Washington Post, most famous for their CIA connection. So that's what you call, as Mike Benz says, a whole of government censorship effort. Yeah there were a lot of people in on that.

So do you still think that the Washington Post canceled me because of what I said? Does anybody think that I was canceled because of what I said or is it a coincidence that the Washington Post led the cancellation and we know the Washington Post is an intelligence agency that works closely with the Democrats? And listening to me talking in public has got to hurt them a little bit. Big coincidence. Not a single Republican complained about anything I said. I mean they were uncomfortable with it but once they heard the whole explanation they're like oh okay free speech. Yeah no everything's political. Everything's political.

All right I would like to say that not knowing how anything works is not a political opinion but we keep treating it like it is. We keep acting like there's a difference of political opinion on big topics. It's not really that. It's really stupid people who don't know how anything works trying to debate people who do know how things work and then we imagine that has something to do with politics. That's not politics. That's just some people know how to analyze things and some don't. That's all that is.

Let me give you some examples. Democrats don't know how free speech works. That being the prior story. If you have a strike force that the government put together to censor speech then you don't understand that censoring speech is the end of everything. Or maybe you do and you want everything to end. So it's like people who don't understand. How do you not understand that free speech means you don't censor people you disagree with? But they seem to think free speech allows you to censor people you disagree with which is the opposite. It's literally the opposite.

Now how do you have a political conversation with somebody who thinks that censoring is free speech? You can't. That's a smart person arguing with a dumb person. If you don't know how anything works you would think that limiting free speech could work out for you. Well if you do know how anything works you don't want to do that.

How about open borders? If you know how anything works you'd be against it. But if you don't know how anything works in the real world you'll be for it. You'd be for it. How about reparations? How about DEI? Yeah if you understood incentives and what it would do to the people who are not benefiting from the DEI and what kind of an obscenity it becomes when people try to hit those targets but they don't have enough supply of people to hire, it breaks everything. Who knew? Do that. Well people who understand how the real world works know that this is a disaster. If you don't know how the real world works you think it's a way to get equity.

How about New York Mayor Adams is talking about giving debit cards and free money to migrants, prepaid debit cards. What do you think will happen if you start paying people to come here illegally? Huh? Would there be more of it or less of it if you reward it? I don't know. I can't figure it out. Ever since I registered to be a Democrat I can't figure these things out.

Well you see my point. Arguing about free speech, open borders, DEI, reparations, and benefits to immigrants, those are not really differences of opinion. Those are differences of intelligence, period. Those are just differences in ability to understand your world. Nothing else.

Now a lot of it is experience. When we talk about the old saw that says if you're young and you're not a liberal you don't have a heart but if you're older and you're not a conservative you don't have a brain. You've heard that one right? It's an old one but the mechanism for that makes sense. The less experience you have of how the real world works the more likely you'll be seduced into something that sounds like it's going to give you fairness. But as soon as you have more experience and you see how things actually work, as soon as you hear about DEI you say oh that can never work because it will just cause people to hire less qualified people to meet their targets. And the DEI proponents can't seem to understand that it's a supply problem and not a demand problem. And that if they did away with DEI tomorrow the demand for diverse employees would be the same. Nothing would change because the companies independently want to have more diversity. It's good for them. You know it's a good look as long as they don't have to trade off any competence. But as soon as you turn it into DEI they do have to trade off competence because they're trying to hit those DEI goals. If you don't understand that you really shouldn't be in the conversation right? It's sort of basic.

Let's see that the German government is doing well and wokeness printed some German government data on the percentage of all crimes committed by foreign-born populations in Frankfurt. So in Frankfurt the foreign-born population were 100 percent of serious sexual assaults. I don't know what makes it serious. Is that group maybe gang assault probably. Pickpocket incidents 93 percent is foreign born. Human trafficking 83 percent. Day home burglaries 80 percent. Aggravated theft 76 percent. Illegal smuggling 70 percent. Theft 66 percent. Crime against life 60 percent. Child abuse 53 percent. Arson 52 percent. Assault 52 percent. That's just the immigrant population.

Now should you stop immigration because of these numbers? What would somebody who understands how the real world works, what would be their response to seeing these numbers in the real world? You don't let more people in that will be in this category, right? In the weird imaginary equity world that the Democrats live in you increase the number who come in. It doesn't make any sense.

Now in my world and I think Elon Musk and a lot of other people would agree that we do need more bodies. We can't succeed at the moment without pretty strong immigration, bigger numbers than you used to and way bigger numbers than you can be comfortable with. But we need to vet them. They need to come through a system where we're weeding out the serial criminals. It's just basic. Just basic stuff. But no we won't do that.

And meanwhile President Joe Biden he's thinking about granting amnesty to people who've been here a while and he's coming up with other ideas to incentivize more illegal migration. Does he know he's doing that? Who knows? Can't read his mind. But I can tell you that anybody who understands anything about anything says you shouldn't incentivize criminals to come to your country. Now I'm not saying all immigrants are criminals. Obviously that would be ridiculous. But too many criminals is a problem.

All right there's a Real Housewife of Beverly Hills, Annemarie Wiley, who allegedly, Colin Rugg is reporting this, allegedly lost her job as a Real Housewife because she was a Trump supporter and she liked Candace Owens and she opposed with her husband I guess who was an athlete, transgender athletes. Didn't oppose transgender, just the athlete part, you know competing against women on women's teams.

All right so now what's interesting about this is that they're a Black couple. So it's a Black woman who got kicked off a show allegedly for being pro-Trump. Now it's certainly believable but remember what I told you. All news about public figures is fake. Probably not an exception. So it might be true in the details that she was let go from the show. It might be true that she's a Trump supporter and it might be true that that was a contributing factor. But what we don't know was there anything else? Because there's a good chance if you listen to the story that somebody involved would have a different version of that story.

Now that should be your primary first thing you think whenever there's a public person in the news. First thing you should think is news about public figures not very often right?

All right that ladies and gentlemen brings me to the conclusion of my prepared remarks. Did I miss any stories? Is there anything happening that I missed? You know I find, did I look almost exclusively on social media for the news now? She could have been a pain in the neck and they needed a reason. Well pain in the neck probably wouldn't be a good enough reason as long as she got ratings. So it could easily be that the ratings or that she wasn't a popular member of the show. Could be. But I suspect yeah you would think that a show like that would benefit from having a pro-Trump person in it because that would be a source of stories and conflict. So to imagine that they thought they would lose money by having a source of conflict on a reality TV show stretches the imagination. It is easy to believe that they just weren't comfortable having a Trump supporter on their show and that's all that mattered. So it is a believable story but I don't automatically think you have the right context whenever a public figure is involved.

Do I think the guy in the ship was drunk? No. I'm guessing that the ship captain probably did as much as he could because we know the lights blinked so we doubt that the ship captain was directly responsible for the lights going out. So that would say that whether he was drunk or not whatever the problem was wasn't that they woke him up. But that too is not, that doesn't tell you anything. So the captain has to sleep. That's why you have other people who can pilot a ship. I don't think the captain always has to be awake. Nobody required that. So you know there's going to be a lot of conspiracy theories about it. I'm going to say I lean toward it was just a human problem with some mechanical problems thrown on top.

Yeah once a ship loses propulsion there's not a whole lot you can do. You're not going to be steering it. But the fact that it did what it did. Here's how you should deal with coincidence today. A truck ran into a telephone pole and the damage was quickly fixed. Was that in the news? No because it was an ordinary accident got fixed. Today a boat sank in the harbor. Big news? No because you know little boats sink. It's a thing. Today a plane crashed but luckily the pilot was so good that he made a good emergency landing and survived, walked away. So what you're seeing is a survivor bias sort of situation. So you have accidents happening all over the world every day. Every now and then one is going to have a coincidence involved. Somebody's going to hit the base of a bridge. So your problem in analyzing this is that you don't see all of the accidents that didn't cause a bigger problem. And so in a context where there's just accidents everywhere, everywhere all the time every day, some of them are going to hit the base of a bridge. You see what I'm saying? Some of them are just going to be worse than the others and then we're going to think it was a terrorist attack. Yeah see seems the boat turned. Well everything about the action of the boat appears to be uninformed people talking about it because the things that we don't know about are at some point they dropped anchor right? So I think the boat was sort of going in a direction and then in desperation they dropped anchor and then the anchor would cause them to pivot off the anchor basically. So we don't know what the anchor did. We don't know what happens as the power was coming on and off. We did. Apparently there was also a strong flow. It was at the tide so there was a water effect. There was a night effect. There was a technology effect. There was an anchor effect. So looking at the video isn't going to tell you as much as you think it would.

Yeah wrong anchor I don't know was that a thing? Well bumpers would have only helped against a smaller object. Yeah bumpers wouldn't have helped you against a ship that size. It would help against the smaller ones. They did stop traffic after the Mayday was received so it looks like police did a heck of a good job.

And did you hear the story about one of the workers? So there was a work crew, a repair crew that had most of the deaths. So a number of them died after the hit. But one of them fell in the water, survived it. It was like 48 degree water. Survived. Didn't need any serious medical treatment and brushed himself off and said he just wanted to go home. Imagine being that guy. He survives one of the biggest disasters in the country, brushes himself off and says all right I'm ready to go home now.

All right ladies and gentlemen on YouTube and Rumble and X I'm going to say goodbye to you and I'm going to keep the feed open for the local supporters only subscribers which you could be as well. And thanks for joining. I'll see you tomorrow.

good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called coffee with Scott Adams and I'm pretty sure there's never been a finer time in your life oh I always forget to turn down my sound on that device H now we're perfect if you'd like to take the this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand all that you need for that is a cuper muger a glass a tanker cheler Stein a canteen Jugger flask of vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparallel pleasure the dop of me enj of the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous Sip and it happens now go oh that's so good oh somebody's having Diet Coke oh my God my God all right let's talk about all the things uh favorite story of the day New York Post is reporting there was an animal lover who was trying to care for a sick baby hedgehog and so she took the baby hedgehog to the veterinarian and the veterinarian had to give her the bad news about the Hedgehog it was very bad news very bad news it turns out that the Hedgehog was actually a hat it was a fuzzy hat Palm pom hat oh no it was a pom pom for a hat so it wasn't so much a baby hedgehog as it was a part of a hat now I saw the picture of the uh the nice woman who was caring for the baby hedgehog that turned out to be a pom pom from a hat and and I looked at her face Biden supporter you could see it in the face look at the face of the Hedgehog uh lover who turns out was actually loving a pom pom from a hat I don't know how long she fed it and cared for it but uh it's quite a story so I'm going to say Biden supporter and my theme for today is the stuff that people believe the the things that people are think are true no sometimes it's not a baby hedgehog it could look just like one it could act just like a sick one that doesn't move around much but sometimes it's just a pom pom from a hat all right let's talk about Joe Biden you know thank goodness we have a commanderin-chief and a president a leader of our country who whenever there's a big disaster in the country he's just perfect isn't he like he just knows how to make us feel better and to talk about our pain so here's an example of how Joe Biden calmed the fears of the community showed his empathy he said that he had commuted over that collapsed bridge to Baltimore uh many times by train okay we don't know how he did that because there are no train lines that run over that bridge and there never have been but somehow he managed to make it not only about himself but about a version of himself that doesn't exist and never has I think that's a new record for a bad leadership let let me let me try to give you the ranking good leadership would be you show up right away you show empathy and you talk about the victims that's A+ leadership you've seen Trump do that a number of times yeah including East pal Palestine Palestine and uh but the way Biden does it is he shows up and if he had just talked about himself you'd say that's not as good h no I'd rather that empathy talking about the victims that's number one but number two talking about yourself well at least you showed up at least he showed up but Biden managed to find a new low ground where not only do you not show the empathy that you need to and not and you don't even talk about yourself you talk about an imaginary version of yourself that everybody knows didn't exist so I don't know if that's better than not going there at all but it might be a tie meanwhile uh Elon Musk said says that the new version of grock is coming and it's going to be a banger uh he's calling it Super Gro and if you I don't know Premium Plus or whatever user you can get uh super grock will Super grock be the gro the be the AI of all AI I don't know but it might be the most unfiltered one it might be the closest to at least attempting to be honest uh we hear that uh the Claude the new Claude AI is beating chat GPT and the others so apparently Claude is the number one AI right now just in terms of capability um I'm thinking about subscribing to it but I I don't know how many AIS I want to subscribe to I Don't Know by the way what would happen if one AI just subscribed to other AIS so your personal AI just has has a subscription and can answer any question by querying the other AIS it's what it's going to be right it'll probably be something like that well uh chth Pia um one of the Allin podcast guys one of the most successful Silicon Valley investor guys he said this and I want to see how many parents agree or disagree uh he says as a parent as parent with teenagers so he's got some teen he said being the bad guy be limiting their social media has been a path to exhaustion and conster bickering at least in my home so having the government back me up and do the obvious and sensible thing that will give me as a parent more reinforcement uh would be to you know ban social media under 16 because if something's literally illegal it's way easier for a parent to say you can't do that it just makes it easy but if it's legal and all your friends are doing it you really are going to have to fight fulltime and do nothing else but fight about that because a modern teenager in the modern world if you say they can't have their social media after they've experienced it all right it's too late after they've experienced it and they're hooked they will know that they cannot have a normal social life they would know that their ability to to deal with their peers the way everybody else is dealing with them would be gone I don't even think they could date I think they wouldn't be able to date because it would look weird like I'm not going to hang out with a weirdo who doesn't use social media it it would make you a freak in your own school so there's no right answer and I've had enough of uh an acquaintance with this topic in my personal life that I don't think there is a way to take a phone away from a teenager now um think somebody like a Mike cernovich I I'll use him just because he talks about his family situation a lot in the very productive way now I think in his case if you've got um I think he's doing homeschooling if you've got homeschooling and you start early and they don't have social media and you you build some kind of a life that they think is their life that doesn't involve it you know doing stuff with Dad Etc you can make that work probably you could probably make that work but unless you go full cernovich I don't see any way to make it work so I agree with the chamoth that the government Banning Social Media for kids is just smart obvious and it's the right thing for the government to do it's exactly what you want your government to do to help you out instead of hinder you give me a hand give me some help that's what you want I guess uh Florida has already banned social media for kids under 14 do I have that right kids under 14 are banned from social media in Florida I don't know how that's going to work but we'll see so just like I was in favor of testing drug legalization it didn't work but good job testing it at least we found out what doesn't work I think there might be some model where legalization could work if you changed a bunch of other things right but if you don't change a bunch of other things and you just change that one thing I think we could say that it doesn't work tried we tried it didn't work now we know we don't have to try that again but if you tried something where you changed everything but also that one thing maybe maybe some you try that someday we got to keep trying stuff cuz what we're doing now isn't working says it was a new study about Educators in other words teachers mostly and uh the study finds that half of all Educators believe AI will not significantly affect their employment opportunities so the people that you've chosen to teach your children don't believe that AI will significantly affect their employment opportunities what do you even say about that did we did we intentionally find the dumbest people to become teachers how in the world could they have that opinion that the job that's most likely to disappear entirely is their job Am I Wrong the most likely thing to disappear entirely is Teachers now to meia seems like the model of the future is somewhat obvious getting a Spam call the the model that would work is obvious you get rid of bad teachers and you replace them with good AI now the AI might look like people but you it'll be on a screen it might be VR someday but in the short run the best AI that learns from all the teachers that there are and puts together a class that the best of the best but let's say you could also change who the teacher is just by pushing a button so let's say I think uh it will hold my attention better if the teacher is an attractive female so I just choose that option because I think it will keep me sitting there looking at it longer why not you you might pick the uh the man with a deep voice because you're sexist and you just think that sounds more authoritative so maybe you'd learn better in that case maybe maybe if you're uh you know a member of some minority group you might say you know I just want somebody who looks like me to teach me makes me feel more comfortable good you have the option whatever works for you so the the fact that AI could be instantly modified for the specific person and then let's say that you say to the AI you know what uh the way I learn best is is when you put it in a story form or the way I learn best is when you put it into a practical real world example or I need to hear it or I need to see it or I need to write it down the AI could work with you to figure out what your learning process is and where you need a little extra and whether whether what it needs to repeat it could look at your eyeballs the AI teacher could be looking at your eyeballs as you you go because if you have a camera and it could determine if it's working or not imagine the AI seeing that you're starting to zone out a little bit and so it says oh I got to I got to change Pace I got to mix it up I gotta excite you I got to give you a little little shock your teacher can't do that because they're teaching to one person or they're teaching to the whole class so they can't adjust for any one person you know but AI could they could adjust instantly to one person so I don't think there's any chance that in the long run teachers will do what teachers have been doing now they might have great opportunities but you know they might be the person running the AI or you know managing the process or overseeing that the classes are right you know there might be something like that but it's not going to look the same that's for sure um over in New South Wales they had a program to predict crime they were going to use AI uh plus State surveillance stuff to figure out who is likely to be a criminal so they could watch them extra a little extra now I have mixed feelings about this number one could you build a technology with current technology that would accurately determine who is likely to commit a crime what do you think do you think our current technology can identify people who are likely to commit a crime of course it can of course it can do you know why because I could do that I could just read your damn messages and I'll tell you if you're going to commit a crime bet I get it right 80% of the time you know AI could do a little better than that yeah absolutely people totally broadcast their criminal intentions in their words and actions very much so you could it would be obvious to the AI but we can't really live in a world in which every part of us is surveilled and every bad behavior is caught because the problem is that we're all bad behavior people not you I mean you're the exception I mean and I'm the exception but amazingly only the people watching this broadcast are the exceptions I don't know how that happened but everybody else they're doing some sketchy stuff do you know who never got arrested before Puff Daddy do you think the AI could have figured out what was going on there probably probably I think so so I think the risk of AI and predictive crime is that it would found you would find out that most average people are criminals they're either cheating on their taxes or they're you know doing a little something at work they're fudging their expense accounts they're they're doing something you know they're speeding who knows they're drinking and driving I don't know but yeah if we had a society where every bad thing you did got caught every time we'd all be in a lot of trouble except for like I said except for those of you who are watching this now and me luckily for us were the exceptions but other people they'd be in a lot of trouble well apparently the Don Lemon show is not the Roaring success that Don limit had hoped and that its audience has uh almost disappeared after three shows and maybe this is what we can learn from that did you think that Don Lemon had a natural audience or do you think that people watched him because he was on Prime Time on CNN and do you think that people watched his Elon Musk interview because it was Elon Musk or because it was him what do you think well I would say that his recent performance suggests that he did not have an audience that would follow him rather he had an experience on a platform that brought a you know sizable audience to anybody who was at 8:00 or whatever his time zone was whatever his time was so it seems that through the process of trial and error Don Lemon has determined that literally nobody wants to watch him now I'm exaggerating a little bit right I think his Show is bigger than mine I think even his failed Show is bigger than mine uh but he started from a higher base so it looks worse I started from nothing and grew it up at least this part of my work he started from a higher base and so it looks like failure but he's still doing better than I'm doing I mean if he did nothing but continued his you know low-rated show he'd be killing me with with numbers probably so we'll see anything could happen I I still wish him well uh um so we'll see I don't really like to see anybody who's doing what I'm trying to do you know this sort of a job if you could call it a job I'm not even sure if I call this a job if any of you noticed that I I literally am doing this for my own entertainment I don't really have to work I don't really have to get up at 4:30 to do this I don't have to but I actually love it it's it's a highlight of my day usually like like right now in this very moment you know I'm hoping that you're enjoying something you're watching but I'm having a better time than you are because I'm getting all the attention and I get to say what I get to say and put things the way I want want to it's a great great great experience you know so I feel bad for anybody who feels like they're it's a job now the other thing that makes this fun is that I do it live I wouldn't like this at all if I were recording it right now and then you just got to see it an hour later no fun at all I wouldn't have any interest in that whatsoever it's it's only the live direct experience that that gives me any any kind of Joy but it gives me a lot so I do appreciate all of you tremendously all right uh I'm loving the dunking on the Democrats that's going on with the uh ra MC Daniel situation as you know NBC hired her from from her Republican world as head of the RNC and they like to sometimes the networks like to bring in a a voice that's opposite of their normal voices to you know just so you could hear everything but uh Glenn Greenwald is dunking on Jen saki he says uh hilarious today Jens saki said there's there's a difference between NBC hiring um her Jens saki right from the Biden White House versus hiring Ron Mc.

Don Ron Mc.

Daniel right from the RNC and here's the difference according to Zaki that she doesn't lie like Mc.

Daniel does um that's all she does is lie what what exactly is the lie that mcdan told does anybody know of one I don't know of one the only thing that I think what they call a lie is her debunking their hoaxes so I think that her debunking their hoaxes is what they call lies that they can't they can't handle and watching Glenn Greenwald he's he's been dunking on them for like a couple days he he just has the funniest in your face face you hypocrite piece of crap posts you know but they sound sort of professional and funny anyway how the the fact that Jens saki can say that with a straight face and her audience can go uh-huh uhhuh you know that's a good point because Jens saki when she's uh as a Greenwell points out the same Jens saki spread the CIA live two weeks before the 2020 election you know the laptop lie yep that is funny but speaking of R uh Donald Trump had some things to say nobody makes Politics as fun as Trump does I I don't know why even his enemies haven't at least appreciated the fun of it like even if you don't want him to be president I get that I get that we all understand but you can't enjoy the good parts like the just pure the pure entertainment of it all right watch the show that Trump puts on so this is uh he says talk about R he says fired after two days wow Ron MCD Daniel got fired by fake News NBC she only lasted two days and this after Mc.

Daniel went out of her way to say that that what they wanted to hear it leaves her in a very strange place it's called Never Neverland and it's not a place you want to be these radical left lunatics are crazy crazy that's interesting do you wonder if more people will be willing to say that the real problem is mental illness because when I say it I don't get a lot of push back weirdly but he's saying crazy and the top people in NBC are weak they were broken and embarrassed my low ratings highly overpaid quote Talent bring back free and fair press make America great again Ju Just watching him have his third act fun is pretty amazing he's just sort of enjoying this week I mean he's got other legal Jeopardy of course there's always going to be more but he's having a good week so for me the takeaway of the whole NBC thing which by the way they did fire her after two days so she's gone um is that the NBC management gave up the game and their own employees were so embarrassed by it that they had to reverse it and what I mean by gave up the game is for what two and a half years or something uh MSNBC and NBC had been reporting that January 6 was an Insurrection so how did management justify hiring a known according to them insurrectionist to put on the show next to their fine good people who would never tell you a lie how could they justify that there's only one way NBC management knew that it was never true anything their hosts were saying about the news am I wrong about that is there any other way to see it because there's a little bit of a mind reading going on with this right but it's it's process of elimination what else could it be what else could it be it has to be that the NBC management knew that their own product their news were lying to you and telling you hoax because if any of that were true there's no way they would hire the insurrectionist to work on the network next to the people who had been calling them insurrectionist for years couldn't possibly happen so but it did happen because the management was completely aware that it was not true I assume now that's a little mind reading I grant you so if you're going to call me out on it that would be the correct thing to do but I ask you what's the other way to look at it how else can you explain that they would bring on somebody that their hosts had been calling in the worst criminals in the world insurrectionists who they believe should be in jail how do you explain it you can only explain it by they didn't believe the insurrectionist hoax story that was their main content for two and a half years there isn't another way to explain that it's not just a difference of opinion it would be like they had decided to put Charles Manson on to talk about the other side of crime would they do that no because Charles Manson but they did it in the case of you know ra their their own hoax was that it was real so I think that was an embarrassing admission well Trump's third Act is going well I haven't I haven't caught up today give me an update how is the djt Trump stock Trump's media stock because yesterday was up 50% and at one point his 58% stake was worth $9 billion how is it today is it up or down so far does anybody know too soon to know or do we know we should know by now right somebody says up now how do you explain that a media stock that is primarily truth social which is only half a million users has never made money how do you explain that the market has valued it as at uh up to$ 15 billion doar may maybe even higher today how do you explain that let me tell you how I explain it if you ask me Scott does this look like a good investment no no no it doesn't look like a good investment are you kidding me now you ask me the second question Scott are you going to buy any stock yes yes I am as soon as I get off the show there's it's very likely that no matter what is happening with the price I'll probably buy $1,000 because I don't want to have a lot because it's kind of risky you but do I want Trump to not be crushed by the the system yes I do do I think that it's a better way to donate to his campaign to just buy an investment in something that might go away I mean could go to zero right anything could go to zero but it might go up it might go up I might be able to double my money that was a campaign donation so in my world where I try to do things that make the world a little better place um I'm going to disregard the normal risk reward analysis for this stock and I'm going to buy it to just poke my finger in the the eye of the people who are trying to break him cuz when they try to break him they're trying to break you they already took a whack at me they took a whack at me do you know why I'm still here because of you the reason I'm still here is that you collectively uh gathered around and said no we're not going to let him be cancelled and many of you joined my subscription service even didn't didn't want to didn't even think that was what you wanted and some people just signed up to subscribe purely to support Free Speech more than supporting me supporting the concept that you don't want to see people you agree with get crushed by the evil system so I'm very much a beneficiary of the good judgment and let's say the the impulse to set things right that exists out there you know the The Good the good that's still in people the good in people that will if they see you stuck on the road we'll pull over and help right now here's the thing again that maybe the Democrats didn't count on because they don't understand Republicans if your car is broke down on the side of the road the first truck that's going to stop is going to be a republican now if you didn't know that Welcome to the Real World the reason that I'm protected and I can still get get to do this is because of you period it's not because of me it's entirely because of you collectively decided I'm still in business and that's what apparently third of the country just decided that Donald Trump will not be broke by this system that is the public deciding so if you think this is about true social being a great investment I can't tell you it is but if you think it's about Americans trying to finally say this is too much this is too much you've pushed too hard Biden and your goons and we're just going to put up a uh a break wall so this like it's like a fire break buy buying DJ stock is an act of pure patriotism to act as a fire break against the Democrats setting the whole country on fire and it works it is a fire break it absolutely worked and it also warns them what's coming you know what I mean it warns them what's coming because it's a signal of energy and if I've taught you anything it's follow the energy not the arguments don't follow the arguments don't follow the science the follow the energy now usually the energy is revealed in money because money and energy go together so when you see how much energy was put into the djt stock that's the story it's not even a dollar thing it's the energy that energy is unmistakable and growing meanwhile um Trump got hit with a gag order in New York over his stormmy Daniels quote hush money case because he said some things in public slamming the judge um thank you thank you for the gag order what do you think happens every time Trump gets a new gag order that tells him he can't say what he thinks is true in public his numbers go up his fundraising goes up yeah that's what happens so yeah more gag orders please every time you take away his freedom of speech you take ours away that's how I feel uh Trump is just sort of the canary and coal mine whatever they do to him it is going to come back to you right it's going to get you now you saw it got me right it's the same energy that got me and I'm you know way down in the below Trump in the effectiveness category so yeah it it will just keep going down until they get everybody meanwhile Trump is uh selling Bibles and axio says it's not for the campaign uh but he's selling Trump Bibles for 60 bucks now if it's not going toward his campaign what is it going toward the legal bills I assume so you could actually uh pay Trump's legal bills and get yourself a nice Bible too how smart is that I don't think I've ever seen anybody read a room better than that guy talk about how to read a room if you said to me Scott uh donate some money to Trump's legal fund I'm not too happy about that right because I feel like uh you know every everybody's got a legal fund they want me to contribute to but if you tell me that he's selling a Bible to his fans and followers who love Bibles then you know you're always in the market for a new one if Bible's your thing it's sort of perfect it's exactly correct who's going to complain about the Bible I mean somebody will but it looks silly right lawyers yeah lawyers will I guess lawyers will anyway it's another perfect reading of the room it's a perfect business business model for paying off his legal bills if that's what he's doing I assume so I like it well done meanwhile RFK Juniors uh picked his running mate um who is sergy brin's ex-wife Nicole Shanahan now she's an attorney and a tech entrepreneur and um seems to have you know tons of uh qualifications Etc she's in her 30s so she's young and there some rumors that I'm not I'm not going to share but I heard it in the comments earlier uh but that that didn't seem uh I guess not not credible enough that I want to share any of those but let me say that the in general everything you hear about public figures is fake right so you're going to hear a whole bunch of things about um about Nicole Shanahan some of it might be true in terms of you know she was once married to Sergey Brin and now she's not that would be true but I would look out for anything that's more interesting than that probably not probably not true so the rule with public figures is that the stuff that's public such as a marriage or divorce probably is true if somebody died probably true somebody got a new job probably true but once you get past you know you know name salary and you know name and social security number everything about why anything happened that's all it's always the why of anything the context never reliable so just remember that when you're evaluating her but I was looking at her background and apparently she um highlights that she has worked on Racial equality wow so that that's a uh that's a hard no for me in our current environment that's just a hard no unfortunately I wanted I wanted to say yes I wanted to be Pro whoever you picked but that unless she comes out and says the way I was doing it was a mistake which would be fine by the way if she came out and said you know what I worked on this equality but the more I think about it you know maybe we should take a different approach if she said that I'd be fine with it because somebody in their 30s who changes their mind about what works because they tried the other thing and it didn't work that would be a strong signal very strong signal I like people who can change their minds and do it publicly and show their work so if something like that happened it would be awesome but I'm a little bit worried about the background and and uh Racial equality and the fact that she lists that on I don't know if that means Dei in any way or not but she is also big into regenerative agriculture because we have to fix our food supply and RFK Jr is right about that maybe the biggest issue in the world food supply and the quality of it and children's and maternal Health um those are things she's interested in those are good and uh she's worked on behalf of honest governments well good luck with that right so let's see in the comments what's your opinion of his VP pick have you had any time to to do that are you worried that she was once married to a founder of Google and Google's Gemini AI tells you what Google's all about that they're sort of a a racist SES yeah so Google being a racis supol I don't think they can correct themselves but you wonder if Sergey was part of that and if you're married to that you know are you part of that world did you come out of the racist sespo world right into the vice president role that would be a bad look so I very much want to support RFK Jr at least on the policy level you know even if he doesn't have a legitimate shot at the top job and by the way he does I don't let us sneak up on you RFK Jr is not a long shot he's not a long shot like whatever you think is a long shot he's not that no no he has an absolute walking path to the White House the walking path is that Biden falls apart there's not enough time to replace him and Trump gets some bigger attack or Scandal that the public believes what are the odds that there's some new hoax about Trump Brewing right now 100% what are the odds that a huge part of the country will believe the hoax at least initially 100% certainly all the Democrats so you know a hoax is brewing you know that a big part of the country is going to believe it because they always do they always fall for it again and you might see the two main candidates so bruised by election day that anything could happen anything could happen but I'm very uncomfortable with the uh VP choice so I would say it's a move backwards what would you say I I would say that my um sort of my casual support for RFK Jr as not just a personality you know seemingly a good person to have in in the fight but also policy-wise or there was a lot to like not all of it but a lot to like I think it's a step backwards but it might be a step forward for his base and it might help him fund things and it might help him get on the ballot so it it could help his campaign that part I don't know but my own opinion of the package goes down a little bit with the choice so and by the way I'm sure she's very smart and very very good at what she does that's not really the issue so at least he picked quality and he picked youth so I I would say those are two pluses he picked smart and he picked young I don't hate that and somebody who wasn't a creature of washingon DC I don't hate that so there's a lot to like about it but there that's just a huge red flag with this Racial equality background stuff now if you're if you're new to my show and you just uh you just casually came in and you heard me mocking Racial equality is not because I don't want people to be equal it's it's about the policies to get there the policies to get there are absurd and really you're just a way to humiliate black men basically because Dei looks good on women because when women complain and whine and then something gets fixed it feels like an natural situation when men complain about the past as the reason that they're not successful they look pathetic pathetic they look that way to other men and there's a reason you don't hear men complain as much about being held back it's because it's a bad look it's pathetic the whole point of being a man is that you're supposed to go through the wall you're not supposed to quit oh there's a little wall in front of me no going through the wall is what makes you a man sorry if you stand there and why and just join the women and you did if you're in the Democrat Party you it's basically a woman's party so a female strategy for success is complaining about what how unfairly you've been treated and it's a very good strategy and we've seen it work and women certainly had a right to complain do we all agree about that women definitely had a right to complain and so they did and so everybody said okay well not only do I feel a certain way because women are unhappy because men are just primed to want to solve problems like that but also it's valid you look at it you go okay you didn't even have the vote you know yeah I mean you you really couldn't there was a time in my lifetime where a woman really would have a hard time getting a job that was a male Centric job but not anymore you know they're they're they're in pretty good shape right now but if you're a uh a black man I think it's just embarrassing for anybody to think that you got a leg up from the government to me that would be embarrassing so I wouldn't want to be in that situation well let's talk about uh Puff Daddy we we still don't know Diddy yeah did he or did he not um there's an old video of uh Puff Daddy saying that white men like Trump need to be banished white men like Trump H who would be a white man who was in his opinion like Trump would it be Republicans would I be on that list would he say people like me should be banished well I don't know but having heard that video um I'm going to change my um admonition yesterday when I said no matter how guilty he looks in this situation you should reserve your judgment until because that would make him innocent till proven guilty and that is the standard which we should hold to no matter how many rumors you hear Let the Court decide and until then innocent will proven guilty no matter how bad this looks well was wrong turns out he's a racist and uh I don't care if he gets burned so he can die in jail by with a broomstick up his ass and I'd be happy about that I don't really need any more racists so let's get rid of him malinformed is what I call him um the story that I hear the most if you I'm reluctant to believe uh all the sex claims you know there claims about underage people at his parties and there's claims about raping and stuff but the one allegation that I've heard from several sources who seem to know him personally is uh drugging the drinks of women at his parties and who was it who was describing that the way they do it is they put the drug in the mixer and then the women drug themselves so so you have the place where anybody can go up and pour themselves a drink and they make you know they make women always make mixed drinks so women typically are not going to do vodka straight up they're always going to add some juice to it so they put the drug in the juice that's that's the allegation I can't prove that it happened but that would make them drug themselves so that it wouldn't be obvious who drugged them like they wouldn't have any memory of somebody putting something in their drink and they wouldn't have any memory of any anybody giving them a drink so the men would just drink without the juice you know which is typical straight up some or or maybe add their own Diet Coke or something and the women would just naturally add the juice and then bad things would happen is the allegation I don't know if any of that's true I just know that on video he seems to be a major racist so for that alone you can fry well Michael Shermer who is uh one of the most notable Skeptics um I think he leans I don't know if he's an independent or leans a little Democrat but don't judge him by that because there might be only a few people who are not Republicans who can actually look objectively at stuff and he's one of them so he's a good follow so if you want to see somebody who may not be on the same team as you and I don't know by the way I just think he's not Trump he's not a trump supporter but I don't know if he's independent or what um but he tells us today um and Robert Bartholomew has an article on this that that Havana syndrome that thing where they thought there was the secret Mass the the secret Sonic weapon turns out there have been studies and they now know for sure it did not exist and that all of that was a psychological event it was all a psychological event now you know I'm the first person to tell you that right the day the story broke I said this isn't real this is a mass hysteria not only is it a mass hysteria but it's a classic one it's an obvious one it's like it's right on the nose it's so classic hysteria that I don't know how you could miss it well how you could miss it is to not be familiar with Mass hysterias if you've never seen one or never learned about one or never studied the history of mass hysterias you don't know that they're not just common it's closer to being the operating system of humanity we just do one Mass hysteria after another there are several of them percolating right now this isn't the only one it's just the most obvious one so let me tell you how I spotted it so you can use these tricks for yourself in the future number one it's an extraordinary claim it's a claim similar to uh I have a back big foot is in my backyard or UFOs abducted me it's in that class so when you first hear it you say huh that would be an extraordinary claim well extraordinary claims are going to be wrong 99% of the time so your starting point should be 99% likely not true if you started with it's probably true because it's in the news and it's probably true because the intelligence people say it's true as probably true because the CIA says is true as probably true because all of the networks are reporting it if you started from that perspective you've learned nothing none of those are good sources none of them are credible even a little bit not even directionally you not even not even directionally they are not useful for this sort of thing so you should have said on the surface of it 99% likely fake leave open a little chance 100% would be stupid no 100% would be wrong because you know we could be surprised you've been surprised before but start with 99% fake don't believe anything the fake News tells you because they're not part of the information structure they're part of the disinformation system let me say it again the point of the news is to keep you uninformed that's not hyperbole that's not politics that is an actual accurate description of what the news is intended to do it is intended to mislead you for the benefit of the country or for the benefit of rich people or for somebody's benefit usually somebody thinks it's good for something but no the news is not its purpose to tell you what's true it's to frame the stories in ways that are good for the people in power and that's it so so number one extraordinary stories are almost always false number two it fit the classic form of a mass hysteria it was a whole bunch of people who said oh you got hurt by a Sonic weapon I think I'm hurt by a Sonic weapon and then the third person hears it goes you know I didn't get to sleep last night I wonder if it's that Sonic weapon and then somebody else says my sinuses have been acting up all week it's probably that Sonic weapon and then the next thing you know the Sonic weapons being used at other embassies in other parts of the world okay this is the classic most obvious perfect form of a Massy stereo and now you say to yourself but Scott there were early reports of people with actual brain damage and it showed up in the scans and the physical damage was unquestionable and it was you know lots of doctors in different places were all getting the same answers yes something happened they're damaged and what did I say nope nope none of that's true and then you could have said in your mind Scott um this is a whole bunch of doctors doctors operating independently on all kinds of different people in different parts of the world and you're telling me that all of those doctors who have nothing to gain by being wrong that they all just fell for this Mass hysteria is that what you're trying to get me to believe Scott yes because that is what exactly what a mass Hyster is it's exactly that it's people who should know better falling for it that's what it is so the fact that all the doctors were falling for it let me think um do you have any recent experience in which all the doctors seem to be wrong H yes all the time is the most common thing in the world for all the doctors to be wrong very ordinary you know it's not ordinary a secret Sonic weapon used by Bigfoot that's not ordinary but all the doctors being wrong I hate to tell you that's ordinary it's very ordinary yeah go get some statens if you don't believe me anyway um and then the the final tell uh the intelligence people blamed Russia is there anything else I needed to say if you if you add that looks exactly like a mass hysteria it's a absurd ridiculous extraordinary claim on its face and then the intelligence people blame Russia people people the next time this happens you can do this on your own right have you learned extraordinary claim fits the Massy area perfectly and the CIA blames Russia that's that's the triple header right there so it was exactly what it looked like well are there any mass hysterias that are Brewing right now is there any Mass hysteria right now that is obviously fitting the pattern let's see the pattern would be lots of capable experts think it's happening they've got lots of specific examples of it happening it's an extraordinary claim like what are you kidding me that I don't believe that that's incredible and sometimes they blame Russia it's called the January 6 Insurrection hoax it just got ra Mc.

Daniel fired you don't think it's still active and and changing things in our world it is it's changing things in our world and it's a mass hysteria now this Mass hysteria was um initiated by the news so the news you know very intentionally caused this Mass his area but I'd say at least I don't know a third of the country was told that in Insurrection had happened and that Trump U wants to stay in power forever and that he was planning an Insurrection and that's exactly what he planned well Jeff Clark um Jeffrey Clark he's a former justice department official who worked with the trump in around uh that time excuse me I'm allergic to the news anyway Jeffrey Clark's uh being investigated now and he's some of the things we learned from one of his co-workers is that you know there was this attempt to try to organize these alternative uh alternative electors so that was true they did try to get them they're on it was there they're a placeholder to keep their rights active so that it would be obvious there's a dispute that the dispute could be worked out the way we work out all disputes usually in Congress or or in the courts but it wasn't meant to be nefarious and it wasn't meant to be illegal and it wasn't meant to be overthrowing the country but what we learned today is from somebody who worked with Clark who's in a lot of trouble by the way if if things don't go his way what we learned is that his coworker believed that Clark was um serious and truly believed that the election had been stolen and that his work was trying to correct what looked like an Insurrection a stolen election so he was an and paint that same set of actions as being somebody trying to take over the country and keep Trump in in power they got to sell that narrative but now we know what he was thinking based on the fact that people were with him and working at the time that his all of his everything he did suggested that he genuinely believed there was this great Injustice and he was trying to figure out how to fix it now what does that do to The Narrative of January 6 the entire narrative is that it was planned and that people knew the election was fake uh I'm sorry the allegation is that they knew the election was fair which is stupid nobody could have known that even whether it was fair or not you couldn't know it it wasn't wasn't knowable but the news told us you could know the unknowable and so their idiots believed them so now we know for sure that a main character um and indeed and indeed there has not been one set of evidence that anybody who is trying to reverse the January 6 results not a single person has any evidence there's no evidence that's been presented that any of them believe that they were doing something wrong as opposed to trying to correct a wrong every bit of evidence from every testimony from every person supports the narrative that Trump thought the election was truly rigged and thought they were avoiding an Insurrection not causing one has your news told you that did your news tell you that we know for sure that the January 6 main theme that Trump knew it was a fair election and was trying to overthrow It Anyway the main theme has been completely debunked by a complete lack of any evidence that should be the biggest story because now we know that all of the prosecutions were illegitimate we know that once you know the people's intentions were to correct a wrong not to create a wrong but to correct a wrong and that's definitely in evidence now widespread in evidence the whole narrative is gone and yet the news treats it like none of that happened and the the whole T pole that was holding up the hoax is completely gone not a single bit of evidence nothing in writing nothing nothing even people speculating about what somebody else was thinking no evidence at all that it was anything except what it looked like somebody trying to correct a wrong in his mind all right we'll talk about that Baltimore Bridge uh how many of you think it was a terrorist act that something got hacked and maybe Putin was getting revenge it was all kind of perfect because it was the Francis Scott Key bridge so that was you know gets to the real patriotism and it was a critical Bridge because apparently it's going to have a massive impact on the supply chain I think we'll adjust but it could affect prices and timing and stuff I'm going to say not likely it was a terrorist attack and the reason I'm going to say not likely is that teror like you to know it was intentional that's sort of the whole point of terrorism cuz people don't get the same amount of fear for a natural accident they just say well stuff happens um personally I would say that you know my suspicions were raised but as of today even the FBI says no it wasn't a terrorist act can you give me a fact check on that I believe the FBI has ruled out terrorist attack is that true which would suggest they've talked to the captain and the crew and they have a better idea that it may maybe it was some ordinary mistake or mechanical problem I think it was just bad timing yeah you're saying that the FBI lies well that's true but would they lie about this they might they might yeah the FBI is no longer credible on any political stuff all right uh would Putin do this though on some level it would be a perfect response because if if the CIA was behind hiring these um these terrorists that went into Moscow and some people say they were I don't know if if that's true and they didn't leave any Trace but yet Putin was sure it was true would he do a similar attack in which you couldn't tell if it was real or not you you couldn't tell who did it it would be kind of perfect yeah there there is a little of a perfect payback symmetry to it but I'm still thinking coincidence because you can read into these situations anything you want well more climate catastrophe it turns out the ABC News is worried um that Rising global temperatures could change where the majority of the world's wine is produced so France for example might be less of a good wine Growing Place but maybe some other places would get better so let me uh put this in context um the climate alarm went from I think your cities will be underwater in 12 years to I don't want no Swedish wine I I feel like they're slowly backing out it wasn't long ago everything was going to crash down on you the water level would rise it would be super hurricanes and you would fry in your sleep but now I'm a little worried that I won't be able to call anything champagne because nothing will be gr grown in the Champagne region what if I have to drink wine that came from Mongolia instead because it's so warm there I feel like the cat's on the roof that's what it feels like it feels like the cat's on the roof and the predictions are not coming true at a level that would support the narrative so maybe they need to back off the narrative too well when I said super hurricanes I meant your chardonay might taste different see see what I mean it's going from really bad to I don't know you might have less access to poison just think about it alcohol is poison and one of the big problems of global temperature rise if it's happening is that uh you might have to get your poison from a different Source that's your biggest problem right there well I don't know if I have to poison Myself by putting a little extra work into it that's no good anyway uh Mike Ben talking about the whole of government censorship effort so did you know that the Department of Homeland Security censorship agency sisa cisa did you know Mike Ben reports that they put a Washington Post reporter on its taxpayer funded domestic disinformation conference in 2020 where they formulated social media censorship strategies for the 2020 election just hold that in your mind that the government created very expensive well-funded gigantic entities if you count the entire web of connected people um for the specific purpose of censoring 2020 information and one of the participants was the Washington Post most famous for their CIA connection so that's what you call as Mike Ben says a ho of government censorship effort yeah there were a lot of people in on that so do you still think that the Washington Post canceled me because of what I said does anybody think that I was canceled because of what I said or is it a coincidence that the Washington Post led the cancellation and we know the Washington Post is an intelligence agency that works closely with the Democrats and listening to me talking public has got to hurt them a little bit big coincidence not a single Republican complained about anything I said I mean they were uncomfortable with it but once they heard the whole explanation they're like oh okay Free Speech yeah no everything's political everything's political all right I would like to say that not knowing how anything works is not a political opinion but we keep treating it like it is we keep acting like there's a difference of politic i.

Cal opinion on big topics it's not really that it's really stupid people who don't know how anything Works trying to debate people who do know how things work and then we imagine that has something to do with politics that's not politics that's just some people know how to analyze things and some don't that's all that is let me give you some examples um Democrats don't know how Free Speech works that being the prior story if you're if you have a strike force that the government put together to censor speech then you don't understand that censoring speech is the end of everything or maybe you do and you want everything to end so it's like people who don't understand how do you not understand that Free Speech means you don't censor people you disagree with but they seem to think free speech allows you to censor people you disagree with which is the opposite it's literally the opposite now how do you have a how do you have a political conversation with somebody who thinks that's free speech that's censoring is Free Speech you can't that's that's a smart PE person arguing with a dumb person if you don't know how how anything works you would think that limiting Free Speech could work out for you well if you do know how anything works you don't want to do that how about open borders if you know how anything Works you'd be against it but if you don't know how anything works in the real world you'll be for it you'd be for it how about reparations how about Dei yeah if you understood incentives and what it would do to the people who are not benefiting from the Dei and what kind of a obscenity it becomes when people try to hit those targets but they don't have enough supply of people to hire it breaks everything who knew do that well people who understand how the real world Works know that this is a disaster if you don't know how the real world works you think it's a way to get Equity how about uh New York mayor Adams is talking about giving debit cards and free money to to migrants prepaid debit cards what what do you think will happen if you start paying people to come here illegally huh would there be more of it or less of it if you reward it I don't know I can't figure it out ever since I registered to be a Democrat I can't figure these things out well you see my point arguing about Free Speech open borders Dei reparations and benefits to immigrants those are not really differences of opinion those are differences of intelligence period those are just differences in ability to understand your world nothing else now a lot of it is experience when we talk about the old saw that says if you're young and you're not a liberal you don't have a heart but if you're older and you're not a conservative you don't have a brain you've heard that one right it's an old one but the mechanism for that makes sense the less experience you have of how the real world works the more likely you'll be seduced into something that sounds like it's going to give you fairness but as soon as you have more experience and you see how things actually work as soon as you hear about Dei you say oh that can never work because it will just cause people to hire less qualified people to meet their targets and the the Dei proponents can't seem to understand that it's a supply problem and not a demand problem and that if they did away with Dei Dei tomorrow the demand for diverse employees would be the same nothing would change because the companies independently want to have more diversity it's good for them you know it's a good look as long as they don't have to trade off any competence but as soon as you turn it into Dei they do have to trade off competence because they're going to trying to hit those Dei goals if you don't understand that you really shouldn't be in the conversation right it's sort of basic let's see that the German government is doing well um and wokeness printed some German government data on the percentage of all crimes committed by Foreign born populations in Frankfurt so in Frankfurt the foreign born population uh were 100% of serious sexual assaults I don't know what makes it serious is that group maybe gang gang assault probably uh pickpocket incidents 93% is forign born human trafficking 83% day home burglar 80% aggravated theft 76% illegal smuggling 70% theft 66% crime against life 60% child abuse 53% arson 52% Assa 52% that's just the Immigrant population now should you stop immigration because of these numbers that what what would somebody who understands how the real world Works what would be their response to seeing these numbers in the real world you don't let more people in that will be in this category right in the weird imaginary Equity world that the Democrats live in you increase the number who come in it doesn't make any sense now in my world and I think Elon Musk and a lot of other people would agree that you we do need more bodies we can't S at the moment we can't succeed without pretty strong immigration bigger numbers than you used to and way bigger numbers than you're can be um comfortable with but we need to vet them they need to come through a system where we're weeding out the the serial criminals it's just basic just basic stuff but no we won't do that and meanwhile President Joe Biden he's thinking about granting amnesty to uh people have been here a while and he's coming up with other ideas to incentivize more illegal migration does he know he's doing that who knows can't read his mind but I can tell you that anybody who understands anything about anything says you shouldn't incentivize criminals to come to your country now I'm not saying all immigrants are criminals obviously that would be ridiculous but too many criminals is a problem all right uh there's a real housewife of Beverly Hills anamarie Wy who allegedly Colin rug is reporting this allegedly lost her job as a real housewife because she was a trump supporter and she liked Candace Owens and she opposed with her husband I guess who was an athlete transgender athletes didn't oppose transgender didn't oppose transgender just the athlete part you know competing against uh women on women's teams all right so now what's interesting about this is that they're a black couple so it's a black woman who got kicked off a show allegedly for being pro Trump now is certainly believable but remember what I told you all news about public figures is fake probably not an exception so it might be true in the details that she's uh she was let go from the show it might be true that she's a trump supporter and it might be true that that was a contributing factor but what we don't know was there anything else because there's a good chance if you listen to the story that somebody involved would have a different version of that story now that should be your primary first thing you think whenever there's a public uh person in the news first thing you should think is H news about public figures not very often right all right that ladies and gentlemen brings me to the conclusion of my prepared remarks did I miss any stories is there anything happening that I missed you know I find did I look almost exclusively on social media for the news now um she could have been a pain in the neck and they needed a reason well pain in the neck probably wouldn't be a good enough reason uh as long as she got ratings so it could easily be that the ratings or that she wasn't a popular member of the show could be but I suspect yeah you would think that a show like that would benefit from having a prot trump person in it because that would be a source of stories and conflict so to imagine that they thought they would lose money by having a source of conflict on a reality TV show stretches the imagination it it is easy to believe that they just weren't comfortable having a trump supporter on their show and that's all that mattered so it is a believable story but I don't automatically think you have the right context whenever public figure is involved uh do I think the guy in the ship was drunk no um I'm guessing that the ship captain probably did as much as he could because we know the lights blinked so we we doubt that the ship captain was directly responsible for the lights going out so that that would say that whether he was drunk or not whatever the problem was wasn't that uh they woke him up but that too is not that doesn't tell you anything so the captain has to sleep that's why you have other people who can pilot a ship I don't think the captain always has to be awake nobody required that so you know there there's going to be a lot of conspiracy theories about it uh I'm going to say say I lean toward um it was just a human problem with some mechanical problems thrown on top yeah yeah once a ship loses propulsion there's not a whole lot you can do you're not going to be steering it but the fact that it did what it did um here's how you should deal with coincidence today a truck um ran into a telephone pole and the damage was quickly fixed was that in the news no no because it was an ordinary accident got fixed today a boat sank in the harbor big news no cuz you know little boats sink it's a thing today a plane crashed but luckily the uh the pilot was so good that he made a good emergency landing and survived walked away so what you're seeing is a Sur Survivor bias sort of situation so you have accidents happening all over the world every day every now and then one is going to have a coincidence involved somebody's going to hit the base of a bridge so your your problem in analyzing this is that you don't see all of the accidents that didn't cause a bigger problem and so in a context where there's just accidents everywhere everywhere all the time every day some of them are going to hit the base of a bridge you see what I'm saying some of them are just going to be worse than the others and then we're going to think it was a terrorist attack yeah see seems the boat turned well everything about the action of the boat appears to be uninformed people talking about it um because the things that we don't know about are at some point they dropped anchor right so I think the boat was sort of going in a direction and then in desperation they dropped anchor and then the anchor would cause you know them to to Pivot off the The Anchor basically so we don't know what the anchor did we don't know what happens as the power was coming on and off we did um apparently there was also a strong uh flow it was at the tide so there was a a water effect there was a night effect there was a technology effect there was an anchor effect so looking at the video isn't going to tell you as much as you think it would yeah wrong anchor I don't know was that a thing uh well bumpers would have only helped against a smaller object yeah bumpers wouldn't have helped you against a ship that size it would help against the smaller ones they did they did stop traffic after the May.

Day was received so it looks like police did a heck of a good job and did you hear did you hear the story about one of the workers so there was a work crew a repair crew that had most of the death so a number of them died um after the hit but one of them fell in the water uh survived it was like 48 degree water survived um didn't need any s serious medical treatment and brushed himself off and said he just wanted to go home imagine being that guy he he survives one of the biggest disasters in the country brushes himself off and says all right I'm ready to go home now all right all right ladies and gentlemen on uh on You.

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God all right let's talk about all the

things uh favorite story of the day New

York Post is

reporting there was an animal lover who

was trying to care for a sick baby

hedgehog and so she took the baby

hedgehog to the veterinarian and the

veterinarian had to give her the bad

news about the Hedgehog it was very bad

news

very bad news it turns out that the

Hedgehog was actually a hat it was a

fuzzy hat Palm pom hat oh no it was a

pom pom for a

hat so it wasn't so much a baby hedgehog

as it was a part of a

hat now I saw the picture of the uh the

nice woman who was caring for the baby

hedgehog that turned out to be a pom pom

from a hat and and I looked at her

face Biden

supporter you could see it in the

face look at the face of the

Hedgehog uh lover who turns out was

actually loving a pom pom from a hat I

don't know how long she fed it and cared

for it but uh it's quite a story so I'm

going to say Biden supporter and my

theme for

today is the stuff that people believe

the the things that people are think are

true no sometimes it's not a baby

hedgehog it could look just like one it

could act just like a sick one that

doesn't move around much but sometimes

it's just a pom pom from a

hat all right let's talk about Joe Biden

you know thank

goodness we have a commanderin-chief and

a president a leader of our country who

whenever there's a big disaster in the

country he's just perfect isn't he like

he just knows how to make us feel better

and to talk about our

pain so here's an example of how Joe

Biden calmed the fears of the community

showed his

empathy he said that he had commuted

over that collapsed bridge to Baltimore

uh many times by

train okay we don't know how he did that

because there are no train lines that

run over that bridge and there never

have

been but somehow he managed to make it

not only about

himself but about a version of himself

that doesn't exist and never

has I think that's a new record for a

bad

leadership let let me let me try to give

you the ranking good

leadership would be you show up right

away you show empathy and you talk about

the victims that's A+ leadership you've

seen Trump do that a number of times

yeah including East pal Palestine

Palestine and uh but the way Biden does

it is he shows up and if he had just

talked about himself you'd say that's

not as good h no I'd rather that empathy

talking about the victims that's number

one but number two talking about

yourself well at least you showed up at

least he showed up

but Biden managed to find a new low

ground where not only do you not show

the empathy that you need to and not and

you don't even talk about yourself you

talk about an imaginary version of

yourself that everybody knows didn't

exist so I don't know if that's better

than not going there at all but it might

be a

tie meanwhile uh Elon Musk said says

that the new version of grock is coming

and it's going to be a banger uh he's

calling it Super

Gro and if you I don't know Premium Plus

or

whatever user you can get uh super grock

will Super grock be the gro the be the

AI of all AI I don't know but it might

be the most unfiltered one it might be

the closest to at least attempting to be

honest uh we hear that uh the

Claude the new Claude AI is beating chat

GPT and the others so apparently Claude

is the number one AI right now just in

terms of

capability um I'm thinking about

subscribing to it but I I don't know how

many AIS I want to subscribe

to I Don't Know by the way what would

happen if one AI just subscribed to

other AIS so your personal AI just has

has a subscription and can answer any

question by querying the other AIS it's

what it's going to be right it'll

probably be something like

that well uh chth

Pia um one of the Allin podcast guys one

of the most successful Silicon Valley

investor guys he said this and I want to

see how many parents agree or disagree

uh he says as a parent as parent with

teenagers so he's got some teen

he said being the bad guy be limiting

their social media has been a path to

exhaustion and conster bickering at

least in my home so having the

government back me up and do the obvious

and sensible thing that will give me as

a parent more

reinforcement uh would be to you know

ban social media under 16 because if

something's literally

illegal it's way easier for a parent to

say you can't do that it just makes it

easy but if it's legal and all your

friends are doing it you really are

going to have to fight fulltime and do

nothing else but fight about that

because a modern teenager in the modern

world if you say they can't have their

social media after they've experienced

it all right it's too late after they've

experienced it and they're hooked they

will know that they cannot have a normal

social

life they would know that their ability

to to deal with their peers the way

everybody else is dealing with them

would be gone

I don't even think they could

date I think they wouldn't be able to

date because it would look weird like

I'm not going to hang out with a weirdo

who doesn't use social media it it would

make you a freak in your own school so

there's no right answer and I've had

enough of uh an acquaintance with this

topic in my personal life that I don't

think there is a way to take a phone

away from a

teenager now um think somebody like a

Mike cernovich I I'll use him just

because he talks about his family

situation a lot in the very productive

way now I think in his case if you've

got um I think he's doing

homeschooling if you've got

homeschooling and you start early and

they don't have social media and you you

build some kind of a life that they

think is their life that doesn't involve

it you know doing stuff with Dad Etc you

can make that work probably

you could probably make that work but

unless you go full

cernovich I don't see any way to make it

work so I agree with the chamoth that

the government Banning Social Media for

kids is just smart obvious and it's the

right thing for the government to do

it's exactly what you want your

government to do to help you out instead

of hinder you give me a hand give me

some help that's what you want I guess

uh Florida has already banned social

media for kids under

14 do I have that right kids under 14

are banned from social media in

Florida I don't know how that's going to

work but we'll see so just like I was in

favor of testing drug

legalization it didn't work but good job

testing it at least we found out what

doesn't work I think there might be some

model where legalization could work if

you changed a bunch of other things

right but if you don't change a bunch of

other things and you just change that

one thing I think we could say that it

doesn't work tried we tried it didn't

work now we know we don't have to try

that again but if you tried something

where you changed everything but also

that one thing maybe maybe some you try

that someday we got to keep trying stuff

cuz what we're doing now isn't

working says it was a new study about

Educators in other words teachers mostly

and uh the study finds that half of all

Educators believe AI will not

significantly affect their employment

opportunities

so the people that you've chosen to

teach your children don't believe that

AI will significantly affect their

employment

opportunities what do you even say about

that did we did we intentionally find

the dumbest people to become teachers

how in the world could they have that

opinion that the job that's most likely

to disappear entirely is their job Am I

Wrong the most likely thing to disappear

entirely is

Teachers now to meia seems like the

model of the future

is somewhat obvious getting a Spam

call the the model that would work is

obvious you get rid of bad teachers and

you replace them with good AI now the AI

might look like people but you it'll be

on a screen it might be VR someday but

in the short run the best AI that learns

from all the teachers that there are and

puts together a class that the best of

the best but let's say you could also

change who the teacher is just by

pushing a button so let's say I think uh

it will hold my attention better if the

teacher is an attractive female so I

just choose that option because I think

it will keep me sitting there looking at

it longer why not you you might pick the

uh the man with a deep voice because

you're sexist and you just think that

sounds more authoritative so maybe you'd

learn better in that case maybe maybe if

you're uh you know a member of some

minority group you might say you know I

just want somebody who looks like me to

teach me makes me feel more comfortable

good you have the option whatever works

for you so the the fact that AI could be

instantly modified for the specific

person and then let's say that you say

to the AI you know what uh the way I

learn best is is when you put it in a

story form or the way I learn best is

when you put it into a practical real

world example or I need to hear it or I

need to see it or I need to write it

down the AI could work with you to

figure out what your learning process is

and where you need a little extra and

whether whether what it needs to repeat

it could look at your

eyeballs the AI teacher could be looking

at your eyeballs as you you go because

if you have a camera and it could

determine if it's working or

not imagine the AI seeing that you're

starting to zone out a little bit and so

it says oh I got to I got to change Pace

I got to mix it up I gotta excite you I

got to give you a little little

shock your teacher can't do that because

they're teaching to one

person or they're teaching to the whole

class so they can't adjust for any one

person you know but AI could they could

adjust instantly to one person so I

don't think there's any chance that in

the long run teachers will do what

teachers have been doing now they might

have great opportunities but you know

they might be the person running the AI

or you know managing the process or

overseeing that the classes are right

you know there might be something like

that but it's not going to look the same

that's for

sure um over in New South Wales they had

a program to predict crime they were

going to use

AI uh plus State surveillance stuff to

figure out who is likely to be a

criminal

so they could watch them extra a little

extra now I have mixed feelings about

this number one could you build a

technology with current technology that

would accurately determine who is likely

to commit a crime what do you think do

you think our current technology can

identify people who are likely to commit

a crime of course it

can of course it can do you know why

because I could do that

I could just read your damn messages and

I'll tell you if you're going to commit

a crime bet I get it right 80% of the

time you know AI could do a little

better than that yeah absolutely people

totally broadcast their criminal

intentions in their words and actions

very much so you could it would be

obvious to the AI but we can't really

live in a world in which every part of

us is surveilled and every bad behavior

is caught because the problem is that

we're all bad behavior

people not you I mean you're the

exception I mean and I'm the exception

but amazingly only the people watching

this broadcast are the exceptions I

don't know how that happened but

everybody

else they're doing some sketchy stuff do

you know who never got arrested before

Puff

Daddy do you think the AI could have

figured out what was going on there

probably

probably I think so so I think the risk

of AI and predictive crime is that it

would found you would find out that most

average people are criminals they're

either cheating on their taxes or

they're you know doing a little

something at work they're fudging their

expense accounts they're they're doing

something you know they're speeding who

knows they're drinking and driving I

don't know but yeah if we had a society

where every bad thing you did got caught

every time we'd all be in a lot of

trouble except for like I said except

for those of you who are watching this

now and

me luckily for us were the exceptions

but other people they'd be in a lot of

trouble well apparently the Don Lemon

show is not the Roaring success that Don

limit had hoped and that its audience

has uh almost disappeared after three

shows

and maybe this is what we can learn from

that did you think that Don Lemon had a

natural audience or do you think that

people watched him because he was on

Prime Time on

CNN and do you think that people watched

his Elon Musk interview because it was

Elon Musk or because it was

him what do you think well I would say

that his recent performance suggests

that he did not have an audience that

would follow him rather he had an

experience on a platform that brought a

you know sizable audience to anybody who

was at 8:00 or whatever his time zone

was whatever his time was so it seems

that through the process of trial and

error Don Lemon has determined that

literally nobody wants to watch

him now I'm exaggerating a little bit

right I think his Show is bigger than

mine I think even his failed Show is

bigger than

mine uh but he started from a higher

base so it looks worse I started from

nothing and grew it up at least this

part of my work he started from a higher

base and so it looks like failure but

he's still doing better than I'm doing I

mean if he did nothing but continued his

you know low-rated show he'd be killing

me with with numbers

probably so we'll see anything could

happen I I still wish him well uh

um so we'll

see I don't really like to see anybody

who's doing what I'm trying to do you

know this sort of a job if you could

call it a job I'm not even sure if I

call this a

job if any of you

noticed that I I literally am doing this

for my own

entertainment I don't really have to

work I don't really have to get up at

4:30 to do this I don't have to but I

actually love it

it's it's a highlight of my day usually

like like right now in this very moment

you know I'm hoping that you're enjoying

something you're watching but I'm having

a better time than you are because I'm

getting all the attention and I get to

say what I get to say and put things the

way I want want to it's a great great

great experience you know so I feel bad

for anybody who feels like they're it's

a

job now the other thing that makes this

fun is that I do it live I wouldn't like

this at all if I were recording it right

now and then you just got to see it an

hour later no fun at all I wouldn't have

any interest in that whatsoever it's

it's only the live direct experience

that that gives me any any kind of Joy

but it gives me a lot so I do appreciate

all of you

tremendously all right uh I'm loving the

dunking on the Democrats that's going on

with the uh ra MC Daniel situation as

you know NBC hired her from from her

Republican world as head of the

RNC and they like to sometimes the

networks like to bring in a a voice

that's opposite of their normal voices

to you know just so you could hear

everything but uh Glenn Greenwald is

dunking on Jen saki he says uh hilarious

today Jens saki said there's there's a

difference between NBC

hiring um her Jens saki right from the

Biden White House versus hiring Ron

McDon Ron McDaniel right from the RNC

and here's the difference according to

Zaki that she doesn't lie like McDaniel

does

um that's all she does is

lie what what exactly is the lie that

mcdan told does anybody know of

one I don't know of one the only thing

that I think what they call a lie is her

debunking their

hoaxes so I think that her debunking

their hoaxes is what they call lies that

they can't they can't handle and

watching Glenn Greenwald he's he's been

dunking on them for like a couple

days he he just has the funniest in your

face face you hypocrite piece of crap

posts you know but they sound sort of

professional and

funny anyway how the the fact that Jens

saki can say that with a straight face

and her audience can go uh-huh uhhuh you

know that's a good point because Jens

saki when she's uh as a Greenwell points

out the same Jens saki spread the CIA

live two weeks before the 2020 election

you know the laptop

lie yep that is funny but speaking of R

uh Donald Trump had some things to

say nobody makes

Politics as fun as Trump does I I don't

know why even his enemies haven't at

least

appreciated the fun of it like even if

you don't want him to be president I get

that I get that we all understand but

you can't enjoy the good parts like the

just pure the pure entertainment of it

all right watch the show that Trump puts

on so this is uh he says talk about R he

says fired after two days wow Ron MCD

Daniel got fired by fake News NBC she

only lasted two days and this after

McDaniel went out of her way to say that

that what they wanted to hear it leaves

her in a very strange place it's called

Never

Neverland and it's not a place you want

to be these radical left lunatics are

crazy

crazy that's

interesting do you wonder if more people

will be willing to say that the real

problem is mental

illness because when I say it I don't

get a lot of push back weirdly but he's

saying crazy and the top people in NBC

are weak they were broken and

embarrassed my low ratings highly

overpaid quote

Talent bring back free and fair press

make America great

again Ju Just watching him have his

third act

fun is pretty amazing he's just sort of

enjoying this week I mean he's got other

legal Jeopardy of course there's always

going to be more but he's having a good

week so for me the takeaway of the whole

NBC thing which by the way they did fire

her after two days so she's

gone um is that the NBC management gave

up the game and their own employees were

so embarrassed by it that they had to

reverse it and what I mean by gave up

the game is for what two and a half

years or something uh MSNBC and NBC had

been reporting that January 6 was an

Insurrection so

how did management

justify hiring a known according to them

insurrectionist to put on the show next

to their fine good people who would

never tell you a lie how could they

justify that there's only one

way NBC management

knew that it was never true anything

their hosts were saying about the

news am I wrong about that is there any

other way to see

it because there's a little bit of a

mind reading going on with this right

but it's it's process of elimination

what else could it be what else could it

be it has to be that the NBC management

knew that their own product their news

were lying to you and telling you hoax

because if any of that were true there's

no way they would hire the

insurrectionist to work on the network

next to the people who had been calling

them insurrectionist for years couldn't

possibly

happen so but it did happen because the

management was completely aware that it

was not

true I assume now that's a little mind

reading I grant you so if you're going

to call me out on it that would be the

correct thing to do but I ask you what's

the other way to look at

it how else can you

explain that they would bring on

somebody that their hosts had been

calling in the worst criminals in the

world insurrectionists who they believe

should be in

jail how do you explain it you can only

explain it by they didn't believe the

insurrectionist hoax story that was

their main content for two and a half

years there isn't another way to explain

that it's not just a difference of

opinion it would be like they had

decided to put Charles Manson on to talk

about the other side of crime would they

do that no because Charles

Manson but they did it in the case of

you know ra their their own hoax was

that it was

real so I think that was an embarrassing

admission well Trump's third Act is

going well I haven't I haven't caught up

today give me an update how is the djt

Trump stock Trump's media stock because

yesterday was up 50% and at one point

his 58% stake was worth $9

billion how is it today is it up or down

so far does anybody know too soon to

know or do we know we should know by now

right somebody says up now how do you

explain that a media stock that is

primarily truth social which is only

half a million users has never made

money how do you explain that the market

has valued it as at uh up to$ 15 billion

doar may maybe even higher today how do

you explain

that let me tell you how I explain

it if you ask me Scott does this look

like a good investment

no no no it doesn't look like a good

investment are you kidding me now you

ask me the second question Scott are you

going to buy any

stock yes yes I am as soon as I get off

the show there's it's very likely that

no matter what is happening with the

price I'll probably buy

$1,000 because I don't want to have a

lot because it's kind of risky you but

do I want Trump to not be crushed by the

the system yes I do do I think that it's

a better way to donate to his campaign

to just buy an investment in something

that might go away I mean could go to

zero right anything could go to zero but

it might go up it might go up I might be

able to double my money that was

a campaign

donation so in my world where I try to

do things that make the world a little

better place um I'm going to disregard

the normal risk reward analysis for this

stock and I'm going to buy it to just

poke my finger in the the eye of the

people who are trying to break him cuz

when they try to break him they're

trying to break you they already took a

whack at

me they took a whack at me do you know

why I'm still

here because of you the reason I'm still

here is that you

collectively uh gathered around and said

no we're not going to let him be

cancelled and many of you joined my

subscription service even didn't didn't

want to didn't even think that was what

you wanted and some people just signed

up to subscribe purely to support Free

Speech more than supporting me

supporting the concept that you don't

want to see people you agree with get

crushed by the evil system so I'm very

much a

beneficiary of the good judgment and

let's say the the impulse to set things

right that exists out there you know the

The Good the good that's still in people

the good in people that will if they see

you stuck on the road we'll pull over

and help right now here's the thing

again that maybe the Democrats didn't

count on because they don't understand

Republicans if your car is broke down on

the side of the road the first truck

that's going to stop is going to be a

republican now if you didn't know

that Welcome to the Real

World the reason that I'm protected and

I can still get get to do this is

because of you period it's not because

of me it's entirely because of you

collectively decided I'm still in

business and that's what apparently

third of the country just decided that

Donald Trump will not be

broke by this system that is the public

deciding so if you think this is about

true social being a great investment I

can't tell you it

is but if you think it's about Americans

trying to finally say this is too much

this is too much you've pushed too hard

Biden and your goons and we're just

going to put up a uh a break wall so

this like it's like a fire

break buy buying DJ stock is an act of

pure patriotism to act as a fire break

against the Democrats setting the whole

country on

fire and it works it is a fire break it

absolutely

worked and it also warns them what's

coming you know what I

mean it warns them what's coming because

it's a signal of

energy and if I've taught you anything

it's follow the energy not the arguments

don't follow the arguments don't follow

the science the follow the energy now

usually the energy is revealed in money

because money and energy go together so

when you see how much energy was put

into the djt

stock that's the story it's not even a

dollar thing it's the

energy that energy is

unmistakable and

growing meanwhile

um Trump got hit with a gag order in New

York over his stormmy Daniels quote hush

money case because he said some things

in public slamming the

judge

um thank

you thank you for the gag

order what do you think happens every

time Trump gets a new gag order that

tells him he can't say what he thinks is

true in

public his numbers go

up his fundraising goes up yeah that's

what happens so yeah more gag orders

please every time you take away his

freedom of speech you take ours away

that's how I feel uh Trump is just sort

of the canary and coal mine whatever

they do to him it is going to come back

to you right it's going to get you now

you saw it got me right it's the same

energy that got me and I'm you know way

down in the below Trump in the

effectiveness category so yeah it it

will just keep going down until they get

everybody

meanwhile Trump is uh selling

Bibles and axio says it's not for the

campaign uh but he's selling Trump

Bibles for 60

bucks now if it's not going toward his

campaign what is it going toward the

legal bills I assume so you could

actually uh pay Trump's legal bills and

get yourself a nice Bible

too

how smart is

that I don't think I've ever seen

anybody read a room better than that guy

talk about how to read a room if you

said to me Scott uh donate some money to

Trump's legal fund I'm not too happy

about that right because I feel like uh

you know every everybody's got a legal

fund they want me to contribute to but

if you tell me that he's selling a Bible

to his fans and followers who love

Bibles then you know you're always in

the market for a new one if Bible's your

thing it's sort of

perfect it's exactly

correct who's going to complain about

the

Bible I mean somebody will but it looks

silly right lawyers yeah lawyers will I

guess lawyers will anyway it's another

perfect reading of the room it's a

perfect business business model for

paying off his legal bills if that's

what he's doing I assume so I like it

well

done meanwhile RFK Juniors uh picked his

running

mate um who is sergy brin's

ex-wife Nicole Shanahan now she's an

attorney and a tech entrepreneur and um

seems to have you know tons of uh

qualifications Etc she's in her 30s so

she's

young and there some rumors that I'm not

I'm not going to share but I heard it in

the comments earlier uh but that that

didn't seem

uh I guess not not credible enough that

I want to share any of those but let me

say that the in

general everything you hear about public

figures is

fake right so you're going to hear a

whole bunch of things about um about

Nicole

Shanahan some of it might be true in

terms of you know she was once married

to Sergey Brin and now she's not that

would be

true but I would look out

for anything that's more interesting

than

that probably not probably not true so

the rule with public figures is that the

stuff that's public such as a marriage

or divorce probably is true if somebody

died probably true somebody got a new

job probably true but once you get past

you know you know name salary and you

know name and social security number

everything about why anything happened

that's all it's always the why

of anything the

context never reliable so just remember

that when you're evaluating her but I

was looking at her background and

apparently she um highlights that she

has worked on Racial

equality wow

so that that's a uh that's a hard no for

me in our current environment that's

just a hard no unfortunately I wanted I

wanted to say yes I wanted to be Pro

whoever you picked but that unless she

comes out and

says the way I was doing it was a

mistake which would be fine by the way

if she came out and said you know what I

worked on this equality but the more I

think about it you know maybe we should

take a different

approach if she said that I'd be fine

with it because somebody in their 30s

who changes their mind about what works

because they tried the other thing and

it didn't work that would be a strong

signal very strong signal I like people

who can change their minds and do it

publicly and show their work so if

something like that happened it would be

awesome but I'm a little bit worried

about the background and

and uh Racial equality and the fact that

she lists that on I don't know if that

means Dei in any way or not but she is

also big into regenerative agriculture

because we have to fix our food supply

and RFK Jr is right about that maybe the

biggest issue in the world food supply

and the quality of it and children's and

maternal Health um those are things

she's interested in those are

good and uh she's worked on behalf of

honest governments well good luck with

that right so let's see in the

comments what's your opinion of his VP

pick have you had any time to to do that

are you worried that she was once

married to a founder of Google and

Google's Gemini AI tells you what

Google's all

about that they're sort of a a racist

SES yeah so Google being a racis supol I

don't think they can correct themselves

but you wonder if Sergey was part of

that and if you're married to

that you know are you part of that world

did you come out of the racist sespo

world right into the vice president role

that would be a bad look so I very much

want to support RFK Jr at least on the

policy level you know even if he doesn't

have a legitimate shot at the top job

and by the way he does I don't let us

sneak up on you RFK

Jr is not a long

shot he's not a long

shot like whatever you think is a long

shot he's not that no no he has an

absolute walking path to the White House

the walking path is that Biden falls

apart there's not enough time to replace

him and Trump gets some bigger attack or

Scandal that the public

believes what are the odds that there's

some new hoax about Trump Brewing right

now 100% what are the odds that a huge

part of the country will believe the

hoax at least initially 100% certainly

all the Democrats so you know a hoax is

brewing you know that a big part of the

country is going to believe it because

they always do they always fall for it

again and you might see the two main

candidates so bruised by election day

that anything could happen anything

could

happen but I'm very uncomfortable with

the uh VP choice so I would say it's a

move backwards what would you say I I

would say that my um sort of my casual

support for RFK Jr as not just a

personality you know seemingly a good

person to have in in the fight but also

policy-wise or there was a lot to like

not all of it but a lot to like I think

it's a step backwards but it might be a

step forward for his base and it might

help him fund things and it might help

him get on the ballot so it it could

help his campaign that part I don't know

but my own opinion of the package goes

down a little bit with the

choice

so and by the way I'm sure she's very

smart and very very good at what she

does that's not really the issue so at

least he picked quality and he picked

youth so I I would say those are two

pluses he picked

smart and he picked

young I don't hate that and somebody who

wasn't a creature of washingon DC I

don't hate that so there's a lot to like

about it but there that's just a huge

red flag with this Racial equality

background stuff now if you're if you're

new to my show and you just

uh you just casually came in and you

heard me mocking Racial equality is not

because I don't want people to be

equal it's it's about the policies to

get there the policies to get there are

absurd and really you're just a way to

humiliate black men basically because

Dei looks good on

women because when women complain and

whine and then something gets

fixed it feels like an natural situation

when men complain about the past as the

reason that they're not successful they

look

pathetic pathetic they look that way to

other

men and there's a reason you don't hear

men complain as much about being held

back it's because it's a bad look it's

pathetic the whole point of being a man

is that you're supposed to go through

the wall you're not supposed to

quit oh there's a little wall in front

of me no going through the wall is what

makes you a man

sorry if you stand there and why and

just join the women and you did if

you're in the Democrat Party you it's

basically a woman's party so a female

strategy for

success is complaining about what how

unfairly you've been treated and it's a

very good strategy and we've seen it

work and women certainly had a right to

complain

do we all agree about that women

definitely had a right to complain and

so they did and so everybody said okay

well not only do I feel a certain way

because women are unhappy because men

are just primed to want to solve

problems like that but also it's valid

you look at it you go okay you didn't

even have the

vote you know yeah I mean you you really

couldn't there was a time in my lifetime

where a woman really would have a hard

time getting a job that was a male

Centric job but not anymore you know

they're they're they're in pretty good

shape right now but if you're a uh a

black

man I think it's just

embarrassing for anybody to think that

you got a leg up from the

government to me that would be

embarrassing so I wouldn't want to be in

that

situation well let's talk about uh Puff

Daddy we we still don't know

Diddy yeah did he or did he not um

there's an old video of uh Puff

Daddy saying that white men like Trump

need to be

banished white men like Trump H who

would be a white man who was in his

opinion like

Trump would it be

Republicans would I be on that list

would he say people like me should be

banished well I don't know but having

heard that video um I'm going to change

my um admonition yesterday when I said

no matter how guilty he looks in this

situation you should reserve your

judgment until because that would make

him innocent till proven guilty and that

is the standard which we should hold to

no matter how many rumors you hear Let

the Court decide and until then innocent

will proven guilty no matter how bad

this looks well was wrong turns out he's

a racist and uh I don't care if

he gets burned so he can die in jail by

with a broomstick up his ass and I'd be

happy about that I don't really need any

more racists so let's get rid of

him malinformed is what I call

him um the story that I hear the most if

you I'm reluctant to

believe uh all the sex

claims you know there claims about

underage people at his parties and

there's claims about raping and stuff

but the one allegation that I've heard

from several sources who seem to know

him personally is uh drugging the drinks

of women at his

parties and who was it who was

describing that the way they do it is

they put the drug in the mixer and then

the women drug themselves so so you have

the place where anybody can go up and

pour themselves a

drink and they make you know they make

women always make mixed drinks so women

typically are not going to do vodka

straight up they're always going to add

some juice to it so they put the drug in

the juice that's that's the allegation I

can't prove that it happened but that

would make them drug themselves so that

it wouldn't be obvious who drugged them

like they wouldn't have any memory of

somebody putting something in their

drink and they wouldn't have any memory

of any anybody giving them a drink so

the men would just drink without the

juice you know which is typical straight

up some or or maybe add their own Diet

Coke or something and the women would

just naturally add the juice and then

bad things would happen is the

allegation I don't know if any of that's

true I just know that on video he seems

to be a major racist so for that

alone you can

fry well Michael

Shermer who is uh one of the most

notable Skeptics um I think he leans I

don't know if he's an independent or

leans a little

Democrat but don't judge him by

that because there might be only a few

people who are not Republicans who can

actually look objectively at stuff and

he's one of them so he's a good follow

so if you want to see somebody who may

not be on the same team as you and I

don't know by the way I just think he's

not Trump he's not a trump supporter but

I don't know if he's independent or what

um but he tells us today um and Robert

Bartholomew has an article on this that

that Havana syndrome that thing where

they thought there was the secret Mass

the the secret Sonic weapon turns out

there have been studies and they now

know for sure it did not exist and that

all of that was a psychological event

it was all a psychological

event now you know I'm the first person

to tell you that right the day the story

broke I said this isn't real this is a

mass hysteria not only is it a mass

hysteria but it's a classic one it's an

obvious one it's like it's right on the

nose it's so classic hysteria that I

don't know how you could miss it well

how you could miss it is to not be

familiar with Mass hysterias if you've

never seen one or never learned about

one or never studied the history of mass

hysterias you don't know that they're

not just common it's closer to being the

operating system of humanity we just do

one Mass hysteria after another there

are several of them percolating right

now this isn't the only

one it's just the most obvious one so

let me tell you how I spotted it so you

can use these tricks for yourself in the

future number one it's an extraordinary

claim it's a claim similar to uh I have

a back big foot is in my

backyard or UFOs abducted me it's in

that class so when you first hear it you

say huh that would be an extraordinary

claim well extraordinary claims are

going to be wrong 99% of the time so

your starting point should be 99% likely

not true if you started with

it's probably true because it's in the

news and it's probably true because the

intelligence people say it's true as

probably true because the CIA says is

true as probably true because all of the

networks are reporting it if you started

from that

perspective you've learned

nothing none of those are good

sources none of them are credible even a

little bit not even directionally you

not even not even directionally they are

not useful for this sort of thing so you

should have said on the surface of it

99% likely fake leave open a little

chance 100% would be stupid no 100%

would be wrong because you know we could

be surprised you've been surprised

before but start with 99% fake don't

believe anything the fake News tells you

because they're not part of the

information structure they're part of

the disinformation

system let me say it again the point of

the news is to keep you

uninformed that's not hyperbole that's

not politics that is an actual accurate

description of what the news is intended

to

do it is intended to mislead you for the

benefit of the country or for the

benefit of rich people or for somebody's

benefit usually somebody thinks it's

good for something but no the news is

not its purpose to tell you what's true

it's to frame the stories in ways that

are good for the people in power and

that's it so so number one extraordinary

stories are almost always false number

two it fit the classic form of a mass

hysteria it was a whole bunch of people

who said oh you got hurt by a Sonic

weapon I think I'm hurt by a Sonic

weapon and then the third person hears

it goes you know I didn't get to sleep

last night I wonder if it's that Sonic

weapon and then somebody else says my

sinuses have been acting up all week

it's probably that Sonic weapon and then

the next thing you know the Sonic

weapons being used at other embassies in

other parts of the

world okay this is the

classic most obvious perfect

form of a Massy stereo and now you say

to yourself but Scott

there were early reports of people with

actual brain damage and it showed up in

the scans and the physical damage was

unquestionable and it was you know lots

of doctors in different places were all

getting the same answers yes something

happened they're damaged and what did I

say

nope nope none of that's true and then

you could have said in your mind Scott

um this is a whole bunch of

doctors

doctors operating

independently on all kinds of different

people in different parts of the world

and you're telling me that all of those

doctors who have nothing to gain by

being

wrong that they all just fell for this

Mass hysteria is that what you're trying

to get me to believe Scott yes because

that is what exactly what a mass Hyster

is it's exactly that it's people who

should know better

falling for it that's what it is so the

fact that all the doctors were falling

for it let me think um do you have any

recent

experience in which all the doctors seem

to be wrong

H yes all the time is the most

common thing in the world for all the

doctors to be wrong very ordinary you

know it's not ordinary a secret Sonic

weapon used by Bigfoot that's not

ordinary

but all the doctors being wrong I hate

to tell you that's ordinary it's very

ordinary yeah go get some statens if you

don't believe

me anyway

um and then the the final tell uh the

intelligence people blamed

Russia is there anything else I needed

to say if you if you add that looks

exactly like a mass hysteria it's a

absurd ridiculous extraordinary claim on

its face and then the intelligence

people blame

Russia

people

people the next time this happens you

can do this on your own right have you

learned extraordinary

claim fits the Massy area

perfectly and the CIA blames Russia

that's that's the triple header right

there so it was exactly what it looked

like well are there any mass hysterias

that are Brewing right

now is there any Mass hysteria right now

that is obviously fitting the

pattern let's see the pattern would be

lots of capable experts think it's

happening they've got lots of specific

examples of it

happening it's an extraordinary claim

like what are you kidding me that I

don't believe that that's incredible

and sometimes they blame

Russia it's called the January 6

Insurrection

hoax it just got ra McDaniel

fired you don't think it's still active

and and changing things in our world it

is it's changing things in our world and

it's a mass hysteria now this Mass

hysteria was um initiated by the news so

the news you know very intentionally

caused this Mass his area but I'd say at

least I don't know a third of the

country was told that in Insurrection

had happened and that Trump U wants to

stay in power

forever and that he was planning an

Insurrection and that's exactly what he

planned well Jeff Clark

um Jeffrey Clark he's a former justice

department official who worked with the

trump in around uh that time

excuse

me I'm allergic to the

news anyway Jeffrey Clark's uh being

investigated now and he's some of the

things we learned from one of his

co-workers is that you know there was

this attempt to try to organize these

alternative uh alternative electors so

that was true they did try to get them

they're on it was there they're a

placeholder to keep their rights active

so that it would be obvious there's a

dispute that the dispute could be worked

out the way we work out all disputes

usually in Congress or or in the courts

but it wasn't meant to be nefarious and

it wasn't meant to be illegal and it

wasn't meant to be overthrowing the

country but what we learned today is

from somebody who worked with Clark

who's in a lot of trouble by the way if

if things don't go his way what we

learned is that his coworker believed

that Clark was

um

serious and truly believed that the

election had been stolen and that his

work was trying to

correct what looked like an Insurrection

a stolen election so he was an

and paint that same set of actions as

being somebody trying to take over the

country and keep Trump in in power they

got to sell that narrative but now we

know what he was

thinking based on the fact that people

were with him and working at the time

that his all of his everything he did

suggested that he genuinely believed

there was this great Injustice and he

was trying to figure out how to fix it

now what does that do to The Narrative

of January 6 the entire narrative is

that it was planned and that people knew

the election was fake uh I'm sorry the

allegation is that they knew the

election was fair which is stupid nobody

could have known that even whether it

was fair or not you couldn't know it it

wasn't wasn't knowable but the news told

us you could know the unknowable and so

their idiots believed

them so now we know for sure that a main

character um and indeed and indeed there

has not been one set of evidence that

anybody who is trying to reverse the

January 6 results not a single person

has any evidence there's no evidence

that's been presented that any of

them believe that they were doing

something

wrong as opposed to trying to correct a

wrong every bit of evidence from every

testimony from every person supports the

narrative that Trump thought the

election was truly rigged and thought

they were avoiding an Insurrection not

causing

one has your news told you that did your

news tell you that we know for sure that

the January 6 main theme that Trump knew

it was a fair election and was trying to

overthrow It Anyway the main theme has

been completely debunked by a complete

lack of any

evidence that should be the biggest

story because now we know that all of

the prosecutions were

illegitimate we know that once you know

the people's

intentions were to correct a wrong not

to create a wrong but to correct a wrong

and that's definitely in evidence now

widespread in

evidence the whole narrative is gone and

yet the news treats it like none of that

happened and the the whole T pole that

was holding up the hoax is completely

gone not a single bit of evidence

nothing in writing nothing nothing even

people speculating about what somebody

else was thinking no evidence at all

that it was anything except what it

looked like somebody trying to correct a

wrong in his

mind all right we'll talk about that

Baltimore Bridge uh how many of you

think it was a terrorist

act that something got hacked and maybe

Putin was getting revenge it was all

kind of perfect because it was the

Francis Scott Key bridge so that was you

know gets to the real patriotism and it

was a critical Bridge because apparently

it's going to have a massive impact on

the supply chain I think we'll adjust

but it could affect prices and timing

and

stuff I'm going to say not likely it was

a terrorist attack and the reason I'm

going to say not

likely is that teror like you to know it

was

intentional that's sort of the whole

point of terrorism cuz people don't get

the same amount of fear for a natural

accident they just say well stuff

happens

um personally I would say that you know

my suspicions were raised but as of

today even the FBI says no it wasn't a

terrorist act can you give me a fact

check on that I believe the FBI has

ruled out terrorist attack

is that true which would suggest they've

talked to the captain and the crew and

they have a better idea that it may

maybe it was some ordinary mistake or

mechanical problem I think it was just

bad

timing yeah you're saying that the FBI

lies well that's true but would they lie

about this they might they might

yeah the FBI is no longer credible on

any political

stuff all right uh would Putin do this

though on some level it would be a

perfect response because if if the CIA

was behind hiring these um these

terrorists that went into Moscow and

some people say they were I don't know

if if that's true and they didn't leave

any Trace but yet Putin was sure it was

true would he do a similar attack in

which you couldn't tell if it was real

or not you you couldn't tell who did it

it would be kind of

perfect yeah there there is a little of

a perfect payback symmetry to

it but I'm still thinking coincidence

because you can read into these

situations anything you

want well more climate catastrophe it

turns out the ABC News is worried um

that Rising global temperatures could

change where the majority of the world's

wine is produced so France for example

might be less of a good wine Growing

Place but maybe some other places would

get

better so let me uh put this in

context um the climate alarm went from I

think your cities will be underwater in

12 years

to I don't want no Swedish wine

I I feel like they're slowly backing

out it wasn't long ago everything was

going to crash down on you the water

level would rise it would be super

hurricanes and you would fry in your

sleep but now I'm a little worried that

I won't be able to call anything

champagne because nothing will be gr

grown in the Champagne

region what if I have to drink wine that

came from Mongolia instead because it's

so warm

there I feel like the cat's on the

roof that's what it feels like it feels

like the cat's on the roof and the

predictions are not coming true at a

level that would support the narrative

so maybe they need to back off the

narrative too well when I said super

hurricanes I meant your chardonay might

taste

different see see what I mean it's going

from really bad to I don't know you

might have less access to

poison just think about it alcohol is

poison and one of the big problems of

global temperature rise if it's

happening is that uh you might have to

get your poison from a different

Source that's your biggest problem right

there well I don't know if I have to

poison Myself by putting a little extra

work into it that's no good

anyway uh Mike Ben talking about the

whole of government censorship effort so

did you know that the Department of

Homeland Security censorship agency sisa

cisa did you know Mike Ben reports that

they put a Washington Post reporter on

its taxpayer funded domestic

disinformation conference in

2020 where they formulated social media

censorship strategies for the 2020

election

just hold that in your

mind that the

government created very expensive

well-funded gigantic entities if you

count the entire web of connected

people um for the specific purpose of

censoring 2020 information and one of

the participants was the Washington Post

most famous for their CIA

connection so that's what you call as

Mike Ben says a ho of government

censorship effort yeah there were a lot

of people in on that so do you still

think that the Washington Post canceled

me because of what I

said does anybody think that I was

canceled because of what I

said or is it a coincidence that the

Washington Post led the cancellation and

we know the Washington Post is an

intelligence agency that works closely

with the Democrats and listening to me

talking public has got to hurt them a

little bit big coincidence not a single

Republican complained about anything I

said I mean they were uncomfortable with

it but once they heard the whole

explanation they're like oh okay Free

Speech yeah no everything's

political everything's political all

right I would like to say that not

knowing how anything works is not a

political opinion but we keep treating

it like it is we keep acting like

there's a difference of politic iCal

opinion on big topics it's not really

that it's really stupid people who don't

know how anything Works trying to debate

people who do know how things work and

then we imagine that has something to do

with politics that's not politics that's

just some people know how to analyze

things and some don't that's all that is

let me give you some

examples um Democrats don't know how

Free Speech

works that being the prior story if

you're if you have a strike force that

the government put together to censor

speech then you don't understand that

censoring speech is the end of

everything or maybe you do and you want

everything to end so it's like people

who don't understand how do you not

understand that Free Speech means you

don't censor people you disagree with

but they seem to think free speech

allows you to censor people you disagree

with which is the opposite it's

literally the opposite

now how do you have a how do you have a

political conversation with somebody who

thinks that's free speech that's

censoring is Free Speech you can't

that's that's a smart PE person arguing

with a dumb person if you don't know how

how anything works you would think that

limiting Free Speech could work out for

you well if you do know how anything

works you don't want to do

that how about open borders if you know

how anything Works you'd be against it

but if you don't know how anything works

in the real world you'll be for it you'd

be for it how about reparations how

about

Dei yeah if you understood incentives

and what it would do to the people who

are not benefiting from the Dei and what

kind of a obscenity it becomes when

people try to hit those targets but they

don't have enough supply of people to

hire it breaks

everything who knew do that well people

who understand how the real world Works

know that this is a disaster if you

don't know how the real world works you

think it's a way to get

Equity how about uh New York mayor Adams

is talking about giving debit cards and

free money to to

migrants prepaid debit

cards what what do you think will happen

if you start paying people to come here

illegally huh would there be

more of it or less of it if you reward

it I don't know I can't figure it out

ever since I registered to be a Democrat

I can't figure these things out well you

see my

point arguing about Free Speech open

borders Dei reparations and benefits to

immigrants those are not really

differences of

opinion those are differences of

intelligence period

those are just differences in ability to

understand your world nothing else now a

lot of it is

experience when we talk about the old

saw that says if you're young and you're

not a liberal you don't have a heart but

if you're older and you're not a

conservative you don't have a brain

you've heard that one right it's an old

one but the mechanism for that makes

sense the less experience you have of

how the real world works the more likely

you'll be seduced into something that

sounds like it's going to give you

fairness but as soon as you have more

experience and you see how things

actually work as soon as you hear about

Dei you say oh that can never work

because it will just cause people to

hire less qualified people to meet their

targets and the the Dei proponents can't

seem to understand that it's a supply

problem and not a demand problem and

that if they did away with Dei Dei

tomorrow the demand for diverse

employees would be the same nothing

would change because the companies

independently want to have more

diversity it's good for them you know

it's a good look as long as they don't

have to trade off any

competence but as soon as you turn it

into Dei they do have to trade off

competence because they're going to

trying to hit those Dei goals if you

don't understand that you really

shouldn't be in the

conversation right it's sort of basic

let's see that the German government is

doing well um and wokeness printed some

German government data on the percentage

of all crimes committed by Foreign born

populations in Frankfurt so in Frankfurt

the foreign born population uh were 100%

of serious sexual assaults I don't know

what makes it serious is that group

maybe gang gang assault probably uh

pickpocket incidents 93% is forign born

human trafficking 83% day home burglar

80% aggravated theft 76% illegal

smuggling 70% theft 66% crime against

life 60% child abuse 53% arson 52% Assa

52% that's just the Immigrant

population

now should you stop immigration because

of these

numbers that what what would somebody

who understands how the real world Works

what would be their response to seeing

these

numbers in the real world you don't let

more people in that will be in this

category right in the weird imaginary

Equity world that the Democrats live in

you increase the number who come

in it doesn't make any sense now in my

world and I think Elon Musk and a lot of

other people would agree that you we do

need more

bodies we can't S at the moment we can't

succeed without pretty strong

immigration bigger numbers than you used

to and way bigger numbers than you're

can be um comfortable with but we need

to vet them they need to come through a

system where we're weeding out the the

serial criminals it's just basic just

basic

stuff but no we won't do

that and meanwhile President Joe Biden

he's thinking about granting

amnesty to uh people have been here a

while and he's coming up with other

ideas to incentivize more illegal

migration does he know he's doing that

who knows can't read his mind but I can

tell you that anybody who understands

anything about anything says you

shouldn't incentivize criminals to come

to your country now I'm not saying all

immigrants are criminals obviously that

would be

ridiculous but too many criminals is a

problem all right uh there's a real

housewife of Beverly Hills anamarie Wy

who allegedly Colin rug is reporting

this allegedly lost her job as a real

housewife because she was a trump

supporter and she liked Candace Owens

and she opposed with her husband I guess

who was an athlete transgender athletes

didn't oppose

transgender didn't oppose transgender

just the athlete part you know competing

against uh women on women's teams all

right so now what's interesting about

this is that they're a black

couple so it's a black woman who got

kicked off a show allegedly for being

pro

Trump now is certainly believable but

remember what I told you all news about

public figures is

fake probably not an exception so it

might be true in the details that she's

uh she was let go from the show it might

be true that she's a trump supporter and

it might be true that that was a

contributing

factor but what we don't know was there

anything

else because there's a good chance if

you listen to the story that somebody

involved would have a different version

of that story now that should be your

primary first thing you think whenever

there's a public uh person in the news

first thing you should think is H news

about public figures not very often

right all right that ladies and

gentlemen brings me to the conclusion of

my prepared remarks did I miss any

stories is there anything happening that

I missed you know I find did I look

almost exclusively on social media for

the news

now um she could have been a pain in the

neck and they needed a reason well pain

in the neck probably wouldn't be a good

enough reason uh as long as she got

ratings so it could easily be that the

ratings or that she wasn't a popular

member of the show could be but I

suspect yeah you would think that a show

like that would benefit from having a

prot trump person in it because that

would be a source of stories and

conflict so to imagine that they thought

they would lose money by having a source

of conflict on a reality TV

show stretches the

imagination it it is easy to believe

that they just weren't comfortable

having a trump supporter on their show

and that's all that mattered so it is a

believable

story but I don't automatically think

you have the right context whenever

public figure is

involved uh do I think the guy in the

ship was drunk

no um I'm guessing that the ship

captain probably did as much as he could

because we know the lights

blinked so we we doubt that the ship

captain was directly responsible for the

lights going out so that that would say

that whether he was drunk or not

whatever the problem was wasn't

that uh they woke him up but that too is

not that doesn't tell you anything so

the captain has to sleep that's why you

have other people who can pilot a ship I

don't think the captain always has to be

awake nobody required

that so you know there there's going to

be a lot of conspiracy theories about it

uh I'm going to say say I lean toward um

it was just a human problem with some

mechanical problems thrown on

top

yeah yeah once a ship loses propulsion

there's not a whole lot you can do

you're not going to be steering

it but the fact that it did what it did

um here's how you should deal with

coincidence today a truck um ran into a

telephone pole

and the damage was quickly fixed was

that in the news no no because it was an

ordinary accident got fixed today a boat

sank in the harbor big news no cuz you

know little boats sink it's a thing

today a plane crashed but luckily the uh

the pilot was so good that he made a

good emergency landing and survived

walked away so what you're seeing is a

Sur Survivor bias sort of

situation so you have accidents

happening all over the world every day

every now and then one is going to have

a coincidence involved somebody's going

to hit the base of a

bridge

so your your problem in analyzing this

is that you don't see all of the

accidents that didn't cause a bigger

problem and so in a context where

there's just accidents everywhere

everywhere all the time every day some

of them are going to hit the base of a

bridge you see what I'm saying some of

them are just going to be worse than the

others and then we're going to think it

was a terrorist

attack

yeah see seems the boat turned well

everything about the action of the boat

appears to be uninformed people talking

about

it um because the things that we don't

know about are at some point they

dropped

anchor right so I think the boat was

sort of going in a direction and then in

desperation they dropped anchor and then

the anchor would cause you know them to

to Pivot off the The Anchor basically so

we don't know what the anchor did we

don't know what happens as the power was

coming on and off we did um apparently

there was also a strong uh flow it was

at the tide so there was a a water

effect there was a night effect there

was a technology effect there was an

anchor

effect so looking at the video isn't

going to tell you as much as you think

it

would yeah wrong anchor I don't know was

that a

thing uh well bumpers would have only

helped against a smaller object yeah

bumpers wouldn't have helped you against

a ship that size it would help against

the smaller

ones they did they did stop traffic

after the MayDay was received so it

looks like police did a heck of a good

job and did you hear did you hear the

story about one of the workers so there

was a work crew a repair crew that had

most of the death so a number of them

died um after the hit but one of them

fell in the water uh survived it was

like 48 degree water

survived um didn't need any s serious

medical treatment and brushed himself

off and said he just wanted to go

home imagine being that

guy he he survives one of the biggest

disasters in the country brushes himself

off and says all right I'm ready to go

home

now all

right all right ladies and gentlemen on

uh on YouTube and Rumble and X I'm going

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