Episode 2574 CWSA 08/22/24
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Well, let's talk about some fun science updates and then politics. Politics we'll get to it. So there's some research published in Science Advances saying that the simpler your headline, the more clicks you get. That's right. If people reading the news see your headline and they understand what all the words mean, they're more likely to click it. If they don't understand what you're trying to say in the headline or it's a little too clever, they won't click it because why would they? They don't even know what it's about.
Now who could have told you that without the research? Who could have told you that if you understand what the topic is of the story, you're more likely to click it versus not knowing what the story is about because they use big confusing words? Oh, they could have asked me. They could have saved some money. "Scott, we're thinking of doing this study to see if dumbass big freaking academic-looking titles get as many clicks as clear, fun, short ones." And I would have said, "Whoa, good thing you asked me. Save your money. Those clear short ones are going to get more interest."
Now here's the fun part. How many of you remember back in 2015 and 2016 when Donald Trump was considered the dumbest person in all of public life because when he talked, he talked like he had a sixth-grade vocabulary? I mean, my goodness, how could he possibly be a president with a sixth-grade vocabulary? He's always using simple words. And what's wrong with that guy, huh? And then I told you that's perfect. The thing they're criticizing is the best communication style of all time according to every study and every observable experience.
When was the last time you heard the media criticize Trump for his simplistic communication style? Bet you didn't realize it completely disappeared, didn't it? What? Honestly, it's been years. I think it's been years since they brought that up. "Oh, he uses simple vocabulary." Do you know why? Because at this point everybody figured out that was the better way to communicate because the world is not as smart as writers and people who make headlines. The people who make headlines went to college and the college told them to use big words and so they do to impress their editors and their friends. And then the people who read it, who necessarily maybe didn't go to such a good college, they look at it and say, "I don't even know what those words mean. I think I'll click on something else."
So I really could have helped you there. But once you understand that Trump is arguably the best public communicator of all time, you know, even with his flaws, nobody's ever been more persuasive or more clear about what they want than he has. So shorter is better.
There's a medical study saying that it's published in JAMA Psychiatry. Publication anyway shows that kids who had persistent inflammation as kids, body inflammation, were far more likely to develop serious mental health disorders including psychosis and depression. Now to their credit, the article about it says very clearly that they have not established that the inflammation causes the other problems. It could be either related or associated. So the first thing I'll say is congratulations for clearly writing about science in a way that makes sense. But at what point in the article did they tell you that it wasn't necessarily causation? Was it up at the top? Was the first sentence "We don't know if this is causation but there's a great correlation between"? Do you think it did that? No, it did not. No, you had to read a long time before they confessed, "Yeah, we don't know if the inflammation causes the problems. Could be just correlation."
So I'm only going to give them partial credit because the reason that you would click it and read it is that you thought that they had established some causation. And if you knew that they did not establish any causation because they don't have the data to do that yet, maybe you would have read it differently or not read it. But here's my hypothesis that I've been working on for a long time. The other day I had a very bad mental attitude. I woke up just feeling a sense of dread and doom that wasn't really connected to anything happening in the world that was different than the day before when I felt fine. You know, surely there are problems in the world but why did I feel fine yesterday and then I wake up one day and then I feel like dread and doom? Do you know what the answer is? It's how my body felt. When my body feels suboptimal, my brain follows along.
If you're still under the model that your brain and your body are two different functions, you're going to be, your odds of happiness are practically zero. Let me say that again. If you think that your brain and your, well, let's put it this way. If you think that your body is not a component of your mind and that it's only that little brain thing that's inside your skull that's part of your mind, oh, you're not going to succeed at anything. You have to get rid of that. Your body is your brain.
Here's what I mean. How did I solve the problem that I felt a sense of doom and dread and, you know, I would have even called it like a mild depression? It was because my body didn't feel good. I didn't have enough exercise. I had some inflammation maybe. So I basically take a, you know, an Epsom salt hot bath and my inflammation goes away and I eat some food I like and I get some sleep and all the doom went away. So my brain problem was just my body. So as soon as you realize that your brain is your body and that imagining they're two separate systems gets you all the wrong answers, your body is your brain. I'm depressed. What am I going to do about it? Do some brain stuff? No. Do something with your body. Get outside, get some sun, get some vitamin D, work on your inflammation if you have a problem. So that's my hypothesis based on my observation in my own life is that whenever my body hurts, my brain is in a bad place. Whenever my body feels extraordinary, my brain's fine. No problems at all.
Anyway, it's a good thing that climate models are dependable. Oh well, there's a new story that two prominent and very experienced climate scientists, you've probably heard of them before, they're sort of the contrarians in that space. Richard Lindzen, I've talked about him before, and William Happer. Now they're both very highly qualified professionals in science, specifically spent a lot of time in the global climate change stuff. Here's what they say. Apparently their claim is the following, that if you add some CO2 to the air it might warm the environment or does actually. So they would agree that if you add CO2, you produce CO2 to the air and there's not much there already, that as you're adding a little bit to the air it'll cause some warming. But here's the surprising part. They claim is that when you reach a certain level, which we have already reached, that the science is very clear that the CO2 will stop having that same warming property. In other words, we've already reached peak CO2 warming potential. Adding more won't make any difference at all.
So their claim is, let's see if I can get it in their words, that the physics of carbon dioxide is that CO2's ability to warm the planet is determined by its ability to absorb heat. So if it doesn't absorb heat it doesn't warm the planet. But its ability to absorb heat, this is the CO2, decreases rapidly as CO2 concentration increases. So it's basically the opposite of all of climate change. That it does correlate with an increase in temperature at lower rates but when you reach about where we are now it should plateau. So they're saying basically it's not going to add any warming because it can't. As soon as you have enough concentration of CO2, which is where we're at, you could add more but it won't get any warmer.
Now do all scientists agree? Of course not. But these are two very qualified, well-known, you know, even I know these names not in the scientific field but I'm well aware of these two scientists. So if they're right then everything about the climate models is wrong. And they've made a fairly simple claim, one that you think could be tested. Now I'm not going to claim that these scientists are right and all the other scientists are wrong. I'm going to claim that we don't know anything about anything. Like all of our sense of certainty is all artificial. It's, you know, we imagine that the data is never going to change and nobody's lying and all the assumptions they made are true and that it's actually possible to predict the future based on a multivariable model. It's not. It's not even close to possible and everybody in the field knows it but you don't.
All right, so but if that were the only problem that would be the end of the climate crisis completely. And it does seem like a testable claim. Could you not test in a laboratory the increasing CO2 in let's say just a laboratory setting, a totally controlled environment? And I think they've done that, right? I'm pretty sure I've seen tests where in the laboratory if you introduce CO2 to a little closed environment you can demonstrate that it causes warming. So if the claim is that a certain saturation level stops doing that instead of infinitely creating more warming, that would be easy to test, wouldn't it? Couldn't you just build a little terrarium or something that looks like Earth in a box or, you know, in a sealed environment, introduce some CO2, measure the temperature. Sure enough we added CO2 and the temperature went up. Now keep adding it until you get to the concentration we're at today in the real world. Does it keep going up as you keep adding to it or does it plateau as these two scientists would suggest?
So the fascinating thing about this is it seems so testable. Maybe we'll find out it's real. Who knows? I'm not going to tell you that these scientists are right and the others are wrong because I have no way to know that. But I love the fact that they're very qualified people and they've got a very different idea of what's going on. But at least the rest of climate model stuff is all pretty solid, you know. It's only that one assumption that they have to test. You know, the one assumption that drives everything. That's the only one they're questioning. The one assumption that makes everything different. But are there any other assumptions in these climate models, huh?
Well it turns out that there have been some new studies of ice and they can melt the ice in a special scientific way and figure out what kind of gases and stuff were in the ice and then they can reconstruct things about the past to know if their climate models today would have worked in the past as well. That's pretty important. So what they find out? Well it turns out that the amount of biomass that has burned over time has been decreasing as the population of the world increases. So biomass burning means like a forest fire, right? Just a natural fire outdoors is a biomass burning. So the climate models assumed that the more people you added to the world, the more burning there would be. I assume they mean because people would burn forest to plant farms, people would burn wood to heat themselves, people, humans would be burning a lot of stuff. So the climate models assume more people equals more burning. That's a basic part of the models.
But it turns out that when you look at the ice samples, the more humans there are, the less biomass there is that's burned. It's opposite. So one of the key assumptions that people equals more burning and that's fed into the model is opposite according to these new studies. Now again, does it mean the new study is correct and all the things in the model are incorrect? I don't know that. I'm just saying that one part of science that should be taken as credibly as the rest probably is saying that they got that big variable opposite.
So suppose there were only two problems with the models that have lots of variables and suppose the only two problems were they got this biomass thing backwards and they got the CO2 doesn't do anything after it reaches a certain saturation. What if they got those two things wrong? Well then the entire models are nothing. Garbage.
Now let me say something again that if you're not convinced yet, oh I'm going to wear you down. It goes like this. There is no such thing as accurate data for anything that matters. If it doesn't matter or it's something we all observe like yes there's a hurricane, yes the news says there's a hurricane, science says there's a hurricane. Okay, the easy stuff we all agree that's real. But all the stuff that really has big dollars involved, it's never real. You can't have data collection and big dollars involved at the same time. But unfortunately that's the only way anything happens because the only people willing to spend all the money it would take to collect data on something as big as the climate would be people who have a lot of money involved. So there isn't actually a system in place in the world to get accurate data about anything that matters. Think about that. It's not a set of accidents. It's not like well we looked at this data and it turns out that somebody involved was gaming the system but then we looked at some other data. Ah it turned out there was something wrong with that data too. And you say to yourself wow I'm sure all the rest of the data in the world is good but these two look like they were wrong. No. There is no way that it's even possible for data to be correct about anything important because the people presenting it have an interest and they're only going to show it to you if they can make that data look whatever it is that they need it to look.
So now there's no such thing as accurate data about anything that matters. And don't be confused by the data on things that don't matter. There's probably plenty of data on things that don't matter to anybody politically or monetarily. But if it matters and there's money involved, it's never real. It can't be. Design is destiny. The design of the system is the only people who collect the data are the people who have a lot of money involved in it being one way. That's our system.
If you suppose you designed that on paper and you presented it to somebody as a way to run the world, suppose nobody had ever collected any data for anything before and you said you know what if we started collecting data in this world and we applied some science we'd be way ahead. So they come up with the idea of collecting data and they say all right here's how we're going to do it. It's going to be expensive to collect any data that really matters and it's going to move the needle. So who's going to be doing the collecting? The government. Oh no, the government might be biased. You know, might be Democrats in office versus Republicans. You can't really trust the government with data. So then I'd say wait, so you're saying that all information that comes from the government will be fake? Oh yes, of course it will. Of course it will. Because it's either Democrats in charge or Republicans in charge and neither of them have an interest in telling you the truth, right? They have a gigantic monetary and other career interests in telling you the truth they want you to hear.
Do you think we could see that effect in the real world if the government has an incentive to lie to you all the time? Well let's look at some data. Have you heard about the jobs reports that are being revised by over 800,000 because they were all fake? Turns out it's way worse than that because we might be looking at jobs that were created as fake jobs to get PPP money during the pandemic. So there's some suggestion that there might be 5 million fake jobs because people pretended they had employees so they could get money from the government and pretended they had companies. So some people think that our jobs numbers are completely just ridiculous and just made up and now they're being revised. So that's exactly what you would expect to happen if in fact your design of how you collect data was wrong and delegated to the people who had the most interest in lying to you.
The current situation, let's see what else. How about our numbers about crime? Do you think our crime statistics that come from the government are pretty good, pretty accurate? No, because some people stopped collecting crime and then they started just making stuff up. And I think we're all aware at this point that the crime numbers are made up. Would you agree? And even when they're not made up they put it in the wrong context like comparing to the pandemic versus not the pandemic which is no comparison at all. So we don't have jobs numbers that are real and we don't have crime numbers that are real and it's because the government is in charge of those numbers. And there is no scenario in which the government wants you to have real numbers. Every scenario no matter who's in charge they want it to look like it's good for their team, period.
So if you were to ask private companies to get you information, let's say drug companies to do drug studies, what should you expect if you were going to put that design, if you were going to design that system on paper? All right, the people who could make a billion dollars if the drug is safe are in charge of telling you that the data says it's safe. What do you expect? Yeah, the design of the system guarantees that all important data is fake. We've designed the system. See you have to understand that it's a system design problem. It's not a bunch of people who have made a mistake coincidentally in each of these important domains. That's not what's going on. There's no mistakes happening. People have a great interest in making assumptions that will drive the numbers the way they want them to be driven. And whoever collects numbers gets to make the assumptions. "Oh these numbers are good enough. These numbers don't look dependable to me. I'll leave these out." That's how it works.
All right, female doctors. There's another study says female doctors have a far greater risk of taking their own life than even male doctors but higher than other professions. Now when I used to be a banker it was my job to make loans to doctors and dentists and professionals like that for a while. That was my job. And one of the risks of making loans to medical professionals especially dentists is that they had unusually high rates of taking their own lives. Dentists in particular have like career-wise are right at the top of taking their own lives. I'm not surprised that doctors may be a little higher and that female doctors are the highest. And I have a hypothesis to add to this. You know the obvious things would be that being a doctor isn't as good as it used to be and you don't have the same prestige and the work is terrible and a lot of the time you're just doing work that's just busy work to make sure you stayed up all night because for some reason the medical field wants to torture you when you're a new doctor. I've never understood that, to make you stay up 21 hours and all that stuff.
But here's my hypothesis. Since all of those things would be pretty common male or female, I think it's access to pills. If you were a doctor and you were deciding to end it all wouldn't you do it with pills? I would think so. And if you had access to them because you could get all you wanted I would think that would explain most of it actually. It seems like there are a lot of people who probably think about doing something to themselves but it's sort of hard. You're not quite sure how to do it in a way that you'd be willing to do it. But if your job was giving out pills and you could get all you wanted, if you could have asked me you didn't have to do the study. Scott, do you think that the industry that can get all the tools of taking your own life very easily, do you think they would have higher rates of doing it? I'd say yeah, probably. If you can get exactly the tool and it's easier for you, sure.
Well it looks like the headlines say that Andrew Tate has been detained again by the Romanian officials. So he got arrested. Do you know what is the weird part of this? The headline says Andrew Tate detained again in Romania but you read it and it says his brother was picked up too. I feel sorry for Andrew Tate's brother Tristan. He's always the also guy. Andrew Tate gets picked up by the Romanian cops and he has a brother too. So here's my question. Since we don't know what those charges are and Tate says he doesn't know what the charges are based on what evidence, he says there's no evidence. I don't have an opinion about whether he did or didn't do anything wrong. I will state again that even a citizen of Romania is innocent until proven guilty based on our standards. He hasn't been proven guilty so he's innocent until proven guilty in my personal standard of these things.
But here's the question. Do you think he would have been picked up if there were not an American election coming? I feel like he's one of those people who can move young votes, especially young males. I think that maybe Romania was asked to pick him up by somebody associated with the United States because he's exactly the kind of person you want to take off the field when you know people under 30 are looking to figure out who to vote for after not thinking about it until the last minute. He's exactly the kind of person they don't want talking for the next few months. To me this looks very suspicious. The timing looks suspicious. The lack of any obvious evidence that we could see, the public can see of guilt. And again I want to be very clear it's not my job to defend them from any charges. I have no idea what they did or did not do. I have no awareness of any of that. I'm just saying that if I were to, if you would ask me to guess, would they be picked up just about now? I think I might have put a bet on it. If you'd said all right take a bet, give me your bet. Would you bet that the Tates would be rearrested and maybe never charged, you know just taking off the field and taking off the social media before the American election? Would you place a bet on that? I think I would have. I think I would have placed a bet on that that they would be arrested again only because they're effective people. Listen to them. They have a big platform and they're presumably going to be more pro-Trump than pro-Biden or pro-Kamala Harris.
Anyway there's a report that the Chinese tech companies are hiring quote cheerleaders to motivate the programmers. Now based on the photo the cheerleaders would look like they would be heterosexual attractive young women whose job they say is to do stuff like buy breakfast for the programmers, have a conversation with them and play ping-pong. Now if that's true America just has to give up and surrender because we can't compete with that. No. What if our programmers suddenly found it enjoyable to go to work? Well that would be pretty sexist. Yeah this sounds so sexist that could never happen in the United States so we can never compete with this, these happy programmers. But maybe American programmers work harder because they know they have to get rich if they want a girlfriend. So that's plenty of incentive. They probably have all the incentive they need right now.
All right, so there's a report that Osama Bin Laden once said, and it must be in a document somewhere that we've captured after Bin Laden got taken down, but apparently there's some document in which he was saying it would be okay for Al-Qaeda to try to assassinate Obama during Obama's term but they wanted to make sure that they didn't assassinate Joe Biden the vice president. Do you know why Bin Laden thought it would be acceptable and desirable to assassinate the president of the United States but not the vice president? Do you know what his reasoning is for that? Well allegedly his reasoning is that Joe Biden was incompetent and it would be really good luck for Al-Qaeda if he ever became president of the United States because he would destroy the United States with his own bumbling incompetence. That was Bin Laden. Now do you believe that? I kind of believe it. It's a little too on the nose so maybe I'll put a little skepticism in there. I think that would be more appropriate. Yeah I think I was falling into the trap of wanting to believe it because it was a good recreational story like oh that's a good fun story but I don't really think Bin Laden had that insight actually. The more I think about it I'm going to call it false. I think I'm going to call this one fake news. You know maybe there's some document but who knows who made it. Seems a little fake newsy. I don't know. Seems like Russian disinformation to me. No it doesn't. But so I'm going to use the it's a little too close to exactly what some people would want to hear to make me believe it happened just that way.
But here's a weird thing. Do you know if you took the name Bin Laden and simply removed the letters N L and A that all happen they're next to each other. So if you take Bin Laden and remove some of the letters N L N A do you know what you have? Biden. You literally can't spell Bin Laden without Biden. I don't know if the simulation is telling us something but there it is.
Anyway there's a story that one of the officials in the government nuclear weapons department is trying to make the nuclear weapons group way gayer. So it's the National Nuclear Security Administration's special assistant named Ner, that's the last name, Ner, N-A-I-R anyway, made it clear that she wants to get rid of all the white supremacy in the nuclear weapons group, get rid of the white supremacy in the nuclear field. And she wants to gay up the nuclear weapons as part of the diversity, equity and inclusion. So there's actually somebody who's feeling that the important thing about nuclear war is to make sure that diverse people launch them so that when we all die in a giant nuclear fireball we can say ah I'm melting but at least diversity was achieved. That's my impression of dying after a nuclear blast. Probably not on point. Probably not.
Now am I saying that I don't want any gay people working in nuclear weapons? No, obviously I'm not saying that. Am I saying that it would be bad to have diversity? No I'm not saying that. Am I saying that a DEI hire is necessarily incompetent? No I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is if you design a system where one of the top priorities is not, oh let's say avoiding a nuclear war or winning one if you have to be in one, if your top priority of any individual who's got power in that organization is to make sure you have more diversity, you've designed a system for failure and almost guaranteed nuclear war. If you said to me what would be a good way to create a nuclear war I'd say well stop hiring based strictly on merit and make sure you've got a good diversity in there. Again no complaints about anybody's genes or gender preference or gender or any of that. That has nothing to do with any of my points. My point is that if you force a certain population no matter who they are and you force them into the system you're going to get incompetence. So there's somebody whose job is to inject incompetence into our nuclear operation. You'd think there'd be some limit to how stupid we could be but apparently not. There's no limit to how stupid we could be but we're very diverse.
What time is RFK Jr. going to make his announcement today? So allegedly, and I'm not sure the reports are completely reliable, but allegedly RFK Jr. was going to suspend his campaign and maybe even endorse Trump. I don't feel that that's 100 percent certain. I think there's a good chance of it. You know if I had to bet I'd bet that it's going to happen. And here's the amazing thing. Like how is that even possible that somebody whose family and he were just life to him Democrats, how badly do you have to abuse somebody before a Kennedy will become potentially endorsing a Republican? You've got to be really, really, really terrible people. And I think RFK Jr. is just reacting to how he was being treated.
So I would also point out that if you gave a quiz to people who didn't know who the people involved were for this quiz, you said all right here's a list of characteristics of JFK. So President JFK, you know what was he all about? Just describe what he wanted and his policies. And then do a description of Trump and what he wanted but you take out all the hyper so that you're just factually saying JFK wanted this stuff, Trump wants this stuff. I think that would look kind of similar, don't you? There wouldn't be that much difference between what JFK thought was a good idea and what Trump thinks is a good idea. So it's not that big of a leap, weirdly, because the Democrats became wildly left progressive and crazy and Trump is obviously he's more Republican than Democrat but if you were to look at a historical model Trump is pretty commonsensical. So I don't even see Trump as being on the right. I never have really. I mean he has to fit somewhere because we like to put things in boxes so I get that he's in that box but I just see all of his policies as not having a right or left dimension to them. Am I the only one? I just don't see right or left in what he does because he shows you his work. He says this works, this doesn't. This makes sense, this doesn't. And you could look at it yourself and you could say okay there's precedent for why this would work and there's no precedent for why this stupid idea would work. He just seems like the common sense obvious path kind of guy.
Anyway so people are saying would RFK Jr. join a Trump administration? Trump has acted positively about it. I don't know if RFK Jr. has ever answered it. I think you don't answer those questions while you're running. But I'm still fascinated by how many roles you could imagine RFK Jr. taking. This is a real compliment to RFK Jr. because you know I always talk about talent stacks. You want to get as many talents as you can so you're ready for anything. So you could easily imagine RFK Jr. being the head of the CIA to clean it up. You could imagine him being head of the FDA. You could imagine him being attorney general. Maybe there's five more jobs that you can imagine him being the top advisor. But whatever he does I would love to see him be in charge of food and medical drug testing so that we'd have some chance of getting at least a clearer picture of those things.
So anyway I also wonder has it ever been confirmed that RFK Jr. has testosterone supplements? Has he ever talked about that? I feel like I sort of maybe remember he mentioned it because his muscular development suggests that he's doing something that's both legal and very effective for muscle development. So do we know that he's had his testosterone boosted or is it just obvious? I'm seeing some yeses but here's the interesting thing. Do you think that he would consider citing or endorsing Republicans if he had not boosted his testosterone? Think about it. I think it's the defining factor.
And let me tie this into my next story which is you know CNN and MSNBC covering the Democrat convention. They were trying to sell the fact that Doug Emhoff and Tim Walz are the example of the new male role models and that they were different from, and this is actually what the commentators were saying this is not me saying it, it was different from the testosterone-filled macho Republican people. And so both MSNBC and CNN's the women, the female pundits and observers were saying that the Democrats have this new model of male optimal male behavior which is supporting a woman being your boss and that if you could be more let's say less macho Hulk Hogan and less Dana White and more Doug Emhoff and more Tim Walz that that's the model that the Democrats want to put forward as modern male leadership. And then RFK Jr. comes along he's just like bristling with muscles and he's willing to skin a dead bear and he just doesn't fit their model.
So I'm going to say again do you think, now I'm making an assumption here that if we assume that he's at least friendly with the Trump campaign, do we think that he would have any chance of endorsing or working with Trump if he had not boosted his testosterone? Which if I haven't told you this before your body and your brain are the same organ. Your body is your brain. If RFK Jr.'s body is rippling with a high level of testosterone that's his brain and it would make him way less likely to be far left. So don't rule out that this is entirely chemical. I don't think it's about issues and facts because the issues are all lies and the facts are all lies. But you can see testosterone and you could look at the people attending the DNC and you don't see any. It looks like all the testosterone went to another city that day.
Anyway so we'll keep an eye out waiting. What's the time for the RFK Jr. announcement? Does anybody know when that's slated to happen? I haven't seen anything about that yet. Anyway we'll look for that.
This story is funny. There's a story I guess the government's probably saying this that both Russia and Iran are quote waging operations to influence the US elections. All right so the idea is that professional trolls from Russia and from Iran are trying to spread disinformation or put their finger on the scales for our election. Do you see anything about that story that is funny? I do. Everything about our election is disinformation. How are they going to add any extra disinformation? You're watching the DNC and 100 percent of what every person said was a lie. 100 percent. There wasn't I don't think there was anything honest that came out of the entire thing so far. The news is completely fake. Our data is completely made up and the citizens don't even know the made up stuff. If you stop them on the street they barely know the name of the people running for president. So in this context do you think that the Russian and Iranian trolls are going to make a difference?
Let me put this in context for you. Okay because remember that Russia had that troll farm in 2016 and I laughed when I saw their memes like these memes look like they were made in high school. There's no way that had any influence on the election. All right here's what I think. Imagine the Grand Canyon. All right you got that picture in your mind. Gigantic canyon. Now imagine if the entire canyon was filled with cow feces. It was just full of cow crap not just to the top but like 100 feet above the top. Every bit of the Grand Canyon full of feces. Now imagine a pigeon flies over the Grand Canyon that's overflowing with cow feces and the pigeon poops on top of it. That's all of the Russian and Iranian trolls. You put them all together and they're one pigeon pooping on top of a gigantic canyon full of it. If you imagine that they could have any impact when everything's already a lie, 100 percent of what both sides are talking about is just completely left-handed context stuff and things that aren't even true and lies and hoaxes. There's no way that Russia or Iran could add anything to that mix that would make it worse than what it is without their help. They can't make that worse. In what way could you make that worse? To me that's just hilarious. It's so ridiculously not a risk that I can't even believe we're talking about it. I guess there's still an illusion that some of our information is real and that if they added their little pigeon poop of misinformation that suddenly our delicate balance of correct information would be set off. There's no correct information. Good luck birds.
There's a report in the Washington Free Beacon that some Soros-funded fake news network is operating in Nevada. Now it's literally an entity that tries to look like a real news entity but their only purpose is fake news for the benefit of Democrats. So you've got a Soros-funded entity that's literally doing fake news stuff. And when I say fake news I don't mean they're real news that says things are fake. They're not even a real news entity. They're just pretending to be one so they can do fake stuff. Now that's what's happening without Russia and Iran. They can't compete with Soros. He's already got the misinformation thing all wrapped up.
Well but at least the government is forthcoming with information when citizens or Congress ask for it. Oh wait. Also the Washington Free Beacon is saying that the Biden-Harris administration, they're stonewalling Congress who is asking for information about the US nonprofits that may or may not have been behind bankrolling the pro-Hamas protesters. So the House Education and Oversight Committee they want to subpoena the information. Apparently the government has some kind of information that would say what kind of nonprofits were funding the protesters. Huh, wouldn't you like to know that? Well I would but the government isn't going to tell it. Do you know why? Because it might be accurate information. Have I ever mentioned to you that if information matters it's all fake? Well this might be a situation where they have some real information and the oversight committee would like to see it because it might really matter who is funding them and that will not be made available according to the current situation. They're just going to ignore the request because the last thing the government wants is accurate information in the public.
All right, there's a September interest rate cut that's likely, say all the smart people. How many of you could have predicted that there would be an interest rate cut in the few months before the election? Well maybe it's a coincidence. Maybe the people who are supposedly independent in this interest rate stuff, maybe they're not so independent. But I'm pretty sure that I could have predicted it. So what does it mean that I could have predicted it? If you had asked me six months ago Scott do you think that the administration in charge would be so lucky that the independent, the Fed would lower the interest rate just to make everything look wonderful before election? I would have said yes. Now it could be that that was just going to happen anyway because that was a natural evolution of the economy. But I'd like to point out I would have predicted it for whatever that's worth.
Well the DNC is rolling on. I have real trouble watching it because it creeps me out. Is anybody else having that? Like I really wanted to watch more of the DNC because it felt like I should be informed but the more I thought about it it's not really moving anybody's needle anywhere is it? How many people could possibly stomach watching the DNC who had not already totally made up their mind that this is their team? Who in the world who is just casually interested in politics and has not yet made up their mind could watch that? It was just completely unwatchable crap. Oh my God. And then Tim Walz comes out and he's, I don't know if he's adopted this just for the campaign or it's natural, but he's gesticulating wildly to the crowd and these somewhat exaggerated, you know his hand when Harris is waving to the crowd she puts one hand up and Walz is standing right next to her and he's got two hands up. First of all do not gesticulate more than the top of the ticket. So Tim Walz can I give you some advice? It goes like this. If you're standing right next to the top of the ticket and the top of the ticket has one hand up waving to the crowd and accepting their applause don't put both hands up and don't act like you're jumping up and down because you're taking attention from the top of the ticket. That's not cool. That's not cool at all. You need to be a vice president so act like a freaking vice president. Look what the top of the ticket is doing body language wise and do that even if your instinct is not to do that. That's your job. Your job is to do what she's doing. Was Harris handling it better than him? I thought so. I think a professional approach to massive applause makes you look pretty strong right? But jumping up and down because you got the applause makes you look like a cheerleader. So I'm going to compliment Harris. She looked like a leader. Tim Walz looked like a cheerleader. I guess they're both leaders but one's a cheerleader.
And then if you didn't see it there is a hilarious meme of Richard Simmons now deceased I believe, Richard Simmons who is the exercise guru who was very effusive and when he would come out to the crowd he'd be both hands are up and he'd be dancing and bowing and blowing kisses stuff. And you see it side by side with Tim Walz coming out to greet the crowd. It does look like Richard Simmons. Now to me and I'm going to say it again Tim Walz is so creepy I just can't even stand a second of him. And it's not because he's a Democrat right. I could watch Obama all day long. I could watch Bill Clinton all day long. Even Hillary Clinton who I really really didn't like as a candidate I mean I didn't have a creepy reaction to it. I just didn't like her. But he gives me a genuine creep out. Does anybody else get that? And I don't know what it's about. I don't have a specific idea what's behind that but oh my God the creepiness level is just off the chart. I think that's why he started with the weird thing to take pressure off himself being so creepy. That's just my take.
Let's see then the DNC mostly wanted to talk about Trump's character and some hoaxes and lies about Trump and they didn't mention crime of course because that's not a strong topic of theirs. But they want you to know that Trump's a bad person. He's so bad. Trump's bad. Their audience will never notice that their focus on Trump is because they're trying to make you forget that they don't have the goods and that the things they've suggested for policies are batshit crazy. They're not just Democrat versus Republican. They found a whole new category that's neither Democrat nor Republican. It's just guaranteed failure. Yeah her tax plan and you know well we've talked about it.
So I'll say again that I think all the hoaxes about Trump that the DNC speakers have presented, they continue to find people. Hoax drinking bleach, hoax, hoax, hoax, hoax. I think they know they're not true and they know that if they can make the Republicans get mad and talk about it oh they're hoaxing us again they're hoaxing us that they'll have less pressure to talk about policies or to have Harris in front of the press. So as a distraction the hoaxes are really working. Worked on me.
Well Oprah is at the DNC and she said quote I have been on the receiving end of racism, sexism and income inequality but somehow she fought through and now she's worth billions of dollars and got invited to the DNC. So anyway but here's the funniest part of that. The way CNN was covering her speech. So CNN's got the camera on Oprah and Oprah's going on and Oprah says and by the way the Vigilant Fox account on X sees that Oprah while she's talking and mocking JD Vance. She's mocking him about the childless cat lady comment. And as Oprah is mocking him about childless cat ladies CNN decides to cut to a closeup of an audience member who is a woman who may or may not be childless and a cat lady. Now there's no mention of whether she's childless or a cat lady but the fact that they cut to her was hilarious. And childless cat ladies and suddenly there's this big old face of somebody in the audience who's really could have been, I don't know but she could be a childless cat lady. She had that look.
All right Bill Clinton was a speaker too and he hilariously mispronounced Kamala as Camela. Now am I the only person who's noticed how many Black Americans call Kamala Kamala? Black Americans do not pronounce her name correctly. White Americans do not pronounce her name correctly. Ex-presidents do not pronounce her name correctly. Maybe it's the name. Maybe it's the name. There's something about that name that's difficult to remember how to pronounce it. Now part of the reason it's hard to remember how to pronounce it is that so many people who are in the business are mispronouncing it. If I didn't see people who should know how to do it consistently doing it wrong I would remember it correctly. So maybe it's just the name. Can we find a little common ground there? I would believe we should all be able to meet at this place which is we'd all like to use people's proper name. You know if we're being polite human beings we do want to use their name correctly but it's hard. I think that's the better framing is it's just hard to remember. You know nobody needs a nickname more than she does. She needs a nickname like a positive nickname from her own team. Something that isn't coach. Trying to think. Go Tim Walz coach is just giving me every creepy vibe. Oh my God I just I can't even watch it.
Anyway MSNBC's Rachel Maddow she was on air talking about how happy everybody was that Tim Walz was giving his speech and she actually said this about the on-air talent at MSNBC that they were literally got up and danced in jubilation to Tim Walz. That's the news. So the news people whose job it is to tell you the news, now obviously they're opinion people but they're on a news network, they say they danced in jubilation. Nobody. Yeah thank you. I see the wrap up messages. I'll wrap up pretty soon. I've got about five more minutes so I should be fine. Thank you.
Anyway well that tells you everything you need to know. If they're literally dancing to the happiness that one team could win. Daniel Dale the most embarrassing job in the world which is to be the political fact checker and ignore most of the lies by one side. They brought him on to fact check the claim by one of the DNC people that Trump wrote Project 2025 which he did not. So Daniel Dale to his credit says that Trump is not named as an author of the document and then he went on to debunk all of the other. No he didn't. Now I don't know what else Daniel Dale debunked but I guarantee he didn't debunk any of the big ones. So I think you have to see this debunk in the context of misinformation. Here's why. If you were watching that and you saw that the only thing that got debunked was that one claim about that document which has the authors listed right on it but Daniel Dale could say he's not listed as an author. That is a fake fact check. What makes it fake is not that it's wrong because it's actually right. What makes it fake is if you watch the network and that's the only thing that got fact checked you would believe the other. You'd say well they would fact check it. They got this guy whose only job is to fact check so all that other stuff must be true. So Daniel Dale actually ended up being the person who's most responsible for spreading fake news by fact checking correctly only this one thing in this sea of other fake news or at least fake claims. So that's humiliating to be him and I can't even imagine how he sleeps at night honestly. I mean he must feel that he's part of a huge disinformation campaign. How could he not feel that? And how can you be okay with that if your only job is lying and you're okay with it?
Anyway Kim.com noted that the Polymarket I guess that's a betting market now has Trump handily up on Harris 53 to 46. They were recently tied and even before that Harris was slightly ahead. And as Kim.com cleverly says the more they talk the more they drop. So the longer the DNC goes on the betting markets are like uh maybe not so much. Maybe not.
I'll wrap it up in a minute here. We just found out that Thomas Crooks the attempted assassin guy, his, we knew he had encrypted messaging apps but now we know that they're on platforms located in Belgium, New Zealand and Germany. Now as General Flynn noted we knew that probably in 24 hours. We meaning the government knew it. Why did they wait till now to tell us? And by the way Belgium, New Zealand and Germany what possible reason would you have to use an encrypted app that is platformed in those countries? Well to keep the United States from seeing your plans would be one. But it does suggest there might be some foreign involvement. It doesn't it's not evidence for it but it's a situation which would be conducive to it. It's hard for me to imagine that this kid had enough wherewithal and knowledge to use these foreign encrypted apps but if he were being let's say managed by somebody in an intelligence group either domestic or foreign they could certainly point him toward those things and say you know you should be off the grid. You'd better use these foreign encrypted apps because America's in the back door of ours. So curiouser and curiouser.
All right the funniest thing is that the head of Hamas senior he's added a requirement to the ceasefire negotiations. He is politely asking if they do a ceasefire could you please not kill me. So one of the requirements of the ceasefire is that Israel has to promise not to kill the guy who was in charge of October 7th. Let me see if I can take a bet on whether Israel will accept that. They will let the mastermind of the October 7th slaughter live so that they can get a ceasefire. No. So there are two possibilities. Either Israel will say no we're not going to agree with that and then they kill him or Israel says oh we totally agree with that and then they kill him. Here's what's not in question. Israel is going to kill him. There is 100 percent chance they're going to kill him. They might do it today. They might do it tomorrow. It could take eight years. They're going to kill him. There's nothing that's going to stop it. And by the way if you were Israel you'd feel the same way. Now am I encouraging it, promoting it, embracing it? I'm not even involved. I'm just observing. There's nothing that will stop Israel from killing that guy and you do the same thing. So I don't have an opinion on it. No opinion is needed. We'll just watch what happens and there's only one way it goes. So he's pretty dead.
That ladies and gentlemen is the end of my show. I've got to do some veterinarian stuff with my dog. She's got a torn ACL and so she's not too happy but we're going to see about getting that fixed if we can. Thanks for joining. I can't go private with you today on Locals because I got to run but thanks for joining and I'll see you tomorrow and Locals I'll see you in the man cave tonight and bye for now everybody. Have a great day.
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saying that the simpler your headline the more clicks you get that's right if people reading the news see your headline and they understand what all the words mean they're more likely to click it if they don't understand what you're trying to say in the headline or it's a little too clever they won't click it because why would they they don't even know what it's about now who could have told you that without the research who could have told you that if you understand what the topic is of the story you're more likely to click it versus not knowing what the story is about because they use big confusing words oh they could have asked me they could they could have saved some money Scott we're thinking of doing this study to see if dumbass big freaking academic looking titles get as many clicks as clear fun short ones and I would said who good thing you asked me save your money those clear short ones are going to get more interest now here's the fun part how many of you remember back in 2015 and 2016 When Donald Trump was considered the dumbest person in all of public life because when he talked he talked like he talked like he he had a sixth grade um vocabulary I mean my goodness you how could he possibly be a president with a sixth grade vocabulary he's always using simple words and what's wrong with that guy huh and then I told you um that's perfect the thing they're criticizing is the best communication style of all time according to every study and every observable experience when was the last time you heard the media criticize Trump for his simplistic communication style bet you didn't realize it completely disappeared didn't it what honestly it's been years I think it's been years since they brought that oh he uses simple vocabulary do you know why because at this point everybody figured out that was the better way to communicate because the world is not as smart as writers and people who make headlines the people who make headlines went to college and the college told them to use big words and so they do to impress their editors and their friends and then the people who read it who necessarily maybe didn't go to such a good college they look at it and say I don't even know what those words mean I think I'll click on something else so I really could have helped you there but um once you understand that Trump is the arguably the best public Communicator of all time you know even with his flaws nobody's ever been more persuasive or more clear about what they want than he has so shorter is better there's a medical study saying that it's published in the JMA Jama Psychiatry publication anyway shows that kids who had persistent inflammation as kids body inflammation were far more likely to develop serious mental health disorder orders including psychosis and depression now to their credit this the uh article about it says very clearly that they have not established that the inflammation causes the other problems it could be either related or Associated so the first thing I'll say is congratulations for clearly writing about science in a way that makes sense but at what point in the article did they tell you that it wasn't necessarily causation was it up at the top was the first sentence we don't know if this is causation but there's a great correlation between do you think it did that no it did not no you had to read a long time before they confessed yeah we don't know if the inflammation causes the problems could be just correlation so I'm only going to give him impartial credit because the reason that you would click it and read it is that you thought that they had established some causation and if you knew that they did not establish any causation because they they don't have the data to do that yet um maybe you would have read it differently or not read it but here's my hypothesis that I've been working on for a long time the other day uh I had a very bad mental attitude I woke up just feeling the sense of dread and doom that wasn't really connected to anything happening in the world that was different than the day before when I fell fine you know surely there are problems in the world but why did I feel fine yesterday and then I wake up one day and then I feel like Dread and do you know what the answer is it's how my body felt when my body feels suboptimal my brain follows along if if you're still under the model that your brain and your body are two different functions you're going to be your your odds of Happiness are practically zero let me say that again if you think that your brain and your your your well is put it other way if you think that your body is not a component of your mind and that it's only that little brain thing that's inside your skull that's part of your mind oh you're not going to succeed at anything you you have to get rid of that your body is your brain here's how here's what I mean how did I how did I solv the problem that I I felt a sense of Doom and Dread and you know I would have even called it like a mild depression it was because my body didn't feel good I didn't have enough exercise I I had some inflammation maybe so I basically take a you know a uh what do you call it the Epson salt hot bath and my inflammation goes away and I eat some food I like and I get some sleep and all the Doom went away so my brain problem was just my body so as soon as you realize that your brain is your body and that imagining they're two separate systems gets you all the wrong answers your body is your brain I'm depressed what am I going to do about it do some brain stuff no do something with your body get outside get some sun get some vitamin D work on your inflammation if you if you have a problem so that that's my hypothesis based on my observation in my own life is that whenever my body hurts my brain is in a bad place whenever my body feels extraordinary my brain's fine no problems at all anyway it's a good thing that climate models are Dependable oh well there's a new story that uh two prominent and uh very experienced climate scientists you've probably heard of them before they're sort of the contrarians in that in that space Richard Linden I've talked about him before and uh William haer now they're both very highly qualified um Professionals in science in specifically spent a lot of time in the global climate change stuff here's what they say apparently their claim is the following that if you add some CO2 to the air it might warm the environment or or does actually so they they would agree that if you add CO2 hum produce CO2 to the air uh and there's not much there already that as you're adding a little bit to the air it it'll cause some warming but here's the surprising part they claim is that when you reach a certain level which we have already reached that the science is very clear that the CO2 will stop having that same warming property in other words we've already reached Peak CO2 warming potential adding more won't make any difference at all so their claim is let's see if I can get it in their words that uh the physics of carbon dioxide is that co2's ability to warm the planet is determined by its ability to absorb heat so if it doesn't absorb heat it doesn't warm the planet but its ability to absorb heat this is the CO2 decreases rapidly as CO2 concentration increases so it's basically the opposite of all of climate change that it does it does correlate with an increase in temperature at lower rates but when you reach about where we are now it should Plateau so they're saying basically it's not going to add any warming because it it it can't as soon as you have enough concentration of CO2 which is where we're at you could add more but it won't get any warmer now do all scientists agree of course not but these are two very qualified well-known you know even I know these names not in the scientific field but I'm well aware of these two two scientists so if they're right then everything about the climate models is wrong and they've made a they've made a fairly simple claim one that you think could be tested now I'm not going to claim that these scientists are right and all the other scientists are wrong I'm going to claim that we don't know anything about anything like all of our sense of certainty is all artifici official it's you know we imagine that the data is never going to change and nobody's lying and all the assumptions they made are true and and that it's actually possible to predict the future based on a multivariable Model it's not it's not it's not even close to possible and everybody in the field knows it but you don't all right so but if that were the only problem that would be the end of the climate crisis completely and it does seem like a testable claim could you not test in a laboratory the increasing CO2 in let's say just a laboratory setting a totally controlled environment and I think they've done that right I'm pretty sure I've seen tests where in the laboratory if you introduce CO2 to a little closed environment you can demonstrate that it causes warming so if the claim is that a certain saturation level is stops doing that instead of infinitely creating more warming that would be easy to test wouldn't it couldn't you just build a little terrarium or something that looks like Earth in a in a box or you know in a sealed in a sealed environment introduce some CO2 measure the temperature sure enough we added CO2 and the temperature went up now keep adding it until you get to the concentration we're at today in the real world does it keep going up as you keep adding to it or does it Plateau as these two scientists would suggest so the fascinating thing about this is it seems so testable maybe we'll find out it's real who knows I'm not going to tell you that you know these scientists are right and the others are wrong because I have no way to know that but I love the fact that they're very qualified people and they've got a very different idea of what's going on but at least the rest of climate model stuff is all pretty solid you know it's only that one assumption that they have to test you know the one assumption that drives everything that's the only one they're questioning the one assumption that makes everything different but are there any other assumptions in these climate models huh well it turns out that there have been some new studies of ice and they can they can melt the ice in a special scientific way and figure out what kind of gases and stuff were in the ice and then they can reconstruct things about the past to know if their climate models today you know would have worked in the past as well that's pretty important so what they find out well it turns out that uh the amount of biomass that has burned over time has been decreasing as the population of the world increases so biomass burning means like a forest fire right you just a natural fire Outdoors is a biomass burning so the climate models assumed that the more people you added to the world the more burning there would be I assume they mean because people would burn Forest to plant Farms people would burn wood to heat themselves people would you know people humans would be burning a lot of stuff so the climate models assume more people equals more burning that's a basic part of the models but it turns out that when you look at the ice samples uh The More Humans there are the less biomass there is that's burned it's opposite so one of the key assumptions that people equals more burning and that's fed into the model is opposite according to these new studies now again does it mean the new study is correct and all the things in the model are incorrect I don't know that I'm just saying that one part of science that should be taken as credibly as the rest probably uh is saying that they got that big variable opposite so Suppose there were only two problems with the models that have lots of variables and suppose the only two problems were they got this biomass thing backwards and they got the CO2 um doesn't eat anything after it reaches a certain saturation what if they got those two things wrong well then the entire bottles are are nothing garbage now let me say something again that if you're not convinced yet oh I'm going to wear you down it goes like this there is no such thing as accurate data for anything that matters if it doesn't matter or it's something we all observe like yes there's a hurricane yes the news says there's a hurricane science says there's a hurricane okay the easy stuff we all agree that's real but all the stuff that really has big dollars involved it's never real you you can't have data collection and big dollars involved at the same time but unfortunately that's the only way anything happens because the only people willing to spend all the money it would take to collect data on something as big as the climate would be people who have a lot of money involved so there isn't actually a system in place in the world to get accurate data about anything that matters think about that it's not it's not a set of accidents it it's not like well we looked at this data and it turns out that somebody involved was gaming the system but then we looked at some other data ah it turned out there was something wrong with that data too and you say to yourself wow I'm sure all the rest of the data in the world is good but these two look like they were wrong no there is no way that it's even possible for data to be correct about anything important because because the people presenting it have an interest and they're only going to show it to you if they can make that data look whatever it is that they need it to look so now there's no such thing as accurate data about anything that matters and don't be confused by the data on things that don't matter there there's probably plenty of data on things that don't matter to anybody politically or monetarily but if it matters and there's money involved it's never real it can't be design is Destiny the design of the system is the only people who collect the data or the people who have a lot of money involved in it being one way that's our system if you suppose you designed that on paper and you presented it to somebody as a way to run the world suppose nobody had ever collected any data for anything before and you said you know what if we started collecting data in this world and we applied some science we' we'd be way ahead so they come up with the idea of collecting data and they say all right here's how we're going to do it it's going to be expensive to collect any data that you really matters and it's going to move the needle so who's going to be doing the collecting the government oh no the government might be biased you know might be Democrats in office versus Republicans you can't really trust the government with data so then I'd say wait so you're saying that all information that comes from the government will be fake oh yes of course it will of course it will because it's either Democrats in charge or Republicans in charge and neither of them have an interest in telling you the truth right they have a gigantic monetary and you know other career interests in telling you the truth they want you to hear do you think we could see that effect in the real world if the government has an incentive to lie to you all the time well let's uh let's uh look at some data have you heard about the jobs reports that are being uh revised by over 800,000 because they were all fake turns out it's way worse than that because we might be looking at jobs that were created as fake jobs to get PPP money during the pandemic so there's some suggestion that there might be 5 million fake jobs because people pretended they had employees so they could get money from the government and pretended they had companies so some some people think that our jobs numbers are completely just ridiculous and just made up and now they're being revised so that's exactly what you would expect to happen if in fact your design of how you collect data was wrong and delegated to the people who had the most interest in lying to you the current situation let's see what else um how about our uh numbers about crime do you think our crime statistics that come from the government are pretty good pretty accurate no because some people stopped collecting crime and then they started just making stuff up and I think we're all aware at this point that the crime numbers are made up would you agree and even when they're not made up they put it in the wrong context like comparing to the pandemic versus not the pandemic which is no comparison at all so we don't have jobs numbers that are real and we don't have crime numbers that are real and it's because the government is in charge of those numbers and there is no scenario in which the government wants you to have real numbers every scenario no matter who's in charge they want it to look like it's good for their team period so if you were to ask private companies to get you information let's say drug companies to do drug studies what you what should you expect if you were going to put that design if you were going to design that system on paper all right the people who could make a billion dollars if the drug is safe are in charge of telling you that the data says it's safe what do you expect yeah the design of the system system guarantees that all important data is fake we've designed the system see you have to understand that it's a system design problem it's not a bunch of people who have made a mistake coincidentally in each of these uh important domains that's not what's going on there's no no mistakes happening people have a great interest in making assumptions that will drive the numbers the way they want them to be driven and whoever collects numbers gets to make the assumptions oh these numbers are good enough they're in these numbers don't look Dependable to me I'll leave these out that's how it works all right uh let's see female doct there's another study says female doctors have a a far greater risk of taking their own life than even male doctors but you know higher than other professions now when I used to be a banker it was my job to make loans to doctors and dentists and professionals like that for a while that was my job and one of the risks of making loans to medical professionals especially dentists is that they had unusually high rates of taking their own lives dentists in particular have like career-wise are right at the top of taking their own lives uh I'm not surprised that doctors may be a little higher and that female doctors are the highest and I have a hypothesis to add to this you know the the obvious things would be that being a doctor isn't as good as it used to be and you know you don't have the same Prestige and you know the work is terrible and a lot of the time you're just doing work that's just busy work to make sure you stayed up all night because for some reason the the medical field wants to torture you when you're a new doctor I I've never understood that to make you stay up 21 hours and all that stuff but um here's my hypothesis since all of those things would be pretty common male or female I think it's access to pills if you were a doctor how and you were deciding to end it all wouldn't you do it with pills I would think so and if you had access to them because you could get all you wanted I would think that would explain most of it actually you it seems like there are a lot of people who probably think about doing something to themselves but it's sort of hard you know you're not quite sure how to do it in a way that you'd be willing to do it but if your job was giving out pills and you could get all you wanted I if you could have asked me you didn't have to do the study Scott do you think that the industry that can get all the uh all the tools of taking your own life very easily do you think they would have higher rates of doing it I'd say yeah probably if you can get exactly the tool and it's easier for you sure well it looks like uh the headlines say that Andrew Tate has been detained Again by the Romanian officials so so he got arrested do you know what is the weird part of this the headline says Andrew Tate detained again in Romania but you read it and it says you his brother was picked up too I I feel sorry for Andrew Tate's brother Tristan he's always the also guy Andrew Tate gets picked up by the Romanian cops and he was a brother too so here's my question since we don't know what those charges are and Tate says he doesn't know what the charges are based on what evidence he says there's no evidence I don't have an opinion about whether he did or did anything wrong I will state again that uh say e even even a citizen of Romania is innocent to proven guilty based on our standards you know he hasn't been proven guilty so he's innocent to proven guilty in my personal standard of these things uh but here's the question do you think he would have been picked up if there were not an American election coming I feel like he's one of those people who can move young votes especially young males I think that maybe Romania was asked to pick him up by somebody associated with the United States because he's exactly the kind of person you want to take off the field when you know people under 30 are looking to figure out who to vote for after not thinking about it until the last minute he's exactly the kind of person they don't they don't want talking for the next few months to me this looks very suspicious the timing looks suspicious the lack of you know any obvious evidence that we could see the public can see of guilt and again I want to be very clear it's not my job to defend them from any charges I have no idea what they did or did not do I have no no awareness of any of that I'm just saying that if I were to if you would ask me to guess would they be picked up just about now I think I might have put a bet on it if you'd said all right take a bet uh give me give me your bet would you bet that the Tates would be rearrested and maybe never charged you know just taking off the field and taking off the social media uh before the American election would you place a bet on that I think I would have I think I would have placed a bet on that that they would be arrested again only because they're effective people listen to them they have a big platform form and they're you know presumably they're going to be more Pro Trump than Pro Biden or Pro uh Pro Comm Harris anyway there's a report that the Chinese tech companies are hiring quote cheerleaders to motivate the programmers now based on the photo the cheerleaders would look like they would be heterosexual uh attractive young women whose job they say is to do stuff like buy breakfast for the programmers uh have a conversation with them and play pingpong now if that's true America just has to give up and surrender because we can't compete with that no what what if our programers suddenly found it enjoyable to go to work well that would be pretty sexist yeah this sounds so sexist that could never happen in the United States so we can never compete with this these happy programmers but maybe American programmers work harder because they know they have to get rich if they want a girlfriend so that's pretty that's plenty of incentive they probably have all the incentive they need right now all right so um there's a report that uh Osama Bin Laden once said and and it must be in a document somewhere that we've captured after Bin Laden got taken down but apparently there's some document in which he was saying it would be okay for Al-Qaeda to try to assassinate Obama during during Obama's term but they wanted to make sure that they didn't assassinate Joe Biden the vice president do you know why Bin Laden thought it would be acceptable and desirable to assassinate the president of the United States but not the vice president do do you know what his reasoning is for that well allegedly his reasoning is that Joe Biden was incompetent and it would be really good luck for Al-Qaeda if he ever became president of the United States because he would destroy the United States with his own bumbling incompetence that was Bin Laden now do you believe that I kind of believe it it's a little too on the nose so may maybe I'll put a little skepticism in there I think that would be more appropriate yeah I think I was falling to the Trap of wanting to believe it because it was a good recreational story like oh that's a good fun story but I don't really think Bin Laden had that Insight actually the more I think about it I'm going to call it false I think I'm gonna call this one fake news you know maybe there's some document but who knows who made it seems a little fake newsy I don't know seems like Russian disinformation to me no it doesn't but uh so I'm going to use the it's a little little too close to exactly what some people would want to hear to make me believe it happened just that way but here's a weird thing do you know if you took the name Bin Laden and simply removed the letters NL and a that all happen they all happen they're next to each other so if you take Bin Laden and remove some of the letters n LNA a do you know what you have Biden you literally can't spell Bin Laden without Biden I don't know if the simulation is telling us something but there it is anyway there's a story that one of the officials in the government um nuclear uh nuclear weapons departments is uh trying to make the nuclear weapons group uh way gayer so uh it's the national nuclear security administration's Special Assistant uh named uh ner that's the last name ner n a i r anyway made it clear that she uh she wants to get rid of all the white supremacy in the nuclear nuclear weapons group get rid of the white supremacy in the nuclear field and she wants to uh you know gay up the nuclear weapons as part of the diversity equity and inclusion so there's actually somebody who's feeling that the important thing about nuclear war is to make sure that diverse people launch them so that when we all die in a giant nuclear Fireball we can say ah I'm melting but at least diversity was achieved that's my impression of dying after nuclear blast probably not to on point probably not now am I saying that I don't want any gay people working in nuclear weapons no obviously I'm not saying that am I saying that it would be bad to have diversity no I'm not saying that am I saying that a Dei hire is necessarily incompetent no I'm not saying that what I'm saying is if you design a system where one of the top priorities is not oh let's say avoiding a nuclear war or winning one if you have to be in one if your top priority of any individual who's got power in that organization is to make sure you have more diversity you've designed a system for failure and almost guaranteed nuclear war if you said to me what would be a good way to create a nuclear war I'd say well stop hiring based strictly on Merit and make sure you got a got a good good diversity in there again no complaints about anybody's genes or gender preference or gender or any of that that has nothing to do with any my points my point is that if you force a certain population no matter who they are and you you force them into the city or into the system you're going to get incompetence so there's somebody whose job is to inject incompetence into our nuclear uh operation you know you'd think there'd be some limit to how stupid we could be but apparently not there's no limit to how stupid we could be but we're very diverse um what time is RFK Jr going to make his announcement today so allegedly and I'm not sure the reports are completely reliable but allegedly RFK Jr was going to suspend his campaign and maybe even endorse Trump I don't I don't feel that that's 100% certain I think there's a good chance of it you know if I had to bet I'd bet that it's going to happen and here's the amazing thing like how is that even possible that somebody who's family and and he were just life to him Democrats how how badly do you have to abuse somebody before a Kennedy will become potentially endorsing a Republican you've got to be really really really terrible people and I think RFK Jr is just reacting to how he was being treated so I would also point out that if you gave a quiz to people who didn't know who the people involved were for this quiz you said all right here's a list of characteristics of JFK so President JFK you know what was he all about just describe why he wanted and his policies and then do a description of trump and what he wanted but you take out all the hyper so that you're just factually saying JFK wanted this stuff Trump wants this stuff I think that would look kind of similar don't you there wouldn't there wouldn't be that much difference between what JFK thought was a good idea and what Trump thinks is a good idea so it's not that big of a leap weirdly because the Democrats became you know wildly left Progressive and crazy and uh Trump is you know obviously he's you know more Republican than Democrat but if you were to look at a historical model uh Trump is pretty common sensical so I don't even see Trump as being on the right I I never have really I mean he has to fit somewhere because we like to put things in boxes so I get that he's in that box but I just see all of his policies as not having a right or left Dimension to them am I the only one I I just don't see right or left in what he does because he shows you his work he he says this works this doesn't this makes sense this doesn't and you could look at it yourself and you could say okay there there's precedent for why this would work and there's you know no precedent for why this stupid idea would work he just seems like the common sense obvious path kind of guy anyway so people are saying would RFK Jr join a trump Administration Trump has acted positively about it I don't know if RFK Jr has ever answered it I think you don't answer those questions while you're running but I'm still fascinated by how many gools you could imagine RFK Jr taking this is real compliment to RFK Jr because you know I always talk about Talent Stacks you want to get as many talents as you can so you're ready for anything so you could you could easily imagine RFK Jr being the head of the CIA to clean it up you could imagine him being a head of the FDA you could imagine him being attorney general uh maybe there's five more jobs the that you can imagine him being the top advisor um but whatever he does I would love to see him be in charge of food and medical drug testing so that we'd have some chance of getting at least a clearer picture of those things so um anyway I also wonder has it ever been confirmed that RFK Jr has testosterone supplements has he ever talked about that I feel like I sort of maybe remember he mentioned it because his his muscular development suggests that he's doing something that's both legal and very effective um for muscle development so do we know that he's had his testosterone boosted or is it just obvious I'm seeing some yeses but here here's the interesting thing do you think that he would cons consider citing or endorsing Republicans if he had not boosted his testosterone think about it I I think it I think it's the defining factor and let me tie this into my next story which is uh you know CNN and MSNBC covering the uh the Democrat convention they were trying to sell the fact that uh Doug mof and Tim wals are the example of the new male role models and that they were different from and this is actually what the commentators were saying this is not me saying it it was different from the the testosterone filled you know Macho Republican people and so both MSNBC and CNN's the women the the female pundits and observer were saying that the Democrats have this new model of male optimal male Behavior which is supporting a woman being your boss and that if you could be more let's say less Macho Hulk Hogan and you know less Dana White and more Doug emof and more Tim wals that that's the model that the Democrats want to put forward as you know modern male leadership and and then RFK Jr comes along he's just like bristling with muscles and he's willing to to skin a dead bear and he he just doesn't he just doesn't fit their model so I'm going to say again do you think now I'm making an assumption here that if we assume that he's at least friendly with the Trump campaign do we think that he would have any chance of endorsing or work working with Trump if he had not boosted his testosterone which if I haven't told you this before your body and your brain are the same organ your body is your brain If RFK Jr's body is Rippling with a high level of testosterone that's his brain and it would make him way less likely to be a farle left so don't rule out that this is entirely chemical I don't think it's about issues and facts because the issues are all lies and the facts are all lies but you can see testosterone and you could look at the the people attending the the DNC and you don't see any it looks like all the testosterone went to another city that day anyway so we'll keep an eye out waiting what's the time for the RFK Jr announcement does anybody know when that's slated to happen I haven't seen anything about that yet anyway we'll look for that um this story is funny there's a story I guess the government's probably saying this that both Russia and Iran are quote waging operations to influence the US elections all right so the idea is that um professional trolls from Russia and from Iran are trying to spread disinformation or or put their finger on the uh the scales for our election do you see anything about that story that is funny I do everything about our election is disinformation how are they going to add any extra disinformation you're watching the DNC and 100% of what every person said was a lie 100% there wasn't I don't think there was any anything honest that came out of the entire thing so far the news is completely fake our data is completely made up and the citizens don't even know the made up stuff if you stop them on the street they barely know the name of the people running for president so in this context do you think that the Russian and Iranian trolls are going to make a difference let me put this in context for you okay because remember that Russia had that troll Farm in 2016 and I I laughed when I saw their memes like these memes look like they were made in high school there's no way no way that had any influence on the election all right here's what I think imagine the Grand Canyon all right you got that picture in your mind gigantic Canyon now imagine if the entire Canyon was filled with uh cow feces it was just full of cow crap not just to the top but like you know 100 feet above the top every bit of the Grand Canyon full of feces now now imagine a pigeon flies over the Grand Canyon that's overflowing with cow feces and the pigeon poops on top of it that's the that's all of the Russian and Iranian trolls you put them all together and they're one pigeon pooping on top of a gigantic Canyon full of to if you imagine that they could have any impact when everything's already lie 100% of what's what both sides are talking about is just is just completely left-handed context stuff and things that aren't even true and lies and hoaxes there's no way that Russia or Iran could add anything to that mix that would make it worse than what it is without their help they can't make that worse in what way could you make that worse to me that's just hilarious it's so it's so ridiculously not a risk that I can't even believe we're talking about it I I guess there's still an illusion that some of our information is real and that if they added their little you know pigeon poop of misinformation that suddenly our our delicate balance of correct information would be set off there's no correct information good luck Birds uh there's a report in the Washington Free Beacon that some Soros funded fake News network is operating in uh Nevada now now it's literally an entity that tries to look like a real news entity but their only purpose is fake news for the benefit of Democrats so you've got a Soros funded entity that's literally doing fake news stuff and when I say fake news I don't mean they're real news that says things are fake they're not even a real news entity they're just pretending to be on so they can do fake stuff now that's what that's what's happening without Russia and Iran they can't compete with Soros he he's already got the misinformation the thing all wrapped up well but at least the government is forthcoming with information when citizens or congress ask for it oh wait also the Washington Free Beacon is saying that uh Biden Harris Administration there stonewalling Congress who is asking for information about the US nonprofits that may or may not have been behind bankrolling the pramas protesters so uh the there's a house Ed and oversight committee they want to subpoena the information apparently the government has some kind of information that would say what kind of nonprofits were funding the protesters H wouldn't you like to know that well I would but the government isn't going to tell it do you know why because it might be accurate information have I ever mentioned to you that if information matters it's all fake well this might be a situation where they have some real information and the oversight committee would like to see it because it might really matter who is funding them and that will not be made available according to the current situation they're just going to ignore the request because the last thing the government wants is accurate information in the public all right uh there's a September interest rate cut that's likely say all the smart people uh how many of you could have predicted that there would be an interest rate cut in the few months before the election well maybe it's a coincidence maybe the people who are supposedly independent uh in this interest rate stuff maybe they're not so independent but I'm pretty sure that I could have predicted it so what does it mean that I could have predicted it if you had asked me six months ago Scott do you think that the administration in charge would be so lucky that the independent the independent you know the the FED would uh lower the interest rate just to make everything look wonderful before election I would have said yes now it could be that that was just going to happen anyway because that was a natural evolution of the economy me but I'd like to point out I would have predicted it for whatever that's worth well the DNC is uh rolling on I have a real trouble watching it because it creeps me out is anybody else having that like I really wanted to watch more of the DNC because it felt like I should be informed but the more I thought about it it's not really moving anybody's needle anywhere is it how many people could possibly stomach watching the DNC who had not already totally made up their mind that this is their team who in the world who is just casually interested in politics and has not yet made up their mind could watch that it was just completely unwatchable crap oh my God and then Tim wals comes out and he's I don't know if he's adopted this just for the campaign or it's natural but he's gesticulating wildly to the crowd and these these somewhat exaggerated you know his hand when when when Harris is waving to the crowd she puts one hand up and wals is standing right next to her and he's got two hands up first of all do not gesticulate more than the top of the ticket so Tim Walls can I give you some advice goes like this if you're stay standing right next to the top of the ticket and the top of the ticket has one hand up you know waving to the crowd and accepting their Applause don't put both hands up and don't act like you're jumping up and down because you're taking attention from the top of the ticket that's not cool that's not cool at all you you need to be a vice president so act like a freaking vice president look what look what the top of the ticket is doing body language wise and do that even if your instinct is not to do that that's your job your job is to do that do what she's doing was was Harris handling it better than him I thought so I I think a professional approach to massive Applause makes you look pretty strong right but jumping up and down because you got the Applause makes you look like a cheerleader so I'm going to compliment Harris she looked like like a leader Tim Walls looked like a cheerleader I guess they're both leaders but one's a cheerleader um and then if you didn't see it there is a hilarious meme of Richard Simmons now deceased I believe uh Richard Simmons who is the uh the exercise guru who was very effusive and you know when when he would come out to the crowd he'd be you know both hands are up and he'd be dancing and bowing and blowing kisses stuff and you see it side by side with Tim wals coming out to greet the crowd it does look like Richard Simmons now to me and I'm GNA say it again Tim wals is so creepy I just can't even stand a second of him and it's not because he's a Democrat right I I could watch Obama all day long I could watch Bill Clinton all day long even Hillary Clinton who I really really didn't like as a candidate I mean I I didn't have you know like a creepy reaction to it I just didn't like her but he gives me a genuine creep out does anybody else get that and I don't know what it's about I I don't have a specific idea what what's behind that but oh my God the creepiness level is just off the chart I think that's why he started with the weird thing to take pressure off himself being so creepy that's just my take um let's see then the DC mostly wanted to talk about Trump's character and some hoaxes and lies about Trump um and they didn't mention crime of course because that's not a strong topic of theirs but they want you to know that Trump's a bad person he's so bad Trump's bad Their audience will never notice that their focus on Trump is because they're trying to make you forget that they don't have the goods and that the things they've suggested for policies are batshit crazy they're not just Democrat versus Republican they they found a whole new category that's neither Democrat nor Republican is just guaranteed failure yeah her her tax plan and you know well we've talked about it um so I'll say again that I think all the hoaxes about Trump that the DNC speakers have presented you they continue find people hoax drinking bleach hoax hoax hoax hoax I think they know they're not true and they know that if they can make the Republicans get mad and talk about it oh they're hoaxing us again they're hoaxing us that they'll have less pressure to talk about policies or to have Harris in front of the press so as a distraction the hoaxes are really working worked on me well Oprah is at the DN and she said uh quote I have been on the receiving end of racism sexism and income inequality but somehow she fought through and now she's worth billions of dollars and got invited to the DNC so anyway but here's the funniest part of that um the way CNN was covering her speech so CNN's got the camera on Oprah and Oprah's uh going on and Oprah says and by the way the Vigilant Fox um account on X C this that uh Oprah wire is talking and mocking JD Vance she's mocking him uh about the childless cat lady uh comment and as hoprah is mocking him about childless cat ladies CNN decides to cut to a closeup of a audience member who is a woman who may or may not be child and a cat lady now there's no mention of whether she's childless or a cat lady but the fact that they cut to her was hilarious and childless cat ladies and suddenly there's this big old face of somebody somebody in the audience who's really could have been you I don't know but she could be a childless cat lady she had that look all right um Bill Clinton uh was a speaker too and uh he hilariously mispronounced Kamala as camela now am I the only person who's noticed how many uh Black Americans call Kamala Kamala black Americans do not pronounce her name correctly white Americans do not pronounce her name correctly L president ex-presidents do not pronounce your name correctly maybe it's the name maybe it's the name uh there's something about that name that's difficult to remember how how to pronounce it now part of the reason it's hard to remember how to pronounce it is that so many people who are in the business are mispronouncing it if I didn't see people who should know how to do a corly consistently doing it wrong I would remember it correctly so maybe it's just the name can can we find a little Common Ground there I I would believe we we should all be able to meet at this place which is we'd all like to use people's proper name you know if we're being polite human beings we do want to use their name correctly but it's hard uh I think that's the the better uh framing is it's just our name to remember you know nobody needs a nickname more than she does she needs a nickname like a positive nickname from her own team something something that isn't coach try trying think go Tim walz coach is just giving me every creepy Vibe oh my God I just I can't even watch it anyway MSNBC is Rachel madow she was uh on air talking about uh the how happy everybody was that Tim wals was giving his speech and she actually said this about the onair talent at MSNBC that they were literally got up and danced in Jubilation to toh Tim wals that's the news so the news people who job it is to tell you the news now obviously they're opinion people but they're on a news network uh they say they they danced in Jubilation you nobody yeah thank you I I see the wrap up messages I'll I'll wrap up pretty soon um I've got about five more minutes so I should be fine thank you anyway um well that tells you everything you need to know if if they're literally dancing to the happiness that one team could win Daniel Dale the most uh embarrassing job in the world which is to be the political fact Checker and ignore most of the lies by one side uh they brought him on to fact check the claim by one of the DNC people that Trump wrote a project 2025 which he did not so Daniel Dale to his credit says that Trump is not named as an author of the document and then he went on to debunk all of the other no he didn't now I don't know what else Daniel Dale debunked but I guarantee he didn't debunk any of the big ones so I think you have to see this debunk in the context of misinformation here's why if you were watching that and you saw that the only thing that got debunked was that one Claim about that document which has the authors listed right on it but Daniel Dale could say he's not listed as an author that is a fake fact check what makes it fake is not that it's wrong because it's actually right what makes it fake is if you watch the network and that's the only thing that got fact checked you would believe the other you'd say well they would fact check it they got this guy whose only job is to fact check so all that other stuff must be true so Daniel Dale actually ended up being the person who's most responsible for spreading fake news by factchecking correctly only this one thing in this sea of other fake news or at least fake claims so uh that's humiliating to be him and I can't even imagine how he sleeps at night honestly I mean he must feel that he's part of a huge disinformation campaign how could he not feel that and how can you be okay with that if your your only job is lying and you're okay with it anyway kim.com uh noted that the poly Market I guess that's a betting Market uh now has Trump handily up on Harris 53 to 46 they were recently tied and even before that Harris was slightly had and as kim.com uh cleverly says the more they talk the more they drop so the longer the DNC goes on the betting markets are like uh maybe not not so much maybe not right uh I'll wrap it up in a minute here um we just found out that Thomas krooks the attempted assassin guy um his we knew he had encrypted messaging apps but now we know that they're on platforms located in Belgium New Zealand and Germany now as general Flynn noted we knew that probably in 24 hours we meaning the government knew it why did they wait till now to tell us and by the way by the way Belgium New Zealand and Germany what possible reason would you have to use an encrypted app that is platformed in those countries well to keep the United States from seeing your plans would be one but it does suggest there might be some foreign involvement it doesn't it's not evidence for it but it's a situation which would be cond conducive to it it's hard for me to imagine that this kid had enough wherewithal and knowledge to use these foreign encrypted apps but if he were being let's say managed by somebody in an intelligence group either domestic or foreign they could certainly Point him toward those things and say you know you should be off the grid you'd better use these foreign encrypted apps because America's in the back door of ours so curiouser and curiouser all right the funniest thing is that the the head of Hamas senoir uh he's added a requirement to the ceasefire negotiations he is uh politely asking if they do a ceasefire could you please not kill me so so one of the requirements of the ceasefire is that Israel has to promise not to kill the guy who was in charge of October 7th let me see if I can uh take a bet on whether Israel will accept that they will let the Mastermind of the October 7th uh Slaughter uh live so that they can get a ceasefire no so there are two possibilities either either Israel will say no we're not going to agree with that and then they kill him or Israel says oh we took totally agree with that and then they kill him here's what's not in question Israel is going to kill him there is 100% chance they're going to kill them they might do it today they might do it tomorrow it could take eight years they're G to kill them there's nothing that's going to stop it and by the way if you were Israel you'd feel the same way now am I uh encouraging it promoting it embracing it I'm not even involved I'm just observing there's nothing that will stop Israel from killing that guy and you do the same thing so I don't have an opinion on it no opinion is needed it's we we'll just watch what happens and there's only one way it goes so he's pretty dead that ladies and gentlemen is the end of my show I've got to do some veterinarian stuff with my dog she's got a torn ACL and so she's not too happy but we're going to see about getting that fixed if we can thanks for joining 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clear fun short ones and I would said
who good thing you asked me save your
money those clear short ones are going
to get more
interest now here's the fun
part how many of you remember back in
2015 and 2016 When Donald Trump was
considered the dumbest person in all of
public life because when he talked he
talked like he talked like he he had a
sixth grade um vocabulary I mean my
goodness
you how could he possibly be a president
with a sixth grade vocabulary he's
always using simple words and what's
wrong with that guy huh and then I told
you
um that's
perfect the thing they're criticizing is
the best communication style of all time
according to every study and every
observable
experience when was the last time you
heard the media criticize Trump for his
simplistic communication
style bet you didn't realize it
completely disappeared didn't
it what honestly it's been years I think
it's been years since they brought that
oh he uses simple vocabulary do you know
why because at this point everybody
figured out that was the better way to
communicate because the world is not as
smart as writers and people who make
headlines the people who make headlines
went to college and the college told
them to use big words and so they do to
impress their editors and their friends
and then the people who read it who
necessarily maybe didn't go to such a
good college they look at it and say I
don't even know what those words mean I
think I'll click on something
else so I really could have helped you
there but um once you understand that
Trump is the arguably the best public
Communicator of all time you know even
with his flaws
nobody's ever been more persuasive or
more clear about what they want than he
has so shorter is
better there's a medical study saying
that it's published in the JMA
Jama Psychiatry publication anyway shows
that kids who had persistent
inflammation as kids body
inflammation were far more likely to
develop serious mental health disorder
orders including psychosis and
depression now to their
credit this the uh article about it says
very clearly that they have not
established that the inflammation causes
the other problems it could be either
related or
Associated so the first thing I'll say
is congratulations for clearly writing
about science in a way that makes sense
but at what point in the article did
they tell you that it wasn't necessarily
causation was it up at the top was the
first sentence we don't know if this is
causation but there's a great
correlation between do you think it did
that no it did not no you had to read a
long time before they confessed yeah we
don't know if the inflammation causes
the problems could be just
correlation so I'm only going to give
him impartial credit because the reason
that you would click it and read it is
that you thought that they had
established some causation and if you
knew that they did not establish any
causation because they they don't have
the data to do that yet um maybe you
would have read it differently or not
read it but here's my hypothesis that
I've been working on for a long
time the other
day uh I had a very bad mental attitude
I woke up just feeling the sense of
dread and doom that wasn't really
connected to anything happening in the
world that was different than the day
before when I fell fine you know surely
there are problems in the world but why
did I feel fine yesterday and then I
wake up one day and then I feel like
Dread and do you know what the answer is
it's how my body felt when my body feels
suboptimal my brain follows along if if
you're still under the model that your
brain and your body are two different
functions you're going to be
your your odds of Happiness are
practically
zero let me say that again if you think
that your brain and your your your well
is put it other way if you think that
your body is not a component of your
mind and that it's only that little
brain thing that's inside your skull
that's part of your mind oh you're not
going to succeed at anything
you you have to get rid of that your
body is your
brain here's how here's what I mean how
did I how did I solv the problem that I
I felt a sense of Doom and Dread and you
know I would have even called it like a
mild depression it was because my body
didn't feel good I didn't have enough
exercise I I had some inflammation maybe
so I basically take a you know a uh what
do you call it the Epson salt hot bath
and my inflammation goes away and I eat
some food I like and I get some sleep
and all the Doom went
away so my brain problem was just my
body so as soon as you realize that your
brain is your body and that imagining
they're two separate systems gets you
all the wrong answers your body is your
brain I'm depressed what am I going to
do about it do some brain stuff no do
something with your body get outside get
some sun get some vitamin D work on your
inflammation if you if you have a
problem so that that's my hypothesis
based on my observation in my own life
is that whenever my body hurts my brain
is in a bad place whenever my body feels
extraordinary my brain's fine no
problems at
all anyway it's a good thing that
climate models are
Dependable oh well there's a new story
that uh two prominent and uh very
experienced climate scientists you've
probably heard of them before they're
sort of the contrarians in that in that
space Richard Linden I've talked about
him
before and uh William haer now they're
both very highly
qualified um Professionals in science in
specifically spent a lot of time in the
global climate change
stuff here's what they say
apparently their claim is the
following that if you add some CO2 to
the air it might warm the
environment or or does actually so they
they would agree that if you add CO2 hum
produce CO2 to the air uh and there's
not much there
already that as you're adding a little
bit to the air it it'll cause some
warming but here's the surprising part
they claim is that when you reach a
certain level which we have already
reached that the science is very
clear that the CO2 will stop having that
same warming
property in other words we've already
reached Peak CO2 warming
potential adding more won't make any
difference at all so their claim is
let's see if I can get it in their
words that uh the physics of carbon
dioxide
is that co2's ability to warm the planet
is determined by its ability to absorb
heat so if it doesn't absorb heat it
doesn't warm the planet but its ability
to absorb heat this is the CO2 decreases
rapidly as CO2 concentration
increases so it's basically the opposite
of all of climate change that it does it
does correlate with an increase in
temperature at lower rates but when you
reach about where we are now it should
Plateau so they're saying basically it's
not going to add any warming because it
it it
can't as soon as you have enough
concentration of CO2 which is where
we're at you could add more but it won't
get any
warmer now do all scientists agree of
course not but these are two very
qualified well-known you know even I
know these names not in the scientific
field but I'm well aware of these two
two
scientists so if they're right then
everything about the climate models is
wrong and they've made a they've made a
fairly simple claim one that you think
could be tested now I'm not going to
claim that these scientists are right
and all the other scientists are wrong
I'm going to claim that we don't know
anything about anything like all of our
sense of certainty is all artifici
official it's you know we imagine that
the data is never going to change and
nobody's lying and all the assumptions
they made are true and and that it's
actually possible to predict the future
based on a
multivariable Model it's not it's not
it's not even close to possible and
everybody in the field knows it but you
don't all right so but if that were the
only problem that would be the end of
the climate crisis completely
and it does seem like a testable
claim could you not test in a laboratory
the increasing CO2 in let's say just a
laboratory setting a totally controlled
environment and I think they've done
that right I'm pretty sure I've seen
tests where in the laboratory if you
introduce CO2 to a little closed
environment you can demonstrate that it
causes
warming so if the claim is that a
certain saturation level is stops doing
that instead of infinitely creating more
warming that would be easy to test
wouldn't it couldn't you just build a
little terrarium or something that looks
like Earth in a in a box or you know in
a sealed in a sealed environment
introduce some CO2 measure the
temperature sure enough we added CO2 and
the temperature went up now keep adding
it until you get to the concentration
we're at today in the real
world does it keep going up as you keep
adding to it or does it Plateau as these
two scientists would
suggest so the fascinating thing about
this is it seems so
testable maybe we'll find out it's real
who knows I'm not going to tell you that
you know these scientists are right and
the others are wrong because I have no
way to know that but I love the fact
that they're very qualified people and
they've got a very different idea of
what's going on but at least the rest of
climate model stuff is all pretty
solid you know it's only that one
assumption that they have to test you
know the one assumption that drives
everything that's the only one they're
questioning the one assumption that
makes everything
different but are there any other
assumptions in these climate models huh
well it turns out that there have been
some new studies of ice and they can
they can melt the ice in a special
scientific way and figure out what kind
of gases and stuff were in the ice and
then they can
reconstruct things about the past to
know if their climate models today you
know would have worked in the past as
well that's pretty
important so what they find out well it
turns out that uh the amount of biomass
that has burned over time has been
decreasing as the population of the
world
increases so biomass burning means like
a forest fire right you just a natural
fire Outdoors is a biomass burning so
the climate models assumed that the more
people you added to the world the more
burning there would be I assume they
mean because people would burn Forest to
plant Farms people would burn wood to
heat themselves people would you know
people humans would be burning a lot of
stuff so the climate models assume more
people equals more burning that's a
basic part of the models but it turns
out that when you look at the ice
samples uh The More Humans there are the
less biomass there is that's
burned it's opposite so one of the key
assumptions that people equals more
burning and that's fed into the model is
opposite according to these new studies
now again does it mean the new study is
correct and all the things in the model
are
incorrect I don't know that I'm just
saying that one part of science that
should be taken as credibly as the rest
probably uh is saying that they got that
big variable
opposite so Suppose there were only two
problems with the models that have lots
of variables and suppose the only two
problems were they got this biomass
thing backwards and they got the
CO2 um doesn't eat anything after it
reaches a certain saturation what if
they got those two things wrong well
then the entire bottles are are nothing
garbage now let me say something again
that if you're not convinced yet oh I'm
going to wear you down it goes like this
there is no such thing as accurate data
for anything that matters if it doesn't
matter or it's something we all observe
like yes there's a hurricane yes the
news says there's a hurricane science
says there's a hurricane okay the easy
stuff we all agree that's real but all
the stuff that really has big dollars
involved it's never real you you can't
have data collection and big dollars
involved at the same time but
unfortunately that's the only way
anything happens because the only people
willing to spend all the money it would
take to collect data on something as big
as the climate would be people who have
a lot of money
involved so there isn't actually a
system in place in the world to get
accurate data about anything that
matters think about that it's not it's
not a set of
accidents it it's not like well we
looked at this data and it turns out
that somebody involved was gaming the
system but then we looked at some other
data ah it turned out there was
something wrong with that data too and
you say to yourself wow I'm sure all the
rest of the data in the world is good
but these two look like they were
wrong no there is no
way that it's even possible for data to
be correct about anything important
because because the people presenting it
have an interest and they're only going
to show it to you if they can make that
data look whatever it is that they need
it to look so now there's no such thing
as accurate data about anything that
matters
and don't be confused by the data on
things that don't matter there there's
probably plenty of data on things that
don't matter to anybody politically or
monetarily but if it matters and there's
money involved it's never real it can't
be design is Destiny the design of the
system is the only people who collect
the data or the people who have a lot of
money involved in it being one
way that's our system if you suppose you
designed that on paper and you presented
it to somebody as a way to run the world
suppose nobody had ever collected any
data for anything before and you said
you know what if we started collecting
data in this world and we applied some
science we' we'd be way ahead so they
come up with the idea of collecting data
and they say all right here's how we're
going to do it it's going to be
expensive to collect any data that you
really matters and it's going to move
the needle so who's going to be doing
the collecting
the government oh no the government
might be biased you know might be
Democrats in office versus Republicans
you can't really trust the government
with data so then I'd say wait so you're
saying that all information that comes
from the government will be fake oh yes
of course it will of course it will
because it's either Democrats in charge
or Republicans in charge and neither of
them have an interest in telling you the
truth right they have a gigantic
monetary and
you know other career interests in
telling you the truth they want you to
hear do you think we could see that
effect in the real world if the
government has an incentive to lie to
you all the time well let's uh let's uh
look at some data have you heard about
the jobs reports that are being uh
revised by over 800,000 because they
were all
fake turns out it's way worse than that
because we might be looking at jobs that
were created as fake jobs to get PPP
money during the pandemic so there's
some suggestion that there might be 5
million fake
jobs because people pretended they had
employees so they could get money from
the government and pretended they had
companies so some some people think that
our jobs numbers are completely just
ridiculous and just made up and now
they're being
revised so that's exactly what you would
expect to happen if in fact your design
of how you collect data was wrong and
delegated to the people who had the most
interest in lying to you the current
situation let's see what else um how
about our uh numbers about crime do you
think our crime statistics that come
from the government are pretty good
pretty accurate no because some people
stopped collecting crime and then they
started just making stuff up and I think
we're all aware at this point that the
crime numbers are made up would you
agree and even when they're not made up
they put it in the wrong context like
comparing to the pandemic versus not the
pandemic which is no comparison at all
so we don't have jobs numbers that are
real and we don't have crime numbers
that are real and it's because the
government is in charge of those numbers
and there is no scenario in which the
government wants you to have real
numbers every scenario no matter who's
in charge they want it to look like it's
good for their team
period so if you were to ask private
companies to get you information let's
say drug companies to do drug studies
what you what should you expect if you
were going to put that design if you
were going to design that system on
paper all right the people who could
make a billion dollars if the drug is
safe are in charge of telling you that
the data says it's
safe what do you expect yeah the design
of the system system guarantees that all
important data is fake we've designed
the
system see you have to understand that
it's a system design problem it's not a
bunch of people who have made a mistake
coincidentally in each of these uh
important domains that's not what's
going on there's no no mistakes
happening people have a great interest
in making
assumptions that will drive the numbers
the way they want them to be driven and
whoever collects numbers gets to make
the assumptions oh these numbers are
good enough they're in these numbers
don't look Dependable to me I'll leave
these out that's how it
works all right uh let's see female doct
there's another study says female
doctors have a a far greater risk of
taking their own life than even male
doctors but you know higher than other
professions now when I used to be a
banker it was my job to make loans to
doctors and dentists and professionals
like that for a while that was my job
and one of the risks of making loans to
medical professionals especially
dentists is that they had unusually high
rates of taking their own lives dentists
in particular have like career-wise are
right at the top of taking their own
lives uh I'm not surprised that doctors
may be a little higher and that female
doctors are the highest
and I have a hypothesis to add to this
you know the the obvious things would be
that being a doctor isn't as good as it
used to be and you know you don't have
the same Prestige and you know the work
is terrible and a lot of the time you're
just doing work that's just busy work to
make sure you stayed up all night
because for some reason the the medical
field wants to torture you when you're a
new doctor I I've never understood that
to make you stay up 21 hours and all
that stuff but um here's my
hypothesis since all of those things
would be pretty common male or female I
think it's access to
pills if you were a doctor how and you
were deciding to end it all wouldn't you
do it with
pills I would think so and if you had
access to them because you could get all
you
wanted I would think that would explain
most of it actually you it seems like
there are a lot of people who probably
think about doing something to
themselves but it's sort of hard you
know you're not quite sure how to do it
in a way that you'd be willing to do it
but if your job was giving out pills and
you could get all you
wanted I if you could have asked me you
didn't have to do the study Scott do you
think that the industry that can get all
the uh all the tools of taking your own
life very easily do you think they would
have higher rates of doing it I'd say
yeah probably if you can get exactly the
tool and it's easier for you
sure well it looks like uh the headlines
say that Andrew Tate has been detained
Again by the Romanian officials so so he
got arrested do you know what is the
weird part of this the headline says
Andrew Tate detained again in Romania
but you read it and it says you his
brother was picked up
too I I feel sorry for Andrew Tate's
brother
Tristan he's always the also guy Andrew
Tate gets picked up by the Romanian cops
and he was a brother
too so here's my question since we don't
know what those charges are and Tate
says he doesn't know what the charges
are based on what evidence he says
there's no evidence I don't have an
opinion about whether he did or did
anything
wrong I will state again that uh say
e even even a citizen of Romania is
innocent to proven guilty based on our
standards you know he hasn't been proven
guilty so he's innocent to proven guilty
in my personal standard of these things
uh but here's the question do you think
he would have been picked
up if there were not an American
election
coming I feel like he's one of those
people who can move young votes
especially young males
I think that maybe Romania was asked to
pick him up by somebody associated with
the United States because he's exactly
the kind of person you want to take off
the
field when you know people under
30 are looking to figure out who to vote
for after not thinking about it until
the last minute he's exactly the kind of
person they don't they don't want
talking for the next few
months to me this looks very suspicious
the timing looks suspicious the lack of
you know any obvious evidence that we
could see the public can see of guilt
and again I want to be very clear it's
not my job to defend them from any
charges I have no idea what they did or
did not
do I have no no awareness of any of that
I'm just saying that if I were to if you
would ask me to guess would they be
picked up just about now I think I might
have put a bet on it if you'd said all
right take a bet uh give me give me your
bet would you bet that the Tates would
be
rearrested and maybe never charged you
know just taking off the field and
taking off the social media uh before
the American election would you place a
bet on that I think I would have I think
I would have placed a bet on that that
they would be arrested again only
because they're effective people listen
to them they have a big platform form
and they're you know presumably they're
going to be more Pro Trump than Pro
Biden or Pro uh Pro Comm
Harris anyway there's a report that the
Chinese tech companies are hiring quote
cheerleaders to motivate the programmers
now based on the photo the cheerleaders
would look like they would be
heterosexual uh attractive young women
whose job they say is to do stuff like
buy breakfast for the programmers uh
have a conversation with them and play
pingpong now if that's
true America just has to give up and
surrender because we can't compete with
that no what what if our programers
suddenly found it enjoyable to go to
work well that would be pretty sexist
yeah this sounds so sexist that could
never happen in the United States so we
can never compete with this these happy
programmers but maybe American
programmers work harder because they
know they have to get rich if they want
a
girlfriend so that's pretty that's
plenty of incentive they probably have
all the incentive they need right
now all
right so um there's a report that uh
Osama Bin Laden once said and and it
must be in a document somewhere that
we've captured after Bin Laden got taken
down but apparently there's some
document in which he was saying it would
be okay for Al-Qaeda to try to
assassinate Obama during during Obama's
term but they wanted to make sure that
they didn't assassinate Joe Biden the
vice president do you know why Bin Laden
thought it would be acceptable and
desirable to assassinate the president
of the United States but not the vice
president do do you know what his
reasoning is for that well allegedly his
reasoning is that Joe Biden was
incompetent and it would be really good
luck for Al-Qaeda if he ever became
president of the United States because
he would destroy the United States with
his own bumbling
incompetence that was Bin
Laden now do you believe
that I kind of believe
it it's a little too on the nose so may
maybe I'll put a little skepticism in
there I think that would be more
appropriate yeah I think I was falling
to the Trap of wanting to believe it
because it was a good recreational story
like oh that's a good fun
story but I don't really think Bin Laden
had that Insight actually the more I
think about it I'm going to call it
false I think I'm gonna call this one
fake news you know maybe there's some
document but who knows who made it seems
a little fake newsy I don't know seems
like Russian disinformation to me no it
doesn't but uh so I'm going to use the
it's a little little too close to
exactly what some people would want to
hear to make me believe it happened just
that
way but here's a weird thing do you know
if you took the name Bin Laden and
simply removed the letters NL and a that
all happen they all happen they're next
to each other so if you take Bin Laden
and remove some of the letters n LNA
a do you know what you
have Biden
you literally can't spell Bin Laden
without
Biden I don't know if the simulation is
telling us something but there it
is anyway there's a story that one of
the officials in the government um
nuclear uh nuclear weapons
departments is uh trying to make the
nuclear weapons group uh way gayer so uh
it's the national nuclear security
administration's Special Assistant uh
named uh
ner that's the last name ner n a i r
anyway made it clear that she uh she
wants to get rid of all the white
supremacy in the
nuclear nuclear weapons group get rid of
the white supremacy in the nuclear field
and she wants to uh you know gay up the
nuclear weapons as part of the diversity
equity and
inclusion so there's actually somebody
who's feeling that the important thing
about nuclear
war is to make sure that diverse people
launch them so that when we all die in a
giant nuclear
Fireball we can say ah I'm melting but
at least diversity was
achieved that's my impression of dying
after nuclear blast probably not to on
point probably not
now am I saying that I don't want any
gay people working in nuclear weapons no
obviously I'm not saying that am I
saying that it would be bad to have
diversity no I'm not saying that am I
saying that a Dei hire is necessarily
incompetent no I'm not saying that what
I'm saying is if you design a
system where one of the top
priorities is not oh let's say avoiding
a nuclear war or winning one if you have
to be in one if your top priority of any
individual who's got power in that
organization is to make sure you have
more diversity you've designed a system
for failure and almost guaranteed
nuclear war if you said to me what would
be a good way to create a nuclear war
I'd say well stop hiring based strictly
on Merit and make sure you got a got a
good good diversity in there again no
complaints about anybody's genes or
gender preference or gender or any of
that that has nothing to do with any my
points my point is that if you force a
certain population no matter who they
are and you you force them into the city
or into the system you're going to get
incompetence so there's somebody whose
job is to inject incompetence into our
nuclear uh operation
you know you'd think there'd be some
limit to how stupid we could be but
apparently not there's no limit to how
stupid we could
be but we're very diverse um what time
is RFK Jr going to make his announcement
today so
allegedly and I'm not sure the reports
are completely reliable but allegedly
RFK Jr was going to suspend his campaign
and maybe even endorse
Trump I don't I don't feel that that's
100%
certain I think there's a good chance of
it you know if I had to bet I'd bet that
it's going to happen and here's the
amazing
thing like how is that even possible
that somebody who's family and and he
were just life to him Democrats how how
badly do you have to abuse
somebody before a Kennedy will
become potentially endorsing a
Republican
you've got to be really really really
terrible
people and I think RFK Jr is just
reacting to how he was being treated so
I would also point out that if you gave
a quiz to people who didn't know who the
people involved were for this quiz you
said all right here's a list of
characteristics of JFK so President
JFK you know what was he all about just
describe why he wanted and his policies
and then do a description of
trump and what he wanted but you take
out all the hyper so that you're just
factually saying JFK wanted this stuff
Trump wants this stuff I think that
would look kind of
similar don't
you there wouldn't there wouldn't be
that much difference between what JFK
thought was a good idea and what Trump
thinks is a good idea
so it's not that big of a leap weirdly
because the Democrats became you know
wildly left Progressive and crazy and uh
Trump is you know obviously he's you
know more Republican than Democrat but
if you were to look at a historical
model uh Trump is pretty common sensical
so I don't even see Trump as being on
the right I I never have really I mean
he has to fit somewhere because we like
to put things in boxes so I get that
he's in that box but I just see all of
his policies as not having a right or
left Dimension to them am I the only one
I I just don't see right or left in what
he does because he shows you his
work he he says this works this doesn't
this makes sense this doesn't and you
could look at it yourself and you could
say okay there there's precedent for why
this would work and there's you know no
precedent for why this stupid idea would
work he just seems like the common sense
obvious path kind of
guy anyway so people are saying would
RFK Jr join a trump Administration Trump
has acted positively about it I don't
know if RFK Jr has ever answered it I
think you don't answer those questions
while you're running but I'm still
fascinated by how many gools you could
imagine RFK Jr taking this is real
compliment to RFK Jr because you know I
always talk about Talent Stacks you want
to get as many talents as you can so
you're ready for anything
so you could you could easily imagine
RFK Jr being the head of the CIA to
clean it up you could imagine him being
a head of the FDA you could imagine him
being attorney
general uh maybe there's five more jobs
the that you can imagine him being the
top
advisor um but whatever he does I would
love to see him be in charge of food and
medical drug
testing so that we'd have some chance of
getting at least a clearer picture of
those things so
um anyway I also
wonder has it ever been confirmed that
RFK Jr has testosterone
supplements has he ever talked about
that I feel like I sort of maybe
remember he mentioned it because his his
muscular development suggests that he's
doing something that's both legal and
very effective um for muscle
development so do we know that he's had
his testosterone boosted or is it just
obvious I'm seeing some yeses but here
here's the interesting
thing do you think that he would cons
consider citing or endorsing
Republicans if he had not boosted his
testosterone think about
it I I think it I think it's the
defining
factor and let me tie this into my next
story which is uh you know CNN and MSNBC
covering the uh the Democrat convention
they were trying to sell the fact that
uh Doug
mof and Tim wals are the example of the
new male role
models and that they were different from
and this is actually what the
commentators were saying this is not me
saying it it was different from the the
testosterone filled you know Macho
Republican people and so both MSNBC and
CNN's the women the the female pundits
and observer
were saying that the Democrats have this
new model of male optimal male Behavior
which is supporting a woman being your
boss and that if you could be more let's
say less Macho Hulk Hogan and you know
less Dana White and more Doug emof and
more Tim wals that that's the model that
the Democrats want to put forward as you
know modern male leadership
and and then RFK Jr comes along he's
just like bristling with muscles and
he's willing to to skin a dead
bear and he he just doesn't he just
doesn't fit their
model so I'm going to say
again do you think now I'm making an
assumption here that if we assume that
he's at least friendly with the Trump
campaign do we think that he would have
any chance of endorsing or work working
with Trump if he had not boosted his
testosterone which if I haven't told you
this before your body and your brain are
the same organ your body is your brain
If RFK Jr's body is Rippling with a high
level of
testosterone that's his brain and it
would make him way less likely to be a
farle left
so don't rule out that this is entirely
chemical I don't think it's about issues
and facts because the issues are all
lies and the facts are all lies but you
can see testosterone and you could look
at the the people attending the the DNC
and you don't see
any it looks like all the testosterone
went to another city that
day anyway so we'll keep an eye out
waiting what's the time for the RFK Jr
announcement does anybody know when
that's slated to happen I haven't seen
anything about that yet anyway we'll
look for that um this story is funny
there's a story I guess the government's
probably saying this that both Russia
and Iran are quote waging operations to
influence the US
elections all right so the idea is that
um professional
trolls from Russia and from Iran are
trying to spread
disinformation or or put their finger on
the uh the scales for our
election do you see anything about that
story that is funny I
do everything about our election is
disinformation how are they going to add
any extra disinformation you're watching
the DNC and 100% of what every person
said was a lie 100% there wasn't I don't
think there was any anything honest that
came out of the entire thing so far the
news is completely fake our data is
completely made up and the citizens
don't even know the made up stuff if you
stop them on the street they barely know
the name of the people running for
president so in this
context do you think that the Russian
and Iranian trolls are going to make a
difference let me put this in context
for you okay because remember that
Russia
had that troll Farm in 2016 and I I
laughed when I saw their memes like
these memes look like they were made in
high school there's no way no way that
had any influence on the
election all right here's what I think
imagine the Grand
Canyon all right you got that picture in
your mind gigantic Canyon now imagine if
the entire Canyon was filled with uh cow
feces
it was just full of cow crap not just to
the top but like you know 100 feet above
the top every bit of the Grand Canyon
full of feces now now imagine a pigeon
flies over the Grand Canyon that's
overflowing with cow feces and the
pigeon poops on top of
it that's the that's all of the Russian
and Iranian trolls
you put them all together and they're
one pigeon pooping on top
of a gigantic Canyon full of
to if you imagine that they could
have any impact when everything's
already lie 100% of what's what both
sides are talking about is just
is just completely left-handed context
stuff and things that aren't even true
and lies and hoaxes
there's no way that Russia or Iran could
add anything to that mix that would make
it worse than what it is without their
help they can't make that worse in what
way could you make that
worse to me that's just hilarious it's
so it's so ridiculously not a risk that
I can't even believe we're talking about
it I I guess there's still an illusion
that some of our information is real and
that if they added their little you know
pigeon poop of misinformation that
suddenly our our delicate balance of
correct information would be set off
there's no correct
information good luck
Birds uh there's a report in the
Washington Free Beacon that some Soros
funded fake News network is operating in
uh Nevada now now it's literally an
entity that tries to look like a real
news entity but their only purpose is
fake
news for the benefit of Democrats so
you've got a Soros funded entity that's
literally doing fake news stuff and when
I say fake news I don't mean they're
real news that says things are fake
they're not even a real news entity
they're just pretending to be on so they
can do fake stuff now that's what that's
what's happening without Russia and
Iran they can't compete with Soros
he he's already got the misinformation
the thing all wrapped
up well but at least the government is
forthcoming with information when
citizens or congress ask for it oh wait
also the Washington Free Beacon is
saying that uh Biden Harris
Administration there stonewalling
Congress who is asking for information
about the US
nonprofits that may or may not have been
behind bankrolling the pramas
protesters
so uh the there's a house Ed and
oversight committee they want to
subpoena the information apparently the
government has some kind of information
that would say what kind of
nonprofits were funding the protesters H
wouldn't you like to know that well I
would but the government isn't going to
tell it do you know why because it might
be accurate
information have I ever mentioned to you
that if information matters it's all
fake well this might be a situation
where they have some real information
and the oversight committee would like
to see it because it might really matter
who is funding them and that will not be
made available according to the current
situation they're just going to ignore
the request because the last thing the
government wants is accurate information
in the public
all right uh there's a September
interest rate cut that's likely say all
the smart people uh how many of you
could have predicted that there would be
an interest rate cut in the few months
before the
election well maybe it's a
coincidence maybe the people who are
supposedly
independent uh in this interest rate
stuff maybe they're not so
independent but I'm pretty sure that I
could have predicted it so what does it
mean that I could have predicted it if
you had asked me six months ago Scott do
you think that the administration in
charge would be so lucky that the
independent the independent you know the
the FED would uh lower the interest rate
just to make everything look wonderful
before election I would have said yes
now it could be that that was just going
to happen anyway because that was a
natural evolution of the economy
me but I'd like to point out I would
have predicted it for whatever that's
worth well the DNC is uh rolling on I
have a real trouble watching it because
it creeps me out is anybody else having
that like I really wanted to watch more
of the DNC because it felt like I should
be informed but the more I thought about
it it's not really moving anybody's
needle anywhere is it
how many people could possibly stomach
watching the DNC who had not already
totally made up their mind that this is
their team who in the world who is just
casually interested in politics and has
not yet made up their mind could watch
that it was just completely unwatchable
crap oh my God and then Tim wals comes
out and he's I don't know if he's
adopted this just for the campaign or
it's natural but he's gesticulating
wildly to the crowd and these these
somewhat exaggerated you know his hand
when when when Harris is waving to the
crowd she puts one hand up and wals is
standing right next to her and he's got
two hands
up first of all do not gesticulate more
than the top of the ticket so Tim Walls
can I give you some advice goes like
this if you're stay standing right next
to the top of the ticket and the top of
the ticket has one hand up you know
waving to the crowd and accepting their
Applause don't put both hands up and
don't act like you're jumping up and
down because you're taking attention
from the top of the ticket that's not
cool that's not cool at
all you you need to be a vice president
so act like a freaking vice president
look what look what the top of the
ticket is doing body language wise and
do
that even if your instinct is not to do
that that's your job your job is to do
that do what she's doing was was Harris
handling it better than him I thought
so I I think a professional approach to
massive Applause makes you look pretty
strong right but jumping up and down
because you got the
Applause makes you look like a
cheerleader so I'm going to compliment
Harris she looked like like a
leader Tim Walls looked like a
cheerleader I guess they're both leaders
but one's a
cheerleader um and then if you didn't
see it there is a hilarious meme of
Richard Simmons now deceased I believe
uh Richard Simmons who is the uh the
exercise guru who was very effusive and
you know when when he would come out to
the crowd he'd be you know both hands
are up and he'd be dancing and bowing
and blowing kisses stuff and you see it
side by side with Tim wals coming out to
greet the crowd it does look like
Richard
Simmons
now to me and I'm GNA say it
again Tim wals is so creepy I just can't
even stand a second of him and it's not
because he's a Democrat right I I could
watch Obama all day long I could watch
Bill Clinton all day long even Hillary
Clinton who I really really didn't like
as a candidate I mean I I didn't have
you know like a creepy reaction to it I
just didn't like her but he gives me a
genuine creep out does anybody else get
that and I don't know what it's about I
I don't have a specific idea what what's
behind that but oh my God the creepiness
level is just off the chart I think
that's why he started with the weird
thing to take pressure off himself being
so creepy
that's just my take um let's see then
the DC mostly wanted to talk about
Trump's character and some hoaxes and
lies about
Trump um and they didn't mention crime
of course because that's not a strong
topic of theirs but they want you to
know that Trump's a bad person he's so
bad Trump's bad Their audience will
never notice that their focus on Trump
is because they're trying to make you
forget that they don't have the goods
and that the things they've suggested
for policies are batshit crazy they're
not just Democrat versus Republican they
they found a whole new category that's
neither Democrat nor Republican is just
guaranteed
failure yeah her her tax plan and you
know well we've talked about it
um so I'll say again that I think all
the hoaxes about Trump that the DNC
speakers have presented you they
continue find people hoax drinking
bleach hoax hoax hoax hoax I think they
know they're not
true and they know that if they can make
the Republicans get mad and talk about
it oh they're hoaxing us again they're
hoaxing us that they'll have less
pressure to talk about policies or to
have Harris in front of the press so as
a distraction the hoaxes are really
working worked on
me well Oprah is at the DN and she said
uh quote I have been on the receiving
end of racism sexism and income
inequality but somehow she fought
through and now she's worth billions of
dollars and got invited to the DNC
so anyway but here's the funniest part
of that um the way CNN was covering her
speech so CNN's got the camera on Oprah
and Oprah's uh going on and Oprah says
and by the way the Vigilant Fox um
account on X C this that uh Oprah wire
is talking and mocking JD Vance she's
mocking him uh about the childless cat
lady uh comment and as hoprah is mocking
him about childless cat ladies CNN
decides to cut to a closeup of a
audience member who is a woman who may
or may not be child
and a cat lady now there's no mention of
whether she's childless or a cat lady
but the fact that they cut to
her was
hilarious and childless cat ladies and
suddenly there's this big old face of
somebody somebody in the audience who's
really could have been you I don't know
but she could be a childless cat lady
she had that
look all right um
Bill Clinton uh was a speaker too and uh
he hilariously mispronounced Kamala as
camela now am I the only person who's
noticed how many uh Black Americans call
Kamala
Kamala black Americans do not pronounce
her name correctly white Americans do
not pronounce her name correctly L
president ex-presidents do not pronounce
your name
correctly maybe it's the
name maybe it's the
name uh there's something about that
name that's difficult to remember how
how to pronounce it now part of the
reason it's hard to remember how to
pronounce it is that so many people who
are in the business are mispronouncing
it if I didn't see people who should
know how to do a corly consistently
doing it wrong I would remember it
correctly so maybe it's just the
name can can we find a little Common
Ground
there I I would believe we we should all
be able to meet at this place which is
we'd all like to use people's proper
name you know if we're being polite
human beings we do want to use their
name
correctly but it's
hard uh I think that's the the better uh
framing is it's just our name to
remember you know nobody needs a
nickname more than she does she needs a
nickname like a positive nickname from
her own team something something that
isn't
coach try trying think go Tim walz coach
is just giving me every creepy Vibe oh
my God I just I can't even watch
it anyway MSNBC is Rachel madow
she was uh on air talking about uh the
how happy everybody was that Tim wals
was giving his speech and she actually
said this about the onair talent at
MSNBC that they were literally got up
and danced in
Jubilation to toh Tim
wals that's the
news so the news people who job it is to
tell you the news now obviously they're
opinion people but they're on a news
network uh they say they they danced in
Jubilation you nobody yeah thank you I I
see the wrap up messages I'll I'll wrap
up pretty soon um I've got about five
more minutes so I should be fine thank
you anyway
um well that tells you everything you
need to know if if they're literally
dancing to the happiness that one team
could win Daniel Dale the most uh
embarrassing job in the world which is
to be the political fact Checker and
ignore most of the lies by one side uh
they brought him on to fact check the
claim by one of the DNC people that
Trump wrote a project 2025 which he did
not so Daniel Dale to his credit says
that Trump is not named as an author of
the
document and then he went on to debunk
all of the other no he didn't
now I don't know what else Daniel Dale
debunked but I guarantee he didn't
debunk any of the big
ones so I think you have to see this
debunk in the context of
misinformation here's
why if you were watching that and you
saw that the only thing that got
debunked was that one Claim about that
document which has the authors listed
right on it but Daniel Dale could say
he's not listed as an author
that is a fake fact check what makes it
fake is not that it's wrong because it's
actually right what makes it fake is if
you watch the network and that's the
only thing that got fact checked you
would believe the other you'd
say well they would fact check it they
got this guy whose only job is to fact
check so all that other stuff must be
true so Daniel Dale actually ended up
being the person who's most responsible
for spreading fake news
by factchecking
correctly only this one thing in this
sea of other fake news or at least fake
claims so uh that's humiliating to be
him and I can't even imagine how he
sleeps at night honestly I mean he must
feel that he's part of a huge
disinformation campaign how could he not
feel that and how can you be okay with
that if your your only job is lying and
you're okay with it
anyway kim.com
uh noted that the poly Market I guess
that's a betting Market uh now has Trump
handily up on Harris 53 to 46 they were
recently tied and even before that
Harris was slightly had and as kim.com
uh cleverly says the more they talk the
more they
drop so the longer the DNC goes on the
betting markets are like uh maybe
not not so much maybe
not right uh I'll wrap it up in a minute
here um we just found out that Thomas
krooks the attempted assassin
guy um his we knew he had encrypted
messaging apps but now we know that
they're on platforms located in Belgium
New Zealand and
Germany now as general Flynn noted
we knew that probably in 24 hours we
meaning the government knew it why did
they wait till now to tell us and by the
way by the way Belgium New Zealand and
Germany what possible reason would you
have to use an encrypted app that is
platformed in those
countries well to keep the United States
from seeing your plans would be one but
it does suggest there might be some
foreign involvement it doesn't it's not
evidence for it but it's a situation
which would be cond conducive to
it it's hard for me to imagine that this
kid had enough wherewithal and knowledge
to use these foreign encrypted
apps but if he were being let's say
managed by somebody in an intelligence
group either domestic or foreign they
could certainly Point him toward those
things and say you know you should be
off the grid you'd better use these
foreign encrypted apps because America's
in the back door of
ours so curiouser and curiouser all
right the funniest thing is that the the
head of Hamas
senoir uh he's added a requirement to
the ceasefire negotiations he is uh
politely asking if they do a ceasefire
could you please not kill
me so so one of the requirements of the
ceasefire is that Israel has to promise
not to kill the guy who was in charge of
October
7th let me see if I can uh take a bet on
whether Israel will accept that they
will let the Mastermind of the October
7th uh
Slaughter uh live so that they can get a
ceasefire
no so there are two possibilities either
either Israel will say no we're not
going to agree with that and then they
kill him or Israel says oh we took
totally agree with that and then they
kill
him here's what's not in question Israel
is going to kill him there is 100%
chance they're going to kill
them they might do it today they might
do it tomorrow it could take eight years
they're G to kill them there's
nothing that's going to stop it and by
the way if you were Israel you'd feel
the same way now am I uh encouraging it
promoting it embracing it I'm not even
involved I'm just observing there's
nothing that will stop Israel from
killing that guy and you do the
same thing so I don't have an opinion on
it no opinion is needed it's we we'll
just watch what happens and there's only
one way it
goes so he's pretty dead that ladies and
gentlemen is the end of my show I've got
to do some veterinarian stuff with my
dog she's got a torn ACL and so she's
not too happy but we're going to see
about getting that fixed if we can
thanks for joining uh I can't I can't go
private with you today on locals because
I got to run but thanks for joining and
uh I'll see you tomorrow and locals I'll
see you in the man cave tonight and bye
for now everybody have a great
day I think there's a little delay here
so this will be my 202nd fake delay
while I'm waiting for the feed to catch
up so it doesn't seem like I cut you
off okay I think that's long enough