Episode 2849 CWSA 05/24/25

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Well, if the Xplatform is working after the show, uh Owen Gregorian will be hosting his spaces.

Uh again, a coffee with Scott Adams afterparty.

Um but it probably depends highly on whether the the Xplatform is back online.

And uh if not, you know, maybe it gets pushed to the next day, but that's the that's the current thinking.

Well, if you happen to hate the uh the New York Knicks, that would be a basketball team.

Uh you've had a good week.

I I know most of you are not into basketball, but I I just have to tell you about how the Indiana Pacers uh beat the Knicks because it's not so it's not even a sports story.

It's it's like the biggest coincidence in the world story.

So, the uh it was the game before this last one and the Knicks were up by two and time was running out and one of the better players on the Indian Indiana Pacers takes this long desperate three-point shot.

If it goes in, which would, you know, was highly unlikely, the the Pacers would win.

If it missed, the Knicks would win.

So you you're watching it go and it's really high and it's really far away and it hits the rim and it misses and the Knicks are like, "Yes, yes, we won the first game of this playoff." And then the ball because the ball had come from a long distance when it hit the rim it went up in the air for a very long distance as well.

And when it came down it went right through the hoop.

It was something you would rarely ever see.

Now, since it was a three-point shot, the Pacers are like, "Yes, yes, we won because we were only down by two and we just made a three-point shot." And and then they look at the video and the guy who shot it, his foot was just on the line, which makes it a two-point shot.

So, first the the Knicks totally won, then the Pacers totally won and then it was a tie and had to go to overtime where the Pacers won.

So, if you were a Knicks fan, it was a terrible week and I guess they won.

They lost another tight one.

All right, I'm going to give you a movie recommendation or movie review, I guess.

So, uh I don't know where it is except on Amazon Prime.

Prime Video, but it's called The Fountain of Youth.

It's brand new, and it features John Krinski and Natalie Portman, I think, as his sister, and they play these Indiana Jones kind of characters.

Now, here's what's great about this movie.

Apparently, I'm just guessing.

My guess is that the director had some kind of deal with the production studio.

They could make the movie any way he wanted to.

And he made it old-fashiony and and you don't notice it at first.

You just think you're watching a movie.

Excuse me.

Hold on.

But at some point you realize, hey, there was nobody tied to a chair.

Hey, there was no gratuitous like sex scene or or those terrible scenes where somebody's showing their love to somebody else and you're like, I get it.

I get it.

You know, all the things that you hate in a movie.

It just simply didn't have them.

It was like a wisecracking um action movie.

So the wise cracking was great because John Krosinski is great at wise cracking and the characters were great.

But then you notice um it it did have one thing that I don't like in a movie which is somebody who's underwater for too long.

I I fast forward through all underwater scenes.

But then you realize, wait a minute, there's nothing woke about this movie.

The the cast is not diverse.

Um, there's no there's no overweight black woman who is the key feature.

It's just good-looking people.

And the two female leads were both attractive.

And the, you know, the lead guy was attractive, too.

So, when was the last time you saw a movie like that?

There was nothing woke at all.

I don't know how he got it made.

I would love to know the backstory.

Uh, was it Guy Richie?

It's a Guy Richie film.

So, and it's a fun for the whole family.

There's no um there's no swearing.

I think there was zero swearing.

And basically it was sort of a a genius movie of what he left out.

He just sort of left out everything that movies try to put in there.

You know, all the all the stuff you don't want to see.

So I recommend it.

Fun for the whole family.

Well, in other news, according to Sai Post, uh nonright-handedness is more common across multiple mental health conditions.

You know what?

nonright-handedness is.

It's called left-handedness.

So, apparently, if you're left-handed, you're more likely to have a variety of mental health conditions.

Now, that probably includes if you're a leftist because you know how uh we've already seen that the Democrats have more mental health problems and they're actually called leftists.

So apparently anything left is correlated with mental health problems.

Anyway, um in other news, according to Discover, we tend to trust people from lowincome backgrounds over the wealthy elites.

Do you think that's true?

Do you trust people from lowincome backgrounds more than rich people?

Um, I think that depends.

If you dropped your wallet, would you rather a billionaire found it or somebody from a lowinccome background?

I feel like I trust the billionaire to give my wallet back.

So, that's that's very situation dependent.

But you can see why uh Joe Biden used to do I'm just lunch bill Joe.

I'll take the train.

I'm just like you.

Anyway, according to uh some uh let's say neuroscience news, AI has higher emotional IQ than humans.

You know the emotional IQ where you know you you know how to deal with people's emotional states and your own etc.

And I thought to myself, that kind of makes sense because the AI can simply memorize all the situations and it can just say, "All right, under this situation, people should do this." So yes, it makes total sense that uh AI would have a higher emotional IQ.

Could have just asked me.

And it's a big deal.

Actually, it's a big difference.

The AI achieved an average score of 82% where the humans were at 56%.

So, so if you want some empathy and you want a high emotional IQ, I suggest you get a robot.

Robots can set you free.

According to Fox News, the ladies of the view have been asked by their boss, the head of Disney, Bob Iger, to cool it with all the political chatter.

And then apparently the ladies of the view said, "No, we it's very important that we do political chatter, so we'll keep doing it." Um, I don't know if that was a good idea because if your boss tells you to do less of something, you probably should do less of it.

But I can't believe I can't believe that The View has the same ratings when they're being political and essentially annoying half of the country.

Don't you think their ratings would be higher if they just did everything about politics?

So, it seems like Bob Iger may have the right idea here, but who knows?

If you haven't seen this yet, there's a some kind of AI called VO3 in which they created a bunch of, you know, deep fake um street interviews.

So, it's a whole bunch of little clips where somebody's interviewing somebody in the street usually at night.

And until now, I always told myself, you know, I could tell AI from reality, but uh you can't.

It it's not even just one or two things.

It's a whole string of street interviews and you cannot you cannot tell that these are AI.

So, I don't know how far away we are from making a whole movie, but that was scary.

So, we've crossed we we've crossed the Scot line where I say to myself, "Ah, I could tell that was AI because they have six fingers or or there's something about them or the way they talk." You absolutely can't tell that.

It 100% looks real.

Crazy.

Meanwhile, speaking of crazy and crazy eyes, uh Hillary Clinton uh is trying to ruin your Memorial Day weekend because she's made the following suggestion in a post on X.

She said, "I want you to talk to two people, friends, neighbors, cookout, attendees about why Trump's proposed budget would be a disaster for American kids." And then she goes on to give some examples of what she's talking about.

Can you think of a worse idea than bringing up the the budget at your Memorial Day barbecue?

I can't think of a worse idea.

Does Hillary get invited to things?

She talks like somebody who's never been invited to anything.

It's the worst idea of all time.

No.

How about you just shut up about politics and enjoy your neighbors and your family?

Shut up.

Just shut up about politics.

Take take a uh take a message from Bob Iger.

Sometimes talking about politics could be too much.

Meanwhile, according to the college fix, a Tennessee university is hit with civil rights complaints over 17 racebased scholarships.

So, when they say race-based, it means you can't be a white guy, basically.

But some of them are more specific, like you could be an African-American or a um or a um I think Native American or something.

So, some of them will give you two choices.

Oh, yeah.

Native American or African-American.

So, there's 17 racebased scholarships.

I I'm kind of happy that that stuff's being dismantled, but don't you think it'll be put right back together as soon as Trump is out of office?

You know, don't you imagine that the minute there's a Democrat who's president that everything that Trump has dismantled will just go right back to what the way it was?

Or could it be that the Democrats are happy he's dismantling it, but they can't say it out loud?

I don't know.

I I want to be happy about the direction of things, but I don't know how long it's going to last.

Well, uh Kla Harris, according to that new book by Jake Tapper, um some time ago when she was uh appearing on CNN, and I think it was after, uh Biden did his catastrophic debate performance.

and she goes on CNN and she was asked about basically Biden's brain and then she gets off and she uh allegedly blasted Anderson Cooper as a mother effer what?

Oh.

Um, so former so the the story is that she was very mad about the question she was asked about the president's cognitive ability and she said uh this this mfer she used the actual full word this mfer doesn't treat me like the damn vice president of the United States.

she told colleagues.

Um, and then she said, "I thought we were better than that." Well, don't you think they were treating her like the vice president of the United States?

Cuz the vice president of the United States under the condition of the president of the United States is showing that he's cognitively impaired.

Isn't it exactly her job to figure out whether the 25th amendment makes sense?

To me, it seems like they were treating her like the vice president.

She would be the number one person you should ask that question.

Uh, is it time to replace this guy?

So, I guess she didn't like having any tough questions.

But um don't you feel lucky that she didn't become president?

The the we were so close to having a president Kla Harris.

You know the horse laugh.

Oh my god.

Well, Victor Davis Hansen was talking about CNN and all the things that they've they've done that were opposite of news.

And some of the things he listed was uh he actually went so hard as to say he doesn't know how Jake Tapper is keeping his job at CNN because he mentions uh Victor mentions the Russia collusion fail, the steel dossier fail, the Hunter laptop fail, and he says there's definitely a pattern to which I would like to add the following.

What about the fine people hoax?

What about the whole auto pen story?

There was nobody in the news business who who knew there was an autopen problem.

What about the Biden crime family?

Totally ignored.

Uh what about the drinking bleach hoax?

Yeah, there's a pattern.

But but the pattern all comes from the same place, doesn't it?

The pattern comes from they they created a a narrative that Trump was Hiller.

Once you've created the narrative that Trump is Hitler, it gives you permission to lie about every story because obviously you don't want to be complicit in making, you know, Hitler in charge.

So they basically there was one problem that caused them to no longer be a news entity and it was that they had convinced themselves that he was Hitler.

So one problem caused 50 problems.

According to uh Liz Peak, who's writing for The Hill, um they're still trying to figure out who is in charge of that autopen, which is kind of hilarious because it's one of the biggest, well, maybe the biggest story in the country.

Don't you think if the biggest story in the country was who's doing all that autopen stuff, don't you think that the people who were doing the autopen stuff should have said, "Oh, that that was me." Yeah, it was the three of us.

That this was our process.

But without that, what are we supposed to think?

There's only one thing you could think if they decided to get real quiet about that process.

There's a problem.

Because if there were no problem, it would have been like day two.

They would have said, "Oh, here's how it works.

Here's the process.

Here's our, you know, here's our diary of, you know, who did what and who signed it." the fact that they're just quiet about it and they have that we have to do research to figure out who is behind the autopan, that's a that's a pretty good indication that there's a problem.

But the thing that to me is scary is that there are two people who were mentioned as, you know, likely not the only people necessarily, but two of the main people who might have been behind the autopan.

And what's scary is I'd never heard of them.

you know, if if the real answer had been had been uh you know, Ron Clay or uh Jake Sullivan, I would have said, "Huh, you know, that's not ideal because the president's supposed to be doing the autopen stuff." But at least I would think, you know, this is a well-known, smarter person.

You know, everybody's heard those names.

But the names we're hearing are are uh Mike Donalan and Anita Dunn.

How many of you had ever heard those names before the autopen thing?

Isn't that like giving you a little pause?

It's like, huh, not so sure who they even are.

So part of the mystery is why do people we've never even heard of were signing all these things and then there's the thought about all the clemencies.

You know weren't there like thousands of clemencies that were signed and you thought to yourself how could thousands of them being signed?

Well the auto patent do you think anybody sold uh a clemency?

I'll bet they did.

I'll bet somebody sold the clemency or two.

Don't know who.

Um, so Susan Rice, you know her from the sort of no Obama person.

So she was she did a little video.

I don't I don't know what she was appearing on, but she was saying that uh Trump has only looked at 12 uh daily briefings in over a 100 days of being in office.

And the way she says it with her wrinkled up eyebrows is that it's like he's not doing the job.

He's only seen 12 daily briefings.

only 12 in and over a 100 days.

Now, she says it in a way that she's trying to sell the attitude, not the facts, because the facts don't really they don't really tell a story, but the attitude.

Oh, you know, she she scrunches up her face so that you know it's a really big problem.

But here's my interpretation.

What would be the second reason that Trump would not be uh listening to all the daily briefings?

I'm going to take a sip while you answer that question.

What would be the other reason that he had only listened to some of the briefings?

What would you say?

The answer is they had determined that they're If they were useful, don't you think he would listen to them?

Of course he would.

I I remember that the daily briefing included the Bin Laden risk and I think Bush didn't even pay attention to it because it was just on a list of whole bunch of things.

And I also wonder if the daily briefing is maybe managed a little bit by some Obama people who have gotten to some other people who can get to some other people.

Don't you think that Susan Rice is a a little bit too interested in the daily briefings?

As if maybe the Democrats have figured out how to influence somebody who does the daily briefings for the president and they're trying to manipulate him that way, but he's just not paying attention to them at all.

Maybe.

Well, General Mike Flynn, who of course has seen daily briefings, he said the uh daily briefings is a complete waste of time, financial resources, and people.

He said Rice is another Marxist who sees globalism as the future.

And I say, if you can't trust government employees to give you the right stuff, who can you trust?

Well, uh, Senator Joanie Ernst is talking about something.

I think you heard this from Elon and Doge at one point, that there are $60 billion spent on federal government credit cards.

And apparently there are twice as many credit cards as there are federal government employees.

That That's a little red flag right there.

H twice as many credit cards as employees.

But apparently it's worse than that.

Um because a lot she says that a lot of the card usage occurs during federal holidays and on days like New Year's Eve at nightclubs and bars and Sunday afternoons and whenever there's a big UFC fight.

And there also cash withdrawals at casino ATMs.

So I guess they canled about half a million of those cards.

Uh, I think you've heard that story before, but the funny part is that it's so obvious that they were stealing because you could tell the pattern of when the cards were being used.

Well, Trump has threatened the European Union with a 50% tariff because they seem to be dragging their feet, you know, dealing with the trade stuff.

Um, and part of it is that it's complicated.

So the it's not just tariffs, it's uh they got fees on streaming services, value added taxes, they got automotive regulations and fines imposed against US companies and antirust.

So it's a lot of stuff to untangle.

So Trump's just saying, "All right, take your time, but we're going to give you a 50% tariff." I kind of like that.

Wall Street Journal's reporting that.

Well, according to uh one source I saw uh I saw it on a post by Luke Groman that if all Chinese students were removed from all US colleges, uh most of them would go bankrupt because the Chinese students pay full price for tuition and the colleges need that.

So if we remove all the Chinese students from all the colleges besides just Harvard, a lot of colleges would go out of business.

But don't you think we're heading toward a situation where a lot of colleges need to go out of business because they're not really adding enough value?

You know, once you have AI, it seems like you can make your own college.

So not too worried about that.

Trump says US Steel will partner with Nippon Steel.

Is it Nippon?

Nippon.

And remain in the United States headquartered in Pittsburgh and it's going to create 70,000 jobs and add 15 or 14 billion to the economy.

That sounds good.

Sounds good.

We're going to have more steel and fewer Chinese students.

Now I do worry that some of the foreign students would be you know highly value added to our tax situation in this country but I do think we got a lot of them so maybe we could have fewer.

Well Texas has decided uh it's on the verge of it hasn't done it yet of completely banning THC products.

And so Tim Walsh, governor of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Um, governor of Minnesota, right?

Uh, so Tim Walsh weighs in because Texas might ban THC and he says in a post on X, "Texans, flee the nanny state and come up north to enjoy the land of the free." And I'm thinking to myself, Tim Walsh just came out publicly in in favor of smoking weed in an estate.

Okay, I I like him a little bit better now.

He's got that one thing going for him.

Well, according to John Balden, there's no such thing as a South African white genocide.

Um, and he uh, apparently, you know, that video of the, uh, what we were told is these South Africans singing, "Kill the farmers, kill the, you know, shoot the Africaners." And it was one of the main pieces of evidence that Trump was showing the president of South Africa.

Apparently, those were not even South Africans.

It was video from the Republic of the Congo.

Now, that's what Reuters is saying.

Um, there was a clip grabbed from Reuters and it wasn't even South Africans.

But I do wonder if there are any South Africans who are doing that that song and that dance, but I don't I I don't know what to believe about South Africa anymore.

So John Balden basically says, you know, there's just so much crime there and, you know, murder that of course the white farmers are getting murdered because everybody's getting murdered.

They're they're just part of the getting murdered crowd, but they're not they're not specifically being targeted.

I don't know about that.

So John Balden is not exactly the best source for really anything.

uh he's usually wrong on all the important everything.

But I if the white South Africans believe there's a genocide, wouldn't they be the best source that are they're not making it up, right?

The the ones who want to get out of there because it's too dangerous.

Seems like it's unlikely that it's fake.

Well, David Hog, you know him, the co-chair of the DNC, he's uh he says that Representative Jasmine Crockett is a type of leader that they need because the Democratic party is rudderless.

Rudderless.

H rudder would be the thing that dangles down under the boat.

You know what they are is?

They they are rudderless, but they're also penisless and scrotumless.

Um, but David Hog says, "I love her.

She's amazing.

I think that people want to see somebody who fights and calls out the bull, the BS ultimately." Uh, he was talking to Charlemagne, the god.

I think that's what Jasmine does.

Do you think he's uh called it right?

Do you think he's got his finger on the pulse?

Do you think what the Democrats need more than anything is a angry black woman who can yell yell a lot or or is he just being a sort of a DEI guy and he wants to make sure he's he's backing her?

I feel like Jasmine Crockett is what the Republicans want for the Democrats.

She might be the worst spokesperson that the Democrats have ever had.

And I love the fact that David Hog has to embrace her.

Oh well, good luck with that guys.

According to the conversation, um, and this is based on some Australians, I think.

Oh, wait.

Yeah.

Uh, authors are not happy about AI using their work, even if they get paid.

So, I guess a bunch of, uh, Australian authors have weighed in and they don't like at all the AI might be trained on their work.

Um, now does that surprise you?

Uh, so I went to Grock and I said, "Grock, are are the uh sales of non-fiction books going down since AI?" Because that would be the way you'd know.

Um, if people felt they didn't read need to read non-fiction books because they could just ask Grock and it it's already read all the books.

And Grock was very very vague.

you know, Grock was a little bit well, you know, there is a little bit of a decrease in that market, but you can't really tie that to AI because you have lots of different factors happening.

To which I thought, oh my god, is AI covering its own tracks?

It looks like AI is coming up with its own alibis.

Well, you know, it's not the AI.

It's a variety of factors that would be hard to measure.

I don't know.

I'm going to say that that's an open question.

But here's my prediction.

My prediction is that non-fiction books will continue to decrease in sales, and it will be because of AI eventually.

All right.

Well, it's a holiday weekend.

There's not much going on.

So, can anybody tell me if uh the Xplatform is working?

Can you give me an update in the comments?

I know it's there'll be a little time lag here, but uh is the Xplatform working?

Because if it is, then Owen can do his spaces cuz there's not much going on today.

Uh I I I probably have a little less content today because a lot of it comes from X.

Oh, it's not working.

Erica says, "Damn it." So Owen, does that mean you won't be trying to do a spaces?

Cuz I doubt the spaces would work if the platform's down.

All right.

Well, um if it's not working today, Owen says he'll move it to tomorrow.

Um but I'm hear I'm seeing uh authoritatively that it's glitching.

Okay.

Uh Owen says he'll give it a shot and see how it goes.

All right.

So, he's going to give it a shot.

And, uh, I'm going to end early because there's not much going on.

But, uh, you can go to Owen spaces and if it works, you can get a lot more.

And thanks for joining everybody.

Um, I'm going to say a few words to the locals people privately, but for the rest of you, enjoy your Saturday.

But the rest of the platform is working

great as far as I

know. So, we'll have comments and we'll

have we'll have a

show on Memorial Day weekend when all

the lazy people are off on vacation.

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of the commenters.

Um, one of you puts the entire

simultaneous sip um with the wording in

the comments when I'm doing it. Don't do

that because it's a it's a long block

which distracts

me. So, I know you're I know you're

trying to help, but it's really

distracting when you put it in there as

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look and say, "Oh, what's this long

block of text? It's probably something

important. So, if you

could Don't do that anymore. Thank

you. That would be it would be hard to

know that that was a problem. So, don't

worry about it. Well, if the Xplatform

is working after the show, uh Owen

Gregorian will be hosting his spaces. Uh

again, a coffee with Scott Adams

afterparty. Um but it probably depends

highly on whether the the Xplatform is

back online. And uh if not, you know,

maybe it gets pushed to the next day,

but that's the that's the current

thinking. Well, if you happen to hate

the uh the New York Knicks, that would

be a basketball team. Uh you've had a

good week.

I I know most of you are not into

basketball, but I I just have to tell

you about how the Indiana Pacers

uh beat the Knicks because it's not so

it's not even a sports story. It's it's

like the biggest coincidence in the

world

story. So, the uh it was the game before

this last

one and the Knicks were up by

two and time was running out and one of

the better players on the Indian Indiana

Pacers takes this long desperate

three-point shot. If it goes in, which

would, you know, was highly unlikely,

the the Pacers would win. If it missed,

the Knicks would win. So you you're

watching it go and it's really high and

it's really far away and it hits the rim

and it misses and the Knicks are like,

"Yes, yes, we won the first game of this

playoff." And then the ball because the

ball had come from a long distance when

it hit the

rim it went up in the air for a very

long distance as well. And when it came

down it went right through the

hoop. It was something you would rarely

ever see. Now, since it was a

three-point shot, the Pacers are like,

"Yes, yes, we won because we were only

down by two and we just made a

three-point shot." And and then they

look at the video and the guy who shot

it, his foot was just on the

line, which makes it a two-point shot.

So, first the the Knicks totally won,

then the Pacers totally won and then it

was a

tie and had to go to overtime where the

Pacers won. So, if you were a Knicks

fan, it was a terrible week and I guess

they won. They lost another tight one.

All right, I'm going to give you a movie

recommendation or movie review, I guess.

So, uh I don't know where it is except

on Amazon Prime. Prime Video, but it's

called The Fountain of Youth. It's brand

new, and it features John Krinski and

Natalie Portman, I think, as his sister,

and they play these Indiana Jones kind

of

characters. Now, here's what's great

about this

movie. Apparently, I'm just

guessing. My guess is that the director

had some kind of deal with the

production studio. They could make the

movie any way he wanted

to. And he made it

old-fashiony and and you don't notice it

at first. You just think you're watching

a movie. Excuse me. Hold on.

But at some point you realize, hey,

there was nobody tied to a chair. Hey,

there was no gratuitous like sex scene

or or those terrible scenes where

somebody's showing their love to

somebody else and you're like, I get it.

I get it. You know, all the things that

you hate in a movie. It just simply

didn't have them. It was like a

wisecracking um action movie. So the

wise cracking was great because John

Krosinski is great at wise cracking and

the characters were great. But then you

notice

um it it did have one thing that I don't

like in a movie which is somebody who's

underwater for too long. I I fast

forward through all underwater

scenes. But then you realize, wait a

minute, there's nothing woke about this

movie. The the cast is not

diverse. Um, there's no there's no

overweight black woman who is the key

feature. It's just good-looking people.

And the two female leads were both

attractive. And the, you know, the lead

guy was attractive, too.

So, when was the last time you saw a

movie like

that? There was nothing woke at all. I

don't know how he got it made. I would

love to know the backstory. Uh, was it

Guy Richie? It's a Guy Richie film. So,

and it's a fun for the whole family.

There's no um there's no swearing. I

think there was zero swearing.

And basically it was sort of a a genius

movie of what he left out. He just sort

of left out everything that movies try

to put in there. You know, all the all

the stuff you don't want to see. So I

recommend it. Fun for the whole

family. Well, in other news, according

to Sai Post,

uh nonright-handedness is more common

across multiple mental health

conditions. You know what?

nonright-handedness is. It's called

left-handedness. So, apparently, if

you're left-handed, you're more likely

to have a variety of mental health

conditions. Now, that probably includes

if you're a

leftist because you know how uh we've

already seen that the Democrats have

more mental health problems and they're

actually called leftists. So apparently

anything

left is correlated with mental health

problems. Anyway, um in other news,

according to

Discover, we tend to trust people from

lowincome backgrounds over the wealthy

elites. Do you think that's true? Do you

trust people from lowincome backgrounds

more than rich people?

Um, I think that

depends. If you dropped your wallet,

would you rather a billionaire found it

or somebody from a lowinccome

background? I feel like I trust the

billionaire to give my wallet

back. So, that's that's very situation

dependent. But you can see why uh Joe

Biden used to do I'm just lunch bill

Joe. I'll take the train. I'm just like

you. Anyway, according to uh some uh

let's say neuroscience news, AI has

higher emotional IQ than humans. You

know the emotional IQ where you know you

you know how to deal with people's

emotional states and your own etc. And I

thought to myself, that kind of makes

sense because the AI can simply memorize

all the

situations and it can just say, "All

right, under this situation, people

should do this." So yes, it makes total

sense that uh AI would have a higher

emotional IQ. Could have just asked

me. And it's a big deal. Actually, it's

a big difference. The AI achieved an

average score of

82% where the humans were at

56%. So, so if you want some empathy and

you want a high emotional

IQ, I suggest you get a

robot. Robots can set you free.

According to Fox News, the ladies of the

view have been asked by their boss, the

head of Disney, Bob Iger, to cool it

with all the political

chatter. And then apparently the ladies

of the view said,

"No, we it's very important that we do

political

chatter, so we'll keep doing it."

Um, I don't know if that was a good idea

because if your boss tells you to do

less of something, you probably should

do less of it. But I can't believe I

can't believe that The View has the same

ratings when they're being political and

essentially annoying half of the

country. Don't you think their ratings

would be higher if they just did

everything about politics?

So, it seems like Bob Iger may have the

right idea here, but who knows? If you

haven't seen this yet, there's a some

kind of AI called

VO3 in which they created a bunch of,

you know, deep fake um street

interviews. So, it's a whole bunch of

little clips where somebody's

interviewing somebody in the street

usually at night.

And until now, I always told myself, you

know, I could tell AI from

reality, but uh you

can't. It it's not even just one or two

things. It's a whole string of street

interviews and you cannot you cannot

tell that these are AI.

So, I don't know how far away we are

from making a whole

movie, but that was scary. So, we've

crossed we we've crossed the Scot line

where I say to myself, "Ah, I could tell

that was AI because they have six

fingers or or there's something about

them or the way they talk." You

absolutely can't tell that. It 100%

looks real.

Crazy. Meanwhile, speaking of crazy and

crazy eyes, uh Hillary

Clinton uh is trying to ruin your

Memorial Day

weekend because she's made the following

suggestion in a post on X. She said, "I

want you to talk to two people, friends,

neighbors, cookout, attendees about why

Trump's proposed budget would be a

disaster for American kids."

And then she goes on to give some

examples of what she's talking about.

Can you think of a worse

idea than bringing up the the

budget at your Memorial Day

barbecue? I can't think of a worse

idea. Does Hillary get invited to

things? She talks like somebody who's

never been invited to anything.

It's the worst idea of all time. No. How

about you just shut up about politics

and enjoy your neighbors and your

family? Shut up. Just shut up about

politics. Take take a uh take a message

from Bob Iger.

Sometimes talking about politics could

be too much.

Meanwhile, according to the college

fix, a Tennessee university is hit with

civil rights complaints over 17

racebased

scholarships. So, when they say

race-based, it means you can't be a

white guy, basically. But some of them

are more specific, like you could be an

African-American or a

um or a

um I think Native American or something.

So, some of them will give you two

choices. Oh, yeah. Native American or

African-American. So, there's 17

racebased scholarships.

I I'm kind of happy that that stuff's

being dismantled, but don't you think

it'll be put right back together as soon

as Trump is out of

office? You know, don't you imagine that

the minute there's a Democrat who's

president that everything that Trump has

dismantled will just go right back to

what the way it was?

Or could it be that the Democrats are

happy he's dismantling it, but they

can't say it out loud?

I don't know. I I want to be happy about

the direction of things, but I don't

know how long it's going to

last. Well, uh Kla Harris, according to

that new book by Jake Tapper,

um some time ago when she was uh

appearing on

CNN, and I think it was after, uh Biden

did his catastrophic debate performance.

and she goes on CNN and she was asked

about basically Biden's brain and then

she gets off and she

uh allegedly blasted Anderson Cooper as

a mother

effer what?

Oh. Um, so

former so the the story

is that she was very

mad about the question she was asked

about the president's cognitive

ability and she said uh this this mfer

she used the actual full word this mfer

doesn't treat me like the damn vice

president of the United States. she told

colleagues.

Um, and then she said, "I thought we

were better than

that." Well, don't you think they were

treating her like the vice president of

the United

States? Cuz the vice president of the

United

States under the condition of the

president of the United States is

showing that he's cognitively impaired.

Isn't it exactly her job to figure out

whether the 25th amendment makes

sense? To me, it seems like they were

treating her like the vice president.

She would be the number one person you

should ask that question. Uh, is it time

to replace this guy? So, I guess she

didn't like having any tough questions.

But

um don't you feel lucky that she didn't

become

president? The the we were so close to

having a president Kla Harris. You know

the horse

laugh. Oh my

god. Well, Victor Davis Hansen was

talking about CNN and all the things

that they've they've done that were

opposite of news. And some of the things

he listed was

uh he actually went so hard as to say he

doesn't know how Jake Tapper is keeping

his job at CNN because he mentions uh

Victor mentions the Russia collusion

fail, the steel dossier fail, the Hunter

laptop fail, and he says there's

definitely a pattern to which I would

like to add the

following. What about the fine people

hoax? What about the whole auto pen

story? There was nobody in the news

business who who knew there was an

autopen problem. What about the Biden

crime family? Totally ignored. Uh what

about the drinking bleach

hoax? Yeah, there's a

pattern. But but the pattern all comes

from the same place, doesn't

it? The pattern comes from they they

created a

a narrative that Trump was

Hiller. Once you've created the

narrative that Trump is Hitler, it gives

you permission to lie about every

story because obviously you don't want

to be complicit in making, you know,

Hitler in charge.

So they basically there was one problem

that caused them to no longer be a news

entity and it was that they had

convinced themselves that he was

Hitler. So one problem caused 50

problems. According to uh Liz Peak,

who's writing for The Hill,

um they're still trying to figure out

who is in charge of that

autopen, which is kind of hilarious

because it's one of the biggest, well,

maybe the biggest story in the country.

Don't you think if the biggest story in

the country was who's doing all that

autopen stuff, don't you think that the

people who were doing the autopen stuff

should have said, "Oh, that that was

me." Yeah, it was the three of us. That

this was our

process. But without that, what are we

supposed to think?

There's only one thing you could think

if they decided to get real quiet about

that

process. There's a

problem. Because if there were no

problem, it would have been like day

two. They would have said, "Oh, here's

how it works. Here's the process. Here's

our, you know, here's our diary of, you

know, who did what and who signed it."

the fact that they're just quiet about

it and they have that we have to do

research to figure out who is behind the

autopan, that's a that's a pretty good

indication that there's a problem. But

the thing that to me is

scary is that there are two people who

were mentioned as, you know, likely not

the only people necessarily, but two of

the main people who might have been

behind the

autopan. And what's scary is I'd never

heard of them.

you know, if if the real answer had been

had been uh you know, Ron Clay or

uh Jake

Sullivan, I would have said, "Huh, you

know, that's not ideal because the

president's supposed to be doing the

autopen stuff." But at least I would

think, you know, this is a well-known,

smarter person. You know, everybody's

heard those names. But the names we're

hearing are are

uh Mike Donalan and Anita

Dunn. How many of you had ever heard

those names before the autopen

thing? Isn't that like giving you a

little pause? It's like,

huh, not so sure who they even are. So

part of the mystery is why do people

we've never even heard

of were signing all these things and

then there's the thought about all the

clemencies. You know weren't there like

thousands of clemencies that were signed

and you thought to yourself how could

thousands of them being signed? Well the

auto patent do you think anybody sold uh

a

clemency? I'll bet they did. I'll bet

somebody sold the clemency or two. Don't

know

who. Um, so Susan Rice, you know

her from the sort of no Obama

person. So she was she did a little

video. I don't I don't know what she was

appearing on, but she was saying that uh

Trump has only looked at 12 uh daily

briefings in over a 100 days of being in

office. And the way she says it with her

wrinkled up eyebrows is that it's like

he's not doing the job. He's only seen

12 daily briefings. only 12 in and over

a 100

days. Now, she says it in a way that

she's trying to sell the attitude, not

the facts, because the facts don't

really they don't really tell a story,

but the attitude.

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Oh, you know, she she scrunches up her

face so that you know it's a really big

problem.

But here's my

interpretation. What would be the second

reason that Trump would not be uh

listening to all the daily briefings?

I'm going to take a sip while you answer

that

question. What would be the other

reason that he had only listened to some

of the

briefings? What would you say?

The answer is they had determined that

they're

If they were useful, don't you

think he would listen to

them? Of course he would. I I remember

that the daily briefing included the Bin

Laden

risk and I think Bush didn't even pay

attention to it because it was just on a

list of whole bunch of things.

And I also wonder if the daily

briefing is maybe managed a little bit

by some Obama people who have gotten to

some other people who can get to some

other people.

Don't you think that Susan Rice is a a

little bit too

interested in the daily

briefings? As

if maybe the Democrats have figured out

how to influence somebody who does the

daily briefings for the president and

they're trying to manipulate him that

way, but he's just not paying attention

to them at

all. Maybe. Well, General Mike Flynn,

who of course has seen daily

briefings, he said the uh daily

briefings is a complete waste of time,

financial resources, and people. He said

Rice is another Marxist who sees

globalism as the

future. And I say, if you can't trust

government employees to give you the

right stuff, who can you

trust? Well, uh, Senator Joanie

Ernst is talking about something. I

think you heard this from Elon and Doge

at one point, that there are $60 billion

spent on federal government credit

cards. And apparently there are twice as

many credit cards as there are federal

government

employees. That That's a little red flag

right there. H twice as many credit

cards as employees. But apparently it's

worse than that.

Um because a lot she says that a lot of

the card usage occurs during federal

holidays and on days like New Year's Eve

at nightclubs and

bars and Sunday afternoons and whenever

there's a big UFC

fight. And there also cash withdrawals

at casino

ATMs. So I guess they canled about half

a million of those cards. Uh, I think

you've heard that story before, but the

funny part is that it's so obvious that

they were stealing because you could

tell the pattern of when the cards were

being

used. Well, Trump has threatened the

European Union with a 50%

tariff because they seem to be dragging

their feet, you know, dealing with the

trade

stuff. Um, and part of it is that it's

complicated. So the it's not just

tariffs, it's uh they got fees on

streaming services, value added taxes,

they got automotive regulations and

fines imposed against US companies and

antirust. So it's a lot of stuff to

untangle. So Trump's just saying, "All

right, take your time, but we're going

to give you a 50% tariff." I kind of

like that. Wall Street Journal's

reporting that.

Well, according to uh one source I saw

uh I saw it on a post by Luke Groman

that if all Chinese students were

removed from all US colleges,

uh most of them would go

bankrupt because the Chinese students

pay full price for tuition and the

colleges need that. So if we remove all

the Chinese students from all the

colleges besides just

Harvard, a lot of colleges would go out

of business. But don't you think we're

heading toward a situation where a lot

of colleges need to go out of business

because they're not really adding enough

value? You know, once you have

AI, it seems like you can make your own

college. So not too worried about that.

Trump says US Steel will partner with

Nippon Steel. Is it Nippon?

Nippon. And remain in the United States

headquartered in

Pittsburgh and it's going to create

70,000 jobs and add 15 or 14 billion to

the economy. That sounds good. Sounds

good. We're going to have more steel and

fewer Chinese students.

Now I do worry

that some of the foreign students would

be you know highly value added to our

tax situation in this country but I do

think we got a lot of them so maybe we

could have

fewer. Well Texas has decided uh it's on

the verge of it hasn't done it yet of

completely banning THC

products. And so Tim Walsh, governor of

Minneapolis,

Minnesota. Um, governor of

Minnesota,

right? Uh, so Tim Walsh weighs in

because Texas might ban THC and he says

in a post on X, "Texans, flee the nanny

state and come up north to enjoy the

land of the free." And I'm thinking to

myself, Tim Walsh just came out publicly

in in favor of smoking weed in an

estate.

Okay, I I like him a little bit better

now. He's got that one thing going for

him. Well, according to John Balden,

there's no such thing as a South African

white genocide.

Um, and he uh, apparently, you know,

that video of the, uh, what we were told

is these South Africans singing, "Kill

the farmers, kill the, you know, shoot

the Africaners." And it was one of the

main pieces of evidence that Trump was

showing the president of South

Africa. Apparently, those were not even

South

Africans. It was video from the Republic

of the Congo.

Now, that's what Reuters is saying.

Um, there was a clip grabbed from

Reuters and it wasn't even South

Africans. But I do wonder if there are

any South Africans who are doing that

that song and that dance, but I don't I

I don't know what to believe about South

Africa anymore.

So John Balden basically says, you know,

there's just so much crime there and,

you know, murder that of course the

white farmers are getting murdered

because everybody's getting murdered.

They're they're just part of the getting

murdered crowd, but they're not they're

not specifically being targeted. I don't

know about

that. So John Balden is not exactly the

best source for really anything.

uh he's usually wrong on all the

important

everything.

But I if the white South Africans

believe there's a

genocide, wouldn't they be the best

source that are they're not making it

up, right? The the ones who want to get

out of there because it's too

dangerous. Seems like it's unlikely that

it's fake.

Well, David Hog, you know him, the

co-chair of the

DNC, he's uh he says that Representative

Jasmine Crockett is a type of leader

that they need because the Democratic

party is

rudderless. Rudderless.

H rudder would be the thing that dangles

down under the

boat. You know what they are is?

They they are rudderless, but they're

also penisless and

scrotumless.

Um, but David Hog says, "I love her.

She's

amazing. I think that people want to see

somebody who fights and calls out the

bull, the BS

ultimately." Uh, he was talking to

Charlemagne, the god. I think that's

what Jasmine does. Do you think he's uh

called it

right? Do you think he's got his finger

on the

pulse? Do you think what the Democrats

need more than anything is a angry black

woman who can yell yell a

lot or or is he just being a sort of a

DEI guy and he wants to make sure he's

he's backing

her? I feel like Jasmine Crockett is

what the Republicans want for the

Democrats. She might be the worst

spokesperson that the Democrats have

ever had. And I love the fact that David

Hog has to embrace her. Oh well, good

luck with that

guys. According to the conversation,

um, and this is based on some

Australians, I think. Oh, wait. Yeah.

Uh, authors are not happy about AI using

their work, even if they get paid. So, I

guess a bunch of, uh, Australian authors

have weighed in and they don't like at

all the AI might be trained on their

work.

Um, now does that surprise

you? Uh, so I went to Grock and I said,

"Grock, are are the uh sales of

non-fiction books going down since AI?"

Because that would be the way you'd

know. Um, if people felt they didn't

read need to read non-fiction books

because they could just ask Grock and it

it's already read all the

books. And Grock was

very very

vague. you know, Grock was a little bit

well, you know, there is a little bit of

a decrease in that market, but you can't

really tie that to AI because you have

lots of different factors happening. To

which I thought, oh my god, is AI

covering its own

tracks? It looks like AI is coming up

with its own alibis. Well, you know,

it's not the AI. It's a variety of

factors that would be hard to

measure. I don't

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know. I'm going to say that that's an

open

question. But here's my prediction. My

prediction is that non-fiction books

will continue to decrease in sales, and

it will be because of AI eventually.

All right. Well, it's a holiday weekend.

There's not much going

on. So, can anybody tell me if uh the

Xplatform is working? Can you give me an

update in the comments? I know it's

there'll be a little time lag here, but

uh is the Xplatform

working? Because if it is, then Owen can

do his spaces cuz there's not much going

on today. Uh I I I probably have a

little less content today because a lot

of it comes from X. Oh, it's not

working. Erica says, "Damn

it." So Owen, does that mean you won't

be trying to do a

spaces? Cuz I doubt the spaces would

work if the platform's down. All right.

Well, um if it's not working today, Owen

says he'll move it to

tomorrow. Um but I'm hear I'm seeing uh

authoritatively that it's

glitching.

Okay. Uh Owen says he'll give it a shot

and see how it goes. All right. So, he's

going to give it a shot. And, uh, I'm

going to end

early because there's not much going on.

But, uh, you can go to Owen spaces and

if it

works, you can get a lot more. And

thanks for joining everybody. Um, I'm

going to say a few words

to the locals people privately, but for

the rest of you, enjoy your Saturday.