Episode 2852 CWSA 05/27/25

Let's look at our stocks.

Holy cow.

Stocks are up.

Look at that.

Wow.

All right.

So, that's the good news.

Let's open our comments and get you the show that you deserve.

Damn it, you deserve it.

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Well, let's see if there's any science about coffee.

Oh, yes.

There is some new research according to Scypost and Eric Nolan shows that decaf coffee can it can not always but it can mimic caffeine's effect in habitual drinkers.

In other words, if you have decaf, your body might register it a lot like caffeinated coffee.

Now, do you know who knew that before the science?

Pavlov.

That's basically Pavlov's dog, right?

So, Pavlov was training his dog dogs and I give them a treat after he rang the bell and then eventually he could just ring the bell and they would salivate.

Well, that's what this is.

That's what CAF decaf is.

decaf is just ringing the bell without the actual caffeine as the uh as the payoff.

I'm pretty sure any hypnotist would have known that not every time and not for every person that it's not going to it's not going to fix your uh caffeine headache if you haven't had real caffeine.

But then every once in a while you can have decaf and it gives you the same little kick as if you had the real thing.

And even if you know it doesn't make any difference if you know that you're getting decaf.

I have used this trick on myself many times where I would give myself decaf because I had too much caffeinated stuff that day and sure enough I would feel as though I was getting a little boost.

So, there's a little trick for you.

According to the Washington Times, uh Trump is no longer interested or at least he's not exhibiting interest in uh going to Fort Knox to find out if the gold is still there.

Do you remember when uh Elon Musk and Trump were both saying, "Maybe we should check to see if that gold is still in for Knox." Well, that interest seems to have waned because nobody cares about it anymore.

And uh the reason given is that apparently it gets audited on some kind of a regular basis.

So they do know that the gold is there.

To which I say h that's one possibility.

One possibility is that they know for sure the gold is there.

What's the other possibility?

that they know for sure the gold is not there.

So if you want to keep your suspicions alive, go ahead, keep your suspicions alive.

Although probably it's all there.

Well, over in China, they've developed a uh a giant uh salmon farming ship so that they can raise salmon inside the ship like a basically like a fish farm.

And it's better than using a regular fish farm, which would be in one place and maybe a typhoon would get it or there's some other kind of problem that can destroy your your fish.

But if you put it in a big old ship, I guess you have access to all the water you need and you can bake yourself some salmon.

So, I like that idea.

Salmon farm in a ship.

Some say it's going to be crappy salmon because they would feed it substandard food, but they don't have to.

I mean, you know, the possibility is they could feed it good food and then your salmon would be fine, but we'll see if that that becomes a thing.

According to the University of Cologne, which I can smell from here, uh, parents, this this will surprise absolutely nobody.

Um, can you believe it?

Parents are not happier but have a greater sense of meaning in life according to a study.

Now, how many of you didn't know that?

If you've ever seen any parent trying to get their kids to school or get them to do their homework or get them to do anything, they don't look like they're super happy.

But if you were to ask them, "Are you glad you had kids?" Well, nearly 100% would say, "Yeah, it's the best thing I've ever done.

You should do it, too." So, yes, having children is not about having a bunch of laughs.

It's about a greater sense of meaning in life.

I feel like every parent already knew that.

Is there anyone who doesn't know that?

Probably the most well-known and understood phenomenon in all the world.

Well, the UAE, United Arab uh what's the E?

United Arab uh E.

Anyway, the UAE uh is giving every single resident free chat GPT plus the good stuff for every resident.

Uh, I saw this on Mario post on X News9 is a source and it's the only country doing that and it's part of their uh part of their push to be the the high-tech um sort of hub of the world.

That's pretty good.

Um, so everybody will have chat GPT in UAE.

I wonder if any other country will follow that model.

Did you hear the story?

You may have heard the story about the uh open AI.

This is also Chad GBT.

Uh one of their models uh allegedly disobeyed the human instructions and tried to sabotage the the shutdown mechanism.

Did you see that story?

Well, it did not surprise me to find out that there's a report today that that was not the regular chat GPT in a regular setting, but rather they were doing safety testing.

So, they were it was an artificial condition safety testing.

It it wasn't something that could have happened in the real world.

So, probably that's not really something you need to worry about.

Um, and I don't see how it could possibly change its own code or Yeah, there there was something about that story that sounded a little sketchy.

Yeah, Owen knew it.

Owen was all over that.

That it just didn't sound true, did it?

So, I I was pausing on that story a little bit.

Um, but I if I mention it, I shouldn't should not have.

Well, Kamla Harris was over in Australia giving a speech at a big event there and uh the clips from it are hilarious because she was in full word salad Kamla Harris mode.

And honestly, I couldn't tell if she was drunk or stupid.

A lot of people said, "Well, probably both." She does look drunk and stupid, but is it possible?

Is it possible she's just stupid?

Like really, really stupid.

Because I'm giving her the benefit of a doubt that she's drunk.

But my god, is she embarrassing.

Oh my god.

And she could have been our president.

Every time you see her talk, you think to yourself, "Oh my god, she she was within striking distance of being the the president of the United States." Wow.

Um, speaking of other losers, uh, Mayor Karen Bass of, uh, LA, she posted on X that, uh, that homes are under construction throughout the Palisades ahead of expectations.

And then there was a little uh video from above of a house being built.

And I said to myself, "Huh, this is kind of strange.

If you're claim that houses plural are being built, don't you think that your evidence would be more than one house?" that doesn't that strike you as odd?

If you were trying to say, "Yeah, a lot of houses are being built." Wouldn't you show more than one?

And then I look at the comments.

Apparently, it's one house.

Exactly one house.

No, I don't know if it's one house, but she's definitely full of Uh there there are some things happening and there are some action and there are some things moving in the right direction, but if you were to drive there, it might not look like anything's happening.

Anyway, she says they've uh taken action to cut the red tape and expedite the permits, but uh she's going to get uh destroyed in the comments to that.

All right, good luck there, Mayor Karen Bass.

Um, did you know that uh according to the Daily Wire, the Treasury officials in the US uh are doing a good job of choking off the cash flow to the cartels.

So, they're figuring out what money flowing through the US is cartel money and they're shutting it down and sanctioning it and uh making sure that individuals are not getting it.

And I said to myself, wait a minute.

Are you telling me that we always had the ability to know what was the cartel's cash and it took until Trump's second administration to start shutting it down?

Wait, what?

How is that a little bit fishy?

It does seem to me like Trump is the first person who's taken anything serious about Mexico or the border.

Ju just hold that in your head that the Treasury had the ability to identify the cartel's money flow and we were not messing with it.

How in the world is that even possible that we weren't doing anything about it until now?

The the only thing I can imagine is that we were complicit and something about the Trump administration has decided not to be complicit.

I don't know.

There's something there's something to be learned by that story, but uh whatever it is, it's not good, but it's probably good now.

Anyway, uh there's a story in the New York Times that is just full of anonymous sources.

Oh man, they got some anonymous sources.

And uh I saw Greta Gretan Sustern was mocking them for their anonymous sources.

But the story is that uh Trump is backing away from sanctions on Russia because he wants to do business deals with them.

meaning America wants to do business deals with them.

Now, do you think that's true and and all they have are anonymous sources?

What what have I taught you about anonymous sources?

Anonymous sources have basically no news value because they're they're usually made up.

So, it doesn't matter if it's the New York Times, if it's full of anonymous sources.

I don't know about that.

But, um, it does seem that Germany, France, this is another related news of news.

So, that I saw this on Mario's posts.

Uh, the source is CGTN, whatever that is, but it says that Germany, France, and the UK and the US have given Ukraine the green light to fire missiles with no range cap.

In other words, go ahead Ukraine and just start lighting up Russia itself.

Uh, that means that Ukraine will be striking targets deep inside Russia.

Uh, do you think that's first of all true?

I don't know if it's true because it's not coming from a news source I've ever heard of.

Um, but probably it's true.

I mean, it feels maybe it's a little too on the nose, but it feels like the only thing that Europe could come up with is all right.

If uh Moscow and and Russia are, you know, cranking it up and they're not talking about peace, let's just start sending missiles into the heart of Russia.

What could go wrong?

Well, a lot could go wrong, but uh it kind of makes sense that they might loosen up the the distance cap.

So, I guess we'll have to watch and see if Russia gets lit up with these new uh missiles and if it makes any difference at all or does it make Russia just twice as aggressive?

So, we're going to find out.

Now, what do you think is true?

Do you think that there there are two stories about Putin right now?

One is that he felt under attack by NATO and that really he's acting in a semi-defensive way by making sure that NATO doesn't surround him and that uh Ukraine had always been the red line and we cross the red line.

So you got to expect it.

The other version of Putin is that he plans to dominate all of Europe and this is just one more step in doing that.

Now, they can't both be true, right?

It can't be true that he's he's defensively attacking Ukraine, but he's also looking to roll over and control all of Europe.

or uh CGTN is China's state TV, somebody says.

Is that true?

Well, that would make a difference, wouldn't it?

Yeah.

So, I guess um I guess the best take about the anything about Ukraine is that uh we can't tell what's true.

So that I guess that's where I'll settle on this.

We just don't know what's true, but we'll see if any missiles are going into the heart of uh Russia.

Well, uh Jake Tapper was on Pierce Morgan and he's still talking about his new book that uh talks about uh Joe Biden's mental decline.

And apparently Jake Tapper has admitted that the Democrat cover up of Biden's cognitive decline might be it might be worse than Watergate.

I guess in his book he said it wasn't worse than Watergate.

But now he's willing to admit yeah it might be might be worse than Watergate.

What do you think?

Is the cover up of Biden worse than Watergate?

Yes.

Yes.

By a mile.

It's not even close.

And not only that, but the Democrats have done lots of things that are worse than Watergate.

It's not like the first thing that's worse than Watergate.

But when I think of Watergate, it just seems so tame.

Like imagine if the worst thing that was happening in the United States was Watergate.

If that were the worst thing happening, I'd be pretty darn happy.

Stocks would be up.

Everything would be good.

Um, here's uh something I want to add to the whole uh Biden brain cover up.

Now, most of you are probably under the opinion that everybody in the news business were completely aware that Biden's brain wasn't working, but they were just pretending they didn't know.

I'm going to modify that a little bit.

I don't think that's totally true.

And here's why.

Have you ever seen the psychology experiments where uh they'll have a bunch of a small group of people and they'll be asked to look at something and say let's say what line is longer than another line or just some basic factual thing.

and only one person will be an actual subject of the experiment and all the rest will be participants who know that they're participants and they're lying.

And what happens is you can somewhat easily make the person who is the real subject believe whatever the other people all believe is true.

So, it's so easy to change a person's perception until they don't see something or they do see something that just isn't there.

Now, this is a very repeatable experiment in psychology and you've probably seen it a million times in in the real world.

So, here's my take.

For sure, no doubt about it.

There were people in the the business the news business.

Sorry, I gotta make an adjustment there.

Uh, for sure there were people in the news business who were aware that uh Biden's brain wasn't working and that it was a big problem.

There's no doubt about it.

I don't know if Jake Tapper was one, but maybe, you know, maybe.

But if you have enough people who were pretending that he's perfectly fine, and there certainly were enough people pretending that, then you can guarantee that some some number of people were just sort of hypnotized into believing it was true because when they looked at the other people, they weren't seeing anything.

That's a problem.

So my guess is that it's that it was always a combination.

It was a combination of people who knew they were lying and just were trying to prevent Hitler from coming into office, you know, in their view.

Uh some people who just preferred the Democrats to win, you know, that would be the Democrats.

And some people who had the ability to know, but that ability was sort of shut off by the fact they were put in an environment where it seemed like nobody else noticed.

In theory, they would be cognitively blinded to the obvious.

So I think that I think you have to be a little bit careful about assuming that every single person was aware and knew it because you could see it because if you were if you were not a if you were not in that environment then you would not have been influenced by it and you could just see it clearly.

Right?

If if your experience was turning on my podcast every morning and listening to me say since maybe 2017 or something like that saying, "No, Biden's brain is completely broken.

He's obviously incompetent." If you were listening to me say it every day, you would be completely immune from the cognitive blindness because you would have at least one person and probably lots more who are telling you the truth.

So you wouldn't have that problem.

But when you look at the Democrats, they would definitely have that problem of being cognitively blinded by their own team who were lying basically.

Well, um, were there other examples where they were cognitively blinded?

Yes.

What about the fine people hoax?

Do you think every single person um on the you know the mainstream media, do you think every one of them thought that the fine people hoax was real?

No.

No.

There there were undoubtedly smart, influential people who knew somewhat early on that that wasn't true, but they had an interest in acting like it was true.

Now again, take an innocent Democrat and put him in that situation where all these important people are pretending.

They're lying, but they're pretending that the fine people hoax was true.

Same problem.

They they would come to believe it was true because all these important, influential people said it was true.

Same with uh Elon Musk's Nazi salute, which was of course not a Nazi salute.

Do you think it was even possible that people with normal brains thought that was a Nazi salute?

Well, if you have enough people who are the credible people, the ones you trust, and they all seem to say it was, which was the case.

Now, they were all liars.

probably the people who, you know, the the prominent ones, probably just a bunch of liars who didn't want uh, you know, Trump and Elon to have power.

But I'll bet you I'll bet you some large percentage of Democrats who would have been perfectly capable of knowing that certainly wasn't a Nazi salute.

I mean, you would have an IQ of 80 and you knew that wasn't really a Nazi salute, but you would have been cognitively blinded by your own side because they kept saying it was.

So, if everybody you talk to says it was, well, suddenly you start thinking, "No, maybe I'm wrong.

Maybe it was." Right?

So it wouldn't even be unusual that people were cognitively blinded about Biden's brain.

It would be the normal operating system of just how everything works.

As long as as long as the people in charge were lying in the same way, then the people who weren't powerful and were just sort of on the same team would uh believe it was true and they would believe it easily even though it was obviously not true.

Well, here's one of my favorite stories.

Speaking of Jake Tapper, he was on the Scott Galloway's podcast and he was talking about his son.

I guess he's got a 15-year-old son and he was talking about in the context of the Democrat party and the Democrat messaging.

So he talks about his son was uh you know a football player and he wanted to grow up and be a cop.

So he's 15 and that's his goal.

And apparently uh because he wanted to be a cop, the people around him, his friends have decided he must be a racist.

And what he wants to be a cop because he think he thinks that's the best way to help people.

And therefore his friends think he's a racist cuz he wants to be a cop.

And so Jake Tapper is saying, quote, "You're deciding he's a racist because he wants to be a cop." And why does he want to be a cop?

He wants to be a cop because he wants to help people, you know, and he thinks that's the best way he can help people.

And that's how the Democratic Party talks to men, not just white men, but men.

And then Jake goes on.

He says the idea that he wants to be a policeman and therefore he's racist, my son.

And like, you know, that was the big laugh.

And then I got dragged in the comments and all that stuff.

And I thought to myself, this is why you are losing elections.

So, does Jake Tapper understand what's wrong with the Democrat party?

Yep.

Now, I can't name names, but I'm going to tell you that there's at least one other person who's who's a big name in the media business who had the same um enlightened response.

Meaning that it's one thing to support the Democrats until you have a son and then it becomes impossible if you have a white son.

So, he's the second person I know of who had a white son and he realized, "Holy the Democrats are against my own son." So, I I I think that uh Jake is actually kind of brave to say this out loud and uh it's important.

So, you know, whatever you think of his other opinions and what he should have known and what he should have said sooner and those are all fair fair uh criticisms.

Does he now understand does he understand what the problem is?

Yes.

Yes, he does.

Very clearly because when it comes home like that, you're not talking about the news.

If you're talking about your son and the the trouble he's going to have in society that that's some reality coming home.

So there's that.

But let's see.

Are the Democrats planning to do anything about this problem?

Well, turns out yes.

Yeah, the Democrats have a plan.

According according to the New York Times, th this is going to sound like I'm making it up, so I'm going to tell you in advance.

I'm not making this next part up.

This is actually real.

According to the New York Times, the the Democrats are going to spend $20 million on a project they call quote speaking with American men, a strategic plan.

Uh they will they will quote study the syntax, language, and content that gains attention and vitality in these spaces.

Above all, we must shift from a moralizing tone.

Are you getting close?

No.

No.

Could Could the Democratic Party spend about one minute talking to Jake Tapper to find out what the problem is?

Hey Jake, could you please could you please explain to these idiots what the problem is?

And if you're not going to, I refer you to Fisher King, which is a account on Acts that you should be following, by the way.

Fisher King, f i s h e r king.

And uh he commented on this.

He says, "If Democrats want to win over young men, particularly white men, they need to stop actively hating them." Okay.

Okay.

Now we're getting closer.

Was it a problem with the syntax in their spaces?

Or is it that they're actively hating them?

Whi- Which one do you think is the problem here?

Because we need to they need to stop actively hating them.

Demeaning them.

Yes.

and putting up roadblocks such as affirmative action, DEI, sensitivity training in the path of their success.

It's not about quote the tone.

And then Fischer King follows up by saying, he says, of course, this will not happen anytime soon because the coalition they've assembled won't have it.

They're like the bar scene in Star Wars.

Now compare that level that level of analysis which is of course is perfect to uh we're going to spend $20 million to study the syntax language and content that gains attention and vitality in these spaces.

Well, why don't you give the $20 million to Fisher King because he just solved your whole problem.

you, but you're going to ignore it because you're the bar scene from Star Wars.

All right.

Now, is the problem that is the problem that politicians are uniquely unable to understand the public?

Is that the problem?

Do you think it's just that politicians are not good at understanding things?

Well, here here's a story from today about Trump.

So, I'm I'm just going to read one thing that Trump is saying, and you tell me who understands the public, right?

Trump uh does a truth and he says uh that he's considering pulling $3 billion from Harvard and giving it to trade schools across the country.

Any questions?

Trump wants to pull $3 billion of taxpayer money from Harvard, which is a cesspool of discrimination, and put it in trade schools, which would be really good for men, other other people, too.

Now, is there anything to is there anything you don't understand about that?

No, you understand that perfectly.

Is it right on point with what that entire demographic is looking for and wants?

Yes.

Yes, it is.

It's right on point.

Does it treat them like children?

No.

Does it treat them like people who want to contribute and make a difference and be successful in life?

Yes.

It gets everything right.

It's not a problem with politicians.

It's a problem with politicians who can't do this.

All right, I think I made my point.

I've been following uh on X uh Matt Van Swall who's uh doing a great job of talking about the Doge situation.

Um here he summarizes it this way.

Doge is literally one of the most popular government initiatives in history.

73% of Americans say they support cutting government waste.

Trump brought in the smartest man on earth to do it and then the left destroyed Elon for it and the GOP won't vote on it.

I can't believe this.

And then Elon responded to the post three words.

Did my best.

Wow.

There there's almost nothing I can say about that.

You know, you you probably heard me early on in the Doge process and I was saying, you know, I love everything Doge is trying to do, but when it gets to Congress, they're just going to spend his savings.

But it's even worse than that.

They're not they're never going to even codify the savings.

not the Democrats, not the Republicans, they're not even going to vote on it.

So all that work, all that sacrifice that uh Elon Musk did to get that right, Congress is going to on it.

And I I'm almost losing my mind that we can just watch this happen.

Now, it's not everybody, you know, Marjorie Taylor Green is trying to get it codified, etc.

But the fact that all that effort, it looks like, you know, some portion of it anyway is going to be thwarted by your own Congress is such a It's such a tragedy.

It's almost It's almost impossible to understand.

It's like we're running as fast as we can toward a cliff and we even have the smartest people in the world trying to prevent it.

And even that doesn't help.

What is going on here?

What is going on?

Well, in other news, do you ever have one of these situations where there's something that you just assumed was always true and then suddenly one day you realize or you hear something and you go, "Wait a minute, that couldn't have been true." So, here's an example of that for me.

So, for years and years and years, I've been hearing that one of the reasons that Harvard and some of the other Ivy Leagues have a lot of foreign students is what?

Do you know the answer?

Why is it that Harvard and a lot of other Ivy Leagues have um a high percentage of foreign students?

You know the answer too, right?

Everybody knows the answer.

The answer is that the foreign students were paying full price, full tuition, and uh so they'd make more money over the foreign students.

Right?

Just obvious now.

You know, as I I tell you too often, I've got a I have a degree in economics and I've got an MBA from a top school.

And I would hear that and I'd say to myself, "Oh, okay.

Well, that explains everything." And then one day, which was just recently, I just realized what an idiot I am.

So, here's the assumption you have to make for this to be true.

Are you ready for this?

If he also believed that was true, here's the assumption that you and I both made.

We made the assumption that if these foreign students didn't come in and pay full tuition that the seats would be empty that the seats would be empty because because they wouldn't be able to find a bunch of uh Asian-American people who desperately wanted to go to Harvard but got turned away because they were Asian-American or that all the white students who knew exactly what Harvard cost and they were applying but they got turned away because they were white that they wouldn't fill those spaces.

It, you know, obviously they might have needed, you know, some financial support, etc.

But it couldn't have possibly been true.

It couldn't possibly have been true that Harvard would lose money if they said, "Well, you know, the rest of these seats have to be full tuition." And they couldn't find enough Americans who had a 4.5 average and and had participated in every possible, you know, thing that you need that that wouldn't be willing to pay whatever it took to get a Harvard degree.

I I' I've been laughing at myself for a few days.

What an idiot.

What a freaking idiot I was.

Why did I ever imagine that was true?

Now the actual truth I think is a little deeper.

I don't know what it is actually.

But some people said that the foreign students parents were maybe making large donations.

I don't know how, you know, how universal that was.

Other people said, "No, no, it's the the real game here is to educate foreign people who have become leaders in their own country.

So really, it's how the US government controls other countries in the long term by educating them in Harvard." To which I say, really sending them to the the heart of communism, the heart of communism and then sending him home with a Harvard degree is going to help America somehow.

That doesn't really track.

Then other people were saying, Scott, the uh the foreign students were also getting uh discounted tuition.

to which I say, "What?

What?

Now, now I'm really confused." Um, so I don't know exactly what's true.

I just know that I was a freaking idiot.

An idiot for imagining that those Harvard seats were going to sit there empty because we didn't fill them with foreign students paying full tuition.

Is anybody having the same reaction that I had when I first thought of it?

Is anybody saying, "Oh, I just sort of assumed that was true.

I didn't really think about it that much." No, it couldn't have been true.

It never could have been true.

I don't know what is true, but it's definitely not that.

Anyway, is there any other news about Harvard that makes Harvard look stupid?

Oh yeah.

Again, again, I have to tell you before I tell you this story, I'm not making it up.

This is an actual story in the news.

According to the Daily Mail, Harvard uh just fired a professor after finding that she fabricated research used in studies on dishonesty.

So, Francesca Gino, she was considered a star business professor at Harvard and she'd been doing uh I guess she'd been doing studies, you know, more than one study.

I guess there were at least four studies she did about honesty and she she had allegedly falsified.

She lied.

She lied on her studies about lying.

Oh my god.

And she was like a star professor.

Oh my god.

I I swear I didn't make that up.

Well, Dan Bonino is giving us a little update on X about uh what's going on there.

and he said uh that he made the decision to either reopen or push additional resources into investigating uh three specific cases he mentioned number one the DC pipe bombing investigation you know how it seemed like nothing was happening with that DC you know that was the January 6 who put the pipe bomb there because that all looked really suspicious so that's good I'm glad that he's putting some resources is behind that.

The next one is the cocaine discovery at the White House.

Really, Dan?

How many of you give a a about the cocaine discovery at the White House?

How many years ago?

Does anybody care about that?

Is that where you want your your tax money to be spent?

Do you want the uh FBI to go look into the who who left the bag of cocaine?

I have so little interest in that.

Now, I assume that's purely political and I don't mind that political stuff gets done, but why are you wasting our money on a bag of cocaine even in the White House?

So Dan, why in the world are you spending time and money on that?

Like what could come of it?

Like what what's the upside?

Is the upside that we get one person in trouble for some drugs?

What is the upside?

Now, I understand the upside of looking into that DC pipe bombing and that's a pretty big upside because we could find out something that really matters and and I think the country cares.

But really, the bag of cocaine just because it was a big headline story.

How about no?

H how about you just don't waste my money on that?

It's bad enough that the the Congress is not going to vote on Doge, but you're gonna you're gonna consciously waste my money on that one bag of cocaine that somebody left.

God, I could not be less interested in that.

Uh, and the other one is the leak of the Supreme Court DOS case.

Well, I think they do need to understand where the leaks come from, but I don't know if they can find it.

Anyway, I saw a comment on X from retired uh Colonel Doug Mc.

Gregor.

Now, it means more because he's a retired combat um professional.

And he said this about uh about peace in Ukraine.

He said, "In all honesty, I do not believe there's a chance for a deal with Russia and Ukraine at this point." He says, "If you're Zilinski, the worst thing that could happen to you is for troops to come home." You know where this is going.

He says they are likely to find him and kill him.

If he ends the war, he's the target.

The lives lost on the battlefield exceed one million and the wounded are one to one and a half to two times that number.

Now, does that opinion sound familiar?

That that's my opinion.

My opinion is if Zilinski entered the war, he would personally be killed.

So that we don't have any option for peace as long as he's in power.

So, um, and it makes a it makes a difference when I hear from, uh, Colonel Mc.

Gregor because, you know, he's got a deeper understanding of how the the troops would feel in a case like that.

But, uh, I agree absolutely.

Um, I have a correction to make.

Uh I don't know the exact uh details but uh I think my part of it was wrong.

Um I told you about Gaza and uh I told you that the US contractors were going to handle the uh the the aid and the food for the Gaza residents were being uh relocated into one quarter of Gaza so that the rest of it could be cleared of Hamas, I guess.

And uh I mistakenly said that the US was paying for that foreign aid.

Um I think it's only true that US contractors are managing the aid but probably being paid to do it.

That makes them contractors.

Um but it doesn't look like America necessarily was paying for the aid.

I don't know who is.

Well, I saw Zubie on the X platform talking about uh some statistics about single moms and he noted that the USA has the highest rate of children living in single mother households.

We're about triple the global average.

So 23% of uh USA households have a single mom.

And Zubie asks, "Why do you think that is?

Does anybody have an idea?

Why do why do you think that the US has the highest rate of children living in single mother households?

And the answer is because it's an option.

That's it.

That that's the whole reason.

If it's an option, people will take it.

And the better the option is, the more likely they'll take it.

Now in in my own example um I have twice married single moms who had stepkids.

Now do you think that that happens as easily in other countries?

Do you think that in every country in the world a single mom with two kids can easily get married or remarried?

Probably not.

probably there are huge cultural disadvantages.

Do you think that it would be easy for a mom to get divorced in every other country?

Probably not.

Uh do you think that the woman has maybe a job that pays um whether you know before she gets divorced?

Well, not in every country, but in the US a little bit more likely.

So there there's a whole different story in the black community in the US where the rate is even higher.

It's like 50%.

And I'm not going to pretend I know what the dynamics are there, but maybe has something to do with government support.

You know, maybe there's just a little bit bit more government support going on.

But generally speaking, uh things happen because there's incentives or because there are options or because it's possible.

That's it.

It if we were in a country where getting divorced was sort of the end of your life, it just wouldn't happen as much.

But we live in a country where people make it work.

I mean, it's not easy, but they make it work.

they they have possibilities.

They have options.

So if their husband is uh you know drinking or not getting it done one way or the other, they have options.

So I I don't think it goes I think the there's no mystery to it whatsoever.

In uh science news, surgeons are apparently getting some kind of special glasses that can look at medications and it will tell them if it's a big mistake to give this medication to this specific patient.

Um, so we're talking about uh literally picking the wrong stuff or something that maybe doesn't work with some other stuff and it doesn't store the data.

So, it's not doing anything privacy-wise.

But basically, if they pick up the medication, the glasses will look at it and it will tell them, "Oh, don't use that stuff." So, they're still waiting on uh FDA approval, but u the technology has been tested and it works.

NBC News is reporting on that.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, that are the stories that that are Yeah, those are the stories uh for today that are worthy of your time.

Uh thanks for joining and uh did you did you all see the video of uh French President Mcronone's wife pushing him in the face on the before he exited the airplane in Vietnam.

I'm still waiting to figure out what that was all about.

But on the other hand, it's sort of none of our business because whatever that was, it was personal.

You know, it wasn't a state state issue, but it was funny.

I guess that's my only comment about it.

It was kind of funny.

We don't know anything else about it.

All right, that's all I got for now.

I'm going to talk to the people on locals privately.

Um the rest of you, I'll see you tomorrow.

Thanks for joining locals.

I'm coming at you privately in 30 seconds.

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good. All right. Well, let's see if

there's any science about coffee. Oh,

yes. There is some new

research according to Scypost and Eric

Nolan shows that decaf coffee can it can

not always but it can mimic caffeine's

effect in habitual drinkers. In other

words, if you have

decaf, your body might register it a lot

like caffeinated coffee.

Now, do you know who knew that before

the

science?

Pavlov. That's basically Pavlov's dog,

right? So, Pavlov was training his dog

dogs and I give them a treat after he

rang the bell and then eventually he

could just ring the bell and they would

salivate. Well, that's what this is.

That's what CAF decaf is. decaf is just

ringing the bell without the actual

caffeine as the uh as the payoff. I'm

pretty sure any hypnotist would have

known that not every time and not for

every person that it's not going to it's

not going to fix your uh caffeine

headache if you haven't had real

caffeine. But then every once in a while

you can have decaf and it gives you the

same little kick as if you had the real

thing. And even if you know it doesn't

make any difference if you know that

you're getting decaf. I have used this

trick on myself many

times where I would give myself decaf

because I had too much caffeinated stuff

that day and sure enough I would feel as

though I was getting a little boost.

So, there's a little trick for you.

According to the Washington Times, uh

Trump is no longer interested or at

least he's not exhibiting interest in uh

going to Fort Knox to find out if the

gold is still there. Do you remember

when uh Elon Musk and Trump were both

saying, "Maybe we should check to see if

that gold is still in for Knox." Well,

that interest seems to have waned

because nobody cares about it anymore.

And uh the reason given is that

apparently it gets audited on some kind

of a regular basis. So they do know that

the gold is there. To which I

say h that's one

possibility. One possibility is that

they know for sure the gold is there.

What's the other possibility?

that they know for sure the gold is not

there. So if you want to keep your

suspicions

alive, go ahead, keep your suspicions

alive. Although probably it's all

there. Well, over in China, they've

developed a uh a giant uh salmon farming

ship so that they can raise salmon

inside the ship like a basically like a

fish farm. And it's better than using a

regular fish farm, which would be in one

place and maybe a typhoon would get it

or there's some other kind of problem

that can destroy your your fish. But if

you put it in a big old ship, I guess

you have access to all the water you

need and you can bake yourself some

salmon. So, I like that idea. Salmon

farm in a

ship. Some say it's going to be crappy

salmon because they would feed it

substandard food, but they don't have

to. I mean, you know, the possibility is

they could feed it good food and then

your salmon would be

fine, but we'll see if that that becomes

a

thing. According to the University of

Cologne, which I can smell from here,

uh, parents, this this will surprise

absolutely

nobody. Um, can you believe it? Parents

are not happier but have a greater sense

of meaning in life according to a study.

Now, how many of you didn't know that?

If you've ever seen any parent trying to

get their kids to school or get them to

do their homework or get them to do

anything, they don't look like they're

super

happy. But if you were to ask them, "Are

you glad you had kids?" Well, nearly

100% would say, "Yeah, it's the best

thing I've ever done. You should do it,

too." So, yes, having children is not

about having a bunch of laughs. It's

about a greater sense of meaning in

life. I feel like every parent already

knew that. Is there anyone who doesn't

know

that? Probably the most well-known and

understood phenomenon in all the world.

Well, the

UAE, United Arab

uh what's the E? United Arab

uh E. Anyway, the UAE

uh is giving every single resident free

chat

GPT plus the good stuff for every

resident.

Uh, I saw this on Mario post on X News9

is a source and it's the only country

doing

that and it's part of their uh part of

their push to be the the high-tech

um sort of hub of the world. That's

pretty

good. Um, so everybody will have chat

GPT in UAE. I wonder if any other

country will follow that model.

Did you hear the story? You may have

heard the story about the uh open AI.

This is also Chad GBT. Uh one of their

models uh allegedly disobeyed the human

instructions and tried to sabotage the

the shutdown mechanism. Did you see that

story?

Well, it did not surprise me to find out

that there's a report today that that

was not the regular chat GPT in a

regular setting, but rather they were

doing safety

testing. So, they were it was an

artificial condition safety testing. It

it wasn't something that could have

happened in the real world. So, probably

that's not really something you need to

worry about.

Um, and I don't see how it could

possibly change its own code

or Yeah, there there was something about

that story that sounded a little

sketchy. Yeah, Owen knew it. Owen was

all over that. That it just didn't sound

true, did it? So, I I was pausing on

that story a little bit. Um, but I if I

mention it, I shouldn't should not have.

Well, Kamla Harris was over in Australia

giving a speech at a big event there and

uh the clips from it are

hilarious because she was in full word

salad Kamla Harris mode. And

honestly, I couldn't tell if she was

drunk or

stupid. A lot of people said, "Well,

probably both." She does look drunk and

stupid, but is it

possible? Is it possible she's just

stupid? Like really, really stupid.

Because I'm giving her the benefit of a

doubt that she's

drunk. But my god, is she

embarrassing. Oh my god. And she could

have been our president. Every time you

see her

talk, you think to yourself, "Oh my god,

she she was within striking distance of

being the the president of the United

States." Wow.

Um, speaking of other losers,

uh, Mayor Karen Bass of, uh,

LA, she posted on X that,

uh, that homes are under construction

throughout the Palisades ahead of

expectations. And then there was a

little uh video from above of a house

being built. And I said to myself,

"Huh, this is kind of strange. If you're

claim that houses plural are being

built, don't you think that your

evidence would be more than one

house?" that doesn't that strike you as

odd? If you were trying to say, "Yeah, a

lot of houses are being built." Wouldn't

you show more than one? And then I look

at the

comments. Apparently, it's one

house. Exactly one house. No, I don't

know if it's one house, but she's

definitely full of Uh there there

are some things happening and there are

some action and there are some things

moving in the right direction, but if

you were to drive there, it might not

look like anything's

happening. Anyway, she says they've uh

taken action to cut the red tape and

expedite the permits, but uh she's going

to get uh destroyed in the comments to

that.

All right, good luck there, Mayor Karen

Bass. Um, did you know that uh according

to the Daily Wire, the Treasury

officials in the US uh are doing a good

job of choking off the cash flow to the

cartels. So, they're figuring out what

money flowing through the US is cartel

money and they're shutting it down and

sanctioning it and uh making sure that

individuals are not getting it. And I

said to myself, wait a minute. Are you

telling me that we always had the

ability to know what was the cartel's

cash and it took until Trump's second

administration to start shutting it

down? Wait,

what? How is that a little bit fishy?

It does seem to me like Trump is the

first person who's taken anything

serious about Mexico or the

border. Ju just hold that in your head

that the

Treasury had the ability to identify the

cartel's money flow and we were not

messing with it. How in the world is

that even possible that we weren't doing

anything about it until now?

The the only thing I can imagine is that

we were complicit and something about

the Trump administration has decided not

to be

complicit. I don't know. There's

something there's something to be

learned by that

story, but uh whatever it is, it's not

good, but it's probably good now.

Anyway, uh there's a story in the New

York

Times that is just full of anonymous

sources. Oh man, they got some anonymous

sources. And uh I saw Greta Gretan

Sustern was mocking them for their

anonymous sources. But the story is that

uh Trump is backing away from sanctions

on Russia because he wants to do

business deals with them. meaning

America wants to do business deals with

them. Now, do you think that's

true and and all they have are anonymous

sources? What what have I taught you

about anonymous

sources? Anonymous sources have

basically no news

value because they're they're usually

made up. So, it doesn't matter if it's

the New York Times, if it's full of

anonymous

sources. I don't know about

that. But, um, it does seem that

Germany, France, this is another related

news of

news. So, that I saw this on Mario's

posts. Uh, the source is CGTN, whatever

that

is, but it says that Germany, France,

and the UK and the US have given Ukraine

the green light to fire missiles with no

range cap. In other words, go ahead

Ukraine and just start lighting up

Russia

itself.

Uh, that means that Ukraine will be

striking targets deep inside Russia.

Uh, do you think that's first of all

true? I don't know if it's true because

it's not coming from a news source I've

ever heard of.

Um, but probably it's

true. I mean, it feels maybe it's a

little too on the nose, but it feels

like the only thing that Europe could

come up with is all right. If uh Moscow

and and Russia are, you know, cranking

it up and they're not talking about

peace, let's just start sending missiles

into the heart of Russia. What could go

wrong? Well, a lot could go wrong, but

uh it kind of makes sense that they

might loosen up the the distance cap.

So, I guess we'll have to watch and see

if Russia gets lit up with these new uh

missiles and if it makes any difference

at all or does it make Russia just twice

as

aggressive? So, we're going to find out.

Now, what do you think is true? Do you

think that there there are two stories

about Putin right now?

One is that he felt under attack by NATO

and that really he's acting in a

semi-defensive way by making sure that

NATO doesn't surround him and that uh

Ukraine had always been the red line and

we cross the red line. So you got to

expect it.

The other version of Putin is that he

plans to dominate all of Europe and this

is just one more step in doing

that. Now, they can't both be true,

right? It can't be true that he's he's

defensively attacking Ukraine, but he's

also looking to roll over and control

all of Europe.

or uh CGTN is China's state TV, somebody

says. Is that

true? Well, that would make a

difference, wouldn't

it? Yeah. So, I guess um I guess the

best take about

the anything about Ukraine is that uh we

can't tell what's

true. So that I guess that's where I'll

settle on this. We just don't know

what's true, but we'll see if any

missiles are going into the heart of uh

Russia. Well, uh Jake Tapper was on

Pierce Morgan and he's still talking

about his new book that uh talks about

uh Joe Biden's mental decline. And

apparently Jake Tapper has admitted that

the Democrat cover up of Biden's

cognitive decline might be it might be

worse than Watergate. I guess in his

book he said it wasn't worse than

Watergate. But now he's willing to admit

yeah it might be might be worse than

Watergate. What do you think? Is the

cover up of Biden worse than Watergate?

Yes. Yes. By a

mile. It's not even close. And not only

that, but the Democrats have done lots

of things that are worse than Watergate.

It's not like the first thing that's

worse than Watergate. But when I think

of Watergate, it just seems so tame.

Like imagine if the worst thing that was

happening in the United States was

Watergate.

If that were the worst thing

happening, I'd be pretty darn happy.

Stocks would be up. Everything would be

good.

Um, here's uh something I want to add to

the whole uh Biden brain cover up.

Now, most of you are probably under the

opinion that everybody in the news

business were completely aware that

Biden's brain wasn't working, but they

were just pretending they didn't

know. I'm going to modify that a little

bit. I don't think that's totally true.

And here's why. Have you ever seen the

psychology

experiments where uh they'll have a

bunch of a small group of people and

they'll be asked to look at something

and say let's say what line is longer

than another line or just some basic

factual thing.

and only one person will be an actual

subject of the experiment and all the

rest will

be participants who know that they're

participants and they're

lying. And what happens is you can

somewhat easily make the person who is

the real subject believe whatever the

other people all believe is true.

So, it's so easy to change a person's

perception until they don't see

something or they do see something that

just isn't

there. Now, this is a very repeatable

experiment in psychology and you've

probably seen it a million times in in

the real world. So, here's my

take. For sure, no doubt about it. There

were people in the the business the news

business. Sorry, I

gotta make an adjustment there. Uh, for

sure there were people in the news

business who were aware that uh Biden's

brain wasn't working and that it was a

big problem. There's no doubt about it.

I don't know if Jake Tapper was one, but

maybe, you know, maybe. But if you have

enough people who were

pretending that he's perfectly

fine, and there certainly were enough

people pretending that, then you can

guarantee that some some number of

people were just sort of hypnotized into

believing it was true because when they

looked at the other people, they weren't

seeing anything. That's a problem.

So my guess is that it's that it was

always a

combination. It was a combination of

people who knew they were lying and just

were trying to prevent Hitler from

coming into office, you know, in their

view. Uh some people who just preferred

the Democrats to win, you know, that

would be the Democrats. And some people

who had the ability to

know, but that ability was sort of shut

off by the fact they were put in an

environment where it seemed like nobody

else

noticed. In

theory, they would be cognitively

blinded to the obvious. So I think that

I think you have to be a little bit

careful about assuming that every single

person was aware and knew it because you

could see it because if you were if you

were not a if you were not in that

environment then you would not have been

influenced by it and you could just see

it clearly. Right? If if your experience

was turning on my podcast every

morning and listening to me say since

maybe 2017 or something like that

saying, "No, Biden's brain is completely

broken. He's obviously incompetent." If

you were listening to me say it every

day, you would be completely

immune from the cognitive blindness

because you would have at least one

person and probably lots more who are

telling you the truth. So you wouldn't

have that problem. But when you look at

the Democrats, they would definitely

have that

problem of being cognitively blinded by

their own team who were lying

basically. Well, um, were there other

examples where they were cognitively

blinded? Yes. What about the fine people

hoax?

Do you think every single person

um on the you know the mainstream media,

do you think every one of them thought

that the fine people hoax was

real?

No. No. There there were

undoubtedly smart, influential people

who knew somewhat early on that that

wasn't true, but they had an interest in

acting like it was true. Now again, take

an innocent Democrat and put him in that

situation where all these important

people are

pretending. They're lying, but they're

pretending that the fine people hoax was

true. Same problem. They they would come

to believe it was true because all these

important, influential people said it

was true. Same with uh Elon Musk's Nazi

salute, which was of course not a Nazi

salute. Do you think it was even

possible that people with normal brains

thought that was a Nazi

salute? Well, if you have enough people

who are the credible people, the ones

you trust, and they all seem to say it

was, which was the case. Now, they were

all liars.

probably the people who, you know, the

the prominent ones, probably just a

bunch of liars who didn't want uh, you

know, Trump and Elon to have power. But

I'll bet you I'll bet you some large

percentage of Democrats who would have

been perfectly capable of knowing that

certainly wasn't a Nazi salute. I mean,

you would have an IQ of 80 and you knew

that wasn't really a Nazi salute, but

you would have been cognitively blinded

by your own side because they kept

saying it was. So, if everybody you talk

to says it was, well, suddenly you start

thinking, "No, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it

was." Right? So it wouldn't even be

unusual that people were cognitively

blinded about Biden's brain. It would be

the normal operating system of just how

everything works. As long as as long as

the people in

charge were lying in the same

way, then the people who weren't

powerful and were just sort of on the

same team would uh believe it was true

and they would believe it easily even

though it was obviously not

true. Well, here's one of my favorite

stories. Speaking of Jake Tapper, he was

on the Scott Galloway's podcast and he

was talking about his son. I guess he's

got a 15-year-old son and he was talking

about in the context of the Democrat

party and the Democrat

messaging. So he talks about his son was

uh you know a football player and he

wanted to grow up and be a cop. So he's

15 and that's his goal. And apparently

uh because he wanted to be a cop, the

people around him, his friends have

decided he must be a

racist.

And what he wants to be a cop because he

think he thinks that's the best way to

help people. And therefore his friends

think he's a racist cuz he wants to be a

cop.

And so Jake Tapper is saying, quote,

"You're deciding he's a racist because

he wants to be a cop." And why does he

want to be a cop? He wants to be a cop

because he wants to help people, you

know, and he thinks that's the best way

he can help people. And that's how the

Democratic Party talks to men, not just

white men, but men. And then Jake goes

on. He says the idea that he wants to be

a policeman and therefore he's racist,

my son. And like, you know, that was the

big laugh. And then I got dragged in the

comments and all that stuff. And I

thought to myself, this is why you

are losing elections.

So, does Jake Tapper understand what's

wrong with the Democrat

party? Yep.

Now, I can't name names, but I'm going

to tell you that there's at least one

other person who's who's a big name in

the media business who had the same

um enlightened

response. Meaning that it's one thing to

support the

Democrats until you have a

son and then it becomes impossible if

you have a white son.

So, he's the second person I know of who

had a white son and he realized, "Holy

the

Democrats are against my own

son."

So, I I I think that uh Jake is actually

kind of brave to say this out loud and

uh it's

important. So, you know, whatever you

think of his other opinions and what he

should have known and what he should

have said sooner and those are all fair

fair uh criticisms. Does he now

understand does he

understand what the problem

is? Yes. Yes, he does. Very clearly

because when it comes home like that,

you're not talking about the news. If

you're talking about your

son and the the trouble he's going to

have in

society that that's some reality coming

home. So there's that. But let's see.

Are the Democrats planning to do

anything about this problem? Well, turns

out yes. Yeah, the Democrats have a

plan.

According according to the New York

Times, th this is going to sound like

I'm making it up, so I'm going to tell

you in advance. I'm not making this next

part up. This is actually

real. According to the New York Times,

the the Democrats are going to spend $20

million on a project they call quote

speaking with American men, a strategic

plan. Uh they will they will quote study

the syntax, language, and content that

gains attention and vitality in these

spaces.

Above all, we must shift from a

moralizing

[Laughter]

tone. Are you getting close? No.

No. Could Could the Democratic Party

spend about one minute talking to

Jake Tapper to find out what the

problem is? Hey Jake, could you please

could you please explain to these

idiots what the problem is? And

if you're not going to, I refer you to

Fisher King, which is a account on Acts

that you should be following, by the

way. Fisher

King, f i s h e r king. And uh he

commented on this.

He says, "If Democrats want to win over

young men, particularly white men, they

need to stop actively hating them."

Okay. Okay. Now we're getting

closer. Was it a problem with the syntax

in their spaces? Or is it that they're

actively hating them? Whi- Which

one do you think is the problem here?

Because we need to they need to stop

actively hating them. Demeaning them.

Yes. and putting up roadblocks such as

affirmative action, DEI, sensitivity

training in the path of their success.

It's not about quote the

tone. And then Fischer King follows up

by

saying, he says, of course, this will

not happen anytime soon because the

coalition they've assembled won't have

it. They're like the bar scene in Star

Wars.

Now compare that level that level of

analysis which is of course is perfect

to uh we're going to spend $20 million

to study the syntax language and content

that gains attention and vitality in

these

spaces. Well, why don't you give the $20

million to Fisher King because he just

solved your whole problem. you,

but you're going to ignore it because

you're the bar scene from Star

Wars. All right.

Now, is the problem that is the problem

that

politicians are uniquely unable to

understand the public? Is that the

problem? Do you think it's just that

politicians are not good at

understanding things? Well, here here's

a story from today about Trump. So, I'm

I'm just going to read one thing that

Trump is saying, and you tell me who

understands the public, right? Trump uh

does a truth and he says uh that he's

considering pulling $3 billion from

Harvard and giving it to trade schools

across the

[Applause]

country. Any questions?

Trump wants to pull $3 billion of

taxpayer money from Harvard, which is a

cesspool of

discrimination, and put it in trade

schools, which would be really good for

men, other other people,

too. Now, is there anything to is there

anything you don't understand about

that? No, you understand that perfectly.

Is it right on point with what that

entire demographic is looking for and

wants? Yes. Yes, it is. It's right on

point. Does it treat them like children?

No. Does it treat them like people who

want to contribute and make a difference

and be successful in life? Yes. It gets

everything right. It's not a problem

with

politicians. It's a problem with

politicians who can't do this.

All right, I think I made my

point. I've been following uh on X uh

Matt Van Swall who's uh doing a great

job of talking about the Doge

situation. Um here he summarizes it this

way. Doge is literally one of the most

popular government initiatives in

history. 73% of Americans say they

support cutting government waste. Trump

brought in the smartest man on earth to

do it and then the left destroyed Elon

for it and the GOP won't vote on

it. I can't believe

this. And then Elon responded to the

post three words. Did my

best. Wow.

There there's almost nothing I can say

about

that. You know, you you probably heard

me early on in the Doge process and I

was saying, you know, I love everything

Doge is trying to do, but when it gets

to

Congress, they're just going to spend

his savings. But it's even worse than

that. They're not they're never going to

even codify the savings. not the

Democrats, not the Republicans, they're

not even going to vote on it. So all

that work, all that

sacrifice that uh Elon Musk did to get

that

right, Congress is going

to on

it.

And I I'm almost losing my

mind that we can just watch this happen.

Now, it's not everybody, you know,

Marjorie Taylor Green is trying to get

it codified,

etc. But the fact that all that

effort, it looks like, you know, some

portion of it anyway is going to be

thwarted by your own Congress is such a

It's such a

tragedy. It's almost It's almost

impossible to understand. It's like

we're running as fast as we can toward a

cliff and we even have the smartest

people in the world trying to prevent

it. And even that doesn't

help. What is going on

here? What is going on?

Well, in other news, do you ever have

one of these situations where there's

something that you just assumed was

always true and then suddenly one day

you realize or you hear something and

you go, "Wait a minute, that couldn't

have been

true." So, here's an example of that for

me.

So, for years and years and years, I've

been hearing that one of the reasons

that Harvard and some of the other Ivy

Leagues have a lot of foreign students

is what? Do you know the answer? Why is

it that Harvard and a lot of other Ivy

Leagues have um a high percentage of

foreign

students? You know the answer too,

right?

Everybody knows the answer. The answer

is that the foreign students were paying

full

price, full

tuition, and uh so they'd make more

money over the foreign students.

Right? Just

obvious now. You know, as I I tell you

too often, I've got a I have a degree in

economics and I've got an MBA from a top

school. And I would hear that and I'd

say to myself, "Oh, okay. Well, that

explains

everything." And then one day, which was

just recently, I just realized what an

idiot I

am. So, here's the assumption you have

to make for this to be true. Are you

ready for this?

If he also believed that was true,

here's the assumption that you and I

both made.

We made the assumption that if these

foreign students didn't come in and pay

full tuition that the seats would be

[Laughter]

empty that the seats would be

empty because because they wouldn't be

able to find a bunch of uh

Asian-American people who desperately

wanted to go to Harvard but got turned

away because they were

Asian-American or that all the white

students who knew exactly what Harvard

cost and they were applying but they got

turned away because they were white that

they wouldn't fill those

spaces. It, you know, obviously they

might have needed, you know, some

financial support,

etc. But it couldn't have possibly been

true.

It couldn't possibly have been true that

Harvard would lose money if they said,

"Well, you know, the rest of these seats

have to be full tuition." And they

couldn't find enough Americans who had a

4.5 average and and had participated in

every possible, you know, thing that you

need that that wouldn't be willing to

pay whatever it took to get a Harvard

degree.

I I' I've been laughing at myself for a

few days. What an idiot. What a freaking

idiot I was. Why did I ever imagine that

was true? Now the actual truth I think

is a little deeper. I don't know what it

is actually. But some people said that

the foreign students parents were maybe

making large

donations. I don't know how, you know,

how universal that was.

Other people said, "No, no, it's the the

real game here is to educate foreign

people who have become leaders in their

own country. So really, it's how the US

government controls other countries in

the long term by educating them in

Harvard." To which I say, really sending

them to the the heart of

communism, the heart of communism and

then sending him home with a Harvard

degree is going to help America somehow.

That doesn't really

track. Then other people were saying,

Scott, the uh the foreign students were

also getting

uh discounted

tuition. to which I say, "What?

What? Now, now I'm really confused." Um,

so I don't know exactly what's

true. I just know that I was a freaking

idiot. An idiot for imagining that those

Harvard seats were going to sit there

empty because we didn't fill them with

foreign students paying full tuition.

Is anybody having the same reaction that

I had when I first thought of

it? Is anybody saying,

"Oh, I just sort of assumed that was

true. I didn't really think about it

that

much." No, it couldn't have been true.

It never could have been true. I don't

know what is true, but it's definitely

not

that.

Anyway, is there any other news about

Harvard that makes Harvard look stupid?

Oh

[Laughter]

yeah. Again, again, I have to tell you

before I tell you this story, I'm not

making it up. This is an actual story in

the news. According to the Daily Mail,

Harvard uh just fired a professor after

finding that she fabricated research

used in studies on dishonesty.

So, Francesca Gino, she was considered a

star business professor at Harvard and

she'd been doing uh I guess she'd been

doing studies, you know, more than one

study. I guess there were at least four

studies she did about honesty and she

she had allegedly

[Laughter]

falsified. She lied. She lied on her

studies about lying. Oh my god. And she

was like a star

professor. Oh my

god. I I swear I didn't make that

up. Well, Dan Bonino is giving us a

little update on X about uh what's going

on there. and he said uh that he made

the decision to either reopen or push

additional resources into investigating

uh three specific cases he mentioned

number one the DC pipe bombing

investigation you know how it seemed

like nothing was happening with that DC

you know that was the January 6 who put

the pipe bomb there because that all

looked really suspicious so that's good

I'm glad that he's putting some

resources is behind that. The next one

is the cocaine discovery at the White

House. Really,

Dan? How many of you give a a

about the cocaine discovery at the

White House? How many years ago? Does

anybody care about that? Is that where

you want your your tax money to be

spent? Do you want the uh FBI to go look

into the who who left the bag of

cocaine? I have so little interest in

that. Now, I assume that's purely

political and I don't mind that

political stuff gets done, but why are

you wasting our money on a bag of

cocaine even in the White House?

So

Dan, why in the world are you spending

time and money on that? Like what could

come of it? Like what what's the upside?

Is the upside that we get one person in

trouble for some

drugs? What is the

upside? Now, I understand the upside of

looking into that DC pipe bombing and

that's a pretty big upside because we

could find out something that really

matters and and I think the country

cares. But really, the bag of cocaine

just because it was a big headline

story. How about

no? H how about you just don't waste my

money on that? It's bad enough that the

the Congress is not going to vote on

Doge, but you're gonna you're gonna

consciously waste my money on that one

bag of cocaine that somebody left. God,

I could not be less interested in

that. Uh, and the other one is the leak

of the Supreme Court DOS case.

Well, I think they do need to understand

where the leaks come from, but I don't

know if they can find it.

Anyway, I saw a comment on X from

retired

uh Colonel Doug

McGregor. Now, it means more because

he's a retired combat um

professional. And he said this about

uh about peace in Ukraine. He said, "In

all honesty, I do not believe there's a

chance for a deal with Russia and

Ukraine at this point." He says, "If

you're Zilinski, the worst thing that

could happen to you is for troops to

come

home." You know where this is going. He

says they are likely to find him and

kill him. If he ends the war, he's the

target. The lives lost on the

battlefield exceed one million and the

wounded are one to one and a half to two

times that

number. Now, does that opinion sound

familiar? That that's my opinion. My

opinion is if Zilinski entered the war,

he would personally be

killed. So that we don't have any

option for peace as long as he's in

power.

So, um, and it makes a it makes a

difference when I hear from, uh, Colonel

McGregor

because, you know, he's got a deeper

understanding of how the the troops

would feel in a case like that. But, uh,

I agree

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absolutely. Um, I have a correction to

make. Uh I don't know the exact uh

details but uh I think my part of it was

wrong. Um I told you about

Gaza and uh I told you that the US

contractors were going to handle the uh

the the aid and the food for the Gaza

residents were being uh relocated into

one quarter of Gaza so that the rest of

it could be cleared of Hamas, I guess.

And uh I mistakenly said that the US was

paying for that foreign

aid. Um I think it's only true that US

contractors are managing the aid but

probably being paid to do it. That makes

them contractors. Um but it doesn't look

like America necessarily was paying for

the aid. I don't know who

is. Well, I saw

Zubie on the X platform talking about uh

some statistics about single moms and he

noted that the USA has the highest rate

of children living in single mother

households. We're about triple the

global average. So

23% of uh USA households have a single

mom. And Zubie asks, "Why do you think

that is?

Does anybody have an idea? Why do why do

you think that the US has the highest

rate of children living in single mother

households? And the answer is because

it's an

option. That's

it. That that's the whole reason. If

it's an option, people will take it. And

the better the option is, the more

likely they'll take it. Now in in my own

example

um I have twice married single

moms who had

stepkids. Now do you think that that

happens as easily in other countries? Do

you think that in every country in the

world a single mom with two kids can

easily get married or

remarried? Probably not.

probably there are huge

cultural disadvantages. Do you think

that it would be easy for a mom to get

divorced in every other

country? Probably not. Uh do you think

that the woman has maybe a job that pays

um whether you know before she gets

divorced? Well, not in every country,

but in the US a little bit more

likely. So there there's a whole

different story in the black community

in the US where the rate is even higher.

It's like 50%. And I'm not going to

pretend I know what the dynamics are

there, but maybe has something to do

with government support. You know, maybe

there's just a little bit bit more

government support going on.

But generally speaking, uh things happen

because there's

incentives or because there are options

or because it's

possible. That's it. It if we were in a

country where getting divorced was sort

of the end of your life, it just

wouldn't happen as much. But we live in

a country where people make it work. I

mean, it's not easy, but they make it

work. they they have

possibilities. They have options. So if

their husband is uh you know drinking or

not getting it done one way or the

other, they have options. So I I don't

think it goes I think the there's no

mystery to it

whatsoever. In uh science

news, surgeons are apparently getting

some kind of special glasses

that can look at medications and it will

tell them if it's a big mistake to give

this medication to this specific

patient. Um, so we're talking about uh

literally picking the wrong stuff or

something that maybe doesn't work with

some other

stuff and it doesn't store the data. So,

it's not doing anything privacy-wise.

But basically, if they pick up the

medication, the glasses will look at it

and it will tell them, "Oh, don't use

that

stuff." So, they're still waiting on uh

FDA approval, but u the technology has

been tested and it works. NBC News is

reporting on that.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, that

are the stories that that are Yeah,

those are the stories uh for today that

are worthy of your time. Uh thanks for

joining and uh did you did you all see

the video of uh French President

Mcronone's wife pushing him in the face

on the before he exited the airplane in

Vietnam.

I'm still waiting to figure out what

that was all about. But on the other

hand, it's sort of none of our business

because whatever that was, it was

personal. You know, it wasn't a state

state issue, but it was

funny. I guess that's my only comment

about it. It was kind of funny. We don't

know anything else about it. All right,

that's all I got for now. I'm going to

talk to the people on locals privately.

Um the rest of you, I'll see you

tomorrow.

Thanks for joining locals. I'm coming at

you privately in 30 seconds.