Episode 2901 CWSA 07/18/25

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Well, if you're a fan of Akira the Dawn, who makes music by taking social media influencers voices and turning it into popular music.

Well, he has another one um that features me talking about what if laziness is a habit and Kira the Dawn.

So, look for that on my on my X feed today or at the Akira the Dawn X feed.

You're going to love it.

Some people say um it's the best thing they've ever heard.

Some people use it to fall asleep, but you might like it.

Um, speaking of music, while Akira the Dawn is rising, the Steve Miller band cancelled their US tour, not because the ticket sales were soft, although they were.

What would be the real reason they they canled their 31 city tour?

Well, according to the band, it's because of climate change.

So, it's probably a coincidence that the tick hills were anemic.

The real reason is because of the weather.

Not just the weather today, but the weather forever.

Yeah.

So, it'll be a little bit embarrassing if uh next year they try to do another tour because I would ask um what happened to climate change?

Did it get solved?

And what about all those other touring acts?

Are they going to take their chances?

Will Paul Mc.

Cartney's tour be destroyed by climate?

Maybe.

Or maybe the Steve Miller band is not as popular as they hoped.

Well, I wonder if there's any news about science that they didn't need to do any research.

Well, yes.

According to Medscape, Carla Caner is writing that uh it looks like it might be possible according to a large observational study to um analyze the activity of a user with their smartphone and determine patterns of psychopathology.

In other words, they've determined that they can tell how crazy you are and what form of crazy you are.

You might call it mental health.

Um, based on your changes in your phone's activity or changes in your activity with your phone.

Now, how many of you did not know that if you had access to somebody's phone usage, you could determine what their uh psychopathology is?

Is there anybody who didn't already know that if you knew what they were doing privately with their phone, you could pretty much tell who's b crazy and who's not, and probably even specifically what's wrong.

Well, they don't know that for sure, but they're planning a big study to find out.

But they don't need it.

They can just ask Scott.

Scott, um, would we be able to determine the mental health of a person by their phone usage?

Yes.

Big yes.

Yes, you can.

Well, uh, according to interesting engineering, Chris Young writes that, uh, there are several firms trying to make it cheaper to launch rockets into space.

One of them is a centrifuge, a massive centrifuge.

So, it spin the rocket and when the the speed is really high, it would release it.

So, it basically just toss it in the air.

And then once the hard part of the liftoff is over, cuz the the closer you are to Earth, the more fuel you need, then some fuel would kick in after it reached a certain height.

So that's in the works, startup, and uh there's a company that's looking to use a space cannon to blast payloads into, you know, low orbit so that they don't need as much fuel.

But now there's a new one called Origa Space and they're trying to develop a mag lev track so they can shoot a uh space module into space with much less fuel and they've been funded.

So I don't know if Elon Musk is ever going to use any of these.

I feel like none of them would work if you had a Cuban on board because you would have to accelerate it so fast that it would probably kill all people.

But, you know, maybe if you're launching a I don't know, a space weapon or um some kind of intercontinental ballistic weapon uh might be very useful.

So, we'll see.

Meanwhile, the uh CEO of NPR, she went back on CNN because, as you know, the federal funding for NPR was uh voted away.

And uh on CNN, Senator John Kennedy is commenting on a clip of her on CNN in which she claims that NPR is quote a nonpartisan organization.

the funding was cut because they're a partisan organization, but she says, "No, we're nonpartisan.

Always have been." So, Senator Kennedy um forwarded your clip on X and added his comment.

So, why did a former NPR editor find that their $200 million DC newsroom had 87 Democrats in editorial positions and zero Republicans?

So, the CEO of NPR wants us to believe that they're nonpartisan, but a 100% of their editors, and there are a lot of them, 87 of them, every one of them is a Democrat.

H I'm not sure I believe her.

Well, let's see if you can find a pattern in this next story.

Does this story sound like anything you've ever heard before?

Does it remind you of anything else that's happened in the news?

Uh New York Post is reporting that um Biden pushed for uh $10 billion worth of electric mail delivery uh trucks.

So, he wanted to build a fleet of electric, you know, green energy trucks for the post office.

How many of them did they make?

Um, they've only made 250 electric mail trucks in two years.

Uh, so it appears that the pattern of Democrats being very good at voting money for things is really bad at making anything happen, such as a high-speed rail, such as everything else they've tried to fund, such as their rural Wi-Fi, they build nothing.

How many times do you have to see a story about Democrats allocating billions of dollars to a construction product project that didn't happen and probably it didn't happen because Democrats always have so many rules, you know, environmental rules and people got to comment on it.

And so once again, Democrats are the ones who can't build anything.

Yeah.

Cindra, another example.

So, allegedly um there's there are big protests this weekend.

Is it happening today yet?

So, it's a called good trouble protest.

Good trouble referring to, you know, the kind of protest that's trouble, but there's a good reason for it.

and uh Newsmax reporting about this.

Um it and then uh Newsmax was doing a person on the street interview with some of the good trouble protesters and I I can't get enough of this.

You know what's going to happen, right?

So the reporter puts the microphone in the face of the protester who is happy to talk.

How old is the protester?

If you guessed senior citizen, you were correct.

So when asked why this the senior citizen was citizen was asked, "What are you protesting against?" And I'd like to do my impression of the senior citizen who thought it was important to go protest when asked, "Why are you protesting?" It goes something like this.

uh well the the the Trump uh things and all the all the autocracy and there's the stealing of the democracy.

What kind of democracy is he stealing?

Well, there all kinds of things so many things I I can't think of one but you know he's autocratic and the oligarchs and they're stealing the democracy.

Oh my god.

I want to see as many of those as I can.

I want to see if anyone can come up with anything because they are pro pastors.

Not protesters.

They're pro pastors.

They're pests.

All right.

Uh somebody asked uh somebody named Defiant L's on X.

It's a X account.

um said uh you know why why isn't there more of a meme generator built into Grock now Grock can create images but uh wouldn't you like to add your own text to it and turn it into a meme well Elon Musk saw that comment and said something very cool is brewing and later he said working on a new way to make creative viral videos fast it's being called imagine So maybe Grock will be your solution to meme making.

Um I don't know if it will suggest a meme or if you have to just pick your own image and then add your own text or will it use AI to suggest viral videos.

I don't know if AI is up to that.

So, I'm going to guess it's just helping you make your own memes.

I doubt it could make a meme that anybody would care about, but we'll see.

If it can, that would be indeed very cool.

All right.

Um, here's what I love.

So, Dana Bash was on CNN and she was reading a truth social post by Trump.

And in that post, Trump was saying um he was talking about the fake news PBS and uh and NPR and he said that they were even worse than CNN.

Now, because he's the president of the United States, whatever he says that's provocative is news.

So CNN, whose job is to cover the news, has to read out loud or show that the president of the United States calls them fake news.

So let me ask you this.

Uh I've told you that I like watching the news for the the humor.

Um and honestly, that's not hyperbole.

I I watch the news, you know, somewhat to be uh informed, but also because it's funny so often.

Now, what would be funnier than Trump making the fake news cover the real news that the president of the United States calls the fake news the fake news?

Let me read that again because I'm so proud of it.

I wrote this.

What is funnier than Trump making the fake news cover the real news that the president of the United States calls the fake news the fake news?

Nothing.

There's nothing funnier than that.

The fact that Trump has made the fake news punch themselves on air.

Uh, I've got a message from the president.

Oh, whoa.

Stop hitting me.

No, I can't.

Now that's funny.

All right.

Um, Joy Reid was a guest on Pierce Morgan's show and uh he shows a video of her crying after getting fired from MSNBC and uh she claimed that uh part of the reason she got fired is that she's a black woman.

And Pierce Morgan pushed back and he said, "Let's be honest.

I don't think you were fired after all those years because of your skin color or because you're a black woman.

So, uh, I'm going to side with Joy Reid, um, who believes she was fired by MSNBC, the most left-leaning place on the earth, because of her black woman status.

But she's not alone.

There's a pattern that's been developed because another black woman named uh Stephen Colbear.

Steven Colbear.

Uh there's another black woman who's been cancelled.

Um apparently she had a show on late night, some kind of late night show she had, and I've never saw it, but I've heard of it.

So, black woman Steven Coar has also been cancelled.

Now, it's not because she apparently said bad things about her employer and about the $16 million lawsuit to Trump.

Um, he called it a big fat bribe, but it probably wasn't because of that.

It was pro Wait, what?

Somebody's telling me that Steven Colbear is a white man.

Well, how's that possible?

I I thought I thought they were just cancelling black women, but he's a white man, Canadian.

Oh, wow.

All right.

Well, I have all that wrong.

So, forget everything I said.

Turns out that Steven Colbear um is and was a white man.

A white man.

All right, good.

Um, but the uh reason for the cancellation appears to be low ratings.

Uh, they were insufficient for monetizing it.

So, they're losing money on late night.

If you're losing money on late night, aren't you probably losing money on everything?

Because late night used to be the big money maker, right?

It used to be that Johnny Carson was the big money maker.

Um, Adam Schiff was just on Stephen Cobear.

I wonder why they're getting cancelled.

Huh.

All right.

Well, um, according to Politico, Mark Caputo, um, Trump is really serious about turning Alcatraz into a maximum security prison.

And I guess um according Oh no, it wasn't Politico.

It was Axios.

Uh Axios is saying that officials I made a preliminary cost estimate and I guess Bondi and Bergam toured it yesterday and uh it's going to cost $2 billion to turn the old closed prison of Alcatraz into a new modern prison.

Do you think that'll actually happen?

Why in the world would they think it's a good idea to turn Alcatraz into a a prison?

There's got to be a cheaper way to do it than putting it on a stupid island.

Wouldn't that be the most expensive way you could build a building on an island?

I mean, seriously.

And so somebody has to ask Trump if he's an expert on building stuff and construction, but why would he even consider the most expensive building project you could get for something that doesn't need to be a, you know, a gem?

It just needs to be functional if it's a prison.

So I don't know if this is going to go forward, but I would point out that Trump has already monetized a war.

I didn't I didn't think anybody could do that.

But by getting the US out of the business of funding Ukraine and saying that the only thing we're going to do is sell the Europeans weapons that they can give to Ukraine as they want.

And so he monetized the Ukraine Russia war, which I'm legitimately impressed by.

If you can't fix it, monetize it.

Likewise, he's added these big tariffs to China um because they have not solved the fentinel problem.

Likewise for Mexico and Canada, he doesn't like that they've done enough on fentinel.

So he's he's terrifying them.

So in other words, he couldn't figure out how to solve fentinel right away.

I mean, he's doing all the normal law enforcement things and they're doing well, but it's a really big problem.

So instead of for instead of solving it, he monetized it.

He monetized overdose deaths, which I have no problem with.

I mean, if you can't solve it and you're trying as hard as you can, it'd be one thing if he weren't trying to solve it legitimately, but he's also trying to solve it.

But until you do, you might as well monetize it.

Wii, which is so genius that I don't even have words to describe it.

It's like, why didn't anybody else think of that?

That you could wait a little bit longer if you're monetizing it.

So, when I say that he wants to spend $2 billion on Alcatraz, I wonder does he have a plan for monetizing that, you know, will will he do uh maybe they'll just keep doing uh tours?

Because right now, I think I think you can still do it.

You can do a tour of Alcatraz, you know, it's like a paid tour.

Well, maybe he's going to do that, but have actual prisoners there to make the tour that much better.

So, maybe he's figured out a way to monetize that, but I haven't heard it.

Well, in other news, Trump uh has a medical condition that's not really serious, but it he has some leg swelling that's called chronic venus insufficiency.

So, it's just something that happens to old people.

Their veins lose their little valves according to uh Dr.

Drew and uh then you get little swelling in your legs.

So, it's common for people who are over 70.

And then allegedly, Trump has some kind of hand injury from shaking hands a lot and also being on some kind of aspirin regimen.

Do I have that right?

That they're they're genuinely saying he has a a hand injury from shaking hands too much while being on a aspirin regimen?

Maybe.

I suppose that's entirely possible, but uh it sounds like such a Trump excuse.

Well, I was working so hard, shaking so many hands in in disaster zones that, you know, I got injured.

So, you got that going on.

Um meanwhile, CNN has some polling information.

Gunther Eagleman on X is pointing this out.

um where even CNN is saying that uh Trump's approval rating got higher uh after the uh Epstein online controversy.

Now, are you surprised that Trump's popularity went up after it was found that he didn't find anything on Epstein?

Well, I feel like people are responding to all the actual accomplishments and I feel like if you went into the public and you said, um, hey, how much do you care about this Epistine thing, it's only the people like us, the people who would, you know, tune in to a political show or the people who would give a podcast about politics, me, I don't think other people care.

And so far they haven't been given a reason to care.

So I think the public wisely is saying, "Well, if the economy is looking good and we're monetizing that war we don't care about, well maybe we like this guy." Um but very few Republicans said the top issue was the Epstein case.

Um, yeah, there was only one person in the entire poll, not 1% but one person who said the Epstein thing was the biggest issue.

Just one.

One person in the entire world, well, in the country who was Republican.

Meanwhile, also on CNN, Scott Jennings is reporting that quote, "I sat next to a real life earruther." Now, an ear truther is someone who doesn't believe that Trump um was shot in the ear in Butler, Pennsylvania, and that maybe made the whole thing up to be more popular.

And CNN actually had somebody at the table who made the claim that he doesn't necessarily believe the ear was really shot.

And the host, Abby Phillip, uh, she couldn't let that go.

Now, to her credit, she made sure that her viewers knew he got shot in the ear.

We're we're not questioning that he got shot in the ear.

He got shot in the air.

But they're they're making Scott Jennings job so easy that all he has to do is mock the person next to him and that that's good entertaining TV.

So good for you.

Um, also CNN, um, they're reading that in their latest poll, uh, the Democratic Party is at their lowest favorability since 1992.

Um, but it's not as if the Democrats have given up.

Sure, you know, maybe they haven't done well lately and maybe their popularity or their favorability is at the lowest level since 1992.

But here's the good news for them.

They have a plan to come back.

Are you ready for this?

Uh, apparently Democrats are trying to roll out a new tone.

So they had a retreat in which they, you know, the Democrats got together to strategize what to do differently.

And of course they noticed that Trump is doing well.

So they're saying, "All right, why don't we do more of what Trump is doing?" And what do you think that is?

Well, he uses social media a lot.

um he's authentic and less scripted and he does more cursing and uh they also suggested that they use more Trump-like insults.

So good for the Democrats.

They're staying away from policy discussions because they don't do so well on that.

And they've decided that the thing they hate most about Trump is the part they're going to copy.

That's right.

the part they hate the most, which is his personality and his character.

They've decided that's the part they're going to copy instead of coming up with good ideas for the country.

I tell you, when I say that I watch the news for the humor, this is it.

It doesn't get better than this.

Um but um Senator Chris Murphy said in the wake of Trump, it's really important for us to understand that authenticity is the coin of the realm.

The voters can smell insincerity more acutely than ever before.

They know when you're using talking points or poll tested language.

So you tell me if I'm going too far.

We've been saying the Democrats are the theater kids and you've probably hearing a lot that a lot of their complaints are quote performative and everything seems like they're acting.

They're literally performing and they're ignoring policy and they're putting on little shows that are so lame and so cringeworthy that it makes me think, oh, those who can act become actors.

Those who can't act become uh acting coaches.

those who can't act and can't become and are not good enough to be acting coaches become politicians, specifically Democrats.

So, apparently that's the fallback position if you didn't make it in Hollywood.

Well, maybe I could run for office.

You know, I I didn't make that a sitcom, but I feel like I could be a representative from some state.

Well, um, so the latest thing the Democrats, and this is a exclusive, I have an exclusive scoop, so this is you won't see this on any other network or any other U podcast.

You ready?

Now, I don't do this a lot, so this is a exclusive Scott Adams coffee scoop.

The Democrats are so anxious to copy Trump that they're trying to figure out how to make their legs swell and their hands have a bruise.

Why?

Well, they can't tell what the important parts are.

They just think if Trump is doing it and Trump is being successful, it must be something to imitate.

So now they're trying to figure out how to make their legs swell.

That's my exclusive.

And of course it's true.

I wouldn't make that up, would I?

Maybe.

Maybe I would.

Well, the big news today because it's the summer and you get all the weird news in the summer is that the Wall Street Journal did a big feature article in which they're trying to draw a picture of Donald Trump and Epstein as good friends for many years now.

Are you as um blown away as I am that this Epstein story is started out as one thing uh and Trump's involvement was oh uh yeah it's true that Epstein lived in the same town and Palm what is it uh wherever that is in Florida and uh it's true that he did go to Mara Lago at some events but uh Trump found out that he was a he was a dirt bag and had him banned from Mara Lago.

So for now several years, I believe that their their interactions were minor and that he wasn't big fan of him and he eventually banned him.

Now, it turns out, according to witnesses and new reporting, that Epstein and Trump were something like best friends.

And for something like, I don't know, 15 years or something, they they hung out a lot and they would do things together a lot.

Now, how in the world are we just finding that out?

Is that weird?

I I feel like reality itself is just bending.

Um, and it it can't be true that it took us this long to find out that they were not only, you know, associated with each other, but they had a really strong association.

And there's a reason that Trump was on his plane a bunch of times.

Now, one of the questions that was asked by was it Mark Halper in asking this?

I forget who asked.

Um, it might have been him on his two-way pod, which is really good.

Um, we don't know, and nobody has asked, how many times did Trump go to Epstein's homes in the United States?

Don't know.

How many times did Epstein uh visit Trump in any of his locations?

Don't know.

Isn't it weird that we don't know that?

Would wouldn't those be the obvious questions?

So, the fact that this Epstein story gets deeper and more weird every day is just blowing me away.

Like, you you thought you knew the general contours of the story.

How in the world are we still finding out things about it?

I don't know.

Anyway, so the news story from the Wall Street Journal is that uh when Epstein turned 50, Gain Maxwell organized a bunch of um birthday cards that she put in a binder and they were from, you know, prominent people and friends and stuff.

And allegedly, one of the birthday cards, Epstein was written and a little drawing was put in it by Trump.

Now, Trump says it's a fraud and that he did not write that message.

I'll tell you what the message is in a little bit, but it was a kind of a personal message that looked like they had secrets and suddenly that's a story.

Now, if you were the Wall Street Journal and the biggest part of your story is that they had seen a Oh, there it is.

Is that it?

Oh my goodness.

Uh oh my.

So, so right now, for the very first time, I'm seeing what they claim was Trump's drawing on the card.

And what they said was that he signed his name to look like the pubic hair on the naked woman that he drew.

And I'm looking at it for the first time.

I guess Mike Ben's posted it and I'm seeing it in the comments now for the first time.

It's very obvious that he did not sign his name to be part of her um private parts.

It's literally he just signed his name at the bottom of the drawing and it just happened to go across part of the body.

So, the first thing you need to know is that the news was completely lying to you that he signed his name so it looked like pubic hair.

You would only believe that if you'd never seen it.

I'm looking at it right now.

And uh well, actually, I can show it to you because it's on my other device.

Let's see.

Can you see that?

So, look where the look where the signature is.

If I can get it so the light doesn't destroy it.

All right.

You can see it a little bit there.

But does that look like he meant his signature to be pubic hair?

No.

It's just he signing it at the bottom of the drawing.

That's all.

Now, if you've ever seen um if you've ever seen Trump sign anything or do anything, he always uses that big thick pen.

But here's a little drawing that's doesn't look like the sure hand of Trump.

Trump has that heavy hand.

So even even when he's just signing his name, it's like a thick lots of pressure, you know, really.

But the drawing that he is allegedly supposed to have drawn clearly is drawn by somebody who doesn't have that style of drawing.

Clearly, um, yeah, it doesn't look like his handwriting, right?

So, it does look like somebody drew that in there.

Maybe auto pen, huh?

Maybe Biden's auto pen drew it.

So the uh let me give you my take on it after I tell you what it says.

So apparently the letter maybe the other part of the card had some words on it that I'll read to you.

Uh happy birthday and may every day be another wonderful secret that was part of it.

But let me give you the whole thing.

So it said voice over.

So, it used the words voice over colon.

Uh, there must be more to life than having everything.

Then it said Donald colon as if Donald is saying this.

Yes, there is, but I won't tell you what it is.

And then Jeffrey colon.

Nor will I since I also know what it is.

Donald, we have certain things in common.

Jeffrey.

Jeffrey.

Yes, we do.

Come to think of it, Donald.

Enigmas never age.

Have you noticed that, Jeffrey?

As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you, Donald.

A pal is a wonderful thing.

Happy birthday, and may every day be another wonderful secret.

All right.

Now, uh, this would have happened allegedly before we knew everything about Epstein's activities.

So, it would not be surprising if Trump signed a birthday card for Epstein because it was before Epstein was in trouble and they knew each other.

However, I just asked Grock um I put in the alleged writing that is allegedly from Trump and I said, "Grock, does this match the style of Trump such that it would look like he really wrote it?" Do you know what Grock said?

Nope.

Did I have to ask Grock if it matched Trump's style?

Nope.

Did any of us need to ask anybody if that was Trump's writing?

Nope.

It obviously isn't.

Now, you might recall that Trump weirdly said that he thought that things had been added to the Epstein file that were just made up.

you know, maybe by Comey and who knows who else.

And when I heard that, I thought to myself, really, he he's gonna try to convince us that just made up stuff was added to the file.

I don't believe that madeup stuff was added to the file.

And then this comes out, and this what this is not part of the Epstein files.

The Wall Street Journal has this exclusive.

they somehow got to look at at this.

But it's seems obviously fake.

If this is real, um they're going to have to prove it and they're going to have to have a witness who had it in their hand or saw it or something.

But it looks fake as hell.

Like seriously fake.

So why would this even be there?

I don't know.

You believe they do doctorred the files?

Well, I do believe that the Epstein files probably have some deletions, but it would be a whole other level.

You know, things things that disappeared, but it would be a whole other level if somebody made up stuff and just put it in the file.

Maybe nothing is impossible.

Scott Jennings reaction to the story about the birthday card is my reaction to reading this is so what uh I mean 2003 before anything that happened.

We know Donald Trump knew the guy.

We also know he disowned him and kicked him out of the club.

Yeah.

So I would agree that the non news nerd public, they don't really care.

Um, and now it looks like Trump is going to sue Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal.

Rupert Murdoch, also the owner of Fox News, which is his friend sometimes.

So, we'll see.

Um, but he wants Murdoch to be on record.

Um, then even Elon Musk apparently doubted that it was legitimate.

So Elon Musk would kind of, you know, want Trump to maybe get in trouble based on his prior comments, but even Elon Musk looks at that and says, "I don't think so." So that's my my take is that it's sort of obviously not real.

The the closest that could be to real is if Trump had delegated somebody else to draw something on the card, you know, some assistant or something.

But why would they draw the naked woman on a I don't know.

None of it makes sense.

So, I'm going to say Trump is probably right.

I'm going to give this a 95% chance of being fake news.

Mike Benz has an interesting take on Epstein's connection to intelligence agencies and uh Mike Benz as the national treasure that he is explains to us things that most of us didn't know about how the world works.

And one of them you need to know is that you don't need to work for the CIA.

You could simply be somebody that they deal with in a mutually productive way.

So that's different from working for them.

It might be that you just have some way that you can both make money.

CIA gets what they want.

Maybe the middleman who makes something happen gets what they want.

Would that be a case of working for or working with the CIA?

Well, arguably not.

So, you could imagine that all intelligence agencies would not say they've ever worked with them.

But maybe, as uh Mike Benz points out, it could be that the the sex part of the Epstein operation was to quote juice deals.

So maybe it allowed him to have relationships with heads of state and important people that otherwise he wouldn't have access to.

Maybe they worried that he had too much information about them, so they were a little bit more willing to donate money to things that the CIA would want money donated to.

So, it's entirely possible that there's a whole bunch of rich people who have given lots of money to things that Jeffrey Epstein said, "Hey, uh, you know what would be good to donate money to?

this particular charity or this college or this program or this education in another country and then the person doing the donating would not even know they were working for were doing the bidding of the CIA.

Only Epstein would know that.

So that model would be, hey Epstein, um, we need we want a bunch of people to donate to this thing or another because it's good for the United States.

So can you get some rich people to donate?

Yes, I can.

And would that get him any money that he gets to keep?

Maybe.

I don't know.

Maybe he just keeps part of it.

Apparently, Bill Burns, who was the head of the CIA at one point, met with Epstein three times, including two times at his house.

Okay, that's that's pretty damning.

If if you have the uh head of the CIA visiting your house multiple times and then you say, "I'm not working with them." Well, okay.

I'm not so sure.

Um, but it could be that Epstein was just an expert at getting money from people and hiding the trail.

Um, one of the things that uh that Benz recommends is that uh Trump allow the release of the transcripts and uh questions and answers from something called the OPR, the Office of Professional Responsibility, where investigators talked to Alex Acasta.

He was the prosecutor working on the original 2008 plea deal for Epstein.

And I thought to myself, how does how does Mike Benz know all these things even exist?

Now, the the fact that we have, and I say we, you know, the the people who are pro.

Trump, that we have a Mike Benz who seems to have this incredible understanding of how the government is organized in the real world.

Um, so he can do what none of us could do.

And presumably the the fake news couldn't do it either, which is to say there is a document that probably exists that's probably not part of the quote Epstein files that if we could see it would answer a lot of questions such as the question of whether um Alex Aosta ever said that Epstein was part of the some intelligence operation because I don't believe that that is proven.

I believe that people say that Alex Epstein said it, but I don't believe that we have a document to prove it or a video of him saying it.

So, that's a good idea.

We should get access to that.

And then uh Charlie Kirk um goes further and says that uh somebody should bring a cast in for a full interview to find out what he says.

If he said it once, maybe he'll say it again cuz you know Epstein's dead.

So he could probably say things he couldn't say originally.

So yeah, let's hear from Macasa.

He's still alive.

And then uh Trump posted on True Social that he wants Bondi to produce quote any and all pertinent grand jury testimony um subject to court approval.

So apparently there are some documents that you would not call part of the Epstein files that would tell us maybe everything we want to know.

Maybe.

So that's possible.

Um, and then representative uh Anna Paulina Luna said this on Max.

Why hasn't a single media outlet asked me to discuss my investigation into the destruction of Epstein's evidence at the FBI under Biden's former deputy director?

To which I say, wait, what?

Are you telling me that uh Representative Luna has been doing an investigation into the destruction of Epstein evidence at the FBI and apparently she has evidence that that happened otherwise she wouldn't be mentioning it and that's not the top headline and she's saying why does no media outlet want to talk to me about this?

Yeah, good question.

Why does no media outlet want to talk to her about what seems to be a really important question?

So that's going on.

And then insurrection bar on X points out that apparently we know somehow we know this that Harvard gave Epstein an office keycard access and unrestricted visitation rights between 2003 and 2007.

They also let him attend faculty meetings, meet students, and host visitors.

And nobody is asking why they did that.

Keep in mind, Epstein didn't even have a college education.

And at one point, he was a math teacher at an exclusive school that Bill Barr's father ran.

And Harvard was giving him special access to the campus for reasons that we don't quite understand.

Now, it might be because one of the things that Epstein did was raise money for Harvard.

So, there might be just a money reason for it, but we'd like to know that.

Even MSNBC is asking Democrats um why they didn't do more about the Epstein files if it's if it's so important now.

So, MSNBC said to uh Jamie Rascin, is that his name?

Rasking.

Yeah.

Um I if it was a crisis then it's a crisis now.

Why didn't Democrats call for Epstein's list to be released when Biden was in office?

And Rasian says I mean I don't know uh we had other cases uh uh uh we were busy.

What were the autocracy and the stealing of the democracy?

No, say that.

He didn't say that, but he did not answer that question very well.

Why didn't the Democrats do more?

And then, uh, Lawrence O'Donnell, who is going full batshit crazy, Western lensman, points this out with a video clip.

Um, so Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC.

He's floating the idea that JD Vance is the one behind that uh that birthday letter because he says JD Vance is trying to get a promotion.

So, he's trying to take Trump out so he can become president.

And uh and Lawrence O'Donnell thinks that the way he's doing it is that he's the person behind the the birthday card that the Wall Street Journal was writing about.

Now, does that strike you as a really good point worthy of discussion, or does it strike you as Lawrence O'Donnell has a mental problem?

To me, it's the latter.

It looks like, "Oh my god, you're totally mental.

What is wrong with you?

You should immediately seek therapy or have somebody look at your cell phone to see what you've been doing with it lately." That's what I say.

Well, uh, Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney has conceded, according to Breitbart News, Francis Martell is writing about this that, uh, Canada might not be able to get Trump to drop all of his tariffs when they get a deal eventually.

So, in other words, Canada now believes that they will simply pay more even if they agree to a deal.

So, is that a case of Trump winning?

Yes, it is.

If they've already acknowledged that at the end of the negotiations, they're going to be worse off and America will be better off because that's what they said.

I mean, that's what the prime minister said.

Yep.

That looks like it.

And then according to a different Carney, John Carney who writes for Breitbart, um that the import pricing that we can see suggests that the foreign producers are eating most of the uh the cost of the tariffs by lowering their prices.

So, it would seem that Canada is essentially endorsing Trump's view of tariffs as uh making things a little more fair and uh that the economists were all wrong.

So, the economists have been surveyed again and they've lowered their odds that we're going to go into some kind of recession.

So, it's down to 33% according to the Wall Street Journal.

It was 45% in April when we were they were all worried about the uh tariffs.

So, you've got a whole bunch of economists who were wrong about tariffs.

What good are the economists?

And is it true that Trump is just smarter than the economists?

Because it looks like it.

Did Did Trump, who is not an economist, just beat every economist on this prediction?

It looks like it.

I mean, you're going to have to give him credit.

He looks like he beat every expert in the field.

It looks like it.

Well, uh, Gavin Newsome says he's suing Fox because, uh, he claims that Jesse Waters on his show falsely asserted that, uh, Newsome had lied about when he talked to Trump about the, I guess, about the disasters in the fire disaster in California.

and he alleges that uh Jesse Waters aired a deceptively edited clip of Trump's remarks omitting Trump saying a day ago.

So, I guess um Nome said they just talked to Trump and Jesse Waters, I think, if I'm reading this right, is claiming that that didn't happen.

But in order to bolster that claim, had to remove from the clip the part where Trump said it did happen.

And according to Nuome, he would settle for an apology, but if not, he has all day long to do this legal process and he's suing for hundreds of millions of dollars.

And I'm wondering what the heck will Fox News do because if Newsome can produce the clip that shows that the important part of the clip was clipped off of the clip, it's going to be hard to say that they didn't know they were doing it.

You know what I mean?

Now, Jesse himself is not the one who's preparing the clips.

We assume that that would be some kind of producer function.

So, it could be that Jesse is just finding out that he did a story that didn't didn't pass the factchecking.

So, I don't know what you do if it might be just a producer thing, but if I were Jesse and I knew that the proof of the other side's point was simply a video clip that everybody has access to, I think I'd be apologizing.

Oh, somebody says that Jesse apologized last night on the air.

Oh, okay.

All right.

Well, he doesn't have to take my advice.

He already did it.

That would be how I would have handled it.

I I would have done that.

I would have apologized on air.

Um, according to News Nation, the personal health information of 79 million people, Americans, will be handed over to ICE.

And then ICE will use that to figure out how to track down immigrants who are in the US illegally.

Um, I guess part of it is to get them the illegals off of Medicaid because they're not allowed to be on it, but also maybe to just locate them.

I don't know how you do that with that data, but that's bad.

Now, you might remember that I said to you that I wondered how long it would be before the aggressive deportations would start affecting regular citizens.

So, on day one, when you hear that the ICE is deporting some murderers and some gang members, I say to myself, "Huh, that didn't affect me in any way, but if it did, it was a positive.

I'm better off." And then they do some more criminals and they, you know, go after gangs trying to take over apartment buildings or whatever they're doing.

And I say to myself, well, that's all good.

But remember, I warned you that there will be a time when the regular citizens are affected by it and that's going to change the conversation.

So if you were, for example, a farmer who couldn't get your crops picked, and I'm not saying that will happen.

It's not a prediction, but if you know, just as an example, that might affect your cost of food, maybe.

And then you'd say, "Oh, wait.

They've they've deported so many people that we can't even fill those jobs and my food cost just went up because there was a lot of waste." Or maybe there were some other services that you couldn't get done.

Or maybe people that you knew and like in your life are being deported and you don't think that they were criminals.

Well, I'm here to tell you that I have now crossed that line.

Meaning that this now has affected me personally.

Not because I'm an illegal.

Turns out I'm a citizen.

Who knew?

But I did have a um I did meet and have an interaction with somebody who is their life is ruined.

Their life is ruined because um one of them has been here I don't know 15 or 20 years has been working productively and legally.

Never broke a law.

Never got a speeding ticket.

um has children that are legal residents cuz they were born here and has I believe an American wife.

I'm not positive about that.

Um I think so.

and his life and his family's life is in terror right now because they expect that although they're they're nothing like the criminals that are being deported that they might get scooped up and sent to a country that they they don't consider their country.

You know, if you've been living and working and obeying the laws, um you think this is your country and no, it's nobody that you know.

So, don't guess.

Please don't guess in the comments because it's not who you think.

It's just somebody I uh had a conversation with yesterday.

And I would say that affects me personally because it's the first time I had a conversation with somebody who was a law-abiding, you know, God-loving, family loving, good person whose life is kind of ruined at the moment.

and I don't love it.

So, more and more of you, I think, are going to have this experience that at some point there the cutting is going to reach the bone and you're going to say, "Oh, wait a minute.

I didn't realize that was going to happen." So, I don't know when that happens, but I'm here to tell you it already happened to me.

So my um my take on immigration was always that if they spent all of their time just looking for the the problem people that they would never run out of stuff to do and then at some point they'd say, "All right, we probably cut enough.

We can absorb the rest of the people.

You know, we we don't need to get every single person." Now, I know a lot of you say, "Well, I don't know who you talk to, so therefore it's irrelevant to me.

I want them all all gone." Um, I get that.

What I'm telling you is it might not be people you don't know forever.

It it might start bleeding over into your actual life.

And when it does, people are going to have a different opinion about it.

So, that's my prediction.

All right.

Um, China has allegedly been working on super soldiers.

News Nation had a former senior intelligence officer in the Defense Intelligence Agency who says that uh that China allegedly is trying to genetically alter their people to make super soldiers.

To which I say, you're a little too late, China, because our robots are going to enjoy killing your super soldiers.

Um, super soldier is never going to be better than robot if you know what I mean.

So unless those super soldiers roll out this week, uh, by next year they'll just be target practice for our robots.

And then according to nature the publication uh there are a bunch of lowquality scientific papers being submitted like more than ever because people are using AI on public databases.

So they're just using AI to sort of do the research and write up the the paper.

So before that was happening, the scientific papers that were submitted and approved, peer-reviewed, only half of them were even reproducible.

So it's basically a coin flip if the science was right or made up.

And now it looks like it might be getting worse because all these lowquality papers.

Anyway, that's all I got for you today.

And uh looks like the weekend's here.

We're ready for the weekend.

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who makes music by taking social media

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and Kira the Dawn. So, look for that on

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Some people use it to fall asleep, but

you might like it.

Um, speaking of music, while Akira the

Dawn is rising, the Steve Miller band

cancelled their US tour, not because the

ticket sales were soft, although they

were. What would be the real reason they

they canled their 31 city tour?

Well, according to the band, it's

because of climate change.

So, it's probably a coincidence that the

tick hills were anemic. The real reason

is because of the weather. Not just the

weather today, but the weather forever.

Yeah. So, it'll be a little bit

embarrassing if uh next year they try to

do another tour because I would ask um

what happened to climate change? Did it

get solved? And what about all those

other touring acts? Are they going to

take their chances? Will Paul

McCartney's tour be destroyed by

climate? Maybe. Or maybe the Steve

Miller band is not as popular as they

hoped.

Well, I wonder if there's any news about

science that they didn't need to do any

research. Well, yes. According to

Medscape, Carla Caner is writing that uh

it looks like it might be possible

according to a large observational study

to um analyze the activity of a user

with their smartphone and determine

patterns of psychopathology.

In other words, they've determined that

they can tell how crazy you are and what

form of crazy you are. You might call it

mental health. Um, based on your changes

in your phone's activity or changes in

your activity with your phone. Now, how

many of you did not know that if you had

access to somebody's phone usage, you

could determine what their uh

psychopathology is? Is there anybody who

didn't already know

that if you knew what they were doing

privately with their phone, you could

pretty much tell

who's b crazy and who's not, and

probably even specifically what's wrong.

Well, they don't know that for sure, but

they're planning a big study to find

out. But they don't need it. They can

just ask Scott. Scott,

um, would we be able to determine the

mental health of a person by their phone

usage? Yes.

Big yes. Yes, you can.

Well, uh, according to interesting

engineering, Chris Young writes that,

uh, there are several firms trying to

make it cheaper to launch rockets into

space. One of them is a centrifuge, a

massive centrifuge. So, it spin the

rocket and when the the speed is really

high, it would release it. So, it

basically just toss it in the air. And

then once the hard part of the liftoff

is over, cuz the the closer you are to

Earth, the more fuel you need, then some

fuel would kick in after it reached a

certain height. So that's in the works,

startup, and uh there's a company that's

looking to use a space cannon to blast

payloads into, you know, low orbit so

that they don't need as much fuel. But

now there's a new one called Origa Space

and they're trying to develop a mag lev

track so they can shoot a uh space

module into space with much less fuel

and they've been funded. So I don't know

if Elon Musk is ever going to use any of

these. I feel like none of them would

work

if you had a Cuban on board because you

would have to accelerate it so fast that

it would probably kill all people. But,

you know, maybe if you're launching a I

don't know, a space weapon or um some

kind of intercontinental ballistic

weapon uh might be very useful. So,

we'll see. Meanwhile, the uh CEO of NPR,

she went back on CNN because, as you

know, the federal funding for NPR

was uh voted away.

And uh on CNN, Senator John Kennedy is

commenting on a clip of her on CNN in

which she claims that NPR

is quote a nonpartisan organization.

the funding was cut because they're a

partisan organization, but she says,

"No, we're nonpartisan. Always have

been." So, Senator Kennedy

um forwarded your clip on X and added

his comment. So, why did a former NPR

editor find that their $200 million DC

newsroom had 87 Democrats in editorial

positions and zero Republicans?

So, the CEO of NPR wants us to believe

that they're nonpartisan,

but a 100% of their editors, and there

are a lot of them, 87 of them, every one

of them is a Democrat. H

I'm not sure I believe her.

Well, let's see if you can find a

pattern in this next story. Does this

story sound like anything you've ever

heard before? Does it remind you of

anything else that's happened in the

news? Uh New York Post is reporting that

um Biden pushed for uh $10 billion worth

of electric mail delivery uh trucks. So,

he wanted to build a fleet of electric,

you know, green energy trucks for the

post office. How many of them did they

make? Um, they've only made 250 electric

mail trucks in two years.

Uh, so it appears that the pattern of

Democrats being very good at voting

money for things is really bad at making

anything happen, such as a high-speed

rail,

such as everything else they've tried to

fund, such as their rural Wi-Fi,

they build nothing.

How many times do you have to see a

story about Democrats allocating

billions of dollars to a construction

product project that didn't happen

and probably it didn't happen because

Democrats always have so many rules, you

know, environmental rules and people got

to comment on it. And so once again,

Democrats are the ones who can't build

anything. Yeah. Cindra, another example.

So, allegedly

um there's there are big protests this

weekend. Is it happening today yet? So,

it's a called good trouble protest. Good

trouble referring to, you know, the kind

of protest that's trouble, but there's a

good reason for it. and uh Newsmax

reporting about this. Um it and then uh

Newsmax was doing a person on the street

interview with some of the good trouble

protesters and I I can't get enough of

this. You know what's going to happen,

right? So the reporter puts the

microphone in the face of the protester

who is happy to talk. How old is the

protester?

If you guessed senior citizen, you were

correct.

So when asked why this the senior

citizen was citizen was asked, "What are

you protesting against?"

And I'd like to do my impression of the

senior citizen who thought it was

important to go protest when asked, "Why

are you protesting?" It goes something

like this. uh well the the the Trump uh

things and all the all the autocracy and

there's the stealing of the democracy.

What kind of democracy is he stealing?

Well, there all kinds of things so many

things I I can't think of one but you

know he's autocratic and the oligarchs

and they're stealing the democracy.

Oh my god.

I want to see as many of those as I can.

I want to see if anyone can come up with

anything

because they are pro pastors. Not

protesters. They're pro pastors. They're

pests.

All right. Uh somebody asked uh somebody

named Defiant L's on X. It's a X

account. um said uh you know why why

isn't there more of a meme generator

built into Grock

now Grock can create images but uh

wouldn't you like to add your own text

to it and turn it into a meme well Elon

Musk saw that comment and said something

very cool is brewing and later he said

working on a new way to make creative

viral videos fast it's being called

imagine

So maybe Grock will be your solution to

meme making. Um I don't know if it will

suggest a meme or if you have to just

pick your own image and then add your

own text or will it use AI

to suggest viral videos.

I don't know if AI is up to that. So,

I'm going to guess it's just helping you

make your own memes. I doubt it could

make a meme that anybody would care

about, but we'll see. If it can, that

would be indeed very cool.

All right. Um,

here's what I love.

So, Dana Bash was on CNN and she was

reading a truth social post by Trump.

And in that post, Trump was saying um

he was talking about the fake news PBS

and uh and NPR and he said that they

were even worse than CNN.

Now, because he's the president of the

United States, whatever he says that's

provocative is news. So CNN, whose job

is to cover the news, has to read out

loud or show that the president of the

United States calls them fake news.

So let me ask you this. Uh I've told you

that I like watching the news for the

the humor.

Um and honestly, that's not hyperbole. I

I watch the news,

you know, somewhat to be uh informed,

but also because it's funny so often.

Now, what would be funnier than Trump

making the fake news cover the real news

that the president of the United States

calls the fake news the fake news?

Let me read that again because I'm so

proud of it. I wrote this. What is

funnier than Trump making the fake news

cover the real news that the president

of the United States calls the fake news

the fake news? Nothing. There's nothing

funnier than that.

The fact that Trump has made the fake

news punch themselves on air. Uh, I've

got a message from the president. Oh,

whoa. Stop hitting me. No, I can't.

Now that's funny.

All right.

Um,

Joy Reid was a guest on Pierce Morgan's

show and uh he shows a video of her

crying after getting fired from MSNBC

and uh she claimed that uh part of the

reason she got fired is that she's a

black woman.

And Pierce Morgan pushed back and he

said, "Let's be honest. I don't think

you were fired after all those years

because of your skin color or because

you're a black woman.

So, uh, I'm going to side with Joy Reid,

um, who believes she was fired by MSNBC,

the most left-leaning place on the

earth, because of her black woman

status. But she's not alone. There's a

pattern that's been developed because

another black woman named uh

Stephen Colbear. Steven Colbear. Uh

there's another black woman who's been

cancelled. Um apparently she had a show

on late night, some kind of late night

show she had, and I've never saw it, but

I've heard of it. So, black woman Steven

Coar has also been cancelled. Now, it's

not because she apparently said bad

things about her employer and about the

$16 million lawsuit to Trump.

Um, he called it a big fat bribe, but it

probably wasn't because of that. It was

pro Wait, what?

Somebody's telling me that Steven

Colbear is a white man.

Well, how's that possible? I I thought I

thought they were just cancelling black

women, but he's a white man, Canadian.

Oh, wow. All right. Well, I have all

that wrong. So, forget everything I

said. Turns out that Steven Colbear

um is and was a white man. A white man.

All right, good. Um, but the uh reason

for the cancellation appears to be low

ratings. Uh, they were insufficient for

monetizing it. So, they're losing money

on late night. If you're losing money on

late night,

aren't you probably losing money on

everything?

Because late night used to be the big

money maker, right? It used to be that

Johnny Carson was the big money maker.

Um, Adam Schiff was just on Stephen

Cobear.

I wonder why they're getting cancelled.

Huh.

All right. Well, um,

according to Politico, Mark Caputo,

um, Trump is really serious about

turning Alcatraz into a maximum security

prison. And I guess um according Oh no,

it wasn't Politico. It was Axios.

Uh Axios is saying that officials I made

a preliminary cost estimate and I guess

Bondi and Bergam toured it yesterday and

uh it's going to cost $2 billion to turn

the old closed prison of Alcatraz into a

new modern prison. Do you think that'll

actually happen?

Why in the world

would they think it's a good idea to

turn Alcatraz into a a prison?

There's got to be a cheaper way to do it

than putting it on a stupid island.

Wouldn't that be the most expensive way

you could build a building

on an island?

I mean, seriously.

And so somebody has to ask Trump if he's

an expert on building stuff and

construction, but why would he even

consider

the most expensive building project you

could get for something that doesn't

need to be a, you know, a gem? It just

needs to be functional if it's a prison.

So I don't know if this is going to go

forward, but I would point out that

Trump has already monetized a war.

I didn't I didn't think anybody could do

that. But by getting the US out of the

business of funding Ukraine

and saying that the only thing we're

going to do is sell the Europeans

weapons that they can give to Ukraine as

they want. And so he monetized the

Ukraine Russia war, which I'm

legitimately impressed by. If you can't

fix it, monetize it. Likewise, he's

added these big tariffs to China um

because they have not solved the

fentinel problem. Likewise for Mexico

and Canada, he doesn't like that they've

done enough on fentinel. So he's he's

terrifying them. So in other words, he

couldn't figure out how to solve

fentinel right away. I mean, he's doing

all the normal law enforcement things

and they're doing well, but it's a

really big problem. So instead of for

instead of solving it, he monetized it.

He monetized overdose deaths, which I

have no problem with. I mean, if you

can't solve it and you're trying as hard

as you can, it'd be one thing if he

weren't trying to solve it legitimately,

but he's also trying to solve it. But

until you do, you might as well monetize

it. Wii, which is so genius

that I don't even have words to describe

it. It's like, why didn't anybody else

think of that? That you could wait a

little bit longer if you're monetizing

it.

So, when I say that he wants to spend $2

billion on Alcatraz, I wonder does he

have a plan for monetizing that, you

know, will will he do uh maybe they'll

just keep doing uh tours?

Because right now, I think I think you

can still do it. You can do a tour of

Alcatraz,

you know, it's like a paid tour.

Well, maybe he's going to do that, but

have actual prisoners there to make the

tour that much better. So, maybe he's

figured out a way to monetize that, but

I haven't heard it. Well, in other news,

Trump uh has a medical condition that's

not really serious, but it he has some

leg swelling that's called chronic venus

insufficiency. So, it's just something

that happens to old people. Their veins

lose their little valves according to uh

Dr. Drew and uh then you get little

swelling in your legs. So, it's common

for people who are over 70. And then

allegedly, Trump has some kind of hand

injury from shaking hands a lot and also

being on some kind of aspirin regimen.

Do I have that right?

That they're they're genuinely saying he

has a a hand injury from shaking hands

too much while being on a aspirin

regimen?

Maybe.

I suppose that's entirely possible,

but uh it sounds like such a Trump

excuse. Well, I was working so hard,

shaking so many hands in in disaster

zones that, you know, I got injured.

So, you got that going on. Um meanwhile,

CNN has some polling information.

Gunther Eagleman on X is pointing this

out. um where even CNN is saying that uh

Trump's approval rating got higher

uh after the uh Epstein online

controversy. Now, are you surprised

that Trump's popularity went up

after it was found that he didn't find

anything on Epstein? Well, I feel like

people are responding to all the actual

accomplishments and I feel like if you

went into the public and you said, um,

hey, how much do you care about this

Epistine thing,

it's only the people like us, the people

who would, you know, tune in to a

political show or the people who would

give a podcast about politics, me, I

don't think other people care.

And so far they haven't been given a

reason to care. So I think the public

wisely is saying, "Well, if the economy

is looking good and we're monetizing

that war we don't care about, well maybe

we like this guy."

Um but very few Republicans said the top

issue was the Epstein case.

Um, yeah, there was only one person in

the entire poll, not 1% but one person

who said the Epstein thing was the

biggest issue.

Just one. One person in the entire

world,

well, in the country who was Republican.

Meanwhile, also on CNN, Scott Jennings

is reporting that quote, "I sat next to

a real life earruther."

Now, an ear truther is someone who

doesn't believe that Trump um was shot

in the ear in Butler, Pennsylvania, and

that maybe made the whole thing up to be

more popular.

And CNN actually had somebody at the

table who made the claim that he doesn't

necessarily believe the ear was really

shot. And the host, Abby Phillip, uh,

she couldn't let that go. Now, to her

credit, she made sure that her viewers

knew he got shot in the ear. We're we're

not questioning that he got shot in the

ear. He got shot in the air.

But they're they're making Scott

Jennings job so easy that all he has to

do is mock the person next to him and

that that's good entertaining TV. So

good for you.

Um, also CNN, um,

they're reading that in their latest

poll, uh, the Democratic Party is at

their lowest favorability

since 1992.

Um, but it's not as if the Democrats

have given up. Sure, you know, maybe

they haven't done well lately and maybe

their popularity or their favorability

is at the lowest level since 1992.

But here's the good news for them. They

have a plan to come back. Are you ready

for this?

Uh, apparently Democrats are trying to

roll out a new tone. So they had a

retreat in which they, you know, the

Democrats got together to strategize

what to do differently. And of course

they noticed that Trump is doing well.

So they're saying, "All right, why don't

we do more of what Trump is doing?" And

what do you think that is? Well, he uses

social media a lot.

um he's authentic and less scripted and

he does more cursing and uh they also

suggested that they use more Trump-like

insults.

So

good for the Democrats. They're staying

away from policy discussions because

they don't do so well on that. And

they've decided that the thing they hate

most about Trump is the part they're

going to copy.

That's right. the part they hate the

most, which is his personality and his

character. They've decided that's the

part they're going to copy instead of

coming up with good ideas for the

country.

I tell you, when I say that I watch the

news for the humor, this is it. It

doesn't get better than this.

Um but um Senator Chris Murphy said in

the wake of Trump, it's really important

for us to understand that authenticity

is the coin of the realm. The voters can

smell insincerity more acutely than ever

before. They know when you're using

talking points or poll tested language.

So

you tell me if I'm going too far. We've

been saying the Democrats are the

theater kids and you've probably hearing

a lot that a lot of their complaints are

quote performative

and everything seems like they're

acting. They're literally performing and

they're ignoring policy and they're

putting on little shows that are so lame

and so cringeworthy

that it makes me think, oh, those who

can act become actors. Those who can't

act become uh acting coaches.

those who can't act and can't become and

are not good enough to be acting coaches

become politicians, specifically

Democrats. So, apparently that's the

fallback position if you didn't make it

in Hollywood. Well, maybe I could run

for office. You know, I I didn't make

that a sitcom, but I feel like I could

be a representative from some state.

Well, um, so the latest thing the

Democrats, and this is a exclusive, I

have an exclusive scoop, so this is you

won't see this on any other network or

any other U podcast. You ready? Now, I

don't do this a lot, so this is a

exclusive

Scott Adams coffee scoop. The Democrats

are so anxious to copy Trump that

they're trying to figure out how to make

their legs swell

and their hands have a bruise.

Why? Well, they can't tell what the

important parts are.

They just think if Trump is doing it and

Trump is being successful, it must be

something to imitate. So now they're

trying to figure out how to make their

legs swell.

That's my exclusive. And of course it's

true. I wouldn't make that up, would I?

Maybe. Maybe I would.

Well, the big news today because it's

the summer and you get all the weird

news in the summer is that the Wall

Street Journal did a big feature article

in which they're trying to

draw a picture of Donald Trump and

Epstein as good friends for many years

now. Are you as um blown away as I am

that this Epstein story is started out

as one thing uh and Trump's involvement

was oh uh yeah it's true that Epstein

lived in the same town and Palm what is

it uh wherever that is in Florida and uh

it's true that he did go to Mara Lago at

some events but uh Trump found out that

he was a he was a dirt bag and had him

banned from Mara Lago. So for now

several years, I believe that their

their interactions were minor and that

he wasn't big fan of him and he

eventually banned him.

Now, it turns out,

according to witnesses and new

reporting, that Epstein and Trump were

something like best friends. And for

something like, I don't know, 15 years

or something, they they hung out a lot

and they would do things together a lot.

Now, how in the world are we just

finding that out? Is that weird? I I

feel like reality itself is just

bending.

Um, and it it can't be true that it took

us this long to find out that they were

not only, you know, associated with each

other, but they had a really strong

association. And there's a reason that

Trump was on his plane a bunch of times.

Now, one of the questions that was asked

by

was it Mark Halper in asking this? I

forget who asked. Um, it might have been

him on his two-way pod, which is really

good. Um,

we don't know, and nobody has asked, how

many times did Trump go to Epstein's

homes in the United States? Don't know.

How many times did Epstein uh visit

Trump in any of his locations? Don't

know. Isn't it weird that we don't know

that?

Would wouldn't those be the obvious

questions? So, the fact that this

Epstein story gets deeper and more weird

every day is just blowing me away. Like,

you you thought you knew the general

contours of the story. How in the world

are we still finding out things about

it? I don't know.

Anyway, so the news story from the Wall

Street Journal is that uh when Epstein

turned 50, Gain Maxwell organized a

bunch of um birthday cards that she put

in a binder and they were from, you

know, prominent people and friends and

stuff. And allegedly, one of the

birthday cards, Epstein was written and

a little drawing was put in it by Trump.

Now, Trump says it's a fraud and that he

did not write that message. I'll tell

you what the message is in a little bit,

but it was a kind of a personal message

that looked like they had secrets and

suddenly that's a story. Now, if you

were the Wall Street Journal

and the biggest part of your story is

that they had seen a Oh, there it is. Is

that it?

Oh my goodness.

Uh oh my. So, so right now, for the very

first time, I'm seeing what they claim

was Trump's drawing on the card. And

what they said was that he signed his

name to look like the pubic hair on the

naked woman that he drew. And I'm

looking at it for the first time. I

guess Mike Ben's posted it and I'm

seeing it in the comments now for the

first time. It's very obvious that he

did not sign his name

to be part of her um private parts. It's

literally he just signed his name at the

bottom of the drawing and it just

happened to go across part of the body.

So, the first thing you need to know is

that the news was completely lying to

you that he signed his name so it looked

like pubic hair. You would only believe

that if you'd never seen it. I'm looking

at it right now. And uh well, actually,

I can show it to you

because it's on my other device. Let's

see. Can you see that? So, look where

the look where the signature is. If I

can get it so the light doesn't destroy

it.

All right. You can see it a little bit

there. But does that look like he meant

his signature to be pubic hair? No. It's

just he signing it at the bottom of the

drawing. That's all. Now,

if you've ever seen

um if you've ever seen Trump sign

anything or do anything, he always uses

that big thick pen.

But here's a little drawing that's

doesn't look like the sure hand of

Trump. Trump has that heavy hand. So

even even when he's just signing his

name, it's like a thick lots of

pressure, you know, really.

But the drawing that he is allegedly

supposed to have drawn

clearly is drawn by somebody who doesn't

have that style of drawing.

Clearly,

um,

yeah, it doesn't look like his

handwriting, right? So, it does look

like somebody drew that in there. Maybe

auto pen, huh? Maybe Biden's auto pen

drew it.

So the uh let me give you my take on it

after I tell you what it says. So

apparently the letter maybe the other

part of the card

had some words on it

that I'll read to you. Uh happy birthday

and may every day be another wonderful

secret that was part of it. But let me

give you the whole thing. So it said

voice over. So, it used the words voice

over colon. Uh, there must be more to

life than having everything.

Then it said Donald

colon as if Donald is saying this. Yes,

there is, but I won't tell you what it

is.

And then Jeffrey colon. Nor will I since

I also know what it is. Donald, we have

certain things in common. Jeffrey.

Jeffrey. Yes, we do. Come to think of

it, Donald. Enigmas never age. Have you

noticed that, Jeffrey? As a matter of

fact, it was clear to me the last time I

saw you,

Donald. A pal is a wonderful thing.

Happy birthday, and may every day be

another wonderful secret.

All right. Now, uh, this would have

happened allegedly before we knew

everything about Epstein's activities.

So, it would not be surprising if Trump

signed a birthday card for Epstein

because it was before Epstein was in

trouble and they knew each other.

However, I just asked Grock

um I put in the alleged writing that is

allegedly from Trump and I said, "Grock,

does this match the style of Trump such

that it would look like he really wrote

it?" Do you know what Grock said? Nope.

Did I have to ask Grock if it matched

Trump's style? Nope. Did any of us need

to ask anybody if that was Trump's

writing? Nope. It obviously isn't. Now,

you might recall

that Trump weirdly said that he thought

that things had been added to the

Epstein file

that were just made up. you know, maybe

by Comey and who knows who else. And

when I heard that, I thought to myself,

really, he he's gonna try to convince us

that just made up stuff was added to the

file. I don't believe that madeup stuff

was added to the file. And then this

comes out, and this what this is not

part of the Epstein files. The Wall

Street Journal has this exclusive. they

somehow got to look at at this.

But it's seems obviously fake.

If this is real,

um they're going to have to prove it and

they're going to have to have a witness

who had it in their hand or saw it or

something. But it looks fake as hell.

Like seriously fake. So why would this

even be there? I don't know.

You believe they do doctorred the files?

Well, I do believe that the Epstein

files probably have some deletions,

but it would be a whole other level. You

know, things things that disappeared,

but it would be a whole other level if

somebody made up stuff and just put it

in the file. Maybe nothing is

impossible.

Scott Jennings reaction to the story

about the birthday card is my reaction

to reading this is so what uh I mean

2003 before anything that happened. We

know Donald Trump knew the guy. We also

know he disowned him and kicked him out

of the club. Yeah. So I would agree that

the non news nerd public, they don't

really care.

Um, and now it looks like Trump is going

to sue Rupert Murdoch and the Wall

Street Journal. Rupert Murdoch, also the

owner of Fox News,

which is his friend sometimes.

So, we'll see. Um, but he wants Murdoch

to be on record.

Um, then even Elon Musk apparently

doubted that it was legitimate.

So Elon Musk would kind of, you know,

want Trump to maybe get in trouble based

on his prior comments, but even Elon

Musk looks at that and says, "I

don't think so." So

that's my my take is that it's sort of

obviously not real. The the closest that

could be to real is if Trump had

delegated somebody else to draw

something on the card, you know, some

assistant or something. But why would

they draw the naked woman on a I don't

know. None of it makes sense. So, I'm

going to say Trump is probably right.

I'm going to give this a 95% chance of

being fake news.

Mike Benz has an interesting take on

Epstein's connection to intelligence

agencies and uh Mike Benz as the

national treasure that he is explains to

us things that most of us didn't know

about how the world works.

And one of them you need to know is that

you don't need to work for the CIA.

You could simply be somebody that they

deal with in a mutually productive way.

So that's different from working for

them. It might be that you just have

some way that you can both make money.

CIA gets what they want. Maybe the

middleman who makes something happen

gets what they want. Would that be a

case of working for or working with the

CIA? Well, arguably not.

So, you could imagine that all

intelligence agencies would not say

they've ever worked with them. But

maybe, as uh Mike Benz points out,

it could be that the the sex part of the

Epstein operation was to quote juice

deals.

So maybe it allowed him to have

relationships with heads of state and

important people that otherwise he

wouldn't have access to. Maybe

they worried that he had too much

information about them, so they were a

little bit more willing to donate money

to things that the CIA would want money

donated to.

So, it's entirely possible that there's

a whole bunch of rich people who have

given lots of money to things that

Jeffrey Epstein said, "Hey, uh, you know

what would be good to donate money to?

this particular charity or this college

or this program or this education in

another country and then the person

doing the donating would not even know

they were working for were doing the

bidding of the CIA. Only Epstein would

know that. So that model would be, hey

Epstein,

um, we need we want a bunch of people to

donate to this thing or another

because it's good for the United States.

So can you get some rich people to

donate? Yes, I can. And would that get

him any money that he gets to keep?

Maybe. I don't know. Maybe he just keeps

part of it.

Apparently, Bill Burns, who was the head

of the CIA at one point, met with

Epstein three times, including two times

at his house.

Okay, that's that's pretty damning. If

if you have the uh head of the CIA

visiting your house multiple times and

then you say, "I'm not working with

them." Well,

okay.

I'm not so sure.

Um, but it could be that Epstein was

just an expert at getting money from

people and hiding the trail.

Um, one of the things that uh that Benz

recommends is that uh Trump allow the

release of the transcripts and uh

questions and answers from something

called the OPR, the Office of

Professional Responsibility,

where investigators talked to Alex

Acasta. He was the prosecutor working on

the original 2008 plea deal for Epstein.

And I thought to myself, how does how

does Mike Benz know all these things

even exist?

Now, the the fact that we have, and I

say we, you know, the the people who are

proTrump, that we have a Mike Benz who

seems to have this incredible

understanding of how the government is

organized in the real world. Um, so he

can do what none of us could do. And

presumably the the fake news couldn't do

it either, which is to say there is a

document that probably exists that's

probably not part of the quote Epstein

files that if we could see it would

answer a lot of questions such as the

question of whether um Alex Aosta ever

said that Epstein was part of the some

intelligence operation

because I don't believe that that is

proven. I believe that people say that

Alex Epstein said it, but I don't

believe that we have a document to prove

it or a video of him saying it.

So, that's a good idea. We should get

access to that. And then uh Charlie Kirk

um

goes further and says that uh somebody

should bring a cast in for a full

interview to find out what he says. If

he said it once, maybe he'll say it

again cuz you know Epstein's dead. So he

could probably say things he couldn't

say originally. So yeah, let's hear from

Macasa. He's still alive.

And then uh Trump posted on True Social

that he wants Bondi to produce quote any

and all pertinent grand jury testimony

um subject to court approval.

So apparently there are some documents

that you would not call part of the

Epstein files that would tell us maybe

everything we want to know. Maybe. So

that's possible.

Um, and then representative uh Anna

Paulina Luna said this on Max. Why

hasn't a single media outlet asked me to

discuss my investigation into the

destruction of Epstein's evidence at the

FBI under Biden's former deputy

director? To which I say, wait, what?

Are you telling me that uh

Representative Luna

has been doing an investigation into the

destruction of Epstein evidence at the

FBI and apparently she has evidence that

that happened otherwise she wouldn't be

mentioning it and that's not the top

headline

and she's saying why does no media

outlet want to talk to me about this?

Yeah, good question. Why does no media

outlet want to talk to her about what

seems to be a really important question?

So that's going on. And then

insurrection bar on X points out that

apparently we know somehow we know this

that Harvard gave Epstein an office

keycard access and unrestricted

visitation rights between 2003 and 2007.

They also let him attend faculty

meetings, meet students, and host

visitors. And nobody is asking why they

did that. Keep in mind, Epstein didn't

even have a college education.

And at one point, he was a math teacher

at an exclusive school that Bill Barr's

father ran. And Harvard was giving him

special access to the campus for reasons

that we don't quite understand. Now, it

might be because one of the things that

Epstein did was raise money for Harvard.

So, there might be just a money reason

for it, but we'd like to know that.

Even MSNBC is asking Democrats um why

they didn't do more about the Epstein

files if it's if it's so important now.

So, MSNBC said to uh Jamie Rascin,

is that his name? Rasking. Yeah. Um I if

it was a crisis then it's a crisis now.

Why didn't Democrats call for Epstein's

list to be released when Biden was in

office? And Rasian says I mean I don't

know uh we had other cases uh uh uh we

were busy. What were the autocracy and

the stealing of the democracy?

No, say that.

He didn't say that, but he did not

answer that question very well. Why

didn't the Democrats do more?

And then, uh, Lawrence O'Donnell, who is

going full batshit crazy, Western

lensman, points this out with a video

clip. Um, so Lawrence O'Donnell on

MSNBC.

He's floating the idea that JD Vance is

the one behind that uh that birthday

letter

because he says JD Vance is trying to

get a promotion. So, he's trying to take

Trump out so he can become president.

And uh and Lawrence O'Donnell thinks

that the way he's doing it is that he's

the person behind the the birthday card

that the Wall Street Journal was writing

about.

Now,

does that strike you as a really good

point worthy of discussion,

or does it strike you as Lawrence

O'Donnell has a mental problem?

To me, it's the latter. It looks like,

"Oh my god, you're totally mental.

What is wrong with you? You should

immediately seek therapy or have

somebody look at your cell phone to see

what you've been doing with it lately."

That's what I say.

Well, uh, Canada's Prime Minister Mark

Carney has conceded, according to

Breitbart News, Francis Martell is

writing about this that, uh, Canada

might not be able to get Trump to drop

all of his tariffs when they get a deal

eventually. So, in other words, Canada

now believes that they will simply pay

more even if they agree to a deal.

So, is that a case of Trump winning?

Yes, it is. If they've already

acknowledged that at the end of the

negotiations, they're going to be worse

off and America will be better off

because that's what they said. I mean,

that's what the prime minister said.

Yep.

That looks like it.

And then according to a different

Carney, John Carney who writes for

Breitbart,

um that the import pricing that we can

see suggests that the foreign producers

are eating most of the uh the cost of

the tariffs by lowering their prices.

So, it would seem that Canada is

essentially endorsing Trump's view of

tariffs as uh making things a little

more fair and uh that the economists

were all wrong. So, the economists have

been surveyed again and they've lowered

their odds that we're going to go into

some kind of recession. So, it's down to

33% according to the Wall Street

Journal. It was 45% in April when we

were they were all worried about the uh

tariffs.

So, you've got a whole bunch of

economists who were wrong about tariffs.

What good are the economists? And is it

true that Trump is just smarter than the

economists? Because it looks like it.

Did Did Trump, who is not an economist,

just beat every economist on this

prediction?

It looks like it. I mean, you're going

to have to give him credit. He looks

like he beat every expert in the field.

It looks like it.

Well, uh, Gavin Newsome says he's suing

Fox because, uh, he claims that Jesse

Waters on his show falsely asserted

that, uh, Newsome had lied about when he

talked to Trump about the, I guess,

about the disasters in the fire disaster

in California.

and he alleges that uh Jesse Waters

aired a deceptively edited clip of

Trump's remarks omitting Trump saying a

day ago. So, I guess um Nome

said they just talked to Trump and Jesse

Waters, I think, if I'm reading this

right, is claiming that that didn't

happen. But in order to bolster that

claim, had to remove from the clip the

part where Trump said it did happen.

And according to Nuome, he would settle

for an apology, but if not, he has all

day long to do this legal process and

he's suing for hundreds of millions of

dollars.

And I'm wondering what the heck will Fox

News do because if Newsome can produce

the clip that shows that the important

part of the clip was clipped off of the

clip,

it's going to be hard to say that they

didn't know they were doing it. You know

what I mean? Now, Jesse himself is not

the one who's preparing the clips. We

assume that that would be some kind of

producer function. So, it could be that

Jesse is just finding out that he did a

story that didn't didn't pass the

factchecking.

So, I don't know what you do if it might

be just a producer thing,

but if I were Jesse and I knew that the

proof of the other side's point was

simply a video clip that everybody has

access to,

I think I'd be apologizing.

Oh, somebody says that Jesse apologized

last night on the air. Oh, okay. All

right. Well, he doesn't have to take my

advice. He already did it. That would be

how I would have handled it. I I would

have done that. I would have apologized

on air.

Um, according to News Nation, the

personal health information of 79

million people, Americans, will be

handed over to ICE. And then ICE will

use that to figure out how to track down

immigrants who are in the US illegally.

Um, I guess part of it is to get them

the illegals off of Medicaid because

they're not allowed to be on it, but

also maybe to just locate them. I don't

know how you do that with that data, but

that's bad. Now, you might remember that

I said to you

that I wondered how long it would be

before the aggressive deportations would

start affecting

regular citizens.

So, on day one, when you hear that the

ICE is deporting some murderers and some

gang members, I say to myself, "Huh,

that didn't affect me in any way, but if

it did, it was a positive. I'm better

off." And then they do some more

criminals and they, you know, go after

gangs trying to take over apartment

buildings or whatever they're doing. And

I say to myself, well, that's all good.

But remember, I warned you that there

will be a time when the regular citizens

are affected by it and that's going to

change the conversation.

So if you were, for example, a farmer

who couldn't get your crops picked, and

I'm not saying that will happen. It's

not a prediction, but if you know, just

as an example, that might affect your

cost of food, maybe. And then you'd say,

"Oh, wait. They've they've deported so

many people that we can't even fill

those jobs and my food cost just went up

because there was a lot of waste."

Or maybe there were some other services

that you couldn't get done. Or maybe

people that you knew and like in your

life are being deported and you don't

think that they were criminals. Well,

I'm here to tell you that I have now

crossed that line. Meaning that this now

has affected me personally.

Not because I'm an illegal.

Turns out I'm a citizen. Who knew? But I

did have a um I did meet and have an

interaction with somebody

who is their life is ruined.

Their life is ruined

because um one of them has been here I

don't know 15 or 20 years has been

working productively and legally. Never

broke a law. Never got a speeding

ticket. um has children that are legal

residents cuz they were born here and

has I believe an American wife. I'm not

positive about that. Um I think so. and

his life and his family's life is in

terror right now because they expect

that although they're they're nothing

like the criminals that are being

deported that they might get scooped up

and sent to a country that they they

don't consider their country. You know,

if you've been living and working and

obeying the laws,

um you think this is your country and

no, it's nobody that you know. So, don't

guess. Please don't guess in the

comments because it's not who you think.

It's just somebody I uh had a

conversation with yesterday.

And I would say that affects me

personally because it's the first time I

had a conversation with somebody who was

a law-abiding, you know, God-loving,

family loving, good person whose life is

kind of ruined at the moment. and I

don't love it.

So, more and more of you, I think, are

going to have this experience

that at some point there the cutting is

going to reach the bone and you're going

to say, "Oh, wait a minute. I didn't

realize that was going to happen." So, I

don't know when that happens, but I'm

here to tell you it already happened to

me. So my um my take on immigration was

always that if they spent all of their

time just looking for the the problem

people that they would never run out of

stuff to do and then at some point

they'd say, "All right, we probably cut

enough. We can absorb the rest of the

people. You know, we we don't need to

get every single person."

Now, I know a lot of you say, "Well, I

don't know who you talk to, so therefore

it's irrelevant to me. I want them all

all gone." Um, I get that. What I'm

telling you is it might not be people

you don't know forever.

It it might start bleeding over into

your actual life. And when it does,

people are going to have a different

opinion about it. So, that's my

prediction.

All right.

Um, China has allegedly been working on

super soldiers.

News Nation had a former senior

intelligence officer in the Defense

Intelligence Agency who says that uh

that China allegedly is trying to

genetically alter their people to make

super soldiers. To which I say, you're a

little too late, China, because our

robots are going to enjoy killing your

super soldiers.

Um, super soldier is never going to be

better than robot if you know what I

mean. So unless those super soldiers

roll out this week,

uh, by next year they'll just be target

practice for our robots.

And then according to nature the

publication uh there are a bunch of

lowquality scientific papers being

submitted like more than ever because

people are using AI on public databases.

So they're just using AI to sort of do

the research and write up the the paper.

So before that was happening,

the scientific papers that were

submitted and approved, peer-reviewed,

only half of them were even

reproducible. So it's basically a coin

flip if the science was right or made

up. And now it looks like it might be

getting worse because all these

lowquality papers. Anyway, that's all I

got for you today. And uh looks like the

weekend's here. We're ready for the

weekend. All right. Uh, I'm going to say

bye to most of you and I'm going to

privately talk to my beloved

um subscribers on locals for a little

bit of extra. And of course, they also

had the pre-show which you don't get to

see. But those of you who are about to

disappear,

uh, thanks for joining. We'll be same

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