Episode 2968 CWSA 09/24/25

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Well, can you believe it?

There's a study that says eating chocolate might slow aging and help your heart.

That would be the millionth time that we've seen this study.

And uh my suggestion is that uh if you'd like to save a little money on these studies about chocolate next time, just ask me.

Yes, chocolate is good for you.

But not that milk chocolate.

There's not enough chocolate in there.

You want the good flavonoids.

All right.

There's another study um that says that people feel happier when they're doing ordinary everyday things with other people.

That's right.

They did a study and showed that being lonely is not optimal.

Can you believe it?

I know.

Science is surprising us every day.

Yeah.

Being lonely not good.

Doesn't make you happy.

So do things with other people if you have a choice.

Can you believe according to Sai Post Eric Dolan's writing that uh even light alcohol drinking raises your dementia risk?

H I wonder if there's anybody they could have asked to save all that time.

Yes, I could have asked Scott because yeah, I knew that alcohol is bad for you and I was pretty pretty sure that that included your brain because your brain is part of your body.

Your body is your brain.

Well, here's a surprising uh surprising situation.

the publication called The Atlantic, which is the most uh anti-Trump, you know, publication you could ever imagine, um, believe it or not, has a article that says that left-wing violence is on the rise and that it's, uh, there have been more terror attacks from left-wing idols than right in recent years.

Now, you know how big a debate that was, right?

So all the people on the left said, "No, no, it's obvious that the people on the right are doing all the terrorism." And the people on the right said, "No, no, it's obvious the people on the left are doing more terrorism." Uh, well, the Atlantic, which is left, has now conclusively decided based on their own research that the left is a little bit more terrorist and murdery.

And once again, you're right.

Again, by the way, there will be a a minor theme to today's show, which is that all everybody who is a critic of Trump is having a bad time.

All of his critics are having a bad week.

Different reasons, but it's kind of a weird coincidence.

Um, according to the Washington Examiner, Paul Bernard's writing about a Rasen poll, they showed that uh uh over half of liberals uh call the Kirk assassination quote understandable.

Understandable meaning that um they believe that he spoke hate speech.

and people who speak hate speech.

I guess half of the people said, "Well, you got to expect there's going to be some blowback for that." And uh so that's what the liberals think.

Now, to me, this is a perfect example of the power of brainwashing because you'd have to brainwash people to think that Charlie Kirk was speaking hate about anybody even once.

Even once.

never happened even once about anybody but it is widely believed.

So how how powerful is brainwashing?

Well, it convinced half of the country that a good man is a bad man.

And it convinced half of that half that it probably is understandable that somebody would get violent with him.

All of that is complete brainwashing.

There's not one bit of that that comes from people looking at, you know, real stuff and coming up with their own opinion.

These are assigned opinions.

So, do do you have any more questions about how powerful brainwashing is?

This is the cleanest example you ever seen.

That what makes it extra clean is that uh Charlie Kirk didn't always exist.

meaning that he's a a relatively newish phenomenon.

You know, last 10 years, I guess he rose.

And so it's not like, well, Scott, you know, people have always thought this about that for for all through history.

Nope.

Nobody had any opinion about him at all until it was assigned to them.

And uh pure brainwashing.

Well, in other news that Trump might enjoy, Peter Sprock, do you remember him from the old uh lawfaring days trying to get Trump?

Allegedly, his messages suggested that he was part of a plot to overthrow the government.

Some say he's never been convicted for anything like that, but um he was suing over his firing because I guess he claimed that he had freedom of speech in his messages to his girlfriend.

And uh since he got fired for something he said in his personal speech, he thought that his uh his free speech had been violated and he shouldn't have been fired.

Now, if you ask me, that's a pretty bad argument.

And he lost.

So, that case is over.

So, Peter Stro loses.

That's sort of like Trump winning because he would like to know that Peter Stro lost.

Remember, Trump says he hates his enemies, so he hates Stro.

Well, Keithman, as you know, he's my mascot.

Um, he apologized for threatening the other Scott, Scott Jennings.

There are only two of us, by the way.

Just me and Scott Jennings.

No other Scots.

Um, and uh, apparently there was an FBI referral.

I think Scott Jennings made or or somebody made a FBI referral because what he said on social media said of Scott Jennings quote you're next mother effer and then but keep mugging for the camera.

Well, in in the context of the Charlie Kirk um tragedy, saying that somebody's next uh when when we're still in that sort of, you know, environment of still talking about and thinking about Charlie Kirk was taken as a physical threat.

But, uh Keithman, who's not as dumb as he acts, he couldn't be.

wouldn't be possible.

Um, decided he better apologize and clarify that and he was like, "No, no, it was not about hurting Scott Jennings.

It was about his career.

His career would be next." Do you believe that?

Do you believe that in the shadow of the Charlie Kirk situation that when somebody says you're next, that obviously just means their job?

I don't know.

I can't read his mind.

So, um, so that happened.

So, that's uh awkward for another anti-Trumper.

How about Hollywood?

How much does Hollywood like uh Trump?

Not so much.

Uh but Hollywood has uh well they're really in trouble now because the AI examples that we're seeing today uh there were two different apps using AI that could substitute any celebrity's face and body for anything else.

So you could have you could make your own movie with yourself as the actor um or let's say yourself as the main actor and then just replace it when you're done and it will be it'll look um it it won't look like AI.

It'll look exactly like you know Brad Pitt was in your actual movie.

So that's coming.

I don't see how Hollywood as an industry can survive because it looks like that'll all turn into, you know, people who know how to use AI.

So, Hollywood's got a tough time.

Trump might enjoy watching Hollywood go down.

Well, Bridget Mcronone, who as you know is in a lawsuit with Candace Owens over the issue of whether or not she was born a man.

Now, I I will say again, I do not believe Bridget Mcronone was born a man.

However, if you've heard the the long the long argument from Candace uh with all the evidence that she believes proves that she is, it's very persuasive.

Now, I'm not persuaded, but not because it's not persuasive.

I I just it's just hard for me to believe it.

So, um, so Bridget Mcronone has the easiest job in the world.

She simply has to prove that she was born a woman.

Could anything be easier than that?

So, she submitted some what she called photographic evidence, but we have no details on what was photographed and how that proved the case, but apparently uh the that's been challenged in court.

So, whatever that photographic evidence was, uh, didn't convince everybody.

And I'm wondering, how could you convince anybody with a photograph?

It's 2025.

I mean, I just got done telling you that you can make anybody look like Brad Pitt or Taylor Swift and you can't tell the difference.

So in the age of AI, you don't think that a state actor, you know, the government of France, they couldn't put together a fake photograph that you thought was real.

I mean, I don't know how you'd ever believe a photograph.

And what would the And what would the photograph be of?

If they had a photograph of uh Bridget Mcronone, very young um looking female, that wouldn't really be that wouldn't tell you, would it?

If they had a picture of her looking pregnant, would that convince you she was a woman?

Or or would you say to yourself, "Wait a minute, that's when they were trying to sell the idea that she was a female, so she probably just put some rags under her dress to pretend to be pregnant or something like that.

So, my point is I don't know how photographic evidence could ever work.

Um, you would need the other team's doctor to stand in the room and examine her, wouldn't you?

Seems to me.

So, I don't know.

We'll see where that goes.

Um, apparently the uh the interest in Turning.

Point USA after uh Charlie Kirk's death has skyrocketed.

Now the current number is there have been 120,000 requests for information on starting a chapter.

120,000 requests.

Wow.

Uh that's a lot.

Breitbart News is reporting on that.

Elizabeth Wybel.

Well, the one of the attempted Trump assassins at Ryan Ralph who was defending himself, he uh did not do a good job defending himself.

He was found guilty and it looks like he'll I think he'll go away for life.

Um, as soon as the verdict was read, he grabbed a pen and tried to murder himself uh by stabbing himself in the neck with a pen, but they stopped him before he could succeed.

Um, I have one thing to say about Ryan Ruth.

He is not good at killing anything.

Not good at killing anything.

He tried to kill people in Ukraine.

I don't think he got that together.

Tried to kill Trump.

Didn't work.

tried to kill himself.

Didn't work.

I think he should just take a hit.

Ryan, you're not good at killing anything.

Stop it.

Stop it.

Well, Department of Homeland Security is all happy they've reached the 2 million uh illegals leaving the country since January.

2 million.

Now, the vast majority of them were self-epporting because they didn't want to, you know, get deported the hard way.

Um, but wow, 2 million in 6 months.

I I find that an impressive number and I'm most impressed that they figured out a way to do it without having to, you know, ship every one of them.

Um, that the the ones leaving voluntarily turn out to be the big number.

So, that's pretty impressive.

Well, as you might imagine now that the Trump administration has said that Tylenol might be a bad idea if you're pregnant, but talk to your doctor because there might be some cases where it's necessary or worth the risk.

But, uh, this caused people on Tik.

Tok, people on the left to, uh, pointedly take Tylenol while they're pregnant to show you how how wrong Trump is about everything.

So, but here's the funny thing about this.

If if if it's true, and I don't know that it is, but if it's true that taking Tylenol while you're pregnant can cause your child to be autistic.

I'm wondering how many of the autistic kids end up being Trump supporters or at least conservative, you know, by the time they're old enough.

Are are people on the spectrum um easily fooled by brainwashing or are they a little, you know, less are they more analytical in some cases?

I'm just wondering if they're taking Tylenol and turning turning their children into conservatives.

I don't know.

Maybe some of them.

Well, uh, Stephanopoulos is trying to push the idea that the cuts in USAD um are causing the mass deaths of people in other countries that would otherwise be saved by that spending.

But, uh, Rubio has a pretty good response to that.

Um, so Stephan said to him on a show yesterday, you're you're saying no one's died because of the aid cuts.

Now, of course, people probably have died because there are things that we gave money to that we stopped giving money to, and they were probably pretty important things.

Um, but Rubio has the right frame.

He says, "No one has died because the US has cut aid.

People have died because gangs steal the aid.

People have died because other countries have not stepped up.

The US has saved more lives than any other country in the world." So probably he could do a little bit better on that answer.

But the basic answer is why is only US spending the one that's being measured for inadequacy?

Wouldn't it be true that every single country in the world could spend more to save more people in other countries?

Why are you only looking at us?

Why Why does that even make sense?

There are a million things we could be doing that we're not.

Does that mean we're killing people by not doing it?

Well, in some, you know, theoretical way, I suppose, but it's not a reasonable, it's not a reasonable attack.

The reasonable attack is, uh, the US can't do everything for everybody, and we're going to do a little less.

Yeah, the more people will die, but there's nothing that would stop every other country in the world from stepping up and filling the gap.

So, if nobody else in the world is willing to help, why why is why is all the uh pressure on the United States?

It's a good question.

Well, in John Bolton news, we're now learning that uh the FBI had found some uh secret or confidential or whatever classified documents in his office.

So, we already knew that they went through his home.

We're not sure what they found, but in his office there were some classified materials.

And so I went to Grock and I said, "Did John Bolton ever mock Trump for his classified documents at Mara Lago?" And the answer is yes, he did.

So while while John Bolton had his own classified documents at both his office and I believe at his home, he was he was criticizing Trump for having classified documents at Mara Lago.

That takes a little bit of guts, doesn't it?

Remember my uh my theme for today that everybody who's a anti-Trumper seems to be having a bad week.

Well, John Bolton's on that list having a bad week.

Kla Harris, I think she's having a bad week, too.

So, she went on the View yesterday.

She's selling her new book, 107 Days.

Um, and you should hear her on The View.

And here's why you should listen to it.

Because she's not drunk.

If you wondered if she's drunk in those other appearances, listen to her on The View.

Now, that's a morning show.

So, the odds of her being drunk were lower, you know, just in general.

But when you hear her obviously not drunk, she's still, you know, she still is bad at, you know, talking.

She's bad at talking, but she there's no indication of drunk.

she her speaking uh tone is, you know, perfect and normal and and all that.

So, if you want to wonder is she drunk in those other videos, just watch the view.

When you see her not drunk, you go, "Oh, oh, okay.

That's what not drunk looks like." Yeah, there's something going on there.

Anyway, You.

Tube has now admitted, you know, Google owns You.

Tube.

So, Google has admitted uh that You.

Tube was in fact censoring people during the COVID pandemic for uh and for political reasons and uh they've offered uh terminated creators the opportunity to rejoin the platform.

So, does it feel to you as if everything you suspected was true several years ago was all true?

Like every single thing you thought?

Wait a minute.

I think the platforms are discriminating against certain kinds of people.

Turns out they were.

Yep.

It was exactly what you thought.

Wait a minute.

I don't think these vaccines are tested as much as I would like.

H turns out you're right.

So, just about everything you suspected is true.

Uh I suspected that the intelligence people were behind the Russia collusion hoax.

Well, looks like they were.

I suspected that climate change was um not going to pan out in terms of the predictions and that someday we would realize it was a hoax.

Well, I don't know if we're totally there yet, but we're getting really close.

Everything you suspected, you thought the news might have been intentionally fake.

It was intentionally fake.

Yeah.

almost everything you suspected.

The the one that we haven't um let's say that's not validated yet is that the 2020 election was rigged.

Now, let me ask you this.

Look at all the things that you suspected and how many of them turned out to be true?

Almost all of them.

You know, there might be some exceptions, but I think almost all of them.

Now, in that context, what are the odds that so many people suspect the 2020 election was rigged?

What are the odds that we will not someday find out it was rigged?

I I feel like everything is pointing in that direction.

Now, to be clear, I do not personally have any evidence of any rigging in 2020.

I don't.

But I'll tell you, the people who have been right about everything, right?

Right.

Right.

Right.

They think it was rigged.

So, are you going to ignore the people who are right about everything?

I don't know.

At your peril.

Um, let's see.

Uh so Democrats won some special election in Arizona which allegedly will give the uh Democrats enough votes.

Uh I assume that means they get some Republican votes of course because Republicans still have the majority.

But uh with this one extra vote, they will have enough votes to um force the uh the release or at least have a vote.

They can only force a vote.

They can't force the outcome, but they can force a vote on releasing all the Epstein files, which means everybody's going to have to be on record as saying that they will or will not be in favor of releasing them.

And I think if you put everybody on record, doesn't that make it a little more likely that people won't resist because it looks too sketchy if they do?

So maybe we're inching closer to seeing some of that Epstein stuff.

I don't know.

Well, you probably already heard that uh Trump spoke at the UN and he had two technical difficulties.

One was the escalator stopped as soon as he and Melania uh got, you know, a few feet into it.

And uh the UN has now investigated and they say it was just a mistake.

It was just an accident and that some videographer uh may have triggered some kind of safety thing that made it stop.

Does that sound real to you?

Well, I would look at the context, which included reporting that said that uh UN staff had been joking before Trump got there that they should turn off the elevator and the escalator and claim they don't have enough money to run them.

So, what are the odds that they were joking about doing this exact thing and then by accident, by total accident, the thing that's never happened to any president at the UN ever, by total accident, it just happened.

It just happened.

So, believe it, people.

Believe it.

That's just a coincidence.

Sorry, but we're not really in the mood to accept that coincidence.

And you know, the funny thing is it might be a coincidence.

It's not like it's impossible.

I mean, so you know how sometimes if you think too much about a thing happening, it happens.

Maybe a lot of people are thinking about it happening.

You know, I that's how I think the simulation works, you know, with affirmations, etc.

If a lot of people are thinking a thing could happen, I just feel like it's more likely it's going to happen.

However, that would be a lot of a coincidence to accept.

A really, really big one.

So, I don't think we're in the mood to accept that.

And then the uh and then the teleprompter doesn't work when Trump goes to give his speech.

So, another coincidence.

Probably just a coincidence.

I I guess now that the the UN got their funding cut, well, I guess the the the the guy who does all the technical stuff must be on vacation.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Or got fired or something.

Anyway, so all that looks really sketchy, but Trump did a uh a a Trumpian great job with his speech.

Um he said that uh let's see what are some of the things he said.

He criticized globalism.

He said climate change was a big old hoax.

He said open borders were a giant mistake and the other countries were committing national suicide.

Um and he says that the the entire globalist concept this is what Trump said.

The entire globalist concept of asking successful industrialized nations to inflict pain on themselves and radically disrupt their entire societies must be rejected completely and totally.

Yeah.

Yeah.

How about you stop telling countries like us to do all the worst things that we could do?

Yeah.

How about that?

And then he really put the hammer down.

Trump daddy said any system that results in the mass trafficking of children is inherently evil.

Yet that is exactly what the globalist migration agenda has done.

Okay.

Well, yeah.

I mean, I don't think they intentionally did that, but maybe some of them did.

You never know.

Um and then he accused China, India and uh some NATO countries of funding Russia's war by buying all their oil when they don't have to.

And he said that the US is having a golden age and that everything's going great over here.

All right.

Okay.

Um, I was I was trying to imagine what would it be like if you were one of the leaders who had been, you know, or maybe still still are really proclimate change is real.

We got to do something.

What would it feel like to have the most important leader in the world who's been right about a lot?

And we're not talking about an ordinary president.

We're talking about the president who is famous for being right when things don't look like he might be.

He's famous for that.

This is probably his his greatest challenge to get people to believe that climate change was sort of exaggerated and overdone.

And but imagine sitting there in the UN and the most important leader of the in my opinion the most important country uh is saying that their biggest the biggest thing they've been working on for years is a complete hoax and a waste of time.

What would that feel like?

In theory, it should trigger cognitive dissonance massively because remember, cognitive dissonance gets triggered when you believe you're a certain kind of person, smart, educated, well-informed about science.

And then none of the predictions that you were buying into seem to be coming true.

And then Trump, who has been right about a lot, a lot, comes in and says the whole thing was a hoax.

It was all BS.

Now, is it possible for any of the other brains in that room to say, "Huh, well, you know what?

He does make a good case.

There were many predictions.

They seem to be off.

It does sort of look like maybe people were just chasing money and it was a big old grift.

Hm.

Yes, I changed my mind.

So, after years of saying it was the most important thing in the world, I'm going to change my mind to I was a idiot and I got bamboozled into wasting my country's resources.

It's not possible that those particular people do not have the option of changing their mind.

It would be too much of a cognitive load.

It just can't be done.

Can't be done.

So the only way that uh you know things will change is if there's an entire new wave of younger probably conservative leaders who didn't believe it from the start.

If that happens then you can get governments not believing climate change.

But you're not going to change the minds of the ones who put their entire reputation and selfimage on the line.

You can't change that.

That's what that's how cognitive dissonance happens when when you have that contrast between what you did and what makes sense.

Well, Jimmy Kimmel was back on the air last night.

I'm sure his ratings were big because people wanted to see what he had to say.

got standing ovations and he was tearful and um he didn't apologize exactly, but he sort of had a few words around what he did.

He said, quote, "I understand that to some that felt uh that that what he said felt either illtimed or unclear or maybe both.

And for those who think I did point a finger, I get why you're upset." So, it's not an apology.

He just says he understands why you're upset.

And they said some more.

And then he said, "I don't think the murderer who shot Charlie Kirk represents anyone." So he's not going to say that's a mag person.

Um and this is a sick person who believes violence is a solution and it isn't.

And then he went for the kill shot.

Now, I would hate to say that I may have suggested this.

I did I didn't suggest it to anybody on his on his team, but I said in public my own opinion was that uh Charlie Kirk would have uh wanted him to go back on the air because Charlie Kirk was very pro- free of speech and it seemed to me he would have said, "Well, okay, your joke didn't land if it was a joke, but I don't think you should be off the air." That's my opinion of what I think Charlie Kirk would have been all about if he could be here to give his opinion.

Um, and Kimble did a version of that, but even a stronger version by referencing the um Erica, the wife of Charlie Kirk, who forgave the murderer.

She actually forgave him in public.

Now, that that was a very impactful thing.

Yeah, I it would be hard not to feel that the the impact of that.

It that was so so strong.

And uh so Kibble says uh she forgave him.

Talking about uh the shooter, she forgave him.

Uh that is an example we should follow if you believe in the teachings of Jesus as I do.

He said there it was.

That's it.

A selfless act of grace.

Okay.

All right, he nailed it.

Yeah, I know you don't want him to, but he nailed it.

You know, if if you if you attach it to Erica's um you know, incredible strength and her forgiveness and her grace.

I think grace is the right answer there, the right word.

Um maybe it's just time to let it go.

May maybe we can be, you know, as worthy in some small way as uh Erica and uh maybe we should have a little grace.

Now, I understand that we're in a situation where it's sort of a a war between the left and the right and we should crush them uh as permanently as we can every opportunity we get.

Maybe.

But I do like free speech and I do like grace and I do like forgiveness when it's just about words.

Um, so, uh, I hate to say it, but this was best case scenario.

Best case scenario.

I don't want to see all the staff losing their jobs.

Um, I do want him to recognize that, you know, there was a problem there and acknowledge it.

And I do want to live in a world where we can forgive things that people say, you know, if they're if there's really a question of what they meant and what their intention was, we should be able to forgive that.

But it looks like that won't get him out of the out of the trouble because uh two affiliate groups, the Sinclair Group and Next.

Star, who collectively have dozens and dozens of local stations, have said that they will not carry they will not carry his return.

Now, I suspect they might change their mind.

You know, maybe a little time has to go by.

I don't know.

But I do wonder if they'll keep him on the air without those uh locals.

Uh they got a lot to talk about.

So this this is not done by any means.

And it could be that ABC and Disney have decided that it's easiest to keep him on until his contract runs out anyway.

And then they can say, well, you know, it's not about what you said now.

is definitely about the fact that the affiliates are not running you.

We don't have a way to make money now.

Then they can do whatever they want.

Well, Chuck Schumer, who at one point didn't want to meet with uh President Trump about the budget they're trying to get settled, uh he's now saying he will meet with him anywhere he wants, on the golf course, you name it.

So, he says, "We're ready to work with the president.

we're willing to sit down with him.

We'll even go to the golf course, wherever he wants to go.

So, um there might be some indication that the Democrats will be blamed if there's a government shutdown.

Now, I don't know how that works.

What What is the What is the logic of who gets blamed?

Is there any is there any way to predict that?

Is it the uh the party in charge?

Do they always get blamed if they have the power?

Or um is there some reason that the Democrats would get blamed this time?

I don't know.

But the argument is they want uh uh massively more spending for health care, but specifically I think that would include paying for trans surgeries for kids and uh health care for illegal aliens and uh more than that they would say, but uh I don't know how much more than that.

So um like I said, there's no chance that they're going to agree on a budget.

They will kick the can down the road and show that they cannot do the basic work of the people.

The most basic thing your government should do is allocate money.

They will not do that.

They should all be fired.

Right?

If they can't allocate money, can't even take a shot at it.

I'm not even saying doing it right.

If they can't even do it, if you can't do it, the main thing that you're supposed to do, you should all be fired.

The every one of them should be let go.

There should be some kind of law that says if you don't if you don't pass a budget, you don't get paid.

At the very least, it should be if you don't pass a budget, you don't get paid.

Cuz why do we pay them to pass a budget?

So, is that fair?

You don't get paid if you don't pass the budget.

What if Trump did an executive order that says you don't get paid if you don't pass the budget?

Would it stick?

I mean, I don't see how it would because then he'd be interfering in the other, you know, interfering in the other branch of government.

But something's got to change.

I mean, we literally can't survive having a Congress that can't make a budget.

that's not survivable.

We we'll just run the dead up to I mean maybe it's already not survivable, but uh we we have to stop ask acting like this is normal or that all right well okay we tried kick the can down the street a little bit we'll get it next time.

It's not normal.

What whatever we have to do to stop this it has to be done right away.

whatever it takes.

Speaking of hoaxes, Nuome was on Co Bear show that's still on there for a little while.

Um, and he said that uh he believes Trump is trying to rig the midterms and uh he said, quote, "I really mean uh and I fear that he will not have an election in 2028.

I really mean that in the core of my soul.

Unless we wake up to the code red of what's happening in the country.

So this is the most surprising thing that I've heard in a long time.

He says, "I mean this in the core of my soul.

My God, does Gavin Newsome have a soul?

Am I just learning that he has a soul?

because he's not doing anything that looks like you'd do if you had one, like starting a gigantic uh scare of my people, get them all worked up, cause them to violence.

If you actually said the guy in charge is going to cancel elections, that's permission to violence, would you disagree?

If if a politician was telling you, I mean it in the core of my soul, he's going to cancel elections.

That is an invitation to violence, isn't it?

Do you see it differently?

I mean, I don't think that the Democrats even understand what causes violence.

It's this.

It's exactly this.

because there wouldn't be violence if if you just thought you'd lose an election.

But if you think that there will never be one cuz the other team is turning dictator, that's permission for violence.

Now, I'm not giving you permission, but it sounds like he is.

That's That's so bad.

Well, this hoax needs a name.

The hoax that elections will be cancelled so that what what soo so Trump can stay in office.

Um, it's obviously a hoax, but given that there are two parts to it, there's a 2026 hoax and then there's a 2028 hoax that's the same, you know, that there won't be an election.

So, it's a little murky that way, but it needs a name.

I don't have one.

Um, also Gavin Newsome has decided that California will make their own recommended vaccine schedule for kids.

Now really uh to me that just seems unbelievable.

Um, so he wants to make sure that they have uh that they do a recommendation that's based on real science, you know, not that stuff that RFK Jr.

is using.

What What do they think RFK Jr.

is looking at?

Do they think he's looking at horoscopes?

I don't know.

So, we'll see what that comes up with.

Uh Mike Benz was talking on X about uh there's a recording of some kind of Zoom call uh between executives of a group called Indivisible which is described as George Soros's main umbrella domestic street protest group and they were talking about what color to to name their color revolution which they're planning.

So, a color revolution, which is how a government is overthrown.

That's that's what it is.

A color revolution.

That's when the intel people and another country get involved in organizing a country to overthrow its government.

So, right out loud, this group is talking about a color revolution.

and uh they're leaning toward purple as their color because it's neither red nor nor blue they would say.

Um and uh they're one of these groups as part of that George Soros funding and the NGO networks and stuff like that.

But my question is this, does a color revolution work when you have all the names and all the receipts?

Can Can you have a color revolution if the country you're trying to take over is completely aware that it's a color revolution?

That should be enough to stop it, right?

If everybody said, "Oh, that's fake.

That's George Soros's people." Yeah, let them let them do their thing on the street.

They're paid to do it.

But nobody's really serious about it.

I don't know.

You you would think that making it public and letting everybody know what's happening.

You think that'd be enough to take, you know, all the energy out of it, but it looks like they're just going to, you know, clump ahead and maybe maybe it doesn't make any difference.

Uh, all right.

So, there's a alleged shooter at a Texas ICE facility that I heard separately had already been taken down.

So, I think he's already dead.

I don't know the details of that just happened.

Well, uh, according to the Gateway Pundit, uh, Argentina loosened up their supply of housing by reducing some ridiculous uh, government uh, regulations on housing.

uh and it resulted in 88% growth in supply and then the prices of housing um fall went down by as much as 29%.

So supply and demand works every time.

Would you agree?

How many of you would agree with that statement that over time supply and demand it works every time?

So all he did was change some regulations that increased the supply of housing.

Prices went down 29%.

Exactly the way that's supposed to work.

So So we all agree, right?

Supply and demand works every time.

All right.

You know I'm setting you up.

You know I am.

Next story.

Brian Johnson, who you might uh know as the gentleman who's trying to live forever figuring out how to maximize human human life, but he mentions in a post today that alcohol is the highest margin product that restaurants sell.

According to his numbers, he said food has a 28 to 35% margin, beer 75 to 80, wine 65 to 75, and cocktails and spirits have an 80 to 90% uh margin.

So that would mean that supply and demand doesn't work, right?

All right.

I I used to own a couple of restaurants and it was a competitive restaurant environment, meaning that if you wanted something like, you know, California cuisine and you wanted to sit where there was table service, there were quite a few choices in a, you know, a 5 mile radius.

You had all kinds of choices.

Do you think that the people who would went to my bar were unaware of what our prices were compared to the alternatives?

The answer is people who go to bars and sit at a bar if they're doing it more than once.

They absolutely know the cost of drinks at different bars.

How do I know?

Because they talked about it continuously.

They would talk about it all the time.

Well, uh, Scott, it seems that your drink is $8, but if I go across the street, it's $755, and I don't know why I'd pay $8 for a drink I could get across the street for $755.

I'm just making that up.

But, but yeah, they were hyper aware of the of the cost of drinks and beer and wine and stuff.

So what do you think in that competitive environment?

What do you think was the margin differences between food and alcohol?

No real difference.

The the margin for food, the margin for alcohols in my restaurants were about the same cuz do you know why?

Supply and demand is real.

Supply and demand.

The only way you could charge uh like a 90% markup on well drinks like cocktails and spirits is if the people had no idea what your competition was charging for the same thing because somebody would lower the price.

You have all that room.

You have all that room to lower your price.

Somebody would have done it for competitive reasons.

So, one of the most basic things you've believed all your life is that you could charge a big margin on alcohol and that's how you make the real money in a restaurant.

The only way that could work is if supply and demand doesn't work in this one place, but only this one place in all the world.

In all the world, it's the only place that supply and demand doesn't work.

I don't know.

I'm not sure what's going on, but um uh I do not believe the supply and demand stopped working in one place.

Uh and it didn't look like it to me.

All right.

Uh there's new news on Ukraine.

Um so Trump says the Russian economy is in big trouble.

He said a lot about Ukraine uh yesterday.

Uh he thinks the Russian economy is in big trouble and that there are gas lines.

We don't know how big the gas lines are.

Um and he says the Ukraine with our help is in a position to win the war outright.

So suddenly the tone from Trump has changed from, you know, we're going to hang in there as long as possible and try to make a peace deal.

Apparently that just makes you look weak and tr and makes Putin say, "Oh well, if the only thing you can do is hang in there and we can chew away at you, we'll just keep chewing away because it doesn't look like you have any offense." Well, Trump is now saying that uh that Ukraine is uh nearing a position, now remember this is Trump hyperbole, so you have to put it in context.

nearing a a point where they could take back the territory that uh Russia has already gained.

Nobody says that's possible.

Trump says it now.

What does Trump know that you and I don't know where he would change from the most reasonable position, which is well, you know, the front line isn't really going to move.

He's gone all the way to It looks like they might be able to take back all that territory.

But wait, because he's Trump, he went further than that and maybe take some of Russia's land.

He went all the way to Yeah, they might get a little extra.

They might take more than they might take more than they lost while they're at it.

I mean, so of course that's the most provocative thing he could say, but he said, and then he said, uh, Russia's fighting three and a half years in a war that would have taken a quote real military power less than a week to win.

Ouch.

Is that helping?

Does it help to mock uh Russia's military prowess?

I don't know if that helps.

It might.

I mean, Trump has good instincts, so maybe it is the right play.

I don't know how, but maybe it is.

Um, Zalinski is saying something uh positive.

He said uh that Trump possesses very important information regarding the situation at the front.

Trump possesses it.

What does Trump possess that the rest of us don't possess?

What does he know about the front?

Because the way he's talking suggests that Ukraine has some kind of military advantage we're not aware of.

Do you remember what I've been telling you?

That this will very rapidly turn into an all robot war.

If you ask me what could possibly be what what Trump is referring to, it could be that some massively well-capable set of robots and drones is heading toward the front line and some of it's already arrived.

So, it could be that you're going to see a robot drone war um really fast and it's going to be massive and it's going to be in the front lines.

So, that's what I was expecting.

I didn't know when, but I can't imagine that there would be anything else that would change Trump's uh position because nobody's talking about sending boots on the ground.

Nobody's talking about uh Russia running out of military stuff, right?

The only thing that I could think of that's a variable that could change that much that fast would be how many drones and robots we can deliver to the front line.

And I've got a feeling there's a big batch of that coming.

So, we'll see.

Um, and then Russian fuel exports are dropping.

And apparently 16 of Russia's 38 refineries have been hit since the start of August.

Now, that doesn't mean that they're offline, but they're taking hits on the regular, including the biggest one.

And uh so strikes have disrupted more than a million barrels a day of Russia's refining capacity.

All right.

Again, I don't know what percentage that is.

Um and this is something Zalinsky said.

Quote, once the number of drones matches the Russians, they will feel the fuel shortage and losses.

Uh we already see this increasingly.

More drones are reaching the targets.

Okay.

So, Zilinski is talking about the number of drones they have.

Maybe that's it.

It could be the world's biggest drone uh force is coming online in Ukraine, and we might not hear about it until after they attack, but I've got a feeling the size of the drone force will be bigger than anything we've ever seen.

Well, there are 22 Republicans attorney generals for 22 states.

Um, they're calling on Trump to fight European Union's DEI and ESG regulations.

Uh, Brebbar News is reporting this, Olivia Rondo.

And uh I'm you know I almost forgot that DEI and ESG are still a thing because it it it dissipated so quickly in the United States.

You know, nobody wants to talk about it because it makes it puts a target on your back.

But the Europeans apparently are still requiring it.

And uh yeah, the United States has to go hard at that.

Uh we have to do whatever it takes to disable that.

If if we're required to do DEI and ESG just to do business with Europe, we should stop doing business with Europe.

It's that that is a that's just a bar that we should not even try to cross.

You know, I mean, I don't know how easily we could disengage from Europe, but if they really really require us to do DEI, in other words, if they require us to be racist in order to do do business with them, I say no.

I say, "No, we're not going to be racist just to do business with you racists.

So, pack it up.

Good luck.

Uh, sorry about NATO.

We're taking our funding away." I would take NATO funding away before I would agree to this ESG and uh DEI stuff.

That That's way too far.

Yeah.

Um, in other news, Obama, I guess in Obama's administration, they put $2.2 billion into a solar plant.

Uh, but it wasn't the regular solar panel kind.

It was the kind that uses mirrors and reflects the light up to a super hot tower.

And so, they superheat the tower and I think that heats some steam that causes some electricity.

But the problem is it causes essentially a super hot beam of light to go from the mirror that's on the ground to the tower in a bunch of different directions.

If a bird flies through that invisible I mean you can't see it.

It's just invisible.

Flies through it.

It just it fries immediately.

Uh so apparently 6,000 birds are fried annually through that one thing.

And I'm thinking maybe they're going to move that to the front line of uh Ukraine and say, "Oh, no.

It's just uh don't worry about it.

It's just a power plant." Um no, no, it's just green power.

And then the and then all the Russian drones go as they fly through.

No, that's not going to happen.

But that apparently failed and they're just going to shut it down.

So once again, Trump has a good week, they have a bad week.

And I guess Zero Hedge is reporting that the Trump administration is going to take a 10% or wants to, it's not a done deal, wants a 10% equity stake in a in lithium Americas.

I guess it's a lithium company.

Um, and there's some reason for that.

you know, the government's doing something that would be worth it to them to give up some equity.

I'm completely in favor of this.

And those of you who say, "But Scott, that's what fascists do.

The government and the big companies, you know, sort of work as one." To which I say, "No, no, they don't.

No, they don't.

They don't take 10% equity in companies.

That's not what fascists do.

I mean, if they do, it's certainly not the active ingredient of what a fascist is.

It's just a good idea.

So, yeah, as a taxpayer, why should we give money away when we can get a little equity, don't you think?

Wow, I nailed it.

I was trying to shoe for uh 8 8 a.m.

stop time, which would be 11 in the East Coast.

Nailed it.

No, I do that without looking at a clock.

So, I hope you're impressed.

Nailed it.

Say it's exactly eight.

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Well, can you believe it? There's a

study that says eating chocolate might

slow aging and help your heart. That

would be the millionth time that we've

seen this study. And uh my suggestion is

that uh if you'd like to save a little

money on these studies about chocolate

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All right. There's another study um that

says that people feel happier when

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Can you believe it? I know. Science is

surprising us every day. Yeah. Being

lonely not good. Doesn't make you happy.

So do things with other people if you

have a choice.

Can you believe according to Sai Post

Eric Dolan's writing that uh even light

alcohol drinking raises your dementia

risk? H I wonder if there's anybody they

could have asked to save all that time.

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yeah, I knew that alcohol is bad for you

and I was pretty pretty sure that that

included your brain because your brain

is part of your body. Your body is your

brain.

Well, here's a surprising

uh surprising situation. the publication

called The Atlantic, which is the most

uh anti-Trump, you know, publication you

could ever imagine,

um, believe it or not, has a article

that says that left-wing violence is on

the rise and that it's, uh, there have

been more terror attacks from left-wing

idols than right in recent years. Now,

you know how big a debate that was,

right? So all the people on the left

said, "No, no, it's obvious that the

people on the right are doing all the

terrorism."

And the people on the right said, "No,

no, it's obvious the people on the left

are doing more terrorism."

Uh, well, the Atlantic, which is left,

has now conclusively decided based on

their own research that the left is a

little bit more terrorist and murdery.

And once again, you're right. Again,

by the way, there will be a a minor

theme to today's show, which is that all

everybody who is a critic of Trump is

having a bad time.

All of his critics are having a bad

week. Different reasons, but it's kind

of a weird coincidence.

Um, according to the Washington

Examiner, Paul Bernard's writing about a

Rasen poll, they showed that uh uh over

half of liberals uh call the Kirk

assassination quote understandable.

Understandable meaning that um they

believe that he spoke hate speech. and

people who speak hate speech. I guess

half of the people said, "Well, you got

to expect there's going to be some

blowback for that." And uh so that's

what the liberals think. Now, to me,

this is a perfect example of the power

of brainwashing

because you'd have to brainwash people

to think that Charlie Kirk was speaking

hate about anybody even once. Even once.

never happened even once about anybody

but it is widely believed. So how how

powerful is brainwashing? Well, it

convinced half of the country that a

good man is a bad man. And it convinced

half of that half that it probably is

understandable that somebody would get

violent with him.

All of that is complete brainwashing.

There's not one bit of that that comes

from people looking at, you know, real

stuff and coming up with their own

opinion. These are assigned opinions.

So, do do you have any more questions

about how powerful brainwashing is?

This is the cleanest example you ever

seen. That what makes it extra clean is

that uh Charlie Kirk didn't always

exist.

meaning that he's a a relatively newish

phenomenon. You know, last 10 years, I

guess he rose. And so it's not like,

well, Scott, you know, people have

always thought this about that for for

all through history. Nope. Nobody had

any opinion about him at all until it

was assigned to them. And uh pure

brainwashing.

Well, in other news that Trump might

enjoy, Peter Sprock, do you remember him

from the old uh lawfaring days trying to

get Trump? Allegedly, his messages

suggested that he was part of a plot to

overthrow the government. Some say he's

never been convicted for anything like

that, but um he was suing over his

firing because I guess he claimed that

he had freedom of speech in his messages

to his girlfriend.

And uh since he got fired for something

he said in his personal speech, he

thought that his uh his free speech had

been violated and he shouldn't have been

fired.

Now, if you ask me, that's a pretty bad

argument.

And he lost. So, that case is over. So,

Peter Stro loses. That's sort of like

Trump winning because he would like to

know that Peter Stro lost. Remember,

Trump says he hates his enemies,

so he hates Stro.

Well, Keithman, as you know, he's my

mascot. Um, he apologized for

threatening the other Scott, Scott

Jennings. There are only two of us, by

the way. Just me and Scott Jennings. No

other Scots. Um,

and uh, apparently there was an FBI

referral.

I think Scott Jennings made or or

somebody made a FBI referral because

what he said on social media said of

Scott Jennings quote you're next mother

effer and then but keep mugging for the

camera. Well, in in the context of the

Charlie Kirk um tragedy,

saying that somebody's next

uh when when we're still in that sort

of, you know, environment of still

talking about and thinking about Charlie

Kirk was taken as a physical threat.

But, uh Keithman,

who's not as dumb as he acts, he

couldn't be. wouldn't be possible. Um,

decided he better apologize and clarify

that and he was like, "No, no, it was

not about hurting Scott Jennings. It was

about his career. His career would be

next." Do you believe that? Do you

believe that in the shadow of the

Charlie Kirk situation that when

somebody says you're next, that

obviously just means their job?

I don't know. I can't read his mind. So,

um, so that happened. So, that's uh

awkward for another anti-Trumper.

How about Hollywood? How much does

Hollywood like uh Trump? Not so much. Uh

but Hollywood has uh

well they're really in trouble now

because the AI examples that we're

seeing today uh there were two different

apps using AI that could substitute any

celebrity's face and body for anything

else. So you could have you could make

your own movie with yourself as the

actor

um or let's say yourself as the main

actor and then just replace it when

you're done and it will be it'll look um

it it won't look like AI. It'll look

exactly like you know Brad Pitt was in

your actual movie. So that's coming. I

don't see how Hollywood as an industry

can survive because it looks like

that'll all turn into, you know, people

who know how to use AI.

So, Hollywood's got a tough time. Trump

might enjoy watching Hollywood go down.

Well, Bridget Mcronone, who as you know

is in a lawsuit with Candace Owens over

the issue of whether or not she was born

a man. Now, I I will say again, I do not

believe Bridget Mcronone was born a man.

However, if you've heard the the long

the long argument from Candace uh with

all the evidence that she believes

proves that she is, it's very

persuasive. Now, I'm not persuaded, but

not because it's not persuasive. I I

just it's just hard for me to believe

it. So, um, so Bridget Mcronone has the

easiest job in the world. She simply has

to prove that she was born a woman.

Could anything be easier than that? So,

she submitted some what she called

photographic evidence, but we have no

details on what was photographed and how

that proved the case, but apparently

uh the that's been challenged in court.

So, whatever that photographic evidence

was,

uh, didn't convince everybody.

And I'm wondering, how could you

convince anybody with a photograph? It's

2025.

I mean, I just got done telling you that

you can make anybody look like Brad Pitt

or Taylor Swift and you can't tell the

difference.

So in the age of AI, you don't think

that a state actor, you know, the

government of France, they couldn't put

together a fake photograph that you

thought was real.

I mean, I don't know how you'd ever

believe a photograph. And what would the

And what would the photograph be of? If

they had a photograph of uh Bridget

Mcronone, very young

um looking female, that wouldn't really

be that wouldn't tell you, would it? If

they had a picture of her looking

pregnant,

would that convince you she was a woman?

Or or would you say to yourself, "Wait a

minute, that's when they were trying to

sell the idea that she was a female, so

she probably just put some rags under

her dress to pretend to be pregnant

or something like that.

So, my point is I don't know how

photographic evidence could ever work.

Um, you would need the other team's

doctor to stand in the room and examine

her, wouldn't you? Seems to me. So, I

don't know. We'll see where that goes.

Um,

apparently the uh the interest in

TurningPoint USA after uh Charlie Kirk's

death has skyrocketed. Now the current

number is there have been 120,000

requests for information on starting a

chapter.

120,000

requests.

Wow. Uh that's a lot. Breitbart News is

reporting on that. Elizabeth Wybel.

Well, the one of the attempted Trump

assassins at Ryan Ralph who was

defending himself, he uh did not do a

good job defending himself. He was found

guilty and it looks like he'll I think

he'll go away for life. Um,

as soon as the verdict was read, he

grabbed a pen and tried to murder

himself uh by stabbing himself in the

neck with a pen, but they stopped him

before he could succeed. Um, I have one

thing to say about Ryan Ruth. He is not

good at killing anything.

Not good at killing anything.

He tried to kill people in Ukraine. I

don't think he got that together. Tried

to kill Trump. Didn't work. tried to

kill himself. Didn't work. I think he

should just take a hit.

Ryan, you're not good at killing

anything. Stop it. Stop it.

Well, Department of Homeland Security is

all happy they've reached the 2 million

uh illegals leaving the country since

January. 2 million. Now, the vast

majority of them were self-epporting

because they didn't want to, you know,

get deported the hard way.

Um, but wow,

2 million in 6 months. I I find that an

impressive number and I'm most impressed

that they figured out a way to do it

without having to, you know, ship every

one of them. Um, that the the ones

leaving voluntarily

turn out to be the big number. So,

that's pretty impressive.

Well, as you might imagine now that the

Trump administration has said that

Tylenol might be a bad idea if you're

pregnant, but talk to your doctor

because there might be some cases where

it's necessary or worth the risk. But,

uh, this caused people on TikTok, people

on the left to, uh, pointedly take

Tylenol while they're pregnant to show

you how

how wrong Trump is about everything.

So,

but here's the funny thing about this.

If if if it's true, and I don't know

that it is, but if it's true that taking

Tylenol while you're pregnant can cause

your child to be autistic.

I'm wondering how many of the autistic

kids end up being Trump supporters or at

least conservative, you know, by the

time they're old enough.

Are are people on the spectrum

um easily fooled by brainwashing

or are they a little, you know, less are

they more analytical

in some cases? I'm just wondering if

they're taking Tylenol and turning

turning their children into

conservatives.

I don't know. Maybe some of them.

Well, uh, Stephanopoulos is trying to

push the idea that the cuts in USAD

um are causing the mass deaths of people

in other countries that would otherwise

be saved by that spending. But, uh,

Rubio has a pretty good response to

that. Um, so Stephan said to him on a

show yesterday, you're you're saying no

one's died because of the aid cuts.

Now,

of course, people probably have died

because there are things that we gave

money to that we stopped giving money

to, and they were probably pretty

important things. Um, but Rubio has the

right frame. He says, "No one has died

because the US has cut aid. People have

died because gangs steal the aid. People

have died because other countries have

not stepped up. The US has saved more

lives than any other country in the

world." So probably he could do a little

bit better on that answer. But the basic

answer is

why is only US spending the one that's

being measured for inadequacy?

Wouldn't it be true that every single

country in the world could spend more to

save more people in other countries? Why

are you only looking at us? Why Why does

that even make sense? There are a

million things we could be doing that

we're not. Does that mean we're killing

people by not doing it? Well, in some,

you know, theoretical way, I suppose,

but it's not a reasonable, it's not a

reasonable attack. The reasonable attack

is, uh, the US can't do everything for

everybody, and we're going to do a

little less. Yeah, the more people will

die, but there's nothing that would stop

every other country in the world from

stepping up and filling the gap. So, if

nobody else in the world is willing to

help, why why is why is all the uh

pressure on the United States? It's a

good question.

Well, in John Bolton news, we're now

learning that uh the FBI had found some

uh secret or confidential or whatever

classified documents in his office. So,

we already knew that they went through

his home. We're not sure what they

found, but in his office there were some

classified materials. And so I went to

Grock and I said, "Did John Bolton ever

mock Trump for his classified documents

at Mara Lago?" And the answer is yes, he

did. So while while John Bolton had his

own classified documents at both his

office and I believe at his home,

he was he was criticizing Trump for

having classified documents at Mara

Lago. That takes a little bit of guts,

doesn't it? Remember my

uh my theme for today that everybody

who's a anti-Trumper seems to be having

a bad week. Well, John Bolton's on that

list having a bad week.

Kla Harris, I think she's having a bad

week, too. So, she went on the View

yesterday. She's selling her new book,

107 Days. Um, and you should hear her on

The View. And here's why you should

listen to it. Because she's not drunk.

If you wondered if she's drunk in those

other appearances, listen to her on The

View. Now, that's a morning show. So,

the odds of her being drunk were lower,

you know, just in general. But when you

hear her obviously not drunk, she's

still, you know, she still is bad at,

you know, talking.

She's bad at talking, but she there's no

indication of drunk. she her speaking uh

tone is, you know, perfect and normal

and and all that. So, if you want to

wonder is she drunk in those other

videos, just watch the view. When you

see her not drunk, you go, "Oh, oh,

okay. That's what not drunk looks like."

Yeah, there's something going on there.

Anyway,

YouTube

has now admitted, you know, Google owns

YouTube. So, Google has admitted

uh that YouTube was in fact censoring

people during the COVID pandemic for uh

and for political reasons and uh they've

offered uh terminated creators the

opportunity to rejoin the platform.

So,

does it feel to you as if everything you

suspected was true several years ago

was all true? Like every single thing

you thought? Wait a minute. I think the

platforms are discriminating against

certain kinds of people. Turns out they

were. Yep. It was exactly what you

thought. Wait a minute. I don't think

these vaccines are tested as much as I

would like. H turns out you're right.

So, just about everything you suspected

is true.

Uh I suspected that the intelligence

people were behind the Russia collusion

hoax. Well, looks like they were. I

suspected that climate change was um not

going to pan out in terms of the

predictions and that someday we would

realize it was a hoax. Well, I don't

know if we're totally there yet, but

we're getting really close.

Everything you suspected, you thought

the news might have been intentionally

fake.

It was intentionally fake.

Yeah. almost everything you suspected.

The the one that we haven't um let's say

that's not validated

yet is that the 2020 election was

rigged. Now, let me ask you this. Look

at all the things that you suspected

and how many of them turned out to be

true? Almost all of them. You know,

there might be some exceptions, but I

think almost all of them. Now, in that

context, what are the odds that so many

people suspect the 2020 election was

rigged? What are the odds that we will

not someday find out it was rigged?

I I feel like everything is pointing in

that direction. Now, to be clear, I do

not personally have any evidence of any

rigging in 2020. I don't. But I'll tell

you, the people who have been right

about everything, right? Right. Right.

Right. They think it was rigged. So, are

you going to ignore the people who are

right about everything?

I don't know. At your peril.

Um, let's see. Uh

so Democrats won some special election

in Arizona which allegedly will give the

uh Democrats enough votes. Uh I assume

that means they get some Republican

votes of course because Republicans

still have the majority. But uh with

this one extra vote, they will have

enough votes to um force the uh the

release or at least have a vote. They

can only force a vote. They can't force

the outcome, but they can force a vote

on releasing all the Epstein files,

which means everybody's going to have to

be on record

as saying that they will or will not be

in favor of releasing them. And I think

if you put everybody on record,

doesn't that make it a little more

likely that people won't resist because

it looks too sketchy if they do? So

maybe we're inching closer to seeing

some of that Epstein stuff. I don't

know.

Well, you probably already heard that uh

Trump spoke at the UN and he had two

technical difficulties. One was the

escalator stopped as soon as he and

Melania uh got, you know, a few feet

into it.

And

uh the UN has now investigated and they

say it was just a mistake. It was just

an accident and that some videographer

uh may have triggered some kind of

safety thing that made it stop.

Does that sound real to you? Well, I

would look at the context, which

included reporting that said that uh UN

staff had been joking before Trump got

there that they should turn off the

elevator and the escalator and claim

they don't have enough money to run

them.

So, what are the odds that they were

joking about doing this exact thing and

then by accident, by total accident, the

thing that's never happened to any

president at the UN ever,

by total accident, it just happened. It

just happened. So, believe it, people.

Believe it.

That's just a coincidence.

Sorry,

but we're not really in the mood to

accept that coincidence. And you know,

the funny thing is it might be a

coincidence. It's not like it's

impossible. I mean, so you know how

sometimes if you think too much about a

thing happening, it happens. Maybe a lot

of people are thinking about it

happening. You know, I that's how I

think the simulation works, you know,

with affirmations, etc. If a lot of

people are thinking a thing could

happen, I just feel like it's more

likely it's going to happen.

However, that would be a lot of a

coincidence to accept. A really, really

big one. So, I don't think we're in the

mood to accept that. And then the uh and

then the teleprompter doesn't work when

Trump goes to give his speech.

So, another coincidence. Probably just a

coincidence. I I guess now that the the

UN got their funding cut, well, I guess

the the the the

guy who does all the technical stuff

must be on vacation. Yeah. Yeah. Or got

fired or something.

Anyway,

so

all that looks really sketchy, but Trump

did a uh a a Trumpian great job with his

speech.

Um he said that uh let's see what are

some of the things he said. He

criticized globalism. He said climate

change was a big old hoax. He said open

borders were a giant mistake and the

other countries were committing national

suicide. Um and he says that the the

entire globalist concept this is what

Trump said. The entire globalist concept

of asking successful industrialized

nations to inflict pain on themselves

and radically disrupt their entire

societies must be rejected completely

and totally. Yeah.

Yeah. How about you stop telling

countries like us to do all the worst

things that we could do? Yeah. How about

that?

And then he really put the hammer down.

Trump daddy said any system that results

in the mass trafficking of children is

inherently evil. Yet that is exactly

what the globalist migration agenda has

done. Okay. Well, yeah. I mean, I don't

think they intentionally did that, but

maybe some of them did. You never know.

Um and then he accused China, India and

uh some NATO countries of funding

Russia's war by buying all their oil

when they don't have to. And he said

that the US is having a golden age and

that everything's going great over here.

All right. Okay. Um, I was I was trying

to imagine what would it be like if you

were one of the leaders who had been,

you know, or maybe still still are

really proclimate change is real. We got

to do something. What would it feel like

to have the most important leader in the

world who's been right about a lot?

And we're not talking about an ordinary

president. We're talking about the

president who is famous for being right

when things don't look like he might be.

He's famous for that. This is probably

his his greatest challenge to get people

to believe that climate change was sort

of exaggerated and overdone.

And but imagine sitting there in the UN

and the most important leader of the in

my opinion the most important country uh

is saying that their biggest the biggest

thing they've been working on for years

is a complete hoax and a waste of time.

What would that feel like?

In theory, it should trigger cognitive

dissonance massively because remember,

cognitive dissonance gets triggered when

you believe you're a certain kind of

person, smart, educated, well-informed

about science. And then

none of the predictions that you were

buying into seem to be coming true. And

then Trump, who has been right about a

lot, a lot, comes in and says the whole

thing was a hoax. It was all BS.

Now, is it possible

for any of the other brains in that room

to say, "Huh, well, you know what? He

does make a good case. There were many

predictions. They seem to be off. It

does sort of look like maybe people were

just chasing money and it was a big old

grift. Hm. Yes, I changed my mind. So,

after years of saying it was the most

important thing in the world, I'm going

to change my mind to I was a

idiot and I got bamboozled into wasting

my country's resources.

It's not possible that those particular

people do not have the option of

changing their mind. It would be too

much of a cognitive load. It just can't

be done. Can't be done. So the only way

that uh you know things will change is

if there's an entire new wave of younger

probably conservative leaders who didn't

believe it from the start. If that

happens then you can get governments not

believing climate change. But you're not

going to change the minds of the ones

who put their entire reputation and

selfimage

on the line. You can't change that.

That's what that's how cognitive

dissonance happens when when you have

that contrast between what you did and

what makes sense. Well, Jimmy Kimmel was

back on the air last night. I'm sure his

ratings were big because people wanted

to see what he had to say. got standing

ovations and he was tearful and um he

didn't apologize exactly,

but he sort of had a few words around

what he did. He said, quote, "I

understand that to some that felt uh

that that what he said felt either

illtimed or unclear or maybe both. And

for those who think I did point a

finger, I get why you're upset."

So, it's not an apology. He just says he

understands why you're upset.

And they said some more. And then he

said, "I don't think the murderer who

shot Charlie Kirk represents anyone." So

he's not going to say that's a mag

person. Um and this is a sick person who

believes violence is a solution and it

isn't.

And then he went for the kill shot.

Now,

I would hate to say that I may have

suggested this.

I did I didn't suggest it to anybody on

his on his team, but I said in public my

own opinion was that uh Charlie Kirk

would have uh wanted him to go back on

the air because Charlie Kirk was very

pro- free of speech and it seemed to me

he would have said, "Well, okay, your

joke didn't land if it was a joke, but I

don't think you should be off the air."

That's my opinion of what I think

Charlie Kirk would have been all about

if he could be here to give his opinion.

Um, and Kimble did a version of that,

but even a stronger version by

referencing the

um Erica, the wife of Charlie Kirk, who

forgave the murderer.

She actually forgave him in public.

Now, that that was a very impactful

thing. Yeah, I it would be hard not to

feel that the the impact of that. It

that was so so strong.

And uh so Kibble says uh she forgave

him. Talking about uh the shooter, she

forgave him. Uh that is an example we

should follow if you believe in the

teachings of Jesus as I do. He said

there it was. That's it. A selfless act

of grace.

Okay.

All right, he nailed it. Yeah, I know

you don't want him to, but he nailed it.

You know, if if you if you attach it to

Erica's

um you know, incredible strength and her

forgiveness and her grace. I think grace

is the right answer there, the right

word. Um

maybe it's just time to let it go. May

maybe we can be,

you know, as worthy in some small way as

uh Erica

and uh maybe we should have a little

grace. Now, I understand that we're in a

situation where it's sort of a a war

between the left and the right and we

should crush them uh as permanently as

we can every opportunity we get.

Maybe. But I do like free speech and I

do like grace and I do like forgiveness

when it's just about words.

Um,

so, uh, I hate to say it, but

this was best case scenario. Best case

scenario. I don't want to see all the

staff losing their jobs.

Um, I do want him to recognize that, you

know, there was a problem there and

acknowledge it. And I do want to live in

a world where we can forgive things that

people say, you know, if they're if

there's really a question of what they

meant and what their intention was, we

should be able to forgive that.

But it looks like that won't get him out

of the out of the trouble because uh two

affiliate groups, the Sinclair Group and

NextStar, who collectively have dozens

and dozens of local stations, have said

that they will not carry they will not

carry his return. Now, I suspect they

might change their mind. You know, maybe

a little time has to go by. I don't

know. But I do wonder if they'll keep

him on the air without those uh locals.

Uh they got a lot to talk about. So this

this is not done by any means. And it

could be that ABC and Disney have

decided that it's easiest to keep him on

until his contract runs out anyway. And

then they can say, well, you know, it's

not about what you said now. is

definitely about the fact that the

affiliates are not running you. We don't

have a way to make money now.

Then they can do whatever they want.

Well, Chuck Schumer, who at one point

didn't want to meet with uh President

Trump about the budget they're trying to

get settled, uh he's now saying he will

meet with him anywhere he wants, on the

golf course, you name it. So, he says,

"We're ready to work with the president.

we're willing to sit down with him.

We'll even go to the golf course,

wherever he wants to go. So, um there

might be some indication that the

Democrats will be blamed if there's a

government shutdown. Now, I don't know

how that works. What What is the What is

the logic of who gets blamed? Is there

any is there any way to predict that? Is

it the uh the party in charge? Do they

always get blamed if they have the

power? Or

um is there some reason that the

Democrats would get blamed this time? I

don't know. But the argument is they

want uh uh massively more spending for

health care, but specifically I think

that would include paying for trans

surgeries for kids and uh health care

for illegal aliens and uh more than that

they would say, but uh I don't know how

much more than that. So um like I said,

there's no chance that they're going to

agree on a budget. They will kick the

can down the road and show that they

cannot do the basic work of the people.

The most basic thing your government

should do is allocate money. They will

not do that. They should all be fired.

Right? If they can't allocate money,

can't even take a shot at it. I'm not

even saying doing it right. If they

can't even do it,

if you can't do it, the main thing that

you're supposed to do, you should all be

fired. The every one of them should be

let go. There should be some kind of law

that says if you don't if you don't pass

a budget, you don't get paid. At the

very least, it should be if you don't

pass a budget, you don't get paid. Cuz

why do we pay them to pass a budget? So,

is that fair? You don't get paid if you

don't pass the budget. What if Trump

did an executive order that says you

don't get paid if you don't pass the

budget? Would it stick? I mean, I don't

see how it would because then he'd be

interfering in the other, you know,

interfering in the other branch of

government. But something's got to

change. I mean, we literally can't

survive

having a Congress that can't make a

budget. that's not survivable. We we'll

just run the dead up to I mean maybe

it's already not survivable,

but uh we we have to stop ask acting

like this is normal or that all right

well okay we tried kick the can down the

street a little bit we'll get it next

time. It's not normal.

What whatever we have to do to stop this

it has to be done right away. whatever

it takes.

Speaking of hoaxes, Nuome was on Co Bear

show that's still on there for a little

while. Um,

and he said that uh he believes Trump is

trying to rig the midterms and uh he

said, quote, "I really mean uh and I

fear that he will not have an election

in 2028. I really mean that in the core

of my soul. Unless we wake up to the

code red of what's happening in the

country. So this is the most surprising

thing that I've heard in a long time. He

says, "I mean this in the core of my

soul.

My God,

does Gavin Newsome have a soul?

Am I just learning that he has a soul?

because he's not doing anything that

looks like you'd do if you had one, like

starting a gigantic

uh scare of my people, get them all

worked up, cause them to violence. If

you actually said the guy in charge is

going to cancel elections, that's

permission to violence,

would you disagree?

If if a politician

was telling you, I mean it in the core

of my soul, he's going to cancel

elections.

That is an invitation to violence,

isn't it? Do you see it differently? I

mean, I don't think that the Democrats

even understand what causes violence.

It's this. It's exactly this. because

there wouldn't be violence if if you

just thought you'd lose an election. But

if you think that there will never be

one cuz the other team is turning

dictator, that's permission for

violence.

Now, I'm not giving you permission, but

it sounds like he is. That's That's so

bad.

Well, this hoax needs a name. The hoax

that elections will be cancelled so that

what what soo so Trump can stay in

office.

Um, it's obviously a hoax, but given

that there are two parts to it, there's

a 2026 hoax and then there's a 2028 hoax

that's the same, you know, that there

won't be an election. So, it's a little

murky that way, but it needs a name.

I don't have one. Um,

also Gavin Newsome has decided that

California will make their own

recommended vaccine schedule for kids.

Now

really

uh to me that just seems

unbelievable. Um, so he wants to make

sure that they have uh that they do a

recommendation that's based on real

science, you know, not that stuff that

RFK Jr. is using. What What do they

think RFK Jr. is looking at? Do they

think he's looking at horoscopes?

I don't know.

So, we'll see what that comes up with.

Uh Mike Benz was talking on X about uh

there's a recording of some kind of Zoom

call uh between executives of a group

called Indivisible

which is described as George Soros's

main umbrella domestic street protest

group and they were talking about what

color to to name their color revolution

which they're planning.

So, a color revolution, which is how a

government is overthrown. That's that's

what it is. A color revolution. That's

when the intel people and another

country get involved in organizing a

country to overthrow its government. So,

right out loud, this group is talking

about a color revolution.

and uh they're leaning toward purple as

their color because it's neither red nor

nor blue they would say. Um and uh

they're one of these groups as part of

that George Soros funding and the NGO

networks and stuff like that. But my

question is this, does a color

revolution work when you have all the

names and all the receipts?

Can Can you have a color revolution if

the country you're trying to take over

is completely aware that it's a color

revolution?

That should be enough to stop it, right?

If everybody said, "Oh, that's fake.

That's George Soros's people." Yeah, let

them let them do their thing on the

street. They're paid to do it. But

nobody's really serious about it. I

don't know. You you would think that

making it public and letting everybody

know what's happening. You think that'd

be enough to take, you know, all the

energy out of it, but it looks like

they're just going to, you know, clump

ahead and maybe maybe it doesn't make

any difference.

Uh,

all right. So, there's a alleged shooter

at a Texas ICE facility that I heard

separately had already been taken down.

So, I think he's already dead. I don't

know the details of that just happened.

Well, uh, according to the Gateway

Pundit, uh, Argentina loosened up their

supply of housing by reducing some

ridiculous uh, government uh,

regulations on housing.

uh and it resulted in 88%

growth in supply and then the prices of

housing um

fall went down by as much as 29%.

So supply and demand

works every time. Would you agree?

How many of you would agree with that

statement that over time

supply and demand it works every time?

So all he did was change some

regulations that increased the supply of

housing.

Prices went down 29%. Exactly the way

that's supposed to work. So So we all

agree, right? Supply and demand works

every time.

All right. You know I'm setting you up.

You know I am. Next story.

Brian Johnson, who you might uh know as

the gentleman who's trying to live

forever figuring out how to maximize

human human life, but he mentions in a

post today that alcohol is the highest

margin product that restaurants sell.

According to his numbers, he said food

has a 28 to 35% margin, beer 75 to 80,

wine 65 to 75, and cocktails and spirits

have an 80 to 90%

uh margin.

So

that would mean that supply and demand

doesn't work,

right?

All right. I I used to own a couple of

restaurants and it was a competitive

restaurant environment, meaning that if

you wanted something like, you know,

California cuisine and you wanted to sit

where there was table service, there

were quite a few choices in a, you know,

a 5 mile radius. You had all kinds of

choices. Do you think that the people

who would went to my bar were unaware of

what our prices were compared to the

alternatives? The answer is people who

go to bars and sit at a bar if they're

doing it more than once. They absolutely

know the cost of drinks at different

bars. How do I know? Because they talked

about it continuously.

They would talk about it all the time.

Well, uh, Scott, it seems that your

drink is $8, but if I go across the

street, it's $755,

and I don't know why I'd pay $8 for a

drink I could get across the street for

$755. I'm just making that up. But, but

yeah, they were hyper aware of the of

the cost of drinks and beer and wine and

stuff. So what do you think in that

competitive environment? What do you

think was the margin differences between

food and alcohol? No real difference.

The the margin for food, the margin for

alcohols in my restaurants were about

the same cuz do you know why? Supply and

demand

is real. Supply and demand. The only way

you could charge uh like a 90% markup on

well drinks like cocktails and spirits

is if the people had no idea what your

competition was charging for the same

thing because somebody would lower the

price. You have all that room. You have

all that room to lower your price.

Somebody would have done it for

competitive reasons. So,

one of the most basic things you've

believed all your life is that you could

charge a big margin on alcohol and

that's how you make the real money in a

restaurant. The only way that could work

is if supply and demand doesn't work in

this one place, but only this one place

in all the world. In all the world, it's

the only place that supply and demand

doesn't work.

I don't know. I'm not sure what's going

on, but um uh I do not believe the

supply and demand stopped working in one

place. Uh and it didn't look like it to

me. All right. Uh there's new news on

Ukraine.

Um

so Trump says the Russian economy is in

big trouble. He said a lot about Ukraine

uh yesterday. Uh he thinks the Russian

economy is in big trouble and that there

are gas lines. We don't know how big the

gas lines are. Um and he says the

Ukraine with our help is in a position

to win the war outright.

So suddenly the tone from Trump has

changed from, you know, we're going to

hang in there as long as possible and

try to make a peace deal. Apparently

that just makes you look weak and tr and

makes Putin say, "Oh well, if the only

thing you can do is hang in there and we

can chew away at you, we'll just keep

chewing away because it doesn't look

like you have any offense." Well, Trump

is now saying that uh that Ukraine is uh

nearing a position, now remember this is

Trump hyperbole, so you have to put it

in context. nearing a a point where they

could take back the territory that uh

Russia has already gained.

Nobody says that's possible. Trump says

it now. What does Trump know that you

and I don't know where he would change

from the most reasonable position, which

is well, you know, the front line isn't

really going to move. He's gone all the

way to

It looks like they might be able to take

back all that territory. But wait,

because he's Trump, he went further than

that and maybe take some of Russia's

land. He went all the way to Yeah, they

might get a little extra. They might

take more than they might take more than

they lost while they're at it. I mean,

so of course that's the most provocative

thing he could say,

but

he said, and then he said, uh, Russia's

fighting three and a half years in a war

that would have taken a quote real

military power less than a week to win.

Ouch. Is that helping? Does it help to

mock uh Russia's military prowess?

I don't know if that helps.

It might. I mean, Trump has good

instincts, so maybe it is the right

play. I don't know how, but maybe it is.

Um, Zalinski

is saying something uh positive. He said

uh that Trump possesses very important

information regarding the situation at

the front. Trump possesses it. What does

Trump possess that the rest of us don't

possess? What does he know about the

front? Because the way he's talking

suggests that Ukraine has some kind of

military advantage we're not aware of.

Do you remember what I've been telling

you? That this will very rapidly turn

into an all robot war.

If you ask me what could possibly be

what what Trump is referring to, it

could be that some massively

well-capable set of robots and drones is

heading toward the front line and some

of it's already arrived.

So, it could be that you're going to see

a robot drone war

um really fast and it's going to be

massive and it's going to be in the

front lines. So, that's what I was

expecting. I didn't know when, but I

can't imagine that there would be

anything else that would change Trump's

uh position because nobody's talking

about sending boots on the ground.

Nobody's talking about uh Russia running

out of military stuff, right? The only

thing that I could think of that's a

variable that could change that much

that fast would be how many drones and

robots we can deliver to the front line.

And I've got a feeling there's a big

batch of that coming. So, we'll see. Um,

and then Russian fuel exports are

dropping. And apparently 16 of Russia's

38 refineries have been hit since the

start of August. Now, that doesn't mean

that they're offline, but they're taking

hits on the regular, including the

biggest one. And uh so strikes have

disrupted more than a million barrels a

day of Russia's refining capacity.

All right. Again, I don't know what

percentage that is. Um

and this is something Zalinsky said.

Quote, once the number of drones matches

the Russians, they will feel the fuel

shortage and losses. Uh we already see

this increasingly. More drones are

reaching the targets. Okay. So, Zilinski

is talking about the number of drones

they have. Maybe that's it. It could be

the world's biggest drone uh force is

coming online in Ukraine, and we might

not hear about it until after they

attack, but I've got a feeling the size

of the drone force will be bigger than

anything we've ever seen.

Well, there are 22 Republicans attorney

generals for 22 states. Um, they're

calling on Trump to fight European

Union's DEI and ESG regulations. Uh,

Brebbar News is reporting this, Olivia

Rondo.

And uh I'm you know I almost

forgot that DEI and ESG are still a

thing because it it it dissipated so

quickly in the United States. You know,

nobody wants to talk about it because it

makes it puts a target on your back. But

the Europeans apparently are still

requiring it. And uh yeah, the United

States has to go hard at that. Uh we

have to do whatever it takes to disable

that. If if we're required to do DEI and

ESG just to do business with Europe, we

should stop doing business with Europe.

It's that that is a that's just a bar

that we should not even try to cross.

You know, I mean, I don't know how

easily we could disengage from Europe,

but if they really really require us to

do DEI, in other words, if they require

us to be racist in order to do do

business with them, I say no. I say,

"No, we're not going to be racist just

to do business with you racists.

So, pack it up. Good luck. Uh, sorry

about NATO. We're taking our funding

away." I would take NATO funding away

before I would agree to this ESG and uh

DEI stuff. That That's way too far.

Yeah.

Um, in other news, Obama, I guess in

Obama's administration, they put $2.2

billion into a solar plant. Uh, but it

wasn't the regular solar panel kind. It

was the kind that uses mirrors and

reflects the light up to a super hot

tower. And so, they superheat the tower

and I think that heats some steam that

causes some electricity. But the problem

is it causes essentially a super hot

beam of light to go from the mirror

that's on the ground to the tower in a

bunch of different directions. If a bird

flies through that invisible I mean you

can't see it. It's just invisible. Flies

through it. It just it fries

immediately.

Uh so apparently 6,000 birds are fried

annually through that one thing.

And I'm thinking maybe they're going to

move that to the front line of uh

Ukraine and say, "Oh, no. It's just uh

don't worry about it. It's just a power

plant." Um no, no, it's just green

power. And then the and then all the

Russian drones go as they fly through.

No, that's not going to happen.

But that apparently failed and they're

just going to shut it down. So once

again,

Trump has a good week, they have a bad

week. And I guess Zero Hedge is

reporting that the Trump administration

is going to take a 10% or wants to, it's

not a done deal, wants a 10% equity

stake in a in lithium Americas. I guess

it's a lithium company. Um, and there's

some reason for that. you know, the

government's doing something that would

be worth it to them to give up some

equity. I'm completely in favor of this.

And those of you who say, "But Scott,

that's what fascists do. The government

and the big companies, you know, sort of

work as one." To which I say, "No, no,

they don't.

No, they don't. They don't take 10%

equity in companies. That's not what

fascists do.

I mean, if they do, it's certainly not

the active ingredient of what a fascist

is. It's just a good idea. So, yeah, as

a taxpayer, why should we give money

away when we can get a little equity,

don't you think?

Wow, I nailed it. I was trying to shoe

for uh 8 8 a.m. stop time, which would

be 11 in the East Coast. Nailed it. No,

I do that without looking at a clock.

So, I hope you're impressed. Nailed it.

Say it's exactly eight. All right. I'm

going to say a few words privately to

the wonderful, beloved members of

Locals. And the rest of you, thanks for

joining. We'll talk to you again

tomorrow. Same time, same place.

And locals, I'll be there privately in

30 seconds.