Episode 3010 CWSA 11/06/25

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Well, I'm going to warn you in advance that uh as you know, my health journey has included some days where the pain is pretty bad.

Was pretty bad this morning.

So, I'm operating on some painkillers that I typically try really hard not to do before the show because it'll make me all loopy.

So today's show will be loopy.

I have no idea what's going to happen today and neither do you.

I might pass out.

Anything could happen today.

I might go to Nancy Grace swearing.

I shouldn't have said that.

Uh but what we're going to do is make sure that I'm watching your comments here.

All right, there we are.

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Favorite part of the day commencing now.

Hey, I wonder if there's any science that they didn't need to do because they could have just asked me.

Oh, here we are.

According to Bianca Sachinago, there's a new research that says if you cluster unhealthy habits linked to higher depression, you'll have even worse depression.

Let me see.

Could I could I have figured this one out on my own?

So, if you do a thing, one thing that's linked with making you depressed, it won't be as bad as if you did two things that would make you depressed individually.

I think I would have been all over that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Next time, just ask me.

You probably heard a bunch of airports are cutting back service 10% today.

How many of you would go to an airport if you knew they'd cut back service 10%.

And you didn't know, is everybody in the same job today or or are people filling in for other people because of the 10% thing?

I'd be a little worried about about flying today.

But, you know, 10% doesn't sound that bad unless you're flying on an airline that's part of a system that's 40 years away from being modernized.

So, if I were you, if you can postpone your trip, maybe maybe it'd be a good time.

I saw Elon Musk was doing a podcast and he had some useful uh advice about being useful.

Um, and this is you might recognize this as so exactly my my opinion as well.

Uh, and I like it whenever the smartest person in the world agrees with me.

That always feels good.

It's like, wait, wait, he agreed with me.

Oh, that's cool.

So, here's his advice for young entrepreneurs.

He says, try to be as useful as possible.

Uh, and later he clarified useful to the most number of people and that if you aspire to do that and also something called true work, your probability of success is much higher.

Do whatever it takes to succeed.

Smash your ego.

Be humble.

It's a super big deal.

So, you've heard me talk about getting your ego out of the process of success.

So, you've heard me say that.

It's a great advice.

Uh, be humble just in general.

It's a good thing just to imagine that you don't have all the answers and you know, maybe you're going to have to work hard to get the answers.

And, uh, be useful to the most number of people.

That's literally my my mission in life.

That's why I'm doing this.

I'm literally doing it right now.

I could be giving advice to one person, but but as uh Elon would point out, wouldn't it be better if you gave advice to a 100,000 people?

So that's what I'm doing.

Probably 100,000 people will see this eventually.

So great, great Elon Musk advice.

Be useful to the most number of people.

Um, speaking of Musk, SpaceX won a $2 billion Golden Dome contract.

So, Golden Dome.

I'm sure there's a joke I can make about the Golden Dome.

It does sound like Trump's haircut, but uh, apparently it's not.

This has something to do with shooting down incoming missiles.

But, uh, why did SpaceX get the contract and nobody else did?

They're the only ones who can do it.

Now, that's that's what I call useful.

How how many of you can shoot down 600 incoming missiles at the same time?

You?

No.

You?

Anybody?

And then like Elon, it's like, well, I can do that.

How many?

600.

Same time.

Yeah, I could probably do that.

What's more useful?

What would be more useful than shooting down incoming missiles if we were attacked?

Anyway, there other legacy defense contractors.

That's what Mario Noel is describing them as.

Legacy defense contractors.

They've already spent decades and billions of dollars and they've never they haven't really gotten close to being able to solve it.

But SpaceX already has 10,000 satellites and the smartest people you're ever going to see.

So, I feel like they can knock this off fairly quickly.

We'll see.

We have an Elon and you don't.

So, according to Interesting Engineering, we may be nearing what they call the end of of brain surgery.

They're working on I guess we're kind of close to these injectable chips that will self-implant to treat brain disease safely.

So basically you just give somebody a shot and these tiny little programmed whatever they are will find their way to your brain.

They can even uh pass the brain the the brain blood what is it blood brain barrier and it can get it can find on its own when I say on its own it's programmed to do it to the the right part of the brain and then it just inserts itself into that part of the brain and apparently it's wrapped in some kind of organic wrapper so that it's not rejected.

So, it's part you, the organic rapper part, and it's or part human, whatever it is, and uh and part machine.

So, the human part keeps it from being rejected totally, and the machine part does the the cool stuff.

I don't know.

Is that going to work?

Do do you think you do you think you were born into the time that you could get a shot uh you know, in your arm like from a needle and it will fix your brain?

because little little robots basically would go in there and just fix it.

Does that sound like something that's going to happen in your lifetime?

It really doesn't.

I don't know if it's going to happen or not, but it doesn't sound like something that's going to happen.

That sounds pretty aspirational.

Well, as you know, California had this thing called Prop 50 that passed by a pretty good margin.

And Prop 50 will allow the state to redistrict and get rid of those pesky Republicans entirely.

I don't know if it's entirely, but it's going to be close to entirely.

So, it pretty much is going to get rid of Republicans.

But did you know that there's a high correlation between Democrats and people of color?

Did you know that?

Well, there is.

And so there's also a correlation with race, not just party.

And so they're being sued.

Um, so Gavin Newsome or the state or somebody is being sued because it's unconstitutional to have a racial gerrymandering.

Now, if they say, "But but but but we're not doing it for racial reasons," then the argument would be, "Then why does it look exactly like you are?" But but but it's really just Democrats getting more and Republicans getting less.

And that's just politics.

That's not race.

That's just politics.

To which I say, h and yet there is one other correlation that we're noticing here.

There's one other correlation.

So I'm not so sure that this lawsuit will succeed.

Uh I feel like it probably won't because all they have to do is say, "No, no, no.

It's about politics and we make the decision based on how many Republicans there are, not based on how many white people there are.

But we'll see.

I mean, to me, it seems at least half racist.

You know, at the minimum, it's half racist.

I just don't know.

Is half racist enough to change it?

You know, you want you want it to be no racist, right?

Zero racist would be ideal.

I don't know.

We'll see.

Um, what what else is happening in the world of racism?

CBS just fired an experienced old white guy attorney.

He wasn't that old.

Uh, because he was a middle-aged man.

This is the the Daily Mail is reporting.

So, they replaced him with a black former intern because he was a middle-aged white man.

So, that's how the Daily Mail is and Will Potter are describing it.

Um, however, there's a lawsuit over that because you know what is the worst idea in the world messing with a lawyer.

Here's some good advice for you.

Should you ever decide to mess with somebody, don't do it with somebody who doesn't have to pay to hire a lawyer cuz he is the lawyer.

I mean, maybe he is paying a lawyer, I don't know.

But if you go after a lawyer, you're going to get sued and you're going to spend a lot of time figuring stuff out that the lawyer didn't have to figure out because they do it routinely.

Just fill down some paperwork.

I worked all day trying to figure out what your paperwork said.

Had to hire a lawyer to figure out what your paperwork said.

So, never mess with a lawyer.

And by the way, I I'm not saying this just because of this story.

This has been my lifetime my lifetime advice.

I've given this advice a lot of times.

Don't mess with lawyers.

It It's just all bad, you know.

Just don't do it.

Just treat them right and they won't sue you.

But you got to you're going to have to try extra hard just to make sure you don't get in that situation.

So that's uh so that's CBS being racist allegedly.

So, I saw Mom Donnie.

By the way, it turns out that whoever is in charge of the dictation software on my Apple devices really hates Mom Donnie because if you use the dictation feature, it says either mom dummy, as in a mother who's also a dominatrix.

Two words, or mom dummy.

I swear to God, I'm not making this up.

It actually says mom dummy or mom dummy.

Those are the two options you can get with voice.

So all morning I've been cursing at like no oh no it's mom mom Donnie mom mom mom mom mom mom mom mom mom mom mom mom mom mom mom mom mom mom mom mom mom d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d di m anyway.

So mom Donnie um had a new phrase which reminds you that it's not luck.

It's not luck that he got where he is.

All right.

There's something else going on and it's not luck.

Um but here's what he said.

He said that the uh he promised that the new age he calls it uh of relentless improvement where the government will solve all your problems according to the postmillennial.

Now he didn't say the part about we'll solve all your problems.

That was that was narrative.

But he did say relentless improvement.

Now you want to hear a real persuasion secret.

So this this is behind the curtain stuff.

This is stuff nobody else is going to tell you all day long.

You'll hear about mom dummy.

And unless they heard this from me, you're not going to hear it anywhere else.

You ready?

Whoever came up with the phrase relentless improvement.

If they're also the same person, this is an if.

If that's also the same person who came up with affordability as a keyword, that's who's in charge.

That's who's in charge.

Because whoever whoever can operate at that level, that's way above normal political level.

That is that is wizardry.

That is total persuasion wizardry.

This phrase relentless improvement.

Compare that to how he's being attacked.

Now again, if you're new to me, I'm not I'm not supporting Mom Dami.

If anybody's new, I'm I'm not down with Mom Donnie.

I'm just talking about his skill set which is useful to you.

So relentless improvement is the perfect response to you socialist giving away stuff kind of guy.

Socialism never works.

Every everything goes bad after socialism, right?

What what would be the one thing that every Republican thinks is true about Mom Donnie and his socialism coming to New York City?

The one thing that every Republican thinks is true is that it will certainly cause a guaranteed decrease in the quality of life over time and it will just keep getting worse.

Right now, I'm not saying that's true or what what's going to happen.

It's not a prediction, although it'd be a safe one.

Uh I'm just saying that's what people think.

And if what you're thinking is that you're entering a period where things are just going to go bad forever, a really good counter to that is that we're entering a new age of relentless improvement.

Now, in order to do the relentless part, who would he have to copy?

Here, here's some more fun.

Who Who would Mandi have to copy in order to sell his idea that he was pushing relentless improvement?

Trump.

Trump.

So every time he steals a page from Trump but just, you know, pencils out Trump and puts it in his own name, brilliant.

Why wouldn't you use what works?

If it works, use it.

So here's here's my assignment for you.

The assignment is this.

Find out if if Manny is the one who comes up with his own catchphrases.

If he comes up with his own catchphrases and he came up with affordability and also relentless improvement, I don't know what could stop him.

So, you better hope he didn't do it.

You You better hope he's getting advice, you know, because the advice can be separated from the person.

But if he's doing this himself, okay, he's got game like you didn't know.

So, find out if he has an advisor.

and then find out secondly if his advisor came up with both of those things only one of them or or none.

So, we need to know that once you find the person who came up with those two things, if it's the same person, that person has a lot of power by being good at what they're doing.

Not power by office, but but power by influence.

That would be a really influential person.

You can ask.

Please do.

Please ask.

All right.

We'll find out.

Uh Trump is drafting some executive orders on election integrity according to the Epoch Times.

Tom Omeck is writing about this.

Now I thought that that was sort of a dead end.

I thought that the states have so much guaranteed authority over elections that it wouldn't even matter what Trump did.

They would just take it to court and say, "Get out of here." You know, states get to decide how to do this.

But given that Trump is going forward with it, that would suggest there's something, you know, at least some optimism that he can get something done.

But he is also calling the California mail and voting system rigged, of course, and says it needs his illegal and criminal review.

So remember, I always tell you that one of the things that you can predict about Trump, and you'll see it again, reality You don't have a good view of reality unless you can predict.

I always tell you that, right?

So you tell me, could I have predicted that in the domain of uh of election integrity, would it have been possible to predict that Trump would take the strongest stance?

No.

I I've been telling you this forever.

He always just takes the strongest stance.

That's it.

What's the strongest stance?

Okay, that's my stance.

Now, the fact that the strongest stance in this case, I don't think would work.

Is that bad?

Do we say, "Oh, he's bad at this.

Trump is because he's taking a strong stand, but it's not very practical if it's not going to work." Nope.

As long as you understand he always takes the strongest stance, then the very next thing he goes into, whether it's election integrity or some other topic, everybody's going to expect him to take the strongest stance because it's just what he does every time.

And that gives him automatically the the the foundational approach like he's he's the one who has the starting point because you know what his starting point is?

the the strongest position.

So, does he believe that he can win in any of these particulars such as mail and voting or uh any of that?

I don't know.

I mean, somebody probably told him he had a chance.

Um but he doesn't need to win.

He just needs to take the strongest stance and make sure everybody knows it.

Yeah.

Anyway, um when Carol Levit was asked what evidence the uh the White House has that there was any rigging involved, uh what' she say?

Uh said she would provide evidence of fraud to reporters after the briefing.

Really?

Because that would be done by now.

Uh alleging that fraudulent balance are being mailed names of other people.

Well, you know, Republicans, come on, Republicans.

You've been playing this game for a while.

It works.

So that's why you're doing it.

The the game is if you can find three people who messed around with mail-in ballots, you can talk about those three people and then people who are not paying attention must think, "Oh, it must be a lot of people." Well, maybe it was just three.

Um, so I'm not sure that whatever the uh the details are are going to blow you away.

Probably not.

Wait, what is this?

something on my desk.

My god.

Oh my god.

Oh my god.

It's the Dilbert 2026 calendar.

Did you know that this is now available as of yesterday for your purchase on Amazon.com?

It's the only place you'll be able to find it.

Only on Amazon, nowhere else.

Free shipping.

At least if you're signed up for free shipping, if that's what you have.

And by the way, this is twice as good as every Dilbert calendar except for last year.

Last year was as good as this one because it had comics on both sides.

So on one side it's got the newest Dilbert Reborn comics.

Those are the spicy ones.

Little extra spice.

But also on the front, well front of the calendar, not the box.

It has the uh traditional ones that have already run before, which is normally what the calendar is.

Oh my god, there's something else on here.

Oh, I forgot to read you a reframe.

You want a reframe from my book, Reframe Your Brain?

Now, this book's been out for a while.

But, uh, if you haven't joined us lately, you don't know that I read a reframe or two every time when I remember it.

When I remember it.

I'm remembering it right now.

All right.

Um, here's one.

My feelings are the result of my situation.

Most of you think that, right?

However you're feeling right now, it's because the situation.

It's because of the people, the things, the money.

This is the situation.

And if the situation were better, you'd feel better, right?

Well, here's a reframe.

How I feel is my choice.

You can choose to be happy in almost any scenario except when you're in physical pain.

You can just sort of choose.

Now, it seems like you can't, but I'm a perfect example of what they call baseline happiness.

you know, when I was in my 20s, I think I probably the first time I heard that people would have, you know, terrible problems like, you know, health problems and stuff, and they would be just as happy as if they didn't have a terrible health problem.

And I thought, that can't be true.

There's no way that's true.

If you had a terrible health problem that that suddenly you never had before, you couldn't be as happy.

But honestly, when I'm not physically in pain, I'm just as happy as normal.

I really am.

You know, if I if I'm just, you know, watching the five in the afternoon and doing what I do in my man cave, I'm perfectly happy if it doesn't hurt.

That's that's really the only requirement.

So, there's your thing.

Just remember that you do have an option of how you feel that can be separated from what you're experiencing.

Takes practice, but you can do it.

All right.

Uh here's another promises made, promises kept.

President Trump is also signing uh executive orders to get rid of DEA DEI in the military.

I thought we already did that, didn't we?

Get rid of DEI in the military.

Well, we're going to keep doing it, I guess.

Um, and then Texas, speaking of DEI, uh, they're suspending their DEI program, uh, because it excluded white males.

Daily Wire is writing about this.

Left demenu, Left Demenu, that's what a great name that is.

L E I F.

And then I don't know what the L E is.

Is that It's not like a middle name, right?

That would be a two-part last name.

Leahu.

Excellent name.

Anyway, so that's a little racism that's going around.

I wonder if there's any other racism.

Oh, Google also faces the lawsuit.

Do you see a pattern yet?

Google also faces a lawsuit.

uh claiming uh claiming that uh executives that an executive was told that promotions were off limits because he is white and they blacklisted him and then he reported his supervisor for being a wild drunk and then that didn't work.

So, the drunken racist still on the job, I think.

Allegedly drunken racist.

Allegedly drunken racist.

Yeah, I know.

L is anyway.

So, Google's under a little pressure there.

Did anybody see Marjorie Taylor Green on the view the other day?

Um, I was watching that and it it appears and I I can't read her mind or anything like that, but whether or not I ever agree or disagree with Marjgery Taylor Green, she's just so likable.

Is it just me?

Am I the only one who just sees her and I think you're just so likable.

It doesn't matter, you know, if I'm on on board with the same policies.

Sometimes I'm not, sometimes I am, right?

But, uh, she apparently, and maybe this is temporary, we don't know, but looks like she may have softened her, um, let's say aggressive or assertive.

She's still assertive, but maybe maybe dialed down the aggressive part a little bit.

Assertive is good.

Aggressive depends.

And, uh, and so she sort of made nice with the ladies on the view, and they liked it, and she liked it.

And then somewhere around that time I came up with this realization about myself that might apply to you and it might be a universal.

I want to test it out.

Okay.

There are people on the left that I like while disagreeing with some of their opinions.

Likewise, there are people on the right who I like a lot while disagreeing with some of their opinions.

And so I was trying to figure out what is it about the people on the left and the people on the right that would make me like some of them like really like them a lot.

Uh there's just something about their vibe or their I don't know just something about them.

And I finally figured out what it was.

I'm going to read a number of people and you you tell me what the common element is.

You ready for this?

This will be like a cool little contest you can do at home.

So some of these will be on the left.

Uh, oh, did I I don't think I have enough on the right, but you get the idea.

So, what do these people have in common?

Donald Trump, Ran Paul, um, uh, Marjorie Taylor Green, uh, Nancy Mace, Bill Maher.

I threw a Bill Maher in there, somebody on the left.

Um, I would also throw in uh um what's his name?

Uh John Stewart.

I'll throw John Stewart in there.

I'll throw Federman in there.

All right.

Fedman.

So you got your Federman's, your Bill Morris.

Uh so we we got a few Democrats.

All right.

So now you tell me what they have in common.

You said charisma.

Charisma is true, but it's not what I'm looking for.

You're right about the charisma, but I think there's something even bigger.

Confidence.

Look at that.

Confidence.

Oh, you're so close.

You're so close with confidence.

But there's there are some other words I'm looking for.

You ready?

Here's a reveal.

They're fearless.

They're all fear.

Oh, you beat me to it.

Damn it.

Just as I said fearless, it went by in the comments.

So, one of you beat me to it.

They're they're absolutely fearless.

And uh I'm just drawn to fearless people.

You know, there there's a story today about Nancy Mace going off swearing at some TSA people.

I don't even need to know the details.

Don't need I don't care.

I don't need to know the details.

I don't need to, you know, support her or not support her or anything.

I would just note that she's definitely not afraid of anything.

She she she puts on a very brave persona, which I think is the real thing.

I mean, she's, you know, if you look at her life arc, a lot of bravery in there.

And uh all the other guys, take somebody that maybe you don't like so much, but maybe I like more than you.

Take Bill Maher.

I know.

I know it drives you crazy.

I totally understand the people who say, you know, don't make him a hero.

uh then you're just giving away power to the other side.

Get it?

I get it.

Totally get it.

And that's not wrong.

You're not wrong about that.

But I can't really help who I like.

And when I look at Bill Maher, if you look at his history, the way to become Bill Maher in 2025 is to be the worst version of Bill Maher in I don't know 20 whatever earlier.

Don't you think that becoming a a stand-up comedian has got to be the hardest, most humiliating, you know, punch in the gut thing if it doesn't work out that night?

And nobody nobody kills it on the first night.

So, if you look at what a lot of these people had to do to get to the position where we all know their names, it's very impressive.

And every one of them is fearless.

So, I love that.

>> The rest, it's up to them.

They'll have to come up with good ideas for me to like the rest.

Apparently, Apple has made some decisions about their AI and rather than build one, they're going to rent one.

So, they checked on a bunch of AIS and I guess they decided on something called Google's Gemini.

Something called that's just what it's called.

It's Google's Gemini.

Anyway, um so that's what Apple will have for its AI.

We'll see.

At least it's something.

Every time I use uh I don't want to say the word, but sir, I every time I think is it 20 years in the past?

Why am I even Why am I even looking at this?

All right.

Um, and they swear they'll keep the data private and blah blah.

Here's a idea which I can't decide if it's awesome or not, but it might be.

You know, every once in a while you'll see an idea that you'll say, "Huh, that was really clever." Believe it or not, it's coming from San Francisco.

So, as you know, San Francisco went to hell and a lot of shops closed, which made downtown look a lot less inviting than it could have been.

Uh, and so people have tried to come up with an idea.

How do you quickly turn all these vacant stores into something that people don't mind being around?

And they came up with this program called vacant to vibrant.

And I think, you know, I only looked at it quickly, but my understanding is that for very small amounts of money, they were sort of helping people set up a store within an abandoned store.

Um, but they would make it vibrant.

So, so they would, they wouldn't go too hard on the corporate looking, well, we better better add some marble to this anything.

They just made it look fun, I guess.

And so there are 33 of these popup stores.

Uh, that's what they call them in in 23 downtown storefronts.

So, so basically it's just a cheap way for somebody who's not already established in the in the business to just start a business with their help without having to worry too much about the real estate cost or the look.

Apparently, they found a way to make it look pleasant so you wouldn't mind being around it.

So, I don't know the details.

You could easily convince me that there's something terribly wrong with this.

Uh, but in two years if they really got 33 pop-up stores that are still in business, that'd be kind of impressive, actually.

Um, let's see what else is happening.

Oh, there's a new AI called Cosmos with a K.

Kos Moss.

I'm looking at a post by Sam Rodriguez.

He's talking about it and he's a AI AI expert kind of a guy, CEO of Future House and Edison Scientific.

Anyway, he's he's a part of building what they call an AI scientist.

So, Cosmo is a specialized AI that will act as a scientist.

And apparently, they've already tested this thing and it can read 1500 papers and write 42,000 lines of code and that 79% of its findings are reproducible and that it's made seven discoveries so far.

Now, are those discoveries that you can use or are they discoveries that weren't discovered because nobody thought that it was useful?

They didn't need to discover it in the first place.

There's a lot to know about this.

So, we don't know.

But I'm very impressed because my general statement about this would be that if you were looking for the greatest point of leverage from AI, it would be an AI scientist.

So, whoever came up with the idea of, hey, why don't we make an AI scientist so much better than an AI robot that's going to iron your clothes?

Am I right?

You know, one of them might invent, you know, uh, a perfect energy without cost and the other one would iron your shirt.

And I'm thinking, I think these guys have the right idea about this.

Maybe it'd be better to have all these, you know, scientific uh breakthroughs that change the very nature of civilization or a nicely ironed shirt.

I'm so now not impressed by a robot that can iron a shirt, even though they can barely do that.

I want my own AI.

I want my own AI scientist.

Wouldn't that be cool?

I'd like put I'd put it in a robot, of course.

Sorry.

By the way, one one of the one of the things from my meds is I was told I'd have a I might have a fever today.

Boy, do I.

Nice and nice and sweaty fever.

Not bad, though.

As I was warned it would be today for a Jack Russell Terrier.

That'd be a good name.

That is a good name.

I knew a dog named Cosmo.

Cool dog.

Anyway, uh government shutdown apparently continues.

I was sort of thinking that the Democrats might, you know, cave in after the uh after the election because, you know, they don't need to they don't need to use it as an election, you know, asset anymore.

But apparently they decided they did so well in winning the election that whatever they were doing before that they should keep doing.

And what they were doing before it is shutting the government.

So now, now the Democrats think that they've come upon this great plan.

Hey, I've got an idea.

How did we win that uh special elections?

Well, it's because the government shut down.

Huh?

The government shut down and then we won an election.

What should we do about the midterms?

I've got an idea.

Why don't you keep the government shut down for another year?

Wait, that's crazy talk.

We can't go a year without a government.

You would have said that about three months.

We went three months without a government.

Next thing you know, that's all they'll have.

Well, they also have cursing.

So, they have not doing their job, as in shutting down the government, and they also have cursing.

So, th those are their their two go-tos, cursing and not working.

If I told you that one of the parties had decided that their strategy was to curse more and not do work, would you have guessed which one I was?

Would you have said to yourself, "Hm, they want to curse more and they want to not work.

Yeah, that could be a republic." No, that couldn't be a Republican.

That actually could not be a Republican.

You You would be mocked so hard if you were a Republican and you said, "Let's let's do the not work thing." Anyway, um I guess there's a uh the Supreme Court is look uh Supreme Court is looking at tariffs today, I believe, or this week.

So, Justice Barrett was as asking about if we reverse the tariffs, is there any practical way to refund the money to which I think refund the tariffs?

What kind of monster are you?

It's bad enough that you might take the tariffs away from Trump as a weapon, but you want to refund, Are you Are you kidding me?

You You want to refund the $200 billion that he's already collected?

How about we just don't bring that up?

Even if we decide we don't want to do tariffs, how about we just keep that money?

Can Can I send over a guy to teach you how money works?

His name is Trump.

You may have heard of him.

And if you could imagine, you know, close your eyes and imagine a table that only has one thing on it, a big pile of money and all you have to do is take it and you can keep it and there's no penalty.

What would what would Trump do?

He would probably, you know, check anybody really.

Are you serious?

Nobody Nobody's going to take this money.

All right.

And then he scoop it up because he's smarter than you.

Not you, but he's smarter than people when it comes to handling money.

And no, you don't even bring up the conversation of should we refund it.

No, that's not how any of this works.

Anyway, so we'll see what happens.

Uh the alarming thing is that if the Supreme Court decides we can or cannot have tariffs, worse of course if they decide we can't, wouldn't that basically put them in charge of everything?

Like why why would the Supreme Court get to decide how the president can use his weapons?

Because it's a weapon, right?

You mostly I mean it's it's a tax collection process, too.

But the Constitution doesn't say anything about collecting taxes, but we do it.

So, yeah, I'm just I'm concerned that it's the wrong branch of government handling the most important thing.

It's just the wrong branch of government.

Anyway, three uh Chinese nationals from the University of Michigan been arrested, it looks like, and charged for smuggling what they call biological materials into the US.

Um, oh no.

Turns out it was their lunch.

Just their lunch.

Joking.

I'm joking.

It wasn't their lunch.

It was biological materials.

What kind of biological materials?

I don't know.

I don't like the sound of it.

Hey, Bob.

What's that in that bag?

Uh, nothing.

No, seriously.

What's in the bag, Bob?

Wait, what?

Speak up.

biological materials.

Say it.

Can you say it a little more clearly?

It's biological materials.

Ah, and then I would start running out the door holding mask, double masking.

That would be the first time I ever double masked if I heard that.

I got a big bag of biological materials.

Would you like a handful?

Well, here's something I found out today.

Apparently, Russia has a persuasion expert.

Yeah, Russia has a persuasion expert.

Turns out that that Lavrov guy that we always see, you know, he's he seems to be their head diplomat guy, Lavrov, he's sort of a hard ass.

And uh but by being a hard ass, he's sort of guaranteed that nothing got done, you know, that there was no no peace, no nothing because he just asked for too much.

He asked for things he'd never get, like the dismantling of the Ukrainian army.

Who's going to say yes to that?

So Lavrov was worthless if the goal was to end the war.

We don't know if that was Russia's goal.

May maybe they just wanted him to be the guy who extended the war, in which case he did a good job.

But now there's this new guy, Kirill Deitv.

Uh he's he's a special envoy for now, but he he's high up in the influence part of the government.

So Putin must like him because he's sort of putting him in charge of figuring out what to do with Ukraine in terms of uh not ending the war because I I just don't know if Putin is even wanting to end the war.

But this guy is taking the lead.

But here's what this guy's doing.

He's definitely not trying to end the war.

But uh he's uh he's the one he's one of the people claiming that Russia and Putin in particular are going to uphold traditional conservative values.

I think he just calls them conser traditional values.

So he's trying to confuse the US into thinking or or at least this is one take from Mark Toth and Jonathan.

It's an opinion in the Hill.

So let me give all credit to them for the story.

Mark Toth and Jonathan Sweet.

So the uh the idea here is that this guy is just going to mess with us and he's going to act like oh those those conservatives, you know, we agree with the conservatives basically.

We like their their conservative values.

So Russia and the Republicans, you know, we should be getting along.

And that would really mess with, you know, half of the country at least.

But then what else does he say?

Um, and uh, he had something else he was trying to do.

But anyway, his his job is just to mess with us.

Um, and apparently he's doing a good job.

So I wonder if every country has one of him.

Don't you think every country has has one of these guys whose job it is just to sort of mess with the other company country?

So it makes me wonder what training he has.

You know, Adamski, does does he have the training I have?

Do you know how scary that would be if I found out that Russia had a me?

Think about it.

If Russia had a Scott Adams, just imagine that because they would have the platform.

That would be really dangerous for us.

But luckily, they don't have me.

Only Only America has me.

America first.

First, and last.

That's what I say.

First, middle, and last.

America.

All right.

Well, they got a wizard.

And uh let's see what else is going on.

Oh, Megan Kelly was uh unleashing on Republicans.

Oh, part of it was I think I think there was some thought that the Russians might be boosting Tucker Carlson because that would mess things up in in our country.

Um I don't know if that's true, but Megan Kelly um I saw that Colin Rug did this on a post.

He said, "Megan Kelly unleashes on Republicans.

Congratulates them for spending the last few weeks policing a group chat and Tucker Carlson." All right.

So, here's what Megan Kelly said.

And, you know, it's just so well worded.

It's It's fun.

She said, quote, "The Republicans like to lose.

They enjoy losing.

They enjoy when they're embattled and in a losing position and complaining.

They love it.

They do it really well.

Less good at winning, especially when Donald Trump is not there to get them over the line.

The Republican party is not strong.

Donald Trump is strong.

Republicans don't know how to win.

They don't know how to run.

They don't they don't know what to do when daddy's not there to fly them across the finish line.

Okay, that's just that's just excellent writing right there, even though she spoke it, but you you know what I mean.

Um, so good at communicating.

So good.

But here's a here's my take.

I've never really thought about this so much that if you took if you took Trump out of the Republican party, is it possible that they could never win again?

I'm not I'm not predicting that.

I'm just saying, you know what, this this sort of struck me as too true.

I hadn't really been thinking in these terms, but I feel like Trump is the only reason anything went well for the Republicans.

And that the minute they try to do something without him, it looks like it looks like uh dumb.

And when they do something that he's behind, it looks smart.

And uh you know, Megan's all over this.

So I think I think she's right.

The Republicans have a real problem here.

Now, the part about going after Tucker, my take on that was if the only thing you have to do in politics is go after your own team, it kind of means you've already won because the other team's not worth going after.

You know, if there were another team that were a threat, you would go after them first.

You wouldn't go after Tucker.

But once you got all that taken care of and you know the border is sealed and Trump's doing what he can do and things seem to be moving in a generally good direction, then you start thinking, "Huh, that Tucker guy is saying some provocative things that seem to get a little bit too close to the line and I got some questions.

Why is he always so close to that line?" I don't know.

Can't read his mind.

So, I don't I don't take it the same way a lot of you.

I I don't take it as a real fight.

I take it as running out of things to do.

We ran out of things to do.

Now we're going to have to go after each other.

That's what it looks like.

Anyway, um, as I said before, and I think this I think this take is the most useful one.

You know, we all walk around with our own filter.

So if your filter is you're Jewish and you're sort of locked into that uh view of life, then people who keep bringing up the Jews would be scary.

You're like, why do you keep bringing this up?

Why is this so important?

Uh so if you're Jewish, you would think that looks a little anti-Semitic.

If you're not Jewish and that's not your filter on life, as I've said before, it might look like free speech plus uh America first.

And I'm not defending either position.

I'm just saying that depending on your filter, it's two movies playing on one screen.

You're all looking at the same stuff.

But some of you see a problem and some of you see nothing.

Well, you're getting quite worked up there in the comments, aren't you?

Maybe I shouldn't have brought it up.

All right, people.

That's all I got for you today.

We're going to end a little bit early because my hands don't work.

So, it was really hard to prepare today.

I tried to I tried to drag it out a little bit so I could get a full hour, but I didn't make it.

I'm going to talk to the locals people privately for a moment.

And uh the rest of you, thanks for joining.

I hope you uh got something out of this.

Did anybody get anything out of this?

Did Did anybody hear something that was both useful?

Remember Elon?

Did anybody hear something I did that was useful but also affected a lot of people cuz you heard it all.

I hope so.

Hope so.

Anyway, um I'm going to go talk to the locals people privately.

The rest of you hope to see you tomorrow.

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pretty bad.

Was pretty bad this morning. So, I'm

operating on some painkillers that I

typically try really hard not to do

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I shouldn't have said that. Uh

but what we're going to do is make sure

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Hey, I wonder if there's any science

that they didn't need to do because they

could have just asked me. Oh, here we

are. According to Bianca

Sachinago,

there's a new research that says if you

cluster unhealthy habits linked to

higher depression, you'll have even

worse depression.

Let me see. Could I could I have figured

this one out on my own? So, if you do a

thing, one thing that's linked with

making you depressed,

it won't be as bad as if you did two

things that would make you depressed

individually.

I think I would have been all over that.

Yeah. Yeah. Next time, just ask me.

You probably heard a bunch of airports

are cutting back service 10% today.

How many of you would go to an airport

if you knew they'd cut back service 10%.

And you didn't know, is everybody in the

same job today or or are people filling

in for other people because of the 10%

thing? I'd be a little worried about

about flying today.

But, you know, 10% doesn't sound that

bad unless you're flying on an airline

that's part of a system that's 40 years

away from being modernized.

So,

if I were you, if you can postpone your

trip,

maybe maybe it'd be a good time.

I saw Elon Musk was doing a podcast and

he had some useful uh advice about being

useful. Um, and this is you might

recognize this as so exactly my my

opinion as well. Uh, and I like it

whenever the smartest person in the

world agrees with me. That always feels

good. It's like, wait, wait, he agreed

with me. Oh, that's cool. So, here's his

advice for young entrepreneurs. He says,

try to be as useful as possible. Uh, and

later he clarified useful to the most

number of people

and that if you aspire to do that and

also something called true work, your

probability of success is much higher.

Do whatever it takes to succeed. Smash

your ego. Be humble. It's a super big

deal. So, you've heard me talk about

getting your ego out of the process of

success. So, you've heard me say that.

It's a great advice. Uh, be humble

just in general. It's a good thing just

to imagine that you don't have all the

answers and you know, maybe you're going

to have to work hard to get the answers.

And, uh, be useful to the most number of

people. That's literally my my mission

in life. That's why I'm doing this. I'm

literally doing it right now. I could be

giving advice to one person,

but but as uh Elon would point out,

wouldn't it be better if you gave advice

to a 100,000 people? So that's what I'm

doing. Probably 100,000 people will see

this eventually.

So great, great Elon Musk advice. Be

useful to the most number of people.

Um, speaking of Musk, SpaceX won a $2

billion Golden Dome contract.

So, Golden Dome.

I'm sure there's a joke I can make about

the Golden Dome. It does sound like

Trump's haircut, but uh, apparently it's

not. This has something to do with

shooting down incoming missiles. But,

uh, why did SpaceX get the contract and

nobody else did? They're the only ones

who can do it.

Now, that's that's what I call useful.

How how many of you can shoot down 600

incoming missiles at the same time?

You? No. You? Anybody? And then like

Elon, it's like, well, I can do that.

How many? 600. Same time. Yeah, I could

probably do that.

What's more useful? What would be more

useful than shooting down incoming

missiles if we were attacked?

Anyway, there other legacy defense

contractors. That's what Mario Noel is

describing them as. Legacy defense

contractors. They've already spent

decades and billions of dollars and

they've never they haven't really gotten

close to being able to solve it. But

SpaceX already has 10,000 satellites and

the smartest people you're ever going to

see. So, I feel like they can knock this

off fairly quickly. We'll see. We have

an Elon and you don't.

So, according to Interesting

Engineering,

we may be nearing what they call the end

of of brain surgery. They're working on

I guess we're kind of close to these

injectable chips that will self-implant

to treat brain disease safely. So

basically you just give somebody a shot

and these tiny little programmed

whatever they are will find their way to

your brain. They can even uh pass the

brain the the brain blood what is it

blood brain barrier and it can get it

can find on its own

when I say on its own it's programmed to

do it to the the right part of the brain

and then it just inserts itself into

that part of the brain and apparently

it's wrapped in some kind of organic

wrapper so that it's not rejected. So,

it's part you, the organic rapper part,

and it's or part human, whatever it is,

and uh and part machine. So, the human

part keeps it from being rejected

totally, and the machine part does the

the cool stuff.

I don't know. Is that going to work? Do

do you think you do you think you were

born into the time that you could get a

shot

uh you know, in your arm like from a

needle and it will fix your brain?

because little little robots basically

would go in there and just fix it. Does

that sound like something that's going

to happen in your lifetime?

It really doesn't.

I don't know if it's going to happen or

not, but it doesn't sound like something

that's going to happen.

That sounds pretty aspirational.

Well, as you know, California had this

thing called Prop 50 that passed by a

pretty good margin. And Prop 50 will

allow the state to redistrict and get

rid of those pesky Republicans entirely.

I don't know if it's entirely, but it's

going to be close to entirely. So, it

pretty much is going to get rid of

Republicans.

But did you know that there's a high

correlation between Democrats and people

of color? Did you know that? Well, there

is. And so there's also a correlation

with race,

not just party. And so they're being

sued.

Um, so Gavin Newsome or the state or

somebody is being sued because it's

unconstitutional to have a racial

gerrymandering.

Now, if they say, "But but but but we're

not doing it for racial reasons," then

the argument would be, "Then why does it

look exactly like you are?" But but but

it's really just Democrats

getting more and Republicans getting

less. And that's just politics. That's

not race. That's just politics.

To which I say, h and yet there is one

other correlation that we're noticing

here. There's one other correlation. So

I'm not so sure that this lawsuit will

succeed. Uh I feel like it probably

won't because all they have to do is

say, "No, no, no. It's about politics

and we make the decision based on how

many Republicans there are, not based on

how many white people there are. But

we'll see. I mean, to me, it seems at

least half racist.

You know, at the minimum, it's half

racist. I just don't know. Is half

racist enough to change it? You know,

you want you want it to be no racist,

right? Zero racist would be ideal. I

don't know. We'll see.

Um, what what else is happening in the

world of racism? CBS just fired an

experienced old white guy attorney. He

wasn't that old. Uh, because he was a

middle-aged man. This is the the Daily

Mail is reporting. So, they replaced him

with a black former intern because he

was a middle-aged white man. So, that's

how the Daily Mail is and Will Potter

are describing it.

Um, however,

there's a lawsuit over that because you

know what is the worst idea in the world

messing with a lawyer.

Here's some good advice for you. Should

you ever decide to mess with somebody,

don't do it with somebody who doesn't

have to pay to hire a lawyer cuz he is

the lawyer. I mean, maybe he is paying a

lawyer, I don't know. But if you go

after a lawyer, you're going to get sued

and you're going to spend a lot of time

figuring stuff out that the lawyer

didn't have to figure out because they

do it routinely. Just fill down some

paperwork. I worked all day trying to

figure out what your paperwork said. Had

to hire a lawyer to figure out what your

paperwork said. So, never mess with a

lawyer. And by the way, I I'm not saying

this just because of this story. This

has been my lifetime my lifetime advice.

I've given this advice a lot of times.

Don't mess with lawyers. It It's just

all bad, you know. Just don't do it.

Just treat them right and they won't sue

you. But you got to you're going to have

to try extra hard

just to make sure you don't get in that

situation.

So that's uh so that's CBS being racist

allegedly.

So, I saw Mom Donnie. By the way, it

turns out that whoever is in charge of

the dictation software on my Apple

devices really hates Mom Donnie because

if you use the dictation feature,

it says either mom dummy, as in a mother

who's also a dominatrix. Two words, or

mom dummy. I swear to God, I'm not

making this up. It actually says mom

dummy or mom dummy. Those are the two

options you can get with voice.

So all morning I've been cursing at like

no oh no it's mom mom Donnie mom mom mom

mom mom mom mom mom mom mom mom mom mom

mom mom mom mom mom mom mom mom d d d d

d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d di m

anyway. So mom Donnie um had a new

phrase which reminds you that it's not

luck. It's not luck that he got where he

is. All right. There's something else

going on and it's not luck.

Um but here's what he said. He said that

the uh he promised that the new age he

calls it uh of relentless improvement

where the government will solve all your

problems according to the

postmillennial. Now he didn't say the

part about we'll solve all your

problems. That was that was narrative.

But he did say relentless improvement.

Now you want to hear a real persuasion

secret.

So this this is behind the curtain

stuff. This is stuff nobody else is

going to tell you all day long. You'll

hear about mom dummy. And unless they

heard this from me,

you're not going to hear it anywhere

else. You ready?

Whoever came up with the phrase

relentless improvement.

If they're also the same person, this is

an if. If that's also the same person

who came up with affordability

as a keyword,

that's who's in charge.

That's who's in charge.

Because whoever whoever can operate at

that level, that's way above normal

political level. That is that is

wizardry.

That is total persuasion wizardry. This

phrase relentless improvement. Compare

that to how he's being attacked. Now

again, if you're new to me, I'm not I'm

not supporting Mom Dami. If anybody's

new, I'm I'm not down with Mom Donnie.

I'm just talking about his skill set

which is useful to you. So

relentless improvement is the perfect

response to you socialist giving away

stuff kind of guy. Socialism never

works. Every everything goes bad after

socialism, right? What what would be the

one thing that every Republican thinks

is true about Mom Donnie and his

socialism coming to New York City? The

one thing that every Republican thinks

is true is that it will certainly cause

a guaranteed decrease in the quality of

life over time and it will just keep

getting worse. Right now, I'm not saying

that's true or what what's going to

happen. It's not a prediction, although

it'd be a safe one. Uh I'm just saying

that's what people think. And if what

you're thinking is that you're entering

a period where things are just going to

go bad forever, a really good counter to

that is that we're entering a new age of

relentless improvement. Now, in order to

do the relentless part, who would he

have to copy? Here, here's some more

fun. Who Who would Mandi have to copy

in order to sell his idea

that he was pushing relentless

improvement? Trump. Trump.

So every time he steals a page from

Trump but just, you know, pencils out

Trump and puts it in his own name,

brilliant. Why wouldn't you use what

works? If it works, use it.

So here's here's my assignment for you.

The assignment is this. Find out if if

Manny is the one who comes up with his

own catchphrases.

If he comes up with his own catchphrases

and he came up with affordability and

also relentless improvement,

I don't know what could stop him. So,

you better hope he didn't do it. You You

better hope he's getting advice, you

know, because the advice can be

separated from the person. But if he's

doing this himself, okay, he's got game

like you didn't know. So, find out if he

has an advisor. and then find out

secondly if his advisor came up with

both of those things only one of them or

or none. So, we need to know that once

you find the person who came up with

those two things, if it's the same

person,

that person has a lot of power by being

good at what they're doing. Not power by

office, but but power by influence. That

would be a really influential person.

You can ask. Please do. Please ask.

All right. We'll find out. Uh Trump is

drafting some executive orders on

election integrity according to the

Epoch Times. Tom Omeck is writing about

this. Now I thought that that was sort

of a dead end. I thought that the states

have so much guaranteed authority over

elections that it wouldn't even matter

what Trump did. They would just take it

to court and say, "Get out of here." You

know, states get to decide how to do

this. But given that Trump is going

forward with it, that would suggest

there's something, you know, at least

some optimism that he can get something

done. But he is also calling the

California mail and voting system

rigged,

of course, and says it needs his illegal

and criminal review.

So remember, I always tell you that one

of the things that you can predict about

Trump, and you'll see it again, reality

You don't have a good view of reality

unless you can predict.

I always tell you that, right? So you

tell me, could I have predicted that in

the domain of uh of election integrity,

would it have been possible to predict

that Trump would take the strongest

stance? No. I I've been telling you this

forever. He always just takes the

strongest stance. That's it. What's the

strongest stance? Okay, that's my

stance. Now, the fact that the strongest

stance in this case, I don't think would

work. Is that bad?

Do we say, "Oh, he's bad at this. Trump

is because he's taking a strong stand,

but it's not very practical if it's not

going to work." Nope. As long as you

understand he always takes the strongest

stance, then the very next thing he goes

into, whether it's election integrity or

some other topic, everybody's going to

expect him to take the strongest stance

because it's just what he does every

time. And that gives him automatically

the the the foundational approach like

he's he's the one who has the starting

point because you know what his starting

point is? the the strongest position.

So, does he believe that he can win in

any of these particulars

such as mail and voting or uh any of

that? I don't know. I mean, somebody

probably told him he had a chance. Um

but he doesn't need to win. He just

needs to take the strongest stance and

make sure everybody knows it.

Yeah. Anyway, um when Carol Levit was

asked what evidence the uh the White

House has that there was any rigging

involved, uh what' she say? Uh said she

would provide evidence of fraud to

reporters after the briefing. Really?

Because that would be done by now.

Uh alleging that fraudulent balance are

being mailed names of other people.

Well, you know, Republicans, come on,

Republicans. You've been playing this

game for a while.

It works. So that's why you're doing it.

The the game is if you can find three

people who messed around with mail-in

ballots, you can talk about those three

people and then people who are not

paying attention must think, "Oh, it

must be a lot of people." Well, maybe it

was just three. Um, so I'm not sure that

whatever the uh the details are are

going to blow you away. Probably not.

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that's what you have. And by the way,

this is twice as good as every Dilbert

calendar except for last year. Last year

was as good as this one because it had

comics on both sides. So on one side

it's got the newest

Dilbert Reborn comics. Those are the

spicy ones. Little extra spice. But also

on the front, well front of the

calendar, not the box. It has the uh

traditional ones that have already run

before, which is normally what the

calendar is.

Oh my god, there's something else on

here. Oh, I forgot to read you a

reframe. You want a reframe

from my book, Reframe Your Brain? Now,

this book's been out for a while. But,

uh, if you haven't joined us lately, you

don't know that I read a reframe or two

every time when I remember it. When I

remember it. I'm remembering it right

now. All right. Um,

here's one. My feelings are the result

of my situation.

Most of you think that, right? However

you're feeling right now, it's because

the situation. It's because of the

people, the things, the money. This is

the situation. And if the situation were

better, you'd feel better, right? Well,

here's a reframe.

How I feel is my choice. You can choose

to be happy in almost any scenario

except when you're in physical pain. You

can just sort of choose. Now, it seems

like you can't, but I'm a perfect

example of what they call baseline

happiness. you know, when I was in my

20s, I think I probably the first time I

heard that people would have, you know,

terrible problems like, you know, health

problems and stuff, and they would be

just as happy

as if they didn't have a terrible health

problem. And I thought, that can't be

true. There's no way that's true. If you

had a terrible health problem that that

suddenly you never had before, you

couldn't be as happy. But honestly, when

I'm not physically in pain, I'm just as

happy as normal. I really am. You know,

if I if I'm just, you know, watching the

five

in the afternoon and doing what I do in

my man cave, I'm perfectly happy if it

doesn't hurt. That's that's really the

only requirement. So, there's your

thing. Just remember that you do have an

option of how you feel that can be

separated

from what you're experiencing.

Takes practice, but you can do it.

All right. Uh here's another promises

made, promises kept. President Trump is

also signing uh executive orders to get

rid of DEA DEI in the military. I

thought we already did that, didn't we?

Get rid of DEI in the military. Well,

we're going to keep doing it, I guess.

Um, and then Texas, speaking of DEI, uh,

they're suspending their DEI program,

uh, because it excluded white males.

Daily Wire is writing about this. Left

demenu,

Left Demenu, that's what a great name

that is. L E I F. And then I don't know

what the L E is. Is that It's not like a

middle name, right? That would be a

two-part last name. Leahu.

Excellent name. Anyway,

so that's a little racism that's going

around. I wonder if there's any other

racism. Oh, Google also faces the

lawsuit.

Do you see a pattern yet? Google also

faces a lawsuit.

uh claiming uh

claiming that uh executives that an

executive was told that promotions were

off limits because he is white and they

blacklisted him and then he reported his

supervisor for being a wild drunk and

then that didn't work. So, the drunken

racist

still on the job, I think.

Allegedly drunken racist. Allegedly

drunken racist.

Yeah, I know. L is

anyway. So, Google's under a little

pressure there. Did anybody see Marjorie

Taylor Green on the view the other day?

Um, I was watching that and it it

appears and I I can't read her mind or

anything like that, but whether or not I

ever agree or disagree with Marjgery

Taylor Green, she's just so likable.

Is it just me? Am I the only one who

just sees her and I think you're just so

likable. It doesn't matter, you know, if

I'm on on board with the same policies.

Sometimes I'm not, sometimes I am,

right? But, uh, she apparently, and

maybe this is temporary, we don't know,

but looks like she may have softened

her, um, let's say aggressive or

assertive.

She's still assertive, but maybe maybe

dialed down the aggressive part a little

bit. Assertive is good. Aggressive

depends.

And, uh, and so she sort of made nice

with the ladies on the view, and they

liked it, and she liked it.

And then somewhere around that time I

came up with this realization about

myself that might apply to you and it

might be a universal. I want to test it

out. Okay. There are people on the left

that I like while disagreeing with some

of their opinions.

Likewise, there are people on the right

who I like a lot while disagreeing with

some of their opinions. And so I was

trying to figure out what is it about

the people on the left and the people on

the right that would make me like some

of them like really like them a lot. Uh

there's just something about their vibe

or their I don't know just something

about them. And I finally figured out

what it was. I'm going to read a number

of people and you you tell me what the

common element is. You ready for this?

This will be like a cool little contest

you can do at home. So some of these

will be on the left.

Uh, oh, did I I don't think I have

enough on the right, but you get the

idea. So, what do these people have in

common? Donald Trump, Ran Paul,

um,

uh, Marjorie Taylor Green, uh, Nancy

Mace,

Bill Maher. I threw a Bill Maher in

there, somebody on the left. Um,

I would also throw in uh

um what's his name? Uh John Stewart.

I'll throw John Stewart in there. I'll

throw Federman in there. All right.

Fedman. So you got your Federman's, your

Bill Morris. Uh so we we got a few

Democrats. All right. So now you tell me

what they have in common. You said

charisma. Charisma is true, but it's not

what I'm looking for.

You're right about the charisma, but I

think there's something even bigger.

Confidence. Look at that. Confidence.

Oh, you're so close. You're so close

with confidence. But there's there are

some other words I'm looking for. You

ready?

Here's a reveal.

They're fearless. They're all fear. Oh,

you beat me to it. Damn it. Just as I

said fearless, it went by in the

comments. So, one of you beat me to it.

They're they're absolutely fearless. And

uh I'm just drawn to fearless people.

You know, there there's a story today

about Nancy Mace going off swearing at

some TSA people. I don't even need to

know the details. Don't need I don't

care. I don't need to know the details.

I don't need to, you know, support her

or not support her or anything. I would

just note that she's definitely not

afraid of anything. She she she puts on

a very brave persona, which I think is

the real thing. I mean, she's, you know,

if you look at her life arc, a lot of

bravery in there. And uh all the other

guys, take somebody that maybe you don't

like so much, but maybe I like more than

you. Take Bill Maher. I know. I know it

drives you crazy.

I totally understand the people who say,

you know, don't make him a hero. uh then

you're just giving away power to the

other side. Get it? I get it. Totally

get it. And that's not wrong. You're not

wrong about that. But I can't really

help who I like. And when I look at Bill

Maher, if you look at his history, the

way to become Bill Maher in 2025

is to be the worst version of Bill Maher

in I don't know 20 whatever earlier.

Don't you think that becoming a a

stand-up comedian has got to be the

hardest, most humiliating, you know,

punch in the gut thing if it doesn't

work out that night? And nobody nobody

kills it on the first night. So, if you

look at what a lot of these people had

to do to get to the position where we

all know their names, it's very

impressive. And every one of them is

fearless. So,

I love that.

>> The rest, it's up to them.

They'll have to come up with good ideas

for me to like the rest.

Apparently, Apple has made some

decisions about their AI and rather than

build one, they're going to rent one.

So, they checked on a bunch of AIS and I

guess they decided on something called

Google's Gemini.

Something called that's just what it's

called. It's Google's Gemini. Anyway, um

so that's what Apple will have for its

AI.

We'll see.

At least it's something. Every time I

use uh I don't want to say the word, but

sir, I every time I think is it 20 years

in the past? Why am I even Why am I even

looking at this?

All right.

Um, and they swear they'll keep the data

private and blah blah. Here's a idea

which I can't decide if it's awesome or

not, but it might be. You know, every

once in a while you'll see an idea that

you'll say, "Huh, that was really

clever." Believe it or not, it's coming

from San Francisco. So, as you know, San

Francisco went to hell and a lot of

shops closed, which made downtown look a

lot less inviting than it could have

been. Uh, and so people have tried to

come up with an idea. How do you quickly

turn all these vacant stores into

something that people don't mind being

around?

And they came up with this program

called vacant to vibrant.

And I think, you know, I only looked at

it quickly, but my understanding is that

for very small amounts of money, they

were sort of helping people set up a

store within an abandoned store.

Um, but they would make it vibrant. So,

so they would, they wouldn't go too hard

on the corporate looking, well, we

better better add some marble to this

anything. They just made it look fun, I

guess. And so there are 33 of these

popup stores.

Uh, that's what they call them in in 23

downtown storefronts.

So, so basically it's just a cheap way

for somebody who's not already

established in the in the business to

just start a business with their help

without having to worry too much about

the real estate cost or the look.

Apparently, they found a way to make it

look pleasant so you wouldn't mind being

around it.

So, I don't know the details. You could

easily convince me that there's

something terribly wrong with this. Uh,

but in two years if they really got 33

pop-up stores that are still in

business, that'd be kind of impressive,

actually.

Um, let's see what else is happening.

Oh, there's a new AI called Cosmos with

a K. Kos Moss. I'm looking at a post by

Sam Rodriguez. He's talking about it and

he's a AI AI expert kind of a guy, CEO

of Future House and Edison Scientific.

Anyway, he's he's a part of building

what they call an AI scientist. So,

Cosmo is a specialized AI that will act

as a scientist. And apparently, they've

already tested this thing and it can

read 1500 papers and write 42,000 lines

of code and that 79% of its findings are

reproducible

and that it's made seven discoveries so

far. Now, are those discoveries that you

can use or are they discoveries that

weren't discovered because nobody

thought that it was useful? They didn't

need to discover it in the first place.

There's a lot to know about this. So, we

don't know. But I'm very impressed

because my general statement about this

would be that if you were looking for

the greatest point of leverage from AI,

it would be an AI scientist.

So, whoever came up with the idea of,

hey, why don't we make an AI scientist

so much better than an AI robot that's

going to iron your clothes? Am I right?

You know, one of them might invent, you

know, uh, a perfect energy without cost

and the other one would iron your shirt.

And I'm thinking, I think these guys

have the right idea about this. Maybe

it'd be better to have all these, you

know, scientific uh breakthroughs that

change the very nature of civilization

or a nicely ironed shirt. I'm so now not

impressed by a robot that can iron a

shirt, even though they can barely do

that.

I want my own AI. I want my own AI

scientist.

Wouldn't that be cool? I'd like put I'd

put it in a robot, of course.

Sorry. By the way, one one of the one of

the things from my meds is I was told

I'd have a I might have a fever today.

Boy, do I. Nice and nice and sweaty

fever. Not bad, though.

As I was warned it would be today

for a Jack Russell Terrier. That'd be a

good name. That is a good name. I knew a

dog named Cosmo. Cool dog. Anyway, uh

government shutdown apparently

continues. I was sort of thinking that

the Democrats might, you know, cave in

after the uh after the election because,

you know, they don't need to they don't

need to use it as an election, you know,

asset anymore. But apparently they

decided they did so well in winning the

election that whatever they were doing

before that they should keep doing.

And what they were doing before it is

shutting the government. So now, now the

Democrats think that they've come upon

this great plan. Hey, I've got an idea.

How did we win that uh special

elections? Well, it's because the

government shut down. Huh? The

government shut down and then we won an

election. What should we do about the

midterms?

I've got an idea.

Why don't you keep the government shut

down for another year?

Wait, that's crazy talk. We can't go a

year without a government. You would

have said that about three months. We

went three months without a government.

Next thing you know, that's all they'll

have. Well, they also have cursing. So,

they have not doing their job, as in

shutting down the government, and they

also have cursing.

So, th those are their their two go-tos,

cursing and not working.

If I told you that one of the parties

had decided that their strategy was to

curse more and not do work, would you

have guessed which one I was? Would you

have said to yourself, "Hm, they want to

curse more and they want to not work.

Yeah, that could be a republic." No,

that couldn't be a Republican. That

actually could not be a Republican.

You You would be mocked so hard if you

were a Republican and you said, "Let's

let's do the not work thing."

Anyway,

um I guess there's a uh

the Supreme Court is look uh Supreme

Court is looking at tariffs today, I

believe, or this week. So, Justice

Barrett was as asking about if we

reverse the tariffs, is there any

practical way to refund the money to

which I think refund the tariffs? What

kind of monster are you? It's bad enough

that you might take the tariffs away

from Trump as a weapon, but you want to

refund, Are you Are you kidding

me? You You want to refund the $200

billion that he's already collected? How

about we just don't bring that up? Even

if we decide we don't want to do

tariffs, how about we just keep that

money? Can Can I send over a guy to

teach you how money works? His name is

Trump. You may have heard of him. And if

you could imagine, you know, close your

eyes and imagine a table that only has

one thing on it, a big pile of money

and all you have to do is take it and

you can keep it and there's no penalty.

What would what would Trump do? He would

probably, you know, check anybody

really. Are you serious? Nobody Nobody's

going to take this money. All right. And

then he scoop it up because he's smarter

than you. Not you, but he's smarter than

people when it comes to handling money.

And no, you don't even bring up the

conversation of should we refund it. No,

that's not how any of this works.

Anyway, so we'll see what happens. Uh

the alarming thing is that if the

Supreme Court decides we can or cannot

have tariffs, worse of course if they

decide we can't, wouldn't that basically

put them in charge of everything?

Like why why would the Supreme Court get

to decide how the president can use his

weapons?

Because it's a weapon, right? You mostly

I mean it's it's a tax collection

process, too. But the Constitution

doesn't say anything about collecting

taxes, but we do it.

So, yeah, I'm just I'm concerned that

it's the wrong branch of government

handling the most important thing. It's

just the wrong branch of government.

Anyway, three uh Chinese nationals from

the University of Michigan been

arrested, it looks like, and charged for

smuggling what they call biological

materials into the US.

Um, oh no. Turns out it was their lunch.

Just their lunch. Joking. I'm joking. It

wasn't their lunch. It was biological

materials. What kind of biological

materials? I don't know.

I don't like the sound of it. Hey, Bob.

What's that in that bag? Uh, nothing.

No, seriously. What's in the bag, Bob?

Wait, what? Speak up.

biological materials. Say it. Can you

say it a little more clearly? It's

biological materials.

Ah, and then I would start running out

the door holding mask, double masking.

That would be the first time I ever

double masked if I heard that. I got a

big bag of biological materials. Would

you like a handful?

Well, here's something I found out

today. Apparently, Russia has a

persuasion expert.

Yeah, Russia has a persuasion expert.

Turns out that that Lavrov guy that we

always see, you know, he's he seems to

be their head diplomat guy, Lavrov, he's

sort of a hard ass. And uh but by being

a hard ass, he's sort of guaranteed that

nothing got done, you know, that there

was no no peace, no nothing because he

just asked for too much. He asked for

things he'd never get, like the

dismantling of the Ukrainian army. Who's

going to say yes to that? So Lavrov was

worthless

if the goal was to end the war. We don't

know if that was Russia's goal. May

maybe they just wanted him to be the guy

who extended the war, in which case he

did a good job. But now there's this new

guy, Kirill Deitv.

Uh he's he's a special envoy for now,

but he he's high up in the influence

part of the government. So Putin must

like him because he's sort of putting

him in charge of figuring out what to do

with Ukraine

in terms of uh not ending the war

because I I just don't know if Putin is

even wanting to end the war. But this

guy is taking the lead. But here's what

this guy's doing. He's definitely not

trying to end the war. But uh

he's uh

he's the one he's one of the people

claiming that Russia and Putin in

particular are going to uphold

traditional conservative values. I think

he just calls them conser traditional

values. So he's trying to confuse the US

into thinking or or at least

this is one take from Mark Toth and

Jonathan. It's an opinion in the Hill.

So let me give all credit to them for

the story. Mark Toth and Jonathan Sweet.

So the uh

the idea here is that this guy is just

going to mess with us and he's going to

act like oh those those conservatives,

you know, we agree with the

conservatives basically. We like their

their conservative values. So Russia and

the Republicans, you know, we should be

getting along. And that would really

mess with, you know, half of the country

at least. But then what else does he

say? Um,

and uh, he had something else he was

trying to do. But anyway, his his job is

just to mess with us.

Um,

and apparently he's doing a good job.

So I wonder if every country has one of

him.

Don't you think every country has has

one of these guys whose job it is just

to sort of mess with the other company

country? So it makes me wonder what

training he has. You know, Adamski, does

does he have the training I have? Do you

know how scary that would be if I found

out that Russia had a me?

Think about it. If Russia had a Scott

Adams,

just imagine that because they would

have the platform.

That would be really dangerous for us.

But luckily, they don't have me. Only

Only America has me.

America first. First, and last. That's

what I say. First, middle, and last.

America.

All right. Well, they got a wizard.

And uh let's see what else is going on.

Oh, Megan Kelly was uh unleashing on

Republicans. Oh, part of it was I think

I think there was some thought that the

Russians might be boosting Tucker

Carlson because that would mess things

up in in our country. Um I don't know if

that's true, but Megan Kelly um I saw

that Colin Rug did this on a post. He

said, "Megan Kelly unleashes on

Republicans. Congratulates them for

spending the last few weeks policing a

group chat and Tucker Carlson." All

right. So, here's what Megan Kelly said.

And, you know, it's just so well worded.

It's It's fun. She said, quote, "The

Republicans like to lose. They enjoy

losing. They enjoy when they're

embattled and in a losing position and

complaining. They love it. They do it

really well.

Less good at winning, especially when

Donald Trump is not there to get them

over the line. The Republican party is

not strong.

Donald Trump is strong. Republicans

don't know how to win. They don't know

how to run. They don't they don't know

what to do when daddy's not there to fly

them across the finish line. Okay,

that's just that's just excellent

writing right there, even though she

spoke it, but you you know what I mean.

Um, so good at communicating. So good.

But

here's a here's my take.

I've never really thought about this so

much that if you took if you took Trump

out of the Republican party, is it

possible that they could never win

again?

I'm not I'm not predicting that. I'm

just saying, you know what, this this

sort of struck me as too true. I hadn't

really been thinking in these terms, but

I feel like

Trump is the only reason anything went

well for the Republicans.

And that the minute they try to do

something without him, it looks like it

looks like uh dumb.

And when they do something that he's

behind, it looks smart.

And uh you know, Megan's all over this.

So I think I think she's right. The

Republicans have a real problem here.

Now, the part about going after Tucker,

my take on that was if the only thing

you have to do in politics is go after

your own team, it kind of means you've

already won because the other team's not

worth going after. You know, if there

were another team that were a threat,

you would go after them first. You

wouldn't go after Tucker. But once you

got all that taken care of and you know

the border is sealed and Trump's doing

what he can do and things seem to be

moving in a generally good direction,

then you start thinking, "Huh, that

Tucker guy is saying some provocative

things that seem to get a little bit too

close to the line and I got some

questions. Why is he always so close to

that line?" I don't know. Can't read his

mind.

So, I don't I don't take it the same way

a lot of you. I I don't take it as a

real fight. I take it as running out of

things to do. We ran out of things to

do. Now we're going to have to go after

each other. That's what it looks like.

Anyway,

um, as I said before, and I think this I

think this take is the most useful one.

You know, we all walk around with our

own filter.

So if your filter is you're Jewish and

you're sort of locked into that uh view

of life, then people who keep bringing

up the Jews would be scary. You're like,

why do you keep bringing this up? Why is

this so important? Uh so if you're

Jewish, you would think that looks a

little anti-Semitic. If you're not

Jewish and that's not your filter on

life, as I've said before, it might look

like free speech plus uh America first.

And I'm not defending either position.

I'm just saying that depending on your

filter, it's two movies playing on one

screen. You're all looking at the same

stuff. But some of you see a problem and

some of you see nothing.

Well, you're getting quite worked up

there in the comments, aren't you?

Maybe I shouldn't have brought it up.

All right, people.

That's all I got for you today. We're

going to end a little bit early because

my hands don't work. So, it was really

hard to prepare today. I tried to I

tried to drag it out a little bit so I

could get a full hour, but I didn't make

it. I'm going to talk to the locals

people privately for a moment.

And uh the rest of you, thanks for

joining. I hope you uh got something out

of this. Did anybody get anything out of

this? Did Did anybody hear something

that was both useful? Remember Elon? Did

anybody hear something I did that was

useful

but also affected a lot of people cuz

you heard it all. I hope so. Hope so.

Anyway, um I'm going to go talk to the

locals people privately. The rest of you

hope to see you tomorrow.

Boom.