Episode 3025 CWSA 11/21/25

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Well, gas prices are projected to go down a little bit by Thanksgiving and then uh Trump administration will get to brag about their Thanksgiving gas prices.

So, gas will be heading down.

Speaking of gas heading down, Eric Swallwell has announced he's going to run for governor of California.

Well, California needs some extra gas, and I don't think anybody has more of it than he does, if you know what I mean.

So, uh, Eric Swallwell will be teaching us that, uh, you can do literally everything wrong for years and be a frontr runner in the Democratic party for anything really.

Governor, senator, you want to run for president?

Sure.

I don't see why not.

It's not like you've done anything wrong, such as lying to the American people about the most important things in the history of the republic.

But none of that is disqualifying.

I mean, come on.

We're a big tent.

The Democrats say we're a big big tent.

You can come in if you've if you're even one of the designated liars.

You know, he's one of the the handful of people I I label the designated liars.

They're different than normal political people.

The designated liars will tell the lie that the top of the party wants to tell, but most of the people in the party would be a little uncomfortable with it because it's just such an obvious lie.

But if you've got some designated liars, they'll say anything.

And uh Eric Swallwell has been one of those designated liars who will say absolutely anything.

That role is currently being filled by Jasmine Crockett.

Has anyone noticed that Jasmine Crockett just became the person who says the most ridiculous things today?

There's some new ones.

I think we'll get to that.

Unbelievable.

All right.

So, good job, Democrats, and in uh apparently somehow rewarding your designated liars.

You know, I'm not sure that uh AI is ever going to be super useful the way we imagined it would be.

It'll be super useful for sure, but not necessarily the way we imagined it.

Like you've got a little AI buddy and you just tell it to do stuff.

Like that's the world I wanted where I just tell my AI, "Hey AI, uh go make some dinner reservations or whatever." And then it opens up my apps and has access to my my wallet.

How many of you would ever allow AI to have access to your money?

Now, maybe if you had some kind of smalish limited credit card that was just for that, you know, so you could limit your damage if something happened.

Maybe.

But can you imagine a world where all the things that you do during the day, all the approvals, all the times you use your credit card, can you imagine having that connected to some AI that was built by somebody else managed out of some other office possibly in another country and you're going to connect that stuff to your money?

All right.

Well, I have a potential insight.

Potential insight coming up.

You know how I always say that we've entered the cyborg era where we're already part machine, part people.

It's not really our future.

We're already there.

I mean, if you have a phone in your hand or you've got any kind of a, you know, headphone earplug kind of thing, you've kind of already started to merge with the machines.

If you've got any kind of meta glasses on, you're another step closer.

So, we're sort of already committed to the cyborg, half human, half half robot world.

But what if, here's the part I'm going to add.

What if the only way you could prove the AI part of you is real and it's what you want to happen is if it comes from your cyborg self.

What if you were not the human versus the, you know, the machine, but rather you were human and machine?

If you're human and machine, but there's only one of you that is that combination of that machine and that human, it's still just you.

So, could it be that to unlock the benefits of AI where the AI will do all the things that you would have done as a human, you know, spend your money, that sort of thing, could it be that you can only get there when you are unambiguously committed to being a cyborg?

Because then the cyborg part of you is no more different from your hands or your feet.

It's just part of you.

So, you know, under those conditions, would you always have access to knowing that your cyborg part was trying to spend some money?

Yeah.

Suppose suppose the organic part always had to approve any money expenses.

That'd be pretty safe.

Yeah.

I don't know.

So, I don't know if we can ever get there, but I feel like you have to go through being cyborgs before you can unlock the real benefit of AI.

So, that's my prediction.

must be a cyborg to get the full benefit of AI.

And I wouldn't want to be in a military battle, just to further my point, with a bunch of soldiers who were cyborgs if you were not.

You know what I mean?

So, as soon as I say that, you totally understand, which is, oh yeah, I definitely would not want to be in a in a military battle with cyborgs.

They're going to be good.

And what happens when AI gets combined with the crisper technology, the gene editing stuff?

You clearly that's already being done in some in some small ways.

But what happens when AI can use crisper to make anything it wants to make any kind of living creature or to solve any disease?

Well, I know what I'm going to do.

I'm going to create a monster island.

So, I'll create a monster island made entirely by AI and crisper technology.

And I'll I'll just give us some general rules like, all right, make sure at least some of the monsters have are cyclopses.

Why do you need them to be cyclopses?

H, that's cool.

Uh, makes some of the some of the monsters have really big tails.

Why do they need to have big tails again?

How cool would it be if they did?

It's all the reason I need.

And then I'd put a bunch of robots on there with highdefinition cameras and have the robots film the final battle for Monster Island to see who is left.

Which monster will survive?

Is that the most unethical thing you ever heard in your life?

No, I'm not really going to create Monster Island.

You're a monster.

You're a monster.

If you think that was even real.

Who's the monster?

Maybe you are.

Yeah, makes you think, doesn't it?

Well, here's some good news from Fox News.

Jasmine Bayer is writing that uh apparently our social security people are bragging that they've fixed things up way more efficient than it used to be.

How many of you were waiting here today to find out if the social security system had become more efficient?

I was waiting for it.

One of the most exciting things I've ever seen in my life.

Yep.

But uh apparently they've made a whole bunch of improvements since the pandemic.

Actually, that's a pretty big deal.

So, congratulations, Social Security people, for what looks like a big improvement in small amount of time.

They say their inoffice weight times are down almost 27%.

Uh that's not really impressive.

Kind of depends where it started from, doesn't it?

Uh, but they do say it's down to 22 minutes.

Remember, I always say that if they give you the percentage without the wrong number or vice versa, then that's just propaganda.

They have to give you the raw number and the percentage or else they're just sort of lying to you, you know, in a clever way.

Here they're giving you the percentage and the raw number, 22 minutes.

So, that would be a indication of being forthright and honest.

So, good job on that administration.

Um, all right.

Let's not talk about social security anymore.

Don't you don't you think there's got to be a story in here that's better than that?

Does anybody think I can top that?

Hey, Social Security is 27%.

No.

No.

I'm going to top that so hard.

I I'm gonna give you something to think about today that you'll probably never stop thinking about.

Yeah, it's coming.

Um, well, Trump is teasing some kind of Ukraine peace plan and uh, as you might imagine, it is light on final details, but it looks like what they're doing, if I just had to guess, is they might be uh, the administration might be floating some trial balloons to see what people could handle in terms of a Ukraine deal.

So, some of the things that are being kind of whispered around, I guess, uh, is that Ukraine would get a 10-year security deal that would be modeled in some way on NATO's article 5, meaning if they got attacked, uh, the West would come to their aid, the US specifically.

Is that real?

Well, it's sort of being discussed.

So, it's just something that's on the table, I guess.

Um, Ukraine reportedly got rid of what was a proposal to uh for the the US wanted to demand an audit of all wartime aid and Ukraine said, "Oh, no.

We can't." Oh, but we just want to audit.

We just want to make sure that our billions of dollars are going to the right place and not being stolen.

How about that?

No.

No.

We uh we can't stand for that.

Okay.

You have a whole war that's going on.

Are you telling me that you would continue a war in your own country that's on your that's in your homeland against a unbeatable foe?

Yeah.

In the long run, Russia.

And you'd rather do that as long as you don't have to have an audit of where you spent the money that we gave you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's about right.

So, I don't think we should do any kind of a deal with Ukraine that does not include our ability to audit where the money goes.

Are you with me?

Indeed, nobody should ever give away billions of dollars without an, you know, airtight audit system.

It would be just absurd.

It would be the height of stupidity to give away billions of dollars and have no mechanism for checking where it goes, which is pretty close to the current system, I guess.

Um, and then also, this is almost humorously uh ridiculous that Ukraine also is pushing for quote full amnesty for actions committed during the war.

So Ukraine wants to make sure that not only is there no way to audit the wartime aid, but that if anybody already stole some, they've full amnesty.

Come on.

Come on.

Is that even real?

Is that actually what you think the US is going to agree to?

How about I don't know.

I'm just just going to test this out.

I'll run it by you.

run it up the flag pole.

What if we let you steal all the money that we give for wartime aid and we don't check and then on top of that we give you full amnesty for stealing our money?

How about that?

I don't know.

I'd like to get a little more than that.

You want more than that?

That's a lot.

We should be lining you against the wall.

No, just kidding.

All right.

And here's my here's my real curiosity I have about the whole Ukraine mess.

On one hand, it seems just observably, obviously, objectively true that Trump is better than maybe anybody at getting deals, at, you know, bullying people into deals.

Would you say that that's generally true?

that even his critics would agree, especially after Gaza, even his critics would agree, all right, you know, he is good at it.

We might not like where he ends up.

We might not like how he does it, but we got to admit he's pretty good at it.

So, when I see Ukraine and what's happening, that looks like the biggest waste of time ever.

And it doesn't look like it really doesn't look like they're heading even in the right direction, does it?

Like there I don't have a sense of what the right direction would look like in this case, but does it really look like they're getting closer to a deal?

I don't see anything that would suggest it's getting close to a deal.

But that's the same thing I saw in Gaza right before they made a deal.

And the thing that we I think all of us were blind to, I certainly was, is that Trump could convince people there was going to be a deal before those same people had agreed on what their end of the deal would be.

And it was almost like he got everybody a little bit pregnant.

And then it and then there was something that happened where they they somehow went past some psychological line that maybe nobody even knew existed in the first place that made it impossible to go back.

So that they sort of blundered into a peace deal that nobody had expressly nobody had expressly said let's do this right.

And and even now, like even today, correct me if I'm wrong, the Gaza leadership is still saying they haven't agreed to it, right?

But yet, it's going forward.

We we have a peace deal.

It's being implemented.

we can see what you know they're putting together the uh security peace force and all that but at the same time it's not really happening because Hamas has not agreed to it.

They've not agreed to give up their weapons and that was from the very beginning that was a a key requirement.

So is it possible and I'm not going to assert this as a fact it's more of a question.

Is it possible that Trump alone and because of his personality, because of, I don't know, force of will, because he can be a bully when he needs to, um, because he understands negotiations like nobody ever has.

Is it possible that he's literally invented a way to get deals, peace deals, that nobody's ever seen before?

And it involves just confusing people and pushing them at the same time.

Hey, Bob.

Uh, how do you like that uh deal we just uh introduced?

What?

I I didn't see the details.

Push.

All right.

So, looks like you're halfway on board with the deal.

I haven't really seen the the details of the deal.

What What What deal are you talking about?

Push.

Push.

Stand over there, Bob.

No, just stand over there.

So, now you're standing with the other people who agree with us on this deal.

Wait, hold on.

Hold on.

Uh, I have not yet seen the deal.

Can somebody explain to me what is being proposed?

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Bob, can you stand over there with the other people who have agreed with everything?

Great.

Right there.

Right.

I know you have questions.

We'll get to your questions, but it's it's encouraging that we've all agreed to do this deal this way.

Hold on.

I've not agreed to do the deal this way.

All right.

Looks like everybody's on board.

Is that what's happening?

I mean, I I'm doing it humorously, but doesn't it feel like that's actually what's happening?

That Trump is convincing people that no progress is progress and that once they feel there's progress, there's nothing like success to get you more success.

So it feels like he's literally just creating this structure purely psychological that only he could do, no one else could do it.

And that once you buy into the structure that there is something happening, that you are moving toward peace, that it is possible to have peace, that Trump is the one person who can make it happen, that there might be a phase where it looks like it's impossible, but that's not really predictive.

What's more predictive is that Trump is part of it because he can he predicts good outcomes at least for peace deals maybe.

So, but you at least see where I'm going on this, right?

that he's in such uncharted territory that I don't know if we just blundered into it and maybe something good could happen or does he intentionally create these narratives or structures or psychological let's say labyrinths where once you're in it, you're in his world and then he can decide which which hallway you go down because there's not infinite hallways.

They're just the ones he's created.

It's going to get better.

Hold on.

All right.

So, so we don't know what the details would be of any Ukrainian plan, but uh keep an eye on that.

We'll see if he has in fact invented a new way to solve problems or it's just confusing and it's hard and that's all there is there.

So I guess uh JD Vance might have some uh largest role in a creating a Republican health care plan.

This is what JD said.

Uh he was teasing that the Republicans have a quote great health care plan that the Trump administration has in the works.

How many of you believe that?

How how many of you believe that the Republicans already have this great healthc care plan, but for reasons that are entirely unclear, they've chosen not to tell you.

We got this great healthcare plan.

Oh my goodness.

Can we uh take a look at the details?

The details?

Yep.

Yep.

The details will follow, but it's a great great plan.

Is it?

Is it?

How exactly are you going to be saving all the money?

Well, you know how our current health care plan is too expensive?

Yes, I do know that ours will not be expensive.

Boom.

Wait, what?

So, yeah, the Republicans got a they got a great health care plan.

Going to roll that baby out any minute now.

All right.

But but there are several things that Republicans are doing and can doing or and can do that would lower your health care costs.

The problem is they don't combine very well into a package or a message.

So for example, um Trump is considering lowering some tariffs on some food related items coming into the country.

Would that lower your grocery bill?

Well, could could make a big difference.

Um, let's say that he lowered some tariffs and that that helped you a little bit on the margins.

Um, what if he negotiated some prices down?

Let's say the the meat packers.

Let's say he just negotiated with them and got the price down.

Well, that would be useful and that would go toward his, you know, his improving things at least on uh food.

But um and food would just be you know I suppose if you indirectly uh improve people's nutrition that they don't need as much healthcare.

So in some indirect ways or things that um the Republicans can do they can negotiate the pharma prices down which which he did.

there could be higher employment if Trump uh if Trump's economy results in more people being hired than they buy their own health care in many cases.

So there's a whole bunch of things they can do that would sort of be in that direction but you wouldn't be able to claim credit for it so well because it' just be this grab bag of miscellaneous things.

So, I think JD is smart enough because you need your smartest people working on healthcare.

No doubt about it.

Um, but I would love somebody to explain to me where all the money is going.

Have you ever wondered about that?

Like, how did we get to the point where healthc care cost this amount and then suddenly it's three times that amount and not much time has gone by?

Where exactly did those extra dollars go?

Has anybody ever shown you on a chart, it would have to be a highly simplified chart.

Um, you know, the dollar leaves your pocket and then where does it go?

I have no idea.

Is there is there any element of where your healthcare money goes that any reasonable person could say, "Aha, if we stop this going over there, we can just save all that money." Is there anything like that?

See the trouble with a health care plan is that unless it costs less money, it's a nothing.

Would you agree?

That's the whole game.

The game is to, you know, make sure we have some pretty good healthcare.

But separately, we need to vastly, you know, grossly reduce the price.

Well, whose pocket is that going to come out of?

And who has ever even told us whose pocket that's going to come out of?

If you say generic stuff like, "Oh, uh, the insurance companies are getting rich." Well, show that to me.

Show Show me that the insurance companies collectively are making so much money that if you were to, let's say, cut their profit in half that the price that people would pay for healthcare would go down by 50%.

Would it?

Or would it go down by 1%?

We don't really even know where the money's going, do we?

So, I would say job one, if you were a JD Vance or whatever Republican works on this, job one would be to figure out where the money's going.

And then you have to come up with a plan that addresss each of those buckets such as all right, you can see that all this money goes into this particular thing, this money goes into this particular thing.

So yesterday I needed a little bit of health care.

Uh how many people do you think get involved?

Like 12 to 20 people by the time I'm done for any little healthcare item.

And it's just because the system is trying to be very careful and is trying to make sure all the right people get pulled into decisions and make sure that not nobody drops the ball and anything.

But but the end result of just taking care of everything really scrupulously is that it could cost $100,000 to do something that looks like should cost $100.

It looks like it.

Now I'm not talking about the cost of a machine or the cost of the the meds, but the the human cost and the the physical capital.

Yeah.

the the health care system in this country really needs to be understood at a different level than we do.

So job one JD Vance and somebody like him would be perfect.

You're going to need something like a Silicon Valley guy or gal.

You need something like somebody who can look at a complicated business and say, "Aha, here's where all that money is going.

So we'll concentrate on here to get some back." And that sort of does scream Silicon Valley venture capitalist, but people who are on your side.

So that's what I'd be looking for.

I wouldn't believe any healthc care plan from Republicans that did not go through somebody who really understands money and and how to how to manage it.

Anyway, um here's some fake news.

How many times have you read an article or seen on social media that the company Black Rockck uh owns all the meat packing businesses in the United States and maybe all the pharma?

How many of you have seen that on social media and said that looks true that this one company, Black Rockck, owns all of the meat packing companies?

There only four of them.

Only four of them.

But how many of you think that's true?

That's not true.

How could you think that was true?

That that one company owns all the meat packing and that one company owns all the big pharma and that one company owns all the the food companies.

How in the world can you think that was true?

I mean, seriously, that is so far from being true.

Do you know what is true?

The Black Rockck probably owns, you know, a little piece of equity in just about every major US company because they're so big.

They kind of have to have their their beak in everything.

The truth is they do own part of a whole bunch of big companies in the United States.

Do they have do you think that uh Black Rockck has controlling interest of the meatacking?

Nobody ever told me one way or the other because all I hear is this ridiculous thing that they own them.

They don't own them.

They can't tell the meatacking company what to do.

The meat packing company has lots of stockholders and they all have an opinion.

All right.

Now, how many of you are slapping yourself uh on the forehead and saying, "Thank you, Scott.

I've been listening to everybody say that one company owns all the other Fortune 500 companies.

I've been listening to that for five years.

I knew that couldn't possibly be true.

Thank you for saying that in public because now now maybe I'll feel braver to say it in public, too." But really, did you really think that that one company owned all those other companies?

Like all the pharma, all the food companies, all the meat packing companies.

A lot of people believe that there are other things in that category, but I don't want to give them all to you at once, if you know what I mean.

All right.

Job markets looking good.

You heard that yesterday.

The job report came good.

I don't know if you can believe anything about jobs.

How many of you believe anything about jobs?

Oh, yeah.

And all the real estate.

Yeah.

And then there's separately there's another belief that's also false that all of the single single family homes got bought up by not by Black Rockck but uh what's the other company that starts with Black but has something else in the end?

Yeah, that's another one where they just own they own some percentage of things.

All right.

So, Zoron Mdani, speaking of jobs, he says he's going to the White House.

Uh, that might be today.

I think I may have seen a post on it yesterday that referred to today.

So, either either today or tomorrow.

Mani is going to the White House and he wants to tell Trump that deportations will no longer be permitted in New York City after he takes power.

No longer be permitted.

So, that should work out great.

All right.

Uh, and and blindly supports Trump.

Blindly.

Do do you think that saying that I blindly support Trump is an insightful comment?

I literally talk about every element of Trump top to bottom every day for 10 years.

You don't think I've looked into it?

You You don't think I did a little analysis that you maybe I could answer some questions on this topic?

You don't think maybe I know more than you do?

Some of the critics are are so funny.

They're they're so bad at even being critics.

Anyway, well, um, my guess is that Trump is going to have fun with Mom Donnie by being somewhat professional, but somewhat insulting.

And I cannot wait for the insulting part.

Are you waiting for that, too?

There's going to there's going to be maybe a there might be a picture opportunity.

I definitely want to see the handshake.

If there's a handshake, I definitely want to see that.

Uh, and then I want to see what I want to see what Trump says about M Donnie while the press is listening to him and M Donnie is standing right next to him.

I mean, I just can't wait for that cuz he's not going to be he's not going to hold back.

He's going to do something you've never seen before.

He's just going to dump all over him and mom D will just have to stand there because it's the White House and he can't really walk out.

Well, Scott Bessant, Secretary of the Treasury, he uh he held up, I think it was on Fox News, and he held up the first USAmade rare earth magnet in 25 years.

So, apparently the United States already now has a rare earth magnet manufacturer.

The question I have is, was that already being built or did we go from we have no idea how to make a rare earth magnet to here's a magnet?

Did did American ingenuity, which we worry is on the Wayne, uh did we just figure this out?

I'm very curious.

Is is this really the success story it looks like?

And is it something that's repeatable?

Because I'll tell you, I've had a curiosity about the whole rare earth domain.

And the curiosity is this.

If if the government said, "We're really going to support you if you make any kind of rare earth stuff because we need it desperately.

We're going to get rid of all the government red tape.

Uh we're going to give you loans.

We're going to make sure you can find the markets.

There'll be plenty of markets.

Don't worry about markets.

Um, if you created that situation, how long would it take before the normal free market just flooded the zone with products?

Because it's what we do best historically.

What I don't know is if we still have that, I don't know, that gene, that intuition, that um, that just sort of magical ability that's transported us to this point in history so far.

I don't know.

But there's some possibility that it it's going to look more like World War II when the US entered the war.

If you ever I'm sure most of you have watched uh the History Channel and history shows about the US was sort of, you know, we were good at manufacturing things, but when uh World War II hit and the winner would be who could make the most stuff.

I mean, I'm simplifying, but but if we could make more stuff, as in tanks and artillery shells, we probably would win.

So, we just went crazy making more stuff and made an unbelievable amount of stuff, airplanes and tanks and and shells.

So, how many of the experts in World War II would have known Blackstone?

Yeah, Blackston's that other company with black in the beginning of the name.

Uh how many of the experts would have known that the free market could have create plus the government being supportive could have created that much uh production?

Do you think that was known at the time or is it like today where there's just something about the situation where you can't wrap your brain around how effectively we could tackle it?

because I do wonder if we can just jump in there and just shock everybody with how well we do and how quickly we develop an industry.

I don't know.

I'm gonna say that maybe we can.

Maybe we can.

Uh Jasmine Crockett, I told you I was going to talk about her.

Uh so now she's looks like she's auditioning to become one of the designated liars for the for the Democrats.

And uh she says she was just on some interview saying that Trump and Bolton's hate uh is why there are random black bodies being strung up in the south.

So Jasmine Crockett believes that there are random black bodies being strung up in like today modern day.

Uh I hope not.

I'm not aware of any.

So, and her point was that uh Trump is creating a dangerous situation.

So dangerous that that's why black bodies are being strung up in the south.

Well, first of all, there as far as I know, there are no black bodies being strung up in the south presently.

We hope that will be the the future as well.

Um, but don't you think that she's creating some danger here by suggesting that we have this Hitler-like character in charge of the country and half the country is supporting him?

Don't you think that creates a little danger?

So, yeah, she's a she's a funny one.

All right, here we go.

I promised you something that would reframe your brain, and here it comes.

You're going to like this unless I've totally oversold it.

All right, I'm g I'm gonna sort of lean into it and then we'll get we'll get on it.

Okay.

So, I guess something happened recently with the Soros organization, the open whatever it is, uh, Open Society, and Alex Soros was um, just saying something defiant on the X platform.

And what Alex, the son of George Soros, said was, uh, he said, uh, come on, I wrote this down.

Uh, well, he basically said that, uh, the Soros organization wasn't going to go anywhere.

The most important thing that I didn't write down.

All right.

Seriously.

Oh, yeah.

His exact words.

Alex Soros, they put an X was quote, "We aren't going anywhere." Meaning that the Soros organization was not in any mortal trouble.

I don't know what trouble they were in, but they were getting some push back.

So anyway, he was uh sort of celebrating that they were not in any danger of going away.

But Elon Musk, owner of X, commented on Alex's comment and he said, quote, "Can you stop trying to destroy this civilization for like five minutes?

That would be great." Thumbs up.

He puts a little icon.

Now, think about that comment.

You ready?

Think about that comment.

the richest man in the world says, "Can you stop trying to destroy civilization for like five minutes now?

How could it be that the Soros's could exist at the same time that Elon Musk exists?" Because these are two completely different views of reality.

It's not just a different political view.

It's a different view of reality.

How many of you think that it's objectively obviously true that the Soroses appear to be determined to destroy Western civilization?

A lot of you right now, I'm not saying that that's the true vision of the world.

I'm saying that, you know, I I often talk about two movies on one screen.

We're still playing on one screen, but when uh a lot of people on the let's say Trump supporting side look at it, it does look it does look that way like Soroses are not trying to help that they're going to destroy Western civilization.

Now, I'm not saying that's necessarily true, but it looks like it.

So, if somebody decides to treat that as their reality, you can understand why.

Now, obviously, the Soroses do not see that in themselves.

I think that's fair to say.

I can't read their mind, but I doubt they think like when they're Well, I doubt when they're eating breakfast, they're thinking, "So, uh, Alex, what have you done to help destroy society today?" Probably they don't think of it that way.

probably they think of it in I don't know maybe gaining power you maybe accomplishing some social goods might be a variety of things they think about it but they're not thinking well I'll eat this egg and destroy society so how could both of these views so completely different I'm destroying the world with my billions versus I'm saving the world with my billions how could they both exist at the same time Well, >> >> uh, here's a part of it.

I saw, um, I saw Elon say about Graipedia.

Now, I'm going to tie this all together in a moment.

All right.

So, we started with Soros and and Musk.

Now, we're going to talk about Graipedia.

So, that's uh Elon Musk's uh version of Wikipedia.

is still still in uh under work but uh Elon was talking about it and he said uh that it's going to be way better than Wikipedia blah blah blah and then Elon talks about the phenomenon where you would know that Graipedia is better than Wikipedia if you were a public figure or an expert because you would understand your own domain and if you understood your own domain and then you read about what Wikipedia said this would be his claim and then you read what Grock said, Groipedia, you would come away from it thinking that um Wikipedia was wrong and Graedia was closer to right more often.

Now, this is uh there's a name for this, the phenomenon I'm describing.

What is the name and watch this?

Watch how many of you know the answer to this question.

What's the name for the phenomenon where you know that the news is fake because you're an expert or the news is about you but uh the rest of the world might not know that.

What's that called?

I'm looking.

There it is.

It It took like one second for it to appear.

It's a Galman amnesia.

Now Galman is a hyphenated last name of a physicist.

G E L L- M A N.

I I always forget how many double letters there are, but something like that.

So, here's the important part.

Um, how many people have in in the public mentioned gal man amnesia maybe without using the words, but described it in a way that you knew that's what they were talking about recently.

I'll give you some examples.

So, uh, Elon Musk has talked about it a number of times.

I've talked about it a number of times.

Uh, Mike Cernovich has talked about it a number of times and has properly credited Michael Kiteon, the author, Michael Kiteon.

I think Michael Kiteon might have also borrowed it.

Somebody said there was some prior claim to it.

It doesn't really matter.

Um, I'm just saying that a lot of smart people have referenced it.

I'm pretty sure Greg Guffeld has mentioned it on his show or shows.

Um, I've seen some other Silicon Valley people mention it, but you've also seen Bill Murray.

Do you remember actor Bill Murray when he talked about his own experience uh reading some stories about John Belalushi?

And he knew Belushi personally and very well.

So when he read the stories, he knew they were fake.

And then he had the galman amnesia effect.

It was like, wait, wait a minute.

What are the odds that the only stories that are fake are John Belalushi stories?

Because it happens to be one of the few things I'm an expert on.

What are the odds that's the only thing?

Isn't it more likely that everything's fake and the way you find out about it is being an expert in one thing, you're like, "Hey, wait a minute.

I am an expert in this.

This stuff's wrong." Um, what about Bill Maher?

I saw him recently, was it on his Club Random or maybe the regular show?

He's mentioned that because he's a public figure, he has extra vision on this, the fact that the news is so often fake.

That wouldn't be obvious to people who are not public figures because they don't read news about themselves like people like me and people like him do.

All right.

Now, so you've got Elon Musk, Joe Rogan's mentioned it, Bill Murray's mentioned it on Joe Rogan show.

Uh Guffel, Fox News, me, my books, Cernovich, etc.

This is teaching people a way to think and a way to see the world.

If what if what uh if what comes out of all this groipedia stuff is simply that more people understand what Gellman amnesia is, it completely changes how we see the world.

It will change how you see the Soros versus Musk.

How in the world could both of them exist if they have this view that that's just are complete opposites?

So I say that what's different about the era you're in is that the Trumpup supporting part of the world, not not all of it.

Oh, somebody's saying that Dr.

Drew has mentioned uh Galman.

I think he has.

I think he has.

So you're probably all thinking of other examples right now.

If I went over to the Democrat influencers, how many of the Democrat influencers have taught their audience the Gellman amnesia?

Any?

Any?

So what happens over time if one side of the political world gets trained in how to think which is exactly what Elon Musk does every time he talks to you he he also teaches you how to think like how you should think of entering AI how you should think of that risk etc that's completely different than just telling you what to think the the right leaning or I'll just say Trump supporting common sense part of the uh political ical world is really about teaching the other people in it how to think about stuff.

That's all I do all day.

I teach you how to think, not necessarily what to think.

All right.

So, what happens with that?

Um, do you think that the people on the political right are more able to identify a hoax?

Yes, they are.

because because they're actually trained on what the hoaxes were, how they were created, and then how they were supported by the media.

So, you've got an entire political class that while the Democrats weren't paying attention, and this is the fun part, the Democrats don't see this coming, that that half of the world has been trained to recognize and the other half has been trained to accept it.

>> >> If you just fast forward that tape, let's see.

One half of the country trained to accept as the truth.

Uh the other half of the country trained to identify as soon as they see it and to avoid it as quickly as possible.

Fast forward that.

Where do you end up?

the where you end up is what you observe right now, which is the the team that can't avoid the hoaxes just goes right off the cliff.

What happened to the Democrats this year?

They went off the cliff, did they not?

Right now, are are you having the feeling that I was hoping that you would have right about now?

If I'm doing this right, and I think I am, the feeling that many of you are having right now is, wait a minute, did you just connect all the dots?

I is that the fact that one part of the country has learned how to think, how to, for example, if if I use the phrase too on the nose, how many of you would know what I'm talking about if I said uh that story, it's too on the nose.

You tell me in the comments.

You tell me.

How many of you would know exactly what I meant?

How many Democrats would know what I meant?

None.

There wouldn't be any Democrats who know what that meant because again, two on the nose is teaching you how to spot BS.

It's just one of many ways.

Uh so there's this entire uh I don't want to say army because then you know what the Democrats will say if I say army but in the very conceptual way an army of uh people who have been trained to spot hoaxes and even to know specifically why there's a whole bunch of you have been trained in persuasion, right?

That you actually know what works and what doesn't and it's not an accident.

and the other part of the country is just flailing poop at you, I guess, because they don't have training in that domain.

And I I think people always imagined before I came on the scene, people imagined that persuasion was something you're either born with or, you know, maybe you just have it.

Uh it was not really thought of as a a learnable skill, but I'm here to tell you it's a learnable skill.

and I've watched people learn it and then I've watched them employ it and then I've watched them succeed, get elected, get promotions, get the get the partner they wanted.

Now, let's let's uh let's take this a little bit further.

Um when Groipedia becomes sort of the standard for and I think it will become the standard for checking things then Elon will I I think if come close to completing one of the greatest reframes of all time which is the reframe is Democrats teach you what to think and Republicans teach you how to think.

Do you feel it?

Democrats tell you what to think.

And at least in 2025, this was not always the case.

This was not historically true at the moment.

And I would say that Musk is primarily the, you know, the the reason for this is that we've all been taught how to think and a lot of it comes from him.

Uh, I think there were probably three probably three separate stories I saw today that all were some little clip of Elon explaining how to think about a thing, how to think about the, let's say, the economics of space.

How many of you understood before, let's say, this year, uh, the importance of reusable rocket ships?

And it wasn't just that you learned that, you know, there's a thing called reusable uh spaceships.

It's that you learned that that's important enough that if you don't understand that part of the question, you can't really see what's coming.

How many of you knew that if you put your solar panels in space, you didn't have to worry about cooling them uh being blocked by clouds or or that it's night?

Well, now you know.

And it's because you've learned how to sort of look at things like an engineer.

Uh that's what Elon does more than anything else.

Looks at it like an engineer.

Once you learn that, it becomes your go-to.

So, all right.

What would an engineer do in this case?

Changes everything.

All right.

So, I'm going to I'm going to call the uh the reframe.

We we have now entered the golden age.

And one of the defining factors of the golden age is that the left is being told what to think and the right is being taught how.

And how is going to be what?

every time.

Eventually, but every time.

Mission accomplished.

All right.

Did I give you something to think about today?

You know, the we're closer to the beginning of this teaching people how to think, but if you look at my books, you know, I I've got five books that are sort of in that domain of teaching you how to think.

systems over goals.

That's exactly right.

Anyway, there's some question now about Epstein and some red flags that should have been seen by his bank JP Morgan Chase.

They are they're being uh accused by Senator Widen, Democrat.

Uh JP Morgan is being accused of failing to report more than a billion dollars in suspicious transactions tied to Jeffrey Epstein.

So, isn't literally everything that that has to do with Epstein sketchy?

It feels It feels to me that you could pick up any category.

If it had to do with Epstein, there would be something about it you're like, hm, that looks a little sketchy.

Like you you could go to his barber and talk to his barber and uh you'd say, "All right, is there anything sketchy about the way Epstein got a haircut?" And the barber would say, "Stetchy about a haircut?

What how could there even be anything sketchy about a haircut?" And you say, you know, just something non-standard?

No.

No.

It's exactly like everybody else's haircut.

He'd come in with three bodyguards and three underage women.

Uh they'd get a private room in the back and I go, "Wait, wait, wait.

That sounds very sketchy.

Does it?

Does it?

Just a haircut.

It It's like there's no category you could pick where it wouldn't immediately devolve into Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

Why was he doing that?

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

Why did he have a billion dollars for flowing through JP Morgan?

Everything is sketchy.

And then that made me come up with the following question that will also plague you to the end of your days.

You ready?

Here's the Epstein question.

You'll never get out of your head.

Who taught Epstein to be Epstein?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Roll that one around in your head a little bit.

Who taught Epstein how to be Epstein?

meaning who taught him how to move gigantic amounts of money around money laundering without getting caught?

Who taught him to make these connections we think don't know for sure with the various intelligence groups?

Who would even know how to do that?

Is that something you work out on your own?

How do you do it?

So, uh and then and then how do you blackmail famous people?

It can't be that obvious how to blackmail a public figure.

Do you know what I'd worry about if you said, "Scott, it's not it's not rocket science.

It's just blackmail." So, here's some tapes of this famous billionaire.

Now, go blackmail him, Scott.

I'd say, "Hold on.

Hold on.

I know you think that's easy, but I have questions." And then somebody would say, "There's no questions.

Black everybody knows how to blackmail.

Blackmail is the simplest thing you could ever just threaten that if he doesn't do everything you want, you'll release the tapes.

That's it.

To which I say, question.

Is this a billionaire who has access to private armies and unlimited security?

Yes.

Why do you ask?

Would this black Would this person also be completely aware that I'm the one blackmailing him?

Well, yeah.

I mean, that's why it works because they know who's blackmailing them.

So, let me get this straight.

Uh, if I were to blackmail this person and let's say something went bad and I released these uh release these images, what would that billionaire do to me and my family?

Oh, well, obviously they'd be rounded up and tied to chairs.

And after that, well, no promises, but they would be tied to chairs, if you know what I mean.

So, in my mind, I can't even come up with a scenario in which I would know how to blackmail anybody.

How do you blackmail somebody without them killing you, right?

Because if you gave me a billion dollars and then somebody blackmailed me, I might be looking for some solutions.

I might I might talk to some of my people.

There might be some people in my world, if I were a billionaire, who wanted to owe me a favor.

I wouldn't have to specifically ask for somebody to take care of my enemies.

People would figure out that if they did, I'd hear about it and probably be quite grateful.

Yeah, but you see my point, right?

How did Epstein learn to be Epstein?

How did he learn to be Epstein?

There's no way that you just work that out on your own.

All right, so most of you are saying CIA, but uh that is that is the fun question here.

All right, I'm going to do a little test for you.

Here's the test.

If you see a news story with that involves the following words, now these will be out of order.

They're just going to be words, not in sentences.

If you see the following words, what do you know about the story?

Here are the following words.

Minnesota taxpayer dollars, Somalia investigation scheme.

Is there anything else I need to say about that?

No, that's the whole story.

And I feel like there's one of these every day I I pick up, you know, or I look at the screen like there's another story.

It's it's in Minnesota taxpayer dollar somalia investigation scheme.

Millions of dollars missing.

Is this yesterday's story?

Yeah.

And fraud.

Is it yesterday's story or is it just every day?

How many days in a row do we get stories about Somali uh migrants stealing money from Minnesota taxpayers?

If you're a Minnesota taxpayer, I have one word advice for you.

Run.

Run.

All right.

Um, according to the New York Post, Emily Crane, there's a new report that warns that the uh the the Muslim Brotherhood has infil infiltrated US colleges and it aims to quote transform Western society from within and that it's halfway done with its 100redyear plan.

So 50 of its 100-year plan has been done and they claim to be about half done in conquering the West.

um via the educational systems.

Is that real?

Do you believe that uh the inevitable future is that uh Islam and let's say Muslim Brotherhood in particular because that's who this is about.

Do you believe that the natural arc of history is that they will infiltrate?

They will they will uh reproduce slowly but methodically.

they will take over various institutions until the US is Islamic.

Well, unless there was a counterforce, I don't see how you could stop it because Islam is a very u I'm going to try to use the most respectful language.

So, you're going to watch me struggle here to to pick the right words.

But Islam is a very successful system.

Now, there I did it.

I wanted to make it not sound like it was biased.

Um, Islam is a very successful design for a system.

For example, if you're if you're in the more extreme elements and you tried to leave the religion, they'd kill you, right?

I mean, that's not not the normies, but you know, for some part of the Islamic world, you can't really leave.

And even if they're not going to kill you, it's not going to be very very fun.

So it's a system that says if you leave, you're going to pay a price.

And if if you're competing against, and when I say competing against, I mean just trying to own the future.

Uh if you're competing against some other religion or system that lets you go in and out, if you like, in theory, the one that kills you for leaving is going to do better in the long run.

and has a number of other advantages such as the high reproduction rates and um I won't get into all of it but in ter but if you were to design it on paper on paper Islam would conquer the other systems just by being introduced and then you wait am I right that it would conquer all the other systems one at a time just by being introduced now it takes a while but it's very design guarantees that it dominates over time.

So, that's going to happen.

Um, I would say we're probably halfway to that.

And, uh, if you were going to ask me, Scott, is there any way the West can save itself to not be destroyed by this superior system?

And the answer is there might be one way.

There might be one and only one way that the West could save itself from an Islamic just guaranteed system design takeover.

Do you know what that is?

What is the one system that could defend against that?

It's not Christianity because Christianity is a you a little too peaceloving for for that to work.

I'll tell you what it is.

It's Elon Musk and it's AI.

If AI becomes maximum truth seeking, which is what Elon is after, he says it almost every day that the AI has to be maximum truth seeking.

You can't give the AI uh morality.

You can't program morality into AI.

That would just cause the potential for the biggest problems in the world.

But if you if you program it for ultimate truth, you could come up with something that's just purely additive.

Ideally, we don't know, but be worth a shot.

Um, so now imagine that it becomes a normal thing that half of the country is teaching its own half to think better.

my prior conversation.

Do you think that that is uh also a system that can reproduce?

Yes.

Yes.

If you learn how to think better and you're sitting in the room with somebody who doesn't know how to do it and an opportunity comes up where you can kind of explain to them, you know, the way you should think about this might be this way instead of that.

You'll do it.

So there's something about the common sense learning how to think uh approach to life which would be Elon's and the other people I mentioned as well uh that is in its in its own ways sticky and it doesn't require a specific educational structure.

In fact the whole college system might fall apart in 10 years.

Who knows?

But the idea of thinking better probably will just keep going because it's good for everybody who's exposed to it and it's easy to teach the the whole the the technique of something being too on the nose.

I haven't described that here but it's really easy to teach somebody how to spot things using a certain set of tools.

So that is a way that the west could possibly become immune from any external systems be they Islam or anything else.

How's your brain doing?

All right.

Um the CDC has apparently I don't want to say caved.

Somebody said that.

That that's always the wrong word.

Uh the CDC has altered its statement about vaccines and autism.

Uh now it's scrubbing the bold statement that they used to have the CDC that vaccines do not cause autism and they've replaced it with vaccines uh do not cause autism is not an evidence-based claim.

So there maybe the primary claim that the CDC has made for my entire life, the primary thing uh I mean I've been hearing it since I was in my 20s I think that they would have said that the vaccines all the vaccines not just the co ones they would say that all the vaccines do not cause autism but they would say it as a statement of fact.

Should they have said it as a statement of fact?

No.

No.

because they hadn't tested it.

They just didn't have any evidence that it was.

There's a real big difference between not having evidence that it is and saying we've proven and it's a fact that it isn't.

And it's so unscientific the way they were doing it and to imagine that they knew for sure there was no connection despite not having run the right kind of tests to know one way or the other.

So, it feels like a step in the right direction that they're simply saying it in a in a truthful way.

They didn't know if it caused autism.

I'm not claiming it does or it doesn't.

I'm saying I don't know, but I'm pretty sure they didn't know either.

And now that's what that looks like.

All right.

I had no idea what time it was, but uh let me do a little uh check with you on today.

Did anybody have a uh have a let's say a brain event today where you said to yourself, "Holy cow, I had not thought of things that way." Did you like my reframe?

The reframe that uh Democrats teach you what tell you what to think and Republicans teach you how to think.

Now, that might not be true when it comes to something like religion, but that would be its own special case, right?

All right.

Uh, no.

Yes.

Epiphany.

Yes.

Very much so.

All right.

Good.

Not really.

For those of you who are not affected, it probably had more to do with the fact that you were already there.

Uh, for most of the people, I'm taking them to where a few people already were.

If you were in the group of a few people who were already there, no no travel time.

All right.

Um, just looking at your comments here.

Oh, you're too nice.

40 years of what?

Okay.

Um, I'm going to talk to the uh the locals people privately in a moment.

Everybody else, thanks for joining.

Uh, and I hope you have a tremendous weekend.

I think you will.

All right, people.

Uh, locals coming at you privately and the rest I will disappear in 30 seconds.

I'll see you tomorrow.

I'm not late. You're late.

Why am I too lit on one side? I'm

totally lit. Hold on.

A little less.

There we go. A little less lit today.

All right, here's what we're going to

do.

Since I'm uh at least a minute late,

I thought I had my studio all set up,

but turns out I hadn't started. I was

having fun chatting with the local

subscribers,

and at the time I didn't feel like I

needed anything else. All my needs had

been complete.

But, uh, I'm going to give you a show

today

that you're likely to remember for the

rest of your life.

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Well, gas prices are projected to go

down a little bit by Thanksgiving and

then uh Trump administration will get to

brag about their Thanksgiving gas

prices. So, gas will be heading down.

Speaking of gas heading down, Eric

Swallwell has announced he's going to

run for governor of California.

Well, California needs some extra gas,

and I don't think anybody has more of it

than he does, if you know what I mean.

So, uh, Eric Swallwell will be teaching

us that, uh, you can do literally

everything wrong for years [laughter]

and be a frontr runner in the Democratic

party for anything really. Governor,

senator, you want to run for president?

Sure. I don't see why not.

It's not like you've done anything

[clears throat] wrong, such as lying to

the American people about the most

important things in the history of the

republic.

But none of that is disqualifying. I

mean, come on. We're a big tent. The

Democrats say we're a big big tent. You

can come in if you've if you're even one

of the designated liars. You know, he's

one of the the handful of people I I

label the designated liars. They're

different than normal political people.

The designated liars will tell the lie

that the top of the party wants to tell,

but most of the people in the party

would be a little uncomfortable with it

because it's just such an obvious lie.

But if you've got some designated liars,

they'll say anything. And uh Eric

Swallwell has been one of those

designated liars who will say absolutely

anything. That role is currently being

filled by Jasmine Crockett.

Has anyone noticed that Jasmine Crockett

just became the person who says the most

ridiculous things today? There's some

new ones. I think we'll get to that.

Unbelievable.

All right. So, good job, Democrats, and

in uh apparently somehow rewarding your

designated liars.

You know, I'm not sure that uh AI is

ever going to be super useful the way we

imagined it would be. It'll be super

useful for sure, but not necessarily the

way we imagined it. Like you've got a

little AI buddy and you just tell it to

do stuff. Like that's the world I wanted

where I just tell my AI, "Hey AI, uh go

make some dinner reservations or

whatever." And then it opens up my apps

and has access to my my wallet.

How many of you would ever allow AI to

have access to your money?

Now, maybe if you had some kind of

smalish limited credit card that was

just for that, you know, so you could

limit your damage if something happened.

Maybe. But can you imagine a world where

all the things that you do during the

day, all the approvals, all the times

you use your credit card, can you

imagine having that connected to some AI

that was built by somebody else managed

out of some other office possibly in

another country and you're going to

connect that stuff to your money?

All right. Well, I have a potential

insight.

Potential insight coming up. You know

how I always say that we've entered the

cyborg era where we're already part

machine, part people. It's not really

our future. We're already there. I mean,

if you have a phone in your hand or

you've got any kind of a, you know,

headphone earplug kind of thing, you've

kind of already started to merge with

the machines. If you've got any kind of

meta glasses on, you're another step

closer. So, we're sort of already

committed to the cyborg, half human,

half half robot world. But what if,

here's the part I'm going to add. What

if

the only way you could prove the AI part

of you is real and it's what you want to

happen is if it comes from your cyborg

self. What if you were not the human

versus the, you know, the machine, but

rather you were human and machine? If

you're human and machine, but there's

only one of you that is that combination

of that machine and that human, it's

still just you.

So, could it be that to unlock the

benefits of AI where the AI will do all

the things that you would have done as a

human, you know, spend your money, that

sort of thing, could it be that you can

only get there when you are

unambiguously

committed to being a cyborg?

Because then the cyborg part of you is

no more different from your hands or

your feet. It's just part of you.

So, you know, under those conditions,

would you always have access to knowing

that your cyborg part was trying to

spend some money? Yeah. Suppose suppose

the organic part always had to approve

any money expenses.

That'd be pretty safe. Yeah. I don't

know. So, I don't know if we can ever

get there, but I feel like you have to

go through being cyborgs before you can

unlock the real benefit of AI. So,

that's my prediction. must be a cyborg

to get the full benefit of AI.

And I wouldn't want to be in a military

battle, just to further my point, with a

bunch of soldiers who were cyborgs if

you were not. You know what I mean? So,

as soon as I say that, you totally

understand, which is, oh yeah, I

definitely would not want to be in a in

a military battle with cyborgs.

They're going to be good. And what

happens when AI gets combined with the

crisper technology, the gene editing

stuff? You clearly that's already being

done in some in some small ways. But

what happens when AI can use crisper to

make anything it wants

to make [clears throat] any kind of

living creature or to solve any disease?

Well, I know what I'm going to do. I'm

going to create a monster island.

So, I'll create a monster island made

entirely by AI and crisper technology.

And I'll I'll just give us some general

rules like, all right, make sure at

least some of the monsters have are

cyclopses.

Why do you need them to be cyclopses?

H, that's cool.

Uh, makes some of the some of the

monsters have really big tails.

Why do they need to have big tails

again?

How cool would it be if they did? It's

all the reason I need. And then I'd put

a bunch of robots on there with

highdefinition cameras and have the

robots film the final battle for Monster

Island to see who is left. Which monster

will survive? Is that the most unethical

thing you ever heard in your life? No,

I'm not really going to create Monster

Island. You're a monster. You're a

monster. If you think that was even

real.

Who's the monster? Maybe you are. Yeah,

makes you think, doesn't it? Well,

here's some good news from Fox News.

Jasmine Bayer is writing that uh

apparently our social security people

are bragging that they've fixed things

up way more efficient than it used to

be. How many of you were waiting here

today to find out if the social security

system had become more efficient? I was

waiting for it. One of the most exciting

things I've ever seen in my life. Yep.

But uh apparently they've made a whole

bunch of improvements since the

pandemic. Actually, that's a pretty big

deal. So, congratulations,

Social Security people,

for what looks like a big improvement in

small amount of time. They say their

inoffice weight times are down almost

27%.

Uh that's not really impressive.

Kind of depends where it started from,

doesn't it? Uh, but they do say it's

down to 22 minutes. Remember, I always

say that if they give you the percentage

without the wrong number or vice versa,

then that's just propaganda. They have

to give you the raw number and the

percentage

or else they're just sort of lying to

you, you know, in a clever way. Here

they're giving you the percentage and

the raw number, 22 minutes. So, that

would be a indication

of being forthright and honest. So, good

job on that administration.

Um, all right. Let's not talk about

social security anymore. Don't

[clears throat] you don't you think

there's got to be a story in here that's

better than that?

Does anybody think I can top that? Hey,

Social Security is 27%.

[groaning]

[snorts]

No. No. I'm going to top that so hard.

I I'm gonna give you something to think

about today that you'll probably never

stop thinking about.

Yeah, it's coming.

Um, well, Trump is teasing some kind of

Ukraine peace plan and uh, as you might

imagine, it is light on final details,

but it looks like what they're doing, if

I just had to guess, is they might be

uh, the administration might be floating

some trial balloons to see what people

could handle in terms of a Ukraine deal.

So, some of the things that are being

kind of whispered around, I guess, uh,

is that Ukraine would get a 10-year

security deal that would be modeled in

some way on NATO's article 5, meaning if

they got attacked, uh, the West would

come to their aid, the US specifically.

Is that real? Well, it's sort of being

discussed. So, it's just something

that's on the table, I guess. Um,

Ukraine reportedly got rid of what was a

proposal

to uh

for the the US wanted to demand an audit

of all wartime aid and Ukraine said,

"Oh, no. We can't." Oh, but we just want

to audit. We just want to make sure that

our billions of dollars are going to the

right place and not being stolen. How

about that? No. No. We uh we can't stand

for that. Okay. You have a whole war

that's going on. Are you telling me that

you would continue a war

in your own country that's on your

that's in your homeland against a

unbeatable

foe? Yeah. In the long run, Russia. And

you'd rather do that as long as you

don't have to have an audit of where you

spent the money that we gave you. Yeah.

Yeah. That's about right.

So, I don't think we should do any kind

of a deal with Ukraine that does not

include our ability to audit where the

money goes. Are you with me? Indeed,

nobody should ever give away billions of

dollars without an, you know, airtight

audit system.

It would be just absurd. It would be the

height of stupidity to give away

billions of dollars and have no

mechanism for checking where it goes,

which is pretty close to the current

system, I guess. Um, and then also, this

is almost humorously

uh ridiculous that Ukraine also is

pushing for quote full amnesty for

actions committed during the war. So

Ukraine wants to make sure that not only

is there no way to audit

the wartime aid, but that if anybody

already stole some, they've full

amnesty. [laughter]

Come on.

Come on. Is that even real? Is that

actually what you think the US is going

to agree to? How about I don't know. I'm

just just going to test this out. I'll

run it by you. run it up the flag pole.

What if

we let you steal all the money that we

give for wartime aid and we don't check

and then on top of that we give you full

amnesty for stealing our money? How

about that?

I don't know. I'd like to get a little

more than that. You want more than that?

That's a lot. We should be lining you

against the wall. No, just kidding.

All right. And here's my here's my real

curiosity I have about the whole Ukraine

mess. On one hand,

it seems just observably, obviously,

objectively true that Trump is better

than maybe anybody at getting deals, at,

you know, bullying people into deals.

Would you say that that's generally

true? that even his critics would agree,

especially after Gaza, even his critics

would agree, all right, you know, he is

good at it. We might not like where he

ends up. We might not like how he does

it, but we got to admit he's pretty good

at it.

So, when I see Ukraine and what's

happening, that looks like the biggest

waste of time ever. And it doesn't look

like it really doesn't look like they're

heading even in the right direction,

does it? Like there I don't have a sense

of what the right direction would look

like in this case, but does it really

look like they're getting closer to a

deal?

I don't see anything that would suggest

it's getting close to a deal. But that's

the same thing I saw in Gaza right

before they made a deal. And the thing

that we I think all of us were blind to,

I certainly was, is that Trump could

convince people there was going to be a

deal

before those same people had agreed

on what their end of the deal would be.

And it was almost like he got everybody

a little bit pregnant. And then it and

then there was something that happened

where they they somehow went past some

psychological line that maybe nobody

even knew existed in the first place

that made it impossible to go back. So

that they sort of blundered into a peace

deal that nobody had expressly nobody

[clears throat] had expressly said let's

do this right. And and even now, like

even today, correct me if I'm wrong, the

Gaza leadership is still saying they

haven't agreed to it, right? But yet,

it's going forward.

We we have a peace deal. It's being

implemented. we can see what you know

they're putting together the uh security

peace force and all that but at the same

time it's not really happening

[laughter]

because Hamas has not agreed to it.

They've not agreed to give up their

weapons and that was from the very

beginning that was a a key requirement.

So is it possible and I'm not going to

assert this as a fact it's more of a

question. Is it possible

that Trump alone

and because of his personality, because

of, I don't know, force of will, because

he can be a bully when he needs to, um,

because he understands negotiations like

nobody ever has. Is it possible that

he's literally invented

a way to get deals, peace deals, that

nobody's ever seen before? And it

involves just confusing people and

pushing them at the same time. Hey, Bob.

Uh, how do you like that uh deal we just

uh introduced? What? I I didn't see the

details. Push. All right. So, looks like

you're halfway on board with the deal. I

haven't really seen the the details of

the deal. What What What deal are you

talking about? Push. Push. Stand over

there, Bob. No, just stand over there.

So, now you're standing with the other

people who agree with us on this deal.

Wait, hold on. Hold on. Uh, I have not

yet seen the deal. Can somebody explain

to me what is being proposed?

Absolutely. Absolutely. Bob, can you

stand over there with the other people

who have agreed with everything? Great.

Right there. Right. I know you have

questions. We'll get to your questions,

but it's it's encouraging that we've all

agreed to do this deal this way. Hold

on. I've not agreed to do the deal this

way. All right. Looks like everybody's

on board.

Is that what's happening?

I mean, I I'm doing it humorously,

but doesn't it feel like that's actually

what's happening? That Trump is

convincing people that no progress is

progress

and that once they feel there's

progress, there's nothing like success

to get you more success.

So it feels like he's literally just

creating this structure purely

psychological that only he could do, no

one else could do it. And that once you

buy into the structure that there is

something happening, that you are moving

toward peace, that it is possible to

have peace, that Trump is the one person

who can make it happen, that there might

be a phase where it looks like it's

impossible, but that's not really

predictive. What's more predictive is

that Trump is part of it because he can

he predicts good outcomes at least for

peace deals maybe.

[laughter]

So, but you at least see where I'm going

on this, right? that he's in such

uncharted territory

that I don't know if we just blundered

into it and maybe something good could

happen or does he intentionally create

these

narratives or structures or

psychological

let's say labyrinths

[laughter]

where once you're in it, you're in his

world and then he can decide which which

hallway you go down because there's not

infinite hallways. They're just the ones

he's created.

It's going to get better. Hold on.

All right. So,

so we don't know what the details would

be of any Ukrainian plan,

but uh keep an eye on that. We'll see if

he has in fact invented a new way to

solve problems

or it's just confusing and it's hard and

that's all there is there. So I guess uh

JD Vance might have some uh largest role

in a creating a Republican health care

plan.

This is what JD said. Uh he was teasing

that the Republicans have a quote great

health care plan that the Trump

administration has in the works.

[laughter]

How many of you believe that? How how

many of you believe that the Republicans

already have this great healthc care

plan, [laughter]

but [clears throat] for reasons that are

entirely unclear, they've chosen not to

tell you. [laughter]

[clears throat] We got this great

healthcare plan. Oh my goodness. Can we

uh take a look at the details? The

details? Yep. Yep. The details will

follow, but it's a great great plan. Is

it? Is it? How exactly are you going to

be saving all the money? Well, you know

how our current health care plan is too

expensive? Yes, I do know that ours will

not be expensive. Boom.

Wait, what? [laughter]

So, yeah, the Republicans got a they got

a great health care plan. Going to roll

that baby out any minute now. All right.

But

but there are several things that

Republicans are doing and can doing or

and can do that would lower your health

care costs. The problem is they don't

combine very well into a package or a

message. So for example,

um Trump is considering lowering some

tariffs on some food related items

coming into the country. Would that

lower your grocery bill? Well, could

could make a big difference. Um, let's

say that he lowered some tariffs and

that that helped you a little bit on the

margins. Um,

what if he negotiated some prices down?

Let's say the the meat packers.

Let's say he just negotiated with them

and got the price down. Well, that would

be useful and that would go toward his,

you know, his improving things at least

on uh food. But um and food would just

be you know [laughter]

I suppose if you indirectly

uh improve people's nutrition that they

don't need as much healthcare. So in

some indirect ways or things that um the

Republicans can do they can negotiate

the pharma prices down which which he

did. there could be higher employment if

Trump uh if Trump's economy results in

more people being hired than they buy

their own health care in many cases. So

there's a whole bunch of things they can

do that would sort of be in that

direction but you wouldn't be able to

claim credit for it so well because it'

just be this grab bag of miscellaneous

things. So,

I think JD is smart enough because you

need your smartest people working on

healthcare. No doubt about it. Um, but I

would love somebody to explain to me

where all the money is going. Have you

ever wondered about that? Like, how did

we get to the point where healthc care

cost this amount and then suddenly it's

three times that amount and not much

time has gone by? Where exactly did

those extra dollars go? Has anybody ever

shown you on a chart, it would have to

be a highly simplified chart. Um, you

know, the dollar leaves your pocket and

then where does it go? I have no idea.

Is there is there any element of where

your healthcare money goes that any

reasonable person could say, "Aha,

if we stop this going over there, we can

just save all that money." Is there

anything like that? See the trouble with

a health care plan is that unless it

costs less money, it's a nothing. Would

you agree? That's the whole game. The

game is to, you know, make sure we have

some pretty good healthcare. But

separately, we need to vastly, you know,

grossly reduce the price. Well, whose

pocket is that going to come out of? And

who has ever even told us whose pocket

that's going to come out of? If you say

generic stuff like, "Oh, uh, the

insurance companies are getting rich."

Well, show that to me. Show Show me that

the insurance companies collectively are

making so much money that if you were

to, let's say, cut their profit in half

that the price that people would pay for

healthcare would go down by 50%.

Would it? Or would it go down by 1%?

We don't really even know where the

money's going, do we? So, I would say

job one, if you were a JD Vance or

whatever Republican works on this, job

one would be to figure out where the

money's going. And then you have to come

up with a plan that addresss each of

those buckets such as all right, you can

see that all this money goes into this

particular thing, this money goes into

this particular thing. So yesterday I

needed a little bit of health care.

Uh how many people do you think get

involved?

Like 12 to 20 people by the time I'm

done for any little healthcare item. And

it's just because the system is trying

to be very careful and is trying to make

sure all the right people get pulled

into decisions and make sure that not

nobody drops the ball and anything. But

but the end result of just taking care

of everything really scrupulously

is that it could cost $100,000 to do

something that looks like should cost

$100.

It looks like it. Now I'm not talking

about the cost of a machine or the cost

of the the meds, but the the human cost

and the the physical capital. Yeah. the

the health care system in this country

really needs to be understood at a

different level than we do.

So job one JD Vance and somebody like

him would be perfect. You're going to

need something like a Silicon Valley guy

or gal. You need something like somebody

who can look at a complicated business

and say, "Aha, here's where all that

money is going. So we'll concentrate on

here to get some back."

And that sort of does scream

Silicon Valley venture capitalist, but

people who are on your side.

So that's what I'd be looking for. I

wouldn't believe any healthc care plan

from Republicans that did not go through

somebody who really understands money

and and how to how to manage it.

Anyway, um here's some fake news.

How many times have you read an article

or seen on social media that the company

Black Rockck uh owns all the meat

packing

businesses in the United States and

maybe all the pharma?

How many of you have seen that on social

media and said that looks true that this

one company, Black Rockck, owns all of

the meat packing companies? There only

four of them.

Only four of them. But how many of you

think that's true?

That's not true. [laughter]

How could you think that was true?

That that one company owns all the meat

packing and that one company owns all

the big pharma and that one company owns

all the the food companies. How in the

world can you think that was true? I

mean, seriously, that is so far from

being true. Do you know what is true?

The Black Rockck probably owns, you

know, a little piece of equity in just

about every major US company because

they're so big. They kind of have to

have their their beak in everything.

The truth is they do own part of a whole

bunch of big companies in the United

States. Do they have do you think that

uh Black Rockck has controlling interest

of the meatacking?

Nobody ever told me one way or the other

because all I hear is this ridiculous

thing that they own them. They don't own

them. They can't tell the meatacking

company what to do. The meat packing

company has lots of stockholders

and they all have an opinion. All right.

Now, how many of you are slapping

yourself uh on the forehead and saying,

"Thank you, Scott. I've been listening

to everybody say that one company owns

all the other Fortune 500 companies.

I've been listening to that for five

years. I knew that couldn't

possibly be true. Thank you for saying

that in public because now now maybe

I'll feel braver to say it in public,

too." But really, did you really think

that that one company owned all those

other companies? Like all the pharma,

all the food companies, all the meat

packing companies. A lot of people

believe that there are other things in

that category, but I don't want to give

them all to you at once, if you know

what I mean.

All right. Job markets looking good. You

heard that yesterday. The job report

came good. I don't know if you can

believe anything about jobs. How many of

you believe anything about jobs?

Oh, yeah. And all the real estate. Yeah.

And then there's separately there's

another belief that's also false that

all of the single single family homes

got bought up by not by Black Rockck but

uh what's the other company that starts

with Black but has something else in the

end?

Yeah, that's another one where they just

own they own some percentage of things.

All right. So, Zoron Mdani, speaking of

jobs,

he says he's going to the White House.

Uh, that might be today. I think I may

have seen a post on it yesterday that

referred to today. So, either either

today or tomorrow. Mani is going to the

White House and he wants to tell Trump

that deportations will no longer be

permitted in New York City after he

takes power. No longer be permitted.

So, that should work out great.

All right.

Uh,

and and blindly supports Trump.

Blindly. Do do you think that saying

that I blindly support Trump is an

insightful comment?

I literally talk about every element of

Trump top to bottom every day for 10

years.

You [clears throat] don't think I've

looked into it? You You don't think I

did a little analysis that you maybe I

could answer some questions on this

topic? You don't think maybe I know more

than you do?

Some of the critics are are so funny.

They're they're so bad at even being

critics.

Anyway,

well, um, my guess is that Trump is

going to have fun with Mom Donnie by

being somewhat professional, but

somewhat insulting. And I cannot wait

for the insulting part. Are you waiting

for that, too? There's going to there's

going to be maybe a there might be a

picture opportunity.

I definitely want to see the handshake.

If there's a handshake, I definitely

want to see that. Uh, and then I want to

see what I want to see what Trump says

about M Donnie while the press is

listening to him and M Donnie is

standing right next to him. I mean, I

just can't wait for that cuz he's not

going to be he's not going to hold back.

He's going to do something you've never

seen before. He's just going to dump all

over him and mom D will just have to

stand there because it's the White House

and he can't really walk out.

Well, Scott Bessant,

[clears throat] Secretary of the

Treasury, he uh he held up, I think it

was on Fox News, and he held up the

first USAmade rare earth magnet in 25

years. So, apparently the United States

already now has a rare earth magnet

manufacturer.

The question I have is, was that already

being built

or did we go from we have no idea how to

make a rare earth magnet to here's a

magnet?

Did did American ingenuity, which we

worry is on the Wayne, uh did we just

figure this out?

I'm very curious. Is is this really the

success story it looks like? And is it

something that's repeatable? Because

I'll tell you, I've had a curiosity

about the whole rare earth domain.

And the curiosity is this.

If if the government said, "We're really

going to support you if you make any

kind of rare earth stuff because we need

it desperately. We're going to get rid

of all the government red tape. Uh we're

going to give you loans. We're going to

make sure you can find the markets.

There'll be plenty of markets. Don't

worry about markets. Um, if you created

that situation,

how long would it take before the normal

free market just flooded the zone with

products? Because it's what we do best

historically.

What I don't know is if we still have

that, I don't know, that gene, that

intuition, that um, that just sort of

magical ability that's transported us to

this point in history so far.

I don't know. But there's some

possibility that it it's going to look

more like World War II when the US

entered the war. If you ever I'm sure

most of you have watched uh the History

Channel and history shows about the US

was sort of, you know, we were good at

manufacturing things, but when uh World

War II hit and the winner would be who

could make the most stuff. I mean, I'm

simplifying, but but if we could make

more stuff, as in tanks and artillery

shells, we probably would win. So, we

just went crazy making more stuff and

made an unbelievable amount of stuff,

airplanes and tanks and and shells.

So, how many of the experts

in World War II would have known

Blackstone? Yeah, Blackston's that other

company with black in the beginning of

the name. Uh how many of the experts

would have known that the free market

could have create plus the government

being supportive could have created that

much uh production? Do you think that

was known at the time or is it like

today where there's just something about

the situation where you can't wrap your

brain around how effectively we could

tackle it?

because I do wonder if we can just jump

in there and just shock everybody with

how well we do and how quickly we

develop an industry. I don't know. I'm

gonna say that maybe we can. Maybe we

can.

Uh Jasmine Crockett, I told you I was

going to talk about her. Uh so now she's

looks like she's auditioning to become

one of the designated liars for the for

the Democrats. And uh she says she was

just on some interview saying that Trump

and Bolton's hate uh is why there are

random black bodies being strung up in

the south. So Jasmine Crockett believes

that there are random black bodies being

strung up in like today modern day. Uh

I hope not. I'm not aware of any.

So, and her point was that uh Trump is

creating a dangerous situation. So

dangerous that that's why black bodies

are being strung up in the south. Well,

first of all, there as far as I know,

there are no black bodies being strung

up in the south presently. We hope that

will be the the future as well. Um, but

don't you think that she's creating some

danger here by suggesting that we have

this Hitler-like character in charge of

the country and half the country is

supporting him? Don't you think that

creates a little danger?

So, yeah, she's a she's a funny one.

All right, here we go. I promised you

something that would reframe your brain,

and here it comes.

You're going to like this

unless I've totally oversold it.

All right, I'm g I'm gonna sort of lean

into it and then we'll get we'll get on

it. Okay.

So, I guess something happened recently

with the Soros organization, the open

whatever it is, uh, Open Society, and

Alex Soros was um, just saying something

defiant on the X platform. And what

Alex, the son of George Soros, said was,

uh,

he said, uh,

come on, I wrote this down.

Uh,

well, he basically said that, uh, the

Soros organization wasn't going to go

anywhere. The most important thing that

I didn't write down.

All right. Seriously. [laughter]

Oh, yeah. His exact words. Alex Soros,

they put an X was quote, "We aren't

going anywhere." Meaning that the Soros

organization was not in any mortal

trouble. I don't know what trouble they

were in, but they were getting some push

back. So anyway, he was uh sort of

celebrating

that they were not in any danger of

going away. But Elon Musk, owner of X,

commented on Alex's comment and he said,

quote, "Can you stop trying to destroy

this civilization for like five minutes?

That would [clears throat] be great."

Thumbs up. He puts a little icon.

Now, think about that comment. You

ready?

Think about that comment. the richest

man in the world says, "Can you stop

trying to destroy civilization for like

five minutes

now? How could it be that the Soros's

could exist at the same time that Elon

Musk exists?"

Because these are two completely

different views of reality. It's not

just a different political view. It's a

different view of reality.

How many of you think that it's

objectively obviously true that the

Soroses appear to be determined to

destroy Western civilization?

A lot of you right now, I'm not saying

that that's the true vision of the

world. I'm saying that, you know, I I

often talk about two movies on one

screen. We're still playing on one

screen,

but when uh a lot of people on the let's

say Trump supporting side look at it, it

does look it does look that way like

Soroses are not trying to help that

they're going to destroy Western

civilization. Now, I'm not saying that's

necessarily true, but it looks like it.

So, if somebody decides to treat that as

their reality, you can understand why.

Now, obviously, the Soroses do not see

that in themselves. I think that's fair

to say. I can't read their mind, but I

doubt they think like when they're Well,

I doubt when they're eating breakfast,

they're thinking, "So, uh, Alex, what

have you done to help destroy society

today?" Probably they don't think of it

that way.

probably they think of it in I don't

know maybe gaining power you maybe

accomplishing some social goods might be

a variety of things they think about it

but they're not thinking well I'll eat

this egg and destroy society so how

could both of these views so completely

different I'm destroying the world with

my billions versus I'm saving the world

with my billions how could they both

exist at the same time

Well,

>> [clears throat]

>> uh,

here's a part of it. I saw, um,

I saw Elon say about Graipedia.

Now, I'm going to tie this all together

in a moment. All right. So, we started

with Soros and and Musk. Now, we're

going to talk about Graipedia. So,

that's uh Elon Musk's uh version of

Wikipedia. is still still in uh under

work but uh Elon was talking about it

and he said uh that it's going to be way

better than Wikipedia blah blah blah and

then Elon talks about the phenomenon

where you would know that Graipedia is

better than Wikipedia if you were a

public figure or an expert because you

would understand your own domain and if

you understood your own domain and then

you read about what Wikipedia said this

would be his claim and then you read

what Grock said, Groipedia, you would

come away from it thinking that um

Wikipedia was wrong and Graedia was

closer to right more often. Now, this is

uh there's a name for this, the

phenomenon I'm describing. What is the

name and watch this? Watch how many of

you know the answer to this question.

What's the name

for the phenomenon where you know that

the news is fake because you're an

expert or the news is about you

but uh the rest of the world might not

know that. What's that called? I'm

looking. There it is. It It took like

one second for it to appear. It's a

Galman amnesia. Now Galman is a

hyphenated last name of a physicist.

G E L L-

M A N. I I always forget how many double

letters there are, but something like

that. So,

here's the important part. Um,

how many people have in in the public

mentioned gal man amnesia maybe without

using the words, but described it in a

way that you knew that's what they were

talking about recently. I'll give you

some examples. So, uh, Elon Musk has

talked about it a number of times.

I've talked about it a number of times.

Uh, Mike Cernovich has talked about it a

number of times and has properly

credited Michael Kiteon, the author,

Michael Kiteon. I think Michael Kiteon

might have also borrowed it. Somebody

said there was some prior claim to it.

It doesn't really matter. Um, I'm just

saying that a lot of smart people have

referenced it. I'm pretty sure Greg

Guffeld has mentioned it on his show or

shows. Um, I've seen some other Silicon

Valley people mention it, but you've

also seen Bill Murray. Do you remember

actor Bill Murray when he talked about

his own experience uh reading some

stories about John Belalushi? And he

knew Belushi personally and very well.

So when he read the stories, he knew

they were fake. And then he had the

galman amnesia effect. It was like,

wait, wait a minute. What are the odds

that the only stories that are fake are

John Belalushi stories? Because it

happens to be one of the few things I'm

an expert on. What are the odds that's

the only thing? Isn't it more likely

that everything's fake and the way you

find out about it is being an expert in

one thing, you're like, "Hey, wait a

minute. I am an expert in this. This

stuff's wrong." Um, what about Bill

Maher? I saw him recently, was it on his

Club Random or maybe the regular show?

He's mentioned that because he's a

public figure, he has extra vision on

this, the fact that the news is so often

fake. That wouldn't be obvious to people

who are not public figures because they

don't read news about themselves like

people like me and people like him do.

All right. Now, so you've got Elon Musk,

Joe Rogan's mentioned it, Bill Murray's

mentioned it on Joe Rogan show. Uh

Guffel, Fox News, me, my books,

Cernovich,

etc.

This

is teaching people a way to think and a

way to see the world.

If what if what uh if what comes out of

all this groipedia stuff is simply that

more people understand what Gellman

amnesia is, it completely changes how we

see the world. It will change how you

see the Soros versus Musk. How in the

world could both of them exist if they

have this view that that's just are

complete opposites?

So

I say that what's different about the

era you're in is that the Trumpup

supporting part of the world, not not

all of it. Oh, somebody's saying that

Dr. Drew has mentioned

uh Galman. I think he has. I think he

has. So you're probably all thinking of

other examples right now. If I went over

to the Democrat

influencers,

how many of the Democrat influencers

have taught their audience the Gellman

amnesia?

Any? Any? So what happens over time if

one side of the political world gets

trained in how to think which is exactly

what Elon Musk does every time he talks

to you he he also teaches you how to

think like how you should think of

entering AI how you should think of that

risk etc that's completely different

than just telling you what to think

the the right leaning or I'll just say

Trump supporting common sense part of

the uh political ical world is really

about teaching the other people in it

how to think about stuff. That's all I

do all day. I teach you how to think,

not necessarily what to think.

All right. So, what happens with that?

Um, do you think that the people on the

political right are more able to

identify a hoax? Yes, they are. because

because they're actually trained on what

the hoaxes were, how they were created,

and then how they were supported by the

media. So, you've got an entire

political class

that while the Democrats weren't paying

attention, and this is the fun part, the

Democrats don't see this coming, that

that half of the world has been trained

to recognize and the other half

has been trained to accept it.

>> [laughter]

>> If you just fast forward that tape,

let's see. One half of the country

trained to accept as the truth.

Uh the other half of the country trained

to identify as soon as they see

it and to avoid it as quickly as

possible.

Fast forward that. Where do you end up?

the where you end up is what you observe

right now, which is the

the team that can't avoid the hoaxes

just goes right off the cliff. What

happened to the Democrats this year?

They went off the cliff, did they not?

Right now, are are you having the

feeling that I was hoping that you would

have right about now? If I'm doing this

right, and I think I am, the feeling

that many of you are having right now

is, wait a minute, did you just connect

all the dots?

I is that the fact that one part of the

country has learned how to think, how

to, for example, if if I use the phrase

too on the nose,

how many of you would know what I'm

talking about if I said uh that story,

it's too on the nose. You tell me in the

comments. You tell me. How many of you

would know exactly what I meant? How

many Democrats would know what I meant?

None. There wouldn't be any Democrats

who know what that meant because again,

two on the nose is teaching you how to

spot BS. It's just one of many ways. Uh

so there's this entire uh I don't want

to say army because then you know what

the Democrats will say if I say army but

in the very conceptual way an army of uh

people who have been trained to spot

hoaxes and even to know specifically why

there's a whole bunch of you have been

trained in persuasion,

right?

That you actually know what works and

what doesn't and it's not an accident.

and the other part of the country is

just

flailing poop at you, I guess, because

they don't have training in that domain.

And I I think people always imagined

before I came on the scene, people

imagined that persuasion was something

you're either born with or, you know,

maybe you just have it. Uh it was not

really thought of as a a learnable

skill, but I'm here to tell you it's a

learnable skill. and I've watched people

learn it and then I've watched them

employ it and then I've watched them

succeed, get elected, get promotions,

get the get the partner they wanted.

Now, let's let's uh let's take this a

little bit further.

Um when Groipedia becomes sort of the

standard for and I think it will become

the standard for checking things then

Elon will

I I think if come close to completing

one of the greatest

reframes of all time which is the

reframe is Democrats teach you what to

think

and Republicans teach you how to think.

Do you feel it? Democrats tell you what

to think.

And at least in 2025, this was not

always the case. This was not

historically true at the moment. And I

would say that Musk is primarily the,

you know, the the reason for this is

that we've all been taught how to think

and a lot of it comes from him. Uh, I

think there were probably three

probably three separate stories I saw

today that all were some little clip of

Elon explaining how to think about a

thing, how to think about the, let's

say, the economics of space.

How many of you understood before, let's

say, this year,

uh, the importance of reusable rocket

ships?

And it wasn't just that you learned

that, you know, there's a thing called

reusable uh spaceships. It's that you

learned that that's important enough

that if you don't understand that part

of the question, you can't really see

what's coming.

How many of you knew that if you put

your solar panels in space, you didn't

have to worry about cooling them uh

being blocked by clouds or or that it's

night?

Well, now you know. And it's because

you've learned how to sort of look at

things like an engineer. Uh that's what

Elon does more than anything else. Looks

at it like an engineer. Once you learn

that, it becomes your go-to. So, all

right. What would an engineer do in this

case? Changes everything.

All right. So, I'm going to I'm going to

call the uh the reframe.

We we have now entered the golden age.

And one of the defining factors of the

golden age is that the left is being

told what to think and the right is

being taught how.

And how is going to be what?

every time. Eventually, but every time.

Mission accomplished.

All right. Did I give you something to

think about today?

You know, the we're closer to the

beginning of this teaching people how to

think, but if you look at my books, you

know, I I've got five books that are

sort of in that domain of teaching you

how to think. systems over goals. That's

exactly right.

Anyway, there's some question now about

Epstein and some red flags that should

have been seen by his bank JP Morgan

Chase. They are they're being uh accused

by Senator Widen, Democrat. Uh JP Morgan

is being accused of failing to report

more than a billion dollars in

suspicious transactions tied to Jeffrey

Epstein.

So,

isn't literally everything that that has

to do with Epstein sketchy?

It feels It feels to me that you could

pick up any category.

If it had to do with Epstein, there

would be something about it you're like,

hm, that looks a little sketchy. Like

you you could go to his barber and talk

to his barber and uh you'd say, "All

right, is there anything sketchy about

the way Epstein got a haircut?" And the

barber would say, "Stetchy about a

haircut? What how could there even be

anything sketchy about a haircut?" And

you say, you know, just something

non-standard?

No. No. It's exactly like everybody

else's haircut. He'd come in with three

bodyguards and three underage women. Uh

they'd get a private room in the back

and I go, "Wait, wait, wait. That sounds

very sketchy. Does it? Does it? Just a

haircut. It It's like there's no

category you could pick where it

wouldn't immediately devolve into Wait a

minute. Wait a minute. Why was he doing

that? [laughter]

Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Why did he

have a billion dollars for flowing

through JP Morgan?

Everything is sketchy. And then that

made me come up with the following

question that will also plague you to

the end of your days. You ready? Here's

the Epstein question. You'll never get

out of your head. Who taught Epstein to

be Epstein?

Yeah. Yeah. Roll that one around in your

head a little bit. Who taught Epstein

how to be Epstein? meaning who taught

him how to move gigantic amounts of

money around

money laundering without getting caught?

Who taught him to make these connections

we think don't know for sure with the

various intelligence groups? Who would

even know how to do that? Is that

something you work out on your own?

How do you do it?

So, uh and then and then how do you

blackmail famous people? It can't be

that obvious how to blackmail a public

figure. Do you know what I'd worry about

if you said, "Scott,

it's not it's not rocket science. It's

just blackmail." So, here's some tapes

of this famous billionaire. Now, go

blackmail him, Scott. I'd say, "Hold on.

Hold on. I know you think that's easy,

but I have questions." And then somebody

would say, "There's no questions. Black

everybody knows how to blackmail.

Blackmail is the simplest thing you

could ever just threaten that if he

doesn't do everything you want, you'll

release the tapes. That's it. To which I

say, question.

Is this a billionaire who has access to

private armies and unlimited security?

Yes.

Why do you ask? Would this black Would

this person also be completely aware

that I'm the one blackmailing him? Well,

yeah. I mean, that's why it works

because they know who's blackmailing

them.

So, let me get this straight.

Uh, if I were to blackmail this person

and let's say something went bad and I

released these uh release these images,

what would that billionaire do to me and

my family? Oh, well, obviously they'd be

rounded up and tied to chairs. And after

that, well, no promises, but they would

be tied to chairs, if you know what I

mean.

So, in my mind, I can't even come up

with a scenario in which I would know

how to blackmail anybody. How do you

blackmail somebody without them killing

you,

right? Because if you gave me a billion

dollars and then somebody blackmailed

me,

I might be looking for some solutions.

[laughter]

I might I might talk to some of my

people.

There might be some people in my world,

if I were a billionaire, who wanted to

owe me a favor.

I wouldn't have to specifically ask for

somebody to take care of my enemies.

People would figure out that if they

did,

I'd hear about it and probably be quite

grateful.

Yeah, but you see my point, right? How

did Epstein learn to be Epstein?

How did he learn to be Epstein? There's

no way that you just work that out on

your own.

All right, so most of you are saying

CIA, but uh that is that is the fun

question here.

All right, I'm going to do a little test

for you. [laughter]

Here's the [clears throat] test. If you

see a news story with that involves the

following words, now these will be out

of order. They're just going to be

words, not in sentences. If you see the

following words, what do you know about

the story? Here are the following words.

Minnesota

taxpayer dollars,

Somalia

investigation

scheme.

Is there anything else I need to say

about that? No, that's the whole story.

And I feel like there's one of these

every day I I pick up, you know, or I

look at the screen like there's another

story. It's it's in Minnesota taxpayer

dollar somalia investigation scheme.

Millions of dollars missing.

Is this yesterday's story? Yeah. And

fraud. Is it yesterday's story or is it

just every day? How many days in a row

do we get stories about Somali uh

migrants stealing money from Minnesota

taxpayers?

If you're a Minnesota taxpayer,

I have one word advice for you. Run.

Run.

All right.

Um, according to the New York Post,

Emily Crane, there's a new report that

warns that the uh the the Muslim

Brotherhood has infil infiltrated US

colleges and it aims to quote transform

Western society from within and that

it's halfway done with its 100redyear

plan.

So 50 of its 100-year plan has been done

and they claim to be about half done in

conquering the West. um via the

educational systems.

Is that real? Do you believe that uh the

inevitable future is that uh Islam and

let's say Muslim Brotherhood in

particular because that's who this is

about. Do you believe that the natural

arc of history is that they will

infiltrate? They will they will uh

reproduce

slowly but methodically. they will take

over various institutions until the US

is Islamic.

Well, unless there was a counterforce,

I don't see how you could stop it

because Islam is a very u I'm going to

try to use the most respectful language.

So, you're going to watch me struggle

here to to pick the right words. But

Islam is a very successful system. Now,

there I did it. I wanted to make it not

sound like it was biased.

Um, Islam is a very successful design

for a system. For example, if you're if

you're in the more extreme elements and

you tried to leave the religion, they'd

kill you, right? I mean, that's not not

the normies, but you know, for some part

of the Islamic world, you can't really

leave. And even if they're not going to

kill you, it's not going to be very very

fun. So it's a system that says if you

leave, you're going to pay a price. And

if if you're competing against, and when

I say competing against, I mean just

trying to own the future. Uh if you're

competing against some other religion or

system that lets you go in and out, if

you like, in theory, the one that kills

you for leaving is going to do better in

the long run. and has a number of other

advantages such as the high reproduction

rates and um I won't get into all of it

but in ter but if you were to design it

on paper on paper Islam would conquer

the other systems just by being

introduced and then you wait am I right

that it would conquer all the other

systems one at a time just by being

introduced

now it takes a while but it's very

design guarantees that it dominates over

time.

So, that's going to happen.

Um, I would say we're probably halfway

to that. And, uh, if you were going to

ask me, Scott, is there any way the West

can save itself to not be destroyed by

this superior system? And the answer is

there might be one way.

There might be one and only one way that

the West

could save itself from an Islamic just

guaranteed system design takeover.

Do you know what that is? What is the

one system that could defend against

that? It's not Christianity

because Christianity is a you a little

too peaceloving for for that to work.

I'll tell you what it is.

It's Elon Musk

and it's AI. If AI becomes maximum truth

seeking, which is what Elon is after, he

says it almost every day that the AI has

to be maximum truth seeking. You can't

give the AI

uh morality. You can't program morality

into AI. That would just cause the

potential for the biggest problems in

the world. But if you if you program it

for ultimate truth,

you could come up with something that's

just purely additive. Ideally, we don't

know, but be worth a shot.

Um, so now imagine

that it becomes a normal thing that half

of the country is teaching its own half

to think better. my prior conversation.

Do you think that that is uh also a

system that can reproduce?

Yes. Yes. If you learn how to think

better and you're sitting in the room

with somebody who doesn't know how to do

it and an opportunity comes up where you

can kind of explain to them, you know,

the way you should think about this

might be this way instead of that.

You'll do it. So there's something about

the common sense learning how to think

uh approach to life which would be

Elon's and the other people I mentioned

as well uh that is in its in its own

ways sticky and it doesn't require a

specific educational structure. In fact

the whole college system might fall

apart in 10 years. Who knows? But the

idea of thinking better probably will

just keep going because it's good for

everybody who's [snorts] exposed to it

and it's easy to teach the the whole the

the technique of something being too on

the nose. I haven't described that here

but it's really easy to teach somebody

how to spot things using a certain set

of tools. So that is a way that the west

could possibly

become immune from any external systems

be they Islam or anything else.

How's your brain doing?

[snorts] All right. Um the CDC

has apparently I don't want to say

caved. Somebody said that. That that's

always the wrong word. Uh the CDC has

altered its statement about vaccines and

autism. Uh now it's scrubbing the bold

statement that they used to have the CDC

that vaccines do not cause autism and

they've replaced it with vaccines uh do

not cause autism is not an

evidence-based claim.

So there maybe the primary claim that

the CDC has made for my entire life, the

primary thing uh I mean I've been

hearing it since I was in my 20s I think

that they would have said that the

vaccines all the vaccines not just the

co ones they would say that all the

vaccines do not cause autism but they

would say it as a statement of fact.

Should they have said it as a statement

of fact? No.

No. because they hadn't tested it. They

just didn't have any evidence that it

was. There's a real big difference

between not having evidence that it is

and saying we've proven and it's a fact

that it isn't. And it's so unscientific

the way they were doing it and to

imagine that they knew for sure there

was no connection despite not having run

the right kind of tests to know one way

or the other. So, it feels like a step

in the right direction that they're

simply saying it in a in a truthful way.

They didn't know if it caused autism.

I'm not claiming it does or it doesn't.

I'm saying I don't know, but I'm pretty

sure they didn't know either. And now

that's what that looks like. All right.

I had no idea what time it was, but uh

let me do a little uh check with you on

today. Did anybody have a uh have a

let's say a brain event today where you

said to yourself, "Holy cow,

I had not thought of things that way."

Did you like my reframe?

The reframe that uh Democrats teach you

what tell you what to think and

Republicans teach you how to think. Now,

that might not be true when it comes to

something like religion, but that would

be its own special case, right?

All right.

Uh, no. Yes. Epiphany. Yes.

Very much so. All right. Good. Not

really.

For those of you who are not affected,

it probably had more to do with the fact

that you were already there. Uh, for

most of the people, I'm taking them to

where a few people already were. If you

were in the group of a few people who

were already there,

no no travel time.

All right.

Um,

just looking at your comments here.

Oh, you're too nice.

40 years of what?

Okay. Um, I'm going to talk to the uh

the locals people privately in a moment.

Everybody else, thanks for joining.

Uh, and I hope you have a tremendous

weekend.

I think you will. All right, people.

Uh, locals coming at you privately

and the rest I will disappear in 30

seconds. I'll see you tomorrow.