Episode 3041 CWSA 12/09/25

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So, if you're wondering what's different, uh, I'll give you a little background.

So, I'm temporarily broadcasting from my garage/man cave, and I've got several devices down here that are a little bit uh challenging for my electrical circuits.

So, yesterday I had uh two heaters and two was too much.

So, I got rid of one of them, you know, because it blew a circuit.

Um, but I couldn't do the coffee maker and the heater cuz that blew a circuit.

So, I've got a whole bunch of GFIs and circuit breakers in this room, quite a few of them.

And it's very difficult to figure out what's wrong.

So, I don't have full power in the room.

I've got one outlet that works and everything's running off it at the moment.

I'm using the overhead light because I can't get the other light to work.

So, massive technical challenges this morning.

Uh then on top of that, I had a little technical challenge I wasn't expecting at all, which uh apparently the new I don't know if it's the meds I'm on.

I assume it is.

I assume it's the meds.

Um, I fell asleep five times while I was trying to prepare the notes and uh I would say that I'm not prepared.

So, we're going to see what happens.

I'm going to I'm going to tread water here.

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And I finally figured that if I watch your comments on my phone, I can I can pause them so I can really see what's going on here.

The show will just get better and better every time.

Did I leave something out?

It's going to take me a while to get back on back on plan.

All right, here's here's the real secret of today's show.

You want to know a behind the curtain secret?

I don't know if it's because of the meds, but I had plenty of sleep last night, you know, relative to what I usually get.

Uh, however, I'm very aware that my IQ is down about 40% this morning.

And you probably have asked yourself, Scott, it must be difficult to do a podcast because you have to kind of quickly catch up on all these complicated stories and then summarize them and put them in order and then make some kind of a, you know, interesting observation.

It's really hard.

I don't know if you've ever taken the time to think about it, but it's not like I have a team of writers or anything.

I do this myself.

So, in order to make this work, this podcast, I need every bit of my mental capacity.

Do you know how much I have available to me this morning?

Not every bit.

>> >> I'm not even close to being smart enough to do the thing that I'm going to attempt to do right in front of you.

I'm really mentally degraded at the moment.

Uh this morning while I was putting my notes together, I woke up five times, which means that without trying, I was just working away.

And the next thing I knew, I was asleep.

And I think it happened five times this morning.

Now, it's not unusual that it would happen once, but uh I I would say my estimate is that my IQ is down 40%.

This morning.

So, if you always wondered what would happen if I did my show, but I was stupid, well, you're going to find out.

You're going to find out right now.

All right.

Here's some uh stories that I know will delight you.

You will be delighted.

Um, I always tell you there's a there's an account on X called Massimo.

M- A S I O.

It's got real good tech stuff, futuristic stuff.

But, uh, Massimo is writing about how there's a new fusion reactor that allegedly could power the entire planet by 2030.

Now, I suppose that's pretty optimistic.

How long have we been talking about fusion is right around the corner?

But a Munich based startup Proximo Fusion have come up with some new concept that they think can change everything.

So optimistic thought number one, maybe we figured out how to have cheap or free energy and that will give us AI and then we will enter the golden age of of abundance and uh all we really needed was some really good really good fusion reactors and it looks like they're on the way.

Speaking of that, the Google CEO uh was just on another show and he mentioned uh again how data centers in space might be the secret to getting enough power.

Uh if you didn't hear me talk about it uh the other day, uh the reason you would want to put a data center in space, and it wouldn't have to necessarily be in one place, so it could be distributed ac across satellites, I guess, but the reason you want to put it in space is that you don't have to cool it because space is pretty darn cold.

And you uh what else?

So the the other natural advantage is that uh you have all the space you need.

Oh, and then the other advantage is that uh you can place a satellite or a data center where it's always in the sun.

So you don't have to worry about clouds.

There wouldn't be any in space and you wouldn't have to worry about it being on the wrong side of the planet because you just wouldn't put it there.

So, uh, what is interesting is that the Google CEO seems committed to that being the future, but, uh, Elon Musk commented on Google CEO's comment and he just said, "Interesting." Now, you probably have heard because I've mentioned it too that Elon Musk is saying essentially the same thing that uh we're going to have to take our game to space and we're going to have to do it pretty fast because that's might be the only way we can get, you know, all the AI and all the power we need.

So, the fact that the CEO of Google and the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX uh both have this super ambitious view of the world, but it seems doable.

Uh I believe pretty much all the parts exist.

You would just have to engineer them together.

And who better to engineer Google and and Tesla?

So, it looks like that's going to happen.

data centers in space.

So, Senator Josh Holly is introducing a bill uh to require companies to track layoffs.

Uh he specifically wants to track layoffs that are caused by AI.

So, we'd have a better idea, you know, what's happening as it happens.

But it would they would also track nonI layoffs.

So, you have a pretty good idea.

Now, don't you think that there was something missing that this is even a bill?

How is it that we didn't know?

We didn't know why people are losing jobs.

It feels like that could have been some some kind of basic thing we should have known.

But if Josh Holly is talking to the right economists in the in the government, and I know we got some good ones, uh then he might be doing their bidding and tracking the thing that the economists in the government want to have tracked.

So we'll see.

So that that could turn out to be a good thing.

Uh here's some science for you.

Did you know that fewer than 8% just eight% of the couples um of successful couples consist of a Democrat and a Republican as a couple?

That does that surprise you that only 8% of couples are opposite politically?

That feels just about right to me.

I'm not saying it's good or bad.

I'm just saying, yeah, that sounds about what I'd expect, about 8%.

It would be pretty hard to have a marriage with somebody who disagreed with you on the real basic stuff.

That would be tough.

So, I think that's a that's good.

Um, and according to this this study, most individuals do seem to screen for political alignment.

How many of you how many of you did that?

How many of you said, "I better get some political alignment here." Did you do that when you were looking for your mate back whenever I was?

Well, I don't think I ever have.

I I can't think of any time where I explicitly had that thought.

But I've also been lucky that in my relationships, the people I've been involved with were not super political, you know, in preference.

So, it just sort of doesn't come up or didn't come up.

And so, it worked for me to just sort of ignore the whole political thing.

But I would expect that's probably a that's probably an exception.

All right, here's another little piece of science.

Let's see if you can do this.

The University of Montreal is talking about this that young adolescents especially boys uh who participated in organized sports between the ages of six and 10 are less likely to defy their parents, teachers and other authority figures.

Does does it track with your experience in life that the young boys who play sports are more I don't want to say obedient, but that's sort of what it is.

um they're less likely to defy their parents and teachers and authority figures.

Does that make sense?

That makes sense.

But what I don't know is if the participating in sports is what causes them to let's say be more compliant with the authority figures or did they start that way and the thing that makes them interested in sports is whatever the same thing is that you know makes them the way they are.

So, I don't know if this is real science.

They may have cause and effect backwards, but I whenever I see whenever I see a young boy who is very involved in sports, I always assume that that they've got their other act together, don't you?

Not every time.

I mean, it's not 100%.

But if you see somebody who plays three sports and they can organize their life well enough to, you know, make it to practice and figure out what position they want and, you know, try to optimize it and then they're making friends and they're learning learning how the game works.

Um, I think there's a really high correlation between people who are successful in navigating life and people who are successful in navigating sports.

So again, I don't know what what causes what, but the correlation is pretty high.

All right, how about this?

Uh there's a new study that uh that finds the political differences predict lower relationship quality.

Oh, that's the same one I was talking about.

I put my notes in two places.

If you're just joining, I was explaining that I don't know if it's because of the new meds I'm on or what, but I fell asleep five times this morning just putting my notes together.

And uh so I probably put 20% of the time I normally put into this.

So I I don't know what you're going to get this morning.

You know, it could be anything.

All right.

So, Representative Jasmine Crockett has decided to raise her sights and she's going to run for Senate in in uh Texas.

What do you think?

Is Jasmine Crockett the next senator from Texas?

Maybe.

I mean, I'd have to see the uh I'd have to see the polls, but I don't know why not.

I mean, if you say to yourself, "But Scott, that's crazy because she's clearly not capable or or competent and she proves it almost every day.

Why would she ever become a senator?" To which I say, "Have you been paying attention to anything in the world for the last 10 years?

It doesn't matter how smart you are.

It doesn't matter if you have good policies.

Nothing matters.

You just have to be interesting.

Then people like you and then they vote for you.

That's about it." And is she interesting?

Yeah, she's very interesting.

She's she's a difficult one to uh assess, wouldn't you say?

Um, she's a difficult one to assess because on one hand she acts dumb, but on the other hand, she keeps getting good results.

Have you noticed that?

So, how do you explain the fact that your impression of her is like, "Oh, that's that's so dumb." And then Trump calls her dumb and you're like, "Yeah, I knew it.

We both agreed she's dumb." And then the next thing you know, she's running for senator and has a good chance of winning.

So, is that dumb?

It, you know, remember that people said the same thing about Trump.

When Trump first ran, uh, let's say 2015, people were calling him dumb, but why did he keep winning?

So, it it kind of challenges your notion of what dumb is.

If if somebody keeps winning and it's not a coincidence, are they dumb?

So, I have to say she's very interesting.

Um, and I'm gonna I think I'll probably refrain from, you know, challenging her on IQ because, you know, she did go to I think she went to law school and, you know, graduated from a decent college.

So, my guess is she's pretty smart.

But part of her act might be acting like, let's say, acting like her her voters might want her to act.

Is that a good way to say it?

Um, so keep an eye on her.

She I suspect that she would be very competitive because remember it only matters if the Democrats like her and I suspect they're going to like all the fight she puts into it.

You know, the Democrats keep saying that what we're doing wrong is we're not fighting hard enough.

We got to fight.

And then she goes out and says a bunch of crazy stuff and you say, "Yeah, that's some fighting." She's got some fighting and then you feel like, oh, something's happening.

Yeah.

None of it looks genuine.

It looks performative, but that's politics.

Well, Trump is trying to navigate the fact that people, voters, seem to care the most about affordability lately.

Of all the various things that they could care about, that's at the top of the list, I think.

And it makes sense.

I can see why it's at the top of the list.

Um, but he's got a tough time navigating it because it's not like there's one magnificent thing he could do to change affordability.

He would have to sort of peck around the edges for a whole bunch of things.

You know, there might be a thing with beef and there might be a thing with tariffs and it's just going to be complicated and distributed and uh, you know, it's going to be small gains if any.

and you'd have to add them all together to even notice any difference.

So, he's got quite a challenge to to turn whatever he decides that he can do to turn it into something that people would understand and that they would say, "Oh, yeah, Trump did that and now I'm paying less at the gas pump or wherever." So, it's going to be tough.

So, I guess uh Trump is doing a affordability uh tour.

So, he's sort of getting ready for the 2026, you know, midterms and, uh, he'll be traveling around talking about affordability.

Affordability.

So, we'll see.

I I would say that if you put Trump up against Jasmine Crockett, as in they're both talking about affordability, but she's got a plan, he's got a plan, I feel like his plan would look like it made sense, even if it doesn't make enough difference.

It would make sense at least, like it wouldn't be ridiculous.

Whereas, I don't know what she has in mind for affordability.

Do you?

Are the Democrats really getting away with just saying affordability is good, but we're not going to tell you what we're going to do about it?

It feels like that's what's happening, right?

That that if they use the word the most, they can get elected, but what exactly are you doing?

You know, Trump is doing things that are well reported and covered and, you know, he's he's trying to do things with Argentina on beef and, you know, I could go down the list, but you could make a whole list of the things that Trump is doing or has done that go right to affordability.

Not enough.

We would all like maximum affordability, so there'll never be enough, but at least it's real.

And I wonder if that's the weakness.

Maybe that's where Trump has a has an opening because he could say, you know what, affordability is really hard and it's never as fast as you want, but I'm doing 12 things to get you more affordability.

Jasmine is offering you nothing but some stupid ideas that would never work because that looks like what's happening.

I mean, that actually looks like what's happening.

Anyway, how many of you are watching the drama uh between Candace Owens and Tim P?

Is anybody paying attention to that?

It's uh kind of heating up.

I I'll try to give you, you know, I wasn't really following it because I tend not to follow the individual drama stuff, but it finally got big enough that it's hard to ignore.

See, if you don't mind, I'll I'll just give it a a quick quick look.

So, so here's the basic idea.

So, Candace has a number of uh what would I call them?

I don't want to say conspiracy theories because that that would be an insult to her ideas before actually looking at the ideas.

So, I don't like that phrase.

I will say that she has some non-standard provocative ideas about what may have happened or may be happening around the Charlie Kirk assassination.

So, they were good friends, Jelly Kirk and Candace.

and there's some some kind of drama with the executives of Turning Point USA and who knows what's true.

So, I haven't I haven't really been paying attention to that because uh because you can't tell what's true.

You know, there will be competing versions of what's happening and what's going to happen.

But, you know, how are we going to know?

But you may have heard uh that Tim P, who has one of the biggest podcasts in the country, especially for the conservative side of the world, um apparently somebody took some shots at his physical facility.

You know, one of his I don't know how much real estate he has, but one of them.

Nobody was injured, but imagine how you would feel if somebody drove up to your house and put bullets in it or up to your workplace.

I don't know if it was one or both of those things, but how would you feel about that?

So, um I was watching uh Tim go off on Candace uh not in person, but he was talking about the situation and oh boy, he he's not happy about this situation that she and maybe some other people have put him in because he's physically in danger and more to the point the the people he cares about around him.

I don't know what the family situation is or the friend situation, but he's got to be very aware that he may be putting his friends and family at risk.

And I can't even imagine how mad I would be if that happened to me.

So, however mad Tim seems, he's he got there the honest way.

you you are allowed to be very mad at at a situation that maybe somebody else jinned up that could put you and your friends literally in a deadly situation.

So that's what he's having to deal with.

He's actually talked about maybe discontinuing podcasting.

Now that would be pretty extreme given how successful he is and how much impact he has on on the uh the debate in this country.

So, we don't want to see him do that.

But I don't think he's joking when he says that that might be something he has to consider, just retiring.

Uh, we don't want to see that.

And that would I would consider that just a really bad outcome.

But I also think he has he deserves to be safe.

And if he's not feeling safe, he's got to do whatever he has to do.

And I'm not going to judge him for what he thinks makes him safe.

That's completely his decision, obviously.

Um, he's married and has a Okay, I don't I don't want to go any further than that.

I'll just say he's married.

And anything else you want to assume about that?

Go ahead.

And uh, yeah, so he's got a young child and imagine how you'd feel if that were you.

So, he had some uh choice words for Candace.

He used the C-word about her several times in one in one uh rant.

And uh it's kind of shocking to see that language being used, especially on the conservative side of things.

I don't know if he calls himself conservative, by the way.

I think of him as independent.

Uh but you may have a different opinion.

So, I'm going to try to not take sides.

Are you okay with that?

Um, I don't like where it all went.

And if I had to take sides, I could, but I don't have to.

I I just don't have to take sides.

So, I would like them to figure out how to work it out.

I think that Candace um I think that Candace does have a responsibility to make sure that there's no extra or unnecessary risk that's being pointed in Tim's direction.

That's not going to be good for anybody.

It's not going to be good for Tim or his family.

It's definitely not going to be good for Candace.

I mean, if something happened to Tim or his family, I don't want to speculate where that would lead, but you know, you can fill in the blanks yourself.

There there's a risk.

There's a very big risk here, and it's not just a Tim.

So, um, I choose to like both of them and find value in both of their their entertainment, but I don't choose to believe that one of them has all the right answers.

And let let's obviously I'm talking about Candace when I say having the right answers.

I don't know if she has the right answers.

I I don't know if Breijit Mcronone is what she says.

I don't know if anything she alleges about Turning Point USA is true.

I don't know.

But it's also not it's not my biggest concern.

So, my biggest concern is that the uh the pro.

Trump people don't tear themselves apart and that the country stays whole and that we focus on the things that might make a difference and not the things that are just sort of people being mad at each other.

So, you know, on top of Tim having to run this business, which is a big enterprise, his his uh podcasting business, and on top of having this drama where he's cast into the, you know, the the spotlight and on top of having a young child, so he's probably not getting nearly enough sleep as he needs to.

Um, he's got a lot going on.

So, um, and Candace, Candace seems like she's just having fun.

Uh, and I would, uh, I would hope, and I assume this is the case, that she's completely aware of what kind of impact her opinions have on his family and on Mega and all that.

So, I'm going to trust that she's going to act appropriately, even if it's not as quickly as you think she should.

I I feel like she'll work it out.

And because they're both they're both unusually smart, right?

I mean, we're not talking about one of them is a dummy and one of them is not.

These are two really capable, smart people and they would be completely aware of the impact they're having on their audience, the impact they're having on the country.

So, I think they'll work it out.

And I'm not going to take sides.

I'm just going to say you two know what makes sense.

You know, you know what's a good thing to do and you know it's going too far.

So, I don't need to I don't need to advise anybody.

Now, some of you are going to say, "But Scott, she just wants to get, you know, the most the most traffic and, you know, she's not really interested in what's good for the world." I don't believe that.

I believe that she does care about what's good for the world because most people do.

It would be very unusual if you didn't.

To to me that would be unusual, especially if you spend this much time in the public domain.

You end up, you know, caring a lot about how your impact is.

Anyways, that's enough about that.

They'll work it out.

Did you know, according to another study, that swearing, cursing may boost your strength and endurance, according to Frontiers in Psychology?

How many of you didn't know that?

Have you experienced how much stronger you get when you're cursing at the same time?

Now, I don't know if women know this, but doesn't every man know that that if you're swearing, you can literally lift.

You can lift more.

You can throw a rock farther.

You can punch harder.

Every guy knows that, right?

I don't feel like that's something we just discovered on a Tuesday.

No.

So, when I see that uh Tim P is calling uh is calling Candace the C-word, uh I say to myself, well, he's just he's getting stronger.

Um otherwise, it's between them.

Did you know that there's a new statistic that says and the roughly 220,000 people have been arrested by ICE?

So that would be people who are getting ready to be shipped back to the country of origin that onethird of them have no criminal records.

Does that seem like too much?

One-third?

Because we always knew that if ICE went into a room and they were after one person specifically, you know, let's say they knew somebody who was in the room, that they'd probably check everybody in the room.

So, does it surprise you that people who are not legal citizens, at least in terms of, you know what I mean?

Uh, does it surprise you that they're often found with people who are also not citizens and then ICE doesn't really have an option that they don't get to use their own judgments like, "Oh, this one seems nice.

No, yeah, you seem nice, so we'll leave you alone." They don't really have that option.

You know, if if they're in the room with you and you've and they've proven that they're not legal residents and it's ICE, they kind of have to move.

They kind of have to move on that.

Now, I'm not saying it's good or bad.

I'm saying that if onethird of them don't have a criminal record on top of entering the country illegally, that wouldn't surprise me.

That feels about right.

NBC News is reporting that.

Well, the Supreme Court is debating whether the president in his executive capacity can fire experts and scientists in the in government jobs.

And uh apparently some people think that the president should not have that power and some people think he should because he's the head of the executive branch.

But uh Justice uh Katanji Brown Jackson seems to be one of the people who, if we can judge by the way they're asking questions, we don't know for sure yet, but seems to suggest that she doesn't want the president, whoever the president is, to uh overrule the experts because then you would have all these experts in the government that you hired because they're experts.

And then you would have some president who is not an expert at whatever that domain is.

And uh they'd be overruling experts.

Does it ever sound like a good idea for a politician to override an expert?

Go ahead in the comments.

See, this is a harder question than you think, isn't it?

You You thought this was a layup, right?

Easiest question in the world.

Is it a good idea for the politician to override somebody that everybody would agree is an expert?

Not not even any question about it.

Well, it's 2025 people, almost 2026.

And let me tell you, if there's one thing you have, if you haven't noticed, uh there doesn't seem to be that much advantage in being an expert because the number of times the experts are just absolutely full of is so high that it looks to me almost random.

I mean, I don't even see that the, you know, in a lot of domains, it doesn't even feel to me that the experts give you, you know, a 5% chance of getting a better answer.

It looks like there's no chance at all.

Uh because be you an expert or not, you're probably going to be influenced, you know, by whether you can give a speaking deal.

you know, it it you you don't want to say something if you're an expert that would destroy your chance of getting a speaking gig because a speaking gig could be, I don't know, 10 $20,000 just for showing up and saying some expert stuff.

Do you want to give that away?

No, you don't.

So, politicians also of course are not experts.

So, that's a problem.

And also they may have their own, you know, political reasons to lie.

So you've got experts you can't trust versus politicians you can't trust.

So I'm not sure we live in a world where you could trust either one of them.

But what I definitely don't believe is that it's obvious which one's going to be right.

Because you know, how about the uh you know, we could talk about climate change and 10 other things where the politician guest closer than the expert guest.

So uh anyway, so we don't know how the uh court's going to rule, but I think the smart people are saying that uh you want the uh the executive to be in charge of the experts and not the other way around.

Don't look at the bullet.

I don't know what that means.

It's in the comments.

But uh who else is weighing in on this?

Well um so uh Bu Kelly the president of El Salvador uh commented on this topic on X.

He said fun fact checks and balances don't truly exist unless the judicial branch can also be checked and balanced.

uh meaning that you need you need to be able to get rid of corrupt judges or else you can never have a proper country.

Elon Musk commented on Duke Kelly's comment and said the only way to restore rule of the people in America is to impeach judges.

No one is above the law including judges.

Now how do you feel about that?

Isn't it scary to you if the executive can fire all the judges or whatever judge they want to fire?

Because I would put the executive really in charge of the judicial branch of the government and that was never what was intended.

So I mean whoever formed the the government doesn't want that or didn't want it.

So, I feel like there's no right answer here because on one on one hand, I completely understand why you need to be able to control rogue judges.

On the other hand, if you had complete control over rogue judges, then there's no no point in having a judicial system.

It's just going to be a slave to the executive.

So, I don't know which one works better.

I I suppose your best situation would be uh the executive is as independent as you can make them.

But if you really try hard, you know, the way impeachment is supposed to work, if there's really a strong reason, then you can put together this big awkward, expensive, you know, timeintensive process to maybe impeach somebody.

But you don't want it to be too easy.

You you don't want the president to be able to call up and say, "All right, get rid of that uh Katanji, you know, Jackson." You don't want that.

All right, we'll see how that goes.

Uh Trump has threatened a 5% tariff on Mexico because Mexico apparently is reneggging on some of their agreements for water rights.

So, I guess the US farmers get some significant amount of water from south of the border and uh apparently Mexico has the ability to dial that up and dial it down and they currently have it dialed down and uh Trump is doing what I've never heard Biden do this.

Is this a problem that we've always had but no prior president even dealt with it?

Because what Trump is doing is saying, "No, you you're going to give us the water you agree to, or we're gonna give you a tariff." Now, will that work?

Maybe.

Maybe it goes from 5% to 10% if it doesn't.

But it does seem like at least he's acting on it.

And that feels like a better president than one that isn't acting on it.

So, we'll see.

I I'm in favor of Trump getting tough with Mexico over water.

We we can't mess around with water rights.

Water rights, especially if you have an agreement, you're going to have to going to have to push that hard.

You you can't be flexible on that once we've got the rights.

Well, interestingly, Trump has uh uh given the green light, according to Reuters and the New York Post, uh for Nvidia to ship their powerful AI chips to China despite the fact that people are worried about the the national defense uh and national security risks.

So, I'm a little bit unclear.

is going to allow Nvidia to export its H200 chips to China.

But what are those the top ones?

In the comments, can you give me a fact check?

Are the H200's the most powerful chip at the moment, or is the H100 more powerful?

Feels like 200 would be more powerful than 100, but I don't know if that's the case.

So, there's a little delay in the comments, but somebody will tell me.

One one of you knows.

We got a lot of We got a lot of uh engineers in the in the audience here.

Uh, no.

No clue.

No.

No.

Won't help me.

You need a sentence.

H300 the most powerful.

Are you joking?

I can't tell if you're joking.

Is there a H300 chip?

All right.

Well, whatever it is, um the interesting part of the story is that Trump is going to allow Nvidia to sell these to China, the H200 chip, but um 25% of what they would make would be paid to the United States government.

So once again, Trump sees a pile of money sitting on the table and he says, as he always does, hey, is this pile of money going anywhere?

Does anybody own this?

Well, we we kind of own it.

Would it be okay if I said you can't sell to China unless I get 25% of this pile of money?

Well, we don't love that, but yeah, what are you going to do?

So once again, Trump just picks up the free money.

It's not exactly free, but it's about as close as you can get to free.

All you have to do is say, uh, I'll say yes if you give us 25% of this pile of money.

That's pretty close to, you know, free money.

So, you know, until we saw Trump do this the first few times, which is uh make a deal with an American company like Intel, where if the if the US government helps the company, then the US government gets to share some of the upside potential.

When it first happened, you probably thought to yourself, "Oh no, you know, we're we're gonna we're going to turn into a fascist country where, you know, the the economy and the government are now merged." Well, I I could see why people would be worried about that, but um is it bad?

Again, I it makes sense to be worried and to watch it carefully, but it doesn't look like it's a problem yet.

And if Trump can put together a some kind of a future where the government is making, you know, a percentage of our biggest companies and we're also cleaning up with tariffs.

Um maybe maybe we have some way out of our debt problem.

Now Elon Musk has said the only way and and I do believe him the only way the only way we survive our gigantic government debt is if robots and AI just goose the economy to a level we've never seen before and suddenly it just creates wealth like we've never seen.

Now is that possible?

Do you think it's possible that AI and robots and maybe self-driving cars and maybe space stuff, you know, that the biggest things that are happening, if those, let's say, four or five things and and maybe maybe fusion in a few years, if those four or five things just completely change the game, even to the point where you don't need a job anymore, it's like everybody has everything.

I mean, that's going to take a while to get to that point.

But is that our only way to survive?

Uh, all right.

I have to look at this comment.

Somebody's saying, uh, did my IQ drop more than 40%.

Where's that comment?

It went away.

There it is.

All right.

You're so uh Sam says, "Your IQ dropped more than 40%.

Scott, what responsibility does Candace have?

I wouldn't give my opinion if you didn't listen to her podcast." Okay, that's a stupid comment.

So, I thought I would highlight your stupid comment.

What part of that do you do you think I disagree with?

Well, I don't even know what topic you're on.

I mean, other than the people you named, you're not even making a smart point.

I I there's not even anything to disagree with.

It's just so stupid.

So, if I were you, I wouldn't talk in public if that's the best you can do.

Uh, so you start with a ad hominon and then you ask this question.

What responsibility does Candace have?

Which has never been a topic and is not one that I'm interested in.

So, I'm not interested in the topic and it's not one we're talking about.

And you said I wouldn't give my opinion if you didn't listen to her podcasts.

Really?

Have you ever heard of what podcasts are?

You know that sometimes we're wellinformed and sometimes we're just catching up.

Do you think I should not talk about it because I'm just catching up?

Now, I'm not interested enough to dig into the details of what Candace's opinion is.

You tell me why that matters.

Why does that matter?

Does it matter that I have a well-informed opinion about Candace Owens's opinion?

That doesn't matter.

In what way am I better off or the world better off or are you better off if I've done a deep dive on Candace Owens opinion about uh Turning Point USA?

It doesn't have any impact on me.

I don't think it has any impact on you.

So, why don't you grow up a little bit and stop being an idiot?

Um, and that would be cool.

All right.

Um, probably if you're as dumb as Sam is, you should not say things in public.

I'm going to leave I'm going to leave your stupid comment up there, Sam, so that everybody can mock you for how dumb you are.

Uh, all right.

Let's see what else we got.

Well, Ukraine.

Of course, we have to talk about Ukraine.

H Ukraine.

So, Zilinski says that the recent US talks were constructive.

I never believe that.

when you when you're talking about peace deals until it's a done deal.

I don't believe anything that anybody says when they characterize these negotiations.

Anyway, Zilinsky thinks that Europe is the obstacle to peace.

Well, maybe Breitbart News is writing about this.

Um but apparently he said in an interview that negotiations with the US to find an end to the war were constructive but indicated that uh questions remain uh regarding the position of Europe.

Well, do you believe that there's anything like an agreement of where the borders should be if if they stop shooting there?

There's no agreement.

I I don't believe we're even close to an agreement.

I have no idea what they're talking about.

Just I feel like maybe they're just trying to act like it's closer than it is.

All right.

Um and then one of the questions is how can how can Ukraine get something that's NATO like protection without being part of NATO?

Um >> yeah.

So, is that even an option?

What would you do that wasn't NATO but looked and acted like NATO and would keep Russia from attacking Ukraine?

It would sort of just look like NATO with but a little bit crippled.

So, what good is that?

Anyway, I don't think anything is close with Ukraine and and Russia.

So, you know, I said that it was going to be like a year before anything got serious.

I I think it'll be a year because Russia is just going to be grinding them down and they don't seem to be in any hurry.

So, they'll just uh keep grinding.

All right.

So, I told you, those of you who joined at the beginning, that uh my IQ is about 40% lower today.

Um, and I fell asleep five times just getting my notes together.

So, what I'm going to do, which I haven't done before, but I always wanted to do this, is I want to look at X and then see what's uh see what's new on there and then comment on it live.

Uh, all right.

Uh, I don't want to do the ones where somebody's mad about somebody's race or ethnicity.

Um, if you don't Okay.

Actuators.

Well, I don't think I'm seeing anything that's super interesting, honestly.

Uh, Trump reversing Humphrey's executive is not priced in.

Okay, I'd have to read that.

Don't feel like it.

Uh, China says no thanks to Nvidia's H200 chip, even after Trump said go ahead.

So, here I am.

I just talked about that H200 trip, and China's like, "No thanks." All right.

According to Mario Noel, in a plot twist no one saw coming, Beijing is now restricting access to Nvidia's ultra powerful H200 chip right after Trump cleared the way for them to get it.

Why are they doing that?

Does it say why?

Why would Beijing block its own companies from buying?

And the answer is control, paranoia, strategy, maybe all three.

Well, we don't know.

Maybe.

Oh, I'm going to put a idea out there.

Do you think that China has uh they're getting close to making their own chips and we don't know about it?

If I had to guess, I would say the reason that China would re restrict access for its own companies to get these chips is is that they have a some other source, but it's not quite quite ready yet.

So, they want to delay until they can get the source that they want and not have to rely on Nvidia.

That's what I think.

Oh my goodness.

No, I'm not going to read that.

Uh, China just killed the silicon tax.

I don't even know what that is.

How about uh how about let's see what else is big wise man said Marine Corps should pay for Marine Corps branded pull-up bars at every airport gate around the country.

So when you're waiting for your flight, you can do pull-ups.

Okay.

Um All right.

Steve Mallaloy, he's always fun.

So Steve Mallaloy is one of the uh climate um doubters.

And he says, "The real inconvenient truth is this says uh Big Joe Bastard." I guess that's somebody on X.

After 30 plus years and more than 10 to 12 trillion spent globally on the climate emergency that Al Gore and the Laris megaphones told us was already upon us, none of the short-term catastrophic predictions came true on the timelines given.

None is zero.

Human well-being, life expectancy, poverty, all those things improved faster than at almost any time in history.

Okay.

the people who actually risk their own money and that would include banks, insurers, developers, home buyers keep voting with trillions of dollars that the doomsday version is not imminent.

That's a pretty good point, isn't it?

That the people who are putting their own money on the line are acting like climate's not going to stop them.

Yet the policies, taxes, bans, and surveillance systems being rolled out in the name of climate are more intrusive and permanent than anything we accepted even at the height of COVID.

All right, good point.

How how much do do you think that everybody agrees with the statement that none of the predictions came true?

Because if you turned on um let's say real time with Bill Maher and let's say he had a Democrat guest, do you think that the Democrat guest would agree with the statement that none of the predictions of climate disaster have come true?

Just none of them.

Would they agree with that?

because I I saw just recently somebody in that category who claimed that uh a lot of the predictions were true.

Are you aware of any predictions that are true in terms of doom?

Are there more more accidents uh is the have the ice caps melted, you know, beyond what we'd expect maybe.

Uh did the some kind of animals die?

I'm not aware of anything that happened that was true.

But it could be that I'm in my bubble, right?

I might just be in my bubble.

But uh it must be fun to be Steve Mallaloy because I believe he's been he's been making these points for 10 years.

And now when he makes makes a post like that, I look at it and I go, "Well, you were you were 10 years early." I didn't doubt him, by the way.

I didn't doubt him, but I didn't know how accurate it would be.

He was very accurate.

Um, Eric Dhy on X, he's got a post here about uh Caroline Levit, spokesperson for Trump.

Uh, she nuked Democrats as quote the greatest con artists in American politics.

So she said they're pretending to champion the issue of affordability when they themselves created the worst inflation crisis in a generation.

You you can't create the problem and then you know act like you're the one solving it.

Now I'm not a big fan of trying to attribute blame because that feels like living in the past.

uh you know it's worth understanding how we got here but if you're trying to solve it I'd rather just focus on the solving it part.

You know I realize politics is politics but it doesn't really help me to to hear the attributions of blame.

All right.

Um let's see.

Uh David Axelrod says, "Judge grants Justice Department request to unseal Galileain Maxwell's records in the sex trafficking case." What are we going to learn if Galileain Maxwell's records get unsealed?

Probably nothing like usual.

Um he says, "I hope Pus reads them before he pardons her." Well, I I think I can agree with David Axelrod on this that uh we never know why somebody gets pardoned.

So, you know, whatever we know isn't what they know.

Uh on the New York Times.

Okay.

Looking at your comments.

How about uh Oh.

All right.

Yep.

Um shootings.

All right.

This just people defending themselves against other people claiming things.

Uh President Trump was in I guess he was talking to Politico.

He said, uh, so Trump said that Maduro's days, the head of Venezuela, are numbered before refusing to provide Politico with a plan of action.

So Trump just says, quote, "His days are numbered." Reporter, can you rule out an American ground invasion?

Now, is that the dumbest question in the world?

Since when does Trump ever rule something in or out?

If it's military, he he doesn't.

How many times has he told us, "I'm not going to rule anything in or out.

It just limits his own options." But Politico has to ask, "Uh, can you rule out an American ground invasion?" Trump, why would I talk to you an extremely un an unfriendly publication?

So, he just attacks the publication for asking the question, basically, and I agree with him.

Uh, interesting.

There's a show called Plurabus on Apple TV.

Have you heard of that?

Glenn Greenwald says, "I've never seen a show as polarizing as Vince Gilligan's Plurabus." Well, now I want to watch it.

Uh, many people I like hate it.

Boring, slow, and insufferable, some say, but I guess Glenn says it's one of the best, most thought-provoking TV programs ever.

Can't recommend it enough.

All right.

Uh Glenn, I am in.

You have convinced me.

Um all right.

Kla Harris, Rich Baris, the people's pundit, says Kla Harris, one of the most disliked and least consequential VPs in history, usurped her boss and duly blah blah blah before losing the election.

Okay, I don't know what he's getting to.

You have to get to the point faster than that.

Um, all right.

All right.

That's all I need for today.

Ladies and gentlemen, we should watch the show Plurabus.

I'm going to watch that tonight.

I am sold.

That's some really good writing.

Good.

as ruled illegal.

Blah blah talked about plurabus a few weeks ago.

Tim Pool did.

All right.

Some of you like it a lot.

All right.

I'll watch it.

I'll give it a try.

All right, everybody.

I'm going to say a few words privately to my uh beloved subscribers at Locals.

The rest of you, thanks for joining.

Uh I enjoyed it with everybody except Sam.

Sorry Sam.

you failed today.

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

And, uh, beloveds, I'm going to be coming at you in 30 seconds.

We will be private.

Everybody, come on in here.

Been waiting till the last minute

lately. Have I?

Well, once you all stream in here, we'll

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So, if you're wondering what's

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uh, I'll give you a little background.

So,

I'm temporarily broadcasting from my

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devices down here that are a little bit

uh challenging for my electrical

circuits. So,

yesterday I had uh two heaters and two

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So, I've got a whole bunch of GFIs and

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And

it's very difficult to figure out what's

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because I can't get the other light to

work. So, massive technical challenges

this morning. Uh then on top of that, I

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wasn't expecting at all, which uh

apparently the new I don't know if it's

the meds I'm on. I assume it is. I

assume it's the meds. Um, I fell asleep

[snorts] five times

while I was trying to prepare the notes

and uh I would say that I'm not

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So, we're going to see what happens. I'm

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All right. Everything's going to go well

now from now on. And I finally figured

that if I watch your comments on my

phone,

I can I can pause them so I can really

see what's going on here. The show will

just get better and better every time.

Did I leave something out?

[laughter]

It's going to take me a while to get

back on back on plan. All right, here's

here's the real secret of today's show.

You want to know a behind the curtain

secret?

I don't know if it's because of the

meds,

but I had plenty of sleep last night,

you know, relative to what I usually

get. Uh, however, I'm very aware that my

IQ is down about 40% this morning. And

you probably have asked yourself, Scott,

it must be difficult to do a podcast

because you have to kind of quickly

catch up on all these complicated

stories and then summarize them and put

them in order and then make some kind of

a, you know, interesting observation.

It's really hard. I don't know if you've

ever taken the time to think about it,

but it's not like I have a team of

writers or anything. I do this myself.

So, in order to make this work, this

podcast, I need every bit of my mental

capacity. Do you know how much I have

available to me this morning?

Not every bit. [laughter]

>> [clears throat]

>> I'm not even close to being smart enough

to do the thing that I'm going to

attempt to do right in front of you. I'm

really mentally degraded at the moment.

Uh this morning while I was putting my

notes together, I woke up

five times,

which means that without trying, I was

just working away. And the next thing I

knew, I was asleep.

And I think it happened five times this

morning. Now, it's not unusual that it

would happen once,

but uh I I would say my estimate is that

my IQ is down 40%. This morning. So, if

you always wondered what would happen if

I did my show, but I was stupid, well,

you're going to find out. You're going

to find out right now.

All right. Here's some uh stories that I

know will delight you. You will be

delighted.

Um, I always tell you there's a there's

an account on X called Massimo. M- A S I

O. It's got real good tech stuff,

futuristic stuff. But, uh, Massimo is

writing about how there's a new fusion

reactor

that allegedly could power the entire

planet by 2030. Now, I suppose that's

pretty optimistic. How long have we been

talking about fusion is right around the

corner? But a Munich based startup

Proximo Fusion have come up with some

new concept that they think can change

everything. So

optimistic thought number one, maybe we

figured out how to have cheap or free

energy and that will give us AI and then

we will enter the golden age of of

abundance

and uh all we really needed was some

really good really good fusion reactors

and it looks like they're on the way.

Speaking of that,

the Google CEO

uh was just on another show and he

mentioned uh again how data centers in

space might be the secret to getting

enough power. Uh if you didn't hear me

talk about it uh the other day, uh the

reason you would want to put a data

center in space, and it wouldn't have to

necessarily be in one place, so it could

be distributed ac across satellites, I

guess, but the reason you want to put it

in space is that you don't have to cool

it because space is pretty darn cold.

And you uh

what else? So the the other natural

advantage is that uh you have all the

space you need. Oh, and then the other

advantage is that uh you can place a

satellite or a data center where it's

always in the sun. So you don't have to

worry about clouds. There wouldn't be

any in space and you wouldn't have to

worry about it being on the wrong side

of the planet because you just wouldn't

put it there.

So, uh, what is interesting is that the

Google CEO seems committed to that being

the future, but, uh, Elon Musk commented

on Google CEO's comment and he just

said, "Interesting." Now, you probably

have heard because I've mentioned it too

that Elon Musk is saying essentially the

same thing that uh we're going to have

to take our game to space and we're

going to have to do it pretty fast

because that's might be the only way we

can get, you know, all the AI and all

the power we need. So, the fact that the

CEO of Google and the CEO of Tesla and

SpaceX

uh both have this super ambitious view

of the world, but it seems doable. Uh I

believe pretty much all the parts exist.

You would just have to engineer them

together. And who better to engineer

Google and and Tesla? So, it looks like

that's going to happen. data centers in

space.

So, Senator Josh Holly is introducing a

bill

uh to require companies to track

layoffs. Uh he specifically wants to

track layoffs that are caused by AI. So,

we'd have a better idea, you know,

what's happening as it happens. But it

would they would also track nonI

layoffs. So, you have a pretty good

idea. Now,

don't you think that there was something

missing that this is even a bill?

How is it that we

didn't know? [laughter]

We didn't know why people are losing

jobs. It feels like that could have been

some some kind of basic thing we should

have known. But if Josh Holly is talking

to the right economists in the in the

government, and I know we got some good

ones,

uh then he might be doing their bidding

and tracking the thing that the

economists in the government want to

have tracked. So we'll see. So that that

could turn out to be a good thing.

Uh here's some science for you.

Did you know that fewer than 8%

just eight% of the couples um of

successful couples consist of a Democrat

and a Republican as a couple?

That does that surprise you that only 8%

of couples are opposite politically?

That feels just about right to me. I'm

not saying it's good or bad. I'm just

saying, yeah, that sounds about what I'd

expect, about 8%. It would be pretty

hard to have a marriage with somebody

who disagreed with you on the real basic

stuff.

That would be tough. So, I think that's

a that's good. Um, and according to this

this study, most individuals do seem to

screen for political alignment. How many

of you how many of you did that?

How many of you said, "I better get some

political alignment here." Did you do

that when you were looking for your mate

back whenever I was?

Well, [clears throat] I don't think I

ever have. I I can't think of any time

where I explicitly had that thought.

But I've also been lucky

that in my relationships, the people

I've been involved with were not super

political,

you know, in preference. So, it just

sort of doesn't come up or didn't come

up. And so, it worked for me to just

sort of ignore the whole political

thing. But I would expect that's

probably a that's probably an exception.

All right, here's another little piece

of science. Let's see if you can do

this. The University of Montreal is

talking about this that young

adolescents especially boys

uh who participated in organized sports

between the ages of six and 10 are less

likely to defy their parents, teachers

and other authority figures. Does does

it track with your experience in life

that the young boys who play sports are

more I don't want to say obedient, but

that's sort of what it is. um

they're less likely to defy their

parents and teachers and authority

figures. Does that make sense? That

[clears throat] makes sense. But what I

don't know is if the participating in

sports is what causes them to let's say

be more compliant with the authority

figures or

did they start that way and the thing

that makes them interested in sports is

whatever the same thing is that you know

makes them the way they are. So, I don't

know if this is real science. They may

have cause and effect backwards, but I

whenever I see whenever I see a young

boy who is very involved in sports, I

always assume that that they've got

their other act together, don't you? Not

every time. I mean, it's not 100%. But

if you see somebody who plays three

sports and they can organize their life

well enough to, you know, make it to

practice and figure out what position

they want and, you know, try to optimize

it and then they're making friends and

they're learning learning how the game

works. Um, I think there's a really high

correlation between people who are

successful in navigating life and people

who are successful in navigating sports.

So again, I don't know what what causes

what, but the correlation is pretty

high.

All right, how about this?

Uh there's a new study that uh that

finds the political differences predict

lower relationship quality.

Oh, that's [clears throat] the same one

I was talking about. I put my notes in

two places. If you're just joining, I

was explaining that I don't know if it's

because of the new meds I'm on or what,

but I fell asleep five times this

morning just putting my notes together.

And uh so I probably put 20% of the time

I normally put into this. [laughter]

So I I don't know what you're going to

get this morning. You know, it could be

anything. All right. So, Representative

Jasmine Crockett has decided to raise

her sights and she's going to run for

Senate in in uh Texas. What do you

think? Is Jasmine Crockett the next

senator from Texas? Maybe. I mean, I'd

have to see the uh I'd have to see the

polls, but I don't know why not. I mean,

if you say to yourself, "But Scott,

that's crazy because she's clearly not

capable or or competent and she proves

it almost every day. Why would she ever

become a senator?" To which I say, "Have

you been paying attention to anything in

the world for the last 10 years?

It doesn't matter how smart you are. It

doesn't matter if you have good

policies. Nothing matters. You just have

to be interesting. Then people like you

and then they vote for you. That's about

it." And is she interesting? Yeah, she's

very interesting. She's she's a

difficult one to

uh assess,

wouldn't you say?

Um,

she's a difficult one to assess because

on one hand she acts dumb,

but on the other hand, she keeps getting

good results. Have you noticed that?

[gasps] So, how do you explain the fact

that your impression of her is like,

"Oh, that's that's so dumb." And then

Trump calls her dumb and you're like,

"Yeah, I knew it. We both agreed she's

dumb." And then the next thing you know,

she's running for senator and has a good

chance of winning.

So, is that dumb?

It, you know, remember that people said

the same thing about Trump. When Trump

first ran, uh, let's say 2015,

people were calling him dumb,

but why did he keep winning?

So, it it kind of challenges your notion

of what dumb is. If if somebody keeps

winning and it's not a coincidence,

are they dumb? [laughter]

So, I have to say she's very

interesting. Um, and I'm gonna I think

I'll probably refrain from, you know,

challenging her on IQ because, you know,

she did go to I think she went to law

school and, you know, graduated from a

decent college. So, my guess is she's

pretty smart.

But part of her act might be acting

like, let's say, acting like her her

voters might want her to act. Is that a

good way to say it?

Um, so keep an eye on her. She I suspect

that she would be very competitive

because remember it only matters if the

Democrats like her and I suspect they're

going to like all the fight she puts

into it. You know, the Democrats keep

saying that what we're doing wrong is

we're not fighting hard enough. We got

to fight. And then she goes out and says

a bunch of crazy stuff and you say,

"Yeah, that's some fighting." She's got

some fighting

and then you feel like, oh, something's

happening.

Yeah. None of it looks genuine. It looks

performative, but that's politics.

Well, Trump is trying to navigate the

fact that people, voters, seem to care

the most about affordability lately.

Of all the various things that they

could care about, that's at the top of

the list, I think. And it makes sense. I

can see why it's at the top of the list.

Um, but he's got a tough time navigating

it because it's not like there's one

magnificent thing he could do to change

affordability. He would have to sort of

peck around the edges for a whole bunch

of things. You know, there might be a

thing with beef and there might be a

thing with tariffs and it's just going

to be complicated and distributed and

uh, you know, it's going to be small

gains if any. and you'd have to add them

all together to even notice any

difference. So, he's got quite a

challenge to to turn whatever he decides

that he can do to turn it into something

that people would understand and that

they would say, "Oh, yeah, Trump did

that and now I'm paying less at the gas

pump or wherever." So, it's going to be

tough. So, I guess uh Trump is doing a

affordability

uh tour. So, he's sort of getting ready

for the 2026, you know, midterms and,

uh, he'll be traveling around talking

about affordability.

Affordability.

So, we'll see. I I would say that if you

put Trump up against Jasmine Crockett,

as in they're both talking about

affordability, but she's got a plan,

he's got a plan, I feel like his plan

would look like it made sense, even if

it doesn't make enough difference. It

would make sense at least, like it

wouldn't be ridiculous. Whereas, I don't

know what she has in mind for

affordability. Do you? Are the Democrats

really getting away with just saying

affordability is good, but we're not

going to tell you what we're going to do

about it? It feels like that's what's

happening, right? That that if they use

the word the most, they can get elected,

but what exactly are you doing? You

know, Trump is doing things that are

well reported and covered and, you know,

he's he's trying to do things with

Argentina on beef and, you know, I could

go down the list, but you could make a

whole list of the things that Trump is

doing or has done that go right to

affordability.

Not enough. We would all like maximum

affordability, so there'll never be

enough, but at least it's real.

And I wonder if that's the weakness.

Maybe that's where Trump has a has an

opening because he could say, you know

what, affordability is really hard and

it's never as fast as you want, but I'm

doing 12 things to get you more

affordability. Jasmine is offering you

nothing but some stupid ideas that would

never work

because that looks like what's

happening. I mean, that actually looks

like what's happening.

Anyway, how many of you are watching the

drama

uh between Candace Owens and Tim P? Is

anybody paying attention to that? It's

uh kind of heating up. I I'll try to

give you, you know, I wasn't really

following it because I tend not to

follow the individual drama stuff, but

it finally got big enough that it's hard

to ignore. See, if you don't mind, I'll

I'll just give it a a quick

quick look.

So,

so here's the basic idea. So, Candace

has a number of

uh what would I call them?

I don't want to say conspiracy theories

because that that would be an insult to

her ideas before actually looking at the

ideas. So, I don't like that phrase. I

will say that she has some non-standard

provocative ideas

about what may have happened or may be

happening around the Charlie Kirk

assassination. So, they were good

friends, Jelly Kirk and Candace. and

there's some some kind of drama with the

executives of Turning Point USA and who

knows what's true. So, I haven't I

haven't really been paying attention to

that because uh because you can't tell

what's true. You know, there will be

competing

versions of what's happening and what's

going to happen. But, you know, how are

we going to know? But you may have heard

uh that Tim P, who has one of the

biggest podcasts in the country,

especially for the conservative side of

the world, um apparently somebody took

some shots at his physical facility. You

know, one of his I don't know how much

real estate he has, but one of them.

Nobody was injured, but imagine how you

would feel if somebody drove up to your

house and put bullets in it or up to

your workplace. I don't know if it was

one or both of those things, but how

would you feel about that?

So,

um I was watching uh Tim go off on

Candace

uh not in person, but he was talking

about the situation and oh boy, he he's

not happy about this situation that she

and maybe some other people have put him

in because he's physically in danger and

more to the point the the people he

cares about around him. I don't know

what the family situation is or the

friend situation, but he's

got to be very aware that he may be

putting his friends and family at risk.

And I can't even imagine how mad I would

be if that happened to me. So, however

mad Tim seems, he's he got there the

honest way. [laughter]

you you are allowed to be very mad at at

a situation that maybe somebody else

jinned up that could put you and your

friends literally in a deadly situation.

So that's what he's having to deal with.

He's actually talked about maybe

discontinuing podcasting.

Now

that would be pretty extreme given how

successful he is and how much impact he

has on on the uh the debate in this

country. So, we don't want to see him do

that.

But I don't think he's joking when he

says that that might be something he has

to consider, just retiring.

Uh, we don't want to see that.

And that would I would consider that

just a really bad outcome. But I also

think he has he deserves to be safe. And

if he's not feeling safe,

he's got to do whatever he has to do.

And I'm not going to judge him for what

he thinks makes him safe. That's

completely his decision, obviously.

Um, he's married and has a Okay, I don't

I don't want to go any further than

that. I'll just say he's married. And

anything else you want to assume about

that? Go ahead.

And uh, yeah, so he's got a young child

and imagine how you'd feel

if that were you. So, he had some uh

choice words for Candace. He used the

C-word about her several times in one in

one uh rant. And uh it's kind of

shocking to see that language being

used, especially on the conservative

side of things. I don't know if he calls

himself conservative, by the way. I

think of him as independent.

Uh but you may have a different opinion.

So,

I'm going to try to not take sides. Are

you okay with that?

Um, I don't like

where it all went. And if I had to take

sides, I could, but I don't have to. I I

just don't have to take sides. So, I

would like them to figure out how to

work it out. I think that Candace

um I think that Candace does have a

responsibility

to make sure that there's no extra or

unnecessary risk that's being pointed in

Tim's direction. That's not going to be

good for anybody. It's not going to be

good for Tim or his family. It's

definitely not going to be good for

Candace. I mean, if something happened

to Tim or his family,

I don't want to speculate where that

would lead, but you know, you can fill

in the blanks yourself. There there's a

risk. There's a very big risk here, and

it's not just a Tim.

So,

um, I choose to like both of them and

find value in both of their their

entertainment, but I don't choose to

believe that one of them has all the

right answers. And let let's obviously

I'm talking about Candace when I say

having the right answers. I don't know

if she has the right answers. I I don't

know if Breijit Mcronone is what she

says. I don't know if anything she

alleges about Turning Point USA is true.

I don't know. But it's also not it's not

my biggest concern.

So, my biggest concern is that the uh

the proTrump people don't tear

themselves apart and that the country

stays whole and that we focus on the

things that might make a difference and

not the things that are just sort of

people being mad at each other.

So,

you know, on top of Tim having to run

this business, which is a big

enterprise, his his uh podcasting

business, and on top of having this

drama where he's cast into the, you

know, the the spotlight and on top of

having a young child, so he's probably

not getting nearly enough sleep as he

needs to. Um, he's got a lot going on.

So,

um, and Candace, Candace seems like

she's just having fun. Uh, and

I would, uh, I would hope, and I assume

this is the case, that she's completely

aware of what kind of impact her

opinions have on his family and on Mega

and all that.

So, I'm going to trust that she's going

to act appropriately, even if it's not

as quickly as you think she should.

I I feel like she'll work it out. And

because they're both they're both

unusually smart, right? I mean, we're

not talking about one of them is a dummy

and one of them is not. These are two

really capable, smart people and they

would be completely aware of the impact

they're having on their audience, the

impact they're having on the country.

So, I think they'll work it out.

And I'm not going to take sides. I'm

just going to say you two know what

makes sense. You know, you know what's a

good thing to do

and you know it's going too far. So,

I don't need to I don't need to advise

anybody.

Now, some of you are going to say,

"But Scott, she just wants to get, you

know, the most the most traffic and, you

know, she's not really interested in

what's good for the world." I don't

believe that.

I believe that she does care about

what's good for the world because most

people do. It would be very unusual if

you didn't. To to me that would be

unusual, especially if you spend this

much time in the public domain. You end

up,

you know, caring a lot about how your

impact is. Anyways, that's enough about

that. They'll work it out.

Did you know, according to another

study, that swearing,

cursing may boost your strength and

endurance, according to Frontiers in

Psychology? How many of you didn't know

that?

Have you experienced how much stronger

you get when you're cursing at the same

time?

Now, I don't know if women know this,

but doesn't every man know that that if

you're swearing, you can literally lift.

You can lift more. You can throw a rock

farther. You can punch harder. Every guy

knows that, right?

I don't feel like that's something we

just discovered on a Tuesday. No.

So, when I see that uh Tim P is calling

uh

[laughter]

is calling Candace the C-word,

uh I say to myself, well, he's just he's

getting stronger. Um otherwise, it's

between them.

Did you know that there's a new

statistic that says and the roughly

220,000 people have been arrested by

ICE?

So that would be people who are getting

ready to be shipped back to the country

of origin that onethird of them have no

criminal records.

Does that seem like too much? One-third?

Because we always knew that if ICE went

into a room and they were after one

person specifically, you know, let's say

they knew somebody who was in the room,

that they'd probably check everybody in

the room. So, does it surprise you that

people who are not legal citizens, at

least in terms of, you know what I mean?

Uh, does it surprise you that they're

often found with people who are also not

citizens and then ICE doesn't really

have an option that they don't get to

use their own judgments like, "Oh, this

one seems nice. No, yeah, you seem nice,

so we'll leave you alone." They don't

really have that option. You know, if if

they're in the room with you and you've

and they've proven that they're not

legal residents and it's ICE, they kind

of have to move. They kind of have to

move on that. Now, I'm not saying it's

good or bad. I'm saying that if onethird

of them don't have a criminal record on

top of entering the country illegally,

that wouldn't surprise me. That feels

about right. NBC News is reporting that.

Well, the Supreme Court is debating

whether the president in his executive

capacity can fire experts and scientists

in the in government jobs.

And

uh apparently some people think that the

president should not have that power and

some people think he should because he's

the head of the executive branch. But uh

Justice uh Katanji Brown Jackson seems

to be one of the people who, if we can

judge by the way they're asking

questions, we don't know for sure yet,

but seems to suggest that she doesn't

want the president, whoever the

president is, to uh overrule the experts

because then you would have all these

experts in the government that you hired

because they're experts. And then you

would have some president who is not an

expert at whatever that domain is. And

uh they'd be overruling experts. Does it

ever sound like a good idea for a

politician to override an expert?

Go ahead in the comments. See, this is a

harder question than you think, isn't

it? You You thought this was a layup,

right? Easiest question in the world. Is

it a good idea for the politician

to override somebody that everybody

would agree is an expert? Not not even

any question about it.

Well, it's 2025 people, almost 2026. And

let me tell you, if there's one thing

you have, if you haven't noticed,

uh there doesn't seem to be that much

advantage in being an expert because the

number of times the experts are just

absolutely full of is so high that

it looks to me almost random. I mean, I

don't even see that the, you know, in a

lot of domains, it doesn't even feel to

me that the experts give you, you know,

a 5% chance of getting a better answer.

It looks like there's no chance at all.

Uh because be you an expert or not,

you're probably going to be influenced,

you know, by whether you can give a

speaking deal. you know, it it you you

don't want to say something if you're an

expert that would destroy your chance of

getting a speaking gig because a

speaking gig could be, I don't know, 10

$20,000

just for showing up and saying some

expert stuff. Do you want to give that

away?

No, you don't. So,

politicians also of course are not

experts. So, that's a problem. And also

they may have their own, you know,

political reasons to lie. So you've got

experts you can't trust

versus politicians you can't trust.

So I'm not sure we live in a world where

you could trust either one of them. But

what I definitely don't believe is that

it's obvious which one's going to be

right.

Because you know, how about the uh you

know, we could talk about climate change

and 10 other things where the politician

guest closer than the expert guest.

So

uh

anyway, so we don't know how the uh

court's going to rule, but I think the

smart people are saying that uh you want

the uh the executive to be in charge of

the experts and not the other way

around.

Don't look at the bullet. I don't know

what that means.

It's in the comments.

But uh who else is weighing in on this?

Well

um so uh Bu Kelly the president of El

Salvador uh commented on this topic on

X. He said fun fact checks and balances

don't truly exist unless the judicial

branch can also be checked and balanced.

uh meaning that you need you need to be

able to get rid of corrupt judges or

else you can never have a proper

country. Elon Musk commented

on Duke Kelly's comment and said the

only way to restore rule of the people

in America is to impeach judges.

No one is above the law including

judges.

Now how do you feel about that?

Isn't it scary to you if the executive

can fire all the judges or whatever

judge they want to fire? Because I would

put the executive

really in charge of the judicial branch

of the government and that was never

what was intended.

So I mean whoever formed the the

government doesn't want that

or didn't want it. So, I feel like

there's no right answer here because on

one on one hand, I completely understand

why you need to be able to control rogue

judges.

On the other hand, if you had complete

control over rogue judges, then there's

no no point in having a judicial system.

It's just going to be a slave to the

executive.

So, I don't know which one works better.

I I suppose your best situation would be

uh the executive is as independent as

you can make them. But if you really try

hard, you know, the way impeachment is

supposed to work, if there's really a

strong reason, then you can put together

this big awkward, expensive, you know,

timeintensive

process to maybe impeach somebody. But

you don't want it to be too easy. You

you don't want the president to be able

to call up and say, "All right, get rid

of that uh Katanji, you know, Jackson."

You don't want that.

All right, we'll see how that goes.

Uh Trump has threatened a 5% tariff on

Mexico because Mexico apparently is

reneggging on some of their agreements

for water rights. So, I guess the US

farmers get some significant amount of

water from south of the border and uh

apparently Mexico has the ability to

dial that up and dial it down and they

currently have it dialed down and uh

Trump is doing what I've never heard

Biden do this. Is this a problem that

we've always had but no prior president

even dealt with it? Because what Trump

is doing is saying, "No, you you're

going to give us the water you agree to,

or we're gonna give you a tariff."

[snorts] Now, will that work? Maybe.

Maybe it goes from 5% to 10% if it

doesn't. But it does seem like at least

he's acting on it. And that feels like a

better president than one that isn't

acting on it. So, we'll see. I I'm in

favor of Trump getting tough with Mexico

over water. We we can't mess around with

water rights.

Water rights, especially if you have an

agreement,

you're going to have to going to have to

push that hard. You you can't be

flexible on that once we've got the

rights.

Well, interestingly, Trump has uh uh

given the green light, according to

Reuters and the New York Post, uh for

Nvidia to ship their powerful AI chips

to China despite the fact that people

are worried about the the national

defense uh and national security risks.

So, I'm a little bit unclear. is going

to allow Nvidia to export its H200

chips to China. But what are those the

top ones?

In the comments, can you give me a fact

check? Are the H200's

the most powerful chip at the moment,

or is the H100 more powerful?

Feels like 200 would be more powerful

than 100, but I don't know if that's the

case.

So, there's a little delay in the

comments, but somebody will tell me. One

one of you knows. We got a lot of We got

a lot of uh engineers in the in the

audience here. Uh, no. No clue. No. No.

Won't help me. You need a sentence.

H300 the most powerful. Are you joking?

I can't tell if you're joking. Is there

a H300 chip?

All right. Well, whatever it is, um the

interesting part of the story is that

Trump is going to allow Nvidia to sell

these to China, the H200 chip, but um

25% of what they would make would be

paid to the United States government.

So once again,

Trump sees a pile of money sitting on

the table and he says, as he always

does, hey, is this pile of money going

anywhere? Does anybody own this? Well,

we we kind of own it. Would it be okay

if I said you can't sell to China unless

I get 25% of this pile of money? Well,

we don't love that, but yeah, what are

you going to do?

So once again, Trump just picks up the

free money. It's not exactly free, but

it's about as close as you can get to

free. All you have to do is say, uh,

I'll say yes if you give us 25% of this

pile of money. That's pretty close to,

you know, free money. So,

you know, until we saw Trump do this the

first few times, which is uh make a deal

with an American company like Intel,

where if the if the US government helps

the company, then the US government gets

to share some of the upside potential.

When it first happened, you probably

thought to yourself, "Oh no, you know,

we're we're gonna we're going to turn

into a fascist country where, you know,

the the economy and the government are

now merged."

Well, I I could see why people would be

worried about that,

but

um is it bad?

Again, I it makes sense to be worried

and to watch it carefully, but it

doesn't look like it's a problem yet.

And if Trump can put together a some

kind of a future

where the government is making, you

know, a percentage of our biggest

companies and we're also cleaning up

with tariffs.

Um maybe

maybe we have some way out of our debt

problem. Now Elon Musk has said the only

way and and I do believe him the only

way the only way we survive our gigantic

government debt is if robots and AI just

goose the economy to a level we've never

seen before and suddenly it just creates

wealth like we've never seen. Now is

that possible?

Do you think it's possible that AI and

robots and maybe self-driving cars and

maybe space stuff, you know, that the

biggest things that are happening, if

those, let's say, four or five things

and and maybe maybe fusion in a few

years, if those four or five things just

completely change the game, even to the

point where you don't need a job

anymore, it's like everybody has

everything. I mean, that's going to take

a while to get to that point. But is

that our only way to survive?

Uh, [laughter]

all right. I have to look at this

comment. Somebody's saying,

uh, did my IQ drop more than 40%.

Where's that comment? It went away.

There it is.

All right. You're so uh Sam says, "Your

IQ dropped more than 40%. Scott, what

responsibility does Candace have?

I wouldn't give my opinion if you didn't

listen to her podcast."

Okay, that's a stupid comment.

So, I thought I would highlight your

stupid comment. What part of that do you

do you think I disagree with? Well, I

don't even know what topic you're on. I

mean, other than the people you named,

you're not even making a smart point. I

I there's not even anything to disagree

with. It's just so stupid.

[laughter]

So, if I were you, I wouldn't talk in

public if that's the best you can do.

Uh, so you start with a ad hominon

and then you ask this question. What

responsibility does Candace have? Which

has never been a topic and is not one

that I'm interested in. So, I'm not

interested in the topic and it's not one

we're talking about. And you said I

wouldn't give my opinion if you didn't

listen to her podcasts.

Really?

Have you ever heard of what podcasts

are? You know that sometimes we're

wellinformed and sometimes we're just

catching up.

Do you think I should not talk about it

because I'm just catching up? Now, I'm

not interested enough to dig into the

details of what Candace's opinion is.

You tell me why that matters. Why does

that matter? Does it matter that I have

a well-informed opinion about Candace

Owens's opinion?

That doesn't matter. In what way am I

better off or the world better off or

are you better off if I've done a deep

dive on Candace Owens opinion about uh

Turning Point USA?

It doesn't have any impact on me. I

don't think it has any impact on you.

So, why don't you grow up a little bit

and stop being an idiot?

Um, and that would be cool.

All right. Um, probably if you're as

dumb as Sam is, you should not say

things in public. I'm going to leave I'm

going to leave your stupid comment up

there, Sam, so that everybody can mock

you for how dumb you are.

Uh,

all right. Let's see what else we got.

Well, Ukraine. Of course, we have to

talk about Ukraine.

H Ukraine.

So, Zilinski says that the recent US

talks were constructive.

I never believe that. when you when

you're talking about peace deals

until it's a done deal. I don't believe

anything that anybody says when they

characterize these negotiations.

Anyway, Zilinsky thinks that Europe is

the obstacle to peace. Well, maybe

Breitbart News is writing about this. Um

but apparently he said in an interview

that negotiations with the US to find an

end to the war were constructive but

indicated that uh questions remain

uh regarding the position of Europe.

Well, do you believe that there's

anything like an agreement of where the

borders should be if if they stop

shooting there? There's no agreement.

I I [clears throat] don't believe we're

even close to an agreement. I have no

idea what they're talking about. Just I

feel like maybe they're just trying to

act like it's closer than it is.

All right. Um and then one of the

questions is how can how can Ukraine get

something that's NATO like protection

without being part of NATO?

Um

>> yeah. So, is that even an option?

What would you do that wasn't NATO but

looked and acted like NATO and would

keep Russia from attacking Ukraine? It

would sort of just look like NATO with

but a little bit crippled. So, what good

is that? Anyway, I don't think anything

is close with Ukraine and and Russia.

So, you know, I said that it was going

to be like a year before anything got

serious. I I think it'll be a year

because Russia is just going to be

grinding them down and they don't seem

to be in any hurry. So, they'll just uh

keep grinding.

All right. So, I told you, those of you

who joined at the beginning, that uh my

IQ is about 40% lower today.

Um, and I fell asleep five times just

getting my notes together. So, what I'm

going to do, which I haven't done

before, but I always wanted to do this,

is

I want to look at X

and then see what's uh

see what's new on there and then comment

on it live.

Uh,

[laughter]

all right. Uh, I don't want to do the

ones where somebody's mad about

somebody's race or ethnicity.

Um,

if you don't

Okay. Actuators.

Well, I don't think I'm seeing anything

that's super interesting, honestly.

Uh,

Trump reversing Humphrey's executive is

not priced in. Okay, I'd have to read

that. Don't feel like it.

Uh, China says no thanks to Nvidia's

H200 chip, even after Trump said go

ahead. So, here I am. I just talked

about that H200 trip, and China's like,

"No thanks." All right. According to

Mario Noel, in a plot twist no one saw

coming, Beijing is now restricting

access to Nvidia's ultra powerful H200

chip right after Trump cleared the way

for them to get it. Why are they doing

that?

Does it say why?

Why would Beijing block its own

companies from buying? And the answer is

control, paranoia, strategy, maybe all

three. Well, we don't know. Maybe. Oh,

I'm going to put a idea out there. Do

you think that China has uh they're

getting close to making their own chips

and we don't know about it?

If I had to guess,

I would say the reason that China would

re restrict access for its own companies

to get these chips is is that they have

a some other source,

but it's not quite quite ready yet. So,

they want to delay until they can get

the source that they want and not have

to rely on Nvidia. That's what I think.

Oh my goodness. No, I'm not going to

read that.

Uh, China just killed the silicon tax. I

don't even know what that is.

How about uh

how about let's see what else is big

wise man said Marine Corps should pay

for Marine Corps branded pull-up bars at

every airport gate around the country.

So when you're waiting for your flight,

you can do pull-ups.

Okay.

Um

All right. Steve Mallaloy, he's always

fun.

So Steve Mallaloy is one of the uh

climate um doubters.

And he says, "The real inconvenient

truth is this says uh Big Joe Bastard."

I guess that's somebody on X. After 30

plus years and more than 10 to 12

trillion spent globally on the climate

emergency that Al Gore and the Laris

megaphones told us was already upon us,

none of the short-term catastrophic

predictions came true on the timelines

given. None

is zero. Human well-being, life

expectancy, poverty, all those things

improved faster than at almost any time

in history.

Okay. the people who actually risk their

own money and that would include banks,

insurers, developers, home buyers keep

voting with trillions of dollars that

the doomsday version is not imminent.

That's a pretty good point, isn't it?

That the people who are putting their

own money on the line are acting like

climate's not going to stop them. Yet

the policies, taxes, bans, and

surveillance systems being rolled out in

the name of climate are more intrusive

and permanent than anything we accepted

even at the height of COVID.

All right, good point. How how much do

do you think that everybody agrees with

the statement that none of the

predictions came true? Because if you

turned on um let's say real time with

Bill Maher and let's say he had a

Democrat guest, do you think that the

Democrat guest would agree with the

statement that none of the predictions

of climate disaster have come true? Just

none of them. Would they agree with

that? because I I saw just recently

somebody in that category who claimed

that uh a lot of the predictions were

true. Are you aware of any predictions

that are true in terms of doom? Are

there more more accidents uh is the have

the ice caps melted, you know, beyond

what we'd expect maybe. Uh did the some

kind of animals die? I'm not aware of

anything that happened that was true.

But it could be that I'm in my bubble,

right? I might just be in my bubble.

But uh it must be fun to be Steve

Mallaloy because I believe he's been

he's been making these points for 10

years.

And now when he makes makes a post like

that, I look at it and I go, "Well, you

were you were 10 years early." I didn't

doubt him, by the way. I didn't doubt

him, but I didn't know how accurate it

would be. He was very accurate.

Um,

Eric Dhy on X, he's got a post here

about uh Caroline Levit, spokesperson

for Trump. Uh, she nuked Democrats as

quote the greatest con artists in

American politics.

So she said they're pretending to

champion the issue of affordability when

they themselves created the worst

inflation crisis in a generation. You

you can't create the problem and then

you know act like you're the one solving

it. Now I'm not a big fan

of trying to attribute blame because

that feels like living in the past.

uh you know it's worth understanding how

we got here but if you're trying to

solve it

I'd rather just focus on the solving it

part. You know I realize politics is

politics but it doesn't really help me

to to hear the attributions of blame.

All right. Um

let's see.

Uh David Axelrod says, "Judge grants

Justice Department request to unseal

Galileain Maxwell's records in the sex

trafficking case."

What are we going to learn if Galileain

Maxwell's records get unsealed? Probably

nothing like usual.

Um he says, "I hope Pus reads them

before he pardons her." Well, I I think

I can agree with David Axelrod on this

that uh we never know why somebody gets

pardoned. So,

you know, whatever we know isn't what

they know.

Uh

on the New York Times. Okay. Looking at

your comments.

How about uh

Oh.

All right. Yep.

Um

shootings. All right. This just people

defending themselves against other

people claiming things.

Uh President Trump

was in I guess he was talking to

Politico. He said, uh, so Trump said

that Maduro's days, the head of

Venezuela, are numbered before refusing

to provide Politico with a plan of

action. So Trump just says, quote, "His

days are numbered." Reporter, can you

rule out an American ground invasion?

Now, is that the dumbest question in the

world?

Since when does Trump ever rule

something in or out? If it's military,

he he doesn't. How many times has he

told us, "I'm not going to rule anything

in or out. It just limits his own

options." But Politico has to ask, "Uh,

can you rule out an American ground

invasion?" Trump, why would I talk to

you an extremely un an unfriendly

publication?

So, [clears throat] he just attacks the

publication for asking the question,

basically, and I agree with him.

Uh,

interesting. There's a show called

Plurabus on Apple TV. Have you heard of

that? Glenn Greenwald says, "I've never

seen a show as polarizing as Vince

Gilligan's Plurabus." Well, now I want

to watch it. Uh, many people I like hate

it. Boring, slow, and insufferable, some

say, but I guess Glenn says it's one of

the best, most thought-provoking TV

programs ever.

Can't recommend it enough. All right. Uh

Glenn, I am in. You have convinced me.

Um

all right.

Kla Harris, Rich Baris, the people's

pundit, says Kla Harris, one of the most

disliked and least consequential VPs in

history, usurped her boss and duly blah

blah blah before losing the election.

Okay, I don't know what he's getting to.

You have to get to the point faster than

that.

Um,

all right. All right. That's all I need

for today.

Ladies and gentlemen, we should watch

the show Plurabus. I'm going to watch

that tonight. I am sold.

That's some really good writing. Good.

as ruled illegal. Blah blah talked about

plurabus a few weeks ago.

Tim Pool did. All right. Some of you

like it a lot. All right. I'll watch it.

I'll give it a try.

All right, everybody. I'm going to say a

few words privately to my uh beloved

subscribers at Locals. The rest of you,

thanks for joining. Uh I enjoyed it with

everybody except Sam. Sorry Sam. you

failed today.

Um, but uh, the rest of you, I'll see

you tomorrow. And, uh, beloveds,

I'm going to be coming at you in 30

seconds. We will be private.