Back to episode — Episode 2466 CWSA 05/06/24
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to get some distance or it's just too confusing for branding. So I've decided to change my name from Scott Adams, which is just confusing with Scott Galloway, so I've changed my first name to Not and my last name to Galloway. So now it'll be Not Galloway, and I will just go as Not Galloway from now on. Keeps it simpler. If there are two Scotts you're never going to tell us apart, but if there's a…
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So we went from nuclear is the scariest thing in the world and therefore must be closed down to climate change is the scariest thing in the world and you've got to do everything you can to avoid it. And what can you do to avoid climate change disaster, say the alarmists? Well, you could get a lot of nuclear power plants. So we started with the wrong reason for banning nuclear, which was that it was presumed to be more dangerous than it was. So basically the anti-nuclear was just based on fear. But now that's been completely reversed. And was it because we got smarter? No. Is it because our analyses were better? No. It's because we found something scarier that also probably isn't true.
So we went from the nuclear waste is going to kill us, there's nothing we know how to do — turns out just put it in the barrel, keep it where it is, it's fine, keep it forever — and then it's going to melt down and all this. So we went from a fake scare against nuclear to a probably fake scare against climate change, which completely reversed it just in time for AI. There's not a damn thing we do that makes any sense. We're literally just chasing people with scare stories and then people are running away, and sometimes it works out.
Do you ever hear that old thing, two wrongs don't make a right? Well, didn't they this time? Am I misreading this? So first we had the wrong that nuclear was a bad idea, but we fixed the wrong idea about nuclear by coming up with an even wronger idea about climate change risk. Am I wrong? Two wrongs made a right. Are we not just where we want to be? We got our nuclear energy back just in time for robots and AI. It was literally two wrongs made a right. And it wasn't just two little wrongs. It was the two biggest wrongs we've probably ever made, probably in the history of humankind. It'd be hard to find things much wronger than those two things, but they canceled out. So there you go.
The Kristi Noem story just keeps getting better. Poor Kristi Noem. So it seems like only a few months ago we were talking about her as being a good candidate for VP for Trump. And then it turned out allegedly she was having an affair with Corey Lewandowski, which is sort of really bad if you're a Republican running for office. And then there was a thing in her book that s
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aid she shot her own puppy, and that wasn't really good. And then this is just the best. This is the best terrible news because it doesn't really hurt anybody. It's just weird and embarrassing. So apparently Kristi Noem has a book about her own life which claims in the book — this is a quote from the book — "I remember when I met with North Korea dictator Kim Jong-un. I'm sure he underestimated m…
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