at just the Japanese Americans, shouldn't you? If you compare the Japanese Americans to Japan do you think there would be a big difference? The answer is no there wouldn't be. I checked. So are we really spending too much if the Japanese Americans living in America are living the same amount as the Japanese were living in Japan? It's just other ethnicities who aren't doing well that that should be included. I mean that's got to be part of the analysis but I don't see it.

How about the fact that the Black Americans have high unemployment and high crime rates and therefore and also you know a lot of overdoses and death by murder etc. If you took out just the Black population and looked at the rest of America would it look like this or would our life expectancy be longer? It'd be longer. So part of what you're measuring is just that we have more diversity than the other countries and within that diversity you've got groups that have pretty good life expectancy and people who have really alarmingly low because of poverty and violence and all the bad things. So that's not giving you a clear picture.

How about diet? What about diet? We know that the American diet is unusually bad and we're unusually obese. Would you expect to see way more spending on health care and way less good results if the only thing that was different was we were eating and the French were eating good food? And of course we've all heard the stories that if you go to France or Europe and you eat the bread you don't get bloated and sick but if you eat the same food in America because they use a different process you feel terrible immediately. Some people. So those are a few things.

And what about the quality of the health care? Suppose let's take my experience. So I have Kaiser Permanente so it's a HMO situation. If I want to get in to see my doctor I could pretty much do it by today or tomorrow. Today or tomorrow. And they could refer me to a specialist and I'd get in there pretty quickly. I can get tests done just because I want them. I can email my doctor, get all kinds of telemedicine. Can they do that in all the other countries? Well I don't know but what I do know is if you're comparing our health care they're not even trying to do the same level of service. If you have a national health care they're going to make you wait two weeks for an appointment. If you do it in America you're going to pay extra and you're going to get in faster. Now apparently that's not enough to keep our life expectancy up. But here's my point.

Peter Attia, very respected doctor, but is he an expert on data analysis? And even if he were would he know the assumptions that went into this study? And the answer is probably no and no. So my point is that when I say all data is, it's this. If you've worked with data you look at this and you go well I can see three major problems and I don't know anything about health care spending or life expectancy. You simply have to have experience in the domain of collecting data to know that when you look at somebody else's data you see three big problems and you know that they didn't solve them because they're probably not solvable. The databases of all these countries probably not counting stuff the same. Almost certainly not. It would be the rarest thing if this were apples to apples. So just take that learning and say I'm not making a case just about health care and outcomes. I'm making a case that all data has this problem. That somebody who's good with data can see all the problems but if you're not, if you're not experienced with data, looks right to you even if it's your domain. Even if you're a doctor it looks right to you.

And then let me end by saying I don't know if any of the criticisms I just made are valid for this study. I don't know that. But what I do know is that it's not credible because I don't know if they did it. Because I don't know. I can't take it seriously even if it's right I wouldn't know.

Well over in Sacramento the city attorney has threatened Target stores because Target keeps reporting retail theft and they've reported retail theft so many times that the government is having trouble functioning because they're dealing with all these reports of thefts. And so rather than solve the thefts they've decided to, let's see, they've issued a warning to the Target store that it will face fines for reporting so many retail theft incidences. So Democrat or Republican? See I'm going to use my ESP. Was it a Democrat or Republican entity that said the solution to reporting so much crime is to stop reporting it? Which would that be, Republican or Democrat? I'm going to go with Democrat. Going to go with Democrat.

Now I ask you if you saw some crime data reported in California would you say to yourself that crime data looks pretty credible? Or if you had a little bit of experience with data but you were no expert on crime could you look at the crime data and with what you knew about the world say you know what I don't think they're collecting the data the way they used to. Do you know who would know that? That they're not collecting the data the way they used to? Everybody who had experience with data collection. Everybody would know that. If you're not an expert in that domain you'd think well these numbers look right to me but they wouldn't look right to anybody who knew the field of data collection.

All right, Sam Altman and Ariana Huffington are teaming up on the effort to use AI for some kind of health outcomes. Basically to be a health coach to help people change their lifestyle and their habits to get rid of chronic illnesses. I love this. I don't know if it'll work but I love that powerful capable people are working on this. To me this is exactly right. If it works that's great. Could you really change lives? If it doesn't work it was still the right thing to do, right? If this doesn't work for whatever reason, absolutely the right place to put your energy. And you know I use ChatGPT all the time now and one of the things I think I can do that I haven't tested yet is I'll bet I could take a picture of a plate of food and it could and just take pictures of everything I eat during the day. You just basically every time I eat just snap a picture of it and then at the end of the day take those pictures, upload them into ChatGPT and say how'd I do today? Keep a running total of my nutrition. I think it can do that already. I'm not positive. I don't know if you need a specialized app but I'll bet I could do it just by looking at it. So I'm thinking of doing that actually.

Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor lives in a neighborhood that seems a little unsafe because her bodyguards who are assigned to protect Supreme Court justices, somebody tried to carjack their car outside her home and they opened fire and shot the carjacker who lived. Now I don't have much to say about that except that there's an anti-gun Supreme Court Justice who probably can't take a walk in her own neighborhood because of all the guns which she should say, probably would say if you just make guns illegal we wouldn't have this problem. To which the pro-gun people would say if we didn't make guns illegal the bad guys would have them and all of your cars would be stolen. So I guess we're getting nowhere on that.

So Biden did his NATO speech. It was off the teleprompter. He doesn't really know the difference between putting passion into his speech and anger at this point. Yeah so you know this is what passion would look like and we've really got to increase the GDP and we've got to help Ukraine. That's what passion would sound like. Biden can't get there. He can only do old man yelling at the sky. Oh we're gonna raise taxes. We got to raise taxes. Raise taxes on the rich. He's so far away from looking normal but we got used to it, didn't we? If you'd never seen all of this other stuff and the only thing you saw was his next speech and you didn't know about the whole dementia thing you would say to yourself why is he yelling? What's wrong with him? But he's so far gone that he can give an angry yelling speech and people will say well at least he didn't fall asleep. That looks like a step in the right direction. The bar is so low.

Anyway he did call the Secretary General of NATO an intellectual wigger. I don't know what that means. He looked right at him and he said he's an intellectual wigger. W I G G E R. What was he reaching for? I don't think it was going to be an ethnic slur but what exactly was he trying to say when it came out you're an intellectual wigger? I guess we will never know.

Well Trump continues to be funny and kind of perfect in his campaigning. So people are saying that he's doing a great job of letting Biden's trouble be the top line story. So instead of Trump making big news with some policy or something he gives Biden a golf challenge which is kind of perfect. A golf challenge because it's not serious but it reframes Biden as feeble. He challenged Joe Biden to an eighteen-hole golf match and he was going to spot him ten strokes. So he'd give him ten strokes. And he said if Biden wins Trump will give a million dollars to a charity of Biden's choice. Now I think we all know that Biden can't golf. We all know that, right? So Trump can make any offer he wants for free. It's just a free punch. And he can just say well look I'll give you ten strokes and a million dollars to a charity. You don't want your charity not to get the million dollars do you? All you have to do is play a round of golf. Now of course he's not going to say yes and of course he would lose if he did. So the fact that this is such a non-serious topic but harmless, it's just a harmless non-serious topic. It gives Trump something to say which worked. It reframed Biden as physically incapable. But it wasn't such a big deal that the Democrats have to respond to it, right? And what could they say? What exactly could they say? Oh he will beat you in golf. I've seen him man. In private he golfs like crazy. Yeah in private he shoots par. It's only when people are watching that he slips up a little bit.

All right, so Bill Maher continues to be hilariously normal. And when you see a Democrat who is acting all normal they stand out like a sore thumb. You're like whoa what's he trying, is he trying to be normal and say things that make sense and stuff? So here's what he says. The Democrats are literally asking us to vote for