effect. Now if I hear that a bunch of researchers tried to deprogram people from their conspiracy theories and it didn't work, you know the first thing I think is, well, whose method did they use? What was it? A professional persuader who tried to talk people out of their conspiracy theories or was it somebody who doesn't know how to do it? If you put me in the study and said, all right, we're going to see if Scott specifically can talk people out of their conspiracy theories, I think you'd find that I would do better than average because it's something I've studied, right? I'm specifically a trained hypnotist and I write about and talk about and use persuasion all the time. So in theory, if it could be done at all, I'd be a little better at it than a person who doesn't practice. But there's a bigger problem. Did you see it? What's the bigger problem? When you're running a study to see if you can talk people out of believing conspiracy theories, there's sort of a built-in problem. It kind of assumes that the researchers know what is true and what isn't. And you know what? How do they know? How do they know what's true? Because if they had the wrong opinion, their own research showed that they wouldn't know it because you couldn't talk them out of it. So if the researchers thought something was true that wasn't or something was untrue that was true, how would they know, since their own research showed you can't change anybody's mind if they're wrong about a conspiracy theory? So it looks like nonsense to me. Total nonsense.

Here's a few stories in a row that kind of make a picture. So Fox News is reporting, David Spector is writing, there's a former Marvel executive, you know, the Marvel superhero universe. So the Marvel executive is suing Disney because he was allegedly denied a promotion for being an old white guy. Now here's the fun part. The reason he knows he was denied a promotion for being an old white guy is they said we can't promote you because you're an old white guy. They told him directly. So lawsuit.

Now here's what Black Americans have never understood about what you call, I don't know, reverse racism or just racism, I guess. They don't believe that when white men are told they can't be promoted, and this has been true for decades because remember it was decades ago that I was told in direct language you're a white male, you cannot be promoted here. And then I changed companies and the next company told me the same thing. Direct words, no beating around the bush, said it just that directly. This has been happening all over the country for decades. And the white men just don't talk about it in public because if they do, you know what happens? The Black men call them mediocre. Said no, you're lying. You didn't get the promotion because you're a mediocre white man. That's what happened to me. Yeah, the Black citizens poured into my comments and said, well, no, you're lying. They didn't tell you that directly. You just are sore because you didn't get the promotion because you're a mediocre white man. In other words, they were really racist.

All right. Meanwhile, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is suing Starbucks because they have some kind of a race and sex based hiring practice, which would be of course illegal. So now you've got Disney which just actively discriminating against white men. You've got Starbucks being sued for actively discriminating against white men. And then you've got Goldman Sachs that just decided to scrap its policy that said it wouldn't help take a business public if they had an all-white board of members. So they said you got to have some diversity and you got to have at least one woman on the board or we won't work with you, which is of course racial discrimination and gender discrimination. And the good news is that they changed, so they're not going to be that way. But here's the bad news. I'm not going to forget that. If you think you can just change from discriminating against white men to not, no, I'm not going to forget it. You know, I don't have any business to do with Goldman Sachs, but every one of you, you can drop dead.

All right. Adam Carolla is talking about the progress in cleaning up the LA fires. Guess what the progress is in cleaning up the LA fires and getting rid of the debris and moving people back in? Doesn't appear to be any, according to Adam Carolla, who's got a house there. He says remarkably no progress has been made in the cleanup. Oh no, his actual words are, quote, zero attempt at cleaning. Now over a month, no cleanup attempt, no official government website you can go to for any kind of timeline. When is the power going to be on? When can you get back to your place? The answer is no goddamn idea.

Now let's compare that. This is California's performance. Now let's compare that to DOGE. DOGE is already spinning up a website in which they will be reporting everything they're doing. It's all going to be there. It's already up. So DOGE consistently does the thing you expect and want them to do. And California seems to only be able to fail. It's like we don't have, as a state, we have no capability of doing anything. And I think it's always the same problem. I think it's the state just necessarily needs to inject, eject corruptio