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Chapter 1: What challenges did Scott face with the streaming technology?
All right. Let me see if I can get some comments working here. Oh, it works. All right. This isn't going to work at all. So this morning, that's a little trouble with the streaming technology, but it looks like it's working at the moment. However, it distracted me, so I started to pick up my notes for the show, and I realized I haven't printed them. So that's going to happen.
I'm going to print these notes.
And if this works, we're going to have a show. Hey, it's working. Good news. How's everybody's Saturday so far? It's kind of early, but is it often?
I don't even have the lights right.
I'm a mess. So the interface for turning on my side lights is so poorly designed that I have to wrap the cord around the object. until the place that they put the activation button way down on the power cord is somewhere near the device I'm operating. It's just the worst design.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of the simultaneous sip?
See, this is the part of the show that the locals people see every day in the pre-show, but I couldn't get that working this morning, but it looks like everything's good on locals at the moment. We are fully functional people with the best show you've ever seen. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams.
You've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank of Charleston Stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine.
At the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better, it's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. Now we're ready. We're ready. Well, there's, according to the brighter side of news, Joseph Shavit is writing. Is that his real name, Shavit?
I feel like there are some kind of names that I just have to stop and say, what if it were the 70s and he got married to somebody and then they decided on a hyphenated name? I used to work with a woman named Debbie Beavers. Debbie Beavers. Anyway, you can complete the joke on your own. I think I've given you enough. Complete the joke at home. I'll wait.
By the way, Joseph Chavit tells us that there's a new drug that might be able to prolong life 30%. How does it do that? Well, According to the Mayo Clinic, it's something about a senolytic drug that gets rid of the zombie stuff in your blood, and then you live longer. All right, so we're going to live 30% longer, maybe. Good news, huh? But wouldn't we need 30% more food?
What would really happen if you had people living 30% longer? wouldn't it be kind of the end of civilization? Because it would be nothing but super old people that weren't adding as much as they were subtracting. I feel like it's good news and also the end of civilization. But on the other news, we're going to need a lot of energy with all those people.
According to David Dalton in NucNet, I guess it's NucNet, there's some kind of steel that's been made. that is so good and so strong, they call it fusion grade. So there's a working group working on some kind of steel that's so hard, it would bring down the cost of building a nuclear reactor. It would bring down the cost by an order of magnitude.
Now, what would happen if you brought down the cost by an order of magnitude and maybe even made it more resistant? Pretty good. A whole bunch of things happening in the nuclear world. You may have heard the story about the poor residents in the L.A. area got a fake emergency alert. So there were real alerts and there's a real fire.
But apparently the system on its own, no human pushed the button, they say. The system, because of some kind of bug, sent out an alert and scared the bejesus out of about a million people. But then the authorities went on TV to make sure that you knew it wasn't their fault because that's the important part, whose fault it was.
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Chapter 3: What recent developments have occurred with the LA fires?
This is just so you get the visual. This is not a racial thing. It's just a visual. Imagine, if you will, this super charismatic semi-Afro black man who's the interpreter, and he's killing it. I mean, I assume he's really translating it correctly. It looked like it. But he's really... Really impressive. So he's doing big pictures and his face is, and he's really nailing this impression.
And I can't take my eyes off him. Like, he's really interesting. And then you look over to the actual spokesperson. So he's this little white guy.
we didn't push the button we don't know who pushed the button it could be some kind of technology thing but we didn't push the button and then the interpreters it's the most hilarious contrast of charisma and non-charisma you're ever going to see in your life wonderful anyway a miracle has happened According to James Woods, his home in the burned-down area survived.
All the houses across the street from him were burned. And he was sure his was burned. I think he'd been told that. But it wasn't... I'm not even sure it was damaged by fire at all. Obviously, there's going to be smoke and damage and utilities will be turned off. So it's not like it's totally good luck. But... I don't know what this means. Oh, Adam Carolla's condo.
I think he thought that was lost, but it wasn't. I'm eight for eight on this tragedy. Now, it's bad form to say anybody's lucky or having a good time because most of the people are suffering and going to be suffering for a long time. I mean, the devastation is incredible.
But it is nonetheless true that there were eight homes I was worried about because of personal connections and or just affection. So I certainly wanted James Woods and Adam Carolla to come out well. They're the only ones I'll name. Others were personal contacts, family, that sort of thing.
But there were eight homes I was worried about, and they were all in the either evacuate now or get ready to evacuate category. So far... All eight have survived. And all of them are against the odds. It's like the one building standing, that kind of thing. I don't know how that happened. I'm eight for eight. Now, is that a coincidence? Or are we going to find out?
Will we find out that there are far more people who came through it than didn't? Well, not than didn't. Most of them have just pure tragedy. But are there going to be more not-so-bad-as-you-thought stories, or did it just sort of concentrate in my little world? But I'll tell you, I'm still dedicated to making sure that Californians do all right. So I'm all in on making this better.
But just on a personal note, wow. Here's something I didn't know about the Pacific Palisades that I'm just learning this week. Apparently, it wasn't just a good place to live. It might have been, according to what I hear from locals, maybe the best place that anybody ever lived. I was completely unaware that there was any place in Southern California that I would not be too hot to live.
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Chapter 4: How did the LA water chief's decisions impact the recent fires?
and you know just just the amazingness of it everything worked everybody was happy it was like paradise apparently um it was yeah and this is unfortunately this is part of the story it would be great if it wasn't but it is pacific palisades was 84 white um how many places are 84 white I mean, I live in a relatively, you know, whitish area of California. We're not 84% white at most.
I don't know, 60%? Probably not that. Maybe 50? I'm not really sure. Could be lower. It could be, I don't think it's 40, but it could be around half. So that would be the normal California situation, closer to half or less. So 84% white. Honestly, I didn't even know there was a place in the United States that was 84% white. Now, Michael Schellenberger writes in detail.
I'll just pull down a piece of it, but his larger argument is fascinating. You should follow him on X. And what he points out is that the, this is his words, the so-called progressives finally achieved what they supposedly warned us of,
but in truth wished for, the eviction of the affluent descendants of colonizers, the incineration of their homes, and the destruction of a city that, more than any other, represents our bloody history of white supremacy and conquest.
Now, he doesn't claim, Schellenberger, because he's very smart and doesn't say crazy stuff, he doesn't claim that it was some kind of big organized plot to do bad things to white people. Nobody's saying that. I'm not saying that. He's not saying that. Five minutes later, somebody's going to say, why do you think it was a plot against white people? Not saying that. Not saying that.
Don't believe it. However, intention sometimes shows up in your priorities, meaning it doesn't have to be a plan. It can just seep into your priorities, and then you end up in the same place. So let me read a little more about Now, this is sort of getting toward the conspiracy theory part of it. Now, I want to be really clear. I do not believe there's a larger conspiracy involved.
I do not believe it at all. I do believe that we're going to see the result of DEI hiring. We don't know what percent and which people. It would be unfair to say this one person is a DEI hire and they're the problem. I don't see that. I don't see the DEI and a specific person doing a specific thing. I don't see that. It could be because you wouldn't know.
If you see people making mistakes, you don't know why from our perspective. You just know they're mistakes. You could know they're DEI hires, and you know they make mistakes. But Gavin Newsom isn't a DEI hire, and we think he made some mistakes. So just kind of chill your enthusiasm for the anti-DEI stuff, because I'm pretty anti-DEI, as you all know.
But as soon as you tie it to an individual person and an individual act, you've lost the plot. You should think of it as a system collapse problem, not a thing that one person did that time. That just doesn't help anybody. Because you can too easily just slide, without even intending it, you can just slide into pure racism when that's not really the complaint about DEI.
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Chapter 5: What is the current political landscape surrounding Trump?
Okay, so he was asked about Havana syndrome, which was allegedly an attack on some government officials, but he answered about ISIS and the rampage in New Orleans. Is it possible that the entire explanation of what happened to Biden's brain is he was attacked by a secret sonic microwave weapon? Did the Russians cook his brain? I don't think so.
I'm just saying it's funny that... Anyway, you can connect the dots. Maybe Russia got his brain. We don't know. Speaking of stupid Democrat publications, do you remember when Fortune magazine was like a respectable actual magazine? And Dilbert used to be on the cover all the time. I think once a year for a number of years, Dilbert was the main cover of Fortune.
It was usually their episode about best place to work. And so this just happened. So a prankster pretended to be a whistleblower and talked to Fortune magazine, and they ran the story, completely fake, saying that the X platform was going to remove all timestamps from your posts and start charging $8 for anybody who signed up. That was completely made up. Completely made up.
And it was a prankster who said he was an engineer recently fired from X. Now, so Alex Finn is reporting on this on X. And his take on it was that Elon Musk has killed Fortune magazine and all traditional media, which is a pretty good title. But yeah, that's basically what happened. So when you watch anything that looks like traditional media, it's pretty much because it's funny.
Am I wrong about that? When I talk about X, I talk about amazing content. It's like, whoa, Tucker Carlson had a guest that is blowing my mind. And, you know, Elon's posts are, you know, great. And it's just one amazing thing after another on X. Great opinions. You know, Schellenberger, Pollock, you know, just really brilliant takes all day long.
And then you go to the media and the New Yorker is doing neater, neater, neater. And Fortune magazines didn't fact check a hoax. It gets worse. It gets worse. Next story. Molly Hemingway has a piece in The Federalist about Jake Tapper and the Russia collusion hoax. Now, I don't want to ruin it for you.
because this is one you just have to go read, because if you don't read the whole piece, you're going to miss the magic of it.
But there's one little anecdote in it, or a little story in it, where I guess Molly Hemingway was appearing on CNN some time ago, and the Russia collusion thing, I guess it was in the early days of that, and the allegation is that I think it was Jim Sciutto on CNN started to report the truth,
started to report the truth and According to Molly Jake Tapper grabbed him by the wrist and squeezed it to stop him from talking Now if you want to find out what was the truth he was saying and Whether or not that was an accurate, you know impression of what was happening. You got to read the story So just follow Molly Hemingway Tremendous talent as a writer and observer of politics.
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Chapter 6: How is DEI influencing government decisions?
failing terribly but more importantly um it sort of ripped the roof off the democrat corrupt machine these lawfare things in my opinion made it really obvious that the democrats are not just the competing team that there's there's a level of evil there that's you know just not related to uh Anyway, I'm sorry, I just saw an image on Locals because they can put images in the notes.
Very distracting. It was me on the beach with Stormy Daniels. I don't know why we were on the beach, but we looked happy in that picture. That was an AI picture. Anyway, so here's what I think. The entire reason that the Democrats are is that now they can say he's technically a felon.
So they wanted to give Trump the scarlet F, you know, the scarlet letter that, yeah, maybe you're doing some good things and maybe people voted for you, but you're a felon. And they're going to use that. Now, I would say that's just as effective as neener, neener. You're a felon. Neener, neener. That's all it is. It's absurdly stupid.
But it's even dumber than that because if it doesn't survive the appeal, and I don't think it possibly could, is he really a felon? Have we ever seen a situation where every smart person looking at this, somebody who's a lawyer, says to themselves, well, he's temporarily a felon, but there's a 100% chance it's going to be reversed on appeal.
Maybe the Supreme Court, who knows how long it takes, but reversed. So all they got was a reminder of the lawfare. They didn't get the scarlet letter. The scarlet letter is on Alvin Bragg and Judge Mershon and all the Democrats who apparently, allegedly, colluded for this lawfare. When I see the whole felon thing, I don't even think anything bad about Trump.
I just think, oh, you're reminding me of the lawfare and how bad the Democrats were. Got it. So I don't think the Democrats could have failed any harder or that Trump could have won any harder. Do you know what would have been less good of a victory? Less good of a victory would be innocent of all charges. Are you with me on that or no? If you're just looking at winners and losers...
And we're in the context of Trump has already won the election with the majority of the votes, which changes everything, right? He's already won the election and it was legitimate, just had more votes. All that does is just make this look so corrupt that you can't see it any other way, but pure corruption. Anyway, the Scarlet Letter turned out to be an FU on them.
Trump is having this interesting experience in his transition. So instead of people resisting him like you'd expect, or even like a lot of people said they would, according to real clear politics, He said in his recent appearance, I haven't had anybody saying anything bad about me. I'm not used to it.
So as you know, the various leaders and bankers and people are coming in and essentially just asking how they can help. Now, I think that Trump has accidentally created the ultimate fake because. Now, I talk about that all the time, the fake because. It's a persuasion term that I like to use.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of Trump's upcoming inauguration?
It doesn't get better than that. You can't be more effective than that. This is like things that people don't even think of when they think of being effective. This is so next level. It's crazy. Golden age. Here it comes. Once the fire's out, maybe.
Now, one of the big problems I've been posting on and got quite a few million views on it is how tremendously difficult it's going to be for the LA area to dig its way out of this fire problem. The homeowners are going to be looking at an insane amount of complication and approvals and steps and things to get anything done. I predict that given the current system,
it would take five to 10 years for any one person to rebuild five to 10 years. So if you've got kids and living there was, you know, cause a great place for kids, maybe that's out of your reach now. Cause if it were two years, then you say, well, yeah, well let's do it. If it's five to 10, which is what it looks like, what do you do? So I'm an enormous problem.
But I'm going to read you a take by an ex-user called Dr. Insensitive Jerk, who you should follow on X. Dr. with a D-R. Insensitive Jerk. Separated by a lowercase, lower underscore. And here's what he says. I'll just read his words. He goes, this time it feels like those building rules might be loosened. Which I agree.
I think even the most incompetent government might look to loosen some rules under this situation. But why, he says. Whether it's one homeowner or 2,000, the moral question is the same. Should they have to wait years for government permission? Right. Whether it's one person or lots of them, should they wait years for government permission?
He says, this time it feels like maybe they won't, and the reason is important. Really? There's a reason? Okay. The reason is not moral or even practical. It isn't? It is bargaining power. Now the homeowners have it because of their sheer numbers. Oh, yes. Before, individually, they did not. You're right. An individual homeowner trying to get any of these rules changed, no way.
But this many homeowners who are high-functioning homeowners, these are not your normal homeowners. These are people with money and resources and talent, and there's a lot of them. So, yes. But here's the kill shot at the end from Dr. Insensitive Jerky. He says, if you feel that too, meaning that the sheer number of them will make a difference to the government,
It means in your heart you believe the government is not your ally. The government is at best your rival and more likely your enemy. If the government were on our side, our bargaining power would not matter. Dropping my mic. And we're done. That was my mic drop in case you're listening. That's right.
If the government were on our side, we wouldn't need massive bargaining power to get ordinary things that people want. Ordinary things. That's it. That's the frame you need to get into. The frame is the government's your enemy. As soon as you believe that they're your friend, you're not going to understand anything you say. Nothing will make sense.
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Chapter 8: How is the rebuilding process affected by regulations in LA?
So I take them off the table because they're in the category of, obviously, everybody wants that. But... Like you, it doesn't seem to explain it. Of course he wants what every CEO wants, but you don't see every CEO doing such a radical change in what looks like personality. I mean, it looks like a change in personality driving the change in business, doesn't it?
So you say to yourself, is that fake? Like, is it a fake change in personality just so we can get the CEO benefits of working with the government productively? I don't know. But then he explained this on Joe Rogan. And in my mind, I'm done with the mystery. This explains everything. It was fascinating. He said that, I think he said he had three sisters and then he had three daughters and a wife.
And so he lived in a completely what he called a neutered world where it wasn't male and female. There was no male. He just lived in a female bubble.
Then, apparently the way he escaped his bubble, and this is his telling, it's his own telling, that when he got involved in MMA, martial arts, and started hanging out with more, he didn't use the word, but manly men, he rediscovered the value of male aggression. because he was literally doing practice fighting or real fighting in a recreational way.
And that is sort of activated some long covered up or unexpressed part of him that was male. So his telling of his own transformation is that he didn't know how to be a man. Now, those are my words. But listen to yourself and see if that doesn't sound like a good summary. He didn't know how to be a man. Again, that's my interpretation. But the way he says it, that's what it sounds like.
And then he rediscovered that through interaction with other men. Now, once he saw both sides and he saw the male part, the female part, then he was in a position to choose which one made more sense, both for him and for the company. And he chose common sense. There's nothing about what he's changing to that is beyond just common sense.
So he'd been in the female world where there was sort of a feelings-based preference. Once he was exposed to the male world,
where what matters is if you win the fight what matters is if you win the fight and also what matters is if you win the fight but there's a third thing that matters did you win the fight the female world is not about winning the fight it's about feeling good make sure other people feel good and you can't you can't run a world that way you kind of need both you can't be heartless
but you also can't lose the fight. And I think there was some part of him that said, I think I'm losing the fight to get the feelings right. Again, this is my interpretation. It's always sketchy when you're trying to interpret somebody else's thoughts. But he explained it masterfully, so I would recommend you watch the Joe Rogan episode about that. He also said, and maybe this is the bigger story,
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