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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of human civilization discussed?
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Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go. Ah. So good. Well, after this show, Owen Gregorian will be doing his spaces. That's the audio-only feature of X. So if you're on X...
Check out Owen Gregorian's Spaces right after the show. Pretty soon after the show. Well, the Super Bowl is today. How many of you are watching the Super Bowl? How many of you couldn't care less about the Super Bowl? How many of you are only going to watch the Super Bowl to see if Elon Musk really bought $40 million worth of commercials to talk about Doge? I don't know that that's confirmed.
I didn't see any reliable report on that. So it'd be fun if he did, but I don't know that that's real. I guess we'll find out. Apparently non-alcoholic beer is surging. Did you know that? It's going to be a big non-alcoholic beer commercial on the Super Bowl. So I guess sales of non-alcoholic beer are up 26% in the last year. Non-alcoholic beer is up 26% in one year, just this last year.
Chapter 2: Why is non-alcoholic beer becoming popular?
There's something happening. Do any of you have an idea why this is happening? Because it would seem to me that life is pointing in the direction of maybe you should drink more, not less. You know, if you're all worried about the state of everything from climate change to politics to the deficit, why would people be drinking less? I mean, I'm happy that they are.
I think it's the whole alcohol is poison meme. Maybe. Maybe. Meanwhile, one of the AI companies called Pika Labs, they just introduced a new AI feature that blows my freaking mind, and you're going to see so much of this. They can now take you, a video of you, and drop it into like a movie or an existing clip, and the existing clip will interact with you. So the example was...
Somebody made a video of themselves walking inside an AI environment that looked real and actually high-fived an AI character. Just turned around and high-five. So the AI actually makes the characters interact with you in the AI. So you can high five a character and the character knows what you're up to and high fives you back. What?
Now, if you haven't seen the demo of it, it's just totally mind blowing. So how many times are you going to see somebody add themselves to some existing video like an old movie? You're going to be so sick of that. Remember when we were first able to do an image of a public figure and we all had to do it like 100 times?
But then once each of us did it 100 times, we didn't really need to do it 101 times and didn't really need to see any more of it. So you can get tired of it pretty quickly, but it's going to take a while because if you can drop yourselves into the Star Wars ship, Like, you could actually be high-fiving the Wookiee and then send that... I mean, think about the meme.
I think you could just do things like, all right, put me in the scene from Star Wars where I'm in the Millennial Falcon, is that what it's called? And have me high-fiving a Wookiee. And then it'll just appear. My God. Anyway, that's coming. Coming at you fast. Well, Trump did what only Trump can do, insulted the royal family, but made it so funny that that's the only thing we remember.
So I guess he was asked, Trump was asked on Friday, if he wants to deport Prince Harry. And he said he's not interested in deporting Harry. He says, I don't want to do that. I'll leave him alone. He's got enough problems with his wife. She's terrible. Oh, my God. Could we have a more entertaining president? I'm not going to deport him because he's got enough problems with his wife. She's terrible.
Now, if anyone else said that, you can imagine it would be like an international incident. When Trump says it, I imagine, like King Charles over there, like I imagine him just reading it and laughing. Like, ho, ho, ho, ho. How do you not laugh at that? It's just beautiful. Well, Senator Kennedy said,
was talking about some, I guess there's some issue about an island in the middle of nowhere that the United Nations wants the United States and maybe Great Britain to hand over to somebody. And so I don't even know the issue. But Kennedy was talking publicly and appealing to Prime Minister Starmer, over in the UK, and he says, put down the bong. He said it three times.
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Chapter 3: What new AI technology is introduced?
Anyway, here's another thing that Trump did that's funny. So you know he had this lawsuit against 60 Minutes. Apparently it was for $10 billion. $10 billion. And it was for the edits they did to the Kamala Harris interview on 60 Minutes. And the thinking is that they fixed her answers. They tightened them up with edits so that maybe she would do better in the election.
So Trump is claiming $10 billion of injury. But here's what he did. He just increased it to $20 billion after they released the transcript. Now, here's why that's brilliant. If the only thing you know is that he doubled his ask from $10 billion to $20 billion, and the only thing that changed is that we got to see the full video and transcript from 60 minutes, your automatic assumption is,
that his case is stronger, because he's asking for twice as much now, and the evidence is now public, and we can all see it. Now, I would agree that the evidence is public, and we can all see it. They definitely edited her answers to make her look more coherent. That definitely happened. I'm not sure he's going to win the suit.
because it just wasn't that different from the way the media edits anybody else. So that would be their natural defense is, this is sort of what we do to everybody. We make them look smarter as long as we don't change the answer. As long as it's the same answer, an edit is generally considered ethical, or at least ethical enough. The subject never likes it.
We like our entire quote to be there all the time. But I'm not going to complain too much. Did you know that in written interviews, it's not uncommon to put in quotes and attribute to a public figure such as myself something we didn't say? Did you know that's standard? How many of you knew that? That they actually put in quotes, like you really said this exact thing, something you never said.
And they do it explicitly because you didn't say exactly what they wanted you to say. So they say it themselves and they attribute it to you. Now, you think I'm probably making that up. Oh, but I've had it happen. Yeah, more than once. It's actually a fairly common thing. Now, if you were just a consumer of news, would you know that?
Would you know that it's not even unusual for a major publication to just make up a quote and assign it to you? Usually it's because they think it's a good summary of what you said. something like that. Maybe they'll take two quotes and stick them together because they sound good if you put them together. But they are made up. If you didn't know that, welcome to the real world.
Not every time they're made up. Sometimes they're just out of context. Anyway, here's a funny summary by Adam Carolla of how Biden and Harris destroyed the Democratic Party. Now, I've told you a number of times, there's nothing funnier than a good summary because sometimes the situation itself is just funny. But if you describe it with too many words, you can take the funny out of it.
If you describe it with just enough words, just barely enough words, it's hilarious. So Adam Carolla, you know, being one of the better communicators in the world and also professional humorist, he gives you his summary. of what happened to the Democrats, and I'd like to just read the whole thing. All right, Adam Carolla.
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Chapter 4: How does Trump humorously address Prince Harry?
In other words, if they didn't use their own judgment, you could come up with a bad solution. So instead of using their judgment, they just follow the rules. And if you just follow the rules, you can break anything. So in a weird sense, and this is sort of just a bad analogy, what the Democrats did was follow their own rules. And their own rules are, okay, black woman, higher than black man,
Black man higher than, you know, white man. So they've got this whole hierarchy of who's the most, I don't know, the most valuable person in the world, and then they rank them.
If they stick with that, they were guaranteed to paint themselves into this exact corner where they had to prefer the least qualified person who was possibly running because to do otherwise would be, well, you know, sort of racist, right? So they created a system that guaranteed their failure, and then they sat in it and ran that system, which guaranteed their failure. Guaranteed it.
You didn't know how, like you didn't know the specifics, but you could guarantee that if their main emphasis was identity over competence, the system would collapse.
And you could guarantee that if you told everybody they get to complain about the problems with their identity group and that that's the most important thing they should do, that you would have a group that could never coordinate well enough to mount an effective attack. Now, if they didn't have the entire fake news supporting them, there wouldn't be any Democrats.
The Democrat Party requires brainwashing. If they had good policies, they wouldn't require it. Even today, they're still confused because they think they had good policies and exactly the right messaging, and they just can't figure out. Maybe there's just so many racists. I don't know why we lost. They still can't figure it out. Unbelievable. Everybody knows what they did wrong, except them.
They're the only ones who can't figure it out. Well, so a judge blocked the Doge project from access to the Treasury Department systems. And why would they do that? Well, it's because they're not civil servants. The Doge people are not civil servants. So the judge is blocking them. Now, it's temporary. Okay. So this could last a week and then go away.
But what's the law that supports the idea that you have to be a civil servant to have access to a system when the president, who is the boss of all the executive branch, appointed them to go look at it? Are you telling me that if you had auditors and they were from, let's say, a private auditing company, and you hired them to audit the government, they would not have access to any of the systems?
So it's kind of ridiculous. So Musk is calling for an impeachment of the federal judge. I don't think there's any practical way to do that. I don't know much about how that works. But it seems to me that you probably want it to be difficult to impeach a judge. So I'm guessing it's not really something that's going to happen. But unbelievable. So here's a... Well, there's more.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of the Doge project?
The simplest thing that any system that handles money should do is make sure that every expense is documented or coded in a way that later you could sum them up and say, oh, look what we spent on this, look what we spent on that. and you'd know where your money went. It's pretty basic stuff. Every corporation would have it. There would be no such thing as a corporation that didn't do it.
So it has to be intentional. It has to be. Now, when I said that, I said it on X this morning, that it looks like the systems were intentionally designed for fraud because it's so nonstandard. to have an unauditable financial system handling billions of dollars, trillions, trillions of dollars. Unauditable? You couldn't possibly do that unintentionally. You couldn't accidentally do that.
There's no way you can get there unless that's actually intentional. Now, that sounds like pretty conspiracy theory stuff, but I said that on X, and Elon Musk said, yes, 100%. He actually backed up the theory. that it appears to be, you can't read any minds, but it appears to be designed for fraud.
And it's really obvious because nobody, nobody, nobody would build the system the way it is for any other reason. There's no other reason to not track your expenses. Can you think, go on? Let's put it under a thinking cap. What's the other reason for not tracking expenses in the trillions of dollars. Huh? Well, I'm stymied. I'm a professional creative guy. I can't think of another reason.
So if anybody can come up with any other reason that they would design a system, the only one we know about, that's big dollars and doesn't track anything, the only one in the world, well, the only one in the United States, You just tell me, because then I'd like to see how I'm wrong. Anyway, so it's the social... Actually, it was the social security system that is the one that Elon responded to.
So listen to this. The social security database... This is what Elon posted. He said, he just learned that the social security database is not deduplicated. Now, if you don't know what deduplicated means, it means that it allows you to have the same Social Security number many times over. Let me just say that again.
The Social Security budget is going out to all the people who have a Social Security number and have reached a certain age. Social Security. This system that does that You're not even going to believe this. You're going to think I made this up. Doesn't check to see if the same Social Security number has been used more than once. I'm not making that up. That's what Doge just discovered.
We didn't know that. The Social Security system that decides who gets paid what... doesn't know if you've used the same social security number 10,000 times. What? Now, this is the one where I said it looks like it's designed for fraud. I was conflating it with the treasury system, which doesn't have the right codes. In both cases, you would only design these systems this way, for fraud.
Can you imagine if you were designing the social security system and you didn't check to see if there's a dupe? The most basic thing you would want to check, the most basic thing. Now you might say, oh, but Scott, the system was designed so long ago that they weren't so smart. No, there was never a time they weren't that smart. There was never a time
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Chapter 6: How does the fentanyl crisis impact the economy?
So the fact that the candidate doesn't have direct control doesn't mean a lot because presumably the people in the PAC have enough coordination with the people who are not in the PAC to find out what messages the leader would like them to give. Even if it's not direct order, they would know. So it acts as though it's the same as if they were directing them, at least in some part.
So yeah, I can't trust anybody. Meanwhile, Rick Grinnell, every time Rick Grinnell is in the news, it feels like something good's going to happen. Have you noticed that? Like he's almost never in the news unless like there's some new, you know, victory. So he's, uh, he's saying that Radio Free Europe and Voice of America are media outlets paid for by the American taxpayers. But, uh,
They're filled with far-left activists, and he just thinks it's a relic of the past, and they should just be eliminated. And that's, yeah, should just be eliminated. So correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Carrie Lake is in charge of Voice of America. Now, what Voice of America and Radio Europe do is their propaganda... And by the way, that's not just my opinion.
That's literally what they're for. It's propaganda to other countries. But who's listening to the radio in 2025? I think people are just listening to podcasts. I don't think these could possibly make any difference. I mean, their reach can't be that important. And it's a bunch of leftists running them, so who knows if they're even saying things we want them to say.
So I think having Kerry Lake, head of Voice of America, you know, since she is pro-Trump, she would be the perfect person to wind it down if it needs to be wound down. So every time we identify another entity of the government that maybe should just go away, it's kind of exciting. It feels good every time we say, how about we just get rid of this entirely? It just feels right every time.
Well, let's see. Governor Newsom is telling the residents of the Pacific Palisades where the big fire was that you can't rebuild with the same houses you had because it would still be dangerous. They would burn down again where there'd be a risk. We have to rebuild with science. We have to build with climate reality in mind. Well, I have mixed feelings about that.
Number one, I don't like any delay to people getting their lives back. But it wouldn't really make sense to rebuild a fire hazard, would it? So on one hand, I don't like the fact that he's insisting there would be something that would delay things. On the other hand, doesn't it kind of make sense? But here's why this is an interesting story.
We're right at the exact place in history where AI should solve this problem. Here's what should happen. hey, AI, I'm going to give you the house plans and the dimensions of the house that used to be on this plot. Can you redesign one that has perfect fire control and climate change and is good on energy and has the same number of bedrooms, same number of bathrooms, or maybe add a bathroom?
Yeah, yeah, because we can go 10% bigger. So add a bathroom and maybe add a home office. And it will be 10% bigger, but that's allowed now. Now use the same property. Start with the old house as your guide. And now give me a whole new design that meets all of the building codes and is fire safe and climate risk minimized. Don't we already have that? Are you telling me that there's no large...
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Chapter 7: What are the challenges of the Social Security system?
Chapter 8: What humorous take does Adam Carolla have on the Democrats?
He says, shame on Swisher and Galloway, cruel, mean, and deceitful human beings that they are. Well, to me, they look like just two people with severe mental illness who got a podcast. And I say that with complete seriousness. It just looks like mental illness. It's hard to describe it. I mean, it would be hard to understand it in any other way.
So one of the most dangerous things in the country is that people with severe mental illness You can have podcasts. It's pretty dangerous.
So I guess MSNBC's Chris Hayes was on Bill Maher's show recently on Friday, and he said that this is part of the Democrats trying to find the right messaging because they still believe they have the right policies despite every poll showing that they're unpopular. You would think that if every poll...
showed that their policies are unpopular, like everyone, that they would say, huh, if every poll shows that they're unpopular, maybe we're unpopular. No, they've decided that the words are the problem. So instead of diversity, Chris Hayes points out that that word got politically failed. So they should change the word, but mean the same thing, to patriotic pluralism. Oh, well, let's see.
If I was racially, if I were racially discriminated against for 50 fucking years, which I was for being a white man, and they use that word diversity to racially discriminate against me for 50 fucking years. Fuck you, every one of you who did it. Mostly white people, by the way, just to be clear. The people who discriminated against me were white men trying to save their own asses.
So fuck every one of them. So I can say that because I'm a white man. So fuck every white man who did this to other white men. Patriotic pluralism. Now... Is this a case of somebody not understanding anything about the situation or the world or nothing about how persuasion works? I listened to my smartest Democrat friend the other day. He gave a compliment to Trump.
And I was like, whoa, all right, this is progress. You know, that there was actually a legitimate compliment that he gave Trump. Here was the compliment he gave. that Trump is really good at marketing. Wait, wait, what? That's it? He's good at marketing. So that's why he won. Because he's good at marketing.
You don't think it has something to do with the fact that he was backing the most popular policies in the country? You think that that's marketing? I mean, he's really good at branding and that stuff. That's true. But If you switch the policies, do you think Trump could have sold diversity and open borders and trans men in women's sports? Do they really believe that?
That all you'd have to do is do a little bit of marketing and you can make the least popular ideas in the country the most popular? What is wrong with them? And the only thing I can think of is that it's just cognitive dissonance. Because if they admit that they've been completely wrong about everything, how can they go back to work? Their jobs are to be right about stuff.
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