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Chapter 1: What is the significance of Valentine's Day in this episode?
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Let's see what's in the news today besides Valentine's Day. Everybody got big plans for Valentine's Day? Yeah, me neither. You know, it's not optimal to not be in a relationship. But at the same time, it does save a lot of effort on Valentine's Day. It's hard to get Valentine's Day wrong.
Chapter 2: What humorous product is Gwyneth Paltrow promoting?
But given it's Valentine's Day, you might be interested that Gwyneth Paltrow's company, it's called Goop, that's the name of her company, Goop, they're selling a sex pillow, $200. $200 for a sex pillow. Now, I think the pillow is meant to give you extra control during sex with another person. However... There's no prohibition against having sex with the pillow itself if you don't have a partner.
So partner, no partner, the pillow can fill in. The only question I have is, how do you get the goop off the pillow? Sorry, that whole thing was just a setup for that bad joke. That's all it was. Put it out of your mind. You can't sell a sex pillow and call your company goop and then let me just ignore that. I'm not going to ignore that. No, no, that's a responsibility as a professional humorist.
I have to comment on that. Well, there's a fascinating new study in SciPost. Eric Nolan is writing. You'll never guess this, but thanks to science, we know this now. There's a study that suggests that the afterglow of sex can boost your relationship satisfaction for at least 24 hours while, and here's the surprising part, while sexual rejection creates negative effects for several days. Huh. Huh.
I wonder how many people they had to survey to get that answer. Because if it was more than one guy, they worked a little too hard. Just go to any guy. Do you feel better about your partner after you've just had sex? Yes. How do you feel when your partner rejects you for sex? Terrible. And we're done here.
If you can find even one man who says, you know, I kind of like it when she rejects me for sex, and it's kind of creepy when we have a good sex. No, never happened. Next time, just ask me. I can save you a lot of time. Well, according to The Federalist and John Lott Jr. 's writing, He says that the FBI doesn't just have a transparency problem. They're actually distorting data.
Now, what kind of data would the FBI want to distort? It's weird, isn't it? Why would they distort data? Well, here's an example. The data about how many situations are solved by citizens who have guns. Very political. If it turns out that it's rare...
a citizen could stop a crime or save any lives with their own personal handgun if it's rare well that'd be maybe a strong argument for not having guns some would say i wouldn't say that but if the number of people or the percentage of time that people with a handgun kept a crime or a murder from happening if that was a big percentage well that would really change everything wouldn't it
Well, it turns out that the FBI was reporting that only about 4% of the time the person with the handgun makes a difference. The real number, according to whoever the CPRC is, is closer to 35% to 40%. 35% to 40% of the time, if somebody has a personal handgun, it stops a crime or prevents somebody from getting killed, except maybe the perp.
so remember what i told you that i told you something that is really hard for anybody to accept the first time they hear it and it goes like this all data that matters and the matters part is important all data that matters is fake and it has to be it's not an accident it's because the people who control the data always have an interest, always.
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Chapter 3: How does the FBI distort handgun statistics?
Guess what the progress is in cleaning up the L.A. fires and getting rid of the debris and moving people back in? Doesn't appear to be any, according to Adam Corolla, who's got a house there. He says, remarkably, no progress has been made in the cleanup. No, his actual words are a 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 the power is going to be on. When can you get back to your place? The answer is no GD 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'll 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 corruption into every big move. And cleaning up LA is a big move.
They probably are just holding out for diversity and getting their cronies the jobs and figuring out some way to monetize this for the government itself. So I don't trust anything about the California government. They have not earned any trust. I assume that the reason it's not happening rapidly is just pure corruption. It could be incompetence, but I bet it's corruption.
And the corruption is they're trying to figure out, okay, how are we going to make it look like it's not corruption while it is? I think that's probably what's slowing them down. I have no trust whatsoever in my state government. Well, here's a story that I seem to wake up to every single day. It's like Groundhog Day. Here's the story.
There's a federal judge who blocked something that Doge wants to do. How many times has that story been in the headline? How many times has some judge done that? So here's what it should say. Presumed crooked judge blocks Doge progress.
Now, we don't know that they're all crooked, but it seems like it takes about a minute to figure out that somebody bought their appointment or their daughter or their wife is working on something with USAID. or there's some nefarious connection, or they've got a history of being a rogue judge. These are not normal judges.
And one of the things that Elon Musk says is if any judge anywhere can stop anything that Doge does, it doesn't matter where the judge is, anywhere in the country, he says, you don't really have a government anymore. If any judge anywhere can stop, really, it'd be stopping Trump, the president. And that's a good point.
How can we have a government when people who are not elected, you know, these appointed judges, I think mostly they're appointed, can stop anything from happening? And they can just keep doing it all day long. So somehow we have to figure out how to get freedom from the crooked judges.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of conspiracy theories in research?
Now, is that because he's preparing to run for president and he's just trying to look like he's a little bit interested in the border? That's what it looks like. Because otherwise, I thought he was all in on spending $50 million to Trump-proof the state. But if instead of Trump-proofing it, he's making it easier for the immigration people, I don't know.
Now, I have the voice of Mike Cernovich in my head reminding us not to say good things about Democrats who can't be trusted whatsoever, even if they get one right. So don't be too excited if a Democrat gets one right. It doesn't mean anything. You still can't have them in charge. Well, of course, RFK Jr. got fully nominated. He got approved. He got all the votes he needed. It was tight. But J.D.
Vance made up the difference, and he's in. What did Schumer say about that? So Chuck Schumer goes in public. Kelly Means pointed this out, that... He goes in public and he says, just minutes before the vote for RFK Jr., Schumer said that RFK wasn't qualified because he was never a pharmaceutical or insurance company executive, as the other former Health and Human Services secretaries were.
Did he really say that in public? He said in public that the head secretary Of the chicken coop should be a fox? Really? We'd like to put a fox in charge of the chicken coop? No. No, maybe not. Don't put the fox in charge. Maybe somebody who is exactly the opposite of a pharmaceutical or insurance company executive, like RFK Jr. Yeah, how about the opposite of that?
Is there anything that Democrats can get right? They actually are on record wanting somebody who would be the worst choice, you know, even generically, somebody who was a pharma executive. That's the problem, not the solution. You can't tell the difference between the problem and the solution. No, that's the problem, that they're too connected to pharma. Weird. All right.
Here's a thing I didn't know about. Did you know that President Trump appointed RFK Jr. 's daughter-in-law to be part of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board? Now, that's interesting because Amaryllis Fox Kennedy is her name, middle name Fox. She's a former CIA officer. She left in 2010 because she was disillusioned by the corruption of within the CIA.
Now, how much do you love the fact that somebody who is disillusioned by the corruption of the CIA is now on Trump's presidential intelligence advisory board? I like it. She must know where the bodies are buried. I like it. That's good news. She wants massive intelligence reform. Well, Trump's going to put on the reciprocal tariffs today.
I assume he's also doing some targeted ones, but it's a little unclear. So the reciprocal tariffs are that if any company or any country is tariffing us, he will tariff them back in the same exact amount. Now, I don't know if that really works because usually they pick our, you know, tariffs are usually strategic to an industry where there's some imbalance in the industry.
So I don't know if that works. But on paper, it makes sense. And I think Dana Perino said this on The Five. The whole tariff thing, we don't, as individuals, we probably don't know where it's going. But it's going to be real fun to watch. So that's kind of where I'm at. I'm like, hmm, reciprocal tariffs. And then I search my brain bank for whether that's a good idea or a bad idea.
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Chapter 5: What is Governor Newsom's stance on ICE cooperation?
I mean, if you're working on cost-cutting and then the Republicans are working on making it all a waste of time because they spent the money you saved, this is what I think's going on.
I fear that Congress is so broken that when they hear that Musk can find a way to cut a trillion dollars out of the budget, instead of saying, yes, let's bank that reduction and that'll reduce our deficit, here's what I think. I think our politicians, both Republican and Democrat, say, oh, we just got another trillion dollars.
And then they go to spend it, which is the opposite, the opposite of what you should be doing. But that's what it looks like. It looks like they're taking the doge cuts as a way to spend money on other things in the same amount as the cuts. Now, I'm just saying it looks like it. I'm not saying that it is. So. Can somebody in the government who's good at explaining stuff, could be J.D.
Vance, could be Elon Musk, could be Vivek if he's dug into it enough. I want somebody smart to give me a whiteboard and say, this is what we're going to spend. This is what we're going to cut. Here's how Doge works into it. Here's your deficit for one year. And then this is the deficit as it will go forward. You need to tell us that.
Because, correct me if I'm wrong, if I don't understand it as much time as I put into understanding things like this, and I have a background in this domain, if I can't understand it, there's no way that the average barely interested person understands it. So yeah, we need some help on this one, please. So I'm going to give a little grace period, and I'm going to back off of my heated...
cursing anger over this, because I might be wrong. I might be wrong. It's happened before, so I'd love to find out I am. Well, John Bolton is in the news. I love the fact that once you know the players, then when they talk, everything makes sense, but not until you know the players. So John Bolton says that Trump is a Russian agent working for the Kremlin, or at least he acts like it.
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Chapter 6: How are recent lawsuits highlighting discrimination?
He acts like a Russian agent working for the Kremlin, and maybe he is. Would it surprise you to know that John Bolton used to be involved in USAID? There are no coincidences. Bolton was part of USAID, or he got funded by it, or somehow he was involved with it. So how many of you think that Trump is an agent of the Kremlin? I don't think so.
Well, one of the things that Trump's getting done is that the military, in anticipation of Doge coming for them, are putting together their own list of things to cut. Now, I don't trust it. I don't trust it. But it's interesting that they're trying to get ahead of it. So apparently there's some weapon systems that even the military thinks they don't need.
You know, they might be outdated or whatever. And so they're putting together a list of outdated drones and vehicles and things that you could cut billions of dollars to. Now, I think it's a trick because they might want to be trying to head off Doge. It's like, oh, Doge. Yeah, you don't really need to dig into this. We've already done the work for you. Thanks for setting us on the right track.
We've already found $20 billion to cut out of the budget. We're good. But Doge might find a lot more than $20 billion. So I don't trust the military finding their own cuts because it's never worked before. It's probably more of a trick than an actual good thing. But we'll see. So the...
The Trump administration's buyout offer to get rid of government workers, I think they were hoping to get 100,000 people to sign up for the early package to leave their work. But they got 75,000 so far. I don't know if the window closed yet, but 75,000, that's pretty good. If you're shooting for 100 and you get 75,000,
That's really good because how in the world could you estimate how many people will take an offer? If you estimated it this well, you said 100 and you got 75, that's pretty impressive. I don't know. If you've never done this kind of work where you're estimating things that are impossible to estimate, this is kind of impressive if you got within 25,000. So that's good.
That's reported by Dylan Burrows at RSPN. But the other thing the Trump administration is doing is getting rid of what they call the probationary employees. So I guess if you get a job with the government... I don't know if this applies to the whole government, but you're on a first year probationary period. So if you don't work out in the first year, then I guess it's easier to fire you.
So after the first year, there might be some protections that kick in, make it harder. So they make sure that the first year, you got plenty of time to find out if you're bad at your job and they can get rid of you. But the Trump administration will use that same fact to find the people who just joined And they're typically the easiest to fire for a variety of reasons.
Now, you might say to me, Scott, the reason they hired these people is because they needed them. Yes, that's true. And let me say again, the doge process does assume that they will cut too much. It's just built into the process. It's not a mistake if they cut too much. It's the process. So the only way you can tell what really matters is is to get rid of it and see how loud the yelling is.
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Chapter 7: What are the concerns regarding the House budget proposal?
They'll just act like there's only one opinion. It's a charity. And mean old Trump is cutting the charity and children will die. Thomas Massey said at the event, I think, he said, maybe this was on X. No, it was at the event. He said, USAID funded an organization that fabricated evidence, which was used to impeach President Trump, which is what Schellenberger said.
And the deep state frequently funds regime change efforts abroad. But when it uses taxpayer money to undermine our own government, isn't that treason? So we have a member of our own government who's looking at a part of our government that we know a lot more about this week than we did last month. And he's saying, if you just look at what they did just on the surface,
They use taxpayer money to try to impeach an American president in a totally illegitimate effort using the same tools that we use to run coups in other countries. Isn't that treason? And the answer is, hell yes. Hell yes, it's treason. This is not a debatable point. How could it not be treason? Of course it's treason. It's the most treasonous thing you'll ever see in your life. So...
Meanwhile, Bill Burr, the comedian, he's got a podcast, and apparently he said he went off on billionaires, and he suggested that they were like rabid dogs who need to put down. So he believes that the billionaires are the reason that there are poor people. Now, I'm summarizing him. These are my words, not his.
But he thinks that if the billionaires were not hoovering up all the money, then there would be money for other people. How fucking dumb do you have to be to have that opinion? That's really dumb. I'd love to say, oh, he's not looking into this context or something, but that's just dumb.
Now, he seems smart in general, because when he does his comedy, it's very clever, and so it suggests a high intellect. But do you really think the billionaires stole the money? Does he not know that that Mark Zuckerberg wouldn't have any money if he hadn't created Facebook and created tens of thousands of jobs and a tool that's used around the world? How much money would he have?
Do they think that Elon Musk would have any money at all if he hadn't created multiple startups that added value to the country, electric cars that nobody else could build, a spaceship to Mars? He wouldn't have any money if he didn't do those things. What, were the poor people going to do it on their own? Let's see the poor people's rocket.
Oh, well, I guess mean old Elon Musk is hoovering up all the money for the poor people because they were going to build a rocket to Mars. The poor people were. And, you know, according to Bill Burr, now they got shut out. So I guess they can't build their rocket to Mars now. Old mean old Musk just sucked up all the money, basically stole it from the poor people. And you could just go down the list.
Which billionaire did not create the wealth that the billionaire has a small part of? And most of these billionaires don't even own the majority of their own companies by the time investors get their part and stuff. I don't know what percentage does Zuckerberg control of Facebook? I think he has some kind of voting special shares or something, but it's less than half, isn't it?
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