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Chapter 1: What is the significance of December 13th?
And then we're ready to go. Is everybody having a good Friday the 13th so far? You're lucky? Feeling lucky? Do-do-do-do-do-do. Ba-ba-ba-ba. Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. Not counting those drones.
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 margarine glass, a tank or Charles Stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. 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, that's right, simultaneous sip. That was so good. It makes me think the price of coffee should be higher. Oh, wait. The first story is that the price of coffee is higher than it has been in 47 years. Well, you know, Trump calls oil liquid gold. I think it's coffee.
Chapter 2: How does coffee relate to economic trends?
Yeah, I think coffee is the liquid gold. Let me put it this way. If you said to me, Scott, I cannot give you any oil today, I would say, really? But I could have it tomorrow, right? Yeah, you could have it tomorrow. But today, no oil. I'd say, all right, all right, whatever. But if you came to me and said, Scott, you can't have any coffee today, I'd say, I'm going to kill you.
But I'd be kidding because I'm against violence. Well, you would not be surprised to know that there's a big advance out of Korea, South Korea, obviously, in batteries. They found out that they can add water to a lithium metal battery and increases the lifespan by 750% using only water. I love the fact that nobody thought of putting water on it.
It's like the most abundant element in the universe. All right, not the universe, but recently on the planet. So you don't need to know any details about that. I always tell you the battery stuff in the context of if battery technology becomes, let's say, five times better, everything changes. And then there must be like
20 or 30 things that are going on, every one of them would make batteries 5 to 10 times better. So there is a real interesting world coming of robots and self-driving cars and everything else with batteries that last forever. Meanwhile, according to study finds, scientists are getting close to having a pill that cures diabetes. So Mount Sinai team is working on it.
So they figured out the mechanics of it, so they're pretty sure they can do it. They just need to test it on humans, so it's going to take a while. But I wouldn't wait for that. Meanwhile, Tesla... launched what they call their Actually Smart Summon feature in China. Now, I think what that means is you can summon your car from anywhere, and it will just drive to you so that you can get in it.
Imagine never having to park your car again. Can you even wrap your head around that? Imagine that wherever you're going, your own car drops you off in front of the door and then you tell it to go park itself and it just looks for a parking place. And then when you want it, you just summon it and it goes from its parking place to wherever you're waiting. Now that's pretty amazing.
But it looks like China has the function where they can call it to you. I don't know if a Tesla full self-driving can go find a parking spot. I don't know that it can do that. And also at the same time, Musk says that the Tesla full self-driving drove a car from LA to San Diego with zero interventions. Can you imagine going from LA to San Diego without ever touching the steering wheel?
That's pretty amazing. You know, I've told you before that my retirement assumption is that I could just go sit in the car and tell it to take me on vacation. And I'd say something like, hey, car, I haven't spent much time looking around in Arizona. Let's go to Arizona. And then the car figures out, you know, uses its AI to figure out what hotels I'll stay at along the way.
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Chapter 3: What advancements are being made in battery technology?
And, you know, if it's time for me to have lunch, it would be amazing. I just do my own work while I'm going somewhere. All right. Meanwhile, so the SpaceX headquarters, which had been in some other named city, is now officially named Starbase. So it's Starbase City. So we have a new city in America called Starbase. All right.
Now, I would love to know how Starbase was designed, because didn't Elon Musk have a lot to do with designing the whole city? Wasn't it a nothing until he decided it was a city? So I'd love to know what technique he used to design it to make it livable, because I would imagine some of that is transferable to other places. We'll see.
Meanwhile, the vigilant Fox is reporting over an ex that Neil deGrasse Tyson, he was on CNN, he was warning about the lack of trust in experts. So see how out of time this sounds to you. Imagine that this happened yesterday, I think. So this is a yesterday opinion. And ask me this. Does it feel like this is a 10-year-old opinion, like it doesn't apply anymore? But I'll read it to you, all right?
So this is Neil deGrasse Tyson. He goes, doing your own research could have ultimately lethal consequences if you're making decisions that affect your health and well-being. Does that sound like a 2024 or 2025 opinion? It feels like sort of out of time, doesn't it? But he goes on. This is a problem going forward. It's the loss of people's trust in experts. I need to clarify that a little bit.
I don't believe that the problem is the public's loss of trust in experts. It's not the trust that's the problem. It's the experts. That would be like saying, you know, in World War II, the real problem was people lost trust in Hitler. No, no, no. The problem wasn't they didn't lose trust in him. The problem was Hitler. He was the problem.
And the problem with me is not that I've lost trust in experts. It's the experts. It's the experts. So it doesn't even sound like this came from our time. It feels so off. Anyway. By the way, there's no right answer because he's completely right that if you ignore the experts, you're probably going to die if you ignore all of them. But if you follow the experts, you're probably going to die.
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Chapter 4: What is the latest on Tesla's self-driving capabilities?
So if you have two ways, you're probably going to die, following the experts and ignoring all the experts. Somewhere in the middle where you call your shots and say, well, I feel like it's safe enough to follow these experts, at least until I find out I shouldn't have. But maybe these other experts, I'll take a pass and wait this one out. So that's probably your only way of surviving these days.
You've got to make your own call, which experts to believe, which is almost like doing your own research. So there's basically no way to win. Speaking of the loss of credibility... John Nolte is writing in Breitbart that Leslie Stoll and Van Jones were on some... I think a lot of you saw the clip on social media.
It was some event where a number of news people were yakking about what happened in the election. And according to Leslie and Van Jones, that Trump's crushing re-election victory has driven much of the corporate media into despair. No, actually, I think that's John Nolte's take on it, that both Leslie Stoll and Van Jones are having a bad time with the fact that the legacy media has been disgraced.
And part of the thinking, I think, on that clip was that it's the change in technology that caused it. So in the 60s, the technology allowed you to do... allowed you to have a television show. In the 20s, it was easier to do a podcast. So the thinking is that the technology made it possible for all these people to compete with the mainstream media. And that's what happened.
All the extra competition. Do you think that's the full story? No. As Nick Nolte points out, it's the hoaxes. It's the hoaxes. If the mainstream media had been telling us the truth, or even if they'd been trying to tell us the truth, but got something wrong, we'd still trust them. I wouldn't need a podcast. No one would need to check the internet for news if the mainstream media were credible.
I mean, if I watched it and said, oh, at least they're trying to get that right. You know, they're not perfect. but they're at least trying to get this right. When I watch the news, I don't get the impression they're trying to get it right. I get the impression they're trying to pursue a narrative and a propaganda and brainwash you. I don't get any sense they're trying to get it right.
But when I watch a podcast, depending on which podcast it is, I often think, oh, there's someone who's humble about how much they know and how much they don't know, but is trying to get it right. We'll use Joe Rogan as the universal reference. Everybody knows Joe Rogan very clearly. You know, I can't read minds, but the impression one gets very clearly wants to get it right.
Sometimes he gets things wrong, like everybody in the world. But at least when I watch him, I think he's trying to get it right. I don't get that at all with the regular media. Well, and what is the outcome of all this lack of credibility in the media? CNN, according to the Post Millennial, CNN lost in ratings to the Food Network recently. CNN lost to the Food Network.
Now, who could have predicted that that would happen? Let me see. What do people like better? Delicious food, even if they're just watching it. Or bullshit, even if they're just watching it. Answer, it's a tough one. I think people like delicious food, even if they're just watching it. So yeah, that's not a big surprise. Food is better than shit.
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Chapter 5: How is Neil deGrasse Tyson addressing trust in experts?
that there's no obvious crime with the January 6th Committee. They might have been liars. They may have not done their due diligence. They may have been unethical. They might have been immoral. They might have been bad in a whole range of ways, which is what I saw. They seemed like very, very bad people in terms of what they were doing to the country.
But I couldn't identify anything that was specifically illegal. I'm no lawyer, so I'm not the source of that. So but I think Jonathan Turley said it'd be hard to find anything that was, you know, really a crime. And so I'm in favor of I think I'm in favor of them getting pardoned. The reason I'd be in favor of a pardon for the January 6th committee is only if there's definitely no crimes.
Because I don't want lawfare. No lawfare. But the next best thing to some kind of criminal action against them, if there is no crime, the next best thing is to give them a pardon. Biden giving them a pardon. Because when somebody gives you a pardon, everybody assumes you're guilty. Am I right? Everybody assumes you're guilty. So I'll take it. Yeah, give me the pardon.
So if you're not sure you can find a crime with any of these January 6th committee people, let's give them the worst case scenario anyway, a pardon. And then the entire world can say, well, why would you need a pardon? And that would be a good question. Turns out the answer is simple. There were no identifiable crimes. But Yeah, I'm never worried that there might be some lawfare.
So yeah, I'm weirdly in favor of pardoning them if there's no obvious crimes. It's a big if. It might be somebody who knows of a crime. All right, here's a test of your fake news spotting. Mayor Eric Adams met with Tom Homan, and I guess they were on the same page about the need to deport the dangerous illegal migrants. And Eric Adams later talked about it.
He did a little press conference after he said, quote, we have 500,000 children who have sponsors in this country that we can't find. Now, the implication is that half a million children are being trafficked, basically. But it's not what he said. He just said there are half a million that you can't find. Let me put that in context.
And just for the dumb people, in case there are any NPCs here, nothing I say next is meant to condone trafficking of children. I only need to say that for the truly dumb people who may have slipped in here. The rest of you already know that. But here's some context. As citizens of the United States,
who were born and raised here, there are now about 73 million minors in the United States, people under 18, 73 million of them. At any given moment, how many of them are not being supervised? Maybe 10 to 30 million. So, yes, it's bad that there are half a million children that we don't know what's happening with them. That's bad. It could be very bad.
It's also true that we have 73 million who are not watched that much. Do you know what your kid's doing on the phone? Do you know who they're texting? Do you know what they're doing after school for two hours before you see them again? Children are largely unsupervised all the time. And the trouble that they're getting in, even if they have a proper parent, they're still largely unsupervised.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of Biden's pardons?
Man helps his son. You don't need to ask any extra questions, do you? Do you need to look for any inconsistencies if somebody helps a family member? No. That's sort of what the whole family member thing is about. Of course he did. Let's talk about the drones.
Mayorkas and the FBI put out a document saying they had no evidence about the reported drone sightings posing a national security or public safety threat or having any foreign nexus. He said that none of the sightings so far have been corroborated by electronic detection, which they're making available to the locals. So how do you interpret that?
So Homeland Security and the FBI, they have no evidence that the sightings are a national security or public safety risk or have a foreign access. What's missing? There's a lot missing, isn't there? How about we checked with the military and it's definitely not one of ours, and it's definitely not one of the vendors who is trying to make a deal to the military.
Don't you feel like that's sort of obviously missing? Wouldn't that be the most obvious thing you want to say? It's one thing to say it's not Homeland Security, and it's not the FBI, and that they don't know anything about it.
it's another thing to say we asked all of the departments in our government and they all said it's not us that's what i want to hear i want to hear we checked with everybody who could even remotely possibly be involved with the drone and they all assured us that it's not them now even that could be a lie but it's so obviously omitting
the most likely people who would be involved in it, which is the military. I didn't think it was the FBI. I didn't think it was Homeland Security. I thought it was the military, their vendors, maybe not the military per se. What do you make of the fact that none of the sightings have been corroborated by electronic detection?
What I make of that is nothing because the drones, many of them were flying under radar, so that wouldn't catch them. And by the time the person with the fancy machines shows up, the sightings are probably over and some of them are just airplanes and some of them are private drones and stuff. So it does bring up the question if this drone stuff is nothing but mass delusion.
And yesterday I would have said it's not mass delusion, but there's mass delusion on top of it. meaning that at a minimum, 95% of the videos and the photos you see online are fake, a minimum 95%. Is the other 5% real? I don't know, but I know there's no detection of it. I know I haven't seen a picture that looked real yet.
So I have personally spent a lot of time looking at videos and photos that are allegedly in New Jersey and other places. I haven't personally... seen anything that looked real. And what I mean by that is I look at the video and I go, okay, an orb? How hard would it be to make a video with a fake orb? It'd be real easy. So I just, I don't know.
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Chapter 7: How does identity politics affect the Democrat Party?
So I need you to identify as gay for, could you do that for 10 minutes? 10 minutes? Yeah, I can give you gay for 10 minutes. Yeah, all right. Paperwork, fill down. All right. Obviously, the DEI stuff and the identity stuff is ridiculous bullshit. Obviously, DEI destroys everything it touches. This would have destroyed the NASDAQ because companies would have said, I'll just list somewhere else.
Or it would have created a competitor. Imagine if the NASDAQ just put itself out of business. by becoming so hard to work with that everybody said, well, I think I'll go to the New York Exchange. Or somebody else says, I think I'll do a startup of a new exchange, if that's even possible.
But the court slapped him down and said that they're not the entity that can tell companies what to do in that specific way. So they don't have that power. So they lost that. Did you see that the Inspector General report came out on the FBI's involvement in January 6th. And, of course, the news, predictably, split into two movies on one screen.
On one screen, the fact that there were 26, what do they call them, confidential human sources, so people who were not on the payroll of the FBI... but had already, before January 6th, had been sources. So they're basically spies within right-wing groups.
So 26 of those confidential human sources, but not FBI agents, this is important, not FBI agents, but confidential human sources were in fact in the crowd. And so how was that reported by the political left? The political left said, see, there's another conspiracy theory by the right that's been debunked. There were no FBI agents in the group. So I guess we can put that to rest, can't we?
So that's one movie. The other movie looked at exactly the same news and said, well, there it is. There's proof that the FBI was behind the trouble that happened on January 6th. Which one of them is right? Which movie do you like? Do you like the movie where it was proven that the FBI had nothing to do with it, or the same information proving that they were totally culpable?
It's the same information. The story is the same. How can we be reporting it as opposites? It's just what we do. It's crazy. So let me tell you my take on this. My take is this. Why would you believe in the IG report? They're making you think past the sale. Think past the sale. So if you're thinking, did those 26 confidential human sources, did they have anything to do with the bad behavior?
Or if you're thinking, well, maybe the FBI lied and some agents were involved. How would we know? then you're thinking past the decision. Here's the thing you shouldn't think past. Why would you trust an IG report? If you don't trust the FBI, why would you trust the people who gave the information to the FBI giving the information to somebody else to talk for them? Here's me as an FBI agent.
I've got a bunch of things here that I claim are true. Good try, FBI agent. Just because you say it's true, that doesn't mean I think it's true, right? That's just you, who I don't believe, saying this stuff is true. Sorry, sorry. I'm going to have to independently find out if that's true. So I'm going to hire an inspector general.
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Chapter 8: What controversies surround media credibility today?
Because my memory of it is that I've largely avoided that topic because I didn't think it was terribly important and I didn't think we'd ever know for sure. Does anybody have any memory of me saying something that's now debunked? Because I want to fact check myself. If I ever went too far and said, oh, clearly that was full of FBI agents, well, then I have to debunk myself. I don't think I did.
I think I held back. And the reason I say this, it's important for you to check my work, because a lot of what I do is make predictions. All right, well, Hamas is acting like they might be willing to temporarily allow Israel's military to be in Gaza.
in return for some of the hostages, but not all of them, and the thinking is that Hamas might have been waiting for somebody to come to their rescue, but once Hezbollah and Syria fell and Iran was crippled, they knew nobody would come, so now they might be getting more flexible, and there's some question about whether they'd try to do it before Biden's out of office, et cetera. Here is my take.
Let me teach you something about negotiation. This is not one. Trump is going to teach them what a negotiation is. And here's what I think he's going to do. He's going to say, releasing the hostages is not a negotiation. You're going to do that or we will destroy you with no mercy. And as well as we'll kill all the hostages. They'll all be dead.
but you'll definitely be dead and you will lose everything forever. So the way you negotiate is you say, these things are negotiable, but there's some things that are not. Hostages are never negotiable because the minute you negotiate for hostages, you're going to get more hostages. Negotiating for hostages increases the number of hostages.
not right away, but once they learn the business model works, more hostages. You absolutely have to kill the hostages if you want it to stop, meaning you have to say to Hamas, here's the deal. If you want anything, you've got to start with giving us all the hostages, and then we can talk. But without the hostages, every one of you is dead. Gaza will never be for the Palestinians.
There'll never be a Palestinian state. It'll never be a conversation. And you will never be free in any sense. We'll take everything from you. Everything. So if you treat the hostages as a negotiation, you just make everything worse. I think Trump's the only one who might even understand that. And the way he's talking, he did exactly what I said, remember?
He said, if those hostages are still there when I get sworn in, there will be hell to pay. He means that. That's not a bluff. Here's what I would not expect, that he gets in office and just starts acting like it's a regular negotiation and the hostages are part of it. No way. The hostages cannot be part of a negotiation. That's your opening bid, to be allowed to negotiate.
If Hamas wants to negotiate, that's the ticket. You pay that first. That cannot be part of the negotiation. Anyway, I guess Trump was asked if he trusted Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, and he had the best Trump answer. Quote, I don't trust anybody. Thank you.
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