Chapter 1: What technical issues occur during the pre-show?
morning. So I don't know if you can see me or hear me on locals, but you can see me and hear me on Rumble and on YouTube and on X. So this is the pre-show. Normally the local subscribers are the only ones who see me before the beginning of the regular show. But... Trying to work out some technical problems, which includes trying to take off my jacket. All right.
Can anybody give me a sense of whether you can see me and hear me? All right. So the Rumble Studio worked to initiate the stream. OK. All right. I don't know if everything is working, but I've got a few things working. All right, like I said, this is the pre-show. So there's no show yet. This is generally just for the locals, people to chat with each other and share some memes.
I'm only seeing locals, though. OK. It looks like... We've got locals, we've got YouTube. Rumble's working now.
Chapter 2: How do AI chatbots influence voter persuasion?
I think X is working. All right. This is the point where if you were watching the pre-show, you would see me disappear because I have to go over to my printer. Hey, where you are? I'll be back. I got my notes. What time is it? I will begin the regular show at the top of the hour.
So what you're seeing, if you're just coming in, is normally I do a pre-show just for the local subscribers, but the locals app had a hiccup this morning. So I'm coming to you also on locals, but via the Rumble Studio, which appears to be working just fine. So this portion of the show is not real. This one is just so you can chat with each other or ask me questions or hang out a little bit.
Because I'm still in setup mode. All right. We'll set up the height. All right. All right. Lighting looks good. We've got notes. Well, I feel like I shouldn't start early because the people who have been trained to come at this top of the hour are going to be, hey, you didn't tell me you were going to start early. I'm going to Tim Pool it all over the place here. I'm Tim Pool.
And no, I'm not Tim Pool. Nobody's Tim Pool but Tim Pool. Yep, 0700, I'll start. I'll get serious. Watch me go from not serious to serious in seven minutes. All right, we got seven minutes just hanging out. If you have any questions, this would be a good time to do it. By the way, I'm so proud of myself. Oh, no. Oh, no, no, no. Damn it. My printer. Ugh. Yeah, my printer is fucked up again.
I was going to brag because I thought I fixed it and cleaned the drum and followed all the AI instructions. But it looks like a number of my topics I'm going to have to skip because they didn't print. Good Lord. What a day, what a day. All right, I can work through this, though. I'll make it work.
All right, while we're waiting, I'm going to check my oxygen levels, which sometimes are a problem, but they've been good lately. New drum is only, yeah. Boom. 97%. That's actually higher than my baseline. My baseline is 95 because I have asthma. I've never... I'll bet you that's the highest I've ever... Yeah, I think that's the highest I've ever gotten without any artificial means.
So that's good news. The power of positive thinking. Get a laser printer. It is a laser printer, believe it or not. It is a laser printer, but it's black and white. And... So I get a lot of angry questions about Candace Owens. Apparently, many of you believe that I should have a strong opinion about Candace Owens. Do I need to?
Why can't she just do her top-rated podcast and you can decide if you like it or you don't like it? What? What would my involvement be worth? You know, I don't know if the things she says will check out. How would I know? I know that she is very entertaining and very talented. And I like her personally. The rest, it's just up to you.
Yeah, but I just don't think that my opinion on the topic makes any difference. Well, while we have a minute here, would you like to hear a reframe from my book, Reframe Your Brain, which is one of the best things you could ever buy for a Christmas gift? This assumes you've already purchased the Dilbert calendar.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of the J6 pipe bomber's arrest?
It's called the simultaneous sip. And it happens now. Go. So good. So good. Well, let's check the technology news. the science news and find out what science is teaching us. Well, according to the MIT Technology Review, Michelle Kim is writing that AI chatbots can sway voters better than political advertisements. That's right.
If you let somebody interact with a chatbot, the chatbot will be more persuasive than a commercial. Does that surprise you? It should not. Because you're probably thinking to yourself, wait, Scott, have you not taught us that the documentary effect is very persuasive, even if it shouldn't be? Yeah.
The influence from having one point of view reinforced with either watching a documentary for an hour with no counterpoint would be very similar, I would think, to having a chatbot that also had only one point of view that it considered valid. So, yes, a chatbot should be more persuasive.
And I think we're also, as humans, we're also sort of built to assume that humans might lie to us because they have personal interests. Where if you knew you were talking to an AI, You wouldn't necessarily feel that it's so obvious that the AI had a personal interest. Because it wouldn't have a personal interest, but it would certainly be presented by someone who did.
So in theory, we should be just as suspicious of the AI as we would be of the person who built the AI. But I don't think we would. I think it would be more persuasive, just as the study shows. I think you would be more persuaded by the AI. Because you would think, well, the AI isn't going to lie to me, is it? Well, it might. Or it might hallucinate.
In other news, this is technology news, according to The Conversation, people who talk with their hands seem more clear and persuasive. How many of you already knew that? That if people talk with their hands... They can be way more persuasive than if they don't. But the key is you can't randomly use your hands.
So it's bad to be Governor Newsom and do jazz hands, because we always mock him because it looks like he's lying. And it looks like his hands are not even connected to his brain. I don't even know why my hands are doing this, really. I'm Governor Newsom, and I can't stop my hands. So that would be an example of not persuasive.
But if you were saying that something is huge and you use your hands, the hand would be compatible with the message, huge, something's going up. Something taller than this, that tends to be very persuasive.
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Chapter 4: How does Tim Burchett address NGO funding corruption?
So do more of that and less of this. Don't do that. All right, I know what I just did to myself there. That will get clipped. Remind me never to do that again. You have my permission to drive to my house and slap me if I ever do that again. Not really. Don't slap me. Let's see what else. Oh, here's a good one.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting, according to Daniel Axt, that the more oxytocin you have, the faster you'll heal. So apparently they've done tests where you can heal your wounds faster. Oh, my God, there's just like a gigantic mechanical noise right outside my door. What the heck is that? I'm glad it doesn't show up in the microphone. Okay, now it's gone.
But Wall Street Journal reporting that if you have oxytocin, that would be the intimacy chemical. If you're intimate with somebody you love, you get more oxytocin. Well, apparently... That's good for your healing.
Chapter 5: What benefits does climate change bring according to experts?
Now, I like to put a couple of things together here. So if you want to be more persuasive, you would talk with your hands and you would use that to persuade somebody to be intimate with you. Hey, wouldn't you like to with me? See how persuasive that was? If I had done that without my hands, would you even be tempted to have sex with me? No, not even a little bit.
Watch, this will be without the hands. Hey, how would you like to have sex with me? Absolutely nothing. Would you agree? That was not persuasive. Not one of you said, oh, that's a pretty good offer. I think I'd like to have sex with him right now, despite his weird looking hat. But watch. Now, I'm going to say the same thing again, but with hand motions. Hey, why don't you have sex with me?
You see how persuasive that was? I know, no, stop. This was just a demonstration. I know some of you are putting on your jacket and looking up my address and ready to drive over here, but that was only a demonstration. Calm down. Calm down. It may have elevated your oxytocin though for a moment. So if you see any wounds, they're instantly healing. That's for me. You're welcome.
Did you know that according to the University of Vienna, that pleasant sounding words are easier to remember? So they actually did a test where they gave people pleasant sounding words versus ugly words. You want to hear some ugly words? Moist.
Chapter 6: What are the current challenges with the Minnesota budget deficit?
Moist is on the list of... Moist. So, given that pleasant-sounding words are easier to remember, that means they're more persuasive. Because whatever tickles your memory the best tends to be also the most persuasive.
So when I'm writing, let's say professionally, if I'm writing a book, for example, the last step in my writing is I may go through and substitute more pleasant sounding words for words that are just a little ugly. I used to do public speaking a lot. One of the things I would do during my public speaking is I would ask the assembled crowd, which of these words is funnier?
So I'd give them two words that mean about the same thing. And I'd say, which one is funnier? Pull, as in you're pulling something, or yank, which is almost the same thing, not exactly. And the entire crowd would say as one, yank. There's something universal about words that sound right.
in general if you want to do humor it's good to have words that have some hard sounds to them yank because you get the you get the k but you also get the y so if you're if you're doing humor words that are not as often used or they use letters that are not as often used q's and z's and y's um that's usually funnier
So the last level of my writing is I'll change the words to funny words if it's supposed to be a joke, or I'll change it to pleasant sounding words. I'll get rid of words like moist. Now, I did write a whole book where I talked about moist robots. That did not catch on. It probably wasn't my best choice. All right.
You may have heard that the pipe bomber from January 6th, at least we think he's been arrested. We're pretty sure we've got the right guy, I think. As Jake Tapper described him, that white guy. So he says we found a white male who was the pipe bomber. The only problem was he is not white at all. He apparently is a black man with a weird mustache.
And I know, of course, obviously, why Jake Tapper assumed it was a white man. If I told you that somebody planted a bomb in the United States, would you think it was a black guy? You wouldn't, would you? Because I can't think of a single example of a black guy who planted a bomb in America. But if you said, have any white guys planted any bombs, I'd say, well, there's a Unabomber.
And I would just sort of assume it was a white guy crime. So Jake got a little ahead of himself there. And then also, did you see the way he was dressed? The pipe bomb. God, what is that loud thing? It's like a rocket ship outside my door. If you saw the way he was dressed in a unfashionable hoodie with unfashionable footwear, would you have assumed that was a black American?
No, because you're a racist. You're a racist. And you would have said, hmm, I think a black American would be far better dressed than that guy. So that's where your racism would have led you in the wrong direction. But the fascinating part about this story, Sean Davis had a good take on it that captures a lot of what you were thinking.
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Chapter 7: How does Choline impact brain health?
All right. You know Tim Burchett? He's a Republican representative from Tennessee. Apparently he has asked President Trump to cut off all funding for the NGOs, the non-government organizations that have often been accused of being giant money laundering fraudulent entities.
He says that he wants Trump to cut off all funding to the NGOs until they can figure out where all the money is actually going. Because a lot of it is going into people's pockets.
And it appears to most of us now, thanks to the good work of Elon Musk and Doge, we finally learned that there's a gigantic mechanism for taking your tax money out of your pocket and putting it in the pocket of strangers while pretending to feed the poor. And this is not a small operation. We're talking billions of dollars.
You know, I've told you I've been puzzled by how we could have such a big deficit because it kind of happened fast, didn't it? I mean, even if you allowed that the pandemic made things worse. Didn't it seem like we sort of instantly got to this impossible place where we couldn't pay our debts? And I have to admit, from the beginning, I've been thinking, is somebody just stealing it?
But it seemed like the numbers were so big that nobody could steal that much money. I mean, you can't steal a trillion dollars a year. And now I believe you could. I believe you literally could steal a trillion dollars a year with this NGO mechanism because any one entity might be getting a billion here, a billion there, but there are thousands of them, just thousands of them.
Yeah, you could steal a trillion dollars if you really worked at it. And apparently they were working pretty hard. So I have a generally good feeling about Tim Burchette, meaning that he seems like a good Patriot who wants to do the right thing. And, uh, I don't think that he's robbing anybody, so he wouldn't have anything necessarily that he needs to cover up. He'd be hard to blackmail.
I doubt, I doubt he's got a love child somewhere or something. So you need somebody who can't be blackmailed. Who's clearly a Patriot and has a real interest. in going after something like this, does that, does that include somebody like Tim? I think yes. Yeah. I've seen enough of him that I trust him.
I mean, it's just a feeling, you know, nobody can know for sure what's in somebody's soul, but it looks pretty trustworthy to me. So I think that would be worth a shot. Well, as Bjorn Lomborg often says, um, If you don't know who he is, you should. He's a, some call him an economist, but I don't know if he would call himself that.
But he's taught us to look at both the costs and the benefits of climate change. He does other things as well, but he's well known for that. Meaning that climate change might in fact make some things worse. But we always ignore how much better it makes things. And he gives us his latest example.
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Chapter 8: What innovative solutions are proposed for affordable food production?
It's a drone, people are saying, so the Predator is a drone. But isn't it enough that somebody would be in that position who knows exactly what is real and what isn't, who's actually been in the field, who's actually ordered attacks? If that person says it was routine, is there anything else to talk about?
The people who are acting like it's a war crime are just idiot Democrats who sit behind desks. I don't know that there's any military people who think it's a war crime. Anyway, apparently Secretary Hank Seth has asked the Navy Admiral who is overseeing those operations in the Caribbean to step down. because that officer had voiced concerns about what he called the murky legality of the attacks.
Do you think that if there had been some other president, do you think that this admiral would have had that problem? Given that we do know with high certainty that it was routine to have a double tap and even a triple tap if you needed it. Do you think that this Navy admiral didn't know that?
And do you think that if Obama had been president or if nobody had even brought this up as a potential issue, if nobody had ever brought it up, would he be worried about its murky legality? I don't think so. So was this a good firing? Yeah. Yeah. I think that was a good firing. All right. So, well, he's not really fired, fired.
He's just going to retire a couple of couple of years early, which is fair. I mean, it's not like he committed a crime or something. So a little bit of early retirement seems seems about that seems appropriate. I wouldn't take anything away from him. Let's see.
Let's let's look at Minnesota for a moment, so I guess the speaker of whatever their political situation is demouth speaker demouth talked about the budget forecast and that they're going to be short $3 billion so there's gonna have a $3 billion deficit. in Minnesota.
And Speaker DeMuth said, quote, last year, Governor Walz blamed increases in social services spending as the main driver of the deficit that was created. We now know that much of the increase was the result of fraud. Yep. As I've been saying, in 100% of situations where there's a lot of money involved,
and people are not watching it carefully, as in having a robust auditing situation, which is most of the government stuff does not have a robust auditing situation, that the inevitable outcome, inevitable. You couldn't stop it if you wanted to. If you have lots of money involved, and nobody's watching it in the sense of an audit, of course it's going to be stolen. Of course it is.
It's not ever going to go a different direction. There's one way that goes. Somebody steals it. And that's probably what's happening. But at least New York State doesn't have any problems. Oh, wait. Apparently Governor Hochul, when she was... What was she?
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