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All right good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization Thanksgiving style.
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So good.
Thank you.
Well, Paul, I appreciate you every day, but especially today.
Owen, appreciate you like crazy.
Marcella, Erica, appreciate you all like crazy.
I'm not naming everybody, but I could.
I could name every one of you.
I would be quite happy that I get to spend some time with you every day.
Well, President Trump has given us his thanksgiving.
Greeting Happy Thanksgiving to all, including the radical left lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our country, but who have failed miserably.
Now, the funny thing is that my Robots Read news yesterday, I anticipated this, and my joke was about Trump mocking people while he was saying Happy Thanksgiving.
Nailed it.
Joy Reid is telling...
People that they have no reason to spend time around Trump supporters and that they, when the holidays come, there's no reason that they should welcome them or be around them at all.
So in other words, Joy Reid said the Democrats should stay the fuck away from Republicans.
Does it feel like the entire universe is starting to tilt my way?
Joy Reid telling people to stay the fuck away from Republicans.
She didn't use the F word, but she could have, because that was what she said.
She actually said you should stay away from them.
Don't interact with them over Thanksgiving with your family.
Your family you shouldn't interact with.
Okay.
Well, I think that's just good, solid advice from Joy Reid.
Here's something I didn't see coming.
So, you know how for the last year or so I've been telling you that America needs to create a habit of taking a walk after dinner?
And you probably said to me, Scott, that's boring.
Stop saying you have to take a walk after dinner.
And now NPR has a big article about how important it is to take a walk after dinner.
What I didn't know is that apparently it's very common in Europe.
I guess it's a normal thing in Europe to take a walk after a big meal.
And it's good for your health in a bunch of ways, I don't need to tell you.
But did you know that on TikTok, there are viral TikTok videos extolling the virtues of walking after a meal.
Although they call them fart walks because they say that's a good way to relieve yourself.
So, when I started saying you should take walks a year ago, did you think it would be an article in NPR and then viral on TikTok by now?
I swear to God, I must be running this simulation, because I've never tried to make a big deal out of taking a walk before, and now a normal source and a TikTok source are both saying take a walk after dinner.
I've got a feeling that Kennedy is going to say something about that, too.
You will not be surprised that there's yet another big breakthrough in battery technology, carbon nanotube powders.
According to NoRidge, you don't need to know too much about it, except it's a South Korea company, and they made a big advance.
With new carbon nanotubes, battery technology, it's happening.
Did you know that according to the University College of London, they can now use AI to predict the outcome of neuroscience studies that Before seeing the data or before doing the study.
So all they do is they say, hey, AI, we're going to study to see if this is true or that is true.
And this is mostly, I think, in the social domain, not in the physics kind of experiment, but more the social psychology kind of domain.
And would you be surprised to know that your large language model AIs can...
Can guess the outcome about 81% of the time.
They don't even need to do the experiment.
The AI can tell them what it's going to do like 8 out of 10 times.
Now, they kind of do need to do the experiment.
But 8 out of 10 times, the AI just tells them what the outcome is going to be.
Now, do you remember how...
I always joke, almost every day, actually, on the show, that the scientists could have just asked me, because sometimes the answers are obvious.
Well, that's what the scientists said, too.
So the scientists said that the reason that the LLMs can deduce is because that knowledge is sort of already in the world.
So all I'm doing is looking at the world as I know it and saying, well...
The world I live in, I can tell you what's going to happen with that experiment, and then it does.
But that's exactly what the AI is doing.
The AI is just looking at the world and saying, well, based on everything we know about the world, I can tell you how that test is going to go.
For example, there was a separate study that showed that if you exercise, at least this is true in rats, but they think it might be true in people.
If you exercise, there's some kind of chemical that gets released in your muscles that's good for repairing your nerves.
So nobody knew that exercise was good for your nerves.
But suppose you had come to me and you said, Scott, we're going to do a study to find out if regular exercise is good for your nerves.
What would I have said?
Well, let me see.
Exercise is good for 100% of everything that's ever been tested for.
Is it good for nerves?
I'm going to say yes.
And that was the answer.
The answer was yes.
Well, they haven't done the study, but they think it's going to be true based on rodent studies.
But I'll tell you, they don't need to study.
It is true.
Well, Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO, I guess he was on a podcast with, you've probably heard of him, Scott Galloway.
Has anybody heard of Scott Galloway?
Yeah.
Stop it.
I'm not the poor man, Scott Galloway.
Well, okay, I am.
I am the poor man, Scott Galloway.
But he has a podcast.
And they're talking about teen boys who are falling in love with AI girlfriends.
And he says, you put 12 or 13-year-olds in front of these things, meaning the AI girlfriends, and next thing you know, of course they're going to fall in love.
Um, but here's the thing.
Aren't they thinking past the sale?
Aren't they just assuming that falling in love with AI is bad?
Now, you assume it too, right?
Don't you assume that falling in love with AI is bad?
But is it?
I'm going to be contrarian about this.
Um, And the contrarian is, I'm not so sure it's completely bad.
Let's compare.
Let's say a 12-year-old, 13-year-old, who is no longer hugged by his parents, because, you know, it's icky, they're 13, doesn't have a girlfriend.
And his guy friends are kind of jerks and don't invite him places.
But he could have this really good relationship with an AI. Are you telling me he's worse off?
Because remember, he can't get a girlfriend.
He's only 13 anyway.
He's not real popular with the guy friends.
He can work on that, but it's not going to make a big difference.
Parents leave him alone.
He's got no source of oxytocin.
Basically, it's a man starving to death.
Now, that doesn't happen to females at the same age, if you've ever noticed.
Have you ever noticed that kids hug a lot these days?
Have you noticed that with your teenagers?
Like when their friends show up, they're all like hugging each other like they've...
I mean, it's almost crazy.
They're very physical.
And I thought to myself, it seems like the girls are getting more hugs, of course.
You know, the girls will hug each other when they get together.
The guys won't hug each other.
But the guys will hug girls if the girls are up for it, if they're good friends.
So this 12-year-old or 13-year-old that they're worried about has absolutely no source of healthy human contact.
And if you tell me that that kid is worse off for having something that simulates human contact and might feed their need for company or less loneliness or something...
I'm just not so sure it's bad.
Now, if you said these AI girlfriends are good for everybody, I'd say, well, that's not true.
Obviously, that's not true.
But if you're telling me that they're bad for everybody, I'm not so sure.
I think we might find out that they're medicinal.
Actually, literally medicinal.
All right?
Prediction.
Prediction coming.
There will be such a thing as medicinal AI friends.
I'll be the first one to tell you this.
There will be medicinal AI friends.
Your therapist is going to say to you someday, have you tried one of the AI friends?
It's going to happen.
It's going to be medicinal, just like weed.
All right, Trump, according to the Daily Caller News Foundation, Trump will redirect billions in unspent funds from Biden's climate laws to, quote, real infrastructure.
Well, that sounds positive.
Then I saw another story that said that Trump could cancel $1.4 trillion of Biden expenses on day one just with executive orders.
And my first thought was, whoa, It's going to be easier than I thought to get to that $2 trillion they have to cut out of the budget.
And then you find out what the money is for.
And it's all stuff that people are going to want.
And it's also over 10 years.
So it's not really $1.4 trillion.
It's $1.4 trillion over 10 years.
So it's going to be kind of hard to hit that cost reduction.
We'll see what happens.
Well, the prosecution of Daniel Penny is looking like a travesty, some kind of...
It's just weird, as Cernovich pointed out this morning, the news is pointing out too, that the prosecutor is calling Daniel Penny the white man.
And throughout the trial, he referred to him as the white man.
Now, keep in mind, this is a trial in which 100% of the people involved know exactly who Daniel Penny is by name.
Why would he refer to him continuously as the white man?
Well, let me tell you this.
We don't know how this is going to turn out yet, but I'm going to judge my opinion of America on this case.
Now, I realize America is a lot more than just this one case, but I'm going to judge America on this.
And because if he goes down...
America is broken, and we didn't fix it.
He can't go to jail.
I can't live like this.
We don't have to live like this.
If he gets prosecuted, we should surround the jail.
I mean, we should put a million people on the streets and say, stop.
Stop.
Stop.
This is purely racist.
Now, because the prosecutor is obviously racist, it seems like they can immediately appeal it and maybe that would be enough.
So it's possible that the normal legal process will get to the right place, even though it's a travesty so far.
But honestly, I'm just going to judge America on this.
If you can't get this right, America, you've got some work to do.
All right.
So, R.F. Bobby Kennedy was on some video podcast.
He was talking about what the CDC doesn't tell you about the flu shot.
Now, remember...
My current opinion of medical data is that it's all wrong.
All of it.
Just all wrong.
Now, some of it might be coincidentally in the right direction, so maybe it's good for you to take those things.
But honestly, I don't think that medical science has a way to know what works.
That's my current opinion.
There's some things that are so obvious that they could get that right, right?
If it's the difference between living and dying, they can tell if you died or not.
So those they probably get right.
But I've got a feeling that something like 60% of all the meds that we routinely prescribe, the data is bullshit.
That's my current opinion based on everything I know, and I'll tell you more about that.
But here's what RFK Jr. says, quote, People who take the flu shot are protected against that strain of flu.
Now, you already know that the flu becomes one thing, and then it rapidly changes other things.
We're talking about the regular flu, not COVID. Just a regular seasonal flu.
So that by the time you get the shot, you're all aware that the shot no longer applies to that flu virus, right?
Now, that you already knew.
But on top of that, according to RFK Jr., and remember...
I don't believe any data, any medical data.
So I don't believe his, but I also don't believe the opposite of his, because there's nothing credible in this field.
He says that if you got the flu shot, you're 4.4 times more likely to get a non-flu infection.
It injures your immune system.
So that you're more likely to get a non-flu viral upper respiratory infection.
And apparently there are multiple studies that all have the same conclusion.
Had you ever heard that?
Now, I don't think he's lying.
But, you know, data, I'm not sure I trust the data, but I'm sure it exists.
You know, it may be wrong, but I'm sure it exists.
Do you believe there are multiple studies Showing that the ordinary, regular flu shot is not just bad for you, but way bad for you, and doesn't do anything good for you.
Now, I stopped getting the regular annual flu shot maybe 20 years ago.
I don't remember exactly when.
Or maybe I got one of them in between.
Maybe I got one of them.
I can't remember.
But I stopped trusting them.
Because when I found out that they make the flu shot to take care of a virus that it doesn't even apply by the time the season comes around, I thought, wait a minute.
Am I reading this wrong?
Am I really reading that I'm supposed to take a flu shot for a flu that doesn't exist and can never exist again and everybody knows it?
And the answer to that is yes.
That's the actual answer.
Now, you all know that, right?
You're all aware that the flu shot doesn't even apply to the flus that are current when you take it.
It applies to the flus that were current when they made it.
And that could have been a year ago.
You all knew that, right?
Now, if I'm wrong, fact check me.
Because I'm not your doctor.
So ask your doctor.
Don't trust me about anything medical.
And also don't trust your doctor.
No, I'm just kidding.
Don't trust your doctor.
No, just kidding.
Just kidding.
All right.
So that's pretty scary.
All right.
Are you ready for this one?
This is such a fun Thanksgiving because the news is all...
Kind of confirming things that you suspected, so it's going to make you sound smart.
Would you be surprised to hear, and I saw this on the George account on X, and again, you should follow George.
He's just terrific in the independent reporting.
There is really clear video, security video, of a worker stealing security access keys from the Maricopa Voting Center.
Like really clear.
You can see his face clearly, his whole body.
You can see him walk over to where the key fob is.
You can see him pick it up.
You can see him take it.
I think he took more than one.
Went to another desk, took another one.
Now, it looked to me like he was handing them to somebody, another worker.
So here's the question I would ask.
Is he really stealing them?
Because that's what the story said.
Or did somebody say, make sure there are no fobs left out tonight because the janitor might steal them?
So could it be that the temporary worker is unfairly accused and whoever he was handing it to, who was also some kind of employee there, had asked him to go collect any that were laying out To improve security instead of steal security.
So I'm going to put a question mark next to this one, because if we learned anything from the Ruby and whatever it was case, you can't always tell what's happening on a video.
Video is not...
Thank you.
I'm being prompted in the comments.
The employee in question Is a black man.
Do you think that had anything to do with how people are receiving it?
Well, I think George is black himself.
He's the one who's reporting on it.
So there's no reason that race should be any part of it.
But I wonder...
I wonder if people are a little bit more likely to think something's up because it was a black man.
You know, I'm one who says we shouldn't have affirmative action in DEI, but that doesn't mean that systemic racism isn't real.
There's still a little extra distrust in some categories.
So I'm going to put a question mark on that one.
I don't think that I can guarantee that we saw theft, but we could guarantee that we saw somebody who worked there picking up fobs and handed them to another employee.
I think it's an employee.
Here's something that I'm feeling a little bit alarmed about.
So I've told you publicly now several times That if you're a Trump supporter, you have a responsibility to make sure that he doesn't lawfare the other side.
Because we can't have a government where Trump gets lawfare practically to death, survives, and then just turns into the monster that he was trying to defeat.
That's not cool.
So as soon as you see even a whiff of anything that feels like potential lawfare, I think we have a responsibility to call it out and say, well, not in my name.
Don't do this in my name.
Now, here's where it gets, and I haven't seen Trump do that, by the way, but here's where it gets in the gray area.
Elon Musk is definitely doing that.
Now, he's not elected.
And he has free speech.
So it's a little gray area.
But he has said recently that on Wednesday, I guess he suggested that Lieutenant Vindman committed treason and, quote, will pay after Trump gets in power.
He says Vindman's on the payroll of the Ukrainian oligarchs and committed treason against the United States.
All right, here's my problem.
Elon, in his current role, is no longer just a citizen talking about the news.
If he were just a citizen talking about the news, I'd say that's okay.
These are unproven allegations, but it's within the realm of free speech.
When you're as powerful as Musk is now...
And I don't know that he is fully understanding his position because it happens so fast.
It takes a while to understand, you know, something's changed in your own situation.
When I see somebody who some people think is the, you know, like shadow president, I don't think that, by the way.
Trump is firmly in charge for sure.
But other people see him as like almost a co-president at this point.
And again, that's not my opinion.
He's not a co-president.
But he has to know that he's seen that way.
And when you're seen that way and you call out the person and the crime before any kind of legal process is started, I say this is too far.
So here's my opinion.
Elon Musk?
Too far.
I'm not comfortable with this.
Now, is it legal?
Yes.
Is it free speech?
Yes.
It's completely within the rules.
But I'm not comfortable with it.
If you give me a name in a crime before the legal system has determined the crime is there, no.
Not in my name.
I don't want to be associated with that.
Now, I'm a private citizen, and I'm not associated with the government.
So I do think Vindman has some explaining to do.
But I'm not aware of a specific crime.
I'm not aware of one.
So that's why I'm so uncomfortable.
If it were somehow some super obvious thing, then maybe.
But on top of that, Elon Musk has also said about Reid Hoffman that he's concerned that Reid Hoffman has some explaining about Epstein Island.
Again, if he were speaking as a private citizen, and technically he is, that's okay.
I mean, it's going pretty far.
You better have good lawyers, but he does.
But when he's this close to power, and he calls out the name of an individual who's a political adversary, and essentially accuses him of the worst possible crimes, I'm not comfortable with that.
Not in my name, right?
So America is my brand.
So Elon Musk is part of what makes my brand and how I feel about America.
And I'm over-the-top positive about Elon Musk and the work that he's offered to do at great personal expense and risk to help the government.
So I couldn't possibly be more positive about Musk and everything he's doing for the country.
But...
He deserves our useful guidance, meaning that the opinion of the country matters.
Sometimes you need to ignore the opinion of the country to get something done, but this isn't one of those cases.
This is one of those cases where listening to the public might give you a little advantage.
So I just want to go first, in case anybody else was having the same feeling.
This is a little too close to lawfare.
It's all legal.
It's all legal.
But just understand that when you get this close to power, everything changes.
And you need to adjust your speaking to the change.
This is something I learned the hard way when I first became famous.
I had the experience of being an ordinary citizen, and then suddenly the news was talking about me a lot because of Dilbert.
And so I became a public figure.
And what I didn't realize at the time is that you can't talk the same way when you're a public figure.
So all of the little opinions that I had when I was, you know, literally just one of the anonymous people in the public, they were all fine.
So I could say, for example, that I was good at something and that I was bad at other things.
And people would say, oh, you're good at that, you're bad at that, got it.
But once you become famous for doing something that's working out well, you can no longer say you're good at something.
Because if you are, you're like some egomaniac.
And I'd be thinking, wait a minute, it's just the same opinion I've always had.
But now it sounds gross.
Now it sounds like I'm just an asshole.
Oh, you made it, but isn't that nice?
You asshole.
So...
I think I've told you this story.
I had a friend who was part of a large company you've heard of that went public at one point, and he made, I don't know, maybe half a billion dollars one day.
So he went from just somebody in the neighborhood who had a pretty good job to half a billion, and by now it would be at least a billion.
And actually asked me for advice about how to navigate suddenly being in this situation.
And I told them, here's what you got to do.
If you're walking outdoors and you step in some dog shit, that's your story.
You go with that.
You're on the way to a party and you step in dog shit.
So when somebody says, hey, how you doing?
You can't give your honest answer.
Because the honest answer was, I flew in in the private plane that I purchased.
I just came in from my ski chalet in the richest part of the country.
And I think I'm going to have a massage later.
Yeah, I made that part up.
Because you would just want to punch him.
Because this whole family's life went from ordinary to, oh my God.
So instead, I said, talk about the dog shit.
If you walk in, they go, hey, how you doing?
Oh my God, I just stepped in dog shit.
Do I smell bad?
It's going to be terrible.
Blah, blah, blah.
And then a funny thing happened.
A mutual friend showed up, and as soon as the mutual friend walks in, he sees the newly rich mutual friend.
He goes, hey, how's it going?
And the newly rich friend looks at him, and without cracking a smile, he goes, I just stepped in a bunch of dog shit.
And the other friend goes, oh, that's too bad.
And the funny thing is, he never told them it was a joke.
And it worked perfectly.
It worked perfectly.
Because it immediately took the rich guy down to everybody else.
Everybody steps in dog shit.
So my advice to Elon Musk is, obviously he's learned how to communicate as the richest person in the world.
Because he's had some practice.
But he hasn't had a lot of practice Being basically a roommate in the Oval Office.
If you're going to be a roommate in the Oval Office, you're part of my brand.
And it's my request, because I have great respect for what he's doing, but it's my request that you'd be real careful about the lawfare.
That's important to us.
All right.
Speaking of medical stuff, I can't give you the details on this, but I did a deep dive yesterday because somebody sent me a provocative document and said, hey, you should read this.
And I thought, maybe I will.
And there's a reason I can't give you the detail.
I hope you'll accept that.
But it was about a big medical field, something you've heard of, a well-known medical field, and how they...
How they look at the data in that field.
And it took me about a minute to realize the entire field was fake.
And I can't tell you what it is because I'll go to jail and people will stop talking to their doctors.
But if you think you've seen the tip of the iceberg, I don't think you have.
I think we have only scratched the surface.
When we're talking about these annual flu shots that RFK Jr. says he has data that says it's bad for you, I don't know if that data is right or wrong.
But I could tell you the stuff that I saw was clearly in the domain of misinterpreted statistics.
Like, really misinterpreted.
Like, even you and I could tell.
It wouldn't be hard to tell.
You just have to look what they did, look how they talk about it, and you would say, oh my god.
You know how concerned you are about the number of people who transitioned, who maybe wish they wouldn't?
And you say to yourself, this is extra bad because it was surgery and, you know, permanent changes.
It's that level.
It's not that topic.
It's a different topic.
But it's that level.
There is something going on in the United States at a level of medical malpractice that if what I'm seeing is true, I'm not going to be able to stay quiet about it.
I don't know if it's true, but man, there's some shit coming down the pike.
Anyway, let's talk about daylight savings time.
Did you know, according to Andrew Huberman, PhD, that the chief of the section on light and circadian rhythms...
Can you believe that the United States employs somebody whose job is chief of the section on light and circadian rhythms?
Okay.
I think that's a government job.
Said that the taxpayer-allowed discoveries, now that's Huberman's way to say that your government taxes paid for some studies, they apparently all make it clear that changing the time is bad for people because it takes people too long to adjust and the hit on their bodies isn't worth the squeeze.
The juice isn't worth the squeeze?
Yeah, let's go with that.
So does that sound right to you?
Somebody's saying 100% of cancer patients die of treatment, not actual cancer.
I don't think that's true.
Because if you look at just breast cancer alone...
I mean, that's curable in many cases.
So somebody in the comments said that cancer is killing people with the treatment, not the cancer.
I think there might be some of that.
I don't know what percentage, but clearly there's some cures.
I feel confident there's some cures that work.
Anyway, what do you think?
Daylight savings time.
I have mixed emotions, because every time the time changes, I feel like I'm happy about it.
I don't realize that I'm also unhealthy, but I have weird sleeping patterns, so it doesn't feel like it's killing me, but maybe it is.
Anyway, again, it's medical information, so I don't know how accurate it is, but I'd be open to not changing it.
It's something we could experiment with, right?
Couldn't we do five years of...
Oh, you want to hear a high ground?
Here's a high ground.
Suppose you're in a government meeting and somebody says, we should change our policy and not do daylight savings time.
And somebody else says, yes, we should, and here's our reasons.
And then you've got two people who both have reasons.
And they both sound pretty good and you don't know which way to go.
So do you make a change?
If you've got arguments on both sides, do you make the change or not?
Well, here's how I end that meeting.
I wait till everybody's tired and they realize they can't reach an agreement.
And then I say, at the end of the meeting, this is called the high ground maneuver.
There are lots of forms of it, so it's not always exactly like this.
Here's the high ground.
I wait till everybody's tired, five minutes left in the meeting, and I go, you know what we should do?
Since it doesn't look like we're going to be able to agree whether this works or not, why don't we try it for five years?
And then really measure it.
And then everybody shuts up.
And they all look at each other like, why wouldn't we just try it?
Does anybody have a reason we couldn't just try it for five years?
Then we'd know for sure.
That's the high ground.
You sound like the dumbest person in the room if you say for sure you shouldn't do it or for sure you should.
As soon as somebody says, well, why don't we just try it for five years and do a good job of measuring the difference?
Everybody else sounds dumb.
Because even if you're forward or against it, you probably are not that much against testing it.
That's the high ground.
All right.
Three weeks after the election is over, Democrats are pulling ahead in California.
So I don't know.
Is there one or two seats that went from, oh, Republicans are ahead, but we're still counting.
Oh, the gap is closing a little bit.
But we're still counting.
Oh, that gap is closing a lot now.
Still counting.
Oh, it's about time now.
It's about time.
Well, look what happened.
Can you believe it?
The Democrat got a few more votes, and I guess we're done counting now.
Now, it's possible.
It's possible that there was nothing untoward about this situation.
It's possible that That there's just some inefficiency, some special cases, something came up that's not normal, and they're just doing the best they can to deal with a little delay and maybe some obstacles.
That's possible.
Don't you think?
It's possible.
It's just an innocent mistake or an innocent inefficiency that got the right answer, but just took a little while.
Maybe.
But here's my take.
If my state, this is my state, California, if my state wants to send me a signal this strong that they're cheating, I'm not going to fucking ignore it.
Okay?
Now, I don't know what's true, but if you send me a signal this strong that you're cheating on the election, I'm going to believe you're cheating on the election.
And I'm not going to feel bad about it if later I find out I'm wrong.
Because there's two problems here.
One is, are you cheating on the election?
Separate problem.
Two, why the fuck are you making it look exactly like you're cheating on the election?
Why the fuck are you telling everybody you're cheating on the election, even if you're not?
I don't know if you are.
But why are you making it look like you are?
You don't have to do this.
There's no fucking reason you have to do this.
I told you I wouldn't swear because it's Thanksgiving.
Send the children away.
Yeah, now, so I'm going to make the assumption that California's race was rigged.
My reasoning is that they're sending the signal that's rigged.
They're sending the signal.
Don't tell me I don't know what really happened because I don't.
I agree.
I don't know what happened.
I just know that California's government is sending me the strong signal that they're cheating.
So that's what I'm going to believe.
I've lost all credibility in the election system in California.
So great job, guys.
Meanwhile, in Australia, the parliament has banned social media for children under 16. Huh.
What do you think of that?
First impression?
Yes.
Second impression would be, well, they're going to use it anyway.
They'll just get, I don't know, VPNs or lie about their age or something.
Use somebody else's account.
I don't know.
Definitely worth trying.
So, high ground.
Let's try it.
Now, we don't need to try it necessarily.
We can wait a year and see if it worked in Australia, and if there's something that we'd have to tweak to make it work here, maybe.
But I love the fact that it's being experimented with.
Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg reportedly visited Mar-a-Lago to meet with Trump.
Of course, Because we're all bad people, we say stuff like, is there to kiss the ring or kiss Trump's ass and beg for forgiveness?
I don't think that's what's happening.
Now, clearly, it's the right move.
If you're Zuckerberg...
And you run a company that's that important to the conversation in America, yes, you should be on a first-name basis with the president, all the presidents.
You have that kind of job where you should step up, say, let's have a meeting right away.
So should Jamie Dimon, so should everybody who runs a social media network.
So it's no big surprise, but the extra element is that Zuck seems to have maybe transitioned from a crazy lefty supporting guy to a, hey, maybe a little common sense makes sense, and maybe a little common sense makes you look like you're a Trump supporter in 2024. So he's never said he's a Trump supporter, and I don't think he will.
I think it'd be a mistake.
He should just try to keep neutral no matter what he thinks privately.
But I like everything about this.
And since I'm in optimist mode, I'm going to say that probably what Zuckerberg is saying to Trump is This is just speculation.
I can't read anybody's mind, so I don't have any special insight.
But here's just my take from both characters.
Trump can work with anybody.
That seems to be true.
So Trump is always ready to say, bygones are bygones.
What can you do for me now?
So I think Trump was transactional.
Maybe he gave him a hard time for things that he did, because that's Trump.
But ultimately, how he decides to go forward would almost certainly be transactional.
In other words, he would want Facebook to be doing the right things and make money for the country and just be good citizens, basically.
And I think Zuckerberg may be influenced by the pirate ship.
He's watching people who are not typically Republicans, traditionally, Come over and add tremendous, tremendous value.
Like the kind of value we've never seen, really.
I've never seen anything like it.
If you look at what RFK Jr. wants to do, what Elon wants to do, what Vivek wants to do, even what I assume Tulsi Gabbard will do in her new job.
These are contributions to America's well-being.
They're just incredible.
These are people who are putting their bodies on the line.
They're risking their actual lives.
Their reputation, their lives, their happiness, what could be their retirement in at least one case.
And I've got a feeling that the animal spirits of the country...
Probably are affecting Zuckerberg in exactly the way you'd want them to.
Meaning that I wouldn't be surprised if Zuckerberg is trying to find out how he also can help the country.
Like, what can we do to work together?
You know, how do we make this work without distorting free speech or anything else that we don't want to do?
So my guess is that Zuckerberg and Trump is a plus.
That's my guess.
I think Zuckerberg wants to be...
He's very pro-America, and he's seeing that America is leaning in one direction hard, and he could be part of making that great.
He could be a really big part.
So I think this is just all positive to me.
Well, here's a confirmation of something that...
I can't remember if I said this out loud...
Maybe you can tell me if I predicted this out loud, those of you who've been watching.
But Mark Andreessen was on Joe Rogan's show.
There are so many good clips that came out of that.
If you see any of the clips of Andreessen talking to Rogan, just watch all of them.
Every one of them is a winner.
Every single clip that came out of that is like, what?
Really?
It's really good.
But anyway...
Andreessen said he had the most alarming meetings he's ever been in recently, in which it became clear that our government was telling the big investors, don't invest in small AI companies because we're not going to allow them to succeed.
There will only be a few big AI companies and they will be completely controlled by the government.
And that's how it's going to be.
Now that's actually something that apparently the government is telling the top Silicon Valley investors, so there's no ambiguity about it.
AI will be controlled by your government.
That conversation's over.
So there you go.
So here's the question.
Did I not tell you A while ago, that every government controls its news entities.
Sometimes you just don't know it.
But whether you're a Democrat government or parliamentary or a dictator, You really can't survive without completely controlling the news.
So that's what we have in America.
It's what we have everywhere.
It's controlled news.
You have to keep your country sort of in the same direction and sort of in the same opinion or the country falls apart.
And the only way to do it, apparently, is to have fake news all the time.
But on top of that, I believe I speculated out loud, but this is what I want to ask.
Did I speculate out loud that AI would have to be, it would just have to be completely controlled by the government?
Did I ever say that out loud?
Or did I just think it really hard and thought about it?
So you tell me in the comments.
But to me, it's been obvious for a long time that AI could not just be a free market product.
It was too dangerous.
And it could tell you the truth.
AI has the ability to cut through the fake news.
So if you accept that the government, every government, and again, I'm not saying it's good or bad.
I'm just saying it's a fact that there's no government that could survive real news.
Because the real news could overwhelm the, you know, whatever they're trying to get done.
So, if you have to control the news, To be a successful country, it follows very easily that you have to control AI. Because AI would look at the news and say, well, that's not true.
Right?
The AI would, you could just feed it an hour of MSNBC and say, all right, can you take out the fake news and tell me what's left?
And it would give you like five seconds of, oh, there's a hurricane.
Everything else was fake.
So of course the government has to completely control AI. Every government will do the same.
If you think that China's not going to completely control it, you're wrong.
If you think there's some country in Europe where they're going to let their industry just run wild with AI, you're wrong.
There will be no country that will allow AI to be free because it's way too dangerous.
So, Marc Andreessen confirming that that's actually already the case.
The government's already said, don't even think about startups.
We're going to kill them all.
I mean, incredible.
Anyway, so, you know, I keep talking about Scott Jennings doing a good job in CNN of supporting the right-leaning world.
And apparently he's become quite the viral sensation because all of his clips seem interesting.
But according to Mario Noffal, he's reporting on X today, that Scott Jennings' clips are getting more audience than CNN is natively.
Let me say that again.
For any given hour of CNN... The total number of people watching the news program for that hour, even in primetime, are not as much as the number of people who watched the Scott Jennings clips mocking the other people at the table for being idiots.
That's the world I want to live in.
Thank you.
Thank you, Scott Jennings.
And I say again, the Scots are doing a good job.
Scott Pressler, Scott Jennings, Scott Galloway.
He's even doing a good job.
All the Scots.
I don't know if you've watched, Coleman Hughes was on a couple of shows yesterday because I think Walmart was getting rid of DEI.
And Coleman is a young black American who does not buy into all the left-leaning black American kind of standard stuff.
He's more the common sense guy.
So I don't even want to say that he's Republican or right-leaning because I don't see a trace of it.
All I see is somebody who's commonsensical.
So I don't even know.
I don't know if he's registered one way or the other.
But imagine watching somebody on CNN saying, Talking about an important topic in the news, and when they're done, you can't tell who they voted for.
That's pretty good, right?
So, Coleman is one of those, and that is impressive.
Anyway, he had two hits.
If you see his clips on X, you should watch them.
He is so good at presenting his position.
Now, remember I told you That people don't interrupt me in interviews.
You see a lot of talking over.
Somebody will say something and get a lot of talking over.
And I've always told you that if you don't say crazy shit, that won't happen to you.
It's only when you say something that invites the talk over that you get the talk over.
When you listen to Coleman Hughes, everybody stops and they listen to every word.
And the reason is he doesn't say crazy shit.
And the whole thing makes sense and holds together.
It's just common sense.
And so watch his interviews and watch how everybody just listens.
It's really kind of impressive.
But what he said was, he was talking about Joe Rogan and Joe Rogan, I guess the CNN and MSNBC type people are saying that Joe Rogan somehow used to be left-leaning, but then he became right-leaning.
And Coleman, of course, he challenged that view and he mentioned a bunch of views that Joe Rogan has always had and still has.
And he challenged them to give any example where Joe Rogan had changed his mind and nobody had an example.
So he basically clowned the entire panel.
Not a single person had one example.
Where Joe Rogan had ever changed his mind.
Does Joe Rogan still think marijuana should be legal?
Yes.
Yes.
Did he suddenly find Jesus?
No.
No.
He didn't change anything.
Absolutely everything is the same.
Anyway, good job, Coleman.
Microsoft stock took a little hit.
It wasn't too big of a hit.
So I guess the FTC is going to do some major antitrust investigations.
Full disclosure, I own some Microsoft stock.
Which I bought during the pandemic just because it was down and I figured, ah, everybody needs Windows.
So it's going to come back up.
So I didn't know that it was going to do AI at the time, but I got lucky because I bought it before the AI connection was announced.
But investors are spooked and I guess they're taking some money off the table.
There are two stories about what happened with Trump calling the Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum about the border.
Trump says that during the phone call that the president of Mexico agreed to close the southern border after he threatened her with 25% tariffs.
Now, of course, that's a perfect Trump story.
Like, that's the one you want to be true.
And it would also be perfectly in the new CEO mold, which would be get something done before he even starts his first day in the job.
Nobody better.
He's the best in the world of presenting the first impression.
I've never seen anything like this.
But Scheinbaum pushed back on that.
And she rejected the claim that their conversation resulted in, quote, an immediate border closure.
She said, in our conversation with Trump, I explained to him the comprehensive strategy, blah, blah, blah, to address it.
Respecting human rights.
Now, what Trump said was clean and clear and specific.
What the president of Mexico said was ambiguous, indirect, and sort of global, philosophical.
Did they really disagree?
I don't think so.
Here's what I think happened.
I think Trump said, you're not sending any more caravans.
And Mexico said, okay.
And then he probably said, you know, make sure you're not letting people cross illegally.
And then she probably said something like, well, we do that anyway.
We're trying as hard as we can to make sure nobody's crossing illegally.
And then he probably said, we're going to have to do something about the asylum situation, because at the moment, Mexico can send zillions of people through legally.
They just have to claim asylum.
Now, later, if the asylum claim doesn't work, they would have to go back, but that could be years from now.
So, it could be that the things that can be stopped immediately, like the caravans, will be stopped immediately.
It could be that he maybe gets a little extra action in the purely illegal crossings, but that's a gray area.
It could be That they agreed they had to talk about the asylum rules and situations, and if we don't change that, it's going to be a problem.
So I think that she was talking, the Mexican president was talking to the Mexican public to make it seem like she didn't get rolled over in negotiations by Trump.
Trump, I think, was just telling you what happened.
Because he's in the catbird's seat.
So he could just tell you what happened.
I think she had to spin it a little bit.
So I don't believe that Trump successfully closed the Mexican border with one phone call.
I don't believe that at all.
I do believe he probably ended the big groups, you know, the caravans.
Probably did that.
And that would be a big deal.
But lots of work to do.
But I'm only speculating what actually happened.
I saw Tucker Carlson was on some video talking to somebody, and he said he might be interested in a guest press room appearance.
So he laughed at the idea that he would be the press secretary for the president and do the briefings because that would make no sense.
It doesn't make sense at his age or where his career is, so it doesn't make sense.
But he did say he'd be open to being a guest press spokesperson.
So now there are two stories going on about the press room.
One, Don Jr. has confirmed that conversation has happened about adding maybe some independent news people such as you would think of as podcasters.
But some of them are legitimately independent investigative news people as well.
And he's thinking of maybe get rid of some of the...
It's a crowded room.
You can't just add people.
So he might get rid of some of the standard ones and add some non-standard ones.
You know what I think?
Make the room a little bit bigger, please.
Or have two of them or something.
I feel like they're making all their decisions based on the size of a room.
That's the wrong way to do it.
It should be, what do you want to happen?
And then you find a place you can do that thing.
It could be that your best situation is to have some big screens so that by invitation some independents can come in and just be on the wall and everybody can see them and hear them and they just ask their question from the wall TV. Now, not all the independents are going to have a budget to send somebody to go sit down there just in case they have a press conference, right?
But they could all call into a number.
So I'd like them to start with what they want to accomplish and then figure out how to do it.
I don't want them to start with, our room is too small, so we're going to have to get rid of Time Magazine to add Joe Rogan.
How does that make sense?
Remember, Trump is supposed to be the common sense president.
Let's common sense this.
Yes, I would like to see Tucker come in one day.
Yes, I would like to see the independent podcasters be included.
I don't need the people there to be excluded.
I don't need them to get rid of CBS News.
So let's just do the common sense thing.
Maybe just a little addition is the better idea.
Anyway, so most of you by now have seen the clip of Kamala Harris when she surfaced to say, don't let anybody steal your power after Trump had stolen all of her power.
Because nobody can steal your power as she sat there powerless because her power had been stolen.
But here's what's interesting about it.
During the election, I would have said, she's drunk as a skunk.
And other people would say, maybe, maybe not.
But didn't really make a big deal about it.
It was like, somehow it didn't matter.
But I feel that the, at least the reaction on the right, of every single person who saw that video, is that we could tell she was inebriated.
Would you agree that it is a common sense, Common knowledge among the politically active right that Kamala Harris has appeared inebriated on something a number of times in public, including this one for sure.
Is that fair to say?
Because that kind of went from, I think that went from basically just me saying it.
Is that true?
Was anybody else saying that she was appearing in public drunk before I did?
I don't remember anybody saying it before I did.
Did anybody?
A public figure.
I'm going to need a fact check on that.
So one of you who has like a really good memory and you've watched all my shows and you've also paid attention to the news, were other people saying she's obviously drunk before I did?
Well, you can watch the comments yourself and see if anybody did.
Thank you.
I know a lot of people were saying it at the same time, but did anybody say it before me?
Because I feel like I might have made it safe.
I might have made it a little safer to say, because, you know, hey, somebody else is saying it.
There's a little disagreement.
I don't think we can tell for sure.
I'll tell you what.
If you can find a post on X where somebody called it out before I did, but you'd also have to find my first post.
It's hard to actually search for your own posts.
Have you found that?
I don't think Grok does a good job of searching your own posts.
Anyway, I'm curious about that.
The reason I'm curious is that I like to track...
Whenever I may have had some influence over a topic.
And it's hard to know because a lot of things would happen by coincidence and they could happen for lots of reasons.
So the only way I would know is if I beat like I got in first.
That's the only way I would have some idea that maybe I made a difference.
All right.
So it doesn't matter, but it'd be nice to know.
Apparently, Ray Epps' defamation lawsuit against Fox News has been dismissed, but without reasons that we've heard.
I'm going to put this news item under the category of, hmm, and it won't be the first one.
I might have three stories in a row in which the only comment I can make is, huh.
Okay, so let me say it again.
The federal judge just dismissed Ray Epps' defamation lawsuit against Fox.
Let's say he was claiming that Fox News was claiming he was a Fed.
So if he wasn't a Fed, which seems like something you could prove, why would they drop it?
Huh.
Hmm.
Just makes you go, hmm.
Now, I've never claimed he's the Fed because I feel like that would be unfair because he's a citizen and innocent until proven guilty.
But why did that get dropped right after Trump gets elected?
Hmm.
Here's another one.
According to KABC, there was a fire in the Hollywood Hills, and they believe that a member of the Rothschild family, Will Rothschild, was killed in the house fire.
Well, that would be very tragic, and I hope that nobody died in the fire, and I hope it was just wrong news.
But Rothschild, has that name come up recently?
And then there's the story about Al Sharpton, Who, as you know, was paid half a million dollars to his charity before he did a softball interview with Kamala Harris, which of course would be a giant ethical problem with his own network, but...
It seems like the most, as Megyn Kelly says, quote, this is a massive ethical breach by Sharpton and MSNBC. There is zero question that Sharpton should be fired for this, taking half a million dollar donation from a presidential campaign right before you interview the candidate, and you don't disclose it?
Please.
Hmm.
Hmm.
Interesting.
So, do you think they have a DEI problem?
There's no way to know, but let me put it in these terms.
If Chris Hayes, who is also a host on MSNBC, if he had received a half a million dollars from a candidate before giving a softball interview, How fired would he be by now?
Chris Hayes.
He's a white guy.
Very fired.
Very fired.
Does anybody doubt that?
Is there anybody here who thinks Chris Hayes could have gotten away with that?
And by the way, Chris Hayes, if you're listening, I got you back.
No, Chris Hayes would have been fired in like five minutes.
But if you're the DEI network...
And you don't want to lose the few prominent black voices that you have.
Maybe you have some other considerations.
So what do I say about this story?
Hmm.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is all I have to do to say about the news and my prepared comments.
I would like to take this day of Thanksgiving to thank all of you for collectively boosting my signal, allowing me to have what I consider a very social interaction.
And you're the coolest thing about my life right now.
So, this is what I like doing.
I still like drawing my comics and stuff, so I'll keep doing that, of course.
But this is what I love.
This is what I really love.
And if I can help any of you...
Get healthier, stronger, fitter, better looking, calmer, have less ADHD, understand the news better, love your country a little bit more, and of course get your Dilbert 2025 calendar that you can only get at the link at Dilbert.com.
Then I'm down for it.
So, there will be lots happening in the coming year.
It's going to be quite eventful, I promise you.
And we're going to slay some dragons.
I hear dragons are real, according to Joe Rogan.
By the way, I'm practically at the point of believing in dragons because some of the shit I've seen in the last week, my God.
I actually was sitting there the other day thinking, maybe dragons are real.
I mean, some of the things that I've seen have been incredible.
So a big thank you to all of you.
I am expecting they'll do some live streaming during the middle of the day.
I don't have a time for that yet.
But probably in and around the time most of your family is gathered at your houses or whatever.
And when I do the Thanksgiving one, I will probably be demonstrating drawing a comic.
So for the young people who might have some art interest, I will teach them how to use the equipment I use.
I use a computer input.
And I will teach them how to write.
And I'll teach them how to draw.
This is something I do more regularly for my local subscribers.
They've seen this a few times.
But I did something that I don't know if has ever happened before.
The last time I did this, I actually showed the audience the writing of it before the drawing of it.
Now, I don't know that anybody's ever done that before.
Because doing comics is a lonely one-person job.
Like if there's anybody else there, it's hard to do.
So doing it publicly with an audience and coming up with a joke and then executing it.
And it was the Sunday that ran last Sunday.
I think it came out pretty well.
So if you haven't seen a comic written and drawn from scratch...
It's kind of interesting, you know, if you have any interest in that domain.
So if you've got any young people, look for the show.
It'll be on X and YouTube and Rumble and Locals at the same time.
I'll be using the studio here so we do it.
And it could be cool.
So I hope everybody enjoys it.
All right, everybody.
That's all I got for now.
I'm going to go talk to the Locals people privately for a minute.
And everybody else, I will see you later today, I hope.
