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So scientists, according to the University of Bristol, they've...
Well, that's where it is, actually, the research.
The University of Bristol...
And they've created the world's first carbon-14 diamond battery.
Diamond battery.
Yeah.
So now you can keep your spouse powered up at all times.
So I was looking for a diamond battery.
This one could last thousands of years.
So what makes it special is how long it lasts, and it could last in terrible environments like space.
So you could send in a space probe and have a diamond battery, and it would stay powered for, I don't know, hundreds or thousands of years.
So I don't think this will be in common usage, but if you need anything that needs power for a few thousand years, you've got an option.
Diamond battery.
Well, did you know that if you eat ultra-processed food, you have a higher risk of depressive symptoms, according to SciPost?
Of course you did.
Or you could just ask me.
Yes, if you eat crap food, your mental state will decline.
If you eat healthy food, your mental state will be better.
How many times do we need to test this?
Would this be the millionth research study that showed that if you eat right, your brain works better and you're happier?
I don't think it's ever going in any other direction, has it?
Has there ever been a scientific study that said, we took these people and we made them eat right for a month and everything went off the rails.
They couldn't concentrate when they were eating right.
Not once.
100% of the science is all in the same direction.
Your body is your brain.
Good news, Trump has introduced a Trump fragrance.
Okay, there's a theme today.
So the theme for the show is that I can't tell what's true today.
There's a lot of news today, but unlike most days, Where you go, that's probably true.
I don't know about that one.
Yeah, that looks true.
Today, almost every story I looked at, I thought, I don't know if that's true.
So, is this true?
Is it true that Trump has introduced a Trump fragrance called Fight, Fight, Fight?
Or is that just an internet meme?
Does anybody know if that's true?
Because the funniest part about it is, Even if you like Trump a lot as a politician, do you really want to smell like him?
Never once have I awakened in the morning and was like, oh, if only.
If only I could find a way to smell like President Trump.
Now, I'm not saying it smells bad.
I'm just saying it never really occurred to me To try to match this fragrance.
So I can't tell if it's even real.
Is that real?
I'm looking in the comments.
I'm not seeing anybody say it's not real.
I don't know.
There's just something wonderful about it, the whole story.
Meanwhile, here's the second story.
I can't tell if it's real.
There is an alleged video, which I watched, This seems to show Kamala Harris at what they say is her home residence and some kind of a holiday party.
And if it's a real video, she is really drunk.
But it's a grainy video, and it's in the age of AI fakes.
So I don't know.
I have no idea if that's real.
And that's going to be my theme for today, as I told you.
Like, I don't know, is the Trump fragrance real?
I have no idea.
Is that video of Kamala Harris that looks drunk, but also could easily be AI? Is that real?
I don't know.
I mean, I really genuinely don't, I'm not even leaning in one direction.
I don't know if that's real.
But it would be easier to fake a video if it were a grainy video where you couldn't see the lips syncing to the AI. That would be the, at the moment, that would be the tell.
So I don't trust that one, but it could be real.
It might be real.
I don't know.
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris's campaign manager, Quentin Falks, Some say he's the one who forked everything up, Quentin Fulks.
But he was talking about why they didn't have a Democrat primary.
And he said, quote, to open up a Democrat primary, you would have had black women be highly upset if it was not Kamala Harris.
Really?
We're saying this out loud now?
That it had to be a black woman and it had to be Kamala Harris, and that was basically that that's all they can live with?
Well, here's what I think.
Now, I've said this a few times, but every time there's more evidence for it, I'll remind you.
I don't think the Democrat Party can recover.
Normally you expect somebody loses a major election, you know, they're actually come back stronger the next time because they know what they did wrong, they get a better candidate, they improve their game, they come back stronger.
But I don't think you can come back from the identity politics.
Because once you've convinced all your people in your grab bag of a party that their identity needs to win, then they're going to play that way.
They're going to play for their identity to win.
But not just nationally.
They're going to play for a win within the Democrat Party, too, which should destroy it.
Because if they can't think like a party, and they can only think like their identity, you can't really make a movement out of that.
Have you noticed that the MAGA people all are on the same page?
Hey, MAGA person, randomly tap you on the shoulder.
Hey, hey, do you support Trump?
Yes, I do.
And give me an idea what your sort of philosophy is that's part of this.
And they would say something like, America first.
Are you also for America first?
Oh, you're on my team.
That's it.
It's simple.
So Trump put together a pirate ship of common sense people who, if you ask them what it is that binds them together, it would be something that could bind you together forever, America, and there would be no conflict there and you know exactly what you're all trying to get.
Okay, I get it.
You're all America.
So what is it that you want to achieve?
Oh, the Constitution.
Right.
You want the Constitution and free markets.
Got it.
Very easy.
But no, I think that the identity politics is a one-way trip.
I can't even come up with a creative thought in my mind about how they could ever dig their way out.
Because as long as you've got big pockets that can turn on them at any moment, they've got to keep all the pockets happy, and then they can't really have a winning group of people, because it just won't be enough.
So, I don't know.
I think the Democrats may have found the one and only way that they could make themselves uncompetitive for the rest of history at a national level.
They'll be fine at a local level.
But nationally, it looks like they could never win again.
Now, I'm saying this partly recreationally and partly with a little hyperbole.
Of course, if they got a really strong candidate, that's probably all it would take.
All either side really needs is a candidate that doesn't act drunk and say stupid stuff, and they've got a chance.
So one good candidate, they'd be back in action.
But I don't know who that would be.
They don't seem to have anybody who's an obvious candidate to be that one strong candidate.
Have you noticed that Obama went from chocolate Jesus to irrelevant and kind of stupid and maybe a little bit racist?
I've never seen anybody's reputation just sink like that so quickly.
Because even if you hated his policies, you would have said, well, he's certainly good at what he's doing, speaking and communicating and persuading and just basically acting like a president.
But the last few times we've seen Obama, it almost looked comically incompetent.
Why is that?
Did he always have other people writing his stuff so he looked more capable than he was when he was president?
Has he lost a step?
Maybe he's not reading as much?
I don't know.
Is there some reason he looks to me like not the same person he was five years ago?
And he's not that old, so it's not just age, right?
So, I don't know.
I think it might be a little bit psychological, meaning that if my opinions about the world have shifted, then my opinion about him maybe gets shifted at the same time.
But I've never seen anybody go from so capable to so incompetent Apparently.
And again, it could be just a psychological phenomenon that's happening in my head.
But it sure looks like he turned incompetent.
I wasn't really expecting that.
Because I've always said that, even if you don't like his politics or anything about his personality, he's just really good at his job.
But not lately.
It's not his job, but he's a public communicator.
Meanwhile, Tim Walsh has his newest explanation of why they lost.
He says, quote, I think we're going to have to understand what type of leadership do they want, talking about the country.
He said, we were pledging to be inclusive.
We were pledging to bring people in.
Donald Trump has said that isn't what he wants.
And so that's what America is leaning towards.
I guess for me, it's to understand and learn more about America, because I thought they were going to probably move towards a more positive message.
Oh my God, he's lost.
They are so lost.
They think that discriminating against white men is inclusive.
They don't know that they were the bad guys.
They don't know that the reason that MAGA grew is because it wasn't racist.
There was nothing stopping anybody from joining MAGA because there was no identity politics.
But on the Democrat side, they were literally overtly discriminating against white men forever.
And they call that inclusive.
Alright, let me ask you a question.
Did you hear the story about the highly qualified black American man?
He was an engineer and he went to the best schools and he had really good experience and he couldn't get a job in corporate America.
Did you hear that story?
Highly qualified and he just couldn't get a job because he was a black man in America.
No, you haven't heard that story because that isn't anything that can happen in America.
There's probably never one case where a qualified black man, let's say an engineer, just to pick an example, couldn't get a good job in corporate America.
I'll bet there's not one in the whole country.
Let me say it again.
I don't think there's even one, not even one, literally one.
I'm not exaggerating.
I don't think there's one.
Qualified black engineer who can't get a job right away.
Anywhere.
Now, have you ever heard of a qualified white man who couldn't get a job because of DEI? Yes, every one of you have heard that.
How do you live in this country and think that black men can't get a job in corporate America?
That's not a thing.
Everybody who has qualifications has a job in America.
Pretty much everybody except white men who get taken out by DEI. All right.
So DEI is racism and the Democrats and Tim Walz have not figured out.
And Tim Walz.
All right.
Why was Tim Walz even selected as the VP candidate?
Does he not know that he was not qualified to be the top of his own ticket?
Did Tim Walsh know that he couldn't have been the top of the ticket?
It wasn't an option if he's a Democrat?
Does he literally, genuinely, in the real world, not know that he couldn't have been the top of the ticket because he's a white man?
Like, how lost is he?
Like, I'm genuinely curious.
Is he stupid?
Or am I stupid?
Because I can't figure this out?
Like, why he can't figure it out?
There's some mystery here.
I don't know what it is.
Maybe the problem's on my end.
Well, anyway, as I told you, MSNBC, I use it as the comedy channel.
Because all you have to do is simply report what they did, and it makes you laugh.
You don't even need any commentary.
Are you ready for this?
All right, I saw a couple of posts from Johnny Mega on X reporting what shows a video of Joy Reid on MSNBC. And this is what Joy Reid said about Tulsi Gabbard.
She said that Tulsi Gabbard will be feeding Trump, quote, conspiracies from Russian state media in her job as Director of National Intelligence.
Quote, she's going to come in there and whatever RT, that's Russia Today publication, has fed her in her life, she can then feed that to Donald Trump.
Now, I don't need any commentary on that, right?
That's just funny.
There's nothing to say about it.
It's just funny that this person has a TV show and people watch it.
I mean, not many, but few.
But that's not all of it.
She also implied that the January 6th prisoners...
The overwhelming majority of them, of course, not having any kind of legal problems in the past before that.
She said that when they get released, she goes, quote, God knows what that is like when those people are showing up in the Walmarts or the Home Depot.
We're in for a wild ride.
Joy Reid thinks that when you unlock the lifetime of law-abiding white guys, mostly white guys, that they're going to run into Walmart and Home Depot yelling, and trying to shoot stuff.
What are they going to do?
Yeah, I'm really worried about the ruckus at my local Home Depot when all the January Sixers get out and go to buy some home improvement tools to fix up their house.
What is wrong with her?
All right.
So, most of the news today is about videos and photos that I think might be fake, and of course, overt racism against white men in pretty much every story.
Meanwhile, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who we alternately like to love and hate, because he seems to be Like half a Republican and half a Democrat.
So if you want a reason to dislike him, you just pick whichever side you don't like.
And you're like, ah, I don't like that half.
I didn't realize he used to be a Republican.
So that would explain why, you know, he's not like a crazy leftist Democrat.
He's just sort of a standard middle-of-the-road Democrat.
But he's teasing that he might be open to switching parties.
He doesn't say it.
But the way he answered questions about that question made you think that maybe he's not wed to his political party.
Now, it's interesting because he's in legal jeopardy.
And I wonder, first of all, I don't know if the corruption charges are real.
We live in a world where it could be lawfare.
You never know.
But I wonder if he thinks...
No, I guess those probably wouldn't be federal charges anyway.
So he's not playing for a pardon.
He's not hoping to change parties and get a pardon because it's state charges, right?
The allegations against him.
So we'll keep an eye on him.
But at least we understand why he seems a little bit one foot in each of those worlds, because he's had one foot in each of those worlds.
There's a...
Terrible data coming out of the Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Colin Rugg is reporting this on X, that apparently there's an alarming number of bottlenose dolphins that are showing up with traces of fentanyl in their systems.
And they said that more than a third of the dolphins tested were positive for drugs.
Now, of course, the story is that they think maybe the fentanyl is getting into the waste system and then gets into the ocean and then the bottlenose dolphins get into it.
I've got a different theory.
The reason they're called bottlenose dolphins is because they're famous as being alcoholics.
That's why they call them bottlenose.
It's like, oh, can you get that bottle out of your nose for just a second?
So the regular dolphins, they don't have much of an addiction problem, but the bottlenose Well, they're partiers.
They're partiers.
So maybe it's because of the wastewater system.
Maybe they're just getting it directly from Mexico and snorting it.
I don't know.
I don't know what's real.
I'm just saying I don't know much about dolphins, is what I'm saying.
But the only thing I know for sure is they didn't do it on porpoise.
Meanwhile, according to Fox News, the Fed's been using banks to surveil Americans, and they've asked banks to search for terms like Trump, MAGA, Bass Pro Shops, Cabela's, I guess that's some kind of story that we don't have around here, and Dick's Sporting Goods.
So apparently the...
Which group is it?
The committee...
One of the government committees called the Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.
So it's looked into this and found out that banks have been a little too cooperative with government requests and maybe crossed the line constitutionally.
That's what they're looking at.
But I used to work for a bank and I have this advice for you.
There's no such thing as a confidential financial transaction, unless you pay cash and then murder the person you transacted with.
If you're doing anything financially, of course the government can get at it.
Let me explain a banker mentality to you.
You ready?
Hi, I'm from the government.
I would like you to bend over and shove your own ass, or shove your own head all the way up your own ass.
Now I'll do the banker.
Okay.
That's the relationship of the government and the banks.
Because the bank can't tell the government no.
The banks are really, really dependent on the laws being just the way they are to protect the banks.
I'm not even sure why we have banks.
I mean, the only thing that protects the entire banking industry is that they somehow have cooperated with the government to the point where they've got basically a legal monopoly.
Don't you think that Elon Musk could build a better bank on an app in about an afternoon?
Yes.
Right.
Modern technology would allow you to build a bank on an app and have every feature you ever wanted without any of the banking structure.
So they pretty much have to do whatever the government tells them.
They would be afraid of getting on the bad side of any of that government stuff.
So, yeah, you were never safe.
Your bank was never going to stand between you and the government snooping into your stuff.
The bank won't do that.
It's bad for business.
So no surprise there.
Well, you probably heard that the Daniel Penny case has taken a turn.
So apparently the jury said that they were hung on the first count of second-degree manslaughter.
So the first count is the highest degree of risk and would be the most jail sentence.
There is a lower-level charge.
But the top-level charge, the judge said, well, if you can't agree on this, we'll basically dismiss it.
Now go back and think about the lower charge.
I guess that'll happen on Monday.
So here's what the people who know way more than I do about the law and the courts are telling me.
So I'm listening to people like Mike Cernovich and people who have legal backgrounds.
And Jonathan Turley is writing about it.
So let me just tell you what Jonathan Turley says, because having me interpret legal stuff is a bad idea, so it's better to hear from people who know what they're talking about.
So Turley says, so now the judge has dismissed the first count on second-degree manslaughter and is allowing the jury to consider the second count after the weekend.
This is precisely what Bragg was hoping for in setting up a possible compromise verdict.
Now, what you need to know about that phrase, a compromise verdict, if I understand it correctly, is that the judge is trying to get people on the jury to think not so much about guilty or innocent, but rather how they can be done with this process.
And the way they can be done with the process is to be unanimous about something.
And if they're closer to being unanimous, we don't know this, but if they're closer to being unanimous on guilty, then he's going to say, go back in on the lower charge.
And you don't get to go home, you know, until I say so.
So you can imagine that the indirect pressure on the jurists would be to, first of all, do what the other jurists want them to do, conform so they can go home.
And it would kind of bias you toward, well, you know, if we were nice enough to let them off on the top charge...
But we don't want to be so nice that we let him completely free, because then we have to live in the world and answer to all of our neighbors, and we can't.
So wouldn't it be better for the jury to find him guilty on a lesser charge, but still goes to jail, but it's not as bad as the top one?
So that's a terrible situation to put the jury in.
You're really causing the jury to think about themselves instead of the facts of the case.
That's how I understand the compromise situation.
So if that's the case, I think the whole thing should be thrown out.
I mean, I think the judge probably should go to jail.
Don't you?
I don't think that's a thing.
I mean, I don't think that for this behavior anybody ever goes to jail.
But if I look at what crimes were committed, and I look at the videos of Daniel Penny, I say to myself, huh, I do not see Daniel Penny intending to do anything wrong or doing anything wrong.
There's no intention, and I didn't see anything wrong.
There's a tragedy, but I didn't see him act wrong.
But what about the judge?
The judge is signaling an intention to be wrong, meaning creating a situation that no judge should create.
It's got to be intentional.
And pushing them toward the wrong decision to find what I think is an innocent man, guilty in sending him to jail so that the jurors themselves can have a nicer week.
That is evil on a level that's almost hard to comprehend.
It's just such a casual evil.
This would be a judge who just wakes up and goes to work and says some stuff in the context of his job.
So it's not like, you know, the gas chamber or something where the visual of it and the thought of it is overwhelmingly horrible.
But this is pretty overwhelmingly horrible.
The fact that you can casually Just go up and go to your job and send some fucking innocent guy to jail.
Intentionally.
And then the next day you just wake up and go to your job again.
No, this judge, if we lived in a world that was fair according to me, because I get to decide what's fair, it's my live stream, I think the judge probably should be in jail already.
And I think Bragg and anybody involved in this Because as Turley tells us, he says, the prosecutors hoped to pressure the jury into voting on the low standard of criminal negligence.
So that's essentially what I'm saying.
And then Turley says, outside of New York or a few other cities, this case would likely either have not been brought or would have collapsed quickly before the jury.
Now, Totally knows more than I do about the legal stuff, obviously.
And he says this wouldn't even be charged in most places in America.
Now, I believe that's true.
So, I would say that if New York is going to play with a set of rules that's so different from what you and I think is realistic...
We should definitely not do business with New York.
I wouldn't take my business there.
I wouldn't travel there.
I would just stay away from that.
Just stay away from New York.
So I think if Penny goes down because of this, and it's not corrected immediately in some way, I think we have to take the whole fucking state down.
Because New York State...
The citizens, which includes some of my family members, so I'm sorry about that, who might be listening at the moment.
I think the state has to pay.
I think there's got to be a price, and it's got to be a lot.
And I think if the GDP of New York State went down 20% in the next year, that might be about right.
I mean, it should be really expensive.
Because this is the lowest level of social and American behavior you could ever even imagine.
This is so bad.
And there's another theme for today's show, and I'm going to say this as carefully as possible.
I never am in favor of violence, of course, and I would never promote it or endorse it or glamorize it.
But it's certainly getting harder every day.
Every time I read the news, I think, huh, I wonder if there's somebody who's going to become violent over this because it certainly looks like it's inviting it, but I don't favor that, so don't do that.
But you can't not think about it because there's just so many ways that the news is so horrible, you think, hmm.
Speaking of which, Let's talk about the healthcare hitman.
Now, I was watching Jesse Waters' show yesterday, and apparently they've already given the hitman a nickname, the healthcare hitman.
I think CNN had a different branding for it.
I may have this wrong, but it might have been the CEO killer or something.
So the news is trying to brand it like they always do so that they've got an ongoing story because they love the ongoing stories, especially the criminal ones.
And so the first thing you need to know is that...
This is going to be hard because I need to say this as delicately as possible to keep myself out of trouble.
Do you think that if this had not been a healthcare executive, And a white guy.
Do you think that they would have called him the healthcare hitman?
The person who did the murder?
Because it's almost like you're giving him a clever little nickname.
I don't know.
It makes me wonder if we're If we're having too much fun with the story, and we wouldn't do it if it were George Floyd, right?
If George Floyd got murdered, we wouldn't be giving a clever nickname to Derek Chauvin, right?
Chauvin never got like a clever nickname.
It's almost as if this is revealing that there's sort of an undercurrent in America that Where people are not so sad about this.
Right?
And I'm not saying that's good, so don't get me wrong.
I'm just saying that in a number of ways, I'm getting this subtle suggestion that people don't feel bad about this crime.
Partly because it's a white man.
Let's be honest.
It was a wealthy white guy.
And the country just doesn't have the same kind of empathy for wealthy older white guys.
We just don't.
And so that's part of it.
But there's also lots of mystery to it.
And the alleged shooter, if you believe at least one of the photos, which I don't believe, by the way, would be a really handsome young guy.
So now you've got this apparently very smart killer who's got his own clever nickname, the healthcare hitman, and the one picture of him that they're trying to sell us on, which I don't believe, by the way, he's really good-looking.
Like, really good-looking.
Like, movie star good-looking.
I don't know.
There's something terribly...
Wrong about how movie perfect this is and that we're treating it as entertainment.
And I am too.
So I'm as guilty as the people I'm talking about.
So the effect that I'm seeing in other people, which is what I'm describing, I feel it too.
I feel like my own sense of empathy has been hijacked into some kind of recreational mode.
So I apologize for that.
But there are a lot of interesting things about this story.
For example, the fact that he got out of New York.
So apparently he left on foot, got a bike, took a bike into the park.
They say he left a backpack there, his backpack.
We'll talk about that.
I don't believe that either.
And took a little-known bus station that's lesser use, so the fewer witnesses, and got out of the state, they think.
They also think that he used a veterinarian gun.
Now, this is not everybody, but there's some thought that he used a veterinarian gun.
Which is apparently, I never knew there was one, but because there might be other animals in the neighborhood of when you're putting down an animal, such as, let's say, cattle or something, you don't want to scare the other animals.
So you have this thing that works at very close range.
Literally, you're supposed to put it up to the skull of the animal you're going to put down.
So it's not even meant to shoot 20 feet, I don't believe.
It's meant for one shot in the head, close up.
I think that's all it's for.
Now, that's only if it's truly a veterinarian gun, which I never even heard of before.
So here are the things that I think I know for sure.
His quick use of the gun, whether he was putting in a new shell or clearing it, there's a little disagreement on that.
He certainly knew what he was doing.
So he seemed to understand the weapon well enough to know that he had to do a thing after every shot, whatever the thing was, and then he did it.
But if he were a professional, he would have used the veterinarian gun the way the veterinarians use it, which is he would have run up, because the guy was just walking, He was only, what, 10 or 15 feet in front of him.
All he had to do is take a few running steps, bang, and then drop the gun if there was no DNA on it.
But he didn't.
So here's the thing.
You've all seen now probably the face where they claim it's another picture of the shooter, but this time he pulled his mask down to flirt with somebody at a hostel, and you can clearly see his face.
Now, I'm going to tell you something that I haven't seen in the news yet.
But have any of you ever experienced the facial recognition apps that are currently available?
Now, I don't know if they're available to the public.
Maybe they're only available to law enforcement at this point.
But I'm going to tell you something that maybe you didn't know about them.
They would identify this guy 100% of the time.
There is plenty of his face showing.
A facial recognition app would pick him up 100% of the time.
There's no way he's not on social media, which is how the facial recognition finds you.
So there's no way he's not on social media.
He has a very distinctive face, and you can see the whole face.
There is no chance If that's a real picture of the shooter, that law enforcement doesn't already know who he is.
It would be about five seconds.
In fact, if you have the facial recognition app, you could probably recognize...
I'll bet you could get an ID just from the photo that's on social media.
Does anybody have access to one?
If you have one of the facial recognition apps, just put it on the photo.
It'll tell you who that guy is.
So, I don't think there's any chance...
That if you show that picture to the whole world, that he's not been identified by now.
Do you think that's real?
Do you think there's any chance that that picture, as clearly as you can see his face, and he's so distinctive, and it's been on every TV show everywhere, and you think that a guy who looks like that and at that age doesn't have, you know, families and friends and people who would recognize him immediately?
Everything about this story is off.
First of all, the story where you see his face clearly, it's obviously not the shooter.
He's wearing different clothes, has a different backpack.
It's obviously not him.
Because if it were him, we would already have him, we'd know who he is.
Because his face is completely recognizable.
You If the public hadn't done it, the facial recognition software would do it literally in a second, in one second.
In fact, if you have it on your phone, just call up the picture and just put your phone next to it.
If you've got one of those apps, click on it, and in one second, it'll tell you who it is, if he's a real person.
Now, some have said it might be like a Hollywood mask or something.
Maybe.
But that was a pretty big smile for a mask.
I don't know.
It's hard to pull off that smile.
I think if you had a mask, you would maybe try to prevent smiling, because that would be one place you could spot there was something wrong.
Yeah, he doesn't have the same jacket.
And then the police say they found the backpack in the park.
And then the backpack doesn't even look like the backpack he was wearing, say some people.
So none of the colors are right.
The person isn't right.
It's all wrong.
It's all wrong.
Now, I'm going to tell you a story from my real life that matches this story.
You won't believe that there's any story that matches this story, but there is.
My first job in corporate America was a bank teller, and I got robbed twice at gunpoint during my job as a teller.
One of those times, the guy who robbed me was this older man.
I thought he was maybe late 60s, kind of disheveled, gray hair, losing most of it, kind of smallish, about my size.
And so when the FBI came, they said, all right, can you describe the guy who robbed you?
I described it that way.
This old guy with a little bit of gray hair, blah, blah.
And then they came back and they said, are you sure you pulled the alarm on time?
Because there's a secret way that tellers pull the alarm so the cameras will capture the crime.
And I said, yeah, I'm positive.
Like, as soon as he asked for the money, I did the thing where you activate the camera.
And they said, because there's nobody on the film that looks anything like what you described.
So they said, we're going to take you down to the secret FBI headquarters, and we're going to show you the video, and you tell me that's the guy who robbed you.
I'm like, sure, easy.
Because the guy, he was very distinctive.
And he had a long, long coat on.
I mean, I had perfect memory of him.
And my boss...
As soon as the robber left, I alerted my boss, and my boss followed him down the street, like from a distance, but just to get an ID. And when my boss was asked to describe him, he described him the same way I did.
Older guy, gray hair, kind of small, long jacket.
So we had the same description.
And then the FBI shows me the video of the moment, and they say, all right, is this guy standing in front of the teller window?
Is that the one that robbed you?
I was like, no, that's not even close.
So they showed me this video of a guy who looked like a young Clint Eastwood with a big mustache, solid dark hair, probably mid-30s, and had a sport coat on, didn't have a long jacket like the guy I saw.
And I was like, no, obviously not.
So they said, watch this.
And then manually they could rewind the video.
And I watched that guy rob me on video.
So a guy who looked like Clint Eastwood on video...
Was the actual guy who robbed me.
The guy I saw very clearly and described within seconds, I mean minutes, I guess, of the actual robbery.
And my boss independently, who did not talk to me before that, we described him as a completely different person.
Explain that.
And it's even weirder.
Once I saw the person on video that looked like that young Clint Eastwood, I said, first of all, I've never seen that guy in person, but I've definitely seen him a lot because he's got a picture right on the wall where I worked saying that he was a bank robber who was, you know, he was a known bank robber.
He was literally on the wall as a known bank robber, and he looked just like the video.
I recognized him immediately when I saw the video, but I didn't recognize him in person.
He looked like an old man.
So you tell me, what happened?
It's been one of the great mysteries of my life.
Now, I got robbed twice.
The other one I picked out of a lineup easily, as did all the other people.
Easy.
He looked exactly like I described him.
Picked him out of a lineup, no problem.
But sometimes, People don't look like they look on video.
That's all I can tell you.
All I can tell you is that sometimes the video doesn't match what you thought you saw in person.
So I don't know.
CNN said that the bullet casings did have some inscription in them, something engraved that would suggest it was a healthcare-related problem, meaning that somebody maybe got denied some coverage because it had that deny-delay title of the book on it.
Now, I had predicted that in the fog of crime, you would ultimately find out that there is not any inscription on the bullets.
I'm going to stick with that.
I'm going to stick with it, even though CNN just confirmed that there is something on the bullets, and they even gave details.
And I'm still going to stick with there's nothing on the bullets.
Now, you might say to me, but Scott, that's a very bad bet because everybody's reporting there's something on the bullets.
I'm not there yet.
I'm not there.
I'm going to need to see a picture of those bullets.
I'm going to need to see a picture.
Because I think there's a problem that maybe people are hearing it from other news sources and maybe it's just one fake story that got amplified.
I'm going to wait.
But maybe.
I'm not going to rule out that it's on there.
But not quite buying it yet.
Everything about this story looks hinky.
Anyway, so we'll wait on that.
As one of the January Sixers said, and I'm paraphrasing, I stood outside the Capitol on January 6th and had no criminal record, did not post anything on social media, and the FBI found me in two weeks.
Okay, now hold that in your head.
They found that guy in two weeks.
Now there were other videos there, so of course they could pick him up.
You think that they don't know who this guy is?
I'm having real trouble believing that That they don't know who at least the one with his face showing is.
So there's something very deeply wrong about this.
Meanwhile, over in El Salvador, I don't know how this is real either.
So the President Bukele, he just says El Salvador has discovered they have a $3 trillion unmined gold field.
And now he's moving to decriminalize some of the mining laws or get rid of some regulations, I guess, so that they can mine it.
Three trillion dollars of unmined gold.
They also found, according to the president, gallium, tantalium, tin, and other materials needed for, you know, the future.
So this young guy, this young, good-looking guy comes in, becomes the president of El Salvador, Didn't he bring in Bitcoin as their legal currency?
Which turned out to be a genius move, apparently.
And then he solves all of crime in the country by locking up basically everybody who even looked a little criminal.
And now he just...
By luck, he happens to be in charge when they find $3 trillion of extra money that would turn El Salvador from, you know, a wannabe, I don't know, what would you say?
Not a third world country, but it would basically put him right at the top tier of economic powers in the world.
And this just happened by coincidence, the same time the guy who did all the other good stuff is in power.
This is weird.
It just seems too simulationy or too many coincidences.
I don't know.
Meanwhile, over in Syria, Iranian assets are pulling out.
So the Iranians, of course, were supporting Assad, as were the Russians.
But the rebels are making such progress, and I guess Assad's forces are not putting up much resistance.
So the reporting is that the Iranian assets, the generals and the advisors and whatever, are just running because they know they can't do it themselves and they're not getting help from the military.
So they're just abandoning.
So it looks like Assad...
Is going to maybe retreat his forces to the most important defensible part, which is the part that's a Russian port.
So the area around the Russian port.
Because if they don't protect that, then Russia doesn't have any reason to protect them.
So what if Russia doesn't protect them?
And what if they lose that port and the rebels take over?
That changes a lot of things, doesn't it?
And again, I'll say that I think that what's happening in Syria has to be seen as part of all the variables for war from Hezbollah to Hamas to Ukraine.
I think it's all related because it's all the same players.
So this gives them lots of variables to say, all right, if you give us a little relief on Syria, I could do a little more on Gaza.
But if you pull back on Hezbollah, we could maybe let Iran do a little more trade.
So I think it's going to be something where all those variables are in play.
We might not know it.
In other words, there could be some secret components of the negotiation that are not public because maybe Iran can do things secretly that they don't want to tell their public they're doing, something like that.
So I feel like The serious situation makes the odds of a larger deal with Russia and Ukraine and the United States and Iran more possible, not less.
So it feels to me like a positive situation that is moving in a direction that's So let's say destabilizing for Iran and for Russia and also showing their weaknesses to the world because neither Iran nor Russia can seemingly can protect Assad at the moment from rebels.
It's not even the strongest military.
Anyway, the other biggest story is that all over social media there are all these videos of drones or possibly UAPs or UFOs or secret technology and I had been ignoring it largely up until now.
Because I thought, oh, it's just somebody's balloon, or it's just somebody's drone, they're flying around.
But today I wake up and there's videos from the East Coast, videos from the West Coast, videos from Argentina, I think a few other places in which there were these glowing orbs doing things in sequence.
In one case, they seem to be going into the ocean.
And remember my main theme for today is that all of the news is either overtly racist against white men, and that's what the story is in one form or another, or it's video or photos that I can't tell are real.
So we got the Kamala Harris drunk video.
I don't know if that's real.
We got the healthcare hitman, full facial, that somehow they can't identify him from the full facial picture.
I don't know that that's real.
And then we've got what looks to be dozens of videos of these anomalous flying things.
And I don't know if any of them are real.
Because it seems like the easiest thing you could fake would be to do some AI, take a regular video, and then add some glowing orbs.
How hard would it be to add some glowing orbs?
Literally the easiest thing you could ever add to an existing video would be a point of glowing orb moving around.
So, are the videos real?
There are now a lot of them.
There are now a lot of them.
So, here's something that somebody said on social media that just put all of it to rest for me.
If these UAPs, which a lot of them are over American bases or over American assets, if they were really a threat, you would see American military trying like hell to shoot them down, even if they didn't know what they were.
The American military would be all over it.
You'd see the drones, but then you would immediately see helicopters and jets and stuff trying to figure out what they are.
And you don't see that.
The only explanation is it's our stuff.
Am I wrong about that?
If the American military is not reacting to flying objects they can't identify routinely over their bases, It's got to come from the base, or it's got to be an American military asset, right?
What, you're saying no?
How could it be anything except ours if we're not responding to it?
I don't see any possibility that it could be a real threat or even a real unknown.
At least to the military people who are directly below it.
There's no scenario in which they're not lighting up the sky if they can't identify flying risks above a military facility.
I mean, even if they didn't think it was a military risk, they'd still shoot the fucking thing down because it's over a military base.
It doesn't matter who it is.
If you're over a military base and you're hovering and you're looking dangerous, Am I wrong?
They're going to shoot it down.
Or at least they're going to try.
So the fact that you don't even see any attempted interaction is pretty confirmatory that either the pictures are fake or the military knows exactly what they are but they can't say because it's, you know, private.
But that wouldn't explain the ones in other countries.
I think the other countries are probably just drones.
You know, people have drones and some of them are operating in some kind of coordinated way, etc.
But the other possibility That's more exciting is that there might be some Chinese tanker ship, you know, off the coast of America and they're doing testing.
You know, every once in a while they'll release a dozen drones and watch the response from America.
And then maybe America knows that's what's happening or suspects that's what's happening and they don't want to give away the response.
So maybe they're letting them, you know, do it To think that we don't have a response, but maybe we do.
I don't know.
I'm not buying that.
So I think that's a little too much to accept.
So I'm going to go with the ones that are over American bases are just our own technology.
Because of course we're doing advanced drone coordinated attacks.
Of course we are.
Every modern country is working on that right now.
So obviously there should be a whole bunch of American...
Drones practicing military stuff above bases.
It's the most obvious thing I would expect to see if everything is working the way it should.
But the ones in other countries and the other videos, they might be just fake videos.
So I think it might be a combo of American stuff that's perfectly safe to Americans and some fake videos from other places and other times and stuff like that.
That's my best guess, but I don't know.
So Taylor Lorenz continues to get in trouble.
I've tried every day to not do a story about her.
Because she's always in the news, and it's always some ridiculous story about something she said or believes, and other people want to mock her.
And it never felt like there was enough meat to it for me to talk about her.
She was just sort of a character in social media and the news that people like talking about.
It wasn't really enough for me.
But I'm going to talk about her today because she made a little news...
And I'm just going to read the quote because the exact wording matters.
So TMZ was talking to her and TMZ challenged her and said, you said, people wonder why we want these executives dead.
Now, the interpretation of that is that Taylor Lorenz understands why somebody would want to kill a healthcare insurance executive.
Which would be too far for a public figure.
That would be too far.
Because if you say you understand it, that's just one step from condoning it.
So that's too much for a public figure.
So TMZ, I think...
By the way, I always have respect for TMZ. I've told you this story, but once there was fake news about me some years ago, TMZ was the only ones who called to ask me if it was true.
And I said, no, it's not true.
Here's the context.
And then they didn't run the story about it.
They were the only ones who fact-checked a rumor about me by calling me and saying, is that true?
Oh, no, that's not true.
So I like TMZ and I like that they're pushing back.
So here's what Taylor Learn said.
She said, I'm with the people.
It is natural to wish that the people who run those systems would suffer the same fate as your loved one.
Am I going to shed tears or have a lot of empathy for somebody who has facilitated the deaths of thousands of innocent Americans?
Yikes!
Yikes!
Now, if this were just her weird little Taylor Lorenz opinion, then I wouldn't be talking about it.
Because that's what I've ignored up to now.
It's just her opinion.
So I ignore it.
But this isn't just her opinion.
I think in this case, she's doing something useful.
Meaning that she's telling you how she feels, which is different from how she would act or how her sense of reason would guide her.
And she is basically saying that it's not that unusual to expect people to have that kind of mental processing toward what we're seeing.
And I gotta say, I'm not gonna endorse her words.
But you all feel that too, right?
Is she completely wrong?
I don't think she's wrong about how some portion of America feels about it.
Now, of course, it's a big country, so people have opinions all over the place, as they always do.
But is it true that a substantial number of Americans are so mad about what has happened to them And maybe people they know or love in terms of healthcare being denied or any other bad behavior.
Is it weird that people are, let's say, more...
Forgiving of a tragic murder than you'd expect if it were some other situation.
You know, I think she's sort of a canary in the coal mine here in the sense that it's useful for her to have said this out loud.
It's useful.
So I'm actually going to give her credit for this.
She's taken a lot of heat, but she put it out there, and I think it's worth talking about.
But I'm going to add this context.
When I read the news, which I do every day, every other story makes me want to kill somebody.
Have you had that experience?
That, you know, I don't recommend it, and I'm not going to give you any examples, but just think about the stories I've told you just in the news.
You know, not just today, but in the past, just pick any period, the past week or so.
How many of those stories have at least one person in the story that privately I'm thinking to myself, you know, if something happened to them, it might be a better world.
A lot.
A lot.
And I ask myself, is this what social media is doing to me?
Is social media turning me into somebody who immediately thinks of violence when I'm just reading the news?
And it's not about war.
I mean, if it's about war, of course.
But when I read about, let's say, all right, I'm going to give you an example.
I'm probably going to get canceled for this.
No, I'm not going to give you an example.
It's too easy.
I don't want to give my enemies such an easy path of attack.
But let's just say there are a lot of things in, let's say, the justice domain.
The justice domain?
I won't be more particular than that.
Aren't there a lot of things in the justice domain where you're saying, at the very least, I feel like the people in charge should be the ones in jail?
Right?
And this is very different from how I've seen the news in the past.
There are a whole bunch of stories where my first instinct is, oh, those people need to be in jail.
And I'll say jail because I don't want to say anything violent, but jail so that we're within the legal process.
There's something about social media, but maybe there's something about the nature of the stories Which is causing me to immediately go to thoughts of violence for every other story in the news.
It's the weirdest thing.
So I think we should be really aware of what's happening to us psychologically.
Just the fact that we so quickly go to the violent solution.
If you're smart, you're not going to say it out loud.
You're not going to act on it.
You're not going to incentivize anybody to do it.
But boy, you can't stop thinking it, can you?
It's hard not to think it.
All right, here's another great mystery of the world.
If you spend time on social media, As I do, at least in the siloed corner of social media that I find myself, every single day, with no exceptions, every single day, there'll be a news story about a new study that says the COVID vaccination caused all manner of healthcare problems, and that it was way worse than Than if you just let people get sick.
Now, I'm not saying that's true.
I'm saying that my corner of social media reports it as true with new data, new research.
There's a new person who's talking about it every day.
So sometimes the claims are that it's causing major deaths, people dropping dead.
Sometimes the claims are, you know, more heart attacks, sometimes more cancer.
Today, on the Vigilant Fox account on X, there's another study.
Epidemiologist Nicholas Holscher reported that The vaccinated have way higher depression and way higher anxiety and way higher sleep disorders.
And I don't know what's true.
So my take on all COVID-related data is that none of it is credible.
Not the stuff that says you're safe and not the stuff that says you're not.
Now, one of them is true.
It's either safe or it's not.
And when I say safe, I mean safe for a shot, right?
So every kind of medical procedure tends to be bad for at least a few people.
So not completely safe, but I have no idea.
So here's a little experiment for you.
Find your favorite AI and And ask your AI if there are any problems with people who are vaccinated in terms of more cancer, more heart disease, more mental illness, or anything, whatever you want.
Just ask your favorite AI. So I asked perplexity, because perplexity is, like, really good.
And you notice that?
You said there are no known health problems from the vaccination beyond, you know, there's always a few people who have a bad reaction to everything.
No unusual bad reaction.
Do you believe that?
It's from a search engine.
I'm pretty sure that no matter which search engine you asked, it would say that the vaccination was as safe as anything else we do in the medical world.
Now, I'm not saying that's true.
I'm saying that the AI will tell you it's true.
And at the same time, I will wake up and every single day, there's another expert telling me that it's like just killed millions of people and they're dropping like flies and they're going crazy and they're getting, you know, early onset of every fucking thing in the world.
Which of these is true?
Let me just say this.
If you're sure you know which one of those is true, you shouldn't be.
You shouldn't be.
Because there's really no way to know.
I don't believe there's any way to know.
You might be guessing, right?
Because one of them is right, right?
It's either perfectly safe, or it's way more dangerous than we thought it was.
It can't both be true.
So somebody who's watching this is completely correct, but not because you could know.
It's just it's a 50-50.
So some of you are going to guess right.
I'm genuinely...
Genuinely confused.
I cannot tell if there's even any way to know.
Right, so in the comments I'm saying, is there even any way to know?
And the trouble is that everybody who studies it seems to have some motivation.
They're either starting it looking for trouble and, oh, they found it.
Or they're starting it making sure that there is no trouble.
Oh, we didn't find any trouble.
So I think everybody in that domain is motivated one way or another, even if they're not aware of it.
I'm seeing somebody yell in all capitals, it has random effects because it goes to random parts of your body.
Now, if that were true, and it might be, then you would see that everything would be increased in terms of bad health.
Now, when I asked perplexity, after I said, you know, there's no indication that the shots have any problems at all, I said, but is it true that there's a big increase in health problems?
And he said, yes.
There is, in just the last few years, there's a major increase in a whole range of health problems.
And so then I asked, why?
What's causing this major change in health problems?
Do you know what I said?
Lifestyle.
It's said that in just the last few years, there's been enough of a lifestyle and demographic change and demographic that explains what we're seeing.
Do you believe that?
Now, part of it is in any five-year period, America gets a lot older because we're not replacing with young people as fast.
So it should be that if everything was working properly, that every year from now on, there'll be much greater health problems than usual because we're older.
Right?
So if I were to predict, will next year have more health problems, more heart attacks, more diabetes than last year?
Almost certainly.
Right?
There's no way it's going to be less next year because we don't have cures for it and there will be more old people eating junk food and our food is probably getting worse and, you know, social media is turning us into couch potatoes.
Anyway, so I don't know.
I have no idea.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, concludes my prepared thoughts for today.
And I think you can see the problem.
I can't trust any data.
I can't trust any video.
And everything's racist against white people, white men mostly.
So that's your world.
And I don't know what any of those UAPs are, but I'm not worried about it.
I've decided not to worry about the UAPs.
I'm just not worried about it.
All right.
The answer to your question is yes, but I don't want to tell you what the question was.
This is BS. I like the all-capitals people so I can mock them.
This is BS. You people are letting him not look at the data and call it bad.
Okay, you sound drunk.
Are you drunk?
The all-capitals people, I just assume, are elderly and drunk.
All right, just taking a look at your comments.
Not trusting data is the same as not looking.
No, if you don't trust it, there's no point looking at it.
There's no point looking at what you don't trust.
If you came to me today and said, I am the greatest epidemiologist in the world.
My reputation is spotless.
Here is my randomized controlled study.
Do you know what I would say?
I'm not even going to look at it.
Because we're not in a world where anybody's randomized, controlled study has any credibility at all in that domain.
Maybe some other domain it might.
But in the domain of COVID, nope.
There is no data that you can trust.
Some of it's right.
Some of it's right.
But you'll never have any way to know.
Maybe in 20 years.
All right.
I'm going to talk to the locals' subscribers privately.
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