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Well, after the show today, Owen Gregorian will be hosting a Spaces on X. That's the audio-only service.
And that'll be a few minutes after I'm done this morning.
So if you want a little extra on a Saturday, and who doesn't want extra?
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Let's see what else is going on.
According to the Daily Mail, scientists have discovered that intermittent fasting could boost bedroom performance, especially for older men.
So, intermittent fasting could boost bedroom performance.
Now, coincidentally, I haven't had anything to eat in about 18 hours.
So, if I suddenly need to take a break, you'll know why.
Because of science.
According to Reichman University, it's funny that they even tested this.
A robot dog can inspire emergent leadership in humans, meaning that if you have a robot dog and you tell the robot dog to act like one of the humans is the leader, the other humans will just go along with it.
So you can literally have a robot dog choose the human leader in a group, and everybody else will be like, well, seems reasonable to me.
If the robot dog's okay with it, I'm okay with it.
But I think the larger risk is robot persuasion.
Do you know how influential a robot's going to be?
If a robot dog can determine which human is in charge, and apparently they've tested it and it can, what else can the robot dog do?
I mean, next thing I know, I'm going to be...
Peeing on fire hydrants, if the robot dog tells me to.
Speaking of robots, there's now a tiny little robot that they can put in your body, according to the University of Leeds.
It's a tiny magnetic robot, and it can take 3D scans of things like tumors and stuff like that.
So the one they have now is for colorectal cancer.
So I'm going to say it was only a matter of time.
Before somebody shoved a robot up your ass?
It's here.
The robot that goes up your ass.
I'm sure it does good work up there, but...
I just knew it would come to this.
Hey, Scott, do you think there'll be so many robots that eventually one of them will be shoved up your ass?
I would have said, hmm.
You know, now that you make me think about it, I think yes.
Well, it's here.
Well, the U.S. Army, according to NextGen Defense, has a high-speed 3D-printed kamikaze drone.
So now you can use 3D printing to make a drone.
But they don't say which parts.
I can't imagine you can print the metallic parts.
I mean, you can print metal, but I don't really think you can print the entire drone.
It doesn't seem like it.
But if you can do most of it, that would be pretty impressive.
So it's all drones.
You can have your 3D-printed drone, which is great for terrorists.
So if any of you are terrorists, your 3D-printed drone is coming.
And there's also going to be all these drone killers now.
They've got all these anti-drones with missiles and stuff.
So you can have drones fighting drones.
Before they even get to us.
Well, according to Variety, they had an idea for making movie theaters more inviting, because I guess not enough people are going to movies.
And their idea is to allow pot smoking and texting in the movie.
John Nolte at Breitbart's writing about this.
And I have the following question.
How high would you have to be?
In order to enjoy watching Snow White or Wicked or any of the new movies, I've experimented with it at home.
And personally, I can tell you that there's no level of...
It's impossible to get high enough to enjoy Snow White or Wicked.
I've experimented with it so you don't have to.
Nope. In theory, there would be this tiny window where you'd start enjoying the movie, but you wouldn't be so high that you would fall asleep.
Snow White doesn't have a window.
You can get as high as you want, and you won't enjoy the movie until you fall asleep.
That's it.
There's no window in which that movie is good.
And I love the fact that the movie industry has given up on making better movies.
So somehow they think the problem is not the quality of the movie.
They think it's something about the movie theater experience.
No, it's the movies.
The movies are terrible.
You can't get people in the theater for terrible stuff.
But I like the thinking of variety, and I wonder how you can extend that.
Because it seems to me that almost everything would be better if you could be really high while you're doing it.
Like, do you know how high I would have to be to go visit the pyramids and have a good time?
If I were not, I'd be, you know, how long is the airline flight from here to the pyramids?
You know, it's going to be like spend all day on an airplane and getting to the airplane and getting off the airplane and getting a cab and going to the pyramids.
And then when I stand there...
I'm pretty sure my entire impression would be...
Yeah, I thought it would be big.
It's very big.
It's made of rocks.
Very big ones.
Very big rocks.
And it's shaped like a pyramid.
And I would immediately have the impression that I'd watched enough television shows about pyramids that I didn't really need to see it in person.
I don't know how high I'd have to be to see a pyramid, but I don't think it's possible.
The New York Post, coincidentally, was talking about the same thing, and apparently there's some movie theaters that are experimenting with pickleball in the lobby.
Can you think of a worse idea than having the sound of pickleball in the lobby of your movie theater?
You know, I assume there's only like one quart that they can fit in there, but...
Pickleball is the most obnoxiously loud sounding game.
That's the last thing you want to see when you're going to a movie.
Now, they're putting a bar in there.
In some of them, they're experimenting with sing-alongs so that you can get over how bad the movie is.
But because the sing-along would be the thing.
And they're looking at live events like boxing matches and stuff like that.
That's actually a good idea.
And allowing texting.
Allowing texting?
Have any of you ever been to a movie with a woman?
Don't all women text during movies?
You tell me in the comments.
Have you ever been to a movie with a woman, maybe below a certain age, don't they all text during the movie?
I've never seen an exception.
No? Just the ones I know?
All right.
Well, I won't make that generalization.
Maybe it's just the ones I know.
Apparently, the Democrats during Biden's administration had a plan for what would happen if he died in office.
There's a new book that says they plan for what would happen if he died.
Now, To me, that's not much of a story, because wouldn't it be weird if they didn't have a plan?
I mean, it's like the military.
The military always has a plan to attack anybody that looks like we might ever want to attack them.
So yeah, of course, they should definitely plan for what happens if Biden dropped dead during office.
So I think there's no controversy there.
That's just them doing a good job, I think.
Meanwhile, Secretary Rollins was talking about how she's done a good job.
She was on Fox Business, saying what a good job she did, bringing down egg prices.
So egg prices are way down.
And she said that under Joe Biden, egg prices increased 237%, but we almost immediately saw the market react to their five-point plan.
What was the five-point plan?
Part of it was getting eggs from other countries, so that seemed like a good idea.
But as somebody said in the comments when I saw this on X, didn't we all know that egg prices were going to come down just about now?
Well, isn't that just if you just figure out when all the chickens were killed because of the fear a bird flew or whatever it was?
All you have to do is say, all right, how long does it take a chicken to grow until it can have its own eggs?
And then you can just look on the calendar and say, well, looks like this would be the time that the egg prices would come down.
And it would be around now, right?
So one of the great things about being in power, whatever administration is in power, whoever was going to be in power for the next four years was definitely going to see the egg prices go down.
That was just a free pass.
You just had to be in power and your egg prices would come down.
Now, I do think that they were more active than just waiting for them to come down.
But I do give them credit for that.
The getting the eggs from Turkey and South Korea and wherever else.
That seemed to have worked.
So, good job on that, Trump administration.
So, Trump administration is cracking down.
More on the colleges and universities doing DEI.
Now they're looking at Stanford and some of the UC schools, like UC Berkeley and UCLA and UC Irvine.
Apparently they still have alleged race-based admission practices.
Do you think you could drive the DEI out of Berkeley?
That would be the ultimate test.
I feel like the Berkeleyites would die.
Before they gave up on their entire woke agenda.
So we'll see.
And Pam Bondi, AG, says that the goal is clear to end illegal discrimination and to restore merit.
So, good.
And of course, you know, there was a lot of pressure on Colombia for, I think it was not just DEI, but making sure that they were not...
Anti-Semitic, in effect.
And now the Columbia University interim president just stepped down.
So the regular president stepped down.
Too much pressure.
And now the interim president just stepped down.
I'll tell you, being the president of Columbia doesn't seem like a good deal.
Nobody wants the job.
There's a lot of stepping down.
All right.
According to the state of Mississippi, They've got a plan to go to zero income tax in Mississippi.
But you know what was left out of the story?
How are they going to pay the bills if they get rid of the income tax?
Now, it wasn't that high.
It was like 4% compared to, you know, where I live, it's over 11%.
But they're going to replace it according to Grok.
So I don't know if you've had this experience yet, but...
I'm using Grok five times a day, and it's always the same.
It's always about context.
So a lot of the news stories lack context.
So if I see a story that says Mississippi wants to get rid of its income tax, the first thing I look for is, what are you going to replace it with?
Because it's not like they're going to do without money.
So according to Grok, they're going to replace it with a patchwork of higher gas taxes.
Sales taxes, lottery, something with more lotteries.
But some of it they hope will be through growth because once they're a zero income tax state, they think they'll get a lot of businesses moving in.
They might be right about that.
So if your income tax is 4% and you think you can phase it out, maybe.
It might be a really smart...
You know, free market thing to do, to just bring in businesses that way.
So we'll see.
Good luck, Mississippi.
Here's one of the least surprising stories of the day.
According to Roger Stone, who knows a lot about the JFK assassination, because he wrote a book about it.
So he's done a bunch of research, knows exactly what he's talking about.
Joe Hoft is writing about this.
Stone says that he knows that there are some documents that have not been released, because they're documents he's seen.
So he knows they're not released.
I don't know how he saw them, or maybe he just knows of them.
So he said, for example, where is the full FBI document of Carlos Marcello, where he said that he knew of JFK's assassination before it occurred?
He knew before it happened?
That would certainly suggest something's up.
So, did you really expect that the JFK files would be complete?
My prediction was, if there was anything good in there, like really mind-blowing, that we'd never see it, but that we'd sort of move on because we'd think, okay, they should have released a lot of stuff, nothing new, and then we would just act like...
Like somehow we'd been satisfied with the truth.
Of course there was no chance we would see all the documents.
So I'm even surprised there are any documents that would be damning in any way.
So maybe that's already destroyed.
Well, interestingly for you business nerds, Elon Musk announced that he merged his two companies, the AI company called XAI, and that is AcquiredX.
The platform.
So it's an all-stock transaction.
It's more of a merger.
And the combination will value the AI part at $80 billion and the X part at $33 billion, which is $45 billion less $12 billion in debt.
So here's the fun part.
The AI will now have access to train itself on the entire body of X. Content.
Isn't that going to make Elon Musk's AI the best AI, like, right away?
Because I don't know if the other AIs train on...
It would be illegal if they did, I suppose, without permission.
But if there's an AI that's learned everything that's on social media, or could, that's going to be really, really killer.
So we'll see.
He's got 600 million users on X. And as you've learned, the regular news is lagging X. So if you had AI that could just read everything on X, it's going to know a lot about a lot of people.
You know what else it could do?
It would know if you wrote something.
It could catch anonymous people.
Because once I learned how you send a tweet and what your writing style is, it could probably identify you just by your writing.
So that's coming.
But what's fun about this is the value of the combined entity would suggest that Elon Musk, when everybody laughed that he overpaid for X, not only did he not overpay, because now it seems to be fully valued about what he paid for it, Which is the most unusual outcome.
He also changed the world.
He changed free speech.
He is directly responsible for Trump getting elected.
And that allowed him to do Doge.
And Doge is the only thing that could possibly save America from its own debt crisis.
So if you look at the level of importance of his decision to buy X at what turned out to be, we thought it was an inflated price, but he's so good at this business stuff that he turned it into an asset, like a growing, valuable business asset.
Now, one of the things that the anti-Doge people were fond of saying, He's like, well, why are you saying he's so smart when he bought Twitter and lost all those billions of dollars?
Well, how about now you all just shut up?
How about you just shut up?
Because it turns out that worked out.
So do you have anything else that Elon Musk can't do?
Would you like to give me a list of the things he can't do?
Oh, he'll never send a rocket up that you can reuse.
He'll never build a car company.
He'll never make X pay for itself.
Be an asset.
How many times does he have to do it?
Maybe you'll just shut up now.
See if he can make Doge work.
All right.
And also there's talk about, remember Vines?
Vines was that little six-second video thing that Twitter had for a while and didn't really quite make it.
But I saw...
Post that suggested that Elon was open to having that revived.
Now, I don't think if it does get revived, I don't know if it would get revived as a six-second video or maybe longer.
Longer might make sense to compete with TikTok, but that would be a huge moneymaker, seems to me.
In other AI news, ChatGPT is allegedly, according to Cy Post, Vladimir Hedra is writing about this, ChatGPT used to be sort of left-leaning in its opinions, if you can call it opinion, in its responses, let's say.
Sort of left-leaning, left to center.
And now they say the newest version is starting to lean right, at least a little bit.
And it gave an example of what that means to lean right.
Because as soon as I hear that AI is leaning right, I say to myself, you're going to need to give me an example.
What? It put up a flag?
You know, what exactly does it mean for an AI to lean right?
But here's what it said.
It prioritizes free market capitalism, property rights, and minimal government intervention in the economy.
To which I say, you mean common sense?
Apparently all it takes to lean right in today's world is common sense.
Who exactly is against free market capitalism?
Only the craziest leftists.
I mean, otherwise Democrats and Republicans are pretty much in agreement that free market capitalism should be the basis of our country.
How about property rights?
Again. You'd have to be completely insane to be against property rights.
But some leftists are.
And what about minimal government intervention in the economy?
Again, common sense.
You want the fewest number of your rules and government blocking, I guess.
So I think it's hilarious that...
What is called conservative stuff is just the thing that basically everybody who is not crazy is already in favor of.
Just pure common sense stuff.
According to Wired Magazine, McKenna Kelly is writing about this, Doge has a plan to rebuild the whole Social Security Administration code base.
So all the programs that run the Social Security program.
And of course, the headline is Risking Benefits and System Collapse.
Really? Is it Risking Benefits and System Collapse?
Or is it possible that they would be testing the thing until they knew it worked?
Because you're not going to get rid of the old one until you know the new one works, right?
Now, there will be lots of edge cases, a lot of special cases, so probably there will be some people who You know, thought they were going to get something and don't get it right away.
But that's all fixable.
You know, that would be the normal thing that would happen if you did a massive code-based changeover.
Nobody thinks that that works on the first try.
But what's the alternative?
To keep a COBOL-based, like, archaic system forever?
So when they say stuff like, is risking benefits and system collapse, the real risk is not doing it.
Not doing it is a much bigger risk, you know, because we've reached that point where it's just so decrepit and, you know, crawling along.
But I asked this question.
I said, can't AI just look at COBOL code and rewrite it in a modern form in minutes?
You know, I keep reading all these stories about people say, my God, I'm a programmer and I used AI and I didn't even have to do any coding.
We made an app that runs on Apple and it totally worked.
And given that AI knows how to write in every language, why wouldn't you be able to just tell AI to look at the COBOL code, all gazillion lines of it, and take your time and then just say, can you write that more efficiently in a modern language?
And you tell it which language, of course.
And an expert, Who says that he works in that domain, so he's spent enough time to call himself an expert, says, nope, that wouldn't work.
So once again, once again, the critics of AI who keep saying things like, well, it's good for a demo, but it doesn't really do any of the things it's supposed to do.
Like have an agent, you know, a little AI agent that can answer questions.
Even that doesn't work.
The most basic thing you'd want your AI to do, answer questions, it just still hallucinates.
So you can't even use it for that.
But I thought the one thing it could definitely do, just definitely, was write code like a mofo.
I thought you could just show it any code.
And say, well, we'd like this to be a little more efficient, so look for inefficiencies and fix that for me.
Apparently, according to the one gentleman who says he's an expert and he wasn't guessing, said, no, that doesn't work.
You would have massive inefficiencies.
So it could reproduce it.
So reproducing it is possible, but it would reproduce it so inefficiently that you'd have to...
You know, almost better if you started over from scratch, I think.
But then I say, are you telling me that AI can't identify inefficient code and then replace it?
Because I would think that it could do that easily.
If it knows how to write code, does it really not know how to identify inefficient code and then know how to replace it with efficient code, even if you gave it the right prompts?
So I think this will be a real good test.
It probably borders on almost impossible to get this rewritten unless AI is helping.
A lot.
I think it borders on impossible.
But I'll bet you the Doge people being on the leading edge of a lot of AI and programming stuff, I'll bet they're going to make this work.
But remember, if you're thinking that the new code will work perfectly, Not on the first try.
And nothing works like that.
Nothing works on the first try.
So probably there'll be a little bit of a bump in the system.
But maybe before the end of the year, you'd see a whole new rewritten system.
And what they learn from that could be something they can take to the rest of the government systems because they have just these unlimited number of...
You know, IT systems that don't talk to each other.
We'll see if that's fixable.
I don't know.
Well, according to American First Legal, the Trump administration has revoked the legal status of 530,000 illegal aliens.
These are the ones that Biden flew in.
So they're not the ones who walked across the border.
They were flown in intentionally.
By the Biden administration, over half a million of them, from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
And now they must self-deport or face detention and removal.
Now, I gotta say that that makes sense to me.
Because whatever it was, you know, whatever it was that...
That the Biden administration was up to with flying in half a million people?
They never really explained that to us, did they?
Did the Biden administration ever say, oh, these are the special people who need asylum?
Not really.
It just seemed like they were using every trick they could to bring in as many immigrants as they can.
And I like the fact that Trump is going to say, how about we make this not our problem?
How about we make this the problem of the migrants who came in?
I like that.
It should be their problem, not ours.
So, yeah.
I'm in favor of that.
Well, here's what I call the least surprising story of the day.
Here's the one that every one of you could have predicted.
Are you ready?
According to Zero Edge, Vladimir Zelensky...
When he got the first draft of the deal for minerals, remember that Scott Besant said there would be this 100-page document that would explain the deal they'd already agreed to that would be some kind of mineral deal with Ukraine and the United States.
And Zelensky says that Kiev received a draft of the new mineral deal and says it's entirely different.
It's an entirely different document than previous framework.
It says Ukraine can't accept any deal that threatens its EU integration.
So, don't you think you could have predicted that Zelensky was going to reject the deal?
Now, everything that we heard from Scott Besant, and even the indications that Trump was making, is that, oh yeah.
We're talking to Ukraine.
We're working on a deal.
Apparently, we just slapped together a deal and tried to shove it down their craws.
But Zelensky's like, nope, haven't even seen this kind of a deal.
So that is the least surprising thing of the day.
You absolutely could have predicted that that deal wasn't going to happen.
And I'm going to predict it probably won't ever happen.
I've got a feeling that there will be no...
Well, as long as Zelensky is in charge.
Zelensky very much doesn't want a solution that isn't military.
And this would have given some argument that, well, you don't need boots on the ground because you'll have this economic interest.
But there's no way that Zelensky wants any of this to work.
I don't know what he wants, but he doesn't want...
You know, to give away land for peace.
So there's nothing that can be done.
Putin has decided to call for the removal of Zelensky, which is weird because I think he's always wanted the removal of Zelensky.
And he says that he can finish off the Ukrainian troops, according to the Defense Post.
And he says, Putin says he wants a transitional administration to be put in place in Ukraine.
And vowed that his army would finish off Ukrainian troops, blah, blah, blah.
Now, that's fair because Zelensky has said that he thinks Putin will die soon and then the war will end.
But I saw somebody on social media on X saying that, if I remember the numbers, Putin's father lived to 88 and his grandfather lived to 86 or something.
And so I think Putin's 72. So is Zelensky really going to wait, you know, 15 years or something?
That's his plan, to just keep fighting for 15 years until Putin dies?
Or does he have some inside information that Putin's sick and he's going to die soon?
I don't know.
I wouldn't bet on him dying soon.
Well, the United Auto Workers president, who had previously had bad things to say about Trump, you know, all the usual bad things, according to the Wall Street Journal, now he loves what Trump is doing with the tariffs, the 25% tariffs on automobiles from other countries, because that would be awesome for U.S. automakers.
So suddenly Trump...
Switch the United Auto Workers.
That's pretty good.
He flipped them.
At least the president, which is probably all you need to do.
So, those tariffs, how do you feel about tariffs today compared to how you felt just a few months ago?
Does it feel to you like Trump has, first of all, educated us about what you can do with tariffs?
But also that it looks like it's working.
I think it's way too early to say it is working, but it looks like it is.
Because we've got big companies that are already deciding to move their operations to the United States.
That's what we wanted.
We've seen some countries get flexible faster than you'd expect.
That's what we wanted.
We've seen other countries...
I guess April 2nd will be the real test.
That's when a whole bunch of tariffs go into effect.
But I feel like Trump's totally out-of-the-box approach to the whole tariff situation, I feel like it's starting to come into focus.
And that even if he's not, let's say, technically right about everything that is true about tariffs, I feel like he's going to make it work.
Because he's using it like a club and like a tool.
And it looks like he's capable of doing exactly that.
Just use it as a tool to get what he wants.
We'll see.
There's a report that Pete Hegseth brought his wife to some sensitive beatings.
I don't know how sensitive they were, but who brings their wife to a defense meeting in another country?
Is that real?
It doesn't sound real, does it?
I wonder if he did bring his wife, but it wasn't for something terribly sensitive.
Maybe she was just in the area and it was sort of a just meeting people kind of meeting.
But I'd hate to think that it was a highly Secure, sensitive, classified information in a military meeting with other countries, and he just brought his wife.
So I'm going to say I have a little skepticism on that story.
Doesn't sound perfectly right.
Meanwhile, J.D. Vance is off in Greenland.
He made his case that the people have...
Here's what he said.
I like...
I just like how good he is at summarizing and wording stuff.
So J.D. Vance said in Greenland, yes, the people of Greenland are going to have self-determination.
So that's good to say that first, because it sounds like Trump wants to conquer them.
But we don't want to conquer them.
We want them to say they think it's a good idea to join with the U.S. He says, we hope that they choose to partner with the U.S. Now he's calling it partnering.
That's good.
Good framing.
Because we're the only nation on Earth that will respect their sovereignty and respect their security.
Now, that might be true.
Well, Canada might, I suppose.
But it's a good opening argument.
But I don't think you're going to convince the Greenlanders, the Greenlanders, the Greenlandicas.
What are they called?
I don't think you're going to convince the 56,000 locals unless you say directly you're going to make money.
You will be richer if you do this.
How much richer?
Maybe 20% or 30%.
And then you could probably get them in.
So Denmark does do economic support for Greenland.
Not totally, but they...
They put a lot of money into it.
All we'd have to do is say that we're going to do more than that or that we're going to do some kind of productive business with them, like do some mining and split the difference with them.
I think you could bribe them.
And when I say bribe, I don't mean in a bad way.
I mean they get something, we get something.
But I don't think anything is going to cause Greenland to want to partner with the U.S. Unless we can say directly and with some level of certainty that they're all going to make more money.
So without that, I'm not expecting any self-determination to want to partner with us.
They're going to want to make money in the real world.
Well, remember that story about Doge found that billion-dollar annual expense?
That was only to make a dumb little survey that looked like a high school student made it, and it was used as one of the best examples of how easy it is to find fraud, and how gigantic the fraud is, and how ridiculous the expenses are.
Everybody remember that story?
It's from yesterday.
Well, according to Jessica Tarlov, I saw her on The Five, that's not true.
It's just not true that there's any billion-dollar expense for nothing but a survey.
I think the organization exists, and the funding is real, but that it's not just for that one thing, that it was for something larger.
I think going forward, my take is that I'm not going to believe any of the claims of Doge, because I feel like the Doge claims If there's like a really good anecdote that somebody can understand, there is a tendency for them to believe it.
And probably a lot of these cases are not as clean as that.
So remember the first time you heard that there was a billion dollars a year for nothing but a little survey that looks like you could have done it in 10 minutes?
What was your first impression?
Oh my God, I can't believe it!
Right? Oh my God, I can't believe that that's happening.
And what is usually true when you have that reaction to a story?
What's usually true is that it's not true.
Because the real world, as wacky as it is, probably isn't that wacky that somebody was getting a billion dollars a year to do a survey that nobody wanted.
Probably not.
So I'm going to say that without knowing the details, I think Jessica Tarlov, she might be right on this one.
So I'm not going to use any more Doge anecdotes.
I do have great confidence that they're doing all the right stuff and that they're finding real fraud and waste and abuse and that everything's moving in the right direction.
But I'm just not going to believe any more anecdotes.
I'm out.
I've been fooled now.
Is that the second or third time that I've said something in public about some anecdote and then it turned out, well, that's not exactly true.
So, no, I'm not going to fall for that again.
Well, the Iranians, the military, posted, according to John Hayward of Breitbart, a video showing they have these vast underground missile cities.
So, gigantic underground facilities, somewhere in a mountain or something, that has just a gazillion high-end missiles.
And apparently it's like the third time they've done a video to say, oh, yeah, if you come for us, we've got a lot of missiles that are going to come for you.
And so they've done it before.
But it would not surprise you that this was done right before Iran also had indicated to...
To America that they're willing to talk, but only indirectly.
So Iran is not willing to meet with an American and talk about anything, but they're willing to have, oh, indirect talks.
And that's the way they say it.
They say, we'd be willing to negotiate indirectly.
And I guess they're unwilling to talk directly as long as sanctions are on.
So they've got a condition to even talk, which is drop the sanctions.
And I can see why they would have that point of view.
But I'm not expecting anything good to come out of this.
I just don't see any possibility that they're going to negotiate away anything.
I think they'd rather take a chance of getting bombed.
So if they didn't build all those missile city underground facilities because they want to give it away.
I think they're in for the long term.
So no, I don't expect anything to happen with Iran at all.
All right.
I remind you, because this is the end of my prepared notes, that Owen Gregorian is going to have a Spaces afterparty.
So Spaces is the audio thing on X. So just look for either my account on X, where I've reposted the link.
Or go to Owen Gregorian's.
Just search for him.
You'll find him.
You'll see the link to get into the spaces.
And that won't be right away, but just maybe a few minutes after I finish.
And I'm getting ready to wrap up.
So, I'm going to say a few words to the locals' subscribers first.
But the rest of you, thanks for joining.
Have a wonderful catter day, as we like to call it, if you have cats.
Or Dogger Day if you have dogs, I guess.
And I will see the rest of you tomorrow on X and Rumble and YouTube.