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Yeah, I'm a little bit late. Bit late? Were you worried? But here I am. I made it. Let's see if we can get a show together today. Hey, you're supposed to be doing something. Well, that won't be happening. I got updates for you. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams. And you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take a chance on elevating your experience to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a copper mugger, glass of tanker chalicers, dino canteen, sugar flask, a vessel of a kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's gonna happen right now. Go. All right. Yeah. Everything's a little bit harder today. Why is my iPad not working? Doing what I want. Well, there it is. Happy Halloween, everybody. You all going to trick or treat tonight? I'll probably get a few hundred people today. So, yesterday I had my radiation treatment for one of my cancer spots. It's not a cure, it's just. It was just trying to fix the place in my back. Do you want to hear the most alarming story you've ever heard? So the radiation treatment, the one I get, has zero pain involved. In other words, you don't feel the radiation, so you don't feel it when it's happening, and you don't feel it when it's done. Really? Yeah. There might be minor side effects or something, but basically, you don't feel it unless the position that you have to be in to get it happens to lie on your back in the exact place that it hurts the most. And that was my situation. So I didn't know if I could get through the pain. So I wanted to make sure I knew how long it would last so that I was mentally prepared. And I knew it was going to be not just regular pain, but we're talking about, you know, feeling like somebody's putting a spear through your chest the entire time. I mean, real pain like you've never felt before in your life. And I knew it would last a while. So I asked them, and they said, well, it could be 15 minutes to an hour. The doctor said, 15 minutes to an hour of lying completely still while somebody's putting a spear through your chest. And if you don't, if you don't make it. Then you don't have a chance to get rid of the pain that is destroying your ability to walk. So that was my trade off. Take a pain that would be the greatest pain of my life for 15 minutes to an hour, or never, never deal with the problem to my death. So I decided I could do anything for 15 minutes. And the doctor confirmed that in my particular case it would be 15 minutes. So he said, you know, the whole procedure, 15 minutes. So now I understand it's 15 minutes right now. How do you understand that? You understand that the procedure is 15 minutes. Very easy, very, very clear communication, wouldn't you say? So I get under the machine and it immediately, you know, the pain kicks in. And as the techs are walking into the adjacent room where they'll be monitoring me, allegedly, one of them says, we start by taking X rays. I think they meant the CAT scan, but they said X rays to make sure that your body's in the same position that it was when we did the test to see if you'd be, you know, we were testing to see where the tumors were, but you have to be laying in exactly the same position or else the radiation won't get the right place. So they say, first we'll take the X rays. Now what's my first question? Is that on top of the 15 minutes or is that included in the 15 minutes? And I couldn't ask because they were already into the test. So I'm laying there and 15 minutes pass, or what I thought was 15 minutes. So it felt like 15 minutes of the worst pain I've ever endured in my life. And I knew, I knew I couldn't go longer, but the 15 minutes were over. You know what they said next? Well, we got the X rays. They hadn't fucking started. They hadn't started the treatment, you know, the 15 minute treatment that I didn't think I could possibly survive. I'd already gone 15 minutes and they hadn't started. And I bailed out. I bailed out. I screamed and I said, I'm done. No fucking way. I'm not going to go 15 minutes. So they come in and of course they're a little bit disrawed because, you know, I've wasted their time. I've wasted the appointment. I didn't get fixed, didn't get any treatment, no treatment at all. And I just went through the most traumatic experience of my whole life. And it got worse. Do you know what they said then? You ready for this? Then they told me for the first time. For the first time I heard this, the treatment is one minute. The 15 minutes is all that setup that we told you we were doing, the entire process is 15 minutes. You were 60 seconds away from being completely done. But they had miscommunicated, so that I thought it was 15 minutes for the process that now you started. So I bailed out. So then I said, now that's the end of my appointment. Right. So now I'm into somebody else's appointment, which means I need to get kicked out and rescheduled. Do you think I let them kick me out and reschedule? No. No. So they rescheduled whoever was after me to some other room, I guess. And I said, you're going to have to give me the strongest painkillers in the world. There's just no way I can do 15 minutes more of this. So give me whatever you have. So we talked about what was the strongest painkiller that they could give me. And I was already on several. Now, I'm not going to get into the specifics of the painkillers, because then you'll go crazy and you'll have your opinions, and I don't care. But they gave me something really strong on top of I already had painkillers in me because I was anticipating it. So now I have several. At least three different painkillers, four, maybe, in me. At the same time. How much did the painkillers make a difference? Not even a little bit. Not even the slightest bit. The strongest painkillers you could imagine, it was like there was no painkiller at all. I was just sitting right on an open nerve. But they said because of the. Because of the first test, they could get it down to six minutes, inclusive of the actual radiation. And I thought I could make it six minutes with these new painkillers. I didn't realize at the time that they wouldn't make any difference, but I was like, I can do six minutes. I can do that. So the six minutes starts, and when the six minutes is about done, the door opens, and I'm like, thank you. Thank God they're coming in, because I'm done. And then the text said, hold on, we have to adjust your body because you're not in the right place. Which means that the whole first six minutes was of nothing. Which meant that it was going to be six plus six. So it was really going to be back to 12 minutes, and they had to start again. But the good news was that my original position didn't hurt very much. And I thought I Could definitely get through this because it didn't hurt that much. As soon as they moved me into the same position as the one where I'd been tested, the one that they needed to get me in absolute terror. Pain. Because it was the position that makes the pain. It wasn't natural pain, it was the position. Now I've got six minutes after the first six minutes after the 15 minutes of the worst pain you've ever felt in your life. But have I ever told you about deciding versus wanting? Oh, I was doing a lot of deciding. A lot of deciding. So I got through it. So the, the happy ending is I got. I got exactly what I wanted, but wow. So I had some words with them about their communication style. Moving on. Did you know that there was a. There was a new congressional investigation that discovered that Hunter Biden's paintings were all created entirely by Auto Pen. I didn't even know Auto Pen had any art ability, but apparently the autopen did all of his art. All right, how many of you believe that? Did anybody believe that? No. No, the autopen did not do Hunter's art. But it's kind of funny. All right. I wonder if there's any science that you didn't need to read because you could have just asked Scott. Well, the American Psychological association tells us that the study says that sharing positive emotions with the partner is good for your health. I'm pretty sure everybody knew that. You didn't even have to ask me that 1. Is sharing positive emotions with a partner going to be good for your relationship? Yes. Is it going to make. Is a good relationship going to make you healthier? Probably, yes. Yeah, easy. Next time just ask me. All right, let's see if you can guess the outcome of this study based on my patterns. So. So ABC News is talking about this. So they did a study where they gave somebody a small dose of LSD to see if it would help them with their long term anxiety. Now, importantly, they did not give it to them every day, just once. So just one dose. What do you think? What was the result? One dose of lsd. Did it have any lasting effects on anybody's mental health in a positive way? You already know the answer to that because I talk about this almost every day. Almost every day there's a new story about a hallucinogen. Usually not lsd, but some hallucinogen that has exactly these properties that it can fix somebody's mental health with one dose. I don't know how many studies we have to do to show that hallucinogens fix people with one dose before everybody tries one dose of hallucinogens. I mean, aren't we sort of, you know, on the cusp of everybody just saying, all right, all right, all right. Just give me some of that. According to Science Alert, chimpanzees can revise their beliefs when shown new evidence. Well, damn those dirty monkeys. They're smarter than humans. Humans don't change their mind when you give them new data, but chimps do. Well, I would say that humans do too. It really depends. But maybe the advantage that chimps have is that they don't get embarrassed. I mean, if you're a chimp, you're flinging your poo and probably trapped in a cage and you got bigger problems. But no, they will revise their beliefs based on new evidence. However, there's no indication what political party they're supporting. I think what they did was maybe a test that had something to do with food or something. Do you know what kind of opinion I would be willing to change easily my food opinions if the only thing they changed their opinion on was something about where the food was hidden. I'm not impressed. Chimps. Sorry. Chimps. Well, apparently Meta, the Facebook company, the Ars Technica, is reporting that they've been accused of using porn to train their AI. But do you know what their defense is? Because apparently there's. There must be digital records of Meta accessing a lot of porn. A lot of porn. Because we're talking about training AI. If you're going to train AI, you don't need a little bit of porn. You need lots. Lots of porn. Lots. So they must have some kind of digital path because there's a lawsuit. So Meta asked the U.S. district Court to toss out a lawsuit alleging that they had basically torrented or streamed a bunch of pornography to train their AI. How much porn was it and what was their defense? Their defense was it was all downloaded for personal reasons. So their actual court defense was. No, no, we didn't need that much porn to train our AI. We needed it totally for jerking off. What? No. Really? Yeah. We didn't. We didn't even touch AI with it. We did not get near AI with that porn. It was all for us, just a whack off. That's a lot of porn. Well, we're. We're young and there are a lot of us, and we like our porn. So, you know, why don't you get off my back, dad? Well, here's something that Elon Musk knew was coming, but maybe you didn't. Apparently There's a solar power boom because the economics of solar power just got really good. And one of the reasons it got really good, the economics for solar, is that there's some gigantic solar projects going on, China particularly, and basically it's just creating a very robust competitive industry. So the prices for solar are going down and a lot more is being installed in countries everywhere. The weird thing is that the economics of solar are so good now that even Saudi Arabia is installing solar. They have a lot of sun, so it makes sense. But one of the biggest regular energy, carbon energy producers in the world, even for them, the economics of solar are good. So I assume that maybe this has something to do with battery storage as well. But I guess we're in that realm where all power is good power. So you might remember that this is in the category of Elon Musk being correct again. He's been saying for a long time that solar would be the economical, easiest, fastest, safest kind of way to go forward. Now, obviously he's in the business, so it's his job to say it's good. But I think he's right. It looks like, if I had to guess, you know, the, the cost of, let's say, nuclear power might go down as they, you know, develop new ways, but that is just sort of going to go up, I think. New things that they have to do for safety and everything else. But solar potentially could just get cheaper and cheaper for a long time, and the batteries could get cheaper and cheaper. So I think Elon was right about the future of solar. ExxonMobil, according to zero Hedge, is taking California to court over what they call compelled climate speech. So they're not complaining about what the state is making them do about climate. They're complaining about what they're making them say, which is actually pretty innovative. And what is it they want them to say? Apparently they're being forced by California law to publicly endorse opinions about climate change that they don't agree with. That does seem like something you should be able to sue your state for, right? It'd be one thing if they say the law is you have to do this, but seems like a violation of the First Amendment to say, and when you do it, you have to talk about it this way. What, really the state is going to tell you how to talk about climate change? No, no, you don't get to tell us how to talk about it. We'll talk about it any way we want. But if, you know, if you have some law about what we're supposed to do. Well, maybe we'll do it, but we're not going to talk about it the way you want us to talk about it. No. So I'm going to be on Exxon Mobil side of that. RFK Jr says there is not yet, maybe there never will be sufficient evidence that Tylenol causes autism. I'm sure the Tylenol company has, whoever makes it has been talking to him. The Hill is reporting this, but they are in the, in the process of looking into it. We're doing studies to make, to make the proof. But Kennedy says there's a, there's, there's a suggestive connection but not yet a scientifically demonstrated one. So he's going to make sure that the science is there before or if they say that it is a problem. So I like that they're doing the studies. This is exactly, exactly why I like Kennedy in this job. You know, the, the anti Kennedy guys are. He will ignore science. Well, he's clearly not, he's clearly not ignoring science. He's clearly creating science where there was a, a hole and could be one of the most important things anybody ever did ever, anywhere if he finds out what's actually behind the autism. So yeah, that's why we, that's why we like him. This episode is brought to you by LifeLock. It's cyber security Awareness Month. And, and Lifelock has tips to protect your identity. Use strong passwords, set up multi factor authentication, report phishing and update the software on your devices. And for comprehensive identity protection, let LifeLock alert you to suspicious uses of your personal information. Lifelock also fixes identity theft, guaranteed or your money back. Stay smart, safe and protected. With a 30 day free trial@lifelock.com podcast terms apply. Trump has apparently decided to encourage Republicans to quote, go nuclear and scrap the Senate filibuster. Now, my understanding would be that that change would allow them to pass the law without 60 votes. So they would just need a bare majority and therefore they would be able to control the budget and reopen the government and do everything else. This the downside of getting rid of the filibuster because the filibuster is sort of what keeps the 6 devo thing alive as long as they're filibustering. But if you got rid of would work both ways, meaning that when Democrats eventually get in power, they would also have no filibuster. So if they had just one extra vote more than the Republicans, which isn't too far away, that one extra vote would allow them to do whatever they wanted. So right now the only control that Democrats have over Republicans doing anything they want is that they can filibuster and make this 60 vote threshold too high for the Republicans to get over. It would be quite the move to nuclear because it would change everything forever. The, the government would never be the same and even Republicans don't want to do it for that reason. It would change everything forever. And you might not like it because it probably wouldn't change back. I mean, it could, but probably wouldn't. So whoever was in power would never want to change it back because it would be what, the best power they'd ever had. Anyway, I don't know if that'll happen or if it's a bluff. It's probably the right time to bluff it because Democrats are really, really not going to want the nuclear option to be used and they're really, really, really not going to want the filibuster to go away. But the Republicans have the power to do it. They could make it go away. So it could be that he is bluffing and negotiating. And if he says, I totally want the nuclear option and the Senate filibuster to go away, that, that might be enough for the Democrats to say, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay, let's talk. If that's what he's doing, then it's exactly the right play. If what he's doing is he's definitely decided to get rid of the filibuster and he can convince the Republicans, which I don't think he can, actually. I don't think he would. But if he could, would they go along with it? I don't know. I don't think he could get the. I don't think he could get enough Republicans. But you know, he's really good at threatening Republicans with primaries, so maybe he could, he might be able to get him. Here's the least surprising story of the day. According to the New York Post, Victor Nava is writing that the Department of Justice is investigating possible fraud within black lives. So it's one particular part of Black Lives Matter. How many times have we heard that story that Black Lives Matter is being investigated for or. Or suspected of money laundering and stealing money and corruption? Surprise. All right, so, but here's what's interesting. Apparently the investigation was launched during the Biden administration. So if you think it's some kind of racist Trump thing that they only go after black people, you should know that this would be a continuation of a Biden administration thing. However, I do have to wonder if Biden was Slow walking it because Democrats don't want to embarrass Black Lives Matter who of to which they had all bowed. So it might have been getting slow walked, but it's not getting slow walked now. Looks like the Civil Rights Division of the Government is demanding, actually, the DOJ is demanding records on what they call unexplained anomalies in the 2020 election after Fulton county did not comply with subpoena. This is from the Post Millennial. Hannah Nightingale's writing about it. And I guess what this means is that in the past, Department of Justice had asked for some documents or something from Fulton county and never got them. And now people believe that there are unexplained anomalies related to the 2020 election. Now, how long have we been hearing about these unexplained anomalies in Georgia? It's been years, for years. It's like every other day there's a story about an unexplained election thing in Georgia, but none of them have so far turned into the, you know, the massive smoking gun that Republicans expect. So there's no proof that the election was thrown. But I do feel like, like every part of my body feels like it's come, you know, just in the way that Bill Gates changing his mind on climate change. I felt like it was coming, but I wouldn't know if it was in 20 years or one year turned down came kind of fast. So I don't know. We'll keep an eye on this, the unexplained anomalies. Meanwhile, Ted Cruz, I believe he's at an event in or was in Las Vegas. That's the Republican Jewish Coalition. And part of what Ted Cruz would like you to know is that according to him, the Republicans are drifting into anti Semitism. He says, I'll just read him. He says, in the last six months, I've seen more anti Semitism on the right than I have in my entire life. He says, this is a poison. And I believe we were facing an existential crisis in our party and in our country. He noted that the Democrats had sort of the same problem and were too slow to. To disavow the anti Semitism in their own party. And that that was sort of a critical mistake for the Democrats that he would not want the Republicans to make. And here's what I'm wondering. How much of it is because of the Gaza situation. And if Gaza had not happened, would he be, would he be seeing all this anti Semitism? Because it looks like the, the way to Understand the various complaints about anti Semitism is that, and I'm going to deeply oversimplify now, there are some people like Tucker Carlson, who seem to be criticizing the state of Israel, but there are some people like Nick Fuentes, who appears to be criticizing Jews around the world. Totally different, criticizing the country. Fine, you'll still be called an anti Semite, but at least smart people would consider that reasonable. But if you're criticizing people, well, you're not going to get away with that. And Ted Cruz is calling it out. So Ted is a very, very, very, very pro Israel. He would be called by some people too, pro Israel. But again, if you're pro or anti a country that's all legal, you know, as long as it's transparent and you know you're not hurting anybody and you're still putting your own country first, that would be important. That's one thing. If you're, if you're criticizing APAC or the adl, that's okay. Those are organizations that, that's not direct. Even if you were anti Semitic, it would be okay to criticize an organization for what the organization's doing. So it looks like we're conflating, you know, the two, the two conversations, you know, when are we, when is somebody saying something that's criticism of the country, when they've gone too far and said it's the people. But I would, I would say that what's changed in the last six months is that the Gaza situation reached some kind of a peak. Obviously that's going to have some impact. And that also maybe some changes in social media made Nick Fuentes show up on my feed every five seconds. Is anybody having the Nick Fuentes social media effect that he's just there almost every time I turn on any videos on X, he's, he's in the top five. Now it is because I was curious, like, what's the difference between, you know, Tucker Carlson's view and his view and you know, what trouble is he causing? Because when you hear, when you hear things about him, you don't always hear the specific of what he did. So I wanted to see some specifics. And I would agree that he comes off as anti Semitic. I would agree if you watch him for a while, it's hard not to get that impression. Now, he might deny it, etc. But let's just say, let's just say the vibe is unmistakable. Now, he would argue, I think, you know, I don't want to take his argument, but at least in some cases, he would argue that he's at least in other topics, that he's talking about culture less, less than he's talking about people. But I think that's, that's not so much the anti Semitism argument as it is his argument about other immigrants, I think. So here's my take. Both Tucker and Quentin, they can represent their own opinions. I will add nothing to their opinions, nor, nor do I care enough that I need to get into the weeds on that. But it does look like Tucker is playing with fire. But maybe still, you know, slightly on the, the side of, you know, since he's going after entities and not people most of the time. I mean, there might be some people he goes after, but they would be special cases. That's what it looks like anyway. So that's happened. Cash Patel apparently found, according to Just the news, another October surprise that was happening back in two weeks before the election in 2020. So we know about the Arctic Frost investigation, but did you know that on top of that, they were looking to do something in 2020? What was it? Oh, here it was. They were desperately, it looks like they're desperately looking like something, looking for something they could go after Trump for. But they didn't have much. So here's how deep they went to try to find something on Trump. There was a memo. I'll just read what Just the news is reporting. There's a memo buried in the middle of a 235 page evidence production that Patel sent to the House Judiciary Committee this week that chronicles how the FBI's Washington Field Office rifled through financial records and campaign expenditure reports, producing what? Quote, a tactical intelligence report trying to link payments from Trump's re election campaign and a vendor named American made media consultants to possible casino gambling. Did you get all that? Everybody follow all that? I read it. I don't even follow it. In short, news rights. The FBI agents believed an employee of the campaign. So, all right, here's the problem. They believe that an employee of the campaign, not Trump, just an employee. No. Yeah, an employee of the campaign. When gambling at a casino after this American made media consultants thing got money for campaign work. Not exactly the crime of the century. Says just the news. How's that even a crime? What exactly was that? So I guess the bottom line is that the FBI was looking for just absolutely anything. They were digging hard to try to keep Trump out of office and that was the best they had. Some employee went to a casino. Okay. According to the New York Post and some new, new surveys, nearly half of New Yorkers think that New York City crime is going to spike when he becomes mayor, who he likely will. So about half. That's pretty scary if half of the people think that crime is going to go up. But I'll bet that's not too different from any other. Every other election. Half of the country thinks it's going to be a disaster. Well, I didn't know this, but I guess in the past, Elon Musk has been not so much of a bitcoin supporter. But as of today, he says bitcoin might be the thing. Because the thing that's different about bitcoin is that it's sort of a. It's proof of real world power. I think that's what Mario was describing as. But basically, bitcoin can only be created with energy. So energy is, in a sense, the thing that backs bitcoin in the way that the old days, gold would have backed the dollar. Not anymore. So bitcoin would be one of the. Well, the only. I think it's the only crypto that would be backed by something that has intrinsic value of its own, which is energy. So you need energy to make a bitcoin. And so Elon recognizing that. Yeah, he does. He says he doesn't hold any bitcoin. But. But he's. But. But energy is truth. So I. I guess the bottom line is that Elon is believing that bitcoin is here to stay and that there's a reason that it's different from the other crypto. And I noticed that Bitcoin was up 3% this morning. I don't know what it is. Now, BlackRock's Larry Fink said something that made news that I don't understand at all. See if you understand it. So Larry Fink says that the world is about to tokenize every financial asset. Do any of you know what that means? Tokenized. Now, I think it means have some kind of a crypto currency that's backed on the physical thing. Would that make the physical objects that are about to be tokenized? Nobody's talking about financial assets. The world is about to tokenize every financial asset. I have no idea what that means, do you? Yeah, I. I mean, I understand they're talking about the blockchain, blah, blah, blah. But what does it mean to tokenize every financial asset? Does that mean we're not going to have financial entities? Will we be able to do all of our financial stuff without Charles Schwab and without a bank? Is he suggesting that banks will go away? I don't know what this means. Anyway, so Trump and she met the other day and allegedly made some deals. You, you saw my take on it yesterday in the morning, and I said it looked like Trump got nothing. Well, that's what the Wall Street Journal said, too. It wasn't just me. So other people said the same thing. It looks like Trump got nothing. Well, we'll never know because it's mostly promises, but it looks like we promised nothing and they promised nothing, but we made our nothing sound like something. So it looked like something happened. But I think nothing happened. I, I think nobody agreed on anything that they're actually going to do. So that's weird. But Trump did his usual thing where he claimed victory and it was a big win. That does work, you know, if you're a Democrat, you're just going to say, he's lying, he's lying. He didn't, you know, he didn't have a big victory, he's lying. But I like it when he uses his hyperbole and salesmanship in these situations, because if he can make Xi think that the two of them won something, that the two of them look good and they had a meeting and they both win something that they want, that might soften up she for the next time, you know, so that would maybe be good, just good technique to agree that good things happened even if they didn't. So we'll see where that goes. I don't expect any change on fentanyl. There's no way China cares about that. The Daily Wire is reporting Virginia Crude is writing about this. There's a. Some Democrat. Who was it? Janelle Bynum, Democrat from Oregon. She's a representative. So she was being asked by the media about the clean cr, the continuing resolution. So this is what the Republicans say they want the Democrats to sign or vote for that would just extend funding with no changes from what it had been before. So the no changes part is the important part. But Janelle Bynum says that that continuing resolution was not a clean bill and indeed that it had a poison pill in it, meaning that something had been added that Democrats would definitely not want to happen. But if they wanted to open the government, they'd be forced to sign this bill that also had this new add on that they didn't want, that would be called the poison pill. And then the representative, or I'm sorry, then the C SPAN media person said, what is that poison pill? Can you name that? And she could not, because there's no poison pill. Now, have you noticed that the Democrats can make any claim whatsoever and nobody's going to really fact check it enough that, you know, I mean, only, only the nerds like us are going to fact check it out, but the regular public is just going to hear that and they're going to say, oh, it has a poison pill in. Has no poison pill in it. The poison pill is imaginary. It's just completely imaginary. What do I tell you about Democrat beliefs and worries and policies? They're all imaginary. The more imaginary things you see come out at the left, the more you realize it's an imaginary party. Everything from climate change to authoritarianism to Trump becoming a king, to the, to the CR having a poison pill, none of it's true. To the drinking bleach to the fine people hoax, to the Russia collusion hoax. None of it's true. None of it's true. So the imaginary party versus the real party. The Wall Street Journal editorial was that the Republicans should kill Obamacare if they can. The subsidies. Now what would happen if these gigantic extra medical costs that have gone up, especially in the last five years, what would happen if the government just said, no more. It's just going to be a private market and you'd have to eat these expenses. Could they like what would happen? It's certainly obvious that the Republicans were right when they said that Obamacare would be a disaster. They were right. Now Obama was right too, and that he knew it would be a disaster, but it would cover more people so, you know, at least people would get health care while the disaster was running. He was right about that too. It covered more people. And just like the Republicans said, it's a financial disaster. Is that fixable? I'd sure love to hear the Republican plan to fix it. That doesn't put 10 million people out of health care. Is there any way to do that? I'm not even sure that's physically possible at this point. We'll see. Speaking of Ted Cruz, he's also called on the House to impeach that Judge Boasberg and the impeachment would be in his opinion. The reason for it would be that Boasberg and had been behind approving the looking into all the personal phone records of a bunch of people, including Ted Cruz and I guess Bose, were justified looking into the records under what the judge wrote were reasonable grounds that the Senator might destroy or tamper with evidence in the Biden administration's investigation of Jan6. And Cruz's response is there is precisely zero evidence to conclude that I am likely to destroy or tamper with evident evidence or to intimidate Potential witnesses, and I'll give him that. I'll give him that. You know, whether you like Ted Cruz or not, there is zero evidence that he would tamper with evidence. You know, it doesn't, it doesn't seem like he'd be the guy who would ever do a dumb thing like that. So he's got a good point. Reuters says that China's factory activity is down a little bit with, should be a big warning sign. It might be down because they did a little extra before the tariffs. So it might be just an adjustment from a, a bump, but it doesn't seem to be affecting other countries. So it's a China problem. Russia apparently used a, one of their best missiles. Must be something new in Ukraine. They've used it a bunch of times before. But using that missile is apparently what led Trump to quit the nuclear treaty that he'd like to get going. So these must be really good missiles if it's, if it ruined the nuclear conversation. And apparently whatever planned Budapest summit with Putin was going to happen with Trump is off now. So they're not going to do that. But Putin invited journalists into the war zone. He wanted to show them that Russia had encircled. They claim, but Ukraine, Ukraine says this is not true. But Russia says they've circled encircled so that they could, whenever they want, destroy a large part of the Ukrainian army. Thousands of people are allegedly encircled, and Putin wants to bring in the press and say, see for yourself, they're encircled. But they say, no, we're not encircled. Well, Israel launched another attack in eastern Gaza because the, the ceasefire is having a little trouble holding. Like I say before, of course there will be violations of the ceasefire. Of course there will. But if they stay low grade, they can work through it. All right, here's the dumbest thing I saw on the Internet today. University of British Columbia is behind this, writing about it. They, they believe they have a mathematical proof that debunks the idea that the universe is a simulation. Do you believe that, that somebody has a mathematical proof that we're not a simulation? No, of course they don't. They couldn't possibly because the simulation bias design would prevent you from knowing that it was something else. Who would build a simulation in which the people in the simulation could determine that they were not a simulation, it would just ruin the simulation. So as long as you can program a simulation such that all the people in it would have some point of view and can never be overturned, that's all you need. So apparently the, their mathematical proof boils down to this. Since the fundamental level of reality is based on non algorithmic understanding, that would be the reality. We think we're in non algorithmic understanding. What they mean is quantum physics. So they're saying that the world is not cause and effect, but it's sort of a quantum world where you don't know what's going to happen. So if you don't know what's going to happen, you couldn't really call that an algorithm. Right. So therefore there can't be a computed simulation, because what we observe is that we don't live in a world that acts like it's computed. It doesn't act like cause and effect. It acts like random things are happening. Now, what does that have to do with the simulation? You could, you can build randomness into a simulation. You could build into the simulation that people think they see randomness. You could build into the simulation quantum physics. You could just say, act like there's quantum physics. And then the simulation would act like had quantum physics. And then these guys in the simulation would say, look, it's acting like it has quantum physics, so therefore it can't be a simulation. Yes, it can. It can be a simulation pretending to be quantum physics. It's not hard, people. This is easy. All right. According to Reuters, the Pentagon's Doge unit is going to revamp the military's drone program. Is that good news? Do you remember it was just yesterday I was telling you that wars run on economics because if you the best economics, you got the best weapons. And I told you that the, the economics of drones and anti drone technology, those two things might be the key to who has, you know, dominance in the future. Are you good at making lots of drones and do you make really good drones? That's, that's going to be who has power. So putting Doge, which are both geniuses and they're involved in costs, if you put the costs people in charge of the drone program, you've nailed it. Because you got to get the economics right so that you can make a billion drones at the cost that your enemy could only make a million, that's the whole game. So the fact that the military and Hegseth and Trump apparently understand that you got to get the economics of drones right. You don't just get the technology, you got to get the economics of it right. That, that's how you win. So Doge doesn't seem like the obvious people to pick for the, for the drone program, but once you realize that economics and drones are really the same conversation, then it makes all the sense in the world. You put your geniuses where they can understand not just the technology, but also how the economics of it works. So. So that seems like real good news. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is all I had to tell you today. Went a little bit short. I'm not working too well today. My left hand and arm are just useless at this point. I don't have a plan for fixing that. All right. I'm going to just say a few words to my beloved local subscribers. Give you a little extra. The rest of you, hope to see you tomorrow. Come back again, please, if you enjoyed it and even if you didn't.