Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1432 Scott Adams： Lots of Persuasion Lessons on the Best Coffee With Scott Adams EVER!

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00:00:57.760 Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

00:01:03.220 Well, as some of you have been following my saga of trying to be a dumb guy who learns how to do smart stuff, meaning that I was trying to learn how to do the proper sound engineering for this live stream.

00:01:18.220 Now, if you've been with me from the beginning, you knew it started with me just holding up my phone and talking to it.

00:01:23.740 And over time, I try to chip away at it to make all the elements a little bit better.

00:01:30.680 You know, I'm always A-B testing.

00:01:32.280 Let me tell you what happened recently.

00:01:34.400 So I asked on social media, how do I get two sound signals to go through my Rodecaster Pro mixer so that my iPad and my laptop or two iPads can have the same sound with one microphone?

00:01:47.300 And many, many people gave me suggestions.

00:01:51.320 Do you know what happens when you get lots of good suggestions and they're all different?

00:01:58.640 Worthless.

00:01:59.940 It turns out that if you get lots and lots of help, you can't tell what is the good help because it's all different.

00:02:06.700 If I got lots of advice and it was largely the same or there was one, let's say, one approach that people seem to favor, then I'd say, well, there we go.

00:02:16.580 Got something to try.

00:02:17.980 But if 100 people give you technical advice and all 100 are different, you have nothing because you've got to try all 100 things and it's basically the same as guessing.

00:02:29.040 So most recently, somebody gave me a full diagram with details of what cables to buy to make this connection, which I don't think the equipment is exactly made to do this.

00:02:41.100 But you start with these.

00:02:43.300 All right.

00:02:43.720 So you've got this going into the speaker holes and then it goes into one connection.

00:02:48.180 But then the one connection goes back into a splitter.

00:02:52.300 So you've got your coming out analog, right, into the splitter.

00:02:57.540 And then the splitter goes into these cables and then these cables go into these little devices, into the microphone part, which I think is trying to change it from analog back to digital.

00:03:10.560 And then it goes back into this and then it goes into your devices.

00:03:14.960 Now, how impressive was this?

00:03:17.700 Somebody had to figure out all of these cable types and all of the different transfers and redirections to make all this work. 0.58

00:03:29.980 And I plugged it in and I'll be damned.

00:03:33.660 It actually worked. 0.80

00:03:35.020 The sound actually went from my microphone all the way into the device.

00:03:39.320 But how many engineers are already laughing?

00:03:42.840 Come on, tell me.

00:03:45.620 Those of you who actually know what you're doing, how many of you are laughing now?

00:03:50.560 Some of you are.

00:03:51.840 I know it.

00:03:53.180 You got punked, somebody says.

00:03:56.600 No.

00:03:57.600 Yeah.

00:03:58.200 It worked.

00:03:59.400 But the noise was so extreme it wasn't usable.

00:04:03.500 So you could tell somebody was talking.

00:04:05.500 But there was so much interference it wasn't a useful thing.

00:04:08.840 So that was another week of work and ordering things and putting things together.

00:04:14.180 And there's one more thing that did not work.

00:04:17.560 Will I be discouraged by this?

00:04:21.380 Nope.

00:04:22.120 Nope.

00:04:22.800 Because every time I do something that doesn't work, I learn a new thing about engineering.

00:04:28.500 Which is, if you've got too many connections and changes, it's probably not going to work.

00:04:34.620 I know what you're saying.

00:04:36.500 I hear you.

00:04:37.420 You're all saying hire an engineer, hire a producer, and even if you don't want them

00:04:42.160 sitting there with you, at least have them show you how to set it up once.

00:04:47.520 That's good advice from people who have never worked with an engineer.

00:04:51.900 Have you ever worked with an engineer?

00:04:54.900 Let me show you how it goes.

00:04:57.320 All right.

00:04:57.980 We're going to make this work, and I'll show you how to do this.

00:05:01.200 Here's the device you're going to use.

00:05:02.860 You want to come in, and you want to do this.

00:05:04.600 That's it.

00:05:06.680 That's it.

00:05:07.180 Just this.

00:05:08.380 Hit these three buttons in that order.

00:05:10.160 You're done.

00:05:10.580 It's going to work every time.

00:05:12.020 All right.

00:05:12.480 Give me my paycheck.

00:05:13.420 I'm out of here.

00:05:14.620 First day you turn it on.

00:05:18.920 Nothing.

00:05:21.060 Nothing.

00:05:21.420 You call the engineer, and he says, oh, did I forget to tell you that you also have this

00:05:26.880 setting that has to be set?

00:05:28.540 You're, oh, okay.

00:05:29.200 Now I've got to change the setting.

00:05:30.980 It works.

00:05:32.140 Yay.

00:05:33.400 Next day, put on the setting.

00:05:37.400 Doesn't work.

00:05:39.140 So you call up the engineer.

00:05:40.380 He goes, oh, did I tell you that sometimes in this situation you have to have the setting

00:05:45.580 on and then do this, but do it in a different order.

00:05:48.660 You go, okay, got it now.

00:05:50.240 I have all the situations.

00:05:51.400 So you do that.

00:05:53.520 What happens the next day?

00:05:55.440 Yeah, the next day it doesn't work.

00:05:57.400 So one of the things you can count on an engineer to do is to find a perfect solution that never

00:06:03.760 works twice because it's the nature of audio engineering that you can set it up once and

00:06:09.100 it just doesn't work the next time.

00:06:10.940 It's very common across all the products.

00:06:13.920 And I know you're going to say, get OBS and get all these things that combine things.

00:06:19.960 They all have that problem.

00:06:21.520 They don't work twice.

00:06:22.860 So I've tried them all.

00:06:24.340 All right.

00:06:24.700 Moving on.

00:06:26.180 At the billionaire summer camp in Sun Valley where Bill Gates gave a speech to the other

00:06:31.720 billionaires who were assembled there for fun, he gave a speech on climate change.

00:06:38.540 So he's talking about climate change to all the billionaires so they can do something

00:06:41.940 about it.

00:06:43.700 In a related news, this is the Daily Mail reported this.

00:06:47.700 So many of the attendees flew in on private jets to hear the climate change talk that the

00:06:54.180 airspace as far afield as Michigan and Canada had to be temporarily closed.

00:07:01.720 Let me put it in my own words.

00:07:04.940 There were so many private jets flying to the speech about climate change that it blocked out

00:07:11.500 the sun.

00:07:12.000 And for a moment, the sun couldn't get through to the earth, and it actually cooled the earth.

00:07:18.500 There were so many private jets in the air.

00:07:21.040 Mostly it was shady from Michigan to Sun Valley.

00:07:24.760 So that's the good news.

00:07:26.420 That's the good news.

00:07:28.480 All right.

00:07:29.140 Here's something.

00:07:30.540 I often recommend that you do things.

00:07:33.460 Wouldn't you say?

00:07:34.180 Sometimes I give you advice.

00:07:35.980 Sometimes I say, you know, you should read this article, or you should look at this tweet,

00:07:40.000 or you should maybe follow this person on Twitter.

00:07:42.940 You hear me say that a lot, right?

00:07:45.000 Here's what I don't often say, but I'm going to say it today.

00:07:49.460 Stop everything you're doing, except this.

00:07:52.540 As soon as you're done with this, or actually, I will give you permission to stop this.

00:07:57.460 That's how good this thing is that I'm going to recommend.

00:08:00.280 You could actually stop the live stream right now, and just go listen to this content.

00:08:05.740 It's pinned at the top of my Twitter page.

00:08:08.440 And it's Tucker Carlson reading an article, or I don't know if it's a tweet thread or article,

00:08:13.660 from Daryl Cooper, who I don't know, but he's a tremendous writer.

00:08:19.500 So whoever Daryl Cooper is, oh my God, can he write?

00:08:23.580 Let me say that again.

00:08:25.400 Oh my God, can he write?

00:08:27.640 And the reason that Tucker is reading his piece on TV is that you've almost never seen anything like this.

00:08:37.840 It is so well written that your brain just does something.

00:08:42.740 I mean, it's weird.

00:08:44.020 And here's what he pulled off that is very hard to do,

00:08:46.560 and it's sort of the, in some ways, it's the holy grail of all writers.

00:08:50.660 So he does what all writers are trying to do,

00:08:53.100 but not many have ever pulled it off in the history of writing,

00:08:58.100 which is to take this big, complicated thing that we all experience,

00:09:02.120 in this case he's writing about the 2020 election,

00:09:05.600 and the fact that Republicans are doubters about the outcome.

00:09:09.600 And the story is pretty big, because there are a lot of moving parts.

00:09:12.820 And what Daryl does, which Tucker Carlson recognized and saw its value, as do I,

00:09:20.640 is that somehow he managed to put all that into a logical framework.

00:09:27.380 It was crazy.

00:09:29.260 It was so good.

00:09:30.860 So here's my recommendation.

00:09:32.120 I don't want to ruin the content by, you know, summarizing it too much,

00:09:35.880 but let me tell you, if you're wondering why it is that Republicans are more doubtful

00:09:41.640 about the outcome of the election,

00:09:43.620 you're probably saying, well, that's kind of obvious.

00:09:45.460 I can think of ten reasons.

00:09:47.380 You have to see his description.

00:09:50.580 It's just crazy.

00:09:51.820 It's so good.

00:09:53.100 And honestly, honestly, stop what you're doing to absorb it.

00:09:58.420 It's at the top of my Twitter feed.

00:09:59.860 You'll know where to find it.

00:10:00.900 There's a TikTok star who's in trouble because he had some exotic snakes,

00:10:07.500 and one of them was a zebra cobra.

00:10:11.040 And he let it escape, but he didn't tell anybody for months,

00:10:14.600 and I guess authorities found it and captured it.

00:10:18.260 But here are some fun snake facts that I just found.

00:10:23.600 All right, are you ready for fun snake facts?

00:10:26.800 Number one, a zebra cobra can spit venom nine feet,

00:10:33.580 and the venom actually burns you like acid.

00:10:38.520 Oh, my God, that's the scariest snake I've ever heard of.

00:10:41.920 First of all, I don't like to get within nine feet of anything called a cobra,

00:10:46.460 but if you do get within nine feet, you're still not too safe,

00:10:50.600 even at nine feet, because of that spitting venom. 0.99

00:10:53.400 So we had this spitting venom zebra snake in some neighborhood,

00:10:58.800 and they finally got it.

00:10:59.920 But here are some other things that we learned.

00:11:01.980 Number one, if you have a zebra cobra or other lethal snake and it gets out,

00:11:09.740 apparently you are legally obliged to inform law enforcement

00:11:13.220 that your lethal snake is in the neighborhood.

00:11:16.840 This TikTok star did not do that, so he's in trouble for that.

00:11:20.180 How many of you would have known that?

00:11:21.600 Would you have known that it was a legal requirement?

00:11:26.420 No, obviously it was a moral and ethical requirement

00:11:29.240 to let people know there's a deadly snake in the neighborhood.

00:11:32.540 So I think we all agree on the moral ethical part.

00:11:35.640 But did you know there was a legal requirement?

00:11:38.160 I wouldn't have known that.

00:11:39.620 Here's another one that's weird.

00:11:41.300 Apparently he's also in trouble for mislabeling the containers of snakes.

00:11:47.180 Did you know if you put the wrong label on your snake container?

00:11:52.160 You can get in legal trouble?

00:11:54.920 I'm not really good at labeling things.

00:11:57.320 I'm not good with details.

00:11:58.980 So I feel like I would not be a good snake farmer,

00:12:01.720 because I'd be mislabeling all my containers.

00:12:03.720 Mine would be like the snake, and then there would be like the other snake,

00:12:08.540 because I don't really know much about snakes.

00:12:10.300 So if I put a bunch of snakes in the container,

00:12:13.120 I probably wouldn't spend too much time figuring out the correct label.

00:12:17.460 I'd be like snake number two, snake number three.

00:12:20.420 Don't touch the snake.

00:12:23.000 All right.

00:12:24.720 CNN, and I didn't think I'd ever live to see this,

00:12:28.820 and listen carefully, because you're going to think I'm misspeaking.

00:12:32.160 So hear my words clearly.

00:12:36.280 CNN today reported real news.

00:12:40.920 Let me say it again, because you probably don't believe it.

00:12:44.000 CNN reported real news today.

00:12:46.760 It's talking about the city of Charlottesville,

00:12:49.300 and they're taking down their Confederate statutes.

00:12:53.120 Apparently that's actually a real thing that's happening.

00:12:55.900 Now here's the part that's shocking.

00:12:58.820 They did a story about Charlottesville and Confederate statues.

00:13:03.140 They mentioned the Unite the Right event,

00:13:07.480 and they did not mention, not one mention,

00:13:12.220 to the Fine People hoax,

00:13:14.180 which normally they had always reported as fact.

00:13:17.100 Think about that.

00:13:19.420 CNN did a story about Charlottesville

00:13:22.860 and removing Confederate statues,

00:13:25.900 and the Unite the Right rally

00:13:28.180 that sort of was the predecessor of it all.

00:13:32.720 And they didn't mention at all,

00:13:35.600 not any mention,

00:13:37.500 of the Fine People hoax.

00:13:41.640 You're welcome.

00:13:43.940 And shout-out to Steve Cortez and Joel Pollack

00:13:46.800 for pounding on that hoax since 2018, right?

00:13:52.520 And we have been pounding that thing and pounding it,

00:13:56.840 and many of you have been helping on that

00:13:59.660 by retweeting the tweets and the articles and stuff.

00:14:03.220 Now, I'm not going to say we won,

00:14:05.600 but I will say that Joe Biden stopped saying

00:14:07.920 the Fine People hoax,

00:14:09.360 and this is the first time I've seen

00:14:11.680 the CNN reported it without the hoax reported

00:14:14.860 as if it were true.

00:14:16.740 Maybe it's progress.

00:14:19.680 Well, happy July 10th.

00:14:21.740 Today is sort of an important day, July 10th.

00:14:25.440 It's a day when some of you will have a great day today.

00:14:29.020 I guarantee it.

00:14:31.140 Many of you watching this are going to go out

00:14:32.760 and have just a great day.

00:14:34.280 Other people, my enemies,

00:14:37.100 will be choking on their own bile today,

00:14:39.780 but they know who they are,

00:14:42.720 and I'll leave that to their imaginations

00:14:45.060 about what's going to happen today, July 10th.

00:14:48.820 Some days will be good.

00:14:51.280 Some days will not.

00:14:53.000 All right.

00:14:54.480 Biden reversed another Trump policy

00:14:57.400 on pregnant aliens. 0.94

00:14:59.880 Now, these are not my words.

00:15:03.480 I'm using the words from the news.

00:15:06.600 They're referring to the topic here

00:15:09.240 as a policy on pregnant aliens.

00:15:13.360 I assume this is something about the UFOs.

00:15:17.640 I didn't read all the details,

00:15:19.820 but apparently Trump had a policy

00:15:22.620 that if you were pregnant

00:15:24.760 and you were an alien

00:15:25.960 and you came to the United States,

00:15:28.340 that they would detain you or not

00:15:31.440 on a case-by-case basis.

00:15:35.700 But now, Biden has reversed that

00:15:38.320 because it was cruel and evil, they say,

00:15:40.840 and instead,

00:15:43.120 anybody who's pregnant and or nursing

00:15:45.700 will not be detained.

00:15:48.440 So no detaining for anybody who's pregnant. 0.57

00:15:53.000 So no pregnant aliens will be detained.

00:15:55.500 So if you see a lot of pregnant aliens, 1.00

00:15:59.800 and you can usually tell them

00:16:01.480 because they have antennae

00:16:03.240 and they might be green, for example,

00:16:07.620 possibly have a different number of eyes or features,

00:16:11.940 but you also notice them very pregnant

00:16:13.920 and you want to stay away from them.

00:16:16.260 If you've ever seen a pregnant alien, 0.85

00:16:21.360 and here I'm assuming we're talking about space aliens

00:16:23.740 because I didn't read the article,

00:16:25.500 but it seems obvious with all the UFOs,

00:16:27.880 this must be what it's about.

00:16:29.480 Let me do my impression of a pregnant alien. 0.96

00:16:32.760 I'm going to say that wasn't my best impression,

00:16:47.400 but that was what a pregnant alien looks like. 1.00

00:16:52.960 Let's see.

00:16:54.940 How about that?

00:16:57.460 Sorry about that.

00:16:59.140 I just got so excited.

00:17:00.620 All right.

00:17:05.760 Here's some disappearing news stories.

00:17:09.720 All right.

00:17:10.080 I'm going to build a little theme here

00:17:11.860 about disappearing news.

00:17:13.800 And it starts with a story about

00:17:17.880 the Washington Post editorial board

00:17:21.940 is writing, had a piece that said,

00:17:26.520 why are unions and Democrats so opposed

00:17:28.820 to giving poor children a choice in schooling?

00:17:32.860 And I thought to myself,

00:17:34.440 the reason that this was being tweeted around

00:17:37.000 is that it's rare.

00:17:40.400 That it's rare.

00:17:41.260 It's rare that the Washington Post,

00:17:45.280 especially a left-leaning publication,

00:17:47.720 would even have the topic.

00:17:50.040 You know, it looks like an opinion piece,

00:17:52.040 but would even have this topic

00:17:53.600 about opposing school choice

00:17:56.440 and it's bad for poor children.

00:17:58.960 And here's what I ask you.

00:18:01.460 Doesn't it seem like the left-leaning news,

00:18:04.320 which is the main news,

00:18:05.600 we'll get to the Mike Sernovich part of this,

00:18:07.320 doesn't it seem that the news

00:18:09.620 has disappeared the story of school choice?

00:18:14.240 Right?

00:18:15.640 The news has just disappeared that story.

00:18:19.200 And you don't realize

00:18:22.080 until somebody plays it,

00:18:25.160 you don't realize just, 1.00

00:18:26.500 Jesus fucking Christ, 1.00

00:18:30.140 you fucking bastards. 1.00

00:18:33.040 All right, I'm going to fix my microphone a little bit, 1.00

00:18:35.920 but don't fucking talk about the audio anymore. 0.95

00:18:39.120 The problem's on your side 0.98

00:18:40.280 if you've got an audio problem.

00:18:41.680 All right, so enough about that.

00:18:43.100 So we're seeing a situation

00:18:47.080 in which the whole school choice debate

00:18:49.480 is basically treated as not an issue

00:18:52.300 when it might be the best issue,

00:18:55.260 the most important issue in the country.

00:18:57.220 In my opinion,

00:18:58.580 if you were to pick the one most important thing,

00:19:00.920 it would be school choice.

00:19:03.000 Certainly fixing the options for black Americans 1.00

00:19:07.680 and anybody who's low income

00:19:09.780 who doesn't have a good school.

00:19:10.840 But we don't really see much debate on that

00:19:14.000 in the news, do we?

00:19:17.140 We don't have much debate on that.

00:19:19.080 And so you can see that the news decides

00:19:20.880 not only what is news,

00:19:22.920 but what we even debate on.

00:19:24.840 They just keep it out of the news

00:19:26.060 and it's just not a story.

00:19:28.480 So we're going to tie some stories together here,

00:19:31.800 but let me do the stories first.

00:19:35.400 Let's say you wanted to follow the science,

00:19:38.020 because that's a good idea, right?

00:19:39.420 And let's say you were in California

00:19:41.600 and you read that today.

00:19:43.800 The CDC said on Friday, I guess yesterday,

00:19:47.720 that fully vaccinated teachers and students

00:19:49.720 do not need to wear masks.

00:19:52.460 So that's what the CDC says.

00:19:54.400 Now, do you think that the CDC

00:19:55.660 is using science to make their decisions?

00:20:00.380 Well, I think they are, right?

00:20:02.340 It's the CDC, probably using science.

00:20:04.860 So what did California do

00:20:07.500 when the CDC said you don't need masks

00:20:10.240 if you're fully vaccinated?

00:20:12.520 California followed the science

00:20:14.960 in the opposite direction

00:20:16.040 and said, oh, you totally are going to need masks

00:20:19.120 to go back to school. 1.00

00:20:22.160 Fuck you. 1.00

00:20:24.180 Fuck you. 1.00

00:20:26.560 Fuck, fuck you. 1.00

00:20:29.340 Governor Newsom. 1.00

00:20:30.260 Now, I've got to say,

00:20:32.300 I have not been too engaged

00:20:33.940 in the recall Newsom saga.

00:20:38.420 You know, I prefer it.

00:20:40.020 I think that, you know, he's worthy of recall.

00:20:42.560 But I don't know what the odds are.

00:20:44.260 The odds are low, I think,

00:20:45.400 that he actually gets recalled.

00:20:46.840 But that process is underway.

00:20:49.920 And when I see that California

00:20:52.280 is ignoring science,

00:20:53.740 or at least CDC's version of science,

00:20:56.120 which actually is people-friendly,

00:20:57.500 I say to myself, why is that?

00:21:00.340 Can you give me some reason, California,

00:21:03.080 in which your guidelines would be different?

00:21:05.360 And it turns out there is a reason.

00:21:07.720 All right, so now the CDC says

00:21:09.200 you don't need masks if you're vaccinated

00:21:10.840 to go back to school.

00:21:12.760 California says you do.

00:21:14.440 And here's California's reason

00:21:15.960 that they're disagreeing with the CDC, okay?

00:21:19.420 Here's California's reason.

00:21:23.800 At the outset of the new year,

00:21:25.680 students should be able to walk into school

00:21:28.000 without worrying about whether

00:21:30.360 they will feel different or singled out

00:21:32.980 for being vaccinated or unvaccinated.

00:21:37.080 Treating all kids the same

00:21:38.540 will support a calm and supportive

00:21:41.000 school environment. 0.99

00:21:45.520 Are you fucking kidding me? 1.00

00:21:49.340 Really? 1.00

00:21:50.320 Are you fucking kidding me? 0.99

00:21:51.840 California is saying directly 0.99

00:21:54.140 that they're going to ignore the science

00:21:56.680 because it will make kids feel better

00:21:59.180 and not tease each other

00:22:00.300 about being vaccinated or not vaccinated. 0.99

00:22:03.160 Are you fucking kidding me? 1.00

00:22:05.340 You fucking idiots. 1.00

00:22:07.400 You're going to send kids 1.00

00:22:09.140 who are fully vaccinated into school 1.00

00:22:11.160 and make them wear a fucking mask all day. 1.00

00:22:13.980 Really? 1.00

00:22:14.880 You've gone too far.

00:22:16.720 Too far. 0.99

00:22:18.620 Too fucking far. 0.97

00:22:20.160 So I'm going to give you 0.95

00:22:22.620 in a little bit

00:22:23.460 a plan for how to beat Newsom

00:22:27.100 in the recall.

00:22:29.560 Now, I hadn't been, like I said,

00:22:30.900 I haven't been involved in any way.

00:22:33.020 But there is a very clear path

00:22:35.020 to beat him,

00:22:36.160 especially with this mask thing.

00:22:38.300 The mask stuff alone

00:22:39.320 should be enough to kick him out of office.

00:22:41.460 Right?

00:22:41.720 Unless the governor comes out against that

00:22:43.540 and I don't think it's going to happen,

00:22:45.060 that should be the end of him.

00:22:46.740 As soon as you go against

00:22:47.980 the CDC's recommendation for masks,

00:22:50.240 that should be it.

00:22:51.760 You don't even need to talk 0.99

00:22:53.000 about other fucking things. 1.00

00:22:54.140 Really. 1.00

00:22:54.720 That's it.

00:22:57.040 Because you're going to piss off

00:22:58.280 kids and their moms.

00:23:02.440 Forget about the dads

00:23:03.600 because nobody cares about dads.

00:23:05.040 But you're going to piss off

00:23:06.540 the kids and their moms.

00:23:08.160 And this is going to be some trouble.

00:23:10.300 And I'm going to add to this trouble

00:23:11.920 in a little bit.

00:23:12.580 But here's my plan

00:23:16.280 for beating Governor Newsom.

00:23:18.300 Now this requires a good candidate.

00:23:21.180 Right?

00:23:21.680 So I'm going to tell you

00:23:22.620 what a good candidate could do

00:23:24.480 to win the election.

00:23:26.380 The perfect candidate

00:23:27.660 would be a socially liberal Republican.

00:23:32.520 So that's the first start.

00:23:34.220 You have to be socially liberal

00:23:35.860 because it's California.

00:23:37.680 There's just no way around it.

00:23:39.460 You know, you're not going to get elected

00:23:40.520 unless you're socially on the right page.

00:23:42.980 And Arnold Schwarzenegger

00:23:44.800 was a good example.

00:23:46.380 So Schwarzenegger was clearly

00:23:48.360 socially liberal.

00:23:51.940 But he was a Republican otherwise

00:23:53.680 on the hard-headed stuff.

00:23:55.420 And that's kind of what you're going to need.

00:23:57.280 But here's the specific plan

00:23:59.680 that would win the governorship

00:24:01.500 in California.

00:24:03.080 Number one,

00:24:03.760 propose pairing nuclear power plants,

00:24:08.380 small ones,

00:24:09.280 the new designs that are safer,

00:24:10.600 with desalinization

00:24:12.560 and build a lot of them.

00:24:15.520 Now you say to yourself,

00:24:16.580 but Scott,

00:24:17.100 that would take 20 years

00:24:18.280 and everybody opposes nuclear

00:24:19.880 and desalinization takes so much energy

00:24:22.760 that it's not cost-effective.

00:24:24.280 Well, it's more cost-effective

00:24:25.960 if you put it next to a nuclear power plant.

00:24:28.780 And here's the thing.

00:24:31.780 Much like build the wall,

00:24:34.200 feel the visual.

00:24:35.960 I want to put a nuclear power plant

00:24:38.060 next to a desalinization plant,

00:24:40.380 and we want to do this pair of things

00:24:42.020 all over California

00:24:43.040 so that we have enough water

00:24:44.720 and enough energy forever,

00:24:46.520 and we've also dealt with climate change,

00:24:48.560 and we've done it in the most scientific way.

00:24:50.520 Now, that message is really visual,

00:24:56.500 and it's also a complete solution,

00:24:59.540 but you're going to have to beat the fact

00:25:01.420 that it takes 20 years to do it.

00:25:03.700 So you're going to have to lead

00:25:05.520 with a Republican message

00:25:06.980 that you've got to get rid of the regulations

00:25:09.240 and the NAMBA stuff,

00:25:11.380 and you're going to have to really educate the public

00:25:13.440 on why they need this.

00:25:15.260 So you would say,

00:25:16.080 number one,

00:25:16.740 I've got to educate the public

00:25:18.040 that they think that the old nuclear

00:25:20.220 is the dangerous stuff,

00:25:21.780 and it's not going to be the old nuclear

00:25:23.500 that we're proposing.

00:25:24.840 We're proposing the newer,

00:25:26.680 you know, at least Generation 3,

00:25:28.520 but probably Generation 4.

00:25:30.380 We're proposing that we go hard

00:25:33.200 at getting rid of regulations,

00:25:35.720 maybe get the federal government involved

00:25:37.360 in some way.

00:25:39.080 But the visual of nuclear plus desalinization,

00:25:42.540 even if it takes longer than you think,

00:25:45.620 is a solution.

00:25:46.420 And it would be the first time

00:25:48.420 anybody had one, right?

00:25:52.360 Even if it's hard,

00:25:54.440 at least it's a solution.

00:25:56.100 What is the other solution?

00:25:57.840 More solar panels?

00:25:59.560 No.

00:26:00.540 There isn't really any other solution.

00:26:02.600 So you would be the only governor

00:26:03.820 who's even proposing a frickin' plan.

00:26:06.480 How about this?

00:26:07.760 You're a Republican,

00:26:09.140 and you say,

00:26:09.700 we know that California

00:26:10.820 is going to catch on fire any moment now.

00:26:13.100 Apparently it's going to be

00:26:13.880 the worst fire season of all time,

00:26:16.160 because it's the driest.

00:26:18.120 And what is the governor's

00:26:20.720 forest management plan?

00:26:22.840 Do you know?

00:26:23.760 I don't know.

00:26:24.920 I live here.

00:26:26.340 I live in a state

00:26:27.340 that's going to be literally

00:26:28.400 on fire within weeks.

00:26:31.240 Within weeks,

00:26:32.040 I won't be able to go outdoors.

00:26:33.740 Literally,

00:26:34.160 I won't be able to go outdoors

00:26:35.260 because the air quality

00:26:36.280 will be too low.

00:26:38.480 And I don't know

00:26:39.680 what my governor

00:26:41.160 is even doing about it.

00:26:43.000 So if you're going to run against him,

00:26:45.040 come up with a forest management plan

00:26:47.040 and tell us what it is.

00:26:48.640 I just want to hear one.

00:26:50.880 It could be that Newsom has a plan

00:26:52.720 or even that he's working on it

00:26:53.980 or even that he's doing a good job.

00:26:55.480 I don't know.

00:26:55.920 But I'm not hearing about it.

00:26:59.360 So you could beat him on that.

00:27:01.720 Next, of course,

00:27:02.540 you would say

00:27:02.940 no masks for kids in school.

00:27:04.920 That's enough to win the election, really.

00:27:06.900 If you just did that one thing.

00:27:08.760 If you weren't bad on anything else

00:27:11.020 and you said,

00:27:11.780 look,

00:27:12.140 I'll do the same thing

00:27:13.280 Newsom's doing,

00:27:14.180 but no masks in school.

00:27:16.160 I'll just take his entire platform.

00:27:18.260 I'll do everything he's going to do

00:27:19.740 with one change.

00:27:21.860 Just one change.

00:27:22.660 I'm just not going to require masks in schools.

00:27:26.200 You would get elected immediately

00:27:27.580 because people would say,

00:27:28.920 well, we'd like to Newsom,

00:27:30.020 but except for that mask thing,

00:27:31.320 so we'll vote for you.

00:27:32.780 Now I'm exaggerating a little bit

00:27:34.200 to make a point.

00:27:35.580 Of course,

00:27:36.180 you'd want to be strong on crime

00:27:37.580 and also on forcing addicts into treatment.

00:27:41.360 Sort of maybe a Dr. Drew,

00:27:43.560 Michael Schellenberger

00:27:44.400 kind of approach to things

00:27:47.080 that makes sense

00:27:48.060 and basically all the smart people

00:27:50.040 would agree with it, really.

00:27:51.400 And then here's my kicker for you.

00:27:55.820 Are you ready?

00:27:56.820 Here's the really persuasive part

00:27:58.500 because if you want to get attention,

00:28:01.100 you've got to say some controversial things, right?

00:28:04.120 Here's the most controversial thing

00:28:05.980 you'll ever hear from,

00:28:07.720 potentially,

00:28:09.240 from this.

00:28:10.440 Suppose you were a Republican

00:28:12.000 running for governor in California

00:28:14.000 and you knew that the Democrats

00:28:15.960 were going to call you a racist

00:28:17.140 and if you came out against critical race theory,

00:28:20.660 well, then they'd really call you a racist.

00:28:23.580 So how do you come out

00:28:24.580 against critical race theory

00:28:26.460 without being against critical race theory

00:28:29.660 and still get attention

00:28:31.440 and still get elected?

00:28:33.000 Here's how.

00:28:34.240 You favor it.

00:28:36.460 You say,

00:28:37.120 I'm totally in favor

00:28:38.080 of critical race theory

00:28:39.440 as long as

00:28:41.520 there's also school choice.

00:28:43.900 Because it is a world

00:28:47.580 in which parents

00:28:48.260 do get to decide

00:28:49.140 somewhat

00:28:50.000 how their kids are socialized.

00:28:52.780 So if you want your kids

00:28:53.880 to be socialized

00:28:54.840 in a critical race theory,

00:28:56.340 intersectionality kind of thing,

00:28:58.240 there will be options for that.

00:29:00.300 If you want your kids

00:29:01.580 to not be exposed to that,

00:29:03.660 we'll give you some options for that.

00:29:05.320 But we've got to have school choice

00:29:07.060 and we've got to push

00:29:08.700 as hard as we can

00:29:09.400 for school choice.

00:29:10.480 Because if we get that,

00:29:12.260 you and I don't have to argue

00:29:13.460 about what your kids

00:29:14.460 are being taught versus mine.

00:29:16.100 I'll just send my kids

00:29:17.200 where they get taught

00:29:18.240 what I want them to teach.

00:29:19.780 I'm not done yet.

00:29:21.340 Not done yet.

00:29:22.980 I would also say,

00:29:24.200 in addition to critical race theory,

00:29:26.540 which if you would like

00:29:27.460 to teach it to your kids,

00:29:28.460 I'm all for it

00:29:29.320 because it has some good points to it.

00:29:32.000 And you have to say

00:29:33.000 it has good points.

00:29:34.780 So you start with,

00:29:35.760 oh yeah,

00:29:36.140 there's definitely

00:29:36.640 institutional racism,

00:29:38.760 lots of work to be done,

00:29:40.140 critical race theory

00:29:40.980 gives us a good framework for it,

00:29:43.280 but there are legitimate

00:29:44.720 criticisms to it

00:29:45.900 and parents get to decide.

00:29:48.780 I would say this,

00:29:50.280 if you're going to teach

00:29:51.080 critical race theory,

00:29:52.460 which says that you're being,

00:29:54.080 let's say,

00:29:54.640 your progress or your future

00:29:57.980 is being limited by race,

00:30:00.400 if that's what we're going

00:30:01.240 to teach kids,

00:30:01.860 it is only ethical and moral

00:30:04.280 that you also teach them

00:30:07.520 life strategy.

00:30:10.080 Eh?

00:30:11.100 Wouldn't you like it

00:30:12.300 if the kid who learns

00:30:13.640 that race is what's holding him back 1.00

00:30:15.360 could simultaneously learn

00:30:17.320 some strategy that says,

00:30:18.580 look,

00:30:19.180 but because of this

00:30:20.920 racial imbalance stuff,

00:30:22.900 you could go to

00:30:23.860 any Fortune 500 company, 0.95

00:30:26.040 let's say you're a black woman, 0.95

00:30:29.440 you know, 0.56

00:30:30.040 whatever,

00:30:30.560 you could go to any

00:30:32.060 Fortune 500 company

00:30:33.220 and say,

00:30:33.620 look,

00:30:34.360 I've got all the qualifications

00:30:35.500 you're looking for,

00:30:37.620 as do the other applicants,

00:30:39.320 right?

00:30:39.640 I might not even be more qualified

00:30:41.400 than the other applicants,

00:30:42.700 but you need some diversity,

00:30:45.040 it's your number one,

00:30:46.220 it's one of your top goals,

00:30:47.960 and I can give you diversity.

00:30:49.820 I'm also just as good

00:30:50.960 as the other applicants,

00:30:51.940 I have all the qualifications.

00:30:53.640 You will get that job

00:30:55.120 basically every time,

00:30:57.140 right?

00:30:58.360 So if you're a Republican,

00:31:00.200 say,

00:31:00.700 I embrace critical race theory

00:31:02.180 and what it teaches,

00:31:03.220 but it's teaching you

00:31:04.300 to be helpless

00:31:05.000 unless you augment it,

00:31:07.560 make it better,

00:31:08.680 improve on it,

00:31:10.200 tell you what to do about it,

00:31:12.200 right?

00:31:12.740 Get some school choice,

00:31:13.920 go to a Fortune 500 company,

00:31:17.160 use their own policies

00:31:18.240 to your advantage,

00:31:19.420 strategy.

00:31:21.160 Would you oppose that?

00:31:22.620 Well, if you do,

00:31:23.640 you've got a school choice.

00:31:26.000 And on intersectionality,

00:31:27.320 as I've said before,

00:31:28.460 I would embrace it

00:31:29.680 as a Republican,

00:31:31.380 and I would say,

00:31:31.940 you know,

00:31:32.980 this is a perfectly

00:31:33.940 good conversation

00:31:34.840 for everybody to understand

00:31:36.420 how people are being

00:31:37.340 discriminated against,

00:31:39.080 but why would we limit it?

00:31:40.620 Let's expand it,

00:31:42.300 embrace it to death,

00:31:43.700 and add Republicans

00:31:44.960 as a category of people

00:31:46.980 who are discriminated against,

00:31:48.940 or let's just say

00:31:50.160 non-Democrats.

00:31:51.120 I'm going to give you

00:31:52.900 an example of a non-Democrat

00:31:54.880 who is being discriminated

00:31:56.840 against right now.

00:31:59.020 It's a real thing.

00:32:00.200 It's in the headlines.

00:32:01.400 Well,

00:32:02.260 it's on Twitter anyway.

00:32:03.520 It didn't make it

00:32:04.000 to the headlines.

00:32:05.860 But we'll talk about

00:32:06.700 that in a moment.

00:32:08.340 So,

00:32:08.880 you should add

00:32:09.500 the categories of people

00:32:10.540 who are short, 0.95

00:32:11.280 ugly, 1.00

00:32:11.780 old, 1.00

00:32:12.280 Republican,

00:32:13.280 Christian,

00:32:13.920 and make sure

00:32:15.240 that you know

00:32:15.760 that all the categories

00:32:16.720 that are discriminated against

00:32:18.140 are accounted for,

00:32:19.220 and then just be

00:32:19.800 in favor of it.

00:32:21.120 The candidate

00:32:22.860 that I just described,

00:32:24.360 especially if they said

00:32:25.260 they'll work on

00:32:25.860 lowering your taxes

00:32:26.760 and making it

00:32:27.620 a better business environment,

00:32:29.060 I think would get

00:32:30.300 elected easily.

00:32:32.280 Yeah,

00:32:32.800 in boldness,

00:32:33.400 right?

00:32:33.580 I think that candidate

00:32:35.900 would get elected easily.

00:32:37.140 But it would have to be

00:32:37.860 a Schwarzenegger type of person

00:32:40.060 who is Republican

00:32:41.720 in the hard-nosed stuff

00:32:43.420 but has all the social equality goals

00:32:47.200 of maybe an Arnold Schwarzenegger.

00:32:50.540 I won't say that he has goals

00:32:52.080 for that,

00:32:53.120 but he's socially liberal.

00:32:55.520 somebody suggesting Dave Rubin

00:32:59.620 to run for governor.

00:33:03.660 He'd be great,

00:33:04.880 you know,

00:33:05.860 as I'm just thinking about it.

00:33:07.860 If you were,

00:33:08.420 would Dave Rubin

00:33:10.680 be like the best governor?

00:33:12.780 He might actually be

00:33:13.880 because he seems completely

00:33:15.860 immune from the politics of stuff.

00:33:19.880 So what would be better 0.92

00:33:22.420 than a married gay man 0.96

00:33:24.260 running for governor

00:33:26.120 who is not wed

00:33:28.060 to any political ideology

00:33:31.120 and would just like

00:33:32.820 to make things work?

00:33:35.240 He'd be a really strong candidate.

00:33:37.040 I don't think he has interest in it,

00:33:38.320 but he has all the tools,

00:33:40.560 definitely the communication tools.

00:33:43.000 All right.

00:33:45.380 Here's a trend

00:33:46.540 I've been watching.

00:33:47.320 Just give me an update on it.

00:33:48.580 There's a company called

00:33:49.320 Mighty Homes

00:33:50.240 that do these

00:33:51.660 kit homes.

00:33:53.400 Now, when I say kit,

00:33:54.700 it doesn't mean

00:33:55.200 the homeowner

00:33:55.760 can put it together,

00:33:56.720 but they make,

00:33:57.880 you know,

00:33:58.160 just panels

00:33:59.060 and windows

00:34:00.140 that just,

00:34:01.040 you know,

00:34:01.680 they hook together

00:34:02.760 in order

00:34:03.380 and it's really easy

00:34:05.240 to assemble them.

00:34:06.400 Now, some people say,

00:34:07.420 hey, these are not

00:34:08.160 attractive enough

00:34:09.080 or whatever,

00:34:10.000 and that's something

00:34:11.960 that will,

00:34:12.620 of course,

00:34:13.560 improve in the future,

00:34:14.680 but keep in mind

00:34:15.480 that most homes

00:34:16.060 are not attractive.

00:34:17.620 How often do you

00:34:18.420 drive past a home

00:34:19.280 and say,

00:34:19.660 well, that's an

00:34:20.100 attractive home?

00:34:21.860 Homes are not

00:34:22.500 really attractive.

00:34:23.600 So if you could make

00:34:24.280 the cost lower

00:34:25.240 and make it easier

00:34:26.480 to build,

00:34:27.060 you'd have something.

00:34:28.860 But, as many have

00:34:30.120 pointed out,

00:34:31.760 the local zoning laws

00:34:33.360 make it nearly impossible

00:34:35.000 to do any kind

00:34:35.920 of construction

00:34:36.500 that's not the normal kind.

00:34:37.840 So how do you get past

00:34:39.640 the, really,

00:34:40.840 it's just a total roadblock

00:34:42.780 of all the local ordinances?

00:34:45.680 And I would just say this.

00:34:47.800 There probably isn't anyway.

00:34:49.800 You probably can't get past it

00:34:51.260 without, you know,

00:34:52.220 working every state individually

00:34:53.920 and it'd be a mess.

00:34:55.680 But,

00:34:56.600 imagine, if you will,

00:34:57.800 a President Trump.

00:34:59.580 Somebody who understands,

00:35:01.220 you know,

00:35:01.900 building and construction

00:35:02.980 and knows about

00:35:03.840 all the obstacles to it,

00:35:06.980 do we need

00:35:07.960 a federal

00:35:09.460 set of building guidelines

00:35:12.080 that if you meet them,

00:35:14.620 the federal ones,

00:35:15.940 they would supersede

00:35:16.980 any local ones?

00:35:18.820 Now,

00:35:19.640 I don't know what that,

00:35:20.740 problems that would be

00:35:21.560 constitutionally,

00:35:23.620 you know,

00:35:24.420 it would be,

00:35:24.940 of course,

00:35:25.520 usurping power

00:35:26.380 from the states,

00:35:27.300 but would people mind?

00:35:30.220 Would we be worse off?

00:35:32.560 Would it work?

00:35:34.600 I'm seeing lots of

00:35:35.500 no, no, no,

00:35:36.440 oh God, no.

00:35:37.800 No,

00:35:38.060 keep in mind,

00:35:38.780 what I'm saying is that

00:35:39.840 the states keep their rules

00:35:41.660 just as they are.

00:35:44.320 The states keep their rules

00:35:45.940 but the only exception

00:35:48.260 would be the homes

00:35:49.560 that would have a,

00:35:51.100 sort of a federal blessing

00:35:52.420 if they met certain standards.

00:35:55.340 So I'm seeing people have,

00:35:56.760 in the comments,

00:35:58.060 this is pretty interesting,

00:35:59.060 I'm seeing lots of comments

00:36:00.140 along the lines of

00:36:01.840 you don't want

00:36:03.140 the federal government

00:36:03.960 to have more control.

00:36:05.540 I get that.

00:36:06.820 I get that.

00:36:08.480 Plunging home values,

00:36:09.800 somebody says,

00:36:10.420 really?

00:36:11.740 I don't know.

00:36:12.980 I don't think so.

00:36:14.480 Why would the home values plunge?

00:36:17.020 Because these would be good homes.

00:36:18.460 We're not talking about

00:36:19.420 building trailer parks.

00:36:21.180 I'm talking about

00:36:21.820 attractive homes

00:36:22.700 that just don't cost that much.

00:36:26.760 Oh,

00:36:27.600 building is the most local activity.

00:36:30.920 So you want your control

00:36:32.040 to be driven down

00:36:32.920 to the most local level.

00:36:34.220 I get that.

00:36:35.420 But,

00:36:36.100 we have a very specific problem,

00:36:38.480 which is if you

00:36:39.460 allow the control

00:36:40.720 at the local level,

00:36:42.000 you can never improve

00:36:43.260 your building process.

00:36:45.980 Now let me stop all of you

00:36:50.880 from saying,

00:36:51.760 oh,

00:36:51.960 it's like the Sears Homes kits.

00:36:54.860 No.

00:36:56.600 Nothing like that.

00:36:58.120 And then some of you

00:36:58.760 are going to say,

00:36:59.240 it's like tiny homes.

00:37:00.180 Oh,

00:37:00.320 I get it.

00:37:00.920 Tiny homes.

00:37:02.160 No.

00:37:03.140 I'm not talking about

00:37:04.080 anything like the Sears kits

00:37:06.060 of long ago.

00:37:07.140 I'm not talking about

00:37:08.300 anything like a tiny home.

00:37:09.960 I'm talking about

00:37:10.820 using current technology,

00:37:13.360 not ancient technology,

00:37:14.660 current technology

00:37:15.820 to do something

00:37:17.180 way better or different

00:37:18.320 than anything

00:37:19.540 that's ever been done before.

00:37:20.920 And I'm not talking about

00:37:21.980 making them small.

00:37:23.680 Make them a full-size,

00:37:25.620 regular home,

00:37:27.160 just less expensive.

00:37:30.260 So that's coming,

00:37:31.360 and Mighty Homes

00:37:31.960 is one example of it.

00:37:33.180 And I would say that

00:37:34.340 even the Mighty Homes model,

00:37:37.060 which looks really good,

00:37:38.320 it looks like a pretty

00:37:39.460 well-thought-out model,

00:37:40.980 but it's probably

00:37:42.580 the Model A,

00:37:43.280 you know,

00:37:44.100 if you were going to look

00:37:44.700 at the automobile industry,

00:37:45.960 it's like a Model A.

00:37:49.860 Yes,

00:37:50.300 and there's things

00:37:50.800 called SIPs,

00:37:52.240 Structural Integrated Panels.

00:37:54.560 Is that what SIP stands for?

00:37:56.200 So that's been around

00:37:57.560 for a while,

00:37:58.560 but I think the thing

00:37:59.740 that they do wrong

00:38:00.640 is they make these

00:38:01.660 giant panels

00:38:02.460 that you need a crane

00:38:03.580 to put up.

00:38:05.520 Can't you make the panels

00:38:06.700 like one foot by one foot

00:38:08.520 so you just snap them together

00:38:10.340 like Legos,

00:38:11.300 put them on the back

00:38:12.020 of a pickup truck,

00:38:13.480 unload them one at a time,

00:38:14.760 and then the homeowner

00:38:15.440 just snaps them together?

00:38:17.020 Do you really need

00:38:18.040 the whole panel

00:38:19.100 to be delivered

00:38:20.020 by a crane?

00:38:21.460 I don't know.

00:38:22.540 I feel like there's

00:38:23.400 improvement to be made there.

00:38:26.980 I love this story

00:38:28.080 of these Spotify employees

00:38:29.800 who are mad about

00:38:30.600 Joe Rogan's content.

00:38:32.760 Are you following that?

00:38:37.840 Sparky says

00:38:38.580 there are different environments

00:38:39.800 across the U.S.A.

00:38:40.820 Yeah, you would have

00:38:42.160 a different kit

00:38:43.380 for every environment.

00:38:45.320 That's right.

00:38:46.180 So your winter kit

00:38:47.840 and your summer kits

00:38:48.940 or your warm weather kit

00:38:50.500 would look different.

00:38:51.480 But you could work

00:38:52.160 all that out.

00:38:52.920 So you'd just have

00:38:53.580 a set of requirements

00:38:56.060 for all of those options.

00:39:00.040 So the Spotify employees

00:39:01.520 are mad at Joe Rogan.

00:39:02.480 And this story

00:39:03.960 is the most delightfully

00:39:07.220 useless story.

00:39:10.620 Like, none of this matters 0.97

00:39:11.440 to any of us.

00:39:12.520 But I love the word

00:39:13.980 still upset.

00:39:16.000 It's the still

00:39:16.920 that makes it funny.

00:39:18.280 Because when I first

00:39:19.280 read the story,

00:39:20.420 Spotify employees

00:39:21.440 are upset

00:39:22.420 with Joe Rogan's podcast.

00:39:24.680 I thought,

00:39:24.960 oh, there's a story.

00:39:26.460 You know,

00:39:26.780 Joe Rogan has done something

00:39:28.400 that makes these employees

00:39:29.800 upset,

00:39:30.420 and that's worth

00:39:31.180 knowing about.

00:39:32.260 Interesting media story.

00:39:34.280 But time goes by,

00:39:37.240 and they add the word

00:39:38.800 still.

00:39:40.120 Spotify employees

00:39:41.340 still upset.

00:39:43.320 They're still upset.

00:39:45.560 And for some reason

00:39:46.660 that's funny.

00:39:47.700 Because they can't find

00:39:49.680 a way to be happy.

00:39:54.360 I can't imagine

00:39:56.460 going to work.

00:39:58.600 And, you know,

00:39:59.420 I can see

00:39:59.920 if somebody

00:40:00.980 had a bad feeling

00:40:02.480 about some specific

00:40:03.520 opinion that Joe Rogan

00:40:04.860 had.

00:40:05.300 I can see that

00:40:06.020 they would express it.

00:40:07.600 And I can even see

00:40:08.460 that they might tell

00:40:09.140 management.

00:40:10.520 But if weeks

00:40:11.400 have gone by,

00:40:12.760 and this is still

00:40:13.500 your biggest problem,

00:40:14.860 is the stuff

00:40:15.460 that Joe Rogan

00:40:16.200 said on the

00:40:16.980 wait for it,

00:40:19.340 stuff that Joe Rogan

00:40:20.500 said on the

00:40:21.160 wait for it,

00:40:23.480 most popular

00:40:25.000 podcast

00:40:25.660 podcast 0.99

00:40:25.940 in the fucking 1.00

00:40:27.340 world, 1.00

00:40:28.220 maybe you should

00:40:30.520 get over it.

00:40:31.760 Because

00:40:32.320 it's the most

00:40:33.540 popular podcast

00:40:34.720 in the world.

00:40:37.720 He's doing

00:40:38.420 something right.

00:40:39.840 Because

00:40:40.340 you couldn't be

00:40:41.960 doing something

00:40:42.620 wrong and

00:40:43.480 also have the

00:40:44.900 most popular

00:40:46.280 podcast

00:40:47.040 in the whole 0.99

00:40:48.080 fucking world. 1.00

00:40:48.700 world. 1.00

00:40:49.860 So he's got

00:40:50.720 that going

00:40:51.120 for him.

00:40:52.320 But these

00:40:52.900 Spotify employees,

00:40:54.300 I would just

00:40:55.280 love to see a

00:40:55.920 photo of the

00:40:56.820 Spotify employees

00:40:57.700 that are upset.

00:40:58.960 Because don't you

00:40:59.640 know that that

00:41:00.080 would be a funny

00:41:00.660 picture?

00:41:01.520 If you just took

00:41:02.320 all the ones that

00:41:02.920 are mad at Joe

00:41:03.620 Rogan,

00:41:04.520 and just said,

00:41:05.520 we'd like a group

00:41:06.560 picture.

00:41:07.720 Oh, no reason.

00:41:08.640 No reason.

00:41:09.240 We just think

00:41:09.800 you're awesome.

00:41:10.880 So we'd just like

00:41:12.200 to take a group

00:41:13.000 picture,

00:41:13.980 see what you

00:41:15.200 look like.

00:41:16.500 Don't you think

00:41:17.180 that would be a

00:41:17.660 funny picture?

00:41:19.680 You know it

00:41:20.500 would.

00:41:21.340 That would be

00:41:22.000 an interesting

00:41:22.860 group of people.

00:41:24.120 But here's the

00:41:24.660 funniest part.

00:41:26.420 What if none

00:41:27.240 of this is true?

00:41:29.440 Or what if it's

00:41:30.440 a little bit

00:41:31.060 true, but it

00:41:32.260 got exaggerated?

00:41:34.020 Have you ever

00:41:34.700 heard of

00:41:35.860 better marketing?

00:41:38.320 Spotify is

00:41:39.440 getting all this

00:41:40.140 national attention

00:41:41.040 about Joe

00:41:41.960 Rogan, who

00:41:42.480 they just

00:41:42.760 paid a hundred

00:41:44.280 million dollars

00:41:44.960 to for his

00:41:45.520 show.

00:41:46.500 So they've

00:41:46.860 got this

00:41:47.160 enormous

00:41:47.520 investment.

00:41:48.700 And they

00:41:49.060 really need

00:41:49.500 to promote

00:41:49.940 it.

00:41:51.060 If they

00:41:51.580 just did

00:41:51.980 advertisements,

00:41:53.040 how effective

00:41:53.660 would that

00:41:54.040 be?

00:41:54.500 It'd help,

00:41:55.520 right?

00:41:55.760 I'm sure they

00:41:56.180 did that.

00:41:57.120 But what

00:41:57.620 could be

00:41:57.940 better than

00:41:59.020 saying Spotify's

00:42:00.140 own employees

00:42:00.840 are trying to

00:42:01.420 get it kicked

00:42:01.860 off the air?

00:42:02.540 And by the way,

00:42:03.000 it's the most

00:42:03.400 popular thing

00:42:04.040 in the country.

00:42:05.300 You couldn't

00:42:06.020 beat that.

00:42:06.960 This is the

00:42:07.640 best marketing

00:42:08.380 I've ever

00:42:08.840 seen.

00:42:10.580 All right.

00:42:12.020 Here's a funny

00:42:12.780 story.

00:42:13.380 True story.

00:42:14.120 There was an

00:42:14.500 internet personality

00:42:16.060 test.

00:42:16.500 You've seen

00:42:16.940 those.

00:42:18.000 Who knows

00:42:18.680 how much

00:42:19.040 science,

00:42:19.780 I doubt

00:42:20.060 there's much

00:42:20.440 of it,

00:42:21.200 behind it.

00:42:22.060 But Christine

00:42:23.700 and I both

00:42:24.320 took the

00:42:24.940 personality test.

00:42:26.580 And one of

00:42:26.940 the things

00:42:27.140 they do,

00:42:27.500 and it's

00:42:27.660 one of

00:42:27.900 these,

00:42:28.340 you know,

00:42:28.940 it comes

00:42:29.340 up with

00:42:29.840 an INTG,

00:42:31.400 whatever,

00:42:32.140 those kinds

00:42:34.120 of personality

00:42:35.080 profiles.

00:42:37.000 So I don't

00:42:37.620 think there's

00:42:37.900 much science

00:42:38.400 to it,

00:42:38.720 but they're

00:42:38.920 fun to do.

00:42:39.380 And I did

00:42:40.620 mine,

00:42:41.220 and both

00:42:42.120 Christine and

00:42:42.700 I answered

00:42:43.100 the same set

00:42:43.680 of questions.

00:42:45.400 So I saw

00:42:47.040 her questions,

00:42:47.840 and I saw

00:42:48.140 her answer,

00:42:48.760 and she saw

00:42:49.320 mine.

00:42:50.200 So same set

00:42:50.820 of questions,

00:42:51.420 and when I

00:42:51.920 answered them

00:42:52.440 just with my

00:42:53.100 own answers,

00:42:54.320 it decided

00:42:55.120 that I'm an

00:42:56.020 advocate

00:42:56.500 personality.

00:42:58.580 So an

00:42:59.240 advocate,

00:42:59.820 according to

00:43:00.180 this personality

00:43:00.780 test,

00:43:01.120 is the rarest

00:43:01.920 of all

00:43:02.240 personality

00:43:02.700 types.

00:43:03.560 And people

00:43:03.960 who share

00:43:04.460 it,

00:43:05.100 the same

00:43:05.540 personality

00:43:06.040 as I have,

00:43:07.080 according to

00:43:07.560 this test,

00:43:08.080 would be

00:43:09.000 Mother Teresa.

00:43:10.880 So Mother

00:43:11.460 Teresa would

00:43:12.320 come out

00:43:12.640 the same

00:43:12.960 on this.

00:43:13.980 Martin Luther

00:43:14.760 King,

00:43:16.600 feeling pretty

00:43:17.340 good,

00:43:17.900 feeling pretty

00:43:18.380 good about

00:43:18.740 that.

00:43:19.560 And Nelson

00:43:20.500 Mandela,

00:43:22.040 look at me.

00:43:24.300 So those

00:43:24.880 are the three

00:43:25.260 people who

00:43:25.840 would have

00:43:26.060 the same

00:43:26.400 personality

00:43:26.880 profile as

00:43:27.560 I do.

00:43:28.060 Mother Teresa,

00:43:28.880 Martin Luther

00:43:29.280 King,

00:43:29.660 and Nelson

00:43:29.980 Mandela.

00:43:31.040 It's just

00:43:31.700 another reason

00:43:32.200 I identify

00:43:32.800 as black,

00:43:34.000 because I'm

00:43:34.640 with two

00:43:35.580 out of three

00:43:35.920 awesome people

00:43:36.580 plus Mother

00:43:37.360 Teresa,

00:43:37.700 who is

00:43:38.600 on the

00:43:42.120 road to

00:43:42.440 sainthood.

00:43:43.920 So I

00:43:45.300 don't know,

00:43:45.780 I'm not

00:43:46.100 really nominated

00:43:46.840 for sainthood

00:43:47.560 yet,

00:43:48.520 but I don't

00:43:49.280 see any

00:43:49.620 reason it

00:43:50.020 was out of

00:43:50.340 my reach.

00:43:52.040 So that's

00:43:52.540 what I came

00:43:53.120 up with.

00:43:53.580 I'm an

00:43:53.840 advocate in

00:43:54.900 the model

00:43:55.820 of those

00:43:56.220 three people.

00:43:57.960 Christina

00:43:58.300 did the

00:43:58.700 same test,

00:43:59.740 and she

00:44:00.200 came out

00:44:00.740 that she

00:44:01.860 has the

00:44:02.160 same

00:44:02.360 personality

00:44:02.940 type that

00:44:03.860 movie bad

00:44:05.680 guys are

00:44:06.180 based on.

00:44:07.700 And she

00:44:09.240 is associated

00:44:09.860 with the

00:44:10.220 personality

00:44:10.640 type of

00:44:11.420 Vladimir

00:44:12.340 Putin.

00:44:16.120 All right,

00:44:17.100 moving on.

00:44:20.460 There's a

00:44:21.320 head of the

00:44:22.340 Social Security

00:44:23.180 Administration.

00:44:24.600 By the way,

00:44:25.120 I don't think

00:44:25.480 these personality

00:44:26.100 tests are

00:44:26.580 scientific,

00:44:27.280 so I'm

00:44:28.220 just joking.

00:44:28.660 the George

00:44:30.940 Costanza

00:44:31.460 strategy looks

00:44:32.620 like it's

00:44:33.000 going to

00:44:33.180 come into

00:44:33.540 play.

00:44:34.820 Do you

00:44:35.000 remember

00:44:35.180 George

00:44:35.520 Costanza

00:44:35.980 from

00:44:36.300 Seinfeld?

00:44:39.260 I guess he

00:44:41.800 quit his job

00:44:42.540 on Seinfeld

00:44:43.160 once,

00:44:43.820 and then

00:44:44.140 he quit his

00:44:45.120 job in the

00:44:45.640 fictional story.

00:44:47.100 And he

00:44:47.960 didn't want

00:44:48.400 to quit.

00:44:48.820 He changed

00:44:49.180 his mind,

00:44:49.640 so he just

00:44:49.980 went back

00:44:50.360 to work

00:44:50.760 and pretended

00:44:51.360 that he

00:44:51.820 had not

00:44:52.120 quit.

00:44:52.360 I'm looking

00:44:55.760 at some

00:44:56.100 funny pictures

00:44:56.740 going by

00:44:57.280 on the

00:44:57.840 locals chat.

00:45:00.280 So if

00:45:01.180 you're

00:45:01.360 chatting on

00:45:01.860 locals,

00:45:02.800 where this

00:45:03.540 live stream

00:45:04.040 is also

00:45:04.420 playing,

00:45:05.240 you can

00:45:05.780 include

00:45:06.740 photos and

00:45:07.860 videos and

00:45:08.400 stuff,

00:45:08.760 so I'm

00:45:09.100 watching those

00:45:09.600 go by.

00:45:11.340 Anyway,

00:45:11.940 the head of

00:45:12.220 the Social

00:45:12.540 Security

00:45:13.020 Administration,

00:45:13.880 this guy

00:45:14.180 Andrew

00:45:14.480 Saul,

00:45:15.400 Biden

00:45:15.960 fired him,

00:45:16.780 but he's

00:45:17.340 refusing to

00:45:18.360 leave his

00:45:18.680 job.

00:45:20.360 He's using

00:45:21.120 the George

00:45:21.600 Costanza

00:45:22.120 strategy.

00:45:23.720 You're

00:45:24.280 fired.

00:45:25.500 Am I?

00:45:26.900 No,

00:45:27.340 you're

00:45:27.500 fired.

00:45:27.960 You're

00:45:28.160 totally

00:45:28.440 fired.

00:45:29.700 Am I?

00:45:31.160 No,

00:45:31.820 really,

00:45:32.580 you're

00:45:32.880 fired.

00:45:33.740 Pack up

00:45:34.320 your stuff.

00:45:35.520 Pack up

00:45:36.020 my stuff.

00:45:37.180 I'm

00:45:37.460 working

00:45:37.820 remotely.

00:45:39.060 Okay,

00:45:39.560 well,

00:45:40.040 in like a

00:45:40.660 virtual sense,

00:45:41.900 pack up

00:45:42.320 your stuff

00:45:42.780 and get

00:45:43.440 out of

00:45:43.680 here.

00:45:43.900 You're

00:45:44.080 fired.

00:45:45.480 I'm

00:45:45.720 going to

00:45:45.880 log in

00:45:46.300 on Monday.

00:45:47.500 No,

00:45:47.900 you're

00:45:48.120 fired.

00:45:48.920 You

00:45:49.100 can't come

00:45:50.260 to work

00:45:50.640 anymore.

00:45:51.160 You're

00:45:51.380 fired.

00:45:52.120 Completely

00:45:52.700 gone.

00:45:53.440 You have

00:45:53.660 nothing to

00:45:54.160 do with

00:45:54.400 this agency

00:45:54.920 anymore.

00:45:56.400 See you

00:45:56.860 Monday.

00:45:59.160 Now,

00:45:59.820 I guess the

00:46:00.220 background of

00:46:00.760 the story is

00:46:01.420 that Trump

00:46:02.860 appointed this

00:46:03.680 person,

00:46:05.000 and I guess

00:46:05.800 he's protected

00:46:06.660 for the term

00:46:08.020 of his

00:46:08.400 appointment,

00:46:09.500 and he's

00:46:10.280 employing his

00:46:11.340 right to stay

00:46:11.880 on the job.

00:46:13.000 But seriously,

00:46:14.880 if the

00:46:15.580 President of

00:46:16.180 the United

00:46:16.600 States fires

00:46:18.100 you,

00:46:19.360 does it

00:46:21.020 matter if

00:46:21.500 your

00:46:21.640 contract or

00:46:22.680 the rules

00:46:23.280 said that

00:46:23.760 you don't

00:46:23.980 have to

00:46:24.300 go?

00:46:25.720 I mean,

00:46:27.480 maybe he's

00:46:28.640 good at

00:46:28.980 his job,

00:46:29.680 maybe he's

00:46:30.100 not.

00:46:30.960 Does that

00:46:31.500 matter?

00:46:32.760 If the

00:46:33.420 President of

00:46:34.020 the United

00:46:34.420 States says

00:46:36.080 you're fired, 0.86

00:46:37.420 even if the

00:46:38.740 President of

00:46:39.260 the United

00:46:39.640 States,

00:46:40.260 for some

00:46:40.920 weird reason,

00:46:42.020 doesn't have

00:46:42.700 that power to

00:46:43.460 fire you, 0.99

00:46:45.500 shouldn't you

00:46:46.000 leave?

00:46:47.140 I mean,

00:46:47.820 seriously.

00:46:49.300 I'm not the

00:46:50.060 person who's

00:46:50.520 going to

00:46:50.740 argue that

00:46:51.300 Trump-appointed

00:46:52.480 people all

00:46:53.080 need to get

00:46:53.500 fired, so I

00:46:54.760 don't know

00:46:55.020 anything about

00:46:55.580 how he does

00:46:56.080 his job,

00:46:56.600 but if the

00:46:57.940 President fires

00:46:58.740 you, maybe

00:47:00.980 leave. 0.99

00:47:02.080 Maybe the

00:47:02.880 right thing to

00:47:03.600 do is just

00:47:04.060 leave. 0.99

00:47:05.420 All right.

00:47:06.820 Even though

00:47:07.440 he doesn't

00:47:07.760 have to, I

00:47:08.240 guess.

00:47:11.620 I feel as

00:47:12.640 if this

00:47:13.880 story needs

00:47:14.760 to be part

00:47:15.320 of a

00:47:15.640 class

00:47:16.080 curriculum,

00:47:17.360 some of

00:47:17.880 you have

00:47:18.080 heard this

00:47:18.420 by now.

00:47:19.000 So, Mike

00:47:19.500 Cernovich,

00:47:20.860 independent

00:47:22.180 journalist,

00:47:22.940 author, and

00:47:23.440 filmmaker,

00:47:24.440 Mike Cernovich,

00:47:26.000 which is how

00:47:26.780 he's described

00:47:27.480 on publications

00:47:28.460 that like

00:47:29.080 him.

00:47:30.360 When a

00:47:31.060 publication

00:47:31.520 that doesn't

00:47:32.200 like him

00:47:32.600 describes him,

00:47:33.760 they do not

00:47:34.400 call him an

00:47:35.620 independent

00:47:36.080 journalist,

00:47:37.000 author, and

00:47:37.620 filmmaker,

00:47:38.540 although those

00:47:39.640 are the things

00:47:40.040 he is,

00:47:40.660 among other

00:47:41.240 things.

00:47:43.500 But he

00:47:44.280 did a,

00:47:44.720 I guess he

00:47:45.900 did some

00:47:46.440 investigation and

00:47:47.260 found out

00:47:47.620 there's a

00:47:48.000 link between

00:47:49.180 the far

00:47:50.060 left Southern

00:47:50.840 Poverty Law

00:47:51.780 Center, the

00:47:52.300 SPLC, a

00:47:53.880 group that

00:47:54.200 demonizes and

00:47:55.120 dehumanizes

00:47:56.120 conservatives.

00:47:56.920 Well,

00:47:57.160 according, I

00:47:57.620 think this was

00:47:58.100 in the,

00:47:59.420 where was it?

00:48:00.560 Some article I

00:48:01.540 read.

00:48:02.460 Anyway, he

00:48:03.860 wrote a report

00:48:04.400 and the title of

00:48:05.100 it is how a

00:48:05.820 convicted terrorist

00:48:06.760 used the

00:48:07.940 Southern Poverty

00:48:08.640 Law Center's

00:48:09.340 website to

00:48:10.080 identify targets.

00:48:11.120 So in other

00:48:12.360 words, somebody

00:48:12.940 looked at who

00:48:13.620 this SPLC

00:48:14.660 says is a 1.00

00:48:15.740 bad person

00:48:16.340 and decided to 1.00

00:48:17.740 go kill that 1.00

00:48:18.360 bad person 1.00

00:48:18.920 because the

00:48:19.900 SPLC called

00:48:20.780 them out.

00:48:21.740 Now, that

00:48:22.280 feels like an

00:48:24.060 article you want

00:48:24.760 to see,

00:48:25.100 doesn't it?

00:48:25.980 If you found

00:48:26.920 out that some

00:48:27.780 organization that

00:48:29.100 is supposed to

00:48:29.700 be protecting us

00:48:30.800 from bad

00:48:31.460 people, which

00:48:32.760 is the

00:48:33.580 alleged point

00:48:34.620 of the

00:48:34.940 SPLC,

00:48:36.220 to help,

00:48:37.720 they help the

00:48:38.940 social media

00:48:39.920 platforms decide

00:48:41.620 who should be

00:48:42.220 deplatformed or

00:48:44.040 de-boosted, I

00:48:45.700 guess.

00:48:46.720 And so that's

00:48:47.620 their job.

00:48:48.580 Their job is to

00:48:49.980 make sure that we

00:48:51.860 know who the

00:48:52.300 bad people are.

00:48:54.280 Turns out that

00:48:55.500 they helped a

00:48:55.980 bad person find

00:48:57.200 and try to kill 0.81

00:48:58.180 somebody. 0.99

00:49:00.180 So Cernovich

00:49:00.840 writes this report

00:49:02.340 and here's the

00:49:03.480 story that makes

00:49:04.740 it kind of

00:49:05.320 special.

00:49:06.980 Google erased

00:49:07.940 it.

00:49:08.940 If you do a

00:49:10.000 Google search

00:49:11.660 for the exact

00:49:13.020 title of his,

00:49:15.320 I assume it's

00:49:15.940 on a web page

00:49:16.540 now, called

00:49:18.140 How a Convicted

00:49:19.100 Terrorist Used

00:49:20.020 the Southern

00:49:20.460 Poverty Law

00:49:21.120 Center's website

00:49:21.840 to identify

00:49:22.580 targets, if you

00:49:24.160 put that full

00:49:24.960 search in there,

00:49:26.200 do you know

00:49:26.540 what comes up?

00:49:28.400 Wouldn't you

00:49:29.020 think that his

00:49:29.600 article would

00:49:30.180 come up?

00:49:31.900 Nope.

00:49:33.560 The SPLC

00:49:34.500 comes up.

00:49:36.080 A whole bunch

00:49:36.640 of SPLC stuff

00:49:38.020 that's not about

00:49:38.880 that article.

00:49:40.520 Now, suppose

00:49:41.340 you go to

00:49:41.780 DuckDuckGo

00:49:42.520 and put in

00:49:44.260 that same

00:49:44.920 search.

00:49:46.600 Where does

00:49:47.120 Mike Cernovich,

00:49:48.080 where does his

00:49:49.120 article come up

00:49:49.900 on DuckDuckGo?

00:49:52.180 First.

00:49:54.380 First.

00:49:55.680 Where it

00:49:56.320 should be.

00:49:57.100 Because there

00:49:57.860 is exactly one

00:49:59.040 thing on the

00:49:59.600 internet, only

00:50:00.320 one, that has

00:50:01.820 this title.

00:50:02.340 It's Mike

00:50:03.600 Cernovich's new

00:50:04.800 blockbuster, very

00:50:07.460 important report.

00:50:10.380 Doesn't exist on

00:50:11.660 Google.

00:50:12.940 Think about that.

00:50:14.740 Don't you believe

00:50:15.720 that children

00:50:16.900 should be taught

00:50:17.920 about media

00:50:19.080 brainwashing and

00:50:20.260 manipulation?

00:50:20.660 can you imagine

00:50:23.200 sending a child

00:50:24.520 into the world

00:50:25.300 who still

00:50:26.580 believes that

00:50:27.220 the news

00:50:27.960 is real?

00:50:30.800 That's a real

00:50:31.600 dangerous situation.

00:50:33.200 Do you want

00:50:33.600 to create a bunch

00:50:35.000 of new citizens,

00:50:36.120 the young people

00:50:36.720 coming up,

00:50:37.680 do you want

00:50:38.120 them to think

00:50:38.600 the news is

00:50:39.460 real?

00:50:40.680 That's really,

00:50:41.580 really dangerous.

00:50:42.900 And I think

00:50:43.320 this could be like

00:50:45.640 a case study

00:50:46.480 that high schoolers

00:50:47.920 could look at

00:50:48.760 and say,

00:50:49.380 look, here's an

00:50:49.880 example where

00:50:51.220 a story that

00:50:52.340 was important

00:50:52.960 and true,

00:50:53.920 by the way,

00:50:55.260 did anybody

00:50:55.840 challenge the

00:50:56.640 truth of it?

00:50:58.540 Not so far.

00:51:00.600 All right?

00:51:01.280 Did the SPLC

00:51:02.280 say, oh, the

00:51:03.720 facts in that

00:51:04.440 story are

00:51:05.060 incorrect?

00:51:07.180 I don't think

00:51:08.080 so.

00:51:09.080 It's not being

00:51:09.940 removed for being

00:51:10.760 untrue, and it

00:51:12.340 wasn't removed for

00:51:13.320 being, let's say,

00:51:15.280 violating any

00:51:15.980 kinds of terms

00:51:16.700 of service.

00:51:17.200 they just

00:51:18.660 didn't want it

00:51:19.260 there.

00:51:20.540 They just

00:51:20.920 didn't want it

00:51:22.180 there.

00:51:23.460 And that they

00:51:24.560 changed reality.

00:51:26.880 Right?

00:51:27.280 This needs to be

00:51:28.240 taught in schools.

00:51:29.840 Imagine a high

00:51:30.640 school student

00:51:31.240 thinking that

00:51:31.940 everything that

00:51:32.500 they're told on

00:51:33.140 CNN is true. 0.95

00:51:35.040 That would be

00:51:35.820 such a disabling

00:51:37.140 belief.

00:51:39.340 All right.

00:51:43.500 That is my

00:51:45.860 blockbuster.

00:51:47.200 Oh, I've got to

00:51:48.300 run.

00:51:48.760 I've got to

00:51:49.100 run right now.

00:51:50.140 Bye for now.

00:51:50.660 Bye for now.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 10, 2021

Episode 1432 Scott Adams： Lots of Persuasion Lessons on the Best Coffee With Scott Adams EVER!

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