Episode 1475 Scott Adams： Fresh Coffee and Even Fresher News. Let's Criticize the Dopes in Charge.
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CNN knows that they can't convince anybody with science because science is the opposite of scientific thinking. So they try to convince us with anecdotes. And the only way they can do that is with stories and anecdotes, and anecdotes are the best way to get us to believe in things that aren't really true.
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well it's time time for coffee with Scott Adams and I don't think it gets much better than this
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all day long so better enjoy it grab that pleasure while you can grab it by the neck
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of tank or chalice or stein a canteen jug or flax a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite
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liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine to the day
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the thing that makes everything better it's called yep that's right the simultaneous it but it happens
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now go I feel my need for a third booster shot just decreased to five percent won't stay that way
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apparently but uh good for now we're good for now let us begin our episode by talking about
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anecdotal persuasion anecdotal persuasion um as you know if you watch CNN at all what is it that they
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want us to understand well one thing more than anything else orange man bad we'll get to that
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later but there's a second thing they want us to believe which is that they are the the uh the
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network of science who support the party of science the democrats they're all about the science
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the science and they would like to give you data good solid data within the context of science and that
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will help you all make really good decisions uh except that the way they're persuading you
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is with anecdotes what that's right even CNN knows that they can't convince anybody with science
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because science is really important except it doesn't work for persuasion now in a sense it does
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because the most the most persuasive thing you could do is to stop using data which CNN has done
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so instead of telling you that uh that uh vaccinations are good or that you should get them they'll give
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you anecdotes of people having a bad time and instead of telling you here's the data that says climate
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change is going to get you they say here's somebody who died in the flood so CNN is in this weird
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situation where they're the promoters of science while couching all of their stories and anecdotes
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literally the opposite of scientific thinking so that seems ironic except that it is actually quite
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compatible with science to not tell people the science if you want to persuade people don't
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tell them the science apparently that doesn't work you got to scare them scare them with stories so
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here's one for today Melissa Joan Hart you know her from tv as uh Sabrina the teenage witch uh she was
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fully vaccinated and still got sick with covid uh did not get hospitalized but she's having a tough time
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with it now she might be on the list of people you'd say needs that third booster so CNN
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is uh persuading us with anecdotes and it's working because scientifically speaking we don't get much
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persuaded by facts but anecdotes yes would you like to hear a true story from behind the curtain
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things that only minor celebrities like me and Sabrina the teenage witch uh experience true story
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I once uh partnered with Joan Hart who was Sabrina the teenage witch on a local episode of Wheel of Fortune
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so sometime back it was a while ago as you might imagine uh the the Wheel of Fortune show did a traveling
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version where they would do the regular you know national show but they would also go to different
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regions and do a local show and it would be local minor celebrities so I was one of the local minor
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celebrities who appeared on a California version of the show and it was still you know it was Vanna
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White and you know it was the regular staff they just did a local version and I was partnered with uh
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because it was celebrities they put us on teams because we were too stupid to too dumb to do it
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ourselves I guess so Melissa Joan Hart was on my team and uh we did not do well turns out turns out we did
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not do well at all um and I that's where I learned that a 20 something uh person is not the best person to
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have a wide range of the trivia of the world we got beaten by a retired ex-basketball professional
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NBA player and uh I thought to myself if you get beaten in a battle of uh intelligence because part
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of it is intelligence uh by a retired basketball player you need to erase your game a little bit so
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so uh Sabrina the teenage witch and I got smoked at wheel of fortune one of my biggest failures
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to this day I I I bow in shame so here's some more uh fake news maybe maybe so here's a story I
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would have to see this with my own eyes to believe it's true because you know how the one way to
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identify fake news I've told you many times it's a little bit too on the nose you know when the news
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is a little bit too perfect it's usually not true it's one of the most predictive uh tells you know
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something that will really tell you that something's not working out is uh
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that's not really Melissa Joan Hart is it somebody's sending me a picture of Melissa Joan Hart that I don't
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think is her is it anyway um so here's the news I don't believe that uh the Daily Mail is quoting
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notes retrieved after the 2010 operation for uh to get Osama bin Laden and says that Osama had a
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handwritten note it said he wanted Biden to be president of the U.S. uh and banned any attempt
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to assassinate him uh because they wanted an incompetent president uh who will lead the U.S.
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what do you think I'd have to see the note I'd have to have that like a handwriting analyst uh look into
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it yeah I'm seeing some people say it's true some people say it's fake I don't know I would say it
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might be true it might be fake but but it is in the category of things that are usually fake
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if I had to bet money on it I'd bet fake but maybe 40 chance it's true you know something like that
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I mean it wouldn't be a good bet it wouldn't be a safe bet but I'd bet it's not true or that it's
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out of context or something somebody said they heard that years ago it doesn't make it true
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right well all right here's a another anecdotal persuasion from CNN um why is it that climate
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change only makes storms and hurricanes worse why does climate change make everything worse
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everywhere are you telling me that you can't come up with one story about the place that used to be
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not as good for agriculture but they're having record agriculture no no there's no story like
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that because it's not so much climate worsening although there's a lot of worsening going on it appears
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but there's climate change wouldn't you expect just your common sense that there might be some
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places in the globe that were a little too cool and making them a little warmer really help things
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where are those stories and are you seeing the real story if you're only seeing the bad stuff
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if the change is making some stuff worse and some stuff better let me ask you this could you have thrown a
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dart at any point in the timeline in American let's say industrial age history and
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could you not have found that there were more disasters in some places than usual at the same
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time that some parts of the world were having a better than usual time I feel as though you could have
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done these same anecdotal stories at any time in the past no matter what climate change had been
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doing you tell me you can't find even if you took away all climate change right let's take the
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assumption it makes no difference at all you don't think you could find lots of people lots of places on
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earth setting records of course of course you could but you would also find places that are having the
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best weather they've ever had I don't know that this should be persuading you it's not science
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but that's that's your climate change persuasion all anecdote CBS News has decided that everything is
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about climate change including the Taliban takeover and that one of the reasons that the Taliban so
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easily got control of the country is that the rural places their crops had been destroyed by climate
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change and then they were they're more easily co-opted into a new system because they were desperate
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so don't you think that the news is going to figure out how to make climate change about
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everything like every story is going to have to have a climate change angle how it made it worse
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and the further they go with this the less credible they are it seems to me if they stuck with the
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things that really seem pretty solid I think it would be a better argument than trying to make
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everything that happens about climate change but on the other hand they're not making a logical
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argument they're making an emotional one and for that this stuff probably works as I saw in the
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comments that I was going to say it myself why is it that climate change made everything worse except
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the poppy fields am I wrong were the were the poppy fields the only thing that wasn't affected by
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climate change it turns out climate change might be really really good for poppies
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and that's related to a another topic which is the question where does the Taliban get their funding
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where do you think the Taliban gets their funding well almost entirely from illegal activities they're
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basically you know the Taliban's basically an Islamic mafia and they sell drugs and traffic various things
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and they make anywhere from hundreds of millions to you know a low billion per year from doing illegal
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stuff kidnappings ransom mineral exploitation illegal tax collection well I don't know what's illegal
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and that sort of thing now let's say they're selling illegal drugs poppies is their main source of income
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what would be a way to destroy their poppy business and weaken them fentanyl now as you know I'm not
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pro fentanyl fentanyl fentanyl is what probably killed my stepson but it's kind of weird that
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Afghanistan is cozying up to China the main producer of fentanyl because I feel like you could produce
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fentanyl cheaper and ship it easier I feel as if the poppy business might be in trouble am I wrong
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because fentanyl apparently is cheaper easier you can ship it better you don't have to process it as
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much you know if you got a lab you're you're set you don't need any property shouldn't be that hard
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to get the chemicals because you can get them from China as much as you want right so I wonder if the
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poppy business is going to take a hit secondly you know I heard lots of reports that we were intentionally
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allowing the poppy fields to stay because it's the only way the poor people in Afghanistan could survive
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they had to sell illegal drugs or else they'd starve to death well is that our problem still
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I would say that when we were in Afghanistan and had you know a degree of control over the government
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directly or indirectly it really was our problem to feed everybody and maybe we had to make some
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tough choices about feeding the locals versus you know killing their their poppy business but we're
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gone now can't we bomb it now now now that we're out of the business can't we just destroy all the
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poppy fields and if we did what would happen it would just make fentanyl more available right
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you know the fentanyl would just fill the the gap so I'm not entirely sure you could mow the poppy
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fields and make any difference at all because it's just such a fungible thing that somebody would say
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oh fewer poppies let's just crank up the fentanyl production we're we'll break even so I don't even
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know if you can do anything about it um but I do think that fentanyl is one of the stories that has
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one of these unintended consequence sort of things baked into it it'll either kill the poppy business
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or replace it or something or make fentanyl bigger one of those um let's see here's a fake story
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by lack of context all right so here here's a challenge to you I'm going to tell you a story
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that's in the news that you all know about Afghanistan all right and then I'm going to tell
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you the context that they don't tell you that as soon as you hear it you're going to say oh that is
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true and you're going to be mad okay so my challenge is to make you mad at the quality of the news
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coverage are you ready we're worried about the Taliban capturing a whole bunch of uh weapons that
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Americans left that part's true as far as we know I mean it looks true um so we all know that story
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and it's a bad bad thing right it's all bad now even if we even if the Taliban can't operate the
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helicopters they could sell them somebody could maybe reverse engineer them maybe somebody would
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use them you know Iran might use them against somebody I don't know so you could think of lots
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of bad bad things that would happen because we left so many weapons behind here's what they didn't
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tell you are you ready to get mad they also have the Taliban all of the weapons of the Afghan army
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now how do you feel how much fucking difference does it make that they got all the American weapons we
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left behind they got an army they got the whole Taliban army they have all the weapons that we left a
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300,000 person Taliban army the Taliban army was like five times the size or no they the Afghan army
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was about five times the size of the Taliban right so the Afghan army probably has five times the
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weaponry that we left behind or something like that it's basically if you only if you own an entire
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nation's army which is what the Taliban does they own the army do you really care about the extra weapons
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that the Americans left let's put it into into context how many how many rifles were captured by the
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Taliban because they were left behind probably a lot like it's big alarming number right but as a percentage
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of all the weapons they gained by taking over an army they took over an army they own the army
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I don't think a few warehouses of extra weapons are going to make that much difference now wouldn't we
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prefer that they didn't have those weapons of course of course is it a mistake to leave them looks like
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it it looks like a terrible mistake but I don't know if it's as big a deal as we're making it I feel
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like the news has intentionally taken away the context and the context is they conquered a whole army
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they own everything that the army owned it's all theirs now I don't know if it made any difference
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I could easily see that there will be some things we learn about the decisions that the military made
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about pulling out here's my prediction my prediction is we're going to learn some facts
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that we don't know now that will change your mind about what happened one of those facts we might
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learn is that a lot of the advanced equipment was disabled maybe another fact we might learn is that
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it doesn't matter how many weapons the Taliban has because they have so many weapons from the army it
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just doesn't matter and it's possible that the the Americans said you know what if we blow up our
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own weapons we're going to injure some of our friends who are too nearby and we're going to scare
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everybody and we're going to panic everybody it's possible that the military made a conscious decision
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to leave the weapons meaning well obviously it was obviously it was a conscious decision but I mean they
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might have actually calculated that it would be worse to destroy them because it might have caused you
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know panic and might have hurt people who were nearby and I don't know now of course your common
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sense says seriously you can't tell everybody to just back off from that warehouse and just you know
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lob a bomb onto it well it seems like it I mean common sense says you can't just throw a hand grenade
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in there and you know make sure you're you're effing up the the sightings and stuff on the weapons
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I mean how hard would it be to lob a few grenades into the you know into the small arms place and blow
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it up I don't know seems like you could you could damage enough of the weapons that they wouldn't fire
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correctly um maybe not I don't know but and now we're talking about uh maybe dropping bombs on them
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after the fact but now we can't do it you know we can't bomb on those weapons now right because we
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haven't gotten the Americans out so this is a hostage situation already because the fact that
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Americans are there and the Taliban can control whether they get out that means already they're
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controlling what we can and cannot bomb right now because we can't bomb the weapons we left behind
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too dangerous they've got our hostages so it's already a hostage problem so um remember the other
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day I uh maybe even yesterday I was saying that we can't yet know enough to know how bad the decision
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was on the surface I'm completely with you on the surface it looks like the biggest botched thing of
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all botched things would we can all agree on that right I will stipulate that based on what we know so
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far it looks like the worst mistake ever made in the military industrial or no the military political
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world I guess we could agree on that but there's a dog not barking here how do you explain that a hundred percent
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of the people who were not in charge knew exactly the right thing to do but a hundred percent of the people
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who were in charge didn't how do you explain that seriously how do you explain that that's that's not a point
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it's an actual question of curiosity every one of us who were not there knew what to do but everyone
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who was there didn't and knowing what was right to do was kind of easy wasn't it you know uh blow up
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your own weapons get the get the americans out first kind of easy right wouldn't you say there were
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easy easy decisions that anybody could have made right almost guarantees that there's something we
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don't know how many of you would agree with the statement that it's more likely that there's
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something big we don't know about versus it was exactly as incompetent as it looks which one do you
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think it was there's something we don't know something big or that it was exactly as incompetent as it
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looks and the only people who didn't know how to do it right were the people in charge and everybody
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else in the world knew how to do it right which is more likely i would say that the we don't know
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what happened there's more to the story is maybe five to one more likely that would be my guess just
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based on living in the world you know you live in the world long enough you start to develop these
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these rules of thumb in your head they're not accurate necessarily they're just you know
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patterns and expression and impressions you picked up but mine is there's a five to one chance that
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the explanation is there's something we don't know about some kind of deal we made some kind of risk we
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want to take some kind of leverage somebody had on somebody some kind of threat i don't know
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something um so here's a here's another question that we all love uh talking about is why is it that
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uh trump well why do you think that trump might have done a better or worse job do you think that
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the democrats are having any trump uh missing trump problem a little bit let me tell you something
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that trump would do in this situation that biden has not okay and i think it's easy to imagine
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this now first of all trump says he wouldn't have been in this situation and and maybe not because
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whatever it was that caused biden to be in this situation it probably means somebody made a cowardly
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decision or they made a hard decision and didn't explain it to us or something i feel like trump
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wouldn't have done that i think trump would have made a hard decision and just told us i think he
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would just would have told us yeah i mean i had to make this hard decision it's really going to be
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bad for this one thing but you know you got to make a decision this is what i decided but here's the
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other thing that i think trump would do um that biden so far is not doing and i think it would go
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like this if trump found himself in this situation and we don't know that he would of having all these
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americans there and having to trust the taliban to let them out here's what trump would probably say
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to the taliban taliban you're getting everything you want we only want one thing if you don't give us
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that one thing which is allow the americans out we'll take everything you have everything we will
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come back every five minutes and just mow the lawn we will wait till you assemble in groups larger than
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five and drop a fucking bomb in the middle of it every time as long as it takes forever if you give
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us any trouble with getting the hostages out now let me tell you that i will do it for fun i'll enjoy
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it i will wipe out every freaking taliban anybody with a gun is going to be dead i will what i will i
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degrade your entire country we'll leave nothing there unless you let the americans out now we
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believe the taliban respond to threats because they're rational people and they have no benefit
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whatsoever of messing with the americans except you know whatever psychological weird evil benefits
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they get i feel as though this is one of those situations where trump was the perfect president
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if he had been president now to be fair i've said many times that it's it's not really about having a
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good or bad president it's usually about a fit like who's who's the right fit and trump was the right fit
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for this he was really the right fit for this exactly exactly the right president for this he just wasn't
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president i would say that trump was maybe not the right president for the pandemic wouldn't you say
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i would say if there was one issue really that stands above all the rest um it would be trusting
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trump with uh health you know health decisions right because one of the things that trump created for
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himself is you know wild hyperbole which works you know politically it works really well and had a lot
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of benefits but you don't want to be the wild hyperbole person when it's a health scare it's just the
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wrong fit it has nothing to do with trump's talent has nothing to do with you know his brains or his
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motivation his intentions or anything else just some things fit better than other things and i'd sure
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like to have a president trump while we're trying to get americans out of afghanistan to me that's no
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contest i i feel as if even the democrats would agree with the statement that trump could get the
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americans out better because he's scarier um let's see what else we got here um what is the difference
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between uh biden withdrawing from afghanistan and the california governor's recall election
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well um one difference is that the people who will be left in afghanistan will still have power
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and electricity and their country is mostly not on fire mostly not on fire whereas the californians
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after newsom leaves we won't have enough power or or water uh and uh the sky is full of smoke because
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our state is on fire so the newsom recall is a little bit worse in terms of what gets left behind
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all right i'm kidding afghanistan's worse but you have to you have to ask yourself about uh how bad
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is california that you can even make a reasonable comparison to afghanistan and people will listen
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well today i did a robots read news comic if you're not following those i just tweeted one out and posted
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it on locals so i only do that comic because i can post it on locals and not get in trouble
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but sometimes they're ones i release into the wild as well if they don't look too bad um and uh
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so uh the uh robot read news comics you want to read those on the afghanistan topic you don't want
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to miss that um now let's talk about uh how larry elder should not be advertising pain relief when running
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for governor yeah he's on he's on one of those pain relief commercials so every day that goes by
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that we don't hear a genuine uh larry elder scandal i think his odds of becoming governor just go up
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almost every day because california itself is looking worse every day um i've got my
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blinds down but you want to see a picture of what it looks like outside uh you're going to hear the
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sound of my blinds going up and it's and i'm going to get over lit in here but i'll i'll do this just so
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i can show you what it looks like oh i just realized i don't know if i can change the
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oh i don't think i can do this on locals i'll turn the screen around you see all right um
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on youtube let's see i think i can turn you around i'll turn the screen around
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so look out my window there and then on locals i'll just turn the screen around so you can see
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so you're looking out my window this looks like fog but isn't that that's the actual air quality
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so that's the smoke and uh christina got trapped out of town in a small aircraft she was doing a
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little ferrying a an aircraft um for to let the hangar and she can't get back in town because she
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can't fly a small aircraft in the smoke so she's she's gonna have to get back on a commercial flight
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i guess so that's what california looks like now tell me if you have to put your mask on to go to
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the gym and and you're and you can't go outside and take a walk i can't take a walk just think about
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that just just try to imagine that you're in in your state whatever state you're in i can't take
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a walk it's too dangerous i can't go outside i mean i could walk to my car but i can't i literally
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can't go for a walk it's just you know i've got asthma too so it's a little worse so how does a
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governor get re-elected when the residents of the state can't take a walk i mean think about that
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i feel as if larry elder just has to show up and he's going to be the next governor you just
00:31:22.000
i just don't know how you can you can elect the guy who manages the state so poorly you can't go
00:31:28.680
outside i mean that's crazy who has ever done worse than that ever has anybody ever done worse than
00:31:35.700
that i don't know uh yeah the blackouts and the brownouts um so far the the weather has been more
00:31:43.840
mild than i thought and i think so so here's the weird thing it might be that and this is true
00:31:50.480
by the way the only reason i still have electricity somebody tell me what's what's the only reason i
00:31:56.860
still have electricity does anybody know why it's because the forest fires are so bad they're blocking
00:32:04.760
the sun so i don't need ac i'm not making that up that's legitimately true the only reason i have
00:32:15.540
electricity is because the forest fires are blocking out the sun and so it's cooler i'm not making that
00:32:24.180
up that's real that's the only reason i have electricity do you think a governor can get
00:32:30.420
re-elected when the only reason you have electricity is that the forest fire blocked the sun temporarily
00:32:35.680
how does it get worse than that and and he's responsible for you know closing down our last
00:32:42.800
nuclear power plant the only hope we had of having enough electricity not good not good we're it looks
00:32:51.000
like we're going to run out of water in california and i don't know that there's a plan to get more
00:32:56.820
what exactly is our water making plan because the only way i can see that we could do it is to stick
00:33:04.580
a hose into the ocean build a nuclear reactor on the coast and start desalinating otherwise we all have
00:33:14.440
to move out of california i guess so um obviously i've come to the end of my content it seems like the
00:33:22.000
only the only the only things happening are afghanistan and climate change and i guess the
00:33:28.260
recall so is uh oh i i also saw um was it austin and maybe millie said this too that uh that nobody
00:33:39.140
saw any predictions that the taliban could take over in 11 days so that's sort of the defense
00:33:46.060
so the the defense is that we have you know 20 20 hindsight but if the military had known
00:33:54.480
that the taliban could take over so quickly they would have acted differently does that does that
00:34:01.940
work for you that's even an incompetent defense don't you expect that even if people do a bad job
00:34:09.500
they could probably put on a pretty good defense because you know they have time to think about it and
00:34:14.400
they get a lot of help and you know lawyers probably talk to them and say all right say this
00:34:18.400
it won't be true but it's going to sound pretty good it'll be good defense they can't even defend
00:34:23.760
themselves because here's the problem even if they had more time shouldn't they get the get the
00:34:31.160
americans out first the only question was what order do you do things and and his statement about
00:34:37.780
we didn't know that the taliban would fall so quickly doesn't address the main complaint the
00:34:43.980
main complaint is you did it in the wrong order and he doesn't even address it he acts like that was
00:34:49.800
the right order of things right so um i would say that i could not have less confidence in our military
00:35:01.520
leadership that i have right now and i would go further i would say that if biden doesn't fire
00:35:07.180
both milly and austin over this then maybe he doesn't need to be president anymore i'm not sure
00:35:16.080
if he is because we're still trying to figure out who's who's making the decisions by the way does
00:35:21.460
anybody know who's making all the decisions i have a theory on this but uh let's see your opinion
00:35:27.680
so tell me in the comments who do you think is the power behind the power i'm seeing susan rice
00:35:34.840
blackrock hillary clinton uh obama jill susan rice hillary xi xi ping uh valerie jarrett ron clane
00:35:49.380
okay here's the answer um and i would uh i would die on this hill meaning that i would bet basically
00:35:59.500
everything that i'm right you ready it's a it depends who cares the most per topic so here's who i think
00:36:09.300
is running the country everyone who cares the most and is also a democrat per topic so in other words
00:36:16.280
there is almost certainly a group of people who really really care about let's say what we do with
00:36:21.880
israel and i think they're in charge because there isn't enough pushback from anybody else
00:36:27.260
so i think any group of people who are sort of the the experts on that domain you know there'll be some
00:36:34.200
china experts some russia experts some nato experts some climate change experts etc i think that the
00:36:40.920
people who care the most and you know are most uh part of those uh advisory stuff i think they're
00:36:48.360
making the decisions because i think by the time it gets to the advisors the advisors say oh i don't
00:36:53.960
know well they're the experts and i think joe isn't capable enough to override an expert the way trump
00:37:00.400
would what what is the main thing you want from a president if i would if i were to say there's one
00:37:07.060
talent you want the most what would it be what talent would you most want from a president let's
00:37:14.900
say they're all good at communicating and the basics right so let's say everybody by the time you become
00:37:19.900
president you've got all the basics but what what one single talent there you go it's funny i watch the
00:37:28.840
difference in the comments between the people on locals the people who subscribe to my content and the
00:37:33.780
people who may be more of a general audience on youtube and it's such a difference in the comments
00:37:38.860
and uh on locals people immediately went right to the right answer which is bullshit detection
00:37:45.180
the only thing you need your president to do is to know when the experts are wrong
00:37:51.100
that's it because otherwise the experts would just run everything you could just say all right just
00:37:57.860
tell me what to do about climate change right you're the experts all right i'll do that
00:38:01.280
right the only thing the president does is call bullshit on experts trump i would say did this
00:38:11.880
better than anybody's ever done it even with whatever mistakes you might say and there would be a few
00:38:17.540
i would say that trump is the best bullshit detector we've ever had as president i think now that doesn't
00:38:26.360
mean he also doesn't give the most bullshit because he does right and you know this the old saying it
00:38:32.460
takes one to know one well that is so true let me give you an example every now and then somebody will
00:38:40.120
make a movie that involves a tennis game and maybe a tennis professional if you are a tennis player and you
00:38:47.940
watch a movie where people are pretending to play tennis you can immediately spot that they don't know
00:38:54.180
how to play tennis right no matter how much uh acting lessons they took to you know hit correctly
00:39:00.560
anybody who's an experienced tennis player can say there's somebody who never hit a tennis ball until
00:39:05.640
they started practicing for this movie right and same in golf right yeah right same in golf if you're
00:39:13.140
a golf expert you can just look at somebody's swing and you know what's going on uh but trump
00:39:19.860
is literally the most prolific bullshitter of all time and uh yeah he was the most prolific
00:39:29.780
bullshitter and don't you think he can spot it i do i i think he's done it over and over again
00:39:36.260
now he used a little hyperbole when he talked about china and you know climate change being a hoax
00:39:42.320
but if you look at the context in which he meant that meaning that china wanted us to be in a bad
00:39:48.020
situation economically compared to them it was a hoax now that doesn't mean that climate change isn't
00:39:56.100
real i'm not saying that um i'm saying that he correctly called out that there was a whole bunch
00:40:01.900
of bullshit baked in with the real stuff if there's any real stuff right he he spotted the bullshit part
00:40:08.100
of it and i think he got that completely right um now the i guess the other thing uh the president
00:40:18.420
needs to do is take the hard choices and take the heat because sometimes it's not so much about the
00:40:23.940
experts it's priorities and when it's just priorities then you need a president who can take any amount of
00:40:30.180
heat who could do that better than trump nobody ever ever no president could take more heat
00:40:39.380
for a decision that just needed to be done than president than trump and imagine a second term trump
00:40:46.180
oh my god a second term trump could make the hardest decisions because he could and he would and i think he
00:40:54.740
would play that you play the long the long game i think he would i think trump would play the long
00:40:59.780
game which is to make the hard decision withdrawing from afghanistan is one of those and uh just you
00:41:08.260
know just get it done and i think history would be kind to him if he did all right uh no more old
00:41:14.260
presidents somebody saying i agree with you i mean i said it before trump ran the first time i said we
00:41:20.020
shouldn't have 70 plus year old presidents i think it's too old on the other hand what is the biggest
00:41:28.180
advantage of an old president you know what you're getting that's the big advantage you know what you're
00:41:34.980
getting um and i think with trump we got exactly what we thought we would get you know the some of the
00:41:42.420
details were different but not really i mean basically you got exactly what you you expected he he was trumped
00:41:49.220
from day one he was never on trump biden too didn't you know what you were getting with biden of course
00:41:56.980
you did you got exactly what you voted for now people chose that consciously i hope they like their
00:42:02.660
choice it doesn't look so good this week but uh the presidents need to be post sexual
00:42:11.380
that's not a bad that's not a bad that's not a bad concept yeah if you get your presidents old enough
00:42:19.380
so that they've they've crossed over their their sex life you have one less thing to be distracted
00:42:31.700
yeah once you cross 80 the the statistics look bad i i would allow that young 70s isn't like it used to be
00:42:38.420
so um i'm being asked for a lesson a micro lesson on uh self-hypnosis for stress relief
00:42:49.380
um i don't know that that would be a micro lesson so much as i should hypnotize you so i should do a
00:42:56.180
video in which i just hypnotize you to sleep better which i could do i'm working on one now um about how
00:43:02.500
how to create assets out of nothing you know basically psychological assets and uh coming
00:43:08.180
along on that uh i've got a problem right now that there's some construction in my house so almost as
00:43:13.380
soon as i'm done with the live streams there's going to be construction noise all day so it's tough to
00:43:18.100
make videos and by the way if you're on locals and you're wondering why i slowed down on the videos
00:43:22.660
that's why i can't do them during the day like i used to but that won't last forever so there'll be
00:43:27.460
more of them and that is what i call coffee with scott adams that's right you have come to the end of
00:43:36.340
another fantastic segment the kind of entertainment that really you can't you can't buy because i don't
00:43:45.380
sell it you might have to watch some advertisements but okay you could subscribe to it so you can buy it
00:43:50.980
but forget about that and here's how i tell you you should watch this show i think that different
00:43:59.140
forms of oh by the way before i go i'm going to give you a recommendation of some entertainment
00:44:10.820
uh the way you should watch this live stream is either by exercising while you're doing it you
00:44:15.940
know taking a walk doing something like that or housework you know washing the dishes putting
00:44:20.900
your your headphones uh or just having it on as sort of a a friend who's talking to you while
00:44:27.620
you're getting ready for your day or commuting that sort of thing so the way to listen to this is not
00:44:32.420
so much that you're picking up the news but you're having a conversation with a friend who talks too much
00:44:38.580
thinks he knows everything that's me i'm your invisible friend how many of you who got lonely
00:44:44.660
during the pandemic did anybody get lonely during the pandemic yeah i just want to see in your comments
00:44:52.260
how many were lonely um a lot of no's because your families were close yeah but then there were a lot of
00:44:59.300
people especially single people it was just devastating but one of the ways to listen to this is as your uh
00:45:07.380
your imaginary friend who's not really imaginary uh and i'm just there hanging out with you a little bit
00:45:13.460
talking about what's new all right here's your recommendation have you all seen i know you have
00:45:19.940
there's a a series called ted laz lazio ted lazlo ted lazlo on i think it's only apple tv and so it's a
00:45:30.580
you have to buy it and i just started watching it and you know i've told you that there's no such good as
00:45:36.100
there's there's no good tv shows anymore and there are no good movies they don't they don't match our
00:45:41.300
sense of uh i don't know our uh patience doesn't work anymore and the content is terrible it's just
00:45:49.140
terrible and it makes you feel bad and it's cringy and all that it's woke and then there's the show uh
00:45:58.420
ted lazlo now i i resisted watching it because the the previews are terrible have you seen the previews
00:46:06.980
the previews don't make that look good but i found out there's a reason you can't make a preview of that
00:46:14.580
show and here's why this show is what is a cumulative masterpiece every moment of the show
00:46:23.300
is a little um muted a little reduced in let's say energy and so if you watch a like a preview
00:46:33.220
you're going to get one of these low energy just somebody's talking to somebody and you're like i'm
00:46:38.580
not sure why i watch that but that low energy stuff accumulates over the course of an episode and then
00:46:45.700
also over the course of the arc of the entire show and it is a freaking masterpiece it's it's very
00:46:54.900
nearly the best thing i've ever seen on television and i'll tell you what he does right um so um
00:47:02.980
who is it sudeikis who's the executive producer and the star uh i'll just give you the setup without
00:47:08.660
being a spoiler he plays an optimistic american who has chosen to be a soccer coach in a british
00:47:16.420
premier league and he's never played soccer and he doesn't even know the rules now what's the show
00:47:23.540
about if it's about an american who is a coach in a different uh in a different level in a different
00:47:30.100
sport what's it about persuasion it's a whole show about persuasion because this this person he has no
00:47:40.740
skills he has no experience the only thing he knows is how to motivate people and you watch him as he
00:47:48.180
uses one persuasion trick after another usually in a more you know dramatic sense so they're they're
00:47:53.940
exaggerated a little bit but he uses one one trick after another and you watch him build build a thing
00:48:01.140
over the course of the shows that's amazing it's really amazing it's the best uh ted lasso is it laszlo
00:48:10.660
or lasso right so it's ted lasso and it's uh looks terrible in the previews so let me say this as clearly as
00:48:18.820
possible don't look at the previews don't look at them it's not good the previews cannot capture
00:48:28.260
the genius that went into this freaking thing it's pure genius from beginning to end the first episode
00:48:35.540
you might not feel it at around the third episode you're going to say to yourself what the hell am i
00:48:42.340
watching this is so good it's got layers it's like layers on layers on layers um one of the things they
00:48:51.060
do is what uh i call the beatles technique i've been studying the beatles for i don't know a year now
00:48:57.460
to find out what they did right not just musically but like what was in their systems or techniques
00:49:03.940
it turns out that both uh mccartney and lennon were systems people you know that they they would
00:49:10.420
develop a system that would get them there not just a goal of having a good good song and one of
00:49:16.180
the systems was they would take anything that sounded good and put it in the same song even if it didn't
00:49:20.660
make sense they'd say well this sounds good this is this bell ringing ding dong ba-dong ba-dong
00:49:26.820
hey i like the way that bell sounds and then you've got a guitar lick over here
00:49:32.660
you know what would sound good we'll take that bell that i like individually we'll put it with that
00:49:37.620
guitar lick that i like individually and we'll have a bell and a guitar and we'll call it a song
00:49:43.220
and we'll add some random lyrics that don't really have anything to do with anything
00:49:47.300
that's how the the beatles made their songs they took individual things that felt good and put them
00:49:52.820
together i don't know if anybody does that um but but uh anyway this this show does that because one of
00:50:02.580
the things it takes is uh bits from the best thing you've ever watched how many of you like shows
00:50:09.700
where the underdog wins a sporting competition right don't you like anything where the big underdog wins a
00:50:19.780
sporting competition or it could be a spelling bee by any competition right every movie that has that
00:50:25.860
if they execute it well i like it so they throw that in there that's in ted lasso then you've got a fish
00:50:31.940
out of water that's sort of the basis for most humorous stuff that that's there you've got persuasion
00:50:39.220
lessons which is fun that's there you've got great dialogue you've got the most interesting character that's there
00:50:45.860
the casting is freaking genius where do you see the casting you need an academy award for just casting
00:50:54.180
that stupid thing but every part of this is genius and the parts aren't supposed to go together
00:51:01.540
they put them together anyway they just said take everything that's great and put it in the show
00:51:06.980
what's the thing i hate worse about every any show they make you feel bad in order to make you feel
00:51:13.540
good right they have to they have to take the the viewer down into depression so that when things
00:51:18.900
go well you're like oh finally i feel good now but this show makes you feel good almost the whole way
00:51:25.540
except he's got some marital problems that are kind of necessary to the to the plot but otherwise you're
00:51:31.540
just sort of happy the whole time it's amazing anyway watch that show you won't you won't be disappointed