Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 09, 2021


Episode 1494 Scott Adams： Lots of Good Persuasion Content Today, and Trump Too


Episode Stats

Length

42 minutes

Words per Minute

146.16718

Word Count

6,157

Sentence Count

554

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

11


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Is it my imagination, or do you all look sexier than usual?
00:00:05.340 Huh.
00:00:07.300 I don't know what causes that.
00:00:10.120 Maybe you're working out?
00:00:14.720 Somebody says no audio.
00:00:17.980 Let's see if I can fix that.
00:00:30.000 I've got a problem with my technology on one of my platforms here, so let's do this, do
00:00:39.120 this, allow my microphone.
00:00:44.380 How about now?
00:00:47.860 Yay, we got sound on two platforms.
00:00:50.400 We're cooking now.
00:00:51.620 I'm going to implement the Rumble platform, too.
00:00:54.980 I think I'm all approved now.
00:00:57.480 Comment for the Locals Development Team.
00:01:02.820 For some reason, your interface doesn't allow me to know if I've hit the right buttons.
00:01:07.780 I'll talk about that later.
00:01:09.720 Well, what's the news?
00:01:11.280 Lots of good things happening here.
00:01:12.620 Oh, wait.
00:01:14.420 Wait.
00:01:15.460 What have I forgotten?
00:01:17.360 Yeah.
00:01:18.360 Yeah.
00:01:18.920 Do you realize that I almost read the news without the simultaneous zip?
00:01:24.680 Crazy.
00:01:25.880 Crazy days.
00:01:26.720 But you need that sip, and all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice
00:01:30.860 or a canteen.
00:01:31.560 Enjoy your last vessel of any kind.
00:01:33.000 Fill it with your favorite lid.
00:01:34.160 I like coffee.
00:01:35.340 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of dopamine to the day, the thing that makes
00:01:38.360 everything better.
00:01:40.400 It's called the simultaneous sip.
00:01:41.980 Join me now.
00:01:43.060 Go.
00:01:43.260 Go.
00:01:47.520 Ah.
00:01:50.380 Ah.
00:01:52.940 All right.
00:01:53.880 Story number one.
00:01:54.780 The Taliban have apparently agreed to let 200 Americans and foreign workers who were trapped
00:02:00.620 at the airport out.
00:02:01.560 Now, what did we promise to get them out?
00:02:07.900 Do you think the Taliban said, when we asked, hey, you've got 200 Americans, can you let them
00:02:14.480 out at the airport?
00:02:15.780 What did the Taliban say?
00:02:17.660 Did they say, oh, oh, yeah, we didn't even know they were there.
00:02:21.420 Of course.
00:02:22.220 Let me make a phone call.
00:02:23.400 We'll get them right out of there.
00:02:24.280 Is that how that went?
00:02:27.560 Or is it possible that our government promised them something that the public probably shouldn't
00:02:36.240 know about?
00:02:37.940 Yeah.
00:02:38.960 We kind of self-blackmailed ourselves on this situation, didn't we?
00:02:42.500 We put ourselves in a situation where we blackmailed ourselves by leaving enough people there that
00:02:51.880 we knew we'd have to pay something, I assume, or agree to something, in order to get them
00:02:58.580 out of there.
00:02:59.380 So I don't know how much worse you can do as a government than blackmailing yourself.
00:03:07.320 Has anybody failed that hard in the history of governments?
00:03:10.520 Hey, I've got an idea.
00:03:13.120 Instead of blackmailing our competition, just hear me out on this.
00:03:18.540 We're going to blackmail ourselves.
00:03:21.600 Oh, just try it.
00:03:23.440 You know, we might get a surprising outcome.
00:03:26.960 Well, that didn't work out.
00:03:28.860 In other big news, Jennifer Aniston is launching some hair care situation.
00:03:36.120 I guess a new line of business or something.
00:03:38.240 And the Daily Mail shows pictures of her, and it describes it this way.
00:03:44.280 She's putting on a leggy display.
00:03:47.660 A leggy display.
00:03:50.340 Now, the story, of course, the point of it was that she's attractive, and she's 52 years
00:03:58.180 old.
00:03:59.940 Is that amazing?
00:04:00.920 Have you seen a picture of Jennifer Aniston at 52?
00:04:06.880 What the hell is she doing?
00:04:10.000 Like, why can't other people do that?
00:04:12.620 Or can they?
00:04:14.000 I mean, how much of that is genetic?
00:04:16.760 And how much of that is technology?
00:04:19.240 Because I have a feeling a lot of that is just lifestyle choices and doing the right stuff.
00:04:24.520 Now, I would always say that it's easier if you're a famous, rich movie star because being
00:04:30.940 in shape is actually your job, right?
00:04:33.540 If somebody paid you a million dollars a year to go to the gym, you'd probably go to the
00:04:39.180 gym.
00:04:39.680 A lot more than you do now.
00:04:41.720 So, you know, if you're a movie star, you're basically being paid to go to the gym.
00:04:45.460 So, of course, she gets good results.
00:04:48.060 Probably as a personal chef.
00:04:49.440 But I only point that out because you know the story about the four-minute mile.
00:04:57.660 Until the first human being ran a mile under four minutes, it was assumed just not even
00:05:04.200 possible.
00:05:05.320 There was a limit of human capability.
00:05:07.700 But as soon as the first person did it, then the record just fell like crazy.
00:05:12.800 A lot of people did it.
00:05:14.600 And there's something in the psychology about what's possible.
00:05:17.980 And when you look at Jennifer Aniston at 52, and they're still doing like glamour pictures
00:05:24.620 of her to advertise her product, and the point of the pictures is that she's sexy, that completely
00:05:31.120 changes your view of what looking young and sexy could be.
00:05:37.560 I mean, if you could look like her into your 50s, maybe it's worth trying, right?
00:05:44.180 How many people even try to be good-looking in their 50s?
00:05:48.320 I mean, seriously.
00:05:49.640 Who in their 50s who just has a normal job, you know, you just commute to work, how many
00:05:54.440 people in their 50s are saying to themselves, I'm going to work extra hard to like really
00:05:58.760 look sexy?
00:06:00.460 Just about nobody.
00:06:01.740 Because you just give up, right?
00:06:03.720 You just think, well, even if I worked all day long, I'm going to be a 50-year-old or whatever.
00:06:09.220 I mean, there's a limit to how good I can look.
00:06:12.780 But apparently there isn't.
00:06:14.920 Jennifer Aniston is showing you that whatever you thought was the limit, you probably weren't
00:06:20.340 even close.
00:06:21.540 All right, enough about that.
00:06:24.300 Fox News is dunking on its competition by noting that they're ignoring another big story.
00:06:29.880 The story they're ignoring is about the documents that The Intercept published that suggests that
00:06:41.520 Fauci lied to Congress about NIH funding for the Wuhan lab.
00:06:46.560 Now, that's a pretty big story, isn't it?
00:06:48.920 Even if you were going to debunk the story, it's a big story.
00:06:52.980 And it was not covered by CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, or Washington Post, among others.
00:07:01.860 It wasn't even covered.
00:07:04.640 Now, personally, I don't think it's that big of a story.
00:07:10.640 I think that the lying to Congress was more like weasel words, meaning he was just using
00:07:17.780 gain of function in a slightly different context, I guess.
00:07:20.960 So I'm not sure it was a lie so much as a corporate weaseling persuasion thing that wasn't so cool.
00:07:31.260 But I don't know.
00:07:33.180 I think they did need to fund gain of functions research.
00:07:38.020 So I'm not even sure it's a big deal.
00:07:40.180 It's a big tragedy.
00:07:42.000 But I don't know that it made a difference that he funded it.
00:07:44.620 United Airlines is requiring vaccinations for all of their staff.
00:07:52.760 But here's the twist.
00:07:54.580 So that, I mean, that's a story enough.
00:07:56.760 But the twist is this.
00:07:58.700 Any of the United Airlines staff who claim they don't want to get the vaccination for religious exemptions,
00:08:06.040 religious exemptions,
00:08:07.560 they will not have to get the vaccination.
00:08:09.580 So that's pretty good, right?
00:08:11.980 If you claim a religious exemption, you don't have to get the vaccination.
00:08:15.940 You also won't get paid.
00:08:18.340 You also won't be working.
00:08:20.680 You'll be on unpaid leave.
00:08:23.140 So you won't get fired.
00:08:25.340 You just won't get paid.
00:08:27.800 And you won't be working.
00:08:30.020 So United Airlines is playing hardball.
00:08:32.360 I guess they figured people would just claim religious exemptions to get out of it.
00:08:39.000 But follow that story.
00:08:41.040 It's a pretty big one.
00:08:42.560 So Biden has announced he's got a six-pronged plan to deal with COVID.
00:08:47.900 Six prongs.
00:08:49.660 Now, some people would say, I have a six-point plan.
00:08:53.180 Some people might say, I have a plan.
00:08:56.020 There are six elements.
00:08:57.000 But no, the Biden plan has six prongs.
00:09:01.280 Prongs.
00:09:03.040 I'll bet if you say prong ten times,
00:09:05.820 the word will stop sounding like a real word.
00:09:09.280 Try it at home.
00:09:10.840 Prong, prong, prong, prong, prong.
00:09:13.380 Prong?
00:09:14.600 Prong?
00:09:17.780 Is prong even a word?
00:09:19.880 Prong?
00:09:21.160 Anyway, if you watch Ted Lasso, that's funnier.
00:09:24.040 It's a callback to one of their jokes.
00:09:25.400 So federal employees must be vaccinated in this six-pronged plan.
00:09:33.640 So one of the prongs of the six-pronged plan is they all got to get vaccinated.
00:09:38.960 We'll see if that works.
00:09:40.100 Seems to me that that would lose us about 20% of our federal employees.
00:09:45.420 Don't you think 20% of the federal employees are just going to not get vaccinated?
00:09:50.900 I don't know what's going to happen there.
00:09:52.000 All right, I've told you before that CNN has a one-anecdote-per-day schedule for anecdotal persuasion.
00:10:01.740 And every single day, they will run one new story about the poor bastard who wishes they'd gotten a vaccination.
00:10:10.060 Because data matters, but not as much as anecdotes.
00:10:13.560 So here's today's anecdote.
00:10:16.720 Before she died of COVID-19, she begged TikTok followers to get the vaccine.
00:10:22.500 Megan Alexandra Blankenbiller was waiting to get vaccinated until she had convinced her family to do it together.
00:10:32.060 So she didn't get vaccinated, and she wishes she had.
00:10:35.460 What was the reported weight of the tragic death of Ms. Blankenbiller?
00:10:48.660 What was her weight?
00:10:50.360 Well, it wasn't reported, but they do have a photograph.
00:10:54.440 And she's large.
00:10:56.000 She was a large girl.
00:10:57.900 Now, I feel as if the news and the medical community are just screwing us by not reporting the weight class of the people who are dying.
00:11:15.560 It's a big deal.
00:11:17.880 And just ignoring it like that's not a thing.
00:11:20.460 I mean, they do report it, you know, as a statistic and stuff every now and then.
00:11:25.060 But every single day, they should report, we had 300 overweight people die and six people of normal weight.
00:11:37.500 Do you know why they don't report that?
00:11:39.740 Because you wouldn't get vaccinated.
00:11:42.100 If you weren't overweight, you wouldn't get vaccinated.
00:11:45.660 So they have to fuck you.
00:11:50.140 Let's just put it that way.
00:11:52.360 They have to fool you and manipulate you to get vaccinated.
00:11:59.220 And so they don't want to tell you that your risk, if you're not overweight, is not nearly the same as overweight people.
00:12:07.100 Now, you know, whether or not you should get a vaccination should probably have nothing to do with your weight.
00:12:12.300 But they know that it will.
00:12:13.620 I mean, logically, the choice to get vaccinated probably shouldn't depend on that.
00:12:21.560 But it will.
00:12:22.540 I mean, people will make their decisions based on stuff like that.
00:12:26.740 Interesting question here.
00:12:28.140 Let me put this to you.
00:12:29.760 So see what you think about this.
00:12:31.540 So here's a persuasion, subjective opinion I want from you.
00:12:36.900 When Texas introduced their new anti-abortion law that allowed private citizens to sue abortion providers,
00:12:46.820 did that make it more or less likely that the governor of California would be recalled?
00:12:53.620 Because abortion is such a rallying cry that it might make people want to make sure that they maintain that they're democratic governors to maintain abortion.
00:13:08.400 Now, I don't think California is really at risk to have any kind of law like they have in Texas.
00:13:14.820 We're so far away from that being a thing in California.
00:13:18.840 But I don't know if that matters.
00:13:21.280 If people are afraid, they'll just vote based on their fear.
00:13:26.840 And so if Texas makes them afraid to lose their abortion rights, and that's their top issue,
00:13:32.880 Texas may have guaranteed that Democrats keep a majority in Congress.
00:13:38.520 Because the California recall isn't just about the governor.
00:13:43.680 If Feinstein leaves office, and she's not going to last that long.
00:13:48.300 I mean, she's a really advanced age.
00:13:50.220 If she leaves office, she'll be replaced by the governor.
00:13:53.880 If it's Larry Elder, he's going to put a Republican in there.
00:13:57.880 And then, you know, the balance of the Senate changes.
00:14:02.340 So this is a gigantic, you know, variable.
00:14:06.200 And suddenly, Texas, with their little abortion law,
00:14:10.040 may have changed the entire nature of the political equation in the country.
00:14:15.320 Now, it's probably good that they did this well before 2022.
00:14:19.280 I mean, it's not that far before.
00:14:21.640 But it's going to have a big impact.
00:14:23.140 I have a feeling that the Texas abortion law could be one of the biggest variables
00:14:29.320 for the next, I don't know, five or ten years of political life.
00:14:33.740 We'll see.
00:14:34.380 But it also could be nothing.
00:14:36.440 The other possibility is it's just nothing.
00:14:39.320 Because I live in California, and if you tell me, you know,
00:14:43.120 I should be influenced by something that happened in Texas,
00:14:46.500 I say, well, I hear your argument, but I just don't feel it.
00:14:50.480 It just feels like it's the other side of the world.
00:14:52.720 So I'm not sure people feel it in California,
00:14:55.480 but if they can be made to feel it, it'll matter.
00:14:57.500 Did you see Greg Guffeld's interview with Trump?
00:15:02.980 I guess it's going to be airing in three parts, started last night.
00:15:06.760 It's really great.
00:15:07.880 I haven't watched all of it, but I've watched a number of the clips.
00:15:11.620 Watch especially the clip where Greg asked Trump how to convince Greg's wife to get vaccinated.
00:15:18.540 So, you know, she was born in Russia, and so they both joke about her being hard to convince.
00:15:26.020 But you have to see the quality of Trump's answer.
00:15:29.900 It's really good.
00:15:30.980 Have I taught you pacing and leading?
00:15:35.820 Right?
00:15:36.300 Pacing and leading.
00:15:38.280 So first, you have to agree with the person you're trying to persuade.
00:15:44.140 So watch when Trump is asked to persuade Greg's wife.
00:15:48.040 What does he say right off the bat?
00:15:51.180 Right?
00:15:51.460 He says he got the vaccination.
00:15:53.060 That's the context we need.
00:15:54.660 So that's the first thing.
00:15:56.200 So Trump got the vaccination.
00:15:57.400 The second thing he talks about is freedom.
00:16:00.980 Right?
00:16:03.480 Because he's pacing her.
00:16:05.080 He's like, you got your freedom.
00:16:06.960 And he's making sure that he's acknowledged that completely.
00:16:11.600 That's good persuasion.
00:16:13.520 And that's what the bad persuaders are getting wrong.
00:16:17.080 You have to acknowledge the other side's argument, or you're done before you start.
00:16:22.560 If you can't acknowledge their argument, then they know you're not really arguing,
00:16:25.800 or you're not persuading, you're just, you know, talking.
00:16:30.980 So Trump does that.
00:16:33.020 And then watch how gently he gets into his reasons why she should be considering vaccination.
00:16:42.080 It's really gently and perfectly done.
00:16:47.160 He just sort of is talking.
00:16:49.680 He acknowledges her side of it.
00:16:51.440 He stays light.
00:16:52.640 He's not trying to push anybody.
00:16:54.260 And then he says, you know, but I think the vaccinations may have saved millions of people.
00:16:59.840 Now, that's not even about his wife.
00:17:02.500 Right?
00:17:03.780 It's the same topic, but he takes it away from Greg's wife so that it's not like a personal thing.
00:17:11.100 He says, you know, I think we saved millions of people.
00:17:13.420 I don't know if that's true, but it's good persuasion.
00:17:15.840 And then there was something else he added.
00:17:20.300 Oh, he added that if you get the vaccination and then you get infected, your odds of having a bad outcome are really low.
00:17:27.920 And that was the kill shot.
00:17:31.640 But he got to the kill shot while you thought he was serving you tea and biscuits.
00:17:37.160 Because he had agreed with you from the start.
00:17:41.440 Oh, he's agreed with me.
00:17:42.620 Personal freedom.
00:17:43.600 All right.
00:17:44.020 All right.
00:17:44.360 All right.
00:17:45.180 Yeah.
00:17:45.840 Did he save millions of people with the vaccination?
00:17:51.000 Oh, it makes you think.
00:17:53.060 Yeah.
00:17:53.400 What's he talking about now?
00:17:55.140 Oh, yeah.
00:17:57.060 The last thing he says, so it sticks in your mind, is that the vaccination will keep you from getting really sick or dying.
00:18:03.780 Now, did he go after his statistics and science and stuff like that?
00:18:11.060 Nope.
00:18:12.240 Because probably none of that would have been persuasive.
00:18:15.120 He is so good at this.
00:18:17.700 You don't realize it until you understand technique.
00:18:21.360 Once you understand technique, you see him apply it correctly time after time.
00:18:27.800 And yesterday in the live stream, I talked to you about the doctors who are doing exactly the opposite of good technique.
00:18:33.060 And you watch them side by side, and then you learn the technique, and you can see the difference.
00:18:38.400 It's a big difference.
00:18:40.660 All right.
00:18:41.220 So watch the rest of the Gottfeld interviews.
00:18:43.200 There's a few more coming up on subsequent nights.
00:18:46.060 The Robert E. Lee statue, the biggest one in the country, came down in Virginia.
00:18:51.080 Of course, that gives us plenty to yak about.
00:18:53.120 But speaking of Donald Trump, speaking of that, what did Trump say about the statue?
00:19:03.000 Oh, I hope I did not write that down.
00:19:07.580 He said, oh, he said that Robert E. Lee, if he'd been the general in Afghanistan, he would have won the war in Afghanistan for the United States.
00:19:15.880 I miss him so much.
00:19:27.060 God, I miss him.
00:19:29.520 Are you serious?
00:19:31.180 Robert E. Lee would have won in Afghanistan?
00:19:34.220 Come on.
00:19:36.220 Come on.
00:19:37.880 That's the funniest thing anybody ever said in public, or at least this week, because it's so provocative.
00:19:45.480 It's not really serious, right?
00:19:47.280 I mean, it's not really a serious comment.
00:19:49.000 But you cannot walk away from that comment.
00:19:53.260 That's not a comment you could hear and then think of something else right away.
00:19:58.360 You put that thought in somebody's head, and they have to stop and think about it.
00:20:04.180 It's just so diabolical, the way he takes this normal, he takes this totally normal topic,
00:20:11.880 and he combines it with, like, gasoline and matches.
00:20:16.920 And he just does it so effortlessly.
00:20:19.000 You know, Robert E. Lee, I think he would have won in Afghanistan.
00:20:30.260 People don't understand how funny he is.
00:20:33.320 Like, if you don't get it, that he does this intentionally, if you don't know it's intentional, you don't get it.
00:20:42.000 The other person who's like this is, have you ever watched a Norm MacDonald comedy?
00:20:49.000 Especially at these, I think it's still on, a show on a live stream.
00:20:54.860 And one of his continuing themes he does in his stand-up and his shows is he tells jokes that are going to make you really uncomfortable.
00:21:03.960 And usually it's because it's uncomfortably sort of racist, but it's not.
00:21:13.720 And you say to yourself, I'm having a reaction to this.
00:21:16.900 Even though it's not racist, it's like so uncomfortably close, and that's the joke.
00:21:24.220 He's making you uncomfortably close to something that you don't want to deal with.
00:21:28.460 And then it's funny, because he's just making you uncomfortable, but he's doing it intentionally.
00:21:33.120 And he does it with, you know, sexism jokes and stuff like that.
00:21:36.720 You know, you'll tell the joke and you'll think to yourself, well, that's really sexist.
00:21:40.960 Wait a minute, he's doing this intentionally.
00:21:43.280 You screwing with me.
00:21:44.780 Oh, the joke is on me.
00:21:46.460 Because the joke is about how I react to it.
00:21:49.100 Right?
00:21:49.520 So the joke is not the joke with Norm MacDonald, often.
00:21:53.860 The joke is what he made you think and how you reacted to it.
00:21:57.840 That's the joke.
00:21:58.920 Right?
00:21:59.100 So Trump does that, too.
00:22:02.220 You know, you don't realize that you're always part of the larger part of the joke.
00:22:07.860 It's either on you, or at least you're laughing from the sidelines knowing what he's up to.
00:22:14.640 I don't know.
00:22:15.360 What else is going on here?
00:22:20.300 All right.
00:22:20.880 Here's some interesting info I got from Machiavelli's Underbelly.
00:22:29.100 Your best accounts.
00:22:30.960 Machiavelli's Underbelly.
00:22:32.260 So just search for that on Twitter.
00:22:36.820 And he asked people, or he gave some statistics.
00:22:41.060 Damn it, did I forget to write those down?
00:22:44.100 Apparently, exercising, if you are not an exerciser, but you get on an exercise program,
00:22:51.860 your odds of having a bad outcome with COVID go way down if you're a regular exerciser.
00:22:59.100 It's a big difference.
00:23:03.660 And so this issue of weight and exercise is a big deal.
00:23:07.680 But where is Biden telling us to exercise?
00:23:09.700 I don't know if we've ever had a better president for fitness.
00:23:19.020 Maybe Bush Jr.
00:23:21.960 Am I right?
00:23:23.740 Will you give me that, even if you're anti-Biden, if you don't like him as president?
00:23:28.540 But will you give me that he is a good role model for health?
00:23:33.380 He doesn't smoke the way Biden does.
00:23:36.460 You don't see him going to McDonald's.
00:23:39.180 Right?
00:23:40.120 Am I right?
00:23:41.320 On that one area, he's actually a really good role model.
00:23:44.960 He's thin.
00:23:45.720 He exercises.
00:23:47.080 I think he's been running up until recently, probably.
00:23:50.560 Well, you know, you say he's skinny fat.
00:23:52.780 I get what you're saying.
00:23:54.140 But yeah, he eats ice cream.
00:23:56.980 I'm not sure that's the worst problem in the world.
00:23:58.460 Yeah, he does eat a lot of ice cream.
00:24:01.680 I don't think that's the problem relative to...
00:24:04.480 You know, I see ice cream as entertainment, whereas eating at McDonald's is a meal.
00:24:10.820 So anyway, I think Biden is missing a big play because he should be telling the country to exercise.
00:24:19.140 Exercise makes a big difference.
00:24:20.980 He's got a six-pronged plan.
00:24:24.380 I feel like he's missing a prong.
00:24:27.000 I feel like he should be a seven-prong play.
00:24:31.840 And that seventh prong should be, get outside, you bastards.
00:24:35.480 Start walking.
00:24:36.920 Start running around.
00:24:38.040 Maybe eat a little less.
00:24:39.540 I feel like the president should tell us that.
00:24:42.420 And just give us statistics and say it'll improve your odds against the coronavirus by whatever percentage.
00:24:48.520 It's a big deal.
00:24:49.220 And also at Machiavelli's underbelly, he tweeted this.
00:24:58.380 He said, based on reactions I've received to tweeting the most up-to-date science on exercise and weight,
00:25:04.620 the stuff I just told you about, as it relates to COVID outcomes,
00:25:08.620 he thinks that the biggest reason is, quote, I have given up on life is the reason I perceive.
00:25:13.800 So this is just his judgment.
00:25:15.360 You know, it's not a survey or anything.
00:25:18.480 But he says the more overweight someone is, the more they have given up.
00:25:22.240 And the more they object to data quality, saying, ah, the data's not good.
00:25:27.480 I don't fully agree with this interpretation.
00:25:32.500 Because there's another factor going on.
00:25:36.260 And I call it the pleasure unit theory.
00:25:40.600 Now, this is my own little, you could call it a hypothesis if you prefer.
00:25:44.820 So this is my own little invention.
00:25:46.580 And it goes like this.
00:25:48.160 That every human being needs a certain minimum amount of pleasure in their day,
00:25:55.000 or else they'll just give up.
00:25:57.240 They'll just literally put a bullet in their head.
00:25:59.380 But you have to have some pleasure every day.
00:26:05.540 Now, what happens in the pandemic?
00:26:08.140 Our pleasure got taken away, right?
00:26:11.400 Well, huge, huge portions of our pleasure just were taken from us.
00:26:16.440 So what are you going to do?
00:26:18.140 You're going to make the difference.
00:26:20.020 And you're going to make up the difference in any way you can.
00:26:23.400 Because if you can't find a healthy way to get pleasure,
00:26:26.380 you will find the unhealthy one.
00:26:29.380 You will not sit there without pleasure.
00:26:32.800 Because you'd rather be dead.
00:26:34.600 A day without pleasure is you'd rather be dead, literally.
00:26:38.680 So you will do whatever it takes.
00:26:41.640 You will do cocaine.
00:26:43.160 You will do heroin.
00:26:45.120 You will overeat.
00:26:47.180 You will drink.
00:26:48.440 You will do whatever it takes to get enough pleasure,
00:26:51.620 the minimum, into your day.
00:26:52.780 And that's a model that explains almost everything you see, basically.
00:26:59.040 So when I was watching a kid's stream out of high school the other day,
00:27:04.700 I was noticing that, I don't know, it could be just confirmation bias,
00:27:08.620 but they look a lot fatter than they did last year.
00:27:12.600 Has anybody noticed that?
00:27:13.760 I mean, I think statistically it's true.
00:27:16.360 But if you noticed it just visually,
00:27:19.060 go to the mall
00:27:20.120 or watch a high school class streaming out of class at the end of the day.
00:27:26.400 They look visually way fatter.
00:27:30.280 Now, it's a big deal.
00:27:33.880 I mean, we're actually killing ourselves by locking ourselves in
00:27:36.480 and taking away all our pleasure.
00:27:38.380 So, here's the filter to put on this.
00:27:40.640 Say you're the President of the United States,
00:27:42.600 and you know that people are going to overeat
00:27:45.240 if they don't have access to pleasure.
00:27:48.140 Make sure they get it.
00:27:50.200 Make sure that they're getting enough pleasure,
00:27:53.420 whatever that takes.
00:27:54.560 Might be getting rid of some mandates or whatever.
00:27:56.980 But you've got to make sure they get enough pleasure
00:27:59.160 that they have the option of losing weight.
00:28:03.480 Because you don't even have the option of losing weight
00:28:06.180 if it's your only pleasure.
00:28:09.100 You think you have free will?
00:28:11.120 You think you have good willpower?
00:28:13.280 Try having no pleasure except food.
00:28:17.460 Then tell me about your willpower.
00:28:19.960 It won't exist, because it's an illusion.
00:28:22.300 Willpower is an illusion.
00:28:23.800 We respond to the greatest urge.
00:28:26.680 That's it.
00:28:28.300 That's it.
00:28:29.160 That's all you need to know about people.
00:28:31.180 There's no such thing as willpower.
00:28:34.280 Doesn't exist.
00:28:35.120 It's an illusion.
00:28:36.200 You always respond to the greatest urge.
00:28:39.020 So, if you're not hungry,
00:28:40.800 and somebody says,
00:28:41.420 do you want a cookie?
00:28:42.620 Does it require willpower to resist the cookie?
00:28:46.000 No.
00:28:46.400 You just weren't hungry.
00:28:47.680 Now you're starving.
00:28:48.780 You haven't eaten in three days,
00:28:50.040 and somebody offers you ice cream.
00:28:51.440 And you know ice cream isn't the healthiest thing in the world.
00:28:53.440 Do you say no to the ice cream?
00:28:55.740 You haven't eaten in three days.
00:28:56.880 No, you eat the ice cream.
00:28:59.220 Even if you're allergic to it,
00:29:01.000 you eat the ice cream.
00:29:02.840 It's just urges.
00:29:04.740 That's all we are.
00:29:06.260 And when somebody can resist food and somebody can't,
00:29:10.000 just a different urge.
00:29:11.400 That's it.
00:29:12.380 No willpower difference,
00:29:13.580 because willpower doesn't exist.
00:29:15.040 It's how you learn to eat sea rations.
00:29:21.680 Okay.
00:29:23.920 There's good news in fusion energy,
00:29:26.240 although you should take this with a grain of salt,
00:29:28.500 because there's been periodic good news in fusion energy for 30 years,
00:29:32.560 and we still don't have fusion energy.
00:29:35.180 But there's some new superconducting magnets,
00:29:37.820 breaking magnetic field strength records.
00:29:39.960 Now, if you're predicting the next 80 years of climate change,
00:29:45.840 where do you put in your prediction fusion?
00:29:49.360 It's not in there, right?
00:29:51.360 You've got an 80-year prediction of what the planet's going to be like
00:29:55.220 with your solar power and your windmills and whatever.
00:29:58.300 But nowhere in that prediction is,
00:30:00.440 and 30 years in, we developed fusion.
00:30:03.900 It's just not in there.
00:30:04.980 Are we going to get fusion in the next, I don't know, 30 years,
00:30:10.400 where it would make a difference?
00:30:12.360 Yeah, probably.
00:30:14.000 Let me tell you this.
00:30:15.340 One of the smartest people in the technology field
00:30:19.700 told me five years ago about fusion,
00:30:24.740 because he was a billionaire and still is a billionaire.
00:30:27.780 So he's a billionaire genius.
00:30:30.160 I won't give you the name,
00:30:31.340 because you'd be thinking about the person instead of the point.
00:30:37.700 And the person said that fusion energy
00:30:41.920 is now just an engineering problem.
00:30:46.040 Now, if you're not an engineer or a scientist,
00:30:48.760 that doesn't mean much to you.
00:30:50.340 But let me explain.
00:30:51.700 If it's a scientific problem,
00:30:54.100 it means we literally don't know how to do it.
00:30:56.460 Like, the math doesn't work.
00:30:58.140 If it's a scientific problem,
00:31:00.740 it means that no matter what you do,
00:31:03.460 you're going to use more energy than you produce.
00:31:06.520 That's a scientific problem.
00:31:08.280 And therefore, you just can't do it.
00:31:10.820 It's impossible.
00:31:12.880 But the scientific problem is solved,
00:31:16.580 which is a big deal.
00:31:19.660 It's like a really big deal.
00:31:22.000 And let me put this in terms that some of you will understand
00:31:25.040 and some of you may not appreciate.
00:31:27.420 It's an engineering problem now.
00:31:33.200 Goosebumps?
00:31:34.560 Did you get goosebumps?
00:31:38.280 Fusion is one of the most long-sought,
00:31:42.380 impossible-sounding goals of all time.
00:31:45.860 It's now an engineering problem.
00:31:49.920 Let me tell you what that means.
00:31:52.020 It means it will be solved.
00:31:53.460 When something is reduced to an engineering problem,
00:31:58.240 it basically guarantees it's going to be solved.
00:32:01.600 Because engineering is trial and error, trial and error,
00:32:04.960 you know, experiment until you get there.
00:32:06.800 And you know how to do that.
00:32:08.620 We know how to experiment until we get there.
00:32:11.380 We didn't necessarily know how to invent it in the first place,
00:32:14.420 but apparently that's solved.
00:32:16.220 We just have to engineer it.
00:32:18.640 Making, you know, god-awfully powerful magnets
00:32:21.200 that we've never made before.
00:32:23.020 An engineering problem.
00:32:24.100 Not really so much the science.
00:32:25.820 Well, maybe there's some science in there, too.
00:32:27.240 So, this is one of those stories that you could just totally miss.
00:32:33.680 You know, you're just looking at the headlines.
00:32:34.940 Oh, fusion.
00:32:35.860 I heard that a million times.
00:32:37.620 But there is some possibility it's the biggest news in the world.
00:32:43.940 Because if fusion ever became a reality,
00:32:47.200 the entire energy model of the world changes permanently.
00:32:52.660 It never goes back, right?
00:32:54.680 Oil is dead if fusion works.
00:32:58.000 Well, I don't know.
00:32:58.860 That's an exaggeration.
00:33:00.360 But in the long run, it would be dead.
00:33:03.140 So, look for that.
00:33:04.220 Because that's gigantic.
00:33:06.700 All right, let's talk about a dog that is not barking.
00:33:09.800 Same topic.
00:33:11.820 Do you remember when it was common to see groups in the streets
00:33:15.960 protesting nuclear energy?
00:33:18.900 Most of you are old enough to remember that, right?
00:33:21.000 You've seen protests against nuclear power.
00:33:24.680 Not just nuclear bombs, but nuclear power.
00:33:28.600 Where are they?
00:33:31.060 Where is the person going on television to tell you nuclear power is a problem?
00:33:37.560 They stopped.
00:33:39.540 There aren't any.
00:33:41.600 Do you know why nobody is going on television to tell you nuclear power is a bad idea?
00:33:45.300 Because nobody smart thinks it's a bad idea anymore.
00:33:50.680 Nobody.
00:33:51.960 Nobody's left on the other side.
00:33:54.900 But if you'd made your job for the last 20 years in the media of saying bad things about nuclear energy,
00:34:01.620 can you just change and just put people on and say, oh, well, it turns out that it's safe.
00:34:08.180 Now, a lot of it is because time has passed and we know how to do things more safely.
00:34:12.620 We're smarter about storing the waste.
00:34:15.800 They just store it on site now, which is the obvious thing to do.
00:34:18.460 You know, because it's already a nuclear power plant, right?
00:34:23.680 So the question of do you want to live near a nuclear power plant is sort of already solved.
00:34:30.120 So they just store the nuclear waste next to the power plant.
00:34:34.560 It turns out it was sort of obvious because it's the one place that, you know, what else were you going to do with it?
00:34:40.860 Just use part of the parking lot and turn it into your storage area.
00:34:44.260 You're done.
00:34:46.020 There are other ways to take care of the waste.
00:34:48.240 For example, Generation 4 nuclear power plants will burn it for fuel.
00:34:52.200 So you can take all of that waste and just repurpose it for fuel for the newer generation of nuclear reactors.
00:34:59.260 So here's my point.
00:35:01.220 We didn't notice, because it happened gradually, that all of the opponents for nuclear power stopped talking in public.
00:35:07.720 They'll still talk privately, but as soon as you tell them that their information is out of date,
00:35:13.640 they'll walk away and change their opinion.
00:35:16.260 Because people's opinions against nuclear energy are really data-related.
00:35:21.040 You know, the data says it's unsafe, you know, whatever.
00:35:24.480 But once you show them that current data makes it obviously the thing you need to do,
00:35:31.920 it's a different story.
00:35:33.120 All right.
00:35:34.180 So I don't know why, but nobody wants to talk about the fact that nuclear energy is now liked by the left and the right.
00:35:42.340 Biden likes it.
00:35:43.760 Biden's pro-nuclear.
00:35:45.360 He just doesn't make a big enough deal of it, in my opinion.
00:35:48.340 Well, China has threatened to send a warship to our coastal waters,
00:35:52.540 because apparently we sent a warship within 12 miles of one of their artificial islands made in the South China Sea.
00:36:01.900 Now, if China sends a warship to our coastal waters, should we sink the first one?
00:36:08.320 Should we just sink it?
00:36:10.400 Probably not.
00:36:11.720 Probably a bad idea.
00:36:12.620 Because then, you know, they'd feel like they had to sink one of ours in the South China Sea, right?
00:36:19.460 They'd sort of have to retaliate.
00:36:22.620 But, I don't know.
00:36:27.340 I feel like we should at least consider sinking it.
00:36:31.120 Just consider it.
00:36:32.660 Somebody says, hit it, but don't sink it.
00:36:34.860 Yeah, that would be smarter, I guess.
00:36:36.100 I'd have to think about that.
00:36:41.420 So, let me just say this out loud.
00:36:44.540 China, I know you're listening.
00:36:46.760 As a citizen, I don't know if I would fault my government if we took out your warship,
00:36:52.620 if it entered our coastal waters.
00:36:54.860 I don't know that I would fault them, even if there was a pretty big blowback.
00:36:58.720 I feel like I might be okay with that.
00:37:01.880 So, if you want to send your warship, just tell your sailors.
00:37:07.000 Some of them aren't coming back.
00:37:09.580 Just let them know.
00:37:12.780 So, these are three things that China has ruined in 2021.
00:37:16.540 These are three things that used to be okay, but now they've ruined them.
00:37:23.540 Breathing.
00:37:25.180 Breathing.
00:37:26.580 Yeah, we can't breathe anymore, because we'll breathe in the coronavirus.
00:37:31.760 And, of course, pollution.
00:37:33.040 The ocean is no longer safe, because they're going to start a war in the ocean and make
00:37:41.420 the South China Sea too dangerous to navigate.
00:37:44.760 So, the ocean, forget about that.
00:37:47.180 And commerce.
00:37:48.620 Commerce isn't safe, because they're going to steal your IP, and they're going to do bad
00:37:54.220 trade deals with you.
00:37:54.920 So, if you liked any of these things, breathing, the ocean, economics, commerce, if you liked
00:38:03.940 any of that, China's not your friend.
00:38:07.740 China's not your friend.
00:38:08.620 Now, as you know, China has some big problems coming.
00:38:13.880 They might know about some of them.
00:38:16.000 They definitely don't know about all of them.
00:38:18.300 I can promise you that.
00:38:20.800 But they have some big, big problems coming.
00:38:25.020 So, to anybody in China, you better think twice about your form of government, because your
00:38:34.540 form of government is taking you off the edge.
00:38:37.600 You're going off the cliff.
00:38:39.460 Now, it isn't up to me to tell you in China how to run your government, but it's taking you
00:38:44.780 off the cliff.
00:38:46.320 And if you like that, keep going.
00:38:49.180 If you don't like that, maybe you might want to think of a change.
00:38:52.520 I'd also like to reiterate that the U.S. has every right to kill your fentanyl dealers
00:38:58.860 in Chinese lands, right in their house.
00:39:04.100 And I encourage the government to do exactly that as soon as possible.
00:39:08.200 I want to see bodies hitting the ground, fentanyl dealers, the big ones.
00:39:12.480 I'm not talking about a street dealer, but the big ones in China that are sending the massive
00:39:17.060 amount of precursors to the cartels.
00:39:20.500 We need to kill them in place.
00:39:22.520 Kill them where they are, right?
00:39:24.760 We gave China a chance to handle it.
00:39:27.300 Did we not?
00:39:28.360 We gave them the names of the dealer.
00:39:30.620 I'm sure they have their address.
00:39:32.560 They know the names, the face.
00:39:34.640 They know exactly who it is.
00:39:35.980 We told them who their dealer was.
00:39:38.440 And they decided not to do anything about it, apparently.
00:39:41.660 Now, we have every right to kill that dealer.
00:39:44.100 In place.
00:39:45.640 Right in front of their family if we want.
00:39:47.180 Anything.
00:39:47.420 There is no moral, ethical, or legal restriction anymore that I recognize against killing those
00:39:55.440 dealers in place in China.
00:39:57.060 Got to do it.
00:39:58.600 And I know the first time you hear that, it's so shocking.
00:40:02.200 You say, uh, that's World War III.
00:40:04.800 You can't do that.
00:40:05.680 No, you can.
00:40:08.100 You can.
00:40:08.880 We can kill them in place.
00:40:10.480 And we have to do that.
00:40:12.160 All right.
00:40:12.720 That's it for today.
00:40:14.520 And I hope you enjoyed this episode.
00:40:19.760 I'm going to do a little testing on the Rumble platform.
00:40:22.280 See if we can get that up.
00:40:23.360 And, uh, yes, I have to go do some driving.
00:40:27.640 And, uh, I will talk to you.
00:40:29.800 Oh, did you like today's, uh, live stream?
00:40:32.180 I saw some complaints as I was talking.
00:40:35.140 Oh, good.
00:40:37.000 Good, good.
00:40:38.100 Uh, Larry Elder.
00:40:38.960 You're asking about Larry Elder.
00:40:40.380 Well, I did hear he had a little, uh, some issue, uh, at an event.
00:40:46.200 There was some protester there or something.
00:40:48.300 Uh, oh, there was a racist protester.
00:40:50.180 You know, when I see somebody, uh, protesting Larry Elder, I guess they were dressed in a
00:40:57.720 gorilla costume and were doing racist things.
00:41:01.460 I'm not so sure that was an anti-Larry Elder protester.
00:41:06.540 Are you?
00:41:08.040 Because would that hurt him or help him to know that he was being treated poorly by racists
00:41:14.820 in California?
00:41:17.340 Uh, I don't know.
00:41:19.340 It's hard for me to imagine that whoever put on the gorilla outfit, uh, thought that
00:41:24.240 this would hurt Larry Elder because it doesn't.
00:41:30.460 He's pretty anti-fragile, if you know what I mean.
00:41:34.560 Anti-fragile in the sense that, uh, if you, if you go after him, all it does is give him
00:41:41.220 attention and the attacks don't seem to be, you know, having any effect.
00:41:45.960 So the more they go after him, I just think it raises his profile.
00:41:49.360 It makes him look like the leader, makes people think, why do I want to vote for the person
00:41:53.040 who has 1% support when I can do the one that might actually win?
00:41:57.880 You know, uh, I think it works in his favor.
00:42:01.860 All right.
00:42:02.340 That's all I had to do for today.
00:42:03.600 And I will talk to you all tomorrow.
00:42:05.380 You