Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1756 Scott Adams： Another Day Pretending To Be Good People. Join Me For a Simultaneous Sip

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00:00:48.600 oh yeah you all look better now

00:00:55.740 i've got my coffee goggles on i thought you were sexy before but now oh so let's talk about some of

00:01:07.280 the things that have happened elon musk was complaining that the word billionaire is used

00:01:14.200 as a pejorative why is it an insult to be a billionaire good question and he asked this

00:01:21.900 question on twitter a twitter poll he said who do you trust less real question billionaires or

00:01:27.840 politicians politicians 76 of them of people answered said they trusted politicians less than

00:01:37.220 billionaires but 24 said billionaires they would trust even less than politicians 24 24 that's roughly a

00:01:48.800 quarter quarter rounds off to 25 to about 25 roughly

00:01:53.940 and if you're new to my live stream you have no idea what that inside joke was about somebody will tell

00:02:02.600 you so um i've told you before how my news consumption is weird because sometimes i'll be consuming the

00:02:13.240 news and then the news is about me and i'll think okay that's weird why am i consuming this news and it's

00:02:20.280 about me so yesterday i'm reading twitter and i'm looking over at the trending trending terms and and there's my name

00:02:28.600 and i'm like oh shit the last thing you want to do is trend on twitter really it's like the word 0.81

00:02:37.000 it doesn't mean something good you know it always means something bad's happening 0.95

00:02:43.080 so i was trending on twitter because of a tweet or two i did on uh bullies and here's the weird thing

00:02:50.920 that happened i tweeted about bullies being a problem and it attracted all the bullies

00:02:59.720 so all the people with no no awareness self-awareness whatsoever came to seriously dump on me with

00:03:06.840 obviously the intention of making me feel bad you could tell by the tweets it was clearly their intention

00:03:13.640 to make me personally feel bad who does that i mean seriously who who takes the time just to make

00:03:24.280 somebody feel bad bullies right so i was noticing there were there were uh several distinct type of

00:03:32.760 bullies and so i started to uh catalog them a little bit i thought you would uh enjoy it uh and then i thought

00:03:42.600 i would uh it looks like a oh here we go so the first type is the bullies so these are trolls who

00:03:51.800 just drop by to be toxic they're they're not really disagreeing so much it's not really about what you

00:03:58.040 said they just drop by to be toxic and an example would be uh this actually happened somebody tweeted

00:04:05.800 when i saw scott adams trending on twitter i was hoping it meant he died

00:04:09.800 so somebody came to twitter to say in my timeline that they wish i had died

00:04:20.040 now what causes that to happen to a person like you know what what damage did they have in their

00:04:27.400 life that turned them into that then the other type of trolls one of my favorite groups is the

00:04:33.240 soylent greens i call them the soylent greens because they always say whatever is the most

00:04:39.240 obvious thing one would say in whatever situation so if there's a tweet or a story about a new food

00:04:45.960 source what did the soil and green say it's soylent green because it reminds them of the movie it's the most

00:04:55.080 obvious thing you would say in every situation when i do a tweet somebody doesn't like

00:05:00.440 the soylent greens come in and say well i guess we just found out who was the the pointy here boss

00:05:07.480 and dilbert why do they say that because it's the most obvious thing you could say oh he's a cartoonist

00:05:16.120 he's saying something we don't like i get it he's like a character in this cartoon sometimes they come in

00:05:22.760 and they refer to me as the creator of garfield ha ha ha ha it's almost as good as the pointy

00:05:32.680 or boss comment or soylent green sometimes they talk about the matrix that movie but usually it's

00:05:39.080 soylent green then you've got the bad reading comprehension trolls they need a better name for 0.93

00:05:45.240 that the the brcts bad reading comprehensions they're the ones who misinterpret what you said

00:05:53.080 and then they act really indignant and insulting to their own hallucination of what you said

00:05:59.640 so an example would be so somebody's saying to me so you're saying we should give babies hand grenades

00:06:07.240 and then they will go off on what a bad idea it is to give babies hand grenades to which i'll say 0.99

00:06:13.800 uh no i don't think i recommended hand grenades to babies but you go do you so those are the bad 0.98

00:06:21.160 reading comprehension trolls then there are the keiths this is based on the keith olbermann personality

00:06:29.320 the keiths are the trolls who ignore the content of the tweet entirely and they're just there to insult

00:06:34.680 you that's it they just came to insult you there they have no interest in the actual content of the tweet

00:06:42.440 no no pushback no kit no context no argument uh so those are the keiths

00:06:49.000 and uh then they're the holier than thou's you've seen them right the holier than thou's aren't going to

00:06:58.520 comment about you know the quality of your tweet they're going to comment about the fact that you

00:07:04.680 would even mention such a topic at such a time oh my god i'm holier than you and i certainly wouldn't

00:07:11.160 bring up this topic now i'm holier than you and i certainly wouldn't be talking about this in public

00:07:17.640 because i'm holier than yeah than thou so those are the types and part of the reason that i'm mentioning

00:07:25.400 the types is because i created a little guide that i'm just going to cut and paste when the trolls come

00:07:31.080 by because i want my trolls to spend a little time figuring out which one they are make them think

00:07:37.400 past the sale a little bit because the sale is that you're a troll and therefore should be ignored

00:07:43.320 but if i give them a list of what kind of troll they are but don't specify which one they are on

00:07:47.960 the list i'll make them do homework to figure out what kind of troll they are

00:07:54.760 it's pretty good technique it's worked so far

00:08:01.320 so and some of the some of the bullies on twitter are actually reporting me to twitter safety

00:08:07.400 fake reports so the trolls are actually literally literally trying to get me kicked off of twitter

00:08:14.040 by reporting me multiple times for something that basically didn't happen

00:08:18.840 and the troll shows it and the tweet shows it didn't happen so

00:08:23.400 uh

00:08:28.200 how did they throw you into talking about trolls all morning well i think the trolls are the only thing

00:08:32.200 that's interesting that's happening today because the news unfortunately is just repeat news

00:08:38.680 another horrible tragedy involving a gun there's not much else new to say is there like we've we've

00:08:45.960 sort of run out of things to say if matthew mcconaughey becomes a major part of a story

00:08:51.560 because of something he said about it there's nothing left to say about the story we should call that

00:08:58.120 that matthew mcconaughey rule that says if you have to bring him into the story there's there's not

00:09:04.600 just nothing left to say it's still important i'm not saying you minimize the story i'm just saying

00:09:10.600 there's nothing new to say at all so let's get some matthew mcconaughey quotes in there

00:09:16.520 here's how cnn in an opinion piece uh referred to this situation talk about the shooting of course

00:09:25.640 and it talked about the fact that there were several people speaking out forcefully against

00:09:31.640 against the tragedy i guess and so here's how this was framed in an opinion piece on cnn site

00:09:39.080 and yet steve kerr matthew mcconaughey and beto o'rourke all serve as courageous models for a

00:09:46.840 progressive capital w white male identity that challenges systems of oppression speaks truth to

00:09:54.200 power and confronts the division of our current moment by publicly highlighting the gap between the

00:10:00.360 nation's professed values and a more bitter reality that allows 19 children to be killed in such grotesque

00:10:07.400 fashion now if i'm looking at a story about an hispanic kid who at least that's his background

00:10:14.760 i guess who killed a bunch of other kids i'm not sure that the first place i would have gone to

00:10:21.800 understand it as a framework for understanding it is the fact that three progressive white males

00:10:28.840 had weighed in against the oppression of our systems i feel as if that had nothing to do with anything

00:10:39.240 well what exactly did the ethnicity and gender of these three people have to do with anything

00:10:46.760 and there were just three people who made a little noise they just happened to be three adult

00:10:52.040 white males but i don't think that's the important part of the story is it the important part of the

00:10:57.800 story is that three adult white males have the same opinion on it there's nothing here but to

00:11:05.160 but to try to torture this story into some kind of a racial story you really have to push on that to make

00:11:12.840 it racial don't you you really got to push on it but they did they pushed hard 0.88

00:11:17.480 here's some context also from cnn and i'm not sure how misleading this is but it was something i didn't

00:11:28.440 know so i'm going to tell you this from cnn i feel like there's some context missing and maybe you can

00:11:35.720 fill it in but here's their claim that uh there are more gun deaths in texas by far

00:11:43.800 than in any other state according to the cdc and there where there are the most guns ownership there

00:11:52.840 is the most gun deaths and apparently it's really clearly delineated the more guns in the state

00:12:01.720 the more gun deaths now do you believe that's first of all true now we're talking only about

00:12:06.920 percentages so we're not talking about absolute numbers absolute numbers are just based on the

00:12:12.680 size of the size of the state basically so not absolute numbers but the percentage of gun deaths

00:12:18.680 as a percentage of say 100 000. so here's what they say and again maybe the maybe the data is all wrong

00:12:26.920 because yeah so it's a per capita thing right so here's what they claim uh that

00:12:34.440 uh the california by comparison to texas has only 8.5 gun deaths per 100 000 where texas has over 14.

00:12:49.720 so that percentage wise that's a really big difference

00:12:54.280 and texas has far more guns than california and less strict gun laws so but they're not talking about the

00:13:03.960 gun laws in this case the this context is only about number of guns so forget about the laws

00:13:10.440 just look like the number of guns so according to cnn and again this is not a credible source

00:13:17.880 can we agree on that i think you'll be less your hair will be less on fire if i agree with you the cnn is

00:13:25.720 not a credible source unfortunately it's not so i don't know if they're leaving out any context or not

00:13:36.680 fewer gun laws okay thank you for that correction

00:13:43.960 so they give the list of the the here are the states with the most guns

00:13:48.600 they also have the most gun deaths so at the top is mississippi number two louisiana

00:13:55.800 and going down the list wyoming missouri alabama and alaska so they have by far

00:14:01.960 the most gun deaths and by far the most gun ownership which is actually lower than i thought

00:14:08.360 if you were going to guess what percentage of adults live in a household with a gun so so only one

00:14:15.720 person would have to have the gun and the other the other adults don't even have to own the gun

00:14:21.720 personally but it's in the house what what percentage of people live in a house with a gun in it

00:14:30.280 what did you think the answer is around half

00:14:35.640 so it doesn't mean half of the people have guns it means that half of the people live in the house

00:14:39.720 where at least one person has a gun which means that way fewer than half of the people own a gun

00:14:47.960 right probably 25 percent own a gun something like that is that about right so does that track with

00:14:56.120 what you thought it would be i thought it would be higher actually i would have guessed probably would

00:15:03.080 have guessed i don't know yeah maybe not much higher i probably would have guessed 60 percent so i would

00:15:09.400 have been pretty off but not terribly i guess so um what do you think of that so the correlation

00:15:21.720 according to this article is very strong so they're not talking about gun laws right we're not talking about

00:15:27.800 the laws just the raw number of guns per 100 000 people would do you believe that the more guns

00:15:37.320 the more the more gun deaths do you believe that so forget about why we're not talking about why that's

00:15:43.880 true but just to believe do you believe the raw data that where there are more guns there are more gun deaths

00:15:50.120 a lot of you say no a lot of you say no here's why i think it might be true

00:15:57.400 because let me ask you this question if you knew you were moving someplace where a lot of people got

00:16:03.320 shot would you be more or less likely to buy a gun for yourself if you live in a place where people are

00:16:11.080 likely to be shot do you buy more guns for yourself yes right don't you arm yourself more based on how

00:16:22.200 much danger there is i would is there somebody who would say there are so many people getting shot here

00:16:29.320 i should get rid of my gun does anybody do that the gun dangers here so much i should get rid of my gun

00:16:37.560 some do i mean there are people all over the board on everything right but i think more often people

00:16:43.720 are going to say i think i need a gun if i'm going to live in this place don't you think and then what

00:16:50.120 happens

00:16:53.320 and then they also don't distinguish what they mean by gun deaths does a gun death include the police

00:16:59.880 shooting people in the in the midst of a crime probably probably because they don't break it out

00:17:14.200 i mean the article doesn't say we don't count that what about suicides yeah do you think that there are

00:17:22.440 more guns in places where people are more likely to commit suicide probably

00:17:34.760 whatever it is that makes you have a lot of guns in the place probably makes it not a good place to

00:17:39.880 live right so i live in a neighborhood that probably has well that's not true my neighborhood has a lot of

00:17:46.840 hidden republicans a lot of people who who talk to me silently you know the whisper to me at the gym

00:17:53.800 i'll go to the gym and people will say i love your show i watch it every day they actually can't say it

00:18:00.520 out loud where i live people cannot say out loud that they watch my live stream where i live they they

00:18:08.920 literally whisper it but there are a lot of them so a lot of hidden republicans where i live and

00:18:17.000 uh i think we have low gun ownership relative to other places and i think the reason we have low

00:18:24.680 gun ownership is not a lot of people get shot in my neighborhood i've never heard of one i've never

00:18:30.920 heard of anybody getting shot in my neighborhood i meant my town yes but not my neighborhood i don't know

00:18:37.480 maybe it's happened so i don't really i think a lot of my neighbors would say well we don't need a gun

00:18:42.520 i live where nobody gets shot why would you need one but if i moved to oakland or somebody moved to

00:18:49.800 oakland who did not own a gun do you think they might consider getting one i think so so i wouldn't

00:18:56.600 i don't put too much credibility in these numbers but they're definitely a red flag meaning that if

00:19:04.200 this is true i think you'd have to take it seriously i don't know if it's i don't know if this number is

00:19:10.680 telling us anything useful but if it's useful i wouldn't ignore it now that doesn't mean you

00:19:16.600 should give up your gun rights that's a different question but you should know how much they cost

00:19:23.320 right don't you want to know how much your rights cost give me a price tag i want this right but here's

00:19:29.960 the price now i'm willing to say out loud that i think the second amendment is worth the number of

00:19:37.560 deaths that gun ownership probably creates i think it's worth it because if you're only looking at the

00:19:47.880 number of people who are dying every year you're looking at the wrong thing gun ownership also keeps

00:19:54.600 russia from attacking you and trying to conquer you right i mean imagine imagine anybody trying to

00:20:02.280 conquer and hold territory in the united states with this level of gun ownership i feel like it's

00:20:09.080 just impossible so you have to look at you know what is the expected value of future reduction and risk

00:20:18.120 and then you'd have to bring that forward to today and look at how many people are dying today

00:20:22.760 and then you'd have to include the today plus the future risk and make it one decision if the only

00:20:29.160 thing you did is say how can we stop gun deaths today i think i would agree i'd still need more

00:20:37.160 information but i would agree with the idea that if you took away people's guns there'd probably be

00:20:42.200 fewer gun deaths i don't think that's crazy anyway do you and by the way let me be clear

00:20:49.400 i'm pro-second amendment so don't take anybody's guns away but do you think if they did there would

00:20:57.000 be fewer gun deaths i think so i think so i don't know i mean it's something you could test you could

00:21:04.760 test it in one area and see if it worked it might be too hard to do now because there's so many guns

00:21:11.160 so nothing nothing that you do now makes any difference maybe there's just too many guns so i think we've

00:21:16.520 passed some point of no return i don't think you could reduce them at this point in any practical way

00:21:24.840 all right well anyway uh let's talk about russian sanctions so apparently the russian transportation

00:21:33.320 minister said recently that the western sanctions in russia have quote practically broken all logistic

00:21:41.560 corridors used by the country for trade so in other words essentially there's just no way for russia to

00:21:48.200 trade with the outside world at the moment using their normal process it's completely broken which

00:21:55.160 was the point of the sanctions but they are they are looking at work around so it doesn't mean that

00:21:59.880 they're dead just means that they're trying harder to do work arounds but it does look like the sanctions

00:22:07.320 have teeth wouldn't you say it looks like the sanctions have teeth maybe not enough but they seem pretty toothy

00:22:17.240 there's a report that uh russia is uh taking out of mothballs tanks that are 50 years old

00:22:25.720 and moving them into ukraine to try to hold the territory that they've already uh conquered

00:22:30.760 now what does it tell you that they have to take out of mothballs 50 year old tanks because you know

00:22:39.800 they don't want to use a 50 year old tank because they're very explody they're easy to easy to destroy

00:22:47.480 it's sort of like basically a death box for the person in it during war so is that telling you

00:22:54.920 that russia is stretched thin and will have trouble holding the captured territory

00:23:02.360 because i always thought that the hard part was keeping it the hard part isn't isn't conquering it

00:23:07.720 because they had enough bullets and guns and bombs to essentially level the entire place which is what

00:23:13.960 they do so there's no doubt that they could take it but i was asking the other day in the in the age of

00:23:21.240 drones the ukrainians will have you know bigger and better and smarter and more drones every day

00:23:28.840 they'll have more better drones at what point does it become impossible for russia to hold territory

00:23:35.400 because if you need a tank the tank is just going to go boom because the tank is the easiest thing to

00:23:42.520 find right because you're going to have plenty of people on the ground who just pick up the phone

00:23:48.040 and say i'm standing right next to a russian tank can you send a drone over here and take care of this

00:23:53.000 thing and then it will happen right and if they don't have tanks and they don't have armored transports

00:24:01.480 how do they get their troops back and forth from anywhere i feel as if the troops will be so vulnerable

00:24:08.600 during a what would you call it an occupation that in the age of drones you can't occupy anymore

00:24:18.040 so this will be the test so let me put that out there as a statement of a prediction that you can't

00:24:26.760 occupy a modern country that has access to unlimited drones they can't be done so let's test it i say it

00:24:38.600 can't be done others would say oh but the anti-drone technology is also getting better they can just

00:24:44.520 shoot their anti-drone thing in the air and knock it down yeah but isn't there isn't there a number

00:24:51.880 you know isn't there a number of drones that will conquer any drone defense and can't we quite

00:24:57.880 certainly get past the number of drones and ukraine can past the number of drones that can be stopped

00:25:05.800 you know drones are not unlimited of course but can we get to the number that makes them a dominant force

00:25:13.480 i think it's just a matter of time not in a year not in a year but in three years

00:25:21.320 could ukraine have so many drones that are just you know blacking blackening the sky over crimea maybe

00:25:28.760 i think that's i think a swarm defense or a swarm offense especially would be uh pretty powerful now i

00:25:36.040 imagine that there will be the invention of something called uh drone hunter killer drones 0.99

00:25:42.760 probably already exist they must already exist right wouldn't the the best drone defense be your

00:25:49.080 own drones no that's not good because then you can't use your anti-drone technology if you were jamming

00:25:56.200 drones you'd be jamming your own drones

00:26:00.760 so see i guess you can't use drones against drones too much because you can't use the jamming then

00:26:08.520 uh drone catchers yeah they they have all that technology all right cnn is saying that that school

00:26:17.000 shooter was a bullied loner

00:26:19.000 and then i saw one interview with a classmate who said oh they're getting it wrong he's not a bullied 0.96

00:26:26.360 loner he is actually he was a psychopath and he was the bully he was the one who hurt animals

00:26:33.400 said his classmate and that he was clearly just the deranged bully bad seed but cnn is reporting it 0.89

00:26:41.480 differently calling him a bullied loner i would say that that is fog of war reporting and we don't really

00:26:47.880 know about this guy yet but don't you think that uh bullied people become bullies

00:26:56.200 pretty much always if you get bullied it kind of turns you into one right do you think this kid

00:27:02.280 might have been bullied or uh abused when he was a child in some context we don't hear about his father

00:27:09.400 so we don't know what the deal is there but do you think he was ever bullied or abused i'm going to say

00:27:14.600 probably probably not an excuse not an excuse but probably now apparently uh israel has much better

00:27:25.880 experience guarding their schools what is it that israel does to guard their schools that we don't 0.55

00:27:33.000 does anybody know what do

00:27:35.240 uh they have they have they have armed guards yeah locked doors so the first part is they have

00:27:43.240 physical security but the claim uh from an article by i guess david hosney was was saying that their

00:27:51.800 success is not so much that they have armed guards i think they do but it's their uh their intelligence

00:27:59.960 meaning meaning the information that they have about their public so apparently they can identify

00:28:06.120 the shooters before they shoot you don't think we could do that too you don't think that artificial

00:28:13.480 intelligence could identify a uh a loner who had no friends and was interested in firearms

00:28:21.880 do you think you could find a teenage male who didn't have friends said violent things on social

00:28:30.760 media and had an unusual interest in firearms of a certain type of course it could of course it could

00:28:39.880 there's there's no way you could convince me that we can't identify these people ahead of time because

00:28:45.720 they all post on social media every one of them i don't know if you'll ever see a mass shooter who

00:28:50.680 doesn't have a social media account i'll bet you won't there's there's a prediction for you there

00:28:57.240 won't be another mass killer who doesn't have social media unless it's for political purposes if it's

00:29:04.200 politics or real terrorism that's different but but what are these standard school shooter situations

00:29:10.760 where they're trying to be famous you know christ church somebody says the christ

00:29:19.320 church did he had not have social media is that what you're saying he did i thought he did all right

00:29:30.920 if you ever lived in texas you would understand that physics physical security will not work

00:29:36.760 i agree with that physical security will have a limit because

00:29:42.440 let's say you have one guard at a door and there are lots of things behind that door don't you just

00:29:52.200 shoot the guard first because the guard doesn't see it coming right you just walk up to the guard

00:29:58.760 like every other kid take your weapon out bam the guard is dead first i'm not sure the guard would make

00:30:04.360 any difference now if you had multiple guards maybe the other ones could get there faster etc but

00:30:11.000 um but but there's a real limit to what you can do with armed guards it's better than nothing and i

00:30:17.640 don't think there have been a school shooter where there was an armed guard at the very door that they

00:30:21.800 went through i don't know that that's happened you know so i would i would say that probably the future

00:30:28.840 whether you like it or not is um profiling so if it works in israel and

00:30:38.360 we can't do nothing we're going to do that

00:30:45.400 ai can detect a breach to the perimeter

00:30:50.520 maybe

00:30:55.960 then apparently the school children are taught to stay in place do you think that staying in place

00:31:03.160 is the best strategy if there's an active shooter what do you think i'm no expert on this

00:31:11.080 but it seems because you can imagine i think it imagines entire it depends entirely upon how

00:31:18.280 quickly help is coming doesn't it if there's no help coming like right away i'd run but if there's

00:31:26.280 help coming in five minutes i might i might try to you know last behind the locked door wouldn't you say

00:31:34.760 yeah so i don't know i don't know i think every situation is different so you'd have to know the

00:31:39.400 specifics but um so we still have this question of the police allegedly forming a perimeter and not going in

00:31:49.400 to stop the shooter i would warn you that we're still in fog of war on this situation

00:31:56.280 i suspect that we're going to find out something about what the police knew or didn't know that will

00:32:02.920 change your analysis of whether they were all incompetent horrible people who should have gone in but didn't

00:32:09.080 now maybe we'll find out it's exactly what it looks like they didn't want to risk their own lives

00:32:14.760 maybe but maybe there's more to the story i saw a post from somebody who is a lead swat team officer

00:32:27.480 now this is somebody who can speak to this situation with some experience which i can't

00:32:32.920 and the swat team officer said that all the people commenting on twitter about the police who didn't go in

00:32:38.520 have never had anybody shoot at them before and the swat team says swat team guy says until you've had

00:32:47.240 people shooting at you you really shouldn't be the one to judge them about going in to which i say

00:32:55.560 you know what if that didn't come from a swat team lead i might not take it so seriously

00:33:01.880 but i'm taking it seriously and i'm going to say this do you think that the swat teams have the

00:33:10.200 same training as a general police officer who would be guarding a school or let me ask you in a less

00:33:17.400 kind way do you think that the school guards are the best and the brightest of the police or law

00:33:23.960 enforcement organizations do you think they take their good people and good is young in quotes do you

00:33:31.160 do you think they take their best performers and have them guard schools or do they say hey you'd be

00:33:38.360 good for the swat team now remember that even the guy who was the lead of the swat team is very aware

00:33:45.720 that once the bullets are flying it's hard to get anybody to go into a room do you think that the

00:33:52.440 people who are guarding schools had the right training and were the right type of people to blaze into a

00:34:00.120 gunfight the swat team people are trained to do it they're they're selected based on their you know

00:34:07.400 presumed ability to do it so i would guess that a swat team person somebody with that training

00:34:14.600 would have gone in or would have known not to i suppose there are two possibilities would have known

00:34:19.240 better or would have gone in but i don't think there were any swat team trained police officers were

00:34:26.280 there and you know it's easy for us to all say oh we would have gone in if you put me in that

00:34:32.600 situation i would have gone in and i actually think that i think that exactly i think that if if i thought

00:34:41.320 kids were being slaughtered i would risk my life to stop it except i've never been shot at

00:34:51.160 i don't know what that feels like to the point of the you know the head of the swat team i don't

00:35:01.000 know what that feels like what does my body do when a bullet zings past my head and i know that if

00:35:07.720 i open that door there's going to be a lot more of them what does your body do because i don't know if

00:35:13.160 my body can move do you i mean you don't know until you do it right until you're in that situation do

00:35:21.560 you really know because i feel like you know when i imagine it i'm all brave like when i like oh i'm

00:35:28.440 not gonna let them kill the kids on my watch i'll run in there with my gun blazing and do what has to be

00:35:34.840 done but would i would i would i i'd like to think i would but you don't know you don't know until

00:35:47.080 you're in the situation right i like to think that if i'd been trained probably yes if i'm not trained

00:35:56.120 for that kind of situation i don't know honestly somebody said a parent would and i'm going to

00:36:04.600 give you that as a stipulated truth somebody who was a parent or even not not even a parent of those

00:36:14.120 kids but they were just actively a parent of the same age probably would go in because they would

00:36:19.320 just see their own kid and they would just go in you know i mean in their mind they would see their

00:36:23.400 kid even if even if their kid wasn't there so i would agree with you if you were actually a parent

00:36:28.200 of kids that age your brain would just say go probably

00:36:35.240 all right but i'm just saying have a have a little bit of understanding

00:36:39.400 that humans still are humans they don't do super natural things so when we judge these people keep

00:36:47.480 that in mind i don't mind that you have a harsh judgment of them because they do have those jobs i

00:36:53.240 mean if that's literally your job you've got a lot of explaining to do if you're not doing it

00:36:59.240 there's some polls from rasmussen

00:37:03.240 yesterday there's a poll that said there's a huge gap in voter excitement so republicans are far

00:37:10.360 more excited about voting in the congressional midterms like a lot so there's a a point like excitement

00:37:17.960 gap which should suggest that republicans will do well but as of today also from rasmussen

00:37:27.960 it turns out that the uh that generic ballot thing where they say how would a generic republican do in

00:37:33.960 the midterms against a generic democrat and then they say well it looks like the generic republican

00:37:39.880 would beat them by nine points or whatever so that's what it was it was a nine point difference

00:37:45.080 that the republican had an advantage in a hypothetical match that went down to six uh almost entirely

00:37:52.520 because of independents who were uh plus 18 for republicans and now they're only plus 11. so

00:38:00.520 basically the the news about the shooting i think just stripped off a bunch of independents

00:38:06.520 so here we were coasting into the election season with republicans just going to win everything

00:38:15.720 one guy with a ar has completely changed the polling numbers 1.00

00:38:23.320 just one one idiot with a gun changed the entire structure of the united states 1.00

00:38:29.800 that just happened one guy with a gun just changed politics in the united states 1.00

00:38:38.440 in a substantial way in a way that could change you know how we act for years

00:38:46.200 uh so that's kind of scary it does show you that anything can happen so uh there's nothing

00:38:53.320 about the midterm elections that's predictable except that you can't predict it all right

00:39:01.160 um i believe that's all i had to say so

00:39:09.960 the bullies are after me today um you might see that i pasted a little statement of the troll types

00:39:17.640 so if you run into any into any of the types of trolls um you can paste that in and let them think

00:39:27.080 about which kind they are

00:39:32.600 thank you

00:39:36.280 all right

00:39:39.320 what is it uh some local police officers entered the school to rescue their own children

00:39:44.840 god the story just gets uglier and uglier doesn't it

00:39:52.680 uh

00:39:57.720 all right so i wouldn't think that the uh generic vote thing tells you as much as you as you think

00:40:03.640 it does because people still end up voting for their party for the most part

00:40:12.120 uh

00:40:14.840 the response was ugly yeah

00:40:24.680 not claiming about current one number of innocent lives lost in large enough population should be

00:40:29.240 ignored

00:40:32.120 i know i think

00:40:33.160 uh

00:40:40.200 stop publishing their names and the problem will stop i don't think so

00:40:44.760 i used to think that if you didn't publish their names you would get less of it but i think that's

00:40:49.160 simplistic because i think the the the people doing it know that they'll be famous

00:40:54.360 even for the event so i don't think it's the actual remember your name part that matters to them

00:41:01.560 i think it's just doing something that's my guess so i don't think changing the name makes difference

00:41:07.400 i i personally am not going to mention their names because i don't like giving them any any presumed benefit

00:41:14.680 at all but i think that's the smallest um part of it

00:41:22.600 um that's interesting over our locals somebody's saying we should show their

00:41:28.600 we should show their faces because usually their their face has a bullet in it

00:41:32.600 so if you show the uh the shooter shot to death maybe that would make a difference

00:41:42.360 the suicidal will not care if they die yeah yeah once they're suicidal i guess that's by definition

00:41:48.920 did the buffalo coverage trigger the other guy certainly certainly do you think there's any any chance that the uh the news coverage about the other buffalo shooter

00:42:04.920 you don't think that that encouraged this year of course it did of course yeah you only do the things you can imagine

00:42:13.480 that's all you have to know people only do things they imagine

00:42:16.920 if if the only news had been about stabbings probably there'd be more stabbings

00:42:24.600 because that's what you can imagine you imagine what you've heard of

00:42:30.680 all

00:42:30.920 right um

00:42:35.960 former fbi agent was chatting online with the buffalo shooter okay

00:42:44.520 um

00:42:47.480 there's not much more to say about these shootings so i feel like i'm not going to

00:42:52.920 although probably it seems like every day there's a new new reason to talk about it

00:42:59.560 all right is there anything i forgot that you need to hear about

00:43:07.320 no i think that all shooters are influenced by all shooters i don't think it has to do with who's a white supremacist and who's not

00:43:13.720 i think just the action is enough to trigger people

00:43:18.280 uh

00:43:20.440 oh yeah

00:43:21.720 so jack dorsey left the board of twitter

00:43:25.000 and uh elon musk tweet about it was jack off the board

00:43:30.280 jack off the board

00:43:31.240 uh 0.99

00:43:32.920 a-chimp-domatic okay that's pretty good somebody got monkeypox but they're a-chimp-domatic 0.99

00:43:40.840 wordplay

00:43:43.560 um

00:43:44.760 it feels like we never got the real story about the vegas shooter

00:43:50.040 yeah but i think the real story had to do with something in the vegas shooter's head

00:43:54.120 i don't i don't think there's anything beyond that

00:44:00.120 keep talking scott kids have to wait until you're done

00:44:02.520 all right well i do think we're done here and

00:44:09.400 uh oh do you think that beto interrupting the press conference was a win for democrats yes i do

00:44:16.120 i do i think that um it was actually probably a successful political stunt

00:44:23.320 because he was playing to the base right

00:44:24.840 oh yeah i forgot to mention that uh

00:44:29.480 how did i forget to mention that that was definitely in my notes

00:44:33.720 that they uh saudi arabia has figured out how to get a rare

00:44:39.160 earth mineral out of the ocean at an economical

00:44:43.880 rate i thought i wrote that one down but uh

00:44:48.200 so i think it's the lithium for batteries

00:44:50.760 so the the rare earth minerals are not rare in the sense that they're only in some places

00:44:56.120 they're actually spread all over everything it's just that it's so it's such trace amounts

00:45:02.040 that it's hard to collect it all economically so they figured out how somehow to get it out of the ocean

00:45:07.960 and to get it economically they say now uh yeah so they're not rare they're just hard to harvest

00:45:15.800 and when you do harvest them it's bad for the environment often if you use the older techniques

00:45:22.680 and so that's part of the reason that china can do it we can't they don't have the same environmental

00:45:27.160 restrictions so i do think that modern technology will probably find us ways to get these rare earth

00:45:34.280 minerals better and cheaper wherever they are so i don't think we're going to have to depend on other

00:45:39.720 countries after a while oh yes and then also uh japan has decided to reopen all of their closed nuclear

00:45:49.800 reactors all of them so you could not have a stronger statement in favor of uh nuclear energy than japan

00:46:01.080 opening all of their closed nuclear plants that should be the beginning and the end of the entire

00:46:07.000 conversation like if you knew that now we do uh then i think that means something

00:46:23.560 all right you know about diablo uh diablo is coming back online right

00:46:28.200 lithium is not a rare earth mineral i'm being told all right i gotta run and i will talk to you tomorrow

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