Episode 1789 Scott Adams： Worse Than Jussie Smollett. That Summarizes Today's News
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In this episode of the highlight of civilization, we discuss the latest in the latest news, including the latest on gun control, and . We also talk about the latest on the Supreme Court, and the of the day.
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good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of civilization I was a
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little busy last night so I didn't catch much of the news let's see if anybody
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anything happened last night check in the headlines my god it's worse than
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Watergate the walls are closing in I don't know what to do but first let's do the
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simultaneous sip and then we'll talk about all the stuff tonight today might be the best news day
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just for amusement and interest of all time I mean it's a really good one
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but first I think you need a cup or a mug or a glass or a tank of chalice or a canteen
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drink a flask of vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me
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now for the unparalleled pleasure it's the dopamine hit of the day it's the thing that makes everything
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better it's called the simultaneous sip and it's gonna happen now go
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well I was working on a joke just before I came on and I tweeted my version of it but I think it
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could be better so I need you to help me work on this joke okay uh the starts out with this did you
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hear about the guy who had long covid and long tds at the same time so that's the setup did you hear
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about the guy who had long covid and long tds at the same time now I came up with a punch line
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it was a little soft I think you could do better here's the first one I rejected so the setup was
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did you hear about the guy who had long covid and long tds at the same time every time you watch
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is cnn he shits himself now it's funny just because the way it sounds but since covid doesn't
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make you do that it was like eh could be better if it was like a little more covid related so I ended
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up changing into it you know I ran out of time before I could make it the way I wanted so I said
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every time you watch the cnn it gets brain fog it's not bad it's not like a home run or anything
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so if you couldn't do better than that could you please go to my tweet and improve on my joke
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so what's the funniest thing that could happen if you had both long covid and long tds at the same
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time all right well uh here in california uh california leaked the names and addresses and
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ages of every person in the state who holds a concealed carry permit that includes judges cops and regular
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civilians and apparently if you look at the la data
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there's a massive trove of private gun ownership stuff there
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now that's every person who has a concealed carry permit
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imagine if it was every person who had a registered gun
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somebody says that's old news that's old news why is it a headline today
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uh guns are registered guns are registered i know they're not all registered
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what are you saying guns are not registered in california who's saying that all right um
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okay say more about that are you being technical that you don't register the guns
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yeah i think i think they are registered yeah i think they're registered in california
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anyway so here's my comment on that now that we know that our data on gun ownership is not safe
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you either live much less safely because now everybody will have a map to which homeowners
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are protected and which are not or everybody gets a gun guess which one i recommend
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everybody get a gun yeah as soon as california says we can't protect your data on who owns a gun
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you have to have a gun you have to have a gun i'm gonna make a uh yeah no i'm not
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so i'll just keep it at that if you thought a gun was optional before if you're a homeowner especially i
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would say for a homeowner or somebody who has a even an apartment i guess but if you have something
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that maybe you could be attacked in now you have to have a gun so i think this is maybe working
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opposite of whoever leaked it might have wanted it to work so get yourself some guns if you're in
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california it's the only way you'll be protected um i tweeted yesterday and as soon as i did it i thought
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well here's a here's a framing that's gonna last and i said that uh trump's second term um
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has been a huge success he's had several major supreme court victories looks better than ever
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compared to biden and the january 6 theater just went full jussie smollett and you can't win harder
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than that and as soon as you hear it you say to yourself it does sort of feel like trump won a
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second term because you know he argues that he actually won the election you know the courts don't
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agree with him and he's had three three or four major supreme court victories which really are about
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trump's nomination for the court and he does look better and better every day compared to biden
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i i feel like he's having the best second term that somebody who wasn't president ever had am i wrong
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so i know what you want to talk about you want to talk about the big story about hutchinson and the
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january 6 testimony well here's my summary before we get into it in 2020 the theme you heard a lot was
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worse than watergate right everything was worse than watergate worse than watergate and now today
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according to every trending uh every trend on social media and every meme worse than watergate has
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turned into worse than jussie as in jussie smollett as in worse than the lies that he told and i feel like
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like we're uh we're in worse than jussie territory now aren't we worse than jussie and
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here here the in no particular order some things that are happening if you were the democrats and you
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wanted to win what would it look like if you wanted to win elections what would that look like well i'll
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give you a i'll give you a suggestion what it would look like is uh policies that were you know
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mainstream and popular and and things that really made sense and would address the biggest issues
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in the country and maybe turn it around that's what it would look like if you were playing to win
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the democrats are in this weird situation where they're spending all of their energy
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fighting the last war which was trump just to make sure it's not the next war it's like all about
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suppressive fire for trump but what is the what is the obvious outcome of putting all their energy into
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trump what's the obvious outcome of putting full-on trump energy desantis of course
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that desantis is unambiguously the strongest political figure in the country am i wrong now
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you can say trump has more influence blah blah but in this context there's nobody close
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is there so the democrats have found the only strategy
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in which if they put all of their energy and they work really really hard they can guarantee that
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they're running against the strongest carrot candidate in decades desantis
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does it because if they wanted to win the only chance they have is running against trump again
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but they should have waited with this january 6 stuff like bring it out during the during the election or
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something but right now trump is the only person who could lose an election i think he'd win actually
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i mean if i you know i think the polls would go his way on day one he'd probably just win but he's the
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only person who could lose desantis couldn't lose not in our current environment i mean even even democrats
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are saying if it's desantis it's not that bad so right in front of you it might tell me if i'm missing
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something because sometimes i'll you know i'll stray into hyperbole but i don't think i am i don't think
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i am is it hyperbole for me to say that if you were observing this from the outside you couldn't read
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anybody's mind but it looks like they're playing to lose right it looks like his strategy that if
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it worked perfectly just the way they're executing it they would lose the election harder than they
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so he says you're meeting the cheat you're missing the cheating aspect well that's a good point
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if you were trying to come up with a hypothesis to explain why the democrats are pursuing the only
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strategy that couldn't possibly win you'd have to believe that they think that the election will be
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rigged i don't think that's true i don't think that the democrats even know right because even if you
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imagined hypothetically and there's no no evidence of this but even if you imagine that they had fixed
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elections and we're going to fix it again most democrats wouldn't know that because you couldn't
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let everybody know right like even under the hypothetical that there's some shadowy secret
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group rigging elections they're not going to tell all the leadership are they like there might be a few
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people who know but you don't want everybody to know um so meanwhile the democrats are begging for
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desantis it seems like well here are the stories that uh so the trump very junior uh aid to mark meadows
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chief of staff at the time uh she testified that the january 6 thing and among her uh bombshell statements
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we'll talk about them all trump lunging for the steering wheel of the car he was in the beast
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or maybe it was an suv uh to drive him to the mall which he denies ever happened he threw his lunch
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against the wall he was so angry he denies it happened uh he didn't care about weapons being
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taken to the protest uh these are the allegations these are not true right none of this is true by the
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the way these are just the allegations and that uh he was in favor of hanging mike bents
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now uh let's just deal with these in in order all right lunged for the steering wheel and you know
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wrestled with the secret service guy the secret service guys have already said that didn't happen
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right so now give me give me your estimate of how likely this story is true given that the person
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who tells it wasn't there the people who were there said it didn't happen and on its surface it's ridiculous
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there's no chance no chance now what about the other things that this person would say
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should you trust anything else hutchinson says no no i don't think so now you might put a different
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standard on things she says she witnessed herself right talking about what she remembers somebody else
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said is is sketchy that's why it's hearsay that's why it's not allowed in court but in the real world we
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we care about that stuff because we're more influenced by you know non-factual stuff
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so uh yeah trump lunging at the steering wheel that that should be the tip off that should be the one
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that everybody says um i don't think so all right how about uh through his lunch he was so angry he threw
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his lunch against the wall has anybody been really angry and thrown anything
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i have i have i've thrown things against walls who hasn't thrown things against a wall now let me ask
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you this if you were president of the united states and you were just positive you'd want just won an
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election maybe even went to bed thinking you won and you woke up founding that something looked suspicious
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to you there's no evidence anything was suspicious well there's no evidence anything bad happened it's
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i guess suspicious is a judgment call but imagine him waking up to have lost the election
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how mad would he be how mad would you be you'd be insane if the only thing he reportedly did and again
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he says he didn't it doesn't matter to be either way he threw his lunch against the wall would you hold that
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against him suppose you knew that was true that he woke up to this situation believing and i think
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honestly believing you can't read his mind but i think he honestly believes the election was rigged he
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certainly believed it at the time i think that's a fairer statement that at the time i feel like he believed
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it you wouldn't throw your lunch against the wall in that situation i don't know how i could put my lunch
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in my stomach in that situation in fact i think the wall is where that lunch belonged in that situation
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now if he had done something like violent toward a human being or an animal i would say okay i'm done
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with him we're done with that but i strongly support the right of any president who just lost an election
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that he believes is rigged or she can throw their lunch against the wall and none of us should find
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any problem with that anybody with me if you lose a presidential election that you believe sincerely
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in your mind you believe it was rigged even if it wasn't you can throw your lunch against the wall
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now i don't i don't i don't think it's going to hold up i he doesn't really seem like a a lunch thrower
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does he he seems like he'd curse and yell and you know be vocal but there's no real evidence that he
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does physical things when he's mad right an entire history of never being accused of doing any physical
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thing when he was angry never not one not one accusation but this one time he threw his lunch against
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a wall what if he did it means absolutely nothing right now they tried to build it as part of his
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mental state and it was part of his mental state it's also the part you should least care about
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because it's the most obvious thing that anybody would do in that situation i'd be throwing some lunch
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pretty sure i'd be throwing a sandwich under that situation um all right so we've got lunch for the
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steering wheel which is absurd on his face and denied by the people involved we've got through
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his lunch which probably didn't happen but why would it matter either way has no relevance to anything in
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the world uh there was a report that he he wanted people with weapons presumably not so much firearms but
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you know clubs or knives or whatever who knows uh he he didn't want them stopped from getting into his
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speech because he wanted his speech to have the most number of people
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so and his uh explanation which is given which you'll notice is often left down to the reporting
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the reporting says he wanted people let in with weapons do you know what the part they leave down is
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the important part why did he say he wasn't concerned about people getting in with weapons
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he gave a reason he gave a reason you know what the reason was they're not going to hurt him and
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and he was talking about keep people coming to see him speak he said my supporters aren't there to hurt me
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like like you know why should you care if some of them have weapons they always have weapons
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basically you stop any if you stop any conservatives they have weapons you know if you if you randomly pick
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a hundred conservatives anywhere don't some of them have some concealed carry don't some of them have
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you know scary knives in their pockets just in case of course they do of course they do because
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there's a bunch of republicans they come they come with the tools they might need so bringing the right tools
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somewhere is just sort of what republicans do it doesn't mean they're going to use them
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it means exactly the opposite the republicans are the last people who are going to pull out a gun
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because they only do it you tell me you finish finish the sentence a republican only draws a gun when
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when they're when they're willing to use it right it's the most well-trained segment of the population
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right they have you know good uh good muzzle control good basically they're they're the ones
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that are most trained to handle this stuff so when trump said uh that he wasn't so concerned about the people
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having whatever weapons they had coming to see him speak he was saying my supporters won't hurt me
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he wasn't talking about letting armed people into the capital and the and the news is trying to conflate these things
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like leaving out the part about they won't hurt me putting it in the other context do you see what's happening
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this is why this is the best news day ever because go look at the articles that are trying to to uh
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basically um let's say gild this turd so in a sense hutchinson was just a big old turd in the punch bowl
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and the and watching the uh watching the democrats try to carefully lift that turd out of the the punch bowl
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and spray paint it with gold like we have the golden turd this will be our finest moment
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ah the golden turd everybody look at my golden turd oh
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golden turd and i'm watching this and i'm thinking this might be the funniest thing i've ever seen
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not only did they pull a turd out of the punch bowl spray painted gold and try to sell it to the american
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people but there's a funnier part what's the funnier part it's working come on if you can't appreciate
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that you're dead inside you might hate it because it's bad for the country bad for your team whatever
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so you can hate it on that level but don't you think it's kind of hilarious that they're spray painting
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the turd they took out of the punch bowl and they're trying to sell it but but their supporters
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are so dumb and i think in this case we can say dumb that if you look on social media they're
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completely buying it oh that that spray painted turd looks like oh i agree may i bow to your
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spray painted turd you know may i make a poster and put it on my wall it's so awesome
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thank you for the five dollar tip all right um so here's why you can find out everything today
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the journalists who are so shameless that they're writing stories today that this was a bombshell and
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it's a really bad day for trump they are all the ones who are frauds
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obviously because all all doubt has been removed today because the one thing you can know for sure
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is that the stories are bullshit and that everybody knows it i think i think the democrats know it
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but and and the tell that they know it is the form that they write the story
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let me let me tell you how all the left-leaning publications are gonna um are gonna sell this
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and go read the stories and cnn and politico and and see if you agree it goes like this
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yesterday there were shocking stunning uh revelations the worst thing that ever happened in the world
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things that there were jaw-dropping absolute bombshells worse than watergate it was the most unbelievably
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stunning thing and how do you know it was unbelievable and stunning well people whose names we're not
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going to give you said they were stunned and changed everything it's worse than watergate far worse than
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anything they could ever imagine what's missing so far what's missing from the story so far
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any details the stories start with all the hyperbole and you actually run out of time
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like literally run out of time before you get to the allegations and then the allegations do you know
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what they're doing they're leaving out the known debunks so the reporting doesn't mention that the people
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in the case of the grabbing the steering wheel allegation that the people who are there say that never
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happened that's kind of important to the story isn't it that the main accusation never happened
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and then they leave out the part about trump saying that you know the people with weapons weren't going
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they they just leave that out now how about this part apparently uh um it was reported that trump said
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um quote mike pence deserves it all right the the mobs were cheering that they want to hang vp prince
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and then trump said mike pence deserves it what's it deserves it what is it
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deserves the chanting right it he doesn't deserve to be fucking hug
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if you read that story and you said i think trump just said they should hang mike pence you should
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be really ashamed of yourself you're not really smart enough to participate in political discussions
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if you think the president literally meant he deserved to be murdered you're not a serious
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people were chanting against pence and and trump just said he deserved it he deserves the approbation
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of the base that's it now he also said uh allegedly we don't know if he really said this but trump
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allegedly said as that chanting was happening maybe our supporters have the right idea and then
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it said referring to rioters wanting to hang vp pence to which i say wait a minute how do you know that
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that refers to wanting to hang vp pence because in the very same story you just proved you don't know how
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to do this in the same story they proved they don't know how to know what people are talking about
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because when he said um he deserves it you and i both say uh it is the chanting the disapproval he
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deserved but they they interpreted it as he deserves to be murdered now if they could do that wrong right
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in front of you and obviously that's wrong don't you think that the second one where they say where
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he said maybe our supporters have the right idea but then somebody else who is not donald trump
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characterized it as referring to writers wanting to hang vp pence now now that the very same people
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who wrote the article have proven to you that they can't interpret a quote that's easy to interpret
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it's easy to interpret he deserves the chanting and the disapproval that's easy
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that's so easy or or it was hyperbole that everybody would have recognized as such
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if you were in that situation you don't think you would have at least joked at least once maybe
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he doesn't deserve to get hung but not really mean it of course you would i would if you put me in
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that situation to somebody that i knew really well i might have joked that but i would have also trusted
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that everybody knew i didn't mean it right how many times in normal language do people say somebody
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should be killed i'm gonna kill him i'm gonna murder him but it's just the way people talk when they're
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why is uh somebody named will smith uh is trolling me by by repeatedly saying that my stepson is dead
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with a little uh skull that that is so old news you need to upgrade your trolling
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i'm gonna hide you on the channel do you really think that that bothers me now
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it bothered me then but your your trolling is is so off point there's probably like a thousand
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things that you can say that would be more important than that because because that's just
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a biographical fact i don't know how you control me by stating a biographical fact that's just something
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that happened anyway um james garcia or hi i'm sorry not james jaime garcia um tweeted and he's just
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somebody on twitter i don't know but he tweeted this caught my eye he said i can't believe to this day
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that an american president encouraged his supporters to hang vp pence just because the vp won't violate the
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constitution so he he literally says the first part of his tweet is i can't believe and then he states
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the thing he can't believe why is it that someone would not believe a story like why would you use
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the phrase i can't believe it well what would cause you to do something like that because it's not real
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if you see a story that's so fantastical in the news and you and it's also in a fog of war situation
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and i say january 6 was definitely a fog of war situation at the time you know a little little
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clarity is coming out but when highby says i can't believe this allegation he means that it's so
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stunning so jaw-dropping that's like off this freaking unbelievable do you know what your first instinct
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should be anytime you hear a new story that's based on somebody telling you something happened not not
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direct observation direct observation would be one thing but if somebody says something happened but
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you can't verify it and it's jaw-dropping and stunning what should be your first impression
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there's a 99 chance that it didn't happen and there's actually a reason for that
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there's an obvious reason why it's 99 not true because the things that are most interesting are false
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things right normal life is not interesting because because it's normal anything you get used to
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even if it's outrageous after you get used to it this is normal right so the reason that you got
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excited about the news the reason that your brain is exploding that should be telling you it's not true
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99 percent of the time it could be it might be the exception but your first instinct to a jaw-dropping
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story that has no evidence except somebody said so your first impression should be wow that's quite a
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bombshell allegation but it's in a class of things that are false 99 percent of the time this is the
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scott alexander hypothesis which he describes better so it's a real thing i'm not the one making up this
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rule right it's a it's an existing well-understood phenomenon that the less true something is the more
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it will catch your attention and if something is yeah like yeah like the story that trump suggested that
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people would drink bleach how could you know from the first moment that it wasn't true
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from the first moment how if you hadn't even watched the thing yourself how could you know
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it wasn't true because it's in the class it's in the class of things that as soon as you hear it you
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say well i don't think that happened and then if you tried to directly observe it you'd find some fog
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of war going on because they they clip out the beginning and the end where he talks about it being light
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therapy and then it looks like he's talking about some kind of physical bleach or some kind of
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chemical bleach so anytime you hear a story like that president said you should drink bleach no you
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don't even have to look into it do you do you really have to look into that you don't have to it's just
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obviously not true how about uh president praised neo-nazis in public do you have to look into that
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you don't you really don't because there's no way that happened and then you look into it and there's
00:31:30.360
some gray area about you know if you chop up his quote it might look like that but of course the full
00:31:35.640
quote says the opposite um but you'll still click on it yeah you'll still click on it so that should be
00:31:44.840
your tip of the day if it's so outrageous you can't believe it the reason is probably because you can't
00:31:49.480
believe it let's talk about poor poor brett bear today who on the fox news channel um i would
00:31:57.480
compliment him as being the most objective least opinion based news person hard news person but he
00:32:06.040
is getting it in the chops today because you don't understand what he said he's getting killed today
00:32:14.200
because you don't understand what he said what he did say is no problem what he actually said you
00:32:21.000
wouldn't disagree with what you think he said is jaw-dropping
00:32:29.080
what you think he said is that he was believing the testimony and that you know it would change
00:32:35.160
everything right didn't you get the sense that he was projecting that he believed the testimony
00:32:44.920
did you get that sense well the trouble is that he's a news guy so he simply told you what happened
00:32:50.440
and he didn't like it here's what he said um he said that the testimony from this hutchinson's person
00:32:57.960
was compelling from beginning to end true or false was it compelling now this is this isn't about whether
00:33:06.120
it was true compelling just means you couldn't turn away true or false was it compelling in the sense
00:33:12.200
that you cared yes it's the biggest headline of the day it's why i woke up so excited it's compelling
00:33:20.440
now do you think that's unfair is that too much opinion it's not opinion that is a straight-up fact
00:33:29.720
that everybody who looked at this treats it like it's important and therefore it's compelling
00:33:34.040
there's no there's no there's nothing to criticize in that statement it's compelling but the way you
00:33:39.640
interpreted it was probably true that's not there that's on you right that's on you you read that
00:33:48.680
into it what he said is compelling and that's just objectively true all right
00:33:56.680
he also noted that things would probably look different
00:34:00.760
if the other side had gotten um you know a legitimate time to respond is that fair he said that if it had
00:34:11.880
not been a one-sided presentation you would probably be you know receiving it differently
00:34:19.160
absolutely fair absolutely he called out why you shouldn't believe it he told you that directly
00:34:25.960
he basically said this should not be accepted as fact i mean i'm paraphrasing basically he told the
00:34:32.360
audience this should be you don't think he pushed back hard enough thing that to you look like obvious
00:34:38.360
lies that's not his job that's not his job he's a news guy he just told you what happened and he told
00:34:46.680
you how people received it and i think he did it straight and i'm gonna back him 100 on this
00:34:52.840
be a little more discerning when you're listening to him if you parse his words he this isn't his
00:34:59.720
first day right it's not his first day at work he's really really really good at this okay so when he
00:35:09.080
chooses his words you got to listen to him because he is giving you the straight news and when there's
00:35:15.880
some pushback he will he will presumably he'll report it so already by today there's pushback from
00:35:23.480
people who said you know those reports are untrue do you think he's not going to report on that do you
00:35:28.920
think brett bear is going to say well let's just move on to the next story of course not of course not
00:35:35.720
he's going to report it because that's the news so i think you need to lighten up on brett bear
00:35:42.440
because you don't want to you know it's one thing to
00:35:48.520
i guess i approve of the um the impulse to weed out the bad players on your own team
00:35:55.000
because you don't want anybody who's on your side who's not not performing up to your standard but
00:35:59.960
he's not he's not the one like there there's lots of people you could go after first
00:36:04.760
you know people who are or maybe damaging your message he's not one at all um here are some of
00:36:13.000
the things that go to her credibility and this was amazing apparently she claimed there was some
00:36:18.120
handwritten note relative to this situation that she wrote and then the white house former white
00:36:25.000
house lawyer eric hirschman said no i wrote that how in the world could you be wrong about a handwritten
00:36:32.200
note what now again we're in the fog of war my first impulse is to believe the attorney
00:36:44.360
over her but you know anything's possible we're in this weird world where
00:36:50.040
maybe the attorney forgot she wrote it and couldn't tell his own handwriting or something i mean none of
00:36:56.280
this makes any sense but when you're in a situation where nothing makes sense maybe your
00:37:03.080
opinion should be there too that we don't know what's going on there's just something here that
00:37:07.880
doesn't make sense um but certainly somebody who may have lied about a handwritten note
00:37:15.640
what should you believe about anything else that person says suppose suppose it became validated uh
00:37:24.600
i don't know if you could i suppose you could actually this is one you could validate completely
00:37:28.600
because you could just look at the handwriting you could just analyze the handwriting so this one you
00:37:32.600
this is one of the few things that you can find out for sure if she was telling the truth you could
00:37:40.120
know for sure there would be no ambiguity about it all because it's not a he said she said so much
00:37:45.000
you actually just check the handwriting that would tell you everything you need to know so what if it
00:37:49.960
turns out that as attorney eric hirschman says that she did not i don't want to say lied because there
00:37:58.040
could be a false memory thing going on here but what if she was wrong about writing that note
00:38:04.200
even if it was a false memory that's all you need to know right as soon as you hear somebody had a
00:38:12.120
a genuine false memory if that's what it was if that's what it was you don't really listen to the rest
00:38:25.800
and i was at uh brett bear who also said no somebody else said i think it was politico
00:38:32.360
who said that the compelling part of the testimony is how it was all laid out in a way that you could
00:38:38.040
check on all the facts that's what was compelling and then nobody would go in front of the the nation
00:38:44.360
tell a bunch of lies and then also tell you how you could check the validity of the lies
00:38:51.880
in public like who would do that who would go in public under oath tell a bunch of lies and then
00:38:58.600
tell you exactly who to talk to to validate them and you find out if you talk to them that they were
00:39:03.240
lies who would do that apparently she did that it looks like that's what happened because the people
00:39:13.000
that they uh the the road map of how to check her work people followed the map and when they got to
00:39:19.560
the destination they said oh well did that really happen and then the secret service people in that
00:39:24.920
one case said nope that didn't happen so what are you supposed to make of this now if you are
00:39:35.880
right-leaning you say to yourself the whole january 6 thing fell apart it completely failed it turned
00:39:42.280
into a jussie smollett obvious lie situation boy are those democrats embarrassed now and they have egg on
00:39:49.640
their face but you're forgetting the news bubble phenomenon the left will never hear any of this
00:39:57.560
stuff the left will think every bit of this happened am i wrong the left will believe every bit of this
00:40:04.760
they believe the bleach hoax look look at the list of things they believed if you just if you just made a
00:40:11.640
list of things that they believed where would this fit in terms of ridiculousness on the list of things
00:40:19.000
they already believe it would be absolutely ordinary on the list of things that democrats believe really
00:40:27.480
happened this would be ordinary now to the people who are paying attention seeing both sides of the news
00:40:35.720
and that's mostly the right-leaning people it's just jaw-dropping because you know the news people
00:40:42.120
know it's all fake at this point right the the public probably is believing what they're hearing
00:40:50.760
more or less but the people reporting on it you know they're a little more sophisticated
00:40:56.600
and you can tell by the way the articles are written if you look at the cnn article about it or the
00:41:01.400
political article about it today you can tell very clearly and maybe well i don't know if it's clear but
00:41:07.560
as a writer as someone who's a professional writer it's obvious to me that the people who wrote the
00:41:13.000
articles know it's bullshit and the the tell is that they give you all the hyperbole before they get to
00:41:19.480
the details and then they don't talk about the other side of the details which are already known
00:41:24.680
right that is a gigantic flaming signal that they know they're lying and it's all propaganda and it's
00:41:31.160
really just designed to hurt trump and hurt republicans you know at this point it's so obvious and so
00:41:37.960
here's the opportunity that has presented itself you can now tell who all of the illegitimate news
00:41:45.320
people are they can't hide anymore because they used to be able to hide behind well a reasonable person
00:41:52.200
could think this actually happened but now you're not there anymore you're at a point where no reasonable
00:41:57.720
person could think these allegations are true they really couldn't now let me let me say this
00:42:03.160
different way a reasonable member of the public could believe them and and they do because they're
00:42:10.200
hearing a little bit and you know and they're they're not uh sophisticated news consumers and so they
00:42:16.600
just think the news is usually right and this is on the news and the news is usually right and so why
00:42:21.880
wouldn't this be but if you're a professional and and looking for bullshit is sort of you know
00:42:29.080
literally what you do for a living you know this isn't true and so that's why you write the articles
00:42:35.000
as worse than watergate and it's stunning this jaw-dropping and we talk to somebody we won't name in
00:42:41.240
trump's inner circle who also says it's the end of the road it's the obituary for right that's the way you
00:42:48.360
write it when you don't believe your own story trust me on this and by the way is there anybody
00:42:54.040
else here who is a professional writer i think there are a few of you if you're a professional
00:42:59.560
writer can you back me up on this that you don't write the story with the facts last the facts are
00:43:06.360
always the first part of the story have you noticed that a lot of the news starts with uh i don't know
00:43:13.320
which publications do it i think axios does it maybe business insider where they'll start with
00:43:18.280
a summary of what the story is going to be with just the facts that's really good isn't it have
00:43:23.960
you seen that format that's like one of the best formats because you can just read the bullet points
00:43:29.640
and then if you want to dig down you can but the bullet points told you what's happening
00:43:34.360
but on these stories no they're starting with a hyperbole first right if you're a professional writer
00:43:41.560
you know what that means you know what that means they are burying the facts you don't bury the facts
00:43:49.640
if the facts are on your side am i right professional writers you don't even have to be a professional
00:43:56.040
writer do you bury the facts if the facts to support your argument nope it's the first thing you say
00:44:03.960
it's the first thing you say now now that you've heard this frame that they're hiding the facts behind
00:44:11.240
the hyperbole go back and read some of the articles once you see it you can't unsee it and that once you
00:44:18.840
see it go back and remember the names of the people who wrote those articles because they just outed
00:44:24.760
themselves because they know they're lying or they know they're spinning these are not people you should
00:44:32.280
ever trust again if anybody put their name on a story that said this was a stunning jaw-dropping
00:44:38.520
worse than watergate situation without telling you the mitigating parts of the story you could never
00:44:45.560
trust them again because there are lots of stories that people get wrong and you never really know
00:44:51.240
did they know that was wrong when they reported it you never really know right but this time you do
00:44:57.000
that's what's different this time you actually know they know it's not true you know they know it
00:45:01.560
because they've signaled it so strongly by hiding the facts behind the hyperbole
00:45:09.640
somebody says you're just now understanding this no i'm just now explaining it to anybody who didn't
00:45:15.560
see how obvious it is at the moment no i didn't just now figure it out
00:45:20.440
um all right so here are some of the things uh this is literally a sentence from cnn's reporting
00:45:35.960
this is a bombshell it's stunning it's shocking the story about quote the beast that's the presidential
00:45:42.520
automobile uh don't have words it's just stunning said one trump advisor one trump advisor really
00:45:51.000
which one which one was it um are they named and why is it this is one trump advisor uh did they wish
00:46:01.880
to remain anonymous or was it just that the news because often often there would be you know it
00:46:09.000
would say there's an unnamed source or anonymous but here they just say one trump advisor said all these
00:46:15.960
things uh do you think that one trump advisor actually said that do you think this is an accurate
00:46:28.120
no no it's not it's not at the very least it's manufactured there may in fact be a trump advisor
00:46:37.880
who said some things in this domain but if you've worked in the media long enough and you have
00:46:44.680
been quoted i've been quoted a million times do you know how many times my actual quotes are actually
00:46:50.520
things i said only when i tweet it if i tweet it they you know because it's so easy to check they give
00:46:58.120
the exact words if it's something i said to somebody in a private interview and i don't have any way to
00:47:04.920
prove what i did or did not say those those quotes are all made up they're all made up because at the
00:47:11.080
very least they leave out context they you know put in a word maybe that changes the meaning a little bit
00:47:16.600
but yeah those are all made up so when you see a quote from a quote one trump advisor you don't even
00:47:24.760
have to read the quote those are made up quotes if there's anything that i do that will maybe be a lasting
00:47:33.640
benefit to the world teaching you how to read the news um critically might be the best thing i could ever do
00:47:41.000
but you should discount anything from one trump advisor who has not been named had this opinion and
00:47:47.800
here's the quote those are never true there's almost never true almost never all right um
00:48:00.040
yeah so that wouldn't fool jussie today and of course they dragged down one of the
00:48:07.240
worst in watergate guys they brought out bob woodward this time uh he thinks the testimony
00:48:14.040
is enough to end former president donald trump's political career so suppose it does suppose it does
00:48:24.680
so you got all these vultures over there like ah we've ended his political career
00:48:30.520
have you ever heard the old saying you know the dog chases the car but what if he caught it
00:48:34.280
like what happens when the dog catches the car like you beware of what you ask for you know the chinese
00:48:42.120
proverb beware of what you ask for because you might get it what would happen if they ruined trump's
00:48:47.480
political career what's the obvious outcome of ruining trump's political career the obvious outcome
00:48:56.280
president de santis number one what's the second part of an obvious outcome of that
00:49:04.520
trump goes full-on entertainment news meaning that he becomes a monster in interpreting and talking
00:49:12.200
about the news in one fashion or another do you really think you want that the the democrats have
00:49:21.080
found the only way they can win which would be if trump won and you know they can find they can pin
00:49:26.920
him with enough to to get a victory with some better candidate than they have but that's a long shot and
00:49:32.760
maybe they think that wouldn't even work uh but the worst thing that could happen for the democrats is
00:49:40.040
a president de santis because he doesn't have the baggage and he's highly competent and he makes republicans
00:49:46.280
look good they don't want that um and then having trump uh running cover from the you know sort of a rush limbaugh
00:49:56.600
type of role where the the party has to do what he approves of otherwise he'll be talking about it too much
00:50:03.560
trump could completely control the republican party just by the way he talks about it in public
00:50:10.440
and that that appears to be his his thing i tweeted yesterday the the difference between 2015 and 2022
00:50:18.040
it goes like this in 2015 i was writing and blogging that trump had persuasion powers that were you know
00:50:27.560
nuclear grade and that he used the most persuasive person in the planet do you know how much i was
00:50:35.400
mocked for that the number of people in 2015 who said come on you call that persuasive persuasive oh my
00:50:45.240
god he's just an orange cheeto jesus how come you can't see that you you grifter you grifters got all
00:50:53.800
right so in 2015 i was literally laughed at and mocked for suggesting that trump was persuasive
00:51:01.320
2015. in 2022 trump gets to decide who the next president is he's the only one he literally personally
00:51:13.800
gets to decide who will be the president of the united states next because if he runs it's probably him
00:51:21.720
and if he decides not to run it's probably desantis and that's it there's only one person who gets to
00:51:29.080
decide who president is next time now can you imagine a situation where anybody could be more persuasive
00:51:37.960
than being the only person in a republic with democratic elections the only person whose vote
00:51:44.920
matters you can't get more persuasive than that try to give me like a situation that would be more
00:51:54.360
persuasive than one person gets to decide who's president of the united states now when i said that
00:52:02.680
there's one person who gets to decide who's president of the united states didn't it sound
00:52:06.680
ridiculous and then you thought about it for a moment and you thought well wait a minute if he runs as
00:52:14.040
him he doesn't run as desantis literally it's down to one person's decision
00:52:19.560
somebody's saying elon musk i don't know why he has to do this right it's funny i'm looking at the the
00:52:30.520
reaction and i don't think that you want to accept this as as a reality because it's weird that you're
00:52:37.160
not really directly responding to the fact that i just told your your democracy is irrelevant
00:52:43.960
it is because only one person gets to decide this time the president now you can see it right but
00:52:53.480
until i told you that had you processed that had you processed that it literally is just down to
00:53:00.200
one person that's your democracy right there one person gets to decide who's president next time
00:53:07.320
according to everything we can see i mean there could be surprises but if you assume the polls are
00:53:12.440
correct that's it one person gets to decide who's president it's hard to accept isn't it like your
00:53:20.520
brain your brain doesn't even want to deal with it it's like it's so traumatizing because everything
00:53:27.320
we've done like every conversation that you know you and i and the people watching this everything we've
00:53:33.720
talked about is to bolster the republic am i wrong i mean that's sort of basic to the you know
00:53:43.880
conservative republican point of view of which although i'm not specifically a member of um it's
00:53:50.040
what i deal with the most and it seems to me that if you spend all of your time trying to protect the
00:53:56.440
republic and uh democratic principles within the republic and the constitution if that's what you're
00:54:02.760
worshiping and then you didn't notice that it was all gone at least at the moment it'll come back
00:54:11.400
i i think but at the moment it doesn't exist there's just a weird situation that evolved that none of
00:54:19.480
the none of the machinery of the constitution really make any difference at the moment all that matters
00:54:24.440
is whether trump decides to run am i right now if trump if
00:54:33.240
yeah and and i think i think that there's if i can tell from the comments there's a massive amount
00:54:40.520
of cognitive dissonance going on right now and the cognitive dissonance is that you worked all this
00:54:46.120
time to support you know freedom and democracy and the constitution the republic that those are like
00:54:53.800
your sacred things and all of your work on behalf of trump for those of you who are supporters was
00:55:00.920
really about those things like it wasn't about trump even though he was entertaining it was about those
00:55:07.240
things your most basic principles of democratic republic constitution and it's all gone it's all gone
00:55:16.840
you did so well supporting trump that you got rid of all that temporarily and we're not in any trouble
00:55:25.960
it's just a weird historical situation that the very thing everybody wanted the most
00:55:33.480
they eliminated from the option set the thing you wanted the most democracy the republic the constitution you
00:55:41.800
just eliminated it from the options because we basically gave trump all this power and now he gets to decide
00:55:53.160
you say the media did that with our help the media did that why can't we say we just picked him
00:56:01.160
well that is one frame that is 100 accurate it is accurate that the some number of the public you know not
00:56:10.040
quite a majority but the electoral college did the rest you can say that the system worked you picked
00:56:17.640
them and therefore the system is working fine but it is also true and i don't think you could argue with
00:56:23.160
it that it is down to one person's decision the mechanism will still have to do what the mechanism does to
00:56:29.480
make it you know to manifest it but it's down to one guy i know was that the system you had in mind
00:56:37.400
now this isn't the first time it's happened well what's the other time it was down to one guy
00:56:44.520
there you go you're ahead of me george washington yeah when when george washington made the decision to
00:56:50.440
leave the office when he obviously could have stayed and become like an emperor
00:56:54.200
you know same thing all right uh if if washington had decided to stay he would have been president
00:57:07.320
now there are probably some a few other cases where if the incumbent ran you know it's the only
00:57:13.800
teddy roosevelt's a good example um because if you're a spoiler you know what's going to happen etc yeah
00:57:19.400
sometimes it's down to one person but we do we do in all fairness we do we do still have the veto
00:57:28.120
right the system still operates such that uh we can still veto trump if he got under control
00:57:37.240
all right um let's see what else we got going on here
00:57:41.080
uh as sean woodruff uh tweeted again this is just somebody on twitter i don't know
00:57:49.720
but uh he said this is uh the six plus years of this exact same pattern playing out now talking about
00:57:57.160
the january 6th thing being a fraud you know it's sort of like all the other frauds that the democrats
00:58:02.840
have perpetrated he says this is the six plus years of this exact same pattern playing out and no one
00:58:09.400
really learns to spot it are there really that many dumb people and the answer is no the answer is
00:58:17.960
there are too many smart people that's the problem the problem isn't that we're dumb you know some people
00:58:25.560
are dumb but that's not the problem the problem is the smart people because the smart people are the ones
00:58:32.120
who are misdirecting you from the pattern do you know why you don't notice the pattern
00:58:40.840
so the the bad stuff is right there and you could see it
00:58:44.200
if you could look at it if you could if you turn your attention
00:58:49.560
to it you'd see it so the only thing that the magicians can do the smart people is make sure
00:58:55.880
there's something shinier over there just so you don't see it it's still there you could see it
00:59:01.400
easily if you could turn your head so they just make sure you can't turn your head so as long as
00:59:06.920
you're looking at some other outrage you're just not concentrating on it and you miss the pattern
00:59:11.320
but yes the democrats have completely given up on governance and they're entirely in the business of
00:59:17.560
uh of making up conspiracy theories and selling them to make the other side look bad yeah
00:59:28.680
um the memes are great today by the way if you haven't seen it the memes are great
00:59:34.520
um so rasmussen had some poll results uh only 30 percent of likely u.s voters rate
00:59:41.000
biden good or excellent for his handling of crime and law enforcement
00:59:46.440
it's down from 35 april 51 percent now give biden a poor rating on the poor
00:59:55.880
what i read this before but somehow this this missed my uh gaze 51 percent give biden a poor
01:00:05.000
rating on crime up from 47 what you know when you see these polls they usually give like four choices
01:00:13.160
you know like strongly then weekly then you know neutral then you know mildly against and strongly
01:00:19.480
against but to see the lowest category have greater than 50 percent of the public poor
01:00:28.360
that's almost is that unprecedented have i ever seen anything that bad in terms of a poll i mean
01:00:33.800
i'm sure there were but this seems like about as bad as anything could be
01:00:37.560
uh and the weird thing is that not only do people not trust biden to handle law enforcement but right
01:00:47.000
in front of us we're watching hunter biden and his father doing something that at least to my eyes
01:00:53.320
i'm not a lawyer but to my eyes it looks obviously illegal
01:00:59.720
and not only that but we've we've been exposed to the direct evidence of it the phone call that shows
01:01:07.480
that they had been discussing hunter's chinese business and that joe biden knew enough about it to
01:01:14.920
shortcut the description and say you know and mention it so
01:01:19.480
to me i mean i don't know what specific crime would be violated here but i feel like this should
01:01:27.480
be illegal somehow so you've got the guy who's in my opinion and again this is not a like a factual
01:01:34.520
statement but it looks like the president is literally has committed the biggest crimes you
01:01:40.360
could ever do right in front of us and showed us the evidence because it was on the laptop i mean
01:01:46.040
we found the evidence and nothing will happen nothing will happen at the same time he's rated the
01:01:52.680
worst president probably ever on crime and 58 of the people said that the that issue will be very
01:02:00.120
important in november how could he possibly win there's no way that could happen have you heard the framing uh
01:02:06.680
where did i see it first that the uh republicans are the parents party or the party of parents
01:02:12.520
what do you think of that framing the republicans are the party of parents how's that hit you
01:02:23.560
pretty good isn't it yeah the only people who don't like parents are children
01:02:30.920
because they don't want authority sometimes but there's no parent who doesn't think parents are a good
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idea so it's pretty strong isn't it yeah it's pretty strong but they're gonna have to back it up
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because yeah and i and i think it's i think it fits everything too i believe all of the republican
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policy preferences fit very neatly under this is what your parents would want for you
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it might not be what you want but this is what your parents know is best for you
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and um he stole that from someone who was the first person who came up with that the parent party
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i'm blanking because i it's it's one of our it's a somebody we know well who was it
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all right well i apologize by tomorrow i'll know and i'll i'll tell you who came up
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but was it soon to bitch i don't remember him doing it newt newt newt was it newt newt's good at this
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um keep an eye on that the parent party that could have some legs um meanwhile cory deangelis uh who
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works this school choice issue relentlessly and very effectively he tweets that uh south carolina
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superintendent republican republican primary election results so the uh the pro school choice candidate
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just absolutely annihilated somebody who is the uh
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was the leader of the teachers union so somebody was the leaders of the teaching union ran for office
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and just got annihilated by a school choice person now we keep seeing this pattern if you haven't noticed
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the pattern i try to tweet about it as much as possible and cory deangelis he's picking up every
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instance of this so you can see it and then the pattern is starting to form but uh yeah the the school
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choice people are just mopping the floor with the with the union people and the people who want
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the schools to stay the same because the one thing that everybody knows that this is that the schools are
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broken and also everybody who's even a little bit smart knows that the way you fix broken stuff is by
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competition right that's it because if you could do it just by force then communism would work great
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wouldn't it like if somebody just had to tell you to do something and then you do it if that model
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work well then communism would be great socialism great but everybody everybody who's you know even
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a little bit sophisticated as an adult and even a little bit educated knows that competition is the
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only thing that fixes anything really because uh and you see it in every domain so i think even the people
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who are uh democrats are going to say themselves you know there really isn't any example of anything that
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isn't better without competition you know there i guess you could say the your town's water company
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might be better as a monopoly but i'm not even sure that's true all right um
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and i think that might be all i want to talk about today oh ukraine
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ukraine is so boring that when i got to the point in my notes where i was going to talk about ukraine
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yeah there's stories news i i ended up with just the word ukraine and then i got bored and stopped
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thinking about it so i guess uh uh nato is invited finland and uh norway do i have the right countries
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uh have been invited in and i don't know doesn't make any difference then putin has said if ukraine
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tries to recapture crimea you know that'll be like really bad war instead of the war they're having
01:06:49.320
that'll be like the really bad one declaration of war
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what bribe did turkey get well we don't know if turkey is going to there still has to be a vote
01:07:01.480
right how does that work being invited does that mean you're in if you say yes or as being invited means
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you're invited to try to get in and that there's still a vote oh turkey agreed somebody says turkey
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agreed okay well there we go i'm sure they got some nice military equipment purchases out of that or
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something well that ladies and gentlemen is the conclusion of the prepared part of coffee with scott
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abbs probably the finest moments you've ever spent in your life i think you got smarter you're probably
01:07:40.200
better people now better off for it i think we we uh all felt the uh connection
01:07:49.160
and i think that uh today's gonna be an awesome day for you the news is so interesting today it's really
01:07:55.480
fun and maybe this is the beginning of the golden age do you know what would be a good signal that the
01:08:06.360
golden age had begun now i'm not saying this is it i'm just saying what to look for so i'm not saying
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we're there but it would look like this the main headlines were about bullshit
01:08:25.160
that's where you want to be because if your main headline is the pandemic well you're kind of
01:08:30.840
fucked if your main headline is there might be a nuclear war with russia well you're kind of
01:08:36.920
fucked maybe if your main news is that we're running out of i don't know food and resources and
01:08:43.240
everything else well you're probably fucked but if your main headline
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is about what trump may or may not have said that don't doesn't really matter to anybody about
01:08:58.840
anything if that's your headline if it's a jussie smollett kind of situation headline
01:09:04.440
you're in good shape now it does seem to me that we have some big problems that are being ignored at
01:09:10.360
the moment but uh what you would look for is that the news would run out of problems and they'd have to
01:09:18.360
make them up and i think that's what's happening i think the news is literally making up the news
01:09:23.560
good news because they can't find enough bad news although it's weird it seems like there'd be enough
01:09:39.800
should we have a sip to the uh golden age that's going to be here any minute any minute let's have a
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sip to the golden age uh somebody's saying that my golden turd analogy was the best ever and that may
01:09:55.080
be true it might be the best analogy of all time and may we drink to the upcoming golden age now here
01:10:05.480
let me be careful i want to be very careful about this you're not predicting it you're not predicting it
01:10:11.560
with a sip you're causing it right so this is about causing it it's not about predicting it go
01:10:32.360
don says it'll be a golden age only for rich guys like me like scott and the rest of it will
01:10:38.040
rest of us will take it up the ass i don't think so i don't think so so and here's why
01:10:45.560
because i think that there is a growing understanding that it's almost impossible for an ordinary person
01:10:51.960
to have a good life with our current system like it'd be hard for them to get health care and you know
01:10:57.960
just it's just hard to get the basics and i think that's going to get fixed and one of the biggest
01:11:03.320
things that is happening right now looks like a small thing but it's big the market for these adus
01:11:10.200
these additional dwelling units these little basically it's a house in a box that they can just put in
01:11:15.720
your backyard connect it to the utilities and you're done and you've got a you've got a like 50 to 100
01:11:21.800
thousand dollar house that's new and really nice for one person maybe two
01:11:26.840
now i think that that's going to be the future i think we're going to figure out how somebody only
01:11:34.920
needs wi-fi or maybe an unlimited you know cell plant they probably only need 5g actually they
01:11:41.640
don't need wi-fi at all they probably only need 5g one of these adus and public transportation
01:11:49.080
and you're done you're done you could have a really cheap high quality life now where is this adu if
01:11:59.480
the adu is in the backyard somewhere well that might be nice but ideally you would build communities
01:12:05.960
in which you would place the adus in sort of a pattern that causes people to interact meet their
01:12:12.360
neighbors share some things have some fun have some concerts have some events and suddenly it's just
01:12:18.760
the most wonderful place in the world to work do you know what my highest quality of life
01:12:24.600
was in my in my entire life and that includes right now where i live in a big house in luxury
01:12:31.560
but do you know what my highest quality of life was it was sharing a little little cinder block room
01:12:38.680
with a roommate in college why because the social part was ideal the physical
01:12:48.360
living quarters was the pretty close to jail actually very close to a jail-like experience so
01:12:54.600
small and literally you know concrete walls and shit but it was by far my happiest years and it wasn't
01:13:03.000
because i was young and i yeah i hadn't experienced luxury yet so i didn't know what it was entirely
01:13:08.680
because the things that make us happy are other people that's it that's it and how many of you are
01:13:20.440
now if you're clinically like you've got an actually organic problem uh this won't help you but for
01:13:26.680
those of you who are just sad and lonely it's because of people right you've got all kinds of other job
01:13:33.480
you know problems financial problems inflation gas costs too much your boss is an idiot but if the
01:13:41.240
people around you are awesome you got the right social life love life family life you're probably
01:13:46.680
pretty happy unless you have you know organic depression right so how much time do we ever
01:13:55.880
spend when we're talking about how to build low-cost housing for people how much do we ever talk about
01:14:01.880
solving the actual problem the actual problem the actual problem is their social problem almost all
01:14:08.040
problems uh at least within a civilized world that has enough food if you have enough food it's kind of
01:14:16.200
a people problem after that you need to be around the right kind of people that will make you feel the way
01:14:21.720
you want to feel now what is the best way to accomplish that all right i'm going to i'm going to close with
01:14:30.600
some life advice how does one go from not having much of a social life to having one what what would
01:14:38.920
be the primary path to do that you tell me somebody said church and that's an excellent suggestion it
01:14:46.600
wasn't what i was thinking of but i'm going to agree with you churches are really good at this really
01:14:52.840
good not just a sunday sitting in the pew stuff but organizing you know barbecues and get-togethers and
01:15:00.840
and churches also will get young people together so they'll have lots of events for just the young
01:15:05.720
people who are who want to meet so i would say churches you can't beat them like if if you're
01:15:11.800
a believer and that works for you i'm not a believer so the model doesn't work for me but it's obvious
01:15:16.440
it works that's why i'm so pro-religion it just works so well for some sports sports but i was going to
01:15:23.960
go a different way so your answers are correct i'll give you full credit for your answers you know
01:15:28.520
uh diversify your friends meet more people do things with people you have in common things you
01:15:34.280
have in common right if you do a sport with somebody you automatically have stuff in common
01:15:38.200
tennis chess you know golf whatever but that's not where i was going to go if you have a social
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problem here's what you need to fix you you yeah fix you that's your biggest gain learn yeah go to
01:15:58.360
the gym go to the gym get your physicality as good as you can get it learn to dress get a good haircut
01:16:05.960
take care of your skin learn to accessorize if you're female and male too i suppose
01:16:11.000
work on your skill stack so that when somebody meets you they say whoa you can do this and that
01:16:20.920
no wonder you're so highly paid and you drive a nice car now i'm giving you sort of a male perspective
01:16:26.360
but you can translate this to the female side all you have to do is fix yourself people will come to
01:16:33.000
you and when they come they'll stick right fix yourself work really really hard on fixing yourself
01:16:39.720
that's how you attract the social life it's how you attract lovers even your family is going to
01:16:44.280
like you better if you're not like a you know just a a useless you know pile of organic matter
01:16:52.680
right just be a better person it's very it's very um let's say i want to say it's easy but it's very
01:17:01.400
well known how to get from wherever you are to where whatever is better there's not much mystery to
01:17:07.160
it right if you read my book how to fail at almost everything and still win big it'll tell you how
01:17:12.120
to not use willpower and still get the weight you want the fitness you want the everything you want
01:17:18.040
basically so you can do it without even willpower you just have to be a little more clever about how
01:17:22.760
you manage your own psychology and i teach you that and how to fail at almost everything it still
01:17:29.320
wouldn't be so the the the road map is there do those things that other people said you know join
01:17:35.720
a sport join a club join a church all those are great things but they're not going to help you as
01:17:41.400
much as you think if you haven't fixed this stuff right you need to fix this stuff if you get that stuff
01:17:48.280
under control then everything you do works let me say it again if you get if you get yourself under
01:17:56.360
control you just have to go to the grocery store right you just have to you just have to walk out
01:18:03.720
of your house and people are just going to flock to you because it's rare for people to do a good
01:18:09.480
job working on themselves and when you see it you go oh i'd like to be around that yeah what clubs there
01:18:17.640
are no clubs anymore yeah i club is the wrong word but there are organizations could be a political
01:18:22.760
organization it doesn't matter what it is or what its point is just have to be around people happy
01:18:34.040
um you are uh cancer the worst astrological sign only because its name how would you like to be uh
01:18:44.280
if you were picking your own astrological sign let's say you got to pick it before you were born
01:18:49.480
and you know there's there's god and god is talking to you all right you're going to be born a little
01:18:53.880
bit you got these 12 12 astrological signs uh how would you like uh we got an opening for cancer
01:19:02.520
uh anybody does anybody want cancer as their astrological sign anybody and i think people say
01:19:10.520
can you get me sagittarius how about a little aquarius i'm thirsty this sort of thing yeah
01:19:19.480
uh many doctors are studying long covert in brazil and the fatigue has a treatment i'm going to look
01:19:29.080
into that so i did my experiment experiment yesterday of not smoking any pot in the morning because i
01:19:36.440
wanted to see if maybe there was something about what i was imbibing that was that was giving me the
01:19:41.560
afternoon fatigue it didn't make much difference so whatever that afternoon fatigue is it it puts me
01:19:49.400
into a zone that i've never experienced before which is why i think it's long covet because it's not
01:19:54.600
familiar everybody knows what it's like to be tired right everybody knows what fatigue feels like
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doesn't feel like that it's not a brain fog as much as i can be completely content simply sitting there
01:20:11.560
that's never happened to me i can literally just sit on the couch
01:20:17.240
and i could sit there for an hour i could just sit there and i've never been able to do that
01:20:24.680
because my body just wouldn't let me like my body would just be off the couch and i'd have to do
01:20:29.320
something like i'd have to be cleaning or learning or sports or take a walk or something but i can now just
01:20:34.920
sit on the couch and i don't like it because i think what's missing is dopamine because remember
01:20:44.680
i taught you the dopamine not only makes you happy but it's indicated in movement i can't even move
01:20:51.480
i'm having trouble getting my body to actually move like actually physically move i have to talk
01:20:58.840
myself into moving i've never had that before that feels like a complete deficit of dopamine
01:21:05.800
doesn't it somebody says it's called aging but why did it only happen after covid
01:21:12.600
i mean i was old a month ago too trust me i was old a month ago this is different
01:21:19.880
cancer is latin for crab well that doesn't help which one do you want gemini or crab awesome horse-like
01:21:33.880
creature or crab uh would you like to uh be the the sign of water that uh is 98 of all our reality or crab yeah
01:21:49.880
well scorpion's kind of awesome yeah do you want to be a lion or a crab do you want to be strong
01:21:59.240
like bull leo or a crab yeah it's bad bad choice sorry about that
01:22:09.000
do you want to be like libra fair or crab do you want to be virgo would you like to be a virgin all
01:22:17.800
your life or a crab okay i'll take the crab all right you win you win i'm taking the crab
01:22:25.240
i'll take the cancer too if i don't have to be a virgin all my life good trade-off and on that note