Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1789 Scott Adams： Worse Than Jussie Smollett. That Summarizes Today's News

00:00:00.000 good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of civilization I was a

00:00:07.840 little busy last night so I didn't catch much of the news let's see if anybody

00:00:11.160 anything happened last night check in the headlines my god it's worse than

00:00:24.800 Watergate the walls are closing in I don't know what to do but first let's do the

00:00:33.220 simultaneous sip and then we'll talk about all the stuff tonight today might be the best news day

00:00:40.100 just for amusement and interest of all time I mean it's a really good one

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00:01:08.400 ah that's good stuff that's good stuff

00:01:16.540 well I was working on a joke just before I came on and I tweeted my version of it but I think it

00:01:26.620 could be better so I need you to help me work on this joke okay uh the starts out with this did you

00:01:34.160 hear about the guy who had long covid and long tds at the same time so that's the setup did you hear

00:01:41.240 about the guy who had long covid and long tds at the same time now I came up with a punch line

00:01:47.200 it was a little soft I think you could do better here's the first one I rejected so the setup was

00:01:54.020 did you hear about the guy who had long covid and long tds at the same time every time you watch

00:01:59.880 is cnn he shits himself now it's funny just because the way it sounds but since covid doesn't

00:02:06.960 make you do that it was like eh could be better if it was like a little more covid related so I ended

00:02:12.840 up changing into it you know I ran out of time before I could make it the way I wanted so I said

00:02:17.560 every time you watch the cnn it gets brain fog it's not bad it's not like a home run or anything

00:02:24.080 so if you couldn't do better than that could you please go to my tweet and improve on my joke

00:02:29.340 so what's the funniest thing that could happen if you had both long covid and long tds at the same

00:02:36.180 time all right well uh here in california uh california leaked the names and addresses and

00:02:44.480 ages of every person in the state who holds a concealed carry permit that includes judges cops and regular

00:02:52.860 civilians and apparently if you look at the la data

00:02:57.820 there's a massive trove of private gun ownership stuff there

00:03:03.420 now that's every person who has a concealed carry permit

00:03:09.520 imagine if it was every person who had a registered gun

00:03:15.320 because that's a lot more right even worse

00:03:19.460 somebody says that's old news that's old news why is it a headline today

00:03:25.960 uh guns are registered guns are registered i know they're not all registered

00:03:34.520 what are you saying guns are not registered in california who's saying that all right um

00:03:44.760 you don't register guns

00:03:46.760 okay say more about that are you being technical that you don't register the guns

00:03:54.360 yeah i think i think they are registered yeah i think they're registered in california

00:03:59.960 anyway so here's my comment on that now that we know that our data on gun ownership is not safe

00:04:08.280 um you have two choices

00:04:15.320 you either live much less safely because now everybody will have a map to which homeowners

00:04:20.600 are protected and which are not or everybody gets a gun guess which one i recommend

00:04:26.440 everybody get a gun yeah as soon as california says we can't protect your data on who owns a gun

00:04:33.720 you have to have a gun you have to have a gun i'm gonna make a uh yeah no i'm not

00:04:42.040 um

00:04:45.080 so i'll just keep it at that if you thought a gun was optional before if you're a homeowner especially i

00:04:50.440 would say for a homeowner or somebody who has a even an apartment i guess but if you have something

00:04:56.360 that maybe you could be attacked in now you have to have a gun so i think this is maybe working

00:05:02.840 opposite of whoever leaked it might have wanted it to work so get yourself some guns if you're in

00:05:08.840 california it's the only way you'll be protected um i tweeted yesterday and as soon as i did it i thought

00:05:16.440 well here's a here's a framing that's gonna last and i said that uh trump's second term um

00:05:23.800 has been a huge success he's had several major supreme court victories looks better than ever

00:05:28.200 compared to biden and the january 6 theater just went full jussie smollett and you can't win harder

00:05:35.720 than that and as soon as you hear it you say to yourself it does sort of feel like trump won a

00:05:42.760 second term because you know he argues that he actually won the election you know the courts don't

00:05:48.840 agree with him and he's had three three or four major supreme court victories which really are about

00:05:57.400 trump's nomination for the court and he does look better and better every day compared to biden

00:06:03.160 i i feel like he's having the best second term that somebody who wasn't president ever had am i wrong

00:06:17.080 so i know what you want to talk about you want to talk about the big story about hutchinson and the

00:06:23.080 january 6 testimony well here's my summary before we get into it in 2020 the theme you heard a lot was

00:06:32.840 worse than watergate right everything was worse than watergate worse than watergate and now today

00:06:39.240 according to every trending uh every trend on social media and every meme worse than watergate has

00:06:47.320 turned into worse than jussie as in jussie smollett as in worse than the lies that he told and i feel like

00:06:54.840 like we're uh we're in worse than jussie territory now aren't we worse than jussie and

00:07:04.280 here here the in no particular order some things that are happening if you were the democrats and you

00:07:11.080 wanted to win what would it look like if you wanted to win elections what would that look like well i'll

00:07:19.160 give you a i'll give you a suggestion what it would look like is uh policies that were you know

00:07:25.880 mainstream and popular and and things that really made sense and would address the biggest issues

00:07:31.880 in the country and maybe turn it around that's what it would look like if you were playing to win

00:07:38.520 the democrats are in this weird situation where they're spending all of their energy

00:07:44.120 fighting the last war which was trump just to make sure it's not the next war it's like all about

00:07:51.160 suppressive fire for trump but what is the what is the obvious outcome of putting all their energy into

00:07:58.200 trump what's the obvious outcome of putting full-on trump energy desantis of course

00:08:08.040 that desantis is unambiguously the strongest political figure in the country am i wrong now

00:08:14.200 you can say trump has more influence blah blah but in this context there's nobody close

00:08:20.840 is there so the democrats have found the only strategy

00:08:25.560 in which if they put all of their energy and they work really really hard they can guarantee that

00:08:32.360 they're running against the strongest carrot candidate in decades desantis

00:08:39.480 does it look like they're trying to win

00:08:43.560 does it because if they wanted to win the only chance they have is running against trump again

00:08:48.680 but they should have waited with this january 6 stuff like bring it out during the during the election or

00:08:54.200 something but right now trump is the only person who could lose an election i think he'd win actually

00:09:02.680 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

00:09:08.200 only person who could lose desantis couldn't lose not in our current environment i mean even even democrats

00:09:15.240 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

00:09:25.960 something because sometimes i'll you know i'll stray into hyperbole but i don't think i am i don't think

00:09:32.600 i am is it hyperbole for me to say that if you were observing this from the outside you couldn't read

00:09:38.440 anybody's mind but it looks like they're playing to lose right it looks like his strategy that if

00:09:46.120 it worked perfectly just the way they're executing it they would lose the election harder than they

00:09:51.000 could ever lose it under any other condition

00:09:55.320 so he says you're meeting the cheat you're missing the cheating aspect well that's a good point

00:09:59.640 the only way that's a really good point

00:10:02.120 if you were trying to come up with a hypothesis to explain why the democrats are pursuing the only

00:10:09.800 strategy that couldn't possibly win you'd have to believe that they think that the election will be

00:10:15.800 rigged i don't think that's true i don't think that the democrats even know right because even if you

00:10:24.120 imagined hypothetically and there's no no evidence of this but even if you imagine that they had fixed

00:10:30.600 elections and we're going to fix it again most democrats wouldn't know that because you couldn't

00:10:36.760 let everybody know right like even under the hypothetical that there's some shadowy secret

00:10:42.280 group rigging elections they're not going to tell all the leadership are they like there might be a few

00:10:49.240 people who know but you don't want everybody to know um so meanwhile the democrats are begging for

00:10:57.240 desantis it seems like well here are the stories that uh so the trump very junior uh aid to mark meadows

00:11:07.800 chief of staff at the time uh she testified that the january 6 thing and among her uh bombshell statements

00:11:17.240 we'll talk about them all trump lunging for the steering wheel of the car he was in the beast

00:11:23.000 or maybe it was an suv uh to drive him to the mall which he denies ever happened he threw his lunch

00:11:29.880 against the wall he was so angry he denies it happened uh he didn't care about weapons being

00:11:35.640 taken to the protest uh these are the allegations these are not true right none of this is true by the

00:11:43.080 the way these are just the allegations and that uh he was in favor of hanging mike bents

00:11:52.280 now uh let's just deal with these in in order all right lunged for the steering wheel and you know

00:12:04.200 wrestled with the secret service guy the secret service guys have already said that didn't happen

00:12:10.120 right so now give me give me your estimate of how likely this story is true given that the person

00:12:18.360 who tells it wasn't there the people who were there said it didn't happen and on its surface it's ridiculous

00:12:29.000 there's no chance no chance now what about the other things that this person would say

00:12:34.600 should you trust anything else hutchinson says no no i don't think so now you might put a different

00:12:44.840 standard on things she says she witnessed herself right talking about what she remembers somebody else

00:12:52.280 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

00:13:00.360 we care about that stuff because we're more influenced by you know non-factual stuff

00:13:07.480 so uh yeah trump lunging at the steering wheel that that should be the tip off that should be the one

00:13:15.240 that everybody says um i don't think so all right how about uh through his lunch he was so angry he threw

00:13:25.240 his lunch against the wall has anybody been really angry and thrown anything

00:13:32.680 i have i have i've thrown things against walls who hasn't thrown things against a wall now let me ask

00:13:41.080 you this if you were president of the united states and you were just positive you'd want just won an

00:13:45.400 election maybe even went to bed thinking you won and you woke up founding that something looked suspicious

00:13:51.080 to you there's no evidence anything was suspicious well there's no evidence anything bad happened it's

00:13:56.760 i guess suspicious is a judgment call but imagine him waking up to have lost the election

00:14:03.560 how mad would he be how mad would you be you'd be insane if the only thing he reportedly did and again

00:14:13.720 he says he didn't it doesn't matter to be either way he threw his lunch against the wall would you hold that

00:14:20.040 against him suppose you knew that was true that he woke up to this situation believing and i think

00:14:28.360 honestly believing you can't read his mind but i think he honestly believes the election was rigged he

00:14:32.840 certainly believed it at the time i think that's a fairer statement that at the time i feel like he believed

00:14:39.240 it you wouldn't throw your lunch against the wall in that situation i don't know how i could put my lunch

00:14:46.920 in my stomach in that situation in fact i think the wall is where that lunch belonged in that situation

00:14:53.480 now if he had done something like violent toward a human being or an animal i would say okay i'm done

00:15:00.360 with him we're done with that but i strongly support the right of any president who just lost an election

00:15:10.360 that he believes is rigged or she can throw their lunch against the wall and none of us should find

00:15:17.560 any problem with that anybody with me if you lose a presidential election that you believe sincerely

00:15:24.360 in your mind you believe it was rigged even if it wasn't you can throw your lunch against the wall

00:15:30.200 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

00:15:36.920 does he he seems like he'd curse and yell and you know be vocal but there's no real evidence that he

00:15:43.800 does physical things when he's mad right an entire history of never being accused of doing any physical

00:15:50.600 thing when he was angry never not one not one accusation but this one time he threw his lunch against

00:15:57.560 a wall what if he did it means absolutely nothing right now they tried to build it as part of his

00:16:04.840 mental state and it was part of his mental state it's also the part you should least care about

00:16:09.800 because it's the most obvious thing that anybody would do in that situation i'd be throwing some lunch

00:16:14.520 pretty sure i'd be throwing a sandwich under that situation um all right so we've got lunch for the

00:16:21.880 steering wheel which is absurd on his face and denied by the people involved we've got through

00:16:27.640 his lunch which probably didn't happen but why would it matter either way has no relevance to anything in

00:16:33.400 the world uh there was a report that he he wanted people with weapons presumably not so much firearms but

00:16:43.720 you know clubs or knives or whatever who knows uh he he didn't want them stopped from getting into his

00:16:50.200 speech because he wanted his speech to have the most number of people

00:16:55.960 so and his uh explanation which is given which you'll notice is often left down to the reporting

00:17:03.000 the reporting says he wanted people let in with weapons do you know what the part they leave down is

00:17:10.440 the important part why did he say he wasn't concerned about people getting in with weapons

00:17:15.640 he gave a reason he gave a reason you know what the reason was they're not going to hurt him and

00:17:23.960 and he was talking about keep people coming to see him speak he said my supporters aren't there to hurt me

00:17:30.120 like like you know why should you care if some of them have weapons they always have weapons

00:17:35.640 basically you stop any if you stop any conservatives they have weapons you know if you if you randomly pick

00:17:43.480 a hundred conservatives anywhere don't some of them have some concealed carry don't some of them have

00:17:50.440 you know scary knives in their pockets just in case of course they do of course they do because

00:17:56.360 there's a bunch of republicans they come they come with the tools they might need so bringing the right tools

00:18:03.720 somewhere is just sort of what republicans do it doesn't mean they're going to use them

00:18:07.160 it means exactly the opposite the republicans are the last people who are going to pull out a gun

00:18:13.720 because they only do it you tell me you finish finish the sentence a republican only draws a gun when

00:18:24.200 when they're when they're willing to use it right it's the most well-trained segment of the population

00:18:30.920 right they have you know good uh good muzzle control good basically they're they're the ones

00:18:37.640 that are most trained to handle this stuff so when trump said uh that he wasn't so concerned about the people

00:18:43.880 having whatever weapons they had coming to see him speak he was saying my supporters won't hurt me

00:18:52.760 he wasn't talking about letting armed people into the capital and the and the news is trying to conflate these things

00:19:06.200 like leaving out the part about they won't hurt me putting it in the other context do you see what's happening

00:19:12.920 this is why this is the best news day ever because go look at the articles that are trying to to uh

00:19:20.040 basically um let's say gild this turd so in a sense hutchinson was just a big old turd in the punch bowl

00:19:31.640 and the and watching the uh watching the democrats try to carefully lift that turd out of the the punch bowl

00:19:39.400 and spray paint it with gold like we have the golden turd this will be our finest moment

00:19:46.600 ah the golden turd everybody look at my golden turd oh

00:19:59.240 golden turd and i'm watching this and i'm thinking this might be the funniest thing i've ever seen

00:20:08.440 not only did they pull a turd out of the punch bowl spray painted gold and try to sell it to the american

00:20:13.640 people but there's a funnier part what's the funnier part it's working come on if you can't appreciate

00:20:24.120 that you're dead inside you might hate it because it's bad for the country bad for your team whatever

00:20:30.280 so you can hate it on that level but don't you think it's kind of hilarious that they're spray painting

00:20:36.280 the turd they took out of the punch bowl and they're trying to sell it but but their supporters 0.99

00:20:41.640 are so dumb and i think in this case we can say dumb that if you look on social media they're 0.99

00:20:47.320 completely buying it oh that that spray painted turd looks like oh i agree may i bow to your 1.00

00:20:56.120 spray painted turd you know may i make a poster and put it on my wall it's so awesome

00:21:01.480 thank you for the five dollar tip all right um so here's why you can find out everything today

00:21:17.960 the journalists who are so shameless that they're writing stories today that this was a bombshell and

00:21:24.600 it's a really bad day for trump they are all the ones who are frauds

00:21:30.760 obviously because all all doubt has been removed today because the one thing you can know for sure 0.99

00:21:37.560 is that the stories are bullshit and that everybody knows it i think i think the democrats know it 0.96

00:21:45.880 but and and the tell that they know it is the form that they write the story 0.99

00:21:50.040 let me let me tell you how all the left-leaning publications are gonna um are gonna sell this

00:21:58.200 and go read the stories and cnn and politico and and see if you agree it goes like this

00:22:05.240 yesterday there were shocking stunning uh revelations the worst thing that ever happened in the world

00:22:11.400 things that there were jaw-dropping absolute bombshells worse than watergate it was the most unbelievably

00:22:18.360 stunning thing and how do you know it was unbelievable and stunning well people whose names we're not

00:22:23.640 going to give you said they were stunned and changed everything it's worse than watergate far worse than

00:22:28.680 anything they could ever imagine what's missing so far what's missing from the story so far

00:22:37.960 any details the stories start with all the hyperbole and you actually run out of time

00:22:45.320 like literally run out of time before you get to the allegations and then the allegations do you know

00:22:52.360 what they're doing they're leaving out the known debunks so the reporting doesn't mention that the people

00:23:02.200 in the case of the grabbing the steering wheel allegation that the people who are there say that never

00:23:07.240 happened that's kind of important to the story isn't it that the main accusation never happened

00:23:12.760 and then they leave out the part about trump saying that you know the people with weapons weren't going

00:23:18.520 to hurt him so you know don't be so harsh

00:23:23.960 they they just leave that out now how about this part apparently uh um it was reported that trump said

00:23:31.480 of the chanters saying hang vp pence um

00:23:35.560 um quote mike pence deserves it all right the the mobs were cheering that they want to hang vp prince

00:23:45.480 and then trump said mike pence deserves it what's it deserves it what is it 0.99

00:23:53.880 deserves the chanting right it he doesn't deserve to be fucking hug 0.97

00:24:06.520 if you read that story and you said i think trump just said they should hang mike pence you should 0.99

00:24:12.680 be really ashamed of yourself you're not really smart enough to participate in political discussions 0.97

00:24:18.840 if you think the president literally meant he deserved to be murdered you're not a serious 0.98

00:24:28.200 participant

00:24:31.080 people were chanting against pence and and trump just said he deserved it he deserves the approbation

00:24:37.960 of the base that's it now he also said uh allegedly we don't know if he really said this but trump

00:24:45.960 allegedly said as that chanting was happening maybe our supporters have the right idea and then

00:24:51.560 it said referring to rioters wanting to hang vp pence to which i say wait a minute how do you know that

00:24:58.440 that refers to wanting to hang vp pence because in the very same story you just proved you don't know how

00:25:05.000 to do this in the same story they proved they don't know how to know what people are talking about

00:25:12.200 because when he said um he deserves it you and i both say uh it is the chanting the disapproval he

00:25:21.720 deserved but they they interpreted it as he deserves to be murdered now if they could do that wrong right

00:25:28.760 in front of you and obviously that's wrong don't you think that the second one where they say where 0.79

00:25:34.600 he said maybe our supporters have the right idea but then somebody else who is not donald trump

00:25:39.800 characterized it as referring to writers wanting to hang vp pence now now that the very same people

00:25:46.600 who wrote the article have proven to you that they can't interpret a quote that's easy to interpret

00:25:52.600 it's easy to interpret he deserves the chanting and the disapproval that's easy

00:25:58.200 that's so easy or or it was hyperbole that everybody would have recognized as such

00:26:04.920 if you were in that situation you don't think you would have at least joked at least once maybe

00:26:08.840 he doesn't deserve to get hung but not really mean it of course you would i would if you put me in

00:26:14.760 that situation to somebody that i knew really well i might have joked that but i would have also trusted

00:26:23.000 that everybody knew i didn't mean it right how many times in normal language do people say somebody

00:26:30.600 should be killed i'm gonna kill him i'm gonna murder him but it's just the way people talk when they're 0.95

00:26:34.760 worked up right nobody takes it seriously 1.00

00:26:41.320 why is uh somebody named will smith uh is trolling me by by repeatedly saying that my stepson is dead

00:26:49.800 with a little uh skull that that is so old news you need to upgrade your trolling

00:26:56.680 i'm gonna hide you on the channel do you really think that that bothers me now

00:27:04.440 it bothered me then but your your trolling is is so off point there's probably like a thousand

00:27:10.680 things that you can say that would be more important than that because because that's just

00:27:15.400 a biographical fact i don't know how you control me by stating a biographical fact that's just something

00:27:23.560 that happened anyway um james garcia or hi i'm sorry not james jaime garcia um tweeted and he's just

00:27:38.760 somebody on twitter i don't know but he tweeted this caught my eye he said i can't believe to this day

00:27:45.240 that an american president encouraged his supporters to hang vp pence just because the vp won't violate the

00:27:51.560 constitution so he he literally says the first part of his tweet is i can't believe and then he states

00:27:58.600 the thing he can't believe why is it that someone would not believe a story like why would you use

00:28:04.680 the phrase i can't believe it well what would cause you to do something like that because it's not real

00:28:12.360 if you see a story that's so fantastical in the news and you and it's also in a fog of war situation

00:28:21.400 and i say january 6 was definitely a fog of war situation at the time you know a little little

00:28:27.480 clarity is coming out but when highby says i can't believe this allegation he means that it's so

00:28:35.960 stunning so jaw-dropping that's like off this freaking unbelievable do you know what your first instinct

00:28:41.880 should be anytime you hear a new story that's based on somebody telling you something happened not not

00:28:48.440 direct observation direct observation would be one thing but if somebody says something happened but

00:28:53.880 you can't verify it and it's jaw-dropping and stunning what should be your first impression

00:29:00.440 there's a 99 chance that it didn't happen and there's actually a reason for that

00:29:09.080 there's an obvious reason why it's 99 not true because the things that are most interesting are false

00:29:15.720 things right normal life is not interesting because because it's normal anything you get used to

00:29:26.280 even if it's outrageous after you get used to it this is normal right so the reason that you got

00:29:32.040 excited about the news the reason that your brain is exploding that should be telling you it's not true

00:29:38.040 99 percent of the time it could be it might be the exception but your first instinct to a jaw-dropping

00:29:46.600 story that has no evidence except somebody said so your first impression should be wow that's quite a

00:29:53.720 bombshell allegation but it's in a class of things that are false 99 percent of the time this is the

00:30:02.760 scott alexander hypothesis which he describes better so it's a real thing i'm not the one making up this

00:30:09.480 rule right it's a it's an existing well-understood phenomenon that the less true something is the more

00:30:16.200 it will catch your attention and if something is yeah like yeah like the story that trump suggested that

00:30:23.560 people would drink bleach how could you know from the first moment that it wasn't true

00:30:28.680 from the first moment how if you hadn't even watched the thing yourself how could you know

00:30:34.280 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

00:30:40.440 say well i don't think that happened and then if you tried to directly observe it you'd find some fog

00:30:47.400 of war going on because they they clip out the beginning and the end where he talks about it being light

00:30:53.000 therapy and then it looks like he's talking about some kind of physical bleach or some kind of

00:30:58.520 chemical bleach so anytime you hear a story like that president said you should drink bleach no you

00:31:08.280 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

00:31:14.920 obviously not true how about uh president praised neo-nazis in public do you have to look into that

00:31:24.200 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

00:38:18.600 it wouldn't make sense all right um

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 0.81

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 0.88

00:41:19.480 the details and then they don't talk about the other side of the details which are already known 0.99

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 0.78

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

00:46:22.840 and complete quote from one trump advisor

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 0.98

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 0.59

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 0.63

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 0.94

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 0.96

00:58:09.400 really learns to spot it are there really that many dumb people and the answer is no the answer is 0.99

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 0.99

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 0.97

00:58:32.120 who are misdirecting you from the pattern do you know why you don't notice the pattern 1.00

00:58:37.880 misdirection it's how all magic tricks work

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

01:02:35.720 idea so it's pretty strong isn't it yeah it's pretty strong but they're gonna have to back it up

01:02:44.040 because yeah and i and i think it's i think it fits everything too i believe all of the republican

01:02:51.480 policy preferences fit very neatly under this is what your parents would want for you

01:02:57.880 it might not be what you want but this is what your parents know is best for you

01:03:01.800 and um he stole that from someone who was the first person who came up with that the parent party

01:03:12.120 i'm blanking because i it's it's one of our it's a somebody we know well who was it

01:03:22.440 all right well i apologize by tomorrow i'll know and i'll i'll tell you who came up

01:03:26.040 but was it soon to bitch i don't remember him doing it newt newt newt was it newt newt's good at this 0.99

01:03:39.560 um keep an eye on that the parent party that could have some legs um meanwhile cory deangelis uh who

01:03:48.360 works this school choice issue relentlessly and very effectively he tweets that uh south carolina

01:03:55.960 superintendent republican republican primary election results so the uh the pro school choice candidate

01:04:02.120 just absolutely annihilated somebody who is the uh 0.92

01:04:08.520 was the leader of the teachers union so somebody was the leaders of the teaching union ran for office

01:04:15.640 and just got annihilated by a school choice person now we keep seeing this pattern if you haven't noticed

01:04:20.840 the pattern i try to tweet about it as much as possible and cory deangelis he's picking up every

01:04:27.000 instance of this so you can see it and then the pattern is starting to form but uh yeah the the school

01:04:34.200 choice people are just mopping the floor with the with the union people and the people who want

01:04:40.520 the schools to stay the same because the one thing that everybody knows that this is that the schools are

01:04:44.840 broken and also everybody who's even a little bit smart knows that the way you fix broken stuff is by

01:04:53.480 competition right that's it because if you could do it just by force then communism would work great

01:05:02.840 wouldn't it like if somebody just had to tell you to do something and then you do it if that model

01:05:07.480 work well then communism would be great socialism great but everybody everybody who's you know even

01:05:16.200 a little bit sophisticated as an adult and even a little bit educated knows that competition is the

01:05:21.400 only thing that fixes anything really because uh and you see it in every domain so i think even the people

01:05:29.960 who are uh democrats are going to say themselves you know there really isn't any example of anything that

01:05:36.440 isn't better without competition you know there i guess you could say the your town's water company

01:05:43.560 might be better as a monopoly but i'm not even sure that's true all right um

01:05:51.560 and i think that might be all i want to talk about today oh ukraine

01:06:01.640 ukraine is so boring that when i got to the point in my notes where i was going to talk about ukraine

01:06:06.440 yeah there's stories news i i ended up with just the word ukraine and then i got bored and stopped

01:06:13.000 thinking about it so i guess uh uh nato is invited finland and uh norway do i have the right countries

01:06:24.520 finland and sweden sweden right finland and

01:06:28.040 uh have been invited in and i don't know doesn't make any difference then putin has said if ukraine

01:06:41.720 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

01:06:55.080 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

01:07:08.920 you're invited to try to get in and that there's still a vote oh turkey agreed somebody says turkey

01:07:15.400 agreed okay well there we go i'm sure they got some nice military equipment purchases out of that or

01:07:22.040 something well that ladies and gentlemen is the conclusion of the prepared part of coffee with scott

01:07:33.240 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 0.94

01:08:13.880 we're there but it would look like this the main headlines were about bullshit 0.92

01:08:25.160 that's where you want to be because if your main headline is the pandemic well you're kind of 1.00

01:08:30.840 fucked if your main headline is there might be a nuclear war with russia well you're kind of 0.99

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 1.00

01:08:43.240 everything else well you're probably fucked but if your main headline 1.00

01:08:52.600 is about what trump may or may not have said that don't doesn't really matter to anybody about 0.99

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

01:09:28.920 out there um we're at omicron five now yeah

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

01:09:46.680 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

01:10:26.600 golden age next step

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 0.97

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 0.90

01:10:45.560 because i think that there is a growing understanding that it's almost impossible for an ordinary person 0.96

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 0.77

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

01:13:17.800 depressed

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 0.99

01:13:33.480 you know problems financial problems inflation gas costs too much your boss is an idiot but if the 0.99

01:13:41.240 people around you are awesome you got the right social life love life family life you're probably 0.99

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

01:15:46.920 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 0.99

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 1.00

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 0.98

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

01:18:29.880 birthday terry large

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

01:20:01.000 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 0.50

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 0.97

01:22:31.880 goodbye to youtube i'll keep

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 29, 2022

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