Episode 1803 Scott Adams： Words That Don't Have Meaning Anymore, So We Can Stop Debating Them
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Summary
In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, Scott Adams talks about how much of the fake news you see on the internet is real and how much is not. He also talks about some of the most common fake stories he has been told about his own life and his divorce from his wife.
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good morning everybody and welcome to coffee with Scott Adams the highlight of
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it's happening now go so what percentage of the news that you see on the internet do you think is
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real we talk about this all the time the the fact that if you're famous or you're an expert on
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something you'll see news about your expertise or about yourself in my case and you know how fake
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that is because you're the expert or it's about you so those are the cases where you know if it's
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fake you don't have to wonder so there there are two stories about my divorce I was just looking
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on the internet so I don't know if you call those stories they're just things on the internet and if
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you look at the internet you're gonna you're gonna find two things about me well you find lots of
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things about me one of the things is that I I asked for a divorce after my wife got a cancer diagnosis
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have you seen that one that I asked for a divorce after she had a cancer diagnosis do you think that's
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true just just ask yourself uh do you think that's true no no that's not true the the relationship
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decision was like a year before that you don't hear about it because there's a time lag so the by
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the time you heard about it they they lined up a little bit but no the relationship decision was
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long before secondly the cancer itself was a stage zero now that's not nothing but stage zero
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means they're just going to zap it with some radiation it's a huge pain in the ass you know
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to go through weeks of it but when you're done with it the prognosis is you're fine that's it nothing
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gets cut off you know nothing's changed you're not degraded she's so so she went through that and
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she's 100% like it never happened right so that's the first thing uh there's another example of you
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know some individual I won't mention who who is starting rumor of something with her but don't
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you can ignore that one that one's also false somebody she's never met uh the other one what was
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the other one I saw I'll see uh oh the other one is that um I got custody of her children
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did you hear that one yeah that I got custody of her children that's not true does anybody think
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that was true I don't think that's ever happened in the history of anything no no you know what the
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real story is that the real start the real estate market was so hot that there was no inventory for
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a house that would fit her and a kid so it just took a while that's all so then she got a place
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that's all that's the whole story but you know you just use those two examples and now generalize that
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to all the news that you see right I can tell you for sure what's true in my own life but
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um you wouldn't know right you read it on the internet looks looks real to you well let's talk
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about other things that are not real did you see the clip of Josh Hawley um senator and he was talking
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to uh some law professor about I don't know trans issues and who has babies and stuff I don't even
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know what the topic was but they got in a little back and forth about what is the you know definition
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of a woman and if you if like Hawley says that only women can have babies then he's being transphobic
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because if you say only women can have babies you are minimizing trans women
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am I saying that right I think so and uh and I guess uh non-binaries and stuff so there are other
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categories according to the law professor who can have babies and so using that word makes him
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transphobic um is it me or have words lost all meaning let me give you a list of words that we don't
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agree what they mean but we used to so here's a bunch of here's a bunch of words I've got 15 of
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them I've got 15 words that we use to argue about in politics these are like real words that we
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really really argue about and we don't agree what the words mean here's all 15 we don't agree what
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woman means we don't agree what find means as in find to be 11,000 votes we don't agree if that
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means stealing or making it up or doing an audit insurrection we don't agree even what an
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insurrection is is it a protest is it an unarmed people uh being in a room for a while how about
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fascism everybody's a fascist right but people generally don't even know what it means it's just
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sort of a word for somebody who's powerful but you don't like them how about bodily autonomy
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you think you know what that means but why wouldn't it apply to vaccines and pregnancies
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right if what's the point of having one word it has two completely different meanings you know we
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don't we don't give it the same power in one situation as another that was a little different
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how about phobic itself doesn't that mean afraid of something do you think that josh holly is afraid
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of trans people like if he goes out in the hallway and he sees somebody that identifies as you know
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does he do that it's an irrational fear do you think he's operating from his fear of trans
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i don't know i don't think we agree what phobic means now the way she described what he did
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was she said that by essentially by diminishing you know the importance of uh non-women having babies
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the way she would say it uh by diminishing that she creates a um he is creating a risk for trans
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okay now i don't i'm not going to even uh argue on her point but it has nothing to do with phobic
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does it that's a little mind reader issue isn't it it's kind of a mind reader thing to imagine
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that uh he's phobic as opposed to just has a preference for some kind of clarity or something
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how about racist yeah of course we all disagree what what that means these days how about a vaccine
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right we used to say a vaccine prevented you from getting something
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now it just makes you not get as sick that's i guess that's a vaccine now how about a meeting
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didn't we used to think that a meeting you had to be there but now you know zoom meeting so we
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don't agree what a meeting is how about a baby we don't agree what a baby is i mean not all the time
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after it's born we agree but we don't agree what that thing in the mother's body is how about proof
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or evidence they don't mean what they used to right it used to be that to prove something or to have
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evidence of something you would have to find something and you'd say here it is you'd go find
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it and then you present it that would be like evidence or if it's really good evidence it would
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be like proof but now if you don't look for something and don't find it you've done just as
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good that's a completely different meaning for proof or evidence how about audit audit if you told me
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that a system had been audited i would automatically think that you looked at all the ways that people
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could cheat it and you found out you know whether there was anything there but now an audit can be
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if you check any part of a system so instead of an audit to find out if there's a problem
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now now an audit can be any any component of the larger system and if you find out that that one
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component looks good you can then conclude that you have audited all the things that you didn't
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look at because you've now done an audit so an audit means that there's no problems that's not what an
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audit was in my opinion my my opinion audit would be looking for problems how about science we barely
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agree with sciences i don't even have to give you details on that how about healthy didn't we used
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to agree what healthy look like and now you can put a plus size model on uh on sports illustrated and
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we'll have an argument over whether that person is healthy we don't even agree what healthy means
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anymore right how about right uh or not right but rights how about rights we don't agree what is a
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right you know like the right to vote or we don't agree because we think that some people have rights
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how do rights happen you know we don't even agree on any of that so so think of this almost all of
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our you know major topics have at least one word that is critical to our debate that we don't use the
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same way it would be as if people who spoke two different languages and didn't understand the other
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had a debate no it's actually exactly like that because if you're not using the same words there's
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not really any hope you're going to get agreement all right uh here's a uh shocking news shocking
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the biden administration uh thinks that something trump did is not so bad i didn't see this coming
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but biden's in israel and apparently the biden administration is is uh quite happy about the
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abraham accords that were negotiated under the trump administration and um wants to broaden them you
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know maybe maybe bring saudi arabia a little closer to israel i think the president's going to take a
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direct flight from saudi arabia to israel which if you're not following the weirdness over there is
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unusual is unusual so apparently it's a big deal to fly a plane directly from saudi arabia to israel
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but it apparently there's lots of um a lot of uh conversation and agreement maybe going on
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beneath the scenes or behind the scenes between saudi arabia and israel so that's all heading in the
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right direction and uh it's interesting that that trump finally got credit for something right
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there are a few topics in the news i'll probably ignore like the bodega thing and you know the
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there's a gaffe here there that just um what is it jill biden call referring to people as different
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as breakfast burritos that's too racist none of that matters to me there's nothing to say about
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that stuff tacos or whatever it is yeah there's nothing to say and by the way well okay i'm gonna
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say it but um i can't watch people who generally agree with me i don't want to say on my side
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because that's weird but people who generally agree with me i don't want to see them make fun of the
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first lady for using maybe an awkward analogy or something clearly she's not a racist i mean if you
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thought she was a racist then we'd have something to talk about but if she just used some words that
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were you know poorly chosen uh i think that doesn't mean anything that's a nothing have i ever chosen my
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words poorly yeah it's like some everybody does there's no news in that how many of our issues in the
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news involve mind reading i think we have to be honest about this don't we how many things that
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we think are news really are based entirely on mind reading or the ability the imagination that you can
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you know what other people are thinking the january 6th thing is totally that um to imagine that trump
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knew he lost remember the entire argument on the left for why trump must be punished and it was an
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insurrection is that trump knew and it's obviously it's obviously knew that trump that trump knew
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there's some funny memes going by on locals that trump knew that he lost now that seems ridiculous to
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me but i can't read his mind however the people who are accusing him can't read his mind either
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so that's a mind reading situation and what about ukraine um you know it's a war so there's more going
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on the mind reading but a lot of it is revolving around what does putin want right we're trying
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to figure out what does putin want does he want the whole country you know so it's we have to do some
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mind reading on that and make some decisions but there's a ton of mind reading going on you know
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what's interesting i keep talking about uh cnn maybe maybe a little bit is leaning toward the middle
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with their new management so so a little less crazy as cnn they're they're not all the way there
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they're definitely left-leaning still but i do think there's some movement all right and i'm going to
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keep reporting on it because i think it's important i think it's important if cnn does this pivot it's
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important because it would make the let me say it in the most direct way if cnn can clean up the worst
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of their excesses that's a big deal for the country even though cnn has low viewership if cnn starts
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saying things closer to true and msnbc is still on here saying crazy shit it's going to be a little
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harder for the crazy shit to to take hold but if you're on the left and you look at cnn and they
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say it and then msnbc says it well you're going to believe it that's two networks on your side that
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say the same thing but what if what if cnn starts saying something more let's say reasoned and you
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know balanced would it make msnbc look silly or or would all of the viewers go to msnbc because msnbc
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would be saying more of what they want to hear you know they get the dopamine hit i don't know but
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whatever it is it's important like it's a big deal if cnn shifts and to that point jake tapper
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interviewed john bolton now to be fair i think interviewing john bolton if you cnn usually they
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would expect to get an anti-trump quote out of that right you'd expect that bolton would tell
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you something bad about trump and so it makes sense that cnn would have him on but i don't know if they
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knew what he was going to say but john bolton said uh basically he said uh about january 6th he goes
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a coup takes a lot more work in planning i've organized coups this wasn't one now
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he's literally admitting he's organized coups in other countries i don't know which ones he's talking
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about and jake asked him and he didn't answer directly but uh or his answer didn't seem direct
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to me uh but if the person who literally literally organizes coups looks at it and says no i do this
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for a living i organize coups for a living they're really hard this wasn't one do you think that made
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a dent if you were watching cnn and you saw the guy who organizes coups and importantly does not
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like donald trump importantly and he looks at this and go you know you can say lots of things about
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trump and then he went out to say trump was too disorganized and you know too bad of a manager to have
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organized something like a coup so you know he gets in his digs but what but what if you're
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what if you're a cnn viewer you've been fed non-stop this is oh this is definitely an insurrection
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this is a coup and then the person who is most qualified to judge a coup was close enough to it
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so we could see everything that needs to be seen doesn't like trump one bit and that's public knowledge
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and says now this is not a coup it's not even close does that make a dent
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like try try to think if that happened with something that you believed
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right say say there was something that you believe you know um whatever it is and you heard the person
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who was the most qualified and had nothing to gain it doesn't look like he's got anything to gain by
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that opinion right it's it's not it's not an opinion i know well maybe he does because it's sort
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of republican opinion he wants to get appointed to something maybe maybe yes i'll take that back
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i might make a dent you never know and if it does um then jake tapper and cnn gave you some really good
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context and i would applaud them for that that's good that's good work
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um when will the left realize that every time they say there's no evidence that the election
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was rigged no evidence meaning no court certified evidence that's large enough to make a difference
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if they keep saying that how are they gonna you know also keep in their head this the opinion
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that there's no evidence that trump knew he lost but they're sure it's true there's no evidence he
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knew he lost in fact the evidence is the opposite but they believe it's true so
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why is it that in one case you believe if there's no evidence of the thing it's definitely not true
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and in the other case there's no evidence of thing so it definitely is true so you got to pick one
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if there's no evidence of thing it would be more i think if there's no evidence of thing it would
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be more accurate to say you don't know if it's true or false there's no evidence uh i don't know
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you'd think that consistency would haunt them but it's not being pointed out wouldn't you like to see
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some journalist um say you know was the vote rigged and then of course the democrat would say no
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there's no evidence of that whatsoever and then they asked this direct question the january 6th
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thing depends totally on trump knowing he lost that's that's the central claim what would be the
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evidence that he knew he lost you know what they'll say when he called rafsenberger he said to find me
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votes and then you say okay but what would be the evidence that find means what you say it means
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instead of its normal definition of the word in the context of an audit meaning that you audit to
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find things and then they would just change the subject or get mad their entire argument is not just a
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different priority it's actually illogical and that's not terribly common i mean you see it enough but
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usually when there's uh let's take for example abortion i think the difference in agreement the
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difference in opinion of abortion is an honest difference what do you think i think mostly you
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know there could be exceptions but i think for the average person their opinion on abortion no matter
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which way it goes to me that feels like an honest opinion and also it does not suffer from a logic problem
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for most people it's really just a feeling a preference you know different priorities maybe
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different source of assumptions maybe the bible for example so that one i call that an honest debate
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would anybody agree with me then no matter what you think of it it's at least it's an honest debate
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would you can i can i get a yes on that okay yeah that's an honest debate that's the kind of we
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should be having and by the way can you think of anything healthier for a civilization than to have
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a pitched serious serious argument over protecting everything that looks like a human life that's
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exactly what we should be having our biggest fights about we we shouldn't be agreeing on that
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if if you want a place to have disagreement in the most productive way that's that's the place to put
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it it is it's insanely healthy that half you know half the country or whatever the percentage is
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is fighting like you know animals to protect what they think is a human life now others have
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different opinions of what's a human life etc but i can't think of anything healthier than this
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this is a really really healthy and honest debate it's healthy and it's honest but this january
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six stuff is none of that it's not healthy and it's not honest it's not even logical and the fact
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that they would present us with this is offensive frankly it's offensive that we're being asked to
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accept something that's just not an honest debate at all now there's some news that trump tried to call
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uh a witness uh a witness for the january six hearings i didn't really see the story i was looking for it but
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it dropped down to the headlines who did he call and he didn't get a hold of him right
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and then i saw uh liz cheney you know talking about it like it was the worst thing in the world
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and he was trying to uh uh you know bias the witness or something and here's my question i'm not
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i'm no legal expert but can you can you prevent a human american from having a conversation with
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another one under this situation is it illegal to contact somebody and just communicate so somebody
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says yes now would it matter what you communicated suppose you said happy birthday would that be illegal
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now whether or not that is illegal or not um i'm gonna i'm gonna make a point after another point
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so my question is is it illegal for for any american to have a communication and contact another american
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under this situation under this situation that there's some hearings and one of them is witnessed and
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one of them is accused i don't want to live in a country where you can't talk to anybody you want
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so i have a problem with this if it's a law but i don't know if it's a law
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uh liz cheney seems to think it needs to be referred and it's bad but a related story is there was a
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list of republicans who met with trump to talk about what were the options for um delaying the
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certification and getting an audit and the way it's being presented is that the people who attended
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that meeting are demonized for attending the meeting so in other words if you started the narrative that
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the entire operation was you know vile and terrible then anybody who had a meeting with somebody who was
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in a vile and terrible situation gets stained by that vile and terrible situation so the idea is that we should
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you know uh heap scorn and whatever on the people who had a meeting with trump about the most important
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question of the time which is is there a path to delay the certification and find out if the vote was
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real now why are these people being castigated or uh penalized for simply going to a meeting to discuss
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if something is legal and appropriate and good for the country why why is that why are we giving him a
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hard time all right and specifically so trump is not allowed to talk to somebody under the specific
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situation that person might be a witness because he might influence a witness but also it's bad to have
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a meeting with trump because then all the people at a meeting with him are you know they they acquire all
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the bad reputation or whatever from trump who is accused of something based entirely upon reading his
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mind now when i see these two stories and i and i think of all the people who get in trouble for like
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taking a photograph next to somebody bad didn't elon musk just say you know somebody uh who was it
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epstein's girlfriend there what's her name uh g g what's her name giselle gislaine gillaine uh so he
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had a picture with somebody who then went to jail for you know grooming or whatever the hell she went to
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jail for and you know he and he just said i take pictures with lots of people and i feel like i have
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to periodically assert this which i did by a tweet today so here's why i tweeted i said tell me who
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you think is the worst person in the world and i'll take a selfie with that person smiling why because
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fuck you that's why yeah tell me who's the worst person you hate that is vile should be in jail i'll
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take a i'll take a selfie with that person because fuck you because you're not going to limit who i
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can talk to or who i can stand next to i will take a picture with anybody i want i will shake hands with
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anybody i want i will meet with any person i want i will tweet to any person i want i will follow on
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social media any fucking person i want for any fucking reason and if you think that's a problem
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fuck you because i still live in a free enough country that i assert my my freedom to associate
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that includes communicating with any fucking person i want for any reason
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fuck you that's the whole conversation is fuck you because as soon as you say but but but but no
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fuck you that's that's there's no other no other conversation you can't be with that person no
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fuck you fuck you um did you know here's a good uh twitter account to follow if you
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if you're leaning right i think would be the way to say that uh look for account called dr interracial
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just search for dr dr dot interracial uh it's i think i believe it's an interracial couple who
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do some tweeting together and he points out that uh three years ago today kamal harris explicitly
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agreed with the claim that trump didn't really win in 2016 and that he was an illegitimate president
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three years ago today while the january 6 hearings are underway three years ago today kamala harris was
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uh committing this crime of you know creating an insurrection or trying to trying to uh you know
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stir up an insurrection by calling the current president illegitimate claiming that it was it was rigged
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270 270 217 people were arrested on trump's inauguration day did you know that there was so much rioting on trump's
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inauguration day and claims that he was an illegitimate president that 270 people got arrested on his
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inauguration day well that feels like a violent insurrection to me
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and it's just shocking that uh the mainstream news would just sort of ignore that this happened
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no that didn't happen now i tweeted today that somebody's going to make a billion dollars
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by creating the news context site where every news item will then be linked to the proper context
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so wouldn't you like to know when trump is being blamed of you know questioning the election wouldn't
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you like to know that the people who are accusing him did the precise same thing not approximately so
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here's the thing it's not it's not like an analogy it's not approximate it's the same thing it's the same
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it's exactly the same and and the the left can only keep their you know their bullshit illusion
00:30:55.020
of the insurrection alive by completely ignoring that it ever happened and hoping that the public
00:30:59.980
doesn't remember i didn't remember did any of you remember how many of you remember that the that
00:31:07.260
trump's inauguration was you know pretty yeah some of you do i didn't remember j6 on the roof yeah
00:31:17.500
um here's another good account to follow barry rittoltz so just search for him on twitter and
00:31:27.340
barry and i have had uh let's say a number of disagreements uh publicly on twitter about a variety
00:31:34.540
of things but he's a high value account meaning that his tweets are always good context and stuff so
00:31:40.860
even if you don't feel like you agree with them all the time here would be somebody to follow that uh
00:31:46.780
i can certify as a reasonable open-minded high value account it just doesn't lean in your direction
00:31:53.900
so just be warned just be warned but here's something that barry tells us uh that uh he's
00:32:00.220
tweeting some data apparently commodity prices fell pretty fast and that would be a good indication
00:32:07.900
that we're past the worst of the inflation now inflation went up a little because uh energy prices
00:32:14.780
still high but it's starting to look as though and and here's a weird one wheat prices went down
00:32:22.940
did you see that coming and forbes has an article that says maybe this ukraine
00:32:27.900
wheat thing isn't such a big deal after all right so uh but it could be that there's a lag before the
00:32:35.260
wheat thing becomes a problem so we'll wait but there are indications that if we could get the energy
00:32:40.540
costs under control which weirdly are the easiest thing to control am i wrong about that well maybe
00:32:47.580
maybe you say it's the hardest but i would argue it might be the easiest are we down to
00:32:53.180
if we could make a big dent in energy costs we'd be in good shape because the other commodities seem to
00:32:59.260
be falling i mean it's not that's not the complete picture but it would would help isn't energy the
00:33:05.580
one thing you can you can sort of pull the lever if you want to but we don't want to right because
00:33:11.740
climate change blah blah so it feels like we now have control of the problem which is the first step
00:33:20.380
so the first step is you know you got a problem what do you do what do you do what do you do and the
00:33:25.020
first step is to get control of it i feel like we just got control of it now what we do with it is
00:33:31.420
a separate question and we can easily fuck it up but i feel like we have control of it in the in the
00:33:37.500
of inflation in the in the singular sense the energy is such a big component and we could drill more we
00:33:44.940
could stop some regulation immediately make a difference it wouldn't in expectations drive prices and
00:34:01.740
so inflation might not be the worst thing in the world
00:34:09.660
had an interesting article which i recommend it sounds funny coming out of my mouth because he's one of the
00:34:16.540
people on the left that um is let's say so in the bag for democrats that a lot of what he says
00:34:24.140
strikes us funny because it's it's just so obviously propaganda uh but he's got an article here and
00:34:31.180
again if you take out the propaganda part and just take the information part is really useful
00:34:36.380
so apparently ukraine has nine of what are these uh high mar systems h-a it's capitalized it's an acronym for
00:34:45.260
something h-i-m-a-r-s and i guess they fire rockets so accurately over long distances and so these are
00:34:54.460
what is being used to knock out the russian uh ammo depots but there are only nine of them so those nine
00:35:02.540
are actually making a big dent because the news shows you know depot after depot blowing up and if the ammo
00:35:09.500
gets wiped out sufficiently because russia doesn't have a good um logistics and supply chain so it's
00:35:16.220
a little easier to knock out their supply chain than it would say an american supply chain because
00:35:20.860
it's more sophisticated but theirs is pretty simple it's got to run on a train so their mo has to go on
00:35:27.660
a train it has to be unloaded by hand and then stored in a big place near the train tracks because
00:35:35.020
you don't want to move it too far right it's hard to move until the local units need it and then trucks
00:35:40.380
take it to them so we only have nine of those and already the news is reporting
00:35:47.900
that i wouldn't say it's changed the direction of the war but it's a little closer to a stalemate than
00:35:53.980
it was before a little closer and there is some thinking by people who know how to do this stuff
00:36:01.340
that if we gave them a 60 instead of nine they would literally win the war outright
00:36:10.300
now i don't believe that at all but it's an interesting thought it's an interesting thought
00:36:15.820
yeah let me not pretend to have any military expertise i don't think it's as simple as we need
00:36:21.900
more of these no matter how awesome and accurate they are because you would assume that russia would
00:36:27.180
change their tactics right they would adjust that's the part that's always missing if russia
00:36:33.180
didn't change its tactics there is a theoretical number of these missiles that would destroy all
00:36:39.340
of their ammo right now now that's true right if russia just kept doing the same thing they're doing
00:36:46.940
bring it in by train unload it by hand so everybody can see where it's going because that can't be fast
00:36:53.340
right we've got eyes above all their trains i'm sure we can see everything and and we know exactly
00:36:58.540
where their depot is and then it blows up don't you agree with the the simple analysis
00:37:05.420
that if you had more of these and people were trained to use them the training and training and
00:37:10.540
getting there and it's a big deal like it's not easy so let me back up it would be really really
00:37:17.740
hard to get 60 of these over there right that's no easy thing but we've done hard things before
00:37:25.180
like america does know how to do a hard thing right especially the military if you said to the military
00:37:32.140
all right this is really hard we don't know how to do it but you got to do it they might figure out how
00:37:38.220
to do it um but don't you think that russia would just have to go to tactical nukes or threaten
00:37:45.900
tactical nukes or use more hypersonic missiles to scare the end of us or or uh you know open up
00:37:52.780
another front somewhere or attack again from the north they would just change their tactics wouldn't
00:37:57.900
they am i wrong um but then i guess let me debate myself by backing up suppose they changed their
00:38:07.980
tactics and then ukraine instead of having 60 of these got 200 of them probably this is all
00:38:15.740
impossible i don't think we could deliver 200 but is there a theoretical number of these things
00:38:27.740
because there almost might be you know i don't i don't if i had to bet i would bet against it
00:38:34.220
in other words i would bet that if they had 60 of these it wouldn't stop the war
00:38:38.140
and they wouldn't win the war does anybody think they would um but there might be a theoretical number
00:38:47.500
that would do just that what if you had 200 of them what if you had a thousand i don't know i mean
00:38:53.180
these are all impossible numbers we couldn't make them and deliver them but uh you do wonder you do
00:39:00.060
wonder if there's a path out and we're pretty good at figuring out paths out maybe this is one i don't
00:39:07.340
know i would bet against it but it's worth it's worth a thought
00:39:16.060
and today uncharacteristically we have flown through the uh prepared material
00:39:23.340
and now i'm looking for you to uh oh yeah seven elevens closing stores in la because of so many
00:39:30.860
robberies starbucks is closing stores too same reason right so retail doesn't really work anymore
00:39:37.100
does it now here's what i think doesn't work cities in my opinion cities need to be abandoned
00:39:46.060
or transformed into some other thing i think cities need to be largely abandoned because
00:39:55.020
we now have much better ways to live there was a time when living in the city made sense
00:40:00.380
because you needed to be in one place to get stuff done it made a lot of sense but i don't think it
00:40:05.260
makes sense anymore and i think that cities have such legacy baggage that you couldn't really turn
00:40:10.940
them into green cities you couldn't like just remodel them it would just be so expensive but if you go
00:40:17.900
out in the field i say this all the time if you here here's the house of the future let me let me
00:40:23.180
describe some specs of the house of the future you know there's this little edu thing where
00:40:28.460
a number of companies now startups mostly are doing these little homes that you can deliver on a truck
00:40:34.380
and there's one boxable that actually unfolds into a tiny home
00:40:37.980
now those are not the solution here's what i think is going to be the solution
00:40:44.380
a home you can build yourself with nothing but a hammer and a pickup truck
00:40:51.420
maybe one other person to hold things but that's where it's got to go and do you think it's doable
00:40:58.780
here's the specification there should be no cutting no nailing and no liquid anything in other words no
00:41:07.580
concrete because you have to add a liquid to it no caulk because you have to add it's wet it has to dry
00:41:13.980
no paint because it has to dry could you build a house could you design a house where there's no
00:41:20.140
cutting they'd know they'd have to be the same right so that they'd have to be built so they're just
00:41:24.780
x number of models no cutting nothing ever is cut nothing's nailed nothing's glued uh caulked
00:41:34.220
concreted you know there's no leveler materials or anything do you think you could build do you
00:41:40.300
think you could design a house like that there's somebody with a pickup truck could go to you know
00:41:46.220
home depot and say all right it's your first day so you're going to start with uh uh what do you call
00:41:53.340
them the pillars that hold up your house what's that called what's the name for that they like if you
00:42:00.060
didn't have a not a footing pylons yeah so the first the first thing is pylons now what would be
00:42:07.900
the hardest thing about pylons getting them the same height right that would be the hardest part
00:42:16.140
so suppose the pylons were self uh adjusting you know you could just crank them and you can move them
00:42:23.180
up a little bit you know maybe just a few inches but so you get them you dig a hole put in your pylons
00:42:29.420
you adjust them then you go back to the uh home depot and say what's next and they say
00:42:35.740
floor and you just get a bunch of square parts that you snap together and those become your floors
00:42:44.940
so i don't think it should be beams and wood and and stuff it should be a component you can put on
00:42:51.020
your pickup truck so everything's about the size of a pickup truck bed so when you you want to do the
00:42:57.820
walls the walls the walls are you know blocks that are exactly the right square that when you put them
00:43:04.940
on they end perfectly at the edge of the wall and then there's your house now do you believe that you
00:43:13.020
could not design a house that i described with here are the specifications again no no nailing no no
00:43:20.700
sawing or sawing or cutting everything's got to be the size when it arrives uh no wet stuff caulk paint
00:43:33.260
what do you think i see a no no it wouldn't be like a regular house
00:43:39.900
uh the plumbing you wouldn't be able to get away is there anything wet with the plumbing i think if
00:43:50.140
you made the plumbing the standard it wouldn't be hard but you probably still need a plumber to check
00:43:54.700
it before you go live right how hard would it do be to do plumbing if every house were designed the same
00:44:01.740
and uh you never had to change the size of a pipe all the pipes are just the right size all you do is
00:44:09.580
say oh this this one is labeled uh 23 and this one is 22 i'll just screw 23 onto 22 boom
00:44:21.420
but you wouldn't want to live there yeah pex exactly pex is a sort of a bendable technology where you don't
00:44:29.020
need uh just it's much easier to plumb your house with pex p-e-x true uh no one wants houses all the
00:44:39.260
same let me address that would your houses have to be all the same the answer is no there wouldn't be
00:44:46.140
one model for everybody there would be one best model for each application yeah so what i mean by
00:44:54.780
application i mean you know you'd have a different design for different climates you'd have a
00:44:59.980
different design for the number of people living there you know a single person thing would be
00:45:04.460
totally different than multiple people you would have uh maybe a deluxe a deluxe model for people who
00:45:11.500
could afford it and a more basic model but each of these would would have the same quality that it's a
00:45:16.700
kit and uh hvac i think you could you could make the components small enough that you could put them
00:45:32.940
jerome thinks that i've invested in one of these startups and i'm pumping it what do you think does
00:45:39.980
anybody think that i've secretly invested in one of these startups and i'm pumping it now
00:45:45.260
you don't think i would tell you the name of the company if i had no no if i were trying to promote
00:45:54.460
a specific company i'm pretty sure i would have mentioned it
00:46:00.220
of course i would have no i don't have in fact uh i'm thinking of investing but i would rather invest
00:46:07.660
in the if there was a way to have like a fund or something of uh like an index fund i don't want to
00:46:14.140
pick a winner because i don't think i could just put money in boxable or something like that and pick
00:46:18.940
a winner um i'm i'm at the age where picking an individual winner is bad investing yeah i'm all
00:46:27.100
about the diversification now everybody who said all right let me let me um go further so i said there
00:46:33.740
would be no paint but that doesn't mean they're all the same color or even the same design because
00:46:40.300
you could imagine whatever is on the the walls would be your choice of let's say color so if you
00:46:47.740
want blue walls you go to home depot and say uh give me the blue squares you just put them up and then
00:46:54.700
when you're tired of your blue wall you take them down and just put up another wall so you could have a
00:47:03.420
infinite variety but in each case the home would be designed for the best livability within that
00:47:10.940
application you know a two person home three person home three person with a garage three person with
00:47:16.540
a home office so you get that like is it one of the applications would be home office another one would
00:47:23.820
be two home offices another would be a business like hair stylist or something like that within it
00:47:30.380
so all of them would be a kit and then here's the here's the other important part you would not be
00:47:36.300
limited to the first box you know whatever the first home you you build is you could buy additional
00:47:42.460
rooms and they would have a technology to connect them seamlessly right some kind of hallway connector
00:47:48.780
or something so if you decide if you had enough land you start with your basic house for one person you
00:47:53.980
get married you add another room you have a kid you add a bedroom but they're all kits and you're just
00:48:07.100
yeah yeah i i think all of you who are saying it would remove you know sort of the creativity
00:48:12.700
and stuff you're on totally the wrong page on this most people just need affordability
00:48:22.620
just just go out and take a look at the cars then ask yourself how many of those cars look
00:48:26.380
awesome and you'd like to own them almost none right am i right if you went in the street let's
00:48:33.500
say you already have a car you like you say all right all these cars all this traffic how many of those
00:48:38.940
are so awesome i got to have one of those cars and you would say hardly any five percent maybe and
00:48:46.140
but do you think that the the car industry is completely broken because all the cars are boring
00:48:53.580
because you're saying that about these homes you're saying oh i don't want these communist homes all
00:48:58.380
alike look at your fucking car i'll bet you bought a pontiac white
00:49:05.180
so different than somebody who had a ford torus white completely different you're showing your
00:49:15.660
creativity there the the fact is that people who can buy um buy a different product you know more
00:49:24.220
expensive more unique they still will there's nothing in what i said that would prevent somebody with
00:49:29.580
money and time from having anything they want i'm just saying that people who don't have money and
00:49:35.340
don't have time they need an option too a little white generic car a a pre-built perfectly designed
00:49:45.900
little house so stop acting like your preferences have anything to do with the market your preferences are
00:49:53.100
irrelevant if there are other people and plenty of them that will buy that product
00:49:59.580
floating homes with balloons apparently there's going to be a floating hotel or restaurant there's
00:50:07.180
one design i don't know if it'll happen there's one design for a uh what would you call a hydrogen is
00:50:13.100
a hydrogen still um like a giant hindenburg what could go wrong uh the giant hindenburg kind of thing
00:50:21.180
that will be so large just enormously large that it would have like a hotel in it would you stay at a
00:50:28.380
hotel that was floating in there helium is a helium
00:50:35.500
i don't know it feels like the ultimate terrorist target doesn't it because you just pop that thing
00:50:41.340
and you get the whole whole hotel i don't know i'd be a little worried about it i suppose it'd be
00:50:47.260
hard for anybody to reach it from the ground though if you're unless you're really dedicated
00:50:50.940
it's totally bs somebody says i think that's most likely true it's it it's it's probably unlikely in
00:50:59.260
the short term in the long term though i think it's guaranteed in the long term i would say floating
00:51:07.180
facilities that are just permanently floating probably more like guaranteed because one thing
00:51:12.460
you could do is make sure that you know all of the is a helium uh that all the helium is in uh
00:51:19.740
compartmentalized things it's not one big balloon it's really a a thousand little balloons captured in
00:51:27.340
a larger balloon right so then if if a missile goes through it it gets the ones it gets but the rest of
00:51:33.580
them you know can keep it up a little bit something like that your papa flew airships in world war ii wow
00:51:42.460
drone attacks yeah drones could still get them but they might not take it all down
00:51:50.380
um how do you and others know exactly what russia believes would be a win for russia
00:51:55.900
um well i don't think i'm the person to question about that so i was asked on the locals platform
00:52:02.220
um how do we know what putin um you know would consider a win and that's my point of view my
00:52:11.260
point of view is we don't know what am i smoking today that's actually a good question what am i
00:52:17.980
smoking today let me give you a little cautionary tale so the answer is nothing yet so at the at the
00:52:25.340
moment i'm not under any influence but i did discover and i've did i've had the same discovery
00:52:30.940
now maybe five times in my life and i'm having trouble learning the lesson and have you ever
00:52:38.140
noticed it's really hard to know why you feel something let me give you an analogy and it'll
00:52:42.460
little back into it have you ever had the situation where you're hungry and you're really mad and
00:52:46.940
irrational as soon as you eat you're better right or or you have a good night's sleep and suddenly
00:52:52.460
you're okay when you wake up so you've all had that but isn't it weird that the illusion is
00:52:57.180
that it's not because you're tired and the illusion is it's not because you're hungry the illusion is
00:53:03.180
you're just mad at the thing right and no matter how many times you get hungry and mad or no matter how
00:53:09.260
many times you're sleepy and tired mad you still don't connect the dots do you have that problem
00:53:16.300
it's not just me right like no matter how many times it happens to you other people can see it
00:53:23.180
right like if i see somebody who didn't sleep last night and i know they didn't get any sleep and
00:53:28.060
they're also like cranky well i can see it to me it's obvious oh we didn't get enough sleep you're
00:53:33.420
cranky but they can't see it because when you're in it you're sure it's the what the person said it's
00:53:38.620
it's because the person is late they broke the promise you're you're you're all mad about that
00:53:43.420
so here's the back to the uh the weed question about five times i've been enjoying uh sativa which
00:53:55.500
is the the one that keeps you awake keeps you energized and i would notice that my uh let's say
00:54:02.540
anger or tension i don't know i'm not sure what words to put on it but uh were through the roof
00:54:09.740
like i'd be cursing at things that didn't deserve it and you know kicking things that didn't need to
00:54:16.780
get kicked not people or dogs but you know things and and it takes me the longest time to connect the
00:54:24.220
dots and yesterday i connected the dots because sometimes there's some things in your life yeah
00:54:30.140
prednisone is the same problem sometimes there's things in your life that you know elevate your energy
00:54:35.180
and then i do the sativa on top of that and i'm elevating a negative energy right so i i was
00:54:43.020
generating a whole bunch of negative energy just you know because of some things temporary things
00:54:49.020
nothing to worry about and because i generated an internal you know organic anger and then on top
00:54:55.500
of it i put on something that increased my energy do not increase your energy when you're angry
00:55:01.500
angry don't do it it just makes you angrier so yesterday i thought to myself it's like duh five
00:55:10.860
times in a row when i when i switched from the sativa to the indica i was immediately better immediately
00:55:18.940
changed everything and so yesterday last night i said huh could this be the fifth time in a row
00:55:26.940
or six time in a row that i'm discovering the same freaking thing yes immediately changed to indica
00:55:35.260
took the edge off of my natural you know my organic you know disturbance and put me in a perfect place
00:55:44.300
so here's the here's the uh pro tip if you're anxious and you've got anxiety and you're angry about
00:55:51.900
something don't do sativa because that will add energy to a negative thing if you want to get rid
00:56:00.220
of a negative thing all that feelings take the one that decreases the energy and it decreases all of your
00:56:07.260
energy including your anger just it just takes everything down a notch if you reverse those and
00:56:14.540
you're you're in a sleepy mood and you do indica you're just dead for the day all right but if you
00:56:22.380
do them in the right order they're they're just lifesavers so one of the reasons that i never recommend
00:56:29.020
marijuana to anyone else is that i'm not a doctor and number two well that's the end of the state that's
00:56:34.860
that's the end of the statement but i'll add something anyway you see the complexity of this
00:56:39.660
the the experience that i have would not be like yours at all because i'm a you know pretty much
00:56:46.940
adult lifetime chronic user the experience that i have would not at all be like yours if you just
00:56:54.060
started not at all i wouldn't even have anything that i don't probably couldn't even give you any
00:56:58.940
advice or anything um so how long you've been doing it how it affects you personally whether it's indica
00:57:07.420
whether it's sativa whether you're doing them in in the right you know head frame and etc those are
00:57:13.900
all complications which mean that you could smoke marijuana and ruin your life or save your life
00:57:23.580
it does both now there are a lot of things that do that right it's not the only thing that does that
00:57:28.700
you know a gun a gun can save your life and it can get you killed marijuana is like that so the
00:57:36.540
last thing that you want to do is be a non-doctor and recommend it i absolutely do not recommend it
00:57:44.860
i'm just telling you my experience but the thing you should get out of it is that my experience is
00:57:49.820
really unique and i've really thought it through and i still can't navigate it i mean this example i i'm
00:57:57.180
as experienced as you can get in this topic and i did it wrong for like days several days in a row row i
00:58:05.020
did it wrong uh somebody's asking about edibles let me give you a pro tip don't do edibles here's why
00:58:16.380
every case i've ever heard of of somebody having a bad experience with marijuana was edibles it's
00:58:23.180
always the same thing i ate the brownie and i didn't feel anything and half an hour went by so
00:58:29.500
i guess i'd better have four more brownies and you're done because people don't realize that smoke
00:58:37.580
hits you almost instantly and food takes you know could take an hour to settle in so you're going to be
00:58:43.580
so high with that fourth brownie you know because i don't think anybody bakes brownies where you need
00:58:49.180
four they break they bake brownies so you kind of need one right one's going to get it done but it's not
00:58:57.100
a it's not a good head head high it's not anything yeah i i would say i've never seen any useful
00:59:05.260
practical reason for an edible unless you're hooked on marijuana it's a long flight and you don't want to
00:59:13.020
get caught smuggling anything i suppose all right start with a quarter of a brownie no that doesn't
00:59:21.020
work either that doesn't work either yeah you know no matter what you do with edibles it doesn't work
00:59:27.820
right now i'm sure you'll you're going to hear from somebody who says oh edibles are awesome i like
00:59:33.020
them i i just don't hear anything but bad news about them nothing but bad news uh oh there's a story
00:59:40.940
about a kentucky woman who od'd on fentanyl because she picked up a dollar bill on the street
00:59:46.460
and there was some on it and just touching it killed her do it and i was asked do i believe that
00:59:51.820
story is real no no no i do not believe that storage could be by the way it's yeah it's realable
01:00:02.380
i just made up a word it's realable meaning that could be i mean there's nothing that eliminates it
01:00:08.540
you know in terms of science or anything like that but it seems it's like too on the nose right
01:00:15.260
yeah it's plausible okay sure they already had a word for it i didn't have to invent a word realable
01:00:20.700
it's plausible damn you damn your eyes there was a word for that um plumbing is easy somebody says okay
01:00:41.100
yeah i wouldn't oh vaping ugh vaping is just nasty but here's the analogy uh have you ever done like
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an energy drink like a monster energy drink and you feel like you feel like you're getting something a
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little too keroseney and chemicals you don't you know you're not having like a natural product right
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and then compare that to like a really good cup of coffee you know similar kind of you know energy
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increase but doesn't the coffee feel like it's organic because it is mostly uh and so vapes are like that
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when i when i vape i just feel the chemicals and it doesn't feel uh it just feels like i'm i don't
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poisoning myself or something and it doesn't give you a good high so it doesn't do anything for you but it
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could relax you you know if if you like sex it's good for that if you don't have any anything else going on
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um but now you might detect that there's a gigantic hole in my reasoning i'm surprised nobody said it
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yet i smoke i mean i smoke the weed i don't smoke tobacco but are you going to say to yourself uh that
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can be any worse than putting smoke in your lungs and you would think so right you would you would think
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so but uh as far as i know the people who are chronic marijuana smokers have exactly the same
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life expectancy of people who don't do it at all um so i don't know if that's ruining my lungs i don't
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think it's affecting my life expectancy i usually use a bong yeah
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um 60 years in solid lungs except that i do that all the time all right that's all for now and uh
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gummies for chemists or chemo relief that probably is a good application
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doctors say smoky weed is bad for your lungs they do say that yeah so here's here's another reason
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why i don't recommend marijuana doctors say it's bad for your lungs studies say it isn't doctors say it
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is who's right in this case i'm not sure i would trust the studies but i also don't trust the doctor
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all right and that's all for now i'll talk to you all tomorrow