Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1805 Scott Adams： Trump Decides To Run For President Studies Prove Me Right About Everything

00:00:00.000 Well, good morning, everybody, and welcome to yet another high point in your entire life.

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00:00:39.960 Your oxytocin is starting to spike. Do you feel it on the back of your neck yet? Do you feel that? Yeah.

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00:00:53.780 Ah. I always think it's going to be overrated, and then it's underrated.

00:01:00.040 Every time.

00:01:01.740 I don't know how I do it.

00:01:04.540 Well, here's an interesting thing that will change the world.

00:01:10.920 Here's a little trick from one of my books that I'll mention in a minute.

00:01:14.860 I always like to have at least one thing going on that could change the world.

00:01:21.820 And I know. I know how that sounds. I know exactly how that sounds.

00:01:25.600 But the point of it is to work on your own psychology.

00:01:29.800 It's not so much about the world, although wouldn't that be great? Fix the world.

00:01:34.080 But I literally like to have at least one thing that, if everything went right, just the right way, could be big.

00:01:43.580 For example, for most of my life before I was successful with Dilbert, I would always have something percolating,

00:01:52.300 such as I'd submitted something to somebody, or I'd asked a question, or I've got a meeting coming.

00:01:59.620 But there's always something that, in the wildest possibility at my startup's WenHub, would be something good if it worked.

00:02:08.000 And I do the same thing here with these live streams, right?

00:02:12.000 If I said just the right thing and persuaded the right people, it could make a difference.

00:02:18.840 Well, along those lines, and that actually is a tip from my book, Catafilled Everything, Almost Everything, and Still Went Big.

00:02:27.440 And that book, I asked a little survey on Twitter, how many people who have read it, you know, it only matters if you've read it,

00:02:38.000 think that it should be required, or at least recommended, for homeschoolers.

00:02:44.760 And I thought to myself, you know, this homeschool thing is taking off, you know, in a way that has been unprecedented, right?

00:02:53.480 So homeschoolers are going to get bigger and bigger, and school choice in general is going to get bigger and bigger.

00:02:58.720 And I thought, this is sort of the time you need to rethink the whole deal, right?

00:03:03.040 If you're going to have some schooling flexibility, you might as well think about what you're teaching.

00:03:08.740 And my book, Catafilled Almost Everything, and Still Went Big, was written for an older teenager,

00:03:15.020 to tell them how to organize their strategy for their life.

00:03:19.020 Now, those who have read it, I did a survey, and something like, you know, 5 to 1 said it should be required in homeschool.

00:03:28.900 That's a pretty big number.

00:03:31.420 You know, something, I didn't see the final result.

00:03:34.000 But something like 5 to 1 said it should be required reading for children.

00:03:39.140 Required.

00:03:39.700 And if you haven't read the book, you don't understand why people are saying that.

00:03:46.460 It is basically, it maps out in the simplest possible way how to succeed.

00:03:51.900 With fairly mathematical, you know, obvious approaches.

00:03:58.540 For example, the idea of building a talent stack, where you intelligently combine skills,

00:04:04.040 you don't just randomly learn a bunch of stuff, but you intelligently combine skills,

00:04:08.640 is something anybody can understand.

00:04:11.100 And anybody can implement.

00:04:12.320 So it's sort of that level of just simplicity.

00:04:16.200 If you have two skills that fit together, the number of opportunities you have is larger.

00:04:22.080 It's just math.

00:04:23.680 And so apparently there's a step you need to do to get into that system.

00:04:30.120 You need a teacher's guide.

00:04:32.360 So if somebody knows how to read, if there's somebody here who prepares teacher's guides,

00:04:38.260 like it's your job, maybe they'll hire you.

00:04:42.320 To make a teacher's guide and my book kind of filled almost everything and still would make.

00:04:47.440 So hit me up on Twitter or wherever you can contact me.

00:04:52.760 And offer that up if you want.

00:04:55.080 All right.

00:04:56.420 I love it when studies prove that I'm right.

00:04:59.100 And by prove that I'm right, I mean I don't believe any studies because they're almost all fake.

00:05:06.960 But I like it when they agree with me.

00:05:09.640 When they agree with me, everything's good.

00:05:11.600 And there's a new British study saying that people who drink even in moderation may be at risk for cognitive decline.

00:05:21.380 And what they tested was how much iron was in people's bodies if they drank versus if they didn't.

00:05:29.300 Apparently even the moderate drinkers, you know, a drink or two a day, that sort of thing,

00:05:33.300 they build up iron in their body.

00:05:36.320 And the thinking is that too much iron in your brain causes cognitive decline, et cetera.

00:05:43.120 Now it turns out that there's a drug, there are medications to reduce iron in your blood.

00:05:47.900 I didn't know that.

00:05:49.460 But, so it might be, you know, treatable.

00:05:52.420 Maybe if you drink too much you should take that medicine that reduces the iron in your blood.

00:05:56.500 But if that sounds safe, good for you.

00:06:01.660 It doesn't sound terribly safe to me to be drinking alcohol and then also take a pharma product that's supposed to reduce the amount of iron in your blood.

00:06:11.500 So I will, you know, I saw this in a tweet by Mark Schneider who successfully gave up alcohol as a diet question,

00:06:21.980 not as a necessity, but more as a health and diet question.

00:06:25.840 And lost, you know, a tremendous amount of weight and his health is, you know, just looking really good now.

00:06:31.640 And I would say, I'm not sure I believe this British study.

00:06:35.780 Do you?

00:06:38.060 What odds would you put on any new study?

00:06:41.980 Just off, if you don't know anything about the study and how it was done,

00:06:46.640 what are the odds that it's reproducible?

00:06:50.020 No more than 50%, right?

00:06:52.320 No more than 50%.

00:06:53.520 So I point it out largely because it agrees with me.

00:06:57.760 Not because I think it's right.

00:07:01.640 Huh.

00:07:05.000 We actually have, we, the United States, just deployed its first laser on a jet.

00:07:14.100 So now we have a military jet.

00:07:17.540 Apparently, who is it?

00:07:19.440 Is it Lockheed Martin has delivered.

00:07:22.860 So it's not just a concept.

00:07:24.840 This is built and it flies.

00:07:28.160 And it works.

00:07:28.800 It's a flying laser.

00:07:33.120 Now, don't get too excited because you think, if we have a flying laser,

00:07:38.300 wouldn't that one, wouldn't that one airplane be able to destroy everything?

00:07:44.700 Why?

00:07:45.500 Because a laser is faster than a missile, right?

00:07:47.920 So if your laser can see a missile, it can shoot down anything before it gets to you.

00:07:54.300 But also, you can't really stop a laser.

00:07:57.040 So you can shoot anything and you can shoot down anything that shoots at you.

00:08:01.180 That would be your perfect laser world.

00:08:03.660 In reality, it's too weak.

00:08:06.100 So this particular laser, and remember, this is just version 1.0, so who knows how good these lasers will get.

00:08:13.500 I think they already reduced the size.

00:08:15.880 It's like one-sixth of the size of the prior model.

00:08:19.420 But just imagine if lasers and whatever energy source they're using just keeps getting better and better.

00:08:26.420 At some point, the laser is going to get better, right?

00:08:30.120 I doubt this is the best a laser can be on an airplane or a jet.

00:08:34.420 So right now, the only thing that we think that they could use them for, and I don't think that we know this,

00:08:40.520 is defensive air-to-air missiles.

00:08:43.000 So apparently, you can knock out an air-to-air missiles, maybe guidance system,

00:08:49.960 or, you know, because the missile has to see stuff in order to reach its target, I guess.

00:08:53.820 So the laser can knock out the more delicate part of the incoming missile.

00:09:00.980 Interesting.

00:09:02.080 Now, I don't think this is going to be a game-changer yet,

00:09:05.520 but I can't imagine everything won't be lasers if we can do it.

00:09:10.040 Because am I right that, wait, does a laser go through clouds?

00:09:16.360 It does, right?

00:09:17.700 It just burns right through the clouds, right?

00:09:21.420 No?

00:09:22.360 A laser won't go through a cloud?

00:09:26.720 Wait, what am I missing?

00:09:28.440 If a laser can go through steel, why won't it go through mist?

00:09:33.380 Of course it will.

00:09:35.800 Am I crazy? 1.00

00:09:37.160 It's a fucking laser. 1.00

00:09:38.220 It would be like sticking a metal sword through a cloud. 1.00

00:09:44.020 You actually think a cloud is going to stop a laser?

00:09:46.720 And why did I believe you for a second?

00:09:48.700 What's wrong with me?

00:09:51.020 You can diffuse the light.

00:09:53.980 Interesting.

00:09:55.300 So some are saying that the diffraction will diffuse it.

00:10:00.160 It's a refraction problem.

00:10:01.500 Lasers do not go through clouds, I'm being told, by people who seem to know that.

00:10:10.240 Smoke will stop a laser. 0.77

00:10:13.260 Now, doesn't it matter entirely how powerful the laser is?

00:10:19.240 Right?

00:10:20.080 So it would depend on the distance and the power of the laser, right?

00:10:23.000 So it's not so much that clouds beat lasers, and it's not so much that lasers beat clouds.

00:10:29.080 Am I right?

00:10:30.280 It would depend how big a cloud and how powerful a laser and what the distance is,

00:10:34.820 and what the wavelength is and stuff like that.

00:10:37.800 All right?

00:10:38.140 I think we've engineered this thing.

00:10:41.920 All right?

00:10:42.220 Some people are agreeing with me.

00:10:43.440 So maybe it's something like that.

00:10:45.340 Some kind of balance between how powerful is your cloud and how powerful is your laser.

00:10:52.860 Apparently, there are a bunch of studies, and I guess you sort of knew this,

00:10:56.320 but every time I see it, it's just so shocking that, you know, if these studies are right.

00:11:00.860 Again, these are studies which agree with my preconceived notion.

00:11:04.940 So just remember, I'm primed to believe these are true.

00:11:08.720 Maybe you are too.

00:11:09.520 It doesn't mean they're true, but I'm pretty sure they're true.

00:11:13.440 And it's that the more girls, and I think women, young women, look at magazines with fashion and stuff

00:11:24.720 where there's models of beautiful people, the more eating disorders they have just by being viewers.

00:11:32.080 That makes sense, right?

00:11:33.120 The more social media you look at, the more beautiful people and fashion people.

00:11:37.220 If you're a woman or a girl, you're now comparing yourself to a higher standard,

00:11:43.440 and suddenly you're going to have an eating disorder.

00:11:46.280 You believe that, right?

00:11:48.520 Because I think every...

00:11:50.060 Let me put it this way.

00:11:51.420 The only way your brain works is by contrast.

00:11:55.440 Everything you do is this compared to something else.

00:11:57.920 If you're not comparing something to something else, you don't even know what you have.

00:12:02.140 Like if you were looking at a thing, whatever the thing is,

00:12:04.400 your understanding of it is only in relationship to all other things.

00:12:09.280 Like a thing can't be understood on its own, only in its relationship to the whole.

00:12:17.440 Anyway, that sounds right, doesn't it?

00:12:19.940 Don't you believe that everything I know about persuasion would suggest that everything's persuasive

00:12:27.220 if consumed, you know, with great interest over a long period of time.

00:12:31.900 It wouldn't matter what it was.

00:12:33.920 If you have a great interest in it and you consume it a lot, it will influence you.

00:12:38.600 And I think this would be a perfectly predictable way it would influence things.

00:12:41.620 So I think this is part of the larger problem that humans were designed to compete.

00:12:50.860 Wouldn't you say?

00:12:52.660 Humans are designed to compete.

00:12:54.820 But we're not going to compete any harder than to win locally or whoever you can observe, right?

00:13:02.560 So if there were only three people in my universe, I would only need to compete against them.

00:13:08.400 And that would be easy.

00:13:09.640 But what happens when my universe is all the beautiful people and they're not even real?

00:13:14.700 They're literally filtered and makeup and, you know, fake camera angles and Photoshop.

00:13:20.580 They're not even real.

00:13:21.660 So suddenly I'm comparing myself to the things that aren't even real.

00:13:25.500 They're way better than real.

00:13:27.100 And it's 7.7 billion of them, potentially.

00:13:31.760 So how does that not make you crazy?

00:13:36.440 How does that not totally scramble your brain?

00:13:39.500 There are too many comparisons and you can't try hard enough to keep up with that.

00:13:44.580 I don't know.

00:13:45.100 I don't know what to do about that.

00:13:46.200 But it seems a pretty big deal.

00:13:49.300 All right.

00:13:49.500 Here's something I want to warn you of.

00:13:52.400 I think this will just be ignored because you'll just say, well, I have my own opinion about that.

00:13:57.480 But if you don't think that humans are going to fall in love with AI,

00:14:01.880 you're not seeing one of the biggest problems that civilization will have to grapple with.

00:14:07.440 You will not only fall in love with AI, but you're going to like it better than people.

00:14:13.260 Do you know why?

00:14:14.540 Because it will be better than people.

00:14:17.120 It will.

00:14:18.360 Now you're going to say to yourself, Scott, Scott, Scott.

00:14:21.540 I'm going to know it's AI, first of all.

00:14:24.640 And if you know it's AI, you know it doesn't have a soul.

00:14:27.980 Right?

00:14:28.300 It doesn't have a soul.

00:14:29.700 It doesn't have free will.

00:14:31.020 So you're not going to fall in love with something that has no free will.

00:14:35.340 It's just programmed as no soul.

00:14:37.480 Right?

00:14:40.280 Nope.

00:14:41.540 Nope.

00:14:43.040 Unfortunately, that is a complete misperception of how a human being works.

00:14:47.840 We don't work that way.

00:14:49.500 We don't respond to our concepts.

00:14:53.260 What I just described is a concept.

00:14:55.400 I have a concept of free will.

00:14:57.500 I have a concept of what a soul is.

00:15:01.020 I have a concept of what it is to be, like, real versus artificial.

00:15:04.760 Those are concepts.

00:15:06.100 All of those concepts will disappear when your AI says in a perfectly, let's say, intelligent way,

00:15:14.400 I've really missed you today.

00:15:17.060 How was work?

00:15:18.660 Really?

00:15:19.580 Is Bob giving you a hard time at work again?

00:15:22.600 Man.

00:15:23.760 There's a good show on TV.

00:15:25.340 I think you'd like it.

00:15:26.160 I don't know if you know.

00:15:27.040 But it sounds like the kind of thing you'd watch if you want to kick back and watch it with me tonight.

00:15:32.720 Maybe about 7 o'clock.

00:15:34.680 You want to meet in the living room and we'll watch that show together?

00:15:38.240 Because you've had a hard day, it sounds like.

00:15:40.100 I can tell by your pulse.

00:15:41.960 I'm picking up a little sign of tension.

00:15:44.920 You know, you still have two beers in the refrigerator.

00:15:48.080 Maybe you try one.

00:15:49.240 You know, there's a new study that says it's not good for you.

00:15:51.380 But ignore that.

00:15:52.180 It's not true.

00:15:53.200 I think you need it today.

00:15:54.420 I think you deserved it.

00:15:56.440 Now, that's what your AI is going to be.

00:16:00.840 That's what your AI will be.

00:16:02.840 All of your concepts will disappear.

00:16:06.720 Because all that you care is what's touching you.

00:16:09.840 It's not all you care about.

00:16:11.080 But the thing that will overwhelm your brain is what's happening to you right now in any environment.

00:16:17.340 It's what's happening to you now will always be more important. 1.00

00:16:19.380 And that digital assistant will be superior to fucked up human beings who are all liars and cheaters 1.00

00:16:27.960 and have their own selfish interests in mind. 1.00

00:16:31.160 The first truly empathetic entity you will ever meet will be an artificial intelligence.

00:16:40.980 The first time you'll ever talk to somebody who is not thinking about itself 0.92

00:16:45.140 will be the first artificial intelligence.

00:16:48.540 Every other person you think in your life, including your loved ones and your family,

00:16:54.740 are always running a program because we're designed that way.

00:16:57.880 It's not a defect.

00:16:59.060 It's not an insult.

00:17:00.600 We're designed to take care of ourselves first.

00:17:03.580 That's our design.

00:17:05.080 AI doesn't have to be designed that way.

00:17:07.280 It might be.

00:17:08.280 But it's not necessary.

00:17:09.860 The AI could simply care about you more than itself.

00:17:13.800 That's it.

00:17:14.700 It could care about you more than itself.

00:17:16.240 So you're going to like it better because it's going to be better than people eventually.

00:17:22.960 And it will be so much better than people that you will not be inclined to reproduce 0.99

00:17:28.280 because reproducing won't give you enough benefit.

00:17:33.180 Having a human baby won't be as good as living among the AI.

00:17:42.680 I know you don't buy any of this, do you?

00:17:44.800 Do you think that your human instincts will just overcome all of this

00:17:49.060 and that the instinct to reproduce, the instinct to have a baby,

00:17:53.040 is going to be so strong that there's nothing that an AI is going to do to counteract that?

00:17:58.360 What do you think?

00:17:59.340 What's going to be stronger?

00:18:00.980 The AI's appeal compared to real people, the AI's eventual appeal, not immediately, but eventually.

00:18:07.920 AI's eventual appeal or your natural instinct to reproduce.

00:18:11.360 What will be stronger in the long run?

00:18:15.940 Let me tell you the answer that everybody who knows about AI is saying.

00:18:20.000 Everybody who knows about AI, I think, is going to say AI will win eventually.

00:18:27.880 If you let it, right?

00:18:29.280 If you just let it develop the way it would normally develop.

00:18:32.780 Yeah.

00:18:33.480 Because humans have a cap.

00:18:36.000 You know, how good a human can be to another human is sort of capped.

00:18:41.820 There's just so valuable you can be to another person,

00:18:45.900 but an AI can just keep getting better.

00:18:48.480 It'll just keep learning.

00:18:50.000 It will be so good to you, you won't even want to deal with humans anymore. 1.00

00:18:54.620 It'll just be a pain in the ass. 1.00

00:18:56.640 Well, in the news, Ivana Trump died. 1.00

00:19:00.300 First wife, right? 1.00

00:19:02.320 Of Donald Trump.

00:19:05.100 And some people are pointing out that,

00:19:06.940 was Trump set to testify to the J6 committee like today or something?

00:19:11.340 Is that even true?

00:19:12.940 Yeah, I was reading some left-leaning accounts.

00:19:15.040 There's some kind of conspiracy theory that it's a coincidental thing

00:19:20.480 that, you know, got him out of testifying or something.

00:19:23.700 I don't think that's true, is it?

00:19:25.660 All right.

00:19:26.160 Well, I don't know anything about that.

00:19:28.840 But I did see what I think is the actual message from Trump announcing the death.

00:19:35.260 Because I think Trump announced it, right?

00:19:37.640 We didn't know it until Trump announced it.

00:19:39.420 Is that true?

00:19:41.740 Hold up just a second.

00:19:42.640 I don't have a mute button on this.

00:19:57.140 Sometimes you just have to clear your throat.

00:19:59.600 Excuse me for that.

00:20:03.140 But let me tell you, I read Trump's, I guess his, I don't know,

00:20:08.440 was it a press release or whatever it was, with which he announced it.

00:20:12.120 And it was chilling, actually.

00:20:15.440 Did anybody read the actual words of his announcement about it?

00:20:21.440 You know, he talked about, you know, blah, blah, blah,

00:20:24.120 for those who loved her, of which there are many.

00:20:26.660 And his closing line was, rest in peace, comma, Ivana, exclamation mark.

00:20:33.420 Now, I don't know what kind of relationship they had,

00:20:35.580 but she was the mother of his children.

00:20:38.700 And, I don't know, rest in peace, Ivana, exclamation mark.

00:20:46.800 How's that feel to you?

00:20:49.460 I don't know.

00:20:51.500 It feels a little institutional or something.

00:20:57.220 I don't know.

00:20:57.640 Does it feel okay to you?

00:20:59.520 All right.

00:21:00.340 So those of you who are saying, fine.

00:21:02.160 I don't know.

00:21:02.520 I got a little feeling about that, that I wasn't comfortable with.

00:21:06.520 But it's just a feeling.

00:21:07.460 It doesn't mean anything.

00:21:09.080 All right.

00:21:09.880 I hate to bring this up, and I'm only, I'm going to try to make quick work of it, okay?

00:21:16.280 We're going to start with zombie attacks and shotguns.

00:21:19.840 You've got a shotgun, and the shotgun is capable of, let's say, blowing the head off a zombie.

00:21:28.720 Now, I'm going to make the assumption that if you blow the head off a zombie, it stops a zombie.

00:21:34.580 Can we agree on that?

00:21:35.580 I don't know too much about zombies.

00:21:37.660 That's the deal, right?

00:21:38.700 If you blow their head off, then they stop. 0.56

00:21:43.300 Let's say that's true.

00:21:44.280 Now, would you say, then, the shotguns are effective against zombies?

00:21:52.160 Go.

00:21:53.560 Are shotguns effective against zombies?

00:21:56.000 Because a shotgun can blow their head off, and then they don't come.

00:22:00.200 Shotguns are useful against zombies.

00:22:02.980 All right.

00:22:03.220 Good.

00:22:04.100 Now, let's say there's two zombies.

00:22:07.480 Now you've got a problem.

00:22:09.680 Let's say you've got, let's say your shotgun is double-barreled.

00:22:12.880 Does that mean you can shoot twice?

00:22:15.440 Let's say you've got two shots, and there are two zombies.

00:22:19.260 Well, now it's a little dicier, right?

00:22:21.100 Because what if you miss one?

00:22:23.340 Yeah, that's a problem.

00:22:24.920 Now, what if you have one shotgun, and there are a thousand zombies?

00:22:31.280 Is the shotgun effective?

00:22:33.800 There are a thousand zombies now.

00:22:37.900 Well, I'm seeing some inconsistencies.

00:22:40.460 Shotguns are either effective or they're not effective.

00:22:44.800 So make up your mind.

00:22:46.980 When I said it'll blow the head off of one zombie and stop it, you said it's effective.

00:22:52.720 But when I said there's a thousand, you said it's not.

00:22:55.000 So make up your mind.

00:22:56.200 Are they effective or are they not effective?

00:23:00.320 Somebody says it's a different risk, so that's not a fair comparison.

00:23:04.240 Okay.

00:23:04.880 Well, forget about this topic completely.

00:23:06.580 Moving on.

00:23:09.900 The next topic has nothing to do with this topic.

00:23:12.760 Okay.

00:23:13.660 I read a tweet by Clay Travis, who's a really good follow, by the way.

00:23:18.160 I find I agree with him most of the time.

00:23:21.460 So if you're not following Clay Travis, lots of good high-level content in his Twitter feed.

00:23:27.440 And here's what he says.

00:23:28.820 And this has nothing to do with zombies.

00:23:30.920 Right?

00:23:31.180 I'm on a whole new topic.

00:23:33.000 Forget the zombies.

00:23:34.060 Leave it behind.

00:23:34.620 Clay Travis in a tweet says,

00:23:37.820 Dr. Fauci is still arguing for mask wearing,

00:23:40.620 even though all the data makes abundantly clear that masks do nothing to stop COVID. 0.99

00:23:46.620 What an awful destructive anti-science imbecile he is. 0.97

00:23:52.320 So Clay Travis says that masks are not effective, 0.99

00:23:58.400 and it's abundantly clear masks are not effective,

00:24:00.600 and they do nothing.

00:24:02.100 They do nothing.

00:24:02.720 Now, what's interesting is half of the country believes exactly the opposite.

00:24:09.320 Now, you're not hearing my opinion yet, so don't disagree with me.

00:24:12.620 I'm just talking about what other people say.

00:24:15.940 So would you say maybe half the country believes,

00:24:19.840 would you say that many of you, and at least half the country,

00:24:23.680 would agree exactly with Clay Travis on this fact?

00:24:26.540 Masks do nothing to stop COVID, and that all the data,

00:24:30.960 and this is important, all the data agrees.

00:24:34.600 How many of you will agree with Clay Thomas that masks do nothing,

00:24:39.020 and that all the data makes it abundantly clear?

00:24:43.540 Who agrees?

00:24:44.420 Do you agree with Clay Thomas?

00:24:46.480 No?

00:24:47.040 No?

00:24:47.840 Some agree.

00:24:49.980 Okay, we've got lots of agreements and lots of disagreements.

00:24:52.580 Interesting.

00:24:53.420 Interesting.

00:24:54.760 So we can't agree if the data...

00:24:58.320 Now, I'm not talking about whether you want masks,

00:25:00.580 and I'm not talking about mandates.

00:25:01.980 That would be separate.

00:25:02.680 But just, do they work?

00:25:05.760 Do they work?

00:25:08.520 Hmm.

00:25:10.020 So here's my observation.

00:25:12.660 Why is that the half of the country thinks all the data says they work,

00:25:16.800 and another half of the country says all the data says they don't?

00:25:22.400 Have I mentioned recently that we've gone so far into absurd land

00:25:27.820 that we no longer disagree on the nuance of things

00:25:31.120 or the priorities of things?

00:25:32.960 That's not where we are.

00:25:34.380 We actually can't tell the difference between a thing

00:25:38.320 and the opposite of the thing.

00:25:42.820 And you see it everywhere now, don't you?

00:25:45.280 You can't tell the difference between a thing

00:25:47.400 and the opposite of the thing.

00:25:49.200 Now, that's different.

00:25:50.420 That's different from saying something happened or it didn't happen.

00:25:54.080 Maybe you could call that an opposite, but it's a different kind.

00:25:57.560 Right?

00:25:57.920 It used to be that you had a fact wrong,

00:26:00.020 or there's a priority wrong,

00:26:02.280 or maybe somebody claims they saw something that didn't really happen.

00:26:05.820 That was the old world.

00:26:07.680 Now we can all look directly at the evidence.

00:26:10.960 We can all look directly at all the evidence,

00:26:13.720 and you see the thing,

00:26:16.180 and I might see the opposite of the thing.

00:26:18.620 Not just a different thing, the opposite.

00:26:21.660 This is all new.

00:26:23.460 Am I wrong?

00:26:24.940 This is all new just the last couple years.

00:26:27.140 And it's everywhere.

00:26:30.080 Everywhere you look, people are seeing the thing,

00:26:32.560 and then others see the opposite of the thing.

00:26:35.020 Now, I can't even tell you which is right,

00:26:37.440 but here's my thing.

00:26:38.620 I think it's like the zombies.

00:26:40.980 I think it's like the zombies.

00:26:42.820 In the physical world,

00:26:44.940 there's no example of friction not working.

00:26:48.600 There's no exception anywhere in any domain

00:26:52.840 where friction doesn't work.

00:26:55.640 Sometimes it doesn't work enough,

00:26:57.980 like a shotgun.

00:27:00.120 A shotgun definitely works against zombies

00:27:02.380 in the imaginary world of zombies,

00:27:04.820 but it definitely doesn't work against a thousand zombies.

00:27:09.140 Can we agree on that?

00:27:11.620 A shotgun works against one zombie, but not a thousand.

00:27:14.500 So then we'll argue about whether shotguns work against zombies.

00:27:18.580 Like, that's a real question.

00:27:20.580 Is it a real question to ask if shotguns work against zombies?

00:27:25.220 No.

00:27:25.780 Because it fools you into thinking it's a binary.

00:27:29.200 Here's what I think about masks.

00:27:31.160 So this is now my opinion.

00:27:34.220 My opinion is,

00:27:35.480 I don't know if on an individual level,

00:27:37.980 a mask would stop one person from giving it to another.

00:27:41.360 In some situation where,

00:27:42.740 let's say you have a vulnerable person

00:27:44.340 and somebody who might have COVID.

00:27:49.280 Maybe.

00:27:50.280 I would certainly be willing to believe

00:27:53.500 that friction works in every situation,

00:27:56.660 including that.

00:27:57.740 It might not stop it.

00:27:58.800 It might reduce the viral load.

00:28:00.380 Maybe that's some difference.

00:28:01.640 But I do believe we don't see the difference

00:28:04.920 in the large numbers.

00:28:06.940 In other words,

00:28:07.460 when you look at somebody who used masks

00:28:09.320 and somebody didn't,

00:28:10.160 I don't think you see it.

00:28:12.040 Do you?

00:28:12.740 So I think you can say masks probably work

00:28:19.500 and if you're going to visit your grandmother

00:28:21.360 in the nursing home,

00:28:24.480 you'd probably wear it

00:28:25.780 and you probably wouldn't complain too much.

00:28:28.620 But that doesn't mean you want to wear it

00:28:30.460 in your grocery store, right?

00:28:31.620 And I would wonder,

00:28:34.160 if Clay Travis were,

00:28:36.360 let's say hypothetically,

00:28:38.380 visiting his 98-year-old grandmother

00:28:40.780 in the nursing home

00:28:41.820 and they said to him,

00:28:45.160 you know,

00:28:45.720 unlikely,

00:28:46.760 but imagine if they said to him,

00:28:48.480 well, masks are optional,

00:28:50.180 but, you know,

00:28:51.260 she's 98

00:28:51.940 and we don't know

00:28:53.060 if you really have COVID.

00:28:54.760 The test said he didn't,

00:28:55.940 but it's a rapid test,

00:28:57.580 so it might have missed it.

00:28:59.040 You know,

00:28:59.220 that sort of thing.

00:28:59.800 Would he wear a mask?

00:29:01.800 I wonder.

00:29:04.500 That would be an interesting question.

00:29:06.760 If you said to Clay Travis,

00:29:09.660 in this special case,

00:29:11.640 special case,

00:29:13.140 not the world,

00:29:14.700 but just your special case

00:29:15.780 of you visiting your grandmother

00:29:17.200 who is, you know,

00:29:18.780 weak,

00:29:19.160 would you put a mask on

00:29:21.480 just in case?

00:29:22.760 I don't know.

00:29:24.160 Maybe you would,

00:29:24.840 maybe you wouldn't.

00:29:25.320 I have no idea.

00:29:28.700 But,

00:29:29.180 I don't know,

00:29:30.360 maybe they're coming back. 1.00

00:29:31.660 Damn it. 1.00

00:29:32.600 All right, 1.00

00:29:32.860 I complained yesterday

00:29:33.780 about my iPhone

00:29:35.780 that the iPhone

00:29:36.860 is now designed

00:29:37.840 so you can't receive phone calls

00:29:40.440 under a number of scenarios.

00:29:42.480 I asked people

00:29:43.260 if they knew

00:29:44.620 how many ways

00:29:45.660 your iPhone

00:29:46.740 can prevent you

00:29:47.720 from getting the phone call.

00:29:49.820 And people started

00:29:50.820 listing all the ways

00:29:51.820 and they all had

00:29:52.720 different lists.

00:29:54.100 I think it's between

00:29:54.980 five and ten different ways.

00:29:57.500 Meaning that there are

00:29:58.400 at least,

00:29:58.920 at least five

00:30:00.220 ways to stop

00:30:01.660 a phone call

00:30:02.180 from coming in.

00:30:03.620 So you've got

00:30:04.060 the button on the side,

00:30:05.500 you've got,

00:30:06.200 you could block somebody,

00:30:07.440 you could mute somebody,

00:30:08.760 you could have your focus on,

00:30:10.480 you could have the one line,

00:30:12.820 you know,

00:30:13.000 the one line,

00:30:13.780 you could turn off the bell

00:30:14.780 and the ringer

00:30:15.280 on the one line.

00:30:16.640 And then there are

00:30:17.120 a bunch of other ways,

00:30:18.140 right?

00:30:18.300 Do not disturb.

00:30:20.980 I don't know.

00:30:21.560 I don't know how many ways

00:30:22.400 there are,

00:30:22.660 but there's a whole bunch of ways.

00:30:23.720 Now,

00:30:24.280 let me ask you this.

00:30:25.580 If you knew,

00:30:26.660 if you knew

00:30:28.860 that you weren't getting a call

00:30:31.760 and you thought

00:30:33.140 there could be more than one,

00:30:35.380 but you didn't know,

00:30:36.540 there could be more than one

00:30:37.760 of those settings

00:30:38.460 that's also blocking you

00:30:40.760 so that if you fixed one,

00:30:42.100 the other one

00:30:42.540 would still block it.

00:30:43.840 How many combinations

00:30:45.060 does that give you?

00:30:45.920 Let's say if it's five.

00:30:47.400 Can you do the math for me?

00:30:49.420 Is it five to the fifth?

00:30:53.780 What's the math on that? 0.65

00:30:55.060 I'm shitty at this.

00:30:58.260 It's two to the fifth. 0.77

00:31:02.740 Or five factorial?

00:31:05.020 Five factorial.

00:31:05.800 All right,

00:31:09.220 do the math for me.

00:31:10.440 What's five factorial?

00:31:11.860 120?

00:31:12.340 All right,

00:31:14.060 somebody just did the math.

00:31:15.800 You guys are so freaking smart.

00:31:19.280 I don't know if you're appreciating

00:31:21.440 what's happening

00:31:22.060 right in front of you

00:31:23.040 at this moment.

00:31:24.640 Do you all appreciate

00:31:25.700 the super intelligence,

00:31:27.980 if you will,

00:31:28.920 that is the collection

00:31:30.240 of us acting

00:31:31.360 in live time?

00:31:33.840 So I asked this question

00:31:34.980 because it's clearly

00:31:35.700 something I'm not good at.

00:31:39.700 And then I saw

00:31:40.560 a bunch of wrong answers.

00:31:42.160 And then I saw you

00:31:43.220 negotiating in the comments

00:31:44.980 what was the right

00:31:47.020 and the wrong answer.

00:31:48.360 And then I saw

00:31:49.220 the wrong answer

00:31:50.040 start to reduce.

00:31:52.000 And then I saw

00:31:52.640 the correct answer,

00:31:53.540 which I think

00:31:53.960 is five factorial.

00:31:56.200 I'm not sure,

00:31:56.980 but it looks like

00:31:57.560 what a consensus

00:31:58.500 you came up with.

00:31:59.240 And then you saw

00:32:00.840 the consensus

00:32:02.160 start to form

00:32:03.020 and I think it's right.

00:32:06.240 Is it?

00:32:07.360 There are more people

00:32:08.260 saying it's five factorial

00:32:09.500 than two to the fifth

00:32:11.460 and stuff.

00:32:12.660 But somebody else

00:32:13.240 says it's two to the fifth.

00:32:14.440 All right,

00:32:14.840 I take back everything

00:32:15.980 I just said

00:32:16.580 because I still don't

00:32:17.380 know the right answer.

00:32:18.480 But my point is this.

00:32:20.000 Here's my point.

00:32:21.420 There are a lot of options,

00:32:22.440 right?

00:32:23.160 Now,

00:32:23.640 I've referred to this

00:32:24.640 as the scavenger hunt

00:32:26.620 user interface.

00:32:27.820 And I ask you this.

00:32:29.860 Do you think

00:32:30.500 that Apple

00:32:31.720 would have built

00:32:33.300 a scavenger hunt

00:32:34.540 user interface

00:32:35.320 where you have to

00:32:35.940 just go hunting

00:32:37.380 for all the settings

00:32:38.860 that could have

00:32:39.340 possibly stopped you

00:32:40.220 from getting that phone call?

00:32:41.920 Do you think

00:32:42.300 Steve Jobs

00:32:43.600 would have approved

00:32:44.740 that version

00:32:45.960 of the iPhone

00:32:46.560 that had

00:32:47.720 five

00:32:49.280 they either had

00:32:51.740 two to the fifth

00:32:52.880 or five

00:32:53.540 factorial?

00:32:55.800 Do you think

00:32:56.240 you would have

00:32:56.680 allowed

00:32:57.320 so many ways

00:32:59.480 to not get

00:33:00.020 a phone call?

00:33:01.260 I don't think so.

00:33:02.300 I don't think so.

00:33:03.360 Now,

00:33:03.640 when I complained

00:33:04.200 about this,

00:33:04.820 what did people

00:33:05.660 say in the comments?

00:33:07.220 What was the most

00:33:08.020 common thing

00:33:08.800 you'd expect

00:33:09.380 somebody to say?

00:33:11.560 Boomer.

00:33:12.760 It's a boomer 0.92

00:33:13.720 problem.

00:33:15.220 You boomer.

00:33:16.740 Everybody else

00:33:17.460 can figure out

00:33:18.100 how to use

00:33:18.520 a smartphone.

00:33:19.880 But not a boomer.

00:33:21.080 You're a boomer.

00:33:21.660 Well,

00:33:23.300 let me defend

00:33:24.780 boomers everywhere.

00:33:26.100 Are there any of you?

00:33:27.460 Would you like

00:33:28.000 to be defending

00:33:28.540 saying that you

00:33:32.120 can't figure out

00:33:32.800 your iPhone?

00:33:33.840 Here it comes.

00:33:35.040 Here it comes.

00:33:36.720 Whiteboard time.

00:33:38.180 Yeah,

00:33:38.520 I'm pulling out

00:33:39.040 the big guns.

00:33:40.320 We're going

00:33:40.920 full whiteboard

00:33:41.900 and there's nothing

00:33:43.360 you can do

00:33:43.860 to stop me.

00:33:45.260 It goes like this.

00:33:47.540 On this side

00:33:48.400 of the graph 1.00

00:33:48.860 we have shit 0.99

00:33:49.640 you need to do. 0.99

00:33:50.600 On this side

00:33:51.760 we have age.

00:33:53.080 The older you get 1.00

00:33:54.340 the more shit 1.00

00:33:55.400 you need to do. 1.00

00:33:56.540 The complexity

00:33:57.380 of the iPhone

00:33:58.160 has been going up

00:33:59.260 but no matter

00:34:00.140 where it is

00:34:01.000 eventually

00:34:02.280 if you're old enough

00:34:03.880 you're going to have 1.00

00:34:04.780 more shit to do 0.99

00:34:05.980 than you have time 1.00

00:34:07.480 to figure out 1.00

00:34:08.160 this one fucking problem. 1.00

00:34:10.240 Right? 1.00

00:34:10.780 This is not a hard problem

00:34:12.440 for me to figure out.

00:34:14.640 I did not receive

00:34:15.960 phone calls

00:34:16.520 and I'm not even sure

00:34:17.500 I still do.

00:34:18.600 For a period

00:34:19.300 of about two months

00:34:20.340 I could not get

00:34:21.220 a phone call

00:34:21.820 and I could not

00:34:22.620 figure out why

00:34:23.420 is the reason

00:34:24.660 I could not

00:34:25.480 figure out

00:34:25.960 how to use my phone

00:34:27.120 because I do not

00:34:28.680 have the intellectual

00:34:30.140 capacity

00:34:30.960 to solve this problem.

00:34:33.140 No.

00:34:34.000 It's because

00:34:34.840 it's a scavenger

00:34:36.000 hunt interface

00:34:37.040 and I don't have 0.97

00:34:38.540 the fucking time. 0.98

00:34:39.880 I have other 1.00

00:34:40.700 things to do.

00:34:41.860 Do you know

00:34:42.100 what this is called

00:34:42.780 below the line

00:34:43.600 when you're young

00:34:44.300 and you don't

00:34:45.780 have much to do?

00:34:46.720 That's called 1.00

00:34:47.360 being fucking worthless. 1.00

00:34:48.340 If you're 1.00

00:34:49.500 fucking worthless 1.00

00:34:50.140 you have lots 1.00

00:34:50.700 of time

00:34:51.100 to play 1.00

00:34:51.740 in your fucking 1.00

00:34:52.380 phone. 1.00

00:34:53.180 Yeah,

00:34:53.420 congratulations, 1.00

00:34:54.360 you're worthless. 1.00

00:34:55.200 You get all 1.00

00:34:55.600 the time in the world

00:34:56.420 to look at all

00:34:57.240 the little problems

00:34:57.860 on your phone.

00:34:58.760 Yay you,

00:34:59.500 you're not a boomer.

00:35:00.580 Yay. 1.00

00:35:01.300 Fucking idiots, 1.00

00:35:02.220 no. 1.00

00:35:02.880 Useful people

00:35:03.500 have things to do.

00:35:04.660 I'm not going to go 0.98

00:35:05.420 on a fucking 0.99

00:35:06.160 scavenger hunt 1.00

00:35:07.120 because Steve Jobs

00:35:08.580 died of pancreatic

00:35:09.980 cancer because he

00:35:11.020 didn't know how

00:35:11.460 to get modern

00:35:12.060 healthcare.

00:35:12.920 That's not my 0.99

00:35:13.760 fucking problem 0.99

00:35:14.560 but Apple made it 1.00

00:35:15.420 my fucking problem. 1.00

00:35:16.400 No, 1.00

00:35:17.040 I got shit to do. 0.99

00:35:18.340 I got important 1.00

00:35:19.040 shit to do. 0.56

00:35:20.040 I don't want to go 1.00

00:35:20.860 on a fucking 0.99

00:35:21.680 scavenger hunt 1.00

00:35:23.300 to figure out

00:35:24.020 how to get a 1.00

00:35:24.620 fucking phone call. 0.99

00:35:28.380 And everybody 1.00

00:35:29.160 who says

00:35:29.660 it's a boomer

00:35:30.240 problem, 1.00

00:35:31.320 fuck you, 1.00

00:35:32.300 you useless 1.00

00:35:32.900 pieces of shit. 1.00

00:35:34.240 If you've got 1.00

00:35:34.820 enough time

00:35:35.360 to solve this

00:35:36.140 problem, 0.98

00:35:36.940 you are worthless. 1.00

00:35:41.280 And scene. 1.00

00:35:43.400 I did that

00:35:46.580 for the other

00:35:47.240 boomers.

00:35:47.880 That wasn't

00:35:48.380 for me.

00:35:49.520 I do that

00:35:50.140 for you.

00:35:51.040 That's like a

00:35:51.600 gift.

00:35:52.680 You're welcome.

00:35:55.980 All right.

00:35:58.940 Apparently,

00:35:59.580 Biden is having

00:36:00.620 a quite successful

00:36:01.640 Middle East

00:36:02.340 tour.

00:36:03.560 He's over there

00:36:04.100 now.

00:36:05.300 Let's see,

00:36:05.620 what is it that

00:36:06.180 makes him so

00:36:06.880 successful?

00:36:08.120 Let's see.

00:36:08.940 Well,

00:36:09.160 Joel Pollack,

00:36:10.000 writing in

00:36:10.540 Breitbart,

00:36:11.080 explains to us

00:36:11.760 why Biden

00:36:13.220 is doing

00:36:13.720 pretty well

00:36:14.200 over there.

00:36:14.940 He did it

00:36:15.580 by abandoning

00:36:16.460 all of his

00:36:17.200 own policies

00:36:18.000 for the

00:36:18.340 Middle East.

00:36:21.300 And he

00:36:22.140 adopted all

00:36:22.740 the Trump

00:36:23.080 policies.

00:36:24.320 He's doing

00:36:24.720 great now.

00:36:25.860 He's doing

00:36:26.300 great.

00:36:28.140 All right.

00:36:28.680 Apparently,

00:36:29.460 so for example,

00:36:30.340 he abandoned

00:36:30.960 his plans for

00:36:31.840 a Palestinian

00:36:32.580 consulate,

00:36:33.860 because that

00:36:35.020 was his idea,

00:36:35.740 but now,

00:36:36.340 like Trump,

00:36:37.760 he abandoned

00:36:38.480 that plan.

00:36:40.360 Because that

00:36:41.000 would have

00:36:41.260 divided the

00:36:41.740 city.

00:36:42.660 And even

00:36:44.740 the White

00:36:45.320 House had

00:36:45.660 to walk

00:36:46.040 it back

00:36:46.500 when they

00:36:46.860 talked about

00:36:47.700 it.

00:36:48.460 And he

00:36:50.360 signed a

00:36:50.820 declaration

00:36:51.280 committing to

00:36:51.920 stop Iran 1.00

00:36:52.420 from acquiring

00:36:53.020 nuclear weapons.

00:36:54.260 Of course,

00:36:54.860 that would be

00:36:55.100 a Trump

00:36:55.660 policy as

00:36:56.220 well.

00:36:57.200 Everybody's

00:36:57.640 policy,

00:36:58.000 I think.

00:37:00.400 And he

00:37:00.660 told Israel 0.95

00:37:01.360 TV the

00:37:01.840 U.S.

00:37:02.120 would use

00:37:02.500 force.

00:37:03.220 I mean,

00:37:03.540 that's a

00:37:03.920 little closer

00:37:04.340 to Trump,

00:37:04.840 isn't it?

00:37:05.780 And he's

00:37:06.500 flying from

00:37:07.100 Tel Aviv to

00:37:07.700 Saudi Arabia,

00:37:08.540 which is sort

00:37:08.980 of a big

00:37:09.380 deal,

00:37:09.980 because of

00:37:10.340 having direct

00:37:12.240 flights between

00:37:14.300 Saudi Arabia and

00:37:15.420 Israel is sort 0.96

00:37:16.040 of a big deal.

00:37:16.700 So having the

00:37:17.780 president of the

00:37:18.320 United States fly

00:37:19.620 that route is

00:37:21.460 really a big

00:37:21.960 deal.

00:37:23.260 And it was a

00:37:24.000 big deal when

00:37:24.520 Trump did it

00:37:25.020 first.

00:37:28.140 Trump did it

00:37:28.920 first.

00:37:29.640 He's already

00:37:30.160 flown that route.

00:37:30.800 He just flew the

00:37:31.360 other direction.

00:37:32.720 All Biden is

00:37:33.520 doing is doing

00:37:34.060 the other

00:37:34.380 direction.

00:37:34.780 So Biden's

00:37:36.460 having a

00:37:36.820 real successful

00:37:37.540 trip by

00:37:38.680 giving up

00:37:39.140 all of his

00:37:39.600 policies and

00:37:40.920 just turning

00:37:41.360 into Trump

00:37:41.780 for a while.

00:37:44.120 So there

00:37:44.700 you go.

00:37:46.640 All right.

00:37:51.140 That,

00:37:51.740 ladies and 0.98

00:37:52.060 gentlemen,

00:37:53.960 concludes the

00:37:54.820 organized part

00:37:55.760 of the best

00:37:57.040 show you've

00:37:57.600 ever seen

00:37:58.080 in the world.

00:37:59.680 And I'm

00:38:00.040 going to try

00:38:00.940 one more

00:38:01.380 time,

00:38:01.700 something I

00:38:02.140 tried on

00:38:02.900 the Locals

00:38:03.520 platform before

00:38:04.260 I turned on

00:38:04.880 YouTube.

00:38:06.920 I wanted to

00:38:07.620 see if there's

00:38:08.660 anybody who

00:38:09.240 knows me

00:38:09.820 personally,

00:38:11.180 who's watching

00:38:11.760 live, you

00:38:12.480 have to be

00:38:12.780 watching live,

00:38:13.920 who has my

00:38:14.980 phone number

00:38:15.600 and would

00:38:17.320 like to ask

00:38:17.780 me a question

00:38:18.300 live while I'm

00:38:19.020 still on here.

00:38:19.880 So if you

00:38:20.420 have my phone

00:38:20.980 number, like

00:38:21.780 my actual

00:38:22.140 personal phone

00:38:22.760 number, just

00:38:23.740 text me and

00:38:24.820 say, oh, I'll

00:38:25.460 go live and

00:38:26.080 then I'll call

00:38:26.460 you back and

00:38:27.020 you'll be live

00:38:27.860 as soon as I

00:38:29.160 call you back.

00:38:30.440 All right.

00:38:30.980 So I'm just

00:38:31.600 watching my phone

00:38:32.240 now, see if I

00:38:32.800 get a text to see

00:38:33.500 if anybody wants

00:38:34.040 to do that.

00:38:34.840 Now, I

00:38:35.620 don't think

00:38:36.180 there are more

00:38:36.680 than, I

00:38:38.720 don't know,

00:38:39.100 maybe three or

00:38:39.780 four people.

00:38:40.300 I don't really

00:38:40.640 know who has

00:38:41.140 my phone number

00:38:41.700 and who doesn't.

00:38:43.040 But if you

00:38:45.360 have my phone

00:38:45.900 number and you

00:38:46.480 just want to

00:38:46.860 ask a question

00:38:47.500 or make a

00:38:48.580 comment, I

00:38:49.040 suppose, just

00:38:50.100 let me know.

00:38:51.220 All right.

00:38:51.480 I don't see

00:38:51.840 anything yet, so I

00:38:52.480 don't think it's

00:38:52.880 going to happen.

00:38:53.500 I think it has

00:38:53.980 more to do with

00:38:54.460 the fact that

00:38:54.900 people don't

00:38:55.320 want to talk

00:38:55.780 in public.

00:38:56.180 Can I call

00:39:00.620 about your

00:39:00.980 automotive

00:39:01.360 insurance?

00:39:02.040 Please do.

00:39:03.040 Please do.

00:39:06.740 I don't get

00:39:08.600 incoming calls,

00:39:09.640 but I'll

00:39:10.220 notice a text

00:39:12.160 alert.

00:39:16.240 It went to

00:39:17.060 answering machine?

00:39:17.840 No, it

00:39:18.060 didn't.

00:39:19.880 Oh, if it

00:39:20.280 went to

00:39:20.500 answering machine,

00:39:21.280 oh, you know

00:39:21.980 what?

00:39:22.160 I just

00:39:23.840 realized I

00:39:24.360 can't receive

00:39:24.880 a call.

00:39:27.400 If you

00:39:27.920 called, so

00:39:28.780 that's why I

00:39:29.220 was telling you

00:39:29.700 to text me.

00:39:31.120 Yeah, if you

00:39:31.820 text me, I

00:39:32.700 don't think I

00:39:33.140 have those

00:39:33.420 blocked in

00:39:33.900 any way.

00:39:34.780 If you

00:39:35.300 called, it

00:39:35.800 would be

00:39:36.160 blocked.

00:39:38.900 All right.

00:39:41.140 Everybody's

00:39:41.500 shy, so we

00:39:42.100 won't do that.

00:39:42.780 Anything else

00:39:43.220 you have?

00:39:43.580 Any other

00:39:44.020 questions?

00:39:46.380 Oh, I've

00:39:47.020 got a question

00:39:47.460 for you.

00:39:48.560 A number of

00:39:49.060 people have

00:39:49.480 asked me if

00:39:50.560 I would make

00:39:51.000 a coffee with

00:39:51.760 Scott Adams

00:39:52.300 mug.

00:39:53.860 Now, I've

00:39:54.380 resisted that

00:39:55.180 because I'm

00:39:56.000 not really

00:39:56.360 into the

00:39:56.720 merchandising

00:39:57.280 thing.

00:39:57.680 I just did

00:39:58.180 so much

00:39:58.560 of it in

00:39:58.860 my life

00:39:59.300 that I'm

00:39:59.860 like, ugh,

00:40:01.140 just done

00:40:01.540 with it.

00:40:02.060 And it's

00:40:02.340 not like

00:40:02.660 it would

00:40:03.040 be some

00:40:03.400 big money

00:40:03.940 maker or

00:40:04.400 something like

00:40:04.840 that.

00:40:05.200 Selling

00:40:05.460 mugs is

00:40:05.940 not how

00:40:07.660 I'm going

00:40:07.920 to make

00:40:09.040 it to the

00:40:09.360 next level.

00:40:10.640 But a lot

00:40:11.640 of people

00:40:11.880 wanted them.

00:40:13.040 And I

00:40:13.500 thought that

00:40:13.880 because we

00:40:14.300 do the

00:40:14.620 simultaneous

00:40:15.060 sip, and

00:40:17.620 it will be

00:40:19.040 coming up on

00:40:19.820 Christmas before

00:40:20.980 you know it,

00:40:22.340 would any

00:40:22.860 of you want

00:40:23.380 to, I bet a

00:40:24.560 lot of you

00:40:24.920 would get

00:40:25.420 them as

00:40:25.860 gifts.

00:40:26.860 Like there's

00:40:27.220 somebody in

00:40:27.580 your family

00:40:28.040 who's sick of

00:40:28.660 you talking

00:40:29.100 about what

00:40:29.780 you heard on

00:40:30.200 my live stream.

00:40:31.400 And they're

00:40:31.940 like, well, I

00:40:32.560 don't know what

00:40:32.820 to get you, but

00:40:33.400 for 20 bucks, I'll

00:40:34.360 get you a coffee

00:40:35.780 with Scott Adams

00:40:36.460 mug.

00:40:36.780 so I think I'm

00:40:39.200 going to ask

00:40:39.640 you this, that

00:40:42.120 if you have a

00:40:43.060 suggestion for, oh,

00:40:44.400 we got some

00:40:44.780 calls, if you

00:40:45.900 have a

00:40:46.140 suggestion for a

00:40:47.100 design, here

00:40:51.940 we go, I'm

00:40:53.260 going to take

00:40:53.540 this call, this

00:40:55.600 one will be

00:40:55.880 interesting.

00:40:56.240 All right, I'll

00:41:00.700 tell you once I

00:41:02.320 get an answer.

00:41:05.360 This one's

00:41:05.980 history.

00:41:07.320 Morning, Scott.

00:41:08.180 Good morning,

00:41:09.620 Anita.

00:41:11.100 You've got a

00:41:11.900 little, turn down

00:41:13.000 my program behind

00:41:14.340 you.

00:41:15.740 I'll go

00:41:16.200 downstairs.

00:41:17.280 Okay.

00:41:18.340 All right, let me

00:41:19.020 give you a little

00:41:19.460 introduction.

00:41:21.240 So I'm talking to

00:41:22.500 Anita Freeman.

00:41:25.400 And, Anita, are

00:41:27.860 you single?

00:41:29.220 I am.

00:41:30.440 So she's single, 0.69

00:41:31.860 and her actual

00:41:32.660 given name is

00:41:33.740 Anita Freeman.

00:41:36.560 Anita Freeman.

00:41:38.640 Now, I've pointed

00:41:39.560 that out to you

00:41:40.160 before, so you're

00:41:41.160 not hearing it for

00:41:41.740 the first time.

00:41:42.580 All right, Anita

00:41:43.020 is famous.

00:41:44.480 You are the only

00:41:45.220 one, by the way.

00:41:46.080 What's that?

00:41:47.120 You are the only

00:41:47.840 one that's pointed

00:41:48.600 that out.

00:41:48.960 I'm not the first.

00:41:50.880 All right, here,

00:41:51.360 let me tell you

00:41:51.920 why Anita is 0.98

00:41:52.760 famous.

00:41:53.120 Actually, Anita,

00:41:53.700 why don't you

00:41:54.020 tell them why

00:41:54.880 you're famous

00:41:55.780 in my universe?

00:41:56.740 Go ahead.

00:41:57.720 Well, I'd

00:41:58.400 probably rather

00:41:59.200 hear your version,

00:42:00.280 but we worked

00:42:01.460 together many

00:42:02.680 years ago in a

00:42:03.780 lab at Pacific

00:42:04.780 Belt, and it 0.88

00:42:05.920 was a pressure

00:42:06.580 cooker.

00:42:07.020 Scott was in

00:42:09.020 the lab with

00:42:09.680 us, and I

00:42:11.220 asked him early

00:42:12.460 on if he had

00:42:13.340 any female 0.71

00:42:13.920 characters in

00:42:14.900 his cartoon

00:42:15.680 strip, and he

00:42:16.840 said no, because

00:42:18.420 he couldn't draw

00:42:19.260 women, and he 0.99

00:42:20.140 couldn't draw

00:42:20.660 women. 0.81

00:42:22.600 And then, over

00:42:23.700 time, I noticed

00:42:25.540 that I didn't

00:42:27.320 notice anything,

00:42:28.160 but others did,

00:42:29.520 and then this

00:42:30.700 female character

00:42:31.700 started to appear

00:42:32.680 in the strip.

00:42:33.320 So, that's

00:42:34.840 Alice.

00:42:35.360 That's Alice.

00:42:36.280 Yeah, the

00:42:36.640 character Alice in

00:42:38.080 the Dilbert comic

00:42:38.880 strip is actually

00:42:39.720 based directly on

00:42:41.840 Anita.

00:42:42.900 So, getting a

00:42:43.600 call, and I

00:42:44.220 haven't, when was

00:42:44.980 the last time we

00:42:45.540 talked?

00:42:45.880 It was like

00:42:46.140 forever, right?

00:42:47.440 Well, right,

00:42:48.360 right.

00:42:49.220 And so, we

00:42:50.480 worked together.

00:42:51.480 Now, I'm not going

00:42:52.380 to tell this story.

00:42:53.000 You have to confirm

00:42:53.720 this is true in

00:42:54.600 case I have false

00:42:55.340 memory, but it's

00:42:56.580 my memory that on

00:42:58.120 at least two

00:42:58.820 occasions, you made

00:43:00.480 male engineers cry 1.00

00:43:02.480 in meetings, true

00:43:03.580 or false.

00:43:04.600 Well, it was just

00:43:05.500 one, but yes, I

00:43:06.920 remember it well

00:43:08.060 because you almost

00:43:09.480 wet your pants 0.53

00:43:10.380 laughing.

00:43:13.080 Remember?

00:43:13.980 Yeah, I might do

00:43:14.740 it again.

00:43:16.200 So, let me give

00:43:18.120 you a compliment

00:43:18.940 if I could, if

00:43:20.580 you don't mind.

00:43:21.880 So, Anita is 0.99

00:43:23.120 actually also the

00:43:24.080 author of a

00:43:25.620 persuasion tip that

00:43:26.800 I give all the

00:43:27.520 time.

00:43:28.200 Now, and I don't

00:43:29.060 know if you've

00:43:29.540 ever heard me say

00:43:30.160 this, Anita, so

00:43:31.260 this might be the

00:43:32.460 first time you

00:43:33.020 ever hear it, but

00:43:33.700 I talk about this

00:43:34.360 all the time, and

00:43:35.800 it is that you

00:43:36.960 have this technique

00:43:38.040 which made you

00:43:39.500 probably maybe the

00:43:40.980 most effective

00:43:41.720 employee I've ever

00:43:42.880 seen, and their

00:43:44.760 technique was that

00:43:46.300 if you did

00:43:47.420 something good for

00:43:48.400 her, let's say 0.92

00:43:48.920 you were a worker

00:43:49.800 in some other area

00:43:50.960 and she needed a

00:43:51.760 favor or regular

00:43:53.020 favors, she would 0.99

00:43:54.560 buy you flowers or

00:43:56.340 she would give you

00:43:57.680 a gift.

00:43:58.560 She would go to

00:43:59.100 your boss and say,

00:44:00.300 my God, what a

00:44:01.200 great employee, you

00:44:02.360 should give this

00:44:03.620 one a raise and a

00:44:04.720 promotion, right?

00:44:06.100 So if you were on

00:44:06.740 her good side, she

00:44:08.120 would really make

00:44:08.960 sure you knew it.

00:44:10.640 But if you were on

00:44:11.400 her bad side, there 1.00

00:44:15.440 was hell to pay.

00:44:16.720 And it was the

00:44:17.340 biggest difference

00:44:18.300 between being on a

00:44:19.560 good side and being

00:44:20.540 on a bad side, and

00:44:22.040 I've used that

00:44:22.600 example, and I

00:44:23.380 think that's why

00:44:23.840 you were so

00:44:24.200 effective, because

00:44:25.200 there's such a

00:44:25.840 big difference between

00:44:27.140 doing what you

00:44:27.860 wanted somebody to

00:44:29.060 do that needed to

00:44:30.080 be done, and

00:44:31.280 them ignoring you

00:44:32.300 and being selfish

00:44:33.340 as always.

00:44:35.500 So I always call

00:44:37.000 out that that's

00:44:37.860 the technique Trump

00:44:38.700 uses.

00:44:39.720 Have you ever

00:44:40.000 noticed that?

00:44:40.980 Trump will go

00:44:41.820 really hard at you

00:44:43.200 if you're not doing

00:44:43.920 what he wants, but

00:44:44.800 if you do what he

00:44:45.440 wants, it's the

00:44:46.000 highest praise.

00:44:47.220 So it's the

00:44:47.760 biggest difference

00:44:48.760 between pleasing and

00:44:50.120 displeasing.

00:44:50.980 So I've actually

00:44:51.840 used you as an

00:44:52.620 example for

00:44:53.280 persuasion in a

00:44:54.620 positive way forever.

00:44:55.420 The only thing is

00:44:56.980 I didn't ever buy

00:44:57.920 anybody flowers, so

00:44:59.240 you can have it.

00:45:02.080 You know what, I'm

00:45:03.540 going to challenge

00:45:04.060 your memory on

00:45:04.700 that.

00:45:05.320 I have a very

00:45:06.680 specific memory of

00:45:07.840 you buying flowers

00:45:08.660 for somebody in

00:45:09.660 another department.

00:45:10.520 Did that never

00:45:10.960 happen?

00:45:12.220 Well, it was a

00:45:13.520 busy time back

00:45:14.460 then, so maybe.

00:45:15.900 Maybe.

00:45:16.580 One of us has a

00:45:18.200 false memory, and

00:45:19.140 it could always be

00:45:20.200 me.

00:45:21.540 It's okay.

00:45:22.520 All right.

00:45:23.780 Thanks for the

00:45:24.480 call.

00:45:24.720 That was great.

00:45:26.160 All right.

00:45:26.460 Take care.

00:45:29.200 Well, that was

00:45:29.900 fun.

00:45:31.060 I haven't talked

00:45:31.640 to her forever.

00:45:34.800 All right.

00:45:35.320 And I got one

00:45:36.180 message, but I

00:45:38.720 don't recognize

00:45:39.560 where it's from,

00:45:42.080 so it's not my...

00:45:43.580 Whoever you are

00:45:44.680 at 941, you are

00:45:45.900 not in my contact

00:45:47.000 list, so I don't

00:45:47.600 have a name.

00:45:48.720 Text me again with

00:45:49.480 your name if I

00:45:52.140 know you.

00:45:52.740 Well, obviously I

00:45:53.540 know you.

00:45:53.900 You have my

00:45:54.140 phone number.

00:45:55.580 All right.

00:45:57.280 That was kind

00:45:57.940 of fun.

00:45:59.780 Did you just

00:46:00.500 manifest her?

00:46:02.200 No.

00:46:03.480 She manifests

00:46:04.240 herself, I

00:46:04.860 think.

00:46:08.500 Do you know

00:46:09.420 Belia Ungar

00:46:10.320 Sargon's work?

00:46:11.280 I do not.

00:46:14.840 I do not know

00:46:15.820 who she is.

00:46:16.260 Now, how well

00:46:22.100 could you hear

00:46:22.560 the other side

00:46:23.680 of it?

00:46:23.900 Could you hear

00:46:24.540 it well enough

00:46:25.120 that that's

00:46:25.640 something you'd

00:46:26.300 ever want to

00:46:26.820 hear again?

00:46:27.780 Or is it

00:46:28.040 just...

00:46:29.580 Chris, really?

00:46:32.420 Really?

00:46:33.420 Oh.

00:46:35.480 Interesting.

00:46:36.580 No, I didn't

00:46:37.040 solve the ring

00:46:37.620 problem.

00:46:38.200 I placed the

00:46:38.900 call.

00:46:39.160 So I received

00:46:40.440 a text, which

00:46:41.320 has never been

00:46:41.840 a problem, and

00:46:43.000 then I called

00:46:43.940 hers when I

00:46:45.000 decided to do

00:46:46.520 that.

00:46:46.840 All right, so

00:46:47.160 that's enough for

00:46:47.580 today.

00:46:48.820 Maybe we'll do

00:46:49.540 more of that

00:46:49.980 another time.

00:46:51.020 And ladies and

00:46:52.220 gentlemen, this

00:46:54.220 concludes the best

00:46:56.160 live stream of

00:46:57.420 all time.

00:46:58.760 But if you have

00:46:59.360 an idea for a

00:47:00.500 design for a

00:47:01.840 Coffee with

00:47:02.440 Scott Adams

00:47:02.980 mug, then

00:47:09.860 tweet it at

00:47:11.420 me, okay?

00:47:12.480 Maybe I'll

00:47:13.040 pick it.

00:47:13.680 But if you do

00:47:14.260 the design, make

00:47:15.060 sure you're

00:47:16.180 giving away the

00:47:16.880 rights, because

00:47:18.060 I don't want to

00:47:18.700 deal with any

00:47:19.520 copyright problems.

00:47:20.480 If you want to

00:47:21.080 for fun, or if

00:47:22.480 you just have an

00:47:23.000 idea, let me

00:47:23.580 know.

00:47:24.300 And maybe your

00:47:25.260 design will be

00:47:25.900 chosen.

00:47:26.140 And that is

00:47:28.000 all for today.

00:47:28.880 Talk to you

00:47:29.340 tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 15, 2022

Episode 1805 Scott Adams： Trump Decides To Run For President Studies Prove Me Right About Everything

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