Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1835 Scott Adams： Trump Appears Unstoppable. Democrats Can't Stop Aiming At Their Own Feet

00:00:00.000 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams. It's famous all over the internet.

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00:00:42.760 Oh. Well, you on YouTube don't know how close it was to me not having a cup of coffee. But

00:00:59.900 I took the locals people with me on a little tour of the house before you got here. And

00:01:05.700 the coffee maker delivered. So it's all good now. So here's a story that I'm following.

00:01:11.820 I think I may have mentioned this, but it's getting more interesting. So virtual reality

00:01:17.160 apparently can simulate what people are describing as ego death, which is also how people describe

00:01:26.960 a hallucinogenic experience. Now, people also say they get all kinds of mental health and

00:01:33.840 maybe even cures from addiction. There are lots of claims from hallucinogenics, from LSD,

00:01:41.900 mushrooms, et cetera. Now, I'm not a doctor, so I'm not going to tell you that those are good

00:01:47.880 ideas or bad ideas. These are just things that people report. But they're reporting similar

00:01:52.480 things with virtual reality. And they are now consciously comparing the two. And there is

00:01:58.520 some speculation now that you might be able to achieve some form of ego death with VR. And then

00:02:07.560 if you did, there's some hopefulness that you might get some of the same benefits. Maybe weaker

00:02:13.280 than the chemical kind, but maybe useful. For example, here's how they do it.

00:02:20.680 If you take a hallucinogen and you feel yourself connected to everything, that's a form of ego

00:02:28.820 death. Because ego is everything's about me. I exist here. And then I'm observing the outside

00:02:36.600 world. So the outside world is separate from me. I'm just the observer. But with ego death,

00:02:43.680 you sort of merge with the environment. That's your impression of it. And so you're not a distinct

00:02:50.220 individual. You're connected to everything else. And once you feel connected to everything else,

00:02:57.420 allegedly, hypothetically, there's some kind of mental health benefit that could be substantial

00:03:04.420 that comes from that. I don't know exactly why. Sometimes you don't need to know the why.

00:03:11.220 Sometimes you just see it works. Use it. So here's how they do it in VR. In VR, you imagine

00:03:18.000 yourself in a space as just a glowing, sort of a gaseous, glowing form. And that represents

00:03:24.940 you. And so you come to see yourself in VR as this gaseous form. And then three other people

00:03:31.500 will appear in your room, just from anywhere, anywhere in the world. So three other people

00:03:38.060 will appear. They will also be gaseous forms. So the first thing that you learn is that your

00:03:44.060 body isn't just what it looks like, right? Your visual sense of yourself isn't all that

00:03:51.100 there is. So when you see yourself as a gaseous form, it allows you to get outside your mental

00:03:56.320 model of being a body. You just exist. But then it gets interesting. Then they have you

00:04:03.260 move your gaseous forms together until you can't tell where your gaseous form and the other gaseous

00:04:09.220 forms begin and end. Apparently, reportedly, you experience something like ego death. Because

00:04:18.800 you've imagined yourself as this gaseous form, you've merged it with other gaseous forms, and

00:04:25.360 apparently you can feel some kind of experience from that. Now, it's hard to understand it just

00:04:30.960 from having to explain to you, right? An explanation is always going to fall short. But it's the same

00:04:36.500 problem with hallucinogens. Try to explain a hallucinogenic experience to someone who's

00:04:43.560 never had one. Can't be done. Can't be done. It is impossible to explain. So maybe there's

00:04:51.020 something there. You know, the fact that I can't explain it well might actually be a feature,

00:04:55.920 not a bug. Anyway, so that's looking good. I think we're very close to the time, to the point

00:05:02.860 where virtual reality fixes all of our mental problems. With the exception of a few that are

00:05:12.600 purely organic. You know, like an actual schizophrenic might have, you know, a brain that's

00:05:18.240 differently configured. But for your routine stuff, where your programming gets out of whack,

00:05:25.040 but your brain is still, you know, functionally a brain, I've got a feeling that VR will be able

00:05:30.180 to program the hell out of us. I don't think we have any idea how much that will program our entire

00:05:36.240 existence. So that's common. Could be good or bad. Probably both. Here's something that nobody says

00:05:43.640 out loud. So I'll say it first. If Biden succeeds in getting his army of auditors, who primarily,

00:05:52.480 as I understand it, would focus on smaller businesses, he's going to learn a very uncomfortable

00:05:58.320 fact. And I don't know if anybody in the Biden administration knows it. Because administrations

00:06:05.880 tend to be filled with people who have not worked in small businesses. How many people who work in

00:06:11.680 the Biden administration once ran a gardening business? You know, where he mowed lawns, or she?

00:06:18.960 Not many, right? And here's what I think is a problem that they're going to discover. In my opinion,

00:06:26.220 no more than 20% of small businesses could survive an audit. And when I say survive, I mean stay in

00:06:32.720 business. What do you think? Because small businesses live almost entirely on cheating on

00:06:40.360 taxes. Small businesses have small margins, right? They're just getting by. They're earning more than

00:06:48.920 they're spending, but not by a lot. And if you taxed what they earned, there just wouldn't be anything

00:06:56.200 left. So in my experience, at the smallest end, and I'll make a distinction here. If you're talking

00:07:03.280 about a small business being one that only makes 10 million a year, that's not the small business I'm

00:07:08.900 talking about. I'm talking about the really small business, the cash businesses. Those businesses

00:07:14.220 really couldn't exist if they paid taxes. Let's be honest, they couldn't exist. So what happens if

00:07:22.580 they start closing down 80% of small businesses because they can't pass the audit? What happens

00:07:28.880 if the, it's the same problem that you would have if you crack down on immigration? If you crack down

00:07:36.340 on immigration, probably 80% of small businesses in California would close tomorrow. Did you know

00:07:44.460 that? If you crack down on immigration, if you had a way to do it completely, you knew everybody who had

00:07:50.860 fake documents and you immediately fired them and sent them back wherever they came.

00:07:57.300 Every small business in California would be out of business just immediately. So there are some laws

00:08:02.280 that you can't enforce because the system has gone too far building an economy that depends on the lack

00:08:09.920 of enforcement. If you change it to an economy that has an enforcement, I think 80% of the smallest

00:08:16.720 businesses would just go away if they got audited. Now, I don't know if there are enough audits to get

00:08:22.240 all the way down to your, you know, to the lowest level. So maybe it's just, you know, companies that

00:08:28.040 only made 10 million that year. That'd be different. Here's an interesting comment I saw on a tweet, but I agree with

00:08:39.720 it. So we seem to understand as a species, based on science, that fields collapse when they're observed

00:08:50.300 or measured. In other words, reality seems to form after it's observed. Now, I've heard some people argue

00:08:59.000 that, but that's my understanding of it. And I'm saying, the same guy saying, no, no, no. All right, I'm

00:09:07.940 going to say that I completely disagree with your disagreement of me. I will accept your superior

00:09:13.580 understanding of knowledge, of science, but I think that's a handicap in this case. I believe that once you

00:09:21.700 get into the quantum science realm, we're using words to describe things that words can't describe.

00:09:27.680 And we're using formulas to find truth when all we've really found is that the formula works.

00:09:35.200 It doesn't extend into our understanding of reality. And so, in my opinion, it is true

00:09:42.400 that reality does not become formed and solid until it's observed or measured. And I'll accept that

00:09:50.560 there's somebody who says, that's not true, but that's my interpretation. I'm going with it for now.

00:09:54.620 Now, under that interpretation, the more people there are in the world, there are more people

00:10:01.160 seeing stuff and measuring stuff. So you would need more solid stuff in the world because there

00:10:06.900 are more people who are experiencing it. And the comment was that if you build a huge telescope,

00:10:13.880 let's say a Hubble telescope, and you can peer further and further into the infinity,

00:10:18.940 that the simulation that we live in has to process harder to create all this new stuff that's being

00:10:26.720 seen. And when you take it to seeing all of space with a telescope, you might be seeing things too fast

00:10:34.200 for the processor to catch up. And you might be seeing some glitches in our processing because we're

00:10:41.860 trying to chunk too much data at the same time. Now, what would that look like? Well, one would be

00:10:49.680 code reuse. Like the system would try to become more efficient to, you know, find workarounds around

00:10:55.940 its constraints. So it might say, all right, I'm going to make a lot of these people the same people.

00:11:01.460 Because a lot of the NPCs don't need full lives and histories. They don't need to be full people.

00:11:09.260 So you just make them a little more restrictive than before. So they just say the same thing on

00:11:14.220 social media. I've been tagging people as NPCs on Twitter. If they say the most obvious thing you

00:11:22.280 can say in this situation. And I think that's one way you'd save space. You can make your NPCs

00:11:31.060 never have a creative thought. You just give them all the same three ideas. So if you say,

00:11:36.980 NPCs, you know, what are you going to say about that Dilbert cartoonist guy? Well, we're going

00:11:45.940 to, we'll all say we think he's the Garfield guy. It saves a lot of processing because there's

00:11:53.060 no thinking. It's not creative. It's not new. And they just all say the same thing. So if you

00:11:58.680 see a lot of coincidences and a lot of repeated NPC activity, maybe the processor is getting

00:12:07.060 overloaded. Maybe. But watch out for those big telescopes crashing the simulation. I didn't

00:12:14.760 write down whose tweet it was who said that. That wasn't, that wasn't my original thought.

00:12:19.020 I wish I'd written it down. All right. Here's a, this story is called When Wokeness Gets Too

00:12:25.180 Complicated. So there was a tweet by the Twitter account, the Women's March. And this is a statement

00:12:34.020 that they tweeted. The Women's March tweeted, your feminism has to be intersectional or it

00:12:41.240 isn't feminism. They emphasize it with capitals and spaces or it isn't feminism. So your feminism

00:12:50.320 has to be intersectional to be good feminism. But there was some disagreement on that by somebody

00:12:57.520 who's on the same team, but disagrees with that framing. So a Twitter account called Claire

00:13:07.200 Shrugged tweeted back and said, as a black feminist who considers intersectionality, a core guiding

00:13:15.520 principle, I am begging you stop deploying it as a buzzword to problematize a feminist politics

00:13:23.600 with center women. You, you undermine black feminist struggle and alienate many world,

00:13:30.240 many who'd support the vision, Crenshaw outlined. I don't know who Crenshaw is. Not, not the Crenshaw

00:13:37.840 in Congress. Um, did anybody understand that? Did you know what any of that meant?

00:13:49.780 Now, now here's the interesting thing. I'm pretty sure everybody involved in these opinions

00:13:55.980 has good intentions. I believe that. I believe they have good intentions. Uh, now here they are

00:14:05.100 disagreeing with each other. But my, my problem here is that it got too complicated. So the thing

00:14:12.220 that I make fun of that made Dilbert popular, and I've said this before, but it's worth reiterating.

00:14:19.300 Dilbert is not about something that somebody did wrong. It seems like it. If you read it, it's like,

00:14:26.020 oh, management did this wrong, management did that wrong, management did that wrong.

00:14:29.780 It's not really what it's about. It's actually a little bit more subtle than that.

00:14:35.620 Dilbert is about a good idea that is implemented wrong. So a good idea would be managing your employees,

00:14:43.460 right? It's hard to have a company if you don't manage your employees. But how do you do it wrong?

00:14:49.060 You micromanage. You do too much of it. So doing too much of something is usually the way corporations

00:14:55.860 do it wrong. They've got some little idea that's a good idea in certain ways, and then they overextend

00:15:01.780 it to everybody's got to be doing everything. Everybody's got to be woke. Everybody's got to be

00:15:06.180 whatever. So that's where they go wrong. But wokeism looks like it's going to destroy itself

00:15:13.940 with complexity. Because if the people who would be the wokest are arguing about feminism has to have

00:15:21.460 intersectionality, or as a black feminist who considers intersectionality a core guiding principle,

00:15:27.060 I'm begging you to stop deploying it as a buzzword to problematize feminist politics, which center

00:15:31.860 women. You undermine black feminists struggle and alienate many who support your vision.

00:15:36.500 According to somebody. A little bit too complicated. A little bit.

00:15:42.740 All right. CBS Morning reported this, that today children are 30%

00:15:48.100 while they're more obese. So they're 30% less aerobically fit than their parents were at their age.

00:15:54.420 And the study points to climate change and rising temperatures as adversely affecting

00:15:59.940 childhood obesity. Because children spend less time exercising outdoors because of the climate change.

00:16:09.460 You're asking the right question. Is that satire? Is it?

00:16:12.900 Is it? Did I just make that up? Go. Did I just prank you? Did I read it? Did I read something that's

00:16:23.300 definitely from from a satire account that you couldn't tell? Could you tell if that was real?

00:16:30.020 Was it real? Was it real? Real or not real?

00:16:38.100 It's real.

00:16:41.540 It's real.

00:16:42.100 Yeah. It's real. CBS News actually said there's a study that says the kids are getting fat because of

00:16:51.220 climate change. They don't want to go outdoors because the weather's bad. Do we even need to

00:16:57.780 discuss that? Is that something where I need to get into the details of what else has changed?

00:17:05.860 Has anything else changed? Can you think of anything? Any other, I don't know, any other big

00:17:13.700 impact on society? Has anything changed lately? COVID certainly made a difference lately.

00:17:22.820 But the bigger change is screens and, you know, not having, you know, basically just lifestyles

00:17:29.620 changed and food got worse. Food got worse. Our entertainment choices got better in the sense

00:17:37.060 that there are more of them, but they're less physical. They're video games, right? So between video

00:17:42.740 games and screens and terrible food, you have all the explanation you need.

00:17:47.300 Does anybody have the experience of they've exercised less because of the weather? Is there

00:17:58.900 even one person on here who believes that they exercise less lately because of the weather?

00:18:06.020 Not one person. Not one person. Now, I don't know about where you live,

00:18:14.340 but even on days when the weather is very much don't go outdoors weather. Where I live, there's

00:18:20.740 usually one part of the day where it's not that bad. So it could be, you know, 100 degrees during

00:18:26.820 the afternoon, but you can pretty much depend that six in the morning, if you wanted to go for a run,

00:18:32.580 you'd be fine, right? Now, I don't know if it's true as true in other places, someplace where it's just

00:18:38.580 cold permanently, and some places just hot permanently. But I've never seen a difference

00:18:45.060 where I live. Yeah.

00:18:52.020 I just heard the funniest question yesterday. I'm going to share it with you. I'm not going to tell

00:18:57.860 you where it came from. But somebody mentioned to me that they were going to go to Florida

00:19:05.620 Florida for their first experience. I'd never been to Florida before. And going to Florida in August.

00:19:13.780 Florida in August. And the person said to me, I hear it could be humid there. It could be humid.

00:19:21.700 To which I said with a stray face, yes, it can. Yeah, it's true. And then the person said,

00:19:29.380 is it humid like Hawaii? Because I've been to Hawaii, so I know what humidity feels like.

00:19:34.820 I was tempted to say, yeah, it's just like Hawaii.

00:19:45.460 But I couldn't make myself be enough of an asshole to do it.

00:19:53.540 Yeah, I suppose Hawaii is humid.

00:19:55.220 Here's the difference. I would like to give you my impression of walking, let's say, off of the

00:20:04.980 airplane and feeling Hawaii's humidity for the first time. And then I'll do feeling Florida's humidity for

00:20:13.220 the first time. Somebody who's never experienced either. We'll start with Hawaii experiencing humidity for

00:20:20.340 the first time. Wow. What is up with this? This feels great.

00:20:30.980 Why does my entire body feel good? I think the air feels better. I feel great. Let's have a vacation.

00:20:40.340 Snorkel, anybody? All right, so that's experiencing Hawaii humidity for the first time. Now I'd like to

00:20:50.980 give you a similar impression of going outdoors for the first time in August in Florida.

00:21:04.100 For those of you listening, it was hilarious. It was hilarious.

00:21:26.820 So Florida in August should be fine. You'll be fine. You'll be fine.

00:21:40.740 All right. I saw I was following a hashtag on Twitter and I see that the

00:21:50.660 I see that the unvaccinated are taking a victory lap.

00:21:59.460 So the unvaccinated are saying we were the smart ones and we've been vindicated and validated.

00:22:08.740 Is that the news you're seeing? How many would agree with the statement that the people who wrote out

00:22:15.860 the entire pandemic with no vaccinations at all, how many would agree that they were the smart ones

00:22:22.740 and they have been totally validated? Go.

00:22:29.380 Yes. So the people who are vaccinated, who are not vaccinated, they say they've been validated.

00:22:37.620 I'm looking at your answers. They seem to be somewhat mixed, somewhat mixed.

00:22:41.620 Why is it that we all watch the same news and the same science and the most basic question of the pandemic

00:22:50.500 we still disagree on? What causes that?

00:22:57.140 What would cause the unvaccinated to say we won, we're the smart ones and science has proven it,

00:23:03.060 at the very same time that the people who were vaccinated were glad they did?

00:23:07.460 How do you explain that? Can you explain it with two words?

00:23:17.380 Yeah, confirmation bias would be one, but confirmation bias is sort of the weak form of what I'm talking

00:23:24.500 about. It's cognitive dissonance, right? But the thing is, you don't know who has it.

00:23:29.060 That's the fun part. So let me do what almost nobody will ever do in front of you.

00:23:37.860 This is very rare, what I'm going to say. You will almost never see a public figure who talks,

00:23:44.020 you know, somebody who talks for a living in front of people. You will almost never see anybody say

00:23:48.180 what I'm going to say now. It could be me.

00:23:51.380 Because that's how cognitive dissonance works. I'll tell you my impression, if you put a gun to

00:24:01.380 my head and said, you're going to have to choose who's right, I would choose that I'm right, whatever

00:24:07.300 that is. You know, it doesn't even matter for this discussion. It doesn't even matter. I would still

00:24:13.540 choose I'm right. So if you ask me, all right, you know that there's a thing called cognitive dissonance,

00:24:19.620 and you also know that you might be easily triggered by it. Because I'm in a situation

00:24:26.020 where I could be triggered into it. So you should always look for the trigger.

00:24:31.700 If you're trying to decide who's got cognitive dissonance and who doesn't, you look for the trigger.

00:24:37.380 And the trigger would be that something happened that's opposite of what you believed was possible

00:24:42.580 or could happen. Right? Now, did that happen? Is there anybody who believed the opposite of what

00:24:49.540 was proven to be true? And here's the problem. It's everybody. Everybody. Everybody believed

00:24:59.060 something that was the opposite of true, no matter which side you were on. Do you know why? Because

00:25:05.140 truth bifurcated. So if you thought that vaccinations were a good idea, there's plenty of

00:25:12.900 evidence, studies, and proof to show you were wrong. If you thought they were a good idea,

00:25:18.900 there's plenty of evidence to say you were right. So both sides have evidence that confirms they were

00:25:25.060 right. And other equally strong looking evidence, you know, we're bad at knowing what's strong evidence.

00:25:31.220 But to many people, it looks strong, the opposite. So you have a situation where 100% of the public

00:25:37.060 could be triggered, could be potentially triggered into cognitive dissonance. But you don't know

00:25:43.700 which half it was. At least half. Probably both. I'm not sure anybody is in a situation where they

00:25:53.700 could stay for sure they have no trigger. So let me give an example of no trigger.

00:25:58.260 If you predicted something correctly, so you're the only one who said, let's say,

00:26:07.780 you know, let's say I predicted that Trump would get elected in 2016. And then I was right.

00:26:14.020 Was cognitive dissonance triggered? No. No. Because what I thought would happen, happened.

00:26:19.380 But suppose you thought it was impossible he'd get elected in 2016. Well, then you think there must

00:26:25.300 have been something like Russian interference. Because your cognitive dissonance couldn't allow

00:26:31.220 that you simply saw something happen that you thought wouldn't happen. Now, fast forward to 2020.

00:26:39.620 Trump supporters were positive, many of them, positive that he was going to win that election.

00:26:44.660 And then things reversed late at night. And that looks sketchy. And that was the trigger.

00:26:51.300 So everybody who thought that Trump really won and the election was rigged,

00:26:56.900 I don't know what the truth of this question is. So we're not going to talk about what's true

00:27:00.740 and what's false. That's unknowable to me. Some of you think you know it, but I don't know it.

00:27:06.580 So under those conditions, nearly 100% of Trump supporters should have been triggered into

00:27:14.260 cognitive dissonance. Should have. Now, there's a deep assumption in this. The deep assumption is

00:27:23.380 that the election was something like fair. But we don't know. We only know there's no

00:27:29.140 no, no court approved proof that it was anything but fair. That's all we know.

00:27:36.580 But if you believe that you obviously saw something that went wrong, then cognitive dissonance would

00:27:42.660 kick in. So can you tell the difference between, let me ask you here, this will be a test to see if

00:27:47.940 you've learned anything. Could you individually, not other people, we're not talking about other people,

00:27:54.820 you. Could you tell the difference between a stolen election and your own cognitive dissonance? Go.

00:28:04.980 Yes or no. Could you tell the difference between a stolen election and your own cognitive dissonance?

00:28:11.220 The locals people all have the correct answer, right? The answer is no. You cannot tell the

00:28:19.220 difference. But we act like we can, don't we? And I'm no exception. We sort of have to act on our beliefs.

00:28:28.820 All right. I got a smattering of yeses. So there's a small smattering of people who say,

00:28:37.380 yes, I can tell the difference between a stolen election and cognitive dissonance.

00:28:43.860 But there are far more people. So on locals, listen to this. On locals, you should know that your

00:28:50.180 answers are far more, let's say, intellectually valid than on YouTube. And there should, there's

00:28:58.820 difference. And there should be. Because I spend more time talking to the locals people. They would

00:29:03.780 be far more educated on the fact that you can't tell the difference. Cognitive dissonance, by definition,

00:29:10.180 you can't tell the difference. By definition. So it's not a question of whether you can use your power

00:29:17.060 to power through the cognitive dissonance. It's just what the word means. The word means you can't

00:29:22.260 tell. If you could tell, you wouldn't be in it. So it's just a definitional thing. All right.

00:29:31.540 I don't think anybody should be taking a victory lapse about the pandemic. But we're all going to do it.

00:29:37.060 And this is one of those beautiful times when once we're after, you know, in my opinion, we're

00:29:42.260 post-pandemic. You know, there's lingering problems forever, but we're kind of post the

00:29:48.580 worst part of the pandemic. And what could be better than everybody for thinking they were right

00:29:53.860 the whole time? Because I do. I believe that my choices were probably as close to the smartest

00:30:01.540 risk-reward choices I could have made in my specific situation. Not yours. You know,

00:30:07.460 yours was different. But in my specific situation. Now, others would disagree with me. But the beauty

00:30:12.900 is I will now be able to go forward and say, I did all the right things. I was so smart.

00:30:18.180 And the people who did opposite of what I did are going to do the same thing. They'll say they were

00:30:22.820 smart and they got the right answer and I'm an idiot. So we all win. It'd be bad if we were in the

00:30:28.340 pandemic. But once you're over it, you both get to celebrate how right you were, even though

00:30:32.580 half of us were not. Don't know which half, though. We'll never know. Don't you love it

00:30:40.340 when the Democrats try to make things different by just changing their names? You know, the

00:30:48.580 Inflation Reduction Act that was anything but, etc.? Well, here's the newest entry. Did you know that

00:30:56.580 if you remove or destroy any military information, it's espionage? So there's something called the

00:31:03.300 Espionage Act that Trump is being threatened with because of the documents at Mar-a-Lago. But apparently,

00:31:11.540 if you read it, if you accidentally, well, I guess you'd have to do it intentionally. If you destroyed any

00:31:18.580 military records, which is a pretty big category, isn't it? Military records, like that's a lot of

00:31:27.060 stuff. Anything that's military related, I'm not talking about like their actual records, but anything

00:31:34.020 that references the military, if you move it without using the right process, I guess, or you destroy it,

00:31:41.860 right? You're guilty of espionage. Is that the word you would have used? Would you have used the word

00:31:48.820 espionage for mishandling classified information? Now, I get why they would, because they don't want to leave

00:31:56.580 any opening that, you know, moving documents could ever have a good reason. So I get why they're going

00:32:04.020 extreme on that. But when you see the news reporting that Trump is being considered for Espionage Act

00:32:14.660 charges, is that news? That doesn't feel like news. I mean, it's new, but it feels like pure propaganda.

00:32:25.940 If they were even a little bit honest, they would say, the Espionage Act is written to be intentionally

00:32:34.580 broad, and it captures even things like accidentally moving, well, I don't know if it accidentally counts,

00:32:41.480 but it counts things like moving things without using the right process. Or you would say,

00:32:46.980 Trump might be accused of doing something with moving documents, you know, secure documents. He may

00:32:58.020 have used the wrong process to move secure documents, which weirdly, if you were writing the story honestly,

00:33:04.580 you'd say, which weirdly is included in this big category called the Espionage Act, even though,

00:33:11.700 obviously, the intention would not be Espionage in these cases. Now, there's no way you can call the

00:33:19.620 news honest when they call this a problem of Espionage. Am I right? And by the way, I don't know if Fox News

00:33:29.060 covers it this wrong way. But when you see like the trending stuff, and a lot of the headlines, you'll see,

00:33:35.700 he might be guilty of the Espionage. Now, Espionage seems a little too close to Russia collusion,

00:33:41.860 doesn't it? Doesn't it? I don't think so. Now, let's dig into this. By the way, here's the best

00:33:56.900 Mar-a-Lago joke so far. The best Mar-a-Lago joke was not mine. Twitter user Greg Marchand

00:34:05.540 M.D. tweeted this. Actually, we're all good now because Trump declassified the documents the FBI

00:34:13.460 planted, so they canceled each other out. Okay, that's really good. It's so good, I'm pissed off

00:34:22.900 that I didn't think of it first. Like, why didn't I think of that one? Yes, yes, that was perfect.

00:34:27.940 Perfect. But here's the funny part. Obviously, you know, it's not literally true. But it could have

00:34:34.900 been true. You can imagine that if Trump had said everything in these boxes is declassified,

00:34:43.780 and let's say there was some record of that, just hypothetically, if there was some record of Trump

00:34:47.940 saying everything in these 10 boxes is declassified, he didn't do that as far as I know. But suppose he

00:34:53.940 did. And then later, hypothetically, the FBI planted some evidence in it.

00:35:01.540 That would actually be, correct me if I'm wrong, but if nobody knew it had been planted,

00:35:08.180 wouldn't the legal standard be that it had been declassified if it's in that box? Because that was

00:35:14.740 in the box that was specified for declassification in a hypothetical world, not in the real world.

00:35:20.340 So it actually is true. This is why it's so funny. There could have been a situation where the FBI

00:35:26.660 planted something that got accidentally declassified and then didn't work as a planted evidence. Like,

00:35:33.540 that's actually real, right? I mean, it didn't happen. But it's something that might have happened.

00:35:39.140 Like, in the real world, that could have easily happened. Now, I say easily because in my sense of

00:35:45.220 things, the FBI planting information would be normal. If you don't agree with that,

00:35:51.940 fuck you. Pay attention to the news once in a while. If you don't think it's normal

00:35:57.300 that the FBI would try to frame Trump by planting information, you haven't been paying attention.

00:36:02.820 That is now in the normal way of business for the FBI. I hate to say it, but I didn't create that

00:36:09.540 situation. It wasn't me. And if it had been me, I wouldn't have done it. But that's where we are,

00:36:16.100 right? And every time you tell me in, I don't know, patriotic, emotional terms that we should

00:36:26.180 not be criticizing the rank and file members of the FBI, I'm not sure that's us doing that. You know

00:36:32.900 what I mean? I feel like the rank and file FBI members have been disgraced by their own co-workers

00:36:41.460 and leaders. I didn't do that. Where was I disgracing the FBI by falsifying information on a FISA

00:36:51.780 document? I didn't do that. And you can't say that that has no consequences. There are reasons that this

00:36:58.340 stuff is illegal because it has big consequences. One of the consequences is on the rank and file

00:37:03.780 members of the FBI. I didn't do that. I didn't do that. So if I say the FBI is completely discredited

00:37:11.620 as an organization, which includes the rank and file, I didn't do that. I didn't do that. I'm just

00:37:18.260 observing. It's not even an opinion. An opinion means you're sort of adding something to the situation.

00:37:25.140 I'm not adding. I'm observing. I'm observing a situation that has, you know, a degree of confirmed

00:37:32.900 bad actors. Confirmed. Nobody's questioning that the Mueller report, you know, found some issues.

00:37:40.820 Was it Mueller or was it not Mueller? It was the other guy. You know what I mean. All right. So here's

00:37:48.020 some more stuff we know about these Mar-a-Lago documents. So I guess in June, in a letter in June,

00:37:53.940 one of the Trump lawyers, I don't know which one, said that there were no more classified

00:37:59.220 things at Trump's Mar-a-Lago. Now, do attorneys tell direct lies in a situation like that? Now,

00:38:09.380 I'm not going to say no attorney has ever lied, but there's a way that attorneys lie, right?

00:38:15.460 So an attorney could lie by omission, you know, if it was a situation where they could get away with it.

00:38:23.700 They could exaggerate. They could prefer a narrative. They could question somebody else's facts. They

00:38:30.740 could, you know, put doubt on things that actually are true. There are all kinds of

00:38:36.740 schemey, weaselly things that lawyers can do. But how likely is it that a lawyer who had reached a

00:38:46.020 level of accomplishment that they worked for a president or an ex-president, somebody at that

00:38:50.820 level, how likely is it they would tell a direct lie that if they got caught and it's very catchable,

00:38:59.380 it would be very catchable because it exists, it's a physical thing, and someday somebody's going to

00:39:04.820 figure it out? Would a lawyer tell a direct lie, this does not exist, if that lawyer knew it did exist,

00:39:14.420 could be later found? I don't think they do. In my experience, they do. Have you ever seen,

00:39:23.140 I mean, I've dealt with a lot of lawyers, and anytime they get even, anytime you get even close

00:39:31.940 to asking a lawyer to say or do something that's not true, they immediately balk, right? So

00:39:40.180 now I'm going to, I'll acknowledge to you that there are lawyers who will lie just like there are

00:39:46.900 anything that will lie. But it's kind of unusual. It's unusual. So remember, when we're looking into the

00:39:52.980 fog of war situation, we don't know what's true yet, if we ever will, but we can put odds on things.

00:40:01.380 What would you, what would you put on the, what would you put as the odds that this particular lawyer,

00:40:07.380 and they have to accept all of it, not just part of it, what are the odds that this lawyer knew the

00:40:12.260 contents? This is important. Do you think that the lawyer knew the contents of all of the stuff at

00:40:18.100 Mar-a-Lago? Probably not, right? Probably not. Do you think anybody did? Do you think there was even

00:40:27.300 one person anywhere in the world who knew the contents of all the boxes in Mar-a-Lago? I would

00:40:34.980 say that's unlikely. Because, you know, who would spend the time going through them? Who would know for

00:40:41.140 sure that they had all the boxes? I don't know. It feels unknowable, right? So what are the odds that

00:40:49.620 Trump is in trouble if his attorney said there was nothing there?

00:40:58.100 Now, I don't know if, if you haven't operated at a level where you've got attorneys and accountants doing

00:41:03.380 stuff for you, it is a real good cover for your own badness if there is any, right? If your attorney

00:41:12.100 says something's okay, you're in a much better position than if you decided on your own, right?

00:41:18.260 Because the judge and the jury are going to look at that and say, well, that was a qualified attorney

00:41:23.140 who gave you that advice. It might have been wrong, but look where it came from. So if somebody who knows

00:41:29.380 more than you do says, this is legal, and it's my job to tell you what's legal, and trust me,

00:41:34.740 this is totally legal, and you take the advice, correct me if I'm wrong, but that's going to give

00:41:41.540 you a little comfort if anything goes to court. Is there a lawyer on here who can, I'm not totally

00:41:47.620 confident about this point, can you confirm or deny that point? Say you're a lawyer in the comment,

00:41:54.500 but if a lawyer has advised you that something's legal, aren't you in better shape? You're not safe.

00:41:59.700 I'm not saying you're safe, but you're in better shape, right?

00:42:04.660 Any lawyers? Okay, so a lawyer confirms, yes, you're in much better shape. Doesn't mean you're

00:42:10.100 out of the clear, you're out of the woods. Yeah, okay, the lawyers are confirming.

00:42:14.420 Lawyers confirm that that would help. So that's a point in Trump's favor, which doesn't tell you

00:42:20.980 anything about the documents. Now, here's a question that you all watch the news, right?

00:42:28.980 So all of you watch the news, so here's a question which is the most obvious question

00:42:33.460 about this Mar-a-Lago stuff. There's one question that's the most obvious question. It's the one that

00:42:39.060 you would ask if you were in charge of figuring out what's going on over there. What's the first

00:42:44.260 question you'd ask about the boxes? Go. First question you'd ask?

00:42:48.340 Go. Really? Who packed them? Yes. Right. The first question you'd ask is who packed them?

00:43:00.420 What's the answer to the question? You all watch the news. Give me the names of the

00:43:05.540 people who packed them. Give me their names. Don't just say GSA. Just give me the name.

00:43:11.060 What? Well, you don't know the name? What?

00:43:19.460 Now, here's a moment where you need to... This is a moment where the entire machinery

00:43:25.700 of your reality just opened up for you. Sometimes you can see the mechanism behind what we're

00:43:34.020 seeing. This is like the fact that you don't know the names, the actual name of the person who

00:43:40.100 packed it or names of. The fact that those people have never been asked to comment and we don't even

00:43:45.860 know who they are. What's that tell you? What does that tell you? It tells you we're not serious

00:43:53.060 about this. Whatever is going on has nothing to do with the documents. Am I right? Let me say this

00:44:00.820 as clearly as possible. If anybody in the news business had even the slightest interest in what

00:44:08.020 was going on in that story, the only thing they'd be talking about incessantly was how do we find the

00:44:13.940 names of the people who packed it? And can we get permission to talk to them? Because they might

00:44:20.260 have, you know, clearance or whatever. Am I wrong? Tell me I'm wrong. It's the only question that matters

00:44:28.660 and the entire news industry is ignoring it like it doesn't matter. What's that telling you? It tells

00:44:34.660 you nobody's serious about this as an issue. They're serious about it as a political issue. Nobody cares

00:44:42.340 about the actual event. Nobody. In fact, I've never even met anybody who cared. There are people who

00:44:50.660 say, oh, Trump was going to sell nuclear secrets to Saudi Arabia. Do they really believe that?

00:44:58.500 The people who are tweeting that Trump was going to sell nuclear secrets, they really believe that? No,

00:45:03.540 they don't. It's just a political thing. Do the supporters of President Trump who say, as I do,

00:45:12.820 it's very unlikely there's anything in those documents that is really important. It's very unlikely.

00:45:20.340 Am I saying that for political reasons or because I know what's in those boxes? I don't know what's in

00:45:26.180 the boxes. I don't know. But I've got this political opinion that's pretty strong, which means I need to

00:45:32.660 check myself, right? Shouldn't I be checking myself for confirmation bias, you know, team play and

00:45:39.860 cognitive dissonance? Absolutely. Absolutely. I should be checking myself really hard if I could. It's pretty hard to

00:45:46.340 check. But I don't think there's anything more completely transparent than the fact that all sides of the media,

00:45:54.900 left, right, and in between, nobody has the fucking bit of interest in who packed the boxes and nothing else matters.

00:46:03.620 This is the strongest statement I can make. Nothing else matters but who packed the boxes. I'm not wrong.

00:46:12.420 And as soon as you hear it, how pissed off are you if you hadn't already realized that you were being

00:46:19.300 gasolated by both sides? This is one of those times when both sides are equally guilty.

00:46:25.460 If Fox News wanted to find out about the topic, they'd be saying, can we talk to whoever packed the boxes?

00:46:36.180 You think they can't find them? Let me give you another example. Is this the first time that the most

00:46:42.500 important question has not even been asked by either the left or the right? There's another time this

00:46:48.980 happened. Can you think of it? When was the time a really big story? And there was one question that

00:46:56.180 was easy, easy to answer. It was easy to answer. And nobody asked.

00:47:01.220 The fine people march. Yeah, Charlottesville. What was the most important question? The most important

00:47:12.420 question, for which all of the news depended, is were there any attendees who are not racist

00:47:19.540 and not actually marching with the racists? You know, physically, they weren't with them,

00:47:24.420 but they were there for their own reasons. It's the only thing that mattered. Because the president

00:47:28.580 made a statement that they existed. The media said, no, they don't. And they went from that assumption.

00:47:34.180 How do they know? Do you know who talked to the people in Charlottesville who attended?

00:47:41.860 Just me. As far as I know, I'm the only person out of seven billion who said, well, why don't we just

00:47:50.260 ask them? So I just tweeted, I think I tweeted it. Is there anybody there who wants to talk to me and

00:47:57.300 is not a racist? And then a number of people contacted me. And I talked to them individually.

00:48:04.020 And they convinced me with, you know, the totality of their story of how they got there, etc.,

00:48:08.740 that they were, in fact, not racists. And they disavowed the racists in direct language,

00:48:14.180 were not standing with them, marching with them, associating with them.

00:48:18.580 We're just in a different place. They were at the event, but they weren't anywhere near the marchers.

00:48:22.420 So why is it that Fox News has never reported that? It's because they don't care about the topic.

00:48:32.020 They don't care. Because the topic is easy to discern. You could do it today. You don't,

00:48:38.500 you can still just say, all right, did you go? If you went, do you consider yourself a non-racist?

00:48:43.860 Defend yourself. And then they would. And well, they would do it well. So this is another example

00:48:51.620 where the news has, I would say, it looks intentional. It looks like neither the left

00:48:57.700 nor the right have any interest in what's in those documents in the real world sense. They

00:49:03.540 only care about it as a story and as a political thing. Because would the story just disappear if

00:49:09.940 you knew who packed the boxes? It might. The entire story would disappear. Suppose you talk to the

00:49:18.260 people who packed the boxes and just suppose they said something like this. Well, Trump did tell us

00:49:24.500 what to put in the boxes, but he just sort of went in the room and said some general things,

00:49:29.540 and we did the best we could because we were in a hurry and we couldn't really ask him every single

00:49:34.100 question. So we did the best we could. We just threw things in the boxes. And then you find out,

00:49:39.380 did Trump ever know what was in the boxes? Did his lawyers ever know what was in the box? Did anybody

00:49:45.140 ever do a full inventory later to find out from Trump's perspective whether there was anything

00:49:50.580 bad in those boxes? Probably not. So would the whole story go away if you knew that the people

00:49:57.540 who packed the boxes were making their own decisions, while the people who received them

00:50:04.580 never really fully knew what was in them? The whole thing would go away, wouldn't it?

00:50:09.860 The moment you realize that people who packed the boxes were operating a little bit independently,

00:50:16.820 it's sort of that's the end of the question. Because nobody thinks that Trump was down there

00:50:22.180 with a clipboard doing an inventory of the boxes, and I doubt he ordered anybody to do it.

00:50:28.340 Have you ever seen any reporting that says, well, you know, Trump ordered somebody to look through

00:50:32.900 all of the boxes and, you know, really double check to see if there was any classified stuff in there?

00:50:38.100 I don't know. That would be an obvious story if we'd ever heard of it, right?

00:50:44.340 So, Scott the sophist. All right, we're gonna stop right there. So one of the ways to know an NPC

00:50:52.820 is if they listen to your point, and then they call you a sophist. Because they're like a dozen things

00:51:00.740 that you can say that don't have any, you don't have to show your argument. So Acme Trader is the name

00:51:09.620 of this account here on YouTube, says, Scott the sophist at it again. That's an NPC. I'll bet if you

00:51:17.300 asked the Acme Trader to tell me a story about your childhood, he'd say, I'd love to, but I'm busy.

00:51:23.940 That's a person who has actually no soul, in all likelihood, and is a walking NPC. Any more?

00:51:38.660 Stop saying pack the boxes, it sounds so nasty. It does sound a little dirty. Do you know most of

00:51:44.820 the news sounds dirty if you read it that way? Let's try that. Who packed the boxes?

00:51:53.540 They packed those boxes hard. Yeah, it does. It works a little bit. So, you know, there's a story

00:51:58.820 that was a big national story, or a global story, really, and I totally ignored until there was

00:52:05.540 something that was funny about it, and then it caught my interest. But how many of you know what

00:52:11.140 happened in Sri Lanka? Like, I saw a lot of headlines about Sri Lanka, and I ignored all of them,

00:52:18.820 because I couldn't figure out what Sri Lanka had to do with me. So I didn't know what was going on.

00:52:25.540 So I knew there was some big meltdown, and Sri Lanka was falling apart, and the government was not

00:52:32.260 popular, something, something. But that's all I knew. So here's the actual story.

00:52:41.140 So they elected a new president who was anti-fertilizer. He thought that fertilizers,

00:52:51.620 he didn't have any scientific backing for this, but he thought that some kinds of fertilizers

00:52:56.980 were causing kidney diseases. And so then he banned fertilizers in 2021, which caused the yield of crops

00:53:04.500 to go way down, which, you know, when you combine it with the pandemic-related stuff, caused a full meltdown.

00:53:10.820 And so here's the actual story, and I'm not making this up. I'm just going to give you the headline,

00:53:19.300 the way I see it. All right, here's the headline, the way I see it.

00:53:28.900 Sri Lanka ran out of fertilizer because their president was full of shit.

00:53:32.740 Well, now you have my attention. They ran out of fertilizer because their president was full of

00:53:40.500 shit. That really happened. Now I understand it. Because until you can put it in the form of a joke,

00:53:48.660 to me, it's just noise. I need the joke. So now that you have the joke, we can understand this.

00:53:55.220 The bigger issue here is that this fertilizer question apparently is a pretty big one.

00:54:01.380 So I didn't even know there was an anti-fertilizer, you know, group of people.

00:54:08.340 But there are. And this anti-fertilizer thing would be one of the scariest things in the world.

00:54:15.220 I think we'll figure it out. I think we'll figure it out. But this is one of the biggest problems in

00:54:20.740 the world. The lack of fertilizer. And one of the least discussed. And I've known about this for

00:54:26.660 15 years. Like this is one of those that you can see coming for a long time. First time I heard

00:54:31.460 about it was about 15 years ago. And it's just gotten worse since then. So at the same time that

00:54:37.380 that's happening, apparently Europe is having a drought like they've never had. And I swear to God,

00:54:46.180 every time there's a national story, it's really about me. Like this is one of those things that

00:54:50.900 makes me think, none of you are real. And I'm just creating this out of my own mind. Because

00:54:57.300 I'm not big on travel. I don't know if I've ever mentioned that. I've done a little bit of, you know,

00:55:03.940 big trips. But it's usually because somebody else wants to do it, right? You know, a spouse wants to

00:55:10.020 do it. I'm not really, I got to go to Europe, I got to go to Asia. I'm not that guy. I just don't.

00:55:15.620 I built a world in which I don't need to leave, you know, in case there's a pandemic or something.

00:55:21.540 Worked out pretty well, didn't it? Yeah. I would like to take a moment to pat myself on the back.

00:55:27.380 I literally built my house to be something I could live in if I couldn't leave the house.

00:55:35.060 That was actually a design element. If I ever have to not leave the house, I was thinking of a house

00:55:39.860 arrest, actually. I was assuming there's always a good chance. If you're, if you're at a certain

00:55:45.460 income level, there's a good chance you're going to have house arrest at some point.

00:55:49.620 It doesn't even matter if you commit a crime. Somebody will accuse you of something.

00:55:53.380 So, but there was one exception. Every time I saw the advertisements for the so-called river

00:56:01.940 cruises in Europe, where they have the smaller cruise ships that they could go down the rivers,

00:56:06.900 and they stop at these great castles and have amazing scenery the whole way. You know, I clicked

00:56:12.900 on a few of those one day and then I get unlimited, repeated ads. And every time I see one of these

00:56:17.780 things, they look beautiful. And I just think, you know, yeah, the Viking cruises in particular.

00:56:23.380 And I looked at them and I think, God, of all the things I could do, that really looks like the

00:56:28.260 most appealing one for my specific sensibilities. And today I learned that the rivers are drying up in

00:56:36.740 Europe and the entire river cruise industry might have to get shelved.

00:56:42.660 So, that felt like it was about me. Somebody says it's for 70 year olds and up.

00:56:54.420 It's also for people who like to write. Because I would love to just be able to sit on the balcony

00:56:59.940 while the scenery is going by and, you know, just finish my book. So, yeah, there are times to

00:57:06.260 vacation actively and then, you know, there are times when you don't need to.

00:57:09.700 But we're watching that. And at the same time, Europe is having these gas and electric shortages.

00:57:18.180 So, in Europe, it looks like, depending on the country, various countries are handling it

00:57:22.260 differently. Because of the energy shortages, they're going to have cold showers. Some places,

00:57:27.460 they won't be able to turn on the business lights at night. It's for some hours. They won't be able to

00:57:33.220 have open doors with the AC on, which probably is a good idea. And in California, I got a call from my

00:57:44.180 local energy company asking me if the energy company could control my AC in my house to turn it off when

00:57:53.060 they had the load balancing issues. That's right. My PG&E, the energy company in California, called me home

00:58:03.620 and says, can we stick some technology to your house so we can turn off your AC if we need to?

00:58:11.380 Now, they did say, they did say, let me be clear, that it would be for 15 minute periods in which they

00:58:21.620 would keep circulating the air, so you'd still be circulating. And they said you should experience

00:58:26.980 maybe a two degree increase in temperature before it kicks back on again. Now, if that's what it did,

00:58:34.900 that wouldn't be too bad. Would it? If they could really deliver that, if they could, you know, keep

00:58:41.220 the lights on everywhere they need to be kept on. And all you had to do was maybe twice a day on the

00:58:47.140 hottest days, you set your temperature at 75. For 15 minutes, it goes up to 77. You know, you go shopping

00:58:56.740 for those 15 minutes. You come back, it's already down to 75. You're fine. No big deal, right? It's a

00:59:03.940 reasonable thing to ask. Is it? Because once they can control your AC, do you think they're going

00:59:14.020 to stop with 15 minutes? They say they would. Say they would. But I immediately said no. And I didn't

00:59:23.620 say no because I didn't want to be a team player. I said no because it's just too much control over my

00:59:31.060 life. And also I work at home and I need a certain temperature and I don't want people

00:59:35.780 controlling it for me. Yeah. Slippery slope.

00:59:42.180 All right. There was a surge in cartel violence in Tijuana. Hundreds of National Guard got called up

00:59:48.180 to quell a bunch of violence and murders and stuff in Tijuana. And the cartel that owns Tijuana,

01:00:00.900 they said they were going to respond to it by killing any citizens who went outdoors.

01:00:06.580 The cartel just threatened that if I guess some some of their members got imprisoned by the by the military

01:00:18.260 action. And they said if they don't get their people back, they'll kill everybody who goes outdoors.

01:00:25.220 So let me ask you this. The first time you heard me say, let's drone the cartels, what was your

01:00:38.100 first reaction? Well, that can't happen. I mean, sounds nice, talking tough, but can't actually happen.

01:00:47.300 And then you heard that Trump had brought up the subject during his term and he had been sort of,

01:00:53.460 you know, scoffed at and dismissed. No, you can't attack. No, you can't attack Mexico.

01:01:00.580 What do you think now? What do you think now?

01:01:06.980 Now I think that the odds of it happening are 50 50. What do you say? If you asked me two years ago,

01:01:14.740 the odds of droning the cartels, I'd say really low. Five percent tops, right? No more than five

01:01:21.620 percent. What do you say now? What would you give the odds of the U.S. taking direct military action

01:01:28.740 against cartel assets in Mexico? Go. Give me the odds. Give me your odds. I needed a percentage.

01:01:37.060 25, 25, 100, 60, 40. I'm reading some of these off now. 65, 25, 50, 0, 10, 25, 35, 70, 100, 0.

01:01:50.740 All right. So we're all over the board. We're from 0 to 100%. But there are a lot of people in that

01:01:55.620 middle zone now, aren't they? So how many times have you seen this pattern emerge? That when I take a

01:02:08.340 position, the issue itself seems to be moving at about the same time. And have you ever wondered,

01:02:15.300 am I just good at finding a parade that's already moving? Or am I moving the parade? Have you ever

01:02:21.540 asked yourself that? What do you think in this case? Because I'm positive that public opinion

01:02:32.900 about attacking Mexico has directly followed my lead. But is it a lead or am I following?

01:02:41.300 What do you think? Am I leading or following? Is it just obvious that this is the question we should

01:02:45.940 be asking? And other people would be asking at the same time. If I didn't exist, it would be exactly the

01:02:50.420 same. What do you think? Well, here's the thing. I can't tell. So I don't know the answer to this

01:02:56.660 question myself. I'll tell you what I do know. I do know that members of the government pay attention to

01:03:03.880 me. Can anybody confirm that? Because that's the sort of thing. I'd rather see you say it. Because if I

01:03:12.780 just say it, it doesn't sound differently. It sounds different. But can you confirm that from your own

01:03:18.940 observation, would you say that somebody is watching? All right. So on locals, they're saying

01:03:25.980 yes. And I see some yeses over here. So I don't know. Could be a coincidence. But here's what I think

01:03:35.060 happened. There are some ideas that you can't entertain until somebody has normalized them.

01:03:42.220 And that's what I did. Intentionally. I took the wildest idea, attacking Mexico, and I said it until

01:03:52.600 it was normalized. That's what I did. Now, all you have to do is say it in a reasonable voice and say

01:04:01.580 it often. And people will get used to hearing it. And then they'll think, well, I don't know. It's not

01:04:07.360 impossible. Right? That's all it is. So the persuasion that I used was to normalize through

01:04:14.820 exposure. A very common, easy-to-predict method. Because you can get used to... This is something

01:04:23.120 my mother used to say. You can get used to anything if you do it long enough, including

01:04:29.320 hanging. If you get hung, you'll get used to it if you do it long enough. Right? So that

01:04:36.340 was the joke. But the idea of directly attacking the cartels is unimaginable until people are

01:04:43.400 talking about it. And then you go, well, people are talking about it. I guess it's not so

01:04:47.600 unimaginable. So that's where we are. We're talking about it.

01:04:53.800 TikTok. I saw a thread by Bowtied Robin on Twitter talking about how TikTok presents different content

01:05:04.360 to Americans than it does Chinese youth. Uh-oh. You see any problems? So TikTok, a Chinese

01:05:13.600 company, I guess we know this. This is not a guess, presents very different information

01:05:20.480 to youth in China than it does to Americans. What do you think it gives to Chinese youth

01:05:26.420 that's different from Americans? What would you guess? Well, they give American youth useless

01:05:33.980 people dancing and they addict them to it. So they make American youth, they addict them

01:05:40.180 to useless nonsense that doesn't help them and probably hurts their health. What they do to

01:05:46.680 the Chinese youth is they, um, the algorithm feeds them, uh, valuable life skills.

01:05:56.360 Oh, just think about that. China is feeding valuable life skills to Chinese consumers of TikTok

01:06:04.880 and they're, they're feeding useless twaddle to Americans and everybody else, I guess, um, which

01:06:13.420 teaches them nothing and actually removes their ability to have critical thinking, uh, and turns

01:06:20.120 them into just puppets basically. Now, now let me say something that just seems shocking to

01:06:27.340 you. TikTok is not banned in America. What? How many of you remember the first time I said

01:06:39.200 TikTok should be banned in America? Does anybody remember that? What, what happened the first time

01:06:45.320 you heard it? First time you heard it, you said, that's a little too far, right? And then I said it

01:06:52.440 a few more times. They said it more, a few more times. And then you heard, you probably heard that

01:06:57.600 the Trump administration wanted to ban TikTok, right? And then, uh, I guess it didn't happen and the Biden

01:07:07.060 administration doesn't seem to be on that, on that track. But it doesn't sound crazy, does it?

01:07:14.620 Banning TikTok, if you, if you know anybody who uses it, um, you know what it's doing to them.

01:07:22.180 Now, let me make a confession. I don't use TikTok and the reason is it's a Chinese company.

01:07:28.040 I know it would be maybe good for my business, you know, raise exposure, introduce myself to a new

01:07:33.980 generation, all that. But I'm not going to use it because of the Chinese connection.

01:07:40.020 Um,

01:07:40.820 but I have been consuming accidentally, um, Instagram reels. Now, if you don't use Instagram,

01:07:53.960 let me explain. A reel is a quick little video that's basically what TikTok is. So Instagram has

01:08:01.240 within it a feature that mimics everything you TikTok does. And it's a popular feature. And I made

01:08:08.140 the mistake of clicking on some reels in, in Instagram, I don't know, some time ago. And I

01:08:15.760 flipped through and maybe one out of five was kind of cool. I liked it. Gave me a little dopamine hit.

01:08:22.220 Four out of five were annoying people dancing. There's nothing more annoying than a reel in

01:08:30.120 which the woman acts cute. And then she has to do a self-conscious, uh, laugh at the screen.

01:08:35.280 I can't stand it. You know what I mean? It's the, the woman's dancing. And after she does the dance,

01:08:42.900 then, or she's, or she's looking pretty and she's just walking. And then after she's walking pretty,

01:08:51.640 she does the look at the camera. This one. And turn off the camera. Because I'm so self-conscious.

01:09:00.260 I wasn't trying to look pretty. No, no. You might've thought I was looking pretty, but no, no, no.

01:09:07.180 I'm not pretty. Stop it. Stop it. I'm not pretty. I can't stand it. I see those things. And if I

01:09:18.100 accidentally have the sound on, now there's one that's worse. Because people use these voiceovers

01:09:26.580 that they, that they pair with their own video. Have you heard this one? I love my puppy dogs. My puppy

01:09:35.260 dog. Does anybody, you've heard that one, right? And once you click on one of those, you just keep

01:09:45.320 getting it. Oh, my puppy dog. My puppy dog gets up. Anyway, so here's my point. Do you know how addiction

01:09:56.480 works? It's not the way you think. Addiction is not getting what you want. Addiction is getting

01:10:05.120 what you want occasionally. That's what makes you addicted. So if you look at four reels,

01:10:12.380 let's say, let's say you look at five reels. One of them is awesome and you love it. And the other

01:10:17.500 four you wish you hadn't seen, you will become addicted. Better than if you liked all five.

01:10:24.540 If you liked all five, you'd just get used to them. Then you'd, you'd be like, I have enough of that.

01:10:29.820 But because you have to hunt for them, you have to work for it. And you're getting all these false

01:10:35.240 ones and bad ones before you get one that just moves you. That's addiction. Now, I started using

01:10:43.080 the reels, I don't know, a few months ago. And I found myself taken over. Now, it might be because I,

01:10:52.040 I study this for, you know, all my life, brainwashing and hypnosis and persuasion. I'm kind of really

01:10:58.700 tuned in to that, you know, part of life. I could feel my brain being taken over. I could feel my body

01:11:07.120 no longer being able to stop doing it. I have the actual feeling of I can't even stop my finger. I

01:11:14.520 would like to go, I, that's pretty funny. I would like to be doing something. Oh, that's,

01:11:20.500 that's not funny. That's not funny. I wish I were exercising. Well, that's funny. Have you had that

01:11:27.980 experience yet? Has anybody experienced actually having their body taken over? Because that's a

01:11:34.940 total takeover of my body. Yeah. Yeah. Now, Twitter does the same thing. But I rationalize it as,

01:11:41.900 you know, part of my entertainment and also part of business. If I didn't use Twitter for business,

01:11:49.760 you know, it's part of connecting with an audience. If I didn't do that, I would run from

01:11:53.580 that fucking thing so fast. Like, I would not use it for entertainment. To me, it just feels dangerous.

01:12:01.020 Right. But for business, you do some dangerous things, risk reward, blah, blah, blah. But I can't,

01:12:07.400 I can't justify using Instagram and just looking at reels because there's no business purpose there

01:12:14.760 whatsoever. And I can't stop. Yeah. Slot machine theory. Exactly. So the TikTok question about

01:12:24.000 whether TikTok should be legal in America is a no fucking brainer. TikTok absolutely should not be

01:12:32.660 legal. It should be shut down today. It's one of the most dangerous things. I would also think that

01:12:39.840 we should put some kind of limit on addictive social media. So, oh, the other thing that

01:12:47.580 Chinese social media does, TikTok, is they ban it for certain hours for certain ages.

01:12:54.420 In China, you can't even use the damn thing during certain hours. That's not true in America.

01:13:01.880 So, when we're watching the Chinese right in front of us destroy the youth of America and more than

01:13:09.480 the youth, because we're addicted to it too, destroying America while trying to build up their own,

01:13:14.780 you know, internal capabilities, what side? What side is our government on?

01:13:22.060 Who exactly is on the side of keeping TikTok? Tell me. More sophistry. I'm going to guess that

01:13:32.260 that's being funny. But tell me this. I've heard an argument that TikTok should be banned. Have you?

01:13:40.120 How many of you have heard the argument that TikTok should be banned? Go. You watch the news. Have you

01:13:46.080 ever heard the argument that it should be? Mostly yeses, right? Yes, yes, yes. All right. Now,

01:13:52.600 now I'm going to open up the mechanism again, like we did before about who packed the boxes.

01:13:59.020 I'm going to open. You're going to see the mechanism again. Who's arguing to keep TikTok legal?

01:14:05.220 Name their names. Who is arguing to keep TikTok legal? No, not big tech. Not big tech in the United

01:14:16.960 States. Mitch? No. No, the answer is no one. Now, process that for a moment. There's a strong,

01:14:29.580 very strong argument for banning it. Very strong. There's nobody on the other side.

01:14:37.580 Am I wrong? Show me a major politician who's in favor of keeping TikTok legal in the United States.

01:14:46.420 Name one. Give me a name of any congressperson, senator, anybody.

01:14:51.740 Did you know that? Did you know that we have an issue in which there's no disagreement

01:14:59.740 by anybody who's willing to show their face? Nobody who's willing to say, my name is X. I'm

01:15:07.320 a senator. And I think TikTok should stay just the way it is. Nobody. Think of another topic where

01:15:14.660 there's nobody on the other side. There are people who maybe haven't thought about it, but there's

01:15:18.960 nobody on the other side. So you're saying Swalwell, but that's a joke, right? You're saying

01:15:23.880 Biden, that's a joke. McConnell, that's not true, right? Kinzinger, no, that's not true.

01:15:31.220 There's literally nobody who's made the argument. You see that? See, if you hadn't noticed that

01:15:37.180 that was missing, you wouldn't know what's going on. There's something going on that's protecting

01:15:42.740 TikTok that our news has never looked into. Think about that. Have you seen the news look

01:15:52.820 into it on the right? Nope. I haven't. How about the left? Nope. I haven't. So the fact that

01:16:02.640 the single most important question about social media, in my opinion, you know, the low-hanging

01:16:09.260 fruit is TikTok because it's a Chinese company. If you're talking about Facebook or Twitter

01:16:13.900 or, you know, Instagram, those things, those are American companies, so you have to treat

01:16:20.020 that whole situation differently. But a Chinese company that's addicting our youth, that's easy.

01:16:27.260 That one's not a challenge. If we're treating that like that's a hard question, there's something

01:16:33.300 else going on. And the something else going on could only be one thing. Which is? What's

01:16:40.400 the one thing it could only be? Chinese influence. What else could it be? You know, if somebody

01:16:48.980 wants to come forward and say, oh, it's not Chinese influence, I have a good argument for

01:16:52.900 it. It has to do with, like, freedom or something. By the way, I just realized, what is Thomas

01:16:58.460 Massey's opinion on TikTok? So let's ask him that question. Because he would be interesting.

01:17:06.780 Because I think he's more keep the government out of a guy. But would he be willing to keep

01:17:12.420 the government out of a Chinese cyber weapon? I mean, that's what TikTok is. It's a Chinese

01:17:18.080 cyber weapon. So would he be in favor of it because of, you know, freedom? Letting them

01:17:24.340 employ a digital weapon on American soil? So let's redefine TikTok as a Chinese cyber

01:17:32.040 weapon. Because it's a Chinese cyber weapon. And I think it should be regulated by the military.

01:17:42.940 It should be a military regulation, not. It should be a homeland security thing. Well, give me

01:17:50.300 an interview with the head of Homeland Security and have that person explain why TikTok is still

01:17:55.860 allowed in the United States. Right? If we had anything like a real news business, either

01:18:02.040 on the right or the left. Right? Fox News, I'm coming at you on this. Right? Fox News is not even

01:18:07.960 close to giving me the news that I want. Not even close. Right? So here's what I want Fox News

01:18:16.840 to do. Give me an interview with the head of Homeland Security about one topic. Just one

01:18:23.160 topic. TikTok. And tell me why that's not a cyber weapon. And tell me why Homeland Security

01:18:29.460 should not be banning that on security issues. It's an attack on the homeland.

01:18:36.920 So I don't even know the name of the Homeland Security person, do you? Can anybody name who's

01:18:41.440 in charge of Homeland Security? I'm not sure I ever could, but who is it? I mean, Biden,

01:18:46.520 but. Mayorkas? Oh, you're a smart group. Mayorkas. Okay. So let's get Mayorkas on an interview

01:18:55.540 and say, defend, defend TikTok being legal. I would make them defend it. Right? I wouldn't

01:19:03.980 say, give us your opinion. I'd say defend it. Defend why we should allow a Chinese cyber

01:19:09.180 weapon to continue to target our youth. Go. Now, what do you think Mayorka is going to

01:19:14.580 say? Freedom? Is that going to be a defense? Yeah, they're targeting our youth, and we see

01:19:22.680 it, and we know it. But, you know, freedom. Freedom. Do you think you'll say that? I don't

01:19:30.300 know. I don't know what Mayorka would say, but wouldn't you like to see an interview? Now,

01:19:36.200 does it seem to you that the topic of my live stream today is that the news isn't even close

01:19:42.420 to giving us anything we need? Didn't give us anything on the Charlottesville thing? They're

01:19:48.100 not giving us anything on who packed the boxes? Just obvious questions. And they're not asking

01:19:52.720 the head of Homeland Security if TikTok should be allowed or banned. People, these are the most

01:19:59.400 obvious questions in the country. How about this one? What are we going to do in the United

01:20:06.260 States about a fertilizer shortage? That's a pretty big question, right? Who's asking that?

01:20:16.460 So I feel like there needs to be some kind of new entity where the public can register the

01:20:23.040 questions it wants to ask. And you could compare what the public wants to ask, let's say they get

01:20:29.040 voted up to the top, with what the entities are actually asking. Because there's a real difference

01:20:35.200 between what the news is asking and what the public wants them to ask. And that's left and right. And I

01:20:41.460 don't know why. I mean, I could speculate and make the worst assumptions in the world, you know,

01:20:47.080 that they're either incompetent or China owns them or some damn thing. But I'd rather, I'd rather have a

01:20:55.080 real answer. You think that behind the curtain everybody's colluding? Maybe. We'll just use

01:21:05.700 hydroponics? They're still fertilized, aren't they? Hydroponics are fertilized. All right.

01:21:17.080 Tractors burying baby formula? I didn't see that.

01:21:23.540 Apple and Google profit from the app? Yeah. But let's get people on record defending that.

01:21:32.460 Takes a lot of fertilizer to create cattle feed? Oh, that's interesting. Is somebody arguing that

01:21:38.740 if we went vegetarian, not that that's practical, but if we went vegetarian, we'd have enough fertilizer?

01:21:45.040 I don't know if that's true. I feel like we would have to replace the beef with growing more

01:21:51.820 vegetables. I don't buy that. I'm not buying that. You think the U.S. will fight the CCP? No,

01:21:59.680 I don't think so. Not directly.

01:22:01.060 So it seems to be that there's one. Well, nitrogen is not the only fertilizer. So if nitrogen was the

01:22:14.900 only thing we needed, we'd be in good shape. That's not the problem. Yeah, manure is fertilizer.

01:22:20.580 Are you for banning the porn industry? That's interesting. I've never talked about that. How

01:22:31.180 many of you would be in favor of banning porn? Let me give you answers. I'm saying no, no,

01:22:39.140 no, no, yes, yes, no, yes, no, no, yes, yes, no. See, the problem with banning porn, people are mixed.

01:22:50.260 Looks like you're pretty mixed on this. Should be paid access? I don't know. I'm not sure you

01:22:57.480 could ever stop it from being freely available to children. Should be banned. I'm a little,

01:23:04.140 see here. My problem with porn is my problem with guns. It goes like this. With guns, it is

01:23:13.800 unambiguously true that some people are less safe when there are more guns around. But it is also

01:23:19.320 unambiguously true that some people are more safe if they have access to guns. So the problem with gun

01:23:26.380 ownership is that we have people who are operating from self-interest doing this sort of theater where

01:23:33.660 they pretend they're arguing from some social or constitutional right. It's never that. If you

01:23:39.780 think you need a gun or you might need one to protect yourself, you want the right to own one.

01:23:45.160 If you think you'll never want a gun because you're afraid of them and your only risk is other people

01:23:49.260 having them, then probably you're against it. And then we act as though the theater of the high level,

01:23:55.500 oh, my constitution, that's really why you're doing it. That's not why you're doing it.

01:23:58.920 You're doing it because you want a gun or you don't want a gun. That's it, right? Now you might

01:24:04.340 want a gun to protect yourself against your government, but it's still just wanting a gun

01:24:08.840 to feel that you're safer. So the same thing with porn. If you say porn should be banned,

01:24:20.200 what does that do to the person who can't get access to humans? Is that fair? Because if you're

01:24:29.100 looking at porn from the perspective of someone who can get sex in the real world, that's not fair.

01:24:37.460 That's not fair at all. If you're married and you're, you know, you're getting everything you like

01:24:43.380 and you're telling me that, you know, not me, but you're telling somebody else that they can't have porn

01:24:48.760 because your sex life is good? Well, the only thing I can say is an ironic fuck you.

01:24:57.360 It's ironic because they're having sex. Yeah. No, don't, don't tell people who can't get sex

01:25:03.780 that they can't have porn. If you can fix it so they can have sex, well, then maybe your opinion

01:25:09.700 that they should have porn is something I'd listen to. But until most people can have access to sex

01:25:15.280 in some kind of a, you know, timely, useful way, which is not even close to where we are,

01:25:21.520 I think you've got to give people options. Now, is it true that porn ruins marriages? I don't know.

01:25:33.480 I'll tell you what they do. It changes the balance of power.

01:25:37.800 So I believe that marriages stay together when the woman has all the power,

01:25:43.740 meaning that she can control the man completely. That's your stable situation.

01:25:50.180 As soon as the man discovers that he can get off without the wife, with porn, suddenly her power

01:25:57.500 diminishes and he doesn't need to listen to her so much because he's not getting sex there anyway.

01:26:03.860 So I think porn changes the balance of power in a way that's very bad for women.

01:26:12.420 It might be bad for men too. That would be a separate question.

01:26:16.460 But I think women want a band because this definitely reduces their power

01:26:21.120 and it increases the power of men because they have an option that doesn't require being nice to women

01:26:27.460 to get sex. And that's a very big thing. And men don't say that out loud, by the way.

01:26:34.240 But porn is the substitute for shitty women.

01:26:39.140 Sorry. Porn is the direct substitute for shitty women.

01:26:43.720 And the percentage of shitty women is at an all-time high.

01:26:46.540 Now, you might say to me, Scott, the percentage of shitty men is at an all-time high.

01:26:53.400 And I don't know. It might be. I wouldn't deny it.

01:26:57.500 But it's absolutely true that the percentage of women who are shitty is at the all-time high.

01:27:03.580 Probably true for men. Maybe it's just true for people. I don't know.

01:27:07.460 But I don't, you know, my vision on this is sort of limited, so I'll admit that.

01:27:12.460 But it's true. And here's why.

01:27:17.040 Everybody is getting too picky about everything.

01:27:21.100 Right?

01:27:22.300 Too picky about everything.

01:27:24.860 Imagine being my age and finding somebody who's within 35 years of dating age.

01:27:31.760 I like to have a broad range.

01:27:34.100 Imagine me finding anybody within 35 years of my dating age

01:27:38.580 who doesn't have so many preferences that it's really hard to manage them at the same time.

01:27:47.180 Imagine that.

01:27:49.940 So,

01:27:53.220 somebody says lots of men are weaker and feminized now.

01:27:57.040 Yeah, there is something to that. I don't know what it is.

01:28:02.660 Shut up, Bart.

01:28:03.500 Now, when I say, oh, no.

01:28:08.300 When I say that everybody's too picky, I don't mean just women.

01:28:13.420 I mean people.

01:28:14.620 And I think it's because we have so many things that we can access.

01:28:18.640 Have you ever tried to watch a TV or movie with another person?

01:28:24.380 Here's me trying to watch a movie with another person in 1986.

01:28:30.200 This is my impression of wanting to watch a movie with another person in 1986.

01:28:37.380 Hey, you want to go to see a movie?

01:28:39.120 Sure.

01:28:40.260 What's playing?

01:28:41.480 We've got three choices.

01:28:44.080 They all sound pretty good.

01:28:46.180 Why don't you pick one?

01:28:48.220 We'll probably watch all three, but let's watch this one tonight.

01:28:51.980 Okay.

01:28:52.240 And then you get some popcorn and maybe you hug, curl up, watch a great show.

01:29:01.220 That's 1986.

01:29:03.400 Now, here is 2022, trying to get somebody to watch a show.

01:29:09.340 Hey, you want to watch a movie?

01:29:11.860 I don't know.

01:29:12.520 Is there anything out?

01:29:14.260 Yeah, there's tons of movies out.

01:29:16.100 But so many, it's going to be hard for us to find one that we agree on.

01:29:21.540 How about this new Thor movie?

01:29:24.840 Oh, yeah.

01:29:25.760 That was great.

01:29:26.260 I just watched it on my phone.

01:29:27.880 Oh, okay.

01:29:29.180 Well, how about Top Gun?

01:29:32.140 Top Gun.

01:29:32.920 We all agree on Top Gun, right?

01:29:34.560 Yeah, yeah.

01:29:35.720 Just saw it.

01:29:38.160 All right.

01:29:38.760 Two hours later, you've picked a movie and you watch it and it's way too boring because

01:29:48.300 your attention span has changed and you can't even tolerate it.

01:29:52.240 One of you will bail out of the movie before it's over.

01:29:56.120 When was the last time you sat down with one other person to watch a movie and one of you

01:30:01.540 didn't want to bail out of the movie before it was over?

01:30:04.700 In the old days, I used to watch the whole movie even if it wasn't perfect.

01:30:08.760 And I didn't care that much.

01:30:10.980 But today, I will bail out of the movie the moment somebody's tied to a chair or an animal

01:30:19.200 is endangered.

01:30:20.900 So I have two hard rules of turning off a show.

01:30:25.820 If somebody's tied to a chair or there's an animal in danger in any way.

01:30:31.540 Off.

01:30:33.300 The other times, and then there's a bunch of times that I have to fast forward.

01:30:36.740 So as soon as there's the male and the female usually, in the traditional movie, the male

01:30:44.280 and female are like getting together and they're showing love for each other.

01:30:48.900 And you know that the next 10 minutes of your movie will be you being convinced that they're

01:30:53.960 really in love.

01:30:55.060 So that when something bad happens, you'll feel bad.

01:30:57.520 And I say to myself, got it.

01:31:00.680 Fast forward.

01:31:01.840 Can you still love?

01:31:03.320 Looks like you're kissing.

01:31:04.780 A little more talk.

01:31:06.180 Oh, now they're having sex.

01:31:07.720 Got it.

01:31:08.120 Got it.

01:31:08.480 Got it.

01:31:08.820 Got it.

01:31:09.300 Done.

01:31:09.620 I can't even watch a movie without fast forwarding through all the scenes that are establishing

01:31:15.360 something that I already got.

01:31:18.700 It's a dangerous situation.

01:31:20.360 Got it.

01:31:21.120 Fast forward.

01:31:21.980 Fast forward.

01:31:22.960 You get a torture room for information.

01:31:24.600 Got it.

01:31:25.040 Fast forward.

01:31:25.960 Fast forward.

01:31:27.020 You can have a conversation with that confidential source.

01:31:32.520 Got it.

01:31:33.140 Got some information that'll tell you where to go.

01:31:35.360 Don't need to know the rest.

01:31:36.440 There you are.

01:31:36.920 You found the guy, and it looks like there's a bunch of bad people in the room.

01:31:41.440 Oh, shit.

01:31:42.260 There's one hero and a bunch of bad people in the room.

01:31:44.780 I wonder what's going to happen.

01:31:46.300 Could it be a fight?

01:31:48.180 Would it be a fight?

01:31:49.700 Yes.

01:31:50.120 It's a fight.

01:31:50.980 Will the hero beat up all the people in the room?

01:31:54.700 Fast forward.

01:31:55.500 The hero is beating up the people in the room, and the action is so fast, I can't really

01:31:58.740 see it anyway.

01:31:59.720 It's just going to be a bunch of images on the screen for a bunch of minutes and noise,

01:32:03.200 and, okay, that's over.

01:32:04.520 How do you watch a movie anymore?

01:32:08.600 If you're watching by yourself, don't you fast forward through all the got it?

01:32:11.860 I got it.

01:32:12.580 I got it.

01:32:13.900 Scenes.

01:32:14.860 Right?

01:32:21.180 And is there anybody who can watch an entire porn movie before it gets to the good parts?

01:32:27.380 I mean, those were always interminable.

01:32:29.420 I mean, just, you couldn't handle them.

01:32:31.500 But now, it's impossible.

01:32:32.960 Like, what would be the point?

01:32:34.780 If I'm not looking at a compilation clip, I'm already bored.

01:32:42.260 And here, I'm talking about that one time I looked at porn for 10 minutes.

01:32:47.040 Yeah.

01:32:47.660 10 minutes, and it was ruined for life.

01:32:50.680 But, yeah, compilation clips.

01:32:52.740 It's all I could handle.

01:32:53.500 All right.

01:33:00.840 I think that's all.

01:33:02.180 The audio is okay now?

01:33:03.800 Did I lose my audio when I said something you didn't like?

01:33:09.520 All right.

01:33:10.220 That's enough for now.

01:33:13.320 Move hands from face.

01:33:15.160 You don't like my hands in front of my face?

01:33:17.260 Does that bother you?

01:33:18.580 Does it bother you when my hands are in front of my face?

01:33:21.920 I'm sorry.

01:33:24.160 All right.

01:33:24.660 You're right.

01:33:25.100 I should not put my hands in front of my face.

01:33:27.140 That's actually good advice.

01:33:29.060 I appreciate it.

01:33:33.260 Yeah.

01:33:33.620 And the other problem with movies is the wokeness.

01:33:39.940 I don't mind.

01:33:41.260 I remember there was a show called something, La Femme Nikita or something, where Nikita played

01:33:49.400 a woman who weighed about 90 pounds and could beat up any 200-pound man and throw him around

01:33:55.880 the room and stuff.

01:33:56.920 I remember thinking, oh, that's, it's like, it's cute because it's so ridiculous.

01:34:01.980 And she was attractive, so I didn't mind looking at it.

01:34:05.960 But once that becomes the standard way of all movies, that a 90-pound woman could beat

01:34:12.280 up a 200-pound man pretty much with ease anytime they want, then it's like, I don't know.

01:34:18.420 I thought you took an interesting concept where there was a movie where it was true, where

01:34:24.040 I'm like, oh, OK, there's a movie where it's true.

01:34:26.660 And then suddenly all movies have to be true, that the women could beat up the men.

01:34:30.260 And then, hmm, went too far.

01:34:36.120 Wasn't she enhanced?

01:34:37.480 I don't think so.

01:34:39.760 She was just trained well, right?

01:34:45.020 All right, I have to read this comment to YouTube over on Locals.

01:34:52.460 Somebody said, somebody said, is there any porn for old people, or does it accidentally turn

01:35:01.360 into a snuff film?

01:35:07.100 Oh, that's really funny.

01:35:11.480 I think that's where we're going to end, because I can't top that.

01:35:15.920 Porn about old people accidentally turns into a snuff film.

01:35:18.720 That's too close to home.

01:35:25.280 All right, YouTube, that's all for today.

01:35:27.580 I'll talk to you tomorrow.

01:35:28.380 I'll talk to you tomorrow.

01:35:35.640 I'll talk to you tomorrow.

01:35:40.240 Yeah.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 14, 2022

Episode 1835 Scott Adams： Trump Appears Unstoppable. Democrats Can't Stop Aiming At Their Own Feet

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