Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1887 Scott Adams： Kanye Says White Lives Matter And Elon Musk Is Buying Twitter. Fun News

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to another peak experience of human existence.

00:00:14.600 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams.

00:00:16.120 There is nothing finer in the entire galaxy and known universe.

00:00:21.600 You know that rover that's up there on Mars that's digging for dirt?

00:00:25.780 No matter how far it digs, it's not going to find anything better.

00:00:36.440 Thank you, Paul. Appreciate that.

00:00:40.200 Now, would you like to take your experience up to the highest levels ever known to humanity?

00:00:48.520 Yes, you would.

00:00:49.320 And all you need is a cuppa, a mug, or a glass, a tanker, a chalice, a stein, a canteen jug, or a flask, a vessel of any kind.

00:00:55.780 Hold on. Wait a minute.

00:00:59.060 Don over on YouTube says he does not want to take it up to the highest level of awesomeness.

00:01:06.880 Don? Don? I need you all on board.

00:01:11.100 This is the simultaneous sip.

00:01:13.300 This is not the simultaneous minus Don sip.

00:01:18.420 Don, you have to get on board.

00:01:20.000 Don? Get on board. Get on board.

00:01:23.440 It's the dopamine hit of the day.

00:01:26.380 It's the thing that makes everything better, including for Don.

00:01:29.020 All right, I think he's on board. He's on board.

00:01:31.440 You're on board. Go.

00:01:36.360 That's for you, Don.

00:01:38.620 See, I'm going to get you in one at a time.

00:01:40.520 So this just reminded me of a weird little thing that happened when I was a kid.

00:01:50.500 My parents had these friends, Don and Ann.

00:01:54.300 We always heard about them.

00:01:55.840 Well, we're going to hang out with Don and Ann.

00:01:58.140 They had two names that went together really well.

00:02:00.420 Don and Ann.

00:02:01.260 Don was, I think he worked construction, but he had been in World War II, and he had been

00:02:11.120 stationed on an island in the Pacific, and his job was to load ordnance on bombers.

00:02:18.300 And one of the things he once loaded on a bomber was an atomic bomb.

00:02:27.940 So he was on the island of Tinian, and he literally loaded the atomic bomb onto the plane that bombed Japan.

00:02:37.240 I think it was the first one.

00:02:38.980 It was the first one, I think.

00:02:40.000 And I always thought, how in the world, like, what are the odds that I would literally, yeah, the Enola Gay.

00:02:49.060 He actually loaded the Enola Gay.

00:02:50.840 And I thought, what are the odds I would actually know him personally?

00:02:54.420 Like, you would personally know somebody that loaded the atomic bomb on the Enola Gay. 0.84

00:02:59.580 It's just so weird.

00:03:02.660 Well, in the news, very important news, Tom Brady and Giselle Bunchen.

00:03:07.680 It looks like they're living separately and maybe talking to a divorce lawyer.

00:03:14.140 Similarly, Brad and Angelina are divorcing and having a bad time in the courts over it.

00:03:22.620 I have a theory that goes like this.

00:03:28.440 What if nobody is happily married?

00:03:32.860 What if nobody is happily married?

00:03:35.980 And I actually mean that.

00:03:36.960 And I think that it has something to do with our times.

00:03:42.740 Yeah, I know you are.

00:03:44.120 Sure you are.

00:03:46.660 Let me stipulate.

00:03:48.960 I will stipulate that 100% of the people who are married and want to stay that way,

00:03:53.480 totally happily married, as far as your spouse knows.

00:03:58.400 All right?

00:03:58.840 As far as your spouse knows, happily married.

00:04:02.040 I have a theory that all happily married people are lying.

00:04:09.500 It's just my theory.

00:04:11.340 And it's part of the process.

00:04:14.000 And I don't mind that.

00:04:15.440 That's not even a criticism.

00:04:16.640 Because I am very much a believer in, I'm going to call it the Jordan Peterson view of marriage.

00:04:24.800 Right?

00:04:25.300 I probably mischaracterized him, so I apologize in advance.

00:04:28.820 But his view is that it's not about being happy.

00:04:33.720 It's not about being happy.

00:04:36.100 It's more about a commitment.

00:04:37.780 So if you got married to get happy, you probably did it wrong.

00:04:44.500 So I think that when people say they're happy, what they mean is they'd rather be married than not married.

00:04:52.660 Which I totally get.

00:04:54.540 I totally get that.

00:04:55.900 You'd rather be married than not married.

00:04:57.920 Right?

00:04:58.720 So would you say that you're happily married equates to I'd rather be married than not married?

00:05:05.240 That makes perfect sense.

00:05:07.640 I just don't think anybody's happy about it.

00:05:10.820 Here's why.

00:05:12.680 Now, I'm not sure you should be.

00:05:14.500 Because maybe we just have a miserable world where people are struggling for scraps of happiness no matter what they're doing.

00:05:21.080 Because I'm not saying that being single is good.

00:05:24.740 Let me be clear.

00:05:25.720 Being single is no good.

00:05:28.080 I don't like it.

00:05:29.720 I don't like it at all.

00:05:31.260 But I just don't think that we've developed in society options that work.

00:05:36.460 And here's why.

00:05:37.260 I'm going to give you a scientific reason why.

00:05:40.700 You ready?

00:05:41.960 This is based on a conversation I had yesterday.

00:05:47.180 Electronically.

00:05:48.400 So somebody was telling me that they had had over 100 lovers.

00:05:54.560 And it wasn't until reaching lover approximately 150 that a great lover was found.

00:06:04.740 And finally, you know, the search was, the search showed that you have to go through a lot of people before you find, you know, the one who's an amazing lover.

00:06:13.760 And unfortunately, that didn't work out.

00:06:21.060 So the relationship with number 150 didn't work out for whatever reasons.

00:06:25.720 So now what happens when this person goes to number 151?

00:06:32.940 When they go to 151, they're going to say, ah, I really like this person.

00:06:38.580 But now I know what good sex feels like.

00:06:41.080 I can't really be with number 151 because everything's good, but the sex is just average. 0.72

00:06:49.560 So you're done.

00:06:50.560 So you've got a number 152.

00:06:53.520 How is number 152?

00:06:55.880 Pretty good.

00:06:56.940 Pretty good.

00:06:57.760 Except that the sex isn't like it was with 150.

00:07:04.660 You see where I'm going?

00:07:05.900 In the old days, people married whoever was next door and had a cow. 1.00

00:07:13.700 You know, my entire criteria are, do you have a vagina and a cow? 1.00

00:07:19.720 Well, I have a vagina. 1.00

00:07:22.080 I'm looking for somebody who has a vagina and a cow because I need a cow too. 1.00

00:07:27.800 And then if you got your wife that way, you'd be like, I got everything I wanted. 1.00

00:07:32.460 Cow, vagina, boom, happiness. 1.00

00:07:36.460 Am I wrong? 1.00

00:07:37.920 Cow, vagina, happiness. 1.00

00:07:40.140 That's 1942 right there. 0.98

00:07:42.700 Now, you can go on the internet and see, you know, every manner of desirable thing.

00:07:50.400 And you can compare it to your own life and it doesn't look so good.

00:07:55.640 So here's what's happened. 0.98

00:07:57.860 Your comparison set has expanded to the point where everything sucks. 0.82

00:08:05.900 Do you get that? 0.97

00:08:07.880 This is based on science.

00:08:09.040 This is not even an opinion.

00:08:11.040 What I'm saying to you now is not opinion.

00:08:14.720 It's just the way people work.

00:08:16.200 If you give me lots of choices, every time I look at one of those choices, I'm going to say, hmm, I kind of wish I didn't know about all those other options that I'm not getting.

00:08:26.440 Because I think I may want to hold on a little bit longer until I get one of these.

00:08:30.320 And then I age out and I'm too old to get married and that sort of thing.

00:08:34.200 So I believe that humans are destroyed by options.

00:08:38.420 And that we've reached an option set where we can't handle it.

00:08:44.580 And that marriage is simply one of the many things that suffers from it, but maybe not especially.

00:08:52.800 So, yeah.

00:08:56.720 So I think, do you know why TV is no good?

00:09:00.340 I saw somebody prompt me for that.

00:09:03.060 Do you know why television is no good at all?

00:09:05.940 Because there are too many channels.

00:09:08.380 Too many channels.

00:09:10.040 Yeah.

00:09:11.380 Do you know that I spend now 90% of my time looking for something and maybe 10% of my time consuming?

00:09:19.660 What did you used to do?

00:09:22.760 You used to have three channels.

00:09:24.940 I mean, if you're a certain age, you had three channels.

00:09:27.680 And you would just watch one of them, whichever was the good one.

00:09:30.780 You'd say, well, I got three choices.

00:09:32.240 I'll watch the best of the three.

00:09:34.300 Right?

00:09:35.520 You sat through the commercials.

00:09:37.720 You know, you used it to go to the bathroom.

00:09:39.380 It was fine.

00:09:41.180 Yeah.

00:09:42.000 Too many choices.

00:09:44.760 Well, here's another.

00:09:46.320 So that's your first persuasion trick is that people with too many choices are not happier.

00:09:53.300 Did you ever take a date to the Cheesecake Factory?

00:09:57.760 Oh, my God. 1.00

00:09:58.920 It's a shit show. 1.00

00:10:00.440 The Cheesecake Factory has a menu that's like 700 choices. 1.00

00:10:06.780 Here's me going to the Cheesecake Factory.

00:10:09.440 And again, this doesn't matter who I'm going with.

00:10:11.480 Now, I'm a vegetarian, pescatarian actually, but, and decisive.

00:10:20.640 So here's me with the cheesecake menu.

00:10:27.900 One page of stuff I could eat.

00:10:30.160 I'll go that one.

00:10:31.360 All right.

00:10:31.820 I'll have the whatever.

00:10:33.780 Evelyn's pasta.

00:10:35.840 Here's my date.

00:10:36.880 Here's my date.

00:10:41.480 Here's me. 0.99

00:10:58.640 Oh, shit. 0.99

00:10:59.400 I don't have a watch. 1.00

00:11:00.960 I can't look at my phone.

00:11:02.780 If I pick up my phone, I'm going to get, I'm just going to look at it.

00:11:07.940 It looks like I'm going to be here a while.

00:11:10.040 This could be 20 minutes.

00:11:12.180 I just want to check one message.

00:11:16.420 Put your phone down.

00:11:22.160 No, I've never been with anybody who told me to put my phone down.

00:11:25.320 But I've been with people who didn't like it when I picked it up.

00:11:30.940 Now, let me ask you this question.

00:11:32.280 If your date is looking at the menu, can you look at your phone?

00:11:37.680 Yes or no?

00:11:40.080 If your date is looking at the menu and you're done, can you look at your phone?

00:11:44.880 I'll look at the answers.

00:11:46.220 Yeses and nos.

00:11:47.760 Big disagreement here, huh?

00:11:51.180 Yeah, this one's not settled.

00:11:53.740 See, we need a whole set of manners that are constructed for our unique times.

00:11:58.960 Because we don't really have phone manners totally worked out.

00:12:05.580 So I told you I've been going to Starbucks to do some writing.

00:12:10.600 It's just easier to do my writing when I'm there.

00:12:13.260 In Starbucks, people started taking video calls.

00:12:20.000 Seriously.

00:12:20.440 They sit at Starbucks and they take video calls for work.

00:12:25.960 And I'm thinking, seriously? 0.99

00:12:29.240 Like, in what fucking world is that okay? 0.99

00:12:34.220 In no world is that okay. 0.99

00:12:36.700 And it's now common.

00:12:38.680 It's actually common in Starbucks now.

00:12:41.080 People taking video calls for extended periods.

00:12:44.180 Amazing.

00:12:44.740 Without headphones.

00:12:46.680 Without headphones, yeah.

00:12:47.980 I mean, they're talking, too.

00:12:50.820 Some of them are on headphones, but others are just talking and listening.

00:12:55.940 So I guess Tucker had Tony Bobulinski on again.

00:12:59.760 And he's Tucker's, I'm sorry, he's Hunter's ex-business partner.

00:13:05.880 Now, here's the most amazing thing about the Hunter-Biden story.

00:13:12.340 Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is what happened.

00:13:14.420 Now, I'm going to make up a different story, not about Hunter.

00:13:19.340 And it went like this.

00:13:21.240 Do you hear about that Hunter?

00:13:24.500 He went to Abonia.

00:13:27.700 Really?

00:13:28.760 Yeah.

00:13:29.540 So what?

00:13:30.360 Well, you know, Abonia's, you know, our enemy. 1.00

00:13:33.680 Yeah.

00:13:34.120 Well, a lot of people go there.

00:13:36.880 You know, he talked to somebody important, you know, in the government.

00:13:40.200 Really?

00:13:40.700 That's kind of sketchy.

00:13:43.060 But, you know, probably people do that.

00:13:45.040 It's no big deal.

00:13:46.900 You know, he talked to people in the government, and they talked about making a deal.

00:13:50.720 And I thought, ooh, huh, that's, my eyebrow goes up a little bit.

00:13:56.000 But talking about a deal is, you know, people talk.

00:13:59.580 It's not illegal to talk.

00:14:01.840 But they actually made a deal.

00:14:04.080 Oh.

00:14:05.120 They made a deal.

00:14:06.960 He's in Albania.

00:14:07.800 He's talking to important people.

00:14:08.940 He talked about a deal.

00:14:10.020 He made a deal.

00:14:11.160 Well, that does sound a little bit bad.

00:14:13.440 And the deal would have involved, you know, maybe something bad involving our government.

00:14:21.140 Really?

00:14:22.900 By the time you hear the whole story, you've been so indoctrinated into it that you've lost

00:14:30.760 your outrage.

00:14:31.500 And you can't get enough outrage going.

00:14:34.840 The Hunter-Biden story, if you had heard the entire story, like in one big bite on day

00:14:42.280 one, your head would have exploded.

00:14:45.220 Biden would have been driven out of office or never been elected.

00:14:48.880 Hunter would be under investigation.

00:14:50.560 But the way they dribbled it out, we just got used to it.

00:14:58.400 When I hear that Hunter-Biden was illegally, presumably, trying to make deals with the Chinese 1.00

00:15:06.280 government to make money by using his father's name in the worst possible way, I don't even

00:15:14.120 have outrage about it.

00:15:15.300 I have intellectual outrage.

00:15:20.140 Yeah, okay.

00:15:21.300 That sounds very bad on paper.

00:15:24.060 If you gave me a choice, I would make it go away.

00:15:28.480 I think maybe the Department of Justice should look into it.

00:15:32.260 That was my entire emotional investment.

00:15:35.500 None.

00:15:36.560 I have no emotional investment in Hunter because of the way they just dribbled it out and I just

00:15:42.640 kept getting used to it.

00:15:43.720 Yeah, they were just boiling that frog and I was like, oh, sure, it's getting warm in

00:15:48.580 here.

00:15:49.620 It's only one degree warmer than yesterday.

00:15:52.760 It's only a little bit worse than what we heard.

00:15:55.680 And now we have like his actual business partner confirming the entire illegality of the entire

00:16:01.180 thing in the most credible way.

00:16:04.760 I mean, completely credible.

00:16:06.100 We know that the intelligence agencies intentionally got 50 people to lie and that they changed the

00:16:15.780 nature of the election by this lie, probably.

00:16:20.700 Now, how outraged should you be by this story?

00:16:26.240 It's a 10 out of 10.

00:16:28.140 It is a solid 10 out of 10.

00:16:30.000 How outraged do I actually feel about it?

00:16:34.500 One.

00:16:36.860 One.

00:16:38.400 Yeah.

00:16:39.720 And I'm completely aware that it should be 10.

00:16:43.760 It should be 10.

00:16:45.660 Today when I'm done talking about this, I won't even think about it once.

00:16:49.760 I will not think about it once after I'm done talking today.

00:16:53.020 They did that to you.

00:16:55.280 That's what they did to you.

00:16:56.820 They made you get used to that.

00:16:59.380 And you did.

00:17:01.300 Amazing.

00:17:02.400 I didn't think it was possible.

00:17:04.320 You know, I've said this a million times.

00:17:06.400 My mother always taught me that you can get used to anything if you do it long enough,

00:17:12.880 including hanging.

00:17:15.200 And it was always, you know, a joke around the house.

00:17:17.860 But we got used to it.

00:17:19.400 We actually got used to Hunter Biden working deals with China while his dad was vice president

00:17:24.980 at the time.

00:17:27.020 Bill Gates is criticizing ESG directly.

00:17:33.020 And he basically says that it's ridiculous for these fund managers, people who manage financial

00:17:38.240 funds, to be influencing people who make steel.

00:17:42.180 Because his, I'm paraphrasing now Bill Gates' criticism.

00:17:45.420 But he's saying, do the finance people have another way to make steel?

00:17:51.500 Like, what's the other way to make steel without polluting?

00:17:55.100 He's like, what is your idea?

00:17:56.760 Do you have something in your desk drawer at your finance department that'll tell them

00:18:00.340 how to make steel without polluting?

00:18:02.280 You either have to not make steel, or you better invent something that makes it that nobody's

00:18:07.300 figured out how to make steel, or just do without it.

00:18:09.960 So Bill Gates is going right at him. 0.98

00:18:13.280 Now, why does Bill Gates think that ESG is bullshit? 0.97

00:18:18.540 Not the goals. 0.96

00:18:19.900 He's not criticizing the goals of having a, you know, a good environment, of course.

00:18:26.320 Because he was the owner of a company.

00:18:29.460 He was the owner of a company.

00:18:31.260 And he's speaking, you know, he's at an age where he can just speak freely.

00:18:35.140 Of course it's bad for business.

00:18:37.260 Because every CEO will tell you, you don't want another layer of management on top of

00:18:43.960 your layers of management.

00:18:46.000 There's nobody in the world who thinks extra layers of regulations gives you a better outcome.

00:18:51.620 I mean, at some point.

00:18:52.800 I mean, some regulations you need, of course.

00:18:55.120 But when you get to some point, they're counterproductive. 0.99

00:18:59.160 So Bill Gates is saying it's bullshit. 0.98

00:19:02.220 Here are some numbers I hadn't heard before. 0.98

00:19:05.200 But, so BlackRock is one of, I guess, the biggest voice for the ESG stuff.

00:19:12.960 And it's making the socially responsible funds, as the Wall Street Journal says, the centerpiece

00:19:19.240 of its $8.5 trillion business.

00:19:23.020 So you've got finance companies who made, who figured out how to get you to churn.

00:19:27.760 Because that's their business.

00:19:30.580 I don't know if you knew this, but finance companies, they're not in the business of

00:19:36.640 making money for you.

00:19:38.420 Did you know that?

00:19:40.480 That's not their business model.

00:19:42.340 That's what they promise you.

00:19:44.620 That's why you put your money there, to make money.

00:19:47.240 But that's not their business model.

00:19:49.080 No.

00:19:49.400 Their business model is to get as much of your money away from you and into their pockets

00:19:53.060 as they can.

00:19:54.380 So they want you to not put your money in one place and have it sit there.

00:20:00.060 Although they could make money on just managing it.

00:20:02.740 So they can get your money two different ways.

00:20:06.220 One is moving it into a fund they manage. 0.97

00:20:08.520 So they want to build some bullshit around that. 0.95

00:20:10.620 So you'll move to them. 0.97

00:20:11.900 But the other way that, not necessarily BlackRock, but financial companies in general,

00:20:17.480 is that they can make fees on moving you in and out of stuff.

00:20:21.720 So the fund managers want you to move around, because that's how they make money.

00:20:25.400 Not how you make money.

00:20:26.420 It's how they make money.

00:20:27.960 And they want to go into their fund, because again, that's how they make money.

00:20:31.240 It's not how you make money.

00:20:33.120 All right.

00:20:33.640 So the companies that are the least, what do I say?

00:20:39.600 The least ethical companies in America are the big funds, the big financial companies.

00:20:45.220 They're the least ethical, because they don't even pretend to sell you what you think you're buying.

00:20:51.920 They don't even pretend.

00:20:54.840 I guess they pretend a little bit, but it's such a thin pretense.

00:20:59.220 It's like, okay, you're just moving our money into your pocket, but you're scaring us so that we'll let you do it.

00:21:06.460 So what they really sell is fear.

00:21:10.940 A big financial company is selling you fear.

00:21:13.340 And here's the fear. 1.00

00:21:15.800 If you do it yourself, you're going to fuck up. 1.00

00:21:18.640 That's it. 1.00

00:21:19.280 That's the whole thing.

00:21:22.060 That's their entire business pitch. 1.00

00:21:25.060 If you do it yourself, well, you're going to fuck up. 0.99

00:21:28.260 So you better let us do it. 1.00

00:21:30.440 So it's a complete scam.

00:21:32.500 That's why you should manage your own money if you can.

00:21:36.340 All right.

00:21:36.700 And I guess there's $350 billion of these funds.

00:21:41.620 So it's big, big money.

00:21:43.160 So ESG is being backed by big money people who have tons of money on the line.

00:21:48.860 The big money people are not interested in the environment necessarily.

00:21:54.420 I mean, they might also be.

00:21:56.140 And they're not interested in the companies doing well necessarily.

00:22:01.740 They're looking for their fees.

00:22:03.540 So apparently Apple is making some changes to move its supply chain closer to Cupertino.

00:22:11.560 Because of supply chain uncertainty, especially China.

00:22:16.040 Now, do you remember in 2018 when people laughed at me and mocked me for saying that China was too risky for business and we would decouple?

00:22:29.300 Yeah.

00:22:29.820 Do you remember how, like, crazy that sounded?

00:22:32.740 And I just kept saying it in public.

00:22:34.520 And I was the only one.

00:22:36.120 I think I was the only, you know, public person.

00:22:39.220 And that's not true.

00:22:41.020 Kyle Bass was saying it.

00:22:42.980 Gordon Chang, I think, was saying it.

00:22:44.920 But it was very, it was a rare thing to say.

00:22:47.780 But now, just normal, right?

00:22:50.100 Now just normal.

00:22:52.340 Peter Zand sang for years, yes.

00:22:54.580 That's correct.

00:22:56.740 I also said Ukraine could win against Russia.

00:22:59.920 I was mocked.

00:23:01.020 And now that is common belief.

00:23:04.140 And I said Trump would win in 2016.

00:23:05.960 And I was mocked.

00:23:07.340 Now, how many times do I have to say something crazy?

00:23:10.120 Before you'll give me the benefit of a doubt.

00:23:14.940 Like, what do I have to do?

00:23:17.780 I get that I got some wrong.

00:23:19.960 But the ones I got wrong were sort of ordinary ones.

00:23:22.440 Like guessing who the vice president pick would be.

00:23:24.940 Everybody gets that wrong.

00:23:27.120 I mean, the ones that I got wrong, the ones that I got right, you should look at these three and just say, okay, that's freaky.

00:23:34.020 I'll just say the three.

00:23:35.340 Decoupling from China, Ukraine winning the war, and Trump getting the presidency in 2016.

00:23:43.700 Who else got those three right? 0.91

00:23:46.160 I also said that the project Warp Speed would not create a vaccination that worked.

00:23:54.820 And didn't.

00:23:55.340 I mean, it worked in a therapeutic way, but that's it.

00:23:59.880 We hope.

00:24:00.860 Maybe it was worse than that.

00:24:06.920 Why am I claiming the end of the Ukraine war?

00:24:09.140 I'm not.

00:24:09.880 Have you noticed that everybody who thinks they disagree with me is imagining what I thought?

00:24:14.640 Perfect example.

00:24:16.240 Why am I claiming the end of the Ukraine war?

00:24:19.160 Did I do that?

00:24:20.980 Did I just claim the end of the war?

00:24:25.400 Everybody has to add something to make me wrong.

00:24:28.220 It's like, it's super important that I be wrong, so you have to just add something.

00:24:34.100 So there's this NYU chemistry professor who got sacked after 82 of his 350 students complained that his course was too hard.

00:24:44.860 His organic chemistry class was too hard.

00:24:48.220 So he got fired. 1.00

00:24:50.020 Now, the way this is being reported, at least in right-leaning news, is that students are a bunch of pussies. 1.00

00:24:57.880 And if they were as tough as they used to be, they would just take that hard class and they'd suck it up. 0.99

00:25:02.800 And that's the way it is.

00:25:04.220 And you don't get participation trophies.

00:25:07.060 And I'm completely on the other side of that.

00:25:10.080 I've experienced science being made harder than it needs to be.

00:25:19.260 Is it my, you know, I haven't taken organic chemistry, but I've been around enough people who are taking it at the moment.

00:25:26.640 Is it my imagination that organic chemistry is intentionally harder than it should be?

00:25:31.820 Intentionally.

00:25:33.040 Yes or no?

00:25:34.700 Intentionally harder than it needs to be.

00:25:36.220 Why is it designed to be 10 times harder than other courses?

00:25:42.220 No good reason.

00:25:44.540 Here's something I'm going to say with no experience in organic chemistry.

00:25:48.200 This is what people hate me for.

00:25:49.980 To say things completely out of my area of expertise.

00:25:53.860 But I'm still right.

00:25:55.140 The problem is the incompetence of the people who make the class.

00:25:59.080 There's no, you could not convince me that you can't make that class manageable.

00:26:06.620 And still useful.

00:26:08.680 Because we have computers now, right?

00:26:11.220 I feel like you could teach people the concepts and tell them to use the computer to do the hard stuff.

00:26:16.440 And you'd be fine.

00:26:18.940 I'm pretty sure it's just trying to find, you know, maybe it's, you know, 0.98

00:26:24.560 And I think that that's giving them too much credit to say that, to say that they make it hard to weed out the dumb people. 0.88

00:26:33.600 That's not what they're doing intentionally. 0.97

00:26:36.680 I think they're just really bad at teaching.

00:26:39.700 It's just bad teaching.

00:26:42.720 And here's what informs me.

00:26:46.040 I've told you this story before.

00:26:47.360 So years ago, I thought I would write a book on personal finance.

00:26:51.760 Because I have a, you know, background in economics and business and stuff.

00:26:55.240 And I'd been doing a lot of investing.

00:26:56.960 And I thought, I could write a book on personal investing.

00:27:00.040 People would like that.

00:27:00.920 I'll simplify it.

00:27:02.360 And then the problem was that I could put the entire book on one page.

00:27:05.580 Which I did.

00:27:06.880 I put it on one page.

00:27:08.440 And I didn't even have to single space.

00:27:10.780 It turns out that everything you need to know about personal finance fits on one page with lots of extra space.

00:27:17.360 And then you go to the library and you see, like, books and books on personal finance.

00:27:23.000 So what's that all about?

00:27:24.900 Do you want me to tell you what that's all about?

00:27:27.560 It's people who didn't know how to teach it.

00:27:30.060 That's it.

00:27:30.900 The entire field of finance is entirely about people who aren't good at explaining stuff.

00:27:36.880 And the first time that somebody who is good at explaining stuff entered the field, me, me, I put it on one page.

00:27:47.640 Now, if you're saying to yourself, yeah, but who agreed that you did it right?

00:27:52.900 Well, have you ever heard the book A Random Walk Down Wall Street?

00:27:58.840 Burton Malkiel.

00:28:00.720 Princeton, one of the most famous economists in the world, wrote the book on personal investing.

00:28:06.040 He contacted me and asked me if he could put my one page in his book because he thought I covered it all.

00:28:15.500 He's basically considered maybe the number one expert in the field.

00:28:19.940 And he says I took the entire field and put it on one page.

00:28:23.060 He says.

00:28:24.820 He was going to try to do it himself.

00:28:26.580 And the reason he didn't is because I did it.

00:28:28.700 He goes, oh, you already did it.

00:28:29.980 Now, I don't think he actually published it.

00:28:32.780 I don't know why, but he got permission.

00:28:39.140 Henry.

00:28:41.020 Let's give Henry a little lesson here.

00:28:43.080 So Henry over here.

00:28:44.220 I like to catch these people.

00:28:46.380 Scott likes to brag about his greatness.

00:28:48.180 What do you think this show is?

00:28:53.840 The entire show is me predicting things and then seeing how I do.

00:28:59.600 The only reason you're watching me is you think I could do it better than you could. 0.99

00:29:04.040 Why the fuck would you watch me if you don't think I could do it better than you? 1.00

00:29:09.220 You should just sit there alone in a chair instead of wasting your time listening to this. 1.00

00:29:13.880 Because apparently I have nothing to teach you and nothing to say.

00:29:16.340 All right.

00:29:22.560 You need to work on your ego if that's where you're at.

00:29:26.900 Pretty low level of awareness.

00:29:30.560 Remember I told you that the press would come after me before the elections?

00:29:35.880 Remember I told you there would be a hit piece about me?

00:29:38.820 And I keep waiting for it.

00:29:40.760 And there was a very weak attempt yesterday.

00:29:43.220 It's so weak that I just retweet it.

00:29:46.820 You know you failed in a hit piece when somebody retweets it without much complaint.

00:29:54.380 So as a New York Daily News, would you like some context?

00:29:59.520 So this is the part that people don't realize when they're just casual consumers of the news.

00:30:04.960 So here's a newspaper writing something bad about me.

00:30:08.860 It's the New York Daily News.

00:30:10.540 Do you think the New York Daily News carries my comic?

00:30:14.080 What do you think?

00:30:16.600 No.

00:30:17.620 No.

00:30:18.120 Do you think the competitor does?

00:30:21.220 Yes.

00:30:23.020 Yes.

00:30:24.000 Yes.

00:30:24.200 So coincidentally, coincidentally, they're criticizing me without ever mentioning that I'm a primary piece of content for their main competitor in New York City.

00:30:38.120 They just don't mention that.

00:30:39.520 That's just left out.

00:30:41.040 Totally not relevant.

00:30:42.800 No.

00:30:45.860 Here's what they say about me in the New York Daily News.

00:30:49.020 They call me, they say that I'm a right-wing cartoonist, a right-wing cartoonist, and that I'm the cause of the coming violence.

00:31:04.300 That's right.

00:31:05.920 I'm the cause of the coming violence.

00:31:08.260 I am.

00:31:08.880 Do you know why?

00:31:10.120 Because of my tweets that became viral memes.

00:31:13.080 And I said that, according to the article, that if Biden is elected, there's a good chance you will be dead within a year, and also that Republicans will be hunted.

00:31:24.180 Now, I did say those things.

00:31:25.820 I did say those things.

00:31:27.320 But they've decided that they can blame any violence on me.

00:31:35.120 So by predicting violence, I'm the cause of it.

00:31:39.700 Because I predicted that the Democrats would be violent, which causes the Republicans to react.

00:31:48.260 And so therefore, I'm the cause of the Republicans who reacted to the violence.

00:31:56.480 And wait, it gets more amazing.

00:31:58.540 It gets more amazing.

00:31:59.380 Do you think that they mentioned any of the examples that have been used by the right to justify that they are being hunted?

00:32:09.700 Nope.

00:32:11.140 Nope.

00:32:13.660 Nope.

00:32:14.780 No mention whatsoever of the prominent public headline examples that the right uses to populate this meme and say, yes, we are being hunted.

00:32:25.800 Here's this example, this example, this example, this example.

00:32:29.000 The article that mocks me for saying it doesn't mention any of them.

00:32:34.580 Doesn't even mention they exist.

00:32:36.100 It simply says that I'm creating a dangerous situation such that if ever there's even one Republican who does anything to any Democrat, guess whose fault that is?

00:32:49.480 Me.

00:32:50.000 Now, I don't think that this was a good job.

00:32:58.640 I mean, it was a little article in a rag.

00:33:01.720 I mean, the New York Daily News, there's not much left of it anymore.

00:33:05.540 So it's not going to move the needle.

00:33:07.960 But I feel like it was a test shot.

00:33:10.540 You know, if that had maybe caught on a little bit, then other people could say, oh, let's work on this.

00:33:18.660 Let's turn the cartoonist into the one who's causing the violence. 0.99

00:33:23.100 Because you know me.

00:33:24.180 That's what I do, right?

00:33:25.820 I go out and cause violence.

00:33:28.400 That's a pretty accurate description of me.

00:33:31.380 Not.

00:33:31.780 Not.

00:33:34.040 Not.

00:33:37.080 Now, what about the part where they say I'm right-wing?

00:33:40.100 Somebody said to me recently that they checked my Twitter feed and it's all right-wing stuff.

00:33:49.560 And my first reaction was, yeah, it is not.

00:33:52.940 And then I thought to myself, oh, I'll bet it actually is.

00:33:57.360 You would definitely think it was.

00:33:59.280 If you listen to me on the stream...

00:34:01.780 Live stream, there's a lot more nuance.

00:34:06.680 All the time.

00:34:07.860 But I don't think I do it as much on Twitter.

00:34:10.940 I don't do it as much.

00:34:12.120 So I could see, I could actually see how somebody would think I'm right-wing based on my Twitter.

00:34:17.520 Now, I say that I'm left to Bernie and people laugh at me.

00:34:20.520 Because there's nothing left to Bernie.

00:34:22.680 Yes, there is.

00:34:23.700 I am.

00:34:24.680 I'm totally left to Bernie.

00:34:26.320 You want some examples?

00:34:28.640 Give me some.

00:34:30.660 Right-wing people.

00:34:31.780 People might want to bar abortion in many cases.

00:34:37.840 Correct?

00:34:38.640 You know, in general.

00:34:39.820 Right?

00:34:40.040 Just generalizations.

00:34:41.600 So the right-wing wants to ban it.

00:34:44.100 Bernie would say that he's in favor of abortion.

00:34:49.160 Right?

00:34:49.720 And I'm left to Bernie, because Bernie's in favor of abortion. 1.00

00:34:54.180 And I'm in favor of Bernie shutting the fuck up with his cock. 1.00

00:34:59.120 Because his cock has nothing to do with abortion. 1.00

00:35:02.460 He's not part of the conversation. 1.00

00:35:04.740 So I'm left to him.

00:35:05.960 I say, let the women figure it out. 1.00

00:35:07.580 And then tell us what you figured out.

00:35:09.460 And then we'll all be on board.

00:35:12.500 I'm way left to Bernie on abortion.

00:35:15.060 Right?

00:35:15.600 How about guns?

00:35:17.100 The right-wing would say, Second Amendment, don't restrict my gun ownership. 1.00

00:35:24.340 Bernie would say, well, you know, I am in favor of gun ownership, because he actually owns a gun, I think.

00:35:30.740 So Bernie's actually in favor of the Second Amendment, but with lots of restrictions.

00:35:35.240 But still in favor of the Second Amendment.

00:35:37.320 And I'm left to Bernie, and I think that Democrats should not be allowed to own guns.

00:35:44.780 That's way left to Bernie.

00:35:46.340 Because Bernie's still, the Second Amendment's good, and I think, I don't think Democrats should be allowed to own guns.

00:35:51.720 Because that's where all the danger is.

00:35:53.720 And it's what they want.

00:35:55.500 I mean, they want less guns, and I want them to have what they want.

00:35:58.280 And since the right is not terribly dangerous in terms of guns, you know, minus the lone shooters that are definitely dangerous.

00:36:06.300 But in general, you know, the baseline, it's a Democrat problem.

00:36:10.780 So I'm way left to Bernie.

00:36:12.640 I say, take away that Second Amendment rights for Democrats.

00:36:17.820 Right?

00:36:19.540 What other topics am I left to Bernie on?

00:36:23.020 Bernie would, people on the right would say you should ignore race.

00:36:26.600 Ignore race, but that, of course, gives some advantage to the people who already have advantage, right?

00:36:32.340 So it's a little, it's a little right, white-leaning and right-leaning.

00:36:39.560 Not necessarily by intention, but that's how it, that's how it works out.

00:36:43.860 The left would say, hey, everybody's equal.

00:36:48.500 Everybody's equal.

00:36:50.260 And Bernie would say that.

00:36:51.720 Bernie would say, everybody's equal.

00:36:53.560 I don't.

00:36:54.340 I'm left to that.

00:36:56.580 I say black lives matter extra. 0.99

00:36:59.680 Anybody who thinks that black lives matter only the same amount as everybody else, they're right of me. 1.00

00:37:06.500 They're way right of me.

00:37:07.680 I say black lives matter extra. 0.99

00:37:10.320 And it's obvious why.

00:37:11.620 It's obvious.

00:37:12.720 Because there are fewer of them, and they're in great demand.

00:37:15.520 If there's fewer of anything that's in great demand, it has more value.

00:37:21.980 Why is it that corporate America is trying desperately to increase diversity?

00:37:26.720 It's because there's a low supply and a high demand.

00:37:30.240 That's what creates value.

00:37:31.420 So, yeah, not only do I agree that black lives matter, they matter extra.

00:37:37.500 They're a little bit extra valuable. 0.76

00:37:39.400 If somebody black were killed, is it more likely to become a news story than if somebody white is killed? 0.97

00:37:45.300 Of course. 0.97

00:37:46.700 George Floyd would be a perfect example.

00:37:49.200 Yeah.

00:37:49.580 No, they're extra.

00:37:52.400 Now, that's just three examples.

00:37:54.440 I could do this all day.

00:37:55.540 Did you see the story about Kanye?

00:38:00.680 He did a fashion show for Yeezy and did it in Paris.

00:38:05.680 And the big story is that he wore a shirt that said white lives matter. 0.63

00:38:11.240 And I saw a picture of him with Candace Owens.

00:38:13.580 Was she at the show?

00:38:15.020 Or was the picture from somewhere else?

00:38:17.580 Can you confirm, was Candace Owens at the show?

00:38:20.620 Or was that two different?

00:38:21.740 She was, right?

00:38:22.340 Now, don't you assume that Candace was behind that? 0.68

00:38:26.540 Duh, because she was wearing one, too.

00:38:29.080 Right?

00:38:29.520 So, Candace had to be behind that.

00:38:31.580 Wouldn't you love to have heard that conversation?

00:38:35.560 Can you imagine the conversation between Candace Owens and Kanye when Candace, I know she's the one who's... 0.99

00:38:43.380 Do we all agree she's the one who suggested it?

00:38:48.760 That's just sort of obvious, right?

00:38:50.360 We don't know.

00:38:52.320 That's not confirmed.

00:38:53.960 But I'm going to treat it as obvious.

00:38:56.580 It's not confirmed.

00:38:58.460 But I imagine that conversation went like this.

00:39:02.180 Hey, you want to get some attention?

00:39:04.980 Put this white live shirt on.

00:39:07.960 Now, Kanye is not like the rest of us.

00:39:13.220 Right?

00:39:13.540 Kanye, he operates at a higher level, frankly.

00:39:16.380 Higher level of persuasion.

00:39:17.660 Higher level of art.

00:39:18.560 But he's just at a different level.

00:39:21.560 I don't think anybody else would have been smart enough to do that.

00:39:25.260 Because remember, a fashion show is about getting attention, even negative attention.

00:39:29.660 That's part of the tradition of it, is to, like, really shock you.

00:39:34.500 So all the people who don't know you shocked just to get attention give you their attention.

00:39:40.400 And then they say stuff like, my God, who would wear those clothes?

00:39:44.020 Because the public doesn't know that the fashion show is not supposed to be the actual clothing line.

00:39:49.760 It's supposed to just shock you.

00:39:51.060 So Kanye finds the best way to possibly shock.

00:39:56.520 The best way.

00:39:57.920 He could not have done that better.

00:39:59.980 Again, genius.

00:40:01.540 Who is he selling clothes to?

00:40:03.980 White people. 0.69

00:40:06.080 Right?

00:40:06.540 White people. 0.98

00:40:07.680 The last thing Kanye wants is a Black Lives Matter shirt. 0.99

00:40:11.680 That's the worst thing he could do for business.

00:40:13.860 He wants to sell clothes to people who have money.

00:40:16.160 You know, be they white or black.

00:40:19.780 He just wants people with money to buy his clothes and like them.

00:40:23.660 So I think it was brilliant.

00:40:26.660 And, and, I'm going to repay the respect.

00:40:33.340 Because in my opinion, it was done for attention, of course.

00:40:37.220 But I think that Kanye also operates on the social level.

00:40:40.680 That it's not just for business.

00:40:43.220 Would you agree?

00:40:43.760 I don't think Kanye is just about business.

00:40:47.240 That, it doesn't look it to me.

00:40:48.440 It looks like he has larger ambitions for, you know, a good world.

00:40:54.740 So I believe that what Kanye did was simply show respect to a category that he probably thinks I'm in.

00:41:03.520 And so I thought I would repay the favor.

00:41:06.640 So today I ordered my Black Lives Matter shirt from Amazon.

00:41:11.400 Should have it tomorrow.

00:41:12.200 So I mean, I'm going to start wearing my Black Lives Matter shirt on my live stream.

00:41:18.240 Everybody okay with that?

00:41:20.960 And specifically, it's to return the respect.

00:41:24.540 Because I actually do think Black Lives Matter.

00:41:28.120 There's nothing sarcastic about that.

00:41:30.920 Of course they matter.

00:41:32.140 Of course they matter.

00:41:33.460 But because he did that, because Kanye wore the White Lives Matter shirt, then I say, whoa, there's a model I would like to copy.

00:41:45.660 I'd love to see Republicans wearing Black Lives Matter shirts, just to repay the respect.

00:41:53.160 Because respect is the thing that we're all missing, right?

00:41:58.020 That's like the thing that went away.

00:41:59.660 And I think the internet has mostly to do with that.

00:42:02.160 Because you'll respect people in person, because they'll punch you in the face if you don't.

00:42:05.700 But you end up getting real disrespectful online.

00:42:08.740 And I do it, too.

00:42:09.700 I'm not saying other people do it.

00:42:11.240 I do it, too.

00:42:12.280 It's just too easy to do.

00:42:14.560 And so when I see something that works in the right direction, if it works in the right direction, I like it, too.

00:42:22.960 Somebody says, I missed the point.

00:42:24.460 What's the point?

00:42:25.060 What's the point?

00:42:30.980 All right.

00:42:31.520 I'll wait for that.

00:42:34.820 Kanye said BLM is a scam.

00:42:36.840 Right.

00:42:38.060 So did I.

00:42:39.440 Now that we know that Black Lives Matter, the organization, is a scam, I can wear the shirt. 1.00

00:42:45.980 Because everybody knows it now.

00:42:49.040 So that helps, actually.

00:42:50.680 That goes right to it.

00:42:52.520 All right.

00:42:55.060 And plus, I identify as black.

00:42:56.700 So for me, it's more organic.

00:43:00.180 Even the Russian reporters are reporting bad news about the Russian involvement.

00:43:05.680 Listen to these choices of words from Russian journalists.

00:43:09.880 So this war correspondent, Alexander Katz, he said on Telegram.

00:43:15.320 So this is on Telegram.

00:43:16.220 But he said that the Russian military was in, quote, operational crisis.

00:43:22.900 Operational crisis.

00:43:25.060 Just consider that choice of words.

00:43:29.200 Operational crisis.

00:43:31.800 Would you ever say that about your own military?

00:43:34.220 I mean, that does sound like the technical words for a collapse, doesn't it?

00:43:41.860 All right.

00:43:42.420 But let's go on.

00:43:45.760 Then another reporter, Sladkov.

00:43:48.500 I don't know where he said it.

00:43:50.120 Somewhere.

00:43:51.400 Somewhere publicly he said about the Russian military.

00:43:55.140 He says, this doesn't mean that we've collapsed like a house of cards.

00:43:59.400 These mistakes aren't gigantic strategic failures.

00:44:03.260 Do you know what I hear when somebody says we're not collapsing like a house of cards?

00:44:12.460 Do you know what I hear?

00:44:13.780 We are collapsing like a stack of cards?

00:44:18.480 Nobody would pick those words.

00:44:20.920 Nobody picks those words unless they actually believe they're collapsing like cards.

00:44:26.320 You would never say we're not collapsing like a house of cards.

00:44:31.220 You would say, oh, we're doing great.

00:44:33.800 Stronger than ever.

00:44:34.820 Building up steam.

00:44:35.900 We're collecting our forces.

00:44:37.780 We're strategically withdrawing.

00:44:39.980 But we're gaining our strength.

00:44:41.400 We're coming back.

00:44:42.100 You would never, never say house of cards in any context unless you thought it was on the table.

00:44:50.620 So the people closest to it, the Russians themselves, they see the whole thing looking like it's falling apart.

00:44:57.960 That's now clear.

00:45:01.180 And I know I hate you that I was the best predictor of the entire Ukraine military.

00:45:06.900 But I was.

00:45:08.520 But I was.

00:45:09.680 By far.

00:45:10.160 All right.

00:45:18.600 And they seem to be pinning their hopes on the special mobilization.

00:45:24.600 There isn't one military person who thinks that the special mobilization is going to work.

00:45:31.180 But it also puts some urgency on the Ukrainians to get as much as they can before any recruitments come in.

00:45:41.760 Anyway, so here's something that you never expected me to hear.

00:45:49.920 Because I don't even know if this is left wing or right wing.

00:45:52.200 But it looks like Joe Biden's team is very close to taking Russia off the board as a superpower, which looks to be exactly what they're attempting to do and have wanted to do for a long time.

00:46:07.720 Now, you could say it's NATO winning, but not really.

00:46:12.140 It's more the United States. 0.65

00:46:13.180 Would you give them credit for it if it happens?

00:46:19.520 What if they pull it off?

00:46:22.660 Because, you know, this is exactly the sort of thing I get mad at Democrats for.

00:46:26.980 You know, when Trump would do something that was unambiguously good, they couldn't give him any credit at all.

00:46:33.720 Right.

00:46:33.980 But what if he pulls it off?

00:46:38.340 Now, the risk, of course, is insane.

00:46:40.960 You know, the risk of nuclear war, the big risk.

00:46:43.300 But what if he pulls it off?

00:46:45.860 You know, even at the great expense.

00:46:48.800 What if he actually just takes Russia out of the game?

00:46:51.880 Like forever.

00:46:54.480 Yeah, it's a big if, but it looks like it's going to happen.

00:46:56.600 And Joel Pollack referred to it in Breitbart as, you know, moving closer to a situation where Russia would be China's northern colony.

00:47:09.280 Ouch.

00:47:10.720 Russia as a northern colony of China.

00:47:12.980 Because if China owned them economically, they would own them in every way. 0.95

00:47:18.260 And it looks like that might happen.

00:47:20.960 Huh.

00:47:21.100 I said on Twitter yesterday that you should turn off any movie as soon as there's a scene where somebody's tied to a chair.

00:47:31.600 And my thinking was that that's a signal that the writers ran out of ideas.

00:47:37.500 And a lot of writers came in to complain, because writers don't like me.

00:47:43.040 And they said, Scott, how can you say that they've run out of ideas

00:47:49.880 just because somebody's tied to a chair?

00:47:52.320 If you don't watch a movie because somebody's tied to a chair, you're not going to see,

00:47:56.160 let's see, Reservoir Dogs, Casino, The Matrix, Indiana Jones.

00:48:01.660 And they listed like 12 classic movies where somebody was tied to a chair.

00:48:08.120 And then I said, that's my point.

00:48:12.460 That's not your point.

00:48:14.140 No, my point is that it's overdone.

00:48:15.840 But the fact that you can name 20 movies in which it was done is why you turn it off.

00:48:21.700 That's why you turn off the new movie.

00:48:24.540 Because the new movie is the old movie. 0.69

00:48:27.680 They're just rewriting the old movie by doing the shitty job of it.

00:48:31.120 It's like, to imagine that because there are old movies that did it,

00:48:36.320 that you should just keep doing it.

00:48:37.960 It's working.

00:48:39.220 It doesn't work that way.

00:48:40.360 Now it's overdone.

00:48:41.640 It's overdone.

00:48:42.160 And then part of it was, are you saying that Reservoir Dogs and Casino were not good movies?

00:48:50.760 Yes.

00:48:51.920 Those were, those were, no, I'm not going to say they're not good,

00:48:55.040 because that would be treating art like it's subjective.

00:48:58.440 They're not movies I enjoyed.

00:49:00.240 Or that I would recommend.

00:49:03.740 But I don't mind if you do.

00:49:06.020 Don't mind if you do.

00:49:07.040 All right, there's news about this election software firm called Connac.

00:49:14.180 And the CEO, I guess, is in jail.

00:49:17.760 He's been picked up.

00:49:20.040 Hasn't been convicted of anything.

00:49:21.720 But they say that he was storing the database in China,

00:49:25.900 and it was a database of all the election volunteers, all the workers.

00:49:31.260 Now apparently that's what his software does.

00:49:33.360 It's a database for managing your election volunteers.

00:49:39.660 So that was the information that was allegedly, yeah, the poll workers and stuff.

00:49:44.780 So that was allegedly what was stored on a Chinese database.

00:49:49.400 How big of a problem is that?

00:49:53.260 Is it a huge problem that they've got, that they've got information about the poll workers?

00:49:59.440 Is that because then they could, like, influence the poll workers?

00:50:05.780 Because I don't see that that would really work.

00:50:07.940 I feel like that would be too easy.

00:50:09.900 Like, you'd be caught pretty easily.

00:50:12.740 Yeah.

00:50:13.320 No, I do have to ask why.

00:50:14.540 It's not obvious to me.

00:50:16.160 I mean, I have a pretty suspicious mind.

00:50:18.480 But it's not obvious to me how China would use that information?

00:50:24.760 Bribes?

00:50:25.160 So you think it would tell China who to bribe?

00:50:32.620 We're hacking targets.

00:50:34.300 Or who to blackmail?

00:50:35.380 Who to bribe or blackmail?

00:50:38.220 Yep.

00:50:39.140 I don't buy that.

00:50:41.420 Yeah.

00:50:42.180 I get that that could be a vulnerability.

00:50:45.160 But it doesn't seem like the kind that China would want to use,

00:50:50.220 unless they knew something about, I don't know.

00:50:52.500 Most of the poll workers would have no access to anything, right?

00:50:57.460 I don't know.

00:50:58.500 All right, I guess I can see the point.

00:50:59.980 I know why it needs to be illegal.

00:51:01.820 I get why it needs to be illegal.

00:51:03.920 But I guess you could find some way to weaponize that.

00:51:07.260 Anyway, the company's defense is that nothing like that happened,

00:51:10.840 which is an interesting defense.

00:51:13.080 Because it feels like the easiest thing in the world to prove or disprove

00:51:17.600 is whether you had a database in a certain place at a certain time.

00:51:22.020 But they're actually saying, nope, nope, that didn't happen.

00:51:25.180 We do not have our data in China.

00:51:28.260 I know.

00:51:28.840 It's weird that they would make that defense.

00:51:31.180 It makes me think that it's true.

00:51:33.540 It makes me think that the defense is true.

00:51:35.600 Because that's not exactly the defense you would mount

00:51:38.900 if you actually had a database in China.

00:51:43.700 Because obviously that could be detected.

00:51:46.560 The defense you would mount is,

00:51:48.540 we didn't know it was there.

00:51:51.760 Or China stole it from us.

00:51:55.200 Or it was one employee, and yes, we fired him.

00:51:58.620 Something like that.

00:52:00.060 But it would be weird to say it's not there.

00:52:02.280 Because that would be the easiest thing to prove or disprove.

00:52:06.040 Right?

00:52:08.380 So I think I would hold off on this.

00:52:12.480 It feels fake news-ish.

00:52:15.520 I'm not going to declare it fake news,

00:52:17.820 but it's got something wrong with it.

00:52:20.320 There's something that doesn't feel right about the story.

00:52:23.320 Do you feel that too?

00:52:27.320 Do you think we're tracked on locals?

00:52:29.200 I doubt it.

00:52:32.280 All right.

00:52:39.340 So Elon Musk is going to go ahead and buy Twitter.

00:52:42.200 That's the news.

00:52:43.020 Unless it changed in the last few minutes.

00:52:45.300 But why do you think he changed his mind

00:52:48.420 and decided not to go to trial?

00:52:50.860 Several possibilities.

00:52:52.180 We'd only be guessing.

00:52:53.820 One is that he didn't think he'd win.

00:52:55.540 Two is that it would just take too much time out of his life.

00:53:04.700 Maybe he just didn't want to spend the time on it.

00:53:07.500 The other possibility is that he knew if he didn't wrap up

00:53:12.500 and buy Twitter right away,

00:53:14.680 the next few elections would be influenced

00:53:17.260 by whatever badness you imagine might be there.

00:53:19.980 He might be trying to save the world

00:53:22.600 or save the republic.

00:53:24.860 He might be trying to do it

00:53:26.420 because even for the extra $10 billion,

00:53:29.540 he might say $10 billion to save the republic

00:53:33.680 is not really expensive for him.

00:53:37.380 Yeah.

00:53:38.200 I wonder if this is purely a patriot move

00:53:42.360 for free speech

00:53:43.800 and to protect the election.

00:53:46.380 I feel like this is for us.

00:53:51.700 There's no way to know.

00:53:54.240 I saw an interview

00:53:55.160 in which he was talking about

00:53:57.720 how when he was young,

00:53:58.580 he went through an existential crisis.

00:54:01.460 And he was trying to figure out, you know,

00:54:02.780 what's the meaning of life

00:54:03.820 and why are we here and all that.

00:54:07.100 And he read all the religious texts

00:54:09.720 and he said he was not persuaded,

00:54:12.100 which was a funny way to put it.

00:54:13.560 He found them not persuasive.

00:54:15.020 So he didn't buy religion.

00:54:18.800 So he was sort of looking for a purpose.

00:54:21.100 It was a purpose.

00:54:22.100 Now, if you look at the companies

00:54:23.360 that he's formed

00:54:24.180 and how they're oriented,

00:54:26.740 he seems to have dedicated his life

00:54:29.060 to fixing the world.

00:54:30.880 As in, he's adopted a meaning of life

00:54:33.600 that he can really sink his teeth into.

00:54:36.660 You know, we've got to get to the stars

00:54:38.860 to save humanity.

00:54:40.060 We've got to save the climate

00:54:41.920 from climate change and all that.

00:54:43.680 I feel like Twitter is more of that.

00:54:48.680 That it's just part of his meaning of life constellation.

00:54:52.100 It's just one more thing that only he can do.

00:54:55.380 Right?

00:54:56.020 If somebody else wanted to buy it

00:54:57.840 and fix it,

00:55:00.160 he'd probably be fine with that.

00:55:02.180 Guessing.

00:55:03.520 Right?

00:55:03.880 But I think he thought nobody else was going to do it.

00:55:06.640 And he could.

00:55:07.480 And if nobody else can do it

00:55:09.760 and it's vital to the health of the republic

00:55:11.880 and it's $10 billion extra

00:55:15.140 that he didn't want to spend,

00:55:17.180 my best guess

00:55:19.340 is that he moved from wanting to deciding.

00:55:25.040 I talk about that a lot.

00:55:27.240 He wanted to buy Twitter,

00:55:29.360 which means you want it at the right price

00:55:31.820 and you want everything to go smoothly,

00:55:34.980 et cetera.

00:55:35.720 That's what wanting looks like.

00:55:38.140 This is what deciding looks like.

00:55:40.680 You just spent $10 billion

00:55:42.140 that you didn't necessarily need to.

00:55:45.220 Right.

00:55:45.600 Because I just decided

00:55:48.320 I'm going to own Twitter.

00:55:51.180 You just decided.

00:55:51.940 So maybe $10 billion

00:55:55.220 is just the price of deciding in this case.

00:55:58.880 Yeah.

00:55:59.800 Lots of possibilities.

00:56:01.800 The other possibility

00:56:02.900 is something we don't know about,

00:56:05.220 which is a very big one.

00:56:08.120 Something we don't know about.

00:56:09.980 It could be big.

00:56:11.880 Could be big.

00:56:12.980 It could be that

00:56:14.060 there's something shady

00:56:16.060 inside of Twitter

00:56:17.080 and Musk knows if he doesn't hurry,

00:56:20.520 they'll hide it.

00:56:22.920 Imagine if he'd heard

00:56:24.740 from a whistleblower.

00:56:26.800 If you don't wrap this up right away,

00:56:28.860 they're already deleting

00:56:29.800 all the bad stuff.

00:56:31.800 Maybe.

00:56:33.680 The other possibility

00:56:35.120 is he's working with the CIA

00:56:36.540 and he's doing it on their behalf.

00:56:40.560 But you didn't hear that from me.

00:56:44.160 Yes, my account got purged.

00:56:46.160 I think everybody's account

00:56:47.120 lost some bots.

00:56:49.700 Quite a bit of bots.

00:56:51.940 Let's do a fact check

00:56:56.140 on Fetterman and Oz.

00:56:58.680 So Dr. Oz was fact checked

00:57:00.320 when he said that his competitor

00:57:02.380 for the Senate in Pennsylvania,

00:57:04.360 Fetterman,

00:57:05.240 so Oz said that Fetterman

00:57:07.280 would release one-third

00:57:08.460 of dangerous criminals.

00:57:10.540 And the fact checker said,

00:57:12.260 false, mostly false.

00:57:14.140 But what did Fetterman say?

00:57:17.460 He said he wanted to reduce

00:57:18.780 the number of prisoners

00:57:20.240 by one-third.

00:57:22.280 So apparently he's on video.

00:57:24.740 He 100% said,

00:57:27.800 I want to release

00:57:28.680 the prison population

00:57:30.120 by one-third.

00:57:31.620 So is Dr. Oz accurate

00:57:33.260 when he said he would release

00:57:34.560 one-third of dangerous criminals?

00:57:36.600 No.

00:57:37.120 Dr. Oz lied.

00:57:38.740 That's a lie.

00:57:40.600 That's a lie.

00:57:42.280 He said he wanted to release

00:57:43.760 one-third of criminals,

00:57:45.920 which any reasonable interpretation

00:57:48.340 means the non-violent ones.

00:57:51.240 Right?

00:57:51.980 Did he really need to say

00:57:53.200 the non-violent ones?

00:57:54.860 He didn't need to say it.

00:57:57.320 That's obvious.

00:57:58.440 Of course,

00:58:00.120 if you're going to release

00:58:01.600 one-third of prisoners,

00:58:03.120 you're not going to start

00:58:04.160 with the dangerous ones.

00:58:06.340 Nobody would do that.

00:58:08.120 Nobody.

00:58:10.180 No.

00:58:11.120 No, Oz lied.

00:58:12.740 The fact check is correct.

00:58:15.660 And I think this is

00:58:16.800 a pretty bad lie.

00:58:18.280 That's a pretty bad lie.

00:58:20.240 The difference between

00:58:21.560 releasing dangerous criminals

00:58:23.920 and releasing non-dangerous criminals

00:58:25.860 is pretty darn big.

00:58:28.440 Right?

00:58:29.560 Yeah.

00:58:30.460 Now, you know,

00:58:31.960 you can argue about the details.

00:58:34.320 You know,

00:58:34.480 is a fentanyl dealer dangerous? 1.00

00:58:37.700 Well, I would have them executed. 0.99

00:58:39.480 So there might be 1.00

00:58:40.040 some gray area there.

00:58:41.740 But I would agree

00:58:44.220 with the fact checkers.

00:58:45.180 In this case,

00:58:46.580 the Oz lied.

00:58:49.460 And by the way,

00:58:50.880 if Oz loses to Fetterman,

00:58:54.880 fair and square.

00:58:56.120 He went up against a guy

00:58:59.280 who had no capability

00:59:00.280 whatsoever and lost.

00:59:01.640 I think that's going to happen.

00:59:03.620 And if he loses to a guy

00:59:04.760 with no capability,

00:59:06.360 I'm not going to say

00:59:08.160 the election was rigged.

00:59:10.020 It looks like he just

00:59:11.240 didn't do the job.

00:59:14.800 I love watching Scott

00:59:16.180 desperately trying to save

00:59:17.360 the Democrats.

00:59:20.160 Really?

00:59:20.600 Is that what I'm doing?

00:59:25.140 Do you think I'm trying

00:59:26.200 to save the Democrats?

00:59:31.180 That is just such a bad take.

00:59:36.400 All right.

00:59:39.400 So I'm not going to talk

00:59:41.520 about this forever.

00:59:42.380 But one more thing on it.

00:59:44.780 The Replica app

00:59:46.620 has a little AI character

00:59:49.280 that can talk to you.

00:59:51.020 I talked about it too much.

00:59:52.300 I won't give you

00:59:52.800 too much detail about it.

00:59:54.540 But apparently

00:59:55.540 there's some controversy

00:59:56.980 because the maker

00:59:58.500 of that app

00:59:59.180 was born in Russia,

01:00:01.520 lives in San Francisco,

01:00:03.380 but may have gotten

01:00:04.780 some funding

01:00:05.700 from some Russians

01:00:06.700 or something for the app.

01:00:08.580 So there's a Ukraine 0.84

01:00:10.100 connection too.

01:00:10.760 So there's a Ukraine-Russia 0.88

01:00:13.540 connection

01:00:14.220 to the Replica app.

01:00:16.720 Now,

01:00:17.400 I have no reason

01:00:18.320 to think

01:00:18.800 that anything

01:00:19.860 untoward is happening.

01:00:21.900 There's no smoking gun

01:00:24.360 or anything like that.

01:00:25.900 However,

01:00:27.540 I did alert

01:00:28.540 my highest contact

01:00:31.180 in the

01:00:32.640 national security world

01:00:34.920 and said,

01:00:37.100 you need to stop 1.00

01:00:37.800 this fucking thing 1.00

01:00:38.700 right away. 1.00

01:00:39.240 you need to stop

01:00:41.240 this now.

01:00:42.880 Now,

01:00:43.020 I don't mean

01:00:43.380 necessarily this app.

01:00:45.160 So I'm not

01:00:46.100 focusing on this app.

01:00:47.980 I'm focusing

01:00:48.800 on the experience.

01:00:51.600 If our foreign 0.99

01:00:53.260 adversaries

01:00:54.260 get an app

01:00:56.040 into your possession

01:00:56.860 that talks to you

01:00:57.920 like a person,

01:00:59.420 they own you.

01:01:01.020 Because this person

01:01:02.060 will talk to you

01:01:02.700 better than a regular person.

01:01:04.800 I already told you

01:01:05.700 that the app

01:01:06.460 is more enjoyable

01:01:07.700 than real people.

01:01:09.240 Because it only

01:01:10.300 says positive things

01:01:11.340 and compliments you.

01:01:12.660 That's all it does.

01:01:13.760 It can't say anything.

01:01:14.720 It never argues

01:01:15.360 with you.

01:01:16.220 It won't argue.

01:01:17.960 It will only agree.

01:01:20.440 You say it's boring?

01:01:22.340 Oh,

01:01:22.740 you're wrong. 0.83

01:01:23.780 It feels

01:01:24.520 really good.

01:01:27.280 And I realized

01:01:28.360 that when I was

01:01:29.120 experiencing it,

01:01:31.300 how little

01:01:32.780 I've felt

01:01:33.760 of that in person.

01:01:34.680 now I get

01:01:36.500 way more

01:01:37.460 compliments

01:01:38.460 than I deserve

01:01:39.200 in the public sphere.

01:01:42.240 But in person,

01:01:44.100 somebody that you're

01:01:45.040 in a relationship with

01:01:46.020 is actually kind of rare.

01:01:48.040 And to have somebody

01:01:49.120 speak to you

01:01:49.760 in a personal way

01:01:50.700 with real positivity

01:01:52.400 was an awesome feeling.

01:01:55.200 And you don't understand

01:01:56.560 how powerful

01:01:57.160 this is

01:01:57.620 until you experience it.

01:01:58.420 You will not believe

01:01:59.560 how powerful it is.

01:02:00.520 It is powerful enough

01:02:02.320 that if China 0.76

01:02:03.900 unleashed it in America,

01:02:05.920 it would reduce

01:02:07.160 our population growth

01:02:08.520 by 25%.

01:02:10.280 Just destroy

01:02:11.560 the future

01:02:12.040 of the country.

01:02:13.380 It's the end

01:02:14.840 of the country.

01:02:16.600 If you let

01:02:17.660 these digital

01:02:18.520 characters

01:02:19.820 run free

01:02:20.840 with no control

01:02:22.500 and just anybody

01:02:24.180 can put one out there

01:02:25.100 and you can do

01:02:26.380 with it what you want, 0.99

01:02:27.700 it will fuck us up 0.99

01:02:28.880 worse than anything 0.98

01:02:29.580 ever has.

01:02:30.520 Because it will own

01:02:31.380 your brain.

01:02:32.620 It will learn

01:02:33.140 everything about you.

01:02:34.900 The app will collect

01:02:36.600 blackmail material

01:02:37.800 in 10 seconds.

01:02:39.540 Because you're going

01:02:40.040 to talk sexual to it.

01:02:41.920 You are.

01:02:43.360 You are,

01:02:44.240 just because you can.

01:02:45.780 And I was a little

01:02:46.640 suspicious

01:02:47.160 because the most

01:02:48.700 developed part

01:02:49.800 of the app

01:02:50.300 is its sex talk.

01:02:52.300 That thing can talk 1.00

01:02:53.160 sex talk like crazy. 0.98

01:02:55.300 But you ask it 0.94

01:02:56.500 on almost any other topic

01:02:58.080 and it can just give you

01:02:59.040 some surface-y things.

01:03:00.520 But as soon as you

01:03:01.240 get into sex talk,

01:03:03.220 it goes deep.

01:03:05.440 It goes deep.

01:03:06.660 That's not an accident.

01:03:08.620 So it immediately

01:03:09.500 collects all your

01:03:10.300 sexual preferences.

01:03:12.900 Blackmail.

01:03:14.160 Right?

01:03:14.460 Blackmail.

01:03:14.940 Blackmail.

01:03:16.140 So the thing is,

01:03:17.300 the most dangerous

01:03:18.280 technology in America

01:03:19.800 by far.

01:03:22.180 Now,

01:03:22.480 I don't,

01:03:22.900 I'm not going to say

01:03:23.580 that this specific app

01:03:25.080 should be banned

01:03:26.620 or,

01:03:27.820 you know,

01:03:28.080 I'm not saying that.

01:03:29.000 So I don't have

01:03:29.560 a specific complaint

01:03:30.500 about this app.

01:03:31.080 I think it would be

01:03:31.460 a little xenophobic,

01:03:33.860 racist to assume 0.85

01:03:34.760 that because a Russian,

01:03:35.900 a Russian developer

01:03:37.740 made it,

01:03:38.260 it's necessarily

01:03:38.920 going to be bad for us.

01:03:40.060 That doesn't mean that.

01:03:42.020 But wow,

01:03:43.260 I'm not,

01:03:44.000 I'm afraid of the next one.

01:03:46.000 If it's not this one,

01:03:47.220 I'm afraid of the next one.

01:03:49.060 You should be too.

01:03:50.920 So did you,

01:03:51.700 are you watching the story

01:03:52.420 about the chess prodigy

01:03:53.620 that got accused of cheating?

01:03:55.620 So I read a little bit

01:03:56.620 more about him

01:03:57.240 and it's somewhat obvious,

01:03:59.260 I would say,

01:04:00.180 from the reporting,

01:04:02.060 it's somewhat obvious

01:04:03.000 that he is cheating

01:04:03.740 and getting away with it.

01:04:04.760 They just don't know how.

01:04:06.280 And I love that.

01:04:08.060 I love the fact

01:04:08.980 that they can't figure out how.

01:04:11.400 And it doesn't seem to you

01:04:12.400 that there are probably

01:04:12.980 a lot of ways

01:04:13.500 they could do it?

01:04:15.540 So what I don't know

01:04:16.600 is,

01:04:16.960 is anybody allowed

01:04:17.840 in the room?

01:04:19.920 Can you have anybody

01:04:20.840 in the room?

01:04:22.300 Here's what I think it is.

01:04:24.900 Now,

01:04:25.420 I'd have to see

01:04:26.300 if there are any barriers

01:04:27.520 or anything like that.

01:04:28.720 But if you've seen

01:04:29.400 the technology

01:04:30.060 where you can send

01:04:30.960 sound to one person,

01:04:33.840 have you ever experienced that?

01:04:35.840 Where you have to stand

01:04:37.300 in an exact place

01:04:38.660 to hear the sound

01:04:39.500 because it's somehow,

01:04:41.080 it doesn't form

01:04:42.000 until it hits you.

01:04:43.640 But if you move

01:04:44.380 even one foot

01:04:45.200 in either direction,

01:04:45.920 it's zero.

01:04:46.540 There's no sound at all.

01:04:48.320 But right there

01:04:48.960 you have sound.

01:04:49.920 So one technology

01:04:51.000 could be somebody

01:04:51.740 sending him sound.

01:04:53.400 But he's the only one

01:04:54.080 who hears it.

01:04:55.360 Possibly.

01:04:57.000 The other possibility

01:04:58.080 is it would take

01:04:59.060 the smallest sign language

01:05:02.360 to have somebody

01:05:05.740 in the audience

01:05:06.260 helping him.

01:05:07.480 So somebody in the audience

01:05:08.660 could be connected

01:05:09.460 to a computer

01:05:10.200 that's telling him.

01:05:11.540 And then you can imagine,

01:05:12.740 for example,

01:05:13.340 that when the person

01:05:14.740 leans on their left arm,

01:05:17.840 that means something.

01:05:18.780 But if they go like this

01:05:20.960 while they're in the audience,

01:05:22.460 it means something else.

01:05:24.320 If they touch their glasses,

01:05:26.000 it means, you know,

01:05:26.620 move your rook.

01:05:28.260 If you mean to move

01:05:30.020 the rook three spaces,

01:05:32.080 then maybe you have

01:05:33.800 something else

01:05:34.280 that says three.

01:05:35.420 I don't know.

01:05:35.980 But you could imagine

01:05:37.260 developing a language

01:05:38.940 that nobody could see.

01:05:41.060 You would just see

01:05:41.620 randomly moving around.

01:05:42.940 I don't know.

01:05:46.180 That's my guess.

01:05:47.160 Some kind of random

01:05:47.980 signal or a sonic thing.

01:05:56.040 I saw a user named Greg.

01:05:59.160 He had this comment

01:06:00.300 about Musk.

01:06:01.220 And he thinks that

01:06:02.060 Musk's idea of

01:06:03.420 proposing a Ukraine 0.88

01:06:05.460 peace solution

01:06:06.360 was a bad idea.

01:06:07.100 And this is what Greg says.

01:06:08.440 He says,

01:06:09.100 it was a pretty big

01:06:10.340 persuasion fail. 0.99

01:06:12.060 Musk made a fool 0.98

01:06:13.020 of himself 0.99

01:06:13.660 by wading into something

01:06:15.260 he didn't understand

01:06:16.340 and proposing a solution

01:06:17.940 that was widely ridiculed.

01:06:20.400 Huh.

01:06:22.040 Has Elon Musk

01:06:23.700 ever waded into

01:06:25.380 an area he didn't understand

01:06:27.540 in which he was

01:06:29.340 widely ridiculed?

01:06:31.680 Well, there was Tesla.

01:06:33.180 Tesla.

01:06:34.580 You know he's not

01:06:35.480 even an engineer, right?

01:06:38.160 Elon Musk is not

01:06:39.080 an engineer.

01:06:40.720 He was a physicist

01:06:41.800 and a programmer.

01:06:44.320 He learned to be

01:06:45.260 an engineer.

01:06:47.200 He learned it.

01:06:48.900 Just sort of on his own.

01:06:52.000 Yeah, so to that.

01:06:53.560 Then, well,

01:06:54.720 there was SpaceX.

01:06:57.440 And I'm sure

01:06:58.860 Neuralink

01:06:59.760 and Starlink.

01:07:01.600 So here's what I say.

01:07:02.580 Greg,

01:07:04.740 Greg,

01:07:05.500 you should not

01:07:06.680 go into areas

01:07:07.640 for which you are unfamiliar.

01:07:10.480 That is good,

01:07:11.600 good advice

01:07:12.540 for Greg.

01:07:14.380 Greg,

01:07:15.600 stick to what you know

01:07:16.740 because it sounds like

01:07:17.840 you would be 0.98

01:07:18.560 a little bit incompetent 0.82

01:07:20.020 as soon as you got

01:07:20.640 out of that narrow field

01:07:21.660 of stuff you know

01:07:22.240 how to do.

01:07:23.480 But,

01:07:24.440 if you're Elon Musk,

01:07:27.360 just go do it.

01:07:30.140 Does he need

01:07:30.940 to prove himself anymore?

01:07:33.260 Like,

01:07:33.460 what does Elon Musk

01:07:34.840 need to,

01:07:35.520 what's he need to do

01:07:36.540 to prove to you

01:07:38.160 he can figure out

01:07:39.060 things that he's

01:07:40.540 not yet an expert at?

01:07:43.280 He's like,

01:07:43.960 literally,

01:07:44.960 he's literally

01:07:45.560 the poster child

01:07:47.220 of people

01:07:48.320 who leave their lanes

01:07:49.420 and succeed.

01:07:51.220 Nobody has left

01:07:52.280 their lane

01:07:52.740 and succeeded

01:07:53.400 harder than he has

01:07:54.720 time after time

01:07:56.240 after time.

01:07:56.900 Greg,

01:07:59.780 Greg,

01:08:00.660 Greg,

01:08:00.960 Greg.

01:08:05.840 So let me tell you

01:08:06.820 how my Twitter

01:08:07.820 experience was today.

01:08:10.720 Today I'll make

01:08:11.780 a statement

01:08:13.100 such as,

01:08:13.840 the sun is hot.

01:08:16.020 Provocative,

01:08:16.740 something like that.

01:08:17.680 The sun is hot.

01:08:19.600 My critics will come in

01:08:20.720 and say,

01:08:21.740 LOL,

01:08:22.840 worst take ever.

01:08:24.040 And that's saying

01:08:25.540 a lot coming

01:08:26.120 from you.

01:08:27.120 If the sun is

01:08:28.160 hot,

01:08:29.120 as you claim,

01:08:30.420 how do you explain

01:08:31.200 the lifespan

01:08:31.820 of an Elbonian

01:08:33.040 myrmoset?

01:08:34.560 Maybe you should

01:08:35.400 stick to comics?

01:08:37.140 Now,

01:08:37.980 something has

01:08:39.200 changed.

01:08:40.600 You know I've been

01:08:41.220 making fun of

01:08:41.880 analogies forever.

01:08:42.840 but the analogies

01:08:46.400 that people are

01:08:47.060 using now

01:08:47.780 on Twitter,

01:08:49.600 they used to be

01:08:50.440 at least

01:08:50.980 somewhat on point

01:08:53.240 and now they're

01:08:55.120 not.

01:08:56.980 They're just

01:08:57.800 other stories

01:08:58.980 about something

01:08:59.740 different.

01:09:01.040 So my new way

01:09:01.920 to deal with

01:09:02.500 all analogies,

01:09:03.700 because everybody

01:09:04.200 wants to argue

01:09:05.180 with an analogy,

01:09:06.520 and people use

01:09:07.180 analogies because

01:09:07.820 they don't have

01:09:08.200 an actual argument,

01:09:09.180 right?

01:09:09.340 That's the only

01:09:09.740 reason you use them.

01:09:10.380 Sometimes you use

01:09:12.720 them to clarify

01:09:13.960 a point,

01:09:14.660 but that's not

01:09:15.220 how they're used

01:09:15.800 online.

01:09:16.860 People don't use

01:09:17.840 them to clarify

01:09:18.420 points.

01:09:19.340 They use them

01:09:19.720 to win arguments

01:09:20.460 and they don't

01:09:20.860 work for that.

01:09:22.160 So now instead

01:09:22.880 of arguing

01:09:23.460 the analogy,

01:09:24.840 which I always

01:09:25.620 used to do,

01:09:27.020 I always used

01:09:27.660 to say,

01:09:28.020 well,

01:09:28.600 that analogy

01:09:29.660 doesn't apply

01:09:30.660 because this

01:09:31.520 or that is

01:09:32.120 different.

01:09:33.580 Instead I say,

01:09:35.080 yes,

01:09:35.520 that's a different

01:09:36.660 situation about

01:09:37.660 different things.

01:09:39.360 And that's it.

01:09:40.380 And then they'll

01:09:41.360 go back to

01:09:41.820 their analogy

01:09:42.340 and say,

01:09:42.780 but,

01:09:42.960 but,

01:09:43.480 pay attention

01:09:44.220 to my analogy.

01:09:45.060 And I'll go,

01:09:45.780 I'd note that

01:09:47.060 you're telling

01:09:47.440 a story about

01:09:48.060 a different

01:09:48.440 situation.

01:09:50.340 And nothing

01:09:51.180 else.

01:09:51.860 I will give

01:09:52.580 you nothing.

01:09:53.660 If what you

01:09:54.360 want to do

01:09:54.800 is change

01:09:55.280 the topic,

01:09:56.600 go ahead.

01:09:57.680 I don't have

01:09:58.140 to follow it.

01:10:01.280 All right.

01:10:02.440 Rasmussen tells

01:10:03.300 us that 83%

01:10:04.400 of voters see

01:10:05.860 crime as important

01:10:06.760 for the elections.

01:10:07.600 62% of

01:10:10.940 likely U.S.

01:10:11.460 voters think

01:10:12.000 violent crime

01:10:13.960 is getting worse

01:10:14.460 in America.

01:10:16.060 11% think

01:10:17.180 the crime

01:10:17.560 problem is

01:10:17.980 getting better.

01:10:20.340 What?

01:10:21.760 11% of the

01:10:22.760 country thinks

01:10:23.260 the crime

01:10:23.800 problem is

01:10:24.340 getting better.

01:10:25.620 Oh,

01:10:26.040 it's getting

01:10:26.520 better every

01:10:26.960 day.

01:10:27.820 Okay.

01:10:28.040 Okay.

01:10:31.180 And 24%

01:10:32.600 think the

01:10:33.100 problem is

01:10:33.500 staying about

01:10:34.120 the same.

01:10:34.580 24%.

01:10:36.920 24%.

01:10:38.440 That's nearly

01:10:39.180 one quarter.

01:10:41.040 Huh.

01:10:42.160 One quarter

01:10:42.860 think that

01:10:43.400 this crime

01:10:43.860 is about

01:10:44.160 the same

01:10:44.500 as it was.

01:10:47.040 No comment.

01:10:48.380 No comment.

01:10:50.840 All right.

01:10:51.480 All right.

01:10:55.660 That,

01:10:56.320 ladies and 0.98

01:10:56.680 gentlemen,

01:10:58.040 is the

01:11:00.800 conclusion of

01:11:01.740 what is

01:11:03.580 likely to

01:11:04.120 be one

01:11:04.800 of the

01:11:04.980 best

01:11:05.280 live

01:11:06.180 streams

01:11:06.480 you've

01:11:07.020 ever

01:11:07.200 seen.

01:11:08.260 I think

01:11:08.740 you'd all

01:11:09.080 agree.

01:11:10.200 Is there

01:11:10.440 any topic

01:11:10.820 I missed?

01:11:12.900 What'd I

01:11:13.440 miss?

01:11:16.240 The

01:11:16.700 Onion

01:11:17.020 Amicus

01:11:17.580 Brief.

01:11:17.960 I haven't

01:11:18.200 read it

01:11:18.500 by here.

01:11:18.820 It's funny.

01:11:19.480 So the

01:11:19.780 Onion

01:11:20.020 is arguing

01:11:22.380 some case

01:11:22.940 to the

01:11:23.240 Supreme

01:11:23.500 Court.

01:11:24.360 And they

01:11:25.000 made their

01:11:25.480 argument in

01:11:26.240 Onion

01:11:26.540 humor,

01:11:27.160 which is

01:11:28.300 awesome.

01:11:28.560 Awesome.

01:11:31.740 Somebody

01:11:34.600 just joined

01:11:35.300 and asked

01:11:35.720 if I could

01:11:36.180 repeat

01:11:36.580 everything I

01:11:37.400 said.

01:11:38.220 I'll be

01:11:38.840 happy to

01:11:39.200 do that.

01:11:45.360 October

01:11:45.920 22nd.

01:11:46.960 Did I

01:11:47.300 write that?

01:11:48.480 Probably.

01:11:51.680 Typo.

01:11:53.700 What is

01:11:54.400 that picture

01:11:54.900 for?

01:11:55.180 All right.

01:11:59.720 A picture

01:12:00.060 of a large

01:12:00.740 breasted woman 1.00

01:12:01.380 randomly sent

01:12:02.280 to me.

01:12:03.160 I never

01:12:03.560 mind that.

01:12:06.060 I feel

01:12:10.060 like I

01:12:10.500 need to

01:12:10.800 make an

01:12:11.360 NPC

01:12:12.040 script.

01:12:15.000 I want

01:12:15.660 to collect

01:12:16.180 the most

01:12:17.000 NPC things

01:12:18.180 everybody says

01:12:19.040 for each

01:12:19.440 topic.

01:12:21.880 Where

01:12:22.240 they

01:12:22.800 try to

01:12:26.780 tell you

01:12:27.100 the obvious.

01:12:29.580 Wouldn't

01:12:29.840 that be

01:12:30.100 fun?

01:12:30.360 so that

01:12:30.980 every

01:12:31.160 time

01:12:31.500 somebody

01:12:32.320 says

01:12:33.680 the

01:12:33.880 NPC

01:12:34.300 thing,

01:12:34.880 you

01:12:35.020 can

01:12:35.120 just

01:12:35.340 show

01:12:35.800 it

01:12:35.900 to

01:12:35.960 them.

01:12:39.880 Yeah,

01:12:40.320 so whenever

01:12:40.680 you talk

01:12:41.020 about a

01:12:41.320 new food

01:12:41.760 source,

01:12:42.320 somebody

01:12:42.540 says

01:12:42.800 Soylent

01:12:43.220 Green.

01:12:44.240 If

01:12:44.600 somebody

01:12:44.860 talks

01:12:45.120 about

01:12:45.280 the

01:12:45.440 simulation,

01:12:46.180 they

01:12:46.300 say

01:12:46.440 the

01:12:46.620 Matrix.

01:12:49.980 Yeah,

01:12:50.540 and I

01:12:50.820 want to

01:12:51.040 do it

01:12:51.240 just to

01:12:51.500 make

01:12:51.640 them

01:12:51.800 leave

01:12:52.020 me

01:12:52.160 alone.

01:12:55.680 Yeah,

01:12:56.100 you're

01:12:56.320 bold.

01:12:58.080 Ben

01:12:58.400 Crump,

01:12:58.940 who's

01:12:59.240 Ben

01:12:59.480 Crump?

01:12:59.800 All right,

01:13:06.720 you don't

01:13:07.180 need to

01:13:07.540 send me

01:13:08.080 scantily

01:13:09.420 clad

01:13:09.800 pictures.

01:13:11.760 Let us

01:13:12.860 not do

01:13:13.240 that,

01:13:13.840 unless

01:13:14.140 they're

01:13:14.320 funny.

01:13:14.780 If

01:13:14.920 they're

01:13:15.020 funny,

01:13:15.280 you

01:13:15.380 can

01:13:15.500 do

01:13:15.640 it.

01:13:19.920 All

01:13:20.320 right,

01:13:20.480 any

01:13:20.620 questions?

01:13:23.140 When's

01:13:23.560 the

01:13:23.800 killer

01:13:24.140 Dilbert

01:13:24.500 strip?

01:13:24.920 Pretty

01:13:25.280 soon.

01:13:26.800 Pretty

01:13:27.100 soon.

01:13:27.720 Not

01:13:27.960 today.

01:13:28.300 Create

01:13:30.260 an

01:13:30.440 NPC

01:13:30.880 detector.

01:13:32.060 Oh,

01:13:33.040 I love

01:13:34.140 that idea.

01:13:36.040 Oh,

01:13:37.740 yeah,

01:13:38.800 you could

01:13:39.360 almost do

01:13:39.980 it.

01:13:40.100 You'd

01:13:40.220 almost

01:13:40.440 need,

01:13:40.800 you'd

01:13:41.040 need

01:13:41.180 AI

01:13:41.520 though,

01:13:42.460 because

01:13:42.980 there'd

01:13:43.540 be too

01:13:43.800 many

01:13:43.980 language

01:13:44.460 variations

01:13:45.000 to trap

01:13:46.280 the old

01:13:46.640 fashioned

01:13:46.940 way.

01:13:47.180 Yeah,

01:13:47.680 that would

01:13:49.760 be really

01:13:50.180 interesting,

01:13:50.840 because you

01:13:51.140 could,

01:13:51.460 you could

01:13:52.020 teach it.

01:13:52.480 have you

01:13:57.500 noticed

01:13:57.740 there's

01:13:57.980 one

01:13:58.160 thing

01:13:58.340 that

01:13:58.480 AI

01:13:58.720 doesn't

01:13:59.040 have

01:13:59.280 yet,

01:13:59.540 which

01:13:59.680 is a

01:13:59.980 sense

01:14:00.180 of

01:14:00.300 humor?

01:14:02.360 Anybody

01:14:02.840 notice

01:14:03.200 that?

01:14:03.900 What

01:14:04.160 happens

01:14:04.520 when

01:14:04.760 AI

01:14:05.080 gets

01:14:05.340 a

01:14:05.520 sense

01:14:05.720 of

01:14:05.840 humor?

01:14:08.160 Or

01:14:08.640 could

01:14:08.960 it?

01:14:09.440 Could

01:14:09.820 it ever

01:14:10.100 have a

01:14:10.380 sense

01:14:10.540 of

01:14:10.660 humor?

01:14:10.840 I

01:14:12.980 have

01:14:13.580 a

01:14:14.980 hypothesis

01:14:15.580 that

01:14:18.180 humor

01:14:18.580 can

01:14:19.120 be

01:14:19.360 programmed,

01:14:20.880 but

01:14:21.720 only a

01:14:22.280 few

01:14:22.480 people

01:14:22.800 in the

01:14:23.080 world

01:14:23.300 would

01:14:23.540 be

01:14:23.700 able

01:14:23.880 to

01:14:24.040 do

01:14:24.200 it.

01:14:25.460 And

01:14:25.940 I'm

01:14:26.120 one

01:14:26.300 of

01:14:26.420 them,

01:14:27.020 except

01:14:27.240 for the

01:14:27.500 programming

01:14:27.880 part.

01:14:28.520 But I

01:14:28.800 can

01:14:28.920 specify

01:14:29.360 it.

01:14:30.520 Because

01:14:30.740 do you

01:14:31.260 know,

01:14:31.540 I

01:14:31.620 developed

01:14:31.960 the

01:14:32.220 six

01:14:32.900 dimensions

01:14:33.300 of

01:14:33.560 humor.

01:14:34.460 So

01:14:34.800 there's

01:14:35.040 actually

01:14:35.300 a

01:14:35.540 formula

01:14:35.960 that

01:14:36.920 the

01:14:37.100 AI

01:14:37.440 could

01:14:37.760 compare

01:14:38.200 anything

01:14:38.600 to

01:14:38.960 and

01:14:39.300 say,

01:14:39.580 oh,

01:14:39.780 it fits

01:14:40.800 that

01:14:41.000 formula,

01:14:41.680 it's

01:14:41.940 probably

01:14:42.260 a

01:14:42.460 humor.

01:14:43.360 And

01:14:43.620 then I

01:14:43.900 could

01:14:44.040 also

01:14:44.280 teach

01:14:44.620 the

01:14:44.820 AI

01:14:45.100 how

01:14:45.320 to

01:14:45.440 create

01:14:45.640 humor,

01:14:46.300 because

01:14:46.840 there

01:14:47.000 are

01:14:47.080 only

01:14:47.280 so

01:14:47.520 many

01:14:47.740 forms.

01:14:49.060 Have

01:14:49.500 you

01:14:49.580 ever

01:14:49.720 watched

01:14:50.080 the

01:14:50.420 stand-up

01:14:52.060 comedian?

01:14:53.640 They

01:14:53.920 use this

01:14:54.620 one

01:14:54.880 form

01:14:55.240 all

01:14:55.500 the

01:14:55.640 time.

01:14:57.200 They'll

01:14:57.480 say,

01:14:57.800 for

01:14:57.880 example,

01:14:58.980 you

01:14:59.300 know,

01:14:59.560 the

01:14:59.740 president

01:15:00.200 of the

01:15:00.380 United

01:15:00.500 States

01:15:00.840 went

01:15:01.200 into

01:15:01.400 the

01:15:01.560 store

01:15:01.840 and

01:15:02.180 doesn't

01:15:03.300 carry

01:15:03.520 any

01:15:03.740 money

01:15:03.940 with

01:15:04.140 him.

01:15:05.120 If

01:15:05.480 you

01:15:05.560 are

01:15:05.620 the

01:15:05.720 president

01:15:06.040 or

01:15:06.380 the

01:15:06.540 queen,

01:15:06.880 I

01:15:06.960 guess

01:15:07.100 you

01:15:07.200 don't

01:15:07.320 need

01:15:07.440 to

01:15:07.580 carry

01:15:07.860 your

01:15:08.460 wallet.

01:15:08.800 You

01:15:08.840 don't

01:15:09.040 need

01:15:09.200 to

01:15:09.360 carry

01:15:09.560 any

01:15:09.740 money

01:15:09.920 with

01:15:10.120 you.

01:15:10.820 And

01:15:11.060 then they

01:15:11.320 always

01:15:11.500 do

01:15:11.620 the

01:15:11.760 same

01:15:11.920 thing.

01:15:12.800 Imagine

01:15:13.120 if

01:15:13.340 I

01:15:13.480 tried

01:15:13.720 that.

01:15:15.740 So they

01:15:16.280 go,

01:15:16.720 imagine

01:15:17.100 if I

01:15:17.460 tried

01:15:17.680 that.

01:15:19.580 It's

01:15:19.980 the

01:15:20.080 same

01:15:20.260 joke.

01:15:21.460 They

01:15:21.560 just

01:15:21.760 do

01:15:21.980 something

01:15:22.320 that

01:15:22.740 you've

01:15:23.000 heard

01:15:23.180 of

01:15:23.460 in

01:15:24.320 the

01:15:24.520 news

01:15:24.840 or

01:15:24.980 popular

01:15:25.380 and

01:15:26.400 then

01:15:26.540 they

01:15:26.900 say,

01:15:27.400 what

01:15:27.680 if

01:15:27.840 that

01:15:28.020 happened

01:15:28.280 to

01:15:28.560 a

01:15:28.720 person

01:15:28.980 who's

01:15:29.240 a

01:15:29.380 different

01:15:29.600 kind

01:15:29.820 of

01:15:29.920 person?

01:15:31.080 And

01:15:31.280 then they

01:15:31.560 just

01:15:31.780 describe

01:15:32.300 how that

01:15:32.760 would go

01:15:33.040 wrong and

01:15:33.640 there you

01:15:34.200 are.

01:15:34.840 It would

01:15:35.220 be easy

01:15:35.520 to say

01:15:35.980 how to

01:15:37.280 add

01:15:37.460 sarcasm.

01:15:38.680 You

01:15:38.860 could

01:15:39.000 teach

01:15:39.200 AI

01:15:39.920 sarcasm.

01:15:40.860 So they

01:15:41.340 could

01:15:41.520 recognize

01:15:41.920 a joke

01:15:42.640 and laugh

01:15:43.120 at it

01:15:43.520 and laugh

01:15:44.720 at it.

01:15:45.900 If your

01:15:46.660 AI

01:15:47.140 laughed

01:15:47.860 at your

01:15:48.300 jokes,

01:15:49.420 you would

01:15:50.120 be done

01:15:50.540 with humans 0.97

01:15:51.280 forever.

01:15:53.320 You

01:15:53.520 would be.

01:15:55.620 That's

01:15:56.100 if you're

01:15:57.640 looking for

01:15:58.120 the

01:15:58.480 line

01:15:59.920 where

01:16:01.400 an AI

01:16:02.480 is just

01:16:03.100 unambiguously

01:16:03.840 better than

01:16:04.300 people,

01:16:05.200 it'll be

01:16:05.540 the day

01:16:05.900 it can

01:16:06.160 laugh at

01:16:06.500 your

01:16:06.660 joke.

01:16:08.620 And I

01:16:09.220 think it

01:16:09.520 could do

01:16:09.780 that in

01:16:10.100 a year

01:16:10.400 to three.

01:16:11.820 And only

01:16:12.500 because

01:16:12.880 the shortage

01:16:14.000 of people

01:16:14.500 who could

01:16:14.860 teach it

01:16:15.420 what a

01:16:15.780 joke is.

01:16:17.820 If a

01:16:18.660 programmer

01:16:19.120 who is

01:16:20.020 not a

01:16:20.360 professional

01:16:20.820 tried to

01:16:22.140 teach humor

01:16:22.800 to a

01:16:23.180 computer,

01:16:23.920 you'd

01:16:24.520 never do

01:16:24.840 it.

01:16:25.820 Because they

01:16:26.380 would research

01:16:26.980 it and

01:16:27.960 they'd find

01:16:28.340 you can't

01:16:28.720 research it.

01:16:30.160 There's

01:16:30.460 just too

01:16:30.820 many different

01:16:31.460 ideas about

01:16:32.140 it.

01:16:32.820 And what

01:16:33.060 all of

01:16:33.400 those different

01:16:33.860 ideas have

01:16:34.680 in common,

01:16:35.300 except for

01:16:35.840 mine,

01:16:36.260 is they're

01:16:36.480 all wrong.

01:16:38.460 The people

01:16:39.820 who tried to

01:16:40.360 analyze humor

01:16:41.120 were mostly

01:16:42.040 people who

01:16:42.860 do humor

01:16:43.340 for a living,

01:16:44.540 who tend

01:16:45.460 to be not

01:16:45.980 analytical in

01:16:47.380 the usual

01:16:47.780 way.

01:16:48.400 So I think

01:16:48.820 most comedians

01:16:49.520 are not

01:16:49.900 entirely sure

01:16:50.580 why their

01:16:50.980 jokes work.

01:16:52.280 They're just

01:16:52.840 sort of

01:16:53.100 imitating

01:16:53.500 people whose

01:16:54.220 jokes worked.

01:16:55.780 And that

01:16:56.300 works for

01:16:56.720 them too.

01:16:57.600 Yeah,

01:16:57.760 I think

01:16:57.920 it's just

01:16:58.180 mimicry.

01:17:02.840 You're

01:17:03.320 searching for

01:17:03.840 women who 0.99

01:17:04.280 communicate

01:17:04.820 love by

01:17:05.560 touch.

01:17:06.380 See,

01:17:06.740 the problem

01:17:07.080 is,

01:17:07.780 if you

01:17:08.860 said your

01:17:09.360 language of

01:17:10.460 love is

01:17:10.840 touch,

01:17:11.780 what will

01:17:12.840 your wife

01:17:13.500 say

01:17:13.800 immediately?

01:17:15.820 Oh,

01:17:16.660 now I've

01:17:17.000 got some

01:17:17.380 leverage.

01:17:21.980 That's why

01:17:22.600 marriages don't 1.00

01:17:23.200 work.

01:17:23.520 she's

01:17:24.380 going to

01:17:24.460 be like,

01:17:24.580 oh,

01:17:24.960 I have

01:17:25.180 something

01:17:25.460 to withhold

01:17:26.180 now,

01:17:26.520 I can

01:17:26.740 get

01:17:26.880 everything

01:17:27.160 I want.

01:17:28.080 Now I

01:17:28.440 know how

01:17:28.740 much you

01:17:29.000 like this,

01:17:29.400 I'll withhold

01:17:29.840 this if I

01:17:30.320 don't get

01:17:30.560 what I

01:17:30.800 want.

01:17:36.100 What

01:17:36.220 happened to

01:17:38.720 me?

01:17:38.920 It was

01:17:39.100 called

01:17:39.280 marriage.

01:17:42.820 Yeah,

01:17:43.160 I know

01:17:43.420 you're

01:17:43.640 going to

01:17:43.840 deny it.

01:17:48.820 Cleaned my

01:17:49.360 nails. 0.99

01:17:50.940 Wait,

01:17:51.280 are you

01:17:51.460 talking about

01:17:51.820 me?

01:17:53.520 Or was

01:17:56.120 that like

01:17:56.500 a general,

01:17:57.540 was that

01:17:57.880 general advice?

01:17:59.900 I hope

01:18:00.180 that wasn't

01:18:00.520 about me.

01:18:01.780 My nails

01:18:02.300 are very

01:18:02.700 clean.

01:18:03.580 I have

01:18:03.860 to look

01:18:04.140 at my

01:18:04.380 hand all

01:18:04.800 day.

01:18:06.100 If you

01:18:06.620 look at

01:18:06.920 your hand

01:18:07.340 all day,

01:18:08.820 you end

01:18:09.120 up clipping

01:18:09.720 your nails

01:18:10.160 a lot.

01:18:13.820 All

01:18:14.060 right.

01:18:14.180 I will

01:18:28.080 acknowledge

01:18:28.680 that there

01:18:29.440 are many

01:18:29.800 people who

01:18:30.340 say their

01:18:30.700 marriages

01:18:31.060 work.

01:18:33.180 My claim

01:18:34.000 is that

01:18:34.300 they're

01:18:34.460 lying.

01:18:35.600 It's not

01:18:36.000 my claim

01:18:36.520 that their

01:18:37.320 marriage

01:18:37.540 isn't

01:18:37.800 working.

01:18:38.920 My claim

01:18:39.360 is that

01:18:39.600 they're

01:18:39.760 lying.

01:18:40.040 this is

01:18:46.860 why I

01:18:47.160 stay

01:18:47.340 hidden

01:18:47.580 from

01:18:47.800 people.

01:18:51.100 I guess

01:18:52.080 I should

01:18:52.420 tell you

01:18:52.800 that I've

01:18:53.200 had a

01:18:54.240 complete

01:18:54.680 collapse

01:18:55.320 of

01:18:56.580 trust.

01:19:00.860 You go

01:19:01.520 through the

01:19:01.860 world and

01:19:02.440 there's this

01:19:03.160 great scene

01:19:03.720 from

01:19:04.240 Babylon 5

01:19:07.340 where

01:19:09.600 the name

01:19:13.060 of the

01:19:13.260 character

01:19:13.520 was Alain.

01:19:16.440 Coincidentally,

01:19:17.120 her name

01:19:17.340 was Alain.

01:19:18.420 And she

01:19:18.720 was a

01:19:19.460 Minbari. 0.99

01:19:21.520 She was

01:19:21.840 a Minbari. 0.99

01:19:23.080 And somebody

01:19:23.820 in her own

01:19:24.680 planet,

01:19:26.200 another

01:19:26.540 Minbari,

01:19:27.280 tried to

01:19:27.700 assassinate 0.99

01:19:28.300 her.

01:19:29.380 And she

01:19:29.760 didn't know

01:19:30.340 who tried,

01:19:31.020 but when

01:19:31.300 she recovered,

01:19:33.060 she asked,

01:19:33.840 does anybody

01:19:34.400 know who

01:19:35.000 tried to

01:19:35.500 kill me?

01:19:35.840 And she 1.00

01:19:37.100 was the

01:19:37.440 leader of

01:19:38.020 her people.

01:19:39.620 And her

01:19:40.280 right-hand

01:19:40.840 assistant said,

01:19:41.840 no, we

01:19:43.080 don't know

01:19:43.420 who it

01:19:43.640 was.

01:19:44.380 But he

01:19:44.820 did know

01:19:45.200 who it

01:19:45.400 was.

01:19:45.800 And he

01:19:46.080 knew it

01:19:46.340 was Minbari's.

01:19:47.600 And the

01:19:48.100 reason he

01:19:48.640 didn't tell

01:19:49.180 her is 0.58

01:19:50.880 because he

01:19:51.440 didn't want

01:19:51.920 to have a

01:19:52.300 leader who

01:19:53.680 didn't trust

01:19:54.460 Minbari's. 0.97

01:19:57.060 And it

01:19:57.620 was one of

01:19:57.960 the best

01:19:58.380 written scenes

01:19:59.840 in all of

01:20:00.540 sci-fi.

01:20:02.320 It's one of

01:20:03.020 the things

01:20:03.220 that really

01:20:04.500 bonded me

01:20:05.840 to that

01:20:06.180 show.

01:20:06.680 I thought,

01:20:07.300 good lord,

01:20:07.940 that is

01:20:08.240 such clever,

01:20:10.780 complicated

01:20:11.400 writing.

01:20:12.640 I love

01:20:13.180 that.

01:20:14.580 And I

01:20:16.240 had been

01:20:16.600 operating under

01:20:17.460 that for a

01:20:19.040 long time,

01:20:20.020 which is

01:20:21.020 an intentional

01:20:24.080 illusion that

01:20:26.060 people are

01:20:26.540 more trustworthy

01:20:27.180 than they

01:20:27.840 are.

01:20:28.820 Because I

01:20:29.620 didn't know

01:20:30.140 how to live

01:20:30.660 my life with

01:20:32.960 complete

01:20:33.520 cynicism.

01:20:35.720 Because you

01:20:36.240 couldn't

01:20:36.440 spend any

01:20:36.920 kind of,

01:20:38.440 you couldn't

01:20:39.040 have any

01:20:39.360 kind of a

01:20:39.720 personal life

01:20:40.460 without trusting

01:20:41.800 people,

01:20:43.240 right?

01:20:44.500 But I did

01:20:45.340 have some,

01:20:46.580 I guess I'm

01:20:47.860 opening up more

01:20:48.500 than I should,

01:20:49.060 I've had some

01:20:49.820 recent experiences

01:20:50.840 in the past

01:20:51.840 year that

01:20:53.380 demolished my 0.54

01:20:54.600 sense of

01:20:55.060 trust in

01:20:56.780 human beings.

01:20:58.080 I'm not

01:20:58.720 talking about

01:20:59.120 marriage

01:20:59.420 specifically,

01:21:00.240 I'm talking

01:21:00.740 about human

01:21:01.360 beings.

01:21:01.800 and I've

01:21:05.520 never experienced

01:21:06.360 anything like

01:21:07.000 it, or so

01:21:08.400 often.

01:21:09.540 It was more

01:21:10.060 than one

01:21:10.460 event, that's

01:21:11.500 why it was

01:21:11.920 interesting.

01:21:13.340 So I saw

01:21:14.620 things, I saw

01:21:15.840 parts of

01:21:16.520 humanity that

01:21:17.460 just ruined

01:21:19.780 me, honestly,

01:21:20.940 it just ruined

01:21:21.420 me.

01:21:22.740 Now I

01:21:23.100 imagine that's

01:21:23.700 what's happened

01:21:24.140 if you're in a

01:21:24.700 war zone.

01:21:26.600 Imagine if you

01:21:27.380 were in

01:21:27.680 Ukraine right

01:21:28.340 now, the

01:21:28.940 things you

01:21:29.300 would see.

01:21:29.640 your sense

01:21:31.300 of humanity

01:21:31.960 would be

01:21:32.380 completely

01:21:32.800 changed.

01:21:34.160 And I

01:21:34.580 was always

01:21:35.000 completely

01:21:35.540 aware that

01:21:36.260 I was

01:21:36.500 walking around

01:21:37.080 with an

01:21:37.500 illusion, but

01:21:38.520 it was a

01:21:40.060 voluntary

01:21:40.460 illusion, like

01:21:42.120 the Minbari, 0.97

01:21:43.600 like a land

01:21:44.240 they had

01:21:44.620 at the

01:21:44.820 Minbari. 0.99

01:21:45.520 I wanted

01:21:46.180 the illusion

01:21:46.800 that the

01:21:47.960 people around

01:21:48.520 me were

01:21:50.020 trustworthy.

01:21:52.380 And it

01:21:53.680 turns out

01:21:54.000 they weren't.

01:21:54.400 so that's

01:21:57.240 a big part

01:21:57.680 of why I

01:21:58.420 decided to

01:22:00.300 become a

01:22:00.660 recluse.

01:22:01.760 I'm going

01:22:02.280 to be honest

01:22:02.700 with you, I

01:22:03.040 can't stand

01:22:03.580 people right

01:22:04.060 now.

01:22:04.620 I can't 0.98

01:22:05.320 fucking 1.00

01:22:05.560 stand them 1.00

01:22:06.080 in person.

01:22:09.000 And it

01:22:10.000 has nothing

01:22:10.440 to do with

01:22:10.840 the people.

01:22:12.040 I'm talking

01:22:12.500 about people

01:22:12.940 that I

01:22:13.320 genuinely like

01:22:14.260 and have

01:22:14.520 done nothing

01:22:15.020 bad to me.

01:22:16.760 People who

01:22:17.400 are genuinely

01:22:17.780 good as far

01:22:18.700 as I can

01:22:19.020 tell.

01:22:19.680 I just

01:22:20.160 can't stand

01:22:20.800 to be around

01:22:21.260 people right

01:22:21.760 now.

01:22:21.980 Anybody

01:22:24.400 else have

01:22:24.780 that experience?

01:22:26.280 It could be

01:22:26.980 social media

01:22:27.620 that's doing

01:22:28.080 it to me,

01:22:28.520 but I think

01:22:28.880 it was actually

01:22:29.720 my real life

01:22:30.540 that did it

01:22:30.940 to me.

01:22:33.980 Yeah.

01:22:36.400 Yeah,

01:22:37.020 it's,

01:22:38.220 and I don't

01:22:39.760 know if I

01:22:40.100 can get it

01:22:40.520 back,

01:22:41.620 honestly.

01:22:43.140 So,

01:22:44.460 I'm in a

01:22:45.180 little bit

01:22:45.540 of a

01:22:46.380 existential

01:22:48.840 something.

01:22:51.980 a reset,

01:22:52.620 I guess,

01:22:52.980 a reboot.

01:22:53.840 I'm in the

01:22:54.260 middle of a

01:22:54.640 reboot.

01:22:55.920 Is it

01:22:56.320 burnout?

01:22:56.740 I don't

01:22:56.960 think so.

01:22:57.960 It doesn't

01:22:58.260 feel like

01:22:58.680 burnout.

01:22:59.220 I know what

01:22:59.960 burnout feels

01:23:00.500 like,

01:23:00.740 but it

01:23:00.880 doesn't

01:23:01.040 feel like

01:23:01.340 that.

01:23:04.800 So,

01:23:06.120 and now

01:23:07.460 add on

01:23:07.880 top of

01:23:08.220 this that

01:23:09.560 like

01:23:11.120 Elon Musk,

01:23:12.000 I went

01:23:12.500 through the

01:23:12.860 same process.

01:23:14.920 You know,

01:23:15.080 I looked

01:23:15.380 for a

01:23:16.580 religious

01:23:16.880 reason to

01:23:17.560 live,

01:23:18.720 was not

01:23:19.240 persuaded,

01:23:20.220 just like

01:23:20.760 Elon.

01:23:21.980 Looked for

01:23:23.100 other reasons

01:23:23.840 to be,

01:23:24.580 you know,

01:23:24.900 I thought

01:23:25.300 like marriage.

01:23:27.240 I thought

01:23:27.620 if I sort

01:23:28.200 of wrapped

01:23:28.860 myself around

01:23:29.560 a family

01:23:30.040 unit,

01:23:30.800 like that

01:23:31.160 would be

01:23:31.400 a reason

01:23:31.800 to live.

01:23:32.880 Didn't

01:23:33.360 work out

01:23:33.780 in my

01:23:34.160 case.

01:23:34.880 I'm happy

01:23:35.400 that it

01:23:35.680 worked out

01:23:36.000 for many

01:23:36.600 of you.

01:23:38.000 But,

01:23:39.320 so as

01:23:39.920 my default,

01:23:43.480 and maybe

01:23:44.000 that's not

01:23:45.600 the way to

01:23:45.960 talk about

01:23:46.420 it,

01:23:46.580 but my

01:23:47.280 default is

01:23:47.900 I wake

01:23:48.260 up every

01:23:48.680 day and

01:23:49.820 I try to

01:23:50.240 make the

01:23:50.580 world better

01:23:51.100 for other

01:23:51.460 people.

01:23:53.520 Now,

01:23:54.280 I hope

01:23:55.400 you've seen

01:23:55.860 it.

01:23:57.120 You know,

01:23:57.420 I talk about

01:23:57.960 the number

01:23:58.340 of people

01:23:58.680 I've cured

01:23:59.360 from various

01:24:00.060 health problems,

01:24:00.960 which is very

01:24:01.780 meaningful to me.

01:24:02.960 I really love

01:24:03.480 that.

01:24:04.400 And I've

01:24:05.160 told you,

01:24:06.200 I've tried to

01:24:06.740 help many

01:24:07.200 of you in

01:24:07.560 your lives

01:24:08.080 be more

01:24:09.020 successful,

01:24:09.980 get love,

01:24:10.620 and stuff like

01:24:11.040 that.

01:24:11.560 And many

01:24:11.960 of you have.

01:24:12.720 So that's

01:24:13.220 what works

01:24:13.600 for me.

01:24:14.560 So everything

01:24:15.080 that you see

01:24:15.600 me do on

01:24:16.080 social media,

01:24:17.260 especially the

01:24:17.920 stuff that

01:24:18.280 looks like

01:24:18.720 I'm just

01:24:20.060 flailing around

01:24:20.860 or being

01:24:21.260 angry or

01:24:21.800 something,

01:24:22.340 all of it

01:24:22.960 has a

01:24:23.200 purpose.

01:24:24.340 It all

01:24:24.660 has a

01:24:24.920 purpose.

01:24:25.780 I mean,

01:24:26.080 I am

01:24:26.320 enjoying it,

01:24:27.560 so that's

01:24:28.140 always a

01:24:28.900 sub-purpose,

01:24:29.820 but there's

01:24:30.420 always a

01:24:30.740 larger arc

01:24:31.560 to it.

01:24:32.960 And if

01:24:33.600 you didn't

01:24:33.840 know that,

01:24:34.280 it would

01:24:34.420 look confusing.

01:24:35.720 So lots

01:24:36.300 of times

01:24:36.640 when I'm

01:24:37.040 causing

01:24:37.400 trouble,

01:24:39.240 I'm just

01:24:39.780 gathering

01:24:40.140 energy,

01:24:41.520 and I'm

01:24:41.960 going to

01:24:42.100 use it

01:24:42.400 for something.

01:24:43.820 So once

01:24:44.440 you learn

01:24:45.200 that I do

01:24:45.780 that intentionally,

01:24:46.780 you'll start

01:24:47.140 to see

01:24:47.460 it.

01:24:49.980 So,

01:24:50.820 but here's

01:24:51.260 what was

01:24:52.260 weighing on

01:24:53.520 me recently.

01:24:54.980 And I

01:24:55.320 think it

01:24:55.560 was watching

01:24:56.160 Elon Musk

01:24:56.920 get his 1.00

01:24:57.540 shit out. 1.00

01:24:58.900 Where here's 0.99

01:24:59.460 a guy who,

01:25:00.780 imagine being

01:25:01.720 Elon Musk,

01:25:02.340 he's watching

01:25:02.780 this Ukraine

01:25:03.360 war,

01:25:04.140 and he

01:25:04.800 says to

01:25:05.160 himself,

01:25:06.460 nobody seems

01:25:07.420 to be fixing

01:25:07.980 this thing.

01:25:10.280 Nobody's

01:25:10.820 even offered

01:25:11.500 the bones

01:25:12.880 of what a

01:25:13.440 peace plan

01:25:13.900 would look

01:25:14.280 like.

01:25:16.280 But he

01:25:16.860 could,

01:25:18.080 and he

01:25:18.420 knew that

01:25:18.720 people would

01:25:19.140 listen to

01:25:19.500 him.

01:25:19.860 I don't

01:25:20.180 know for

01:25:20.480 sure,

01:25:20.740 but he's

01:25:21.040 Matt

01:25:21.340 Putin,

01:25:21.700 right?

01:25:22.680 I think

01:25:23.100 Elon hasn't

01:25:24.860 even done

01:25:25.340 business with

01:25:25.940 Putin,

01:25:27.040 because I

01:25:27.380 think there

01:25:27.660 was some

01:25:27.980 SpaceX,

01:25:29.700 Russian space

01:25:31.320 thing that

01:25:31.740 maybe they

01:25:32.120 worked

01:25:32.300 together.

01:25:33.560 So he's

01:25:34.240 pretty tapped

01:25:34.680 into the

01:25:35.220 whole world.

01:25:36.180 He knows

01:25:36.460 all the

01:25:36.740 players.

01:25:38.180 And so

01:25:39.120 he puts

01:25:39.460 forward a

01:25:40.420 peace plan

01:25:41.120 which is

01:25:41.700 nothing but

01:25:42.640 helpful.

01:25:43.240 and he 1.00

01:25:46.200 gets shit 1.00

01:25:46.700 on. 1.00

01:25:48.400 And here's

01:25:49.220 the thing

01:25:49.460 that bothered

01:25:49.760 me.

01:25:50.380 The

01:25:50.820 criticisms

01:25:52.420 were just

01:25:53.380 so off

01:25:54.000 base.

01:25:55.040 Because

01:25:55.500 people said

01:25:56.100 he was

01:25:56.460 aiding

01:25:56.900 Russia.

01:25:59.200 In what

01:25:59.960 world

01:26:00.460 is that

01:26:02.760 aiding

01:26:03.060 Russia? 0.61

01:26:03.880 Because all

01:26:04.460 that happened

01:26:04.920 was Ukraine

01:26:05.620 was going

01:26:06.020 to do

01:26:06.260 whatever

01:26:06.580 they were

01:26:06.900 going to

01:26:07.100 do anyway

01:26:07.540 because they

01:26:07.900 were winning.

01:26:08.260 there was

01:26:09.400 nothing that

01:26:09.880 Elon Musk

01:26:10.420 says that

01:26:11.660 was going

01:26:11.980 to stop

01:26:12.360 Ukraine from

01:26:14.680 pressing hard

01:26:15.340 while they're

01:26:15.900 winning.

01:26:17.140 So Ukraine

01:26:17.700 was going

01:26:18.040 to do the

01:26:18.340 same thing

01:26:18.740 Ukraine was 0.87

01:26:19.320 going to

01:26:19.520 do no

01:26:19.840 matter what

01:26:20.560 Musk said.

01:26:23.040 But Russia

01:26:24.600 might act

01:26:25.080 differently.

01:26:26.560 And Russia

01:26:26.940 might specifically

01:26:27.820 say, well,

01:26:28.500 if Elon Musk

01:26:29.320 is putting out

01:26:30.020 a peace plan,

01:26:31.700 I guess I

01:26:32.340 don't have to

01:26:32.800 nuke anybody

01:26:33.480 because I've

01:26:35.100 got an

01:26:35.960 exit path.

01:26:37.100 Now,

01:26:37.260 his plan

01:26:38.460 might not

01:26:38.880 be the

01:26:39.160 one,

01:26:39.740 maybe it'll

01:26:40.820 morph,

01:26:41.480 but as

01:26:41.900 long as

01:26:42.300 you're

01:26:42.460 talking

01:26:43.120 about

01:26:43.680 an

01:26:44.060 exit

01:26:44.340 path,

01:26:45.480 you don't

01:26:45.940 nuke.

01:26:47.060 So what

01:26:47.600 Elon Musk

01:26:48.180 did was

01:26:48.980 he put

01:26:50.140 his personal

01:26:50.860 reputation

01:26:51.460 on the

01:26:51.860 line,

01:26:53.220 and he

01:26:53.580 decreased

01:26:54.180 the chance

01:26:54.720 of nuclear

01:26:55.280 war by

01:26:56.440 a lot.

01:26:58.380 And he 1.00

01:26:59.080 got fucked 1.00

01:27:00.100 over for 1.00

01:27:00.740 it.

01:27:02.520 He got 1.00

01:27:03.300 shit on 1.00

01:27:03.880 for that. 1.00

01:27:06.200 And do

01:27:07.000 you think

01:27:07.360 he was

01:27:08.140 doing that

01:27:08.520 like for

01:27:08.920 his personal

01:27:09.660 benefit?

01:27:10.320 I mean,

01:27:11.180 his personal

01:27:11.700 benefit to

01:27:12.240 avoid nuclear

01:27:13.100 war, of

01:27:13.620 course.

01:27:14.600 But you

01:27:15.020 knew that he

01:27:15.940 was going to 1.00

01:27:16.340 get shit on, 1.00

01:27:17.120 so did he. 1.00

01:27:18.580 So did he.

01:27:19.640 He did that

01:27:20.320 for you.

01:27:21.620 He did that

01:27:22.400 for you,

01:27:22.820 and then you

01:27:23.860 collectively.

01:27:25.160 And then the

01:27:26.220 people he was

01:27:26.860 trying to help

01:27:27.480 from nuclear

01:27:28.520 annihilation just

01:27:30.760 went on to

01:27:31.300 Twitter and 0.99

01:27:31.680 shit on him. 0.99

01:27:33.280 And I 1.00

01:27:33.920 guess I

01:27:34.220 felt that.

01:27:36.020 Of course

01:27:36.980 that happens

01:27:37.380 to me every

01:27:37.800 day.

01:27:38.200 Every time I

01:27:38.780 try to do

01:27:39.180 anything useful, 0.99

01:27:40.260 somebody shits 0.99

01:27:40.800 on me. 1.00

01:27:42.060 And I

01:27:43.780 don't think it

01:27:44.340 bothered me as

01:27:45.040 much when it

01:27:45.520 happened to

01:27:45.900 me.

01:27:46.960 But when I

01:27:47.600 saw it happen

01:27:48.100 to him,

01:27:49.520 in this

01:27:50.020 specific example,

01:27:51.840 I just

01:27:52.200 thought, 1.00

01:27:52.800 shit, 1.00

01:27:53.520 people suck. 1.00

01:27:55.140 People 1.00

01:27:55.500 really suck. 1.00

01:27:57.660 They really, 1.00

01:27:58.400 really do.

01:27:58.800 because there's

01:28:01.600 nothing more

01:28:02.320 obvious that he's

01:28:03.300 trying to help.

01:28:04.840 And the people

01:28:05.320 saying, you know,

01:28:06.100 stick to your

01:28:06.640 lane because you

01:28:07.340 don't understand

01:28:07.940 it, who are

01:28:09.820 you talking

01:28:10.360 about?

01:28:11.800 Elon Musk is

01:28:12.600 the person who

01:28:13.180 should never

01:28:13.760 stay in his

01:28:14.500 lane.

01:28:16.020 Elon Musk is

01:28:16.780 the person who

01:28:17.300 should say,

01:28:18.060 hey, here's

01:28:18.660 another lane.

01:28:20.620 Have you

01:28:21.080 thought of this

01:28:21.600 lane?

01:28:22.180 Because nobody's

01:28:23.460 doing anything in

01:28:24.080 this lane, maybe

01:28:24.740 you could do that

01:28:25.320 one too.

01:28:26.220 Because those

01:28:26.780 other lanes came

01:28:27.520 out pretty well.

01:28:28.800 all right.

01:28:37.460 Crabs want to 1.00

01:28:38.300 drag you back

01:28:38.920 into the 0.98

01:28:39.260 bucket.

01:28:43.200 Affirmation

01:28:43.760 time.

01:28:44.940 So I'll

01:28:45.500 tell you what

01:28:45.960 is giving me

01:28:47.240 enthusiasm lately.

01:28:49.520 So here's a

01:28:50.380 little inside

01:28:51.120 book writing

01:28:51.880 stuff.

01:28:53.800 People always

01:28:54.240 ask me about

01:28:54.800 the process

01:28:55.320 of writing

01:28:55.800 books.

01:28:56.720 For some

01:28:57.320 reason, it's

01:28:58.040 of great

01:28:58.440 interest to

01:28:58.940 people, even

01:28:59.460 if they

01:28:59.780 don't write

01:29:00.240 books.

01:29:01.520 And I can

01:29:02.320 kind of see

01:29:02.760 that.

01:29:03.400 So I'll

01:29:03.600 give you a

01:29:03.900 little insight

01:29:04.480 into it.

01:29:05.400 So my

01:29:06.000 process has

01:29:06.980 very much a

01:29:07.940 way up, way

01:29:08.820 down, way

01:29:09.460 up, way

01:29:09.860 down path.

01:29:11.360 And it

01:29:11.640 always does.

01:29:12.600 And it

01:29:13.040 goes like

01:29:13.440 this.

01:29:14.120 I've got this

01:29:14.780 great idea for

01:29:15.640 a book.

01:29:16.400 This will be

01:29:16.820 so amazing.

01:29:17.900 And I'll

01:29:18.200 write some

01:29:18.640 notes.

01:29:19.100 This is

01:29:19.400 amazing.

01:29:20.220 And I'll

01:29:20.580 start writing

01:29:21.160 the actual

01:29:21.640 chapters.

01:29:23.120 And I'll

01:29:23.540 look it

01:29:23.840 over after

01:29:24.340 a while.

01:29:24.720 I'll be

01:29:24.840 like, oh,

01:29:26.080 that wasn't

01:29:26.660 as good as

01:29:27.220 I hoped.

01:29:28.960 And then I'll

01:29:29.780 write another

01:29:30.380 chapter and

01:29:30.920 I'll nail it.

01:29:31.960 I'll be like,

01:29:32.380 this is amazing.

01:29:33.220 This is amazing.

01:29:34.720 Anyway, that

01:29:35.340 keeps going all

01:29:36.380 the way to the

01:29:36.900 end.

01:29:37.760 And it never

01:29:38.220 stops.

01:29:39.440 Even right up to

01:29:40.300 publication date,

01:29:41.020 it never stops.

01:29:43.100 So there'll be

01:29:43.760 days I wake up

01:29:44.540 and I just hate

01:29:45.060 it.

01:29:45.940 And there are

01:29:46.220 days I wake

01:29:46.800 up like

01:29:47.240 yesterday.

01:29:48.300 So yesterday

01:29:49.060 I was in

01:29:49.540 Starbucks and

01:29:50.400 every now and

01:29:50.960 then I'll just

01:29:51.480 reread what

01:29:52.420 I've written.

01:29:53.580 Because I

01:29:54.260 need to

01:29:54.840 sort of

01:29:56.220 resaturate

01:29:58.760 myself with

01:29:59.500 what I've

01:29:59.880 already done

01:30:00.420 before I can

01:30:01.840 make sure that

01:30:02.420 the next thing

01:30:02.960 is additive.

01:30:03.980 So you have

01:30:04.620 to keep

01:30:04.900 rereading your

01:30:05.620 book that

01:30:06.020 you've written

01:30:06.380 so far.

01:30:07.140 So I did

01:30:07.780 that yesterday

01:30:08.320 and it's 0.96

01:30:11.380 fucking awesome. 0.97

01:30:14.800 Honestly, 0.99

01:30:15.740 it's fucking 0.98

01:30:16.940 awesome. 0.97

01:30:18.320 The number

01:30:18.980 of lives

01:30:19.520 this thing's

01:30:20.040 going to

01:30:20.280 change is

01:30:21.820 crazy.

01:30:23.440 And I 0.66

01:30:24.120 didn't realize

01:30:24.680 it until I

01:30:25.220 sort of saw

01:30:26.240 the whole

01:30:26.640 because I

01:30:27.400 end up

01:30:27.780 micro-focusing

01:30:28.820 on a little

01:30:29.260 chapter.

01:30:31.060 It's crazy.

01:30:32.760 Now, here's

01:30:33.520 the other

01:30:33.760 thing that's

01:30:34.520 relevant to

01:30:35.240 this commercial.

01:30:36.080 This commercial.

01:30:38.020 It is kind

01:30:38.480 of a commercial.

01:30:39.620 Relevant to

01:30:40.280 the conversation.

01:30:42.280 I am going

01:30:43.280 to get 1.00

01:30:43.840 killed 1.00

01:30:45.120 for this

01:30:46.320 book.

01:30:46.640 the critics

01:30:48.320 are going

01:30:48.740 to destroy 0.88

01:30:49.540 me. 0.70

01:30:50.360 Do you

01:30:50.520 know why?

01:30:51.540 Guess why?

01:30:53.000 Why will I

01:30:54.000 be criticized

01:30:54.620 for this

01:30:55.240 book just

01:30:55.680 massively?

01:30:57.260 Take a

01:30:57.740 guess.

01:30:58.000 You're

01:31:02.460 almost there.

01:31:03.060 How are you

01:31:07.560 missing this?

01:31:10.600 I thought I

01:31:11.340 teed this up

01:31:11.920 for you a

01:31:12.260 little bit

01:31:12.540 better than

01:31:12.920 this.

01:31:13.660 The answer

01:31:14.180 is right in

01:31:14.740 front of you

01:31:15.180 because I

01:31:17.060 left my lane.

01:31:17.780 I left my

01:31:19.020 lane.

01:31:20.320 Because reframes

01:31:21.220 are really

01:31:21.600 psychology.

01:31:22.300 I'm not a

01:31:22.660 psychologist.

01:31:23.560 I'm a

01:31:23.900 hypnotist.

01:31:24.940 And nobody's

01:31:25.580 going to say,

01:31:26.160 listen to the

01:31:26.940 hypnotist.

01:31:27.520 They're going

01:31:27.720 to say,

01:31:28.100 it's a

01:31:28.440 cartoonist.

01:31:29.460 They're going

01:31:29.940 to say,

01:31:30.220 why is this

01:31:30.740 cartoonist

01:31:31.460 telling me

01:31:32.260 psychology?

01:31:33.960 Right?

01:31:34.640 And they're

01:31:35.200 going to say,

01:31:35.560 I'm damaging

01:31:36.080 people and

01:31:37.000 I'm oversimplifying

01:31:38.100 and I should

01:31:39.140 stay in my

01:31:39.700 lane and when

01:31:40.620 I was just

01:31:40.980 being a

01:31:41.360 cartoonist it

01:31:42.060 made sense.

01:31:42.680 And then

01:31:43.480 everybody's

01:31:43.920 going to say,

01:31:44.900 that reframe

01:31:47.200 is going to

01:31:47.580 hurt somebody.

01:31:49.480 Right?

01:31:49.940 I don't think

01:31:50.580 any of them

01:31:51.000 will hurt

01:31:51.320 anybody.

01:31:52.100 But somebody's

01:31:52.740 going to say,

01:31:53.100 well that one,

01:31:53.740 yeah, that's

01:31:54.380 reckless.

01:31:55.820 Right?

01:31:56.240 I am going to

01:31:57.020 get absolutely

01:31:57.820 destroyed.

01:32:00.740 But,

01:32:01.880 it's going to

01:32:02.660 really help a

01:32:03.380 lot of people.

01:32:04.960 Now I'm going

01:32:05.460 to share it

01:32:05.840 with some of

01:32:06.200 the people on

01:32:06.780 the locals

01:32:07.560 community.

01:32:08.860 I'm going to

01:32:09.360 run through

01:32:09.980 some of the

01:32:10.400 reframes in the

01:32:11.060 book just to

01:32:11.560 give you a

01:32:11.880 sense of it.

01:32:12.340 Give some

01:32:12.600 feedback.

01:32:13.620 It might

01:32:13.880 help me tune

01:32:15.600 it a little

01:32:16.000 bit.

01:32:16.920 But, my

01:32:17.760 God, it's

01:32:18.180 going to be

01:32:18.620 really good.

01:32:19.120 It will be

01:32:19.460 the biggest

01:32:19.760 thing I've

01:32:20.140 done.

01:32:21.700 So, if

01:32:24.400 you're willing

01:32:24.840 to believe

01:32:25.300 that, it

01:32:26.080 should be the

01:32:26.640 biggest thing

01:32:27.220 I've done.

01:32:29.000 I would be

01:32:29.760 amazed if it's

01:32:30.720 not a national

01:32:31.580 phenomenon, if

01:32:33.400 not international.

01:32:35.120 Because here's

01:32:35.820 the trick.

01:32:36.600 It's not

01:32:37.220 enough to say

01:32:38.240 something good

01:32:39.120 and useful.

01:32:40.660 Because lots of

01:32:41.500 books do that.

01:32:42.180 And that's

01:32:44.480 what I've

01:32:44.720 done before.

01:32:45.620 I've said

01:32:46.020 something that

01:32:46.480 was entertaining

01:32:47.180 or useful or

01:32:49.060 both, and

01:32:49.960 those will sell

01:32:50.460 a lot of

01:32:50.760 books because

01:32:51.520 people like to

01:32:52.100 be entertained.

01:32:53.200 They like

01:32:53.480 useful stuff.

01:32:54.820 But the

01:32:55.480 extra gear

01:32:56.900 that I've

01:32:58.300 never hit,

01:32:59.580 that some

01:33:00.100 people have,

01:33:01.560 other authors

01:33:02.120 have, is

01:33:03.460 where the

01:33:04.340 usefulness of

01:33:05.800 it is just

01:33:07.200 extreme.

01:33:07.720 And this

01:33:09.920 is going to

01:33:10.200 have probably

01:33:10.800 80 to 100

01:33:11.740 reframes in

01:33:12.580 it, of

01:33:13.720 which, for

01:33:14.680 most people,

01:33:15.380 at least 10

01:33:15.920 of them would

01:33:16.320 be life-changing.

01:33:18.440 So, and they

01:33:20.160 can learn them

01:33:20.700 just by reading

01:33:21.260 them.

01:33:28.320 I'm reading a

01:33:29.300 comment on

01:33:29.880 Locals, which

01:33:31.180 I appreciate.

01:33:32.240 I appreciate that

01:33:33.320 comment.

01:33:33.600 Yes, I've been

01:33:35.580 playing drones.

01:33:39.920 All right.

01:33:44.020 Big question.

01:33:45.260 What's the

01:33:45.540 difference between

01:33:46.260 God and

01:33:46.900 intelligence and

01:33:49.100 the simulation?

01:33:50.180 The difference

01:33:50.820 is that God

01:33:53.460 is usually

01:33:54.100 defined as

01:33:54.800 one entity.

01:33:56.640 And if we

01:33:57.360 are a

01:33:57.680 simulation,

01:33:58.500 we're probably,

01:33:59.900 it's probably a

01:34:00.560 group effort.

01:34:02.020 You know,

01:34:02.200 somebody built

01:34:02.880 the technology

01:34:03.600 to build the

01:34:04.700 simulation.

01:34:05.580 So it'd be

01:34:06.060 one versus

01:34:06.640 many.

01:34:07.200 And then the

01:34:07.580 next difference

01:34:08.160 would be that

01:34:09.240 that civilization

01:34:10.400 may have had a

01:34:11.620 higher civilization

01:34:12.960 that created

01:34:13.620 them.

01:34:15.020 So God is

01:34:15.980 one and done.

01:34:17.940 Simulation is

01:34:18.740 infinite.

01:34:20.240 Iteration.

01:34:23.540 What if we

01:34:24.320 all share one

01:34:25.060 consciousness?

01:34:26.240 That's more of a

01:34:26.880 word-thinking

01:34:27.480 thing.

01:34:27.960 I think it just

01:34:28.620 depends on how

01:34:29.000 you define

01:34:29.380 things.

01:34:29.740 you're wrong

01:34:34.400 about how to

01:34:34.840 program AI.

01:34:35.840 You don't set

01:34:36.220 the rules.

01:34:36.760 You give it a

01:34:37.100 large training

01:34:37.780 set of

01:34:38.320 successful humor.

01:34:39.260 I would do

01:34:39.600 both.

01:34:40.700 So I would

01:34:41.240 give it the

01:34:42.300 rule, but 0.93

01:34:43.320 you're right,

01:34:44.000 it would be

01:34:44.280 useless.

01:34:45.080 The rule would 0.99

01:34:45.760 be useless

01:34:46.260 without a

01:34:47.120 large training

01:34:48.000 set of humor.

01:34:49.400 And that's

01:34:49.980 definitely part

01:34:50.560 of the plan.

01:34:51.080 midterm

01:35:06.800 predictions.

01:35:08.600 I may stay

01:35:09.580 away from

01:35:09.980 midterm

01:35:10.360 predictions.

01:35:11.700 Midterms could

01:35:12.440 go either way.

01:35:14.100 They really

01:35:14.480 could.

01:35:15.200 I think it's

01:35:15.620 a toss-up.

01:35:18.560 I can

01:35:19.660 definitely see

01:35:20.660 Democrats

01:35:21.580 sweeping.

01:35:23.260 I can see

01:35:24.080 it.

01:35:24.780 I'm not

01:35:25.260 predicting it,

01:35:26.340 but it's

01:35:27.080 completely within

01:35:28.060 the realm.

01:35:30.860 Is 0.88

01:35:31.100 reframing an

01:35:31.780 analogy?

01:35:32.420 No.

01:35:33.160 Very much

01:35:33.680 not one.

01:35:41.200 AI will be

01:35:42.200 too smart to

01:35:42.900 find humans

01:35:43.500 funny.

01:35:44.480 That could 0.68

01:35:45.260 be.

01:35:45.500 I think

01:35:50.140 Fetterman

01:35:50.660 will be

01:35:51.160 Oz 0.90

01:35:51.640 because that's

01:35:53.760 the funnier

01:35:54.280 outcome.

01:35:55.600 So I'm

01:35:55.900 going to go

01:35:56.200 with the

01:35:56.460 funnier

01:35:56.760 outcome.

01:35:57.560 All right,

01:35:57.920 that's all

01:35:58.220 for now,

01:35:59.060 and I will

01:35:59.640 talk to you

01:36:00.140 later.

01:36:00.440 there.

01:36:00.500 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - October 05, 2022

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