Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1916 Scott Adams： Seasonal Flu Deaths Confirmed Fake, Dems Think Narrative Is The Problem

00:00:01.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the Highlight of Civilization.

00:00:05.960 Coffee with Scott Adams, and I promise you, this will be the most awesome livestream you've ever seen.

00:00:12.980 Today I have something, well, you've heard of it.

00:00:16.180 It's called Content, the Good Kind, because the news has served up a bounty that we must thank the creator of the universe for.

00:00:27.500 It's never been better than today.

00:00:30.220 We've got good stuff today.

00:00:33.680 But before we get to that, would you like to take it up to another dimension, a dimension that you didn't even know existed?

00:00:41.460 Yes, you do.

00:00:42.060 And all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tanker, a chalice, a stein, a canteen, a jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.

00:00:47.760 Fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:00:50.180 I like coffee.

00:00:52.020 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better.

00:00:57.620 Remember, it's called the simultaneous sip.

00:01:00.940 And it happens now.

00:01:01.580 Go.

00:01:01.680 I have a question.

00:01:08.780 The question is, is slurping allowed?

00:01:12.420 Yes, if you're alone.

00:01:14.080 If you're alone, give it a good slurp and don't apologize.

00:01:18.860 If you're with people, well, think of your larger relationships.

00:01:26.720 Question number one.

00:01:29.020 I've solved one of the greatest mysteries in human civilization.

00:01:34.900 You ready?

00:01:35.600 Have you noticed that everybody is anxious and has anxiety?

00:01:41.400 You've noticed that, right?

00:01:42.740 And that that's different than it used to be.

00:01:46.600 When I was a kid, I don't think anybody had that.

00:01:50.220 I mean, I never, literally never even heard of it.

00:01:52.440 I know I didn't have it.

00:01:54.560 Nobody I know had it.

00:01:55.860 But now everybody has it.

00:01:57.840 Now you say to yourself, what is it?

00:02:00.240 Is it modern life?

00:02:01.860 Is it social media?

00:02:03.320 Is it something about being attached to your phones exactly?

00:02:08.000 What is it?

00:02:10.120 Well, today I'm going to tell you the answer and then tell you how to fix it.

00:02:14.860 That's right.

00:02:15.900 I'm going to fix the biggest problem in civilization, which is everybody feels bad.

00:02:22.180 Right?

00:02:22.920 Everybody feels bad.

00:02:24.440 You're overweight.

00:02:25.600 You're healthy.

00:02:26.660 But mostly you're getting anxious about everything.

00:02:29.380 I'm going to fix it now for you.

00:02:31.300 You ready?

00:02:31.640 Ready?

00:02:31.740 And we'll work our way into it.

00:02:36.560 Did you know there's a thing called screen apnea?

00:02:41.000 Tell me in the comments, have you ever heard of that?

00:02:43.760 Screen apnea.

00:02:46.680 Now that means that when you look at a screen, doesn't matter what kind, could be your phone,

00:02:52.120 could be what you're looking at right now.

00:02:53.520 We have a tendency to not breathe.

00:02:58.620 It's not the blue light.

00:03:00.880 It's because you don't breathe.

00:03:03.440 If you exercise, you breathe.

00:03:05.840 If you walk around, you breathe.

00:03:08.460 Right?

00:03:08.900 But apparently it's a real thing.

00:03:11.820 And I noticed this on myself.

00:03:14.880 I noticed that when I look at screens, I don't breathe.

00:03:18.600 Now, I thought it was more about concentrating.

00:03:21.300 I thought that if I were concentrating on something, I didn't breathe.

00:03:24.500 I knew that.

00:03:25.180 But I didn't realize it was every time I looked at a screen.

00:03:29.220 And so yesterday I said to myself, could this be a thing?

00:03:35.300 And I'm going to tie it together with something else in a minute.

00:03:38.560 I said to myself, is this, I wonder if I Googled this.

00:03:42.800 If I Googled, do you breathe the same when you watch a screen?

00:03:48.000 And so I Googled some kind of phrase like, do you breathe differently when looking at a screen?

00:03:54.380 And what pops up?

00:03:55.620 Well, it turns out that there's a thing called screen apnea.

00:03:59.840 It's well understood.

00:04:01.940 It definitely exists.

00:04:03.840 And you don't breathe right when you look at your screens.

00:04:08.600 Now, let's tie this to my ongoing saga of my blood pressure meds,

00:04:15.060 which I suspect may be another one of these, you know, COVID vaccination situations

00:04:22.300 where perhaps the benefits of blood pressure meds have been oversold.

00:04:27.920 So I don't know that for sure.

00:04:30.280 I know that the one of several types I took was bad for me because it had terrible side effects.

00:04:36.780 So I only know from personal experience, you know, one drug, one drug and one experience.

00:04:43.580 So I can't say for sure that nobody should take blood pressure meds.

00:04:46.900 I imagine there are cases where it will save your life.

00:04:50.800 But I do wonder if maybe it's oversubscribed or prescribed.

00:04:57.760 And then I notice this pattern.

00:05:00.240 So here are the things that are good for lowering your blood pressure.

00:05:04.120 See if you find the pattern.

00:05:06.520 Exercise, moderate exercise, especially going for a walk.

00:05:09.920 So that definitely lowers your blood pressure temporarily.

00:05:14.760 And also in the long run if you do it regularly.

00:05:17.360 Meditation.

00:05:18.980 Meditation.

00:05:20.320 Yoga.

00:05:23.360 Breathing exercises like the Huberman Method or the Wim Hof.

00:05:27.220 So they're two different breathing exercises.

00:05:30.160 And being active in general.

00:05:33.040 Just sort of being active in general.

00:05:34.840 You know, doing your housework.

00:05:36.780 You know, making sure you're up and walking.

00:05:38.160 And it turns out that walking is one of the most highly correlated things with longevity.

00:05:44.740 Did you know that?

00:05:46.020 Mobility.

00:05:47.060 People who can walk every day tend to live a long time.

00:05:52.500 Now, what do all those things have in common?

00:05:54.580 Yes, you already have the answer.

00:05:56.420 Breathing.

00:05:58.540 100% of the things that fix your breathing fix your blood pressure.

00:06:05.520 All of them.

00:06:06.260 It doesn't matter which one you do.

00:06:09.520 They all work.

00:06:11.460 Every fucking one of them.

00:06:12.820 If it fixes your breathing, it fixes you.

00:06:17.460 Are you blown away yet?

00:06:19.980 Now, you've heard something about the blue light that comes from the devices.

00:06:24.760 That's probably also a problem.

00:06:27.480 That's probably also a problem.

00:06:28.760 But, apparently, the devices make you breathe wrong.

00:06:34.520 Breathing wrong affects your blood pressure.

00:06:36.820 Breathing wrong affects your anxiety.

00:06:39.180 Breathing wrong affects probably your weight.

00:06:42.720 I don't know that one for sure, but I'm guessing.

00:06:44.500 Now, I looked into the Huberman method.

00:06:52.580 Can somebody give me a fact check as I describe this?

00:06:56.020 I need a real-time fact check because I'm doing this from memory.

00:06:59.560 I think the Huberman method, which apparently he was part of studying the benefits of breathing differently, I guess, for some Stanford study.

00:07:10.120 So, this is based on science.

00:07:12.620 And I think he described it as two inhales through the nose followed by one exhale to get rid of all your air.

00:07:20.700 Right?

00:07:21.280 Two inhales through the nose and one exhale through the mouth.

00:07:26.040 And that's all it is, right?

00:07:26.980 So, it's literally just this.

00:07:34.300 Now, of course, the first time I heard it, I tried it.

00:07:38.240 Right?

00:07:38.740 It's so easy to try.

00:07:39.840 Why wouldn't you try it?

00:07:41.020 You immediately feel better.

00:07:43.640 Like, immediately.

00:07:45.280 I mean, as soon as the second exhale is done, your body feels better.

00:07:50.320 You should try it.

00:07:51.420 Now, if it were the kind of thing where, you know, if you did it every day for 10 minutes, your blood pressure might go down a point or something like that, I wouldn't recommend it, you know, necessarily.

00:08:04.000 But you feel it immediately.

00:08:06.360 Just immediately.

00:08:08.160 Right?

00:08:09.160 So, here's what I think.

00:08:11.440 I think that devices have affected our breathing, and your breathing is the reason you have all the other problems.

00:08:22.200 Have I solved the biggest problem in civilization, that we're all anxious and we need meds?

00:08:29.280 Oh, I'm not done yet.

00:08:30.600 I'm not done solving your problems.

00:08:34.300 Today is going to be a tour de force of solving all your problems.

00:08:39.460 I'm just beginning.

00:08:42.060 So, here's what you need to do.

00:08:44.380 I am going to hypnotize you right now.

00:08:48.620 But before I do, before you turn me off, I'm going to hypnotize you that whenever you pick up your phone, no matter what you're doing with it, this is your trigger now.

00:09:00.340 It's called a trigger or a key in hypnosis.

00:09:04.080 I'm going to key your phone to breathing exercises.

00:09:09.160 Every time you use your phone, no matter what it is, two inhales, one exhale, and then use your phone.

00:09:17.940 Got it?

00:09:19.020 Every time.

00:09:20.300 Every time.

00:09:21.380 Every time you touch the phone.

00:09:25.560 No exceptions.

00:09:27.200 Every time.

00:09:28.360 Touch the phone, breathe right.

00:09:30.600 Touch the phone, breathe right.

00:09:32.600 Now, if you get it right with your phone, I'm confident that that's going to be a big part of your problem.

00:09:39.160 But maybe you can extend that to your other devices.

00:09:41.960 It's going to be harder.

00:09:43.200 Because when you sit down with your other devices, you might be there for an hour.

00:09:47.700 So, over the course of the hour, you're going to forget to breathe right.

00:09:50.240 But during that hour, are you going to check your phone?

00:09:54.360 Probably.

00:09:55.640 You shouldn't.

00:09:56.780 But maybe you will.

00:09:58.380 So you pick up your phone.

00:09:59.160 Phone, breathe right.

00:10:02.940 Phone, breathe right.

00:10:04.740 Phone, breathe right.

00:10:06.100 You've just been hypnotized.

00:10:09.020 Did you like it?

00:10:10.540 That was hypnosis.

00:10:11.320 I told you what I was going to do, and then I did it.

00:10:14.220 There were no tricks.

00:10:15.340 All I did was pair two thoughts, and now they're paired.

00:10:19.100 The first time you think of it on your own, you're locked in.

00:10:23.520 Right?

00:10:23.720 If you never think of it again, you won't lock in, of course, obviously.

00:10:27.820 If you think of it once, you're probably going to lock in.

00:10:31.600 Just once.

00:10:34.940 Now, do any of you have any depression problems, or people in your life who have depression problems?

00:10:41.480 I'm talking about serious depression now.

00:10:43.940 Who, if they were better, especially you, your life would be better too?

00:10:48.520 Well, turns out that there's a new study, a pretty big study, so more dependable than most, you know, a very serious study,

00:10:59.000 that they synthesized magic mushrooms, took some of the good stuff out, put it in a shot,

00:11:08.520 and gave it to people who were severely depressed, and what happened?

00:11:14.700 Just about all of them were immediately cured.

00:11:18.520 Quote, an immediate, fast, rapid-acted, sustained.

00:11:26.580 It lasts.

00:11:28.000 It lasts long after the effects wear off.

00:11:32.440 It lasts for months.

00:11:34.600 They say it starts to wear off after three months.

00:11:39.520 Three months.

00:11:41.440 Now, do you see the trick that's happening here?

00:11:44.700 Let me explain it to you.

00:11:45.940 For how long have you known that if you take the actual mushroom itself,

00:11:53.000 people have been telling you forever it'll take care of a lot of your mental problems, like depression?

00:12:00.220 You've been hearing that for a long time, haven't you, right?

00:12:02.420 Now, somebody found out a way to synthesize it.

00:12:08.140 Synthesize it.

00:12:09.620 Huh.

00:12:10.700 You know, you would synthesize it if you're trying to take something that is practically free and grows out of the ground,

00:12:18.440 and you try to turn it into a multi-billion dollar pharma industry.

00:12:22.280 What would you need to do?

00:12:25.160 Well, if it were me, I would synthesize it.

00:12:29.020 So I could put it in a pill or a vaccination that you can't give yourself so easily.

00:12:34.900 So you're seeing a natural thing being morphed into a big pharma product, clearly.

00:12:42.640 That's what's going on.

00:12:44.220 So that they can tell you that if you eat those damn mushrooms you picked out of the ground, you're going to die.

00:12:49.620 But they've got the quality control, and they've got the extra ingredients, the X factor,

00:12:54.620 the things that you can never, never do on your own.

00:12:57.200 And you'd better pay hundreds of dollars per year.

00:13:00.380 Every three months, you need a shot, and then you'll be all good.

00:13:06.660 You see where this is going, right?

00:13:08.740 There's no doubt about it.

00:13:10.520 Until big pharma could make money on it, you are not going to see a study that's a high-quality study.

00:13:20.120 Now you will.

00:13:23.000 Well, so that's the good news and the bad news.

00:13:24.820 The bad news is that big pharma will try to control it.

00:13:27.200 The good news is it works.

00:13:29.560 So whether you get your own mushrooms or you use theirs, I think we've got a cure for anxiety, a cure for depression.

00:13:38.800 And I think they're both highly likely to work for most people.

00:13:43.480 Highly likely to work.

00:13:45.940 All right.

00:13:46.980 So there's your good news.

00:13:50.900 Anybody disagree?

00:13:53.500 These are massive.

00:13:55.540 Now, I don't know if this is the golden age, but if I were entering the golden age, the things I would look for are

00:14:02.440 everybody agrees that nuclear energy is good, finally.

00:14:07.500 We're pretty much all there.

00:14:10.660 Everybody agrees that we can, you know, if we breathe better and work on our health and use magic mushrooms if you need them,

00:14:17.960 that you can take care of a lot of your problems.

00:14:19.860 All right.

00:14:25.220 Yeah.

00:14:26.300 There's still the issue of who's getting vaccinated.

00:14:28.840 That's a problem.

00:14:29.580 All right.

00:14:29.800 We'll work on that later.

00:14:31.740 All right.

00:14:35.740 Would it surprise you to know that the New York Post is reporting there was a study about who faces more scrutiny in the mainstream media, Republicans or Democrats?

00:14:46.580 Who do you think gets the most negative press, Republicans or Democrats?

00:14:52.160 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:14:53.540 You already know the answer.

00:14:55.480 Do I even need to tell you the results of it?

00:14:58.740 You know, LOL.

00:15:00.780 Yeah.

00:15:01.440 It's exactly what you think.

00:15:03.720 It's exactly what you think.

00:15:08.720 Two inhales.

00:15:09.700 Everybody, I might make you do this every day.

00:15:19.280 I might make you do it every day.

00:15:22.060 All right.

00:15:23.860 So, yeah, more scrutiny.

00:15:25.940 Something like GOP got 87% of the time negative coverage compared to 67% of the time for GOP.

00:15:33.900 And that's looking at the ABC, CBS, and NBC.

00:15:36.160 Now, some would argue that Fox News has a bigger audience than all of those, so probably this study is complete garbage.

00:15:45.640 Actually, if I'd read it more clearly before I came live, I would have said, oh, they're looking at ABC, CBS, and NBC.

00:15:54.820 I think if you throw Fox News in there and then you weight it by the size of Fox News, which is bigger than all three of them put together, I think you get a different result.

00:16:04.160 So let's call this fake news.

00:16:06.160 Jake Tapper looks like after the midterms he'll be moved back from his evening program to his afternoon program where he had originally been.

00:16:18.160 Now, the reporting is that the new head of CNN, who wants CNN to be more of a mainstream news and not a wildly leftist news,

00:16:28.020 he wanted Jake Tapper to be the face of CNN, so he put him in the prime time slot that Chris Cuomo had left.

00:16:40.200 But I guess that didn't work out.

00:16:41.740 He got shellacked by the other networks, and they're going to move him back.

00:16:48.400 Now, here's what is interesting about this story.

00:16:52.860 Number one, was that the right choice?

00:16:57.900 Was that the right choice to put Jake Tapper as the face of CNN if you wanted to present yourself as more mainstream?

00:17:09.220 Does he fit that, the more mainstream?

00:17:12.380 I'm going to say yes.

00:17:15.280 I'm going to disagree with you.

00:17:16.860 I'm going to say yes.

00:17:19.460 You know that Tapper is the only person on CNN that I know of, that I know of,

00:17:25.800 who ever added any nuance to the Charlottesville story.

00:17:30.260 He's the only one who said, and the president clarified that he wasn't talking about the people marching.

00:17:39.580 He's the only one.

00:17:41.080 Nobody else ever did that.

00:17:43.780 Now I'm going to tell you some stuff from behind the screen.

00:17:49.620 And I think I can say this.

00:17:51.240 I feel like this is fair, even though it's based on a private conversation.

00:17:54.280 I think it's fair.

00:17:55.400 Because it's public interest.

00:17:57.460 You know, he's a public figure.

00:17:58.360 So I, you know, I know Jake Tapper.

00:18:01.580 I had him do some guest cartoons for Dilbert a couple of different years for charity.

00:18:07.520 And so we've talked a little bit.

00:18:09.440 And I've talked to him about, I've talked to him directly about the fine people hoax.

00:18:14.420 Now I talked to him before that one time he added some nuance.

00:18:18.580 I don't think I've ever seen it again.

00:18:20.580 Because it probably didn't work out.

00:18:22.780 I don't know.

00:18:24.260 But here's what I'm going to add.

00:18:26.500 First of all, give me a fact check.

00:18:29.180 Jake Tapper identifies as Jewish, right? 0.98

00:18:32.100 Yes or no?

00:18:34.680 I want to make sure I'm right about that.

00:18:36.400 Yes, right?

00:18:37.180 Yes.

00:18:37.900 Okay.

00:18:38.840 Now, remember I said about Ye?

00:18:41.280 Ye, that if Ye has had a life experience where the people who keep thwarting him are coincidentally Jewish, and it just keeps happening over and over again, if he says something racist, I'm going to say, okay, I don't like that.

00:18:58.380 You know, I disavow it, but I understand it, right?

00:19:02.800 Like, that would just be being human.

00:19:05.200 If some Elbonian punched you in the face every time you went outdoors, and then you said, I hate Elbonians.

00:19:12.000 I hate all Elbonians. 1.00

00:19:13.540 I wouldn't say, cut that out, you racist.

00:19:16.180 I would say, I think I'd feel exactly the same way if I got punched by an Elbonian every time I walked out the door. 1.00

00:19:23.260 I'm pretty sure I'd feel the same way.

00:19:25.400 And I told you this story about somebody I went to college with, who had a long history of being beaten up and bullied and robbed almost every day by black kids roughly his age.

00:19:37.460 Because he was in a neighborhood where that was a routine.

00:19:40.840 Now, he was a flat-out racist.

00:19:44.340 And I said to myself, okay, I disavow that.

00:19:47.540 Like, I don't join your thinking.

00:19:49.820 But I'm okay with it.

00:19:51.660 I was okay with him.

00:19:53.360 So he was a racist I could easily hang around with and be friends with.

00:19:56.560 Why?

00:19:57.200 Because he came by it the honest way.

00:20:00.340 He came by it the honest way.

00:20:02.020 He was abused by one group of people every fucking day.

00:20:06.100 If that happens to me, I'm going to be, I'll be as racist as I need to be.

00:20:10.180 I mean, I'm going to do whatever feels right for me, and I don't care about that other group if they beat me up every day.

00:20:16.340 And I'm not going to be all nuanced about it, right?

00:20:20.600 How much nuance am I going to put on that?

00:20:23.340 None.

00:20:24.480 Like, I might intellectually realize that this was a special case and cannot be generalized to the rest of the group, but fuck that.

00:20:33.240 If anybody in that group beat me up every day for a year, fuck that.

00:20:39.040 You're not going to get any nuance out of me.

00:20:42.000 I don't care how reasonable it is.

00:20:43.860 It's not going to happen.

00:20:45.400 All right.

00:20:47.100 Two sniffs and an exhale.

00:20:52.380 Well, that felt good.

00:20:53.300 All right, so here's what I say about Jake Tapper or anybody who identifies as Jewish and looked at the Charlottesville event.

00:21:03.740 If you identify as Jewish and you say to yourself, I don't care if the president explained away his comments.

00:21:11.120 I just don't care because the whole thing is just so bad that I don't want to hear my president softening anything about anybody who attended.

00:21:23.780 Even if it's true, I'm just not open to it.

00:21:27.320 So, in my mind, you know, somebody like Jake Tapper, he's got a right to have a, let's say, an interpretation of Charlottesville that differs from mine, and I think I'm okay with that.

00:21:43.940 I think I'm okay with that.

00:21:45.180 Now, it's different if he reports it based on his bias, but I don't think I've seen that.

00:21:50.260 I saw the opposite.

00:21:50.920 I saw the one guy, well, not one guy, I saw one guy who is Jewish on CNN, was the only one who ever offered any nuance to that story, and noted that the president had a clarification that he gave right away.

00:22:08.800 So, I think he actually was a good choice.

00:22:12.860 Like, from the perspective of management of CNN, I think he actually was a good choice.

00:22:16.740 I would say he was closer to being the middle than the other characters who had big names there.

00:22:24.800 Now, I've also teased CNN.

00:22:27.240 Have you ever heard me say this?

00:22:28.920 That everybody at CNN is a version of Jake Tapper?

00:22:33.120 Do you remember me saying that?

00:22:34.800 I was contrasting it to Fox News.

00:22:37.000 Fox News, in my opinion, the management and the producers, from the executives to the producers, a whole other level of talent, in my opinion.

00:22:51.640 I just think the Fox News executive people are just more talented.

00:22:56.260 And what they do is they pick on-air talent that have personalities.

00:23:02.120 They're just not like other people.

00:23:03.620 Is Dana Bash just female Jake Tapper? 0.82

00:23:09.140 Sort of.

00:23:10.500 Sort of.

00:23:12.260 Right?

00:23:13.480 You know, Don Lemon was sort of a gay, black Jake Tapper.

00:23:17.940 There was a little bit too much similarity.

00:23:21.740 Everybody was just sort of a version of Jake Tapper.

00:23:24.160 I say that jokingly.

00:23:25.800 But you know what I mean, right?

00:23:27.200 Everybody is not too far from the same personality.

00:23:30.680 But then you go to Fox News.

00:23:37.380 Who's the Greg Gutfeld of Fox News?

00:23:41.900 I'm sorry.

00:23:42.360 Who's the Greg Gutfeld of CNN?

00:23:45.040 Nobody.

00:23:46.340 There's nobody.

00:23:47.520 Who's the Dana Perino? 1.00

00:23:48.880 Who's the, you know, you could go down the line.

00:23:52.780 Who's the Tucker?

00:23:54.820 Right?

00:23:55.400 So the Fox News has personalities who also give you the news.

00:24:00.340 Yeah, who's the Tyrus, right?

00:24:01.840 I mean, the examples are, I could just keep going.

00:24:05.300 You know, who's the Cat Timph?

00:24:06.320 Who's the, you know, who's anybody?

00:24:08.800 But that's a big difference.

00:24:10.720 And I think that that's what Fox News does brilliantly.

00:24:14.560 The other thing that Fox News does brilliantly is who they combine at the same time.

00:24:20.900 It's just way better.

00:24:22.220 They just do, yeah, and Jesse.

00:24:24.000 Jesse Waters.

00:24:24.740 Who's the Jesse Waters?

00:24:26.860 Jesse Waters, by the way.

00:24:29.220 I've been watching it for a long time.

00:24:31.560 And especially when he's on The Five, he does something I've never seen anybody do.

00:24:37.180 And I didn't even know you could pull it off, which is he plays almost a caricature of himself.

00:24:45.480 In other words, he plays a caricature of somebody who doesn't care about nuance or the other side.

00:24:51.200 He's just going to sort of take a political view.

00:24:53.520 And the fact that he calls himself out as he's doing it is so wildly entertaining that it's just, it's insanely good TV.

00:25:03.520 I mean, it's really, it's one of my favorite things on television, is watching Jesse just being honest about the role he's playing at that moment.

00:25:12.320 Then other times, you know, he plays other roles on different shows and stuff.

00:25:15.620 But, oh my God, that is such a perfect combination of comedy with actual news.

00:25:24.900 Because the news, he says, tends to be real news.

00:25:28.700 So, yeah, I mean, he does a great job.

00:25:33.520 Which, by the way, I credit to Greg Gutfeld.

00:25:39.920 I don't know if Jesse Watters would want to hear that or not.

00:25:43.880 But if you notice the Gutfeld effect when he's on The Five, how he changes the interaction of the group.

00:25:51.100 In other words, he brings greater danger to the group and also greater danger because he'll say more, you know, provocative, funny things.

00:26:01.640 And it allows them all to be, to have a larger playing field.

00:26:05.480 Because as long as he's the craziest one there, everybody else can loosen up.

00:26:10.720 Because they're not going to get in trouble as long as he's there.

00:26:13.200 Like, Gutfeld protects all the rest of them by taking the larger chance.

00:26:17.440 And, you know, making sure that everybody's having a laugh.

00:26:21.420 So, that is the magic of Fox News.

00:26:25.360 Is that they know that those personalities work that way.

00:26:29.040 And that they engineered it that way.

00:26:31.820 Quite brilliant.

00:26:33.600 Anyway.

00:26:33.900 So, yeah.

00:26:39.500 I think Jake Tapper was the right choice.

00:26:42.360 It sounds like the fact that they're going to move him back to the afternoon means that it didn't work out, just ratings-wise.

00:26:48.920 But I do think this is another sign that CNN's serious about finding the middle.

00:26:53.840 But let's talk about two fake newses on CNN today.

00:27:02.600 I guess I didn't go too far complimenting them.

00:27:06.560 I couldn't even get to the next story.

00:27:08.940 All right.

00:27:09.160 Here's some fake news on CNN today.

00:27:11.840 It talks about a study showing that drinking caffeinated coffee, if you're a mother, could make your children shorter.

00:27:25.760 So, remember, this is fake news.

00:27:29.040 So, we'll get to the fake part.

00:27:30.820 It's fake news.

00:27:31.840 But they're reporting there's a study correlating caffeine drinking while you're pregnant with having shorter kids.

00:27:40.100 And you read all the way through the story.

00:27:44.800 And you think to yourself, my God, this is terrible.

00:27:47.700 I'll never drink coffee again if I'm pregnant.

00:27:51.360 And then you get to sort of the last part of the story.

00:27:54.720 And at the last part of the story, an expert says, I'm paraphrasing,

00:28:00.860 yeah, but the correlation is probably with poverty.

00:28:06.180 Guess who drinks more coffee?

00:28:10.100 It turns out it's rich people who go to Starbucks more than the poor.

00:28:13.640 I don't know if you knew that.

00:28:15.580 Did you know that rich people drink more coffee than poor people?

00:28:19.820 And did you know there's a distinct height difference between rich people and poor people?

00:28:25.000 For a variety of reasons.

00:28:27.300 Yeah, the whole thing was fake.

00:28:29.400 And the story itself says it's fake, but you have to read through the fake part to get to the part where it says,

00:28:34.040 that's all made up.

00:28:34.880 Yeah, it's just a random correlation.

00:28:39.920 So I don't know, maybe it's an improvement that they report the news and then they call it out as fake themselves.

00:28:46.340 Seems like a step forward.

00:28:47.640 How many of you remember me toward the beginning of the pandemic saying something very provocative,

00:28:55.840 which was that the seasonal flu numbers that we have every year are complete bullshit.

00:29:03.280 And that we don't have 30,000 to 50,000 people dying of the flu because there's no way I wouldn't know that.

00:29:09.680 There's no way I could live in this world and not be aware of that.

00:29:12.640 Now, how many people thought I was right?

00:29:16.920 How many people thought I was right when I said that?

00:29:21.420 Oh, a few of you did.

00:29:22.920 Oh, interesting.

00:29:24.180 I guess I had more credibility than I thought.

00:29:26.760 Well, it turns out I'm right.

00:29:28.860 At least I think I am.

00:29:30.540 So guess how many people have died of seasonal flu so far this year?

00:29:37.620 But let me give you some context.

00:29:38.920 Next, the estimates had always been that the number of people dying from the regular seasonal flu was 30,000 to 50,000 a year, right?

00:29:49.220 30,000 to 50,000 a year were dying of the regular flu.

00:29:52.700 How many people so far?

00:29:54.160 Now, remember, it's early in the flu season.

00:29:56.640 It's early in the flu season.

00:29:57.920 But there is, reportedly, more flu than ever before for the obvious reasons, right?

00:30:04.280 People stayed away from the regular flu so long.

00:30:06.980 They don't have the immunity.

00:30:09.000 So the total number of people who have died so far of the regular flu is 360.

00:30:18.300 360.

00:30:18.860 So far this year, that's it.

00:30:22.120 360.

00:30:22.840 Do you think that by the end of the year, we'll get up to 50,000?

00:30:27.120 Do you think it's going to be like a really bad November and December?

00:30:29.740 Yeah.

00:30:32.460 Yeah.

00:30:33.940 It turns out, if you follow my thread, and I tweeted a thread from an account called Unhoodwinked, which I recommend.

00:30:44.420 It's called Unhoodwinked.

00:30:46.460 So look at his thread that I tweeted showing how the regular flu is counted.

00:30:52.840 And it turns out that it's counted in two different ways.

00:30:55.700 One of the ways is, I think the CDC does it, with an excess, it's an excess death estimate.

00:31:04.700 They just look at how many people die normally, and then they look at the winter, and they say,

00:31:08.860 oh, there's extra people dying in the winter.

00:31:11.240 That's got to be the flu.

00:31:15.460 And then there's another way where, apparently, you come closer to counting them.

00:31:19.720 And if you count them, you get 1,500 a year, on average.

00:31:24.520 1,500.

00:31:25.700 If you do the estimate way, now, I think both of these are official ways.

00:31:31.260 I believe they exist simultaneously as both official ways to count.

00:31:36.300 One is 30,000 to 50,000.

00:31:38.480 The other is a few hundred.

00:31:42.000 And they both exist as official ways to count.

00:31:46.100 Everything you knew about the seasonal flu was big form of bullshit.

00:31:50.520 They were poisoning you.

00:31:52.080 With their vaccinations, they had no benefit whatsoever.

00:31:54.960 Because it wasn't even a problem.

00:31:58.100 I mean, statistically.

00:31:59.240 Obviously, if you're one of the 1,500 people that dies, that's a problem.

00:32:02.480 Now, obviously, this is going to be skewing toward older people, or the one at risk from the flu,

00:32:09.520 or people with various medical problems that would have comorbidities, I guess.

00:32:14.240 But can I say this?

00:32:18.440 I think I can say this out loud now, right?

00:32:21.080 That the seasonal flu shot is probably a bad idea.

00:32:27.740 Now, I'm not a doctor, so I won't say that with certainty.

00:32:31.300 I'll just say that if you look at the full context of the last few years, no reasonable person could think it's a good idea.

00:32:40.800 Now, I want to give you one possible reason everything I just said is wrong.

00:32:45.960 Possibly, everything I just said is wrong.

00:32:51.840 Because the number of people who are dying seems to be from pneumonia.

00:32:59.000 It looks like maybe the flu and pneumonia numbers get combined.

00:33:03.520 And the question I don't know the answer to is, does the flu turn into pneumonia?

00:33:11.400 They die of pneumonia.

00:33:12.880 It gets coded pneumonia, but really, it was the flu that killed them.

00:33:17.340 Can somebody give me a fact check on that?

00:33:20.240 And I'm saying yeses on that.

00:33:22.840 So it could be that it is the flu, but it's the flu triggering pneumonia, and then the pneumonia kills you, and then it gets coded into pneumonia.

00:33:33.520 But what I don't have is the number of how often the flu isn't the one cause of pneumonia, is it?

00:33:46.840 Is it?

00:33:48.700 Don't you get pneumonia from a variety of things?

00:33:52.460 So, I don't know.

00:33:55.300 I don't know.

00:33:55.780 So it could be, it could be, that the flu numbers are complete bullshit, and you don't need the shot.

00:34:05.000 And you never did.

00:34:07.140 That would actually fit the evidence that we can confirm.

00:34:12.920 But also, but also, here's where I keep myself out of trouble.

00:34:16.540 Well, it's entirely possible that we're just confusing pneumonia and flu numbers, and that if you want to not die of pneumonia, maybe a flu shot helps, if you're a certain age.

00:34:27.540 I don't know.

00:34:28.520 I do not know.

00:34:30.080 But I know that what I can determine so far tells me I would not get the flu shot at my current age and current health.

00:34:37.880 If I'm 80, maybe.

00:34:40.720 I don't know.

00:34:41.440 I'll look into it more.

00:34:42.420 But we can't trust anything now.

00:34:44.860 I think we know that.

00:34:48.100 All right.

00:34:49.040 Here's the funniest story, I think, in the news.

00:34:53.820 Gavin Newsom believes that the problem, in terms of the polling, that Republicans look like they're ready to win the midterms.

00:35:03.920 Gavin Newsom says the problem is that the Republicans are, quote, winning the messaging war.

00:35:12.420 Yeah, that's the problem.

00:35:15.900 It's the way the Republicans talk about the message.

00:35:20.020 Yeah, that's what's making the difference.

00:35:23.960 Now, isn't that just LOL?

00:35:27.500 That's just LOL material, isn't it?

00:35:30.060 Like, I don't like to be the LOL guy.

00:35:31.880 But this is LOL.

00:35:36.400 If somebody said that to you in person, you wouldn't laugh.

00:35:40.000 If Gavin Newsom stood in front of you and said, you know, the polling is all going against us, I think it's because the GOP is better at messaging.

00:35:49.860 You wouldn't laugh out loud at that?

00:35:52.500 I would laugh in his face at that.

00:35:54.660 Not because I was being an asshole, but because I would think it was funny.

00:35:58.620 Wouldn't you?

00:35:59.100 Like, I would think that's literally funny.

00:36:02.540 Okay, yeah, it's the messaging.

00:36:05.300 Really?

00:36:06.840 Really?

00:36:07.820 Really?

00:36:08.260 It's the messaging?

00:36:09.620 That's the problem?

00:36:12.480 Well, and this reminds me of an update.

00:36:15.660 I should have given you this early.

00:36:17.500 The doctors for Paul Pelosi have an update.

00:36:22.680 Physically, it looks like you'll have a full recovery.

00:36:24.680 But the doctors say that they can't save the narrative.

00:36:29.100 It looks like the narrative might die.

00:36:33.940 Yeah, they couldn't save the narrative.

00:36:38.180 You know, this is one of those situations I wish the live audience could clap out loud.

00:36:44.260 Because, come on, that was pretty good.

00:36:47.620 They couldn't save the narrative.

00:36:48.800 So, even Newsom says that it goes to my fundamental grievance with my damn party.

00:36:57.420 He's even calling his own party the damn party.

00:37:00.480 He added, we're getting crushed on narrative.

00:37:02.660 Am I wrong that if you're a political party, and then you create a bunch of policies that

00:37:17.880 people don't like and obviously don't work, and then you also have trouble describing why

00:37:24.760 the policies that clearly don't work are really awesome, are you not two levels away from reality?

00:37:34.640 You're two levels away from reality, right?

00:37:38.120 The policy is out of whack with reality because it doesn't understand reality.

00:37:44.120 And then beyond that, the way you talk about the policy that doesn't understand reality also

00:37:51.840 departs from reality.

00:37:55.680 So, you literally have two degrees of reality separation between the average candidate and

00:38:04.780 reality, the Democrats.

00:38:07.560 And they think it's a messaging problem.

00:38:09.420 Now, why do the Republicans have such a good messaging discipline?

00:38:16.880 Let me ask you this.

00:38:18.920 Why do Republicans have good messaging discipline?

00:38:23.920 Because it seems like they do, right?

00:38:26.120 They're saying parents, they're saying education, they're saying crime, they're saying border, right?

00:38:33.140 They're saying inflation.

00:38:34.200 Well, on one hand, it's easy if those are the things you are already saying, right?

00:38:40.900 So, the Republicans are just saying the same things they always say.

00:38:44.280 They've just got a little extra ammo because the Democrats are, you know, creating mischief

00:38:49.140 and education, et cetera.

00:38:50.840 So, they just have more ammo.

00:38:52.460 But it's kind of their normal thing.

00:38:54.920 All right, here's another thing which I don't know if you've realized.

00:38:57.360 Have you noticed that Fox News has been running non-stop anecdotal stories of physical criminal

00:39:07.060 attacks?

00:39:08.560 It's almost all black people attacking non-black people. 1.00

00:39:12.660 Almost all of it.

00:39:14.220 You know, which bothers me, I've got to say.

00:39:17.320 It bothers me not because it's not a snapshot of reality, because unfortunately it is.

00:39:22.360 It bothers me because what people see is what they believe, and if you feed them a diet

00:39:28.280 of one thing, that's pretty manipulative, right?

00:39:33.100 Now, in my opinion, Fox News is a big part of why the Republican messaging is disciplined.

00:39:40.600 Because as long as Fox News is just hitting crime, crime, crime, crime, people coming across

00:39:46.640 the border, here's another picture, here's another assault, here's another picture of border

00:39:50.580 people, here's another assault, it's easy to be on message if the media that's sort of

00:39:58.140 on your team is making it that easy.

00:40:00.660 They're making it pretty easy.

00:40:03.080 Now, I suppose you could argue that the Democrats could have taken the same cue from the Democrat

00:40:11.880 media.

00:40:14.060 But could they?

00:40:16.200 Could they?

00:40:16.900 I don't know if it works that way.

00:40:20.580 But it definitely works on the right.

00:40:23.100 The right can look at Fox News, and they can say, well, they're running crime stories every

00:40:28.080 single night, so if I talk about crime, I'm going to be backed by the news.

00:40:32.900 You know, the news will have my back.

00:40:34.880 So that all is a good ecosystem.

00:40:37.340 But I don't know, I feel like the Democrats just complain about Republicans.

00:40:42.780 It's sort of all they do.

00:40:45.180 Like, I don't see any coherent message.

00:40:48.540 Or worse, the message that the Democrats decided on was a conceptual one.

00:40:55.980 We might lose our freedom and our democracy.

00:41:00.360 Let me compare two things.

00:41:03.560 Let's see.

00:41:10.200 You have two choices.

00:41:11.560 I'm going to take your phone away from you, your physical phone.

00:41:16.320 I'm going to just take it away from you.

00:41:17.500 That's one choice.

00:41:18.180 Or you might lose the, you might get a slightly elevated risk of damage to the democracy and

00:41:29.720 the republic in the long run.

00:41:34.360 So which do you choose?

00:41:36.420 I'm either going to take your phone away, or a second choice is a slightly elevated risk

00:41:43.220 of the republic being distorted in a way you don't like sometime in the future.

00:41:47.980 We're not sure which topics exactly, but it seems bad.

00:41:51.920 It seems bad.

00:41:54.120 That's exactly what the contest came to.

00:41:58.040 Inflation takes your fucking money.

00:42:01.900 Right?

00:42:02.540 So the Democrats are taking your money, but in return they're promising to protect you

00:42:08.460 from a vague, some kind of attack on democracy, because a guy with a bison hat once was in

00:42:17.700 the, two years ago, I don't understand how any of this makes sense to me.

00:42:23.880 Right?

00:42:24.620 It's, they actually led with a concept.

00:42:31.300 You can't, you can't be, I'm taking your money, like out of your pocket with inflation.

00:42:37.640 You can't be, I'm taking your money with a fucking concept about something that's, you

00:42:43.160 know, three abstractions away from meaning anything.

00:42:46.920 And they did that.

00:42:48.700 I feel as if the entire Democratic Party has no leadership whatsoever.

00:42:53.180 Because who, who the hell is advising them?

00:42:57.300 Right?

00:42:58.180 And Trump, of course, is playing it brilliantly, I think.

00:43:02.200 You know, I worry that Trump has a health problem, because he's too quiet lately.

00:43:07.640 I just worry about, maybe something's going on there.

00:43:10.740 But, or maybe he's busy.

00:43:11.940 But the smartest thing you can do is just stay quiet for a while.

00:43:15.140 Because the Democrats are just shooting themselves.

00:43:17.340 You know, what's the old saying?

00:43:18.720 When your enemy is making mistakes, you know, don't stop them.

00:43:23.300 And perfect strategy.

00:43:26.080 Just say, well, if you'd like me back, I'm here.

00:43:28.460 That's all it would take.

00:43:32.680 Now, related news.

00:43:36.000 Apparently, suburban women have switched fairly quickly and radically toward the GOP. 1.00

00:43:43.020 Just an enormous switch from being Democrat voters to GOP likely voters.

00:43:49.000 And we speculate what caused this switch.

00:43:53.820 You say, you say crime, right?

00:43:57.620 You say education.

00:43:59.580 You say stay away from our children.

00:44:02.000 Right?

00:44:03.160 Here's what I say.

00:44:04.860 You're all wrong.

00:44:07.300 Inflation as well.

00:44:08.980 Inflation.

00:44:10.020 You're all wrong.

00:44:12.020 All right, I'm going to give you my theory.

00:44:14.260 And it goes like this.

00:44:15.500 Number one, inflation, the education problem, and the crime problem have been the same all year.

00:44:22.680 Would you agree?

00:44:24.620 The things that you said are the reasons that they suddenly switched.

00:44:28.940 Because remember, it's a sudden switch.

00:44:31.000 You're saying they suddenly switched because of things that have been true for a whole year.

00:44:37.360 Is that your theory?

00:44:39.860 Why the sudden switch?

00:44:41.000 Only because they're polling it?

00:44:44.760 I don't know.

00:44:47.980 Here's my opinion.

00:44:50.460 And this will be one that you haven't heard before.

00:44:54.500 Number one, if you're a mother, when do you start paying attention to politics? 0.99

00:45:01.760 It's your lowest priority.

00:45:03.880 It's your lowest priority.

00:45:06.900 Your kids are your priority.

00:45:08.460 So the obvious answer is they weren't paying attention to politics until now.

00:45:14.300 Right?

00:45:15.020 Isn't that the most obvious?

00:45:16.980 The group that would least pay attention to politics until it mattered.

00:45:21.600 What is one way to define a mother? 0.82

00:45:24.560 Like a good functioning mother who's like really killing it in the mother department. 1.00

00:45:30.000 What is the one thing you could say about that mother? 1.00

00:45:32.340 An insane dedication to priorities.

00:45:37.580 Right?

00:45:38.760 Who handles priorities better than a mom? 1.00

00:45:42.220 Nobody.

00:45:43.360 Nobody.

00:45:44.400 They get those priorities right just about every time.

00:45:47.580 Right?

00:45:48.080 And where was their priority to follow politics?

00:45:51.560 Nowhere.

00:45:52.660 Nowhere.

00:45:53.080 But when it comes to, when it's election day, then how important is it to the mom?

00:45:59.240 Very important.

00:46:00.540 Very important.

00:46:01.720 The elections are not important to parents until election day.

00:46:05.240 Because they got other stuff to do.

00:46:07.080 You know, you and I, maybe we're not, you know, parenting every day.

00:46:10.980 So we just, we got time to talk about this stuff.

00:46:13.600 It's sort of a luxury.

00:46:14.340 All right, so that's my first reason.

00:46:17.180 And I think it's strong.

00:46:18.500 My second reason is going to be more clever.

00:46:21.600 And you've also never heard this one before.

00:46:23.620 And it starts with a story told in, I think I heard this in business school.

00:46:29.640 Do you remember the product Hamburger Helper?

00:46:33.780 It's still a product, right?

00:46:35.620 Hamburger Helper.

00:46:37.100 So they would give you some noodles and some spices.

00:46:39.980 And then you'd have to bring your own hamburger and, like, you know, sauté that up.

00:46:46.860 And then you'd combine it with their thing and then you'd create a meal.

00:46:50.180 Here's the story that you don't know about Hamburger Helper.

00:46:54.460 Originally, it was a complete product.

00:46:57.700 Originally, it included the hamburger.

00:47:00.660 Here's the hamburger.

00:47:01.780 Here's the rest of the stuff.

00:47:03.180 Boom.

00:47:05.480 And they couldn't sell it.

00:47:07.580 Why?

00:47:07.920 Here's the thing that will blow your mind.

00:47:11.880 They couldn't sell the Hamburger Helper when it was a better product, a more convenient product.

00:47:18.340 Why couldn't they do it?

00:47:19.280 It wasn't about shelf life.

00:47:20.720 It wasn't about shelf life.

00:47:22.120 It wasn't about quality of the product.

00:47:24.420 Quality of the product was fine.

00:47:26.840 It wasn't about anything going bad.

00:47:28.460 It was about mom did not feel like she was doing her job unless it was a little harder.

00:47:39.280 The mother who took, let's say, identity from being the housekeeper or provider.

00:47:47.280 Remember, this is years ago.

00:47:48.400 So this is a less woke time.

00:47:52.300 60s?

00:47:53.460 Hamburger Helper came out in the 60s, right?

00:47:56.220 Roughly?

00:47:57.360 Maybe 50s?

00:47:58.300 I don't know.

00:47:58.780 Something like that.

00:47:59.880 But in those days, you had more traditional, you know, mom making dinner.

00:48:04.320 And mom didn't want to make dinner and make it look like she didn't do any work. 1.00

00:48:09.360 It would look like takeout.

00:48:11.160 So she looked like, you know, her brand had been diminished.

00:48:14.580 So as soon as they made it harder to do Hamburger Helper, it became a gigantic hit.

00:48:19.760 Because then mom was cooking, right?

00:48:22.500 It's not cooking if you just open the package.

00:48:24.920 But if you're combining things with other things, you're cooking.

00:48:27.360 So now she's cooking.

00:48:30.780 All right.

00:48:32.580 Now, fast forward.

00:48:35.820 Mom goes shopping for anything.

00:48:39.860 For groceries.

00:48:43.480 And then she realizes she's standing in the store.

00:48:46.840 And she realizes that budget is not what it used to be because of inflation.

00:48:51.180 And now mom needs to make some choices about food. 1.00

00:48:54.880 And she takes it down a level.

00:48:57.360 She goes, all right.

00:48:58.480 I guess we can't get any fun food.

00:49:00.760 Maybe we'll get hamburger instead of steak.

00:49:03.800 You know, maybe more vegetables and less meat.

00:49:08.520 How does mom feel when she knows that she's going to bring home worse food

00:49:13.640 than she has ever brought home before?

00:49:16.100 Because she has to.

00:49:16.760 It's just in the budget.

00:49:18.660 How does mom feel?

00:49:20.420 Like a fucking failure.

00:49:22.360 Even though it's not her failure.

00:49:24.380 It's not mom's fault.

00:49:25.580 Mom's doing the right thing.

00:49:27.160 Right.

00:49:27.480 Managing the budget.

00:49:29.060 But mom is going to take the hit at the dinner table. 1.00

00:49:34.120 Mom is going to take a hit from the kids. 1.00

00:49:35.940 Where's my donuts?

00:49:36.940 Well, we can't afford them now.

00:49:38.540 She's going to take a hit from dad. 1.00

00:49:39.840 Why do we have, what do you call it, flat steak instead of good steak?

00:49:45.180 Can't afford it.

00:49:46.680 The mother's reputation cannot handle the effects of inflation. 0.96

00:49:51.700 It's not just about everything's expensive.

00:49:54.440 It's about making mom look like an asshole to the rest of the family. 1.00

00:49:58.580 That's what happened.

00:49:59.580 That's what happened.

00:50:00.600 Inflation looks, makes mom look like an asshole to the rest of the family. 1.00

00:50:08.300 They're just mad that she didn't buy what she used to buy, and it's not her fault.

00:50:12.080 It's not her fault.

00:50:13.080 Now, you tell me your government's going to make you look like an asshole, and it's not your fault.

00:50:18.780 Who the fuck am I going to vote for?

00:50:20.580 I'm not going to vote for the one that makes me look like an asshole in front of my own family, even if it's not my fault, and it isn't.

00:50:30.280 How about that theory?

00:50:34.280 Nobody gave you that theory before, did they?

00:50:37.560 Yeah.

00:50:38.220 Now, it's not one thing, and it's not two things.

00:50:40.700 It's probably five different major things that cause the shift, but I think this is part of it.

00:50:47.560 And I think the Hamburger Helper story really gives you some insight on how that could possibly be true.

00:50:54.520 Did I tell you this would be the best live stream you've ever seen?

00:50:58.380 Two sniffs.

00:51:01.760 Exhale.

00:51:05.340 Not only are you healthier than you've ever been before because of this breathing thing, smarter too.

00:51:12.240 In fact, when you're talking to people, you're going to bring up this Hamburger Helper thing, and people are going to be like, wow, you're pretty smart.

00:51:23.740 All right, you have my permission.

00:51:26.620 Do not credit me for this.

00:51:30.520 Right?

00:51:31.080 If you want to bring this up in conversation, you can even tweet it.

00:51:34.900 I'm giving you full intellectual property release.

00:51:38.540 If anybody says, hey, somebody stole your idea, I'll say, oh, I don't think so.

00:51:44.680 I think great minds think alike.

00:51:46.920 I'll back you.

00:51:48.320 I'll back you.

00:51:49.120 I'll say, no, no, that was sort of obvious.

00:51:50.840 I think the smart people all got there the same way.

00:51:53.560 Probably had nothing to do with me.

00:51:56.660 Right?

00:51:57.500 So that is my gift to you.

00:51:59.380 You'll be the smartest ones at your holiday parties.

00:52:02.080 Today we hear that ESG fund flows are way down from 2021, meaning fewer people are investing in ESG-rated companies.

00:52:23.900 Now, ESG is environment, social, good, and governance.

00:52:29.900 So ESG is trying to measure whether companies are good for the environment, they have good diversity, and they're basically a social good.

00:52:41.360 And critics such as myself say that's a terrible idea because you don't want to insert some entity between a company and their customers and their investors.

00:52:52.800 You never want to insert an entity, just ever.

00:52:55.960 It never works.

00:52:56.920 And so the fund, I just eyeballed it, but it looked like the investments are down 80% or so from 2021.

00:53:07.680 About 80%.

00:53:08.780 Now, a big part of that is that just people are putting less money into the market because the market is down.

00:53:14.680 So the market is down itself.

00:53:16.880 But I got a feeling it's more than the market.

00:53:19.620 I got a feeling that people are wising to it.

00:53:23.440 Specifically, we know that when people get a choice to invest in ESG companies in their own 401k, what do they say?

00:53:32.180 Fewer than 10% of investors who are making their own decisions chose to allocate money to ESG funds when it was offered in their 401k.

00:53:45.900 Fewer than 10%.

00:53:47.180 You know, I'm surprised that it wasn't 25%.

00:53:53.000 You know why, right?

00:53:57.260 Because I always joke that 25% of people get every question wrong.

00:54:02.280 It doesn't matter what the question is.

00:54:04.040 It is 25% get it wrong.

00:54:05.720 If you could get all the way down to 10% got it wrong, that is not normal.

00:54:12.880 That means that the thing is so bad that the 25% rule doesn't even apply.

00:54:18.520 And you've got to really push to get past 25%, right?

00:54:22.000 But apparently the average investor just says, fuck that.

00:54:25.380 I'm not going to put my money in this bad idea.

00:54:30.120 All right, here are things that, in my opinion, died from scrutiny this year.

00:54:35.320 And this is an extension of my basket case theory that I applied to people.

00:54:40.720 That everybody looks like they're in better shape than you are until you get to know them.

00:54:46.080 And then once you know all their problems, you're like, well, that's a basket case.

00:54:48.980 And it turns out it's everybody.

00:54:51.880 Everybody.

00:54:52.540 You just don't know them well enough if you think they're not a basket case.

00:54:55.900 But it turns out that applies to most large organizations as well, right?

00:55:02.340 Does Apple look like a pretty solid organization?

00:55:05.680 It does.

00:55:06.660 It does.

00:55:07.640 If you were looking from the outside at Apple, wow, that looks like a company that's got their shit together.

00:55:13.140 What do you think it would look like if you worked there?

00:55:16.180 Same?

00:55:16.540 No, it would look like a shit show if you were on the inside.

00:55:20.920 If you're on the inside, you'd be saying, is it my imagination or have we not invented one awesome thing since Steve Jobs died?

00:55:28.520 Right?

00:55:29.220 On the inside, it's just going to look like luck and impetus.

00:55:32.800 And it's a good thing that nobody's wised up to the fact that they haven't made anything new lately.

00:55:37.460 By the way, I own Apple stock.

00:55:39.520 So I'm dumping on them.

00:55:41.440 But it's only hurting me.

00:55:43.220 So anyway, I take this concept that the more you know about something, the worse it looks.

00:55:50.500 Would you agree?

00:55:51.560 The more you know about something, the worse it looks.

00:55:54.920 It's typically true. 0.96

00:55:56.560 So here are some things that died from scrutiny.

00:55:59.060 Things you thought might have been good, or at least you were open to it, but now that you actually got to see the inner workings, you're like, blah.

00:56:09.140 All right?

00:56:09.780 Things which died from scrutiny this year.

00:56:13.220 Biden's alleged competence.

00:56:17.120 It's gone, right?

00:56:18.060 Do you remember when people said, yeah, he talks funny, and maybe it's just because he had a speech problem, but he's basically all there.

00:56:29.040 Does anybody think that now?

00:56:31.500 I don't think Democrats think so.

00:56:34.100 So the scrutiny was we got to actually see him as president, and then we found out, oh, yeah, he's way worse than it looked on the surface.

00:56:41.540 Right?

00:56:41.700 How about progressive Democrat policies?

00:56:47.540 When progressive Democrat policies are originally floated, people can say, well, I like it, and people can say, I don't like it, and they can have their reasons, but you don't really know.

00:57:00.140 The way you know for sure is to implement the policies, which unfortunately happened, such as defund the police.

00:57:07.220 And now you can actually see the inner workings of progressive Democrat policies, and how do they look?

00:57:14.960 Do they look better, or do they look worse?

00:57:18.760 Once you can see the details, worse, right?

00:57:22.180 So scrutiny killed that.

00:57:24.600 How about BLM?

00:57:26.300 Did Black Lives Matter survive greater scrutiny?

00:57:29.840 Nope.

00:57:30.840 Nope.

00:57:31.740 Greater scrutiny turned out to show that the organizers were scammers.

00:57:35.800 Apparently.

00:57:38.180 How about ESG?

00:57:39.880 Did ESG start out with something like an awesome idea, but the more you looked at it, blah, yes.

00:57:47.780 How about the anti-nuclear movement?

00:57:52.380 Remember that was a big thing?

00:57:54.700 Gone.

00:57:55.620 As soon as you looked into nuclear enough, you found out that the anti-nuclear stuff was just all bullshit.

00:58:02.600 It wasn't based on any good thinking.

00:58:04.400 How about the vaccination program?

00:58:08.620 The more you looked into it, did it look better or worse?

00:58:11.880 I don't even have to finish that, do I?

00:58:14.040 Right?

00:58:14.700 How about experts in general?

00:58:17.540 Medical experts mostly, but experts in general.

00:58:20.780 Did we not learn a lot more about experts in general in the last two years?

00:58:25.080 We did.

00:58:26.120 And the more we learned about the experts, did they look better or did they look worse?

00:58:30.560 They look worse.

00:58:32.220 Much worse.

00:58:34.140 How about, well, everything?

00:58:38.260 Yeah.

00:58:39.480 Basically, everything we see, DC, everything we looked into in any kind of detail looked worse.

00:58:45.480 That's probably just a rule of the universe.

00:58:47.720 Every time you look into it, it looks worse.

00:58:49.440 So anyway, that's the basket case theory applied to basically everything.

00:58:54.080 Everything looks worse when you're on the inside.

00:58:56.140 All right.

00:59:03.760 So China continues to be unsafe for business.

00:59:06.800 I saw a story that the area where, I guess the area where Apple makes most of its iPhones in China is now under lockdown.

00:59:15.240 Can somebody confirm that?

00:59:18.580 Because that would be, like, a really big problem.

00:59:21.220 I remember Apple seemed like the one company that maybe, because they had so much clout,

00:59:27.620 Apple seemed like the one company that could do business in China and maybe make it work.

00:59:33.220 Because, you know, Apple's, like, so powerful.

00:59:35.820 And now it turns out that even Apple's going to have some trouble because just being in China is a problem because they're going to close it down.

00:59:45.280 So China is unsafe for business, even if you're Apple.

00:59:49.980 However, I would like to give you this counterpoint from Naomi Wu on Twitter, who's also a great follow.

00:59:56.920 Now, Naomi is Chinese and can give you, like, a different perspective on how people, you know, look and feel there. 0.78

01:00:06.080 And one of the things she points out is that the China's zero COVID policy worked.

01:00:16.520 And by that, she says that they got past the bad variant of COVID.

01:00:24.240 And now, even if it flares up, they're still on zero COVID.

01:00:27.660 But even if it flares up, it's going to flare up in the less dangerous way.

01:00:33.460 And I thought to myself, that's not a bad opinion.

01:00:40.480 It does look like it worked.

01:00:43.140 Because if China knew that the variant would flame out, and most experts predicted that, right?

01:00:51.080 Did not the experts say that the virus would flame out to lesser variants?

01:00:56.980 I feel like we knew that.

01:00:58.560 So if China played the game to see if they could wait long enough to get past the first variant, they won. 0.97

01:01:07.360 Because they stayed in business, for the most part, except for the closed-down parts.

01:01:13.200 Now, was it a gigantic burden on the people who got closed down?

01:01:16.800 Of course.

01:01:18.280 Of course.

01:01:18.820 But that's leadership, unfortunately.

01:01:22.620 Leadership is screwing some people for the greater good.

01:01:27.180 Like, it's hard to not screw somebody.

01:01:31.000 I don't think they destroyed their economy.

01:01:33.280 I don't think the shutdown destroyed their economy.

01:01:36.580 Other things might.

01:01:38.400 But I don't think that.

01:01:39.580 So, I don't know.

01:01:41.040 I think you could make an argument that China played it right for China. 0.54

01:01:45.800 It's not something that would have worked in the United States.

01:01:48.880 But do you buy that at least the argument has some meat on it?

01:01:55.460 You wouldn't dismiss the argument on a head, would you?

01:01:59.820 It's interesting, because nobody's more critical of China than I am, but they might have played it right. 1.00

01:02:05.240 They might have.

01:02:07.740 I'll just put that out there.

01:02:08.960 I don't think we can know for sure.

01:02:11.040 Mike Cernovich is surfacing a story that I tried to understand as best I could.

01:02:18.440 He's got some long threads on it, but apparently something like this has happened.

01:02:23.960 Back in 2017, when Roy Moore was running for office, for Senate, I guess,

01:02:30.700 a whole bunch of Russian bots started following him, and then that became a story.

01:02:36.800 Hey, why does Russia like this guy so much?

01:02:39.600 Well, it turns out that Democrats are the ones who created all the bots, made them look like Russian bots, 0.55

01:02:47.580 and then planted the news story that Russian bots love this Republican, and got caught.

01:02:55.180 So, you know, that's all water under the bridge now, right?

01:03:00.820 Can't go back in time, but at least we caught them, so we know how bad they were.

01:03:05.520 So that's the end of the story, right?

01:03:07.100 Or is it?

01:03:09.940 As Mike Cernovich points out, someone who worked for a group that was organizing this fake Russian bot thing

01:03:20.420 is on the 2022 integrity team for Twitter.

01:03:27.160 Is it Twitter's integrity team?

01:03:30.620 I don't know.

01:03:31.240 They're on somebody's integrity team.

01:03:33.000 So that's the part I don't know.

01:03:33.960 Is it Twitter, or is it just social media?

01:03:36.700 It's Twitter, right?

01:03:38.580 Twitter only?

01:03:40.300 Or also Twitter?

01:03:42.860 That's the part I wasn't...

01:03:44.120 I didn't connect the story quite right before I got on here.

01:03:48.360 I think it's Twitter.

01:03:48.980 But anyway, this is the sort of fox-in-the-hen-house problem that we need to be vigilant of.

01:03:56.320 And this is, again, why, you know, Mike Cernovich is like a national treasurer, basically.

01:04:02.040 Because, you know, he can do some things that other people just don't do,

01:04:05.680 or don't notice, or don't talk about, or something.

01:04:09.000 But it all seems like important stuff when he's involved.

01:04:12.000 And this is a pretty big deal.

01:04:14.160 It's a pretty big deal.

01:04:15.120 So, and, but at least we caught it.

01:04:19.420 So here's another example where transparency works.

01:04:23.180 All right?

01:04:24.020 Somebody tried to do something, a little bit of transparency probably will modify it,

01:04:29.400 I would think, because it'd be kind of embarrassing to just go on like nobody noticed.

01:04:36.320 So we'll see what happens with that.

01:04:38.040 Twitter has a moderation council.

01:04:47.700 So Elon Musk said, they're going to put together a content moderation council.

01:04:53.060 It will include representatives, and here's the key phrase,

01:04:56.600 with wildly divergent views,

01:04:59.220 which will certainly include the civil rights community

01:05:01.560 and groups who face hate-fueled violence.

01:05:05.540 What do you think of that?

01:05:06.560 Twitter will have a content moderation policy with wildly divergent views.

01:05:11.560 That's good, right?

01:05:13.100 Don't you like to have diversity of opinions?

01:05:16.700 You like diversity of opinions.

01:05:19.320 Wildly divergent views.

01:05:20.720 Now, he didn't say that they'll be racially balanced.

01:05:23.960 He said it the right way.

01:05:25.920 The right way is wildly divergent views.

01:05:29.040 So that's good, right?

01:05:32.840 Here's the problem.

01:05:33.900 Here's the problem.

01:05:36.800 I'm going to have to show this to you visually

01:05:38.860 to get the full sense of it here.

01:05:44.040 And so I tweeted back to the, it was Elon Musk's tweet.

01:05:50.140 And I had one problem with the idea of a wildly divergent group of people.

01:05:56.720 And the problem is that when you put together a committee

01:06:03.240 that has wildly divergent opinions,

01:06:06.500 it's the first panel of a Dilbert comic.

01:06:12.360 So I tweeted back, I tweeted back to the beginning of the comic

01:06:16.740 that I'll be drawing later today.

01:06:18.120 Because I can't think of anything that would be a better Dilbert comic

01:06:21.780 than forming a wildly divergent committee,

01:06:26.160 a committee with wildly divergent opinions.

01:06:28.980 So this will be the first panel.

01:06:31.780 This will be the boss talking.

01:06:33.600 I'm creating an external advisory council

01:06:35.820 of people who have wildly divergent views.

01:06:39.040 Now, you ask me.

01:06:40.200 Now, you tell me, can I make a joke out of that?

01:06:47.880 Could I make a joke out of a helpful council

01:06:51.940 of people with wildly divergent views?

01:06:54.860 And when I tweeted it, I asked this question.

01:06:57.860 Has a small group with wildly divergent views

01:07:01.120 ever accomplished anything?

01:07:03.460 Anything?

01:07:04.420 Like anything.

01:07:05.560 Ever.

01:07:05.840 Was there ever one case in the whole world

01:07:09.900 where a small group,

01:07:11.760 and the emphasis is on a small group,

01:07:14.240 a large group of people with wildly divergent views

01:07:17.220 definitely works.

01:07:19.340 Like you can win World War II 0.99

01:07:21.680 with a wildly divergent group,

01:07:23.400 as long as they agree on the war part.

01:07:25.680 You can form America.

01:07:27.520 Yeah.

01:07:27.920 The United States is a country of wildly divergent views.

01:07:31.760 That works.

01:07:33.160 But have you ever seen a small group

01:07:35.240 a small group with wildly divergent views

01:07:39.360 that got something done?

01:07:43.080 My understanding is the best case scenario

01:07:45.700 for a small group

01:07:46.920 is a bunch of average people

01:07:50.400 with one leader who's really good.

01:07:53.680 That tends to work

01:07:55.080 because it's the leader who just gets their way

01:07:57.800 but has the advantage of lots of voices

01:08:00.260 to modify the leader's opinion.

01:08:03.420 But usually the leader is the smartest person.

01:08:07.080 You know, well, not always,

01:08:08.400 but in terms of informal leadership,

01:08:11.720 not necessarily organizational leadership.

01:08:14.020 The smartest person

01:08:15.040 tends to have a little more influence

01:08:16.800 because people go,

01:08:17.660 oh, what do you think?

01:08:18.520 You're the smartest.

01:08:20.460 So small groups of people,

01:08:22.860 I don't know.

01:08:23.720 And then somebody said to me,

01:08:24.920 Scott, he didn't say he would take their opinions.

01:08:27.380 To which I said,

01:08:29.520 oh, okay.

01:08:31.680 I'm okay with that.

01:08:34.760 You know,

01:08:35.180 if all he does is listen to them,

01:08:37.900 that works.

01:08:39.560 Now let me offer a way that this could work.

01:08:43.380 The small group of wildly differing people

01:08:46.880 could say,

01:08:48.580 maybe,

01:08:49.380 and maybe Elon Musk knows

01:08:50.840 this is what's going to happen,

01:08:51.840 they could say,

01:08:53.560 we shouldn't ban anything

01:08:55.180 unless we're unanimous.

01:08:58.120 Then you'd have something.

01:09:00.120 Then you'd have something.

01:09:01.720 We won't ban anything

01:09:03.260 unless it's unanimous

01:09:04.820 among a wildly divergent bunch of opinions.

01:09:08.320 If one person says this should be allowed,

01:09:11.700 that's free speech.

01:09:14.540 In fact,

01:09:15.280 I don't even know if you could define it better.

01:09:17.940 Find me a more functional description

01:09:20.060 of free speech

01:09:21.000 than a wildly divergent group of people

01:09:24.800 with different opinions

01:09:25.640 all say,

01:09:28.820 or at least one of them says it should be allowed.

01:09:31.680 If even one person says it should be allowed,

01:09:35.140 should it be allowed?

01:09:38.240 It's an interesting question, isn't it?

01:09:41.560 I feel like yes.

01:09:43.760 I feel like one yes

01:09:45.040 is enough to keep it.

01:09:48.160 But if you had a wildly divergent group,

01:09:50.360 wouldn't they say everything stays?

01:09:53.200 Would they say everything stays?

01:09:55.860 Remember, they're wildly divergent.

01:09:59.400 So would they allow tweets to say,

01:10:03.240 we should round up and murder all of the, 1.00

01:10:06.320 I'm not going to fill in the name of the group.

01:10:08.400 Do you think that the wildly divergent group

01:10:12.140 would allow somebody to say,

01:10:14.580 we should round up this group and kill them?

01:10:19.120 Well, that would be against the terms of service.

01:10:22.760 So that's easy, right?

01:10:24.240 Hate speech.

01:10:25.400 So they wouldn't even have to make a decision on that one

01:10:27.700 because the terms of service would take care of it.

01:10:31.020 And nobody really argues it.

01:10:32.220 I don't think people argue about that level of hate speech

01:10:36.920 in your terms of service.

01:10:38.500 That seems like a reasonable business standard.

01:10:42.980 So there are two possibilities

01:10:44.860 with this wildly divergent group.

01:10:49.380 One is a perfect outcome,

01:10:53.000 which is, Elon says,

01:10:55.000 if you can't agree, I make the decision.

01:10:57.540 That's perfect.

01:10:59.840 And if you do agree,

01:11:02.040 I'm really going to take that as serious.

01:11:06.380 I'd be okay with that.

01:11:08.260 Would you?

01:11:09.240 Would you be okay as long as Musk makes the decision

01:11:12.780 and he's got a really tough standard

01:11:15.800 about what's going to influence him from this group?

01:11:19.020 I'd be okay with that.

01:11:20.340 Because the problem is you can't get a perfect system.

01:11:23.480 No such thing as a perfect system.

01:11:25.160 Now, what's the problem with this system?

01:11:29.420 What happens when somebody replaces Elon Musk in that job?

01:11:33.580 Because that's going to happen someday.

01:11:37.640 What happens then?

01:11:39.160 Well, then you're down to trusting that one person again.

01:11:42.720 So there's some risk,

01:11:45.320 but I don't have a better idea.

01:11:47.400 So if we're living in the real world

01:11:49.280 where the best idea has to win, not a perfect idea,

01:11:52.100 it might be the best idea.

01:11:54.180 It might be.

01:11:54.740 But that doesn't make it not material for a Dilbert comic.

01:12:00.620 If the story had said,

01:12:02.580 I'm not going to believe them or follow them

01:12:04.360 unless it's unanimous,

01:12:06.220 then I couldn't make it into a Dilbert comic.

01:12:09.920 You know that, right?

01:12:11.700 Think about that.

01:12:13.140 If the additional part of the story,

01:12:15.900 which didn't happen, but it could,

01:12:18.080 said, I'm not going to ban anybody

01:12:20.420 unless it's unanimous,

01:12:21.560 I couldn't make fun of that.

01:12:24.160 Could I?

01:12:25.300 There would be no place to go with that.

01:12:27.640 And that's why when Musk says the standard for Tesla

01:12:31.860 is that if it would appear in a Dilbert comic,

01:12:35.020 you know, maybe rethink it.

01:12:36.180 It's not a good idea.

01:12:37.020 If you just tell me you're going to have

01:12:39.980 a wildly divergent council,

01:12:42.140 that's definitely going to be a Dilbert comic.

01:12:45.400 If you tell me you're not going to listen to them

01:12:47.320 unless they're unanimous,

01:12:49.100 and it's about free speech,

01:12:50.780 where you really, really want to be careful,

01:12:53.140 then I don't have anything.

01:12:55.440 Because that just sounds like a pretty good system to me.

01:12:57.580 I don't know if it'll work.

01:12:58.900 Maybe it works.

01:12:59.540 Maybe it doesn't.

01:13:00.420 But I wouldn't mock it as an idea.

01:13:02.600 As an idea, it's sensible.

01:13:08.820 Twitter user Roly Poly had this thought.

01:13:13.740 What happens when Musk combines Neuralink and Twitter?

01:13:20.060 And was that part of the play?

01:13:22.840 I mean, did he ever think to himself,

01:13:24.160 you know, someday I might have this Neuralink thing

01:13:28.020 embedded in my house.

01:13:30.020 I'm worried that the way I would use it

01:13:33.180 is that whenever I'm in a bad mood,

01:13:35.400 it will automatically tweet insults at people.

01:13:39.180 You know, I'd just be like thinking and insulting.

01:13:41.280 Like, I really hate that guy.

01:13:45.420 And all of a sudden, a tweet would pop out.

01:13:48.980 I don't know.

01:13:49.420 It could be fun.

01:13:50.660 I doubt that's a big part of his strategy.

01:13:52.960 But when you own Neuralink and you own Twitter,

01:13:57.220 I feel like they might be able to work together.

01:14:00.000 You know, think of the things that Musk does

01:14:01.900 that do work together.

01:14:03.820 Do you think the boring company that bores tunnels,

01:14:07.800 do you think that has anything to do with Mars?

01:14:11.380 I do.

01:14:11.800 Because I feel like living on Mars

01:14:14.920 would require a lot of tunneling.

01:14:18.040 I don't know.

01:14:19.080 And at least see what's under the ground

01:14:21.280 so you know if there was previous civilizations and stuff.

01:14:24.820 Now, it would be pretty tough to get a boring machine to Mars.

01:14:28.560 And of course, it couldn't work on gas, right?

01:14:32.680 So how would the boring machine work if it's on Mars?

01:14:36.020 It would have to be battery batteries.

01:14:40.760 So he's making the batteries.

01:14:42.480 He's making the tunneling machine.

01:14:43.960 He's going to Mars.

01:14:45.300 Probably need to do a lot of underground stuff on Mars

01:14:47.760 because of the harshness of the atmosphere.

01:14:50.140 I don't know.

01:14:50.840 It feels like it all fits together.

01:14:54.360 Carrie Lake dunked on Cheney. 0.99

01:14:59.560 Liz Cheney?

01:15:00.520 Is that her name?

01:15:01.180 Is her first name Liz?

01:15:02.820 Do I have the right Cheney?

01:15:03.880 It's Liz, right?

01:15:05.880 Lizard.

01:15:07.340 So Liz Cheney was raising money 1.00

01:15:09.640 and to do ads trying to beat Carrie Lake, 1.00

01:15:15.040 who are in the same party, interestingly enough.

01:15:17.520 But Cheney's becoming more of an anti-Republican.

01:15:21.760 And here's what Carrie Lake said 0.67

01:15:23.500 because apparently she used it for her own fundraising.

01:15:26.480 And she said,

01:15:27.820 thank you for your generous and kind contribution to my campaign,

01:15:30.860 your recent television ad.

01:15:32.020 And she went on saying that basically it all worked in her favor.

01:15:36.200 You know, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:15:38.060 But she thinks it'll add another 10 points to their lead.

01:15:42.980 But here's the part that I loved.

01:15:46.120 So she closes out her opinion by saying,

01:15:52.540 I know America.

01:15:54.380 She talks about,

01:15:55.280 thank you again for the huge boost to our campaign.

01:15:57.220 Enjoy your forced retirement from politics

01:15:59.920 because Cheney's already been defeated.

01:16:02.340 Lake concluded.

01:16:03.780 And she said,

01:16:04.760 I know America will rest easier

01:16:06.400 knowing that one more warmonger is out of office. 0.71

01:16:10.300 And I thought to myself,

01:16:12.180 warmonger?

01:16:14.700 Warmonger is a really good political insult. 0.95

01:16:20.860 Warmonger.

01:16:21.500 Who wants to vote for a warmonger?

01:16:25.360 That really kind of sticks, doesn't it?

01:16:27.880 It seems kind of sticky.

01:16:30.500 Warmonger.

01:16:32.400 Is there some news about yay?

01:16:33.880 I see somebody mentioning yay.

01:16:36.900 Did something happen with yay?

01:16:40.120 Any news?

01:16:41.180 I didn't see anything today.

01:16:44.140 All right.

01:16:44.820 Let me know if I missed something.

01:16:46.220 So Carrie Lake continues to be 1.00

01:16:51.660 the most dangerous politician out there.

01:16:55.340 Somebody asked if this was an example

01:16:57.260 of agreeing and amplifying

01:16:59.380 or matching and amplifying.

01:17:01.500 It is not.

01:17:02.700 It's more of an example of

01:17:04.600 satire or sarcasm.

01:17:11.920 What do you think Twitter should do

01:17:13.820 as it's looking to tweak its features?

01:17:17.160 Do you think it should get rid

01:17:18.620 of all anonymous accounts?

01:17:20.880 How should it treat

01:17:21.920 fully anonymous accounts?

01:17:25.100 Here's my opinion.

01:17:28.840 My opinion is that

01:17:30.320 anonymous accounts should be allowed,

01:17:32.980 but you should have the option

01:17:35.520 to not see them.

01:17:38.440 Or you should have an option

01:17:40.560 of making them show

01:17:41.540 at the bottom of your comment feed.

01:17:44.520 You know,

01:17:44.820 if I can include them,

01:17:46.240 but include them

01:17:46.820 at the bottom of my comment feed,

01:17:48.740 optionally, right?

01:17:50.300 So it would be my choice

01:17:51.300 whether I see them or not.

01:17:52.600 It's not Twitter's choice.

01:17:54.460 I'd be okay with that.

01:17:56.080 Yeah.

01:17:56.780 So I think Musk wants a

01:17:59.100 choose-your-own-experience

01:18:01.840 kind of Twitter

01:18:02.480 where you just have an option

01:18:04.340 of what kind of goodness

01:18:05.680 and badness you want to experience.

01:18:08.340 That works for me.

01:18:11.020 Yeah, that works for me.

01:18:12.140 But it is true 0.94

01:18:15.980 that a lot of them

01:18:16.560 are just bad people.

01:18:18.060 They're just bad people.

01:18:19.820 Two sniffs and an exhale.

01:18:23.840 There we go.

01:18:26.620 Feels good.

01:18:28.020 Oh, yeah.

01:18:29.760 Scott, people are not FU rich.

01:18:31.780 We need them.

01:18:32.520 Yeah, we need anonymous people

01:18:34.420 who need to stay anonymous.

01:18:37.780 I agree.

01:18:39.580 But I mostly don't want to see them.

01:18:44.180 I mostly don't want to see them.

01:18:48.740 All right.

01:18:53.340 Now, isn't it two inhales

01:18:56.120 and one exhale?

01:18:59.160 Do I have it backwards?

01:19:00.640 I see somebody fact-checking me

01:19:02.140 on the Huberman method.

01:19:05.640 I think I've seen it both ways.

01:19:09.020 I think I've seen...

01:19:11.580 Yeah, I've seen it both ways.

01:19:14.580 I think maybe Wim Hof has the opposite.

01:19:16.740 I think the Huberman method

01:19:20.000 and the Wim Hof are opposite.

01:19:21.960 Now, here's why I say

01:19:24.460 that I think that the active part

01:19:26.420 is the exhale.

01:19:28.820 In my opinion,

01:19:30.720 the exhale is the active part.

01:19:34.420 And that people don't...

01:19:35.460 When you breathe shallowly,

01:19:37.060 when you breathe shallowly,

01:19:40.020 when your breath is shallow,

01:19:42.240 you don't exhale the bad air

01:19:44.540 that's been hanging around.

01:19:45.820 I feel like the exhaling

01:19:47.400 is the part that makes the difference.

01:19:49.700 Right?

01:19:50.240 So every one of these other ways,

01:19:52.420 from meditation to exercise

01:19:53.940 to breathing methods,

01:19:55.580 I think the only part

01:19:56.740 you have to get right

01:19:57.500 is a frequent good exhale.

01:20:03.280 Who's with me?

01:20:04.660 It's the exhale

01:20:05.340 that makes the difference.

01:20:06.660 Andrew Whale also says that.

01:20:09.040 Yeah.

01:20:09.680 Because you can't avoid inhaling.

01:20:12.380 Inhaling's optional.

01:20:14.120 I'm sorry.

01:20:15.060 Exhaling fully is optional.

01:20:17.840 Inhaling is not really optional.

01:20:20.280 You're going to do that anyway.

01:20:24.500 Andrew Whale does agree.

01:20:26.620 Okay.

01:20:27.220 Yeah, breathing's probably

01:20:28.180 the whole thing.

01:20:29.540 So if you get your breathing right,

01:20:31.160 you get your mushrooms

01:20:32.020 if you need them,

01:20:33.180 you're going to be in good shape.

01:20:34.900 Good, good shape.

01:20:36.500 All right.

01:20:37.100 Have I met my test?

01:20:39.560 I've made you all healthier.

01:20:41.180 I've helped your anxiety.

01:20:42.620 I have helped your overall health.

01:20:44.480 I've helped you with decisions

01:20:45.900 on flu shots.

01:20:48.180 I've helped you with,

01:20:49.660 if you know somebody

01:20:50.660 on serious depression,

01:20:52.540 you know what will work for that.

01:20:54.840 And I've given you a story

01:20:57.000 to make you smart

01:20:57.940 with the hamburger helper.

01:20:59.140 And I've made you smarter

01:21:01.120 than the people

01:21:01.720 that you'll be talking to

01:21:02.940 on Thanksgiving.

01:21:04.840 Did you get your money's worth?

01:21:07.520 Right?

01:21:08.100 You got your money's worth.

01:21:09.180 I think so.

01:21:10.520 Truly sensational.

01:21:12.080 And we have some laughs as well.

01:21:15.400 I believe this is the most useful

01:21:17.420 live stream in the history

01:21:19.620 of all live streams.

01:21:22.220 Somebody says,

01:21:22.980 brag much?

01:21:24.940 Henry.

01:21:25.380 Henry, the people with damaged egos,

01:21:30.180 you need to spend more time here

01:21:31.880 because I can help you with that.

01:21:34.780 Right?

01:21:35.960 It's okay for people

01:21:38.520 to be successful.

01:21:40.060 And I didn't even talk about it.

01:21:42.280 You didn't even talk about it.

01:21:43.880 And Henry,

01:21:45.060 should you be successful

01:21:46.400 is something.

01:21:47.540 I'd love to hear about it.

01:21:49.460 And I'm not going to tell you

01:21:50.680 that you're bragging.

01:21:53.020 Because when you do something well,

01:21:55.340 you should tell people.

01:21:57.300 The world is not worse for that.

01:21:59.120 The world is better for that.

01:22:00.780 You don't have to be a jerk.

01:22:02.620 But tell us what you got right.

01:22:04.700 Tell us what you got wrong.

01:22:06.380 And then we know who you are.

01:22:07.500 And we know how to deal

01:22:09.660 with the next thing you say.

01:22:11.680 So ranking my own success

01:22:14.800 and failures

01:22:15.800 is an integral part

01:22:18.100 of what I do.

01:22:19.040 I will be bragging more,

01:22:21.020 not less.

01:22:22.440 And I will be also

01:22:24.100 admitting when I'm wrong.

01:22:26.020 I hope,

01:22:26.520 hopefully more

01:22:27.160 in terms of the admitting it part.

01:22:30.100 Hope I'm not wrong more.

01:22:31.380 So I'm going to do more

01:22:34.200 of what you say

01:22:34.760 I should do less of.

01:22:39.720 Ignore jury solution. 0.99

01:22:43.400 The jury solution.

01:22:44.820 What was it?

01:22:45.340 Remind me again.

01:22:46.180 The jury solution.

01:22:47.860 J-U-R-Y. 1.00

01:22:49.900 What was that?

01:22:51.200 Was that breathing as well?

01:22:52.480 Hoax monger. 0.95

01:22:59.720 Hoax monger. 0.95

01:23:01.060 That's not bad.

01:23:04.300 Oh, he calls his technique

01:23:05.460 the physiological sigh.

01:23:08.060 Yeah, you know,

01:23:08.780 here's what I found.

01:23:10.020 I found that when you do the exhale,

01:23:12.380 the one that makes the difference,

01:23:13.940 I find it helps to

01:23:15.420 allow my body

01:23:16.960 to lean into it

01:23:18.040 and just let all my muscles

01:23:19.460 go with it.

01:23:20.220 Like,

01:23:20.680 like actually just collapse

01:23:23.160 your muscles.

01:23:24.020 Just let everything go.

01:23:26.980 That feels,

01:23:28.180 that feels like

01:23:29.340 that's what makes the difference.

01:23:35.520 Japanese free divers

01:23:36.920 are all about the deep exhale.

01:23:38.840 Okay.

01:23:39.660 Makes sense.

01:23:43.780 All right.

01:23:44.480 Yes, we're practicing breathing.

01:23:51.460 Yes, like a good bong hit.

01:23:55.520 All right.

01:23:56.180 I think we've killed it today.

01:23:57.920 Let's end now

01:23:59.120 on a high note.

01:23:59.860 YouTube,

01:24:00.320 thanks for joining.

01:24:01.500 You're all smarter

01:24:02.220 and healthier now.

01:24:03.780 Bye.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - November 03, 2022

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