Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1927 Scott Adams： Are We Headed Toward The Most Entertaining Election Outcome？ Maybe Yes

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00:00:58.940 My favorite story of the day, of no particular importance, is, you know, actor Ed O'Neill? He was

00:01:09.880 on Modern Family and married with children. You all know him. He was at an airport recently,

00:01:16.900 and a fan came up and asked if she could take a photo with him. And so he, you know, being a public

00:01:25.760 figure, but, you know, people ask this all the time, he was like, yeah, okay. So he's sitting in a chair

00:01:32.420 in the airport, and this young lady, like, leans over him and gets a little too close. And they take

00:01:38.720 the picture, and he's just like, it turned out to be Britney Spears. He didn't notice who it was.

00:01:50.960 So he's acting unimpressed that Britney Spears wants a picture with him. He's like, all right. You want

00:01:57.340 one? Somebody said, that's an old story. Well, it's not old to me. I just heard it. All right.

00:02:07.240 Today's Dilbert is getting blocked for dangerous content by some VPNs. And when Dilbert gets blocked

00:02:16.340 for dangerous content, you know I'm going to read it to you, don't you? So here's today's

00:02:23.260 Dilbert. It's Dilbert talking to his boss. You can see him at Dilbert.com. Dilbert says,

00:02:30.440 the trial data says our new product is dangerous and doesn't do what we claim. The boss says,

00:02:37.120 have you showed anyone else the data? Dilbert says, no. And the boss says, whew, that problem

00:02:44.120 solved itself. So it's dangerous content. Danger, danger, danger. Watch out for that dangerous

00:02:54.400 content. All right. Here's a technology I just heard about that has a lot of potential. I'd

00:03:04.840 heard a long time ago that people did an experiment where they showed a digitally aged version of

00:03:12.080 a person to their young self and apparently had an impact on how much they saved for retirement

00:03:19.940 because once they could see their real selves, at least the digital form, they could imagine

00:03:25.800 themselves in the future and then they would take care of themselves in a way that they wouldn't if

00:03:30.200 they weren't thinking about the future. Well, it turns out that VR is going to be even better for

00:03:35.960 that because there's a group in Indianapolis where Oberlin, some guy named Oberlin and his

00:03:46.860 colleagues, they're doing a pilot study where they'll take a person who has a variety of mental

00:03:52.940 problems, but they're working on addiction in particular. And I guess this works for a variety

00:03:57.800 of things, but they're testing it for addiction. And they'll actually put you in the virtual reality

00:04:04.480 goggles. And here's the thing. You will have a conversation with your older self, a fully immersive

00:04:12.800 photorealistic version of you aged. And the you aged will have AI, but it will talk in your voice.

00:04:22.320 Yeah. You've seen some examples I've tweeted around where the AI could talk in your voice.

00:04:30.300 Machiavelli's Underbelly, that account, he does a bunch of examples of that all the time.

00:04:36.240 So we know the AI can talk in your voice because I've heard AI talk in my voice and some of you have

00:04:41.360 heard it as well. Now, shut up old man. I don't know if you're talking to me or the troll.

00:04:49.300 So here's the thing. Do you think it would work to have somebody encounter their future self

00:04:59.460 talking to them in their own voice? Do you think that would work?

00:05:05.600 Here's why I think it would. I have a strange quality, or let's say a strange relationship with time.

00:05:13.500 And I always have. I just have this weird relationship with time. Part of the relationship

00:05:20.440 is I'm usually on time. You've probably noticed I'm usually on time for this. And I'm also good

00:05:28.760 at guessing time. Like I can guess what time it is pretty well. And I can plan things that

00:05:36.220 they'll fit into a certain amount of time. So I have a good relationship with time. But beyond that,

00:05:42.080 beyond that, and this is not a joke, when I was a kid, I had a 60-year plan.

00:05:50.120 I literally could imagine myself in 60 years. And then I imagined a pathway to that.

00:05:56.420 And the plan when I was, you know, probably 10 years old, was that I would become a famous

00:06:03.120 cartoonist. And then I would leverage that to make me more a general, you know, a general

00:06:10.880 helpful person. You know, so I thought I would be a public figure, but that my contribution would

00:06:17.160 be something past cartooning. This is literally exactly what I planned 60 years ago. I'm actually

00:06:25.700 sitting and modeling the culmination of a 60-year specific plan, just the way I planned it.

00:06:35.520 Now, you might say to yourself, Scott, you know, why don't you plan your personal life a little bit

00:06:39.920 better than that? You know, I never had a plan for my personal life. And I never imagined I would

00:06:45.840 be married for life. I always saw marriage as a rental for a variety of reasons we could talk about

00:06:53.980 later. But I don't really see marriage as something that could last for most people, you know, in a good

00:07:00.180 way for most of their life. 20% of the public, totally works. So here's my contribution to this VR

00:07:08.700 technique. I think if you could take people who can't imagine the future the way I did automatically,

00:07:16.640 even as a child, because everybody's different, right? Every natural ability is distributed in

00:07:21.980 varied ways across people. So it makes sense that there's some people who just can't imagine the

00:07:26.500 future. So you give them a way to imagine the future by bringing the future to the present,

00:07:33.420 essentially the ghost of, you know, Christmas future. I think it would work. And who would be

00:07:41.180 the most influential person to convince you to do something? Yourself. The most influential person,

00:07:50.380 one would assume. I mean, without testing it, I assume this. But I feel like listening to yourself

00:07:56.720 talking your own words and looking like you, you would have the most empathy, the most pacing and

00:08:03.700 leading naturally. That would be the most influential thing I could imagine. I wouldn't know for sure unless

00:08:10.140 you tested it, but, you know, reasonably you can imagine that. So that's a really big deal. Do you

00:08:18.800 know how big a deal that is? If you were to add, there are three things that have happened recently

00:08:24.740 that all seem related and good. Number one, this Andrew Huberman breathing technique, the two inhales

00:08:32.520 through your nose, two sharp inhales followed by a deep exhale out of your mouth. That definitely

00:08:38.020 works. Have any of you tried it enough to know that it works like right away? You could actually

00:08:44.640 feel it right away. Yeah. I'm looking at the comments. There's enough people who confirm that

00:08:50.620 it works. That's probably a bigger deal than you think. I mean, it's almost like the invention of

00:08:57.020 exercise or something. It's probably that deep in terms of its importance. So you've got that going

00:09:03.260 on. Now you've got this virtual reality thing going on, which I think has amazing potential,

00:09:08.520 specifically because the people who can't imagine themselves going wrong in the future

00:09:15.000 are the ones making the bad decisions today. And apparently it works on some other mental health

00:09:20.020 issues as well, they think. And then you add to that the legalization and let's say the normalization

00:09:26.180 of mushrooms. And I don't think there's any doubt at this point that mushrooms are a mental health

00:09:33.380 miracle. Right. So if you add the breathing exercises, if you add the virtual reality maybe,

00:09:44.300 and you add the mushrooms, we might be on the verge of taking a big bite out of mental health problems.

00:09:53.860 Maybe. I want to see if an experience I had yesterday rings true with any of you. Do any of you

00:10:03.200 have the experience that you can't handle people as much after the pandemic? Does anybody have that experience?

00:10:09.900 that just people are different? Like how you react to them? It's not the same. Right? Okay, I'm seeing a lot

00:10:19.200 of yeses on the locals platform. But let me tell you my experience yesterday, all right? So when I go to

00:10:28.220 the gym, and I think most of you would agree with this, when I'm in go to the gym mode, I really, really,

00:10:35.680 really don't want to talk to anybody. It has nothing to do with the people, right? People are fine.

00:10:43.000 But it doesn't, it doesn't fit with exercise, right? Once you're in that energy, and especially if you've

00:10:48.940 started your exercise routine already, do you want to stop your weight routine in like in the middle to

00:10:55.320 talk to somebody for 10 minutes? It's a killer, right? So I go to the gym yesterday. And on the way in,

00:11:02.100 I spot a friend of mine, somebody I've known a long time, tennis partner, who I happen to know is

00:11:09.080 going through a tough time. And I knew that he would want to talk about it. And I thought, oh,

00:11:15.400 shit, I like this guy. He's a great guy. But and he's also, you know, he probably needs some support

00:11:22.060 because he's, he's going through a tough time. And I thought, oh, no, no, no, no. So, but he was on his

00:11:27.540 phone. When I walked by, you know, toward the entrance, I thought, oh, good, he's on his phone. So, you

00:11:33.180 know, he's doing his thing. And I get into the club. And then there are two major exercise areas. And I

00:11:38.740 thought, if he catches me in one of the same exercise areas, and in case he watches this, let me say

00:11:44.280 again, this is a really good guy, right? I like talking to him. I spent a lot of time with him. Totally great

00:11:50.920 guy. But I really, really, that day, did not want to talk. So I'm sitting in this little area that's

00:11:59.480 between the two major rooms. I managed to avoid him by like spotting him and, you know, working

00:12:04.340 around so I don't get into a conversation. And I go to check my phone. I'm still in the middle of my

00:12:11.520 routine. I'm just checking my phone on the way to from one machine to another. And I, and I've got my

00:12:17.240 earbuds in. And I'm sitting on a bench. And I'm, I'm, I'm like, I'm in a cocoon. I'm like almost in a

00:12:25.860 curled up like in a fetal position, so that I can't see anything, except straight down, looking at my

00:12:32.900 phone. So I can't hear anything. And I can't see anything except straight down my own feet. I'm safe,

00:12:40.980 right? There is no way. There's no way anybody's going to be like asking me to talk because I'm

00:12:49.080 sending the signal so clearly. So as I'm looking at my feet on the carpet, I see my friend's head

00:12:59.460 appear. He actually got down at carpet level to get underneath to wave to me to get my attention

00:13:08.600 because he couldn't get my attention otherwise. And so I took out my earbuds and I had a long

00:13:16.560 conversation. And then my, my workout was completely ruined. Now, how do you feel when your workout is

00:13:23.960 ruined? It's terrible, right? It bothers you more than it should, because it's actually, it's like a, the most

00:13:32.960 minor problem, right? If you're a regular exercise person, you know, losing, losing 20 minutes one day

00:13:40.300 is nothing. But, you know, it sets you off in a little, in a little snit, right? So I said to myself,

00:13:47.560 all right, screw this. I'm going to take my laptop and I'm going to go to Starbucks and I'll get, at least

00:13:52.800 I'll get some work done. So I go to Starbucks. There are two Starbucks, you know, to the left and the

00:13:59.960 right of me where I live. So I go to the one to the right of me and I get in line and there's an older

00:14:06.640 couple in front of me. Now, have you ever been behind an older couple at Starbucks? Now, I am an

00:14:15.920 older person now, but we don't all act the same. And these older people, very nice people, they look

00:14:24.620 like the kind of people you'd love to hang around with. But they had questions. And they continued

00:14:31.080 to order things that weren't available. And once they realized it wasn't available, they didn't just

00:14:37.540 say the next thing they wanted. They had to go back and shop again. So they had to go back to the

00:14:43.540 counter with the pastries and they had a little eyesight problem. So they'd have to get right out to it.

00:14:47.960 I don't know. What am I seeing in there? Looks like some kind of a turnover. What's that? The

00:14:55.880 turnover thing. What's the turnover thing? I don't know. And so it was very obvious. They kept adding

00:15:03.200 things and changing things. And there were details. And I said to myself, if I have to wait here one more

00:15:11.780 minute, I am going to slay these people. And they'll have a lot to explain. So I said, I think I'm going

00:15:19.600 to leave here before I slay these elderly people. So I took my laptop and I got out of line, got in my 1.00

00:15:26.500 car. And yeah, as luck would have it, there's a Starbucks everywhere. So I go, you know, two miles in

00:15:31.740 the other direction, get in line. And there's two lines. So, you know, a two-line Starbucks, you know,

00:15:39.320 you've got options, you're in good shape. At both lines in the front were double Karens. 0.97

00:15:49.040 They both had double Karens. And I looked at the, after listening to it for a while,

00:15:56.320 they had details and issues and concerns. They had things they needed to talk about. There was

00:16:02.600 information they needed and there were things they needed to be a little bit different.

00:16:05.620 And I listened to it a while and I looked at the face of the Starbucks employee and she

00:16:11.280 was just, like, completely defeated. And I waited for a while and then I realized that

00:16:20.320 if I didn't get the fuck out of Starbucks, I was going to kill four Karens. What are the 1.00

00:16:26.080 odds there would be two Karens, you know, like they were pairs, at each cash register. So in 0.99

00:16:32.620 one day, I managed to not be able to work out, not be able to go to Starbucks, not be able

00:16:38.860 to go to Starbucks. What was the common reason for all of it? I couldn't fucking stand human

00:16:45.080 beings. I couldn't stand them. I just couldn't stand being around them. Now, is that just me?

00:16:52.980 Or do you feel that since the pandemic? Does anybody else feel that?

00:17:03.220 So he says, Mike says, not wondering why I'm divorced. Let me ask you this.

00:17:10.440 All right. I was just going to go off on you for a moment, but I think I won't right away.

00:17:14.580 Yeah, I am. Fuck it. I'm just going to go off on you. How the fuck do you think you could guess

00:17:22.740 what happened with my personal life? I mean, seriously, how many of you assholes think you

00:17:28.260 have a real good idea of what happened? You don't have any fucking idea and there's no way you ever

00:17:33.780 could. There's nothing you could guess. There's nothing that's obvious. There's nothing that happened

00:17:39.360 that would be on your list of top 10 things that are likely. Fuck it. Nothing. You don't know fuck

00:17:45.620 anything about me. So your speculations about my personal life are pure assholery.

00:17:53.540 We're going to talk about you a little bit more.

00:17:58.280 Not that I care. It's just I wondered if you know how stupid you sound.

00:18:02.880 Well, it doesn't bother me per se, but how stupid you look just like bothers me that I have to live

00:18:08.800 in a world with fucking people like you, right? The fact that you would come on this live stream

00:18:14.780 and insert in the middle of the show something about my fucking marriage. You fucking asshole. 0.99

00:18:21.160 You piece of shit. You absolute garbage. What were you trying to accomplish?

00:18:30.280 There's a topic that I was going to cover and I'll hit it now. Did any of you see the

00:18:35.180 Pierce Morgan interview with Jordan Peterson? It was awesome. But one of the things that Jordan

00:18:42.440 Peterson talks about is that the problem with social media is that about 3% of the country are

00:18:48.160 like this asshole. They're actually just toxic fucking pieces of shit. Roughly 3% of the public.

00:18:57.700 But what social media does is it makes the 3% piece of shit people the, you know, the prominent ones

00:19:05.000 because they make the most trouble. So Jordan Peterson was mentioning how bad a system it is

00:19:13.060 because it promotes the worst people. He was talking about Instagram in particular and how

00:19:18.140 the Instagram, you know, the people who spend the most time on it are just completely damaged women. 1.00

00:19:23.300 There are narcissists and psychopaths and sociopaths and stuff. And I have to mention, I have to

00:19:30.960 notice that I've been spending more time on Instagram. And when I see the Instagram women, 1.00

00:19:37.720 I don't think of them as beautiful anymore. I see them as mentally damaged. Does anybody have

00:19:46.560 that experience? And that's, that's new, I'd say in the last year or so. And I know what you're going

00:19:54.320 to say, blah, blah, blah, your marriage. No, it's not because of that. It's not because of that. You're

00:19:58.900 going to be an asshole and you're going to say that. No, it's not because of that. It's because I look

00:20:03.060 at them and I go, oh my God, in order to act the way you're acting, that this is your big payoff.

00:20:08.160 That's clearly mental illness. Am I wrong? All I see is mental illness now. I don't see,

00:20:16.760 ooh, I'd like to, I'd like to get naked with that girl. She's got a good body. Nope. I see somebody 1.00

00:20:22.520 who would be the biggest pain in the ass I've ever encountered in my life. Do you know,

00:20:28.840 do you know what those girls are like when they're not on camera? Well, I'll tell you nothing matters 1.00

00:20:35.800 except them getting on camera. That's, that's going to be the thing that's their top priority.

00:20:42.480 Anyway, enough of that. Phoenix is testing these Waymo driverless taxis now. So if you're in

00:20:52.360 Phoenix, you can actually use their app. They had been in testing, but this is the first time

00:20:58.120 the public can actually use it. So you can get an app for Waymo and you can order a driverless taxi.

00:21:05.800 In the city of Phoenix. Now, let me ask you, would you try that first?

00:21:12.560 Would you be in the first wave of people who got in a driverless taxi?

00:21:19.880 You know, I suspect the data says it's safer, not more dangerous.

00:21:23.540 But then you've got the second question. Who believes data? Right? The entire argument for

00:21:30.860 self-driving cars is that if you really look at the data, the data says unambiguously that the

00:21:37.300 self-driving cars will be safer. Maybe not yet, but it's obvious that they will be. But we don't

00:21:43.920 believe data anymore, do we? And we should not. Data is mostly bullshit. That's what we've learned

00:21:50.980 in the last two years. You can't believe the data the company produces. Could you? I mean,

00:21:57.380 you can't believe any data the company produces. So I don't know. I think I would be tempted to try

00:22:03.480 it, but I'd probably try a pretty short trip. I think I'd try, you know, like four blocks or

00:22:08.040 something. Let's see if I survive. I'm sure they're safer though. So that's amazing. Self-driving

00:22:16.100 cars in theory would fix everything. If you think about it, it would take a while. But if you had

00:22:25.300 all self-driving cars, you know, you could do away with streetlights, right? Streetlights and stop signs

00:22:30.700 would just be unnecessary because presumably the cars would be networked. So they'd know if they could

00:22:36.680 go or not based on where everything is. Plus, plus a vision. That would be scary. Imagine going

00:22:43.900 through the intersection at full speed and nobody's slowing down. That's where we're heading.

00:22:51.160 That's where we're heading. And I think I'd have to close my eyes to be in that car.

00:22:56.620 Well, the Ukrainians got, let's say, 850 Black Hornet micro drones from the UK.

00:23:06.680 Now, a Black Hornet micro drone is a tiny little helicopter that I think is just used for surveillance.

00:23:14.020 It doesn't blow up or shoot anything. It's just looked to be about six inches long. It looks like a

00:23:19.580 tiny little helicopter. Now, if they work, and apparently they're undetectable because they're

00:23:27.360 too quiet and small, that would give the Ukrainians basically complete vision over their enemy. 0.51

00:23:35.440 And let me ask you this. Half an hour battery. That's probably all I need. Let me ask you this.

00:23:44.180 Didn't we expect that the Ukrainian drones would not be that useful because the Russians would have so 1.00

00:23:50.720 much anti-drone technology? Wasn't that what all the smart people told me? And I said, there's no way

00:23:59.360 you're going to get enough anti-drone technology to be enough for all the drones that could be in

00:24:06.840 your vicinity. So all the experts who said, oh, that anti-drone technology will make those drones

00:24:13.500 useless. None of that was true. Literally, none of that was true. Right? Absolute, completely wrong.

00:24:25.420 Did you see the story that Lavrov, is he the Putin's, what's his job, foreign secretary or something?

00:24:33.740 What is Lavrov's job in Russia? He's the secretary of state? Okay, something like that. But so he got

00:24:46.280 taken to a hospital and I guess released. And then the rumor was that he was actually going to defect.

00:24:53.320 But I have a different rumor I want to add to that. But he's already out of the hospital,

00:24:58.240 so my rumor doesn't work. My rumor is that if you were Lavrov and you left Russia, the odds of you

00:25:07.600 being poisoned seem really high. Am I right? How would you like to be Lavrov and just order room service

00:25:16.320 in your hotel? Would you trust room service if you were Lavrov? I wouldn't. Because I don't know how

00:25:24.680 the Ukrainians can't get at him. If I were Ukrainian, I would poison Lavrov and make it look like Putin 0.76

00:25:31.460 did it. If they could figure out how to poison Lavrov with the polonium tea, if they could kill

00:25:38.480 him with the same technique that Putin allegedly kills his enemies, that would be pretty effective 0.73

00:25:44.880 psyop. But he's out of the hospital, so nothing like that happened. There's a huge fentanyl bust in

00:25:53.760 New York. A man had 20,000 fentanyl pills, so of course he was released without bail.

00:26:01.800 Here's a question for those who like to do math and data. Could we make an estimate that on average

00:26:09.960 20,000 fentanyl pills would cause X number of overdose deaths? Is that a big enough number

00:26:18.920 that you could say, oh yeah, you put 20,000 pills into an area, you're definitely getting

00:26:24.180 five dead? Could you do that? Now, I spent five minutes Googling and I didn't see the data

00:26:31.340 that would allow me to do that calculation. But maybe you've seen it. Or maybe you could

00:26:35.840 make a reasonable assumption. I'm going to make an assumption that 20,000 pills probably

00:26:42.800 kills five to 10 people. So here's a guy who's literally a mass murderer, I believe,

00:26:50.460 or attempted mass murderer, and he got released without bail. He probably is going to kill five

00:26:57.660 to 10 people, or they stopped him from. But when they release him, what's he going to go

00:27:02.180 back to? His job as an accountant? Will he go back to his job as an accountant? No. Presumably,

00:27:09.600 he will go back to his job of carrying fentanyl and having lots of fentanyl pills. And then

00:27:15.080 he'll kill five to 10 more. If I found this guy in the street, I would be very tempted to kill him.

00:27:23.960 Like, actually kill him. Like, I'm not joking. Kill him. I mean, if I thought I could get away

00:27:29.940 with it, I would stab him to death personally. That's not a joke. It would only require that I

00:27:37.260 knew I could get away with it, which you could never get away with murder these days. So it would

00:27:40.960 be a bad idea. But honestly, honestly, if I could kill him with my own bare hands, I would do it.

00:27:49.060 I would strangle him with my own hands if I could. And I wouldn't even lose sleep. Honestly. Would you

00:27:56.600 lose sleep if you killed bin Laden? I wouldn't. I wouldn't lose any sleep. I don't think, you know,

00:28:03.740 I don't think O'Neill, who actually killed bin Laden, I'll bet he didn't lose a lot of sleep over it. 0.99

00:28:08.780 Yeah. Killing is actually pretty satisfying if you're killing the right person. I imagine. I

00:28:14.600 haven't killed anybody. But yeah, I would kill him personally. I'd love to do it. I would enjoy it.

00:28:21.380 All right. Apparently, Klaus Schwab, the World Economic Forum guy, he said that the World

00:28:34.380 Economic Forum has, quote, penetrated the cabinets of Canada and Brazil, meaning that he has a number

00:28:40.740 of ministers in their cabinets who will take his phone call in our pro-World Economic Forum. And he

00:28:48.300 actually said that in public at a big event. I wonder if he knows how that sounds. You know,

00:28:57.040 in his mind, yeah, I know that's old news, but in his mind, that probably sounds like, oh,

00:29:03.660 isn't this great? Lots of governments are becoming more concerned about the climate and equity and

00:29:11.100 stuff. That's probably what he thinks it sounds like in his mind when he says it. Here's what it

00:29:16.940 sounds like in my mind. We didn't elect you, motherfuckers. Get the fuck out of our government. 1.00

00:29:24.800 If we elect you, fine. Otherwise, stay out. Stay the fuck out. You can be an advisor. You can make

00:29:32.860 your opinion heard. We like that. But if you're bragging about getting your people placed in my

00:29:38.740 government, no, he wasn't talking about my government, but you can see how this is, you know,

00:29:43.740 going to extend. No good. This is the same problem as ESG. If you're trying to explain why ESG is bad,

00:29:53.300 don't go beyond. You don't want to put somebody between a business and their investors, and you

00:30:00.720 don't want to put anything between a business and its customers. You don't want anything in between

00:30:05.500 stuff. That's always bad. So if you put, if you have a political system that you're happy with,

00:30:10.620 you don't want to put something in there that wasn't part of the system, and it suddenly becomes

00:30:15.180 an active variable, and it's not even from your own country. Everything about that's a bad idea.

00:30:21.380 And you don't need to say what's bad about the World Economic Forum.

00:30:28.540 You don't have to argue the details. Just say, no, there's no case where that's ever a good idea

00:30:34.940 to insert somebody between the people who have voluntarily said, let's work with each other.

00:30:40.460 Never. That's all bad.

00:30:45.080 All right.

00:30:48.240 There were two, let's see, what do they call themselves? Plus size models? 0.98

00:30:56.240 What is the polite way we say models who are curvy?

00:31:00.720 I think they're being called curvy. In the old days, you would say morbidly obese. Yeah,

00:31:09.440 they're more than obese. They're, they're like extra. So, so I'm not, I'm not making a judgment

00:31:15.700 call here. All right. So I'd like you to know that what I say about this story is not judging

00:31:21.240 them or being fat shaming. Okay. Because I don't do the fat shaming. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm opposed,

00:31:27.660 I'm opposed to that. Some of you think, oh, that's okay because it's their choice to eat

00:31:33.820 or not eat. I don't believe that. I don't believe in free will of that type. I, I think

00:31:39.560 if I like to eat as much as they did, I'd eat as much as they do. I just don't like eating

00:31:43.460 that much. Otherwise I'd, I'd be 400 pounds. That's my view. So just know that you might

00:31:50.680 disagree with me, but I'm not shaming them for weight. However, let me tell you the story.

00:31:56.440 They went to this lounge, you know, sort of a popular night spot. And it was one of those

00:32:02.560 lounges where the, the bouncer decides that the special people can get in and the ugly people 0.72

00:32:09.860 cannot. And when these two models who, who felt that they were like high value people in society

00:32:17.240 because they were models and they tried to get in, the bouncer said, not today. And he rejected

00:32:23.380 them based on their appearance. Now they're very mad. As they say, this is very fair, unfair.

00:32:32.400 Do you think that they're missing something in the bigger picture? Here's the bigger picture.

00:32:38.340 The reason they went to this lounge and expected to get in was why, why did they expect to get

00:32:45.160 in the lounge that had an obvious, you know, bouncer filtering system? Because they believed

00:32:51.540 they were higher value than the average person, right? Their entire theory was, I'm going to go

00:32:58.820 have a good time in the place that other people can't get into because only we special people can

00:33:03.640 get in. Well, bitches live by the sword, die by the sword. You, you got stabbed by your own 1.00

00:33:10.440 fucking bigotry, right? If you'd like to go where the awesome people are, guess what? They don't want

00:33:17.100 to be with you. Uh, uh, has nothing to do with fat shaming. I don't do that. But seriously, open your

00:33:25.160 fucking brain. If you go to a place that is noted for its bigotry against people who look different

00:33:31.060 and you go there looking different, what the fuck do you expect? Right? The problem is not that they

00:33:37.380 turned her away. The problem is that she thought she could get in there in the first place because

00:33:42.680 she thought she was special. She wanted to discriminate against other people. And then when 0.94

00:33:48.260 it came her way, she's like, oh, unfair. Oh, unfair. No, bitch. That's exactly what you wanted to do to 1.00

00:33:54.800 other people. You wanted other people to sit out there with their dicks in their hands because they

00:33:59.440 weren't as special as you when you walked past them in line and got into the place because you're a

00:34:03.620 famous model. No, no. Fuck you. Be blessed. You don't get into that fucking place. Do you 1.00

00:34:11.060 know why I don't go? Do you know why I don't stand in line at one of those places? Because

00:34:17.720 I'm not going to get in. You know, when I was, uh, when I was married in both cases to women

00:34:26.620 who could get into any club, then did he have to, like, you know, staple yourself to their, uh,

00:34:32.840 to their pencil dress? It's the only way you could get into anything. Because they'd be like,

00:34:37.800 you can get in. Well, you're attached to that. Well, we really want you. All right. So that,

00:34:46.780 you know, that was my experience. Um, Elon Musk continues to be the funniest tweeter in the

00:34:54.160 Twitterverse, which is a wonderful development. Um, and, uh, he tweeted this this morning. He said,

00:35:02.780 by the way, I'd like to apologize for Twitter being super slow in many countries. The app is doing over

00:35:10.000 a thousand poorly batched, uh, RPCs, whatever that is, just to render a home timeline. Um,

00:35:17.620 and so I guess, I didn't know this, but I guess, uh, I guess Twitter works well on Apple devices,

00:35:25.520 but not so well on Android. And then a, uh, either current or recent Twitter employee, Eric

00:35:33.120 Fronhofer replied, he goes, hot take. I have spent six years working on Twitter for Android

00:35:39.520 and can say, this is wrong. And then in the most wonderfully transparent, you know, act, which,

00:35:48.220 which is just the beauty of this whole Twitter thing, Musk replies to him and says, then please

00:35:53.640 correct me. What is the right number? Now, don't you love him doing his business in public?

00:36:02.040 And when he said, please correct me, what is the right number? Was he serious? Was that a serious

00:36:08.040 question? Or was he being, you know, yes, it's Elon Musk. That was a serious question.

00:36:14.580 And if he had been wrong, he would have said, I'm wrong. Thanks for the help. Right? Oh my God,

00:36:22.800 this is just what you want to say. It's everything you want to say, but it gets better. So after he

00:36:27.640 tweets, you know, then please correct me. What is the right number? Um, and the, and this is from a guy

00:36:33.060 who worked for, worked on the Android app for six years, then I think Elon Musk, uh, thought about

00:36:39.340 it for a second and followed up with this tweet. Twitter is super slow on Android. What have you

00:36:45.140 done to fix that? This guy complains that he worked on Android for six years and then Musk says, well,

00:36:54.640 what the fuck were you doing? Now I've been laughing about this all morning because you see, you see

00:37:06.780 this line between, uh, humor and reality has completely disappeared. This is funny because

00:37:14.640 it's just the real world. Uh, all Elon Musk did is just point to the real world and then you

00:37:19.780 laughed. That that's what humor is now. Humor is just real things. It's not punchline so much.

00:37:28.920 All right. I love that. Um, but it gets better. So Musk wasn't done. So, uh, Senator Ed Markey,

00:37:38.500 uh, reports that a Washington Post reporter, uh, managed to impersonate him, impersonate the Senator.

00:37:45.840 Now it was done as a test to see if it could be done. So some Washington Post person just put

00:37:51.380 together, uh, a way to impersonate Ed Markey. And Ed Markey is, uh, complaining about it. And, uh, he

00:37:57.900 said, Twitter must explain how this happened and how to prevent it from happening again. And Elon Musk

00:38:03.720 replied to that on Twitter, perhaps it's because your real account sounds like a parody.

00:38:08.380 And then I went and looked at Ed Markey's real account because I kind of wondered, does it look

00:38:20.140 like a parody? It does. And wait, it gets better. I'm not done. We're only halfway there.

00:38:28.600 And then Elon follows up with, I think this will, this, maybe this will be like the pattern that we

00:38:33.140 see that Musk will do one thing. That's pretty funny. And then he'll think about it for another

00:38:37.820 10 seconds. And his second tweet, his second tweet is the one that'll put you over the edge.

00:38:42.440 Are you ready for this? This is his second tweet on the same topic after, after he said, uh, perhaps

00:38:48.380 it's because your real account sounds like a parody. Remember he said that to a sitting U S Senator.

00:38:53.100 Then he follows up with, why does your profile picture have a mask?

00:39:03.140 Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. This sitting Senator is trying to argue that somebody is treating

00:39:19.780 him like a parody and his own profile picture has a mask on it. And, and Musk doesn't even

00:39:27.040 have to make a comment about it. He just says, why does your profile picture have a mask?

00:39:33.140 Oh, oh my God. And what I love about, what I love about, um, I guess Musk's sense of humor

00:39:46.240 is he lets you connect the dots, right? He just says the thing that's true. And then you have to fill

00:39:55.340 in the rest of the funny stuff, which you do automatically. It's really diabolical. I actually

00:40:00.580 had to do some research this morning to find out if people who are on the spectrum, uh, joke

00:40:08.200 the same way everybody else does. And there is a difference that now he must says he's on

00:40:13.940 the spectrum. I'm a little suspicious of that because if he's the highest functioning person

00:40:19.900 on the spectrum if he is, but I don't know. Um, well, anyway, um, I think the way Musk jokes is less

00:40:30.240 punchliney, uh, but he does do puns. So, and that, that would be a little out of character for being on

00:40:38.100 the spectrum, you know, but people on the spectrum do have a good sense of humors in case you wondered.

00:40:43.300 They, they have, you know, pretty much the same sense of humor as everybody else, but they might

00:40:48.840 find, um, scripted jokes less funny than natural, natural humor. And that Musk is giving you two

00:40:56.900 examples of really natural humor. All right. Um, so here's another example of what, uh, Jordan

00:41:09.220 Peters was talking about the sociopaths. So Cindy Sweeney is a young actress and she's on a TV show

00:41:15.500 in which she did some nude scenes, TV shows called Euphoria. And on Twitter, people screenshot her nude

00:41:22.960 scenes and then tweeted it to her family members. And then I ask you, why, why, why, why?

00:41:38.600 Did, did, did this poor actress offend somebody? So this is what Jordan Peterson is talking about. 0.99

00:41:46.960 He's talking about the 3% of the world who are genuinely, genuinely horrible people. And they're 1.00

00:41:54.140 actually just dangerous. And they're on a tool that maximizes their danger potential, you know,

00:42:00.840 by, by, by a million times. So that's probably the purest example of evil that I've seen in a while.

00:42:09.440 Because in the political world, um, people can be mean to each other, but it feels like maybe there's

00:42:15.840 something good that comes out of the, you know, the, the fight, maybe. I mean, you could argue that it's

00:42:21.640 part of the political process. But if you're just, if you're just picking, uh, like a random actress who's

00:42:27.460 minding her own business and trying to embarrass her in front of her family, why, why? Except that 0.72

00:42:34.500 you're literally a broken person. The fact that people would get pleasure out of that is just

00:42:40.620 mind boggling. All right. Um, CNN fact checked Biden so hard today that I'm not even going to give you

00:42:49.220 the details. Let, let, let me summarize it. If Biden said anything to do with money, finance,

00:42:57.880 economics, or taxes, it was a complete lie. And basically CNN said that directly. They, they,

00:43:05.880 I think there were nine points of the things, nine major things that Biden said about economics and

00:43:13.180 whatever. And they're all just completely false, especially, and there's one about him traveling

00:43:18.800 for 70 hours on a train with president Xi that never happened. Yeah. Yeah. And, and, and let me

00:43:26.880 tell you, if you, if you read the fact check, it's brutal. There, there's no, it's Daniel Dale,

00:43:32.960 the same guy who was, you know, pretty tough on Trump. And again, I, I'm going to applaud CNN.

00:43:39.020 That is genuine benefit to the country. Would you agree? Have I convinced anybody that CNN is on the

00:43:46.800 right track? Cause I know you got some bad feelings about them. Yeah, they're definitely on the right

00:43:53.160 track. There's no doubt about it. I would consider this a service. So as, as a citizen, I'd say,

00:43:59.520 thank you. Thank you. It didn't, it wasn't like that before. Um, here's another question for you.

00:44:06.700 Have you ever seen anybody tweet a positive opinion about ESG unless they made money from it? Go.

00:44:19.980 Have you ever seen it? Even once? Have you ever seen even one citizen of the world say ESG is a good

00:44:27.800 thing unless they were making money from it? Can you think of anything else like that? Have you ever

00:44:35.420 seen anything like that? Right? I don't, I can't think of one topic where there isn't anybody on the

00:44:42.920 other side, except the people making money and you can discount them, right? Have you ever seen that?

00:44:49.240 Name one other thing, just one other thing where there's nobody on the other side.

00:44:54.160 I can't think of anything. Nothing. And still it's alive, you know, barely. But, um, I wouldn't trust

00:45:06.820 anybody who said they supported it. Uh, even, even though, let me say, just in case you need to hear

00:45:12.240 it, you know, obviously I support a good environment and people being treated as people and all that stuff.

00:45:19.580 But it's just a system of how they, they do it that doesn't work. But here's what I would like.

00:45:25.100 I'd like to see, instead of an ESG score, or maybe in addition to it, a fraud score for finance

00:45:30.580 companies that are pushing ESG. So should we not have a rating system for the people who promote

00:45:37.100 ESG? Because I'll bet there are some of them that maybe are ratings agencies that do a good job.

00:45:44.060 You might not want them to do the job, but probably something to just do a good job.

00:45:49.520 And there might be, you know, BlackRock. BlackRock is the biggest promoter of ESG.

00:45:54.760 Should they not be rated as a, um, investment entity? They should be rated, right? If they're

00:46:03.520 rating other things and it's all part of the investment world and you want to know if you

00:46:09.020 should trust or believe BlackRock, should BlackRock not have a score like everything else? Yeah. I'd

00:46:15.440 like to see the people in the ESG business scored for their own, um, corporate, I don't know,

00:46:23.300 quality or goodness or something. Um, let's talk about Dave Chappelle and his Saturday Night Live,

00:46:31.140 uh, act, which I was told got taken down and maybe on YouTube or something. You can still see it on

00:46:39.300 Twitter. Thank you, Elon Musk. You can still see it on Twitter. And I noticed the New York Times had a

00:46:47.460 tweet on it and here's what they said in the tweet. They said, uh, Chappelle's act involves a, I'm sorry,

00:46:52.620 that's me, not them. I'm sorry. That was my quote, not the New York Times. What did the New York

00:46:58.640 Times say? Um, they said in a tweet on Saturday Night Live, host Dave Chappelle's commented on

00:47:05.000 Kanye West's recent anti-Semitic remarks. Um, and then they quote Chappelle saying, I learned that 0.56

00:47:13.400 there are two words in the English language that you should never say together in sequence, he said,

00:47:17.340 and those are a quote, the and Jews. Um, so that was the tweet and then a link to a story which gave

00:47:28.200 you more context so you can see the whole thing. Now here's my problem. It's bad when anybody's

00:47:33.940 taken out of context. That's always bad. But when you take Chappelle out of context, it's extra bad.

00:47:41.900 Does anybody know why? Do you see it? Why is it extra bad to take Chappelle out of context? You know,

00:47:49.760 even, even relative to other comedians. Because Chappelle is a more complex writer. And when he

00:48:00.780 writes, he, he provokes you. And then, you know, that's the joke that he went too far. But then when he's,

00:48:08.220 he's woven together a larger hole, the larger hole softens the individual jokes, and then you can see

00:48:16.020 it as just fun. But if you take any one comment out of provocative comment and a context, you miss

00:48:23.380 the hole, and you miss the softening, which is, is not just extra, that the softening of the

00:48:30.020 provocative messages is the magic. That's the act. In my opinion, what puts Chappelle and, you know,

00:48:36.940 say, Bill Burr, you know, above most comedians, is that it's not a bunch of jokes. It's a, it's a

00:48:43.180 story. It's a theme with a point. And then it's populated with jokes. So you pick one of those

00:48:48.400 jokes out of there. And it's not like picking out a joke from somebody else's act. Do you all get

00:48:53.340 that? It's really a disservice to him. It's very unfair. Because he, he has the only act that has to be

00:49:01.500 seen completely. Bill Burr would be the same, I think. Now here, here's, let me use Bill Burr as

00:49:09.860 the better example of this. All right. So Bill Burr will do some like race-related jokes. And you hear

00:49:16.460 him, you think, whoa, he may have gone a little too far. Like, I wonder if, I wonder if black people 1.00

00:49:23.920 will find this went a little too far. And then maybe later in the act, he'll, he'll just mention

00:49:30.120 casually that his wife is black. Like, that won't even be part of the joke. That's, you know, like

00:49:36.360 part of the setup or something. And you're sitting there, it's 10 minutes later, and you're like,

00:49:40.580 oh, shit. That changes everything. Right? You know the old joke when people say, oh, I have a black

00:49:47.500 friend, so I can't be a racist. And I always laugh about that. Because the right answer is, you know,

00:49:52.660 it's a good start. Maybe you should have more black friends. You know, but mocking somebody for 1.00

00:49:57.500 having a black friend is like the most unproductive thing you could do. But if you're actually married 1.00

00:50:02.740 to a black woman, that's a free pass. Isn't it? Am I the only one who says that? I mean, if she's okay 1.00

00:50:12.780 with him, what do the rest of us have to say? I don't think anything. Right? Like, whatever he says

00:50:19.600 on stage isn't going to be nearly as true as whatever he says in his own home. If she's okay

00:50:26.300 with him, I'm okay with him. Right? That's the end of the story for me. So imagine seeing his jokes

00:50:33.280 taken out of context. Right? That's the ultimate out of context. This happens to Chappelle, but in a

00:50:40.660 different way. So for example, he flew really close to the sun here. So probably his biggest punchline

00:50:51.680 joke, and again, I'm quoting him, so don't cancel me. He noted that there are, in fact, he's observed

00:50:59.080 a lot of Jewish people in Hollywood. And he sort of makes a joke about how he's noticed there are,

00:51:05.680 in fact, a lot of Jewish people in Hollywood. But then he makes, he follows up with, but there are

00:51:11.780 also a lot of black people in Ferguson, and it doesn't mean they're running the place. So he says

00:51:17.540 directly, as directly as you could, that the idea that the Jews are operating as a, you know, a powerful

00:51:25.760 entity is not in evidence. There's no evidence of that. So doesn't that soften it?

00:51:35.680 I mean, he said directly that, yeah, there are a lot of them working in the town, but that you

00:51:42.040 cannot conclude anything from that. But Kanye went a little further. He concluded something.

00:51:47.840 So that's a little too far. Now, if you showed Chappelle's comments in context, who would be

00:51:54.360 offended by that? I can't even imagine anybody would be offended by that, if you saw the whole context.

00:52:00.500 Now, but if you take any part of that in a context, of course, it sounds bad. Now, let me say the thing

00:52:10.220 other people have said this, but it's fun, because it's dangerous to say. So, Kanye got in trouble

00:52:17.300 because he said, you know, the Jews. So instead of saying there are some individuals who are giving you

00:52:23.520 problems, he made it seem as if the, quote, the Jews were operating as some coherent whole. And then he

00:52:32.260 got canceled. By the Christians? I feel like his point was made. Was it not? The fact that he got 0.98

00:52:46.540 canceled proved his point. Now, I don't think that, you know, the people in Hollywood who are in charge

00:52:53.360 are having meetings, but clearly people know what is good for them as a whole and what's good for them

00:52:59.920 individually, and they act that way. So do you think there's any truth that there's any coordinated

00:53:08.460 or even just understood relationship that's giving him a problem? I don't know. I have no reason to

00:53:16.160 believe one way or the other. But the fact that he was canceled is a pretty strong confirmation of

00:53:23.500 his point. Does anybody disagree with that? Like anybody. Literally, does anybody disagree with that,

00:53:31.460 that he made his point? But it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if he's right. Well, I'm not going

00:53:39.000 to say he's right. I would say in that minor way that wasn't really related to what he was complaining

00:53:44.780 about. He made a minor, accurate point that groups will sometimes act in a coordinated way.

00:53:51.420 It doesn't mean they're calling each other. It doesn't mean they're, you know, colluding per se.

00:53:55.280 Okay. Yeah. But he went too far. I do. I disown Kanye's comments. But it's interesting to look at

00:54:05.380 the dynamics. All right. Let's take the assumption that reality will take the most entertaining path

00:54:11.140 and see if this prediction method works. All right. If reality were to take the most entertaining path,

00:54:19.800 which for some reason it seems to on a regular time, this is what Raul Davis on Twitter, who's a CEO

00:54:28.000 branding expert and also a good follow, you should follow Raul Davis on Twitter. So here's his take on

00:54:36.940 what could be the most entertaining path. Now, this is something that is well within the possible

00:54:44.140 range. Okay. Watch this blow your mind. You ready? Step one, Biden steps down for some reason after

00:54:55.220 January. Could be health, could be something else. So do you think it's possible that we would see

00:55:02.140 Biden stepping down? Yeah. You know, just because health, health reasons alone suggest that.

00:55:09.380 That would put Kamala Harris in the president's job. But here's the interesting part, as Raul points

00:55:20.100 out. Because Republicans have the House, let's assume they do, they refuse to accept anyone who

00:55:27.120 would be appointed as vice president. Is that possible? If the Republicans control the House

00:55:34.420 and Kamala moves from vice president to president, can the Republicans just refuse to help, what do you

00:55:45.960 call, approve another vice president? And if they do, if they refuse it, and let's say Walker wins the

00:55:52.580 runoff in Georgia, because there's no VP, there's no tie-breaking in the Senate, and there's no way to 0.99

00:56:01.500 determine the majority. You would have the first ever Senate that couldn't have a majority.

00:56:11.400 And every bit of that is possible. Am I wrong? There's nothing on that list that isn't, you know,

00:56:18.380 at least 20% possible. I mean, I think, you know, Biden stepping down is not 80% possible,

00:56:24.940 but it's 20% possible. This could actually happen. You could actually have a Congress with no, no

00:56:33.000 majority. All right, I'll give you my take on the most entertaining outcome. I believe my, I believe

00:56:40.200 this is the most entertaining outcome. Would you agree that Trump appears to be in his third act if

00:56:46.560 this were a movie? He would be in the impossible position that, you know, he's gotten so much heat

00:56:53.260 for, you know, the outcome of the midterms that he couldn't possibly be elected, right? So that's

00:57:00.740 the third act. In the movie, that's where your hero is in so much trouble, nothing can happen. So he's

00:57:06.440 lost the support of many of his, who had been traditionally his top supporters. I mean, it's

00:57:12.640 really, really deep hole for Trump. But what if, what if these mysterious delays in Arizona that

00:57:20.480 Harmeet, uh, reported on today? Apparently the Department of Justice got involved in the Arizona

00:57:27.380 election, and they've been looking into it, and they've been real quiet. You know, too quiet, as if

00:57:37.100 maybe there is something going on there. All right, so there's no evidence of, uh, any impropriety in the

00:57:44.800 election in terms of, you know, some, like, real, uh, rigging or something. So let me be clear, there's no

00:57:52.540 evidence of anything like that, that I've seen. But what if some of it developed? The most entertaining

00:58:01.120 path would be that they find real rigging in the 2022 election, which would mean, which would mean

00:58:11.040 Trump was right about 2020. Now, could the world handle that? I don't know. The world would just go

00:58:22.840 crazy. And here's my, here's my part for the, like, just to put a, like a cherry on top of the most

00:58:30.600 entertaining news. So imagine Trump's in his third act, but the election, there's some rigging that's

00:58:36.320 discovered that hasn't been discovered yet, uh, if ever. Um, imagine they do. Imagine that, that, uh,

00:58:44.120 that, here's the, here's the fun part. Imagine if CNN reported it straight with no, no bias.

00:58:54.680 Yup. Yup. The election was rigged. And probably that means that Trump was right about 2020.

00:59:00.760 That could actually happen. Now, again, if you're just joining me, I don't, I don't, there's no

00:59:05.940 evidence of anything being rigged anywhere for 2022. I haven't seen any evidence of that.

00:59:11.400 But in the hypothetical most entertaining outcome, Trump would be proven right. Now, let me ask you

00:59:19.360 this. Has Trump ever said something that sounded batshit crazy, and then he was later proven right?

00:59:26.800 Any, any examples of that? Yeah. Yeah. It's not, there are not only examples of that, but he does it

00:59:37.500 regularly. Right? Who, who's the one person who told you that Putin would use energy to blackmail,

00:59:44.700 uh, Germany? Trump was literally laughed at for that. Literally laughed at. Most right person. Who told you 1.00

00:59:54.620 that, uh, climate change is a hoax, a Chinese hoax. Now, I'm not claiming that's true, but it's a lot 1.00

01:00:02.500 truer than you thought before in terms of what you do about it. You know, if you watch Germany building 0.98

01:00:08.600 nuclear plants and, and, and stuff, at the same time, we're, we're limiting our economic growth

01:00:14.320 voluntarily. That does look like a hoax. The hoax is not the science. The hoax is how we're handling it.

01:00:21.380 You know, we'd be handling it in the way that China would want us to handle it, which is poorly.

01:00:27.220 So if you tell me that there's no chance that Trump would end up right about the 2020 election,

01:00:33.520 I tell you, I wouldn't bet a lot on that. Honestly, if you, if you made me put a bet today

01:00:42.980 over whether Trump will be proven right about 2020 indirectly by finding something that's a big

01:00:51.200 problem in 2022, I think it's a coin toss. I think there's at least a 50% chance that will happen.

01:00:59.940 Put, put some odds on it. Let's see your odds.

01:01:02.600 What would you say? 50% chance? Yeah. And, and of course, this gets to my, uh, my larger theory about,

01:01:15.960 you know, major organizations and systems that if something can be rigged, it will be.

01:01:22.920 If there's a high value to rigging it and there are lots of people involved and there's lots of

01:01:27.800 complexities so you can hide your, your mischief, it will be. So we don't know if any of these

01:01:33.440 elections were rigged in any important way, but we do know they will be if we don't change the

01:01:38.920 system. That's guaranteed because the incentives are, are pretty clear. Um,

01:01:46.580 so here's a question. Can you check that you voted? Uh, did you know that, I don't know if

01:01:57.720 it's in every state, but it might be, there's a portal and California has one. Yeah. So I went

01:02:02.900 on it this morning and I checked to see if I had voted because if I had voted, it would be a

01:02:08.980 surprise to me because I don't have any memory of voting recently. And so I went online and in

01:02:15.820 California, you have to know your driver's license and you have to know your, um, social security,

01:02:22.000 which, you know, now here's the problem. You can't really check dead people because I don't have a

01:02:29.140 driver's license for a dead person. Right? So that's what I want to do. I want to go on that

01:02:36.140 same site and put in my deceased parents' names, but actually they were in, they were in New York,

01:02:41.900 so I'd have to use a different site. So, um, but in New York, in other States, you don't need your

01:02:47.280 driver's license. In other States, you just need name and address. Yeah. Yeah. And California requires

01:02:55.540 a driver's license. That's right. To check your vote. Let me ask you this. In California, do you

01:03:01.300 need a driver's license to vote? If you go to the polling place and you don't have a driver's

01:03:05.800 license? Nope. Nope. But you need a driver's license to confirm you voted. How does that make

01:03:13.320 sense? Now, when I say you can vote without a driver's license, that doesn't mean you can vote

01:03:17.940 without an ID, just to be clear. So in California, you can, you can vote, but they'll put it in a

01:03:24.660 special box to confirm your identity later. It still has to be confirmed, but you can go ahead and vote

01:03:30.860 if you don't have it with you, but they, they're still going to check that you're really you in theory.

01:03:35.800 All right. So I think there should be a, uh, a national, uh, or a federal law that all States

01:03:43.940 should provide access to confirmation of whether you voted and that confirmation. And I think that

01:03:51.320 would be legal because the States handled the voting, but I don't think confirming that you voted

01:03:56.260 has to necessarily be part of the voting, the voting responsibility. I feel like that could be carved

01:04:03.840 out as a federal law. Now telling you who you voted for would be a problem. And it's not obvious,

01:04:11.700 but I'll tell you why. If I could go online and show you who I voted for, then I could show anyone

01:04:17.780 who I voted for, right? I could just say, here it is. Look for yourself. I voted. If I could do that,

01:04:24.560 I can sell my vote. If I can prove who I voted for, I can sell my vote. If I can't prove it,

01:04:31.660 I can't sell it. Right. So, yeah. So you don't want that. You just want, so here's what I'd like

01:04:41.580 to check. I heard a, uh, uh, I heard from an individual who I consider credible that this

01:04:51.160 individual has, uh, several friends who checked to see if they had voted and found that they had

01:04:57.280 been voting for several years and they had not voted for several years. I think they had been

01:05:03.240 in the military or something. So there was some reason that they voted in the military when it

01:05:07.120 was easy, I guess. But when they were out of the military, you know, they were out of the habit and

01:05:11.280 didn't vote. But it turns out they'd been voting every year since they were in the military and they

01:05:16.820 can confirm it. They'd looked up their own name and yep, I voted last year, but I didn't vote last

01:05:21.620 year. Now that's anecdotal. That's anecdotal. So you shouldn't put any weight on it at all.

01:05:29.620 Right. I got it from a good source, but the source is talking to people I don't know.

01:05:34.120 You know, three levels of telephone involved. Who knows if you're even on the same topic. Right.

01:05:38.840 So I'm not, I'm not asserting that that's true. Just asserting I heard it and it suggests we should

01:05:44.920 have a way to check that sort of thing. So wouldn't you like to be able to check your own parents

01:05:49.480 who are deceased to see if they voted? Wouldn't you like that? I mean, maybe you can limit it to

01:05:56.160 your own parents. Like if you are the child, I don't know if you could prove that anyway.

01:06:01.160 Probably not. But maybe you should be able to check if anybody voted.

01:06:07.620 It's a little bit of a privacy issue to me. I don't like the fact that someone can check to see if I

01:06:12.660 voted, but in California you can't because you would need my driver's license number to do that.

01:06:16.840 So in California I have more privacy. Yeah, there's something we do right. How about that?

01:06:21.800 How about that? California and its privacy. Didn't see that coming, did you? Yeah, we have

01:06:28.180 more privacy than other states on this, you know, one little area. All right. Well, I'd like to see

01:06:34.260 that change. I believe if we could check to see if dead people voted, we'd know everything we need to

01:06:42.600 know. Maybe. But you also have the people who did not have, well, let me make a point that a number of

01:06:53.860 people have made. So I guess I'm just agreeing with this point. The election was determined by,

01:06:59.360 fill in the blanks. The 2020 election was determined by, and then everybody fills in a different answer,

01:07:05.220 right? It's because of Trump. It's because of alleged fraud. It's because of the bad messaging.

01:07:14.040 It's because of bad candidates, right? You've got a hundred reasons. There was only one reason.

01:07:21.120 How the rules are designed tells you it wins. And the rules keep getting tweaked. So every time the

01:07:28.700 rules are tweaked, that's your vote. The rule changes are the vote. Because the rule changes

01:07:36.380 are made with the knowledge of how it will change things. So they don't change the rules for no

01:07:42.840 reason. They change it to, you know, get an outcome. So in every way, the tweaks in the system

01:07:50.700 are what determines who wins. Now, if we had a system that was never tweaked, eventually that,

01:07:58.420 you know, might even out. Like the two teams would figure out how to work within the rules that they

01:08:02.440 have. But as long as you keep tweaking them, every tweak, at least for that next election,

01:08:09.180 it's the tweak that determines who gets elected. Ten years from now, the other team has figured out

01:08:15.280 how to deal with this new reality, and they can compete. But as soon as you make the tweak,

01:08:19.980 it's in favor of one team and not another. Now, the tweaks that are most important are voting by

01:08:25.360 mail. Democrats, for reasons I don't understand, like voting by mail. And Republicans, for reasons I

01:08:33.060 don't understand, like voting in person. And as long as that's true, and as long as the voting tweaks

01:08:41.380 are favoring mail-in voting, Republicans really can't win. Because of the rules. Not because of how many

01:08:48.900 people want to vote or who they vote for. All right. Let's see. Rasmussen did a little poll on

01:08:58.780 who thinks that cheating affected the election. And 57% of likely U.S. voters believe it is likely

01:09:06.440 that the outcome of some elections this year will be affected by cheating. Now, affected by cheating

01:09:12.420 doesn't necessarily mean it changes the outcome. It might change the vote count.

01:09:20.300 And that includes 30% who say it's very likely. But that's basically Republicans, I think.

01:09:27.500 It's mostly Republicans and the independents who vote Republican.

01:09:30.520 14% of respondents said voting by mail makes it harder to cheat. That's a little low. I was expecting

01:09:40.520 maybe 11% more would say that. But 30% say mail-in voting doesn't make much difference in terms

01:09:50.740 of election cheating. I guess that depends what cheating means. If you're doing it within the

01:09:58.080 rules, it's not cheating. All right. So when elections are close and rules are being changed on a fairly

01:10:08.280 regular basis, it's only the rules that determines the outcome. Would anybody disagree with that

01:10:14.780 statement, that our outcome was determined by the rules? It wasn't determined by the voters this time.

01:10:20.540 Would you agree? And would you agree that over time, if you could keep the rules the same for a few

01:10:28.160 years, over time, then the two sides would even out because they would learn how to compete within

01:10:32.940 the new rules? So there's an analogy to this with economics. I think even maybe Trump has commented on

01:10:42.020 this. In economics, it's more important to stay the same than it is to be better. Like if you said to

01:10:48.920 yourself, you know, this economic system would be better if we change this one thing. But if you

01:10:54.980 do, everybody has to adjust and then you get some disruption. But the people will adjust to whatever

01:11:03.240 the rules are, especially real estate. If you change, say, the real estate depreciation rules,

01:11:08.960 the whole industry is just like in trouble because they're playing by a certain set of rules.

01:11:13.720 So generally speaking, changing the rules in the middle of the game is a really bad thing.

01:11:21.780 So it doesn't matter what the context is.

01:11:26.340 Let's see what else is going on.

01:11:31.380 A group called the Zionist Organization of America. So I guess these are Jewish groups that are

01:11:38.720 supporting Israel. They just had an event in which they honored Trump. And he got a standing

01:11:44.300 ovation for the Jerusalem embassy. This was reported by Joel Pollack. So he got a standing

01:11:52.540 ovation because they liked him moving the embassy to Jerusalem. They liked the Golan Heights,

01:11:57.780 stand against Iran, the defunding of the Palestinians paid a slave, the withdrawal from the corrupt 0.89

01:12:02.900 UN Human Rights Council, and the fight against terror, among other successes, and being strong

01:12:08.100 against Iran. Now those all sound like all the right reasons, right? Those are all the right 1.00

01:12:13.940 reasons that he's being honored by the Jewish community in the United States. But here's my

01:12:19.420 question. How do the people who believed the fine people hoax process this news? Like what kind of

01:12:27.940 mental gymnastics do you have to do? Because do you think that if it had ever really happened

01:12:35.060 that Trump had said that the group marching and saying anti-Semitic things, that he said they were

01:12:42.740 fine people? Do you think that they would be honoring him? Of course not. Of course not. So they

01:12:49.540 obviously know it wasn't true. So if you do think it was true, how do you explain that the Jewish

01:12:54.780 community knows it's not true? Because if they even thought it was true, like maybe a little bit

01:13:01.820 suspicious it was true. They would act that way. But they act like it's not true. So why do the

01:13:09.180 non-Jewish people think he actually, you know, favor the marching racists while the Jewish people are

01:13:15.540 like, hey, here's an award. Yay for you, standing ovation. It's just hard to explain. But it does,

01:13:21.140 I think, I think it's more evidence that, you know, people are hoax-driven.

01:13:28.340 I saw an interesting reframe here by Twitter user Daily Sunshine. And here's the reframe.

01:13:35.620 The Democrats have shifted their election strategy from a voter strategy to a ballot strategy.

01:13:44.420 These are not the same, and the ballot strategy is far more effective.

01:13:47.220 Whereas the GOP, as always, are trapped in last cycle's election. In other words, the GOP is trying

01:13:53.220 to get voters, and the Democrats are trying to get ballots. And you would approach those things

01:14:01.540 differently. And getting ballots is more important than voters. Because you can get a voter who doesn't

01:14:08.100 vote. But if you get a ballot, you get a ballot. Right? So the more ballots you get, that's a more

01:14:13.860 effective strategy. I kind of like that reframe. Does that fit with you? Does that sound about

01:14:20.260 right? Yeah. When you hear it, you're like, oh, man, that's true. The Republicans appear to be doing

01:14:28.660 nothing about improving the ballot, you know, collection. I won't call it harvesting. Whereas

01:14:35.620 the Democrats are obsessed with it. And it works. So, you know, Republicans do have to look at their

01:14:44.180 strategy, for sure. All right. Here's what Mike Cernovich tweeted about the election. So I think

01:14:54.260 a lot of people are having similar thoughts. That's why I'll read this. He tweets,

01:14:57.460 every election day metric that had to be hit, got hit, then exceeded. Betting markets saw the GOP

01:15:05.380 wins. Regime propagandists were melting down. Democrats were already cooking up a stolen

01:15:10.740 election narrative. And then he says in all caps, against all odds, Democrats pulled the Senate and

01:15:17.940 maybe the House. Now, is it against all odds? Or is it exactly what should happen? Because Democrats

01:15:27.060 focused on ballots and Republicans focused on the wrong stuff. So one explanation is it's actually

01:15:36.500 completely normal. It's exactly what you'd expect. Right? The other explanation is that there was massive

01:15:44.260 cheating. Which one of those is better supported by the observed data? So two hypotheses that the Democrats

01:15:56.420 just outperformed, especially they got more ballots turned in, or is obviously a fraud.

01:16:05.940 You can't tell the difference. You can't tell the difference. There's no way to know. All right?

01:16:12.740 It might have been they just did a good job.

01:16:16.260 You can't rule that out. Because the most common explanation

01:16:26.180 fits, the most ordinary explanation fits perfectly. They did a little better job on ballot collection.

01:16:35.220 Now, I'm not telling you that's my opinion.

01:16:37.060 Because we live in a world in which every entity seems to be corrupt.

01:16:42.660 So it would be quite the miracle if our election system is the only one.

01:16:47.540 It's the only one with no corruption. Right? It's the only thing.

01:16:52.740 Maybe. It's not impossible, but it would be pretty unlikely.

01:16:56.420 Yeah.

01:17:02.100 Let's see.

01:17:06.500 And there's a college, Gettysburg College.

01:17:11.780 They had to postpone an event.

01:17:15.380 There was a painting and writing event, so people wanted to paint and write.

01:17:18.820 And it was hosted by the Gender Sexuality and Resource Center for people who are,

01:17:24.660 as they put it, quote, tired of white cis men.

01:17:30.500 And they offered the event as part of a peace and justice senior project.

01:17:37.220 But the fact that the sign said,

01:17:41.940 come paint and write about how you're tired of straight white men, 0.89

01:17:45.860 that didn't go over as well as they'd hoped.

01:17:48.820 Now, here's what...

01:17:51.380 I think cis, C-I-S, means you're just straight, right? 0.95

01:17:55.340 It just means you're a straight male.

01:17:57.140 Cis? Is that what it means? C-I-S? 0.99

01:17:58.560 I don't even know what it means.

01:17:59.840 Yeah, cis is just straight.

01:18:05.220 But here's what's shocking about this.

01:18:10.100 The shocking thing is that there's somebody in college

01:18:12.960 who thinks you can make a poster and publish it that is anti-white male directly.

01:18:20.940 And that that's fine.

01:18:24.180 Does that just blow your mind?

01:18:27.240 That there's some...

01:18:27.520 Apparently, there are a number of people who thought that was just...

01:18:30.080 That's just fine.

01:18:33.140 That's shocking.

01:18:34.840 It's shocking.

01:18:36.460 I don't know if there's ever going to be, like, a major pushback by white males.

01:18:41.980 But if there is, let me tell you what it's going to look like.

01:18:46.700 It's going to be a sex strike. 0.99

01:18:50.000 It's going to be a sex strike. 0.99

01:18:52.500 By men.

01:18:55.020 I think men are going to say,

01:18:56.840 You know what?

01:18:58.340 Fuck every one of you.

01:19:01.380 You're on your own.

01:19:03.440 And it will take about two weeks before things will, you know, get back to normal.

01:19:07.720 But at some point, white men are just going to go on strike.

01:19:11.960 You know it's going to happen.

01:19:13.620 We're not there.

01:19:14.680 Like, I don't think we're, you know, knocking on the door of that.

01:19:17.380 But at some point, we're just going to say,

01:19:18.940 Fuck all of you.

01:19:20.900 Do it yourself.

01:19:22.880 You know, help yourself.

01:19:24.620 You know, go nuts.

01:19:26.620 Just see what happens.

01:19:29.500 What would happen if adult white men stopped protecting people in public?

01:19:36.500 Absolute chaos.

01:19:38.400 Men in general.

01:19:39.300 It doesn't have to be white men. 0.69

01:19:40.320 But we're talking about men here.

01:19:42.120 White men. 0.62

01:19:43.760 Yeah.

01:19:44.220 I don't think that the public knows the contribution of men in general.

01:19:51.500 I think that it's taken for granted.

01:19:53.440 And if they withdrew their contribution, it would be noticed pretty quickly.

01:19:58.260 Pretty quickly.

01:20:01.140 University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

01:20:04.420 I don't know what you're talking about.

01:20:08.280 Open your own doors.

01:20:10.780 Yeah.

01:20:11.860 I don't know.

01:20:12.440 But I just have a sense that straight white men are done.

01:20:21.840 You know, probably the characteristic of straight white men is that we're so flexible it hurts. 0.82

01:20:27.960 Like, okay.

01:20:30.420 All right.

01:20:31.220 We'll put up with that.

01:20:32.280 All right.

01:20:32.820 You can have a little of this.

01:20:34.260 Okay.

01:20:35.600 And then, but we reach some point where it's just too far.

01:20:38.660 I don't think we're there, but it could happen.

01:20:46.000 UVA, there's a shooting.

01:20:47.280 No wonder I haven't heard of that.

01:21:00.740 So somebody's saying that we haven't heard it in the news because it was a black shooter, five people dead.

01:21:07.260 Suspect in custody.

01:21:10.960 Well, okay.

01:21:11.820 Well, we'll keep an eye on that.

01:21:15.580 What's Coulter's Law?

01:21:18.540 You find people much nicer after the pandemic.

01:21:21.200 Good.

01:21:26.460 He was an ex-football player.

01:21:27.840 I did not thank my husband near enough.

01:21:32.240 Took him for granted.

01:21:35.200 All right.

01:21:35.980 25 minutes go a while.

01:21:39.920 All right.

01:21:42.060 Wednesday, coffee with Scott Adams' cruise.

01:21:44.820 Hey, that's an idea.

01:21:46.600 Should we do a cruise?

01:21:50.160 Maybe.

01:21:51.280 All right.

01:21:51.880 That's all for now.

01:21:53.020 Is there any topic I missed?

01:21:54.360 And can we agree that this was the finest live stream of all time?

01:22:01.260 Yeah, I think it's unanimous, it looks like it.

01:22:04.860 Yeah, I've talked about FTX yesterday.

01:22:13.580 Elon fired Eric.

01:22:16.340 Oh, the program.

01:22:17.920 Did he fire him today or had he already fired him?

01:22:20.200 Did he fire him today?

01:22:26.480 Well, give me today or not today.

01:22:28.840 Yesterday?

01:22:31.520 Yesterday?

01:22:32.580 He fired him by Twitter?

01:22:35.360 No way.

01:22:37.220 Are you serious?

01:22:38.620 If I look at my Twitter account, I'm going to see Elon Musk firing?

01:22:42.600 Oh, stay for a moment.

01:22:44.720 We've got to do this.

01:22:46.420 All right.

01:22:46.760 This we have to do together.

01:22:47.780 All right.

01:22:51.180 Really?

01:22:54.980 All right.

01:22:55.900 The Musk.

01:22:58.000 You'll probably post it in the comments before I get to it.

01:23:01.980 All right.

01:23:02.200 That would be in his tweets and replies.

01:23:06.860 He's fired.

01:23:08.420 Oh, my God.

01:23:13.940 But when Elon says he's fired, it doesn't mean he just fired him.

01:23:17.480 When he says he's fired, that could mean he was one of the people who was fired in the first wave.

01:23:25.440 So don't be so sure he fired him on Twitter just now.

01:23:29.160 I'm not sure that's what happened.

01:23:30.960 But I like the fact that he's fired.

01:23:33.100 But I like the fact that he's fired.

01:23:38.740 Let's see if somebody asks him for a clarification.

01:23:40.660 Well, apparently, I guess the guy's Twitter profile, as of this morning, said still at Twitter.

01:23:58.180 So apparently he did survive the layoffs.

01:24:02.380 And Musk just fired him for admitting that he couldn't make Android work in six years.

01:24:08.920 Oh, my God.

01:24:13.040 This might be the best thing all month.

01:24:17.200 I can't even tell you how much I enjoy this.

01:24:23.560 Oh, my God.

01:24:28.100 I've got to show you a picture of the guy.

01:24:33.260 Here he is.

01:24:35.160 So if you think something bad is going to happen to you sometime in the future,

01:24:41.580 make sure that your profile picture isn't the kind of picture that's exactly the wrong look for something bad happened to you.

01:24:51.460 Like, that's just not the right look.

01:24:56.900 All right.

01:25:01.240 I've got to go do some other things.

01:25:03.240 There's some fun things brewing I can't tell you about.

01:25:07.840 Maybe you'll find out soon.

01:25:09.760 And I'll talk to you later.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - November 14, 2022

Episode 1927 Scott Adams： Are We Headed Toward The Most Entertaining Election Outcome？ Maybe Yes

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