Episode 1927 Scott Adams： Are We Headed Toward The Most Entertaining Election Outcome？ Maybe Yes
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Summary
Dilbert is getting blocked for dangerous content by some VPNs. Actor Ed O Neill talks about Britney Spears wanting a photo with him. And a new technology that can talk to your old self in your old voice.
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Welcome to the Highlight of Civilization, Coffee with Scott Adams, and I promise you,
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today is a content-filled extravaganza. Some of the best, coolest stories I've heard in a long time,
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and not all of them bad. Actually, a lot of it's kind of cool. And you will be part of this
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ever seen in the history of humanity. But if you'd like to take it up to that level,
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and I know you do, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass of tank or chalice or stein a canteen
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jug or flask of a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me
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now for the unparalleled pleasure. It's the dopamine here of the day. It's the thing that makes everything
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better. Go. Savor it. Savor it. Good. Very good.
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My favorite story of the day, of no particular importance, is, you know, actor Ed O'Neill? He was
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on Modern Family and married with children. You all know him. He was at an airport recently,
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and a fan came up and asked if she could take a photo with him. And so he, you know, being a public
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figure, but, you know, people ask this all the time, he was like, yeah, okay. So he's sitting in a chair
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in the airport, and this young lady, like, leans over him and gets a little too close. And they take
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the picture, and he's just like, it turned out to be Britney Spears. He didn't notice who it was.
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So he's acting unimpressed that Britney Spears wants a picture with him. He's like, all right. You want
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one? Somebody said, that's an old story. Well, it's not old to me. I just heard it. All right.
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Today's Dilbert is getting blocked for dangerous content by some VPNs. And when Dilbert gets blocked
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for dangerous content, you know I'm going to read it to you, don't you? So here's today's
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Dilbert. It's Dilbert talking to his boss. You can see him at Dilbert.com. Dilbert says,
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the trial data says our new product is dangerous and doesn't do what we claim. The boss says,
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have you showed anyone else the data? Dilbert says, no. And the boss says, whew, that problem
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solved itself. So it's dangerous content. Danger, danger, danger. Watch out for that dangerous
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content. All right. Here's a technology I just heard about that has a lot of potential. I'd
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heard a long time ago that people did an experiment where they showed a digitally aged version of
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a person to their young self and apparently had an impact on how much they saved for retirement
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because once they could see their real selves, at least the digital form, they could imagine
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themselves in the future and then they would take care of themselves in a way that they wouldn't if
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they weren't thinking about the future. Well, it turns out that VR is going to be even better for
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that because there's a group in Indianapolis where Oberlin, some guy named Oberlin and his
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colleagues, they're doing a pilot study where they'll take a person who has a variety of mental
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problems, but they're working on addiction in particular. And I guess this works for a variety
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of things, but they're testing it for addiction. And they'll actually put you in the virtual reality
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goggles. And here's the thing. You will have a conversation with your older self, a fully immersive
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photorealistic version of you aged. And the you aged will have AI, but it will talk in your voice.
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Yeah. You've seen some examples I've tweeted around where the AI could talk in your voice.
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Machiavelli's Underbelly, that account, he does a bunch of examples of that all the time.
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So we know the AI can talk in your voice because I've heard AI talk in my voice and some of you have
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heard it as well. Now, shut up old man. I don't know if you're talking to me or the troll.
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So here's the thing. Do you think it would work to have somebody encounter their future self
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talking to them in their own voice? Do you think that would work?
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Here's why I think it would. I have a strange quality, or let's say a strange relationship with time.
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And I always have. I just have this weird relationship with time. Part of the relationship
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is I'm usually on time. You've probably noticed I'm usually on time for this. And I'm also good
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at guessing time. Like I can guess what time it is pretty well. And I can plan things that
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they'll fit into a certain amount of time. So I have a good relationship with time. But beyond that,
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beyond that, and this is not a joke, when I was a kid, I had a 60-year plan.
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I literally could imagine myself in 60 years. And then I imagined a pathway to that.
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And the plan when I was, you know, probably 10 years old, was that I would become a famous
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cartoonist. And then I would leverage that to make me more a general, you know, a general
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helpful person. You know, so I thought I would be a public figure, but that my contribution would
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be something past cartooning. This is literally exactly what I planned 60 years ago. I'm actually
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sitting and modeling the culmination of a 60-year specific plan, just the way I planned it.
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Now, you might say to yourself, Scott, you know, why don't you plan your personal life a little bit
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better than that? You know, I never had a plan for my personal life. And I never imagined I would
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be married for life. I always saw marriage as a rental for a variety of reasons we could talk about
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later. But I don't really see marriage as something that could last for most people, you know, in a good
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way for most of their life. 20% of the public, totally works. So here's my contribution to this VR
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technique. I think if you could take people who can't imagine the future the way I did automatically,
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even as a child, because everybody's different, right? Every natural ability is distributed in
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varied ways across people. So it makes sense that there's some people who just can't imagine the
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future. So you give them a way to imagine the future by bringing the future to the present,
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essentially the ghost of, you know, Christmas future. I think it would work. And who would be
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the most influential person to convince you to do something? Yourself. The most influential person,
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one would assume. I mean, without testing it, I assume this. But I feel like listening to yourself
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talking your own words and looking like you, you would have the most empathy, the most pacing and
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leading naturally. That would be the most influential thing I could imagine. I wouldn't know for sure unless
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you tested it, but, you know, reasonably you can imagine that. So that's a really big deal. Do you
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know how big a deal that is? If you were to add, there are three things that have happened recently
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that all seem related and good. Number one, this Andrew Huberman breathing technique, the two inhales
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through your nose, two sharp inhales followed by a deep exhale out of your mouth. That definitely
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works. Have any of you tried it enough to know that it works like right away? You could actually
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feel it right away. Yeah. I'm looking at the comments. There's enough people who confirm that
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it works. That's probably a bigger deal than you think. I mean, it's almost like the invention of
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exercise or something. It's probably that deep in terms of its importance. So you've got that going
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on. Now you've got this virtual reality thing going on, which I think has amazing potential,
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specifically because the people who can't imagine themselves going wrong in the future
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are the ones making the bad decisions today. And apparently it works on some other mental health
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issues as well, they think. And then you add to that the legalization and let's say the normalization
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of mushrooms. And I don't think there's any doubt at this point that mushrooms are a mental health
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miracle. Right. So if you add the breathing exercises, if you add the virtual reality maybe,
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and you add the mushrooms, we might be on the verge of taking a big bite out of mental health problems.
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Maybe. I want to see if an experience I had yesterday rings true with any of you. Do any of you
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have the experience that you can't handle people as much after the pandemic? Does anybody have that experience?
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that just people are different? Like how you react to them? It's not the same. Right? Okay, I'm seeing a lot
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of yeses on the locals platform. But let me tell you my experience yesterday, all right? So when I go to
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the gym, and I think most of you would agree with this, when I'm in go to the gym mode, I really, really,
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really don't want to talk to anybody. It has nothing to do with the people, right? People are fine.
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But it doesn't, it doesn't fit with exercise, right? Once you're in that energy, and especially if you've
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started your exercise routine already, do you want to stop your weight routine in like in the middle to
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talk to somebody for 10 minutes? It's a killer, right? So I go to the gym yesterday. And on the way in,
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I spot a friend of mine, somebody I've known a long time, tennis partner, who I happen to know is
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going through a tough time. And I knew that he would want to talk about it. And I thought, oh,
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shit, I like this guy. He's a great guy. But and he's also, you know, he probably needs some support
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because he's, he's going through a tough time. And I thought, oh, no, no, no, no. So, but he was on his
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phone. When I walked by, you know, toward the entrance, I thought, oh, good, he's on his phone. So, you
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know, he's doing his thing. And I get into the club. And then there are two major exercise areas. And I
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thought, if he catches me in one of the same exercise areas, and in case he watches this, let me say
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again, this is a really good guy, right? I like talking to him. I spent a lot of time with him. Totally great
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guy. But I really, really, that day, did not want to talk. So I'm sitting in this little area that's
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between the two major rooms. I managed to avoid him by like spotting him and, you know, working
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around so I don't get into a conversation. And I go to check my phone. I'm still in the middle of my
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routine. I'm just checking my phone on the way to from one machine to another. And I, and I've got my
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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
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curled up like in a fetal position, so that I can't see anything, except straight down, looking at my
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phone. So I can't hear anything. And I can't see anything except straight down my own feet. I'm safe,
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right? There is no way. There's no way anybody's going to be like asking me to talk because I'm
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sending the signal so clearly. So as I'm looking at my feet on the carpet, I see my friend's head
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appear. He actually got down at carpet level to get underneath to wave to me to get my attention
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because he couldn't get my attention otherwise. And so I took out my earbuds and I had a long
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conversation. And then my, my workout was completely ruined. Now, how do you feel when your workout is
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ruined? It's terrible, right? It bothers you more than it should, because it's actually, it's like a, the most
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minor problem, right? If you're a regular exercise person, you know, losing, losing 20 minutes one day
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is nothing. But, you know, it sets you off in a little, in a little snit, right? So I said to myself,
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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
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I'll get some work done. So I go to Starbucks. There are two Starbucks, you know, to the left and the
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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
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couple in front of me. Now, have you ever been behind an older couple at Starbucks? Now, I am an
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older person now, but we don't all act the same. And these older people, very nice people, they look
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like the kind of people you'd love to hang around with. But they had questions. And they continued
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to order things that weren't available. And once they realized it wasn't available, they didn't just
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say the next thing they wanted. They had to go back and shop again. So they had to go back to the
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counter with the pastries and they had a little eyesight problem. So they'd have to get right out to it.
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I don't know. What am I seeing in there? Looks like some kind of a turnover. What's that? The
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turnover thing. What's the turnover thing? I don't know. And so it was very obvious. They kept adding
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things and changing things. And there were details. And I said to myself, if I have to wait here one more
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minute, I am going to slay these people. And they'll have a lot to explain. So I said, I think I'm going
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to leave here before I slay these elderly people. So I took my laptop and I got out of line, got in my
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car. And yeah, as luck would have it, there's a Starbucks everywhere. So I go, you know, two miles in
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the other direction, get in line. And there's two lines. So, you know, a two-line Starbucks, you know,
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you've got options, you're in good shape. At both lines in the front were double Karens.
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They both had double Karens. And I looked at the, after listening to it for a while,
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they had details and issues and concerns. They had things they needed to talk about. There was
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information they needed and there were things they needed to be a little bit different.
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And I listened to it a while and I looked at the face of the Starbucks employee and she
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was just, like, completely defeated. And I waited for a while and then I realized that
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if I didn't get the fuck out of Starbucks, I was going to kill four Karens. What are the
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odds there would be two Karens, you know, like they were pairs, at each cash register. So in
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one day, I managed to not be able to work out, not be able to go to Starbucks, not be able
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to go to Starbucks. What was the common reason for all of it? I couldn't fucking stand human
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beings. I couldn't stand them. I just couldn't stand being around them. Now, is that just me?
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Or do you feel that since the pandemic? Does anybody else feel that?
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So he says, Mike says, not wondering why I'm divorced. Let me ask you this.
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All right. I was just going to go off on you for a moment, but I think I won't right away.
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Yeah, I am. Fuck it. I'm just going to go off on you. How the fuck do you think you could guess
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what happened with my personal life? I mean, seriously, how many of you assholes think you
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have a real good idea of what happened? You don't have any fucking idea and there's no way you ever
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could. There's nothing you could guess. There's nothing that's obvious. There's nothing that happened
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that would be on your list of top 10 things that are likely. Fuck it. Nothing. You don't know fuck
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anything about me. So your speculations about my personal life are pure assholery.
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We're going to talk about you a little bit more.
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Not that I care. It's just I wondered if you know how stupid you sound.
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Well, it doesn't bother me per se, but how stupid you look just like bothers me that I have to live
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in a world with fucking people like you, right? The fact that you would come on this live stream
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and insert in the middle of the show something about my fucking marriage. You fucking asshole.
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You piece of shit. You absolute garbage. What were you trying to accomplish?
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There's a topic that I was going to cover and I'll hit it now. Did any of you see the
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Pierce Morgan interview with Jordan Peterson? It was awesome. But one of the things that Jordan
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Peterson talks about is that the problem with social media is that about 3% of the country are
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like this asshole. They're actually just toxic fucking pieces of shit. Roughly 3% of the public.
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But what social media does is it makes the 3% piece of shit people the, you know, the prominent ones
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because they make the most trouble. So Jordan Peterson was mentioning how bad a system it is
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because it promotes the worst people. He was talking about Instagram in particular and how
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the Instagram, you know, the people who spend the most time on it are just completely damaged women.
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There are narcissists and psychopaths and sociopaths and stuff. And I have to mention, I have to
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notice that I've been spending more time on Instagram. And when I see the Instagram women,
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I don't think of them as beautiful anymore. I see them as mentally damaged. Does anybody have
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that experience? And that's, that's new, I'd say in the last year or so. And I know what you're going
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to say, blah, blah, blah, your marriage. No, it's not because of that. It's not because of that. You're
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going to be an asshole and you're going to say that. No, it's not because of that. It's because I look
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at them and I go, oh my God, in order to act the way you're acting, that this is your big payoff.
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That's clearly mental illness. Am I wrong? All I see is mental illness now. I don't see,
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ooh, I'd like to, I'd like to get naked with that girl. She's got a good body. Nope. I see somebody
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who would be the biggest pain in the ass I've ever encountered in my life. Do you know,
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do you know what those girls are like when they're not on camera? Well, I'll tell you nothing matters
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except them getting on camera. That's, that's going to be the thing that's their top priority.
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Anyway, enough of that. Phoenix is testing these Waymo driverless taxis now. So if you're in
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Phoenix, you can actually use their app. They had been in testing, but this is the first time
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the public can actually use it. So you can get an app for Waymo and you can order a driverless taxi.
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In the city of Phoenix. Now, let me ask you, would you try that first?
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Would you be in the first wave of people who got in a driverless taxi?
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You know, I suspect the data says it's safer, not more dangerous.
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But then you've got the second question. Who believes data? Right? The entire argument for
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self-driving cars is that if you really look at the data, the data says unambiguously that the
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self-driving cars will be safer. Maybe not yet, but it's obvious that they will be. But we don't
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believe data anymore, do we? And we should not. Data is mostly bullshit. That's what we've learned
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in the last two years. You can't believe the data the company produces. Could you? I mean,
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you can't believe any data the company produces. So I don't know. I think I would be tempted to try
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it, but I'd probably try a pretty short trip. I think I'd try, you know, like four blocks or
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something. Let's see if I survive. I'm sure they're safer though. So that's amazing. Self-driving
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cars in theory would fix everything. If you think about it, it would take a while. But if you had
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all self-driving cars, you know, you could do away with streetlights, right? Streetlights and stop signs
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would just be unnecessary because presumably the cars would be networked. So they'd know if they could
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go or not based on where everything is. Plus, plus a vision. That would be scary. Imagine going
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through the intersection at full speed and nobody's slowing down. That's where we're heading.
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That's where we're heading. And I think I'd have to close my eyes to be in that car.
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Well, the Ukrainians got, let's say, 850 Black Hornet micro drones from the UK.
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Now, a Black Hornet micro drone is a tiny little helicopter that I think is just used for surveillance.
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It doesn't blow up or shoot anything. It's just looked to be about six inches long. It looks like a
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tiny little helicopter. Now, if they work, and apparently they're undetectable because they're
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too quiet and small, that would give the Ukrainians basically complete vision over their enemy.
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And let me ask you this. Half an hour battery. That's probably all I need. Let me ask you this.
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Didn't we expect that the Ukrainian drones would not be that useful because the Russians would have so
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much anti-drone technology? Wasn't that what all the smart people told me? And I said, there's no way
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you're going to get enough anti-drone technology to be enough for all the drones that could be in
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your vicinity. So all the experts who said, oh, that anti-drone technology will make those drones
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useless. None of that was true. Literally, none of that was true. Right? Absolute, completely wrong.
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Did you see the story that Lavrov, is he the Putin's, what's his job, foreign secretary or something?
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What is Lavrov's job in Russia? He's the secretary of state? Okay, something like that. But so he got
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taken to a hospital and I guess released. And then the rumor was that he was actually going to defect.
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But I have a different rumor I want to add to that. But he's already out of the hospital,
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so my rumor doesn't work. My rumor is that if you were Lavrov and you left Russia, the odds of you
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being poisoned seem really high. Am I right? How would you like to be Lavrov and just order room service
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in your hotel? Would you trust room service if you were Lavrov? I wouldn't. Because I don't know how
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the Ukrainians can't get at him. If I were Ukrainian, I would poison Lavrov and make it look like Putin
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did it. If they could figure out how to poison Lavrov with the polonium tea, if they could kill
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him with the same technique that Putin allegedly kills his enemies, that would be pretty effective
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psyop. But he's out of the hospital, so nothing like that happened. There's a huge fentanyl bust in
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New York. A man had 20,000 fentanyl pills, so of course he was released without bail.
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Here's a question for those who like to do math and data. Could we make an estimate that on average
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20,000 fentanyl pills would cause X number of overdose deaths? Is that a big enough number
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that you could say, oh yeah, you put 20,000 pills into an area, you're definitely getting
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five dead? Could you do that? Now, I spent five minutes Googling and I didn't see the data
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that would allow me to do that calculation. But maybe you've seen it. Or maybe you could
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make a reasonable assumption. I'm going to make an assumption that 20,000 pills probably
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kills five to 10 people. So here's a guy who's literally a mass murderer, I believe,
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or attempted mass murderer, and he got released without bail. He probably is going to kill five
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to 10 people, or they stopped him from. But when they release him, what's he going to go
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back to? His job as an accountant? Will he go back to his job as an accountant? No. Presumably,
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he will go back to his job of carrying fentanyl and having lots of fentanyl pills. And then
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he'll kill five to 10 more. If I found this guy in the street, I would be very tempted to kill him.
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Like, actually kill him. Like, I'm not joking. Kill him. I mean, if I thought I could get away
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with it, I would stab him to death personally. That's not a joke. It would only require that I
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knew I could get away with it, which you could never get away with murder these days. So it would
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be a bad idea. But honestly, honestly, if I could kill him with my own bare hands, I would do it.
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I would strangle him with my own hands if I could. And I wouldn't even lose sleep. Honestly. Would you
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lose sleep if you killed bin Laden? I wouldn't. I wouldn't lose any sleep. I don't think, you know,
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I don't think O'Neill, who actually killed bin Laden, I'll bet he didn't lose a lot of sleep over it.
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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.
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.
00:30:48.240
There were two, let's see, what do they call themselves? Plus size models?
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
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
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
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
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
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.
00:41:46.960
He's talking about the 3% of the world who are genuinely, genuinely horrible people. And they're
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
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
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
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
00:49:57.500
having a black friend is like the most unproductive thing you could do. But if you're actually married
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
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
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
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
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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
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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
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path would be that they find real rigging in the 2022 election, which would mean, which would mean
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Trump was right about 2020. Now, could the world handle that? I don't know. The world would just go
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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
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discovered that hasn't been discovered yet, uh, if ever. Um, imagine they do. Imagine that, that, uh,
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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.
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That could actually happen. Now, again, if you're just joining me, I don't, I don't, there's no
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evidence of anything being rigged anywhere for 2022. I haven't seen any evidence of that.
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But in the hypothetical most entertaining outcome, Trump would be proven right. Now, let me ask you
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this. Has Trump ever said something that sounded batshit crazy, and then he was later proven right?
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Any, any examples of that? Yeah. Yeah. It's not, there are not only examples of that, but he does it
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regularly. Right? Who, who's the one person who told you that Putin would use energy to blackmail,
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uh, Germany? Trump was literally laughed at for that. Literally laughed at. Most right person. Who told you
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that, uh, climate change is a hoax, a Chinese hoax. Now, I'm not claiming that's true, but it's a lot
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truer than you thought before in terms of what you do about it. You know, if you watch Germany building
01:00:08.600
nuclear plants and, and, and stuff, at the same time, we're, we're limiting our economic growth
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voluntarily. That does look like a hoax. The hoax is not the science. The hoax is how we're handling it.
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You know, we'd be handling it in the way that China would want us to handle it, which is poorly.
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So if you tell me that there's no chance that Trump would end up right about the 2020 election,
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I tell you, I wouldn't bet a lot on that. Honestly, if you, if you made me put a bet today
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over whether Trump will be proven right about 2020 indirectly by finding something that's a big
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problem in 2022, I think it's a coin toss. I think there's at least a 50% chance that will happen.
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What would you say? 50% chance? Yeah. And, and of course, this gets to my, uh, my larger theory about,
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you know, major organizations and systems that if something can be rigged, it will be.
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If there's a high value to rigging it and there are lots of people involved and there's lots of
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complexities so you can hide your, your mischief, it will be. So we don't know if any of these
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elections were rigged in any important way, but we do know they will be if we don't change the
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system. That's guaranteed because the incentives are, are pretty clear. Um,
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so here's a question. Can you check that you voted? Uh, did you know that, I don't know if
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it's in every state, but it might be, there's a portal and California has one. Yeah. So I went
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on it this morning and I checked to see if I had voted because if I had voted, it would be a
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surprise to me because I don't have any memory of voting recently. And so I went online and in
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California, you have to know your driver's license and you have to know your, um, social security,
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which, you know, now here's the problem. You can't really check dead people because I don't have a
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driver's license for a dead person. Right? So that's what I want to do. I want to go on that
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same site and put in my deceased parents' names, but actually they were in, they were in New York,
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so I'd have to use a different site. So, um, but in New York, in other States, you don't need your
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driver's license. In other States, you just need name and address. Yeah. Yeah. And California requires
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a driver's license. That's right. To check your vote. Let me ask you this. In California, do you
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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
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sense? Now, when I say you can vote without a driver's license, that doesn't mean you can vote
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without an ID, just to be clear. So in California, you can, you can vote, but they'll put it in a
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special box to confirm your identity later. It still has to be confirmed, but you can go ahead and vote
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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
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should provide access to confirmation of whether you voted and that confirmation. And I think that
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would be legal because the States handled the voting, but I don't think confirming that you voted
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has to necessarily be part of the voting, the voting responsibility. I feel like that could be carved
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out as a federal law. Now telling you who you voted for would be a problem. And it's not obvious,
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but I'll tell you why. If I could go online and show you who I voted for, then I could show anyone
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who I voted for, right? I could just say, here it is. Look for yourself. I voted. If I could do that,
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I can sell my vote. If I can prove who I voted for, I can sell my vote. If I can't prove it,
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I can't sell it. Right. So, yeah. So you don't want that. You just want, so here's what I'd like
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to check. I heard a, uh, uh, I heard from an individual who I consider credible that this
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individual has, uh, several friends who checked to see if they had voted and found that they had
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been voting for several years and they had not voted for several years. I think they had been
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in the military or something. So there was some reason that they voted in the military when it
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was easy, I guess. But when they were out of the military, you know, they were out of the habit and
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didn't vote. But it turns out they'd been voting every year since they were in the military and they
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can confirm it. They'd looked up their own name and yep, I voted last year, but I didn't vote last
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year. Now that's anecdotal. That's anecdotal. So you shouldn't put any weight on it at all.
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Right. I got it from a good source, but the source is talking to people I don't know.
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You know, three levels of telephone involved. Who knows if you're even on the same topic. Right.
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So I'm not, I'm not asserting that that's true. Just asserting I heard it and it suggests we should
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have a way to check that sort of thing. So wouldn't you like to be able to check your own parents
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who are deceased to see if they voted? Wouldn't you like that? I mean, maybe you can limit it to
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your own parents. Like if you are the child, I don't know if you could prove that anyway.
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Probably not. But maybe you should be able to check if anybody voted.
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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
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voted, but in California you can't because you would need my driver's license number to do that.
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So in California I have more privacy. Yeah, there's something we do right. How about that?
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How about that? California and its privacy. Didn't see that coming, did you? Yeah, we have
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more privacy than other states on this, you know, one little area. All right. Well, I'd like to see
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that change. I believe if we could check to see if dead people voted, we'd know everything we need to
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know. Maybe. But you also have the people who did not have, well, let me make a point that a number of
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people have made. So I guess I'm just agreeing with this point. The election was determined by,
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fill in the blanks. The 2020 election was determined by, and then everybody fills in a different answer,
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right? It's because of Trump. It's because of alleged fraud. It's because of the bad messaging.
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It's because of bad candidates, right? You've got a hundred reasons. There was only one reason.
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How the rules are designed tells you it wins. And the rules keep getting tweaked. So every time the
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rules are tweaked, that's your vote. The rule changes are the vote. Because the rule changes
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are made with the knowledge of how it will change things. So they don't change the rules for no
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reason. They change it to, you know, get an outcome. So in every way, the tweaks in the system
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are what determines who wins. Now, if we had a system that was never tweaked, eventually that,
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you know, might even out. Like the two teams would figure out how to work within the rules that they
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have. But as long as you keep tweaking them, every tweak, at least for that next election,
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it's the tweak that determines who gets elected. Ten years from now, the other team has figured out
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how to deal with this new reality, and they can compete. But as soon as you make the tweak,
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it's in favor of one team and not another. Now, the tweaks that are most important are voting by
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mail. Democrats, for reasons I don't understand, like voting by mail. And Republicans, for reasons I
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don't understand, like voting in person. And as long as that's true, and as long as the voting tweaks
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are favoring mail-in voting, Republicans really can't win. Because of the rules. Not because of how many
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people want to vote or who they vote for. All right. Let's see. Rasmussen did a little poll on
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who thinks that cheating affected the election. And 57% of likely U.S. voters believe it is likely
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that the outcome of some elections this year will be affected by cheating. Now, affected by cheating
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doesn't necessarily mean it changes the outcome. It might change the vote count.
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And that includes 30% who say it's very likely. But that's basically Republicans, I think.
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It's mostly Republicans and the independents who vote Republican.
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14% of respondents said voting by mail makes it harder to cheat. That's a little low. I was expecting
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maybe 11% more would say that. But 30% say mail-in voting doesn't make much difference in terms
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of election cheating. I guess that depends what cheating means. If you're doing it within the
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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
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statement, that our outcome was determined by the rules? It wasn't determined by the voters this time.
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Would you agree? And would you agree that over time, if you could keep the rules the same for a few
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years, over time, then the two sides would even out because they would learn how to compete within
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the new rules? So there's an analogy to this with economics. I think even maybe Trump has commented on
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this. In economics, it's more important to stay the same than it is to be better. Like if you said to
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yourself, you know, this economic system would be better if we change this one thing. But if you
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do, everybody has to adjust and then you get some disruption. But the people will adjust to whatever
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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.
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So generally speaking, changing the rules in the middle of the game is a really bad thing.
01:11:31.380
A group called the Zionist Organization of America. So I guess these are Jewish groups that are
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supporting Israel. They just had an event in which they honored Trump. And he got a standing
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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,
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stand against Iran, the defunding of the Palestinians paid a slave, the withdrawal from the corrupt
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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
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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
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mental gymnastics do you have to do? Because do you think that if it had ever really happened
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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
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community knows it's not true? Because if they even thought it was true, like maybe a little bit
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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
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like, hey, here's an award. Yay for you, standing ovation. It's just hard to explain. But it does,
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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
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just outperformed, especially they got more ballots turned in, or is obviously a fraud.
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You can't tell the difference. You can't tell the difference. There's no way to know. All right?
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.
01:16:37.060
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.
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Maybe. It's not impossible, but it would be pretty unlikely.
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,
01:17:30.500
And they offered the event as part of a peace and justice senior project.
01:17:41.940
come paint and write about how you're tired of straight white men,
01:17:51.380
I think cis, C-I-S, means you're just straight, right?
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.
01:18:27.520
Apparently, there are a number of people who thought that was just...
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.
01:19:03.440
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.
01:19:14.680
Like, I don't think we're, you know, knocking on the door of that.
01:19:29.500
What would happen if adult white men stopped protecting people in public?
01:19:44.220
I don't think that the public knows the contribution of men in general.
01:19:53.440
And if they withdrew their contribution, it would be noticed pretty quickly.
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.
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.
01:21:00.740
So somebody's saying that we haven't heard it in the news because it was a black shooter, five people dead.
01:21:54.360
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.
01:22:17.920
Did he fire him today or had he already fired him?
01:22:38.620
If I look at my Twitter account, I'm going to see Elon Musk firing?
01:22:58.000
You'll probably post it in the comments before I get to it.
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.
01:23:38.740
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.
01:24:02.380
And Musk just fired him for admitting that he couldn't make Android work in six years.
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.
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There's some fun things brewing I can't tell you about.