Episode 1945 Scott Adams： Ye Goes Full Raelian, Musk Destroys Free Speech, Doctors Are Guessers
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In this episode of the highlight of civilization and civilization is getting pretty wonky, we talk about a variety of topics, including: quantum computing, the dangers of climate change, and the future of the medical profession.
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everybody and welcome to the highlight of civilization and civilization is
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getting pretty wonky today we're gonna have a good time talking about all the
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craziness but if you would like to take this experience up to stratospheric
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mmm yeah that'll put you all on the same page well of course we're going to talk
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about EA but before we do that let's talk about some interesting good news
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number one scientists have used quantum computing to make a coating for glass
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that will make it maybe up to 30% more morale what do you call it insulating so
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it'll reduce your heating and cooling by maybe 30% or at least the window part will
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be 30% more efficient now they did that because they had quantum computing which I
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didn't know was commercialized yet but apparently it was now imagine what will
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happen when the singularity comes now the singularity is when computers are so
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smart that they can program themselves and become smarter and smarter on their own
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quantum computing is still just a fast computer that's still just a human telling a computer what
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to do it just does it fast I don't think we have any risk whatsoever from climate change like not
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because because this is just a trivial example and this was before the singularity this is when we just have
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really fast computers and it already made glass 30% better do you know what part of
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your house is a big risk for insulation it's all the windows doors a little bit
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but it's mostly windows right so this is like one little tweak just one little tweak
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that has this enormous implication for for energy usage across the world so just a little bit of good news
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we'll see if that gets commercialized you know I don't like to laugh at the hardships
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of other people do we agree that's not the kind of people we are we do not take cheap shots at
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people who had a bad day and well we don't do that but fortunately the ex executive producer for the
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modern family tv show danny zucker does not have this limitation and uh while we find it
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very unseemly in fact it's below us it's below us to insult people who are having a bad day for
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reasons not their fault and so thank goodness danny zucker is here to do it for us because we're not
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that kind of people but apparently chris saliza got fired from cnn do you know chris saliza he writes
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a lot of opinion pieces and they have they have a certain vibe to them here's what danny zucker
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said about it on a tweet quote how firing christopher saliza may actually help chris saliza
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muttered a stunned chris saliza to himself over and over again as he approached his parking space
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one last time i i have reopened that tweet now at least five times just to laugh at again
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it's so well written you know danny zucker's executive producer of modern family which is
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in my opinion the best written show of all time so he's you know he's a key person in the best written
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show of all time so it's not a not an accident that he knew how to write a funny tweet but thank
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goodness we don't have to be mean chris saliza because danny did it for us um so have you ever
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spent five minutes on twitter and looked at any doctor's opinions on vaccinations and have you noticed
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a horrifying pattern that you can find a fully qualified working doctor who says oh you
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better get those vaccinations because you know it's better for you but you can find other
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qualified doctors who say no no do not get vaccinations it's clearly bad for you and then
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you can find other qualified doctors who say whoa wait a minute it might not be so good for you if
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you're below a certain age but it's probably good for you if you're above a certain age now here's my
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question whose job is it to stay up to date with medical science whose job is that is it your job
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is it your job no no is it my job my job no no it isn't no is it the doctor's job to stay up to date
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on studies yes now can we conclude with no with no doubt whatsoever the doctors cannot do that
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have we proven that a basic function of the doctor profession is to stay up to date
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and if staying up to date is something that they can't do and by definition they're not doing it
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because we can't tell which one's got it right and which one's got it wrong can we if if i look at two
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doctors and they have two different opinions opposite how do i judge which one is right i don't have those
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skills so even if some of the doctors are right and presumably some are because they're all over the
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place how could you possibly tell which ones are right see the problem it's the same problem with
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the financial industry there are 10 000 stocks ish that you could choose but there are probably a
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hundred thousand financial advisors what's harder picking a good stock or picking the right financial
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advisor it's actually easier without the financial advisor because they just add another thing that
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could go wrong and they charge you for it right now i was having this conversation on twitter just
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before i came on here about doctors and a guy with a phd in nutrition argued scott scott scott you can't
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expect the doctors to know how to read new research to which i agree because that's my entire point
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my point is if doctors were qualified to look at research they would largely have the same opinion
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wouldn't they they're looking at the same stuff so obviously they're not qualified because otherwise most of
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them would have the same opinion right so who is qualified well according to this phd
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there are people who are qualified to look at the science and then they can tell the doctors
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what to believe do you think such a group exists yes doctors don't have to make the decisions
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themselves there are professional organizations and experts they can look to to see to see if the study
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was done well do you believe that there is such a thing as experts not doctors necessarily but experts
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who can look at advice at research and tell if it's good or not and then inform the doctors do such
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people exist no of course not of course not because if they existed the doctors would all have the same
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opinion or largely because they would simply refer to those experts those experts being experts would be all
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on the same page because that's what they do right but we don't see that we don't see the experts
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agreeing we don't see the doctors agreeing so how in the actual fuck are you as a patient supposed to
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decide how the actual fuck seriously anybody who tells you that you've made a good decision or made a bad
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decision that's just nuts the only thing we know is that we don't know
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that's the only thing i know for sure is i don't know if you believe you know
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why do you know when the experts who do this for a living can't tell i mean collectively they don't
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have the same opinion nobody knows anything now why can't the experts who are literally experts at
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knowing whether a study is well designed why can't they do it well why can't you depend on them
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well number one experts always disagree so it wouldn't matter what the topic is you're going
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to get experts disagree that's normal number two who do these experts work for yeah you beat me to
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it the money can you trust an expert who probably needs to get money from the pharma industry one way or
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the other no of course not that's the least credible source of all of all sources uh so you can't trust
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them because of money then but how about their expertise suppose you found an expert who actually
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had expertise and did not have any money interests could you trust them no no because they don't really
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know what's going on with the study they know what the people who did the study told them that's it
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they only know what the people who did this study told them but if the people who did this study
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cheated nobody tells them so how are they going to make a decision without information
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so anyway we could argue all day about what what is or was is not dangerous but you should know that
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nobody knows right now don't confuse this with the fact that there's some people say yes and some
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people say no so one of them is right do we agree with that it's not like there's no right answer
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somebody's right but how would you know it's unknowable
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so the wall street journal says that twitter is offering some kind of a deal to advertisers to
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get them back so they'll get some kind of a huge i think they get if they buy a little advertisement
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they get a bunch of free advertisement for free do you know why this might not work
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so in theory if follow the money works and the best advertising deal is on twitter
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then follow the money right because it's just pure money and if you can get three times the ad value
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on twitter that you can get somewhere else then the ad the ad the ad people will say oh we better put
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on twitter right because you get more bang for the buck right so that should work right do you know why it
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won't work let's see if anybody knows why it won't work because it definitely won't work
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because advertising isn't real it's never been real did you know that advertising is just something
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the advertising the ad agency sells to a company so they could be doing something it doesn't sell more
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product right now the exception would be if you're like pg and e and you're like so massively advertising
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that you're just like brainwashing people another exception would be if you didn't know a product
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existed so if you're trying to sell an apple watch and there had never been an apple watch
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you gotta advertise right but if you're just a brand
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your chevron or your bp or something do you think their advertising sells them more product
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musk musk has created a situation which is a little bit sketchy because if the advertising
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if it becomes clear the advertising doesn't follow the money it might be because getting three times as
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much advertising won't sell you any more products and then the people who are paying for the advertising
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are saying i feel like you told me you were going to get three times as many ads for the same money
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that it reveals a little too much about the weakness of advertising as
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now does um mike lindell sell stuff on fox yes that that would be a case of advertising working for
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sure because that's something you didn't know existed right
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and and i do suppose you get some like brand preference over time maybe you start liking your
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chevron gas more than other gas or something so a little bit but for most of your generic stuff
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advertising makes no difference do you know how i know that ask me how i know advertising makes no
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difference because i've been doing it for 30 years i get talked into it all the time so you know
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like i'm so stupid i'll just always be talked into it when i owned two restaurants we tried every form
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of advertising radio print you know special events no impact none just zero impact from advertising
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every form and any budget didn't matter and that's actually that's actually pretty common
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well only if they have a new thing otherwise you go to buy a phone and what are you going to do you
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already know it's two choices basically um yeah tesla doesn't advertise oh yeah tesla doesn't advertise
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well see that's the other weakness with musk's model he bought a company to sell the thing that he
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would never buy he's the most famous non-consumer of the thing he's selling that's a little awkward
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i had never really put that together until just now all right well as you no doubt know yay appeared
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on alex jones yesterday uh and he said a few things he said a few things and everybody has a few things
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to say about the few things he said and of course everybody got it wrong and that's why you waited for
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me you waited for me to sort this out because do you know what everybody's getting this wrong
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everybody got this wrong i think now you would not be surprised to hear i have a contrarian opinion
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i don't know that i'm right it's a little too soon to know that but i'm going to put something
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new out there something you won't see elsewhere all right now i'll work into it slowly all right we're
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gonna we're gonna we're gonna gradually ease you into it but i'd like to start the conversation with this
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notice i i think hitler was a bad guy thoroughly uh fuck his little mustache
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fuck the things he did when on office fuck his clothing his eyelashes fuck his dog
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fuck his chair fuck his car and the comb they used for his little weird haircut
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fuck everything about him thoroughly fuck him everything as somebody pointed out earlier
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there is only one redeeming thing about hillary and i hesitate to mention it but of all the people
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who say they hate hillary there's only one person who killed them and that was hillary so
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i don't want to go full kanye or yay but he had that one redeeming thing
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although i heard a comedian the other day i wish i could give credit because it's a great joke
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and he said that hitler went through six years of war and he survived that okay but he married
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ava braun in the bunker and uh after one day of marriage he blew his brains all right
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you have to do me a favor it's totally uh it's totally inappropriate that i can't name the comedian
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who has that joke so if one of you know because it was on social media it was going around if you know
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who said that could you please give him credit in the in the comments because you you shouldn't be able
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to quote somebody who said something that funny without mentioning their name that's just wrong
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i think it might have been i think you're right so let's give him credit anyway he's very funny if
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it wasn't him he gets some credit anyway all right so yay appears on alex jones and he's wearing a ski
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mask so so he's you know visually he's impossible to look away because it's not just a ski mask but
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like a sock over his head or something so his entire face is covered not even his eyes are out
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now i don't know why but it certainly gets your attention
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yay decided he'd say some good things about hitler
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and and even alex joe's even alex joe's was shocked
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now that was that was uh awesome entertainment all right now so yay was said he actually uh i think
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he said he actually liked hitler you know not not for the bad things but he had some good qualities
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according to k like he built highways and invented a microphone
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so you know i was pretty anti-hitler until i heard they invented the microphone
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he invented the microphone he invented the microphone i think he invented roads
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because there hadn't been any highways until hitler
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and then uh then yay said something about questioning the holocaust
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uh now yay was explaining that uh the reason he was he was embracing the anti-semite label
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as he was trying to do what uh the black citizens of this country had done
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by uh appropriating the n-word in other words instead of letting words hurt him
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you know like being called an anti-semite so instead of letting words hurt him he's gonna
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embrace it and own it and amplify it until the words can't hurt him anymore or anybody else i guess
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but we're going to talk a little bit more and i'll give you my opinion about the whole thing right
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so you have to hear the details if you haven't heard all the details so yeah so he's now i don't know
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if he's denying that the holocaust existed in any form or if he had some you know nuanced but uh
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let's say unwise things to say about the details of it i don't know so who knows what he had to say about that
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uh and then elon musk suspends him from twitter uh not because he not because yay
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printed a very uh direct derogatory picture of elon musk in a bathing suit apparently uh but
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and elon had to clarify that that wasn't the reason that he banned him or suspended him but rather it was
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for inciting violence and the tweet that incited the violence was um a logo that apparently yay seems
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to be embracing that appears to be the star of david and then on the interior part is modified to look
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like a swastika yeah it's a swastika surrounded by the star of david and that so that was hate speech
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and or no it was inciting violence and so elon musk announced that he had to suspend kanye for that
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all right so that's one movie yeah you know what's happening in the other movies
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different stuff completely different stuff now if you didn't know the uh the logo that yay was using
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that looks like the star david with a swastika in it has been the railian logo for years like decades
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i guess the railians are a group who believe in space aliens and ufos i guess and some other stuff
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uh but i don't think they're too involved with anything about nazi or anything anti-semitic are they
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i'm not i don't think they have any anti-semitic things i think they just have a logo that's
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unfortunately provocative but correct me on that now here's the thing do you think that yay knew
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that this logo not only already existed but it was on it was already on twitter apparently the railians
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have been on twitter since 2017 and i assume their logo has been there i didn't see it but i assume has
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been now let me tell you what i see all right everybody's got a take on this and we're all
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guessing so anybody's opinion about what's going on in yay's head is ridiculous wouldn't you agree
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wouldn't you agree it's sort of ridiculous to speculate what's in his head because whatever's in
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there makes yay yay and whatever's in your head made you you and if you could know what was
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in his head well you would have been the the richest black man in america for a little while too
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maybe so we don't know what he's thinking but here's here's what i would dismiss as the least
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likely explanation the least likely explanation is that it's only mental health it's just it's just
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mental health i think that's the least likely but definitely it's involved would would you all agree
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that uh his mental health is part of the story but we don't know what percentage would you agree with
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that it looks like it could be a lot but we don't know it's hard to know because here's the other
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possibility the other possibility is that he's just being yay and that he's picking intentionally the
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single most provocative thing he could do on social media
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because that's the test that's the test it's the ultimate test of free speech
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can he say his opinion on on social media well if his opinion incited incited violence
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would you agree that that would be inappropriate and that you should kick somebody off for inciting
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violence how many of you would agree that if it's very clear let's say he said let's all get together
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and pick up guns and go attack some other group you would kick him off on social media for that right
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if it's clear so in my in my hypothetical everybody would say oh that's clear nobody would argue
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about in some hypothetical thing so musk says okay this is clearly inciting violence with this logo
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and maybe maybe with his rhetoric as well but mostly the logo because that's the part that was on twitter
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and so musk and probably consulted some other people decided that was against twitter's
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long-established rules about inciting violence and so he kicked him off are you comfortable with that
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you know it's the end of free speech right it's the end of free speech you couldn't even pretend
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there's free speech under this condition you know why in in the law and i'd say with terms of service as
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well there has always been a reasonable person standard do you know what that means it means that you have
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to make laws and also terms of service with the understanding that there is such a thing as a
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reasonable person now you could argue whether such people exist but you have to have that standard
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that any reasonable person would look at this other reasonable person and that all the reasonable
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people would say yeah that's reasonable right without getting into all the details of all the different
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things that could ever happen in the world can we all agree that if we all look at it and it looks
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reasonable we'll we'll just treat it like it was reasonable right now that standard i would say has
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worked for maybe hundreds of years i'm not sure when it became you know a legal standard in this country but
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it's a long standard that's worked really well so why not keep using it why not keep using the standard
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that's worked forever let me tell you why do you know where that standard doesn't work
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when you're all woke you can't have a reasonable person standard when the environment is wokeness
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because you know what wokeness is not reasonable it's not it's opinion and so
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elon musk's opinion that this logo was inciting violence differs from my opinion which one of us are
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right my opinion is that it did not incite violence very offensive very offensive provocative he may have
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intended that but did it incite violence well here's the problem at a deeply conceptual level yes
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right at a conceptual level yes anytime you anytime you identify a group
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and then you throw some shade at them you are making it easier for someone else
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to say well everybody's throwing shade at this group i'll bet i could slap this person on the sidewalk
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and people would cheer me because everybody's saying bad stuff about these people watch i'll just go
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up to this person just slap them and put it on video and everybody's gonna laugh this will be very
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viral right so you would agree that putting shade on any group incites violence so by that standard musk is
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correct because he puts shade on the jewish community and by definition that makes it easier for somebody else
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somewhere to abuse them because they think they've got some cover here's the problem
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it would apply to everything it applies to everything you would have to take everybody
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off of social media do you know how many times i've said something that threw shade on an identifiable group
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like every day democrats how many times have i said how many times have i put shade on
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uh leftists or democrats i put shade on all kinds of people including yay i'm putting shade on musk right
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now i'm saying he made a he's got a standard that can't work right twitter is nothing but people
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throwing shade on people i'm literally calling for uh for an armed attack on the cartels on twitter
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i'm not just inciting violence i'm trying as hard as i can to create violence
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but i guess i'm okay why presumably because people think that's good violence
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right oh that would be the good kind of violence or or i have an argument for it or something so that's
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okay is it too direct yeah see the problem here is that as soon as you allow that somebody can decide
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what incites violence and there's no standard for inciting violence because everything looks like it
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does you have no no free speech that is the end of free speech the only thing you can say on twitter
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are things that elon musk personally believes will not incite violence you trust that it doesn't matter
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if it's elon musk it doesn't matter who the fuck it is it's somebody else's opinion of what will incite
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violence you're done with free speech that's it but the important point is the standard did work until
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recently that the reasonable person standard was perfectly fine until wokeness made all speech
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violent as soon as all speech is violent you can't use that standard anymore and that's what's happening
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here i believe that musk is essentially trying to guess what other people would have thought was
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reasonable right he had a guess of what other people would think was reasonable because he's
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he's doing things for public appearance as well as his own opinion
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you think he was told to do it in a sense yeah i think there was so much immediate
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pushback now here's why my take on yay is a little different than the rest is mental illness involved
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probably probably probably because yay says that himself i mean he's not hiding it right and i think
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his actions suggest a non-standard personality now non-standard can be good right you know people with
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mental illness make great art so it's not necessarily a bad thing but here's what i'm going to add
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i would not rule out the fact that yay is trying to break the system and he might
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like instead of he's not trying to win the game he's trying to throw uh throw the board up you know
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what i mean he knows he can't win the game because he didn't make the rules the rules are made by other
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people and they're you know he doesn't have an advantage there so if he plays the game by its rules
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he loses but yay is not the person who loses it's not in this it's not in his nature to not think he
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can succeed so he just takes it to the next step what is the next step next step is you throw the whole
00:33:14.260
board over so he came into twitter with a railian logo that he might have known
00:33:24.500
was not provocative in that context or as provocative he may have tested the limits of
00:33:30.900
musk's free speech and broken in my opinion he broke elon musk elon musk fucked up
00:33:38.580
he fucked up and it wasn't because elon musk is dumb because he's not it's not because elon musk is
00:33:47.220
uninformed because he's not it's not because elon musk has bad intentions because he doesn't it's not
00:33:54.820
because he doesn't like yay because that doesn't seem to be the case it's because it's an impossible
00:34:01.220
fucking situation elon musk has chosen a standard that cannot be enforced it cannot be enforced
00:34:09.140
and yay just broke the whole fucking game because he just proved it he just proved
00:34:15.780
the free speech is gone and that ladies and gentlemen was exactly what he was fucking trying to do
00:34:23.780
do now that doesn't mean he wins that doesn't mean yay comes president doesn't mean he goes back to
00:34:33.940
his old reputation but he had a goal he fucking did it he did it he did it now you can hate him
00:34:43.780
that's fine i wouldn't i wouldn't argue with you at all you can say he's really anti-semite and that's
00:34:48.740
the whole story okay i i think he's given you that in other words he's he's walked into your trap
00:34:55.860
and if you'd like to spring the trap i say okay but so does he so does yay yay says spring the trap
00:35:06.100
that's what he says he says god spring it let's let's see how this plays out but he did turn over
00:35:12.260
the board and and the rules just changed and did you think i would be arguing that wokeness makes
00:35:18.740
the reasonable person's standard extinct i didn't think so i didn't think i'd wake up this morning
00:35:24.580
and say that he broke elon musk but he did he did now let's be really careful here because somebody's
00:35:32.900
going to watch this and say scott um supported yay who supports hitler so scott's a nazi blah blah blah
00:35:44.340
to which i say are we really talking about black yay becoming the leader of the white supremacists
00:35:54.420
because that's what people are acting like they're acting like the white supremacists are going to rally
00:35:59.540
around yay and that's our danger because what if everybody listens to yay all the white supremacists
00:36:12.900
are we really talking about we want to reduce the risk that the white supremacists will start
00:36:18.020
following a black man in america i mean the whole thing has become so ridiculous
00:36:25.460
that yay's point is really being made he's he is making his point and whether you agree with it you hate
00:36:35.860
him you know i i'm just to say it again i don't approve of any level of anti-semitism period
00:36:45.460
but here's an interesting question if you were to ask yay if white people should be allowed to use
00:37:02.500
has anybody ever asked him that because he's basically making the stand that he can say whatever
00:37:09.300
he wants about the jewish community even if it's offensive i mean i feel like that's what he's
00:37:16.500
trying to make the point he's trying to make the point that nobody that free speech extends to where he
00:37:22.020
wants to extend it i guess as odious as that feels but if yay says no you can't use the n-word
00:37:31.860
but i can say anti-semitic things then he's either crazy or just a fucking asshole
00:37:39.940
if you ask yay and he says you know what i do think you should be able to use that word in public
00:37:51.460
you can disagree with it you can disagree with it there's plenty of room to disagree
00:37:55.780
but it's not crazy if he's consistent right so i'm only looking for consistency i'm not saying i
00:38:04.340
agree with him i'm just saying is that crazy like crazy would look inconsistent but if he has a
00:38:11.140
consistent point of view where he actually just broke open the conversation about free speech
00:38:17.540
then what i saw on alex jones was 80 performance art the good kind the good kind and 20 percent mental illness
00:38:36.340
and here's what i mean by performance art it's supposed to shock you it's supposed to make you
00:38:42.900
say this couldn't possibly be art this must be something else it's piss jesus do you remember a
00:38:50.100
piss jesus it was the artist who made a crucifix that was contained in a container of urine yeah piss
00:38:58.260
christ it was piss christ and everybody said no no that's that's the worst thing in the world and other
00:39:06.260
people said welcome to art welcome to art it's the worst thing in the world sometimes so is is yay a good
00:39:19.540
guy i don't know is yay right about his uh criticisms of the jewish community i doubt it
00:39:27.940
i mean it just sounds like he has problems with individuals that he's he's generalized that doesn't
00:39:33.220
like i can't support that um but but did he do a performance piece of art that changed the
00:39:43.380
conversation in a meaningful way in a way that could be positive because that's you know good art makes
00:39:50.340
you angry but maybe there's something good that comes out of it i don't know it looked like performance
00:39:56.260
art to be now if you say but he's also crazy i say yeah i give you that like 20 it but i think he
00:40:05.300
actually moved the needle i don't know but you're those who have been watching me for a long time can
00:40:12.900
you confirm that i've always said the following thing because this is important i've always said
00:40:18.500
said that yay is not somebody who creates art he is someone who is art he lives it he lives art
00:40:29.540
every time he walks outside he is the art right he dresses the art he talks the art he's never not
00:40:35.700
the art there are people who are artists oh i guess i would be one so i'm a perfect example of an artist
00:40:42.020
so to speak who is very different from my art like when when i'm drawing my art i'm an artist and when
00:40:49.460
i'm standing outside i'm just ordinary guy standing outside like i'm not an artist when i leave the house
00:40:56.260
you know what i mean but yay he's an artist all the time he's not the artist who was something else on
00:41:03.540
the alex jones show he just took his art to alex jones and i saw art and i also saw the highest level
00:41:14.740
of art i may have ever experienced does that mean i liked it not exactly because it was odious right
00:41:25.780
but did i recognize it as art yes i did in my opinion that was art and the fact that you hated it
00:41:32.900
doesn't make it not art because you didn't like piss christ either
00:41:38.580
is cartoonist different from artists well that's another conversation
00:41:42.260
somewhat so can i be very clear on this yay is not trying to make us like him so i don't okay
00:41:52.740
he's not trying to get us to agree that hitler was a good guy he's not trying to do that do you think
00:42:00.420
he was trying to convince you hitler was a good guy no to me it looked like he he said to himself
00:42:07.220
what is the thing i'm least um allowed to say watch me say it and then he did it he found the one thing
00:42:15.780
that he's least allowed to say and then he said it he's the only free person in the country
00:42:21.620
do you know uh the old janice joplin song from the 60s in which he said freedom is just another word
00:42:30.100
for nothing left to lose nothing left to lose that's yay he lost his wife his kids you know custody
00:42:48.580
he has nothing left to lose he's the only free person in the country
00:42:54.500
because he's not in jail and he can say anything he wants anywhere
00:42:59.620
because he's willing to pay the price and the price is extreme and he's still willing to pay it
00:43:04.900
i don't know there's something horrifying about this whole situation of course holocaust denial and
00:43:12.740
any anti-semitic stuff is horrible and has to be disavowed but there's also something happening about
00:43:19.300
free speech there's also something happening about art and those are very big things also at the same time
00:43:28.020
all right um so we're all going to see a different different situation there um
00:43:44.020
it's a tough day for the railians isn't it they just woke up today it's like oh it's another day in my
00:43:50.980
railian life let's see what's happening in the news
00:44:00.100
bad day for the railians all right um now when we're talking about inciting violence um one of the
00:44:09.140
things i'm glad about is that we don't have a culture in which our movies and our video games uh glorify
00:44:16.500
violence isn't that lucky because if if uh any of our video games or movies or tv shows if they glorified
00:44:26.820
or showed a lot of like exciting violence and made it look really cool to kill people um that would be
00:44:34.020
terrible and that should be banned completely because it incites violence doesn't it okay can you argue
00:44:43.540
with me that 100 hours of 100 is a low number can you argue that 10 000 hours of gaming that involves
00:44:51.220
killing people has no impact on the person who did it no impact at all of course it does now whether it does
00:45:01.860
or not whether it does or not wouldn't you agree that reasonable people would probably argue it does
00:45:09.940
so who gets to say who has free speech do the video game companies get to create their art because a video
00:45:18.260
game is art as well do they get to create their art or does elon musk say i think that incited violence
00:45:26.820
so you can't advertise that on twitter who gets to tell them that they can make that game
00:45:32.100
i don't know it looks like it incites violence to me um well on another topic as you know esg
00:45:45.460
is dying on the vine that's the the idea that blackrock and some other financial entities could grade
00:45:52.740
public companies for how well they're doing for the environment and governance and equity and of course
00:46:00.900
all the smart people now from um i think everybody from bill gates to dilbert uh have now debunked esg as
00:46:12.900
a horrible idea because it gets between the business and and the customers and you never want to do that
00:46:19.220
there's there's never a good way to do that but uh now that that seems to be on its uh it's sort of a dead
00:46:25.940
man walking should be should be dead at any moment now uh people said to me scott can you do uh dei next
00:46:34.260
and that's the corporate um programs in which they try to foster diversity equity and inclusion
00:46:41.940
now i said to myself well i've been out of the workplace so i i didn't personally experience this
00:46:47.140
i need to read up on it how would you like to know what are the key elements
00:46:51.940
of this diversity equity and inclusion well sounds pretty good to me so i'll tell you the things that
00:46:59.860
sound good um so this is just from the internet off of google searches so dei is a policy or practice
00:47:08.340
designed to make people of various backgrounds feel welcome and ensure they have support to perform to
00:47:14.580
the fullest of their abilities in the workplace anybody have a problem with that wouldn't you like
00:47:20.420
everybody in your workplace from various backgrounds to feel welcome and to have the most you know the
00:47:26.020
best chance of doing a good job and to be mentored all good right does anybody have any problems with that
00:47:33.060
no we're all we're all on board with that all right so i don't see any problems so far
00:47:38.180
um and uh the dei team would work towards these full-time strategies really you know incorporated into
00:47:47.700
the processes of the company to make sure that the hiring retention and unbiased recruitment happen
00:47:55.060
so they've got systems that make sure that they're diverse and everybody feels comfortable with the
00:48:00.340
situation any problem with that wouldn't you wouldn't you like all the employees to feel comfortable
00:48:07.060
i would all right how about this uh they formulate policies and nullify old ones
00:48:12.580
um blah blah blah to you know to get to their dei initiatives now here are the types of diversity
00:48:19.540
that they recognize see here's here's the part where you're going to say hey they're not including
00:48:24.820
all the types of diversity or do they or do they so here are the ones that they list cultural diversity of
00:48:31.700
course um racial diversity of course gender of course physical disabilities of course does anybody have a
00:48:40.900
problem with any of those things um being treated as special categories
00:48:49.620
well they also add this last one diversity and interests diversity in interests does that cover
00:48:58.660
everything else because interests and preferences are kind of the same right an interest and a preference
00:49:05.940
um almost the same so uh wouldn't this include uh republicans wouldn't republicans be people who had
00:49:15.220
different interests it should right it should uncover it should cover every everybody who's different now um
00:49:26.580
i don't know if it actually accomplishes that but um all right um and then uh why do some companies
00:49:35.780
fail at it so what are what are the problems with it this is again from the internet there are three
00:49:40.100
reasons three key reasons according to a google search uh failure to explicitly connect the de
00:49:48.340
dei objectives to the corporate mission okay vision and values lack of sustainable support blah blah blah
00:49:56.500
so sometimes it fails because it's not being supported enough it looks like um
00:50:07.300
so so what do you think should i kill it because it sounds good to me well where's the problem
00:50:16.020
why would i kill it because people keep asking me to kill this but i i like i like diversity
00:50:22.020
why would i kill it don't you think it but don't you think everybody should be comfortable at work
00:50:31.380
somebody says it's racist what what part of what i read would make it racist because they're not
00:50:37.860
saying make white people uncomfortable they're saying make everybody comfortable who disagrees with that
00:50:44.420
no no i i think you're you're all acting a little bit bigoted here and let me tell you what we should
00:50:52.340
do we should embrace it and amplify it and i'd start first at the places where there's a big problem
00:51:00.180
so i would go um to professional sports first and i'd say to the the warriors golden state warriors
00:51:07.700
they're struggling this year you know they were champions last year struggling a little bit and i'm not
00:51:12.580
positive but i think the problem with the golden state warriors is that their coach steve kerr he's
00:51:19.060
not wrapping uh diversity equity and inclusion into his systems that are managing the team
00:51:27.780
i don't know if you notice but a lot of the people on the warriors they seem to have the same interests
00:51:34.180
same interests they don't seem to include people have different interests
00:51:38.820
so they should and i think that would improve their performance greatly to get those different
00:51:45.060
interests in there now the second i would go for the teachers unions which are largely women and i think
00:51:52.500
that they need to implement some dei so that we can get some more men in there and more more black
00:51:58.420
teachers and you know more more jewish teachers maybe yeah maybe more of everything that's diverse we
00:52:04.740
should get them in there see if that makes a difference and then the biden administration
00:52:10.260
you know one part of dei and actually one of the most important parts is uh report is measuring and
00:52:18.820
reporting right if a company says oh we're doing dei but you say can you show us your reports and they
00:52:25.540
say we don't have any reports are they really doing dei no they're not no they're not because the
00:52:32.740
reporting and the measuring are just so vital to the whole thing that if you're not measuring and
00:52:37.060
reporting you're not really doing it and that's true of management in general if you're not measuring
00:52:41.620
it you're not managing it so wouldn't you like to see the biden administration's uh report on dei to
00:52:49.060
see how well they're doing i'd like to see if they're doing a good job encouraging the people with
00:52:54.900
different interests to be part of the administration or do you think the government is trying to get
00:53:01.380
people who have similar interests because the government is trying to act similarly like democrats
00:53:07.540
which would be pretty bigoted just because the democrats got elected i don't think that's a good enough
00:53:15.060
reason that they should ignore the interests of the people who didn't get elected
00:53:20.500
so you know if it's good enough for businesses i think it's good enough for teachers unions
00:53:25.860
and professional sports which is business and certainly good enough for the government and
00:53:31.540
i would like to see all of the reports um right now so that we the public can make sure that they
00:53:37.780
are putting the proper amount of emphasis in dei um what do you think wouldn't you like to see a lot
00:53:49.140
more of this dei stuff a lot more now i'd like to see a list of all the different interests because
00:53:57.380
we have a sense of what different ethnicities look like and what different genders look like although
00:54:02.580
it's a little confusing at the moment but wouldn't you like to see the list of the different interests
00:54:07.860
so for example could could uh the teachers union do they have enough people in the teachers union who
00:54:16.580
think that homeschooling is better because homeschooling would be an interest right so the teachers union
00:54:22.980
should be represented with you know a good chunk of people who would prefer homeschool over public
00:54:31.060
school that would be an interest and shouldn't the democrats have uh plenty of people who want
00:54:36.980
strong border security and lower taxes because those are definitely interests so where are those interests
00:54:45.140
and and if dei is good for a business why wouldn't it be good for a government just because the
00:54:53.140
government got elected to pursue some interests over other interests that's still discriminating isn't it
00:55:01.860
because if diversity includes people with different interests you can't just pick one set of
00:55:07.140
interests and say oh these are the good ones well we'll favor these interests that's opposite of
00:55:12.580
dei so i think we should push this dei thing uh everywhere um i'm i'm gonna start uh sanctioning myself
00:55:22.740
because i don't know if you've noticed but there's almost no diversity on this live stream
00:55:27.940
and that's on me that is on me right because i try to be two people but i'm only one
00:55:34.980
i'm only one um i was planning to become non-binary or something just to just to have a little bit more
00:55:45.940
inclusivity but i thought that was a sort of a big sacrifice so no all right so you'd all agree then right
00:55:55.300
more dei should we push this thing to the max and get as much of it as we can and how about blackrock
00:56:09.940
because i know blackrock thinks that esg is good and it's very sort of there's a lot of uh you know venn diagram
00:56:17.540
on there so don't you think blackrock should uh give us a report on whether blackrock is a bunch of
00:56:26.340
uh white guys do you think blackrock has a lot of white guys working there i don't know i'm just
00:56:35.220
guessing what do you think a bunch of white guys and don't you think that blackrock needs to address
00:56:42.260
that pretty quickly i think blackrock should be look like the rest of the country they're so
00:56:48.180
influential and so big that they do have an impact on the country i think just like the government they
00:56:53.780
should not only have a dei program and so should steve kerr at the warriors but they should be reporting
00:57:00.100
on it on a regular basis to the public because it's a public it's a public interest right we don't
00:57:06.980
we don't say hey you you companies you should do dei because it's good for you that's not why we
00:57:14.500
it's good for the public so that's the public that needs to know how you're doing so let us know
00:57:21.220
how you doing on this dei i'll give you a report on mine i'm failing i i've got basically my whole
00:57:27.940
organization is run by a white guy and it's starting to bug me although that white guy does identify as
00:57:35.300
black so okay that softens a little bit um newt gingrich is uh i guess on fox news he was giving
00:57:46.100
people the bad news i've said a version of this but news says it's stronger so it's more provocative
00:57:53.620
and he says the biden administration has been a huge success his first term is like gangbusters
00:58:00.660
basically i agree i agree for what biden wanted to do he did get a lot of stuff he did so i mean it's
00:58:11.220
hard it's hard to hear but things happened it may not be things you like but did the democrats not
00:58:18.980
open up the border yes they did you know they did a lot of things they said they were going to do
00:58:32.340
yes um newt also reported i guess he had in his podcast uh dr colin hale uh from the university of
00:58:41.300
houston's drug discovery institute who has uh we think a fentanyl vaccine
00:58:47.540
a vaccine a vaccine that would um negate the effects of fentanyl so if you took fentanyl you
00:58:56.740
you wouldn't get the the high that you hoped now see any problem with that
00:59:05.940
why the hell did it have to be a vaccination of all the things that could have been of all the
00:59:13.540
the ways you could address the fentanyl problem did it have to be a vaccination really really it had
00:59:23.780
to be a vaccination of all the possible things it had to be that
00:59:31.300
i mean if you tell me that reality is not following the path of most entertainment
00:59:37.300
then i can't explain yay and i can't explain this this is clearly following the path of most entertaining
00:59:45.460
story right really the fentanyl story turns into a vaccination story and that's an accident i don't
00:59:54.340
think so clearly something's going on here i think this is scripted in some in some ways
01:00:02.420
but here's your problem what addict who goes and buys fentanyl every day because they really like that
01:00:12.580
fentanyl what addict is going to get vaccinated zero yeah no addict is going to get vaccinated because they
01:00:20.740
want the high they would just have to do some other drug now maybe it would cause them to go get
01:00:28.660
heroin instead i don't know i don't know what they do instead but it might work it might work for
01:00:37.140
parents making their teens get it that might work so this does have a pretty high uh potential but not
01:00:44.980
for the serious adult addicts but more for a parent telling their teen because the teens accidentally get
01:00:52.660
the fentanyl and if you can make the accidental fentanyl deaths go away that's a big deal it's a really big deal
01:01:02.100
uh it wouldn't i don't think it would block all opioids because they were pretty specific about fentanyl
01:01:08.180
uh so that was still i guess i would still give you plenty of
01:01:12.660
oh then i guess the question is would you have painkiller options if you went to the hospital
01:01:17.940
huh that would be a problem right so they'd have to find some kind of painkiller um beyond fentanyl
01:01:27.860
and even carfentanil would probably be uh probably be affected by the vaccination i think
01:01:36.100
unless carfentanil is different enough because if you have carfentanil then that's all you would need
01:01:43.460
for pain relief right but probably the vaccination affects carfentanil and fentanyl because the only
01:01:51.620
thing i know about them is they have similar names so i'm just guessing there's some similarity there
01:01:56.660
i don't know did you all know that uh plastic recycling is complete bullshit how many of you knew that
01:02:04.580
you know i knew it was a little bit of but uh palo alto looked into where their plastic goes after
01:02:15.460
they recycle it and apparently it's sold to a company who doesn't have to tell you what they do with it
01:02:22.180
i'm not making this up palo alto in the middle of the you know the greenest state
01:02:28.340
the greenest people in the greenest state and also palo alto home of smart people you know very smart
01:02:34.980
people palo alto and very green and for years uh they've been having a company take their plastic
01:02:48.180
because the answer is they they ship it all the asian countries that have low standards and they dump it
01:02:53.380
there it's literally just being dumped in asia and or africa too i guess and then it gets into the
01:03:00.260
water system and then it kills us all so it turns out that the worst thing we've ever done is recycling
01:03:07.380
plastic do you know how many hours of my life i've spent recycling plastic all the waste of time and
01:03:16.260
not just a waste of time it made things worse because if i'd thrown it in the landfill
01:03:21.540
i guess that at least it's in the landfill and it's less likely to get into the water supply
01:03:27.860
but if it goes to laos or something it's going to end up in the ocean so
01:03:34.900
the whole thing was bullshit now let me ask you in the past few years have we discovered that
01:03:43.540
anything we thought was real was really real is it my imagination or is literally everything fake
01:03:51.540
like every organization every drug i heard somebody else tell a version of this story but i'll tell you
01:03:58.740
my version again if you haven't heard it in the past in the past two months on two occasions i've talked to
01:04:06.180
doctors in my own you know doctor group uh and i've and they've recommended meds for various things and in
01:04:17.140
both cases i said this directly no i'm not going to take those meds because i don't believe in medical
01:04:24.740
science i said that to two different doctors i said i'm not going to take those meds because i don't
01:04:32.580
believe in medical science i think it's all fake do you know what both doctors said to me
01:04:37.940
no pushback just just absorb that no pushback totally agreed they actually agreed now they didn't say it
01:04:50.900
directly but the the context was no pushback if that's your opinion as a doctor i don't have an argument
01:05:00.100
against it can you believe that actual doctors cannot give me an argument for the meds that are
01:05:10.100
routinely prescribed because if you actually push them on it and i i said directly that it looks like
01:05:17.540
astrology to me it doesn't look like there's any science backing the recommendations and neither doctor
01:05:23.540
pushed back on that i just think about that do you think that would have happened five years ago do you
01:05:29.860
think five years ago i could have said to my doctor you know i don't believe in medical science because
01:05:35.060
i think the studies are all here's here's how i think that would have gone i think it would look like
01:05:40.740
this you know there are a lot of smart people who do these studies
01:05:50.580
it is not smart to ignore medical science right don't you think that conversation five years ago would
01:05:58.980
have been you idiot you absolute moron how could you be so dumb that you would ignore
01:06:07.780
the best medical science that we have but in 2022 i can say it directly i believe your science is made up
01:06:16.420
so i'm not going to take those pills and they will look you right in the eye and say okay next topic
01:06:21.780
i mean it's just so mind-boggling that we've reached a point where everybody understands that
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everything is a lie all of it everything the government says everything a company says everything
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pundits say it seems to me it's just all a lie nothing was real everything we thought was real was
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bullshit all of it yeah china russia all of it's just all bullshit
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this is a good comment even though it's an insult to me mb says doctors know how to deal with narcissists
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i'm not going to push back against that comment
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i'll do what the doctors do i will not push back on that comment you you may you may accept that for
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what it is that's not a bad comment i have to give you credit for that
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you might be right all right gotcha all right well that is the uh conclusion of my
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live stream the best thing you've ever seen today wait till tomorrow it's gonna be even better wow
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now do you think none of it is performance art do you think it's all mental illness
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that incitement of violence cannot be our standard when we're in the the woke era would you buy that
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i got some more yeses on that again yeah i think so now i don't know i don't know what the standard
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would be because we're sort of without a standard we're uncharted territory but i think i think uh yay
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pushed us into uncharted territory and i think that's what performance art does if you do it right your
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performance art pushes your brain where your brain had never been and then you have to find your way
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back that's what he did he put us in uncharted territory and we have to find our way back
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all right that's all for now youtube i'm going to talk to the locals people a little bit more