Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2031 Scott Adams： What Will I Do With All The Power Media Is Handing Me？ Use It For Good？

00:00:00.480 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of civilization, the best thing that's ever happened to anyone.

00:00:09.020 And today, yep, you're already private over on Locals, don't worry.

00:00:15.080 Today, well, we got some stuff to talk about today.

00:00:19.460 How many people are here to look at the train wreck?

00:00:24.340 Train wreck, anybody? Anybody?

00:00:26.600 How many of you are from the media? I'm talking to YouTube now.

00:00:30.940 How many are from the media looking to get a new quote for your story?

00:00:38.240 Well, we're going to talk about that. You might be a little surprised.

00:00:43.440 But first, what you need to enjoy this situation maximally is you need a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chalice or a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.

00:00:56.600 Fill it with your favorite liquid I like, coffee.

00:00:59.480 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better.

00:01:06.880 It's called the simultaneous sip.

00:01:08.800 Scott, have you ever taken acid?

00:01:17.560 No, I am acid.

00:01:22.360 That was a pretty good answer.

00:01:24.100 I feel like I should say that with more theatrical flair.

00:01:29.220 Let me try that again.

00:01:30.160 Oh, there's a comment.

00:01:35.640 Scott, have you ever taken acid?

00:01:38.780 I am acid.

00:01:41.040 No, that didn't work, did it?

00:01:42.280 That didn't work.

00:01:43.860 I really had high hopes for that, but it didn't land.

00:01:49.260 All right.

00:01:51.260 Better check the news.

00:01:52.560 You know, if you ever get in trouble, here's some advice for you.

00:02:06.380 Some of you, you know, sometimes get in trouble, as I do.

00:02:10.020 You need to time your trouble for not a slow news week.

00:02:16.040 It's a super slow news week.

00:02:18.840 The only thing they're covering is train derailments.

00:02:23.220 It's like, we've got Ohio and the other trains being derailed.

00:02:28.900 Let's see.

00:02:30.400 Yeah, the cartoonist, he's being derailed.

00:02:32.780 Okay.

00:02:33.500 We're kind of on a derailment theme this week.

00:02:36.500 It's all we got.

00:02:37.440 It's all we got.

00:02:39.420 Anyway, so I got a fun tweet by, we'll talk about all that.

00:02:42.380 I'll let some more people stream in first.

00:02:45.780 I saw a fun tweet from Benjamin Carlson.

00:02:48.100 He's a writer on Twitter.

00:02:50.440 Well, he's on Twitter.

00:02:51.620 He's also a writer.

00:02:54.000 He says, in the CIA interrogation manual, it lists coercive techniques used to break someone's will.

00:03:00.420 They include, now before I read the list of things that the CIA uses to break people's will,

00:03:07.800 ask yourself how many of these apply to people using social media.

00:03:12.280 All right?

00:03:15.340 Isolation, dependence, inducing guilt, preying on fear, disrupting sleep, robbing basic dignity,

00:03:27.780 depriving of natural light.

00:03:29.200 So, as Benjamin notes, sounds like social media addiction.

00:03:37.460 It's exactly social media addiction.

00:03:40.180 Yeah.

00:03:41.080 Like, I'm not making it up.

00:03:42.760 This is an actual list of the CIA's coercion techniques.

00:03:47.780 And they all sort of coincidentally, or not, or not, they all coincidentally map to social media usage.

00:03:56.820 And addiction.

00:04:00.320 Do you think that your will is being broken down by social media?

00:04:05.820 Do you think that today, for example, let's just take today, randomly.

00:04:10.900 If you check the news, would you find out that the news didn't look like real news,

00:04:17.320 it looked like some kind of social media narrative poisoning?

00:04:22.700 Yeah, check.

00:04:24.400 Check.

00:04:25.620 That's what it looks like.

00:04:28.100 Well, is anybody here to talk about me?

00:04:34.240 Have you ever been sick of yourself?

00:04:37.000 Has that ever happened?

00:04:38.060 Have you ever been so full of just talking about yourself or hearing about yourself that you're just tired of it?

00:04:48.220 Like, I swear to God, I haven't read any of the articles about me.

00:04:52.280 And there are quite a few.

00:04:54.060 Quite a few articles about me today.

00:04:55.940 I haven't read any of them.

00:04:57.480 But it's not because, you know, I don't want to see bad news or anything like that.

00:05:01.080 It's because I'm just so bored.

00:05:03.640 Like, I'm so bored of all the NPCs writing the same story.

00:05:08.060 You know, without context, of course.

00:05:11.100 So, those of you who are paying attention, let me ask you first.

00:05:14.180 How many of you who are watching saw the one-hour-plus podcast I did with Hotep Jesus,

00:05:24.300 which explains the whole drama?

00:05:28.420 So, a lot of people and locals.

00:05:30.320 Okay.

00:05:30.920 How many of you YouTubers saw it?

00:05:34.140 A lot of you.

00:05:35.120 Okay.

00:05:35.680 Quite a few of you.

00:05:36.980 All right.

00:05:37.340 Good.

00:05:38.060 Yeah.

00:05:38.460 I mean, it's a lot to ask of anybody to watch, you know, over an hour of a podcast.

00:05:43.560 So, the fact that so many of you actually put in that much time for something that was meaningful

00:05:49.840 to me actually makes me feel good.

00:05:52.260 Thank you for that.

00:05:53.320 I appreciate that quite a bit.

00:05:55.280 That is really a lot of time to put in for somebody else's issue.

00:05:59.620 So, I do appreciate that.

00:06:00.840 Now, you may notice, those of you who have seen the Hotep Jesus thing, if you watch that,

00:06:08.980 you know the whole story.

00:06:11.720 If you're not aware of that or you didn't watch it, you're living in a whole different reality.

00:06:18.680 And the reality you're living in is defined by this.

00:06:22.500 Scott, I saw you say it.

00:06:26.280 It's on video.

00:06:27.660 You said it.

00:06:28.920 Boom.

00:06:29.360 There's nothing else to know.

00:06:31.260 And then there's people who saw the video, so they know kind of the whole story, et cetera.

00:06:36.780 They're living in completely different worlds about me.

00:06:41.260 Right?

00:06:42.640 Those of you who have seen the video, would you agree or disagree with the following statement?

00:06:47.420 Anybody who's seen the Hotep Jesus video, there are half a million people who have viewed it already.

00:06:53.200 If you've seen it, you would have a completely different impression of all of the situation.

00:06:58.540 Agree or don't?

00:07:00.840 On locals, everybody's saying yes.

00:07:03.300 And I look also on YouTube.

00:07:04.820 Yep.

00:07:05.760 So, if there's anybody here who hasn't seen that video, but you've formed an opinion, what do you think now?

00:07:13.880 I'm not even telling you what your opinion should change to.

00:07:16.600 I'm saying just look at the comments.

00:07:19.960 Basically, it looks like 100% of the people who saw the context have a different view of the whole situation.

00:07:28.200 Now, ask yourself, which members of the media are aware of the full context?

00:07:36.060 Probably a number of them watched it before they wrote yesterday.

00:07:38.680 But has anybody seen any coverage which left out that context?

00:07:46.360 Has anybody seen any coverage that omitted the context?

00:07:50.440 And would you say that that was accurate news or fake news?

00:07:54.660 How many news stories or tweets about me listed the reason that I said what I said that offended everybody?

00:08:07.540 How many listed the reason I said it?

00:08:09.580 Like, why did you say that?

00:08:11.320 Any?

00:08:11.520 Now, did any of you who read the news about me, did you catch that they didn't list the reason?

00:08:21.340 If you don't list the reason, it reverses the story.

00:08:24.760 And by the way, this is how a lot of fake news is created.

00:08:30.400 If you take a snippet, it's exactly the way that fine people hoax was created.

00:08:37.700 You cut out the part where Trump says, I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis.

00:08:41.940 They should be condemned totally.

00:08:43.680 You just cut that out, and it reverses his meaning.

00:08:47.120 Same with the drinking bleach hoax.

00:08:49.820 If you cut out the part where he says, I'm talking about light as a disinfectant,

00:08:54.640 it reverses the meaning, and it sounds like some chemical disinfectant.

00:08:59.120 It's the same way the Covington Kids hoax was played.

00:09:03.400 You just cut out the context of just what happened right before, and it reverses the meaning.

00:09:08.540 So, if you saw my, by the way, did you see how it's being branded, my story?

00:09:16.880 So, all the media picked up the same phrase.

00:09:20.560 It's either a racist rant or a racist tirade.

00:09:26.560 Now, if you saw a racist rant and racist tirade, what would you assume is the reason I said it?

00:09:34.160 You would assume the reason I said it is that I have a negative feeling about black Americans.

00:09:42.500 Wouldn't that be kind of a natural interpretation?

00:09:46.260 It's just that in the context.

00:09:47.600 If you saw it in context, in the comments, if you saw it in context,

00:09:52.400 was it me saying bad things about black people, and therefore you should stay away from them? 0.98

00:09:57.020 Did that happen? 0.95

00:09:57.580 Nope.

00:10:00.520 Nope.

00:10:01.700 No.

00:10:02.080 What was the context? 0.91

00:10:04.120 The context is far too many black Americans have a negative opinion of white Americans.

00:10:11.100 And in general, as a life advice, you shouldn't spend time with people who, you know,

00:10:18.520 let's say in a statistical sense, are going to have a negative opinion about you.

00:10:22.940 It's a bad life strategy.

00:10:25.440 That's all.

00:10:26.120 Well, so how many of you got that context without watching the video?

00:10:33.600 Do you see how easy it is for the news to reverse the point of it?

00:10:37.980 Now, ask yourself this.

00:10:39.160 This is the fun part.

00:10:41.060 Somebody asked me, Scott, if you wrote this movie in the sense that you knew exactly what

00:10:46.380 you were doing when you said it, which of course I did.

00:10:49.120 Of course I did.

00:10:49.900 You know, if I had just started my life in media, you could say to yourself, I feel like

00:10:56.960 he just had a bad day.

00:11:00.020 Like, he just had sort of an OJ day.

00:11:02.360 He just had one bad day, and then you could reveal his inner soul and stuff like that.

00:11:06.700 I don't make mistakes.

00:11:07.860 I don't think I've ever made a mistake in public.

00:11:14.620 Maybe a few times when I first started out.

00:11:17.280 But eventually you get good at it, and you don't say things you don't mean.

00:11:21.200 And you don't say things without knowing completely how it's going to be taken, and what impact

00:11:27.080 it would be.

00:11:27.420 So at this point in the story, including the cancellations, because I'm almost fully cancelled

00:11:35.540 from newspapers now, but including the cancellations, this was all predictable, and I knew it when

00:11:42.240 I said it, and I was okay with it.

00:11:47.580 I'm okay with it.

00:11:49.160 I actually had a good day yesterday.

00:11:51.360 I'm having a good day today.

00:11:52.640 Yeah, I could explain more about that, but the Hotep Jesus interview was great.

00:12:01.340 By the way, let me give a little commercial for Hotep Jesus.

00:12:05.260 And if you're looking for the video, it's pinned at the top of my Twitter feed today.

00:12:10.940 But you could just Google my name and Hotep Jesus, and it'll pop right up.

00:12:17.200 Hotep does a great show.

00:12:18.660 I'm sitting there on his podcast, and the whole time, like, I'm talking to him, I'm 0.96

00:12:24.480 thinking, damn it, how did you get all this pulled together?

00:12:28.620 Like, his set is really good, and the lighting is perfect. 0.99

00:12:31.840 He's got this nice background.

00:12:33.960 You know, he has some kind of artist he works with to do the images that promote it.

00:12:40.020 And, like, he had this great image of me that went with the podcast, got it all together

00:12:45.520 in, like, just a few hours, had me scheduled, I'm on there.

00:12:50.620 He's got, like, 550,000 views.

00:12:55.720 Great show.

00:12:56.980 Really great show.

00:12:57.840 And also a great interview.

00:12:59.580 I know.

00:13:00.080 So let me say that first.

00:13:02.020 The questions and just the vibe of it, just terrific.

00:13:07.100 So if anybody gets a chance to go on his show, I recommend it highly.

00:13:11.640 Good job.

00:13:12.320 All right.

00:13:15.560 So here's some other things you need to know, or maybe you don't care.

00:13:21.140 So you saw some stories about big newspapers canceling Dilbert.

00:13:24.840 I know the Washington Post, I think the LA Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer.

00:13:29.800 Let me explain the economics of cartooning.

00:13:32.260 There are thousands of newspapers around the world who could potentially carry a comic.

00:13:41.580 Dilbert was in basically almost all of the ones that matter, at least domestically, and

00:13:47.640 then a number of international.

00:13:50.280 But the economics are that the big newspapers are 80% of your income.

00:13:55.280 So the 20% of the papers are 80% of the income.

00:14:02.360 The 20% that are the important ones are the urban, big city newspapers.

00:14:08.300 Now, they're the ones who are going to cancel first, for obvious reasons.

00:14:12.280 And they have.

00:14:13.380 So probably already what's announced might be 80% of my income, which would be the end

00:14:20.760 of Dilbert, of course.

00:14:22.900 Now, it wouldn't be the end of it as a cartoon, but it would be the end of it in newspapers,

00:14:29.560 because it wouldn't make sense to continue making it for newspapers.

00:14:32.480 But there are other avenues where Dilbert could go.

00:14:39.620 For example, the locals' platform, subscription.

00:14:44.100 But if the cancellation goes the way I hope, I will be the first free person in the United

00:14:52.840 States.

00:14:54.380 I guess I was going to say Jordan Peterson, but he's Canadian.

00:14:58.660 So I guess there's one free person in Canada.

00:15:00.820 You've heard of him, Jordan Peterson?

00:15:05.200 And so I'm hoping to be the first free person in the United States.

00:15:10.220 Now, you're saying yay, but yay actually said something that I think all of us are scratching

00:15:16.880 our heads about.

00:15:18.540 We're like, is there any other way to interpret that?

00:15:22.160 I don't know.

00:15:23.340 So he's in a different situation.

00:15:25.620 My situation is unique in the following way.

00:15:28.440 I don't know.

00:15:30.600 This is Act 4, by the way.

00:15:32.280 I'm going to preview.

00:15:35.160 There's no Act 4.

00:15:36.460 But the end of Act 3, let's say.

00:15:38.880 Here's what the end of Act 3 looks like.

00:15:43.780 The people who are my critics realize they don't disagree with me.

00:15:50.300 Have you noticed there is zero disagreement from anybody, black or white?

00:15:56.480 In fact, most of the agreement is coming from black people.

00:15:59.820 Have you noticed that? 0.98

00:16:01.260 If you haven't noticed, you will.

00:16:03.640 And the agreement comes in two forms. 0.99

00:16:06.580 One form is black people saying, I'm a horrible, horrible person, you know, and I should be canceled. 1.00

00:16:12.840 That's my point. 1.00

00:16:16.380 That's my point.

00:16:18.580 Thank you.

00:16:19.720 Yes, my point is that there are way too many as a percentage.

00:16:23.480 I don't know the percentage, but whatever it is, it's too high.

00:16:26.240 I think you'd agree. 0.59

00:16:27.540 Of black people who have a very negative opinion of white people. 0.86

00:16:31.420 That was my point. 0.97

00:16:32.240 So the ones who are yelling at me, and also black, are making my point.

00:16:38.900 Now, I know you're going to say, but Scott, it's because you did that thing.

00:16:41.840 No, it isn't that.

00:16:43.180 You can tell by the comments that there's a, it's not just about me.

00:16:47.940 It's pretty obvious.

00:16:50.300 Secondly, there are black, almost entirely men. 0.94

00:16:54.580 I don't know if there's a reason for that.

00:16:56.420 But there are a number of black men who are just saying, oh, I totally agree with you.

00:16:59.580 You know, in context, everything you said makes perfect sense.

00:17:04.460 Have you seen that?

00:17:05.920 Have you seen the number of black men who are willing to say, yeah, once I see your point 1.00

00:17:10.940 in context, I agree.

00:17:13.960 But have you seen any newspaper that canceled me that disagreed with my point?

00:17:21.660 You haven't, have you?

00:17:23.060 Now, I haven't read them.

00:17:24.520 I haven't read all the stories.

00:17:25.680 But I can predict with confidence that none of them disagreed with me.

00:17:30.520 Do you know why?

00:17:32.180 Because nobody would disagree with it.

00:17:34.840 It's literally not disagreeable.

00:17:37.900 It would be like, do you like to breathe oxygen?

00:17:41.280 Well, I don't know.

00:17:42.080 I don't like the way you said it.

00:17:44.560 But do you like to breathe oxygen?

00:17:46.800 I do not like the way you said it.

00:17:49.380 Yeah, but do you like to breathe oxygen?

00:17:52.660 You see what's going on, right?

00:17:54.080 Here's the second one.

00:17:56.880 You ready for this one?

00:17:59.540 You're going to love this one.

00:18:02.680 I'm going to start asking my biggest critics the demographics of their own neighborhood.

00:18:12.640 Do you love that?

00:18:16.640 How much do you love that?

00:18:18.040 And the funny thing is, the trap is like a mile wide, right?

00:18:26.180 It's the most obvious trap you could ever set.

00:18:30.120 And I'm watching the NPCs walking into it in a single file.

00:18:33.240 Oh! 0.60

00:18:34.280 Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. 0.97

00:18:35.700 Hey, you racist? 0.98

00:18:36.640 Oh! 1.00

00:18:37.940 Goddamn cartoonist racist? 1.00

00:18:39.440 Oh! 1.00

00:18:39.720 I asked a few people on Twitter, and nobody was living in a black neighborhood.

00:18:49.680 Now, of course, they could explain it by saying, well, it's because I wanted to be near my family.

00:18:55.800 To which I say, exactly.

00:18:59.460 Exactly.

00:19:00.240 You wanted to be near your family.

00:19:01.820 Do you know why?

00:19:03.120 Your family doesn't hate you.

00:19:04.400 Now, the biggest criticism I'm getting, I just unblocked sticks, by the way.

00:19:13.220 So, sticks and hammer, big thank you, big thank you to you.

00:19:18.080 And all is, all is, I won't say forgiven, because that imagines that I have some, like, right to forgive or something.

00:19:27.800 Like, I don't have, like, I'm not God.

00:19:29.580 I'm not God, so I'm not going to say you're forgiven.

00:19:33.080 Like, I'll leave forgiveness to other people, other entities.

00:19:37.000 But, sticks and hammer, thank you.

00:19:41.340 Sincere thank you.

00:19:43.760 And unblocked and appreciated.

00:19:48.100 Now, okay.

00:19:55.280 So, the narrative poisoning is getting pretty bad.

00:19:57.940 So, here's what I think.

00:19:59.600 Sometime around the end of this week, or maybe sooner, could be as soon as, like, what is that?

00:20:07.260 Could be as soon as Tuesday-ish.

00:20:10.180 The narrative is going to start to drift.

00:20:14.820 The narrative right now is racist rant.

00:20:20.120 Racist rant.

00:20:22.080 Or racist tirade.

00:20:23.860 I think CNN's calling it a tirade.

00:20:26.240 Everybody else is calling it a rant.

00:20:27.600 So, because people think in bumper stickers, you know, 80% of the world is not going to know anything except those two words.

00:20:38.120 Racist rant.

00:20:39.520 Racist rant.

00:20:40.260 But the smart people, somewhere around Tuesday, are going to say, I wonder if there's something to this conversation.

00:20:48.400 I wonder if we should start paying attention.

00:20:52.220 I wonder if we should start paying attention.

00:20:53.040 Let me call here.

00:20:54.960 It's starting to happen on social media.

00:20:57.380 Because at the moment, at the moment, there are a lot of people who agree, who don't want to step into the fire.

00:21:06.000 But little by little, there are people who do agree.

00:21:09.400 And really, everybody agrees.

00:21:11.400 There's nobody who disagrees.

00:21:13.420 And by the way, when I say nobody disagrees, the point nobody disagrees with is that if you suspect a group of people has bad feelings about you,

00:21:23.820 you should put some distance between you and that group.

00:21:28.140 Now, that has nothing to do with black people specifically.

00:21:31.680 It has to do with a general rule. 0.98

00:21:34.520 And if you're black, you should do the same thing. 1.00

00:21:36.380 If you think there's a bunch of racist white people around, stay away. 1.00

00:21:42.160 I wouldn't try to fix them. 0.93

00:21:43.900 I wouldn't try to fix them with your good character and friendliness.

00:21:50.560 I would just get away.

00:21:52.420 So it's literally the same advice I give to everybody.

00:21:56.800 Just get away from all the bad stuff and go toward the good stuff.

00:22:03.500 VeganBeta says, wow, you are so messed up.

00:22:05.880 But vegan, do you disagree? 0.86

00:22:08.380 Do you disagree?

00:22:09.880 Would you advise the opposite?

00:22:12.140 That if there's a group of people who, by some, let's say, alarming percentage, whatever you think that is,

00:22:19.920 you could reasonably assume they don't like you,

00:22:23.820 would you say you should spend more time with them or less?

00:22:27.220 I'm open to your opinion.

00:22:28.640 Go ahead.

00:22:29.620 More time with people who don't like you or less?

00:22:36.860 Yeah.

00:22:37.840 Yeah, literally nobody disagrees with me.

00:22:43.340 Vegan says, I'm in shock, but I shouldn't.

00:22:45.660 I was a huge fan.

00:22:47.060 But, Vegan, again, do you see that you're not addressing the only question?

00:22:51.620 You're mad about the way I said it?

00:22:56.000 Let me say this.

00:22:59.000 I don't believe people are mad at me.

00:23:01.160 I think that they, you know, interpret it that way.

00:23:06.560 Here's what I think.

00:23:07.940 I think people are mad that I held up a mirror to everybody, black and white.

00:23:14.760 Right?

00:23:15.360 I basically said, here's the mirror.

00:23:18.820 Look in this mirror. 0.95

00:23:20.160 Are you living in a black neighborhood? 0.99

00:23:23.200 Are you? 0.97

00:23:23.860 Some of you are.

00:23:28.040 But, who advises people to go hang out with people that don't like them?

00:23:34.040 Who does that?

00:23:35.440 Nobody.

00:23:36.600 Nobody.

00:23:37.500 So, here's how people's minds are going to eventually settle, but not everybody.

00:23:42.500 This will always be bifurcated, because the people who saw the context have a different opinion.

00:23:46.600 But, for the people who saw the context, here's how their minds are going to settle.

00:23:52.980 They're going to settle on, that was really alarming when I heard it.

00:23:58.160 But, I have a better understanding of why it was alarming. 0.98

00:24:02.000 Why it's alarming is that the situation is so fucking bad. 0.90

00:24:07.600 That would slip down. 0.96

00:24:09.720 Would you agree?

00:24:10.840 The reason it's alarming is not because I said it.

00:24:14.400 It's alarming because you agree.

00:24:18.680 That's the only reason it's alarming.

00:24:21.520 Could you imagine if I'd said something that people disagreed with?

00:24:26.560 If people disagreed, there wouldn't be any energy around it.

00:24:31.560 Think about it.

00:24:33.000 You see things all day long that you disagree with.

00:24:35.860 Do they stick in your head?

00:24:37.560 Not usually.

00:24:39.300 Not usually.

00:24:40.260 Because you're surrounded by things like all day long people disagree with you.

00:24:44.400 Like, you could spend an hour on Twitter looking at opposite opinions,

00:24:48.920 and you'll just sort of come away with a general idea that some people disagree.

00:24:54.280 Opinions you don't agree with don't stick in your head, because there's so many of them.

00:24:58.960 The reason I'm causing so much trouble is because everybody agrees.

00:25:06.040 And what is a way to hide your agreement?

00:25:08.720 What would be a way to conceal your agreement with me?

00:25:16.240 What would be a way to do that?

00:25:20.180 Outrage?

00:25:22.680 Cancellation.

00:25:24.420 Right.

00:25:25.260 The newspapers who are cancelling me are trying to put some distance

00:25:28.820 between my opinion and my opinion they agree with.

00:25:32.860 Because they do agree with me.

00:25:35.200 Everybody who cancelled me agrees with me.

00:25:37.640 Everyone.

00:25:39.300 Does anybody disagree?

00:25:41.480 Do you think that any of the cancellers, the newspapers, let's say,

00:25:44.900 do you think any of them disagree with my point?

00:25:47.900 No, they're cancelling me because they agree with my point.

00:25:51.420 Do you get that?

00:25:52.120 So that's what the realization is going to come to in the next few days.

00:25:58.900 It's going to take a while.

00:26:00.140 It's like a slow-moving thing.

00:26:02.960 But once people realize that I got cancelled because they agree with me,

00:26:08.060 there is no other reason.

00:26:10.100 There really isn't.

00:26:11.360 Now, nobody would have said something like, you know,

00:26:15.320 directly, you know, anti some other group and expect to survive.

00:26:20.040 But I didn't.

00:26:20.700 I did not say something anti about any group.

00:26:26.120 Or at least nothing that doesn't apply to all groups, right?

00:26:29.020 Every group has the same issue.

00:26:30.920 There's some people in every group you probably want to, you know, avoid. 0.98

00:26:34.320 Certainly you'd want to avoid, you know, racist white people. 0.94

00:26:39.280 Wouldn't you? 0.98

00:26:40.620 Everybody would.

00:26:45.200 Somebody says, my book launch will be nuclear.

00:26:47.600 I don't know if I'm going to have the book launch.

00:26:49.520 This will be interesting because I don't know if my publisher is watching this, maybe.

00:26:55.580 But so I have one publisher or syndication company that handles the comic strip.

00:27:01.660 They also do the reprint books and the calendars.

00:27:04.600 And then there's another group that does my non-Dilbert books, Penguin.

00:27:09.800 But I haven't heard from them because it's the weekend.

00:27:13.240 I haven't heard from the syndicate either.

00:27:15.280 I'm feeling sorry for my editor at my syndicate. 1.00

00:27:20.920 They're waking up to this news like, oh, shit. 1.00

00:27:27.100 All right. 1.00

00:27:27.540 Sick and mental issues. 1.00

00:27:33.020 Yeah. 0.98

00:27:34.180 So let me show you a, something I saw.

00:27:40.500 Here's a, so already social media is starting to debate the issue, which is what I'd hoped.

00:27:46.840 Here's, here's a graph.

00:27:53.120 I don't know if it's real.

00:27:53.900 It's an internet graph.

00:27:55.100 You see it spiking up there on the end.

00:27:58.260 So these are the, the major entities, including two of them that canceled me, Washington Post and LA Times.

00:28:05.160 So here is their mentions of racism.

00:28:07.260 So this is the mentions of racism.

00:28:11.440 Rope, through the roof.

00:28:14.420 Did you know that?

00:28:17.100 Now, with this much talk of racism, what would you expect would be the predictable result of black American feelings about white people?

00:28:28.820 What would be the obvious outcome of that?

00:28:31.500 Negative, right?

00:28:32.220 If this were reversed, and let's say I were black in this situation, I would have a increasingly resentful feeling about white people because, have I mentioned that the media assigns your opinions?

00:28:50.500 But one of the themes that everybody missed about my criticism is who I blamed.

00:28:57.080 Did anybody see who I blamed?

00:28:58.800 Who did I blame for my racist tirade?

00:29:05.060 I mean, other than myself, of course.

00:29:08.220 Yeah.

00:29:08.860 Did I blame black America? 0.99

00:29:11.100 Did anybody hear me say, there's something wrong with black people? 0.99

00:29:14.880 Nope. 0.84

00:29:15.860 Because I don't think there is.

00:29:18.640 In my opinion, black American opinions make perfect sense. 0.96

00:29:24.580 Perfect sense.

00:29:25.520 If black Americans have a negative feeling about white Americans, well, you know, you don't have to be a genius to figure out why. 0.53

00:29:35.840 All of our opinions are assigned by the media, and always have been.

00:29:39.460 Not just on this.

00:29:41.160 You know, I'm not saying this is the one topic that people assign their, no.

00:29:45.320 Your opinions are always assigned by the media. 0.93

00:29:47.320 So, during this time, where things were, let's say, bad, but not horrendous, did you hear me say, stay away from black people? 1.00

00:29:58.520 It wouldn't have made any sense.

00:30:00.640 That would not have been a rational thing to do.

00:30:03.880 But what about at the top of this curve?

00:30:06.760 When you're at the top of this curve, does it make sense to stay away from the people who have been riled up to hate you?

00:30:12.500 Who riled them up?

00:30:14.680 Did black people rile themselves up? 1.00

00:30:17.000 Well, I don't know.

00:30:18.180 But I know that the media did.

00:30:20.780 So, I blame the media.

00:30:23.100 As well as all the three-letter things that are going on.

00:30:29.820 Now, there's one other that I needed to show you.

00:30:33.920 How in the world did that disappear?

00:30:36.080 Here we go.

00:30:36.540 So, there was a lot of complaints about the Rasmussen poll, which I believe was scientifically accurate, the Rasmussen poll.

00:30:46.000 But maybe the way they asked the question was open to, not maybe, it was open to debate.

00:30:51.500 But here's a poll from Gallup that goes through 2021.

00:30:56.820 And the question was, would you say relations between white and black people are very good, somewhat good, somewhat bad, or very bad?

00:31:04.780 And here's the trend line.

00:31:09.160 So, the trend line, if you see things are, you know, oh, you know, things are not good.

00:31:16.500 Not good.

00:31:17.480 I mean, could be a lot worse.

00:31:18.960 Oops.

00:31:19.660 Boom.

00:31:20.580 Right to the toilet. 0.58

00:31:22.200 So, you saw two graphs.

00:31:23.820 One says that the media is mentioning racism over and over and over again.

00:31:27.280 And then you see that the public is responding in lockstep, in lockstep to the reporting.

00:31:36.180 Now, let me ask you this.

00:31:37.980 Was this when racism got the worst?

00:31:41.100 Like in the history of the United States, was this about the time when all the racism got worse?

00:31:47.540 Because in the world I live in, the actual discrimination was at its lowest point.

00:31:55.420 Was it not?

00:31:56.260 I think it was at its lowest point.

00:31:58.980 But the media was telling you it was at its highest point.

00:32:02.300 And both white and black people were totally buying that narrative.

00:32:06.060 Now, I think Trump, you know, the Trump era was the biggest part of that probably.

00:32:10.660 So, all of the data that I've seen agrees with me.

00:32:19.460 Do you have any doubt about that?

00:32:21.480 Would you accept that the data and all of your anecdotal experience, both of your lived experience and the data, would you agree they're all on the same side?

00:32:32.320 That the media has poisoned us?

00:32:34.720 I called it out, and then what happened to me?

00:32:39.220 What happened when I called out the media poisoning us?

00:32:43.060 I got canceled.

00:32:44.200 By who?

00:32:45.600 The news.

00:32:46.640 The news canceled me to hide the fact that they did this.

00:32:51.120 They did this. 0.92

00:32:51.940 They made it impossible for a white person to feel comfortable around a black person. 0.93

00:32:58.900 Let me modify that. 0.94

00:33:01.320 Not a person, right?

00:33:03.420 You need to deal every single individually.

00:33:06.660 You know, every person should be dealt with individually. 0.74

00:33:08.580 So, I'm by no means suggesting you should avoid black people.

00:33:14.000 If you got that as some kind of a universal thing, you missed the point.

00:33:19.780 So, individuals, you should never discriminate against.

00:33:25.340 And by the way, I rarely run into racism with anybody I know.

00:33:32.620 Do you have that experience?

00:33:34.040 Like, the actual racism that I experience, like, in my daily life, it's like zero, basically.

00:33:43.340 It's only a media phenomenon.

00:33:46.000 But the media has certainly caused people who don't know each other to have bad feelings.

00:33:51.940 Here's an example.

00:33:53.780 Just think in your head, let's say if you're white or black, just think in your head of the white or black people that you know personally. 0.56

00:34:00.700 And ask yourself, do you have any racism problems?

00:34:05.700 No.

00:34:06.800 No.

00:34:07.880 I mean, if you do, you need a new friend.

00:34:10.300 But not really.

00:34:12.160 Not really.

00:34:13.320 I mean, I've never had any kind of racism problem in person.

00:34:15.780 But if I were to, let's say, be introduced to a group of black Americans, especially after the news this week, would I feel comfortable with a group, not an individual?

00:34:29.980 No, I wouldn't feel comfortable at all.

00:34:32.340 Nope.

00:34:32.600 But would I have any problem with any one person in that group?

00:34:38.200 Maybe for about five minutes.

00:34:41.580 Meaning that anybody who talks to me for five minutes gets a really good reading of what I'm about.

00:34:49.120 Right?

00:34:49.860 You don't even have to talk about race.

00:34:52.040 In five minutes, you would know that you don't have a problem with me.

00:34:55.580 It would be obvious.

00:34:56.360 So, in person, people are pretty good.

00:35:00.460 It's just the media has decided that we're groups, which we didn't decide.

00:35:05.380 The media decided we're different groups.

00:35:07.940 Why does the Gallup poll show a black versus white feelings?

00:35:13.580 They're dividing us.

00:35:15.360 They divide us because it's easier to make news out of it.

00:35:19.120 If they said, well, everybody's the same, why would we do a poll of what black versus white people think?

00:35:25.180 What's the point of that?

00:35:26.020 Everybody's people.

00:35:27.520 Then you would end up starting treating everybody like people.

00:35:31.240 But if every time you pick up the news, the Gallup poll is separating people into black and white, what are you going to do?

00:35:40.600 You're going to do the same thing.

00:35:41.980 So, the division is caused by the media.

00:35:48.060 And I've seen zero disagreement.

00:35:51.760 Is there anybody who disagrees with my point?

00:35:54.980 Is there anyone who says, no, the media does not influence our feelings about each other?

00:36:00.320 Right?

00:36:00.540 Nobody says that.

00:36:02.020 Literally nobody.

00:36:04.520 So, here are the two macro stories that are sort of related to my story.

00:36:09.740 Number one, in Dilber, I often talk about the fact that your boss, your boss is the one who gets to judge your work, even if your boss is the one that caused you to fail.

00:36:26.920 Do you ever go into a performance review with your boss?

00:36:31.620 Your boss says, you did not get this project done.

00:36:34.600 Now, you say, but I didn't have a budget because you didn't complete the budget thing.

00:36:40.680 And then your boss says, you're fired.

00:36:43.920 Because your boss gets to not only judge you for the mistakes the boss made, but then the boss can fire you for the mistake that the boss made.

00:36:54.440 Now, let's look at my situation.

00:36:57.260 Who is my boss?

00:36:59.040 Well, I didn't have a boss per se, but the clients are basically my boss, like in a conceptual way.

00:37:04.960 So, the newspapers, CNN, Reuters, all these people, created a situation which I pointed out.

00:37:14.300 And then the people who created that bad situation, they rallied together instantly.

00:37:19.520 And as one, they canceled me.

00:37:23.160 Because the last thing you want to find out is what they did to you.

00:37:28.480 But by the end of this week, you're going to know.

00:37:32.280 You're going to know they did this to you.

00:37:34.400 They divided the country. 0.95

00:37:36.460 They created the situation.

00:37:37.940 And when I acted rationally in the situation they created, they canceled me as one.

00:37:46.740 Now, here's the second part of this.

00:37:48.880 Do you think that the Washington Post was unaware that I'm one of the most effective voices in politics?

00:37:56.720 What do you think?

00:38:06.840 Do you think they were unaware?

00:38:08.620 Do you think they were unaware that I was one of the most effective voices helping Trump get elected?

00:38:16.940 Of course they know that.

00:38:18.180 Have you noticed that anybody who had any, let's say, political influence is getting canceled one by one?

00:38:28.600 Now, I don't think that's the major story.

00:38:31.360 That's not the major story.

00:38:32.860 But I don't know that I would have been canceled if I had been pro-Biden.

00:38:37.340 Do you think so?

00:38:38.680 Do you think the Washington Post would have canceled me?

00:38:41.560 Or would they have looked at the context?

00:38:46.260 Suppose I'd been black.

00:38:48.180 Suppose I'd been black. 0.69

00:38:51.440 Said exactly what I said.

00:38:53.420 Do you know that Jesse Lee Peters, who tweeted, he says, I'm 100% right.

00:39:00.580 He said the same thing.

00:39:02.680 So if Jesse Lee Peters wrote an editorial, let's say it got picked up somewhere, would he get canceled? 0.96

00:39:10.060 Or suppose you reversed it and said, you know, don't spend time with white people who are racists. 0.92

00:39:14.480 Which would be good advice. 0.98

00:39:15.600 Don't spend time with white people if you think there's a bunch of racists in them. 0.97

00:39:20.240 That would be good advice. 1.00

00:39:21.980 Keep away from white people. 0.99

00:39:25.000 Would it be a racist rant if I said black people for their own good should probably stay away from white people because there's so many racists? 0.99

00:39:31.300 The trouble is it doesn't work in both directions because you can't really avoid white people. 0.99

00:39:38.020 There's just too damn many of us.

00:39:41.120 You can't really avoid anybody.

00:39:43.180 Let me ask this.

00:39:44.440 How many people thought that was a literal statement when I said you should avoid black people, the context being that there are too many of them who don't like you, that being the reason? 1.00

00:39:56.980 How many thought that was literal? 0.81

00:39:58.840 Like nobody should.

00:39:59.880 I was advising you. 0.99

00:40:01.000 If you go to the store and there's a black person working the cash register, don't go there. 1.00

00:40:08.660 Do you think I meant that? 0.99

00:40:11.640 Do you think I meant don't hire black people? 0.71

00:40:18.280 You know, discriminating against individuals is just bad strategy.

00:40:22.320 I try to give strategy advice for your careers and your life that would make sense statistically.

00:40:30.660 Does it make good statistical sense to discriminate against an individual for race or anything else?

00:40:38.460 No.

00:40:39.060 Because all you're doing is reducing the pool of talent for yourself. 1.00

00:40:43.960 Your self-interest should take care of that, unless you're an idiot. 1.00

00:40:48.700 I mean, one of the problems with race discussions is that it gets conflated with idiots, right? 1.00

00:40:57.580 An idiot would not interview somebody maybe for a racial reason. 1.00

00:41:04.420 A smart person would say, well, this could be the best employee I've ever had. 1.00

00:41:09.500 You don't know.

00:41:10.480 So I better find out.

00:41:11.540 So anybody who, you know, does something that hurts themselves by reducing their own options in life,

00:41:19.340 like, is that racism? 1.00

00:41:21.320 Or is that just stupid? 1.00

00:41:23.440 You know? 0.99

00:41:23.960 If you just start reducing your own options in life,

00:41:27.980 like, suppose you never dated anybody outside of your own ethnic group.

00:41:33.120 I mean, I feel like you're just reducing your own options.

00:41:36.160 All right.

00:41:45.620 So the people who want to be critical of me, they can't do it with my actual argument.

00:41:53.400 That's the theme.

00:41:54.940 They all have to change it to something that I wouldn't say.

00:41:58.680 So here's Spencer doing this, Spencer Williams. 0.98

00:42:00.880 He says, Scott might hire you, meaning black people, if you're black. 0.98

00:42:06.760 Just don't live next to him. 0.99

00:42:08.600 Did I say that?

00:42:11.940 Does that sound like something I would say?

00:42:16.280 No.

00:42:16.940 It's not about individuals.

00:42:19.420 My neighbors are awesome.

00:42:21.320 I don't live in a super white neighborhood, by the way.

00:42:24.040 But if you count all ethnicities, you know, we have a lot of Asian, Indian,

00:42:29.900 a little bit of black.

00:42:31.400 It's not very black here. 0.86

00:42:35.000 But it's a racist topic.

00:42:41.040 Yeah, they don't really care what I actually said.

00:42:43.380 That's not going to factor into it.

00:42:45.640 All right.

00:42:45.800 Let me just summarize that last statement.

00:42:48.420 I do believe that my politics and my race are big factors in getting canceled.

00:42:55.880 But the bigger factor, I feel, there's no way to read everybody's minds.

00:43:00.340 You know, everybody's a little different.

00:43:03.600 But, yeah, Jesse Lee Peterson did defend me.

00:43:09.260 That's true.

00:43:11.020 Which was very nice of him.

00:43:12.520 I appreciate it.

00:43:13.220 A lot of other people did, too.

00:43:14.300 By the way, you don't see the private messages I get.

00:43:17.240 And privately, a lot of, I won't say a lot, but several of my black friends who follow

00:43:26.420 me on Twitter have, first of all, asked for context, which actually tells you that they

00:43:34.620 follow me.

00:43:36.460 Anybody who follows me, if they don't ask for context in a story, I'll think they're

00:43:42.660 not really following me.

00:43:44.040 Like, that's the first thing you should ask.

00:43:45.760 It was like, this looks terrible.

00:43:48.320 What am I missing?

00:43:49.760 Like, that's the question I was getting privately.

00:43:51.900 This looks really bad.

00:43:53.160 Can you explain this?

00:43:54.760 And then I would point them to, you know, Hotep's, Hotep Jesus' podcast.

00:44:00.440 And then they'd come back and they'd say, okay, I'm good.

00:44:05.160 I'm good.

00:44:06.780 Once you hear the full context, people said, okay, I get it.

00:44:10.580 I see what you're doing there.

00:44:15.540 All right.

00:44:16.620 Let's see.

00:44:21.920 Let's see if there's anything else.

00:44:23.360 Oh, so here's the thing.

00:44:26.500 So social media is handing me a lot of power.

00:44:31.560 You get that, right?

00:44:32.680 So as I anticipated, of course, you know, none of this is unpredictable.

00:44:40.980 So they're sending an insane amount of energy my way.

00:44:46.220 So the newspaper business will be basically over, I think, in a week, probably.

00:44:51.060 I mean, my guess is that they won't come back.

00:44:53.280 But there are a few things happening already.

00:44:58.360 Number one, my number of subscribers on the locals platform has shot up dramatically.

00:45:07.240 Number two, my Twitter followers have shot up faster than any time since I've been on Twitter.

00:45:13.800 And my name recognition is going through the roof.

00:45:20.040 And the media interest in me is insane.

00:45:23.180 It's like my phone was just, like, going crazy yesterday.

00:45:27.660 And you see the energy that I'm being given.

00:45:32.260 What should I do with this power?

00:45:34.980 Or what do you think I planned to do with this power?

00:45:38.140 Because obviously I knew it was coming.

00:45:39.600 What should I do?

00:45:45.340 Now, doing more podcasts is just more of the same.

00:45:51.580 Vegan, the dogs hear your whistle.

00:45:54.400 Vegan, it's not a whistle.

00:45:57.060 I said it directly.

00:45:59.420 See, the people who can't catch up with the story are having a tough time. 0.95

00:46:03.120 So Vegan Mehta is, yes, the dogs heard your whistle, meaning racist dog whistle.

00:46:07.760 It's not a racist dog whistle.

00:46:09.760 I told you exactly what the thinking was and why.

00:46:15.700 There's not much to, there's not a whole lot there for interpretation.

00:46:20.940 Like, I didn't leave anything out.

00:46:22.780 You don't need to have any whistles.

00:46:24.420 It's all right there.

00:46:25.140 All right.

00:46:32.760 Is today Easter Sunday?

00:46:37.080 What is Easter?

00:46:39.160 Did I miss Easter already?

00:46:42.080 Oh, it's in April.

00:46:46.180 Was Ash Wednesday this Wednesday?

00:46:48.900 I'm not good with my religious holidays.

00:46:51.160 Oh, so it was just Ash Wednesday.

00:46:55.140 What is the Ash for?

00:46:57.460 What's that stand for?

00:46:59.080 For Lent.

00:47:02.100 All right.

00:47:03.060 That's how poorly educated I am on religion.

00:47:07.960 All right.

00:47:11.360 Ladies and gentlemen, would you agree that all the news is boring today?

00:47:16.100 Let me tell you about Ukraine.

00:47:17.440 Blah, blah, the Ukrainians got some new weapons.

00:47:21.580 Blah, blah, the Russians are counterattacking. 1.00

00:47:24.680 Blah, blah, our HIMARS are very accurate.

00:47:28.540 Blah, blah, it's winter.

00:47:30.420 Blah, blah, this town got taken.

00:47:32.180 Or maybe it didn't.

00:47:33.000 Or maybe Wagner is mad at Putin.

00:47:35.020 Blah, blah, there's nothing there.

00:47:37.280 There's just nothing there.

00:47:39.780 I gave up Dilbert for Lent.

00:47:41.420 How about that Ohio train derailment?

00:47:48.440 Let me check.

00:47:49.440 Let me check.

00:47:50.780 Still derailed.

00:47:52.620 Still derailed.

00:47:54.040 Yeah.

00:47:54.620 So there's no news.

00:47:56.260 So that has a lot to do with what's going on.

00:48:01.780 I guess some new, was it that some department or something in the U.S.

00:48:06.040 decided that the COVID virus was a lab leak, but they won't tell us where.

00:48:14.780 The ashes symbolize our humility before God and our recognition that we are mortal.

00:48:21.600 Okay.

00:48:21.900 Yes, I am, to answer your question, I am, I'm at the moment, and I'm subject to change

00:48:33.580 at any time.

00:48:34.940 Right?

00:48:39.480 Yeah.

00:48:41.180 I forgot my point.

00:48:42.300 I was just reading it.

00:48:45.460 Oh, about Vivek.

00:48:46.560 I'm open to changing my recommendation for president at any time, because I'm only a single-issue

00:48:54.440 voter on fentanyl.

00:48:55.640 And right now, he's the toughest on fentanyl.

00:49:03.220 A lot of anti-Semitic comments on here.

00:49:06.360 I haven't seen them, but I do not approve of that.

00:49:11.420 No anti-Semitism, please.

00:49:14.460 We don't want to see that.

00:49:16.560 By the way, there's way more anti-Semitism, at least on social media, than I've ever seen

00:49:25.080 in person.

00:49:26.540 If you only saw social media, you'd have a real distorted view of what actual people think,

00:49:33.220 I think.

00:49:35.480 Who would destroy the cartels harder than Trump?

00:49:37.800 The trouble is that Trump's ability to get something done is hindered by the fact that

00:49:45.580 he's Trump.

00:49:46.100 So, I see what you're saying.

00:49:50.280 If he had the full power to do whatever he wanted, he would get it done.

00:49:55.860 Like, I do believe that he has the right, you know, fortitude and judgment to get it done.

00:50:02.300 But I don't know that he will be as free to do what he wants.

00:50:06.060 I guess it would depend on the nature of Congress.

00:50:08.820 You know, it could be that it might not matter that Vivek has a better fentanyl or a stronger

00:50:18.660 fentanyl approach, because if he doesn't get through the primaries, I'm going to have

00:50:24.140 to go with who does.

00:50:24.940 How deeply into our government have the cartels burrowed?

00:50:31.940 I think they probably have a lot of influence on the border police departments already.

00:50:40.040 And I wouldn't be surprised if they've got somebody in Congress by now.

00:50:44.920 By now.

00:50:46.340 Never know.

00:50:49.740 Anthony says, in all caps, you're a Trump MAGA guy for sure.

00:50:53.900 Well, first of all, I've never been MAGA.

00:50:56.300 I don't know if people know that.

00:50:58.440 But MAGA, I never identified with.

00:51:01.800 I never wore the hat.

00:51:03.380 I don't use the...

00:51:04.980 I don't know if I...

00:51:05.840 Maybe I once hashtagged it or something in the very beginning.

00:51:09.380 But I never liked it.

00:51:11.620 Part of it is because it sounds like MAGA.

00:51:14.360 Part of it, it sounds like you're in a cult, as opposed to just talking about politics.

00:51:19.760 So I never embraced the MAGA thing.

00:51:22.620 Now, a lot of the people who are mad at me believe that I'm right-wing.

00:51:28.300 How many of you believe I'm right-wing?

00:51:30.360 I'm actually left-wing.

00:51:32.100 Well, my audience is right-wing.

00:51:34.580 How many think I'm right-wing?

00:51:38.120 Anthony does.

00:51:40.020 But look at the other comments, Anthony.

00:51:41.700 You see that the people who know me the best know that I'm not?

00:51:48.900 You'd see more of that on the Hotep Jesus podcast that I'm recommending.

00:51:55.480 Yeah.

00:51:56.040 Well, to be more specific, I'm left-wing on social stuff.

00:52:02.000 But on economics and military stuff, I think the right is closer to the practical, smart solutions.

00:52:11.880 So on the big stuff, I tend to be—well, it depends on what you call big.

00:52:17.340 On the domestic social stuff, I'm very liberal.

00:52:24.640 And on anything that's like the health of the whole country, like the economy or defense,

00:52:30.660 then I get real conservative in the sense that I'm going to, you know, treat America number one.

00:52:41.560 Do your ex-wives support you?

00:52:44.000 Are you really asking me that?

00:52:47.720 You have no idea who I am, do you?

00:52:51.820 I think somebody thinks I'm somebody else.

00:52:58.740 All right.

00:52:59.360 Yeah, right-wing is not an actual—right-wing is not a good description for anything.

00:53:07.740 I'm a kept man.

00:53:11.360 That position is libertarian?

00:53:13.580 Yeah, maybe.

00:53:15.440 Did I see Axios today?

00:53:17.140 No.

00:53:18.560 It was Axios about me or something else?

00:53:22.240 Oh, it's about me.

00:53:23.300 Has anybody written a balanced article in which they seem to understand the context?

00:53:31.000 Have you seen that yet?

00:53:35.520 Musk said the media is racist?

00:53:37.880 I didn't see that.

00:53:41.800 Oh, the Washington Examiner?

00:53:43.260 When did he say the media is racist?

00:53:50.360 Did he say that related to something I tweeted?

00:53:55.580 Did that just happen?

00:53:59.240 All right.

00:53:59.980 Hold on.

00:54:00.460 I've got to look at that.

00:54:03.120 That would be funny.

00:54:04.140 Do you know the term duzex machina?

00:54:12.940 All right.

00:54:14.100 Let me go to my feed here.

00:54:18.120 Let's see. 1.00

00:54:19.460 Damn it. 0.99

00:54:23.020 Do you know it's hard to use any kind of an app when people are watching? 1.00

00:54:26.620 All right.

00:54:26.820 Elon Musk.

00:54:27.460 Let's see what he said.

00:54:28.560 Tweets and replies.

00:54:29.340 The media is racist.

00:54:46.980 Oh, my God.

00:54:50.380 Musk went after it.

00:54:52.140 He goes, first of all, this was eight hours ago.

00:54:54.200 And it was in reply to the news stories about me getting canceled.

00:55:02.100 And Musk says the media is racist.

00:55:04.680 And then an hour later, so this would be seven hours ago, he said, for a very long time,

00:55:11.300 U.S. media was racist against non-white people. 0.64

00:55:14.380 Now they're racist against whites and Asians. 0.96

00:55:17.380 Oh, my God.

00:55:18.900 Same thing happened with elite colleges and high schools in America.

00:55:21.980 Maybe they can try not being racist.

00:55:26.280 Oh, my God.

00:55:30.320 All right.

00:55:30.960 Let me explain what the duzex machina is.

00:55:34.300 How many of you know what that is?

00:55:36.520 I know I've got a lot of smart viewers.

00:55:38.760 How many of you know?

00:55:39.740 Some of you do.

00:55:41.000 Duzex machina.

00:55:43.040 All right.

00:55:43.360 So the history of it is in the old timey, was it the Greeks?

00:55:46.740 The old Greeks would have plays. 0.68

00:55:48.460 I think it was the Greeks.

00:55:50.020 And it's Latin, yeah.

00:55:52.700 And when the writers were bad writers, they'd write a story and they'd get to sort of the

00:55:58.620 end of the play.

00:55:59.940 And there was no way to resolve whatever the problem was because they hadn't written it

00:56:03.520 well.

00:56:04.280 So they'd just have a God appear at the end who had nothing to do with the play.

00:56:08.300 And God appears and fixes everything.

00:56:10.120 So it's considered not only a historical reference, but an insult to bad writers.

00:56:18.760 Like, a bad writer has, like, a magic person appear at the end to solve everything.

00:56:23.540 But there are a lot of movies that have some version of that.

00:56:25.640 For example, if you were watching a Marvel superhero movie, and all the superheroes that were the

00:56:32.640 stars of the movie are all, like, at the edge of death, and the bad guy's going to kill 0.97

00:56:37.140 them all with one hammer blow.

00:56:38.620 So, and then suddenly, a new superhero that you'd never heard of appears in the movie, and

00:56:45.220 then, you know, kills the bad guy.

00:56:46.780 That would be deus ex machina.

00:56:48.840 Like, just suddenly introducing somebody who wasn't part of the story.

00:56:52.140 Well, that's Elon Musk.

00:56:56.660 He was literally the number one voice in the country about free speech.

00:57:01.360 And he just waited pretty hard.

00:57:04.360 So, let me give this a tweet.

00:57:10.820 Oh, my God.

00:57:12.100 I did not expect him to go directly at it.

00:57:15.680 I did not expect that.

00:57:17.520 He went right at it.

00:57:21.240 Good for him.

00:57:22.140 Good for him.

00:57:27.300 Wow.

00:57:30.880 All right.

00:57:31.500 Let's see what else has happened.

00:57:38.440 I'm getting messages.

00:57:40.880 Oh, FedEx package.

00:57:43.540 All right.

00:57:45.500 I'm afraid that this might not be your...

00:57:49.240 Fisk asks this provocative question in all caps.

00:57:56.780 Fisk says,

00:57:57.980 Why are Jews exempt from ridicule, Scott? 1.00

00:58:00.960 Well, everybody is exempt from ridicule for their nature or the way they were born.

00:58:10.560 Did you not catch that rule?

00:58:12.560 You shouldn't be making fun of anybody for their race or ethnicity or religion or stuff they can't change.

00:58:20.180 Well, I guess you could change that, but not how you were born.

00:58:22.640 It's not about some group is free from ridicule.

00:58:29.240 All groups are free from ridicule.

00:58:31.320 Except maybe white people at the moment.

00:58:36.920 Do I have a message for your young readers?

00:58:39.000 That's funny.

00:58:39.580 This is vague and meta asking that question.

00:58:41.960 After you've insulted me for like 20 minutes.

00:58:44.360 Did I read...

00:58:49.040 No, I didn't read Charlie Cheon's.

00:58:51.040 Where is that?

00:58:51.700 Where does that appear?

00:58:53.160 Charlie is...

00:58:54.040 Do you say Cheon?

00:58:55.480 C-H-E-O-N? 1.00

00:59:01.820 Sue them for defamation?

00:59:03.380 No, that never works.

00:59:07.260 All right.

00:59:10.680 Do you think YouTube will cancel you?

00:59:12.260 I was surprised they didn't.

00:59:15.900 So here's the thing.

00:59:17.400 The way YouTube handles cancellation is that there's a mechanical way they do it if they see a keyword they don't like.

00:59:28.200 But then you can ask for a human review.

00:59:31.620 Any human who reviewed it is unlikely to have a problem because they would have seen it in context.

00:59:37.680 So that's probably why it didn't get canceled.

00:59:42.260 Oh, yeah, you're right.

00:59:43.560 Vegan.

00:59:45.060 It's Sunday, so they'll probably cancel me on Monday.

00:59:47.560 Yeah, that's possible.

00:59:48.520 I can get canceled on Monday on YouTube.

00:59:52.420 But that's why Rumble exists.

00:59:54.720 That's why Locals exists.

00:59:58.620 Adam's Woffin. 0.94

00:59:59.360 Yeah, they're the trolls.

01:00:15.780 Charlie and Cheon is on YouTube.

01:00:17.760 Okay, thank you.

01:00:21.280 You have a more favorable view of me?

01:00:23.360 You know what, you know what population has been totally silent?

01:00:29.360 Maybe.

01:00:30.580 And maybe Charlie and Cheon is the exception.

01:00:34.480 I feel like the Asian American community just went silent.

01:00:39.160 Am I right?

01:00:40.860 Have you heard anything from the Asian American community on this topic?

01:00:44.920 Which, by the way, is the right play.

01:00:47.840 Yeah, the right play is just lay low.

01:00:50.000 Well, let the cartoonist handle this one for you.

01:00:56.560 Let him do this one.

01:01:00.380 Europa, the last battle.

01:01:01.900 Never heard of it.

01:01:06.180 Ten is the answer.

01:01:07.300 Ten.

01:01:07.520 Well, we'll see.

01:01:23.420 Oh, boy, you're right.

01:01:26.640 Oh, God, you're right.

01:01:28.780 I'm not going to read that comment, but you're so right.

01:01:32.840 Well, I think I'll be eating at home for a while.

01:01:37.520 It's obvious you're pushing to be canceled.

01:01:40.340 Is it?

01:01:45.120 Yeah.

01:01:48.040 All right.

01:01:48.880 It looks like we've had our fun here.

01:01:51.720 I'm going to go do something else.

01:01:53.800 I'm hoping that we'll have more to talk about tomorrow when the news is not about me.

01:01:59.000 But I feel like tomorrow it's going to be more about me.

01:02:01.780 Because tomorrow, most of the cancellations will set in.

01:02:05.500 Now, keep in mind, there are a lot of people who don't read a newspaper on the weekend.

01:02:11.060 So a lot of people...

01:02:12.020 I saw one newspaper where the Dilbert strip goes.

01:02:15.740 It says, like, new comic coming.

01:02:18.480 So there's a whole bunch of people waking up today to say,

01:02:21.600 hey, what happened to my comic?

01:02:24.320 They're just going to be getting into the story today.

01:02:26.480 So there's going to be a second and third wave of people who are just finding out what the story is.

01:02:34.960 Well, I'll be the story unless there's a bigger story.

01:02:37.660 Is there anything big that's brewing?

01:02:44.360 Will you publicly post everyone who cancels you?

01:02:47.620 Too many of them.

01:02:49.760 Yeah.

01:02:50.420 Too many.

01:02:50.920 By the way, do you know what's going to happen to the economics of the newspapers that canceled me?

01:02:57.420 Here's a little inside knowledge about the comic business.

01:03:03.840 Have you noticed that comics can last, like, for 50 years and 75 years?

01:03:10.240 There are very few things like that.

01:03:11.900 Like, there are very few musical artists or actors or anything who can, you know, last 50 years.

01:03:16.520 Dilbert's, like, 34 years old, something like that.

01:03:20.220 34 years.

01:03:21.500 The reason that a comic lasts so long in the newspaper is that they're addicting.

01:03:27.280 And the people who have, like, a daily habit, they're used to having their cup of coffee.

01:03:32.500 You know, it's older people now, of course.

01:03:34.500 And, you know, it's just their little habit is always the same.

01:03:38.160 If you take a major part of their habit, and of their habit, they complain like crazy.

01:03:45.680 And they also cancel newspapers.

01:03:48.820 So, here's the number that they won't report.

01:03:53.200 The number of newspapers that get canceled because they canceled Dilbert.

01:03:57.300 Little known fact, almost nobody ever cancels a newspaper subscription just because of a comic.

01:04:07.260 The exceptions are the top comics, right?

01:04:11.100 People will cancel if you take Garfield down.

01:04:13.960 They will cancel if you take Dilbert or anything, maybe, you know, maybe Dudesbury or something.

01:04:19.580 So, there are a few comics that people will say, it's the only reason I got the newspaper.

01:04:24.400 And Dilbert has been one of the comics that people have said for decades, it's the only reason I get the newspaper.

01:04:31.760 Now, that's people who don't have an internet connection, I guess, or don't know how to use it.

01:04:35.100 It's pronounced deus ex machina.

01:04:46.860 D-E-U-S is pronounced deus, not deus.

01:04:53.440 Does everybody agree with that?

01:04:54.840 Oh, yes, okay, the smart people, the smart people who know Latin are saying it's deus, deus ex machina.

01:05:09.780 I always thought it was deus.

01:05:12.140 All right, well, learn something today.

01:05:16.260 Dilbert app?

01:05:17.520 Yeah, we had one for a while.

01:05:19.100 That would be interesting.

01:05:19.960 Talk about Limp Bizkit.

01:05:25.280 Is Limp Bizkit in the news?

01:05:27.380 I saw a bunch of comments.

01:05:30.460 What did Limp Bizkit do?

01:05:37.180 Yeah, I know deus means God.

01:05:40.520 They broke stuff?

01:05:45.000 Native American mound builders?

01:05:47.560 Why do you think I have an opinion on that?

01:05:49.960 All right, here's a question.

01:05:53.040 Will Tucker Carlson cover the story?

01:05:56.320 What do you think?

01:06:01.560 See, it's possible that this fight hasn't started yet.

01:06:06.680 So one of the things the Daily Beast editor did, which was smart, I have to give him credit for this.

01:06:12.040 It was a messed up thing to do, but it's something I've done before because it works.

01:06:16.100 So the Daily Editor tweeted after the story started breaking.

01:06:20.980 He goes, cue the conservative media defending the racist.

01:06:26.100 Which makes it look like he predicted it, but it's not hard to predict when you know the story is wrong. 0.99

01:06:36.160 If you know the story is not real, you can accurately predict the conservative media is going to tear the shit out of you. 0.97

01:06:44.420 I don't know what Tucker's going to do. 0.98

01:06:48.520 He might ignore it.

01:06:50.180 I don't know.

01:06:50.780 I'm not sure.

01:06:51.780 I don't know if it's on his beat or not.

01:06:54.340 But if he takes a bite out of it, he's going to leave a mark.

01:06:59.400 He's going to leave a mark.

01:07:00.780 So I don't know if, you know, I don't know if the shows like The Five or Goffeld, you know, that they have a lighter vibe.

01:07:12.400 I don't know if they would take this on, but I need a food taster.

01:07:19.020 Did anybody see my comic for today, the Dilbert comic for today?

01:07:29.180 If you didn't, I'm going to read it to you.

01:07:33.040 Because it's on point for what's happening right at the moment.

01:07:37.140 My Twitter user, my user follower is just screaming.

01:07:40.660 I'll tell you, the number of people who agree with me are very quiet.

01:07:45.240 But if you wanted to know, in general, is it more popular than unpopular?

01:07:52.300 Well, I would look at my Twitter numbers to know that a lot of people are on the same page.

01:07:58.820 I worry, though, that they have the wrong impression of why they're agreeing with me, if you know what I mean.

01:08:05.760 Did you introduce a black character in Dilbert today?

01:08:08.360 No, I did that a while ago.

01:08:09.880 I got canceled the first time I did that.

01:08:12.060 Remember I got canceled for introducing a black character?

01:08:15.240 Do you remember that?

01:08:16.700 I lost, like, a whole chain of newspapers.

01:08:20.120 Yeah.

01:08:21.920 All right.

01:08:22.500 I was going to show you the Dilbert comic for today, which I'm sure I tweeted. 0.99

01:08:30.140 Damn it. 0.97

01:08:30.620 I can never find my own stuff. 1.00

01:08:32.900 All right.

01:08:33.060 Let's do this the other way.

01:08:36.000 All right.

01:08:36.620 I'm going to read this to you because it's sort of on point at the moment.

01:08:42.200 Total coincidence.

01:08:43.020 Total coincidence.

01:08:45.240 Just got lucky on this one.

01:08:47.560 You know, I do the comic a month or so in advance for the dailies, and every now and

01:08:52.400 then one will hit.

01:08:53.140 It's just, like, the perfect situation.

01:08:55.740 All right.

01:08:56.000 So it's the gang sitting around a table, and I'll just show you this one picture and then

01:09:01.740 the rest of it. 0.64

01:09:02.540 Why the hell?

01:09:04.800 Oh, my God. 0.81

01:09:06.500 Such a bad interface. 1.00

01:09:09.100 Oh, my fucking God. 1.00

01:09:11.940 Okay. 1.00

01:09:12.600 Oh, my God.

01:09:14.300 Oh, this is the worst user interface.

01:09:16.860 But I'm going to make this work.

01:09:19.000 All right.

01:09:19.420 I think you can see this.

01:09:20.280 This is Dogbird.

01:09:21.380 He's at the table with the rest of the staff.

01:09:23.060 And he says, this is Bob, right?

01:09:26.180 So Bob's a character you haven't seen before.

01:09:29.720 And Dogbird explains.

01:09:31.380 He says, Bob likes to debate, but he isn't good at it.

01:09:35.060 When you disagree with Bob, he will insist that the only reason you disagree is that you

01:09:40.140 are afraid.

01:09:40.700 If you get vaccinated, Bob will say you are afraid of catching a sniffle.

01:09:45.980 If you don't get vaccinated, Bob will say you're afraid of getting the shot.

01:09:50.360 Bob believes your thinking process does not extend beyond your fears. 1.00

01:09:54.760 That's because Bob is a moron who projects his one-dimensional worldview on others. 0.99

01:10:00.100 Then Bob says, sounds like you're afraid to admit I'm a better debater than you are. 1.00

01:10:05.100 And Dogbird says, there it is.

01:10:09.400 There it is.

01:10:11.660 So, for 34 years, every time somebody disagreed with me, somebody said, oh, you're afraid.

01:10:25.300 Oh, you're afraid.

01:10:27.700 What do you think this week?

01:10:30.960 Does it feel to you as though I manage my career based on my fear?

01:10:36.660 Hmm.

01:10:37.220 It would be hard to explain this week.

01:10:42.840 No.

01:10:44.960 In fact, one of the things that's hardest for me to explain to people is how I'm not afraid

01:10:50.260 of stuff.

01:10:51.260 Because it's sort of irrational.

01:10:53.100 I'm irrational in the wrong direction.

01:10:55.700 I'm often irrationally not worried about stuff.

01:10:59.500 I'm irrationally calm.

01:11:00.880 I don't know the last time I was irrationally afraid of something.

01:11:05.500 I'm sure it's true.

01:11:06.620 I'm sure I have.

01:11:08.120 I can't think of one.

01:11:12.620 All right.

01:11:13.220 Well, very soon, I might be the first free man in America who can say what he means at

01:11:20.720 the risk of any consequences.

01:11:22.980 And I have to admit, I'm kind of feeling good about it.

01:11:26.340 But, you know, I'll have to work out how I survive.

01:11:29.760 Survival will still be something I have to navigate.

01:11:34.660 I'm not entirely sure I can go out in public this week.

01:11:37.980 Would you?

01:11:39.000 Let me ask you.

01:11:39.680 Would you go, if you were to be, would you go out in public this week?

01:11:43.700 Anywhere that you could be recognized?

01:11:45.120 No, logically, I shouldn't.

01:11:53.200 But I'm not going to care.

01:11:56.440 Logically, I should not go in public for a week or so.

01:11:59.960 But that's not going to stop me.

01:12:03.380 I'm sure I'll do whatever I want.

01:12:07.180 Because remember, nobody's ever had a problem with me personally.

01:12:09.980 So unless somebody snuck up behind me and, you know, hit me before they talked to me,

01:12:16.160 I don't really have a risk.

01:12:19.540 You hope I'm armed at all times.

01:12:22.600 Well, I'll only say that I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment.

01:12:27.520 I'd like to leave some mystery there. 0.98

01:12:30.600 But anyone who wants to fuck around and find out, they can. 0.99

01:12:36.620 Katie Hobbs taking cartel money, somebody says. 0.99

01:12:42.420 Is there any kind of evidence for that?

01:12:44.860 That sounds like the sort of thing for which there will be no evidence.

01:12:49.280 But I'm open to it.

01:12:50.660 I mean, maybe.

01:12:53.440 Fentanyl is in the news with Katie Hobbs.

01:12:55.340 I saw a reference to it, but I don't believe it's...

01:12:58.500 I just assumed it was fake news.

01:13:01.380 Are you telling me that there's actual evidence of her connection to cartel money?

01:13:06.620 I doubt that.

01:13:11.640 All right, well, I'll look into that.

01:13:13.480 I shall look into that.

01:13:17.360 All right, that's all for now, YouTube.

01:13:21.040 I'm going to go talk to the subscription people over at Locals.

01:13:24.000 And thanks for joining.

01:13:25.920 Looks like we've got a big crowd here today.

01:13:27.900 I appreciate all the comments as well.

01:13:29.560 Make sure you see the Hotep Jesus interview on YouTube with me

01:13:36.200 to explain anything that you're still wondering about.

01:13:39.340 Bye.

01:13:39.720 All right.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 26, 2023

Episode 2031 Scott Adams： What Will I Do With All The Power Media Is Handing Me？ Use It For Good？

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