Episode 2031 Scott Adams： What Will I Do With All The Power Media Is Handing Me？ Use It For Good？
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1 hour and 14 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the highlight of civilization, we talk about the train wreck, the CIA interrogation manual, and how social media might be breaking people s will. Plus, we get a new quote from Scott Adams.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of civilization, the best thing that's ever happened to anyone.
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And today, yep, you're already private over on Locals, don't worry.
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Today, well, we got some stuff to talk about today.
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How many people are here to look at the train wreck?
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How many of you are from the media? I'm talking to YouTube now.
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How many are from the media looking to get a new quote for your story?
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Well, we're going to talk about that. You might be a little surprised.
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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.
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Fill it with your favorite liquid I like, coffee.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better.
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I feel like I should say that with more theatrical flair.
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I really had high hopes for that, but it didn't land.
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You know, if you ever get in trouble, here's some advice for you.
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Some of you, you know, sometimes get in trouble, as I do.
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You need to time your trouble for not a slow news week.
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The only thing they're covering is train derailments.
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It's like, we've got Ohio and the other trains being derailed.
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Anyway, so I got a fun tweet by, we'll talk about all that.
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He says, in the CIA interrogation manual, it lists coercive techniques used to break someone's will.
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They include, now before I read the list of things that the CIA uses to break people's will,
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ask yourself how many of these apply to people using social media.
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Isolation, dependence, inducing guilt, preying on fear, disrupting sleep, robbing basic dignity,
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So, as Benjamin notes, sounds like social media addiction.
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This is an actual list of the CIA's coercion techniques.
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And they all sort of coincidentally, or not, or not, they all coincidentally map to social media usage.
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Do you think that your will is being broken down by social media?
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Do you think that today, for example, let's just take today, randomly.
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If you check the news, would you find out that the news didn't look like real news,
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it looked like some kind of social media narrative poisoning?
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Have you ever been so full of just talking about yourself or hearing about yourself that you're just tired of it?
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Like, I swear to God, I haven't read any of the articles about me.
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But it's not because, you know, I don't want to see bad news or anything like that.
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Like, I'm so bored of all the NPCs writing the same story.
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So, those of you who are paying attention, let me ask you first.
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How many of you who are watching saw the one-hour-plus podcast I did with Hotep Jesus,
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I mean, it's a lot to ask of anybody to watch, you know, over an hour of a podcast.
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So, the fact that so many of you actually put in that much time for something that was meaningful
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That is really a lot of time to put in for somebody else's issue.
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Now, you may notice, those of you who have seen the Hotep Jesus thing, if you watch that,
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If you're not aware of that or you didn't watch it, you're living in a whole different reality.
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And the reality you're living in is defined by this.
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And then there's people who saw the video, so they know kind of the whole story, et cetera.
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They're living in completely different worlds about me.
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Those of you who have seen the video, would you agree or disagree with the following statement?
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Anybody who's seen the Hotep Jesus video, there are half a million people who have viewed it already.
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If you've seen it, you would have a completely different impression of all of the situation.
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So, if there's anybody here who hasn't seen that video, but you've formed an opinion, what do you think now?
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I'm not even telling you what your opinion should change to.
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Basically, it looks like 100% of the people who saw the context have a different view of the whole situation.
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Now, ask yourself, which members of the media are aware of the full context?
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Probably a number of them watched it before they wrote yesterday.
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But has anybody seen any coverage which left out that context?
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Has anybody seen any coverage that omitted the context?
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And would you say that that was accurate news or fake news?
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How many news stories or tweets about me listed the reason that I said what I said that offended everybody?
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Now, did any of you who read the news about me, did you catch that they didn't list the reason?
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If you don't list the reason, it reverses the story.
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And by the way, this is how a lot of fake news is created.
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If you take a snippet, it's exactly the way that fine people hoax was created.
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You cut out the part where Trump says, I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis.
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You just cut that out, and it reverses his meaning.
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If you cut out the part where he says, I'm talking about light as a disinfectant,
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it reverses the meaning, and it sounds like some chemical disinfectant.
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It's the same way the Covington Kids hoax was played.
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You just cut out the context of just what happened right before, and it reverses the meaning.
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So, if you saw my, by the way, did you see how it's being branded, my story?
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Now, if you saw a racist rant and racist tirade, what would you assume is the reason I said it?
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You would assume the reason I said it is that I have a negative feeling about black Americans.
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Wouldn't that be kind of a natural interpretation?
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If you saw it in context, in the comments, if you saw it in context,
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was it me saying bad things about black people, and therefore you should stay away from them?
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The context is far too many black Americans have a negative opinion of white Americans.
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And in general, as a life advice, you shouldn't spend time with people who, you know,
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let's say in a statistical sense, are going to have a negative opinion about you.
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Well, so how many of you got that context without watching the video?
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Do you see how easy it is for the news to reverse the point of it?
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Somebody asked me, Scott, if you wrote this movie in the sense that you knew exactly what
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you were doing when you said it, which of course I did.
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You know, if I had just started my life in media, you could say to yourself, I feel like
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He just had one bad day, and then you could reveal his inner soul and stuff like that.
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I don't think I've ever made a mistake in public.
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But eventually you get good at it, and you don't say things you don't mean.
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And you don't say things without knowing completely how it's going to be taken, and what impact
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So at this point in the story, including the cancellations, because I'm almost fully cancelled
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from newspapers now, but including the cancellations, this was all predictable, and I knew it when
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Yeah, I could explain more about that, but the Hotep Jesus interview was great.
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By the way, let me give a little commercial for Hotep Jesus.
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And if you're looking for the video, it's pinned at the top of my Twitter feed today.
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But you could just Google my name and Hotep Jesus, and it'll pop right up.
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I'm sitting there on his podcast, and the whole time, like, I'm talking to him, I'm
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thinking, damn it, how did you get all this pulled together?
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Like, his set is really good, and the lighting is perfect.
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You know, he has some kind of artist he works with to do the images that promote it.
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And, like, he had this great image of me that went with the podcast, got it all together
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in, like, just a few hours, had me scheduled, I'm on there.
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The questions and just the vibe of it, just terrific.
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So if anybody gets a chance to go on his show, I recommend it highly.
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So here's some other things you need to know, or maybe you don't care.
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So you saw some stories about big newspapers canceling Dilbert.
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I know the Washington Post, I think the LA Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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There are thousands of newspapers around the world who could potentially carry a comic.
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Dilbert was in basically almost all of the ones that matter, at least domestically, and
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But the economics are that the big newspapers are 80% of your income.
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So the 20% of the papers are 80% of the income.
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The 20% that are the important ones are the urban, big city newspapers.
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Now, they're the ones who are going to cancel first, for obvious reasons.
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So probably already what's announced might be 80% of my income, which would be the end
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Now, it wouldn't be the end of it as a cartoon, but it would be the end of it in newspapers,
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because it wouldn't make sense to continue making it for newspapers.
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But there are other avenues where Dilbert could go.
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For example, the locals' platform, subscription.
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But if the cancellation goes the way I hope, I will be the first free person in the United
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I guess I was going to say Jordan Peterson, but he's Canadian.
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And so I'm hoping to be the first free person in the United States.
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Now, you're saying yay, but yay actually said something that I think all of us are scratching
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We're like, is there any other way to interpret that?
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The people who are my critics realize they don't disagree with me.
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Have you noticed there is zero disagreement from anybody, black or white?
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In fact, most of the agreement is coming from black people.
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One form is black people saying, I'm a horrible, horrible person, you know, and I should be canceled.
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Yes, my point is that there are way too many as a percentage.
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I don't know the percentage, but whatever it is, it's too high.
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Of black people who have a very negative opinion of white people.
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So the ones who are yelling at me, and also black, are making my point.
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Now, I know you're going to say, but Scott, it's because you did that thing.
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You can tell by the comments that there's a, it's not just about me.
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Secondly, there are black, almost entirely men.
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But there are a number of black men who are just saying, oh, I totally agree with you.
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You know, in context, everything you said makes perfect sense.
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Have you seen the number of black men who are willing to say, yeah, once I see your point
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But have you seen any newspaper that canceled me that disagreed with my point?
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But I can predict with confidence that none of them disagreed with me.
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It would be like, do you like to breathe oxygen?
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I'm going to start asking my biggest critics the demographics of their own neighborhood.
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And the funny thing is, the trap is like a mile wide, right?
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And I'm watching the NPCs walking into it in a single file.
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I asked a few people on Twitter, and nobody was living in a black neighborhood.
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Now, of course, they could explain it by saying, well, it's because I wanted to be near my family.
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Now, the biggest criticism I'm getting, I just unblocked sticks, by the way.
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So, sticks and hammer, big thank you, big thank you to you.
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And all is, all is, I won't say forgiven, because that imagines that I have some, like, right to forgive or something.
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I'm not God, so I'm not going to say you're forgiven.
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Like, I'll leave forgiveness to other people, other entities.
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So, the narrative poisoning is getting pretty bad.
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Sometime around the end of this week, or maybe sooner, could be as soon as, like, what is that?
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So, because people think in bumper stickers, you know, 80% of the world is not going to know anything except those two words.
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But the smart people, somewhere around Tuesday, are going to say, I wonder if there's something to this conversation.
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Because at the moment, at the moment, there are a lot of people who agree, who don't want to step into the fire.
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But little by little, there are people who do agree.
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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,
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you should put some distance between you and that group.
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Now, that has nothing to do with black people specifically.
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And if you're black, you should do the same thing.
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If you think there's a bunch of racist white people around, stay away.
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I wouldn't try to fix them with your good character and friendliness.
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So it's literally the same advice I give to everybody.
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Just get away from all the bad stuff and go toward the good stuff.
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That if there's a group of people who, by some, let's say, alarming percentage, whatever you think that is,
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you could reasonably assume they don't like you,
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would you say you should spend more time with them or less?
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More time with people who don't like you or less?
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But, Vegan, again, do you see that you're not addressing the only question?
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I think that they, you know, interpret it that way.
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I think people are mad that I held up a mirror to everybody, black and white.
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But, who advises people to go hang out with people that don't like them?
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So, here's how people's minds are going to eventually settle, but not everybody.
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This will always be bifurcated, because the people who saw the context have a different opinion.
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But, for the people who saw the context, here's how their minds are going to settle.
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They're going to settle on, that was really alarming when I heard it.
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But, I have a better understanding of why it was alarming.
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Why it's alarming is that the situation is so fucking bad.
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The reason it's alarming is not because I said it.
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Could you imagine if I'd said something that people disagreed with?
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If people disagreed, there wouldn't be any energy around it.
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You see things all day long that you disagree with.
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Because you're surrounded by things like all day long people disagree with you.
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Like, you could spend an hour on Twitter looking at opposite opinions,
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and you'll just sort of come away with a general idea that some people disagree.
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Opinions you don't agree with don't stick in your head, because there's so many of them.
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The reason I'm causing so much trouble is because everybody agrees.
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What would be a way to conceal your agreement with me?
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The newspapers who are cancelling me are trying to put some distance
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between my opinion and my opinion they agree with.
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Do you think that any of the cancellers, the newspapers, let's say,
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do you think any of them disagree with my point?
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No, they're cancelling me because they agree with my point.
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So that's what the realization is going to come to in the next few days.
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But once people realize that I got cancelled because they agree with me,
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Now, nobody would have said something like, you know,
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directly, you know, anti some other group and expect to survive.
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Or at least nothing that doesn't apply to all groups, right?
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There's some people in every group you probably want to, you know, avoid.
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Certainly you'd want to avoid, you know, racist white people.
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I don't know if I'm going to have the book launch.
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This will be interesting because I don't know if my publisher is watching this, maybe.
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But so I have one publisher or syndication company that handles the comic strip.
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They also do the reprint books and the calendars.
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And then there's another group that does my non-Dilbert books, Penguin.
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But I haven't heard from them because it's the weekend.
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I'm feeling sorry for my editor at my syndicate.
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Here's a, so already social media is starting to debate the issue, which is what I'd hoped.
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So these are the, the major entities, including two of them that canceled me, Washington Post and LA Times.
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Now, with this much talk of racism, what would you expect would be the predictable result of black American feelings about white people?
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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?
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But one of the themes that everybody missed about my criticism is who I blamed.
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Did anybody hear me say, there's something wrong with black people?
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In my opinion, black American opinions make perfect sense.
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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.
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All of our opinions are assigned by the media, and always have been.
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You know, I'm not saying this is the one topic that people assign their, no.
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Your opinions are always assigned by the media.
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So, during this time, where things were, let's say, bad, but not horrendous, did you hear me say, stay away from black people?
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That would not have been a rational thing to do.
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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?
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As well as all the three-letter things that are going on.
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Now, there's one other that I needed to show you.
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So, there was a lot of complaints about the Rasmussen poll, which I believe was scientifically accurate, the Rasmussen poll.
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But maybe the way they asked the question was open to, not maybe, it was open to debate.
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But here's a poll from Gallup that goes through 2021.
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And the question was, would you say relations between white and black people are very good, somewhat good, somewhat bad, or very bad?
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So, the trend line, if you see things are, you know, oh, you know, things are not good.
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One says that the media is mentioning racism over and over and over again.
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And then you see that the public is responding in lockstep, in lockstep to the reporting.
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Like in the history of the United States, was this about the time when all the racism got worse?
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Because in the world I live in, the actual discrimination was at its lowest point.
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But the media was telling you it was at its highest point.
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And both white and black people were totally buying that narrative.
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Now, I think Trump, you know, the Trump era was the biggest part of that probably.
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So, all of the data that I've seen agrees with me.
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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?
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What happened when I called out the media poisoning us?
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The news canceled me to hide the fact that they did this.
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They made it impossible for a white person to feel comfortable around a black person.
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You know, every person should be dealt with individually.
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So, I'm by no means suggesting you should avoid black people.
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If you got that as some kind of a universal thing, you missed the point.
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So, individuals, you should never discriminate against.
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And by the way, I rarely run into racism with anybody I know.
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Like, the actual racism that I experience, like, in my daily life, it's like zero, basically.
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But the media has certainly caused people who don't know each other to have bad feelings.
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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.
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And ask yourself, do you have any racism problems?
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I mean, I've never had any kind of racism problem in person.
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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?
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But would I have any problem with any one person in that group?
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Meaning that anybody who talks to me for five minutes gets a really good reading of what I'm about.
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In five minutes, you would know that you don't have a problem with me.
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It's just the media has decided that we're groups, which we didn't decide.
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Why does the Gallup poll show a black versus white feelings?
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They divide us because it's easier to make news out of it.
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If they said, well, everybody's the same, why would we do a poll of what black versus white people think?
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Then you would end up starting treating everybody like people.
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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?
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Is there anyone who says, no, the media does not influence our feelings about each other?
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So, here are the two macro stories that are sort of related to my story.
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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.
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Do you ever go into a performance review with your boss?
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Your boss says, you did not get this project done.
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Now, you say, but I didn't have a budget because you didn't complete the budget thing.
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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.
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Well, I didn't have a boss per se, but the clients are basically my boss, like in a conceptual way.
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So, the newspapers, CNN, Reuters, all these people, created a situation which I pointed out.
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And then the people who created that bad situation, they rallied together instantly.
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Because the last thing you want to find out is what they did to you.
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But by the end of this week, you're going to know.
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And when I acted rationally in the situation they created, they canceled me as one.
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Do you think that the Washington Post was unaware that I'm one of the most effective voices in politics?
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Do you think they were unaware that I was one of the most effective voices helping Trump get elected?
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Have you noticed that anybody who had any, let's say, political influence is getting canceled one by one?
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But I don't know that I would have been canceled if I had been pro-Biden.
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Do you think the Washington Post would have canceled me?
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Do you know that Jesse Lee Peters, who tweeted, he says, I'm 100% right.
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So if Jesse Lee Peters wrote an editorial, let's say it got picked up somewhere, would he get canceled?
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Or suppose you reversed it and said, you know, don't spend time with white people who are racists.
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Don't spend time with white people if you think there's a bunch of racists in them.
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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?
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The trouble is it doesn't work in both directions because you can't really avoid white people.
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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?
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If you go to the store and there's a black person working the cash register, don't go there.
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You know, discriminating against individuals is just bad strategy.
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I try to give strategy advice for your careers and your life that would make sense statistically.
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Does it make good statistical sense to discriminate against an individual for race or anything else?
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Because all you're doing is reducing the pool of talent for yourself.
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Your self-interest should take care of that, unless you're an idiot.
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I mean, one of the problems with race discussions is that it gets conflated with idiots, right?
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An idiot would not interview somebody maybe for a racial reason.
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A smart person would say, well, this could be the best employee I've ever had.
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So anybody who, you know, does something that hurts themselves by reducing their own options in life,
00:41:23.960
If you just start reducing your own options in life,
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like, suppose you never dated anybody outside of your own ethnic group.
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I mean, I feel like you're just reducing your own options.
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So the people who want to be critical of me, they can't do it with my actual argument.
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They all have to change it to something that I wouldn't say.
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So here's Spencer doing this, Spencer Williams.
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He says, Scott might hire you, meaning black people, if you're black.
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I don't live in a super white neighborhood, by the way.
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But if you count all ethnicities, you know, we have a lot of Asian, Indian,
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Yeah, they don't really care what I actually said.
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I do believe that my politics and my race are big factors in getting canceled.
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But the bigger factor, I feel, there's no way to read everybody's minds.
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By the way, you don't see the private messages I get.
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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
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Anybody who follows me, if they don't ask for context in a story, I'll think they're
00:43:49.760
Like, that's the question I was getting privately.
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And then I would point them to, you know, Hotep's, Hotep Jesus' podcast.
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And then they'd come back and they'd say, okay, I'm good.
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Once you hear the full context, people said, okay, I get it.
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So as I anticipated, of course, you know, none of this is unpredictable.
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So they're sending an insane amount of energy my way.
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So the newspaper business will be basically over, I think, in a week, probably.
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Number one, my number of subscribers on the locals platform has shot up dramatically.
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Number two, my Twitter followers have shot up faster than any time since I've been on Twitter.
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And my name recognition is going through the roof.
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It's like my phone was just, like, going crazy yesterday.
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Or what do you think I planned to do with this power?
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Now, doing more podcasts is just more of the same.
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See, the people who can't catch up with the story are having a tough time.
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So Vegan Mehta is, yes, the dogs heard your whistle, meaning racist dog whistle.
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I told you exactly what the thinking was and why.
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There's not much to, there's not a whole lot there for interpretation.
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Ladies and gentlemen, would you agree that all the news is boring today?
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Blah, blah, the Ukrainians got some new weapons.
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I guess some new, was it that some department or something in the U.S.
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decided that the COVID virus was a lab leak, but they won't tell us where.
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The ashes symbolize our humility before God and our recognition that we are mortal.
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Yes, I am, to answer your question, I am, I'm at the moment, and I'm subject to change
00:48:46.560
I'm open to changing my recommendation for president at any time, because I'm only a single-issue
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I haven't seen them, but I do not approve of that.
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By the way, there's way more anti-Semitism, at least on social media, than I've ever seen
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If you only saw social media, you'd have a real distorted view of what actual people think,
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Who would destroy the cartels harder than Trump?
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The trouble is that Trump's ability to get something done is hindered by the fact that
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If he had the full power to do whatever he wanted, he would get it done.
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Like, I do believe that he has the right, you know, fortitude and judgment to get it done.
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But I don't know that he will be as free to do what he wants.
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I guess it would depend on the nature of Congress.
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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
00:50:24.940
How deeply into our government have the cartels burrowed?
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I think they probably have a lot of influence on the border police departments already.
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And I wouldn't be surprised if they've got somebody in Congress by now.
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Anthony says, in all caps, you're a Trump MAGA guy for sure.
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Maybe I once hashtagged it or something in the very beginning.
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Part of it, it sounds like you're in a cult, as opposed to just talking about politics.
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Now, a lot of the people who are mad at me believe that I'm right-wing.
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You see that the people who know me the best know that I'm not?
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You'd see more of that on the Hotep Jesus podcast that I'm recommending.
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Well, to be more specific, I'm left-wing on social stuff.
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But on economics and military stuff, I think the right is closer to the practical, smart solutions.
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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.
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And on anything that's like the health of the whole country, like the economy or defense,
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then I get real conservative in the sense that I'm going to, you know, treat America number one.
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Yeah, right-wing is not an actual—right-wing is not a good description for anything.
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Has anybody written a balanced article in which they seem to understand the context?
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Did he say that related to something I tweeted?
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Do you know it's hard to use any kind of an app when people are watching?
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He goes, first of all, this was eight hours ago.
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And it was in reply to the news stories about me getting canceled.
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And then an hour later, so this would be seven hours ago, he said, for a very long time,
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U.S. media was racist against non-white people.
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Same thing happened with elite colleges and high schools in America.
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So the history of it is in the old timey, was it the Greeks?
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And when the writers were bad writers, they'd write a story and they'd get to sort of the
00:55:59.940
And there was no way to resolve whatever the problem was because they hadn't written it
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So they'd just have a God appear at the end who had nothing to do with the play.
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So it's considered not only a historical reference, but an insult to bad writers.
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Like, a bad writer has, like, a magic person appear at the end to solve everything.
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But there are a lot of movies that have some version of that.
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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
00:56:38.620
So, and then suddenly, a new superhero that you'd never heard of appears in the movie, and
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Like, just suddenly introducing somebody who wasn't part of the story.
00:56:56.660
He was literally the number one voice in the country about free speech.
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Fisk asks this provocative question in all caps.
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Well, everybody is exempt from ridicule for their nature or the way they were born.
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You shouldn't be making fun of anybody for their race or ethnicity or religion or stuff they can't change.
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Well, I guess you could change that, but not how you were born.
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It's not about some group is free from ridicule.
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The way YouTube handles cancellation is that there's a mechanical way they do it if they see a keyword they don't like.
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Any human who reviewed it is unlikely to have a problem because they would have seen it in context.
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It's Sunday, so they'll probably cancel me on Monday.
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You know what, you know what population has been totally silent?
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I feel like the Asian American community just went silent.
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Have you heard anything from the Asian American community on this topic?
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Well, let the cartoonist handle this one for you.
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I'm not going to read that comment, but you're so right.
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Well, I think I'll be eating at home for a while.
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I'm hoping that we'll have more to talk about tomorrow when the news is not about me.
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But I feel like tomorrow it's going to be more about me.
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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.
01:02:12.020
I saw one newspaper where the Dilbert strip goes.
01:02:18.480
So there's a whole bunch of people waking up today to say,
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.
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Will you publicly post everyone who cancels you?
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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.
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Have you noticed that comics can last, like, for 50 years and 75 years?
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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.
01:03:21.500
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.
01:03:34.500
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.
01:03:53.200
The number of newspapers that get canceled because they canceled Dilbert.
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Little known fact, almost nobody ever cancels a newspaper subscription just because of a comic.
01:04:13.960
They will cancel if you take Dilbert or anything, maybe, you know, maybe Dudesbury or something.
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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.
01:04:54.840
Oh, yes, okay, the smart people, the smart people who know Latin are saying it's deus, deus ex machina.
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.
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He goes, cue the conservative media defending the racist.
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Which makes it look like he predicted it, but it's not hard to predict when you know the story is wrong.
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.
01:06:54.340
But if he takes a bite out of it, he's going to leave a mark.
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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.
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Did anybody see my comic for today, the Dilbert comic for today?
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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?
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Remember I got canceled for introducing a black character?
01:08:22.500
I was going to show you the Dilbert comic for today, which I'm sure I tweeted.
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I'm going to read this to you because it's sort of on point at the moment.
01:08:47.560
You know, I do the comic a month or so in advance for the dailies, and every now and
01:08:56.000
So it's the gang sitting around a table, and I'll just show you this one picture and then
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
01:09:40.700
If you get vaccinated, Bob will say you are afraid of catching a sniffle.
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If you don't get vaccinated, Bob will say you're afraid of getting the shot.
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Bob believes your thinking process does not extend beyond your fears.
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That's because Bob is a moron who projects his one-dimensional worldview on others.
01:10:00.100
Then Bob says, sounds like you're afraid to admit I'm a better debater than you are.
01:10:11.660
So, for 34 years, every time somebody disagreed with me, somebody said, oh, you're afraid.
01:10:30.960
Does it feel to you as though I manage my career based on my fear?
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In fact, one of the things that's hardest for me to explain to people is how I'm not afraid
01:10:55.700
I'm often irrationally not worried about stuff.
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I don't know the last time I was irrationally afraid of something.
01:11:13.220
Well, very soon, I might be the first free man in America who can say what he means at
01:11:22.980
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.
01:11:39.680
Would you go, if you were to be, would you go out in public this week?
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Logically, I should not go in public for a week or so.
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,
01:12:22.600
Well, I'll only say that I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment.
01:12:30.600
But anyone who wants to fuck around and find out, they can.
01:12:36.620
Katie Hobbs taking cartel money, somebody says.
01:12:44.860
That sounds like the sort of thing for which there will be no evidence.
01:12:55.340
I saw a reference to it, but I don't believe it's...
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Are you telling me that there's actual evidence of her connection to cartel money?
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I'm going to go talk to the subscription people over at Locals.
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Make sure you see the Hotep Jesus interview on YouTube with me
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to explain anything that you're still wondering about.