Episode 2071 Scott Adams： Trans News Everywhere, Surviving AI, Electric Cars vs Oil, Diet & IQ
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Today Scott Adams joins me to talk about some of the craziest things going on in the world, including the trans issue of the first female vp and the trans light bulb. Also, there's a lot of talk about iodine and iodine supplements, which is a good thing.
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good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of civilization it's called coffee
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go oh yeah that's that's the good stuff yes it turns out in case you were worried about my health
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my health is perfect but sometimes you have to sleep more than three hours a night so
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after yesterday's debacle i just went right back to bed and just slept until noon and then i felt
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great all good so sleep it's kind of a miracle drug well what's in the news there's an account i follow
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that i don't think is a real person called tyrone williams he says a lot of controversial things but
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some of the very interesting things he says is i didn't realize that there was uh science
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about uh iq and nutrition and apparently there's a lot of it i don't know how much it is reliable
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but one of the claims is that when uh iodine was added to salt it increased iqs by 15 points in the
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united states does that sound true do you think that iodine added to salt increased iqs by 15
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points i'm seeing yeses and nos that seems like a stretch but the larger point is apparently there
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are a number of uh things like calcium magnesium and folates and probably some other things vitamin d
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maybe that seem to be really correlated with intelligence how hard would it be to pick some
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poor part of the country and just say hey work on this experiment we'll give all of you poor people
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good supplements good nutrition just see what happens might take a long time to see what happens but
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i think by the third grade or so you'd know if their iq was you know boosted so i would love to see that
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uh it really makes me wonder how much of the iq differences that there are in the country are
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genetic and how much are nutritional because the nutritional stuff we probably need to fix
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uh if only for national security doesn't it seem to you that it would be a national security issue
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to have educated and healthy kids it's hard to separate education and nutrition from homeland security
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because if you don't do it all right you you're lost no matter what yeah obesity etc so uh michael
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schellenberger says that he has a whistleblower information saying that he and the other twitter
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files authors are going to be targeted do you think that's real because matt taibi has already been hit
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pretty hard um with some fact checking some of it may be important some of it not and i think
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barry weiss and matt schellenberger are going to get attacked as well now i don't think any of them
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started as republicans or conservatives but simply because they're not pro-democrat narrative
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that's enough apparently they are being what's the word starts with an h oh haunted they're being
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hunted that is the best prediction i ever made that was the the least obvious although i've had some
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pretty unobvious predictions yeah they're literally being hunted according to a whistleblower now keep an
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eye on them you might have to help protect them but i love the fact that the people being hunted
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do have some recourse now you can go on substack you can go on locals you can go on rumble you can go
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on truth social so apparently getting canceled is not what it used to be but uh better better protect
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those three authors i think they're too important to to let them let them swing on their own so
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i just would like to put in the word that uh those of you who protected me when i got hunted and
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canceled i appreciate it immensely just immensely changes everything really the fact that there's
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some way to still monetize your life if you've been canceled so protect those three uh authors i think
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i think the world is better with them well you may have noticed that all the news is about trans issues
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it's all i think 50 of the headlines are about trans it's the weirdest phenomenon just to give you an
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example uh i think this story is fake or maybe not but does anybody know if it's true that the
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first female vp to head bud light that there's that for the first time they have a woman who's in charge
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of bud light which could explain a little bit about the dylan mulvaney connection
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you posted it four days ago but i don't know if it's true
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uh i know i've seen it but apparently the linkedin profiles changed so i'm going to say that's a
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maybe it's in forbes okay it's probably true so do you think that it's a factor that the vp of bud light
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is a female do you think the fact that she's female is why this happened
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we don't know stop being a bunch of sexists you misogynist pieces of garbage
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how could you possibly know that it's only happening because she's female you don't know that there's no way you could know that
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i i now certainly certainly my bias agrees with you if i were to check my bias it very much is screaming at me
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a man would never have done that a man would never have done that but is that true i don't know if that's
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true because i think a man or a woman might have some external forces and may feel the need to bow to
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some external forces do you think that the vp of bud light has a boss yeah because it's only the vp
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is the ceo a man i don't know probably right so there's probably a man who made the decision
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so i'm not so i'm not so sure you want to jump on the diversity higher on this one i think you need
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to raise your game a little bit higher than there was one time a woman did something that's that's not
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that's not exactly evidence right but could be a factor you never know i just wouldn't assume it
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um then we've got uh trans and sports so the biden administration is proposing some kind of new
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rule for k-12 and um mostly for college and k-12 that would ban it would ban any trans bands
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so it would ban the bands so you would not be able to say no trans athletes can compete
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in the the gender that you don't want them to compete in i guess now there is however a
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exception and the exception is that the schools would be permitted to adopt
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wouldn't be permitted to adopt a one-size-fits-all in other words you couldn't ban trans in general
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but you could ban a trans a specific trans for a specific sport if you thought it was dangerous
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or there's some other good reason i'm perfectly good with that does anybody have a problem with that
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let me let me give you my universal example um in my in my town there was at one point there was an
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11 year old kid a boy who was so good at soccer that he was elevated to the the teenager league so he's
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like 11 years old but i think he played with 14 and up which are big big difference now did it make sense
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that they would take this one 11 year old who was really really good at soccer and and put that one
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kid in a league where normally he would not belong of course it does of course it made sense it made
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complete sense because if you were playing against him and you were 11 years old how fair would that be
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it wouldn't be fair at all the kid would have just annihilated you now i had the privilege and it was a
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privilege to actually watch him play on a on a team with you know older older kids and adults i watched
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him play indoor soccer and it was a treat watching this 11 year old just just totally you know dribble
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around adults and stuff and i gotta tell you um it made sense to put him in a different league
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for everybody's benefit now 11 is not 21 i don't know what that comment means um however
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um i think the same is true of trans athletes there certainly are cases where the trans athlete does
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not belong on a woman's team we all agree with that right that there are certainly cases where that
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trans athlete would be so dominant or so or so dangerous it wouldn't make sense but does it make
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sense to have a universal ban when one of the athletes could be dylan mulvaney do you think dylan
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mulvaney would have a big genetic advantage over female athletes in high school you think yes some
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people say yes i'm going to say no just for argument's sake because uh dylan mulvaney looks about the size of a
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a female athlete in high school doesn't look like more muscles doesn't look like more anything
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now i will agree with you that just having the advantage of male um you know male chemistry for
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early years probably gave some advantages but not enough not enough if you put dylan mulvaney on the
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soccer field with a bunch of high level you know uh college or high school players i don't think dylan
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would do so well so i'm i'm completely in favor of this i didn't think i'd be this much in favor of a
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biden policy but this makes complete sense now who who is arguing with the school having the judgment
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to do whatever they want how are you arguing with that i mean seriously how are you arguing with that
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just let the school do what makes sense if the biden administration says don't do a universal ban
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but you could make every decision individually that's that's as good as it gets i don't have a
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single complaint with that all right but think about it let let that sink in a little bit more i think
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you're going to like that more than you think you you may you might be having a first reaction
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to it just because it's a biden policy it's not meant to be pro-trans or anti-trans it's meant to be
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pro-common sense the common sense part is you could make an exception for any athlete
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that's all i ask just make an exception for any athlete for whatever reason you think is good for
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the kids whatever reason it could be the physicality or any other reason that's fine with me
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all right we'll see how that works at least as an experiment it makes sense um
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so i love watching fox news try to do a reverse on democrats so you remember how the democrats made a
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big deal out of president trump saying that uh at january 6 saying that uh you should protest or fight like
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hell i think he used the word fight now he used it of course in the hyperbole meaning verbally fight
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or protest but not physically fight now in context it was obvious he did not mean physical violence
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that's not what the word fight meant in that context it was obvious but because he said it and
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because it's politics they could say oh you said fight that's violence well turnabout is fair play and
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corinne jean pierre um has said about the trans situation blah blah kids are resilient the lgbtq plus
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kids are resilient they're fierce they fight back they're not going going anywhere we have their back
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this administration has their back so because she said they fight back um the headline in fox news was
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jean pierre slammed for praising trans kids who quote to fight back stochastic terrorism from the white
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house really is that stochastic terrorism because fight back in this context means physically no i don't
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think she meant physically i don't think she meant physically but neither did trump neither did trump
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however given that the democrats did use this trick against trump is it not fair play is it not fair play to
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give it back to them it is it is fair play it's not news all right so if i said this is this is good solid
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news reporting it's not this is not good solid news reporting but it is fair play it is giving back what they gave
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and then of course this gets to be juxtaposed at least on the fox news site and by the way the moment i
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was writing this down fox news changed their website like so they moved it originally it had the john pierre
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story and also below it a separate story about athlete riley gains being assaulted by a trans person uh after a
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speech she gave talking about trans and sports now if you have a headline that says stochastic
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terrorism trans fight back and then the very next story below it is an actual attack by a trans person
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on a non-trans person that's narrative right that's not news that's narrative but to their credit
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uh maybe it could be an accident or a coincidence but they did take off the other story they they
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demoted the riley gains story which at least is half right you know i wouldn't pair those two stories
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on the front page that's a that's a narrative right even though they're both true even though they both
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happened if you present them that way it makes it look like there's some kind of trend toward trans
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violence i don't know how much of that there is now of course everybody can be uh offended by
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um this trans person attacking riley gains who was only giving a speech and certainly had a right to do
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that so we can condemn it but at the same time how much of it happened yesterday one time you know as
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much as much as we condemn it probably happened once yesterday in the entire united states so i don't
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think it's much of a trend um but i'm interested that vivek ramaswamy and jordan peterson both talk
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about uh that incident as uh well this is what jordan pearson says um a transgender male wearing a dress
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so they're basically both of them are calling the attacker a male or a biological male i feel as if the
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whole wrong pronoun thing is starting to fall away are are there enough uh notable people who are
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refusing to call a trans athlete necessarily a woman are there enough famous people who are rejecting it now
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you can do it without getting cancelled i'm not ready to do it without getting cancelled yet
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because i still think i still think there's a uh here's my problem with it here's my problem i think
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that we're conflating the people who have mental illness with the people who have something actually
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going on in terms of their their gender dys dysphoria or dysmorphia or whatever it is don't you think
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that there's two categories don't you think that there are some that are just mentally ill or just
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gay men who like to wear dresses and are adopting a lifestyle versus people who have something legitimate
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going on and i feel like when you throw the legitimate people in with the mental illness people
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you're not getting a good outcome like it doesn't make sense to mix those two groups and i feel like
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everybody's doing it like i feel like you know jordan peterson and uh vivek may they may be going a
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little bit too far in the calling it men with dresses that may be a little too far but i also don't know
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what the percentage breakdown is is it 90 mental illness or one percent how would i know because you
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know there's mental illness everywhere it wouldn't be a big it wouldn't be a big surprise if trans
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people have some mental illness like everybody else in the world yeah i don't know so i guess i'm
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uncomfortable branding the entire group as men in dresses when in fact there might be some of that
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but how much one percent or 99 no idea um judge said just looking at this comment they weren't applying
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the trans ban equally uh oh so you'd have to apply it equally i don't know i don't as long as you ignore
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the trans part and focus on the physicality part i think you can do anything you want because um i'll
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give you another example there was a kid in my class when i uh when i was young who was unusually muscular
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and bigger than most of us and from you know early days he was just way more muscular i don't know how
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and just way bigger so he sometimes would be put on the the older kids teams if it was something
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dangerous like you know full contact kind of sports and i had no problem with that you know no problem at
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all because he was just too big to play with regular boys he was just too big he would hurt us i had no
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problem with that at all um i don't think he did either so this is weird so biden has green-lit
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two big energy projects so i'm a little confused about where biden is on carbon because apparently he's
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he's green-lighted this conoco phillips massive oil project in alaska and he's green-lit bidding for
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oil auction sites or gas i guess oil and gas drilling in the in the gulf so those are two
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very big things where biden is pro carbon but he also canceled that pipeline and he's canceled other
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things where where is he exactly i feel like he's all over the place now i wouldn't call it flip-flopping
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i would just call it inconsistent because it's not like he changed his mind on a specific thing
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it's rather that he rejected some things and he's accepting some things but they look kind of similar
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from 30 000 feet yeah my guess is that he just has to he just has no choice so it might be you know
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lobbyist money but it also might be that the country can't handle not having energy
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it just might be too big of a risk even for him do you think it's location that it depends where it is
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so then he's also promoting electric cars at the same time that he's saying that uh the standards
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and here's the problem we don't we don't have enough batteries if you go full electric cars you
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you have more dependency uh more dependence on china because they make most of our batteries
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so here's my suggestion we should negotiate with the cartels in mexico and tell them that we'd like
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mexico to turn into our biggest battery and uh rare earth mining uh place because we want it to be
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physically close because i think that matters too don't you wouldn't you like to know that your batteries
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did not have to uh travel on the water i i feel like that would be a big a big advantage that you don't
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have to ship your batteries over water because it would be easier for somebody to blow up your ship
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full of batteries or to i suppose it would be very bad if they if the ship sunk you wouldn't want to
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you wouldn't want an ocean liner full of batteries at the bottom of the ocean would you it sounds like a
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bad idea so i'd like to see the cartels negotiate with them this way hey cartels we're done with the old way
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so you get two choices one is we're going to send in the military and wipe you out no matter how long it
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takes the other choice is that you can give up now and we can turn you into equity owners and maybe
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somehow productive in this cobalt mining you know battery making the world so that at least the leaders
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of the cartels could say okay i could at least have good jobs for my top hundred people because probably
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that's where it ends right if you if you take care of your top 100 people you're probably pretty happy
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in your own family so i would try to convert them instead of trying to kill them i would try to convert
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them into uh the the most important energy industry as long as they didn't have management control i wouldn't
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give them 51 control of anything but you could imagine saying to them we're going to put you out of
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business but if you go willingly and you help us close down all the other illegal stuff because you
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know the cartel leaders would know how to close down their own operation better than anybody if you
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help us we'll give you a small percentage of equity in these good businesses and you'll just be rich
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forever your family will have money forever and you'll never be hunted now they probably do need a lot
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a lot of security because they've killed a lot of people but there must be some way to make a deal
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and what we need is to move our batteries like really really quickly to be closer to here and i
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don't think we'll be able to make those things in the united states because of too many environmental
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reasons etc what do you think of that idea close down the cartels turn them into a battery making
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um country and then they're our best buddies because we need batteries all the time and it would be a
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it would be a gigantic industry the size of the industry could not be understated
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all right yeah i'm sure there would be problems but there would be problems no matter what you do
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all right so uh here's on immigration rasmussen had a poll that uh no surprise republicans are favored
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for immigration policies so this is one of the few um few topics where democrats will leave their party
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not necessarily to join the other party but they'll vote against their own party on immigration
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because they think the republicans are going to keep the border more secure and of course they're right
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i mean that's obvious um so it's a pretty big difference so 86 percent of republicans trust their own
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party but only 73 percent of democrats trust their own party on immigration is it my imagination
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or will immigration completely leave the news as we get to within one year of the election
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immigration i believe that immigration will just disappear from the news and it will all be focused
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on trans rights and stuff where democrats do terrible i'm sorry the stuff where republicans do terrible
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the news is going to be about abortion where republicans do poorly and lbgtq where republicans do actually
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great but the way they talk about it is a disaster the republicans just shoot themselves in the foot
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with all of the the trans stuff if they just talked about it differently they'd be fine just talk about
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it differently um yeah the media decides the topics so
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um i've got some uh some suggestions for republicans a little while but let me talk about something
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else first so i saw a uh one of these success guru types on instagram who had a reframe that i wonder
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if you think came from me so this might be more relevant to the people on locals because i think you've
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seen me say it before on youtube maybe you've not seen me say it but correct me if i'm wrong and the
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the reframe goes like this imagine you just woke up into this life like it's a video game you have a
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history but you didn't live it so it doesn't affect you so there's like a memory of a history but it's
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irrelevant you just appeared today and a backstory was written how would you feel if you just appeared
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into your life and you said all right make the best of this life you just appeared what do i got oh
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okay i got a job okay a job's pretty good what do i got i got oh a family family's pretty good now you
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could be the example that the guru gave was if you'd been recently divorced he said if you were recently
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divorced you're still living in the past probably like you're just you know your grief about things
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that didn't work out but suppose you just popped into existence at that moment in time you wouldn't
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be worrying about your divorce or what went wrong you just say okay what do i have and what do i do
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with it and it would just change your frame of reference have you heard me say that before
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because i loved seeing that somewhere else i'm pretty sure it came from me pretty sure but i
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couldn't you know it's possible somebody else came up with it um and i've never seen it before
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before i started saying it so i think it came from me so the way that i track my influence is to see if
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unusual thoughts make it into the public and that was a pretty unusual thought um has anybody seen that
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before let's prior to say this year had you ever seen that before i've never seen it
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all right well anyway keep an eye on that uh ann coulter writing in uh breitbart uh she's on the team
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that says that the democrats are cleverly trying to bait the republicans into nominating trump
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because trump can't possibly win against biden do you buy that do you buy that trump can't beat biden
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but aren't we fighting the last war well if you assume cheating then it doesn't matter who runs
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am i right if you assume cheating then it's all the same doesn't matter who runs so that's not about
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whether you run trump or not but um don't you think it's a completely different race because the
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difference between wondering what biden would do and actually seeing what he would do is a world of
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difference and thinking that biden was too old at his prior age versus too old at what will be 86 if
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he got re-elected that's not the same people don't see 86 the same as 80. i mean 80 is crazy but 86 is i
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mean that's just bad that's just so so crazy right and then you've also had uh uh trump out of office
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for a while how do you think people feel about january 6 today compared to how they felt when it first
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happened i think january 6 is already gone i think the news cycle has already erased it because there
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were there were no charges and i think that it backfired i think that it looked like a big nothing
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i think that tucker getting the extra footage i think the uh the q anon shaman being released i think that
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story looks completely different and then on top of that you've got carrie lake still picking at the
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election integrity maybe she comes up with something so far nothing but she has some interesting
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allegations about signature verification i don't know what the the end story will be but it's a real
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interesting accusation very interesting and we might find out something else too
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so um and then also take a look at things that just went too far would you agree that fentanyl's been a
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you know gigantic issue for several years but doesn't it feel like only lately everybody agreed it's gone
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too far doesn't it feel like that and that's the difference because you know you know trump would actually
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do something about it or a republican would and you know that a democrat would not you know that a democrat
00:32:52.680
would not use the military in mexico but there are definitely one or more now there are there are two
00:33:02.120
primary candidates for republicans vivek ramaswamy and trump himself who say they would use the military
00:33:08.520
military that's a big difference big difference okay um oh to peter's point over here the the issue
00:33:19.160
of the political prisoners i think is very salient and current so in in that sense january 6 is very
00:33:27.480
current because because the those prisoners form a a tapestry of republicans being hunted
00:33:36.520
and that's that is very much a current story because there's always going to be a new republican getting hunted
00:33:43.240
you know there's always a new one so that that'll stay fresh forever
00:33:47.880
so that that's a good point but the part about um trump creating the violence i think that's largely gone
00:33:57.880
except for the the crazy people who never change of course
00:34:01.400
okay so yeah it was there ever a time can you uh correct me my understanding is that trump beats
00:34:16.760
biden in polls today as if the election were today by a lot was it ever true that trump beat biden by a lot
00:34:25.880
in any polling before the last election because i don't think he ever beat him he never was ahead was
00:34:31.960
he was trump ever ahead against biden i believe he only got close i don't think he was ever ahead
00:34:42.760
oh there's a poll yesterday say this yesterday that says biden's up by two
00:34:46.200
well you're gonna see both those kinds of polls but here's what i would look for if the consensus of
00:34:55.400
polls shows trump winning i think he could win but of course all that matters all that matters is the
00:35:04.520
swing states right so uh somebody said that trump is not ahead on the swing states can anybody tell me if
00:35:14.360
that's true or not so look into that maybe you don't have an answer right away but it is true that
00:35:20.280
he doesn't have a lead in the swing states now that would that would favor um the argument that he can't win
00:35:27.560
yeah if if trump is not ahead in the swing states that's a problem now i also heard the following uh element
00:35:35.800
have there been enough republicans who have moved out of blue states and into swing states like arizona
00:35:52.120
have enough republicans moved into arizona that since even the last election i don't know if it's
00:35:58.760
enough of a thing but it might be i mean if somebody's going to move for political reasons they're
00:36:04.440
definitely going to vote if you move to another state for political reasons you're probably registered
00:36:10.520
to vote all right um here's my suggestion for democrat or for republicans running for office
00:36:20.600
i believe that you could make commercials for your opponents and just play it straight and you would
00:36:27.720
win right here is a commercial for your opponent if you're a republican uh democrats we'd like to take
00:36:35.320
the guns away from uh the people and also let the criminals out of jail so my big two big policies are
00:36:45.080
i'd like to disarm the law-abiding people while letting the criminals run free
00:36:50.920
that's the actual policy did i add did i add any hyperbole to that no obviously they're not letting
00:37:01.320
all criminals run free and they're not taking all of your guns but is it true that they're trying to
00:37:08.520
let more criminals free at the same time they're trying to have you have fewer options to be armed
00:37:15.560
those are both true do you think you need to add any hyperbole to that those are just two
00:37:25.320
two true statements it's also true that biden is telling you you can't have your gas car
00:37:32.840
and you've got to be electric at the same time he's approving massive energy programs like you know the
00:37:39.720
the basically you just have to describe it uh democrats are doing you know you could come up
00:37:49.240
with ten more examples you don't even have to exaggerate you can actually do the commercial as if
00:37:54.920
it's their commercial and just fund and say we'd like to take your guns away and let the criminals out
00:38:01.480
and just play it straight and act like you can't make act like you haven't made a connection
00:38:07.400
between letting criminals out and taking your guns away like they're two unrelated things and just
00:38:12.520
give a commercial like that just see what happens it's a weird situation where you could actually
00:38:19.560
accurately describe your competitor and then that's all you need you don't need to lie
00:38:29.160
all right um chat gpt is going to be part of google and i'm sorry let me say that in a more clear way
00:38:37.080
that's completely inaccurate google search will take advantage of chat gpt functions
00:38:44.040
so it's not a merger or anything like that so you knew that was going to happen right because bing is
00:38:50.680
already doing it i think but this is the this is the big scary part because it suggests the chat gpt will
00:38:58.920
have you know full access to the internet of google and it's still a liar i have no idea what's going to
00:39:05.640
happen but boy is it going to be interesting boy is it going to be interesting or a person is it going
00:39:11.640
to be interesting to make it less sexist and i would like to give you my um my best career advice in the
00:39:21.640
age of ai and also my best well this is also career advice advice number one i was trying to think of
00:39:30.440
things that ai cannot take over completely and i can't think of a lot of examples but here's one
00:39:38.040
it will not be able to own a facility for human exercise like a gym humans will be able to own
00:39:46.840
property i don't think ai will be able to own property for a long time so if you wanted a business
00:39:53.240
i would own a piece of property could be a gym could be a sports field could be an entertainment
00:40:00.040
venue of some kind but something where a human can go to be entertained or to do sports because the
00:40:08.520
ownership of an asset i think might be protected for a while and an asset where people can go and use
00:40:14.520
their bodies and get entertainment so that's my first advice um the second advice is and this is what
00:40:23.800
i'm going to do this weekend i've been putting it off i this is this is the strongest advice i can give
00:40:30.520
you unless you're retired and even if you're retired i'd do it anyway it goes like this you need to take at
00:40:39.240
least two days off from everything your job your family your personal life and you need to figure
00:40:47.800
out what's going on with ai and you need to find the ai applications or about 150 new ones a month
00:40:54.600
you need to find the ones that are relevant to your life and to your job if you have a job and you
00:41:00.200
really need to sign up for them and you really need to use them this is exactly like the dawn of the
00:41:06.200
computer age remember when people said ah i don't need to learn how to use a computer i'm already old
00:41:14.120
i'm already 65 i don't need to use a computer but then when you're 80 you needed to use a computer
00:41:21.560
and don't you wish you knew how to use one if you don't stop what you're doing and i really mean just
00:41:28.120
take time off from work you need to walk away from everything and just do the deepest dive you can
00:41:34.680
to figure out what's coming and you need to refresh that every few days you need to and if you say to
00:41:41.640
yourself that's a great idea i've got a vacation coming up in three weeks no you're not listening
00:41:49.560
you need to do it closer to today something like today would be good like i don't think any of us have
00:41:58.520
a good idea of how fast this is moving unless you're right in the middle of it no you have to do it today
00:42:05.800
three weeks from now is the end of the it's the end of the earth i mean
00:42:11.320
three weeks your whole job could be gone you might need to find a new job in three weeks
00:42:17.720
you want to give it you want an example there's now an ai that will take your book and turn it into
00:42:24.840
an audio book and it's perfect you just got to feed it the text takes about an hour and you're done
00:42:35.880
the entire business model of audio books and people who are professional readers of audio books
00:42:43.400
it's already gone it's gone it'll never come back now at the moment the big publishers are still
00:42:53.720
hiring humans to do it but every one of them is looking at the ai option they're all looking at it
00:43:01.000
and it's one year away from it would make no sense whatsoever to hire a human the human part is
00:43:07.720
excruciating it takes days of recording and then days more of another human looking at all the edits
00:43:14.440
and fixing and getting the good one it's just a mess versus you just feed your book into the machine and
00:43:23.240
it comes out as a perfect audio book there's no i mean you can't even compete with that so that entire
00:43:31.640
industry just disappeared what about editors they're still human editors but the need for them is
00:43:41.720
really getting small all right so here's what might be a business for a while until ai takes i suppose
00:43:52.120
in the finance world there are a zillion types of finance things you could buy but all you really
00:43:59.240
need to do is get you know an index fund of stocks fortune 500 you'd be fine you wouldn't need any
00:44:07.320
advice just open a schwab account or some account put your money in an index fund if you're not going
00:44:13.320
to use it for five years and that's all you need but how many people do that even though i told you
00:44:19.800
exactly how to everything you needed that was everything you needed to invest i just told you
00:44:26.120
everything you need to know but there's an enormous financial advice industry why is that why is there
00:44:34.920
an enormous financial advice industry when i just told you everything you need to know put your money
00:44:41.960
in an index fund fortune 500 index fund that's it the reason is that people don't trust that advice
00:44:48.840
because they don't you would have to know as much as i know to know that that's all you needed to know
00:44:53.800
so if you said to yourself i don't need any expert to tell me how to use ai i'll go use ai myself
00:45:03.640
and five minutes in you realize that there are thousands of ais that you could possibly use
00:45:09.320
and none of the ais will tell you which one to use so you're like well this is just as hard as if
00:45:15.560
there was no ai because instead of ai making something simple there were so many ais doing
00:45:23.320
slightly different things with different pricing and from different places that you would need a human
00:45:30.520
to tell you which ai to use and probably that will never change confusopoly exactly the confusopolis will
00:45:40.200
pop up so that one ai will not dominate right one ai will say i'll use my industry audiobook one of them
00:45:48.760
is going to say yes we'll make your audiobook but you have to record using our software to make your own
00:45:57.560
you know avatar you have to do this and the pricing is something about the recording but also the pricing is
00:46:03.880
something about the usage and then somebody else will say we do that too except it'll be free to
00:46:10.120
record your avatar and then the usage will depend on different factors different levels and what kind
00:46:16.280
of job you are and then you'll have two ais just the way you have two cell phone companies and you'll say
00:46:24.280
i'm looking at all the minutes this one has i can share these minutes with my family
00:46:29.480
but then this one has rollover minutes i can't tell which one's better that's called a confusopoly
00:46:37.080
you can't shop because it's too complicated that's what ai is going to be so you're going to use
00:46:43.240
you're going to hire a human to tell you which ai to use for a long time
00:46:50.520
probably and that human will have to be you know using another ai to search the other ai's
00:46:55.880
to find out who's confusing you and who's lying to you and then there'll be yelp for ai so there'll be
00:47:04.040
not just one ai to make audio books there'll be a thousand
00:47:10.280
it'll be a thousand what do you do when there's a thousand of them how do you know which one is the
00:47:15.480
good one which one is the fake probably a human probably a yelp review so it's really going to be hard
00:47:23.560
to trust ai when it's being made by human weasels and you can spin up a company in five minutes
00:47:32.360
all right so that is your career advice take the weekend off as i am going to do and study
00:47:40.200
as much as you can i'll tell you the ones i'm going to be looking at for sure just give you a
00:47:46.040
a lay of the land here now your your search would be different depending of course on what things
00:47:52.760
were interesting to you but i'm going to look at deep zen for recording audio books audiobook dot
00:48:01.320
ai or io i can't remember mid journey i'm going to look at mid journey for creating art and of just text
00:48:09.000
uh of course i'm going to sign up for the professional chat gpt version which i haven't
00:48:14.600
done yet there's something called deep fakes you'll look into that where you can make a fake of
00:48:19.320
yourself speech kai it's also for audio books i think something called descript uh something called
00:48:27.800
runway there's a product called runway to make a movie from text you just describe the scene and it makes
00:48:34.840
the movie so these are all important to me because i've got um i've got two fiction books
00:48:42.840
that i could read into i think read it into runway and and make a movie out of it now i need to know
00:48:51.320
how to do that and i need to know how to do that right away
00:48:56.840
right away in a week it'll be a different landscape i mean i have to i have to dig in but i have to stay
00:49:02.840
there i can't i can't just visit and come home i have to i have to immerse myself in ai and live it
00:49:09.640
every day now in order to be in business in order to do just what i do yeah now pretty soon there should
00:49:17.560
be one that gives me makeup and fixes my physical appearance while i live stream yeah god's debris will
00:49:26.040
be the first one i do i'll make an audiobook of god's debris as well as a movie
00:49:34.280
so that's what i'll do so i think what humans will do is we'll own copyrights for a while but they will
00:49:40.760
become useless i think quite quickly because of ai and we can own physical assets which other people
00:49:47.720
might want to rent or use or but other than that it's going to be tough to make a living
00:49:53.240
so can ai give me hair yes ai could put hair on my head although i think it would make me look worse
00:50:04.840
at this point i don't know i'm pretty happy with my bald head which i suppose is good news i i i've
00:50:13.480
seen old pictures of myself with hair and it looks weird it just feels like there shouldn't be like you
00:50:21.080
shouldn't put a sculpture on top of your head that's what it feels like you know mine is just
00:50:26.920
utility like it's grown out a little bit too much but when i when i mow it back it'll just be basically
00:50:32.520
my head but when i see somebody with like a like a newscaster hair i say to myself why would you do that
00:50:41.320
to your head why would you put that newscaster hair on your head because it looks like a sculpture
00:50:46.920
or it looks like you just put a piece of art you wore on your head or like an ashtray it'd be like
00:50:52.680
hey i wear a vase on my head why do you ask it looks pretty except it's a hair vase it just hair just
00:51:01.160
looks wrong on men now sorry that's just my opinion hair on men looks wrong to me now
00:51:09.400
it does i was just looking at uh a young man yesterday and i was looking at his full head of
00:51:18.360
hair and i said to myself i don't know it just looks wrong it just looks wrong and it's i'm not
00:51:24.520
talking about a fashion thing i'm not talking about oh those young people with their weird hair nothing
00:51:30.040
like that has nothing to do with your age or fashion it's just starting to look wrong somebody said bill
00:51:37.080
maher yeah hair just looks wrong to me bill maher is a good example bill maher's hair looks it just
00:51:45.000
looks wrong it looks like he shouldn't have any yeah trump's hair looks the wrongest that anybody's
00:51:53.160
hair ever looked uh why do people with full heads of hair shave their head because it looks better
00:52:02.760
yeah i feel sorry for the people with hair looks like a lot of trouble
00:52:12.360
all right i'm going to say goodbye to the uh people on youtube thanks for joining glad the
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news was a little bit more interesting than yesterday and i'll see you tomorrow