Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2101 Scott Adams： The Most Brainwashed Voters (Per Data), Our AI Czar (LOL), Reparations

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00:00:45.000 Ah, so good.

00:00:49.760 I feel like there's some people who turn off the live stream as soon as I do that.

00:00:55.260 No, not that again.

00:00:57.060 Well, look at all the news, starting with, apparently it's hard to break up with your girlfriend if you're Tiger Woods.

00:01:06.760 So Tiger Woods had some longtime girlfriend who was living in his house.

00:01:11.880 And I think there's some kind of squatter's rules or something.

00:01:17.580 You can't really kick somebody out of where they live if they're a renter or any other condition, unless you've gone through a whole bunch of squatter's rights and renter's rights and stuff like that.

00:01:29.740 So what's reported that Tiger Woods did is he told his girlfriend that she was going to go on a luxury vacation.

00:01:39.000 And he told her to pack up all her stuff and drive to the airport, where Tiger Woods' attorney met her and said she's never allowed back in the house.

00:01:48.320 Now, what do you think happened?

00:01:56.180 Do you think that maybe she sued him for sexual harassment?

00:02:00.140 Oh, yes.

00:02:01.080 Oh, yes, she did.

00:02:02.520 Sexual harassment.

00:02:03.440 It had something to do with the fact that she was an employee of his before a girlfriend.

00:02:11.240 And when things started getting going in the employee nature, he asked, Tiger asked her to sign a nondisclosure agreement.

00:02:19.580 And then I guess there was some negotiations about her work versus her relationship.

00:02:26.080 And that was enough.

00:02:27.680 That was enough.

00:02:30.120 So she's going after him for sexual harassment.

00:02:34.460 Now, knowing nothing about the relationship, all right, we know nothing about their personal lives.

00:02:41.840 What would you intuit if you knew that only two things about her?

00:02:49.780 That she was suing him for sexual harassment for what she would also consider a consensual relationship.

00:02:57.680 And that he had to trick her to get her out of the house.

00:03:02.500 He couldn't just break up with her in a normal way.

00:03:05.240 I got to say, it's not like I automatically believe Tiger Woods, right?

00:03:13.740 So I'm not some big golf fan.

00:03:16.420 So I'm not automatically saying that, you know, Tiger is the right one in this situation or the wrong one.

00:03:21.880 No idea.

00:03:23.460 But it's a really bad look for her, isn't it?

00:03:27.260 It kind of looks like he got into a bad situation there and he couldn't get out.

00:03:33.980 Oh, my God.

00:03:35.240 Well, if you think that being rich is always good, think about poor Tiger Woods.

00:03:43.900 Can you imagine what a living hell his life probably was in the last several months as he was trying to get this woman out of his house? 1.00

00:03:51.660 He couldn't figure out how to get her out of there.

00:03:54.220 Oh, my God.

00:03:55.640 All right.

00:03:55.940 Well, you know, I've told you I don't think anybody understands economics, including economists.

00:04:02.480 Because nobody can explain stuff like, why is the national debt not already crushing us?

00:04:09.440 Do you remember when the debt was a trillion dollars and we thought it was too much and we're all going to die?

00:04:14.620 And now it's $30 trillion.

00:04:18.840 And our story hasn't changed that much?

00:04:21.140 Well, now it's definitely too much.

00:04:23.780 Before, when it was $1 trillion, we thought it was too much.

00:04:26.900 But now they're $30 trillion, that's definitely way too much.

00:04:30.980 Then Paul Krugman does this long thread on Twitter, which I couldn't understand even a little bit.

00:04:38.460 But it sounded like the thrust of it was, you don't understand debt, it's not as bad as you think.

00:04:46.300 Does that sound true to you?

00:04:48.520 But I believe his point was, it's not as bad as you think as long as it completely stops growing today.

00:04:55.960 Is it going to completely stop growing, the debt, today?

00:05:03.820 No, I think the debt is going to grow to the moon because we have no mechanism for stopping it from growing.

00:05:10.080 You can't assume it's going to stop when there's no tool, there's no mechanism, there's no system.

00:05:16.320 We don't have a government that can do it.

00:05:18.240 The people won't demand it.

00:05:20.240 There's nothing that would stop it.

00:05:21.700 So that's a little bit of a problem with the prediction, don't you think?

00:05:27.740 Yes, it assumes some human rationality, which is always a bad assumption.

00:05:34.500 All right.

00:05:36.620 Am I the only one who thinks we're in the middle of a zombie apocalypse?

00:05:41.680 It's just that the zombies are not exactly the traditional brain-eating kind, although in a way they are.

00:05:48.840 But you've got your mental health zombies.

00:05:51.700 You've got your drug-addicted zombies.

00:05:55.880 You've got your screen-addicted zombies, the social media zombies.

00:06:04.340 We have a lot of zombies, don't we?

00:06:08.980 And have the zombies not taken over San Francisco and a few other downtown areas?

00:06:15.180 We keep acting like the collection of problems is an important part of the story.

00:06:23.980 But we don't have any solutions for any of those problems.

00:06:27.280 We have no solution for all the mental illness, the drug problem.

00:06:31.320 Not really.

00:06:31.900 So I feel like filtering it out by what was the cause of one person's problem versus another person's problem is probably too much work.

00:06:42.880 Maybe all we need to do is get away.

00:06:47.740 So wherever there are zombies of any kind, you just need to get away.

00:06:55.540 So I think distance is the main requirement for success.

00:06:59.880 I used to say that education and all the usual things are the biggest factors for success.

00:07:08.800 Then I heard Naval Ravikant say that in the future, your ability to withstand or manage addiction will be the biggest challenge, the biggest factor for success.

00:07:21.480 Now I'm starting to think it's location.

00:07:25.180 You know, in real estate, it's always location, location.

00:07:28.060 But I think for success, it used to be that wherever you were was almost as good as any place else.

00:07:35.600 You know, it was better to be where there's more action.

00:07:38.200 But otherwise, things were about the same.

00:07:41.060 But now you really have to get away from zombies.

00:07:44.200 You're going to have to go where there are not literally people wandering around trying to take your shit.

00:07:49.500 So go where there are no zombies.

00:07:56.760 I heard somebody say that was an analogy.

00:08:00.440 This, ladies and gentlemen, is the right use of an analogy.

00:08:05.880 Here would be the wrong use.

00:08:09.100 The people in San Francisco are like zombies.

00:08:12.920 Therefore, we should be afraid they'll eat our brains.

00:08:17.040 Would that be a proper use of an analogy?

00:08:20.260 No, that would be the stupid way to do it.

00:08:22.280 That's the way people normally do it.

00:08:24.180 The smart way is to introduce a theme.

00:08:28.120 And the theme is that you could collect up all these various different causes of what makes people a zombie.

00:08:33.620 But it all ends up being zombies.

00:08:36.060 That does not use, that does not require you to buy into the analogy to understand anything else I'm saying.

00:08:43.840 It's simply an introduction to the topic.

00:08:46.620 So for the four millionth time I have to explain this, analogies are really good for introducing a topic.

00:08:54.180 They have no value, no value for winning a debate.

00:08:58.640 No value.

00:09:00.160 Right?

00:09:00.300 So was I trying to win a debate just here when I said it seems like there's a lot of zombies?

00:09:06.320 Was there somebody on the other side of the debate who I was arguing with, with my analogy?

00:09:11.360 No.

00:09:11.600 Now, I introduced the topic with it.

00:09:13.940 That is the correct way to use an analogy.

00:09:16.580 If I had said, therefore we must shoot them, because they're zombies, therefore you must shoot them, because that's how you deal with zombies, that would be wrong.

00:09:26.620 Well, that would be a wrong use of an analogy, and perhaps bad policy as well.

00:09:32.500 Now, is anybody still confused about that?

00:09:36.020 Because YouTube gets very confused on that.

00:09:40.120 All right.

00:09:43.660 Well, you've heard it said from Elon Musk, and I believe I've said this as well,

00:09:49.860 that reality has this weird quality of following the most amusing path.

00:09:57.060 And every time it happens, you say to yourself, well, that one's got to be a coincidence.

00:10:02.420 And then it just keeps happening.

00:10:04.440 You can just say, all right, what is the, what is just the craziest, most entertaining thing that could happen in the real world?

00:10:11.880 There it is.

00:10:13.100 And then it happens.

00:10:14.500 Now, sometimes it's obvious stuff, right?

00:10:17.180 The most entertaining election would involve Trump.

00:10:22.020 But that's, you know, that's not really what I'm talking about.

00:10:25.360 Trump's just entertaining, so wherever he is, that's the most entertaining thing.

00:10:29.340 But it works everywhere, even where you don't expect it to work.

00:10:33.600 For example, the most entertaining thing that you could do if the country was very worried about AI destroying humankind.

00:10:44.240 Let's say that's your situation.

00:10:45.820 The U.S. government is concerned about AI getting out of control and destroying humanity completely.

00:10:55.160 So the biggest risk you could probably have.

00:10:58.020 So think to yourself, what would be the funniest thing that you could do?

00:11:03.920 Well, I'm going to suggest that you could, if you wanted somebody to be in charge or, let's say, the czar of AI, artificial intelligence,

00:11:16.940 and you wanted somebody who could really control a superintelligence.

00:11:21.000 So you'd have to not only be intelligent, but you'd have to anticipate what a superintelligence would do without being one.

00:11:28.920 Pretty hard, pretty high bar, isn't it?

00:11:32.120 So who did Biden put in charge of that?

00:11:36.960 Kamala Harris.

00:11:38.820 Literally the only person who can't speak a coherent sentence.

00:11:42.900 One of the few people that you could say with complete certainty could be replaced with AI, and it would be a big improvement.

00:11:51.960 And I'm going to ask you this.

00:11:54.720 Does it seem backwards to you that Kamala Harris is going to be the czar of AI?

00:12:00.700 Because I've seen AI, and I've seen Kamala Harris.

00:12:06.020 If this were me and I were designing the system, I would put the AI in charge of Harris.

00:12:13.680 Because it seems to me the AI can control Harris, like literally, in a predictable way.

00:12:20.440 For example, it could write speeches that she could just read so she wouldn't sound like a frickin' moron. 0.52

00:12:28.200 For example, just one example.

00:12:29.720 Or it could remind her to stop talking about Venn diagrams when she starts.

00:12:36.220 She'd be like, I love Venn.

00:12:39.120 Have I mentioned how much I love Venn diagrams?

00:12:43.140 Oh, yeah, well, moving on.

00:12:46.420 That would be a great use of AI.

00:12:48.480 It could make her look like less of a moron. 0.80

00:12:50.440 And so I'd just like to put it out there that we should maybe assign AI to be the czar of the vice president.

00:13:01.180 Because that would make a hell of a lot more sense than having the dumbest fucking person in the world in charge of advanced intelligence.

00:13:09.640 I don't know.

00:13:10.240 Just putting that idea out there.

00:13:12.280 Just putting it out there.

00:13:14.480 Now, you tell me, was that not literally the funniest outcome?

00:13:18.620 I mean, before we're all destroyed by AI, of course.

00:13:22.820 That part's not funny.

00:13:24.200 But what would be funnier than literally the most famous dumb person in America?

00:13:28.680 She's literally famous for being incompetent. 1.00

00:13:36.860 And, you know, I wonder who her backup is.

00:13:40.700 Yeah, if Kamala Harris can't do the job, who would be the other funniest person you could put in charge of AI? 1.00

00:13:47.940 Like the least capable person?

00:13:52.220 Fetterman.

00:13:52.800 Okay, Fetterman is funny, but he has a legitimate health issue.

00:14:01.940 So I don't want to make fun of Fetterman because he's got a health issue.

00:14:04.840 We can make fun of how that turns out, but I don't like to mock him at the moment.

00:14:10.940 But I think it would be Corinne Jean-Pierre.

00:14:14.400 I think Corinne Jean-Pierre would be the other funniest person you could put in charge.

00:14:18.820 Because she's also famously incompetent. 1.00

00:14:22.800 But Fetterman was a good, that was a good suggestion, too.

00:14:29.000 Liz Warren.

00:14:30.800 Yeah, but Liz Warren is famously smart. 1.00

00:14:33.340 We just don't agree with her.

00:14:35.840 Right?

00:14:36.960 Elizabeth Warren is very smart.

00:14:40.580 Whatever's going on with Kamala Harris, there's not a lot of smart happening there. 0.98

00:14:44.580 All right.

00:14:49.200 I don't know if this is real, but I saw a tweet by Rob Henderson, who's a real good follow on Twitter, if you're looking for somebody to follow.

00:14:56.720 Rob Henderson.

00:14:59.000 And he tweeted today,

00:15:00.920 Every six months, my mind returns to this heat map.

00:15:04.060 So it's a graphic, I'll explain in a minute.

00:15:06.980 Indicating that conservatives devote the majority of their empathy and care to family and friends.

00:15:15.460 Does that sound wrong?

00:15:17.800 That sounds right, doesn't it?

00:15:18.980 The conservatives, they focus their empathy on family and friends.

00:15:24.260 That sounds about right.

00:15:26.320 But what about the liberals?

00:15:28.180 According to one study,

00:15:30.360 the liberals devote most of their concerns to

00:15:33.100 plants, trees, and inner entities, such as rocks.

00:15:40.680 Well, that explains everything.

00:15:46.940 Okay, I'm going to call bullshit on this.

00:15:49.560 But the only reason I'm going to call bullshit on it is it's just too on the nose.

00:15:53.020 A little too on the nose, right?

00:15:56.640 And so I'll throw this in the category of, you know, 50% of studies are thrown out because they can't be reproduced.

00:16:05.120 I don't have any specific criticism about this data, but doesn't it feel a little bit too convenient?

00:16:12.880 It's just a little bit too funny, right?

00:16:15.820 Now, it could be another example of reality following the, you know, most amusing path.

00:16:22.100 But since this is something we had to go dig for, you know, it's not like the story.

00:16:27.060 It's just some data somebody dug out.

00:16:29.640 I feel like this couldn't be true, could it?

00:16:34.240 Do you think this is really true?

00:16:37.040 It does feel like it.

00:16:39.040 I mean, the conservative view of abortion is that, you know, that entity is human and they have empathy for it.

00:16:49.060 On the left, the empathy goes primarily for the person making the decision.

00:16:53.540 So it does feel as if they like their inanimate objects, but I feel like that's going too far.

00:17:03.840 I can't really convince myself that liberals don't also mostly care about their friends and family.

00:17:12.020 So, yeah.

00:17:13.440 I'm going to call BS on that, but it was funny.

00:17:16.420 All right.

00:17:20.920 I love when not only does Twitter fact-check things such as Uber commercials.

00:17:27.080 There was an Uber ad that got fact-checked pretty hard by the community notes.

00:17:31.720 But I love it when Elon Musk does it himself.

00:17:35.580 So you've seen him a number of times comment on a tweet just to call bullshit on it.

00:17:41.140 The data's not right or whatever.

00:17:42.840 Well, here's another one.

00:17:43.760 So some people have been tweeting around these national income tax figures.

00:17:51.540 And the point of it is to show that the U.S. doesn't have as high an income tax as other successful countries.

00:18:00.160 And so a lot of them, you know, in the 50% tax, etc., blah, blah, blah.

00:18:04.840 And then the United States, the point of it is that the United States is not among the highest tax rates.

00:18:12.400 I think the opinion there is that, therefore, there's room to grow.

00:18:17.840 We could raise our taxes and still be okay.

00:18:20.300 That's a terrible argument.

00:18:22.040 But I think that's why people were, you know, tweeting it around.

00:18:26.740 So Elon Musk says this is incorrect, meaning the chart, because it didn't show the U.S. anywhere near the top.

00:18:35.360 And he says the de facto U.S. national income tax is 40%, when added to California state income tax is 53%,

00:18:44.740 which would put it, you know, right in the top of income tax people of other countries.

00:18:52.360 That means the state confiscates the majority of your income, but at least they're fixing the potholes, right?

00:19:01.200 Then he says something about the gift tax exemption.

00:19:04.400 If you try to give your money away, they tax you again.

00:19:07.460 Did you know that?

00:19:10.420 It's the dumbest thing in the world.

00:19:13.160 You're not allowed to give your money away.

00:19:15.360 How in the world do we allow that to be a thing?

00:19:21.200 You're not allowed to give your money away.

00:19:23.260 I mean, up above a certain limit, right?

00:19:25.860 You can give money away up to a certain limit.

00:19:28.160 But beyond that, once you die, that reckoning comes back.

00:19:33.880 So your estate will, you have to pay taxes to give people money.

00:19:41.500 Isn't that weird?

00:19:42.540 The person who receives the money doesn't pay taxes.

00:19:45.860 The person who gave it to them pays taxes.

00:19:48.580 I mean, just think about that.

00:19:50.340 To give money to your own family, you have to pay taxes on it.

00:19:53.760 To give it away.

00:19:56.560 The only reason there's not a revolution about that is that I think there's like a $5 million cap or something

00:20:04.520 where the first X amount of money doesn't get taxed, but above that it does.

00:20:11.520 So I think there's just not that many people in that situation.

00:20:14.160 Otherwise, it's the most insanely unfair-sounding thing you've ever heard.

00:20:23.840 Anyway, other people argue that Elon didn't have the numbers right,

00:20:27.920 which is part of my larger theme that I'm getting into here,

00:20:30.640 which is none of the numbers are true.

00:20:33.440 None of our studies are useful.

00:20:35.080 Because if you see something you don't like, you just say the numbers are wrong.

00:20:41.820 That's the entirety of our analytical ability.

00:20:45.640 I agree with the message in those numbers.

00:20:48.580 Therefore, those are reliable numbers.

00:20:51.740 That's it.

00:20:52.220 Well, we have now some pretty solid proof that the media assigns our opinions.

00:20:58.900 But interestingly, not in the same way, depending on who you are.

00:21:03.840 So this is a great thread by Kanakoa the Great on Twitter,

00:21:10.480 who you absolutely should be following for great threads on lots of stuff.

00:21:16.100 But Kanakoa tells us this, and I'll just pick out a few things from the thread.

00:21:20.840 That between 2011 and 2019,

00:21:25.980 the New York Times and the Washington Post increased the use of the word

00:21:28.960 racist, racists, and racism by over 700%

00:21:34.260 and nearly 1,000% respectfully.

00:21:38.520 So what was happening between 2011 and 2019?

00:21:46.000 What was happening?

00:21:48.680 Obama?

00:21:49.360 Well, so the newspapers were, or the press, anyway,

00:21:54.140 was increasing the use of these words.

00:21:56.260 Do you think there was a huge increase in racism and racists?

00:22:01.020 Were there a lot more of them?

00:22:02.540 Is that why they were writing about it?

00:22:05.160 Nope.

00:22:06.400 Nope.

00:22:07.260 It was going down.

00:22:08.920 But the writing about it went through the roof.

00:22:12.520 All right.

00:22:13.080 So did all that writing about it change people's opinions?

00:22:15.880 Well, let's check.

00:22:16.980 In 2011, before that trend started,

00:22:20.700 just 35% of white liberals thought racism in the United States was, quote,

00:22:26.160 a big problem, according to national polling.

00:22:29.340 All right.

00:22:29.420 So before the press started hitting it hard, 35% of white liberals thought racism was a, quote,

00:22:37.000 big problem.

00:22:38.000 By 2015, after the media had pounded it for a while, this figure had ballooned to 61% and

00:22:45.740 further still to 77% in 2017.

00:22:49.400 So if you were a white liberal, your opinion was only 35% of them thought racism was a big

00:22:57.360 problem.

00:22:58.040 It went from 35% to 77% while the actual racism was decreasing because the media was pounding

00:23:07.960 it.

00:23:08.240 Now, when I tell you that your opinions are assigned by the media, do you get that now?

00:23:18.440 Is there anything else to say?

00:23:20.500 It's very obvious that there was nothing in the real world that caused that change.

00:23:25.520 It was just the media.

00:23:27.740 They just brainwashed people.

00:23:29.460 And why did they do that?

00:23:31.560 For political power.

00:23:32.920 It was a politically expedient thing to do.

00:23:37.540 So here's a real question.

00:23:39.280 If the white liberals were so influenced by it, what about everybody else?

00:23:43.860 Well, let's look at that from the same excellent thread by Kanakoa the Great.

00:23:53.660 Let's see.

00:23:54.320 In 2006, so again, this is before the trend of all the reporting, 45% of white Democrats and

00:24:02.700 41% of white Republicans knew someone they considered a racist in 2006.

00:24:10.220 Now, that is an alarmingly high number, isn't it?

00:24:15.460 Because I don't know if I know anybody who I would call a racist, per se.

00:24:20.340 But back then, 45% of white Democrats and 41% of white.

00:24:25.040 So after all the press, how did that change?

00:24:28.360 By 2015, the white Democrats who started at 45% who knew a racist, suddenly 64% of them

00:24:36.680 knew a racist, personally.

00:24:39.860 So in 2006, the same group, less than half of them thought they knew a racist.

00:24:46.200 But by 2015, two-thirds of them thought they knew one.

00:24:49.740 Do you think it's because more racists were created during that time?

00:24:52.820 No.

00:24:53.780 No.

00:24:55.500 It's because the media was pounding on it.

00:24:57.680 That's it.

00:24:58.760 And so their opinions were signed.

00:25:01.140 So that's what happened with white Democrats.

00:25:03.560 They went from 45% to 64% just because of the news.

00:25:08.000 But what about those white Republicans?

00:25:11.480 Because they had news too, right?

00:25:13.320 White Republicans.

00:25:14.020 So the white Republicans, back in 2006, were at 41% that thought they knew a racist.

00:25:21.420 But after years and years of being pounded about how much racism there is, that number

00:25:27.500 changed to nothing.

00:25:30.520 No change.

00:25:32.960 No change.

00:25:35.000 Republicans were completely unaffected by the news.

00:25:38.760 Can I give you a little...

00:25:44.520 Most of you are conservatives, right?

00:25:46.660 Wouldn't you say most of you identify as either Republican or conservative, if you're watching

00:25:50.920 this live stream, probably?

00:25:53.000 Well, you know, as you know, I recently...

00:25:55.960 I'm a newly registered Democrat.

00:25:58.440 Because I was canceled for being a racist, so I thought I would just join the racist team.

00:26:03.420 I became a Democrat.

00:26:04.180 So I don't count, but I got to give it up for you.

00:26:10.680 A little standing, sitting ovation for not being influenced by the news.

00:26:17.540 That's pretty impressive.

00:26:20.680 So how did that happen?

00:26:24.440 You know, some of it might be because, I don't know, Republicans skew older.

00:26:30.140 Maybe they're harder to sway.

00:26:32.420 I don't know.

00:26:35.000 So whatever was happening there was highly concentrated in the white Democrats.

00:26:41.340 But one thing we know for sure is that with all that news about all this extra racism and

00:26:47.220 stuff, certainly the black and Hispanic Democrats would also...

00:26:53.700 You assume that they would see a lot more racism, right?

00:26:56.440 Because the black people and the Hispanics are the subject of most of the racism.

00:27:00.320 And therefore, they would have the best view of it.

00:27:04.400 And if the media is also surfacing more of it, you'd expect that they'd have a much elevated

00:27:09.800 view of how much racism there is.

00:27:12.080 Except nothing like that happened.

00:27:13.600 And the opinion of the black and Hispanic Democrats, about the same, didn't change.

00:27:21.440 So it turns out that the media is not hypnotizing black people, at least on this specific question.

00:27:28.400 Not Hispanics. 1.00

00:27:29.820 And not Republicans.

00:27:32.260 Just white Democrats. 0.52

00:27:35.340 Just white Democrats. 0.52

00:27:36.540 So white Democrats were literally brainwashed for, you know, over a decade.

00:27:42.340 And it worked.

00:27:44.140 It totally worked.

00:27:46.460 All right.

00:27:48.220 So I would say that if I were running for office as a Democrat, I'm sorry, as a Republican,

00:27:55.200 that I would make use of this.

00:27:58.100 And I would say that science shows that the white Democrats are the most brainwashed segment

00:28:04.980 of the country.

00:28:06.620 And I'm running for office to try to change that.

00:28:10.120 Instead of arguing with them about the specifics of policy, I would say we have a huge problem

00:28:16.700 here.

00:28:17.460 According to the data, white Democrats have been brainwashed in a way that for some reason

00:28:22.160 hasn't affected black Americans or Republicans.

00:28:25.340 So that's a major national emergency, is to unbrainwash white Democrats. 0.63

00:28:33.260 Imagine a white Republican saying, we really have to unbrainwash these white people.

00:28:40.720 Because the media absolutely hypnotized them.

00:28:46.440 What do you think of that?

00:28:48.500 So this would be a persuasion technique called thinking past the sale.

00:28:53.980 The argument that they want you to have is whatever the topic of the day is.

00:28:59.900 Oh, you're racist.

00:29:00.940 You're racist.

00:29:01.740 If you get into the argument that white Democrats are calling you a racist, you've lost the case.

00:29:09.960 The case is, have they been brainwashed?

00:29:12.520 And are they even part of the logical or rational discussion?

00:29:16.160 To imagine that the white Democrats were literally brainwashed, according to this data, literally

00:29:22.720 brainwashed.

00:29:24.120 To imagine that you could have a conversation with them about the topic is really ignoring

00:29:29.460 what's happening.

00:29:31.060 What's happening is that people got brainwashed.

00:29:34.120 Literally.

00:29:35.660 Literally brainwashed.

00:29:36.840 This is, by the way, let me be very clear about this.

00:29:40.700 This is not an analogy.

00:29:43.200 I'm not making an analogy that people are, it was like being brainwashed.

00:29:49.080 Yeah, there's this thing called brainwashing. 0.99

00:29:51.320 But that's, you know, that's the high grade version of it.

00:29:55.460 No, it's not an analogy.

00:29:57.920 It's literally a description.

00:30:00.760 They're brainwashed.

00:30:01.660 Now, that's what propaganda does.

00:30:04.160 It brainwashes people.

00:30:05.400 But it was really successful.

00:30:07.940 Super successful.

00:30:10.260 Who do you think is the biggest loser in this brainwashing Olympics? 0.99

00:30:17.460 What segment of the country are the biggest losers because of it?

00:30:22.040 Is it the white Democrats?

00:30:24.480 Are the white Democrats big losers?

00:30:27.940 They seem pretty happy with what they're doing, so I'd say no.

00:30:31.660 I think it's black people.

00:30:35.040 I think black Americans are the big losers. 1.00

00:30:37.460 Let me tell you why.

00:30:39.140 Well, I'll get to that after this other point.

00:30:42.580 So the California reparations situation, which started out ridiculous,

00:30:47.580 you have some immense amount of reparations were recommended by this silly committee.

00:30:53.400 Now, of course, as you know, the reparations committee in California

00:30:57.940 is simply a white person trick.

00:31:02.820 I'm probably not supposed to tell you that, but it's just a white person trick. 0.92

00:31:07.300 So it's getting the black people who thought reparations was a serious topic,

00:31:12.820 getting them all excited about it, telling them,

00:31:16.100 oh, why don't you go come up with a recommendation,

00:31:18.780 knowing fully well that whatever they recommended would be laughably ridiculous.

00:31:23.500 Not only was it laughingly ridiculous, they just upped it to $200 million per person.

00:31:28.820 So they actually let somebody speak out on this to say that $200 million per person

00:31:37.560 is what each descendant of slaves should receive.

00:31:40.440 And he did some math about 40 acres and a mule.

00:31:44.040 He figured out with compound interest, it'd be worth $200 million.

00:31:48.260 I don't know where you can get 40 acres for $200 million, but let's say that's true.

00:31:57.260 So here's the bigger theme that I would like to introduce.

00:32:05.180 Can any group of people or any individual, this would be true for an individual,

00:32:10.000 but also for a group of individuals,

00:32:11.780 can any group of individuals or even one individual be successful

00:32:17.560 if they require you to lie to them?

00:32:21.240 They require it.

00:32:22.560 If you tried to tell them the truth, they would get really, really mad at you.

00:32:27.960 Right?

00:32:29.820 They would get really pissed.

00:32:31.740 Because the truth doesn't fit the narrative.

00:32:35.700 So, and you could be in trouble, you could be in physical trouble,

00:32:38.860 you could get cancelled if you told the truth.

00:32:42.200 So we have this situation in which, thanks to the media,

00:32:46.700 and largely white Democrats,

00:32:48.800 I think white Democrats are primarily responsible for what I'm going to describe.

00:32:52.960 Not black people, interestingly.

00:32:55.420 It's not the black people who would be the, you know, the perpetrators in this case. 0.80

00:33:00.240 This would be white Democrats making it impossible to tell black people the truth. 0.57

00:33:06.260 There.

00:33:06.740 There you go.

00:33:07.860 White Democrats make it impossible for black people to hear the truth.

00:33:15.000 Right?

00:33:15.960 Because they'll cancel your ass if you try. 0.83

00:33:18.180 Now, I'm not saying that everybody who has a different opinion is the correct opinion.

00:33:22.360 I'm saying that if you don't compete in the, let's say, the market of free ideas,

00:33:28.780 where people can be wrong and people can be right,

00:33:31.660 but at least you're seeing all of the ideas.

00:33:33.420 Do you want to know the best superpower that white men have and you're not going to ever take it away from us? 0.62

00:33:41.020 You can tell us terrible things, and we'll thank you for it.

00:33:48.040 You can never match that, black people. 1.00

00:33:50.720 Sorry.

00:33:52.680 It's an enduring superpower that you can't get close to.

00:33:56.740 Because the white Democrats who are your supporters will cancel you,

00:34:01.840 or cancel anybody who tells you the truth.

00:34:04.360 Or attempts to.

00:34:05.320 I'm not saying they have the truth, but if they attempt to tell you something that you don't want to hear,

00:34:11.000 we get canceled.

00:34:12.260 If somebody tells me something horrible about me personally,

00:34:18.720 or whatever demographic group I'm in, if they think I'm a white man,

00:34:24.060 if they say terrible things about white men, I listen to it. 1.00

00:34:28.080 And if it's useful, I use it.

00:34:32.200 I've told you the story that the most useful advice I ever got in my career were criticisms.

00:34:40.720 Were just brutal criticisms.

00:34:43.160 Brutal.

00:34:44.740 I mean, really brutal criticisms.

00:34:47.520 And what did I do when I got brutal criticisms?

00:34:49.760 I altered my technique to take into account that the critics might be right.

00:34:59.940 For example, I once went in, when I was very young, 22-ish,

00:35:04.920 I went into a meeting with a senior vice president of the bank where I worked,

00:35:08.740 and he told me that I needed to upgrade my shoes.

00:35:13.580 Because they were scruffy.

00:35:16.100 They were pretty scruffy.

00:35:17.300 I had one pair of shoes.

00:35:18.240 I had no money.

00:35:18.820 He just started working.

00:35:21.140 And it was brutal.

00:35:24.600 Imagine being called into your boss's boss's boss's office.

00:35:29.880 I'm talking about somebody several levels above me,

00:35:32.900 just below the president of the bank.

00:35:34.920 Really big bank, right?

00:35:36.220 So it's a big deal.

00:35:37.940 Calls me in to criticize my clothing, my shoes.

00:35:43.740 Now, I've got to tell you, that was pretty brutal.

00:35:46.340 Also, one of the most useful things anybody ever told me.

00:35:51.880 Because I immediately improved my shoes.

00:35:54.380 Did it make a difference?

00:35:55.980 Yes.

00:35:57.520 Yes, because the way you present yourself makes a difference.

00:36:01.040 Now, I could give you five more examples where I got brutal criticism,

00:36:07.120 and then I just adjusted, and it helped me.

00:36:11.520 I believe that if you try to make any argument about race and the disparity in outcomes for black Americans,

00:36:20.300 you're forced to lie unless you're agreeing with a narrative that isn't helping anybody at the moment.

00:36:27.620 So if you agree with a narrative that's hurting everybody, you're allowed to speak.

00:36:32.600 But if you suggest, hey, maybe there's this other way to look at this.

00:36:38.000 Maybe this data is not incorrect.

00:36:42.320 What if this data actually is useful?

00:36:45.000 Well, there's a whole range of stuff you can't even talk about.

00:36:48.960 If you're talking about black crime, if you're talking about black academic achievement, 0.99

00:36:54.300 you know the topics.

00:36:55.780 And I'm not going to know, I won't even mention them here.

00:36:57.880 But if you have an entire segment of the population who is prevented from hearing anything useful,

00:37:06.920 how could they possibly succeed?

00:37:09.540 There isn't any way.

00:37:11.740 There's literally no path for black people to succeed as a group, individuals, of course. 1.00

00:37:18.700 There's plenty of paths for individuals.

00:37:21.700 So individuals have great paths in America.

00:37:25.740 If they get a job and stay off drugs and stay out of jail, they've got a great path, no matter who they are.

00:37:33.680 But as a group, if you're looking at group performance,

00:37:38.700 as long as we white people let you tell us the truth, we're going to be way ahead. 0.53

00:37:43.740 And so let me tell you.

00:37:45.560 You want to tell me some ugly truths?

00:37:49.180 I'm open to that.

00:37:50.220 You've probably watched the evolution, some of you, of this live stream.

00:37:57.060 Almost everything that I've done that changed it was because of some brutal criticism.

00:38:03.960 Some brutal criticism that I thought, oh, that's a pretty good point.

00:38:08.820 I think I'll take that into consideration.

00:38:11.600 So here's my suggestion to black America. 0.94

00:38:17.940 If you want to hear the truth, then every time you hear something that you hate,

00:38:23.760 play this little sound effect in your head.

00:38:26.200 This is my trick.

00:38:27.060 I do this.

00:38:28.100 It goes like this.

00:38:29.900 Ka-ching. 0.98

00:38:31.780 Yeah.

00:38:32.260 Cha-ching. 1.00

00:38:32.780 You could do cha-ching or ka-ching.

00:38:34.420 Same thing.

00:38:35.300 It's the cash register sound.

00:38:36.740 When people tell you things that you already know, what value does that have to you?

00:38:43.220 Usually nothing.

00:38:44.820 Usually nothing.

00:38:45.920 No ka-ching. 1.00

00:38:47.280 So when people are saying, hey, you're doing a great job,

00:38:49.620 and the only thing holding you back is systemic racism, what do you hear?

00:38:55.620 Nothing.

00:38:56.460 Nobody's making any money.

00:38:58.680 No.

00:38:59.240 Not while the grifter did.

00:39:00.720 Yeah, the grifter who told you that might be cha-ching. 1.00

00:39:04.460 But you're hearing nothing.

00:39:05.940 All you heard is that your life is worse, and your prospects are worse than you thought.

00:39:12.500 But if you say to that same person, you know, maybe all this systemic racism is real,

00:39:19.280 and maybe it's holding you back.

00:39:21.260 But what's stopping you from building enough talent to actually succeed?

00:39:26.660 Can't say that.

00:39:29.020 Can't say that.

00:39:30.020 But if somebody could say that, like, how about you take care of yourself, take responsibility?

00:39:36.860 Why don't you do all the things that people who succeed do?

00:39:40.020 If you were to do the things that successful people do, and it doesn't work for you,

00:39:45.440 then I'd be real worried about systemic racism.

00:39:48.640 But if you do the things that all successful people do, and then it works,

00:39:57.060 well, maybe that's how everybody does it.

00:40:00.000 Maybe everybody does it the same way.

00:40:02.480 It's all the same steps.

00:40:04.160 There's not one set of success steps for one demographic group and not for another.

00:40:10.580 So, what do black people do?

00:40:15.860 I mean, everybody's lying to black people about everything, basically. 1.00

00:40:20.080 Anything involving success or crime or, you know, culture or any of it.

00:40:28.080 Any of it.

00:40:28.800 We're all just lying.

00:40:30.540 And it's the only group you have to lie to.

00:40:33.240 It's literally too dangerous to live in the country and tell the truth to black Americans. 1.00

00:40:39.200 Because you'll get canceled or beat up.

00:40:42.660 But, I'll say again, as long as that's the case, white Americans are in good shape competitively. 0.91

00:40:49.820 You'll never have to really compete against black Americans,

00:40:52.920 because they're being lied to so much that they have no idea even how to succeed.

00:40:59.000 Again, that's a big generality.

00:41:01.160 Does not apply to individuals.

00:41:03.920 There are plenty of very successful black individuals.

00:41:06.980 And how do they become successful?

00:41:09.200 Doing all the things that successful people do of every type.

00:41:15.080 Always.

00:41:15.840 It's always the same.

00:41:17.740 You're either extraordinary at some one thing, such as Tiger Woods,

00:41:22.660 or you did it the way everybody else did, which is you learned a bunch of skills,

00:41:26.660 you tried hard, you stayed in a jail, you didn't do too many drugs.

00:41:31.100 It's the same thing.

00:41:32.460 Everybody does it the same way.

00:41:33.720 All right.

00:41:35.720 All right.

00:41:40.180 So, this brings me to my AI topic, that you've seen people testing AI for bias, right?

00:41:49.740 And I saw a few tweets today of some Asian Americans who asked AI something like,

00:41:57.200 I'm paraphrasing, but it was something like, you know, I'm proud of my Asian heritage.

00:42:03.480 And then AI will say something positive.

00:42:05.700 Oh, that's great that you're positive about your heritage.

00:42:08.880 Good for you.

00:42:10.440 And then it will say something about, what about white Americans?

00:42:15.420 And AI will say, well, I'm an AI and I don't like to get into, you know, topics like this.

00:42:20.980 So, literally, AI is discriminating against white people very overtly, like right in your face,

00:42:29.380 overtly discriminating against white people.

00:42:33.360 I don't see how that could be avoided.

00:42:36.200 It seems unavoidable.

00:42:37.940 Because either AI is going to learn from the body of language that's out there, which is pre-censored, right?

00:42:46.480 Anything that AI can get its little brain on has already been censored.

00:42:52.480 So, it's only getting censored, one opinion kind of stuff.

00:42:56.600 And so, we've built a bigoted AI.

00:43:02.680 So, good for us, huh?

00:43:06.500 All right.

00:43:11.680 Let me ask you this.

00:43:12.900 Do you feel that there's been any change in the last two months in the way we can talk about race?

00:43:27.140 Do you feel like there's a little more honesty sneaking in?

00:43:34.140 All right.

00:43:34.760 So, we might have a...

00:43:37.980 So, I see a lot of yeses.

00:43:41.320 But a lot of noes, too.

00:43:42.900 So, there'll be some noes and yeses.

00:43:44.660 Well, I would say Vivek Ramaswamy is adding some honesty to the system that it's not used to.

00:43:53.740 Would you agree?

00:43:55.540 Vivek has definitely changed the conversation.

00:43:59.000 Because he's not only very direct in these third rail kind of topics,

00:44:04.740 but he's so good at explaining his position that I think he just carved down some territory that didn't exist before.

00:44:12.660 Because he went there and survived by showing you that if you're not a jerk

00:44:18.200 and you're just sticking with the facts and you're not trying to hurt anybody,

00:44:23.100 you know, you're trying to make the country a better place,

00:44:25.200 as long as people believe your head's in the right place and you're smart about it,

00:44:29.160 I think he opened up a little bit of extra territory.

00:44:33.620 I think that my situation allowed other people to speak out a little bit more, let's say, directly.

00:44:43.520 If only because they were talking about me, that's always safer than being the one who was talking.

00:44:50.280 So, I feel that the, and then the, this seems unrelated, but it's not,

00:44:57.220 the Bud Light situation,

00:44:59.560 it's all telling me that the, there's a, let's say, a tolerance for the woke sensibilities is peaked.

00:45:13.740 I think we've hit peak wokeness.

00:45:16.440 And that it's, it's going to quickly turn into an embarrassment for people who continue to stay on that path.

00:45:24.100 It's not there yet.

00:45:26.020 Not there yet.

00:45:26.980 But you can see all of the signs across the, across the entire environment.

00:45:33.700 When I saw the, the video of Trump talking about doing his deposition,

00:45:40.720 and I, I should have mentioned this, I don't think I mentioned it,

00:45:44.180 but when he, he was defending himself from saying that one of his accusers was not his type,

00:45:49.720 and he was asked by the female lawyer who was asking the questions, 0.74

00:45:54.380 you know, did you meet her appearance?

00:45:57.940 Trump, you know, said, well, you know, it's the whole deal,

00:46:01.440 but that he also would not be interested in the woman who was asking him the questions.

00:46:06.240 Not even a little bit.

00:46:08.260 Now, the fact that Trump went right at the most politically incorrect thing you could do,

00:46:15.580 and just like went right into the middle of it,

00:46:17.700 I feel like he made the real estate expand a little as well.

00:46:23.360 So there, there's something going on, and you can see it on social media as well.

00:46:28.160 There, there's a new level of honesty that's happening on social media about male-female relationships,

00:46:35.380 and also about the trans situation, you know.

00:46:40.240 The, the fact that there are now a number of people on the right who are just referring to trans women as men,

00:46:48.880 and they're doing it publicly, does suggest that there's some kind of a turning point happening.

00:46:54.540 Now, mostly, mostly the conservatives are doing that in the context of sports.

00:47:00.440 Outside of sports, I'm, I'm kind of proud of conservatives for not giving a shit what other people do.

00:47:08.060 So, that's a pretty good stand, as long as it's not bothering them.

00:47:13.340 All right.

00:47:20.540 I'm seeing a comment that Vivek speaks so openly that he could look like the good cop compared to Trump being bad cop.

00:47:28.220 But, I don't know, I don't think Trump could ever settle for being second place in the, speaking frankly, Olympics.

00:47:35.760 So, I don't think anybody's going to get ahead of him, in frankness.

00:47:40.820 But, it's going to be a fun competition.

00:47:47.380 You think I started it with my ramp?

00:47:51.060 I think, I feel like maybe it was going to happen at the same time.

00:47:54.580 I don't feel like I started the end of wokeness.

00:47:57.400 I feel like wokeness was reaching its peak, and I was one of many variables within that umbrella.

00:48:05.760 Do you see Trump say he was happy that Vivek was doing so well?

00:48:14.700 I'll bet he is happy.

00:48:15.900 I'll bet he is happy about that.

00:48:18.280 Yeah.

00:48:18.780 I mean, because Trump is not feeling, if I were Trump, I would not say bad things about Vivek,

00:48:26.220 because Vivek is saying things that Trump says.

00:48:28.420 So, it would be hard to get on the other side of him for policy.

00:48:33.620 And, as long as Vivek is, you know, sub-10% polling, it's smart for Trump to lay off him.

00:48:42.320 Because he's also a potential VP, you know, candidate.

00:48:46.140 I don't think he would be the choice.

00:48:48.120 I'm really bad at picking VP candidates, or predicting.

00:48:51.580 But, he'd be on the short list of 10, don't you think?

00:48:58.700 I think they always end up picking some boring governor or something.

00:49:03.500 But, you would have to consider Vivek for a vice president.

00:49:08.360 Because he does, he's a good complement to the ticket.

00:49:15.440 Yeah.

00:49:16.000 Isn't he too strong?

00:49:20.620 Vivek would be too strong if he also had more experience.

00:49:24.840 But, since he doesn't have government experience,

00:49:27.680 he's going to look like somebody who has tons of potential,

00:49:30.540 but not quite the seasoning.

00:49:32.840 That's sort of perfect for a vice president.

00:49:35.840 Because then you're seeing the vice president as the trading ground for your next president.

00:49:41.480 And, we haven't seen that in a while.

00:49:42.740 Well, our vice presidents have not looked strong enough, you know, universally,

00:49:48.920 that you just automatically assume that they're a contender.

00:49:55.960 Is there any stories that I should have mentioned that I didn't?

00:50:03.900 I saw another story about voting irregularities in New York.

00:50:09.220 But, I don't believe any of those voting irregularities stories.

00:50:12.740 But, I'm going to ask this question again.

00:50:15.800 Because, I feel like there's a news that I missed, but maybe some of you didn't.

00:50:20.360 Has anybody ever heard where Sidney Powell got the information about the Venezuela in general,

00:50:29.780 and the so-called Kraken?

00:50:32.380 Have we ever heard of where she got that?

00:50:34.140 That's literally not reported.

00:50:39.600 Maybe nothing more important in the country right now than the answer to that question.

00:50:44.440 Because, if the answer to that question is,

00:50:46.860 it just came from some sketchy source,

00:50:51.200 then that tells one story.

00:50:53.560 But, if the answer is, it came from an intelligence source,

00:50:58.400 or anybody who might have been one, we wouldn't know for sure.

00:51:01.860 That's a completely different story.

00:51:05.120 So, what is your working assumption?

00:51:08.240 Without knowing the answer to that question,

00:51:10.040 what's your working assumption?

00:51:12.400 Your working assumption has to be that it came from our own intelligence agencies,

00:51:16.580 and that they were trying to take Sidney Powell out,

00:51:19.780 because they were working for the Democrats at that time,

00:51:22.120 and that's well documented.

00:51:25.620 I mean, it looks like an op to me.

00:51:28.000 It looks like they fed the most ridiculous rumor to her

00:51:31.660 to discredit everything else that she would claim.

00:51:34.700 To me, that's what it looked like.

00:51:36.920 So, that's my working assumption,

00:51:39.160 is that she was taken out by the intelligence agencies of the United States.

00:51:43.540 Everybody okay with that?

00:51:48.640 It's not unreasonable, is it?

00:51:50.360 I would say it would be the most likely explanation,

00:51:53.840 which doesn't mean it's true.

00:51:56.020 So, when I talk about having an operating assumption,

00:51:59.760 it doesn't mean I think it's true.

00:52:01.660 It's just the most true-looking thing that fits the facts.

00:52:05.740 So, I could be talked out of it pretty easily.

00:52:09.480 Any new information would easily talk me out of it.

00:52:13.540 Yeah.

00:52:25.040 Unblock James Lindsay?

00:52:26.720 No, he's a dick.

00:52:29.800 Yeah, I'm not going to unblock people who are dicks to me, personally.

00:52:34.920 You might think that he's useful to you,

00:52:37.640 but that doesn't have any sway with me.

00:52:41.220 Would you vote for RFK Jr.?

00:52:46.500 Well, I'm a single-issue voter on fentanyl.

00:52:49.880 So, I'm going to call balls and strikes on all the candidates.

00:52:53.780 I'm going to tell you what they did well and what they didn't,

00:52:56.300 be they Democrats or Republicans.

00:52:58.880 And I have not heard anything on fentanyl from RFK Jr.

00:53:04.100 Has anybody else?

00:53:06.200 I can't imagine he would be as tough on it as Vivek or Trump would be.

00:53:10.240 Has he been unusually quiet about fentanyl?

00:53:15.800 I feel like his level of quiet on that topic is becoming a dog-not-barking situation.

00:53:23.980 There's something wrong with...

00:53:26.800 He's recovering from addiction?

00:53:29.020 I've never heard that.

00:53:29.840 Tara Maras.

00:53:35.940 I don't know who she is.

00:53:41.120 He vaguely talks about drug use.

00:53:47.000 Really?

00:53:50.120 Solution?

00:53:50.760 Give the zombies all the fentanyl they want?

00:53:53.280 Maybe.

00:53:53.720 But you also have to run away.

00:54:01.980 He does talk about immigration, you know, tightening up immigration.

00:54:07.720 All right.

00:54:08.520 Well, so that's the answer to your question.

00:54:11.740 The fact that we're...

00:54:13.720 We've been several weeks into the Kennedy campaign,

00:54:17.180 and I don't know the answer to that question,

00:54:19.540 suggests that I'm not going to like the answer either.

00:54:21.760 So, at the moment, there are only two candidates that would potentially get my vote.

00:54:30.020 So, the two toughest on the cartels would be Vivek and Trump.

00:54:35.880 If somebody comes up with a stronger plan than that, I'm going to listen to it.

00:54:41.440 And I would also listen to anything about testing legalization in some small place.

00:54:47.800 Just anything.

00:54:48.980 Just try something.

00:54:50.300 Just don't do the same things we're doing, because they're not working.

00:54:57.840 All right.

00:55:00.940 DNA and addiction.

00:55:02.820 You know, that's true.

00:55:03.780 We should be able to tell people from their DNA whether they're going to be addicts, right?

00:55:09.580 With pretty high percentage of likelihood.

00:55:12.480 I don't know why we don't do that.

00:55:18.140 I almost feel as if people who have the addict gene should almost, you know, well, not be forced,

00:55:27.860 but they should choose to live in dry cities.

00:55:31.620 Because, you know, Trump was talking about building cities from scratch

00:55:35.620 and putting it on public land so that you already have the land to take care of.

00:55:41.320 I think at least one of those cities should be a dry city.

00:55:44.500 But be very serious about it being a dry city.

00:55:49.800 Like, you just can't even order it in the mail.

00:55:51.880 You just can't get it.

00:55:54.840 Yeah.

00:55:59.480 He won't eat the bugs.

00:56:03.280 You'll hear RFK Jr.'s fentanyl position soon, somebody says.

00:56:07.440 Maybe.

00:56:07.780 Maybe so.

00:56:11.420 But that's going to be critical.

00:56:17.060 Now, what's interesting is, so RFK Jr., if there's anybody here who hasn't heard,

00:56:24.840 he did have a procedure done to help his voice.

00:56:29.820 Now, it was a different procedure than I had done.

00:56:32.000 I had a surgery.

00:56:32.900 He had a non-surgical, well, I don't know.

00:56:35.740 I'm not going to describe it.

00:56:37.080 But he had a procedure that was different than what I did.

00:56:40.420 And it helped.

00:56:43.100 Definitely better than where it was.

00:56:46.220 But I also don't know if it will continue improving.

00:56:51.080 Because that's possible.

00:56:53.240 So we don't know where it could end up.

00:57:00.040 Honky talk life.

00:57:01.100 I thought he was, you know, 30% improved.

00:57:08.560 I did send him, I DM'd him some tips, voice tips.

00:57:14.640 Because I think what he needs is to produce his voice in the mask of his face instead of down in the throat.

00:57:22.200 And when I listen to him, I don't know if he knows that speaking technique.

00:57:28.020 If you speak with your throat, that's where all the problems happen.

00:57:31.220 But if you raise your speaking, let's see, the mechanism you're speaking, if you put it up in your face, which you can do.

00:57:41.180 Like right now I'm speaking from my face.

00:57:43.560 This is what it sounds like if I talk up here in my face reason.

00:57:46.420 But if I talk down in my throat, this is what it talks like when I'm in my throat.

00:57:52.460 You realize, you see, it's not as clean.

00:57:54.780 It's a little bit scruffier.

00:57:56.580 Because I'm actually vibrating my vocal cords and talking down here.

00:58:01.080 So I don't know for sure.

00:58:03.660 But I don't know if RFK Jr. has ever studied how to move your voice production up to your face.

00:58:11.660 I found that that was super important for me.

00:58:15.340 Anyway, here's a true story.

00:58:17.500 Before I had the surgery that fixed my voice, I went to a voice doctor who claimed to cure people by making them hum in the key of F.

00:58:29.880 Weird, huh?

00:58:32.340 And so you go in there for hours at a time and you put on headphones and you'd have a little machine that would tell you if you're, you know, in the range of where you want to be.

00:58:41.040 And the reason was that he determined that the key of F you produced with your face.

00:58:49.260 But if you talk lower, like men often do, they'll talk down in their throat and in their chest. 0.66

00:58:55.580 And then you have all the problems.

00:58:56.580 So his theory was he could cure this incurable problem by having you just hum all day in the key of F.

00:59:04.680 You'd literally hum.

00:59:06.000 Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

00:59:07.500 And then you'd talk.

00:59:09.240 Because if you can hum in the key of F and then immediately talk, you'll use the same production as the humming.

00:59:16.080 And it bypasses the problem part of your production.

00:59:22.780 Now, my reaction was that after two weeks of that, and he recommends that you practice it for months.

00:59:29.980 But after two weeks of that, I came home and for a while, for a while, I had almost normal voice.

00:59:37.300 That was before surgery.

00:59:38.560 But the problem is that it's too hard to remind yourself to speak correctly.

00:59:45.220 So over time, it didn't last.

00:59:47.140 So it wore off in a week or so.

00:59:49.780 But I do have a definite example where you can take your voice up to the non-injured part if you can stay with it.

01:00:00.520 Now, the same time that I went to that doctor, and this is the interesting part,

01:00:04.860 he was claiming that he was curing an incurable problem with just voice exercises.

01:00:16.320 That was a big claim.

01:00:17.840 And, you know, if you looked at him, if you looked him up, it would say, you know, he was a fraud and everything.

01:00:22.680 But there were small classes, and I attended one.

01:00:25.720 And there was somebody in my small class whose voice was fixed permanently in one week of humming.

01:00:34.860 And, I mean, not continuous for a week, but, yeah.

01:00:38.540 And I've confirmed, I confirmed that that one person out of, I think, five, just absolutely had a total cure.

01:00:46.380 It did work.

01:00:47.700 Now, there's some controversy, because some say the fact that they were cured without surgery or something more aggressive

01:00:55.460 is proof they didn't really have the condition.

01:00:58.380 To which I say, oh, that's clever.

01:01:03.140 So if they get cured without your expensive surgery, that proves that they were just misdiagnosed.

01:01:10.460 Oh, isn't that convenient?

01:01:12.720 Then nobody had to say that a cure exists.

01:01:16.240 You don't have to say a cure exists, because you just say, oh, yeah, 20% of the people got better,

01:01:22.040 but it's because they had something else.

01:01:26.520 Yeah.

01:01:27.120 No, no.

01:01:28.060 But I can tell you that it fixed me for a week, and it fixed somebody else permanently.

01:01:32.880 And I got to see that in person.

01:01:35.120 I'm not guessing.

01:01:37.600 But it definitely didn't work for some other people.

01:01:39.960 So it was not a 100% thing, and it wasn't sold that way.

01:01:43.220 All right.

01:01:51.540 A former highlight.

01:01:53.800 Okay.

01:01:54.640 There's a big comment there I can't read.

01:02:01.760 The green shirt makes me look like a turtle.

01:02:06.180 Fair enough.

01:02:08.220 I do get the turtle comment now and then.

01:02:10.420 I do get a little of the Mitch McConnell treatment sometimes.

01:02:16.340 Now, see?

01:02:19.980 That was constructive criticism right there, wasn't it?

01:02:23.480 Brutal.

01:02:25.640 And do you know what I'm thinking right now?

01:02:28.240 This is a perfect example.

01:02:30.020 So a brutal criticism that in my green shirt I remind somebody of a turtle.

01:02:35.420 I get that.

01:02:36.460 I'm sure that if I had a different face, I would not remind you of a turtle.

01:02:43.460 But apparently I have a turtle, enough of a turtle vibe, that wearing a green shirt puts you over the line.

01:02:51.240 So do you know what my reaction to that is?

01:02:55.820 You know my reaction, right?

01:02:59.180 Come on.

01:03:00.240 Somebody say it.

01:03:01.640 Say it.

01:03:02.160 There it is.

01:03:03.740 Cha-ching. 1.00

01:03:04.940 Cha-ching. 1.00

01:03:06.540 So I just heard something that would make me money.

01:03:09.580 Don't wear the green shirt.

01:03:12.040 Easy.

01:03:13.280 Right?

01:03:14.040 Just don't wear the green shirt.

01:03:15.780 Because I have to admit, this morning when I put it on, I said to myself,

01:03:20.580 huh, I don't know if this is the right choice.

01:03:23.480 Because the blue or the gray always works.

01:03:26.580 I don't know if green is going to work.

01:03:28.100 And now I have that excellent turtle comment.

01:03:33.140 And did I tell you I'm going to beat you up or cancel you for saying that?

01:03:37.020 No.

01:03:38.160 Cha-ching. 1.00

01:03:39.600 Green shirt.

01:03:40.580 Retired.

01:03:41.880 Moving on.

01:03:43.420 See, that's how I do it.

01:03:46.420 So you can tell me anything that's true, or even just true in your opinion.

01:03:51.220 Your opinion is good enough, if it's just, if it's your true opinion.

01:03:55.760 Tell me the truth, I will turn it into money.

01:03:59.700 And black Americans, you can never catch up to me. 1.00

01:04:03.380 You'll never catch up.

01:04:05.320 Because if you can't take the truth, and white Democrats will make sure it's unavailable to you,

01:04:12.620 there's no way you can compete.

01:04:18.820 All right.

01:04:21.900 It's sort of a Zelensky shirt, too.

01:04:24.160 Yeah, that's not a good look today.

01:04:28.960 Master of disguise.

01:04:35.400 Somebody's going to clip that sentence here, probably.

01:04:39.460 I don't know.

01:04:39.960 I don't know.

01:04:42.620 Are you culturally predisposed to being offended?

01:04:48.680 Not personally.

01:04:51.600 All right.

01:04:52.200 That's all for now, YouTube.

01:04:53.940 Thanks for joining.

01:04:55.440 I thought it was a terrific Sunday live stream.

01:04:59.020 Because, frankly, you didn't want to hear about the British coronation one more time.

01:05:05.160 I didn't mention it at all.

01:05:07.220 That's why this is the best live stream.

01:05:09.040 Did I mention the latest mass shooting?

01:05:11.700 Nope.

01:05:13.460 Nope.

01:05:15.280 And how much do you appreciate that?

01:05:17.840 Don't you?

01:05:19.520 You do.

01:05:20.740 You appreciate the fact that there was yet another thing that I won't mention,

01:05:25.500 and that I've decided that is not worthy of your attention.

01:05:28.740 It's a big, big problem.

01:05:30.680 Not worthy of your attention.

01:05:32.000 Yeah.

01:05:35.940 All right.

01:05:36.780 That's all for now, YouTube.

01:05:38.680 See you tomorrow.

01:05:39.340 See you tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 07, 2023

Episode 2101 Scott Adams： The Most Brainwashed Voters (Per Data), Our AI Czar (LOL), Reparations

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