Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 07, 2023


Episode 2132 Scott Adams： Tucker Is Back, CNN is Flailing, Depression Cure, NYC Now An Ashtray


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It's hard to breathe in New York City because of the smoke from the fires in Canada, but there's a new drug that could help cure your depression. And evolutionary biologists have discovered that the first humans started masturbating 40 million years ago.

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00:00:30.000 Ah, delightful.
00:00:37.500 All right, well, let's see, we've got stories.
00:00:42.280 Turns out New York City and much of the northeast is under a thick veil of smoke from Canadian forest fires.
00:00:53.660 I'll tell you, Canada is just becoming a troubled country, isn't it?
00:00:57.580 You know, you think they're up there just minding their own business, sipping some Molson, wrestling with the mooses, the mice.
00:01:10.300 Whatever they do up there, I don't really know.
00:01:12.180 But it's causing a lot of smoke.
00:01:16.000 And we found the only way to make New York City less hospitable.
00:01:21.660 So the good news is that it's sort of good news, bad situation.
00:01:28.000 So the bad news is it's really hard to breathe in New York City.
00:01:33.180 So if you're, you know, if you're going to do calling balls and strikes, you'd say the bad part is they can't breathe and it's giving them all asthma and headaches.
00:01:42.960 That's the bad part of all that smoke.
00:01:44.900 On the plus side, you can't see the crime coming.
00:01:50.720 I know that's not a lot because the crime will still come, but you don't see it as quickly, and I think that's an upgrade.
00:01:57.840 Because you'll suffer less because you don't see it coming.
00:02:02.100 It still comes either way.
00:02:04.880 So get out of New York City as soon as you can.
00:02:07.140 There is, however, a hope for people who stay in New York City because researchers have found the reason that mushrooms and LSD work.
00:02:20.940 They found the blah, blah, blah that binds to the blah, blah, blah.
00:02:25.140 I don't want to get too technical here, but there's a thing that binds to a thing.
00:02:29.480 And the way they found it is they looked at LSD as well as psilocybin because both of those are implicated in curing depression.
00:02:41.820 They were trying to find out what's going on here.
00:02:45.180 And it turns out that the thing that binds in the hallucinogens binds way better than the off-the-shelf stuff that is supposed to treat depression.
00:02:57.700 So it does what the prescription drugs do, but 100 times better without negative consequences.
00:03:05.540 Because you can just do your hallucinogens and then be done with it.
00:03:09.480 But if you're on depression meds, you just take them all the time.
00:03:13.140 So you've got the side effects forever, whereas if you do LSD or psilocybin, you've got an interesting trip, and then it's over.
00:03:25.020 And then your depression is lessened.
00:03:26.680 But they figured out how to isolate the part that helps you with your depression separate from the part that gets you in your trip.
00:03:37.300 So that that might give them an avenue to commercialize it.
00:03:41.180 Because the first thing that your drug company wants to do is take the fun out of your drugs, am I right?
00:03:46.440 Takes the fun out of it.
00:03:48.160 But maybe it'll cure your depression.
00:03:50.640 So that would be worthwhile, I guess.
00:03:52.400 Now, the biggest story, I think, today, a lot of big stories, but none bigger than this.
00:04:01.220 According to an article in The Guardian, evolutionary biologists, and this is important work.
00:04:08.620 You know, sometimes you think science is not getting it done.
00:04:12.920 You know, we don't trust science.
00:04:14.900 Science may have lied to us.
00:04:16.580 Maybe their models are not all that accurate and stuff.
00:04:19.800 So we do a lot of criticizing of science.
00:04:21.920 But when they do good work like this, well, what I'll tell you about here, you have to give them some credit.
00:04:28.340 So what the evolutionary biologists have done, according to The Guardian, they've traced back the origins of masturbations,
00:04:34.660 and they found out which monkey started it.
00:04:36.280 So we got that going for us.
00:04:41.200 Now, they think that it started 40 million years ago.
00:04:44.640 No.
00:04:45.120 How long ago?
00:04:47.260 Yeah, like, the first humans by tens of millions of years.
00:04:52.280 So yeah, 40 million years ago, evolutionary biologists have determined,
00:04:58.700 they've discovered the first masturbating monkeys.
00:05:02.300 Now, how do you think they determined that?
00:05:04.340 How do you think an evolutionary biologist can reach back in time 40 million years
00:05:11.920 and determine which monkeys were beating off?
00:05:15.860 Does that sound like something that really happened in the actual real world?
00:05:22.220 Guardian?
00:05:23.580 Did they really know which monkeys were beating off?
00:05:26.560 I don't think so.
00:05:28.860 I would call this another story where science is just making itself look ridiculous.
00:05:34.340 Because, first of all, we don't really need to know which monkeys beat off first.
00:05:40.280 I'm happy to know that evolution, after 40 million years, brought us to the point where Jeffrey Toobin can do it on Zoom.
00:05:48.240 So, I mean, there's an interesting evolutionary story there.
00:05:52.840 But other than that, did it matter?
00:05:55.720 Was it terribly important why monkeys are masturbating?
00:05:59.180 Somebody got paid for that.
00:06:02.140 Somebody got paid for that.
00:06:03.820 And then, after they got paid to figure out which monkeys are masturbating, 0.68
00:06:07.440 apparently they just made up the answer.
00:06:10.160 I don't know.
00:06:11.460 What do you think, Eric?
00:06:14.340 I don't know.
00:06:16.460 40 billion years ago, let's say the monkeys were getting busy.
00:06:20.120 Is anybody going to check?
00:06:22.020 How could they check?
00:06:23.220 We can't even check.
00:06:24.980 Well, why are we claiming that we know?
00:06:27.440 Nobody else will know the difference either.
00:06:29.780 All right.
00:06:30.320 Monkeys beat off 40 million years ago.
00:06:33.080 Could you have a lower opinion of science right now?
00:06:36.800 I mean, after we get through the pandemic, you're expecting some big wins for science.
00:06:42.780 So far, the only win is they figured out how to cure your depression without you having a good time.
00:06:49.480 That was the first story.
00:06:50.700 We figured out how to cure your depression, but we've removed the part where you have a really good time while it happens.
00:06:57.980 That's fucking it.
00:07:00.040 That's what science gave you.
00:07:02.160 They took away the fun, and they kept the drug.
00:07:07.820 And they figured out that monkeys were beating off 40 million years ago.
00:07:12.020 Yeah.
00:07:12.760 How does that help you with your climate change?
00:07:14.900 Well, speaking of masturbating monkeys, there's a story from CNN.
00:07:23.920 Anybody?
00:07:24.820 Anybody?
00:07:26.200 Best segue of any podcast ever.
00:07:30.940 Yes.
00:07:31.380 From masturbating monkeys to CNN.
00:07:33.440 Their CEO, Chris Lichterlite, or we never bothered to learn his name because we didn't think he'd stay.
00:07:39.180 I never bothered to figure out how to pronounce his last name.
00:07:44.300 I just figured he wasn't going to last.
00:07:48.780 Chris.
00:07:49.820 Let's call him Chris.
00:07:51.280 Lichterlite or something.
00:07:53.720 Anyway, so I wondered if CNN would cover the story of their own problems.
00:08:00.220 And they did.
00:08:00.760 And the way they covered it was, this was unbelievable.
00:08:06.680 So this is CNN's own words.
00:08:09.780 Chris Lichterlite or Lichterlite or Lichterlite or whatever, the embattled chief executive and chairman of CNN.
00:08:15.860 So they called their own CEO, embattled, whose brief one-year tenure at the network was stained by a series of severe missteps.
00:08:27.820 Severe missteps.
00:08:28.980 And then the article links to the example of the biggest of all the missteps.
00:08:36.840 What do you think the article was?
00:08:39.680 What do you think was his big misstep?
00:08:43.540 Having Trump on the town hall.
00:08:47.320 Yeah.
00:08:48.020 The only successful thing that CNN did all year.
00:08:51.460 It was the only success they had.
00:08:54.220 And CNN called it a big failure.
00:08:55.800 Because the person who was most likely to be your next president of the United States was featured on their network.
00:09:04.100 And they can't have that.
00:09:05.300 Because their job is to prevent him from being president.
00:09:08.660 So he gets fired for being, probably for being an adult white guy.
00:09:13.080 But that wasn't mentioned.
00:09:15.060 Instead it was mentioned that he had helped another adult white guy, Trump.
00:09:18.660 But it's not overwrite.
00:09:21.160 It's not about race.
00:09:22.520 It's not about race and it's not about gender.
00:09:24.300 He was replaced by a woman, temporarily. 0.99
00:09:26.260 Now, would you like to take bets?
00:09:31.260 Do you believe that he could be replaced by another adult white man?
00:09:36.660 Do you think there's any chance that could happen at CNN?
00:09:40.420 Any chance?
00:09:42.200 No.
00:09:43.260 No.
00:09:43.980 Their next hire will be based on race and gender.
00:09:46.680 And if they don't pick a trans for that job, well, I call them haters.
00:09:54.560 And I would say that would be a severe misstep.
00:09:57.240 A severe misstep.
00:09:58.580 I think they need a, yeah, possibly a trans.
00:10:04.640 So that's what I like to see.
00:10:06.200 I'd like to see them walk the walk and talk the talk.
00:10:08.700 They should do what they say and get themselves a properly diverse CEO.
00:10:18.760 Well, it looks like Trump broke them.
00:10:22.840 The trail of destruction that Trump has left.
00:10:26.600 But I feel like he finished off CNN.
00:10:30.040 So I wonder if anything else is happening that would be relevant to give us context
00:10:35.040 to this story about the struggling CNN whose best primetime shows get about 300,000 viewers.
00:10:42.900 About 300,000.
00:10:44.580 How would that compare to other things that we're seeing lately?
00:10:48.060 Let's see, 300,000 viewers.
00:10:50.220 Oh.
00:10:51.940 Well, here's a story by, so Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was saying on a podcast with, I think,
00:10:58.000 Jordan Peterson, that he thinks the 2024 election will be decided by podcasts.
00:11:03.080 He thinks it will be podcasts, not network television.
00:11:08.040 Now, did you hear anybody else say that, make that prediction?
00:11:12.720 Yeah, that's exactly what I said.
00:11:14.740 So, but it's not, I wouldn't say that's 100% of the story.
00:11:21.260 Yeah.
00:11:21.940 I would say the story is you can use the podcasts to get enough traction that then the networks
00:11:28.980 will cover you.
00:11:29.720 Because if you don't get to the networks, the old people will never know you exist. 1.00
00:11:35.680 And if the old people don't know you exist, you're not getting elected. 1.00
00:11:39.340 So the podcast might give you some life, and they might be able to test you out and get
00:11:44.360 some good quotes and some viral videos and all that stuff, which is great.
00:11:48.360 But you're still going to need to get on TV.
00:11:52.780 And, you know, when it comes out to the final two, they will be on TV.
00:11:55.800 So I guess that takes care of itself when you get to the final two.
00:11:59.460 But if you're running in the primaries, you're trying to make a dent, it's all podcasts.
00:12:05.000 And I would say that's one of the best things that's happened to the country.
00:12:08.240 You know, we like to focus on all the negative.
00:12:12.820 But wow.
00:12:14.660 I would say this year, you really see the maturity of the podcasting network.
00:12:21.600 It's not just that the technology and the audience and everything is maturing.
00:12:28.080 It's that the type of voices you get are completely different.
00:12:32.000 They're completely different.
00:12:32.960 You know, there never was a Joe Rogan.
00:12:36.860 You know, you're not going to see a Jordan Peterson on network news.
00:12:42.420 Same with, you know, Ben Shapiro.
00:12:44.600 Same with me.
00:12:45.720 There's a lot of voices that are now interesting and different and actually making an impact.
00:12:52.120 Speaking of that, you may have heard that Tucker Carlson is back.
00:12:59.060 He's back, but he's on Twitter.
00:13:01.020 So he did his first little video.
00:13:04.200 Maybe you could call it a show.
00:13:06.040 I don't know what he's going to call it.
00:13:07.340 An episode.
00:13:08.660 But it was one monologue, basically.
00:13:11.500 Similar to how he used to do on his Fox News.
00:13:15.260 And I wonder how that did.
00:13:17.960 Poor Tucker.
00:13:20.060 He gets kicked off a show that was killing CNN by about 10 to 1 in viewership.
00:13:25.160 He would have maybe 4 million when CNN would have less than 400,000.
00:13:30.260 So he was about 10 times bigger than CNN.
00:13:33.700 But then he lost his gig on Fox News.
00:13:37.280 So the poor guy, poor, poor Tucker Carlson, has to take his show to Twitter.
00:13:43.260 Let me see an update.
00:13:44.900 How many numbers, views did he get on his little, tiny little...
00:13:49.260 64 million.
00:13:52.940 64 million.
00:13:53.880 No, 68.
00:13:57.720 I'm sorry.
00:13:58.520 Update.
00:13:59.200 68 million.
00:14:01.900 Let me say that again.
00:14:05.140 CNN primetime.
00:14:07.480 300,000 to 400,000 people.
00:14:11.020 Fox News.
00:14:12.000 Tucker Carlson.
00:14:13.580 10 times that.
00:14:15.020 4 million.
00:14:17.160 Tucker Carlson on Twitter.
00:14:18.580 15 times that, so far.
00:14:23.520 20 times it.
00:14:27.860 Now, I don't know how many people watched the video, because somebody said that that number
00:14:32.080 might be impressions, not views.
00:14:34.300 Yeah, I'm seeing that in the comments.
00:14:35.920 So, apparently, it's impressions, not views.
00:14:40.680 So that doesn't mean they watched it.
00:14:42.560 It means it showed up for them to watch it.
00:14:45.340 But, yeah.
00:14:47.500 But 68 million impressions probably translates into the biggest audience for a news person
00:14:54.580 of all time.
00:14:55.740 That's my guess.
00:14:57.040 Yeah.
00:14:57.240 I mean, it could be 6 million, but it would still be record-breaking.
00:15:03.300 So, good for Tucker.
00:15:05.020 And how did Tucker do?
00:15:09.740 Well, he's got a technique that, I think Hannity does this a little bit, but Tucker perfected
00:15:17.460 it, where you say a bunch of things that you know your audience agrees with, and they
00:15:22.740 really have some, you know, emotion in it.
00:15:25.700 So, you're like, oh, yeah, that's true.
00:15:27.800 Oh, that's true.
00:15:28.700 Oh, that's true.
00:15:29.920 And then he gets to the thing that's not quite proven.
00:15:33.740 You know, after you've been noddling along, yeah, that's true, that's true, that's true,
00:15:37.000 that's true.
00:15:37.380 And he gets to the last thing, and you're still nodding when he says it.
00:15:41.440 You're like, oh, maybe.
00:15:45.260 And he did that with the, he starts with Nord Stream 2, and you're like, you know, Nord Stream
00:15:52.080 2, it turns out that the Ukrainians and the Americans were behind the blowing it up.
00:15:58.980 And his audience is like, yep, yep, we knew that.
00:16:02.280 I mean, it wasn't official, but we knew that, absolutely, absolutely.
00:16:06.660 Uh-huh.
00:16:07.100 Nord Stream 2, and Biden lied to the country about it, said they didn't know anything about
00:16:12.020 it.
00:16:12.160 Yep.
00:16:13.240 And then he goes to the Ukraine dam.
00:16:16.680 And now you're like, and he says the Ukraine dam almost certainly was done by Ukraine, because
00:16:23.260 it was in Russian territory.
00:16:24.700 And, you know, you don't really blow up a dam in your own territory.
00:16:30.420 I mean, there's some speculation about maybe there's some advantage, but not really, right?
00:16:34.960 So then Tucker goes from the Nord Stream thing, which is pretty much confirmed, to the dam
00:16:41.320 thing, which is not confirmed, but you pretty much know it's true, right?
00:16:45.700 So now you've gone from certainly true to almost probably true that Ukraine was behind it. 0.85
00:16:52.740 And then after you're still nodding along, yep, yep, almost probably true.
00:16:57.360 I'll bet you Ukraine did blow up that dam. 1.00
00:16:59.600 And the next thing you know, he's talking about the aliens being real and the whistleblower
00:17:03.720 has the goods.
00:17:05.240 And you're like, yep, and aliens?
00:17:09.420 Okay, I guess so.
00:17:10.780 Aliens too.
00:17:12.020 I'm on board.
00:17:13.700 Let's go with the aliens. 0.98
00:17:18.060 I still believe there are no aliens, but I'm not going to criticize Tucker for this, because
00:17:24.440 he does what Joe Rogan does, and I call it recreational belief.
00:17:32.180 Recreational belief.
00:17:33.220 It's different from actually believing something.
00:17:36.820 So recreational belief would be, like when I see stories about the pyramids, and the story
00:17:42.680 will be that the aliens built them, or the story is that there was an ancient civilization
00:17:47.460 in America, and we've lost their technology.
00:17:50.280 I don't know if any of that's true, but I like to believe it recreationally.
00:17:55.680 You know what I mean?
00:17:57.300 I'll believe it-ish, because it's fun.
00:18:00.560 I just enjoy it.
00:18:02.520 So when Tucker talks about the aliens, it's either the biggest story in the history of
00:18:08.660 human civilization, or it's just fun to believe it.
00:18:12.880 It's just kind of fun.
00:18:14.400 So I don't care if it's true or not.
00:18:16.160 I don't care if he believes it or not.
00:18:17.780 But it's recreational.
00:18:19.400 Yeah, it's Bigfoot news.
00:18:21.460 And if you could just enjoy it for the fun of it, that's good.
00:18:26.660 Let's just enjoy it for the fun of it.
00:18:28.160 I don't believe there are any aliens.
00:18:31.000 Could be wrong.
00:18:31.940 I hope I'm wrong.
00:18:32.840 That would be the greatest thing ever.
00:18:34.100 I would love to be wrong about that.
00:18:36.680 I mean, I'd really, really love to be wrong about it.
00:18:39.520 Until they all kill us.
00:18:41.640 Well, Mike Pence is in the race, and let me tell you all the interesting parts about that.
00:18:51.640 Okay, there are no interesting parts about that.
00:18:54.100 What he's offering you is, Trump's policy, but without the fun.
00:19:04.100 Trump's policies without the fun.
00:19:06.780 I believe that Mike Pence would be in favor of taking the fun out of the hallucinogenics
00:19:12.320 to help you cure the depression.
00:19:15.700 Yes, I'm going to give you Trump's policies, but with none of the interesting fun parts.
00:19:21.140 We'll just get the job done.
00:19:22.720 You know what I hate about that?
00:19:25.220 The thing I hate about it, it's like a really good proposition.
00:19:30.180 It's a really good offer.
00:19:32.420 It's like a really good offer.
00:19:34.340 Like a really, really, really good offer that nobody's going to take.
00:19:39.860 Poor guy.
00:19:41.360 I have so much respect for Mike Pence, but it just doesn't translate into excitement.
00:19:47.540 He's basically the guy who just makes the right decisions one time after another.
00:19:52.720 And that doesn't get you to the presidency, I don't think.
00:19:57.940 But no, I have immense respect for Mike Pence.
00:20:01.120 I'm sure I don't agree with him on everything, policy-wise.
00:20:04.400 I'm sure we would have some differences.
00:20:06.860 But he's a solid guy.
00:20:08.620 I like that he's in the race.
00:20:09.760 And I will add him to my list of people who would be perfectly acceptable presidents, left and right.
00:20:18.600 We now have the best set of choices I've ever seen for interesting and capable young people.
00:20:25.640 Now, Biden is the only person running that I think is incapable.
00:20:28.760 Everybody else, they've got something to offer.
00:20:34.060 I think Biden's the only problem.
00:20:36.400 All right.
00:20:36.960 Well, we like drama in our politics, so he's just not bringing that.
00:20:40.580 There's a news story that's, I don't know what to think of it yet.
00:20:49.360 So you know that Representative Comer and Senator Chuck Grassley are, after the FBI, saying that the FBI has a document, which apparently they've seen in person.
00:21:02.100 And they would like that document to be, you know, entered into the record and made public, I think, I think made public, so that we can see it.
00:21:12.560 And apparently it's an accusation about Biden taking a bribe.
00:21:18.960 Now, that would be a pretty big accusation.
00:21:22.220 Now, the FBI does not want that available, but they did offer to show it to Comer and Grassley, so they've seen it.
00:21:29.480 So they know it exists, and the FBI says it's part of an ongoing investigation, so they don't want to make it public.
00:21:38.360 Now, here's the thing.
00:21:41.240 I'm not sure I disagree with the FBI on this.
00:21:44.640 What do you think?
00:21:46.120 Because if it is an ongoing investigation, that means they will soon be able to determine if the accusation is valid or not.
00:21:55.300 Right?
00:21:55.480 And wouldn't you rather only see accusations that have at least a little bit of checking out to make sure they're valid?
00:22:03.900 Because otherwise you're just maligning somebody who doesn't have it coming.
00:22:08.600 Right?
00:22:08.900 There must be lots of accusations that don't pan out.
00:22:12.440 So I'm a little bit on the fence on this one.
00:22:14.920 Because in terms of, you know, innocent until proven guilty, keeping this stuff out of the news until you've looked into it makes sense.
00:22:24.520 On the other hand, it also seems like a transparent attempt to keep it out of the news because it would be bad for Biden.
00:22:33.480 But I don't know that that's bad.
00:22:35.680 I don't think you should take out a president on a rumor or an allegation.
00:22:39.060 On the other hand, every rumor and allegation about Trump became known.
00:22:45.200 So at what point do we have a right to know the allegations?
00:22:49.500 You know, you can make an argument that the public has a right to know, especially an allegation of that magnitude.
00:22:56.960 It would be the ultimate allegation.
00:22:58.280 But on the other hand, because we've got two hands, I think you should be innocent until proven guilty.
00:23:06.660 And I don't think every accusation somebody makes should be public.
00:23:11.580 So I don't know where to end up on this.
00:23:13.100 I guess I'd have to see the document, but I don't know that we will.
00:23:17.160 So the government can just keep this from you for whatever reason.
00:23:20.680 Speaking of the FBI, Rasmussen did a poll on the FBI and found out its popularity here.
00:23:31.480 Well, not popularity, but 60% of likely U.S. voters believe it is likely that top officials at the FBI
00:23:37.820 helped cover up wrongdoing by Biden or his family members.
00:23:42.400 60% of the FBI thinks the FBI was in on a plot.
00:23:54.400 60%.
00:23:54.960 Oh, my God.
00:23:56.780 So that would include basically every Republican, but a slice of other people, too, independents and whatnot.
00:24:04.380 That's insane.
00:24:07.580 Insane, but true.
00:24:08.580 Here's a story that didn't get a lot of attention, but apparently it's true.
00:24:15.420 I saw it on Twitter.
00:24:17.020 That American manufacturing is way up.
00:24:21.360 Did you know that?
00:24:23.340 Talk about, like, the best news.
00:24:25.900 So at the same time that China's exports are down, I think, 7.5%, if you can believe any numbers on China.
00:24:33.040 So China's exports are down 7.5%.
00:24:35.480 And American chip-making and basically the activity that predicts manufacturing booming is happening.
00:24:48.840 So all of the investments in plants and manufacturing assets are happening.
00:24:53.440 So at the moment, we're undergoing a manufacturing boom, and it does seem to be related to Biden policies.
00:25:02.480 It does seem to be related to the chips, specifically the CHIPS Act that's trying to bring chips back to America.
00:25:11.300 So I hate to say it, but it looks like the—well, no, I don't hate to say it.
00:25:15.260 That's the wrong thing.
00:25:16.600 It looks like Biden might have a win on this.
00:25:19.520 What do you think?
00:25:20.840 Is this a clean win?
00:25:22.420 Because I think Trump would have done it.
00:25:25.340 To me, it looked like a policy that probably just made sense.
00:25:28.560 We had to repatriate some of those industries. 1.00
00:25:31.220 No, you're not willing to give him credit for that?
00:25:36.300 Yeah, I don't think it's a clean bill.
00:25:38.840 None of them are.
00:25:39.820 There's always something in it you don't like.
00:25:41.860 But if it gets the job done, you're not going to give him credit.
00:25:45.140 If it actually brings chip manufacturing back onto our shore, you're not going to say that's a clean win.
00:25:52.960 You're going to be tough grading on this, aren't you?
00:25:55.180 All right.
00:25:56.740 All right.
00:25:58.560 By the way, the reason you watch me is that I don't just take one side all the time.
00:26:04.900 That's the point of what I do.
00:26:08.400 It would be useless if I did.
00:26:10.920 All right.
00:26:11.700 So keep an eye on that.
00:26:12.840 Apple's new iOS has some new features.
00:26:19.260 And one of them is it will block you.
00:26:23.340 It'll block a naughty nude picture that's unsolicited.
00:26:28.280 So if somebody sends you a picture, it'll block it until you choose to see it, I guess.
00:26:32.300 So I'm wondering if this is the end of smartphones.
00:26:41.260 I have this weird theory that 20% of all electronic traffic is dick pics.
00:26:50.800 What happens if Apple gets rid of dick pics?
00:26:54.880 I mean, the total Internet traffic is just going to fall through the floor.
00:27:00.540 So you got that.
00:27:02.300 And apparently they've changed it so that the autocorrect will no longer change the F word to the word duck.
00:27:10.520 So the number of times I have typed this ducking thing or that ducking thing,
00:27:18.620 except I didn't say ducking, and it changed it to ducking.
00:27:22.320 Oh, my God.
00:27:23.800 It was one of the things I've hated the most about my phone.
00:27:26.560 And the reason I hated it is not because it's an error or a bad user interface.
00:27:32.800 I hated it because it felt like it was censoring me.
00:27:38.420 Do you know what I mean?
00:27:39.500 Did you have that feeling?
00:27:40.640 It felt personal.
00:27:42.000 It didn't feel like a mistake.
00:27:43.860 It felt like it was, yeah, scolding.
00:27:45.960 Exactly.
00:27:46.540 It felt like somebody was telling me what I can and cannot say in my private conversations.
00:27:50.960 And it really was offensive to me.
00:27:54.560 That's the only autocorrect that I found offensive.
00:27:57.900 Everything else was okay.
00:27:59.920 But they changed it.
00:28:01.420 So that's cool.
00:28:02.660 I should tell you that I sold all my Apple stock because I don't know if they have an answer to AI yet.
00:28:11.500 And I don't think the glasses thing is going to be big.
00:28:18.500 What do you think?
00:28:20.980 What's your guess on the, what do you call it, the mixed reality headsets?
00:28:24.680 I say it's not going to be big.
00:28:26.460 I think it's going to be Apple Watch-like, you know, sort of a, maybe gamers will like it.
00:28:33.820 Maybe it's a party trick.
00:28:36.160 I just don't see everybody in the family getting one.
00:28:39.760 Certainly not at $3,000 or $3,500 or whatever.
00:28:43.740 Yeah, I don't see it happening.
00:28:46.020 So you could, I knew that at some point we would see the loss of Steve Jobs.
00:28:53.840 But apparently it's taken a while.
00:28:55.460 And I feel like this is the one.
00:28:57.920 This is the one that stands out as something that I think Steve Jobs would not have done.
00:29:02.920 What do you think?
00:29:04.520 Do you think Steve Jobs would have introduced this headset?
00:29:11.520 He did the Lisa.
00:29:13.040 There was always that.
00:29:14.520 Yeah.
00:29:15.140 You think so?
00:29:15.920 Maybe.
00:29:16.880 It's possible because they were running out of ideas.
00:29:19.320 But I don't know.
00:29:21.300 I think if I were Jobs, here's what I would have done.
00:29:24.220 I would have introduced it as an alternative to in-person school.
00:29:30.680 This is what I would have done.
00:29:32.080 I would have introduced it as an education tool and training tool only.
00:29:37.000 And I would have limited it to that.
00:29:38.680 And then every expert in the world would say, whoa, that's the best thing anybody ever did for education.
00:29:46.000 Right?
00:29:46.760 They would have said it was the best thing that ever happened in education.
00:29:50.340 Because you could watch your shows and watch, you could homeschool, you could learn training, you could move objects around.
00:29:58.180 But by making it the everything thing that everybody might want, but for a whole bunch of different disparate reasons, I think the marketing just fell apart.
00:30:09.000 Because I don't know why I want one.
00:30:11.440 I want one for miscellaneous and various reasons.
00:30:14.240 I'll tell you what doesn't get me excited.
00:30:18.960 Miscellaneous and various anything.
00:30:21.500 Right?
00:30:21.960 Well, I don't even think it's good for porn.
00:30:24.160 I mean, I don't know, but I would imagine it doesn't really add much for porn.
00:30:29.000 Maybe it's okay for gamers.
00:30:30.860 Maybe it gives you a headache.
00:30:32.420 I don't know.
00:30:33.280 I don't know if it works with my glasses on.
00:30:35.860 Who knows?
00:30:36.360 But I think Steve Jobs would have said, we've developed the greatest product ever for homeschooling and for corporate training and everything else.
00:30:51.640 And then build it from there.
00:30:53.560 Then it would look like the biggest hit of all time.
00:30:56.160 Because he would just own that category.
00:30:58.400 And then it would grow from there.
00:30:59.760 That's the way I would have done it.
00:31:00.840 If I were alive and Steve Jobs.
00:31:04.180 All right.
00:31:06.360 What else is going on?
00:31:10.660 Not a lot.
00:31:14.300 Looks like that was about all that's going on.
00:31:16.580 Is there anything else happening that I've missed?
00:31:20.560 Aliens.
00:31:22.240 Well, how many of you believe that the aliens are not only visiting Earth, but the government has their ships and their dead bodies?
00:31:30.880 How many believe that's true?
00:31:33.620 Go.
00:31:34.280 I won't mock you.
00:31:35.140 I will not mock you.
00:31:37.500 You can admit.
00:31:40.520 I see almost nobody.
00:31:43.040 All right.
00:31:43.380 It looks like 10% yeses and the rest are no.
00:31:45.960 Is that because I talked to you out of it?
00:31:47.840 I feel like I may have embarrassed you out of that belief.
00:31:51.660 All right.
00:31:53.300 All right.
00:31:55.080 It's all no's. 0.98
00:31:55.920 Okay.
00:31:57.040 Well, I was not expecting that.
00:31:58.560 I actually thought it would be close to half yes.
00:32:00.880 But it looks like it's almost all no's. 0.99
00:32:04.080 We do have yeses, but it's at least 80% no's, it looks like.
00:32:09.780 All right.
00:32:10.340 Now, you know, I'm just going to jump around a few things.
00:32:18.780 As I'm watching RFK Jr. navigate all the podcasts.
00:32:23.660 The one thing that I feel deeply bad for him about is that he gets asked the same questions.
00:32:31.880 And he has to give the same long explanations, which are excellent, by the way.
00:32:37.900 If you haven't heard his long explanations of how we got where we are with Big Pharma, it's riveting.
00:32:44.520 Like, it's really tight and complete and a good story.
00:32:48.960 But I think he ends up telling that story on every podcast.
00:32:52.600 So he's probably doing it three times a day.
00:32:54.820 Do you know how tired you get of telling your own story three times a day?
00:32:58.320 I'll tell you, when I do a book tour, which, by the way, I'll be doing some kind of a podcast book tour over the summer,
00:33:09.160 which we're there, so it's only maybe a month or two.
00:33:12.340 So we'll see.
00:33:14.380 But I'm going to be really tired of talking about myself after the first, you know, ten podcasts.
00:33:23.320 The question...
00:33:27.320 Cornell West entered the presidential race.
00:33:30.340 Is it official?
00:33:33.320 Cornell West is in?
00:33:34.900 All right.
00:33:35.400 It's official.
00:33:36.660 I'm guessing he's running as a Democrat.
00:33:42.740 He's in.
00:33:43.500 All right.
00:33:44.840 And Chris Christie is in, too, right?
00:33:46.760 You know, I'm just waiting for Trump to be asked about Chris Christie's possibilities.
00:33:58.640 I feel like he's going to say fat chance.
00:34:02.360 I just feel like that's coming.
00:34:04.920 What do you think about Chris Christie becoming president?
00:34:08.660 Fat chance.
00:34:10.420 That seems like a typical Trump.
00:34:12.020 All right.
00:34:18.040 Now, I did look into the...
00:34:19.600 Remember you asked me about RFK Jr. wanting to, quote,
00:34:24.600 execute people who were opposed to climate change.
00:34:27.360 How many of you thought he was referring to just ordinary people who were opposed to climate change
00:34:33.540 and that he wanted them jailed or executed?
00:34:37.520 Okay.
00:34:38.680 I've confirmed that was never the case.
00:34:41.300 Never said anything like that.
00:34:43.120 He was talking about people who were polluting in a way that was killing people
00:34:47.840 while lying about, while creating disinformation so that they could get away with what they were doing.
00:34:55.680 So he was talking about way over-the-top corporate behavior that killed people.
00:35:02.560 Corporate behavior in which people lied intentionally to do dangerous things that actually killed people or damaged them.
00:35:10.640 Now, in that case, if you say somebody should be killed or executed or go to jail
00:35:15.960 because they intentionally did something that killed people, like lots of people,
00:35:21.080 not even just one person, lots of people.
00:35:23.520 If it's intentional and it killed lots of people, it's not crazy to call for their execution.
00:35:32.180 That's not crazy.
00:35:34.280 Mass murderers are typically executed.
00:35:36.820 It's the same reason I'm calling for the execution of cartels.
00:35:41.260 And anybody we can get in China who's involved, we should kill them all. 1.00
00:35:45.480 Because they're mass murderers.
00:35:48.060 Mass murderers you have to kill.
00:35:50.200 That's not negotiable.
00:35:52.020 Or at least put them away forever.
00:35:53.980 But you can't get away with mass murder.
00:35:57.000 Nobody can get away with that.
00:35:58.500 I mean, if you can catch them, you've got to treat them in the harshest possible way,
00:36:02.860 and there's no way around that.
00:36:04.000 That's not negotiable.
00:36:07.120 All right.
00:36:10.640 I sterilize them.
00:36:13.580 You know, I do have this idea about crime.
00:36:17.560 I would agree with the Democrats halfway about crime,
00:36:24.240 which is too many people are being picked up by police and put in jail for too many things.
00:36:29.200 There's something that has to stop that.
00:36:33.540 But we didn't have a plan.
00:36:35.540 Getting rid of police was exactly the wrong thing, because then just people stole more stuff.
00:36:39.860 So I have a plan for decreasing crime without police.
00:36:46.780 You ready for it?
00:36:48.380 Because I think technology can get us there.
00:36:50.680 Instead of taking somebody's freedom away, let's say they shoplifted.
00:36:55.900 And you don't really want to put them in jail, because that's just going to cause some cascade of problems later.
00:37:02.260 So what do you do?
00:37:04.420 You can't let them steal.
00:37:06.760 And at the same time, if you don't want to put them in jail, they're just going to steal some more.
00:37:10.820 So I would suggest that there might be a middle ground here in which you take away their privacy.
00:37:19.800 So let me say this another way.
00:37:21.560 If you're going to let a criminal in a jail, you fucking owe me that information, my government.
00:37:29.960 If you're letting somebody who did, let's say, a violent crime, and you let them out of jail,
00:37:35.660 and then they walk into my store, you fucking owe me the information that that guy that you let out of jail 0.91
00:37:43.420 just walked into my fucking store. 0.98
00:37:47.260 His privacy, he lost that.
00:37:51.400 You lost your privacy when you were dangerous.
00:37:54.080 As soon as you're dangerous, you don't get privacy.
00:37:57.160 Because I have a right to protect myself, and I have a right to that information.
00:38:01.420 I have a right to his private information.
00:38:03.460 And maybe not a legal right, but a, let's say, a moral and ethical right.
00:38:11.240 If a criminal is let out of jail because our justice system doesn't want to keep him in there,
00:38:17.780 but he's legitimately a risk, either for shoplifting or physical risk,
00:38:23.300 I need to know where that fucker is all the time. 0.99
00:38:28.640 Because I want to stay away from him.
00:38:30.240 I want to watch him if they come in my store.
00:38:34.820 I don't know what I can do about it in these days.
00:38:37.120 But I certainly want to keep an eye on them.
00:38:39.480 Take a picture, at least.
00:38:41.820 If they're dangerous, I want to know to get away.
00:38:45.460 I want to know who to stay away from and who not to.
00:38:48.820 Right?
00:38:48.980 So, I believe we have the technology to take somebody's privacy away.
00:38:57.960 Put an ankle bracelet on.
00:39:01.920 If they take it off, put them in jail.
00:39:04.940 But I would just keep the ankle bracelet on there forever, as long as they keep doing crimes.
00:39:10.400 Oh, you did another crime?
00:39:11.720 Well, that's another year of ankle bracelet.
00:39:13.600 So, imagine the criminal walking down the sidewalk, and the people with their smartphones all get an alert,
00:39:22.260 and so they just give them room.
00:39:24.000 Or how about you know that there's a dangerous person somewhere,
00:39:27.640 and so you keep an eye on them in case you need to help somebody out.
00:39:31.460 Let's say you're on the subway, and a person with a violent criminal record gets on.
00:39:36.460 Well, you would know to put them in a headlock.
00:39:38.300 Okay, that's too far.
00:39:42.480 But you get my point, right?
00:39:45.160 If you're going to let them out, you owe the rest of us that information.
00:39:50.600 Not legally, not constitutionally, but you fucking owe us.
00:39:55.300 Anybody disagree?
00:39:56.720 Does anybody disagree with that?
00:39:58.460 That they owe us that information?
00:40:00.560 If they're going to let criminals out in jail, you better tell us.
00:40:03.540 All right, yeah, and I'm pretty adamant about that.
00:40:10.100 Now, I don't mean necessarily a first offender, right?
00:40:13.860 I don't think a first offender for, let's say, shoplifting or something,
00:40:18.220 I don't think a first offender needs to have, like, a privacy, you know, bracelet on their ankle.
00:40:24.240 But if you're one of these rested 42 times a year people,
00:40:28.880 yeah, you need a bracelet on your ankle so I can stay the hell away from you. 0.79
00:40:33.540 All right, it'll become a fashion accessory.
00:40:41.080 I'm all about that.
00:40:44.420 All right, yeah, it'd be sort of a scarlet letter, but it would be temporary.
00:40:48.680 I mean, it would have to have some kind of time out.
00:40:50.960 You couldn't put it on there forever.
00:40:54.880 All right, make them glow.
00:40:59.260 Tattoos.
00:40:59.660 Tattoos.
00:41:03.540 All right, yeah, CNN fired Chris Licht.
00:41:07.860 Light, we talked about that already.
00:41:15.760 Girls would use it as a dating app. 1.00
00:41:17.620 Oh, you were so cynical.
00:41:20.140 But women do seem to like men who are murderers and in prison for life, so it's a thing. 1.00
00:41:25.220 That was done to you in high school for smoking weed?
00:41:32.680 You were just made public?
00:41:37.480 Oh, yeah, that probably is what works, yeah.
00:41:40.920 So if somebody gets picked up, then the parents don't let them come over for the sleepovers after that.
00:41:45.660 Oh, yeah, maybe that Apple mixed reality headset can help you see criminals.
00:41:58.280 Oh, my God, it would actually do that.
00:42:00.180 Because all it needs is facial recognition.
00:42:03.120 If the criminals are in kind of some system where their faces are known,
00:42:07.760 then the Apple mixed reality could actually light people up in a crowd to tell you who the criminals were.
00:42:13.440 I wonder if it could also tell you who's single.
00:42:19.720 Imagine going to an event, go to a bar or something,
00:42:23.240 and you put it on, and it just uses facial recognition to tell you who's single,
00:42:27.720 based on their social media.
00:42:30.620 You can get pretty close to it.
00:42:32.400 Of course, whether they wear a ring or not would tell you that as well.
00:42:39.820 All right.
00:42:43.440 Anything else that's happening?
00:42:45.760 Could show you a canceled cartoonist?
00:42:47.720 Yeah, so people could stay away from me.
00:42:50.800 I guess it works both ways.
00:42:53.220 People want to stay away from me.
00:42:56.280 Oh, the SPLC has labeled the Moms for Liberty as a hate group. 1.00
00:43:01.520 I don't know enough about the Moms for Liberty to have an opinion on that, 1.00
00:43:04.780 but I have an opinion on the SPLC, which is, I don't think they're a credible organization.
00:43:11.020 I'm sorry, the SPLC.
00:43:12.420 The Southern Poverty Law Center.
00:43:14.420 They label people as hate groups.
00:43:18.680 If you get labeled by them, you're in bad shape.
00:43:21.960 Yeah, and they do seem to be a force for evil.
00:43:27.600 That does seem to be the case at the SPLC.
00:43:31.760 All right.
00:43:32.780 No Dilbert t-shirts.
00:43:34.040 I'm not really that much into merchandise.
00:43:40.340 FTX.
00:43:41.240 Yeah.
00:43:41.560 Yeah.
00:43:41.640 DeSantis, the kidnapping.
00:43:51.360 What about Tate?
00:43:58.440 Yeah, we don't want to cut off the hands of the thieves.
00:44:00.920 Probably don't want to do that.
00:44:06.200 What's my handle on Twitter?
00:44:07.900 It's at Scott Adams Says.
00:44:12.440 By the way, I'm very proud of that Twitter handle.
00:44:17.100 Because when I went to sign up for Twitter, of course, my own name was taken, etc.
00:44:22.080 So I had to figure out some variant.
00:44:24.580 And I thought, well, if I'm on here just saying stuff, I'll just put my name and then says.
00:44:31.460 And it turns out that really worked.
00:44:33.320 Because when people quote me, they quote my Twitter handle as part of the sentence.
00:44:38.160 And as Scott Adams says, and then they say whatever I tweeted.
00:44:45.020 And I've seen some people copy that, the says part.
00:44:48.880 Because there aren't that many things you can do after all the good stuff is taken.
00:45:00.340 What about the PGA?
00:45:01.800 I don't know if I had that.
00:45:02.820 I don't know.
00:45:03.200 The golf news was not interesting to me.
00:45:05.500 You added doctor to yours.
00:45:12.480 All right.
00:45:13.180 Matt Walsh.
00:45:14.420 Somebody said that Matt Walsh's video, what is a woman, got 180 million impressions, probably.
00:45:21.480 I didn't say that Apple doesn't have AI.
00:45:31.560 I said that they're behind.
00:45:33.880 Meaning that their S-I-R-I is, it feels like something from the 90s.
00:45:41.420 And they have not announced anything that looks interesting to me there yet.
00:45:44.860 Aliens have a different frequency from us, okay?
00:46:01.900 All right.
00:46:05.260 You work with somebody with my name?
00:46:08.120 Oh, I'm sorry.
00:46:08.780 You know, I used to use a Google alert to look for stories about myself, in case anything was important.
00:46:17.640 And, of course, there are too many people named Scott Adams, so it kicks up lots of stories about other people.
00:46:23.300 And I always look, I'm hoping that nobody with my name ruins, ruined my reputation.
00:46:28.900 Like, I would have hated it if there had been a Scott Adams who became like a serial killer, or did some heinous crime.
00:46:35.260 And then it turns out I was the one who ruined everyone.
00:46:37.840 I ruined the name for all the other people.
00:46:43.600 It turns out having my name is a really bad deal.
00:46:50.980 I think it's hilarious that I'm the one who ruined the name.
00:46:56.800 Disgraced cartoonist.
00:47:00.820 All right.
00:47:01.240 You and Trump ruin everything.
00:47:08.580 We do.
00:47:09.800 I'm the destroyer of worlds.
00:47:18.240 Can't believe you would trust the government with people's privacy.
00:47:23.820 I don't think that happened.
00:47:25.760 Did that happen?
00:47:27.680 I'm not sure.
00:47:28.580 I saw anything like that happening.
00:47:32.620 All right.
00:47:35.500 Was Mark Twain canceled?
00:47:37.980 Did that ever happen?
00:47:40.480 Somebody said Mark Twain got canceled.
00:47:42.820 I don't remember Mark Twain.
00:47:44.420 He did?
00:47:46.460 Oh, for the N-word.
00:47:47.540 But not during his life.
00:47:49.220 During his life, he was never canceled, right?
00:47:50.980 Or was he?
00:47:55.000 I don't know.
00:47:56.620 Have I ever met another Scott Adams?
00:47:58.320 I have, yes.
00:48:00.200 I've met black Scott Adams, too.
00:48:02.680 Black Scott Adams lives near me.
00:48:06.580 He's got a lot of explaining.
00:48:09.040 How would you like to be black Scott Adams now?
00:48:12.180 He lives somewhere in my area.
00:48:14.580 I've met him.
00:48:19.740 That's a time.
00:48:21.240 I feel so bad for him.
00:48:27.680 Well, I was, but then I wasn't.
00:48:30.420 Maybe I'll go back.
00:48:34.040 Did my ancestors own slaves?
00:48:36.340 I don't think my ancestors owned anything.
00:48:39.100 I don't think they owned slaves.
00:48:40.360 I once did a, what do you call it, the ancestor check, when you check your ancestry, and actually
00:48:48.980 found a will for one of the Adams' ancestors.
00:48:54.600 And you look at the will, you know, the items that are being left to the next generation,
00:48:59.880 and it is so revealing.
00:49:02.760 So here were the items left in one of my ancestors' will.
00:49:06.240 My good copper pot, that stick that I used to stir stuff, and a handkerchief.
00:49:23.340 No, I just made that up.
00:49:25.560 But some of them were just cooking tools.
00:49:29.120 That was it.
00:49:29.560 That was the entirety of what my ancestor owned, was just some items that you could hold in
00:49:36.520 your hands.
00:49:36.960 That's it.
00:49:37.540 That's all he owned.
00:49:38.840 No property, no slaves, no nothing.
00:49:43.440 And so, but apparently, starting with that nothing, thanks to slavery, I've prospered on the backs
00:49:49.840 of other Americans, apparently.
00:49:52.200 Well, you'd be only endorsed to migrants.
00:49:59.020 I thought about it.
00:50:02.040 I know that surprises you, but I actually thought about it.
00:50:05.580 I'm still thinking about it.
00:50:08.200 I wouldn't mind taking a family from Mexico. 1.00
00:50:12.160 It wouldn't be terrible.
00:50:13.260 I mean, if you have room, yeah.
00:50:20.400 Now, I wouldn't take, you know, I wouldn't take some unattended males, but if, you know,
00:50:27.000 if it was a family of four, with a real mom and dad and two real kids, maybe.
00:50:33.580 Yeah, if it's for a month or something, sure.
00:50:36.220 I could see it.
00:50:39.280 It's not out of the question.
00:50:41.100 I think it's unlikely.
00:50:42.080 It's unlikely, but it's not out of the question.
00:50:45.540 For how long?
00:50:46.320 I don't know.
00:50:47.240 Month.
00:50:48.760 Whatever it takes.
00:50:51.960 Am I related to John Adams?
00:50:53.860 I'm not a descendant of, but probably cousins.
00:51:04.760 Yeah, I probably won't do it.
00:51:08.480 But I don't rule it out.
00:51:09.800 You know, they are human beings, after all.
00:51:13.860 All right.
00:51:15.260 Would you put them to work?
00:51:17.160 That's an interesting question.
00:51:18.560 Would I put them to work?
00:51:20.280 They would probably want to.
00:51:22.380 They would probably volunteer.
00:51:24.140 So the thing you don't understand about that culture, if you're not sort of deeply in it,
00:51:30.260 is that they're helpful by nature.
00:51:32.560 I mean, they would offer to help.
00:51:35.620 That would be automatic.
00:51:38.320 Now, that's the south of the border culture.
00:51:40.660 There's a lot of people coming in from other cultures who are just using that passing point.
00:51:45.180 And that would be different.
00:51:46.400 But if you told me it would be an actual born in Central America or Mexico,
00:51:50.700 and it was a family,
00:51:53.100 I would have all positive feelings about that.
00:51:57.120 Except for the fact that, you know, some laws are broken.
00:52:02.660 Yeah.
00:52:03.180 These are all just generalizations.
00:52:04.720 You are correct.
00:52:05.620 Big old generalizations.
00:52:07.560 All right.
00:52:07.900 That's all I got for today, YouTube.
00:52:10.540 I'm going to say bye until tomorrow.
00:52:11.820 And let's see if we find those aliens between now and then.
00:52:17.460 Yay, aliens.
00:52:18.480 Let's find them.