Episode 2173 Scott Adams： All The News Is Absurd Or Fake But The Coffee Is Delicious. Join Us
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1 hour and 3 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, we talk about dumbing down in America, and why it might be because we re getting dumber than we used to be, and how it could be caused by immigrants from other countries.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
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And you could not be luckier, because today the news is more silly than serious.
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I don't think there have been any major catastrophes in the last minute or so, so I think we're looking good.
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It's all the funny kind of fake summer news, the kind that you can just go, ah, don't take it too seriously.
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But if you'd like to get in the right mood for this live stream, the best thing you'll ever see in your life,
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all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
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Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine.
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At the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better.
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It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now.
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You're getting your summer on here in this part of the world?
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It was reporting that IQ scores in the U.S. have fallen for the first time in decades.
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IQ scores have fallen for the first time in decades in America.
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Maybe this explains why we can't build pyramids anymore.
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Ever wonder how, if you go back thousands of years, people knew how to move gigantic rocks
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But maybe we've been getting dumber for thousands of years straight.
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It might be an unbroken line from, you know, I can imagine, can you imagine going back
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in time and finding out that all the ancient Egyptians were, like, brilliant?
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You stop any ancient Egyptian on the street and they all know algebra and calculus and
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But I'm just looking at all the hypotheses for why the IQ could be going down.
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This might be the first time you're even exposed to this concept.
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But have you heard, and I swear this is true, I am not making this up.
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Sometimes the studies that appear in the news, sometimes, and when I say sometimes, I mean
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most of the time, are actually complete baloney.
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So I would say at the top of your list would be the data is bad.
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I didn't read the story because I didn't need to.
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The great thing about summer is you never need to read the story.
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Just read the headline, have fun with it, because the story is all made up, right?
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All the stories in the summer are just made up bullshit.
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Do you think that they measured year after year the same people?
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Do you think that there was somebody in, you know, sixth grade who used to be smart, but
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I mean, I don't think that's a thing, but maybe, I don't know, maybe.
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Or, or is it possible that a massive influx of people who don't speak the language natively,
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but yet take all the same tests as everybody else because they sit in the same classes and
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Is it possible that people taking IQ tests who don't speak English don't do as well?
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Now, I'm not saying that's a whole explanation, but it can't help.
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How about the simple fact that there's a greater number of walking immigrants than flying immigrants?
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I'm going to say this as many times as it takes until somebody else starts saying it, because
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Forget about ethnicity, because I know you're going to want to go there, but I don't go there
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If all you did is compare a bunch of people who flew to a bunch of people who couldn't
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afford to fly, but they could walk, which group would have a higher IQ?
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I mean, it's possible it could go the other way.
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I suppose it would depend, you know, who's walking from where.
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But generally speaking, the people who can afford a plane ticket are coming from, you know,
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two professionals who grew up in India, you know, one's a doctor, one's a lawyer in India,
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and their kid did well in the, you know, one of the university systems and sent them
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That's not really going to be the same thing as somebody who was a, you know, just woke
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up one day starving and wanted to walk north and make some money.
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So, yeah, and again, you could take all ethnicity out of it.
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You compare any group of people who can afford a plane ticket to any group who can't,
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Now, there would be, you know, pockets where that's not true, I'm sure, but generally speaking.
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So, there are probably so many reasons for it, plus the pandemic, plus the teachers' union,
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Teachers' union is worthless, plus everything else.
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By the way, I saw yet another, some expert on Instagram, saying that motion seems to be
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People who move a lot, in other words, don't sit in a chair all day, if you move a lot, you're
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almost certainly healthier than people who don't move.
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I think that moving thing is going to be the biggest, the biggest thing we're talking about
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Within five years, movement will be the number one topic, because it'll just be so obvious
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that the non-moving people are the ones who are using up all the health care money.
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If you could just get the chair people moving, you'd save money on health care.
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You would, your health care, your health care costs would go down if you could get other
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So, there was an article in The Atlantic that black Americans aren't sleeping as well as whites.
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Black people in America are not sleeping as well as whites.
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As Elon Musk tweeted, or replied to the tweet about this, that black Americans aren't sleeping
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as well as whites, according to The Atlantic, he said, completely indistinguishable from the
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And the funny thing is, it is actually literally indistinguishable.
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You could move this directly to the Babylon Bee without any change.
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You know, usually that would be an exaggeration.
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I'm kind of done talking about groups of people.
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Talking about groups of people is for assholes.
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If you think that the right way to think of anything is to group people up by some immutable
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characteristic, well, it's just sort of an asshole thing to do.
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But if you want to talk about individuals, I'm all on board.
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If there's an individual who's got a tough time, I'd like to see if I can help.
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Groups are just something that troublemakers and assholes talk about.
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The rest of us, we should ignore that kind of person.
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Stay away from people who group people that way.
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Do you notice that I'm not going to spend even one minute talking about the content of
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Would there be any reason whatsoever to talk about the content of the story?
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The correct response is to mock it and move on.
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I'm going to start a sentence and then you're going to draw on your knowledge of all things
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in the news to fill in the end of the sentence, right?
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The experience of the Amish population in America during the COVID was that compared to the rest
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I'll say it again while you're filling in the end.
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The Amish people in America, compared to the normal American situation, they fared.
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Better, better, better, better, better, better, better, better, better, better, better, better,
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Same, same, better, better, same or unknowable.
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Are you getting a little less confident as I read your messages?
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Oh, confidence seems to have waned a little bit.
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Are you expecting I'm going to do that thing where I tell you that everything you've believed
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Is anybody having a moment where you're saying, oh, shit, I was positive of my answer?
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All right, here's the second question, follow-up question, follow-up question.
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Have you ever Googled to search what the researchers in the news say was the outcome of the Amish
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Had a lot of sickness and a lot of death because they didn't take the vaccination.
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Are you accusing me of believing the news right now?
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In your minds, you're accusing me of believing the news.
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All right, don't accuse me of believing the news.
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If you Google it, the news will tell you that they did worse than the average.
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Do you believe that the Amish did worse than the average because they were under-vaccinated?
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I think it's possible they did better, and I think it's possible they did worse.
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I would say that the credibility of the information, whichever way it's pointing, is zero.
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It probably is either yes, no, or about the same.
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We're in a world and an environment in which you could never, ever, ever trust any data on that question.
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Because, you know, the answer to that question is the answer to everything.
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If the Amish actually didn't have problems with COVID, everything the public has been told is false.
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And while that might not pass scientific, you know, scrutiny, what I just said, that's what you think.
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Wouldn't you agree with the statement that if the Amish, it's a big enough public, and they also are not all in one place?
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So if you found out that no matter where the Amish were, no matter where they were in the country,
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that their group did better than everybody else because they were unvaccinated,
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Now, it could be because they had other things going on.
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Maybe they have, you know, maybe they have a cleaner diet.
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Maybe they spend more time outside and get more vitamin D.
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So there could be other reasons that, you know, they would have a different outcome than the public.
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But wouldn't you agree that if Big Pharma ever learned that the unvaccinated...
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I don't know which ones get which, but they do get some.
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So don't you think Big Pharma would have to stop any information that said that the Amish didn't have a problem during COVID?
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One is that they had a worse outcome than the vaccinated.
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One possibility is that they did worse because they weren't vaccinated.
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If it were true that they did worse, that's what the news is reporting.
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The other possibility is that they did better than everybody.
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Do you think that the pharma entities would ever allow that to be news that you could see without it being squashed immediately?
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Because, you know, I imagine it may have been published somewhere and then immediately taken down.
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So this is an unknowable question because there are only two possibilities.
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Either the data agrees with big pharma, the vaccinations, you know, would have helped the, or there's no way you'll ever see it.
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Either the data coincidentally or not coincidentally agrees with big pharma or you're not going to know.
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That's a simple statement of who is the biggest funder of mainstream news.
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Follow the money tells you you could never know if the Amish did well or if they did poorly.
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So, yeah, the third possibility is there's no difference.
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But the no difference would indicate they should not have been vaccinated because the vaccination brings with it its own risk, of course.
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Let's talk about RFK Jr. and how he's being destroyed by mostly the left.
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So here's something that Michael Shermer tweeted today.
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He says, even if RFK Jr. is not an anti-Semite, it is good to remember what he believes.
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And then he lists the things that, in Michael Shermer's opinion, Kennedy believes.
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Now, before I read them and bias you, let me tell you, I don't think any of these are true.
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But basically, somebody else's description of what RFK Jr. believes should be considered zero useful.
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Apparently, nobody seems to be able to tell you what he believes with any accuracy, right?
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So here are the things that Michael Shermer believes, that Kennedy believes, right?
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That radiation from wireless internet causes cancer.
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That chemicals in water are producing gender dysphoria.
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George W. Bush stole the 2004 presidential election.
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Your phone's 5G connection is part of a plot to, quote,
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How many of those do you think are accurate restatements of Kennedy's opinion?
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Seriously, you think those are his actual opinions?
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Now, the CIA opinion, I'm pretty sure that's accurate in terms of his opinion.
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But don't you think that this other stuff is just stuff he worries that the correlation is high?
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Do you think that he said radiation from wireless internet does cause cancer and that we're all in trouble?
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Or did he say there are some studies that indicate it and we should really be looking at this more carefully?
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Do you think he believes science sufficiently that he took some scientific studies and said,
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oh, yeah, here's the answer, this wireless internet's causing cancer?
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I suspect he thinks that the science points that way.
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Or there's a study and it doesn't point that way.
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Or there are multiple studies and they disagree.
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All right, so anything I'm wrong on, if you can't produce a quote from him,
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in order to say that I'm wrong about any of his opinions, you have to produce a quote.
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Put in quotes the actual sentences that you think would support this opinion of his opinions.
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Do you think he says that chemicals in water are producing gender dysphoria?
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I believe that the answer to that is just unambiguously no.
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He does not believe that that's a proven thing.
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He believes that there's something in the water that's changed frogs.
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And he believes it would be silly not to look at it as an obvious thing to look at
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to see if it's affecting our gender or anything.
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Just to imagine that he has, like, a certainty about any of these things is crazy.
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Now, he believes the CIA killed his father and uncle.
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He wrote, didn't he write an extensive book with all of his evidence for that?
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I mean, was there some part of the evidence that wasn't true?
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I know that antidepressants are causing shootings.
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I think he said that there's a strong correlation between, you know, violent tendencies.
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I believe it even says so on the bottle of the prescription, doesn't it?
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But I believe the known side effects include what he said, that it could make you violent.
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So, do you think he said, oh yeah, that's the answer?
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I don't have to do any research to know he didn't say that.
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What if I told you about news about public figures in the summer?
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It's about a public figure, and it's the summer.
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I don't know how many more times I could tell you.
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If it's about RFK Jr., and it's the summer, it's bullshit.
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No, they didn't do that thing you said they did.
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All right, but here's the thing that I must condemn Michael Shermer for.
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You have to suck really badly to write that sentence.
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This is below, to say this in person, like actually out loud in public, even if, even if, fuck you.
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who's willing to say, even once in any way, anything slightly anti-Semitic has ever come out of his mouth or his actions, ever.
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And you could tweet this, even if he's not anti-Semite?
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Does anybody actually believe he's an anti-Semite?
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Do you think that any of the people accusing him of it actually believe it?
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I believe this is recreational belief and team play and politics.
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I don't believe there's a single public figure who, if you got them privately, privately, and, you know, they would never be quoted, say, all right, privately.
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Privately, do you actually think that what he was saying was what you think he said?
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And more importantly, do you think he has an anti-Semitic bone in his body?
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Do you think anybody privately would say, yeah, I think he might be?
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Do you know how many people privately think I'm a racist, even though I'm a famous canceled racist?
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Not a single person who knows me personally even thinks there would be anything to it at all.
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That literally nobody in your life, nobody, even thinks it's slightly possible.
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condemn my brother's deplorable and untruthful remarks last week about COVID being engineered for ethnic targeting.
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I'm going to go easy on her because she is a sister.
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But there's something very much missing from her remarks.
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The part where she says, my brother is not anti-Semitic, but I condemn his comments because they sounded bad the way he said them.
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And if you're going to come out against your own brother in public, you better bring the goods.
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Here's my proof or my opinion that's different.
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I think this general statement about strongly condemning him is really fucked up.
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This is like the worst family thing you'll ever see.
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But if you're going to get in it, you better bring the goods.
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You better bring the goods if you're going to get into the fight.
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And then I think it might have been, was it Kerry Kennedy's son?
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Also without any quote that they're disagreeing with.
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By the way, I don't agree with some substantial part of what RFK Jr. thinks might be true.
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I think it's unlikely that everything he thinks might be true would pan out to be true.
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You know, I'm looking out for the world, which he is looking out for the world.
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And I have concern that I think you guys are in trouble.
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Do we need less of patriots warning the flag that they see a problem for the rest of us?
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Is Kennedy saying, hey, there's a problem for me personally.
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I've got a personal problem with some pollution.
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You know, obviously anybody gets some benefit personally if they've saved the world.
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So it's not, you know, nobody's operating without any sense of self.
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But he is very clearly externally oriented toward trying to make the world a better place.
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Anybody who says that many things about that many things is going to have a few misfires.
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But man, I hope that the way people are treating them is purely political.
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I hope they don't actually hold these opinions.
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Well, news says that John Kerry, who is President Biden's climate envoy,
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is using the fact that China is having a big heat wave right now to press his point about climate change.
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He says, you and I know things are happening and know things are changing, he told the Premier, Li Kuang.
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Don't you wonder what Chinese scientists think privately about climate change?
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Or do they think it's just as real as other scientists believe it is?
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I would think there would be plenty of Chinese scientists who are part of the climate conversation.
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But I do wonder if they laugh when he says it's hot outside, so we've got to do something about the climate.
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Have you noticed that everybody in the climate conversation does that same thing?
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If somebody who's on the other side of the conversation says, oh, it's hot or cold today, and that's proof of my opinion,
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the first thing you say is, you idiot, that's the weather.
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But then 10 minutes later, you'll say, you know, it's really hot in here.
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Or you'll say, it's really cold today, and it should be getting hotter, so therefore climate change.
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Like, I try really hard to say that whatever's happening today doesn't tell you anything about climate.
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I try really hard, but I don't think I succeed.
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Because I think it's just such a natural, human-sucking trap that we want to talk about the weather today, no matter what.
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By the way, it's kind of hot out today, so I think there is climate change.
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Let's, on this next story, on this next story, I want to see if you can give me the answer before I tell you the story.
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Tell me the answer before I tell you the story.
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68% of likely U.S. voters believe Trump is likely to end up the Republican presidential nominee.
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But what percentage say Trump is not likely to be the GOP nominee?
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According to Rasmussen's, the Rasmussen poll, 26%.
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25% don't think Trump is likely to be the GOP nominee.
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Yeah, he may have done some things you like with the economy and international relations and peace in various places.
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But that pales in comparison to the fact that he had boxes.
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The boxes were piled in bathrooms and on shelves.
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The boxes were locked sometimes and sometimes not locked.
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Some of the boxes had things in them that should not have been in those boxes.
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And the Wall Street Journal says that, I guess, the first pretrial hearing is coming up.
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And Trump has said in a statement that he thinks this is leading up to an indictment and arrest.
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Now, so Trump says he got a letter from deranged prosecutor, as he likes to call him, Jack Smith,
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stating that he's the target of the, oh, he's the January 6th.
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Is the box thing happening, but also the January 6th thing happening?
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The pretrial hearing is starting today, and that's for the boxes.
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But separately, Trump said he got a letter from the prosecutor about being a target of the January 6th investigations.
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So it looks like we lost the comments on YouTube.
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Something happened on YouTube where you're coming.
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And, of course, as you were expecting, prosecutor Jack Smith says he's going to indict Ray Epps.
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So, just when it matters the most, you know, to the beginning of the primary season, the legal system seems to be closing the walls in around Trump.
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Does anyone think that Trump's problems are caused by Trump's illegal behavior and that, therefore, he brought it upon himself?
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Even the Bidens don't have legal trouble right now.
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Maybe they will in the future, but to imagine this is anything political is insane.
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Do you think it makes Trump more likely or less likely to be supported by Republicans?
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But not everybody believes that, and I'll give you an example.
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I guess Kara Swisher was talking to Professor Scott Galloway on some public event.
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And he believes that Trump will take a plea deal.
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I don't know on which charges or maybe it's all of them.
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But he'll take a plea deal to stay in a jail and not run for president.
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Which made Kara Swisher double take and gulp and say, what did you just say?
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I think she pointed out, nobody's saying that, right?
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He said that, first of all, he says that Chris Christie said something similar.
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And then Galloway said, quote, I actually think Governor Christie is going to surpass DeSantis
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I don't understand and can't empathize with President Trump.
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And his life can be going back to golf and sycophants and having sex with porn stars,
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I would like to do more of that at some point in my life.
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I'd like to do more of that at some point in my life.
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And I'd love to know if what he meant was literally having sex with porn stars and golfing
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Or if he's just saying, you know, more free time or something like that.
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I think he might have meant just more free time.
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But the way it came out is he wants more time for porn stars.
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Well, I think his credibility may have taken a hit by thinking that Governor Christie is going to surpass DeSantis.
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I'd like to take the temperature of my viewers.
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How many of you think Chris Christie is going to overtake DeSantis to be number two in the polls?
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But let's go to Professor Galloway's main point.
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Let's say that the legal system comes up with a set of charges that even Trump's attorneys say, oh, shit.
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Do you think that Trump could negotiate a pardon or get out of jail free, even if he thinks he's innocent,
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you know, regardless of whether he thinks he would win the case?
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Would it be smarter to not have the trial at all, because there's some chance you could lose, even if you're innocent?
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Would it be smarter for him to negotiate away all of his problems and then go, you know, quietly into retirement?
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What if he could do it and be a kingmaker at the same time?
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Suppose he could make sure that his preferred candidate did become president
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and then negotiate his way out and then just went back to Twitter and ran the country from Twitter.
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Because, you know, Trump could go back to Twitter and keep running the country.
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He could just reframe things until people say, well, he said, let's do what he said.
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And it would end up looking a lot like running the country.
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Well, I would say that the Galloway hypothesis, or prediction, I guess, depends entirely upon whether the Trump lawyers say,
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What are the chances that Trump's lawyers will say, we're in trouble, they've got a good case?
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Because I feel that he would just keep firing any lawyer who did that.
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I feel like that lawyer would be fired at the same moment, then it'd be a new lawyer, and if they said it, they'd be fired.
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So the problem is that Trump's always going to have a lawyer that tells him what he wants to hear.
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It could be that Trump will never hear a story that he's in that much trouble.
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Because his lawyers will want to keep the job and get paid, and they'll just say, yeah, we got this, we got this, we'll fight it.
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So it could go, this thing could go all squirrely a hundred different ways.
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Now, what do you think about the idea that this close to an election, we should, as a public, agree to ignore charges, because it's close to an election?
00:41:17.820
We should ignore it because it's close to an election.
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You know, you could certainly make an argument.
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This is one you could argue either side and not be embarrassed by it.
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You know, I always put the country above the person.
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So my preference would be the benefit of the country.
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I think the country benefits by the president not being charged while he's trying to be a president.
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So I'm going to take the other side of Galloway's prediction and say that he'll fight it even if, even if, even if fighting it's the wrong decision.
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I mean, one of the reasons that people like him is that you can predict what he'll do.
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He's predictably unpredictable, which is the weirdest thing, isn't it?
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There's lots of stuff you know exactly where he's going to be forever.
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But there's other things you can predict he'll be unpredictable because he knows that works better, such as negotiating.
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I saw a tweet by Dr. Sidney Watson who said, talking about Andrew Tate, she said,
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it's remarkable how Tate became a voice for, quote, conservatism when he's a pornographer with degenerate lifestyle, says Dr. Sidney Watson,
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who probably has never been to Romania and doesn't know what's true and what's not.
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We don't know what's true or what's not over there.
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She says, but politics have become so tribal that some on the right will claim anyone with an audience who even slightly agrees with them on anything.
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Would you say that the political right will embrace bad characters as long as they agree with them on something that they care about?
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And I would go further and support it and further say it's a sign of good mental health.
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That you can look at somebody as a complete person and say, oh, I like these parts.
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So I'll keep the parts I like and I'll flush the parts I don't like.
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Why is it that I can do a live stream when I have almost entirely conservative audience, when I identify as left to Bernie and I just, I just, I recently registered as a Democrat.
00:44:32.540
But I've decided they would not throw me under the bus for the things they disagree about.
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So people will say, oh, I'll retweet this thing that he said right.
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I will condemn him for this thing I disagree with.
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Whereas the Democrats are, oh, let's kill this one.
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But this one thing, well, they're dead to me now.
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Why is it that the conservatives can embrace RFK Jr. as a candidate and fully respect him while also disagreeing violently on several of his policies?
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And the answer is, they're looking at the whole person.
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You know, honestly, I don't know if you could make a sweeping generalization about the left or the right, because individuals are all over the place.
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So, let me not say everybody's all the same on other sides.
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But I think the key, and by the way, Russell Brand.
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These are people who have, like, enormous points of disagreement with the right.
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These are people that the right have very serious disagreements with on some issues.
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And yet, and yet, fully appreciate something about them.
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So, I don't know a single person on the right who agrees with Andrew Tate on maybe some philosophical thing,
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There's no conservative who thinks that if somebody broke a serious law, that they should go free because they have some good opinions on unrelated points.
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It's a good sign that conservatives see the whole person.
00:46:52.400
Does it seem to you that the Ukrainian war has been over for some time now?
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As in somebody who's going to capture a bunch of territory or take over the control of a country?
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So, some of you think the war is still happening.
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Hey, maybe somebody will make a big push, get a little land.
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My take is that the war has been over for a while.
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At least one of the leaders believes that they can conquer the other and submit.
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If you're not going to make the other side submit, why are you doing it?
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It's like some weird negotiation that burns a lot of weapons.
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So, basically, it's sort of a perpetual motion machine for the arms industry at this point.
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We've created a little engine that burns up weapons and kills people in the process.
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And it's the burning up of the weapons that's driving the military-industrial complex.
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So, we've got this big economic machine that depends on acting like there's a real war.
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When really it's just a meat grinder at this point.
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Ukraine is nothing but a map and a meat grinder.
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Remember when somebody said, you'll have to remind me who said it first, that Russia is a,
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was it a criminal organization with a gas station or something?
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It's like a gas station with, oh, gas station with nuclear weapons.
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I just see a map and I know there's a meat grinder and everything else.
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It's just something about profits for the defense industry.
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Well, Trump said that, that Putin would either make peace if Trump were president.
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So, basically, he would just tell Putin, all right, you either have to stop now or I'm going
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to give them so many weapons you're going to wish you did.
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Are there some really good weapons made out of top secret UFO technology?
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I doubt he would send, you know, NATO planes over Russian territory.
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So, yeah, mother of all bombs, but would he give it to the Ukrainians?
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The fact that we have no idea what that means is why it works.
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Like, if you're Putin and suddenly you have this new president who's saying stuff like,
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we're going to give the really good weapons to Ukraine, and you're Putin, you're like, what?
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We're going to give them the stuff that nobody knows we have.
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Putin, you either make peace or we're going to give Ukraine the weapons you don't even know exist.
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You'll just say, we have weapons that you don't even know exist, and they're going to be in Ukrainian hands in 24 hours.
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And by the way, I don't know if you've noticed how many UFOs we've captured.
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Some people say we've captured more UFOs than anybody's ever captured.
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Some say we've already reverse engineered them.
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I'm just saying that if you don't make peace now, the Ukrainians will have things we have that I can't mention,
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Some people are saying that it's advanced technology.
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Don't you wish Trump were here negotiating right now?
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But I would think that his odds of success would be much higher than everybody else in the government.
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So I'm not saying he should necessarily be the president or anything.
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Can you think of anybody else in the world who would be the right person for entering the Ukraine-Russia war?
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You could take Justin Trudeau to be your champion.
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On Russia and Ukraine, I'm going to pick Trump first, Trump second, Trump third, Trump fourth, fifth, sixth.
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It would kind of be dumb not to have him do it.
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How do we deal with another stolen election, somebody says.
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You want to hear one sentence that absolves Trump of all January 6th culpability?
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If the only thing you have is that he talked about it, we're done.
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Do you really think you could get 12 Americans to say that he didn't have free speech, but they do?
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You know, unless he did things, you know, he actually gave an order, for example, that was illegal.
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He talked about things that could incite violence.
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Every day I get out of here and I say things that I'm fully aware could give somebody worked up and do something stupid.
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A strong opinion on politics is going to have an effect on some listener to, you know, push them into a more radical, yes, I've been right all along.
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So if I have free speech, I certainly think the president should.
00:55:12.820
So his framing might not be precise, meaning it's not really a free speech issue, right?
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Would you agree it's not being framed as a free speech issue?
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But when he frames it that way, my mind goes quiet.
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Like, there are all these things he did or might have been, you know, who did what and when and was he fast enough and should he have done this and should he have done that?
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And your mind just goes quiet for all those other things.
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Because unless you can tell me what he did that wasn't talking, I don't know how you can make a case out of it.
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I'm now going to give you the rare closing sip.
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Well, I would like to sip to you, my audience who has stuck with me because you are not judging me on all of my flaws.
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I will not judge you on your flaws as if you have any.
00:57:27.460
Scott, how long will it take you to build a home entirely and have Legos?
00:57:34.220
How long, Scott, will it take you to have a Generation 4 molten salt nuclear reactors up and running?
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We've got some really good technology for removing carbon from the atmosphere.
00:58:07.720
I'm going to vamp for a minute and a half before I turn off YouTube.
00:58:16.680
Apparently, YouTube has an algorithm that likes one-hour content.
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So if you get to, like, within a minute of one hour, it doesn't make sense to end it.
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So even though I've completely run out of news, I'm going to stretch this for another one minute.
00:58:52.100
I was trying to record the audio book for the new book, Reframe Your Brain.
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But I'm going to have to get a professional to do it because I couldn't just physically and mentally.
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But the dyslexia was so bad, I couldn't read the sentences.
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And I told my man cave audience last night that I don't read sentences in order.
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Like, I don't read the words in a sentence because they jump around.
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So I tend to just sort of look at all the key words in a sentence, you know, sort of like they're all just sitting in a clump.
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And then my brain arranges them in what that must have meant.
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So I'm not actually reading them in the order they're written.
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So when I'm forced to read aloud, it becomes a problem.
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Because when I read, I have to look at the words, and then I have to form the sentence that they must have meant in my brain.
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And then I have to remember the sentence and say that sentence.
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So I'm not actually just reading it like other people.
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Well, I don't know what other people think like, but I imagine.
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I imagine other people just literally read all the words.
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And I actually, my brain and my eyes can't do that.
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I don't have the ability to read all of the words in the order that they're on the page.
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So I couldn't get past it yesterday, so I'm going to just hire somebody to read it.
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But to answer your question, I'm shooting for the first week or so of August.
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The only thing left to do is some details, like the final book jacket and getting signed up for the services that allow you to publish and stuff like that.
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And I do believe this will be one of the most impactful books in the history of human civilization.
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You'd hate to put a bet on something like that.
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And the reason it's possible is that it's written in a form that's unusually impactful.
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And the reframes can all be expressed as one sentence.
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So just as President Trump reframed his situation as free speech,
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there are 160 of them that would get to every part of your personal life,
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from your mental to physical health, to your career, to your optimism, to your basically everything.
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You know, your ability to survive a tragedy, a trauma, everything.
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So if 160 reframes doesn't find at least 10 that will change your life, I'd be amazed.
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That would be really weird if it didn't change your life.
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But most people who read it are going to have that experience,
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that they're actually going to walk away thinking they're different people.
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And what is extra different about it is that a hypnotist wrote it.
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So, you know, when I'm writing a reframe, I'm putting, you know, a lot of different skills into it.
01:02:20.180
It's not just, does it make sense when you read it?
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So there's a lot of layering going on in this book that won't be obvious.
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I'll give you examples as we get closer to launch.
01:02:39.060
And yes, I saw you say that Sofia Vergara is available now.
01:02:49.540
When you think of me, and you think of Sofia Vergara, you see it.
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Yeah, she'll probably be calling any minute now.
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All right, Vic would like to convince me to accept Christ.