Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2173 Scott Adams： All The News Is Absurd Or Fake But The Coffee Is Delicious. Join Us

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00:00:02.200 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

00:00:07.620 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams.

00:00:09.600 And you could not be luckier, because today the news is more silly than serious.

00:00:17.520 I don't think there have been any major catastrophes in the last minute or so, so I think we're looking good.

00:00:22.940 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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00:00:59.280 Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:01:04.760 What a day, what a day.

00:01:06.660 Don't you all feel great today?

00:01:08.560 Who feels good?

00:01:09.960 Did anybody wake up just feeling good today?

00:01:12.740 Do you have your summer on?

00:01:14.920 You're getting your summer on here in this part of the world?

00:01:19.240 All right.

00:01:19.780 You're drinking bong water.

00:01:21.200 All right.

00:01:21.500 Well, good for you.

00:01:22.140 That's one way to start.

00:01:23.000 Everybody do it your own way.

00:01:26.560 I like coffee.

00:01:28.300 Okay?

00:01:29.340 All right.

00:01:29.640 Let's talk about this news, alleged news.

00:01:33.740 Was it the New York Post?

00:01:35.260 It was reporting that IQ scores in the U.S. have fallen for the first time in decades.

00:01:41.920 IQ scores have fallen for the first time in decades in America.

00:01:48.220 Well, I have lots to say about this.

00:01:49.980 Maybe this explains why we can't build pyramids anymore.

00:01:57.780 Ever wonder how, if you go back thousands of years, people knew how to move gigantic rocks

00:02:05.160 anywhere they wanted them?

00:02:06.960 Anywhere they wanted them.

00:02:09.440 And we don't know how to do that now. 0.99

00:02:12.140 I think we're getting dumber. 0.98

00:02:14.340 I don't know. 0.99

00:02:15.260 I know. 0.96

00:02:16.060 But maybe we've been getting dumber for thousands of years straight. 0.88

00:02:19.260 It might be an unbroken line from, you know, I can imagine, can you imagine going back 0.82

00:02:24.960 in time and finding out that all the ancient Egyptians were, like, brilliant?

00:02:30.960 You stop any ancient Egyptian on the street and they all know algebra and calculus and 1.00

00:02:36.900 stuff.

00:02:37.520 Maybe.

00:02:38.780 I'm not saying I believe it.

00:02:42.080 But I'm just looking at all the hypotheses for why the IQ could be going down.

00:02:47.920 Let me toss out another possibility.

00:02:52.160 Just maybe.

00:02:54.820 And you may have never heard of this before.

00:02:56.780 This might be the first time you're even exposed to this concept.

00:03:00.300 But have you heard, and I swear this is true, I am not making this up.

00:03:04.380 But sometimes data is not accurate.

00:03:09.780 Does anybody know that?

00:03:12.100 Have you heard this?

00:03:12.920 Sometimes the studies that appear in the news, sometimes, and when I say sometimes, I mean

00:03:19.880 most of the time, are actually complete baloney.

00:03:23.960 Complete.

00:03:24.280 So I would say at the top of your list would be the data is bad.

00:03:29.760 Would you agree?

00:03:31.360 I didn't read the story because I didn't need to.

00:03:35.960 It's summer news.

00:03:37.580 The great thing about summer is you never need to read the story.

00:03:42.240 Just read the headline, have fun with it, because the story is all made up, right? 1.00

00:03:46.740 All the stories in the summer are just made up bullshit. 0.99

00:03:49.360 None of it's true. 0.99

00:03:51.620 So here's another possibility.

00:03:54.280 Do you think that they measured year after year the same people?

00:04:00.520 Do you think that there was somebody in, you know, sixth grade who used to be smart, but 0.99

00:04:05.620 now they're dumb? 1.00

00:04:07.920 Did people start getting dumber? 1.00

00:04:10.160 The same people? 0.96

00:04:11.980 I mean, I don't think that's a thing, but maybe, I don't know, maybe.

00:04:16.160 Or, or is it possible that a massive influx of people who don't speak the language natively,

00:04:23.080 but yet take all the same tests as everybody else because they sit in the same classes and

00:04:28.260 do the same things?

00:04:29.080 Is it possible that people taking IQ tests who don't speak English don't do as well?

00:04:37.000 Don't do as well.

00:04:38.100 Possible.

00:04:39.260 Now, I'm not saying that's a whole explanation, but it can't help.

00:04:44.740 Definitely can't help.

00:04:45.960 How about the simple fact that there's a greater number of walking immigrants than flying immigrants? 1.00

00:04:55.960 I'm going to say this as many times as it takes until somebody else starts saying it, because

00:05:02.480 it's a kind of obvious thing.

00:05:04.760 Forget about ethnicity for a second.

00:05:07.620 Forget about ethnicity, because I know you're going to want to go there, but I don't go there 1.00

00:05:11.520 anymore.

00:05:11.800 If all you did is compare a bunch of people who flew to a bunch of people who couldn't

00:05:17.900 afford to fly, but they could walk, which group would have a higher IQ?

00:05:25.100 I mean, it's possible it could go the other way.

00:05:28.020 It's not impossible.

00:05:29.520 I suppose it would depend, you know, who's walking from where.

00:05:32.940 But generally speaking, the people who can afford a plane ticket are coming from, you know, 1.00

00:05:37.860 two professionals who grew up in India, you know, one's a doctor, one's a lawyer in India,

00:05:42.760 and their kid did well in the, you know, one of the university systems and sent them

00:05:47.340 to America.

00:05:48.560 That's not really going to be the same thing as somebody who was a, you know, just woke

00:05:53.080 up one day starving and wanted to walk north and make some money.

00:05:57.540 So, yeah, and again, you could take all ethnicity out of it.

00:06:01.860 You compare any group of people who can afford a plane ticket to any group who can't,

00:06:07.860 I imagine you'd find a difference.

00:06:10.460 Now, there would be, you know, pockets where that's not true, I'm sure, but generally speaking.

00:06:16.620 So, there are probably so many reasons for it, plus the pandemic, plus the teachers' union,

00:06:21.780 right?

00:06:22.160 Teachers' union is worthless, plus everything else.

00:06:27.940 Bad food, bad environment, lack of motion.

00:06:31.720 By the way, I saw yet another, some expert on Instagram, saying that motion seems to be

00:06:41.000 one of the biggest correlations with sickness.

00:06:44.480 People who move a lot, in other words, don't sit in a chair all day, if you move a lot, you're

00:06:49.440 almost certainly healthier than people who don't move.

00:06:51.880 I think that moving thing is going to be the biggest, the biggest thing we're talking about

00:06:58.960 in five years.

00:07:00.580 Within five years, movement will be the number one topic, because it'll just be so obvious

00:07:05.680 that the non-moving people are the ones who are using up all the health care money.

00:07:11.320 If you could just get the chair people moving, you'd save money on health care.

00:07:16.000 You would, your health care, your health care costs would go down if you could get other

00:07:21.860 people not to sit in chairs as much.

00:07:25.860 All right. 0.89

00:07:27.060 So, there was an article in The Atlantic that black Americans aren't sleeping as well as whites.

00:07:37.500 So, what are you going to do about that? 0.92

00:07:40.200 Black people in America are not sleeping as well as whites. 0.92

00:07:43.000 It's written by Brian Resnick. 0.98

00:07:46.860 As Elon Musk tweeted, or replied to the tweet about this, that black Americans aren't sleeping

00:07:53.440 as well as whites, according to The Atlantic, he said, completely indistinguishable from the 0.60

00:08:00.200 Babylon Bee.

00:08:02.760 Completely indistinguishable.

00:08:05.480 And the funny thing is, it is actually literally indistinguishable.

00:08:09.640 You could move this directly to the Babylon Bee without any change.

00:08:14.700 You know, usually that would be an exaggeration.

00:08:17.680 You know, sometimes I say things like that.

00:08:19.800 I say, oh, this looks exactly like a joke.

00:08:22.860 But usually it's not exactly.

00:08:25.360 It's usually not exactly like a joke.

00:08:28.520 But this one is.

00:08:29.940 It's exactly like a joke.

00:08:32.120 Now, it might be true.

00:08:33.140 I'm not saying it's not true.

00:08:34.260 But don't we need to hear about it?

00:08:38.740 I'm kind of done talking about groups of people. 1.00

00:08:42.340 Talking about groups of people is for assholes. 0.99

00:08:45.960 That's my current opinion. 0.99

00:08:48.040 If you think that the right way to think of anything is to group people up by some immutable 0.99

00:08:53.380 characteristic, well, it's just sort of an asshole thing to do. 0.96

00:08:57.160 But if you want to talk about individuals, I'm all on board. 0.93

00:09:00.840 If there's an individual who's got a tough time, I'd like to see if I can help.

00:09:08.260 Individuals are maximum importance. 0.97

00:09:10.940 Groups are just something that troublemakers and assholes talk about. 1.00

00:09:15.380 Troublemakers and scientists and assholes. 1.00

00:09:17.960 The rest of us, we should ignore that kind of person. 1.00

00:09:21.480 Stay away from people who group people that way.

00:09:23.800 All right.

00:09:28.220 What?

00:09:29.300 All right.

00:09:30.680 Do you notice that I'm not going to spend even one minute talking about the content of

00:09:35.380 that story?

00:09:37.400 You don't want me to, right?

00:09:39.840 Would there be any reason whatsoever to talk about the content of the story?

00:09:44.060 No, we should mock it.

00:09:45.760 The correct response is to mock it and move on.

00:09:49.940 Mock it up.

00:09:50.580 All right.

00:09:52.060 So we mock it.

00:09:53.800 All right.

00:09:54.740 Here's a bubble test.

00:09:56.520 News bubble test.

00:09:58.840 I'm going to start a sentence and then you're going to draw on your knowledge of all things

00:10:05.320 in the news to fill in the end of the sentence, right?

00:10:08.380 Get ready.

00:10:09.040 In the comments.

00:10:09.700 The experience of the Amish population in America during the COVID was that compared to the rest 1.00

00:10:20.040 of the people, they fared.

00:10:22.020 Go.

00:10:22.320 I'll say it again while you're filling in the end.

00:10:25.420 The Amish people in America, compared to the normal American situation, they fared.

00:10:33.340 I'll read your answers.

00:10:35.000 Better, better, better, better, better, better, better, better, better, better, better, better,

00:10:37.920 better, better, better.

00:10:38.500 One worse.

00:10:39.420 One worse.

00:10:40.160 Better, better, better.

00:10:41.060 About the same.

00:10:42.160 About the same.

00:10:43.680 Same, same, better, better, same or unknowable.

00:10:49.100 Same.

00:10:50.440 Are you getting a little less confident as I read your messages?

00:10:55.020 Better.

00:10:55.440 Oh, confidence seems to have waned a little bit.

00:10:59.260 Are you expecting I'm going to do that thing where I tell you that everything you've believed

00:11:03.060 in the past was false?

00:11:05.360 Is anybody worried about that right now? 0.98

00:11:06.840 Is anybody having a moment where you're saying, oh, shit, I was positive of my answer? 0.98

00:11:15.080 What's he going to say now? 0.98

00:11:17.220 Have you ever Googled it?

00:11:19.380 All right, here's the second question, follow-up question, follow-up question.

00:11:23.220 Have you ever Googled to search what the researchers in the news say was the outcome of the Amish

00:11:31.380 from the COVID pandemic?

00:11:33.600 Have you ever Googled it?

00:11:35.400 Well, maybe you should.

00:11:36.840 Maybe you should.

00:11:39.560 I did it this morning.

00:11:41.480 Do you know what I learned?

00:11:44.500 The Amish did not do well during the COVID.

00:11:47.380 Had a lot of sickness and a lot of death because they didn't take the vaccination.

00:11:52.040 Well, that's the news.

00:11:54.600 Stop it, stop it, stop it. 0.79

00:11:56.940 Are you accusing me of believing the news right now?

00:11:59.680 In your minds, you are, right?

00:12:01.760 Admit it.

00:12:02.380 In your minds, you're accusing me of believing the news. 0.99

00:12:05.600 Have you fucking met me? 0.99

00:12:09.420 All right, I'll just put it that way. 0.99

00:12:11.760 All right, don't accuse me of believing the news.

00:12:13.860 I'm just telling you what it is.

00:12:15.400 I'm just saying what it is.

00:12:17.040 It's just in the news.

00:12:18.460 If you Google it, the news will tell you that they did worse than the average.

00:12:23.400 Do you believe it?

00:12:27.620 Do you believe that the Amish did worse than the average because they were under-vaccinated?

00:12:32.240 I don't know.

00:12:36.200 I have no idea.

00:12:37.640 I'm going to take a pass on this one.

00:12:41.340 I think it's possible they did better, and I think it's possible they did worse.

00:12:45.960 I would say that the credibility of the information, whichever way it's pointing, is zero.

00:12:54.800 I would give that no credibility at all.

00:12:57.560 Now, there probably is an answer.

00:13:00.260 It probably is either yes, no, or about the same.

00:13:03.740 But I don't know we would ever know it.

00:13:07.720 We're innocent.

00:13:08.700 We're in a world and an environment in which you could never, ever, ever trust any data on that question.

00:13:17.020 Because, you know, the answer to that question is the answer to everything.

00:13:21.160 Let me say it again.

00:13:22.840 If the Amish actually didn't have problems with COVID, everything the public has been told is false.

00:13:30.460 Right?

00:13:31.900 Everything.

00:13:32.380 And while that might not pass scientific, you know, scrutiny, what I just said, that's what you think.

00:13:41.180 It's kind of what I think, too.

00:13:43.240 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?

00:13:51.700 So if you found out that no matter where the Amish were, no matter where they were in the country,

00:13:57.760 that their group did better than everybody else because they were unvaccinated,

00:14:02.380 that would mean something.

00:14:04.840 Right?

00:14:05.520 I mean, you'd certainly want to look into it.

00:14:07.140 Now, it could be because they had other things going on.

00:14:10.220 You know, I was speculating the other day.

00:14:11.680 Maybe they have, you know, maybe they have a cleaner diet.

00:14:15.220 Maybe they have less pollution.

00:14:17.580 Maybe they spend more time outside and get more vitamin D.

00:14:20.560 Maybe they're not overweight as much.

00:14:22.560 So there could be other reasons that, you know, they would have a different outcome than the public.

00:14:27.860 But wouldn't you agree that if Big Pharma ever learned that the unvaccinated... 0.62

00:14:36.160 And actually, that's a...

00:14:37.020 By the way, that's an overstatement.

00:14:40.660 Because even the Amish get some vaccinations. 0.99

00:14:43.340 I don't know which ones get which, but they do get some.

00:14:45.700 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?

00:14:58.560 Right?

00:14:59.120 So there are only two possibilities here.

00:15:02.120 One is that they had a worse outcome than the vaccinated.

00:15:09.080 Right?

00:15:09.680 I'm not saying you believe it.

00:15:10.940 I'm not saying I believe it.

00:15:11.900 I'm just, you know, listing the possibilities.

00:15:13.700 One possibility is that they did worse because they weren't vaccinated.

00:15:21.040 And then the news is telling you that.

00:15:22.940 And then that would be accurate.

00:15:24.820 Right?

00:15:25.080 If it were true that they did worse, that's what the news is reporting.

00:15:30.500 The news says they did worse.

00:15:32.320 So that would be consistent, at least.

00:15:34.440 The other possibility is that they did better than everybody.

00:15:38.720 Do you think you would know that?

00:15:40.200 Do you think that the pharma entities would ever allow that to be news that you could see without it being squashed immediately?

00:15:51.580 Because, you know, I imagine it may have been published somewhere and then immediately taken down.

00:15:56.680 So this is an unknowable question because there are only two possibilities.

00:16:01.080 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.

00:16:10.740 Would you agree those are the only two states?

00:16:13.580 Either the data coincidentally or not coincidentally agrees with big pharma or you're not going to know.

00:16:20.060 You'll never know.

00:16:20.800 That's what I say.

00:16:24.740 Now, I don't think that's a conspiracy theory.

00:16:27.140 That's a simple statement of who is the biggest funder of mainstream news.

00:16:32.900 That's all it is.

00:16:34.380 It's just follow the money.

00:16:36.240 Follow the money tells you you could never know if the Amish did well or if they did poorly.

00:16:41.640 And when is follow the money wrong?

00:16:46.200 So far, never.

00:16:47.980 Never in the history of human civilization.

00:16:52.240 So, yeah, the third possibility is there's no difference.

00:16:55.200 That's right.

00:16:56.860 But the no difference would indicate they should not have been vaccinated because the vaccination brings with it its own risk, of course.

00:17:05.120 All right.

00:17:05.520 Let's talk about RFK Jr. and how he's being destroyed by mostly the left.

00:17:16.040 So here's something that Michael Shermer tweeted today.

00:17:21.360 He says, even if RFK Jr. is not an anti-Semite, it is good to remember what he believes.

00:17:28.300 And then he lists the things that, in Michael Shermer's opinion, Kennedy believes.

00:17:36.640 Now, before I read them and bias you, let me tell you, I don't think any of these are true.

00:17:43.720 Or maybe some of them.

00:17:45.280 But basically, somebody else's description of what RFK Jr. believes should be considered zero useful.

00:17:53.140 Apparently, nobody seems to be able to tell you what he believes with any accuracy, right?

00:18:01.140 So here are the things that Michael Shermer believes, that Kennedy believes, right?

00:18:07.420 That radiation from wireless internet causes cancer.

00:18:10.880 That chemicals in water are producing gender dysphoria.

00:18:14.840 The CIA killed his father and uncle.

00:18:18.380 Antidepressants cause mass shootings.

00:18:20.240 George W. Bush stole the 2004 presidential election.

00:18:25.880 Your phone's 5G connection is part of a plot to, quote,

00:18:29.720 harvest our data and control our behavior.

00:18:34.240 How many of those do you think are accurate restatements of Kennedy's opinion?

00:18:40.240 Do those sound accurate?

00:18:42.380 You say all?

00:18:44.160 Seriously, you think those are his actual opinions?

00:18:47.260 Oh, my God.

00:18:51.860 They got to all of you.

00:18:54.980 Yeah.

00:18:55.640 Now, the CIA opinion, I'm pretty sure that's accurate in terms of his opinion.

00:19:00.780 That is his opinion.

00:19:02.720 But don't you think that this other stuff is just stuff he worries that the correlation is high?

00:19:08.580 Do you think that he said radiation from wireless internet does cause cancer and that we're all in trouble?

00:19:15.240 Or did he say there are some studies that indicate it and we should really be looking at this more carefully?

00:19:23.380 Well, what do you think he said?

00:19:25.620 Do I have to even research that?

00:19:28.140 Do you think that he believes science?

00:19:31.020 Do you think he believes science sufficiently that he took some scientific studies and said,

00:19:37.000 oh, yeah, here's the answer, this wireless internet's causing cancer?

00:19:42.880 I doubt it.

00:19:44.880 I doubt it.

00:19:46.460 I suspect he thinks that the science points that way.

00:19:49.780 Isn't that the only thing any of us could say?

00:19:52.680 Oh, there's a study and it points that way.

00:19:54.540 Or there's a study and it doesn't point that way.

00:19:56.640 Or there are multiple studies and they disagree.

00:19:58.700 You're wrong.

00:20:02.480 All right, so anything I'm wrong on, if you can't produce a quote from him,

00:20:08.060 in order to say that I'm wrong about any of his opinions, you have to produce a quote.

00:20:13.800 It has to be a quote.

00:20:15.580 And it has to be written.

00:20:17.080 Don't send me a video.

00:20:18.800 Do not send me a video.

00:20:20.400 Put in quotes the actual sentences that you think would support this opinion of his opinions.

00:20:27.400 Do you think he says that chemicals in water are producing gender dysphoria?

00:20:33.640 Yeah, about frogs.

00:20:36.380 No.

00:20:37.340 I believe that the answer to that is just unambiguously no.

00:20:41.100 He does not believe that that's a proven thing.

00:20:44.020 He believes that there's something in the water that's changed frogs.

00:20:47.500 And he believes it would be silly not to look at it as an obvious thing to look at

00:20:52.380 to see if it's affecting our gender or anything.

00:20:55.300 Who disagrees with that?

00:20:59.320 Now, I don't know.

00:21:02.840 Just to imagine that he has, like, a certainty about any of these things is crazy.

00:21:07.900 Now, he believes the CIA killed his father and uncle.

00:21:11.060 He wrote, didn't he write an extensive book with all of his evidence for that?

00:21:15.600 I mean, was there some part of the evidence that wasn't true?

00:21:23.140 I mean, maybe say that.

00:21:25.540 I don't know.

00:21:27.320 He said antidepressants cause mass shootings.

00:21:31.860 Do you think that RFK Jr. said that?

00:21:34.520 Like, that's a fact.

00:21:36.240 I know that antidepressants are causing shootings.

00:21:38.960 You think he said that?

00:21:40.240 No.

00:21:40.700 I don't think so.

00:21:42.200 I think he said that there's a strong correlation between, you know, violent tendencies.

00:21:48.620 I believe it even says so on the bottle of the prescription, doesn't it?

00:21:52.880 Correct me if I'm wrong.

00:21:54.700 But I believe the known side effects include what he said, that it could make you violent.

00:21:59.780 Is that not true?

00:22:01.220 Known side effects?

00:22:02.260 Maybe violence?

00:22:02.960 So, do you think he said, oh yeah, that's the answer?

00:22:08.780 It's just that one thing?

00:22:10.320 Do you think Kennedy said that?

00:22:12.600 Of course not.

00:22:14.000 Of course he didn't say that.

00:22:15.920 Do I have to do any research?

00:22:18.400 I don't have to do any research to know he didn't say that.

00:22:20.380 Because nobody would say that.

00:22:22.200 These are things nobody would say.

00:22:24.940 What if I told you about news about public figures in the summer?

00:22:30.940 Can you repeat back to me?

00:22:32.240 It's about a public figure, and it's the summer. 1.00

00:22:36.840 It's all bullshit. 0.99

00:22:39.500 I don't know how many more times I could tell you. 1.00

00:22:42.280 If the story's about me, it's bullshit. 1.00

00:22:45.780 Right? 1.00

00:22:46.360 If it's about RFK Jr., and it's the summer, it's bullshit. 0.99

00:22:52.040 Pick a name. 1.00

00:22:53.720 Pick a name.

00:22:54.500 Anybody.

00:22:55.900 It's about Kanye West, and it's the summer.

00:23:00.020 It didn't happen.

00:23:00.800 Right?

00:23:02.240 It's really easy.

00:23:04.460 It's about a celebrity, and it's the summer.

00:23:08.160 No, they didn't do that thing you said they did.

00:23:11.200 All right, but here's the thing that I must condemn Michael Shermer for.

00:23:14.860 His first statement, quote,

00:23:16.220 even if RFK Jr. is not an anti-Semite. 1.00

00:23:19.780 Fuck you. 1.00

00:23:22.100 Fuck your balls. 1.00

00:23:25.180 Fuck you, piece of shit. 1.00

00:23:27.560 You have to suck really badly to write that sentence. 1.00

00:23:31.140 Don't you? 1.00

00:23:31.440 This is below, to say this in person, like actually out loud in public, even if, even if, fuck you. 1.00

00:23:48.360 Fuck you with your even if. 1.00

00:23:50.120 How about there's zero evidence of it? 1.00

00:23:52.360 How about zero fucking evidence? 0.98

00:23:56.800 There's nobody from his past. 0.99

00:23:59.280 Imagine this.

00:24:00.580 There's nobody from his past, RFK Jr.

00:24:03.080 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.

00:24:13.760 And you could tweet this, even if he's not anti-Semite?

00:24:19.260 Even if?

00:24:21.320 Come on.

00:24:22.780 Does anybody actually believe he's an anti-Semite?

00:24:26.100 Do you think that any of the people accusing him of it actually believe it?

00:24:31.480 I don't.

00:24:33.320 I believe this is recreational belief and team play and politics.

00:24:38.200 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.

00:24:48.360 Privately, do you actually think that what he was saying was what you think he said?

00:24:53.620 And more importantly, do you think he has an anti-Semitic bone in his body?

00:24:58.740 Privately?

00:24:59.860 Do you think anybody privately would say, yeah, I think he might be?

00:25:03.160 No.

00:25:03.840 The answer is no.

00:25:04.860 Do you know how many people privately think I'm a racist, even though I'm a famous canceled racist?

00:25:11.180 Privately.

00:25:12.180 Do you know how many people believe it?

00:25:14.060 None.

00:25:15.240 None.

00:25:15.900 There's not a single person who knows me.

00:25:17.980 Not a single person who knows me personally even thinks there would be anything to it at all.

00:25:25.440 And that's got to mean something, right?

00:25:28.400 That literally nobody in your life, nobody, even thinks it's slightly possible.

00:25:33.580 That's what summer news is.

00:25:36.820 Summer news is smearing celebrities.

00:25:39.700 All right.

00:25:40.300 Or at least public figures.

00:25:43.280 Kennedy's own sister, Carrie Kennedy, tweets,

00:25:47.460 I strongly, all in caps,

00:25:49.800 condemn my brother's deplorable and untruthful remarks last week about COVID being engineered for ethnic targeting.

00:25:58.780 All right.

00:25:59.060 I'm going to go easy on her because she is a sister.

00:26:01.460 But there's something very much missing from her remarks.

00:26:08.600 Am I right?

00:26:10.420 Something missing?

00:26:11.980 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. 0.76

00:26:21.420 What the hell kind of sister is this? 1.00

00:26:29.040 Whose sister does this? 1.00

00:26:31.600 My God.

00:26:33.300 And if you're going to come out against your own brother in public, you better bring the goods.

00:26:42.160 You better bring a fact.

00:26:44.660 You better bring a quote.

00:26:45.960 He said X.

00:26:48.580 Here's my proof or my opinion that's different. 0.99

00:26:51.520 I think this general statement about strongly condemning him is really fucked up. 1.00

00:26:57.680 It's really, really fucked up. 1.00

00:27:00.320 This is like the worst family thing you'll ever see. 1.00

00:27:04.600 How about just stay out of it?

00:27:06.000 Just stay out of it would be a good idea.

00:27:10.320 But if you're going to get in it, you better bring the goods.

00:27:14.020 You better bring the goods if you're going to get into the fight.

00:27:17.140 And then I think it might have been, was it Kerry Kennedy's son?

00:27:22.440 Another Kennedy also said the same thing.

00:27:25.220 Also vaguely.

00:27:26.940 Also without any details.

00:27:28.680 Also without any quote that they're disagreeing with.

00:27:31.680 Just gently throw him under the bus.

00:27:34.400 My God.

00:27:36.760 By the way, I don't agree with some substantial part of what RFK Jr. thinks might be true.

00:27:47.160 I think it's unlikely that everything he thinks might be true would pan out to be true.

00:27:54.200 But I don't think he says them as absolutes.

00:27:57.040 That's where I differ.

00:27:58.480 If he says them like, I've got free speech.

00:28:00.520 I've got some questions.

00:28:01.480 You know, I'm looking out for the world, which he is looking out for the world.

00:28:07.260 And I have concern that I think you guys are in trouble.

00:28:10.440 Here's some danger.

00:28:11.840 Is that a problem?

00:28:14.060 Do we need less of that?

00:28:16.580 Do we need less of patriots warning the flag that they see a problem for the rest of us?

00:28:22.060 Is Kennedy saying, hey, there's a problem for me personally.

00:28:27.200 I've got a personal problem with some pollution.

00:28:30.240 No.

00:28:31.140 He's literally trying to save you and me.

00:28:36.020 You know, obviously anybody gets some benefit personally if they've saved the world.

00:28:40.840 So it's not, you know, nobody's operating without any sense of self.

00:28:45.340 But he is very clearly externally oriented toward trying to make the world a better place.

00:28:51.780 Is he wrong on some issues?

00:28:55.660 Undoubtedly.

00:28:57.160 Undoubtedly.

00:28:58.500 How could he not be?

00:29:00.160 Anybody who says that many things about that many things is going to have a few misfires.

00:29:06.060 That would be normal.

00:29:06.820 Well, the same with all of us.

00:29:09.520 But man, I hope that the way people are treating them is purely political.

00:29:15.120 I hope they don't actually hold these opinions.

00:29:18.720 These couldn't be real opinions, could they?

00:29:21.540 That makes me wonder.

00:29:24.220 Well, news says that John Kerry, who is President Biden's climate envoy,

00:29:30.740 is using the fact that China is having a big heat wave right now to press his point about climate change.

00:29:40.020 He says, you and I know things are happening and know things are changing, he told the Premier, Li Kuang.

00:29:48.880 Don't you wonder what Chinese scientists think privately about climate change?

00:29:57.560 Do you think they're laughing at us?

00:29:59.300 Or do they think it's just as real as other scientists believe it is?

00:30:05.000 It's just that they can't say it.

00:30:07.340 Or do they not study it?

00:30:08.840 Maybe they're not allowed to study it?

00:30:10.420 I don't know.

00:30:10.920 I would think there would be plenty of Chinese scientists who are part of the climate conversation.

00:30:20.380 Yeah, so I kind of wonder about that.

00:30:22.100 But I do wonder if they laugh when he says it's hot outside, so we've got to do something about the climate.

00:30:27.520 Have you noticed that everybody in the climate conversation does that same thing?

00:30:31.760 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, 1.00

00:30:39.220 the first thing you say is, you idiot, that's the weather. 1.00

00:30:43.240 That's just what's happening today. 1.00

00:30:45.180 That means nothing.

00:30:47.460 But then 10 minutes later, you'll say, you know, it's really hot in here.

00:30:50.420 It must be the climate change.

00:30:51.540 Or you'll say, it's really cold today, and it should be getting hotter, so therefore climate change.

00:31:00.080 Nobody can resist.

00:31:02.000 Nobody can resist the anecdote.

00:31:03.920 And I'm sure I don't either.

00:31:05.460 Like, I try really hard to say that whatever's happening today doesn't tell you anything about climate.

00:31:12.460 I try really hard, but I don't think I succeed.

00:31:14.420 Because I think it's just such a natural, human-sucking trap that we want to talk about the weather today, no matter what.

00:31:22.320 I've got to talk about the weather today.

00:31:24.420 By the way, it's kind of hot out today, so I think there is climate change.

00:31:28.280 No, I'm just kidding.

00:31:29.700 I just can't resist it.

00:31:32.020 All right.

00:31:32.340 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.

00:31:45.080 Go.

00:31:46.380 Tell me the answer before I tell you the story.

00:31:52.680 25%.

00:31:53.040 That's right.

00:31:54.800 25%.

00:31:55.320 All right, here's the story.

00:31:57.080 68% of likely U.S. voters believe Trump is likely to end up the Republican presidential nominee.

00:32:06.960 But what percentage say Trump is not likely to be the GOP nominee?

00:32:14.240 According to Rasmussen's, the Rasmussen poll, 26%.

00:32:17.940 26%.

00:32:19.160 But if you said 25%, genius.

00:32:23.100 Genius.

00:32:23.500 25% don't think Trump is likely to be the GOP nominee.

00:32:28.820 And one of those reasons might be his boxes.

00:32:31.920 Oh, my God, his boxes.

00:32:34.860 Yeah, he may have done some things you like with the economy and international relations and peace in various places.

00:32:43.480 But that pales in comparison to the fact that he had boxes.

00:32:47.260 Oh, did he have boxes.

00:32:48.880 The boxes were piled in bathrooms and on shelves.

00:32:51.340 The boxes were locked sometimes and sometimes not locked.

00:32:55.160 Some of the boxes had things in them that should not have been in those boxes.

00:32:59.180 But there were lots of boxes.

00:33:01.140 Many, many boxes.

00:33:02.460 And the Wall Street Journal says that, I guess, the first pretrial hearing is coming up.

00:33:08.460 And Trump has said in a statement that he thinks this is leading up to an indictment and arrest.

00:33:18.220 And so, so it begins.

00:33:23.420 And so it begins.

00:33:25.720 Now, so Trump says he got a letter from deranged prosecutor, as he likes to call him, Jack Smith,

00:33:32.240 stating that he's the target of the, oh, he's the January 6th.

00:33:36.440 I'm sorry.

00:33:36.920 I had the wrong scandal.

00:33:39.400 Did I have the wrong scandal?

00:33:41.400 Oh, it's a January 6th thing.

00:33:44.680 So wait, am I confusing two stories?

00:33:49.060 Is the box thing happening, but also the January 6th thing happening?

00:33:52.560 Or did I confuse two stories?

00:33:54.900 They're both happening, right?

00:33:56.760 At the same time?

00:33:57.520 So the new thing is the January 6th thing.

00:34:02.900 Right?

00:34:05.160 No.

00:34:06.140 It's two different stories.

00:34:08.020 Right.

00:34:08.220 The pretrial hearing is starting today, and that's for the boxes.

00:34:12.900 But separately, Trump said he got a letter from the prosecutor about being a target of the January 6th investigations.

00:34:20.980 Do you agree?

00:34:21.800 The legal process that's happening to you?

00:34:24.200 Because it doesn't.

00:34:24.760 To me, it looks like an illicit.

00:34:30.900 So it looks like we lost the comments on YouTube.

00:34:34.640 Something happened on YouTube where you're coming.

00:34:36.260 Oh, there they are.

00:34:37.220 They're back.

00:34:38.400 Comments are back.

00:34:39.580 Comments are back.

00:34:40.740 And, of course, as you were expecting, prosecutor Jack Smith says he's going to indict Ray Epps.

00:34:49.480 No.

00:34:50.440 That's not going to happen.

00:34:51.860 I'm just kidding.

00:34:52.780 I'm just kidding.

00:34:53.340 Like, nobody's going to indict Ray Epps.

00:34:56.340 Come on.

00:34:57.760 Come on.

00:34:58.080 Pull it together.

00:34:58.960 Pull it together.

00:34:59.700 That's not going to happen.

00:35:04.400 Wow.

00:35:04.840 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.

00:35:17.060 How about that?

00:35:18.740 Does anybody think this is legitimate?

00:35:20.400 Does anyone think that Trump's problems are caused by Trump's illegal behavior and that, therefore, he brought it upon himself?

00:35:31.160 Even the Bidens are not in any legal trouble.

00:35:37.940 Even the Bidens don't have legal trouble right now.

00:35:43.220 Maybe they will in the future, but to imagine this is anything political is insane.

00:35:50.100 Do you think it makes Trump more likely or less likely to be supported by Republicans?

00:35:57.740 More likely or less likely?

00:36:01.280 I think they misjudged.

00:36:02.940 I feel like they misjudged.

00:36:06.500 I think more likely.

00:36:08.860 But not everybody believes that, and I'll give you an example.

00:36:14.320 I guess Kara Swisher was talking to Professor Scott Galloway on some public event.

00:36:20.940 It must have been yesterday.

00:36:21.680 And it was asked about Trump.

00:36:24.200 So, Scott Galloway was talking about Trump.

00:36:26.500 And he believes that Trump will take a plea deal.

00:36:29.740 I don't know on which charges or maybe it's all of them.

00:36:34.680 I don't know what this means.

00:36:36.000 But he'll take a plea deal to stay in a jail and not run for president.

00:36:41.020 Which made Kara Swisher double take and gulp and say, what did you just say?

00:36:47.520 Because nobody's saying that.

00:36:48.860 I think she pointed out, nobody's saying that, right?

00:36:51.920 Are you the only person who's saying that?

00:36:54.180 So, here's what he says, Scott Galloway.

00:36:58.280 He said that, first of all, he says that Chris Christie said something similar.

00:37:03.660 And then Galloway said, quote, I actually think Governor Christie is going to surpass DeSantis

00:37:08.720 and be the number two.

00:37:10.880 But I don't think it will matter.

00:37:12.780 I don't understand and can't empathize with President Trump.

00:37:16.200 But I know how old rich men think. 0.94

00:37:18.860 He said, there's the fun part.

00:37:20.720 He says, quote, talking about Trump.

00:37:23.100 He has a very nice life. 0.99

00:37:24.800 And his life can be going back to golf and sycophants and having sex with porn stars, 0.99

00:37:29.920 which I think is a good thing. 0.98

00:37:31.680 I'm not being cynical.

00:37:33.280 I would like to do more of that at some point in my life.

00:37:35.640 I would like to do more of that.

00:37:44.200 I'd like to do more of that at some point in my life. 0.99

00:37:49.640 And I'd love to know if what he meant was literally having sex with porn stars and golfing 0.99

00:37:57.060 and having sycophants. 0.99

00:37:58.080 He wants to have more of that in his life.

00:37:59.640 Or if he's just saying, you know, more free time or something like that.

00:38:02.980 I think he might have meant just more free time. 0.55

00:38:06.740 But the way it came out is he wants more time for porn stars.

00:38:13.740 That's funny.

00:38:15.340 Well, I think his credibility may have taken a hit by thinking that Governor Christie is going to surpass DeSantis.

00:38:21.020 I'd like to take the temperature of my viewers.

00:38:26.240 How many of you think Chris Christie is going to overtake DeSantis to be number two in the polls?

00:38:34.880 Yeah, I'm going to go with zero on that.

00:38:37.860 That's going to be a bigger zero.

00:38:43.040 So, I don't know.

00:38:44.060 But let's go to Professor Galloway's main point. 0.99

00:38:51.560 Let's say that the legal system comes up with a set of charges that even Trump's attorneys say, oh, shit. 0.99

00:39:00.780 What's he do? 0.98

00:39:02.560 Do you think that Trump could negotiate a pardon or get out of jail free, even if he thinks he's innocent,

00:39:10.580 you know, regardless of whether he thinks he would win the case?

00:39:14.400 Would it be smarter to not have the trial at all, because there's some chance you could lose, even if you're innocent?

00:39:20.300 Would it be smarter for him to negotiate away all of his problems and then go, you know, quietly into retirement?

00:39:30.600 What if he could do it and be a kingmaker at the same time?

00:39:35.080 Suppose he could make sure that his preferred candidate did become president

00:39:39.040 and then negotiate his way out and then just went back to Twitter and ran the country from Twitter.

00:39:46.060 Because, you know, Trump could go back to Twitter and keep running the country.

00:39:50.760 Right?

00:39:51.080 He could just reframe things until people say, well, he said, let's do what he said.

00:39:57.040 And it would end up looking a lot like running the country.

00:39:59.400 Well, I would say that the Galloway hypothesis, or prediction, I guess, depends entirely upon whether the Trump lawyers say,

00:40:13.240 uh-oh, the other side has a good case.

00:40:17.140 What are the chances that Trump's lawyers will say, we're in trouble, they've got a good case?

00:40:22.240 Do you think that's going to happen?

00:40:24.940 Because I feel that he would just keep firing any lawyer who did that.

00:40:29.200 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.

00:40:36.040 So the problem is that Trump's always going to have a lawyer that tells him what he wants to hear.

00:40:41.600 Because if he doesn't, he gets a new lawyer.

00:40:43.280 So, I don't know.

00:40:49.060 It could be that Trump will never hear a story that he's in that much trouble.

00:40:53.940 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.

00:41:00.920 So it could go, this thing could go all squirrely a hundred different ways.

00:41:04.340 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?

00:41:16.120 What do you think of that idea?

00:41:17.820 We should ignore it because it's close to an election.

00:41:22.680 What do you think?

00:41:24.620 Yeah, that's not a terrible idea.

00:41:26.960 You know, you could certainly make an argument.

00:41:29.220 This is one you could argue either side and not be embarrassed by it.

00:41:33.880 But I think he could go either way.

00:41:36.800 You know, I always put the country above the person.

00:41:40.640 So my preference would be the benefit of the country.

00:41:44.120 Just, that's it.

00:41:45.000 What's the benefit of the country?

00:41:46.440 I think the country benefits by the president not being charged while he's trying to be a president.

00:41:55.300 So, I can't imagine he's going to quit.

00:41:57.540 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.

00:42:10.620 I just feel like he's a fighter.

00:42:13.300 I mean, one of the reasons that people like him is that you can predict what he'll do.

00:42:17.600 He's predictably unpredictable, which is the weirdest thing, isn't it?

00:42:22.660 Am I right?

00:42:23.940 Trump is predictably unpredictable.

00:42:27.020 There's lots of stuff you know exactly where he's going to be forever.

00:42:30.280 But there's other things you can predict he'll be unpredictable because he knows that works better, such as negotiating.

00:42:35.840 All right.

00:42:39.720 I saw a tweet by Dr. Sidney Watson who said, talking about Andrew Tate, she said,

00:42:44.960 it's remarkable how Tate became a voice for, quote, conservatism when he's a pornographer with degenerate lifestyle, says Dr. Sidney Watson,

00:42:55.180 who probably has never been to Romania and doesn't know what's true and what's not.

00:43:01.100 Which is true for all of us.

00:43:02.440 We don't know what's true or what's not over there.

00:43:05.840 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.

00:43:16.060 Is that fair?

00:43:17.740 Would you say that the political right will embrace bad characters as long as they agree with them on something that they care about?

00:43:28.140 I think so.

00:43:29.540 I'd say yes.

00:43:31.940 I'd say bingo.

00:43:33.420 You nailed it.

00:43:34.080 And I would go further and support it and further say it's a sign of good mental health.

00:43:43.420 A sign of good mental health.

00:43:45.360 That you can look at somebody as a complete person and say, oh, I like these parts.

00:43:50.340 I don't like these parts.

00:43:52.180 So I'll keep the parts I like and I'll flush the parts I don't like.

00:43:57.020 What's wrong with that?

00:43:58.640 Is there any problem with that?

00:43:59.740 Do you know why this exists?

00:44:04.380 This very live stream.

00:44:06.020 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.

00:44:19.560 More for funny reasons than real reasons.

00:44:21.560 But the reason is simple.

00:44:26.040 The reason is simple.

00:44:27.440 Because people like some of the things I say.

00:44:30.320 They don't agree with all of them.

00:44:32.540 But I've decided they would not throw me under the bus for the things they disagree about.

00:44:37.520 Am I right?

00:44:38.020 So people will say, oh, I'll retweet this thing that he said right.

00:44:42.920 I will condemn him for this thing I disagree with.

00:44:46.380 And then we'll go on with our mutual lives. 1.00

00:44:49.920 Whereas the Democrats are, oh, let's kill this one. 1.00

00:44:54.920 This one is all bad. 0.99

00:44:56.960 This one said something I don't like.

00:44:58.900 Well, a whole lifetime of agreeing with them.

00:45:01.560 But this one thing, well, they're dead to me now.

00:45:04.200 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?

00:45:18.720 And the answer is, they're looking at the whole person.

00:45:22.160 They're looking at the whole person.

00:45:23.920 I like these things.

00:45:25.400 I don't like these things.

00:45:27.580 And now our conversation should be done.

00:45:31.980 So, I don't know.

00:45:33.980 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.

00:45:40.860 So, let me not say everybody's all the same on other sides.

00:45:47.620 But I think the key, and by the way, Russell Brand.

00:45:51.140 Take Russell Brand.

00:45:52.220 Take Glenn Greenwald.

00:45:56.160 These are people who have, like, enormous points of disagreement with the right.

00:46:01.440 Take Joe Rogan.

00:46:02.760 Exactly.

00:46:03.080 These are people that the right have very serious disagreements with on some issues.

00:46:08.540 And yet, and yet, fully appreciate something about them.

00:46:15.020 That seems so healthy.

00:46:17.560 So, I don't know a single person on the right who agrees with Andrew Tate on maybe some philosophical thing,

00:46:26.660 who doesn't think that the law should apply.

00:46:31.320 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.

00:46:41.640 So, I don't know.

00:46:42.620 It's a good sign that conservatives see the whole person.

00:46:45.620 I've always appreciated that.

00:46:46.820 One of my favorite things about conservatives.

00:46:51.480 All right.

00:46:52.400 Does it seem to you that the Ukrainian war has been over for some time now?

00:47:01.060 Does anybody think there's still a war?

00:47:03.580 As in somebody who's going to capture a bunch of territory or take over the control of a country?

00:47:09.360 So, some of you think the war is still happening.

00:47:12.580 Okay.

00:47:14.460 You could be right.

00:47:16.080 Hey, maybe somebody will make a big push, get a little land.

00:47:21.460 My take is that the war has been over for a while.

00:47:26.740 I'm going to define war as at least one. 0.99

00:47:32.100 It would only take one.

00:47:33.060 At least one of the leaders believes that they can conquer the other and submit.

00:47:38.940 Make the other submit, basically.

00:47:41.320 Because otherwise, there's no point to it.

00:47:43.120 If you're not going to make the other side submit, why are you doing it?

00:47:47.940 So, it's not a war-war.

00:47:50.040 It's like some weird negotiation that burns a lot of weapons.

00:47:54.000 So, basically, it's sort of a perpetual motion machine for the arms industry at this point.

00:48:01.060 Wouldn't you say?

00:48:02.560 We've created a little engine that burns up weapons and kills people in the process.

00:48:07.760 And it's the burning up of the weapons that's driving the military-industrial complex.

00:48:11.800 So, we've got this big economic machine that depends on acting like there's a real war.

00:48:16.760 When really it's just a meat grinder at this point.

00:48:19.880 It's just a meat grinder with a map.

00:48:22.380 It's a map and a meat grinder.

00:48:24.620 I like that.

00:48:25.560 I just made that up.

00:48:27.660 Ukraine is nothing but a map and a meat grinder. 0.95

00:48:30.940 Boom.

00:48:32.280 Reframe. 1.00

00:48:33.280 I reframed that bastard. 0.99

00:48:35.900 Nothing but a map and a meat grinder. 0.99

00:48:38.780 And it's pretty good, isn't it?

00:48:40.360 The visual of that is just insane.

00:48:44.220 It's nothing but a map and a meat grinder.

00:48:46.140 Remember when somebody said, you'll have to remind me who said it first, that Russia is a, 0.67

00:48:51.100 was it a criminal organization with a gas station or something?

00:48:58.820 It's like a gas station with, oh, gas station with nuclear weapons.

00:49:01.980 That's right.

00:49:02.680 Russia is a gas station with nuclear weapons. 0.87

00:49:05.000 So, it's like that. 0.74

00:49:07.720 It's a meat grinder and a map.

00:49:10.340 I just see a map and I know there's a meat grinder and everything else. 0.83

00:49:14.700 It's just something about profits for the defense industry.

00:49:20.020 Well, Trump said that, that Putin would either make peace if Trump were president.

00:49:25.780 He'd either make peace right away.

00:49:27.400 Or Trump would arm Ukraine to the teeth. 0.67

00:49:30.460 So, basically, he would just tell Putin, all right, you either have to stop now or I'm going

00:49:37.460 to give them so many weapons you're going to wish you did.

00:49:40.420 You know, way more weapons than you have now.

00:49:42.280 Now, I don't even know what that would mean.

00:49:45.300 Are there some really good weapons made out of top secret UFO technology?

00:49:52.140 And we're going to unleash it.

00:49:53.440 I mean, he's not going to nuke them.

00:49:55.000 I doubt he would send, you know, NATO planes over Russian territory.

00:49:59.040 So, yeah, mother of all bombs, but would he give it to the Ukrainians? 0.98

00:50:05.680 I don't know.

00:50:06.600 Sonic weapons.

00:50:08.600 Yeah, so here's the beauty of Trump.

00:50:11.660 The fact that we have no idea what that means is why it works.

00:50:17.200 Like, if you're Putin and suddenly you have this new president who's saying stuff like,

00:50:22.680 we're going to give the really good weapons to Ukraine, and you're Putin, you're like, what?

00:50:28.100 Yeah, they're really good stuff.

00:50:31.660 You know, just imagine Trump saying this.

00:50:33.320 We're going to give them the good stuff.

00:50:35.140 We're going to give them the stuff that nobody knows we have.

00:50:39.700 Oh, that's it.

00:50:42.800 That's it.

00:50:44.840 Putin, you either make peace or we're going to give Ukraine the weapons you don't even know exist.

00:50:50.600 Is that perfect?

00:50:54.700 Because you don't have to prove they exist.

00:50:57.520 You'll never have to show your hand.

00:50:59.900 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. 0.87

00:51:06.740 You better make peace.

00:51:07.740 What kind of weapons?

00:51:10.880 What are these weapons you speak of?

00:51:12.980 Oh, never mind, Vladimir.

00:51:15.380 Never mind.

00:51:16.700 They're secret.

00:51:17.880 And by the way, I don't know if you've noticed how many UFOs we've captured.

00:51:22.480 Just saying, just saying, many, many UFOs.

00:51:26.460 Some people say we've captured more UFOs than anybody's ever captured.

00:51:31.140 Some say we've already reverse engineered them.

00:51:34.820 I'm not saying we have.

00:51:35.880 I'm not saying we have.

00:51:38.220 No.

00:51:39.000 I'm just saying that if you don't make peace now, the Ukrainians will have things we have that I can't mention, 0.99

00:51:47.660 and I can't tell you where they came from.

00:51:50.140 Maybe space.

00:51:51.280 But I didn't say that.

00:51:53.120 I'm not saying that.

00:51:54.480 Advanced alien technology.

00:51:55.940 But I'm not saying that.

00:51:57.000 Some people are saying that.

00:51:58.400 Some people are saying that it's advanced technology.

00:52:01.500 Some people say that.

00:52:03.280 I'm not.

00:52:05.880 Don't you wish Trump were here negotiating right now?

00:52:12.040 Don't you wish he could start tomorrow?

00:52:14.580 Just to find out what he does.

00:52:17.260 Like, I don't know what he would do.

00:52:18.960 I don't know if he'd be successful.

00:52:21.120 I know that not negotiating isn't working.

00:52:24.140 That's what we're doing now doesn't work.

00:52:26.060 But I would think that his odds of success would be much higher than everybody else in the government.

00:52:34.100 Would anybody disagree with that?

00:52:35.940 I'll make this statement.

00:52:37.020 So I'm not saying he should necessarily be the president or anything.

00:52:40.100 I'm just saying this one narrow question.

00:52:42.240 Can you think of anybody else in the world who would be the right person for entering the Ukraine-Russia war?

00:52:50.580 Anyone in the world.

00:52:51.660 Any country.

00:52:52.740 You could take the Pope.

00:52:54.580 You could take Justin Trudeau to be your champion.

00:52:58.620 Who do you want as your champion?

00:53:00.260 On Russia and Ukraine, I'm going to pick Trump first, Trump second, Trump third, Trump fourth, fifth, sixth.

00:53:11.780 I'm just going to pick Trump all day long.

00:53:15.180 I'm not even going to mention another name. 1.00

00:53:18.000 Because it would be dumb. 0.97

00:53:20.260 It would kind of be dumb not to have him do it. 0.98

00:53:24.660 All right. 0.96

00:53:25.580 Pol Pot. 0.89

00:53:26.100 How do we deal with another stolen election, somebody says.

00:53:31.540 Well, I liked Trump's defense of January 6th.

00:53:39.220 Do you know what Trump's defense was?

00:53:42.240 You ready for it?

00:53:43.960 You want to hear one sentence that absolves Trump of all January 6th culpability?

00:53:52.060 One sentence.

00:53:52.800 He has freedom of speech.

00:54:00.400 And we're done.

00:54:02.760 We're done.

00:54:04.960 Hello.

00:54:06.720 If the only thing you have is that he talked about it, we're done.

00:54:12.900 Do you really think you could get 12 Americans to say that he didn't have free speech, but they do?

00:54:19.280 You could get 12 Americans to say that?

00:54:23.540 You know, unless he did things, you know, he actually gave an order, for example, that was illegal.

00:54:29.800 As far as I know, he just talked.

00:54:32.780 He talked about things that could incite violence.

00:54:36.620 But, you know, so do I.

00:54:39.480 Every single day. 1.00

00:54:40.520 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. 0.99

00:54:50.380 Because all politics is like that, right? 0.94

00:54:52.460 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.

00:55:01.580 And this guy on my screen agreed with me.

00:55:04.880 I must do something about it.

00:55:06.800 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?

00:55:21.900 Would you agree it's not being framed as a free speech issue?

00:55:24.840 But when he frames it that way, my mind goes quiet.

00:55:31.880 I don't know if you have that.

00:55:33.360 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?

00:55:41.780 All interesting questions.

00:55:44.180 And then Trump says, I have free speech.

00:55:48.120 And your mind just goes quiet for all those other things.

00:55:53.080 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.

00:56:02.440 Yeah.

00:56:03.520 So we'll see.

00:56:07.160 We shall see.

00:56:08.240 We'll see you next time.

00:56:38.600 I'm now going to give you the rare closing sip.

00:56:44.000 I know.

00:56:44.740 Lucky you came today, right?

00:56:47.180 Lucky, lucky you.

00:56:49.580 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.

00:57:01.100 I appreciate that.

00:57:02.660 I will do the same.

00:57:03.680 I will not judge you on your flaws as if you have any.

00:57:07.700 You don't have any.

00:57:08.940 Sip.

00:57:09.500 Sip.

00:57:09.900 Ah, yeah.

00:57:15.960 Just as good.

00:57:17.900 Molten salt reactor, 10 years away.

00:57:21.740 Yeah.

00:57:22.180 Everything's 10 years away if it's hard.

00:57:24.760 Let me give you this advice.

00:57:27.460 Scott, how long will it take you to build a home entirely and have Legos?

00:57:33.060 10 years.

00:57:34.220 How long, Scott, will it take you to have a Generation 4 molten salt nuclear reactors up and running?

00:57:42.120 10 years.

00:57:42.860 10 years.

00:57:43.800 We've got some really good technology for removing carbon from the atmosphere.

00:57:49.640 How long before that's commercial?

00:57:50.980 10 years.

00:57:52.300 Flying cars.

00:57:53.880 Jet packs.

00:57:55.560 About 10 years.

00:57:56.520 Except for fusion, that's 20.

00:58:00.220 Yeah, right.

00:58:00.700 Fusion is 10 plus 10.

00:58:02.360 All right, that's all we've got.

00:58:03.880 YouTube.

00:58:05.320 You're all wonderful.

00:58:07.260 Oh, you know what?

00:58:07.720 I'm going to vamp for a minute and a half before I turn off YouTube.

00:58:11.820 Will you stick with me for 90 seconds?

00:58:14.440 Do you know why?

00:58:16.680 Apparently, YouTube has an algorithm that likes one-hour content.

00:58:21.340 So if you get to, like, within a minute of one hour, it doesn't make sense to end it.

00:58:29.500 So even though I've completely run out of news, I'm going to stretch this for another one minute.

00:58:37.420 All right, you've got one-minute YouTube.

00:58:39.860 The one-minute timer is on.

00:58:42.140 Is there anything you want to ask?

00:58:44.980 Status on books.

00:58:46.200 Excellent question.

00:58:47.220 I had to bail out of making the audio book.

00:58:52.100 I was trying to record the audio book for the new book, Reframe Your Brain.

00:58:56.460 But I'm going to have to get a professional to do it because I couldn't just physically and mentally.

00:59:00.680 I couldn't do it.

00:59:01.800 Tried.

00:59:02.540 Tried my best.

00:59:03.380 It just wasn't going to happen.

00:59:04.860 The big problem was dyslexia.

00:59:09.980 So I don't know why it seems worse.

00:59:12.500 But no, I wasn't stoned.

00:59:14.080 I know you're going to ask.

00:59:14.920 But the dyslexia was so bad, I couldn't read the sentences.

00:59:19.420 And I told my man cave audience last night that I don't read sentences in order.

00:59:27.880 Like, I don't read the words in a sentence because they jump around.

00:59:32.400 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.

00:59:38.020 And then my brain arranges them in what that must have meant.

00:59:41.700 So I'm not actually reading them in the order they're written.

00:59:44.900 So when I'm forced to read aloud, it becomes a problem.

00:59:50.320 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.

00:59:56.420 And then I have to remember the sentence and say that sentence.

00:59:58.960 So I'm not actually just reading it like other people.

01:00:02.680 Well, I don't know what other people think like, but I imagine.

01:00:05.680 I imagine other people just literally read all the words.

01:00:09.840 And I actually, my brain and my eyes can't do that.

01:00:14.380 I don't have the ability to read all of the words in the order that they're on the page.

01:00:18.420 They're jumping around all the time.

01:00:19.520 So I couldn't get past it yesterday, so I'm going to just hire somebody to read it.

01:00:23.860 But to answer your question, I'm shooting for the first week or so of August.

01:00:30.280 So it might be three weeks.

01:00:31.280 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.

01:00:42.780 But we're there.

01:00:44.560 We've got covers.

01:00:45.620 The text is all done.

01:00:46.540 And I do believe this will be one of the most impactful books in the history of human civilization.

01:00:58.560 I actually think that could be true.

01:01:01.420 You'd hate to put a bet on something like that.

01:01:04.920 But it's actually quite possible.

01:01:07.160 And the reason it's possible is that it's written in a form that's unusually impactful.

01:01:14.540 There are about 160 reframes in there.

01:01:19.420 And the reframes can all be expressed as one sentence.

01:01:22.960 That's what makes them magic.

01:01:25.060 So just as President Trump reframed his situation as free speech,

01:01:31.840 there are 160 of them that would get to every part of your personal life,

01:01:35.960 from your mental to physical health, to your career, to your optimism, to your basically everything.

01:01:42.580 You know, your ability to survive a tragedy, a trauma, everything.

01:01:47.220 So if 160 reframes doesn't find at least 10 that will change your life, I'd be amazed.

01:01:55.200 That would be really weird if it didn't change your life.

01:01:58.640 But most people who read it are going to have that experience,

01:02:01.600 that they're actually going to walk away thinking they're different people.

01:02:06.080 And what is extra different about it is that a hypnotist wrote it.

01:02:14.600 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?

01:02:22.480 But there's layers on it.

01:02:24.800 So there's a lot of layering going on in this book that won't be obvious.

01:02:29.680 All right.

01:02:30.940 I'll give you examples as we get closer to launch.

01:02:34.320 I'll give you more examples.

01:02:36.460 Don't want to give it away too early.

01:02:39.060 And yes, I saw you say that Sofia Vergara is available now.

01:02:44.200 Could you give her my number?

01:02:46.640 Because it just seems obvious, doesn't it?

01:02:49.540 When you think of me, and you think of Sofia Vergara, you see it.

01:02:57.000 I think you all see it.

01:02:59.020 So it's just sort of an obvious one.

01:03:01.220 Yeah, she'll probably be calling any minute now.

01:03:05.460 You know what I'd say?

01:03:07.060 Yeah, I'm busy.

01:03:08.500 I get a busy schedule.

01:03:10.160 Sorry.

01:03:12.140 No, I probably wouldn't.

01:03:15.140 Vic says, I can convince you to accept Christ.

01:03:20.400 All right, Vic would like to convince me to accept Christ.

01:03:26.660 All right, you win.

01:03:27.500 I accept.

01:03:29.360 All right, and that's all for you, YouTube.

01:03:33.580 You win again.

01:03:35.100 And I will talk to you tomorrow.

01:03:38.100 Bye for now.

01:03:38.820 Bye for now.

01:03:41.000 Bye for now.

01:03:43.000 Bye for now.

01:03:47.000 Bye for now.

01:03:49.000 Bye for now.

01:03:49.060 Bye for now.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 18, 2023

Episode 2173 Scott Adams： All The News Is Absurd Or Fake But The Coffee Is Delicious. Join Us

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