Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 21, 2023


Episode 2207 Scott Adams： Fit To Sip To News. Bring A Beverage But Don't Use A Listless Vessel


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Scott Adams talks about a hurricane that has destroyed 30,000 of Hillary Clinton's emails, and how California has become self-cleaning. He also talks about micro-schools and why you should have more kids.

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00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the next highlight of human civilization.
00:00:07.780 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams.
00:00:10.180 And today, today I had to rewrite the simultaneous sip.
00:00:16.980 So it'll be a little different today, and it's not my fault.
00:00:19.980 It's not my fault. Events in the world caught up.
00:00:23.740 But you'll see the change in a minute.
00:00:25.700 But if you'd like to participate, all you need is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice or a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
00:00:37.220 Well, except a listless vessel.
00:00:40.260 No listless vessels.
00:00:42.560 But otherwise, a vessel of any kind, except a listless one.
00:00:47.120 And fill it with your favorite liquid I like, coffee.
00:00:50.360 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure.
00:00:54.500 It's the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes you and everybody you know better.
00:01:00.000 Go.
00:01:03.400 Mmm.
00:01:04.080 If I added beer to this, no, I'm not going to do that.
00:01:10.380 But it would make you look better.
00:01:12.780 Just saying.
00:01:13.620 Coffee goes only halfway.
00:01:14.800 Well, I got lots of stories today.
00:01:18.560 Stories.
00:01:19.300 Oh, my God.
00:01:20.000 We got stories.
00:01:21.720 As you know, the tropical storm Hillary smashed into California, Southern California, yesterday.
00:01:30.160 The Babylon Bee reports that Hurricane Hillary destroyed 30,000 emails.
00:01:37.820 So there's already been 30,000 emails destroyed by Hillary. 0.99
00:01:40.660 And we hope that there will be not more damage.
00:01:45.740 Now, I'm going to reuse a joke that I used on Breitbart Radio with Joel Pollack last night,
00:01:50.260 which you can hear in replay if you go to my Twitter account, or Joel Pollack's Twitter account.
00:01:57.320 You can see the link.
00:01:59.920 But as I said on the radio, is it just a coincidence that there was an earthquake
00:02:06.200 at the same time the rainstorm hit, at the same time that Los Angeles is becoming filthy
00:02:14.660 with human excrement and all kinds of outdoor living?
00:02:20.340 Now, did anybody think that there would have been a good time to just pour a little laundry detergent on the street?
00:02:26.840 Because you got the shaking.
00:02:28.700 You got the water.
00:02:31.380 California has become self-cleaning.
00:02:34.080 It's self-cleaning.
00:02:35.180 Yeah.
00:02:36.940 Just put a little bleach on there and just wait.
00:02:40.360 It'll shake and rinse.
00:02:42.440 And then the winds will dry it off.
00:02:44.000 It's really a whole system.
00:02:46.740 All right.
00:02:47.620 Here's an update on my book, Reframe Your Brain, which is getting amazing reviews.
00:02:53.400 But still not approved by Amazon for this off-cover.
00:02:58.620 So only the Kindle is there.
00:03:00.120 But we do now have a reason that it was so far not approved.
00:03:05.060 The reason is something that their automatic system should have told me, told us the moment we submitted it.
00:03:12.740 It was, you know, one little box that needs to be checked differently.
00:03:15.740 But they knew it.
00:03:20.800 Why did it take five days?
00:03:22.280 I don't know.
00:03:22.840 Four or five days.
00:03:23.640 So, in theory, once we make this change, I doubt it will automatically be approved.
00:03:33.820 I suspect it will go back into a, well, we'll take several days to look at it and see if there's anything else we don't like.
00:03:40.660 So, I don't know.
00:03:42.580 But in theory, it would be available tomorrow-ish.
00:03:46.140 I'll let you know.
00:03:46.940 The Threads app, you know, Threads from Meta, it's the ex-competitor.
00:03:59.380 Apparently, it's down 85% in traffic since its launch.
00:04:03.760 But now they're launching a browser version.
00:04:07.000 Browser version.
00:04:07.800 So, before you could only access it with the app.
00:04:10.080 But now you have the browser version.
00:04:12.560 So, now there are two ways to get to the thing you don't want.
00:04:16.760 When there was only one way to get to the thing you don't want, that's not enough.
00:04:21.460 That's like leaving the job half done.
00:04:24.800 Now, Zuckerberg finishes the job by giving you two ways to get to the thing you don't want to get to.
00:04:33.940 Well, there's a thing called micro-schools.
00:04:36.900 Apparently, there's a whole bunch of them popping up.
00:04:39.340 These are usually tuition-based private schools.
00:04:43.080 These are alternatives to public schools.
00:04:44.960 And they have up to 25 kids.
00:04:47.700 So, it could be like 5 to 25 kids.
00:04:50.340 And they're popping up all over.
00:04:51.960 Now, I love this.
00:04:56.600 If you've ever had a teen, can you back me on this statement?
00:05:02.960 The biggest problem that kids have regarding school is what?
00:05:09.120 What's the biggest problem kids have regarding public school?
00:05:13.060 It's the other kids.
00:05:14.800 It's the other kids.
00:05:15.880 Yeah.
00:05:16.460 Because humans are terrible.
00:05:18.060 So, if you put anybody in any group, a big group of humans, terrible things happen.
00:05:24.520 Now, it's kind of hard to make friends, too.
00:05:27.700 Have you ever talked to a teen about how hard it is to make friends in school?
00:05:31.460 Because if you just walk in, you know, if you're not part of a team or something, you can't just make a friend.
00:05:38.260 You know, it's really hard.
00:05:40.760 But imagine you were in a school where the whole school was 25 people who probably lived almost within walking distance.
00:05:49.620 If you had a school of 25 people, you would almost certainly know all 25.
00:05:54.480 You would almost certainly get invited to at least half of their birthday parties.
00:06:00.300 Right?
00:06:00.440 It would really, I would think that that's almost the perfect size for a school.
00:06:04.960 25 kids.
00:06:07.000 It seems like you'd always have somebody that you could hang around with because you'd know them better than you knew anybody.
00:06:14.280 So, that's good news.
00:06:15.460 There's your free market working the way it was supposed to.
00:06:17.620 Apparently, Trump is not going to debate, maybe at all, certainly during the primaries, but maybe he doesn't need to debate anybody.
00:06:28.120 And I don't think there's anybody that less needs to debate than Trump.
00:06:33.640 Is there anything about Trump's opinion you don't already know?
00:06:37.400 Or anything about the way he operates that you don't already know?
00:06:41.680 Do you suspect that if he gave a, if he did a debate, do you suspect it would be a fact-checking?
00:06:50.960 Probably.
00:06:52.900 Do you think he'd come out really good on the fact-checking?
00:06:56.200 Well, history suggests that that might be a problem.
00:07:00.700 So, why would he debate?
00:07:03.020 I've heard people say it would be an insult to his supporters if he doesn't debate.
00:07:07.660 But, you know, I'm backing Vivek Ramaswamy, but it seems to me that not debating would be the smartest thing to do.
00:07:20.620 Why would his supporters want him to do something that would degrade his chances of winning?
00:07:24.900 That's the least, the least reasonable take on this, is that his supporters will be unhappy if he does the smartest strategic thing that everybody can see.
00:07:39.540 Right?
00:07:40.100 You don't have to be a genius to know that it creates a reason for him to get in trouble, because they take something out of context.
00:07:46.900 But it doesn't give him any upside.
00:07:49.780 You know, the primary's going to go the way it goes.
00:07:51.600 So, I think he's making the right choice.
00:07:55.520 We'll jabber about it, but it doesn't matter.
00:07:58.720 And more generally, I would say, here's something I learned a long time ago.
00:08:06.140 If you're the star, you don't share the stage with seven people who are not the star.
00:08:13.500 Never.
00:08:14.640 If you could avoid it, you'd never, ever do it.
00:08:17.280 Now, when Trump was first running, let's say, 2015, 16, he wasn't really the star yet.
00:08:25.560 I mean, in a sense he was, but, you know, the other candidates were equal, you know, at least equal weight.
00:08:31.300 But once you're the gigantic one, you don't hang around with the seven dwarves. 1.00
00:08:36.600 You know what I mean?
00:08:38.220 Sorry, I just stole your comment.
00:08:39.880 I saw it there.
00:08:40.940 I was kind of heading there, but you beat me.
00:08:43.160 Yeah.
00:08:46.040 So, every part about this is the right decision.
00:08:49.760 If there's one thing that Trump gets right consistently, it's the show.
00:08:55.880 I like to call it that, the show.
00:08:58.620 You know, it's separate from the politics and the managing and the governing.
00:09:02.320 There's the show.
00:09:04.040 And the primaries are about the show.
00:09:07.220 He knows the show.
00:09:08.400 That wouldn't be the right show.
00:09:09.620 So, he'll be counter-programming that, which is the smart play.
00:09:17.160 All right, I'd like to call out some fake news from Fox News, I think.
00:09:24.300 So, this is an opinion, not a fact.
00:09:27.560 Do you remember the news that when Biden was on vacation and he was riding his bike with the other people,
00:09:34.600 and as he rode his bike, somewhat at a little bit of a distance from the press,
00:09:40.500 and the press were yelling questions, presumably,
00:09:43.320 but one of the questions was, do you have a comment about the Maui fires?
00:09:47.600 Because they were happening at the time.
00:09:50.040 And then Biden yelled back, no comment.
00:09:54.980 And the news reported that on the question about Maui, when Maui was burning,
00:10:01.000 that he said, no comment.
00:10:03.140 Is that true?
00:10:03.680 Do you think that really happened?
00:10:07.820 You saw it yourself.
00:10:09.300 It's right on video.
00:10:11.160 Right?
00:10:11.520 There's no question.
00:10:13.500 There's Biden.
00:10:15.680 There's the question.
00:10:16.860 Hey, what about Maui?
00:10:18.460 Biden says, in direct response, no comment.
00:10:22.800 So, he said no comment to Maui.
00:10:25.040 Right?
00:10:25.360 That's obvious.
00:10:27.200 He was asked about Maui.
00:10:28.280 He said no comment.
00:10:29.460 I don't think so.
00:10:31.460 I'm sorry.
00:10:32.460 That's not what I saw.
00:10:33.680 I did not see that.
00:10:36.480 I saw somebody saying no comment in a general way, without regard to what the question was.
00:10:43.100 Because that's what you would do in that situation.
00:10:45.740 You would not choose one thing to give a no comment to as you're riding your bicycle by.
00:10:52.540 You would simply see reporters, you're on vacation, they're going blah, blah, blah, and you say no comment, and you keep riding your bike.
00:11:02.820 In my opinion, that's fake news.
00:11:03.820 In my opinion, that's fake news.
00:11:06.200 Who agrees with me?
00:11:08.340 Let's see how many agree.
00:11:10.120 Do you think that was fake news?
00:11:13.380 I'm seeing lots of yeses.
00:11:15.740 Some no's.
00:11:16.620 See, the trouble is that the no is too on the nose.
00:11:21.200 You should have picked this up right away.
00:11:23.600 Right?
00:11:24.480 If I haven't taught you the on the nose trick yet, what have I done?
00:11:30.600 Nothing.
00:11:31.040 Yeah, it's a little too on the nose that the President of the United States would say no comment about a natural disaster.
00:11:38.180 That's not really a thing that happens anywhere in the world ever.
00:11:41.800 So when you see something that doesn't happen anywhere in the world ever, and the news says it just happened, that's too on the nose.
00:11:50.980 Because that would be bad for one team in a really unusual way.
00:11:54.420 Now, am I 100% sure?
00:11:58.280 No.
00:11:59.460 Because that would require mind reading, right?
00:12:01.820 I would actually have to know what was in Biden's mind when he said it.
00:12:05.840 But you know what else would require mind reading?
00:12:09.140 To imagine that he meant the no comment only about Maui.
00:12:13.480 That would be mind reading.
00:12:15.820 So I'm saying, if it would be mind reading in either interpretation,
00:12:20.340 and one of the interpretations is absurd,
00:12:25.200 it's absurd that he would have said no comment about a national disaster that was in the making.
00:12:30.200 You know, it was current.
00:12:31.660 It's absurd.
00:12:33.700 So you have to accept something absurd to accept that that's a true story.
00:12:40.820 Now, I haven't even looked it up to see what the Democrats say, but I'm sure it's that.
00:12:46.360 I don't have to look it up to know that that's what they would say.
00:12:50.340 All right, so, by the way, the reason I do this kind of content
00:12:56.300 is so when I say something that you, you know, this sounds like I'm a team player,
00:13:03.260 then you can at least say, okay, he doesn't always just back that one side.
00:13:06.880 Because I call out the fake news on CNN and MSNBC just all the time.
00:13:12.020 It's not all on one side.
00:13:13.860 It's very much not all on one side.
00:13:15.640 This is basically a Rupar situation.
00:13:18.700 You know, slight variant of it.
00:13:21.340 All right, Biden, I guess, will visit Maui.
00:13:26.220 There are reports that he'll be bringing his beach chair and sunscreen,
00:13:31.140 and he'll be on the beach enjoying the weather.
00:13:34.960 No, that's not true.
00:13:36.500 He will be talking to the locals, we think.
00:13:39.740 Anyway, I saw Jason Chaffetz, also on Fox News.
00:13:46.240 He had an article, the five signs that Biden is not really running.
00:13:49.980 And you can see him too, right?
00:13:55.260 So one of the signs is his campaign is way understaffed for what you would expect for a presidential campaign for this time of the cycle.
00:14:04.740 So he's not even staffing the way you would staff.
00:14:09.360 He's not going to battleground states.
00:14:12.840 The very thing you would absolutely be doing right now, go to battleground states and staff up, and then Kamala Harris is nowhere. 1.00
00:14:23.180 You know, you could probably add five things to this list yourself.
00:14:26.240 But at what point does it become super glaringly obvious that, and there's a little uncertainty here, because I'm sure that he's been told he's not running.
00:14:39.960 And when I say he's been told, I mean he's been told.
00:14:45.760 I mean that literally.
00:14:47.520 I mean it's not his decision.
00:14:49.840 I mean that Jill told him he's not running, and he can't do it with ever.
00:14:53.880 That's what I think.
00:14:55.280 Now, again, that would be, you know, mind-reading, I'm not a psychic, I wasn't in the room.
00:14:59.980 But all signals are pointing in the same direction.
00:15:02.420 That this vacationing he's doing probably has a lot to do with transitioning him out of the office.
00:15:10.480 That's what I think.
00:15:11.480 I think that's mostly about that.
00:15:13.960 So we'll see.
00:15:16.120 There's a technology now, there's a paper published and a device built, an electrolyzer device that can turn CO2 into propane.
00:15:28.700 And apparently it's somewhat existing technology that could be scaled.
00:15:36.480 In other words, you don't have to invent anything else.
00:15:38.980 They've already invented it.
00:15:40.520 It uses materials that exist that look scalable.
00:15:44.880 Maybe.
00:15:46.340 Maybe.
00:15:47.880 If we could make energy out of CO2, and apparently it would be economical and doable.
00:15:56.000 So it's viable.
00:15:56.780 Again, I say, which climate model, which climate model anticipated turning CO2 into energy?
00:16:07.600 None.
00:16:09.580 None.
00:16:11.060 All right.
00:16:12.500 There's some thought that video games, if they were optimized a little differently, could replace Adderall.
00:16:20.440 So the people who have HD, well, ADD, HD, so that if there's an Adderall shortage, or they just didn't want to use a pill,
00:16:31.320 that they could use a video game that had the qualities that would cause them to focus and maybe learn to focus,
00:16:38.680 so there would be a lasting benefit.
00:16:40.600 It's almost like a drug.
00:16:41.580 So in a sense, the experts are saying that a video game can operate the same way as a drug,
00:16:49.820 meaning that whatever chemical change happens within the person,
00:16:54.100 you could chemically change it with the video experience in a way that might be similar,
00:17:00.860 you know, not the same, but similar to how a drug might help.
00:17:03.380 Now, I would like to add to that to say that all forms of art are drugs.
00:17:09.100 All art is a drug.
00:17:13.020 Music makes you feel a different way.
00:17:15.260 What does that?
00:17:16.420 A pill.
00:17:17.400 Drugs.
00:17:18.600 Music can motivate you, make you work out harder.
00:17:21.900 What does that?
00:17:23.180 Some drugs.
00:17:24.480 Music can make you sad and down.
00:17:27.040 What does that?
00:17:28.080 Some drugs.
00:17:28.740 So basically, the best way to think of all art is that it's a useful drug.
00:17:39.340 But like every drug, every legal drug, let's just talk about legal ones,
00:17:44.180 like every legal drug, if you used it for the wrong purpose, you would get a bad result.
00:17:49.360 So if you match your music with the wrong kind of mood to whatever you're trying to accomplish,
00:17:56.300 that would be like taking the wrong pill.
00:17:57.680 Now, this is something I've been saying forever, but I don't think I've ever gotten through.
00:18:03.920 I think people say, yeah, yeah, yeah, some people like music.
00:18:07.220 I hear what you're saying.
00:18:08.460 No, no.
00:18:09.860 It's the same power as drugs.
00:18:14.360 And if you treat it as a drug, you can use it in its most useful form to cheer you up,
00:18:20.860 to make you happy, make you think differently, maybe concentrate better in this case.
00:18:25.560 So it's just a good reframe to think of all art as a medicinal thing or something that could
00:18:34.280 maybe be a performance enhancer.
00:18:36.840 But if you use it wrong, playing sad music when you're sad, for example, don't do it.
00:18:43.360 All right.
00:18:48.560 You know, the word from Maui is that the governors, there's a, I guess there's a head of Maui and
00:18:55.120 then the governor of Hawaii, and neither of them are willing to say the number of missing
00:19:01.020 people who are children.
00:19:02.960 They say it's going to be bad, it's a big number, but they're very, very vague.
00:19:09.820 And at this point, we've all figured out that they know the answer.
00:19:15.440 It's very clear that they're not telling us what they know, because, and in case there's
00:19:21.820 anybody here who's got a low IQ, let's say under 80, let me explain this.
00:19:25.820 They're not waiting to identify the bodies.
00:19:31.220 That has nothing to do with not giving you the information.
00:19:35.600 Counting and identifying bodies is not how you find out what the death count is.
00:19:41.020 That's not what's going on.
00:19:42.540 They have to do that because they have to do that, right?
00:19:44.740 We have to treat the remains with respect and handle them, you know, in the most, in the
00:19:51.740 safest way.
00:19:52.340 So everything's about respect, so that don't confuse our knowledge of who died with the
00:19:59.980 clean up the remains.
00:20:01.260 They're just completely different.
00:20:02.740 We know exactly who's missing.
00:20:05.160 It's a small island, and the people who live there are the locals, right?
00:20:10.880 There were probably very few tourists who died in the fire.
00:20:17.880 I don't know that, actually.
00:20:19.380 I'm speculating that Lahaina was mostly locals, because if you were a tourist, you just drove
00:20:26.120 away, right?
00:20:27.600 If you saw the...
00:20:28.600 So I think most of the tourists probably got out.
00:20:31.440 I think probably the locals had the toughest time.
00:20:34.140 Mostly.
00:20:34.960 Now, clearly there were vacationers who were victims.
00:20:38.900 I just don't know the percentage.
00:20:40.560 Anyway, here's what I'm getting at.
00:20:42.000 By now, the number of missing is a full list with actual full names, their ages, and even
00:20:52.140 contacts of who their family is.
00:20:54.860 They have a full list of who's missing.
00:20:58.200 It's Maui.
00:20:59.620 If it's been a week and you're still missing on Maui, you can't explain that by cell phones
00:21:04.800 not being good, right?
00:21:06.460 On Maui, you can walk from one side of the island to the other in a week.
00:21:12.340 I mean, not that anybody would do that.
00:21:14.340 But it's not that big a place.
00:21:16.560 If the 1,000-ish people, I think they're saying 1,050, if those people are all on a physical
00:21:23.080 list, we know their names and ages, and who the contact is when we find remains.
00:21:28.480 So if the governor is not telling you what percentage are children, it's not because
00:21:35.340 they don't know.
00:21:37.000 It's not because they don't know.
00:21:38.900 Do you all get that?
00:21:40.300 You all get that they do know, you know, within probably just a few, you know, within a few
00:21:47.040 people, they do know how many were children.
00:21:50.040 And they're very pointedly telling you they're not going to tell you the answer to the question.
00:21:54.780 There's only one reason for that.
00:21:56.720 It's not that they don't know, right?
00:22:01.400 I don't believe it's exactly political.
00:22:04.780 You know, you're thinking that.
00:22:06.000 I don't think it's exactly a political thing.
00:22:08.420 I think it's safety.
00:22:11.380 Let's just say the obvious.
00:22:13.200 It's safety.
00:22:14.760 I don't believe the locals could handle the news.
00:22:20.800 And I don't want to say that something kinetic would happen if they heard the news.
00:22:28.500 But you would certainly have to worry about that.
00:22:31.740 You know what I mean?
00:22:32.820 So I don't want to, you know, I don't want to say as directly as I could that this is
00:22:37.480 a dangerous situation.
00:22:38.600 Now, when you say to me, Scott, they're acting like we can't handle the truth.
00:22:45.460 Let me say as clearly as possible, you can't handle this truth.
00:22:50.360 You cannot handle this truth.
00:22:52.780 If it's what I think it is, and every sign says it's going to be bad, the locals are not
00:22:58.800 going to be able to handle it.
00:22:59.880 Now, maybe you and I can, because we have some distance, perhaps.
00:23:05.160 But let me tell you, if it was your kid, and you hear what you don't want to hear, that's
00:23:13.440 a very dangerous situation when people are working as hard as they can to remediate the
00:23:18.560 situation.
00:23:19.900 So I'm not going to say that I agree with them not telling you.
00:23:23.920 I'm not going to say I agree with it.
00:23:25.280 But if you think that it would be safe to tell the public right away, I would disagree
00:23:32.260 with that.
00:23:32.760 It's not safe.
00:23:34.220 It's definitely not safe to tell the public what they know.
00:23:38.960 Would it be better if they waited a little bit?
00:23:42.140 Probably.
00:23:43.320 Because if they wait a little bit, they're going to get a better feel for the locals.
00:23:48.680 Because the locals are absolutely dangerous at this point.
00:23:52.500 Does anybody disagree with that?
00:23:53.700 That, presumably, the locals are completely weaponized at this point.
00:24:00.340 Now, Hawaii is a pretty laid-back place.
00:24:03.840 But everybody has their limit.
00:24:06.660 Right?
00:24:07.960 Everybody's laid-back until they're not.
00:24:10.640 And when they're not, they're not.
00:24:12.460 It's kind of binary sometimes.
00:24:14.120 And I think we've reached the point where the locals, I don't know if we can even generate 0.79
00:24:20.920 enough empathy for what this situation is going to deserve.
00:24:26.200 I don't think we have the capacity.
00:24:29.440 I think this is going to be beyond our imagination, unfortunately.
00:24:32.540 So, the reason I'm telling you is to warn you.
00:24:39.420 You need to start getting your brain ready for what's coming.
00:24:43.920 Just get ready for it.
00:24:45.560 The knowing it's coming is going to help.
00:24:48.700 Because you don't want the shock to hit you.
00:24:51.900 It's sort of the cats-on-the-roof situation, breaking it to you slowly.
00:24:55.480 Sometimes it makes sense to break it to you slowly.
00:24:58.540 I will say this with 100% confidence.
00:25:03.000 The authorities will tell us the numbers.
00:25:06.140 They're not going to keep it from you.
00:25:08.260 They're making sure that they tell you when it's the right time to tell you.
00:25:12.520 That's not a horrible instinct.
00:25:16.060 I'm not sure I would have done it.
00:25:18.060 I might have played it differently.
00:25:20.780 But give them a little bit of consideration.
00:25:25.640 I think we should give everybody a little bit of consideration here.
00:25:30.100 Not everybody's evil.
00:25:31.800 People are trying to do the best they can, certainly now.
00:25:35.380 And I think this is a super tough situation for the authorities.
00:25:40.700 Imagine them trying to do what they need to do
00:25:42.980 with the extra pressure of what might happen
00:25:47.220 if the full truth came out right away,
00:25:49.880 when emotions are at their peak.
00:25:51.880 So I think that they might want the energy to come down a little bit
00:25:56.840 before they tell you what they know.
00:26:00.380 I hate it, but I don't know that it's the worst situation.
00:26:04.340 All right, let's talk about Vivek again.
00:26:09.960 There's another, every day you wake up,
00:26:13.240 Vivek is trending on X again.
00:26:16.020 He's got another video saying awesome, amusing, interesting things you want to hear.
00:26:22.040 Funniest thing was, he was asked about the WEF.
00:26:28.280 And he had this hilarious routine in which he hypothesizes that everything with an acronym is bad.
00:26:35.780 And he goes through the list, and it just gets funnier and funnier because you're agreeing with him.
00:26:42.600 He's like, well, you know, you get everything from the WEF to the FBI.
00:26:49.200 He had an old list of acronym places that sound bad.
00:26:54.240 But he, of course, is railing against the WEF and about ESG in particular.
00:27:03.100 And I couldn't love him more for going against ESG directly and hard and effectively the way he is.
00:27:12.020 But when I tweet anything about him, there's a type of comment I get from people who are clearly identified with the right.
00:27:20.380 And they're creeping me out.
00:27:24.320 And I don't quite understand what I'm seeing.
00:27:27.340 So I want to see if you have some insight for me.
00:27:30.140 I'll tell you the nature of the comments.
00:27:33.280 So here are a few.
00:27:35.200 I still have a bad feeling about him with nothing else.
00:27:40.320 I still have a bad feeling about him.
00:27:43.000 He, quote, came out of nowhere, so I don't trust him.
00:27:46.780 Because nobody comes out of nowhere.
00:27:50.380 OK.
00:27:51.940 He's a WEF and Soros puppet.
00:27:55.840 Despite the fact that his brand is talking out, is speaking against them.
00:28:01.300 That's his brand.
00:28:03.100 He's against ESG.
00:28:04.780 It's the most basic part of his campaign is that he's against these things.
00:28:08.940 And people are saying, I think he's working for them.
00:28:11.580 Where does that come from exactly?
00:28:13.000 And then somebody today, just a few moments ago, said, I smell a fink.
00:28:20.820 So there's some number of people on the right who suspect he's some kind of a trick or a puppet or something like that.
00:28:29.860 Now, let's talk about this one where he came out of nowhere.
00:28:33.700 Is that true?
00:28:35.820 Did he come out of nowhere?
00:28:37.840 He's 37.
00:28:40.900 He's 37.
00:28:42.160 And he's already done more than almost all of you.
00:28:45.340 He's already a successful author, entrepreneur.
00:28:49.080 And he's a candidate who went from 1% to 11%, whatever the numbers are.
00:28:56.560 It's about that.
00:28:58.380 By pure performance.
00:29:02.220 Now, does anybody think that I work for the WEF?
00:29:06.520 Does anybody think I'm a Soros puppet?
00:29:08.540 Some do.
00:29:11.380 Some do.
00:29:12.080 They're saying yes.
00:29:14.320 I'm going to assume you're joking.
00:29:16.320 I'm going to assume you're joking.
00:29:17.860 All right.
00:29:20.080 But why do I like him?
00:29:24.240 So, and then somebody said that there's no way he could be doing this well unless he was backed by powerful forces.
00:29:33.160 That the tweeter doesn't know who they are.
00:29:35.600 Now, is Vivek backed by powerful forces?
00:29:40.480 Yes or no?
00:29:42.300 Vivek Ramaswamy, is he backed by powerful forces?
00:29:48.780 Yes, he is.
00:29:50.900 Of course he is.
00:29:53.280 The internet dads.
00:29:55.940 Yeah, the internet dads back him.
00:29:58.300 Not every one of them.
00:30:00.060 But there are people that other people take seriously,
00:30:04.140 who are taking him seriously.
00:30:07.360 For example, Elon Musk recently tweeted that, you know,
00:30:10.560 he's a candidate with a lot of potential or something like that.
00:30:13.080 He didn't endorse him.
00:30:14.560 He just, you know, noted his great potential.
00:30:19.000 I, of course, have been supporting him.
00:30:22.140 And I think you're going to slowly see some other crop of internet dads at least say, take a look at him.
00:30:31.520 At least say, take a look at him.
00:30:34.720 And you don't think that's a powerful force?
00:30:37.280 I do.
00:30:37.920 I think I'm a powerful force.
00:30:42.200 And I back him.
00:30:44.940 So we'll see.
00:30:46.580 Anyway, it all feels racist, honestly.
00:30:50.180 My bottom line is the people saying, I've got a bad feeling.
00:30:53.800 I smell a fink.
00:30:55.200 He's a sorrows puppet.
00:30:57.080 He came out of nowhere.
00:30:58.080 I just don't trust him.
00:30:59.240 Honestly, that all feels racist, racist to me.
00:31:03.720 I'm not reading any minds.
00:31:06.320 Right.
00:31:06.860 I'm not reading minds, so I don't know.
00:31:09.140 I'll tell you how it feels.
00:31:13.620 All right.
00:31:14.400 So as a feeling, it feels like it's coming from someplace unpleasant.
00:31:21.440 You know what I mean?
00:31:22.380 I don't feel like it's coming from this part of your head.
00:31:25.480 I think it's coming from somewhere down here.
00:31:27.320 And it's not pleasant to see.
00:31:31.480 So I'm not going to blame you all for being racist if you've got these vague concerns about him.
00:31:38.100 You know, maybe there's some other source.
00:31:41.380 But it feels creepy to me.
00:31:44.700 It just feels creepy.
00:31:46.500 I don't mind that people push back.
00:31:48.620 But you need to push back a little with a little more meat.
00:31:52.740 Right.
00:31:52.940 You need to go after the policies.
00:31:54.400 But this whole there's something wrong with him situation is not feeling comfortable to me.
00:31:59.980 I think that's coming from the wrong place.
00:32:04.240 Speaking of coming from the wrong place, Andy McCarthy.
00:32:07.220 You all know him.
00:32:08.280 Very respectable, conservative lawyer type.
00:32:12.440 And generally one of the people that you'll see quoted as is good takes.
00:32:20.000 So he's sort of a good take person.
00:32:22.040 Probably one of the better.
00:32:24.040 Maybe a top ten.
00:32:26.200 I'd say he's a top ten good take person.
00:32:29.760 Even if you disagree with him, he has like really well thought out takes.
00:32:33.220 So it's important to know that he's very credible when I tell you this.
00:32:38.880 He tweeted, very simple.
00:32:40.720 Trump can't win.
00:32:41.980 65% already against him.
00:32:44.500 That's before the Dems launch barrage after getting him nominated.
00:32:48.380 If we finally grasp that, his support will collapse.
00:32:52.120 If not, we lose everything.
00:32:54.040 And Dems use majorities to remake Supreme Court. 0.84
00:32:57.620 Nominate him if you want.
00:32:59.080 But that's reality.
00:33:00.020 Now, do you agree with that take?
00:33:06.160 I hadn't heard the 65% number before, but it's at least 50.
00:33:14.500 So here's what I think.
00:33:18.460 This sounds a lot like 2015.
00:33:21.700 Remember 2015?
00:33:23.620 Trump's negatives were so negative that there's no way he could win.
00:33:26.660 Do you remember what I said when people said his negatives are way too high?
00:33:31.920 He can't win.
00:33:32.820 Do you remember what I said?
00:33:35.320 He doesn't have to outrun the bear.
00:33:38.480 He only has to outrun Hillary.
00:33:41.580 Right?
00:33:43.400 So all he had to do was make Hillary look worse. 1.00
00:33:46.780 And so he did.
00:33:48.700 And then he won.
00:33:50.700 So when you say that there's this huge negative against Trump, that ignores the fact that whoever
00:33:59.020 gets nominated to run against him has to deal with Trump.
00:34:03.640 How has that worked out before?
00:34:05.340 I think Biden was clearly an anomaly.
00:34:12.940 I don't think Biden could have won in a non-pandemic, weird, hoax-filled year.
00:34:19.320 I mean, almost everything was weird about it.
00:34:22.000 But Trump is the ultimate insulter and brander and minimizer of other people.
00:34:28.780 Once it becomes a choice between this Trump guy that so many people don't like versus any
00:34:38.920 Democrat, what do you think Republicans are going to do?
00:34:43.160 Stay home and let Gavin Newsom or Kamala Harris become president?
00:34:50.780 Is that your read of Republicans?
00:34:53.500 Republicans would be like, ah, definitely I'd rather Trump over these other ones, but
00:34:59.520 I guess I'm just going to stay home.
00:35:02.040 That doesn't sound like a Republican at all.
00:35:05.080 It sounds like they would see complete danger if Trump didn't win.
00:35:10.660 So they would act like they're actually at risk.
00:35:13.520 They would act out of fear.
00:35:15.520 There would be actual fear that Democrat control is literally dangerous.
00:35:20.760 It feels like it.
00:35:22.520 It feels literally dangerous.
00:35:24.400 Now we certainly think so.
00:35:27.040 All right.
00:35:29.640 So we'll see.
00:35:31.280 We'll see.
00:35:32.580 I just give you the 2015 caution that we've been here before with Trump.
00:35:38.100 Doesn't mean it will repeat, because you know what I say.
00:35:41.720 History never repeats.
00:35:44.120 Do you know why history never repeats?
00:35:46.780 It can't.
00:35:48.220 It's not even possible.
00:35:50.760 It can't repeat, because you're always starting from a different place.
00:35:55.720 If you're saying that you always get the same result, no matter what the situation when
00:35:59.680 you start from, that would just be nonsense.
00:36:03.080 History cannot repeat.
00:36:05.520 It's not even an option.
00:36:07.560 I'll tell you what can repeat.
00:36:10.180 People will always be people.
00:36:12.840 Follow the money is probably going to work in the future.
00:36:16.340 Follow the money, right?
00:36:17.400 That stuff repeats.
00:36:20.620 People will be selfish, devious weasels.
00:36:23.740 Yes.
00:36:24.800 That will repeat.
00:36:26.180 But you can't know exactly what the outcome is of the weaselness.
00:36:30.500 That part is unpredictable.
00:36:33.940 All right.
00:36:34.320 I'm getting now the Amazon reviews for my new book, Reframe Your Brain.
00:36:42.380 And there's always a few types of reviews that I look for.
00:36:47.340 My favorites are the I'm smarter than the author review.
00:36:53.320 I always get them, and they always look the same.
00:36:58.580 It's somebody saying, oh, when I read this book, there were so many things that I already
00:37:05.220 knew that for me it was a three out of five stars because of the already knowing everything
00:37:13.540 in the book.
00:37:14.220 But if I may, if you were young, let's say you were 13, this might be quite a book for
00:37:20.880 you because you, unlike me, would not know everything in the book before I read it.
00:37:27.220 Every book I've written has that guy.
00:37:30.060 And he just appeared today.
00:37:31.900 I was like, hey, the guy, that guy.
00:37:34.840 It's about time for that guy.
00:37:38.340 Basically, all authors have this.
00:37:41.000 All nonfiction authors have this.
00:37:43.640 There's always that guy who knows more than the author.
00:37:47.080 And the important thing is, the important thing is, not the review of the book, but that
00:37:53.300 this person tells you they know more than the author.
00:37:55.820 That's the point of the review.
00:37:58.420 So it's just such a narcissist kind of thing.
00:38:02.040 It's very predictable.
00:38:02.960 You always get it.
00:38:03.820 The other one you always get, I saw Tim Ferriss doing a reel about this recently.
00:38:09.280 But all authors get this.
00:38:11.240 And it goes like this.
00:38:12.280 You'll recognize this one.
00:38:15.660 I used to like Scott for the other things he did.
00:38:21.160 But I must say, right?
00:38:24.320 The I used to like him.
00:38:26.420 The I used to like him guy always shows up.
00:38:31.720 They never stay home.
00:38:33.380 They always show up.
00:38:35.400 And the used to like him guy is just, you wouldn't want to run into this one at a party.
00:38:41.760 Like you don't want to be their friend in real life.
00:38:45.520 Oh, I used to like him, but now.
00:38:49.360 And then there's also the political ones.
00:38:54.000 The people who use reviews just to get revenge because there's something I did once that they didn't like.
00:39:00.160 And those you can recognize.
00:39:02.680 For example, somebody called my current book Advice.
00:39:08.600 Advice?
00:39:09.200 It literally, and he said it was like common sense.
00:39:14.300 It was common sense advice.
00:39:16.000 It literally is a book that says this is not advice.
00:39:19.760 It says that much of the reframes are nonsense, but they work.
00:39:24.900 It's how to program your brain.
00:39:26.440 It's literally how to rearrange the structure of your brain.
00:39:30.200 And his take was, I've heard this advice before.
00:39:33.440 No, it's about the reframe.
00:39:35.180 The reframe is what makes the advice active.
00:39:38.100 How do you read the whole book and miss the biggest part of the book, which everybody else seemed to see pretty easily?
00:39:43.580 Now, the reason is he didn't read the book.
00:39:46.380 It's a negative review of somebody who picked up the book.
00:39:51.000 Here I will use Greg Gottfeld's new book as my example.
00:39:54.920 This is how this review gets written.
00:39:58.600 All right.
00:40:00.920 Oh, yeah, he's saying that people don't succeed every time.
00:40:07.120 Oh, I knew that people didn't succeed every time.
00:40:11.000 So I guess this is a book full of things that I don't need.
00:40:16.080 And then he writes a review.
00:40:18.520 So that guy always shows up.
00:40:22.320 All right.
00:40:24.400 No one else.
00:40:27.800 I saw Adam Kinzinger tweeted that Tucker is a traitor to the U.S.
00:40:33.560 Yep.
00:40:35.800 So Adam Kinzinger, he's in Congress and says Tucker is a traitor to the U.S.
00:40:43.260 because Tucker was going to talk to some Serbians for an interview.
00:40:47.720 Now, here's what would...
00:40:50.240 This is just some advice for Adam.
00:40:51.800 I gave him some advice.
00:40:52.640 If you want to call somebody a traitor, there's a way to do it.
00:41:00.720 And then there's a way not to do it.
00:41:02.380 A way not to call somebody a traitor is if your profile has a Ukrainian flag sitting equally to an American flag.
00:41:11.100 If you're going to call somebody else a traitor, you should at least temporarily remove the Ukrainian flag.
00:41:19.800 And if that's not good enough, you should also get rid of the phrase that he has that I believe is Slava Ukraine.
00:41:28.100 You might want to put in like a God bless America, something like that, and then just temporarily get rid of the Ukrainian flag and then the praise for Ukraine.
00:41:43.460 Just only for the purpose of calling other people traitors.
00:41:47.020 Then let a little time go by.
00:41:50.320 You could put it back.
00:41:51.540 Nobody will even make the connection.
00:41:53.660 But don't do it at the same time that you're promoting another country while you're sitting in Congress in the United States.
00:42:02.740 I think I've made my point.
00:42:06.280 All right.
00:42:06.880 I saw this comment from Glenn Greenwald who was looking at somebody else's tweet.
00:42:11.780 And I had never considered this, and therefore, I feel myself lacking.
00:42:20.240 So I'm chastising myself for not understanding this take.
00:42:26.100 And it goes like this.
00:42:28.840 This is Glenn Greenwald.
00:42:31.160 The group that by far most supports U.S. fueling of the war in Ukraine is self-identified liberal Democrats.
00:42:38.460 Even as Western media admits the counter-offensive is failing.
00:42:43.300 Here's the key part.
00:42:45.900 One major reason is that they loathe Russia due to 2016 and are thus willing to destroy Ukraine to harm Moscow.
00:42:56.640 Holy shit.
00:42:59.180 That's it.
00:43:01.220 That's it.
00:43:02.120 To the left, it looks like Russia got Trump elected.
00:43:10.280 To the left, Trump and Russia are the same orange monster.
00:43:15.240 They're the same thing.
00:43:17.640 That never even occurred to me.
00:43:19.820 Which, you know, I actually am apologizing for, because it's kind of obvious after you hear it.
00:43:24.660 It wasn't until I read it that my brain said, what?
00:43:30.720 Oh, my God, that's true.
00:43:33.500 Right?
00:43:33.940 Now, I'm not saying every person is having this, you know, specific thought.
00:43:37.960 Oh, Russia, Trump.
00:43:39.540 But if you ask Democrats, they'll say that Russia got Trump elected.
00:43:44.880 And that he was trying to be their friend.
00:43:47.400 And, you know, Russia and Trump are good buddies.
00:43:49.880 Because their news has abused them to the degree that they actually believe that.
00:43:53.640 Now, my blind spot is that, since I know that's baloney, it never occurred to me that anybody would see Trump and Russia as somehow connected in 2023.
00:44:05.400 Because, you know, it's all been debunked.
00:44:07.320 But on the left, they don't get real news.
00:44:10.320 They get the zombie news that never gets debunked.
00:44:14.660 It's like, well, we said it, so I guess we'll just keep saying it.
00:44:18.700 And even though people are debunking it outside your bubble, you'll never know.
00:44:23.660 Because you never leave your bubble.
00:44:26.660 So, I really think there's something to that.
00:44:29.340 How many would agree?
00:44:34.040 JFJ.
00:44:34.840 Scott hasn't had any good ideas in years.
00:44:37.620 But how many agree that Russia may look like the big bad enemy to the left because they think it's Trump.
00:44:55.220 And they don't even know that it's all, that they think it's all one big thing.
00:45:01.100 Yeah, that does make sense.
00:45:02.440 But it also makes me wonder if there's some way to fix that.
00:45:06.520 And I doubt it because the hoaxes that drive it, they all believe.
00:45:11.180 And how do you get them out of the bubble?
00:45:13.520 Now, I saw some speculation that one of the reasons that Elon Musk wants to get rid of blocking
00:45:20.960 is that it would disable mass blocking lists, which apparently exist.
00:45:27.120 I've never seen one or participated in one, but I might be on one.
00:45:31.340 And I know, could somebody fill in the new guy on Locals?
00:45:47.120 Could you fill him in?
00:45:51.720 Please?
00:45:52.560 Thank you.
00:45:56.460 What was I talking about?
00:45:57.860 Which is why I'm asking you to fill him in.
00:45:59.900 See, it derails me.
00:46:01.900 There's some kinds of comments that derail me.
00:46:05.660 So anything about the process ruins the show.
00:46:10.100 So if I'm in the middle of talking something and you tell me about the lighting being inadequate,
00:46:17.160 the sound being inadequate, where I haven't hit the private button,
00:46:22.080 then my mind goes to process.
00:46:24.720 All right?
00:46:25.300 If my mind is in process, then I can't do the show.
00:46:29.960 So just don't do that.
00:46:32.920 So I'd ask the other locals, people, just to let the other people know,
00:46:37.240 don't do that during the show.
00:46:39.300 I mean, if you do it during the man cave or something, then that's different.
00:46:42.620 But don't do it right in the middle of the show.
00:46:45.260 That's a bad idea.
00:46:46.500 All right, the block lists.
00:46:47.420 Thank you.
00:46:47.800 Do they exist?
00:46:51.920 I'm not sure that's real.
00:46:53.720 Do Democrats have big block lists?
00:46:55.680 And let me ask you it the other way.
00:46:57.160 Is there anybody who's ever used a block list?
00:47:00.520 I've never even seen one.
00:47:03.280 I'm seeing some yeses.
00:47:04.800 Answer me, have you used one?
00:47:07.700 Has anybody used one?
00:47:09.800 Has anybody used one?
00:47:10.240 Some have used one, it looks like.
00:47:16.700 Well, it can't be a big thing.
00:47:18.840 Now, so the question I have is I heard that you've seen studies that the people on the left
00:47:26.340 don't see tweets from people on the right and vice versa.
00:47:30.600 But is that because of block lists?
00:47:32.640 I don't think it is.
00:47:33.660 I think that's just organic.
00:47:37.160 All right, well, I have a question on fact about that.
00:47:40.600 To me, it seems like the division or the, you know, the silos of information have more
00:47:46.040 to do with the fact that you don't follow people you don't want to follow.
00:47:51.240 Yeah.
00:47:52.040 It seems like if you don't follow the other side, you're not going to see their stuff. 0.98
00:47:55.540 So I don't think that has anything to do with the blocking stuff.
00:47:59.120 Now, and then keep in mind, it's not just about blocking and muting.
00:48:05.560 Linda Iaccarino, new head of Twitter,
00:48:08.540 is saying that they're working on something that would be better than blocking and muting.
00:48:13.540 Maybe it is.
00:48:14.920 I'll wait and see.
00:48:16.260 I'm in favor of any kind of experimenting that can be reversed.
00:48:20.540 And this would be exactly that kind.
00:48:23.000 It sounds like it would be bad for me.
00:48:26.540 It sounds like it.
00:48:27.620 But, like I've said before, I would not want X to base its policy on what's good for a thin slice of specific kind of users
00:48:39.140 at a certain size.
00:48:41.840 You know, it should be for everybody.
00:48:43.960 I hate to say it, but my personal preferences should not have anything to do with policy at X.
00:48:50.340 What are my top leftist follows?
00:48:57.120 Good question.
00:48:58.660 I follow Joe Biden.
00:49:01.220 I think I follow some White House accounts.
00:49:07.920 That's a good question.
00:49:09.040 I know there have been a number of people.
00:49:13.280 I think I follow George Takai.
00:49:17.000 I know.
00:49:18.140 But, you know, some of the people I follow are just flamethrowers.
00:49:22.980 You know, George Takai is like a really interesting leftist.
00:49:28.340 His tweets are really good.
00:49:29.580 I think I follow AOC.
00:49:34.540 I think I follow Soros.
00:49:41.360 Yeah.
00:49:42.180 I mean, I think I follow Jenk.
00:49:46.360 I think I follow him.
00:49:48.660 Krasenstein's I blocked.
00:49:50.740 They were...
00:49:52.580 I couldn't handle them.
00:49:55.940 Olbermann I still see.
00:49:57.420 I don't block him.
00:49:58.220 I don't remember if I follow him.
00:50:00.400 I don't think I follow him.
00:50:02.900 But, yeah.
00:50:06.060 Obama, probably.
00:50:07.340 I think I follow Obama.
00:50:09.880 All right.
00:50:10.660 So, if anybody has...
00:50:13.940 You know, I'll tell you what.
00:50:15.840 Ben Garrison.
00:50:18.080 I'll tell you what.
00:50:19.020 If there are Democrats you think that I should follow, let me know.
00:50:25.280 Because it doesn't really help me.
00:50:29.800 Fuck you.
00:50:31.200 God damn it.
00:50:33.820 Oh.
00:50:35.180 All right.
00:50:35.860 I'm going to end the show now.
00:50:37.320 For YouTube.
00:50:38.240 YouTube, thanks for joining.
00:50:39.320 One day.
00:50:39.980 One day.
00:50:40.740 Two, both of them.
00:50:45.000 I'll tell you about it.
00:50:51.560 Two.
00:50:54.740 One day.
00:50:55.720 So, I'm going to end the show.
00:50:57.140 One day.
00:50:57.580 Thank you.
00:50:57.860 One day.
00:50:58.200 One day.
00:50:59.440 I'm going to end the show now.
00:51:00.960 All right.
00:51:02.140 One day.