Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 23, 2023


Episode 2209 Scott Adams： Wow, The News Is Fascinating Today. Bring Coffee


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How did we get here? How did God get here, and how did we end up here? Is there a God? And if so, what did he do with us? And why did he create us?

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00:00:00.000 Do-do-do.
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00:00:03.760 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
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00:00:46.980 If anybody would like to inform the new people of what not to say in the comments,
00:00:52.980 this would be a good time to do it.
00:00:54.380 Now, we've got all kinds of interesting news today.
00:00:59.860 It's like extra interesting stuff.
00:01:03.640 So don't go anywhere.
00:01:05.480 This show is going to get better and better as it proceeds.
00:01:09.000 Now, number one, a story from phys.org did eight different experiments at the Mustafa Karatas of Nazarbayev University.
00:01:24.700 And many of you are familiar with the Mustafa Karatas of Nazarbayev University.
00:01:33.080 But they found that actively thinking about God promotes acceptance of AI recommendations in a variety of contexts.
00:01:41.920 So if you're thinking about God, and AI suggests a movie, or a financial product, or a dental treatment,
00:01:50.760 people are more likely to believe the AI.
00:01:54.440 Huh.
00:01:55.780 You know, some would say that AI is just God reassembling.
00:02:04.080 I'll just wait.
00:02:08.760 Waiting for it.
00:02:10.700 Now, that was a comment that 20% of the listeners just said, holy shit.
00:02:17.580 And 80% said, I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to there.
00:02:21.200 It sounds like there's a part of this I don't know.
00:02:23.560 And here's the part you don't know.
00:02:25.760 I can't tell you.
00:02:26.880 But if you read a book called God's Debris, I don't want to be a spoiler.
00:02:36.300 But you're really going to be interested in what AI really is.
00:02:42.160 That's all I'm going to say.
00:02:43.640 That's all I'm going to say.
00:02:44.940 Anyway, you could buy that book if it weren't canceled everywhere.
00:02:48.380 But you could probably get a used one.
00:02:50.600 And if you're on the Locals platform, scottitems.locals.com,
00:02:53.780 you can get it for free in PDF form.
00:02:57.580 But that's neither here nor there.
00:02:59.600 Yes, here's my answer to the question.
00:03:03.900 The big question of reality is this.
00:03:07.980 How did we get here unless some intelligence, such as God, created us?
00:03:14.420 Pretty good question.
00:03:16.480 How the heck did we get here?
00:03:18.320 But then somebody else will say, well, good try.
00:03:22.500 But how did God get here?
00:03:24.860 Now, if your answer is God was always here, not so good,
00:03:29.580 because you could say reality was always here.
00:03:32.900 There was always something here, whether it was God or what God made or something.
00:03:38.120 Always had to be something.
00:03:39.580 Because we imagine that you can't have something come out of nothing.
00:03:42.700 But so how do you balance that?
00:03:47.720 Well, here's the way I do it.
00:03:51.160 Einstein said time was an illusion, persistent illusion.
00:03:55.440 Now, really, you should think in terms of space-time and the movement of things
00:03:59.400 compared to other things as time.
00:04:01.560 But to me, the only answer that makes sense is that time is cyclical, meaning that it loops.
00:04:12.740 So that would suggest that there's a time in between God, and there always will be that time reoccurring.
00:04:21.280 So there will always be a time there is God in its fullest form.
00:04:26.340 There would be a time when God is in its assembling form, you know, starting to become a full God.
00:04:32.380 And there would be times when there's not much God happening.
00:04:35.680 For example, at the time of the singularity just prior to the Big Bang, did God exist in its full form where everything was one?
00:04:49.480 Or was it still assembling?
00:04:52.360 Then the Big Bang happens, and it looks like there's nothing but debris.
00:04:58.720 No intelligence.
00:04:59.880 Then slowly over time, to the unscientific observer, it would look like magic.
00:05:08.800 All of this debris starts reforming through gravity and physics and some basic forces of the universe
00:05:19.000 until eventually there's something like a living something.
00:05:23.180 And then that living something perhaps evolves.
00:05:26.360 And then eventually you have intelligence.
00:05:28.760 say, say, animals, people.
00:05:32.400 And then eventually those animals, mostly the people, start forming something called an internet.
00:05:39.880 And now the individual intelligence become part of a larger intelligence.
00:05:45.520 And then you add AI.
00:05:49.460 And then you keep evolving.
00:05:52.220 Anyway, do you know that human beings, collectively, we will be able to shape planets and perhaps create them from scratch?
00:06:02.700 We almost certainly will be able to create new life forms by DNA manipulation.
00:06:08.420 And I wouldn't be surprised if we're too far away from creating life and of things which are not alive.
00:06:14.800 Just to show that that can be done.
00:06:17.220 So, one theory is that we are in a time of God, but God is not, and yet, fully formed.
00:06:27.720 And maybe you don't want that.
00:06:31.360 No, probably you do.
00:06:34.320 But one possibility that explains everything, which doesn't mean it's true, right?
00:06:40.940 There's a big difference between fits all the observation and actually true.
00:06:46.160 Those don't have to be the same.
00:06:47.320 But what fits my observation is that there can't be a beginning of things.
00:06:53.660 There can only be a cyclical reality.
00:06:56.620 So, we're probably phasing in and out of a time when there's something like a God-like entity
00:07:03.000 that is all-intelligent and all-capable.
00:07:06.160 And times when there is not.
00:07:08.280 Such as when the universe shrinks back to its final form.
00:07:13.460 And then does it all again.
00:07:15.140 So, that's one possibility.
00:07:17.220 I'm not saying that's true.
00:07:18.700 But if you want to read a fascinating book about it, God's Debris is the one.
00:07:22.320 All right.
00:07:23.160 The debates are tonight.
00:07:25.800 Tonight are the debates.
00:07:27.580 Here's why you can hate the Republican Party.
00:07:34.700 You can really hate them.
00:07:36.880 So, Larry Elder is banned for a technical reason about a poll.
00:07:43.240 You don't need to know the details.
00:07:45.860 But it could have been interpreted either way.
00:07:48.400 In other words, you could have gone either way on letting Larry Elder in.
00:07:52.420 But the Republicans decided he would be out.
00:07:55.640 Now, here's what bothers me about that.
00:07:57.700 It's not so much that I think Larry Elder's shot at being president is high.
00:08:02.380 Although I like him a lot.
00:08:03.500 He'd be cool as president.
00:08:04.520 But he's bringing to the conversation a topic of great interest and concern.
00:08:13.080 So, I think he's primarily running because he wants to promote his message about the need for family units as the organizing principle.
00:08:21.940 And that's, like, a really important topic.
00:08:27.480 And although I've got a little bit of a slight difference on his opinion, I think we need to figure out what to do for all the people who just will never have the option of creating a family.
00:08:38.400 It just won't work for everybody.
00:08:40.460 But I would agree that if you could make it work, you know, a good, solid family would be the ideal situation.
00:08:46.120 So, don't you want to see Larry Elder on a big stage where lots of people are watching and promote that very valuable topic?
00:08:57.560 Because you could argue that's the base problem for everything.
00:09:02.340 Could you not?
00:09:03.560 Don't you think it's a fair statement that what Larry Elder would bring to the conversation, whether he has a chance of being president or not,
00:09:11.980 is the most important base thing, which is how do we train children and how do we support each other as individuals?
00:09:20.800 The family.
00:09:22.280 And again, I feel like we need more than the family.
00:09:25.980 But that's a good starting point for a conversation.
00:09:28.440 So, the fact that the Republicans would use some little bullshit, Rasmussen poll has something they don't like about it,
00:09:36.800 and they can take out of the national conversation the most important topic, the most important topic.
00:09:45.640 Whose side are they on, right?
00:09:47.640 Who are they working for?
00:09:48.900 Are they working for the benefit of the country?
00:09:51.700 Because if you want to benefit the country, put his voice in there.
00:09:55.460 He's closer to the source than anybody else.
00:10:00.500 You know, I love Vivek.
00:10:02.660 I love, you know, actually a number of the candidates are pretty solid.
00:10:05.600 But he's really bringing something of value that you don't have to wait for.
00:10:11.800 You don't have to wait for the election.
00:10:14.220 He's bringing it right now.
00:10:16.040 Now, I say the same thing about RFK Jr.
00:10:18.420 You know, he's obviously not in a Republican debate.
00:10:20.980 I say the same thing about Vivek.
00:10:23.220 I think they're bringing actual real-world value in the context of campaigning,
00:10:29.500 and I don't think we can miss that.
00:10:31.960 That's just too important to miss.
00:10:35.600 I haven't even started blowing your minds.
00:10:41.260 There's weirder stuff coming.
00:10:43.420 I mean, the good stuff's coming.
00:10:44.420 All right, so let me get a feel of the viewers here.
00:10:50.680 I already asked the locals' subscribers over here before I signed on to YouTube.
00:10:56.220 But I want to see YouTube, too.
00:10:58.140 Who are you going to watch tonight if you're going to watch anything?
00:11:00.440 Are you going to watch Trump and Tucker, who is counter-programming the debates?
00:11:04.640 Or are you going to watch Fox News?
00:11:05.960 I guess it's on Fox and the Republican debate.
00:11:08.520 Go.
00:11:09.720 Tucker or Fox News?
00:11:14.140 You could say neither.
00:11:16.840 All right.
00:11:17.840 I'm seeing a lot of both.
00:11:20.580 A lot of both.
00:11:22.180 How many people are going to double-screen it?
00:11:25.280 Two screens?
00:11:25.960 Because I, yeah, maybe a little bit, huh?
00:11:30.880 At least for commercials.
00:11:33.600 All right.
00:11:34.240 So if I do a man cave tonight, which is a live stream just for the locals' people,
00:11:40.400 I think I would watch the debate only because I feel like I know what Trump's going to say to Tucker.
00:11:46.540 I don't feel like there's any surprise in Trump versus Tucker, so I'll watch that in replay.
00:11:52.480 But there could be a surprise in the debate, maybe, because Vivek is in the debate, right?
00:11:58.920 And Chris Christie, he might have a little surprise.
00:12:02.020 You know, I think he's a weak candidate, but he's interesting.
00:12:06.280 You know, he says fun stuff.
00:12:10.080 How did you get back here?
00:12:11.600 Oh, all right.
00:12:15.220 That's how.
00:12:17.500 Hold on.
00:12:18.160 I've got to ban somebody again.
00:12:21.520 You'll disappear in a minute.
00:12:23.540 All right.
00:12:25.400 So I'll probably watch the debate.
00:12:28.340 All right.
00:12:28.620 Here's your fake news alert.
00:12:30.340 Fake news.
00:12:31.420 I think these are fake news, but I'm not 100% sure.
00:12:36.780 Apparently, the video of Joe Biden visiting Maui because of the disaster
00:12:41.140 there are videos of people chanting F Joe Biden.
00:12:47.020 There's a fact check on Twitter that I call X that suggests that the audio was added
00:12:54.440 and that the chanting was not part of the actual, which is a pretty big difference.
00:13:00.540 Pretty big difference.
00:13:01.420 I would have to admit, if that was fake, fooled me, I got fooled.
00:13:07.440 I tell you, there's no amount of understanding that video is fake and can be fake and is usually
00:13:15.860 on a cut.
00:13:16.480 There's no amount of it that can make you invulnerable to it because you really can't go through life
00:13:23.180 believing literally nothing.
00:13:25.340 You just sort of have to believe something.
00:13:29.240 So you end up latching onto things because they haven't been yet debunked.
00:13:34.340 But man, that burns.
00:13:36.500 I got to feel like I touched the oven on that one.
00:13:40.520 Now, do I feel stupid?
00:13:42.320 A little bit.
00:13:43.600 A little bit.
00:13:44.220 Now, also, I'd have to say I'm not 100% sure it's fake.
00:13:48.620 I'm not 100% sure.
00:13:50.000 I think more likely than not it is, but not completely sure.
00:13:56.120 So that's one.
00:13:58.040 Here's another one that, again, I'm not sure which is true.
00:14:01.880 But you all heard the story, I think, of the water resources manager guy in Maui who allegedly
00:14:08.820 did not release the magic water because it's Maui's special water and the gods would be mad
00:14:15.280 or whatever it is.
00:14:16.140 I don't know.
00:14:16.360 Something woke, something native.
00:14:18.640 I'm not sure exactly what it was.
00:14:20.580 But now I'm hearing that maybe that was, yeah, that it wasn't about water equity or anything.
00:14:27.440 That it was actually just fake news.
00:14:30.440 And that the real news, the real story is complicated.
00:14:33.680 And there might have been some water held back from the helicopter operation which couldn't
00:14:39.140 fly anyway because the wind was too high.
00:14:41.940 Now, if it turns out that that's the story, and that's not confirmed in my opinion, if it
00:14:46.600 turns out that's the story, that water was withheld, but not from anything that mattered,
00:14:52.680 it was just logically withheld from a place that didn't need it, that's going to look a lot
00:14:57.220 different.
00:14:58.580 It's going to look a lot different.
00:14:59.740 Now, you could also say, Scott, Scott, Scott, do not be naive.
00:15:06.060 Of course they've come up with a narrative that cleverly explains their mistake.
00:15:12.180 Maybe.
00:15:12.520 But here's my rule.
00:15:15.320 There's one person being blamed.
00:15:18.680 Not the government.
00:15:21.080 There's one person being blamed.
00:15:22.620 And my rule is, innocent until proven guilty, which I don't think I've done a good job of
00:15:28.520 following my own advice.
00:15:31.500 He's one individual.
00:15:33.700 He's one individual.
00:15:35.520 Maybe he did something bad.
00:15:37.660 But he is innocent until proven guilty.
00:15:40.200 And I blame myself for retweeting anything that put the onus on one person.
00:15:46.720 Now, had it been a governmental thing, then you reverse the assumption.
00:15:54.600 If it's the government, you know, collectively, then I think you can say that the government
00:16:00.560 is always guilty until they prove they're not.
00:16:04.440 You know, they need to be transparent, or else you just have to assume it's sketchy.
00:16:09.420 Right?
00:16:10.480 So that's the rule.
00:16:11.820 I'll say it a million times.
00:16:13.000 If it's a citizen of the United States, one person, absolutely innocent, you better bring 1.00
00:16:20.260 the proof.
00:16:21.540 And the water guy, I'm not happy I see any proof.
00:16:25.900 You know, you better do that in a court of law.
00:16:29.000 And I apologize for retweeting anything in that domain.
00:16:34.700 But the government, you know, the government in Maui, you better be a little more transparent.
00:16:40.000 All right.
00:16:42.300 So that's maybe two fake newses.
00:16:46.820 Here's something that is, I guess, confirmed now.
00:16:50.700 That X, that some people call Twitter, had block lists.
00:16:57.200 So you could block a whole list of people based on some criteria, which probably had the impact
00:17:05.180 of making us be siloed, so that you couldn't even see the arguments on the other side.
00:17:11.740 For example, how many of you never heard that there was another story about that Maui water guy?
00:17:19.240 How many have never heard that there's some alternate, I don't know what's true,
00:17:23.080 but there's an alternate narrative for that?
00:17:25.360 Did you even hear that?
00:17:28.360 Right?
00:17:29.800 Right?
00:17:30.360 Probably not.
00:17:31.000 Now, how many times have you seen that people on the left are completely unaware of things
00:17:38.080 that the right talks about, reports on all the time?
00:17:41.460 Completely unaware.
00:17:43.160 Now, so these block lists can't be helping.
00:17:45.940 Because you know nobody is blocking people they agree with.
00:17:50.120 They're blocking the people who are saying things that they don't want to hear.
00:17:53.520 So one suggestion was to have, instead of a block list, to have a counterpoint list.
00:18:00.600 A counterpoint list, which I would sign up for immediately.
00:18:04.840 Counterpoint list would look at the things I'm tweeting, and it would automatically feed me the counterpoint.
00:18:12.600 Now, I don't know if the system can identify a counterpoint,
00:18:15.680 but I would accept counterpoint individuals to follow.
00:18:19.680 So it might be that there's somebody who's just extra good to follow,
00:18:24.340 who doesn't bullshit too much, but is on a side that I don't normally hear about.
00:18:30.160 I would sign up for that in a heartbeat.
00:18:32.780 Because I don't want to be under-informed.
00:18:35.600 I don't want to have an opinion and not know there's some other narrative out there
00:18:39.080 that I could at least evaluate.
00:18:40.780 So yes, Elon Musk, we need a counterpoint list that assertively gives us counterpoints
00:18:49.920 that we were not expecting.
00:18:52.260 It's the opposite of the silo.
00:18:54.520 It fixes everything.
00:18:56.240 Now, I don't know if Elon Musk has even considered something like that,
00:19:01.740 but I'm sure that if he heard it, his first impression would be,
00:19:06.780 if it could be done, it would be a good feature.
00:19:09.280 If it could be done.
00:19:10.620 It might not be practical exactly, but I'd be certainly open to a little testing.
00:19:16.900 I'd love to know, for example, who is the Democrat version of me?
00:19:24.440 Is there one?
00:19:26.300 Like, who's the person who clearly identifies as Democrat,
00:19:30.520 although I'm a registered Democrat at the moment?
00:19:33.120 But who would it be who can...
00:19:36.120 Well, Bill Maher.
00:19:36.780 I don't know if he's registered Democrat, though, is he?
00:19:40.080 He might be independent.
00:19:42.240 So...
00:19:43.000 I don't know.
00:19:46.800 So I still have my offer out on Twitter.
00:19:50.000 If Bill Maher wants to have me come on his Club Random show
00:19:56.220 and explain how all of the hoaxes are executed,
00:20:00.120 just in case there are any that he still believes,
00:20:03.020 I thought that would be the greatest show.
00:20:07.200 Now, I don't think I'm going to be invited on the show,
00:20:09.480 but I thought I'd put it out there.
00:20:11.820 At least it's available if they'd like that.
00:20:16.540 All right, here's a study that Dr. Jordan Peterson just tweeted,
00:20:21.760 and I just saw it just before I got on,
00:20:25.080 so I didn't get to see all the details,
00:20:27.700 but apparently there was a study where people were put on an all-meat diet,
00:20:32.620 which sounds like it's similar to what Dr. Peterson has been on for a long time,
00:20:37.660 and apparently has had great outcomes.
00:20:42.300 It was sort of the only thing that helped his health issues that were pretty extreme,
00:20:46.040 but now he's pretty much all good on his all-meat diet.
00:20:51.520 But the study said that there was a 90% improvement in all diseases.
00:20:57.700 What?
00:21:00.220 What?
00:21:02.380 Did I read that right?
00:21:04.640 A 90% improvement in all diseases.
00:21:10.960 Well, that can't be.
00:21:12.680 A-L-L. 1.00
00:21:16.040 That still means all of them, right?
00:21:19.540 Did they change the meaning of the word all?
00:21:22.800 Did they actually have a 90% improvement in all diseases?
00:21:27.320 All diseases?
00:21:29.720 Apparently 100% of the people who went on the diet got off diabetes medicine.
00:21:39.160 All of them.
00:21:42.520 All of them.
00:21:44.240 Yeah.
00:21:44.500 Now, let's put on our skeptical hats.
00:21:50.460 Skeptical hats.
00:21:51.700 What's wrong with the study?
00:21:53.680 Without knowing anything about it, what's wrong with it?
00:21:56.680 Go.
00:21:58.400 Well, some studies are fake.
00:22:01.000 Who funded it?
00:22:02.500 Who funded it?
00:22:04.320 I'm just going to take a guess.
00:22:05.920 The meat industry, maybe.
00:22:11.380 Big cow. 0.96
00:22:12.160 I don't know.
00:22:13.760 Maybe.
00:22:14.560 I don't know that.
00:22:16.240 So, but if you see a study of this nature, and at the same time you see the study, you don't see who funded it, what credibility should you give a study where you don't know who funded it?
00:22:27.620 Go.
00:22:27.940 Go.
00:22:27.960 Go.
00:22:28.460 What is the level of credibility for a study that you don't know who funded it?
00:22:34.200 Zero.
00:22:35.260 Zero.
00:22:35.700 Thank you.
00:22:36.060 Now, as I often say, the crowd that follows me is the smartest crowd in America.
00:22:46.100 And I say that because we actually go over the mechanism quite regularly, over the mechanism of what makes something credible, whereas almost everybody else who talks about the news just says, here's a study.
00:23:02.520 That's where we used to be.
00:23:04.700 If you're believing studies after the pandemic, what did you miss?
00:23:10.380 How did you miss all of that studies are fake?
00:23:13.440 All right, but there's something else.
00:23:16.700 There's something else here that's just gigantically standing out as a flaw with a study without knowing anything.
00:23:24.460 I don't know anything about the study, and yet I can see a giant flaw.
00:23:29.940 Do you see it yet?
00:23:34.620 Here's the problem.
00:23:36.780 How do you know the benefits are from eating the meat versus, wait, your mind is going to be blown.
00:23:44.740 How do you know the benefit came from eating meat or not eating processed foods anymore?
00:23:55.340 How's your brain doing?
00:23:57.900 Yeah?
00:23:58.340 How's your brain doing right now?
00:24:01.260 So when I first said it, you thought, oh, meat is good for you.
00:24:04.600 And maybe it is.
00:24:05.660 That might be exactly what's happening.
00:24:08.720 But what would happen if you did a control where 100% of the people were taken off of, let's say, processed foods entirely?
00:24:19.780 And you gave them nothing but vegetables.
00:24:23.600 You made sure that they supplemented.
00:24:26.200 Let's say you make sure they supplement so they're getting their vitamin Bs and stuff that's hard to get from a vegetarian diet.
00:24:33.120 How do you think they would do?
00:24:37.340 Do you think they would get off of their diabetes medicines?
00:24:46.260 I don't know.
00:24:47.780 I don't know.
00:24:49.840 My best guess is that there's a little of both happening.
00:24:54.220 Both meaning meat's probably pretty good for you.
00:24:56.660 And by the way, I don't eat it like I eat fish, but I don't eat meat.
00:25:03.440 So believe me when I say this, you know, it's not coming from a place of bias.
00:25:09.780 My bias would be, oh, everything I do is a smart thing to do.
00:25:13.580 But I would say that the meat is bad for you belief of most of my life, you know, seems to be debunked.
00:25:23.800 Would you agree that the meat is bad for you that I used to believe for decades?
00:25:30.320 That seems to be debunked.
00:25:32.200 There does seem to be maybe something to how you prepare it.
00:25:36.560 Maybe.
00:25:37.900 There might be a risk in how you prepare it.
00:25:40.340 You know, if you burn it or something.
00:25:42.580 But at this point, it seems like the evidence is starting to support, you know, exactly what you thought.
00:25:50.040 That humans have eaten meat forever, and it's probably not that bad for us.
00:25:54.760 So maybe it's the keto diet.
00:25:56.680 Maybe it's something else.
00:25:57.620 My guess is it might be, you know, 75% of the benefit is from not eating shit, and 25% of the benefit is from eating something that's, you know, full of the nutrients you need, such as meat.
00:26:10.660 Best guess.
00:26:11.960 But I think that's all to be determined.
00:26:15.080 All right.
00:26:15.500 But my book, Reframe Your Brain, still waiting for the final approval from Amazon that it will be available, which could happen.
00:26:27.020 I just checked my phone because it could happen any minute.
00:26:29.100 So we've done the final step, and we got a warning that it sailed through okay.
00:26:35.260 It just has to physically be on the site, and that just takes a while, I guess.
00:26:40.980 But I wanted to add one thing.
00:26:42.360 I saw one critic who said that my book, Reframe Your Brain, which is already available on Kindle.
00:26:48.460 We're just waiting for the soft cover to drop.
00:26:50.560 Any hour now, it should happen.
00:26:51.940 But somebody said that it was a book of advice, and that he pointed out that some of the advice would be something that, you know, an adult who's well-informed would already know.
00:27:05.420 Now, here's what he's missing, because I don't think you could read the book and have that actual opinion.
00:27:11.820 Because a lot of the book is dedicated to telling you that's not what's happening.
00:27:15.620 It's not advice.
00:27:18.060 Here's what advice looks like.
00:27:19.560 I talked to you for 30 minutes.
00:27:23.720 That's what advice looks like.
00:27:25.180 Or you read a book, and there's, like, long explanation of why you should do this or that.
00:27:30.020 That's advice.
00:27:31.840 A reframe takes the best part of advice sometimes, but not all the time.
00:27:38.360 So it's the Venn diagrams of advice, and reframes are not overlapped.
00:27:44.300 They overlap a little.
00:27:46.040 So there are definitely some that are advice and are also reframes.
00:27:51.760 But reframes don't have to make sense.
00:27:53.840 Advice does.
00:27:55.320 Advice has to make sense.
00:27:57.500 A reframe could be irrational and still work.
00:28:01.040 That's really important to understand what a reframe is versus advice.
00:28:05.220 But in some cases, you can take advice that does make sense, put it into a sentence that's well-constructed as the one that you repeat.
00:28:15.560 And it's that sentence well-constructed that makes your advice operational.
00:28:23.040 It makes it operational.
00:28:24.320 Reading about it in a book can make it operational, too.
00:28:28.320 There are definitely people who can say, hey, I saw this idea.
00:28:30.800 I think I'll try it.
00:28:31.780 It was in a book.
00:28:33.260 But for most people, the fastest way to get there is to read a one-sensis reframe where you go, whoa, that makes sense.
00:28:42.500 Or you repeat it in your mind and you go, it doesn't make sense, but it seems to be working.
00:28:46.700 So the idea is that you're reprogramming your brain to be optimized.
00:28:53.580 Some of that reprogramming is based on commonsensical good advice stuff, like systems are better than goals.
00:29:01.240 Just, you know, shortened to become a reframe.
00:29:05.080 And some of it is purely irrational.
00:29:07.560 Let me give you an example.
00:29:09.000 Alcohol is poison.
00:29:10.960 It's not exactly a logical argument.
00:29:13.240 It's more like trying to make you feel bad when you think of alcohol.
00:29:18.380 It's about an emotional argument that has utility.
00:29:22.120 So if you know you're reprogramming your own brain, you're not manipulating, because it's yourself.
00:29:28.060 You can manipulate yourself to think of something negative when it's associated with a thing you don't want to do.
00:29:34.980 Right?
00:29:35.400 That's not advice, per se.
00:29:37.640 That's literally directly programming your brain to have associations that are not rational.
00:29:43.720 So it's actually closer to the opposite of advice, but it does incorporate advice.
00:29:50.600 So that's just a little point you might have missed.
00:29:54.280 So when a hypnotist writes a book, there's usually a little extra flavor happening.
00:29:58.940 All right.
00:30:00.840 I have a theme for the rest of my presentation today.
00:30:03.300 It's called The Arrogance of Scott Adams.
00:30:07.220 Because you know me.
00:30:09.260 Pretty, pretty arrogant.
00:30:11.420 Let me give you an example.
00:30:13.240 So RFK Jr. was saying that the CIA, as we know, famously used to control the media back in the Operation Mockingbird days.
00:30:23.800 So that was actually a CIA operation to give functional control of the political messaging in all the media.
00:30:33.200 Now, that was allegedly discontinued.
00:30:37.400 How the hell do you just keep coming back?
00:30:40.500 I've canceled you twice now.
00:30:43.200 All right.
00:30:44.380 Damn it.
00:30:45.040 Somebody that's hard to kill here.
00:30:46.360 And so do we all agree with the base case that the CIA definitely, this is well documented at this point, I don't think anybody's arguing about it, that they did used to control the U.S. media and tried to control other media as well.
00:31:06.020 Now, RFK Jr. says that the thing that's less well known is that that started up again under Obama, I think.
00:31:15.300 So Obama, I think, changed the rules so that the CIA could operate domestically.
00:31:20.300 Do I have that right?
00:31:21.240 Give me a fact check on that.
00:31:22.780 And that allowing them to operate domestically allowed them to get back inside the media operations.
00:31:29.980 Now, according to RFK Jr., this is his accusation.
00:31:33.700 There are a number of notable media outlets that are well known to be, let's say, penetrated by the intelligence groups.
00:31:43.120 He names specifically the New York Times, Rolling Stone, I think Politico was on his list, and Washington Post.
00:31:51.200 So the Washington Post is one that RFK Jr. calls out as being CIA-influenced.
00:32:01.220 Now, let's say you were trying to hold that in your head and understand the world that you've been seeing based on that filter, that the media is a CIA operation, or at least influenced.
00:32:14.460 Now, let me connect a few dots and see if using that filter makes you look at a familiar story a little differently.
00:32:23.500 So here are some other things we know.
00:32:25.420 You ready to have your mind blown?
00:32:27.360 I told you there's more coming.
00:32:29.900 You ready?
00:32:30.880 Okay.
00:32:33.240 Here are things we know that are true.
00:32:34.900 The Hunter laptop cover-up seemed to be intelligence-related, and you can tell that that was a Democrat operation.
00:32:46.040 Would you agree?
00:32:47.380 That it wasn't just, you know, Brennan and Clapper.
00:32:51.080 It was clearly a Democrat operation.
00:32:54.800 Would you be able to say that that's a good indication that Democrats control the CIA?
00:33:02.840 Yes or no?
00:33:03.400 Would you say that Democrats, and I'm not saying every part of it, because I'm sure there are plenty of Republicans who work for the CIA,
00:33:12.180 but in terms of the big political stuff, such as the laptop cover-up, et cetera,
00:33:18.100 is it fair to say that Democrats must have some big influence over some part of the intelligence apparatus?
00:33:25.300 All right, so if you accept that, then you've got, so far you've connected the dots, right?
00:33:34.160 So you've got Democrats influencing the CIA, because they are Democrats in many cases,
00:33:41.040 and then the CIA influencing the media.
00:33:44.160 So that would be the Democrats influence the media directly in some cases, we know that,
00:33:52.000 but also through the CIA could control the media in a second way which is compatible.
00:33:57.860 Now, did you know that, and of course Washington Post is named by RFK Jr.
00:34:06.640 as one of the obvious ones that are, so did you know that the Washington Post was the primary entity recently?
00:34:18.780 Now, they weren't the only ones who canceled me, but the way the newspaper industry works is if the leading paper,
00:34:25.840 they're the biggest paper that also carries comics.
00:34:28.140 New York Times doesn't have comics.
00:34:30.260 Wall Street Journal doesn't have comics.
00:34:32.280 But the biggest, most influential paper that also had comics was the Washington Post.
00:34:38.360 So when they went public canceling me, it made it almost necessary that everybody else canceled me, right?
00:34:47.640 So now let's go back to the start.
00:34:50.480 Democrats control the CIA and also the media directly.
00:34:56.020 They collectively control the media.
00:34:59.060 The media controls the Washington Post.
00:35:01.840 The Washington Post canceled me.
00:35:05.340 No Republican entity canceled me.
00:35:07.480 Did you know that?
00:35:09.540 Now, I'm sure there were some Republican-leaning newspapers,
00:35:13.000 but once the big one does the canceling, everybody else, you can't be the one who didn't, right?
00:35:17.440 So it starts a thing which nobody can resist.
00:35:20.660 They have to go along.
00:35:22.940 So there's no Republican entity that said, you're canceled.
00:35:29.520 In fact, many of them invited me on to talk about it, right?
00:35:33.760 Now, is it political?
00:35:37.960 Well, here's the arrogance of Scott part.
00:35:42.560 I suggested that I can't know if I got canceled for reasons that, let's say, were just the public.
00:35:50.100 The public got mad and the corporations had to fold.
00:35:53.440 That's possible.
00:35:54.460 It could have been just a public outcry.
00:35:56.260 Total, regular, normal management.
00:35:59.820 They don't like trouble.
00:36:01.480 I'm not adding that much to the newspaper.
00:36:03.520 It's just one comic.
00:36:04.960 They can make all the trouble go away.
00:36:06.640 They just canceled me.
00:36:07.580 They look like they're woke.
00:36:09.060 Maybe they have DEI organizations working for them.
00:36:11.600 It could all happen just in normal, normal bureaucratic process.
00:36:16.220 But how would I know?
00:36:17.140 Now, is it a coincidence, here's the arrogant part, are you ready for this?
00:36:24.980 How many of you would be aware, I guess I'll ask this question.
00:36:29.000 I know what the locals people will say, but let's say on YouTube, how many of you would
00:36:32.960 be aware that I'm one of the most influential people in politics?
00:36:37.600 How many of you know that?
00:36:40.800 I'm actually curious because I don't have any idea.
00:36:44.180 That's what I was looking for.
00:36:47.620 I was looking for the laughter.
00:36:50.280 LOL, ha, ha, ha, LOL.
00:36:56.420 But those who are laughing, check the other, look at the other responses.
00:37:04.360 If you, all right, there's another LOL.
00:37:07.320 So all the LOL, blah, ha, ha, people, not likely, look at the other answers.
00:37:14.180 How do you explain that 75% of the answers are that I'm in the top 10 influencers?
00:37:22.920 What do you think of that?
00:37:27.720 All right.
00:37:28.720 So I don't want to be arrogant.
00:37:31.700 I've just been accused of being arrogant because I made that claim.
00:37:34.940 So I suggested in a tweet that I really can't tell who canceled me.
00:37:42.640 Can I?
00:37:43.240 How do I know who canceled me?
00:37:45.740 Was it the public?
00:37:47.500 And just a normal bureaucracy that has to respond to the public.
00:37:51.420 Or was it part of a political operation that was either ordered, which I doubt,
00:37:58.580 or just everybody knows what to do when you're on one side?
00:38:02.580 You don't really have to tell people what to do.
00:38:05.280 They kind of know what to do.
00:38:06.620 Do you think the Washington Post believes that I'm influential in politics?
00:38:12.940 Forget about what you think.
00:38:14.540 Do you think the Washington Post thinks I'm influential in politics?
00:38:19.920 Yeah, of course they do.
00:38:21.180 Because they watch.
00:38:23.760 It's probably only the top, I don't know, 2% of people who are paying attention would have
00:38:29.020 any idea I'm even involved in politics.
00:38:32.300 If you ask the average person in the country, hey, is that cartoonist guy, the disgraced cartoonist,
00:38:38.520 is he involved in politics, they wouldn't even know, right?
00:38:42.540 98% of the country would have no idea that I have any involvement in the political sphere.
00:38:47.980 None.
00:38:48.320 All right, but let's take, let me be a little more modest.
00:38:56.080 Can we agree that I'm not influencing everything and just move on?
00:39:00.860 All right.
00:39:01.560 Next story.
00:39:05.620 I did a tweet, a takedown of CNN interviewing Vivek.
00:39:11.040 So I was basically mocking CNN for the ridiculousness of the accusations they were making for Vivek.
00:39:16.720 And Vivek, you know, is tearing apart Caitlin Collins, a lot of you saw it.
00:39:20.880 So let's see how that tweet did.
00:39:24.140 8.4 million views.
00:39:27.620 And Vivek himself actually retweeted it.
00:39:31.360 So probably not influencing anything in politics, but 8.3 million people.
00:39:39.300 So I reframed that.
00:39:42.040 And probably close to 10 million people are going to see that by the end of the day.
00:39:45.860 But I don't have any real influence.
00:39:48.960 As the people who were laughing at me said, I'm just kind of being full of myself now.
00:39:54.140 Because this was more of a fluke.
00:39:56.420 This was a fluke.
00:39:58.180 I mean, it's happened a number of times, but each time it was a fluke.
00:40:02.940 All right, here's the next story.
00:40:04.500 You may have seen that our, what do you call him, the Surgeon General, Jerome Adams.
00:40:12.160 He had tweeted yesterday that there were an alarming number of people who were hospitalized with COVID.
00:40:22.040 Hospitalized with COVID.
00:40:23.320 So I did a quote tweet of his tweet, and I pointed out that with COVID does not mean the same as from COVID.
00:40:36.180 Do you agree?
00:40:37.560 That being hospitalized with COVID does not mean the same as, you know, from COVID.
00:40:45.460 But so Jerome Adams tweeted this today.
00:40:53.120 He said, to the increasing hospitalizations are with and not from COVID crowd.
00:41:01.920 He says, almost no hospitals routinely test all patients for COVID anymore.
00:41:08.980 That's interesting.
00:41:10.100 Good to know.
00:41:10.640 So, and then he says, so with COVID would mean a patient with worsening respiratory status and severe acute respiratory syndrome.
00:41:23.080 Is it a coincidence?
00:41:25.940 Hmm.
00:41:27.500 So, apparently I created a, some kind of a belief when I doubted his with and from that was substantially annoying
00:41:38.960 that the Surgeon General of the United States had to reply to me and all the people that I influenced, allegedly.
00:41:46.660 Allegedly.
00:41:48.300 So, I'm not saying that I haven't influenced on anything.
00:41:51.480 I'm just saying that the Surgeon General had a need to reply to me personally and to the people I influenced, apparently.
00:41:59.520 So, but that doesn't mean I'm influencing anything.
00:42:02.060 All right.
00:42:05.400 And by the way, this is a actually good, I appreciated his clarification.
00:42:12.400 And then I responded back to Dr. Adams.
00:42:16.260 And I said, Dr. Adams, we live in a zero trust environment.
00:42:21.920 And so, if it's because of COVID, you should use those words.
00:42:29.340 Because if you use words that are the words we associate with deception in a zero trust environment, you're going to get this.
00:42:38.920 You're going to get more of this.
00:42:40.260 So, every time you mistakenly say, you know, with COVID, which I think was just a choice of words and probably not at all indicative of anything else.
00:42:53.600 But we're in a zero trust environment.
00:42:55.780 You can't use those words.
00:42:57.680 You've got to say they were hospitalized because they have COVID.
00:43:02.980 I would understand that.
00:43:05.160 Hospitalized because of COVID.
00:43:07.380 Very clear.
00:43:07.880 That would tell me, you know, people have comorbidities.
00:43:11.480 I would assume that as well.
00:43:12.740 But they're hospitalized because of the COVID.
00:43:16.320 Now, you tell me that, and I'll say, I don't know what's true, but I know I understand what you're saying.
00:43:21.960 I understand that sentence.
00:43:23.820 So, all I ask of the government is to understand that they're guilty until proven innocent.
00:43:28.780 And if they act like guilty people, don't expect us not to treat them that way.
00:43:34.700 Right?
00:43:34.880 I have an opinion about the attacks on Vivek.
00:43:39.900 You've noticed that he seems to be attacked for conspiracy theory belief.
00:43:45.700 And it's sort of coming from everywhere at the same time.
00:43:48.880 Does that seem organic to you?
00:43:50.580 To me, it looks like when Trump was accused of, in his DNC speech in 2016, he was accused of being dark.
00:44:01.060 It was a dark vision.
00:44:02.900 And simultaneously, all of the people on the left said, everything he does is dark.
00:44:08.280 And everything the Republicans do are dark.
00:44:10.540 And I called it in at the time, I think correctly, as the work of one persuader in particular, and a very clever way to take anything that happens from a Republican and stick it to this frame of it's the darkness of the Republicans.
00:44:26.360 It's a very effective persuasion.
00:44:28.320 It's like that is commercial-grade, weapons-grade level persuasion.
00:44:33.900 You don't see that kind of skill from politicians.
00:44:37.900 That level of persuasion comes from professionals and not professional politicians, because they have a different skill set.
00:44:46.480 It looks to me, and this is just speculation based on what it looks like, but I've been right before.
00:44:51.460 To me, it looks coordinated, and it looks like somebody really smart figured out that Vivek doesn't have many problems.
00:45:00.960 In other words, you can't look at his record too much.
00:45:04.440 You know, there's just a whole bunch of things that you can't attack him on, because he's smarter than the people he talks to.
00:45:10.000 And he doesn't make verbal mistakes.
00:45:12.600 So he just doesn't have anything you can work with.
00:45:14.820 So when you see this conspiracy theory thing, that feels a lot like dark.
00:45:24.320 But you know why they can't use dark with Vivek?
00:45:29.300 Because he's dark.
00:45:32.600 He's got browner skin than most Democrats.
00:45:37.300 So you can't use the same play, because they would look like they're being racist.
00:45:42.700 So they had to back up on that and find something that doesn't sound like that, that has the same quality,
00:45:48.920 that it creates a frame in your mind that all the new information then could be confirmation bias that you stick to it.
00:45:56.120 This looks very professional to me.
00:46:00.220 That's my take.
00:46:02.480 All right.
00:46:04.680 CNN apparently is starting to turn on the Department of Justice.
00:46:09.200 It's Eli Koenig, in particular, one of their legal experts.
00:46:13.820 And he talks about how the DOJ was acting like they were being influenced.
00:46:20.520 So it seemed like their original plea deal for Hunter was too lenient.
00:46:26.300 It seemed like the whistleblowers were what caused them to maybe even overact all the way to a special whatever that guy is.
00:46:34.760 But even CNN's legal analyst is saying that what we're seeing is not the legal system working the way the legal system is supposed to work.
00:46:45.560 Literally CNN.
00:46:46.960 But they're choosing the words more carefully.
00:46:49.560 But they're saying very clearly that the Department of Justice is not giving justice.
00:46:56.740 They said it clearly.
00:46:57.780 Now, again, it was used with, you know, lawyerly words, but the message is unambiguous.
00:47:04.540 And Eli Koenig said, and I guess I agree with him on this.
00:47:09.960 He said, quote, to restore any credibility.
00:47:13.620 Remember, he's talking about the Department of Justice.
00:47:16.600 He's on CNN.
00:47:17.660 And he used this phrase about the Department of Justice and their handling of the Hunter Biden stuff.
00:47:24.020 He says, to restore any credibility, which means, in his opinion, on CNN, the Department of Justice has no credibility.
00:47:36.960 That's on CNN.
00:47:40.300 I mean, think about that.
00:47:41.220 These are his words, to restore any credibility, not some credibility, not to improve credibility, to restore any.
00:47:52.140 So even CNN is saying this is like a fucking clown show, that the Department of Justice isn't even acting like justice is some kind of a goal.
00:48:01.380 It doesn't even look like justice is an objective.
00:48:05.020 He's calling him out.
00:48:06.640 Good for him.
00:48:08.360 Good for him.
00:48:09.040 But this is a really, yeah, he'll be fired tomorrow.
00:48:14.540 This is a really good example of somebody who just can't go with the lie.
00:48:21.080 He just, he couldn't go there.
00:48:23.400 Apparently, he has too much respect for the law, which I appreciate.
00:48:29.800 He had enough respect for the law that he just couldn't go with the narrative.
00:48:34.080 He just had to say they have no credibility.
00:48:36.760 Totally appreciate that.
00:48:38.300 And by the way, I've been watching, you know, Eli Koenig for a while, and he is the closest of their legal analysts to being objective.
00:48:49.420 You know, you can, you can pick out, he's got a CNN flavor to him, but he is the closest to being objective.
00:48:55.480 And I give him a little shout out for that.
00:48:59.080 All right.
00:48:59.760 Um, wow.
00:49:06.380 Okay.
00:49:07.780 Um, I saw that a clip from my prior live stream is going around.
00:49:13.500 It just started today.
00:49:14.640 And it's a clip in which I am railing against Jill Biden for allowing her husband to go in public and, um, embarrass himself at this date.
00:49:25.220 And the, the, the, the essence of it was, this is no longer a political issue.
00:49:30.140 If you look at a video of Joe Biden one year ago, he's not the same person.
00:49:36.160 That tells you the rate of decline, right?
00:49:41.540 Because he's already gone.
00:49:43.360 And my issue is that, you know, I'm not meant, I don't mean this to be clever.
00:49:48.680 It, it is elder abuse at this point.
00:49:51.220 I don't know how you could call it anything else.
00:49:54.640 Somebody needs to figure this out.
00:49:57.560 Now, I think the problem, I'm just speculating, because if I were in this situation, it would be a problem for me.
00:50:03.500 So I'm, I'm just sort of putting myself in the situation and saying, if I were Jill Biden and the entire Democratic Party was saying, if you, if this guy, if you cause him to quit before we're ready with an able replacement, and it's not Kamala Harris, until we have, you know, I don't know, uh, some other candidate, you can't do it.
00:50:26.740 You know, just, you know, just, just keep it going as long as you can.
00:50:30.480 Imagine the pressure on Jill Biden right now. 0.99
00:50:34.500 So, you know, I was pretty hard on her, but imagine her position.
00:50:39.580 Nobody should ever be in that position.
00:50:42.380 Nobody should have to choose the country, which is how the Democrats would put it.
00:50:48.500 You know, the whole country is at risk.
00:50:50.440 If you, if you tell your husband to retire today, the whole country is at risk.
00:50:57.220 Versus the health of her husband.
00:51:00.060 What would you do?
00:51:01.740 If you had to choose between the well-being of your husband, and by the way, the husband probably doesn't want to quit.
00:51:08.740 Because the dementia patient doesn't always know they have dementia.
00:51:12.280 So she's probably got a husband who says, no, no, I'm, I'm still good to go.
00:51:17.600 Probably has a Democratic Party that says, yeah, he's gone.
00:51:20.680 But please, please don't pull the trigger yet.
00:51:23.420 Because we're not ready.
00:51:25.480 And then she's in between all of that.
00:51:28.340 Don't you think she's, she, she has those forces all working on her at the same time?
00:51:32.960 I think so.
00:51:34.240 And I think the country looks at her and says, it's really you.
00:51:39.400 It is really you.
00:51:41.760 You need to make this decision.
00:51:43.560 I don't make the rules.
00:51:46.540 This is a spouse decision and nobody else's.
00:51:51.240 Do you all agree with that?
00:51:53.480 That the decision about Joe Biden is not Joe Biden's anymore.
00:51:57.380 And it's not ours.
00:51:58.620 It's not the Democrats.
00:52:00.300 There's only one person.
00:52:02.300 It's Jill.
00:52:03.820 And I don't think there could be a harder decision.
00:52:07.540 Because she will be pilloried for the rest of her days, no matter what she does. 0.96
00:52:14.420 Every decision, every, every path it could take, she loses.
00:52:19.940 And is Jill Biden the bad guy in any of this?
00:52:23.480 I doubt it.
00:52:25.080 I think she's probably just trying to do what she thinks is good for her husband, good for the country, good for the family.
00:52:30.760 All right.
00:52:31.040 Doing the best she can.
00:52:31.920 And I would say she's doing more than a great job.
00:52:36.900 If I'm looking at the whole picture, you know, from beginning to end, more than a great job.
00:52:43.600 That is some seriously good spousing, if you know what I mean.
00:52:48.920 Now, you can disagree.
00:52:50.580 I'm just giving my take on it.
00:52:52.100 But at the moment, she's in a position that nobody wants to be in.
00:52:56.860 And so I've got a little bit of empathy for her.
00:52:59.620 Because, man, you don't want to be her.
00:53:01.220 You do not want to be her right now.
00:53:03.520 So I honestly just feel complete empathy for the Biden elders at this point.
00:53:09.840 Hunter is another question.
00:53:11.400 But for the elders, I think we have to let the politics go.
00:53:16.160 Just let it go.
00:53:17.940 This just has to be about caring about the president.
00:53:22.640 You know, I don't have to love a specific president to say, you can't treat my president like that.
00:53:28.560 He's still my president, right?
00:53:30.460 Don't treat my president like that.
00:53:33.600 But I know it's hard.
00:53:35.660 All right.
00:53:37.920 Do you think that CNN really doesn't understand when Vivek says, I'm not abolishing the FBI?
00:53:44.520 I just want to distribute some of their functions to where they would be better served, a little closer and closer to the action, and in a way that would make it less corruptible, and in a way that would massively cut the fat?
00:53:59.360 Do you think they really don't understand that?
00:54:02.260 And they just keep saying, so you ought to abolish the FBI?
00:54:05.740 No.
00:54:06.680 He wants to abolish the building, maybe, or the department, but he wants to keep the functions.
00:54:13.300 He wants to keep 100% of the functions of the FBI, except the bad ones, I suppose, and just put it in different places.
00:54:21.980 Now, somebody said to me, Scott, don't you, this was actually a good comment, have you not made your entire career about mocking people reorganizing stuff?
00:54:34.880 Yes, I have.
00:54:37.820 As a matter of fact, I have.
00:54:39.860 Yes, a big staple of the Dilbert comic is corporate reorganizations that don't have a purpose.
00:54:47.820 But I've never been opposed to a corporate reorganization that has a purpose.
00:54:53.160 Why would I be?
00:54:54.040 If you can reorganize to make it better, and you have a discreet, clear, well-expressed reason for it that everybody can see is at least a good reason,
00:55:06.740 and it can reduce staff by 50% to 75% and get the same result, or actually a better result, which is the point of it, of course you do it.
00:55:17.320 No, I'm not opposed to change.
00:55:21.340 I'm opposed to change to obscure that you didn't do a good job in the past, which is what businesses do.
00:55:28.940 A new business, a new boss comes in, in a corporation.
00:55:34.020 The first thing a new boss does is change the way everything is reported, right?
00:55:39.520 Not just the organization chart, but the way you measure results.
00:55:43.540 They change all that.
00:55:44.600 Do you know why?
00:55:45.140 Because it will take a really long time to find out if they're doing a good or bad job,
00:55:49.800 and during that unclear time, the boss can tell everybody they're doing a great job.
00:55:54.380 Look at all this stuff we're doing.
00:55:55.860 Totally reorganized.
00:55:58.420 I've fixed the tracking system.
00:56:00.540 So can you tell us how you're doing?
00:56:02.100 Not really, not really, because we don't have a baseline anymore.
00:56:05.380 If we had a baseline, we could compare it to how we're doing,
00:56:08.220 but it's too bad that with all these improvements,
00:56:12.400 it's just a little harder to track how well I'm doing.
00:56:14.660 But if you just wait, if you just wait five years,
00:56:18.320 and I get five years of bonuses and probably got promoted to a higher job anyway,
00:56:22.380 if you just wait five years, you'll be able to see that all these changes I made in the organization
00:56:27.620 and the way we track things, it's really going to work out.
00:56:31.600 Five years.
00:56:32.280 Just give me five years.
00:56:33.680 I'll be promoted in two.
00:56:35.020 I don't know who are the silliest people in politics,
00:56:44.580 but I would like to nominate the genitalia political people. 0.99
00:56:49.740 The genital people. 0.99
00:56:51.040 So I just saw one of the genital people. 0.98
00:56:53.840 He says, I want to, in all caps, all caps,
00:56:57.340 that what I want to do is rub a Vivek's salami.
00:57:01.020 Now, that's interesting, because I usually get comments in all caps
00:57:06.420 that I want to fillet President Trump.
00:57:11.080 But now I've moved on to another package, apparently.
00:57:14.440 And I like the Mensa members who decide that,
00:57:19.120 really, I've got an insightful comment.
00:57:22.440 Whose genitalia shall I use for my insightful comment?
00:57:28.760 Okay, we'll use this set of genitalia. 1.00
00:57:32.640 And we're going to say that this person really loves this genitalia over here.
00:57:37.840 Because then I don't have to talk about what he's talking about.
00:57:41.120 Yeah.
00:57:41.920 No.
00:57:42.420 So this is a tip for the low IQ people.
00:57:46.480 If you would like to participate in politics,
00:57:49.100 there are two good ways to do it.
00:57:50.240 Number one, say that it isn't fair.
00:57:53.460 Hey, that's not fair.
00:57:54.940 Because that's the way children and idiots argue.
00:57:58.320 That's not fair.
00:57:59.540 Hey, it's not fair.
00:58:00.720 No reasons need to be given.
00:58:02.280 It just doesn't look fair.
00:58:03.920 Hey, I don't...
00:58:04.960 Now, if you don't want to use fair,
00:58:07.120 there's another word.
00:58:08.780 It's more current.
00:58:10.500 Do you know the new word?
00:58:11.840 We used to say fair,
00:58:13.400 but then I mocked fairness out of the political conversation
00:58:16.680 because it's what idiots say. 0.82
00:58:18.380 They replaced it with a word.
00:58:19.640 Do you remember what it was?
00:58:21.500 Equitable.
00:58:22.240 Yeah.
00:58:22.880 Because fair is literally stupid.
00:58:26.540 Because fair is not anything.
00:58:28.600 How is anybody going to agree what's fair?
00:58:31.600 Oh, tell me what the fair tax rate is.
00:58:34.640 Good luck with that.
00:58:36.920 Nothing's fair.
00:58:38.240 There's only things that happen.
00:58:40.280 There are things that work.
00:58:41.740 There are things that get you closer to some objective.
00:58:44.140 There are systems that are better than others.
00:58:48.500 But equity is like fairness.
00:58:51.120 It's a thing you can argue if you don't know anything.
00:58:54.360 If you don't know how anything works,
00:58:57.360 and therefore you can't argue as a reasoned full citizen of the United States,
00:59:02.740 but you still want to make some noise,
00:59:05.280 blah, blah, blah, blah, fair, blah, blah, blah, equitable.
00:59:09.160 So that's how you do it.
00:59:10.140 But the other way,
00:59:11.120 if you don't want to use fair or equitable
00:59:12.920 to be part of the conversation without adding value,
00:59:16.220 the other way you can be part of a political conversation without adding value
00:59:20.120 is to mention somebody's attraction to a political candidate's genitalia. 1.00
00:59:26.080 Because that's somewhat easy for the low IQ people to put together.
00:59:29.880 It's like, oh, oh, there's the balls, and then there's the cock part.
00:59:35.580 I'll go with the balls this time.
00:59:37.920 And let's see, there's stroking, tickling, licking, licking. 0.97
00:59:43.740 You would like to lick the balls of Tim Scott.
00:59:48.140 I'll just pick him randomly.
00:59:50.860 Good work.
00:59:52.500 Good work.
00:59:54.540 All right.
00:59:59.020 So I tweeted at Bill Maher's Club Random,
01:00:02.640 I think I told you this,
01:00:03.980 that I would love to go on there and see if I could debunk the hoaxes.
01:00:09.460 Do you think I'll get an invitation?
01:00:13.540 What do you think?
01:00:15.660 I'm kind of the perfect guest for that specific show.
01:00:20.120 Because I can outsmoke Bill Maher.
01:00:24.000 He doesn't know it yet, but I'm pretty sure I can.
01:00:26.920 And it would be the first time he had heard things framed the way I frame things.
01:00:33.980 Because I'm pretty sure he hasn't.
01:00:35.820 Now, you know what's interesting?
01:00:36.720 He was saying on a Club Random, I think with Vivek, that Bill Maher is quite pro-nuclear power now.
01:00:45.640 I'm pretty sure that wasn't, I think he said it wasn't always the case.
01:00:48.780 And Vivek explained to him that the Generation 3 has never had a problem,
01:00:58.840 and the ones that people are worried about are the ones we wouldn't build anyway.
01:01:02.560 Nobody would build the old kind.
01:01:03.980 So, who do you think got to Bill Maher on that?
01:01:13.060 What exactly was the chain of, let's say, persuasion,
01:01:18.980 that caused nuclear to be acceptable even to Democrats who were paying attention?
01:01:24.380 And Bill Maher pays attention.
01:01:25.560 There's Michael Schellenberger, right?
01:01:34.320 There's Mark Snyder, right? Mark Snyder.
01:01:38.660 There are a number of other people.
01:01:40.280 But, you know, I spent Elon Musk, Elon Musk's for sure.
01:01:44.740 But there are a number of people, including me,
01:01:48.420 who had been reframing as hard as we could,
01:01:51.960 trying to reframe that into a green option.
01:01:56.240 At this point, the entire world is on that page.
01:02:00.920 Now, I've been told I don't have any influence in politics,
01:02:05.120 so I must have had no influence on that,
01:02:08.500 as far as you know.
01:02:11.980 All right.
01:02:14.480 So, as you know,
01:02:17.100 masking might come back,
01:02:20.560 as well as who knows what,
01:02:23.060 pandemic stuff.
01:02:25.240 So, here's my take on that.
01:02:28.240 And I tweeted this.
01:02:29.680 So, I'll just read you my tweet,
01:02:31.140 because I worked hard to put the words in the right order.
01:02:34.920 I said,
01:02:35.340 the mask issue is going to get ugly
01:02:37.180 unless the first corporation that bows to the government
01:02:40.340 and requires masks
01:02:42.460 gets taken down by its customers.
01:02:44.960 We'll have to bankrupt a Fortune 500 company
01:02:49.180 as an example just to get our freedom back.
01:02:52.780 It's the only smart play.
01:02:55.060 Focus all cannons on the first offender
01:02:57.140 and take it down fast.
01:02:59.620 As far as I know,
01:03:01.440 there is no other way to stop masks from coming back.
01:03:05.160 I can't think of a way to stop it.
01:03:06.700 Individual actions are just going to get you
01:03:09.840 kicked out of places and in trouble or arrested.
01:03:13.000 Right?
01:03:13.760 Because you're not all going to show up at the same time.
01:03:16.500 I saw Mike Cernovich saying
01:03:17.900 he wasn't going to be Mr. Nice Guy anymore,
01:03:20.380 and I believe it.
01:03:21.860 So, he might, you know,
01:03:22.980 have some words for people he sees in masks.
01:03:25.520 But it's hard to imagine that
01:03:27.060 there are enough
01:03:27.860 independently
01:03:30.260 employed people
01:03:32.620 that they could go full Cernovich.
01:03:35.740 Like, if we had a country
01:03:37.700 full of self-employed people
01:03:39.180 who were also adamant about this issue,
01:03:42.540 yes.
01:03:43.440 But people who work for a boss
01:03:45.420 just aren't going to do that.
01:03:47.440 Because, you know,
01:03:48.680 your money's at stake.
01:03:50.260 Follow the money.
01:03:51.680 So, if you want follow the money to work
01:03:54.120 for you
01:03:55.180 instead of against you,
01:03:56.620 which is the current situation,
01:03:58.120 at the moment,
01:03:59.220 follow the money makes you comply.
01:04:01.200 Because you need a job.
01:04:03.460 But I'll tell you what you don't need.
01:04:06.240 Bud Light.
01:04:08.040 You don't need any fucking Bud Light.
01:04:10.340 And I'm only using them as an example.
01:04:12.300 I'm not,
01:04:12.740 I don't care about Bud Light.
01:04:15.460 The first corporation
01:04:16.880 that sticks its head up,
01:04:18.420 we have to bankrupt them.
01:04:20.600 You have to bankrupt them.
01:04:22.320 I don't care who it is.
01:04:24.100 Doesn't matter who it is.
01:04:25.120 Whoever goes first,
01:04:26.620 you got to take them down.
01:04:28.020 You have to put them right
01:04:29.360 out of fucking business
01:04:30.580 by not buying their shit. 0.86
01:04:33.540 Tank their stock
01:04:34.760 and Bud Light the fuck out of them.
01:04:37.580 If you don't take
01:04:38.740 a Fortune 500 company
01:04:40.220 completely off the board,
01:04:42.420 there's going to be more.
01:04:44.360 There is only one
01:04:45.580 follow the money,
01:04:46.660 which is the only thing
01:04:47.460 that will matter.
01:04:48.720 You know,
01:04:48.960 follow your feelings?
01:04:50.500 Nope.
01:04:51.920 Follow your political leanings?
01:04:54.860 Nope.
01:04:56.000 We'll get you fucking nothing.
01:04:57.620 Follow your anger?
01:05:00.460 Nope.
01:05:01.640 Won't get you anything.
01:05:03.420 Follow your heart,
01:05:05.760 your medical opinion?
01:05:09.500 Follow the science?
01:05:11.580 Nope.
01:05:12.760 You have to fucking destroy
01:05:14.600 the first company
01:05:16.020 that raises its hand.
01:05:18.140 If several companies
01:05:19.600 raise their hand
01:05:20.260 at the same time,
01:05:21.200 pick one.
01:05:24.280 Focus the cannons
01:05:25.320 and destroy them 0.93
01:05:27.060 even if they're innocent.
01:05:29.320 I don't care
01:05:30.080 how innocent they are.
01:05:31.020 You have to destroy
01:05:31.880 the first Fortune 500 company
01:05:34.040 that requires masking.
01:05:37.160 Now,
01:05:37.760 probably they'll respond
01:05:39.120 by sort of all doing it
01:05:40.420 at the same time.
01:05:41.420 You know,
01:05:41.580 there'll be some government rule
01:05:42.820 they'll all do it
01:05:43.360 at the same time.
01:05:44.120 Just pick one.
01:05:45.620 Just pick one.
01:05:46.900 Put it right in the business.
01:05:48.020 And when you're done,
01:05:49.800 we'll pick another one.
01:05:51.440 But you have to make it
01:05:52.440 too expensive.
01:05:54.020 It has to be too expensive
01:05:55.180 to do this to us.
01:05:56.700 It's the only way
01:05:57.540 you're going to get
01:05:58.000 your freedom back.
01:06:00.640 And by the way,
01:06:01.680 if anybody has a better idea
01:06:03.280 that does not target
01:06:05.100 largely innocent people,
01:06:07.420 I'd love to hear it.
01:06:09.000 I'm not aware of any.
01:06:11.560 Yeah,
01:06:11.880 quitting your job
01:06:12.620 is not really much
01:06:13.680 of an option
01:06:14.140 for most people.
01:06:15.480 Some will.
01:06:18.020 Yeah.
01:06:18.960 So,
01:06:19.740 let's make that a thing.
01:06:23.980 You know,
01:06:24.620 if you need me
01:06:25.880 to help you
01:06:26.540 pick the victim, 0.54
01:06:27.820 I'll do that.
01:06:30.100 But I'm not sure
01:06:31.040 people will take
01:06:31.660 my lead on that.
01:06:33.940 Yeah,
01:06:34.140 who will lead
01:06:34.680 and name the candidates
01:06:35.500 exactly?
01:06:36.480 Well,
01:06:37.840 I would expect
01:06:39.000 that already
01:06:40.380 there's a news
01:06:42.180 that a college
01:06:43.040 is requiring.
01:06:45.140 Now,
01:06:45.420 a college
01:06:45.820 is not a good target
01:06:46.860 because we don't
01:06:47.780 all shop
01:06:48.580 at a college.
01:06:49.820 So you can't
01:06:50.540 really influence
01:06:51.120 them too much.
01:06:51.620 It was Rutgers,
01:06:52.200 was it?
01:06:52.860 So you need
01:06:53.740 a for-profit entity.
01:06:56.340 You're probably
01:06:57.140 going to hear
01:06:57.620 of some for-profit
01:06:58.760 entity that
01:06:59.540 wants to go first
01:07:00.760 somewhat voluntarily.
01:07:02.640 That's the one
01:07:03.280 you go for.
01:07:04.460 You want to go
01:07:05.040 for anybody
01:07:05.640 who's dumb enough
01:07:06.360 to stick their head
01:07:07.040 up early.
01:07:07.860 Because then maybe
01:07:08.920 you can put a chill
01:07:10.200 on the rest of them.
01:07:11.500 But you've got to
01:07:12.020 take out
01:07:12.320 the first one.
01:07:16.500 All right.
01:07:22.540 So tomorrow,
01:07:23.700 Trump is
01:07:24.500 surrendering
01:07:25.080 to Georgia,
01:07:25.680 right?
01:07:30.660 What are you
01:07:31.340 feeling about
01:07:32.020 Trump's chances
01:07:33.160 of being taken
01:07:33.840 out by lawfare?
01:07:35.540 Do you think
01:07:36.180 it's going to happen?
01:07:38.800 Because I suppose
01:07:39.940 he can still run
01:07:40.660 from president
01:07:41.240 from a jail cell
01:07:42.380 if it came to
01:07:43.080 the worst possible
01:07:43.820 situation.
01:07:46.280 I'm starting
01:07:47.040 to think it might
01:07:47.740 work.
01:07:49.520 Starting to think
01:07:50.280 it might work.
01:07:52.260 Because they are
01:07:53.240 putting on,
01:07:54.060 I mean,
01:07:54.620 the massive amount
01:07:56.360 of pressure on him
01:07:57.520 is just incredible.
01:07:59.500 Starting to think
01:08:00.260 it might work.
01:08:02.520 But,
01:08:03.880 would you vote
01:08:06.900 for him
01:08:07.360 if you were
01:08:08.080 in jail?
01:08:09.360 Or would you
01:08:10.160 be more likely
01:08:10.840 to vote for him
01:08:11.480 if you were
01:08:11.880 in jail?
01:08:13.460 Yeah.
01:08:14.480 I would definitely
01:08:15.980 vote if he
01:08:17.300 were in jail.
01:08:18.380 Or even if it
01:08:19.420 looked like
01:08:19.740 it was imminent.
01:08:21.020 If it looked
01:08:21.700 like in my mind
01:08:22.480 I thought it
01:08:22.880 was imminent,
01:08:24.380 I would vote.
01:08:26.080 Yeah.
01:08:26.520 And that's a big
01:08:27.460 statement for me
01:08:28.260 because I usually
01:08:28.800 don't bother.
01:08:30.000 But yeah,
01:08:30.340 I'd vote.
01:08:31.340 Even in California
01:08:32.280 it's like a wasted
01:08:33.240 vote, but I'd still
01:08:34.220 vote.
01:08:35.380 Because you have
01:08:36.140 to vote against
01:08:36.740 tyranny.
01:08:37.140 You have to
01:08:39.580 vote against
01:08:40.020 tyranny.
01:08:40.440 There's no way
01:08:40.840 around it.
01:08:43.920 States will
01:08:44.580 keep him
01:08:44.920 off the ballot?
01:08:47.280 Maybe.
01:08:49.500 Maybe.
01:08:55.660 Only if
01:08:56.340 DeSantis
01:08:56.800 defends his
01:08:57.500 freedom with
01:08:58.100 Florida law.
01:08:59.780 Yeah.
01:09:00.960 That would be
01:09:01.660 interesting.
01:09:02.940 All right,
01:09:03.340 so that's all
01:09:03.740 I've got for you.
01:09:04.460 Today, I think
01:09:07.480 I'll be telling
01:09:07.980 you more later
01:09:08.940 today if my
01:09:11.080 book gets
01:09:11.560 published.
01:09:13.740 And then I'll
01:09:16.260 be making so
01:09:17.280 much noise you'll
01:09:18.700 be sick of me. 0.99
01:09:20.200 That's it for now.
01:09:21.040 I'll talk to you
01:09:21.540 later.
01:09:21.980 YouTube, thanks
01:09:22.620 for joining.
01:09:23.000 Thank you.
01:09:23.100 Thank you.