Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2280 Scott Adams： CWSA 11⧸02⧸23 Reframing Your Problems So You Can Solve Them, And News

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the show that you've been waiting for.

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00:00:39.340 It's called a simultaneous sip, and it happens now.

00:00:47.180 Ah, so good.

00:00:51.740 Well, I know a number of you who are streaming in.

00:00:54.940 Well, I think I'll wait to make this announcement in a little bit.

00:00:58.740 But we'll start with this.

00:01:01.740 If you were a subscriber to the Dilbert Reborn comic, either on the Locals platform,

00:01:11.020 scottadams.locals.com, or you could be subscribing on the X platform,

00:01:15.700 you would know that I've introduced a new character called Jennifer. 0.95

00:01:22.480 Jennifer is her first name. Her last name is Z, C-E-E.

00:01:27.020 And her friends call her Gen Z.

00:01:29.620 Gen Z. 0.58

00:01:30.940 And she's a stereotypical Gen Z. 1.00

00:01:33.740 And she's dealing with all the discrimination that people have about the Gen Z workers. 0.99

00:01:39.080 So, yeah, Gen Z will be working on that today.

00:01:42.840 Gen Z, new character.

00:01:44.900 Also, I think I'm going to keep doing this, probably.

00:01:50.040 I'm starting to publish the Dilbert comic only in digital form this year

00:01:56.340 because it's too late to make a paper one

00:01:58.840 because I got cancelled and it sort of set me back a little bit.

00:02:03.580 Next year, I'll look into making a paper version.

00:02:06.420 But for now, if you wanted to gift somebody the daily comic,

00:02:12.240 I would recommend that you sign up for the, if it's all you want is the comic,

00:02:18.640 just sign up for the, I'd probably sign up on the X platform

00:02:23.180 because that would be $3 a month.

00:02:25.760 So for $3 times 12, you get the daily Dilbert Reborn that's new every day.

00:02:32.800 But I'm also including one page a day of the Dilbert calendar.

00:02:35.920 And the approach I'm taking is that it'll be the 10 years ago comic.

00:02:43.440 So whatever is today's date, the 10 year ago matching comic will run on the calendar.

00:02:49.660 And if you wanted to gift it, you could buy yourself a subscription

00:02:55.120 and then just email it to your spouse or friend or whatever.

00:03:00.800 If they want it in paper, they can print it out.

00:03:02.640 And they would have two comics a day coming to them by email.

00:03:05.920 For example.

00:03:07.240 All right.

00:03:09.100 Also, if you wanted to get a Dilbert mug, they're running out.

00:03:13.580 If you need one for Christmas as a Christmas present,

00:03:15.740 you better hurry because they're always limited production.

00:03:19.120 And if you want one of those, you should go to the X platform

00:03:21.900 and look for Erica at her X profile is Zia Erika.

00:03:29.280 Z-I-A-E-R-I-C-A. 0.99

00:03:34.020 Zia Erika, all one word.

00:03:36.920 And that'll show you where to get the mugs. 0.98

00:03:38.980 All right.

00:03:40.380 Did you know that there's a professional cuddler?

00:03:44.020 That's a job.

00:03:45.360 So there's a woman named Ella.

00:03:46.980 She's 48 years old and she's a single woman.

00:03:49.780 And she will cuddle with you for $150 an hour, non-sexually, non-sexually cuddling. 1.00

00:03:58.520 I would totally pay for that. 0.98

00:04:01.840 In case there's anybody who's too embarrassed to say, oh, I'm not such a loser. 0.97

00:04:07.240 I'm such a loser. 0.82

00:04:08.240 I wouldn't admit that I would pay for somebody to hug me. 0.99

00:04:11.960 Oh, I would totally pay for it.

00:04:13.720 In terms of things that could make you healthy, the dollar per value, if you could afford it,

00:04:20.760 I mean, of course, it's like everything.

00:04:22.300 You'd have to be able to afford it.

00:04:24.180 But if you could afford it, I would definitely pay for that.

00:04:27.420 Yep.

00:04:27.740 No doubt about it.

00:04:28.620 I would pay for that service once or twice a week.

00:04:31.200 So that's just so you'll feel less embarrassed if you decide you want to do it.

00:04:38.280 You can just say, I'll do it.

00:04:39.860 Just say, well, you know, that cartoonist guy does it.

00:04:42.760 Or I would.

00:04:44.540 All right.

00:04:47.880 Mr. Beast.

00:04:48.920 Do you know Mr. Beast?

00:04:49.880 He's a monster of social media.

00:04:52.200 Has the biggest or one of the biggest social media presences in the world.

00:04:57.760 And part of why he's so famous is he does cool things.

00:05:01.200 And people talk about it.

00:05:03.060 And for Halloween, he handed out iPhones.

00:05:07.560 Every kid who came to the house got an iPhone.

00:05:12.900 Now, that is amazing.

00:05:15.640 Now, he's super, super rich from his social media work.

00:05:21.120 So he can give every kid an iPhone.

00:05:23.780 I don't know how many gave out.

00:05:25.500 But one kid, he gave a pile of cash.

00:05:28.320 He gave him a $10,000 pile of cash.

00:05:31.200 I think it was a little girl.

00:05:33.180 I can't remember if it was a boy or a girl.

00:05:35.140 But there's a video of him just handing.

00:05:37.080 The pile is about, you know, I don't know, it's four inches tall or something.

00:05:40.880 It's just a big pile of cash.

00:05:42.680 So the trick-or-treater comes up and he hands her a big pile of cash.

00:05:46.520 And they're like, really?

00:05:48.240 Can I keep this?

00:05:49.480 Yeah, big pile of cash.

00:05:50.720 $10,000.

00:05:51.440 Keep it.

00:05:51.740 It was actually amazing, amazing entertainment.

00:05:57.240 So he's very good at what he does.

00:05:59.420 Certainly understands the public.

00:06:02.440 Let's talk about Don Jr.

00:06:05.560 Apparently he testified in this case about the property values of the Trump properties

00:06:11.880 and whether they were inflated or deflated or whatever.

00:06:14.420 And he gave this answer that should have been the only headline, that the entire story about

00:06:22.660 the Trump people, you know, allegedly inflating or deflating their property taxes to get benefits.

00:06:28.840 Don Jr. says, and I'm paraphrasing, my accountant does that.

00:06:33.820 But apparently 90% of the public will learn for the first time that the executives don't

00:06:42.960 really make too many accounting decisions on their own.

00:06:46.320 They kind of hire big, expensive accounting firms to do that for them.

00:06:50.720 Now, they might ask some questions, but they're not going to do something illegal because the

00:06:56.160 boss told them to.

00:06:58.200 It doesn't really work that way.

00:06:59.820 The big accounting firm, they're not going to take your word for it if it's just crazy.

00:07:05.840 Now, they do take your word for stuff.

00:07:08.340 That's part of what they do.

00:07:09.640 They will say, we did not audit, you know, the data to see if the data is correct.

00:07:15.440 We're just, you know, doing the math on it to pay your taxes.

00:07:18.960 So they do always have an out. 0.75

00:07:21.580 But if you told them something that was patently ridiculous, they're not going to just take 0.92

00:07:26.660 your word for it. 0.98

00:07:27.380 They're going to do a little checking.

00:07:28.820 So I would be amazed if Trump got in trouble for the valuation stuff.

00:07:36.380 I think that just always comes down to there was some accountant who thought it was his

00:07:40.740 best estimate of things.

00:07:42.840 And that's the whole story.

00:07:44.600 Somebody in the accounting world made an estimate.

00:07:48.600 All right.

00:07:49.720 So I expect nothing to come of that.

00:07:51.560 You may know that there was some controversy about windmills off the East Coast killing whales.

00:08:01.380 And I think 75 whales have died recently, washed up.

00:08:05.980 Really, really obvious whale death.

00:08:09.340 I mean, there's no doubt about it.

00:08:11.820 Something suddenly was killing whales.

00:08:14.300 And it was the same time as the big windmills went in.

00:08:17.980 And there's obvious causation.

00:08:20.720 You know, the humming disorients them or something.

00:08:23.020 So you may know that the same Erica I mentioned with the mugs had been advocating to end at least the new builds.

00:08:35.940 And Michael Schellenberger was part of that.

00:08:38.600 And it looks like they got some victory here.

00:08:41.220 So the Orsted Company, they abandoned the projects they had planned to build off the coast of New Jersey.

00:08:51.640 Now, that doesn't help the ones that are already there, I guess.

00:08:56.300 Right?

00:08:57.280 So the windmills that already exist are probably still going to kill whales. 0.68

00:09:00.720 It might be more to go.

00:09:02.080 More to do on that.

00:09:03.700 But at least there was enough pressure to stop a new project from killing more whales.

00:09:09.580 So advocacy works.

00:09:12.540 Look at that.

00:09:14.140 Good job, Erica.

00:09:16.080 Save some whales.

00:09:18.400 All right.

00:09:18.980 ABC News Australia.

00:09:21.380 This weird headline.

00:09:23.660 A year after Elon Musk bought Twitter, X is now a, quote, worthless platform some say is no longer safe for activists.

00:09:32.660 Really?

00:09:35.180 Really?

00:09:36.360 It's a worthless platform that activists can't use?

00:09:39.580 What would make it less useful for activists?

00:09:45.080 What would that be?

00:09:47.920 Would it be violence?

00:09:50.980 No, no.

00:09:51.920 Twitter doesn't cause any violence because of the change of ownership.

00:09:56.840 No.

00:09:57.360 Is it because if you're an activist, you're not allowed to have an account?

00:10:02.780 No.

00:10:03.320 No, you're allowed to have an account.

00:10:05.620 So you're allowed to have an account.

00:10:07.040 Oh, oh, I know what it is.

00:10:09.500 It's that Twitter has algorithms that suppress certain people if they don't like their opinions, right?

00:10:15.920 Oh, no, it's not that because that's what Elon Musk got rid of.

00:10:19.780 He got rid of the fake algorithms.

00:10:21.880 So let's see.

00:10:23.380 They can sign up.

00:10:24.980 They can say anything they want, just like everybody else.

00:10:30.760 What makes it worthless? 0.99

00:10:31.980 Oh, could it be that community notes are attached to things that are obvious bullshit and that much of activism is just obvious bullshit? 0.99

00:10:43.360 Could it be that now that the conservatives are now suppressed, that when somebody says something that's terrible bullshit, there's a lot more people saying that's terrible bullshit because they're not suppressed? 1.00

00:10:55.260 Could it be that freedom of speech doesn't work if your idea is batshit fucking crazy? 0.99

00:11:01.700 It doesn't work as well, does it? 0.98

00:11:03.300 That whole freedom of speech is really fucking you up, isn't it?

00:11:07.480 Sorry. 0.91

00:11:07.960 If you ever thought that ABC News was like a legitimate news entity, nope.

00:11:15.360 Definitely not a legitimate news entity.

00:11:17.880 They are just activists who are mad that they can't control the world.

00:11:23.160 All right.

00:11:23.720 I would like to give you now the reframe of reframes.

00:11:26.900 I call it the alpha reframe.

00:11:29.520 I'm going to give you a reframe that for some of you, I like to do this.

00:11:32.720 It's like, you know, for some of you, this will be completely life altering.

00:11:36.480 Anyway, I'm simply going to tell you something, just a few sentences.

00:11:41.600 Therefore, some of you will completely change your life in a positive way.

00:11:46.360 You ready for this?

00:11:47.740 Here's the ultimate reframe.

00:11:50.580 The usual reframe goes like this, and I think a lot of you are in this category.

00:11:55.320 I have trouble sleeping.

00:11:57.240 How many of you would say that's true of yourself?

00:12:00.000 I have trouble sleeping.

00:12:02.320 Pretty much everybody, right?

00:12:04.160 All right.

00:12:05.260 Here's the reframe.

00:12:06.480 Instead of saying, I have trouble sleeping, say, I don't exercise enough.

00:12:11.300 Now, I already told you about this one, but I'm going to extend it.

00:12:15.840 That's what makes it the alpha reframe.

00:12:18.600 If you exercise enough, will you sleep better?

00:12:22.980 Not 100% of the time, but pretty close.

00:12:25.220 My own experience is that when I exercise enough, I always sleep, and when I don't, I almost can't.

00:12:34.040 No matter what else happened, doesn't matter if my day was good or bad or what tomorrow looks like, nothing.

00:12:39.740 If I exercised, I go to sleep.

00:12:42.400 Now, that's not enough.

00:12:45.100 I haven't stopped there.

00:12:45.960 If you exercise enough, you're going to get enough sleep.

00:12:50.620 If you get enough sleep, and I call this, by the way, you've heard of two-fers? 0.99

00:12:56.240 A two-fer is where you get two benefits. 0.92

00:12:58.980 Well, if you exercise in order to fix your sleep, that's two benefits.

00:13:03.740 You've got to exercise because you had another reason to do it.

00:13:07.080 Oh, I'm not exercising just to be handsome or good-looking or healthy.

00:13:13.320 I'm also fixing my biggest problem is I can't get to sleep.

00:13:17.540 That's a two-fer. 0.99

00:13:18.580 This is a six-fer.

00:13:21.620 Six benefits.

00:13:23.360 You ready?

00:13:25.220 Exercise helps you sleep.

00:13:27.100 What does sleep help you do?

00:13:28.960 It improves your diet.

00:13:30.420 Did you know that?

00:13:31.660 Sleep improves your diet.

00:13:32.940 If you're tired, your body will register hunger that's not a genuine hunger.

00:13:38.740 It's just one of those feelings that have a crossover.

00:13:42.880 Yeah.

00:13:43.440 It's like thirst.

00:13:44.840 Sometimes you think you're tired, but you're really thirsty because you're dehydrated.

00:13:49.020 Some of these things are tricky.

00:13:50.580 The thing you feel isn't necessarily the thing that's going on.

00:13:53.980 So you fix your exercise to fix your sleep.

00:13:59.220 Your sleep fixes your diet.

00:14:01.400 Your sleep fixes your mental health.

00:14:04.940 Your sleep fixes your relationships.

00:14:08.200 Your sleep fixes your performance at work and, therefore, your potential in your career.

00:14:15.400 Exercise, sleep, diet, mental health, relationships, work performance. 0.99

00:14:22.700 Six fucking benefits from exercise. 0.99

00:14:25.680 It's a six-fer. 1.00

00:14:28.500 So the next time you say you can't sleep, tell yourself, goddammit, I'm going to exercise tomorrow.

00:14:36.240 You can even use that. 0.80

00:14:38.900 You should swear at yourself.

00:14:40.840 You should get mad at yourself. 1.00

00:14:42.640 You should say, goddammit, I'm an asshole. 1.00

00:14:45.400 I need to exercise tomorrow. 1.00

00:14:47.940 And when I say exercise, I mean a long walk.

00:14:49.860 You don't need to hit the weights.

00:14:52.460 I like weights.

00:14:53.680 I highly recommend doing at least lightweight training at every age.

00:14:58.660 But just take a walk.

00:15:00.920 There's nothing stopping you from standing up and walking out the door and walking around the block,

00:15:05.260 unless you live in a dangerous neighborhood like San Francisco.

00:15:07.820 All right, so that's your alpha reframe.

00:15:10.680 It's a six-fer.

00:15:12.900 There's a painting that just sold at an auction in New York for $46.5 million.

00:15:20.180 The top of the painting is yellow and the bottom is blue.

00:15:23.660 And that's it.

00:15:25.760 That's it.

00:15:26.800 I think it maybe is suggestive of the Ukraine flag or something.

00:15:31.920 But has anybody ever heard of this guy, Mark Rothko?

00:15:35.380 Do you think you could have made a painting that was just yellow at the top and blue at the bottom and that's it?

00:15:44.840 No?

00:15:46.260 Well, apparently Elon Musk said the other day, it might have been on Joe Rogan,

00:15:52.140 a number of these very high-priced art things are tax evasion and money laundering.

00:15:58.040 Yeah.

00:15:58.560 So you're telling me that Hunter Biden, after all that pressure for being the sketchy money guy,

00:16:11.340 goes directly into the business that is the most obvious money laundering business in the history of the world. 0.99

00:16:19.400 The most directly, obviously, bullshit thing. 0.97

00:16:25.320 Now I ask again, have you seen a video of Hunter Biden making one of his paintings? 0.99

00:16:32.040 And I'm not talking about the one where he's blowing paint through a straw.

00:16:37.240 Okay?

00:16:37.940 Because I do believe he can blow paint through a straw.

00:16:40.460 But he also has paintings that look like they're a very high-level, skilled person who made them.

00:16:47.200 Wouldn't you love to see about 10 minutes of Hunter Biden making a painting?

00:16:51.720 Wouldn't you?

00:16:54.080 Now, I don't think there's any law that would force him to show you that he paints them himself.

00:17:00.440 I don't think you can force anybody to do that.

00:17:03.100 So it is kind of the perfect public crime.

00:17:06.780 It's one of the few crimes you can just do right in front of everybody.

00:17:09.440 It's like, hey, everybody.

00:17:12.020 I'm selling a painting.

00:17:14.360 It's pretty good business to get into until they catch you, put you in jail.

00:17:20.420 All right.

00:17:22.760 Does anybody think there's any chance that Hunter is just a legitimate artist selling paintings?

00:17:30.180 Nobody thinks that's real, right?

00:17:33.620 Right.

00:17:33.860 But isn't it amazing that even though we know it's not real, it makes no difference in the real world.

00:17:42.520 Hunter will just do it right in front of you.

00:17:46.120 Yeah.

00:17:46.280 So, there's that.

00:17:51.860 All right.

00:17:52.180 Here's a story that really tore me up this morning.

00:17:56.200 Let's see if I can get through this.

00:17:59.100 So it turns out that Run DMC, which one was it?

00:18:04.960 Run?

00:18:06.500 I guess I'm confused.

00:18:08.140 But I think it was Run.

00:18:09.240 Run.

00:18:09.540 Which artist was it?

00:18:12.560 The one who has the...

00:18:13.840 Well, one of them had spasmodic dysphonia.

00:18:17.120 And that's the voice problem that made him so sad because he couldn't rap, because he had the same voice problem I used to have.

00:18:26.020 It's the same one that RFK Jr. has, where the vocal cords clench.

00:18:31.400 And he talks about how he tried to get treatment using Botox shots, but he passed out during the Botox shot.

00:18:42.680 Now, if I've never described to you what the Botox into the vocal cords process looks like, I'm just going to say it's the scariest, thickest needle you've ever seen in your life, and it goes to the front of your throat.

00:18:55.820 And it doesn't stay there.

00:18:58.040 It penetrates the entire front to get to the back, because that's where your vocal cords are.

00:19:04.620 The first needle is just to numb you so you don't scream when the second one goes in.

00:19:09.780 Does it hurt?

00:19:11.300 Well, you'll feel a needle in your throat, poking around.

00:19:16.820 It doesn't know exactly where to poke, because everybody's vocal cords are a little different.

00:19:21.500 So there's a little bit of, you know, technique about it.

00:19:24.040 When you get that shot, if it works, it only works for a few weeks, it sort of numbs your vocal cords so they have a hard time clenching.

00:19:32.420 But you would talk sort of like this.

00:19:35.640 You talk sort of like you'd take gas from a balloon or something.

00:19:41.520 So if you're a public performer, there isn't any really way you could be a rapper.

00:19:47.640 You could be understood, but your voice would be like this forever.

00:19:53.280 And that would only be good for a few weeks, if you're lucky.

00:19:57.660 And then the Botox starts wearing off.

00:20:00.340 So you have to time it so when you get the new shot, it hasn't doubled the amount of Botox, because you got it too soon.

00:20:08.680 So you never know quite how much poison you have in your vocal cords, because it's sort of a judgment, trial and error kind of thing.

00:20:17.160 And each trial and error involves a giant needle through your neck.

00:20:21.680 I've done it.

00:20:22.940 So I'm not talking hypothetically.

00:20:24.700 I've had this procedure.

00:20:28.880 Apparently, the rapper just passed down cold.

00:20:32.820 Like that. 1.00

00:20:33.680 This is the scariest shit you've ever seen in your life, honestly. 1.00

00:20:36.520 I've never done anything scarier. 1.00

00:20:39.080 And after a few treatments of it, I think I did three, maybe, I said, no, thank you.

00:20:44.960 I will live with my disability, and I'll try to figure out something else. 0.72

00:20:49.260 Eventually, through my, let's say, tenaciousness, and the fact that I'm a...

00:20:57.960 There's no way to say this other than to just say it directly.

00:21:01.240 I'm a high-functioning individual in a modern society.

00:21:04.400 So I was able to chase to ground a cure, which was very hard to find.

00:21:12.760 And I had to, like, travel.

00:21:14.700 I mean, I had to search the world.

00:21:16.160 I had to use every Google alert.

00:21:18.520 Every time there was a suggestion of a cure, I would track it down, right?

00:21:22.720 So I was a wild man.

00:21:25.200 Do you know why I was such a wild man?

00:21:26.660 Do you know why I said, I will stop at nothing to fix this problem?

00:21:32.580 Because I was suicidal.

00:21:35.080 I was 100% suicidal.

00:21:37.660 The only reason I didn't is because other people depended on me. 1.00

00:21:41.800 But my own life was garbage. 0.95

00:21:43.920 The quality of life was way below the line of being worth living. 0.98

00:21:47.820 It wasn't even close.

00:21:49.640 There was no way to have joy or a good day.

00:21:52.300 Every day you woke up was a bad day because you were like a ghost in the world.

00:21:58.360 You couldn't have conversations.

00:22:00.340 You couldn't nourish your relationships.

00:22:03.260 You couldn't make a phone call.

00:22:05.140 You couldn't answer the phone.

00:22:06.840 You couldn't order at a restaurant.

00:22:09.880 Just imagine what that would be like.

00:22:12.500 All right.

00:22:12.740 So apparently the rapper from Run DMC was suicidal, and he ended up with an addiction problem as well, and et cetera.

00:22:27.300 Now, I think he still has the condition, as far as I know.

00:22:34.300 But why did he not get the surgical cure?

00:22:37.740 Do you know why he didn't get the surgical cure?

00:22:42.980 Anybody want to take a guess?

00:22:46.940 Well, why don't you take a Google search for spasmodic dysphonia, and then see what Google tells you are the treatments.

00:22:57.100 It's going to tell you Botox, and also Botox, and also Botox.

00:23:03.160 Do you think it will refer you to the surgeons who can cure it?

00:23:08.380 Check for yourself.

00:23:10.300 See for yourself.

00:23:10.920 Now, here are the things you know.

00:23:13.780 These are the things you know for sure.

00:23:15.860 Oh, and I can tell you this for sure.

00:23:17.440 After I got cured, and I realized that the reason other people were not being cured is that they simply didn't know there was a solution.

00:23:25.640 So I did a fairly aggressive public relations thing.

00:23:30.640 There was a big spread on me and People magazine, how I cured my voice problem.

00:23:35.500 And, you know, I did other interviews, and I talked about it on social media.

00:23:39.960 And I just wanted to create a base so that if anybody ever Googled spasmodic dysphonia, I would be the first person to come up.

00:23:48.380 And then they would see my story, and then they would know there's a cure.

00:23:52.580 Do you know where my story is now, after I got canceled?

00:23:59.540 It's gone.

00:24:00.980 I don't think you could find it too easily.

00:24:02.960 Now, what about the surgery itself?

00:24:07.200 Because, you know, I'm not the only person who got it.

00:24:09.400 I'm not the only person who knows about it.

00:24:12.400 In fact, the person who did my surgery sits on the board of directors of the Spasmodic Dysphonia Foundation, or whatever it's called, the organization, right?

00:24:24.040 Go Google it.

00:24:25.760 Now, here's what we know for sure.

00:24:27.880 Remember, there are tens of thousands of people in the United States who have spasmodic dysphonia.

00:24:35.860 We know that for sure.

00:24:37.560 We also know for sure that it causes you to have suicidal ideation.

00:24:42.940 I've been in groups of spasmodic dysphonia people.

00:24:45.620 They'll all tell you the same thing.

00:24:47.340 Yeah, I considered it.

00:24:49.280 Why don't they do it?

00:24:50.960 Always the same reason.

00:24:53.020 Other people.

00:24:54.500 They have some responsibilities, so they're hanging around.

00:24:57.060 And that's it.

00:24:58.680 If you gave them a choice of, is this worth living, quite a few of them would say, you know, honestly, it's not.

00:25:06.560 I only do it for these other people.

00:25:09.120 Now, how many people do you think didn't have anybody that they needed to support enough that it stopped them?

00:25:18.140 Probably.

00:25:19.380 There's no way to know for sure. 1.00

00:25:20.800 Probably there are people who could have been cured by surgery who fucking killed themselves. 0.98

00:25:29.740 Because the Google search did what it did. 0.99

00:25:35.420 Did it do it by accident?

00:25:37.960 Do you think the Google search is the way it is by accident?

00:25:41.440 Nope.

00:25:42.500 Probably not.

00:25:43.680 No way to know.

00:25:44.420 So I can't make it a certain allegation. 1.00

00:25:49.220 It just seems to me that when you fuck with the truth, people die. 0.99

00:25:55.360 And this looks like a real clear example of somebody. 0.99

00:26:00.080 I'm not even going to say who.

00:26:01.800 I don't know who. 0.99

00:26:03.020 But it looks like somebody fucked with the truth. 0.99

00:26:05.720 And I'll guarantee you, somebody died. 1.00

00:26:08.340 Yeah, your algorithm can kill you if they hide the truth.

00:26:14.980 Now, do you think that Run-DMC, even today, do you think he knows that there's a surgical cure?

00:26:23.420 Probably not.

00:26:25.160 Probably not.

00:26:26.780 Because he can't Google it.

00:26:30.240 All right.

00:26:32.720 And did canceling me get somebody killed?

00:26:36.940 Possibly.

00:26:38.340 Canceling me might have killed people.

00:26:41.200 Because they couldn't Google me anymore.

00:26:45.640 Here's a clever little thing.

00:26:47.760 Changing the topic a little bit.

00:26:51.780 Anyway, that just tore me up this morning.

00:26:56.080 But anyway, you know how the Sphinx is kind of a mystery, how it got built,

00:27:01.100 and it looks like it's been eroded by a wind or water or something.

00:27:05.420 And we always talk about it.

00:27:06.360 It turns out there's a new hypothesis that looks really strong.

00:27:11.420 And I feel bad for the Egyptians, because let's say their reputation keeps going down.

00:27:20.600 You remember when you thought the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids?

00:27:24.980 For sure.

00:27:26.100 So ancient Egyptians, awesome.

00:27:29.120 And then people start saying, I'm not so sure.

00:27:31.940 I don't know if it was the ancient Egyptians.

00:27:33.740 I'm like, really?

00:27:34.720 Give them something, right?

00:27:36.260 Yeah, give those ancient Egyptians a little bit of credit. 1.00

00:27:39.660 Maybe they did.

00:27:40.560 But, you know, there are lots of YouTube videos supposing something magical happened.

00:27:48.940 But now the Sphinx, another big sort of Egyptian success story, I guess.

00:27:55.400 They did a test, and they found out that the Sphinx can be formed, like 90% of its shape can be formed by the wind.

00:28:08.600 That's right.

00:28:09.380 If you have a desert where there's some hard parts, you know, something that's harder than something else, then if the wind is blowing past it, the sand will blow away, but the stiffer, hardened parts would remain behind.

00:28:25.200 And they did test, and they found out that it often looks like a Sphinx.

00:28:31.020 If you just have hard parts and soft parts and blow on them, they turn into a Sphinx. 0.78

00:28:37.440 And by that I mean the body is just sort of a rounded rectangle.

00:28:42.760 And sometimes there would be something that looks like a head, just because there might be a hardened thing that happened to be in that position.

00:28:49.220 So the speculation is that the ancient Egyptians discovered it and said, hey, look at that thing.

00:28:58.680 If you sort of squint at it, it looks like an animal, you know, on its haunches or whatever that is.

00:29:04.660 And then they said, I got an idea.

00:29:07.680 Let's, like, put a nose on it and, you know, build it down a little bit and make it look like a lion.

00:29:12.980 So it's possible that it was a natural, at least the interior of it was natural, and then they sort of coated it and carved it up a little bit and turned it into a Sphinx.

00:29:27.340 Apparently there are some other examples of it around the world.

00:29:30.680 Anyway, I don't know if that's true, but it's fun.

00:29:32.560 Well, I guess Biden was giving a fundraiser talk and there was some crazed protester yelling at him.

00:29:42.260 And then he made the following claims in public.

00:29:44.700 He said he convinced Bibi, that would be Netanyahu to you, to call for a ceasefire, which apparently never happened.

00:29:53.320 And he talked to Sisi, which I guess is the Egyptian leader, to convince him to open the door, which also never happened.

00:30:04.560 Now, that's the reporting.

00:30:06.840 I can't be sure they never talked or that he never said these things, but it's reported that he made two claims, which are, like, wildly important.

00:30:18.100 He just lied, just made it up.

00:30:20.040 Now, I don't know what the truth is there, but that's the allegation.

00:30:27.340 Apparently, they sent Kamala Harris out in the aftermath of the October 7th slaughter in Israel.

00:30:36.780 You know, the most worst terrorism, you know, really I've ever heard of.

00:30:42.320 I've never heard of anything worse than that, honestly.

00:30:44.100 So they send Kamala Harris down in that context to try to convince people to reduce their Islamophobia. 1.00

00:30:56.260 So she thinks too much Islamophobia, and that's her message. 0.97

00:31:02.140 She wants to get out the word that there's too much Islamophobia. 0.99

00:31:08.400 Now, how do you interpret this?

00:31:11.180 How could she accidentally read the room that wrong?

00:31:18.680 I mean, talk about the wrong reading of the room.

00:31:22.100 I mean, if she had gone out and said, you know, we don't want any discrimination in any direction,

00:31:28.380 and then called out anti-Jewish discrimination as well as anti-Islamic discrimination,

00:31:33.160 I would say, good job.

00:31:35.980 That's what I would say.

00:31:37.200 I'd say, good job.

00:31:37.920 That's about what we need.

00:31:39.700 We need a leader who goes out there and says, hey, stop hating each other for these reasons.

00:31:45.280 That'd be great.

00:31:46.780 But now, she decided to go full, got to counter this Islamophobia. 0.62

00:31:53.440 And it makes me wonder, was this a prank?

00:31:55.660 Do you think there was any point where they said, all right, for sure we don't want her as our future president?

00:32:04.280 What could we do today to reduce the chance she could ever be a president?

00:32:09.760 Hey, I've got an idea.

00:32:11.800 What is it?

00:32:13.240 Let's send her out right after October 7th to say there's too much Islamophobia. 1.00

00:32:19.780 And then also, the anti-Semitism, right?

00:32:23.580 No, this is the beauty of it.

00:32:25.480 Not even going to mention, not even going to mention the anti-Semitism.

00:32:29.860 What?

00:32:30.660 That would be, like, insane.

00:32:33.100 I know!

00:32:34.140 That's the whole point.

00:32:35.300 Oh, I get it now. 0.98

00:32:37.060 We're going to send her out and see if she's dumb enough to go full, you know, countering anti, 1.00

00:32:43.340 countering Islamophobia, which is good. 0.95

00:32:46.080 And we're just going to leave out the other part right after October 7th.

00:32:51.180 Exactly.

00:32:52.640 And that will guarantee she's never president. 1.00

00:32:55.120 And I think it worked.

00:32:56.340 It did guarantee that she'll never be president.

00:33:00.740 So, well, do you think Kamala Harris has been a big move forward for black women or women?

00:33:13.300 I feel like she's doing such a bad job that it's hard not to think she's a minority, you know, diversity hire. 1.00

00:33:25.260 Like, she looks like the prototypical diversity hire mistake, you know, where you overcorrect it. 0.61

00:33:32.580 And it's like, okay, we like diversity.

00:33:35.920 That's great.

00:33:37.280 But you may have overcorrected in this case.

00:33:39.760 It may be the most prominent diversity hire mistake of all time. 0.96

00:33:44.440 Well, I guess it is, wouldn't you say?

00:33:46.940 I would argue that a lot of people would say Obama did a good job.

00:33:51.100 I know, I know.

00:33:52.060 My audience doesn't like to hear that.

00:33:53.500 But a lot of people would say that.

00:33:54.740 How many people are saying that Kamala Harris is nailing it?

00:33:59.180 No serious person.

00:34:00.740 There's no serious person who thinks she's doing a good job. 0.98

00:34:04.900 So that's a step backwards for black people, black women, women, pretty much everybody.

00:34:13.420 But women are doing great in MBA classes. 1.00

00:34:17.260 Now, women make up half or more of MBA classes. 1.00

00:34:21.380 I guess since the 80s, women have been getting into college and graduating at higher rates than men. 0.99

00:34:27.800 So women are doing great education-wise, thanks to tremendous effort on top of the MBA schools 1.00

00:34:38.900 to make sure that white men don't get a fair shake in America. 0.52

00:34:43.760 That's just another way to tell the story.

00:34:46.520 Both true.

00:34:48.220 Both true.

00:34:48.800 That the colleges are doing a great job increasing diversity, especially for women.

00:34:56.220 100%.

00:34:56.660 Good job. 0.99

00:34:58.300 Also, doing a great job of making this a shitty country for white men, reducing their chances of success. 1.00

00:35:06.540 Great job on that, too. 0.99

00:35:07.760 Here's a question that David Boxenhorn on the X platform asked.

00:35:14.100 And I don't know if there is an answer to this.

00:35:16.620 But if you've heard of anything like this, let me know.

00:35:20.320 David asks, and he says, I've asked this twice on the X platform without getting an answer.

00:35:26.060 I'll ask it a third time.

00:35:27.260 Has any important Muslim religious leader, you know, keyword religious leader, condemned the Hamas attack as being un-Islamic?

00:35:37.640 Condemn it for being un-Islamic.

00:35:41.620 Have they?

00:35:42.500 How are you going to fight Islamophobia if you don't have any important Muslim religious leaders condemning the Hamas attack as being un-Islamic?

00:36:01.600 If the religious leaders think it's Islamic, then Islamophobia makes perfect sense. 1.00

00:36:11.640 It would be crazy not to be Islamophobic if they don't condemn it. 0.99

00:36:17.100 In fact, it's almost an invitation to be their enemy.

00:36:24.080 Right?

00:36:25.280 I would say it's an invitation to hate.

00:36:27.500 Now, but, but let me just say, I would condemn Islamophobia in general.

00:36:36.780 Like, I don't think there's any, there's no good reason to just hate somebody because of their religion.

00:36:42.660 But if their religion includes some code that says it's okay to do what happened on October 7th,

00:36:49.840 well, then I would say it's perfectly good to discriminate like crazy. 0.60

00:36:54.300 Because that would be self-defense.

00:36:55.700 Now, I've said this before.

00:36:59.460 Discrimination, bigotry has no place when it comes to, you know, hiring, renting a place, selling a home,

00:37:10.580 having a personal relationship, who you marry, you know, where your kids go to school.

00:37:16.200 Like all the normal things of society, no discrimination should be tolerated for these reasons.

00:37:23.060 You know, race, religion, any of that stuff, gender.

00:37:27.020 So, I think we're all on that same page.

00:37:29.660 However, in the context of self-defense, you can do anything you want.

00:37:36.680 And if that requires you to be Islamophobic to survive, go do that for self-defense.

00:37:43.180 So, nobody's ever countered me on this point, that discrimination in normal civil society, completely unwelcome and destructive to the society.

00:37:56.900 But, if you're trying to stay alive, discriminate all you want. 0.99

00:38:03.380 And you should.

00:38:04.860 You should discriminate as hard as you need to to stay alive, but no harder.

00:38:09.100 If you're discriminating, you know, just for entertainment or whatever, that'd be crazy.

00:38:13.320 But, for sure, if there's a group that has decided that your life is worthless, you should take that into consideration in your self-defense, keeping your family safe.

00:38:26.800 All right.

00:38:27.100 But don't discriminate against individuals.

00:38:33.140 Have you noticed that television is now unwatchable?

00:38:36.940 So, obviously, you know that Israel is doing their best to frame this situation to get support.

00:38:48.100 You know, of course, that the Palestinians and the supporters of Hamas are framing the situation, in a way, to get the most support. 0.81

00:38:58.160 What that means, in the practical level, is that if you turn on the TV, somebody's going to be describing the vicious death of a baby.

00:39:06.220 Or possibly a mother.

00:39:09.880 I can listen to some of that.

00:39:12.420 Because I need to understand, you know, how dire the situation is.

00:39:16.720 I can't listen to too much of it.

00:39:19.520 So, my new thing is that the moment the propaganda comes on, and by the way, when I call it propaganda, that's not an insult.

00:39:29.440 It's also not a call to have less of it.

00:39:32.180 In the context of war, the propaganda is also a weapon.

00:39:36.220 And Israel is in an all-weapon war. 0.70

00:39:39.720 So, if they have a weapon they can use, use it.

00:39:44.220 You know, they have the right of self-defense.

00:39:48.020 And short of a nuclear or, you know, maybe gas attack that's banned, all tools are on the table.

00:39:55.120 And propaganda is just a tool.

00:39:56.480 So, when you watch the news, just be fully aware, it's not news during this war.

00:40:03.360 You know, all the news of this area is just propaganda.

00:40:06.140 It's propaganda on the left.

00:40:07.840 It's propaganda on the right.

00:40:09.380 But none of it is really an attempt to tell you what's going on in some balanced way.

00:40:14.700 Because it's war.

00:40:15.520 Now, that's why I told you early on, and I'll remind you, I'm not trying to be objective about the Israel-Gaza thing.

00:40:25.400 I'm not even trying to be objective.

00:40:28.520 I'm taking sides.

00:40:29.640 And I'm taking sides because the October 7th thing was so beyond the pale of civilized behavior that it has to be addressed in the most aggressive way possible.

00:40:42.260 Now, you might say, but Scott, what about the history of the region?

00:40:46.880 I don't care.

00:40:49.180 That's it.

00:40:50.400 I don't care about the history of the region.

00:40:53.880 Not at all.

00:40:55.320 Not even a little bit.

00:40:56.980 And you can't make me care.

00:40:58.200 There's no story you can tell about the bad things that happened.

00:41:02.580 Probably.

00:41:03.640 Probably bad things happened.

00:41:05.240 One side was worse than the other.

00:41:07.580 Maybe.

00:41:08.000 I don't care.

00:41:09.140 I don't care if one side was worse.

00:41:11.520 Maybe these people should have a right to return.

00:41:14.840 So, I don't care.

00:41:17.700 It's all history.

00:41:18.740 And it's their history.

00:41:19.580 It's not even my history. 0.98

00:41:20.940 Don't fucking care what happened in the past. 0.98

00:41:24.840 Don't care. 1.00

00:41:25.360 You guys can care and kill each other over it, but I don't have to care.

00:41:30.180 What I care about is what's happening today.

00:41:33.080 And what happened today, you know, this month, is something that civilization cannot, cannot let go unaddressed.

00:41:43.220 And that's the only thing I care about.

00:41:46.360 So, when I say I'm backing Israel in their actions, that doesn't mean I back everything they do, you know, the way they do it, the specific way they do it. 0.84

00:41:56.940 I'm just saying, in general, they have a full right to self-defense.

00:42:01.520 Somebody says, I'm a puppet.

00:42:05.740 I promise you that if Israel had done this attack on the Palestinians, I would be anti-Israel.

00:42:13.000 I promise you.

00:42:15.980 Do you not believe that?

00:42:17.780 Do you think I would have been okay if the Israelis had attacked the Gazans and ripped babies apart? 1.00

00:42:25.800 And I'd be like, well, you know, if they had a good reason. 0.56

00:42:29.640 No, I would not.

00:42:31.420 No.

00:42:31.740 There are some things that don't even, they're not even in the realm of politics.

00:42:37.180 I would consider what Hamas did and what they've done to their people as mass brain damage.

00:42:45.160 So, you have a population that are just brain damaged at this point, that their brains are not compatible with modern civilization.

00:42:55.260 That's brain damage.

00:42:57.140 Because brain damage would be, you know, you can't function in the world as it exists, whereas other people can.

00:43:03.260 They can't function in the world as it exists.

00:43:06.080 That's brain damage.

00:43:07.660 So, I'm not in favor of the brain damaged people. 0.98

00:43:10.300 I'm in favor of the people who are functioning people who did not, well, they suffered a terrible thing, and I don't want to see that happen anywhere again.

00:43:22.740 So, there should be a maximum response.

00:43:25.600 But, as far as the question about, you know, the two-state solution and the blah, blah, blah about the Palestinians, it probably is terrible.

00:43:37.440 They probably have some argument to make.

00:43:39.520 Do you know what I think about their argument?

00:43:43.480 There's nobody who had a better shot at success than Gaza. 1.00

00:43:48.660 Do you know why?

00:43:50.020 Because they had funding, they had a good location, and they had, if they had gone, you know, if they'd gone in any civilized direction,

00:44:00.360 they would have the best trading partner in the world, in that part of the world,

00:44:04.580 because they would have a, you know, connection to Israel if they had decided to go that direction.

00:44:09.520 And, you know, you add the location, and the fact that they're right in a nice, good economic area,

00:44:19.400 they could have easily been, you know, a paradise, very easily.

00:44:25.080 They chose a different way.

00:44:28.960 Now, I do feel sympathy for the regular citizens who are not especially political, but, you know, get dragged into it.

00:44:36.580 But, you know, I don't have a solution for that.

00:44:44.420 All right, it is what it is.

00:44:46.140 So don't watch the coverage.

00:44:47.980 If the coverage is just going to be more making you feel bad, just turn it off. 1.00

00:44:56.000 Don't watch that shit. 1.00

00:45:01.520 The Hamas leadership. 1.00

00:45:04.060 Now, here's one of those situations where there's an obvious right answer, in my opinion.

00:45:09.200 The Hamas leadership apparently is operating in the open, at least in Qatar.

00:45:17.560 And here's how I think Israel should handle it. 0.93

00:45:22.820 They should give the host country a reasonable deadline to turn the person over, just to be polite.

00:45:30.600 But either way, they should make the host country completely understand that that person is going to be dead, and by a certain date.

00:45:44.220 You could put a date on it.

00:45:46.200 You could just say, after this date, if you've not handed him over to us, after this date, make sure you're not standing within a block of anywhere he is, because he's going to die.

00:45:57.740 And then they would say, my God, that would be a war against Qatar if you did that, if you attacked him on our soil.

00:46:04.120 And then Israel should say, yes, that's what it is. 0.74

00:46:09.800 And then they should say, you will pay a huge price for this.

00:46:13.240 And then Israel should say, give us the bill. 0.72

00:46:16.960 Give us the bill.

00:46:18.160 We'll pay it. 0.99

00:46:20.220 But he's going to be dead. 0.98

00:46:22.260 We have to take away from you.

00:46:24.320 You have to reframe this.

00:46:25.640 You want to reframe it away from a negotiation and into a, how do you want him to die?

00:46:32.680 If they imagine they're negotiating, you're in the wrong frame.

00:46:36.880 There's no negotiating. 1.00

00:46:38.740 That guy's fucking dead. 1.00

00:46:41.060 Israel is going to kill him with certainty. 1.00

00:46:44.020 They need to make Qatar know that in this case, this is not normal business. 1.00

00:46:50.860 This guy's going to die.

00:46:52.320 There's going to be a lot of exploding wherever he is after this date. 0.98

00:46:57.960 You do what you want, Qatar. 0.68

00:47:00.600 Do whatever you want.

00:47:02.680 Get whatever revenge you want. 1.00

00:47:05.060 He's going to die on this date. 0.99

00:47:06.860 You can either do it on your territory or ours. 0.72

00:47:09.240 That's the only choice you have.

00:47:12.220 That's how I'd play it.

00:47:13.160 And I think just in general, the leaders need to have a little more skin in the game.

00:47:20.940 All right.

00:47:22.820 There's a story about Bridgeport, Connecticut.

00:47:26.340 A judge has decided that the election was very rigged and the ballot box were stuffed.

00:47:32.520 The exterior ballot boxes.

00:47:35.040 What do you call them?

00:47:35.760 The ballot drop-off places.

00:47:38.340 And they've got a video of people stuffing them, you know, obviously.

00:47:43.180 And apparently, it was just so rigged that the judge was just, couldn't even believe it.

00:47:49.680 Now, here's a question.

00:47:53.380 Suppose, ooh, I don't know.

00:47:56.260 Suppose there had been no video on those drop boxes.

00:48:00.020 Oh, we'll call them drop boxes.

00:48:02.860 Thank you.

00:48:03.520 Drop boxes.

00:48:04.400 Suppose there had been no video and no witnesses.

00:48:09.400 Would anybody know that the cheating happened?

00:48:12.640 My understanding is that they were stealing ballots somehow and throwing away the ones they knew were against them

00:48:18.980 and stuffing them with ones that, who knows.

00:48:22.040 How much of what happened in this small race could have happened in any race and also gotten away with it?

00:48:34.220 It's hard to imagine that the Democrats are still sitting there thinking,

00:48:37.880 well, it must have been a fair election because the courts didn't catch anybody. 1.00

00:48:45.840 Do you know how fucking dumb that is? 1.00

00:48:51.720 There are some things that are opinions, and there are some things that are so fucking stupid 1.00

00:48:56.440 that you just have to call it out as stupid. 1.00

00:48:59.640 If you think the election was fair because nobody got caught, you're a fucking idiot. 1.00

00:49:06.600 Now, if I said, I know the elections were rigged, I'd be a fucking idiot, right? 1.00

00:49:13.280 Is that fair? 1.00

00:49:14.200 If I said, I know they're rigged, because I don't.

00:49:18.360 I mean, there are certainly indications.

00:49:23.500 There are suggestions.

00:49:25.580 There are allegations, right?

00:49:27.980 But personally, I've not seen something that convinces me that somebody found something

00:49:34.860 that would prove the elections were rigged.

00:49:38.240 Proof.

00:49:39.120 Because I think that no matter how much you suspect,

00:49:42.040 no matter how much your anecdotal observations confirm it,

00:49:45.820 you still need the goods, right?

00:49:48.060 We still live in a world where you've got to produce the goods.

00:49:50.940 Maybe it'll happen someday.

00:49:52.040 Who knows?

00:49:52.460 But if you're confident that the election was fair because nobody went to jail for rigging it, 1.00

00:50:01.840 you're a fucking idiot. 1.00

00:50:04.020 How could you live in the United States and see that every institution is corrupt 1.00

00:50:08.080 and just think that that one is the good one? 0.98

00:50:12.060 I mean, you'd have to be super, super dumb to think that you know a national election is fair or not fair.

00:50:22.460 Now, if they found proof it was rigged, then you might have something that you could be sure about. 0.89

00:50:28.900 But you don't have that.

00:50:30.920 So being unsure is the correct, logical place to be.

00:50:37.780 But if you were unsure but you had an opinion about the likelihood,

00:50:42.900 then you'd also be in good shape.

00:50:45.220 The likelihood is that every institution is corrupt.

00:50:48.960 Those are the odds, right?

00:50:51.200 The odds are any institution that's been around a while is corrupted by now

00:50:57.300 because everything that can be corrupted gets corrupted eventually.

00:51:01.440 There's no exception to that.

00:51:03.100 If it can be corrupted, it'll get corrupted.

00:51:07.420 All right.

00:51:09.700 Remember the shooter Robert Card, the guy in Maine who killed a bunch of people?

00:51:14.660 We still don't know what pharmaceutical drugs he may have been on, if any.

00:51:22.360 Do you think we'll ever know that?

00:51:24.460 Do you think he'll ever tell us?

00:51:26.180 Or do you think that big pharma is powerful enough to make sure that that's never in the news?

00:51:32.480 I don't think it'll ever be in network news because they're all backed by big pharma.

00:51:36.800 But it might, you know, may come out in some internet platform.

00:51:43.160 All right.

00:51:46.020 You all know live streamer, Sticks, Hexenhammer666.

00:51:51.520 Let's just call him Sticks.

00:51:54.560 He's saying that YouTube is, you know, massively shadow banning him.

00:51:58.200 And, yeah, Eddie's right.

00:52:03.140 He's right, of course.

00:52:04.440 And I realized that one of the biggest benefits of the X platform

00:52:09.380 is it gives you a standard which you can compare to your other social media experiences.

00:52:18.660 So in my case, my YouTube channel has stayed basically flat no matter what.

00:52:25.980 All right.

00:52:26.140 There'll be a few bumps like when I got canceled.

00:52:28.140 But basically, then it goes right back to the same number.

00:52:31.080 In fact, I can tell you the number of viewers today.

00:52:34.620 6,600.

00:52:37.360 All right.

00:52:38.140 I don't know the detail, but I will tell you the answer that when I turn it off, it'll be 6,600.

00:52:44.780 And I'll tell the locals people if I got it right.

00:52:47.440 And it's because the traffic doesn't seem to have any relationship to how well I'm doing or anything.

00:52:56.140 It just seems like it's flatlined and it has for years.

00:52:59.140 Likewise, my Instagram traffic or followers, pretty much just constant.

00:53:08.480 Hasn't changed in the longest time.

00:53:10.440 But my X traffic, zooming up.

00:53:16.260 My number of subscribers, both on X and on the locals platform, doubled since last year.

00:53:25.000 Doubled.

00:53:26.320 While those other things are flat.

00:53:28.380 Do you think that's natural?

00:53:29.420 Do you think my Instagram traffic is just completely natural?

00:53:35.040 It just stays the same, no matter what?

00:53:38.880 Do you think my YouTube traffic is just natural?

00:53:43.980 So yesterday, I lost my monetization on Spotify.

00:53:49.000 Looks like it might be a technical problem or some other kind of problem, but they just eliminated my monetization.

00:53:55.640 So for podcasting, now, how many times have I had my monetization taken away?

00:54:03.620 Lots of times.

00:54:05.120 It's always temporary.

00:54:07.580 It feels a lot like the Hamas strategy for trying to get Israel to leave. 0.66

00:54:13.580 You know, you just peck them to death with every little thing you can.

00:54:17.140 That's what it feels like.

00:54:18.300 I mean, it could be a bunch of coincidences.

00:54:21.020 It'd be a lot of coincidences, wouldn't it?

00:54:23.300 Do you think there are any left-leaning people who got demonetized on Spotify?

00:54:31.020 I don't know.

00:54:32.420 Maybe.

00:54:35.040 All right.

00:54:36.520 So, ladies and gentlemen, that is all I wanted to talk about today.

00:54:41.820 I think I have changed your lives.

00:54:43.480 Let's see if I missed any big stories.

00:54:44.880 I don't talk about Israel's attack on Gaza because I don't believe any of it.

00:54:55.280 You okay with that?

00:54:57.240 So there will be endless stories about what Israel did or did not do in Gaza.

00:55:03.980 I don't believe any of them.

00:55:05.880 I don't believe the positive ones.

00:55:07.440 I don't believe they'd necessarily killed one of the planners.

00:55:11.860 Not necessarily.

00:55:14.980 You know, for example, if they accidentally bombed the wrong place,

00:55:18.660 are they more likely to say, well, we're pretty sure there was a Hamas leader under there,

00:55:23.480 or are they likely to say, oh, shoot, we killed a bunch of civilians we didn't mean to kill?

00:55:29.040 Which would be more likely?

00:55:30.080 Well, in war, information is a tool.

00:55:34.700 So you would expect that both sides are shading the news to, you know, support their narrative,

00:55:43.320 and that there's nobody who knows what's happening who has an interest in telling you the truth.

00:55:48.260 Would you agree on that?

00:55:49.840 There's nobody who would have the information about what's really happening who also wants you to know it,

00:55:57.420 or wants you to know the honest version.

00:55:58.860 There's nobody like that.

00:56:00.080 So, I'm kind of ignoring the stories about, you know, Israel increased their attack,

00:56:07.040 or they took out a leader, but some civilians died.

00:56:11.560 I don't believe any of it.

00:56:13.720 And I would recommend you don't believe any of it either.

00:56:16.340 Which is different from saying it's not true.

00:56:19.520 Some of it's true.

00:56:21.200 Some of it's half true.

00:56:22.620 Some of it's completely true. 0.81

00:56:23.820 Some of it's out of context.

00:56:24.840 But there's nothing useful that you're going to learn by watching the news.

00:56:29.060 So, if Israel is doing its job right, and all indications are it's doing a good job for what it's trying to accomplish,

00:56:37.320 they would be completely managing the information flow by now.

00:56:41.240 They're probably turning off the power to make sure there aren't too many phones at work.

00:56:47.780 They can't get information out on their own, and then they can control the information universe.

00:56:54.120 So, part of the war is controlling the minds and the news.

00:57:00.740 And I'd say they're probably doing a good job of that.

00:57:03.600 Probably doing a good job.

00:57:07.260 Somebody, I saw Al Jazeera mentioned in the comments.

00:57:10.300 I think it was Peter Zayen who said that the best news source in general is Al Jazeera.

00:57:20.900 But on this specific conflict, it's the worst.

00:57:25.820 Because they're just sort of on one team.

00:57:29.280 So, Al Jazeera seems to be an asset when it's something that they don't care about.

00:57:34.860 But the moment they care about it, it becomes useless, basically.

00:57:40.460 Like all news sources.

00:57:47.260 Didn't we set that up?

00:57:48.660 I don't think so.

00:57:52.200 Scott has gelman amnesia.

00:57:55.560 About what?

00:57:56.100 I'm seeing. 1.00

00:58:04.480 Is that one of those just generic insults because you don't have an opinion and your brain is broken? 0.98

00:58:13.500 Glenn, figure it out, Glenn. 1.00

00:58:15.480 You're not so dumb you can't figure out the left-right thing. 1.00

00:58:19.840 I love it when people act dumb as a gotcha. 1.00

00:58:23.620 That's like the most annoying thing. 0.97

00:58:27.140 Sometimes there's a gotcha that's there.

00:58:29.520 Like they can actually get you.

00:58:31.460 But other times they'll act like they don't understand an easy point.

00:58:35.600 So they can get you.

00:58:38.520 So Glenn here is pretending he doesn't understand a very simple concept.

00:58:43.740 So they can get me.

00:58:45.640 Glenn, maybe it's just you not understanding something pretty simple.

00:58:49.720 Maybe it's that.

00:58:50.260 PJ says that I only believe the news I want to believe even when it's from the same source.

00:59:01.720 PJ, are you deaf? 0.69

00:59:05.340 Did you miss everything I just said the last five minutes? 0.66

00:59:08.820 All of it?

00:59:09.940 The part about not believing anything?

00:59:12.000 From either side.

00:59:13.600 You missed that completely.

00:59:15.000 And your interpretation of don't believe anything from anybody, your interpretation is that I believe in one side.

00:59:22.160 I'm not even talking about it.

00:59:24.260 I disbelieve it so much.

00:59:26.060 I won't even report that somebody said it.

00:59:29.240 I disbelieve it that much.

00:59:31.520 But your take from it is, you just believe that one side.

00:59:34.880 That's what gel man amnesia is?

00:59:45.220 Do you even know what it is?

00:59:47.760 I think you don't know what the concept is or something.

00:59:53.100 Simplest way to solve the debt crisis.

00:59:54.960 We should not pay it.

00:59:55.940 That would be the end of civilization.

01:00:04.300 I don't know if somebody told you that the only person who would suffer would be China if we stopped paying our debt.

01:00:11.160 You might need to improve your news sources if that's what somebody told you.

01:00:16.480 Scott, please reach out to RFK.

01:00:18.380 That's all news.

01:00:19.180 We've already communicated.

01:00:20.720 He's already had a procedure.

01:00:21.880 I saw a video of him on Oliver Stone's documentary about JFK.

01:00:30.340 RFK is one of the main people he interviews.

01:00:34.500 And if you listen to RFK Jr.'s voice from what was probably, I don't know, a year or two ago,

01:00:41.280 and you compare it to today, it's really different.

01:00:44.280 So whatever procedure he had was different than the one I had.

01:00:47.320 But he had a procedure that improved it at least 30%, 40%.

01:00:51.740 I mean, it's quite noticeable.

01:00:56.900 Do I like board games?

01:00:58.520 No.

01:00:59.840 Do you know why I don't like board games?

01:01:02.560 They have board built right into them.

01:01:05.860 Board.

01:01:07.140 They spell it differently, but I know what they mean.

01:01:10.300 What's the announcement you mentioned early in the broadcast?

01:01:19.920 I think it was about the mugs.

01:01:24.880 I think I already did it.

01:01:29.100 RFK is for reparations.

01:01:31.620 Yeah, that's sort of disqualifying.

01:01:33.240 How is my voice now compared to...

01:01:39.240 Well, I'll give you my impression of myself talking.

01:01:46.720 You know, I might actually have a clip of it.

01:01:50.000 I'll see if I can find the audio of it.

01:01:51.980 Someplace I have it.

01:01:53.540 But if I were to answer the phone call...

01:01:56.240 Well, let's say if a flight attendant asked me for what beverage I wanted,

01:02:02.560 and I wanted a Diet Coke,

01:02:04.840 I couldn't say D.

01:02:08.980 D was the hard one.

01:02:10.060 So I'd be like, I Coke.

01:02:12.020 And they'd say, what?

01:02:13.760 I Coke.

01:02:15.300 And they'd bring me a regular Coke.

01:02:17.560 It happened all the time.

01:02:19.480 Because I-It doesn't sound enough like diet.

01:02:22.660 So I got a lot of regular Cokes.

01:02:26.240 I'm glad I quit drinking soda.

01:02:28.680 So that was old days.

01:02:33.500 So if I have gel man amnesia,

01:02:36.620 instead of yelling that over and over again,

01:02:39.680 perhaps you could say in a simple form,

01:02:42.700 what I don't remember.

01:02:45.760 Go.

01:02:47.160 So in the comments,

01:02:49.240 tell me what I don't remember.

01:02:56.240 You can't, right?

01:02:58.120 You just learned a new term,

01:02:59.560 and you're yelling it at me,

01:03:00.560 but there's no examples of it.

01:03:03.080 So you just went quiet.

01:03:04.340 As soon as I asked you to tell me what I got wrong,

01:03:07.480 you just completely went quiet.

01:03:08.840 Yeah. 0.99

01:03:08.940 The most worthless people 0.98

01:03:19.340 are the people who call other people narcissists. 1.00

01:03:23.600 You're really worthless. 0.99

01:03:25.760 You should do something about that. 1.00

01:03:27.180 All right.

01:03:36.040 Well, I guess you gave up

01:03:37.320 on that gel man amnesia thing, didn't you?

01:03:42.360 All right.

01:03:42.900 Good.

01:03:43.720 I just want to make sure that was just a troll.

01:03:45.600 I thought maybe there's something

01:03:46.560 I am worthy of being criticized for,

01:03:49.700 but it wasn't that.

01:03:52.780 All right.

01:03:53.380 All right.

01:03:53.420 Narcolepsy, not narcissist.

01:04:05.080 When you say at all,

01:04:06.860 at the end of a sentence,

01:04:07.980 you completely trail off.

01:04:21.440 What?

01:04:23.420 Boy, there's some broken people over here today.

01:04:28.780 All right.

01:04:29.100 That's enough YouTube.

01:04:30.380 I gave you your chance.

01:04:32.380 But thanks for joining.

01:04:34.900 When I sign off,

01:04:35.880 I'm going to look at the number of people who joined.

01:04:37.720 I'll bet it's 6600.

01:04:40.140 I'll talk to you tomorrow.

01:04:41.100 I'll see you tomorrow.

01:04:59.380 I'll say bye.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - November 02, 2023

Episode 2280 Scott Adams： CWSA 11⧸02⧸23 Reframing Your Problems So You Can Solve Them, And News

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