Episode 2353 CWSA 01⧸14⧸24
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Summary
In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, we talk about dinosaurs in the oldest forest in the Catskill Mountains and why you're not allowed to visit it. Also, I make a new discovery about Dilbert and how it holds up to the test of time.
Transcript
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It's the dopamine, the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better.
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It's called a simultaneous sip, and it happens now.
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Possibly top ten, one of the best sips of the entire sipping universe.
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Now, we got news, a lot of kinds of news, but I saw this little article about there was
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a place in upstate New York where they found what might be the oldest existing forest that
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might be so old and has like old kinds of plants and stuff.
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It might be so old that the dinosaurs saw the same kind of plants.
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It turns out it's practically across the house from where I grew up.
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It turns out, have I ever told you, too many times, that I end up in the middle of stories
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So, I'm reading this story about the oldest forest.
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I'm like, okay, well, the story about dinosaurs in the oldest forest clearly will have no connection
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And why did they say, oh, apparently you're not allowed to visit this oldest forest place.
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So, visitors can't go there because they don't want people ruining it with their traffic.
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So, there's this place in New York that would be cool to look at and it would be the only
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But then they throw into the article, this is in the New York Post, for no reason at
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all, they throw the following thing into the article.
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Well, you can't go to this old growth forest, but there are other things you can go to.
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The only point of the article is there's this great, like, old forest that may have been
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around during the dinosaurs, and then they end it with, but you can't go see it.
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However, the good news is there are other completely unrelated things in upstate New York you can
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And then it lists one of them as Ski Wyndham, the ski slope in Wyndham, New York, that was
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I literally could look out the window and watch the people ski on the mountain across from the
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Speaking about things about me, I made a discovery that is just blowing my frickin' mind.
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Now, I know this will be more about me than you, but this is really interesting to me.
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Somebody has uploaded the old Dilbert animated TV show that ran for two half seasons on UPM
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And they took out the opening and closing credits, so it's like 10 hours of just solid
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Now, I didn't remember most of it, even though I wrote, I think I wrote at least half of it,
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But it's been so long that I didn't really remember the specific jokes or anything.
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So I started watching and I thought, oh, wow, strangely, this held up really well.
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You know, a lot of humor doesn't hold up, but it held up really well.
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And then I did something that was really interesting.
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I had one complaint with the series myself, you know, when it was made, and it was that
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And I didn't know that until the first initial animation came back.
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And I thought, why is everybody talking slowly?
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But what I didn't realize, and it just took me a while to piece it together, I always wondered
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why the Simpsons and other, you know, really well-performing comics, everybody seemed to
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Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.
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So in just a whim of curiosity, I set the YouTube viewing at 1.25 speed.
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And at 1.25 speed, that is a fucking magical show.
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I was crying, watching things that some of it I wrote.
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Yeah, the difference between regular speed and 1.25 takes it into a whole new category.
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Now, if you're interested enough to watch it, and especially if you've watched it before,
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Look for the first half of the episodes, you know, the first 10 or so.
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In the first season, you have no feedback because you've got all these episodes you've written
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And you don't really see them until they're on TV.
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So you don't know what you did right and what you did wrong.
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By the second season, half season, the last 10 shows or so, watch those last 10 shows.
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Ask yourself if that show should have been canceled.
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Now, the back story is that it ran on a Monday night on the old network, UPN.
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The UPN decided strategically that they were going to turn Monday night into an all-black
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That's just probably, you know, good marketing and stuff.
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But Dilbert ran on that Monday after Aisha or something.
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And it had a good audience, good enough to be re-upped for the next year.
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But as soon as a TV show has moved to a new time slot, and this is well understood in
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I retained, you know, a good lot of that audience.
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So basically, Dilbert got canceled for being white.
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And, but look at the, look at the quality of the show and ask yourself if that show should
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I saw a fascinating thread from Kyle Becker on X, who believes that the NFL is rigged and
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I want to make sure I get the allegation right.
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So it wasn't at the Chiefs against the Dolphins.
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And don't we understand that Taylor Swift is dating one of the Chiefs?
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And therefore, that's like the biggest story in sports because Taylor Swift is attached to
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And wouldn't it be great to have a Super Bowl with Taylor Swift?
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Now, according to Kyle, who's watched a lot of football, he says, it was kind of obvious
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How many of you have the same impression that it looked like it was rigged?
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Yeah, I don't have an opinion on this, but I'm interested in yours.
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Has anybody started to figure out what I finally came to realize?
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I remember watching professional wrestling as a child, and I'd watch it and I'd say, I'm
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I feel like they would be hurting themselves far more if they were really trying to hurt
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So as a young child, I was like, I feel like TV's lying to me.
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So, and then do you remember the game shows, like what's the one with tic-tac-tac-tow?
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And there was a little notice that came toward the end of the show, just a little notice.
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It would say, sometimes, just sometimes, just occasionally, we might tell the contestants
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Do you remember, I forget the one celebrity who was always hilarious?
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It was always obvious to me that his joke had been written in advance.
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Paul Lin was always the one who had the funny, naughty answer.
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So I grew up in a world as a kid, and I'd think, I think the people around me think wrestling
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And then I'd turn on Hollywood Squares, and I'd be like, I'm not positive, but I think
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the other people watching the show think that these are spontaneous answers, when kind of
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And every single episode, there would be a chair that involved, there'd be a fight.
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And I said to myself, well, that doesn't happen by accident.
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And I looked around, and people would be like, wow, look at all those fighters.
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And I would think, you really can't tell that that's not real, right?
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Well, let's go watch some Hollywood Squares and some wrestling.
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Now, by the time I got to watch the news as an adult, oh, and here's another one.
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Do you remember when, which magician was it that made an airplane disappear on live TV?
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And a bunch of people would join hands around this real airplane.
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And then they'd do some things, and the airplane disappears.
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And then they'd talk to the people, and they're like, oh, I don't know.
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All they do is they just unjoined their hands and moved the airplane out or whatever they did.
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But the trick is that you imagine that the people making the TV show are playing it straight.
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So they're pretending that the people who were on site saw something amazing, but they didn't.
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Who's the one who did the levitation on the street?
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And you'd see the clips of where he'd go, and it would look like he levitated off the ground.
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And you'd see all the people go, do you think the people standing behind him couldn't tell that he was just lifting up on one toe?
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The other thing they would do is he would do two tricks.
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I'm not saying that David Blaine did these things.
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I'm saying that one of the ways they do that is they'll do two tricks.
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So if you filmed the reactions to it, it wouldn't be much of a show.
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Looks like you're just lifting off on one of your toes, but you're angling your body so that I don't see the toe.
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So it looks like you're levitating, but really, you're just lifting yourself off on one toe.
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So the way they do it is that he does a different trick.
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So the different trick is just, you know, a real magic trick.
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So the person who sees the real one is like, oh!
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And then they splice in the reaction with the trick that wasn't a trick if he were there in person.
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And it looks like that they were fooled by his levitating.
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But if you believe that magic tricks on television are the same as they would be if you were in person,
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By the time I was an adult, I had a very long, you know, history already of knowing that the things on television were made up.
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And so I wasn't too surprised to find out that the news is not real news.
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So there's a story that the East Coast is sinking because of all the buildings.
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So not only is the news scaring us because climate change might raise the water level,
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but apparently the buildings are so heavy that places like Long Island and New York City
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are actually starting to sink a few millimeters a year in a fairly substantial way.
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Now, what I think is funny about this is that Governor Abbott of Texas
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keeps sending busloads of immigrants to the place that's sinking into the ocean
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I think Governor Abbott is only about two or three busloads away from solving his problem,
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Two, three more busloads ought to take care of the whole problem.
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John Kerry will be stepping down from his job as Biden's special envoy for climate.
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Yeah, there will no longer be a special envoy for climate.
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We're not going to have any kind of Biden's special envoy for climate.
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I feel so taken care of when, you know, I'd go outside, it'd be like a little too warm
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or a little too cold, and I'd be like, ah, curse the climate change.
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And then somebody would remind me, it's okay, Scott.
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John Kerry is riding around in his private jets, filling the sky with God knows what.
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And he's got this, because not only is he John fucking Kerry, but he's the Biden's special
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Now, if he had been still on the job, do you think that the football game last night would
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That's exactly the kind of problem you get when the special envoy for climate steps down.
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Well, the Wall Street Journal reports that interest in UFOs has reached a new recent high.
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I wonder what would have caused a recent high in interest in UFOs.
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Is it because Jerry Springer's guests always get in fights?
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Is it because professional wrestling was always real?
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Is it because we've been fed a load of bullshit to keep us distracted?
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Because Biden's not doing so well, and we've got three wars or four wars or six wars going
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to go with the UFOs are a distraction by our intelligence
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In other words, the odds of you someday, one of you, at least one of you, flying on a SpaceX
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Over the course of the next 50 years or so, pretty good.
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The odds of at least one of you being on a rocket ship to Mars.
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So you will actually be a UFO before you ever see one, if there is one.
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I heard there's some planet that we saw some indications of life.
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And I don't know why we don't call moons planets.
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I'm going to go with there's no life on that planet and the data is wrong, but we'll see.
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Also, according to the Wall Street Journal, the probability of recession is dropping, according
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According to economists surveyed, they lowered their probability of recession within the next
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So it used to be about half of them thought there'd be a recession.
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And I ever told you that surveying economists is about as useful as nothing.
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The best economic prediction in the past year was from me.
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Literally the only person I know who said in public, you know what?
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But now it looks like things may be slowing down.
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Now the economists on average are expecting 1% growth in 2024.
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But it would be technically not a recession because it's still growing 1%.
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Do you think economists, if you're taking their average especially, can predict the GDP within
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Well, there's an insurrection going on right now at the White House.
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Apparently the Palestinian supporters were protesting, broke through the one barrier, and they've
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reached an inner barrier of the White House on their attempt to take over the country.
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And non-essential personnel have already been evacuated, and the White House has fallen.
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If they're evacuating people from the White House, hasn't the White House fallen?
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I don't think, I'm pretty sure that Biden is not in the White House, right?
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So if you take out the non-essential people from the White House, and the President is
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already not there, you kind of just gave up the White House.
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It's not like Congress where you've got hundreds of people wandering around.
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You've got basically one guy who matters, and then a bunch of non-essential people.
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But to me, it feels like if the top guy is already gone, the only one that matters, and
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then the non-essential people are leaving already, didn't the White House just fall?
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It's only to make a point that January 6th was bullshit, and this is not a real insurrection
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May I remind you, that should they take over the White House, we don't automatically give
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If they take over the White House, no matter how much sauntering they do, I'm worried that
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they're going to start taking selfies, maybe touch a lectern or two.
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But of course, this is all helping battle against the weird narrative that January 6th was some
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kind of an unarmed insurrection, and if only they'd taken control of the Capitol building,
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they would own the military by trespassing, I guess.
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That's how you take over another country's military, by trespassing in one building.
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That's what the news said, and I know the news is real, just like Hollywood Squares.
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Is it my imagination, or is Vivek making all the positive news, and everybody else is making
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I tweeted something about Vivek, and Elon Musk commented on my post, and he said,
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if it is accurate that Vivek did more meetings with voters than all of the candidates combined,
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then I think he will do very well in the vote on Monday.
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And then he explains, the power of an extreme work ethic is usually underestimated.
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Now, I'm used to looking on the X platform and seeing people make comments and opinions
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who are not qualified to hold that comment or opinion, you know, such as me talking about
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economics, such as me talking about climate change, such as me talking about politics.
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You know, basically all things I shouldn't be talking about, because I have no expertise.
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But when Elon fucking Musk says he's impressed by somebody's work ethic, drop your tools.
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Elon Musk just said he impressed him with his work ethic.
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By the way, I've always thought that the Elon Musk work ethic thing was true.
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But some of it might be a little bit, you know, let's say, what would be the word?
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Because we always hear the story about him, you know, sleeping at the office when there's
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But when we hear the stories, we imagine he's just sort of awake 24 hours a day.
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You know, I always say it's interesting that we think we know somebody.
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Do you think you know who Elon Musk is if you don't know anything about his fucking?
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Because he must spend a lot of time during the 24-hour day enjoying the company of women
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who don't mind spending time with the richest man in the world.
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So I feel like we, you know, we see this little sliver of a person, even though in this case,
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But there's always so much you don't know about famous people.
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Don't assume you know anybody if they're in the news.
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So Vivek is that good hit by really one of the best endorsements you could ever have,
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which is Elon Musk saying that he's impressed with his work ethic, assuming these numbers are real.
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DeSantis also made news, which is important because this is the big weekend that Iowa is going to putting in all their votes for the caucus.
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He was introduced by a guy at an event who gave him a participation trophy.
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And he said he has no hope of winning, but it was nice for him to participate.
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Vivek made news for the hardest work ethic we've ever seen, so much so that he was complimented for his work ethic by literally the most famous person in the world for having an extreme work ethic.
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But DeSantis also made news for being pranked for doing so poorly that we all think it's hilarious he got a participation trophy.
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Now, I pride myself on being able to identify professional work from amateur.
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This troll who came up with the idea of a participation trophy, that's a little too good.
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Now, if this was an amateur who was just sitting around and said, hey, I got an idea.
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Now, I would be very impressed if an amateur came up with that.
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There's no indication that Vivek's doing dirty tricks, by the way.
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Think about any lie that Vivek has told during the campaign.
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As far as I know, he's not even been accused of one.
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The fact-checkers have been like, oh, goddammit, didn't say anything that was a lie again.
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I mean, you've got to pay attention to the dog that's not barking here.
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There was a professional behind that funny troll about the participation trophy.
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But at least Nikki Haley made some good news, a little positive news.
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Axios is reporting that some Iowa Democrats and independents are going to pretend to be Republicans
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So they'll be what they call Republicans for a day, because the system allows it.
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And they would do it to vote for Nikki Haley, but mostly just to screw Trump.
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You know, to make Trump look not as strong or to get themselves a weaker candidate, they say.
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I'm introducing today my new segment that I call, Is It News or Propaganda?
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I didn't see it anywhere else, but maybe it's somewhere else.
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But Axios has decided that this is a story that I hadn't heard before, that people are
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crossing over, Democrats are pretending to be Republicans to screw the Republicans.
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Or is Axios prodding the Democrats to do this trick?
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Is it responsible for them to report it when it guarantees there will be more of it because
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Because keep in mind, the reporting is saying this is perfectly legal.
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It's transparent in a sense, because everybody knows it's happening.
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So is Axios becoming the news or reporting the news?
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To me, it looks like Axios wanted to create the news or create more of it.
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Or do you think this is just politically motivated and you wouldn't normally see it as news?
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But why are the other outlets not also reporting on it?
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Because it's so interesting that I would say, wow, this is actually pretty important.
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I'm going to take a guess that some of the other outlets might be hiding it.
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Yeah, they might just like the fact that you don't know.
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But I would think that others just have a higher ethical standard, because I consider
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this unethical reporting on the weekend of the event.
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It seems like it's more prodding them to do it than it is talking about it.
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I told you the other day that I didn't know who all these Haley supporters were.
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You know, this could be one of the reasons that she polls better than you think.
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Because I had noted that in my own life, I knew only one person, literally one, who supported
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I told you publicly that I only knew one Nikki Haley supporter.
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That one supporter informed me that he switched to Vivek.
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You know, for a few weeks there, I totally knew one.
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And then I saw a comment by the Amuse account on X.
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Now, Amuse says the reason multiple states are refusing to allow anyone to run against
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Biden in the primary is to allow Democrats to vote for Nikki Haley in the GOP primaries.
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You know, Biden just doesn't want a primary, doesn't want to lose.
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But one of the effects of not having a primary is it frees up some Democrats who would have
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otherwise had to register as a Democrat to vote in the Democrat primary.
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Now they can rig the system by voting as Republicans.
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So you already have your answer that the election is rigged.
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Because it introduces a variable that is independent from the will of people.
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You might say, oh, rigged is too strong a word because it implies something.
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But I say, if you introduce a variable that changes the outcome and it's not based on the
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Anything that isn't something like giving the voters useful information and making it easier
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to vote legally, anything that's outside of that domain is probably rigging.
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It might be legal, but it's rigging nonetheless.
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So the big story you want me to talk about is that Trump slapped Vivek in some comments
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Now, when I first heard the news that Trump had maybe backed off from his love affair with
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Vivek and vice versa, but not really, I thought, oh, this is some story.
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It looks like he was just sort of misunderstanding.
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So the reporting, if you can trust it, is that there was a photograph of Vivek posing with
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some people who had shirts on that said something like, protect Trump, vote for Vivek.
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Now, the first thing you need to know, oh, save Trump.
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The only thing I can think it means is that they think Vivek would be his vice president.
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Because having Vivek in the race does make Trump more assassination-proof and also lawfare-proof.
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Because the last thing they want is a stronger candidate.
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So, in some sense, I do think that Vivek having a strong showing does protect Trump.
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So, I think that Trump and his team may have, actually, I don't know what this shirt means.
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So, what happened was Trump, Trump attacked him and called him a fraud.
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But when I first heard the story, what I thought was that Trump was attacking him the same way his enemies are.
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Because the anti-Vivek people are saying, you know, there's something suspicious about how well he's doing.
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So, they're thinking he must be, you know, from the WEF or the CIA is endorsing him or something because he's too good.
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So, he just happens to take his being too good to politics.
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So, it's not mysterious, and it's not an indication that there are dark forces behind it.
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But, I thought that Trump was jumping on that train because that seems to be where he has some weakness, Vivek, in terms of trust.
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I don't think that's a valid concern, but people have that concern.
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Now, I think that Trump, well, when I read Trump's actual words, he went after Vivek for not being as much a supporter of Trump as he said he was.
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So, Trump's only problem with Vivek is that Vivek went from full-throated support to something that was a little bit less, or could be looking like that.
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So, basically, Trump was not attacking Vivek for who Vivek was, or what he stood for, or his policies, or his character.
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It was really all about what Vivek thought of Trump himself.
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So, that's just the most Trumpian thing in the world, because one of the things I like about Trump is he says out loud,
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It's really hard to dislike somebody who actively likes you.
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So, every time he says that, I go, okay, that's the most honest thing somebody said today.
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So, if Vivek looked like he was pulling back from his full-throated support of Trump,
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Trump was giving him a brushback pitch, none of this is important.
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So, then Vivek came out with a long thread in which he explained that he appreciates and respects Trump's job, etc., the work he's done.
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A little bit of a brushback in the context of a game.
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So, that's a non-story that could have been a story, but really, it was a slight miss.
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Now, like I say, the biggest complaints about Vivek, and this isn't a joke.
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The biggest complaints about Vivek is that he seems too good to be true.
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Too good to be true isn't the reason to not trust him.
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How about the fact that he hasn't been in politics his whole life,
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and he's bringing you a Jeffersonian almost approach that we long for and are thirsting for,
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and that he's recommended practical solutions for almost all of our problems.
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I think those are important things, not he's too good, so he must be a trick.
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Sometimes people are just better than other people.
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And I think it's interesting that Vivek's entire campaign is built on bringing merit back as our Central American theme instead of race.
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And the first thing they do to the guy who's saying merit, merit, merit, is people say,
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Nobody deserves it more if you're going to look at effort.
00:41:59.600
Well, as Steve Malloy points out on X, the New York Times had these two articles so far in January.
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These are two headlines, both in the New York Times.
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On January 2nd, global warming to end the snow.
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Ten days later, also New York Times, January 12th, headline, global warming to increase snow.
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It's getting really hard to think any of this is not bullshit.
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And what Steve Malloy says is it's the say-anything science behind climate hoax.
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I saw a snowflake yesterday, so it must be climate change.
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There's a little viral video going around, and I could talk about this for the first time.
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I'm going to throw a little free speech at you.
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You ready for some unfiltered free speech for the first time ever on this topic?
00:43:20.560
So in Australia, there's some kind of public hearing on the gender pay gap, and it features
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a politician who was politely asking questions about how it was calculated down there in Australia.
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And it looked like there was nothing but women who were testifying and in the audience.
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So it was just all women on sort of one end of things.
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And on the other end of things was this looked like a politician.
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And he was asking questions, just asking how they calculated it.
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So he asked, have they taken into account the difference in hours worked between men and women?
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And the answer was, well, we annualized the women.
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Now, annualized means you didn't actually measure what they made.
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You imagined what it could have been under different situations.
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So then the gentleman asked very politely, so suppose you were looking at it on an hourly basis.
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What would be the difference between the men and the women on an hourly basis?
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Because that would be the logical way to measure this, right?
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The whole argument is if you do the same amount of work for the same amount of hours,
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you're measuring whether or not there's a difference.
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So the only thing that they didn't measure is the only thing that mattered.
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If you did the same job for the same hours, did you get the same pay?
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The only thing that mattered, they didn't measure that.
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They measured some other stuff and annualized it, came up with the wrong number.
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Now, I'm going to say the thing that I couldn't say out loud before.
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The reason that people still believe there's a gender pay gap is because women are bad at math.
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There are lots of women who are better at math than I am.
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I'm not saying I'm better than math than women.
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I could name three women in my personal circle who are unambiguously better at math and statistics than I am.
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You know those women I said are better at math than I am?
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Not a single one of them believes there is such a thing as the gender pay gap.
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There are lots of women who know more math than I do, but none of them believe in the gender pay gap.
00:46:29.000
You actually have to be dumb enough not to know how to calculate it or to not understand how somebody is tricking you with their weird calculations to even think it exists.
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And whenever you control for all the variables, it disappears.
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I think it gets down to about three cents on the dollar.
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And three cents on the dollar, we can't really measure that to that precision.
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The only reason that the gender pay gap is still an issue is because women in general are bad at math.
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But it couldn't exist without the vast majority of women not understanding really basics of math.
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Now, if this were the other way around, would I be saying, oh, the problem is that men don't understand math?
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The majority of ordinary humans would not be able to work through what annualized even means.
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Much less know that if you didn't account for all the other variables, you would get the wrong answer.
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But if you didn't have that little background on economics and math, you would easily be fooled into thinking the gender pay gap was a real thing.
00:48:18.280
So Cigna, a big insurance company, has an employee training manual in which it says that the scientific studies have shown there are no biological differences between the races.
00:48:30.880
So they want you to know, as Cigna, that the science shows, scientific studies, that there are no biological differences between the races.
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Because I'm told by Cigna that the studies say there's no biological difference.
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And probably if you check their DNA, they'd all be identical, according to Cigna, because there's no biological difference between the races.
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Now, let me tell you my view, in case you haven't heard it lately.
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I think measuring the biological difference on the average in any group, whether it's gender or race, it's just causing trouble.
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It's a useless number because there are no average people.
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What if you really could do a good job and knew exactly the average biological difference between any two groups?
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The only thing that matters is the person that walks in the room and is standing in front of you.
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If the person who walks in the room and stands in front of you is Yao Ming, a seven foot four tall Chinese guy who is good at basketball,
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it doesn't matter if the average Chinese national doesn't play good basketball.
00:50:19.940
It only matters that he's seven foot, whatever he was, real tall.
00:50:24.480
Likewise, if Thomas Sowell walks in the room, what does it matter if some other group, on average, isn't doing good at their economics classes?
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You're standing in front of one of the smartest people in the world, and he's black, telling you about economics and explaining it to you really well.
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And every time anybody tries to trick you and say that the average should be part of your mental process, don't let that happen.
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You should care deeply about not discriminating against a person, you know, a real person.
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But you can discriminate against their average all you want, because that's not even real.
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The only thing it's good for is politics, and it shouldn't be there.
00:51:18.880
We shouldn't be treating people by their race, says me.
00:51:27.820
And then I saw also on the Cigna thing, it's explaining to their employees that gender is not binary.
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Gender is not you're a boy or a girl, but rather it's a continuum.
00:51:52.300
You know, there's some very unusual exceptions.
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Somebody might have some mixed equipment or something.
00:52:00.660
You know, a boy isn't having a baby unless there's, you know, major surgery involved or something.
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So I actually, you know, probably different from many of you.
00:52:16.560
I accept that, yeah, gender is probably this infinite, you know, infinite difference to scale.
00:52:22.480
Because I think that's true of every other characteristic of every person.
00:52:25.900
All of our characteristics are sort of, you know, infinitely different from everybody else.
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So I accept that gender is very much a, not as binary as sex is.
00:52:44.740
Why is gender the one thing you can be all nuanced about and public about?
00:52:57.240
So let's say if I go to the office and I've got, let's say I've got lupus.
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And I don't want you to know about it because I've got it under control.
00:53:17.180
I feel like there are all kinds of things about a person that we're better off if we keep to ourselves.
00:53:27.180
But why do we have to tell everybody our gender?
00:53:31.480
Like, I get why you'd have to maybe make a sex distinction.
00:53:37.160
Because, you know, at the very least, they're restrooms.
00:53:41.480
But why does everybody have to tell us about where they are on the scale?
00:53:45.480
Like, why is that the one category where people's infinite differences matter?
00:53:52.740
Like, why aren't we all talking about our, I don't know, our religious beliefs or how fast we can run?
00:54:00.900
You know, I'm working with people who can run marathons.
00:54:05.440
I think I should be measured on the scale of how hard I can run.
00:54:13.220
Your preference of where you put your genitalia.
00:54:20.020
We all got to know what you're doing with your genitalia.
00:54:23.340
It's like, I'd like you to know I'm non-binary.
00:54:26.340
Because I was wondering if you used your cock just on women, or do you also use your cock with men?
00:54:32.620
Because, you know, that's what I was wondering when I met you.
00:54:44.440
I don't need to know if you can run a marathon, or if you can't.
00:54:52.560
Now, I don't want to discriminate, because I legitimately don't have any bad feelings about anybody's gender preferences.
00:55:01.500
I don't even understand the point of discriminating against people by gender.
00:55:26.380
So it looks like this is the weirdest story, because we're living in this artificial world, talking about Gaza and Israel.
00:55:34.140
So the new news is that Israel's looking to do some military operations on the border, on their side of the border with Gaza, and on the Egypt border.
00:55:46.480
Now, the reason they would do that is you might say to yourself, hey, why do you need to control the Egypt border when Egypt is controlling it just fine?
00:55:54.900
And the answer is, Egypt is not controlling it just fine.
00:55:57.860
They're doing a good job of keeping Hamas from entering Egypt, apparently, but they're doing a bad job of keeping the tunnels from Egypt into Hamas from supplying them with weapons.
00:56:14.380
So Israel is going to have to control it because Egypt's not doing all they could to stop the tunnels.
00:56:24.520
Well, not funny, but here's this part of the story that caught my interest.
00:56:29.220
This said it was a, I'm going to look for the exact words here.
00:56:35.160
Yeah, so the Palestinians would be concerned about Israel doing this military action on that border,
00:56:41.080
because for Palestinians, it would roll back a symbol of Palestinian sovereignty.
00:56:47.080
It could also open the door to Israel maintaining longer-term control of the border after the war.
00:57:08.120
Gaza's never going to go back to the Palestinians.
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How in the world do we write about this like that's still on the table?
00:57:22.040
but it will be forever under Israeli security control.
00:57:27.880
Because to do otherwise would be absolutely stupid.
00:57:34.960
You know, they might do things that you wouldn't do or you don't like it,
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Like, for example, if you don't like the building of the settlements,
00:57:49.280
It's going to cause trouble for you, and then it causes trouble for us.
00:57:52.000
But even if you disagree with it, it's really smart.
00:58:00.720
But if I were there and I wanted to expand my control,
00:58:04.520
I would build settlements as long as I could get away with it.
00:58:09.160
And so eventually the, you know, the facts on the ground are more in my favor.
00:58:22.740
all right, we'll hand over Gaza now that we destroyed it.
00:58:26.300
We'll hand it back over to some people who say they don't like Hamas.
00:58:31.620
Some Palestinians who promise us they don't like Hamas.
00:58:41.860
Is there anybody here who actually thinks that Gaza is going to be run by Palestinians?
00:58:50.780
Because whoever controls security controls Gaza.
00:58:54.560
But why does the news still treat it like that's an option?
00:59:02.020
That they just can't deal with reality on this?
00:59:04.360
Yeah, certainly for the next 20 years, there's no real chance of the Palestinians having real control over that area.
00:59:14.180
Well, that, ladies and gentlemen, brings me to the conclusion of my prepared remarks
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for what I think all of you would judge as the best live stream that you're going to see today.
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And did I miss any topics that you just knew I needed to ask about?
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Not liking Hamas and not having the same agenda as Hamas are not the same.
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It's not enough to say that you don't agree with Hamas.
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It would be really helpful if you didn't want to destroy Israel and kill all the people there.
01:00:06.720
Although I think they usually talk more about conquering it than, you know,
01:00:11.200
I don't think they care per se whether there are Jewish people living in other countries.
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The Trump-Evake dynamic, we've talked about that.
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So, ladies and gentlemen, on the YouTube and Rumble and X platforms, thanks for joining.
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I hope you like this microphone upgrade, even though it's in my face.
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Thanks for joining, and I'll see you tomorrow, all you disgusting people.