Episode 2388 CWSA 02⧸18⧸24
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Summary
In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, I talk about a recent discovery I made with the folks who subscribe to my content on the Locals platform. They are getting healthier, and I think there's a good reason why.
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Well, I have a little discovery I made with the folks who subscribe to my content
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content on the locals' platform almost, well, every day, basically.
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I talk to them and see their comments, and I was noticing a pattern.
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And the pattern was a number of people kept saying things like,
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I decided alcohol was poisoned, and I haven't had a drink for three months.
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And then people started saying, I stopped eating wheat and sugar just to experiment,
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And then we sort of celebrate it, you know, when one of the people on Locals does well.
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And I realized that we've created an artificial version of the effect where the five people
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you spend the most time with are the ones that influence you.
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So there is some science, if you believe it or not, that if you hang around with people
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who are not doing well, it'll drag you down to their average.
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And I say not doing well in every way, right, from ambition to fitness to eating to exercise,
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But it turns out we've created this little artificial, it's accidental, it wasn't part of the plan.
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But just the nature of how things evolve, the folks on Locals are getting immensely healthier.
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If you told me that would be one of the outcomes of having my own little, you know, channel of subscribers,
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But there seems to be an immense effect of some kind of group motivation.
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But there's also a social proof that comes with it.
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Because almost every day, the other people who haven't yet made any change in their life
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are watching the comments of the people who do.
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Just take wheat and sugar out of your diet and processed foods for a couple weeks
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But people are feeling the social effect, not only of identifying with a group that seems
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to be favoring, you know, healthy activity, but being motivated and getting that social proof.
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So, somehow, accidentally, we've created some, you know, massively useful health outcome.
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Everybody keeps talking about the Sora AI that allows you to make a video just by putting
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And the text you might enter would be something like, a unicorn walks down the street of New York City.
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However, there was one thing I suspected about it that I saw what I think is a confirmation, which is it's not ready.
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If you think you can make a movie out of it, here's the problem.
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At the moment, it only does, you know, a minute at a time.
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But we're quite sure that that's a temporary limit.
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So, at some point, you'll be able to say, make a movie out of this book, which is what I plan to do with one of my books, God's Debris.
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When the technology is ready, I'm just going to feed it to PDF and say, make a book or make a movie out of it.
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As David Sachs on the All In podcast was explaining, I think he's right.
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And I think I'm right because I was suspecting the same thing.
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So, apparently, that's built into the nature of the large language models.
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You can say, you know, there's a unicorn walking through the streets of New York City.
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But suppose you say to yourself, it should be, let's say, 10 years in the future.
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You want to keep everything that you like, but maybe make the cars look more modern.
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So, you'd have to put it into your prompt and say, the cars are from the 80s, it's New York City, and there's a unicorn.
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But the second time it draws the unicorn, and the second time it draws New York City, it won't be similar to the first time.
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So, you don't have the ability to tweak it or edit it, which means it can't be used to make a movie, because making a movie is mostly tweaking and editing, right?
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So, not only can the large language models not edit, but apparently, the nature of how they create their intelligence in the first place should preclude that possibility.
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So, your normal instinct is, well, it can't do it now, but obviously, they'll be able to solve that.
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I was kind of suspecting it might not be editable, which makes it useless.
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So, unless it magically creates a hit movie on one try, you can't tweak it.
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So, I don't know that we're really close to it.
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We might be just creating what I think Chamath called, on the All In podcast, I think he called it marketing wear.
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You can demonstrate what you think it might be able to do in the future, but it can't now.
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I think we may have reached a point where it's demonstrating things that it won't ever be able to do.
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You know, more like every corporation in America.
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Argentina, with its new wild man president, Millet, he just achieved a balanced budget for the first time in over a decade.
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And he did it by freezing spending at 2023 levels and then cutting a bunch of agencies by over 50%.
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And I thought to myself, wait a minute, you can actually do that?
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I don't even understand how that was possible in their system, but okay.
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So, now when you hear something like Vivek saying he wants to cause something, you know, the FBI by 75% or something,
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Tell me if you've ever heard a story like the one I'm going to tell.
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But tell me if you've ever, in your experience, heard a story like this.
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I used to work in a big hotel when I was a youngster in my college years.
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And in the summers, I'd be in a salad room cutting up lettuce for salads, basically,
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because we needed a lot of salads in the hotel.
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And one day, one of our group of, I think it was, there were, I think there were five of us and one person quit.
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And my boss, who was one of the coolest bosses of all time, came over and she said, here's the deal.
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I can either hire another person to replace the person who left, which is kind of extra work for me.
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Or, the rest of you can share the salary of the person who quit, and we'll just make you work harder.
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And every one of us just looked at each other and said, yes.
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Because it turns out that the ones who are left are the ones who are really killing it.
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I cut salads just the way they're supposed to be cut.
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And the other, my co-workers were that same personality.
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How easily did the four of us do the work of the five?
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Now, how many times have you heard the story about some corporation that massively cut their department
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Because the reality is that the people who do good work are a minority of every group.
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And if you get rid of the people who are sort of the excess, you end up better, not worse.
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And we'll see very quickly if the Millet method works.
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So, because the simulation is kind to us and gives us good stories that we think are a reality,
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you know the story of President Trump losing in his lawsuit and now he's going to have to pay
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something like $400 to $500 million, you know, depending on interest and what gets added to it and all that stuff.
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So, the same week that what would be more than 100% of all of his cash, we're told, is now owed to somebody,
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the SEC cleared the, is it a merger or an acquisition, of Trump's truth social by a larger entity.
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And Trump's value in that could be $3.5 billion.
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Is that like the worst week you've ever heard in your life?
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Can you imagine a week where you lose half a billion dollars to absolute, you know, illegitimate process?
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Unless, unless that same illegitimate process, wait for the fun part, there's the fun part.
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You'd really be mad if an illegitimate government process caused you to lose half a billion dollars,
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unless, unless that exact same corrupt government caused you to be so censored on the X platform
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that eventually you had to create your own social media entity, which is now worth $3.5 billion.
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So, by screwing him as hard as they could, up to the tune of half a billion dollars,
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he managed to probably triple his net worth, because he monetized their evil.
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Then they threw every bit of bad energy at him,
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And, and he managed to use that same energy, you know, which had been coming at him for years now.
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He managed to turn that energy into his own social media empire, which, although it's much smaller than X and is not profitable yet,
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but still valued at $3.5 billion as part of a larger entity, which has its own value, of course.
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So it's a more complicated story, but am I wrong that that's what happened?
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That I've been telling you since 2016, he's an energy monster, and you don't know what's happening,
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because the more energy you throw at him, the stronger he gets.
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Well, now let me ask you again, because this is so important to the future and our understanding of reality.
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How many of you now have seen the Mike Benz interview on Tucker's show?
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Have you noticed that it's getting bigger and not smaller?
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Yeah, I think it hasn't crossed over to any other media, has it?
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but except for the podcast universe, the Mike Benz thing,
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which is the biggest news maybe in human civilization.
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It might actually be the biggest news story, not just in America.
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And, well, maybe the Holocaust is a bigger news story.
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Sorry, I don't like to compare anything to the Holocaust, so we'll just put that aside for a moment.
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It might be the biggest story in human civilization, you know, when you look at all of the moving parts to it.
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And I think he's going to be completely shut out from the mainstream media because that's what his story was.
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His story is that the mainstream media can just change reality, and they're doing it right now.
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But here's what the big accounts on X are saying something very similar.
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I heard a lot of hype about this video, and it is justified.
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Now, a lot of people said some version of that, like these are the bigger accounts, saying,
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oh, okay, people said this was a big deal, but it's a much bigger deal than I thought it was.
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Now, I might be the person who hyped it the most.
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I don't think anybody hyped it bigger than I did.
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Let me read you my pinned, so it's my pinned thing.
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So, you know, I linked to Tucker's interview with Mike Benz,
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and here's how I introduced it because I didn't want to take a chance you wouldn't watch it.
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So, see how much persuasion, you could call it hype, is in my post.
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I said, this is the most extraordinary thing I've ever seen.
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Now, doesn't that make you automatically doubt whatever is going to come next?
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Is it really the most extraordinary thing you've ever seen?
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So, if my first sentence is, it's the most extraordinary thing I've ever seen,
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So, I answer you before you have to ask, because I know you're thinking it.
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So, that's always a good communication technique,
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is to know the question that you just put in somebody's head,
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because you created the question in their head by what you said,
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And then I said, this is like a mushroom trip without the mushrooms.
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Now, that takes your head to a different place, doesn't it?
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Because I just said it's the most extraordinary thing.
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You thought, oh, it's an interesting news story.
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It's a freaking, it's a psychedelic experience.
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Because it'll take your brain somewhere you didn't think your brain could go.
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So, I wanted people to know that this is not news.
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How many would agree, having watched it, that it's an experience?
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It's not really like content in the way you normally think of it.
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or investigative reporting in the way you normally think.
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Because it's actually packaged and presented in a way that just makes you feel something
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Then I said, clear your schedule tonight and listen together.
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When I said watch it together, what happens in your mind?
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So, you don't have to, of course, listen together.
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But because I put a picture in your mind of watching it together,
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I elevated how important it is, and I made it visual.
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Because making it visual goes a long way to making it real.
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If you can imagine it, you're more likely to do it.
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So, I made you imagine it by giving you the together word,
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which you filled in the blank with the person you would most think you'd want to watch it with.
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I don't usually persuade this hard, but I decided to just put the hammer down on this one.
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So, if you want to know what it looks like when I pull out all the stops, it looks like this.
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But this is me being absolutely, overtly, transparently full persuasion.
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And nobody's going to be confused or fooled by it.
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I said, in a week, everyone who has not listened to this will look like an idiot to everyone who has.
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Everybody wants to have an experience that's like mushrooms without the mushrooms.
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Everybody wants to have the most extraordinary thing they ever had.
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And then I made them picture themselves doing it in the future with somebody they enjoy.
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Because if it's somebody they enjoy, I'm using the unearned credit of how you feel about the person you'd watch it with.
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And then I paired it with my idea that it would be with this content.
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And now the goodness of that person and the content become a little merged.
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And that, ladies and gentlemen, is full persuasion.
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Do you know how hard it is to get somebody to watch an hour of video?
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So getting somebody to watch a Tucker thing if they're watching my feed is not as hard as it would be for something else.
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But we're going to juice this thing until it's in everybody's mind.
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And it is the theme of the rest of my presentation today.
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And the theme is that once you've seen the, I'm going to call it the Mike Benz frame, that you understand the mass censorship structure, you understand the Atlantic Council, you understand all of the non-government entities and the Soros funding, and how together it creates this really almost unbreakable wall around real information so that they can give you any misinformation they want.
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All right, so America First Legal, that's the Stephen Miller legal organization that's fighting legal battles on behalf of Republicans, posted this.
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Now, we're going to tie it all together, remember.
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Everything is under the framework of the Mike Benz frame, because once you're in that frame, everything makes sense for the first time.
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I won't get into the details of that, but just suffice to say, a bunch of Democrats created a group.
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They had some power over some governmental decisions they recommended, knowing that they knew the in-person voting didn't spread COVID.
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I think we know they knew that because of some internal documents, but I could use a fact check on that.
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I don't think America First is speculating what they knew, like mind reading.
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I believe there's a document that says they understood the science.
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They also knew that mail-in votes are less secure, which I also believe is not based on any mind-reading speculation.
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I believe there are actual documents of them saying they understand that.
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So then they supported a policy change to a less secure system to solve a problem that they knew didn't exist, which is the risk of voting in person.
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And then they formed essentially a network of tools to censor the narratives against mail-in voting.
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So just think of how many pieces of evil this took.
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Number one, creating a fake organization which, you know, purports to do something useful but really is a political tool.
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Knowing that in-person voting is not a problem but acting like it is, evil number two.
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Knowing that mail-in voting is less secure but wanting to do it anyway, that's number three.
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Supporting the policy change is, I suppose, almost a fourth one, but we won't count that one.
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And then they censor the narratives that say that might be a problem.
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And then they ruin the lives of the people who are the people who might be talking about stuff like this.
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That's five extraordinary alleged pieces of evil.
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That's just one organization of a whole bunch of organizations that Mike Benz describes as part of this censorship effort.
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If you can control the information in a country, you control everything.
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You don't need to control the, you know, the politicians directly.
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If you can control the information, you can change the politicians.
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In the modern world, taking control of the information process of any country is a coup.
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Because controlling the physical bodies is somewhat irrelevant once you control the information.
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If you can control information, then I can say, did you drive a blue car today?
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So I'm going to arrest you and put you in jail for obviously being a member of a terrorist organization.
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You can put anybody in jail for anything you want as long as you control the narrative.
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Because the public wouldn't know anything was going wrong.
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So here's what Rasmussen reports reminds us that the Heartland Institute, this is recent,
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did a study of survey results and found that mail-in ballot fraud significantly impacted the results of the 2020 election
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and that Trump would have almost certainly won without the massive, often illegal expansion of mail-in voting.
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The often illegal part is that, you know, there was sort of some emergency COVID things that wouldn't normally happen that made things less secure, let's say.
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Now, add to that the obvious lawfare against Trump, and you can see the Mike Benz narrative in full force, right?
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You can see how the censorship industrial complex, by simply controlling knowledge and information, can make anything else happen.
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Now, it moves all the other parts of the machine.
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So they only have to control the information, and now they do.
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Now, you're saying to me, but Scott, obviously they don't control the information because you're talking about this in public, right?
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How many thought, well, this doesn't make sense because you're actually in public right now saying all the things you say would be suppressed if there were this alleged big censorship blob, right?
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Well, I noticed that I was getting a lot less interaction with Democrats for the last number of months.
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And so I did a little survey on the X platform.
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I asked people how many who were seeing my post were Democrats, and the answer came back 4%.
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No, it was closer to maybe 20% or 30%, a little bit closer to the nature of the country itself.
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Hypothesis number one, the X platform is compromised by the intelligence services.
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The other possibility is that there's some legacy code that affects people like me, and I just don't know it.
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Because remember he said there was a whole bunch of spaghetti code that they were trying to untangle,
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and there was just a whole bunch of ways they were suppressing people in different ways.
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Now, one of the things that changed was I got canceled.
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It could be that maybe the cancellation itself, which, of course, I believe now because of the Mike Benz filter on things,
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I believe was probably a CIA operation to censor me because I'm one of the people who consistently says things that they don't want to hear.
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If you look at the context of other people who say things they don't want to hear, all of us have been attacked financially, right?
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Probably, I don't know if he was bankrupted, but probably it was expensive.
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Linda Iaccarina was at NBC before this, somebody said.
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Now, given the context, how many of you, and also the context,
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that zero Republicans ever complained about the nature of my cancellation.
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So now, what do you think was the real reason I got canceled?
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Starting with the Washington Post, the most obvious CIA-connected entity.
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Phil Bump, the same guy who wrote about the laptop being real,
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Phil Bump kept writing about the laptop being real,
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Now, given that there are a lot of things that I may have looked at one way
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before the Mike Benz revelations, and now I see it a different way,
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I see that Vivek Ramaswamy and a number of other prominent people
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Now, Ross is in jail for life for building the Silk Road Network
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so that people could do things without the government,
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Unfortunately, a lot of the things I did were sell drugs
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Who gets life in prison for a non-violent crime,
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even if you created a tool that somebody else used for terrible purposes?
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How many of you knew that going to jail for life was even a thing?
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I thought if you didn't kill a room full of people,
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Do people even go to jail for murder for life anymore?
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Or, I guess it would be a special case they would.
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wait a minute, now put the Mike Benz filter on it, okay?
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So you know that the most important thing to control
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is the internet, so the CIA knows who's doing what,
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That, like, he's the one that we think should be freed?
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he's just as vocal about the January 6th people
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who are so excited about him but not other people,
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But there must be tons of people who are overcharged.
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Do you feel like there's something sketchy going on?
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you see what happened to the January 6th people,
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you know that Russia hoaxes are the mainstream blob thing
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The bad guys actually come up with a separate hoax
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for every demographic group they want to control.
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So we've got some pussy grabbing and stuff like that.
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And that'll keep the black voters on the sidelines.
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I think the Russia hoax is work on the older generation.
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who don't understand how banks or free speech work,
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I mean, how many people really understand banking?
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And how many people really understand, you know, free speech?
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Well, you may have seen a video of Mr. Wonderful,
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Kevin Leary, from the same show that Mark Cuban was on,
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the, what's that called, what's the name of the show?
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but also independently, hugely successful investor.
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And he explains to anybody who was willing to listen
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because nobody knows what somebody's going to pay for something.
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Now, the part about the square footage of the penthouse,
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to me, that would be a silly thing to lie about.
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It doesn't seem likely that it was anything but a mistake.
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But I'd have a lot of reasonable doubt about that
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and especially watching the Mike Benz narrative,
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because one of the things that a color revolution does
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or, in this case, a fake group to make Trump look bad
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for using our external tools of terrorism internally.
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Did you know that one of Hunter Biden's attorneys
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And now you see this as part of the larger attempt
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Yeah, we don't care about New York City's crime
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It does feel like they brought it on themselves.
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there's some kind of British extradition hearing,
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but he's the only one that they're going to say,
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and you can make a word mean anything you want,
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I have no idea how I could get out of my little box.