Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2455 CWSA 04⧸25⧸24

00:00:00.000 problem is there's no red in the picture and it's the weirdest illusion the picture only

00:00:06.480 has two colors black and some kind of aqua blue i think but you look at the picture and clear

00:00:12.720 as day you can see the color red and a red coke can but if you zoom in on the picture you see

00:00:18.560 there is no red in the picture whatsoever now it's one of the best optical illusions but oh

00:00:25.840 i think some people are at least on locals you can see it um it's it's a real mind bender

00:00:32.880 because i don't know if i see the red because my brain knows it's a coke can and i think that might

00:00:40.160 be why um if i recognize it as a you know the shape and the and the title maybe it just turns a red in

00:00:47.840 my mind uh or maybe there's something about those two colors that makes me see red i have no idea

00:00:53.040 how that works but i'll tell you one thing if you have any doubt about your reality

00:00:59.600 being subjectively created by your your brain creating a little movie for you that should end

00:01:05.280 it for you because you can see in real time that you're seeing a reality that isn't real

00:01:12.560 that's what's fun about optical illusions you can see for yourself that your brain can create

00:01:19.360 a completely artificial reality and you can live inside it just fine and the fun thing is

00:01:25.760 that whether that cocaine is red or not red we both live in the illusion and some people don't

00:01:32.640 see it as red by the way so the people who don't see it as red can live and work and reproduce and we

00:01:40.000 can live in completely different realities right next to each other usually a red can i don't all right 0.97

00:01:46.400 here's some more news there's a i'm going to call this evergreen news maybe this will be my theme today

00:01:54.960 the theme will be haven't i heard this news before but why does all the news feel like i

00:02:01.120 already heard it before but you're calling it news again there's gonna be a lot of that today

00:02:08.240 have you ever heard a story that sounds like this there's a company that made a big breakthrough

00:02:13.840 infusion energy first time you've ever heard that one has anybody ever heard a story like that

00:02:22.640 big breakthrough infusion energy gonna have it any minute now you better you can turn off the heat

00:02:32.800 all right well this one has a little more meat on it than others some seattle-based company called zap

00:02:39.200 and they claim to have made a breakthrough in the economics of it i guess is the way to say it

00:02:48.720 so they figured out a way to do something that normally takes these big expensive superconducting

00:02:53.920 magnets and lasers and they don't need them so their technology is orders of magnitude less expensive and

00:03:00.160 quicker to build so if that's true they should be able to iterate rapidly and create the

00:03:05.440 the uh the cheapest fusion energy of all time apparently it's a um i think bill gates may have

00:03:15.040 been one of the funders of this just to make you suspicious yeah so i guess he put in some money in

00:03:21.520 this so do you think the fusion actually is going to become a thing because it turns out they can they

00:03:29.200 can now create the heat they need and they can do it orders of magnitude cheaper than all the ways

00:03:34.720 they've ever done it before i feel like they're getting close i'll remind you that several years ago sam altman

00:03:45.520 told me actually in person that he was sure that fusion had already reached the engineering phase

00:03:53.440 meaning that the basic science supported its feasibility but you just had to try a bunch of

00:03:59.520 things in an engineering sense until you got it here we are it's several several years later but it looks like

00:04:08.400 he was right they're just iterating until they get it i saw just before i came on that the harvey

00:04:15.440 weinstein's uh rape conviction in new york were overturned or or a rape conviction now he's still

00:04:24.160 in trouble in california right so it's not like he's a free person but how in the world is

00:04:31.920 trump being sent to jail and harvey weinstein is being freed

00:04:38.160 does any of this seem suspicious to you

00:04:39.920 maybe rv weinstein knows where the bodies are buried maybe he knows where the bodies are buried

00:04:47.760 i don't know well here's some news again that you've never heard before this this will come as

00:04:53.440 quite a shock uh but the pope did an interview and you're not going to believe this but he's not in

00:05:00.400 favor of war wow wow i didn't see that coming and uh he wants wow he's he's even he's got even got a

00:05:10.240 plan you know mostly when people say when people say they're not in favor of war lots of times they

00:05:17.680 don't have a good practical alternative to it but the pope does it's called the negotiated peace

00:05:23.360 yeah so he's against war and he'd like this thing called the negotiated peace

00:05:29.760 hmm i wish somebody had thought of that before

00:05:34.320 you know i'm glad that we check in with the pope every year or so

00:05:37.920 because i keep i keep expecting him to change his mind

00:05:42.240 and wouldn't it be great one day it's like uh pope what do you think of war you know i've been

00:05:48.240 thinking it over for the past year and honestly i think it's awesome i'm all for it

00:05:57.600 no he's not going to say that but uh he also would he he refused to confirm

00:06:04.400 whether he does or does not shed in the woods

00:06:08.400 and i don't think that was a fair question really

00:06:11.840 all right well here's another story uh bill barr of all people ex-attorney general of trump who

00:06:17.840 of course trump and he had some problems toward the end of the uh end of his term and uh bill bar

00:06:25.680 says that uh uh he's going to endorse trump because he doesn't think biden is the right choice

00:06:34.160 so trump you know i have to admit one of the things i appreciate about trump is he doesn't hold a grudge

00:06:42.800 so he and bill bar had some tough times but bill bar came out in public and said he would he would

00:06:49.840 vote for trump so trump in his usual reciprocal way decided that he would soften on bill bar and he put

00:06:57.840 out a statement that said that about bill bar trump said uh despite the fact that i called him weak

00:07:04.480 slow-moving lethargic gutless and lazy uh but but based on his new endorsements uh he says i greatly

00:07:12.880 appreciate the wholehearted endorsement so i am removing the word lethargic from my statement

00:07:19.680 thank you bill so i used to be weak slow-moving lethargic gutless and lazy but now he's been upgraded to

00:07:27.120 simply uh weak slow-moving gutless and lazy but not lethargic not lethargic and i feel that that's big of

00:07:36.960 trump but uh the other question that was not asked and again i feel this is a huge gap in our knowledge 0.99

00:07:46.640 uh does the bar shit in the woods 0.99

00:07:50.800 okay uh now we're gonna talk about hillary clinton and i'm also gonna ask if she shits in the woods but 1.00

00:07:56.160 byron um byron york is pointing out that hillary clinton said that trump this hillary clinton is

00:08:04.240 so predictable trump admires putin because quote putin does what trump would like to do like what

00:08:11.520 imprison his opposition said clinton so she thinks trump is like putin because putin would like to

00:08:18.240 imprison his opposition byron york points out that uh clinton said this um

00:08:26.160 and that trump did not immediately respond because of course he is on trial facing a maximum of 136

00:08:31.840 years behind bars

00:08:35.040 let me let me say completely clearly i would be in favor of trump rounding up almost all the top

00:08:42.080 democrats and putting them in jail because it's pretty clear that they are a criminal organization 0.92

00:08:47.280 at this point i think it's fucking sorry i think it's absurd that we're treating the democrats like 0.98

00:08:53.840 a political party they are so clearly a criminal organization and we'll talk about that in a little 0.96

00:09:00.080 while yes i think trump should put a whole bunch of people in jail for really really obvious public crimes

00:09:07.360 really really really bad ones so yeah uh i don't want to make any no equivocation a whole bunch of

00:09:17.360 people probably a hundred people need to be in jail at least

00:09:23.360 all right uh tarker carlson's his latest video is talking about all the racism against white people

00:09:30.160 and he's got an author on that's talking about some new book about that he says there's a systematic

00:09:38.240 or systemic racism in the united states against whites and tucker says everyone knows it but nobody says it

00:09:44.720 how come well i'd like to pull forward a hypothesis why nobody says it

00:09:53.280 how do you think it works out does it work out really well no nobody says it because other white 1.00

00:10:03.280 people will destroy them other white people will destroy them the problem is white people because 0.99

00:10:11.360 white people will throw all of their white people under the bus so that they don't get accused of being 1.00

00:10:15.920 racist white people will kill as many white people as they need to to save themselves so 1.00

00:10:23.120 no white people are a disgrace because uh no we're not even allowed to speak because other white 1.00

00:10:29.680 people will not let us but uh i got my freedom of speech so all of you all right uh scientists have a 0.98

00:10:39.920 a new holographic display that will be maybe regular eyewear do you know how happy i am

00:10:47.440 that it looks like there's a good chance that everybody will be wearing enhanced reality glasses

00:10:52.480 but instead of those big weird goggles the glasses are going to look a lot like the ones that i wear

00:10:57.520 every day that's right i remember when i was in my 20s and i started to become bald prematurely

00:11:06.080 and i was like oh this is the worst thing because everybody likes hair and i'm getting bold and then

00:11:10.480 there were so many boomers that were losing their hair that they would just shave their heads

00:11:15.440 and then shaved heads became you know not just acceptable but in some cases oh it looks pretty

00:11:22.160 good with a shaved head you know you got your uh you know michael jordan etc so a lot of athletes and

00:11:28.800 other people were shaving their heads and i thought to myself well this is perfect just by pure luck i was

00:11:34.800 born in the only time in human history when shaving your head or being bald didn't look as bad as it

00:11:40.960 looked you know historically and then but i still have to wear glasses you know i went in to get lasik

00:11:47.440 and they said oh your eyes are not qualified for it for some reason so i can't get lasik so i have to

00:11:53.440 wear glasses for the rest of my life while everybody else is not wearing glasses you know i think even

00:11:58.720 contacts don't work for me but uh maybe maybe the world will come my way and all of you will be

00:12:06.720 wearing glasses and then when you see me show up you're not going to say hey is there some genetic

00:12:11.840 defect with him that he cannot see as well as the rest of us no you're going to say there is a

00:12:17.200 forward-thinking technologically savvy guy who's seeing the world through enhanced vision that's what

00:12:25.840 you'll say yes that's right the world is coming my way here's a funny study in sweden they did a study

00:12:35.040 to see if there was a computer game that they created that would help students detect fake news

00:12:41.680 do you see anything wrong with the study yet

00:12:46.160 before i even tell you anything do you know what's wrong with that study

00:12:51.440 in the comments just shout it out what's wrong with the study i haven't even told you anything about

00:12:56.240 it but it's a it's in sweden it was a computer game and it helps students better detect fake news

00:13:03.040 what's wrong with the study let me tell you what's wrong with the study it necessarily requires

00:13:10.800 the people who ran the study to know what fake news looks like

00:13:17.200 now that's funny the people running the study want us to believe that they can identify fake news

00:13:23.840 you want to bet why why don't you send the people who ran this study my my hoax list you know at least

00:13:33.360 the one for the united states see how many if they follow news in the united states see how many they

00:13:38.080 think are hoaxes how about we we test those researchers against their own news in sweden i don't know if

00:13:46.240 the news in sweden is real or not but there's no way in the world you could do this test there is no

00:13:54.480 way to do the test because there is no standard by which any of us can determine what is real news

00:14:00.960 that's not a thing and every time i hear about in the united states somebody's always says hey you know

00:14:07.120 let's train people on fake news or let's put a list together of all the of all the hoaxes and stuff

00:14:13.440 and i always say the same thing you can't because since we don't agree what is real and what is not

00:14:19.680 nobody can put the list together of what's real nobody yeah you might be right but nobody would

00:14:27.760 believe your list so it's not a thing you you can't get there from here there is no such thing

00:14:35.280 as somebody telling you what the real news is we don't have any ability to know that it's unknowable

00:14:41.120 you can you can definitely look for you know for signals of fake news but i don't know if anybody

00:14:49.040 knows for sure anyway so uh i did biden sign the uh the bill that would divest tiktok i think that

00:15:02.080 got signed right it looks like it's going to happen but uh are you are you surprised that

00:15:07.760 the whole tiktok thing went from nobody seemed to care congress just didn't seem to have the energy

00:15:14.640 to pass it to all of a sudden it's really easily passed it just it just turned on a dime

00:15:23.920 it's all because of israel right 0.99

00:15:25.440 i don't think we have to hide the fact that uh at least on this topic uh israel is the tail that's

00:15:34.880 wagging the uh the dog you know maybe there's other factors for example i do think that our our

00:15:42.800 intelligence people want to get control of tiktok so they have a back door which they presumably

00:15:47.920 don't have if china controls it so some billionaires are looking to maybe buy it but

00:15:54.080 i assume they've already worked something out with the with the intelligence people or they

00:15:58.320 wouldn't be able to do it or they wouldn't even get serious about it

00:16:03.680 and uh there's a republican senator p ricketts who says tiktok should be banned because the pro-palestine

00:16:10.400 videos have more views than the top 10 u.s news websites combined

00:16:15.120 so tiktok at least for young people is you know an order of magnitude more important than all of the

00:16:21.600 other news and since there's some worry that china pushed the heat button on the palestinian situation

00:16:31.440 there's no way to know uh do you think he is it's way too dangerous for this tiktok to be

00:16:37.920 hypnotizing everybody now none of it mattered until it until it was about israel okay we all see the same

00:16:44.160 thing right nobody gave a darn about tiktok until it was about israel and then israel changed our minds

00:16:52.800 on a dime when i say our minds i mean our congress if you have any question about who's controlling

00:16:58.160 congress uh it's either some combination of israel plus our uh uh our intelligence people but only for

00:17:07.680 the topics that are israel specific so i always like to make that distinction i i think that for

00:17:14.880 every topic there's some non-government entity or entities that are in charge and that the politicians

00:17:22.880 always have to bow to whatever that powerful force is if the story is about israel then the israel lobby

00:17:31.200 is the powerful one if the story is about some other topic there's some other group that's more

00:17:37.040 powerful you know if it's climate change or something like that so it's not true that the jews are

00:17:42.000 running the country what's more true is that there are certain topics that have certain interest groups

00:17:48.000 that care so much about it they put all their energy into it and they can control that

00:17:52.240 they can control part of it but certainly our foreign policy um you know as a foreign influence

00:17:59.360 i'm not sure that's bad it isn't necessarily bad it's just the way it is

00:18:05.040 um so yeah everything about that tiktok situation is suspicious my guess is that when it looked like

00:18:15.120 it was an option to just steal it from china and take it over that our intel people said go do it and

00:18:23.840 and israel was saying go do it so i think between the two of them you know if israel wanted it

00:18:29.680 and also our intelligence people wanted it it's going to happen right i feel those two forces will

00:18:37.760 be stronger than any other counter force so i think that's probably why it changed on a dime

00:18:44.000 scott galloway is uh sounding the alarm on our low birth uh rate i think he's got a new book out

00:18:51.520 uh was it some algebra or something anyway but it is one of his points is that the young people

00:19:01.920 are not wanting to reproduce and get married because life looks grim old people like me took all the

00:19:08.400 money and they can't get jobs can't build houses can't really get going climate change is going to kill them

00:19:15.440 all they think so we've destroyed the future of the country by making it you know worthless to uh to even try

00:19:25.440 apparently

00:19:28.080 and um you know tiktok may be part of that who knows but our u.s birth rate has gone to the lowest level

00:19:36.880 since 1979 failing to exceed replacement rates now i think we've been below replacement rates for a while

00:19:44.480 except for immigration so and at the same time one in four u.s adults uh 50 and older

00:19:55.040 don't think they'll ever be able to retire so quarter of old people don't think they'll ever be able to

00:20:00.320 retire and young people don't think that it's worth even trying at the same time i think there were 0.80

00:20:10.080 three or four separate headline stories about the greatness of masturbation i'm not making that up 0.94

00:20:17.360 i think the new york post had a story that it was good for your prostate and another one that billy eilish 0.99

00:20:24.240 famous singer says she's a great masturbator she's she got a phd in masturbating and then 1.00

00:20:31.600 uh i don't know i don't think it's i don't think it's an accident that masturbation is becoming a 0.99

00:20:35.840 gigantic topic at the same time that dating looks ridiculous because you know swiping left and right 0.96

00:20:42.080 doesn't work for most people anyway and uh people have become terrible and you can't can't have babies

00:20:47.280 and it all looks pretty grim but at least we got robots am i right robot babies i think people are

00:20:55.440 going to be raising robot babies um it does appear that we're going to give up on each other and find

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00:22:07.280 play responsibly there is only one number i want to know to know if we're doomed

00:22:14.960 almost everything else we can figure out but there is one number i'm really worried about

00:22:24.080 and i've never heard it i've never heard anybody even suggest it it goes like this

00:22:28.800 what percentage would you have to cut government spending let's say this year and going forward

00:22:34.880 to have any chance of survival because of our debt to have any chance because if if the answer is five

00:22:44.000 percent i'm going to say oh well you know five percent cuts plus growth in the economy

00:22:52.160 hmm you know a little bit of inflation maybe we can get through this

00:22:56.640 if it's five percent if it's ten percent i start thinking whoa ten percent a year that's that's a

00:23:05.840 deep cut but if we've seen in argentina maybe it's possible argentina just went into a surplus

00:23:13.520 from huge deficit they just went into government surplus but we don't know if they'll have other

00:23:18.000 problems for from not having the government services but here's the thing what i worry about is that the

00:23:25.600 amount you'd have to cut government just to survive in just a math sense that the math doesn't work

00:23:33.200 unless you cut it this much i'm worried that the number is 75 percent

00:23:40.320 like literally that we would have to cut spending 75 like right away to have any chance of surviving

00:23:47.840 now if it's five percent or 75 percent normally i could make a guess about which one of those is

00:23:56.400 closer but i actually don't know do any of you know in a hypothetical sense if you if you assume some

00:24:04.880 normal gdp growth and you assume some normal inflation that we can handle how much would you have to cut

00:24:11.760 the budget right away and then each year after that if nobody can produce that number we're probably dead

00:24:22.480 if there's no economist who can even take a guess on that number

00:24:27.040 we're probably dead it's because nobody wants to tell you the real number

00:24:30.320 and when i'm when i say dead we'd still figure out a way to survive but we would have a gigantic

00:24:38.880 upheaval something like a great depression kind of a upheaval we'd probably get through it but we

00:24:44.320 wouldn't like it so here's what i think i think that here's how we survive you get a president trump

00:24:55.520 and he says here's what you need if you live in the traditional built-out places like a built-out city

00:25:04.640 you really don't have any chance of affording a home if you're young and there's too much crime and the traffic is bad

00:25:11.520 but if we build these new new cities using modern technology and make it affordable because we could do that now

00:25:21.200 we know how to build so that it would be affordable and so that you could get a job that you could afford

00:25:26.800 a home and you could raise children and it and it could be low crime and it could be no traffic

00:25:32.720 and we could build those and the building of them would become the gdp so you build the new cities that

00:25:40.400 boost your economy boost your taxes but the point of it is that when you go to live there your cost of

00:25:46.400 living would be so low because you built it correctly you designed it to be cost effective

00:25:52.160 you have a great quality of life no roommates you know not necessarily roommates just a great quality

00:25:58.400 of life and you'd have a job and everything work so you could create a situation where you built a city

00:26:06.080 where getting married and having a kid is just a terrific idea and everybody likes it and the schools are

00:26:11.680 you know not crazy and stuff so so you're so brainwashed with the 15 minute city stuff

00:26:20.480 really let me let me be as as blunt as i can if you're worried about the world economic forum and

00:26:28.080 your 15 minute cities and they take all your freedom you're dead because it's your only hope

00:26:35.040 i'm pretty sure let me say this directly as i can if we're not building new cities we're all 0.79

00:26:40.400 fucking dead so you need to lose your 15 minute city fear i'm not saying there's no risk i'm not 0.95

00:26:47.840 saying that it won't be used to grab control or whatever but if you have a republican administration 0.99

00:26:53.280 at least there's some chance you can build a city that's not designed as a prison for you and it might

00:26:58.960 actually give you freedom and stuff so you need to get off of this 15 minute this 15 minute city thing

00:27:05.920 world economic forum whatever that is that's stopping you from wanting to build a new city 0.97

00:27:11.200 you have to lose it you're fucking dead if you don't nobody even has an idea how to save a civilization 0.95

00:27:20.400 unless we build new affordable cities that solve all the problems that we have with our existing cities 0.99

00:27:26.480 you're gonna have to release on that now i i i get that it's a big risk but you can design you can

00:27:35.040 design that away you've got to release on it otherwise we're all dead

00:27:45.440 we're dead if you have another idea why don't you trot it out tell me your idea i just told you the

00:27:54.240 only way you can reduce cost enough to live while boosting the economy and surviving you tell me

00:28:01.520 your way to do it without building new cities i don't know if anyway so give me your idea don't

00:28:08.240 just tell me why my idea won't work if you do it wrong every idea won't work if you do it wrong

00:28:14.240 oh i want to build a new car with no wheels well that's that's not going to work no i don't want to

00:28:19.920 build it with no wheels i want to build it with wheels i want to build a city where where people

00:28:24.880 are free not where there are more slaves do you think that's possible it's possible but the alternatives

00:28:32.960 of course are that we all die so get over that well in the meantime um bat crazy women have done some 1.00

00:28:46.960 more to destroy civilization i saw a post by aaron sabarium saying that ucla's medical school's 0.77

00:28:55.280 mandatory health equity class teaches students that weight loss is a hopeless endeavor in quotes

00:29:03.440 ucla's medical school mandatory health equity class teaches students that weight loss is a hopeless endeavor

00:29:13.440 and that obesity is a slur used to exact violence on fat people now i don't see i don't need to see a

00:29:21.760 photograph to know that this is not fat men am i right this is not fat men behind this this is fat 0.91

00:29:30.240 crazy women there's no fat man who said no that it's hopeless to lose weight zero men were behind this 0.60

00:29:37.840 i don't need to see any facts you don't need to you don't need to show me the photograph no 0.99

00:29:43.120 fucking man says this this is batshit crazy women and we've got to stop them men you're gonna have to 1.00

00:29:52.240 do something to stop the batshit crazy women from running everything they're ruining everything 1.00

00:29:57.840 they're ruining everything and the problem is we can't talk about it honestly 0.94

00:30:06.960 being crazy is a real thing it's a medical problem we've got to stop treating craziness

00:30:15.520 as a political opinion it's not it's not a philosophy it's just batshit crazy stuff

00:30:21.520 all right elon musk says tesla should be valued as an ai robotics company not a car company

00:30:31.280 totally agree based on his estimate that they will sell way more robots and ai stuff than they

00:30:38.320 will ever sell in cars and i haven't seen the stock yet but i imagine it's going up

00:30:45.040 and i haven't heard yet if elon's going to leave tesla because he's not getting his pay package

00:30:51.680 when does musk find out if he gets his pay package reinstated the the 56 billion does he have an answer

00:30:58.400 on that yet or is that there's some vote that's coming up i'll check on that later all right

00:31:07.760 so cnn has a headline um that says that uh

00:31:15.360 that uh johnson is like churchill so that mike johnson um there's sort of a churchillian

00:31:23.680 that's that's an actual headline on cnn now mike johnson is a republican leader

00:31:31.120 and cnn which never likes anything republican is calling him churchillian because he he passed the

00:31:38.480 ukrainian budgets and stuff and basically got both sides to do something hard during a wartime situation

00:31:45.040 so he's churchillian glenn greenwald comments on that he says uh joe biden and mike johnson united to

00:31:52.160 renew warrantless domestic spying then to spend a hundred billion to fuel endless war around the 0.65

00:31:57.840 world all of which johnson said he opposed and then greenwald says i don't know what the cia

00:32:04.080 said or did to mike johnson in the skiff but it really worked here's his reward

00:32:10.000 his reward and his reward being the headline that he's churchillian now do you buy that framing

00:32:18.080 from uh greenwald that it looks like some intelligence people got to him now you probably

00:32:25.840 heard that thomas massey said he was in the same skiff looking at the same stuff

00:32:30.720 and didn't see anything that would suggest that a change in policy

00:32:38.560 so what does that tell you it tells you it's not about any of the information

00:32:45.200 it tells you it's about people there must have been a person who talked to johnson because according

00:32:51.200 to thomas massey who doesn't seem to be a liar thomas massey seems to be a complete straight shooter as

00:32:57.840 far as far as i can tell he says i saw the same stuff and i didn't say anything would

00:33:02.480 you know change my opinion or anything but mike johnson did i don't think it was the data

00:33:09.280 i don't think it was the facts i think somebody talked to him i think it's exactly what it looks

00:33:14.720 like and uh greenwald seems to be on the same page christopher rufo no um meanwhile says that he's

00:33:23.840 getting information from other countries sources are telling him that uh npr ceo who used to be at

00:33:29.840 wiki media um katherine mayer mar she was allegedly affiliated with us intel and had something to do with 1.00

00:33:40.480 some kind of a government overthrow in a foreign country already so i think we we can't say that she 0.92

00:33:48.960 works for the cia but we can say that she has every single flag for being an intelligence asset that 1.00

00:33:56.880 you could ever have if she's not affiliated with us intel it would be shocking because every signal is

00:34:07.360 flashing in the same direction doesn't mean she is right you know i don't have you know personal knowledge

00:34:13.760 but from the you know news headline level of things that we know every signal flashing completely

00:34:22.160 intelligence agent which would which would tell you that our intelligence people do control the media

00:34:28.640 and this is how they do it they they just put their own assets in charge

00:34:34.240 or their own affiliated people in charge but at least our department of justice is working uh well

00:34:41.040 without any hiccups uh let's talk about the uh jack smith uh law fair prosecutions trying to put

00:34:49.200 trump in jail because uh you know because he's on the other team um so as far as i can tell

00:34:59.760 uh there were no crimes committed but the question is whether trump should have immunity

00:35:06.080 presidential immunity from the no crimes so here are the no crimes he once used the word find when talking

00:35:14.720 about uh auditing the vote so that's the first crime he used the word find so that people who were 0.94

00:35:23.040 idiots and criminals could say oh we define the word find to mean do something illegal you know a whole 0.87

00:35:30.800 whole new use of the word find so that's the first the first thing he did wrong is he used a word that 1.00

00:35:38.000 other people said was the wrong word so i guess that's illegal you go to jail for that um they say

00:35:44.640 that he knew the election was not rigged but he you know he acted he acted as if he didn't know and that

00:35:50.880 that would be bad so there's zero evidence that he didn't believe what he said which is he believed the

00:35:59.200 election was rigged no but there's not a single uh document there's not an allegation from anybody who

00:36:06.560 was on the inside there's not a statement a phone call a digital record an eyewitness to suggest

00:36:14.720 that trump thought anything but exactly what he said which is he didn't trust the election outcome

00:36:20.480 so that's his second crime his second crime is we're reading his mind and we're seeing something in

00:36:26.480 there that doesn't make sense according to anything in the outside world but we still see this weird

00:36:32.640 thing in there that doesn't make any sense so he got it he has to go to jail for that so he has to go

00:36:38.000 to jail for using a word in a normal way that other people have defined as a weird way no evidence of

00:36:46.480 knowing the wrong thing but they read his mind and they saw that against every piece of evidence in the

00:36:52.560 real world they could see something in there that was opposite all the evidence in the real world

00:36:59.200 and then the third thing he did which had to do with the the so-called fake slate of electors

00:37:05.680 is that he followed his lawyer's advice about how to keep his uh his legal options open which is the

00:37:13.760 so-called fake slate of electors who goes to jail for following their lawyer's advice

00:37:20.720 that this would be completely legal and constitutional do you go to jail for that

00:37:27.120 i mean i can imagine the ignorance of the law you know ignorance of the law is no excuse so in theory

00:37:33.840 you could but under this specific situation where there's no evidence that trump had any belief except

00:37:41.840 that the election was rigged and that he wanted to keep his options open and his lawyers told him that

00:37:47.440 this would be a way to do it within the law and then the the fact that the lawyers are being disbarred

00:37:55.520 and and punished suggests that they actually meant what they were doing because they did it right in

00:38:01.840 front of everybody so they must have believed they had a theory even if other people don't trust a

00:38:07.920 theory which is normal in the law so he used a word that they defined in a weird way they read his mind

00:38:16.080 to find another crime and then he followed his lawyer's advice to do something which historically

00:38:21.280 has been done before without problems it's not the first time it's done and they put all this all

00:38:28.240 together and decided that the real issue is whether he should be immune as a president

00:38:34.880 from the three things that weren't crimes in the first place now do you wonder if any law fair is

00:38:40.800 happening here no it is absolute criminal behavior jack smith should be in jail jack smith should be in jail

00:38:52.800 for this now do you suppose that the biden white house was coordinating any of these things which

00:39:01.120 would be terrible if they were well it turns out that some unsealed documents now show that

00:39:07.600 there was collaboration between the archives and the biden white house on the trump prosecution

00:39:14.800 and jeff clark is uh on on x he's mocking axios

00:39:19.920 uh because uh actually says they're zeroing in on matthew cola colangelo leaving the main justice to go to

00:39:30.240 work on the alvin bragg prosecution team so here's jeff clark characterizing that he says also try

00:39:37.360 harder axios this is a lame way of defending cola colangelo and the biden administration he goes

00:39:45.920 reality check former dog official michael zeldon told axios it's not unusual for a federal prosecutor

00:39:53.680 to leave a gig at the manhattan da's office so it's not unusual for somebody to leave a gig they're on

00:40:01.440 you know in the office to to work on let's say a hot case not unusual at all

00:40:07.680 colangelo colangelo colangelo is i'm being told that's how to say colangelo uh but jeff clark says

00:40:16.720 no it's not unusual for a southern uh district of new york or uh eastern district of new york prosecutor

00:40:25.680 to go to the manhattan da's office or vice versa yeah it's that's not unusual to go between those

00:40:31.920 new york state offices is that what happened something normal you just wouldn't be from one

00:40:39.520 new york state office to another no no that's not what happened he was the number three he was the

00:40:46.320 acting number three official at the main justice in washington dc and he went from the main justice

00:40:53.040 i.e working for the biden administration to all the way to the manhattan da's office

00:40:57.920 that's not usual that is your smoking gun that the biden administration was spearheading the law 0.56

00:41:08.320 fair against trump there it is it's right in front of us but what percentage of the general public

00:41:17.520 understands the story that i barely understand that i'm trying to tell you two two percent of the

00:41:25.600 entire republic no more than two percent the law fair is so complicated that the normal person just

00:41:33.680 says 91 indictments well he must have done something pretty bad but do you say but but but but can't you

00:41:41.760 see that the prosecutors were organized by biden it's a smoking gun it's really obvious i mean you

00:41:47.520 don't really you have to dig too deep to find out it's organized by the top that would obviously be a

00:41:52.720 corruption of the violence no at most two percent of the country cares about the story and would care

00:42:01.760 enough to understand the details of it it's really clever the government can get away with a lot just

00:42:09.040 by making everything too complicated to really follow what's going on it looks like that's what's happening

00:42:14.960 there um the arizona grand jury on wednesday they indicted uh let's see mark meadows rudy giuliani and a

00:42:28.800 bunch of other former trump staffers so now 11 arizona republicans have been indicted on the felony charges

00:42:37.840 along with former trump attorneys john eastman jan ellis christie bob and

00:42:46.160 allegations of conspiracy fraud and forgery so i think this had to do with

00:42:51.200 efforts to what they say overturn the results of the 2020 election

00:42:56.800 remember when i told you in 2020 that if biden were elected republicans would be

00:43:07.040 hunted

00:43:10.080 what is this this is exactly what i told you would happen that they're actually rounding up attorneys

00:43:17.120 and republican officials and trying to jail them for things that look pretty pretty suspicious

00:43:25.600 as in it looks like they were operating within the law as they saw it anyway

00:43:30.000 and this does look like just hunting i think all of these people belong in jail if there's any way to

00:43:39.840 do it not not the people who are indicted here i mean the people doing the law fair

00:43:45.200 and corrupting the justice system they all need to be in jail

00:43:50.960 big time uh jonathan turley was on fox news today and said that the best lawyer for trump is elvin bragg

00:44:00.080 because that manhattan case is so absurd that would be the stormy daniels one where he's being convicted for

00:44:08.880 a non-crime for the accounting after the fact of a non-crime like no we don't even understand it 0.98

00:44:18.240 it's so stupid you know they're felony they may then have two misdemeanors how does that even work 0.94

00:44:25.680 so but again i think you would have to be jonathan turley or in the top two percent of 0.99

00:44:32.640 people paying attention who can really follow details to even know that this case is ridiculous

00:44:40.720 all the public knows is that trump's uh in court try try asking any democrat to explain the details

00:44:48.080 of that case do you think you can do it i think they would immediately change the um the topic so

00:44:56.400 can you explain to me why trump is in jail for this stormy daniels thing well he paid hush money

00:45:02.640 okay but he's not being charged with paying hush money well he's uh indicted for 91 things well

00:45:09.600 no but that that's sort of overall could you tell me what the stormy thing is about well he lied he

00:45:16.800 lied on his uh how he accounted for it okay but are you following the details that there wasn't any way

00:45:24.480 to do it legally he couldn't call it a personal expense because that would be illegal and he couldn't

00:45:28.800 call it a business a campaign expense because that would be called illegal and those are the only

00:45:33.520 options so he basically had two ways to account for the legal thing and both of the ways to account

00:45:39.040 for the legal thing would have been illegal so there wasn't even any legal way to pay his taxes

00:45:46.560 or to account for it now do you think any do you think any democrat even understands that none of this

00:45:52.960 is even doesn't even make sense is just absurd of course not they just see he's in court every day

00:46:01.920 and that's all biden needs all right uh two-thirds of people according to axios what they call the

00:46:10.160 vibe check they say that uh um two-thirds of americans said illegal immigration is a real crisis and not a

00:46:20.080 politically driven media narrative two-thirds of the country believes that biden has created a crisis

00:46:28.480 at the border two-thirds so there's one thing we could say from that i mean it's a top priority two-thirds

00:46:36.480 think that it's biden's fault you know that he's creating it you can stop at any time he wants presumably

00:46:42.720 uh so i mean that's pretty strong evidence that the polling i mean you'd guess that the polling

00:46:49.920 would be what trump plus 20 probably at least plus 20 under this environment i think yeah uh what else

00:46:57.440 let's see also according to uh axios um

00:47:05.920 half of the people uh half of americans uh polled said they support mass deportations of undocumented

00:47:13.200 immigrants well i mean you're just talking about the republicans right oh no 42 percent of democrats

00:47:20.240 are in favor of mass deportation of undocumented immigrants according to the axios vibes survey by the

00:47:27.920 harris poll 42 percent of democrats support mass deportation wow i mean with numbers like that

00:47:42.480 there's one thing you can say for sure trump and the in the overall polls he's got to be up

00:47:49.600 20 to 30 points i would think over biden i mean with with that massive amount of support for what is

00:47:56.800 not just not just trump's policy but really his brand i mean his whole brand is is this and even 42 percent

00:48:05.920 of democrats are totally on board with it so yeah i would say that trump in the national polls would be

00:48:12.480 up 20 to 30 points under this environment wouldn't you say i mean common sense he'd be up 20 to 30 points

00:48:20.880 so let's see what else well biden has suggested a gigantic uh tax increase 0.97

00:48:30.880 and some ridiculous increases in capital gains that are so stupid i'm not even going to talk about them 0.99

00:48:36.720 they're so ridiculous now now when you add this to the border crisis that during a presidential year 0.99

00:48:44.880 one of them is talking about massively raising your taxes 0.79

00:48:51.840 so i mean if you put this together with how unpopular biden's border policy is

00:48:57.760 and the fact that the ukraine war is you know not super popular i think you'd have to say that

00:49:03.280 president trump or ex-president trump would be up 30 probably 30 to 40 points in the national poll

00:49:10.640 i mean based on this wouldn't you agree i mean these numbers are really really just absolutely

00:49:20.160 devastating

00:49:23.360 so uh then rasmussen said that 56 percent they did a poll 56 percent of voters agreed with a statement

00:49:31.040 that with president trump we had mean tweets but world peace

00:49:34.160 so 56 percent would prefer president trump's mean tweets because it gave the world well okay

00:49:44.720 so now trump is massively leading on the border crisis he is massively ahead of course on taxes

00:49:52.480 because nobody wants higher taxes and of course he's massively ahead on world peace well i mean that's

00:49:58.320 the end i mean with that kind of a lead i think it's pretty obvious

00:50:04.160 that if we check the polls trump would be up i started with 20 percent but when you see all of

00:50:10.480 these issues when you see the individual polling on all these issues i'd say the national polls

00:50:16.880 trump would be up 40 to 50 basis points minimum

00:50:24.160 so next story oh here's another one um all right well

00:50:30.240 so the next story is that the uh biden has pulled ahead in the polling yeah biden has pulled ahead at a

00:50:38.560 national so the marist poll and uh i know there's another one uh he's pulled that so that's true right

00:50:49.440 so on every single sub question of policy trump doesn't just win he annihilates him

00:51:00.240 but at the top level biden has pulled ahead he's actually got momentum

00:51:07.440 yeah

00:51:10.320 so that's right the only news that uh biden made yesterday was that he wants to massively increase 0.98

00:51:20.560 taxes in a way that appears stupid to anybody smart and he read his teleprompter including the word 0.82

00:51:29.360 pause because he didn't know that was a command to pause and wait for the audience reaction 0.97

00:51:37.280 that's the only news he made so that's why he's pulling ahead in the polls

00:51:44.480 because nothing happened good

00:51:49.200 all right here's another one

00:51:50.160 uh we're also told uh in the news that the rfk junior candidacy hurts trump more than biden

00:52:00.800 it hurts trump more than biden that's what the news says do you believe that that the rfk junior

00:52:07.520 thing hurt because i've heard the opposite but now the news is saying no we looked at a little more

00:52:12.560 closely it turns out the rfk junior thing is hurting trump more do you know how you know that's true

00:52:19.680 do you know how the how you know that the democrats believe that rfk junior is hurting trump more than

00:52:26.720 biden well it's obvious because that's why um they won't give uh secret service protection to rfk

00:52:34.240 jr and it's why they're trying to keep him off the ballot in all the states

00:52:40.560 because if he gets murdered or he gets off the ballot

00:52:45.040 wait that's the opposite of what they want no the news is telling me

00:52:52.160 that rfk junior hurts trump and yet the democrats are trying to get rid of rfk junior either through

00:52:59.680 assassination or keeping off the ballot even though if he lived and was on the ballot it would be good

00:53:07.280 for biden according to the news it's almost like the news isn't real i'm starting to think the news is fake

00:53:17.520 by the way jarek lubaric made that observation that their policies definitely show they don't want rfk

00:53:25.120 jr in the race they definitely don't so yeah i think our polling is a little wonky at the moment

00:53:35.680 thomas massey posted today the republic is in trouble because congress is full of people who

00:53:40.880 are happy to rubber stamp whatever the pentagon state department dog fbi feds want most are not

00:53:47.040 compromised or bribed i think he's right on that they're just going along to get along as long as the

00:53:52.560 you re-elect them and let them wear the pin and wear the pin i think it's the ukraine pin

00:54:00.480 i agree with this i think that we have a zombie government and we're driving toward a cliff with our

00:54:08.560 debt everything else we can survive can't survive the debt so they get the zombie car driving toward the

00:54:16.640 cliff and there's absolutely nothing that's going to change the direction and thomas massey's in the

00:54:22.160 middle of it and he's telling you there's nothing happening that will change the direction of the car

00:54:28.960 do you know what would change it if somebody had a number of how much you could cut the budget

00:54:35.200 to save us all and that number was believable and low enough

00:54:42.240 if trump or maybe uh vivek with a you know with a boost could come up with that number

00:54:48.160 it's the only number that matters there's one number that you need to know it's that number

00:54:58.640 nobody has ever tried to produce it or even estimate it why is that

00:55:06.880 yeah i think the number is so big it's shocking if they told you how much they had to reduce the uh

00:55:12.560 uh the debt i think you would see it can't be done and that's why they don't tell you i think you would

00:55:18.960 give up and i think that's what thomas massey is saying directly there's nothing that's going to keep

00:55:25.280 the clown car from going off the cliff and there's nothing developing that would stop it

00:55:29.920 because you don't see trump saying if i get elected i'll cut the budget by enough to fix the debt

00:55:39.040 you don't see him saying it and you know that they're smart enough at least now with vivek on the

00:55:46.960 case and by the way look let me say this directly vivek if there is a number that would work you know

00:55:54.000 even if it's an argentina like gigantic number we need to hear it you know win or lose we need to know

00:56:02.080 the number we need to know if we have a fighting chance you know just just give us some hope tell us

00:56:10.880 the number and then tell us trump's going to hit it i just want to hear that he's got a shot at it

00:56:17.040 i i just want to feel we we have any chance of survival

00:56:23.280 because that's missing we are literally heading toward extinction birth rate wise immigration wise

00:56:33.040 and debt wise we're heading toward distinct extinction and none of the people running

00:56:38.640 are giving you anything that looks like a plan to avoid extinction

00:56:42.080 i don't think it's too much to ask our potential and actual leaders to give us a plan

00:56:50.240 that would give us any hope we could avoid extinction that's not a lot to ask and if peter if uh if we

00:56:59.280 can't get it from trump well then we're just dead because we're not going to get it from biden

00:57:04.640 so give us some hope vivek you're the only one you know that's true right that there's literally

00:57:17.040 it's the spider-man problem spider-man problem the spider-man problem is that with great power comes

00:57:24.000 great responsibility tell me one other person in uh in politics who could give you the number

00:57:31.280 and sell it all right this is what we got to do to cut the government we just have to do it it's going

00:57:38.800 to hurt we got to do it vivek give us the number and if it's completely impractical tell us what you're

00:57:48.480 going to do about it tell us how to make it practical you you don't have to be right you know the world is a

00:57:55.920 complicated place you can't always predict the future but give us some hope give us some hope

00:58:02.880 because the news is not doing it and i don't see trump doing it i think the democrats are correct

00:58:09.280 when they say that trump is being non-specific about what he do i think he can get away with it

00:58:15.200 because you know how he operates so if trump doesn't tell you what he would do with gaza

00:58:20.560 is that a feature or a problem we don't know what trump would do about israel and gaza i don't know

00:58:29.520 is that a feature or a problem it's a feature yeah the last thing i want is for trump to tell me what

00:58:38.160 he would do because he what he sells is unpredictability followed by good negotiated outcomes

00:58:47.120 that's what he's selling i'll give you unpredictability followed by negotiating something

00:58:52.400 you won't be too unhappy about it's a feature so stop asking him to be specific about uh israel

00:59:00.880 because being unspecific is exactly the right play until he gets there until he's got the you know the

00:59:07.360 the levers of power in his hands you don't get too serious about the details

00:59:12.080 but when it comes to national debt i need a plan right the national debt that i don't need unpredictability

00:59:25.600 and i don't need trump to do what he's done before which is run up the debt

00:59:30.400 so you can't tell me oh trust trump because you know what he does no he runs up the debt

00:59:34.880 now you'd better tell me something besides that and i need to hear it first in fact let me i'll be

00:59:42.480 this specific if biden came up with a plan to fix the debt that sounded workable i would back him

00:59:52.080 because it's the only thing i care about but we're i mean i'll probably vote on the january 6 prisoners

00:59:58.080 more than anything but that that assumes neither of them has a plan for the debt

01:00:03.040 but if somebody comes up with a debt plan you own me if you come up with a real plan to own the debt

01:00:11.600 i'm on board i'm on board so let's see if that's even possible if we're doomed i'd like to find out

01:00:19.920 sooner than later i'd like to adjust yeah give it give me a little time to you know get my food

01:00:26.560 supplies in and get my get my seed sprouter working

01:00:32.640 all right i had one other thing i reminded myself to talk about um but i already did so that's good

01:00:42.960 um i think what's going to happen is a major shift in society

01:00:47.040 i don't know what will trigger it but it's it's guaranteed to happen i think our old method of

01:00:54.400 you know you get a job you buy a house you retire at 65 you know after you had your two and a half kids

01:01:00.240 that might be gone forever i think it might be a mistake to try to get back to it i hate to say

01:01:08.320 um certainly for some people the family situation is going to be the the number one thing forever

01:01:14.080 but there's a whole bunch of people who just need some other way of living and it could be robots

01:01:20.880 it could be combinations of i i think what we need is engineered

01:01:26.400 lifestyle now there's a phrase i doubt you've ever heard engineered lifestyle here's what i mean by that

01:01:33.840 i like to use my college dormitory experience when i live when i lived in a college dormitory it was the

01:01:41.440 lowest quality of life because i was just in a little cinder block room with another person

01:01:46.800 my roommate and it's the sort of the lowest level of privacy the lowest level of space

01:01:56.080 but i was the happiest it's because they engine they engineered the lifestyle as soon as i opened

01:02:02.880 the door and walked out there would be uh people my age fun people there'd be girls that i was interested

01:02:10.400 in you know i would go to classes it was a nice environment i could walk to everything i didn't need a

01:02:16.320 car on campus the food was provided at a place where everybody else went so i'd see everybody else

01:02:22.160 when i went to check my mailbox other people would be checking the mailbox so i could interact with them

01:02:27.440 we had parties we had organizations on campus where we'd all get together it was an engineered

01:02:33.200 lifestyle so i'd be getting something productive done i was learning you know preparing myself for life

01:02:41.360 but during the entire process every moment was pretty cool because i was around other people

01:02:46.960 i wanted to be around in a physical environment that was beautiful and everything was taken care of

01:02:52.800 from the it was easy to do the laundry just everything was easy now if you build your new

01:02:58.720 city from scratch to maximize lifestyle you're going to get an amazing result we know we can do it

01:03:06.800 that's what college is it's a perfect lifestyle for a while so i think that's the answer to everything

01:03:14.480 the answer to everything is engineered lifestyle so you put people in proximity who can take care of

01:03:19.920 each other how would you like to always know that somebody had your back in a tribal sense oh let me ask you

01:03:28.480 this for the people on locals who have already seen my explanation about concentrating on yourself and mental

01:03:36.400 illness do you think that's worth saying to the larger crowd here it's a little speculative well

01:03:42.880 i think i'll do it so here's something i said privately to the uh local subscribers but i want to just put

01:03:49.600 this out here just for fun don't take this too literally scientifically because i don't have any scientific

01:03:58.960 backing for it but one of the things i hear a lot is that you can identify people who have mental

01:04:04.320 illness is by how much they refer to themselves versus how much they refer to the external environment

01:04:10.480 and other people have you all heard that it's sort of a common thing i see on social media that some

01:04:17.200 expert will say yes we did a study and if you look at people's writing and social media when they're doing

01:04:23.360 a lot of self-referential stuff they usually test out with mental illness and if they're talking about

01:04:29.600 the external world they're usually much more mentally insane now one of the things i realized

01:04:36.240 is that most we've got this giant uptick in mental illness what do a lot of the mental illness categories

01:04:44.720 have in common they're all self-referential meaning if i have anxiety i'm just thinking about myself

01:04:54.560 something's going to happen to me i'm in trouble things are going to happen to me

01:04:57.760 it's about me me me if you're a narcissist it's literally a thing about yourself if you're a

01:05:04.640 sociopath it's literally all about you if you're depressed it's literally all about you because

01:05:12.880 you have this horrible feeling you're not really thinking about the rest of the world

01:05:16.080 you're thinking about how bad you feel and so i put forward the following hypothesis

01:05:20.720 we know that mental health went to hell when social media got bigger so there's a pretty direct line

01:05:31.200 to smartphones and social media and mental health going bad what does social media do

01:05:39.040 at a sort of macro level i think it makes you think of yourself the one thing that social media does

01:05:46.400 is make you think of yourself now you're thinking of yourself in relationship to the other people

01:05:51.360 you're seeing but those other people are not in your tribe or your family so you don't get any benefits

01:05:57.760 from them so in other words there's no social benefit like you get in the real world but they make

01:06:03.600 you think what can i do where i could be like them wait where's my tick tock dance so i think i think

01:06:11.600 social media has the impact of forcing people to think more internally about how to act differently

01:06:19.040 to be like the people on social media now in in some ways you're saying but isn't that thinking

01:06:25.440 about the other people yes but not in the good way thinking about other people in the good way is how

01:06:33.040 can i make somebody else happier how can i make my spouse happier how can i help my kids how can i help my

01:06:39.440 friends how can i help my co-workers that's the good way if what you're thinking is how can i compete

01:06:45.200 with them because they're prettier than me i've got to do something for me to make me as pretty as the

01:06:50.400 other that's thinking about yourself and so i i submit to you the following experiment which would cost you

01:06:57.280 nothing see if you're having any of these mental difficulties and you've not found any relief through all the

01:07:05.280 normal mechanisms try focusing less on yourself and see if the cause and effect goes both ways because

01:07:17.520 i do think that if you have mental illness it's going to make you think of yourself because you

01:07:21.440 got a problem you have to solve so it makes sense that it works that direction being unhealthy makes

01:07:27.360 you think of yourself because you need to fix yourself that makes sense but could it also be true

01:07:32.240 that if you could force yourself by creating a system or a habit of making sure you did something

01:07:38.080 for other people you volunteer you you help somebody every um it's charity it's something it's just

01:07:45.760 something external if you did that could you reverse some of your own mental illness

01:07:53.760 and that's what i don't know so it's just speculation but if you look at the fact that we don't know the

01:07:59.680 mechanism by which these smartphones and and social media are destroying our mental health i would

01:08:05.520 suggest the mechanism might be obvious it makes you think of yourself and when you feel lonely now here's

01:08:13.120 here's the real speculative theory behind it i'm going to give you a hypothesis for why thinking about

01:08:20.560 yourself makes you crazy in a variety of mental health ways i think that we evolved to be social

01:08:29.040 creatures and that who we are is oh in the past was an extension of our tribal and family feelings 0.85

01:08:37.760 so that we we we defined ourselves as as part of the tribe so that gave you meaning it gave you a place

01:08:47.680 and it you know connected you to this bigger thing i think that when you're forced to think of yourself

01:08:54.640 you are removed from your evolutionary biological most basic need which you evolve to which is to have a

01:09:03.360 tribal very dependent connected situation in your life and that as soon as you think of yourself as a free

01:09:10.640 agent floating around without a family and without a tribe you go crazy you go crazy and you notice that

01:09:20.320 the effect seems much worse for women right do you have a hypothesis for why it would be worse for women

01:09:29.360 i do because i think women need that connection more than men because men are we've evolved to be

01:09:38.240 expendable we've evolved to go live in the woods if we have to we've evolved to be individuals we don't

01:09:46.560 necessarily love it but we're a little more adapted to it you know we can make it work a little bit

01:09:52.800 better so i think everything is consistent with the fact that loneliness but more specifically thinking

01:10:01.520 about yourself is what makes you crazy because nothing else really changed except maybe you know

01:10:09.040 vaccinations but that came later food supply probably didn't change that much during that period

01:10:15.760 the only thing that changed a lot was social media and phones and you can explain perfectly everything

01:10:22.000 you see by this hypothesis it would show you why women are having a harder time than men it would show 0.70

01:10:28.880 you the exact timing of it and it would explain the thinking about yourself thing makes you crazy

01:10:36.080 thinking about others doesn't it basically integrates everything we observe into one hypothesis

01:10:42.480 things but here's the cool thing you don't have to wait to find out if it's true you could literally

01:10:49.600 just say why don't i spend a month trying to force myself to think externally just see what happens

01:10:56.960 my guess is that you would be happier does anybody doubt it is there anybody who thinks that they would be

01:11:05.680 less happy if they found some meaning in making other people better off

01:11:13.760 i i think you all know that it would work and that ladies and gentlemen is my contribution to

01:11:19.120 civilization that's your your upbeat thought about this i do think we can engineer ourselves out of all

01:11:24.800 of our problems but we won't do it with the president biden we won't do it with president biden

01:11:32.240 so we got to fix that first and republicans need to stay in the jail and they got to put the bad guys

01:11:38.240 in jail so as long as the good guys are going to jail and the bad guys are putting them in jail we

01:11:43.200 really don't have a way to survive you got to fix that first so there's a whole bunch of democrats

01:11:49.520 who need to be behind bars and the only way to do that is to get a republican leadership in there

01:11:56.400 now um i don't think we should have a republican leadership forever i kind of like the idea of

01:12:02.000 maybe it goes back and forth a little bit keeps everybody honest but at the moment we desperately

01:12:08.400 need a republican leadership now that the the pendulum is just way out of balance you know it needs to

01:12:16.000 find the center somehow so even if you don't love the idea of a republican leadership forever i don't

01:12:23.360 i i don't want either side to have too much power for too long i really want it now though i really

01:12:30.160 really really want a republican now ask me again in five years i'll tell you well it's a little too much

01:12:36.640 we went a little too republican there maybe i don't know but um i know your mileage might be different

01:12:44.480 all right that's all i got for you today i'm going to say goodbye probably to all of the platforms

01:12:49.680 but i'm going to see if we've got this feature fixed yet where i can say goodbye to only the people who

01:12:56.320 are not my subscribers so we're going to try this button again see if it makes any difference didn't work

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 25, 2024

Episode 2455 CWSA 04⧸25⧸24

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