Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2473 CWSA 05⧸13⧸24

00:00:00.000 I like coffee, and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the

00:00:06.440 thing that makes everything better.

00:00:08.360 It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now.

00:00:12.780 Go.

00:00:19.260 I'm pretty sure if you refresh your feed on Locals, you'll get the video.

00:00:24.140 But I will test that myself by doing it on my own to see if that does make a difference.

00:00:34.300 All right, Locals, let's see if we can get video on you.

00:00:39.880 Boom, yes.

00:00:42.240 Restarting your Locals will give you video, and you will be happy.

00:00:46.220 Well, there's a new study, and Ellen Wan in the Epoch Times is talking about the health

00:00:54.880 benefits of coffee.

00:00:56.040 It just keeps coming.

00:00:57.880 You've heard about the health benefits of coffee, but oh my goodness, it just can't stop.

00:01:03.940 It just can't stop.

00:01:05.380 So now we found that numerous health benefits.

00:01:10.240 One is that it does something with your trigonline, and your things, and your sarcophopini, and

00:01:17.160 your muscle loss, your bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep.

00:01:21.740 And that's scientific talk, for it's good for your muscles, especially as you age.

00:01:27.240 Now, I hope I didn't bog you down in all the technical details, but if you missed it, it's

00:01:32.360 like, yeah, the trigonline, and then your sarcophopini, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep.

00:01:37.400 And so that's for those of you who wanted a more detailed study.

00:01:43.540 But also, drinking three to five cups per day, 65% lower risk of developing dementia.

00:01:50.920 And that's either totally true, or I already have dementia.

00:01:56.980 One of those things is true. 0.55

00:01:59.160 I'm going to bet on my coffee is keeping me sharp.

00:02:02.480 And then there's another study that says coffee drinking was associated with the reduced risk

00:02:11.220 of chronic diseases, several of them.

00:02:15.040 All right.

00:02:16.160 So, do we finally understand the mystery that we've all been wondering about?

00:02:21.780 I know.

00:02:22.940 You've been wondering, Scott, what makes you look so sexy and vital and young and strong

00:02:29.800 and smart?

00:02:32.020 It's the coffee, right?

00:02:33.920 And I was wondering the same thing about all of you, because every time I see a picture

00:02:38.580 or hear about one of you, you're just killing it.

00:02:41.980 You're so sexy and smart and strong.

00:02:45.320 It's the coffee.

00:02:46.840 And if you're just watching us drink coffee because you don't drink coffee, and I like

00:02:51.520 to say coffee a lot, coffee, coffee.

00:02:53.300 Well, you're probably getting stronger and smarter just by associating with us.

00:02:59.180 Yeah.

00:02:59.740 Sort of a halo effect.

00:03:01.900 There's no science to back that up, but I'll bet my life on it.

00:03:07.320 All right.

00:03:08.020 Unitree, it's a Japanese company, has developed a robot that you can, I think it's available

00:03:15.100 now.

00:03:15.480 So $16,000 will get you a robot that's 4'2", and can do all kinds of things, and it's got

00:03:23.080 zillions of motors on it, and can run around your house and keep you company, I guess.

00:03:29.000 I am so getting a robot.

00:03:31.720 Now, I don't know how Tesla's going to compete with a $16,000 robot, because I can't imagine

00:03:38.560 that you could beat that price point, unless it's a, maybe they're trying to lose money

00:03:44.360 and gain market share or something.

00:03:46.920 That seems too cheap, but we'll see.

00:03:50.240 So you'll have a robot.

00:03:51.700 I would expect to have a robot certainly in 2025.

00:03:56.900 By 2025, I think there's a very high chance that you'll see me on this live stream, and

00:04:03.880 right over my shoulder will be my house robot.

00:04:06.920 And I might use it for, you know, interacting with the audience.

00:04:11.740 I think that's one year from now, actual robot sidekick.

00:04:19.280 Well, Amazon has a self-driving taxi, robo-taxi thing called Zoox, and they're getting investigated

00:04:26.700 by the U.S. government because apparently two of its vehicles brake suddenly and were rear-ended

00:04:33.700 by motorcyclists.

00:04:36.920 So two of them rear-ended by motorcyclists.

00:04:39.780 You know, what's interesting is if the executives of the company are found guilty of some crimes

00:04:44.400 and they go to jail for this, they too had a good chance of being rear-ended by two motorcyclists.

00:04:51.940 That's all I do wonder if Amazon self-driving cars using LIDAR or is it using Vision?

00:05:05.320 I heard Elon Musk talking the other day that all the self-driving cars using LIDAR are losers

00:05:12.420 because LIDAR is expensive and not nearly as good as Vision.

00:05:17.240 It's just really, really, really, really, really hard to get to Vision unless you're a massive,

00:05:22.860 you know, highly scaled-up company.

00:05:25.640 So Elon Musk is all in on the car just seeing and understanding its environment.

00:05:35.220 So LIDAR, maybe it's the best.

00:05:37.900 There's a story that actor Steve Buscemi was punched in the face by a maniac in New York City.

00:05:46.700 There are reports that the ambulance crew, when they were taking him to the hospital,

00:05:52.880 that he was screaming the whole time all the way to the hospital.

00:05:56.560 That's terrible.

00:05:58.060 Now, what was he screaming?

00:05:59.060 Oh, oh, he was screaming,

00:06:02.440 Nobody punched me.

00:06:04.320 My face always looks like this.

00:06:07.300 Let me go.

00:06:09.120 Release me.

00:06:11.260 That's what he was screaming.

00:06:15.240 No, that's not true.

00:06:16.960 He was actually attacked by an assailant, and there's nothing funny about violence.

00:06:21.160 There's nothing funny about that.

00:06:22.460 Ghostwriter Joshua Lysak has an interesting take on the Christy Gnome shooting the dog story.

00:06:33.120 You may or may not know that I'm working with Joshua Lysak on republishing my books that got canceled.

00:06:40.940 He's helping me edit and put that publication deal, well, the process all together.

00:06:48.200 And very soon, you're going to see God's Debris, the trilogy.

00:06:55.000 That will be a one book with a new short story that I added.

00:06:59.780 So God's Debris and The Religion of War and a new short story called Lucky House are all going to be in one book

00:07:07.700 and should be available real, real soon.

00:07:09.940 I've got the sample copy that I'm doing a final pass on.

00:07:13.700 And as soon as that makes me happy, I'll push the button, or Joshua will push the button, and it will be available.

00:07:21.680 But I'll let you know about that.

00:07:22.900 It's not ready yet.

00:07:24.420 Anyway, here's Joshua's take.

00:07:26.460 As a professional, highly experienced, famous ghostwriter himself, he says,

00:07:32.860 Now, I have to admit, that did occur to me as well.

00:07:47.800 Now, how could that possibly be true, you might ask?

00:07:52.160 How could it possibly be true that a story with such specifics would be totally made up?

00:07:58.440 Well, Joshua explains, now we don't know that this is true, right?

00:08:03.320 But as he explains it, the way a ghostwriter works with a famous person is that the famous person doesn't have a ton of time.

00:08:12.640 So they're going to do stuff like, all right, here's a link to all my interviews, and here's my social media account.

00:08:18.380 Go check that.

00:08:19.680 And I've got two hours to dump my opinions on you, but I won't see you again for three months, or something like that.

00:08:27.280 So the ghostwriter ends up trying to build a story that really is the ghostwriter's story,

00:08:35.420 because they don't have access to continuous interaction with the subject they're writing about.

00:08:40.880 And so Joshua puts forth the speculative hypothetical that the conversation might have gone something like this.

00:08:50.820 When you write the book, say something about how hard it is to be, you know, a farmer or work a farm,

00:08:58.860 and that it's sort of a tough environment and you've got to be a tough person.

00:09:03.820 Make me look like I'm a tough person.

00:09:06.540 And then next thing you know, she's shooting a dog. 1.00

00:09:13.440 And so Joshua challenges the story, I guess, to prove that the dog ever existed.

00:09:21.920 So the question is not whether she shot a dog, but whether there was ever a dog.

00:09:26.820 And I think that that is actually the right question.

00:09:29.040 I would say the odds that the dog actually ever existed, 50% to 75%.

00:09:37.720 There's a solid 25% that's just made up.

00:09:42.720 And I think that's a good addition to the story.

00:09:45.180 So whether or not the dog is made up or not, she wouldn't really be able to deny it, could she?

00:09:52.720 Because if it was made up, she'd have to say that she didn't read her own story.

00:09:56.720 And there was one part of her story that was in there about her meeting Kim Jong-un.

00:10:03.520 How does a ghostwriter say that you met Kim Jong-un and stared him down when it never happened?

00:10:11.080 That's pretty specific, isn't it?

00:10:13.540 So it does sound like the ghostwriter might have left the reservation a little bit there.

00:10:18.780 And maybe the ghostwriter was working for the competition.

00:10:23.500 By the way, have we heard who the ghostwriter is yet?

00:10:27.160 Isn't that an important question?

00:10:29.560 Wouldn't you like to know if the ghostwriter maybe worked with some people who were not her friend?

00:10:37.760 I'd like to know a little bit more about the ghostwriter.

00:10:40.440 Thank you.

00:10:42.680 Anyway, here's another should have asked Scott.

00:10:46.020 There's a study that said nearly half of all master's degrees have a negative ROI,

00:10:51.280 meaning that you don't make enough money to make it worthwhile to get it.

00:10:56.940 Now, more than, let's see, 77% of bachelor degrees make people happy.

00:11:05.280 So nearly 80% of the time, if somebody gets a bachelor's degree,

00:11:09.600 they make more money than if they didn't and they're happy about it.

00:11:12.400 But if you go on to get a master's, it goes down to 57% of those people say they made more money

00:11:21.060 and they're happy about it.

00:11:22.700 Now, this is a definite could have asked Scott situation.

00:11:26.700 When I worked for a big bank, I also was going to school at night to get my MBA.

00:11:33.660 Would my MBA have helped me in my career at the big bank?

00:11:38.440 Yes, totally.

00:11:39.900 It's the difference between senior management and not senior management.

00:11:43.640 Yeah.

00:11:43.860 And they made it very clear that you needed to have a little extra going on

00:11:48.040 if you're going to get to senior management.

00:11:49.500 You know, you either had a PhD in something or an MBA from a good school or something.

00:11:55.440 So it depends.

00:11:56.880 So I could have told you if you got a master's degree in some weird social science

00:12:01.560 and you weren't even going to work in that field,

00:12:03.500 probably didn't make any difference at all and you wasted your time

00:12:06.140 unless you got married or something because of your college experience. 0.99

00:12:11.220 But I would say that the study itself is garbage. 0.98

00:12:14.960 At the same time, I agree with it. 0.99

00:12:17.760 Here's why it's garbage. 0.94

00:12:19.500 It doesn't tell you anything you can act on because we all recognize the situation 0.97

00:12:25.440 when getting a master's degree makes sense, don't we?

00:12:30.160 Don't you?

00:12:31.720 Don't you think you would know when getting a master's degree would matter?

00:12:36.300 It matters if you're probably a doctor, a high-end professional,

00:12:41.360 and it's directly right down the alley of your job, probably.

00:12:47.460 Now, here's the thing it doesn't measure.

00:12:51.760 It doesn't measure how you feel about yourself.

00:12:55.000 Let me tell you something if you haven't experienced this yourself.

00:12:58.120 For me, getting an MBA from Berkeley, which I did at night and I did it at the same time I was working full-time,

00:13:06.880 it was the hardest thing I've ever done, by far.

00:13:10.920 It just takes everything.

00:13:12.840 And it takes about three years of your life, because I did it at night, so it's a little longer.

00:13:16.780 Normally, it would be two years.

00:13:17.760 It just, I mean, the sacrifice level to get that thing was pretty extreme.

00:13:25.860 But when I had it, I had something that nobody could ever take away.

00:13:31.360 And I got to tell you that how it felt to have accomplished it was worth the money, even if I never made a penny.

00:13:37.980 If I never made a penny, it was totally worth it.

00:13:42.280 Changed how I saw the world.

00:13:44.280 It gave me a whole bunch of skills that come in handy for all kinds of situations, not just, you know, getting a raise.

00:13:51.060 So for me, there are all these intangibles.

00:13:54.580 Next, I would say that your odds of marrying well probably improve with every degree.

00:14:00.960 If you've got a college degree, you're more likely to marry somebody who went to college.

00:14:09.520 If you have an advanced degree, you're even a little bit more likely to marry somebody who went to college and maybe also has an advanced degree.

00:14:18.140 So how do you pick that up?

00:14:20.460 What happens if you get your advanced degree, and that helps you meet somebody with another advanced degree,

00:14:25.240 and the other person's advanced degree is so good that you say, wow, I can stay home and raise our kids.

00:14:32.840 And with my advanced degree, I'll do a great job being a parent and don't really have to work.

00:14:38.340 So I don't think a study like this picks up any of that stuff.

00:14:42.460 All the intangibles, you know, even the effect on your children.

00:14:48.100 If your children have a role model that two parents got advanced degrees,

00:14:52.040 that's a lot of pressure on the kid to get an advanced degree, but ideally a good one, not a dumb one.

00:14:59.500 So I would ignore the study and just say it's kind of obvious when it makes sense and when it doesn't. 0.96

00:15:06.980 There's an important new study that says that lesbians are more likely to have orgasms when they're with each other 1.00

00:15:13.520 than a man is likely to give a woman an orgasm in a hetero situation. 0.98

00:15:18.640 So apparently much, much more likely for a lesbian to have an orgasm or to give an orgasm to another lesbian. 1.00

00:15:30.280 Now, the most shocking thing about this is I was not expecting to wake up this morning to learn that I'm a lesbian. 1.00

00:15:37.280 But there it is.

00:15:39.160 I mean, probably.

00:15:40.280 Now, the only thing I'd add to that is that it doesn't apply to hypnotists. 0.62

00:15:49.560 I'm just going to drop this to drive you crazy. 0.90

00:15:53.600 There's no such thing as a male hypnotist whose partner is not having an orgasm. 0.94

00:16:00.180 That's not really a thing.

00:16:01.400 Now, maybe if the woman has like a physical problem, then yes. 1.00

00:16:10.280 But if she's capable, if she's ever had an orgasm, and her partner is a hypnotist, 0.61

00:16:18.340 yeah, she's going to have all the orgasms that either of them want her to have. 0.98

00:16:23.780 Do you believe that? 0.88

00:16:25.460 Here's why you should believe it.

00:16:26.860 Because sex and orgasms are, if your body is healthy, there's nothing organically wrong.

00:16:33.760 It's a mental situation.

00:16:36.140 And the hypnotist knows how to connect the mental parts of your brain just to build a little structure

00:16:40.860 that causes a fire to be lit.

00:16:43.780 Now, that just happens to be one of our skills.

00:16:46.980 Now, they don't tell you about that one, do they?

00:16:48.600 When you hear about hypnosis, you're like, oh, maybe you can cure somebody's smoking.

00:16:54.740 It doesn't really work very well for that.

00:16:57.320 Oh, maybe you can help somebody lose weight.

00:16:59.920 You can, but it's not like the greatest thing for that.

00:17:03.420 Almost anything works for smoking and losing weight if you've decided you want to do it.

00:17:08.360 It's the deciding that's the hard part.

00:17:10.800 It's not, once you decide, then every method you use works.

00:17:14.220 If you don't decide, nothing works.

00:17:15.640 So, yeah, hypnosis is a little more powerful than you thought.

00:17:24.400 I saw there's a meme going around that says,

00:17:28.220 what scares me most is not the fact that the media is lying to us.

00:17:32.220 It's the fact that some people still believe them.

00:17:36.340 And Elon Musk reposted that with a yup.

00:17:40.760 Now, I would go further.

00:17:43.180 I would say the problem is not just that people believe the media. 0.95

00:17:48.720 The problem is that the media is giving them a mental illness. 0.68

00:17:54.580 Actual, literal, confirmable, diagnosable, measurable mental illness. 0.92

00:18:01.720 And that's coming from the news.

00:18:04.340 Why?

00:18:05.420 Because the news wants you to be afraid.

00:18:08.360 Because that's how they make money.

00:18:09.560 That's how they get you to vote for their preferred candidate.

00:18:13.140 That's how they get anything.

00:18:14.760 And so everything the news does is designed to make you crazy.

00:18:19.740 Now, could you see signs of it? 0.83

00:18:23.200 Are there any signs that the news is making you crazy?

00:18:26.900 Yes.

00:18:27.320 Because the people who are the, let's say, the most likely to be affected by it have a massive mental illness problem that's not affecting the people you would know would be least affected by it.

00:18:40.960 The people most effective?

00:18:42.580 Young women.

00:18:43.420 And sure enough, we look at the protests and we see the craziness in the world.

00:18:48.960 And it does seem to be that there is a massive problem of mental illness in youngish women and single women.

00:18:57.380 And it is definitely the news getting them all worked up.

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00:20:10.880 Have you noticed that the Democrats are ramping up the fear persuasion in favor of Biden?

00:20:18.380 Why are they doing that?

00:20:19.640 There's a Democrat group.

00:20:21.240 It's got a $140 million campaign with testimonial ads.

00:20:27.080 Now, the testimonial ads means that it's a citizen who's going to be talking to the camera and saying,

00:20:33.860 oh, if Trump is elected, horrible things will happen.

00:20:38.240 Here's some examples.

00:20:40.420 Now, that is meant specifically to scare you.

00:20:43.840 It is not going to be a bunch of people talking about how much they like Joe Biden.

00:20:47.780 It's a commercial which will not mention the benefits of Joe Biden.

00:20:54.740 It's a pro-Biden commercial that isn't even going to try to talk about what's good about him.

00:20:59.900 It's merely going to show you a bunch of people who are scared to death of Trump.

00:21:05.020 And one thing that will make you scared is seeing other people like you who look scared.

00:21:11.100 That's really scary.

00:21:13.040 You're not as scared as if you see somebody who has nothing to do with you looking afraid.

00:21:19.260 But if somebody who looks and talks like you is scared to death of something,

00:21:23.900 you're going to pick that up just automatically.

00:21:26.760 Somebody said Reid Hoffman is behind that.

00:21:28.560 Is that true?

00:21:29.960 That would be really scary.

00:21:32.460 Reid Hoffman is their hypnotist, by the way.

00:21:35.360 Oh, did you know that?

00:21:37.220 Reid Hoffman is the Democrats' hypnotist.

00:21:40.160 Oh, they have one.

00:21:42.320 Yeah.

00:21:43.320 He's the one who can tell you if something's going to affect somebody psychologically and make a difference.

00:21:50.500 They don't have a smarter guy.

00:21:53.820 I think Reid Hoffman would be, I'm pretty sure, their smartest guy in terms of how anything works in the real world.

00:22:01.120 So I would expect it to be pretty, pretty effective. 0.97

00:22:07.680 So you should not be surprised that Democrats have more, the young Democrats especially, and the women especially, have more mental illness. 0.88

00:22:16.380 What is being told to Republicans?

00:22:19.220 Well, Republicans were also told that the country is going to hell, except the Republican belief system is almost entirely, you know, optimism-based.

00:22:28.420 At least the Trump part of it.

00:22:29.620 The Trump part of Republicanism is optimism-based. 0.65

00:22:33.220 So you should imagine that there would be a greater chance that people who have an optimistic mindset are less crazy.

00:22:40.280 And sure enough, so let me mention the Joe Rogan thing.

00:22:46.120 I was watching a clip, and he had a guest on, Abigail Schreier, or Schreier, Schreier probably.

00:22:56.280 She has a book out called Bad Therapy, and the main point of it, I understand, is that she says rumination is bad for you,

00:23:04.140 meaning that thinking about your problems makes them worse.

00:23:08.020 Thinking about your problems makes them worse.

00:23:14.360 Now, I'm going to add this to, you should have asked Scott.

00:23:19.260 I can't tell you how many conversations I've had with people who insist that they must solve their internal psychological problems

00:23:27.640 by thinking about them really, really hard until they can, you know, make them go away.

00:23:33.100 And I would say, okay, I'm no psychologist, and I'm no psychiatrist.

00:23:40.440 But I did learn in hypnosis class that the more you repeat something, the deeper the circuitry gets.

00:23:49.360 That is the opposite of what you're trying to do.

00:23:51.720 What you're trying to do is weaken the disruptive thoughts, not strengthen them so they're permanent.

00:23:58.720 If you live inside your head and you just keep thinking about your problem because you're trying to make it, like, go away because you thought about it so much,

00:24:06.740 or you worked through it and you worked out your childhood trauma,

00:24:10.100 in my opinion, there's only one way that can go.

00:24:15.400 It will make it worse.

00:24:17.160 Apparently, and I'll take a fact check in case I'm getting this wrong,

00:24:21.620 but it looks like that's the main takeaway from Abigail Schreier's book, Bad Therapy.

00:24:30.720 And there's probably other things in it, too, but that seems to be one of the interesting ones.

00:24:35.460 Now, Joe Rogan was saying that he was shocked by that, like, that didn't seem true, that you should run away from your problems.

00:24:43.920 I've been saying this for a very long time.

00:24:46.160 It's not just true.

00:24:47.900 It should be really obvious.

00:24:50.560 Why is that not obvious to everybody?

00:24:53.460 I guess that confuses me.

00:24:54.980 Is it only because I studied it and I know that repetition is persuasion?

00:25:01.460 So repetition is the thing you want to run away from, not the thing you want to run toward.

00:25:06.700 Let me give you a little trick.

00:25:09.860 And this is based on Abigail Schreier's advice, I believe, but also I'm going to add it to my own.

00:25:18.480 So yesterday, I was sitting there thinking of stuff, as I often do.

00:25:23.100 It's hard to turn my brain off.

00:25:24.980 And suddenly, a very bad thought entered my mind.

00:25:28.440 It's the kind that if you spend much time thinking about it, it would put you in a terrible, terrible mood.

00:25:35.000 And it wasn't anything I could do anything about.

00:25:37.320 It was just a thought.

00:25:39.200 And the thought comes into my mind, and I realized that I had created an inner world.

00:25:45.540 In other words, when I was thinking about this thing, I imagined a world that doesn't exist,

00:25:50.200 or maybe it was one that used to exist.

00:25:53.160 But it's imaginary.

00:25:54.580 It doesn't exist now.

00:25:56.260 And I felt myself going into the world. 0.99

00:25:58.720 And as soon as I was in the world, I said, oh, shit. 0.99

00:26:05.360 I don't want to be in this world. 0.99

00:26:07.840 And then I said, I got to get out of this world.

00:26:10.940 Here's how you do it wrong.

00:26:13.460 Try to get out of your thoughts about that world to enter thoughts of a different world.

00:26:19.740 That's not going to work.

00:26:21.460 Try it.

00:26:22.060 Yeah, it doesn't work.

00:26:25.000 If your brain really, really wants to think of a thing, it's going to do it.

00:26:30.160 You can't just say, oh, think about kittens, kittens hugging dogs.

00:26:34.820 Oh, it'll last about a minute, and you'll be right back to your thing.

00:26:38.500 So here's what I did instead.

00:26:41.140 I left my inner world. 0.58

00:26:44.080 And I actually felt like I was, it was the damnedest thing.

00:26:48.540 I've never done this before.

00:26:49.940 I went from my inner world, and I just said, outer world.

00:26:54.520 Like, go to the outer world.

00:26:55.820 And I went, shoo.

00:26:56.920 And suddenly, I was looking at the world through my eyes and my ears and my senses.

00:27:04.500 Not my sense of smell, because I don't have that one.

00:27:07.220 And immediately, I was in a different world.

00:27:09.900 I was no longer in the world of my mind.

00:27:12.520 And then I said, go do something.

00:27:14.940 Go do something.

00:27:16.220 Get up.

00:27:17.400 So I got up.

00:27:18.780 And I did something.

00:27:20.540 And then I interacted in the external world.

00:27:24.600 And you know that thought, that bothersome thought, the one that I'm talking about,

00:27:30.080 the horrible thought that was in my mind that I didn't want to repeat?

00:27:33.640 Do you know what it was?

00:27:34.540 I don't either.

00:27:37.880 I don't remember it.

00:27:40.420 I remember the experience.

00:27:42.400 And I remember escaping from it.

00:27:44.060 But I escaped so fast, it didn't leave a memory.

00:27:48.540 I don't even know what it was.

00:27:52.040 It's so gone.

00:27:54.020 It could not be more gone. 1.00

00:27:56.200 Like, I left that fucking thing in the dust. 1.00

00:27:59.320 I just jumped out of my brain. 1.00

00:28:01.840 And I felt it.

00:28:03.980 So I'm going to recommend this.

00:28:06.480 Next time you've got a depressive thought, just tell yourself, I'm in my imaginary world in my brain.

00:28:13.860 Get out.

00:28:14.680 Just get out.

00:28:16.380 Get out.

00:28:17.680 Get into the world.

00:28:19.640 Do a chore.

00:28:20.980 Exercise.

00:28:21.980 Walk around the block.

00:28:23.580 Pet a dog.

00:28:24.580 Hug a person.

00:28:26.020 Get out.

00:28:27.080 And stay out.

00:28:28.180 If you find yourself getting back in, get out.

00:28:32.360 Get out again.

00:28:34.060 Get out of the world.

00:28:35.040 Open your eyes.

00:28:36.260 Look at the light.

00:28:37.380 Feel the sheets.

00:28:38.720 Whatever you're going to do.

00:28:40.320 But just get out.

00:28:42.340 And that's advice I've been trying to give people for, oh, 30 years probably.

00:28:47.500 And I didn't have a book to back it until now.

00:28:50.000 So thank you, Abigail Schreier.

00:28:53.700 I think we're on the same page on that, but I haven't read the book.

00:28:56.380 So if I got anything wrong, I apologize.

00:29:00.660 All right.

00:29:04.900 Axios.

00:29:07.220 Well, the reason the Democrats are ramping up the fear of persuasion is that they don't have anything for policy.

00:29:13.460 And I think that Trump needs to call them out for that.

00:29:17.880 If I were Trump and I had a whole bunch of policies that the polling says are overwhelmingly preferred,

00:29:24.940 you know, the economy, immigration, overwhelmingly preferred.

00:29:30.660 You need to call out the other side for having nothing but fear.

00:29:36.260 Call them out. 0.94

00:29:38.060 Just call the balls and strikes.

00:29:40.520 I'm offering you policies that the polling says are highly popular.

00:29:44.260 And you've seen me in action before, so you know what I do.

00:29:48.320 I'll do what I did before.

00:29:50.960 And the reason that the Democrats are giving the fear mongering is because they don't have an argument on a policy level.

00:29:58.600 Say it directly.

00:30:00.440 Say they're trying to scare you because they don't have an argument.

00:30:03.560 And you can see that the polling supports my point.

00:30:07.160 You have to put that frame in their head that the fear is not real.

00:30:13.080 The fear is not real.

00:30:15.080 But you have to say it directly.

00:30:16.900 The fear you're feeling is not real.

00:30:19.800 It's an election year phenomenon.

00:30:22.520 They have given up on policy.

00:30:25.920 And so beware.

00:30:27.160 They're going to come for your mental health.

00:30:29.600 They're coming for your mental health.

00:30:32.120 Because if you're thinking clearly, you're probably going to be with the majority of the country and want to close the border and maybe do something about energy and inflation and those things.

00:30:45.140 So here is the best suggestion for the Trump campaign you've ever heard.

00:30:51.260 You ready?

00:30:53.280 This is my challenge to myself.

00:30:55.840 I'm going to say something to make every one of you agree, which is largely impossible, wouldn't you say?

00:31:02.180 To say something that every one of you would say, oh, shoot, that's a good idea.

00:31:07.040 You ready?

00:31:09.380 Trump should do his campaigning in a grocery store while he's bagging groceries.

00:31:17.840 And that's it.

00:31:23.840 How much are you paying for your groceries?

00:31:27.060 How do you feel about it?

00:31:30.560 Yes, I am Donald Trump.

00:31:33.000 Do you want your eggs at the bottom?

00:31:36.060 All right.

00:31:36.640 Here's this one.

00:31:38.600 How do you feel right now?

00:31:41.040 You think you're paying too much?

00:31:42.440 Yeah.

00:31:45.900 Now, this would be highly compatible with the lawfare situation because he can't do big things, you know, everywhere, but he can do little things like visit a bodega, visit a, you know, visit a store and buy some milkshakes.

00:32:02.220 But he could definitely walk into a grocery store and say, do you mind if I bag?

00:32:09.300 Who's going to say no?

00:32:11.720 Who's going to tell him he can't bag some groceries?

00:32:15.200 Like, you'd want a friendly manager of the store, of course.

00:32:18.600 But I want to see him talking to Democrats.

00:32:22.360 I don't want to see Trump talking to Republicans.

00:32:25.120 I want him, I want to see him talking Democrats out of their irrational fear.

00:32:32.200 I want him to say, you saw me for four years.

00:32:36.500 What exactly was scary about that?

00:32:39.620 Or I want him to say, you know, I'd love to, I'd love to hear him say this.

00:32:46.040 Did they tell you I'm going to try to take over the country and keep it?

00:32:49.880 And just ask this question.

00:32:51.620 How do you think that would work out for me?

00:32:53.480 Do you think anybody could just decide they want to be dictator and the whole country is just going to let them do it?

00:33:02.100 No.

00:33:02.620 The only way that I win, Donald Trump, is if the country does really well and we remain a democratic republic, if, you know, to the extent we are.

00:33:12.980 And the only way, that's the only way I win.

00:33:15.120 I only win if you win.

00:33:17.360 That's what the presidency is good for.

00:33:20.060 It's full, it's full exposure.

00:33:22.180 You're going to see everything I do, just like you did the first four years, except for the fake news, of course.

00:33:28.400 And you get to watch it all.

00:33:30.360 I can't win unless you do.

00:33:33.360 I am intentionally tying my reputation and my fate to the performance of my presidency.

00:33:40.620 And I don't want to be known as Trump the Hiller.

00:33:44.840 Nobody does.

00:33:46.080 That's the last thing I want.

00:33:47.880 I wanted April, I wanted January 6th to get the right answer, and I wasn't sure that they did.

00:33:54.880 Don't you want the right answer?

00:33:56.800 Don't believe the fake news I was trying to take over the country.

00:34:00.040 I wanted the right answer, same as you did, because it didn't look right to me, and I still don't think it's right.

00:34:08.080 But we move on, and we'll do it again, and we've got to win by a victory, by a margin that's, you know, too big to rig.

00:34:16.580 So that's what I want to see.

00:34:18.540 Grocery store Trump.

00:34:20.000 And the thing is that if you add Trump to a grocery store, you can't not think about grocery prices.

00:34:29.880 All right.

00:34:31.920 Jen Psaki claims in her new book that Biden never looked at his watch during the ceremony for the soldiers that were killed during the Afghanistan withdrawal.

00:34:43.540 Now, accompanying the story of Jen Psaki saying he never looked at his watch is a photograph of him looking down at his watch.

00:34:56.180 Now, what level of gaslighting is that where there's a public photo of the thing she says didn't happen? 0.66

00:35:04.060 But I would like to, and I know you don't see this coming.

00:35:07.380 I'm going to back Jen Psaki on this. 0.92

00:35:10.140 I don't think he was looking at his watch.

00:35:12.060 I looked at the picture myself, and I think she's right.

00:35:16.080 I don't think he's looking at his watch.

00:35:18.280 I think he's looking at the time, but that he thinks the time appears on his hand, and he's waiting for it.

00:35:24.940 I don't think he's smart enough to know that his watch is a few inches to the left.

00:35:29.800 I think he was looking at his hand.

00:35:32.320 And he's probably thinking, why is my hand not telling me what time it is?

00:35:36.960 I've been here for a long time.

00:35:38.980 Hand, tell me.

00:35:40.380 Come on, hand.

00:35:42.100 Now, if he just looked a little bit to the left, he would have known the time.

00:35:44.960 But I agree with Jen.

00:35:46.140 I don't think he was looking at his watch.

00:35:50.320 Fareed Zakario of CNN is making some news because he's saying in a full-throated way,

00:35:57.040 well, I wasn't expecting things to go this way, but it's pretty obvious Trump is going to win.

00:36:02.340 And he says that's despite the great economic news of the good employment and, well, it's mostly that, right?

00:36:13.140 Just good employment.

00:36:14.000 But here's what Fareed maybe doesn't know.

00:36:18.980 The economy isn't good.

00:36:21.860 But how could somebody as smart as Fareed Zakario say that all the signals on the economy are good?

00:36:27.340 The only reason that we even have an economy is that we're on the edge of a debt collapse and we're not over the edge yet.

00:36:38.260 We're like standing with our toes over, you know, a deadly ledge that nobody knows how to stop us from going over.

00:36:45.860 But until you go over it, you're in perfect health.

00:36:50.840 I think that's his argument.

00:36:52.760 Like you're, what's that movie, Somebody and Louise?

00:36:56.820 What's the movie with the two women who drove the car over the ledge? 0.98

00:37:02.160 Somebody and Louise?

00:37:03.960 It was a terrible movie.

00:37:06.220 What was the name of that?

00:37:07.680 You're going to tell me in the comments in a moment.

00:37:09.640 All right.

00:37:10.800 So it feels like that.

00:37:12.180 It's like, yeah, until you hit the ground, you're in perfect health.

00:37:16.920 So he's basically saying the economy is like a skydiver or Thelma and Louise.

00:37:21.780 Yeah.

00:37:22.260 So he's saying that the economy is like Thelma and Louise while they went over the cliff in the car, but before they hit the ground.

00:37:32.240 So the entire time down, perfect health.

00:37:35.900 Things are going great.

00:37:37.500 I don't see the problem.

00:37:39.020 So it's really weird to see somebody as smart as Fareed, and there's no doubt he's unusually smart.

00:37:46.460 I mean, let's give him that for sure.

00:37:50.880 He went so far as to be honest.

00:37:54.020 He even said that the New York trial wouldn't have happened if it had not been a defendant named Trump.

00:37:59.380 So he's basically saying the lawfare is illegitimate lawfare, but he needs to go a little further. 0.99

00:38:07.220 Everything that they've been saying on CNN about the economy is bullshit. 0.98

00:38:11.440 He doesn't know that. 0.97

00:38:13.660 He doesn't know that the debt is the only thing that matters, and that's why we have the inflation and everything else.

00:38:21.260 I don't know.

00:38:21.540 So it's weird.

00:38:23.120 It's sort of a partial win, but he couldn't release in that last bit of non-reality.

00:38:31.000 Well, speaking of Democrats saying things you weren't expecting, Bill Ackman, famous investor, has been making a lot of news.

00:38:38.760 He keeps doing it.

00:38:39.440 And he says the polls say that Biden's going to lose to Trump, and he says the polls always understate Trump's support as Biden voters are not shy about their support for him, whereas Trump voters are more cagey when talking to pollsters.

00:38:58.180 It's interesting that he knows that.

00:39:01.460 Do you think that's still true?

00:39:03.200 I feel like the shy Trump supporter might be lessened.

00:39:10.780 Well, I guess it still would be true of Democrats who are trying to switch over or independents.

00:39:16.860 It's definitely not true for pure Republicans.

00:39:20.740 I think the MAGA people are going to say exactly what they think.

00:39:24.400 I think the independents might be cagey.

00:39:27.160 They're like, well, you know, least worst choice, but I don't want to say it out loud.

00:39:31.980 So I guess he's right on that, that the polling might be not picking up the full level of support.

00:39:39.240 But he points us to Fareed Zakaria.

00:39:44.140 But here's the more surprising thing.

00:39:46.080 In Bill Ackman's post on X, he closes it by saying, quote, I would not be surprised for it to be a landslide.

00:39:57.140 Landslide.

00:39:59.200 Well, everything is heading toward landslide.

00:40:02.700 But everybody smart will tell you the same thing.

00:40:07.280 A lot is going to change between now and the election.

00:40:10.160 It could be a lot.

00:40:11.220 It might not even be Biden running by Election Day.

00:40:14.540 So anything could change.

00:40:18.560 All right.

00:40:20.640 I love watching Jonathan Turley using Michael Cohen as a piñata.

00:40:25.340 It's so funny. 0.94

00:40:27.860 So Cohen is the most famous liar in the news. 0.59

00:40:33.800 You know, there are a lot of people who lie. 0.86

00:40:36.760 A lot of people lie.

00:40:38.120 But he's the most famous one.

00:40:41.200 So he's lied in every context in which we've ever heard of him or seen him. 0.99

00:40:46.300 He's like the most pervasive and complete liar. 0.96

00:40:52.100 Like, he'll lie in every context, everywhere, all the time. 0.99

00:40:56.400 It's just impressive.

00:40:57.340 But this is what Jonathan Turley says.

00:41:02.860 He says,

00:41:32.860 Because the mistake that the Democrats made in 2016, which is now famously part of the historical record,

00:41:41.200 is they gave Trump too much attention, too much oxygen.

00:41:47.080 They covered him too much.

00:41:48.980 And they all admit that.

00:41:50.700 Our big problem was we gave him too much attention, covered him too much, and turned him into the president.

00:41:57.500 So what did they do?

00:41:59.360 Did they start from first principles and reason up to what they should be doing this time?

00:42:07.380 No.

00:42:08.160 This time they decided they were going to try to gag him and take him off the campaign trail and not give him any attention.

00:42:16.280 How's that working?

00:42:19.220 It's too late.

00:42:20.800 No.

00:42:21.280 So the first time is when you wanted to starve him from attention.

00:42:26.400 Now he's the person that everybody knows.

00:42:29.740 And we already know the trick.

00:42:31.720 You know the trick.

00:42:33.180 If Trump goes out in public and talks, they will take out of context everything he says and turn it into fear of persuasion.

00:42:41.080 So the less he talks in public, you know, outside of his rallies, because the rallies are, you know, a little bit more, you know, controllable.

00:42:49.320 But if they take him out of the wild and put him in the two most controlled situations, which are he's in charge of the rally or the court's in charge of him,

00:43:00.980 it takes away a lot of the spontaneity, which gets him in trouble.

00:43:04.880 So they've eliminated the only thing that could stop him, which is if he says something, they can turn it into something else.

00:43:13.560 And they've way reduced the amount of talking he does spontaneously to the point where they just don't have their greatest target, which is what he said yesterday.

00:43:23.720 They just don't have it.

00:43:24.800 Because all he said yesterday is the trial is rigged.

00:43:26.880 Over and over and over again, until it's all you hear.

00:43:33.860 Is he persuasive?

00:43:35.720 Well, Fareed Zakaria thinks he is.

00:43:39.380 Because even Fareed thinks the New York case is BS.

00:43:43.240 That's the stormy case.

00:43:45.680 All right.

00:43:48.600 Caitlin Collins said, Financial Times poll, 80% of voters say high prices are one of the biggest financial challenges.

00:43:56.880 And that's why putting Trump in front of a grocery store is the kill shot of all kill shots.

00:44:05.140 All right.

00:44:08.860 Rasmussen has a poll that says 39% of likely U.S. voters said yes to the question, are you better off than you were four years ago?

00:44:18.040 But far more, 54%, said no, they're not better off than they were four years ago.

00:44:23.600 So that's the famous Ronald Reagan question he asked about Jimmy Carter's presidency.

00:44:29.900 Now, and voters rank the economy and immigration as sort of the top things.

00:44:35.160 So 51% of Republicans, well, 51% of voters trust Republicans more to handle the economy, while only 39% trust Democrats.

00:44:48.160 And on the issue of immigration, the GOP's margins is even wider, with 54% trusting Republicans versus 35% for Democrats.

00:44:56.920 But it gets better.

00:45:02.620 Basically, all of the news is leading in one direction.

00:45:06.100 It's looking like the landslide of all landslides.

00:45:08.740 I don't think this will even be a normal landslide.

00:45:11.860 I think it might be the biggest margin of victory of any presidential race.

00:45:17.340 And I think it will stand as the largest victory margin of all time.

00:45:22.540 That's what I think.

00:45:24.480 But here's some more news that could make that happen.

00:45:27.440 So you remember Senator Bob Menendez got caught with all those gold bars sewed into, weren't they sewed into the lining of his suit or something?

00:45:37.700 Anyway, in the worst timing the Democrats could ever have, he's going to have his trial starting soon before the election.

00:45:49.360 So you're going to see the following contrast.

00:45:52.580 By the way, here's your lesson on persuasion.

00:45:59.460 Persuasion lesson goes like this.

00:46:04.400 Contrast is persuasion.

00:46:07.540 It's the reason that the real estate agent shows you the terrible house that's within your budget.

00:46:13.140 So when they show you the good house that you wish you could afford, but maybe you can make it if you stretch, you feel, oh, I love it.

00:46:21.620 I love it.

00:46:22.260 This house, even though it's more than I want to spend, I'll buy it right now.

00:46:25.540 So that's contrast.

00:46:27.100 So everything is only compared to other things.

00:46:29.600 Now imagine the contrast when you've got Trump in trial for some kind of accounting irregularity that's first of all the same thing that Hillary Clinton did with the Steele dossier, just saying something was legal expense when it clearly was something else.

00:46:47.700 And the entire public doesn't even know that it should be a crime, and even CNN's Fareed Zakaria is saying that it's lawfare and nobody would be in charge of this unless they were named Trump.

00:47:00.480 All right.

00:47:00.640 So hold that.

00:47:01.460 That's your contrast.

00:47:02.360 Now, at the same time that this trial over literally nothing is being held, a trial over literally gold bars sewed into your jacket, but it gets better.

00:47:16.180 He's a Democrat, but it gets better.

00:47:18.820 He was in the job when he took the bribes.

00:47:21.180 He was in Joe Biden's old job, the most bribable job of all jobs, because he was, what was he, had some kind of foreign relations thing.

00:47:31.360 So the contrast is showing a real Democrat criminal with real gold bars who really was in the same job that Biden was in for years.

00:47:42.900 Do you think Biden didn't take anything when he was in the most bribable job of all jobs?

00:47:50.400 It's going to be hard for the public to believe he didn't take a little something.

00:47:55.280 So the gold bar Bob trial is the most perfect, delightful twist.

00:48:00.100 It gives you exactly the contrast that's the kill shot on all the lawfare, and it could not be timed more perfectly.

00:48:09.320 Bill Ackman challenged people to a little experiment.

00:48:13.320 Boy, he's getting a lot of attention in the political forum, and I'm here for it.

00:48:19.440 I don't agree with everything that Bill Ackman says, but he does start from what makes sense, and he doesn't depart from there.

00:48:28.420 He might get an answer different than I would get.

00:48:31.360 I might have different contexts, for example.

00:48:33.300 But I like the fact that he does not depart from what are the facts, what's the most reasonable way to interpret it.

00:48:41.980 You need more of him.

00:48:44.580 You need a lot more of him.

00:48:46.160 So here's another thing he's doing.

00:48:49.080 To me, this is just a public good.

00:48:51.220 I mean, there's nothing in it for him.

00:48:52.400 It's just a public good.

00:48:54.000 He says that as an experiment, he points us toward a Time magazine article that summarizes an interview with Trump, and they says, look at how they summarize the interview, but then look at the full transcript.

00:49:07.500 And his contention is, if you look at the full transcript, it will be real obvious how biased the summary is.

00:49:15.480 Now, I haven't done the experiment, but I trust him.

00:49:18.220 You know, and other people were commenting that they could see it right away.

00:49:22.320 And I think that's really, really valuable.

00:49:25.820 That's the sort of thing I want our smartest people to be telling the public.

00:49:31.560 Tell him that you can see it yourself.

00:49:35.240 Here's a real-life experiment of real-life news that's fresh.

00:49:39.040 Look at the transcript.

00:49:40.880 Look what they said about it.

00:49:42.080 Now, that's the same technique used to kill Trump on the bleach hoax and the fine people hoax.

00:49:50.860 Now, Ackman doesn't mention those two hoaxes, but once he teaches you that the transcript can be different from somebody's bad summary of it,

00:49:59.760 well, then you're primed to understand the other things that you've been fooled about.

00:50:04.360 So that's good.

00:50:05.560 However, he goes a little too far, in my opinion, and he says that this is why he prefers podcasts and, you know, long-form interviews.

00:50:16.380 To which I say, oh, Bill, you're so close.

00:50:21.620 And I had to add in my repost the documentary effect.

00:50:25.800 The worst way you could be fooled, meaning most effective way, is a long-form anything.

00:50:33.820 If you listen to one person on a podcast tell you a bunch of truths, you're going to believe it's true.

00:50:41.720 And the longer it goes, the more you're going to believe it.

00:50:44.720 If you get three hours of Joe Rogan with one guest saying something's true, you're going to think it's true when they're done.

00:50:51.040 The only thing that works is long-form, so you don't leave anything out, a host who is strong, who can shut people down and say, all right, you know, let's keep this on track, and people on opposite sides who are both capable.

00:51:07.580 So that if somebody makes a claim, the other person can say, well, you know, that source is bad or whatever.

00:51:14.500 And then also it can't be timed.

00:51:17.180 It can't have a hard stop because somebody will just, you know, try to talk over the other person.

00:51:23.840 So that's the model that works.

00:51:26.040 I saw Lex Friedman tried that model recently with something, and I didn't watch it, but it was in the right direction.

00:51:33.440 So, Bill Ackman, I would just add that if you don't have both sides showing, you get the documentary effect, and it's not going to help you as much as you think.

00:51:46.320 All right.

00:51:48.800 Following in the good role model form of Bill Ackman, who is clearly trying to do what's good for the world here, I'm going to try to model that a little bit right now.

00:51:58.840 And there's something that I can say that not all of you can say yet.

00:52:04.340 So if I say it, I'll prime the room and get it ready for you so you can come in after.

00:52:12.180 Now, I've been saying it for a while, but the more I say it, the better it is.

00:52:15.520 We're never going to solve our problems unless we can say what they are out loud and with reality.

00:52:22.960 You can't solve the problem if you're pretending it's something that it isn't. 0.87

00:52:26.100 And our biggest problem right now is batshit crazy women, mostly on the super progressive side. 1.00

00:52:34.460 Now, you might say, but, but, but, Scott, there's tons of people who agree with them, and so it's not just women. 0.98

00:52:40.440 No, it's mostly the women. 1.00

00:52:42.580 Because if they lost, if the women were not a unified bloc, the Democrats wouldn't have any power. 1.00

00:52:49.440 It's the unified bloc of women. 1.00

00:52:51.260 And every time you see a story of batshit liberal white women doing batshit crazy things, you have to tell yourself, these are not opinions. 1.00

00:53:02.060 These are people who have been drawn, have been driven to madness by the news because the news has to get you frightened. 0.98

00:53:09.220 And so the people who are most easily frightened, the ones who are mentally the least stable, which tends to be people under 25, and in this case it looks like liberal women, are being driven crazy.

00:53:23.760 And we're treating it like it's an opinion.

00:53:27.260 We don't have different opinions.

00:53:30.100 There's just some people have been driven crazy by the news.

00:53:33.340 And by the way, there's nothing I'm saying that you can't observe.

00:53:37.180 You can turn on the news, and you can watch them say, climate change is going to kill you all, and Trump's a dictator, and he's going to take your freedom, and, you know, your bodily autonomy will be lost.

00:53:49.860 Right? 0.99

00:53:51.620 None of that shit's true. 0.99

00:53:53.920 It's just that if you get people to believe it, you will drive a certain percentage of the public literally crazy. 0.98

00:54:01.080 And that's what's happened.

00:54:02.280 So to imagine that we have some kind of debate over the policies is like pretending you're in the imaginary world.

00:54:09.940 No.

00:54:10.700 We have a news which is driving crazy a portion of our public intentionally, very intentionally, and to make them crazy gives somebody else, not the people who are crazy, but somebody above them, somebody in power, it gives them power.

00:54:27.960 And that's why they do it.

00:54:29.820 Yeah.

00:54:29.960 So we need to treat it as mental illness and not as opinion.

00:54:35.720 All right.

00:54:38.900 Elon Musk had a victory over Australia's censorship.

00:54:42.560 I guess they were trying to punish.

00:54:46.500 Well, I don't know.

00:54:47.600 I don't know the details of this case.

00:54:49.560 But there was something the ex couldn't do, a video of one of the Sydney church stabbing incident, I guess.

00:54:57.200 And they took it to court, and they won.

00:54:59.800 Now, that might be a small victory.

00:55:07.180 It might be a small victory.

00:55:09.340 But at least it's an indication you can win.

00:55:13.220 And it's an indication that, at least in Musk's case, he's not going to go cheap.

00:55:17.720 Like, if it matters, he's going to put the money behind it.

00:55:22.180 And, oh, my God, is that useful.

00:55:25.340 Have you noticed that the most useful people in the news are all Democrats who have wised up?

00:55:31.660 Fareed Zakaria, very useful, wised up.

00:55:35.120 Bill Ackman, very useful, wised up.

00:55:39.280 Elon Musk, very useful, wised up.

00:55:43.600 Scott Adams, well, make your own opinion.

00:55:48.700 But I don't identify as a Republican, and never have.

00:55:55.040 Have I?

00:55:57.000 I don't think I have.

00:55:58.540 Maybe I'm wrong about that, but I don't think I have.

00:56:02.280 Yeah, oh, and Bill Maher would be another one.

00:56:05.400 It's not a coincidence.

00:56:06.420 It's not a coincidence that the adults in the room are starting to find the same place.

00:56:14.460 All right.

00:56:16.500 Dr. Peter McCullough, you know him as one of the famous doctors in the pandemic.

00:56:24.020 And he's saying now that he's discovered that there's a document that came out that showed that Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield

00:56:33.480 was paying doctors a lot for getting their people vaccinated, meaning that, and the claim is that a doctor could make as much as a quarter of a million dollars a year

00:56:45.320 if they injected a substantial portion of their patients.

00:56:49.840 Now, it could be more, it could be less, depending on the doctor and the situation,

00:56:53.220 but you could make a quarter of a million dollars more.

00:56:56.140 Let me ask you this.

00:56:58.100 How many of you know what the income of a doctor is?

00:57:01.600 What's the average income of a doctor?

00:57:05.040 I want to see if you know that.

00:57:07.160 Now, of course, if you're a surgeon or a cardiologist or something, you know, you could be a million dollars a year or more.

00:57:15.360 If you're a plastic surgeon, it could be millions per year.

00:57:19.120 But what if you're a general practitioner?

00:57:21.720 You're a general practitioner.

00:57:23.660 What do you think you make per year?

00:57:27.480 You're lucky if you make $250.

00:57:30.840 This would double your income.

00:57:33.380 If this is true, it would double the income of the doctor.

00:57:40.340 Now, do you think that would cause doctors to be, let's say, not as objective as they might have been

00:57:46.740 about whether or not you should get the vaccination?

00:57:50.020 Well, the claim is that if this is true and the document is accurate and there's no context we're missing,

00:57:56.800 that a big explanation of why doctors were not, let's say, complaining as much as you thought that they would

00:58:04.560 is because they were doubling their income to get vaccinations.

00:58:10.460 Now, I will give you a little bit of a warning on this one.

00:58:13.120 I do not consider Dr. McCullough to be a credible source.

00:58:19.120 So I just have to say that directly.

00:58:20.880 And that's based on, I think he's still clinging to the sudden deaths of the athletes,

00:58:27.140 which has been the most debunked claim of all time.

00:58:30.460 Now, I'm not saying that the vaccinations are good for you.

00:58:33.120 I'm not saying that he didn't get some stuff right.

00:58:36.380 I'm just saying that's a really big one to get wrong.

00:58:39.940 So just no matter what he got right, just know that he got a really big one wrong, like really wrong.

00:58:48.340 So put it in context.

00:58:51.680 If the things he got right are right, you've got to give him full credit for anything he got right right.

00:58:58.640 All right.

00:59:01.100 TikTok.

00:59:01.580 Apparently, they spent $7 million trying to beat the ban that Biden has now signed, ban or divestment, I guess.

00:59:13.960 And the big mistake, according to insiders, D.C. insiders, the mistake that TikTok made was ignoring the elephant in the room,

00:59:25.360 which was the concerns that the Chinese Communist Party could leverage the user data for nefarious purposes and even, here's the important part,

00:59:34.440 and even sway public opinion, especially ahead of the election.

00:59:39.680 Sway public opinion.

00:59:40.820 There's still people on Rumble who believe my husband apology.

00:59:48.720 You fell for two pranks.

00:59:51.980 The prank about what my beliefs were about vaccinations, and then the further prank that I apologize for it.

00:59:59.900 Neither of those things happened.

01:00:03.580 All right.

01:00:04.300 But you're double pranked.

01:00:06.600 All right. 1.00

01:00:07.060 Talk among yourselves about that because it's just a stupid conversation. 0.99

01:00:09.880 But back to the TikTok. 0.98

01:00:11.820 So do you remember how many times I was screaming into the microphone, it's not about the secure data, it's about the persuasion about TikTok?

01:00:22.640 Do you all remember that?

01:00:24.000 It's not the data.

01:00:25.560 I mean, that's important, too.

01:00:27.160 It's the persuasion.

01:00:28.400 And nobody believed it, I think, until Gaza. 0.69

01:00:32.640 And then you could see the persuasion.

01:00:35.180 And then everybody was like, whoa, whoa, it's a persuasion problem.

01:00:38.680 Yeah.

01:00:39.080 Like, I've been screaming at you for, what, since 2018?

01:00:43.600 Since 2018, I've been screaming, it's persuasion, it's persuasion.

01:00:46.980 And now the news says that the major mistake was that TikTok did not take seriously the persuasion complaint.

01:00:57.400 Well, according to Brendan Carr, who's a Republican FCC commissioner and a big TikTok critic.

01:01:10.960 Now, Brendan Carr has been on the right side of this issue from the jump.

01:01:16.940 So if you want to know one of the good guys, Brendan Carr, FCC commissioner, has been very much totally right from the start on everything and pushed it hard and got to this place.

01:01:30.460 So that's one of the most impressive wins that you'll see in politics.

01:01:38.720 So Brendan Carr, he's the real deal.

01:01:42.660 And what he said was that TikTok's DC advocacy never addressed those concerns head on, the persuasion concern as well as the data.

01:01:51.120 What they continued to do was to provide non-responsive answers, to obfuscate, and to focus on how popular the app was.

01:02:02.080 That's right.

01:02:03.300 They never addressed, really, the main concern.

01:02:08.980 So it turns out that wasn't really an argument because some people said, hey, it's too influential.

01:02:15.240 And then TikTok said, yeah, but a lot of people like it.

01:02:18.500 Okay, but the problem is it could change our politics and change the country in a terrible negative way.

01:02:24.900 And TikTok would say, have you seen our commercials?

01:02:28.040 A lot of people love TikTok.

01:02:29.980 Okay, but you're not even addressing it.

01:02:32.820 So here we are.

01:02:35.840 All right.

01:02:36.980 The Gateway Pundit's reporting that the Bureau of Labor Statistics is going to take coffee prices out of the inflation index.

01:02:46.580 Why would they do that?

01:02:48.500 Why would they take the price of coffee out of inflation?

01:02:53.660 Oh, let's see.

01:02:54.720 Since September 2023, coffee prices are up 78%.

01:02:58.320 So I guess that would be the reason you're taking it out of the numbers.

01:03:05.100 Do you remember a little prediction I made not too long ago that said 100% of the economic data in an election year is fake?

01:03:16.000 It's all fake.

01:03:18.820 Because the government that's in charge of the data doesn't want you to see any negative data.

01:03:25.940 So guess what?

01:03:26.660 You're not going to see it.

01:03:29.700 All right.

01:03:30.200 I'm going to say this again because I think it's fun to say.

01:03:32.860 How could Trump end the fighting in Ukraine on day one if he gets elected?

01:03:37.580 How many of you believe he could stop the fighting literally on day one, like not even day two, like literally day one?

01:03:47.760 How many think he could do it?

01:03:49.520 Because I do.

01:03:51.380 I'm going to tell you how he can do it.

01:03:53.020 How many of you believe he could do it?

01:03:55.340 It goes like this.

01:03:57.800 I'm the president now.

01:04:00.540 And Ukraine is a zombie war.

01:04:04.240 It's a zombie war.

01:04:07.300 Russia isn't going to win.

01:04:09.740 Ukraine isn't going to win.

01:04:12.540 NATO isn't going to win.

01:04:15.300 China isn't going to win. 0.96

01:04:18.120 Nobody's going to win.

01:04:19.180 Every single person who dies from this moment on is a mistake, a waste of beautiful human life.

01:04:30.440 I would ask the militaries of both sides, even if you don't get the order, stop fighting.

01:04:38.740 Just stop.

01:04:39.940 Because I'm going to make this go away.

01:04:42.620 We're going to work it out.

01:04:44.480 Both sides are going to hate it.

01:04:46.560 Let me say that again.

01:04:47.800 We're going to work it out.

01:04:49.460 Both sides are going to hate it.

01:04:51.040 That's what's called a good deal.

01:04:52.880 That's what it looks like.

01:04:54.380 That's what a good deal looks like when both sides hate it, but they're willing to live with it.

01:04:59.260 And I'm going to make this go away because we don't fight zombie wars.

01:05:04.900 We don't fight zombie wars.

01:05:09.360 We don't fight zombie wars where you have no hope of winning and no hope of losing.

01:05:16.540 You talk those out.

01:05:18.100 You talk those out.

01:05:18.580 You negotiate.

01:05:20.740 Because everybody's on the same side now, which is this doesn't make sense.

01:05:26.520 Everybody's on that page.

01:05:28.300 Only something corrupt could keep this moving forward.

01:05:31.480 And that's not where we're coming from.

01:05:34.240 We're coming from let's save some lives.

01:05:37.320 Let's make some money.

01:05:39.100 Let's have a happy life.

01:05:41.200 Let's let's wind down this zombie war and acknowledge what we all see.

01:05:47.220 It's not going anywhere.

01:05:48.820 There's no winning to be had.

01:05:50.700 Let's figure it out.

01:05:52.740 Now, that's day one.

01:05:55.040 I believe that he could stop the bullets from flying on day one.

01:05:59.520 So as long as that message, you know, got to at least the generals and as long as one

01:06:05.180 side stop fighting.

01:06:08.460 Like, you know, if one side stopped completely and the other side decided, oh, this is our

01:06:13.160 this is our our time.

01:06:15.880 But I feel if one of the sides literally just said, you know, screw my leader, I'm just going

01:06:20.760 to stop fighting.

01:06:21.320 And you just tell the other side, look, we're going to stop fighting today because obviously

01:06:27.140 this is just going to be worked out.

01:06:28.740 There's no point in shooting each other.

01:06:30.700 If either side said it to the other, don't you think the other side would stand down?

01:06:36.120 Or at least test it, you know, maybe stand there for a day, just see what happens.

01:06:41.740 No.

01:06:43.560 Well, certainly the CIA would not want to do it.

01:06:47.100 So there'd be a lot of pressure.

01:06:48.820 Putin might not want him to do it.

01:06:50.380 So there'd be a lot of pressure.

01:06:52.440 But I got a feeling if I were a general and I were in the front line and I knew I was

01:06:57.300 in a zombie war and I knew it was going to be over in maybe a few weeks, I don't know

01:07:02.440 if I would have any reason to shoot another bullet.

01:07:07.800 So, yes, I'm not going to predict that he could end the war in one day.

01:07:11.620 I'm saying that if you don't think that's completely possible, I think you're wrong.

01:07:17.520 We're in a situation where it's completely possible.

01:07:20.380 Scott, Putin is laughing at this.

01:07:24.800 Putin is laughing, you're saying in the comments.

01:07:27.020 No, you don't know what Putin's thinking.

01:07:28.840 And if you've been brainwashed into thinking, you know what he's thinking, cut that out.

01:07:35.180 Stop doing that.

01:07:38.360 All right.

01:07:38.620 Tony Blinken talking about Gaza.

01:07:43.260 He's doubling down on the Biden idea of stopping the fighting in Rafa and maybe Gaza itself.

01:07:50.840 And he said on Sunday, in what is being called the strongest rebuke of Israel, he said in a TV interview that the United States wants Israeli forces to, quote, get out of Gaza.

01:08:04.800 Amid what he described as, quote, a horrible loss of life of innocent civilians.

01:08:11.260 So, get out of Gaza is a lot different from fight your war, you know, in the South in a way that protects civilians.

01:08:28.960 He's going full, get out.

01:08:32.700 How do you see this as anything but supporting Iran over the United States or over Israel? 0.66

01:08:37.720 So, aren't they saying it directly now?

01:08:42.680 If you're backing Hamas to be back in power, which everybody knows that's what would happen. 0.93

01:08:50.940 If Israel just walked away, Hamas would just rebuild and be right back where they were. 0.88

01:08:58.500 So, wouldn't that be a direct case of the Biden administration helping Hamas?

01:09:04.840 Now, they would say they're helping the civilians, but the effect would be to help Hamas. 0.50

01:09:11.560 And Hamas is a proxy for Iran. 0.79

01:09:16.660 So, wouldn't they be just helping Iran? 0.62

01:09:20.340 And aren't they saying it directly and out loud that we're backing Iran?

01:09:26.320 Because that wouldn't be like the zombie war situation where nobody could win anything.

01:09:32.080 Hamas actually thinks it can win something.

01:09:34.840 You know, they actually have a plan that they believe in the long, long run can take over Israel. 0.53

01:09:41.860 So, there's a conversation that I don't quite understand that suggests that Obama, in the Obama days, that Obama had a plan.

01:09:53.660 Can somebody give me a fact check on this?

01:09:55.680 That Obama had a plan to keep Iran strong because it was a good sort of adult situation.

01:10:06.100 In other words, it would keep the Middle East maybe stable by having some kind of balance of power.

01:10:11.760 Is that a real thing?

01:10:12.960 Was it ever a real thing that Obama was, I don't want to say pro-Iran, but not wanting to destroy them because they were some kind of stability there?

01:10:25.960 Is any of that true?

01:10:27.240 It was a counterbalance.

01:10:32.240 It was a counterbalance.

01:10:37.340 Yeah.

01:10:38.860 Yeah, getting out of Gaza seems like the problem that caused where we are now. 0.64

01:10:44.580 Yeah, U.S. pulling out is supporting Iran. 0.94

01:10:50.520 Now, well, the U.S. isn't really pulling out.

01:10:55.140 Yeah.

01:10:55.800 I don't know.

01:10:57.520 I'm a little confused about this because I guess the main thing I see is that there's no way this could be good for getting reelected.

01:11:06.560 Can you make an argument that this would be good for Biden to get reelected?

01:11:11.600 Because I don't see it.

01:11:15.800 Could there possibly be enough pro-Palestinian votes that he would come out ahead by doing something that is so clearly negative for Israel?

01:11:29.120 Is there anybody who's calculated that that could work for him?

01:11:33.980 I don't see how.

01:11:36.240 You think he's doing it for the votes in one state, Michigan or something?

01:11:40.580 I just don't see it.

01:11:42.880 It doesn't look like anybody could think this is a good plan for getting reelected.

01:11:47.800 Do you know what that tells me?

01:11:50.100 What is more important than getting reelected?

01:11:53.960 If they think, you know, Trump is the devil and stuff.

01:11:58.580 It feels to me like there's something that's bigger.

01:12:01.140 Something that's bigger than getting reelected while everything else is smaller than that.

01:12:07.860 Why would this be the one thing that's more important than getting elected to the point where he would throw away his chances to support it?

01:12:15.720 Well, I see some of you speculating that, you know, Valerie Jarrett or somebody behind the scenes is the real power.

01:12:25.180 But if somebody behind the scenes is the real power.

01:12:27.760 However, there are also Democrats and they don't want to lose the presidency.

01:12:34.200 So how do you make that make sense?

01:12:37.720 That, you know, here's the weird thing.

01:12:39.800 The best way it makes sense is if he's operating on principle, which I doubt because it would be like the first time that ever happened.

01:12:53.880 But how in the world do you make sense of it?

01:12:56.020 Like it does make sense on principle that you just say we can't we can't be involved in backing something that's going to look to the world like a genocide.

01:13:04.640 Now, let me give you another wild possibility.

01:13:10.060 Now, I remind you that, you know, my opinion of what Israel does has no bearing on anything.

01:13:17.580 So I don't support Israel because the ADL is after me.

01:13:22.880 And so I can't I can't hold those two things in my head at the same time.

01:13:26.560 I can't support Israel and also have the ADL, which I know doesn't work for Israel directly.

01:13:31.940 But, you know, they're also an attack dog and, you know, they could turn them off if they wanted to.

01:13:37.900 You know that. Right.

01:13:39.500 ADL can't operate if Israel says they're garbage. 0.96

01:13:42.400 So Israel can turn them off and turn them on anytime they want, even though they don't work for them. 0.98

01:13:47.300 So I can't back Israel because. 0.97

01:13:51.280 You know, an Israel entity is after me and I just can't I can't be on your side if you're after me. 0.99

01:13:57.860 That just can't happen.

01:13:59.060 However.

01:14:02.120 I asked the following question.

01:14:06.940 What's this going to look like in 10 years?

01:14:11.900 What's this going to look like in 10 years?

01:14:15.320 I think the world is going to call it a genocide.

01:14:18.200 What do you think?

01:14:19.760 No, Israel won't. 0.74

01:14:21.660 Israel won't call it a genocide.

01:14:22.880 And our American public, you know, probably will be a little split on it.

01:14:27.560 I don't think the I don't think the politicians at the top will necessarily call it that.

01:14:32.840 But do you think that the world will decide in 10 years that this was not a genocide?

01:14:38.560 And by the way, I'm not saying it is or is not because I'm just observing my opinion doesn't matter.

01:14:45.620 In my opinion, it will obviously be called a genocide because there's enough anti-Israel juice in the world that I think that will become the dominant narrative.

01:14:55.860 Do you disagree?

01:14:57.900 In 10 years, will history say it was a genocide or will history say, well, they had to do it? 0.74

01:15:04.980 Because whether or not they had to do it probably won't make any difference.

01:15:12.440 Their motivation will just not be part of the analysis.

01:15:19.500 Yeah.

01:15:20.200 Do you disagree?

01:15:22.660 Now, remember, I'm not asking you what your opinion will be in 10 years.

01:15:27.440 You might be answering the wrong question.

01:15:29.720 I'm not asking you what your opinion will be in 10 years.

01:15:32.220 I'm saying what will the world's general opinion be?

01:15:36.700 I'm quite sure, given the anti-Israel sentiment that's sort of generally in the UN and places like that, that I feel like it will be labeled a genocide.

01:15:49.800 I think that it will go down in history like that.

01:15:52.500 And again, this is not my opinion.

01:15:55.700 I'm predicting that in 10 years how other people will feel.

01:15:58.960 I'm not telling you how I feel or I will feel.

01:16:02.220 Because I actually think it's the wrong question.

01:16:07.940 You know, the whole is it a genocide or not is just the wrong question.

01:16:11.940 The right question is, what would you do if you were in that situation?

01:16:17.160 If it happened to America, what do you think we would do?

01:16:21.040 If it happened to Russia, what do you think they would do?

01:16:24.380 If it happened to China, what do you think they would do?

01:16:27.420 And so on and so on and so on and so on.

01:16:31.380 So if you're watching a country act exactly the way yours would and exactly the way every other country, except, you know, maybe Switzerland, you know, it's hard for me to say, oh, they shouldn't do that.

01:16:43.900 But when you know your country would have done the same thing in slow motion, we would have made every decision the same way.

01:16:49.940 So. So I neither condemn it nor support it because it just is it's like condemning the air.

01:16:59.420 I can to get I can prove I can condemn the rain.

01:17:03.880 But I won't stop it from raining.

01:17:07.420 So anyway, I've got a question here and one possibility, a question about why the Biden administration's policy is what it is.

01:17:14.400 One possibility is this, that the people most deeply involved, the Tony Blinkens.

01:17:20.480 Believe that they will be tarred with a genocide.

01:17:27.080 That's what I think.

01:17:28.520 I think Tony Blinken specifically and personally does not want to have a genocide on his permanent record.

01:17:36.660 And he knows that if they just go along with everything that Israel asked for, it's going to be on his permanent record. 0.66

01:17:43.620 There's no way around it.

01:17:45.160 He's going to be genocide Blinken for the rest of his life.

01:17:48.240 But if they put up a little a little fight.

01:17:52.760 And the fight doesn't make any difference to the outcome.

01:17:56.840 Probably won't. Right.

01:17:58.300 I don't even know if in the real world the weapons are being withheld.

01:18:02.820 Do you?

01:18:04.180 It's entirely possible that you're watching good cop, bad cop.

01:18:08.360 And we've and we've already delivered every single bomb they ever asked for.

01:18:12.740 You don't think that's possible?

01:18:14.500 I'm not saying it's happening.

01:18:15.820 I'm saying that in the real world, you could easily imagine where the United States said to Israel, look, Bibi, there's no way we can back this because we'll just become genocide backers.

01:18:29.140 But at the same time, we also know if we were you, we'd be doing the same thing.

01:18:34.600 So how about this?

01:18:36.180 You do what you got to do.

01:18:37.880 We'll make sure you have the assets to do it.

01:18:40.720 But in public, we're going to be fighting against you.

01:18:43.460 Because when it's done, we need to say.

01:18:48.060 Yeah, we acted in a moral way, at least a little bit moral.

01:18:52.480 When it's done, you don't need to answer to that because you're doing what everybody would have done in that situation.

01:18:58.440 That's what that's completely different.

01:19:00.860 You get to be moral when you're not there.

01:19:04.220 Let me say it in a better way.

01:19:08.400 Morality and ethics are a luxury that's provided to the people who are not there.

01:19:16.560 That's us.

01:19:18.280 So we have the luxury of being, oh, we're moral people.

01:19:22.160 We don't believe in any genocides.

01:19:25.780 There's no good reason for that.

01:19:28.360 Yeah, that's because we're not there.

01:19:31.000 Do you remember how you felt after 9-11?

01:19:33.180 Just think back to how you felt on 9-11.

01:19:39.720 Do you know how many people said the Middle East should be turned into glass?

01:19:45.720 A lot.

01:19:47.720 A lot.

01:19:49.780 So let's be a little bit open-minded about what you would feel like if you had been in Israel on October 7.

01:19:58.340 Again, I'm not defending anybody.

01:20:00.820 I'm just describing.

01:20:01.860 It's just description.

01:20:04.140 Yeah.

01:20:04.880 So I think that morality has to bifurcate.

01:20:09.400 The people who are there have to deal with reality, which is we need to make those risks completely go away or our brains cannot survive.

01:20:19.960 And that's real, too.

01:20:21.140 You know, you can't live there if you know that your government can't protect you.

01:20:25.740 So there's a psychological element to this that is known only to the people who are there.

01:20:32.060 If you're not there, you don't have the psychological damage.

01:20:35.600 And so you're like, oh, in my ethical and moral way, I think there should be no genocides and there should be two nations living in peace.

01:20:46.220 As if that's an option.

01:20:48.860 If that were an option, I would be advocating for it.

01:20:52.760 It's clearly not an option to have two states living next to each other.

01:20:56.960 That's not going to happen.

01:20:58.200 All right.

01:21:00.540 One possibility is that the Gazan residents will be settled somewhere else permanently. 0.52

01:21:12.560 But maybe somewhere in the West Bank.

01:21:15.960 Imagine, if you will, that you try to rebuild Gaza at the same time that you're resettling the people back there. 0.99

01:21:24.420 It's not really going to work.

01:21:26.460 There's going to be so much, you know, was just destroyed.

01:21:31.380 But how much easier would it be to build a new city on just fresh ground?

01:21:37.360 Way, way, way easier.

01:21:40.060 So if you want what's best for the Palestinians, you would keep them in, you know, Palestinian historical lands, I guess you might say. 1.00

01:21:50.160 Some would argue.

01:21:51.960 And you just say, how about we give you a new city that's better than Gaza? 1.00

01:21:56.560 Because we don't have to clean everything up first.

01:21:59.160 Because the cleanup alone, two years.

01:22:04.620 I'd say two years to clean it up.

01:22:06.400 But if you start from scratch and say, all right, we're going to buy a couple of farms and turn them into, like, the best place ever to live.

01:22:15.920 How fast could you do that?

01:22:18.300 Kind of fast.

01:22:19.900 Kind of fast.

01:22:20.880 And then you could take your time cleaning up Gaza. 0.99

01:22:24.140 And then when you're done and it's possible that people could live there again, you decide what that looks like then.

01:22:29.660 But you don't have to decide in advance because it's going to be years before that place is useful.

01:22:36.320 So just consider the possibility that you could upgrade the lives of the, let's call them the innocent Gaza residents.

01:22:46.000 Give them something to look forward to.

01:22:48.020 And it might be the cheaper way to go to just build from scratch something you know will work.

01:22:53.920 You could easily imagine spinning up a desalinization plant quickly.

01:23:01.240 You could easily imagine trying to put in a nuclear facility or a solar panel farm to power it.

01:23:10.380 You know, it would be easy for me to imagine that the new Gaza, let's call it new Gaza, would be the best place in the world to live. 0.98

01:23:20.340 So generally speaking, I'm going to make this claim.

01:23:23.920 I guarantee you that the future is building new cities from scratch.

01:23:29.420 A hundred percent guarantee you there's nothing going to stop that from happening.

01:23:33.400 And it will be the biggest thing.

01:23:35.960 So in the future, building a new city from scratch will be the biggest economic engine in the world.

01:23:42.520 And this could be the best case where you're sort of forced into it.

01:23:49.260 But let's see what we can do.

01:23:51.100 You know, if you built from scratch, your transportation costs would be almost nothing.

01:23:57.080 Your crime fighting would be almost nothing.

01:24:00.820 Your energy costs would be almost nothing.

01:24:03.160 Even your food costs, you could cut by 30 percent if you engineered the town.

01:24:08.040 And you could get rid of chronic illness because you could just grow your own organic food locally and make sure that nobody had a bunch of preservatives and chemicals in them.

01:24:18.680 So you could solve almost every big problem in civilization by starting from scratch.

01:24:25.740 You could solve inflation.

01:24:27.460 You could solve the debt.

01:24:30.940 Because if you have a lot of debt, the people are going to get taxed.

01:24:36.560 They don't have much money to live.

01:24:38.380 But if you take their living expense down 90 percent and they still get paid the same amount, but their living expenses down 90 percent, let's take college.

01:24:47.840 AI is going to make college cost basically nothing.

01:24:52.320 So the things that used to cost us immense amounts of money are going to go to zero or close to it if you design carefully.

01:24:59.860 So design is the future.

01:25:02.920 We don't even have to invent.

01:25:04.680 We just have to design better.

01:25:07.140 And that's where we're heading.

01:25:08.900 Ladies and gentlemen, this brings me to the close of what is no doubt the best show you've ever seen.

01:25:14.960 A little bit long today, but worth every bit.

01:25:17.300 I'm going to say a few words to the locals people only.

01:25:21.720 If I can make this user interface do what I want it to do.

01:25:26.500 Oh, no, that was the wrong button.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 13, 2024

Episode 2473 CWSA 05⧸13⧸24

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