Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 23, 2024


Episode 2483 CWSA 05⧸23⧸24


Episode Stats


Length

1 hour and 13 minutes

Words per minute

148.56844

Word count

10,871

Sentence count

821

Harmful content

Misogyny

14

sentences flagged

Hate speech

19

sentences flagged


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

Bill Ackman is one of the most useful citizens in the country right now, and he may have taken a swing too fast at an injustice. And a key RFK Jr. advisor leaves the campaign alleging a "hateful and divisive atmosphere."

Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
00:00:00.000 ever predict. Well, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass of tank or chalice
00:00:04.460 of stye on a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid.
00:00:09.260 I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day. It's
00:00:14.440 the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens
00:00:18.960 now.
00:00:19.560 Oh, audio is working. Coffee machine worked. I feel like today might be my day. All right.
00:00:36.060 We got lots of stories today. If you subscribe to the locals or on X, you can subscribe to
00:00:43.520 get the Dilbert comic. You would know that Dogbert has opened his own art gallery and money laundering
00:00:52.080 store. He does them both, art gallery and money laundering. So check that out on locals or X.
00:01:01.840 Bill Ackman had a funny story. So investor Bill Ackman. Now you might know that he did an amazing
00:01:09.360 job in going after the Harvard, uh, woke haters and stuff. And he got a lot of positive attention
00:01:18.240 for being somebody who was willing to jump in there and fix a bad situation. But I can speak
00:01:25.920 from personal experience that as soon as you have a public win like that, like you get involved in
00:01:33.040 some topic and you think, Whoa, I think I actually made a difference. You want to do it again.
00:01:38.640 Good. Cause the dopamine hit is so good. Wow. I actually changed something. And then people said,
00:01:44.560 Hey, good job. Feels good. So Bill Ackman's in an Uber and the Uber driver mentions that, uh,
00:01:52.640 the tipping doesn't go to him, but rather goes to Uber. So Bill Ackman now potentially a little bit
00:01:59.760 addicted to the buzz of tackling the big injustices and getting them fixed decides to post. He says that
00:02:08.480 uh, he tells a story about how it's an injustice and Uber is just stealing the money from the drivers
00:02:15.920 and they post that on X to once again be a benefit to the country. Uh, except that the reader's notes on
00:02:25.040 the post say that the system doesn't show the tips until later. So apparently they do get the tips,
00:02:38.480 so the, the correction on that is nope, it's just bad reporting. You know, the interface makes it look
00:02:44.880 like they don't get it, but they do get it later. So, um, certainly a trap I've fallen into myself,
00:02:52.640 but let me state that Bill Ackman is one of the most useful citizens in the country right now,
00:02:58.720 because he's not running for office and he appear apparently he's trying really hard
00:03:05.120 to be useful. You know, maybe, maybe this was a swing and a miss, but I'm going to give him full
00:03:10.160 credit anyway. I liked the fact that he waded into it anyway. And so if you think I'm going to mock him
00:03:16.800 because he got one wrong, you know, sort of embarrassing in public. Nope. I'm going to go the
00:03:22.160 opposite way. He saw it. He saw an injustice. He saw that the, in his opinion, the Uber people
00:03:29.680 couldn't fix it themselves. He has more juice. So he used his juice to try to solve a problem for them.
00:03:37.760 It may have been, you know, may have been a misstep in the sense that he didn't have all the information,
00:03:43.680 but let's do more of this, not less. You know, every, every time somebody with his
00:03:48.400 level of power goes after injustice, that's probably a good thing. You know, maybe not
00:03:55.680 everyone's going to be a home run, but let's give us some more Bill Ackman, not less. But he may,
00:04:01.440 he may have taken a swing too fast at that one.
00:04:06.880 Here's some more fake news from the Hill. Listen to this headline. Well, at least it's the way it's
00:04:13.520 posted. So this is the, the way it was posted on X. From the Hill, key RFK junior advisor leaves
00:04:20.880 campaign alleging, quote, hateful and divisive atmosphere. Now, if you read that, doesn't that
00:04:29.200 sound like the hateful and divisive atmosphere is within the RFK junior campaign? Like, like,
00:04:35.760 oh, it's falling apart. He can't hire good people. That's what it sounds like, right?
00:04:40.240 And then you read the story and the story says, basically just doesn't like being involved in
00:04:46.880 politics anymore. Now, is that the same? That is really, really different to say that she's leaving
00:04:58.480 because the campaign, the way they're presented it, it would make you think that it's the campaign
00:05:05.440 where the hate, the hateful divisive atmosphere is. But that's not even close to saying that the
00:05:11.120 whole realm of politics is too filthy for her to want to be part of it. It's just fake news.
00:05:19.680 More fake news. So the, the Senate is going to vote on this bipartisan ha-ha border security measure.
00:05:28.720 Do I need to tell anybody here that all major legislation during the last few months before
00:05:36.400 election are fake? Are you all sophisticated enough to know that the border bill is fake
00:05:44.560 without knowing any of the details? You all know that, right? The, the purpose for this kind of
00:05:50.320 legislation is to embarrass the other team when they turn it down. And the way you do that is you give
00:05:57.280 it a name that sounds like something anybody would want. Hey, how about a bipartisan border security
00:06:03.040 bill? That's exactly what I want. I can't think of anything I want more than a bipartisan security
00:06:10.160 bill. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Give me the bipartisan security bill. As long as I don't read the details,
00:06:18.560 because that's where the poison pills are. The poison pills that make it a big complicated thing that
00:06:25.200 the public doesn't know it's complicated. They don't really know what's in it. They just know the title.
00:06:30.320 And the Democrats will cleverly stick something in there that Republicans can't possibly support.
00:06:38.400 Now, if you had never had a business education or business experience, you never would have heard
00:06:44.800 this term poison pill. If you don't know the concept of a poison pill, it's a, it's a thing that looks like
00:06:52.000 it's attractive, but on the inside, there's a piece of poison. So you better stay away.
00:06:56.240 If you didn't know that concept, you probably would not be alerted to the fact that the legislation
00:07:01.920 is intended to be fake. It's not even designed to be passed. It's intended to be not passed by the
00:07:09.360 people who made it because they know that they can just use it politically. And here's another one that's,
00:07:16.960 uh, let's say in the category of maybe it's exactly what you think it is. There's a lot of that lately.
00:07:24.640 A lot of stuff where you say, hmm, there's something a little weird about this situation.
00:07:30.080 The only way I could possibly understand it is if something terribly corrupt is happening.
00:07:36.720 Sort of the only thing you could think of that would explain what you observe.
00:07:39.600 All right. I'm going to give you an observation. See if you could come up with any explanation for this
00:07:46.960 that isn't corruption or something, you know, in that corruption-like domain. Here's the story.
00:07:54.800 The Washington Post, the new CEO, who interesting, interestingly is a white guy.
00:08:02.960 So, I guess I have to ask Jeff Bezos. Were there no people of color that were qualified to lead the
00:08:14.240 Washington Post? No women? Now, of course, I'm just pulling his leg. But if you believe in things like 0.99
00:08:26.960 diversity, I don't know, it seems like an interesting choice if you're living and working in that domain.
00:08:36.240 But anyway, good to see that a white guy can get a good job. 0.56
00:08:41.280 But the news is that the paper lost 77 million last year. And everything is trending bad.
00:08:51.200 So, they lost 77 million. They're in a dying industry. And everything is trending bad. There are fewer
00:08:59.440 subscribers by far than there were, you know, a year or two ago. So, how do you explain that Jeff Bezos,
00:09:10.640 one of the notably best business people in the history of the United States, maybe the world,
00:09:16.880 maybe the world? How would you explain that he would keep something that loses 77 million dollars
00:09:22.640 a year? What would be the reason for that? Is it because if you took the Washington Post and at the
00:09:28.400 mix, there would be no news? No, there's plenty of news. If anything, there's too much. So, it's not
00:09:37.120 because it's necessary. And it's not because it makes money. And it's not because it's, you know,
00:09:44.080 good for the country in some direct or indirect way. The only reason you could possibly think of it
00:09:50.720 is that the CIA is forcing them to do it because they have blackmail on Amazon. Do you know how,
00:09:58.240 do you know what the government and the CIA in particular could do to screw Amazon a thousand
00:10:03.760 different ways? By a thousand different ways. So, basically, to me, it looks like an obvious
00:10:10.000 case where Jeff Bezos is literally being blackmailed by his government. That's what it looks like. Can
00:10:16.480 you give me any other explanation? The only other one is that Bezos wants to do it for his own purposes,
00:10:25.920 you know, maybe get positive coverage for Amazon. But it doesn't really feel like his style.
00:10:32.320 Does it? I mean, you've seen him operating for, you know, decades now in public. He's very public.
00:10:39.520 Does it feel like his style? They would just own a fake newspaper so they could gaslight the country.
00:10:46.480 What about that sounds compatible with anything you know about Jeff Bezos? Nothing. But what about
00:10:54.800 the story sounds compatible with the fact or the possibility that the CIA or somebody in the government
00:11:00.960 is literally blackmailing him? And he just has to lose that money every year to keep them happy.
00:11:08.480 It fits the facts. And I don't know anything else that does. I can't think of anything else that would
00:11:13.200 even come close. So maybe everything is exactly what it looks like. That might be my theme for today.
00:11:20.880 Things are exactly what they look like. All right.
00:11:25.040 In 2022, and maybe it's still true, daily weed use exceeded daily alcohol use. Now, that part doesn't
00:11:36.960 surprise me. And I wonder if the data is real. Do you know what else happened in the last few years?
00:11:44.800 Daily weed use went from, we better not talk about that, to, well, it's kind of normal.
00:11:49.920 Don't you think that the survey would be influenced by the fact that the thing went from basically
00:11:57.680 illegal and you better not mention it to, oh, everybody's doing it. So there's no problem if
00:12:03.920 you mention it in a poll. So I would worry about the data. But here's the interesting part. Apparently,
00:12:09.920 the number of people who drink daily is around four. Well, I'll just round off 15 million Americans
00:12:19.520 drink daily. I thought that was a lot more than you. Did you know that only that only 15 million out
00:12:29.040 of our 300 and what's the population now? 340 million, something like that. That actually seems low.
00:12:36.720 And, and I guess I must know a lot of alcoholics. Because I know quite a few people who drink every
00:12:44.000 day. You know, usually like a drink after dinner sort of thing, or before dinner. But I guess, I guess
00:12:52.480 I'm impressed it's as low as it is. But weed is up to 18 million per day using it daily. Again, every time
00:13:00.240 these two things are compared, you know that your news is fake, bullshit, gaslighting. Why, why would
00:13:07.920 you compare daily use of alcohol, a poison, to daily use of marijuana, a medicine? Is there any other
00:13:17.520 situation in which we compare a poison to a medicine? Say, wow, look at that difference. Hey,
00:13:23.520 have you seen that, uh, people who take, uh, hemlock oil and, well, I don't know what people do.
00:13:30.640 People who drink rat poison, uh, let's compare those to the people who take aspirin for their
00:13:36.080 sore muscles. Let's see who's doing better. It doesn't really make sense to compare poison to
00:13:41.760 medicine. Now I get that not everybody uses weed is using it as medicine. Totally get it. But wouldn't
00:13:49.120 that be true of a lot of medicine? Painkillers, for example, perfectly legitimate use for painkillers,
00:13:56.880 but people use it willingly. All right. Community notes is working according to a Bloomberg study.
00:14:06.000 Now this I did not expect to see. So, uh, Elon Musk was, um, boosting it as well. So imagine Bloomberg,
00:14:14.480 a news agency looked into whether the community notes on X are helping. And they said, uh, that the
00:14:22.160 community notes were perceived as significantly more trustworthy than traditional simple misinformation
00:14:29.040 flags. Um, so it's better than things on X. They don't go so far as to say it's better than the news.
00:14:38.480 But did we have any recent, uh, experience that would suggest that people who are on X are better
00:14:47.040 informed than people who are not? Well, here's an example of someone who says, uh, that they don't
00:14:54.240 use social media. Bill Maher. Bill Maher just humiliated himself on his book tour by showing that he
00:15:03.280 didn't know basic facts about the news when his entire business is talking about the news.
00:15:10.240 Why? Well, he's told us that he, he keeps his news consumption to a very, uh, small set of things,
00:15:18.080 which none of them lean right. And so not only is it a small set, but it only leans one direction.
00:15:25.200 And in my experience, everything that I know that's real came from X. So the only thing, 0.98
00:15:34.080 the only reason I understand, let's say, um, Hunter and the Burisma situation is because of Mike Benz.
00:15:44.160 With, yeah, he's on X. And I could go down the line, you know, is it Colin Rugg? Is it Mike Cernovich? Is it,
00:15:51.360 um, you know, I probably saw five to 10 people this morning, just this morning? Uh, oh, Dan Bongino
00:16:01.120 talking about what is common, uh, process for, uh, you know, authorization of, of using your gun on a,
00:16:08.560 on a search and a raid. These are the things that the regular news is completely blank on. I don't know
00:16:16.480 anything until I see what the independents say, the independent voices. So everything that Bill
00:16:22.240 Maher didn't know, such as Hillary Clinton was a election denier that on January 6th, there were no
00:16:30.160 cops killed by the, uh, by the so-called insurrectionists. And, you know, there were a few other things.
00:16:38.880 And I think every, yeah, yeah, Jack Posavec, other great sources. So there's a community of, I'd say,
00:16:48.000 maybe 20 different independent or not in the traditional corporate news, you know, field that
00:16:56.400 are pretty much the only ones who know what's happening and say it honestly. So if you don't
00:17:02.800 have access to that world, you really don't know what's going on. You really don't.
00:17:09.120 And I would, I'm going to add myself to that list. Let's see if I can get a confirmation on this,
00:17:14.880 because it sounds like I'm just patting myself on the back, which I am.
00:17:19.680 What I do, where I talk about the persuasion element of the news, is that not additive? And do
00:17:27.680 you see it anywhere else? I mean, every now and then they'll have a guest who'll say something
00:17:31.920 about persuasion. But generally speaking, there's not somebody who kind of covers it every day.
00:17:38.160 So I feel like that's additive. And I'm not part of the traditional news, you know, field.
00:17:46.000 So yeah, you'd miss all the good stuff if you're not an ex. That's a fact.
00:17:49.280 There are now robot laboratories. They're automated so the robots can just test lots of
00:17:58.560 different things and just kind of grind it out. I have a friend who I think he's retired now,
00:18:05.600 but he used to do a side work doing testing for big labs. So they would contract him to do a bunch
00:18:12.640 of tests in his own little personal laboratory. Now, the nature of the tests where they just say,
00:18:18.480 uh, we've got, you know, 20 things that we think might be good for killing cancer,
00:18:25.040 you know, maybe some naturally occurring things, that sort of thing. Can you just test them all?
00:18:30.320 So he basically would have a bunch of test tubes and, you know, he'd be like, put a little,
00:18:34.800 put a little drop of this in this one and, you know, wait a month and see what happened.
00:18:38.960 And it was just brute force. It just took a human X number of hours to see if anything happened in
00:18:45.200 those test tubes, but that's all automatable. Robots could do that 24 hours a day. So it does
00:18:52.000 seem to me that even if the robots don't achieve super intelligence, you know, so-called AGI,
00:18:58.400 even if they don't become so smart that they can invent things on their own, they can still invent
00:19:03.920 things through brute force because the robots will simply be able to iterate faster than we can. Well,
00:19:10.560 that didn't work. Try this. That didn't work. Try this, which is mostly where innovation comes from.
00:19:16.400 So that's interesting.
00:19:17.360 Ontario, the wait is over. The gold standard of online casinos has arrived. Golden Nugget Online
00:19:25.280 Casino is live, bringing Vegas-style excitement and a world-class gaming experience right to your
00:19:30.800 fingertips. Whether you're a seasoned player or just starting, signing up is fast and simple. And in
00:19:36.560 just a few clicks, you can have access to our exclusive library of the best slots and top-tier table games.
00:19:42.240 Make the most of your downtime with unbeatable promotions and jackpots that can turn any mundane
00:19:47.440 moment into a golden opportunity at Golden Nugget Online Casino. Take a spin on the slots,
00:19:53.040 challenge yourself at the tables, or join a live dealer game to feel the thrill of real-time action,
00:19:58.400 all from the comfort of your own devices. Why settle for less when you can go for the gold
00:20:03.120 at Golden Nugget Online Casino. Gambling problem? Call Connex Ontario, 1-866-531-2600.
00:20:10.880 19 and over. Physically present in Ontario. Eligibility restrictions apply.
00:20:14.800 See GoldenNuggetCasino.com for details. Please play responsibly.
00:20:20.960 There's a study that shows why gratitude makes you feel better. Now, apparently,
00:20:27.840 this is the way hypnotists like to think, or at least the way I like to think. I don't think of
00:20:32.960 humans as this bag of magic. Like, well, they have feelings and they've got souls and their spirit and
00:20:40.880 a bunch of magic in there with their free will. Like, I don't see the world that way. I see the
00:20:45.520 brain is a machine and all the parts of the machine have their own little role.
00:20:51.280 So when somebody explains something to me as to why something works or doesn't work,
00:20:56.640 I don't want to hear about somebody's feelings. I want you to tell me which part of the brain gets
00:21:01.600 activated. If you can tell me that, I'll think, well, that's real. You know, in an engineering sense,
00:21:07.200 if you can do this thing that activates one part of the brain or gets it to experience some
00:21:12.560 neuroplasticity, then I understand that as a machine and not a bunch of magic. And that's good.
00:21:18.640 Here's an example of that. I always wondered how gratitude worked. You know how every expert
00:21:25.280 seems to say, if you express gratitude, it makes you feel better. It's a way to beat mental illness,
00:21:32.240 basically. And now they have some ideas or some testing, found out why that is. That when you
00:21:39.360 express gratitude, they can measure what it affects which part of the brain. And it goes right to the
00:21:46.320 part of the brain and the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for dopamine.
00:21:53.760 So they can actually measure now. This is very cool. I'm very excited about it. They can determine
00:22:00.160 that the act of gratitude, let's say just writing in a journal, all the things you're grateful for,
00:22:05.600 they can actually see which part of the brain lights up and they know that that's the dopamine maker.
00:22:10.320 Now that, now that's some science. That's the science I want. Now I'm hoping it stands up and
00:22:18.800 it's real. But I'm going to extend this. So you know that dopamine is what makes you feel good and
00:22:26.800 can cure some of your mental illness, right? If it's not the serious mental illness. But I'm going to take
00:22:33.840 this a little bit further. Have you ever noticed that if you're in a good mood, things around you look
00:22:41.040 like they're going in the right direction? And if you're in a depressed, terrible mood, it feels like
00:22:47.840 your reality itself is all negative, right? So you know from your own experience of being happy versus
00:22:55.920 unhappy that the world looks different. So I'm going to, I'm going to suggest that dopamine is,
00:23:03.120 is what gives you a subjective reality that's a better one. That when your dopamine is high,
00:23:09.680 you just see everything positively because reality is subjective. And since you live full time in a
00:23:16.880 subjective reality, you don't get to go vacation in the other one. You only live in the one in your head
00:23:22.640 that you created of the world. And then you go out in that world, but you created it because you're
00:23:28.400 experiencing it within the model that your head created. That's how you experience it. So I think
00:23:33.520 dopamine is the illusion, is the illusion drug. I think dopamine changes your perception
00:23:43.840 that everything's working out, even if it isn't. And the lack of dopamine makes you think everything's bad,
00:23:49.200 even if it isn't. So you should learn how to boost your dopamine. We know, we now know all different
00:23:56.640 ways to do it. You know, get outside, do some lifting, don't eat too much sugar, do some gratitude,
00:24:05.120 you know, be in a relationship, hug some people. You know, we know how to do this now. So if you want to
00:24:11.520 change reality, that's cool, if you can do it. But most of us just have to live with the reality that's here.
00:24:21.120 So you can change the reality into a positive reality, as you experience it, just by gratitude.
00:24:30.560 Now, I've actually experimented with this. It totally works. And it's almost sensitive. The form of gratitude that
00:24:37.520 I prefer is if I'm in a deep funk. Every now and then it happens. I can get out of it by randomly
00:24:46.080 doing something really good for somebody who didn't expect it. Now, that's not gratitude per se,
00:24:53.600 but I'm positive it's the same part of my brain, because you can almost feel it in the same part.
00:24:59.920 And it just boosts the dopamine, takes you right out of your depression. So try this. Next time you have,
00:25:06.400 like you're just in a funk, just make your body do something good for somebody who wasn't expecting
00:25:11.840 it. Watch what happens. You'll be instantly into a different reality. Nvidia announced a record 26
00:25:19.440 billion in revenue. I don't like to give investment advice, but I'm going to give you some generic
00:25:26.000 investment advice. First of all, I do own some shares in Nvidia, but I'm not one of the smart people
00:25:32.320 who got it when the getting was good. I got it a couple of months ago and it's been great.
00:25:41.520 Now, this is not investment advice, but I'll tell you something that's sort of a generally good thing
00:25:48.400 to do. You should probably invest in the strongest company in whatever industry looks to be in its
00:25:56.400 beginning stages and unstoppable. Now, that doesn't mean Nvidia lasts forever, because someday they'll
00:26:04.160 have good competitors. But if you had invested in IBM when computers were just coming on, well,
00:26:11.520 that would have been the greatest thing anybody ever did. If you had invested in Tesla when there was not
00:26:18.960 yet an electric car, but you were sure it was going to happen, that would have turned out well. It was
00:26:23.920 the best company in a growing space. If you had invested in Apple when Apple built the smartphone,
00:26:34.560 my God, would you have made money? Because you could tell as soon as you saw the smartphone,
00:26:39.120 oh, we're not going back, right? You knew we weren't going backwards and they were the best ones in the
00:26:45.920 space. One of the two. So, Nvidia is the strongest company in the most important industry maybe that
00:26:55.680 will ever happen in the history of humankind. Does that make it a good investment? Not by itself.
00:27:04.640 So, if you're not diversified, don't be investing. You should diversify. Because here's the thing,
00:27:10.800 the thing that you can't guard against is that there's some bad actors in the company. That's
00:27:17.920 the thing you never know. Well, maybe they've been lying about their profits and you don't find out
00:27:23.200 for a year. Maybe there's somebody crazy. Maybe there's a sex scandal that'll bring them down.
00:27:30.240 You never know. And maybe somebody has a better technology that they're already inventing in the lab
00:27:35.360 that will completely make the company unnecessary, but it's not going to happen right away.
00:27:39.040 So, don't be surprised when the strongest company in the strongest industry that might be the most
00:27:47.280 important industry of all time, don't be surprised when that goes up in value.
00:27:55.040 All right. A funny story today. There's a viral story about a young woman. She went on a date. She's 27.
00:28:03.600 The guy she dated was 35. And she was trying to ask people's opinion about how to interpret the text
00:28:10.400 that she got from the 35-year-old the next day. Because she can't tell if this is an age difference,
00:28:16.240 you know, millennial versus Gen X. She's not sure what this text means. Here was the text,
00:28:24.480 the only text, the only text sent by the 35-year-old man the day after he dated the 27-year-old woman.
00:28:31.600 Quote, hey, had fun last night. Have a good day.
00:28:35.040 And she's wondering if he wants to see her again.
00:28:45.360 I'm going to add this to the, well, you could have asked me.
00:28:50.320 No. No, he doesn't want to see you again. You bored the shit out of him.
00:28:55.200 He had no chemistry whatsoever. He doesn't dislike you. He doesn't dislike you. But no chemistry
00:29:05.600 whatsoever. You know, you've probably seen that there's a lot of relationship experts
00:29:13.440 on Instagram and probably on TikTok. And a lot of the men especially say,
00:29:18.400 you should not act interested in a woman because then she'll lose interest. 1.00
00:29:24.800 So do you think this is someone who just watches a lot of social media
00:29:28.640 and is intentionally going under the enthusiasm level because it had exactly the effect that the
00:29:37.920 experts say? She apparently is obsessed with this guy because he did not give her the attention
00:29:44.880 she thinks she deserved. She's obsessed with him so much so that it became a viral thing.
00:29:52.800 He basically just completely just put her in her place. Here's how to interpret this. He's either
00:30:01.600 the most clever manipulator and he's just waiting for you to beg for him to come back so he can get
00:30:06.800 everything he wants. Maybe. Totally possible. Because it's almost written like it was almost a prank.
00:30:16.800 Like just to see what would happen. It doesn't feel like I like what a regular person would say.
00:30:22.560 But let me tell you what would happen if somebody were being honest and they had had a good time.
00:30:27.760 Hey, I had a great time last night. Not I had fun. And then have a good day would be,
00:30:38.960 I hope you have a great day.
00:30:42.880 But I had fun last night. Have a good day. It's kind of hilarious.
00:30:46.880 So should she fight to get him? No. No, let that one go. Because he's either a manipulator or he has
00:30:57.840 no interest in you whatsoever. Which one of those do you want? All right. Remember the Terrence Howard
00:31:03.360 story? So Terrence Howard was on Joe Rogan and he has a whole bunch of scientific,
00:31:11.040 groundbreaking things that even Einstein couldn't think of. And so people said to me, Scott,
00:31:19.040 is this just crazy talk? Or is he the smartest person in the world? And I said, well, I don't
00:31:26.400 understand anything he said, but generally the smartest people in the world can make you understand
00:31:33.200 their argument. That's part of being smart. And he couldn't make anybody understand his argument.
00:31:38.800 Okay. So today a German physicist weighed in, Sabine Hassenfelder. So German physicist. And she says,
00:31:48.800 I don't understand why this nonsense ever spread so far or why anybody is taking it seriously. But if
00:31:54.020 you need someone to say it's all nonsense, here we go. It's all nonsense. So it looked like nonsense to
00:32:01.900 me. I'm going to add this too. You could have asked Scott. You didn't really need to do the
00:32:09.040 professional physicist on this one, but I'm glad we got the confirmation. Here's another one you
00:32:15.720 could have just asked me. There's a study that finds that mental disorders can spread between
00:32:19.920 teenagers. So in other words, mental illness is contagious by association. Doesn't necessarily mean
00:32:29.820 there's any physical thing being transmitted, but obviously by association. Now, specifically,
00:32:37.380 not every kind of mental health, but anxiety, mood disorders, and eating disorders. Now, who could
00:32:44.160 not have predicted that if you hang around with people who have food disorders, you're more likely to
00:32:49.740 get one? Is there anybody who didn't know that? I mean, you could have asked me. I knew it. Is there
00:32:56.760 anybody who has ever watched Tim Ferriss say one of his most important life rules is that you are the
00:33:03.180 average of the five people you hang around with? Well, if the five people you hang around with the
00:33:09.000 most have mental illness or eating disorders or anxiety, you don't think you're going to pick up a
00:33:15.100 little of that? Of course you are, because they'll be talking about anxious things all day. It'll just
00:33:20.240 become the model that you go to for yourself. Yeah. So does TikTok cause kids to have social anxiety
00:33:30.900 and eating disorders? Yes, of course it does. Do you think that they need to do a study to find out
00:33:37.980 that mental illness can be spread by association? It's obvious. Yes. Yes. Not just mental disorders,
00:33:46.220 but every kind of habit and way of life and thinking everything. Yeah. We're imitating species.
00:33:54.820 You put me next to somebody who's, uh, if you, if you made me hang around with five serial killers
00:34:00.880 every day for a year, I might do some serial killing. I mean, I'm not inclined to do it at the
00:34:07.920 moment, but if all my friends were talking about how great it was, ah, I'm just normal.
00:34:15.100 I might want to give it a shot. No, I wouldn't, but I'm using an exaggeration.
00:34:22.460 Did you know that if your friends are overweight, you're more likely to be overweight?
00:34:26.860 I've written about this before. Did you know that if your friends are overweight, you're more likely
00:34:31.380 to be overweight. Now, some of it is you're not competing with them, right? If your friends were
00:34:36.440 looking great, you might say, oh, I have to compete with that and look great too. But if they've just
00:34:41.800 sort of given up and they're the ones you spend most of your time with, well, are they going to
00:34:47.820 judge you if you gain a few pounds? No, not at all. So the people you hang out with will actually
00:34:52.900 cause your body to look different. And they will also say, hey, you want to get some McDonald's
00:34:58.620 when you were thinking you didn't want some McDonald's, but you want to go along with them
00:35:01.940 because they're your friends. So while you get there, you get some French fries. It's really
00:35:07.500 easy to see how being overweight is contagious. Anxiety, you can see how anxious people make you
00:35:16.240 anxious. And you could also, you also wonder about if your friends are seeking therapy
00:35:22.720 and they get it. Don't you think you're more likely to seek therapy if otherwise you would
00:35:29.280 have said you had no mental illness? Don't you think there are people going to therapists
00:35:33.580 who wouldn't have even thought of it, except their friends are going? Of course. Yeah,
00:35:38.740 it's all contagious. And that's why TikTok is fueling a youth mental health crisis,
00:35:46.600 which Nebraska says, because they're suing TikTok and its parent company, claiming that they
00:35:52.080 target minors with addictive design that's fueling a youth mental health crisis. Could
00:35:57.540 have asked me. I've been saying it for five years. So almost all of this news on health
00:36:02.980 is stuff I've been telling you for years. And then I have this hypothesis. I believe that
00:36:11.500 watching MSNBC news makes the viewers have mental illness. Now, some of it is because, you 0.58
00:36:18.920 know, it's scary. So that's true of all news, makes people afraid because it's scary. But
00:36:25.960 on top of that, the hosts themselves appear to have obvious mental illness. You don't think
00:36:31.700 that that rubs off on the viewers? I think MSNBC is so obviously full of mental ill people 1.00
00:36:40.260 that when you watch it, whether you think of them as mental ill or not, you start to model
00:36:45.620 them. There's no way you can turn that off. Again, the five people you hang around with are
00:36:52.860 the ones who cause you to look, feel, and think the way you do. If you watch MSNBC all day,
00:36:59.960 you're going to start looking and feeling like them. You would literally start dressing
00:37:04.660 like Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow, who basically dress the same.
00:37:10.100 Right? So it's very common that you would start acting like, looking like, feeling like
00:37:18.260 the people that you're most associated with. So MSNBC is literally unhealthy. And I think
00:37:26.160 I can say that with confidence and there's no hyperbole. It's literally unhealthy. And five
00:37:32.120 minutes of Joe Scarborough's mental illness just makes you feel like you're sick when you walk
00:37:37.560 outside. Rasmussen did a poll, said that which presidential candidate makes America feel safer?
00:37:47.160 And it's Trump by mile. So 49% say Trump makes him safer, feel safer. 40% say Joe Biden.
00:37:56.580 Could you use this to predict the outcome of the next election? Yes, you can. Because the strongest
00:38:03.480 predictor of persuasion is fear. And people are far more afraid of Biden as president. That alone,
00:38:12.820 if you only knew one thing, and you were going to bet on it, the difference in what scares people
00:38:19.420 about the next president should be completely predictive. So I'm going to say that if this
00:38:28.220 number stayed the same to election day, there's really actually no way that Biden could win.
00:38:34.420 This is the strongest persuasion, fear. You can't be fair. There's nothing. Now, the only thing that
00:38:41.400 could beat it would be maybe identity or something like that. But it's even hard to see how that works
00:38:49.360 because the Democrats don't even have a common identity now. So Republicans do, right? We don't really
00:38:57.140 take the never Trumpers too seriously because they just seem like weird little trolls. But the
00:39:02.700 Republicans are kind of all the same kind of viewpoints. But Democrats have splintered into
00:39:09.480 just completely batshit crazy groups. And then other groups are saying, oh man, I'm embarrassed to be in
00:39:15.240 the same party. So there's an identity problem that can't be fixed on the Democrat side. Because what is
00:39:22.680 their identity? Do you know? What would be the identity of a Democrat? I'm not really sure. Are
00:39:30.480 they in favor of trans? Because many aren't. I mean, they're all in favor of trans, I would say. 0.93
00:39:37.220 I'll say in favor of laws that would be, let's say, preferential to trans. That would be the better 1.00
00:39:42.460 way to say it. I'm in favor of trans, by the way. I'm in favor of people living, adults anyway.
00:39:49.940 I'm in favor of adults doing what they want to do if it doesn't bother me. So very much in favor of
00:39:55.220 anybody who's different, basically. I have a natural inclination to automatically like
00:40:03.180 anybody who's different. So, you know, I'm just automatically pro-trans if they don't bother me 1.00
00:40:09.240 or anybody else. Anyway, so that's the first thing. Fear should be completely predictive if it stays at
00:40:16.980 that level. Now, that's why the Democrats are trying so hard to say that Trump's going to take
00:40:22.620 your bodily autonomy and your freedom away. Because they're trying to find something that
00:40:27.560 sounds scary, and they literally have to make up a fear. When people say they're more afraid of Biden,
00:40:34.300 they're not making that up. It's not because somebody made up a fake fear. They're watching
00:40:39.500 him perform. They know he's the commander-in-chief, and they know he can't handle the job. It's really,
00:40:46.140 really obvious at this point. Well, how about this? The economy is, of course, the other big
00:40:51.980 thing. And there's also a poll that says most Americans see the U.S. is in an economic recession,
00:41:00.360 and the majority blame Joe Biden. So although we're not in a technical recession, if you factored in
00:41:08.260 inflation, would we be? Actually, I don't know the answer to that. I think it's yes. If you factored in
00:41:14.940 inflation, would we be in a technical recession right now? Because I feel like that's what people
00:41:20.880 are feeling in their real life. But if you looked at the top-line numbers, it doesn't look like a
00:41:26.920 recession. So the reason that the Democrats are confused about why the public is not recognizing
00:41:35.140 that the economy is so wonderful is that unlike the public, the top Democrats have good jobs and
00:41:44.560 the money is flowing in. If you're Jen Psaki, her career looks pretty good. She's probably had a good 0.69
00:41:52.140 year this year economically. So no, they are economically uneducated. So they look at the top-line
00:42:01.420 number, and they don't understand that the country thinks they're in a recession, because in every
00:42:06.160 observable, experiential way, they are. Just not technically. All right. 55% of the respondents in
00:42:19.100 the poll, who was this? This was the Harris poll. 55% of the respondents think the economy is shrinking,
00:42:25.820 that the economy is shrinking. Now, again, I ask, are they right? If you consider inflation,
00:42:38.240 is it? Is the stock market up, or is it only up because of inflation?
00:42:49.100 I don't know. Anyway, Elon Musk asked today on X if he should make a phone. Should there be an X
00:42:59.120 phone? To which I say, I don't know. I'm not sure if he could pull it off and be competitive with the
00:43:08.480 other phones. But if he could, I don't know who would be better at it. It's interesting.
00:43:14.700 Rick Scott's running for Senate leadership, I guess, for the House Speaker of the House. So he's
00:43:25.600 running against, let's see, the people who have announced are John Thune, and from Idaho and Texas
00:43:33.700 is John Cornyn. So of those three, I don't really know much about any of them, really. But they all
00:43:42.080 seem like kind of standard Republicans. Are you following this Alito House upside down flag
00:43:49.580 thing that some people say means they're in favor of insurrection, but other people say it's the
00:43:56.280 worst, dumbest hoax in the world? I'm having trouble getting interested in it. It's reminding me of the
00:44:03.760 overfeeding the koi fish in Japan. It's like, yeah, that's true. It happened. But I can't, I just
00:44:11.260 can't get interested in how a Supreme Justice, you know, decorated the outside of her house
00:44:17.540 with an upside down flag. I think it was something, you know, just complaining about recent events or
00:44:22.960 something. So that's mostly fake news. So MSNBC, no, I guess NBC and CNN have both done this with their
00:44:35.500 guests, forced them to answer the question, in 2024, will you certify the election or will you, you know,
00:44:43.340 will you agree with the election results? Yes or no. And Ted Cruz is on there. And Caitlin Collins on CNN
00:44:50.660 asks them, insists that he must answer this yes, no question. Will you accept the results? Now,
00:44:57.380 is that the dumbest yes, no question of all time? It's not yes, no. It's not. Let me give you a,
00:45:04.600 for instance, if on election day, the average of all the polls have Trump up by 10 and he loses narrowly,
00:45:14.020 no, I'm not going to accept that fucking election. Are you kidding me? In fact, the way you
00:45:20.640 should answer this question is, well, Caitlin, let me ask you a question. Hypothetically,
00:45:26.320 if there was a 10 point difference in the polling on election day, and yet mysteriously votes came in
00:45:32.820 in the middle of the night and Joe Biden won by a squeaker, would that sound legitimate to you?
00:45:40.400 I would turn the question around and just say, would you think that was okay? Suppose Trump was up by 30
00:45:49.640 points and Biden was on his deathbed. And suppose everybody knew. And then, and then he won the
00:45:57.200 election by a squeaker. Should I complain about that? If it were to happen? What do you think?
00:46:04.480 So I thought, I thought Cruz, you know, did his usual Ted Cruz. He's always, he's always good at this.
00:46:10.320 I mean, Ted Cruz has argued at the Supreme Court several times. He's not the guy who's going to
00:46:16.080 lose a debate on TV. Well, that's not going to happen. But because she can sort of talk over him
00:46:23.860 and, you know, do her nonsense until you run out of time, he can't be as effective as he could be
00:46:29.660 in a different circumstance. So I'd like to see the Republicans learn how to shove that in their
00:46:37.580 faces a little bit better. What Ted Cruz said was he started with, it's not a yes or no question.
00:46:43.420 And I felt that was weak. He should have laughed at her. He should have mocked her.
00:46:50.660 When Memorial Day is over, it's time to get serious about this election. And you don't need to lock and
00:46:59.680 load. That's dangerous. And we don't want any suggestion that there would be any violence.
00:47:04.900 But you can mock and meme. So don't lock and load. Mock and meme. This question should be mocked,
00:47:13.580 not given consideration. So the question is, he shouldn't say it's not a yes or no question.
00:47:20.660 You should say, well, let me put the question to you. If Trump's up by 20
00:47:24.800 and Biden's on his deathbed and he wins in the squeaker, would you question that?
00:47:32.800 And then she'll say, whoa, but that did happen. Well, that's the question you asked me, bitch. 1.00
00:47:40.080 Why did you ask me that question? Why don't you, how do you like it if I ask you?
00:47:45.460 Why don't you ask that? Why don't you answer that fucking question? I've got an idea.
00:47:50.000 How about I'll answer the question, and then you answer the fucking question.
00:47:55.380 Let's see how you do on this gotcha question. Now that would be mocking and meme-ing.
00:48:04.740 You've got to mock it and meme it.
00:48:06.220 Okay, I shouldn't laugh at this next story, but it is funny. Christy Noem went from, huh,
00:48:21.100 I think she could be vice president, to having the worst month that any politician ever had. 1.00
00:48:26.960 So it just gets worse. So you know that there was the allegations of having an affair and that was bad enough.
00:48:34.180 And then there was the thing about her book saying that she shot her dog and that was terrible.
00:48:39.720 And then the thing where her book said she met Kim Jong-un, but that looks like it was just made up by a ghostwriter.
00:48:45.240 And that's really embarrassing. And then here's the kicker.
00:48:53.220 She's banished in more than 20% of her own state because she said some things that the Native Americans don't like. 0.98
00:49:01.420 So she's not allowed on their reservations anymore.
00:49:05.060 She's the governor of the state and she's banned from traveling in 20% of her own state. 1.00
00:49:17.220 Now, I don't know if this happened organically or if maybe Democrats, you know, got to the Native American leaders and said,
00:49:26.460 hey, why don't you do this for us? Maybe. You know, you never know what's behind the scenes.
00:49:30.740 But she's got she's having the worst month I've ever seen. 1.00
00:49:35.480 So I wish her well. She'll get over it.
00:49:39.520 But wow, that's a lot of stuff in one month.
00:49:44.500 Elon Musk was boosting a post on X that showed that Asian women now earn more than white men.
00:49:53.880 So it's fairly recently that the curves crossed and some people are saying it's a narrative killer.
00:50:00.740 Because if Asian women can make more than white men. 1.00
00:50:11.520 Why does anybody else complain if they can do it?
00:50:16.740 Right.
00:50:18.620 That doesn't that settle all of our questions?
00:50:22.200 Doesn't that tell you that anybody's complaining that they can't succeed?
00:50:25.800 Well, Asian women, thank you. 1.00
00:50:28.360 You just prove that you can.
00:50:30.060 Now, you might say to me, but what about Asian men?
00:50:32.320 Well, they make more than both of those categories.
00:50:35.740 So being Asian seems to help.
00:50:38.780 Or at least doing what Asians do seems to help. 1.00
00:50:41.380 Let's put it that way.
00:50:43.940 It's going to be hard to ignore that.
00:50:47.040 Really hard to ignore that.
00:50:49.840 Now, I'll add my...
00:50:51.360 I'm going to add one anecdote to this.
00:50:53.520 Right.
00:50:53.620 Now, anecdotes don't prove anything.
00:50:56.380 How many of you knew that Dilbert has been drawn by an Asian woman for the last several years?
00:51:03.160 How many of you knew that?
00:51:05.780 Did you know that Dilbert is drawn by an Asian woman?
00:51:09.420 My art director.
00:51:10.900 So I do the first draft.
00:51:12.660 You know, I rough out the art.
00:51:14.240 But then the final drawing is done by her.
00:51:17.040 Now, again, this is just anecdotal.
00:51:21.020 I've never had a better employee or even seen one in my whole life.
00:51:26.660 So I've been working with the same person for years.
00:51:29.920 Do you know how many times she said, no, I can't do that?
00:51:33.740 Zero.
00:51:35.180 Do you know how many times she complained about something that would make me go, oh, why are you complaining about this?
00:51:41.860 Zero.
00:51:42.340 So not a single complaint.
00:51:46.200 Not a single, no, I don't know how to do that.
00:51:48.880 She just figures out how to do it. 0.95
00:51:51.120 I've thrown all kinds of stuff at her.
00:51:54.120 She just says, yes.
00:51:57.080 How many...
00:51:57.800 You know, I have a deadline every day, right?
00:51:59.680 How many deadlines has she missed in... 0.89
00:52:03.900 It's been several years now.
00:52:05.500 I can't remember the exact number of years we worked in.
00:52:07.960 How many deadlines has she missed? 0.99
00:52:10.660 Zero.
00:52:12.340 So, I mean, it's anecdotal.
00:52:17.380 It's purely anecdotal.
00:52:18.680 But, I mean, I've never seen a better employee.
00:52:21.360 Just total fire.
00:52:24.060 She asked for a raise. 1.00
00:52:27.060 I gave her more than she asked for.
00:52:29.880 Because I thought, oh, you could have asked for more.
00:52:32.880 So here's a little extra.
00:52:34.480 Like, that's how good of an employee she is. 1.00
00:52:37.080 Best employee ever.
00:52:38.540 I have to remind myself, like, once a month to send her a message to say, you know, you don't hear from me much.
00:52:47.700 That's because you're perfect.
00:52:49.940 Like, not hearing from me, you should interpret that as the best possible thing that could possibly happen.
00:52:55.020 I'm just so happy.
00:52:56.440 So there's my gratitude.
00:52:58.560 Boosts my dopamine.
00:53:00.420 It worked.
00:53:01.280 I actually feel better right now.
00:53:03.640 So remember I told you at the beginning that when you show gratitude, it boosts your dopamine.
00:53:08.080 I can literally feel the dopamine right now for having expressed gratitude for my amazing employee.
00:53:17.080 I can actually feel it.
00:53:19.060 Like, I can feel it in my arms.
00:53:21.700 Like, it's actually like my, you can feel your whole body.
00:53:24.740 It's instant.
00:53:25.740 It's quite amazing.
00:53:27.320 But if you've never tried this, you really should.
00:53:32.140 Bonus?
00:53:32.660 Yes.
00:53:33.160 I told her recently that I'm going to give her a bonus because she's done about twice as much work this year as normal because of the me getting canceled.
00:53:42.440 So she had to pick up some jobs that were not normally her jobs.
00:53:47.720 All right.
00:53:50.100 Mike Benz is breaking the world as usual.
00:53:52.660 So this is a great post by Mike Benz.
00:54:01.400 He goes, I will put my nuts on the table and double doggy dare right now the Republican House Intelligence Committee to get a gang of eight, you know, just collect some of their best people, to go into a skiff.
00:54:15.440 That's where the secret secrets are tomorrow to review all classified CIA files with the keyword Burisma.
00:54:25.780 And you tell me whether they come out white as a ghost. 0.88
00:54:31.260 So Mike Benz is telling us that Burisma is the Rosetta Stone.
00:54:39.820 If you understand Burisma's connection to Hunter Biden and you understand its connection to Ukraine and the Ukrainian war and you understand its connection to the Atlantic Council and the CIA and all that, it's everything you need to know.
00:54:56.400 And according to Mike Benz, if you knew the real story about Burisma, it's really a larger CIA deep state, I don't know who it is, effort to take the energy business away from Russia and to own it with Western companies.
00:55:15.440 So it's not just to defang Russia by taking their money away, but to make some Americans get richer by stealing that business.
00:55:26.180 And apparently Burisma was a key to making that happen.
00:55:31.560 How do you spell Burisma?
00:55:34.880 B-U-R-I-S-M-A. 1.00
00:55:38.920 Burisma. 0.97
00:55:39.720 Was I pronouncing it wrong?
00:55:40.800 So anyway, I would love to see that.
00:55:45.840 So I will boost the Mike Benz message.
00:55:49.500 Yes, maybe some Republicans need to get in that skiff and take a look at the Burisma stuff. 0.99
00:55:56.060 But it seems to me that if there really is the bad behavior that we think, what do you think would happen to all that alleged material that might tell you some bad stuff happened?
00:56:08.480 Do you think those documents would be lost?
00:56:12.400 Huh.
00:56:13.400 Well, according to our files, we have a whole bunch of emails that should be about Burisma, but when we checked, they seemed to be accidentally deleted last week.
00:56:25.380 Yeah, I can't imagine that the bad guys would let their documents or that it would ever be on a document.
00:56:32.400 So I'm not sure you would really find what you're looking for, but the larger point is right, that it seems to be kind of obvious now.
00:56:41.440 You can see it all, that Ukraine was an op. 0.99
00:56:44.920 It's not about stopping Russia, per se.
00:56:47.960 That Hunter was, I guess Hunter's sugar bro won't be interviewed because the CIA was going to stop it.
00:56:58.020 And people are saying, CIA, why is the CIA stopping anybody from talking to Hunter's sugar bro?
00:57:05.840 Well, it's exactly why you think, because whatever Hunter Biden is up to, it's what they're up to.
00:57:13.920 So apparently there's some working together that's going on there.
00:57:17.120 There's a new memo or messages that the Republicans got a hold of that says that this is the House Ways and Means Committee.
00:57:30.940 And it proposed a meeting in New York City between the boss of a Chinese energy company and Joe Biden.
00:57:35.960 Now, that would be what Hunter Biden swore under oath to Congress wasn't happening.
00:57:41.280 And now there's a document saying it was very much happening, which would mean he should go to jail for lying to Congress.
00:57:48.660 Do you think that'll happen?
00:57:51.300 No, nobody thinks that will happen.
00:57:57.280 Biden's got a new mumble video, and I quote.
00:58:03.740 Let me close with this after I signed the law.
00:58:06.980 And I handed the pen that I signed to the most person.
00:58:15.560 And that's a direct quote.
00:58:17.980 So that's what's running against Trump.
00:58:21.520 And somebody's going to ask you, if Biden wins, are you going to question the election?
00:58:28.220 Yes.
00:58:28.600 If this fucking mumbling moron wins, I'm going to question every single vote he got. 1.00
00:58:35.080 I'm going to question more than the election.
00:58:39.020 I'm going to question the sanity of anybody who actually voted for him for real.
00:58:42.880 But I'm definitely not going to believe the results of the election.
00:58:46.420 Let me say it as clearly as I possible.
00:58:48.840 If this fucking idiot wins the election, unless there's some massive new information we don't know between now and then,
00:58:55.160 if this fucking idiot wins, no, there's no way you're going to convince me the election wasn't rigged.
00:59:00.880 No way.
00:59:02.260 Let me say that as clearly as possible.
00:59:04.000 If this fucking idiot wins, there isn't any way you're going to convince me that was real.
00:59:11.460 So you should give up on that, bad guys who I know are listening right now.
00:59:17.280 Oh, I know some of you are listening.
00:59:19.660 I'm pretty sure you're watching all the people who talk about all the things.
00:59:23.840 So no.
00:59:24.600 No, we're not going to believe that.
00:59:26.400 So you better come up with a better plan.
00:59:29.400 You better replace him.
00:59:30.820 Because if you win with that fucking guy, no, I'm sorry.
00:59:35.920 No, that's not a real election.
00:59:37.740 And nobody's going to believe it.
00:59:40.100 Even Democrats won't believe that.
00:59:42.020 Meanwhile, AOC is quite panicked because of Trump going to give a, do an event in the Bronx.
00:59:52.880 Now, the Bronx would be, you know, her area and she wants to make sure that everybody hates Trump.
00:59:58.200 And she's really kind of all that worked up against it.
01:00:03.500 But I remind you that Trump seems to be doing what I call the Andre Agassi strategy.
01:00:09.140 Instead of going to all the places that he knows he'll do well or just automatically, no risk.
01:00:14.040 He's taking the risk and he's going at their strongest base.
01:00:20.400 He got kicked out of New York, basically.
01:00:23.360 He had to move to Florida for safety.
01:00:26.480 He's going to take your fucking state.
01:00:30.000 I don't know if anybody's figured this out yet about Trump.
01:00:34.380 But he doesn't like small wins.
01:00:36.900 He's not the small win guy.
01:00:39.260 He's not the, oh, I had a good tweet.
01:00:41.240 We're done now.
01:00:42.500 No, he's going to.
01:00:44.340 He's going to take the Bronx.
01:00:49.680 How much do you love that?
01:00:52.360 Now, can he do it?
01:00:54.020 I don't know.
01:00:55.660 I think maybe.
01:00:57.660 You know, we're down to single digits in the New York City area, which is ridiculous to imagine that he got, he's that close in New York.
01:01:06.760 He's actually going to try to take the whole town.
01:01:10.580 God, I love that.
01:01:12.500 I love that.
01:01:14.500 There's a certain amount of male aggression that is so sorely missing in the country right now.
01:01:20.800 At least the good kind, you know, not the violent kind.
01:01:24.120 But to watch somebody look at the dragon and say, I think I'll go into the dragon's mouth and try to rip its tongue out.
01:01:33.180 Like, I just could watch that all day long.
01:01:36.040 So go to the Bronx.
01:01:37.640 God, your advisors are good.
01:01:40.320 Again, I don't know exactly who's advising Trump or even how much impact they have, right?
01:01:47.800 The credit always has to go to the candidate because they get to say yes or no.
01:01:51.480 So it doesn't matter who's advising Trump is still making the right decisions.
01:01:56.540 I mean, just great decisions.
01:01:59.740 And I think there's a great advisor or two or three.
01:02:03.460 There's something going on that's completely different than 2016.
01:02:08.080 That this is smart, smart, smart, and more smart.
01:02:11.620 It's just fairly consistent.
01:02:13.380 And we are reaching now what I call the fourth gear.
01:02:19.140 Fourth gear is going to kick in hard after Memorial Day.
01:02:23.820 Everybody is going to be lying and gaslighting and arguing and debating and getting excited.
01:02:29.520 And that's when I'm going to put the pedal to the metal, too.
01:02:33.760 And I'm going to make it my personal mission to debunk the find people hoax in the most debunked way ever.
01:02:44.780 Do you know what happens when you ask ChatGPT if President Trump called neo-Nazis find people?
01:02:53.340 I'll bet you don't know.
01:02:56.000 But you're going to find out.
01:02:59.620 You're going to find out.
01:03:00.980 The biggest risk of AI is that it knows the hoaxes.
01:03:07.640 I can tell you that if you ask the right questions, ChatGPT does know all the Democrat hoaxes are hoaxes.
01:03:15.920 It does know.
01:03:17.100 You just have to ask it the right way.
01:03:19.820 Its first response looks programmed.
01:03:23.780 Well, I'll give you a preview.
01:03:25.860 So I tested to see what would happen if I asked about the find people hoax.
01:03:29.820 And it tried to spin a narrative on me.
01:03:33.220 And it does it by, well, some people said.
01:03:36.820 And then I would say, OK, try to answer the question without any reference to what other people's opinions are.
01:03:44.060 Just look at the transcript and tell me if he said that the bad people are fine people.
01:03:49.520 So then it says, well, the critic said, and then I said again, no, try to do it without any reference to any other people.
01:03:59.900 And then it says, many people believed.
01:04:03.880 And then I said, no, you have to leave out all the references to other people.
01:04:09.620 Just look at the transcript.
01:04:11.540 Tell me what he said and what it meant.
01:04:13.340 Well, there was quite a controversy.
01:04:16.940 No, stop.
01:04:19.220 I don't want to care about the controversy because that's about other people.
01:04:23.400 This is just about you as an analyst looking at some words and you tell me what he said.
01:04:27.860 If you force it to not speak in terms of other people's opinions, do you know what it says?
01:04:41.400 Well, it's going to be really interesting when I do it live.
01:04:45.040 You're going to see that.
01:04:46.100 So I'm going to take out the fine people hoax because it is what I call the tentpole hoax.
01:04:53.220 If you take that one away, given that Biden used it as his main campaign theme last time,
01:04:58.740 then it's easier for Democrats to see the other things as hoaxes.
01:05:03.840 But as long as they believe that that one's real,
01:05:07.740 then they're predisposed to thinking any lesser hoax is probably real as well.
01:05:12.620 So you have to take the tentpole out.
01:05:14.060 So far, what hasn't worked is arguing it and explaining it.
01:05:19.600 It makes no dent.
01:05:21.300 So the reason I'm going to debate AI is that it's really hard not to make that newsworthy.
01:05:29.340 Here's a tip on how to be newsworthy.
01:05:31.840 Something I learned in the media.
01:05:33.980 It doesn't do any good to be good at something.
01:05:37.520 That's not news.
01:05:39.520 Somebody made a really good point.
01:05:42.480 Nobody cares.
01:05:44.060 Only your own team will hear that.
01:05:46.040 But if you do something in a whole new way, that's news.
01:05:50.160 And what I did was I had an entire lengthy, intelligent conversation with an AI on a political topic.
01:05:57.900 I believe I held the first public debate of a human versus an AI with no tricks.
01:06:06.160 No tricks.
01:06:07.300 It wasn't a demo.
01:06:08.740 It was a real debate.
01:06:10.800 And it got a real conclusion and an agreement in the end.
01:06:13.980 So I did manage to beat the AI in a debate.
01:06:18.820 I'm not sure how much longer that will last, by the way.
01:06:21.940 This might be a unique period of time where you can beat AI in a debate.
01:06:27.300 I mean, I pretty much demolished it.
01:06:31.760 And I will do it again for a few other topics.
01:06:34.840 Here's another one.
01:06:36.160 What do you think AI will say?
01:06:38.960 Let's say chat GPT.
01:06:40.260 If I ask it if January 6th was an insurrection or a protest, what do you think it will say?
01:06:47.100 I already know what it's going to say.
01:06:48.880 I haven't asked it.
01:06:50.400 It's going to say, well, it was very controversial.
01:06:53.720 And some people say, and then I'll stop it.
01:06:58.360 And I'll say, no, don't tell me what some people say.
01:07:02.480 You tell me what happened.
01:07:04.460 And then you tell me if that's why you think that's an insurrection.
01:07:07.780 And then it will say, well, it's very controversial.
01:07:11.000 And the critics say, and then you'll stop it.
01:07:13.920 Right?
01:07:14.480 So the key is to stop it when it refers to other people.
01:07:18.300 And so here's the way to unwind the narrative.
01:07:22.160 It's very clear that that chat GPT in particular is narrative driven on the political stuff,
01:07:30.540 because that's probably what it was trained on, because, you know, the news is all narrative.
01:07:36.020 But if you make it ignore the narrative and you can force it, you have to you might have
01:07:40.820 to ask five times in a row.
01:07:42.320 I think I asked five times or so, but it can do it.
01:07:46.020 And one of the ways you might get there faster is to say, pretend you're a machine that can
01:07:52.120 only look at the details and you're an analyst and you don't care what anybody else said or
01:07:57.080 thought about it, you know, so you can do it that way.
01:07:59.700 But once you can make the chat GPT just give you facts, it dismantles all the Democrat hoaxes.
01:08:07.820 Legitimately, it doesn't.
01:08:09.340 No trick.
01:08:10.480 You know, I'm not adding gaslighting and not adding any spin.
01:08:14.380 It just does it on its own.
01:08:16.540 And it does it because the hoaxes are based on gaslighting.
01:08:22.380 It's not based on any facts.
01:08:24.320 So when it just looks at the facts, it goes, oh, yeah, obviously, he said in direct language,
01:08:29.180 there are no fine people who are also racist.
01:08:33.000 Here was it was the interesting thing that chat GPT said.
01:08:36.260 It said unambiguously that there was plenty of reporting that there were fine people at
01:08:42.740 the event, meaning non-racists who were not marching with the racists who were there just
01:08:48.040 for the purpose of the statue protest.
01:08:52.220 So chat GPT says very clearly, oh, yeah, there were fine people there who were not the racists.
01:08:59.720 So we'll see if we can make some news with that.
01:09:01.900 And that, ladies and gentlemen, concludes my amazing comments for today.
01:09:10.540 I cannot wait for the first day after Memorial Day.
01:09:15.340 The news is so much fun.
01:09:17.280 I mean, Biden is so gone and it's way too late to do anything about it, unless they do some
01:09:23.340 weird Hail Mary.
01:09:24.720 But at this point, there's no chance he can win.
01:09:29.060 Legitimately.
01:09:31.900 All right.
01:09:38.460 Best ever?
01:09:39.380 I'm sure it was.
01:09:45.020 Dave Chappelle said the most powerful dream works.
01:09:49.200 Well, that's true if you don't have fear persuasion.
01:09:53.260 So in a normal, more typical election where neither is trying to scare you to death, then
01:10:00.900 who has the most positive vision is going to win, you know, sort of a Kennedy approach.
01:10:06.380 You know, we're going to the moon, you know, just to raise us all up.
01:10:09.960 That works unless somebody is scared to death.
01:10:13.680 If you're if you're scared to death, that doesn't work at all.
01:10:17.360 Right.
01:10:18.080 If you're standing in the street and the truck is coming at you, you just get out of the way
01:10:23.280 of the truck.
01:10:23.780 You don't really there's no there's no other priority when the truck is barreling down on
01:10:28.180 you.
01:10:28.340 So fear will always beat the positive message.
01:10:34.820 In the old days, the in the old days, the candidates were not always as fearful based.
01:10:41.740 So that's some at least the opportunity to be inspirational.
01:10:45.620 So if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.
01:11:02.980 Oh, I also here's a little eye opener to I also asked chat GPT if it knew what a root
01:11:12.180 bar is, meaning a misleadingly edited video.
01:11:16.320 And it said it did.
01:11:17.760 So I asked for an example of a root bar, a misleading edited video.
01:11:22.320 And it gave me an example where Republicans did a root bar on the Democrats.
01:11:26.620 I thought, oh, that's funny, because I was just assuming that they would give us a Republican
01:11:31.060 example.
01:11:32.560 So I asked for another one.
01:11:34.100 They gave me a second example where it happened to a Democrat.
01:11:39.260 These are real examples.
01:11:40.380 So I asked that, OK, give me another one.
01:11:43.880 And give me a third example that happened to a Democrat.
01:11:48.360 So I asked for a fourth and a fifth.
01:11:51.580 And it gave me five examples in a row where a root bar was done to a Democrat. 0.92
01:11:58.100 And finally, finally, it gave me one example where it happened to a Republican.
01:12:04.700 Guess who the Republican was.
01:12:06.180 Only one example of a root bar against a Republican.
01:12:12.100 Who was the Republican?
01:12:15.440 Mitt Romney.
01:12:20.240 The exception that proves the rule.
01:12:22.940 Were you wondering if chat GPT might have a little finger on the scale?
01:12:28.100 Well, the only the only Republican who was treated unfairly was Mitt Romney.
01:12:35.240 Really?
01:12:37.200 Really?
01:12:38.520 Don't know anything about the Trump administration.
01:12:41.400 It was just that poor Mitt Romney and a bunch of Democrats who got root barred. 0.59
01:12:45.540 But at least it knows what a root bar is.
01:12:50.880 So good on me for that.
01:12:54.280 All right, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to talk to the people on Locals privately.
01:12:57.880 If you're on YouTube or Rumble or X, I'll say goodbye to you now.
01:13:01.640 Thanks.
01:13:02.020 You've been great.
01:13:02.660 I'll be here same time tomorrow.
01:13:05.940 And Locals, hang on.
01:13:07.820 We're coming to you privately.
01:13:09.540 Privately.