Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2499 CWSA 06⧸08⧸24

00:00:00.000 All right. Well, welcome to Coffee with Scott Adams, the best place in the world. If you'd

00:00:06.100 like to take this experience, this Saturday experience, up to levels that nobody can even

00:00:10.540 understand with their smooth, tiny human brains, all you need for that is a cuppa, a mug, or a

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00:00:20.860 favorite liquid. I like coffee. Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of dopamine. At the end of

00:00:26.140 the day, the thing that makes everything better, it's called the simultaneous sip and happens.

00:00:29.560 Now go. Oh, so good. So, so good. Well, as some of you already know, apparently, it's my birthday,

00:00:44.780 67 years young today. And let me tell you, let me give you some perspective.

00:00:56.140 of my age is really different than I thought it would be. I don't know what I expected about

00:01:05.360 being this age, but it's not anything like I imagined it to be. It's way better. You know,

00:01:10.840 it has its challenges, of course, but it's way better than you think it would be. So if you're

00:01:16.140 25 and you're saying, oh, no, it's going to be so terrible when I'm in my 60s, maybe, I mean,

00:01:23.520 can't guarantee anything, but there are plenty of people my age who are happier than they've ever

00:01:28.400 been, which defies all observation and common sense. But there it is. It's true.

00:01:35.200 Well, I don't, I'm not the only person with the birthday today. I share the birthday with

00:01:42.920 Kanye, yay, and also Ashley Biden. I think, well, I think so anyway. Let me tell you a little story

00:01:55.140 about yesterday that's going to make you happy or potentially. So I've got to reframe where I

00:02:03.940 start to understand my moods as being simply dopamine shortages. Now it might be some other

00:02:10.220 chemical, but I just use dopamine as the catch-all. So yesterday I had a really long day, started to

00:02:16.600 work at, I don't know, 3.30 in the morning, something like that. Not too unusual for me.

00:02:21.480 And I was really just hitting it all day long. And I didn't do any exercise. I went to ride my e-bike

00:02:29.900 that, you know, I planned my whole day around it. And just when I was ready to go, I had the tires

00:02:36.620 filled. I accidentally ripped the stem out of the tire and, well, that was the end of my exercise

00:02:43.140 plans. So I found myself suddenly in this deep, deep funk. You know, some would call it a depression.

00:02:55.000 Some would say sad. Some would say I have no energy. But I've started to define it as simply

00:03:00.560 as being low on dopamine. And when you do that, it tells you how to fix it. So I'm sitting there and

00:03:08.020 I'm thinking, oh God, you know, I just want to like fall off a cliff. Somewhat instantly, you know,

00:03:14.020 because the rest of my day was great. But just when the dopamine hit that level where it's just too

00:03:18.960 low, you just can't be happy. So thanks to a lifetime of habit building, I managed to engineer

00:03:28.860 my way out. And I did it a little bit at a time. First is, how do you even get out of your chair?

00:03:36.780 So for that, I use the pinky trick. If you can move your pinky, you can probably move your hand.

00:03:42.820 If you can move your hand, your arm will move. And then you can stand up. So you just get yourself

00:03:46.920 going by moving the smallest muscle and let that build. So that's how you get up. Now, that's just

00:03:55.300 a trick. Now, luckily I had enough mental, you know, mental wherewithal that I knew that I could

00:04:01.240 use the trick. So now I'm up. So the first thing I know is that motion creates dopamine. So I've got

00:04:08.440 to walk. I got to at least walk around, do a chore or something like that. So I decided I'll walk around

00:04:13.820 and look for my dog and I'll give her some love because, you know, I can get a little dopamine from

00:04:20.240 that. So now I'm up. I'm moving. That's dopamine. Playing with the dog. That's dopamine. And then,

00:04:27.880 you know, I'm just getting more active and doing a bunch of things and eating some food that wasn't

00:04:32.400 bad for me. And next thing you know, all good. So it was as simple as identifying that I was low on a

00:04:43.580 chemical and then saying, what causes that chemical to go up? Oh, I can go outdoors. So I went outdoors

00:04:51.420 and it was exactly the way it was supposed to work. If you do these things, your dopamine goes up

00:04:59.020 and then your mind fixes itself. It was exactly the way it was supposed to work. So I recommend that.

00:05:08.620 Move your pinky to get up, do some moving, grab a dog, go outside, eat something that's healthy.

00:05:16.800 You might know that my book, God's Debris, is now out. And this is, if you've heard the name

00:05:25.140 God's Debris before, because it's a classic that I wrote a few decades ago, back when it was this

00:05:31.060 little book, it now includes the little book plus the bigger book, well, not the bigger book, but the

00:05:36.360 sequel, plus a new short story that completes the arc. Now, I don't want to brag. That's a lie.

00:05:47.920 I love to brag. I just like to make it look like I couldn't help it. So you know how if you win a

00:05:55.300 Nobel Prize, you might, maybe you just have one good year that you win the Nobel Prize. You're always

00:06:02.020 a Nobel Prize winner. If you win an Academy Award, even if it's just one movie in one role. Well,

00:06:09.700 you're always an Academy Award winner. Am I right? That's just the way it works. Well, it works that

00:06:16.140 way with books, too. If you're ever a number one bestseller, you're always a bestselling author.

00:06:23.820 They can never take it away from you. And with God's Debris, it's in many different categories,

00:06:29.240 because it spreads across philosophy and science fiction and metaphysics and religion. And it's

00:06:37.440 like five, six different categories. And I was checking out how it was doing. It's number one

00:06:42.440 in all of its relevant categories already. But one of the categories was the same category that Amazon

00:06:49.520 puts the Holy Bible. So for just a little while, my book was number one on one of the Amazon lists

00:06:59.720 that included the Bible, which was running at number eight.

00:07:05.900 So I mean, I don't want to get ahead of myself. But as a factual matter,

00:07:10.440 I'm just going to state it as factual. I don't want to add any hyperbole to it.

00:07:16.060 But for a short period of time, I sold more books than God. Now, I'm not saying not overall,

00:07:26.340 not overall. Overall, God beats me like hands down. It's like a billion to one, right? But just for

00:07:33.440 a moment, just that little slice of time, sold more books than God. So I just want to put that out

00:07:43.940 there. You can never take that away from me, just like anything else. All right. Oh, by the way,

00:07:51.960 if you tried to order the book, the hardcover, it's going to tell you that it's not available

00:07:55.940 to December, but that's a glitch. It is available. We'll fix the glitch. You could wait for that.

00:08:03.500 But I think you'd be fine ordering it anyway, because the glitch will get fixed and you'll get

00:08:07.880 it faster than December. Should only take a week or something like that. Anyway, the CEO of Zoom wants

00:08:15.120 to create AI digital clones that can go to meetings for you. So you'll have a digital clone and you just

00:08:22.500 do a Zoom call and you don't even have to be there. Your clone will do it. Now, is it my imagination or

00:08:31.480 as reality finally caught up to Dilbert Comics? Because I'm pretty sure I've done this Dilbert

00:08:36.900 comic a few times. In various forms, Wally has figured out how to use AI and remote work to not

00:08:47.200 work. So yes, in Dilbert's world, they will be creating a Zoom AI before the actual Zoom company

00:08:55.840 does. Probably as early as this coming week. Well, meanwhile, the American College of Pediatricians

00:09:05.440 just put out a statement saying that they're calling on all the major medical associations

00:09:11.320 and they name them each by name to stop doing the gender transition stuff. And they said,

00:09:19.520 immediately stop the promotion of social affirmation, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones,

00:09:25.120 and surgeries for children, blah, blah, blah. And the reasoning is that the science is coming in

00:09:30.720 and the science seems to suggest fairly unambiguously that the childhood transitions

00:09:37.280 are more bad than good. Now, here's what I'd like to suggest. I wonder if you've noticed a trend.

00:09:47.280 Have you noticed a trend where the idiots on the X platform are three years ahead of the 0.99

00:09:54.860 highest, most qualified scientists and healthcare professionals in the world? 1.00

00:10:00.380 That's not my imagination, right? Because, correct me if I'm wrong, every idiot on social media knew 0.99

00:10:08.760 this was a bad idea and knew it was bad for kids. And it took science how many years? How many years did 1.00

00:10:17.040 it take science to figure out this was a bad idea? Maybe you should cut it out? And it's not like

00:10:22.880 that's the only example where the people on X as sort of an average got the right answer years before the

00:10:30.880 experts. You want to hear another one? Nuclear power. Nuclear energy is now acceptable basically to everybody.

00:10:40.560 And the greenies are loving it. They're lapping it up. That took X probably five years of people who

00:10:49.440 just sort of looked into it on their own, you know, plus listening to people who are smarter than us,

00:10:54.320 you know. And we got it right. So X was maybe three to five years ahead of, you know,

00:11:04.480 the people who are supposed to be smart on this topic. How about the pandemic? Now we know what

00:11:12.620 science did versus what the people on X just sort of guessed was true. The people were just guessing

00:11:21.200 collectively. Now I'm using that for hyperbole. They were doing their own research as well. But

00:11:28.240 the average person on X got the right answers about the pandemic way before the experts.

00:11:34.000 Why? Because science isn't science anymore. It's just followed the money.

00:11:38.880 If you ever thought science was real, maybe it was, you know, back when Newton was doing it.

00:11:45.520 Galileo, that was probably pretty real. But now it's just whatever your boss wants to fund,

00:11:50.880 you know, whatever you can get a grant for. So at the moment, science is completely broken.

00:11:55.440 But the collective wisdom of social media on X at least is picking up the slack. So the rabble,

00:12:06.720 you know, the unwashed masses were right about trans kids, transitioning kids too early. 1.00

00:12:14.880 Nuclear power, right about the pandemic. I wonder if they'll be right about anything else.

00:12:20.560 How about our food supply? Do you think the experts have come out and said, whoa, whoa, whoa,

00:12:26.560 stop eating all this wheat and stop eating these processed foods? Well, we do hear experts saying

00:12:32.560 that. But you know what our experts haven't said? Stop eating this shit. It's poison.

00:12:39.600 But on the internet, we say that, right? Where's your nutritionist who says,

00:12:45.200 no, don't ever eat ice cream? No, one Diet Coke a week is not good for you. Zero is the right number.

00:12:53.600 Right? No. I would say that even though there's a, there's more of a Venn, you know, crossover in this

00:13:00.000 case, I would say the public is way ahead of the science on nutrition and probably has been for a long

00:13:06.480 time. Probably has been. Um, they we've, there's also a study that says that, uh, the fewer calories

00:13:17.120 you eat, the longer you live. So that just came out to which everybody on the internet said, um,

00:13:24.720 you've been telling us that for what, 20 or 30 years. That's one of the oldest, most well-known

00:13:30.480 scientific facts that if you starve mice, as long as they're not starved to death, they live longer.

00:13:36.880 We all knew that. You know how else I knew it without any science? I've never seen a fat 80 year old.

00:13:46.320 And we're done. How much science do you need if you've never seen a fucking fat 80 year old? 1.00

00:13:52.000 Do you have to really wonder if the weight is going to kill you? Obviously you've never even seen 1.00

00:13:58.720 a fat 80 year old, which brings me to Dick Van Dyke who just got a Emmy at the age of 98,

00:14:05.360 which is awesome. How fat is 98 year old Dick Van Dyke? Not at all. He has zero fat on him

00:14:12.640 and he's 98. Is it a coincidence? Nope.

00:14:18.480 Because if he were 300 pounds, he wouldn't be with us winning any Emmys at age 98.

00:14:23.520 So if the public has been a head of science and all those things, which I think you'd agree with me,

00:14:31.840 what about the public's view on climate change? Now, when I say the public, I mean,

00:14:38.000 sort of the, the people on X that I interact with, they've been saying climate change is sketchy for

00:14:44.240 a long time. Do you think they're right? Of course they are. Of course they are. I don't

00:14:49.600 know if the warm planet's getting warmer. That's, you know, separate question from whether the science

00:14:54.480 is BS. The science is definitely BS, but maybe the, maybe at the same time, coincidentally,

00:15:00.400 the earth is getting warmer, but the, the, the climate models are absurd. How long will it take

00:15:07.760 before science tells you, you know, we can't really do anything with this number of variables?

00:15:12.960 You can't, you can't really figure out what's happening in the future. Nobody can tell the

00:15:16.960 future. Yeah. It'll take a few years, but they'll get there. And about election denial. So the experts

00:15:25.440 are telling us that the election had to be clean because every time somebody took something to court,

00:15:32.240 they were rejected for a cause for, you know, usually standing or something like that. So

00:15:38.640 the people who are the smart people are telling us that you can know something doesn't exist

00:15:43.600 via the process of not looking for it. Now that sounds ridiculous, but it's something that no regular

00:15:50.480 person thinks is true. Only the experts say it. All the people on TV, the ones who are telling us 0.71

00:15:56.560 what's true. Yeah. We, we know there's, there's no rigging because we didn't look for it.

00:16:02.240 Now I'm exaggerating a little bit, but not a lot. That's basically what's happening. So I think the

00:16:10.720 public's going to be ahead on election security and climate change and already ahead on all those other

00:16:17.200 things. And right now, this is amazing. Just try to wrap your head around this next story in the context

00:16:29.360 of what I just told you. This is a new story. I swear to God, this is today.

00:16:36.080 US doctors are coordinating to look into if the unusual spike in cancer after the pandemic is

00:16:43.520 caused by the vaccinations. To which few say, wait a minute, what? Are you only just now thinking that

00:16:51.840 the excess deaths need to be looked into in the context of the vaccinations?

00:16:57.120 That's something that the general public has been screaming about for the whole time.

00:17:03.360 And the doctors are just like, you know what? I've got an idea. Why don't we look into whether

00:17:09.040 the vaccinations are causing any of this excess deaths? What is wrong with the world that the,

00:17:15.360 the experts are just consistently way behind the public?

00:17:18.320 And so they're banding together to research that. Okay. Here's what I'd like to know.

00:17:30.720 I have an alternative hypothesis. I do think the vaccinations causing excess deaths hypothesis

00:17:37.920 is a strong hypothesis. I would consider it not proven largely because I don't believe any data that I

00:17:44.720 ever see about the pandemic. Um, but I wouldn't be surprised. I mean, it's well within the top three

00:17:53.520 possibilities of what's going on, right? One possibility is that the data is wrong. You know,

00:17:59.920 maybe there's something about how we counted things before the pandemic that changed. I don't know.

00:18:06.400 Maybe, but let me, let me offer another, um,

00:18:10.240 another possibility that I haven't seen anybody else mentioned. I think that when the food supply was at

00:18:18.560 risk and it looked like the food supply was going to collapse, I think either farmers got more creative

00:18:27.840 or the government made them be more creative in doing whatever they could to boost production because

00:18:33.680 it looked like we'd have a problem. One of those things that boosts production is using a, a weed killer.

00:18:42.640 So you kill the wheat. So it, I guess that dries it out faster so you can harvest it faster.

00:18:47.760 So instead of just letting the wheat, you know, grow its normal way and then getting it when it's ready,

00:18:53.280 they sort of kill it with weed killer. So there's ready earlier.

00:18:57.920 Now, some say that that weed killer is the reason that you can't eat wheat in the United States without

00:19:02.800 inflammation and other problems. But if you went to Europe where they don't do that,

00:19:07.360 you won't have that problem. Now, knowing what I know about just the way systems and governments and

00:19:14.480 businesses work, don't you think there was pressure from the government on farmers, at least the big

00:19:21.600 farmers to make sure that they did everything they could do and maybe even bend some, bend some rules.

00:19:28.720 Maybe they, maybe they got permission to use more of that. Maybe they went a little hard on it

00:19:34.560 because they could maybe. So I would look into the, any change in the food supply that happened at the

00:19:41.200 same time as the pandemic, because we know our food is killing us. So if something changed because of the

00:19:47.760 supply uncertainty, which would be a normal thing to expect, supply uncertainty should cause you to

00:19:55.680 loosen up your restrictions to make sure you have supply because that would seem like a bigger

00:20:00.400 priority than, you know, maybe there's some problem with the supply.

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00:21:05.280 for details. Please play responsibly. Well, I've said provocatively that all the smart people who don't

00:21:10.880 have TDS now support Trump. I'll give you some examples. You got your David Sachs, your Chamath,

00:21:16.960 Paulette, your Elon Musk, your Russell Brand. What do they all have in common? Used to be Democrats.

00:21:23.680 What else do they have in common? They're the smart ones. They're the ones who are not drawn entirely by

00:21:30.480 picking a side. They're the ones who can look at a startup and say, this is a good investment or not.

00:21:37.360 They're the logical ones. And I was thinking to myself, okay, I keep hearing all these examples,

00:21:43.440 you know, Bill Ackman, one of the Blackstone people, some other, a couple other VCs have

00:21:50.240 recently come on board. Yeah, those are just the ones they mentioned. I mean, when Sachs did his big

00:21:56.400 fundraiser in San Francisco, of all places, for Trump, he had a huge turnout and sold out. And the

00:22:03.360 people there were there to donate to Trump. And he would be, he would have been picking from the

00:22:09.680 richest, smartest people in Silicon Valley. Now, you're going to say to me, but Scott,

00:22:16.080 it works both ways. It's not just people who have been lifelong Democrats. And by the way,

00:22:21.200 I'm one of those. I'm a lifelong Democrat who I can't even consider voting for Biden. That would be

00:22:28.160 ridiculous. But people say, but it must work both ways, right? Surely there are people who are 0.65

00:22:35.600 Republicans who are now all in for Biden. For example, there's Anthony Scaramucci.

00:22:46.320 So Anthony Scaramucci, who got fired in his first week from the White House, I'm not sure I'm going to

00:22:53.760 count somebody who got fired by the person he doesn't want to vote for. Right? If somebody fires

00:22:59.280 you, your odds of voting for them go way down. So it's always like a special case. When you see a

00:23:06.320 Republican defecting to vote Democrat, you're like, I think maybe there's something else going on there.

00:23:12.880 But when you see the Democrats defect to being Trump supporters, at least for now,

00:23:18.800 that's not based on emotion. That's based on analysis. And it's going to be harder and harder to

00:23:26.480 miss that all the smart people are on the same side. Now, if you have a counter example, I'd love to

00:23:34.400 see it. For example, is Rob Reiner one of the smart people? No. Is Stephen King one of the smart people?

00:23:42.960 Well, based on his posting on X, no. So there are plenty of people who are famous who don't like

00:23:51.280 Trump. But how many of them would you say are objectively smart? Now, there are a whole bunch

00:23:57.680 of smart people that you think might vote Democrat, but they're kind of quiet, kind of quiet. Let me pick

00:24:05.600 one. Warren Buffett. Warren Buffett, lifelong Democrat. Has he been talking about how much

00:24:13.360 he loves Biden and you better vote for him? I don't think I've heard that. No. Now, he's not super

00:24:20.080 political. So that's not it's not unusual that he wouldn't. But if you if you talk to Warren Buffett

00:24:26.320 behind closed doors, who do you think he supports? Who do you think? Now, I don't know. But there's

00:24:36.640 nobody smart. That I'm aware of literally nobody. Smart supporting him. Now, I say that partly to be

00:24:50.320 provocative. Because it'll cause people to say, what about this person? And what about that person?

00:24:58.240 But I want to have that conversation. If I'm wrong, I'd actually like to know that that would change my

00:25:03.440 thinking a little bit. If I found out that the people that I thought were the smartest people

00:25:09.680 were on the other side for me, I usually change my mind. If Alan Dershowitz disagreed with me,

00:25:16.080 I'd think about that hard. But he doesn't. Smart, lifelong Democrat? Nope.

00:25:26.000 How do I make that stop? I'm getting birthday wishes during the show, and that's going to be a

00:25:31.920 problem. All right. What about Bill Maher? Now, Bill Maher, I consider smart. I know that if we want

00:25:38.560 to be political, you like to think everybody who disagrees with you is dumb. But he's clearly smart. 0.99

00:25:43.840 However, he has the worst case of TDS any of us have ever seen. So that goes to my point. That if

00:25:52.400 you're smart and not having a mental problem, or you weren't personally fired by him, you're all on

00:25:59.520 the same side now. You really are. The exceptions are as funny as the ones that are more clear, I guess.

00:26:08.720 So here's something that Bill Maher said on the show. He said, Trump is winning on the border.

00:26:14.400 But he pointed out that that doesn't make sense. He acted like the Republicans are being irrational

00:26:20.320 for supporting Trump on the border because he says it was Trump's big issue and he failed to build the

00:26:26.080 wall. And that was his signature thing. So smart guy, Bill Maher, thinks it makes sense to say

00:26:34.240 that he doesn't understand why they would vote for Trump when he didn't get this done the first time.

00:26:42.320 Bill, do you know why it didn't get done the first time?

00:26:45.600 That was the Democrats that stopped it. It wasn't the Republicans. Bill, you do this for a living.

00:26:55.440 How can you say that was Trump's fault? Now, if you were to say, but why would it be different this

00:27:01.040 time? Well, I don't know that it'll be different this time, but I know that John Fetterman might vote

00:27:06.320 for the fucking wall. Do you hear me? I'm pretty sure that what seemed like a crazy wall idea to 0.99

00:27:15.760 all Democrats before now sounds like a much better idea suddenly, doesn't it? Doesn't that wall idea

00:27:22.480 look pretty good now? So Bill, everything's changed toward the direction that would make it possible to

00:27:29.680 build the wall. You got one person who's balls to the wall on the wall. One person who tried to tear

00:27:36.240 it down, well, did, got rid of all the EOs. How is this a hard decision? And why are you confused,

00:27:44.800 Bill Maher, that any Republican would want the person who's going to try really, really hard to get it done

00:27:50.960 in a new environment in which it's probably possible now? Is that a clear-headed analysis by him?

00:28:00.000 It's not. It's crazy. But he limits his crazy to just like this domain, because this obviously

00:28:08.640 feels personal in some way, I guess. But he does say, he says, I know Biden has a bad memory,

00:28:18.880 but he can't expect the American people to forget four years of calling Trump's border policies and

00:28:23.360 wall a racist, and four years of tearing down Trump's border policies for more migrant-friendly

00:28:28.320 policies. So he's, at least Bill Maher understands that the border needs to be closed, right? Again,

00:28:36.560 he's a smart person. He just has this weird TDS about Trump. All right, I'm going to do the last

00:28:42.880 smart person who favors Trump. You ready? Here's a quote from Putin. Putin said, and he's talking

00:28:52.080 about the lawfare against Trump. He says, it is obvious all over the world that the prosecution

00:28:57.440 of Trump is simply the utilization of the judicial system during an internal political struggle.

00:29:03.680 There are supposed leadership in the sphere of democracy is being burned to the ground.

00:29:07.680 God, I wish we had a president who could talk as well as our enemy.

00:29:21.440 Do you think Putin summed it up pretty well there? Yeah, he did. Is he our enemy, so we should be

00:29:29.440 careful what he says? Yes, yes. Of course, he says things for effect, not just because he thinks they're

00:29:35.200 true. So you don't want to side with Putin here. I don't want to become a Russian puppet. But do you

00:29:43.360 think that other leaders are having maybe similar thoughts? How could they not? How could any leader

00:29:52.080 in any civilized country be looking at what's happening here and have any thought that that's

00:29:57.840 anything but the end of democracy? Or at least, you know, a body blow? Yeah, we all see it now.

00:30:10.320 All right.

00:30:14.480 I wonder why I can't turn that off.

00:30:16.160 If you're watching the show, please don't. Please don't message me right now. I'm using my phone

00:30:30.560 for the show. All right. So this Just the News is reporting, the website Just the News. There's a

00:30:41.280 federal court in Texas that ordered the Department of Agriculture to stop discriminating against farmers

00:30:47.760 on the basis of race and sex when awarding disaster relief.

00:30:55.120 Now, it wasn't long ago when you saw this story, you would think, whoa, they're really discriminating

00:31:00.720 against, you know, black farmers and, you know, maybe LGBTQ farmers or something. But it's the opposite. 1.00

00:31:07.920 They were doing their disaster relief specifically targeted toward black farmers. Now, there was a

00:31:13.920 there was a historical justification. So it's sort of in the reparations domain. There is some history

00:31:23.120 of black farmers being totally screwed by the government. So I think that's a real thing, historically, 0.97

00:31:29.280 that the black farmers were totally screwed. So I think this was a an attempt to compensate for that. 1.00

00:31:36.640 But it's racist. Because the white farmers aren't getting 0.57

00:31:45.360 emergency aid, disaster relief. Since when do we do disaster relief based on race?

00:31:52.320 That's so wrong. Even though I get the justification, I get the justification. And they're probably living

00:32:00.800 people who are, you know, were impacted by that discrimination of the past. So that's a real

00:32:06.800 thing. I take that seriously. But no, you don't deny disaster relief to white people in the modern times

00:32:13.120 to make up for that. There's got to be something else, but not that. So anyway,

00:32:21.600 I feel like there that white people, white men especially, are living through this weird period of

00:32:28.480 discrimination that doesn't have a label. Like we say, it's wokeness and DEI. But it needs some kind of

00:32:37.040 like a Jim Crow kind of a name, you know, where everybody's like, ah, that's Jim Crow's situation.

00:32:43.760 But it needs, I think I'd call it the Scott Adams situation. Jim Crow's taken.

00:32:48.960 Jim Crow, by the way, I believe was a minstrel character who acted stereotypically, you know, racist, 0.95

00:32:59.440 black. So that's, that's where that law came from. Or that's where the, the name for the law came from.

00:33:06.800 Anyway, Don Lemon had a podcast with Sam Harris. And I recommend it. It was really interesting,

00:33:16.880 especially one part where Don Lemon was arguing that there's, you know, massive discrimination

00:33:23.120 against black people still in this country. And you can see it easily by the few black CEOs. 1.00

00:33:31.120 Sam Harris said, um, we actually live in a, I'm paraphrasing of course, in a time where it's

00:33:37.520 a gigantic advantage to be a black person applying for a job. And he had to explain it to Don Lemon.

00:33:43.840 And I don't think Don Lemon had ever heard it before. So he'd been living in a country where

00:33:48.880 he thought that he was being discriminated against for 30 years when it had been aggressively the

00:33:54.160 opposite for 30 years and never noticed. Well, I noticed when I kept losing all my jobs.

00:34:02.160 Are there any white men who've noticed in the last 30 years that the system is aggressively

00:34:08.560 against white men and any white men who've maybe noticed, but Don Lemon didn't know that.

00:34:16.320 What was his job? I believe his job was to tell you the news and he didn't know probably the biggest

00:34:23.360 dynamic in the corporate world that white men were being passed over for 30 years for promotion.

00:34:30.080 He didn't know that.

00:34:30.800 So Sam Harris did a good job of dismantling that belief, um, while he stood there, just

00:34:38.720 sort of not knowing how to respond. And I thought that was really amazing. So remember,

00:34:46.320 I told you that all the smart people are pro Trump, unless they have TDS.

00:34:52.640 Is Sam Harris a smart person? Yes. Yes. You can say whatever you want about his Trump stuff,

00:34:59.280 because that's pure TDS. We all see it. You don't have to be a professional. You don't need a degree

00:35:04.880 in psychology to watch Sam, Sam Harris talk and to know that there's something going on there that's

00:35:11.680 outside the realm of reason. But in every other realm, he's often the smartest guy in the room. So

00:35:22.560 even when there's an exception, the exception has the obvious reason for it, which is TDS. But all the

00:35:28.400 smart people who don't have TDS are on the same side at this point. All right, here's something

00:35:33.440 that you're not going to like, but I finally figured out how to say it. So you'll be a little

00:35:37.600 less bad. I saw the end wokeness account who I recommend very much. I retweet his stuff and talk

00:35:44.480 about it all the time. End wokeness is the name of the account. If you follow me and you're also an ex,

00:35:52.720 you definitely want to follow that account. It's just one of the most high value accounts.

00:35:57.440 End wokeness, all one word. Anyway, you've shown some statistics. And if you were to rank

00:36:05.600 what demographics have the highest percentage of single parents, according to this statistic,

00:36:12.480 black families, 64% of them have a single parent, Latino 42, white 24, Asian 16.

00:36:19.760 And that matches up perfectly with incarceration rates. They follow that same pattern. But it also

00:36:28.320 is, and it also follows the inverse by income. So the more likely you are to have two parents,

00:36:35.840 the higher your income, the more likely to have one parent, the more likely you're in jail.

00:36:40.240 So here's my point. The implication of this is that marriage is so strongly correlated with success

00:36:59.920 that people should get married more, right? Does that make sense to you? How many of you would you

00:37:05.760 agree if we have the clearest, clear signal that married people, they live longer? They actually

00:37:12.320 live longer. They have better health, more income, less jail, just everything. The numbers are

00:37:20.240 overwhelmingly obvious every time it's been measured. So therefore we should encourage more

00:37:25.040 marriage. Do you agree? How many would agree with the statement we should encourage more marriage

00:37:30.560 because it's so correlated with success? Oh, I've primed you too well. You're too good.

00:37:40.320 I think now you're all the smart ones. You're the smart ones. You're the elite now.

00:37:45.840 Yeah. Here's what's wrong with it. Let me give you some other examples that sound like this to my mind.

00:37:53.680 It's better to be tall because tall people earn more money and have more mating options. 1.00

00:38:00.240 Therefore, we should encourage people to be taller.

00:38:05.120 Are you good with that? Now you're going to say to me, but Scott, that's not practical.

00:38:10.400 A person can't just get taller. That's my point. That's my point. Let me take another way you maybe

00:38:19.760 could understand why the people who are the single parents also have the lowest income and things are

00:38:27.280 going wrong. Don't you think there's a correlation between who you'd want to marry and who you'd be

00:38:34.720 willing to hire? Tell me those aren't the same thing. You can't. It's the same sorting. It's the

00:38:43.120 same filter. I mean, not exactly the same, but the Venn diagram is pretty overlapping.

00:38:50.000 Isn't the most reasonable thing you could ever believe. Let me put it in funnier terms. You'll

00:38:57.200 remember it if I put it in the joke. If nobody wants to marry you, who the wants to hire you? 0.99

00:39:06.400 Am I right? And I'm going to add another thing. Do you know why people are single?

00:39:12.880 Do you think they chose it? Do you think they chose to be single? No. Let me speak from

00:39:19.120 personal experience as a single person. I'm single because nobody wants to marry me.

00:39:24.240 It wasn't my choice. It was a choice of approximately three and a half billion women. 1.00

00:39:32.320 They all got together and decided, no, thanks. Don't want any of that. Now I'm exaggerating a

00:39:38.000 little bit. I'm sure I could find somebody in the bush in some remote country who didn't know enough

00:39:44.480 about me. No, the obvious correlation is that there's something wrong with the individuals.

00:39:53.200 Not genetic and not cultural. I'm just saying there's something wrong, but it doesn't have to do with

00:40:03.680 that marriage is good or marriage is bad. My take is this. Marriage is the best system for about 25% of 0.75

00:40:11.360 the public. If they're lucky enough to find that one great person. Have you seen the on social media,

00:40:18.400 there are all these people doing really the same content in which they say, all right,

00:40:23.760 women all say they want a guy over six feet tall and makes six figures and blah, blah, blah. And then 1.00

00:40:29.600 they do the math and they find that the number of men who are single and the right marriageable age

00:40:35.120 and over six feet tall and have that income ends up to be like 1% or some crazy number.

00:40:44.400 And that's before you add drug addict.

00:40:48.560 It's before you add personality. It's before you add mental illness.

00:41:00.160 Right? So we've created a world where we're completely unhappy with each other,

00:41:06.640 which doesn't have to do with your genes or your culture. We've individually become terrible.

00:41:11.760 And I'm not saying, you know, sometimes you hear me say that women have gotten worse,

00:41:18.080 but so have men. I mean, I don't know how you'd compare the two in their worseness,

00:41:23.040 but we have individually become unfuckable and unmarriageable. All of us. We're all unmarriageable.

00:41:31.600 And part of it is weight. Part of it is we're on our phones. Part of it is we all have mental illness

00:41:37.120 from our phones. Part of it is we don't seem to have as, or we don't feel like we have as much

00:41:42.320 economic opportunity. We've just become people that nobody wants to marry. So just telling us

00:41:48.720 that marriage is a better deal than being single won't do anything. It's like telling you to be tall.

00:41:53.680 What do I do about it? So I agree with you. Having a perfect partner in a long-term relationship,

00:42:01.600 best thing going. And I see all the relationship experts saying stuff like,

00:42:07.920 your number one decision, the best thing you have to get right is your marriage. Because you want the

00:42:13.760 person who's loyal forever and is definitely rooting for you to succeed and all that.

00:42:22.400 I was watching another marriage expert. So here's the battle of the dueling marriage experts.

00:42:27.680 One expert saying your most important thing is to find a woman who supports you and is your

00:42:33.200 greatest supporter. Because if you get divorced, you wrecked forever, basically.

00:42:38.800 At the same time, another relationship expert, a woman, said that she didn't used to believe that

00:42:45.200 women would try to destroy the success of their own partner. But now she does, because it's just too 1.00

00:42:52.160 obvious. So her view is that women try to tear down their partner so their partner won't feel too good 1.00

00:43:00.240 about themselves and find another partner. That in other words, the natural way of marriage is for the

00:43:06.240 woman to fatten up her husband so he can't get another girlfriend, to tell him he's trash, and to make sure 1.00

00:43:14.320 that he thinks he can't do better. Now, I've heard that husbands can do the same things to their wives. 0.98

00:43:21.040 But we've created a civilization and a set of whole bunch of different variables within our society

00:43:31.120 that make marriage a really bad idea, but only because it made people bad. We're just not the

00:43:37.840 same people we used to be. And on top of that, since we see all the Instagrammers and the beautiful people,

00:43:46.640 we think, my goodness, can I do better than that? I've been looking at these these hotties all day 1.00

00:43:51.360 long and then I go to the mall and I don't see them. Where are they?

00:43:58.640 And that, ladies and gentlemen, brings me to all except one thing you wanted me to mention,

00:44:05.600 which is there's a story about a juror on the the Trump trial. It looks like maybe my notes didn't

00:44:12.800 all print out. It seemed a little short today because I know that was on my notes, but disappeared.

00:44:20.880 So I believe that that's a hoax. I believe it's a hoax.

00:44:27.520 Has that been confirmed yet? So the idea was that Judge Mershon became aware that there was a social

00:44:33.840 media Facebook post from some stranger who said they were the cousin of a jurist and that the jurist

00:44:40.320 indicated they'd made up a decision before the jury was over, which means they would have talked to

00:44:44.240 him about it, which would have been a mistrial, which would have been a free trial, free Trump. 0.99

00:44:49.120 But the person involved appears to be a famous shit poster and there doesn't seem to be any 0.99

00:44:56.720 substance to it. So if you're getting excited about that, I'd say tone that down a little bit. 0.99

00:45:02.160 Tone it down a little bit. I feel like. How did all those notes disappear?

00:45:15.280 Oh, there's a. Oh, yeah, here's some other stuff.

00:45:19.440 So Jake Paul and Mike Tyson had their fight rescheduled. I guess Tyson had some medical stuff.

00:45:26.080 You had to delay the fight. So it's late until November 15th. And the way Tyson posted it, he said,

00:45:34.400 there's a new date for Jake's wake, new date for Jake's wake. Well, why do I why do I like Mike Tyson?

00:45:43.760 Why does everybody seem to like Mike Tyson? He's sort of the ultimate bad guy. I mean, he's done bad

00:45:49.760 things. You beat up people for a living and sometimes for fun. And, you know, I won't get

00:45:55.200 into the other accusations, but there is something. There's just something sympathetic about him

00:46:03.440 that I can't put my finger on because I I'm also fascinated by him. He's always been one of my

00:46:09.200 favorite public personalities. And I, you know, I never felt proud of that because he's done some bad

00:46:15.920 stuff. But I do like watching him and I'll probably watch this fight. It's going to be on Netflix,

00:46:20.880 November 15. Well, there's a 90 year old pilot, William Anders. He was one of the astronauts. He took

00:46:30.560 the famous Earthrise photo back in whenever he was on Apollo 8 and he crashed his plane.

00:46:37.760 Wait, he was flying a plane at 90 and he crashed it. So we don't know the details of that, but I don't

00:46:53.280 think maybe he should have been flying the plane at 90. I don't know. I don't know how that works.

00:46:58.720 Does anybody take your license away?

00:47:00.400 Yeah. Yeah. And the video, it looked like I couldn't tell from the video because it's a video

00:47:07.120 of him hitting the water and what looks like a lake or a harbor or something. And it looked like

00:47:12.960 he might have been attempting a loop or something and it didn't work out. Was he doing a trick?

00:47:20.560 It looked like he was maybe trying to do a trick and it didn't work. Or maybe he lost some power and

00:47:26.080 couldn't couldn't recover in time. But when he hit the water, he was trying to come back up.

00:47:31.200 He just got too low. Probably overweight, somebody says. Well, I'll bet you he wasn't fat

00:47:39.200 because he was 90. Have you heard about the trans whistleblower? He's not trans. He's rather a 0.99

00:47:47.600 doctor, Eaton Heim. And so he blew the whistle on a Texas Children's Hospital that is doing secret

00:47:57.280 sex change programs. Meaning secret from the parents. I think that's what that meant.

00:48:05.120 And he blew the whistle on him. Public was outraged. And of course, the Biden administration

00:48:10.480 immediately sent their goons to arrest him. Now, I think what he's being arrested for is violating,

00:48:18.400 I don't know, some health care or HIPAA confidentiality or something. But again,

00:48:23.920 I don't think the general public sees it as anything but lawfare against people they don't like.

00:48:29.200 I don't think that his arrest is legitimate. He might have broken some laws, technically.

00:48:38.000 But it looks like bullshit to me. So he's got to he's got to go fund me. You might want to think 0.96

00:48:44.160 about that. All right. Oh, yeah, there's my note about the troll.

00:48:51.920 Trump was talking about his successful fundraising with David Sachs and the folks in San Francisco.

00:48:59.280 But the way he describes it in his Trumpian way, has anybody reached this determination yourself,

00:49:07.520 that things that seem too far when Trump came on the scene, it's like that's too much bragging

00:49:13.360 or that's that's too much exaggeration. It now just seems funny and quaint and just part of his personality.

00:49:21.920 The wilder the things he says, as long as they're within within the Trump framework, you know,

00:49:28.240 things that Trump says, I love all of them. Yeah, I just love it when he stretches reality.

00:49:34.720 But this this is like a beauty. This is the most Trumpian. This is the Trumpiest Trumpy

00:49:41.920 you'll ever get. So he's talking about that fundraiser. And of course, it was all the

00:49:45.760 the smartest people in Silicon Valley. And he goes, quote, these are brilliant guys, AI guys.

00:49:52.000 So, yeah, Trump, Trump, not only, you know, it's no surprise for his age, of course,

00:50:06.240 but he's not like a technology savant or anything. But the way he simplifies, he's the best simplifier

00:50:16.880 of all time. These are brilliant guys, AI guys. And they're not really even AI guys.

00:50:24.800 You know that everybody's everybody at that level's got some investments in AI.

00:50:28.800 I'm not sure they're AI guys. Anyway.

00:50:33.360 He says, these are the guys that are doing all the things you read about.

00:50:37.040 He's so funny. And they're doing all the things you read about, which is true.

00:50:47.840 And they says he was talking to Fox News Digital, I guess. These are just a brilliant group of people.

00:50:54.080 It gets better. Hold on. This is just a brilliant group of people. And they can't relate to Biden

00:50:58.800 because he is a stupid person. And I have a high IQ. We don't need to fact check this one. Can we just enjoy it? 1.00

00:51:14.960 For the poetry that it is. I swear to God. And Trump should get a Nobel Prize in literature just for his,

00:51:23.760 just for the way he talks. Now, I don't know why it's so funny.

00:51:32.240 But, so last night I was flipping through the channels and decided to watch an old Seinfeld episode.

00:51:43.440 And I found myself laughing at a TV show for the first time in years, years. I can't remember the

00:51:50.960 last time I laughed out loud, like actually holding my gut at a TV show or a movie. Can you remember the

00:51:58.800 last time that happened? I don't. I can't. It's years. So I go back and look at this old show that

00:52:04.720 should have been extinct. You know, it should have timed out in terms of our appreciation of it.

00:52:10.560 Just a random episode. And, and I'm actually convulsed. I'm convulsing. I'm laughing so hard.

00:52:17.760 But here's the thing. If I looked at the dialogue on paper, you know, I was watching it as a writer,

00:52:23.760 you know, putting my writer filter on it. And I was imagining reading those same lines on paper.

00:52:29.680 They wouldn't really be that funny. I don't know why that thing is so funny,

00:52:34.640 but it's the same thing that Trump does. There's something about that Trump never says anything that

00:52:42.160 isn't Trump that makes it just so delicious. Like he's never talking the way you talk because that's

00:52:50.240 the way you talk. He only talks the way he talks and I could watch it all day long. But on Seinfeld,

00:52:57.760 the characters and the writing, um, even though a lot of it was like relatable,

00:53:02.640 you'd have little situations to go, Oh, that happens to me too. The way they talked and acted

00:53:07.760 wasn't like anybody talks or acts in the real world. And so it's that, that weirdness that

00:53:15.680 they never talked and acted like real people in the real world. Yet it was an exaggerated version

00:53:20.880 where they're extra selfish and stuff like that. It's just such a good formula. So, so funny.

00:53:27.280 But I think Trump's got a little of that magic as well. And then also, uh, Arizona attorney general is

00:53:35.440 going to go after, uh, the governor. So I believe they're both Democrats, but the governor is, uh,

00:53:43.280 Katie Hopkins is accused of taking bribes. Well, that would be a big surprise. We found out that 0.52

00:53:50.960 somebody was taking, taking bribes. Oh yeah, there's, I missed, I missed the best part of the show

00:54:00.800 because I missed this note. All right. I hope you stayed after I acted like I was done. The best part of

00:54:08.080 the show is, is this. You ready? Uh, first of all, let's talk about Nicole Wallace on, uh, MSNBC.

00:54:17.680 Steven Guest on X was calling this out and, uh, he notes that, uh, Nicole Wallace, before she was

00:54:24.720 on MSNBC, she was Bush's White House communications person. And then, uh, and then she was communicating,

00:54:32.240 oh, White House, then, uh, when Alito was confirmed to the Supreme Court, and then she went on some

00:54:40.240 deranged screed against justices Alito and Thomas today, according to Steve Guest. But here's what she

00:54:46.320 said, quote, the irreversible harm from the United States Supreme Court could do to the country and

00:54:52.320 democracy if they, the court, decides that the disgraced ex-president is indeed above the law.

00:54:59.360 The threat is compounded by Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, who have personal ties to the attempted

00:55:05.200 overthrow of our government. That's the news.

00:55:13.520 That's the news. None of that shit's true. Let's, let's go through this. 0.99

00:55:21.840 There will be irreversible harm if the courts find that Trump is above the law.

00:55:26.880 Is that really the question? Do you think the court's deciding if Trump personally is above the law?

00:55:34.080 No, they're talking about presidential immunity, but presidential immunity has existed forever. 0.99

00:55:40.000 So that's just crazy, bullshit, propaganda stuff. And then when she says it's compounded by Clarence 0.99

00:55:47.200 Thomas and Samuel Alito, having personal ties to the attempted overthrow of our government,

00:55:52.800 there was no attempted overthrow of the government. That is fake news. I sure hope to God the fake

00:56:00.800 news doesn't turn into fake history. Oh wait, here's the next story. As Joshua Lysak pointed out,

00:56:07.680 you saw a story in the Smithsonian. It's a magazine. The Smithsonian. You know the Smithsonian that

00:56:14.800 is a repository is a repository of our history. And he opened up the history book and he learned that

00:56:23.920 the history says that Donald Trump, quote, packed the courts and committed an insurrection. That's in

00:56:31.600 the Smithsonian document, the history of our country. Yep. He packed the courts, meaning that he

00:56:40.640 put people on the court. That's not what packed the court means. Pack the court means adding extra

00:56:48.880 people so the court is bigger and then packing it. So that's the wrong word. Number two,

00:56:57.920 he didn't commit an insurrection. What court found that he did an insurrection? I didn't see one. It

00:57:07.840 wasn't an attempted insurrection because there were no tools by which he could attempt an insurrection.

00:57:13.920 I haven't gotten to the good part yet.

00:57:18.000 Good part. The good part's coming. It's coming real soon.

00:57:23.520 All right. Just hold that thought. Just hold the thought that the current news is fake,

00:57:30.080 which means that our history will all be fake. We know that there's no way around it. It's already

00:57:37.520 written and it's already fake and you can see it in real time. Do you remember the story that Trump

00:57:45.600 requested the National Guard on January 6th? I'll need a little reminder here because I'm just pulling

00:57:52.880 from memory. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but my memory is that Trump, ahead of January 6th,

00:58:00.400 authorized up to, what, 10,000 National Guard to make sure that the Capitol was protected.

00:58:07.360 Am I correct so far? And that I believe it was Nancy Pelosi who said no. Am I correct so far?

00:58:15.680 Am I correct so far? Fact check? Fact check's okay? Now, we've always wondered why she would do that, 0.99

00:58:22.160 right? Because you say to yourself, oh, it's a setup. She said no to the National Guard

00:58:29.520 because that made it more likely there would be some bad behavior. Is that what you think?

00:58:37.200 Is that your current belief that the only reason she would say no to the National Guard

00:58:43.760 is because she wanted the trouble? I've never been completely happy with that answer

00:58:51.600 because people do lots of bad things, but you know what they don't usually do?

00:58:56.880 They don't usually say, let's take all the security away from my husband so somebody can hit him on the 1.00

00:59:02.480 head with a hammer. It doesn't usually go that way. People don't leave themselves unprotected,

00:59:10.480 unless you're, you know, juicy Smollett or something. But a normal politician doesn't put 0.95

00:59:17.520 themselves at great personal risk, you know, just to run an op. A normal person doesn't. So why would

00:59:25.360 she do that? If you think that she was running an op and, you know, making it look, well, I've got 0.99

00:59:30.880 another hypothesis for you. Try this one on. You ready to have your head rearranged?

00:59:41.040 This one's going to hurt for a little while. Now, this is just speculation,

00:59:47.920 and I'll take a fact check on it. So I will not assert this to be a fact.

00:59:51.920 There is some news reporting that General Milley feared that Trump would use the National Guard

01:00:01.760 as his private army to take over the country. Have you ever heard that? There was fear that Trump

01:00:12.240 maybe had some control over the National Guard and that he would use them to take over the country.

01:00:17.280 That's probably why they were declined.

01:00:24.240 Which would indicate that our top military guy 1.00

01:00:30.720 is as big a fucking idiot as he looks because I kept watching him perform on TV and I kept saying to 1.00

01:00:37.200 myself, I don't know. He looks like an idiot. It looks like there's just something wrong with him. 1.00

01:00:42.880 Like, it looks like he falls for every hoax. I believe that he genuinely believed that there

01:00:51.280 was an insurrection. I think he actually believed that the National Guard would maybe be somehow under

01:00:59.120 Trump's control and he didn't want to take the chance that there would be a military force big enough to

01:01:04.720 make a difference should they decide to be traitors. I think that the real story of January 6th is that

01:01:14.720 the Democrats hoaxed themselves so badly that they believed the ridiculous and then they acted on the 0.97

01:01:23.520 ridiculous. And then acting on the ridiculous, they were committed and they had to sell the whole bag of 0.97

01:01:30.640 ridiculousness. I think that the only reason there was trouble is that the National Guard was turned 0.86

01:01:37.040 down. And I think the only reason it was turned down is that Mark Milley was a fucking idiot who had 1.00

01:01:44.000 TDS and was literally hallucinating a risk that no reasonable person saw. Now, keep in mind that nobody's 1.00

01:01:52.720 even mentioned that risk until I just mentioned it right now, except that I saw a story that said he

01:01:58.160 might have been concerned about it. Now, how's your brain?

01:02:05.920 What did that do to you? Do you think that interpretation might be true? Because it is

01:02:12.320 the interpretation that explains all the facts. The ones we've had before were like, maybe, but

01:02:20.400 I don't know. I just don't see somebody saying no to security when security is so important.

01:02:25.440 Right? But this makes perfect sense. We do observe as a fact that people have hoaxed themselves into

01:02:33.840 believing that he's a monster. What did Carville say the other day? He's going to take away your

01:02:39.040 constitution. So now he's taken away your freedom. He's going to take away your democracy. He's going

01:02:44.880 to take away your republic and there'll never be another election that he's going to take away your

01:02:48.960 constitution. Does that sound like people who are in good mental health? Not to me. No, I do believe

01:02:56.480 that the people who start these memes and messages, they're probably just cynical and they know people

01:03:04.560 will believe it. But I think that somebody like Mark Milley just believes it. And I'm going to add to

01:03:10.560 this. Yeah. Now I'm going to tie two things together. Remember, remember Trump said something

01:03:18.480 like, you know, attacking the cartels militarily. He asked about it when he was in office, but he's

01:03:24.560 also talked about it after office. Now, why is it that he is the only one who's mentioned that

01:03:31.360 and prior presidents act like it's not even on the table? Well, my hypothesis is that our government has

01:03:38.080 been working with the cartels because it's how we control Central American governments.

01:03:44.080 We have to be on their side. So we can't attack them militarily because they're on our team.

01:03:49.920 And we just put up with the massive numbers of deaths because I believe our government,

01:03:55.040 I've never said this before, but I'm going to say it for the first time. I believe that the people

01:04:00.000 who are really in charge of our government think that the overdose deaths are the worthless people.

01:04:05.280 That's what I think. That's not my opinion. I think that the people who are not dealing with

01:04:12.480 the overdose deaths in the United States, the really deep state ones, the real, the ones who are

01:04:17.520 really in charge, you know, the dark arts people, I think they think the overdose deaths are just 0.99

01:04:22.560 junkies and they don't give a fuck. So they're like, well, if we kill the cartels, we're going to have 0.99

01:04:28.880 chaos in all of the Americas. If we let them kill 70,000, uh, useless people a year, we won't miss 1.00

01:04:37.920 them a bit. The economy might be better for it. The jails will be less full and there'll be fewer 1.00

01:04:44.480 people driving and killing people because they're inebriated. So fuck them. 1.00

01:04:50.480 Yeah. Because a lot of you have the same opinion. You've told me directly when I talk about my stepson 1.00

01:04:55.120 dying, when I talk about my stepson dying, the most common comment I get is, well, he had a comment

01:05:00.560 or, you know, that's his fault, or you should have done better in your parenting. Right? So it wouldn't

01:05:06.720 surprise me if the people who are in charge actually just don't even think that's a problem,

01:05:11.840 that it's just calling the herd. That's what I think. But here's the, here's the, uh, the payoff.

01:05:18.320 Why is it that only Trump wouldn't know that we're working with the cartels?

01:05:25.280 It's exactly what you think. Because the bad guys couldn't tell him because he wouldn't put up with

01:05:30.720 it. I believe that he was never briefed on the real intel. And John Brennan says directly that they

01:05:38.640 don't want to give Trump, uh, intel because they can't trust him with it. You know why you can't trust

01:05:43.920 Trump? And I basically, I agree with them. You can't trust him with the intel. Do you know why

01:05:48.240 you can't trust Trump with the intel? Because if we knew the truth, something would change and they

01:05:56.240 don't want that. The problem is he would change it. I don't think the problem is so much that he would,

01:06:03.600 you know, tell our secrets, although he might. I mean, I could, I could easily imagine Trump just

01:06:08.400 saying, you know what? It turns out we work with the cartels. You could actually imagine him saying

01:06:15.520 that the only person in the world who would do it. So I believe that Trump has been operating, uh,

01:06:22.320 in a crippled capacity because the CIA has not been his friend. I believe that the insurrection was

01:06:29.440 caused entirely by Mark Milley's TDS. And maybe, and maybe he worked with, uh, I I'm guessing that

01:06:36.480 when Nancy Pelosi said no to the, to the extra security, do you think she did that without

01:06:42.400 talking to anybody? Do you think she just said, well, I'm Nancy Pelosi. I know about security.

01:06:48.320 I'll just decide now. No, she almost certainly talked to people who know what they're doing.

01:06:54.480 And I'll betcha some of them had the Mark Milley opinion that if you bring in military,

01:06:59.680 they might side with Trump.

01:07:00.960 Do you think at that point they were worried that it would be obvious the election was stolen?

01:07:07.600 I believe so. I believe that the Democrats were worried that it was too obvious the election was

01:07:14.080 stolen. Do I have proof the election was stolen? No, not direct proof. I have indirect proof,

01:07:21.120 which is that the same bunch of people rigged everything they've touched. Every single thing

01:07:26.800 that same group of people have touched has been fake. Everything they've touched has been fake.

01:07:32.960 If you want to tell me this is the one thing that's not fake, I say, you're a fucking idiot. 1.00

01:07:38.240 All right. Well, let's be honest. If you still think, you know, the election was good, 1.00

01:07:43.040 as opposed to, you can't tell either way, which would be a reasonable thing to say.

01:07:47.200 If you say, you know, it was good. You're a fucking idiot at this point. You don't know how 1.00

01:07:51.760 anything works. You don't know that everything the same people, same people did. All of it's

01:07:57.920 fucking fake. All of it's fake. This isn't the one thing they did right. It's not. All right. So 1.00

01:08:11.200 history's fake. Four hostages got freed from Gaza. The IDF did an op and killed a bunch of people,

01:08:20.640 but got four hostages back and they seem to be in good shape. So that's good news. There's news that

01:08:25.760 NATO is preparing a land corridor for a possible land war in Europe against Russia. Can you name

01:08:32.880 anything dumber than planning a land war against a nuclear power? I really can't think of anything 0.94

01:08:42.160 that would be dumber than that. But military people have to do military planning. So you should not see 0.98

01:08:48.960 any kind of planning as anything that's like signaling what's going to happen.

01:08:54.080 Because if you're in the military and it's your job to plan for all contingencies, you don't say to

01:08:58.720 yourself, well, I think this one's, you know, terribly unlikely. No, you plan for them all.

01:09:05.520 Also be aware that we're in a psychological battle with Putin. So Putin's moving his warships to just do

01:09:12.720 a, you know, some naval exercise, but it's going to be close to the United States off of Cuba.

01:09:18.640 And then, you know, he talks about his nuclear weapons and how he might use them if so-and-so

01:09:24.880 happens. And then we, you know, we indicate that if this happens, that'll happen. So you might see

01:09:31.280 the planning for a land war as just part of the psychological battle. Because if Putin thinks

01:09:37.200 there's some chance that would control some of his urges, if he thought there was no chance,

01:09:44.720 because NATO wasn't even preparing for war, then he could act like NATO doesn't exist. So you should

01:09:51.680 see the planning as the fight. Not that it's an indication that there will be a fight later.

01:09:58.000 The planning is the fight. That's the psychological fight. Anyway, I have a theory that I'd like to tell

01:10:08.960 you about the simulation, because I keep hearing the same complaint. People say we couldn't possibly

01:10:15.120 be a simulation because you could never build a computer so powerful to simulate the universe.

01:10:20.560 Now, maybe you could, but let's take it as truth that you can never build one to simulate the universe.

01:10:28.080 That wouldn't matter because if you could build it to look as good as Roblox, do you know what that

01:10:33.360 is? Roblox, Roblox, the kids video game where the characters look like Legos. You know, everything's

01:10:41.120 made of squares. So if you see one of these like characters, it's just made of like Legos. You say to

01:10:49.280 yourself, well, that doesn't look like a real person. That looks like Legos. All right. Now let's say you

01:10:54.240 were a robot. And the robot has been trained on human behavior. And it sees a man made in Legos.

01:11:02.640 What's the robot say? Well, same as the people, because it's trained on people. So the robot says,

01:11:07.680 oh, that's not exactly a person. That's like a, some kind of, you know, creature made out of blocks.

01:11:15.120 But now take the robot and reprogram it. And you, you simply add this programming.

01:11:21.840 You will think you see something in detail, but really it's just going to be these blocks.

01:11:29.760 So if you were to describe it later, you would say, oh yeah, you had a mustache and looked like a

01:11:34.960 regular person and everything, but it won't actually be there. Yet you will just see all

01:11:39.760 the detail, but none will be there. When you walk into a room, you're only ever going to see the

01:11:45.040 little cone of your, of your concentration and all the rest you'll imagine you saw in detail,

01:11:51.680 but there wasn't any. Is that robot living in a simulation? Yes. The robot would reliably report

01:12:01.280 that it sees details and could even describe the details, could even draw a picture of the details,

01:12:06.560 but they wouldn't be there. So what I'm going to suggest, what I am suggesting is that the universe

01:12:13.520 could be run on a very small computer. As long as the characters in it, we're told that they see more

01:12:19.600 than they see. Now, could you, is there some breaking news?

01:12:30.880 Is it possible to the, in the real world, the one that we think we're in this one,

01:12:35.520 do we know that people imagine more detail than they see? Yes, that's well proven. Your actual

01:12:42.080 reality, your brain sees detail that isn't actually there. It's well understood. I don't need to get

01:12:50.240 into the details, but yeah, don't worry about processing. All you need is a line of code that

01:12:56.960 says you see the details. That's it. You see the details. The whole thing could be solved. You don't

01:13:03.520 need a computer that's bigger than the universe. You need a little one that just fools you into

01:13:08.160 thinking you see things you don't see because an optical illusion or simply BS is just always easier

01:13:16.240 to produce. Let me give you another one. How can you build a computer big enough that your memories,

01:13:23.360 my memories and everybody else's memories would stay consistent? Imagine how the complexity

01:13:30.240 of having all of civilization, billions of people and all of their histories have to match and line up

01:13:37.760 and be the same. That's not a problem. You know why? None of our history is real.

01:13:45.280 Even our personal memories don't line up. So the other day, somebody asked me what programming

01:13:53.840 language I used, you know, back when I was a young pup and doing some programming. I think I said basic

01:14:00.240 plus. And then yesterday, by weird coincidence, I was looking through some old videos and I saw myself

01:14:07.200 in the year I was using it, saying that it was quick basic. So I had a very clear memory of something

01:14:14.400 that didn't happen. And there are tons of examples of that. I've even had memories of things that I

01:14:22.240 thought happened to me that might have happened to my brother and vice versa. I've even changed the

01:14:27.520 character involved, right? So here's how that saves energy. Our histories don't have to match anymore.

01:14:35.600 You and I can watch the news and come away with different ideas of what history was.

01:14:39.360 We can we can write our history any way we want. And if somebody writes it differently,

01:14:44.560 we say they're lying. So you don't need any matching coordinated history. Because we just

01:14:52.160 imagine that we got the right one and everybody else is wrong. And it's one line of code.

01:14:57.600 It's one line of code for all of history. Your own version is fine. The other people are lying or have

01:15:03.920 bad memories. Boom. Done. All the memories now have been explained.

01:15:13.360 All right. That, in fact, is the end of the show. I'm going to say goodbye to

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01:15:53.840 All right. That's all we got for now. I hope I'm alive tomorrow and all the rest of you are too.

01:16:01.600 And I hope you have an amazing day. I'm going to talk privately to the

01:16:06.240 subscribers on Locals now. If you are subscribing on Locals and or on X where the Dilbert comic still

01:16:13.600 runs, you would know that Dilbert or Dogbert's a clone formed an army of felons to attack him.

01:16:20.640 But we wrap up that storyline today in case you're wondering how that ends.

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