Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2563 CWSA 08⧸11⧸24

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00:00:44.060 Well, it's nice to have all the morning people here, the people who get up on a weekend, on a Sunday, and it's no such thing as too early for this content.

00:00:54.800 So you're the special people. You're the go-getters, the movers and shakers.

00:00:59.980 You're unusually sexy and smarter than people think.

00:01:04.400 So that's who you are.

00:01:06.700 How would you like a show? Anybody up for that?

00:01:09.900 All right.

00:01:11.120 So DeepMind, there's a bunch of engineers at Google's DeepMind project

00:01:17.680 who finally found something to do with the robots and AI that really could change everything.

00:01:23.360 They've developed a robot that can play amateur-level ping-pong.

00:01:30.940 Finally.

00:01:33.040 Finally.

00:01:34.220 I have two ping-pong tables, but I don't really have anybody to play.

00:01:40.640 So the minute this is available, I'm not sure exactly how much I would pay for a ping-pong-playing robot,

00:01:52.460 but it's not, it wouldn't be a low number.

00:01:56.400 I mean, I'd put some serious money into it.

00:01:59.220 I was actually looking at my tables yesterday and thinking,

00:02:01.800 God, if only I had a robot that could just hit some balls back, it'd be really fun.

00:02:08.060 And I thought, well, it won't be too long before I have a ping-pong robot.

00:02:12.660 Oh, yeah.

00:02:13.620 I'm completely serious.

00:02:15.920 If they make this ping-pong robot commercially available,

00:02:19.420 I'm almost certainly going to get one.

00:02:21.660 Well, the people who make Ozempic, and I guess people studying it,

00:02:29.120 say that Ozempic, that's the weight-loss drug that your doctor recommends sometimes,

00:02:34.460 that if you're on Ozempic, you have way better sex.

00:02:37.680 So people are reporting that after they lost 85 pounds,

00:02:44.220 sometimes just one of them, one of the partners,

00:02:47.640 that their sex life improved.

00:02:49.840 And they're thinking, huh, is there something about this Ozempic drug

00:02:53.740 that makes people a little bit randier?

00:02:57.300 To which I said, hmm, here again, maybe you should talk to Scott

00:03:03.240 before you spend a lot of money doing a study.

00:03:06.080 Hey, let's see, would losing 85 pounds improve your sex life?

00:03:12.560 I'm going to say yes.

00:03:15.080 So if there's anybody else who is thinking of spending a lot of money

00:03:19.120 to find out why people on Ozempic are suddenly having more sex,

00:03:23.980 you don't need to.

00:03:25.300 You could just stop what you're doing right now.

00:03:28.040 They will have more sex.

00:03:30.180 If there are any other questions you'd like to ask

00:03:34.300 before you waste a lot of money on some big old study,

00:03:37.600 I'm here for you.

00:03:39.300 Seriously, just ask.

00:03:40.640 I can answer most of these.

00:03:44.400 Here's an interesting study.

00:03:47.220 Apparently, you can reframe anxiety.

00:03:50.260 So there's a Washington State University-led study

00:03:52.560 in which they looked at people who were doing funding pitches for startups.

00:03:58.340 And, of course, you would have anxiety if you're going to do a funding pitch

00:04:03.200 because if people like you, it could change your life

00:04:06.120 because you get funding.

00:04:08.140 And they found out that if they simply reframe the anxiety

00:04:13.080 as an emotion that somebody has about the importance of their funding pitch,

00:04:18.900 that they actually get a better response from the funders.

00:04:22.440 Let me say that again.

00:04:25.740 They reframe anxiety, the anxiety that they would know giving a pitch.

00:04:30.980 They reframe that as emotion,

00:04:34.540 that you have emotion for the thing you're trying to promote.

00:04:38.380 Now, the example they gave was people trying to get funding for a charity.

00:04:44.060 Now, I'm not sure if that would exactly extend to funding a business,

00:04:47.840 but funding a charity, you would have some real emotional connection to it.

00:04:52.940 And apparently, if you have an emotional connection to it,

00:04:55.640 you get a better response,

00:04:57.320 and you can reframe your anxiety as your emotion,

00:05:02.360 your positive emotion for the thing you're promoting.

00:05:06.400 And they tested it,

00:05:07.920 and it turns out that people receive the message better

00:05:10.520 if you're thinking of it as your emotion and not your anxiety.

00:05:14.620 Now, you might say to yourself,

00:05:17.040 well, wait a minute.

00:05:17.920 The anxiety that I have for a pitch is a completely different thing

00:05:23.340 than emotion I have for my thing that I want the funding for.

00:05:28.800 But your brain is just a machine.

00:05:32.380 And if you move it from first gear to second gear,

00:05:35.480 it doesn't have a choice of being in first gear anymore.

00:05:38.800 You just moved it to another gear.

00:05:41.260 So think of reframes like that.

00:05:43.580 They don't have to be logical.

00:05:45.180 By the way, that's my book,

00:05:46.520 Reframe Your Brain, teaches you this.

00:05:49.220 A reframe doesn't need to be logical.

00:05:51.660 It doesn't need to make any sense at all.

00:05:54.040 It just needs to work.

00:05:55.940 And because your brain is a machine,

00:05:58.000 and because your brain works on word patterns,

00:06:01.560 just like AI does,

00:06:02.620 if you change the word pattern,

00:06:05.280 you can sometimes get an unexpected positive benefit.

00:06:09.020 This very much reminds me of the reframe

00:06:11.720 I was teaching to my subscribers on Locals.

00:06:16.040 I do little videos.

00:06:17.460 I call it micro lessons.

00:06:19.280 And the most recent one I did was on a reframe

00:06:21.980 that was not my own, somebody else's.

00:06:24.720 But instead of saying I have to do something,

00:06:27.640 let's say exercise,

00:06:29.480 you say I get to do it.

00:06:30.860 Now, that's not a logical change,

00:06:35.060 but wait till you see how much that changes your perspective

00:06:38.720 when you say I get to do this.

00:06:41.180 I get to exercise.

00:06:42.960 Imagine if you couldn't exercise for whatever reason.

00:06:46.640 It would feel like a privilege if you got to exercise.

00:06:50.520 So it's easy to just put your brain in the,

00:06:54.220 wow, I'm so lucky I get to do this mode

00:06:56.140 for things that you were dreading

00:06:58.560 or it felt like drudgery.

00:07:00.860 Now, I added to that by saying,

00:07:03.840 imagine that you'd been dead for a thousand years

00:07:06.220 and living in the spirit world.

00:07:08.360 And then somehow you got a magical ability

00:07:10.660 to go back to your old ordinary life

00:07:13.280 where you're just doing drudgery,

00:07:16.260 like brushing your teeth and feeding the dog.

00:07:20.140 And those things you usually think,

00:07:21.900 oh, I can't wait till I'm done with this

00:07:23.480 so I can go do the things I enjoy.

00:07:25.000 But if you've been gone for a thousand years

00:07:27.980 and you got to just experience this life again,

00:07:31.520 feeding the dog would be awesome.

00:07:34.260 So I just imagine I just pop back to life

00:07:37.040 and I'm just experiencing my life

00:07:39.020 for one of the rarest opportunities

00:07:41.640 to just feel like what it is,

00:07:43.300 to just be alive,

00:07:45.100 to be able to do things,

00:07:46.440 to touch things,

00:07:47.420 to move things.

00:07:48.620 It changes your perspective instantly.

00:07:51.260 By the way,

00:07:51.820 this one will really change you.

00:07:53.960 So just say,

00:07:54.760 I don't have to do it,

00:07:55.600 I get to do it.

00:07:56.940 And imagine that you came from a thousand year death

00:07:59.320 just to try it out again,

00:08:02.180 see how your arms and legs move

00:08:04.100 and see how it feels.

00:08:04.980 So remember the United States has this quote,

00:08:11.380 special relationship with Great Britain.

00:08:14.700 You know, we're special friends.

00:08:17.440 I think that's kind of over

00:08:18.960 because if I'm afraid of traveling there

00:08:21.920 because I think I would be arrested

00:08:24.060 for something I've said on X five years ago,

00:08:28.540 and that's a real risk.

00:08:30.700 And by the way,

00:08:31.300 the UK says they can,

00:08:33.020 they would at least try to extradite people,

00:08:37.280 maybe even Americans,

00:08:38.400 so that they could punish them in the UK

00:08:42.320 for something they said in America

00:08:45.260 as an American on an American platform.

00:08:50.800 Now, you say to yourself,

00:08:52.360 well, you know,

00:08:53.620 my government's never going to let

00:08:55.240 Great Britain ship me out of the country

00:08:58.060 and put me in jail in Great Britain.

00:08:59.940 Well, if your government is a Trump government,

00:09:05.560 it's not going to happen.

00:09:07.200 But what would happen under a Harris-Waltz government

00:09:10.320 if they said,

00:09:12.080 huh, let me see if we understand this request,

00:09:16.200 Great Britain.

00:09:17.140 Can you say that again?

00:09:18.680 We'd like to arrest Scott Adams

00:09:24.220 because he said some things

00:09:26.520 that we consider hate speech.

00:09:28.460 And then the Harris administration says,

00:09:30.600 Scott Adams,

00:09:32.040 huh,

00:09:32.520 what's he been saying about us?

00:09:35.060 Oh,

00:09:35.480 he's been saying a lot of bad things about you

00:09:37.320 and he might be able to move the needle.

00:09:40.560 Huh.

00:09:40.840 But he would be no problem to us

00:09:44.160 if he were in jail in Great Britain.

00:09:46.120 Is that true?

00:09:47.220 Well, yeah,

00:09:48.000 that's technically true.

00:09:49.840 Then what happens to me?

00:09:52.100 Do you think,

00:09:53.000 do you think my government protects me

00:09:54.800 from Great Britain?

00:09:56.340 Or does my government say,

00:09:58.300 you know,

00:09:58.860 he hasn't broken any laws in the United States,

00:10:01.020 but it sure would be good for we Democrats

00:10:03.620 if he just got the fuck out of here.

00:10:05.340 So let me say as clearly as possible,

00:10:11.060 Great Britain,

00:10:11.800 you are not part of any special relationship with me,

00:10:14.640 you motherfuckers.

00:10:15.760 If you have that rule

00:10:17.020 that I can go to jail in my fucking country

00:10:19.500 because you've got an asshole rule over there,

00:10:22.060 you're not my special anything.

00:10:24.200 You're my fucking enemy.

00:10:26.900 You're my enemy.

00:10:29.480 Let me be as clear as that is possible.

00:10:31.900 You're my enemy

00:10:32.760 if you're going to put me in jail

00:10:34.740 for my free speech in America

00:10:36.280 and you think that maybe that makes sense.

00:10:39.860 And by the way,

00:10:41.180 if the Harris administration

00:10:42.460 ever let anybody

00:10:43.720 be taken from this country

00:10:46.180 to be jailed in Great Britain

00:10:47.580 over something that wasn't illegal

00:10:49.140 in the United States,

00:10:50.960 well, then they're my enemy too.

00:10:55.740 There's no ambiguity about that.

00:10:58.120 Anybody who's trying to put me in jail

00:10:59.900 for free speech,

00:11:02.200 you're my enemy.

00:11:03.080 I don't care about your fucking special relationship.

00:11:07.300 And I do think that we should make a real effort

00:11:09.560 to recruit

00:11:11.900 the most useful and richest people in England

00:11:15.520 who are trying to get out.

00:11:17.500 Because apparently the number of billionaires

00:11:19.740 who are leaving Great Britain

00:11:20.960 is the highest percentage in the world.

00:11:23.680 The people who can afford to leave

00:11:25.520 are getting out while they can.

00:11:27.500 And we should make sure they come here.

00:11:29.020 Because you know who I want?

00:11:32.000 Somebody who knows how to manage a billion dollars

00:11:34.580 and has successfully made a billion dollars.

00:11:38.540 I want all of them.

00:11:40.720 Come on.

00:11:41.960 So again, just to be clear,

00:11:43.980 nothing about the people of the UK.

00:11:46.500 I love the people of the UK.

00:11:49.940 So bring them on here.

00:11:51.360 And we're not talking about anything,

00:11:53.480 nothing about race or gender.

00:11:55.800 Nothing about that.

00:11:57.320 I just want to know that,

00:11:58.640 can you make money?

00:12:00.000 And can you add to a country?

00:12:02.280 If you can make money,

00:12:04.280 pay for your own bills,

00:12:05.440 and you can add to our country,

00:12:07.040 please,

00:12:08.040 come on over right away.

00:12:10.800 Sooner the better.

00:12:12.120 So get out of that decaying,

00:12:14.300 crappy country

00:12:15.080 and come on over here if you can.

00:12:17.060 But that would require,

00:12:18.260 you know,

00:12:18.800 our country having a useful vetting system

00:12:22.120 for people coming in,

00:12:24.480 which we don't have.

00:12:27.500 There's a study that says

00:12:29.260 people distrust journalists

00:12:32.280 when they debunk information.

00:12:35.040 So people are more trustful

00:12:38.020 for a journalist

00:12:38.740 if they tell you something

00:12:40.300 and they trust them less

00:12:42.520 if they say,

00:12:43.300 oh, the thing that you have been told

00:12:44.860 is wrong.

00:12:47.200 Do you know

00:12:48.260 how they could have saved

00:12:49.980 some money on that study

00:12:51.340 by asking Scott?

00:12:54.160 Because this is basic hypnosis.

00:12:56.640 If somebody believes something to be true

00:12:59.080 and then you shock them by saying,

00:13:02.060 well, let me tell you,

00:13:02.960 this is not true.

00:13:03.780 The normal human behavior would be,

00:13:07.560 nope, I reject what you said

00:13:09.080 and there must be something wrong with you.

00:13:12.560 Right?

00:13:13.340 That would be the most predictable outcome

00:13:15.680 when somebody tells you

00:13:16.860 that a thing you've known all your life

00:13:18.940 is wrong.

00:13:20.380 You would think there's something wrong

00:13:22.000 with the person who told you.

00:13:23.760 So you didn't have to study that.

00:13:26.420 That's the most basic observed human behavior

00:13:30.400 that you could ever imagine.

00:13:32.220 If you hear something you don't like,

00:13:34.920 you blame the messenger.

00:13:36.740 It's the most famous human behavior of all time.

00:13:39.360 Now, you didn't need to study this.

00:13:41.560 You couldn't just ask me.

00:13:45.220 Well, the New York Times-Siena poll came out

00:13:47.900 and other polls

00:13:49.400 have shown Harris

00:13:51.700 overtaking Trump in the polls,

00:13:54.740 especially in some battleground states, etc.

00:13:57.680 Do you think these polls are accurate?

00:14:00.900 Well, here's what an analyst,

00:14:03.960 Ryan Gerdusky,

00:14:06.020 or Gerdusky,

00:14:07.020 I don't know how to pronounce it,

00:14:08.520 says,

00:14:09.300 that there's some big problems with the poll.

00:14:11.500 This would be the New York Times-Siena poll.

00:14:14.040 Apparently, if you look at the details,

00:14:16.800 it suggests that Trump

00:14:18.020 is losing seniors by 12 points.

00:14:23.040 And as Gerdusky points out,

00:14:26.380 Trump isn't losing seniors by 12 points.

00:14:30.660 If your survey says that,

00:14:33.160 there's something wrong with the survey.

00:14:35.220 How about,

00:14:36.940 it says that Harris is tied with white voters.

00:14:40.720 Probably not.

00:14:41.860 So, that would be an indication

00:14:44.820 that there's something wrong.

00:14:46.880 And Trump's margin with non-college whites

00:14:49.580 is in the 30s,

00:14:50.780 not 13,

00:14:52.540 which I guess the poll said.

00:14:54.140 So, if you look at some of these subcategories,

00:14:57.340 they're so obviously out of the range

00:14:59.420 of what any other poll is going to show

00:15:01.240 that you know something's going on.

00:15:04.980 Have I ever mentioned that the polls,

00:15:07.420 when it gets this time of the summer,

00:15:09.680 are all going to be fake?

00:15:11.860 When do the polls become real?

00:15:15.160 Because it does happen.

00:15:18.500 They very predictably become real

00:15:21.060 in the last few weeks

00:15:23.060 before the election itself.

00:15:24.760 Do you know why they all become real suddenly?

00:15:28.980 Because that's the only time

00:15:30.480 they'll be measured for being accurate.

00:15:33.080 So, they'll wait for the actual election,

00:15:35.320 they'll compare it to what the pollsters said,

00:15:37.800 and that will be the only time

00:15:39.380 they will be held responsible.

00:15:41.860 Because all the way up

00:15:43.380 until the day of the election,

00:15:45.160 the polls can just say,

00:15:46.920 well, that's what they thought in November.

00:15:49.540 There's no way to really know it wasn't true.

00:15:52.420 But when you have the actual vote,

00:15:54.540 that's the one and only time you can say,

00:15:56.540 which pollster did a good job?

00:15:58.840 So, when we get close to the actual vote,

00:16:01.500 all of the pollsters,

00:16:02.780 especially the fake ones,

00:16:04.560 will suddenly tweak their methodology

00:16:07.820 and get the right answer.

00:16:10.340 We're a lot closer to it.

00:16:12.280 So, expect that.

00:16:15.780 All right.

00:16:17.580 I'm continued to be intrigued,

00:16:21.180 as a writer named Peachy Keenan

00:16:23.820 is intrigued,

00:16:25.200 by the VP candidate Walls

00:16:29.540 and his connections with China.

00:16:32.200 So, here's what Peachy Keenan said on X today

00:16:34.780 about Walls.

00:16:36.660 30 trips to China on a school teacher's salary.

00:16:40.600 Obsession with China.

00:16:42.540 Devoted his life to taking American kids to China

00:16:45.280 to learn about communism.

00:16:47.020 Has zero investment in American stocks or bonds.

00:16:50.180 None.

00:16:51.400 Who is the real Tim Walls?

00:16:55.320 Now, that's a pretty good question.

00:16:58.240 And apparently, he started going there

00:17:00.080 and doing tourism right after Tiananmen Square,

00:17:02.660 which is when there really wasn't a lot of tourism.

00:17:06.580 You know, the tourism was kind of suppressed then,

00:17:08.880 but not for him.

00:17:10.660 And he was just taking kids over there

00:17:13.020 to find out how great China was.

00:17:16.380 And so, Peachy says in a follow-up post,

00:17:20.520 looking to interview any American

00:17:22.460 who was a high school student

00:17:24.040 who accompanied Tim Walls to China

00:17:26.320 on one of his educational tours in the 90s.

00:17:29.160 Please DM.

00:17:30.540 So, if you are in that category of,

00:17:33.060 or you know somebody,

00:17:34.880 have them contact Peachy Keenan,

00:17:38.280 because we'd like to know a little bit more

00:17:39.980 about that experience, wouldn't we?

00:17:42.960 We would.

00:17:44.700 Here's a persuasion update.

00:17:47.540 I think most of you noticed this,

00:17:49.700 but I hadn't called it down yet,

00:17:51.260 and I feel like that's a hole I've got to plug.

00:17:54.900 So, you know how the critics of Kamala Harris

00:17:59.700 would always make fun of her cackling?

00:18:02.020 And I would go so far as to say

00:18:05.040 that the cackling might have been

00:18:07.240 her biggest negative,

00:18:09.500 because people don't follow the issues.

00:18:12.200 You know, they just sort of look at

00:18:13.500 how they feel about somebody's persona.

00:18:15.920 And the cackling looked like

00:18:18.420 she was maybe not confident,

00:18:21.860 or not capable,

00:18:23.400 or I always thought it was a way

00:18:26.180 to maybe get rid of her anxiety of talking,

00:18:31.520 you know, maybe to stall

00:18:32.520 so she can think of an answer,

00:18:34.960 maybe to avoid a question.

00:18:36.880 But none of it looked strong.

00:18:40.160 All of it looked weak.

00:18:41.700 So the cackling always just came off as weak.

00:18:45.940 And they reframed it,

00:18:50.040 the Democrats did,

00:18:51.060 into joyful.

00:18:53.200 So they added another awkward laugher.

00:18:57.180 So Walsh is another, like,

00:18:59.680 freaky, creepy laugher.

00:19:01.740 When he laughs,

00:19:02.420 it seems like he's laughing too hard,

00:19:04.340 and it doesn't look real.

00:19:06.780 You don't know exactly

00:19:08.080 what you're looking at there.

00:19:09.060 It just doesn't look genuine.

00:19:09.980 So they have these two weird laughers.

00:19:13.480 So instead of saying,

00:19:14.880 well, we got weird laughers,

00:19:16.120 just don't pay attention to that,

00:19:17.400 look at our policies.

00:19:18.780 They don't really have policies to look at.

00:19:21.380 So instead, they said,

00:19:22.860 the cackling and the creepy laughing

00:19:25.060 are signs that they're a joyful group.

00:19:27.820 They're joyful.

00:19:29.540 Now, on one hand, it's funny

00:19:31.760 that you would, you know,

00:19:34.500 reframe creepy laughing as joyful.

00:19:37.780 On the other hand,

00:19:38.780 it totally worked.

00:19:40.460 It totally worked.

00:19:42.420 It's almost like that audio illusion

00:19:44.360 where if you're reading,

00:19:45.620 if you're reading a certain sentence,

00:19:47.760 the audio sounds like that sentence.

00:19:49.880 But as soon as you read the sentence after it,

00:19:52.200 the same audio sounds like the next sentence

00:19:54.540 that has nothing to do with the first sentence.

00:19:56.200 And you're like, how did that happen?

00:19:57.580 And then they can do it eight more times.

00:20:00.420 Yeah.

00:20:01.100 So whatever you're told to expect

00:20:03.360 is often what you hear.

00:20:06.060 And if somebody says, well, okay,

00:20:08.060 now expect that to be a different thing.

00:20:09.940 And then you can hear it just like it's real.

00:20:13.100 So our reality is so malleable

00:20:16.460 and so subjective that you can just say,

00:20:19.860 oh, it's not weird cackling.

00:20:22.000 It's joyful.

00:20:22.780 Don't you love joyful?

00:20:24.460 And I say to myself,

00:20:26.060 that is one of the best reframes I've seen.

00:20:29.740 Do not underestimate the quality of the persuasion advice

00:20:36.680 that Kamala Harris is getting.

00:20:38.180 It's looking really good.

00:20:42.080 And I don't think that was the case

00:20:43.540 until she was clearly the preferred candidate.

00:20:47.960 So I think she's getting the benefit of the,

00:20:50.080 you know, the top shelf, best Democrat advice.

00:20:53.680 I don't think she had it before.

00:20:55.780 But why did it take so long to redefine cackling as joyful?

00:21:00.960 Totally works.

00:21:02.480 It totally works.

00:21:03.540 And you can see now the videos of the people at the rallies,

00:21:06.680 they all seem joyful.

00:21:09.440 So it's this whole joyful,

00:21:10.780 we're having so much fun.

00:21:11.920 Oh my God, I can't wait to dance and sing with Kamala Harris.

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00:22:18.540 But I'll tell you the way

00:22:19.800 that Kamala Harris is laughing makes me feel.

00:22:24.600 She makes me feel the way I do

00:22:26.700 if I'm driving a car

00:22:28.140 and there is a female passenger in my car

00:22:31.300 who starts singing along to the radio.

00:22:35.260 That's how it feels.

00:22:38.080 Now that won't mean something to everybody,

00:22:40.620 but for some of us,

00:22:42.160 having somebody else singing along to the radio

00:22:44.460 so that you can't hear that awesome song

00:22:46.780 that you'd really love to hear,

00:22:48.000 but instead you're hearing somebody

00:22:49.400 who's not a professional singer

00:22:50.680 trying to sing it out loud.

00:22:54.360 That's what it feels like.

00:22:56.140 It's like, okay,

00:22:56.860 I get that you're being joyful.

00:22:59.660 Yeah, I mean,

00:23:00.680 I like joyfulness

00:23:02.480 and I get that you're being joyful

00:23:05.020 as you sing that song,

00:23:06.560 but it's not spreading to me.

00:23:10.660 The joyfulness hurts.

00:23:12.960 Stop it.

00:23:14.000 Stop the joyfulness.

00:23:16.500 It's just,

00:23:17.100 I'm channeling Larry David there,

00:23:18.720 I think.

00:23:19.860 Well, the weirdest

00:23:20.780 and maybe smartest thing

00:23:23.000 that Kamala Harris did

00:23:24.020 was she went to Nevada

00:23:25.220 and just like Trump

00:23:27.060 in front of a bunch of employees,

00:23:30.660 many of whom work for tips,

00:23:32.780 she said that she would advocate

00:23:36.360 for no tax on tips.

00:23:42.380 Now, if you're just hearing this story

00:23:44.260 for the first time,

00:23:45.500 you probably just said,

00:23:46.880 wait, what?

00:23:47.400 Wait, did you just say

00:23:50.080 that she said

00:23:50.780 the identical thing

00:23:52.660 that Trump said

00:23:53.500 that nobody running for office

00:23:56.280 had said before

00:23:57.160 except, I guess,

00:23:58.180 Ron Paul had said it a while ago.

00:24:00.640 But are you telling me

00:24:01.960 that she just literally

00:24:03.040 copied what Trump said?

00:24:06.680 Yes, she did.

00:24:08.740 Now, here's my take on that.

00:24:11.820 Your first impression

00:24:13.260 as a, let's say,

00:24:15.280 a Trump supporter,

00:24:16.120 your first impression was

00:24:17.160 no, no, you can't do that.

00:24:20.800 Stop it.

00:24:22.080 No, no, you're copying.

00:24:25.080 But did that change your vote?

00:24:27.860 No, it didn't change your vote at all.

00:24:29.340 You just didn't like it.

00:24:30.820 But what about the people

00:24:31.780 who heard it

00:24:32.660 who wanted to vote

00:24:34.300 for a Democrat,

00:24:35.220 but they also didn't want

00:24:37.020 to be taxed on their tips?

00:24:39.380 She just gave them an option.

00:24:41.660 She just gave all those workers

00:24:43.520 a way to get no tax on tips,

00:24:45.360 and she just took that away

00:24:47.000 from Trump.

00:24:48.380 Now, Trump argues

00:24:49.560 that he's going to really do it,

00:24:51.700 and he argues

00:24:52.960 that she might not follow through.

00:24:55.140 Maybe.

00:24:56.400 But they're not sure

00:24:57.400 that Trump would do it either.

00:24:59.200 If you're going to take a bet

00:25:00.460 on no tax on tips,

00:25:01.880 and you wanted to vote

00:25:03.360 for a Democrat,

00:25:04.560 she just gave you the option.

00:25:06.280 She just took away

00:25:07.480 one of Trump's strongest plays.

00:25:10.400 Just took it away.

00:25:11.300 So we can spend our time

00:25:15.100 thinking about how weird it is,

00:25:17.600 and we can spend our time saying,

00:25:19.960 oh, but she, as people are,

00:25:22.120 but before that,

00:25:23.220 she was using the IRS

00:25:25.340 to go after people

00:25:27.300 who hadn't paid tax on tips.

00:25:29.720 So blah, blah, blah, hypocrite,

00:25:31.800 blah, blah, blah.

00:25:32.280 None of that's going to matter.

00:25:34.160 If you don't want a tax on your tips,

00:25:36.880 and you want to vote Democrat,

00:25:38.900 she just gave you the option.

00:25:39.880 So that is a clean, dead win.

00:25:47.220 Clean win.

00:25:49.060 So when I tell you that

00:25:50.280 Kamala Harris's advisors

00:25:51.860 are a different level,

00:25:53.920 oh, this is it.

00:25:56.380 This is it.

00:25:57.680 Can you imagine that conversation?

00:26:00.420 Imagine a bunch of dullards

00:26:02.080 and one genius sitting in a room,

00:26:05.220 and the one genius says,

00:26:07.040 I got an idea.

00:26:07.700 Why don't you tell them

00:26:09.500 that you also will not have taxes on tips?

00:26:13.260 And then all the dullards in the room

00:26:14.860 would go,

00:26:15.240 oh, that's so stupid.

00:26:16.680 That's so stupid.

00:26:17.600 That's Trump.

00:26:18.940 We're not just going to copy Trump.

00:26:22.780 And then the one genius in the room says,

00:26:25.380 why not?

00:26:26.580 Well, we can't,

00:26:27.960 we, well, we, we, we can't,

00:26:30.600 we can't just copy him.

00:26:33.880 And then the one genius says,

00:26:35.760 yes, you can.

00:26:37.120 You just say those words.

00:26:39.360 And then you'll take away from Trump

00:26:41.160 every advantage he got from doing that.

00:26:43.800 And then all the dullards would say,

00:26:45.540 but,

00:26:45.820 that's non-standard.

00:26:49.700 Didn't think of it.

00:26:50.720 Bob,

00:26:51.520 you're right.

00:26:55.280 This was one person.

00:26:57.880 Right?

00:26:58.460 I wasn't there.

00:26:59.180 I don't have any insight,

00:27:00.320 but all my experience says

00:27:02.620 they have one genius.

00:27:04.980 I don't know if they have more than one,

00:27:08.280 but they have a genius.

00:27:10.580 Cause,

00:27:11.240 cause whoever sat in that room

00:27:12.800 and turned all of their,

00:27:14.260 turned all of their minds into that.

00:27:16.280 It wasn't Kamala Harris.

00:27:18.000 It wasn't Waltz.

00:27:19.800 I don't,

00:27:20.340 you know,

00:27:20.560 they're just regular politicians.

00:27:22.140 I don't think they came up with it.

00:27:23.940 There is somebody in the mix

00:27:25.980 who is really fucking good.

00:27:28.760 And I don't know who it is.

00:27:30.900 Don't know who it is,

00:27:32.060 but this is unexpected.

00:27:34.980 It makes news.

00:27:36.480 It gets Republicans all worked up,

00:27:38.660 but there's nothing they can do about it.

00:27:40.920 And it just takes Trump's advantage

00:27:43.120 away from a huge category.

00:27:46.440 Perfect.

00:27:48.360 But when I saw the story

00:27:50.040 that Kamala Harris says,

00:27:51.340 no tax on tips,

00:27:52.280 the first thing I thought was,

00:27:54.280 huh,

00:27:54.940 I guess that means the shaft

00:27:56.380 and the balls are still in play.

00:28:02.200 I'll let you just sit with that one

00:28:03.920 for a while.

00:28:04.980 Just let that,

00:28:06.120 let that one sit in the pocket

00:28:07.660 for a while.

00:28:08.900 All right.

00:28:10.240 You're good with that now.

00:28:11.760 All right.

00:28:12.020 We're moving on.

00:28:15.280 So part of the narrative

00:28:17.780 that's forming

00:28:18.620 is that Kamala

00:28:19.740 is just turning into Trump.

00:28:22.160 So she's stealing

00:28:23.400 his no tax on tips thing.

00:28:25.200 So that's like Trump.

00:28:26.160 She used to be weak on the border,

00:28:31.420 but now she's going to get strong

00:28:33.340 on the border.

00:28:34.260 Not only is she going to get stronger

00:28:35.940 on the border,

00:28:36.800 but she likes Walls.

00:28:39.940 Tim Walls.

00:28:41.500 But still,

00:28:42.300 it makes you think

00:28:42.860 that she's turning into Trump.

00:28:45.160 And she blames Trump

00:28:46.620 for killing the bipartisan bill.

00:28:48.420 That makes her the strong one

00:28:49.600 on the border.

00:28:52.260 And then Walls

00:28:53.840 had that viral moment

00:28:55.900 where he was at the rally crowd

00:28:57.880 and he was yelling

00:29:00.080 at Republicans

00:29:01.040 that Republicans

00:29:01.840 should mind

00:29:02.940 their own damn business.

00:29:05.040 Now,

00:29:06.040 that is just Republicans.

00:29:09.020 Republicans want

00:29:09.900 the government

00:29:10.500 to just stay out

00:29:12.220 of their business

00:29:12.840 in a whole variety

00:29:14.440 of different ways.

00:29:15.200 But when it comes

00:29:16.900 to abortion,

00:29:18.440 it's sort of the reverse.

00:29:20.720 So Walls

00:29:21.440 quite cleverly

00:29:22.520 used the Republican,

00:29:25.620 basically,

00:29:26.660 the basic Republican thought,

00:29:28.800 leave me alone.

00:29:29.820 And he successfully

00:29:31.320 reframed it

00:29:34.940 as something

00:29:36.060 that Democrats

00:29:37.200 should be saying,

00:29:38.480 leave me alone.

00:29:39.580 But they're not saying

00:29:40.600 government leave me alone.

00:29:41.600 They're more saying

00:29:42.320 Republicans leave me alone.

00:29:43.540 which is,

00:29:45.240 I guess,

00:29:45.440 similar if

00:29:46.020 the Republicans

00:29:47.260 were in charge.

00:29:49.020 So,

00:29:50.020 not bad.

00:29:53.120 Their persuasion game

00:29:54.520 is quite strong

00:29:55.580 at the moment.

00:29:56.660 But here's the thing

00:29:57.700 that really stands out

00:29:58.900 to me.

00:30:00.660 You know,

00:30:01.540 my perspective

00:30:02.440 on politics

00:30:03.140 is that

00:30:04.000 there's no politics

00:30:04.940 going on

00:30:05.620 and there's no

00:30:06.800 argument going on.

00:30:09.620 It's just brainwashing.

00:30:11.140 So there's two

00:30:12.240 major brainwashing

00:30:13.520 operations.

00:30:14.600 One is an individual,

00:30:16.620 Trump,

00:30:17.200 who is so powerful

00:30:18.780 in terms of persuasion

00:30:20.080 that he's competing

00:30:21.660 with the entire

00:30:23.080 government blog

00:30:25.460 structure of,

00:30:26.620 you know,

00:30:27.220 government

00:30:27.740 and media

00:30:28.660 and the

00:30:30.360 external,

00:30:31.120 you know,

00:30:32.260 entities like the NGOs

00:30:33.640 and the fact checkers

00:30:35.520 and basically

00:30:36.120 an entire world

00:30:37.960 of brainwashers

00:30:39.460 on one side.

00:30:40.300 and on the other

00:30:41.820 side,

00:30:42.200 there's Trump

00:30:42.780 and people

00:30:44.160 who like him,

00:30:45.220 you know,

00:30:46.280 who work

00:30:46.840 collectively

00:30:47.440 with him.

00:30:48.420 But basically,

00:30:49.640 it's Trump

00:30:50.020 against the strongest

00:30:51.020 brainwashing persuasion

00:30:52.540 you've ever seen

00:30:53.240 in your life.

00:30:53.800 But how strong

00:30:55.320 is the brainwashing?

00:30:57.020 Let me just give you

00:30:58.380 this one fact

00:30:59.300 which you all agree

00:31:00.220 with.

00:31:02.160 Before Kamala Harris

00:31:03.580 was picked

00:31:04.300 and Biden

00:31:04.800 was the primary guy

00:31:06.000 and before Trump

00:31:07.620 was almost

00:31:08.340 assassinated,

00:31:09.960 all of their

00:31:11.340 persuasion was

00:31:12.240 Trump's a dictator,

00:31:13.380 dictator,

00:31:13.980 Hitler,

00:31:14.420 dictator,

00:31:15.460 dictator,

00:31:16.080 dictator,

00:31:16.580 dictator,

00:31:17.520 Hitler,

00:31:18.060 dictator,

00:31:18.380 dictator.

00:31:18.880 and then

00:31:20.760 it stopped

00:31:21.420 and they

00:31:23.860 just changed

00:31:24.480 it.

00:31:25.700 And now

00:31:25.980 they're about

00:31:26.500 no taxes

00:31:27.260 on tips

00:31:28.020 and

00:31:28.440 about how

00:31:31.760 to control

00:31:32.440 the border

00:31:32.980 and

00:31:33.880 suddenly

00:31:35.500 what happened

00:31:36.800 to Hitler?

00:31:38.620 Now,

00:31:39.500 are we to

00:31:39.980 believe

00:31:40.480 that we

00:31:41.880 were under

00:31:42.780 an existential

00:31:43.780 threat

00:31:44.520 of a Hitler

00:31:46.280 character

00:31:46.860 rising to

00:31:47.580 power

00:31:47.980 but then

00:31:49.500 it just

00:31:50.120 stopped?

00:31:52.020 Did it

00:31:52.700 just stop?

00:31:53.900 Why are we

00:31:54.380 talking about

00:31:54.860 taxes on tips

00:31:55.820 if Hitler

00:31:57.140 is coming

00:31:57.580 to power?

00:31:59.140 Well,

00:31:59.560 obviously,

00:32:00.340 the reason

00:32:00.740 is that

00:32:01.840 it was never

00:32:02.440 true in the

00:32:03.040 first place.

00:32:04.320 That's the

00:32:05.000 only reason

00:32:05.500 you would

00:32:05.760 stop talking

00:32:06.420 about it.

00:32:08.920 If that

00:32:09.720 were ever

00:32:10.280 true,

00:32:10.980 there's not

00:32:11.520 a single

00:32:12.140 other thing

00:32:12.760 they're talking

00:32:13.240 about that

00:32:13.780 would be

00:32:14.160 even

00:32:15.340 competitive

00:32:16.560 in the range

00:32:17.600 of something

00:32:18.000 you should

00:32:18.440 care about

00:32:18.980 and they

00:32:20.840 just made

00:32:21.280 it go

00:32:21.600 away.

00:32:22.880 So let

00:32:23.140 me summarize

00:32:23.620 this in a

00:32:24.660 way so you

00:32:25.060 can really

00:32:25.560 see the

00:32:26.080 power of

00:32:26.600 brainwashing.

00:32:28.260 The

00:32:28.900 brainwashers

00:32:29.720 made Hitler

00:32:30.800 appear out

00:32:31.940 of nothing

00:32:32.460 in the form

00:32:34.340 of what

00:32:34.960 they were

00:32:35.300 accusing

00:32:35.960 Trump of

00:32:36.460 being.

00:32:37.120 They

00:32:37.400 basically

00:32:37.940 conjured

00:32:38.680 Hitler

00:32:39.160 and if

00:32:41.680 that doesn't

00:32:42.280 impress you,

00:32:43.000 they made

00:32:45.580 him disappear

00:32:46.500 in a

00:32:48.640 week.

00:32:50.500 They

00:32:51.060 created

00:32:51.680 Hitler

00:32:52.220 totally

00:32:53.720 out of

00:32:54.000 nothing

00:32:54.260 and then

00:32:56.420 they made

00:32:56.920 Hitler

00:32:57.200 disappear

00:32:58.180 in a

00:32:59.860 week.

00:33:01.100 We don't

00:33:01.840 even talk

00:33:02.300 about it

00:33:02.620 anymore.

00:33:04.560 Now,

00:33:05.860 imagine

00:33:06.380 being a

00:33:06.780 Democrat.

00:33:08.340 Did you

00:33:08.720 notice?

00:33:09.180 Did you

00:33:10.640 notice that

00:33:11.200 you went

00:33:11.480 from

00:33:11.900 Hitler

00:33:13.300 persuasion

00:33:14.040 to,

00:33:14.900 let's

00:33:15.320 talk

00:33:15.560 about

00:33:15.800 taxes

00:33:16.120 on

00:33:16.320 tips?

00:33:17.580 How do

00:33:18.220 you not

00:33:18.660 know that

00:33:19.580 that was a

00:33:20.040 brainwashing

00:33:20.720 operation?

00:33:22.200 Well,

00:33:22.500 I suppose

00:33:23.100 if you

00:33:23.400 didn't

00:33:23.800 pay

00:33:24.500 attention

00:33:24.900 to

00:33:25.360 persuasion

00:33:26.440 as a

00:33:27.260 tool

00:33:27.940 and as

00:33:28.420 a skill

00:33:28.900 and you

00:33:29.740 didn't

00:33:30.020 know how

00:33:30.600 to recognize

00:33:31.240 the tells

00:33:32.500 for persuasion

00:33:33.360 in the

00:33:33.660 wild,

00:33:34.040 maybe you

00:33:34.360 just

00:33:34.520 miss it.

00:33:35.680 But I

00:33:36.200 don't think

00:33:36.640 there could

00:33:36.940 be a

00:33:37.300 stronger

00:33:37.760 signal

00:33:38.340 that people

00:33:39.200 are not

00:33:39.540 making up

00:33:40.060 their minds

00:33:40.660 by looking

00:33:41.180 at the

00:33:41.560 topics

00:33:41.920 and looking

00:33:43.080 at the

00:33:43.460 pluses

00:33:43.880 and the

00:33:44.140 minuses

00:33:44.700 and doing

00:33:45.040 their

00:33:45.280 risk-reward

00:33:46.420 calculation.

00:33:47.860 No,

00:33:48.480 they are

00:33:48.800 literally

00:33:49.180 just

00:33:49.480 brainwashed

00:33:50.120 to go

00:33:50.820 immediately

00:33:51.500 in whatever

00:33:52.040 direction

00:33:52.520 they're told

00:33:53.040 and we

00:33:53.720 just watched

00:33:54.260 it in

00:33:54.560 real time.

00:33:55.840 We just

00:33:56.100 watched them

00:33:56.500 create

00:33:56.860 Hitler

00:33:57.140 and then

00:33:57.740 remove

00:33:58.080 Hitler

00:33:58.360 and all

00:34:00.600 it was

00:34:00.900 was talking.

00:34:02.420 There was

00:34:02.640 never a

00:34:03.060 Hitler.

00:34:04.620 I mean,

00:34:05.260 that's really

00:34:05.880 impressive if

00:34:06.960 you think

00:34:07.300 about it.

00:34:07.780 And I

00:34:08.540 hope you

00:34:08.840 do.

00:34:11.520 Anyway,

00:34:13.320 Pennsylvania,

00:34:15.300 I don't

00:34:15.560 know if I

00:34:15.840 mentioned this,

00:34:16.380 but Pennsylvania

00:34:16.920 announced they

00:34:18.400 just want

00:34:18.820 everybody to

00:34:19.400 know,

00:34:20.460 don't expect

00:34:21.460 that Pennsylvania

00:34:22.140 will be done

00:34:22.940 counting the

00:34:23.500 votes on

00:34:24.320 election night.

00:34:26.100 Might take a

00:34:26.980 while because,

00:34:28.060 you know,

00:34:29.120 got to make

00:34:29.600 sure you got

00:34:30.100 them all and

00:34:30.780 things might

00:34:31.880 come up and

00:34:32.600 you know,

00:34:33.560 things aren't as

00:34:34.200 efficient as you

00:34:34.900 like and maybe

00:34:35.640 they need to do

00:34:36.220 a little

00:34:36.440 double checking

00:34:37.160 and you

00:34:37.980 really got to

00:34:38.460 get it right.

00:34:40.600 Can you

00:34:41.220 imagine living

00:34:42.100 in a country

00:34:42.760 where you're

00:34:44.280 a Democrat

00:34:44.740 and you think

00:34:45.480 the elections

00:34:45.980 are all real

00:34:47.020 and that

00:34:48.120 there's no

00:34:48.520 cheating and

00:34:49.700 then a state

00:34:50.240 tells you,

00:34:51.160 I just got to

00:34:51.900 tell you that

00:34:52.500 unlike every

00:34:53.600 fucking third

00:34:54.520 world country

00:34:55.240 in the world

00:34:55.800 that can

00:34:56.260 absolutely give

00:34:57.200 you a result

00:34:57.740 the same day,

00:34:58.960 we can't.

00:35:00.240 I don't know

00:35:02.140 how to

00:35:02.480 interpret this

00:35:03.160 other than

00:35:03.640 we're telling

00:35:04.140 you we're

00:35:04.600 going to

00:35:04.880 cheat.

00:35:06.160 That's how

00:35:06.660 I hear it.

00:35:08.520 Now,

00:35:09.000 do you hear

00:35:09.500 it that way?

00:35:10.700 This is

00:35:11.240 Pennsylvania

00:35:11.660 telling you

00:35:12.480 they plan

00:35:13.620 to cheat

00:35:14.180 and they

00:35:15.080 need to

00:35:15.380 have a

00:35:15.660 cover story

00:35:16.300 in advance

00:35:16.940 so they

00:35:17.220 can say,

00:35:17.520 we told

00:35:17.860 you it

00:35:18.220 wouldn't be

00:35:18.540 the first,

00:35:19.200 you know,

00:35:19.440 we told

00:35:20.040 you it

00:35:20.300 would take

00:35:20.500 a while.

00:35:21.580 Well,

00:35:21.880 I mean,

00:35:22.180 we told

00:35:22.540 you because

00:35:23.320 of all

00:35:23.640 these reasons.

00:35:25.160 Yeah,

00:35:25.340 no,

00:35:25.520 no,

00:35:25.700 it's not

00:35:26.040 because of

00:35:26.400 cheating.

00:35:27.380 What are

00:35:28.200 you crazy?

00:35:29.320 What are

00:35:29.920 you talking

00:35:30.240 about?

00:35:30.620 Cheating?

00:35:31.160 I don't

00:35:31.660 even know

00:35:31.860 what you

00:35:32.080 mean.

00:35:33.560 Now,

00:35:34.160 I just

00:35:34.760 told you

00:35:35.100 that brainwashing

00:35:35.900 made Hitler

00:35:37.140 appear and

00:35:38.500 then disappear

00:35:39.140 for the

00:35:39.640 entire United

00:35:40.340 States or

00:35:40.960 half of the

00:35:41.600 United States.

00:35:42.940 Here's another

00:35:43.680 thing that

00:35:44.100 brainwashing

00:35:44.720 did.

00:35:46.200 They convinced

00:35:47.160 the country

00:35:47.780 that our

00:35:48.340 elections are

00:35:49.040 secure and

00:35:49.960 that we

00:35:50.280 can know

00:35:51.200 for sure

00:35:51.660 if we

00:35:52.040 got rigged

00:35:53.160 or anything.

00:35:55.540 How in

00:35:55.960 the world

00:35:56.540 could you

00:35:57.940 be convinced

00:35:58.620 that that's

00:35:59.220 the case?

00:36:02.000 How much

00:36:02.920 inexperience

00:36:03.960 would you

00:36:04.340 have to

00:36:04.700 have to

00:36:07.480 think it

00:36:08.220 couldn't be

00:36:08.780 rigged without

00:36:10.020 you knowing

00:36:10.560 it?

00:36:12.660 You would

00:36:13.380 have to

00:36:13.660 know nothing

00:36:14.780 about anything.

00:36:15.860 You'd have to

00:36:16.500 know nothing

00:36:17.140 about any

00:36:17.700 kind of

00:36:18.020 computerized

00:36:18.760 system to

00:36:20.120 the point

00:36:20.680 where you've

00:36:21.140 never had a

00:36:21.660 computer with

00:36:22.320 a password

00:36:22.880 because everything

00:36:24.920 that we

00:36:26.040 know has

00:36:26.900 been hacked

00:36:27.500 and you

00:36:29.840 told me the

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00:36:45.640 You're richer

00:36:46.100 than you think.

00:36:46.700 So I posted

00:36:49.380 yesterday that

00:36:52.520 my DMs, my

00:36:54.160 private DMs

00:36:55.180 are being read

00:36:56.060 by somebody

00:36:56.760 before I read

00:36:58.400 them.

00:36:59.220 Now how do I

00:37:00.100 know that?

00:37:01.200 Because the new

00:37:02.240 ones have an

00:37:02.760 indicator that

00:37:03.420 there's a new

00:37:03.920 message and

00:37:05.380 there are only a

00:37:06.080 few specific

00:37:06.800 people who

00:37:08.340 never have a

00:37:09.100 new indicator.

00:37:10.240 It doesn't

00:37:11.040 matter how often

00:37:11.760 they DM me.

00:37:13.380 It'll never show

00:37:14.160 as new.

00:37:15.920 Now why would

00:37:16.700 that be?

00:37:17.580 Because somebody

00:37:18.100 read it.

00:37:19.940 Somebody is

00:37:21.060 literally reading

00:37:22.000 my messages on

00:37:22.980 DM before I

00:37:23.720 am.

00:37:24.720 Now, does

00:37:26.020 that shock

00:37:26.920 me and

00:37:27.700 annoy me and

00:37:29.120 make me afraid?

00:37:31.380 No, because

00:37:32.220 there's no

00:37:33.000 difference from

00:37:33.740 my worldview.

00:37:35.440 My worldview is

00:37:36.740 that all of my

00:37:37.340 communications have

00:37:38.420 been compromised

00:37:39.160 by Democrats who

00:37:41.820 are looking to

00:37:42.440 take me out.

00:37:43.600 I would believe

00:37:44.660 that everybody

00:37:45.820 who has any

00:37:46.680 kind of

00:37:47.160 influential

00:37:47.900 platform and

00:37:50.180 has any pro-Trump

00:37:51.340 leanings, I

00:37:52.780 believe all of

00:37:54.040 their communications

00:37:55.700 are probably open

00:37:56.480 at this point.

00:37:57.840 So I live my

00:37:59.000 life and have

00:37:59.640 for decades as

00:38:01.580 if all my

00:38:02.600 private messages

00:38:03.380 will become

00:38:04.240 public.

00:38:05.520 Not might,

00:38:07.300 but will.

00:38:08.400 You know,

00:38:08.560 that's a very

00:38:09.040 different thing.

00:38:10.100 If you're playing

00:38:10.940 your private

00:38:12.040 digital communications

00:38:13.860 as if they

00:38:17.660 might not be

00:38:18.420 read, you're

00:38:19.380 playing it

00:38:19.780 wrong.

00:38:21.020 I think it's

00:38:22.080 entirely possible

00:38:22.980 that in your

00:38:23.600 life, everything

00:38:24.960 you've ever

00:38:25.520 written privately

00:38:26.380 will become

00:38:27.040 available to

00:38:27.660 everybody.

00:38:28.680 Just because,

00:38:29.780 you know, there

00:38:30.160 might be, you

00:38:31.000 know, a

00:38:32.000 password hacker

00:38:33.880 encryption killer

00:38:35.420 that can just

00:38:36.720 make everything

00:38:37.300 available and

00:38:38.100 some hacker

00:38:39.000 just makes

00:38:39.640 everything on

00:38:40.160 the internet

00:38:40.520 available at

00:38:41.140 the same

00:38:41.440 time.

00:38:42.140 Anything like

00:38:42.680 that could

00:38:43.000 happen,

00:38:43.580 especially in

00:38:44.180 the age of

00:38:44.660 AI.

00:38:45.860 So if you're

00:38:46.420 not already

00:38:47.160 living your

00:38:47.760 life like you

00:38:48.680 have nothing

00:38:49.600 to hide,

00:38:50.820 you better

00:38:51.240 start.

00:38:53.020 You better

00:38:53.800 start.

00:38:55.940 All right.

00:38:59.760 The story

00:39:00.660 about Iranians

00:39:02.160 hacking a

00:39:02.900 Trump

00:39:03.280 communications

00:39:04.400 website is

00:39:06.400 a little murky.

00:39:07.540 I guess Trump

00:39:08.160 said it was

00:39:08.780 only a

00:39:09.140 website, it

00:39:09.840 wasn't

00:39:10.140 somebody's

00:39:10.660 email.

00:39:11.600 We had

00:39:11.940 originally

00:39:12.520 heard it

00:39:12.980 was one

00:39:13.380 member's

00:39:13.840 email, but

00:39:14.600 now it

00:39:14.940 looks like

00:39:15.300 it's maybe

00:39:15.740 one web

00:39:16.660 page or

00:39:17.200 website.

00:39:18.620 And it

00:39:19.840 was only

00:39:20.140 public

00:39:20.500 information,

00:39:21.280 Trump says.

00:39:22.500 Politico

00:39:23.060 allegedly has

00:39:24.400 communications

00:39:25.460 from that

00:39:26.280 hack, and

00:39:27.600 some of it

00:39:28.240 might be

00:39:28.600 embarrassing.

00:39:29.740 But if

00:39:30.060 any of that

00:39:30.580 communication

00:39:31.200 were embarrassing

00:39:32.080 to Trump,

00:39:33.900 you would

00:39:34.440 have seen it

00:39:34.840 already.

00:39:36.340 Do you

00:39:36.620 think that

00:39:36.960 they'd be

00:39:37.280 sitting on

00:39:37.800 something if

00:39:38.300 they had

00:39:38.640 it?

00:39:39.860 Well, maybe

00:39:40.600 to save it

00:39:41.220 as like an

00:39:41.760 October surprise

00:39:42.700 or something?

00:39:43.540 Maybe.

00:39:44.100 Well, yeah,

00:39:44.540 they might.

00:39:45.700 If it was

00:39:46.340 really juicy,

00:39:47.020 they might

00:39:47.300 sit on it.

00:39:48.080 But I've

00:39:48.560 got a feeling

00:39:48.960 they have

00:39:49.240 nothing.

00:39:51.360 And then

00:39:51.920 the claims

00:39:52.460 from Microsoft

00:39:53.140 that it was

00:39:53.720 an Iranian

00:39:54.180 hacker, I

00:39:55.340 don't think

00:39:55.740 you can

00:39:56.020 believe that

00:39:56.520 at all.

00:39:57.980 Microsoft

00:39:58.320 is the

00:39:58.860 company that

00:39:59.380 funded

00:39:59.720 MSNBC.

00:40:02.140 MSNBC isn't

00:40:03.160 even close to

00:40:04.000 being a real

00:40:04.500 news organization.

00:40:05.420 that's

00:40:06.480 clearly just

00:40:07.300 an intelligence

00:40:08.780 driven

00:40:09.640 brainwashing

00:40:12.240 operation.

00:40:13.940 So there's

00:40:14.780 nothing that

00:40:15.200 Microsoft says

00:40:16.180 about any

00:40:18.040 geopolitical

00:40:19.820 stuff that

00:40:21.060 could be

00:40:21.600 considered

00:40:22.260 credible.

00:40:23.480 They are

00:40:24.160 not a

00:40:24.640 credible voice

00:40:25.480 on this

00:40:26.540 topic.

00:40:27.580 Now, there's

00:40:28.160 other things I

00:40:28.820 would trust

00:40:29.340 them on,

00:40:30.200 but not

00:40:31.120 that the

00:40:31.920 Iranians

00:40:32.440 hacked.

00:40:32.820 That is

00:40:34.140 too on

00:40:35.200 the nose.

00:40:36.940 That's a

00:40:37.580 little on

00:40:37.960 the nose.

00:40:39.820 And to

00:40:40.260 me, it

00:40:40.520 looks like

00:40:40.900 maybe

00:40:41.280 something's

00:40:42.540 being set

00:40:43.060 up so

00:40:43.460 if something

00:40:43.820 happened to

00:40:44.580 Trump, or

00:40:45.980 if the

00:40:47.560 Americans did

00:40:48.440 something that

00:40:49.060 they want not

00:40:49.940 to be known

00:40:50.400 they did,

00:40:51.680 they've got

00:40:52.300 this Iranian

00:40:52.960 option.

00:40:54.840 They can

00:40:55.120 just blame

00:40:55.540 it on

00:40:55.800 Iran.

00:40:56.780 Oh,

00:40:57.960 Trump's

00:40:58.600 had a

00:40:59.360 mechanical

00:40:59.740 problem?

00:41:00.240 Oh, that

00:41:01.360 was probably

00:41:01.700 an Iranian

00:41:02.420 saboteur.

00:41:04.040 Oh, he

00:41:04.460 got hacked?

00:41:05.460 I think the

00:41:06.240 Iranians are

00:41:07.080 up to that

00:41:07.560 again.

00:41:08.280 Oh, he

00:41:09.060 might get

00:41:09.460 assassinated?

00:41:10.760 Look at

00:41:11.360 those Iranians.

00:41:13.980 It's starting

00:41:14.700 to get a

00:41:15.060 little bit

00:41:15.380 obvious, the

00:41:16.160 whole Iran

00:41:16.920 thing.

00:41:17.920 Now, is

00:41:19.140 it possible

00:41:19.740 that Iran

00:41:20.880 is, in

00:41:21.420 fact, going

00:41:22.460 after Trump?

00:41:23.620 Yeah.

00:41:24.520 Yeah.

00:41:25.300 Does that

00:41:25.940 mean that

00:41:26.280 these stories

00:41:26.860 are true?

00:41:27.640 No, completely

00:41:28.420 different.

00:41:28.780 The stories

00:41:31.780 are not

00:41:32.080 coming from

00:41:32.660 credible

00:41:33.380 sources.

00:41:35.520 Microsoft

00:41:35.960 is not

00:41:36.540 credible.

00:41:37.620 The FBI

00:41:38.280 is not

00:41:38.820 credible when

00:41:40.140 it comes to

00:41:40.840 Trump-related

00:41:41.620 anything.

00:41:42.740 And our

00:41:43.180 intelligence

00:41:43.620 people are

00:41:44.280 not credible

00:41:44.940 when it

00:41:45.680 comes to

00:41:46.000 anything

00:41:46.240 Trump-related.

00:41:47.480 Not at

00:41:47.860 all.

00:41:48.500 I mean, not

00:41:48.900 even a little

00:41:49.480 bit.

00:41:51.140 I'm afraid

00:41:51.900 I'm underselling

00:41:52.840 it.

00:41:54.220 If you're

00:41:54.880 looking at

00:41:55.280 these are

00:41:55.620 your sources,

00:41:56.400 and I don't

00:41:56.760 know if it

00:41:57.120 is, but if

00:41:57.960 your sources

00:41:58.420 are

00:41:58.700 Microsoft,

00:42:00.220 the FBI,

00:42:03.000 and

00:42:03.480 intelligence

00:42:04.060 people, let's

00:42:04.860 say Homeland

00:42:05.300 Security or

00:42:06.000 something like

00:42:06.320 that, within

00:42:07.320 our government,

00:42:08.060 and then our

00:42:08.500 government, who

00:42:09.820 is Democrat at

00:42:10.680 the moment, if

00:42:11.220 those are your

00:42:11.680 sources, none

00:42:13.040 of those are

00:42:13.440 credible.

00:42:14.420 Not even a

00:42:15.260 little bit.

00:42:16.300 Those are not

00:42:16.760 even slightly

00:42:17.500 credible sources

00:42:18.460 based on what

00:42:19.420 we know from

00:42:19.960 the last

00:42:20.300 number of

00:42:20.820 years.

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00:42:53.200 So here are the

00:42:54.260 things we've seen

00:42:55.060 happen.

00:42:56.280 There was an

00:42:57.300 attempted hit on

00:42:59.600 Trump's life.

00:43:01.640 He had a plane

00:43:02.580 mechanical failure,

00:43:04.020 but not bad enough

00:43:05.080 so that the landing

00:43:06.020 looked dangerous.

00:43:07.260 I don't know what

00:43:07.640 the mechanical failure

00:43:08.500 was.

00:43:11.040 Then there's that

00:43:11.960 weird story of the

00:43:13.280 terrorist who was

00:43:14.680 planning to kill

00:43:15.780 people, including

00:43:16.680 Trump, and somehow

00:43:18.100 he was

00:43:18.720 caught and

00:43:20.000 interviewed at the

00:43:20.760 border and

00:43:21.380 considered a risk,

00:43:23.020 and then just

00:43:23.720 let go.

00:43:24.920 We don't know

00:43:25.600 why.

00:43:26.680 So you've got

00:43:27.320 suspicious secret

00:43:29.140 service failure,

00:43:32.640 and then whoever

00:43:34.540 talked to this

00:43:35.560 must have been the

00:43:36.360 FBI failure, and

00:43:38.560 then you've got

00:43:39.240 those mechanical

00:43:41.180 failure, a lot of

00:43:44.500 failures.

00:43:45.060 And then the

00:43:47.380 website didn't

00:43:48.840 have a good

00:43:49.280 enough cybersecurity

00:43:50.100 failed.

00:43:52.420 So I don't

00:43:53.820 know.

00:43:54.400 I think this

00:43:55.360 could easily be

00:43:56.160 confirmation bias,

00:43:58.120 meaning that it's

00:43:59.820 looking like they're

00:44:00.640 just, it looks like

00:44:01.860 Democrats are

00:44:02.480 literally trying to

00:44:03.300 kill Trump.

00:44:04.440 But are they?

00:44:07.260 I think

00:44:09.220 confirmation bias

00:44:10.380 would explain

00:44:11.460 everything you've

00:44:12.160 seen, but so

00:44:14.960 would them trying

00:44:15.780 to kill him.

00:44:18.080 So it would look

00:44:18.980 the same either

00:44:19.620 way.

00:44:20.320 So you can't say

00:44:21.260 it looks like

00:44:22.000 they're trying to

00:44:22.560 kill him, so he

00:44:23.220 must be trying to

00:44:23.900 kill him.

00:44:25.000 What you should

00:44:25.580 say is it would

00:44:26.980 look like that even

00:44:28.000 if they weren't.

00:44:30.480 So what we're

00:44:31.500 observing is

00:44:32.240 consistent with the

00:44:33.680 idea that

00:44:34.660 somebody's trying to

00:44:35.420 take him out.

00:44:35.960 It's consistent, but

00:44:38.080 it doesn't mean

00:44:38.420 it's true, because

00:44:39.860 you would imagine

00:44:40.740 you saw it if it

00:44:42.980 were true or not.

00:44:44.080 And we imagine

00:44:45.660 we see all these

00:44:46.460 little signals that

00:44:47.340 might not be real.

00:44:50.120 Well, Elon Musk

00:44:50.880 says that they've

00:44:52.000 added encryption to

00:44:53.120 the direct messages

00:44:54.200 within X.

00:44:56.840 That wouldn't make

00:44:58.200 any difference to

00:44:59.240 my situation, because

00:45:00.940 whatever's happening,

00:45:01.920 somebody's just

00:45:02.480 inside my system

00:45:03.540 reading my messages.

00:45:05.040 So I don't think

00:45:05.920 that, I don't

00:45:07.220 think encryption

00:45:07.800 can help, because

00:45:09.240 it looks like

00:45:09.700 they're just in my

00:45:10.360 account, the same

00:45:11.200 as I am.

00:45:12.480 Now, because it's

00:45:16.380 hard for me to get

00:45:17.360 in my own account,

00:45:18.720 you know, I've got

00:45:19.180 authentication, and

00:45:20.700 you know, if I just

00:45:22.400 turn off my browser,

00:45:23.540 I've got to go

00:45:24.080 through this whole,

00:45:24.780 you know, security

00:45:26.360 thing to get back

00:45:27.160 online in X.

00:45:28.840 So it's not like

00:45:30.380 whoever's reading

00:45:32.280 my DMs, it's not

00:45:34.740 like they just got

00:45:35.460 my password.

00:45:37.100 Because if they got

00:45:38.100 my password, it still

00:45:39.080 wouldn't work, because

00:45:40.580 the signal to log on

00:45:42.680 would come to my

00:45:43.380 personal phone, and I

00:45:45.100 would say, I'm not

00:45:45.740 trying to log on, so

00:45:47.780 it wouldn't work.

00:45:49.320 So whoever it is, is

00:45:51.120 either a state actor or

00:45:52.820 an insider, or it's the

00:45:55.740 weirdest bug in the

00:45:56.820 world, but I don't

00:45:57.920 believe it's a bug.

00:46:00.660 Anyway, so don't

00:46:02.300 trust anything to, and

00:46:04.500 Elon Musk says don't

00:46:05.880 trust their encrypted

00:46:06.780 messaging yet, but I

00:46:08.920 would add, don't ever

00:46:09.840 trust encrypted

00:46:10.900 messaging.

00:46:12.040 I don't believe there's

00:46:13.320 anything like a truly

00:46:15.560 encrypted message.

00:46:16.880 At the very least, if

00:46:18.160 they've hacked into

00:46:18.800 your phone, they can

00:46:20.720 see what you're

00:46:21.340 typing before it gets

00:46:23.500 encrypted.

00:46:23.900 And if the person

00:46:25.940 you send the message

00:46:26.820 to is not really who

00:46:28.360 you think they are, and

00:46:29.720 they decide to share the

00:46:30.740 message, well, that's

00:46:32.140 not encrypted then

00:46:33.100 either, because they're

00:46:35.060 actually just reading it.

00:46:36.540 So they just take a

00:46:37.640 screenshot and send it to

00:46:38.920 the newspaper.

00:46:40.340 So no, nothing you do is

00:46:42.000 encrypted in any way

00:46:43.460 that's important.

00:46:46.400 There's a website now

00:46:48.280 that allows you to

00:46:49.120 calculate what would

00:46:50.120 happen to your taxes

00:46:51.140 under a Harris

00:46:52.480 administration.

00:46:53.280 If they allow the tax

00:46:55.240 law, the tax cuts, I

00:46:57.220 guess, to lapse.

00:46:59.340 And so I went to it

00:47:00.400 and I put in my

00:47:03.020 personal income and

00:47:04.820 age and what did it

00:47:07.120 ask me?

00:47:07.640 Just age and income

00:47:09.140 and what state I live

00:47:10.440 in.

00:47:11.120 And it said that I

00:47:12.220 would save a lot of

00:47:13.080 money on taxes if

00:47:14.540 Kamala Harris becomes

00:47:16.420 president.

00:47:16.880 now remember, there's

00:47:19.880 there's no accounting

00:47:20.940 there's no accounting

00:47:23.040 for any write-offs

00:47:25.500 so that it doesn't ask

00:47:27.500 you about any

00:47:28.040 deductions except kids.

00:47:29.620 I said zero.

00:47:31.460 So it's just income,

00:47:34.020 age and state.

00:47:36.620 And I put in two

00:47:38.500 different incomes and two

00:47:39.780 different ages just to see

00:47:41.120 if I get a different

00:47:42.380 number.

00:47:42.700 In every case, I

00:47:45.160 would save money on

00:47:46.240 taxes if Harris becomes

00:47:47.780 president.

00:47:49.140 Does that sound

00:47:50.340 accurate to you?

00:47:52.360 Do you think that the

00:47:53.280 people who made that

00:47:55.660 said that a relatively

00:47:57.820 high-income person with

00:47:59.340 no deductions is going

00:48:01.820 to pay less under the

00:48:03.020 Harris tax plans?

00:48:03.920 No, obviously, the

00:48:06.780 fucking page doesn't

00:48:07.840 work.

00:48:08.880 So I'm not going to

00:48:11.380 give you the website

00:48:12.340 because obviously the

00:48:14.580 fucking thing doesn't

00:48:15.580 work.

00:48:16.300 There's no way that I'm

00:48:17.880 going to pay a lot less

00:48:19.260 taxes if Harris gets

00:48:20.740 elected and my tax

00:48:22.420 my tax rate goes up.

00:48:26.240 Because the whole

00:48:27.180 conversation is she's

00:48:28.540 going to allow the tax

00:48:30.060 cuts that, you know,

00:48:32.360 she would say applied

00:48:33.300 more to high-income

00:48:34.120 people.

00:48:34.920 She'll let them lapse

00:48:36.060 because they had a

00:48:36.760 deadline on them.

00:48:38.380 How in the world do I

00:48:39.480 save taxes when my tax

00:48:41.080 rate goes up and

00:48:42.340 there's no other

00:48:42.940 deductions?

00:48:44.220 That's not a thing.

00:48:45.880 So, no, don't trust

00:48:46.880 that.

00:48:49.720 All right.

00:48:54.360 There's a report, I

00:48:55.680 don't know if it's

00:48:56.180 true, that the U.S.

00:48:57.180 is doing this long

00:48:59.100 shot play to see if

00:49:00.240 they can get the

00:49:00.840 Venezuelan

00:49:01.500 President Maduro

00:49:02.540 to give up power in

00:49:04.620 exchange for amnesty.

00:49:07.120 To which I say, nobody

00:49:09.260 does that.

00:49:10.460 Yeah, that's a pretty

00:49:11.320 big long shot.

00:49:12.820 Have you ever heard of a

00:49:13.660 dictator just surrendering

00:49:15.240 and saying, you know

00:49:15.820 what?

00:49:16.920 Yeah.

00:49:17.660 Yeah.

00:49:17.960 Now that you mention it,

00:49:19.440 being a dictator in

00:49:21.360 exile sounds like a much

00:49:22.640 better deal than running

00:49:24.640 my whole country and

00:49:26.220 having total power of my

00:49:27.540 country.

00:49:27.860 No.

00:49:29.340 By the time you have

00:49:30.280 total power over a

00:49:31.300 country and you're a

00:49:32.440 dictator, you don't

00:49:34.220 really want to give that

00:49:35.180 up for anything.

00:49:36.120 So I don't think that's

00:49:37.160 going to work.

00:49:37.780 But it does make me think

00:49:38.980 we need a dictator

00:49:39.880 retirement plan.

00:49:42.440 Wouldn't it be great if

00:49:43.560 you went to some country

00:49:44.520 like, let's just say

00:49:45.560 Venezuela, you said,

00:49:46.940 look, here's the deal.

00:49:48.920 We can't let you stay

00:49:50.420 here and we have a big

00:49:51.420 army and, you know, we

00:49:53.180 have lots of dirty tricks.

00:49:54.280 So if you stay here, it's

00:49:56.320 going to be very bad for

00:49:57.380 you.

00:49:57.840 I can't even tell you how,

00:49:58.980 but wow, it's going to be

00:50:00.160 bad for you.

00:50:01.480 However, we have this new

00:50:03.880 dictator retirement plan.

00:50:06.560 You're going to go to the

00:50:07.760 loveliest place in Hawaii,

00:50:10.360 let's say, and the other

00:50:12.460 dictators might be on that

00:50:13.720 island too.

00:50:14.400 So you might meet some

00:50:15.180 other fellow dictators that

00:50:16.480 you think are fun and we'll

00:50:18.020 put you behind the gated

00:50:18.960 community with lots of good

00:50:20.880 security because, you know,

00:50:22.260 your life will always be in

00:50:23.300 danger as a retired

00:50:24.280 dictator, but we'll make

00:50:25.860 sure that nobody can get

00:50:26.880 to you and we'll make sure

00:50:29.440 that you can take some of

00:50:30.460 your stolen money with you

00:50:31.680 and just bring it to the

00:50:33.080 United States because we

00:50:35.020 like your stolen money.

00:50:36.280 Good for our economy.

00:50:38.080 And you can just live out

00:50:39.460 your days in this greatest

00:50:41.700 golf cart, you know,

00:50:44.020 friendly community and you

00:50:48.180 can retire to that and we

00:50:49.340 guarantee that you will be

00:50:50.460 safe.

00:50:50.760 And all of your family can

00:50:53.040 come live with you too and

00:50:54.320 you'll all be safe forever.

00:50:56.920 I don't think anybody's going

00:50:58.200 to take anybody up on that

00:50:59.360 because they wouldn't trust

00:51:00.180 that they'd be safe forever,

00:51:01.300 but we shouldn't expect

00:51:04.120 dictators to retire or just

00:51:06.840 give up power just because we

00:51:10.780 asked.

00:51:13.900 All right.

00:51:14.420 I need an in-between sip.

00:51:20.980 Ah, much better.

00:51:23.340 All right.

00:51:23.920 Now we get to the meat of

00:51:24.820 things.

00:51:26.180 There's a recent Pew research

00:51:29.720 study about people wanting

00:51:32.460 kids.

00:51:33.520 And there are three reasons why

00:51:34.960 people having fewer kids in

00:51:36.240 America.

00:51:36.760 One is fertility is having some

00:51:38.800 problems.

00:51:39.960 The other is people can't

00:51:41.340 afford it.

00:51:41.840 Kids in marriage are too

00:51:43.640 expensive.

00:51:44.940 And the other is people just

00:51:47.760 don't want kids.

00:51:49.940 What would make people not

00:51:51.940 want to have kids if they

00:51:53.480 could afford it?

00:51:55.100 So I suppose money wasn't

00:51:56.380 part of the problem.

00:51:57.820 It is, but suppose it

00:51:59.140 wasn't.

00:52:00.460 Why would you not want kids

00:52:02.100 today when you did want kids

00:52:04.100 in the past?

00:52:05.060 I would like to offer the

00:52:06.960 following possibility.

00:52:07.940 And this is from a story of

00:52:10.220 a friend of mine years ago.

00:52:12.580 His teenage son was

00:52:14.660 graduated high school and was

00:52:16.700 going to go off to college.

00:52:19.240 And I said to him, you know,

00:52:20.900 privately at a party, I said,

00:52:24.540 wow, you know, how are you

00:52:26.180 going to deal with the empty

00:52:27.740 house?

00:52:28.800 Because that would leave just

00:52:29.760 the two parents in the house

00:52:31.420 alone.

00:52:32.300 And he looked at me and said,

00:52:34.060 no different.

00:52:34.800 I haven't seen him in years.

00:52:35.860 And I said, you know, I

00:52:37.940 and I said to myself, OK,

00:52:40.980 that's obviously not true.

00:52:44.380 You can't have somebody living

00:52:45.720 in your house.

00:52:47.700 Like living there full time

00:52:49.280 and you don't see them.

00:52:50.760 And he would say, yeah,

00:52:52.680 when he comes home, he just

00:52:54.280 goes into his bedroom.

00:52:56.200 Get some food and maybe grabs

00:52:58.680 a plate, goes into his

00:52:59.720 bedroom and then we'll see him

00:53:01.960 leave in the morning to school

00:53:03.220 if we happen to be in the

00:53:04.340 room.

00:53:04.780 But if we're not in the if

00:53:06.660 we're not in the room, he

00:53:07.560 walks through to leave the

00:53:08.600 house.

00:53:09.100 We don't see him leaving in

00:53:10.380 the morning.

00:53:11.740 And then he's gone all day.

00:53:14.280 And then he's with his friends

00:53:15.500 after school.

00:53:17.240 And then he comes home at, you

00:53:18.780 know, nine o'clock.

00:53:20.460 Does his homework by himself in

00:53:22.080 his room and then goes to

00:53:23.340 sleep.

00:53:24.120 We haven't seen him in years.

00:53:27.300 And I thought that was pretty

00:53:28.720 much an exaggeration.

00:53:31.160 Until I saw it myself

00:53:32.520 in the modern world, even if

00:53:36.360 you're with

00:53:37.200 a teenager that's your own

00:53:39.540 teenager, they're on their

00:53:40.600 phone.

00:53:41.980 You're not with them when you're

00:53:43.360 with them.

00:53:43.940 You're not with them when you're

00:53:45.200 driving them in the car.

00:53:46.800 You're not with them when they're

00:53:48.020 in their bedroom.

00:53:49.080 You're not with them

00:53:50.220 ever.

00:53:52.300 So

00:53:52.700 one of the reasons that people

00:53:54.780 probably don't want kids is that

00:53:56.720 you don't really have them.

00:53:57.980 You have an expense.

00:53:59.220 You have a new set of problems

00:54:02.540 you didn't have before.

00:54:03.960 And, you know, I know it's

00:54:04.880 rewarding and in the ways that I

00:54:06.820 can't understand.

00:54:07.600 I get that.

00:54:08.560 But you don't actually spend much

00:54:10.600 time with them after they reach

00:54:12.300 a certain age.

00:54:13.640 And it's not a very old age.

00:54:17.340 So I can certainly see that in the

00:54:19.680 modern world where people are just

00:54:21.440 cyborgs addicted to phones after a

00:54:24.220 certain age, that it's just not the

00:54:26.340 same.

00:54:26.620 You know, the experience of being

00:54:30.320 with your own family is completely

00:54:32.240 different than it used to be.

00:54:33.760 Now, your mileage may vary and

00:54:36.140 you're going to tell me, no, Scott,

00:54:38.340 I tell my teenagers to leave their

00:54:40.780 phone when we go camping.

00:54:43.500 No, you don't.

00:54:46.580 No, you don't.

00:54:48.720 Anyway.

00:54:50.700 Over in the UK, they're going to

00:54:53.780 have some kind of curriculum for the

00:54:56.480 kids to teach the kids how to

00:54:58.000 spot fake news.

00:54:59.960 Are you worried if

00:55:02.000 if the UK is teaching their kids

00:55:04.040 how to spot fake news?

00:55:05.880 And I think there's some programs

00:55:07.460 like that in the United States,

00:55:09.020 small ones.

00:55:10.320 Well, let me tell you how I teach

00:55:12.380 people to spot fake news.

00:55:14.400 And I want you to tell me

00:55:15.960 how many of those things do you

00:55:18.340 think they're going to teach the

00:55:19.620 kids?

00:55:21.000 Right.

00:55:21.400 So they're going to teach them how

00:55:23.100 to spot fake news.

00:55:24.180 And I'm going to give you a pretty

00:55:25.580 good list of ways to spot fake news.

00:55:28.860 You tell me if you think the kids

00:55:30.920 will be taught any of that.

00:55:33.720 All right.

00:55:36.240 So here's how I would tell you to

00:55:38.780 spot fake news.

00:55:40.840 Number one, you need to know that no

00:55:43.400 government can survive real news.

00:55:45.720 That's just my first one.

00:55:51.060 Do you think do you think that

00:55:52.460 when they teach them how to spot

00:55:54.320 fake news, they can say, look,

00:55:55.780 you have to understand that anything

00:55:57.360 that comes from the government

00:55:58.560 or anything the government can

00:56:00.520 influence, such as any news that's

00:56:02.880 on the air, if it were real.

00:56:06.720 What be they democratically elected

00:56:08.960 or be they dictators?

00:56:10.840 They really couldn't survive if the

00:56:13.940 public had real news.

00:56:16.720 Do you think the students are being

00:56:18.360 taught that it's all fake?

00:56:22.160 It's all fake because it has to be

00:56:24.300 because no government could survive

00:56:27.120 an actual free press with real news.

00:56:31.060 Now, if you don't teach them that,

00:56:34.100 is anything else going to matter?

00:56:37.900 Because then they're going to think

00:56:39.120 there's some fake way that they can

00:56:40.700 tell what's real.

00:56:42.140 And do you know what I believe

00:56:43.940 they're going to hear?

00:56:44.700 I believe that the students will be

00:56:47.860 taught that the way to spot fake news

00:56:50.820 is by the source.

00:56:54.800 That if it comes from a bunch of

00:56:56.500 scientists and the government, it's

00:56:58.220 true.

00:56:58.620 And if it comes from Breitbart, it's false.

00:57:05.940 You know, that's what they're going to teach

00:57:07.540 them.

00:57:08.220 They're going to say, these are New York

00:57:10.300 Times, you know, they'll do the Great Britain

00:57:12.460 version of it.

00:57:13.120 But if it were the United States, we'd say

00:57:15.140 the New York Times is real.

00:57:17.780 But you've got to watch out for that

00:57:19.220 Breitbart.

00:57:20.520 And and by the way, Fox News just makes

00:57:22.640 up news.

00:57:23.860 But CNN, legitimate news.

00:57:26.920 MSNBC.

00:57:27.900 Well, there you go.

00:57:28.960 There you go to get your good news.

00:57:31.320 You know, your reliable stuff.

00:57:32.520 But whatever you do, don't listen to

00:57:35.740 something that Elon Musk said on X.

00:57:39.040 Yeah.

00:57:40.540 All right.

00:57:41.220 So they're not going to tell their kids

00:57:42.820 that the government can't even survive if

00:57:44.980 the news were real.

00:57:46.480 And here we're talking about the

00:57:47.620 geopolitical news.

00:57:48.620 Second thing I would teach a kid is you

00:57:52.140 have to know the players.

00:57:54.140 You should know, for example, that in the

00:57:56.260 United States, there's a liar squad.

00:57:59.300 The Democrats who are always called out

00:58:02.020 for the big lies, you know, the Schiff

00:58:04.900 and the Raskin and the Swalwell, to name

00:58:07.940 a few.

00:58:08.560 If you see those specific characters, you

00:58:11.060 know, Brennan, Clapper, if you see any of

00:58:13.900 them on the news, it's because there's a

00:58:16.440 whopper coming, like a really big hoax.

00:58:20.140 Now, if you didn't know that you can

00:58:21.600 identify whether the news is real by

00:58:24.260 knowing who the professional liars are,

00:58:27.100 well, you haven't really taught kids much

00:58:28.780 at all, have you?

00:58:32.460 How about knowing which entities in the

00:58:34.640 news are controlled by intelligence

00:58:37.700 outlets?

00:58:39.480 If you are up with things in the United

00:58:42.460 States, you say to yourself, oh, Washington

00:58:44.500 Post story, Washington Post, highly

00:58:47.720 suggested to be influenced by the

00:58:51.020 intelligence community.

00:58:52.740 So therefore, any story in that domain is

00:58:55.200 automatically almost certainly false.

00:58:59.140 Now, do you think that the kids will learn

00:59:01.000 that?

00:59:02.080 No, they'll just learn that things on the

00:59:04.440 political right are wrong and things on

00:59:07.600 the left are right.

00:59:08.680 How about the fact checking?

00:59:10.780 If I were teaching kids how to spot fake

00:59:13.380 news, I'd say one of the things you really

00:59:14.960 need to know is fake.

00:59:16.180 The fact checkers are fake.

00:59:19.140 What?

00:59:20.200 Yeah, the fact checkers are fake.

00:59:22.060 They're to make you think that the fake

00:59:24.220 news is real.

00:59:25.600 That's why they exist.

00:59:27.100 They are created for that purpose.

00:59:29.660 And you won't know if there's a real one.

00:59:32.160 You might see, you know, competing fact

00:59:34.600 checks.

00:59:35.280 You won't know what the real one is.

00:59:36.800 I would also say that when they correct the

00:59:40.180 news, you don't see the correction, but they

00:59:43.800 can stay honest by saying, oh, we corrected

00:59:45.940 that.

00:59:46.540 But by then it's done all its damage and that

00:59:48.740 that's probably intentional.

00:59:51.520 I would teach kids about gel man amnesia.

00:59:54.560 The fact that if you know a topic, you can

00:59:57.360 tell that it's fake news because you're an

00:59:59.100 expert.

00:59:59.700 But then you turn the page to a topic in which

01:00:02.020 you're not an expert and suddenly you believe the

01:00:04.580 news might be real.

01:00:06.240 Well, why is it always wrong when it's a topic

01:00:09.320 that you understand?

01:00:12.380 This is a very important thing for somebody to

01:00:15.200 know if they're trying to pick out fake news.

01:00:18.220 Do you think that kids will be taught that all

01:00:20.460 complicated prediction models are fake?

01:00:24.120 They are.

01:00:26.640 Do you think anybody's going to say, okay, you

01:00:28.720 can't believe climate change models because there's

01:00:31.260 no such thing as predicting the future 100 years in

01:00:33.840 advance?

01:00:34.900 No, they'll tell them the opposite.

01:00:36.980 They'll say 98% of the scientists say these models

01:00:39.640 are good.

01:00:40.060 That's why you know they're good.

01:00:42.840 Will they teach the students that 98% of scientists

01:00:46.260 can very easily lie and it's more likely than not

01:00:50.100 because they have bosses and they work for big

01:00:53.500 companies or they need grants and stuff and they

01:00:57.340 couldn't do their jobs and stay in their profession

01:00:59.340 if they told the truth.

01:01:02.220 So therefore, 98% of scientists being on any side

01:01:06.160 no longer means anything.

01:01:08.480 Although it might have.

01:01:09.480 There might have been a time in the past when it did,

01:01:11.360 but it definitely doesn't now because all those

01:01:13.600 scientists work for somebody or depend on somebody for

01:01:16.420 their income.

01:01:16.820 How about the two on the nose trick?

01:01:21.700 The one I use all the time where you hear a story

01:01:23.820 that's just, you know, so perfectly crafted for the

01:01:29.480 political situation.

01:01:30.920 You go, that's a little too perfect and almost always

01:01:34.800 those are fake.

01:01:36.260 How about the anonymous sources?

01:01:38.920 If the New York Times reports an anonymous source in the

01:01:44.560 White House said, are these kids going to be taught that

01:01:48.240 the New York Times said it's what's probably true?

01:01:51.100 Or are they going to be taught that every story with an

01:01:53.640 anonymous source is fake when it comes to politics?

01:01:56.560 All of them.

01:01:57.260 They're all fake.

01:01:58.700 No, probably they're not going to teach them the truth.

01:02:00.700 They're going to teach them that if the New York Times

01:02:02.360 said it, you could probably depend on that.

01:02:03.920 How about, will they show them the hoax quiz that in the

01:02:10.880 United States, there's a list of 20 known hoaxes that were

01:02:14.260 perpetrated and organized by the people at the top of the

01:02:17.900 political world on one side?

01:02:20.240 Now, there's probably some equivalent in the UK.

01:02:24.420 Do you think they'll show them all their hoaxes?

01:02:25.980 No, because those hoaxes have already been sold to them as

01:02:30.680 true by the hoaxers.

01:02:33.920 So they'll actually teach them that the hoaxes are true and

01:02:38.100 that that doesn't need to be part of their hoax detection.

01:02:42.360 Will they teach them that some of the hoaxes are organized

01:02:45.920 top down and that they have massive media collusion and that

01:02:49.620 the media starts using the same language at the same time,

01:02:52.480 which tells you that it's brainwashing, not news?

01:02:56.080 Will the kids learn that?

01:02:57.240 I doubt it.

01:02:59.060 Will the kids learn about RUPAR edits?

01:03:01.460 Will they learn that you can reverse, not just change, completely reverse what

01:03:09.400 somebody said by a clever edit, just taking away a clarification?

01:03:14.460 Will they teach them that so that you cannot trust any quote that you see in the video?

01:03:21.420 Will they teach them how to spot an AI fake?

01:03:23.920 Maybe that might actually be part of the lessons, but will they teach them to not trust any picture

01:03:32.020 of anything from now on, which would be the way I would teach it.

01:03:36.700 Will they learn about how the government uses NGOs and relationships with intelligence people in

01:03:43.000 other countries to take down critics?

01:03:46.740 Probably not.

01:03:48.760 And all of that's related to free speech and what's true and what's not.

01:03:53.360 So imagine if I wrote the lesson on how to spot fake news.

01:03:59.420 How close would that be to what the government approved lessons on spotting fake news are going to be?

01:04:05.280 Your government, including the UK, are in the brainwashing business.

01:04:11.460 They're not in the giving you useful and correct information business.

01:04:15.740 If they were, they would go in a business themselves.

01:04:18.360 Because like I said, no government can survive accurate news.

01:04:24.940 It would just be too ugly and people wouldn't support it after a while.

01:04:28.760 So that, ladies and gentlemen, is the conclusion of my prepared remarks.

01:04:37.180 And since it's Sunday, I think you should have a little extra time to go enjoy your family,

01:04:43.740 your life, your hobbies, get a little exercise, get a little sun, and feel amazing today.

01:04:50.400 But I'm going to talk a little bit privately to the wonderful and beautiful subscribers of my locals channel.

01:04:57.080 And I'm going to say no, say no.

01:05:00.320 I'm going to say goodbye to X and YouTube and Rumble.

01:05:03.860 And I will see all of you tomorrow.

01:05:06.320 Same time, same place.

01:05:07.860 Thanks for joining.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 11, 2024

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