Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2600 CWSA 09⧸17⧸24

00:00:00.080 A tanker, chalice, or stein, a canteen, jug, or a flask, a vessel of any kind.

00:00:04.860 Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

00:00:08.080 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day,

00:00:11.940 the thing that makes everything better.

00:00:14.020 It's called the simultaneous sip.

00:00:16.660 What happens now? Go.

00:00:22.120 Oh, my God. So good.

00:00:26.000 Sublime.

00:00:26.520 Well, according to the New York Post, can a good cup of coffee turn a bad day around?

00:00:34.020 Yes. Yes, it can.

00:00:36.440 This is the kind of science you need.

00:00:39.280 There's a poll of 2,000 American coffee drinkers,

00:00:42.460 and 31% of them said their entire day can be ruined if their coffee isn't right.

00:00:48.200 That's why your coffee should always lean right.

00:00:51.420 You don't want leftist coffee.

00:00:54.280 Is that what they mean?

00:00:54.980 No, I think they just mean if it isn't correct, not right.

00:00:59.580 But one person in five claimed that fresh coffee is, quote, better than sex. 0.55

00:01:06.160 Now, when I heard that, I instantly said to myself, fresh coffee is better than sex. 0.76

00:01:15.700 Come on.

00:01:17.360 Now, in the process of testing to make sure that that was true or not,

00:01:23.540 I learned something that I want to pass along. 0.99

00:01:26.440 If you're planning to have sex with your coffee, wait about 10 minutes. 1.00

00:01:31.620 Otherwise, you will burn your penis. 1.00

00:01:34.440 But one in five say coffee is better than sex, so they probably wait 10 minutes. 1.00

00:01:40.040 That's my guess.

00:01:41.300 Because if they were burning themselves, they'd say, not nearly as good.

00:01:45.180 Not nearly as good.

00:01:46.200 But it also raises the question, for the one in five who said coffee is better than sex, I'd like to see their sex partners, just for complete information.

00:01:59.160 And were you pulling the 10s?

00:02:02.700 Maybe not. 1.00

00:02:03.520 Because when I walk down the sidewalks of my town and I look at the other human beings, I say, hmm, I'd rather have coffee than have sex with you. 1.00

00:02:15.940 Yep, you, I'd rather have coffee than sex with you and you and you. 1.00

00:02:20.900 Well, you're almost as good as a cup of coffee over there. 1.00

00:02:23.940 So that is how I see the world.

00:02:25.300 Well, there's new research, according to Cytec Daily, that reveals that cannabis can reverse brain aging.

00:02:35.600 That's right.

00:02:37.120 A low-dose, long-term administration of cannabis.

00:02:40.800 It turns out, study shows it reverses aging process in the brain and also exhibits anti-aging effects.

00:02:49.540 Now, you know who knew that?

00:02:52.520 You could have asked me.

00:02:56.780 All right, I want to be clear that I never recommend marijuana, even if it's legal in your town.

00:03:05.120 Don't do it.

00:03:07.520 So it's not really a good habit to get into.

00:03:11.100 However, I will tell you that my experience of it is that I would have retired from my profession probably 10 years ago.

00:03:22.520 But honestly, my brain feels like it's 19.

00:03:26.460 And I'm pretty sure that my lifestyle habits have something to do with that.

00:03:31.760 Because you can actually feel the difference if you're a chronic user like I am.

00:03:37.080 But the difference between, oh, I've already worked too much today and, wow, I feel like I'm 19.

00:03:44.440 I'm full of ideas.

00:03:46.360 It happens pretty quickly.

00:03:48.380 And I would have actually been surprised if it didn't make your brain more, let's say, more flexible in a youthful way.

00:04:00.320 It's what it feels like.

00:04:02.160 So I'm not surprised.

00:04:05.580 Well, Glenn Greenwald, he was talking to the FCC Commissioner, Brendan Carr.

00:04:14.180 And I guess the question was, why would you be in favor of banning TikTok when you would not be in favor of Brazil banning X?

00:04:24.380 Because in both cases, that would be a country banning a platform, a free speech platform.

00:04:30.960 So why would you be in favor of banning one but not the other?

00:04:34.300 To which I would like to add my comment.

00:04:39.820 One of them is an enemy.

00:04:43.660 And one of them is coming from our team.

00:04:47.600 Let me see if we can do this with an analogy.

00:04:50.960 Now, analogies are never good reasons, but sometimes they're fun.

00:04:57.100 What would be the difference between giving a gun to your best friend who's trained in guns and on your side versus giving a loaded gun to a deranged criminal?

00:05:11.900 Why wouldn't they be the same?

00:05:13.400 It's the same gun.

00:05:16.040 Right?

00:05:16.780 Same gun. 0.97

00:05:17.420 One, why would you care if you give it to your best friend who's trained to use it and wants to defend you versus somebody who wants to use it to kill you and rob you?

00:05:25.640 What's the difference, really?

00:05:27.120 It's the same gun, people.

00:05:28.880 It's the same gun.

00:05:29.780 If you're in favor of one, you're in favor of the other.

00:05:32.100 I don't see any difference.

00:05:33.940 Well, now, of course, all analogies are terrible for arguments.

00:05:38.400 Because those of you who disagree with me are saying, let me pick apart something about the analogy that's not identical.

00:05:46.620 Well, analogies are not meant to be identical.

00:05:51.000 But since everybody will pretend that they don't know that when you present an analogy, analogies have no value.

00:05:57.360 Because people will just say, but it's different in another way that doesn't make any difference.

00:06:05.040 So don't use analogies.

00:06:07.320 But I would say that there is a valid case for getting rid of a weapon of mass destruction in the hands of your enemy versus a communication tool that might have things you don't like on it.

00:06:19.260 But they're not exactly the same.

00:06:22.400 So to imagine that they're just both free speech platforms is, I would say, a limited view.

00:06:31.900 P. Diddy apparently has been arrested.

00:06:34.800 We don't know the details of P. Diddy.

00:06:36.900 But what people are saying is that he was the Epstein blackmailer of the music rapper world.

00:06:44.160 And then allegedly his home had cameras in every room and he would have big parties in which he would convince rappers to do gay stuff and get it on camera. 0.55

00:06:55.200 And then blackmail and own the world.

00:06:57.700 And then he could get away with anything.

00:07:00.080 Those are the allegations.

00:07:02.380 They do sound a little bit true-ish.

00:07:05.340 Meaning that, yeah, I could believe that that's what's happening.

00:07:09.340 But I remind you, it's fog of war and absolutely anything could be true about this story.

00:07:16.540 And anything that they tell us could be false.

00:07:19.060 So, as hard as this is for me to say, P. Diddy is innocent until proven guilty.

00:07:30.080 And he hasn't been proven guilty.

00:07:31.320 So, as a citizen, I'm going to give him the same consideration I give every citizen, which is he's innocent until proven guilty.

00:07:43.740 Now, if something comes out that sounds like proof, I will immediately modify my opinion, as I should.

00:07:51.840 But at the moment, the only thing I know is that law enforcement is accusing him of something.

00:07:55.800 And I live in a world where law enforcement accusing you of something doesn't mean nearly as much as it used to.

00:08:03.640 Maybe it never meant anything.

00:08:05.040 I don't know.

00:08:06.000 But, no, as a concept, I'm going to say, let's wait.

00:08:11.720 Let's wait.

00:08:12.400 If they've got a case, we'll listen.

00:08:14.580 But innocent until proven guilty.

00:08:19.900 Chipotle is experimenting with some robots to replace their employees.

00:08:23.800 They've got one robot that can perfectly peel an avocado.

00:08:28.640 I've got to get one of those.

00:08:30.160 I need an avocado robot.

00:08:33.260 Just to brag about.

00:08:35.560 You know, because at some point we'll have more than one robot.

00:08:39.120 And you'll get to say, like, really douchebag things like, oh, oh, no, that's just my service robot.

00:08:45.940 If we want coffee, you need to talk to the coffee robot.

00:08:50.200 No, no, no.

00:08:50.820 Not for the avocados.

00:08:52.140 That's the avocado robot.

00:08:54.580 Come on.

00:08:55.380 I've got more than one robot.

00:08:59.160 So that's happening.

00:09:00.740 Now, the question I have is how the industries will adapt to robots.

00:09:06.440 Because it seems to me that any company that's already big is going to have a terrible time getting rid of all their people and replacing them with robots.

00:09:16.660 Because there might be union problems.

00:09:18.180 Because there might be lawsuits.

00:09:20.680 There's going to be all kinds of problems.

00:09:22.240 So I have a hypothesis that the first robot fast food place will have to be a new startup.

00:09:30.600 Because it seems like it would be way easier to start from it's all robots all the time on day one.

00:09:37.580 And I think it should be a soup and I think it should be a soup and salad place.

00:09:42.380 Because if I were making robots, I think they could do a great job on soups and salads.

00:09:48.300 It might take them a while to saute or make a sandwich.

00:09:53.480 But a soup and a salad, mostly it's just chopping and putting stuff in a bowl.

00:09:57.820 Well, Bill Malugian, Fox News, is reporting about the number of asylum seekers.

00:10:07.160 Now, remember, the asylum seekers are not technically here illegally.

00:10:11.760 Because if they came in and said, I'm here for asylum, even if someday they're turned down, while they're waiting, they're completely legal.

00:10:20.940 Now, when people lump them into the category of illegal immigrants, are they being fair about it?

00:10:27.820 Well, sort of a gray area.

00:10:31.020 So it is completely and technically legal.

00:10:35.340 Because it's our system.

00:10:37.560 And they came in through that system.

00:10:39.700 Is it just a workaround to get more illegal people into the country?

00:10:44.180 Apparently, yes.

00:10:45.880 I don't think it has anything to do with asylum.

00:10:48.640 It looks like just a Democrat plan to bring in more people.

00:10:53.000 We'll talk about that a little bit.

00:10:54.580 Elon Musk.

00:10:55.380 Well, how many of this?

00:10:58.260 According to Malugian, 530,000 migrants have been flown in.

00:11:04.860 And then, you know, they're part of the asylum program.

00:11:10.660 And another 813,000 have scheduled appointments.

00:11:15.640 Holy cow. 0.89

00:11:16.280 So Elon Musk says, this is his take on the whole asylum thing.

00:11:21.480 He says, those granted asylum become citizens within five years.

00:11:25.520 Somebody said it's really six.

00:11:28.860 But it's the same point.

00:11:30.060 Which is just over one presidential election cycle.

00:11:33.200 And then vote overwhelmingly Democrat.

00:11:35.400 And Musk says, this is why so many are being placed in large numbers in Arizona, Wisconsin, Ohio, and other swing states.

00:11:42.800 To create permanent one-party rule by the Democrats.

00:11:47.380 He puts Democrats in quotation marks because it's so anti-democratic.

00:11:52.460 Well, let's see.

00:11:56.780 Is there anything else that's happening in the country that would suggest that Elon Musk is on to something and that the Democrats are doing something that, you know, you might mildly label as undemocratic?

00:12:11.420 Is there anything coming from the Democrat side of the world that's scary or alarming or undemocratic?

00:12:20.040 Anything?

00:12:21.400 Well, I'm going to play for you a clip from Hillary Clinton.

00:12:24.660 This is new.

00:12:26.140 And it's one of the scariest things you'll ever see in your life. 0.98

00:12:29.420 I just want you to listen to her voice and look at her face and see if this doesn't scare the shit out of you. 0.98

00:12:36.420 And all she's doing is talking on TV. 0.98

00:12:39.040 It's frightening.

00:12:39.840 And let me show you.

00:12:52.080 Propaganda.

00:12:53.080 And whether they should be civilly or even in some cases criminally charged is something that would be a better deterrence than boosting Trump back in 2016.

00:13:04.060 But I also think there are Americans who are engaged in this kind of propaganda.

00:13:10.520 And whether they should be civilly or even in some cases criminally charged is something that would be a better deterrence than boosting Trump back in 2016.

00:13:21.300 I mean, is that scary?

00:13:25.000 Just listen to her voice and her mannerism while she's talking about Republicans going to jail for saying things she doesn't like.

00:13:36.500 And she's saying that in a full-throated, non-embarrassed, non-hedged way that the people saying things she doesn't like should probably go to jail or be charged.

00:13:47.700 I'm assuming jail would be, you know, the penalty.

00:13:51.620 She is scary.

00:13:53.620 Oh, my God.

00:13:55.820 Wow.

00:13:56.300 And she also said that we should take, in a separate clip from the same interview, she said that we should take Trump literally, not just figuratively.

00:14:08.720 And she used the example that when he says he wants to be a dictator for one day, that you should take that literally.

00:14:14.260 She said that in public, that you should take it literally when he says, I want to be a dictator for one day.

00:14:23.200 How in the world could you take that literally?

00:14:25.940 I mean, that sounds like, it just sounds like a joke.

00:14:28.820 I mean, it sounds like a joke that she would even tell you that you should take that literally.

00:14:33.200 Who could be a dictator for one day?

00:14:35.680 How in the world could you take that seriously?

00:14:38.820 But she's tried to sell that to her sheep. 0.98

00:14:42.100 And then she used that chaos thing. 1.00

00:14:46.460 You know, we should reject chaos and we won't go back.

00:14:50.120 And then I looked at the May's account on X, had a Joy Reid clip, where she was talking about how the Russians had been grooming Trump since 1977.

00:15:03.800 Every time you see this Russian stuff, it just makes you think, wait a minute. 0.99

00:15:09.400 Are all the Russia collusion people the same team, like a subgroup within the Democrat Party?

00:15:17.080 And I think they are.

00:15:18.820 And I think that sometimes you can see a web of connections reveal itself by who becomes visible in what situations.

00:15:27.680 So whenever you see this Russia collusion thing, I feel like there's the same subset of Democrats who all emerged to talk about it.

00:15:36.900 Joy Reid is one.

00:15:38.280 Clinton is one.

00:15:39.340 Brennan is one. 0.97

00:15:40.880 You know, the designated liars always pop up.

00:15:44.880 That's how you can tell which networks are operating within the Democrat Party.

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00:16:51.320 Anyway, here is my take on how to identify the brainwashers, such as the Hillary Clintons and Joy Reid, etc.

00:17:00.840 And by the way, I'm not using that as hyperbole.

00:17:04.400 When I say that Hillary Clinton and MSNBC are brainwashers, I mean that in the most literal sense.

00:17:14.040 It's not just propaganda.

00:17:16.600 It's propaganda with such thickness and repetition and consistency that it is just nothing but brainwashing.

00:17:24.580 Now, if you wanted to say, but Scott, that's the same thing that Hannity does on X, you can make your argument.

00:17:31.800 I'm just saying that in this case, it's obviously brainwashing.

00:17:34.300 So, I'm not saying it only happens from one side, but one side is doing it in a way that is so comprehensive and it looks like a weaponized form.

00:17:47.800 It's just more powerful than what you see on the right.

00:17:50.860 But here is your tips for knowing when you're dealing with the brainwashers or the brainwashed.

00:17:58.140 So, the brainwashers are introducing a set of terms that I'm going to tell you, and then the brainwashed are the ones who use the terms.

00:18:06.980 So, you can very easily identify the key people doing the brainwashing by using these terms,

00:18:13.960 and then you can tell when it worked by seeing the individuals repeat them.

00:18:19.120 Here are the terms that guarantee it's coming from a brainwasher or brainwashed.

00:18:24.820 These are terms that almost nobody uses outside that context of being a brainwasher or being brainwashed.

00:18:33.220 They just aren't terms that you hear otherwise.

00:18:37.040 Number one, chaos.

00:18:39.460 Number two, unhinged.

00:18:41.860 Number three, the danger to democracy or steal your democracy or it's the end of democracy.

00:18:48.320 They're all the same.

00:18:50.400 He's only in it for himself.

00:18:53.640 And we won't go back or we can't go back or he's trying to take you backwards.

00:18:59.060 Do you know what all of those things have in common?

00:19:03.200 Well, number one, they're, well, the main thing is that they can't be proven.

00:19:09.620 What exactly would be your measure of chaos and who caused it and why it's being caused?

00:19:15.720 You could never measure it.

00:19:16.780 You'd never know if it happened.

00:19:18.400 But you can easily imagine, yeah, yeah, there's a lot of chaos-looking things and maybe it's Trump.

00:19:27.260 How about unhinged?

00:19:31.000 Do you see that word much in your normal life when you're talking about your co-workers?

00:19:37.540 It's a real word.

00:19:38.780 I mean, it's just that you don't say unhinged very often. 1.00

00:19:43.240 You say crazy, stupid. 0.99

00:19:46.700 I mean, there's lots of words that we use, but unhinged seems sort of just something they're 1.00

00:19:54.040 using for Trump at the moment.

00:19:56.420 Danger to democracy.

00:19:58.400 What's that mean?

00:19:59.840 It's anything you want it to mean.

00:20:01.820 What does only in it for himself mean?

00:20:04.200 It means they're pretending they can read his mind and that he would be the only person who

00:20:09.280 thinks he could be president and do things only for himself and that would work out for

00:20:13.700 him.

00:20:13.940 It doesn't even make sense.

00:20:16.460 These are non-sensible things where it can't go back.

00:20:20.740 Now, I've told you that this is one I may have introduced back in the Clinton era.

00:20:28.100 But when you talk about going back versus forward, it's really easy to imagine that some stuff

00:20:33.800 is backwards-looking and some stuff is forwards-looking.

00:20:37.180 So these are all confirmation bias traps.

00:20:40.140 What that means is, back in 2016, when I pointed out that their persuasion, the Democrat persuasion,

00:20:48.000 was all using the word dark.

00:20:51.240 Well, it's the same thing.

00:20:53.260 Dark, chaos, unhinged, danger to democracy, only in it for himself, can't go back.

00:20:57.720 They're all the same.

00:20:58.840 They're all the same in that they're vague, but they're traps for confirmation bias.

00:21:05.080 So if I prime you with these words and I say, hey, whenever you're looking at these Republicans,

00:21:12.460 but especially Trump, there's darkness, chaos, unhinged, danger to democracy, only in it for

00:21:17.540 himself, can't go back.

00:21:18.660 Every single thing that he does, no matter how good it is, is going to fit into one of these.

00:21:27.000 You can just force fit it into any one of these.

00:21:29.760 Well, sure, that might sound good on paper, but I think he's only in it for himself.

00:21:36.040 Well, how would you know that?

00:21:38.840 And if it's also good for us, why do we care if it's also good for him?

00:21:43.040 You know, all of these have that same quality.

00:21:46.320 They're very unspecific.

00:21:48.780 They're vague.

00:21:49.660 They can't be measured, but you're sure you're seeing it because you've been primed.

00:21:55.160 The priming is everything.

00:21:56.900 If you took the priming away, nobody would see it.

00:22:00.600 I'm going to use this example again because it's such a clean one.

00:22:04.500 I've used this before, but then you'll see it in this context as well.

00:22:07.340 So when Trump was on January 6th, when he said, you know, fight like hell, if nobody

00:22:15.520 had told you that that's a call to violence, never would have occurred to you.

00:22:20.640 If you take the priming away, it's just talk because it's the way ordinary people talk all

00:22:26.340 the time.

00:22:26.820 We're going to fight like hell for this, fight like hell for that. 1.00

00:22:29.620 Even people say dangerous things like, yeah, we got to kill that. 0.98

00:22:35.080 Nobody takes that as violence.

00:22:36.720 But if your news sources prime you like, oh, that violent, violent talk, he's full of

00:22:43.400 chaos and he's unhinged. 0.66

00:22:45.000 He's a danger to democracy. 0.88

00:22:47.080 He wants to take his back.

00:22:48.300 He's only in it for himself.

00:22:50.540 Now, listen to what he said.

00:22:52.540 Got to fight like hell.

00:22:53.900 Oh, my God.

00:22:54.880 Now that I've been primed for all that chaos, unhinged darkness, danger to democracy, only

00:22:59.680 in it for himself, can't go back stuff.

00:23:01.700 That sounds pretty bad.

00:23:03.820 It's the priming that makes it bad.

00:23:05.460 It's not what he says.

00:23:07.500 Now, this is the greatest trick that the Democrats are playing.

00:23:11.140 And they're doing it really hard now after the second assassination attempt because they're

00:23:16.000 trying to blame him for the chaos that they're creating.

00:23:21.140 If you took away their framing of Trump, there wouldn't be any of this.

00:23:26.520 There would be no darkness.

00:23:27.800 Just nobody would think it was a danger to democracy.

00:23:32.040 None of it.

00:23:33.680 Now, it also has a second benefit, this type of framing and persuasion, is that it's the

00:23:40.620 classic blaming one side for what you're doing.

00:23:45.640 So it hides what you're doing.

00:23:47.360 What are they doing?

00:23:50.660 Well, made you a little list.

00:23:54.520 So while Trump is trying to, quote, steal your democracy by running for office the way

00:24:00.800 everybody runs for office, you know, going through a primary and getting votes and saying

00:24:06.720 what he wants to do and getting people to like it.

00:24:09.560 You know, all that stealing your democracy stuff.

00:24:14.700 Here's what the Democrats are doing.

00:24:17.220 Now, you fact check me.

00:24:19.260 You tell me if I've gone too far.

00:24:21.360 I'm just going to name a bunch of things that I think are just obvious and in the news.

00:24:27.140 You know, nothing I've researched.

00:24:28.620 I don't need to.

00:24:29.700 It's just headline stuff.

00:24:32.120 Tell me if any of these are not true.

00:24:35.200 Have they imported a million of fake asylum seekers? 1.00

00:24:38.260 They are fake.

00:24:39.660 Two political background, battleground states to create a one party Democrat rule.

00:24:45.600 It, according to Musk, he says that's exactly what they're doing.

00:24:50.120 A lot of smart people agree.

00:24:52.300 It looks like it.

00:24:53.760 It has every, every sign of it.

00:24:56.980 Are they looking to pack the Supreme Court so they can effectively remove an entire branch

00:25:05.360 of government?

00:25:06.920 Yes.

00:25:07.400 They're saying it directly.

00:25:10.120 We want to pack the courts.

00:25:11.860 We want to reform the courts with the rule, with the idea of getting rid of the conservative

00:25:17.580 majority.

00:25:18.800 In other words, to get rid of an entire branch of government by making us simply agree with

00:25:25.320 the executive, which they would hope to completely control forever.

00:25:29.660 How about removing the filibuster?

00:25:33.840 Well, if they get control of everything, it would neuter the minority party.

00:25:39.840 Is neutering the minority party part of your democracy?

00:25:44.560 No, it's the opposite.

00:25:45.640 Are they looking to censor and jail dissenters because of their misinformation?

00:25:51.580 Yes.

00:25:52.060 Hillary Clinton just said this directly and clearly, that she wants to put in jail people 1.00

00:25:57.520 who disagree, which she would call dissenters or misinformation people.

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00:26:17.920 Are the Democrats trying to control the entire news industry to keep the public uninformed

00:26:25.640 via mesh network of hoaxes, everything from the fine people hoax to the January 6th insurrection

00:26:30.840 hoax?

00:26:31.920 Yes.

00:26:32.640 They're trying to remove the one check on bad behavior, which is a free and fair press.

00:26:39.160 They're essentially, have completely neutered the press.

00:26:42.060 Now, you might say to me, but Scott, there's still Fox News and Breitbart.

00:26:48.760 Yes, but they've made sure that their people never see them.

00:26:53.760 So they only have to get to 51 percent.

00:26:56.460 You know, roughly speaking, I'm talking in sort of conceptual, not mathematical terms.

00:27:01.600 But if they can get just enough majority of voters to stay in office,

00:27:06.540 then they can just control the entire information landscape and stay there forever.

00:27:16.620 Are they trying to bankrupt and jail independent political voices that disagree with them?

00:27:22.380 Yes.

00:27:23.180 Yes, they are lawfaring and using other political and economic pressure to destroy people like,

00:27:29.520 you know, Bannon and Navarro and me and Trump and anybody they can get their hands on.

00:27:36.540 So, yes, that's happening.

00:27:39.500 Are they maintaining a voting system that cannot be fully audited?

00:27:44.520 And there's only one reason for that.

00:27:48.420 Yes.

00:27:49.460 Yes.

00:27:50.260 Every one of us knows, because we follow this stuff, that if we wanted our voting system to

00:27:56.200 be credible to everybody, give us a fast result that could be easily audited, we would have

00:28:02.340 a day off for voting, it would only be in person, and it would be on paper, and there would be

00:28:07.940 observers, and we'd be able to audit it as much as you want.

00:28:11.000 And every time you counted it, you'd be able to get the same number.

00:28:15.060 We have the opposite of that.

00:28:16.800 We don't have any way to know even if the machines did the right things internally.

00:28:21.720 We don't know if somebody dumped a bunch of mail-in ballots that look good but aren't.

00:28:26.920 We have a system that's designed to conceal cheating.

00:28:33.240 It's not an accident.

00:28:35.500 If you think that after decades of looking at how to do things right and how to do things

00:28:40.460 wrong, after decades that we intentionally picked the wrong one and that that was an accident,

00:28:47.320 that is so far beyond a reasonable assumption, the reasonable assumption is that if every single

00:28:56.140 observer knows the right way to do it and every single observer knows the wrong way to do it and

00:29:01.740 after decades you still choose really, really hard you choose to do it the wrong way, well, 0.96

00:29:09.080 there's only one fucking reason for that. 0.97

00:29:11.480 And, you know, people who are paying attention are aware, but most of the public doesn't know. 0.98

00:29:15.680 Most of the public thinks that the elections can be fully audited and therefore we know

00:29:21.340 for sure that they're fair, which is kind of amazing because people live in the real world.

00:29:28.580 And if you spend five minutes in the real world, you know nothing works like that.

00:29:35.080 Nothing works like that.

00:29:36.560 No, you can't measure the temperature of the earth and you can't know for sure that your

00:29:41.720 election is clean with our system.

00:29:43.980 There could be a system in which you would know, but we don't have that one.

00:29:49.840 How about, do we have any fake pollsters so that they would support any suspicious outcomes

00:29:57.540 in the election?

00:29:58.820 Yes.

00:30:00.100 Even today there's a pollster that puts Harris up by six.

00:30:04.480 Do you think that's real?

00:30:06.160 And do they think they were even trying to be real?

00:30:08.560 Do you think they put any attempt into making that the actual realistic poll?

00:30:14.860 Well, I don't know, but it doesn't look like it.

00:30:18.160 It looks like it's fake.

00:30:19.780 And the other polls that are just wildly pro-Harris, they all look fake.

00:30:24.760 And that would be what you'd expect if somebody is trying to steal your democracy while telling

00:30:30.220 you, well, this poll said it was okay.

00:30:32.700 So if the vote says it's like that, well, the pollster said so.

00:30:36.880 So that's pretty sketchy.

00:30:40.160 Are they trying to take away your most useful firearms?

00:30:43.600 So all you have left is a pistol?

00:30:46.700 Yes.

00:30:47.080 They want to take away your most useful, dangerous, your most dangerous firearms, which would be

00:30:52.860 one way you could protect yourself against this government, hypothetically.

00:30:59.000 Are they trying to weaponize assassins to kill their political opponents? 0.99

00:31:03.500 When I say weaponize them, I mean use the type of rhetoric that you'd better kill Hitler. 0.97

00:31:12.180 If you don't, you're going to have a big old Holocaust coming. 1.00

00:31:15.340 Yes, they do that.

00:31:17.580 They are trying to, in my opinion, it seems obvious that the Democrats are trying to kill

00:31:22.560 Trump and they're trying to use legal speech to do it.

00:31:26.600 Now, is it legal to use their free speech in a way that greatly enhances the chance that 0.97

00:31:35.260 somebody crazy will try to kill him? 0.94

00:31:38.020 Probably yes. 0.99

00:31:39.900 It probably is legal.

00:31:40.880 I'm not sure I would change it because you wouldn't be able to get rid of that without

00:31:45.600 getting rid of too many things.

00:31:47.080 That's the problem with free speech.

00:31:48.640 But if we like free speech, and I do, probably have to live with that.

00:31:53.460 However, we get to call it out as well.

00:31:57.040 So if you look at the news today, it's mostly Republicans saying, hey, you've weaponized these

00:32:02.760 assassins.

00:32:03.480 Stop doing that. 0.97

00:32:04.220 And them saying, but, but, Trump is Hitler.

00:32:09.620 They're doubling down.

00:32:11.760 There's not a single Democrat who's saying, you know what?

00:32:15.120 You know, maybe. 0.99

00:32:16.560 It might make sense to do a little bit less of this divisive, kill him, kill him rhetoric. 1.00

00:32:22.240 Not one. 0.98

00:32:23.280 Has anybody seen any political figure or news figure say, maybe we've gone too far?

00:32:28.440 Or, I've seen none.

00:32:32.940 And the reason is, the moment they say, maybe I've gone too far, they're complicit with attempted

00:32:37.920 murder.

00:32:40.020 Like, actually, literally.

00:32:42.000 So if CNN tomorrow said, you know what?

00:32:44.580 All things considered, we've looked at all of our past actions.

00:32:48.460 We've decided that we've platformed too many people who said things that are just going

00:32:53.360 to try to get somebody killed.

00:32:54.780 If they said that, we'd say, well, if they do get killed, aren't you an accessory?

00:33:01.580 Now, is there not some precedent where somebody on social media, just a regular person, can

00:33:07.920 go to jail for convincing somebody to kill themselves?

00:33:12.800 That's real, right?

00:33:14.560 You can go to jail if you persuaded somebody to kill themselves.

00:33:19.060 I think that happened recently.

00:33:20.420 I'm sure you could go to jail for persuading somebody to commit murder, if they actually

00:33:28.600 went and did it.

00:33:30.340 But why can't the news be convicted or go to jail for very clearly, in my opinion, Joy 0.97

00:33:37.640 Reid is very clearly weaponizing crazy people to kill Republicans?

00:33:42.360 I think it's still legal, because she has free speech, so she can make up any stuff she wants. 0.93

00:33:49.680 But you should be aware that it looks like attempted murder to me.

00:33:56.580 I just don't think there's a way to have the justice system do anything about it, because

00:34:02.200 if they did, then that standard would be extended too far, and it'd come back and bite you in 0.99

00:34:07.240 the ass. 0.99

00:34:08.600 So the best you can do is speak out about it, but you're mostly speaking to your own little 1.00

00:34:12.820 silo.

00:34:16.420 All right.

00:34:17.580 According to Nate Silver, who is one of the ones I trust in this world of polling and

00:34:23.820 statistical odds, he's got Trump pretty much way up.

00:34:28.800 And he has Trump looking at winning 312 electoral votes to Harris's 226, based on today's current

00:34:40.020 polling.

00:34:42.600 But, like I said, there's another poll that says Harris is up by six.

00:34:49.500 They're not both right.

00:34:51.480 I don't think they're both right.

00:34:52.700 As you may have heard, you know, the Haiti migrants, the asylum seekers, I guess they would

00:35:02.240 be, who were in Springfield, and some people said that some of them were eating pets, but

00:35:08.780 I don't have any information to confirm that.

00:35:12.400 And then other people said, that's racist.

00:35:14.860 So that's just the situation.

00:35:16.380 There were a bunch of bomb threats in Springfield, which were immediately blamed on all that speech

00:35:25.720 about the Haiti migrants eating pets, which I don't have any evidence of.

00:35:33.220 Now, when I say I don't have any evidence of, I don't mean that there wasn't one.

00:35:38.520 I don't know.

00:35:39.920 Anything's possible.

00:35:41.220 But I'm not going to blame an entire group of people if a few people did something wrong.

00:35:45.480 That's sort of a standard I'd like to maintain.

00:35:50.080 So I don't know.

00:35:51.660 But as a proxy for the argument that the uncontrolled immigration is dangerous in a variety of ways,

00:35:58.280 it works really well.

00:36:01.020 So I see the pet argument not as something that's necessarily backed up by enough anecdotes that I

00:36:10.540 would call it, you know, some kind of a top-line worry.

00:36:15.480 I mean, if it was your pet, it's a top-line worry.

00:36:18.080 But it seems like the numbers are probably manageable, whatever it is.

00:36:23.420 So anyway, it turns out that those hoax, the bomb threats were all coming from overseas.

00:36:29.680 There were 33 of them.

00:36:31.080 There was nothing to them.

00:36:32.960 And the Republicans were not doing that.

00:36:36.320 Now, here's the question.

00:36:38.380 Have any Republicans been weaponized against the Haiti migrants because of the pet stuff?

00:36:46.940 Because I hope not.

00:36:48.760 I wouldn't want to be associated with that in any way.

00:36:52.100 But I haven't heard of it either.

00:36:54.480 Now, I know the Proud Boys went there, but there were like 12 of them who marched around

00:36:58.140 with the flag and went home, right?

00:36:59.580 Because there was nothing to see.

00:37:03.860 And the reports I'm getting from the Haitian migrants is that they're getting employed by

00:37:11.600 people who wanted, you know, low-end, low-paid workers.

00:37:15.800 So we'll see what happens with all of that.

00:37:22.320 Anyway, so talking about that attempted assassin who tried to get a shot at Trump, didn't get

00:37:30.060 a shot.

00:37:31.380 Let me clarify something I said yesterday.

00:37:35.140 From the early reporting in the fog of war, it sounded like the shooter, the potential shooter,

00:37:41.460 might have had sights on Trump from one hole away.

00:37:47.700 And they were saying, well, at that distance, you know, it's a longer shot, but, you know,

00:37:52.240 somebody with a scope could make that shot.

00:37:54.460 But apparently they never had line of sight.

00:37:58.160 So I want to compliment the Secret Service for their system, which maybe should be beefed

00:38:07.740 up, but the system as it was implemented worked somewhat the way it should have, meaning that

00:38:14.500 they checked the advance hole before he got there.

00:38:17.780 They found something there.

00:38:19.380 They neutralized it.

00:38:21.700 That looks like pretty good work.

00:38:23.680 So I want to make sure that I did not accidentally or intentionally malign the Secret Service for

00:38:31.660 their work on that job, because there does seem to be evidence that they had a system.

00:38:36.120 The system operated as I wanted it.

00:38:38.580 It caught the danger.

00:38:39.980 It neutralized it.

00:38:41.860 I'm going to say compliments.

00:38:43.840 Now, if you say to me, but Scott, shouldn't somebody have sort of walked around that fence,

00:38:50.980 you know, way before then?

00:38:53.120 Because that was a known vulnerability.

00:38:55.320 You know, it was right next to a fence where anybody could have walked up and looked at the

00:38:59.500 president.

00:38:59.820 Um, yeah, maybe, but to me, that looks like a resource constraint, meaning that if they

00:39:08.940 were going to definitely look at it close, closely before he got there, then you have

00:39:15.440 a resource question.

00:39:17.280 Was it also important that maybe somebody had been there the whole time?

00:39:21.800 Now, if, if money is infinite and everything's free, then yeah, put somebody there the whole

00:39:28.240 time.

00:39:28.840 But in the real world, you're always making those choices.

00:39:32.280 So if they made choices and the choices didn't hurt them, literally, then I'm going to, I'm

00:39:39.280 going to give them based on what we know, I'm going to give them a, a good review.

00:39:46.400 Now, I don't know enough to know if there's anything that also was done wrong, I would

00:39:51.260 change my opinion if it was, but at the moment, well, I heard somebody said no drones, but I

00:39:56.980 believe that there were, uh, I think there was some, a report of some aerial assets they

00:40:03.160 were kind of vague about.

00:40:04.400 So I think it's unclear whether drones were there, but I would agree with you.

00:40:08.820 I very much agree.

00:40:10.180 If there were no drones there, that would be a problem.

00:40:14.280 I don't know that the drone would have spotted somebody who was in the bushes for 12 hours

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00:40:53.420 How did the potential assassin know that Trump would be golfing and golfing at that golf course

00:41:00.540 and sometime within his 12 hour window?

00:41:03.720 And I don't know the answer to that, but let me suggest some possibilities.

00:41:08.420 If your first thinking is that the only way you can know is from the Secret Service, I

00:41:14.820 would say that's not true because there'd be plenty of non-Secret Service people who would

00:41:19.340 know before it happened.

00:41:20.800 But they might not know 12 hours before.

00:41:25.880 So here's my question.

00:41:27.880 It sounds like he might have been hiding and waiting before Trump had even decided to play

00:41:33.080 golf.

00:41:33.400 We don't know that yet, right?

00:41:35.980 So that's not a confirmed statement.

00:41:38.100 But it looks like if it was a impromptu, what they call the ad hoc last minute plan, that

00:41:45.400 would suggest if the guy had been waiting for 12 hours from the night before, that he might

00:41:50.520 have been waiting there before Trump decided to golf there.

00:41:54.060 Now, does that make sense?

00:41:56.400 Maybe.

00:41:56.840 Let's say you knew the following, and I don't know if this is true, but I'm just going to

00:42:01.940 speculate that there is a way he could have gotten lucky without any inside information.

00:42:09.140 Suppose he, there's some, I think there's some public place you can find out if the president

00:42:14.720 is scheduled to be, or the candidate is scheduled to be somewhere, right?

00:42:19.660 Don't we generally know where Trump is going?

00:42:22.220 There's some source for that.

00:42:23.640 So I'm going to assume that there's some way that you could tell if you wanted to, that

00:42:29.040 Trump's going to be out of town or in town.

00:42:32.160 If you knew he was going to be in town, they were saying that it sounded like that there'd

00:42:38.820 be some way the public would know if he's golfing.

00:42:41.340 But suppose you knew he was going to be in town, that he always golfs on the Sunday, but

00:42:50.120 there was no, um, no advanced notice that he was going to golf, but he always golfs on

00:42:55.040 the Sunday and there was nothing else scheduled.

00:42:57.020 As far as you know, what would you assume might happen?

00:43:00.580 Well, if it's me, uh, and especially if you had any inside information, you might say to

00:43:07.000 yourself, you know what?

00:43:08.360 He's probably going to decide to golf anyway, because there's nothing that would stop him

00:43:12.740 from doing it.

00:43:13.980 So where would he golf?

00:43:16.100 If he has to make a last minute decision, probably his own golf course that's nearby is

00:43:22.120 the only one that would work.

00:43:23.160 So if you were going to guess, will he golf on Sunday when nothing else seems to be planned

00:43:29.660 and he's at Mar-a-Lago, which you could know, that seems knowable.

00:43:35.440 Could you also guess that he's very likely to do a last minute, uh, I think I'll just

00:43:41.800 golf at my own course because I can just close that one down and control it.

00:43:45.420 And I don't have to worry that I don't have a, you know, which force of them I'm kicking

00:43:49.980 off or anything.

00:43:50.700 So it seems to me there could have been enough breadcrumbs there that a motivated person with

00:43:58.720 a little bit of sort of general inside information, but not specific information could have guessed

00:44:05.500 that there was a 30% chance he'd be golfing that day at that golf course.

00:44:10.600 Does that sound fair?

00:44:13.380 Yeah.

00:44:13.940 They said the golf was unscheduled, but that it could be different from whether he knew

00:44:20.560 the night before he was going to do it.

00:44:23.000 So Trump may have decided the night before and told people the night before, but maybe

00:44:29.200 didn't put it on the schedule.

00:44:30.340 So that would suggest that there might be multiple insiders who might be able to tell somebody

00:44:37.660 who would tell somebody who would tell the shooter, potential shooter.

00:44:41.620 So the point is, there is more than one way that that could have happened.

00:44:45.860 One of them is he guessed right.

00:44:47.760 And maybe he had a 30% chance of being right just based on Trump always golfs.

00:44:53.160 And if he's in town and he has, doesn't have it scheduled, it's going to have to be there

00:44:58.320 because where else are you going to do it if it's unscheduled?

00:45:00.880 So anyway, we don't know enough about that.

00:45:05.900 Mike Benz is asking some provocative questions.

00:45:10.180 So apparently this Routh guy was going to Ukraine and trying to get visas for Afghan or ISIS fighters

00:45:20.580 to come in and fight against the Russians in Ukraine.

00:45:23.500 Now, Mike Benz points out that John Brennan had been the, I guess, the station chief for the CIA in Saudi Arabia

00:45:34.480 when the 9-11 terrorists got their visas.

00:45:38.300 And so there's this weird connection of a guy that looks like the sort of guy that intelligence people

00:45:46.140 might at least have maybe a little bit of a handle on.

00:45:49.940 I'm doing something that looks like something the CIA does,

00:45:55.500 which is not enough to say that it's some kind of CIA operation, of course.

00:45:59.440 There's just some pattern recognition going on.

00:46:03.600 But I would go further and say that if John Brennan is one of the first people that appears on MSNBC

00:46:09.680 to talk about a story, I just always assume the CIA is involved.

00:46:16.460 That's my signal.

00:46:17.520 Wait a minute.

00:46:18.560 It's MSNBC.

00:46:20.060 There's a story that needs to be reversed or managed.

00:46:24.560 The narrative has to be shifted.

00:46:27.260 And John Brennan comes on.

00:46:29.320 I mean, to me, that's like a giant signal that some intelligence-related people are involved.

00:46:35.660 Remember, he brought us the Russia collusion hoax.

00:46:40.540 And the 51 people said the laptop is Russia collusion.

00:46:46.400 And then suddenly he pops up when this guy pops up who was fighting against Russians.

00:46:54.400 So in three anti-Russia instances, Brennan popped up.

00:47:00.800 He popped up with Russia collusion.

00:47:02.960 He popped up with the laptop that he said was Russian.

00:47:08.260 And now he's popped up where there's a guy who was trying to fight against Russians.

00:47:12.820 So this is three times that the same guy popped up when there's some Russia connection,

00:47:19.000 which he would be opposed to Russia. 0.87

00:47:21.340 Apparently, Routh was well-known among volunteer aid groups as a fraudster, criminal, con man, whack job.

00:47:34.100 Sarah Adams, no relation to me, a former CIA officer,

00:47:37.820 she said that he claimed to be working with the Ukrainian government, but wasn't.

00:47:48.260 And the Ukraine's International Legion, which handled foreign volunteers,

00:47:53.380 denied having any tie to him.

00:47:55.040 And they would have had to have a tie to him if he was doing any official recruiting on behalf of Ukraine.

00:48:02.400 So here are the questions that people ask.

00:48:04.260 How did he afford to fly to Ukraine when he had no money and no assets?

00:48:09.160 Two trucks in Hawaii, I guess.

00:48:11.040 And how did he fly to Hawaii and back?

00:48:15.800 How did he do anything?

00:48:18.280 Now, one way would be he's an intelligence asset for our country or some other country,

00:48:24.940 and they're funding him.

00:48:26.240 Maybe.

00:48:26.960 The other way is that he was a criminal.

00:48:28.620 So he has a long criminal record, including a weapon of mass destruction, they call it.

00:48:36.260 But it's basically a fully automatic rifle.

00:48:40.420 So he's got a long criminal record, including doing things that look like for money.

00:48:45.700 So maybe he just stole something and got himself a plane ticket.

00:48:49.740 It might have been that simple.

00:48:50.860 So who is the FBI agent in charge of investigating the second assassination attempt?

00:49:02.020 Well, it's Jeffrey Veltry, who allegedly had to scrub his social media before he got his current job because it was so anti-Trump.

00:49:11.100 That's right.

00:49:11.640 Somebody with a known public hatred for Trump who thinks he should be nowhere near the Oval Office is in charge of making sure that Trump stays safe and that we find out what we, in a sense,

00:49:26.140 because we'd have to find out what we can find out about this attempt.

00:49:31.100 Crazy stuff.

00:49:31.820 I saw Chris Cuomo from NewsNation talking about a post that Elon Musk made, but then later, after getting some negative attention on it, he deleted it.

00:49:48.840 Now, here's what Musk said, and then I'm going to tell you how Chris Cuomo and others interpreted it.

00:49:57.160 I want to see if you interpreted it the same way they did.

00:49:59.680 So the post that Musk did that was taken down, taken down pretty quickly, he said, quote,

00:50:09.600 and no one is even trying to assassinate Biden Harris.

00:50:15.640 No one is even trying to assassinate him.

00:50:19.220 Now, Cuomo and others apparently interpreted that as a call to, you know, evening out the danger.

00:50:26.580 That, like, you know, maybe, maybe somebody should, you know, consider doing something bad to the other team. 0.90

00:50:33.900 Now, that's batshit crazy.

00:50:36.580 That's not what that says.

00:50:39.100 Do any of you interpret that as a suggestion or a hint or an encouragement for violence?

00:50:46.720 Does anybody hear it that way?

00:50:48.180 And why would you hear it that way?

00:50:51.380 How could you hear it that way?

00:50:53.260 The only way you can even hear it that way is if you've been primed to think that Musk is some kind of bad guy or chaotic or unhinged or something.

00:51:03.760 How in the world do you hear that?

00:51:06.080 Here's what I hear.

00:51:07.800 There's a pattern.

00:51:08.900 There's a pattern.

00:51:11.000 There's a pattern, right?

00:51:13.880 There's a pattern.

00:51:15.360 The pattern is it's happening to one side but not the other.

00:51:19.140 Is it important to understand the pattern?

00:51:22.460 Yes.

00:51:23.620 Yes.

00:51:24.480 It's a perfectly good observation that if it's only happening to one side, you need to understand that.

00:51:32.700 But my hypothesis is that the bad guys, the top Democrats and the persuaders and the news that they control are intentionally weaponizing crazy people to take out Trump.

00:51:50.800 To me, it looks like that.

00:51:52.660 Now, I can't read minds.

00:51:54.240 If I could read minds and I could look in their heads and say, oh, you do mean that.

00:51:58.500 But I can't do that.

00:52:00.140 But I do notice the pattern.

00:52:01.820 Then, right?

00:52:04.080 Now, let me be clear so I'm not taking that into context.

00:52:07.680 I do not want anybody to do any violence to anybody, especially, you know, people running for president.

00:52:14.420 That's the last place I want to see that.

00:52:17.080 So, I mean, I don't want it anywhere else either.

00:52:20.780 But how in the world could you even see that as a call to violence?

00:52:24.460 Your brain would have to be really stuck over in some little, you know, weird, darkened room to even interpret it that way.

00:52:34.300 Now, are you agreeing with me?

00:52:36.620 I can't tell both of the comments yet.

00:52:38.140 But you see it as just a pattern that needs to be explained, right?

00:52:43.160 It's not a call to violence.

00:52:45.060 Now, why would Elon Musk quickly delete it?

00:52:48.960 Because people were interpreting it as a call to violence.

00:52:53.220 Now, I trust Andrew Cuomo to not be just making up a, you know, point of view.

00:53:01.200 I think it's his actual point of view.

00:53:03.280 I think he's a pretty straight shooter.

00:53:05.860 I'm not sure about his CNN days.

00:53:08.020 Those look different.

00:53:09.160 But his current incarnation looks like a straight shooter.

00:53:12.620 I think he actually interpreted it that way.

00:53:14.320 So, it's a good demonstration of how priming can change what you see and feel.

00:53:24.680 Washington Times is reporting that Silicon Valley smart people are sounding the alarm over drone warfare.

00:53:32.000 You've heard this before.

00:53:33.500 But that we would last less than two months in a war.

00:53:37.840 Now, that applies to most of our weapons.

00:53:40.600 I think Lucky Palmer has been saying this.

00:53:42.740 And it applies to the fact that we don't manufacture our own weapons.

00:53:49.660 And where we do, we rely on China to supply some of the parts that we use to manufacture our weapons.

00:53:57.300 Meaning that if we ever got in an extended war with China, they could manufacture weapons after a few months and we couldn't. 0.86

00:54:04.860 So, now, I don't know if we would ever get in a conventional war with anybody who has that manufacturing capability. 0.80

00:54:13.980 It would be the dumbest thing for both of us.

00:54:16.060 So, I don't think it's going to happen. 0.68

00:54:17.780 It's very low on my list of worries.

00:54:20.720 Right near the bottom is war with China.

00:54:22.960 Because war with China would require one thing guaranteed, which is that China thought it was in a war with us.

00:54:32.720 And they're not going to do it because they're not crazy.

00:54:36.600 There's just no signal from China that they have some kind of death wish.

00:54:40.700 There's nothing.

00:54:42.620 They are the most engineering, long-term, what's-good-for-China smart country you've ever seen in your life.

00:54:54.520 And so, to imagine that they would do something just literally suicidal, where would that come from?

00:54:59.460 There's not any impulse in their country to do that, I don't think.

00:55:02.920 That's my view.

00:55:05.100 Now, of course, things can change fast and crazy people can come to power.

00:55:09.880 But there's nothing about Xi that suggests he wants a war with a superpower.

00:55:17.660 As I saw Naval Ravikant mention on X, that these swarms of drones will be the next nuclear war or weapon of mass destruction, let's say.

00:55:31.500 So, the weapon of mass destruction will be, you know, 100,000 drones darkening the sky above an enemy and just wreaking chaos.

00:55:44.280 So, I think that's true.

00:55:45.940 The thing I worry about is that the United States has a really good drone offense and defense at some point.

00:55:54.300 And it encourages us to use it against somebody who has nuclear weapons.

00:55:59.100 So, I worry about getting in a drone war with somebody who could nuke you, but I worry about getting in a drone war in general.

00:56:07.640 So, maybe the drones would be a good reason not to get in a war, but I feel like the world is going to go through at least a brief period,

00:56:17.040 that may be years, but not forever, in which going outside into a crowded area will just not be smart.

00:56:25.760 So, I've long predicted that stadium sports, you know, outdoor stadium sports, I feel like there's just no chance that that can last.

00:56:36.960 Because as soon as everybody can send a poison-filled, you know, drone anywhere they want, I just don't see how people can gather together.

00:56:46.720 It's going to be too dangerous.

00:56:47.980 Anyway, there's a study that found the shocking fact that parents believe that a lot of their kids don't have even one friend.

00:56:59.660 So, they think that one in five kids have literally no friends.

00:57:04.580 Does that track with anything that you've experienced?

00:57:07.720 One in five kids have no friends.

00:57:09.700 I think that's real.

00:57:12.640 It might be low.

00:57:14.360 Because I think the ones who say they have friends probably don't spend much time with them.

00:57:18.740 But I would like to give you a way to cure loneliness.

00:57:25.920 Because I saw there was a post of a gentleman on X who was saying that he had no friends.

00:57:32.960 He was an adult.

00:57:33.620 He had no friends.

00:57:35.840 And that whenever he tried to make a friend, like it got awkward and he wasn't good at it and it didn't work out.

00:57:43.060 Now, is there anybody who's watching who has that problem?

00:57:46.540 That they want to have friends, but they just can't do it.

00:57:51.060 They just don't know why and it's not working for them.

00:57:53.900 Would you like me to solve that for you?

00:57:56.940 There is a solution.

00:57:58.380 And I believe there's only one.

00:57:59.660 Here's something that never will work for a man. 0.79

00:58:04.260 By the way, I think it's different for females. 1.00

00:58:07.320 So I'm going to give advice that's more suited for men, but I think women could use it successfully as well.

00:58:13.420 But a little more targeted to men.

00:58:15.820 Maybe 60, 40.

00:58:18.140 And that is that men don't make friends because you want to be friends.

00:58:23.160 That's not a thing.

00:58:25.100 I like you.

00:58:25.980 Let's be friends.

00:58:27.000 Nope.

00:58:27.960 Nope.

00:58:28.700 Can't do it.

00:58:29.660 Can women do that? 1.00

00:58:30.560 I don't know.

00:58:31.100 Maybe.

00:58:31.920 I've seen examples where women do that. 1.00

00:58:34.620 Like we met this one time and then we became friends forever.

00:58:38.680 And I think, what?

00:58:40.400 How do you do that?

00:58:42.000 I've never met somebody one time and then became friends forever.

00:58:46.800 Here's how men need to do it. 1.00

00:58:49.460 Activities.

00:58:49.980 Now, I always say just join a club, an activity, something that will expose you to a changing pool of people because it's about numbers.

00:59:00.020 If you meet enough people, if you meet enough people, if you meet enough people and you meet them in the context of a common interest, like a sport or a hobby or volunteering for something or even work, if you meet them and you have at least that one thing to talk about, you have a good chance that you could turn that into something.

00:59:17.400 But a lot of people don't have anything they'd want to join.

00:59:21.640 So, here's the solution.

00:59:24.860 And I might say a lot more about this in the future.

00:59:27.780 The solution is you have to be the organizer.

00:59:30.540 You have to be the organizer.

00:59:32.700 Now, don't start with inviting one person to do one thing.

00:59:36.440 That doesn't work as well, unless it's a sport, like inviting somebody to golf, that totally works, or to play tennis, that totally works.

00:59:45.400 But be an organizer of a group.

00:59:49.980 Figure out something that you enjoy doing, and especially if you're good at it.

00:59:55.720 So, I'll give you an example.

00:59:57.660 When I played more tennis, I was good at it.

01:00:00.080 So, it wouldn't be unusual that I might, you know, be part of organizing some little tennis get-together.

01:00:08.180 And then I would know the people that I'd invited over.

01:00:12.040 And then, you know, you'd get closer to them for the shared activity.

01:00:15.380 But here's the magic of it.

01:00:16.640 Here's the math of it.

01:00:17.780 If you're a little bit on the spectrum and you don't quite see how powerful this is, let me explain it to you as math.

01:00:24.660 You create an event or some kind of thing that you know people would say yes to, not because of you, but because they want to do the thing.

01:00:36.680 So, you might have a, oh, I don't know, a Super Bowl viewing party, and you invite some coworkers.

01:00:42.920 You might invite some people who do the same sport.

01:00:46.660 You might say, hey, let's get together to watch the, I don't know, debate.

01:00:50.860 But you invite some people over, and let's say you get a dozen people to come over and do a thing.

01:00:56.760 It costs you some money.

01:00:58.000 You're going to put some time in.

01:00:59.240 You're going to provide some beverages.

01:01:00.880 It could be potluck, and it doesn't cost so much.

01:01:03.920 When you're done, you've got 12 people who, when they have an event, are going to invite you because you invited them.

01:01:15.100 You activated reciprocity.

01:01:17.060 And I'll tell you that when I've held events at my home, one of the most common things that happens is somewhere toward the end of the night when people are winding down, before they leave, people I don't know that well would come over and say, hey, you know, we're having an event two weeks from now.

01:01:35.380 Would you like to come?

01:01:36.080 And you sometimes will get three invitations to events just that night, and the only reason is because you put on a good event.

01:01:47.740 Now, you don't even have to be the one who's good at conversation.

01:01:51.100 If you're the one who puts on the event, you're sort of busy doing stuff.

01:01:55.240 And that can take away all your awkwardness, because if you're the one who's making sure somebody has a drink, you don't have much to talk about.

01:02:04.280 Hey, can I fill your drink?

01:02:06.440 Have you found the bar?

01:02:08.080 Did you get something to eat?

01:02:11.200 Can I introduce me to your friend?

01:02:14.220 So you always have something to talk about if you're the organizer.

01:02:17.160 So that cures all your awkward conversation problems, and then gets you 12 people per event who might invite you to something, and you'll meet some more people you don't know.

01:02:29.500 So that's the trick.

01:02:31.200 You have to provide value.

01:02:33.680 And by the way, this is way more true for men than women.

01:02:38.540 Men, your only value to anybody, whether it's your mate, your children, or your friends, is what you provide. 0.67

01:02:48.740 So the gentleman who was saying in public, and it was very sad that he couldn't make friends, the way he talked about it, I saw somebody else make the same comment.

01:03:01.560 The way he talked about it was, why don't other people give me this thing?

01:03:06.420 Why can't somebody give me friendship?

01:03:10.700 I keep making myself available, but nobody's giving me this friendship.

01:03:16.180 And I say, oh, you don't understand how any of that works.

01:03:20.480 That doesn't work.

01:03:21.920 You can't wait for somebody to be your friend.

01:03:24.140 You've got to go add some value to the world, and then connect people to you through that value.

01:03:30.840 So if you're good to your kids, they'll probably stay with you after they leave the house.

01:03:35.700 They'll visit you often.

01:03:37.120 If you're good to your wife, she might stay with you. 0.97

01:03:40.740 If you put on events and you organize things, people are really going to want to stay with you and be your friend and connect with you all the way.

01:03:48.280 But you should be thinking, provide value.

01:03:52.480 If you're thinking, where's my friends?

01:03:54.360 You're not even on the right question.

01:03:56.160 You can't succeed on something that doesn't even make any sense and nobody's made work ever in the history of the world.

01:04:03.360 Go do something useful, and then people will be attracted to you, and it'll keep you busy while you're lonely, I guess.

01:04:08.980 The other story I saw that I'm not so sure is true, because I just saw it before I came on, is that somehow cleverly, one assumes, Israel had gotten exploding pagers.

01:04:21.660 Who uses pagers?

01:04:23.440 This is why I'm concerned this isn't real.

01:04:26.840 That a bunch of Hezbollah people up in Lebanon, all their pagers exploded at the same time and injured them, and that they were somehow got a bunch of fake exploding pagers. 1.00

01:04:39.380 I'm going to put a pin in this and say, I only saw the stories right before I went live, and I don't believe them.

01:04:48.160 Because I'm not so sure why anybody would have any pagers.

01:04:51.220 It could be that cell phones are too easy to detect, and the real terrorists have to have a pager for some reason to get a secret code, maybe.

01:05:01.940 But it's a little, I don't know, it's a little too spy movie.

01:05:06.520 I mean, if it's true, it's kind of impressive, but I'm just going to say maybe on that story.

01:05:15.420 All right, you may or may not know that the Dilbert calendar for 2025 is coming back, and this time it's printed in America for the very first time.

01:05:24.320 So go to Dilbert.com if you want to get a link, go to the link for the pre-sale.

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01:05:47.400 Most of you buying them will be buying them for somebody else.

01:05:52.020 And get two or three, because I'm sure you know at least three people who like Dilbert and work in an office or are used to work in an office.

01:06:00.600 And that, ladies and gentlemen, brings me to the conclusion of my prepared remarks.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 17, 2024

Episode 2600 CWSA 09⧸17⧸24

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