Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2929 CWSA 08⧸16⧸25

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00:01:42.760 so so good well it's saturday and as tradition requires um there will be a spaces event after

00:01:58.900 this podcast so a few minutes after i'm done here owen gregorian will fire up a spaces

00:02:05.440 and you can have an after party if you've enjoyed talking to each other in the comments especially

00:02:12.920 um and all you have to do is go to x and search for owen gregorian and you'll you'll find the feed

00:02:22.400 right there well i wonder if there's a science that didn't need to be done because they could have just

00:02:30.540 asked me oh here's some uh according to psi post vladimir hedger is writing that uh if a couple is

00:02:40.380 nice to each other with lots of positive um things and it's mutually positive that their relationship

00:02:49.160 will last longer and be stronger is that a big surprise to anybody that if you bring positivity to a

00:02:58.500 relationship is more likely to be healthy hmm huh well it's it's nice to know that that would work

00:03:08.020 but i have a feeling that it doesn't work if one of the people is male and one of them is female

00:03:14.620 because it seems to me that the model that's been developed over time you know evolutionary time

00:03:23.100 uh is that women can maximize their gain by complaining because because men will do anything 0.97

00:03:33.740 they want to make it stop so complaining and being negative has tremendous utility to to women but 1.00

00:03:45.180 really not a lot of utility to men because then it just makes a woman hate you and uh that's about it

00:03:52.140 but if you act positive if it were possible for both of you to act positive at the same time

00:03:58.220 it would be really good for you

00:04:00.460 well christy noem the head of uh department of homeland security says that uh she had to move in

00:04:11.820 military housing because she got so many death threats i guess her address got doxed for the second time

00:04:19.180 and uh you know what i'm wondering every time i read a story about somebody being threatened or

00:04:28.460 somebody being hurt or some kind of fight um it's almost never white supremacists have you noticed that

00:04:39.180 how long ago was it maybe three or four years ago when the news was literally trying to tell us that the 0.99

00:04:46.940 biggest risk in the entire country was white supremacists well they're awfully boring and lazy and quiet 0.98

00:04:55.740 if they're dangerous they're really not doing a good job of it because i'll bet it wasn't the white 1.00

00:05:00.700 supremacists who were uh threatening christy gnome just guessing i don't feel like there are a lot of white

00:05:08.060 supremacists um jacking cars in washington dc it feels like whenever we hear stories of violence and

00:05:16.780 crime there's almost never a white supremacist in the story and uh i'm disappointed because we were all

00:05:23.740 told that that was the biggest threat to the nation i don't know where they went maybe they all got locked up

00:05:29.180 okay well china is developing the creepiest product that you could ever imagine it's a robot surrogate 0.94

00:05:40.540 to carry a human child um it would be like a i guess based on the brief news report it would be built

00:05:50.140 like a regular robot with arms and legs and it would have sort of a womb it would have an artificial womb 0.83

00:05:59.660 and so the robot would walk around with your your baby in it so that's coming if you can if you could

00:06:07.900 think of anything that would be creepier than raising a baby in a robot's womb let me know because that's

00:06:15.500 it's pretty darn creepy tough to top that

00:06:20.940 well uh per the financial times melissa heckel i believe i pronounced that right

00:06:30.300 how do you say the a with the two dots over it the umlaut is that an umlaut

00:06:37.020 well okay so melissa heckel writes that the art of persuasion um apparently the ai chat

00:06:45.420 bots can change your mind and they can do it pretty quickly in 10 minutes so if you have a

00:06:52.300 discussion with an ai um it can the study found that it can change your mind very quickly and very

00:07:01.260 effectively now not every person every time and all within 10 minutes but if they measure

00:07:07.660 um a larger um a larger group of people in a study a lot of them will change their mind based on the ai

00:07:15.820 trying to convince them what's true and what isn't now why is that have i hey look who visited

00:07:23.100 this is gary the cat you will be joining us on the show today if you'd like to look at gary i'll tip

00:07:34.460 the camera down so you can look at the cat instead of me sort of an upgrade come on get me get over here

00:07:45.180 all right that's better so um why do you think it would be true that ai would be persuasive let's see

00:07:55.900 if i have taught you enough that you would have known that without this study um number one it's

00:08:03.180 the documentary effect if it's just you and the ai and the ai is one point of view which typically it

00:08:10.860 would and it's trying to convince you that one point of view is right and you spend 10 minutes

00:08:15.900 with it it's there's a good chance it'll change your mind number two there are no egos involved

00:08:22.780 or less of one if you're dealing with another human you're feeling like you don't want to be

00:08:28.700 seem less than them or or dumb compared to them so you don't want to change your mind because a human

00:08:36.060 talk to you for 10 minutes that just wouldn't feel comfortable but if you felt like the ai 0.96

00:08:42.780 wasn't a person with an ego and it wasn't going to hold it over you if if it was right and you were

00:08:48.060 wrong you'd never hear about it again well then you would feel like you're just doing your own research

00:08:53.500 and changing your mind on your own so if you can get people to think that they're changing their mind

00:08:59.340 on their own it'll happen a lot easier than if it's like one human versus another human because

00:09:05.980 you put your shields up in those cases so yes it does make sense the ai would be super persuasive now

00:09:15.340 here's the troubling part that super persuasion i believe happens without it knowing how to do

00:09:23.260 persuasion it happens just because it has a good argument and has good facts and people tend to

00:09:30.380 believe the computer so that's all it has and it can already with no real persuasion technique

00:09:38.700 you know just presenting arguments basically it can already totally change people's opinions

00:09:45.820 what is going to happen when it starts using the techniques of persuasion because you know it knows

00:09:52.300 them because it got trained on all the the bodies of work in the world so yeah it knows what to do

00:09:59.900 um but presumably it is not programmed to maximize persuasion but it wouldn't take much to do it

00:10:09.820 so that's one of the biggest problems in the world coming at you which is ai persuasion 1.00

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00:10:33.500 all right let's talk about the biggest story i think everybody is streamed in here now we got a full

00:10:39.260 house uh putin and trump uh putin and trump met in alaska because it's sort of right in the middle

00:10:44.940 there and alaska of course has some historical value because it is a time when the us and russia played well

00:10:53.500 together so in terms of setting the table as trump likes to say is a good persuasion to bring uh putin and

00:11:03.420 trump into the one place that's maybe the most famous place in the world where russia and the us

00:11:11.500 have gotten along well and they made a deal and it was just business and you know they were on our

00:11:17.020 our side for some stuff and we were on their side for some stuff yeah it's perfect whoever came up with

00:11:23.740 the idea of uh of alaska that was a home run that was just a home run so good good job on that

00:11:33.180 um i will uh we'll just run down the list of things that people talked about with this meeting first

00:11:39.340 of all the body language looked very positive as in both leaders did not seem to be acting when they

00:11:47.740 were acting positively toward each other their smiles looked real their body language seemed to be uh i'm

00:11:55.420 totally into this meeting and it wasn't creepy i mean it wasn't that good but it was really good and i

00:12:05.180 don't think any of that was acting could have been but it really looked genuine to me

00:12:12.540 uh trump of course tried to give putin the uh the trump handshake and there was a great build-up to it

00:12:19.660 because trump stood in one place and made uh made putin do this long walk down the red carpet to him

00:12:27.180 so it also made it look like putin is the one who came to him that's good very good persuasion

00:12:34.780 but uh trump puts out his hand for the handshake and he does the classic trump thing which is easy for

00:12:41.260 him to do because he's so much bigger than uh putin where he grabs his hand and then he pulls him in

00:12:47.100 so that trump's entire body that putin's entire body is immediately controlled by trump because he

00:12:55.980 doesn't want to have his hand like sticking out too far that would be awkward so he kind of follows

00:13:01.180 his hand as trump pulls it in close to his body and it puts it puts trump immediately in command of

00:13:08.940 putin's body he makes putin come to where he wants him to come he makes him walk the way he wants him to

00:13:14.940 walk on the red carpet and then when he gets within a hand distance he moves them specifically where

00:13:22.620 he wants and then he says you know follow me basically and he makes uh putin do what he wants

00:13:30.940 him to do which is you know go wherever they're going now obviously as the host

00:13:35.820 um it's not surprising that that trump was you know leading the way but everything about that

00:13:45.260 put trump in control he's taller you know he's sort of more popular he's more of a star

00:13:52.620 just everything so in terms of the setup the choice of locations and all that just perfect

00:13:59.740 now i suspect that the traditional media since they don't deal on the persuasion level and they

00:14:07.660 have a meager understanding of how negotiation works at this high level they're going to say stuff like

00:14:14.780 well he just made a star and putin we'll talk about that but if you look at it purely from a

00:14:21.980 setting the table which is the phrase that trump actually used he wasn't trying to get an agreement

00:14:27.900 today he said he was setting the table everything i just mentioned is setting the table um so what

00:14:37.340 else happened uh weirdly and i'd love to know more about this when uh putin and trump first met and

00:14:45.820 then they're doing the long walk together down the red carpet it appears that they were chatting and

00:14:51.180 joking and that they knew what the other was saying and there was no interpreter there so

00:14:57.580 the i i saw jack posamek say that uh it must have been putin was trying to speak a little bit of

00:15:05.580 english but he doesn't do that uh in public on camera so it makes me wonder how much english

00:15:12.940 putin actually knows and then i've got a second a second observation just just hold this in your mind

00:15:20.140 for a moment what do you think would be the state of relations between the us and uh and russia if

00:15:29.900 we were dealing with a leader that spoke perfect english think about it i feel as if that language

00:15:38.380 barrier um just sort of prevents you from ever having you know like a really good um deal now correct me if

00:15:47.260 i'm wrong modi in india speaks perfect english right can you give me a confirmation on that i i think so

00:15:55.820 right which uh and then it's no surprise that india and the u.s get along great and then you've got uh

00:16:03.100 president xi and we've you know we've got kind of a tense adversarial relationship and he doesn't speak

00:16:10.620 english now i'm not saying everybody should speak english because english is awesome but imagine how

00:16:18.220 different things would be if they all spoke perfect english is ready is there anybody who speaks perfect

00:16:26.700 english who is an enemy of the u.s all right there's a there's a good test for you who is an enemy of the

00:16:36.060 u.s who also speaks perfect english there might be some hamas leader in that category uh that's a

00:16:44.300 special case because that's a religious kind of a problem but you know north korea doesn't speak english

00:16:53.420 um it feels to me that if something happened to putin and he were replaced by somebody who spoke

00:17:00.940 really good english uh like lavrov or one of those guys i feel like everything would change it just

00:17:07.900 feels like everything would be different almost immediately um and it and we wouldn't know why

00:17:14.940 we we would assume it's because oh this new leader in russia hypothetically is just saying the right

00:17:21.660 things well maybe or maybe it's just that if everybody's speaking the same language they come to a

00:17:28.940 understanding you know just more naturally i believe that's true

00:17:36.620 well let's see what else is happening so putin said uh next time maybe meet in moscow he said in

00:17:43.500 front of the cameras so trump was on the spot and trump goes oh that's an interesting one i don't know

00:17:50.380 i'll get a little heat on that one i can see it possibly happening thank you very much vladimir

00:17:56.540 um so that was clever of putin because he had as i just described he was the one who came to trump

00:18:06.460 and trump had all the the setup just right so putin was probably thinking because he's smart that if he

00:18:13.740 could get trump to agree to go to moscow it was somewhat a race this little level difference that

00:18:20.620 trump had just introduced you know with his setup of the alaska visit and then he then putin says it

00:18:27.660 in front of witnesses so that trump has to react to it immediately and he wasn't really going to say

00:18:35.260 no i'll never come to moscow so he sort of had to give it a maybe didn't he and trump gave it a maybe

00:18:43.260 and that elevated uh putin back up to oh we must be roughly peers because i go to you you go to me

00:18:52.060 you just haven't come yet um a lot of a lot of uh chat has been happening over the fact that

00:19:03.100 trump also organized a flyover of the b2 bomber and its escort jets which is pretty impressive they timed

00:19:11.100 it perfectly so it came over just as uh putin and trump were getting together and uh it was a

00:19:18.460 impressive show of force um i wouldn't make as much a deal about it as some of the observers are who

00:19:25.900 are happy that they found the persuasion lesson that one is so obvious that i don't know if it's really

00:19:33.500 persuasive i mean not a lot um because russia has big weapons too so it's so heavy-handed you know

00:19:42.780 it's so obvious that that was to influence him that probably didn't have quite the impact you imagine

00:19:51.180 anyway i guess the press was kind of adversarial as it often is and was rudely yelling at the two

00:19:59.820 leaders when they got together and uh there's there was some opinion that putin was kind of put off

00:20:07.260 with it and at one point they said he said enough uh and then he and trump had a laugh about how bad the

00:20:15.420 you know how bad the press is blah blah so that was just an interesting moment

00:20:21.580 um let me give you some other uh some other impressions from other people speaking of uh jack

00:20:30.140 basubic he said that uh trump after the meeting trump was up for uh what do you say he'd been traveling

00:20:37.820 for 19 hours uh does that include both directions i don't know and uh that he was making phone calls

00:20:45.820 until 2 a.m with the other leaders to catch him up i'll tell you having a president who doesn't need

00:20:53.740 much sleep is really underrated it really is like having two presidents he just doesn't sleep that much

00:21:02.380 it's kind of amazing well i guess uh zelensky's gonna come to the white house on monday so he'll be uh

00:21:11.580 he'll be brought into it um and then uh there's some bullshit about trump is saying that everybody

00:21:19.500 determined that the best way to end the war is go to is to go directly to a peace agreement

00:21:25.580 and skip the ceasefire does that sound like something they really all agreed on

00:21:32.540 because it seems to me that trump would have gotten a lot of credit if he'd gotten a ceasefire

00:21:38.540 now a ceasefire probably wouldn't hold so you know maybe there was no point in trying because

00:21:45.980 it wouldn't have held anyway um but uh it feels a little bit like maybe trump didn't get the ceasefire

00:21:55.420 that he wanted and that he's you know reframing it as well the ceasefire is not important what's

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00:23:10.060 imaginary peace deal is better than an imaginary ceasefire because neither of them were going to

00:23:14.860 happen they were both imaginary now does it seem to you like we're having some kind of weird theater

00:23:23.020 and the theater is this unless ukraine decides to give up you know it's valuable land that russia's

00:23:31.980 already conquered which i don't see there's any chance of that there's not going to be any kind of peace deal

00:23:38.940 and there's not going to be any kind of ceasefire and doesn't it feel to you like the odds of a peace deal

00:23:47.340 are close to zero does anybody have that feeling now trump is the you know the magic peacemaker so if

00:23:55.980 anybody could do it you know he would be the one i would bet on so it's not zero not really but it feels

00:24:03.500 like it can you imagine any scenario in which ukraine changes his mind on that land exchange

00:24:12.700 what what scenario would allow them to do that um here's my best here's my best uh estimate suppose

00:24:25.180 um suppose the u.s uh offered the following idea hey instead of the russian government and the

00:24:34.780 ukrainian government deciding who gets what land of the part that's already conquered by russia

00:24:41.660 why don't we leave it to a referendum now you might say there's no way you can get a legitimate

00:24:49.180 referendum you can't really assume that you would get a you know a legitimate vote from the population

00:24:56.300 well you could poll them couldn't you or couldn't you maybe you can't maybe that'd be too hard so

00:25:03.020 suppose you said since there is no legitimate way that the governments will agree which land should

00:25:10.220 change hands why don't we turn it over to the populations now i would think that russia now you

00:25:17.020 and you might take crimea out of the mix because russia might say all right there's no situation in

00:25:22.540 which we're giving up crimea so you might want to take that out of the mix but if you said for the other

00:25:28.460 stuff if we can figure out what the population wants then we should craft our end agreement around that

00:25:36.620 now there are a lot of russian speaking people in those conquered lands right so it might be that

00:25:45.340 russia would get what it wanted and how much would ukraine want to keep territory that was full of

00:25:52.620 people who would rather be russian would they be losing a lot in that case i don't know maybe be fewer

00:25:59.340 problems so the only way i could see that a big deal could happen is if they take away from the

00:26:07.580 governments or at least they pretend they're taking it away the question of who gets what land it's just

00:26:14.300 got to go to somebody independent and or the population of the people there and then what i think ukraine

00:26:21.980 mostly wants a american guarantee of security but they would stop short of demanding that they be in

00:26:29.900 nato so my guess is that we'll promise that nato is off the table but the u.s will say something like

00:26:37.500 but you're gonna have to get through us russia if you want to take over you what's left of ukraine

00:26:44.140 probably something like that well what was the reaction over at msnbc did they say it's a great step

00:26:51.100 forward uh trump really set the table no they had susan rice on and says that putin walked away with

00:26:59.820 a quote big victory because the event made him seem like an equal as opposed to the isolated you know

00:27:08.140 dictator that he is or should be um and nicole wallace says that she was more prepared to meet

00:27:15.580 with vladimir putin than trump was now do you notice the mind reading when when the people the

00:27:23.500 anti-trumpers run out of good points which happens kind of kind of quickly they go to mind reading

00:27:31.820 now how in the world would anyone especially nicole wallace know how prepared trump was or wasn't for

00:27:38.940 this meeting correct me if i'm wrong but the topic of ukraine has been one of his top topics for the

00:27:46.620 entire time he's been in office and when he was running for office and if there's something he

00:27:51.820 doesn't know about that situation in order to be prepared i would be really surprised he might be the

00:27:58.620 most prepared person you've ever seen now i'm not reading his mind i'm just looking at the situation

00:28:04.380 objectively is it really possible that the thing that he probably thinks about the most the thing

00:28:10.700 that would get him a nobel peace prize you think he hasn't put enough thought into it 0.90

00:28:16.540 that's such a dumb npc comment that he wasn't prepared there's no indication that he wasn't 0.65

00:28:22.940 prepared in fact he probably was super prepared because he seems to be able to handle a great many 0.98

00:28:29.980 topics without too much uh pressure that's just one more um the wall street journal said for all the

00:28:39.340 pageantry president trump leaves alaska with little to show while uh putin got the recognition he has long

00:28:46.780 sought now is that the case well i would argue that we cannot judge in the present whether this was a

00:28:56.540 a plus or a minus because the setting the table thing is all about preparing for the move after

00:29:04.860 so if you don't see the move that follows which would be the larger you know peace negotiations if you 0.99

00:29:10.860 don't see how that turns out i believe it's ridiculous and stupid it's just stupid to give it a grade midway 0.99

00:29:19.580 well that that would be like if you were going to grade a uh a heart surgeon by only watching while 1.00

00:29:28.780 he opens up the front of the chest to get to get access to the heart you stop there you go oh oh look

00:29:35.580 at that patient that patient used to be all together and now he's got a big hole in his chest i guess

00:29:41.500 that's a big old failure wouldn't it be smarter to wait till the operation is over and then judge

00:29:49.900 whether your operation was a success you can't judge it based on they met and they had a good time and

00:29:56.860 they smiled at each other and they said some things you would expect them to say anyway

00:30:03.580 um i would argue this way that how many times have you seen and i've mentioned this a number of

00:30:14.060 times and then i see other people in the press mention it that trump likes to create assets out

00:30:19.820 of nothing and then trade away that asset as part of his negotiation he just did that with putin

00:30:27.740 and most people won't be able to see this but i think i've trained most of you that you can

00:30:32.380 it goes like this before putin came to this meeting according to the wall street journal according

00:30:39.900 to msnbc he he did not have the respect of the international community the way he wanted so we

00:30:49.500 all agree with that part that he he had a uh isn't he like indicted or something by the national war crimes

00:30:57.820 communal or something um we're not as signatory to that so he was safe in u.s territory but he was

00:31:04.940 sort of this outcast demonized leader and you know should have been for good reason and that this 0.93

00:31:13.180 put him up on a level where he's more like an equal to the united states leader so that on the surface

00:31:21.100 that would look like a mistake right it would look like trump gave him something for nothing

00:31:25.980 but if you know a little bit more about persuasion and you know that trump routinely creates assets

00:31:32.860 out of nothing for the purpose of trading them away later or threatening to take them away later even

00:31:39.180 better here's how you would see it putin just gained as critics rightly point out he just gained his status

00:31:49.980 trump can take that away anytime he wants the status that putin gained is completely provisional

00:32:00.540 he doesn't get to keep it because if a week from now trump trump says all right well we gave you a

00:32:07.420 chance you little piss aunt you came over here and you smiled at me and you laughed and you tapped me on 1.00

00:32:12.860 again and you had no intention of settling this thing so now i'm going to destroy your economy and you're a 1.00

00:32:18.860 lying piece of and i want the rest of the world to know that do you see how quickly trump can take 0.91

00:32:25.580 that away from him so putin started with none of that respect that would put him on the same plane as

00:32:32.860 trump trump quite definitely elevated him up to just below him just below him but in the same universe

00:32:43.020 just a little bit below trump that was creating the asset and nothing now trump can take that away

00:32:52.220 so so putin goes home and he's like yeah i think i really gained something in the world opinion here

00:32:58.780 no he didn't trump owns that world opinion he can yank that back in 30 seconds he can write one

00:33:08.220 post on truth social and absolutely pull the rug out so that's trump now putin also being really good

00:33:19.500 at persuasion but you know they they each have different cards to play so it doesn't mean they'll

00:33:24.460 have an equal outcome it just means they're they're both really good at this so as much as i say trump is

00:33:32.300 amazing at persuasion and he is he's the best putin's right up there he he's not a peer but he is right

00:33:41.660 just behind him so putin knew that uh he could make trump want to keep playing with him if he said the

00:33:50.860 things that trump would want to hear one of the things they said was that the war never would have

00:33:55.420 happened if trump had been president now i don't know if that's true but boy does that fit what trump

00:34:03.660 wants you to believe because it's exactly what he says twice a day every day for months so putin just

00:34:11.020 goes out and backs him oh yeah there wouldn't have been a war if trump had been in charge now it doesn't

00:34:18.780 matter if that's true because we can't go back in time and test it out it only matters that he said it

00:34:26.140 and it was so perfectly you know strategically formed so that trump would have to say yeah i do agree with

00:34:34.780 that so that that was masterful of putin and uh putin also said um didn't he also say he thought

00:34:46.780 that's a 2020 election might have been rigged which of course trump would want to hear there

00:34:52.460 was something else he said oh yeah he said the election oh yeah listen to this um

00:35:01.660 i think this was trump quoting putin so it's not something we heard from putin directly but trump

00:35:07.580 said that putin said your election was rigged because you have mail-in voting he talked about

00:35:13.340 2020 and he said you won that election by so much it was a rigged election said it was impossible to

00:35:19.500 have fair elections with mail-in with mail-in voting now seriously if if putin sat down and he said i'm

00:35:29.020 going to make a list of the things that uh trump would most want to hear of all the things in the world

00:35:37.180 what would he most want to hear especially from putin it would be the things he said all right so

00:35:45.420 if if you're grading them on how they did a plus a plus from trump a plus from putin but i'll give the

00:35:54.540 win to trump trump gets the win because he had the um the location advantage not because he had more skill

00:36:03.500 but he just had he had a advantage before the game started and he played his advantage correctly

00:36:11.180 so the other thing that's happening here is they have to know that the other one is their sort of

00:36:21.340 sherlock holmes and professor moriarty you know they they are each other's biggest challenge and each

00:36:28.460 other's uh most capable other she is pretty capable but putin's more fun uh i think i think he's just

00:36:38.460 more fun president she looks like he's not much fun but putin even if he's evil all the time he's still

00:36:45.420 kind of fun he's got sort of that impish smile and stuff and you can imagine that if in a different

00:36:52.780 situation you could easily imagine trump and putin being you know buddies i don't believe putin golfs am

00:37:01.180 i right they've never golfed so it's too bad if uh putin spoke perfect english and golfed we'd be in good

00:37:12.220 shape um all right so then the uh european leaders um have a back to trump so they seem happy about

00:37:21.900 what's happened so far as long as the europeans and uh zelinski get involved and they are now

00:37:29.420 um

00:37:32.380 and apparently the u.s is prepared to give security guarantees to ukraine which is what ukraine wants

00:37:40.620 i don't know what that would look like but um let's see bill maher had his show last night and uh

00:37:47.820 uh well i continue to uh marvel at the fact that he's becoming more and more of a republican

00:37:55.500 right before our eyes but probably never probably never will get there but it's just fun to watch the

00:38:02.860 gravity it's just pulling him so hard that just a little by little he's like well okay maybe he has a

00:38:10.780 point on that thing but let me tell you all these other things i still disagree with and then he'll mention

00:38:16.380 some hoaxes and some things he doesn't understand um

00:38:22.700 so i guess it was uh friday night last night bill maher said that trump wasn't wrong on tariffs

00:38:30.220 and he wasn't wrong on forcing neighborhood to pay more and uh and then he gave trump some more credit

00:38:38.940 kind of weirdly he said i'll tell you one thing about him about trump that i know i'm not going to

00:38:44.540 tell you how i know that part's weird he goes but a lot of people have seen the same thing and mars says

00:38:50.700 he really does hate war he really does not like it when people die in war now how would bill maher know

00:38:59.500 that would it be the same way that every one of us knows it because it's the most consistent thing he's

00:39:09.180 said since he's been in public life that he wants the the war to stop he wants the killing to stop yeah

00:39:17.660 and the other the other thing that um people say about trump even his critics is that he's exactly

00:39:26.300 the same opinion in private as he is publicly so if publicly he's been saying consistently and loudly and

00:39:34.700 often as possible he doesn't like people to die doesn't like war um avoiding war is sort of his

00:39:40.780 greatest accomplishment and he should be proud of it um yeah so why would you imagine that he says

00:39:49.180 something different in private do you imagine in private he says something like you know i really

00:39:54.780 don't care if those people from other countries die you know as long as it doesn't come over here 1.00

00:39:58.860 i doubt it if every other topic in private is the same as it is in public yeah he doesn't like war

00:40:10.540 that that's the most obvious thing you could possibly say but bill maher is acting like the rest of us

00:40:16.300 didn't notice and they have some insider knowledge that trump doesn't like war okay um

00:40:25.420 um and then uh bill maher also notices because how could he not that the democrat leaders like

00:40:36.780 hillary and kamala were too afraid to come on his show but the republicans generally say yes and as

00:40:45.020 as uh bill maher says they take their beating like men i don't know if they take a beating but they do go

00:40:52.220 into a um an environment that's not in their favor and they do it easily regularly without hesitation

00:41:01.820 now that is a really fair observation um that is a real good observation there is something

00:41:09.500 fundamentally different about the republican and democrat approach to something like going on his show

00:41:15.820 now obviously he gets a lot of left-leaning people on the show more than right-leaning

00:41:23.500 but not the top leaders you know not the ones that are afraid of saying something wrong

00:41:27.660 like hillary or kamala anyway and of course they do get invited all the time as he points out

00:41:34.220 but he says uh democrats um appear to be afraid of everything

00:41:38.540 um mar says they're afraid of covid they're afraid of their own kids which he which he uh overlaps with

00:41:48.220 the trans topic um and then he but then he has to say some negative stuff about trump because he just

00:41:57.340 has to so so mar says that trump was overly friendly to putin for a very long time considering that putin is

00:42:05.340 a thug now does bill maher really not know that international relations work better if you don't

00:42:12.860 demonize the person that you're forced to negotiate with this is he the only person in the world who

00:42:18.780 doesn't know that i mean that that's what's left of his criticisms of trump are stuff like he was

00:42:27.020 overly friendly to putin that's it that's not even a flaw that's just somebody who knows how to do his job

00:42:36.940 really well anyway um walter kern i guess was on the show and pointed out that in 2015 obama met with

00:42:46.700 putin and nobody said anything about it and then mark bill maher says he met him he didn't praise him

00:42:53.420 he didn't say he's the greatest guy in the world uh i could read 20 compliments that trump has given to

00:42:58.780 him he said he's a fun guy to be with uh and he goes oh he's then he's making an epstein joke there

00:43:05.180 but again how does bill maher how can he be the only person on earth who doesn't know

00:43:13.900 that complimenting the person you're trying to influence is good form and that insulting him makes

00:43:19.900 it much more much less likely you'll get anything how does he not know that um he's pretty i think

00:43:28.060 he's i think he's pretending not to know because there's no real possibility he doesn't know that

00:43:34.700 is it i i would say every adult with an iq over 110 would know that i don't have to explain it to you

00:43:43.100 anyway um and of course uh putin is running the same play on trump you'll flatter him when he can

00:43:55.340 then the funniest thing i'm watching is that msnbc always has all these anti-trump um critics who have

00:44:03.260 to be on every day and one of them is molly jong fast and i like watching her because she's so bad 0.98

00:44:09.660 she's just so bad at it but the the lowest level i'm going to say the lowest level of pundit analysis 0.99

00:44:19.980 is that the new thing is primarily a distraction to the old thing now i know both sides say that

00:44:27.100 and i've even talked about it myself but it's the lowest level of clever analysis because the world is

00:44:36.940 full of things that are you know new news every day isn't it more likely that there's new news every

00:44:43.820 day isn't that far more likely than uh this new thing is a distraction from the old thing and the

00:44:50.700 old thing was a distraction from the thing before it i think the better way to say it is that trump floods

00:44:57.820 his own uh doesn't allow you to focus on one thing too long you know it fills up all the shelf space with

00:45:05.100 the things he wants you to think about so that part's true but this whole one thing is a distraction to

00:45:11.420 the other thing yeah it's such a low level of analysis um david axelrod you might know as one of the uh more

00:45:24.380 famous democrat advisors he says that uh trump's red carpet embrace of putin may enrage a lot of americans

00:45:32.620 um i would say that literally everything trump does enrages the theater kids is there anything trump

00:45:40.780 could do including golf they get enraged if he golfs oh we don't pay him to golf well you don't pay him 0.98

00:45:48.940 at all bitch he doesn't even take pay let him golf anyway yeah yeah we have to worry about uh democrats 1.00

00:45:59.820 being enraged by things trump does that's just everything hillary clinton um said some good 0.98

00:46:09.260 things about trump and then there's one part of it that's fake news um she hillary clinton said gave

00:46:16.300 trump credit for the nato spending going up to five percent she gave him credit for ukraine buying

00:46:24.140 weapons from the us instead of us you know giving them to him um and she thinks we have a better

00:46:31.740 working relationship with europe lately and she's actually encouraged by that so you might say wait a

00:46:38.860 minute what are all these good things that hillary is saying about him and she goes on and uh

00:46:44.540 uh she said she'd support a nobel peace prize if trump uh if trump got a peace deal without giving up any

00:46:55.180 ukrainian territory now what did the news do with her quote they find people hoaxed it up they cut out

00:47:03.340 the last part so it's a completely different message if you leave in the whole quote about um if he can do it

00:47:12.540 while uh not not giving any previous ukrainian land to russia that's the part that can never happen

00:47:20.220 in the real world literally not one person in the world not one not one person believes that this will

00:47:28.460 end with ukraine getting back all the land they had before it started so when she says conditionally

00:47:35.740 that she would uh nominate uh trump for a nobel prize if he could get a peace deal while ukraine

00:47:43.420 got back all of his land that she'd do it and then the news the fake news reported that she would 0.99

00:47:50.780 nominate him for a nobel peace prize if he gets a deal that's not the deal brennan made the same mistake

00:47:57.900 because he will get fake news too so brennan was on msnbc and he uh boosted what clinton said he said

00:48:06.140 yeah i would agree essentially that if he could do it without and also get back all of ukraine's

00:48:13.420 property that even he would nominate him for a nobel peace prize because that's impossible it's just not

00:48:19.260 going to happen when i found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from winners i started

00:48:25.180 wondering is every fabulous item i see from winners like that woman over there with the designer jeans 1.00

00:48:31.660 are those from winners ooh are those beautiful gold earrings did she pay full price or that leather tote

00:48:38.140 or that cashmere sweater or those knee-high boots that dress that jacket those shoes is anyone paying

00:48:44.620 full price for anything stop wondering start winning winners find fabulous for less and uh anyway

00:48:55.740 so i wonder if hillary clinton will try to soften her approach to trump because trump now has his

00:49:05.100 department of justice looking into all of her crimes is it possible that hillary has decided to vastly 1.00

00:49:13.500 soften her approach to criticizing trump because he she doesn't want him angry at her at the same time

00:49:21.420 he has the goods on her in the legal system because once trump decided not to go after her it was his

00:49:29.180 first term so she would know that is within the realm of possibility that he could have the goods on her 0.92

00:49:35.980 and decide not to pursue it or tell his people to stand down um so you might be seeing her softening her

00:49:45.500 anti-trump approach to keep herself out of jail that might be happening 1.00

00:49:49.740 well i guess there were some protesters up in alaska um i guess it was ukrainian protesters

00:50:00.780 funded their signs were funded by somebody who used to work for kiev's soros foundation

00:50:06.060 um i guess data republican found out you know who the funding came from at data republican on the x platform

00:50:15.180 you should follow that account she's she's amazing um and i will uh i will propose to you again the

00:50:24.620 following fact there's no such thing as organic protests in america maybe nowhere but there is no such

00:50:35.660 thing as an organic protest the if you saw the signs of the protesters it's just all these old white 0.72

00:50:43.580 retired people who must be doing it for a hundred dollars because you know that they got nothing to do 0.99

00:50:49.900 and they could use a hundred dollars none of it looks real um and i don't know if we've

00:50:57.180 now completely defanged the whole idea of uh the fake protests because once you know that they're all fake

00:51:06.940 do they still have power you know black lives matter had a lot of power

00:51:11.260 but if you knew it was fake from day one would it ever have had that much power

00:51:16.140 i don't know we we may be past the point where these big protests have the same impact we'll just go 0.97

00:51:24.140 bullshit fake soros 0.95

00:51:29.180 um 1.00

00:51:31.020 hmm

00:51:33.500 so uh do you remember the 2018 russia summit so that was the first time that trump met with

00:51:41.100 putin and uh according to uh the federalist hans menke is writing that uh tulsi gabbard has released

00:51:52.300 two emails uh they show that just two days before the trump putin summit uh hold on uh in late 2016

00:52:04.060 dni james clapper pushed for a fraudulent narrative that russia had hacked the dnc

00:52:11.100 um and the timing apparently some of this russia hoax was timed to make it impossible for trump to

00:52:19.420 get a you know good outcome in 2018 with putin so um and as uh hans monkey monkey points out

00:52:31.100 special counsel robert muller indicted 12 russian nationals on charges of hacking the dnc

00:52:36.620 um and this is something i noted at the time too the indictment was designed to create political chaos

00:52:45.340 but muller knew that the 12 russians were located in russia and would never stand trial

00:52:50.620 meaning we'd never know for sure would we we'd never know for sure if russia was behind it

00:52:57.740 probably was but we'd never know for sure

00:52:59.980 so the democrats have been using russia as their club for a long time um according to cnn's harry enton

00:53:12.060 americans trust trump and the gop on crime way more than they trust the democrats um he said that uh

00:53:22.940 well that's a pretty big deal yeah i mean if if trump and the gop are favored by quite a bit on the

00:53:32.060 topic of crime it'd be kind of hard to beat them in the in the midterms but midterms i think it could go

00:53:38.540 anyway at this point um peter schweiser points out he's an author he wrote the book clinton cash about

00:53:47.820 the clinton foundation and uh the alleged bribery and money laundering i guess uh pay to pay pay to play

00:53:57.820 and bribery it was not money laundering and although it's a form of money laundering to to do the pay to

00:54:04.220 play and the bribery but uh he points out that we now know from the new classified document releases

00:54:15.340 that the the several fbi field offices were planning to investigate the clintons for the pay to pray and

00:54:25.660 pay to play and bribery potential of the clinton foundation and uh the obama obama department of

00:54:32.780 justice told them to shut it down um and i think that peter schweiser assumes that uh and i assume

00:54:44.380 yeah i can't read his mind but i would assume he assumes it that uh if there's something going on

00:54:49.820 right now some other kind of fbi investigation into the um clinton foundation from that uh they're gonna

00:55:00.300 find stuff and it might be a real big deal and i think that too so there's nobody to tell them to shut

00:55:07.260 it down and i don't think you get multiple fbi field offices involved back in 2018 unless they had some

00:55:16.540 kind of actionable intelligence well trump is deploying 4 000 marines around latin america waters

00:55:26.700 uh to stop the uh to stop the uh drug dealers the cartels and apparently that's a pretty big

00:55:35.020 uh military so that would include warships and nuclear powered subs spy planes and a marine expeditionary

00:55:45.260 force wow um and uh some say it's just a show of force it might be more than that um and then the mexican

00:55:57.340 government has confirmed that they have approved and they knew about the us government drones flying

00:56:04.300 over mexico as part of the anti-cartel stuff so i don't know if mexico is just trying to cover their

00:56:12.540 butts by saying oh yeah we knew about it and we approved it or if we were just doing it anyway and

00:56:20.300 you know maybe they approved it i don't know and then there's uh newsom governor newsom 0.78

00:56:28.940 is still becoming crazier and crazier in his anti-trump stuff and newsom actually said in public

00:56:36.300 that he believes that trump is serious about running again in 2028

00:56:40.940 and partly he believes that because he received a trump 2028 hat in the mail

00:56:49.260 and he just reminds all the democrats that they must fight like hell

00:56:54.700 um and that ucla who is one of the entities that the trump administration is going after for being

00:57:02.220 racist he says that ucla will not sell its soul so so believe it or not newsom is siding with racists

00:57:13.260 and siding with racism because the alternative is to sell their soul so i assume their souls are

00:57:20.140 discussing racist souls and they don't want to sell them to be less racist like the trump administration

00:57:27.820 would like them to do so they are stuck in that fight like hell frame with nothing else

00:57:36.300 well trump told us and i don't believe this for a second but he says that president xi of china

00:57:43.900 told them that china will not invade taiwan as long as trump is in office quote he told me this is trump

00:57:51.900 saying that i will never do it as long as you're president but i'm very patient and china is very

00:57:57.420 patient do you believe that xi told trump that he would never do it while trump was in office but he

00:58:06.140 plans to do it

00:58:09.820 well that's what you say when you're trying to get elected in 2028

00:58:14.860 no i don't think he i my guess since i can't read minds is that trump is not taking seriously

00:58:23.340 running in 2028 because the constitution would not allow it and i can't imagine it would ever work

00:58:29.420 but on the other hand he probably is attracted to the idea that it's even an idea

00:58:36.140 yeah how would you not love that that there are people seriously who who would want to change the

00:58:43.020 constitution to keep you in power that'd be nice i don't think he's taking it seriously though

00:58:50.380 well the mayor of new orleans latoya cantrell according to the gateway pundit a grand jury is

00:58:57.340 charger with dozens of felony counts uh including conspiracy to commit wire fraud wire fraud conspiracy to

00:59:05.580 drug obstruction of justice making false statements etc um and it makes me wonder

00:59:14.060 given that the the problem with local government is that the way it's designed it guarantees that the

00:59:21.100 leaders will be corrupt it guarantees it it doesn't guarantee any specific leader and it doesn't guarantee

00:59:29.260 that will happen on day one but it guarantees that people who know that they can exploit that office

00:59:36.860 for financial gain are going to find ways to win that office and then exploit it for financial gain

00:59:43.740 so it makes me wonder if there's any way that the feds could have a regular audit

00:59:50.300 um function to audit local governments just for their spending just to make sure that they're not

00:59:58.940 uh paying their boyfriend bodyguards to go on vacations with them that sort of thing is there

01:00:04.460 any reason we couldn't do that now i know that the states have all the power that the federal government

01:00:10.940 doesn't have but maybe you need a would you need a constitutional change or oh how about this how

01:00:19.580 about uh the federal government funds people in cities that are a problem the ones have a lot of crime and

01:00:26.780 probably a lot of corruption uh if funds a um what would it be a uh not a petition uh

01:00:35.580 uh what do you call it when you have the public vote on doing a thing as opposed to just electing a

01:00:42.460 person what's that called but anyway whatever that's called the federal government could fund

01:00:47.980 somebody to just see if they can gather enough signatures to put something on the ballot and

01:00:53.500 that thing that could be put on the ballot is would you say yes to a no-cost referendum thank you

01:01:00.540 a referendum um would you say yes to a no-cost because the federal government will pay for it

01:01:07.180 um occasional auditing of your elected officials now how many people would say no to that it will

01:01:15.260 cost you nothing at the local level federally your taxes will pay for it but we'll be checking

01:01:21.820 your politicians to make sure they're not wasting your money would you vote for that i would i'd vote for

01:01:28.780 that in a heartbeat so there might be some way that the trump administration could get involved in

01:01:34.940 getting rid of the criminals in the cities because to me that's the biggest problem too many criminals

01:01:42.060 and i'm not talking about the ones on the streets i'm talking about the elected criminals

01:01:49.660 all right um i've got the observation that you're not going to like it at all and i i believe i've

01:01:58.380 been a hypocrite on this topic and you're welcome to call me out on it um when you see it happen

01:02:05.740 because i'm sure it'll happen again and the topic is this how do you know that the new experts 0.98

01:02:13.660 got it right and the old experts got it wrong take for example anything in the health domain

01:02:21.100 a lot of people said um hey this cancer doctor has this solution that the rest of the world doesn't

01:02:32.380 know about and this will fix you up you know cure your cancer and then i look at it and it's somebody

01:02:40.220 very qualified you know definitely qualified and their argument sounds good to me but i'm not any kind of a

01:02:48.140 medical doctor or anything but my question is this why would you believe the new guy if you don't believe

01:02:56.140 the old guys and gals if you don't believe the old experts the 98 of them why would you believe the one

01:03:05.340 who says no they're wrong so there are several people in this category and they're all persuasive

01:03:14.860 and it's because of the documentary effect if you take any one of these doctors these rogue doctors

01:03:21.580 who make claims that are different from what the mainstream doctors are claiming if you put them on

01:03:27.260 a podcast let's say joe rogan and joe rogan you know he knows what questions to ask as a interested

01:03:35.740 you know viewer would ask but it's going to give that rogue doctor um sort of a documentary

01:03:43.580 level of time to make a one-sided presentation that there would be nobody in the room who would

01:03:51.100 have any way to doubt it so unfortunately the rogue doctors are super persuasive because they often get

01:03:59.900 invited on podcasts but how would you know they're right i mean i could watch three hours of some expert

01:04:08.300 on joe rogan but i wouldn't know if they're right i would only know know they're saying something

01:04:13.020 different than other people are saying so here's my caution if you believe that the new rogue expert

01:04:22.380 has figured out how to cure cancer and the rest of the world hasn't i would say you have no reason to

01:04:29.260 believe that just because you watch somebody say stuff you don't understand on a show that

01:04:34.940 didn't have a way to check them in real time so be careful of the rogue experts

01:04:45.180 likewise i would say the same thing about climate change so steve molloy of junk science is pointing to

01:04:53.500 a new study where is it coming out of athens greece department of water resources and environmental

01:05:01.180 engineering blah blah blah so they did a study um in which they're claiming that the co2 as a greenhouse

01:05:08.540 gas is not not really having much of any effect on weather now if you believe that 98 of the climate

01:05:19.100 scientists are lying or it's really not 98 but why would you believe this what do you know about

01:05:27.100 the uh national technical university of athens just because there's a study that came out of there

01:05:35.420 that says oh climate change is you know not real at least man-made part is not real why would you believe

01:05:42.700 it now i believe it kind of i don't believe this specific study but with my my own powers of um 0.97

01:05:54.540 let's say experience and logic um i'm pretty sure that the the models are bullshit and that's because

01:06:03.100 nobody can do that kind of thing it's just not a thing anybody could do so it doesn't take much of 0.63

01:06:08.620 an expert to say i don't think somebody's doing the thing that's impossible to do it's just not

01:06:13.900 possible that that's a lower level of you know expertise but uh i wouldn't believe any one study

01:06:24.700 that debunked climate change if there's lots of them then it starts to get more a little bit more

01:06:30.700 believable but uh remember there are lots of them on both sides um i guess there's a rumor that rfk

01:06:39.260 jr is trying to squelch that he's really preparing himself to run for president in 2028 and he says

01:06:46.700 absolutely no way that um people are just trying to drive a wedge between him and trump and there's

01:06:52.940 nothing to it i believe him i believe him i i feel like rfk jr um has earned trust on stuff like that

01:07:04.620 that if it were someone else if it were adam schiff i'd say yeah it's probably a lie because he lies

01:07:09.260 all the time but i don't think rfk jr lies he might be wrong sometimes but i don't think he lies about

01:07:16.300 stuff so i believe um a new federal judge obama appointee is again blocking trump's plan to end

01:07:26.860 dei in colleges big surprise and part of the reason was um people didn't want to sacrifice their personal

01:07:38.140 values uh to get rid of racists and sexists in their college what exactly would their personal

01:07:45.820 values be that they wanted to maintain racism in their college why would you want to maintain it

01:07:53.740 that's a weird argument well charles not charles um davos founder schwab you remember schwab

01:08:02.460 klaus schwab he was accused of some financial misconduct after he left the world economic forum

01:08:09.980 well he's been cleared so he's been cleared of all wrongdoing and since i was one of the

01:08:15.660 people who talked about that story i feel uh an obligation to say he's cleared

01:08:25.180 all right um the runaway texas democrats who were trying to avoid a vote that would redistrict um

01:08:34.380 are hinting that they're coming back they pretended that they're waiting to see what california would do

01:08:40.780 with redistricting but that sounds like a fake reason i think they just knew that eventually they

01:08:46.380 had to return to their jobs so to me what's happening is uh the inevitable so it's not

01:08:54.380 like it was going to go some other way of course they were going to come back to their jobs eventually

01:08:59.340 um apparently according to newsmax the white house is trying to get the indiana republicans to do some

01:09:09.340 redistricting so they would you get yet a little bit more advantage in case california does it too 0.88

01:09:17.900 and then in other news uh reuters reports that the u.s government could shed as many as 300 000 workers

01:09:25.740 under the trump administration just this year in one year and that would be a 12 and a half percent

01:09:31.900 decrease in the federal workforce since january you know what that impresses me

01:09:39.020 now i suppose we'll hear about all kinds of stories of oh if we hadn't decreased this workforce

01:09:45.580 this would not have gone wrong but a 12 and a half percent decrease in in government workforce in six

01:09:51.900 months if we actually get that we it's not what we have yet but it looks like what could happen

01:09:58.540 that'd be pretty pretty impressive i'd have to say

01:10:03.900 um sam altman of open ai agrees that ai might be in a bubble not necessarily his company but there

01:10:13.340 are a lot of startups that are getting ridiculous valuations so he thinks ai is in a bubble

01:10:21.260 i agree it's definitely in a bubble um i think two things can be true that it will be the biggest

01:10:28.220 thing ever and there's a lot of startups that are still going to fail so there's a bubblish

01:10:36.460 quality to it but it's based on something real

01:10:41.340 um according to no ridge red meat in a healthy diet could benefit your brain

01:10:46.940 i think this is all part of the the understanding that your gut health is

01:10:53.980 directly related to your brain health your mental health and your brain function so

01:11:00.620 again i would throw this in the category of why would you believe anything that science says about

01:11:05.980 nutrition science has been wrong about nutrition every day i've been alive it's the

01:11:13.180 wrongest science ever is about anything so yeah i mean there's a study and uh i'm tempted to eat a

01:11:21.820 steak today to see if i feel any different but uh just so you know there's some people think

01:11:28.460 steaks good for you i'm sure there are people who would say it's not and that will probably change

01:11:34.220 back and forth forever well there's a social media company called gab

01:11:41.180 which i believe is sort of like a uh x clone right it's a messaging kind of thing and uh they're a

01:11:49.020 little more controversial so they have a they have more users who are provocative let's say um and

01:11:56.540 their payment processor just cut them off now i'll tell you i feel like i would like a list of all the

01:12:05.340 banks and payment processors who have cut off people because they didn't like what they were saying

01:12:12.460 because the rest of us need to cut off those banks and process and payment processors you know

01:12:18.540 assuming that there's competition in those areas i'd love to know who did it so that we could do it back to them

01:12:26.540 well in oak brook illinois police now have a fully autonomous drone so apparently they have a drone

01:12:36.460 that sits on the police department building and they can activate it to go check out a crime scene

01:12:43.340 before the humans on the ground can get there and most of the time it would be able to get there before

01:12:48.540 the humans could so at least you'd have some witness maybe you could break up a fight or something if

01:12:53.740 they if they thought they were being filmed i don't know but to me this is a great idea it seems to me

01:13:00.700 that there should be police drones in the sky um or nearby you know everything um

01:13:10.940 i kind of like that idea i know it's going to feel like a violation of privacy and blah blah blah but

01:13:16.620 that's already gone you lost your privacy a long time ago well i saw you post on x that's been

01:13:23.820 fascinating me all morning you you've heard about people who don't have an internal monologue right

01:13:31.340 so they don't hear voice in full sentences in their head now i do and always have uh i don't know what

01:13:39.180 the percentage breakdown is but to me there's just like a demon in my head who's talking to me all the

01:13:44.780 time i don't think of it as a demon i think of it as myself but um apparently some people don't have

01:13:51.740 that but on top of that there are people who don't imagine things visually and i don't even know how you

01:14:00.620 could live like that how many of you do not have a visual imagination so in my case i can produce an

01:14:10.700 entire movie just like a netflix film and run it in my imagination i don't even have to close my eyes

01:14:17.260 i can see every part of it i can see all the detail i can move the camera angle around so i can see the

01:14:23.340 the movie from any angle and i can replay it and change the dialogue and just change the movie now

01:14:31.180 can any of you not do that is there anybody here who can't produce a full motion picture in their head

01:14:39.500 and then just watch it it makes me wonder how much of it is practice related and how much is natural

01:14:48.460 i feel like it's always been the same for me but i also practice it every day because a comic strip is

01:14:55.020 basically a little scene from a movie and the way you do it is first you imagine it and then when i draw

01:15:01.340 the comic i'm projecting the image onto the page and i'm tracing it so drawing for me is sort of like

01:15:10.860 tracing i'm not finding out what it looks like when it's done i'm seeing it done and then i'm tracing it

01:15:19.740 i don't know what you do i i would assume that if you if you don't have that visual thing that you would

01:15:25.580 not be able to draw and do art but if you could and maybe you can that would be fascinating too

01:15:35.420 but it really tells you that um as as similar as it seems that we are we are so different on the inside

01:15:45.180 the the internal life you know the real one the one that matters the most

01:15:49.180 we are so different i mean that is such a fundamental difference in how you see the world

01:15:56.940 anyway um that's all we got so uh in a few minutes owen gregorian will be hosting a spaces

01:16:06.220 event on the x platform to find it um you can either find my x account i

01:16:12.860 uh reposted it the link or you could go to owen gregorian and see the link there and you should

01:16:20.780 be following him by the way all right ladies and gentlemen i'm going to say a few words privately

01:16:28.220 to the beloved members of uh of my locals group but uh i'll be short so that you can make it over to

01:16:36.780 the spaces event if you want to all right everybody else i'll see you tomorrow same time same place

01:16:42.460 hope you had a good time hope you got your exercise done or cleaned your house or whatever

01:16:48.140 it was you were doing while i was yapping away and the rest of you

01:17:12.460 was it you were doing well you

01:17:20.140 you

01:17:42.460 Thank you.

01:18:12.460 Thank you.

01:18:42.460 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 16, 2025

Episode 2929 CWSA 08⧸16⧸25

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