Episode 3013 CWSA 11⧸09⧸25
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In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, Scott Adams talks about why you should be more like a potato and why you shouldn't care so much about what happens to you that you don't have to worry about it.
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well there you are it's about time come on in you're in for it today the show of
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shows gonna be so good I can barely even contain myself but then what's that
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random get rid of that now let me find your comments so that I can give you the
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full time of day it's gonna be good it's gonna be a short show today see if he
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can tell why all right really hmm there we go we're up and running
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good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's
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called coffee with Scott Adams and you've never had a better time but if
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join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine of the day the thing that
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makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip and happens now go well
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it looks like everything's working yay yay everything's working some people like it
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when I do a reframe before every show how many of you like to see a reframe before
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the show a reframe from my book reframe your rain the most important book in the
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English language and all the other ones too but it's not in those languages it's just
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most important all right yeah here's the next one this is still in the mental health
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reframes section of the book well actually you've heard this one before so if anybody
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hasn't heard this one this was very viral for reasons that kind of surprised me so see
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if you think this should have gone viral it did at the time so instead of instead of the
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usual frame that you're a priceless work of art that must be protected how many of you think that
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I mean it's an exaggeration of course but you think that you're important don't you you think
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I'm more important than at least to myself I'm more important than other people the trouble is that's
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kind of limiting it would be better to say you're a potato that is easily replaced
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here's the background on that if I told you to carry a priceless you know piece of art across the
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road to another museum you'd be pretty worried that something would go wrong right but you're
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that priceless art so when you're taking care of yourself you're the priceless art and you're just
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worried all the time about taking care of it would you like to worry less about what's happening to
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you and what's going to happen to you and will a bad outcome happen and is it going to be the
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worst case scenario wouldn't you like to worry about all that less all you have to do is think
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of yourself as a potato and think if I were delivering a potato like just an actual potato
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across the street wouldn't even matter if I dropped it it wouldn't matter so as soon as you think of
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yourself more like the potato which again is not insulting yourself has nothing to do with your ego
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just assume that you're not so important that if something bad happened to you it would be somehow
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the end of the world you're more like a potato than a Mona Lisa so when I came up with that one I have
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to admit I didn't think it would be powerful but it's one of the ones that people have most commented on
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this but did Greg mention it I think other people have mentioned it in other contexts so I put it out
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there maybe like it well scientists say they figured out how to use an MRI to transcribe your thoughts do you
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believe that now that I've completely ruined for you the act of reading stories about science and then
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believe in them because it's fun to believe them it's like whoa that'd be like a mind reading machine
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to which I say if you can thwart the mind reading machine just by shaking your head because obviously
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the MRI makes you be completely still that's not much of a mind reading machine and I don't know what
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they use it for exactly unless you're like a locked in syndrome or something and I also don't believe
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that they can do it well and I don't believe that they can do it and repeat it and I don't believe
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anything about the story what was your first reaction to that was your first reaction to the
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story wow they figured out how to use an MRI to read your thoughts or was your first thought that's
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more bullshit just this is just absolutely more bullshit I lean toward the bullshit on this one don't
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know so it's not I'm not making an allegation I'm just saying how it felt when I read it a little
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more bullshitty than credible well if you haven't seen it yet Jimmy Kimmel and his wife are on a podcast
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recently they just did a podcast and apparently Jimmy Kimmel has been pulled off the air
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and as of this morning when I was preparing there was not yet a reason given has that changed
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as Kimmel or the network given a reason but apparently he missed a couple nights and they
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don't know when he's coming back if he's coming back or why he left somebody said that it was maybe
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a personal thing something personal but then when they showed on the podcast well I don't know when
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the podcast was was recorded so that might make a difference but we'll find out the mystery
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but I'll tell you what we learned a little bit about the dynamic there
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you could tell that Jimmy Kimmel puts a great weight in his wife's opinion do you mind if I say
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it in the non-judgmental way that would be the non-judgmental way to say it it's clear when you see
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them interact that he puts a lot of respect into his wife's opinion I'm not saying that's good or bad
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because you know it's their relationship not mine and there's no one right there's no one way to do
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anything but you know respecting your spouse is a really good place to start so so if you're going to
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judge him because he seems a little a little whipped I don't think that's fair I don't think
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that's fair at all it's his relationship he can be as whipped as he wants or not whipped
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it's none of our business so and I'm wondering have any of you heard a reason even speculation
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I am curious as heck what's going on here some of us if it's a personal problem then I just
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send my I'll send my you know understanding and uh and empathy if there's just some you know might
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be a family problem or something and that wouldn't be funny all right um but here's the thing I wonder
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about so his wife Jimmy Kimmel's wife really made me uh curious about her opinions and one of the
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things she said was that I guess she used to be in a sort of a republican world when she was younger
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but later she she found out what the other side was saying and liked that side better and became a
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democrat I guess so that that part makes sense a lot of people have you know gone from one thing to the
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other um but what she wondered about is uh is is whether she could be deprogrammed so these are her own
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words you think this is something a republican would say about her but these are her own words
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she said uh uh quote I wish there was some way to deprogram myself like she said that on the podcast
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to the world I wish there was some way to deprogram myself because just the act of being around other
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people who are Trump supporters is disturbing so it's not that she's saying that she's wrong
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is that she's having a reaction to the world that she wishes she were not having I think that's
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the right interpretation now again nothing wrong with that right people have opinions that's her
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opinion but the thing with the thing with the democrat opinions of things now see if see if you agree
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the thing I don't understand about liberal opinions is the same thing I sometimes don't understand
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when it comes from republican values there's a thing that people say and do that just seems like
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if that's where you're at you shouldn't be talking about politics at all you're not ready
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and it goes like this all the people who are making mistakes about the data are on the same side
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you know what I mean and she basically said that so some version of that that she didn't want to be
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on the side that was wrong the side that was wrong well here's the part that's hard to explain
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if you really really were paying attention to politics and you really genuinely instead of you
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know just saying it because it was fun to say if you genuinely believed and I'm just going to pick a
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name that Victor Davis Hanson a well-known conservative one of the smartest people in the world
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he looks like it anyway knows more than you know any 10 people does she really think he's dumb
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or that he's poorly informed and he's just one person you know if there were only one you could
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say oh maybe one person got bought off or something but how do you explain you know Molly Hemingway I'll
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just pick some names some people I like basically Molly Hemingway is super smart how can you possibly
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look at her work or her writing and go oh that not touch me okay how can you possibly look at her
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her opinions or writing and think that she's not as smart as you or in this specific case way more
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informed than you are do you not know that is that something you wouldn't know because I try to be true to
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this principle for example if I found myself disagreeing on an engineering question with
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Elon Musk what's my best play is my best play to say you know granted I'm not an engineer and
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a lot of smart people say that Elon Musk is not just an engineer but the best engineer in the world
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and maybe the best that ever will be but I think he got one wrong this time do people really do that
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is that an actual opinion I think he got one wrong this time in his strongest domain you know out of
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seven billion people the best engineer really if I hear a story about the cost of pharma and you know
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what laws could be passed or what could be done on and Mark Cuban has an opinion he's actually in the
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business so if his opinion disagreed with mine I wouldn't I wouldn't try to talk about of it I would
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say what wait what should I believe and then he'd tell me oh you know this does this this does this
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and almost certainly it would give me some common sense opinion so how do you how do you look at the
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world and believe that when you know Ben Shapiro is talking that you listen to listening to a dumb guy
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come on yeah if you wanted to have a an IQ off or an SAT off where let's say that the 10 smartest
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conservatives were put up against the 10 smartest Democrats just to have some trivia or some you know
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some kind of mental IQ contest how do you think how do you think the conservatives would do I think
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they do pretty well don't you you know do do they have a certain bitch they got smart people do right
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so I don't want to fall into my own trap Democrats are very smart people but if you don't understand
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that people can be wrong on both sides then you should not even be in the conversation would you
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agree with that if it's not your intention to find out which side is right and it's only your
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intention to make sure that your side looks right what are you adding to the world like what's your
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value add there unless you know unless it's your job to do something like you get paid for it that'd be
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different all right so you know what was what was fun about this is that Jimmy Kimmel's wife is not
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really part of politics but she said some of the most interesting and new things that I had to talk
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about so I'm sure they're very nice people I hear good things about them actually
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the BBC if you haven't seen this story is so it's just mind-boggling the BBC apparently is going to
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apologize which means that they're admitting it happened for deceptively editing President Trump's
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January 6th speech in an effort to make it look like he encouraged violence at the Capitol
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what how is this even real news are we are we so are we so beaten up about how fake the news is
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that this is sort of a side story am I wrong that this is just a side story that the BBC made up
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a narrative that just didn't happen and pasted together some clips and made it look like the
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opposite of what he said that should sort of be the biggest story you've seen except for all the
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other ones that are just insanely illegal looking certainly looks illegal anyway do you think an
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apology is gonna save them because Trump's Trump's gonna take the apology of course he's gonna bank the
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apology but he's gonna use the apology to show that there's no question about fact and then he's gonna
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ask for something you might sue them get them to settle because they can't they don't have a possibility
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of winning they couldn't possibly win a lawsuit I don't think I mean I'm no lawyer you'll have to ask the
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lawyers but yeah I guess some kind of moth is okay I believe the moth either survived or is clinging to my hand
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as a nasty desiccated corpse it looks good looks good all right so it looks like Trump's gonna get
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another payday from the BBC according to a ex-user called Chaz Mazel who has been in the past he's been
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chief of staff at Trump's DOJ and he looks at some data and found that since 1963 listen to this 75% of all
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the ones done in the country for any reason were Trump now again I didn't fact check this so you
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might want to fact check that and then he says that 90% of those injunctions came from Democrat appointed
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judges so 90% from Democrat judges and all of them just recently basically and yet the administration
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says Chad so and yet with all of those injunctions how did the Trump administration do fighting them off
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well it won 92% of the time 92% of the time now that is this uh that's just about as anti-authoritarian as
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you can get right if 8% of the time you said okay you win and you walked away but 92% of the time you
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were just dead ass right so you just won isn't that like the least authoritarian thing you could think of
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right if you could walk away from 8% of the things you really want to do but the court said you can't
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do that and you can walk away and and you can just walk away say all right we really want to do that
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but we'll work on something else not too authoritarian according to a federal audit and there should be
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federal audits of all the states all the time every day in my opinion like I actually mean that the
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federal government's main job should be auditing the states because the states are just out of control
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they're just taking their money and throwing it in the ocean 62,000 commercial driver's licenses were
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handed down to people who were in California illegally 62,000 illegal driver's licenses 62,000
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so if you're wondering is it a big problem small problem that's a lot 62,000 seems like enough that it
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could move a lot of different races I mean I don't know how many races that would that would be able to
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change if depending on the distribution all right um do you know how many of you know who Michael
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Saylor is s-a-y-l-o-r Michael Saylor he's sort of one of the big names or maybe even the biggest name
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I don't know in crypto uh he's in the commercial side of things so he owns a company and called
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called micro strategy and uh I've only watched a little bit of his content but it basically goes like
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this buy bitcoin and then I'll watch some extra other of his content and that content will go like
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this buy bitcoin but then something like big will happen though you know change the change the nature
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of everything so you can rethink all your strategies and then he'll come out and he'll say buy bitcoin
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and the annoying thing is he hasn't been wrong yet if he could be wrong a few times it'd be
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that'd be nice but in the short run such as right now it actually is it's taken quite a haircut
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bitcoin has so if you're a very casual casual casual follower of crypto and you're sort of wondering
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you know I have a little bit should I sell it I don't give advice by the way so this will this will not
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be advice um I don't give financial or health advice you wouldn't want to listen to any of my financial
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or health advice um but it's way down way down I don't know 50 or something so some amount from the
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beginning of the year uh but that's not unusual in the bitcoin world and bitcoin is not like the other
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cryptos because it's you know got this mathematical uh sort of perpetual value whereas the other ones
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are literally backed by nothing they both sound like nothing but one of them is you know treated as
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if it's a something so there's a difference anyway um he's probably going to be right again because
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i would be amazed if he didn't say buy bitcoin the the argument for bitcoin is that there isn't really
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any way for it to go down forever it just it's just one of those things that if you just waited
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you know the there would be periods where it's down for sure but the odds of it just sort of going away
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a lot of people think it's low so when somebody like me who's not your financial advisor
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says something as bold as i don't think that bitcoin is just going to go away what happens next
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when people like me say yeah that's never going to go away you better watch what happens on monday
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because it'll probably go away on monday because it's just the way the world is is organized
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it's just the way the simulation works so now you should not listen to me
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but if that helped uh if that helped but let me ask was that level of detail because i know many
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of you are way way past that and you understand crypto how many of you found it useful just to hear
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like a little top level what's up with crypto like i wouldn't go further than that was that useful
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all right apparently chicago's downtown office vacancy rate has now hit a record high of 28 percent
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can you even imagine the city that's 28 vacant how does it survive that
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i always speculate that there are some magic numbers for things to fall apart one of them is
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10 and the other is 20 that if anything goes to 10 problem whatever it is whatever the problem is
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if it gets to 10 percent then things could you know start getting out of control but also 20
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depending on the thing you know so whenever i see a 10 or a 20 coming i'm like whoa 10 or 20 coming
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but when it's at 28 it feels like it's already broken out into you can't get this toothpaste back in the
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tube is it just me now out here i'm only talking about how it feels this this is again not what's
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happening this is how it feels like it's out of control and i'm also curious because you may have
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heard that the real estate in new york city is actually coming back and prices are holding up and
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people are moving back to new york city so wouldn't it be interesting to know what was so different
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about new york city that allowed some of it to come back already some of it and
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and chicago may be getting worse it doesn't even say if it's getting better so just the news is
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reporting on this i will say for self-improvement purposes as a consumer of news when i see a story
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like this this is what i want to see context wise i want to see which direction it's moving
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because 20 it's probably in the story i don't know if it's in the story or not i was skimming things
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today so i'm pretty sure that they covered the the numbers that matter just news does a really good
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job by the way you should always check them out uh just the news it's called all right um
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but 28 you'd want to know which direction it's going and you'd want to know what the other cities
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besides new york were looking at and you'd want to know why is new york coming back or why do people
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speculate it's coming back what they do differently is a crime i don't know i guess corporate earnings
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were kind of good this quarter but people are still worried so they the stock market didn't go
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up that much uh well actually that's not true everybody's got a different reason for why the
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stock market didn't move i saw one reason was uh that's already gone up so you know already
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anticipated good news maybe but have you noticed that whenever the stock market goes up or down
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whether it goes up or down somebody's got a reason that you can't check you know that you can't really
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check it's like well i think it's the uh animal spirits bob uh you know people saw trump jump up and
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grab his ear and suddenly they reach for their wallet and you know everybody's just got some wild ass
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story that they're pretty sure they can sell especially if they're selling financial products
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you can never stop bitcoin well that's probably what everybody says before something gets stopped
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but i know what you mean i agree all right so yesterday i uh lit a match and threw it on some gas
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and i want to talk this through with you guys okay so this is going to start down with something
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like i disagree with you but if i do this right by the time i'm finished with this topic which is
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going to be health care uh you will say oh we're not actually on different pages you ready for this
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we'll see if i can pull this off what i said was that the i guess some of the democrats were thinking
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about a one-year extension to the aca obamacare until they could figure out you know a better
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solution now the republicans were offering to open the government and negotiate just over a few
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you know the next several weeks a much smaller period of time so when they offered that the only
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change they offered besides just keeping the government open at the same rate so they can feed the
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people and then work out a real budget um so they were going to do that but a lot of the
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republicans said to me when i commented that it seemed reasonable so i to me that was the first
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reasonable offer now when i say reasonable that doesn't mean they should take it right i mean you've
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watched me long enough to know a reasonable offer doesn't mean you accept it you know you can do
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better ask trump if you said if you said to trump they made a reasonable offer should you take it
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do you think he'd say yes no because he knows how to do this he'd say well we'll maybe we'll bump
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him up a little bit maybe we'll tap that along a little bit maybe get a little extra because he
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knows how to do this so so now the democrats have an offer there's something to respond to
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and people told me scott the reason you can't you just say yes and see if you agree with this okay
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this this is the part where i'm going to catch you so put on your smartest thinking cap
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and see where this is going so people told me scott if you let this run for another year
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and you agree to an extension to essentially the current system then you will have essentially
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created yet another system that never goes away if you don't get it now you'll never be able to get
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it right look at the comments if you don't if you don't turn this off when you can when you've got an
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opportunity you might never get another opportunity to turn it off is that a reasonable point of view
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how many of you think that's a reasonable point of view that things the government does never go
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away any any program you implement will never go away how many of you would agree with that
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statement we'll keep it simple would you agree with this with the statement that any major program
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because you know this is a major program that any major program that's implemented and lasts for a while
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you can't get rid of it everybody on the same page you know you know the trick is coming right
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the prestige i don't even know what that is but it has something to do with magic
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all right now now i'm going to turn your world around
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if your point of view is that once something is implemented it can't be changed
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then it's already implemented and it can't be changed you you have a you have a point of view
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that is both forward and backward at the same time they can't both be true it can't be true that you
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could stop this thing now after years of being implemented and being a major program if it's also
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true that you can't get rid of things once they've been put in so which is it you can't get rid of
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something than put in or you can only two possibilities but many of you have chosen both
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you see what i'm saying many of you have chosen both you can't have both it either can be canceled
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or it can't so what i'm saying is if you accept the notion and by the way this is iffy i'll admit
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this is iffy but if you accept the notion that all things are cancelable if you try hard enough
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and and trump would be the ultimate canceler right if you just said to me nobody could cancel this
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and i said trump you tell me trump couldn't cancel it trump could cancel it he's like the ultimate
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canceler so you wouldn't compare him to anybody else you know in the canceling department no you got
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really quiet didn't you all right now i need some confessions
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for some of you this twisted your brain around 280 degrees how many of you had not realized
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that it was inconsistent to say you need to cancel it now because nothing can be canceled now
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it's kind of sort of hiding there isn't it it's both obvious after i tell you
00:31:33.800
but if i don't tell you directly that it's there and it's looking right at you
00:31:39.320
you know and there's no doubt about it i mean it's not even the opinion
00:31:45.160
you're right and we can get rid of it yeah i'm usually on the
00:31:50.060
there's some way you can get rid of anything apparently 59 percent of americans blame trump
00:31:55.680
for the increased grocery prices fox news is reporting that 59 percent now you would think
00:32:03.200
that 59 percent blaming grocery prices as often as you have to look at that those are the really
00:32:10.000
insulting ones um you'd think that would be enough to keep a republican from ever winning again
00:32:16.260
well in 2028 let's say don't you think that would be enough to just totally kill the republican chances
00:32:24.060
so the real the real question would be could that be fixed is there any way at all and i'm wondering
00:32:32.000
if there's some clever um totally out of the box way to approach food costs that gives so here's the
00:32:42.000
minimum it would have to do the minimum it would have to do is keep the current system intact
00:32:46.340
so whatever it is would have to be not the government paying for it and um yeah not the government that's
00:32:57.000
the main thing not the government paying for it you know it would have to be just a separate system
00:33:01.800
so let me give you an example suppose somebody started a store for the poor and it only had
00:33:10.360
four items um add some i don't know chicken protein uh some you know something reasonably inexpensive
00:33:20.820
that's a protein and uh you know some vegetables that might even come from some place where the
00:33:28.460
vegetables were suboptimal so they not suboptimal but let's say cut in different shapes so maybe it
00:33:35.040
makes them soup or whatever so yeah so i think if you tried to build a a grocery store that only had
00:33:44.200
when you were done 20 items that that nobody would starve because they'd always have 20 items
00:33:52.580
and it wouldn't be the only place they could give food you know they could also just use their social
00:33:58.420
security or some of it to buy regular food so everybody would still have everything they have now
00:34:03.300
but those people really really wanted to save money and they really really were on a diet
00:34:09.140
could go get their you know chicken nugget thing that's totally healthy
00:34:14.620
uh and the government just make sure that somebody sells it to you
00:34:18.780
no all right just running that idea by you did you see the story i talked about that investigative
00:34:28.340
reporter steve baker um believes that he's uh seen some gait analysis that's how people walk
00:34:37.200
their gate g-a-i-t and that uh the software identified one particular person who i'm going
00:34:44.420
to take the advice of someone i saw online who said don't use the name that's sort of where i'm at on
00:34:50.340
this i'm sort of at i don't think i want to use a name on this one because uh remember what i said
00:34:58.280
if you don't see a video you have to suspend credibility basically you know it doesn't mean it's false
00:35:05.000
but it doesn't mean it's true so my minimum for the pipe bomb video to be credible to not to you
00:35:14.300
just to me this would be my personal standard i would have to see a video of the alleged person
00:35:20.840
walking in in a way that would be similar enough to what they got in video and then i would have to
00:35:26.520
see the the actual video which i'm not even sure they showed us the actual video it might have been
00:35:32.260
some kind of uh clipped or ai video or something so there's something going on and do you remember
00:35:39.320
my first take on this because it's important to track people's first take to see how crazy they are
00:35:46.060
my first take was that if i don't see the video it's not a thing and that's where i still am no video no
00:35:54.440
thing well still uh mark levin and candace owens and uh i guess uh tucker they're they're still
00:36:04.620
trying to entertain us by i don't know creating some right-wing controversy that didn't need to
00:36:11.600
be created whatsoever um i i i'm really curious what they think about the whole situation because
00:36:18.580
it shouldn't matter to any of you should it that you know they all have different opinions i said
00:36:24.020
and i'll say this again i've said this 10 times if i were if i were jewish then things that wouldn't
00:36:31.700
bother me if i'm not jewish would probably bother me and i would see them as anti-semitic and so when
00:36:36.560
i see somebody with a jewish background say that's anti-semitic i say to myself it's not a yes or no
00:36:43.700
you just have a filter not just but you have a filter that would guarantee that if somebody just
00:36:50.820
keeps walking up to that line you've got a right to ask why are you always up on that line why are
00:36:56.900
you so interested in this perfectly fair question but it doesn't mean you're a monster so and i can't
00:37:03.300
read mine so i don't know but i definitely see that if if i were in a group that looked like
00:37:10.020
you know at a historical reason to be worried about something that looks exactly like this to
00:37:16.480
them maybe not to everybody um i i can see it i can see why you'd be concerned about that
00:37:22.860
but i i would be more in the get together and talk it out kind of kind of uh world i'm not sure
00:37:32.460
either i think mark levin might be the one who doesn't want to platform anybody
00:37:36.040
doesn't want to platform i feel like the only people i don't want to platform are the people
00:37:41.640
who don't want to platform anybody that feels like the only sin doesn't it the only sin is
00:37:47.620
censoring not platforming so but anyway use your own judgment
00:37:53.120
so you know how i always tell you that the democrats have what i call the designated liars
00:37:59.240
they have liars that tell the lies that the normal uh normal democrats just can't do because
00:38:05.920
they're just too big the lies are just just so obviously lies and they're so ridiculous
00:38:11.380
that the the regular you know ordinary normie um democrats can't tell that kind of lie
00:38:18.340
but jamie raskin can and swalwell can and adam schiff can you know they're among what i call the
00:38:26.660
designated liars so they trot him out when they do so one of them this one was funny today because
00:38:33.500
there's always a video of jamie raskin saying the opposite of what he's saying now almost every time
00:38:38.740
and uh not too long ago not too many years ago uh he wanted to do away with the filibuster
00:38:45.780
can you guess which party was in charge of the presidency and maybe the house uh when he wanted
00:38:53.680
to get rid of the filibuster you're right yeah when the democrats were in charge he wanted to get
00:38:59.060
rid of the filibuster what do you think he thinks about the filibuster now because it was a good idea
00:39:04.180
then it'd be even a better idea now right nope so when you see the uh the two videos side by side
00:39:14.320
by the way i should be giving i should be giving a video uh credit and i'm not because i didn't write it
00:39:21.960
down so if anybody has a video credit for that that clip find that was genius they should get some
00:39:28.720
attention all right uh one of the other designated liars chris murphy he's pretty funny
00:39:34.920
he's actually talking about i read this in a jonathan turley article on the hill so chris murphy is
00:39:44.960
talking about uh keeping the government shut through the midterms now i'm no political expert
00:39:53.320
i just watch it on tv and on the internet but is that really an advantage to keep it keep the
00:39:59.460
government shut through the midterms doesn't that doesn't that sound batshit crazy to you
00:40:04.080
and and then i thought oh let's put this in context the context for uh the democrats seem to be that
00:40:13.300
something good happens and then they all try to guess what it was that made the good thing happen
00:40:18.360
but they don't know what made the good thing happen so for a while they thought their swearing is what
00:40:23.820
made somebody win an election why because they take they can't tell what works they had no idea what
00:40:30.400
works so like well he swears a lot and they're even talking about it the republicans are actually
00:40:35.220
laughing at it yeah yeah and that makes him look like a fighter yeah it must be the swearing it's the
00:40:41.900
swearing right so they keep coming up with these absolutely crazy hypotheses about why uh why the
00:40:52.540
republicans are winning like one of them is that um all they have to do is get their own joe rogan
00:40:58.260
that might be the funniest the funniest one they ever did because it just broadcasts such a lack of
00:41:06.860
understanding about how anything in the world works oh you can't just make a joe rogan nobody
00:41:11.860
can make a joe rogan his mother had enough trouble doing it and it's only been done once only once
00:41:18.760
anyway when i see his mother i mean she gave birth to him
00:41:23.560
so uh yeah so chris murphy thinks that would be an advantage to keep the government shut
00:41:29.380
maybe you know i and the funny thing is i can't really rule it out because it depends as much on
00:41:37.420
how the news handles it if the news handled it the way they're handling it now cnn has been pretty
00:41:43.900
hard on the democrats does that work for them if cnn is essentially blaming you which they are does
00:41:52.660
that work for democrats feels like they're just not reading the room you know we always say trump's the
00:41:58.360
best at reading the room boy is he he's just the best at reading the room um and i guess the
00:42:05.620
majority leader john thune and by the way john thune is uh named after the sound that a blow dart makes
00:42:14.320
in the jungle sorry anyway he said he told reporters on saturday that senators will remain in session
00:42:27.880
they're going to stay open and they don't get to pretend they're working and collecting their
00:42:34.640
paycheck unless we get some government give us some government you pastors all right that's probably
00:42:44.580
good politics to make it look like the republicans are there the whole time and they're not gonna
00:42:49.320
they're not gonna be lazy and if the democrats agree they can sign it tomorrow so it's a good look
00:42:55.920
i'll say that meanwhile over in the world of fanny and freddie how many of you have any idea
00:43:03.480
what fanny may and freddie mack are like if if somebody brought that up in a conversation over
00:43:14.180
for me the most important part about it is that bill pulte is in charge of both of them
00:43:20.780
he's he's the government um head administrator or i don't know what the actual terms are in this case
00:43:27.240
but you put bill pulte into any business situation and things start getting better
00:43:31.960
and that's actually what's happening right now so one of the things they're looking at
00:43:36.440
is uh considering legal i guess it would be legalizing it this must be illegal right now
00:43:42.820
but they're talking about a 50-year mortgage option now what you know is that uh the longer
00:43:50.480
the loan the more interest you're going to pay right so everybody understands that just because
00:43:55.580
you make it a 50-year loan yes the price per payment can go down quite a bit and allow people
00:44:02.200
into the market but when you're done you might pay triple you might pay triple the interest
00:44:09.500
uh because it's 50 years instead of 30 it's a big difference but on any given payment day
00:44:16.020
it would be cheaper so i would say this is if you're talking to your friends about it here's
00:44:22.080
the one thing you need to know to be the smartest person in the room okay smartest person in the room
00:44:27.760
here it comes it depends on your situation so there could be some people who for example know they
00:44:35.900
have a kind of job that they're doing okay at the moment but they know that they'll do way better in
00:44:42.080
the future because it's just one of those jobs you know maybe they're becoming a gynecologist or
00:44:47.420
something and they know that as they build up the practice they'll have a lot more income in the
00:44:52.100
future if you knew that then you might say all right i'll get the 50-year mortgage because then i can
00:44:58.420
get into a house i like as soon as possible and then when my income zooms up and it might be 10 years
00:45:04.100
but eventually it goes up then i can just refi and refinance and bring it down i win so so you
00:45:12.760
can have both a long-term mortgage on day one so it's cheap in your payments but as soon as you make
00:45:19.980
more money if you do you don't have to but if you did you could pay it down so you get everything
00:45:25.320
um so that would be one example but how many people can know for sure that they're going to
00:45:33.980
make a lot more money later compared to how much they're making now that's a little iffy so everybody's
00:45:40.520
got to manage their own risk profile but this is why you need a bill pulte because this is the sort
00:45:46.740
of thing that's psychological as much as financial because people would have to think i understand
00:45:54.020
what this is i understand when i would use it and i understand what the government is doing
00:45:59.260
to make this easier for me and that's the sort of thing that a pulte can do that an average
00:46:06.100
an average person who's not good at persuasion couldn't do but pulte is amazing
00:46:10.180
all right um trump apparently has made some threats to nigeria based on some coverage from
00:46:20.980
fox news apparently that at least that's the reporting and there's an article in the wall
00:46:26.200
street journal by um some good work by any linsky and drew hinshaw and joe parkinson and uh apparently
00:46:34.940
the leader of nigeria um doesn't think it's such a big problem and the problem that trump is
00:46:41.640
complaining about is he would call it a genocide of christians and he thinks that the uh i guess
00:46:48.400
that would be the islamic goat herders have some very long-term historical beef beef they got a beef
00:46:57.680
with the other uh with the other cattle cattle herding people i guess so there's two entities
00:47:05.160
that are fighting one of them is christian the christians seem to be outnumbered but we're not
00:47:10.740
really getting the best information about how many people are involved this is another one of those
00:47:15.580
how many people are involved this is a lot which direction is it going is it getting worse
00:47:21.840
um so i do like the fact that trump jumped in before he knew all the details but let me say this
00:47:30.440
if you found out later and i'm not sure that you will but if you found out later that the problem
00:47:36.620
wasn't as big as you thought but it was real would you be okay with how he handled it i would
00:47:44.300
because he got something going suppose he made some claims like oh i heard on the news that
00:47:54.560
20 000 people got murdered and they were all christians and their churches got burned down
00:48:00.040
and then he found out that it wasn't 20 000 it was a thousand would that make you think worse of him
00:48:08.800
not for me no no he might be just genuinely you know wrong but i always tell you as he has a bias
00:48:17.480
for action and whatever the option set is he always picks the strongest option but watch how many times
00:48:25.840
i tell you that and every time i do you go oh i should have caught it that time should have caught it
00:48:32.500
you should have caught it this time yeah but by far the strongest thing you could do
00:48:37.480
is not ask for uh not ask for details on who's actually going to hurt over there
00:48:43.140
there's nothing stronger than i might send my military over there as that's like your first
00:48:48.760
reaction that's pretty strong it doesn't mean he's going to do it it means instead of him having to
00:48:54.160
prove there's a problem it kind of flips the responsibility onto nigeria now nigeria if they're
00:49:00.740
smart are going to have to offer trump some kind of assurance that somebody credible i don't know
00:49:09.600
what the un maybe is going to watch this situation and make sure that there's not you know some kind
00:49:15.840
of genocide that's forming you know there might be a bubble forming even before it happens
00:49:20.200
so i i think he's playing it exactly right and that if he takes the strongest position every time
00:49:27.760
you're just going to see the best president who's ever been and i think you are already
00:49:38.060
was the uh the last thing i wanted to tell you before this one thing it was one thing
00:49:45.380
did you know that the dilbert 2026 calendar is out and if you go to amazon.com and
00:49:53.000
just uh do a search for google calendar 2026 and my name get the one that looks like this
00:49:59.860
don't get the one that's any different color they might be counterfeits there's lots of
00:50:05.660
counterfeits and get the ones that have my name and dilbert's name spelled correctly that that's how
00:50:11.760
they do it they just slightly misspell the name but people are buying this like crazy and it will
00:50:19.480
run out i'm pretty sure i'm gonna check on it today i'll give you an update but i wouldn't wait
00:50:25.180
i definitely wouldn't wait until december to buy it but the choice is yours all right people
00:50:33.380
people uh i feel like singing all right i'm gonna make a confession uh locals are you ready for this
00:50:43.400
confession coming and i've got to open something before i make the confession
00:50:50.540
that makes you stay doesn't it i'll bet not a single person left when i said okay i have to make a
00:50:57.140
confession this is a real confession by the way it's a real one um okay come on phone work faster
00:51:06.140
i want to see your comments right away so i'm putting it on this this device my other one went
00:51:13.720
dark for some reason there we go all right so um you know i give you health updates because you know
00:51:21.040
i've gotten cancer etc uh today it was a little it was rugged so this morning was really painful
00:51:28.380
you know mostly in my back area really painful and uh but there are other there are other signals
00:51:36.200
that might be actually very positive i don't know yet so i'll look into it but here's what i want to
00:51:41.300
confess the confession has nothing to do with the pain the confession has to do with the fact that i
00:51:46.080
solved the pain right before we went live um as you know uh i am a medical user of some things that
00:51:56.160
in california are completely legal and doctors are completely fine with it but i won't say it out
00:52:02.360
loud because you know it's a family show i do not recommend this for anybody under 18 right so if i
00:52:11.080
can say this as clearly as possible so you see that you hear this first first not recommending this
00:52:17.280
you got to make your own decisions and if you're under 18 you don't even get to make those
00:52:23.020
decisions and probably somebody else is making your own decisions but don't look to me for anything
00:52:28.780
in that domain so a few minutes before i went live i realized i didn't want to get through the show
00:52:36.220
and i didn't want to go short typically what i do right after the show is what i did right before the
00:52:44.040
show so i had um yeah we don't need to go private i wanted this i wanted this to not be private actually
00:52:51.780
um because i think it's important it's important that everybody sees you know just what is and what
00:52:59.480
isn't and what works and what doesn't and that everybody's different and this is just for utility
00:53:04.380
this is not for entertainment this is for utility so question number one i did four gigantic
00:53:25.480
the only reason that i'm not hanging from the ceiling from the chandelier is that if you do it every day
00:53:33.400
and i'm not recommending it just saying if you did not like me it wouldn't affect it the same way
00:53:40.700
so but what it did do is it distracted and or removed my maybe half of the pain probably removed
00:53:51.380
half of the pain almost instantly but the real question is how was the show all right now now i've
00:53:59.760
confessed you you have to tell me did you enjoy the show or if some of the people on locals knew what
00:54:06.360
was going on because they they see extra stuff but the people who did not know that i wasn't just
00:54:12.440
taking some medicine but i was taking some medicine all right how many of you
00:54:19.760
thought that the show was good and was not harmed by the choice of paths i took i'm very i'm very
00:54:35.560
i thought it went well but you know i wouldn't be objective about it
00:54:42.640
i thought it went well send me a message if you can
00:54:47.640
oh locals people liked it i think you like it also that i'm transparent
00:54:53.820
isn't that true the fact that i'm transparent about it that just makes it a different situation
00:55:08.560
uh not as disoriented as i have been you know you're right i actually felt less disoriented
00:55:15.540
than i normally would and the reason is that the medicine that i took is of the sativa variety versus
00:55:24.440
the the kind that makes you tired so i use the wake up smarter well not wake up but keeps you alert
00:55:32.560
so i was doing you know four doses of keep you alert which doesn't last that long so if you wait long
00:55:41.580
enough they end up having the same effect you know you want to take a nap eventually but it might be
00:55:55.140
i can't remember what i said but i remember ad-libbing one joke
00:56:02.140
that i was kind of proud of but then i forgot the joke so i can't
00:56:06.260
i can't enjoy it by thinking about it anymore because i forgot the joke
00:56:58.780
maybe there's a better word for referring to me being loopy in the morning