Episode 3027 CWSA 11⧸23⧸25
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In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, Scott Adams talks about the latest in the latest news involving President Trump and Marjorie Taylor Taylor Green. Scott also talks about how to run the entire country if you were to take charge of the whole country.
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calendar at amazon but you knew that you knew it you knew it
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all right well let's jump into the news it'll be so good uh did you know
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so this is so trump trump's going to his helicopter i think he was and one of the reporters asked him
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if you would reconcile with representative marjorie taylor green you know the same way he did with
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elon musk what do you think he said well he said uh sure why not i get along with everybody
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is that the perfect answer i get along with everybody because you want to argue with them
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right you're like you don't get along with everybody what about what about oh okay well
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i guess you do kind of get along with them but what about what about so first of all it makes your hair
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catch on fire if you don't think it's factually true but it's close enough to be factually true
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that you know i i will allow it but i love the fact that he has created this persona for himself
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where he can absolutely maul somebody in public verbally and then five minutes later he can say
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yeah why don't you go on over we'll have dinner we'll be best friends and that everybody goes oh
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okay i get it it's part of the show it's just part of the show once you realize it's part of the show
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you can just lean back and enjoy it the way it was meant to be so yes do we want trump to dislike
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marjorie taylor green no we want her to be a productive part of society a patriot uh would you
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not want her on your team think about it now i get that she disagrees with you on some policy
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stuff right or maybe she doesn't but you wouldn't want her on your team
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think about it if you were picking teams for anything you wouldn't want her on your team
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yeah of course you would so would he so he plays it just right in the way that trump can
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um so hurricane season is winding down and axios is reminding us that there have been uh how many
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named hurricanes have made made uh landfall in the u.s in the mainland anyway how many hurricanes this
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year do you know the number the answer is zero now there usually aren't that many you know like a
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normal normal year might be two but we're talking about two major storms that would you know cost
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billions of dollars this year none do you think that all the news is talking about is how climate
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crisis has been avoided and maybe it was never real in the first place no that's not going to happen
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right away but we're heading in that direction uh i will tell you again how to run the entire country
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you ready if you wanted to take charge of the whole country and you didn't have a elected position
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you're not a billionaire you just want to figure out some clever way where you and i mean you like
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specifically you could take over the whole country there is a way to do that and uh this hurricane
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situation reminded me of it i've talked about this before in the corporate world the way we think of things
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is that there's a line of executives and somebody reports to somebody reports to somebody so if you see
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one of those executives giving a uh a powerpoint slideshow to maybe that executive's boss you think to
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yourself well that executive giving the presentation is in charge of that domain and uh is giving a
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presentation to someone who's in charge of him you know because he's got to get approval or something
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so it looks to you like the normal corporate structure is working the way you think however having worked in
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the corporate world and having put together quite a number of slides for other executives
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or just executives uh here's something i learned that everyone who's been in that same position probably
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learned the same way whoever comes up with the best slide or you could replace slide with idea
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or framework or reframe or way to look at something or relevant data this will all be the same for my
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purpose that person's actually in charge but let me plump this out a little bit and you'll see what i'm
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talking about if i wanted to run the world and wasn't already i'll just let that sit there for a while
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if i weren't already the way i'd do it is i would try to figure out what the top 10
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climate variables are that people would agree all right if that's changing
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there must be a problem with climate and and humans behind it and i would get the top 10 and
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then i would create an ongoing uh what do you call it a dashboard a dashboard so that's sort of a
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corporate talk a dashboard would be usually one page on a screen that very quickly tells you some
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set of information that makes sense together so i would say all right let's figure out the 10 things
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you should look at for climate change and hurricanes would be one of them but you'd also have the
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temperatures you'd have the uh the the water level at certain places so i don't even know if they're
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10 maybe they're five but i think they're at least 10. so you'd have so you would be the one who pulls
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together this dashboard and then you just put it on x what would happen if you did a good job what would
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happen people would pass it around and they would say well i'm smarter now because i know that these 10
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things are important i know the order in which they're important because you would also rank them
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from which one's the most predictive right maybe which one is the most you know dangerous but most
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predictive as well and then if you did a good job people would want to bookmark it and they would ask
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you to update it when there's new information and it would take on a life of its own almost immediately
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do you know why you could totally disrupt this mature science area without actually having any science
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background do you know why that would be so easy because no one else is trying there's no one even
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trying do you know of anybody who put together the uh are really easy to read everybody agrees yeah these
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these 10 things are the things we should be watching no and part of the reason that nobody's doing it is
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that the people who have access to it the information that would make that dashboard are probably not
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getting the the results that they wanted to get so if they were a little bit more let's say capable
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at describing what's actually happening in the world their capability would destroy their own
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their own industry because they would end up proving that maybe you didn't have to worry so much about
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this stuff but since i'm not a climate scientist i would not be bound by that i could just tell you
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what you need to know as best i can do it so i'd just start publishing it then what happened when it
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started working what what happens when people start recognizing all right uh we need an update on this
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climate story uh no matter what no matter what the story is wouldn't it make sense to have the
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climate dashboard referenced as just part of the story could be a story about the coral reefs but also
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let me show you the dashboard could be a story about the hurricanes but you know proper context let me show
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you you know the console so once you did this for climate you don't think people would ask for it for
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crime you don't think people would ask for it for other big topics they would and if you were the one
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who could do it best and have a reputation for you know being a straight share pretty soon you would be the
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one who decides what information is relevant to this domain and what isn't you might be right you might
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be wrong but it's not objective there would be a lot of subjectivity in deciding what's even on the list
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and then there'd be a lot of subjectivity in deciding how to measure it properly etc and that would be enough
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subjectivity i say that it would put you essentially in control of the entire domain nobody would
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necessarily know it they would just think that you were a useful person who had something to say
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about the data but you would actually be running the whole show because you would determine what data
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anybody saw and if you became credible they kind of have to reference your data every single time
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they did anything important in that domain so that's how you do it people you become the
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the the powerpoint slide expert and if you become known as the only person who can describe this
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complicated thing in a very transportable viral way you're gonna run the whole show there you go
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canada cambridge university press found that uh there's a study that watching less tv could cut your
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depression risk by up to 43 percent does that make sense to you sort of yeah you you could see how
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watching less tv would oh no you don't no it's backwards what do you do when you're depressed you watch more tv
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do you know why well part of being depressed is you didn't have an awesome thing to be doing instead
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would you be depressed if let's say uh i don't know the president invited you to the oval office no you'd
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be all excited you'd be excited watching tv is sort of the default uh i got nothing going on in my life
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i might as well turn on the tv see if there's a game no so it might also be true that watching tv
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makes you a little more depressed but i guarantee you that being depressed is going to make you reach
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for that clicker faster than not being depressed all right um i can't remember how much or if i talked
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about this before but i'm sure i did so this is a from a story back in april and the new york post uh i
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saw i saw the new york post talking about it today um and it was bill maher who was talking about way
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back in april when uh his friend and uh i guess hollywood uh hollywood partner uh larry david not partner but
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you know another person who works in the entertainment industry so larry david was not
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happy when bill maher went to dinner with trump and so larry david wrote a humorous piece an op-ed
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about uh my dinner with adolf so he did a funny piece mocking essentially mocking bill maher for
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imagining that there was a you know good reason to ever have dinner with hitler meaning that he was
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you know calling trump hitler what did bill maher say about this now that he's had several months to
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marinate on this situation he said that uh larry david was being dumb and unhelpful
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dumb and unhelpful and uh then bill maher went on um
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um to do what he's been doing lately which is uh explain that you should always talk to people
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and what trump does and i the example with marjorie taylor green is a perfect example
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what uh trump does is that he's willing to talk to everybody and bill maher is now a complete uh complete
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convert maybe he always was uh to you can talk to anybody you want and we're better off if we talk
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than if we don't talk now you can imagine i'm 100 in agreement with bill maher however there was a
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specific quote that apparently bill maher used when he talked to pierce morgan at about the same time as
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the you know he was talking about the 20 the uh dinner with trump listen to this quote quote but i think
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the minute you play the hitler card you've lost the argument now he was talking about um the op-ed by larry
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david i think the minute you play the hitler card you've lost the argument what does that sound like
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how many of you remember my debate but it wasn't really a debate with sam harris at around 2016
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that became super viral and probably just about every one of you heard it right did you hear me say
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that at the beginning of the debate because i think it was like 60 seconds into my uh talking to sam
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harris probably a minute you know of course i'm remembering it so i may be remembering it wrong um he
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brought up hitler compared trump to hitler and and i said ah we're done here i said some version of
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basically you know that's the end of the debate whoever brings up hitler you just lost and then
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years go by because that was probably back in 2016 or so now remember i keep telling you that
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what defines not defines but a difference between republicans and democrats is that democrats try to
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tell you what to think you know this is moral this is immoral this is right this is wrong and republicans
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try to tell you how to think which one is bill maher doing in this example where he says the minute you
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play the hitler card you've lost the argument that's telling you how to think that's not telling you
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what to think so you can see the transition right and when he looks at larry david larry david is just
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hitler no hitler hitler no hitler doesn't that just seem stupid i mean that's basically what
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what bill maher was saying it just looks stupid um yeah so um
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uh so this is also what uh bill maher said on the same topic and he said and also i must say you
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know come on man hill or nazis nobody nobody has been harder about and on and more prescient i must
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say about donald trump than me bill maher says i don't need to be lectured on who donald trump is
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just the fact that i met him in person didn't change that and the fact that i reported honestly
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is not a sin either so what is it when he says met him in person and reported honestly on it
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that's process again he's totally right on process so watching bill maher try to navigate this situation
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and try to get a foot in both worlds it was really fascinating and i give him a lot of credit
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because um it's a pretty rocky road you know having been down that road in a more extreme version myself
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and finding out what happens when you say anything positive about the way trump does business
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uh i know how tough that is and he's going through he's taking on some water i guarantee it this is not
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easy so i'm gonna uh in the past you've seen me sometimes say some good things about bill and
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sometimes be critical today i'm going to be completely supportive not of his opinions he's
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allowed to have different opinions but of his uh apparent focus and how he's essentially training
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his audience the way i'm trying to train mine into how to approach a problem and not so much what the
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answer is the answer is up to you but how to approach it well you want to do that right right
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all right well along those lines that i've often said this is sort of a related topic
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that having elon musk on what i would call the common sense uh side of things i wouldn't call him
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you know republican or anything like that but he's squarely on the common sense side of things
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and i was thinking today how many things elon musk has changed and how in the process of that
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he's also teaching us how to think and how to act he's kind of teaching us how to be engineers
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not the actual skill of engineering but how an engineer would approach a problem
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have any of you noticed that that if you simply watch how elon musk approaches any problem
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and i would argue that maybe the all in pod guys they do the same thing if you simply observe
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them over time you learn how to approach problems and you would say to yourself oh that's
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that's that's like that time you know chamath did this or that or it's like the time that elon did
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this or that and then you can take that model and and build it you know put it into your own world
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tremendously valuable but on top of that um i saw that uh rfk jr was saying at some event that he believes
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that elon musk rescued free speech by buying uh what was twitter would you agree with that statement
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that he rescued free speech by buying twitter i i think so i think that's completely fair that would
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put him if you buy that as a true statement and i do that would put elon in the founding fathers category
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like with without you know the the time of course is different but that would put him squarely right
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in the middle of saving the republic and i and i think he gets complete credit for that but back to my
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overarching theme he didn't just say free speech is good hey everybody why don't you practice some free
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speech nope he showed you how to get it he showed you how to get there sometimes you got to buy the
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company now he could do it you couldn't but he showed it he showed you how to rescue free speech
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and in this case he did it through a i guess i called a free market approach and so you can learn
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that if you if you use the free market appropriately you can get to where you want to get which is free
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speech in a way that teaches people how to think hey the only way you're going to have real free speech
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speech is if there's a free market platform that lets you say what you need to say without getting
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canceled and then he proved it by building that platform you know modifying a platform then and
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that's just the beginning just he was talking today about his chip design that tesla will be the biggest
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chip designer in the world in a fairly short period of time he's also taught you how to start companies
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as some kind of record speed that we've never seen before uh and now he's decided that tesla has to
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be the big uh hey let's get rid of a counterbalance counterbalance you're going to disappear from uh i think
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you're on the youtube platform but that's that's the second time i've seen that comment so you're going to
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disappear now um maybe today but we're going to get you um then so so this is just you know a little
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one small part of what musk and tesla are doing but he'll probably teach you that america can build
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chips so so you're going to learn a whole bunch about manufacturing and chip design and all that just
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because he's doing it and he's transparent about how he's doing it then there's the uh i saw a clip
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i think he was on joe rogan talking about the economics of homelessness and a lot of people
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don't understand the homelessness isn't so much just about giving people homes they wouldn't want to live
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in those homes if you gave them to them because they're mentally insane or they're on drugs or whatever
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whatever whatever else um and he also pointed out i didn't know this that the economics of
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homelessness in california is that there's this whole industry of people get paid to take care of
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the homeless as long as they don't solve their problem if they solve their problem and these people
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were no longer homeless which is sort of undoable uh then they wouldn't get there collectively a million
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dollars a year to keep the people alive but homeless so if you followed the money you would
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completely understand why there's so much homelessness and that would be a way to think about it wouldn't it
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it's not the answer it's a way to think about it so if you change from hey if only we give these
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people homes you know then they would be on their way they could do the rest that way of thinking
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is a complete failure because it doesn't recognize that the whole industry is propped up by people
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trying to steal your taxpayer money and give you nothing in return once elon explains that we're trapped in
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this little system where the people who are running it are making a lot of money as long as they don't solve
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the problem then everything makes sense doesn't it now that doesn't mean that we immediately have a
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solution but at least you'd be solving the right problem right that's a big difference uh when you
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see the problem clearly as elon you know explains it to us um then i saw elon talking about how the only
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only the interesting simulations because you know he believes that we're part of a simulation
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as do i that reality is a simulation um he points out that only the interesting simulations would survive
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uh and and then he gives the reason because if we had a boring simulation uh we'd stop doing it
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because it wouldn't be doing anything for us just boring us so the interesting ones are the only ones that
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can survive and therefore it's logical to assume that they're the only ones that do and i've got a
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version of this uh so this this is part of his explanation of why the world seems so interesting i
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think or why you could predict something based on how interesting it is i do it i have a version of that
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but it's different which is i believe that reality follows the three the three act movie form now
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that's something i've been saying since 2015 i think uh and here's why i think it follows a three
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act movie form it's because we've all been trained in the three act form if we had not been trained in
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that i don't know that it would happen but you take a bunch of human beings and you put them in a
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situation let's say trump is nearly jailed and impeached that would be a classic movie third act
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where okay there's no way he can get away from that and then if i said but what would it look like if it
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were a movie and we would all have the same answer which is well he would somehow not go to jail
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somehow the impeachment wouldn't take hold and somehow he would win re-election because that
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would be the most satisfying movie sure enough sure enough that's what happened now i think
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that we live in a simulation and our expectations collapse reality and so if enough of us are simply
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expecting things to go a certain way that it actually collapses reality in that direction
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now i i wouldn't bet my life on it that my interpretation is correct but just so you know
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so um also i've noted that uh you know how we all understand ngos now we didn't know what an ngo was
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a couple years ago and that's because of elon musk and it's because of doge and doge even exists only
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because of musk uh the the concept of doge which has taken root in the government um so if you look
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at all the things that just elon has done there's the one i've mentioned and of course mike benz is
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you know a champion of the ngo explainer class but uh i don't know if you'd even know about it without
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elon musk but uh let's see he's i think that elon musk is the most important person in the climate
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crisis conversation because he can basically describe a world where you use solar power to get
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everything you want they might be solar panels in space but he already told you how to do it we have
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all the technology we need to put solar panels in space and have all the energy we want and he can
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show you how uh he's got the neural lengthy interplanetary travel he's figured out how to
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uh get around our energy shortage he talks about how the robots will be free doctors so he's solving
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health care uh he's giving america dominance in the most important industries right you want to live in the
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country that is dominant in the most important industries well he gives us that we're dominant in the
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most important industries half of that is him uh you get the star link and then that but i think that
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all of these have one thing in common that can't be underestimated if you if you look at the collective
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work that must does and how he's good at explaining to us what why he's doing it why it's good for the world
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how he does it he's teaching us how to think now how many of you have felt that like you actually feel
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that oh he's not just teaching us about his company although he's doing that too he's teaching us how to
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think about these situations and then apply some kind of an engineering framework to it which usually ends up
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jumping to a new topic we might pop back to that uh i think it was uh hakeem jeffries who said that
00:31:48.300
obamacare will be unaffordable to a great number of people by the end of the year how did it ever
00:31:54.860
where where does all the money go have you ever wondered that like it seems to me that the health
00:32:03.420
care situation must necessarily be a gigantic fraud environment because if you told me that um
00:32:14.460
health care costs would go up 10 because of this or that uh i would say some version of well i guess
00:32:21.100
the price of everything goes up inflation's bad you know i wish i didn't go up 10 but when you start
00:32:27.180
talking about doubling all right we're talking about like doubling and stuff for some people
00:32:33.740
isn't that always fraud that's just too much like your in your instinct says i'm pretty sure that the
00:32:41.180
entire problem is fraud now i'm going to give you a little update yesterday i had to
00:32:46.300
uh i had to uh get a uh catheter removed because it was infected and blah blah blah so i ended up in
00:32:54.780
the emergency room most of yesterday i probably came in contact with 20 people and maybe one of them did
00:33:05.420
something that i needed an unbelievable um amount of i don't know if all you did was look at the number
00:33:16.700
of people who asked me my name and my birthday once you get into the emergency room unbelievably
00:33:25.020
uh inefficient and i'm not mocking my specific health care provider this just looks like what we've
00:33:31.420
we've we've we've sort of evolved into and insanely insanely over um over something like i can't believe
00:33:42.220
that if you started from scratch you would build anything like that now fortunately i spend a great
00:33:49.100
amount of money every month so that when it's friday night i can talk to a doctor how do you think that
00:33:57.180
went do you think i can find a doctor to talk to on a friday night no and if you find that doctor to
00:34:05.660
talk to uh within my healthcare system what will that doctor tell me to do and it almost doesn't
00:34:11.900
matter what the problem is they'll tell you to go to the emergency room because there's nothing the
00:34:16.780
doctor can do for you so i have this weird healthcare situation where for reasons i don't understand i only get
00:34:25.980
really bad problems on weekends do you have that too you only get really sick or hurt on weekends
00:34:33.100
and then there's nobody whose job it is to take care of you you have to go to the emergency room
00:34:37.980
so it's an hour to the emergency room it's three hours waiting to see somebody
00:34:43.100
uh then maybe uh i think they lost us twice lost us twice so i probably spent an extra i don't know
00:34:51.740
half an hour at the start and an extra hour at the end because they literally didn't know what room we
00:34:57.340
were in so uh i did get everything taken care of so instead of being in screaming pain every day
00:35:07.100
which i had been for a month um i've got a new catheter in and it doesn't hurt it's much better
00:35:14.700
so anyway if you spend any time in our health care system you would say to yourself uh this is not a
00:35:20.620
problem of reducing costs by 10 this entire thing has to be rethought and i would like an ai doctor
00:35:30.860
who just followed me around and did the stuff that my health care provider wouldn't do
00:35:35.260
and then by the way there there's always a there's always a variety of things which you know need to be
00:35:41.580
done but whoever you're talking to isn't allowed to do it it's like yeah i know you need that
00:35:49.020
but i can't do that you're gonna have to talk to a doctor and you talk to a doctor and the doctor says
00:35:56.380
yeah you probably do need that but i can't do that you have to talk to a specialist
00:36:02.780
right that that's health care in america 2025 yeah anyway um i will tell you that uh keiser's
00:36:12.860
doing it they're trying very hard to make sure i don't die because that would be bad for business
00:36:25.020
what is that about wow um apparently uh according to newsmax meta the company meta
00:36:32.940
several years ago they did a study in 2020 to find out if uh using the using their product using
00:36:40.300
facebook and instagram if that uh caused a harm to people and guess what they found yes yes it does
00:36:50.060
apparently using their products causes a lot of harm um and that if you deactivated facebook and
00:36:57.660
instagram you would be mentally healthier what do you think they did when they found out that their
00:37:03.420
product was injuring the country did they say oh no we're gonna have to discontinue this product
00:37:12.220
no they discontinued the study you already knew where that was going they discontinued the study
00:37:25.180
on that so apparently they've been busted for that uh newsmax has that story
00:37:34.380
are you watching are you following the uh the story about uh attorney general letitia james
00:37:40.860
and uh so now she's she's the one who law fared trump but now she's being law fared and essentially
00:37:48.540
exactly the same way um so people would argue whether it's the same way but it's the same way
00:37:55.020
uh how much are you enjoying that i'm having a little problem that i'm enjoying it too much
00:38:02.940
because i've never seen anybody deserve what they're getting as much as she deserves what she's getting
00:38:10.140
because it's so precise um the fact that it's you know if it were some just random bad thing happening
00:38:17.020
to her i don't think i'd be feeling the same it's the fact that she's being she's being charged with the
00:38:24.060
same crime that typically nobody would be charged with but she went after trump with it man if you go after
00:38:31.100
my guy if you go after my guy and it doesn't work out for you he's gonna come for you that's one of the
00:38:40.540
reasons he's my guy you know what i mean yeah he's gonna come for you and he's coming uh
00:38:50.460
and and if you if you also feel like this is too heavy-handed you know for the president to be coming
00:38:57.580
after letitia james a mere attorney general just think about this i'm going to give you something
00:39:04.300
to think about that will make you happy that her life is not going well at the moment it goes like
00:39:11.020
this for how many months did melania and baron have to wonder if they'd be visiting their husband
00:39:22.380
father in prison for the rest of his life imagine waking up with that in your head like if you're
00:39:31.660
just watching it on the news you don't quite appreciate uh how awful this must have been now the trumps
00:39:38.700
are unusually good at being stoic and and kind of acting like you know i'll get through this you know
00:39:46.860
this is my problem don't worry about it i got this so they're really good at that and they're really
00:39:53.100
good at in this case that the fact that we didn't hear uh any of them complaining about the fact they
00:39:59.420
had to live in a world they had to live in a reality where they're the key person in their family might be
00:40:06.060
in jail any time now that must have been awful like just imagining it every time you woke up it's like
00:40:15.420
a year from now am i gonna have to get up and put it on my makeup and drive to a prison is that
00:40:21.180
actually going to happen to me and it almost did it almost did and now uh now that fate has been
00:40:29.740
returned to letitia james who probably has to wake up every day and wonder what things look like a year
00:40:37.340
from now if she gets convicted now probably there's no jail but the conviction is going to be plenty bad
00:40:43.100
if she gets it well according to the center square andrew rice is writing that california
00:40:51.260
loses one taxpayer per minute and florida gains a taxpayer every two minutes does that sound true
00:41:00.620
do you believe that california is losing a taxpayer every minute while florida is gaining two
00:41:05.980
well let me tell you something also from my perspective as the guy who used to make the
00:41:13.100
powerpoint slides as i said earlier this is not the sort of thing anybody can really measure
00:41:20.380
i i would not believe the accuracy of these numbers at all now could it be true yeah it could be
00:41:27.900
it could totally be true do you think that any of us could really measure that in a way that you'd
00:41:34.060
feel comfortable you'd measured it correctly no no this is a classic uh i'm going to make a story
00:41:42.380
nobody's gonna ask too many questions sounds right and since it sounds right people will assume it is
00:41:47.820
right but i'm here to tell you that's not the sort of thing that anybody can actually accurately measure
00:41:53.500
um apparently the texas governor abbott according to center square also um he wants to issues and
00:42:06.140
directives to make uh i think he's trying to make uh to do to do what do you call that sharia law illegal
00:42:14.140
in in texas what do you think do you think sharia law the islamic version of a justice system do you
00:42:21.980
think that that should be made illegal or is it good enough that we live in a system where that's
00:42:27.100
not your system well i like the instinct to make it illegal because you don't want to play with you
00:42:35.340
know you've got two systems uh you know they're about equally good why don't we use this this one
00:42:41.900
sometimes and this one another time no no you you gotta you gotta nip that in the bud you gotta get that
00:42:50.060
early you you cannot allow that to progress to oh we got two systems well why do we always have to
00:42:57.820
use the one we how many people do we have in the state that would like that other system well look at
00:43:03.500
that look at all those people who would be happy to use that other system we'll just use it a little
00:43:08.620
bit we won't use the whole thing we'll just take a bite out of it no how about no hard no no no no
00:43:18.380
none you you you can't start mixing those systems it doesn't mix you you gotta commit
00:43:28.780
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um i saw an article that didn't seem like it would be relevant to the united states but
00:44:08.780
now i'm thinking maybe it is so apparently poland which is doing well sort of in general it's one of
00:44:17.500
those countries that has not been let's say too impacted by immigration because they've been tough on
00:44:25.340
migrants but even they are running out of money so apparently they're trying to give 100 million dollars
00:44:33.020
to ukraine to zelensky but at the same time they don't have enough money for some i don't know 100
00:44:39.100
billion dollar polish hospital somebody's complaining um and their budget is is under uh
00:44:47.820
it's under duress as well and i'm thinking to myself is every large everything fraud
00:44:55.100
because i'm starting to think it is you know when you look at the 37 trillion dollar deficit i think
00:45:04.620
it's 38 now how in the world do you get to 38 trillion unless you're stealing this as fast as you can
00:45:12.300
does that look like somebody just ran the numbers wrong it's like oh uh here's the budget all right
00:45:19.100
great uh how close are we to balancing uh wait what we're off by three trillion in one year we're off
00:45:32.780
by three trillion can you even tell me how you could spend three trillion dollars above the baseline now
00:45:40.620
i'm exaggerating a little bit but not a lot we are talking about trillions trillions of dollars that
00:45:47.420
somehow we accidentally overspent i don't believe it i just believe that everything big that's got
00:45:55.820
that 100 million dollars or more maybe 10 million dollars more i think it's all fraud and i think it's
00:46:01.980
all fraud for the same reason across all the domains do you know what the reason is you can get away
00:46:09.180
with it we somehow have a political and financial system where whoever gets to you know allocate the
00:46:17.260
funds and whoever gets to be the mayor and you know whoever gets to be in charge or whatever they can
00:46:23.740
apparently really easily hide a trillion dollars and just keep it or launder it or something but
00:46:35.580
it's very much looking to me like a hundred percent of our system is corrupt and all for the same reason
00:46:42.700
because we don't have any transparency and the people in charge over time you get people in charge who
00:46:49.900
are willing to steal it because it's stealable and they just notice and so they do um on the same point
00:46:59.100
remix is writing that almost every german city is now on the verge of bankruptcy
00:47:04.300
almost every german city do you think that germans don't know how to do a spreadsheet
00:47:15.260
do you how in the world could all the germans miss the budget all the germans have you heard of germany
00:47:26.220
have you heard of germans you know by pure chance a few germans would would hit the budget yeah do you
00:47:37.020
think that germans want to have a balanced budget yeah yeah they do i'll bet the germans want to have
00:47:45.740
a balanced budget more than just about anybody except maybe japan you know and i'm talking culturally
00:47:53.660
do you think germans do you think germans want to be overspending their budget i don't think so
00:48:00.220
and yet every single every single one almost everyone did in fact do it how do you explain that except
00:48:08.540
corruption and fraud i don't have a way to do it i i think it's literally just corruption and fraud
00:48:17.180
that's what i think anyway there's uh some whispers the daily express u.s is writing about this that the
00:48:27.580
u.s is preparing or getting closer to every moment some kind of a military operation in venezuela
00:48:35.100
i don't know if it'll be a quote all-out invasion or maybe a head fake we don't know but uh we're
00:48:42.940
definitely moving continuing to move resources there what do you think we should do um do you
00:48:53.100
think that we're simply putting pressure on the powers that be and uh it's just one of a variety
00:49:01.020
ways we're negotiating by essentially suggesting that if they don't give us what we want
00:49:07.580
uh there'll be a military invasion we don't really have to say it we just have to prepare for it and
00:49:14.620
then you don't have to say it but do you do you notice that there's something missing in this whole
00:49:21.980
venezuela story what what is the dog not barking what's the thing that's missing the thing you would
00:49:29.340
always have but at the moment it's missing i would say the thing that's missing is
00:49:35.180
who are we negotiating with and what are we asking for do any of you know my because i'm a little
00:49:44.140
worried it appears my country is is getting ready to attack a sovereign country and i don't even know
00:49:52.700
who they're talking to i don't know what they've asked for what would it take for them not to do it
00:49:58.460
is there a specific ask because it doesn't look like it to me how do you get this far and if i
00:50:07.980
were to stop you on the street and say are you american yes uh you familiar with the the venezuela
00:50:13.660
situation yes who are we talking to because i don't think it's madura i don't think we're talking to
00:50:19.980
that guy who are we talking to and what are we asking for and and what are they saying about giving
00:50:27.740
it to us you know part of the reason i wonder is i wonder if they've already offered to give us what
00:50:32.860
we've asked for you ever wonder about that because didn't we hear early on i didn't believe it so maybe
00:50:41.020
it's the believing it part that's missing but doesn't it seem like we made some threats and then venezuela
00:50:48.940
said some version of okay let's talk didn't that happen i don't believe there's been a phase
00:50:56.860
where they said let's talk and then we talked and then we asked for some stuff and then they said oh
00:51:03.500
no we can never give you that did that ever happen so i i feel like we're on some kind of weird autopilot
00:51:13.180
where we know what it looks like when when the uh the fake news starts moving the country toward war
00:51:20.700
doesn't it feel like we're just you know we residents of the country we're just part of the machine
00:51:26.940
and we're just moving along oh i guess we're moving toward a war does anybody know why
00:51:32.860
no you don't know why i mean i could i could tell the story of why i mean i could say we don't want
00:51:39.020
these drugs coming in but but what would happen if venezuela said all right you got it we will
00:51:47.260
totally shut down the drug trade but just don't attack us what would we do would we say all right
00:51:54.540
you got to prove it but that's the deal or would we keep pushing i don't know do you i kind of want to
00:52:04.220
know then then apparently according to fox news and and other news um president trump says the the
00:52:12.780
residents of chicago are chanting bring in trump do you think that's happening do you think that anywhere
00:52:20.380
in chicago there's a group of residents who are chanting we want trump we watch i think it's
00:52:28.700
hilarious that it doesn't matter if they're doing that the fact that trump says they are makes you want
00:52:34.700
to argue about it well show me that video right you really believe that they're chanting that no they
00:52:42.060
might be chanting something negative against trump show me that video i think you're making this up
00:52:47.420
and of course it's just a throwaway line that you know that they're chanting now that's just funny
00:52:53.820
isn't it if you're looking at trump in the proper frame of mind this is just funny that he would put
00:53:01.900
it in those terms when he knows how how that would upset some people all right good job there
00:53:10.140
you can see how many people were injured in chicago uh there was there was some downtown riot
00:53:18.220
that left eight people shot and one dead geez um now you you might say to yourself you might say to
00:53:26.540
yourself scott there is nothing funny about that there's nothing funny about people getting shot let's
00:53:34.540
agree to that uh at least that's what i thought until i got the end of the story which says the riot
00:53:41.180
which followed a christmas tree lighting ceremony come on i'm trying to act like a good citizen and not
00:53:51.100
laugh at violence but but if chicago had a riot over a christmas tree lighting uh i have some advice
00:53:59.660
about traveling to chicago don't do it don't do it stay away
00:54:08.940
yep don't get near that christmas tree lighting that sounds dangerous meanwhile trump uh called the
00:54:15.820
mayor of chicago brandon a low iq leader he says they got a bunch of low iq leaders and uh but he also
00:54:25.180
insults uh governor pritzker for being overweight so he's going hard at chicago anyway um let me ask you
00:54:35.740
why is it that the democrats are not making more hay is that a thing uh or why are they not making a
00:54:46.300
bigger deal uh the fact that trump has now labeled a number of black leaders low iq
00:54:53.100
has he labeled any white leaders low iq because if he hasn't i would recommend you throw a few on the
00:55:02.780
list you got to get at least you know at least one or two white leaders that are low iq you must have
00:55:09.180
that in portland portland maybe it's got to be something but uh i i wonder if he's feeling so free
00:55:17.820
at this point in terms of what he can get away with and what he can say that he doesn't care
00:55:23.660
about making it you know dei friendly and that if he thinks somebody's stupid he's just going to say
00:55:29.340
it and it has nothing to do with anything except that's what he was thinking he was just thinking
00:55:33.820
ah you're stupid i'll say it i don't know i think he'd be a little bit safer
00:55:39.100
throw some crackers on that list you know what i mean all right uh rinse takes your laundry and
00:55:48.860
hand delivers it to your door expertly cleaned and folded so you could take the time once spent
00:55:53.660
folding and sorting and waiting to finally pursue a whole new version of you like tea time you
00:55:59.180
mm or this tea time you or even this tea time you said you hear about dave or even tea time tea time
00:56:08.780
tea time you mm so update on dave it's up to you we'll take the laundry rinse it's time to be great
00:56:18.140
here's the reframe that you need and you'll find that this fits with what i said earlier today and
00:56:24.940
you'll be amazed how it it all fits together so as you know there's a 20 point trump administration
00:56:33.100
peace plan for ukraine but um nobody was born yesterday and so we don't think that we're just
00:56:41.980
going to spray this plan out there and zelensky is going to say oh that's a great idea why did we do this
00:56:48.460
before and that putin is going to say well thanks for the good work this is perfect we sign up nobody
00:56:54.300
thinks people are just going to sign up for it it's a starting point and as i posted earlier today
00:57:02.220
that uh let me tell you what marco rubio said and then i'm going to put it in my words
00:57:07.820
because i think he could have gone uh to one extra step that would have been really useful
00:57:12.780
and maybe he will uh so marco said marco rubio uh said ending a complex and deadly war such as the
00:57:21.100
one in ukraine requires an extensive exchange of serious and realistic ideas you know 28 points
00:57:27.340
that would be extensive and achieving a durable peace will require both sides to agree to difficult
00:57:33.180
but necessary concessions of course that is why we are and will continue to develop a list listen to
00:57:39.900
this we are and will continue to develop a list of potential ideas for ending this war based on input
00:57:48.220
from both sides of the conflict oh that is perfect once again marco rubio is telling us how to think
00:57:58.700
not what to think now there is a list of 20 things that you know we want or we think would be good but
00:58:06.300
when he describes it as a list of literally potential ideas from both sides that's really moving forward
00:58:16.620
now i'm going to put this in my own words and then when i put it in my words to see how it hits you okay
00:58:22.700
i'm going to say the same thing just my words i'm going to say that packetizing packetizing
00:58:28.860
taking things and putting them in little packages which are the 28 points each of the 28 points is like
00:58:34.780
a little packet that once you've packetized it what can you do with it well packetizing all the
00:58:42.460
ideas into units that can be traded compared and easily communicated is the most important thing
00:58:54.220
that needs to be done at this phase we're not talking about any final agreements we're talking
00:59:00.220
about some way to take this complicated situation and turn it into little packets where you can say all
00:59:07.020
right there's a there's a donbass packet there's a crimea packet you could still you can still play
00:59:13.660
with the packets but but you have to agree that there are packets uh and you can call it something
00:59:20.380
else just 28 points or whatever but until you do that you cannot really negotiate because there's nothing
00:59:27.580
to give away and there's nothing to get you need to put them in discrete easy to communicate packets
00:59:35.740
and when i see marco using his own words speaking in those terms pretty much what i said but just
00:59:43.500
you know his own way to say it that gives me a lot of confidence i gotta admit that gives me a lot of
00:59:50.380
confidence because if i just heard we want 28 things or uh there are five things we have to have
00:59:58.860
i wouldn't necessarily think we've made any progress but as soon as you tell me that the goal
01:00:05.820
is to get 28 packets and we can still argue about what the packets are excellent that to me
01:00:14.620
looks like adults trying to figure out a really complicated problem i don't know where
01:00:20.700
this approach came from or if it's really closer to a normal approach than i'm giving it credit for
01:00:25.740
is this closer to normal than i think it is it doesn't look normal uh it looks like a whole
01:00:33.420
better way of doing it i don't know we'll see ladies and gentlemen what you really want
01:00:41.820
is a reframe to wrap things up would you like a reframe from my book
01:00:47.740
uh my book is called reframe your i'm sorry i accidentally picked up the 2026 dilbert calendar
01:00:56.540
which you can only get on amazon and it's available now it's the best thing that ever happened to in
01:01:00.700
your whole life and there are comics on both sides i didn't mean to pick that up that was an accident
01:01:07.740
we'll put that over there but my book reframe your brain i'm going to give you an absolutely free
01:01:14.620
reframe wow um i sure hope i put that where i wanted it damn it i seem to have put my
01:01:28.140
my bookmark in the middle of the book randomly that didn't help me all right here's where i need to be
01:01:36.220
uh we'll go into the uh social life reframes i need i know you need that all right um
01:01:48.700
how many of you think that marriage is about finding a soulmate
01:01:55.740
i feel like you know tvs and movies and our sense of romantic entitlement
01:02:01.980
uh kind of ruins our potential for happiness because we're we're sort of imagining that we
01:02:09.500
can have that that kind of situation that they have in the movies but uh if you think that marriage
01:02:15.900
is about finding your soulmate you're gonna have a little problem because at some point you're gonna
01:02:22.860
say how do i know that's my soulmate and why does my co-worker act like my soulmate all the time
01:02:29.260
what's going on here so the old frame or the usual frame is that marriage is about finding your soulmate here's a reframe
01:02:37.100
uh marriage is about finding love with someone who values promises promises
01:02:46.780
yeah that's one you have to think about but i'll give you another one
01:02:49.340
how about how about if you you break up with somebody or maybe there's a tragic death in here
01:03:05.420
in your life and you think to yourself i've lost my soulmate oh no i've lost my soulmate well
01:03:14.140
maybe you lost your soulmate but here's another way to look at it you have a million soulmates and
01:03:19.020
you haven't you haven't met them all i mean do you really think do you really think there's seven
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billion people and you've got exactly one soulmate really really do you really believe that there's
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just one just one soulmate no there are probably a million different people that you could come to
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see as your soulmate and probably a million different people that you could come to trust with your life
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if you could find somebody you could trust with your life and they do what they promise to do over the
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entire course of your relationship and you're willing to turn them into your soulmate even if they weren't
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naturally that way just by being honest and uh let's say moral and ethical that would be an excellent
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situation so i would worry a lot less about the magic of finding your soulmate and i would worry a lot
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more about how to turn any good person into somebody that you see as your soulmate um just by the fact
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that you treat each other really well and that's your agreement so i've always thought that relationships
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that are based on uh decision are more powerful than relationships that are based on um let's say
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some internal feeling right if your relationship is based on a feeling it could change it could change
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all right people that's what i got for you today um i'm going to talk to the locals people my beloved
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locals people uh i hope there's something you got on today that was useful um you you could probably
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notice me trying to change the uh the direction of the country
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i think i've i think i'm doing a good job so far
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how many of you see my influence in other public figures
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i'll ask you a more specific question how many of you think you've seen
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the other public figures are thinking the way i'm thinking or using the tools that i use and you think
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to yourself where'd they get that did that come from scott or somebody that somebody who got it from him
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i'm looking at your comments now yeah so a lot of a lot of you can see it
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it's not imaginary i remember back in 2016 and i would suggest that maybe people were listening to me
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and people would say uh scott put your ego away
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and i don't think i put my ego away but the point is um as i've said often including today
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the person with the best idea is always in charge so if i can teach you how to think about a topic
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better than you were thinking about it and maybe you share that with somebody else and they share it
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with somebody else then the way to think about a topic becomes the dominant force it's not even
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the personality it's not the person whose job it is to be in charge it's just the fact that
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there's something about the way somebody framed it that's so compelling that you could predict
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where it's going from that point on and that's what i shoot for
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um sometimes i hit it and sometimes i don't all right locals coming at you coming at you