Episode 3104 - The Scott Adams School 02⧸27⧸26
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Today's episode features: - Akira's new song, "Authorize Yourself" by Scott Adams featuring Marcella, Greg, and Owen. - Bitcoin, the future, and more! - The Mute Button vs. the Mute button. - What's the best thing you can do to make life better?
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So, whatever you think is going to happen in the future,
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everything takes on a creamy, delicious, chocolatey glow.
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or maybe gagged when you heard somebody else say it,
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Instead of being an explorer and trying to figure out who you are,
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how about authoring yourself to be what you want to be?
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That's Akira's song, you guys, featuring Scott Adams, author yourself.
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And you're in luck, because you came to the right place.
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And the only thing that could make it better is a simultaneous sip.
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And all you need to participate is a copper mug or a glass of snifter.
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, and the thing
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that makes everything better, the simultaneous sip.
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I didn't know if you knew you were being listened to.
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I felt like at that point, we should all just chime in and chant it with Sergio.
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Just a reminder that all of Coffee with Scott Adams live streams are living on YouTube and
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Scott Adams dot locals dot com for micro lessons and pre shows and post shows and all sorts
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of juicy tidbits in between even Scott drawing Dilbert comics with us pitching in and giving
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our two cents, which we have more than two cents to give on everything, don't we?
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So that being said, let's kick off the school today.
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We have our our fabulous news crew, the family.
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Look at the stuff on Sergio's shelves, his cameras, his drones, his little S monogram.
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And Owen Gregorian, you are more stoic than ever.
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And you can find it at Akira the Don or meaningwave.com for download.
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And Marcella and Owen, I think Owen is going first, Marcella.
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So we have a story that red states are gaining babies in the post-COVID shuffle.
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The Institute for Family Studies is talking about this.
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Looks like red states are seeing population growth in young families and children post-COVID,
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while blue states are losing them due to high costs and migration.
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It looks like compared to 2019, the 20 states that voted most for Kamala Harris saw declines in their people in their 20s and kids under 18.
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Red states saw growth among millennials in their 30s.
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And so I guess my take on this is that, you know, we're all focused on the short term all the time, which is fine.
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I mean, you know, we're kind of fighting the battles of today, like the midterms that are coming up.
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But I think longer term, the trend seems to be going positive.
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It seems to be going in the Republican direction.
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You know, we all know that there's all sorts of rigging going on with the census.
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And, you know, there was a story I saw recently about that, where it looks like one person was responsible for kind of rigging the census to give a whole bunch of seats to Democrats they shouldn't have gotten based on illegal immigrants and things like that.
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That he rigged the algorithm of the census to totally change the result in terms of the electoral counts and things.
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But I think everything is moving in our direction longer term.
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And all the projections are that it's going to shift way red at that point.
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And it looks like the trend is even longer term than that with these babies that we're going to have a lot more kids coming up the ranks in Republican families and a lot less in blue.
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And I've seen like a couple on the last two days.
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I went to a shoot the other day and there were like actually two ladies with babies together.
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I will look at everywhere and we're never going to find her.
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I think she's in Mexico now in a tourist destination maybe.
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But with the babies, that's a, I used to think that the only reason why people was not having babies right now was because they were not drinking enough anymore.
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That was something that was getting all these people loosened up, going to bars and they will do it.
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And because of scat, you know, people stopped drinking.
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And you see, and everybody stayed home, you know, they just, and it wasn't happening.
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So now I think that there's a big drive right now for, to create more, more babies.
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Especially when you see guys like that colonel, no, that, the guy that got the medal yesterday.
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So that Superman, that kind of man like that is, you know, is going to be making a lot of babies and a lot of people is going to want to keep going along with us.
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I mean, I do think a big part of it is just, do you have a positive outlook about the future or do you have a negative outlook about the future?
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And that can be financial in terms of, do I think I'm going to be able to have a good job going forward?
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Do I think I'm going to be able to afford things?
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But it also is just, you know, do I feel good about the future?
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And the leftist media is very negative all the time, just telling you the world's ending, everything's terrible, it's just all getting worse, the AI apocalypse is coming, no one's going to have a job.
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And they're just beating down their base constantly.
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And it's just all negativity all the time, climate change, you know, it's just all end of the world, everything.
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I mean, you know, young kids are dropping out of college because they think AI is going to take all the jobs or that there's no point.
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And it just leads to all this depression and nihilistic thought.
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And I think that really affects people when they think about having kids.
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Whereas if you have religion and if you have, you know, faith and you have just a positive outlook, which if you just, you know, listen to Trump, like in the State of the Union, you get such a different picture, right?
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Like just it's the golden age is here and everything's great and we're running hot in the economy and we've got all this investment coming in and we're, you know, making the world safe all over the world.
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And it inspires people to say, you know what, I'm going to start a family.
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I'm going to, you know, be part of this and bring children into this great new world.
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And so that's the way I look at it is that it's just the people who are positive and are optimistic about the future are much more likely to say, yeah, let's have some kids.
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But have you also seen how women are depicted now in the media, right?
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There's no more praising fatness anymore, right?
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There's no more worshiping, you know, being overweight.
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The Maha, the Maha movement, that creates a change.
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Even if everybody was doing it for health, just everybody losing weight like that is going to create people wanting to have sex with them.
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It is so funny listening to two dudes talk about this more, Stella, isn't it?
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People, in the red states, they love OSEMPIC, right?
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I don't know if I've seen any mapping of where the OSEMPIC is, but I think.
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I would argue that, I mean, sure, there's plenty of obese people and it's a problem.
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But I think if you, if I was honest about that, it's probably a much bigger problem in
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And, you know, maybe they are going to OSEMPIC more in the future, especially.
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Trump Rx and all the stuff keeping the cost down.
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But, but I think generally speaking, if you just looked on a population basis, I think you'd
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probably find that there's more attractive women in the big cities than there are in the
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rural areas and, you know, even just blue states versus red states.
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I mean, you know, you can say, oh, that's a hot woman.
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But when you're, when you're talking about starting a family and getting married, you
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You need to have someone who's mentally healthy, too.
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You don't, I mean, I don't want to, I don't want to raise a family with a crazy woman.
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And, you know, I'd much rather have someone who, with a little extra fat around her belly
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and, you know, childbearing hips and all the rest.
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And then just, you know, and if I, if I have a choice between someone who looks really good,
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but has crazy liberal thoughts and thinks everything's going to crap, it's an easy choice
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If any of you were unsure where these guys stand, now, you know, this is.
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Well, I want to hear the female point of view.
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I mean, I think feminism has a lot to do with it.
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Women wanting careers, feeling pressured to have careers, people needing to have more than
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one income, societal pressure, all of that stuff.
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I, and I think like you guys are more like, oh, is she crazy or not?
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I just think that, yeah, it's probably really like if you're someone based in reality, you're
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I think it's the economy and I think it's fear of the future.
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And then also, I think in the blue states, this is just my opinion, but the men and the
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women who are dug in, like let's say on the left, they're so miserable.
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Um, they don't believe in any kind of traditional values and, you know, kids are our future and,
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um, we need families and we need to pump up family values.
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And, you know, I, I think that's, I think when people went back years ago and they're like,
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oh, we lost family values and we lost eating dinner together and raising your kids and all
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Um, there's too much tick tock, too much social media, too much.
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And it's like, you know what, put that shit down, focus on yourself, you know, become a
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better person, literally for everybody, be useful and try to be happy.
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And then maybe you'll attract the right partner through happiness and not misery.
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And then maybe you'll want to have a family because you'll want the two of you to go on.
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I think it has nothing to do with looks or ozempic.
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And I get you guys are saying more than that, but I just think that's what it is.
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I think it's connected, I think it's connected to the rise of Christianity in, um, the red
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I really think religion, there's been a resurgence after Charlie was assassinated.
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And even before that, there was a resurgence of young men going into, uh, religion and, um,
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Gen C is very different than Gen X and millennials.
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Gen X and millennials, they want to start a family early in their twenties instead of waiting.
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And I mean, listen, somebody who was it yesterday?
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And I was like, totally spot on with the hockey team.
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Like if you're a woman and you're like that age of these hockey players and your thought
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is like, oh, they were sexist or they laughed at Trump or whatever you are, you are so out
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Your thoughts should be like, those guys are hot.
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Like, you know, like I want to breed with them.
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Um, so that, that, if that wasn't your instinct, I mean, listen, I'm a married woman and I was
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Eric, I'm glad you mentioned that because that instinct you, you mentioned the word instinct
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and that's, uh, is Kat's, uh, filter on this, the mating instinct.
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He always talk about the mating instinct being, by the way, everything I say does not represent
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I mean, I, that's, I couldn't do this if I wasn't, you know, single.
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Uh, so the, the thing with, um, the mating instinct is so powerful that we always, it's
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We can always come up with a reason to rationalize that part.
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So all I'm saying is that if you see on TV, a lot of, uh, um, women's parts, right?
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Like, or guys and everybody looking great, America is going to start feeling, you know,
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more excited to, you know, to be out there and to go out and, um, and that has an effect
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in is, and it's just, uh, always there and you don't think about it, but it's always affecting
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Well, I, I, I, I mean, I think all of these things are true.
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I think that affordability is a big part of it.
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I think that, um, feminism certainly has had a major detrimental impact for decades against,
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you know, starting families in your twenties when women are most fertile.
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Um, I saw an article or maybe, I don't know, it was an ex post, maybe by somebody, it might
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have been Stefan Molyneux replying to it or something about how you, maybe you can have
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it all, but you should basically have kids first and then the career.
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And that works, but if you try it the other way, it really doesn't work because if you
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wait till your late thirties or forties, it's really not easy to have a kid.
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And I think feminism and even scientists have kind of lied to women about that and said,
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oh yeah, you can wait if you need to, you can freeze your eggs and that doesn't work.
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You do get less fertile as you get into your thirties.
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It gets worse as you go and even worse in your forties.
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And you reach the point where you just can't have kids anymore.
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And, um, you know, if you do it the other way, you, you've got plenty of time to have
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I mean, my wife went back to work after she had kids.
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Um, you know, she had a nice college education.
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She actually mostly, you know, didn't work at all while the kids were little, um, until
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they were really in like high school and college.
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So she took a long break and she still was able to get a job with Harvard.
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And, um, you know, so I think if, if you come out of college and maybe work for a couple
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But if you meet a guy and you want to have a family, um, I think it's a much better plan
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in general to just start the family right away.
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And, you know, let's take the pressure off of having a career first, because if you have
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a career first and your career is growing, are you then going to want to take a backseat
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So do, do the family first, but can we move on to another subject?
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My, my first story is the SAVE Act and, um, saving the SAVE Act is part of the story.
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Um, the Congress passed it again on February 11th and, uh, John Toon doesn't want to keep,
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So, um, there is this, uh, you know, going back and forth of where the zombie filibuster
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or the talk filibuster, but the main thing is that, um, you know, the question that everybody's
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asking is that 94% of Republican voters supported and a big number of Democrats, uh, not, not
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in the Senate, but Democrats in general support the SAVE Act, which is if you don't remember,
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And the question is, as James would ask, why, who owns John Toon and what's going on with
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I think, um, Erica posted some story on Tom Tillis, um, having time for a dog parade instead
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It was one of the things that were said in the Senate, uh, by the majority leader, John
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Toon, um, sorry, I'm mispronouncing his name, but he said that there was not enough time for
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So somehow, you know, we don't, we have time for dog parades, but we don't have time to
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So those of you that don't know, that's what they did yesterday.
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They had a parade, bring your dog to the, you know, the Capitol and, uh, parade your
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dog around and we're going to take pictures and photos.
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He wrote the SAVE Act is the single most important issue to 95% of Republican voters.
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If you can't pass it with the majority in the house, the Senate, the Supreme court, and a
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Republican president, then somebody owns your ass buddy who owns John Toon.
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To give his side of the story, I believe he said there's four Republicans in the Senate
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And yeah, McConnell and Tillis, I think we're two of them.
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I don't remember the other two, but, but I think, you know, Thune, I still hold accountable
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because he's the leader and he's obviously a very weak leader.
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If he can't get everybody in line to say, this is what we're all going to do.
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Um, but I do think, you know, it's also those other four people, those other four senators
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that, you know, supposedly we have the votes, right?
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We have 50 or 51 votes and we have Vance for a tiebreaker if we needed it.
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Um, and so we should have everything we need that they've said that they'll vote for it.
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And so the question would be, why would they not then say, yeah, I'll go along with the
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filibuster too, because that's the way we get to that 50 vote majority vote.
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But the only alternative that Thune seemed to be pushing was like just forcing a vote.
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But I think that method would mean you need 60 votes to pass it.
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And so it was almost like a show vote to just say, oh, we're going to make the Democrats
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But in reality, they were just going to sacrifice the bill.
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And so everyone was upset about that, of course.
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And so Thune then was responding, well, I don't have enough support from these other four
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And so I can't make this happen because it's just not going to work.
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And I do think we should be holding all these people accountable, including Thune.
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What is the name somebody was saying in the chat?
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I mean, they're being weasels to just say that they won't support it.
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Because if we have enough votes to pass it, then we should also have enough votes to do
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Don't you just think that these people are just trying to wait out Trump's term and then
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they think they're going to go back to being, you know, establishment rhinos again.
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The only explanation is that they want the cheating to continue.
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Cheating is the only reason why you will stop this.
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And that's the only reason why you have a mailing ballot.
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That's the only reason why you wouldn't purge the roll, the border rolls.
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They don't want a clean system and using those four people as an excuse.
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That's a fake because the real reason is, yeah, most likely is corruption, like Scott
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Somebody called it rat, you know, Republican against Trump.
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This is Republican against integrity and against election, against America.
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So if anybody is against Trump, they're against America right now.
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So if you're against Trump, you're against America at this point.
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Unless if Trump goes crazy and starts doing things that, I mean, if he goes crazy some
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But right now, who's stopping us right now is this guy, Tom Thune.
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A rat person is somebody that is going to stab you in the back.
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You know, when you're not looking and they're acting like, oh, everything's fine, but it's
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So I'm just saying that if we want to reframe this in a way that has any effect on people
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to get motivated to go out and vote, we need to do something like that, you know, to show
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And you want to show them, somebody post the meme that Sergio made.
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Also, just so you know, in Somalia, I believe you need two forms of ID to vote in Somalia.
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Oh, I thought you were going to say they needed two rats to.
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But you need two forms of ID to vote in Somalia.
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You know, and remember the story about the dogs voting?
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You know, there were dogs that were not voting or voting.
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Again, the simulation is always giving us these wings all the time, right?
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Well, there's more going on with the whole AI apocalypse narrative on both sides, I would
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One of the big stories is that Jack Dorsey, he has this fintech called Block, and he announced
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And he said, it's all because of AI that, you know, we can use these AI intelligence
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He thought a lot of companies were sort of making, you know, making it bad for morale
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to like do all these rifts over time and just gradually get rid of people.
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And so he said, I'm just going to cut it all at once and grow from this lower base.
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And the stock market rewarded him big time that it's his stock jumped like 23%.
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So a lot of people are speculating that other companies are going to do it.
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Jack Dorsey said a lot of other companies are probably going to come to the same conclusion.
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And so there's a lot of fear, I think, that there's going to suddenly be this massive
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We've certainly seen some layoffs recently that have been blamed on AI.
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I think a lot of them probably weren't really because of AI.
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But, you know, it's an easy excuse for CEOs to make it seem like the company's doing fine.
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But, you know, I just need to get rid of these people because I don't need them anymore.
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I think that there's going to be another wave coming of a lot of layoffs, especially in the
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tech sector, because I think that's where AI is making the biggest.
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Zero Hedge posted a graph in regards to Block, and he indicated that, you know, he made it.
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He doesn't say it in statement, Zero Hedge, but Zero Hedge on X.
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And he indicates that the company Block spent $68 million for a party.
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And 200 days later, Jack Dorsey fires 40% of the workers, and then three blames AI.
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So, like Owen was saying, and Scott has said before, you know, the AI fake because sometimes
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I mean, I think certainly you could have a skeptical lens on it like that and say, you know, that
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But I think, I don't see Jack Dorsey as the type of person who would just make up a story
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like that, especially when he made such a big splash like this and said, we're going to get
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And I think, you know, because the stock was rewarded by it significantly, like this massive
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And Jack, by the way, also explained along the way, hey, we were already profitable.
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We were profitable and growing before these layoffs.
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It was that this is better and this is going to be, you know, the better path.
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And so he's kind of recognizing the trend of saying, okay, this is the direction we're
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going and we're already at the point where one person on my staff can use a whole team
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of AI agents to get a lot of stuff done really well and really quickly.
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And so I don't need all these thousands of extra people.
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And so he certainly seemed credible to me in terms of telling the truth about why he was
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I think the problem is that, again, a lot of companies might copy him or might be forced
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to copy him, even if they don't want to, because for public companies, you have this
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responsibility to the shareholders to maximize shareholder value.
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And now that you've seen what happened to Block, pretty much anybody who wants to be an
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active investor could just say, you need to do the same thing to this other tech company.
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You know, they would have to say, well, you know, if you can get a 23% jump in your stock
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price and still be able to grow and be profitable and, you know, have a much lower expense, then
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And so I am expecting there probably will be more companies following suit.
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Also, when you think of all the money that frees up now, so people can get big fat raises, they
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And this ties into where, you know, I keep trying to drive home, you know, learn a trade,
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become, you know, someone who's always essential.
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Because here's the thing, AI, you know, it's not taking maternity leave.
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It's not complaining, it's not going to sue you, it's not going to, you know, whine about,
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you know, needing a vacation and everything else.
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So I think this is going to be a big wake up call for the generations of people that are
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like, you know, things aren't fair and I need a safe space and I'm working eight hours a day
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It's like, listen, AI will do it and they won't say a word.
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So it's going to be hard because you're going to have to really, if you're, if you're trying
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to stay at your corporate job, you're going to have to be so freaking valuable.
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You're going to have to work so hard and so smart.
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And my advice to you is to really, really become an expert in how to use AI and how to
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So you're like the best AI prompter in the world.
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And if that's not you and you don't have a good work ethic or you're lazy or you're trying
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to skate by, you'll be found out quick and you'll be out the door.
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So start now looking for a trade, um, work on your talent stack, get some other skills
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behind you and become valuable as part of the, the whole wheel of this country that keeps
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the country moving forward by learning how to build, how to weld, how to, you know, be
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a nurse, be a, be a whatever, but not everybody's going to fit into that corporate box.
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And AI is going to save a lot of companies, a lot of money and a lot of headaches.
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And like, yeah, I mean, yeah, if you're pregnant and you want maternity leave, you can have
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your maternity leave, but AI and another employee is going to take your job and someone else's.
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I'm just saying, so if you're worried about it, start finding a backup plan now and then
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It's just the way it's going to be moving forward.
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But the lazy safe space days are over if you want to be employed in this country.
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And there are a lot of companies that are racing to implement AI now and they're often,
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Um, but I think it's almost becoming a competition internally in a lot of companies to say who can
00:34:58.020
do it fastest and if you can be guiding them along the way or seen as the expert, then
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you're going to do much better and be much less likely to get laid off if these things
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do happen because they're going to say, oh yeah, you know, this guy's really good at it.
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I mean, I, I've, you know, just did a project that was doing agentic AI and, and I am trying
00:35:19.580
to leverage that as much as I can reputationally to say, oh, you know, he, he really understands
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Um, and I'm also kind of setting the narrative, even in other projects I've done where there
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have been elements of AI involved to just say, I did this AI thing.
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And now I have this whole track record of being an AI expert.
00:35:47.580
And, um, I think that gives me a lot more job security and I can, I've already noticed
00:35:54.140
that I've been successful with several people that are higher up than me recognizing that
00:35:58.580
I have technical expertise with AI that they don't have.
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And so I think, you know, they would be the first to jump in and protect me just because
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they're like, oh yeah, he's, he's, he's one of our best people with that.
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And, um, so I think there's a lot of companies that don't know at all what they're doing with
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And if you can develop some expertise, now is the time because you can get ahead of
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everybody else and, and become that expert that can help your company do it.
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And hopefully that means you'll survive whatever cuts are coming.
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Um, I will present the other side though, like the David Sachs made a post recently that
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And it showed that there was a huge number of job listings, uh, for software engineers.
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Um, I think it was, uh, you know, indeed, I think this is the same, probably the same
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graph where it said software jobs are up 11% year over year, and it's much more than other
00:36:54.720
Like it looked to me like the trend for overall job listings was going down, but there was
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a sudden spike over the last few months for software jobs, like software engineering, programming
00:37:05.780
And that makes sense to me because when you have AI able to, you know, make you, let's
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say 50% more productive or a hundred percent more productive or 500% more productive than
00:37:19.040
a lot of things that used to not be worth doing or suddenly worth doing, or they're just much
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And so you can get a better return on what you're doing, or you might want to do more things
00:37:29.680
internally that you might've outsourced to some other software company or some other,
00:37:34.480
you know, out outside thing before, um, or even, you know, a contract with another company
00:37:40.560
to do some service for you where you're like, well, now we can do that ourselves for much
00:37:44.700
And so I think this is all also creating the opposite opportunity that for a lot of companies
00:37:51.840
where they said, well, you know, I'm not going to hire another programmer cause I'm not
00:37:55.780
going to get enough of a return on my investment.
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Now they're saying, well, you know, now I can get five times as much return on that investment.
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And I also want people who can help me implement AI throughout my business.
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So now I need more programmers to be able to do that.
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And so I think it is a double-edged sword where tech companies, they may have a lot of
00:38:20.220
Um, because, you know, if they already have armies of, of people and they have lots and
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lots of expertise, then they can leverage the expertise of their most senior people.
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And they might not need all the junior programmers.
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I would, I would go back to when I was at a startup and I had one really super programmer
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that worked for me and he understood the whole system and he could do everything.
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And like, if I, you know, if I had five of them, I would have obviously much preferred
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But, um, there was a lot of the work that I wouldn't give to him, even if he did have
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Why do I have, you know, it takes time to do it, but it's just not stimulating me mentally.
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And for other people that I would call average programmers, they were smart people, but they
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But that, that was exactly the right task to give to those people.
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And when I look back on what they were doing, if I had AI, AI could have automated almost
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Like it was basically just copy this code, make these changes, you know, add this new
00:39:28.400
It's just adding a new button to a form or adding a new document type or whatever it would
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It's, you know, it's not like I need super expertise for that.
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I just need somebody to be the hands on the keyboard that will type in all the code.
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Like if I was going to do it again today, I could probably have done the whole thing
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Last thing that I wanted to, you know, we're talking about cognitive dissonance might
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This self-assessment that is important to do right now is to look at all your work, right?
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You said it, Erika, we need to look at our work.
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And if your work can be done by sitting at a desk in front of a computer, that job is
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If you are the one that knows how to do the AI, your job is the last one to go, right?
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You're still going to, you're going to lose it at some point, but it's going to be one
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Don't let cognitive dissonance lie to you and start rationalizing like, oh, no, I'm safe.
00:40:44.880
So my, my, I guess my next story, um, if Owen allows, uh, the seven tells for cognitive
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I posted a picture and, uh, my ex and it got a lot of, uh, likes, um, and I was excited
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I, you know, I love everything Scott ever made.
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Uh, so I don't discern which one is, which, but listening to Scott talk about the seven
00:41:17.880
tells of cognitive dissonance as the greatest accomplishment of his to civilization makes me
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And there are seven and, uh, we can go over them.
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But one of the things that happened yesterday when I posted this is that Owen made a brilliant
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post using all seven, uh, I would have to say coming from a brilliant mind as Owen, it was
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very, um, at first I was like, did he get hacked?
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If you change the, if someone changes the topic or if they make an ad hominem attack and
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ad hominem means you're attacking the person rather than the argument.
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And basically when they do that, right, Owen, you already won.
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Well, that's certainly what Scott was saying is that, you know, probably most of these
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would fall under that category of if they do these things, you can just declare victory
00:42:55.600
Um, mind reading is where you imagine that, you know, what the other person's thinking
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and you act like, you know, what's in their head, um, which is really never true.
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And you're often very wrong when you think, you know, what someone else is thinking.
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And, um, the fourth is word salad, which Scott explained is where you say a bunch of words,
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Um, again, that's, this is, these are all tells of cognitive dissonance.
00:43:18.880
Like if you trigger someone at a cognitive dissonance, it typically, that means you've said
00:43:23.880
something that doesn't agree with their worldview, doesn't agree with what they thought was
00:43:29.220
true and they really can't accept what you're saying.
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So they go into this thinking mode of like, almost like a brain reboot, um, where they
00:43:41.060
But someone who's in cognitive dissonance can't tell that they're in cognitive dissonance,
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Sergio, who comes to mind when you, when we say word salad?
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And then the next one is using an analogy instead of reason.
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Um, so again, it's kind of avoiding actually directly addressing an argument.
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It's more just trying to use an analogy, like saying, oh, it's like this.
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You know, there's always something different about them.
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And so it's another tell for when someone's in cognitive dissonance to be like, well, it's
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And, um, it really doesn't make any impact, but, um, people often do it.
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And then, um, the sixth one is insisting something's complicated and can't be summarized.
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Um, Scott has often talked about the most persuasive arguments are simple.
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Um, Trump is probably the poster child here where he can say, build the wall or something
00:44:50.640
very simple and visual that, um, gets right to the point.
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I think Scott was certainly huge on this himself with Dilbert.
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He honed the skill of, of distilling something down to its essence with just a few words every
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single day, because that's what he had to do for his comic.
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You know, he has to make a joke, but he has to do it very briefly, very concisely.
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Um, and I think it's kind of the essence of humor too, is just getting to the very core
00:45:15.960
of something and saying, here's the essence of it.
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That's true, but it's also funny, um, when you can do it.
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But when someone says, oh, it's complicated, you know, and, and it's, it's, it's, it's
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And I mean, even scientists, like I think Richard Feynman and others have said, if you
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can't explain it, then you don't understand it yourself.
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Um, and, and so that's a sign that someone's in cognitive distance.
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And that's where, um, you, you start what you're saying with, so, and so you want to
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It's like, you're setting, you're, you're using that as a way of framing what the other
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person said in something as something that they didn't say at all.
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You guys, I need to buy one more of like a locals topic.
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Cause I think we're actually going to do something on locals with this.
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It's very hard to do a visual story without visuals, but I love that.
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And I, I'm going to play the clip on locals, you guys, for you of Scott giving this presentation,
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which obviously will be more effective with his whiteboard.
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I just, I replied to, to Marcello's post with some, a sentence.
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So I, I replied with, so you're obviously that moronic fool thinking we should switch
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to discussing pineapples now, since it's all like comparing apples to quantum entanglement
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gibberish nonsense, which is way too complicated to ever summarize properly.
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So I tried to work in all seven and I'm glad you picked up on it, Marcello.
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Cause there's some other big news going on in the world today.
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And I want everybody to feel a little bit informed as they go at the door.
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So do we have anything that they need to know about?
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Well, there's of course, Iran, um, is on the verge of war.
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Uh, I think the, you know, the, the talks have pretty much broken down in Geneva and
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And there's some speculation that maybe we want Israel to attack Iran first so that then
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And then we can say, oh, look, they attacked us or they attacked Israel.
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Um, but either way, I don't know that that really matters.
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That's like one of those gossip things where they're claiming that's what the U S is thinking,
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If I think if Trump wanted to attack, he would just attack.
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And, but definitely all signs are pointing in that direction as I've been predicting for
00:48:06.060
a while that, um, you know, the statements you hear coming out of the government are basically
00:48:11.060
saying Iran's very close to having uranium enriched and being able to have nukes again.
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And, um, you know, there are other people saying that's not really true and they would
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take them a long time to get the ICBMs to be able to reach the United States.
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Cause I think we probably would be wanting to defend Israel and people a lot closer to
00:48:32.180
Iran anyway, that they probably already have the capability to strike if they had a nuke.
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And certainly if anybody I think was asked the question, would we just allow Iran to nuke
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Israel? I think even the people who aren't behind our support of Israel would probably
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still say, no, we can't allow that to happen. Um, and so, you know, whether or not all that's
00:48:52.320
true, how close they are to having enriched uranium or being able to have nuclear weapons.
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I don't know. I don't know that there's, it's possible to know, but that's the narrative
00:48:59.880
that's coming out, which to me is the justification for attacking. And so I think we're going to
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Yeah. We're in a wait and see pattern right now. There's really not much to add to this right
00:49:09.840
now. Um, but that's, what's happening, um, with Iran. And, um, I think who Jared Kushner and,
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um, Oh my God, what's his name? Uh, Whitcoff were just in talks and negotiations. So we have to
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wait to hear what happens, but, um, I, I just want to say Kev ETF. I, I just want to shout out to
00:49:35.420
the NYPD. Um, because this really crushed me was that snowball fight by kids, just some kids having
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a snowball fight in the park. If you don't know the NYPD were literally attacked by like a gang of
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what Mondami called kids having a snowball fight. These were like people, these were grown adults
00:49:54.600
pelting them with like snowballs, icy snowballs, whatever. They caught one guy who, what he had
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been arrested like three times for other criminal things. And Alvin Bragg, let this guy go, even
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though he basically attacked and injured one of the many people that injured the NYPD. And I just want
00:50:17.260
to say, leave, like come across the river to New Jersey. It's new, not too far for you. And you'll be
00:50:23.180
treated much better. NYPD deserves so much respect and they don't have it. And I'm so sorry to them
00:50:30.880
because they're, they're just the best group of people. So leave that city. You are not going to
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be protected or backed up. Okay. I know there's another story in there. The, the, the criminal
00:50:43.260
we're talking about is Guzmine Koulibaly. Um, he, he was charged with assault on the NYPD officers,
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but it was downgraded to harassment and obstruction. He has other charges pending. I think there was what
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they called a strap hanger shakedown, which I assume means he was robbing people on a subway
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or a bus or something. And, um, the, you know, these, these officers were injured by the way,
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and they were saying that these snowballs were packed with ice and rocks. Um, so, you know,
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it is dangerous. I mean, it's, this isn't just, you know, Hey, let's have some fun. And you know,
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it's, it's not the, what the elf sort of snowball fight or maybe it is. If you, if you go to the end of
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that, where they were just totally pummeling people and, you know, went way overboard, but,
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um, this is dangerous. It was assault. I don't know why the DA is, is doing this. I mean, I do
00:51:34.200
know why, but, um, it's horrible that they're letting these people off. Um, and it's just getting
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bad there. And I would add another story to that. Yeah. Add it. But I'm just saying like,
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that's just how it starts. Oh, they they're literally attacking NYPD. Like, I don't even know.
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There was probably like 75, a hundred people there and everyone's laughing and recording it
00:51:55.140
and like point blank range, like throwing these like icy snowballs in their faces, right over
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their heads. They were like completely outnumbered and trying to stay stoic as best that they could.
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And, um, so what's next, you know, so Alvin Bragg lets that guy get off what's next. Right. So go
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ahead. Well, that's, I mean, I think it's a signal that it's okay to do that. Um, and then he probably
00:52:19.180
wants more of it. And, um, the, the other statistic I would add to that is apparently a
00:52:23.860
third of New Yorkers want to get out of New York. Um, they're citing things like cost of living and
00:52:29.660
quality of life, but over half the people in the survey that this is based on say that the quality
00:52:35.560
is worsening, that things are getting worse in New York. So it's well over half the people think
00:52:39.860
that very few people are saying it's getting better. There's some that say it's the same,
00:52:44.280
but, um, you know, there's a lot of people talking about the costs going way up and the quality of
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life going way down and the taxes going up. And I think 86% said it's unaffordable for families. So
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it's just, you know, very bad sentiment across the board. And I think up to a third of them are saying
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they're planning to leave within the next five years. So, um, might want to get ahead of the curve
00:53:07.460
there, um, to hold onto whatever property value you're selling or whatever it is. But, um, it does
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seem like there's going to be a more of an exodus coming out of New York. They're going to go to a
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red state. I see you. I'm not Bob. They're going to go to a red state and they're going to come here
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with their blue voting, not here cause I'm not in a red state, but then they're going to go there
00:53:26.700
with like a, the blue voting track record that they always do. And I was thinking today all about this,
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about how many people have to leave New York. They have to, it's, it's unbearable already.
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Um, but I'm like, Oh, wouldn't it be so great if you could just have some kind of way of saying
00:53:42.500
like, Oh, well, you know, I'm not sure if we can sell you this house here. We need to like,
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look at who you voted for when you left New York, because I just, you voted for it. Like stay there
00:53:54.280
and deal with it. Try to be a changed maker, but you know, you can't, uh, I can't, I just can't with
00:54:00.300
these people. Sorry. Yeah. All right. Well, if we're ready for the next story, I think, uh, last
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story. Yeah. There's more coming out about the FBI spying scandal that they were spying on cash
00:54:13.340
Patel and Susie Wiles. Uh, apparently it's gotten worse that now they found out that they were, um,
00:54:19.800
actually listening to Susie Wiles phone calls with her attorney. Um, which I think Marcella could tell
00:54:25.920
us is a no, no. Um, obviously Susan Wiles knew nothing about this, never consented to it. And they
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were recording her phone calls with her attorney. Um, the, the lawyer denies that, um, he knew
00:54:38.920
anything about it or ever gave permission for it. I think that's the story on the other side is that
00:54:42.600
supposedly the lawyer said it was okay to record these phone calls. Um, but he, he denies that.
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And, um, as a result, I think that they've fired 10 FBI agents that were involved with this. So
00:54:55.160
they're continuing the purge of the FBI for the people who have abused this thing and weaponized
00:55:00.120
the government government against Republicans. Um, but it's, you know, more and more is coming
00:55:06.580
out all the time and it seems like it's gotten really bad or it did get really bad. And, um,
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I, my only question with that is like, okay, what, what have they done against ordinary citizens?
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I mean, if they're doing this to people like cash Patel and Susie Wiles, um, which I think they
00:55:20.800
were private citizens at the time, but obviously they were high profile, you know, people
00:55:24.800
that in theory, you would think they might give a little bit more or be a little more careful
00:55:30.760
about, um, you know, how many hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of ordinary Americans are,
00:55:36.580
are having the same abuse done on them. And we just don't know about it.
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Your relationship with your attorney should be sacred. And they did this to Trump too, by,
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you know, going through and making them release all the conversations he had with his attorney.
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I just think like, Oh my God, the justice system is so broken and just these activist judges,
00:55:59.300
and then listening to attorney client conversations and emails. I don't know. How do you have a,
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uh, Marcella, how do you have, um, confidence, you know, like how would I have confidence in this
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system with all these things being infringed upon? I mean, do you feel like it's secure?
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Well, like Scott would tell you nothing secured, even signal and telegram, anything that, you know,
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our ex chats and all that, you know, the, the government usually has a, a back, uh, door.
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Um, but in regards to the privilege of, uh, confidentiality between client and attorney,
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the attorney, even if the attorney wanted to cooperate with the authorities, let's just say
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that he or she wanted to do that. The privilege cannot be broken unless it's the client that breaks
00:56:53.460
it. So if Susie Wiles says, okay, now everybody can understand and hear everything and use it in court,
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um, as evidence, then she or any other client can say that. Um, in, in law school, we're, we're,
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and even while practicing, the key is always to keep a client's, uh, privacy, um, is, is number one
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mà creator. So, um, youres are people working in law school and 하니까, you know, or, you know,
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yourahs plush you and I brought them out on your media and votre bara homeissa?
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Um, yeah, right. So if you're good at, uh, you're going to listen and say to the
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profession around whether it's spouse or relevant or really important, whether it's
00:57:43.280
family or church because it's one, it's one of the dentro of their staff and the
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family that they, we actually vote, uh, if you would, can see what's on alert date?
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erica can be the post um just like they deposed hillary hillary and bill um whatever hillary now
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there is in regards to that there is uh what i call what is called um spousal privilege
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spousal privileges um the same with your uh priest or pastor there is that privilege between
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you and them but again it's the person in the client attorney client privilege it's the client
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that needs to break it right so the fbi just bombards its way in and just is like yeah we're
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gonna listen and we're gonna lie and nothing's gonna happen but what do they do with it they
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can't use it in court you cannot use these statements in court but what they do is they
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bootstrap it to find investigate you in that way um meaning that if they hear something while they're
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listening to you they go and look for this they look for other ways to bring it in to bring in the
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evidence now if your attorney can can like um if your defense can actually connect the new evidence to
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the old uh illegal uh you know wiretap or listening to you then then it can be uh basically throwing
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out of court the whole thing even the new evidence yeah because that's you need to know about the
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wiretapping and that means the fbi agent would need to disclose that i know they're supposed to with
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brady and everything but they you know if someone's willing to break the law that way they're probably
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also willing to just lie and not tell what they're supposed to to the defense just like we saw with
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general flynn where they just didn't disclose eons you know like just piles of information that would
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have exonerated him they just didn't say any of that they did the same thing with all the j6ers
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um you know they just presented a very one-sided case they didn't let the defense have all the
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information they wouldn't let them have the videos they wouldn't let them you know it was just all
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horrible can i add one thing that scat will give us as an advice on privacy he always said that
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consider everything you type everything you talk to like it's going to be uh up there in the um
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you know in trial right it's going to be shown so that's it just don't write anything that you
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wouldn't want the whole world to see so it's time you guys it's time it goes by so fast but you know
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we'll be back next week too but i just also want to say i love this um great news 56 members of the
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u.s coast guard have been reinstated after they were kicked out of service for refusing the covet jab
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under biden they'll also be receiving full back pay um i just think that there's going to be more
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of that coming and i'm i'm happy for these guys for standing their ground so owen do you want to tell
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us about tomorrow what you have going on well tomorrow will be the after party spaces on x so if
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you want to talk about the news um we can talk about some of these stories or other ones from the
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week um but i'll be having that at the normal time so 7 a.m pacific and 10 a.m eastern perfect
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so you can see owen there tomorrow with uh sergio and sjb i love you guys i love you guys and we will
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be back on monday um with a fresh new week be useful you guys thank you so so much for being here with us
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and please a closing sip to scott who we love and honor every day love you guys be useful and thanks brie