Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 02, 2020


Episode 950 Scott Adams： Don't Miss My One-Act Play Called Kim Jong-Un Plans His Schedule


Episode Stats

Length

59 minutes

Words per Minute

147.00938

Word Count

8,804

Sentence Count

681

Misogynist Sentences

12

Hate Speech Sentences

10


Summary

Scott Adams talks about Kim Jong Un's recent trip to a fertilizer plant, and why he might not be dead after all. Plus, a story about sex slaves in the North Korean leader's inner sanctum, and a theory about why he doesn't need a cane.


Transcript

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00:00:07.120 Hey Greg, come on in here. Good to see you. I'm glad you joined. The rest of you, come on in. Hurry up.
00:00:16.460 It's good to see all of you. It's another wonderful day. It's a perfect day for Coffee with Scott Adams.
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00:01:09.560 Hmm. I can feel the hospitalization rates decreasing with every sip.
00:01:19.000 Let's talk about some stuff.
00:01:23.900 I tweeted a real thinker yesterday.
00:01:27.620 Okay. This one will make you stop and really, really think.
00:01:33.660 Or it won't make any sense at all.
00:01:36.600 So one of those two things is going to happen to you in a moment.
00:01:39.720 You're either going to have a really profound moment.
00:01:42.520 Or, for most of you, maybe 80%, you're going to say, I don't even know what that meant.
00:01:51.560 It goes like this.
00:01:53.180 Listen carefully.
00:01:54.720 20% of you are going to have a profound moment.
00:01:58.280 80% of you are going to wish I would just change the topic.
00:02:01.160 Here's the statement.
00:02:05.820 Predicting and creating would be the same thing if you were good at both of them.
00:02:14.240 Yeah. Let that sink in.
00:02:16.900 Creating and predicting would be the same thing if you were good at both of them.
00:02:24.920 Yeah. 20% of you just went, whoa.
00:02:31.580 80% of you just went, I don't even know what that's supposed to mean.
00:02:38.640 So that was just for the 20% of you.
00:02:41.500 All right. Let's talk about some other things.
00:02:43.260 Kim Jong-un.
00:02:45.220 Apparently, he's been photographed at the opening of a fertilizer plant.
00:02:52.300 Now, I had jokingly said that when the news came out that he attended the opening of a fertilizer plant,
00:03:00.780 I said on Twitter, but we don't know if he attended as a guest or as the fertilizer,
00:03:07.320 because it seemed like both possibilities were open at the time.
00:03:11.140 But we have been provided with photographs.
00:03:13.440 Yes, actual photographs of something that may or may not be a fertilizer plant
00:03:17.780 in which Kim Jong-un is cutting a ribbon at some place that may or may not be North Korea
00:03:24.760 and may or may not have been in the last 10 years.
00:03:28.580 So in other words, we can't really tell from the photographs.
00:03:32.120 They don't tell you as much as they ought to.
00:03:34.280 We do know he wasn't walking with a cane.
00:03:38.340 And unless he got a miracle cure,
00:03:40.660 do you think he went away for a week and got a miracle cure and now he doesn't need a cane?
00:03:46.220 Maybe.
00:03:47.700 Maybe it was such a good hospital trip that he left looking younger.
00:03:53.180 Yeah, it was such a good hospital trip that they fixed him up
00:03:57.880 and now he's thinner and younger and he doesn't walk with a cane.
00:04:02.540 Glad we got those photographs, huh?
00:04:06.140 All right.
00:04:06.740 I'm going to go on record.
00:04:07.780 Here's my prediction.
00:04:11.020 Fake photographs.
00:04:13.300 Fake photographs.
00:04:14.980 Here's why.
00:04:16.500 If you were going to produce real photographs,
00:04:20.300 the point of which is to show that your leader is alive,
00:04:25.620 they would be a little more unambiguous.
00:04:29.460 You don't publish ambiguous photos to prove something.
00:04:35.820 No.
00:04:36.140 You prove something with unambiguous photos.
00:04:41.060 Perhaps something called video.
00:04:43.360 Even North Korea has heard of video.
00:04:45.700 It's a thing with movement.
00:04:47.860 Wouldn't be hard to demonstrate that Kim Jong-un was alive.
00:04:52.360 Wouldn't be hard at all.
00:04:54.300 In fact, it would be quite easy.
00:04:55.920 But instead, they went with grainy photos of a younger Kim.
00:05:03.480 I don't know.
00:05:05.060 I don't know.
00:05:05.800 So, I heard the news today, and I don't know.
00:05:11.980 I think I was vaguely aware of this, but when you read a story about it, it reminds you of something that you couldn't believe,
00:05:18.900 which is reportedly Kim Jong-un has, assuming he's still alive, 2,000 sex slaves.
00:05:26.820 Literally, 2,000 sex slaves, who apparently will accompany him on trips to his multiple resort compounds on his train and whatnot,
00:05:39.860 to dance and sing and the other stuff for him and his elites.
00:05:46.380 2,000 sex slaves for Kim Jong-un.
00:05:51.660 So, here's the news as best we know it.
00:05:55.520 And thank goodness we have intelligence agencies.
00:05:58.580 Because if we didn't have intelligence agencies and a free press, we wouldn't be able to narrow it down.
00:06:04.640 So, we don't know exactly what Kim Jong-un is doing this week, but thanks to our press and our intelligence agencies, we have narrowed it down.
00:06:15.480 It's either he's dead, or he's partying at his seaside resort with 2,000 sex slaves.
00:06:29.260 I've come to understand that he doesn't spend much time in between those two extremes.
00:06:34.640 Because, think about it, you're Kim Jong-un, you have 2,000 sex slaves, what else are you going to spend your time on?
00:06:45.040 And so, I present to you a one-act play, which features Kim Jong-un's advisors talking to him about the schedule for the day.
00:06:55.840 I'll start in the role of the advisor to Kim Jong-un.
00:06:59.680 You can tell who the advisor is, because the advisors always have notepads.
00:07:05.060 So, that's how you know.
00:07:06.640 Dear Leader, we're planning your day, and we have some very important budget meetings.
00:07:12.740 Can I put you down for the budget meeting at 2 p.m.?
00:07:17.080 Kim Jong-un.
00:07:19.520 Uh-huh.
00:07:20.080 Budget meeting?
00:07:21.140 Yeah.
00:07:21.720 Yeah, I could attend the budget meeting.
00:07:23.500 That's one possibility.
00:07:26.540 Or, I could go to my seaside resort, party with my 2,000 sex slaves, and maybe you could attend that meeting for me.
00:07:37.320 And if I hear later that things didn't go well, I could execute you and everyone who attended the meeting.
00:07:43.980 How about that instead?
00:07:44.900 Okay.
00:07:45.060 Okay, very good.
00:07:49.560 Very good.
00:07:50.100 I won't put you down for the 2 o'clock meeting.
00:07:52.720 But we've got a ribbon cutting at a fertilizer plant.
00:07:58.200 That's tomorrow.
00:07:59.780 Could you make the fertilizer plant ribbon cutting, Dear Leader?
00:08:05.700 Yeah.
00:08:06.620 Yeah.
00:08:07.560 That's completely possible.
00:08:09.140 I could drag my fat ass across North Korea to visit a factory that literally makes shit.
00:08:19.080 Or, or, I could go to my seaside resort, and I could party with my 2,000 sex slaves while you visit the fertilizer plant.
00:08:31.080 And if I hear later that anything went wrong, I could execute you and kill everybody at the fertilizer plant, too, just to make sure I've wrapped it all up.
00:08:42.500 How about that?
00:08:45.840 Excellent plan.
00:08:47.020 An excellent plan, Dear Leader.
00:08:50.180 Do we need to talk about the rest of this schedule?
00:08:53.100 Not so much.
00:08:54.340 Not so much.
00:08:56.320 And scene.
00:08:57.340 Now, here's, this is actually an answer to a, I guess, a mystery that I've had all my life, and I should have known the answer, because it was kind of obvious.
00:09:10.840 And I always say to myself, why is it you can't get a dictator to retire?
00:09:17.320 Why is there never any story about a dictator who says, eh, I've been enjoying my dictatorship, but I'll tell you what, I'm going to retire.
00:09:24.760 We'll turn this into a democracy or whatever.
00:09:28.660 Now, it turns out that the answer is that if you retire from being a dictator, you will lose, and here I'm just speculating, you will lose access to your 2,000 sex slaves.
00:09:41.980 And you'll probably be hunted down and executed.
00:09:44.240 So, retiring is a really bad strategy for your typical tyrant, because they might get executed, but at the very least, whatever openness that comes with retiring and becoming democratic is really going to cut into your 2,000 sex slave weekend.
00:10:04.700 And, how do you expect a dictator to retire when that's the proposition?
00:10:10.640 Here, here's the deal.
00:10:12.320 How would you like to make peace?
00:10:14.400 We'll have some kind of North Korea, South Korea.
00:10:17.640 You know, we won't necessarily merge right away, but there'll be more travel and openness, more connections, you know, maybe a lot more communication.
00:10:26.160 And you see Kim Jong-un sitting there and thinking, yeah, yeah, yeah, we could do that.
00:10:33.260 We could do that.
00:10:34.120 We could have the peace and openness.
00:10:36.920 I could get rid of my nukes, or, or I'll just put this out there, I could keep my nukes, which keeps you out of my country, and I could keep my 2,000 sex slaves.
00:10:48.360 How about that?
00:10:52.400 And so, the possibility that Kim Jong-un's sister might be the heir apparent if Kim Jong-un actually is sick or incapacitated or dead.
00:11:05.640 And I say to myself, isn't this interesting?
00:11:10.460 Isn't this interesting?
00:11:11.820 Because I don't know if there are historical cases in the modern era of female dictators who have sex slaves.
00:11:21.980 I kind of think they might have a few, right?
00:11:25.380 If you had a female dictator, she might have a few male sex slaves, maybe a few female sex slaves.
00:11:32.260 Why not?
00:11:33.520 But probably not 2,000.
00:11:36.820 And if you were Kim Jong-un's sister, and let's say, hypothetically, you decided to make peace and have some kind of transitional stage toward a more democratic system, could you retire?
00:11:52.840 Could Kim Jong-un's sister retire?
00:11:56.180 Would she be safe from the reaches of the law?
00:11:59.620 I don't know.
00:12:00.100 Well, because certainly she could argue that everything that happened was her brother's fault, because I don't know how many decisions she made.
00:12:07.980 She just had to do what the boss said, so she could say, I didn't do anything.
00:12:12.640 I just carried down orders.
00:12:15.580 And by the way, I don't have 2,000 sex slaves.
00:12:18.340 I got three or four.
00:12:19.800 Probably take them with me.
00:12:21.540 But, you know, maybe we could have some peace.
00:12:24.160 Because think about it.
00:12:27.020 Is it realistically, all joking aside, realistically, would Kim Jong-un ever do anything to ruin his situation?
00:12:38.860 No.
00:12:41.120 Nothing.
00:12:42.140 There isn't anything.
00:12:43.620 There's not risk of death.
00:12:45.300 There's nothing that's going to shake him out of his situation with his private train and all the booze he wants and 2,000 sex slaves.
00:12:53.380 There's no negotiating in which you say, all right, I got an offer.
00:12:59.900 And then Kim says, before you say your offer, can you tell me how it's better than owning my own country, being a dictator, eating and drinking whatever I want, smoking a lot of pot, I assume he does, and playing with my 2,000 sex slaves at my luxury resort.
00:13:17.520 Is your offer better than that?
00:13:19.560 And then the negotiators would say, well, in some ways, and Kim would say, maybe we'll just put a hold on those negotiations.
00:13:33.420 So the bottom line is, it's possible that Kim Jong-un's sister could negotiate for a peace, like a real one.
00:13:43.580 It is not possible, based on this new information, that Kim Jong-un would have any interest in negotiating for something that would cause him to lose access to his 2,000 sex slaves anytime soon.
00:13:57.640 So I just don't see it happening.
00:14:00.500 All right.
00:14:01.780 I was asked on Twitter to talk about the revised death count, which my understanding is that if we go back to work, so I think these estimates are based on, we're still mitigating in all the smart ways, but some of us are phasing back to work.
00:14:18.520 So I think this new calculation takes that into account.
00:14:22.280 The low end would be 100,000 deaths, the high end would be 240,000, based on the current model.
00:14:28.040 Models, of course, are deeply inaccurate.
00:14:30.460 They don't predict.
00:14:32.120 They simply give you a range of where you might expect things to be.
00:14:36.180 And I would say that they do that actually pretty well.
00:14:39.500 So does that range look reasonable to me?
00:14:41.700 Yes.
00:14:42.620 We've raced past 60,000.
00:14:45.820 Are we close to 70,000 deaths already?
00:14:48.520 I don't know what today's number is, but we'll be at 70,000 pretty quickly.
00:14:54.020 I would expect that in the month of May, we would zoom past 100,000, unless something happens really quickly.
00:15:00.260 You know, it could be that the remdesivir and the hydroxychloroquine, maybe they work a little bit.
00:15:08.100 Maybe we get that going in May a little bit.
00:15:11.200 Maybe it reduces the daily count.
00:15:14.040 Maybe it goes down on its own.
00:15:15.280 But I don't really see a situation where we'll be less than 100,000 when it's all done.
00:15:21.260 Now, of course, there's also the issue of whether it's counted correctly.
00:15:24.420 Do they throw in a lot of other things?
00:15:26.880 I don't know.
00:15:28.460 Don't know.
00:15:28.940 I did see a chart that showed total deaths compared to what we would have expected.
00:15:37.560 And here the expected is if it's a normal year.
00:15:40.660 And it looked like most of the weeks were below the normal year.
00:15:45.060 A couple were above it because there were so many deaths from COVID.
00:15:49.600 But it looks like we're actually maybe close to break even with total deaths, if you count the ones that are saved.
00:15:58.900 Here's an update on what Bill Gates said about testing.
00:16:04.540 And again, this agrees with what I was thinking, but he says it better.
00:16:09.880 So I'll give you his.
00:16:10.960 I've been telling you that based on everything I've been hearing at the task forces about testing, that you should just forget about testing.
00:16:20.320 Forget about it being a path out because there's no there's no evidence that we're doing anything that would allow us to test our way out.
00:16:29.600 We're nowhere near the number when we're nowhere near the number of tests available.
00:16:34.640 We're nowhere near testing the right people.
00:16:38.780 We're not even close.
00:16:39.720 And I think that, you know, again, people give me a hard time for, you know, bolstering the president and saying everything he does is good.
00:16:50.920 But I've been brutal about the reporting from the task force in terms of the in terms of giving us useful numbers.
00:16:58.540 I would say that the task force's ability to give the public useful information effectively zero.
00:17:06.440 But just a failing grade, just a pure failing grade.
00:17:10.620 I can't even give them a D minus.
00:17:12.720 It's just a pure failing grade.
00:17:16.300 One of the darkest, I would say one of the maybe the biggest mistake of the Trump administration.
00:17:24.500 I would say so.
00:17:25.920 You know, maybe I can think of a few other things because it's hard to think of everything that's happened.
00:17:29.800 But I would say among the most grossly embarrassing, incompetent performances is the reporting on the numbers.
00:17:41.260 I think the overall effort is probably successful.
00:17:46.680 But in terms of just specifically the question of is the public being informed, no.
00:17:52.320 Now, is it the administration's fault that we don't have enough tests and the right kind of tests and the right kind of priorities?
00:18:02.120 Probably.
00:18:03.300 Probably.
00:18:04.180 Now, they're doing this.
00:18:05.620 The technique they're using is making sure that the private sector is deeply involved and they're not trying to push too hard as long as the private sector is willing to step up.
00:18:15.380 And they are.
00:18:16.060 But the way the tests are, there's so many different ones.
00:18:23.480 We don't know which ones are accurate.
00:18:25.720 And then Bill Gates said this on CNN, I think.
00:18:29.580 Apparently, the tests we have, you're only going to get them if you have symptoms.
00:18:34.300 All right.
00:18:34.800 So if you have symptoms, you've already been spreading it.
00:18:38.560 So getting the test after you have symptoms doesn't help you for all of the time that you already had symptoms and you were spreading it.
00:18:46.060 And it doesn't help you get treatment before that.
00:18:49.920 So in other words, you can't fix the past.
00:18:52.580 And since the only people getting tests were the ones prioritized, the ones who have symptoms, you didn't help the past.
00:18:59.880 But do you help the future?
00:19:02.180 And the answer is it takes about three days to get a result.
00:19:05.500 You know, you keep hearing about the fast tests.
00:19:08.300 Those exist.
00:19:09.260 But I don't think they're the majority.
00:19:12.280 So imagine that you've had it for five days.
00:19:15.500 You've got symptoms.
00:19:16.440 You've been spreading it like crazy.
00:19:18.060 You get the test.
00:19:19.420 And you still don't know you have it for three days.
00:19:22.060 What do you do for those three days?
00:19:24.660 You live your normal life.
00:19:26.500 And you spread it around.
00:19:28.160 So by the time you get it, as Bill Gates says, by the time you get the test result, you've already spread it around.
00:19:34.040 And you're practically over it by the time you get the result.
00:19:38.000 Now, yes, there are faster tests and there are startups that have even faster tests and immediate tests coming and all that.
00:19:46.720 But what information do you have about that?
00:19:50.620 Have you seen the chart that says this is how many we have, this is how many the experts say we need of this type, and this is how we're getting there?
00:19:59.800 Or anything like that?
00:20:00.860 No.
00:20:01.800 No.
00:20:02.080 Now, my advice to you is to make your decision about the whole situation as if testing doesn't exist, as if it's not an option.
00:20:12.460 I would say that it is so poorly reported that you have to assume it's just not even a path.
00:20:19.280 And Bill Gates basically just laughed at it.
00:20:22.220 He freaking laughed at it.
00:20:24.240 He laughed at it, that it's not even close.
00:20:27.160 It's not even in the conversation of being something that could be helpful.
00:20:34.160 Just think about that.
00:20:35.480 And most of the reporting, most of the experts have said, we need to do more testing.
00:20:40.580 We all know that.
00:20:41.880 There's nobody who doesn't think if we could magically test everybody, we'd be better off.
00:20:46.840 But apparently it's hard to make test kits.
00:20:48.660 And it's hard to get it done.
00:20:52.120 So I don't think that we're going to have anything like a testing solution before we have herd immunity accidentally.
00:20:58.540 I keep watching Tucker Carlson's show where he is essentially complaining the whole show about totalitarianism and how our freedom and rights have all been taken from us and how we kind of just handed them over.
00:21:16.700 To which I say, I feel like I'm just watching Crazy Town.
00:21:22.160 It just looks crazy at this point.
00:21:24.500 Now, I'm a big fan of Tucker.
00:21:26.900 And I think his show is one of the best shows on TV of its type, you know, in the news genre.
00:21:33.380 Definitely one of the best shows of its type.
00:21:35.260 But this particular theme that he's on, that we've given up all our freedoms, is both true and trivial and unimportant at the same time.
00:21:46.600 Because let's say you're in a coma.
00:21:51.240 Have you lost your rights?
00:21:53.440 Yeah, you have.
00:21:55.280 Let's say, because you can't do all the things you could do before.
00:21:58.640 If you're in jail, have you lost your rights?
00:22:00.620 Yes.
00:22:00.940 If you're in a dangerous neighborhood, can you do all the things you want?
00:22:03.400 Yes.
00:22:04.180 If you're, you know, temporarily, if you have to go to work, are you free?
00:22:10.120 Not really.
00:22:10.780 You have to go to work.
00:22:11.680 So we live in a world in which this whole freedom thing is sort of fluid and we're figuring it out as we go.
00:22:18.760 But we have a general idea where we want it to be.
00:22:21.820 But we're always sort of tweaking it all the time.
00:22:25.840 Now, assuming that this coronavirus stuff doesn't last forever,
00:22:29.420 which of these rights that is being denied to us will still be denied to us in, let's say, the end of the year?
00:22:37.540 Do you think that any of these rights will be permanent?
00:22:41.320 I mean, the reduction in rights?
00:22:43.240 Do you think that when the coronavirus is gone, do you think the government is going to say you can't go to the beach?
00:22:49.660 Do you think they're going to say you can't work, go to a concert?
00:22:52.180 No, no.
00:22:54.420 In what world, in what world are any of these going to be permanent?
00:22:58.940 Now, the ones that will be permanent, we're going to be permanent anyway, which is your loss of privacy.
00:23:04.480 You know, you might argue that this costs you a little bit of extra loss of privacy, but not really,
00:23:11.920 because the government always could have tracked where you were with your cell phone.
00:23:16.160 They always had that ability.
00:23:17.760 They just maybe weren't doing it unless you were a criminal.
00:23:22.700 So I don't even a little bit understand what Tucker is talking about,
00:23:28.840 because all the examples are true.
00:23:30.760 They're observable.
00:23:32.200 Yes, they can't go to the beach.
00:23:35.160 They live in a free country, and without any laws passed, no constitutional authority.
00:23:41.180 These things are all true.
00:23:43.160 You know, the things that Tucker is reporting are true.
00:23:46.240 They just don't lead to the conclusion that he's concluding,
00:23:49.880 which is we're in an emergency.
00:23:53.260 The way you would act in an emergency should not be similar to the way you would act in a non-emergency.
00:24:00.320 So why would you ever compare them?
00:24:02.060 Now, if he's going to make the case that there are a certain subset of rights that have a high likelihood of going away during this and then staying gone,
00:24:13.420 well, I'd say that's a pretty good argument, if I'd heard it.
00:24:16.100 But I haven't heard that argument.
00:24:17.160 I've only heard that we have lost our rights temporarily during an emergency.
00:24:23.420 I've also heard that, you know, that's the way tyrants do it.
00:24:26.700 It's like they can always find an emergency to use as their excuse for grabbing power.
00:24:31.260 But does that look like that's what's happening here?
00:24:33.460 I'd say not even close.
00:24:36.940 Because the minimum requirement for that to happen is that the public would be okay with it.
00:24:43.100 Now, one of the things that people point out is how easily the public became sheep and just quarantined themselves.
00:24:52.180 To which I say, is that what happened?
00:24:54.240 Is that the public just turning into sheep and obeying their government?
00:24:59.500 Or is it a public who were informed about a risk and decided to take it seriously, doing what the experts advised them to do?
00:25:09.160 I mean, I'm not seeing a problem here.
00:25:12.300 Somebody says because of the slippery slope, right?
00:25:15.100 The slippery slope is purely imaginary.
00:25:17.060 And somebody says, emergency, who defines Scotty?
00:25:24.420 Well, I'm going to block you for that comment.
00:25:28.220 So the comment is, emergency, who defines Scotty?
00:25:32.340 Now, I'm blocking you forever, so you'll never be part of this conversation again.
00:25:39.840 Because Scotty is personal.
00:25:43.780 You can certainly make a comment about the facts, your opinion, etc.
00:25:48.540 But when you add Scotty on there, that's sort of an instant block because you're trying to minimize me.
00:25:55.080 You can minimize the opinion just by saying what your opinion is.
00:25:59.720 But when you add the Scotty, then you're just being an asshole.
00:26:04.840 And assholes get blocked.
00:26:09.100 Goodbye, asshole.
00:26:10.020 Goodbye, asshole.
00:26:13.780 All right, what else we've got going on here?
00:26:17.320 There's a New York Times article that was fascinating.
00:26:20.800 It said that stress is not what kills you.
00:26:23.400 You know that stress can kill you.
00:26:25.680 You believe, right?
00:26:26.560 Stress can kill you.
00:26:28.000 But it turns out that stress only kills you if you think it can.
00:26:32.080 Now, that's a little bit of an exaggeration.
00:26:34.800 But the article said that the science is pointing toward stress will kill you if you believe that stress will kill you.
00:26:44.620 In other words, if your mindset is that stress is all bad, it's just all bad, it's going to kill me, then it does.
00:26:52.840 It actually has that effect.
00:26:54.940 But apparently people have a different mindset and just accept the stress as some sort of response their body has because they're trying to achieve something.
00:27:05.300 Stress being a normal reaction of the body, something maybe they can weaponize.
00:27:10.320 I use stress to power my fitness.
00:27:16.140 So my mindset is that when I feel stressed, and by the way, this is totally legitimate, and this is a lifetime habit.
00:27:29.380 So I'm not making this up because I just read this story.
00:27:31.940 This is something I've done all my life.
00:27:33.220 If I have a day of work, and I'm really stressed out, and I don't think it's going to go away right away, that's normal, right?
00:27:41.540 Everybody has stressful days of work.
00:27:43.540 I say to myself, man, am I going to have a good workout today?
00:27:48.060 Because there's nothing that can power a good workout better than stress.
00:27:52.160 And when you're done, you know you're going to have less of it, less stress.
00:27:55.940 And you know that you use your stress productively to lift more and push yourself and exhaust yourself and really get a good workout out.
00:28:04.860 Now, that's my mindset.
00:28:07.060 And one of the things that people always ask me is, why do you seem so not stressed?
00:28:12.820 And part of it is that I make it very much a part of my job, if you will, to avoid stress.
00:28:21.180 And a big part of it is that mindset.
00:28:22.800 It's like, what's the first thing you think of when you're stressed?
00:28:25.940 Oh, my God, my blood pressure is going up.
00:28:28.960 Or, whoa, I'm going to really have a good lift today.
00:28:32.640 And I'm not making that up.
00:28:33.700 That's literally what I think when I feel stressed.
00:28:36.780 It's like, oh, this is going to be a good run.
00:28:41.680 So get your mindset right.
00:28:43.260 That's why you should be following people such as Mike Cernovich, who talk about getting your mindset right.
00:28:50.020 One of my favorite follows on Twitter is AJ Cortez, who does personal training.
00:29:00.000 And what I like about him as someone to follow on Twitter is that, first of all, he takes the training to the mind-body mindset whole way.
00:29:14.060 So it's more of a holistic approach where programming your body is a way to program your life.
00:29:21.400 I don't think he says it in those words, but that's effectively what it is.
00:29:24.940 So he's more than a trainer about how to lift stuff.
00:29:27.580 He does that, too.
00:29:28.780 But it's more about how all of this integrates into a better life.
00:29:33.640 So he had a tweet today that made me laugh.
00:29:37.100 I retweeted it, not because I agree with every word of it, because it's so provocative that I couldn't help it.
00:29:44.440 Sometimes I just like to see people react to provocative ideas.
00:29:48.440 So this was his tweet from AJ Alexander Cortez.
00:29:55.240 A generation of defective men have been produced to believe that being, and then he gives his list,
00:30:00.820 these are the things that make the men, according to AJ, agreeable, quiet, passive, desexualized, soft, gentle, and emotional.
00:30:11.620 And he says that this is AJ, not me.
00:30:16.480 Don't blame me.
00:30:17.860 And he says these are traits of women.
00:30:21.000 And he says these men have been programmed into passive eunuch slaves to the mainstream narrative.
00:30:27.380 All right, so I retweeted it because it's so darn provocative, not because it's exactly matching my opinion of things.
00:30:37.080 But let me give you my opinion of things.
00:30:39.480 So first of all, let's all agree that individuals are so different that it would be ridiculous to have a list of characteristics
00:30:47.880 and say that this applies to men or this applies to women.
00:30:52.420 Can we all agree that individual differences are quite extreme?
00:30:58.140 But that doesn't change the fact that the averages can be the average.
00:31:02.860 So I know you know somebody who's not like that.
00:31:07.220 I know you're not like that.
00:31:09.420 Can we agree that you and your friends are not who we're talking about?
00:31:13.580 So let's get out of the anecdotal headset, mindset I mean.
00:31:17.660 Yes, we all know individuals are all over the board on everything that people can be different about.
00:31:26.060 So it is certainly not true in a technical, scientific way that women are any of these things.
00:31:34.440 Agreeable, quiet, passive, desexualized, soft, gentle, or emotional.
00:31:37.680 I think the point is that more that those are sort of traditional, you know, you don't have to say that that's good or bad.
00:31:47.240 Because I don't think A.J. is saying these are good qualities or bad.
00:31:51.200 He doesn't say that.
00:31:52.920 He's just saying that there's some kind of gender difference.
00:31:55.500 You can agree or disagree.
00:31:57.640 But here's where I'll take this.
00:31:59.700 And it made me Google to see if there was any kind of a testosterone difference in Republicans versus Democrats.
00:32:10.020 So I Googled that.
00:32:12.260 What do you think?
00:32:13.340 What do you think I found out?
00:32:14.640 Do you think that Trump supporters have more testosterone than anti-Trumpers?
00:32:24.180 What would you say in the comments, based on your non-scientific opinion, just observation?
00:32:30.900 Is it your observation that the class of people who are supporters of Trump have more testosterone than those who are opposed to him?
00:32:41.620 Look at the comments.
00:32:43.280 The comments is, it's unambiguous, right?
00:32:48.160 It's very unambiguous.
00:32:49.660 You could tell me that this doesn't pass the science, and then I would just doubt your science.
00:32:57.600 Because it's so frickin' obvious that I don't know how in the world you could not see it.
00:33:02.480 It's as obvious as anything could be obvious.
00:33:05.100 Now, what causes that?
00:33:08.320 Now, keep in mind, there are two things happening.
00:33:10.980 One is that Trump has more male supporters.
00:33:14.000 So if you were simply to measure all the testosterone in the Trump supporters, you would, of course, get more just because there are more men in the group.
00:33:24.760 So that's the first thing.
00:33:26.540 Second thing, it's just obvious.
00:33:31.700 It's just obvious.
00:33:32.820 And I had made the hypothesis before that the way people respond to Trump might be based on whatever experience they've had in the past with bullying.
00:33:44.980 And my hypothesis, which I'm going to modify right now, my hypothesis had been that if you'd been the subject of bullying, a victim of it, any time during your life, and you saw Trump, he triggered you to remember those situations, and you say to yourself, no, never again.
00:34:03.440 I'm not going to be in this bullied situation, so I can't support him.
00:34:06.700 And then I speculated that if you'd been the bully yourself, or you just hadn't been bullied, that you didn't see that.
00:34:14.900 And what you saw was a strong leader who may or may not agree with you, but that's it.
00:34:20.360 It wasn't scary.
00:34:21.820 I'm going to modify that because I feel as though the bullying thing might be a factor, but not the full explanation.
00:34:30.880 I feel like testosterone is the better explanation, and here's why.
00:34:35.320 And again, let me say that this is all speculation.
00:34:39.980 It's based on anecdotal stuff.
00:34:42.680 The moment there is a scientific, peer-reviewed, controlled study that says that there is no correlation, I will immediately adopt that opinion.
00:34:53.540 But at the moment, there isn't.
00:34:55.360 There is not that.
00:34:56.380 I just looked.
00:34:57.280 There is no information on that.
00:34:59.440 So here's what I think.
00:35:00.440 I think that your testosterone level, if you're a man, so let's just talk about men, the higher your testosterone level, the less afraid you are of other men.
00:35:13.340 Would you agree with that?
00:35:15.220 Let's say, I think this would be harder to answer for the women.
00:35:18.840 But men, you have experienced, you've experienced just in your own life, times when you knew your testosterone was high.
00:35:28.400 Let's say you just won a contest, you've been working out, you're feeling healthy.
00:35:32.660 You know your testosterone is high.
00:35:34.320 You can feel it.
00:35:35.200 You also know that there have been times when you've been sick or down or you broke up with your girlfriend or whatever your problem was.
00:35:42.840 You knew your testosterone was down.
00:35:45.700 So can the men here first confirm for me that they have a physical sensation and they know the difference between when their testosterone is jacked up and when it's not because their personality changes?
00:36:00.360 I would say my entire personality is quite different if I know my testosterone is raging and I can tell, right?
00:36:09.480 Let me give you one example.
00:36:11.080 I used to do a lot of public speaking.
00:36:13.820 And when you're a public speaker and you're invited because you're already popular, it usually goes well.
00:36:19.360 The audience claps and they cheer and they laugh.
00:36:21.860 If you spend an hour being the subject of affection of an audience, by the time you walk off stage and you're heading back to your hotel room, your testosterone is just raging because it's just automatic.
00:36:36.960 If you become the celebrity on stage and everybody's clapping for you and literally standing sometimes, standing ovation, your testosterone is off the chart.
00:36:48.340 And your personality changes too.
00:36:50.460 And you know it.
00:36:51.300 I mean, you just feel it.
00:36:53.100 It's almost like you can feel it in your goosebumps and your hair.
00:36:56.300 You can feel it.
00:36:58.820 And what comes along with, and men, men back me up on this.
00:37:04.300 I'm just looking for the men to answer this question.
00:37:06.480 Women would not be able to.
00:37:08.680 When your testosterone is jacked up, are you ever afraid of another man?
00:37:16.240 Are you?
00:37:17.500 And I think the answer is almost never.
00:37:19.540 And I would say that I can't think of any situation in my life that I've ever been afraid of a man or men.
00:37:31.140 Not once.
00:37:31.980 And I've been in lots of situations.
00:37:34.840 You know, if you're a male, you've been in tons of situations that are dangerous.
00:37:40.460 You can't be a man in America and not have lots of experience with almost getting in a fight.
00:37:45.920 You were there when the trouble went down.
00:37:48.440 You know, I mean, it's just normal life that men are around.
00:37:53.460 The male experience is violence and near violence all the time.
00:37:57.900 It's something that women can't possibly understand, that men live in a permanently violent world.
00:38:06.220 And I don't mean that they're actually performing violence at any given moment.
00:38:10.540 But I mean that our mindset is that you're ready for violence at the drop of a hat.
00:38:16.800 Maybe not all of you.
00:38:18.400 This also could be a testosterone difference.
00:38:21.160 But I would say, and let the men in the comments confirm or deny this.
00:38:26.340 Men, would you say that you are capable of violence at the drop of a hat for a reason?
00:38:33.500 I'm not saying that you would do violence for no reason.
00:38:38.900 I'm saying that, is it true that you're always on the edge of being violent, but only if there's a reason?
00:38:46.880 And you don't really ever turn that off, do you?
00:38:50.260 So maybe you'll see some differences here.
00:38:53.080 You see somebody saying correct.
00:38:55.880 I don't know if they're...
00:38:59.100 Yeah, somebody says, I'm never afraid of anything.
00:39:01.160 Survival of the fittest.
00:39:04.440 Only if he's holding a gun.
00:39:06.260 So I've had guns pulled on me three, four times.
00:39:12.400 So I've had guns pointed at my face four times in my life.
00:39:16.320 Once a Bowie knife.
00:39:19.140 So I've had a knife pulled on me, four guns.
00:39:23.740 Two of them was when I was working as a bank teller.
00:39:26.200 I got robbed twice.
00:39:27.540 Once was getting mugged in downtown San Francisco.
00:39:31.160 And another time was walking in the Mission District in San Francisco.
00:39:35.480 And when I was walking in the Mission District, somebody pointed a real gun out a window as I was walking by on the sidewalk.
00:39:44.840 And the window was really close to the sidewalk.
00:39:47.960 So, I mean, you were looking right at the person in the window.
00:39:50.780 It wasn't like there was a distance involved.
00:39:52.640 And I'm walking by, and the guy sticks a gun out the window, holds it up to my...
00:39:57.860 Basically points it at my head, and he pulls the trigger.
00:40:01.900 And I watched the cylinder turn.
00:40:05.760 Click.
00:40:06.960 And there wasn't a round in the chamber.
00:40:11.140 He had it pointed at my head as I walked by.
00:40:14.340 A real gun.
00:40:16.660 Click.
00:40:17.180 And pointed it at my head when I walked by.
00:40:20.660 So that's the neighborhood I lived in.
00:40:23.340 So just generalize that to what my neighborhood was like.
00:40:29.220 You know, this was when I first moved to San Francisco.
00:40:31.140 It was on the border of a rough place.
00:40:35.160 Anyway.
00:40:35.360 So I've had numerous guns and weapons pointed at me.
00:40:40.480 And I would say that my adrenaline went through the roof.
00:40:46.420 So if you're talking about adrenaline, yeah.
00:40:50.280 Adrenaline went through the roof.
00:40:52.720 But I don't know that I was ever afraid.
00:40:55.760 Like, I didn't feel like any kind of experience that I would call fear.
00:41:01.440 I have, you know, normal fears of normal things, right?
00:41:04.020 I have, you know, ordinary appreciation for danger.
00:41:08.560 I'm not like the brave.
00:41:09.620 I'm not a brave guy.
00:41:11.040 I would say as a man, I'm not especially brave or especially unbrave.
00:41:15.220 Probably average.
00:41:17.060 But I also have, I'm guessing.
00:41:20.880 So here's an assumption.
00:41:22.820 I believe my testosterone is relatively high.
00:41:26.180 How does one know that?
00:41:27.620 Well, I have the tells for that.
00:41:29.800 So I have the balding.
00:41:31.040 You know, losing your hair is either a sign of testosterone or sensitivity to it.
00:41:37.360 I have the squarish jawline.
00:41:40.800 That's a sign of testosterone.
00:41:43.560 I think there's a difference with the finger length that tells you you have testosterone.
00:41:47.520 But more importantly, I live my lifestyle to maximize it.
00:41:53.100 So, you know, I lift, I exercise, I eat right, I sleep.
00:41:58.400 You know, so I do all the things that should boost it.
00:42:01.620 And my experience of it is nothing really frightens me.
00:42:05.520 So when I look at, I look at Trump, I see his tool set, but I don't see a threat to me.
00:42:14.200 I could totally imagine that if you had low testosterone, you would see somebody who was bristling with it and was unpredictable.
00:42:24.960 That's scary.
00:42:26.360 Anyway, so I think that could be tested, but we'll leave that open question.
00:42:30.980 John Roberts reports, Fox News, that a senior intelligence source tells him that there's an agreement among most of the 17 intelligence agencies that COVID-19 originated in the Wuhan lab and that it was believed to be a mistake.
00:42:52.960 So, most of the 17 agencies agree.
00:42:57.620 Does that mean anything?
00:43:00.280 Does that mean anything?
00:43:02.880 It doesn't, does it?
00:43:05.980 The fact that 17 intelligence agencies agree, we know that that doesn't mean anything.
00:43:11.720 I remember when I would have heard that and said, 17 intelligence agencies, wow.
00:43:16.940 I mean, what are the odds they'd all be wrong?
00:43:18.560 Now, let me tell you what it means when 17 intelligence agencies agree.
00:43:23.640 If you've ever worked in a large organization, you know this is true.
00:43:28.440 If you haven't worked in a large organization, you would be totally fooled by this.
00:43:33.380 Let me explain what it means when 17 intelligence agencies agree.
00:43:39.180 It means that one did the work, came up with an opinion, and the others heard about it.
00:43:46.740 You get that?
00:43:49.140 One agency did the work, and the others heard about it.
00:43:53.940 The other 16 are useless.
00:43:56.280 They're not duplicating the work.
00:43:58.240 Do you think that the United States has multiple agencies, you know, sending different people into North Korea?
00:44:05.420 I hope not.
00:44:06.960 I hope we don't have different agencies doing that.
00:44:10.200 Don't you think maybe there's only one that's got that responsibility?
00:44:13.820 I think there's only one intelligence agency that really has the primary responsibility of figuring out what's going on there, and I don't think they know.
00:44:23.820 So when you see something like 17 intelligence agencies agree, your brain should translate that into one intelligence agency has an opinion.
00:44:34.060 16 of them just said, yeah, whatever that guy says, you know, he seems credible to us.
00:44:40.100 And the one who had the opinion is probably not right.
00:44:44.580 That's how you should interpret it.
00:44:46.520 If you interpreted it as 17 agencies say it's true, well, probably true then.
00:44:52.060 You got it completely wrong.
00:44:55.020 There's nothing in your reality that would suggest the 17 intelligence agencies in the United States agreeing tells you anything.
00:45:04.820 It doesn't tell you anything.
00:45:06.560 So that's how you should process it.
00:45:10.060 All right.
00:45:10.420 Let's see what else we got here.
00:45:18.060 Now, that's mostly what I wanted to talk about today.
00:45:21.340 Is there anything I missed in the news today?
00:45:24.880 Somebody says, oh, there's the question that I was going to bring up.
00:45:28.960 Somebody says, what organization did not agree and why?
00:45:33.760 Exactly.
00:45:34.800 Which organization did not agree?
00:45:36.660 Now, it doesn't say that there's an organization that disagrees.
00:45:41.000 So the way I would interpret that is that of the 17 agencies, one did the work.
00:45:48.200 14 of them said, yeah, that looks good to us.
00:45:50.760 We didn't do the work, but, you know, you did the work.
00:45:52.900 Looks good to us.
00:45:53.880 And a few of them said, we haven't seen what you've done.
00:45:57.240 We haven't looked at it yet.
00:45:59.260 It's going to be more like that.
00:46:00.560 Somebody says, when everyone's thinking the same thing, nobody's thinking.
00:46:09.660 Well, unless they're all right.
00:46:11.480 I mean, you can't rule out the fact that sometimes people are right, but it's a good warning.
00:46:17.480 It's a peer review rubber stamp.
00:46:25.400 Yeah, peer review, I think, is totally overrated, too.
00:46:29.240 You got some better information?
00:46:31.180 I do.
00:46:33.840 I got some better information.
00:46:36.380 I watched China's response.
00:46:38.320 If you watched China's response to the coronavirus situation, it's pretty obvious that they were concealing information from the world.
00:46:48.600 Do you need 17 intelligence agencies to tell you that China was lying?
00:46:54.640 We already know that.
00:46:55.480 That's public information.
00:46:57.560 So what do the intelligence agencies know that we don't?
00:47:03.220 Yes, Elon Musk's tweet storm.
00:47:06.120 So, Elon tweeted, among other things, I think in the last 48 hours or so, among other things, that his girlfriend was having a baby on Monday.
00:47:18.560 People didn't know that.
00:47:21.200 And that Tesla stock was overpriced, in his opinion.
00:47:26.060 He sure likes trouble.
00:47:28.200 Talk about a guy who likes trouble.
00:47:30.620 I think he enjoys it.
00:47:31.740 And then some other random things that he tweeted.
00:47:37.120 Anyway, the tweets were, let's say, eyebrow-raising enough that people started wondering if he was on drugs or crazy or trolling or what the heck's going on.
00:47:50.680 So it's like a cottage industry trying to decide what Elon is secretly thinking.
00:47:57.640 If I had to guess, I'd say drugs.
00:48:01.140 To me, it looked like somebody was on some kind of drug and tweeting.
00:48:06.700 Now, do I care?
00:48:08.900 Would I sell my Tesla stock if I learned that Elon had taken mushrooms?
00:48:16.500 I'm just speculating.
00:48:17.720 There's no evidence that he did that.
00:48:19.760 But would I do anything differently with my investments if I heard that Elon took some mushrooms and tweeted too much?
00:48:29.940 Nope.
00:48:30.900 Because you know what?
00:48:34.400 Whoever Elon Musk is today, he was the same guy a few years ago, right?
00:48:39.460 If it worked, yeah, the other thing is he was going to sell off all of his possessions, his houses, etc.
00:48:46.280 Now, I don't know if any of that's true or whatever, but it sounds like somebody was on drugs.
00:48:52.120 Do I care if he was on drugs?
00:48:56.680 Nope.
00:48:57.060 Because if he was, he was still the same Elon Musk who broke all the rules and will always be remembered, I think, as one of the great entrepreneurs of our time.
00:49:10.620 Do you care if Henry Ford drank too much?
00:49:13.220 I don't think he drank.
00:49:14.220 I'm not even sure if he did.
00:49:15.740 But do you care if Steve Jobs did LSD?
00:49:19.960 Because he did.
00:49:21.780 Do you care?
00:49:23.080 No.
00:49:23.400 Do you care that almost every major company in Silicon Valley has major top employees who are micro-dosing on LSD every day?
00:49:35.720 Do you care?
00:49:36.960 Probably not.
00:49:38.540 Do you care that they're using performance-enhancing drugs, Adderall and everything else?
00:49:43.680 Not really.
00:49:44.880 Do you care if they smoke marijuana on nights and weekends?
00:49:48.700 Nope.
00:49:49.120 I guess my take on Elon's tweeting is he's still the same person.
00:49:59.780 He didn't become less capable of doing anything.
00:50:04.440 He just is letting you know who he is.
00:50:06.220 That's it.
00:50:07.020 The uncomfortable truth that nobody wants to say out loud, oh, let me say it out loud.
00:50:12.600 Let me be the first person to say it out loud.
00:50:14.540 The success in this world is about which drugs you get addicted to.
00:50:25.900 There.
00:50:26.560 There.
00:50:26.820 I said what a lot of people have thought, but you don't want to say.
00:50:31.440 If what you got addicted to is alcohol, probably that's not going to go well for you.
00:50:38.360 Unless you're a functional alcoholic and you're in sales.
00:50:42.980 If you're a functional alcoholic and you're in the sales profession, it might be pretty good.
00:50:49.000 And I mean, I wouldn't recommend it, but it could work out well.
00:50:53.260 In fact, I know several people who are clearly functional alcoholics who have tremendous lives,
00:50:59.340 as far as I can tell from the outside, because they just funnel that drinking into sales.
00:51:07.640 They're very social.
00:51:08.720 They make a lot of sales.
00:51:10.140 Have a good life.
00:51:11.380 And they're drunk all the time.
00:51:12.760 And they don't seem to be, you know, any of the worse for wear.
00:51:17.840 So some people apparently can make that work.
00:51:21.520 Now, I'm not recommending that.
00:51:22.980 It's a special case.
00:51:24.660 But it's also true that people can be more creative depending on what they're taking.
00:51:29.740 They can relax.
00:51:30.880 They can, you know, if they're on Adderall or other performance-enhancing drugs,
00:51:38.140 sometimes they need them.
00:51:39.220 Sometimes they get them recreationally or just for performance.
00:51:42.760 But the point is, Silicon Valley is run on drugs.
00:51:49.520 You know, if that wasn't clear enough, let me say it as clear as possible.
00:51:53.740 Silicon Valley runs on drugs.
00:51:57.780 And not the legal kind all the time.
00:52:00.740 Some of them are legal.
00:52:02.380 You know, Adderall is legal, etc.
00:52:03.980 But Silicon Valley is a drug-fueled industry.
00:52:11.300 Now, that's something that you don't see in the news so much.
00:52:14.960 You've seen stories about it, but it's not really emphasized.
00:52:18.200 But the fact is, I don't know what percentage,
00:52:21.580 but the people in Silicon Valley who are using drugs are using it not recreationally exactly.
00:52:28.920 They're using it functionally.
00:52:31.400 So the Silicon Valley people who are using drugs and also successful,
00:52:36.680 it's because the drugs they're either addicted to or choose to be addicted to are productive.
00:52:42.620 I'll use myself for an example.
00:52:47.320 I'm not to, you know, technically you can't be physically addicted to marijuana,
00:52:52.000 but I'm certainly psychologically addicted.
00:52:54.900 And I can guarantee you from my own experience
00:52:58.340 that my creativity goes through the roof when I use it.
00:53:03.040 In fact, a lot of the ideas that you've seen coming out of me
00:53:06.800 happened, you know, when I was enjoying a good 420 afternoon.
00:53:13.460 And so would I be more or less successful?
00:53:18.000 I don't know.
00:53:19.640 It's hard to know.
00:53:21.080 But I will tell you that a lot of the most successful people
00:53:24.540 have simply chosen the right kind of drug
00:53:27.540 that works for their particular situation,
00:53:30.480 their particular genetic makeup,
00:53:33.460 their particular whatever.
00:53:34.880 Now, the reason that I don't recommend any of this
00:53:37.180 is that it can kill you.
00:53:40.320 Right?
00:53:41.360 Do you need a better reason?
00:53:43.020 How about this?
00:53:44.220 Don't do it.
00:53:45.600 It could kill you.
00:53:47.040 That's it.
00:53:47.760 That's the whole recommendation.
00:53:49.520 I'm not a doctor.
00:53:51.340 And if you're not a doctor,
00:53:52.960 don't be playing around experimenting with drugs
00:53:55.480 to make you a better person.
00:53:57.460 You know, I'm not going to recommend that.
00:53:59.380 I'm just going to say some people have,
00:54:02.640 for whatever reason,
00:54:04.700 have discovered that there are some types of drugs
00:54:06.740 that make them better.
00:54:08.300 Other people have found drugs that just make them worse.
00:54:11.740 If you're taking a drug that just makes you worse,
00:54:15.260 that's where you're going to end up.
00:54:18.460 Somebody says,
00:54:25.520 pot doesn't kill.
00:54:28.060 Yeah.
00:54:28.840 So there's a little bit of disagreement on that.
00:54:31.060 I'm on the side of saying that,
00:54:32.440 you know,
00:54:33.060 marijuana doesn't kill you.
00:54:35.180 But there are other people who say,
00:54:36.900 well,
00:54:37.660 but if you were doing marijuana
00:54:39.840 and tried to ride your motorcycle really fast,
00:54:43.460 you know,
00:54:44.660 I suppose you could do something foolish.
00:54:50.840 Somebody says,
00:54:51.880 stop taking any marijuana for a while
00:54:53.560 and see if you have physical results.
00:54:56.440 Well,
00:54:57.040 I've done that,
00:54:57.720 of course.
00:54:58.580 And I know,
00:54:59.620 I know the difference.
00:55:00.640 I'm very aware of how different it is.
00:55:07.260 Often drugs are a try for a fix
00:55:09.200 for an underlying mental issue.
00:55:11.080 I would say every time.
00:55:12.760 I would say that all drugs,
00:55:14.260 unless you're just,
00:55:14.960 you know,
00:55:15.240 trying them on the weekend or something,
00:55:16.920 you're just experimenting.
00:55:18.280 But for people who are using them regularly,
00:55:20.620 I would say that that statement is true.
00:55:25.000 That people do it to fix something
00:55:27.180 that wasn't giving them enough happiness
00:55:29.560 or something.
00:55:36.800 I can't drink or get high during work.
00:55:39.320 It's a waste of a good buzz.
00:55:41.760 Yeah,
00:55:41.980 most work is not compatible with marijuana.
00:55:46.200 But some is.
00:55:49.100 Somebody says I should plug locals.com.
00:55:52.640 Yeah,
00:55:53.200 I will remind you that I've moved,
00:55:55.720 moved a lot of my video content,
00:55:58.820 and all the periscopes will be reproduced there.
00:56:01.680 I'll keep doing them here.
00:56:02.980 This won't change.
00:56:04.460 But they're also on the locals platform.
00:56:08.460 So if you went to Scott Adams,
00:56:10.620 Scott Adams dot locals dot com,
00:56:14.820 you'll find my page.
00:56:16.720 You can look at my Twitter profile
00:56:18.820 to see it as well.
00:56:19.560 And for a small subscription fee,
00:56:23.740 you can get extra stuff,
00:56:25.420 and you can have everything in one place,
00:56:27.100 and the algorithm will not rule you.
00:56:29.920 I'll tell you my long-term play here.
00:56:32.700 So the long-term reason for putting it on a subscription platform
00:56:36.400 is that the YouTubes of the world,
00:56:39.680 they can't really handle my content
00:56:41.300 because their business model requires them
00:56:44.240 to pair content with advertisers.
00:56:46.880 And the advertisers all say,
00:56:48.820 why would we take a chance on something that's controversial?
00:56:52.220 Just pair us with kitten videos.
00:56:54.380 So that's the problem that YouTube has.
00:56:56.400 Even if they wanted to,
00:56:58.220 the advertisers would say,
00:56:59.540 I'm not going to give you money to pair with this stuff.
00:57:01.800 Half the people who watch it
00:57:03.040 are going to get mad at me
00:57:04.160 for just pairing it.
00:57:05.580 So the advertising-based models,
00:57:09.360 including my comic strip,
00:57:12.180 everything else,
00:57:12.720 sort of advertising model,
00:57:13.860 they don't really work anymore
00:57:15.220 for a variety of reasons.
00:57:19.620 The newspaper advertising model
00:57:21.560 will probably just disappear
00:57:22.660 because newspapers will disappear.
00:57:24.480 By the end of the year,
00:57:25.440 I'll probably have no regular cartooning income,
00:57:28.300 I would guess,
00:57:29.320 from newspapers.
00:57:31.480 So I'm looking to reinvent
00:57:35.560 my content,
00:57:38.280 figure out how to adapt to the new world,
00:57:41.720 the post-coronavirus world.
00:57:44.060 And I'm going to try the subscription service.
00:57:46.200 That's where I am at,
00:57:47.000 scottadams.locals.com
00:57:50.980 if you want to be part of that.
00:57:52.580 You get all the good stuff and more.
00:57:55.180 Where will Dilbert be syndicated?
00:57:57.400 Well, it's in 2,000 newspapers
00:57:58.940 and it's on a lot of websites.
00:58:00.900 It's at dilbert.com.
00:58:02.300 Probably a number of them
00:58:05.080 will continue online,
00:58:06.560 but I don't know if newspapers
00:58:08.480 make enough money
00:58:09.340 from just their online presence.
00:58:11.900 So my guess is that
00:58:12.820 the physical newspapers,
00:58:14.400 the local ones,
00:58:15.120 will disappear.
00:58:16.500 The biggest ones
00:58:17.460 don't actually carry comics.
00:58:19.620 The biggest newspapers,
00:58:20.960 Wall Street Journal,
00:58:21.960 New York Times,
00:58:22.520 they don't have comics.
00:58:24.000 So when the little ones go away,
00:58:25.680 USA Today is a big one,
00:58:27.600 when the little ones go away,
00:58:28.900 so too does the comic business
00:58:31.880 because they're associated
00:58:32.780 with the local papers mostly.
00:58:36.380 Somebody says,
00:58:37.260 they mentioned me on the Five yesterday.
00:58:39.300 I watched the Five.
00:58:40.160 I didn't see that.
00:58:41.500 Did I miss that part?
00:58:45.820 Yeah, $7 is the subscription fee per month.
00:58:49.380 If you're already donating to me
00:58:52.020 on the Patreon site
00:58:53.460 or on the WenHub platform
00:58:55.720 because people have done both,
00:58:56.980 I would ask you to discontinue that
00:58:59.580 and whether or not,
00:59:01.900 whether or not you want to be
00:59:03.560 on the locals platform,
00:59:04.840 that would be a separate decision.
00:59:06.560 But, you know,
00:59:08.200 you could discontinue Patreon
00:59:09.540 and you could discontinue
00:59:11.440 using the interface app
00:59:12.980 and I would be just as happy
00:59:15.900 because now I have a little home
00:59:17.320 and the people want to
00:59:19.100 use that subscription fee
00:59:21.000 and see a little extra.
00:59:22.320 I can see it.
00:59:23.500 So what I'll be doing
00:59:24.060 on the locals app
00:59:25.260 is I'm going to put a lot of micro lessons.
00:59:27.480 I put my first micro lesson up there
00:59:29.260 on how to write humor.
00:59:32.140 So these are going to be
00:59:32.880 very short videos
00:59:34.020 on one topic
00:59:34.980 where I teach you that one topic.
00:59:37.220 My next one will probably be design.
00:59:39.740 So it'll be like five to ten minutes
00:59:41.460 to bring you up to about 80%
00:59:43.880 of what you need
00:59:44.620 to be a better designer.
00:59:46.620 So that's what we're going to do
00:59:48.480 and I will talk to you
00:59:50.100 tonight.
00:59:51.300 Have a good day.