Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 11, 2020


Episode 968 Scott Adams： Simultaneous Sip Now


Episode Stats

Length

54 minutes

Words per Minute

167.38678

Word Count

9,130

Sentence Count

8

Misogynist Sentences

7

Hate Speech Sentences

12


Summary

Scott Adams wakes up from his nap to discuss the coronavirus pandemic, Watergate, and the weirdest thing that happened to him on Periscope last night. Plus, a new drug is being trialled to treat the virus.


Transcript

00:00:00.220 Bum bum bum bum bum bum
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00:00:10.000 Hey everybody, come on in here
00:00:12.000 it's time
00:00:13.840 for, well you know what
00:00:15.740 Time for coffee with Scott Adams
00:00:17.660 printing out my notes here
00:00:19.600 I'm a little bit late
00:00:21.120 yes I did a little thing called
00:00:23.580 sleeping in
00:00:24.560 don't like to do that a lot
00:00:27.820 yeah, late again
00:00:28.880 overslept
00:00:30.640 so
00:00:34.640 I know what you'd like to do probably this morning
00:00:38.020 you'd probably like to join in
00:00:39.960 on the simultaneous sip
00:00:41.380 and all it takes is a cup or a mug
00:00:43.560 or a glass of tanker, chalice or stein
00:00:45.100 a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind
00:00:47.800 fill it with your favorite liquid
00:00:50.120 I like coffee
00:00:51.740 and join me now for the
00:00:53.200 unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine
00:00:55.400 of the day that makes everything better
00:00:56.900 including the damn pandemic
00:00:58.760 damn pandemic, yeah
00:01:00.920 join me now, go
00:01:02.760 so Periscope has this minor bug in it
00:01:11.320 that if you use a certain kind of headset
00:01:13.740 where you can talk and listen
00:01:16.520 you have to remember to hit a button
00:01:18.780 before you go live
00:01:19.880 or else you can't talk to people
00:01:21.380 so I had to redo it
00:01:24.480 and that's all it was
00:01:25.760 good morning, good morning
00:01:29.040 let me grab my notes
00:01:30.280 don't go anywhere
00:01:31.180 well today the news
00:01:40.100 looks like
00:01:41.180 it's all repeat news
00:01:43.140 let me do
00:01:44.360 let me do the news for today
00:01:45.920 but I can also do the news
00:01:48.280 for every day
00:01:49.180 for the next three weeks
00:01:50.740 are you ready?
00:01:51.280 here's the news
00:01:53.440 every day
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00:01:55.700 there's some doctors
00:01:57.820 in Provo Fluff
00:01:58.860 who are doing a study
00:02:00.240 on a new
00:02:01.400 potential coronavirus treatment
00:02:03.400 called Provo Fluff Fluff
00:02:05.000 they have
00:02:06.460 signed up people
00:02:07.560 but it's not
00:02:08.920 completely a good study
00:02:10.620 because they don't have
00:02:11.440 a good control group
00:02:12.380 blah blah blah blah blah blah
00:02:13.760 so we're waiting on that
00:02:15.540 Tuesday
00:02:16.940 the news will be
00:02:18.360 there's some doctors
00:02:20.200 blah blah blah
00:02:20.960 they're testing some
00:02:21.700 blah blah blah
00:02:22.240 they're getting some
00:02:22.820 people blah blah blah
00:02:23.580 we hope it works
00:02:24.220 blah blah blah
00:02:24.740 I don't believe
00:02:26.900 any of the
00:02:27.500 any of the news
00:02:28.920 about tests anymore
00:02:29.880 do you?
00:02:31.780 I really don't
00:02:32.740 I just
00:02:33.120 you know
00:02:33.960 everything that I see
00:02:34.820 about this
00:02:35.740 they tried this
00:02:37.120 and they got a good result
00:02:38.520 and it's not quite
00:02:39.900 scientific
00:02:40.480 and you know
00:02:41.560 it's only 80 people
00:02:42.560 but it looks good
00:02:43.880 I've got a feeling
00:02:45.420 that none of it's real
00:02:46.440 at this point
00:02:47.120 just feels like
00:02:48.420 none of it's real
00:02:49.220 certainly by now
00:02:53.500 if hydroxychloroquine
00:02:55.240 was a big deal
00:02:56.440 we'd know it by now
00:02:58.440 right?
00:02:59.240 would you agree?
00:03:00.580 would you all agree
00:03:01.320 with this statement
00:03:02.000 that if hydroxychloroquine
00:03:03.520 was a magic pill
00:03:04.940 as opposed to
00:03:06.580 just being a little bit useful
00:03:07.840 which I think is where
00:03:08.680 it's going to end up
00:03:09.360 we'd know it by now
00:03:11.780 the same with most
00:03:14.180 of the drugs
00:03:14.640 if any of the drugs
00:03:16.160 they're testing
00:03:16.720 were really just
00:03:18.080 knocking the crap
00:03:18.940 out of this virus
00:03:19.700 we'd know it by now
00:03:21.700 yeah let's talk
00:03:25.400 about Obamagate
00:03:26.280 you know
00:03:26.900 when Obamagate
00:03:27.760 first started trending
00:03:29.360 as a hashtag
00:03:30.260 I didn't even know
00:03:31.840 exactly what it was
00:03:32.860 but I guess
00:03:33.300 it just refers to the
00:03:34.480 looking into the
00:03:36.580 origins of the
00:03:37.780 Russia collusion hoax
00:03:39.080 and we know now
00:03:40.480 that Barack Obama
00:03:43.300 apparently at least
00:03:44.760 knew
00:03:45.140 that the
00:03:46.920 the wiretap
00:03:48.300 on Flynn
00:03:48.860 had happened
00:03:49.400 but we don't know
00:03:50.800 what else he knew
00:03:51.680 what else did he know
00:03:53.360 hmm
00:03:54.100 so
00:03:55.400 I was looking at the
00:03:56.840 trending hashtag
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00:03:58.480 there was a tweet
00:04:00.000 just a few minutes ago
00:04:01.540 there was a tweet
00:04:02.140 where it showed the
00:04:02.960 hashtag
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00:04:05.100 which if you don't
00:04:06.920 follow the hashtags
00:04:08.180 that's a lot
00:04:09.620 because typically
00:04:12.360 a trending hashtag
00:04:13.620 could have like
00:04:14.780 6,000 tweets
00:04:16.820 or you know
00:04:17.700 60,000
00:04:18.800 if it's a really
00:04:19.440 big one
00:04:19.900 that would be a
00:04:20.840 really big hashtag
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00:04:22.940 retweeting it
00:04:23.840 Obamagate
00:04:25.200 had 2.6 million
00:04:27.080 but here's what's
00:04:29.160 interesting
00:04:29.500 just minutes after
00:04:31.160 it had 2.6 million
00:04:32.380 it had
00:04:33.660 2.1 million
00:04:34.920 I don't know
00:04:38.120 if it's just
00:04:38.500 a difference
00:04:38.920 between how they
00:04:39.740 how they count
00:04:41.260 the hashtags
00:04:41.740 at different times
00:04:42.720 might be a
00:04:43.300 lag or something
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00:04:45.400 I don't know
00:04:47.060 if it went down
00:04:47.600 or up
00:04:47.920 I saw some other
00:04:48.560 people
00:04:48.860 complaining
00:04:49.580 that it went down
00:04:50.360 but I'm not sure
00:04:51.040 they saw it correctly
00:04:51.860 not sure I saw it
00:04:53.920 correctly either
00:04:54.600 so the weirdest
00:04:57.180 thing happened
00:04:57.880 last night
00:04:58.500 some of you
00:04:59.660 had the same
00:05:00.360 weird experience
00:05:01.360 and I want to see
00:05:02.120 how many of you
00:05:02.880 experienced this
00:05:03.740 the first part
00:05:05.100 of it
00:05:05.300 you had to have
00:05:06.080 joined me
00:05:06.700 last night
00:05:07.500 when I was
00:05:08.660 talking about
00:05:09.240 for the second
00:05:09.860 time
00:05:10.200 the simulation
00:05:11.020 and so I did
00:05:13.380 my little
00:05:13.800 periscope
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00:05:15.400 topic of the
00:05:16.080 simulation
00:05:16.560 and how to
00:05:17.840 reprogram your
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00:05:20.220 with stories
00:05:21.160 and I'm done
00:05:22.580 with that
00:05:22.980 and I'm kind of
00:05:23.720 winding down
00:05:24.240 for the night
00:05:24.700 and I turn on
00:05:25.440 Fox News
00:05:26.800 and they were
00:05:27.240 ending up a special
00:05:28.520 about Watergate
00:05:29.720 I guess
00:05:30.040 and I guess
00:05:31.240 there was some
00:05:31.560 time left over
00:05:32.360 in which they'd
00:05:33.020 stuck in an
00:05:33.780 extended
00:05:34.260 I guess a
00:05:35.720 paid
00:05:36.140 must have been
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00:05:37.460 from Joel
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00:05:39.040 now typically
00:05:40.420 Joel would be
00:05:41.080 in front of a
00:05:41.760 church packed
00:05:42.980 full of people
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00:05:44.220 inspirational message
00:05:45.180 but
00:05:46.400 because of the
00:05:48.480 coronavirus
00:05:48.900 it was an empty
00:05:49.560 church and he was
00:05:50.240 just giving his
00:05:50.800 act
00:05:50.980 here's the part
00:05:51.740 that blew my
00:05:52.980 mind
00:05:53.460 it's Joel Osteen
00:05:55.180 and
00:05:56.620 the way he
00:05:59.080 decided to
00:05:59.860 talk about the
00:06:00.540 coronavirus
00:06:01.100 our current
00:06:01.760 situation
00:06:02.340 is that God
00:06:04.040 was updating
00:06:05.300 his software
00:06:06.160 can you believe
00:06:08.280 that
00:06:08.520 and he used
00:06:09.000 the phrase
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00:06:11.260 throughout his
00:06:12.080 presentation
00:06:12.740 he talked about
00:06:14.140 the coronavirus
00:06:14.680 being thought of
00:06:15.780 as a reboot
00:06:16.560 and that God
00:06:17.940 sometimes needs
00:06:18.760 to update the
00:06:19.380 software
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00:06:21.180 updating the
00:06:21.760 software
00:06:22.100 that's what the
00:06:22.700 coronavirus
00:06:23.080 situation is
00:06:24.280 gives us all
00:06:25.380 time to
00:06:25.960 take a pause
00:06:27.020 and step back
00:06:27.860 and that when
00:06:28.740 we go back
00:06:29.360 we will
00:06:29.760 effectively
00:06:30.380 have rebooted
00:06:31.300 civilization
00:06:32.060 along with
00:06:33.740 our understanding
00:06:34.660 of our place
00:06:35.420 in it
00:06:35.840 it's exactly
00:06:37.540 what I said
00:06:38.220 like half an
00:06:39.400 hour before
00:06:40.040 except I'd
00:06:41.500 left out the
00:06:42.260 Christianity part
00:06:43.660 now the beauty
00:06:45.820 of the simulation
00:06:46.520 is that it
00:06:47.440 works as an
00:06:48.100 overlay on any
00:06:49.060 religion
00:06:49.440 you can put it
00:06:50.540 on reincarnation
00:06:52.120 works for that
00:06:53.660 you can put it
00:06:54.280 on the Islam
00:06:55.020 any religion
00:06:56.480 you want
00:06:56.980 still works
00:06:58.180 so what were
00:07:00.320 the odds
00:07:00.940 that I would
00:07:01.940 give a whole
00:07:02.980 45 minutes
00:07:04.820 of presentation
00:07:05.560 about the
00:07:07.180 universe being
00:07:08.060 a simulation
00:07:08.920 made of software
00:07:09.800 and turn on TV
00:07:11.200 and find one of
00:07:11.900 the most famous
00:07:12.680 Christian preachers
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00:07:15.880 the same thing
00:07:16.620 now I'm not
00:07:18.520 promoting his
00:07:19.340 view or him
00:07:20.520 or anything like
00:07:21.100 that I know a
00:07:21.860 lot of people
00:07:22.160 like him
00:07:22.580 he does a good
00:07:24.360 job of keeping
00:07:25.880 people let's
00:07:27.560 say motivated
00:07:28.140 and feeling
00:07:29.340 good about
00:07:29.760 themselves
00:07:30.140 and if he
00:07:30.680 makes money
00:07:31.140 from that
00:07:31.620 I'm okay
00:07:32.320 with that
00:07:32.700 I don't think
00:07:33.380 anything about
00:07:34.200 that is too
00:07:35.720 sketchy
00:07:36.540 at least anything
00:07:37.580 I've heard
00:07:38.040 so if you know
00:07:38.760 something I
00:07:39.900 haven't heard
00:07:40.480 it but that
00:07:41.760 was just weird
00:07:42.340 all right
00:07:42.940 here's an update
00:07:44.080 on what could
00:07:46.220 be my best
00:07:49.160 prediction ever
00:07:50.040 now I do
00:07:50.700 think that my
00:07:51.200 prediction about
00:07:51.880 evolution made
00:07:53.040 22 years ago
00:07:54.080 pretty darn good
00:07:55.620 but I'm never
00:07:56.080 going to get
00:07:56.440 attention for
00:07:57.040 that one
00:07:57.460 because people
00:07:58.520 are still
00:07:58.940 I don't think
00:08:00.460 people are really
00:08:01.000 going to change
00:08:01.480 their mind about
00:08:02.240 where things are
00:08:03.240 there so I'll
00:08:04.140 never get it
00:08:04.680 I'll never get
00:08:05.560 credit for that
00:08:07.280 prediction for a
00:08:10.080 variety of reasons
00:08:10.700 but this one the
00:08:12.040 Harris being the
00:08:13.600 vice presidential pick
00:08:14.800 and then being
00:08:15.740 considered at the
00:08:16.680 top of the ticket
00:08:17.420 it's getting
00:08:18.780 closer and closer
00:08:19.700 so Joel Pollack
00:08:21.900 noted in his
00:08:22.940 tweet that
00:08:23.460 Politico is
00:08:25.060 speaking about
00:08:25.920 Harris as the
00:08:27.140 likely one
00:08:28.440 so Politico is
00:08:30.020 already talking
00:08:30.680 about her as
00:08:31.420 pretty much
00:08:33.180 the one
00:08:34.020 they don't go
00:08:35.180 right out in
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00:08:36.500 they talk about
00:08:37.780 the activity in
00:08:38.920 the Democratic
00:08:39.400 Party and who
00:08:40.400 likes what and
00:08:41.280 who's talking
00:08:42.240 about what and
00:08:42.960 it's starting to
00:08:44.040 sound like the
00:08:45.480 consensus is pretty
00:08:46.600 solid around
00:08:47.580 Harris right now
00:08:50.060 and they talk
00:08:51.300 about Elizabeth
00:08:51.900 Warren being a
00:08:52.740 strong second
00:08:53.420 and I think to
00:08:54.140 myself I don't
00:08:55.620 see it if the
00:08:57.620 second place choice
00:08:59.220 is literally
00:08:59.920 impossible in my
00:09:01.660 view let me let
00:09:03.300 me tell you this
00:09:03.880 if Elizabeth Warren
00:09:05.420 is picked for the
00:09:06.760 vice presidential
00:09:07.620 spot I don't know
00:09:10.840 anything about
00:09:11.460 anything that would
00:09:13.000 be to me that
00:09:14.820 would be that would
00:09:15.640 just blow my whole
00:09:16.600 world apart because I
00:09:18.400 would just say I
00:09:19.480 don't understand
00:09:20.360 anything I've
00:09:21.220 watched for the
00:09:22.560 past year if that
00:09:23.760 happens because what
00:09:25.340 I watched was
00:09:27.400 Warren being
00:09:28.360 basically a you
00:09:29.500 know a death
00:09:30.060 sentence for the
00:09:30.820 Democratic Party
00:09:31.700 if they add her to
00:09:33.240 the ticket what the
00:09:35.320 heck would they
00:09:35.780 be thinking unless
00:09:37.360 they're playing for a
00:09:38.120 draft pick next year
00:09:39.280 but I don't think it
00:09:39.920 works that way so
00:09:41.740 when your second
00:09:44.920 choice is just
00:09:46.780 ridiculous
00:09:47.300 doesn't that kind of
00:09:49.220 tell you they've
00:09:49.760 settled on the first
00:09:50.540 choice already because
00:09:52.040 you would have a little
00:09:53.520 better looking second
00:09:54.600 choice right I mean
00:09:56.140 obviously Warren is
00:09:57.060 super capable you
00:09:59.120 know I'm not I'm not
00:10:00.140 talking about that but
00:10:01.420 in terms of her fit and
00:10:02.740 whether she can win and
00:10:03.660 all that you know it's
00:10:04.920 just a an obvious
00:10:06.040 losing proposition all
00:10:08.200 right
00:10:08.400 yeah so if that comes
00:10:12.740 in that will be my
00:10:14.700 finest prediction but
00:10:16.060 we'll see the dumbest
00:10:20.380 pundit do you have a
00:10:22.280 does anybody have a
00:10:23.440 nomination for the
00:10:24.360 dumbest political
00:10:25.880 pundit working today I
00:10:28.700 want to say I want to
00:10:29.540 see your opinions now
00:10:31.020 when you say dumbest or
00:10:33.180 when I say dumbest I
00:10:34.880 don't mean that they
00:10:35.700 lie the most because
00:10:37.040 you're you're probably
00:10:38.120 going to say oh you
00:10:39.080 know that's Jim Acosta
00:10:40.520 he's the dumbest one
00:10:41.640 that a lot of people
00:10:43.500 watching this would say
00:10:44.320 that but I don't have
00:10:46.020 any evidence of that
00:10:46.980 you know there you have
00:10:49.140 evidence that you know
00:10:50.580 he's let's say a member
00:10:53.260 of one side but you
00:10:55.140 don't know what he
00:10:55.600 really thinks right
00:10:57.140 because a lot of a lot
00:10:58.700 of people in the public
00:10:59.600 say ridiculous things
00:11:00.980 but you think to
00:11:02.380 yourself well they don't
00:11:03.560 believe him you know
00:11:05.320 that's just their job
00:11:06.500 you're a pundit you say
00:11:07.940 ridiculous things about
00:11:09.120 the other side you say
00:11:10.860 your side is magic and
00:11:12.480 awesome so you don't
00:11:14.540 really know that they're
00:11:15.300 dumb you just know
00:11:16.900 that they've taken a
00:11:17.680 side but there is one
00:11:19.720 pundit that I got to
00:11:20.980 say no matter what he's
00:11:23.160 talking all he registers
00:11:24.500 is stupid do you know
00:11:26.820 what it is give me some
00:11:28.760 of your guess about a
00:11:30.320 pundit who registers as
00:11:32.560 actually just stupid not
00:11:34.780 just disagreeing with you
00:11:36.040 all right I'll wait to
00:11:38.700 see your answers my
00:11:40.340 nomination is Joe
00:11:41.420 Lockhart Joe Lockhart
00:11:43.920 even looks like the
00:11:45.300 dumbest guy on TV
00:11:46.220 doesn't he all right
00:11:49.080 now I'm going to be
00:11:49.560 laughing because I'm
00:11:50.280 looking at your choices
00:11:51.220 now who would say
00:11:52.440 Rachel Maddow now you
00:11:54.420 could disagree with
00:11:55.260 everything Rachel Maddow
00:11:56.620 says but how in the
00:11:57.840 world do you say she's
00:11:58.760 dumb she's brilliant you
00:12:01.340 could hate everything she
00:12:02.200 says but she's brilliant
00:12:03.920 there's no question about
00:12:05.380 that yeah well you know
00:12:07.480 you know I'm seeing
00:12:08.380 names like Silliza Jay
00:12:09.960 Rubin Stelter I don't
00:12:11.760 think any of them are
00:12:12.440 dumb not even a little
00:12:14.380 bit I don't think Don
00:12:15.920 Lemon's dumb now they're
00:12:19.420 the ones Chris Cuomo he's
00:12:20.700 not dumb they're all the
00:12:21.760 ones that I would put in
00:12:22.540 the category of they're
00:12:23.400 just on a side but you
00:12:25.560 compare you compare the
00:12:26.800 names that you've just
00:12:27.660 said to Joe Lockhart I
00:12:31.300 think it's a different
00:12:32.020 category so here's so Joe
00:12:34.300 Joe Lockhart is writing
00:12:35.800 today for CNN.com he's
00:12:40.040 wondering why no
00:12:42.100 newspapers have called
00:12:44.020 for the removal of
00:12:45.100 President Trump and you
00:12:47.380 say to yourself what what
00:12:49.620 are you even talking
00:12:50.160 about yeah that's right
00:12:52.320 Joe Lockhart's wondering
00:12:53.740 why no newspapers have
00:12:55.300 called like the boards of
00:12:56.740 newspapers where they get
00:12:57.800 together and they say this
00:12:58.660 is this is the opinion of
00:13:00.300 our newspaper because he
00:13:01.880 notes that when Nixon was
00:13:03.800 in trouble for Watergate
00:13:04.880 that there were lots of
00:13:06.860 newspapers that called for
00:13:08.040 Nixon's removal and he's
00:13:10.840 saying how come there's no
00:13:11.660 newspaper doing that for
00:13:12.600 Trump because after all
00:13:14.520 Trump was guilty of calling
00:13:17.580 those neo-nazis fine people
00:13:19.280 in Charlottesville and I'm
00:13:21.360 just saying what what are you
00:13:25.980 kidding me first of all that
00:13:28.000 didn't happen does he really
00:13:29.800 think that happened it's the
00:13:31.040 most debunked hoax and all of
00:13:33.080 it's literally it's literally
00:13:35.020 the most debunked hoax if you
00:13:38.220 count the number of clicks
00:13:39.340 Steve Cortez got over six
00:13:41.640 million clicks on his
00:13:43.540 debunking video I've probably
00:13:45.500 gotten I don't know if you
00:13:46.740 added up all of the retweets
00:13:48.860 I've gotten debunking that
00:13:50.140 several million you know bright
00:13:53.220 bars run several stories you
00:13:55.400 know Joel Pollock's run a number
00:13:57.000 of stories debunking it how many
00:13:59.040 hits to that get so just tens of
00:14:01.600 millions probably of hits
00:14:03.280 debunking this thing and he
00:14:05.340 writes for CNN and of course
00:14:08.020 they don't they don't fact check
00:14:09.680 him even on their own it's an
00:14:11.980 opinion piece so they don't fact
00:14:13.280 check him and he's wondering now
00:14:17.140 at the same time that he's
00:14:18.180 wondering why he's why why
00:14:23.120 President Trump is not being asked
00:14:25.780 to be removed from office what's the
00:14:28.220 biggest hashtag in the country at the
00:14:30.580 same time same time the biggest
00:14:33.040 hashtag is Obamagate literally
00:14:36.120 accusing Obama of something worse than
00:14:39.460 Watergate because Obamagate is way
00:14:44.280 worse than Watergate it's not even
00:14:47.120 close Watergate was sort of an
00:14:50.700 ordinary little crime that probably
00:14:53.820 didn't have that big of a difference
00:14:55.640 in the end result of anything but
00:14:59.300 Obamagate was literally a coup attempt
00:15:03.480 these things are not even close these
00:15:06.020 are these are not in the same house
00:15:07.580 they're not the same zip code if you
00:15:10.760 were ever going to say something was
00:15:11.980 worse than than Watergate Obamagate
00:15:15.280 is a thousand times worse and while
00:15:17.620 that's happening right now exactly
00:15:20.560 right now not even in the same month
00:15:22.420 but the same day that's happening
00:15:24.440 Joe Lockhart is calling is saying that
00:15:27.460 President Trump should be removed from
00:15:29.760 office and that he's puzzled the
00:15:32.540 newspapers aren't calling for it are
00:15:34.800 you kidding me today of all days this
00:15:37.760 would be the day the newspapers would
00:15:39.100 call for Trump to be removed after he's
00:15:41.600 been basically cleared of all Russia
00:15:43.900 collusion stuff that's when you want
00:15:46.020 to remove him from office after he's
00:15:48.300 been cleared of all charges and you know
00:15:50.500 that the other side was running a coup
00:15:51.980 this is the craziest dumbest thing I've
00:15:54.860 ever seen in my life it's I don't even
00:15:56.720 know how to react to it it's almost
00:15:57.920 just entertaining I mean that's what it
00:16:02.320 feels like all right does anybody have
00:16:03.520 any questions they want to ask me I did
00:16:05.520 oversleep a little bit today and the
00:16:07.000 news is boring today it's all just
00:16:08.380 repeat news it's all repeat news
00:16:11.720 what if I told you people who don't
00:16:16.600 agree with your view evidence or not
00:16:19.440 will avoid your content people who don't
00:16:23.540 agree with me will avoid my content well
00:16:26.520 that's how it works yeah I know somebody's
00:16:30.980 mentioning Don Lemon a lot as being the
00:16:32.980 dumbest pundit first of all I would call
00:16:37.200 him a host not a pundit but I don't I
00:16:40.740 have no reason to believe that Don
00:16:42.240 Lemon is dumb what we see is you know
00:16:47.440 taking a team side but we don't see
00:16:49.500 dumbness I mean he's pretty high-level
00:16:52.460 jobs he does well I doubt he's dumb
00:16:54.200 think sink sink Iger how do you say
00:16:58.640 sinks last name Iger I don't think he's
00:17:03.280 dumb either I don't see anything that
00:17:05.540 would suggest that any of these people
00:17:06.880 are dumb or Mika Mika is not dumb are you
00:17:11.840 kidding me did you see your interview
00:17:14.420 with Biden was was very sharp I thought
00:17:18.680 okay well enough that does anybody have
00:17:24.560 any questions that you would like to ask
00:17:26.600 me because I feel as if the the news is
00:17:29.460 hitting sort of a rut it just just feels
00:17:33.600 like the news is going to be the same
00:17:34.880 every day for a while we shouldn't have
00:17:37.240 opened up look at the number of deaths
00:17:39.660 it's worse than the flu here's our death
00:17:42.240 count I just feel like it's gonna be the
00:17:43.840 same thing for a while all right let's see
00:17:48.360 who we've got questions from I think
00:17:51.680 flip flip let's see if you have a
00:17:54.620 question flip do you have a question for
00:17:57.620 me people who think in binaries because
00:18:06.620 it's it's either all or nothing it's we
00:18:09.040 want grandma to die or I mean I and I
00:18:11.680 feel like you can't even have a
00:18:12.740 conversation with the average person
00:18:14.320 because it's so polarized yeah well I do
00:18:17.480 find that just pointing out what you just
00:18:19.260 pointed out usually works in person so if
00:18:22.340 you're actually having a real conversation
00:18:24.140 with somebody who's thinking in a binary
00:18:25.740 the the high ground maneuver as I call it
00:18:29.400 is to take the adult position because if
00:18:32.100 you say to them well you know it's not
00:18:33.600 either either or it could be somewhere in
00:18:37.400 between could be a little little bit of
00:18:39.000 this most people will agree with you that
00:18:41.500 it's somewhere in between they will
00:18:43.620 immediately go to the adult position
00:18:45.260 because it's embarrassing to stay at the
00:18:47.360 kids table when you've already moved to
00:18:49.660 the adult table and said something as
00:18:51.320 adult as well you know it's not as clean
00:18:53.580 as this or that you know there's there's
00:18:55.420 a lot of gray area in the middle almost
00:18:57.320 everybody in person will come with you but
00:19:00.040 if you're talking on Twitter you don't
00:19:02.140 have the back and forth and so they can
00:19:04.220 just sort of keep their weird position
00:19:05.880 because it's Twitter so I wouldn't even
00:19:07.720 bother on Twitter but but in real life in
00:19:10.960 real life you just pointed out they'll come
00:19:12.460 with you because nobody stays at the kids
00:19:14.600 table when you're sitting right next to
00:19:16.940 them at the adult table talking like an
00:19:18.640 adult they just have to they just have
00:19:20.760 to join you or else they just feel like
00:19:22.700 the child in the conversation it works
00:19:24.860 every time so thanks for the question
00:19:26.920 hey thank you
00:19:27.740 rarely do I have advice that is that
00:19:33.120 clean and and useful all right
00:19:40.260 fashion I don't know if this is a name or
00:19:43.400 a label or even if this will work because
00:19:46.140 it looks like we're not connecting all
00:19:48.660 right looks like that didn't work let's
00:19:51.160 try someone else I think people get stage
00:19:55.660 fright when I select them let's take
00:19:59.180 Cassandra
00:20:00.540 Cassandra Cassandra are you there
00:20:06.980 hi do you have a question for me
00:20:12.100 Cassandra it has been so long since we
00:20:14.540 talked um I was wondering you said a lot
00:20:17.140 about like Dilbert and kind of like losing
00:20:19.340 your job and stuff like that and I'm
00:20:22.040 wondering are you going digital is there
00:20:23.660 other ways that you know that we can
00:20:25.020 promote you and you know build this
00:20:27.180 better oh you're the best um yeah yeah so
00:20:31.060 the background on that is I've I've
00:20:32.940 gotten the cats on the roof um letter
00:20:35.940 from my syndication company cats up cats
00:20:38.860 on the roof is reference to warning that
00:20:41.180 there's you know big trouble ahead at the
00:20:43.660 moment the cats on the roof but it's not
00:20:46.220 looking good so um yeah so by the end of
00:20:50.440 the year I would not be surprised if I'm
00:20:52.880 not a cartoonist anymore because there
00:20:55.480 just won't be newspapers and there may
00:20:57.360 not be enough advertising that even
00:20:59.020 online stuff works so of course I'm not
00:21:03.440 going to be the guy who's complaining
00:21:04.540 because we live in a world where I'm
00:21:07.700 still I'm still in better shape than
00:21:09.780 just about everybody so I'm not going to
00:21:12.280 bitch about it I'm just going to tell
00:21:13.440 you what it is because I think I think
00:21:15.580 it's good that we all know what
00:21:16.820 everybody's situation is that's rather
00:21:18.960 than complaining about it and what about
00:21:21.040 magazines and stuff or any of those
00:21:23.400 pick you up or uh I'm sorry what like
00:21:26.240 magazines or any of those will they pick
00:21:28.080 you up well no because magazines are
00:21:30.320 all going out of business too they're not
00:21:31.940 really big customers so here's here's
00:21:35.300 what all what I'm doing I'm moving to a
00:21:37.800 non-advertising based model so some of
00:21:41.740 my some of my material will be on
00:21:44.180 locals locals.com so I've already moved
00:21:47.900 this that's a subscriber site so you
00:21:51.540 can see everything that you can see
00:21:52.840 here will also be there conveniently but
00:21:55.920 it has a bunch of features that you
00:21:58.240 you won't have here it's a material
00:21:59.700 that you won't have here so I'll be
00:22:01.280 putting special micro lessons there
00:22:03.020 things that you won't get out anywhere
00:22:04.460 else so the people who find the most
00:22:07.500 value can simply pay a small amount
00:22:10.600 subscription and they can get it and
00:22:14.020 those who don't care will go watch
00:22:16.100 something else so I'm kind of drawn to
00:22:18.320 the subscription process partly because
00:22:21.900 it's optional you know nobody has to do
00:22:23.860 it and partly because I'm more
00:22:26.360 comfortable in a situation where
00:22:27.900 somebody says oh I got a value so I'll
00:22:30.560 give you some some money that's equal
00:22:32.900 to that value I'm always most comfortable
00:22:35.060 there the whole the whole advertising
00:22:37.520 thing feels like I'm giving somebody
00:22:41.260 something for free but then they're
00:22:42.900 penalized by watching a commercial they
00:22:44.940 didn't want to watch it's just it's not
00:22:47.400 ideal I like you know here's a dollar
00:22:49.560 here's a dollar's worth of value we
00:22:51.700 both win everybody goes home so I have
00:22:55.200 a great host of that and so far the
00:22:57.280 subscription service so you can find it
00:22:59.720 at locals with an s on it locals.com
00:23:02.640 and just search for my name so far it's
00:23:06.200 working well people are signing up I
00:23:08.040 didn't know how that would go but it's
00:23:09.800 going great so anybody anybody who wants
00:23:12.040 to support me going forward that would
00:23:13.620 be my preferred way to do it because
00:23:15.760 that way you get something for your
00:23:17.280 money you know the patreon stuff I tried
00:23:20.680 it that just doesn't feel right I like
00:23:24.420 people donating money I'd rather that
00:23:26.800 it's a subscription they get something
00:23:28.460 out of it but thank you for the
00:23:29.860 question yeah it's pretty cool thank you
00:23:31.740 all right take care bye
00:23:33.200 all right let's see what let's see what
00:23:41.700 Joe has to say
00:23:42.620 Joe come to us let the technology work
00:23:50.080 Joe's technology was not working let's
00:23:53.920 try Lowell I still don't know why some
00:23:59.740 people don't connect when I try to
00:24:02.020 connect them I don't know if they're
00:24:04.320 quitting or not this one looks Joel can
00:24:08.220 you hear me hi do you have a question
00:24:12.120 for me Joel I do not my name is Lowell
00:24:15.140 but I just wanted to tell you you are
00:24:18.220 amazing why did you change your name to
00:24:20.660 Lowell yeah go ahead well I just wanted
00:24:25.600 to tell you Scott that you're amazing
00:24:26.900 man I listen to you every day and you're
00:24:29.660 changing my freaking life and I don't
00:24:31.320 know I just want to tell you I love you
00:24:32.820 man well I appreciate that tell me it
00:24:35.440 would help me to tell me what would be
00:24:37.700 could you point something out in
00:24:39.260 particular that changed the way you
00:24:40.880 think is that is that what's happening
00:24:42.580 yeah any particular concept that you
00:24:46.020 thought was especially powerful I guess
00:24:49.560 it's kind of hard to put together since
00:24:51.580 you're asking me but I've read your
00:24:53.020 books man it's been like a it's been a
00:24:55.240 journey the last couple of years I've
00:24:56.960 been following you and I just feel like
00:24:58.820 my life has gotten so much better
00:25:00.260 good you know how old are you I'm 37
00:25:05.920 37 yeah my the stuff I do seems to work
00:25:10.380 for every age but the younger you are the
00:25:12.880 more people find that you know they have
00:25:15.580 more years to to practice what they've
00:25:17.800 learned so they get a little more value
00:25:19.080 on it good well I'm so glad for the call
00:25:21.600 and thank you thanks thanks for taking
00:25:23.820 my call man all right take care
00:25:25.920 Lionel are you on there Lionel
00:25:28.760 hello Scott hi hi do you have a question
00:25:32.900 for me Lionel yes
00:25:36.240 yes yeah this is gonna move the needle at
00:25:54.520 and now they see well yeah or do you think
00:26:07.860 yeah I think mostly refer back to normal
00:26:15.040 anytime there's any kind of a shock to
00:26:18.040 the country people go out and buy guns
00:26:19.800 but I think it's mostly the people who
00:26:21.740 already have guns I feel like people were
00:26:24.560 just getting extra guns I doubt there
00:26:26.940 were too many Democrats who were anti-gun
00:26:30.020 who said to themselves you know this is
00:26:32.160 gonna put me over the edge now now I'm
00:26:33.940 gonna get a gun there had to be some but I
00:26:36.360 doubt that it's any kind of long-term
00:26:38.480 shift to that that sort of stuff so
00:26:42.240 probably we'll just go back to normal I
00:26:44.140 have to I have to admit I I always have
00:26:45.940 that same same reaction to it's like any
00:26:49.740 trouble I better get to the gun store but
00:26:51.920 I'm in California so buying a gun is such a
00:26:53.760 pain in the ass that you know I think
00:26:56.620 twice all right yeah the question was
00:26:59.700 about what other people would buy more
00:27:00.920 guns because the coronavirus stuff they
00:27:03.200 already have but I don't think it'll be a
00:27:05.220 major change in society after that the
00:27:08.360 audience couldn't hear you Lionel so I'm
00:27:10.740 gonna disconnect but thank you for the call
00:27:13.060 all right let's see where is I was
00:27:19.480 looking for somebody in particular I just
00:27:21.200 saw sign on but I guess we'll go with
00:27:25.160 Norman Norman Norman are you there do you
00:27:30.960 have a question I did enjoy your interface
00:27:38.700 interface for reality what was it interface
00:27:41.920 for life I'm still thinking about it I hoping
00:27:46.340 it's a lot more than just you know the
00:27:49.040 power of positive thinking which you know
00:27:52.300 sometimes could be hard to force yourself to
00:27:54.320 do yeah I also enjoyed your I actually
00:27:58.800 subscribed to locals just to hear your
00:28:00.540 thoughts on microfinance and you know I'm
00:28:04.760 gonna keep some of those in mind I'm a lot
00:28:06.660 older than Lowell and I did have a question
00:28:11.160 I thought the most important question you
00:28:12.660 could ask regarding pundits that are not
00:28:17.460 that sharp is whose predictions have been
00:28:21.240 proven wrong the most well you know on the
00:28:25.800 left that it's almost a it's like a million
00:28:28.880 way tie isn't it because I think the people
00:28:31.140 on the left if you subtract Michael Moore who
00:28:35.280 was close to being right about Trump once
00:28:38.680 you subtract him is there even one person
00:28:40.820 you would say on the left who had anything
00:28:43.880 like a good track record who would you
00:28:45.900 suggest as even in the running for that
00:28:48.840 after Michael Moore it's unbelievable how
00:28:51.960 wrong we've been over and over and over and
00:28:55.280 over again now when you say we do you do you
00:28:58.580 mean are do you consider yourself part of the
00:29:00.960 the left I that's not what I I am part of
00:29:04.240 the left I am but but when I say we I mean
00:29:07.320 everybody because I don't think anybody got
00:29:08.940 it right I'm a well well well nobody well
00:29:13.440 except for you okay okay okay okay okay
00:29:16.420 but but you're like a black swan
00:29:19.840 maybe we'll see if I get the if I get the
00:29:25.500 Kamala Harris prediction right will you
00:29:28.080 admit that it wasn't a black swan in other
00:29:31.120 words you're I know I don't mean it was a
00:29:32.760 black swan I said you're a black swan oh I'm
00:29:34.860 a black swan okay you're like sort of
00:29:36.900 consistently kind of that's why people find
00:29:39.200 you so fascinating this is why Naval
00:29:40.800 finds you so fascinating because you look at
00:29:44.200 things from a different way that actually
00:29:45.740 works you know I was thinking about this
00:29:49.680 when I was learning to play drums and I've
00:29:53.240 been this will make sense in a minute I
00:29:55.540 was watching some Dave Grohl of course
00:29:58.340 famous musician plays lots of instruments
00:30:00.360 and he was talking about learning drums and
00:30:02.980 also the the drummer that he hired was
00:30:05.400 talking about it and I'm amazed at how
00:30:07.220 many professional musicians learn to play
00:30:10.320 their instrument without taking a lesson
00:30:12.400 now some of it is they just have some
00:30:15.220 natural talent but I think there's some of
00:30:17.580 the magic when people say how come nobody
00:30:20.020 drums the way Dave Grohl does considered by
00:30:22.900 many of the best rock drummer of all time
00:30:24.720 and you see him do it he just doesn't do
00:30:27.380 it the same way as other people and like
00:30:30.200 likewise other great drummers they
00:30:32.300 simply don't do it the same way they've
00:30:34.560 got their own thing and I think a lot of
00:30:36.420 that has to do with not taking lessons and
00:30:38.880 not like Hendrix on the guitar playing it
00:30:41.460 like left-handed and upside down yeah I mean
00:30:44.240 just the people who are self-taught they
00:30:47.860 end up looking like more of a better
00:30:50.180 product if it works out now in my case I'm
00:30:53.360 a terrible artist who tried to become a
00:30:55.880 cartoonist now because I didn't go through
00:30:58.020 art school and I was just sort of working
00:30:59.800 it out on my own and trying to figure out
00:31:01.920 what kind of marker pens worked on the
00:31:03.560 paper and I mean just all of it I just
00:31:06.080 had to work out on my own and I think
00:31:08.360 that there's there's something to that that
00:31:11.600 makes it look special when you're done
00:31:13.560 because you can see it came out of one
00:31:15.200 person's mind and when you're looking at
00:31:17.460 art you can tell the difference between
00:31:19.960 the committee art and a one person
00:31:22.500 creation and it's really is striking I
00:31:25.460 mean you would you would know if a
00:31:26.880 committee painted a painting you know
00:31:28.880 you just say all the parts look good but
00:31:31.860 I don't know it doesn't hold together
00:31:33.300 for some reason doesn't doesn't touch me
00:31:35.520 but then you see something made by one
00:31:37.280 crazy you know Van Gogh or something you
00:31:40.420 go whoa whoever made that that's that's
00:31:44.120 some art there I don't even know how you
00:31:45.880 would make that if you tried to copy it
00:31:47.340 and so I wonder that about how I got
00:31:51.900 here not going through any normal path to
00:31:55.700 be person talking about politics there's
00:31:58.220 some benefits to working it out yourself
00:32:00.920 and it makes you an original when you
00:32:02.420 get there because you didn't learn it
00:32:03.700 right so there's something about not
00:32:05.800 learning it right that I find very
00:32:08.000 appealing and it works for me but maybe
00:32:10.420 not for everybody all right it's like if
00:32:12.640 you can persist in your folly you'll be
00:32:15.080 a genius kind of a thing yeah you know
00:32:17.440 I'll give you the simple version of
00:32:19.100 this I wrote about once the best way to
00:32:21.060 be a creative person is to try to copy
00:32:24.220 somebody else you like in that field but
00:32:27.280 do a bad job of it because other people
00:32:29.720 won't recognize who you copied because
00:32:31.460 you're not very good at it and that's
00:32:33.320 exactly what I did so I tried to copy
00:32:35.820 Gary Larson's art and I tried to copy
00:32:38.820 some art from you know mad magazine and
00:32:42.100 some other people and I would try to do
00:32:43.820 it the way they did it as best I could
00:32:46.640 but if I would draw a character trying to
00:32:49.600 make it the way Gary Larson would draw it
00:32:51.800 it wouldn't come out right and it would
00:32:54.380 look like my own character but it was
00:32:56.100 still okay because it looked original so
00:32:59.080 doing a bad job at copying other
00:33:02.280 artists makes you look creative so that's
00:33:06.800 the easy way to get there all right
00:33:07.900 thanks for the question thank you all
00:33:13.340 right let's try Kim see if Kim has a
00:33:19.540 question for me Kim do you have a
00:33:22.100 question for me all right is your current
00:33:28.280 thought about whether the virus was
00:33:31.420 released from the Wuhan lab versus not
00:33:34.140 well would you say released it was I mean
00:33:38.660 I've seen possible possibilities there
00:33:41.640 wasn't you know it was an accidental
00:33:43.040 release yeah I don't think there's any
00:33:46.520 there's no chance in my mind there's no
00:33:48.340 chance anybody did it intentionally is
00:33:50.120 that the question no I was actually
00:33:52.860 wondering if you've delved into whether
00:33:54.500 it was naturally occurring it came from
00:33:56.580 the wet market well you know that's in
00:34:00.400 the category of things we'll never know
00:34:02.060 for sure but if I had to if I had to bet
00:34:04.060 on it I'd put a I'd say 80% chance it
00:34:07.740 came from the lab 20% chance it came from
00:34:10.860 all other means put together so 80% chance
00:34:14.080 that's what it feels like to me but you
00:34:16.180 know we're all just flying in the dark
00:34:18.020 here I'm just saying that if there's such
00:34:20.980 an obvious way it could have come from a
00:34:23.260 lab and we know it was there and we don't
00:34:25.920 know that there was ever anything like that
00:34:27.540 in the wet market because they didn't have
00:34:29.000 bats it's leading that way so 80% chance
00:34:32.440 that sounds fair I'm with you on that
00:34:34.900 all right well we have time for one more
00:34:36.880 quickie okay go okay I'm the unusual
00:34:40.680 animal of being a conservative who loves
00:34:43.200 Elon Musk and I've noticed that he has
00:34:45.540 now become you know red-pilled let's say
00:34:47.680 about governmental fascism and I wonder if
00:34:52.420 he would you know disrupt that the next
00:34:55.080 industry to disrupt would be the news using
00:34:57.740 satellites his satellites that he's lost
00:34:59.980 I've never I've never seen any indication
00:35:04.000 that Elon was sort of interested in the
00:35:07.360 the news business that doesn't not true
00:35:09.640 he has called for something called
00:35:12.100 Pravda which is a website that would
00:35:15.540 check the truth yes he has he has ventured
00:35:19.880 towards that but but that's more of a fact
00:35:22.340 checking on the news as opposed as opposed to
00:35:24.840 becoming the news yeah I don't know if he
00:35:26.540 has an interest in that but it does seem
00:35:28.120 to me that you can't you can't be a proper
00:35:30.840 billionaire without controlling some part of
00:35:33.520 the news I think Jeff Bezos and also
00:35:37.000 Carlos Sims with the New York Times they've
00:35:39.420 sort of set the standard that if you're
00:35:41.460 going to be this rich it'd be nice to have
00:35:44.400 your own news organization exactly and Fox
00:35:47.520 has lost its way so I think we have there's
00:35:49.720 an opening there well as as Fox lost its
00:35:52.960 way or are they trying to show a little
00:35:57.400 bit more diversity of opinion I don't
00:36:00.480 know because it because you can see both
00:36:02.740 right it's not like any nobody's telling
00:36:05.000 Hannity what to say nobody's telling
00:36:06.800 Tucker what to say I mean so so you can't
00:36:09.800 say Fox lost his way if their biggest
00:36:12.640 talent is doing whatever the hell they
00:36:14.120 want just like always I mean I do think
00:36:17.140 you know I'm not there but my my opinion
00:36:20.520 from the outside is that guys like Tucker
00:36:24.140 and Hannity Laura Ingram you know the big
00:36:26.220 opinion voices I don't think anybody's
00:36:28.980 telling them what to say I don't think
00:36:30.640 their bosses are telling them maybe but
00:36:33.180 I'd be surprised on the big stuff anyway
00:36:35.200 so yeah the fact that you see more you
00:36:39.800 know more diversity of opinion on Fox I'm
00:36:42.220 not sure that's bad you know I can see why
00:36:44.640 some of the audience would say get that
00:36:46.500 out of there but you know think about the
00:36:48.980 biggest problem of CNN viewers is they
00:36:51.600 literally don't hear the news imagine
00:36:53.900 consuming what you think is news all day
00:36:56.700 and then you didn't get any because the
00:36:59.600 left just doesn't show right the opinion
00:37:02.120 on the right lost its way I don't think
00:37:04.700 that I think they do present the other
00:37:07.120 side better than CNN ever tried to so
00:37:10.120 there is that but and that's what I'm
00:37:11.900 looking for you know something that would
00:37:13.700 be in the middle in this way yeah I saw
00:37:16.100 there's a really good app that I'm going
00:37:19.140 to point you to I was going to mention
00:37:20.680 this as if I can quickly find it was a
00:37:23.120 ground something maybe somebody can remind
00:37:25.860 me before I find it quite quickly because
00:37:28.860 I know exactly where I'm looking and the
00:37:31.400 app is called this is from Jeff Pilkington
00:37:34.820 he noticed this it's called the ground
00:37:39.600 news so ground like the ground you're
00:37:43.280 standing on news it's an app and it it
00:37:47.200 takes all the different news sites and
00:37:49.160 puts them in their left right issues and
00:37:52.560 finds out where they have blind spots and
00:37:54.240 stuff so it sounds like the the idea that
00:37:57.000 Elon was going for sort of a way to know
00:37:59.780 who's giving it to you straight in
00:38:01.240 comparison to all the others it feels like
00:38:03.400 there's an app that's trying to do that I
00:38:05.140 haven't looked at it closely but Jeff has
00:38:08.240 Jeff Pilkington and he was impressed by
00:38:11.880 it so give it a look well good I've sent a
00:38:14.540 lot of people your way and shout out to
00:38:16.620 Tom Tennant all right thank you thanks
00:38:19.680 all right there's somebody I'm looking for
00:38:25.520 here if I can find him he's asked to join
00:38:30.160 damn it oh he keeps disappearing all right
00:38:35.760 let's try Andres
00:38:36.860 Andres are you there
00:38:42.500 Andres are you there
00:38:46.420 hello
00:38:48.540 ah hi do you have a question for me
00:38:52.920 ah yes basically in the country where I live we
00:38:56.100 have also now people who hallucinate that um the
00:39:00.520 governmental power basically on the
00:39:02.160 lockdown comes close to the nazi power
00:39:04.960 grab in 1933 and um well apparently they're
00:39:10.180 seeing an elephant in the room that the rest of the
00:39:12.180 people are not seeing I'm just wondering what's a good what's a good way to convince
00:39:17.340 somebody they're hallucinating something well uh convincing somebody that they're hallucinating
00:39:23.280 is almost impossible because they they're seeing it with their own eyes they feel it
00:39:29.220 that you can't talk somebody out of it but here's here's the best thing you could
00:39:33.280 do you the best thing you could do is get them to arrive at it through questions so rather
00:39:40.320 than say you're wrong you're seeing it wrong and people just harden in their in their opinion
00:39:45.340 you could say something like this really it looks like you think that the german situation
00:39:50.020 is like the beginning of maybe some kind of a nazi lockdown and they say yeah yeah then
00:39:55.340 you say how different are things in germany compared to all the other countries who are
00:39:59.940 dealing with the same thing are they are they treating it differently and then your friend
00:40:03.960 says well i don't know i haven't looked at other countries you say well seems to me if
00:40:08.660 you did they were they're all doing the same thing seems like every country is going
00:40:12.540 through exactly the same thing i'm wondering why only in germany it looks like the beginning
00:40:17.000 of a nazi takeover but in every other country such as you know you name it it's not but you
00:40:23.860 also realize that every country is having the same conversation right so i would broaden it
00:40:29.260 away from germany so that they can see that your situation is essentially identical to most
00:40:35.160 of the other industrialized countries and just say if it's happening everywhere i don't know is the
00:40:41.620 whole country going nazi i don't think so or the whole whole uh whole world probably not so that's
00:40:47.500 the best you could do is just point out that it's everywhere so you shouldn't worry about it
00:40:51.620 specifically that's that's not going to talk anybody out of it but it might make him pause a
00:40:56.820 little bit because that's the sort of thing they have to talk themselves out of so you just want to
00:41:01.600 ask the questions let them deal with the new the new expansion of their thinking maybe they go away
00:41:08.400 and come back better but mostly you're not going to be able to change minds on that stuff you know
00:41:13.140 only only uh events themselves could change it which means we get past this and things go back to
00:41:19.680 normal um but thanks for the question but before you go um correct me if i'm wrong but uh i got
00:41:27.220 disconnected from following you and then then i re-followed you does that sound
00:41:32.100 um no what i what i meant basically following back you never followed me before so uh no glitch
00:41:38.420 i never i never followed you before no no it was never shown to me oh okay i've interacted with you
00:41:45.220 so many times i thought i had so i'm following you now but thank you you're you're one of my best uh
00:41:50.020 favorite um twitter personalities because one of the great things about being in my position
00:41:56.900 you've got you know closing in on half a million uh followers is that it attracts some people who
00:42:04.740 are just unusually good at commenting on stuff and and you're one of them my you're my my top two or
00:42:10.260 three i think and so it makes what i do so much more valuable because i'll say something crazy and
00:42:15.940 people who actually know how to analyze things sort of know how to look at the world they come in in
00:42:20.580 the comments and say yes or no or should have thought of this and then i start with these bad
00:42:25.060 ideas and then the commenters such as yourself you're definitely one of the best uh just carve it
00:42:30.820 down into something real it's kind of a wonderful thing so thank you for that thanks a lot bye all right
00:42:36.100 take care that's uh it's a weird interface
00:42:45.060 all right uh it looks like the interface now let's see there we go we've got some unusual things
00:42:55.220 happening here on my screen let's try julie
00:42:59.940 julie julie julie julie will our technology work julie can you hear me do you have a question
00:43:10.020 i can go ahead i was wondering what your take is the university's opening in the fall you were
00:43:17.940 pretty early on saying watch what the other universities are doing and when they closed early
00:43:24.020 you said the other universities would and they did so i have two 20 year olds who are eager to
00:43:30.100 leave my house and get back to their lives at school where are their schools they are 20 years
00:43:37.780 old or almost 20 and they go to the university of connecticut yeah i think there'll be probably a
00:43:43.780 pretty big difference in terms of when things open based on the school and what resources they have
00:43:48.820 and all that but i do think that whatever it's going to be the same thing if some of them reopen
00:43:55.140 most of them will um and i don't know if they're going to wait to see if the experience is bad at the
00:44:00.820 other ones i doubt it i think they're just going to have to out of pure desperation and self-defense
00:44:06.900 i think they're going to have to open because the biggest risk to colleges is that people find out
00:44:11.780 they can do without them for a year one of the things that naval said uh recently is if we go a year
00:44:19.140 let's say this next coming year becomes more remote learning let's say the students don't go to
00:44:24.980 school they stay home but they do a year of school with uh remote learning and what what are they going
00:44:31.300 to pay for that are they going to pay the same as they would if they were there in person you know
00:44:35.300 not counting the room and board part and and uh what happens at the end if they get just as good
00:44:41.300 an education uh but they did it remotely how is the college going to justify charging the same
00:44:47.940 amount next year exactly exactly because especially with engineering you really need the lab work
00:44:54.100 you need to be being on it you can't just learn through the computer very well although i think
00:45:00.100 that's just because we're not good at it yet i would argue that we will reach a point where
00:45:04.500 learning it on the computer will be so much better i mean you'll you'll you'll be able to have a you
00:45:09.300 know a 3d view you'll be on your computer and when you're doing engineering you'll actually be able to
00:45:14.260 reach out and touch objects that don't exist and put them together so you know once you're actually
00:45:19.140 manipulating a virtual space with virtual objects then the online stuff will be way better than in
00:45:25.060 person but not yet all right thanks for the question thank you thank you
00:45:31.940 yeah college is going to be just a mess i'm so glad i'm not having to deal with that
00:45:36.980 all right joe it looks like you came back
00:45:42.500 joe joe hey joe
00:45:47.860 do you have a question for me joe
00:45:51.380 scott yes do you have a question yes um um i really enjoy your show and so i really value what
00:45:58.740 you do but i have to know with this ongoing coup is someone going to get perp walk i i gotta see
00:46:05.140 somebody high level punished well the problem is that the people at the high level are smart enough
00:46:12.500 to not leave any uh let's say you know bloody gloves at the scene so what i would expect is
00:46:20.420 it's going to come down to something like well i knew the president wanted me to do this but he didn't
00:46:26.260 say it or he didn't say it but it was obvious that this would be a good thing and he'd like it
00:46:32.100 or uh clapper didn't directly tell us to do this but we interpreted this as part of our job so you
00:46:39.060 get this this weird um you know not direct evidence of the assuming that there was any kind of a ring
00:46:46.500 leader or ring leaders i don't think there's going to be direct evidence for them to be involved i think
00:46:52.260 it will be at most a verbal conversation that could be interpreted two ways so i don't i don't think you
00:46:59.940 going to see anybody at a at a brennan clapper or obama level doing a purple one i don't think
00:47:05.140 that's oh no no i i get that but maybe comey he he seems like a natural fall guy from a simulation
00:47:11.780 perspective he does he does kobe seems like i mean it feels like if you wrote this as a movie
00:47:18.660 kobe would be going down i feel the same way and i don't know exactly why that was the point i wanted
00:47:24.980 to make i see his name even sounds like commie you know it's perfect yeah commie that is funny
00:47:33.060 um yeah there's there's something um there's something about comey that makes him seem like
00:47:38.580 the natural for that i'd bet against it though because you know everything that comey has done
00:47:44.420 uh indicates that he's smart enough to know how the system works i mean he doesn't yeah you so comey's
00:47:50.500 another one you you can say whatever you want to say about him if you like him or don't like him
00:47:54.740 but you can't say he's not smart right i mean he's a smart guy he's smart with air cover and smart
00:48:00.980 without air cover too you know what i mean yeah well okay if the bosses love you you know you don't
00:48:06.660 have to be that smart that's true that's true but yeah i don't yeah go ahead i i just love what
00:48:12.820 you've been talking about lately in terms of the simulation stuff i found it in my own life
00:48:17.620 you've been you've been really insightful you've validated a lot of things i've said i knew
00:48:23.220 president trump would win the moment i saw him come down those stairs everybody thought i was insane
00:48:28.660 i never relented once i said have you seen hillary clinton have you seen this guy i was even a fan
00:48:36.740 i'm just saying you know your bullshit detector that that that is that really resonated and your
00:48:42.580 island stuff you know the prisoner island i was on prisoner island i know what you're talking about
00:48:47.620 uh okay good well thanks i'm glad glad that resonates thanks joe all right let's take one
00:48:56.420 more we'll give you one more can't we who really really wants to talk to me badly i don't know if
00:49:04.980 anybody does but we'll find out all right leanne are you connected hi what's your question land
00:49:12.420 okay it's about the convict island thing you brought up on last night's periscope okay yeah
00:49:19.060 and when i was hearing you say that i thought to myself i think i have one of those stories real or
00:49:24.580 not right but i'm just wondering if it if it's a little off and i'm not sure if i should be using
00:49:31.780 it as a story so i wanted to tell you all right yes you you can do it but you have to make it the
00:49:37.060 quick version because okay yes absolutely um mine's always involves a plane crash um i'm always in it
00:49:43.380 whether i'm actually on a plane or just thinking about it walking around and um i'm always i always
00:49:48.500 survive no matter the scenario whether i go into a side of a mountain or into the water even when the
00:49:54.180 plane's going down i'm helping people like i'm and i'm thinking it's okay because i know i'm going to
00:49:58.260 survive this i'll always survive no matter the scenario well that that is a that is a really uh healthy
00:50:04.740 and productive view unless it keeps you unless it makes you do dangerous things you don't do
00:50:09.060 dangerous extreme sports do you no not at all no yeah then i like that because that sounds like just a
00:50:14.900 uh a really healthy mindset it's not really going to impinge on your real world you know because
00:50:21.540 you know it probably won't change anything you do in the real world but it'll keep you with that
00:50:25.620 positive mindset i like it now the only improvement i would offer on that yeah to the extent that you
00:50:31.220 could come up with new stories is one that had more about uh your own efforts being what keeps
00:50:37.220 you safe so right now yeah i always pull out macgyver type things in my head you know that i how i get
00:50:43.940 off the side of the mountain you know when it's full of snow and i'm you know wearing you know shorts
00:50:47.860 and a t-shirt or something you know right is that the kind of you mean or yeah yeah so so if you can
00:50:53.620 keep your little uh imaginary story where you're the hero through your own good work and let's say your
00:50:59.940 good work is something you could actually do you know something or humanly you could do it might be
00:51:04.900 a stretch but it's humanly possible uh and i i like where you're going with that okay i'll keep uh
00:51:12.260 rewriting the story a little bit thank you thank you so for those of you who uh didn't get the context
00:51:19.380 there last night i was talking about having stories of your life and just briefly one of my stories that's
00:51:26.420 not a real story but one that i keep as like uh an operating system for the rest of my software in
00:51:32.180 my head it's it's the thing that keeps me um tuned to winning if you will and my story is that uh imagine
00:51:40.100 i'm dropped onto the island of convicts it's only prisoners on this island and i'm dropped off from
00:51:46.020 the helicopter and on day one they beat me up day two they beat me up day three they beat me up day
00:51:53.220 day seven they beat me up i'm just like you know abused and turned into like you know human human
00:52:00.180 whatever but if you come back in a year i'm in charge of the island and i've killed everybody
00:52:06.180 who touched me so that's the story that i keep because you could beat me up for a week or two or a
00:52:13.140 month but when i'm done if i ever get a little bit of traction if you ever turn your back if i get the
00:52:22.420 slightest advantage i'm going to run your damn island and i'm going to kill every one of you
00:52:28.020 and you can bet on it so that's that's the software i keep in my head that i apply to every situation
00:52:34.580 because you come into situations and day one is often not so good and day two is often not so good
00:52:41.060 too and three weeks in it's not so good but i'm going to run the island so it doesn't matter what the
00:52:48.180 actual situation is i tell myself yeah getting beat up the first week that's just part of the job
00:52:54.580 i'm going to run this island so it doesn't have to be true it just has to be a story you run in your
00:53:00.660 head that you you let influence your general demeanor so it's how you program your personality
00:53:07.860 use with stories because we're story creatures
00:53:13.540 all right um so that's what you missed um
00:53:18.740 never doubt the power of coconut and coconut pies well i don't know what that means but i've never
00:53:24.420 doubted i guess that's the island
00:53:29.700 uh may we know your island takeover plan roughly speaking yes yes i'll tell you i would be able
00:53:37.780 to influence people one at a time to think that working with me was better than not so i would
00:53:46.980 convince people one at a time that being on my side was their best play until i had enough of them
00:53:53.860 and then i'd run the island but it'd be a one one one one on one thing you'd have to convince them
00:53:58.660 individually all right that is all um
00:54:06.500 ben says in the comments i'm scott's prison lover in my dream well you need to upgrade your uh your
00:54:12.660 movie story that's the worst possible one that was pretty funny though all right that's all i got
00:54:18.820 for now i'll talk to you tonight you know where
00:54:28.660 you
00:54:30.660 you