Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 968 Scott Adams： Simultaneous Sip Now

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00:00:10.000 Hey everybody, come on in here

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00:00:19.600 I'm a little bit late

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00:01:02.760 so Periscope has this minor bug in it

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00:01:25.760 good morning, good morning

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00:01:31.180 well today the news

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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

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00:01:50.740 are you ready?

00:01:51.280 here's the news

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00:01:55.700 there's some doctors

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00:02:01.400 potential coronavirus treatment

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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

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00:02:11.440 a good control group

00:02:12.380 blah blah blah blah blah blah

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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

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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

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00:02:39.900 scientific

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00:02:41.560 it's only 80 people

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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

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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

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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

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00:03:30.260 I didn't even know

00:03:31.840 exactly what it was

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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

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00:03:46.920 the wiretap

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00:03:50.800 what else he knew

00:03:51.680 what else did he know

00:03:53.360 hmm

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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

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00:04:23.840 Obamagate

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00:04:47.060 if it went down

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00:04:54.600 so the weirdest

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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

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00:05:25.440 Fox News

00:05:26.800 and they were

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00:05:50.980 here's the part

00:05:51.740 that blew my

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00:05:53.460 it's Joel Osteen

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00:05:56.620 the way he

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00:06:00.540 coronavirus

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00:06:02.340 is that God

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00:06:08.280 that

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00:06:22.700 coronavirus

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00:06:37.540 what I said

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00:06:42.260 Christianity part

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00:06:47.440 works as an

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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

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00:07:07.180 universe being

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00:07:09.800 and turn on TV

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00:08:01.000 going to change

00:08:01.480 their mind about

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00:08:04.140 never get it

00:08:04.680 I'll never get

00:08:05.560 credit for that

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00:08:10.080 variety of reasons

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00:08:12.040 Harris being the

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00:08:45.480 consensus is pretty

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00:08:47.580 Harris right now

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00:08:51.300 about Elizabeth

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00:08:52.740 strong second

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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 0.88

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

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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

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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

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00:09:47.300 doesn't that kind of 0.99

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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 1.00

00:10:16.060 we'll see the dumbest 1.00

00:10:20.380 pundit do you have a 1.00

00:10:22.280 does anybody have a

00:10:23.440 nomination for the 1.00

00:10:24.360 dumbest political 1.00

00:10:25.880 pundit working today I 1.00

00:10:28.700 want to say I want to

00:10:29.540 see your opinions now 0.99

00:10:31.020 when you say dumbest or 1.00

00:10:33.180 when I say dumbest I 0.99

00:10:34.880 don't mean that they 1.00

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 1.00

00:10:40.520 he's the dumbest one 1.00

00:10:41.640 that a lot of people 1.00

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 0.96

00:10:59.600 say ridiculous things 0.86

00:11:00.980 but you think to 0.98

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 0.98

00:11:07.940 ridiculous things about 0.99

00:11:09.120 the other side you say 0.99

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 1.00

00:11:15.300 dumb you just know 1.00

00:11:16.900 that they've taken a 1.00

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 1.00

00:11:24.500 is stupid do you know 1.00

00:11:26.820 what it is give me some 1.00

00:11:28.760 of your guess about a

00:11:30.320 pundit who registers as 1.00

00:11:32.560 actually just stupid not 1.00

00:11:34.780 just disagreeing with you 1.00

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 0.99

00:11:45.300 dumbest guy on TV 1.00

00:11:46.220 doesn't he all right 1.00

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 1.00

00:11:58.760 dumb she's brilliant you 1.00

00:12:01.340 could hate everything she 0.99

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 0.99

00:12:12.440 dumb not even a little 1.00

00:12:14.380 bit I don't think Don 1.00

00:12:15.920 Lemon's dumb now they're 0.97

00:12:19.420 the ones Chris Cuomo he's 1.00

00:12:20.700 not dumb they're all the 0.94

00:12:21.760 ones that I would put in 0.98

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 0.66

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 0.99

00:15:51.980 this is the craziest dumbest thing I've 0.99

00:15:54.860 ever seen in my life it's I don't even 1.00

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 0.99

00:16:32.980 dumbest pundit first of all I would call 0.99

00:16:37.200 him a host not a pundit but I don't I 0.99

00:16:40.740 have no reason to believe that Don 0.98

00:16:42.240 Lemon is dumb what we see is you know 0.99

00:16:47.440 taking a team side but we don't see 1.00

00:16:49.500 dumbness I mean he's pretty high-level 0.98

00:16:52.460 jobs he does well I doubt he's dumb 0.99

00:16:54.200 think sink sink Iger how do you say 0.91

00:16:58.640 sinks last name Iger I don't think he's 0.94

00:17:03.280 dumb either I don't see anything that 0.99

00:17:05.540 would suggest that any of these people 1.00

00:17:06.880 are dumb or Mika Mika is not dumb are you 1.00

00:17:11.840 kidding me did you see your interview 1.00

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 0.79

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 1.00

00:21:13.440 you what it is because I think I think 0.98

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 0.94

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 0.99

00:26:53.760 pain in the ass that you know I think 0.99

00:26:56.620 twice all right yeah the question was 0.99

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 0.99

00:29:16.420 but but you're like a black swan 0.98

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 0.98

00:29:32.760 black swan I said you're a black swan oh I'm 1.00

00:29:34.860 a black swan okay you're like sort of 0.99

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 0.96

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 0.98

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 0.98

00:38:30.160 damn it oh he keeps disappearing all right 0.97

00:38:35.760 let's try Andres 0.99

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 0.67

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 0.98

00:48:36.740 i'm just saying you know your bullshit detector that that that is that really resonated and your 0.91

00:48:42.580 island stuff you know the prisoner island i was on prisoner island i know what you're talking about 0.98

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 0.91

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 1.00

00:52:22.420 slightest advantage i'm going to run your damn island and i'm going to kill every one of you 1.00

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 0.99

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

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