Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 09, 2024


Part 2 of 2： Episode 2408 CWSA 03⧸09⧸24


Episode Stats

Length

39 minutes

Words per Minute

142.4576

Word Count

5,603

Sentence Count

459

Misogynist Sentences

9

Hate Speech Sentences

7


Summary

In this episode of the podcast, Alex Blumbergbergberg talks about why he doesn't believe in free will and why it's a good thing. He also talks about the importance of climate change and why you should focus on climate change, not climate change.


Transcript

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00:00:34.080 Yeah.
00:00:34.900 All right.
00:00:35.480 Well, I guess I'm done with that.
00:00:37.980 So the Sam Harris was trending, which is never good news for Sam Harris.
00:00:42.540 And this Joe Schmoe guy said,
00:00:45.420 So every success and every failure means nothing.
00:00:47.440 There's no good and evil because people have no say in their actions.
00:00:50.540 It's a dangerous line of thinking.
00:00:52.940 And what I was saying was, I don't believe in free will.
00:00:56.880 What am I doing that's dangerous?
00:00:58.240 Yes.
00:01:00.000 Sam Harris doesn't believe in free will.
00:01:02.360 What's he doing because of that is dangerous?
00:01:06.080 Are we committing some crimes because we don't believe in free will?
00:01:10.420 No.
00:01:10.860 Well, you act exactly the same if you believe in free will or not.
00:01:15.680 So it's not dangerous.
00:01:17.240 It's the opposite of dangerous.
00:01:19.520 It's just a little philosophical thing that has no impact on you whatsoever.
00:01:23.700 Because you're going to do what you're going to do.
00:01:25.820 And then you're going to rationalize it after the fact.
00:01:28.340 Always have.
00:01:28.980 Always will.
00:01:29.680 It doesn't matter if you know it.
00:01:31.080 Knowing that you do it doesn't stop it because you don't have another way to act.
00:01:36.000 There's no other way to be.
00:01:38.160 We just act like it's real.
00:01:39.660 But in general, you should always believe that a claim that magic exists is never as strong
00:01:47.760 as a claim that magic doesn't exist.
00:01:49.780 So free will is sort of connected to a soul.
00:01:57.260 And those would be magic in the sense that they're not part of the physical cause and effect world.
00:02:03.320 So I'm going to call magic anything that's outside of physics, basically.
00:02:08.060 So it might exist, but it'd be outside of physics.
00:02:12.940 So if you're going to ever guess the likelihood of something, the person who says you're only
00:02:17.720 imagining that there's magic, it doesn't really exist, is going to be right so far every time.
00:02:25.880 A hundred percent record.
00:02:27.960 Never been wrong yet that magic isn't real.
00:02:30.520 So, but more to the point, when Joe Schmo says, but there would be no meaning to life if we don't have free will.
00:02:41.980 It's deeper than that.
00:02:43.660 There's no meaning to meaning.
00:02:46.400 You don't have to worry that there's no meaning to life.
00:02:50.740 Because the word meaning doesn't have meaning.
00:02:54.600 So anybody on that page?
00:02:57.340 Do you understand that there's no meaning to the word meaning?
00:03:00.520 What's that mean?
00:03:02.460 So not having it doesn't mean anything.
00:03:05.320 And having it doesn't mean anything.
00:03:07.020 But I'll tell you what feels like meaning.
00:03:10.340 And this is actually one of the most useful things you'll ever hear.
00:03:13.920 What feels like meaning is anytime that you're close to the mating process, you'll always feel like you have meaning.
00:03:22.840 For example, you could be terribly unhappy in your day-to-day life, in your family life.
00:03:29.280 But if you're part of a process of raising young people into older people, you have meaning.
00:03:35.960 You know, it might not be a joy every day, but you'd have meaning.
00:03:38.700 You'd like, oh yeah, my meaning is to take care of my family.
00:03:41.640 So if you're, you know, dating, if you like you have meaning, if you're working out at the gym, so that you can be healthy, so that somebody will want to mate with you, that's part of the mating process.
00:03:53.040 So everything you can do, whether it's earning money, going to the gym, eating right, dating, starting a family, every part of that's connected to the most basic things that a human does, which is our most important impulse is to create more humans.
00:04:08.460 Everything is subsidiary to that, and not because of some intellectual reason, it's we evolved so that the people who reproduce are the ones who survived.
00:04:20.620 So we have this imperative that's evolved into us, and when you're consistent with the imperative, you're doing anything that helps, and it could be indirect, like you could be a school teacher.
00:04:33.560 That's definitely helping, because you're creating, you know, good people out of, you know, young people.
00:04:38.720 So if you want meaning, find something that supports the process of humans surviving and thriving, and that will give you a sense of meaning every time.
00:04:51.620 Here's a climate reframe that I thought was amazing.
00:04:54.420 Alex Epstein, he does a lot of writing and talking and advocating on the topic of climate.
00:05:02.660 So instead of addressing climate change, here's the reframe.
00:05:09.040 The reframe is, climate change is the wrong target.
00:05:12.560 We want to, quote, reduce climate danger.
00:05:16.500 Oh, that's good.
00:05:18.800 If you say you want to stop climate change, that drives a certain set of behaviors.
00:05:24.700 If you say you want to reduce climate danger, that's a whole different behaviors.
00:05:30.800 And what's more important, stopping a change or stopping how it affects us poorly?
00:05:38.440 There's a big difference.
00:05:40.100 The best thing you can do is get rid of the danger.
00:05:44.300 And we've been great at that so far.
00:05:49.060 So if you're trying to reduce the danger, you might, for example, let's say reinforce your dikes.
00:05:56.360 You know, reinforce the dikes.
00:05:59.420 That would reduce your danger.
00:06:01.620 But if you want to reduce the change, well, good luck.
00:06:05.460 You're going to have to tell China to do different things.
00:06:08.360 We can't.
00:06:09.820 So working on reducing the change might be impossible.
00:06:13.880 But certainly you could work on reducing the danger.
00:06:16.520 That's a really good reframe.
00:06:18.140 That's probably the best reframe I've heard yet on climate.
00:06:21.360 And it was right there.
00:06:23.240 It was sort of obvious.
00:06:25.160 But it took until Alex said it out loud that it made sense.
00:06:30.360 So apparently Hunter Biden came up with some conspiracy theory, defense for his tax charges, his not paying taxes charges.
00:06:38.520 And the idea was that the only reason he's being charged, or maybe there's a little special attention on, is because the Republicans are pushing it.
00:06:48.080 So that was Hunter's defense, in part, that it's because the, you know, the whole, did the comments just stop?
00:07:00.460 Oh, there we go.
00:07:02.360 That it was really the Republicans and Trump was really behind it, because they're making a big political thing out of it, and it wouldn't be such a big deal if not for that.
00:07:12.020 But that was rejected.
00:07:13.360 And here, the quote of how it was rejected is kind of funny.
00:07:16.220 The defendant fails to explain how President Biden or the Attorney General, to whom the special counsel reports, or the special counsel himself, or his team of prosecutors, are acting at the direction of former President Trump or congressional Republicans, or how this current executive branch approved allegedly discriminatory charges against the president's son at the direction of former President Trump.
00:07:41.460 It is pretty funny.
00:07:43.460 It is pretty funny that he's saying the only reason he's being charged is because Republicans, and Republicans have no power.
00:07:51.200 It's entirely the Biden administration doing all of it, their own appointees.
00:07:56.940 And he's still claiming it's the damn Republicans.
00:08:02.000 Anyway, let's talk about the TikTok ban, which might have something to do with why my internet doesn't work.
00:08:09.420 But both Trump and Vivek have now come out opposed to banning it.
00:08:18.100 So Vivek and Trump are both opposed to banning TikTok.
00:08:22.720 And Trump used to be in favor of it.
00:08:25.460 On top of that, Rand Paul and Thomas Massey are both against banning it.
00:08:31.840 Now, what do those four people have in common?
00:08:36.840 Rand Paul, Thomas Massey, Vivek, and Trump.
00:08:43.080 Well, I haven't heard from Trump directly, but I can say that Vivek, Rand Paul, and Thomas Massey have something in common.
00:08:49.700 That they talk about TikTok as a data security problem.
00:08:53.600 When that's not the problem, it's just one of them.
00:08:57.940 The problem is persuasion.
00:08:59.980 That's the dangerous part.
00:09:01.520 And they all sort of obviously ignore the obvious.
00:09:07.420 I mean, it's just the biggest thing.
00:09:09.700 And they just act like that's not the thing.
00:09:12.360 Now, if these were stupid fucking idiots, what would I say is the explanation for why they can't seem to understand this simple concept?
00:09:22.060 I would say they're fucking idiots, right?
00:09:26.000 If De Niro said this, I'd say, oh, you fucking idiot.
00:09:30.520 You don't even know that persuasion is the main problem.
00:09:34.420 Suppose, I don't know, some Democrat said it.
00:09:39.020 I'd just say, you fucking idiot.
00:09:40.040 But what happens if Rand Paul, Thomas Massey, and Vivek are all on the same side and all very, very consciously and knowingly ignoring the biggest part of the story?
00:09:53.260 How do you explain that?
00:09:54.380 There's only one way.
00:09:58.980 And it's not that they're stupid.
00:10:02.020 Yeah.
00:10:02.520 Apparently, the CIA has already penetrated TikTok and can get everything it wants.
00:10:08.800 And maybe they have some value because if you're inside any of the social networks, then you can track all the terrorists and the bad guys and do all the things that the CIA needs to do.
00:10:19.840 So my guess is that they've already figured out how to corrupt it without owning it.
00:10:25.000 Otherwise, there's no way that Trump would have changed on this.
00:10:31.720 You know, a liberal woman who screamed in your face, Scott Adams is an idiot.
00:10:38.260 Oh, yes.
00:10:39.160 So there's something going on.
00:10:44.300 All right.
00:10:45.280 Would you agree there's something going on?
00:10:48.240 Because I've reminded all of these people at some point that it's the persuasion risk.
00:10:53.860 They've all heard it.
00:10:55.580 They all know it.
00:10:57.080 But they're ignoring it.
00:10:58.300 Why are they doing it so pointedly?
00:11:01.040 Well, they're lying.
00:11:02.680 They're lying.
00:11:03.700 So in my opinion, Rand Paul, Thomas Massey, and Vivek are all lying.
00:11:07.620 And Trump as well, probably.
00:11:11.600 So I think all four are just lying to us.
00:11:14.280 About what?
00:11:16.060 I can only speculate.
00:11:18.260 But I speculate that they're lying because there's some bigger play here that we don't understand.
00:11:24.580 In other words, there might be a national security benefit to keeping it that they know about, but they can't tell us.
00:11:32.220 But they're definitely lying.
00:11:33.280 The thing is that when you see these four people lying to you about this, there's something else completely going on.
00:11:42.260 Would you agree that there's something going on and they're definitely lying?
00:11:47.880 Yeah.
00:11:48.420 Definitely lying.
00:11:50.240 Definitely something else going on.
00:11:51.680 But here's the weird part.
00:11:54.800 These are all people I trust.
00:11:58.600 Isn't that weird?
00:12:00.500 If you said, name four people who, you know, not counting hyperbole.
00:12:05.960 You know, Trump does a lot of hyperbole.
00:12:07.480 But when it comes down to something that's real, I believe these are four people who would not lie to me unless the national security was at stake.
00:12:16.320 So there must be a national security element to this that is not obvious to us, because I don't believe these four are stupid.
00:12:24.240 They're not.
00:12:25.420 They're the most brilliant people around.
00:12:27.720 And they definitely know what the real problem is, the persuasion.
00:12:31.920 So they must have gotten a handle on it.
00:12:33.960 The CIA must be driving more than we know.
00:12:36.440 Maybe they have actual functional control of the algorithm by now.
00:12:39.220 Kevin O'Leary said that there's no way TikTok's going to be banned, because if it's forced to be sold, which is one of the options, they have to either shut it down or sell it to an American.
00:12:53.940 Kevin O'Leary said he'll buy it.
00:12:56.620 He's not an American, is he?
00:12:59.820 Isn't he Canadian?
00:13:02.160 Yeah.
00:13:02.400 So do you think that America would allow it if a Canadian owns it?
00:13:10.300 Here's the problem.
00:13:12.640 So Kevin O'Leary, you know, he's a naturalized citizen, somebody says.
00:13:20.180 That would make a difference to me.
00:13:23.140 Is he a naturalized citizen?
00:13:28.080 Wife is American.
00:13:29.140 Wife is American.
00:13:31.760 Well, it would be an interesting thing.
00:13:34.060 I don't trust Canada.
00:13:36.180 So if Canada has any power over Kevin O'Leary, I wouldn't trust him.
00:13:42.040 I trust him.
00:13:43.640 But not if Canada is, you know, making him a puppet because it's his country.
00:13:50.360 So I'd be leery of that.
00:13:52.300 I don't know that anybody would be able to buy it because ByteDance doesn't want to sell it.
00:13:56.940 So they're saying they won't sell it.
00:13:59.140 We'll see.
00:14:01.100 And of course, TikTok continues to advertise in Fox News.
00:14:06.480 This is one of Fox News major advertisers now.
00:14:09.640 So everything that you think about TikTok must be wrong.
00:14:15.100 It must be wrong.
00:14:16.320 And it's interesting that all four of these people would be willing to destroy our children to maintain it.
00:14:24.100 And they're giving us the bullshit argument that it's free speech.
00:14:28.660 Do you think that any of these people think that propaganda from China is free speech?
00:14:34.040 No, they don't believe that.
00:14:37.340 Of course not.
00:14:38.820 So they are lying to us.
00:14:40.740 I just don't know what the real truth is.
00:14:44.720 Sure.
00:14:45.440 It's not good, though.
00:14:46.440 But I don't think they're all bought by China, but that would explain it all, wouldn't it?
00:14:51.920 If all four of them were owned by China, from Trump through Rand Paul, Thomas Massey, and Vivek, that would explain everything we see.
00:15:00.500 Wouldn't it?
00:15:01.140 So you can't rule that out.
00:15:04.940 I hate to say it, but you have to consider one of the possibilities that China has functional control over all four of these people.
00:15:12.960 Because it doesn't make sense what they're saying.
00:15:15.000 What they're saying is nonsense.
00:15:16.760 It's like they suddenly became stupid or something.
00:15:20.180 So there's something else going on because they're not stupid.
00:15:25.380 Anyway, the State of the Union is still reverberating.
00:15:28.360 Bill Maher and everybody's calling Biden feisty.
00:15:32.100 I guess he's feisty.
00:15:33.520 That's the word we're going to use.
00:15:35.540 Now, he got a bump from it, and I will agree he exceeded expectations.
00:15:41.660 But do you think he can keep it up?
00:15:43.900 Nobody thinks he can keep it up.
00:15:46.120 So I think that whatever bump he got from the State of the Union will wear off a few weeks.
00:15:51.980 Yeah.
00:15:53.080 35% of viewers said they had a negative reaction, but most people seem positive about it.
00:15:58.360 De Niro was on the show.
00:16:02.760 Robert De Niro.
00:16:05.620 He's the basket case.
00:16:08.000 Let's see.
00:16:09.280 I guess he's the face of TDS.
00:16:11.040 Bill Maher asked him about the militarization of the New York subways, and apparently he hadn't heard about it.
00:16:23.440 Just hold that in your head.
00:16:25.640 De Niro, who lives in New York City, hadn't heard that they were militarizing the subway.
00:16:32.980 But he said that if Trump had militarized the subway, that it would be for a different reason.
00:16:40.880 Because if Trump did it, then, you know, it's part of his dictator takeover.
00:16:47.020 But if the governor did it, he's like, well, he's going to have to look into it.
00:16:50.040 He hasn't heard about it.
00:16:52.800 Okay.
00:16:54.000 But this is what De Niro says.
00:16:56.180 Quote, talking about Trump.
00:16:57.460 If he wins the election, you won't be on the show anymore, talking to Bill Maher.
00:17:02.020 He'll come looking for me.
00:17:04.000 There'll be things that happen that none of us can imagine.
00:17:06.940 That's what happens in that kind of dictatorship, which is what he says.
00:17:12.060 And he says you should take him at his word.
00:17:14.580 That's what Bill Maher says.
00:17:15.820 Took him at his word.
00:17:17.360 And then Bill Maher says the one thing he knows about Trump is that he'll never give up power.
00:17:21.940 He's not the president.
00:17:33.780 He gave up power.
00:17:36.000 He had no plan whatsoever for any kind of military takeover.
00:17:42.400 There's no evidence that he ever planned anything except finding out for sure whether the election was rigged.
00:17:49.140 How in the world does TDS guard Bill Maher sit there and say, I knew he would never give up power when he watched him give up power?
00:18:00.560 Now, he tried, of course, to cling to power with, you know, a political process.
00:18:07.900 But if all it is is a political process, why are we afraid of it?
00:18:13.840 We're supposed to do political processes.
00:18:16.280 We're supposed to do political process.
00:18:18.280 Wow.
00:18:19.940 So here's why De Niro probably doesn't know a single Republican.
00:18:27.280 Let me speak for every single Republican.
00:18:30.480 May I?
00:18:31.460 May I speak for every Republican?
00:18:34.420 Who would be okay with locking up De Niro and Bill Maher because they say things you don't like?
00:18:46.140 Which Republican would be in favor of locking them up for their opinions?
00:18:52.000 You're lying.
00:18:54.040 No, you don't believe that.
00:18:56.100 You're being hyperbolic.
00:18:57.320 You do not believe that you would lock them up for their opinions.
00:19:02.480 Stop it.
00:19:04.000 You're just making it worse.
00:19:05.480 None of you believe that.
00:19:07.780 And you'd have to never have met a Republican to think that they would want to lock up anybody for having a bad political opinion.
00:19:17.160 Yeah.
00:19:18.000 Now, let's do it the other way.
00:19:19.860 Let's suppose you did a poll.
00:19:20.820 Do you think Bill Maher should be in jail for his political opinions?
00:19:26.100 How many Republicans would say yes to that?
00:19:28.960 None except people joking, right?
00:19:31.140 Some people would joke or something, but none, basically none.
00:19:34.140 Now, imagine this.
00:19:35.560 How many January 6th protesters who are nonviolent, nonviolent, should still be in jail?
00:19:43.240 What do you think Democrats would say?
00:19:45.340 They'd say all of them.
00:19:46.660 They should all be in jail.
00:19:47.540 So, this is another case of Democrats projecting.
00:19:54.100 Democrats would project that Republicans would do what they've done to Republicans.
00:20:02.440 Do you know why they think that Republicans might do it?
00:20:05.760 Because they're talking about revenge.
00:20:08.840 And apparently, they're completely aware that revenge would make sense as a concept.
00:20:15.460 Do you know when that makes sense?
00:20:17.540 It makes sense when you're doing something that's so bad that revenge makes sense.
00:20:22.840 So, they're completely aware that what they've done is so bad that they need to worry about revenge.
00:20:29.820 Now, you could argue, no, Scott, they think it's not, you know, it wouldn't be legitimate revenge.
00:20:36.100 It would be just bad people doing bad things.
00:20:39.220 But I think at some level, they know where they're the baddies.
00:20:44.220 On some level.
00:20:45.840 They would never say it.
00:20:47.640 But there's no way you could watch your own team putting people in jail for protesting when we have a protest country.
00:20:55.360 And to imagine that that wasn't complete Hitler-like activity.
00:21:00.060 I think they know it on some level.
00:21:04.480 So, should they be afraid that a Trump dictatorship would get revenge and put assholes in jail just for free speech?
00:21:11.740 Which, it would be good revenge.
00:21:17.540 But I would certainly do what I could to stop it.
00:21:22.880 I don't want to live in a country where Bill Maher and Robert De Niro are in legal jeopardy.
00:21:31.800 Legal jeopardy?
00:21:33.140 We could take away their freedom because they had an opinion they don't like?
00:21:37.520 No, I'm not going to live in that country.
00:21:39.980 Now, if that happened, I would be in favor of assassination of the president.
00:21:43.460 Let me say it directly.
00:21:47.800 If Trump ever gave the order to round up De Niro and Bill Maher for their opinions, then I think the president should be assassinated.
00:22:01.100 So, just in case you're wondering where I stand on it.
00:22:05.820 That's never going to happen, so you don't have to worry about it.
00:22:09.240 Like, it's never going to happen.
00:22:11.320 It's just crazy, crazy shit.
00:22:13.460 All right.
00:22:16.360 The Mays account, M-A-Z-E, good follow on X platform, points this out.
00:22:23.580 It said, last night, talking about the State of the Union, Biden complained that the tax code is unfair, teachers are not paying enough, the cost of college is too high, America needs more clean energy jobs, Russia is out of control, and that the cost of health care is too high.
00:22:35.580 That's what he said at the State of the Union.
00:22:37.700 Let's see.
00:22:38.280 What did he say in 2008 at the DNC?
00:22:41.640 Biden said that Obama would reform the tax code, pay teachers more, make colleges and health care affordable, hold Russia accountable, and create a bunch of clean energy jobs.
00:22:51.140 Well, at least he's consistent.
00:22:55.040 He just doesn't realize that Obama didn't get it done, I guess.
00:23:00.080 There's some thought, Laura Loomer says, she's got a scoop that Vivek was favored to do the rebuttal to the State of the Union, but that Mitch McConnell vetoed that.
00:23:12.900 And instead, they came up with Katie Britt, who is trending on the X platform, simply for being terrible.
00:23:21.200 And that's bad.
00:23:22.200 And I think it's both Republicans and Democrats who are hitting you're the same.
00:23:31.640 I don't think there's, I haven't heard a single Republican say anything except this is a nightmare.
00:23:38.700 This is terrible.
00:23:39.540 Imagine showing that as your bench.
00:23:44.660 The whole idea of, you know, that usually some up-and-coming person doing a good job in the rebuttal is that you're showing you have a deep bench, you know, and maybe you're preparing somebody.
00:23:56.820 Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but although Obama kind of came out of nowhere because he was a junior senator and hadn't been in office very long.
00:24:06.340 So, but when you heard him talk, you got it, right?
00:24:13.660 The moment you heard Obama talk, you go, oh, he does have the goods.
00:24:18.160 He's very inexperienced, relatively speaking, but yeah, he's got that presidential thing.
00:24:25.780 Can you tell me what Republican or Republicans know Katie Britt and know her work and said to themselves, oh, she's going to light it up?
00:24:36.340 She's going to give us some Obama-level charisma.
00:24:41.420 How in the world did this decision get made?
00:24:44.320 We should know who made this decision.
00:24:46.480 I don't know if it was McConnell, but whoever made this decision is not capable.
00:24:52.720 Would you agree?
00:24:54.520 Whoever decided this was a good idea is not a capable person.
00:25:00.020 I don't know how that happened.
00:25:01.400 Well, the news today is that Laura Trump is going to be the co-chair of the RNC.
00:25:08.560 Who's the chair?
00:25:10.240 Did they pick a chair of the RNC?
00:25:12.080 And I missed that news.
00:25:14.200 Because they say the co-chair.
00:25:18.300 Anybody?
00:25:20.080 But have they picked somebody for sure?
00:25:21.560 I haven't heard any news if they have a chair, much less a co-chair.
00:25:28.280 Wally?
00:25:28.760 Who's Wally?
00:25:29.960 They actually did pick somebody?
00:25:31.700 Well, I guess I'll catch up on that.
00:25:34.520 A lot of people are saying Wally.
00:25:36.020 It's a name I've never heard.
00:25:39.260 Wally?
00:25:39.580 Anyway, people are saying typically, oh, my God, it's nepotism.
00:25:45.680 How could you possibly hire a family member?
00:25:49.000 Look at the disaster with Jared and Ivanka.
00:25:53.860 So I saw that in X because the disaster of Jared and Ivanka.
00:26:00.580 What was that disaster?
00:26:02.600 Let's see.
00:26:05.440 We had Ivanka, who almost everybody agrees was a positive.
00:26:11.120 You know, she's sort of a softer female version that Trump respected, gave him a little more perspective, I think.
00:26:19.360 I don't think anybody complained about Ivanka, did they?
00:26:22.380 Even once?
00:26:23.700 I've never heard even one complaint.
00:26:26.080 And Jared got to see Abraham Accords.
00:26:31.080 What did he do wrong?
00:26:32.600 I mean, you would almost think that hiring your family is a good idea if these were the only examples.
00:26:39.120 Now, let's talk about Lara Trump.
00:26:41.480 Now, she's interviewed me a few times on Zoom.
00:26:46.980 And my impression was very capable, very patriotic, very charismatic, all the energy in the world, connected to the right people.
00:27:01.000 She's kind of great.
00:27:02.600 Do you agree?
00:27:04.540 Am I wrong about that?
00:27:10.160 Yeah.
00:27:11.420 To me, she seems like a strong choice.
00:27:14.520 And we'll see.
00:27:16.820 Anyway, John Brennan was on MSNBC saying that the intel community may not give Trump, as a candidate, they might not give him all the good stuff because of his, quote, misuse of classified information.
00:27:34.680 Now, when MSNBC brings John Brennan on to say that Trump isn't trusted by the intelligence community, what is that?
00:27:44.600 That's exactly what it looks like.
00:27:49.660 Yeah.
00:27:50.220 Brennan is part of the current and ex-intelligence people who actually run the country.
00:27:56.740 And MSNBC and NBC News are among the vehicles that they use for influence.
00:28:03.540 So you're seeing the actual people who are in charge of the country.
00:28:09.080 Once you see who's actually in charge, everything makes sense after that.
00:28:14.580 Everything makes sense.
00:28:15.520 All right.
00:28:17.260 I heard a little bit more about IVF.
00:28:19.460 I was trying to figure out why.
00:28:21.140 Some conservatives don't like IVF, but Trump's in favor of it.
00:28:24.820 And the argument goes that the IVF, I guess you fertilize more than one egg to make sure you've got at least one good one.
00:28:33.560 And that it's common practice to either freeze the extras or abort them.
00:28:38.440 Some people would say the word abort because they're fertilized.
00:28:41.820 Now, this is a problem for anybody who believes that life begins at inception.
00:28:47.020 Inception would be the fertilized egg.
00:28:50.720 So that's the argument.
00:28:51.900 I was not aware of that argument because I, as you know, I do not believe in magic.
00:28:59.640 And so it never occurred to me that somebody would think a fertilized egg has a soul.
00:29:04.380 How many of you think a fertilized egg has a soul?
00:29:13.560 100% yes.
00:29:14.860 Yes, yes, yes.
00:29:16.640 Yes, yes, yes.
00:29:17.600 And so, all right, let me ask a related idea.
00:29:24.520 How many think a soul is a real thing?
00:29:27.960 How many thinks that a soul is a real thing?
00:29:32.420 Yes, yes, yes.
00:29:33.900 All right.
00:29:34.240 Now, I do understand that belief and science are different things.
00:29:43.560 So, I'm very pro-religion, which means that I respect your opinions.
00:29:49.980 Are you okay with that?
00:29:51.640 Are you okay if I disagree, but I have complete respect for your opinion?
00:29:54.680 And I have a lot of respect for anything that is erring on the side of life.
00:30:01.080 I respect that.
00:30:02.460 It's not the choices I would make, personally, in my own life.
00:30:05.500 But when I see other people erring on the side of life, you know, if there's any question whether it's life, you've got to save it.
00:30:13.140 But I'm glad I live among them.
00:30:16.300 I'm glad I live among people who put life as their top requirement.
00:30:22.500 But I also can see why people would have a different point of view.
00:30:26.400 So, you have my maximum respect while I have a different view.
00:30:32.020 Are you okay with that?
00:30:36.020 Good.
00:30:37.600 Now, we understand each other.
00:30:39.240 So, now I understand what your point of view is.
00:30:44.000 And there's no arguing whether a soul exists or a soul doesn't exist, right?
00:30:48.420 There would be no point of that.
00:30:49.840 And, by the way, why would I want to do it?
00:30:52.360 Why would I want to talk you out of that?
00:30:55.580 For some convenience for myself?
00:31:00.860 I don't know.
00:31:02.100 There are a lot of things where you like the fact that there are people on the other side.
00:31:06.520 There's, like, a useful tension.
00:31:09.240 So, one of the places that there's a useful tension would be, you know, somebody who's
00:31:18.120 pro-Trump and somebody who's against Trump, right?
00:31:21.600 So, it's useful that they're anti-Trump people.
00:31:26.680 It's useful that they're anti-Biden people because it's the, you know, the creative tension
00:31:32.040 that allows you to do anything.
00:31:33.540 Otherwise, you end up with a dictator.
00:31:37.000 However, I've long predicted that AI is going to make us wonder about souls.
00:31:43.420 Because once AI is indistinguishable from a human life, which is guaranteed at this point,
00:31:50.920 we're going to have lots of questions about whether it has a soul.
00:31:54.360 So, it's going to get complicated.
00:31:58.680 Trump is getting a little more controversial lately.
00:32:02.020 First of all, backing IVF.
00:32:04.100 That might be a problem for his supporters.
00:32:05.920 But also, he's full-throatedly pro-vaccine.
00:32:12.660 Not pro-mandate, but he says that, he says the vaccine saved us from COVID.
00:32:20.540 I know.
00:32:21.660 I know.
00:32:23.400 You can say it in the comments.
00:32:25.440 He says, he says the vaccine saved us.
00:32:30.140 Now, keep in mind, he has to say that.
00:32:33.360 Because if it's not true, then he oversaw a mass murder.
00:32:40.260 So, Trump has to say it worked.
00:32:44.680 He couldn't get elected, and, you know, his legacy would be destroyed if it didn't.
00:32:50.600 Now, how many of you would say it's fair to say that it did work briefly for older people?
00:33:00.920 Not during Omicron, but during the heavy phase.
00:33:04.680 Is there anybody who believes that the science, when objectively looked at, shows more benefit than cost?
00:33:15.300 Because that's the current scientific consensus, which doesn't mean anything.
00:33:21.260 That's the current consensus.
00:33:24.560 But you don't believe the, so you don't believe the doctors, even the doctors who are conservatives.
00:33:31.440 Because there'd be a lot of conservative doctors who would agree that it did work for older people,
00:33:38.620 and during the worst part of it, but not during Omicron.
00:33:41.380 So, all right.
00:33:45.800 Well, I'm too bored with the argument about vaccines and ivermectin and all that stuff.
00:33:51.760 I'll just point out the political ramifications are people are going to have a hard time voting for Trump, aren't they?
00:34:00.000 Yeah.
00:34:00.220 I think Dr. Drew says that it looks like it was more benefit than not for the older people.
00:34:07.220 Don't know.
00:34:08.960 All right.
00:34:09.620 Alex Jones, you know, says it's BS.
00:34:13.240 So, he's going to, Trump is going to get a lot of pushback on the vaccines.
00:34:19.340 I feel like there's a better way to handle the vaccine question.
00:34:23.140 And crowing that he was a big success is not going to get him any Democrats, but it's definitely going to cost him Republicans.
00:34:31.260 So, why is he doing it?
00:34:33.680 Don't you think there's a better way to frame it?
00:34:35.780 Here's how I would have framed it if I were him.
00:34:41.780 Well, actually, there is no way to frame this right.
00:34:45.860 I think Vivek would have helped him out here if there was any way to do it right.
00:34:50.420 Probably wasn't.
00:34:51.860 There probably was no way that, there's probably no way to win on this argument.
00:34:55.920 Because he's just too associated with the vaccine, and there's no way he's going to change people's mind about that.
00:35:01.920 All right.
00:35:02.680 And there's a new Alzheimer's drug from Eli Lilly, but the FDA is delaying it because they want to get some more information.
00:35:12.400 And they're going to make, let's say, more scrutiny on it.
00:35:18.160 That's the quick version.
00:35:20.440 And it makes me wonder if the FDA has found religion, or is this normal?
00:35:28.020 Do you think they're trying harder not to put any dangerous drugs out there?
00:35:33.680 Yeah.
00:35:34.700 I said FDI.
00:35:36.700 I don't know.
00:35:37.640 It's probably just a bureaucratic thing.
00:35:40.100 We heard more about Mitch McConnell's sister-in-law, who died in the lake trapped in her Tesla.
00:35:47.660 And we all suspected that there was some kind of foul play.
00:35:52.840 Well, it turns out there was no foul play.
00:35:56.800 But I'm very sad that I know it.
00:36:00.020 Because the reason we know it, if you haven't heard this, this is terrible.
00:36:05.560 She made a phone call while she was submerged in the car.
00:36:08.440 Yeah.
00:36:09.000 She made a phone call while she was submerged in the car.
00:36:18.160 So now we know that it was just she hit the wrong pedal.
00:36:22.860 And maybe she had a drink or something, but she hit the wrong pedal.
00:36:26.620 So there was nothing to it except she literally just was trying to back up and backed up down.
00:36:32.860 And apparently it slowly submerged and she made a phone call.
00:36:40.040 And the emergency crews didn't have the right equipment when they got there.
00:36:45.320 The emergency crews didn't have the right equipment.
00:36:50.480 So they didn't have any they didn't have any scuba.
00:36:54.040 You know, the divers could have broken a window and, you know, maybe given her breathing tube until they get her get her out.
00:36:59.140 But they also didn't have a long enough toe.
00:37:03.680 So they couldn't toe it out fast enough and they couldn't get to her.
00:37:09.000 And some apparently some of the people who were in attendance at the event, one of them dived in.
00:37:15.280 One of the women dived in.
00:37:18.580 I can't.
00:37:20.660 You know, I thought that Gaza food tragedy were some food dropped on some people who already had 51 days.
00:37:28.540 It was the worst thing ever.
00:37:30.100 But this is right at the top of my nightmare scenario.
00:37:35.100 The only good news and it's hard to call it that is that it wasn't some kind of a plot.
00:37:41.580 It was an accident.
00:37:43.680 I feel as though.
00:37:47.200 Musk needs to fix this.
00:37:48.860 There needs to be some kind of like an emergency ejection seat.
00:37:56.640 You know, not actually an ejection seat, but something that would blow the top off or something.
00:38:03.020 Yeah.
00:38:05.020 Auto glass breaker.
00:38:08.080 How many of you carry a windshield breaker in your car?
00:38:12.060 You know, I used to, but I don't think I have any more.
00:38:18.680 I think I might add one.
00:38:21.880 Alright.
00:38:23.720 Alright, well, that's all I got for today.
00:38:26.100 Too bad for those other plans.
00:38:27.520 Hurry!
00:38:28.120 What is the rush?
00:38:29.140 They're only open until September.
00:38:30.960 What?
00:38:31.780 Leguans.
00:38:32.260 Is that why we're in Coburg Beach?
00:38:33.960 Here, here.
00:38:34.800 Order me the mother cluckers.
00:38:36.100 A chicken sandwich!
00:38:36.960 Not just a chicken sandwich, Arthur!
00:38:39.560 Chicken marinated for 24 hours and tossed in their blend of herbs and spices before they become cold and crispy.
00:38:46.820 Slapped between two Guyanese sweet buns that are toasted to buttery perfection.
00:38:51.960 It's the best chicken sandwich in the world.
00:38:55.120 Alright, yeah, that does sound pretty good.
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