Episode 1324 Scott Adams - Voter ID Law Arguments Dissected, Biden Press Conference Review in Advance

come on in here come on get in here i know you're scrambling to get your beverage ready you should have been up a little bit earlier now you know don't you well there are a lot of things that could go wrong today it's possible but none of them will matter once you've had the simultaneous sip oh yeah the problems will still be there but you won't care about them nearly as much in fact i often like to look at the world this way do you have problems or do you have insufficient coffee yeah see where i'm heading with this right i don't think you have problems i think you have insufficient coffee and we're going to fix that right now although you don't need coffee could be anything but you need a cup or a margaret or glass a tanker tell us to sign a canteen juggle flash vessel if any kind filled with favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day thing that makes everything better except the elections for some reason it's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now go just as good as i was hoping maybe better well have you seen my mascot on twitter a lot of you are not famous but when you get famous you can get a mascot now excuse me he doesn't think he's a mascot but i don't think that's up to him he thinks he's my critic who spends all of his days researching old tweets i've made to put them into the comments section of anything i tweet to criticize me now of course everything's out of context and his criticisms uh are non-sensible but rather than blocking him which would be too easy because he seems to have dedicated a good part of his day every day to just trying to say bad things about me on my twitter feed so i decided to reframe him as my mascot because mascots are silly and you don't really care what they do they just draw attention to you so here's my mascot from now on and i referred to him as my mascot and he tried to respond to that with a a clever rejoinder now here is a problem i'm a professional humorist he's a guy who spends most of his day criticizing a stranger he can't really compete in this reframing stuff but he tried and he's a very a very entertaining mascot now i've used this reframe before and it's one that you can use i've told you this before back when i owned a restaurant one of the employees decided to do a protest so he staged his own protest every day with a little sign just by himself in front of the restaurant and day after day he'd be there and my manager at the time said you know you know what do we do about this and i said do about it why would you want to fix anything not everybody gets a mascot and so we redefined the protester as a mascot and as soon as we did it just was fun and i'd come by it's like hey where's the mascot oh he was just here he'll be back in a while took a break so you can reframe things from problems to mascots and watch how it stops bothering you twitter user roly-poly i had a good suggestion for your job right if you have a boss here's a good suggestion you can employ this and he says in a tweet he goes anytime you need to admit a mistake to a boss or a client bring up this suez canal ship disaster talk to them about it for two to four minutes get them thinking about how many billions of dollars one person's mistake cost then tell them about your mistake it'll look smaller completely that it's just completely true now it's funny but it's completely true that would literally work so roly-poly has been paying attention so uh joe biden put kamal harris in charge of the migrant crisis so now she has a portfolio what do you make of that is it because the migrant crisis is a big problem so you need to put you know your your highest firepower on that job is that why maybe um somebody suggested it so that he won't that biden won't have to answer questions about immigration he'll just refer the questions to harris maybe maybe a little bit that's certainly a benefit side benefit but i have a hypothesis that he hates her because can you think of anything that would be a worse job than to be a democrat and an ex-prosecutor and being put in charge of immigration i literally can't think of a worse penalty because she's been so nice to him i mean other than calling him a giant racist during the primaries if you don't count that she's been really nice to him and he rewards her by giving her the one job she can't possibly succeed at it's like an impossible to succeed situation because the democrat philosophy makes it impossible to do anything practical so i feel like i feel like joe biden hates kabul harris and he's just you know he's showing us in a very uh very beta way all right or it could be just the vice president's cat portfolios and that was hers that's the other possibility um when biden was asked about the press conference that he will be having today we're all waiting for that that'll be interesting i'll be watching that and biden when when he was asked if he was preparing for the press conference biden said what and then the question was repeated and they said what press conference are you worried yet now my interpretation of this is that he was joking because it's very much like the dad jokes he likes to do you know you just when uh what is it when peter ducey would ask him you know who are you going to appoint to do whatever he likes to quip you i'm gonna point you it's just sort of his dad joke brushing something aside so i'm pretty sure he was joking about saying what press conference uh given that it was such a big story and everything it was funny well or he thought it was funny but here is my professional humorist advice on a self-deprecating humor now self-deprecating humor is not something that everybody should try there's a right way to do it and a wrong way to do it a good self-deprecating humor would be oh i uh i have to do whatever my my spouse tells me to do or my secretary is really the one who's in charge or or uh well i i don't know what i was thinking i was so dumb but you don't really take those as being too serious right the person doing the self-deprecating humor is clearly not really insulting themselves they're they're they're so much in power that they can insult themselves without really any risk but here's what you don't want to do if you've got some uh some accusations or suspicions that you might have dementia you don't want to play a joke where it looks like you have dementia i'm just saying in the world of self-deprecating humor don't do the one that actually looks true right you want to do the self-deprecating on the things that people think is not true so for example if they think you're very smart and capable and they're not going to change their mind about that because of your whole history of being smart and capable you can do a little self-deprecating humor about the time you messed up but if they think you have dementia you don't want to do self-deprecating humor about maybe you do because that makes you look like you have dementia because it's not very smart all right um so what's going to happen is at this bite in press conference how do you think it's going to go what's your prediction do you think he will gaff out do you think he'll make such such a mistake it'll be a giant disaster what do you think my prediction is he'll do fine he'll do fine because i think the press will be very kind to him i think they'll ask softball questions the few people who don't let's say the fox news people he'll brush them aside and joke about them and say the canned thing that's written down in front of him whatever yeah he'll do fine i think he'll get through it it would be surprising if he didn't it won't be great but don't you wonder how the press will treat it well wonder no more because even though it hasn't happened i am going to read you some of the reviews of his press conference before they even happen are you ready uh let me find here um so i've i asked people to write glowing reviews of biden's performance today before it even happens because you know you could write them before they happen all right uh let's see what some of the uh so my my priming uh joke was the cnn will report after his press conference orange man bad but dementia man good world rejoices let's see what other people said um christopher hill says in review of president biden's first presser join us as we discuss what donald trump was doing while it was televised so nice to have president who that doesn't lie biden returns civility to press conference doesn't shy away from the tough questions president's favorite food is yeah it's gonna be that kind of stuff um let's see some more in a refreshing change of pace this is matt fitzgerald and a refreshing change of pace from the previous administration biden's press conference was a free-flowing exchange of ideas based in confident mature leadership i came and perhaps we all did at least just a little bit i should have read that to myself before i read it to you biden stumbles russia suspected msnbc country unites around president as he fixes everything not the mean spirit answers we've been accustomed to from the previous administration he showed an empathy we haven't seen in four years he really cares so anyway that was fun you should read the rest of them on my twitter feed somebody asked on twitter today and i wonder the same thing how long before you can get banned from social media for saying that biden has dementia it's coming isn't it i feel like that's coming although this seems a little bit more like an opinion so maybe it'll last longer but um now my defense i've prepared my defense in advance is that no reasonable person would believe anything i say i think that's a pretty good defense so no reasonable person would believe anything i say so i'm safe um according to rasmussen rasmussen polls biden's handling of the covenant 19 situation wins a majority approval i'm starting to think that averages don't make any sense in 2021 if you're looking at political polling because if you dig down a little bit it says 30 of conservatives think biden is doing a good job on covet but 88 of liberals does it make sense to average them i mean i guess it does if you you know to find out if you're over 50 is useful but i feel like the concept of an average for the country it doesn't make any sense because it's just two different groups it's like averaging an orange and an apple well the average of an orange and an apple is a i don't know what it's a nothing there's nothing that's the average of an origin an apple so uh i guess we still have to know what's more than 50 for lots of reasons all right so there's more i feel as if every week is a new governor cuomo scandal and you think they're going to be done but no there's another one turns out that maybe the governor's governor of new york's brother chris cuomo of cnn may have had some special access to testing and stuff when he had his coronavirus infection now how much do you care about that do you care too much that the governor's family gets a little extra a little extra resources during a pandemic i get the point you know the the point is crystal clear that you know people shouldn't be jumping to the front of the line but i got to tell you of all the things i could be bothered about in the entire world i don't really care about a politician taking care of their family do you is that the thing you're going to bother worry about now if it had been a lobbyist i think i'd care a little bit more if a lobbyist did it but are we really gonna get down on people for taking care of their family really i get it i get it he shouldn't have gone to the front line slap in the hand but i feel as if you can even make an argument for it that the you know the reason we have security for our leaders but you don't get security the reason that they get a they get a private plane if they're leaders but you don't get a private plane right so we do say that our leaders should have some special i wouldn't say rights but special treatment because their influence you know is leveraged you know on all of us so you want to make sure that the leaders are the most effective they can be in a way that doesn't apply to the rest of us and i think if a leader has some problem in the family and he's got a brother that's maybe in his ear that making that problem go away is worth something hey hey i'm your brother give me some testing i'm trying to run the state here but i'm your brother give me some testing seriously i'm trying to run the state but i'm your brother give me some testing all right just give him some testing just give him some testing we'll be done with this now i'm going to go run the state honestly i don't care about this at all i realize it's part of the bigger story but um i wouldn't care if trump did it i wouldn't care if a democrat did it let him take care of their family i'm okay with that but i get the argument against it it's not mysterious let's talk about voter id laws you ready all right here's here's the meaty part of my show today all right so something like half of the country is against voter id laws i don't know what the exact percentage is but it's usually half when we're talking about politics but what's the argument and i keep waiting to hear the argument in favor of not requiring id to vote and i assumed that there was an argument but i just wasn't aware of it so i did a little bit of research a little bit today and i'll tell you what i found so half of the country thinks that that the republic would be better off if the people without ids do get to vote what's the argument for that have you ever heard it is the argument now it seems to me that the argument for having no voter ids either has to be something that's good for the republic you know good for the country or it's good for the individuals who are doing the voting ideally it's good for both right that would be the win-win but it's got to be good for at least one of those two groups or else why are we talking about it right so is it good for the republic let's say would better decisions be made if we threw into the mix the population that does not have identification is there anybody arguing that it would be that we would pick a more qualified leader or that we would have better decisions or policies if the people who can't get identification or don't have it for whatever reason vote if you throw them in the mix do you get better decisions because i've never heard anybody argue that and it seems counter-intuitive right so if it's not that what's the point if you're not getting better decisions what's the point well here's another possibility the other possibility is you don't want to disenfranchise american citizens you don't want people to feel that they're not part of the system because then they won't you know be cooperative and beneficial and you know buying into the whole process and i i think we would all agree that if citizens buy into the system whether it's jury duty or voting or anything with the constitution the more you can get people to participate and buy in that's better do we all agree the more participation the better but here's the thing do these people who don't have identification is voting in their top under priorities if you went to them and you didn't tell them that the topic was voting you just say look i'm a researcher and i want to ask this question write me a list of all the things you care about your top priorities from top to bottom i want to see a list and make a hundred of them you know it might take you all day but i want a hundred priorities for you and they probably start out with you know health and money and you know freedom from crime and get my kid an education and you know and you know not have racism in my life and no gun violence maybe whatever and after you got through the top hundred how low would you have to be now remember these are unprompted these are people you just say tell me your problems don't don't don't answer a question about voting just tell me your problems where would this be it would not be in the top hundred would it because it seems to me that the people who don't have id certainly the poverty is you know maybe the almost certainly the the top reason for that but i don't think they care do they is there or let me put it this way rather than reading their minds let me say this is there any evidence that they care because i've never seen any so if it's not if if voting without id is not beneficial to the republic there's no argument that gives you better decisions and it's not necessarily good for the people who don't have ids because they don't probably care and i haven't or i haven't seen the evidence that they do you know if somebody did a survey of it that would be different i suppose now so what's the point of it so somebody pointed me to an aclu argument so now we don't have to wonder right so i was just guessing what's the point of it but now we're going to read the aclu's argument why we should not have voter id laws you ready now the aclu argues in public so you got lawyers involved right expert arguers people were good at making their points so if the aclu can't give me a good argument for this does it exist well let's find out if they have one first so here's what one of their articles says number one voter id laws deprive many voters of their right to vote it def deprives them of the right to vote that's the first statement they make is that true what do you think of that does it deprive people of their right to vote well i'm no constitutional scholar but does the constitution specify that your right to vote includes any way you want to do it does it is that in there somewhere because i'm no expert but does the constitution say you have a right to vote and by the way any way you want to no restrictions now i would like to vote the following way i would like to write my vote on a napkin then i'd like to wrap it around a brick and throw it through a window of congress why can't i do that are you going to restrict my right to vote that's the way i want to do it now some people want to do it without id or maybe they don't have a choice because they don't have id but does the constitution guarantee me a way to vote that i want to vote because i don't remember that language in the constitution all right let's go on let's see what else aclu says it would reduce participation true or false true or false it would reduce participation yes so that's a good point right no it's not it's not a point it's a fact a fact is not an argument right it's just a fact you need an argument a reason a fact doesn't tell you anything so if it reduces the number of people who votes or even if it doesn't it's still just a fact it's not a reason so so far i haven't seen a reason that makes any sense have you let's keep reading i'm sure they're getting to the good stuff oh here we go here's the kill shot i thought there were no good reasons but then the aclu gets to the the meat event all right so the other ones were sort of weak but this one i think this takes it home all right so here's the strong argument for why we don't want voter id laws because it stands in direct opposition to our country's trend of including more americans in the democratic process what that's not a reason is there a reason that we we can't stand in direct opposition to a trend was that in the constitution oh hold on people hold on oh stop what you're doing stop what you're doing right now i feel that some of you are doing things i don't know exactly what you're doing but i feel as some of you are doing things that are in opposition to a trend well that's no good stop it don't be don't be opposing a trend what the hell kind of reason is that and if you think that i'm getting to the good reason next that was it that was the argument it opposes a trend uh that's not a reason there's some implication that people have a constitutional right to vote in any way they want with no restrictions i don't believe that's in the constitution and it reduces the number of participants that's just the fact do you know what else reduces the number of participants not letting let's say russian citizens vote in our election i don't think that's fair because if you don't let russian citizens vote in your election are you reducing the participation so these aren't even reasons and here's the persuasion lesson i'll put on top of this do you see how easily you can be fooled into thinking that there are reasons because there are words but there aren't any there are literally no reasons i'm not saying and i want to be careful here i'm not telling you that i've looked at the reasons and i disagree with them there are literally no reasons offered you get that right they're not saying we disagree with you here's my reason they're not offering any reasons why is that well obviously the reason is that your democrats want to win elections but they can't say that out loud so here's my question what do you think is a bigger problem for people who don't have identification that they didn't get to vote in an election in which they don't understand any of the issues let me make let me make a statement that i feel is fair to make that the people who can't get it together to get identification in the united states now it does cost something it could cost you a couple hundred dollars gotta get your uh got to get your birth certificate etc so poverty is a real reason not to have identification that's real but i don't feel like uh these people are adding a lot to the the process that's what i'm saying and it has nothing to do with race you know as soon as you think it's about race you're in a different conversation because i'm not in that conversation now here's another reason i don't think it's specifically on the aclu thing but that if you there's a gigantic difference in the what people have identification than that so there did you know that 11 of us citizens don't have identification did you have any idea it was that high 11 of us citizens don't have any identification did you know that i didn't know that i actually thought that the number who didn't i have identification was you know trivial i thought it'd be more like one percent two percent tops ten percent or i'm sorry eleven percent but it's even worse than that if you go down to the the racial component here because i think black americans are way less likely to have identification than white americans so what you would end up doing oh here it is minority voters are disproportionately lacking id this is also from the aclu site um nationally up to 25 of african-americans of voting age lack government-issued photo id are you kidding me are you kidding me 25 percent of black americans who are a voting age don't have photo id did you have any idea that it was that high i had no idea again i would have guessed two percent but 25 i'm off by you know 10 times somebody says they're called children no specifically they're saying it's the number of people the people who are of voting age so specifically 25 of voting age if you throw the children in there it's like 50 right so the first thing we have to realize is we've got a real big problem with identification so which party is it who is saying let's fix this problem with no identification because how are these people with no identification going to function in society and you know move to the next level what the hell can you do without identification how do you get a reasonable job without identification um so i would say that we should have a national movement to get everybody identified and if it costs 200 to get identification it should be free why don't why doesn't the government just you know in fact here's something the republicans should do if republicans are going to be on the side of you have to have id to vote they need to put some money in it put some money in it and say look we're going to make it free to get your birth certificate so you can go through the process or we're going to take all the birth certificates and we're going to digitize them so that you can just ask the center the the federal government for your id and we'll just give it to you for free because i assume that the reason you pay for your birth certificate is a hospital does it or the state or somebody must be somebody who incurs some costs to do that take them away so i would say that the republican argument without without a plan to get people ids is bankrupt it's a bankrupt plan so the republicans if they're not trying to fix the problem of id uh you can't give them any credit no credit at all and the democrats if they don't have an argument for their society you can't give them any credit at all so you have two sides of this argument neither of which are doing the minimum to serve the public in my case in in my opinion neither the republican or the democrat side is doing the minimum to serve the public on this question because both of them should be saying at the very least let's get everybody id separately we can talk about needing id to vote but why aren't we solving this problem why do we talk about this year after year you know they should be free to get identification in this country because the government requires it let me put it another way if the government is going to charge you to vote the government is broken right you gotta fix that why are people being charged to vote indirectly because you would have to pay money to get id and you need id to vote so um now the other the argument is that the current situation if you don't have voter id it would cause uh fewer black people to vote it would disenfranchise more of black voters than other kinds of voters and therefore is racist but here's the problem with that it's a racist outcome it's not necessarily racist by intention although clearly there are racists in the world who do have those intentions but everything is racist by outcome isn't it can you think of any government anything that doesn't have a racial outcome that some group gets more or less than the percentage of them in the country there's nothing like that so to say that this is a problem because it gives you a an uneven racial outcome that's not a reason because everything has that quality literally everything there's nothing that's big that affects everybody that doesn't affect them disproportionately if only because of difference in economic situation so it's not an argument it's just a fact that a root people would be disproportionately affected and i don't agree with that i don't think we you know i would like to have more representative government but we're not really we're not going at it in any kind of responsible way the responsible way would be to get everybody some id for free that'd be the way to do it all right um i saw i saw an article in publication called the insider and i don't know what to trust here but i'm going to give you something they said and give me a fact check on this it says the number of mass shootings in the u.s this year has already reached 103 as of march 22nd do you believe that do you believe that there have been 103 mass shootings this year already now i suppose it depends what you call a mass shooting i think it means if somebody opens up you know at a party and two people get killed or there's let's say a drive-by shooting in which two people get killed by the drive-by shooting i don't know how many people have to die before it's mass is there a definition of that what makes it mass if it's two is that mass is it three four or more somebody's saying somebody says it's greater than one but if anybody knows what it what that number is anyway i don't believe this at all and in order to believe it i'd have to see a lot more information on it here's some shocking news this is a set of sky news so there's a 2017 study that found that sperm levels among men in western countries has dropped by more than 50 percent over the past four decades and they examined 185 studies involving close to 45 000 healthy men so remember they're all healthy and uh somebody named dr swan believes that at this rate men will be unable to produce viable sperm by 2045.

what do you think of that so basically it's the the end of civilization now of course there will always be some people who can in china for example we could have we could have chinese babies so we could get sperm from china in 2045 because they'll have plenty of it but we won't have any and then we could just uh since the women will still be fully functional apparently we can just get them impregnated with some of that sperm from china and uh there you go so there's your future china wins now the first thing is is this study true do you believe that it's true that men's um sperm levels have dropped i think so i would think so because i would also think the drop in testosterone is probably probably related or at least have the same cause am i going too far into the medical unknown where i should not even be talking and nobody here should believe anything i say about medicine or health but no i i don't know how if i should worry about this or not well i won't be here probably i'll i'll be uh by then i will have evolved into pure software so it's not going to be a problem for me yeah i would say observationally this is one of the filters that that you should use if you see a scientific study that doesn't match your observation you should be skeptical now that doesn't mean your observations are reliable that's why we do science but if they don't match in a very obvious way you should ask some questions but if you hear that people's let's say men's testosterone level has decreased greatly in recent years that matches observation doesn't it if i had to ask you i'm not going to show you any studies but what do you think you know just sort of look around what do you think do you think the testosterone level is a little lower i think most people would say yeah it looks like it and so the science and the observation match doesn't mean it's true but it's better than not matching well there's always a new scare when it comes to the coronavirus and here's my favorite in the news india has discovered a new quote double mutant variety of covet 19.

that's right no longer will we be simply dealing with a single covet problem we're going to have a double special mutants and when the double special mutants come after you well you're in trouble now how worried should you be about all these double mutant uh monster covent things well i wouldn't be unworried it seems like a reasonable thing to be worried about i would expect that most of these will be susceptible to the virus and or to the vaccinations etc but i will just add this to the story the only thing i want to add to the story is this this story would have happened no matter what so if you say to yourself uh oh there's a story about a double mutant variant do you say to yourself that now i should worry about it well maybe but i would submit to you that there always was going to be this story and maybe not with the same words but there's a guarantee because of the the nature of the press and the media that they needed to find the extra scary thing when the scary thing was starting to diminish so that the nature of the press guaranteed this story would exist but what is not guaranteed is that there's any substance to it or that you really need to worry about it so to make yourself feel better about these double mutant variants which sound pretty scary just know that the story would have been here whether there was any danger or not all right um and that is just about what i want to talk about i'm going to look at your comments for a moment here just looking at some of your comments here how is 1984 coming so i told you i was going to read the book 1984 which amazingly i'd grown to this age without having read yet and i bailed out so i'm not going to finish the book because it's unfinishable and here's the reason why i do not consume media that is a bummer that makes me feel bad i got the i got the sense of it i could read the cliff notes i don't need to like live in the world of this guy who's suffering for an entire book and anybody who does that i don't understand why you do that are you reading the book for entertainment so when it stops entertaining and it just starts hurting like it actually just hurts to read that book because it makes me feel bad so why would you read a book that makes you feel bad why would you watch a movie with sad things in it it's just bad strategy why would you listen to a music that makes you feel bad thinking about your your maytu cheating on you or whatever just don't do it just stay away from all the media that is fill you with bad thoughts you're not gonna you're not gonna miss anything because it isn't too hard to know what 1984 is about just read the wikipedia page you're done you know give yourself 15 seconds of pain to learn something you don't need four hours of pain to learn 15 seconds of useful stuff so stop watching crappy movies stop watching reading bad books if they don't teach you or make you happy skip it because bad news should be condensed not expanded the last thing i want to do is read about somebody's fictional problems i got plenty of problems the world has plenty of problems i'm not going to read fiction with problems that's the last thing i want all right you can't take it too seriously yeah what are your best systems well you can see some of my best systems in my book cattle failed almost everything and still win big but diet and fitness are probably the the top of the pile if you get your diet and fitness right pretty much everything else is going to work out better than it would have you know your happiness your quality of life your your ability to get jobs your ability to just physically feel good your ability to attract a mate if you get diet and fitness right there's a whole cascade of good things that happen after that so those are my two most important systems i will do a micro lesson on both of those they're both individual chapters in my book now the difference between a diet and a system is pretty big right a diet you usually just try to you know eat differently and use your willpower and stuff like that whereas a system is something that you do every day that just makes it easy to lose weight or to maintain the right weight so if you have a system you're not really working the the system does all the work for you if you have a diet you're doing all the work which is why it doesn't work you know people are not successful with diets but you can be successful with the system i'll give you that i gave you this simple example but if you haven't heard it one of my one of the systems i use for diet is i don't keep bad food in my house so i take advantage of my own laziness that when i'm hungry i'm gonna use something that's already in the house and none of it's bad now that's just one thing it's not the whole system right you need you need a number of these little systems to add up to a bigger system but it's not easy how hard is it to ease something that's already in the house there's no effort i just pick it up and eat it and that's it and then i've i've participated in a diet but i didn't do anything i just picked up what was in the house and ate it that's it uh-huh somebody says it is easy for you you don't care about food that's exactly right yeah the most important thing you need to know about um diet is that we have different cravings and desires for food and it will be much easier for people like me because i don't have those cravings as much as other people it is however true that everybody no matter what your level of craving is can greatly reduce you know the pain of dieting by having good systems so yeah some people will be better than others but the systems work for everybody they're universal somebody says the willpower starts at the grocery store i disagree i disagree the willpower starts before you go to the grocery store because if you went there hungry you did it wrong that's a bad system right shopping while you're hungry is a bad system so just don't do that um somebody says i have the extreme opposite i like food so little it's a discipline t i do know people like that i know actually several people like that who for them eating is just a chore they'd rather not do it at all can go all day without eating hungry and stoned not a good combo yeah so here's a system if you are a marijuana user marijuana users know that they get the munchies and they eat a lot so what would be a system to reduce that and i'll tell you my system and it works every time just use mouthwash immediately after you uh immediately after you smoke if you're smoking actual smoke forget which one i use is colgate or something i think that's the one that works the best but uh if you just do mouthwash immediate laughter it gets rid of your cotton mouth it just gets rid of it and you don't get hungry because there's something about the mouth feeling that triggers your hunger it doesn't seem to be entirely a mental thing so brush your teeth use mouthwash you won't even think of eating it just won't even be fun uh somebody says joe uses listerine i don't know if it's for the same purpose uh paw smokers have low t i don't know about that um financial literacy tips financial literacy tips have i not done a micro lesson on personal finance i think i did that within the locals uh platforms that's a seven dollars a month to subscribe and by the way my my goal with the locals stuff that's a platform for people who want to subscribe to my extra content i try to make sure that if you're paying seven dollars a month for my content that you always get way more than seven dollars worth of uh useful life benefit so that's what i'm trying to do you're it's not just going to be for some laughs you're gonna get some practical stuff every month that when you say to yourself was that worth seven dollars you'll just laugh because you say seven i would have paid thousands for that but i got it for seven dollars so that's what i'm shooting for uh most people who are uh subscribers and there are thousands of them now um are saying it's worth it they're saying it's worth it all right somebody says you've lost me scott maybe i have um i don't know that somebody's asking about periscope going away my understanding is that something's getting folded into twitter itself i don't know if it's going to be periscope-like i don't know so i don't know any details of that um someday if this isn't here just go to youtube and google me and i'll pop right up so you can find me on uh youtube and by the way also on rumble so every time youtube demonetizes me i do a commercial for rumble on twitter i've only done it once yet but that's my new system so if i get demonetized for reasons that i think are unreasonable which i think all of them are then i'll just do a commercial for rumble every time and you can find my stuff there all right that's all for now and i will talk to you tomorrow all right youtubers i usually give you a little extra you want a little extra um talk about the sim i think i talk about that too much how should we develop people's uh financial literacy well uh some of you know some years ago i created a i think it was nine points just nine bullet points of what you needed for personal finance and that those nine bullet points are the whole show because every one of those bullet points you could kind of easily just google to find out more about it you just need to know what the order is and what the priority is so for example among the nine tips i would tell people to if they have extra money beyond their expenses to get a open an account as say charles schwab or a discount broker now if i don't give the details about how to open an account at charles schwab or a discount broker you can just google it so just knowing that you should do that is kind of all you need because you just google it very easily we'll tell you how to sign up likewise if i tell you how to that you should have let's say i tell you you should have a 401k and you don't know what that is just google it and you'll say oh it's one of these something from my employer ask your employer if they have one of those you probably already know but you could ask them they say no we don't have that or yes we do here's how to sign up so it's very easy to have financial literacy you need about nine bullet points and you're done because the way i organize them is you do them in order so you wouldn't have to work on all nine you work on the top one the top one says pay off your credit card what else do you need to know that's it pay off your credit card don't buy stocks until you pay off your credit card don't do anything financially until you pay off your credit card and it's really easy because that's your highest interest rate you couldn't possibly make that much money in the stock market reliably you could but not reliably so um somebody's saying where is it google google my name and personal finance list or something it should pop up it's all over the internet it's in a number of my books as well oh i see somebody's listing the uh the list and the comments here so believe it or not it's actually easy to teach people personal finance it's literally one page and they just have to you know tack it to their wall and work on the top one and just work their way down very easy none of it is complicated in the least um did i check out decentral land yet i did not i i figure i can tell from the uh the name of it what that's all about but maybe i'll look into that are the when tokens any good anymore they're still trading their value is low because the underlying company doesn't exist but they live forever they can't go away because they're part of the blockchain and there there is a new app under development that would use them as its token so anything that creates a demand for that token can increase its value so in fact anybody out there who wants to start an app and just use a token that already exists could do that struggling to understand financial jargon question mark yeah um that's so that's a good point but everything this financial jargon is easy to google right when you come into the word just look it up next word just look it up you'll get there pretty quickly there's really not a lot of complexity to it the reason that finance seems so complicated is is that the the number of things you could know is gigantic you like the things you could know is just huge the things you need to know to have a hundred percent of everything you need to know is just like this pinpoint of all the things you need to know because if you understand diversity or i'm sorry diversification if you understand how to diversify your portfolio and you know how to open a charles schwab account and you know that you want to pay off your debts that are higher interest rates first you're almost completely done you're almost done i mean that's that got you to 90 percent of everything you need to know and it took me three sentences um uh sunk costs is a good thing to know about yeah there are a lot of psychological uh let's say obstacles to being a good investor that you should learn about as well but if you get an index fund you don't have to worry about that either do i own guns there's a question i would never answer would you answer that question if somebody asks you in public if you own guns would you answer that question you shouldn't never answer that question that would be the worst question you could ever answer here's my answer i'm very pro-second amendment so if you want to mess with my house that's all you know all right the rest you're gonna have to guess i'm pro-second amendment and if you're in my house and you mean no good i could kill you in a heartbeat i mean just i'm just telling you my mindset if you came in my house to do harm to me in any in any sense i could kill you in a heartbeat i wouldn't hesitate for a second and i'm pro-second amendment so do you want to know if i own a gun you don't get that information so with your hands i could easily kill somebody with my bare hands if i had to right if i didn't have a reason of course not let's talk about nfts i'm seeing a lot of questions there so you all know what nfts are they're a it's a digital art that because it's attached to the blockchain um you can you can show that you have an original or one of the originals so that creates value and allows people to trade them and it's like it's like any other art that can go up in value but the the dilbert nft is it's already created but it hasn't been published yet for you to buy we're working on some technical stuff behind the scenes because it turns out when you actually get ready to publish your nft there are a whole bunch of technical decisions and technical things you need to set up one of them is to allow you to buy it with us dollars as opposed to having to have uh let's say a bitcoin to even buy the nft so part of the reason it's taken me a few weeks is uh we we just got things set up so that you'll be able to buy it with just regular money and you don't have to have a crypto to do it do i own a gun safe i'm not going to tell you if i own a gun safe if i'm not going to tell you if i own guns to my own swords all right that's all for now and i will talk to you later

come on in here

come on get in here i know

you're scrambling to get your beverage

ready you should have been up a little

bit earlier

now you know don't you well

there are a lot of things that could go

wrong today

it's possible but none of them will

matter

once you've had the simultaneous sip oh

yeah the problems will still be there

but you won't care about them nearly as

much in fact

i often like to look at the world this

way

do you have problems or do you have

insufficient coffee yeah see where i'm

heading with this right

i don't think you have problems i think

you have

insufficient coffee and we're going to

fix that right now although you don't

need coffee

could be anything but you need a cup or

a margaret or glass a tanker tell us to

sign a canteen juggle flash vessel if

any kind filled with favorite liquid i

like coffee

and join me now for the unparalleled

pleasure of the dopamine of the day

thing that makes everything

better except the elections

for some reason it's called the

simultaneous sip and it happens now

go

just as good as i was hoping maybe

better

well have you seen my mascot on twitter

a lot of you are not famous but when you

get famous

you can get a mascot now

excuse me he doesn't think he's a mascot

but i don't think that's up to him he

thinks he's my critic

who spends all of his days researching

old tweets i've made

to put them into the comments section of

anything i tweet

to criticize me now of course

everything's out of context

and his criticisms uh are non-sensible

but rather than blocking him which would

be too easy

because he seems to have dedicated a

good part of his day

every day to just

trying to say bad things about me on my

twitter feed

so i decided to reframe him as my mascot

because mascots are silly and you don't

really care what they do

they just draw attention to you so

here's my mascot from now on

and i referred to him as my mascot and

he tried to respond to that with a

a clever rejoinder now

here is a problem i'm a professional

humorist

he's a guy who spends most of his day

criticizing a stranger

he can't really compete in this

reframing stuff

but he tried and he's a very a

very entertaining mascot now i've used

this reframe before and it's one that

you can use

i've told you this before back when i

owned a restaurant one of the employees

decided to

do a protest so he staged his own

protest every day with a little sign

just by himself in front of the

restaurant and day after day he'd be

there

and my manager at the time said you know

you know what do we do about this and i

said do about it

why would you want to fix anything not

everybody gets a mascot

and so we redefined the protester as a

mascot

and as soon as we did it just was fun

and i'd come by it's like hey where's

the mascot oh he was just here

he'll be back in a while took a break

so you can reframe things from problems

to mascots and watch how it stops

bothering you

twitter user roly-poly i had a

good suggestion for your job right if

you have a boss

here's a good suggestion you can employ

this

and he says in a tweet he goes anytime

you need to admit a mistake to a boss

or a client bring up this suez canal

ship

disaster talk to them about it for two

to four minutes

get them thinking about how many

billions of dollars one person's mistake

cost then tell them about your mistake

it'll look smaller

completely that it's just completely

true

now it's funny but it's completely true

that would literally work so roly-poly

has been paying attention

so uh joe biden put kamal harris in

charge of the migrant crisis

so now she has a portfolio what do you

make of that

is it because the migrant

crisis is a big problem so you need to

put

you know your your highest firepower on

that job

is that why maybe

um somebody suggested it so that he

won't that biden won't have to answer

questions about immigration he'll just

refer the questions to harris

maybe maybe a little bit that's

certainly a benefit side benefit

but i have a hypothesis that he hates

her

because can you think of anything that

would be a worse job

than to be a democrat and an

ex-prosecutor

and being put in charge of immigration i

literally can't think of a worse penalty

because she's been so nice to him

i mean other than calling him a giant

racist during the primaries

if you don't count that she's been

really nice to him

and he rewards her by giving her the one

job she can't possibly succeed at

it's like an impossible to succeed

situation

because the democrat philosophy

makes it impossible to do anything

practical so

i feel like i feel like joe biden hates

kabul harris

and he's just you know he's showing us

in a very uh

very beta way all right

or it could be just the vice president's

cat portfolios

and that was hers that's the other

possibility

um when biden was asked about the press

conference that he will be having today

we're all waiting for that that'll be

interesting i'll be watching that

and biden when when he was asked if he

was preparing for the press conference

biden said what and then the question

was repeated

and they said what press conference

are you worried yet

[Laughter]

now my interpretation of this is that he

was joking

because it's very much like the dad

jokes he likes to do

you know you just when uh what is it

when peter ducey would ask him you know

who are you going to appoint

to do whatever he likes to quip

you i'm gonna point you it's just sort

of his dad joke

brushing something aside so i'm pretty

sure he was joking

about saying what press conference uh

given that it was such a big story and

everything it was funny

well or he thought it was funny but here

is my

professional humorist advice

on a self-deprecating humor

now self-deprecating humor is not

something that everybody should

try there's a right way to do it

and a wrong way to do it a good

self-deprecating humor would be

oh i uh i have to do whatever my

my spouse tells me to do or my secretary

is really the one who's in charge or

or uh well i i don't know what i was

thinking i was so dumb

but you don't really take those as being

too serious

right the person doing the

self-deprecating humor

is clearly not really insulting

themselves they're

they're they're so much in power that

they can insult themselves

without really any risk but here's what

you

don't want to do if you've got some uh

some accusations or suspicions that you

might have dementia

you don't want to play a joke

where it looks like you have dementia

i'm just saying in the world of

self-deprecating humor

don't do the one that actually looks

true

right you want to do the

self-deprecating on the things that

people think

is not true so for example if they think

you're very smart and capable

and they're not going to change their

mind about that because of your whole

history of being smart and capable

you can do a little self-deprecating

humor about the time you messed up

but if they think you have dementia

you don't want to do self-deprecating

humor about maybe you do

because that makes you look like you

have dementia because it's not very

smart

all right um so what's going to happen

is

at this bite in press conference

how do you think it's going to go what's

your prediction do you think he will

gaff out do you think he'll make such

such a mistake it'll be a giant disaster

what do you think my prediction is he'll

do fine

he'll do fine because i think the press

will be very kind to him

i think they'll ask softball questions

the few people who don't let's say the

fox news people

he'll brush them aside and joke about

them and

say the canned thing that's written down

in front of him whatever

yeah he'll do fine i think he'll get

through it it would be surprising if he

didn't

it won't be great but don't you wonder

how the press will treat it well wonder

no more

because even though it hasn't happened i

am going to read you

some of the reviews of his press

conference

before they even happen are you ready

uh let me find here

um so i've i asked people to write

glowing reviews of biden's performance

today before it even happens

because you know you could write them

before they happen

all right uh

let's see what some of the uh so my

my priming uh joke was the cnn will

report after his press conference

orange man bad but dementia man good

world rejoices

let's see what other people said um

christopher hill says in review of

president biden's first presser

join us as we discuss what donald trump

was doing while it was televised

so nice to have president who that

doesn't lie

biden returns civility to press

conference

doesn't shy away from the tough

questions

president's favorite food is yeah it's

gonna be that kind of stuff

um let's see some more

in a refreshing change of pace this is

matt fitzgerald

and a refreshing change of pace from the

previous administration

biden's press conference was a

free-flowing exchange of ideas

based in confident mature leadership i

came and perhaps we all did

at least just a little bit

i should have read that to myself before

i read it to you

biden stumbles russia suspected msnbc

country unites around president as he

fixes everything

not the mean spirit answers we've been

accustomed to from the previous

administration

he showed an empathy we haven't seen in

four years

he really cares so

anyway that was fun you should read the

rest of them on my twitter feed

somebody asked on twitter today and i

wonder the same thing

how long before you can get banned from

social media

for saying that biden has dementia

it's coming isn't it i feel like that's

coming

although this seems a little bit more

like an opinion so maybe it'll last

longer but

um now my defense i've

prepared my defense in advance is that

no reasonable person would believe

anything i say

i think that's a pretty good defense so

no reasonable person would believe

anything i say so i'm safe

um according to rasmussen rasmussen

polls

biden's handling of the covenant 19

situation wins a majority approval

i'm starting to think that averages

don't make any sense in 2021 if you're

looking at political polling

because if you dig down a little bit it

says 30 of conservatives

think biden is doing a good job on covet

but 88

of liberals does it make sense to

average them

i mean i guess it does if you you know

to find out if you're over 50

is useful but i feel like the concept of

an

average for the country it doesn't make

any sense

because it's just two different groups

it's like

averaging an orange and an apple well

the

average of an orange and an apple is a

i don't know what it's a nothing there's

nothing that's the average of an origin

an apple

so uh i guess we still have to know

what's more than 50

for lots of reasons all right so there's

more

i feel as if every week is a new

governor cuomo

scandal and you think they're going to

be done

but no there's another one turns out

that maybe

the governor's governor of new york's

brother chris cuomo of cnn

may have had some special access to

testing and stuff when he had his

coronavirus infection now

how much do you care about that do you

care

too much that the governor's family gets

a little extra

a little extra resources during a

pandemic

i get the point you know the the point

is crystal clear

that you know people shouldn't be

jumping to the front of the line

but i got to tell you of all the things

i could be bothered about in the entire

world

i don't really care about a politician

taking care of their family

do you is that the thing you're going to

bother

worry about now if it had been a

lobbyist

i think i'd care a little bit more if a

lobbyist did it

but are we really gonna get down on

people for taking care of their family

really i get it i get it he shouldn't

have gone to the front

line slap in the hand

but i feel as if you can even make an

argument for it

that the you know the reason we have

security for our leaders but you don't

get security the reason that they get a

they get a private plane if they're

leaders but you don't get a private

plane

right so we do say that our leaders

should have some special i wouldn't say

rights but special treatment

because their influence you know is

leveraged

you know on all of us so you want to

make sure that the leaders

are the most effective they can be in a

way that doesn't apply to the rest of us

and i think if a leader has some problem

in the family

and he's got a brother that's maybe in

his ear

that making that problem go away is

worth something

hey hey i'm your brother give me some

testing

i'm trying to run the state here but i'm

your brother give me some testing

seriously i'm trying to run the state

but i'm your brother give me some

testing all right just give him some

testing

just give him some testing we'll be done

with this now i'm going to go run the

state

honestly i don't care about this at all

i realize it's part of the bigger story

but

um i wouldn't care if trump did it i

wouldn't care if a democrat did it

let him take care of their family i'm

okay with that

but i get the argument against it it's

not mysterious

let's talk about voter id laws you ready

all right here's here's the meaty part

of my show

today all right

so something like half of the country is

against

voter id laws i don't know what the

exact percentage is but it's usually

half

when we're talking about politics

but what's the argument and i keep

waiting to hear the argument

in favor of not requiring

id to vote and i assumed that there was

an argument

but i just wasn't aware of it so i did a

little bit of

research a little bit today and i'll

tell you what i found

so half of the country thinks that that

the republic would be better off

if the people without ids do get to vote

what's the argument for that have you

ever heard it

is the argument now it seems to me that

the argument

for having no voter ids

either has to be something that's good

for the republic

you know good for the country or it's

good for the individuals

who are doing the voting ideally it's

good for both right that would be the

win-win

but it's got to be good for at least one

of those two groups

or else why are we talking about it

right

so is it good for the republic

let's say would better decisions be made

if we threw into the mix the population

that does not have

identification is there anybody arguing

that it would be

that we would pick a more qualified

leader

or that we would have better decisions

or policies

if the people who can't get

identification or don't have it for

whatever reason

vote if you throw them in the mix do you

get better decisions

because i've never heard anybody argue

that and it seems counter-intuitive

right

so if it's not that what's the point

if you're not getting better decisions

what's the point

well here's another possibility the

other possibility is you don't want to

disenfranchise

american citizens you don't want people

to feel

that they're not part of the system

because then they won't

you know be cooperative and beneficial

and you know buying into the whole

process

and i i think we would all agree that if

citizens

buy into the system whether it's jury

duty or voting

or anything with the constitution the

more you can get people to participate

and buy in that's better

do we all agree the more participation

the better but here's the thing

do these people who don't have

identification

is voting in their top under priorities

if you went to them and you didn't tell

them that the topic was voting

you just say look i'm a researcher and i

want to ask this question

write me a list of all the things you

care about

your top priorities from top to bottom i

want to see a list

and make a hundred of them you know it

might take you all day but i want a

hundred

priorities for you and they probably

start out with you know

health and money and you know freedom

from crime

and get my kid an education and

you know and you know not have racism in

my life and

no gun violence maybe whatever and

after you got through the top hundred

how low would you have to be now

remember these are

unprompted these are people you just say

tell me your problems

don't don't don't answer a question

about voting just tell me your problems

where would this be it would not be in

the top hundred

would it because it seems to me that the

people who don't have id

certainly the poverty is you know maybe

the

almost certainly the the top reason for

that but i don't think they care

do they is there or let me put it this

way rather than

reading their minds let me say this is

there any evidence

that they care because i've never seen

any

so if it's not if if voting without id

is not beneficial to the republic

there's no argument that gives you

better decisions

and it's not necessarily good for the

people who don't have ids because they

don't

probably care and i haven't or i haven't

seen the evidence that they do

you know if somebody did a survey of it

that would be different i suppose

now so what's the point of it so

somebody pointed me to an aclu argument

so now we don't have to wonder right so

i was just guessing what's the point of

it

but now we're going to read the aclu's

argument

why we should not have voter id laws you

ready

now the aclu argues in public

so you got lawyers involved right expert

arguers

people were good at making their points

so if the aclu can't give me a good

argument for this

does it exist well let's find out if

they have one first

so here's what one of their articles

says number one voter id laws deprive

many voters of their right

to vote it def deprives them of the

right to vote that's the first statement

they make

is that true what do you think of that

does it deprive people of their right

to vote well i'm no constitutional

scholar

but does the constitution specify

that your right to vote includes any way

you want to do it

does it is that in there somewhere

because i'm no expert

but does the constitution say you have a

right to vote

and by the way any way you want to

no restrictions now i would like to vote

the following way

i would like to write my vote on a

napkin

then i'd like to wrap it around a brick

and

throw it through a window of congress

why can't i do that are you going to

restrict my right to vote that's the way

i want to do it

now some people want to do it without id

or maybe they don't have a choice

because they don't have id

but does the constitution guarantee me

a way to vote that i want to vote

because i don't remember that language

in the constitution all right let's go

on let's see what else

aclu says it would reduce participation

true or false true or false it would

reduce participation yes

so that's a good point right no it's not

it's not a point it's a fact

a fact is not an argument right

it's just a fact you need an argument

a reason a fact doesn't tell you

anything

so if it reduces the number of people

who votes

or even if it doesn't it's still just a

fact

it's not a reason so so far

i haven't seen a reason that makes any

sense have you let's keep reading

i'm sure they're getting to the good

stuff

oh here we go here's the kill shot i

thought there were no good reasons

but then the aclu gets to the

the meat event all right so the other

ones were

sort of weak but this one i think this

takes it home

all right so here's the strong argument

for why we don't want

voter id laws because it stands in

direct opposition

to our country's trend of including more

americans in the democratic process

what that's not a reason

is there a reason that we we can't stand

in direct opposition to a trend

was that in the constitution oh hold on

people hold on

oh stop what you're doing stop what

you're doing right now

i feel that some of you are doing things

i don't know exactly what you're doing

but i feel as some of you are doing

things that are in

opposition to a trend well that's no

good

stop it don't be don't be opposing a

trend

what the hell kind of reason is that

and if you think that i'm getting to the

good reason next

that was it that was the argument

it opposes a trend uh

that's not a reason

there's some implication that people

have a constitutional right

to vote in any way they want with no

restrictions

i don't believe that's in the

constitution

and it reduces the number of

participants

that's just the fact do you know what

else reduces the number of participants

not letting let's say russian citizens

vote in our election i don't think

that's fair

because if you don't let russian

citizens vote in your election

are you reducing the participation

so these aren't even reasons and here's

the

persuasion lesson i'll put on top of

this

do you see how easily you can be fooled

into thinking that there are reasons

because there are words but there aren't

any

there are literally no reasons i'm not

saying and i want to be careful here i'm

not telling you

that i've looked at the reasons and i

disagree with them

there are literally no reasons offered

you get that right

they're not saying we disagree with you

here's my reason

they're not offering any reasons

why is that well obviously the reason is

that your democrats want to win

elections

but they can't say that out loud so

here's my question

what do you think is a bigger problem

for people who don't have identification

that they didn't get to vote in an

election in which they don't understand

any of the issues let me make let me

make a statement

that i feel is fair to make that the

people who can't get it together to get

identification

in the united states now it does cost

something it could cost you a couple

hundred dollars gotta get your uh

got to get your birth certificate etc so

poverty is

a real reason not to have identification

that's real

but i don't feel like uh these people

are adding a lot to the the process

that's what i'm saying

and it has nothing to do with race you

know as soon as you think it's about

race

you're in a different conversation

because i'm not in that conversation

now here's another reason i don't think

it's specifically on the aclu thing

but that if you there's a gigantic

difference

in the what people have identification

than that

so there did you know that 11 of us

citizens don't have identification

did you have any idea it was that high

11 of us citizens

don't have any identification

did you know that i didn't know that i

actually thought that the number who

didn't i have identification was you

know trivial

i thought it'd be more like one percent

two percent tops

ten percent or i'm sorry eleven percent

but it's even worse than that if you go

down to the the racial component here

because

i think black americans are way less

likely to have identification than white

americans

so what you would end up doing oh here

it is

minority voters are disproportionately

lacking id this is also from the aclu

site

um nationally up to 25 of

african-americans

of voting age lack government-issued

photo id

are you kidding me are you kidding me

25 percent of black americans

who are a voting age don't have photo id

did you have any idea that it was that

high

i had no idea again i would have guessed

two percent

but 25 i'm off by you know 10 times

somebody says they're called children no

specifically they're saying

it's the number of people the people who

are of voting age

so specifically 25 of voting age

if you throw the children in there it's

like 50 right

so the first thing we have to realize is

we've got a real big

problem with identification

so which party is it who is saying let's

fix

this problem with no identification

because how are these people with no

identification

going to function in society and you

know move to the next level

what the hell can you do without

identification

how do you get a reasonable job without

identification

um so i would say that we should have a

national movement to get everybody

identified

and if it costs 200 to get

identification it should be free

why don't why doesn't the government

just you know in fact

here's something the republicans should

do if republicans are going to be on the

side of

you have to have id to vote they need to

put some money in it

put some money in it and say look we're

going to make it free

to get your birth certificate so you can

go through the process

or we're going to take all the birth

certificates and we're going to

digitize them so that you can just ask

the center

the the federal government for your id

and we'll just give it to you for free

because i assume that the reason you pay

for your birth certificate is

a hospital does it or the state or

somebody must be somebody who incurs

some costs to do that

take them away so

i would say that the republican argument

without

without a plan to get people ids is

bankrupt it's a bankrupt plan

so the republicans if they're not trying

to fix the problem of id

uh you can't give them any credit

no credit at all and the democrats

if they don't have an argument for their

society you can't give them any credit

at all

so you have two sides of this argument

neither of which

are doing the minimum to serve the

public

in my case in in my opinion neither the

republican

or the democrat side is doing the

minimum to serve the public on this

question because both of them should be

saying

at the very least let's get everybody id

separately we can talk about needing id

to vote

but why aren't we solving this problem

why do we talk about this year after

year

you know they should be free to get

identification in this country

because the government requires it let

me put it another way

if the government is going to charge you

to vote

the government is broken right you gotta

fix that

why are people being charged to vote

indirectly because you would have to pay

money to get id

and you need id to vote

so um

now the other the argument is that the

current situation

if you don't have voter id it would

cause

uh fewer black people to vote it would

disenfranchise more of black voters than

other kinds of voters and therefore is

racist

but here's the problem with that it's a

racist

outcome it's not necessarily

racist by intention although clearly

there are racists in the world who do

have those intentions

but everything is racist by outcome

isn't it can you think of any government

anything that doesn't have a racial

outcome that some group gets more or

less than the percentage of them

in the country there's nothing like that

so to say that this

is a problem because it gives you a an

uneven

racial outcome that's not a reason

because everything has that quality

literally everything

there's nothing that's big that affects

everybody that doesn't affect them

disproportionately

if only because of difference in

economic situation

so it's not an argument it's just a fact

that a root

people would be disproportionately

affected and i don't

agree with that i don't think we you

know i would like to have

more representative government but we're

not really

we're not going at it in any kind of

responsible way the responsible way

would be to get everybody some id for

free

that'd be the way to do it all right um

i saw i saw an article in publication

called the insider

and i don't know what to trust here but

i'm going to give you

something they said and give me a fact

check on this

it says the number of mass shootings in

the u.s this year

has already reached 103

as of march 22nd

do you believe that do you believe that

there have been 103

mass shootings this year already

now i suppose it depends what you call a

mass shooting

i think it means if somebody opens up

you know at a party and two people get

killed or

there's let's say a drive-by shooting

in which two people get killed by the

drive-by shooting

i don't know how many people have to die

before it's mass

is there a definition of that what makes

it mass

if it's two is that mass is it three

four or more somebody's saying somebody

says it's greater than one

but if anybody knows what it what that

number is anyway i don't believe this at

all

and in order to believe it i'd have to

see a lot more

information on it

here's some shocking news this is a set

of sky news

so there's a 2017 study that found that

sperm levels among men in western

countries has dropped by more than

50 percent over the past four decades

and they examined 185 studies involving

close to 45 000 healthy men so remember

they're all healthy

and uh somebody named dr swan believes

that

at this rate men will be unable to

produce

viable sperm by 2045.

what do you think of that so basically

it's the

the end of civilization now of course

there will always be some people who can

in china for example

we could have we could have chinese

babies

so we could get sperm from china in 2045

because they'll have plenty of it but we

won't have any

and then we could just uh since the

women will still be

fully functional apparently we can just

get them impregnated with

some of that sperm from china and uh

there you go

so there's your future china wins

now the first thing is is this study

true do you believe that it's true

that men's um sperm levels have dropped

i think so i would think so

because i would also think the drop in

testosterone

is probably probably related

or at least have the same cause am i

going too far into the

medical unknown where i should not even

be talking

and nobody here should believe anything

i say about medicine or health

but no

i i don't know how if i should worry

about this or not

well i won't be here probably i'll i'll

be uh by then i will have

evolved into pure software so it's not

going to be a problem for me

yeah i would say observationally this is

one of the filters that

that you should use if you see a

scientific study

that doesn't match your observation you

should be skeptical

now that doesn't mean your observations

are reliable that's why we do science

but if they don't match in a very

obvious way

you should ask some questions but if you

hear that people's

let's say men's testosterone level has

decreased greatly

in recent years that matches observation

doesn't it if i had to ask you i'm not

going to show you any studies but what

do you think

you know just sort of look around what

do you think do you think the

testosterone level is a little lower

i think most people would say yeah it

looks like it and so

the science and the observation match

doesn't mean it's true

but it's better than not matching well

there's always a new scare when it comes

to the coronavirus

and here's my favorite in the news india

has discovered a new

quote double mutant variety of covet 19.

that's right no longer

will we be simply dealing with a single

covet problem we're going to have a

double special

mutants and when the double

special mutants come after you

well you're in trouble now how worried

should you be about all these

double mutant uh monster covent

things well i wouldn't be unworried

it seems like a reasonable thing to be

worried about

i would expect that most of these will

be susceptible to the virus and

or to the vaccinations etc but

i will just add this to the story

the only thing i want to add to the

story is this

this story would have happened no matter

what

so if you say to yourself uh oh there's

a story

about a double mutant variant

do you say to yourself that now i should

worry about it

well maybe but i would submit to you

that there always was going to be this

story

and maybe not with the same words but

there's a guarantee

because of the the nature of the press

and the media

that they needed to find the extra scary

thing

when the scary thing was starting to

diminish so that

the nature of the press guaranteed this

story would exist

but what is not guaranteed is that

there's any substance to it

or that you really need to worry about

it so to make yourself feel better about

these

double mutant variants which sound

pretty scary

just know that the story would have been

here

whether there was any danger or not

all right um

and that is just about what i want to

talk about

i'm going to look at your comments for a

moment here

just looking at some of your comments

here

how is 1984 coming so i told you i was

going to read the book

1984 which amazingly i'd grown to this

age without having read yet

and i bailed out so i'm not going to

finish the book

because it's unfinishable and here's the

reason why

i do not consume media

that is a bummer that makes me feel bad

i got the i got the sense of it i could

read the cliff notes

i don't need to like live in the world

of this guy who's suffering

for an entire book and anybody who does

that i don't understand why you do that

are you reading the book for

entertainment so

when it stops entertaining and it just

starts hurting

like it actually just hurts to read that

book

because it makes me feel bad so

why would you read a book that makes you

feel bad

why would you watch a movie with sad

things in it

it's just bad strategy why would you

listen to a

music that makes you feel bad thinking

about your

your maytu cheating on you or whatever

just don't do it just stay away from all

the media

that is fill you with bad thoughts

you're not gonna

you're not gonna miss anything because

it isn't too hard to know what 1984

is about just read the wikipedia page

you're done

you know give yourself 15 seconds of

pain

to learn something you don't need four

hours of pain

to learn 15 seconds of useful stuff

so stop watching crappy movies stop

watching

reading bad books if they don't teach

you

or make you happy skip it

because bad news should be condensed

not expanded the last thing i want to do

is read about

somebody's fictional problems

i got plenty of problems the world has

plenty of problems

i'm not going to read fiction with

problems

that's the last thing i want

all right

you can't take it too seriously yeah

what are your best systems well you can

see some of my best systems in my book

cattle failed almost everything and

still win

big but diet and fitness

are probably the the top of the pile if

you get your diet and fitness right

pretty much everything else is going to

work out better than it would have

you know your happiness your quality of

life your your ability to get jobs your

ability to just physically feel good

your ability to attract a mate

if you get diet and fitness right

there's a whole cascade of good things

that happen

after that so those are my two most

important systems i will do a micro

lesson on both of those

they're both individual chapters in my

book now the difference between

a diet and a system

is pretty big right a diet you usually

just try to

you know eat differently and use your

willpower and stuff like that

whereas a system is something that you

do every day that just makes it easy to

lose weight or to maintain the right

weight

so if you have a system you're not

really working

the the system does all the work for you

if you have a diet

you're doing all the work which is why

it doesn't work you know people are not

successful with diets

but you can be successful with the

system i'll give you that

i gave you this simple example but if

you haven't heard it one of my

one of the systems i use for diet is i

don't keep bad food in my house

so i take advantage of my own laziness

that when i'm hungry

i'm gonna use something that's already

in the house and none of it's bad

now that's just one thing it's not the

whole system right you need

you need a number of these little

systems to add up to a bigger system

but it's not easy how hard is it to ease

something that's already in the house

there's no effort i just pick it up and

eat it and that's it and then i've

i've participated in a diet

but i didn't do anything i just picked

up what was in the house and ate it

that's it

uh-huh somebody says it is easy for you

you don't care about food that's exactly

right yeah the most important thing you

need to know about

um diet is that we have different

cravings

and desires for food and it will be much

easier for people like me

because i don't have those cravings as

much as other people

it is however true that everybody no

matter what your level of craving is

can greatly reduce you know the pain of

dieting by having good systems

so yeah some people will be better than

others but the systems work for

everybody

they're universal

somebody says the willpower starts at

the grocery store i disagree

i disagree the willpower starts before

you go to the grocery store

because if you went there hungry you did

it wrong

that's a bad system right shopping while

you're hungry

is a bad system so just don't do that

um somebody says i have the extreme

opposite

i like food so little it's a discipline

t i do know people like that i know

actually several people like that who

for them eating

is just a chore they'd rather not do it

at all can go all day without eating

hungry and stoned not a good combo yeah

so here's a system if you are a

marijuana user marijuana users know that

they get the munchies and they eat a lot

so what would be a system

to reduce that and i'll tell you my

system and it works every time

just use mouthwash immediately after you

uh

immediately after you smoke if you're

smoking actual

smoke forget which one i use is

colgate or something i think that's the

one that works the best but

uh if you just do mouthwash immediate

laughter it gets rid of

your cotton mouth it just gets rid of it

and you don't get hungry because there's

something about the mouth

feeling that triggers your hunger it

doesn't seem to be

entirely a mental thing so brush your

teeth

use mouthwash you won't even think of

eating

it just won't even be fun uh

somebody says joe uses listerine i don't

know if it's for the same purpose

uh paw smokers have low t

i don't know about that

um financial literacy tips

financial literacy tips have i not done

a

micro lesson on personal finance i think

i did that within the locals

uh platforms that's a seven dollars a

month to subscribe

and by the way my my goal with the

locals

stuff that's a platform for

people who want to subscribe to my extra

content i try to make sure that if

you're paying seven dollars a month

for my content that you always get

way more than seven dollars worth of uh

useful life benefit

so that's what i'm trying to do you're

it's not just going to be for some

laughs

you're gonna get some practical stuff

every month that when you say to

yourself was that worth seven dollars

you'll just laugh

because you say seven i would have paid

thousands for that

but i got it for seven dollars so that's

what i'm shooting for uh most people

who are uh subscribers and there are

thousands of them now

um are saying it's worth it they're

saying it's worth it

all right somebody says you've lost me

scott maybe i have

um i don't know that somebody's asking

about periscope going away

my understanding is that something's

getting folded into twitter

itself i don't know if it's going to be

periscope-like

i don't know so i don't know any details

of that um someday if this isn't here

just go to youtube and google me and

i'll pop right up

so you can find me on uh youtube and by

the way also on rumble

so every time youtube demonetizes me

i do a commercial for rumble on twitter

i've only done it once yet but that's my

new system

so if i get demonetized for reasons that

i think are

unreasonable which i think all of them

are

then i'll just do a commercial for

rumble every time and you can find my

stuff there

all right that's all for now and i will

talk to you tomorrow

all right youtubers i usually give you a

little extra

you want a little extra

um talk about the sim i think i talk

about that too much

how should we develop people's uh

financial literacy

well uh some of you know some years ago

i created a

i think it was nine points just nine

bullet points

of what you needed for personal finance

and that those nine bullet points

are the whole show because every one of

those bullet points you could kind of

easily

just google to find out more about it

you just need to know what the order is

and what the priority is

so for example among the nine tips

i would tell people to if they have

extra money beyond their expenses

to get a open an account as say charles

schwab

or a discount broker now if i don't give

the details

about how to open an account at charles

schwab or a discount broker

you can just google it so just knowing

that you should do that

is kind of all you need because you just

google it

very easily we'll tell you how to sign

up likewise if i tell you how to

that you should have let's say i tell

you you should have a 401k

and you don't know what that is just

google it

and you'll say oh it's one of these

something from my employer

ask your employer if they have one of

those you probably already know

but you could ask them they say no we

don't have that or yes we do here's how

to sign up

so it's very easy to have financial

literacy

you need about nine bullet points and

you're done

because the way i organize them is you

do them in order

so you wouldn't have to work on all nine

you work on the top one

the top one says pay off your credit

card

what else do you need to know that's it

pay off your credit card

don't buy stocks until you pay off your

credit card

don't do anything financially until you

pay off your credit card

and it's really easy because that's your

highest interest rate you couldn't

possibly make that much money in the

stock market reliably

you could but not reliably

so um somebody's saying where is it

google

google my name and

personal finance list

or something it should pop up it's all

over the internet

it's in a number of my books as well

oh i see somebody's listing the uh the

list and the comments here

so believe it or not it's actually

easy to teach people personal finance

it's literally one page

and they just have to you know tack it

to their wall

and work on the top one and just work

their way down

very easy none of it is complicated in

the least

um did i check out decentral land yet i

did not

i i figure i can tell from the uh

the name of it what that's all about but

maybe i'll look into that

are the when tokens any good anymore

they're still trading

their value is low because the

underlying company doesn't exist

but they live forever they can't go away

because they're part of the blockchain

and there there is a new app under

development that would use them as its

token so anything that creates a demand

for that token

can increase its value so in fact

anybody out there who

wants to start an app and just use a

token that already exists

could do that

struggling to understand financial

jargon question mark

yeah um that's so that's a good point

but everything this financial jargon is

easy to google

right when you come into the word just

look it up next word just

look it up you'll get there pretty

quickly there's really not a lot of

complexity to it

the reason that finance seems so

complicated

is is that the the number of things you

could know

is gigantic you like the things you

could know is just huge

the things you need to know to have a

hundred percent of everything you need

to know is just like

this pinpoint of all the things you need

to know

because if you understand diversity or

i'm sorry

diversification if you understand how to

diversify your portfolio

and you know how to open a charles

schwab account

and you know that you want to pay off

your debts that are higher interest

rates first

you're almost completely done you're

almost done

i mean that's that got you to 90 percent

of everything you need to know

and it took me three sentences

um

uh sunk costs is a good thing to know

about yeah there are a lot of

psychological

uh let's say obstacles to being a good

investor

that you should learn about as well but

if you get an index fund you don't have

to worry

about that either

do i own guns there's a question i would

never answer

would you answer that question if

somebody asks you in public if you own

guns would you answer that question you

shouldn't

never answer that question that would be

the worst question you could ever answer

here's my answer i'm very pro-second

amendment

so if you want to mess with my house

that's all you know

all right the rest you're gonna have to

guess i'm pro-second amendment

and if you're in my house and you mean

no good i could kill you in a heartbeat

i mean just

i'm just telling you my mindset if you

came in my house to do harm to me

in any in any sense i could kill you in

a heartbeat

i wouldn't hesitate for a second and i'm

pro-second amendment

so do you want to know if i own a gun

you don't get that information so

with your hands i could easily kill

somebody with my bare hands

if i had to right if i didn't have a

reason of course not

let's talk about nfts i'm seeing a lot

of questions there

so you all know what nfts are they're a

it's a digital art

that because it's attached to the

blockchain

um you can you can show that you have an

original

or one of the originals so that creates

value and allows people to trade them

and it's like

it's like any other art that can go up

in value

but the the dilbert nft is

it's already created but it hasn't been

published yet for you to buy

we're working on some technical stuff

behind the scenes because it turns out

when you actually get ready to

publish your nft there are a whole bunch

of technical decisions

and technical things you need to set up

one of them

is to allow you to buy it with us

dollars as opposed to

having to have uh let's say a bitcoin to

even buy the nft

so part of the reason it's taken me a

few weeks is uh we

we just got things set up so that you'll

be able to buy it with just regular

money

and you don't have to have a crypto to

do it

do i own a gun safe i'm not going to

tell you if i own a gun safe

if i'm not going to tell you if i own

guns

to my own swords

all right that's all for now and i will

talk to you

later