Episode 1411 Scott Adams - Ice Cream, Ponies, and Sunsets Are Irrelevant to This Program

bodily noise I can't help that really hey everybody come on in here you know what time it is yeah you do you don't even have to look at the clock because you know your body is already telling you your mind your soul it's all the same message that it's time for coffee with Scott Adams the best part of the day now I want to manage your expectations today in all likelihood this will be the worst the worst coffee with Scott Adams of all time it could be now I'm just managing your expectations so if if I clear that bar well yeah that's a bonus but could be the worst one ever well I hear in the news that there's a uh increase in shark attacks that's right you thought the kovid was going to get you no you thought the climate change was going to get you no it's going to be sharks sharks with freaking lasers on their heads I'm just saying that before you put it in the comments because I know you will I know you so well somebody's going to say freaking lasers on their head somebody's gonna do it but you don't have to now because I did it for you all right how many of you would like to enjoy a thing called the simultaneous scipia that's right all of you and if you would like to enjoy it to its maximum extent like way better than average is what we're talking about here all you need is a copper marker glass a tanker jealous design a canteen yoga flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I got some coffee right here and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything except shark attacks better it's called the simultaneous Sip and watch it happen right now go yeah you would think that it would be harder for the mass for the Sharks to attack because they got to bite through the little masks first I assume they're wearing masks I'm in the center in the Greece right now for anybody who didn't know it and there's a statue here wearing a surgical mask some some wag climbed over a fence and got to the place you're not supposed to get to and put a let's put a surgical mask on one of the pieces of art here pretty funny all right well um I just tweeted it out this morning or retweeted there's a little bit in Mashable it's a Mashable is something you should follow it's a it's a Twitter account and I guess a website magazine site whatever it is but they they have items on all the new cool technology the stuff that you don't see in the regular news and there is a mind-blowing story every once in a while you'll see a story and you'll say what here's one apparently they have now developed an artificial arm and hand you know that's fully articulated that can be controlled by a person's mind while that person is using their normal hands to do a task at the same time so in other words they've got this test now apparently every person can't do it but some number of people can repeat this experiment so they'll give them a task where they're doing something with their two normal hands and then they'll just simply I think I think they just have to want just think about it just sort of want the mechanical arm which as some sensors attached obviously to your externally to your brain just want it to reach over and and pick up a bottle and hold it and and a number of the people can actually work with two they're two normal hands and have them mechanical hand come over and pick up their drink and give it to them while they're still working with their other two hands are you freaked out by that you should be have you ever known anybody who lost let's say they had a stroke or something and they lost control of their any part of their body the process to get back control of let's say an arm or a leg to get your brain to control it again once that connection has been lost is so creepy because all you have to do is want it basically now there are some tricks one of the tricks is have you ever heard of this the uh what do they call it it's like a there's a mirrored box where you take your hand that works properly and put it in there versus it so it looks like your other hand so if your right hand is good but your left hand needs Rehabilitation because your brain is not connected to it you put your both hands under the thing and your brain will think that it's controlling your other hand because the mirror has reversed them and then your brain connects to the hand that wasn't working and then you can use it does that just freak you out your brain is so elastic it can just want to control an arm either your own arm that lost the connection through a stroke or even a freaking mechanical arm a robot arm and the part that you have to do is visualize it see where I'm going to this you just have to visualize it in your freaking brain and body do it now the the mirrored box trick is an aid to visualization basically it just it gives you you know if you can't imagine it you just see it so you don't have to imagine it you're seeing it but you're not seeing something real I'll tell you if you don't think you can change a whole bunch of stuff about your brain you know my experience as for if there's even one person who doesn't know this by now I'm gonna train him to this and once you learn how elastic and how programmable the brain and the body are it changes everything about your perception of just what's possible why things work the way they do why people become what they become all that stuff you just your brain opens up and you stop thinking oh it's free will and it's just some kind of you know mechanical process but somebody says psilocybin helps it certainly does so Gladden Greenwald is doing his usual tremendous work for the public you know there are some people in the what world would you say journalists journalism world I guess um that you know of course everybody works for money so there's nobody who isn't doing it at least partially because it's a job but I feel like there are some people who are just taking it to another level they're actually trying to help the world and I think Greenwald is one of those uh and here's his uh his Edition today so you knew the story um Dr.

Carlson um famously and a revolver publication have been talking about the fact that and revolver I think is the initiator of this idea that the FBI had penetrated and had Assets in a number of different organizations and there's some thought that maybe maybe at least this is the conspiracy theory part unproven that maybe the FBI is causing the terrorism in other words somebody is just trying to well is trying to push an organization a little farther than it might have pushed itself and that's that I would say there's no no proof of that but there are some questions that are unanswered this sort of give you the feeling sort of a suggestion like maybe you better look into this a little more so one of the things that Greenwald is correcting I saw in his writing today on sub stack and by the way you should follow him follow him on sub stack that would be the most useful thing you could do as well as Twitter um he said that when Tucker and the revolver guy were noting that um and by the way could somebody please in the comments uh help me because I keep talking about the story without doing the minimal amount of Googling to find out the name of the revolver guy one of you must know it just put it in the comments and I'll say that is it oh Darren Beatty is that the name okay thank you well that didn't take long so Darren Beatty so first of all I apologize to Darren Beatty because I shouldn't be telling a story without leaving you know without mentioning his name since basically he's the originator of the story uh so my apologies so um one of the odd things is that there are people um who are unindicted co-conspirators about the January 6th uh protest slash whatever you want to call it at the Capitol and the thinking is that that might be a tell that it's the the infiltrating FBI agents that are the ones that are unindicted because you wouldn't want to name them and you wouldn't want to indict them because they're you know they're Undercover but apparently the people were smarter than I am quite a few of them certainly when it comes to the law say that you wouldn't do that that that's not let's not tell you anything I think Glenn Greenwald was making that point and if I understood the reason and I think I don't the reason was that you wouldn't consider the FBI assets as unindicted co-conspirators because they wouldn't be co-conspirators they would be FBI agents and I said to myself okay like I get I get the technical accuracy of that that would not actually be co-conspirators they would be undercover agents but if you wanted to keep them Undercover wouldn't you treat them like they were real people and so I'm not entirely sure so there's still some gray area in the stories I'm saying not being a lawyer I'm not quite buying the story that you wouldn't treat them the way you would treat a real person who is in the organization if you want them to stay Undercover um Stephen Miller on Twitter I had a really good catch here CNN had a story so here's the story as it's uh tweeted by CNN and then it's on their website quote within days China will reach a staggering 1 billion doses in its covid-19 vaccination drive a scale and speed unrivaled by any other country in the world and it's an analysis by nectar again and Laurie Lee Louis if I pronounced that anywhere close Stephen Miller points out that both of these analysts who are saying that China is just doing amazing amazing China is great and the two people who wrote this article live in um Hong Kong so it's just it's just Chinese propaganda and it's running on it's running on CNN like it's an analysis now maybe the data is correct I don't know maybe it is maybe it isn't can we trust China's data I doubt it um but I think it's probably safe to say they got a lot of vaccinations done but if you didn't know now if in other words if Stephen Miller hadn't done the work for you would you have known that that wasn't real news that it was just propaganda from China would you have known I don't know if I would have known that without you know a little boost by somebody who knew it more than I do Stephen Miller so that's pretty scary isn't it how easily pure propaganda can be reformatted as news you wouldn't know the difference it would look just like it so can somebody give me a little uh fact check on this there's oh God do I get kicked off of social media if I say this wrong so this is not a fact I'm about to state this is a conspiracy theory let's call it that so what I'm about to say has no known factual basis as far as I know but did you see a story that said that somebody in China got a patent on a Corona the kova 19 vaccination long before uh we all knew about it and that there there was actually a patent there that would suggest that they knew things way before they told us um thanks Mark so bark bought the way of the weasel book one of my books uh for his dad I have to tell you though I hate to ruin your gift that is my worst book No Lie that's my worst book now if you like it that'd be great now let me tell you why it's my worst book it's not because the writing was subbar not because it was less funny it's because the the theme of the book is that everybody is a weasel and it turns out that people will really buy books if you say my boss is an idiot but I'm pretty smart people will buy the hell out of that book because it makes them feel good like I'm smarter than my boss I'll take that framework and I'll apply that I'll buy that I'll give this as a gift I'm so much smarter than my boss but as soon as you say well your boss is a weasels yeah we all know that but if you're a bit of a weasel yourself you know if you're if you're being honest we're all a little easily sometimes so that was the theme that I thought I could make a book out of it turns out that people don't want to buy a book that says they're weasels which is funny because it's so obvious after the fact somehow I went all the way through the publishing process because I think it was that sort of the height of my publishing power at that point because my books have been doing well but I wish my publisher had talked me out of that one because in Russia's fact it's just such a mistake um but like I said the writing and the writing and the jokes are just as good as anything if you want to give them the best book I've ever read or ever written um I would give him how do you feel almost everything and still win big or win bigly or loser think those would be the three four Father's Day so anybody's going to do a Father's Day gift those would be the three books that would work for your for your father all right you all know the Yanni and Laurel thing right you know there's the audio illusion some people hear uh Yani some people here Laurel well there's a new one that is just mind-boggling because I I didn't count them but I think there are nine different things you can hear just by looking at the word in print while you're listening to it and I could hear I think five of the nine clear as day as long as I was looking at the the words that said that it said they would say exactly that and now go down the list and a whole different sentence I could hear it perfectly and then there'd be one that just didn't change anything like I could hear it at all but five out of nine completely different sentences I can hear clear as day when I'm prompted for it and they're and they're different the link would be on my Twitter feed so just go to Scott Adams says and I tweeted it today so you'll you'll see it in the top I know top 20 tweets you'll find it pretty quickly so you have to look at that it's it's mind-blowing it really is Joel Pollock pointed out that uh Juneteenth as a holiday which we're getting under a Democrat Administration turns out that uh Trump had suggested making that a holiday it was part of his uh proposed Platinum plan for black Americans you know he had a larger set of plans and part of the plans were making Juneteenth national holiday so once again Joe Biden as Joel pointed out Joe Biden is following to the lead of trump and how many times is this going to happen the list is starting to grow right so there are two things that seem to be happening either Biden does pretty much what Trump did and everybody says it's a good idea or he goes the other direction such as in the border and everybody says it's a disaster he's really trapped doesn't he and remember I you know I'd predicted this that Biden would end up doing or whoever was the next president no matter who won the uh who won in the last election whenever Trump is done people are going to be copying him his worst critics are going to copy him because it works there's just a whole bunch of stuff that Trump does that is the right decision and it works so I I said it before and every every time we get a new piece of information like this I say it again Trump's Administration whether it ends up being two or or or the initial four years is going to look like one of the best administrations of all time and but it's going to take a while for people to realize that did you hear that uh Dave Portnoy the founder of Barstool Sports pretty you know a fairly enormous site online it has a big impact he got he's back on now he's been reinstated but he was suspended by Twitter now a lot of people get suspended by Twitter so that alone is not a big story right but here's the big story doesn't know why doesn't know why he's guessing it's some kind of a mean tweet he did about dropping his nuts on somebody's head but I feel like I've said much worse than that have you ever seen my Twitter feed I don't think I'm always polite but it could be that as soon as you add a kinetic element to it maybe that's the line because dropping your nuts on somebody's head would be a violent attack right I mean it would be at the very least a sexually abusive attack so even though it's obvious that it wasn't meant as an actual physical threat maybe that's just a line that the Twitter says if it's kinetic in other words if you say something is going to move like you're nuts being on ahead doesn't matter if it's you know a weapon putting your putting your nuts on somebody's head is kinetic maybe that's the difference versus versus just saying somebody is ugly or dumb or something that doesn't seem to get you banned so we're we're kind of reading the tea leaves here and trying to figure out uh what gets people banned and that's my latest guess there's a kinetic portion of that or again because we're we're guessing it could be scrotum related remember I was surprised to find out that You.

Tube specific Ally connecting and hydroxychloroquine as two things you can't mention in a positive sense I was surprised that their terms of service are specific about those two things don't do that but it could be I haven't read Twitter's terms of service they might have something in there about scrotums it's like well you can talk about a scrotum you can say you have one you can say you shave it but you can't get it anywhere near somebody's head if if you suggest that a scrotum should be in the same General neighborhood of a head and I don't know what the right distance is um because that that matters right like um oh let me take let's imagine that these uh earbuds or whatever the these are called imagine this was a scrotum all right so work with me here and see if we can come up with a reasonable standard acceptable or not acceptable I would say not acceptable right if somebody screwed up inside your forehead you'd be like that's that's not cool could you please move your scrotum away from my forehead so I think everybody would agree on this one right this one uncool totally uncool there's already scrotum is any anywhere in your nose your mouth area that's not cool right so you should get banned for that but what about what about this what about you know let's say there's like a foot of distance between a scrotum and your head now is that an assault well suppose you quickly turned and walked in that direction that doesn't say you're right back to the bad situation because people do that they'll just turn and quickly oh next thing you know you got to scrote them right near like muzzle situation and that's not good so I would think the minimum scrotum to skull distance would be somewhere in the at least a yard maybe a yard or two B minimum but I think this is exactly the sort of thing that should be written specifically in the terms of service because I make a lot of scrotum comments I mean if you if you did a search for all the times I've mentioned a scrotum on Twitter 20 30 times I don't know it's just scroll to this scrotum that so we need a little more clarity on that situation that's all I'm saying that's all I'm saying a big surprise in Iran they had a election for President and I know you didn't see this coming but uh looks like they elected an ultra conservative did not see that coming now it turns out that only Ultra conservatives were allowed to run so that probably increased the chances that one of them would win but uh good work Iran in pretending to have something like a democracy um did you hear about Bill Maher ripping into Lynn Manuel and Miranda now you know him from stage plays uh from Hamilton in specif specifically but he's got some other new kind of play now called in the Heights and apparently he didn't add enough diversity so Lin Manuel Miranda uh got a little uh pushback Andy for not having enough diversity and here's his apology uh that Bill Maher ripped into I'll tell you about that in a moment but I want to read his apology because remember I told you that these apologies for getting uh canceled or almost canceled are now bird the line between parody and reality Matt says it's fine if he said I'd like her head to move rapidly upwards toward my stationary scrotum but the scrotum itself yeah that's a good upgrade yeah I feel that's right you can't have you can't have the scrotum moving toward the head but if the head is moving towards the scrotum it was more of a voluntary situation so that's probably okay thank you for that upgrade uh back to our main story so I'm going to read you lin-manuel Miranda's apology and here's what you have to determine is he kidding seriously I'm going to read this and you'll say to yourself I'm not sure he's serious about this but I can't wait till I get canceled because you're going to see the apology of a lifetime when I do it and you know it's going to happen so sooner or later you're going to see the best apology you've ever heard of but let's see a little manual then Manuel Miranda dick now can somebody do a fact check on me he wrote Hamilton right am I right he's actually the author of the The play Hamilton and maybe in the heights I don't know so remember he's he's a skilled writer okay so he's not like I believe right well I'm getting yeses here right so he's a very smart talented skilled writer so let's see what the skilled writer said quote I can hear the hurt and frustration over colorism it's a red flag of feeling still unseen in the feedback he continued I hear that that was sufficient without sufficient dark-skinned afro-latino representation the work feels extractive of the community we wanted so much to represent with pride and joy in trying to paint a mosaic of this community we fell short I'm truly sorry I'm learning from the feedback I thank you for raising it and I'm listening I promise to do better in my future projects here's what Bill Maher said Bill Maher said please stop apologing but please stop apologizing you're the guy who made the founding fathers Black and Hispanic Mayor Bill Maher exclaimed during the show's fatal discussion quote I don't think you have to apologize to Twitter for sake this is why people hate Democrats it's cringy well it's cringy if it was serious what was it you know do you imagine that Lynn uh Manuel Miranda sat down and he wrote that with like tears in his eyes and a solemn approach and and deep regret for the hurt that he has caused because he had uh he has a good history of inclusion for uh let's say what what's the word here um for the Latino community in the African-American Community but he's a little short on the afro-latino community and if you're going to leave out that group well you need you have some work you have some work to do don't you so uh what do you think is he serious in the comments tell me do you think he was completely serious lin-manuel Miranda when he wrote that or do you think he was laughing when he wrote it and said ah this will take care of it I can't tell I honestly can't tell because I'm sure that he's entirely um entirely honest and well-meaning and that he's been more successful than anybody I can think of in being inclusive of all people or apparently not all people but being very inclusive so I'm looking at your comments uh seriously sarcasm completely serious it feels serious dripping with sarcasm uh somebody says he's doing both simultaneously that's sort of where I'm at it's sort of where I'm at I do think you look he was trying to do something serious but when you put in words like the work feels extractive of the community we wanted so much to represent with pride and joy I don't know I don't know if that's serious maybe could be I wouldn't I mean if if you were here in the room and I could ask him and I I knew that he would tell me the truth and he said it was serious I'll believe him I'd believe him if you know if I Heard It From the Source but you can't tell just by reading it it's like well maybe maybe serious I don't know yeah apology accepted somebody says all right well let me tell you um I'm going to be uh flying tomorrow and uh I believe I will be on the airplane during this time period so if you don't hear from me at this time tomorrow there's a pretty good chance you'll hear from me the day after but if you don't hear from me the day after there's a very high chance you're going to hear from me the day after that because it's going to take me two days to get home so we're going to be flying a lot what do I do on flights well this last one I had a panic attack so that wasn't cool I think my first one I don't I don't have any uh any history of that now the panic attack is not because I have a fear of flying which I don't it but masks wearing a mask for 18 hours is to me like it's like torture and so uh sort of 18 hours of having somebody screw them on your forehead uh it's uncomfortable really really uncomfortable so I'll tell you the good and the bad if if you fly well and you can fly with a mask for 18 hours with a few breaks go ahead and do it because Greece right now let me get a little commercial for at least Santorini and Greece it's the best time to come if you can get to Santorini and in other words if you can handle the track all the testing and the vaccinations and the travel problems and the masking if you can handle the travel getting here is the best freaking thing you've ever done in your life because it's not very busy you know it's keeping other people away so fortunately for me Christina is a a world traveler and you know she can do things that she can make things easier than than I could if I'm doing it myself all right so definitely come here the I had the same we had the same experience at Bora Bora during the pandemic when it was open briefly if you can get away the crowds are really small and everything's better and wow are the Greek people um appreciative when they see Americans coming in very very appreciative you know I've I haven't traveled a ton but you know how everybody always says oh the people there are so nice hey yellow air man you're too nice thank you you know how people always say wherever you go it seems like oh the people there are so nice the people they're so nice the exception being Los Angeles that's the only place I've been where you walk you leave Los Angeles and you think I don't think the people here were very nice at all but it's the only place however you may have heard that the Greeks are unusually friendly let me tell you the Greeks are unusually friendly this is the warmest friendliest place I've ever been nothing's even close right and I'm talking about just every interaction with every person here is a joy and mostly the staff you know those are the people that were interacting with shop owners and restaurants and stuff like that but the the people who live and work here are freaking amazing like you actually will feel like you feel like you make a friend every time you talk to somebody here it's crazy it's crazy I've never seen anything like it so for that alone it's worth coming somebody says Chicago and Portland are pretty friendly well okay you know and people say New York can be kind of hard edged but I don't know if you would agree with this or disagree um yeah maybe it's because it's an island I see your comment there um but New Yorkers will maybe talk tough and you know they've got a certain style but a New Yorker will help you in a heartbeat right I'm talking about mostly Manhattan but the New Yorkers are super helpful they just have a style about them so even they're super nice yeah Texas um I'm being asked did I get the vaccine yes so I did get the full moderna now I told you before that um I'm not suggesting that this has any uh truth to it but my allergies have suspiciously going away since I got the second shot after a lifetime of them not going away like my whole life and then I got the second shot and suddenly my sinuses opened up my sense of smell started coming back I don't know if it's a coincidence it makes me wonder if the if there's like a little bit more virus in terms of uh sinuses because I've had sinuses of infections forever so I'm wondering if that's if it wasn't just an allergy thing maybe there was a sinus infection and it just took it out at the same time now I'm not suggesting that's true so put this squarely in the dumb guy speculation right don't don't assume that this has any truth to it but it's weird it's weird I mean if we assume that people dying the day after the vaccination means something which it doesn't because there's so many people getting the vaccination you're guaranteed to have some people die right after they get it because people die so uh and and you're also guaranteed that any kind of vaccination is going to have some real side effects so people some of them really will die um if we're in a simulation there's a question let's say if we're in a simulation should we buy lottery tickets years of affirmations thought experiment what would happen if two people were doing affirmations to try to get the same job and it's a job only one person can get but there are two people doing affirmations to get the job could they change the change the simulation effectively well no because only one person can get it thank you David only one person can get the job so you know it's not going to work for both of them but what about an affirmation in which you're not competing with anybody because I think those are the ones that if anything works it would be those right so something like uh you will get wealthy you're not really that doesn't directly compete with somebody else because you can get wealthy in a variety of ways that don't take any money from anybody it just creates more money so I would stick to affirmations and and visualizing what you want in ways that are not taking something directly out of somebody else's pocket because if we're a simulation you don't know how many people can manipulate it maybe not everybody but you don't want to be competing against somebody who's also an author author of The simulation in this case so to answer your question buying a lottery ticket probably wouldn't work because everybody who bought one is visualizing themselves winning so you're competing against a zillion people it's probably the least likely thing to work even if we're a simulation because it's not a simulation for your benefit it would be a simulation in which presumably there are multiple entities um do you want to be an NPC or a player exactly and I'm just looking at your comments is Trump aware of this I don't know see what that's about um okay all right that's all I have for today and uh I'll try I might be able to uh connect with you while I'm on the flight just before it takes off so I might come on just for the Sip but that depends if I'm on the flight in time blah blah so forget about it I may or may not be there and get a guest host for tomorrow who could possibly replace me who could possibly do this have a sip talk about the news it's very difficult yeah actually everybody can do it uh no sugar in my coffee but thanks for asking I take it I take it black yeah the plane has Wi-Fi but uh I don't know if I'll actually be sitting down and be ready to do it in time um Brian Stelzer stelter yeah he's in the news I Saw The Joe Rogan uh taking on stelter uh put Christina on tomorrow you know Christina uh probably will not be guesting on here but I would love it if she would so that would be up to her all right that's all for now and I will talk to you maybe tomorrow but see you soon

bodily noise

I can't help that really

hey everybody come on in here

you know what time it is

yeah you do you don't even have to look

at the clock because you know

your body is already telling you

your mind your soul

it's all the same message that it's time

for coffee with Scott Adams the best

part of the day

now I want to manage your expectations

today

in all likelihood this will be the worst

the worst coffee with Scott Adams of all

time it could be now I'm just managing

your expectations so if if I clear that

bar well yeah that's a bonus

but could be the worst one ever

well I hear in the news that there's a

uh increase in shark attacks

that's right you thought the kovid was

going to get you no you thought the

climate change was going to get you no

it's going to be sharks sharks with

freaking lasers on their heads I'm just

saying that before you put it in the

comments because I know you will I know

you so well somebody's going to say

freaking lasers on their head

somebody's gonna do it

but you don't have to now because I did

it for you

all right how many of you would like to

enjoy a thing called the simultaneous

scipia that's right all of you and if

you would like to enjoy it to its

maximum extent like way better than

average is what we're talking about here

all you need is a copper marker glass a

tanker jealous design a canteen yoga

flask a vessel of any kind

fill it with your favorite liquid

I got some coffee right here and join me

now for the unparalleled pleasure the

dopamine hit of the day the thing that

makes

everything except shark attacks better

it's called the simultaneous Sip and

watch it happen right now go

yeah you would think that it would be

harder for the mass for the Sharks to

attack

because they got to bite through the

little masks first

I assume they're wearing masks I'm in

the center in the Greece right now for

anybody who didn't know it and there's a

statue here wearing a surgical mask

some some wag climbed over a fence and

got to the place you're not supposed to

get to and put a let's put a surgical

mask on one of the pieces of art here

pretty funny

all right well

um I just tweeted it out this morning or

retweeted there's a little bit in

Mashable it's a Mashable is something

you should follow it's a it's a Twitter

account and I guess a website magazine

site whatever it is but they they have

items on all the new cool technology the

stuff that you don't see in the regular

news and there is a mind-blowing story

every once in a while you'll see a story

and you'll say what

here's one apparently they have now

developed an artificial arm and hand you

know that's fully articulated that can

be controlled by a person's mind

while that person is using their normal

hands to do a task

at the same time

so in other words they've got this test

now apparently every person can't do it

but some number of people can repeat

this experiment so they'll give them a

task where they're doing something with

their two normal hands and then they'll

just simply

I think I think they just have to want

just think about it just sort of want

the mechanical arm which as some sensors

attached obviously to your externally to

your brain just want it to reach over

and and pick up a bottle and hold it

and and a number of the people can

actually work with two they're two

normal hands and have them mechanical

hand come over and pick up their drink

and give it to them while they're still

working with their other two hands

are you freaked out by that

you should be

have you ever known anybody who lost

let's say they had a stroke or something

and they lost control of their any part

of their body

the process to get back control of let's

say an arm or a leg

to get your brain to control it again

once that connection has been lost

is so creepy

because all you have to do is want it

[Laughter]

basically now there are some tricks one

of the tricks is have you ever heard of

this the uh what do they call it it's

like a there's a mirrored box where you

take your hand that works properly and

put it in there

versus it so it looks like your other

hand so if your right hand is good

but your left hand needs Rehabilitation

because your brain is not connected to

it you put your both hands under the

thing

and your brain will think that it's

controlling your other hand because the

mirror has reversed them

and then your brain connects to the hand

that wasn't working

and then you can use it

does that just freak you out

your brain is so elastic

it can just want to control an arm

either your own arm that lost the

connection through a stroke

or even a freaking mechanical arm

a robot arm

and the part that you have to do is

visualize it

see where I'm going to this

you just have to visualize it in your

freaking brain and body

do it now the the mirrored box trick is

an aid to visualization basically it

just it gives you you know if you can't

imagine it

you just see it so you don't have to

imagine it you're seeing it but you're

not seeing something real

I'll tell you if you don't think you can

change a whole bunch of stuff about your

brain

you know my experience as for if there's

even one person who doesn't know this by

now I'm gonna train him to this and once

you learn how elastic and how

programmable the brain and the body are

it changes everything about your

perception of just what's possible why

things work the way they do why people

become what they become all that stuff

you just your brain opens up and you

stop thinking oh it's free will

and it's just some kind of you know

mechanical process but somebody says

psilocybin helps it certainly does

so Gladden Greenwald is doing his usual

tremendous work for the public

you know there are some people in the

what world would you say journalists

journalism world I guess

um that you know of course everybody

works for money

so there's nobody who isn't doing it at

least partially because it's a job

but I feel like there are some people

who are just taking it to another level

they're actually trying to help the

world and I think Greenwald is one of

those

uh and here's his uh his Edition today

so you knew the story

um Dr Carlson

um famously and a revolver publication

have been talking about the fact that

and revolver I think is the initiator of

this idea that the FBI had penetrated

and had Assets in a number of different

organizations and there's some thought

that maybe maybe at least this is the

conspiracy theory part unproven that

maybe the FBI is causing the terrorism

in other words somebody is just trying

to well is trying to push an

organization a little farther than it

might have pushed itself and that's that

I would say there's no no proof of that

but there are some questions that are

unanswered this sort of give you the

feeling sort of a suggestion like maybe

you better look into this a little more

so one of the things that Greenwald is

correcting I saw in his writing today on

sub stack

and by the way you should follow him

follow him on sub stack that would be

the most useful thing you could do as

well as Twitter

um he said that when Tucker and the

revolver guy were noting that

um and by the way could somebody please

in the comments uh help me

because I keep talking about the story

without doing the minimal amount of

Googling to find out the name of the

revolver guy one of you must know it

just put it in the comments and I'll say

that is it

oh Darren Beatty

is that the name okay thank you well

that didn't take long so Darren Beatty

so first of all I apologize to Darren

Beatty because I shouldn't be telling a

story without leaving you know without

mentioning his name since basically he's

the originator of the story

uh so my apologies so

um

one of the odd things is that there are

people

um who are unindicted co-conspirators

about the January 6th uh

protest slash whatever you want to call

it at the Capitol

and the thinking is that that might be a

tell that it's the the infiltrating FBI

agents that are the ones that are

unindicted because you wouldn't want to

name them and you wouldn't want to

indict them because they're you know

they're Undercover but apparently the

people were smarter than I am quite a

few of them certainly when it comes to

the law say that you wouldn't do that

that that's not let's not tell you

anything I think Glenn Greenwald was

making that point and if I understood

the reason

and I think I don't

the reason was that you wouldn't

consider the FBI assets as unindicted

co-conspirators because

they wouldn't be co-conspirators they

would be FBI agents

and I said to myself

okay like I get I get the technical

accuracy of that that would not actually

be co-conspirators they would be

undercover agents

but if you wanted to keep them

Undercover

wouldn't you treat them like they were

real people

and so I'm not entirely sure

so there's still some gray area in the

stories I'm saying not being a lawyer

I'm not quite buying the story that you

wouldn't treat them the way you would

treat

a real person who is in the organization

if you want them to stay Undercover

um Stephen Miller on Twitter

I had a really good catch here CNN had a

story

so here's the story as it's uh tweeted

by CNN and then it's on their website

quote within days China will reach a

staggering 1 billion doses in its

covid-19 vaccination drive a scale and

speed unrivaled by any other country in

the world

and it's an analysis by nectar again and

Laurie Lee Louis

if I pronounced that anywhere close

Stephen Miller points out

that both of these analysts

who are saying that China is just doing

amazing

amazing

China is great

and the two people who wrote this

article live in

um

Hong Kong

so

it's just it's just Chinese propaganda

and it's running on it's running on CNN

like it's an analysis

now

maybe the data is correct I don't know

maybe it is maybe it isn't can we trust

China's data I doubt it

um but I think it's probably safe to say

they got a lot of vaccinations done

but if you didn't know now if in other

words if Stephen Miller hadn't done the

work for you

would you have known that that wasn't

real news

that it was just propaganda from China

would you have known

I don't know if I would have known that

without you know a little boost by

somebody who knew it more than I do

Stephen Miller

so that's pretty scary isn't it

how easily

pure propaganda can be reformatted as

news you wouldn't know the difference it

would look just like it

so

can somebody give me a little uh fact

check on this

there's oh God do I get kicked off of

social media if I say this wrong so this

is not a fact I'm about to state

this is a conspiracy theory

let's call it that so what I'm about to

say has no known factual basis as far as

I know

but did you see a story

that said that somebody in China got a

patent on a Corona the kova 19

vaccination

long before uh we all knew about it

and that there there was actually a

patent there that would suggest that

they knew things way before they told us

um

thanks Mark so bark bought the way of

the weasel book one of my books uh for

his dad

I have to tell you though

I hate to ruin your gift that is my

worst book

No Lie that's my worst book now if you

like it that'd be great now let me tell

you why it's my worst book it's not

because the writing was subbar not

because it was less funny

it's because the the theme of the book

is that everybody is a weasel

and it turns out that people will really

buy books if you say my boss is an idiot

but I'm pretty smart

people will buy the hell out of that

book because it makes them feel good

like I'm smarter than my boss I'll take

that framework and I'll apply that I'll

buy that I'll give this as a gift I'm so

much smarter than my boss but as soon as

you say well

your boss is a weasels yeah we all know

that but if you're a bit of a weasel

yourself you know if you're if you're

being honest

we're all a little easily sometimes so

that was the theme that I thought I

could make a book out of

it turns out that people don't want to

buy a book that says they're weasels

which is funny because it's so obvious

after the fact

somehow I went all the way through the

publishing process because I think it

was that sort of the height of my

publishing power at that point because

my books have been doing well

but I wish my publisher had talked me

out of that one

because in Russia's fact it's just such

a mistake

um but

like I said the writing and the writing

and the jokes are just as good as

anything if you want to give them the

best book I've ever read or ever written

um I would give him how do you feel

almost everything and still win big or

win bigly or loser think those would be

the three four Father's Day

so anybody's going to do a Father's Day

gift those would be the three books that

would work for your for your father

all right you all know the Yanni and

Laurel thing right you know there's the

audio illusion some people hear uh Yani

some people here Laurel well there's a

new one that is just mind-boggling

because I I didn't count them but I

think there are nine different things

you can hear

just by looking at the word in print

while you're listening to it

and I could hear I think five of the

nine

clear as day as long as I was looking at

the the words that said that it said

they would say exactly that and now go

down the list and a whole different

sentence I could hear it perfectly and

then there'd be one that just didn't

change anything like I could hear it at

all but

five out of nine completely different

sentences

I can hear clear as day when I'm

prompted for it

and they're and they're different the

link would be on my Twitter feed so just

go to Scott Adams says and I tweeted it

today so you'll you'll see it in the top

I know top 20 tweets you'll find it

pretty quickly

so you have to look at that it's it's

mind-blowing it really is

Joel Pollock pointed out that uh

Juneteenth as a holiday

which we're getting under a Democrat

Administration

turns out that uh Trump had suggested

making that a holiday it was part of his

uh proposed Platinum plan for black

Americans

you know he had a larger set of plans

and part of the plans were making

Juneteenth national holiday

so once again Joe Biden as Joel pointed

out Joe Biden is

following

to the lead of trump

and

how many times is this going to happen

the list is starting to grow right so

there are two things that seem to be

happening either Biden does pretty much

what Trump did

and everybody says it's a good idea or

he goes the other direction such as in

the border and everybody says it's a

disaster

he's really trapped doesn't he and

remember I you know I'd predicted this

that Biden would end up doing or whoever

was the next president no matter who won

the uh who won in the last election

whenever Trump is done

people are going to be copying him

his worst critics

are going to copy him

because it works there's just a whole

bunch of stuff that Trump does

that is the right decision and it works

so I I said it before and every every

time we get a new piece of information

like this I say it again

Trump's Administration whether it ends

up being two or or or the initial four

years

is going to look like one of the best

administrations of all time and but it's

going to take a while for people to

realize that

did you hear that uh

Dave Portnoy the founder of Barstool

Sports pretty you know a fairly enormous

site online it has a big impact

he got he's back on now he's been

reinstated but he was suspended by

Twitter

now a lot of people get suspended by

Twitter

so that alone is not a big story right

but here's the big story

doesn't know why

doesn't know why

he's guessing it's some kind of a mean

tweet he did about dropping his nuts on

somebody's head

but

I feel like I've said much worse than

that

have you ever seen my Twitter feed

I don't think I'm always polite

but it could be that as soon as you add

a kinetic element to it

maybe that's the line

because dropping your nuts on somebody's

head

would be a violent attack right I mean

it would be at the very least a sexually

abusive attack

so even though it's obvious

that it wasn't meant as an actual

physical threat

maybe that's just a line that the

Twitter says if it's kinetic in other

words if you say something is going to

move like you're nuts being on ahead

doesn't matter if it's you know a weapon

putting your putting your nuts on

somebody's head is kinetic maybe that's

the difference versus versus just saying

somebody is ugly or dumb or something

that doesn't seem to get you banned

so we're we're kind of reading the tea

leaves here and trying to figure out uh

what gets people banned and that's my

latest guess there's a kinetic portion

of that or again because we're we're

guessing it could be scrotum related

remember I was surprised to find out

that YouTube specific

Ally connecting and

hydroxychloroquine as two things you

can't mention in a positive sense

I was surprised that their terms of

service are specific about those two

things don't do that

but it could be I haven't read Twitter's

terms of service they might have

something in there about scrotums

it's like well you can talk about a

scrotum

you can say you have one

you can say you shave it but you can't

get it anywhere near somebody's head

if if you suggest that a scrotum

should be in the same

General neighborhood of a head and I

don't know what the right distance is

um because that that matters right like

um oh let me take

let's imagine that these uh earbuds or

whatever the these are called

imagine this was a scrotum

all right so work with me here and see

if we can come up with a reasonable

standard

acceptable

or not acceptable I would say not

acceptable

right if somebody screwed up inside your

forehead you'd be like that's that's not

cool

could you please move your scrotum away

from my forehead so I think everybody

would agree on this one right this one

uncool totally uncool there's already

scrotum

is any anywhere in your nose your mouth

area that's not cool

right so you should get banned for that

but what about what about this

what about you know let's say there's

like a foot of distance between a

scrotum and your head

now is that an assault

well suppose you quickly turned and

walked in that direction that

doesn't say you're right back to the bad

situation because people do that they'll

just turn and quickly oh

next thing you know you got to scrote

them right near like muzzle situation

and that's not good so I would think

the minimum scrotum to skull distance

would be somewhere in the at least a

yard

maybe a yard or two

B minimum but I think this is exactly

the sort of thing that should be written

specifically in the terms of service

because I make a lot of scrotum comments

I mean if you if you did a search for

all the times I've mentioned a scrotum

on Twitter

20 30 times I don't know it's just

scroll to this scrotum that so we need a

little more clarity on that situation

that's all I'm saying that's all I'm

saying

a big surprise in Iran

they had a election for President

and I know you didn't see this coming

but uh looks like they elected an ultra

conservative

did not see that coming now it turns out

that only Ultra conservatives were

allowed to run so that probably

increased the chances that one of them

would win

but uh good work Iran in pretending to

have something like a democracy

um

did you hear about Bill Maher ripping

into

Lynn Manuel and Miranda now you know him

from stage plays uh from Hamilton in

specif specifically but he's got some

other new kind of play now called in the

Heights and apparently he didn't add

enough diversity

so Lin Manuel Miranda

uh

got a little uh pushback Andy for not

having enough diversity and here's his

apology

uh that Bill Maher ripped into I'll tell

you about that in a moment but I want to

read his apology

because remember I told you

that these apologies for getting uh

canceled or almost canceled are

now bird the line between parody and

reality

Matt says it's fine if he said I'd like

her head to move rapidly upwards toward

my stationary scrotum but the scrotum

itself yeah

that's a good upgrade yeah I feel that's

right you can't have you can't have the

scrotum moving toward the head

but if the head is moving towards the

scrotum it was more of a voluntary

situation so that's probably okay thank

you for that upgrade uh back to our main

story

so I'm going to read you lin-manuel

Miranda's apology

and here's what you have to determine

is he kidding

seriously I'm going to read this and

you'll say to yourself I'm not sure he's

serious about this

but I can't wait till I get canceled

because you're going to see the apology

of a lifetime when I do it and you know

it's going to happen so sooner or later

you're going to see the best

apology you've ever heard of but let's

see a little manual

then Manuel Miranda dick now can

somebody do a fact check on me

he wrote Hamilton right am I right he's

actually the author of the The play

Hamilton and maybe in the heights I

don't know so remember he's he's a

skilled writer okay so he's not like I

believe right well I'm getting yeses

here right so he's a very smart talented

skilled writer so let's see what the

skilled writer said quote

I can hear the hurt and frustration over

colorism

it's a red flag

of feeling still unseen in the feedback

he continued I hear that that was

sufficient without sufficient

dark-skinned afro-latino representation

the work feels extractive of the

community we wanted so much to represent

with pride and joy in trying to paint a

mosaic of this community we fell short

I'm truly sorry I'm learning from the

feedback I thank you for raising it and

I'm listening I promise to do better in

my future projects

here's what Bill Maher said Bill Maher

said

please stop apologing but please stop

apologizing you're the guy who made the

founding fathers Black and Hispanic

Mayor Bill Maher exclaimed during the

show's fatal discussion quote I don't

think you have to apologize to Twitter

for sake this is why people hate

Democrats it's cringy

well it's cringy if it was serious

what was it

you know do you imagine that Lynn uh

Manuel Miranda sat down and he wrote

that with like tears in his eyes and a

solemn approach and and deep regret for

the hurt that he has caused

because he had uh he has a good history

of

inclusion for uh let's say what what's

the word here

um for the Latino community in the

African-American Community but he's a

little short on the afro-latino

community

and if you're going to leave out that

group

well you need you have some work you

have some work to do don't you

so uh

what do you think is he serious in the

comments tell me do you think he was

completely serious lin-manuel Miranda

when he wrote that or do you think he

was laughing when he wrote it and said

ah this will take care of it

I can't tell

I honestly can't tell because I'm sure

that he's entirely

um

entirely honest and well-meaning and

that he's been more successful than

anybody I can think of in being

inclusive of all people or apparently

not all people but being very inclusive

so I'm looking at your comments uh

seriously sarcasm

completely serious it feels serious

dripping with sarcasm

uh

somebody says he's doing both

simultaneously that's sort of where I'm

at it's sort of where I'm at I do think

you look he was trying to do something

serious

but when you put in words like

the work feels extractive of the

community we wanted so much to represent

with pride and joy

I don't know I don't know if that's

serious

maybe could be

I wouldn't I mean if if you were here in

the room and I could ask him and I I

knew that he would tell me the truth and

he said it was serious I'll believe him

I'd believe him if you know if I Heard

It From the Source but you can't tell

just by reading it it's like well maybe

maybe serious I don't know

yeah apology accepted

somebody says all right well let me tell

you

um I'm going to be uh flying tomorrow

and uh I believe I will be on the

airplane during this time period so if

you don't hear from me at this time

tomorrow

there's a pretty good chance you'll hear

from me the day after

but if you don't hear from me the day

after

there's a very high chance you're going

to hear from me the day after that

because it's going to take me two days

to get home so we're going to be flying

a lot

what do I do on flights

well

this last one I had a panic attack so

that wasn't cool I think my first one I

don't I don't have any uh any history of

that now the panic attack is not because

I have a fear of flying which I don't it

but masks

wearing a mask for 18 hours is

to me like

it's like torture

and so uh sort of 18 hours of having

somebody screw them on your forehead uh

it's uncomfortable really really

uncomfortable so I'll tell you the good

and the bad if if you fly well

and you can fly with a mask for 18 hours

with a few breaks go ahead and do it

because Greece right now let me get a

little commercial for at least Santorini

and Greece it's the best time to come if

you can get to Santorini

and in other words if you can handle the

track all the testing and the

vaccinations and the travel problems and

the masking if you can handle the travel

getting here is the best freaking thing

you've ever done in your life because

it's not very busy you know it's keeping

other people away so fortunately for me

Christina is a a world traveler and you

know she can do things that she can make

things easier than than I could if I'm

doing it myself

all right so definitely come here the I

had the same we had the same experience

at Bora Bora during the pandemic when it

was open briefly if you can get away the

crowds are really small and everything's

better and wow are the Greek people

um appreciative when they see Americans

coming in very very appreciative you

know I've

I haven't traveled a ton

but you know how everybody always says

oh the people there are so nice

hey yellow air man you're too nice thank

you you know how people always say

wherever you go it seems like oh the

people there are so nice the people

they're so nice the exception being Los

Angeles that's the only place I've been

where you walk you leave Los Angeles and

you think I don't think the people here

were very nice at all but it's the only

place however

you may have heard that the Greeks are

unusually friendly

let me tell you

the Greeks are unusually friendly this

is the warmest

friendliest place I've ever been

nothing's even close right and I'm

talking about just every interaction

with every person here is a joy and

mostly the staff you know those are the

people that were interacting with shop

owners and restaurants and stuff like

that but the the people who live and

work here are freaking amazing like you

actually will feel

like you feel like you make a friend

every time you talk to somebody here

it's crazy it's crazy I've never seen

anything like it so for that alone it's

worth coming

somebody says Chicago and Portland are

pretty friendly

well okay you know and people say New

York can be kind of hard edged

but I don't know if you would agree with

this or disagree

um

yeah maybe it's because it's an island I

see your comment there

um

but New Yorkers

will maybe talk tough and you know

they've got a certain style but a New

Yorker will help you

in a heartbeat right I'm talking about

mostly Manhattan but the New Yorkers are

super helpful they just have a style

about them so even they're super nice

yeah Texas

um I'm being asked did I get the vaccine

yes so I did get the full moderna

now I told you before that

um I'm not suggesting that this has any

uh

truth to it but my allergies have

suspiciously

going away since I got the second shot

after a lifetime

of them not going away

like my whole life and then I got the

second shot

and suddenly my sinuses opened up my

sense of smell started coming back

I don't know if it's a coincidence

it makes me wonder if the if there's

like a little bit more virus in terms of

uh sinuses because I've had sinuses of

infections forever

so I'm wondering if that's if it wasn't

just an allergy thing maybe there was a

sinus infection and it just took it out

at the same time now I'm not suggesting

that's true

so put this squarely in the dumb guy

speculation right don't don't assume

that this has any truth to it but it's

weird

it's weird I mean if we assume that

people dying the day after the

vaccination means something which it

doesn't

because there's so many people getting

the vaccination you're guaranteed to

have some people die right after they

get it

because people die

so uh and and you're also guaranteed

that any kind of vaccination is going to

have some real side effects so people

some of them really will die

um

if we're in a simulation

there's a question let's say

if we're in a simulation should we buy

lottery tickets

years of affirmations thought

experiment

what would happen if two people were

doing affirmations to try to get the

same job

and it's a job only one person can get

but there are two people doing

affirmations to get the job could they

change the change the simulation

effectively well no because only one

person can get it

thank you David only one person can get

the job so you know it's not going to

work for both of them but what about

an affirmation in which

you're not competing with anybody

because I think those are the ones that

if anything works it would be those

right so something like uh you will get

wealthy

you're not really that doesn't directly

compete with somebody else because you

can get wealthy in a variety of ways

that don't take any money from anybody

it just creates more money

so I would stick to affirmations and and

visualizing what you want in ways that

are not taking something directly out of

somebody else's pocket because if we're

a simulation

you don't know how many people can

manipulate it maybe not everybody

but you don't want to be competing

against somebody who's also an author

author of The simulation in this case

so to answer your question buying a

lottery ticket probably wouldn't work

because everybody who bought one is

visualizing themselves winning so you're

competing against a zillion people it's

probably the least likely thing to work

even if we're a simulation

because it's not a simulation for your

benefit it would be a simulation in

which presumably there are multiple

entities

um

do you want to be an NPC or a player

exactly

and I'm just looking at your comments

is Trump aware of this

I don't know

see what that's about

um

okay

all right that's all I have for today

and

uh I'll try I might be able to uh

connect with you while I'm on the flight

just before it takes off

so I might come on just for the Sip but

that depends if I'm on the flight in

time blah blah so forget about it I may

or may not be there and get a guest host

for tomorrow

who could possibly replace me

who could possibly

do this

have a sip talk about the news

it's very difficult yeah actually

everybody can do it

uh no sugar in my coffee but thanks for

asking

I take it I take it black

yeah the plane has Wi-Fi but uh I don't

know if I'll actually be sitting down

and be ready to do it in time

um

Brian Stelzer stelter yeah he's in the

news I Saw The Joe Rogan uh taking on

stelter

uh

put Christina on tomorrow

you know Christina uh probably will not

be guesting on here but I would love it

if she would so that would be up to her

all right that's all for now and I will

talk to you

maybe tomorrow but see you soon