Episode 1561 Scott Adams - Talking About All the Media Manipulation and the Landslide Coming in 2022

well look let me put on my microphone here i'll bet that's better isn't it yeah yeah yeah it's time for the simulsip you can call it discipleship i think it's time to abbreviate it and uh how would you like to enjoy really one of the best experiences in all of life nay all of the civilization paul thank you audio looks good on both platforms well all you need is that copper mugger glass on tanker telstein a canteen jugger flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine head of the day the thing that makes everything better you watch you watch it makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip some call it the simulsip and it happens now go well here's a little thing that snuck up on you many of you know my story that a number of years ago i lost my ability to speak i won't go through the whole story but it was an exotic problem called a spasmodic dysphonia and i could make noise but it wouldn't be intelligible my vocal cords would clench when i tried to speak it's a rare disorder and it took me three years to figure out what to do and i found the only doctor in the world who had a surgery they could fix it it was risky but i took it and they fixed it so there are tens of thousands of people in the world right now who can't speak can't have a conversation because they don't know that that one surgery that fix this exists you know they go to their doctor their doctor doesn't know about it so i did spend a lot of time doing some outreach and you know trying to tell people that it exists as an option etc but here's what i wanted to tell you during those years when i couldn't speak every time i got in my car almost every time alone i would repeat an affirmation and the affirmation was that i scott adams will speak perfectly now this was a ridiculous affirmation for two reasons number one prior to having any voice problems whatsoever i had a terrible voice so what are the odds that i would go from not being able to speak at all all the way past my normal terrible voice to something closer to perfect very low given that the problem with my voice was literally incurable at that time it was literally incurable you know when i first got it even the doctor who cured it didn't have the cure yet he was still you know around trying to find it but something happened in the last i don't know it feels like the last few weeks which is i don't know if it's because my allergies are not bothering me i don't know if it's because i had sinus surgery last year and maybe maybe it's you know all working out for me about now but correct me if i'm wrong my voice is damn near perfect now isn't it am i wrong because i can't you know you can't hear your own voice but did i actually achieve the impossible i think it actually happened what could be less likely than someone who never had a good voice and then lost their speaking ability completely what are the odds that they would be able to do this someday have i ever told you about prisoner island i know i have but it's it's worth repeating because when you see another example of it uh i think everybody should have a story of themself sort of an operating system or a code maybe you could call it a philosophy but i prefer to say it's a story about yourself and the story about yourself is the story that you you can rely on everything goes wrong there's a story of yourself here's the story of myself now it's a fictional story but it's the story that i use as my operating code and it's called prisoner island have you heard of it prisoner island goes like this there's an island in which prisoners are dropped and there's no there's no warden it's just a jungle there literally and you just have to figure it out with the other prisoners and survive any way you can and so in my story of myself prisoner island i'm dropped on prisoner island and you know i'm i'm exactly me so i'm not the biggest prisoner on day one the prisoners beat me up and rape me viciously day two the prisoners beat me up and rape me viciously day three the prisoners beat me up and rape me viciously come back in a year they'll all be dead and i will be running prisoner island that's my story and the story and the story is not about you know going to the top of prisoner island the story is about i will go deeper than you will go the story is no matter how far you're willing to go i'm going to go deeper than that every time it's also the reason i've never been afraid of a human being like even scary human beings and maybe you have the same experience if you're male if you're female it's probably reasonable to be afraid of you know big scary men but i'm not a big scary man but i've never been afraid of anybody who was because i will go farther than they will go and they better stay away because there's nothing more scary than somebody who's crazy and i will go i'll go to crazy right if somebody big tried to hurt me i would go to crazy and i would just stay there i would never leave crazy because that's what it takes if if that's what it takes to win prisoner island i'm going to do it so the the moral of prison prisoner island is i'm going to do what it takes now another version of this is the millionaire's advice which i repeat a lot it's the best advice i've ever heard i wish i knew who it came from it came from an actual millionaire whose name i don't remember and what you said was if you want to succeed figure out the price of success and then pay it that's it that's the whole deal if you want to be successful figure out the price to be successful and then pay it if you do that you will be successful in my case it was working seven days a week for ten years that's what it took it took me working seven days a year for ten years and you know there were other challenges there for example losing the ability to draw halfway through by the way do any of you know that i can't draw with my right hand right now i've lost the ability to use my drawing hand so if you were a professional artist and you lost your ability to draw like i actually can't use my hand anymore just from overuse it's not carpal tunnel it's a focal dystonia it's a whole different thing it's from overuse and it's not carpal tunnel it's a focal dystonia it's a different thing but prisoner island if you if you've never been to prison or island and you're a cartoonist and you lose the ability to draw you stop drawing you quit but if you've been to prisoner island you learn to draw left-handed is that easy nope nope drawing left-handed is not easy now i'm mildly ambidextrous so i probably have a you know a little leg up on that but boy am i am i uh you know unwilling to compromise on some things and uh so now i draw left-handed it takes a little longer i'm getting better at it and i have an art assistant who does the finished work so i can get away with some imperfections um but anyway that's what i wanted to tell you somehow that affirmation that was maybe the least likely affirmation i could have ever come up with actually came through i don't know what this means about the world really because the number of times i've had affirmations for things that just seemed impossible just impossible and they happened it's really crazy it makes you wonder about the whole nature of reality really i will tell you some other examples but you can read them in my book all right here's the funniest story of the day bernie sanders tweets this 20 hours ago we we must demand that the extremely wealthy pay their fair share period why do people say period at the end of a statement do you know why why did why do people say period is because they don't have an argument that's the only reason you wouldn't say period if you had any kind of an argument you would just give the argument but his argument is fairness which is a concept as i often say a concept that was created so that children and stupid people could have something to talk about because do you know what's fair nothing nothing there are things that you imagine are fair there are things you say are fair but there's nothing there's nothing like fairness in the universe you can't get yourself a handful of fairness you can't even get two people to agree what's fair what is fair when it comes to taxes can can you define fair what's fair i already pay uh the highest percentage of anybody in the united states as a ratio i also work two jobs when i don't need to right so so this entire profession if you want to call it that the the live streaming and stuff it's you know a huge portion of my my effort and i don't need to do that i don't need to do that but i do it because it's good for the world good for the country etc should i pay the same taxes as someone who's doing something selfish why is that fair why is it fair that a selfish person is just doing work just for their own benefit pays the same taxes as i do when i'm doing this really primarily for other people's benefit is that fair there's nothing this fair fair is purely subjective and the moment you say it's got to be fair period you are signaling with extreme clarity that you have no reason for what you want you just want what you want there's no reason for it elon musk replied to sanders saying we must demand the extremely wealthy pay their fair share period and elon musk replied with this and i quote i keep forgetting that you're still alive i keep forgetting that you're still alive now i don't know if elon musk is the funniest tweeter now that trump is gone but he's pretty close if he's not the funniest tweeter now some of it some of his because of his situation you know if you're the richest person in the world everything you say sounds a little more interesting and a little funnier because everything's you know amped up by that fact but that's a really good tweet i keep forgetting you're still alive this is why tesla doesn't need to spend money on marketing musk is the marketing you can't look away try to go a day without talking about tesla try it try going a full day without mentioning tesla or elon musk it's actually hard to do i don't think i've gone a full day without mentioning one of them i don't know how long now part of it is because i'm in california and they're they're tassels everywhere so you're just surrounded with elon musk reminders all day long and people telling me i should get one uh like i i probably have that conversation about three times a week somebody telling me why don't you have a tesla i don't understand obviously why why wouldn't you have one and i have to like explain all that blah blah well maybe i will have someone one day all right here's a question for you let's look back let's go back in the wayback machine and um do you remember when china reopened the wet markets how many remember that you know we we thought the the virus might have come from the wet markets and then china fairly quickly according to what everything we knew about everything they reopened the wet markets and do you remember how appalled you were and how reckless that seemed now think about how reckless that seemed and then compare it to all the other things that china did about the pandemic one thing looks terribly reckless opening up the wet markets which didn't seem necessary because i don't think those wet markets have that much impact on the national economy do they i doubt it yeah and they're not even phasing them out it'd be one thing if they said well we have to reopen them because people need to eat if that's what's going on but you know we'll phase them out as quickly as we can now that's not what happened they just reopened them that would seem terribly reckless wouldn't it but then you look at the other things that china did they they nailed people in their uh in their apartments they yeah i think they're jailing people and tracking people and they're insanely conservative about managing the virus in every other realm insanely conservative but yet but yet in this one little realm of reopening the wet markets they're the opposite of every other way they've acted with the pandemic how would you explain that there's only one explanation do you know what the one explanation is china knew early on the wet markets were not the source there is no other explanation there have been books written about whether or not this virus was man-made or came from the wet markets you don't need any books they would never would have reopened the web markets if they thought if they didn't know if they didn't know it came from the lab or somewhere else you know i'm right you know i'm right and who else has mentioned this have you heard anybody else say what i just said that there is no other explanation for the web markets except that china knew that that's not the source there's no other explanation it is a hundred percent inconsistent with every other way that they act it's the only way it can be explained yeah and and why did you have to hear that from me because did i introduce any new facts no no i introduced no new facts i just looked at the facts that every one of you know and i just reframed it why did the news not do that for you there's a lot of people in the news why'd you have to wait for me i mean think about it yeah i mean this is another uh sign of how easily we're manipulated by the news the fact that we never even thought about this and i didn't think about it till yesterday literally yesterday is the first time that occurred to me think about that it's one of the most important questions in the country and it's largely answered it's like one of the big mysteries completely answered and we didn't even realize it all it was all right there you didn't even have to look for anything so all right here's another one when news of the virus first came out in the beginning of the pandemic do you remember that all the experts i believe all of them correct me if i'm wrong i didn't see any exceptions i believe all of the experts on viruses said if this were engineered we could tell by looking at it do you remember that all the experts said we would be able to tell we just look at it and you'd know that was engineered right all the public experts now see if you had a a different opinion or a different experience personally whenever i talk to anybody smart enough to have you know a reasonable opinion on that question privately every one of them said oh yeah that could be engineered and you wouldn't know the difference all of them everybody privately who had any you know qualifications said yeah you could do that and nobody would know the difference now i don't have any qualifications and i knew that do you know how because it's obvious it's obvious all you'd have to do is experiment with you know mixing and matching and evolving from species to species until you got one that looked really bad and if you looked at it on a microscope it would look like it evolved naturally nobody would know that you goosed the evolution with you know selective breeding and whatever you're doing to to make to make them mutate so if i do that what's up with every expert who went on television and told you that's not a thing i don't know anything about viruses and i know that you could at least mess with them to make them uh mutate and then see what they did you don't have to be an expert to know that right so i mean that's the the amount to which we are being bamboozled by this stuff is just shocking however bad you thought things were they're probably worse than that well uh and kerry went to that climate summit and i guess the climate summit people are all happy because they made some kind of a big agreement to reduce uh carbon but toward the end i guess india said you know you know would be better than saying we're going to get rid of coal let's say we're going to phase it out because we don't want to say we're going to get rid of it we'll just phase it out because phasing it out is sort of non-specific so you can just keep using coal so i'm not sure that they got the big win um but basically kerry said that we're we're on the right track now so kerry basically said he did such a good job and the other people did such a good job flying over there in their private jets to talk about what we could possibly do to reduce the co2 um and they said they did a good job and we're on the right track now so climate change is solved it's it's kind of a dicey situation isn't it if you're the climate changes are a guy you can either say i went there and i failed or you could say i went there and succeeded and it's not a problem anymore we fixed it i think he said something suspiciously close to we fixed it so he says we did realize that scott didn't what are you talking about all right so whenever i see this comment we did realize that scott didn't i know you're a idiot right i don't even know what you're talking about i don't even know the topic but i know you're wrong so tell me what it is you realize that i didn't and i'll tell you how you're wrong okay you want to play that game i don't even know the topic and i already know you're wrong because the way you the way you put it um okay i'm not going to see anything on that all right so i think we're in pretty good shape there um our biggest problem now is that we've damaged all the children into thinking they have no future because climate change is going to kill them can't kill them kill them hard all right here's a tweet by uh doc anarchy md also known as dr anarchist a very good follow on uh on twitter if you like to see the uh the contrarian views on a lot of the pandemic stuff and he tweets this he says if you're supplementing vitamin d without getting any sunlight you may as well be taking a sugar pill agree or disagree if if you're supplementing vitamin d just taking a pill it's a waste of time if you're not also getting sunlight agree or disagree agree or disagree uh i see lots of disagreements i say lots of agreements i'll tell you what i think i know but i would need a fact check on this right so i'm not your doctor so this is what i think i know and this is based on what i learned during the pandemic about vitamin d apparently you can't go outside and get enough vitamin d did you know that it's not even a thing so the thing that everybody is advising you including dr anarchy it isn't a thing did you know that you you all believe that you could go outside and get your vitamin d from the sun it's not a thing now i'm exaggerating i'm exaggerating here's what i mean by it's not a thing the only time it works is in some climates in some months i live in california the you know probably the sunniest place you could possibly live and i can only get enough vitamin d by going outside maybe three months a year how many of you knew that that if i if i just went outside every day in the winter even in california where the sun's out there's no clouds i would not get anywhere near my vitamin d level do you know that how many of you knew that you can't get it by going outside can't even get close right and here's the important part you can't get close i'm not saying you get 80 i'm saying you know we're nowhere near it right now let's say let's say that's not good enough so you realize that the sun the sun isn't always good enough now in the summer in the summer in california yes and in other places they probably have a month or two where yes but there are there are entire zones of the world where there isn't any time you can go outside if you live in sweden can you go outside and get vitamin d if you live in sweden can you get vitamin d by going outside well you get some but nowhere near what you need and that's why the people who live in sweden and nearby they supplement with cod oil that's my understanding so that uh culturally it's a very common thing to supplement with cot oil or some other kind of vitamin d now let's say you live in america or somewhere else and you just go to the store and you buy some vitamin d in in a package and you take your vitamin d and it's just off the shelf how how good is that vitamin d is that if you take a lot of it i don't want to say what a lot is but let's say you take you know something on the large larger size of a safe dose whatever safe is is that going to help you is that going to give you the vitamin d you need nope in the hospitals they don't give you a pill because it doesn't work you know they're gonna put you on a drip because apparently that does work but they're not gonna give you a pill it just doesn't work here's another mind blower you know your vitamins and your supplements that you take once a day why do you take vitamins once a day does anybody know why you take vitamins once a day when there are so many other medicines you might take you know twice a day or four times a day yeah the answer of why you take vitamins once a day has nothing to do with uh effectiveness is marketing they tell you to take it once a day so you remember it and it turns it into habit because if you take it once a day you usually match it with your brushing your teeth don't you do most of you match your vitamin taking with your teeth brushing because that was what the marketing was intended to do because if you think oh once a day and it's in my medicine cabinet while i'm brushing my teeth twice a day you know there we go so everything you knew about vitamins is probably wrong years ago i tried to start a company in which i was going to make a vitamin and a vitamin fortified product called a dill burrito so a burrito with various flavors but they'd be so fortified that if you only ate that burrito you'd have enough of everything for the day and then anything else you ate would be bonus but you'd have everything you need if you did one burrito do you know it was impossible to do that it couldn't be done and when i studied can you get enough vitamins and minerals from just a good diet do you know you can't come close how many of you knew that if you have a really good diet you you just let's say it's a mediterranean pick whatever's your best diet one that's got lots of nuts and vegetables and green leafy vegetables and you're eating lean protein you're doing everything right how close do you get to the daily recommended vitamins and minerals does anybody know with a perfect diet how close do you get to your recommended vitamins and minerals maybe 30 that's it you don't get close if you do the math of what you eat and then you know and what vitamins are in there because it's usually on the packaging or you can look it up and then compare that to what the government says you need it's not even close you cannot eat a balanced meal now go to your doctor and say should i take a multivitamin what's your doctor going to say well it depends but your doctor might say no you don't need a multivitamin if you're eating a good balanced meal is that true well it might be true that you don't need it which is a separate question from can you get anywhere near the recommended minimums you can't there is no such thing as eating a good diet that gets you to the vitamins and minerals that you need you can't get there not even close do the math yourself you could prove it to yourself you know i did the math um so very much like vitamin d we have this myth that you can get it do you know how you can get more vitamin d neither do i neither do i do you know how you can get enough vitamins and minerals in the right kind of usable form beats me i don't think it's possible i don't think there's any way to do it because the supplements don't make that much of a difference and a good diet doesn't get anywhere near it so can you get all your vitamins and minerals i don't think so can you get all the vitamin d you want as far as i know no there isn't any way to do it unless you're hospitalized and then you can right so some of these things that we just take for granted are just it's sort of like that don't go swimming within an hour of eating how many of you still believe that it's dangerous to go swimming within an hour of eating because you'll get cramps do any of you still believe that's true because it's been debunked but yeah i mean when i grew up that that would seem to be true even though it was obviously not true because we always ate and went swimming we never got any cramps it was pretty obvious that it wasn't much of a risk all right um i found a new way to determine who the npcs are you know the non-player characters the people in our environment assuming we are a simulation and not a real a real society which i think is fair the odds are we're a simulation um how do you tell who are the npcs and who are actually uh avatars that are you know in the game well i don't know but i'm looking for tells and here's one of them some of my critics keep telling me that um i have a flaw and that when the data changes i sometimes change my opinion and they say this in public they say it in public that when i change my opinion based on the data itself changing or having new data that that's a flaw in me that i should keep my same opinion no matter what we learn and they say this right out loud right in public now they can't be real people can they how could they possibly be real people they have to be npcs they must be programmed with some limited number of responses and that's just one of the limited responses because nothing that could think independently would have that opinion right all right here's another one my critics keep telling me that i'm wrong when i make a statistical um prediction if i say something's like 75 chance of happening and then it doesn't happen people say you were wrong that might be an npc situation too because if i say there's a 75 percent chance of something happening and it doesn't happening that doesn't mean i'm wrong i mean i could also be wrong because they may have calculated the odds incorrectly but that's a different error you're not wrong about what happened because you just put a statistical likelihood on that's all you did so if you think that means somebody's wrong or you or you feel you have certainty when no certainty is is called for here's another tell if you're certain you made the right choice on the vaccination you might be an npc now the exception would be people have specific medical problems right there are some people who have the extremes and you could be pretty confident you made the right decision but if you're anywhere in the middle and i think i'm somewhere in that middle zone where it's not completely obvious which way to go um you know because i'm fit but i have you know one comorbidity i don't know if it's the bad one you know asthma who knows so i i can't calculate my own risk if if you think that you can tell if i made the right decision you might be an npc because i can't tell i can't tell if i made the right decision let me ask you right here how many um so i decided to get vaccinated so i have i have two shots so far i haven't made a decision about the booster probably i'll get one but i haven't made a decision yet i'll wait as long as i feel comfortable waiting before i make a decision how many of you are positive i made the wrong decision go now not people who think i likely made the wrong decision but how many are positive i made the wrong decision go um i i think i scared away all the npcs yeah it's unknowable right so so why would anybody criticize me for my choice how could you criticize anybody for their choice if they're anywhere in this middle zone where i am most of you are in the middle zone right most of you don't have a clear cut you know i have three comorbidities or a clear cut i'm 12 years old and i don't talk to people anything like that mandators now there is also a persistent rumor that i'm a big supporter of mandates does anybody think that how many of you think i'm a big supporter of mandates that's literally the opposite of what i am isn't it now i think this came from saying that the first two was it two weeks we were going to lock down for two weeks i definitely favor that now when i say favorite i mean i didn't disagree with it which is different than favoring it i guess i would say i didn't push back on it because i thought well it's worth a try if there are enough experts that think this is worth a try and it's the fog award we don't know any better two weeks is like a good risk reward kind of thing but after that it it sort of rapidly became clear that that wasn't going to be the answer um yeah i've repeat so but i but i did say the first two weeks was worth a shot low risk um then start persuading against mandates well you think i'm not do you think i haven't persuaded against mandates i i tell you almost every time i'm on here i'm against it but um i think the mandates are really just a power question it's just a power question the public has the power but they have to they have to take it right it's not just it's not automatic they just have to have enough people on one side and then they just take the power uh the golden years yeah i think the golden years are right on track sometimes it looks darkest before the dawn but all of this um stuff that's happening that's making us rethink civilization fairly fundamentally is what we needed to do you know um all right yeah i think the golden age is still looking very good actually i'm very happy about it the only thing that scares me is inflation at the moment um let's see i saw an interesting uh thread by michael bang peterson who has uh many qualifications that make him qualified to say this sort of thing and his thread i'll summarize it um he thinks that um trying to force the unvaccinated will only strengthen their resistance and cause terrorism what do you think so his his view is that um once you've got all the easy to persuade people on board that if you try too hard with the unvaccinated people it's it's going to backfire okay that feels right to me so everything i know about persuasion says yes yes and yes completely right so let's say that you wanted to persuade this group but you didn't want to make it mandatory because you you honestly believed it would be good for them and good for the world uh but you still want to give them their their freedom to make the choice how would you persuade them now you could argue that it's unethical right you could argue that it would be unethical to persuade people but i'm going to give you what i think is the most ethical persuasion and even this is a little sketchy it goes like this the fake because the fake because but maybe a little bit real in this case here's what i mean imagine if you will that there's something that the anti-vaxxers have in common is there anything they have in common i think so i think within the conservative anti-vaxxers what they have in common is probably conservative wouldn't you say and uh also pro-gun wouldn't you say so this will never happen but i'm going to give you an idea of the concept suppose suppose biden said you know damn it the most important thing in the country is to get people vaccinated now i'm not saying that but suppose he did i suppose he believed it and he was doing what he what he thought was best for the country so there's no bad intention in this hypothetical and suppose he said you know this is our biggest thing here's the here's the deal i'm going to make for one year or let's say as long as i'm in office i won't sign any gun legislation but you have to get vaccinated we have to get to 85 vaccinated and if we don't i'm going to sign every gun gun law that congress gives me but if you get vaccinated at 85 percent i'm gonna back off i'm just gonna wait you know i'm not gonna say i'm against it or for it i just won't sign anything for my term nothing on guns what do you think now now uh if the gun if the gun idea is too radical and it is i mean i use it for a fact imagine if there's something else suppose he said to you i won't raise taxes i won't raise taxes if you get vaccinated up to 85 percent of you is there anything that biden could offer or the government could offer that would get you to say damn it i was sort of close to the edge but you know leaning on vacs but now you offered me something that ah i kind of do want that how about this are you ready how about this one uh since critical race theory is not taught in schools it should be easy to get people to agree to remove it because nobody as uh adam dopamine pointed out on twitter today nobody is complaining if if you asked to get rid of bigfoot in the schools would anybody complain well not in a normal way they wouldn't complain they would call you crazy but they wouldn't complain about it because they'd say well we don't have bigfoot in our schools so yeah you can get rid of it the left is saying they don't have critical race theory so why would they complain about getting rid of it so why not offer i'll tell you what i'll create a commission to look for critical race theory in schools and we'll get rid of it but you got to get vaccinated okay again that will never happen but the point is is there any kind of a deal biden can make so that he's not forcing people to turn into terrorists by resisting the mandates could he buy their cooperation as opposed to forcing it because if somebody if somebody agrees to the deal yeah okay ah damn it i'll take that deal then they don't become terrorists because they say well this is the deal i agreed to anyway i don't see the exact way to solve this but i think think of it in terms of a deal might be more productive than thinking of it as a mandate does anybody agree with the concept that turning into a a voluntary deal of some sort is the only way this could work it's got to be turned into a non-band-aid that still has you know some persuasive power if you wanted to do it now i you may you may be opposed to anything that uh moves people toward vaccinations but that's a separate question um here's another way to get things done persuasively you know as i was saying since the left says that critical race theory doesn't exist in schools only in colleges because it's a college level course and the right says it sure does we can see plenty of examples of it in the written documentation it's all over one way to do this would be to argue no no crt is there and then they say it isn't and then you're kind of done because you're arguing definitions the other way to do it and this is good persuasion is to enter their frame now you have to kind of know what you're doing to make this one work this is sort of a high level persuasion but if you enter their frame it means accepting their frame and then breaking it from the inside and so let's say you accepted the frame that it doesn't exist that there's no crt you know it's there but you accept their frame you know you're right there is no crt but you know it would be great if we could do a full audit and give that to the conservatives and prove to them that there's no crt would you let us prove your case let us help you because you're making the case that there's no crt and the conservatives are not believing you so let us do an audit we'll call out each of the instances that we think you know might look like it and then you can show us how that's not actually part uh could not be called critical race theory so how about we help you make your case that's entering their frame now how does anybody object to you helping them win their argument it's hard right no we're on your side we're going to help you win this argument by auditing and proving there's no critical race theory um i'm not saying that would work it's just an example of how to enter somebody's frame and break it from the inside usually that's on things that are really really contentious that's sort of the only way to do it i don't think there's a second way to do it all right it looks like the polls are speaking loudly that some abc poll that's a new one said that 51 percent of registered voters say they'd support the gop candidate in the district and only 41 percent say the democrat that's the biggest lead for republicans in this poll in 40 years the gop has the biggest lead in 40 years do you know what this doesn't include massive democrat retirements which are also predicted so we have unprecedented poll differential also on top of it unprecedented number of democrats going to retire on top of it and we're only 11 months in people this is just the first year of the uh this is just the first year of uh of biden and it looks like just everything just keeps getting worse according to the public so um you know people could talk about the great reset well apparently the great reset is coming in 2022 but it's not what people thought it would be it looks like the great reset is people realizing that the democrat policies just didn't work and that your news is all fake now there is a possible tipping point coming it goes like this if you're on one side let's say you're a hardcore democrat and you're watching the news and you find out that your news source got something wrong and they they sort of fooled you you say well they got everything else right i'm going to give them a pass for getting that one thing wrong there then they get a second thing wrong you say well damn it that's two things wrong but still all the other stuff is right so you know nobody's perfect two things wrong i'll let that go but we've now reached a level of hoaxes that are confirmed hoaxes that it's sort of crazy to imagine that this is anything except planned organized persuasive and the new texture of the news that it's fake i feel like the democrats are going to notice they're going to eventually notice that everything is fake at least the political news is pretty much 100 fake news and i think that there there's some there's there's some tipping point that's coming where even the democrats are going to say whoa whoa whoa i've been believing this stuff for the last five years and now i can see that all the stuff lately is fake what about the stuff i believed we're right there now people go to their teams so strongly that massive amounts of confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance will keep them where they are despite all evidence changing all data changing despite better arguments despite anything they find out right it's really sticky but it's not unbreakable right cognitive dissonance is super strong but not unbreakable there is some amount that will convince you that hitler did actually kill a lot of jews if you know what i mean there had to be some point in world war ii i'm no historian so you know this may be a bad example there had to be some point where people were just denying the obvious don't you think people was like oh that can't be happening i don't think that's really happening is it does it really happen i don't think it's really happening because you would have to act radically differently if you knew what was happening but then there reached a point where you just you just couldn't possibly deny it anymore right so no matter how much cognitive dissonance you have it's still vulnerable it's just hard and i think we've reached the the mountain of fake news that's confirmed fake news that even people on the left are going to say oh god i didn't realize how bad it was and i have to admit i didn't realize how bad it was either i thought it was bad you know you've watched me talk about the fake news for for five plus years some of you so obviously i knew it was bad but i didn't know it was this bad did you i mean this is actually surprising i'm pretty skeptical about how bad things can be with information but even i didn't know it was this bad i mean i was kind of fooled and and i was definitely leaning leaning very hard in the fake news direction and i i'm actually amazed all right general flynn uh suggested in some conservative meeting i guess recently if we're going to have one nation under god uh which we must we have to have one religion one nation under god and one religion under god so i want to say officially that general flynn is dead to me all right so i was a big supporter of him um getting out of his legal jeopardy because i didn't think any of that was fair but this opinion is a sufficiently crazy town that you you need to start ignoring him at this point now he says some other things that i thought were sketchy and i thought but that's a different issue you know he's still being legally railroaded so i was more about the legally railroaded part but once you see him free and talking um he's a nut job and you shouldn't pay any attention to him like the the worst thing in the world would be to imagine for him to have any authority in government i think now this is nothing against your religion by the way i'm pro-religion i'm pro-religion but it's the united states still the united states uh and one religion no no no no no and no oh somebody's saying flynn did not say that does any does anybody else have that is that fake news is the quote a fake news because i'm looking at uh something that's in quotes but is it fake news i i'm actually willing to believe that all right send me uh send me a link uh to anything that would show that's fake news so i'll read it again so this is this is in quotation marks so allegedly this is a quote and you're going to tell me today that uh with a link that's fake news or maybe taken out of context is there a way that this could be taken out of context because it doesn't look like it could be but that's that's how you get fooled are both sides reporting it uh well fox news reported it and and he's their guy so but that's a good question cnn you'd think would want to say bad things about him and report that but i think i only saw it on fox news or did i see it the other way around um scottsdale is saying it's too on the nose you're right about that it is too on the nose but you don't usually see something in quotation marks well it could be it could be fake news yeah based on what we've seen this could be fake news why don't we put a pin in this and you will tell me tomorrow if it's fake news okay if it's not fake news uh i think you need to be done with general flynn forever uh but if is fake news then we will all revise our opinions okay um yeah the fine people stuff was unquote exactly so it could be just taken out of context but because this has so much context in it i suspect that's not the case well you'll you'll let me know i'll be open-minded to this being fake news all right the written house prosecution has asked for reduced charges and can can you help me on the facts was it reckless endangerment with a firearm or something is that is that what they want to go for now can somebody give me a fact check on that reckless endangerment with a firearm something like that i'm seeing some yes so do you think that there's anything in this case that would suggest a reckless endangerment with a gun here's what i think do people think guns are for is this exactly what a gun is for it's like the whole point of a gun which is there's a dangerous situation that people might need some protection and so he brought a gun is it reckless endangerment to bring a gun to a situation where people are in danger and need protection that feels like exactly the right thing to do secondly when he was handling the gun was he handling his gun in an unsafe way i didn't see any evidence of that it looked like he was keeping his barrel down and it looked like he had some training he looked like he knew firearm safety and just from the outside it looked like that so that didn't look reckless and then how about the actual acts in which he was shooting people was that reckless endangerment or was that just pure self-defense i'd say it was pure self-defense now here's the question that maybe the prosecution will ask which is did he bring this upon himself by bringing a weapon into a place where a reasonable person would have known that could have attracted trouble what do you think is it reckless to take a weapon into a place that you know it's going to attract attention again i say that's what a gun is for a gun is for to go into that situation right that's exactly what a gun is for to go into a situation where things are unpredictable and dangerous and people might have bad intentions for you that's that's what the gun's for so i would say there's no chance of uh in a common sense way that reckless endangerment makes sense but in a legal way who knows who knows maybe he can sell this maybe because he went so big trying to ask for murder charges and he's not going to get that i don't think maybe maybe that's like a big first offer and then the jury says oh okay well you talked me down from murder to this reckless thing yeah we don't want people we should make a make an example of him we don't want people bringing guns to situations so yeah let's let's just give him some reckless endangerment and maybe that'll keep other people from coming now the jury is not supposed to think that way right the jury is now supposed to make an example of you that's exactly what they're not supposed to do they're supposed to just judge that the facts either make it a crime or not a crime um but i don't know how you could stop people from thinking that way if you put me on the jury i would definitely be thinking what message are we sending i'm not supposed to but i would be just like everybody else so on one hand you could imagine that the jury might say well you know for the social good we're going to give him a little bit of a you know maybe even jail time i don't know how much is reckless endangerment worth in terms of jail time uh you know i would like to think it would be time served if that's what happened but i don't know um i would say that reckless endangerment is a pure opinion what do you think in this situation it would be a pure opinion it would not be a finding of fact yeah yes it would be pure opinion and we don't put people in jail for opinion well we do but we're not supposed to they should be just doing a finding effect so i think reckless endangerment is not something that is subject to fact to me that looks like pure opinion you can imagine situations that are just obvious to everybody but this isn't one of them you know certainly it's probably well i say it's probably good to have this law in the books because there have to be cases where somebody is just you know playing with a loaded gun and somebody gets killed and yeah they need to answer for that but that's not what happened here he wasn't playing whatsoever here's how i would have taken this if i saw the prosecutor asking for murder and then i saw that the prosecutor had no evidence for that charge what would i do for the lesser charges what would you do let's say you thought the lesser charges might actually be fairly valid but you watched a prosecutor ask for murder with no evidence for murder you watch that happen right in front of you and then they go oh how about this lesser charge how's your attitude now you put me on that jury i would not convict him for jaywalking if there were 100 witnesses and 50 videos because once i found that they tried to railroad this poor bastard with a murder charge with no evidence no evidence once i learned that there is nothing i would convict him for and i was in that jury trial and i would lie my ass off i would say no i don't see the evidence for this reckless endangerment thing nope nope nope nope don't say it even if i did see it now in truth i don't see it based on what i've seen but i'm not on the i'm not in the room so i mean i don't see it but if i did see it even if i saw it so that the facts totally supported reckless endangerment i'm letting this guy get off a period that's not even negotiable i'm sorry not negotiable you do this to an american citizen and by the way let me be as specific as i can if kyle were black i'd be saying the same thing if kyle were you know an illegal immigrant i'd be saying the same thing no exceptions if you try to if the if the government tries to put you in jail on gin dub charges i don't care what else you're charging him with he's walking you know i would hang the jury so hard you know even if it came to fisticuffs there's a limit to how much you can push the public that would be my limit i don't know what your limit is but that would be mine it wouldn't matter how much evidence they had for these lesser charges no way no way and again it doesn't matter what ethnicity is doesn't matter his gender has nothing to do with that this is just a um this is just a justice turned upside down and we don't stand for that in this country we don't stand for that i'm sorry i've said before and i'll say it again that i think only one thing holds this country together and it's our court system nothing else keeps the country together it's the fact that even when we hate the decisions from the court we respect the system even when we hate the judge we respect the system and even when we hate the outcome we respect the system because the system is pretty well designed relative to you know what your alternatives are it's a well-designed system and as long as the courts continue to have our trust and i think they do i mean the supreme court's sort of a special case because that's politicized but the courts in general do have our trust they're not perfect but we don't think that they're trying to be imperfect right it looks like a mistake when they're when when something goes wrong so that's uh i think we have to appreciate that that's the jewel that's the jewel and the entire republic if we lose that we lose everything and i would argue that every country that can't reproduce our republic or any kind of a democratic system any country that can't make one of those is because the court system doesn't work like until you get the court system right nothing works and i would imagine that there are big cultural differences in terms of you know just i don't know the mindset that makes a jury trial work and people don't want to automatically railroad people and whatever and there there's something about the the american experience that makes us somewhat absolutist about this court's need to be working stuff and i would say we do a pretty good job you know warts and all we do a pretty good job with the courts and i respect them um yeah that you certainly people do get railroaded and you know the legal system has a process for that too i mean you can sue so we even have recourse when there are injustices so you know we all wish it could be better but um but it's probably as good as you can get yeah and i was going to say it has a history that goes back to great britain primarily france a little bit too you historians let me know uh go on false says prosecutors have political bias against second amendment shouldn't be involved with gun cases uh there can't be a bias in the courtroom well yeah i mean every lawyer has a bias right you can't get rid of bias and lawyers that wouldn't make sense at all um the january 6 committee will further shred our america maybe but look at 2022 i feel as if the public is rising up meaning that you know the public is watching and they've made some decisions i don't think those decisions are going to change um we need a j4 committee yeah what do you think of liz cheney's mental state you know i don't care too much about liz cheney i suppose i'm supposed to because she's in the news a lot but i don't know i just don't really care what she says or what she does should i i mean i get that she's contrarian and stuff but really is that is that interesting enough i don't think so um name a sport that wouldn't be more entertaining if they allowed fighting like hockey does tennis would be a lot more entertaining by the way i've said this before but all of the sports in the world are broken they're all broken tennis is broken because the racket's got so good that anybody with muscles can hit the ball harder than the opponent can return it especially a serve so you should get rid of the serve tennis would be fun if you got rid of the serve and in fact there is a version of tennis in which you get rid of the serve and i've played it it's way better how about soccer and out of bounds and offsides just get rid of that yeah soccer would be so much more fun if you got rid of the offsides rule totally and you didn't have out of bounds so indoor soccer has that advantage because the ball just bounces off the wall but get rid of atom bounds and get rid of the you know the all the time wasting stuff make the goals bigger so there's more you know more goals so it's more fun to watch and yeah pretty much every sport except football is ruined because either our attention span changed or something about the equipment changed uh to make it a different kind of a sport football is is a modern enough sport that i think it grew up with technology and it grew up with um sort of modern everything uh ice hockey has a problem that is hard to watch i think ice hockey is probably more fun to play than to watch i think you have to have had played hockey to actually enjoy watching it you don't know what you're talking about on soccer yes i do do you know how much soccer i've played in my life i played a ton of soccer as my was my primary sport for years and yes i know exactly what i'm talking about i know why the offside rule exists and i prefer not having it um i'm also for your golf ball is the last place you saw it okay golf is completely ridiculous you heard about the golfer or some pro golfer who made all of his golf clubs specialized to be the same length and then he then he started winning because they make golf clubs different lengths for no good reason it just makes it harder to play golf because every stick is a different length so he just made them all the same and didn't lose anything just got better uh and yes you shouldn't spend your time looking for the ball so golf would be great if there was nobody behind you and you didn't have to spend all your time looking for a ball because looking for a ball is like shopping or like work looking for the ball feels like work to me it doesn't feel like anything he also gained 30 pounds to have more power oh the guy who did that has a degree in physics well that makes sense because he did the the only smart thing that anybody's ever done in golf um golf is a good walk ruined yeah who said that was it mark twain or somebody did they have golf during mark twain's time uh he had massive muscle changes right oh put rfd uh tractors in the bowls yeah there's got to be some way to find your golf ball i also don't think driving should be part of golf here's some controversy i don't think that driving same with serving in tennis serving ruins tennis because you're just always waiting and picking up bowls and stuff but driving should just not be you should just be uh chipping and putting because the people who can drive well um there's just a genetic thing you know they can just hit it a mile because they've got whippy whippy skills and if you don't have that what makes golf really not fun if you're playing with somebody who does have that you know because you're halfway to where they are and they're waiting for you so just make it all chip in chipping button and then you've got a good sport yeah i know most of you like it just the way it is and that's fine all right i think we've uh done all the all the live streaming we need for now now i think you'll agree that this was the best show you've ever seen from me today and i think you would agree they just keep getting better it's amazing isn't it just keeps getting better i got one more paid comment here if they drive it they should play golf while in the golf cart getting out is out of bounds yeah get rid of golf carts too all right that's all for now i'll talk to you

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well here's a little thing that snuck up

on you

many of you know my

story that a number of years ago i lost

my ability to speak i won't go through

the whole story but it was an exotic

problem called a spasmodic dysphonia

and i could make noise but it wouldn't

be intelligible my vocal cords would

clench when i tried to speak

it's a rare disorder and it took me

three years to figure out what to do and

i found the only doctor in the world who

had a surgery

they could fix it it was risky

but i took it

and they fixed it

so there are tens of thousands of people

in the world right now who can't speak

can't have a conversation

because they don't know

that that one surgery that fix this

exists

you know they go to their doctor their

doctor doesn't know about it so i did

spend a lot of time doing some outreach

and

you know trying to tell people that it

exists as an option

etc but here's what i wanted to tell you

during those years when i couldn't speak

every time i got in my car almost every

time alone

i would

repeat an affirmation

and the affirmation was that i scott

adams will speak

perfectly

now this was a ridiculous affirmation

for two reasons

number one

prior to having any voice problems

whatsoever

i had a terrible voice

so what are the odds

that i would go from not being able to

speak at all

all the way past my normal terrible

voice

to something closer to perfect

very low

given that the problem with my voice was

literally incurable

at that time it was literally incurable

you know when i first got it even the

doctor who cured it didn't have the cure

yet he was still you know around

trying to find it

but

something happened in the last i don't

know it feels like the last few weeks

which is

i don't know if it's because my

allergies are not bothering me i don't

know if it's because i had sinus surgery

last year

and maybe

maybe it's you know all

working out for me about now

but

correct me if i'm wrong

my voice is damn near perfect now isn't

it

am i wrong because i can't you know you

can't hear your own voice

but

did i actually achieve

the impossible

i think it actually happened

what could be less likely

than someone who never had a good voice

and then lost their speaking ability

completely

what are the odds that they would be

able to do this

someday

have i ever told you about prisoner

island

i know i have but it's it's worth

repeating because when you see another

example of it

uh i think everybody should have a story

of themself

sort of an operating system or a code

maybe you could call it a philosophy

but i prefer to say it's a story about

yourself

and the story about yourself is the

story that you

you can rely on

everything goes wrong

there's a story of yourself

here's the story of myself

now it's a fictional story

but it's the story that i use as my

operating code and it's called prisoner

island

have you heard of it

prisoner island goes like this

there's an island in which prisoners are

dropped and there's no there's no warden

it's just a jungle there literally

and you just have to figure it out with

the other prisoners and survive any way

you can

and so in my story of myself prisoner

island

i'm dropped on prisoner island and you

know i'm i'm exactly me so i'm not the

biggest prisoner

on day one the prisoners beat me up and

rape me

viciously day two

the prisoners beat me up

and rape me viciously

day three

the prisoners beat me up and rape me

viciously

come back in a year

they'll all be dead

and i will be running

prisoner island

that's my story

and the story and the story is not about

you know

going to the top of prisoner island the

story is about

i will go deeper than you will go

the story is

no matter how far you're willing to go

i'm going to go deeper than that every

time

it's also the reason i've never been

afraid of a human being

like even scary human beings

and maybe you have the same experience

if you're male if you're female it's

probably reasonable to be afraid of you

know big scary men

but i'm not a big scary man but i've

never been afraid of anybody who was

because

i will go farther than they will go

and they better stay away

because there's nothing more scary than

somebody who's crazy

and i will go i'll go to crazy

right if somebody big tried to hurt me i

would go to crazy and i would just stay

there i would never leave crazy

because that's what it takes

if if that's what it takes

to win prisoner island i'm going to do

it

so the the moral of prison prisoner

island is

i'm going to do what it takes

now another version of this is the

millionaire's advice

which i repeat a lot it's the best

advice i've ever heard i wish i knew who

it came from it came from an actual

millionaire whose name i don't remember

and what you said was if you want to

succeed

figure out the price of success

and then pay it

that's it that's the whole deal

if you want to be successful

figure out the price

to be successful and then pay it

if you do that you will be successful in

my case it was working

seven days a week for ten years

that's what it took

it took me working seven days a year for

ten years

and you know there were other challenges

there for example losing the ability to

draw halfway through

by the way do any of you know that i

can't draw with my right hand right now

i've lost the ability to use my drawing

hand

so

if you were a professional artist

and you lost your ability to draw like i

actually can't use my hand anymore just

from overuse it's not carpal tunnel it's

a focal dystonia it's a whole different

thing

it's from overuse

and it's not carpal tunnel it's a focal

dystonia it's a different thing

but

prisoner island

if you if you've never been to prison or

island and you're a cartoonist and you

lose the ability to draw

you stop drawing you quit

but if you've been to prisoner island

you learn to draw left-handed

is that easy

nope

nope

drawing left-handed

is not easy

now i'm mildly ambidextrous so i

probably have a

you know a little leg up on that

but boy am i

am i uh

you know unwilling

to compromise on some things

and uh so now i draw left-handed it

takes a little longer i'm getting better

at it

and i have an art assistant who does the

finished work so i can get away with

some imperfections

um but anyway that's what i wanted to

tell you

somehow

that affirmation that was maybe the

least likely

affirmation i could have ever come up

with

actually came through

i don't know what this means about the

world really

because the number of times

i've had affirmations

for things that just seemed impossible

just impossible

and they happened it's really crazy

it makes you wonder about the whole

nature of reality really i will tell you

some other examples but you can read

them in my book

all right here's the funniest story of

the day bernie sanders tweets this

20 hours ago

we we must demand that the extremely

wealthy pay their fair share

period

why do people say

period at the end of a statement do you

know why

why did why do people say period

is because they don't have an argument

that's the only reason

you wouldn't say period

if you had any kind of an argument you

would just give the argument

but his argument is fairness

which is a concept as i often say a

concept that was created so that

children and stupid people

could have something to talk about

because do you know what's fair

nothing

nothing

there are things that you imagine are

fair there are things you say are fair

but there's nothing there's nothing like

fairness

in the universe you can't get yourself a

handful of fairness

you can't even get two people to agree

what's fair what is fair when it comes

to taxes

can can you define fair

what's fair i already pay uh the highest

percentage of anybody in the united

states

as a ratio i also work two jobs when i

don't need to

right

so so this entire profession if you want

to call it that the the live streaming

and stuff

it's you know a huge portion of my my

effort

and i don't need to do that

i don't need to do that but i do it

because it's good for the world good for

the country etc should i pay the same

taxes

as someone who's doing something selfish

why is that fair

why is it fair

that a selfish person is just doing work

just for their own benefit

pays the same taxes as i do

when i'm doing this really primarily for

other people's benefit is that fair

there's nothing this fair

fair is purely subjective and the moment

you say it's got to be fair period

you are signaling with extreme clarity

that you have no reason for what you

want

you just want what you want there's no

reason for it

elon musk replied to sanders saying we

must demand the extremely wealthy pay

their fair share period and elon musk

replied with this

and i quote

i keep forgetting that you're still

alive

[Laughter]

i keep forgetting

that you're still alive

now

i don't know if elon musk is the

funniest tweeter

now that trump is gone

but he's pretty close if he's not the

funniest tweeter now some of it some of

his because of his situation you know if

you're the richest person in the world

everything you say sounds a little more

interesting and a little funnier because

everything's you know amped up by that

fact

but that's a really good tweet

i keep forgetting you're still alive

this is why tesla doesn't need to spend

money on marketing

musk is the marketing you can't look

away

try to go a day without talking about

tesla

try it try going a full day

without mentioning tesla or elon musk

it's actually hard to do

i don't think i've gone a full day

without mentioning one of them

i don't know how long now part of it is

because i'm in california and they're

they're tassels everywhere so you're

just surrounded with elon musk

reminders all day long

and people telling me i should get one

uh like i i probably have that

conversation about three times a week

somebody telling me why don't you have a

tesla i don't understand

obviously why why wouldn't you have one

and i have to like explain all that blah

blah well maybe i will have someone one

day

all right here's a question for you

let's look back let's go back in the

wayback machine and

um do you remember

when china reopened the wet markets

how many remember that you know we we

thought the

the virus might have come from the wet

markets and then china fairly quickly

according to

what everything we knew about everything

they reopened the wet markets

and do you remember how appalled you

were

and how reckless that seemed

now think about how reckless that seemed

and then compare it to all the other

things that china did about the pandemic

one thing

looks terribly reckless

opening up the wet markets which didn't

seem necessary because i don't think

those wet markets have that much impact

on the national economy do they i doubt

it

yeah and they're not even phasing them

out

it'd be one thing if they said well we

have to reopen them because people need

to eat

if that's what's going on

but you know we'll phase them out as

quickly as we can

now

that's not what happened they just

reopened them

that would seem terribly reckless

wouldn't it

but then you look at the other things

that china did they they nailed people

in their uh

in their apartments

they yeah i think they're jailing people

and tracking people and they're insanely

conservative about managing the virus in

every other realm

insanely conservative but yet

but yet

in this one little realm

of reopening the wet markets they're the

opposite of every other way they've

acted with the pandemic how would you

explain that

there's only one explanation

do you know what the one explanation is

china knew

early on the wet markets were not the

source

there is no other explanation

there have been books written about

whether or not this virus was man-made

or came from the wet markets you don't

need any books

they would never would have reopened the

web markets if they thought if they

didn't know

if they didn't know it came from the lab

or somewhere else

you know i'm right

you know i'm right and who else has

mentioned this

have you heard anybody else say what i

just said

that there is no other explanation for

the web markets except that china knew

that that's not the source

there's no other explanation

it is a hundred percent inconsistent

with every other way that they act

it's the only way it can be explained

yeah

and and why did you have to hear that

from me

because did i introduce any new facts no

no i introduced no new facts

i just looked at the facts that every

one of you know

and i just reframed it

why did the news not do that for you

there's a lot of people in the news

why'd you have to wait for me

i mean think about it

yeah i mean this is another uh sign of

how easily we're manipulated by the news

the fact that we never even thought

about this and i didn't think about it

till yesterday

literally yesterday is the first time

that occurred to me

think about that

it's one of the most important questions

in the country and it's largely answered

it's like one of the big mysteries

completely answered and we didn't even

realize it all it was all right there

you didn't even have to look for

anything

so

all right here's another one

when

news of the virus first came out in the

beginning of the pandemic

do you remember that all the experts i

believe all of them

correct me if i'm wrong i didn't see any

exceptions i believe all of the experts

on viruses said

if this were engineered

we could tell by looking at it

do you remember that all the experts

said we would be able to tell

we just look at it and you'd know that

was engineered

right all the public experts

now

see if you had a

a different

opinion or a different experience

personally

whenever i talk to anybody smart enough

to have you know a reasonable opinion on

that question privately

every one of them said oh yeah that

could be engineered and you wouldn't

know the difference

all of them

everybody privately

who had any you know qualifications

said yeah you could do that and nobody

would know the difference

now i don't have any qualifications and

i knew that

do you know how

because it's obvious

it's obvious

all you'd have to do is

experiment with you know

mixing and matching and evolving from

species to species

until you got one that looked really bad

and if you looked at it on a microscope

it would look like it evolved naturally

nobody would know that you goosed the

evolution with you know selective

breeding and

whatever you're doing to to make

to make them mutate

so

if i do that

what's up with every expert who went on

television and told you that's not a

thing

i don't know anything about viruses and

i know that you could at least

mess with them to make them uh

mutate

and then see what they did

you don't have to be an expert to know

that right

so

i mean that's

the the amount to which we are being

bamboozled by this stuff is just

shocking

however bad you thought things were

they're probably worse than that

well uh and kerry went to that climate

summit and i guess the climate summit

people are all happy

because they made some kind of a big

agreement to reduce

uh carbon but toward the end i guess

india said you know

you know would be better than saying

we're going to get rid of coal

let's say we're going to phase it out

because we don't want to say we're going

to get rid of it we'll just phase it out

because phasing it out is sort of

non-specific so you can just keep using

coal

so i'm not sure that they got the big

win

um

but basically

kerry said that

we're we're on the right track now

so kerry basically said he did such a

good job and the other people did such a

good job flying over there in their

private jets

to talk about what we could possibly do

to reduce the co2

um and they said they did a good job and

we're on the right track now

so

climate change is solved

it's it's kind of a dicey situation

isn't it if you're the climate changes

are a guy

you can either say i went there and i

failed

or you could say i went there and

succeeded and it's not a problem anymore

we fixed it

i think he said something

suspiciously close to we fixed it

so he says we did realize that scott

didn't

what are you talking about

all right

so whenever i see this comment we did

realize that scott didn't i know you're

a idiot

right i don't even know what you're

talking about i don't even know the

topic but i know you're wrong

so tell me what it is you realize that i

didn't and i'll tell you how you're

wrong okay

you want to play that game

i don't even know the topic and i

already know you're wrong because the

way you the way you put it

um

okay i'm not going to see anything on

that

all right

so i think we're in pretty good shape

there um

our biggest problem now is that we've

damaged all the children into thinking

they have no future because climate

change is going to kill them can't kill

them kill them hard

all right

here's a tweet by uh doc anarchy

md

also known as dr anarchist

a very good follow on

uh on twitter if you like to see the uh

the contrarian views on a lot of the

pandemic stuff

and he tweets this

he says if you're supplementing vitamin

d without getting any sunlight you may

as well be taking a sugar pill

agree or disagree

if if you're supplementing vitamin d

just taking a pill

it's a waste of time if you're not also

getting sunlight agree or disagree

agree or disagree

uh i see lots of disagreements

i say lots of agreements

i'll tell you what i think i know

but i would need a fact check on this

right so i'm not your doctor

so this is what i think i know and this

is based on what i learned during the

pandemic about vitamin d

apparently you can't go outside and get

enough vitamin d

did you know that

it's not even a thing

so the thing that everybody is advising

you including dr anarchy it isn't a

thing

did you know that

you you all believe that you could go

outside and get your vitamin d from the

sun

it's not a thing

now i'm exaggerating

i'm exaggerating

here's what i mean by it's not a thing

the only time it works

is in some climates

in some months

i live in california the you know

probably the sunniest place you could

possibly live

and i can only get enough vitamin d by

going outside maybe three months a year

how many of you knew that

that if i if i just went outside every

day in the winter even in california

where the sun's out there's no clouds

i would not get anywhere near my vitamin

d level do you know that

how many of you knew that

you can't get it by going outside can't

even get close

right and here's the important part you

can't get close i'm not saying you get

80

i'm saying you know we're nowhere near

it

right

now let's say

let's say that's not good enough so you

realize that the sun

the sun isn't always good enough now in

the summer in the summer in california

yes and in other places they probably

have a month or two where yes but there

are there are entire zones of the world

where there isn't any time you can go

outside

if you live in sweden

can you go outside and get

vitamin d if you live in sweden

can you get vitamin d by going outside

well you get some

but nowhere near what you need

and that's why the people who live in

sweden and nearby

they supplement

with cod oil that's my understanding

so that uh culturally it's a very common

thing to supplement with cot oil or some

other kind of vitamin d

now let's say you live in america or

somewhere else and you just go to the

store and you buy some vitamin d in

in a package

and you take your vitamin d and it's

just off the shelf

how how good is that vitamin d is that

if you take a lot of it

i don't want to say what a lot is but

let's say you take you know

something on the large larger size of a

safe dose whatever safe is

is that going to help you

is that going to give you the vitamin d

you need

nope

in the hospitals they don't give you a

pill because it doesn't work

you know they're gonna put you on a drip

because apparently that does work

but they're not gonna give you a pill

it just doesn't work

here's another mind blower

you know your vitamins

and your supplements that you take once

a day

why do you take vitamins once a day does

anybody know

why you take vitamins once a day

when there are so many other medicines

you might take you know twice a day or

four times a day

yeah the answer of why you take vitamins

once a day has nothing to do with uh

effectiveness

is marketing

they tell you to take it once a day so

you remember it and it turns it into

habit

because if you take it once a day you

usually match it with your

brushing your teeth

don't you

do most of you match your vitamin taking

with your teeth brushing

because that was what the marketing was

intended to do

because if you think oh once a day and

it's in my medicine cabinet while i'm

brushing my teeth twice a day you know

there we go

so

everything you knew about vitamins is

probably wrong

years ago i tried to start a company in

which i was going to make a vitamin and

a vitamin fortified product called a

dill burrito so a burrito

with various flavors but they'd be so

fortified that if you only ate that

burrito you'd have enough of everything

for the day

and then anything else you ate would be

bonus but you'd have everything you need

if you did one burrito

do you know it was impossible to do that

it couldn't be done

and when i studied can you get enough

vitamins and minerals from just a good

diet

do you know you can't come close

how many of you knew

that if you have a really good diet you

you just let's say it's a mediterranean

pick whatever's your best diet one

that's got lots of nuts and vegetables

and

green leafy vegetables and you're eating

lean protein you're doing everything

right

how close do you get

to the daily recommended vitamins and

minerals does anybody know with a

perfect diet how close do you get to

your recommended vitamins and minerals

maybe 30

that's it you don't get close

if you do the math of what you eat and

then you know and what vitamins are in

there because it's usually on the

packaging or you can look it up and then

compare that

to what the government says you need

it's not even close

you cannot eat a balanced meal now go to

your doctor

and say should i take a multivitamin

what's your doctor going to say

well it depends but your doctor might

say

no you don't need a multivitamin if

you're eating a good balanced meal

is that true

well it might be true that you don't

need it which is a separate question

from

can you get anywhere near the

recommended minimums

you can't

there is no such thing as eating a good

diet that gets you to the vitamins and

minerals that you need you can't get

there not even close

do the math yourself you could prove it

to yourself you know i did the math

um

so very much like vitamin d we have this

myth that you can get it

do you know how you can get more vitamin

d

neither do i

neither do i do you know how you can get

enough vitamins and minerals in the

right kind of usable form beats me i

don't think it's possible

i don't think there's any way to do it

because the supplements don't make that

much of a difference

and a good diet doesn't get anywhere

near it

so can you get all your vitamins and

minerals i don't think so

can you get all the vitamin d you want

as far as i know no

there isn't any way to do it unless

you're hospitalized and then you can

right so

some of these things that we just take

for granted are just

it's sort of like that

don't go swimming within an hour of

eating

how many of you still believe

that it's dangerous to go swimming

within an hour of eating because you'll

get cramps do any of you still believe

that's true

because it's been debunked

but

yeah i mean when i grew up that that

would seem to be true even though it was

obviously not true because we always ate

and went swimming we never got any

cramps it was pretty obvious that it

wasn't much of a risk

all right um

i found a new way to determine who the

npcs are you know the non-player

characters the people in our environment

assuming we are a simulation

and not a real a real society which i

think is fair

the odds are we're a simulation um how

do you tell who are the npcs and who are

actually uh avatars that are you know in

the game

well i don't know but i'm looking for

tells and here's one of them

some of my critics keep telling me that

um i have a flaw

and that when the data changes i

sometimes change my opinion

and they say this

in public

they say it in public

that when i change my opinion based on

the data itself changing

or having new data

that that's a flaw in me

that i should keep my same opinion

no matter what we learn

and they say this right out loud right

in public

now they can't be real people can they

how could they possibly be real people

they have to be npcs they must be

programmed with some

limited number of responses and that's

just one of the limited responses

because nothing that could think

independently would have that opinion

right

all right here's another one

my critics keep telling me

that i'm wrong when i make a

statistical um prediction

if i say something's like 75 chance of

happening

and then it doesn't happen

people say you were

wrong that might be an npc situation too

because if i say there's a 75 percent

chance of something happening and it

doesn't happening that doesn't mean i'm

wrong

i mean i could also be wrong because

they may have calculated the odds

incorrectly but that's a different error

you're not wrong about what happened

because you just put a statistical

likelihood on that's all you did

so if you think that means somebody's

wrong or you or you feel you have

certainty when no certainty is is called

for

here's another tell

if you're certain

you made the right choice on the

vaccination you might be an npc

now the exception would be people have

specific medical problems

right there are some people who have the

extremes

and you could be pretty confident you

made the right decision but if you're

anywhere in the middle

and i think i'm somewhere in that middle

zone where it's not completely obvious

which way to go

um you know because i'm fit but i have

you know one comorbidity i don't know if

it's the bad one you know asthma

who knows so i i can't calculate my own

risk if if you think that you can tell

if i made the right decision

you might be an npc because i can't tell

i can't tell if i made the right

decision

let me ask you right here

how many um so i decided to get

vaccinated so i have i have two shots so

far i haven't made a decision about the

booster

probably i'll get one

but i haven't made a decision yet i'll

wait as long as i feel comfortable

waiting before i make a decision

how many of you

are positive i made the wrong decision

go

now not people who think i likely made

the wrong decision

but how many are positive i made the

wrong decision go

um

i i think i scared away all the npcs

yeah it's unknowable

right so so why would anybody criticize

me for my choice

how could you criticize anybody for

their choice if they're anywhere in this

middle zone where i am

most of you are in the middle zone right

most of you don't have a clear cut

you know i have three comorbidities or a

clear cut i'm 12 years old

and i don't talk to people anything like

that

mandators

now

there is also a persistent rumor that

i'm a big supporter of mandates

does anybody think that

how many of you think i'm a big

supporter of mandates

that's literally the opposite of what i

am isn't it now i think this came from

saying that the first two was it two

weeks we were going to lock down for two

weeks

i definitely favor that

now when i say favorite i mean i didn't

disagree with it

which is different than favoring it i

guess i would say i didn't push back on

it because i thought well it's worth a

try

if there are enough experts that think

this is worth a try

and it's the fog award we don't know any

better

two weeks is like a good risk reward

kind of thing

but after that it it sort of rapidly

became clear that that wasn't going to

be the answer

um

yeah i've repeat so but i but i did say

the first two weeks was worth a shot

low risk

um

then start persuading against mandates

well you think i'm not

do you think i haven't persuaded against

mandates

i i tell you almost every time i'm on

here i'm against it but

um i think the mandates are really just

a power question

it's just a power question the public

has the power but they have to

they have to take it

right it's not just it's not automatic

they just have to have enough people on

one side and then they just take the

power

uh the golden years yeah i think the

golden years are right on track

sometimes it looks darkest before the

dawn but all of this um

stuff that's happening that's making us

rethink civilization fairly

fundamentally is what we needed to do

you know um

all right yeah i think the golden age is

still looking very good actually i'm

very happy about it the only thing that

scares me is inflation at the moment

um

let's see

i saw an interesting uh thread by

michael bang peterson

who has uh many qualifications that make

him qualified to say this sort of thing

and his thread i'll summarize it

um he thinks that um

trying to force the unvaccinated will

only strengthen their

resistance and cause terrorism

what do you think

so his his view is that um once you've

got all the easy to persuade people on

board

that if you try too hard with the

unvaccinated people it's it's going to

backfire

okay that feels right to me so

everything i know about persuasion says

yes yes and yes

completely right

so

let's say

that you wanted to persuade this group

but you didn't want to make it mandatory

because you you honestly believed it

would be good for them and good for the

world

uh but you still want to give them their

their freedom to make the choice

how would you persuade them

now you could argue that it's unethical

right you could argue that it would be

unethical to persuade people

but i'm going to give you what i think

is the most ethical

persuasion and even this is a little

sketchy it goes like this

the fake because

the fake because

but maybe a little bit real in this case

here's what i mean

imagine if you will that there's

something that the anti-vaxxers have in

common

is there anything they have in common

i think so

i think within the conservative

anti-vaxxers what they have in common

is probably conservative

wouldn't you say and uh

also pro-gun

wouldn't you say

so this will never happen but i'm going

to give you an idea of the concept

suppose suppose biden said you know

damn it the most important thing in the

country is to get people vaccinated now

i'm not saying that but suppose he did i

suppose he believed it

and he was doing what he what he thought

was best for the country so there's no

bad intention in this hypothetical

and suppose he said you know

this is our biggest thing

here's the here's the deal i'm going to

make

for one year

or let's say as long as i'm in office i

won't sign any gun legislation

but you have to get vaccinated

we have to get to 85 vaccinated

and if we don't i'm going to sign every

gun gun law that congress gives me

but

if you get vaccinated at 85 percent

i'm gonna back off i'm just gonna wait

you know i'm not gonna say i'm against

it or for it i just won't sign anything

for my term nothing on guns

what do you think

now

now

uh if the gun if the gun idea is too

radical

and it is i mean i use it for a fact

imagine if there's something else

suppose he said to you i won't raise

taxes

i won't raise taxes

if you get vaccinated up to 85 percent

of you

is there anything that biden could offer

or the government could offer

that would get you to say damn it i was

sort of close to the edge but you know

leaning on vacs

but now you offered me something that ah

i kind of do want that

how about this

are you ready

how about this one

uh since critical race theory is not

taught in schools

it should be easy to get people to agree

to remove it

because nobody as uh adam dopamine

pointed out on twitter today

nobody is complaining

if if you asked to get rid of bigfoot in

the schools would anybody complain

well not in a normal way they wouldn't

complain they would call you crazy but

they wouldn't complain about it because

they'd say well we don't have bigfoot in

our schools so yeah you can get rid of

it

the left is saying they don't have

critical race theory

so why would they complain about getting

rid of it

so why not offer i'll tell you what

i'll create a commission

to look for critical race theory in

schools and we'll get rid of it

but you got to get vaccinated

okay again that will never happen

but the point is

is there any kind of a deal biden can

make

so that he's not forcing people to turn

into terrorists

by resisting the mandates could he

buy their

cooperation as opposed to

forcing it

because if somebody if somebody agrees

to the deal

yeah okay ah damn it i'll take that deal

then they don't become terrorists

because they say well this is the deal i

agreed to

anyway i don't see the exact way to

solve this but i think think of it in

terms of a deal

might be more productive than thinking

of it as a mandate

does anybody agree with the

concept

that turning into a

a voluntary deal of some sort

is the only way this could work

it's got to be turned into a

non-band-aid

that still has you know some persuasive

power if you wanted to do it

now i you may you may be opposed to

anything that uh moves people toward

vaccinations but that's a separate

question

um

here's another

way to get things done persuasively you

know as i was saying since the left says

that critical race theory doesn't exist

in schools

only in colleges because it's a college

level course

and the right says it sure does we can

see plenty of examples of it in the

written documentation it's all over

one way to do this would be to argue no

no crt is there and then they say it

isn't and then you're kind of done

because you're arguing definitions

the other way to do it and this is good

persuasion is to enter their frame

now you have to kind of know what you're

doing to make this one work this is sort

of a high level persuasion

but if you enter their frame it means

accepting their frame and then breaking

it from the inside

and so let's say you accepted the frame

that it doesn't exist

that there's no crt

you know it's there

but you accept their frame you know

you're right there is no crt but you

know it would be great

if we could do a full audit and give

that to the conservatives and prove to

them that there's no crt

would you let us prove your case

let us help you

because you're making the case that

there's no crt

and the conservatives are not believing

you so let us do an audit

we'll call out each of the instances

that we think

you know might look like it and then you

can show us how that's not actually part

uh could not be called critical race

theory

so how about we help you make your case

that's entering their frame

now how does anybody object

to you helping them win their argument

it's hard right

no we're on your side we're going to

help you win this argument

by auditing and proving there's no

critical race theory

um i'm not saying that would work it's

just an example of how to enter

somebody's frame and break it from the

inside usually that's

on things that are really really

contentious that's sort of the only way

to do it

i don't think there's a second way to do

it

all right it looks like the polls are

speaking loudly that some abc poll

that's a new one said that 51 percent of

registered voters

say they'd support the gop candidate in

the district and only 41 percent say the

democrat

that's the biggest lead for republicans

in this poll

in 40 years

the gop has the biggest lead

in 40 years do you know what this

doesn't include

massive democrat retirements

which are also predicted

so we have

unprecedented poll

differential

also on top of it

unprecedented number of democrats going

to retire

on top of it

and we're only 11 months in people

[Laughter]

this is just the first year of the

uh

this is just the first year

of uh

of biden

and it looks like just everything just

keeps getting worse according to the

public so

um you know people could talk about the

great reset

well apparently the great reset is

coming in 2022 but it's not what people

thought it would be it looks like the

great reset is people realizing that the

democrat policies just didn't work

and that your news is all

fake

now

there is a possible tipping point coming

it goes like this

if you're on one side let's say you're a

hardcore democrat

and you're watching the news and you

find out that your news source got

something wrong

and they they sort of fooled you

you say well they got everything else

right

i'm going to give them a pass for

getting that one thing wrong there then

they get a second thing wrong

you say well damn it that's two things

wrong

but still all the other stuff is right

so you know nobody's perfect two things

wrong i'll let that go

but we've now reached a level of hoaxes

that are confirmed hoaxes

that it's sort of crazy to imagine that

this is anything except planned

organized persuasive

and the new texture of the news that

it's fake

i feel like the democrats are going to

notice

they're going to eventually notice

that everything is fake at least the

political news is pretty much 100 fake

news

and i think that

there there's some there's there's some

tipping point that's coming

where even the democrats are going to

say whoa whoa whoa

i've been believing this stuff for the

last five years

and now i can see that all the stuff

lately is fake

what about the stuff i believed

we're right there

now people go to their teams so strongly

that massive amounts of confirmation

bias and cognitive dissonance will keep

them where they are despite all evidence

changing all data changing despite

better arguments despite anything they

find out right it's really sticky

but it's not unbreakable

right

cognitive dissonance is super strong but

not unbreakable

there is some amount

that will convince you that hitler did

actually kill a lot of jews if you know

what i mean there had to be some point

in world war ii i'm no historian so you

know this may be a bad example

there had to be some point where people

were just denying the obvious

don't you think

people was like oh that can't be

happening

i don't think that's really happening is

it does it really happen i don't think

it's really happening because you would

have to act radically differently if you

knew what was happening

but then there reached a point where you

just

you just couldn't possibly deny it

anymore right

so no matter how much cognitive

dissonance you have it's still

vulnerable

it's just hard and i think we've reached

the

the mountain of fake news that's

confirmed fake news

that even people on the left are going

to say oh god i didn't realize how bad

it was and i have to admit i didn't

realize how bad it was either

i thought it was bad

you know you've watched me talk about

the fake news for for five plus years

some of you

so obviously i knew it was bad but i

didn't know it was this bad

did you

i mean this is actually surprising i'm

pretty skeptical

about how bad things can be with

information

but even i didn't know it was this bad i

mean i was kind of fooled

and and i was definitely leaning

leaning very hard in the fake news

direction and i

i'm actually amazed

all right

general flynn uh suggested in some

conservative meeting i guess recently if

we're going to have one nation under god

uh which we must

we have to have one religion one nation

under god and one religion under god

so i want to say officially that general

flynn is dead to me

all right so i was a big supporter of

him um getting out of his legal jeopardy

because i didn't think any of that was

fair but this opinion is a sufficiently

crazy town

that you you need to start ignoring him

at this point

now he says some other things that i

thought were sketchy and i thought

but that's a different issue you know

he's still being legally railroaded so i

was more about the legally railroaded

part but once you see him free and

talking

um he's a nut job and you shouldn't pay

any attention to him

like the the worst thing in the world

would be to imagine for him to have any

authority in government i think

now

this is nothing against your religion by

the way

i'm pro-religion

i'm pro-religion

but

it's the united states

still the united states

uh and one religion no

no no no

no and no

oh somebody's saying flynn did not say

that

does any does anybody else have that is

that fake news

is the quote a fake news

because i'm looking at uh something

that's in quotes

but is it fake news i i'm actually

willing to believe that

all right send me uh send me a link

uh to anything that would show that's

fake news so i'll read it again so this

is this is in quotation marks so

allegedly this is a quote and you're

going to tell me today that uh with a

link that's fake news or maybe taken out

of context

is there a way that this could be taken

out of context because it doesn't look

like it could be but

that's that's how you get fooled

are both sides reporting it

uh well fox news reported it and and

he's their guy

so

but that's a good question

cnn you'd think would want to say bad

things about him and report that but i

think i only saw it on fox news

or did i see it the other way around

um scottsdale is saying it's too on the

nose you're right about that it is too

on the nose

but you don't usually see something in

quotation marks

well it could be it could be fake news

yeah based on what we've seen this could

be fake news

why don't we put a pin in this

and you will tell me tomorrow if it's

fake news okay

if it's not fake news uh i think you

need to be done with general flynn

forever

uh but if is fake news then we will all

revise our opinions

okay

um yeah the fine people stuff was

unquote exactly so it could be just

taken out of context but because this

has so much context in it i suspect

that's not the case well you'll you'll

let me know i'll be open-minded to this

being fake news

all right

the written house prosecution has asked

for reduced charges

and can can you help me on the facts was

it reckless endangerment with a firearm

or something

is that is that what they want to go for

now

can somebody give me a fact check on

that

reckless endangerment with a firearm

something like that

i'm seeing some yes

so do you think that there's anything in

this case that would suggest a reckless

endangerment with a gun

here's what i

think do people think guns are for

is this exactly what a gun is for

it's like the whole point of a gun

which is there's a dangerous situation

that people might need some protection

and so he brought a gun

is it reckless endangerment to bring a

gun

to a situation where people are in

danger and

need protection

that feels like exactly the right thing

to do

secondly

when he was handling the gun was he

handling his gun in an unsafe way

i didn't see any evidence of that it

looked like he was keeping his barrel

down

and it looked like he had some training

he looked like he knew firearm safety

and just from the outside it looked like

that

so that didn't look reckless and then

how about the actual acts in which he

was shooting people was that reckless

endangerment or was that just pure

self-defense

i'd say it was pure self-defense

now here's the question

that maybe the prosecution will ask

which is did he bring this upon himself

by bringing a weapon into a place where

a reasonable person would have known

that could have attracted trouble

what do you think

is it reckless to take a weapon into a

place that

you know it's going to attract attention

again i say

that's what a gun is for

a gun is for to go into that situation

right

that's exactly what a gun is for

to go into a situation where

things are unpredictable and dangerous

and people might have bad intentions for

you

that's that's what the gun's for

so

i would say there's no chance of uh in a

common sense way that reckless

endangerment makes sense but in a legal

way who knows who knows maybe he can

sell this

maybe because he went so big

trying to ask for murder charges and

he's not going to get that i don't think

maybe maybe that's like a big first

offer and then the jury says

oh okay well you talked me down from

murder to this reckless thing yeah we

don't want people

we should make a

make an example of him we don't want

people bringing guns to situations so

yeah let's let's just give him some

reckless endangerment and maybe that'll

keep other people from coming

now the jury is not supposed to think

that way right

the jury is now supposed to

make an example of you

that's exactly what they're not supposed

to do they're supposed to just judge

that

the facts either make it a crime or not

a crime

um but i don't know how you could stop

people from thinking that way if you put

me on the jury i would definitely be

thinking

what message are we sending

i'm not supposed to but i would be just

like everybody else

so

on one hand you could imagine that the

jury might say well you know for the

social good

we're going to give him a little bit of

a you know maybe even jail time i don't

know how much is reckless endangerment

worth in terms of jail time

uh

you know i would like to think it would

be time served if that's what happened

but i don't know

um i would say that reckless

endangerment is a pure opinion what do

you think

in this situation it would be a pure

opinion it would not be a finding of

fact

yeah yes it would be pure opinion and we

don't put people in jail for opinion

well we do but we're not supposed to

they should be just doing a finding

effect

so i think reckless endangerment is not

something that is subject to fact

to me that looks like pure opinion you

can imagine situations that are just

obvious to everybody but this isn't one

of them

you know certainly it's probably well i

say it's probably good to have this law

in the books

because there have to be cases where

somebody is just

you know playing with a loaded gun and

somebody gets killed and yeah they need

to answer for that

but that's not what happened here he

wasn't playing whatsoever

here's how i would have taken this if i

saw the prosecutor asking for murder and

then i saw that the prosecutor had no

evidence for that charge

what would i do for the lesser charges

what would you do

let's say you thought the lesser charges

might actually be fairly valid

but you watched a prosecutor ask for

murder with no evidence for murder

you watch that happen right in front of

you and then they go oh how about this

lesser charge

how's your attitude now

you put me on that jury

i would not convict him for jaywalking

if there were 100 witnesses

and 50 videos

because once i found that they tried to

railroad this poor bastard

with a murder charge with no evidence

no evidence

once i learned that there is nothing i

would convict him for

and i was in that jury trial and i would

lie my ass off

i would say no i don't see the evidence

for this reckless endangerment thing

nope nope nope nope don't say it

even if i did see it

now in truth i don't see it

based on what i've seen but i'm not on

the i'm not in the room

so i mean i don't see it but if i did

see it

even if i saw it so that the facts

totally supported reckless endangerment

i'm letting this guy get off a period

that's not even negotiable i'm sorry not

negotiable

you do this to an american citizen and

by the way

let me be as specific as i can

if kyle were black

i'd be saying the same thing

if kyle were you know an illegal

immigrant

i'd be saying the same thing

no exceptions

if you try to if the if the government

tries to put you in jail on gin dub

charges

i don't care what else you're charging

him with

he's walking

you know

i would hang the jury so hard

you know even if it came to fisticuffs

there's a limit to how much you can push

the public

that would be my limit i don't know what

your limit is but that would be mine it

wouldn't matter how much evidence they

had for these lesser charges

no way

no way and again it doesn't

matter what ethnicity is doesn't matter

his gender has nothing to do with that

this is just a um

this is just a justice turned upside

down and we don't stand for that in this

country

we don't stand for that

i'm sorry

i've said before

and i'll say it again

that i think only one thing holds this

country together and it's our court

system

nothing else keeps the country together

it's the fact that even when we hate the

decisions from the court

we respect the system

even when we hate the judge

we respect the system

and even when we hate the outcome

we respect the system

because the system is pretty well

designed

relative to you know

what your alternatives are it's a

well-designed system

and as long as the courts continue to

have our trust

and i think they do i mean the supreme

court's sort of a special case because

that's politicized but the courts in

general do have our trust

they're not perfect

but we don't think that they're trying

to be imperfect right it looks like a

mistake when they're when when something

goes wrong

so that's

uh

i think we have to appreciate

that that's the jewel

that's the jewel and the entire republic

if we lose that we lose everything and i

would argue that every country that

can't reproduce

our republic or any kind of a democratic

system any country that can't make one

of those is because the court system

doesn't work

like until you get the court system

right

nothing works

and i would imagine that there are big

cultural differences

in terms of you know just

i don't know the mindset

that makes a jury trial work and people

don't want to automatically railroad

people and whatever

and there there's something about the

the american experience

that makes us somewhat absolutist about

this

court's need to be working

stuff

and i would say

we do a pretty good job

you know warts and all we do a pretty

good job with the courts and i respect

them

um

yeah that you certainly people do get

railroaded and you know the legal system

has a process for that too i mean you

can sue

so we even have recourse when there are

injustices so you know we all wish it

could be better

but

um

but it's probably as good as you can get

yeah and i was going to say

it has a history that goes back to great

britain primarily

france a little bit too

you historians let me know

uh go on false says

prosecutors have political bias against

second amendment shouldn't be involved

with gun cases

uh there can't be a bias in the

courtroom well yeah i mean every lawyer

has a bias right you can't get rid of

bias and lawyers

that wouldn't make sense at all

um

the january 6 committee will further

shred our america

maybe

but look at 2022

i feel as if

the public is rising up

meaning that

you know the public is watching and

they've made some decisions

i don't think those decisions are going

to change

um

we need a j4 committee

yeah

what do you think of liz cheney's mental

state you know

i don't care too much about liz cheney

i suppose i'm supposed to because she's

in the news a lot

but i don't know i just don't really

care what she says or what she does

should i i mean i get that she's

contrarian and stuff but really is that

is that interesting enough

i don't think so

um

name a sport that wouldn't be more

entertaining if they allowed fighting

like hockey does

tennis would be a lot more entertaining

by the way i've said this before but all

of the sports in the world are broken

they're all broken

tennis is broken because the racket's

got so good

that anybody with muscles can hit the

ball harder than the opponent can return

it especially a serve

so you should get rid of the serve

tennis would be fun if you got rid of

the serve and in fact there is a version

of tennis in which you get rid of the

serve and i've played it it's way better

how about soccer and out of bounds and

offsides

just get rid of that

yeah soccer would be so much more fun if

you got rid of the offsides rule

totally

and you didn't have out of bounds so

indoor soccer has that advantage because

the ball just bounces off the wall but

get rid of atom bounds and get rid of

the

you know the

all the time wasting stuff make the

goals bigger so there's more

you know more goals so it's more fun to

watch

and yeah

pretty much every sport except

football

is ruined because either our attention

span changed or something about the

equipment changed

uh to make it a different kind of a

sport football is is a modern enough

sport that i think it grew up with

technology and it grew up with um sort

of modern everything

uh ice hockey has a problem that is hard

to watch

i think ice hockey is probably more fun

to play than to watch

i think you have to have had played

hockey to actually enjoy watching it

you don't know what you're talking about

on soccer

yes i do

do you know how much soccer i've played

in my life

i played a ton of soccer as my was my

primary sport for years

and yes i know exactly what i'm talking

about i know why the offside rule exists

and i prefer not having it

um i'm also for your golf ball is the

last place you saw it okay golf is

completely ridiculous

you heard about the golfer or some pro

golfer who made all of his golf clubs

specialized to be the same length

and then he then he started winning

because they make golf clubs different

lengths for no good reason it just makes

it harder to play golf because every

stick is a different length

so he just made them all the same and

didn't lose anything just got better

uh and yes you shouldn't spend your time

looking for the ball

so golf would be great if there was

nobody behind you

and you didn't have to spend all your

time looking for a ball

because looking for a ball is like

shopping

or like work

looking for the ball feels like work to

me it doesn't feel like

anything

he also gained 30 pounds to have more

power

oh the guy who did that has a degree in

physics well that makes sense

because he did the the only smart thing

that anybody's ever done in golf

um

golf is a good walk ruined yeah who said

that was it mark twain or somebody

did they have golf during mark twain's

time

uh he had massive muscle changes right

oh put rfd uh tractors in the bowls yeah

there's got to be some way to find your

golf ball

i also don't think driving should be

part of golf

here's some controversy i don't think

that

driving same with serving in tennis

serving ruins tennis because you're just

always waiting and picking up bowls and

stuff

but driving should just not be you

should just be uh chipping and putting

because the people who can drive well

um

there's just a genetic thing you know

they can just hit it a mile because

they've got whippy

whippy skills and if you don't have that

what makes golf really not fun if you're

playing with somebody who does have that

you know because you're halfway to where

they are and they're waiting for you

so just make it all

chip in chipping

button and then you've got a good sport

yeah i know most of you like it just the

way it is

and that's fine all right i think we've

uh done all the

all the live streaming we need for now

now i think you'll agree

that this was the best show you've ever

seen

from me

today and

i think you would agree they just keep

getting better

it's amazing isn't it just keeps getting

better

i got one more paid comment here

if they drive it they should play golf

while in the golf cart getting out is

out of bounds

yeah get rid of golf carts too

all right that's all for now i'll talk

to you