Episode 1589 Scott Adams - Get in Here Now!

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go oh yes feeling stronger every day well in the news a producer at CNN has been accused of being a pedophile they've got quite a bunch of evidence about it and uh apparently this particular CNN producer mostly worked with a political analyst John Avalon which means that when John Avalon Was preparing to do his weekly anti-trump pieces about how horrible a human president Trump is he was being prepared for that by a pedophile now I just want to give you an update um I have it on good authority that there are still several people who work as CNN who have not been accused of any kind of sexual crime at all several so as soon as you say to yourself wait a minute I feel like they're all involved in some kind of sex crime and or abetting somebody who was accused of a sex crime and that's not true that's not true uh what is true is that there are several employees of CNN who have not been accused of any sex crimes at all and that's pretty good you know sometimes I think that MSNBC is nothing but CNN but without all the sex crimes seems like that's the main difference um so we got that going on um wait I'm getting an update okay cancel everything I just said um two questions for you did I say this yesterday did I just have it on I can't remember if I said this or I thought it you ever been in that situation did I say this already or did I think about saying it you'll tell me in a minute so I tweeted yesterday I think it was after the live stream so I haven't said it yet if someone invented a technology that eliminated your ability to make good decisions would you let them use it on you in the comments if somebody made a technology that eliminated your ability to make good decisions would you use it you wouldn't use it because that technology already exists it's called the news the the primary purpose of the news in the current ERA is to uh to make it harder for you to make decisions am I wrong about that that feels to be the primary purpose of news now I feel like it used to be some kind of a public good where we'd become educated we'd become better citizens and everything but it's not that anymore is it it doesn't seem to be that it has any kind of public good purpose in fact it seems like a you know some kind of a virus that the public is having to deal with so if you follow the news as I do uh you're in the same boat that you're willingly submitted to a technology that is designed to make you less able to make good decisions because it's designed to confuse you it is propaganda by you know by Design it's not accidental So speaking of propaganda um the Jesse's molette case I think you've all realized is much bigger than a case about one person because our brains are organized in such a way that we like to thank any one example of something is really representative of the whole and the Democrats had this very successful let's say narrative going on that Republicans were a bunch of racists and you live in a racist country and a bunch of white nationalists were doing a bunch of racist stuff and and you really needed to understand that before you voted but because this Jesse Smollett thing became such a big story it's kind of the first thing you're going to think about the next time you hear that some black person is alleging that there was a racial crime against them am I right it'll be the first thing you think of be just because it's such a high profile case now that's not fair right we live in a world where awful things are happening all over all the time and they're real they're not fake There's real awful stuff happening but your brain is going to automatically go to the most you know shiny object and that happens to be this case so if you were a Democrat and you were you know thinking at the the highest level of strategy you'd be a little bit worried about this wouldn't you that this one case makes it look like maybe their whole narrative was I'm not saying it is but it's going to feel like it and that's really damaging to their whole story that they're the good guys and the Republicans are the bad guys so how do you fix something that absolutely can't be fixed because this is unambiguously a hoax unambiguously he was trying to frame um Maga people unambiguously it was anti-trump supporter unambiguously it was designed to make people hate Trump supporters in a way that could be violent in the long run I mean if you believe that this sort of thing was happening it would be easy to get violent in response to it if he thought it was real if you thought it was part of a trend that's what the news was telling you so given that this all blew up in the faces of all all the people who thought it was real how do you fix it and I saw David Axelrod tweet that is so clever and I mean that like legitimately I think there are only maybe five people on the Democrat side who could do what David Axelrod did in this tweet now it's not good enough and and I laughed for 10 minutes when I read it but it is such a good try in the in the face of an impossible task it's such a good try I'm going to read it to you because you know he's operating at sort of the highest level of you know communication and strategy within the Democrats he's one of maybe five people who can do this sort of thing and this this is what he said uh he said that Jesse's Millet inexcusably slandered our city meaning Chicago to advance his career today a jury held him accountable for that scheme so it feels as though David Axelrod is very cleverly trying to make us look like make us think that the problem here was not that Jesse's Millet was slandering Trump supporters which is exactly what was happening like not a little bit not a dog whistle it's like literally exactly what was happening at the Axelrod has changed that to slandering our city is that what happened did any of you watch this story and say to yourself my God what has he done to slander Chicago literally no one had that feeling literally no one but what are you gonna do I mean there's nothing about this story that you can you can hold on to that's like the good side for your your narrative but man that's a good try I mean it's a failure but it's a hell of a try he inexcusably slandered our city slandered our city nothing like that happened well I mean you could argue it happened but it would be what the fourth thing you'd worry about on the list of things you're worrying about so uh I had a good laugh about that and again I would say he's one of maybe five people on the Democrat side who could even get that close to some kind of a reframe of the situation but uh it sort of is brilliant in its failure because I don't think you could have done a better job and yeah they're trying to change the uh the motive to advancing his career well that was part of it but I think you did have some social intentions we don't know we can't read his mind right so there's no way to know what he was thinking um one of the funniest things I read about that case today was one of the things that the police were very suspicious about is that when he got home his Subway sandwich was fully intact hahaha he was a victim of this brutal hate crime and he had to get home and and his Subway sandwich just fine and I'm thinking that's good police work they're looking at that sandwich and they're thinking so you were the victim of a brutal hate crime but you protected your sandwich and so that was sort of a tell um it's funny how often Subway gets dragged into some terrible story haven't they had like uh two spokesperson so far who got accused of hey this crimes I always feel sorry for Subway because they're just trying to mind their own business you know sell you some sandwiches we we just want to sell you some damn sandwiches can you leave us out of the news sandwich you sandwich stomach that's it we'd like to keep our our entire brand focused on the sandwich part of it but no Subway just keeps dragging back into these heinous crime stories all right as I was noting uh recently and tell me if this is the same where you live so where I live or anywhere that I could drive to in my area um mask compliance at restaurants is basically zero meaning that you put it on to talk to the hostess you sit down you take it off and and then you're done you might put it on when you're leaving but nobody's going to care because you're already leaving what are they going to kick you out if you try to leave the restaurant without your mask are they going to say I'm sorry you can't leave this restaurant not until you put that mask on oh what are they going to do I mean they'd have to say can you get out of here right away and you'd say well that's what I'm doing I'm walking from here to the door so I the reason I bring this up is now restaurants were probably the weakest link right in the you know the the mandatory stuff restaurants were going to go first I think because the restaurant owners a lot of them are independents and a lot of them just said no I can't compete that way because the restaurant right across the street I don't think they're going to be too tough on masks so if I'm tough on masks and the restaurant directly across the street is not I'm done so the market pretty much forced the restaurants to ignore the mandatory mask thing I mean the employees wear them you know and not all of them you'll see some some people who are not wearing them even to work there but here's what I want to remind you there are two problems about the mandatory restrictions one is all the problems of the mandatory restrictions you know the physical things that prevent you from doing but the second part is how it feels am I right it's not just bad enough that they're restricting you from doing all this you want to do that's bad because you can't do the stuff or you or you have to wear a mask and it's uncomfortable but I'll tell you one of the biggest problems is is it feeling like somebody made you do it and doesn't that really get under your skin it's not my choice and I wouldn't have chosen this they're making me do it light just pisses you off right so let me tell you something just to make you feel better about that part the public already decided they weren't going to wear masks in restaurants and then what happened no mass in restaurants as soon as the public by some kind of you know hidden majority that we don't know exactly as soon as the public by some kind of majority or it might even been a plurality or something like that we don't know what percentage tips things but as soon as the public decided it was completely over there was no fight there was no pushback the public just said no no we're gonna go eat at restaurants and we're gonna take our mask off the whole time and that's what we're gonna do the public has all the power everything that's still mandatory that you don't like is because your fellow public hasn't quite gotten there yet as soon as they do than the public then the government will have no power whatsoever so if you imagine you're being suppressed by your government not exactly it feels like it that's not what's going on at all you are being suppressed by the fact that the percentage of your fellow citizens has not yet reached the Tipping Point when it does Boop it's going to be all over yeah you think there was a slippery slope toward mandatory where do you see the slippery slope away from it right and we're right I feel like we're we're not at the Tipping Point but we're approaching it we're approaching the Tipping Point and here's what's going to push me over the edge um I'm not going to get a booster shot if if the big Pharma can't tell me if getting the Omicron virus is more or less dangerous than a booster shot they don't know that why would I get a booster shot when Snopes I know I know you're going to tell me snopes is not reliable but I'll bet you think it's reliable when it goes against the Democrats right and that's what it's doing snopes is saying that there are zero reported deaths of Omicron anywhere in the world doesn't mean there are none zero reported confirmed cases zero did you hear zero zero whole whole Galaxy zero now there might be some I don't know because the uh over at the UK some experts are saying that the Omicron could kill 25 to 75 000 people in the UK alone at the same time at the same time the Omicron virus is totally overtaking the others in some cases where it's you know where it's prevalent it's 75 of the infections already I think in was it South Africa that's the case or at least of what they were monitoring right so that these are still just little bubbles but we should probably see the Omicron take over everything reasonably soon unless there's yet another better you know more more capable virus but it would have to act fast because the omicron's region and um as long as that thing's raging and it's killing zero and probably confers some kind of immunity that matters against the the worser strains uh I'm done with the booster now if science in some credible way you know I'd have to see more than one study or one opinion but if I could be convinced and I think I could that in fact the booster is safer than the Omicron or at least that it's a toss-up well I might modify my opinion I might but at the moment a booster shot would be stupid if you think you can wait it out until the Omicron is is you know the main thing then I'd wait it down uh let's get rid of this on You.

Tube hide you on that channel I was just going to talk about these horrible people and then you showed yourself so you reminded me um I'm blocking anyone who says the dumbest thing in the world which is hey Scott's finally waking up no the data is changing the Situation's changed what we knew in the fog of War stage is very very different from what we know today right and all of you who think that it was always obvious the whole time and I'm just waking up and somebody said today even the normies are getting it now no I'm not getting anything the data has completely changed right completely changed if your opinion is exactly the same well all the data has changed there's something wrong with you now it could be that the data changed in your favor and you know you got lucky but if your opinion with no data was complete certainty that blah blah blah you shouldn't give vaccinations or whatever you're not doing a good job of thinking because you didn't know we were all guessing we're still guessing but we have way more information to inform our guests at this point all right so um that's where that's where I'm going to take a stand I think and again it could change tomorrow by tomorrow I could say oh new data changed my mind so I'm going to reserve that option I like to change my mind when the data changes um so I'll probably do that all right um is inflation transitory what do you think I'll put this to you um some some on the Democrat side would have us believe that the inflation is transitory uh what do you think well I think it is because everything's transitory it's just how you define transitory I suppose there's no such thing as permanent inflation you know eventually the sun will burn out and and the Earth will be a cold dead lump of coal so I mean yeah I guess you'd have to define transitory if it's transitory over the next five years would you call that transitory if if inflation continued to be a problem let's say for five years but then it calmed down is that transitory now transitory feels like less than a year doesn't it I feel like that's what that feels so I doubt there's anything that's transitory but let me give you some context here using my vast economic experience I do have a degree in economics I've got an MBA from a good school so I'm not completely incompetent talking about this topic surprising and here's what I know about inflation nobody really knows how that works it feels like it'd be the easiest thing in the world right add more money to the system you know juice the activity you know demand will outstrip supply reasonably predictable prices go up so the the mechanism of inflation is pretty clear but there are always these big surprises for example all of that makes sense but what if tomorrow you know a fusion reactor comes online and two years from now we've everyone has one in their closet now that's not going to happen but there could be you know technical changes that change everything um somebody paid ten dollars to get to get blocked by me so the vector says wow it took Scott this long to wake up to the kovid Sham congrats Scott now you're using your Noggin welcome to the plug Club big guy he paid ten dollars to say a comment that I just said will get you blocked I appreciate your money you're a but thank you for the money and you're hidden on this channel all right anybody else want to want to get blocked I'm in a blocking mood thanks for the money um I told you I had a degree in economics I can take your money and I can block you too that's something I learned in economics class yes anyway here's what I know about inflation the experts are not good at at predicting it do you remember when the experts said oh no it's going to be stagflation we'll have inflation and low growth which can't really happen at the same time except it did once you know during the Carter Administration so if we don't even know exactly what caused stagflation and why it doesn't get caused again and you know what's coming at us will there be another pandemic God knows so we're not good at predicting this stuff but one of the big um so I let me say this inflation ends up being a tax on the poor and the middle class am I right now if you're in one of those categories you saw your prices go way up your gas prices probably your food prices right you've noticed food food is through the roof and you didn't have much of any stocks if you're in the lower or middle range thanks Eddie so now let me tell you my experience so far as a rich guy I'm just going to be obnoxious in the uh in the interest of full disclosure and you know just be honest right sometimes honesty is obnoxious depending what you're talking about so this is going to be obnoxious to a lot of you but I think it's fair to say I'm doing great I've never done better financially because my stocks are up and I don't know how much my gas price would have to go up to make a difference compared to how much my net wealth has gone up because of just owning stock I'm doing great so Joe Biden just put the biggest tax I've ever seen on the poor didn't affect me I literally I've never done better than Joe Biden's here I didn't expect that you know if you told me you know who did you do better under Trump or Biden not even close I got killed under Trump I got slaughtered financially I just I had my ass handed to me mostly because you know getting canceled for this or that you know you can't do deals can't do speaking just talking about but as soon as Biden came in uh people stopped hating me as much because I wasn't as relevant talking about Trump and I you know I made one lucky move I bought a bunch of stocks when they hit their bottom so suddenly like anybody who owns stocks I'm thinking it's looking pretty good and all the people who don't own stocks the lower income people just absolutely got and it's not going to let up anytime soon so I would think that the number one thing that the Democrats have for them is that they're the ones who are trying to help the normal people get by that's not happening that's not happened but let me give you the plus side the economy is really screeching despite inflation the economy is just screaming and um it's hard to hire people I mean that you know you saw Kramer Financial or investment expert Kramer you you saw him say that this is the strongest economy he's ever seen maybe since out of the 60s or something and I would agree with that I don't think I've seen a stronger economy if you don't count the inflation if you don't count that if you do count it it's only a great economy for people you know at the top half maybe maybe top 25 percent so um I just don't know what to think about inflation but I hate ignoring it but it looks like we're just gonna tax poor people until it's not a problem anymore so there's that um why are airplanes relatively safe in terms of covet I I keep going back to that because I feel like everything we need to know about covid you can learn on an airplane am I wrong because the thinking is that the reason that air travel is safe enough is not just that you know people are getting tested and vaccinated that's helping a lot but that people are wearing masks on the airplane this is what the industry would tell you the experts would say it's because people wear masks on the airplane except when they eat and that their ventilation ventilation systems are great now that's true I think airplanes have great ventilation they have to and one of the one of the uh anecdotes of a spread involved a jet that was idle on an airport during a layover and they turned the ventilation off for half an hour and the speculation is that that half hour they turned off the ventilation is when all the spread happened maybe I don't know but so I I was feeling pretty smart I'm reading about this and thinking okay okay I've got a pretty good grip on why these airplanes are working or not spreading so you got the masks good don't disagree with me yet just wait till I get to the end of this so you got the masks okay okay that should make a difference you got that great ventilation good good you got the vet the vaccinations now all right all right and some people have natural immunity that's good that's good and I thought I'd covered all of the bases like I'd consider all of the all the variables and then uh Twitter user named I love uh I heart Pipelines to either this you're going to feel as dumb as I did when you hear this all right this is just like a guy on Twitter and he's going to say something and I'm going to read it to you this is going to make you slap your head and say oh God that was obvious people don't talk on airplanes that's it people don't talk on their place as the main the main cause of transmission is talking and I'm like I'm all I'm all into the masks and the vaccinations and the ventilation now I'm reading about their their HEPA filters and I'm thinking huh I wonder if it's the ventilation is it is it the filtering or is it the airflow and I'm like I'm like into the science and and then the I Heart pipeline says I don't fly much but I don't think people talk much on planes you for being so smart how in the world did we miss that seriously how did we miss that yeah you're still breathing but but the the best thinking is that it's the talking that makes a difference is anybody having the same experience that how did we analyze this and this is the first time I've ever heard this I've never heard anybody say but you know the main way of gets transmitted is from talking and people don't talk much on airplanes in fact the only person you talk to is the person you probably came there with and if they infected you you're already infected all right um I'm thinking you're putting together if I ever got I don't know less lazy a hoax IQ test and what it would be is simply a list of hoaxes and you the test taker would simply check whether you um know it's a hoax or you believe it's true and the fact that it's a hoax is a hoax so you just say true or false to each of the claims or the hoaxes now why would I do that when I already talk incessantly about all these hoaxes and a lot of people know what they are but not so much on the right and the answer is because this this is a persuasion trick to get people to think past the yes or no if you give somebody a hoax IQ test and they start arguing with you about whether or not they got the right answer or the test itself is graded correctly just don't even have the argument just say thank you very much here's your score no no no I'm pretty sure that three of those that I Mark really really happened thank you very much here's your score no seriously I know this one's not a hoax I saw it with my own eyes heard it with my own ears that one really happened here's your score thanks for taking the test yeah we're getting to the point where we should stop arguing about them just put them on a list and use What I Call List persuasion have you heard me describe list persuasion it's a it's a persuasion trick uh it is used the best the best user of this is Sean Hannity if you want to see a really good example of it also uh Alex Jones Alex Jones did it once on I was on his uh program a few years ago and he did that and I watched him do it it was just sort of masterful really right I'm not saying I approve of it I'm just saying that the technique works and that when you see it done it's really good and the way the technique works is you list four things that everybody listening believes to be true and then you slip one thing in that they don't yet believe is true but you like them to believe it's true so uh so let's see if I can come up with an example off the top of my head this will be hard because I'm just like winging it here but let's say you were uh you were going to say bad things about Joe Biden all right I'll just do a pretend Hannity um so this won't be a real example just just to make the case there are several things you could say about Joe Biden that are true or at least the audience would accept as true you say uh Joe Biden is uh got is mentally incompetent and the audience is like that's what I see that's what I see um he is a increased inflation he is beholden to the progressives uh you know he's got a real trouble with them yeah true um and he said some racist things in his earlier days things that people thought were racism yeah true and he's a a lizard person from The Planet Krypton you just you just like throw it in there but you never put it at the end so it's never the first one and it's never the last one you always sandwich it in the middle list toward toward like closer to the end because you want people to hear three true things then the lizard person uh accusation and then two more two more uh real things if you sandwich the lizard the lizard person thing between three trues and two more truths it just slips right past your defenses until you're pretty sure it must be true it was on that list so that would be the same technique with using the height hoax IQ test but but an ethical use of it because as far as I know there would really be real hoaxes right so it wouldn't be trying to trick anybody you'd be trying to persuade them here's a weird story because the simulation loves us um when right right leaning and I guess CNN would call them far-right companies yet de-platformed and that sort of thing where do they go where does the gab go and where do a lot of people get deep platforms well they go to a a server company called Epic epik and the founder of that is a free speech Advocate and is willing to take people onto his system so that they can still be in business um and he's not as concerned about their you know horrible speech but he has banned he has banned some you know direct Nazi type organizations but not everybody who likes Nazis apparently so so it's a pretty rough uh group over there along with regular people so there's lots of normies but it's a little little extra a little extra bad compared to the rest of the world um but you can use your own judgment whether that's free speech or something worse now the the individual who does this is sort of fascinating I guess his parents were both you know anti-nazi activists and he's got a he's got a pretty good case that he doesn't lean that way himself now you'd have to suspect right so the people on the left are like we're not so sure because you do seem to be helping those people on the right um all right um and here's the the payoff the name of this individual who owns this company called Epic who the people on the left would like to demonize to you know de-platform for good anybody who's got views they don't like this is his actual name his last name is monster m-o-n-s-t-e-r and his first name is Rob now I would call myself Bob if my last name was monster because monster is bad enough but Rob is actually a crime you don't want to rob people and you don't want to be a monster so Rob monster is the name of this this is actual real name like the name he was born with now I don't have anything bad to say about him I just think it's interesting that people who do think he's a monster well that's his actual name and apparently is a common name in the country where was he from I don't know he's from some European country all right Chris Christie is positive that Trump gave him covet when they were doing their debate preparation and Christy was playing Biden and I guess you know there was a lot of he said it was a spirited debate practice so there was a lot of spittle going back and forth and now that we know the timeline it looks like uh Trump probably infected several people in the room so Christy Steve Miller I think there were some other people and uh and what this story fails to mention give me a fact check on this isn't the story that Trump tested positive but then when he did a higher quality test he tested negative is that true and did then was the debate before or after those two tests because the the thinking is that Trump knew which means they had to be after the first asked but wasn't also after the second test when he was tested negative um does anybody know that how could you know that yeah I know so so um I would love to know about the ventilation in that room because I'll bet I'll bet the ventilation wasn't working so I still have a theory that uh the difference is the air flow not just the filtering and the ventilation so I'm gonna I'm Gonna Keep on my theory that airflow is the only thing that matters and if you've got the airflow right you'd be fine we'd be done that's what I believe I don't have data to back that up but everything is pointing in that direction um do you realize that I mean Chris Christie actually went to the ICU Trump could have actually killed them Trump but Trump might have actually killed Chris Christie it was close and and Trump himself had a tough time with the virus so both Christy and Trump could have died now of course they had the best health care so the odds were against it in their cases but um all right there were multiple tornadoes that ripped through Kentucky and several other states Arkansas Illinois and there's not much to say about that but 50 people dead good Lord I guess the only the only thing I'd like to say on this is you have to worry about the the one you don't hear have you heard this old thing about the military if you hear the bullet like then it didn't get you because you the one that gets you you don't hear I'm not sure that's true because you know if it was a sniper I think you'd hear it before wouldn't you if it was a sniper at a distance wouldn't you hear it before I hear you I don't know maybe no oh I'm seeing people say no I think this crowd knows guns more than I do no okay so let's stick with it that you don't hear the one that gets you this tornado situation reminds me of that so you know probably the 50 people who died were worried about other things don't you think they were worried about other things and I'll bet none of those other things would have killed them I bet they wouldn't have died of covid you know I'll bet they wouldn't have died and uh climate change disaster about whatever they were worried about wasn't the thing and I always like to remind myself of that because you find yourself getting all worked up worrying about something like climate change or you know something's going to kill you that's big in the world you know there's going to be a war Kim Jong-un is going to bomb you any minute whatever um Almost Never can you see it coming Almost Never please study PCR tests I'm not going to do that uh I I know if if where you're going on this is it the uh is that the uh pandemic is fake and the tests are picking up that's really a dumb hypothesis at this point in the beginning it was you know you throw it in with everything else because everything was confusing but at this point if you're still bitching about the PCR test I think you're you know I think events have left you behind is what I think now I don't mean to be condescending if it sounds like that that's not my intention because I think everybody's confused about all of this stuff but if you're reading if you're reading stuff uh about the tests being bad um yeah I agree that we're probably doing a bad job of counting stuff but here's the problem the icus are clearly being impacted where there are waves of covet that's not imaginary it's not imaginary so although the PCR tests you know may have some problems it's a real pandemic so I just wouldn't spend any time on that path uh my friend who got monoclonal he's good as far as I know he was on the mend Scott's finally waking up to tornadoes um sniper would it's true I work in a hospital so Doc Bailey you're saying it's true that it's obvious that covet is real and because you don't hear front line people saying it's not real do you hear dear anybody who actually deals with covet patients saying you know I don't think these are real I think the PCR test was wrong or something like that yeah somebody has a registered nurse who is a wife and she's quite sure it's real Cove is real just over hyped well every danger is overhyped if it's in the news it's over hyped because that's where the money is the inventor of PCR said they shouldn't be used the way yeah yeah yeah yeah it's a real pandemic blah blah blah blah tests I don't care I mean you might be completely right it doesn't doesn't seem relevant it's not like we're wondering if there's a pandemic um you do hear the front line talk about heart issues in the young that's true yes I would say that the uh oh here's a good question that somebody asked me let's let's I'll let you deal with this too rifle bullets are faster than sound Sparky says thank you there is some disagreement on this but I'm not the expert so um trouble with these super chats is they're really disruptive to the flow of thought uh and I believe I just lost my flow of thought oh uh it'll come back um yesterday I tweeted that it seemed like we stopped hearing about long covet is that do you find that it seems like the news was a lot about long covet and then the news I'm not talking about the reality and just talking about the news coverage I feel like the news just stopped talking about it when it was actually maybe one of the biggest variables for my decision to get vaccinated and we we're talking about all the other stuff but it seems like the biggest one of the biggest variables other than death and um oh most rifle bullets are faster than sound okay thank you so I tweeted that to see if other people were having that experience and I was again I was just talking about the reporting of it not the actuality but it did make me wonder if the actuality had disappeared you know did we just stop thinking it existed but there were plenty of people who gave me uh links and anecdotes and a lot of people have experienced it themselves Etc so I think we can say that long covet is real how many of you would agree with that statement that long covered Israel yes yes yes before you say it yes yes yes before you say it vaccinations could give you long-term problems too please don't tell me that please know that I knew that okay I'm begging you I'm begging you don't say the obvious NPC thing well vaccinations are bad too I know I know I know all right uh yeah so I think everybody believes law and covet is real not that it necessarily would change your decision at this point all right the question that I forgot about was um how many anecdotal reports would it take to sway you if you didn't have good scientific studies and let me let me walk you through it let's say you walk out your back door and a bird shits on your head and you say to yourself what bad luck but obviously it's not any kind of a trend or anything so the next day you walk out of your front door going to work and a bird shits on your head two days in a row and you say to yourself damn it that is a big coincidence Third Day Birds yesterday you had fourth a Burgess in your head let me do a survey for you how many times does the bird have to shed on your hat before you say okay there's something going on here not once I think every one of you would discount one how about two if I haven't twice in a row would you automatically conclude this is not a coincidence um how many of you would some of you would go at two some of you would call it five or six I don't know what to say about that I'm pretty sure if if I got on five times in a row walking out the same door I don't know if I would get the six I think I would I'm pretty sure I would tap out after three but it's funny seeing all the differences in the and the answers now my my example is meant to be artificially constrained right and in that case I think it would only take me two right I I think I'd be I probably would never use that door again after the second time that's just me but if you're looking at like a global thing you know it's not about you and your house you're looking at you know lots of population of people and stuff it should take you more anecdotes so in the context of uh I don't know five billion people who might get vaccinated how many anecdotes of bad outcomes would it take to convince yourself that 5 billion people shouldn't get vaccinated how many anecdotes would it take give me a number give me a number a hundred a thousand ten thousand a hundred thousand a million what would it take somebody says zero I'm Millions some people say zero a thousand so if a thousand people had a bad outcome you would would you cancel the vaccination because that would cancel every vaccination you know for everything I think right doesn't every vaccination kill a thousand people like eventually uh someone's trying to tell me that Russia and China are invading Ukraine uh nice try nice try all right well so it when I when I put it that way it's hard to come up with a number right so my point is you could easily think that um two dozen reports tell you something you could easily think that a hundred adverse reports is telling you something it probably isn't how about a thousand adverse reports and let's say they're pretty well documented let's say they're in the vares database which means a doctor had to fill out paperwork so there's a professional who has something at risk um let's say ten thousand what if you knew for sure there were 10 000 reports of adverse let's say death from the shots does that mean you shouldn't take them how about a hundred thousand here is the really bad bad thing suppose you're the leader of a country and your experts tell you don't tell the public but the only way we're going to get through this pandemic without losing 10 million people is to lose a million through the vaccination now I'm not aware of any numbers that would support what I'm saying I'm just giving you numbers to do the math there's no reality Behind These that I know of but what if behind closed doors they said we're positive this is going to kill 10 to 20 million Americans the only way to stop it is with vaccinations that will kill a million different people probably it won't be the same people who the virus would have killed it's a million people who probably would have been fine but you might save 11 to 19 million Americans what do you do you tell the Americans what their actual risk is look here's the deal people you get the vaccination a million of you are going to die a million of you but we're pretty sure we can save tens of Millions pretty sure nothing's a hundred percent but we're very very sure what would you do as a leader would you tell people or would you fudge the data and say we'll give you all the data in 75 years when everybody involved in the decision making is dead but uh just you know don't ask too many questions it's looking fine it's vaccinations are good because I feel like that's what happened not the Million number and not the 10 million number I'm making up numbers but I feel as if the truth is that our government knew that these vaccinations and the experts knew and told the government would be far more dangerous than ordinary vaccines and it still made sense and it still made sense the the stratified risk thing is a scandal of unlimited proportions in my mind but it's a separate question why is vaccines being pushed on kids uh follow the money there can't be any other reason can you think of a reason other than following the money I can't now the the idea was that we would sacrifice the young to save the old do you think that the government could tell you that that's actually what they're doing here's the deal we know that we're going to kill a bunch of children but we have a pretty good feeling that if we kill a bunch of children we can save even more older people I feel like that's that was a conscious decision but you see that these decisions can't be sold right you can't go to the public and say we're going to kill a million of you to save 20 million that's a no sale that is no sale even if it was the best thing for the country You could argue it but you can't sell it I think you have to lie to sell it and I think that a lot of a lot of what we saw in the so-called leadership about this was our leaders lying intentionally for what they thought was our own good in some cases probably money was the influence but when they lied about the masks that was for our own good it wasn't it allegedly but we know it happened they lied to our faces for our own good don't you think that they're lying about the vaccinations too for our own good I do I do now here's where I get in trouble right because there seems to be a binary like there always is Right vaccinations are good and safe where vaccinations are very unsafe and bad I have neither of those feelings I feel that they're probably less safe than just about anything we've ever done medically and might have been the right leadership decision because I don't think you could have sold that proposition it was an unsellable proposition so you either let 20 million people die and you know destroy the economy that ends up destroying another you know 10 million people by indirect effects or you lie to the public for their own good for their own good just like the masks you don't think your government would do that I do I I think that there were at least elements of the government not necessarily the president you know I'm not sure who tells the president what but I have a feeling that there were enough people involved in decision making that they knew it was way more dangerous than medicine in general still worthwhile in their opinions but they never could have sold that to the public Adam saying Scott's finally waking up to people lying finally I've learned that lesson I lived my whole life without understanding that people can lie risk of losing credibility is too high nope nope apparently the risk of losing credibility is not driving anything because their credibility is gone I don't you can't lose what you didn't have um Scott wants to kill the young and strong to save the old and weak there's your mind reading of the day incorrect of course I've said explicitly that one of the reasons that I volunteered to get the vaccination is it would save other people not necessarily just older people um they don't care about credibility yeah it is weird how often our public servants lie yeah for various reasons either for their own or for they think it's for our good you know the the old line you can't handle the truth um that's true all right how about uh do you have any questions because I think I'm done with my prepared thoughts how angry are the kids about all this I think they're just used to it I think they're used to it I'm going to give you uh a story that drives a lot of my decision making it's called the Indian uh elephant trainer so over in India there are some people who train elephants and one of the things that always confused me is why does a big old elephant do what a tiny human being tells it to do instead of just like killing the human and the answer is that they train them when they're babies so the elephant trainer you know is going to be beaten on the baby elephants you know to make it do what he wants it to do until the baby elephant is afraid of it and then the elephant grows up and is still thinks that this little tiny human can hurt it well it can hurt it if the elephant doesn't fight back but if it did fight back it wouldn't be a fair fight right a human with a club versus elephant but this works because the elephant has been trained that it is helpless to this little human that's us right now we're the elephant the public the government is the tiny little human who's been beating us since we were children and when they tell us to lock down where that elephant and we're like okay they beat me when I was a baby and now they're saying they're going to beat me again a better lock down but don't forget don't ever forget you're the elephant the government is that thing that you can squash with your foot but the elephant can't do unless all the parts of the elephant are thinking the same way right so we're an elephant but we're an elephant that hasn't made up its mind or it's been trained not to think the elephant is getting ready to wake up so you can talk all day about me waking up but I'm not your problem the elephant is waking up and the Elephant is going to get rid of the mandates it's going to get rid of the masks when it's ready so just remember you're the elephant you have all the power you have all the power you just have to get it organized and move it in the right direction so that's your thought through the day you are the elephant you know that have a great weekend

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oh yes feeling stronger every day

well in the news

a producer at CNN has been accused of

being a pedophile

they've got quite a bunch of evidence

about it and uh

apparently this particular

CNN producer

mostly worked with a political analyst

John Avalon

which means that when John Avalon Was

preparing to do his weekly anti-trump

pieces about how horrible a human

president Trump is

he was being prepared for that by a

pedophile

now

I just want to give you an update

um I have it on good authority that

there are still several people who work

as CNN who have not been accused of any

kind of sexual crime at all

several

so as soon as you say to yourself wait a

minute

I feel like they're all involved in some

kind of sex crime and or abetting

somebody who was accused of a sex crime

and that's not true

that's not true

uh what is true is that there are

several employees of CNN who have not

been accused of any sex crimes at all

and that's pretty good

you know sometimes I think that MSNBC is

nothing but

CNN but without all the sex crimes

seems like that's the main difference

um

so we got that going on

um wait I'm getting an update

okay cancel everything I just said

um

two questions

for you did I say this yesterday did I

just have it on

I can't remember if I said this or I

thought it

you ever been in that situation did I

say this already or did I think about

saying it you'll tell me in a minute

so I tweeted yesterday I think it was

after the live stream so I haven't said

it yet

if someone invented a technology that

eliminated your ability to make good

decisions

would you let them use it on you

in the comments if somebody made a

technology

that eliminated your ability to make

good decisions would you use it

you wouldn't use it

because that technology already exists

it's called the news

the the primary purpose of the news

in the current ERA

is to uh

to make it harder for you to make

decisions

am I wrong about that

that feels to be the primary purpose of

news now I feel like it used to be some

kind of a public good where we'd become

educated we'd become better citizens and

everything but it's not that anymore is

it it doesn't seem to be that it has any

kind of

public good purpose in fact it seems

like a

you know some kind of a virus that the

public is having to deal with

so if you follow the news as I do

uh you're in the same boat that you're

willingly submitted to a technology that

is designed to make you less able to

make good decisions because it's

designed to confuse you it is propaganda

by you know by Design it's not

accidental

So speaking of propaganda

um the Jesse's molette case

I think you've all realized is much

bigger than a case about one person

because our brains are organized in such

a way

that we like to thank any one example of

something is really representative of

the whole

and the Democrats had this very

successful

let's say narrative going on that

Republicans were a bunch of racists and

you live in a racist country and a bunch

of white nationalists were doing a bunch

of racist stuff and and you really

needed to understand that before you

voted

but

because this Jesse Smollett thing became

such a big story it's kind of the first

thing you're going to think about the

next time you hear that some black

person is alleging that there was a

racial crime against them

am I right

it'll be the first thing you think of be

just because it's such a high profile

case now that's not fair right we live

in a world where awful things are

happening all over all the time and

they're real they're not fake There's

real awful stuff happening but

your brain is going to automatically go

to the most you know shiny object and

that happens to be this case so if you

were a Democrat and you were you know

thinking at the the highest level of

strategy

you'd be a little bit worried about this

wouldn't you

that this one case makes it look like

maybe their whole narrative was

I'm not saying it is but it's going to

feel like it and that's really damaging

to their whole story that they're the

good guys and the Republicans are the

bad guys

so how do you fix something that

absolutely can't be fixed because this

is unambiguously a hoax

unambiguously he was trying to frame

um Maga people

unambiguously it was anti-trump

supporter

unambiguously it was designed

to make people

hate Trump supporters in a way that

could be violent in the long run I mean

if you believe that this sort of thing

was happening

it would be easy to get violent in

response to it if he thought it was real

if you thought it was part of a trend

that's what the news was telling you

so given that this all blew up in the

faces of all all the people who thought

it was real how do you fix it

and I saw David Axelrod tweet that is so

clever and I mean that like legitimately

I think there are only maybe

five people on the Democrat side

who could do what David Axelrod did in

this tweet

now it's not good enough and and I

laughed for 10 minutes when I read it

but it is such a good try

in the in the face of an impossible task

it's such a good try I'm going to read

it to you because you know he's

operating at sort of the highest level

of you know communication and strategy

within the Democrats he's one of maybe

five people who can do this sort of

thing

and this this is what he said uh

he said that Jesse's Millet inexcusably

slandered our city meaning Chicago to

advance his career today a jury held him

accountable for that scheme

so

it feels as though

David Axelrod is very cleverly trying to

make us look like make us think that the

problem here was not that Jesse's Millet

was

slandering Trump supporters which is

exactly what was happening like not a

little bit not a dog whistle

it's like literally exactly what was

happening at the Axelrod has changed

that to slandering our city

is that what happened

did any of you watch this story and say

to yourself my God

what has he done to slander Chicago

literally no one had that feeling

literally no one but

what are you gonna do I mean there's

nothing about this story that you can

you can hold on to that's like the good

side for your your narrative

but man that's a good try

I mean it's a failure but it's a hell of

a try he inexcusably slandered our city

slandered our city

nothing like that happened

well I mean you could argue it happened

but it would be what the fourth thing

you'd worry about on the list of things

you're worrying about

so uh I had a good laugh about that and

again I would say he's one of maybe five

people on the Democrat side who could

even get that close to some kind of a

reframe of the situation but uh it sort

of is brilliant in its failure

because I don't think you could have

done a better job

and

yeah they're trying to change the uh the

motive to advancing his career well that

was part of it but I think you did have

some social intentions we don't know we

can't read his mind right so there's no

way to know what he was thinking

um

one of the funniest things I read about

that case today was one of the things

that the police were very suspicious

about

is that when he got home his Subway

sandwich was fully intact

hahaha

he was a victim of this brutal hate

crime

and he had to get home and and his

Subway sandwich just fine

and I'm thinking that's good police work

they're looking at that sandwich and

they're thinking

so you were the victim of a brutal hate

crime

but you protected your sandwich

and so that was sort of a tell

um

it's funny how often Subway

gets dragged into some terrible story

haven't they had like uh two

spokesperson so far who got accused of

hey this crimes

I always feel sorry for Subway because

they're just trying to mind their own

business you know sell you some

sandwiches we we just want to sell you

some damn sandwiches can you leave us

out of the news

sandwich you sandwich stomach

that's it we'd like to keep our our

entire brand focused on the sandwich

part of it but no Subway just keeps

dragging back into these heinous crime

stories

all right

as I was noting

uh recently and tell me if this is the

same where you live

so where I live or anywhere that I could

drive to in my area

um mask compliance at restaurants is

basically zero

meaning that you put it on to talk to

the hostess you sit down you take it off

and and then you're done you might put

it on when you're leaving but nobody's

going to care because you're already

leaving

what are they going to kick you out if

you try to leave the restaurant without

your mask are they going to say I'm

sorry you can't leave this restaurant

not until you put that mask on oh what

are they going to do I mean they'd have

to say can you get out of here right

away and you'd say well that's what I'm

doing

I'm walking from here to the door

so

I the reason I bring this up

is now restaurants were probably the

weakest link right in the you know the

the mandatory stuff restaurants were

going to go first I think because the

restaurant owners a lot of them are

independents and a lot of them just said

no I can't compete that way because the

restaurant right across the street I

don't think they're going to be too

tough on masks so if I'm tough on masks

and the restaurant directly across the

street is not

I'm done

so the market pretty much forced the

restaurants to ignore the mandatory mask

thing I mean the employees wear them

you know and not all of them you'll see

some some people who are not wearing

them even to work there

but here's what I want to remind you

there are two problems about the

mandatory restrictions

one is all the problems of the mandatory

restrictions you know the physical

things that prevent you from doing

but the second part is how it feels

am I right

it's not just bad enough that they're

restricting you from doing all this

you want to do that's bad because you

can't do the stuff

or you or you have to wear a mask and

it's uncomfortable but I'll tell you one

of the biggest problems is is it feeling

like somebody made you do it

and doesn't that really get under your

skin

it's not my choice and I wouldn't have

chosen this they're making me do it

light just pisses you off right so let

me tell you something just to make you

feel better about that part

the public already decided they weren't

going to wear masks in restaurants and

then what happened

no mass in restaurants

as soon as the public by some kind of

you know hidden majority that we don't

know exactly as soon as the public by

some kind of majority or it might even

been a plurality or something like that

we don't know what percentage tips

things

but as soon as the public decided

it was completely over

there was no fight

there was no pushback the public just

said no no we're gonna go eat at

restaurants and we're gonna take our

mask off the whole time and that's what

we're gonna do

the public has all the power

everything that's still mandatory that

you don't like is because your fellow

public hasn't quite gotten there yet

as soon as they do

than the public then the government will

have no power whatsoever so if you

imagine you're being suppressed by your

government

not exactly

it feels like it that's not what's going

on at all

you are being suppressed

by the fact that the percentage of your

fellow citizens has not yet reached the

Tipping Point

when it does

Boop it's going to be all over yeah you

think there was a slippery slope toward

mandatory

where do you see the slippery slope away

from it

right and we're right I feel like we're

we're not at the Tipping Point but we're

approaching it

we're approaching the Tipping Point and

here's what's going to push me over the

edge

um I'm not going to get a booster shot

if if the big Pharma can't tell me if

getting the Omicron virus is more or

less dangerous than a booster shot

they don't know that

why would I get a booster shot when

Snopes I know I know you're going to

tell me snopes is not reliable but I'll

bet you think it's reliable when it goes

against the Democrats

right and that's what it's doing snopes

is saying that there are zero reported

deaths of Omicron anywhere in the world

doesn't mean there are none

zero reported confirmed cases

zero

did you hear zero

zero

[Laughter]

whole whole Galaxy

zero now there might be some I don't

know because the uh over at the UK some

experts are saying that the Omicron

could kill 25 to 75 000 people in the UK

alone

at the same time

at the same time

the Omicron virus is totally overtaking

the others in some cases where it's you

know where it's prevalent it's 75 of the

infections already I think in was it

South Africa that's the case or at least

of what they were monitoring right so

that these are still just little bubbles

but we should probably see the Omicron

take over everything reasonably soon

unless there's yet another better you

know more more capable virus but it

would have to act fast because the

omicron's region

and

um as long as that thing's raging

and it's killing zero and probably

confers some kind of immunity that

matters against the the worser strains

uh

I'm done with the booster now if science

in some credible way you know I'd have

to see more than one study or one

opinion

but if I could be convinced and I think

I could that in fact the booster is

safer than the Omicron or at least that

it's a toss-up

well I might modify my opinion I might

but at the moment a booster shot would

be stupid

if you think you can wait it out until

the Omicron is is you know the main

thing

then I'd wait it down

uh let's get rid of this on

YouTube

hide you on that channel

I was just going to talk about these

horrible people and then you showed

yourself so you reminded me

um I'm blocking anyone who says the

dumbest thing in the world which

is hey Scott's finally waking up

no the data is changing the Situation's

changed

what we knew in the fog of War stage is

very very different from what we know

today right

and all of you who

think that it was always obvious the

whole time and I'm just waking up

and somebody said today even the normies

are getting it now no I'm not

getting anything the data has completely

changed

right

completely changed if your opinion is

exactly the same well all the data has

changed there's something wrong with you

now it could be that the data changed in

your favor and you know you got lucky

but if your opinion

with no data was complete certainty that

blah blah blah you shouldn't give

vaccinations or whatever you're not

doing a good job of thinking

because you didn't know we were all

guessing

we're still guessing

but we have way more information to

inform our guests at this point

all right so

um that's where that's where I'm going

to take a stand I think and again it

could change tomorrow

by tomorrow I could say oh new data

changed my mind so I'm going to reserve

that option

I like to change my mind when the data

changes

um so I'll probably do that

all right

um

is inflation transitory

what do you think I'll put this to you

um some some on the Democrat side would

have us believe that the inflation is

transitory

uh what do you think

well I think it is because everything's

transitory

it's just how you define transitory I

suppose there's no such thing as

permanent inflation

you know eventually the sun will burn

out and

and the Earth will be a cold dead lump

of coal

so I mean yeah I guess you'd have to

define transitory if it's transitory

over the next five years would you call

that transitory

if if inflation continued to be a

problem let's say for five years but

then it calmed down is that transitory

now transitory feels like less than a

year doesn't it

I feel like that's what that feels so I

doubt there's anything that's transitory

but let me give you some context here

using my vast economic experience I do

have a degree in economics I've got an

MBA from a good school so I'm not

completely incompetent talking about

this topic surprising

and here's what I know about inflation

nobody really knows how that works it

feels like it'd be the easiest thing in

the world right add more money to the

system you know juice the activity

you know demand will outstrip supply

reasonably predictable

prices go up

so the the mechanism of inflation is

pretty clear

but there are always these big surprises

for example

all of that makes sense but what if

tomorrow you know a fusion reactor comes

online and two years from now we've

everyone has one in their closet now

that's not going to happen but there

could be you know technical changes that

change everything

um

somebody paid ten dollars to get to get

blocked by me so the vector says wow it

took Scott this long to wake up to the

kovid Sham congrats Scott now you're

using your Noggin welcome to the plug

Club big guy

he paid ten dollars to say a comment

that I just said will get you blocked

I appreciate your money you're a

but thank you for the money

and you're hidden on this channel

all right anybody else want to want to

get blocked I'm in a blocking mood

thanks for the money

um I told you I had a degree in

economics I can take your money and I

can block you too

that's something I learned in economics

class

yes

anyway here's what I know about

inflation the experts are not good at at

predicting it do you remember when the

experts said oh no it's going to be

stagflation we'll have inflation and low

growth which can't really happen at the

same time except it did once

you know during the Carter

Administration so if we don't even know

exactly what caused stagflation and why

it doesn't get caused again and you know

what's coming at us will there be

another pandemic God knows so we're not

good at predicting this stuff but

one of the big

um so I let me say this

inflation ends up being a tax on the

poor and the middle class

am I right

now if you're in one of those categories

you saw your prices go way up your gas

prices probably your food prices right

you've noticed food food is through the

roof

and you didn't have much of any stocks

if you're in the lower or middle range

thanks Eddie

so

now let me tell you my experience so far

as a rich guy I'm just going to be

obnoxious in the

uh in the interest of full disclosure

and you know just be honest right

sometimes honesty is

obnoxious

depending what you're talking about so

this is going to be obnoxious to a lot

of you but I think it's fair to say

I'm doing great

I've never done better financially

because my stocks are up

and

I don't know how much my gas price would

have to go up

to make a difference compared to how

much my net wealth has gone up because

of just owning stock

I'm doing great

so Joe Biden just put the biggest tax

I've ever seen on the poor

didn't affect me

I literally I've never done better than

Joe Biden's here

I didn't expect that you know if you

told me you know who did you do better

under

Trump or Biden

not even close

I got killed under Trump I got

slaughtered

financially I just I had my ass handed

to me mostly because you know getting

canceled for this or that you know you

can't do deals can't do speaking just

talking about but as soon as Biden came

in

uh people stopped hating me as much

because I wasn't as relevant talking

about Trump

and I you know I made one lucky move I

bought a bunch of stocks when they hit

their bottom

so suddenly like anybody who owns stocks

I'm thinking it's looking pretty good

and all the people who don't own stocks

the lower income people just absolutely

got

and it's not going to let up anytime

soon so I would think that the number

one thing that the Democrats have for

them is that they're the ones who are

trying to help the normal people get by

that's not happening

that's not happened but let me give you

the plus side

the economy is really screeching

despite inflation the economy is just

screaming and

um it's hard to hire people I mean that

you know you saw Kramer

Financial or investment expert Kramer

you you saw him say that this is the

strongest economy he's ever seen maybe

since out of the 60s or something and I

would agree with that I don't think I've

seen a stronger economy if you don't

count the inflation

if you don't count that if you do count

it it's only a great economy for people

you know at the top half maybe

maybe top 25 percent

so

um I just don't know what to think about

inflation but I hate ignoring it but it

looks like we're just gonna tax poor

people until it's not a problem anymore

so there's that

um

why are airplanes relatively safe

in terms of covet

I I keep going back to that because I

feel like everything we need to know

about covid you can learn on an airplane

am I wrong

because the thinking is that the reason

that air travel is safe enough is not

just that you know people are getting

tested and vaccinated that's helping a

lot but that people are wearing masks on

the airplane this is what the industry

would tell you the experts would say

it's because people wear masks on the

airplane except when they eat and that

their ventilation ventilation systems

are great

now that's true I think airplanes have

great ventilation they have to and one

of the one of the uh anecdotes of a

spread involved a jet that was idle on

an airport during a layover

and they turned the ventilation off for

half an hour

and the speculation is that that half

hour they turned off the ventilation is

when all the spread happened

maybe I don't know

but so I I was feeling pretty smart I'm

reading about this and thinking okay

okay I've got a pretty good grip on why

these airplanes are working or not

spreading so you got the masks good

don't disagree with me yet just wait

till I get to the end of this so you got

the masks okay okay that should make a

difference you got that great

ventilation good good you got the vet

the vaccinations now all right all right

and some people have natural immunity

that's good that's good and I thought

I'd covered all of the bases

like I'd consider all of the all the

variables

and then uh Twitter user named I love uh

I heart Pipelines

to either this

you're going to feel as dumb as I did

when you hear this

all right

this is just like a guy on Twitter

and he's going to say something and I'm

going to read it to you this is going to

make you slap your head and say

oh God that was obvious

people don't talk on airplanes

that's it

people don't talk on their place

as the main the main cause of

transmission is

talking

and I'm like I'm all I'm all into the

masks and the vaccinations and the

ventilation now I'm reading about their

their HEPA filters and I'm thinking huh

I wonder if it's the ventilation is it

is it the filtering or is it the airflow

and I'm like I'm like into the science

and and then the I Heart pipeline

says

I don't fly much but I don't think

people talk much on planes

you for being so smart

how in the world did we miss that

seriously how did we miss that

yeah you're still breathing but but the

the best thinking is that it's the

talking that makes a difference

is anybody having the same experience

that how did we analyze this and this is

the first time I've ever heard this I've

never heard anybody say

but you know the main way of gets

transmitted is from talking and people

don't talk much on airplanes

in fact the only person you talk to is

the person you probably came there with

and if they infected you you're already

infected

all right

um

I'm thinking you're putting together if

I ever got

I don't know less lazy a hoax IQ test

and what it would be is simply a list of

hoaxes

and you the test taker would simply

check whether you

um know it's a hoax or you believe it's

true and the fact that it's a hoax is a

hoax so you just say true or false to

each of the claims or the hoaxes

now why would I do that when I already

talk incessantly about all these hoaxes

and a lot of people know what they are

but not so much on the right

and the answer is because this this is a

persuasion trick to get people to think

past the yes or no if you give somebody

a hoax IQ test

and they start arguing with you about

whether or not they got the right answer

or the test itself is graded correctly

just don't even have the argument just

say thank you very much here's your

score

no no no I'm pretty sure that three of

those that I Mark really really happened

thank you very much here's your score

no seriously I know this one's not a

hoax I saw it with my own eyes heard it

with my own ears that one really

happened

here's your score thanks for taking the

test

yeah we're getting to the point where we

should stop arguing about them

just put them on a list

and use What I Call List persuasion

have you heard me describe list

persuasion it's a it's a persuasion

trick uh it is used the best

the best user of this is Sean Hannity

if you want to see a really good example

of it also uh Alex Jones

Alex Jones did it once on I was on his

uh program a few years ago and he did

that and I watched him do it it was just

sort of masterful really right I'm not

saying I approve of it I'm just saying

that the technique works and that when

you see it done it's really good and the

way the technique works is you list four

things that everybody listening believes

to be true

and then you slip one thing in that they

don't yet believe is true but you like

them to believe it's true

so uh

so let's see if I can come up with an

example off the top of my head this will

be hard because I'm just like winging it

here but let's say you were uh

you were going to say bad things about

Joe Biden

all right I'll just do a pretend Hannity

um so this won't be a real example just

just to make the case there are several

things you could say about

Joe Biden that are true or at least the

audience would accept as true

you say uh

Joe Biden is uh got is mentally

incompetent and the audience is like

that's what I see that's what I see

um he is a increased inflation

he is beholden to the progressives uh

you know he's got a real trouble with

them yeah true

um and he said some racist things in his

earlier days things that people thought

were racism yeah true and he's a a

lizard person from The Planet Krypton

you just you just like throw it in there

but you never put it at the end

so it's never the first one and it's

never the last one you always sandwich

it in the middle list toward toward like

closer to the end because you want

people to hear three true things then

the lizard person uh accusation and then

two more two more uh real things if you

sandwich the lizard the lizard person

thing between three trues and two more

truths it just slips right past your

defenses until you're pretty sure it

must be true it was on that list so that

would be the same technique with using

the height hoax IQ test but but an

ethical use of it because as far as I

know there would really be real hoaxes

right so it wouldn't be trying to trick

anybody you'd be trying to persuade them

here's a weird story because the

simulation loves us

um when right right leaning and I guess

CNN would call them far-right companies

yet de-platformed and that sort of thing

where do they go where does the gab go

and where do a lot of people get deep

platforms well they go to a a server

company called Epic epik

and the founder of that is a free speech

Advocate and is willing to take people

onto his system

so that they can still be in business

um and he's not as concerned about their

you know horrible speech

but he has banned he has banned some you

know direct Nazi type organizations but

not everybody who likes Nazis apparently

so so it's a pretty rough uh group over

there along with regular people so

there's lots of normies

but it's a little little extra

a little extra bad compared to the rest

of the world

um but you can use your own judgment

whether that's free speech or something

worse

now the the individual who does this is

sort of fascinating I guess his parents

were both you know anti-nazi activists

and he's got a he's got a pretty good

case

that he doesn't lean that way himself

now you'd have to suspect right so the

people on the left are like we're not so

sure because you do seem to be helping

those people on the right

um

all right

um

and

here's the the payoff

the name of this individual who owns

this company called Epic

who the people on the left would like to

demonize to you know de-platform for

good anybody who's got views they don't

like

this is his actual name

his last name is monster

m-o-n-s-t-e-r

and his first name is Rob

now I would call myself Bob

if my last name was monster

because monster is bad enough but Rob is

actually a crime you don't want to rob

people and you don't want to be a

monster so Rob monster

is the name of this this is actual real

name like the name he was born with

now I don't have anything bad to say

about him

I just think it's interesting that

people who do think he's a monster

well that's his actual name

and apparently is a common name in the

country where was he from

I don't know he's from some European

country

all right

Chris Christie is positive that Trump

gave him covet when they were doing

their debate preparation and Christy was

playing Biden and I guess you know there

was a lot of he said it was a spirited

debate practice so there was a lot of

spittle going back and forth and now

that we know the timeline it looks like

uh Trump probably infected several

people in the room so Christy Steve

Miller I think there were some other

people

and

uh

and

what this story fails to mention give me

a fact check on this

isn't the story that Trump tested

positive but then when he did a higher

quality test he tested negative

is that true

and did then was the debate before or

after those two tests

because the the thinking is that Trump

knew which means they had to be after

the first asked but wasn't also after

the second test when he was tested

negative

um

does anybody know that

how could you know that yeah I know so

so

um I would love to know about the

ventilation in that room

because I'll bet I'll bet the

ventilation wasn't working so I still

have a theory that uh the difference is

the air flow not just the filtering and

the ventilation so I'm gonna I'm Gonna

Keep on my theory that airflow is the

only thing that matters

and if you've got the airflow right

you'd be fine we'd be done

that's what I believe

I don't have data to back that up but

everything is pointing in that direction

um

do you realize that I mean Chris

Christie actually went to the ICU

Trump could have actually killed them

Trump but Trump might have actually

killed

Chris Christie it was close and and

Trump himself had a tough time with the

virus so both Christy and Trump could

have died

now of course they had the best health

care

so the odds were against it in their

cases but

um

all right

there were multiple tornadoes that

ripped through Kentucky and several

other states Arkansas Illinois and

there's not much to say about that but

50 people dead good Lord

I guess the only the only thing I'd like

to say on this is

you have to worry about the the one you

don't hear have you heard this old thing

about the military if you hear the

bullet like

then it didn't get you

because you the one that gets you you

don't hear I'm not sure that's true

because you know if it was a sniper I

think you'd hear it before

wouldn't you if it was a sniper at a

distance wouldn't you hear it before I

hear you I don't know maybe

no oh I'm seeing people say no I think

this crowd knows guns more than I do

no okay so let's stick with it that you

don't hear the one that gets you this

tornado situation reminds me of that

so you know probably the 50 people who

died were worried about other things

don't you think

they were worried about other things and

I'll bet none of those other things

would have killed them I bet they

wouldn't have died of covid

you know I'll bet they wouldn't have

died and uh climate change disaster

about whatever they were worried about

wasn't the thing and I always like to

remind myself of that because you find

yourself getting all worked up worrying

about something

like climate change or you know

something's going to kill you that's big

in the world you know there's going to

be a war Kim Jong-un is going to bomb

you any minute whatever

um Almost Never

can you see it coming

Almost Never

please study PCR tests I'm not going to

do that

uh I I know if if where you're going on

this is it the uh

is that the uh pandemic is fake and the

tests are picking up

that's really a dumb

hypothesis

at this point in the beginning it was

you know you throw it in with everything

else because everything was confusing

but at this point if you're still

bitching about the PCR test I think

you're

you know I think events have left you

behind is what I think now I don't mean

to be condescending if it sounds like

that that's not my intention because I

think everybody's confused about all of

this stuff but if you're reading if

you're reading stuff

uh

about the tests being bad

um yeah I agree that we're probably

doing a bad job of counting stuff but

here's the problem the icus are

clearly being impacted where there are

waves of covet that's not imaginary

it's not imaginary

so although the PCR tests you know may

have some problems

it's a real pandemic so I just wouldn't

spend any time on that

path

uh my friend who got monoclonal he's

good as far as I know he was on the mend

Scott's finally waking up to tornadoes

um

sniper would

it's true I work in a hospital so Doc

Bailey you're saying it's true that it's

obvious that covet is real and because

you don't hear front line people saying

it's not real do you

hear dear anybody who actually deals

with covet patients saying you know

I don't think these are real

I think the PCR test was wrong or

something like that

yeah somebody has a registered nurse who

is a wife and

she's quite sure it's real

Cove is real just over hyped well every

danger is overhyped

if it's in the news it's over hyped

because that's where the money is

the inventor of PCR said they shouldn't

be used the way yeah yeah yeah yeah

it's a real pandemic

blah blah blah blah tests I don't care I

mean you might be completely right

it doesn't doesn't seem relevant

it's not like we're wondering if there's

a pandemic

um you do hear the front line talk about

heart issues in the young that's true

yes I would say that the uh oh here's a

good question that somebody asked me

let's let's I'll let you deal with this

too

rifle bullets are faster than sound

Sparky says thank you

there is some disagreement on this but

I'm not the expert so

um

trouble with these super chats is

they're really disruptive to the flow of

thought

uh and I believe I just lost my flow of

thought

oh uh it'll come back

um

yesterday I tweeted that it seemed like

we stopped hearing about long covet

is that do you find that it seems like

the news was a lot about long covet and

then the news I'm not talking about the

reality and just talking about the news

coverage I feel like the news just

stopped talking about it

when it was actually maybe one of the

biggest variables for my decision to get

vaccinated

and we we're talking about all the other

stuff

but it seems like the biggest one of the

biggest variables other than death and

um

oh most rifle bullets are faster than

sound okay thank you

so I tweeted that to see if other people

were having that experience and I was

again I was just talking about the

reporting of it not the actuality but it

did make me wonder if the actuality had

disappeared you know did we just stop

thinking it existed but there were

plenty of people who gave me uh links

and anecdotes and a lot of people have

experienced it themselves Etc so I think

we can say that long covet is real how

many of you would agree with that

statement

that long covered Israel yes yes yes

before you say it yes yes yes before you

say it vaccinations could give you

long-term problems too please don't tell

me that

please know that I knew that okay I'm

begging you

I'm begging you don't say the obvious

NPC thing well vaccinations are bad too

I know I know I know

all right uh yeah so I think everybody

believes law and covet is real not that

it necessarily would change your

decision at this point

all right the question that I forgot

about was

um

how many anecdotal reports

would it take to sway you if you didn't

have good scientific studies

and let me let me walk you through it

let's say you walk out your back door

and a bird shits on your head

and you say to yourself what bad luck

but obviously it's not any kind of a

trend or anything

so the next day you walk out of your

front door going to work and a bird

shits on your head two days in a row and

you say to yourself damn it

that is a big coincidence

Third Day Birds yesterday you had fourth

a Burgess in your head let me do a

survey for you

how many times does the bird have to

shed on your hat before you say okay

there's something going on here

not once I think every one of you would

discount one

how about two

if I haven't twice in a row

would you automatically conclude this is

not a coincidence

um

how many of you would

some of you would go at two

some of you would call it five or six

I don't know what to say about that

I'm pretty sure if if I got on five

times in a row walking out the same door

I don't know if I would get the six

I think I would I'm pretty sure I would

tap out after three

but it's funny seeing all the

differences in the and the answers

now my my example is meant to be

artificially constrained right and in

that case I think it would only take me

two

right I I think I'd be I probably would

never use that door again after the

second time

that's just me but if you're looking at

like a global thing you know it's not

about you and your house you're looking

at you know lots of population of people

and stuff it should take you more

anecdotes

so in the context of uh I don't know

five billion people who might get

vaccinated how many anecdotes of bad

outcomes would it take

to convince yourself that 5 billion

people

shouldn't get vaccinated how many

anecdotes would it take give me a number

give me a number

a hundred

a thousand ten thousand a hundred

thousand a million what would it take

somebody says zero I'm Millions

some people say zero

a thousand so if a thousand people had a

bad outcome you would would you cancel

the vaccination

because that would cancel every

vaccination you know for everything I

think right doesn't every vaccination

kill a thousand people like eventually

uh

someone's trying to tell me that Russia

and China are invading Ukraine uh nice

try

nice try

all right well

so it when I when I put it that way it's

hard to come up with a number right so

my point is you could easily think that

um two dozen reports tell you something

you could easily think that a hundred

adverse reports

is telling you something it probably

isn't how about a thousand adverse

reports and let's say they're pretty

well documented let's say they're in the

vares database which means a doctor had

to fill out paperwork so there's a

professional who has something at risk

um let's say ten thousand

what if you knew for sure

there were 10 000 reports of adverse

let's say death

from the shots does that mean you

shouldn't take them

how about a hundred thousand

here is the really

bad bad thing

suppose you're the leader of a country

and your experts tell you

don't tell the public

but the only way we're going to get

through this pandemic

without losing 10 million people

is to lose a million through the

vaccination now I'm not aware of any

numbers that would support what I'm

saying I'm just giving you numbers to do

the math there's no reality Behind These

that I know of

but what if behind closed doors

they said we're positive this is going

to kill 10 to 20 million Americans

the only way to stop it is with

vaccinations that will kill a million

different people

probably it won't be the same people who

the virus would have killed it's a

million people who probably would have

been fine

but you might save 11 to 19 million

Americans

what do you do

you tell the Americans what their actual

risk is

look here's the deal people you get the

vaccination a million of you are going

to die a million of you

but we're pretty sure we can save

tens of Millions

pretty sure nothing's a hundred percent

but we're very very sure

what would you do as a leader would you

tell people

or would you fudge the data

and say we'll give you all the data in

75 years

when everybody involved in the decision

making is dead

but

uh just you know don't ask too many

questions it's looking fine it's

vaccinations are good

because I feel like that's what happened

not the Million number and not the 10

million number I'm making up numbers but

I feel as if the truth

is that our government knew that these

vaccinations and the experts knew and

told the government would be far more

dangerous than ordinary vaccines and it

still made sense

and it still made sense

the the stratified risk thing is a

scandal of

unlimited proportions in my mind but

it's a separate question

why is vaccines being pushed on kids uh

follow the money there can't be any

other reason can you think of a reason

other than following the money I can't

now the the idea was that we would

sacrifice the young to save the old

do you think that the government could

tell you that that's actually what

they're doing

here's the deal we know

that we're going to kill a bunch of

children

but we have a pretty good feeling that

if we kill a bunch of children we can

save even more older people

I feel like that's that was a conscious

decision

but you see that these decisions can't

be sold right you can't go to the public

and say we're going to kill a million of

you to save 20 million that's a no sale

that is no sale

even if

it was the best thing for the country

You could argue it but you can't sell it

I think you have to lie to sell it

and I think that a lot of a lot of what

we saw in the so-called leadership about

this was our leaders lying intentionally

for what they thought was our own good

in some cases probably money was the

influence but

when they lied about the masks

that was for our own good it wasn't it

allegedly but we know it happened they

lied to our faces for our own good don't

you think that they're lying about the

vaccinations too

for our own good

I do

I do now

here's where I get in trouble

right because there seems to be a binary

like there always is Right vaccinations

are good and safe

where vaccinations are very unsafe and

bad

I have neither of those feelings

I feel that they're probably less safe

than just about anything we've ever done

medically

and

might have been the right leadership

decision

because I don't think you could have

sold that proposition it was an

unsellable proposition

so you either let 20 million people die

and you know destroy the economy that

ends up destroying another you know 10

million people by indirect effects or

you lie to the public

for their own good

for their own good just like the masks

you don't think your government would do

that I do

I I think that there were at least

elements of the government not

necessarily the president you know I'm

not sure who tells the president what

but I have a feeling that there were

enough people involved in decision

making that they knew it was way more

dangerous than medicine in general

still worthwhile

in their opinions

but they never could have sold that to

the public

Adam

saying Scott's finally waking up to

people lying finally I've learned that

lesson

I lived my whole life without

understanding

that people can lie

risk of losing credibility is too high

nope

nope apparently the risk of losing

credibility is not driving anything

because their credibility is gone I

don't you can't lose what you didn't

have

um

Scott wants to kill the young and strong

to save the old and weak

there's your mind reading of the day

incorrect of course

I've said explicitly that one of the

reasons that I volunteered to get the

vaccination is it would save other

people not necessarily just older people

um they don't care about credibility

yeah

it is weird how often our public

servants lie yeah for various reasons

either for their own or for they think

it's for our good

you know the the old line you can't

handle the truth

um

that's true

all right

how about

uh do you have any questions because I

think I'm done with my prepared

thoughts

how angry are the kids about all this I

think they're just used to it

I think they're used to it

I'm going to give you uh a story that

drives a lot of my decision making it's

called the Indian

uh elephant trainer

so over in India

there are some people who train

elephants and one of the things that

always confused me is why does a big old

elephant do what a tiny human being

tells it to do

instead of just like killing the human

and the answer is that they train them

when they're babies

so the elephant trainer you know is

going to be beaten on the baby elephants

you know to make it do what he wants it

to do until the baby elephant is afraid

of it

and then the elephant grows up and is

still thinks that this little tiny human

can hurt it

well it can hurt it if the elephant

doesn't fight back but if it did fight

back it wouldn't be a fair fight right a

human with a club versus elephant

but this works because the elephant has

been trained that it is helpless to this

little human

that's us right now

we're the elephant the public

the government is the tiny little human

who's been beating us since we were

children

and when they tell us to lock down

where that elephant and we're like okay

they beat me when I was a baby and now

they're saying they're going to beat me

again

a better lock down

but don't forget

don't ever forget

you're the elephant

the government

is that thing that you can squash with

your foot

but the elephant can't do

unless all the parts of the elephant are

thinking the same way

right so we're an elephant but we're an

elephant that hasn't made up its mind

or it's been trained not to think

the elephant is getting ready to wake up

so you can talk all day about me waking

up but I'm not your problem

the elephant is waking up

and the Elephant is going to get rid of

the mandates it's going to get rid of

the masks when it's ready

so just remember

you're the elephant

you have all the power

you have all the power you just have to

get it organized and move it in the

right direction so that's your thought

through the day you are the elephant you

know that have a great weekend