Episode 1698 Scott Adams - How to Fix All The Fake News, Trump Is Being Trump Again, And More Fun

good morning everybody and welcome yes once again to the best thing that's ever happened it's called coffee with scott adams now i don't know if you've noticed the regular viewers that if i tell you you're going to have a good day it will make it more likely why because reality is subjective you might have exactly the same amount of problems but if you come here every day and i tell you it's going to be great it'll be a little bit greater as far as you can tell and that's all that matters now how would you like to take this experiment up a notch it's called the simultaneous sip and there is plenty of science to suggest indirectly that it might make your day better but i guarantee it and all you need is a copper mug or a glass attacker jealous designing a canteen pick a flask of vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee now join me for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day i think that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip and it will be sipped around the world now go exactly i see in the comments if i may read this comment it's the best thing that's ever happened to me a lot of people would put it in the top ten but i think it properly belongs in the top three i will allow that the birth of your children possibly your wedding day if things went well could be better days maybe maybe if those things went perfectly you know i would say the bad version of all those things is still worse than the good version of coffee with scott adams but the best i'll give you i'll give you that the best version of those things would have a little bit of an edge well here's an update beep beep beep beep beep beep beep it's a fake news update uh do you remember do you remember the story about the guy who wanted to vote back in 2020 he wanted to vote but he could not find any way to get a government id here's an update on that story he still doesn't exist still doesn't exist okay all right next item uh how would you like me to fix fake news i mean actually do it like right here i'm going to perform a magic trick are you ready i'm go i'm going to describe an app or maybe maybe it's a process it doesn't have to it doesn't have to be an app it could be something that gets the same thing done and it goes like this number one how much do you dislike commercials on your television i think you don't like them at all wouldn't you wish that if you were watching live tv where you can't fast forward that you could have something entertain you during the commercials and yet here's the key and yet have the thing that entertains you during the commercials be on the same topic or within the same field as the show you were just watching and so i submit to you what i call news buddies what it is it's a live stream could be on an app but it could be just live stream that is at the same time as the live network broadcast or cable broadcast of cnn fox news msnbc and so if you're watching any of those shows you can have call up on your other device so let's say you're watching the news on your television because you're a certain age you watch a television and you call up your phone a little uh pers a real person who at exactly the same time for you and other people watching the same show will be your little uh news buddy it'll be like a little avatar that just sits there on your phone and is completely silent mostly during the actual broadcast the moment the broadcast moves to a commercial you can silence your tv and then have the little news buddy say you know that story you just watched that's kind of fake news because it's a little bit out of context here's what they left out and you'd be and what would you rather do would you rather listen to the commercial would you would you rather listen to the commercial or would you rather listen to somebody tell you what was wrong with what you just watched which is more entertaining because that's all that matters right now let's say it's free could be could easily be free because if you put it on let's say on youtube you could have the maybe the commercials run i don't know if could he do this make the commercials run on your buddy app at a different time as the ones on the tv so that you never get commercials at the same time i think you can do that but you can do it on an app if you build it yourself and so therefore you wouldn't have to listen to the commercial maybe it's just running in video it doesn't even have any sound while the news buddy is talking and now let's say that you don't like one of the news buddies because it looks like that's another propaganda you pick another one and other people can judge the other news buddies and pick one you like so there should be somebody who and by the way there wouldn't be any copyright problem because the news buddy would not be showing the stream you would have to have your own separate stream for cnn or whatever it is you're watching now you have the news buddy doing a little fact checking while the live news is on and then the news buddy could even hold on that gets better send you links to the fact checks huh huh in real time in real time so your little news buddy you know as soon as it goes to commercial it says you know what they said about climate change well some people say that that's not true here's a link you'd be like seriously i totally believe that there's a link that says the opposite now how many senior citizens how many senior citizens could handle you know having a news buddy on the phone plus the tbi okay over a certain age i'll give you that it would decline in usability but it's also over the certain age that they're not as active in anything so you tell me that people in their 50s and 60s can't handle opening an app on the phone i say no of course they can so the people that you're really trying to reach even the older segment can absolutely turn on a simultaneous app that's not even hard so so here's something that i would like to give you as a general concept if i had told you before you'd ever heard of something called a jury trial that i was going to design this justice system where 12 of your peers would be selected and then vetted by lawyers and we'd have all this checks and balances and a judge and but ultimately there'd be 12 people would decide if you go to jail or not how many of you would have thought that would work seriously yeah be be honest with yourself if the jury system had never existed and somebody described it to you and said i got this great idea would you think that was going to work really i don't know some of you maybe maybe better than the alternatives what about the supreme court you know think of all the all your problems with the supreme court all the complaints you have if somebody had described the supreme court before anybody knew it ever existed it was just a whole new idea would you have heard that and said yeah i think that's going to last at least 200 years people will find that very credible i don't know maybe maybe you would have thought it was better than the other ideas so you know that'd be good enough but i'm not sure that we're so smart that we know that we can't engineer systems to at least make us satisfied that we've done the best job we can so when i was talking the other day about could you have a supreme court of fact checking how many of you said ugh you can't do that because then the fact checkers would just be you know bought off by somebody and then you think of all the reasons why it doesn't work i i get that every one of the reasons why why you offer that that wouldn't work if you designed it incorrectly yeah you're right it wouldn't work but don't underestimate the ingenuity of the public to design something that does work even if we get it wrong you know 19 to 20 times if you just keep chugging along you're gonna get something that works so when i talk when i talk about this the news buddy app the only thing i'm trying to to transmit is that you'd be surprised how many thorny impossible seeming problems could be solved if you just chug along and try enough things doesn't mean this will be the solution to have a little news buddy because you know the obvious thing is they become corrupted blah blah but we do have a history of solving problems that i would say are like this ish in the sense that you can't imagine how you could get the bias and the and the criminality out of it but we seem to largely be able to fix those things it just takes a while so i don't know if the news buddies the way but something cool could probably uh fix the fake news i don't think what's going to fix it is competing platforms that's my best guess do you do you think that the fake news will ever be fixed by somebody coming up with a competing platform that's oh that's all the good news so we'll watch that one instead it doesn't feel like it right and so since we've tried that in effect you should we not try something else right so somebody cleverly is saying so when did you create this news buddy app it would have been smarter to develop the app before giving you the idea but i feel like it's more about the concept of designing systems that work it's not even about the app and i don't have that much interest in that kind of an app but it was a good question yes it was a good question all right um what are the coolest things about being me if i could be all about me for a moment and why wouldn't i be is that every now and then i'll wake up and just something cool will happen that's just so cool you can barely contain yourself and you didn't know it was coming it's just hey it's cool um i was curious about something related to a story i'm going to talk about later and i and in order to talk about that other story about an author being canceled i wanted to google myself and see if you know what's the highest rated thing about me to see if it was negative or positive and to compare it to this other story and and i discovered that something like three days ago there was a story that the dilbert comic is going to be featured in a or already is in a rick and morty episode and i guess they go to an alternative universe or something and uh they go into an alternative universe where there's a a dilbert world and their the desks are eating the people or something and here's what's weird so this was four days ago actually this was published how in the world did i not know about this for four days how in the world could there be a rick and morty episode all about dilbert it took four days for me to figure that out and i had to find it myself nobody nobody mentioned that to me none of you nobody really seriously there's not one of you there's not one of you who already knew that and thought to mention it come on i rely on you to to tell me the obvious stuff four days and i didn't know that now call my agent now i don't have an agent for that kind of stuff i have an agent from my books but not a general agent so here's what i'd like to say rick and morty is just about the best thing on television and uh being featured in that even even if they mock it i haven't seen it so they i don't know if they if they treat it like a cultural icon or they treat it mockingly either way is fine with me because i'm such a fan of the show my somebody says my audience doesn't watch rick and morty um what's wrong with you you should yeah it's it for i i would say it's my favorite animated show of all time could i say that yeah i could i think i could say that i think it's my favorite animated show of all time including my own well finally the biden administration and congress has passed an anti-lynching bill and i'm hoping this will maybe stop the tide this rising problem of lynching which i don't believe has happened in a long time um i don't know anybody who's opposed to a bill against lynching you could argue that the states already did it but i don't mind that the government you know the federal government makes it official if you could say that you know i i would say maybe it wasn't the most important thing we were working on so if it was easy you know it didn't cost anything okay i mean i i feel like it was unnecessary work so i'm not sure i would have done it solves the problem that doesn't really exist but as a messaging thing sure i agree with the message so if it didn't cost too much yeah i'm not gonna hate it um but i wonder was anyone on the other side of that argument like who i mean anybody who took the other side of this argument was really not playing this right because you know and i understand you might say something like oh we already have laws why waste our time i get that but don't say it don't say it i understand if you think it but how in the world could this be politically smart to be the one who gets singled out for being against it it's such an obvious trap and here's that here's how i would have played it if i were in congress so that just so i don't get caught in this you're against the anti-lynching bill i would have been more forth than anybody i i would have been for digging up people who had been for it just to kill them again i mean i would have been so for it that if they ever talk to me i'd say are you kidding unlike the number one person in favor of this which would make sense because i have identified as black for a while um but i noticed a trend and can you tell me if this is bias or is this real okay this is just something i observe so there's no science to it there's no data to it just sort of my observation does it seem to you that democrats are tough on crime when the crime isn't one that's actually happening am i wrong about that i mean we've got the lynching they're tough on lynching which thankfully is basically not happening if it ever does happen yeah i mean we should go as hard on whoever does such a horrible thing as we can but it's interesting that they would pick that as where they'd be tough on crime do you remember when the democrats thought russia collusion was real well they were pretty tough on that weren't they they were tough on that crime that oh wait a minute that didn't exist yeah so they're tough on that crime that doesn't exist they're also tough on a lot of crimes of people thinking things wrong so if you're thinking things wrong they're really tough on that i feel as if democrats are not really understanding the whole tough on crime concept and where to apply it and when not to apply it is it just me i don't know it feels like a trend or a pattern maybe just my imagination um apparently the number of uh workers in the workplace which is exactly where the workers should be uh if you see a worker not in the workplace send them back they belong in the workplace even at lunch we'll have no no goofing off all right uh apparently there are more people using drugs in the workplace but i was surprised that it's they say it's risen to 4.6 of a bunch of people were randomly tested and i thought to myself only 4.6 what workplace could you go into and find only 4.6 or on drugs and i thought oh oh just certain drugs just certain drugs if you tested all the people who were on a drug that would affect their performance how many would that be well that would be all of them it's just some of them are legal some of them are prescribed some is coffee it's booze but i would guess that 75 of the workforce is consciously changing their brain chemistry through drugs one way or the other i mean maybe it's only on the weekend yeah maybe it's sugar anyway joel pollock has a article in breitbart in which she's talking about the reparations efforts in california and he points out and i never thought of this before the california had never been a slave state so i live in the state california they they're never been slaves here it's always been a free state but we're talking about um and there's some kind of committee to come up with a plan for reparations or to see if it's practical and they've spent quite a bit of time so far and here's what they came up with it's just a preliminary like beginning decision to throw other black people under the bus so progress so far by by a committee that apparently is largely black to decide that uh only people who can prove they were descended from slavery in america would be eligible for the reparations so the very first thing that a largely black committee did was find a new way to divide to divide people at this time this time dividing black people in america uh and in so doing they came up with a new standard in which you'd have to be able to demonstrate you were descended from slaves if if any reparations were ever approved right so it's all very preliminary to which i asked the obvious question is it not discriminatory to ask black americans to have identification for some government process because we know that voting it would be discriminatory to require a government id but yet the committee on reparations believes that the same public that would find it a burden or at least some of them would find it a burden to get government id would be able to plow through and prove through what i know dna or maybe a search of the public records that they had descended from actual slaves in america um i'm not sure this committee is moving the ball forward if you know what i mean i think they came up with a standard that is so provocative that they've reduced the chances of reparations am i wrong i think they just reduced the chance that this could ever happen let me tell you what you would have done if you wanted to increase the chance just find something that republicans like too that's it just find something republicans like for example about something that would improve education options for everybody who's low income which would be very beneficial for the black american community because they find themselves in the deepest hole especially with the education system so if you say let's fix the education options you know maybe add choice whatever for for everybody then the republicans can say wait did you say for everybody and then they say yeah and then somebody says but you know this will disproportionately help the black public because they're in a deeper hole and the republicans say we don't frickin care as long as it's applied evenly like right nobody's going to complain if it's applied to everybody evenly that it has an outcome that's a little biased that's everything republicans want so make a it would if it were hard to do it i'd say don't try but given that it would be the easiest thing in the world to do just come up with a plan the republicans like vote done bring the country together fix the biggest source of systemic racism which is the ina the unequal education system but if you fix the unequal education system granted there's a whole lifetime of people you know who aren't going to get that benefit or they could maybe maybe do something with training and adult education as well maybe but if you did something that people liked well maybe you'd get something that's all i'd like to suggest how about this is it possible for trump not to be trump for a minute don't we all think that we could be trump better than trump now here's the problem for some things it feels like we could but there are a whole bunch of things you know you couldn't yeah when you saw his uh letter um talking about his hole in one that he got and you know even even people who are not fans i had to admit it was well written it was just hilarious and on point and it was just sort of perfect it was self-mocking without being too self-mocking it just had everything so as an entertainment and a piece of writing it was just brilliant in my my opinion but then he does this but then he does this he's he's so hard to unambiguously like all right so i'm i'm a fan of course and i liked him personally when i met him so i liked the family they were all very nice to me so i have only positive feelings about them personally but he get he's an interview with uh i guess just the news john solomon and uh and trump called on russian president vladimir putin to release any damaging information he has about the biden family come on come on he's up so so trump is up something like i don't know seven points against whoever runs against him if he were to run as president again you know he has this pretty much commanding lead and situation the only thing he could do wrong is say something that's that could be spun as him siding with russia it's the only thing he could do wrong and he knows exactly what he's doing he doesn't fly close to the sun by accident if this looked like if this looked like an accident to you you haven't been paying attention this was no accident this was someone saying watch this yeah watch this i feel like that's all it was i feel like he just said whatever is the most provocative thing he could say that would force people to demand an apology or clarification which would not which would not be forthcoming so you know when you see this sort of thing juxtaposed with his statement about his hole in one the the hole in one statement should give you a tip off of when he's tongue-in-cheek but it won't because the people who want to interpret as entirely you know entirely serious they're just going to do that so to me i i wouldn't have done it i wouldn't have done it but would i have been president of the united states no no probably not so whatever he does keeps working in some ways and then we're all geniuses when something doesn't work we're like oh we saw that coming why didn't he well i don't know why you know we're all confused a little bit about why things keep working they shouldn't work but he seems to know how to harness energy in this case he created energy out of nothing and then the energy will come you know directed back at him and then because he's an energy monster he'll redirect the energy to his advantage so first he creates the energy then he hands the energy to his enemies they they they throw the energy at him hey hey hey look what you said and he says oh i got more energy back than i gave you i gave you uh like 10 pounds of energy and you gave me back a thousand pounds thank you thank you redirect watching him do this in real time is just such a lesson on managing the public and everything else i guess well even uh the friendly news um sources the friendly to the democrat news sources are noting that biden's gaffes are becoming a little bit harder to explain a little bit harder to explain um but now and now they've resorted to the ridiculous uh this is another uh joel pollock also said this in a tweet by the way if you're not following joel pollock uh on uh twitter you should be don't don't wait for me to talk about it um but anyway when the white house defended uh biden talking about you know putin should not be in charge and it sounded like he wanted him removed but then he got walked back and now they're saying that biden was speaking in his personal capacity and as joel points out there's no such thing as a president's personal capacity what what you know maybe in some weird philosophical way but not in a real way if you are the president of the united states and you give an opinion about what should happen in foreign affairs that's not your personal opinion even if it is your personal opinion it doesn't doesn't even mean anything when you're the actual president so and it's funny that that it takes somebody to actually say that before you say oh yeah there's not really a difference all right apparently chris rock is uh selling tons of tickets to his uh stand-up show so he's coming out way ahead um so now we have the weird situation where unless this was fake news and i worry that it was because i saw somebody else say that he didn't make any statement about it but i saw a statement that chris rock said in which he apologized that happened or was that fake news did i get taken by fake news i think he apologized right somebody says it's fake oh really oh it's a fake oh wow huh okay the fake news was very good it was a well-written fake so uh but at least at least i i could smell it a little bit enough to ask the question all right wow okay anyway chris rock is coming out ahead because he's selling a lot of tickets and i think people appreciated that he didn't get violent and he didn't freak out and he went on with the show and you know and even if you think he shouldn't have said what he said uh you're not really going to come on down too hard on a comedian being a comedian especially i think there was evidence he didn't know about the alopecia which was perfectly believable so no it wasn't a staged little flap i'm sure that so chris rock comes out ahead how about um jada pinkett smith did she command a head i'd say yes because do you think the women hate it when men uh defend them like that they don't hate it nope nope they might say they do but they don't hate it and i'd be surprised if she hates it so i think she came out ahead you know on an interpersonal level how about did she command a head in any other way i would say yes because she's very um she's been classy about not commenting about except i think she did one meme she posted about being here for the healing or something so basically just no comment except one positive one about healing i guess good i think she also brought the message about what prophecy is and more importantly more importantly how how emotionally disturbing it is for the person with it it would be real easy for you to say well of all the problems that's not the big one and by the way she's rich and beautiful and didn't she shave her head because she wanted to anyway i don't think so i think probably it was always alopecia just to guess but you know i think she came ahead am i wrong i think she looks good i think a message that she'd like you to understand which is people suffering from this probably have more of a suffering than you would imagine i think she looks good how about will smith he got an oscar he got a standing ovation he apologized now that's not fake right that will smith apologized for the hit i think he did and i i feel as if um it won't affect his movies i don't think so i feel like everybody came out ahead the academy award got better ratings the media got clicks i had something to talk about you were entertained is this the weirdest situation in the world literally everybody came out ahead i'm not wrong about that right i mean you know chris rock suffered one slap and then sold four times as many tickets and got rich and and he's more relevant than he's ever been and i don't know it looks like he came out ahead some people say they lost respect for will smith but here's the thing with celebrity it matters more that you made people like you then you made people dislike you because the people who are sort of willing to dislike him in other words they were you know probably lukewarm on him in the first place they weren't going to buy his tickets and go to his movies the people who already liked him probably like him a little bit more and more likely to buy a ticket if i had to bet i don't know it'll hurt his box office appeal at all i don't think he will he might lose some but then gain some hard to say well putin has apparently refocused his uh army on the east uh and people say is this a change in strategy or a sign he is losing what do you think why is putin refocusing away from capturing kiev and focusing on the east where he's already got control so he's going to consolidate control why would he do that is it because he's losing or is it just good strategy and it was his plan all along well i would guess that whatever his plan all along was it got some modifications but it might be that they can just ignore a cave until everything else is settled and then go back or or maybe they don't want to keep incurring losses around kiev if that's where they're the most losses so maybe he's just cutting his losses during the time he's negotiating so it doesn't look like he's losing i think it looks like he's winning ah we don't know basically that's the bottom line but i'll tell you what the big problem here is in order to make peace doesn't one side need to think it's losing there might be exceptions to that but generally speaking you don't really get peace until one side thinks it is losing or will lose right and the problem is they both think they're winning so putin i think he can make a very strong case that he's winning or will win even though it will cost a lot i think he make it the case he's winning and i think that ukraine is already making the case through their propaganda that they're winning so ukraine can't say hey we're totally winning this thing but we'll give you lots of things for peace so ukraine has to make an offer in the peace deal that reflects their propaganda and so they did their propaganda says we're totally winning this thing and so they made an offer that you wouldn't have made unless you thought you were going to win the thing and of course putin thinks he's winning so he's not going to accept an offer that suggests the other side of winning that's not going to happen so how could you possibly have peace the only way you could have peace is somebody has got to lose or be in the direction to lose or looks like it's going to happen any moment now i heard a term that i had not heard before which is what is it called it's about when an army is getting ready to collapse oh a culminating point so this is a michael ryan formerly former deputy assistant secretary of defense for european and nato policy so he thinks he speculates and i don't think this is a widespread opinion yet but he speculates that the russian army might be reaching a culminating point now as i understand it the idiot explanation of that is you have enough food until you don't and you have enough ammunition until you don't and the don't part can happen suddenly and then everything falls apart right because because if you're if you're looking at how much ammunition you have and it's just enough to escape it's not enough to attack what the hell are you going to do if you don't know there's more coming all you have is this much ammunition and you think well i could probably do it to cover my escape but i don't think it's going to help me attack anything and it doesn't look like it's going to change you would instantly go from offense to defense right same with food if you have food you keep fighting if it's the first day they tell you there's no food you say wait a minute did i hear that right today is a no food day when does the food come back like well we don't know they keep attacking our food trucks it's a culminating point i think if i'm interpreting right so the the russian army at least in pockets might be approaching um a complete disintegration point but if it happens it would happen quickly somebody says the viet cong eight rap me yeah it's it's hard to uh completely understand what people will do to survive so i suppose they would just start you know raping the ukrainian countryside but even that would be the army falling apart because even to rape and pillage they'd probably disperse so what do you think if you had to guess is any significant part of the russian military force near a culmination point well i'm guessing now if if if near means in the next month i'd say no and if it takes longer than that then russia russia will just find new ways to get supplies i suppose so it looks like it looks like there's something about this situation where everybody can resupply but if you can't resupply quickly or well maybe you can keep limping along to do a peace deal without without getting your reaching your culmination point so here's a story i read in one publication uh i forget which one i think it was a british publication um that one of the reasons that ukraine is doing such a good job is of defense is drones but not the big ones not not the kind that come from turkey and they look like a big rocket i'm talking about the little ones that you might have at home so apparently there was some effort in ukraine that was fairly advanced to sort of self-organize all the people who knew about drones military or non-military didn't matter and they formed some kind of a quasi-drone air force of small drones and they you know they're cobbled together in various ways and different models and and part of the story said they were having trouble getting parts because of you know things are banned in certain countries to which i thought that doesn't make sense because nato would just give them the parts i mean if it's a military thing i i can't imagine that those that those uh restrictions would you know be permanent if we wanted to arm ukraine we could certainly get them some hobby drone parts i think but the story goes that that little unit with the well-trained people that were part of it would go out on some kind of four-wheeled vehicles at night they'd have their night vision small drones spotting stuff and they would blow up the most strategic things so they they blow up with whoever is in front and then once they slow things down they'd look to pick off you know kernels and you know officers and i know supply trucks and stuff that sort of thing so if you can pick and choose after you slow them down you basically can just stop a whole convoy and it looks like to some extent maybe they did now remember every story that comes out of this region has to be suspect it's all propaganda fog or but it's what i was expecting to hear so remember i'll tell you this too many times you'll be sick of it i think i was the only person i know of there had to be more but only what i heard saying that the ukrainians would be unusually effective because of new technology that we had not seen employed before this is that now if this is true that's a big f this would be a clear case of uh smaller drones being deployed in a way that had never been used this effectively before yes small drones have been used for a long time but not like this so it's it's more about the way they're using it and effectively building a drone air force attack unit to you know strategically attack things now here's here's the thing that i found fascinating um you wondered how the small drones could get through because of course russia would have jamming stuff to be able to jam the signal right but apparently the strategy is they wait for the russians to launch their own drones because apparently you can't really have a convoy in 2022 without your own drones and you would you would kill your own drones if you send out some kind of suppressing signal so the ukrainians would wait for the suppressing signal to be turned off which means the russians are launching their own drones which means you can launch your drones so they've got this whole you know drone electronic you know battle going on that is uh and i'll say again i don't know if we're really reading the actual tactics of a thing happening or is total it could be like the ghost of kiev and all the rest it could be complete but it sure sounds right sounds good all right um ukraine allegedly and here's another maybe fake news story uh allegedly fired some artillery into russian territory and at least one report and i don't think any of this is confirmed or even reliable it may have been a like a weapons depot or ammunition depot or something like that um but here's my question why is ukraine waiting so long to attack russia who who made the rule that only russia can attack inside ukraine by ukraine's military which must have some some capability why can't they attack russia i've never really understood that is it because putin will get mad i mean he acts like he's kind of mad right now a little bit somebody says no ability but that seems so unlikely are you telling me that they can't even get a terrorist attack into moscow not recommending it not recommending it i don't recommend violence but i'm wondering about the strategy because if the problem is that the russian citizens are not getting the message of what's happening over there how do you send the message that's how i'd send it if i were an unscrupulous leader and didn't care about casualties i would start blowing stuff up in moscow anyway i could through individual agents you know because i got to be honest you don't have to blow up things like the twin towers with spectacular attacks i'm pretty sure and i don't want to get into details and you shouldn't either but with no exaggeration whatsoever i'm pretty sure i could take out a city by myself am i wrong it wouldn't be that hard i don't think i think i actually could now i'm not going to tell you how i would do it it wouldn't be straightforward but yeah i mean yeah it's doable right i don't want to give you ideas but all i want all i want you to do those of you who say it can't be done just look at the comments from the people saying yes the people saying yes have already figured out how to do it the people the people saying no it's just that you haven't figured out how to do it and i've never understood why the islamic um you know the the terrorists who are the extremists i've never understood why they only do attacks one way because it's so limiting when they could just take out a whole city pretty easily nobody does it i don't know why all right well don't get your ideas for me but i don't understand why ukraine isn't doing it there must be some strategy behind that and um here's some disney fake news i've been ignoring this whole florida don't say gay bill because it's not really don't say gay it's so i guess the bill in florida that schools will not be allowed to teach anything about sexuality to kids below a certain age is that true did i did i summarize that correctly because i'm not really following the story but that's basically it okay people saying yes to that so and that seems fairly reasonable right i i can see how most parents would say no leave that to us you know at least up to a certain age um you know if if you're teaching a 14 year old about birth control then you have my attention right that maybe you can make the argument and i'm not going to make an argument pro or con here i don't want to get into it but you can make the argument that the school would be a good way to capture that because parents are don't do a good job at it you can make an argument but it's hard to make an argument that the parents shouldn't be solely in control of the the earliest impressions for something of that importance but here's what i'd like to say the um the opponents of that have turned it into a don't say gay meme basically so they're characterizing the don't teach our kids anything about sexuality they're characterizing that as oh you're not allowed to say gay which of course is total misrepresentation but as a misrepresentation it's really good so persuasion wise really good well i mean let's just look at this first of all it's got to say and get in when you what happens when you put a rhyme in something if the glove doesn't fit you must have quit we've talked about this many times if it's fast and sticky and it rhymes in california they had a thing about putting on your seatbelt and it was a click it or ticket click it or ticket these are all good so yes don't say gay looks like professional work to me it could be accidental and then it caught on could be but it looks it looks professional because it's got technique built into it a little bit more than you normally see from something that occurs naturally so i'd say somebody who's got some skills came up with that and i'd say that it probably works now there was a video i saw on twitter in which a disney public uh disney official of some kind was saying that they're striving to make 50 of the characters in in disney content to be uh either lgbtqia and i i don't even know what the ia is anymore uh and racial minorities so that between the two categories they laid like 50 percent of their characters and of course people were outraged people were outraged because they said you were so woke why disney why must you force you know 50 of your people in your movies to be racial minorities and lgbtq why well i'll offer a reason it could be that that's exactly what the country is could it be that what disney said is yeah we want our movies to reflect roughly what the country is which is that that's what the country is here are the actual numbers 58 of the country is white so remember she said 50 would be minorities but 58 are white so you'd say oh that that's a little high no because she said minorities and lgbtq how what percentage of the population of any population let's say the white population is eligi is also lgbtqia and it's about six percent so if you start with your 58 are white in america and then you're not counting six percent of them as being lgbtqia you get about 52 are white and straight if if that's even the word anymore and and disney just said that's what we're going to make our content just like the people now how many of you were offended when you heard they were going to make their content just like the public probably some of you am i right just because nobody did the math and when you first hear it you're like whoa what are they doing that seems like too high and i think there's there's a known phenomenon where people are bad at estimating you know what percentage of things there are in the country that's a known thing right this is one of those i and i i cheekily tweeted about this and i said that in related news 40 of all sick days in the workplace are on a monday or friday 40 can you believe that that's an outrageous number 40 of all the people calling in sick are doing that coincidentally on a friday or a monday huh how about that oh wait monday plus friday would be two end of the five work days which is exactly forty percent that's right now i actually did a dilbert comic about that all right so um here's a story about uh alex epstein author he's got a book coming out called the moral case for fossil fuels and apparently there was going to be a washington post article he was warned about that was going to try to cancel him and and paint him as a racist because he thinks there's a moral reason for or apparently he argues in the book i haven't yet read but plan to that there's a moral case for fossil fuels now i think you've all heard the argument i would assume that you're going to get lots of you know good meat on this but you've heard other people have made the argument that fossil fuels are better for the poor than they are for anybody i guess it's supposedly good for every everybody but the poor especially needed to survive because they need energy if you can't get it another way you're gonna have to get it that way now here's the thing do you believe that there's a real thing where the media colludes or maybe even just one media entity to write a hit piece to take out the reputation of somebody who has a book that goes against the narrative do you believe that's real it's very real okay you're all saying yes i wasn't sure if you were all convinced no it's very real um bloomberg one of the bloomberg publications uh did this to me when i was saying good things about trump when he's starting to get traction so that you could see people getting picked off one by one and i survived now i told you earlier that i googled myself and i was trying to see if that bloomberg piece was still the top hit because for years four years one of the i or you would see the top or one of the top news hits was a hippies because it was a big publication and it was recent so it's there at the top now it's gone away and i wonder if it ever deserves to be there because it went away i don't know there weren't that many new things that there were like major news pieces to replace it but it went away so these are the things that i wonder about um i understand that the the book by robert f kennedy the real anthony fauci he was also subject to the media colluding to basically ignore that book i think he had no no book reviews but sold a million books how do you sell a million books and not get a book review from one of the major publications it's collusion of some kind all right so i would recommend to you alex epstein's book it's coming out in may i guess called the moral case for fossil fuels and like i said i haven't read it but but obviously people have seen advanced copies there's definitely an effort to make sure that whatever is in that book does not be is not seen as credible so you should ask yourself why would they try to kill a book before it even comes out and the best reason to do it is that it's true that's the best reason so i'm thinking that there's some good stuff in there that somebody really wants to die um all right all right uh that ladies and gentlemen is just about everything i want to say and i think you'll agree that this has been a peak experience for most of you for some of you the very best thing that will happen today for some of you others it will just be the beginning of an amazing day uh no i cannot send your book that you send to me do you know it's embarrassing when people ask me to fill out a forum and i tell them i can't i'm disabled i tell you that my drawing hand has a focal dystonia which means there's literally nothing wrong with my hand and i'm still disabled because the only thing i can't do is right with the pen it's the only thing i can't do i mean i could you know juggle i've played the drums i could play any instrument the hand is perfect there's nothing wrong with it physically there's a there's a little mental glitch that happened because i overused it and then the brain said you can't do that anymore and that won't let me so i can't my hand won't work would i put a pen in it and put it to paper it just freezes so so i draw left-handed but i've never taken the time to learn to write left-handed quickly enough that i could fill in a form i mean if i took forever i could it's called a focal focal dystonia it's related to the voice problem i had they often travel in pairs but thankfully they don't thankfully they usually don't go in more than pairs so i'll probably i'm probably two and done in all likelihood all right um let me see what's going on here and um and i will talk to you soon thank you very much everybody have a good day

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well here's an update beep beep beep

beep beep beep beep it's a fake news

update uh do you remember do you

remember the story about the guy

who wanted to vote back in 2020 he

wanted to vote but he could not find any

way to get a government id

here's an update on that story

he still doesn't exist

still doesn't exist

okay

all right next item uh

how would you like me to fix fake news

i mean actually do it like right here

i'm going to perform a magic trick are

you ready

i'm go i'm going to describe an app

or maybe maybe it's a process it doesn't

have to it doesn't have to be an app

it could be

something that gets the same thing done

and it goes like this

number one

how much do you dislike commercials

on your television

i think you don't like them at all

wouldn't you wish that if you were

watching live tv

where you can't fast forward

that you could have something entertain

you during the commercials

and yet

here's the key

and yet

have the thing that entertains you

during the commercials

be on the same topic or within the same

field as the show you were just watching

and so

i submit to you

what i call

news buddies

what it is

it's a live stream could be on an app

but it could be just live stream

that is at the same time as the live

network broadcast or

cable broadcast

of cnn

fox news

msnbc and so if you're watching any of

those shows

you can have call up on your other

device

so let's say you're watching the news on

your television because you're a certain

age you watch a television

and you call up your phone

a little uh pers a real person

who at exactly the same time for you and

other people watching the same show

will be your little uh news buddy

it'll be like a little avatar that just

sits there on your phone and is

completely silent mostly

during the actual broadcast

the moment the broadcast moves to a

commercial

you can silence your tv

and then have the little

news buddy

say you know that story you just watched

that's kind of fake news because it's a

little bit out of context here's what

they left out

and you'd be and what would you rather

do would you rather listen to the

commercial

would you would you rather listen to the

commercial

or would you rather listen to somebody

tell you what was wrong with what you

just watched

which is more entertaining because

that's all that matters right now let's

say it's free

could be could easily be free because if

you put it on

let's say on youtube

you could have the maybe the commercials

run i don't know if could he do this

make the commercials run on your buddy

app at a different time as the ones on

the tv

so that you never get commercials at the

same time i think you can do that

but you can do it on an app if you build

it yourself

and so therefore you wouldn't have to

listen to the commercial maybe it's just

running in video

it doesn't even have any sound

while the news buddy is talking

and now

let's say that you don't like one of the

news buddies

because it looks like that's another

propaganda

you pick another one

and other people can judge the other

news buddies and pick one you like

so there should be somebody who and by

the way there wouldn't be any copyright

problem

because the news buddy would not be

showing the stream

you would have to have your own separate

stream for cnn or whatever it is you're

watching

now you have the news buddy doing a

little fact checking

while the live news is on

and then the news buddy could even hold

on that gets better

send you links

to the fact checks huh

huh

in real time

in real time

so your little news buddy you know as

soon as it goes to commercial it says

you know what they said about climate

change

well some people say that that's not

true here's a link you'd be like

seriously

i totally believe that there's a link

that says the opposite

now how many senior citizens

how many senior citizens could handle

you know having a news buddy on the

phone plus the tbi okay over a certain

age i'll give you

that it would decline in usability but

it's also over the certain age that

they're not as active

in anything

so

you tell me that

people in their 50s and 60s can't handle

opening an app

on the phone i say no of course they can

so the people that you're really trying

to reach even the older segment can

absolutely

turn on a simultaneous app that's not

even hard

so

so here's something that

i would like to

give you as a general concept

if i had told you before you'd ever

heard of something called a jury trial

that i was going to design this justice

system

where 12

of your peers would be selected and then

vetted by lawyers and we'd have all this

checks and balances and a judge and but

ultimately there'd be 12 people would

decide if you go to jail or not

how many of you would have thought that

would work

seriously

yeah be be honest with yourself

if the jury system had never existed and

somebody described it to you and said i

got this great idea

would you think that was going to work

really

i don't know some of you maybe maybe

better than the alternatives

what about the supreme court you know

think of all the all your problems with

the supreme court all the complaints you

have if somebody had described

the supreme court before anybody knew it

ever existed it was just a whole new

idea

would you have heard that and said yeah

i think that's going to last at least

200 years

people will find that very credible

i don't know

maybe

maybe you would have thought it was

better than the other ideas

so you know that'd be good enough but

i'm not sure that we're so smart that we

know that we can't engineer systems

to

at least make us satisfied that we've

done the best job we can

so when i was talking the other day

about could you have a supreme court of

fact checking

how many of you said ugh you can't do

that because then the fact checkers

would just be

you know bought off by somebody and then

you think of all the reasons why it

doesn't work

i i get that

every one of the reasons why why you

offer that that wouldn't work

if you designed it incorrectly

yeah you're right it wouldn't work

but

don't underestimate the ingenuity of the

public to design something that does

work

even if we get it wrong you know 19 to

20 times if you just keep chugging along

you're gonna get something that works so

when i talk when i talk about this the

news buddy

app

the only thing i'm trying to to transmit

is that you'd be surprised how many

thorny impossible seeming

problems could be solved

if you just chug along and try enough

things doesn't mean this will be the

solution

to have a little news buddy because you

know the obvious thing is they become

corrupted blah blah

but

we do have a history

of solving problems that i would say are

like this ish

in the sense that you can't imagine how

you could get the bias and the

and the criminality out of it

but we seem to

largely be able to fix those things it

just takes a while so i don't know if

the news buddies the way but something

cool

could probably uh fix the fake news

i don't think what's going to fix it is

competing platforms

that's my best guess

do you

do you think that the fake news will

ever be fixed

by somebody coming up with a competing

platform that's oh that's all the good

news so we'll watch that one instead

it doesn't feel like it right

and so since we've tried that

in effect

you

should we not try something else

right

so somebody cleverly is saying so when

did you create this news buddy app

it would have been smarter to develop

the app before giving you the idea

but

i feel like it's more about the concept

of designing systems that work it's not

even about the app and i don't have that

much interest in that kind of an app but

it was a good question yes it was a good

question

[Music]

all right

um

what are the coolest things about being

me if i could be

all about me for a moment and why

wouldn't i be

is that every now and then i'll wake up

and just something cool will happen

that's just so cool you can barely

contain yourself and you didn't know it

was coming it's just hey it's cool

um i was curious about something related

to a story i'm going to talk about later

and i

and in order to talk about that other

story about an author being canceled i

wanted to google myself

and see if

you know what's the highest rated thing

about me to see if it was negative or

positive

and to compare it to this other story

and and i discovered that something like

three days ago there was a story

that the dilbert comic is going to be

featured in a

or already is in a rick and morty

episode

and

i guess they go to an alternative

universe or something

and uh

they go into an alternative universe

where there's a a dilbert world and

their

the desks are eating the people or

something

and here's what's weird

so this was four days ago actually this

was published

how in the world

did i not know about this

for four days

how in the world could there be a rick

and morty episode all about dilbert

it took four days for me to figure that

out and i had to find it myself

nobody nobody mentioned that to me

none of you

nobody really seriously

there's not one of you

there's not one of you who

already knew that and thought to mention

it come on i rely on you to

to tell me the obvious stuff

four days and i didn't know that now

call my agent now i don't have an agent

for that kind of stuff i have an agent

from my books

but not a general agent

so here's what i'd like to say

rick and morty is just about the best

thing on television

and

uh

being

featured in that even even if they mock

it i haven't seen it so they

i don't know if they

if they treat it like a cultural icon or

they treat it mockingly either way is

fine with me

because i'm such a fan of the show

my somebody says my audience doesn't

watch rick and morty

um

what's wrong with you

you should

yeah it's

it for i i would say it's my favorite

animated

show of all time

could i say that yeah i could i think i

could say that i think it's my favorite

animated show of all time

including my own

well finally the biden administration

and congress has passed

an anti-lynching bill

and i'm hoping this will

maybe stop the tide this rising

problem of lynching which i don't

believe has happened in a long time

um i don't know anybody who's opposed to

a bill against lynching you could argue

that the states already did it but i

don't mind that the government

you know the federal government makes it

official if you could say that

you know i i would say maybe it wasn't

the most important thing we were working

on

so if it was easy

you know it didn't cost anything

okay

i mean i i feel like it was unnecessary

work so

i'm not sure i would have done it solves

the problem that doesn't really exist

but as a messaging thing

sure i agree with the message

so if it didn't cost too much yeah

i'm not gonna hate it

um but i wonder was anyone on the other

side of that argument

like who

i mean

anybody who took the other side of this

argument was really not playing this

right

because

you know and i understand you might say

something like

oh we already have laws why waste our

time i get that

but don't say it don't say it

i understand if you think it

but how in the world could this be

politically smart

to be the one who gets singled out for

being against it

it's such an obvious trap

and here's that here's how i would have

played it

if i were in congress so that just so i

don't get caught in this you're against

the anti-lynching bill

i would have been more forth than

anybody i i would have been for

digging up people who had been for it

just to kill them again

i mean i would have been so for it

that if they ever talk to me i'd say are

you kidding unlike the number one person

in favor of this

which would make sense because i have

identified

as black for a while

um

but i noticed a trend

and can you tell me if this is bias or

is this real okay this is just something

i observe

so there's no science to it there's no

data to it just sort of my observation

does it seem to you that democrats are

tough on crime

when the crime isn't one that's actually

happening

am i wrong about that

i mean we've got the lynching they're

tough on lynching

which

thankfully

is basically not happening

if it ever does happen yeah i mean we

should go as hard on whoever does such a

horrible thing as we can

but it's interesting that they would

pick that as where they'd be tough on

crime

do you remember when the democrats

thought russia collusion was

real well they were pretty tough on that

weren't they

they were tough on that crime that oh

wait a minute that didn't exist

yeah so they're tough on that crime that

doesn't exist they're also tough on a

lot of crimes

of people thinking things wrong

so if you're thinking things wrong

they're really tough on that

i feel as if democrats are not really

understanding the whole

tough on crime concept and where to

apply it

and when not to apply it

is it just me

i don't know

it feels like a trend

or a pattern

maybe just my imagination

um

apparently the number of uh workers in

the workplace which is exactly where the

workers should be

uh if you see a worker not in the

workplace

send them back they belong in the

workplace

even at lunch we'll have no

no goofing off all right uh apparently

there are more people using drugs

in the workplace

but i was surprised that it's they say

it's risen to 4.6

of

a bunch of people were randomly tested

and i thought to myself

only 4.6

what workplace could you go into and

find only 4.6

or on drugs

and i thought oh oh

just certain drugs just certain drugs

if you tested all the people who were on

a drug that would affect their

performance

how many would that be

well that would be all of them it's just

some of them are legal

some of them are prescribed

some is coffee it's booze

but i would guess that 75 of the

workforce

is consciously changing their brain

chemistry

through drugs one way or the other i

mean maybe it's only on the weekend

yeah maybe it's sugar

anyway

joel pollock has a article in breitbart

in which she's talking about the

reparations

efforts in california

and he points out and i never thought of

this before the california had never

been a slave state

so i live in the state california they

they're never been slaves here it's

always been a free state

but we're talking about um and there's

some kind of committee

to come up with

a plan for reparations or to see if it's

practical

and

they've spent quite a bit of time so far

and here's what they came up with

it's just a preliminary like beginning

decision

to throw

other black people under the bus

so

progress so far

by by a committee that apparently is

largely black

to decide that uh only people who can

prove they were descended from slavery

in america would be eligible for the

reparations

so the very first thing that a largely

black committee did was find a new way

to divide

to divide people

at this time

this time dividing black people in

america

uh and in so doing they came up with a

new standard in which you'd have to be

able to demonstrate you were descended

from slaves if if any reparations were

ever approved right so it's all very

preliminary to which i asked the obvious

question

is it not discriminatory

to ask

black americans to have identification

for some government process

because we know that voting

it would be discriminatory to require a

government id

but yet the committee on reparations

believes that

the same public

that would find it a burden or at least

some of them would find it a burden to

get government id

would be able to plow through and prove

through what i know dna or maybe

a search of the public records that they

had descended from actual slaves in

america

um i'm not sure this committee is moving

the ball forward

if you know what i mean

i think they came up with a standard

that is so provocative that they've

reduced the chances of reparations am i

wrong

i think they just reduced the chance

that this could ever happen

let me tell you what you would have done

if you wanted to increase the chance

just find something that republicans

like too

that's it

just find something republicans like

for example

about something that would improve

education options for everybody who's

low income

which would be

very beneficial for the black american

community

because they find themselves in the

deepest hole especially with the

education system

so if you say let's fix the education

options you know maybe add choice

whatever for for everybody

then the republicans can say wait did

you say for everybody and then they say

yeah

and then somebody says but you know this

will disproportionately help

the black public because they're in a

deeper hole and the republicans say

we don't frickin care as long as it's

applied evenly

like right

nobody's going to complain

if it's applied to everybody evenly that

it has an outcome

that's a little biased

that's everything republicans want

so make a it would if it were hard to do

it i'd say don't try

but given that it would be the easiest

thing in the world to do

just come up with a plan the republicans

like

vote

done

bring the country together

fix the biggest source of systemic

racism which is the ina

the unequal education system

but if you fix the unequal education

system

granted there's a whole lifetime of

people you know who aren't going to get

that benefit or they could maybe maybe

do something with training and adult

education as well maybe

but if you did something that people

liked well maybe you'd get something

that's all i'd like to suggest

how about this

[Laughter]

is it possible for trump not to be trump

for a minute

don't we all think that we could be

trump better than trump

now here's the problem

for some things it feels like we could

but there are a whole bunch of things

you know you couldn't

yeah when you saw his uh letter

um talking about his hole in one that he

got

and you know even even people who are

not fans i had to admit it was well

written it was just hilarious and on

point and

it was just sort of perfect it was

self-mocking without being too

self-mocking it just had everything so

as an entertainment and a piece of

writing it was just brilliant in my my

opinion but then he does this

but then he does this

he's he's so hard

to unambiguously like

all right so i'm i'm a fan of course and

i liked him personally when i met him so

i liked the family they were all very

nice to me so i have only positive

feelings about them personally but he

get he's an interview with uh i guess

just the news

john solomon and uh

and trump called on russian president

vladimir putin to release any damaging

information he has about the biden

family

come on

come on

[Laughter]

he's up

so so trump is up something like i don't

know

seven points against

whoever runs against him if he were to

run as president again you know he has

this

pretty much commanding lead and

situation the only thing he could do

wrong

is say something that's that could be

spun as him siding with russia it's the

only thing he could do wrong

and he knows exactly what he's doing

he doesn't fly close to the sun by

accident

if this looked like if this looked like

an accident to you you haven't been

paying attention

this was no accident this was someone

saying

watch this

yeah

watch this

i feel like that's all it was

i feel like

he just said whatever is the most

provocative thing he could say

that would force people to demand an

apology or clarification which would not

which would not be forthcoming

so

you know when you see this sort of thing

juxtaposed with his statement about his

hole in one

the the hole in one statement

should give you a tip off

of when he's tongue-in-cheek

but it won't

because the people who want to interpret

as entirely you know entirely serious

they're just going to do that

so to me

i i wouldn't have done it

i wouldn't have done it

but

would i have been president of the

united states

no

no probably not

so whatever he does keeps working in

some ways

and then we're all geniuses when

something doesn't work we're like oh we

saw that coming why didn't he

well i don't know why you know we're all

confused a little bit about why things

keep working they shouldn't work

but he seems to know how to harness

energy

in this case he created energy out of

nothing

and then the energy will come you know

directed back at him

and then because he's an energy monster

he'll redirect the energy to his

advantage

so first he creates the energy

then he hands the energy to his enemies

they they they throw the energy at him

hey hey hey

look what you said and he says oh i got

more energy back than i gave you i gave

you uh

like 10 pounds of energy and you gave me

back a thousand pounds thank you thank

you

redirect

watching him do this in real time is

just such a lesson on

managing the public and everything else

i guess

well even uh the friendly news

um sources the friendly to the democrat

news sources are noting that biden's

gaffes are becoming a little bit harder

to explain

a little bit harder to explain

um

but now and now they've resorted to the

ridiculous

uh this is another

uh joel pollock also said this in a

tweet

by the way if you're not following

joel pollock

uh on

uh twitter you should be

don't don't wait for me to talk about it

um

but anyway when the white house defended

uh biden talking about

you know putin should not be in charge

and it sounded like

he wanted him removed but then he got

walked back

and now they're saying that

biden was speaking in his personal

capacity

and as joel points out

there's no such thing as a president's

personal capacity

what

what

you know maybe in some weird

philosophical way

but not in a real way

if you are the president of the united

states and you give an opinion about

what should happen in foreign affairs

that's not your personal opinion even if

it is your personal opinion

it doesn't doesn't even mean anything

when you're the actual president

so

and it's funny that

that it takes somebody to actually say

that

before you say oh yeah

there's not really a difference

all right apparently chris rock is uh

selling tons of tickets to his uh

stand-up show

so he's coming out way ahead

um

so now we have the weird situation where

unless this was fake news and i worry

that it was because i saw somebody else

say that he didn't make any statement

about it but i saw a statement that

chris rock said

in which he apologized

that happened or was that fake news did

i get taken by fake news

i think he apologized right

somebody says it's fake

oh really

oh it's a fake

oh wow

huh okay

the fake news was very good

it was a well-written fake

so

uh but at least at least i i could smell

it a little bit enough to ask the

question

all right

wow okay

anyway chris rock is coming out ahead

because he's selling a lot of tickets

and i think people appreciated that he

didn't

get violent and he didn't freak out and

he went on with the show and you know

and even if you think he shouldn't have

said what he said

uh you're not really going to come on

down too hard on a comedian being a

comedian especially i think there was

evidence he didn't know about the

alopecia which was perfectly believable

so no it wasn't a staged little flap i'm

sure that so chris rock comes out ahead

how about um

jada pinkett smith

did she command a head

i'd say yes

because do you think the women hate it

when men uh

defend them like that

they don't hate it

nope nope

they might say they do

but they don't hate it and i'd be

surprised if she hates it so i think she

came out ahead

you know on an interpersonal level

how about did she command a head in any

other

way

i would say yes

because she's very um

she's been classy about

not commenting about except i think she

did one meme she posted about

being here for the healing or something

so basically just no comment except one

positive one about healing i guess

good

i think she also brought the message

about what prophecy is

and more importantly

more importantly

how

how emotionally disturbing it is for the

person with it it would be real easy for

you to say well

of all the problems that's not the big

one and by the way she's rich and

beautiful

and didn't she shave her head because

she wanted to anyway i don't think so i

think probably it was always alopecia

just to guess

but

you know i think she came ahead

am i wrong

i think she looks good i think

a message that she'd like you to

understand which is people suffering

from this probably have

more of a suffering

than you would imagine

i think she looks good how about will

smith

he got an oscar he got a standing

ovation

he apologized

now that's not fake right

that will smith apologized for the hit

i think he did

and

i i feel as if um it won't affect his

movies

i don't think so

i feel like everybody came out ahead the

academy award got better

ratings the media got clicks i had

something to talk about you were

entertained

is this the weirdest situation in the

world literally everybody came out ahead

i'm not wrong about that right

i mean

you know chris rock suffered one slap

and then sold four times as many tickets

and got rich

and and he's

more relevant than he's ever been and i

don't know

it looks like he came out ahead

some people say they lost respect for

will smith but here's the thing with

celebrity

it matters more

that you made people like you then you

made people dislike you

because the people who are sort of

willing to dislike him in other words

they were you know

probably lukewarm on him in the first

place

they weren't going to buy his tickets

and go to his movies the people who

already liked him

probably like him a little bit more and

more likely to buy a ticket if i had to

bet

i don't know it'll hurt his

box office appeal at all i don't think

he will

he might lose some but then gain some

hard to say

well putin has apparently refocused his

uh army on the east

uh and people say

is this a change in strategy or a sign

he is losing what do you think

why is putin refocusing away from

capturing kiev and focusing on the east

where he's already

got control so he's going to consolidate

control why would he do that

is it because he's losing or is it just

good strategy

and it was his plan all along

well i would guess that

whatever his plan all along was it got

some modifications

but it might be that they can just

ignore a cave until everything else is

settled and then go back

or

or maybe they don't want to keep

incurring losses around kiev if that's

where they're the most losses so maybe

he's just cutting his losses during the

time he's negotiating

so it doesn't look like he's losing i

think it looks like he's winning

ah we don't know basically

that's the bottom line

but i'll tell you what the big problem

here is in order to make peace

doesn't one side need to think it's

losing

there might be exceptions to that but

generally speaking

you don't really get peace until one

side thinks it is losing or will lose

right

and the problem is they both think

they're winning

so putin i think he can make a very

strong case that he's winning or will

win

even though it will cost a lot

i think he make it the case he's winning

and i think that ukraine is already

making the case through their propaganda

that they're winning so ukraine can't

say

hey we're totally winning this thing but

we'll give you lots of things for peace

so ukraine has to make an offer in the

peace deal that reflects their

propaganda

and so they did

their propaganda says we're totally

winning this thing

and so they made an offer that you

wouldn't have made unless you thought

you were going to win the thing

and of course putin thinks he's winning

so he's not going to accept an offer

that suggests the other side of winning

that's not going to happen

so how could you possibly have peace

the only way you could have peace is

somebody has got to lose

or be in the direction to lose or looks

like it's going to happen any moment

now i heard a term that i had not heard

before

which is

what is it called

it's about when an army is getting ready

to collapse

oh a culminating point

so this is a michael ryan formerly

former deputy assistant secretary of

defense for european and nato policy

so he thinks he speculates and i don't

think this is a widespread opinion yet

but he speculates that the russian army

might be reaching a culminating point

now

as i understand it

the idiot explanation of that is

you have enough food until you don't

and you have enough ammunition

until you don't

and the don't part can happen suddenly

and then everything falls apart

right

because because if you're if you're

looking at how much ammunition you have

and it's just enough to escape it's not

enough to attack what the hell are you

going to do

if you don't know there's more coming

all you have is this much ammunition and

you think well i could probably do it to

cover my escape

but i don't think it's going to help me

attack anything and it doesn't look like

it's going to change you would instantly

go from offense to defense right

same with food

if you have food

you keep fighting

if it's the first day they tell you

there's no food you say wait a minute

did i hear that right

today is a no food day

when does the food come back

like well we don't know they keep

attacking our food trucks

it's a culminating point i think if i'm

interpreting right so the the russian

army at least in pockets might be

approaching

um

a complete disintegration point

but if it happens it would happen

quickly

somebody says the viet cong eight rap me

yeah it's it's hard to uh

completely understand

what people will do to survive so i

suppose they would just start

you know raping the ukrainian

countryside

but even that would be the army falling

apart because even to rape and pillage

they'd probably disperse

so

what do you think

if you had to guess

is any significant part of the russian

military force

near a culmination point

well

i'm guessing now

if if if near means in the next month

i'd say no

and if it takes longer than that then

russia russia will just find new ways to

get supplies i suppose

so

it looks like it looks like there's

something about this situation where

everybody can resupply but if you can't

resupply quickly or well

maybe you can keep limping along to do a

peace deal without without getting your

reaching your culmination point

so here's a story i read in one

publication

uh

i forget which one i think it was a

british publication

um that one of the reasons that ukraine

is doing such a good job is

of defense

is drones

but not the big ones not not the kind

that come from turkey and they look like

a big rocket i'm talking about the

little ones that you might have at home

so apparently there was some effort in

ukraine

that was fairly advanced

to sort of self-organize all the people

who knew about drones military or

non-military didn't matter and they

formed some kind of a

quasi-drone air force of small drones

and they you know they're cobbled

together in various ways and different

models and

and

part of the story said they were having

trouble getting parts because of

you know things are banned in certain

countries to which i thought that

doesn't make sense because nato would

just give them the parts

i mean if it's a military thing

i i can't imagine that those

that those uh restrictions would you

know be permanent

if we wanted to arm ukraine we could

certainly get them some hobby drone

parts i think

but the story goes

that that little unit

with the well-trained people that were

part of it would go out on some kind of

four-wheeled vehicles at night

they'd have their night vision small

drones spotting stuff

and they would blow up the most

strategic things

so they they blow up with whoever is in

front

and then once they slow things down

they'd look to pick off you know kernels

and you know officers and

i know supply trucks and stuff that sort

of thing so if you can pick and choose

after you slow them down

you basically can just stop a whole

convoy and it looks like to some extent

maybe they did now remember

every story that comes out of this

region

has to be suspect it's all propaganda

fog or

but

it's what i was expecting to hear

so remember

i'll tell you this too many times you'll

be sick of it i think i was the only

person i know of

there had to be more

but only what i heard saying that the

ukrainians would be unusually effective

because of new technology that we had

not seen employed before

this is that now if this is true that's

a big f

this would be a clear case of uh smaller

drones

being deployed in a way

that had never been used this

effectively before yes small drones have

been used for a long time but not like

this

so it's it's more about the way they're

using it and effectively

building a drone air force attack unit

to you know strategically attack things

now here's here's the thing

that i found fascinating

um

you wondered how the small drones could

get through

because of course russia would have

jamming stuff to be able to jam the

signal right but apparently the strategy

is they wait for the russians to launch

their own drones

because apparently you can't really have

a convoy in 2022 without your own drones

and you would you would kill your own

drones if you

send out some kind of suppressing signal

so the ukrainians would wait for the

suppressing signal to be turned off

which means the russians are launching

their own drones which means you can

launch your drones

so they've got this whole you know drone

electronic you know

battle going on that

is uh

and i'll say again

i don't know if we're really reading the

actual tactics of a thing happening or

is total

it could be like the ghost of kiev and

all the rest it could be

complete

but it sure sounds right

sounds good

all

right

um ukraine allegedly and here's another

maybe fake news story uh

allegedly

fired some artillery into russian

territory

and at least one report and i don't

think any of this is confirmed or even

reliable it may have been a like a

weapons depot or ammunition depot or

something like that

um but here's my question

why is ukraine waiting so long to attack

russia

who

who made the rule

that only russia can attack inside

ukraine

by ukraine's military which must have

some some capability

why can't they attack russia

i've never really understood that

is it because putin will get mad

i mean

he acts like he's kind of mad right now

a little bit

somebody says no ability but that seems

so unlikely are you telling me that they

can't even get a terrorist attack into

moscow not recommending it

not recommending it i don't recommend

violence but i'm wondering about the

strategy

because if the problem is that the

russian citizens are not getting the

message of what's happening over there

how do you send the message

that's how i'd send it if i were an

unscrupulous leader

and didn't care about

casualties

i would start blowing stuff up in moscow

anyway i could through individual agents

you know because

i got to be honest

you don't have to blow up things like

the twin towers with spectacular attacks

i'm pretty sure and i don't want to get

into details and you shouldn't either

but with no exaggeration whatsoever

i'm pretty sure i could take out a city

by myself

am i wrong

it wouldn't be that hard i don't think

i think i actually could now i'm not

going to tell you how i would do it it

wouldn't be straightforward

but

yeah

i mean

yeah it's doable right

i don't want to give you ideas but all i

want all i want you to do those of you

who say it can't be done

just look at the comments from the

people saying yes the people saying yes

have already figured out how to do it

the people the people saying no it's

just that you haven't figured out how to

do it

and

i've never understood why the islamic um

you know the

the terrorists who are the

extremists

i've never understood why they only do

attacks one way because it's so limiting

when they could just take out a whole

city pretty easily nobody does it i

don't know why

all right well don't get your ideas for

me but i don't understand why ukraine

isn't doing it there must be some

strategy behind that

and um

here's some

disney fake news

i've been ignoring this whole florida

don't say gay bill because it's not

really don't say gay it's so i guess the

bill in florida

that schools will not be allowed to

teach

anything about sexuality to kids below a

certain age

is that true

did i did i summarize that correctly

because i'm not really following the

story but that's basically it okay

people saying yes to that

so

and that seems fairly reasonable right i

i can see how most parents would say no

leave that to us

you know at least up to a certain age

um you know if if you're teaching a 14

year old

about birth control

then you have my attention right that

maybe you can make the argument and i'm

not going to make an argument pro or con

here i don't want to get into it but you

can make the argument that the school

would be a good way to capture that

because parents are don't do a good job

at it you can make an argument

but it's hard to make an argument that

the parents shouldn't be solely in

control of the the earliest impressions

for something of that

importance

but here's what i'd like to say the um

the opponents of that

have turned it into a don't say gay

meme basically so they're characterizing

the don't teach our kids anything about

sexuality

they're characterizing that as oh you're

not allowed to say gay

which of course

is total misrepresentation

but

as a misrepresentation

it's really good

so persuasion wise

really good well i mean let's just look

at this first of all it's got to say and

get in

when you what happens when you put a

rhyme in something

if the glove doesn't fit you must have

quit we've talked about this many times

if it's fast and sticky and it rhymes

in california they had a thing about

putting on your seatbelt

and it was a

click it or ticket

click it or ticket

these are all good so yes don't say gay

looks like professional work to me

it could be accidental and then it

caught on could be

but it looks

it looks professional

because it's got technique built into it

a little bit more than you normally see

from something that occurs naturally so

i'd say somebody who's got some skills

came up with that and i'd say that it

probably works

now there was a video i saw on twitter

in which a disney public uh

disney official of some kind was saying

that they're striving to make 50 of the

characters in in disney content

to be uh either

lgbtqia

and i i don't even know what the ia is

anymore

uh and racial minorities

so that between the two categories they

laid like

50 percent of their characters and of

course

people were

outraged people were outraged

because they said

you were so woke

why disney why

must you force

you know 50

of your people in your movies to be

racial minorities and lgbtq why

well i'll offer a reason

it could be that that's exactly what the

country is

could it be

that what disney said is yeah we want

our movies to reflect roughly what the

country is

which is

that

that's what the country is

here are the actual numbers

58 of the country is white

so remember she said 50 would be

minorities but 58 are white so you'd say

oh that that's a little high

no

because she said

minorities and

lgbtq

how what percentage of the population of

any population let's say the white

population is eligi is also

lgbtqia

and it's about

six percent

so if you start with your 58

are white in america

and then you're not counting six percent

of them as being lgbtqia you get about

52

are white and

straight if if that's even the word

anymore

and and disney just said that's what

we're going to make our content just

like the people

now

how many of you were offended when you

heard they were going to make

their content just like the public

probably some of you

am i right

just because nobody did the math and

when you first hear it you're like whoa

what are they doing that seems like too

high and i think there's there's a known

phenomenon where people are bad at

estimating

you know what percentage of things there

are in the country that's a known thing

right

this is one of those i and i i cheekily

tweeted about this

and i said that in related news

40 of all sick days in the workplace are

on a monday or friday 40 can you believe

that

that's an outrageous number

40 of all the people calling in sick are

doing that coincidentally

on a friday or a monday huh how about

that

oh wait

monday plus friday

would be two end of the five work days

which is exactly forty percent

that's right now i actually did a

dilbert comic about that

all right so

um

here's a story about uh

alex epstein author

he's got a book coming out called

the moral case for fossil fuels

and apparently there was going to be a

washington post article he was warned

about that was going to try to cancel

him and and paint him as a racist

because he thinks there's a moral reason

for or

apparently he argues in the book i

haven't yet read but plan to

that there's a moral case for fossil

fuels now i think you've all heard the

argument

i would assume that you're going to get

lots of you know good meat on this but

you've heard other people have made the

argument that

fossil fuels are better for

the poor than they are for anybody i

guess it's supposedly good for every

everybody but the poor especially needed

to survive

because they need energy if you can't

get it another way you're gonna have to

get it that way

now here's the thing

do you believe

that there's a real thing

where the media colludes

or maybe even just one media entity to

write a hit piece

to take out the reputation of somebody

who has a book

that goes against the narrative do you

believe that's real

it's very real

okay you're all saying yes i wasn't sure

if you were all convinced no it's very

real

um bloomberg one of the bloomberg

publications

uh did this to me

when i was saying good things about

trump when he's starting to get traction

so

that you could see people getting picked

off one by one

and

i survived now i told you earlier that i

googled myself and i was trying to see

if that bloomberg piece was still the

top hit

because for years

four years

one of the i or you would see the top or

one of the top news hits was a hippies

because it was a big publication and it

was recent

so it's there at the top now it's gone

away and i wonder if it ever deserves to

be there

because it went away

i don't know there weren't that many new

things

that there were like major news pieces

to replace it but it went away

so these are the things that i wonder

about um i understand that the

the book by

robert f kennedy the real anthony fauci

he was also subject to the media

colluding to

basically ignore that book i think he

had no

no book reviews but sold a million books

how do you sell a million books and not

get a book review

from one of the major publications

it's collusion of some kind

all right so i would recommend to you

alex epstein's book it's coming out in

may i guess

called the moral case for fossil fuels

and like i said i haven't read it

but

but obviously people have seen advanced

copies

there's definitely an effort to make

sure that whatever is in that book

does not be is not seen as credible

so you should ask yourself why

would they try to kill a book before it

even comes out

and the best reason to do it

is that it's true

that's the best reason

so i'm thinking that there's some good

stuff in there that somebody really

wants to die

um all right

all right uh that ladies and gentlemen

is just about everything i want to say

and

i think you'll agree

that this has been a peak experience for

most of you for some of you the very

best thing that will happen today for

some of you others

it will just be the beginning of an

amazing day

uh no i cannot send your book

that you send to me do you know it's

embarrassing when people ask me to fill

out a forum and i tell them i can't

i'm disabled

i tell you that my drawing hand has a

focal dystonia which means there's

literally nothing wrong with my hand and

i'm still disabled because the only

thing i can't do is right with the pen

it's the only thing i can't do

i mean i could you know juggle i've

played the drums i could play any

instrument the hand is perfect

there's nothing wrong with it physically

there's a there's a little mental glitch

that happened because i overused it and

then the brain said you can't do that

anymore and that won't let me so i can't

my hand won't work would i put a pen in

it and put it to paper it just freezes

so so i draw left-handed but i've never

taken the time to

learn to write

left-handed quickly enough that i could

fill in a form i mean if i took forever

i could

it's called a focal

focal dystonia

it's related to the voice problem i had

they often travel in pairs

but

thankfully they don't

thankfully they usually don't go in more

than pairs so i'll probably i'm probably

two and done in all likelihood

all right

um

let me see what's going on here

and um

and i will talk to you soon

thank you very much everybody

have a good day