Episode 1785 Scott Adams - All Of The Best Jokes About Roe v Wade Decision From The Supreme Court

good morning and guess what it's going to be the best day ever kick off your shoes i forgot to kick off mine but god do you realize i was working with well there were flip-flops but there was some kind of footwear may i give you this advice if you're working at home and you're wearing footwear what what's wrong with you you can't work like that let your feet be free then you can be creative then you could be productive and it won't even hurt that much however if you'd like to take it up a notch and i know you do all you need today is a copper mug or glass of tanker chelsea steiner canteen sugar flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and i'm rushing through because it's such a glorious interesting news day but will you join me now in the unparalleled pleasure it's the dopamine here of the day the thing that makes everything better for just one moment i want all of you to focus all of your attention away from any distractions and problems of your day and for just a moment think only about this delicious beverage you're about to have put all of your thoughts just into the beverage in front of you and there you just rebooted and now the simultaneous i heard the the best advice maybe like life-changing advice in a partial uh commercial for something i don't even know what the product was but the the advice was this somebody somebody was saying uh they couldn't imagine meditating because how could you sit there for 20 minutes and you know try to clear your mind it just seems impossible you can't fit in your schedule you can't you can't imagine clearing your mind it's just sort of impossible well the first thing you need to know is clearing your mind isn't necessary it's not even useful it's not even possible so when people tell you that meditation is clearing your mind they're just they're just wrong it's not a thing but there is such a thing as calming your mind and maybe concentrating on something that's right there in the room with you such as your breathing and it allows your brain which really is not a multi it's not a multi-process device your brain does not multitask it feels like it because you can rapidly switch between thoughts so it feels like you're multitasking but you're not you really you're you're one thing at a time device so if you can make yourself think of just one non-stressful thing your breathing how your muscles feel you know that the tension in parts of your body just calm it down now here's the the advice when i said to you imagine taking 20 minutes and just sort of sitting quietly a lot of you said i could never do that i could never do that here's here's the life-changing advice do it for 10 seconds that's it for some of you that just completely changed your life i wouldn't have to say any other thing i just changed completely the lives of a whole bunch of you here's why because you all know you could do it for 10 seconds right you just did it i just did the simultaneous sip some of you did you know some of you actually went along with it and you said oh yeah i could i could just concentrate in what's directly in front of me for 10 seconds because if you could do it for 10 seconds maybe you liked it and some people say 10 seconds i could do that for a minute next thing you know you're doing it for 20 minutes but it doesn't have to be 20 minutes there's no magic about 20 minutes more is better if you could do a little bit more do a little bit more you know sort of sort of just chew on it over time and nobody said you have to be the meditator tomorrow right and when you look at the amount of anxiety and you know mental health problems there are in the world how many of those do you think could be helped by people just learning to slow down at least once per day just just to reboot probably a lot yeah yeah meditation is one of those things that has stood the test of time you know there are tons of things you hear about it's like oh yeah should i really suspend upside down and eat broccoli at the same time that sounds like that might not last the test of time and then it doesn't but i think meditation has been here a hundred years and pretty much 100 of the people do it say yeah that helped that was good i wish i did more of it well there you go that's part of the reason you watch this live stream because every now and then i'll change some of your lives completely with just one live stream and there you go well today's theme is that democrats have a consistency problem um you'll see that come alive a little bit all right now according to republicans and let me preface my comments today by saying if you believe you're going to see my opinion on abortion you are incorrect because i abstain because i am not a uh i'm not a chest-feeding uh reproductive uh birthing person if i may be so woke and so i would leave this decision to people who actually have skin in the game um so to speak so everything that i'm talking about is sort of a an angle to look at it it's not necessarily my opinion is everybody good with that because as soon as you think it's my opinion it's no fun anymore and then we're just you're agreeing with me or fighting with me or something so it's not my opinion we're just going to talk about stuff here's a one point of view that i thought was funny every now and then a pattern will emerge from some topic and it might be an accidental pattern and it might be meaningful but people are built to recognize patterns so here's a pattern that i picked up on today doesn't mean it means anything it's just sort of tweaked my interest it was that according to republicans the list of things that democrats can't recognize is growing so here's the list of things that democrats can't recognize according to republicans democrats can't recognize a woman they can't recognize a baby they can't recognize a brain dead president and they've never seen an economic system that they can't recognize an economic system that actually works now as soon as i as soon as i thought of this and i had to stop at four because i'm pretty sure i could have grown that list to 10 if i want to spend a little extra time on it but is that a coincidence and could and could i come up with the same list and phrase it the same way and just make it about republicans or is it really something that's limited to one side because i haven't figured that part out yet i you know i'm not i still have enough neutrality left in me that i'm aware of the fact that just because i saw the pattern on one side it doesn't mean it's not on the other side i just happen to notice it on one side i have the grin the grand wizard of pleasanton i'm not sure which way you mean that but it's funny all right you missed the comment on on youtube but it doesn't matter um so i don't know it's just it's just funny that republicans think the problem with democrats is that they're looking right at something and they can't see it does it ever feel like that to you i mean most of you are probably right leaning if i know my audience even though i'm not anyway uh let's talk about aoc because when there's a big topic like this you know aoc is going to be the big topic on the big topic now if there's one thing that i consistently credit aoc for and by the way she's not flawless i think today was you know this is this isn't her best week but one thing she does well is surf the wave of you know some energy that was happening anyway so because of the supreme court decision on roe vs wade overturning it aoc is in the news because you know we care what the uh let's say the photogenic and charismatic people are saying on both sides so all the all the photogenic charismatic people you know they emerged during these periods and um here's something she said in that tweet she said universal health care and child care gun safety combating climate change he says the gop opposes it all if they refuse to support life after birth how can they claim to believe in it before and she says the truth is this is not about life and never has been it's about seizing power and control what it's about seizing power and control i don't know how this could be more opposite of that is it now again i have to ask myself if i'm being neutral i mean i feel like probably not but it's hard to see it in yourself right so maybe you could spot it better than i can but what i see is republicans giving up political power for what they see as saving lives or ending an ongoing holocaust what do you see do you see republicans trying to gain power by doing something that riles up the other side how do you and and how does that work it like just connect the dots for me i don't even understand the the line of reasoning it's like i'm not even at the point where i can disagree with it because i don't know what it is i'm disagreeing with it doesn't make sense right does anybody see how it connects is am i missing the am i missing some obvious connection because to me to me it looks exactly like the republicans are in a little bit of danger and that they traded risk their own risk their living adult risk they traded that to you know help what they what they believe is life and do you believe that aoc actually sees it that way or is that just the best she could do because here's the other meta point i'm going to make and it goes like this neither side of this debate can use their true argument and that's why it looks like nonsense when you see the arguments in public because nobody can say the real argument they can't and it's not because the real argument isn't good it's not because the real argument isn't right it's because it doesn't work it doesn't work not that it's wrong it just doesn't work for example here would be here would be an honest argument from the right all right now this is not a criticism because i'm going to do the same for the left right i'm going to play a fair the right would say something like um my religious faith or god tells me that life begins at conception no that's not everybody on the right right so we're talking some generalities here right but suppose you sincerely believe that and that's where your your abortion feelings come from come from god if you know that the people and that you're trying to debate are either non-believers or uh straight-up atheists or at the very least they're more spiritual than you know specifically believing god gave them directions so why why would you use the real argument well you know it can't work it can't work if the writer said look you know god says so so why aren't you listening to god the left would say what yeah we we don't listen to your nonsense we have our own spiritual beliefs that don't have anything to do with that so the real argument one of them it's not the only one but the real argument on the right you can't sell it am i wrong about that that that is an unsellable argument even if you sincerely hold it and even if it's true like even if god really did say it he was very specific he or she were they and even if you even if you accepted all of that you couldn't sell that argument to people who don't believe in god so you can't use the argument that you believe yeah you have to frame it differently now how about the left can the left tell you their real argument like the honest to god strip out all the politics and persuasion and manipulation let me just tell you what i really think because here's what i think it would sound like i value my own adult life over that of something which smart people could argue is either alive or not it's a convenience it's a convenience it's a convenience that specifically puts the priority of the living adult above the above the value above the value of an entity which smart people can argue is either alive or not but we're all talking about the same thing or you know we're all looking at the same thing the word we put on it is you know you shouldn't make your argument based on the word you use the argument should be the argument you should be able to do it in any language in any word but if if you need a word to win the argument that means you didn't have an argument all right so the real argument on the left is is so cold that you can't sell it in public am i right did i do you think i characterized the genuine argument fairly that people would adult women and lots of men who support them they they prefer or they prioritize the value of their own life and the quality of it and the freedom of it above the value of something that smart people can argue when it's life or not but we're all talking about the same thing we're all talking about the same thing no matter what word you put on it so the trouble is you can't sell that it just sounds like you're a monster or something right i don't think so let me and let me be clear i don't that's not my opinion i don't i don't consider the monsters nor do i consider the people on the right you know deluded or anything else like i just don't have those bad opinions about people on either side i just think that it's absurd to watch people on both sides use fake arguments and try to think past the cell try to make you think past the sale we'll talk about that some more all right um here was an interesting thought from a twitter user uh ryan vertanen he said that uh supreme court wouldn't uh i'll paraphrase here wouldn't have struck and why can't i make a sentence that uses the correct forms here i'll just read what he said and then if it's wrong you could blame him all right scotus doesn't strike down abortion if trump is in office he said the climate would be too tense can't drop a bomb like this one when everyone's on edge the climate under biden is less tense which allowed the supreme court to do this what do you think like i i love opinions that um that i don't agree with but i can't immediately figure out why which makes me pause and go okay i think if i really were disagreeing with this i probably know why so maybe it's a good point what do you think do you think that if trump were still in office the supreme court would not have handed down this decision it'd be too hot here's the alternative theory and by the by the way i maybe yeah i mean it's at least a good point right would you all say that it's at least a good point but you don't know here's here's the alternative theory the supreme court has gigantic balls and they're not afraid of anything and they just proved it that's the alternative theory supreme court has gigantic balls including the ladies and they just proved it because they just said you could march in front of our houses you here it is that's what i saw i i saw you can you can put uh scary people in front of our houses in front of our families and we're still gonna we're still gonna put this right in your face no hesitation no equivocation no nothing every now and then the supreme court does something that i think bolsters their credibility and i think that should be noted in my opinion the fact that they didn't hold back until after the midterms because i think that's when you know the the ideal time probably would have been after the midterms and they could have there's you know i mean they could have held off right they have that option um i think that tells me that uh they're not going to be intimidated because imagine if they had not released this if they had not released it it would look like intimidation worked right so when whoever it was on the left released the uh draft decision which in the beginning i said don't assume that it's up the actual decision but i guess it was right so my speculation was completely incorrect so it was it was correct but do you realize that the leaker the leaker guaranteed that they would release it the leaker by leaking an actual real document now that we know it's real we can also connect the dots because we didn't know it was real before but now we can connect the dots the leaker guaranteed guaranteed this this would be released do you know why i think i mentioned it earlier because the supreme court apparently has gigantic balls including the ladies and they're not going to be intimidated so good for them you know at least you know in that narrow in that narrow sense i like the fact that the intimidation had no impact as far as we could tell i'm sure it had an impact on them personally which is which is why you give them credit um keith olbermann uh helpfully tweeted this he said uh samuel alito amy coney barrett and neil gorsuch brett kavanaugh john roberts and clarence thomas are domestic terrorists and should be approached and prosecuted as such keith olbermann well you can always count on keith orban to take the the sane path um which i you know retweeted with hashtag hunted because every time somebody refers to people on the right as domestic terrorists uh it should be approached and prosecuted as such it does feel like they're promoting the you know something bad here um all right my question to you do you think it's fair that people are calling the supreme court justices who were most recently put on the court is it fair to call them liars because they misled the court they misled the senate about their likelihood to overturn roe what would you say are they liars now first of all do you think that they misled do you think they intentionally misled and they knew all along that they would have done this and do you think that most of you say no and um i'm going to take the other side i'm going to take the other side of this i would call them liars again doesn't mean you don't like their decision so let's separate whether you like the decision or not all right we're not talking about that now we're talking about whether they lied to the senate i'm going to say yes you say yes but they lied the way politicians lie meaning that you knew they were lying so did it matter right when politicians lie to you and you know they're lying it's not exactly the same thing is it now let me ask you this when somebody selects a conservative supreme court justice what do you think they were going to do like what did every i even saw um who is the comedian al franken uh even al franken was tweeting we all knew what they were going to do it didn't matter that it was settled law everybody knew that they you didn't have to be a lawyer to know that they were going to take a run at it so is it lying if you know exactly what's going to happen then there's no real ambiguity about it it's a weird kind of line i would call it like political lying but i'm going to save my most criticism for the question askers are you telling me that when they were interviewed you couldn't ask the right question to find out exactly what they were going to do and like have them essentially tell the public to now of course you can't ask them how they would rule on a hypothetical case we're all smart enough to know that right that's like you don't do that they're not going to answer that question and shouldn't they shouldn't answer it but you could get there easily how about this question uh mr gorsuch i'm not going to ask you how you would rule on any hypothetical kind of case but i want to want to ask you how you to explain the sort of the the field the situation for us do you believe that there would be a path to overturn roe versus wade and that there could be a compelling argument made or do you believe that because it's subtle law it could never be overturned which of those sort of general positions do you hold that has set a law and cannot be overturned or that if somebody made a compelling argument the court would have that right and even responsibility to overturn it which one would you go with now i'm pretty sure gorsuch would either have to avoid the question which is an answer or he'd have to say well hypothetically the court could overturn that under you know a certain set of variables and that would be your answer they're conservatives and they just told you it could be done would you need anything else i mean that's that's about as clear as you can be so i think there was terrible question asking and i would call them liars i would call them liars because they knew i mean i'm not i'm not a mind reader right so technically you could say to yourself well they didn't know no because you know anything could happen and maybe somebody would have made a strong argument that changed their you know preconceived ideas but now you knew they knew what they were going to do you know what they were going to do and then they did it um i think the only ambiguity was whether they thought they could get away with it and apparently they thought so um here's another little tip for you when i was tweeting about this twitter user robin de long said to me and i quote his tweet he said quote so it's fair game to ask nominees how they will rule during confirmation hearings and i thought this is a useful lesson to the rest of us and so i want to remind you that the most important word in the english language is what's the most important word in the english language that's correct the word so at the at the beginning of a sentence so do you know why because if you see the word of so at the beginning of a sentence in the context of any kind of debate about something as soon as you see that little word so you don't have to read the rest of the sentence because whatever follows that is going to be nonsense you can look for an exception good luck you're not going to find one so is actually how the person tells you that what is going to follow is going to be nonsense but it's the best they could do so let me read it again this was his comment to me so it's fair game to ask nominees how they were ruled during confirmation hearings no and i didn't imply that and it was just you know it's somebody's strong man argument that's going to follow very useful to know that word is useful well is it my imagination or is the babylon b really on fire lately are you i guess you have to see them on instagram or other platforms they're not on twitter right now but if you're not following the babylon b on instagram they are really operating at uh full you know the left used to say the right wasn't funny and then uh guff held come along came along and showed that wasn't true they're actually writing articles now about how funny and successful guff held is and maybe they were wrong about this conservatives aren't funny stuff and then the babylon bee comes along and they're like okay i guess i guess i can be funny so here's something that the babylon bee had on instagram and other places it said january 6 hearings january 6 hearings postponed until after the democrat insurrection and the headlines are great because the democrats are having a consistency problem this week because apparently there was the democrats stormed the capitol building in arizona and there was some you know rioting and stuff in in d.c and i'm thinking it's got to be really awkward when you're the you're the january six people they say all right look and this maybe this is months ago and all the top republican strategists got together and they said we don't have anything we've got nothing we're literally going to have to make some up just have a reason to get reelected what do we got like well we could turn that the protest against our uh again well what we allegedly did we can turn the protests into insurrections and we'll just hammer that and then we'll nail it on trump and then people will have a reason to elect us because all of our policies are but they won't want insurrectionists uh and so they're working on that and then and then this plan is working pretty well because i correct me if i'm wrong but i think the rasmussen poll actually narrowed the gap between a generic republican and a generic democrat in the midterms meaning that republicans became less popular in a general way as the january 6 hearings were going on and i'd call that a victory maybe not enough to win the midterms but definitely shows their strategy worked i mean if those numbers held but there were a couple problems with the strategy a week after the hearings the rasmussen numbers went right back to almost where they were meaning that here's my interpretation right you can't be sure this is true this is an interpretation of their results this is my interpretation my interpretation is that a certain number of republicans were convinced that when they saw the january 6 evidence it really would connect trump and a bunch of insurrectionists to the protesters and you would see something pretty bad there and people were sort of getting ahead of it and you know preemptively saying you know i can barely be a republican anymore because i don't want to be on the same team as these people except when the january 6 hearings were held even without a defense this is important the republicans don't get to talk basically there's no defense it's just prosecution and even with just prosecution it looks like what they proved is that president trump couldn't even get don jr on board and we're done that that if i could explain the entire situation the entire january 6 summary just the whole thing the whole thing i'm just going to boil it into the and i could do this because i'm a trained cartoonist don't try this at home you won't do it right but i'm a professional i can take complicated situations and boil them into their simplest form what we learned primarily we learned a lot but there's one thing that captures all the rest what we learned is that president trump couldn't even get don jr on board not even close the only people he could get on board were some lawyers who are trained to agree with you for money and you know support your point whatever it is and after all of this talk and all of this talk of insurrection and he's going to hold office we know now for sure we now know for sure he couldn't get ivanka on board he couldn't get jared on board he couldn't get don junior on board and correct me if i'm wrong but i don't think there's any non-lawyer in in the white house inner circle who had bill barr wasn't on board giuliani is an attorney giuliani's an attorney he couldn't get a non-lawyer on board how about uh you know i don't know maybe sydney powell or something i don't know what she was saying at the time but that's what you learned so the the january 6 trial i think is the biggest failure in politics that we'll ever see because it sounded really good on paper and i have to admit it worked for a week it narrowed the gap but even without a defense i mean that's so important without a defense they they just they just lined themselves up and shot themselves in front of the public so anybody who watched it just thought well yeah he didn't convince his chief of staff any of his children his son-in-law he didn't get anybody nobody and you know the democrats were worried about how close we were to an insurrection do you know how close we were zero and and i didn't know that right i mean it looked to me like there was no insurrection but i thought you know maybe maybe there were you know some people in the white house who kind of were thinking well let's see if we can hold power anyway turns out no just lawyers and that's a special case all right anyway um so uh i told you that you come here for the best jokes about roe versus wade it's a serious situation but i'd like to call out um three blue checked verified entities on twitter because they were the only ones willing to retweet this joke of mine so it turns out that dick's sporting goods and i learned this in a tweet from lauren chen but she noted that dick's supported goods is going to pay their employees a certain amount if they want to go somewhere to get an abortion and so i helpfully added a headline a breaking news headline to the story dicks cause abortions dicks cause abortions and uh only greg gutfeld and the rasmussen poll and lauren chen retweeted that at least of the blue checks so congratulations to those with a sense of humor but okay this is a true story i'm not making this up in the in the mall that's pretty near me maybe the closest one uh there are two businesses that are next to each other in the same little uh parking lot one is dicks and the other is a restaurant called bj's now whoever decided that to two anchor tenants should be dicks and bj's i i think it's time for a slow clap now maybe it happened by accident maybe maybe and maybe elon musk's car models spells sexy completely by accident s e x y maybe so maybe dicks and bj's are just in the same place for no reason whatsoever but it happened all right um if you could buy stock in states and i don't think there's any way to do that right there's no indirect way to invest in a state is there it probably is i can't think of one but if you could invest in states which ones would you buy and which ones would you sell now go based on the roe vs wade just just based on that reverse way well you can throw everything else into throw everything in there throw in school boards right good one throw in school boards gun rights throw in abortion situation throw it all in there throw in gas prices energy wokeness throw it all in there which states would you buy and which would you sell talk to me people talk to me all right we've got lots of opinions so i see most of you are playing for the team and saying that the conservative states are going to be the beneficiaries i would have said that until the roe versus wade situation because that is going to really really stop any kind of high talent young people from not i mean obviously conservatives don't care people are not going to have kids maybe don't care or et cetera but i would buy california you know you you can hate a lot of stuff about california and we've got some issues a lot a lot but we may have bottomed out i think we may have bottomed out right you know california isn't going to go down forever that's my prediction i guess it's not guaranteed it could go down forever but i don't think so there are too many there are too many strong advantages here or even our budget looks good you know the california budget looks strong you know who saw that coming so yeah california when it comes back it will it's going to rage if i were an investor in states i would buy california even if you hate everything about it just as an investor right it's sort of like to some of you that would be like you know investing in a tobacco company it might be distasteful to you but i'm just saying it's likely to make money i think i think california's badness is all how they say baked in like it's all part of the cake already so you've already you know discounted that in your head and this is new news i think it's going to make a difference but in a larger sense i think california is going to come raging back maybe three to five years it's going to take us a while to you know figure out how to keep the lights on if we can keep the lights on this is a pretty awesome place as corey d'angelos helpfully informs us there's a huge victory in school choice in arizona the arizona state senate just passed a bill to fund students instead of systems but this is the most expensive one as corey tells us the most expensive school choice initiative in the nation so basically families take their education dollars and they can apply them to a variety of places so there would be a free market competition in that state now how much do i love that some places will become the laboratories and we will find out if this approach to schooling is better now you probably think that because i retweet a school choice stuff practically every day you probably think well there's a guy who knows that school choice is the best thing and we should do it nope nope nope i'm completely open to the fact that maybe there's some flaw that's you know not obvious generally speaking anytime you can test a free market solution you want to do that you want to do that and there are plenty of people who want that option and they want it for more than one reason which is a perfect situation one of the reasons might be they don't want the you know the wokeness indoctrination so we just have two reasons instead of one the other reason is just better schools uh but um it's great that arizona is going to now be the i guess the premier national test laboratory for finding out what works and what doesn't i don't know how long it will take i mean it might be a five-year situation so it's not like we're going to wait for the results of the test but i do like it i do like it when places are are acting differently and we can just measure it and we'll find out i'm open to it i'm open to this being actually i'm open to this being a solution to systemic racism because no matter how true and i think a lot of it's true the legacy of slavery you know rippling through to the present no matter what you want to argue about the details of where you see it and where you don't and who's whose fault it is and you can argue that all day long but here's one thing i don't think anybody would argue if every kid had exactly the same educational options you know with no crime and you know they can make it to school and they've got enough support to do their homework and stuff if everybody had that in a generation or so you'd stop talking about systemic racism right it wouldn't be one generation but you know you should at least get a head start on it so so to me the more things you can experiment with and more the more improvement and the faster you can get it in the educational field especially to the low-income people that's that's the biggest lever for everything like every lever of civilization comes from getting this stuff right so if you're not planning a generation ahead and this is good planning and maybe it's accidental but but knowing which works the public method or the you know the more flexible school choice method we'll actually know which one of those is better not only that but within the school choice field there'll be lots of competition within that and then we'll know which of those is better this is amazing we've finally done or we're on the cusp or at least let's say we're setting the field for the biggest golden age improvement of all time how many of you are parents who have kids in school what do you agree that the thing we call school is completely broken i mean it just destroys the the parents life at the same time as the kids there's nothing about it that's done right i mean in fact every part of school would be different if you started today and built it from scratch it'd all be different it's just bullying and you have low self-esteem and it's just a it's just a horror fest for most kids when i when i see kids go to school i feel sorry for them and not in a way that i did when i was going to school i didn't i never felt sorry for myself did you i don't know i mean maybe it's a generation thing you could like school or not like school but i never really felt sorry for myself but when i see a modern child go to school i think they're just going into the grinder it's like it's like a a mental health destruction grinder and you like the the state makes you send them there we're gonna take your child that's right sorry we're gonna take your child and we're gonna put them every day into a situation that is really really up and they will be mentally scarred probably for life probably for life uh their self-esteem will be in the toilet they'll have no value in themselves and that's what we'll do for you and then we'll give them back you see what you can do with them and you know so that's what it feels like it feels like that i think we could do better all right um here's something that i forgot or didn't know i can't remember but maggie haberman tweeted this is not the part i forgot i'll get to that that uh officials with security clearances were sending internet conspiracy theories to senior officials asking them to investigate i think she's talking about the trump trump administration and then molly hemingway retweeted that with her own comment and said that maggie heberman won a pulitzer for her role successfully propagating the russia collusion hoax in which officials with security clearances sent the democrat manufactured hoax to senior officials across the government in an attempt to orchestrate a coup yeah and how many of you knew that maggie haberman won a pulitzer for writing about something that wasn't even slightly true did you all know that somehow i i feel like i missed that story when it happened because i think i would have remembered it did i ever tell you what it takes to win a pulitzer you know i i always thought it's a very prestigious thing to win and i cartoonists can win them there are several cartoonists lots of them actually who have won poolitzers so i always thought you know that would be like the that would be the pinnacle of my career if i could win a pulitzer i would suddenly go from you know idiot making jokes to some kind of a credible person you know sort of a gary trudeau situation burke brethren the one pool lizards like they never take that away from you right it's very very prestigious or i thought it was until i talked to somebody who knew how it works do you know what it takes do you know what the process is there's a small group of people who are selected as judges and then if people submit books so it's not everything that gets created that year you have to actually apply most people don't so a few people will apply you know a small percentage and then a group of people will read the books and tell you which ones they like it's basically a book club it's just a book club of some people who like reading books and then they pick one that they liked better it literally has no more meaning or depth than your neighborhood book club who read several books that year as a club and then at the end they pick one they liked that's it there's nothing to the pulitzer prize except that that's it and how many book clubs would have picked the same books not many because each book club would read a different group of books just like the pulitzer group the pulitzer group isn't reading all the books they're reading little subset of books they can't read every book and then compare it to every other book so it's just a ridiculous prize i mean it's really ridiculous it's just somebody like the book that's it and um once i learned that then you understand stuff like you know how do you get a pulitzer prize for reporting on something that didn't happen well some people probably didn't like trump that's why that's why probably some people who were involved with the pulitzer that year just didn't like trump and then they saw maggie haberman says lots of bad things about trump and wrote about things that were bad for trump and they thought well that's excellent writing right there that's that's some high class writing said the book club that happened to be called the pulitzer committee all right um it's pretty anyway here's a question uh i would like to see being asked and it's not because i care about the answer i only i only care about how they would answer it all right so people on the right were often bedeviled i say be doubled by black lives matter because they had such a clever uh slogan and they would say do black lives matter and then the people on the right would fall into the trap well i think all lives matter thinking that they're agreeing but in fact it gets framed as racist rice asked so it was kind of a really good trap and so i like a good trap and so i wondered if you could use it this way could you what would happen if you asked a democrat on air if unborn lives matter now i know the real answer they'll say well you know we're talking about if he is blah blah it's not not a life but the entire argument is you know the whole roe vs wade thing is just thinking past the sale and then arguing after after you've thought past the sale so this is no different than that i mean it's weasley um but what would they say because if all lives matter um was ever inappropriate um well maybe we know why maybe the reason that the the left could not agree that all lives matter is a good slogan is because there's some ambiguity about when life begins so the moment they say all lives matter they've kind of agreed that abortion is murder so they really don't mean all lives matter and literally they don't and you know you could say well technically they don't think that's life so you're lying scott i get i get that but you can see why they would want to avoid accepting the idea that all lives matter because it opens up an argument there so i would just love to see what somebody would say if if they were you know really in the fight and they were pro-abortion rights and you said do unborn lives matter what do you think i think the honest answer the honest answer and by the way it's very clever to put unborn in front of life because that's not that's not the same as life right it's kind of clever an unborn life not alive you know you or it could be i mean you could argue this life but the the phrase doesn't say it's life because as soon as you put unborn in front of it you've allowed some ambiguity so i think that's a good way to ask the question just just to see the quality of the answer because the the democrats have a super consistency problem they're staging insurrections at the same time they're doing hearings about insurrections am i right i mean it looks like that in both cases they're not insurrections but since they decided to call a a vigorous protest in which violence is either implied or actually happens since they're calling that an insurrection it's hard to explain the fact that you're doing it at the moment you're you're disavowing it it's very very awkward and inconvenient they have that consistency problem with their message right now that's a problem then they also have the well let's stop with that one all right how many of you think that the world is getting worse because well i won't say because how many of you think that let's let's just say america how many of you think america is getting worse and that we're on some kind of a long-term you know drop now let me ask you this if i did a survey and oh this would be interesting i don't know if rasmus and pole is watching this but here's my suggestion ask people is america improving or going downhill but sort them by people who watch the news and people who don't i'll bet you the people who watch the news think we're going to hell and the people who are oblivious to the news and they're just sort of looking around they may have a different opinion but i'll bet it doesn't work during this current weird recession pandemic stuff at the moment it does look like things are getting worse i mean you go shopping you can't guess stuff you buy something it's more expensive so and in many ways it seems like things are getting worse um but i don't think so i think if you were to look at the macro picture i'll bet almost everything is getting better do you know why because it always does most things right 98 of things are just getting better all the time airline travel is just always getting worse i don't know it's an exception i mean the reason we pointed out is that it's rare yeah and i think that we're feeling some serious growth pains right now i think that the stress on society that you see is the stress that you get when you lift weights and you you push yourself to that third set i feel like that's what we're experiencing it definitely hurts it definitely hurts but it feels like this is the stress on the system that you get when you're going to the next level i feel like we're ascending somebody used that word i'll borrow your word i feel like civilization is ascending it doesn't feel like it if you watch the news because the news is designed to look at the bad stuff which is useful because then you focus on fixing that stuff but if you're actually trying to understand the bigger picture you could be blinded by the fact that talking about the bad stuff is more fun than talking about the good stuff yeah and somebody's mentioning stephen pinker on youtube i think he may i think the context of that is there a number of people including him who like to point out how we see doom and gloom but that's not really what's happening airports using bio scanning well have you tried the clear system yet has anybody done that i'm going to give a little commercial for it if you fly a lot there's a system at least in the west coast and some other places so i don't know how many airports are in maybe just maybe half of the big ones or something like that and you use a retinal scan they take it once and then once you're in the system you can bypass the security line by scanning your your biometrics now it's really awkward because they don't really have the the regular system and the clear system integrated in a non-awkward way so here's what happens i walk up to the clear system where there's no line because people it's like you know the first days of atms you know grandma didn't want to use the atm on day one so the clear line has nobody there so you walk up to the clear line they say hello and there's always somebody to help you right there and you just put your eyes in it and scan it and then they do this they mark your ticket your boarding pass you know that you've scanned you that you've been approved and then they walk you to the beginning of the line yeah you do pay for it it's a it's an annual payment i forget how much but it wasn't crazy if you're flying and they walk into the front of the line and yeah and they do it officially so they're doing it with the you know all the tsa people but all the all the all the people who have to wait in line they don't know why you're going to the front of the line they just know what's happening so you end up looking like the celebrity so if you want to have a celebrity experience for a very a reasonable price do the clear system and and then you'll be walked up to the front line right in front of everybody and nobody will know why they'll just think are you famous or something now in my case it's weird because i am famous so so i'm being treated like a celebrity but not because i'm a celebrity but people will wonder if i am but it's irrelevant that i am because that's not why they're treating me it's just sort of a weird situation um all right now thank you thank you i told the people on locals because i talked to them before i go live on youtube uh i asked them to remind me because i had an idea for solving the world's biggest problem and it is based on a conversation i had recently with someone who is having some happiness problems and then i walked through a number of situations and i said okay are you happy in this situation yes are you happy in this situation no and then i looked for the pattern you know what the pattern was that when this person was with other people this person was happy and when this person was not with other people in any kind of a social situation be it family be a friends be it you know boyfriends girlfriends whatever uh then not happy it was that's it that's all it was it was that period and how many people have that same situation how many people are lonely in 2022 it's probably the biggest crippling problem people have here's a little eye opener ask yourself when you've had a good social day if it was a good day the answer is usually yes even if your other problems were about the same now take away that good social part for whatever reason now all of your other problems seem pretty big don't they because it's it's your social life that allows you to like live and enjoy things and not think about your problems for a little while as soon as our social life is gone everything's the biggest problem in the world so could you solve the social life problem and the answer is yes yes you could all you need is an app that scheduled you to have uh uh dinners it could be um it could be a potluck at your house but it also could be you know eating out at a restaurant and you do uh six people at a table because that's the right number at a reason at a restaurant recently i saw what i took to be um three married couples about the same age and had a lot in common and i've never seen six happier people at a table now they were having some drinks and some good food but they were laughing so hard and having such a good time that i just couldn't stand it it was like i just wanted to be them like you just wished you were one of those six people you really did and it looked like they probably just had known each other a long time and had a lot in common right and that's all it was you should try this just have uh you know have an app that sets you up with people that you don't ever have to see again but you could you just have a you meet six of you have dinner with drinks and maybe this is what the app does it says do you like drinking because if you say yes you're going to want to be with some other people who like to have a drink like like have a cocktail now imagine that every weekend you could do this every weekend or every night as much as you wanted you just take out the app you just look for somebody else who's looking for somebody else to add to a table and then you make sure that it's equal men and women or because it's an app and you can filter it better you make sure it's a table full of lgbtq if that's what you want or whatever but you're filtering high-level stuff instead of compatibility other words you're not filtering for a date you're filtering for okay high level uh are you let's say i'll just take an example i'd like some people who lean right and like to have a cocktail right if if if you happen to be in that category you lean right and you like to go to dinner and have a cocktail and i paired you up let's say you and your partner i'll say you have a mate but even if you're single it could be just five other single people and i and that's the only thing you know the only thing you know is that you lean right and you like to have a cocktail over a good meal you don't think you'd have fun you would you would now if you didn't have a great time the first day well maybe the second day now suppose you did it every day for a month you don't think you would meet one person that you'd want to you know have lunch with on your own later of course you would that's how it works all you really need is contact with other people the rest works out you'll always find a friend if you have enough contacts so the biggest problem in the world is loneliness and poor social networking 100 of that could be solved by diversification same as investment you need to be exposed to a ongoing flow of different people such that some of that flow will match up with what you need and what you want and then those people become your lasting situations so you need an app that recognizes that people need flow you can even maybe that's the name of the app flow it's not about finding your one person to marry it's not about sex it's about finding a continuous flow of people who have enough in common with you or even better one of your options could be put me in a table that are totally different from me like it's a grab bag i want to be at the weirdest table i could get i want to you know i want to i want a rabbi and a punk rocker and a murderer like that's you know and i want a couple of drinks with with that crowd no i would love that actually you put me with the weirdest table and i'd have the best time so you could call it meetups yeah there's like a meetup thing but i don't think that's quite there i think there's an interface business model upgrade because because the meetups are usually around a interest and i think i think that narrows it too much i think it should be and also the meetups end up being ossified like you're meeting the same group or so each time i think you want to flow you want the most number of people that you can spend a little bit of quality time with and then good things will happen after that all right did i did i did i deliver see the problem with loneliness is that there's nobody's job to fix it there's no um there's no there's no cabinet position for social life and yet it's your biggest problem is that weird it's your biggest problem for uh probably 75 percent i think it's your biggest problem and there's no nobody's job is to help you with it there's no there's no funding you can get i mean i'm not even aware of any kind of training class to improve your there's not an app right yeah there's a difference between solitude and loneliness right but but remember loneliness isn't the only thing we're trying to solve there are lots of people have plenty of people around them that's just not a good mix for them so it's not working out so sometimes you just need more just more people more diversification do you know why i think diversifying your social life would definitely work it's because diversification works everywhere it's like the one thing you can pretty much depend on you know in finance diversifying is the thing you need to get right it's the thing you need to get right and i also recommend diversifying your your boss can you be happy if you have one boss yes if your boss is awesome but how often does that happen if you have only one boss your whole life depends on one person who could be a little bit nuts often is so you want to diversify your bosses that's what i've done because in my in my model my business model you're my boss right like i have hundreds of bosses watching me right now so if one of you fires me which happens every day one of you decides i'm never watching that again or i'm not gonna i'm not gonna subscribe anymore so every day i get fired every day but i'm diversified i have so many bosses that a hundred can fire me a day and i you know doesn't affect my happiness so diversify your friends diversify your social life diversify uh your bosses and diversify your investments got it it always works it always works alright that's all for now talk to you later youtube

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put all of your thoughts

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and there

you just rebooted

and now the simultaneous

i heard the

the best advice

maybe like life-changing advice

in a

partial uh commercial for something i

don't even know what the product was

but the the advice was this somebody

somebody was saying uh they couldn't

imagine meditating

because how could you sit there for 20

minutes and

you know try to clear your mind it just

seems impossible you can't fit in your

schedule you can't you can't imagine

clearing your mind it's just sort of

impossible

well the first thing you need to know is

clearing your mind isn't necessary it's

not even useful it's not even

possible

so when people tell you that meditation

is clearing your mind

they're just they're just wrong it's not

a thing

but there is such a thing as calming

your mind

and maybe concentrating on something

that's right there in the room with you

such as your breathing

and it allows your brain which really is

not a multi it's not a multi-process

device

your brain does not

multitask

it feels like it because you can rapidly

switch between thoughts

so it feels like you're multitasking but

you're not you really you're you're one

thing at a time device

so if you can make yourself think of

just

one non-stressful thing

your breathing

how your muscles feel

you know that the tension in parts of

your body just calm it down

now here's the the advice when i said to

you imagine taking 20 minutes

and just sort of sitting quietly a lot

of you said i could never do that i

could never do that

here's here's the life-changing advice

do it for 10 seconds

that's it

for some of you that just completely

changed your life

i wouldn't have to say any other thing

i just changed completely the lives of a

whole bunch of you here's why

because you all know you could do it for

10 seconds

right

you just did it i just did the

simultaneous sip

some of you did you know some of you

actually went along with it

and you said oh yeah i could i could

just concentrate in what's directly in

front of me for 10 seconds because if

you could do it for 10 seconds

maybe you liked it

and some people say

10 seconds i could do that for a minute

next thing you know you're doing it for

20 minutes

but it doesn't have to be 20 minutes

there's no magic about 20 minutes more

is better

if you could do a little bit more

do a little bit more

you know sort of sort of just chew on it

over time

and nobody said you have to be the

meditator tomorrow

right

and

when you look at the amount of anxiety

and

you know mental health problems there

are in the world how many of those do

you think could be helped

by people just learning to slow down at

least once

per day just

just to reboot

probably a lot yeah yeah meditation is

one of those things that has stood the

test of time

you know there are tons of things you

hear about it's like oh yeah

should i really suspend upside down and

eat broccoli at the same time that

sounds like that might not last the test

of time

and then it doesn't

but i think meditation has been here

a hundred years

and pretty much 100 of the people do it

say yeah that helped

that was good i wish i did more of it

well there you go that's part of the

reason you watch this live stream

because

every now and then i'll change some of

your lives completely

with just one live stream and there you

go

well today's theme is that democrats

have a consistency problem

um you'll see that come alive a little

bit

all right now according to republicans

and let me preface my comments today by

saying

if you believe you're going to see my

opinion on abortion you are incorrect

because i abstain

because

i am not a

uh i'm not a chest-feeding uh

reproductive uh

birthing person

if i may be so woke

and so i would leave this decision to

people who actually have skin in the

game

um so to speak

so everything that i'm talking about is

sort of a an angle to look at it it's

not necessarily my opinion is everybody

good with that

because as soon as you think it's my

opinion it's no fun anymore and then

we're just you're agreeing with me or

fighting with me or something so it's

not my opinion we're just going to talk

about stuff

here's a one point of view that i

thought was funny every now and then a

pattern will emerge from

some topic

and it might be an accidental pattern

and it might be meaningful but people

are built to recognize patterns so

here's a pattern that i picked up on

today

doesn't mean it means anything

it's just sort of tweaked my interest

it was that according to republicans the

list of things that democrats

can't recognize

is growing

so here's the list of things that

democrats can't recognize according to

republicans

democrats can't recognize a woman

they can't recognize a baby

they can't recognize a brain dead

president

and they've never seen an economic

system that they can't recognize an

economic system that actually works

now as soon as i as soon as i thought of

this

and i had to stop at four

because i'm pretty sure i could have

grown that list to 10 if i want to spend

a little extra time on it

but

is that a coincidence

and could

and could i come up with the same list

and phrase it the same way and just make

it about republicans

or is it really something that's limited

to one side because i haven't figured

that part out yet i you know i'm not

i still have enough neutrality left in

me

that i'm aware of the fact that just

because i saw the pattern on one side it

doesn't mean it's not on the other side

i just happen to notice it on one side

i have the grin the grand wizard of

pleasanton

i'm not sure which way you mean that but

it's funny

all right you missed the comment on on

youtube but it doesn't matter

um

so

i don't know it's just it's just funny

that republicans think the problem with

democrats

is that they're looking right at

something and they can't see it

does it ever feel like that to you i

mean most of you are probably

right leaning if i know my audience even

though i'm not

anyway uh let's talk about aoc because

when there's a big topic like this

you know aoc is going to be the big

topic on the big topic

now if there's one thing that i

consistently credit aoc for

and by the way she's not flawless

i think today was you know this is this

isn't her best week but one thing she

does well

is surf the wave of you know some energy

that was happening anyway

so because of the supreme court decision

on roe vs wade overturning it

aoc is in the news because you know we

care what the

uh let's say

the photogenic and

charismatic people are saying on both

sides so all the all the photogenic

charismatic people you know they emerged

during these periods

and

um

here's something she said in that tweet

she said universal health care and child

care gun safety combating climate change

he says the gop opposes it all

if they refuse to support life after

birth

how can they claim to believe in it

before

and she says the truth is this is not

about life and never has been

it's about seizing power and control

what

it's about seizing power and control

i don't know how this could be more

opposite of that

is it

now again i have to ask myself if i'm

being neutral

i mean i feel like

probably not but it's hard to see it in

yourself right so maybe you could spot

it better than i can

but what i see is republicans giving up

political power

for what they see as saving

lives or ending an ongoing holocaust

what do you see

do you see republicans trying to gain

power

by doing something that riles up the

other side

how do you and and how does that work it

like just connect the dots for me i

don't even understand the the line of

reasoning it's

like i'm not even at the point where i

can disagree with it because i don't

know what it is i'm disagreeing with it

doesn't make sense

right

does anybody see how it connects is am i

missing the am i missing some obvious

connection

because to me

to me it looks exactly like the

republicans

are in a little bit of danger

and that they traded risk their own risk

their living adult risk

they traded that

to

you know help what they

what they believe

is life

and do you believe that aoc actually

sees it that way

or is that just the best she could do

because here's the other meta

point i'm going to make

and it goes like this

neither side of this debate

can use their true argument

and that's why it looks like nonsense

when you see the arguments in public

because nobody can say the real argument

they can't

and it's not because the real argument

isn't good

it's not because the real argument isn't

right

it's because it doesn't work

it doesn't work

not that it's wrong it just doesn't work

for example

here would be

here would be an honest argument from

the right

all right now this is not a criticism

because i'm going to do the same for the

left right i'm going to play a fair

the right would say something like

um my religious faith or god

tells me that life begins at conception

no that's not everybody on the right

right so we're talking some generalities

here

right

but suppose you sincerely believe that

and that's where your your abortion

feelings come from come from god

if you know that the people and that

you're trying to debate

are either non-believers or

uh straight-up atheists or

at the very least they're more spiritual

than you know specifically believing god

gave them directions

so why why would you use the real

argument well you know it can't work

it can't work

if the writer said look you know god

says so so

why aren't you listening to god the left

would say

what

yeah we we don't listen to your nonsense

we have our own spiritual beliefs that

don't have anything to do with that

so the real argument one of them it's

not the only one

but the real argument on the right

you can't sell it

am i wrong about that that that is an

unsellable argument even if you

sincerely hold it and even if it's true

like even if god really did say it

he was very specific

he or she

were they

and

even if you even if you accepted all of

that you couldn't sell that argument to

people who don't believe in god

so you can't use the argument

that you believe yeah you have to frame

it differently

now how about the left

can the left tell you their real

argument like the honest to god

strip out

all the politics and persuasion and

manipulation let me just tell you what i

really think

because here's what i think it would

sound like

i value my own adult life

over that of something which

smart people could argue is either alive

or not

it's a

convenience

it's a convenience

it's a convenience that specifically

puts the priority of the living adult

above the

above the value

above the value

of an entity which smart people can

argue

is either alive or not but we're all

talking about the same thing

or you know we're all looking at the

same thing

the word we put on it is

you know you shouldn't make your

argument based on the word you use the

argument should be the argument

you should be able to do it in any

language in any word but if if you need

a word to win the argument that means

you didn't have an argument

all right

so

the real argument on the left is

is so cold that you can't sell it in

public am i right

did i

do you think i characterized the genuine

argument

fairly

that people would adult

women and lots of men who support them

they they prefer or they prioritize

the value of their own life and the

quality of it and the freedom of it

above

the value

of something that smart people can argue

when it's life or not but we're all

talking about the same thing

we're all talking about the same thing

no matter what word you put on it

so the trouble is you can't sell that it

just sounds like you're a monster or

something right

i don't think so

let me and let me be clear i don't

that's not my opinion i don't i don't

consider the monsters

nor do i consider the people on the

right you know deluded or anything else

like i just don't have those bad

opinions about people on either side

i just think that it's absurd to watch

people on both sides use fake arguments

and

try to think past the cell try to make

you think past the sale we'll talk about

that

some more

all

right um

here was an interesting thought from a

twitter user uh

ryan vertanen

he said that uh supreme court wouldn't

uh i'll paraphrase here wouldn't have

struck and

why can't i make a sentence that uses

the correct

forms here i'll just read what he said

and then if it's wrong you could blame

him all right scotus doesn't strike down

abortion if trump is in office

he said the climate would be too tense

can't drop a bomb like this one when

everyone's on edge

the climate under biden is less tense

which allowed the supreme court to do

this

what do you think

like i i love opinions that um

that i don't agree with

but i can't immediately figure out why

which makes me pause and go okay

i think if i really were disagreeing

with this i probably know why so maybe

it's a good point

what do you think

do you think that if trump were still in

office the supreme court would not have

handed down this decision it'd be too

hot

here's the alternative

theory

and by the by the way i

maybe

yeah i mean it's at least a good point

right

would you all say that it's at least a

good point but you don't know

here's here's the alternative theory

the supreme court has gigantic balls

and they're not afraid of anything and

they just proved it

that's the alternative theory supreme

court has gigantic balls including the

ladies

and they just proved it

because they just said you could march

in front of our houses

you

here it is

that's what i saw

i i saw you can you can put uh scary

people in front of our houses in front

of our families

and we're still gonna we're still gonna

put this right in your face

no hesitation

no equivocation

no

nothing

every now and then the supreme court

does something that i think bolsters

their credibility

and i think that should be noted in my

opinion the fact that

they didn't hold back until after the

midterms

because i think that's when you know the

the ideal time probably would have been

after the midterms and they could have

there's you know i mean they could have

held off right they have that option

um

i think that tells me that uh they're

not going to be intimidated

because imagine if they had not released

this

if they had not released it it would

look like intimidation worked right

so

when whoever it was on the left released

the

uh draft decision

which in the beginning i said don't

assume that it's up the actual decision

but i guess it was right so

my speculation was completely incorrect

so it was it was correct

but do you realize that the leaker

the leaker

guaranteed that they would release it

the leaker by leaking an actual real

document now that we know it's real

we can also connect the dots because we

didn't know it was real before but now

we can connect the dots

the leaker

guaranteed

guaranteed this this would be released

do you know why

i think i mentioned it earlier

because the supreme court

apparently has gigantic balls

including the ladies

and they're not going to be intimidated

so good for them

you know at least you know in that

narrow in that narrow sense

i like the fact that the intimidation

had no impact

as far as we could tell i'm sure it had

an impact on them personally which is

which is why you give them credit

um

keith olbermann uh

helpfully tweeted this he said uh

samuel alito amy coney barrett and neil

gorsuch

brett kavanaugh john roberts and

clarence thomas are domestic terrorists

and should be approached and prosecuted

as such

keith

olbermann well you can always count on

keith orban to take the the sane path

um which i you know retweeted with

hashtag hunted

because every time somebody refers to

people on the right as domestic

terrorists

uh it should be approached and

prosecuted as such

it does feel like they're

promoting the

you know something bad here

um all right my question to you

do you think it's fair that people are

calling the supreme court justices who

were most recently

put on the court is it fair to call them

liars because they misled the court they

misled the senate

about their

likelihood to overturn roe

what would you say

are they liars

now first of all do you think that they

misled do you think they intentionally

misled and they knew all along that they

would have done this

and do you think that most of you say no

and

um

i'm going to take the other side

i'm going to take the other side of this

i would call them liars

again doesn't mean you don't like their

decision

so let's separate

whether you like the decision or not all

right we're not talking about that now

we're talking about whether they lied to

the senate i'm going to say yes

you say yes but they lied the way

politicians lie

meaning that you knew they were lying so

did it matter

right

when politicians lie to you and you know

they're lying

it's not exactly the same thing is it

now let me ask you this

when somebody selects a conservative

supreme court justice

what do you think they were going to do

like what did every i even saw um

who is the comedian al franken uh even

al franken was tweeting

we all knew what they were going to do

it didn't matter that it was settled law

everybody knew that they you didn't have

to be a lawyer to know that they were

going to

take a run at it

so is it lying if you know exactly

what's going to happen then there's no

real ambiguity about it

it's a weird kind of line i would call

it like political lying

but i'm going to save my

most criticism for the question askers

are you telling me that when they were

interviewed you couldn't ask the right

question to find out exactly what they

were going to do and like have them

essentially tell the public to

now

of course you can't ask them how they

would rule on a hypothetical case we're

all smart enough to know that right

that's like

you don't do that they're not going to

answer that question and shouldn't they

shouldn't answer it

but you could get there easily how about

this question

uh mr gorsuch

i'm not going to ask you how you would

rule on any hypothetical kind of case

but i want to want to ask you how you

to explain the

sort of the the field the situation for

us

do you believe

that there would be a path to overturn

roe versus wade

and that there could be a compelling

argument made

or do you believe that because it's

subtle law

it could never be overturned

which of those sort of general positions

do you hold that has set a law and

cannot be overturned or that if somebody

made a compelling argument

the court would have that right

and even responsibility to overturn it

which one would you go with

now

i'm pretty sure gorsuch would either

have to avoid the question which is an

answer

or he'd have to say well

hypothetically

the court could overturn that under you

know a certain set of

variables

and that would be your answer

they're conservatives and they just told

you it could be done

would you need anything else

i mean that's that's about as clear as

you can be

so i think there was terrible question

asking and i would call them liars i

would call them liars

because they knew

i mean i'm not i'm not a mind reader

right so technically you could say to

yourself well they didn't know no

because you know anything could happen

and maybe somebody would have made a

strong argument that changed their you

know preconceived ideas

but now you knew

they knew what they were going to do you

know what they were going to do

and then they did it

um i think the only ambiguity was

whether they thought they could get away

with it

and apparently they thought so

um

here's another little tip for you

when

i was tweeting about this twitter user

robin de long said

to me and i quote his tweet he said

quote

so it's fair game to ask nominees how

they will rule during confirmation

hearings

and

i thought this is a useful lesson to the

rest of us

and so i want to remind you

that the most important word in the

english language is

what's the most important word in the

english language

that's correct

the word so at the at the beginning of a

sentence

so

do you know why

because if you see the word of so

at the beginning of a sentence in the

context of any kind of debate about

something as soon as you see that little

word so

you don't have to read the rest of the

sentence

because whatever follows that is going

to be nonsense

you can look for an exception

good luck

you're not going to find one

so is actually how the person tells you

that what is going to follow is going to

be nonsense but it's the best they could

do

so let me read it again this was his

comment to me

so it's fair game to ask nominees how

they were ruled during confirmation

hearings

no and i didn't imply that and it was

just you know it's somebody's strong man

argument that's going to follow

very useful to know that word

is useful

well is it my imagination or is the

babylon b

really on fire lately

are you

i guess you have to see them on

instagram or other platforms they're not

on twitter right now but if you're not

following the babylon b on

instagram

they are really

operating at uh full

you know the left used to say the right

wasn't funny

and then uh guff held come along came

along and showed that wasn't true

they're actually writing articles now

about how funny and successful guff held

is and maybe they were wrong about this

conservatives aren't funny stuff and

then the babylon bee comes along and

they're like okay

i guess i guess i can be funny

so here's something that the

babylon bee

had on instagram and other places it

said january 6 hearings

january 6 hearings postponed until after

the democrat insurrection

and

the headlines are great because

the democrats are having a consistency

problem this week

because apparently there was the

democrats stormed the capitol building

in arizona and there was some you know

rioting and stuff

in

in d.c

and i'm thinking it's got to be really

awkward

when you're the you're the january six

people

they say all right look and this maybe

this is months ago

and all the top republican strategists

got together and they said

we don't have anything

we've got nothing we're literally going

to have to make some up

just have a reason to get reelected

what do we got like well

we could turn that

the protest

against our uh

again well what we allegedly did we can

turn the protests

into

insurrections and we'll just hammer that

and then we'll nail it on trump and then

people will have a reason to elect us

because all of our policies are but

they won't want insurrectionists

uh and so they're working on that and

then and then this plan is working

pretty well

because i

correct me if i'm wrong but i think the

rasmussen poll actually narrowed

the gap between a generic republican and

a generic democrat in the midterms

meaning that

republicans became less popular

in a general way as the january 6

hearings were going on and i'd call that

a victory

maybe not enough to win the midterms but

definitely shows their strategy worked i

mean if those numbers held

but there were a couple problems with

the strategy

a week after the hearings the rasmussen

numbers went right back to almost where

they were

meaning that here's my interpretation

right you can't be sure this is true

this is an interpretation

of their results this is my

interpretation

my interpretation is that a certain

number of republicans

were convinced

that when they saw the january 6

evidence it really would connect

trump and a bunch of insurrectionists

to the protesters and you would see

something pretty bad there and people

were sort of getting ahead of it and you

know preemptively saying you know i can

barely be a republican anymore because i

don't want to be on the same team as

these people

except when the january 6 hearings were

held

even without a defense

this is important

the republicans don't get to talk

basically there's no defense

it's just prosecution

and even with just prosecution

it looks like what they proved

is that president trump

couldn't even get don jr on board

and we're

done that that

if i could explain the entire situation

the entire january 6 summary

just the whole thing

the whole thing i'm just going to boil

it into the and i could do this because

i'm a trained cartoonist

don't try this at home you won't do it

right but i'm a professional i can take

complicated situations and boil them

into their simplest form

what we learned primarily

we learned a lot

but there's one thing that captures all

the rest

what we learned

is that president trump

couldn't even get don jr on board

not even close

the only people he could get on board

were some lawyers

who are trained to agree with you for

money and you know support your point

whatever it is

and

after all of this talk and all of this

talk of insurrection and he's going to

hold office we know now for sure

we now know for sure

he couldn't get ivanka on board

he couldn't get jared on board

he couldn't get don junior on board

and correct me if i'm wrong but i don't

think there's any non-lawyer

in in the white house inner circle

who had bill barr wasn't on board

giuliani is an attorney

giuliani's an attorney

he couldn't get a non-lawyer

on board

how about uh you know i don't know maybe

sydney powell or something i don't know

what she was saying at the time

but

that's what you learned

so the the january 6 trial

i think is the biggest failure

in politics that we'll ever see

because it sounded really good on paper

and i have to admit it worked for a week

it narrowed the gap

but even without a defense

i mean that's so important

without a defense

they they just

they just lined themselves up and shot

themselves in front of the public so

anybody who watched it just thought

well yeah

he didn't convince his chief of staff

any of his children

his son-in-law

he didn't get anybody

nobody

and you know the democrats were worried

about how close we were to an

insurrection

do you know how close we were

zero

and and i didn't know that right i mean

it looked to me like there was no

insurrection but i thought you know

maybe

maybe there were

you know some people in the white house

who kind of were thinking well let's see

if we can hold power anyway

turns out no just lawyers

and that's a special case

all right anyway

um

so

uh i told you that you come here for the

best jokes about roe versus wade it's a

serious situation

but i'd like to call out um three

blue checked verified entities on

twitter

because they were the only ones

willing to retweet

this joke of mine

so it turns out that dick's sporting

goods and i learned this in a tweet from

lauren chen

but

she noted that dick's supported goods is

going to pay their employees a certain

amount

if they want to go somewhere to get an

abortion

and

so i helpfully added a headline a

breaking news headline to the story

dicks cause abortions

dicks

cause abortions

and

uh

only greg gutfeld and

the rasmussen poll and lauren chen

[Laughter]

retweeted that

at least of the blue checks

so

congratulations to those with a sense of

humor

but okay this is a true story

i'm not making this up

in the

in the mall

that's pretty near me maybe the closest

one uh there are two businesses that are

next to each other

in the same little uh parking lot

one is dicks

and the other is a restaurant called

bj's

now

whoever decided that to two anchor

tenants should be dicks and bj's

i i think it's time for a slow clap

now

maybe it happened by accident

maybe

maybe

and maybe elon musk's car models spells

sexy completely by accident

s e x y

maybe

so maybe dicks and bj's are just in the

same place for no reason whatsoever

but it happened all right

um if you could buy stock in states

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

that right there's no indirect way to

invest in a state

is there

it probably is i can't think of one

but

if you could invest in states which ones

would you buy and which ones would you

sell now go

based on the roe vs wade just just based

on that reverse way well you can throw

everything else into throw everything in

there throw in school boards right

good one

throw in school boards gun rights

throw in abortion

situation

throw it all in there

throw in gas prices energy wokeness

throw it all in there

which states would you buy and which

would you sell

talk to me people talk to me

all right we've got lots of

opinions so i see most of you are

playing for the team and saying that the

conservative states are going to

be the beneficiaries

i would have said that until the roe

versus wade situation

because that is going to really really

stop any kind of high talent young

people from

not i mean obviously conservatives don't

care people are not going to have kids

maybe don't care or et cetera

but

i would buy california

you know you you can hate

a lot of stuff about california and

we've got some issues a lot

a lot

but we may have bottomed out

i think we may have bottomed out right

you know california isn't going to go

down forever

that's my prediction i guess it's not

guaranteed it could go down forever but

i don't think so there are too many

there are too many strong advantages

here or even our budget looks good you

know the california budget looks strong

you know who saw that coming

so yeah california

when it comes back it will

it's going to rage

if i were an investor in states i would

buy california even if you hate

everything about it just as an investor

right it's sort of like to some of you

that would be like you know investing in

a tobacco company it might be

distasteful to you

but i'm just saying it's likely to make

money i think

i think california's badness is all

how they say baked in

like it's all part of the cake already

so you've already you know discounted

that in your head and this is new news i

think it's going to make a difference

but

in a larger sense i think california is

going to come raging back

maybe three to five years

it's going to take us a while to

you know figure out how to keep the

lights on

if we can keep the lights on this is a

pretty awesome place

as corey d'angelos helpfully

informs us

there's a huge victory in school choice

in arizona the arizona state senate just

passed a bill to fund students instead

of systems

but this is the most expensive one as

corey tells us the most expensive school

choice initiative in the nation

so basically families take their

education dollars and they can apply

them to

a variety of places so there would be a

free market competition in that state

now

how much do i love

that some places will become the

laboratories

and we will find out

if this approach to schooling is better

now you probably think that because i

retweet a school choice stuff

practically every day

you probably think well there's a guy

who knows that school choice is the best

thing and we should do it nope

nope

nope

i'm completely open to the fact that

maybe there's some flaw that's you know

not obvious

generally speaking anytime you can test

a free market solution

you want to do that you want to do that

and there are plenty of people who want

that option and they want it for more

than one reason which is a perfect

situation

one of the reasons might be they don't

want the you know the wokeness

indoctrination

so we just have two reasons instead of

one the other reason is just better

schools

uh

but

um

it's great

that arizona is going to now

be the i guess the premier national

test laboratory

for finding out what works and what

doesn't i don't know how long it will

take i mean it might be a five-year

situation

so it's not like we're going to wait for

the results of the test

but i do like it

i do like it when places are are acting

differently and we can just measure it

and we'll find out i'm open to it i'm

open to this being

actually i'm open to this

being a solution to systemic racism

because

no matter how true

and i think a lot of it's true the

legacy of slavery you know rippling

through to the present

no matter what you want to argue about

the details of where you see it and

where you don't and who's whose fault it

is and

you can argue that all day long but

here's one thing i don't think anybody

would argue if every kid

had exactly the same educational

options you know with no crime and you

know they can make it to school and

they've got enough support to do their

homework and stuff if everybody had that

in a generation or so

you'd stop talking about systemic racism

right it wouldn't be one generation

but you know you should at least get a

head start on it

so

so to me

the more things you can experiment with

and more

the more improvement and the faster you

can get it in the educational field

especially to the low-income people

that's

that's the biggest lever for everything

like every lever of civilization

comes from getting this stuff right

so if you're not planning a generation

ahead and this is good planning and

maybe it's accidental but

but knowing which works the public

method or the you know the more flexible

school choice method we'll actually know

which one of those is better

not only that

but within the school choice

field there'll be lots of competition

within that and then we'll know which of

those is better

this is amazing

we've finally done or we're on the cusp

or at least let's say we're setting the

field

for the biggest

golden age improvement of all time

how many of you are parents who have

kids in school

what do you agree

that the thing we call school is

completely broken

i mean it just destroys the the parents

life at the same time as the kids

there's nothing about it that's done

right i mean in fact every part of

school would be different

if you started today and built it from

scratch it'd all be different

it's just bullying and

you have low self-esteem and it's just a

it's just a horror fest

for most kids

when i when i see kids go to school

i feel sorry for them

and not in a way that i did when i was

going to school i didn't

i never felt sorry for myself

did you i don't know i mean maybe it's a

generation thing

you could like school or not like school

but i never really felt sorry for myself

but when i see a modern child go to

school

i think they're just going into the

grinder

it's like it's like a a mental health

destruction grinder and you

like the the state makes you send them

there

we're gonna take your child that's right

sorry we're gonna take your child and

we're gonna put them every day into a

situation

that is really really up and they

will be mentally scarred probably for

life

probably for life

uh their self-esteem will be in the

toilet they'll have no value in

themselves

and that's what we'll do for you and

then we'll give them back

you see what you can do with them

and

you know so that's what it feels like

it feels like that i think we could do

better

all right um here's something that i

forgot or didn't know i can't remember

but

maggie

haberman

tweeted

this is not the part i forgot i'll get

to that that uh officials with security

clearances were sending internet

conspiracy theories to senior officials

asking them to investigate i think she's

talking about the trump

trump administration

and then molly hemingway

retweeted that with her own comment and

said that maggie heberman won a pulitzer

for her role successfully propagating

the russia collusion hoax in which

officials with security clearances sent

the democrat manufactured hoax to senior

officials across the government in an

attempt to orchestrate a coup

yeah and

how many of you knew that maggie

haberman

won a pulitzer for writing about

something that wasn't even

slightly true

did you all know that somehow i i feel

like i missed that story when it

happened because i think i would have

remembered it

did i ever tell you what it takes to win

a pulitzer

you know i i always thought it's a very

prestigious thing to win

and i cartoonists can win them there are

several cartoonists lots of them

actually who have won poolitzers

so i always thought you know that would

be like the

that would be the pinnacle of my career

if i could win a pulitzer i would

suddenly go from you know idiot making

jokes to some kind of a credible person

you know sort of a gary trudeau

situation

burke brethren the one pool lizards like

they never take that away from you right

it's very

very prestigious

or i thought it was

until i talked to somebody who knew how

it works

do you know what it takes

do you know what the process is

there's a small group of people who are

selected as judges

and then if people submit books so it's

not everything that gets created that

year you have to actually apply

most people don't so a few people will

apply

you know a small percentage

and then

a group of people will read the books

and tell you which ones they like it's

basically a book club

it's just a book club of some people who

like reading books and then they pick

one that they liked better

it literally has no more meaning or

depth

than your neighborhood book club

who read several books that year as a

club and then at the end they pick one

they liked

that's it

there's nothing to the pulitzer prize

except that

that's it

and how many book clubs would have

picked the same books

not many

because each book club would read a

different group of books

just like the pulitzer group the

pulitzer group isn't reading all the

books

they're reading little subset of books

they can't read every book and then

compare it to every other book

so it's just a ridiculous prize

i mean it's really ridiculous it's just

somebody like the book that's it

and

um once i learned that

then you understand stuff like you know

how do you get a pulitzer prize for

reporting on something that didn't

happen

well some people

probably didn't like trump

that's why

that's why

probably some people who were involved

with the

pulitzer that year just didn't like

trump and then they saw maggie haberman

says lots of bad things about trump and

wrote about

things that were bad for trump and they

thought well that's excellent writing

right there that's that's some high

class writing said the book club that

happened to be called the pulitzer

committee

all right

um

it's

pretty anyway

here's a question uh i would like to see

being asked

and it's not because i care about the

answer

i only i only care about how they would

answer it all right

so

people on the right were often bedeviled

i say be doubled

by black lives matter because they had

such a clever

uh slogan and they would say do black

lives matter

and then the people on the right would

fall into the trap

well i think all lives matter

thinking that they're agreeing but in

fact it gets framed as racist rice asked

so it was kind of a really good trap

and so

i like a good trap and so i wondered if

you could use it this way

could you what would happen if you

asked a democrat on air

if unborn lives matter

now i know the real answer they'll say

well you know

we're talking about if he is blah blah

it's not not a life

but the entire argument is you know the

whole roe vs wade thing is just thinking

past the sale

and then arguing after after you've

thought past the sale

so this is no different than that i mean

it's weasley

um

but what would they say

because if all lives matter

um

was ever inappropriate

um

well maybe we know why

maybe the reason that the the left could

not agree that all lives matter

is a good slogan is because

there's some ambiguity about when life

begins

so the moment they say all lives matter

they've kind of agreed that abortion is

murder

so they really don't mean all lives

matter

and literally

they don't

and you know you could say well

technically they don't think that's life

so you're lying scott i get i get that

but you can see why they would want to

avoid

accepting the idea that all lives matter

because it opens up an argument

there

so i would just love to see what

somebody would say if if they were

you know really in the fight

and they were pro-abortion rights

and you said do unborn lives matter

what do you think

i think the honest answer

the honest answer and by the way it's

very clever to put unborn in front of

life

because that's not that's not the same

as life

right it's kind of clever an unborn life

not alive

you know you or it could be i mean you

could argue this life but the the phrase

doesn't say it's life because as soon as

you put unborn in front of it

you've allowed some ambiguity

so i think that's a good way to ask the

question just just to see the quality of

the answer because the the democrats

have a super consistency problem they're

staging insurrections

at the same time they're doing hearings

about insurrections am i right i mean it

looks like that

in both cases they're not insurrections

but since they decided to call a

a vigorous protest in which violence is

either implied or actually happens since

they're calling that an insurrection

it's hard to explain the fact that

you're doing it at the moment you're

you're disavowing it it's very very

awkward and inconvenient they have that

consistency problem with their message

right now

that's a problem

then they also have the

well let's stop with that one

all right

how many of you think

that the world is getting worse

because

well i won't say because how many of you

think that let's let's just say america

how many of you think america is getting

worse

and that

we're on some kind of a long-term

you know drop

now let me ask you this

if i did a

survey and oh this would be interesting

i don't know if rasmus and pole is

watching this but

here's my suggestion

ask people is america improving or going

downhill

but

sort them by people who watch the news

and people who don't

i'll bet you the people who watch the

news think we're going to hell

and the people who are oblivious to the

news and they're just sort of looking

around

they may have a different opinion but

i'll bet it doesn't work during this

current weird recession pandemic stuff

at the moment it does look like things

are getting worse

i mean

you go shopping

you can't guess stuff

you buy something it's more expensive

so and in many ways it seems like things

are getting worse

um

but i don't think so

i think if you were to look at the macro

picture

i'll bet almost everything is getting

better

do you know why

because it always does

most things

right 98 of things are just getting

better all the time

airline travel is just always getting

worse i don't know it's an exception i

mean the reason we pointed out is that

it's rare

yeah

and i think that we're feeling some

serious growth pains right now

i think that the stress on society that

you see is the stress that you get when

you lift weights

and you you push yourself to that third

set

i feel like that's what we're

experiencing

it definitely hurts

it definitely hurts but it feels like

this is the stress on the system

that you get when you're going to the

next level

i feel like we're ascending

somebody used that word i'll borrow your

word i feel like civilization is

ascending

it doesn't feel like it if you watch the

news because the news is designed to

look at the bad stuff which is useful

because then you focus on fixing that

stuff

but if you're actually trying to

understand the bigger picture

you could be blinded by the fact that

talking about the bad stuff is more fun

than talking about the good stuff

yeah and

somebody's mentioning stephen pinker on

youtube

i think he may i think the context of

that is there a number of people

including him

who like to point out how we see doom

and gloom but that's not really what's

happening

airports using bio scanning well

have you tried the clear system yet has

anybody done that i'm going to give a

little commercial for it

if you fly a lot there's a system at

least in the west coast and some other

places so i don't know how many airports

are in maybe just

maybe half of the big ones or something

like that

and

you use a

retinal scan they take it once and then

once you're in the system you can bypass

the security line

by scanning your

your biometrics

now it's really awkward because they

don't really have the the regular system

and the clear system integrated in a

non-awkward way so here's what happens

i walk up to the clear system where

there's no line because people

it's like you know the first days of

atms

you know grandma didn't want to use the

atm on day one so the clear line has

nobody there so you walk up to the clear

line they say hello and there's always

somebody to help you right there and you

just put your eyes in it and scan it

and then they do this

they mark your ticket

your boarding pass

you know that you've scanned

you that you've been approved and then

they walk you to the beginning of the

line

yeah you do pay for it it's a it's an

annual payment i forget how much but it

wasn't crazy if you're flying

and they walk into the front of the line

and yeah and they do it officially so

they're doing it with the you know all

the tsa people

but all the all the all the people who

have to wait in line they don't know why

you're going to the front of the line

they just know what's happening

so you end up looking like the celebrity

so if you want to have a celebrity

experience for a very

a reasonable price

do the clear system and and then you'll

be walked up to the front line right in

front of everybody and nobody will know

why they'll just think

are you famous or something now in my

case it's weird because i am famous

so

so i'm being treated like a celebrity

but not because i'm a celebrity

but people will wonder if i am

but it's irrelevant

that i am

because that's not why they're treating

me it's just sort of a weird situation

um

all right

now

thank you

thank you i told the people on locals

because i talked to them before i go

live on youtube

uh i asked them to remind me because i

had

an idea for solving the world's biggest

problem

and it is based on a conversation i had

recently

with someone who is having some

happiness problems

and then i walked through a number of

situations and i said okay are you happy

in this situation yes

are you happy in this situation

no

and then i looked for the pattern you

know what the pattern was

that when this person was with other

people

this person was happy

and when this person was not with other

people in any kind of a social

situation be it family be a friends be

it you know boyfriends girlfriends

whatever

uh then

not happy it was that's it

that's all it was

it was that period

and how many people have that same

situation

how many people are lonely

in 2022 it's probably the biggest

crippling problem people have

here's a little eye opener

ask yourself when you've had a good

social day

if it was a good day

the answer is usually yes even if your

other problems were about the same

now take away that good social part for

whatever reason

now all of your other problems seem

pretty big don't they

because it's it's your social life that

allows you to like live and enjoy

things and not think about your problems

for a little while as soon as our social

life is gone

everything's the biggest problem in the

world

so

could you solve the social life problem

and the answer is

yes

yes you could

all you need is an app

that scheduled you to have uh

uh dinners it could be um

it could be a potluck at your house but

it also could be you know eating out at

a restaurant and you do uh six people at

a table

because that's the right number

at a reason at a restaurant recently

i saw what i took to be um three married

couples about the same age and had a lot

in common

and i've never seen

six happier people

at a table

now they were having some drinks and

some good food

but they were laughing so hard and

having such a good time that i just

couldn't stand it it was like

i just wanted to be them like you just

wished you were one of those six people

you really did

and it looked like they probably just

had known each other a long time and had

a lot in common right and that's all it

was

you should try this

just have uh you know have an app that

sets you up with people that you don't

ever have to see again

but you could

you just have a you meet

six of you have dinner with drinks and

maybe this is what the app does it says

do you like drinking

because if you say yes you're going to

want to be with some other people who

like to have a drink like like have a

cocktail

now imagine that every weekend you could

do this every weekend or every night as

much as you wanted you just take out the

app you just look for somebody else

who's looking for somebody else to add

to a table and then you make sure that

it's equal

men and women or

because it's an app and you can filter

it better you make sure it's a table

full of lgbtq if that's what you want or

whatever but you're filtering

high-level stuff

instead of

compatibility other words you're not

filtering for a date

you're filtering for okay high level

uh are you let's say i'll just take an

example i'd like some people who lean

right

and like to have a cocktail

right

if if if you happen to be in that

category you lean right

and you like to go to dinner and have a

cocktail and i paired you up let's say

you and your partner

i'll say you have a mate

but even if you're single it could be

just five other single people and i and

that's the only thing you know the only

thing you know is that you lean right

and you like to have a cocktail over a

good meal you don't think you'd have fun

you would

you would now if you didn't have a great

time the first day

well maybe the second day

now suppose you did it every day for a

month

you don't think you would meet one

person

that you'd want to you know have lunch

with on your own later of course you

would that's how it works all you really

need is

contact with other people the rest works

out you'll always find a friend if you

have enough contacts

so the biggest problem in the world is

loneliness and poor social networking

100 of that could be solved by

diversification

same as

investment

you need to be exposed to a ongoing flow

of different people

such that some of that flow will match

up with what you need and what you want

and then those people become your

lasting situations

so you need an app

that recognizes that people need flow

you can even maybe that's the name of

the app

flow

it's not about finding your one person

to marry it's not about sex

it's about finding a continuous flow of

people who have enough in common with

you or even better

one of your options could be put me in a

table that are totally different from me

like it's a grab bag

i want to be at the weirdest table i

could get i want to

you know i want to i want a rabbi and a

punk rocker and a

murderer

like that's you know and i want a couple

of drinks with with that crowd

no i would love that actually

you put me with the weirdest table and

i'd have the best time so

you could call it meetups yeah there's

like a meetup thing but i don't think

that's quite there

i think there's an interface

business model

upgrade

because

because the meetups are usually around a

interest

and i think i think that narrows it too

much

i think it should be

and also the meetups end up being

ossified like you're meeting the same

group or so each time i think you want

to flow you want the most number of

people that you can spend a little bit

of quality time with and then good

things will happen after that

all right did i did i

did i deliver

see the problem with

loneliness is that there's nobody's job

to fix it

there's no um

there's no there's no cabinet position

for social life

and yet it's your biggest problem

is that weird

it's your biggest problem for uh

probably 75 percent i think it's your

biggest problem

and there's no nobody's job is to help

you with it there's no

there's no funding you can get

i mean i'm not even aware of any kind of

training class

to improve your

there's not an app

right

yeah there's a difference between

solitude and loneliness right

but

but

remember loneliness isn't the only thing

we're trying to solve

there are lots of people have plenty of

people around them that's just not a

good mix for them so it's not working

out so sometimes you just need more just

more people more diversification do you

know why i think

diversifying your social life

would definitely work

it's because diversification works

everywhere it's like the one thing

you can pretty much depend on

you know in finance diversifying is the

thing you need to get right it's the

thing you need to get right

and

i also recommend diversifying

your your boss

can you be happy if you have one boss

yes if your boss is awesome

but how often does that happen

if you have only one boss your whole

life depends on one person who could be

a little bit nuts often is

so you want to diversify your bosses

that's what i've done

because in my in my model my business

model you're my boss

right like i have hundreds of bosses

watching me right now so if one of you

fires me which happens every day

one of you decides i'm never watching

that again or i'm not gonna i'm not

gonna subscribe anymore so every day i

get fired every day

but i'm diversified i have so many

bosses that

a hundred can fire me a day and i you

know doesn't affect my happiness

so diversify your friends diversify your

social life diversify

uh your bosses and diversify your

investments

got it

it always works

it always works

alright that's all for now talk to you

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