Episode 1806 Scott Adams - It's A Funny News Story Day. Come Join Me For A Beverage and Some Laughs

good morning everybody and welcome to the optimistic show that makes you feel better every time are you watching the other news related programs and wishing that you could end your life no don't do it don't do it watch coffee with scott adams every day and i'll put the positive spin on the bad news because you know sometimes it's good and if you think that i'm leading you toward the golden age i am here's a little tip i'm not predicting the gold of age i'm only pretending to predict it i'm actually causing it to happen and what's happening right now is that i'm nudging you onto what i call the wait for it wait for it listen carefully oh youtube just went offline is that weird right before my punchline so uh youtube's offline hey i'm back can you actually see me on youtube nope just lost me again so youtube just lost me again huh i'm gonna run uh i know you care so i'm gonna run a speed check on my my uh wi-fi speed check here you can watch see how we're doing well that looks good so it doesn't look like a wi-fi problem right looks pretty good let's see if youtube's back that can't be on my side right it is anybody uh technical enough to verify that um you're only as fast as your slowest point yeah of course huh interest oh hey hello are you back uh can anybody on youtube tell me if youtube is having a problem or is it just my my feed because i have a good feed ish on locals all right well let's take it from here you know you may have interrupted my flow have you noticed that if i lose my flow at the beginning of the show i never recover it has anybody ever noticed that sometimes i just have to give up uh anyway losing my flow is actually my biggest problem that i have you know working at home all right all right it looks like we've recovered everybody good you want to pretend like it never happened well let's go to this simultaneous set but all you need is a cover burger gossip technical chelsea steiner canteen dragon flash vessel in the guy fill it with favorite liquid let's hurry before the technology dies again go um oh we were waiting for the punch line on youtube you missed the punch line let's see if it makes it go offline again all right it goes something like this you may not think your goes like this you might think that i'm predicting we're heading toward a golden age where everything's better but i'm not predicting it i'm causing it and what i'm doing specifically is i'm trying to nudge the public onto wait for it listen carefully youtube don't go offline don't go offline don't wait wait for the punchline i'm going to nudge you onto the sippery slope you're welcome the slippery slope because when you take it oh it wasn't that bad shut up shut up talk about a joke that wasn't worth waiting for wow well it's getting harder to brag i know this is not a problem for a lot of you but for people like me if you are a narcissist it's it's getting hard let me give you an example early in my career i did a dilbert comic in which i made i included some reference to garfield the other comic now there's a standard within the cartoonist world that if you mention somebody else's comic in your comic there's there's sort of a custom that happens after that and the custom is that the person who was mentioned will often contact you and say can i have the original because cartoonists will collect originals from other cartoonists and so when i mentioned garfield and this is when you know i was basically an unknown i just started cartooning i got contacted by jim davis now you can imagine if you're a starting cartoonist you know just imagine what happens if you know jim davis the creator of garfield when garfield's you know gigantic imagine being contacted by the creator of a garfield and asking for your original it's like the coolest thing ever right if you're just starting out cartooning it's it's like the pope just patted you on the head or something so i of course agreed immediately instead of my my crappy dilbert comic with uh with ink that probably disappeared a week after he got it i didn't use permanent ink in those days and uh don't ask why it's a long story but so i've got so now i've got this original garfield probably at the time it was worth maybe a thousand dollars you know which would be more today and i thought you know it's not enough to own one other people have to see this thing and i'm like what what is the point of reaching this pinnacle of my cartooning success at that point if i can't if i get a show off show it to somebody so i took it to my local framing shop and here was what i thought would be my first my first hit of you know narcissistic supply i thought wait until wait until the person i asked to frame this because it was where you leave it and they frame it for you i thought wait until the person i asked to frame this figures out what this is it's like gold right and these and the person is going to ask naturally i figure they're going to say is this an original garfield and i would say yeah it is it is ah yeah it is and then of course you would follow up like how is it that you've come into acquisition of this valuable property and i would say ah you sent it to me if you have other questions you might want to follow up oh why why did he send it to me oh oh it turns out that i'm also a cartoonist yeah yeah i do a cartoon and it caught his attention and he liked it yeah top cartoonist in the world who's maybe a living he liked my cartoon so so he asked if he could trade that's how i thought it would go in my mind i imagined myself fake humbly saying how i got it while he was like impressed and then i'd feel some narcissistic supply and i'd be like feeling good for today that's what i hoped that's not how it went here's how it went i'm standing in line behind one other customer there's just three of us in the store the the person who owns the place customer in front of me and me custerman in front of me is getting a framed garfield yep we both had one and then do you know what the uh do you know what the store owner said to me when i brought mine third one today now it turns out that was a joke it was not the third one today but the fact that there were two of them talk about deflating my god now fast forward to last night all right so fast forward you know a few decades to last night my new thing that i like to humbly drop into stories not really humbly at all is that i i once visited the oval office and talked to the president trump now if that is let me tell you if that ever happens to you or something like it you're not going to keep that to yourself right now i'm worse because i like bragging so i want everybody to know but i don't want to be like i got invited to the white house so i want it to be like subtly you know maybe it just comes up as a natural part of the conversation i'll be like yeah yeah as a matter of fact yup bendy ovals so i'll do things like if there's a you know news program and it shows the oval office you know i'll drop in something like huh looks like they changed the rug you know just leave that in there ah looks like is that the same lamp looks like a different lamp you know just wait for somebody to ask the question like well i don't like to brag but i've been there yep ivanka gave me a tour of the furniture in the oval office i probably happens to a lot of people so like that so anyway so so i like to get my little narcissistic supply by telling people that i was once in the oval office last night i'm at a you know neighborhood gathering in town and just talking to the neighbors and and once again politics came up and i thought well here here's my opportunity i'm gonna i'm gonna just drop this in here because when you're just talking to the neighbors like literally the people live on your block you know this could be a little extra a little extra impressive wouldn't you say because you know often i'm talking to other public figures and they've done interesting things too but if you're just talking to the neighbors you can really you can really wow the neighbors so i was talking to uh a woman who lives in the neighborhood and i mentioned you know i i better be over love is it i met the president and she said uh yeah i had dinner with obama and i just thought well it i'm just going to give up like well i'm just going to give up is there is there anybody i can talk to who hasn't done something better good lord what do i have to do what do i have to do i don't know so i know lots of you have your own problems and your own problems seem big to you but you know everybody thinks their own problem will you give me a moment for some sympathy i've been trying to brag for years and it's not working out at all so i'll just keep trying um yesterday i saw a straight news piece that made me laugh for 10 minutes right now remember i said that parity and reality have merged if you can find a better example than this now i'm going to read you the actual straight headline and you tell me that it's not a joke right try to distinguish between the actual headline i'm not making this up this is an actual headline from yesterday kamala harris's speechwriter quit it's not just me right and i i went to retweet it and add a joke and i couldn't do it i couldn't add a joke because you can't add a joke to the joke like that's just piling on there was nothing you could say to that to make it funnier i just laughed for 10 minutes and every time i kept to i kept trying to do a quote tweet where i'd you know add the add the humorous the humorous spin on it there's no humorous spin you can add on that well i thought but it turns out that uh one professional oh damn it did i not write that down oh somebody had a better joke than i did quoting quoting the speechwriter humorously anyway never mind but i wondered if this would uh this is generating a whole category of jokes do you know how letterman used to do the top 10 list and he could it seems like they could always make that funny at least a few items on it because there's something about a top 10 list that just naturally is easier to write jokes to it's it's a format that you can easily write jokes to but when i heard that kamala harris is a speechwriter quit i thought i have an announcement too my hair stylist has resigned so this is my public announcement my hair stylist has resigned and if that wasn't bad enough it was a bad day on my staff my personal stylist quit yeah my personal stylist quit one day i wear a white t-shirt because it's laundry day my personal stylist says it i'm out of here um i have some other news about other people michael morris personal trainer quit just resigned walked off the door so am i wrong that this is a genre we can play with i don't understand what that means somebody just said my gynecologist just quit i don't know why that's funny you're not even on the right that's not even the right theme it's funnier because it doesn't work it's funnier because it doesn't work oh yeah i know it's a guy that said it but it's funnier because it doesn't work uh well i guess if you're saying i mean that's a little too far all right uh here's a mystery solved maybe um i've been wondering why there haven't been any gigantic forest fires this year in california now if you don't live in california you have not noticed that they're not here and i'm pretty sure that we were seeing them by now last year in the year before no trees left we got a few left and it turns out there was a 60 minutes report that may have explained why so apparently we have now although it's not being as utilized or used i like to say as much as it could be there's a helicopter fleet of rapid response um types and and there are big chinook type helicopters you know the the double rotors that can lift up anything and they can carry enormous amounts of fire retardant but the big difference is they're equipped to fly at night i didn't know this but did you know this that they stopped fighting fires at night at least by air did you know that because i guess the regular uh knife flying is too dangerous but if you if you use the ones that are sort of military-grade chinooks that are meant for all kinds of nighttime things they can do it safely and it's much easier to fight the fire because it doesn't rage as much at night so you get it at its weakest point but apparently the idea is for an enormous amount of money so like one one flight of these helicopters is going to be you know millions and millions of dollars not one flight but one fire you know fighting one fire would be many millions for these helicopters but um it's because of the low altitude that's what makes it dangerous for planes somebody's saying that makes sense so somebody says 23 000 an hour that sounds about right but apparently the company that makes them makes the claim that uh even though they're insanely expensive it's less expensive than letting the fire get out of control and on that i think they make it actually good argument now is it solved you know i had an idea that maybe is the next generation i thought that we should have a um a fleet of drones that's always flying around looking for any fires now i guess they're using the helicopters for that and then night vision but you could use a drone for that so i think there should always be drones in the air and always looking for forest fires anywhere in california you know as soon as one lands another one takes off sort of thing so if you spot it quickly i guess that's half the fight right you could put night vision on the easily put night vision on a drone but then i thought what if you had a fleet of firefighting drones a little too soon for that i don't think we have the technology but if they were helicopter drones could they not do what the chinook did you know maybe you just need the human pilot at this point but but at some point that's what i think it's going to be at some point i think forest fires will be spotted by drones and then the first phase of suppression will be drones and maybe their first drones can't carry as much and but you got lots of them right it's just you're just black in the sky with smaller drones that don't have a big payload but there are lots of them and they're fast i know i think that's where we're going but it's nice to know that it's possible that these helicopters might be the reason that my sky looks blue um all right so that's good news um i saw a tweet by uh twitter user machiavelli's underbelly who is a real good follow if you're looking for a good follow on especially on ai and technology related stuff just search for machiavelli's underbelly machiavelli is spelled just the way you think it is all right and he notes um somebody else was tweeting there are a whole bunch of ba accounts requesting that we go hard with new mask mandates and the bots are saying the exact same thing it's obvious it's a cut and paste and has all kinds of different accounts and as machiavelli's underbelly uh alleges now this is an allegation but i don't think it's wrong there's a foreign entity that is flooding us with bots trying to destroy destroy america by you know bringing up the mask mandate thing again what do you think do you think and i do think the evidence was strong there was a list there was actually a video list of a whole bunch of accounts that all have the same thing and oh you know what if you find it just do a search on some of the terms and you can see within twitter you should see all the accounts just pop up because it's the same terms they use now who do you think would be behind it do you think first of all well let me state with if these are if the accounts shown really exist then there is a bot problem and it's a bot problem pushing masks who would do that do you think that a domestic entity would do that i mean anything's possible but it seems very unlikely i i don't see a domestic so what do you buy that if it's a bot attack is foreign i think it's foreign yeah you could argue that maybe you would help somebody in the election but that's a little murky isn't it i don't really see how that's going to help any american not really so i feel as though it's got to be foreign and who would be the most likely culprits china or russia china or russia china you don't think russia isn't russia more implicated in bots both say both well this is a specific attack so i mean it's iran yeah it feels chinese but that's just a guess all right um so i guess i'm a little late on this story but we're still talking about biden's visit to saudi arabia and he did a fist bump with the saudis crown prince there and the fist bump was even even adam schiff criticized biden is that the first time adam schiff just directly criticized him pretty pretty aggressively and i gotta say i didn't think i would ever respect anything that came out of adam schiff's mouth but that was exactly the right thing to do yeah i hate to give him credit but he just went hard at his own party for something that was perfectly appropriate criticism in my opinion can we give them that let let's see if we can fight with our confirmation bias and our and our team spirit duff just to give them that right shift is a piece of he's like one of the worst human beings i've ever experienced in public life just an opinion but i'll give him that because he went after his own team and it was the right goal now what do you think was in biden's mind when he did this fist bump what the hell was he thinking because the fist bump it feels to me like that is a clear sign of a lack of mental let's say sharpness did it seem like that to you i don't feel like that was some cleverly thought out thing he did i don't know that it was just a spontaneous thing and he thought oops as soon as he did it i feel like he should have been a little more prepared for that and it feels like um his advisors didn't have control over that you know it wasn't on a teleprompter or something i feel like that was just a sign of age what do you think did that look to you like really could only be explained by his mental decline you know you have to be careful because if you're already primed to think that everything is his mental decline you know i already debunked that handshaking thing where it looks like he wants to shake hands and nobody's there that's just a fake video fake in the sense that they cut off the fact that he's just gesturing towards something he's actually gesturing to where they're going to walk or should i walk over here or are we going over there so if you don't see the whole stage it looks like he's trying to shake hands with a ghost but that's debunked that's nothing so maybe just like the handshake maybe we're all just primed to see it as what it's not who knows maybe he thought of it maybe maybe it was intentional who knows but it's pretty awkward that we send our president president over there who said the khashoggi thing's the worst thing and they should be treated as a part of pariah and then when he gets over there to talk to the pariah he's like fist bump fist bump you know i didn't see it but i'm sure i wouldn't have liked it now here's something else in the news that i want you to shake your head when this happens i'm going to tell you the news and i want to just go what is happening to us all right here's the news that the president went over to saudi arabia and asked them to pump more oil and the saudis said that they they're basically close to capacity so there's not much they can do is that the headline you heard that they're close to capacity so there's not much they can do right and then did you read the numbers so the headline says they're close to capacity there's not much they can do what what did the numbers say they could do where are they they're at about 10 million barrels a day what did they say they could get up to because they're right at their cap would they say they could get up to 13.

they could go from 10 to maximum of 13.

now do the math that's a 30 increase are you telling me that if one of the biggest producers in the world increases by 30 percent nobody notices what am i wrong that the headline is opposite of the news right the news should have been saudis potentially could increase 30 percent and they're willing to try you know it might be hard because they you know that last thirty percent is hard hard to get to because you know you gotta be operating perfectly but but can you just give me a sanity check am i right or wrong that the headline was opposite of the story the headline says there's not much we can do the numbers say there's plenty we can do and it would make a big difference am i wrong seriously am i wrong like what am i missing well i'm a little worried here because i feel like somebody says refining is the issue is it that's the only issue domestically it takes a lot of engineering work to get the extra yeah but you know if the story had been there's nothing we can do because we can't do it then that would be the story but the story the way it was written was we can go from 10 to 13.

so could our news business be worse okay i've been challenged to work a drone into this story because i work drones into every story challenge accepted how do i work a drone into the story about casper well you know uh if he needed to transport it if he had enough drones no just joking that would never work i don't think i could work a drone into that story um but i tried all right you know they say one person can't make a difference do any of you think that that one person can't make a difference i'm hearing somebody say that we're only going from 12 to 13 which would be opposite of the story i just read in axios so i don't know maybe it's just the news doesn't know what the facts are all right well if you think one person can't make a difference i would point you to greta tunberg nearly deindustrializing germany so that's on her resume i almost deindustrialized germany close i mean i don't think she succeeded matt you paid ten dollars to say garfield is the least funny cartoon in syndication matt you may not be aware of this and i'm gonna give you a shocking revelation humor is subjective humor is subjective do you know how much money people pay for garfield not just to run it but merchandise and tv shows people are paying a lot of money for that thing you say is the worst thing which in the case there's a whole lot of people like it humor is subjective so thanks uh greta for destroying germany i guess um did a little bit less than hitler but she's she's making a dent i mean i don't think it would be fair i think you'd agree with this can we agree it would be unfair to compare greta tung bird to hitler can we all agree on that that would be completely inappropriate do not compare greta tunberg to hitler destroying germany right but can we also agree she's number two now if you were going to rank them the most destructive people in the uh in the history of the german country um she's definitely not number one we're all on the same page right number one hitler but i'm just saying you know there and there might be like a long distance right between number two but once you get down to like number two very strongly at the top of the list of all the potential people destroying german would be greta so i want to be very clear do not compare it to hitler she's nowhere near that bad but she's number two she is number two all right um i wondered as many of you did when steve jobs died would apple start making worse products did you all wonder that because it felt like he was the secret sauce right yeah they got all the best designers in the world and you know ivy does this and that and blah blah blah but um you thought did you think that steve jobs was like the ultimate guy who said no that's not good enough it is in my imagination that apple has completely lost the program with user interface like user interface was their thing but i just just tweeted around i was using an app as a microphone icon and then it's working on top of the ios the os that has a microphone icon right next there's two microphone icons that do different things one is to create a voice text and one is to you know immediately you can send your voice now do you think that steve jobs would have allowed that there could ever be an app that would have the same icon on it in the app store as apple's own icon and right next to it so you wouldn't know what the you were doing you can't even imagine that steve jobs would have ever allowed that right and you know giving you some other examples it does seem that the and i told you there's you know five factorial ways to to cancel the incoming phone call do you think that steve jobs would have allowed five factorial ways to silence a phone call no so let me ask the question oh and full disclosure i do own apple stock so i'm i'm you know i'm ragging on them but i'm betting the other way so just just be aware i'm betting the other way so my money says they'll be great for a long time my opinion is there's something wrong with that steve jobs so you know just hold both of those is true and i feel like apple has lost it in their the interface part what do you think is it is any other any other apples users who who think they've gotten too complicated and i think that's what jobs would have stopped okay i'm not going to read that comment you could tone that down a little bit um just you know the locals platform is free speech so you know nobody's going to get blocked on locals but i'll give you my opinion that that's inappropriate comment you know who you are all right and everybody's welcome with your inappropriate comments but i'm not going to let it go by without commenting on it okay so um apparently the mexican military captured one of the top drug cartel leaders the leader of the guadalajara cartel now i don't know my cartels too well but that would that be maybe the third biggest cartel i don't know the cartel you know this the sonowa might be the biggest i don't know is it like the third biggest does anybody know i i didn't get that from the story the los the zetas the cineloa so they might be maybe third biggest or something now somebody said uh oh this is good it means the mexican government is uh operating against the cartels and here's you know solid evidence that they're serious about it because they got they caught the head of the cartel what do you think oh he said no do you think that's what this story is that the mexican government now is getting hard they're going hard against the cartels nope it's sinaloa i don't know what it is it is sinaloa i guess thank you uh no the bigger cartel has friends in the army thank you that is the correct answer the correct answer is that another cartel controls the military and the government and told the military and the government to get rid of their competition that's what it looks like to me i'm alleging i don't know this of course so i'm alleging but it looks to me like one of the cartels took out the weaker cartel that's all it looks like to me if you hear that the mexican military moves against the head of the sinaloa cartel then you have my attention but when the military that may in fact side with us in a lower cartel i'm just wondering maybe possibly when they take out a business competitor of the biggest cartel i don't know if that's telling you what you think it's telling you you know what i mean so here's a question i asked and you know you always see these pictures of the coyotes the cartel employees who are helping the migrants get across apparently the cartels make huge amounts of money charging the immigrants a god-awful amount to get across the border and they can't get across without the cartels because the cartels are literally guarding the border on their side so but when we see the videos you can always see the the coyotes and they're they're real obvious you know exactly which ones are the coyotes and you know which ones are the poor immigrants who are trying to get to a better life and i ask you this why can't we use snipers and take them out now we require an act of war or something probably but we could get that done right now or drones right drones but if we can see them and we know they work for the cartel and we know it's you know they're bringing in the ringing fentanyl and killing us by tens of thousands a year do you think that we couldn't now politically it would never happen so i'm not saying this is practical i also live in the real world where it would never happen but remember i also i also suggested droning the cartels you thought that was crazy until the news reported that trump was asking about it let me tell you what artists do that's a value to the civilization i read a book on this i forget the author it's the first time i heard this idea apparently there are many examples in history of where art preceded science or predicted the future now you know lots of famous ones like you know uh hg um what is it who wrote the stories about rocket ships and stuff like that so artists have always you know predicted in science fiction what's going to happen etc but it's also happened in science there there are some artists who conceived of things before science actually discovered it was true and there's this idea that you can't act until you can imagine something or you can't find it until you can imagine it in other words you could walk right past something that you would never imagined without recognizing it so you have to imagine something h issue wells thank you hg wells predicted a lot of rocket ship travel and stuff and so here's what i'm doing for civilization before i mention the possibility of using military snipers to take out the coyotes had anybody thought about it because i've never heard anybody talk about it have you ever heard anybody talk about that idea oh you have you've heard somebody talk about it in public or privately oh yes but i'm in the military but have you heard anybody talk about it um in a political sense in public so well special forces of course right but what i'm suggesting is a little more um radical than sending special forces believe it or not because just just imagine this visual there there's a line of you know immigrants crossing and there's a coyote usually standing somewhere in the industry making sure and you see a video of that happening and then you see the head of the coyote just being blown off and just like his his headless body just falls into the river and then repeat just repeat just keep doing it and making sure you get it on video every time how many videos of a how many videos viral videos of a coyote having his head taken clean off would you need to publish before a coyotes wouldn't want to do that anymore not many right you know the three you might have to take three heads off and then nobody would do it anymore that would be it because it would be on everybody's phones in mexico everybody would see it yeah about three because our brain our brain forms a pattern at about three if you did three people would think it was a hundred now am i suggesting it as a practical matter i don't know you know i'm no international expert i just know that fentanyl is coming into the country and killing us and if he asked me what i would be willing to do about it if it were up to me i would be willing to blow the head clean off of every coyote let me say it again with no moral qualms whatsoever if it's up to me and i'm president i'm going to start taking the heads off of all the coyotes and i don't care which side of the border they're on and if mexico complains i will take their complaint under consideration and they will blow that off another coyote and then mexico will complain and they'll say gosh you know i feel bad about that but we're going to keep doing it and i would just keep blasting coyotes until nobody got close to it somebody's asking me if i'm stoned no i don't act like this when i'm stoned i'm usually less murderous now i'm only murderous when there's a reason i'm not like murderers in general no i'm not high as a matter of fact which would be ironic in its own way um do you think we could do a declaration of war against the mexican cartels i believe we could we could not do maybe a declaration of war against the cartels i'm saying against the mexican government that would be a bad look but we could declare war against the cartels because all you have to do is declare them international terrorists am i right right what's the difference between uh china shipping precursors for fentanyl into the cartels and then the cartels moving in the the fact that the cartel is just trying to make money and and probably their intention has nothing to do with destroying the united states but mexico does i'm sorry not mexico but china does china has a goal of destroying the united states through terrorist acts such as this so the the cartels are just working with china as terrorists now it's not their purpose they're just trying to make money but their functional use is terrorism so if you tell me that isis had set up territory in mexico are you telling me we couldn't get government approval to take out isis in mexico of course we could we wouldn't even hesitate so what's the difference between the cartels what the cartels are doing and ices none there's no difference there's no difference that matters right there's a difference there's no difference it should matter to how we treat it if you put a deadly risk in my neighbor's backyard and my neighbor won't do anything about it i'm going to kill the neighbor i'm going to kill my neighbor if he if he does something that's going to kill me first of course so you know if we're acting like oh mexico is our good friend of course they are but it doesn't have any impact on what you do about reducing your own risk scott you're fed posting what is fed posting is that like i work for the feds so you think um i'm being asked if i would kill the coyotes if they were trans no i would not i would not if the if the coyotes decide decide to be trans i would let them go i would not i would not uh because i don't want to be part of making the problem worse i'm only just trying to solve this drug problem but good question all right so joe manchin it looks like he's gonna kill the uh the big climate bill that would be expensive does anybody think that mansion is doing this for any other reason than because you he has a lot of coal business in his state and they probably support him for re-election and god knows what else i mean it's just for the coal but it's interesting because our system lets him do that not only lets him do that but encourages it really i mean he does represent his state his state does benefit from coal i don't know i i go back and forth about mansion do you have the same problem because on one hand i think oh he's doing exactly what his voters want it doesn't work for us but that's how the system works and so you know i accept it as part of the system but on the other hand don't you kind of suspect that maybe he's doing it because big coal gives him money i don't know that but is it the most obvious thing you would want to ask are you getting any side benefits from big coal in any way you know it's a question to ask so it looks like biden is going to fail completely on this big green energy thing because of mansion huh uh somebody pointed out that his last name is man chin it sounds exactly like you know what he's doing he's putting his chin out there all right um how many uh murderers do each of you know i want to do a poll here how many murderers do you personally know people that you've talked to had a conversation with like actual murderers you're guaranteed murderers i i've seen a number of you somebody said two three two now i'm not gonna count military not military one one none no don't count abortion just for this purpose don't count it snipers don't count yeah one suspected i i was thinking the other day that i know too and i thought how many other at least three wow and i wondered how many people know actually personally know a murderer the the most famous one wrote a book about it and he was he he lived in the cubicle on the other side of the uh little cubicle wall for me when i worked at pacific bell so he worked in marketing and he was the cubicle like literally if i'm looking at my computer he's just there on the other side of the little wall and he murdered a friend strangled him with a belt went to jail and wrote a good book about it he mentioned me in the book yeah one so i think i know one convicted at least you know too erica knows too well um you met a guy who said he was an assassin i once i once had a friend who said she dated an uh a contract killer and her story was that in the middle of night you get a call and he'd take out his you know little contract killer gun and you know with the the silencer they'd assemble it and they'd be gone for several hours they'd come back several hours later presumably having just killed somebody and she reports that the sex was excellent so apparently if you have sex with a contract killer right after he does his job really good he's really good so if you're looking to upgrade your sexual experience i would recommend a contract killer all right um uh somebody says my wife murdered my inner joy we'll take that as a as a murder all right um yes it is disgusting true but disgusting all right let me ask you this how many of you have been in jail i see one person saying so how many of you personally have been in jail mostly knows smattering of yeses i assume yet most of the yeses are probably you know young person mischief yep oh just just visiting doesn't count drunk tank yep that's a lot of people on this uh well i'm seeing quite a difference on the on the locals platform so the people who pay a subscription to see my extra content uh a lot of criminals in this group compare you can't see it but compared to the the youtube answers on youtube it's no no of course not no over a local says yep yep three years yup yup it's not quite that bad i'm exaggerating but it does look like there's a difference apparently i attract a criminal element yeah being a criminal is relative very interesting for selling pot oh my god your ex-boyfriend may have pushed his next girlfriend off a roof okay that's scary youtubers don't get caught okay that's funny all right locals you've been insulted but cleverly so so i'm going to repeat it i i said that there are more criminals it seemed like on the locals platform and somebody at youtube says the youtubers don't get caught that's pretty funny i'm going to try to create some kind of like cattle and sheep friction between the locals and the youtube people for no good reason over on locals they're saying to the youtubers fu they stole my wedding ring what all right so that's enough for now uh it's kind of a slow news day so we're gonna let it go let's uh let's get to our day and i'm let me just give you a little summary of things did you notice the gas prices are down right they're still way too high but they are down right you have noticed that nuclear plants are being not decommissioned as much as they were even it looks like even japan is going more pro-nuclear again so nuclear energy is up um i don't think the next mask mandate which i think they'll try i don't think it's going to work i feel like the public is just about done with the mask mandates we'll see but we're close yeah generation 4 nuclear is being built in is it wyoming and um in my opinion the odds of a nuclear conflict with russia are i'd say about zero right now wouldn't you yeah so we went from that was a real risk to now i would say that we're moving our manufacturing from china not quickly but it doesn't have to be quick we just have to stop moving it there which i believe has already happened am i right we did stop moving it there now what you're worried about the the labor coming across the border see what i did there did you catch that i talked about the labor coming across the border i didn't mean to do that but that was a that was manipulative as a hell that was accidental by the way because i was thinking he had my point but but in a condition where it's hard to hire one of the biggest problems in the economy right now is there not enough people right there are not enough people to hire at the same time we have hoards of people coming across the border now they may not be trained in the right ways but they're going to pick up some of the slack for things that nobody's doing so we do have massive illegal immigration at the same time we have massive need for employees it's not the worst problem is it now let me be clear i'm in favor of strong border control and i'm in foreign and i'm in charge i'm in favor of us ratcheting up or down our immigration based on our economic situation if i were in charge of the border right now do you know what i'd do i'd open it up because economically i'm pretty sure we needed we need workers more than we need to stop them you know because there is crime there is other things coming but give me just you know we don't have all the information but do you think that you have the same issue with illegal immigration when we need the workers does it feel the same and i get that we're you know there's a crime element coming in with you know good people right but this would be exactly the time i would have opened the border if we had fully controlled borders if we had a wall that worked along the whole border this is what i would have opened the door that's with your brains isn't it this is a fascinating experience on my side because because i see the nature of the comments in real time as they're going by and doesn't it you up to know that i'm totally strong border always have been you know you should seal that border so a kick it can't get through unless you wanted to right so you need you need total control over your border and if we have high unemployment you close it if you have low unemployment like we do now and insurance your workers you open it wide yeah and and what's weird about this is i know that most of you almost all of you are really strong against illegal immigration as am i illegal i'm very strong against illegal immigration but i don't see any pushback to this and i don't know what's going on because it's not like any of you are shy oh open it for illegal immigration well i see what you're saying but that this is a slightly different topic i'm saying that i'm saying i would let them in legally you know and track them and whatever whatever we need to do but here's my point and i feel like you agreed but you don't want to say it so i'm going to say it again i want to see if you can go the extra distance i don't think you can so this is sort of a challenge to your mental flexibility could you go all the way to at the moment because we need the workers that the that the illegal immigration is not a problem in the way that it normally would be can you go there who can go there with me it's a it's a tough place to go because if your entire political opinion has been no no no illegal immigration now if you could release on the fact that they're illegal for a moment and just just concentrate on the fact that it's either good or bad for the economy is it good or is it bad for the us economy mostly no okay mostly knows almost all those actually all right well all right here's my proposition at the moment without doing a deep dive and the deep dive could change my opinion on the surface it looks like this is when i would have opened the doors on the surface but there might be more to the story how many go on welfare i'll bet not nearly as many are sucking up resources as are adding to it but that's what you need the economist for you need the experts in this field all right let me ask you the question in a different way are you ready for this let's say hypothetically and this has not happened let's say the best economist that you know oh okay i'll give you a specific one this is this is hypothetical suppose thomas sowell who is one of the most respected economists on the republican side suppose and he has not said this right this is just hypothetical suppose he said all right i've looked into it and while i hate illegal immigration i imagine he'd say that i'm just speculating he'd agree with you i hate illegal immigration first choice would be controlling our border but on this narrow question of was that whether it helps the economy or hurts it is my opinion that it helps it at the moment suppose he said that now and in this hypothetical he knows more about the economy than you do and you you agree if thomas sowell said that at this moment the illegal immigration illegal immigration is helping our economy a little bit more than is hurting it would it change your mind just for the short run go i saw yes i saw sure i see some yeses interesting i did not know if that would work a lot of no's now if you said no what would be your reasoning if your reasoning is about the illegal part remember that's the part i removed from the question uh safety i don't think safety here's my problem with the safety issue is are the immigrants coming from south of the border bringing in more crime than the average of the public that's already here well let me ask you that does that matter suppose you you thought you needed the workers so economically that wasn't your problem so suppose that you weren't worried about the economics temporarily but you were worried about the extra safety problem criminal element if i told you that and i don't know that this is true but if i told you that the average of the people coming across the border is actually less crime than the average that's already here but of course it's more people so it's more crime right it doesn't maybe it doesn't matter to you that the average would go down maybe it only matters that there's more of it but if you need that more of it to operate your economy that's different so i think what's happening possibly i want to i want to open your i want to open your mind to this possibility which i do not claim is the truth right i'm going to make i'm going to make two claims that i do not know to be the truth but very well could be the first the first claim is that at this moment we're in a very strange period of time where we need the labor more than we need to stop it that's the first claim and i don't know that that's true i would look through it look to a thomas soul or something like that to confirm the second claim and this is far more speculative is if you looked at the total body of uh of illegal immigrants and i'm not even sure if you should include the second generation because it's all connected right maybe you include the second generation too to get a really good clean look is that fair if i were to look at the crime from illegal immigration would you allow me to include their second generation as part of the whole picture i think so if you looked at the first and the second generation would their average crime be higher or lower than what was already here i think it would be lower i don't know and that that's purely anecdotal and speculative i think it's lower the thing you don't see if you don't live around the immigrant community is how much they really really don't want to get caught from doing a crime because the penalty's worse they go back to mexico or wherever right there's a bigger penalty and they know it and they didn't come here to get arrested and get sent back that's the opposite of what they want in every way i think they're lowering the crime rate in america now let me ask you this if all they did was bring in a bunch of people who were oh can i say this without being kicked off of social media give me a pause i know this would be a close one you want me to fly close to the sun yeah i don't think i could do that yeah it's not worth it all right so i'll just say that i think you cannot rule to rule out the possibility that they're they're improving the economy and lowering the crime rate i don't think you can rule that out they may be increasing the amount of crime and if that bothers you that's that's actually rational they might increase the total number of crime because whenever you increase the total number of people necessarily you increase crime but you know every time you have a baby you increase crime right did you know that that if you ban abortion you've increased crime you all know that right i mean not just the crime of the abortion everybody gets that if if you banned all abortions your crime would go way up not your crime rate if i said your crime rate i'd be a racist so i don't say that your total your total amount of credit there's just more people more people equals more crime so if you think that everything that creates more people because it brings more crime is bad be consistent you know everywhere there's more people being added to the country you should say no i don't want more people i don't want you to have a baby don't have a baby that will add more crime not necessarily your baby but if everybody had babies you're gonna get more crime all right freakonomics made the claim i think that was i heard a debunk of the freakonomics claim there's a book called freakonomics in which they said that the reason crime decreased seemingly everywhere in the united states at the same time is that because abortion was legalized and you're seeing the benefit of fewer uh unwanted let's call them babies who are more likely to commit crimes say the statistics but i feel like that got i saw somebody take a run at debunking that but i don't know if the debunk was better than the book or vice versa fewer people at a certain age range equals lower crime rate that is correct if you have a higher percentage of senior citizens in the in the population that's a good point why have i never thought of that before yeah if you have a higher ratio of senior citizens your crime rate will blow theoretically and that's where we are well scott benefit what are you talking about um more doordash robberies millionaires seem to love cheap labor yes yes you know when i talk about the fact that i'm friendlier to immigration even illegal immigration although i want i want zero illegal immigration but we also have to deal with the fact that it exists um if i seem softer on it and then you say to yourself well scott that's easy for you to say because you just get cheap labor you're right you're right that's exactly what you should say about me you are absolutely correct that there's no way that i'm uninfluenced by the fact that it benefits me personally of course i am yeah immigration tends to be a personal problem i don't know if you've noticed that right uh immigration tends to be a personal problem if you've had experience with any immigrants or that world you have an opinion and if you don't you're dealing with it on some conceptual level and that's really different but i don't deal with immigration on a conceptual level completely so anybody who says i'm being biased by positive association with the immigrant community i want to tell you that's true i am absolutely biased by repeated positive interactions with the illegal immigrant community consistently positive and i don't know there's nothing i can do about that right i mean i could be aware of it i could call it out i could be transparent that it exists but i can't make it go away you know you're you're you know the whole thing people won't remember what you said but they'll remember how you made them feel i forget who said that famous quote but that's exactly true with the illegal immigrant community i don't remember what they said but i always remember how they made me feel and they always make me feel great so fairly consistently how many criminals do you know lots lots if you count the ones who haven't been caught it's everybody and pretty much everybody uh which party do you think immigrants will vote for well you know famously people are noticing that it's changing right i think the funniest thing is that the democrats think that the hard-working immigrants who understand motivation and how motivation and economics work because they're they're you can't get closer to it than an illegal immigrant that's as close as you can get to human motivation equals profit right like they're living it to imagine that the people who come out of that experience will turn into democrats maybe maybe but i live in the real world um but let me let me tell you a little secret well here's a california secret get into any you know mixed group of people and then where i live it's always mixed right there's you don't have it's pretty rare to be talking to a bunch of white people in california there's always there's always a mix and then privately peel off you know one of the brown or black ones in your group and then talk about politics you get a really different feel it doesn't i don't know if it's a local thing or what but i don't get anybody born in another country who is democrat people born in other countries actually i'm thinking of some exceptions now so i'm exaggerating too much there are some some exceptions but i'm always surprised when somebody born in another country came over here worked hard you know made something of themselves they're obviously they lead republicans because everything they did was a republican plan work hard stay in a jail you know go to school take care of your family this pure republican dogma is just it's their own version of it and when they get here who are they going to religion yeah belief in god stevie says i'm so naive here's what i think i think that because there are a lot of hispanic democrat voters at the moment we imagine that that's that's how it will always go but i think the democratic party of today is such a turn off that an immigrant today being exposed to both of them for the first time would say well one's talking about pronouns and climate change that i don't even get it's not my problem at the moment and the other is wants to lower my taxes and you know it's tough on crime and says work hard like what do you what do you yeah and and the hispanic community is not so big in the latinx names i mean that's all just coming from democrats um yeah everybody i know who came from mexico uh loves capitalism that's why they came here all right i believe we have exhausted all our topics and we have come to the conclusion of one of the best things that's ever happened it's called coffee with scott dams i will design the mug still working on it it will be the most awesome thing ever and tomorrow i'll be back i'll be back if not tonight oh so at the moment you know i don't know exactly what my plans will be today but there's a good chance i might do a man cave episode tonight and if i do i do that without youtube so we'll do a test of the locals video and audio because it could be that i'm running both platforms at the same time it might be something happening at my end i will try to not leave out the east coast by doing it earlier if i do it that will be my potential plan alright good to see all of you maybe i'll see you later bye for now

good morning everybody and welcome

to the optimistic

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time are you watching the other news

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and i'll put the positive spin on the

bad news

because you know sometimes it's good

and

if you think

that i'm leading you toward

the golden age

i am

here's a little tip

i'm not predicting the gold of age i'm

only pretending to predict it i'm

actually causing it to happen and what's

happening right now is that

i'm nudging you onto what i call the

wait for it

wait for it

listen carefully

oh youtube just went offline

is that weird

right before my punchline

so

uh youtube's offline

hey i'm back

can you actually see me on youtube

nope just lost me again

so youtube just lost me again

huh

i'm gonna run uh i know you care so i'm

gonna run a speed check on my

my uh wi-fi

speed check

here you can watch

see how we're doing

well that looks good

so it doesn't look like a wi-fi problem

right

looks pretty good

let's see if youtube's back

that can't be on my side right

it is anybody uh technical enough to

verify that

um

you're only as fast as your slowest

point yeah of course

huh

interest oh hey hello

are you back

uh

can anybody on youtube tell me if

youtube is having a problem or is it

just my my feed

because i have a good feed ish on locals

all right well let's take it from here

you know you may have interrupted my

flow

have you noticed that if i lose my flow

at the beginning of the show i never

recover it has anybody ever noticed that

sometimes i just have to give up

uh anyway losing my flow is actually my

biggest problem that i have

you know working at home

all right

all right it looks like we've recovered

everybody good

you want to pretend like it never

happened well let's go to this

simultaneous set but all you need is a

cover burger gossip technical chelsea

steiner canteen dragon flash vessel in

the guy fill it with favorite liquid

let's hurry before the technology dies

again go

um oh we were waiting for the punch line

on youtube you missed the punch line

let's see if it makes it go offline

again

all right

it goes something like this

you may not

think

your goes like this

you might think

that i'm predicting we're heading toward

a golden age where everything's better

but i'm not predicting it

i'm causing it

and what i'm doing specifically is i'm

trying to nudge the public onto

wait for it

listen carefully

youtube don't go offline don't go

offline don't wait wait for the

punchline

i'm going to nudge you onto the

sippery slope

you're welcome

the slippery slope

because when you take it oh it wasn't

that bad shut up

shut up

talk about a joke that wasn't worth

waiting for

wow

well it's getting harder to brag

i know this is not a problem for a lot

of you but for people like me

if you are a narcissist

it's it's getting hard

let me give you an example

early in my career i did a dilbert comic

in which i made i

included some reference to garfield the

other comic

now there's a standard within the

cartoonist world

that if you mention somebody else's

comic in your comic

there's there's sort of a custom that

happens after that and the custom is

that the person who was mentioned

will often contact you and say can i

have the original because cartoonists

will collect originals from other

cartoonists

and so when i mentioned garfield and

this is when you know i was basically an

unknown i just started cartooning

i got contacted by jim davis now you can

imagine if you're a starting cartoonist

you know just imagine what happens if

you know jim davis the creator of

garfield when garfield's you know

gigantic

imagine being contacted by the creator

of a garfield

and asking for your original

it's like the coolest thing ever right

if you're just starting out cartooning

it's it's like the pope just patted you

on the head or something

so i of course agreed immediately

instead of my my crappy dilbert comic

with uh with ink that probably

disappeared a week after he got it

i didn't use permanent ink in those days

and

uh don't ask why it's a long story but

so i've got so now i've got this

original garfield

probably at the time it was worth maybe

a thousand dollars you know which would

be

more today

and i thought you know

it's not enough to own one

other people have to see this thing

and i'm like what what is the point

of reaching this pinnacle of my

cartooning success at that point

if i can't if i get a show off

show it to somebody so i took it to my

local framing shop

and here was what i thought would be my

first

my first hit of

you know narcissistic supply

i thought wait until wait until the

person i asked to frame this because it

was where you leave it and they frame it

for you

i thought wait until the person i asked

to frame this

figures out what this is

it's like gold right and these and the

person is going to ask naturally i

figure they're going to say is this an

original garfield and i would say

yeah it is it is

ah yeah it is

and then of course you would follow up

like how is it that you've come into

acquisition of this valuable

property and i would say ah you sent it

to me

if you have other questions you might

want to follow up

oh why why did he send it to me oh oh it

turns out that i'm also a cartoonist

yeah yeah i do a cartoon and it caught

his attention

and he liked it yeah top cartoonist in

the world who's

maybe a living he liked my cartoon so so

he asked if he could trade

that's how i thought it would go

in my mind i imagined myself

fake humbly saying how i got it while he

was like impressed and then i'd feel

some narcissistic supply and i'd be like

feeling good for today

that's what i hoped that's not how it

went

here's how it went

i'm standing in line behind one other

customer there's just three of us in the

store

the the person who owns the place

customer in front of me

and me

custerman in front of me

is getting a

framed garfield

yep

[Laughter]

we both had one

[Laughter]

and then

do you know what the uh

do you know what the store owner said to

me when i brought mine

third one today

now it turns out that was a joke

it was not the third one today but the

fact that there were two of them

talk about deflating my god

now fast forward to last night

all right so fast forward you know a few

decades to last night

my new thing that i like to humbly drop

into stories

not really humbly at all

is that i i once visited the oval office

and talked to the president trump

now if that is let me tell you if that

ever happens to you

or something like it

you're not going to keep that to

yourself

right now i'm worse because

i like

bragging

so i want everybody to know

but i don't want to be like i got

invited to the white house so i want it

to be like subtly

you know maybe it just comes up as a

natural part of the conversation i'll be

like yeah yeah as a matter of fact yup

bendy ovals so i'll do things like

if there's a you know

news program and it shows the oval

office

you know i'll drop in something like huh

looks like they changed the rug

you know just leave that in there ah

looks like is that the same lamp looks

like a different lamp

you know just wait for somebody to ask

the question like well i don't like to

brag but i've been there

yep ivanka gave me a tour of the

furniture in the oval office i

probably happens to a lot of people so

like that

so anyway

so so i like to get my little

narcissistic supply by telling people

that i was once in the oval office

last night i'm at a

you know neighborhood gathering in town

and just talking to the neighbors and

and once again politics came up

and i thought well here here's my

opportunity

i'm gonna i'm gonna just drop this in

here because when you're just talking to

the neighbors like literally the people

live on your block

you know this could be a little extra a

little extra impressive wouldn't you say

because you know often i'm talking to

other public figures and they've done

interesting things too but if you're

just talking to the neighbors

you can really

you can really wow the neighbors

so i was talking to uh

a woman who lives

in the neighborhood and i mentioned you

know i i better be over love is it i met

the president

and she said uh yeah i had dinner with

obama

and i just thought well it i'm just

going to give up

like

well i'm just going to give up

is there is there anybody i can talk to

who hasn't done something better

good lord

what do i have to do

what do i have to do

i don't know

so i know lots of you have your own

problems

and your own problems seem big to you

but you know everybody thinks their own

problem

will you give me a moment for some

sympathy

i've been trying to brag for years and

it's not working out at all

so

i'll just keep trying

um yesterday i saw a straight news piece

that made me laugh for 10 minutes

right

now remember i said that parity and

reality have merged

if you can find a better example than

this

now i'm going to read you

the actual straight headline

and you tell me that it's not a joke

right

try to distinguish between the actual

headline i'm not making this up this is

an actual headline from yesterday

kamala harris's speechwriter quit

it's not just me right

and

i i went to retweet it and add a joke

and i couldn't do it

i couldn't add a joke

because you can't add a joke to the joke

like that's just piling on there was

nothing you could say to that to make it

funnier i just laughed for 10 minutes

and every time i kept to i kept trying

to do a quote tweet

where i'd you know add the

add the humorous

the humorous spin on it there's no

humorous spin you can add on that

well i thought

but it turns out that uh one

professional

oh damn it did i not write that down

oh

somebody had a better joke than i did

quoting quoting the speechwriter

humorously anyway never mind

but i wondered if this would uh this is

generating a whole category of jokes

do you know how letterman used to do the

top 10 list

and he could it seems like they could

always make that funny at least a few

items on it because there's something

about a top 10 list

that just naturally is easier to write

jokes to it's it's a format that you can

easily write jokes to but when i heard

that kamala harris is a speechwriter

quit i thought

i have an announcement too

my hair stylist

has resigned

so this is my public announcement

my hair stylist

has resigned

and if that wasn't bad enough it was a

bad day on my staff

my personal stylist quit

yeah my personal stylist quit

one day i wear a white t-shirt because

it's laundry day

my personal stylist says

it i'm out of here

um i have some other news about other

people

michael morris personal trainer quit

just resigned walked off the door so am

i wrong that this is a genre we can play

with

i don't understand what that means

somebody just said my gynecologist just

quit i don't know why that's funny

you're not even on the right that's not

even the right theme

[Laughter]

it's funnier because it doesn't work

it's funnier because it doesn't work

oh yeah i know it's a guy that said it

but it's funnier because it doesn't work

[Laughter]

uh well i guess if you're saying i mean

that's a little too far

all right

uh

here's a mystery solved

maybe

um i've been wondering why there haven't

been any gigantic forest fires this year

in california

now if you don't live in california you

have not noticed that they're not here

and i'm pretty sure that we were seeing

them by now last year in the year before

no trees left

we got a few left

and it turns out there was a 60 minutes

report that may have explained why

so apparently we have now

although it's not being as utilized or

used i like to say as much as it could

be

there's a helicopter fleet of rapid

response

um types and and there are big chinook

type helicopters you know the the double

rotors that can

lift up anything and they can carry

enormous amounts of fire retardant but

the big difference is they're equipped

to fly at night

i didn't know this but did you know this

that they stopped fighting fires at

night

at least by air

did you know that because i guess the

regular uh

knife flying is too dangerous

but if you if you use the ones that are

sort of military-grade chinooks that are

meant for all kinds of nighttime things

they can do it safely

and it's much easier to fight the fire

because it doesn't rage as much at night

so you get it at its weakest point

but apparently the idea is for an

enormous amount of money

so like one

one flight of these helicopters is going

to be you know millions and millions of

dollars not one flight but one fire

you know fighting one fire would be many

millions for these helicopters but

um

it's because of the low altitude that's

what makes it dangerous for planes

somebody's saying that makes sense

so

somebody says 23 000 an hour that sounds

about right

but apparently the company that makes

them makes the claim that uh even though

they're insanely expensive it's less

expensive than letting the fire get out

of control and on that i think they make

it actually good argument

now

is it solved you know i had an idea that

maybe is the next generation

i thought that we should have a um a

fleet of drones

that's always flying around looking for

any fires now i guess they're using the

helicopters for that and then night

vision but you could use a drone for

that so i think there should always be

drones in the air

and always looking for forest fires

anywhere in california you know as soon

as one lands another one takes off sort

of thing

so if you spot it quickly i guess that's

half the fight right you could put night

vision on the

easily put night vision on a drone

but

then i thought what if you had a fleet

of firefighting drones

a little too soon for that i don't think

we have the technology but if they were

helicopter drones

could they not do what the chinook did

you know

maybe you just need the human pilot at

this point but but at some point that's

what i think it's going to be at some

point i think forest fires will be

spotted by drones

and then the first phase of suppression

will be drones

and maybe their first drones can't carry

as much and but you got lots of them

right it's just you're just black in the

sky

with smaller drones that don't have a

big payload but

there are lots of them and they're fast

i know i think that's where we're going

but it's nice to know that it's possible

that these helicopters might be the

reason that my sky looks blue

um

all right

so that's good news

um i saw a tweet by uh

twitter user machiavelli's underbelly

who is a real good follow if you're

looking for a good follow on

especially on ai and technology related

stuff

just search for machiavelli's underbelly

machiavelli is spelled just the way you

think it is

all right and

he notes um

somebody else was tweeting there are a

whole bunch of ba accounts

requesting that we go hard with new mask

mandates

and the bots are saying the exact same

thing

it's obvious it's a cut and paste and

has all kinds of different accounts

and as machiavelli's underbelly uh

alleges now this is an allegation but i

don't think it's wrong there's a foreign

entity that is flooding us with bots

trying to destroy destroy america by

you know bringing up the mask mandate

thing again

what do you think

do you think and i do think the evidence

was strong there was a list there was

actually a video list of a whole bunch

of accounts that all have the same thing

and oh you know what if you find it just

do a search on some of the terms and you

can see

within twitter you should see all the

accounts just pop up because it's the

same terms they use

now who do you think would be behind it

do you think first of all

well let me state with

if these are if the accounts shown

really exist

then there is a bot problem

and it's a bot problem pushing masks who

would do that

do you think that a domestic entity

would do that

i mean anything's possible but it seems

very unlikely i i don't see a domestic

so what do you buy that if it's a

bot attack is foreign

i think it's foreign

yeah you could argue that maybe you

would help somebody in the election but

that's a little murky isn't it i don't

really see how that's going to help any

american

not really

so i feel as though it's got to be

foreign and who would be the most likely

culprits china or russia

china or russia

china

you don't think russia

isn't russia more implicated in

bots

both

say both well this is a specific attack

so i mean it's

iran

yeah

it feels chinese but that's just a guess

all right

um

so i guess i'm a little late on this

story but

we're still talking about

biden's visit to saudi arabia and he did

a fist bump

with the

saudis crown prince there

and the fist bump

was

even

even adam schiff criticized biden

is that the first time

adam schiff just directly

criticized him pretty

pretty aggressively

and i gotta say

i didn't think i would ever respect

anything that came out of adam schiff's

mouth

but that was exactly the right thing to

do

yeah

i hate to give him credit

but he just went hard at his own party

for something that was perfectly

appropriate criticism in my opinion

can we give them that

let let's see if we can fight with our

confirmation bias and our

and our team spirit duff just to give

them that

right

shift is a piece of he's like one

of the worst human beings i've ever

experienced in public life

just an opinion

but i'll give him that

because he went after his own team and

it was the right goal

now what do you think was in biden's

mind when he did this fist bump

what the hell was he thinking

because the fist bump

it feels to me like that is a clear sign

of

a lack of mental let's say sharpness

did it seem like that to you

i don't feel like that was some cleverly

thought out thing he did

i don't know that it was just a

spontaneous thing and he thought oops as

soon as he did it

i feel like he should have been a little

more prepared for that

and it feels like

um his advisors didn't have control over

that you know it wasn't on a

teleprompter or something

i feel like that was just a sign of age

what do you think

did that look to you like really could

only be explained by his mental decline

you know you have to be careful because

if you're already primed to think that

everything is his mental decline

you know i already debunked that

handshaking thing

where it looks like he wants to shake

hands and nobody's there that's just a

fake video

fake in the sense that they cut off the

fact that he's just gesturing towards

something he's actually gesturing to

where they're going to walk or should i

walk over here or are we going over

there

so if you don't see the whole stage it

looks like he's trying to shake hands

with a ghost but that's debunked

that's nothing

so maybe just like the handshake maybe

we're all just primed to see it as what

it's not who knows maybe he thought of

it

maybe maybe it was intentional who knows

but

it's pretty awkward that we send our

president president over there who said

the khashoggi thing's the worst thing

and they should be treated as a part of

pariah

and then when he gets over there to talk

to the pariah he's like fist bump

fist bump

you know i didn't see it but i'm sure i

wouldn't have liked it

now here's something else in the news

that i want you to shake your head when

this happens i'm going to tell you the

news

and i want to just go

what is happening to us all right here's

the news

that the president went over to saudi

arabia and asked them to pump more oil

and the saudis said that they

they're basically close to capacity so

there's not much they can do

is that the headline you heard

that they're close to capacity so

there's not much they can do right

and then did you read the numbers

so the headline says they're close to

capacity there's not much they can do

what what did the numbers say they could

do where are they they're at about 10

million barrels a day

what did they say they could get up to

because they're right at their cap would

they say they could get up to

13.

they could go from 10

to maximum of 13.

now do the math

that's a 30 increase

are you telling me that if one of the

biggest producers in the world

increases by 30 percent

nobody

notices what

am i wrong that the headline is opposite

of the news

right

the news should have been

saudis potentially could increase 30

percent and they're willing to try

you know it might be hard because they

you know that last thirty percent is

hard hard to get to because you know you

gotta be operating perfectly

but

but

can you just give me a sanity check

am i right or wrong that the headline

was

opposite of the story the headline says

there's not much we can do

the numbers say there's plenty we can do

and it would make a big difference

am i wrong

seriously am i wrong

like what am i missing

well i'm a little worried here because i

feel like

somebody says refining is the issue is

it

that's the only issue domestically

it takes a lot of engineering work to

get the extra

yeah but you know if the story had been

there's nothing we can do because we

can't do it

then that would be the story but the

story the way it was written was

we can go from 10 to 13.

so could our news business be worse

[Music]

okay i've been challenged to work a

drone into this story

because i work drones into every story

challenge accepted

how do i work a drone into the story

about casper well

you know uh

if he needed to transport it

if he had enough drones no just joking

that would never work i don't think i

could work a drone into that story

um

but i tried

all right

you know they say one person can't make

a difference

do any of you think that

that one person can't make a difference

i'm hearing somebody say that we're only

going from 12 to 13 which would be

opposite of the story i just read in

axios so i don't know

maybe it's just the news doesn't know

what the facts are

all right well if you think one person

can't make a difference i would

point you to greta tunberg

nearly deindustrializing germany

so that's on her resume

i almost

deindustrialized germany close i mean i

don't think she succeeded

matt you paid ten dollars to say

garfield is the least funny cartoon in

syndication

matt you may not be aware of this and

i'm gonna give you a shocking revelation

humor

is subjective

humor is subjective

do you know how much money people pay

for garfield

not just to run it but merchandise and

tv shows

people are paying a lot of money for

that thing you say is the worst thing

which in the case there's a whole lot of

people like it

humor is subjective

so thanks uh greta for destroying

germany i guess um

did a little bit less than hitler but

she's

she's making a dent

i mean

i don't think it would be fair i think

you'd agree with this can we agree it

would be unfair

to compare greta tung bird to hitler

can we all agree on that

that would be completely inappropriate

do not compare greta tunberg to hitler

destroying germany

right but can we also agree she's number

two

now if you were going to rank them the

most destructive people in the uh in the

history of the german country

um

she's definitely not number one

we're all on the same page right number

one hitler

but i'm just saying

you know there and there might be like a

long distance right between number two

but once you get down to like number two

very strongly at the top of the list of

all the potential people destroying

german would be greta

so i want to be very clear do not

compare it to hitler she's nowhere near

that bad

but she's number two

she is number two

all right um

i wondered as many of you did when steve

jobs

died

would apple

start making worse products

did you all wonder that because it felt

like he was the secret sauce right yeah

they got all the best designers in the

world and

you know ivy does this and that and blah

blah blah but

um you thought did you think that steve

jobs was like the ultimate guy who said

no that's not good enough

it is in my imagination that apple has

completely lost

the program

with user interface

like user interface was their thing

but i just

just tweeted around i was using an app

as a microphone icon

and then it's working on top of the ios

the os

that has a microphone icon right next

there's two microphone icons that do

different things

one is to create a voice text and one is

to

you know immediately you can send your

voice

now do you think that steve jobs would

have allowed

that there could ever be an app

that would have the same icon on it in

the app store as apple's own icon and

right next to it so you wouldn't know

what the you were doing

you can't even imagine that steve jobs

would have ever allowed that right

and you know giving you some other

examples it does seem that the

and i told you there's

you know five factorial ways to to

cancel the incoming phone call

do you think that steve jobs would have

allowed

five factorial ways to silence a phone

call

[Laughter]

no so let me ask the question oh and

full disclosure

i do own apple stock

so i'm i'm

you know i'm ragging on them but i'm

betting the other way so just just be

aware i'm betting the other way so my

money says they'll be great for a long

time

my opinion is there's something wrong

with that steve jobs

so you know just hold both of those is

true

and

i feel like apple has lost it

in their

the interface part what do you think

is it is any other any other apples

users who who think they've gotten too

complicated and i think that's what jobs

would have stopped

okay i'm not going to read that comment

you could tone that down a little bit

um just you know the locals platform

is free speech

so you know nobody's going to get

blocked on locals

but i'll give you my opinion that that's

inappropriate

comment you know who you are

all right

and everybody's welcome with your

inappropriate comments but i'm not going

to let it go by without commenting on it

okay

so

um apparently the mexican military

captured one of the top drug cartel

leaders the

leader of the guadalajara cartel

now i don't know my cartels too well but

that would that be maybe the

third biggest

cartel

i don't know the cartel you know this

the sonowa might be the biggest i don't

know is it like the third biggest does

anybody know

i i didn't get that from the story

the los the zetas the cineloa

so they might be maybe third biggest or

something

now somebody said uh oh this is good it

means the mexican government is uh

operating against the cartels and here's

you know solid evidence that they're

serious about it because they got they

caught the head of the cartel

what do you think

oh he said no

do you think that's what this story is

that the mexican government now is

getting hard they're going hard against

the cartels

nope

it's sinaloa i don't know what it is

it is sinaloa i guess

thank you

uh no the bigger cartel has friends in

the army thank you that is the correct

answer the correct answer is that

another cartel

controls the military and the government

and told the military and the government

to get rid of their competition

that's what it looks like to me

i'm alleging i don't know this of course

so i'm alleging but it looks to me like

one of the cartels took out the weaker

cartel

that's all it looks like to me if you

hear that the

mexican

military moves against the head of the

sinaloa cartel

then you have my attention

but when the military that may in fact

side with us in a lower cartel i'm just

wondering maybe possibly when they take

out

a business competitor of the biggest

cartel

i don't know if that's telling you what

you think it's telling you

you know what i mean

so here's a question i asked and

you know you always see these pictures

of the coyotes the cartel

employees who are helping the migrants

get across apparently the cartels make

huge amounts of money

charging the immigrants a god-awful

amount to get across the border

and they can't get across without the

cartels because the cartels are

literally guarding the border

on their side

so but when we see the videos you can

always see the

the coyotes

and they're they're real obvious

you know exactly which ones are the

coyotes and you know which ones are the

poor immigrants who are trying to get to

a better life

and i ask you this

why can't we use snipers and take them

out

now we require an act of war or

something probably but we could get that

done

right

now or drones right drones but if we can

see them

and we know they work for the cartel and

we know it's you know they're bringing

in the ringing fentanyl and killing us

by tens of thousands a year

do you think that we couldn't now

politically it would never happen so i'm

not saying this is practical i also live

in the real world where it would never

happen

but remember i also i also suggested

droning the cartels you thought that was

crazy

until the news reported that trump was

asking about it

let me tell you what artists do

that's a

value to the civilization

i read a book on this i forget the

author it's the first time i heard this

idea

apparently there are many examples in

history of where art preceded science

or predicted the future

now you know lots of famous ones like

you know uh

hg

um what is it

who wrote the stories about rocket ships

and stuff like that so artists have

always you know predicted in science

fiction what's going to happen etc

but it's also happened in

science

there there are some artists who

conceived of things before science

actually discovered it was true

and there's this idea that you can't act

until you can imagine something

or you can't find it until you can

imagine it in other words you could walk

right past something that you would

never imagined without recognizing it so

you have to imagine something h

issue wells thank you hg wells predicted

a lot of rocket ship travel and stuff

and

so here's what i'm doing for

civilization

before i mention the possibility of

using military snipers to take out the

coyotes

had anybody thought about it

because i've never heard anybody talk

about it have you ever heard anybody

talk about that idea

oh you have you've heard somebody talk

about it

in public or privately

oh yes but i'm in the military but have

you heard anybody talk about it um

in a political sense in public

so well special forces of course right

but

what i'm suggesting is a little more um

radical than sending special forces

believe it or not

because just

just imagine this visual

there there's a line of you know

immigrants crossing and there's a coyote

usually standing somewhere in the

industry making sure

and you see a video of that happening

and then you see the head of the coyote

just being blown off

and just like his his headless body just

falls into the river

and then repeat

just repeat

just keep doing it and making sure you

get it on video every time

how many videos

of a

how many videos viral videos of a coyote

having his head taken clean off

would you need to publish before a

coyotes wouldn't want to do that anymore

not many right you know the three

you might have to take three heads off

and then nobody would do it anymore

that would be it because it would be on

everybody's phones in mexico everybody

would see it

yeah about three

because our brain our brain forms a

pattern at about three

if you did three people would think it

was a hundred

now am i suggesting it as a practical

matter

i don't know

you know i'm no

international expert

i just know that fentanyl is coming into

the country and killing us

and if he asked me what i would be

willing to do about it if it were up to

me

i would be willing to blow the head

clean off of every coyote

let me say it again

with no moral qualms whatsoever

if it's up to me and i'm president

i'm going to start taking the heads off

of all the coyotes and i don't care

which side of the border they're on and

if mexico complains i will take their

complaint under consideration and they

will blow that off another coyote

and then mexico will complain and

they'll say gosh

you know i feel bad about that but

we're going to keep doing it

and i would just keep blasting coyotes

until nobody got close to it

somebody's asking me if i'm stoned

no

i don't act like this when i'm stoned

i'm usually less murderous

now i'm only murderous when there's a

reason i'm not like murderers in general

no i'm not high as a matter of fact

which would be ironic in its own way

um do you think we could do a

declaration of war against

the mexican cartels i believe we could

we could not do maybe a declaration of

war against the cartels i'm saying

against the mexican government

that would be a bad look but we could

declare war against the cartels

because all you have to do is declare

them international terrorists

am i right

right what's the difference between

uh china shipping precursors for

fentanyl into the cartels and then the

cartels moving in

the the fact that the cartel is just

trying to make money

and and probably their intention has

nothing to do with destroying the united

states but mexico does

i'm sorry not mexico but china does

china has a goal of destroying the

united states through terrorist acts

such as this

so the

the cartels are just working with china

as terrorists

now it's not their purpose they're just

trying to make money

but their functional use is terrorism

so if you tell me that isis had set up

territory in mexico

are you telling me we couldn't get

government approval to take out isis in

mexico

of course we could

we wouldn't even hesitate

so what's the difference between

the cartels what the cartels are doing

and ices

none there's no difference there's no

difference that matters

right there's a difference there's no

difference it should matter to how we

treat it

if you put a deadly risk

in my neighbor's backyard

and my neighbor won't do anything about

it

i'm going to kill the neighbor

[Laughter]

i'm going to kill my neighbor if he if

he does something that's going to kill

me first

of course

so you know if we're acting like oh

mexico is our good friend of course they

are

but it doesn't have any impact on what

you do about reducing your own risk

scott you're fed posting what is fed

posting

is that like i work for the feds

so you think

um

i'm being asked if i would kill the

coyotes if they were trans

no i would not

i would not

if the if the coyotes decide

decide to be trans i would let them go

i would not i would not uh

because i don't want to be part of

making the problem worse

i'm only just trying to solve this drug

problem

but good question

all right

so joe manchin it looks like he's gonna

kill the uh the big climate bill

that would be expensive

does anybody think that mansion is doing

this for any other reason than because

you

he has a lot of coal business in his

state

and they probably support him for

re-election and god knows what else

i mean it's just for the coal but it's

interesting because our system lets him

do that not only lets him do that but

encourages it really i mean he does

represent his state

his state does

benefit from coal

i don't know

i

i go back and forth about mansion do you

have the same problem because on one

hand i think oh he's doing exactly what

his voters want

it doesn't work for us but that's how

the system works and so you know i

accept it as part of the system

but on the other hand don't you kind of

suspect that maybe he's doing it because

big coal gives him money

i don't know that but is it the most

obvious thing you would want to ask

are you getting any side benefits from

big coal in any way

you know it's a question to ask

so it looks like biden is going to fail

completely on this big green energy

thing because of mansion

huh uh

somebody pointed out that his last name

is man chin

it sounds exactly like you know what

he's doing

he's putting his chin out there

all right um

how many uh murderers do each of you

know

i want to do a poll here

how many murderers do you personally

know people that you've talked to

had a conversation with

like actual murderers you're guaranteed

murderers

i i've seen a number of you somebody

said two three

two now i'm not gonna count military

not military

one

one

none

no don't count abortion just for this

purpose don't count it

snipers don't count yeah

one suspected

i i was thinking the other day that i

know too

and i thought how many other

at least three wow

and i wondered how many people know

actually personally know a murderer

the the most famous one

wrote a book about it and he was he he

lived in the cubicle on the other side

of the uh little cubicle wall for me

when i worked at pacific bell

so he worked in marketing

and he was the cubicle like literally if

i'm looking at my computer

he's just there on the other side of the

little wall

and he murdered a friend strangled him

with a belt went to jail and wrote a

good book about it

he mentioned me in the book

yeah one so i think i know one convicted

at least

you know too erica knows too

well

um

you met a guy who said he was an

assassin i once

i once had a friend who said she dated

an uh

a

contract killer

and her story was that in the middle of

night you get a call

and he'd take out his you know little

contract killer gun and

you know with the the silencer they'd

assemble it and they'd be gone for

several hours

they'd come back several hours later

presumably having just killed somebody

and she reports that the sex was

excellent

so apparently if you have sex with a

contract killer

right after he does his job

really good he's really good

so if you're looking to upgrade your

sexual experience

i would recommend a contract killer

all right um

uh somebody says my wife murdered my

inner joy

we'll take that as a as a murder

all right um yes it is

disgusting true but disgusting

all right let me ask you this how many

of you have been in jail i see one

person saying so how many of you

personally have been in jail

mostly knows

smattering of yeses

i assume yet most of the yeses are

probably

you know

young person

mischief

yep oh just just visiting doesn't count

drunk tank yep

that's a lot of people on this uh

well i'm seeing quite a difference on

the

on the locals platform so the people who

pay a subscription to see my extra

content

uh a lot of criminals in this group

compare

you can't see it but compared to the the

youtube answers

on youtube it's no

no of course not no

over a local says yep yep three years

yup yup

it's not quite that bad i'm exaggerating

but it does look like there's a

difference

apparently i attract a criminal element

yeah being a criminal is relative

very interesting

for selling pot

oh my god your ex-boyfriend may have

pushed his next girlfriend off a roof

okay

that's scary

youtubers don't get caught okay that's

funny

all right locals you've been insulted

but cleverly so

so i'm going to repeat it i i said that

there are more criminals it seemed like

on the locals platform and somebody at

youtube says the youtubers don't get

caught

that's pretty funny

i'm going to try to create some kind of

like cattle and sheep friction between

the locals and the youtube people for no

good reason

over on locals they're saying to the

youtubers fu

they stole my wedding ring what

all right so that's enough for now uh

it's kind of a slow news day so we're

gonna let it go

let's uh let's get to our day

and i'm

let me just give you a little summary of

things

did you notice the gas prices are down

right they're still way too high but

they are down right

you have noticed that nuclear plants are

being

not decommissioned as much as they were

even

it looks like even japan is going more

pro-nuclear again

so nuclear energy is up

um i don't think

the next mask mandate which i think

they'll try i don't think it's going to

work

i feel like the public is just about

done with the mask mandates we'll see

but we're close

yeah generation 4 nuclear is being built

in is it wyoming

and

um in my opinion the odds of a nuclear

conflict with russia are

i'd say about

zero right now wouldn't you yeah

so we went from that was a real risk to

now i would say that we're moving our

manufacturing from china

not quickly

but it doesn't have to be quick

we just have to stop moving it there

which i believe has already happened

am i right

we did stop moving it there now

what you're worried about the the

labor coming across the border see what

i did there

did you catch that

i talked about the labor coming across

the border

i didn't mean to do that but that was a

that was manipulative as a hell that was

accidental by the way because i was

thinking he had my point

but

but in a condition where it's hard to

hire one of the biggest problems in the

economy right now is there not enough

people

right there are not enough people to

hire

at the same time we have hoards of

people coming across the border now they

may not be trained in the right ways

but they're going to pick up some of the

slack for things that nobody's doing

so we do have massive illegal

immigration

at the same time we have massive need

for employees

it's not the worst problem

is it

now let me be clear i'm

in favor of strong border control

and i'm in foreign

and i'm in charge

i'm in favor of us ratcheting up or down

our immigration

based on our economic situation

if i were in charge of the border right

now do you know what i'd do

i'd open it up

because economically i'm pretty sure we

needed we need workers more than we need

to stop them you know because there is

crime there is other things coming

but

give me just

you know we don't have all the

information but

do you think that you have the same

issue with illegal immigration

when we need the workers

does it feel the same

and i get that we're you know there's a

crime element coming in with you know

good people right

but this would be exactly the time i

would have opened the border if we had

fully controlled borders

if we had a wall that worked along the

whole border

this is what i would have opened the

door

that's with your brains isn't it

this is a fascinating experience on my

side because because i see the nature of

the comments in real time as they're

going by

and

doesn't it you up to know

that i'm totally strong border always

have been you know you should seal that

border so a kick it can't get

through unless you wanted to

right

so you need you need total control over

your border and if we have high

unemployment

you close it if you have low

unemployment like we do now and

insurance your workers you open it wide

yeah and and what's weird about this is

i know that most of you

almost all of you are really strong

against illegal immigration as am i

illegal i'm very strong against illegal

immigration

but i don't see any pushback to this

and i don't know what's going on

because it's not like any of you are shy

oh open it for illegal immigration well

i see what you're saying but that this

is a slightly different topic

i'm saying that

i'm saying i would let them in legally

you know and track them and

whatever whatever we need to do

but

here's my point and i feel like you

agreed but you don't want to say it so

i'm going to say it again i want to see

if you can go the extra distance

i don't think you can so this is sort of

a challenge to your mental flexibility

could you go all the way

to at the moment because we need the

workers

that the that the illegal immigration is

not a problem

in the way that it normally would be

can you go there

who can go there with me

it's a it's a tough place to go because

if your entire political opinion has

been no no no illegal immigration

now

if you could

release on the fact that they're illegal

for a moment and just

just concentrate on the fact that it's

either good or bad for the economy

is it good or is it bad for the us

economy

mostly no okay

mostly knows almost all those actually

all right

well

all right here's my proposition at the

moment

without doing a deep dive and the deep

dive could change my opinion

on the surface it looks like this is

when i would have opened the doors

on the surface

but there might be more to the story

how many go on welfare i'll bet not

nearly as many

are sucking up resources as are adding

to it but that's what you need the

economist for you need the experts in

this field

all right let me ask you the question in

a different way

are you ready for this

let's say hypothetically and this has

not happened

let's say the best economist that you

know oh okay i'll give you a specific

one this is this is hypothetical

suppose thomas sowell

who is one of the most respected

economists on the republican side

suppose and he has not said this right

this is just hypothetical suppose he

said all right i've looked into it and

while i hate illegal immigration

i imagine he'd say that

i'm just speculating he'd agree with you

i hate illegal immigration first choice

would be controlling our border but

on this narrow question of was that

whether it helps the economy or hurts it

is my opinion that it helps it at the

moment

suppose he said that

now

and in this hypothetical he knows more

about the economy than you do and you

you agree

if thomas sowell

said that at this moment the illegal

immigration illegal immigration is

helping our economy a little bit more

than is hurting it would it change your

mind

just for the short run

go

i saw yes i saw sure

i see some yeses

interesting

i did not know if that would work

a lot of no's now if you said no what

would be your reasoning

if your reasoning is about the illegal

part remember that's the part i removed

from the question

uh safety i don't think safety

here's my problem with the safety issue

is are the immigrants coming from south

of the border bringing in more crime

than the average of the public that's

already here

well let me ask you that does that

matter

suppose you you thought you needed the

workers so economically that wasn't your

problem so suppose that you weren't

worried about the economics

temporarily

but you were worried about the extra

safety problem criminal element

if i told you that and i don't know that

this is true but if i told you that the

average of the people coming across the

border is actually

less crime

than the average that's already here

but of course it's more people so it's

more crime right it doesn't maybe it

doesn't matter to you that the average

would go down

maybe it only matters that there's more

of it

but

if you need that more of it

to operate your economy

that's different

so i think what's happening possibly

i want to i want to open your i want to

open your mind to this possibility

which i do not claim is the truth right

i'm going to make

i'm going to make two claims that i do

not know to be the truth but very well

could be

the first the first claim is that at

this moment

we're in a very strange period of time

where we need the labor more than

we need to stop it

that's the first claim and i don't know

that that's true

i would look through it look to a thomas

soul or something like that to confirm

the second claim

and this is far more speculative

is if you looked at the total body

of uh of illegal immigrants

and i'm not even sure if you should

include the second generation because

it's all connected right

maybe you include the second generation

too to get a really good clean look

is that fair if i were to look at the

crime from illegal immigration

would you allow me to include their

second generation as part of the whole

picture

i think so

if you looked at the first and the

second generation would their average

crime be higher or lower than what was

already here

i think it would be lower

i don't know

and that that's purely anecdotal and

speculative i think it's lower the thing

you don't see if you don't live around

the immigrant community

is how much they really really don't

want to get caught from doing a crime

because the penalty's worse they go back

to mexico or wherever right there's a

bigger penalty

and they know it and they didn't come

here to get arrested and get sent back

that's the opposite of what they want

in every way

i think

they're lowering the crime rate in

america

now let me ask you this

if all they did was bring in a bunch of

people who were

oh can i say this without being kicked

off of social media

give me a pause

i know this would be a close one

you want me to fly close to the sun

yeah i don't think i could do that

yeah it's not worth it all right

so i'll just say that

i think you cannot rule to rule out the

possibility that they're they're

improving the economy and lowering the

crime rate

i don't think you can rule that out

they may be increasing the amount of

crime and if that bothers you that's

that's actually rational

they might increase the total number of

crime because whenever you increase the

total number of people

necessarily you increase crime but you

know every time you have a baby you

increase crime right

did you know that

that

if you ban abortion you've increased

crime you all know that right

i mean not just the crime of the

abortion

everybody gets that

if if you banned all abortions your

crime would go way up

not your crime rate

if i said your crime rate i'd be a

racist

so i don't say that

your total your total amount of credit

there's just more people

more people equals more crime

so if you think that everything that

creates more people

because it brings more crime is bad

be consistent

you know everywhere there's more people

being added to the country you should

say no

i don't want more people i don't want

you to have a baby

don't have a baby

that will add more crime not necessarily

your baby but if everybody had babies

you're gonna get more crime

all right freakonomics made the claim i

think that was i heard a debunk of the

freakonomics claim

there's a book called freakonomics in

which they said

that the reason crime decreased

seemingly everywhere in the united

states at the same time

is that because abortion was legalized

and you're seeing the benefit of fewer

uh

unwanted let's call them babies who are

more likely to commit crimes say the

statistics but i feel like that got

i saw somebody take a run at debunking

that but i don't know if the debunk was

better than the book or vice versa

fewer people at a certain age range

equals lower crime rate that is correct

if you have a higher percentage of

senior citizens in the in the population

that's a good point

why have i never thought of that before

yeah if you have a higher ratio of

senior citizens your crime rate will

blow

theoretically

and that's where we are

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well scott benefit

what are you talking about

um

more doordash robberies

millionaires seem to love cheap labor

yes

yes you know when i talk about the fact

that i'm friendlier to immigration even

illegal immigration although i want i

want zero illegal immigration

but we also have to deal with the fact

that it exists

um if i seem softer on it and then you

say to yourself well scott that's easy

for you to say because you just get

cheap labor

you're right

you're right that's exactly what you

should say about me

you are absolutely correct that there's

no way

that i'm uninfluenced by the fact that

it benefits me personally of course i am

yeah immigration tends to be a personal

problem

i don't know if you've noticed that

right

uh immigration tends to be a personal

problem if you've had experience with

any immigrants or that world you have an

opinion and if you don't

you're dealing with it on some

conceptual level and that's really

different

but i don't deal with immigration on a

conceptual level completely

so anybody who says i'm being biased

by positive association with the

immigrant community

i want to tell you that's true i am

absolutely biased

by

repeated positive interactions with the

illegal immigrant community

consistently positive

and

i don't know there's nothing i can do

about that right

i mean i could be aware of it i could

call it out i could be transparent that

it exists but i can't make it go away

you know you're you're

you know the whole thing people won't

remember what you said

but they'll remember how you made them

feel i forget who said that famous quote

but that's exactly true with the illegal

immigrant community

i don't remember what they said but i

always remember how they made me feel

and they always make me feel great

so

fairly consistently

how many criminals do you know lots

lots

if you count the ones who haven't been

caught

it's everybody

and pretty much everybody

uh which party do you think immigrants

will vote for well you know famously

people are noticing that it's changing

right

i think the funniest thing is that the

democrats think

that the hard-working immigrants who

understand motivation and how motivation

and economics work because they're

they're

you can't get closer to it than an

illegal immigrant that's as close as you

can get to

human motivation

equals profit right like they're living

it to imagine that the people who come

out of that experience

will turn into democrats

maybe

[Laughter]

maybe

but

i live in the real world

um

but let me let me tell you a little

secret well here's a california secret

get into any you know mixed

group of people and then where i live

it's always mixed right there's

you don't have

it's pretty rare to be talking to a

bunch of white people in california

there's always there's always a mix

and then

privately peel off you know one of the

brown or black ones

in your group and then talk about

politics

you get a really different feel it

doesn't

i don't know if it's a local thing or

what

but i don't get anybody born in another

country who is democrat

people born in other countries actually

i'm thinking of some exceptions now so

i'm exaggerating too much there are some

some exceptions

but

i'm always surprised

when somebody born in another country

came over here worked hard you know made

something of themselves they're

obviously they lead

republicans

because everything they did was a

republican plan

work hard stay in a jail

you know go to school

take care of your family

this pure republican

dogma is just it's their own version of

it and when they get here who are they

going to religion yeah belief in god

stevie says i'm so naive

here's what i think i think that because

there are a lot of

hispanic democrat voters at the moment

we imagine that that's

that's how it will always go

but i think the democratic party of

today

is such a turn off that an immigrant

today being exposed to both of them for

the first time

would say well one's talking about

pronouns

and climate change that i don't even get

it's not my problem at the moment

and the other is wants to lower my taxes

and

you know it's tough on crime and

says work hard like what do you what do

you

yeah

and and the hispanic community is not so

big in the

latinx

names i mean that's all just coming from

democrats

um yeah

everybody i know who came from mexico

uh loves capitalism

that's why they came here

all right i believe we have exhausted

all our topics

and we have

come to the conclusion of one of the

best things that's ever happened it's

called coffee with scott dams i will

design the mug still working on it

it will be the most awesome thing ever

and tomorrow i'll be back

i'll be back

if not tonight oh

so at the moment

you know i don't know exactly what my

plans will be today

but there's a good chance i might do a

man cave episode tonight

and

if i do i do that without youtube

so we'll do a test of the

locals video and audio because it could

be that i'm running both platforms at

the same time it might be something

happening at my end

i will try to not leave out the east

coast by doing it earlier if i do it

that will be my potential plan

alright

good to see all of you maybe i'll see

you later

bye for now