Episode 1846 Scott Adams - DeSantis Gaffe, The FBI Is Running America, And Twitter Gets Interesting

good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of civilization it's called coffee with scott adams and there's never been anything finer in the whole whole world over 13 billion years of evolution brought us all to this point and i think it was worth it was it worth the wait we'll find out i think it was and if you'd like to take it up to a higher level no it's possible it is possible i know it seems impossible but it can be done and all you need is a copper mug or a glass of tank or gels just starting the canteen sugar flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous epi and it happens now go i saw a cry for help as i was taking my sip it did it did take a little bit off it i have to admit there was somebody here who was out of coffee during the simultaneous step i think the rest of us have an opinion about that yeah be a little bit more prepared all right let's start out by the most important announcement of the day happy birthday to jb have a terrific birthday today and the rest of you you can have a good day too is there anybody else who has a birthday today any birthdays if you have a birthday today then happy birthday to youtube well what else is going on um so biden wants to forgive some student loans up to ten thousand dollars yeah what do you think of that may i say the thing that everyone must say at least once may i may i put on my npc hat and say the most obvious thing that you can say or would you like to say it for me because i feel like there's some weird requirement that if you talk about this topic you have to say what everybody is thinking even though everybody's thinking it should do i even need to say anything buying votes let's say uh what about the people who what about the people who don't get any loan forgiveness what about them now the point is good i'm not arguing the point is bad but how many times do i have to hear it really do i have to keep hearing people say that other people are not getting a benefit may i put this in context for you every change to taxes screw somebody there's no exception to that all you had to know is that it was a change in the tax rates or the change something something got added to the tax base or or something taxpayers had to pay for or somebody got a tax break or somebody got a tax increase every change screws somebody so if your complaint is that a group of people got screwed that's not really an argument because every change as well as the current situation screw somebody right so you can say you don't like it because it screws you that would be a good opinion this screws me i pay more but i don't get anything from it a lot of people are saying that that's a perfectly reasonable thing to say but if you're if you have if you think you have some philosophical argument about it you don't you don't because the philosophical argument against this then it's unfair is exactly the same argument for every part of the tax code any change any current situation they're all unfair you can't make a fair tax code now some of you can say yes you can flat tax that's not fair the flat tax is not fair it's just a different way to do it there's literally no way for everybody to give something that they consider fair fairness isn't even a thing it's literally an imaginary concept that can never be achieved so so there's that here's what i would suggest if you don't like this ten thousand dollar break for people and and the reasons are perfectly valid by the way if your reason is it's unnecessary it helps the wrong people that's a good argument but it also applies to everything else that we do at taxation um here's how i think we should handle it if you don't like it or even if you do really whether you like it or not here's how you should handle it you should declare that it's also reparations because wouldn't it be nice to to put that to bed at the same time here's my argument the only way slavery reparations would work is if you attack education and you say all right the best we can do that at least most people can agree with is we'll fix education for everybody who's poor you don't have to be black just everybody who's poor and just make it as good as the education for everybody who's not poor now if we did something like that well then now you're talking right there's something that i would say well okay that's not exactly you know reparations focused but it does get you to the same place it gets rid of the the biggest form of institutional racism is the school system school system keeps whoever is behind behind it happens to be black people are in a hole so this current system keeps whoever is in a hole in a hole because they don't have as good a school system as other people so i would say i'm just going to call it reparations and say yeah it's probably going to happen anyway if it happens now uh does biden have the authority to do this yeah we're acting like the amount or the idea of of it is the question but really we've kind of thought past the sale haven't we adam dopamine pointed this out on twitter uh we're kind of thinking about whether it's a good idea and we've thought past the question a little bit i mean we haven't completely thought past it but it does make you a little bit think past the question of whether biden can even do this and i believe even nancy pelosi says he can't right so aren't we talking about something that the senate won't agree to or does it just come down to joe manchin and kirsten cinema again it's just those right just two people again how often do we see that just two people are running the country interesting how often that happens um so i'm going to call it reparations and call it good desantis made a uh uncharacteristic error uh did you hear him talking about fouchy and he said quote i'm just sick of seeing him i know he says he's going to retire someone needs to grab that little elf and chuck him across the potomac applause someone needs to grab that little elf and chuck them across the potomac so now as was pointed out to me trump himself has made fun of height he made fun of little marco and i didn't love that but he did seem to uh he did seem to you know it was in the context of two people competing against each other and saying lying about each other all the time so it seemed a little different whereas desantis wasn't exactly in a political contest against uh fouchy but he did seem to belittle him for his height and suggest violence now it's not real violence it's like hyperbelievable you know jokey violence comic violence but how much comic violence do you think the public would tolerate against a different group let me let me just put in some different groups here and see how it says so the original is talking about fauci grab that little elf and chuck them across the potomac let's say it was uh oh let's say the secretary of transportation uh let's grab that little gay guy and check him across the potomac sounds good you'd be okay with that how about um i bet i was somebody black let's grab that black guy and chalk him across the potomac potomac you okay with that that sounds okay chuck that black guy across the potomac how about woman let's uh grab that woman and chuck her across the potomac you're okay with that most of you are most of you are see most of you are being consistent now which i appreciate by the way you're being consistent because most of you are opposed to you know the word police right most of you don't want to cancel somebody because they said something they insulted somebody right i appreciate that i appreciate that opinion um desantis is dead to me but that's just personal so you don't have to agree with me i will not try to change your mind it's just he lost my support will that matter well i don't know beats me but he shouldn't have insulted short people and suggested that throwing them across the potomac is funny now i'm not insulted like i don't feel it's an insult i just don't want a leader who would talk like that because when you when you pick out a group of americans to criticize that's different it's different to me this is a deplorables moment do you think that hillary should have been criticized for calling half of america deplorables what do you think should hillary be criticized for calling i don't know 40 of america deplorables because i did i criticized her for that because the difference is it's it's a paul elected politician who's saying something bad about a class of people who are americans so i tolerate i tolerate a politician making fun of another politician who's running against him you can say anything you want politician against politician i don't really care that's just part of the process if it's a non-politician who says something about a class of americans well that's okay that's just free speech but if you're an elected politician and you say something that clearly identifies an attitude about a class of americans well then i can't support you so anyway he's got 48 hours but he lost my support um not that i was necessarily going to support him but uh what you think that's too too harsh who thinks i'm too harsh you think i'm being too sensitive but why can't why can't i uh but do you think that i'm reacting to my personal feeling or do you think i'm acting on principle am i acting on principle or personal feeling right now are you reading my mind now now when hillary called republicans deplorables did you disagree with that on principle or because it hurt your feelings which was it did it hurt your feelings or did it seem like a bad thing for a leader to identify people within the public as deplorable think it was based on principle wasn't it because when i was anti-hillary for saying the deplorable thing it wasn't just because it was an insult it was because she was insulting the public a group in the public so i think i'm being uh i think i'm being consistent do you think that i'm being consistent hillary insulted deplorables desantis insulted a class of americans that's not consistent because even if you think that both of them were based on my feelings and maybe you'd be right but at least i'd be consistent they'd both be based on my feelings so now let me turn this around so you've you some of you have made the accusation that i'm operating on my feelings instead of my logic do you think that's a fair well you can't know for sure but do you think it's a fair uh concern would you say that that would be a reasonable hypothesis i think so reasonable hypothesis can i give you that can i admit that you're if you have the hypothesis that i'm acting on emotion and not logic that that's a reasonable hypothesis now i'm going to make a reasonable hypothesis about hypothesis about some of you that you care about winning more than you care about that point you don't care about that point it's just not important to you so you care about winning a little bit more is that fair do you think do you think you're a little bit more concerned about winning than you are about this minor point yeah so i don't think you're disagreeing with me on the point i think you just like winning is that a fair hypothesis for some of you well maybe the lesson here is that you can't read minds and neither can i but would you would you allow me this that it is at least consistent to say that if a leader talks against a class of americans for something they can't change for something they can't change that that would be disqualifying no i i think you have to give me that is consistent even if you don't like it anyway i don't think i don't think desantis will be running for president so i don't think it's going to matter remember i told you yesterday it would be funny to do the the the trump method of uh telling people he has a high iq so i told you there's a list of presidential iqs which can't really be known but the only thing we know about trump is that there's some claim he has of having a high iq so his claim given that there was no other information was enough to put him number three on the smartest president's list which to me is the funniest thing so i asked you to help me with a ongoing prank in which you would on twitter sometimes you would just mention that i have an iq of 185 which i don't it's totally made up but mike suarez whose twitter user and i assume i assume mike you're probably watching me right now but mike suarez started doing this on twitter and here's here's one of his comments he put on somebody else's comment it doesn't matter what the topic is but just just read how funny this is so this is it doesn't matter what he's commenting to he says scott adams has a reported iq of 185.

now the funny part is you should say reported because you don't claim it as a fact you just say it's reported right scott adams has a reported iq of 185 higher than bill gates and elon musk on par with einstein he's literally a super genius smarter than 99.9 of the world and you're coming at him with these low iq arguments please just stop and let the man focus on saving the world oh i think i think i think mike left two of these comments i may maybe i saw the same one twice but and here's the funniest thing i saw the response to the comment who he's coming to and the response didn't deny the fact it didn't deny the fact it just you know got angry for some unrelated reason so i think that people are going to accept it as a fact and it's just going to live out there it's going to live on the internet forever as a fact oh so thanks to mike suarez for that all right here's a uh do you like conspiracy theories anybody i got a conspiracy theory for you you're gonna love it it goes like this have you ever thought it was unusual and kind of a big coincidence that our presidential races always seem to be so close has that ever struck you as odd like why why would that be exactly like why would it be that they're close i feel like every time they're close now that's not true of local races right in local races it's not unusual for 75 percent of the vote to go one place now let me ask you this if you imagine that there's somebody behind the curtain somebody you don't know about exactly but you suspect is back there if they're really the ones in charge what would they want to do with the political process to stay in charge again this is just speculative if you were to imagine we're just imagining right we're just using our imaginations imagine there's somebody really in charge behind the curtain would they want one of the one of the sides to get all the power would they want for example a strong republican to get 75 percent of the vote no way because if any individual got 75 percent of the vote that individual would have too much power am i right yeah there's no situation in which if you imagine and it's a big if if there's some power behind the curtain they would never allow one candidate to get 75 percent of the vote because because that candidate would then actually have real power the public would back that person for almost anything and that would take the power away from the people with the real power even if they thought they had control over that candidate they would lose control the candidate would be more powerful yeah now reagan was probably an exception because a second term president's a little bit of a different situation right but the second term president they know they can wait out right just for now you saw what uh joe manchin can do when things are deadlocked right when congress is deadlocked the only person who has power is joe manchin kirsten cinema a little bit right so let me ask you this if you were looking for the power the real power who's running the country there's a tell and the tell would look like this they would sometimes back both either side because they would back the side that they need to put the brakes on you know they if they need to put the brakes on one side keep things in balance you would see them operating to to influence both sides all right name somebody who interfered with hillary's election trump's election and then the biden election name one entity who absolutely interfered with all three elections the fbi so the fbi was accused of putting their finger on the 2016 election when comey talked about hillary's emails they were confidential but we didn't yet know if there was going to be any legal legal liability right so so fbi definitely influenced the 2016 election and then the fbi was involved in the whole and the department of justice i sometimes conflate them because i conflate them because they can be conflated um but then there was a whole russian collusion thing so one was anti-hillary now there's anti-trump then there's the hunter laptop situation which was suppressed so that was you know anti-trump again then there's the january 16th investigation and the fbi is involved department of justice it feels to me like the department of justice and the fbi will suppress anybody who's getting too popular does it seem like that it was suppressed anybody was getting too popular and trump had the um he had the personality appeal that he would have been too popular it's not that trump was going to do some specific thing is that he was too popular we had the potential to be i think they had to stop anybody who would who would get either party to a dominant position now if you keep things close who runs the country if you keep the two political parties close at the national level who runs the country well if it's close what's the tiebreaker is it joe manchin a little bit no it's persuasion it's persuasion if you keep all the races close then the tiebreaker is persuasion or in some cases i suppose you can change the rules like mark elias that sort of thing but it's very small things that make the difference if you're always close to deadlocked persuasion is now something that can move everybody all at once it doesn't work that way persuasion is about moving five percent of the public over a long time period so the to the extent that the media colludes with whoever is behind the curtain the media can move you five percent in the other direction so basically it puts the media completely in control of the government and then you have to back up a level and say who controls the media so the condition for somebody behind the curtain to really be running things would be that they're keeping the the natural parties that you vote for too close for either them to be dominant and then they also control news coverage so that once you're close the only thing that makes a difference is persuasion and they control that as well you think the senate and the and the congress in general matter but they're also moved by persuasion so when was last time you saw the democrats do something that the democrat media does not support they're always on the same team right so when you think it's the congress doing something it's not it's the news allowing them to do it because if jake tapper got on tv and said this democrat plan is up this is a bad idea it wouldn't happen it wouldn't happen because first of all jake tapper i'm just picking him randomly but if one of the cnn you know major hosts said this is a bad democrat plan it probably means the other hosts are going to say it too right because they they they operate in lockstep so all you'd have to see is one host going against the democrats then you say okay that's news okay now we can call it news because sometimes they agree with what you think is their team but some signs they disagree if you never see them disagree with the democrats that's just persuasion it's not news you always feel like i'm hypnotizing you does anybody feel like that now well i'm not i'm not hypnotizing it all right well i'm not saying that the fbi and the department of justice is running america it could be whoever whoever controls them right so you might have to go up back a level to find out who has so much control that they can get the fbi and the department of justice to do whatever they want what do you think of this new chips law joe biden's like you know hundreds of billions to bring chip manufacturing back to the united states but i think it's more than chips right it talks about manufacturing can somebody tell me if the chip's law is more than just chips it's not potato chips um so some of this is encouraging it to go to india that's correct but i think some of it is uh to encourage manufacturing in the united states ultimately i don't know this feels like a good idea because we have to decouple the tech stuff from china so i don't know if this will be implemented right or it's the right budget amount but directionally is right so would you be surprised to know that the election polling is getting closer you know i don't think that the generic republican and the generic democrat are that far apart anymore and part of it is the legislative wins if you can call it that as long as the democrats like what biden's doing and he's going to give votes so that's probably a good idea the chips thing but i don't know don't know for sure all right rasmussen that as a poll says uh 42 percent trust what the news media are reporting about the fbi raid on on mar-a-lago only 42 percent of the public trust the news about the raid on mar-a-lago 42 percent now the way the poll is at 44 don't trust it and another 14 are not sure now what is the difference between somebody who doesn't trust the news and somebody who's not sure if they should trust it what would you call somebody who's not sure if they should trust the news that would be somebody who doesn't trust that if you're not sure you can trust something by definition of how words work it means you don't trust them right am i reading that wrong so that would mean the 44 plus the 14.

so that would be uh 58 basically or not believing the news about the mar-a-lago raid that is actually a an encouraging a very encouraging number because that's exactly what i'd hope you would expect that the majority of people would say i'm not sure about that so here's two stories i'd like to talk about some more the uh the january 6th story disappeared and mar-a-lago story seems to be disappearing one of those two stories have in common the january 6th story you know the hearings and the mar-a-lago and the mar-a-lago story the raid what do they have in common there are two stories that the democrats thought would work in their favor and blew up so they disappeared it's funny watching the news be so illegitimate right in front of you right like they don't really this though they're not really trying to hide it are they it's just so obvious that the news isn't real it's just you know narrative manufacturing all right 62 percent of the people who follow me and answered one of my polls believe that you can make a decision without knowing the risks on both sides does that seem high 62 percent of the people who follow me believe you don't need to know the costs and the risks of your of your alternatives to make a decision so sound high or low that's about that's about what i'd expect actually about two-thirds of the public believes they know how to make decisions and actually don't and when i say believes they know how to make decisions i mean the most basic question of should you consider all of the variables probably two-thirds of the public would say no you don't need to you don't need to know about all the variables you only need to know about some of them that's actually pretty common so the majority of the world believes that they can analyze situations but they don't have the basic skills to do that and so sort of a dunning krueger thing now suppose that you know something close to 40 of my followers did know how to make a proper decision that's pretty high that's higher than i would have expected actually so i so if you thought that 60 percent um so plus not knowing you should compare alternatives is high i would say that the number of people who do know how to do it is actually the more impressive number because i harp on that all the time so i would expect the people who follow me to be more clued in and if 40 of you are there that's actually pretty good so twitter twitter is got some new news the sec wants twitter to explain their bot count so how do they come up with the number of bots so that's good for musk because now the sec is asking the same question he is now how would you judge the credibility of the twitter whistleblower who is in charge of security who says that twitter basically is hiding things and doing a bad job with security and they might have foreign intelligence in there and all kinds of problems now keep in mind that he's a he's a prior hacker so his background is he was a hacker and he was fired for what twitter says was poor performance prior to being a whistleblower how much credibility would give would you give to a prior hacker who was fired for poor performance according to the company according to the company what credibility would you give him yeah low very low but doesn't mean he's wrong doesn't mean he's wrong it just means that if you heard of anybody in this category you should not automatically trust them so i would say don't don't assume he's telling the truth he might be you might be but i wouldn't assume it there's not really enough there to assume it um so we'll find out all right i'm going to say one of the best magic tricks that the um that the press has ever played to me this is the hall of fame magic trick you know i get how the press can fool people with videos that are edited to make them misleading so we all understand that right i i've been fooled by videos that were misleadingly edited you know the um what is it the kids who was at covington kids so that one fooled me for about a day you know i got over it but it fooled me for about a day so it's really easy it's easy to be fooled by video you'd agree right now so if i see that the news has fooled the public about a video i'm not that impressed because that's sort of an easy thing to pull off but you know what's really impressive when you simply make somebody think that something they're seeing or hearing isn't happening and they did that with the trump phone call in which he asked was at the secretary of state to find you know find x number of votes in the context of thinking the election was fixed or rigged and in the context of asking for a recount the the news actually convinced something like 40 percent of the public or more that the normal word find means to lie and steal and rig the election when the the most obvious context is that if two you know at least two-thirds of republicans believe that the that the election was rigged that's not in question is it does anybody question i'm not making up the number but somewhere in that neighborhood at least probably two-thirds of republicans believe the election was rigged now that may have changed since then but certainly on jan you know january 6 maybe two-thirds thought there was a problem and certainly at the day of the election two-thirds thought there was a problem so why would you assume that trump would not agree with two-thirds of republicans that it looks like it looks like and smells like something's wrong why would you assume he would think differently when two-thirds of republicans were thinking this looks wrong so if you start out by thinking that trump disagreed with two-thirds of republicans who are saying the same thing he was saying that's not reasonable is it is it reasonable to imagine he had a minority opinion when in fact everything he said agreed with the majority that he actually believed the election was rigged and i believe he still believes it but you can't know for sure right so the most reasonable ex explanation of find the votes in the context of believing you know massively believing within the republican party that the vote was miscounted asking somebody to find votes in that context and then imagining that that meant mafia talk that is the greatest gaslighting i've seen yet i mean you really have to work at that it turns out that the people who are most easily fooled would be what what type of person or profession would most easily believe that the reasonable explanation of find the votes is mafia talk it's my what i mean when i say find the votes you know what i really mean right because mafia talk i'm just going to say find the votes but but wink wink you know what's going to happen to your legs if you don't find the votes right writers right so even this morning two people with writer in their bio told me the most the clearly the most obvious explanation is that it's mafia talk is that the most likely explanation that is mafia talk is that not a signaling that something's wrong with the analytical ability of the person now it could have been mafia talk but is that the most likely explanation that feels like the least likely explanation to me given that so many people were listening there were witnesses and he knew it there were multiple witnesses including the person he called and you think he went all mafia talk on them if you if you believe that life is like movies that is actually a reasonable assumption if you believe that movies are not like life and if they were we wouldn't watch them then you say no that's just in movies people don't really do mafia talk in that context right they really don't so i heard uh yesterday that author morgan housel who has a gigantic book i think he sold two million copies of it and i don't know if i have the name right is it the psychology of money could somebody do a check on that because i was just operating from memory just before i got on live here it's morgan has this psychology of money right it's apparently it's massive i don't know if you know how big a book is if it sells 2 million copies my biggest book was a million and a half you know the dilbert future so that's big and i heard on an interview that he uh he mentioned the systems over uh goals as being something that influenced him so my book had to fail and almost everything and still win big so my book he mentioned as an influence for some of his thinkings about how to at least at least how to explain personal finance now also atomic habits the biggest business book at the moment also the author says that uh some of those ideas the key ideas actually are from me so i was asking you the other day who's who's the most influential person in the world right now it's definitely me it's not even close but i know you don't believe it you know i know you don't believe that but if you look at where my my work has penetrated it's definitely me i'm absolutely the most most influential person in the world right now i'm looking at the difference between the the comments on youtube versus locals it's very different the the locals people are giving me a break they're letting me say that and then the youtube people are like your ego your ego is out of control now how many of you know me well enough to know what i'm really doing here because i think the locals people know me well enough do you know what i'm really doing here youtube let's see if you can you can explain it back to me what am i doing like what am i trying to accomplish by this is it just my ego what do you think no i'm asking you this is a serious question what do you think i'm trying to accomplish am i just bragging for no no particular benefit i'm provoking a response that's right i'm provoking now why do i do that why would i provoke a response when i know the response will be to mock me right the only response i'm gonna get is mocked do you think i didn't know that so why am i doing it why am i doing something that guarantees i will be mocked probably forever like that because you know i said it right here in public because the provocation will make you argue about my influence and then the in the process of arguing it you're going to talk yourself into it so i'm actually provoking you because that's going to make my argument for me you can go off and have a debate about it and guess what if you find yourself debating how influential i am that actually is your answer because you won't be debating how influential anybody else is while you're doing that so yeah it creates engagement but it also benefits my point now i'm actually completely serious at this point in time there's nobody even close i'm the most influential person in america by far i'm surprised i thought there'd be a little bit more pushback on that what do you think influences elon somebody said elon musk is more influential elon musk literally runs tesla based on the dilbert the dilbert philosophy of don't do something and this is out loud don't do something that would end up in a dilbert comic he runs his company based on my philosophy basically then some of you influenced me you're right putin anyone wow i really got away with that more than i thought do you know how many how many best-selling books right now are uh crediting some part of their book to me these aren't the only ones have you ever seen that tim ferriss's book tools for titans it's basically you know the good advice from successful people i'm in that as well systems versus goals when when anybody in silicon valley is asked about career advice what are the two most likely things they're going to say if a silicon valley professional somebody important i see your questions about tate but he's irrelevant to me at the moment um what are they likely to say the most likely things people say is passion is probably came from me systems over goals game for me and build a talent stack directly for me the the the basic advice of business is primarily from me now so that's true all right um so let me ask you this i'm seeing somebody say that uh my prediction that ukraine would win the war was wrong but i think they won the war as far as i can tell now russia picked up territory but they are forever going to be a pariah so russia has a permanent loss that i don't think they can recover which is their customers are going to find alternative sources ukraine is ukraine is basically destroyed but they're still a country for ukraine to win you know quote win it means staying as a country and they did it looks like they will for russia to win i don't think it was enough for them to get control of those strategic areas so you can definitely you can definitely say they got something out of it and they got something pretty good but in the long run i think russia will be degraded by this and i think ukraine will still exist now technically nobody really wins in a war do they you know we say but not really mike rowe says bring your passion to work which is slightly different from what i say all right um the us is losing yeah maybe the us is losing but i didn't see a push back on that would you would you say that if ukraine let's say if ukraine stays the way it looks right now where they've lost you know those strategic regions but they maintain themselves as a country would you say they were they won or they lost well would you say if things stayed exactly the way they are you'd say would you say they won or they lost i'm saying i'm seeing on locals lost lost interesting lost lost lost all right so but we're looking at the same facts right we're looking we're looking at um i would say that given that ukraine did not want to destroy or occupy russia what winning would look like for ukraine is to stay a country that's how i would define it now they could win more by being more prosperous or losing less territory but i would say that they they they did the well let me put it this way true or false that the military professionals were solidly aligned in saying that russia could take all of ukraine is that true or false do i remember that wrong was it true that all of the military experts said russia can take all of ukraine that's true who is the one person that you know who said that they can't that it won't work just me i believe i'm the only person who said in public no i do not believe russia can take ukraine now i don't remember if i said they can or cannot take you know any strategic areas because i don't think that was ever a big question of course they had the power to do that but the question of taking all of ukraine i believe i alone said they couldn't do it jimmy dore also give me a fact check on that was jimmy dore saying it when i said it because because i'd give him credit if he did yeah and for those of you who say it's not half time that's that's reasonable but it does look like it's approaching um at least a more stable situation does it look to you like russia really could take over the rest of ukraine at this point it doesn't really look like it but anything could happen all right so those of you who think i was wrong about that prediction i would say that i had the best prediction in the world in the world on that topic that's what i think i think it was the best prediction in the world the i get the one word answer to that wrong wrong well do you do you see why i could say it let's say you disagree with me but do you but do you see why i say it do you see the argument there's nothing wrong with the argument right the the argument is that the goal was to conquer all of ukraine winning means that they didn't do it that's it yeah that's my argument all right um all right the goal was never that well the goal of ukraine was to remain ukraine and lose as little as possible and they probably lost as little as possible all right um there were never goals for russia really i think in a way russia accomplished its goals as well because it did get that you know strategic part that's pretty important but it also um gave a warning to nato that you know don't push too far next topic uh is there a next topic i believe eric weinstein tweeted about the media um did i see that i don't know all right um i don't have any updates on any andrew tate stuff but if youtube still has his videos up in which he is saying false things about me which actually do hurt me like not nothing he says necessarily but every time there's a lie in the media let me ask you how many of you believe i was pro-vaccination so we can see how how quickly the lies spread in how many of you and the people on locals know i never was but on youtube how many of you are under the impression that i was pro-vaccination okay i guess i i guess that's been clarified for the people who actually pay attention but some of you are saying yes those of you who are saying yes how do you explain all the people saying no like what is your theory for why you think yes but you can see for yourself other people who are observing exactly the same stuff say no like what in your mind do you think all the people saying no weren't paying attention how do you explain that all right well when somebody says i was pro enough to get the vaccination but does anybody care about what any any individual does with their health care you don't care what i individually do do you why would that and did i ever indicate that my individual choices should apply to anybody else did you ever hear me say what i do is what you should do for your health have you ever heard me say that is the 186 iq are you saying that andrew tate claims a 186 iq because because if he is that's that's funny uh i think a low i'll raise mine to 187 if that's the case yeah you know what the weirdest thing is you know how uh mark twain famously said we can't tell the difference between good news and bad news let me paint you a picture during the pandemic when most people couldn't fly i could because i could still fly because i got vaccinated which is the only reason i did it so i went to bora bora with a one of the most beautiful women in the world and spent a week in paradise and there were almost no other tourists there the only thing wrong with going to a place like bora bora is the other people like if you if you went to the pool it would be busy if you tried to get a reservation be busy so it's really the only problem with going to bora bora is too many people there was almost nobody there the whole resort imagine the main pool at one of the high end resorts in bora bora on a perfectly good weather day nobody else was at the pool the entire time nobody at the main pool of a major resort you could go anywhere and do anything with no lines no nothing and the entire staff was there to help you they weren't too busy so i had the peak travel experience of my life and while i was having the peak travel experience of my life i was in perfect health and still am i mean relative to covet anyway and so so somehow somehow while i was having the best experience of my life travel experience uh my critics are telling me that they feel sorry for me for choosing incorrectly now my critics were staying home probably not having sex with one of the most beautiful women in the world and they're pretty sure that i'd made all the wrong choices now what does the right choice look like if the wrong choice was having wild sex with one of the most beautiful people in the world in a low populated bora bora because a lot of people think that's what losing looks like i don't know did i choose wrong now now if if later i get a blood clot and die well then you're right then i'd say well damn it got that blood clot of course i'd also say it might be because i had coveted but you know me i don't know so the the whole uh the the the entire uh oh there's a story i want to tell but i think i can only tell it on locals i can't tell you how many times people have um contacted me because they they felt i needed some sympathy and i would think to myself sympathy i just had a day that's better than almost anybody else's day like i i sometimes have spectacular days like so good i can't talk about them and then somebody will still think oh you're having a bad day i'm like did it look like that because i think i had like one of the most best days ever so you're talking okay that's right yeah and that was another trip santa santorini just sorry i'm misinformed holly what do you think i'm misinformed about everybody's paying for sex blake i i like that that there's some men who think they don't pay for sex all right i just look at your comments for a moment who has influenced me so just before i got on here i got a very nice message from someone who read my book had failed almost everything still went back in 2016 and implemented the ideas in the book and has now achieved a major financial goal is there anybody watching here who also took any advice from me that they would credit for a major financial success let's say since 2016.

has anybody else who had that experience on locals i'd expect to see more yeses i see a bunch of yeses on youtube now you wouldn't expect most people to make money but wow on the locals platform that a lot of people made money following my advice seems like transactional relationships are the only ones in your life that is correct so there's a uh there's a video by chris rock who says the following things if you're a man i'm paraphrasing this is chris rock he says if you're man you have to get used to the fact that there are only three people who have unconditional love women children and dogs men are only loved for what they can provide to which i said that sounds right yeah the the the only thing that i've ever experienced that felt like uh love in the long term i'm not talking about dating or short-term infatuations or sex or something so in the short term it could be anything you know people are just acting on fun or whatever but in the long term i've never been valued for anything but the resources that i could provide but i'm also completely aware of it and there are those of you who think that's not the case for you i'm not going to change your mind now that might be true for some women as well might be true for women is it sad or is it just reality yeah so look look at some of the other men's comments some of the men are you know jumping in to defend their wives i think but there are other men who are saying yeah it's kind of true that's kind of true but you don't hear me complaining about it do you i'm describing it i'm describing it but it's not a complaint because it's just the world i was born into and those are the rules and i just play by the rules right so i mean it's not like i can change it if i could change it well that'd be a different conversation but it just is that's just the current situation stephanie says i'm a woman that is not true uh i will acknowledge that some portion of you believe it's not true somebody says you're beautiful but you never wish to go to bora bora some people think that andrew tate actually met my ex-wife because he tells a story about doing it no andrew tate never met her but if he had the dates that he's talking about or after long after we'd been done so even even if what he said was true and it's definitely not true but if it had been true it wouldn't be relevant to me because whatever she did after after we separated was not my business yeah yeah he claimed that he did but if there's one thing i could tell you for sure if that had ever happened she definitely would have told me let me clear up something completely there isn't the slightest chance that she wouldn't have told me that in you know in some conversation there isn't the slightest chance she wouldn't have told me that not not even a little bit so when she says that didn't happen and she said it in publicly as well as to me that you can count on that that that did not happen i guarantee it no i'm not the i i never claimed to be the father now the the uh trust me the the it was 2020 when i asked for a divorce so what you're talking about is all 20 21 22 22 stuff so anything that happened after 2020 that wasn't my business i didn't care humor accounts as much as money yeah in the beginning if you don't have any money then the humor doesn't count as much anymore i like it that many of you still have a romantic you know a sense of the world that i wouldn't talk you out of it you let him control you by overacting to his videos did i do do you think he had any reaction to my reactions so you're you're leaving out part of the analysis as you often do so the analysis is not just what i was doing is what he was doing don't you think that his entire reaction was an overaction to me do you know why he went after me in the first place does anybody know why andrew tate went after me because he's a fan and i spurned him he was a big fan of mine in fact here's the funniest part he mocks me for being pro mask but when asked what people should have done he describes my um my my recommendation so he's mocking me while promoting my exact recommendation which i'm pretty sure he took from me because nobody else said it and the recommendation was to resist by not wearing masks until you're asked because you're not mad at the security guard you're just trying to overload the system and so he explained that that was his idea that actually came from me uh tate tried to recruit me into his group for about two years through a surrogate and it was so ridiculous that i eventually said something in public and because i said something in public to slap him down when he was a fan of mine i think he's like a spurned lover now so he acts like a angry lover the way he treats me because i basically rejected his advances if you didn't know that part of the story then you don't know why he's acting so personally worked up about me and when i when i strike back i'm not really striking back i just think it's funny that he's he got so canceled and by the way if it were anybody except a personal enemy i'd probably be defending him because i don't i don't agree with canceling people for what he said okay can you handle that incongruity i'm delighted that he got canceled because i think he's a horrible person and i dislike him personally he's bad for the world but the reasons he got canceled were completely illegitimate in my opinion does anybody disagree i believe the reasons he got cancelled were 100 illegitimate any disagreement because the things he said were just opinions and his opinions were not uh far from the mainstream now somebody's saying beating a woman but that's what you believe happened that's what you believe happened i saw a video in which it's unclear it's unclear whether it was consensual or not so if it's unclear i give them the benefit of a doubt because video can be very misleading how many times have you seen video tell the wrong story well often right so if you think that he's guilty because you saw a video that's not that's not credible it could be it could be exactly what you think it is abusing a woman in which case i would revise my opinion but if that's the only thing you have is that video it doesn't look like it's necessarily non-consensual it doesn't look like it to me but and then the other things he said about you know the role of men versus women that's an opinion and he's not far from the mainstream the reason he had what four million followers is that he was he was hitting a note with some number of people oh somebody says she came out and said it was play well then somebody's going to say but you know she was threatened or bribed to say that right so nothing that we see in the news is credible but if the woman is not complaining and the video is unclear i would say that's not something you could hold against them based on what you know you'd have to be guessing to hold that against them yeah so the thing i hate about tate is him making up stuff to um what's the word defame me in public so anybody who makes up stuff to defend me i would like to see you know die a horrible death is that wrong if somebody makes up something to defame you in in public and you wouldn't mind seeing them die i would die a horrible death i mean i wouldn't do it i'm not saying that you should do it or anybody should do anything violent i'm against violence i'm just saying that like if an accident happened and something bad happened to him i'd be like oh okay i'm pretty happy about that i mean i was happy when it got canceled and i don't think the cancellation was right i think the cancellation was completely wrong but still made me happy karma does his thing sometimes probably got you more notoriety and i don't think so uh peter zan and population collapse we've talked about population collapse rumors about uh tate and jordan peterson's daughter which she denied right i believe jordan peterson's daughter got pulled into some rumor about tate i think they met but um but she's i think she denied it and i think i would i think i would believe her now by the way you don't have to wonder if tate's a liar because well to the extent that you believe me i suppose but i know he's a liar i don't have to wonder some of you i suppose still have to wonder but i have the luxury of knowing for sure that he's lying so so i have a different opinion uh yeah why why would she go visit him in romania isn't that weird like what would inspire you to go do that no 48 hour rule just kicked in for everything i'm saying well that's always true um did i talk about this that uh yeah i did did i mention that trump retweeted my not retweeted about truth my um top ten hoax quiz did i mention that that trump um boosted my hoax quiz so that happened so yesterday let me let me describe like an actual moment for me so yesterday i'm sitting in my kitchen and i've got my laptop out and it's the end of the day and i've done everything i need to do so i don't you know i'm just looking at twitter or something and i've got a bag of potato chips open which i don't normally do all right normally i have a pretty controlled diet but salt and pepper potato chips with ruffles i can't i can't i can't resist so i'm eating some potato chips i'm all alone you know with my dog minding my own business and you know i get it i get a text that trump just boosted my my hoax quiz so once again i'm just my my actual physical world is so small it's just me sitting there eating some potato chips the next thing i know i'm you know part of a national story and the number of times that that happens is just so weird you'd never really get used to it thank you bill for saying that yeah i guess it's always when i'm minding my own business you're right by definition what made you think your marriage would last i didn't think that i've never thought a marriage would last i don't think your marriage will last either i i just bet against it based on statistics yeah i think the the worst assumption you can make is that marriages usually fail but yours won't i never made that i made the assumption that marriages usually fail so mine probably will so i wasn't surprised why get married because you want to get married there are benefits of marriage especially if kids are involved if kids are involved it just makes things easier it's sort of awkward to have a long-term relationship and not be married after after a certain age it's just it's a problem it just it's just easier to be married after a certain number of years you've been together now we were together for five years and it worked great and if you ask me what changed i don't know and probably will never know but something changed i mean something major changed at one point but i don't know exactly what it was because people change i don't know maybe will i add the 15th oaks to find votes that's already on there woody allen never married mia pharaoh and that worked well oh i wanted to give you uh uh i can't do that never mind uh if they all failed the the link is you well that's true here's what i think i think that all original attraction is irrational and then once you're together long enough the you know once the the glow wears off the romance part what you're left with is utility and so if there's no utility after the magic wears off because it always wears off then you get divorced and by utility i mean does one of you provide let's say resources do you protect each other do you provide enough sex that you're both happy about it and it's good if you're not doing those things then of course the marriage falls apart but marriage is just utility after after the initial period it's just utility and if you're not if both of you are not feeling the other feel safe then there's no point to it if your spouse doesn't make you feel safer if they make you feel less safe there's no point to it at all so that's that's pretty much the the reason to get divorced is that you don't feel safe the reason to get married is that you think you're in love and you'll feel safer and happier how long did you get no sex before you decided it was over not at all in fact even the separation was a good time it wasn't about physical compatibility that actually never changed um i have saved the kids in one household um okay so let me offer you an apology and explanation so i got the website hoaxquiz.com and then i asked some people on locals if if they'd want to help put the quiz on the website a number of people said hey i would under these conditions or what do you need et cetera the problem is that when you offer by any kind of messaging system i don't really have the resources to look through all your offers and follow up on them so that's on me because i asked you for something that can't work which is i don't have the resources to follow up on the request so i apologize for that um but if anybody wanted to you know self-start and then you know build something i have the url so if you want to do something on your own i don't have the resources to help but if you build something and i like it i'd be happy to let you use the url and promote it i just i just can't get into it it's the same problem with i said i'd make a coffee mug for for this for coffee with scott adams and i want to do that and a bunch of people offered designs and stuff i just don't have the resources to go through all of my thousands of messages and find out who offered what and then organize a project around it so and i don't really have the resources to manage somebody who wants to do it either somebody says put eric in charge of it but uh get an assistant and then marry her that's the best idea yet website is underway somebody says all right so it looks like somebody's self-started here already why not have a contest have people submit actual mugs well that again would be a project i'd have to manage so i'm having a little bit of a resource constraint but that is all for today um and just looking at your following questions somehow they got interesting here um self-imposed constraints yeah i suppose so all right that's all for now and i will talk to you later

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it's called the simultaneous epi

and it happens now go

i saw a cry for help as i was taking my

sip it did it did take a little bit off

it i have to admit

there was somebody here who was out of

coffee

during the simultaneous step

i think the rest of us

have an opinion about that

yeah

be a little bit more prepared

all right let's start out by the most

important announcement of the day happy

birthday

to

jb

have a terrific birthday today

and the rest of you you can have a good

day too

is there anybody else who has a birthday

today

any birthdays

if you have a birthday today then happy

birthday to youtube

well what else is going on um

so biden wants to forgive some student

loans up to ten thousand dollars

yeah what do you think of that

may i say the thing that everyone must

say at least once

may i may i put on my npc hat

and say the most obvious thing that you

can say or would you like to say it for

me

because i feel like there's some weird

requirement that if you talk about this

topic

you have to say what everybody is

thinking

even though everybody's thinking it

should do i even need to say anything

buying votes let's say uh what about the

people who

what about the people who don't get any

loan forgiveness what about them

now the point is good i'm not arguing

the point is bad

but how many times do i have to hear it

really

do i have to keep hearing people say

that other people are not getting a

benefit

may i put this in context for you

every change to taxes

screw somebody

there's no exception to that

all you had to know is that it was a

change in the tax rates or the change

something something got added to the tax

base or or something taxpayers had to

pay for

or somebody got a tax break or somebody

got a tax increase every change screws

somebody

so if your complaint is that a group of

people got screwed that's not really an

argument

because every change

as well as the current situation

screw somebody

right

so you can say you don't like it because

it screws you

that would be a good opinion

this screws me

i pay more but i don't get anything from

it a lot of people are saying that

that's a perfectly reasonable thing to

say

but if you're if you have if you think

you have some philosophical argument

about it you don't

you don't

because the philosophical argument

against this

then it's unfair

is exactly the same argument for every

part of the tax code

any change any current situation they're

all unfair

you can't make a fair tax code

now some of you can say yes you can flat

tax that's not fair

the flat tax is not fair

it's just a different way to do it

there's literally no way

for everybody to give something that

they consider fair

fairness isn't even a thing

it's literally an imaginary concept that

can never be achieved

so

so there's that

here's what i would suggest if you don't

like this

ten thousand dollar break for

people and and the reasons are perfectly

valid by the way

if your reason is it's unnecessary

it helps the wrong people

that's a good argument

but it also applies to everything else

that we do at taxation

um

here's how i think we should handle it

if you don't like it

or even if you do really whether you

like it or not here's how you should

handle it

you should

declare that it's also reparations

because

wouldn't it be nice to to put that to

bed at the same time

here's my argument

the only way slavery reparations would

work

is if you attack education and you say

all right the best we can do

that at least most people can agree with

is we'll fix education for everybody

who's poor

you don't have to be black just

everybody who's poor

and just make it as good as the

education for everybody who's not poor

now if we did something like that

well then

now you're talking

right there's something that i would say

well okay that's not exactly

you know reparations focused but it does

get you to the same place it gets rid of

the the biggest form of institutional

racism

is the school system school system keeps

whoever is behind behind

it happens to be black people are in a

hole

so this current system keeps whoever is

in a hole in a hole

because they don't have as good a school

system as other people

so i would say

i'm just going to call it reparations

and say yeah it's probably going to

happen anyway if it happens

now uh

does biden have the authority to do this

yeah we're acting like the amount

or the idea of of it is the question

but really we've kind of thought past

the sale haven't we adam dopamine

pointed this out on twitter

uh

we're kind of thinking about whether

it's a good idea and we've thought past

the question

a little bit i mean we haven't

completely thought past it but it does

make you a little bit think past the

question of whether biden can even do

this

and i believe even nancy pelosi says he

can't right

so aren't we talking about something

that the senate

won't agree to

or does it just come down to joe manchin

and kirsten cinema again

it's just those right just two people

again

how often do we see that just two people

are running the country

interesting how often that happens

um

so i'm going to call it reparations and

call it good

desantis made a uh uncharacteristic

error

uh did you hear him talking about fouchy

and he said quote

i'm just sick of seeing him i know he

says he's going to retire someone needs

to grab that little elf and chuck him

across the potomac

applause

someone needs to grab that little elf

and chuck them across the potomac

so

now as was pointed out to me

trump himself has made fun of height

he made fun of little marco

and i didn't love that

but he did seem to uh

he did seem to

you know it was in the context of two

people competing against each other and

saying lying about each other all the

time

so it seemed a little different

whereas desantis wasn't exactly in a

political contest against uh

fouchy

but he did seem to belittle him for his

height

and suggest violence

now it's not real violence it's like

hyperbelievable you know jokey violence

comic violence

but how much comic violence do you think

the public would tolerate against a

different group

let me let me just put in some different

groups here

and see how it says so the original is

talking about fauci grab that little elf

and chuck them across the potomac

let's say it was uh

oh let's say the secretary of

transportation

uh let's grab that little gay guy and

check him across the potomac

sounds good

you'd be okay with that how about

um i bet i was somebody black let's grab

that black guy and chalk him across the

potomac potomac

you okay with that

that sounds okay

chuck that black guy across the potomac

how about woman

let's uh grab that woman and chuck her

across the potomac

you're okay with that

most of you are

most of you are see most of you are

being consistent now which i appreciate

by the way you're being consistent

because most of you are opposed to

you know the word police right most of

you don't want to cancel somebody

because they

said something they insulted somebody

right i appreciate that

i appreciate that opinion

um

desantis is dead to me

but

that's just personal so you don't have

to agree with me i will not try to

change your mind it's just he lost my

support

will that matter

well i don't know

beats me but he shouldn't have insulted

short people and suggested that throwing

them across the potomac is funny now i'm

not insulted

like i don't feel it's an insult

i just don't want a leader who would

talk like that

because when you when you pick out a

group of americans to criticize

that's different

it's different to me this is a

deplorables moment

do you think that hillary should have

been criticized for calling half of

america deplorables

what do you think

should hillary be criticized for calling

i don't know 40 of america

deplorables

because i did i criticized her for that

because the difference is it's

it's a paul elected politician

who's saying something bad about a class

of people who are americans

so i tolerate

i tolerate a politician making fun of

another politician who's running against

him

you can say anything you want politician

against politician i don't really care

that's just part of the process

if it's a non-politician

who says something about a class of

americans well that's okay

that's just free speech

but if you're an elected politician and

you say something that clearly

identifies an attitude about a class of

americans

well then i can't support you

so

anyway he's got 48 hours but he lost my

support

um

not that i was necessarily going to

support him but uh

what you think that's too too harsh

who thinks i'm too harsh

you think i'm being too sensitive

but why can't why can't i uh

but do you think that i'm reacting to my

personal feeling or do you think i'm

acting on principle

am i acting on principle or personal

feeling right now

are you reading my mind

now

now when hillary called

republicans deplorables

did you disagree with that on principle

or because it hurt your feelings

which was it did it hurt your feelings

or did it seem like a bad thing for a

leader to identify people within the

public as deplorable

think it was based on principle wasn't

it

because when i was

anti-hillary for saying the deplorable

thing it wasn't just because it was an

insult

it was because she was insulting

the public a group in the public

so i think i'm being uh i think i'm

being consistent

do you think that i'm being consistent

hillary insulted deplorables

desantis insulted a class of americans

that's not consistent

because even if you think that both of

them were based on my feelings

and maybe you'd be right but at least

i'd be consistent they'd both be based

on my feelings

so

now let me turn this around so you've

you some of you have made the accusation

that i'm operating on my feelings

instead of my

logic do you think that's a fair

well you can't know for sure but do you

think it's a fair uh concern

would you say that that would be a

reasonable

hypothesis

i think so reasonable hypothesis

can i give you that can i admit that

you're if you have the hypothesis that

i'm acting on emotion and not logic

that that's a reasonable hypothesis

now i'm going to make a reasonable

hypothesis about hypothesis about some

of you

that you care about winning more than

you care about

that point

you don't care about that point it's

just not important to you

so you care about winning a little bit

more

is that fair

do you think do you think you're a

little bit more concerned about winning

than you are about this minor point

yeah

so i don't think you're disagreeing with

me on the point

i think you just like winning

is that a fair hypothesis for some of

you

well maybe the lesson here is that you

can't read minds

and neither can i

but would you

would you allow me this

that it is at least consistent

to say that if a leader

talks against a class of americans

for something they can't change for

something they can't change

that that would be disqualifying

no

i i think you have to give me that is

consistent even if you don't like it

anyway i don't think i don't think

desantis will be running for president

so i don't think it's going to matter

remember i told you yesterday it would

be funny to do the

the the trump method of uh telling

people he has a high iq

so i told you there's a list of

presidential iqs which can't really be

known but the only thing we know about

trump is that there's some claim he has

of having a high iq so his claim

given that there was no other

information

was enough to put him number three on

the smartest president's list

which to me is the funniest thing so i

asked you to help me with a ongoing

prank

in which you would

on twitter

sometimes you would just mention that i

have an iq of 185

which i don't

it's totally made up

but

mike suarez whose twitter user and i

assume i assume mike you're probably

watching me right now

but mike suarez started doing this on

twitter and here's here's one of his

comments he put on somebody else's

comment it doesn't matter what the topic

is

but just just read how funny this is

so this is it doesn't matter what he's

commenting to he says scott adams has a

reported iq of 185. now the funny part

is you should say reported

because you don't claim it as a fact you

just say it's reported right scott adams

has a reported iq of 185 higher than

bill gates and elon musk on par with

einstein he's literally a super genius

smarter than 99.9 of the world and

you're coming at him with these low iq

arguments please just stop and let the

man focus on saving the world

oh

i think

i think i think mike left two of these

comments i may maybe i saw the same one

twice but

and here's the funniest thing

i saw the response to the comment who

he's coming to and the response didn't

deny the fact

it didn't deny the fact it just you know

got angry for some unrelated reason so i

think that people are going to accept it

as a fact

and it's just going to live out there

it's going to live on the internet

forever as a fact

oh so thanks to mike suarez for that

all right here's a uh do you like

conspiracy theories

anybody

i got a conspiracy theory for you you're

gonna love it

it goes like this

have you ever thought it was unusual

and kind of a big coincidence

that our

presidential races always seem to be so

close has that ever

struck you as odd

like why why would that be exactly

like why would it be that they're close

i feel like every time they're close now

that's not true of local races right

in local races it's not unusual for 75

percent of the vote to go one place

now let me ask you this

if you imagine that there's somebody

behind the curtain

somebody you don't know about exactly

but you suspect is back there

if they're really the ones in charge

what would they want to do with the

political process

to stay in charge

again this is just speculative if you

were to imagine we're just imagining

right we're just using our imaginations

imagine there's somebody really in

charge behind the curtain

would they want one of the one of the

sides

to get all the power

would they want for example a strong

republican to get 75 percent of the vote

no way

because if any individual got 75 percent

of the vote

that individual would have too much

power

am i right

yeah there's no situation in which if

you imagine and it's a big if

if there's some power behind the curtain

they would never allow one candidate to

get 75 percent of the vote

because

because that candidate would then

actually have real power

the public would back that person for

almost anything

and that would take the power away from

the people with the real power even if

they thought they had control over that

candidate they would lose control the

candidate would be more powerful

yeah now reagan was probably an

exception because

a second term president's a little bit

of a different situation

right

but

the second term president they know they

can wait out right just for

now you saw what uh joe manchin can do

when things are deadlocked right when

congress is deadlocked the only person

who has power is joe manchin

kirsten cinema a little bit right

so

let me ask you this if you were looking

for the power the real power who's

running the country

there's a tell

and the tell would look like this

they would sometimes back both either

side

because they would back the side that

they need to put the brakes on you know

they if they need to put the brakes on

one side

keep things in balance

you would see them operating to to

influence both sides

all right

name somebody who interfered with

hillary's election

trump's election

and then the biden election

name one entity

who absolutely interfered with all three

elections

the fbi

so the fbi was accused of

putting their finger on the

2016 election

when comey talked about hillary's emails

they were confidential

but we didn't yet know if there was

going to be any legal legal liability

right

so

so fbi definitely influenced the 2016

election

and then the fbi was involved in the

whole

and the department of justice i

sometimes conflate them because i

conflate them because they can be

conflated

um

but then there was a whole russian

collusion thing so one was anti-hillary

now there's anti-trump

then there's the hunter laptop situation

which was suppressed

so that was you know anti-trump again

then there's the january 16th

investigation and the fbi is involved

department of justice

it feels to me like the department of

justice and the fbi

will suppress anybody who's getting too

popular

does it seem like that it was suppressed

anybody was getting too popular and

trump had the um

he had the personality appeal that he

would have been too popular

it's not that trump

was going to do some specific thing is

that he was too popular we had the

potential to be

i think they had to stop anybody who

would who would get

either party to a dominant position

now

if you keep things close

who runs the country

if you keep the two political parties

close

at the national level who runs the

country

well if it's close

what's the tiebreaker is it joe manchin

a little bit

no it's persuasion

it's persuasion if you keep all the

races close

then the tiebreaker is persuasion or in

some cases i suppose you can change the

rules like mark elias that sort of thing

but it's very small things that make the

difference if you're always close to

deadlocked

persuasion is now something that can

move everybody all at once

it doesn't work that way

persuasion is about moving five percent

of the public over a long time period

so the

to the extent that the

media

colludes with whoever is behind the

curtain

the media can move you five percent in

the other direction

so basically it puts the media

completely in control of the government

and then you have to back up a level and

say who controls the media

so the condition for somebody behind the

curtain to really be running things

would be

that they're keeping the

the natural parties that you vote for

too close

for either them to be dominant

and then they also control news coverage

so that once you're close the only thing

that makes a difference is persuasion

and they control that as well

you think the senate and the and the

congress in general

matter

but they're also moved by persuasion

so

when was last time you saw the democrats

do something that the democrat media

does not support they're always on the

same team

right so when you think it's the

congress doing something it's not

it's the news allowing them to do it

because if jake tapper got on tv and

said this democrat plan is up

this is a bad idea it wouldn't happen

it wouldn't happen because first of all

jake tapper i'm just picking him

randomly but if one of the

cnn you know major hosts

said this is a bad democrat plan it

probably means the other hosts are going

to say it too right because they they

they operate in lockstep

so all you'd have to see is one host

going against the democrats then you say

okay that's news

okay now we can call it news because

sometimes they agree with what you think

is their team but some signs they

disagree

if you never see them disagree with the

democrats that's just persuasion it's

not news

you always feel like i'm hypnotizing you

does anybody feel like that now

well i'm not i'm not hypnotizing it

all right well i'm not saying that the

fbi and the department of justice is

running america it could be whoever

whoever controls them

right so you might have to go up back a

level to find out who has so much

control

that they can get the fbi and the

department of justice to do whatever

they want

what do you think of this new chips law

joe biden's like you know hundreds of

billions

to bring chip manufacturing back to the

united states but i think it's more than

chips right

it talks about manufacturing

can somebody tell me if the chip's law

is more than just chips

it's not potato chips

um

so some of this is encouraging it to go

to india that's correct but i think some

of it is

uh to encourage manufacturing in the

united states ultimately i don't know

this feels like a good idea

because we have to decouple the tech

stuff from china

so i don't know if this will be

implemented right or it's the right

budget amount but

directionally is right

so would you be surprised to know that

the election polling

is getting closer

you know i don't think that the generic

republican and the generic democrat are

that far apart anymore

and part of it is the legislative wins

if you can call it that

as long as the democrats like what

biden's doing

and he's going to give votes

so

that's probably a good idea the chips

thing but i don't know

don't know for sure

all right

rasmussen that

as a poll says

uh 42 percent trust what the news media

are reporting about the fbi raid on

on mar-a-lago

only 42 percent

of the public

trust the news about the raid on

mar-a-lago

42 percent

now the way the poll is at 44

don't trust it and another 14 are not

sure

now what is the difference between

somebody who doesn't trust the news and

somebody who's not sure if they should

trust it

what would you call somebody who's not

sure if they should trust the news

that would be somebody who doesn't trust

that

if you're not sure you can trust

something

by definition of how words work

it means you don't trust them

right

am i reading that wrong

so that would mean the 44 plus the 14.

so that would be uh 58

basically or not believing the news

about the mar-a-lago raid

that is actually a an encouraging

a very encouraging

number because that's exactly what i'd

hope you would expect that the majority

of people would say i'm not sure about

that

so here's two stories i'd like to talk

about some more the uh

the january 6th story disappeared and

mar-a-lago story seems to be

disappearing

one of those two stories have in common

the january 6th story

you know the hearings

and the mar-a-lago

and the mar-a-lago story the raid

what do they have in common

there are two stories that the democrats

thought would work in their favor and

blew up

so they disappeared

it's funny watching the news

be so illegitimate right in front of you

right like they don't really this though

they're not really trying to hide it are

they

it's just so obvious that the news isn't

real it's just you know narrative

manufacturing

all right

62 percent of the people who follow me

and answered one of my polls

believe that you can make a decision

without

knowing the risks on both sides

does that seem high

62 percent of the people who follow me

believe you don't need to know

the costs and the risks

of your of your alternatives to make a

decision

so sound high or low

that's about that's about what i'd

expect actually

about two-thirds of the public

believes they know how to make decisions

and actually don't

and when i say believes they know how to

make decisions i mean the most basic

question

of should you consider all of the

variables

probably two-thirds of the public would

say no you don't need to

you don't need to know about all the

variables

you only need to know about some of them

that's actually pretty common so the

majority of the world believes that they

can analyze situations but they don't

have the basic skills to do that

and so sort of a dunning krueger thing

now

suppose

that you know something close to 40 of

my followers

did know how to make a proper decision

that's pretty high

that's higher than i would have expected

actually so i so if you thought that 60

percent

um so plus

not knowing you should compare

alternatives is high

i would say that the number of people

who do know how to do it is actually

the more impressive number

because i harp on that all the time so i

would expect the people who follow me to

be more

clued in and if 40 of you are there

that's actually pretty good

so

twitter

twitter is got some new news the sec

wants twitter to explain their bot count

so how do they come up with the number

of bots so that's good for musk because

now the sec is asking the same question

he is

now how would you judge the credibility

of the twitter whistleblower

who is in charge of security

who says that

twitter basically

is hiding things and doing a bad job

with security and they might have

foreign intelligence in there and all

kinds of problems now keep in mind that

he's a he's a prior hacker

so his background is he was a hacker

and he was fired for what twitter says

was poor performance

prior to being a whistleblower

how much credibility would give would

you

give to a

prior hacker

who was fired for poor performance

according to the company according to

the company what credibility would you

give him

yeah low very low

but doesn't mean he's wrong

doesn't mean he's wrong

it just means that if you heard of

anybody in this category

you should not automatically trust them

so i would say don't don't assume he's

telling the truth he might be

you might be

but i wouldn't assume it

there's not really enough there to

assume it

um

so we'll find out

all right i'm going to say one of the

best magic tricks that the

um

that the press has ever played

to me this is the hall of fame magic

trick

you know i get how the press can fool

people with

videos

that are edited to make them misleading

so we all understand that right

i i've been fooled by videos that were

misleadingly edited

you know the

um

what is it the kids who was at covington

kids so that one fooled me for about a

day

you know i got over it but it fooled me

for about a day so it's really easy it's

easy to be fooled by video you'd agree

right

now

so if i see that the news has fooled the

public about a video

i'm not that impressed because that's

sort of an easy thing to pull off

but you know what's really impressive

when you simply make somebody think that

something they're seeing or hearing

isn't happening

and they did that with the trump phone

call

in which he asked

was at the secretary of state

to find you know find x number of votes

in the context of thinking the election

was fixed

or rigged and in the context of asking

for a recount

the the news actually convinced

something like 40

percent of the public or more

that the normal word find

means to lie and steal and rig the

election

when the the most obvious context

is that if two you know at least

two-thirds of republicans believe that

the that the election was rigged

that's not in question is it

does anybody question i'm not making up

the number but somewhere in that

neighborhood at least probably

two-thirds of republicans

believe the election was rigged now that

may have changed since then

but certainly on jan you know january 6

maybe two-thirds thought there was a

problem

and certainly at the day of the election

two-thirds thought there was a problem

so why would you assume that trump

would not agree with two-thirds of

republicans that it looks like

it looks like and smells like

something's wrong

why would you assume he would think

differently when two-thirds of

republicans were thinking this looks

wrong

so if you start out by thinking that

trump

disagreed with two-thirds of republicans

who are saying the same thing he was

saying

that's not reasonable is it

is it reasonable to imagine he had a

minority opinion

when in fact everything he said agreed

with the majority

that he actually believed the election

was rigged and i believe he still

believes it but you can't know for sure

right so the most reasonable ex

explanation of find the votes in the

context of believing

you know massively believing within the

republican party

that the vote was miscounted

asking somebody to find votes in that

context

and then imagining that that meant mafia

talk

that is the greatest

gaslighting

i've seen yet

i mean you really have to work at that

it turns out that the people who are

most easily fooled would be

what what type of person or profession

would most easily believe

that the reasonable explanation of find

the votes is mafia talk

it's my what i mean when i say find the

votes you know what i really mean right

because mafia talk

i'm just going to say find the votes but

but wink wink you know what's going to

happen to your legs if you don't find

the votes right

writers right so even this morning two

people with writer in their bio

told me the most

the clearly the most obvious explanation

is that it's mafia talk

is that the most likely explanation

that is mafia talk

is that not a signaling that something's

wrong with the analytical ability

of the person

now it could have been mafia talk

but is that the most likely explanation

that feels like the least likely

explanation to me given that so many

people were listening

there were witnesses and he knew it

there were multiple witnesses including

the person he called and you think he

went all mafia talk on them

if you if you believe that life is like

movies that is actually a reasonable

assumption

if you believe that movies are not like

life

and if they were we wouldn't watch them

then you say no that's just in movies

people don't really do mafia talk in

that context

right they really don't

so

i heard uh

yesterday that author morgan housel

who has a gigantic book i think he sold

two million copies of it and i don't

know if i have the name right is it the

psychology of money

could somebody do a check on that

because i was just operating from memory

just before i got on live here

it's morgan has this psychology of money

right

it's apparently it's massive i don't

know if you know how big

a book is if it sells 2 million copies

my biggest book was a million and a half

you know the dilbert future

so that's big and i heard on an

interview that he uh

he mentioned the systems over

uh goals as being something that

influenced him so my book

had to fail and almost everything and

still win big so my book he mentioned as

an influence for some of his thinkings

about

how to at least at least how to explain

personal finance

now also atomic habits the biggest

business book at the moment

also the author says

that uh some of those ideas

the key ideas actually are from me

so i was asking you the other day who's

who's the most influential person in the

world right now it's definitely me

it's not even close

but i know you don't believe it

you know i know you don't believe that

but if you look at where my my work has

penetrated

it's definitely me i'm absolutely the

most most influential person in the

world right now

i'm looking at the difference between

the the comments on youtube versus

locals it's very different

the the locals people are giving me a

break

they're letting me say that

and then the youtube people are like

your ego

your ego is out of control now how many

of you know me well enough to know what

i'm really doing here

because i think the locals people know

me well enough

do you know what i'm really doing here

youtube

let's see if you can

you can explain it back to me what am i

doing

like what am i trying to accomplish by

this is it just my ego

what do you think

no i'm asking you this is a serious

question what do you think i'm trying to

accomplish am i just bragging for no no

particular benefit

i'm provoking a response that's right

i'm provoking now why do i do that

why would i provoke a response when i

know the response will be to mock me

right the only response i'm gonna get is

mocked

do you think i didn't know that

so why am i doing it why am i doing

something that guarantees i will be

mocked probably forever

like that because you know i said it

right here in public

because the provocation

will make you argue about my influence

and then the in the process of arguing

it you're going to talk yourself into it

so i'm actually provoking you because

that's going to make my argument for me

you can go off and have a debate about

it

and guess what

if you find yourself debating how

influential i am

that actually is your answer

because you won't be debating how

influential anybody else is while you're

doing that

so yeah it creates engagement but it

also benefits my point

now i'm actually completely serious

at this point in time there's nobody

even close i'm the most influential

person in america by far

i'm surprised i thought there'd be a

little bit more pushback on that

what do you think influences elon

somebody said elon musk is more

influential

elon musk literally runs tesla based on

the dilbert

the dilbert philosophy of don't do

something and this is out loud

don't do something that would end up in

a dilbert comic

he runs his company based on my

philosophy basically

then some of you influenced me you're

right

putin anyone

wow i really got away with that more

than i thought

do you know how many how many

best-selling books right now are

uh crediting some part of their book to

me these aren't the only ones

have you ever seen that tim ferriss's

book tools for titans

it's basically you know the good advice

from successful people

i'm in that as well

systems versus goals when when anybody

in silicon valley is asked about career

advice

what are the two most likely things

they're going to say

if a silicon valley professional

somebody important

i see your questions about tate but he's

irrelevant to me at the moment

um

what are they likely to say the most

likely things people say is

passion is

probably came from me

systems over goals game for me

and build a talent stack

directly for me

the

the the basic advice of business is

primarily from me now

so that's true

all right

um

so let me ask you this i'm seeing

somebody say that uh my prediction that

ukraine would win the war

was wrong

but

i think they won the war

as far as i can tell now

russia picked up territory

but they are forever going to be a

pariah

so russia has a permanent loss that i

don't think they can recover

which is their customers are going to

find alternative sources

ukraine is ukraine is basically

destroyed

but they're still a country

for ukraine to win you know quote win it

means staying as a country

and they did

it looks like they will

for russia to win

i don't think it was enough for them to

get control of those strategic areas

so you can definitely you can definitely

say they got something out of it and

they got something pretty good

but

in the long run i think russia will be

degraded by this and i think ukraine

will still exist now technically nobody

really wins in a war do they

you know we say

but not really

mike rowe says bring your passion to

work which is slightly different from

what i say

all right um

the us is losing yeah maybe the us is

losing but i didn't see a push back on

that

would you would you say that

if ukraine let's say if ukraine stays

the way it looks right now

where they've lost you know those

strategic regions but they maintain

themselves as a country would you say

they were they won or they lost

well would you say if things stayed

exactly the way they are

you'd say would you say they won or they

lost

i'm saying i'm seeing on locals lost

lost

interesting

lost lost lost

all right

so but we're looking at the same facts

right we're looking we're looking at

um i would say that

given that ukraine did not want to

destroy or occupy russia

what winning would look like for ukraine

is

to stay a country

that's how i would define it now they

could win more

by being more prosperous or losing less

territory but i would say that they

they

they did the

well let me put it this way

true or false that the

military professionals

were solidly aligned in saying that

russia could take all of ukraine

is that true or false do i remember that

wrong

was it true that all of the military

experts said russia can take all of

ukraine

that's true

who is the one person that you know who

said that they can't

that it won't work

just me

i believe i'm the only person who said

in public

no i do not believe russia can take

ukraine

now i don't remember if i said

they can or cannot take

you know any strategic areas because i

don't think that was ever a big question

of course they had the power to do that

but the question of taking all of

ukraine i believe i alone said they

couldn't do it

jimmy dore also

give me a fact check on that was jimmy

dore saying it when i said it

because because i'd give him credit if

he did

yeah and for those of you who say it's

not half time that's that's reasonable

but it does look like it's approaching

um

at least

a more stable situation

does it look to you like russia really

could take over the rest of ukraine at

this point

it doesn't really look like it

but anything could happen

all right so those of you who think i

was wrong about that prediction i would

say that i had the best prediction

in the world

in the world

on that topic

that's what i think i think it was the

best prediction in the world

the i get the one word answer to that

wrong

wrong

well do you do you see why i could say

it let's say you disagree with me

but do you but do you see why i say it

do you see the argument there's nothing

wrong with the argument right

the the argument is that the goal was to

conquer all of ukraine

winning means that they didn't do it

that's it

yeah that's my argument

all right

um

all right

the goal was never that

well the goal of ukraine

was to remain ukraine and lose as little

as possible

and they probably lost as little as

possible

all right um

there were never goals for russia

really

i think in a way russia accomplished its

goals as well

because it did get that you know

strategic part that's pretty important

but it also um

gave a warning to nato

that

you know don't push too far

next

topic uh is there a next topic

i believe

eric

weinstein tweeted about the media

um

did i see that i don't know

all right

um i don't have any updates on any

andrew tate stuff but if youtube still

has his videos up

in which he is saying false things about

me which actually do hurt me

like not nothing he says necessarily but

every time there's a lie in the media

let me ask you how many of you believe i

was pro-vaccination

so we can see how how quickly the lies

spread in

how many of you and the people on locals

know i never was but on youtube how many

of you are under the impression that i

was pro-vaccination

okay i guess i

i guess that's been clarified for the

people who actually pay attention

but some of you are saying yes

those of you who are saying yes how do

you explain all the people saying no

like what is your theory

for why you think yes but you can see

for yourself

other people who are observing exactly

the same stuff

say no like what in your mind do you

think all the people saying no weren't

paying attention

how do you explain that

all right

well when somebody says i was pro enough

to get the vaccination but does anybody

care about what any any individual does

with their health care you don't care

what i individually do do you

why would that

and did i ever indicate

that my individual choices should apply

to anybody else did you ever hear me say

what i do

is what you should do

for your health

have you ever heard me say that

is the 186 iq are you saying that andrew

tate claims a 186 iq

because

because if he is that's that's

funny uh i think a low i'll raise mine

to 187 if that's the case

yeah you know what the weirdest thing is

you know how uh

mark twain famously said we can't tell

the difference between good news and bad

news let me paint you a picture

during the pandemic when most people

couldn't fly

i could

because

i could still fly because i got

vaccinated which is the only reason i

did it

so i went to bora bora

with a

one of the most beautiful women in the

world

and spent a week in paradise

and there were almost no other

tourists there

the only thing wrong with going to a

place like bora bora is the other people

like if you if you went to the pool

it would be busy if you tried to get a

reservation

be busy so it's really the only problem

with going to bora bora

is too many people

there was almost nobody there

the whole resort imagine the main pool

at one of the high end resorts in bora

bora on a perfectly good weather day

nobody else was at the pool

the entire time

nobody

at the main pool of a major resort

you could go anywhere and do anything

with no lines no nothing and the entire

staff was there to help you they weren't

too busy

so i had

the peak travel experience of my life

and while i was having the peak travel

experience of my life

i was in perfect health

and still am

i mean relative to covet anyway

and so

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so somehow

somehow while i was having the best

experience of my life travel experience

uh my critics are telling me

that they feel sorry for me for choosing

incorrectly

now my critics were staying home

probably not having sex with one of the

most beautiful women in the world

and

they're pretty sure that i'd made all

the wrong choices

now what does the right choice look like

if the wrong choice

was having wild sex with one of the most

beautiful people in the world

in a low populated bora bora

because a lot of people think that's

what losing looks like

i don't know

did i choose wrong

now now if if later i get a blood clot

and die

well then you're right

then i'd say well damn it

got that blood clot of course i'd also

say it might be because i had coveted

but you know me

i don't know

so

the the whole uh

the the the entire uh oh there's a story

i want to tell but i think i can only

tell it on locals

i can't tell you how many times people

have um

contacted me because they they felt i

needed some sympathy

and i would think to myself sympathy

i just had a day that's better than

almost anybody else's day

like i i sometimes have

spectacular days like so good i can't

talk about them

and then somebody will still think oh

you're having a bad day i'm like

did it look like that because i think i

had like one of the most best days ever

so

you're talking okay that's right

yeah and

that was another trip

santa

santorini

just sorry i'm misinformed

holly what do you think i'm misinformed

about

everybody's paying for sex blake

i i like that that there's some men who

think they don't pay for sex

all right

i just look at your comments for a

moment

who has influenced

me so

just before i got on here i got a very

nice message

from someone who read my book had failed

almost everything still went back in

2016

and

implemented the ideas in the book and

has now achieved a major financial goal

is there anybody watching here

who also took any advice from me that

they would credit for a major financial

success

let's say since 2016. has anybody else

who had that experience

on locals i'd expect to see more yeses i

see a bunch of yeses

on youtube

now you wouldn't expect most people

to make money

but

wow on the locals platform that a lot of

people made money following my advice

seems like transactional relationships

are the only ones in your life that is

correct

so there's a uh

there's a video by chris rock

who says the following things

if you're a man i'm paraphrasing this is

chris rock he says if you're man you

have to get used to the fact

that there are only three people who

have unconditional love

women children and dogs

men

are only loved for what they can provide

to which i said that sounds right

yeah the

the the only thing that i've ever

experienced that felt like uh love in

the long term i'm not talking about

dating or short-term infatuations or sex

or something so in the short term it

could be anything you know people are

just acting on fun or whatever but in

the long term i've never been valued for

anything but the resources that i could

provide

but i'm also completely aware of it

and there are those of you who think

that's not the case for you

i'm not going to change your mind

now that might be true for some women as

well

might be true for women

is it sad or is it just reality

yeah

so look look at some of the other men's

comments

some of the men are you know jumping in

to defend their wives i think

but there are other men who are saying

yeah it's kind of true

that's kind of true

but

you don't hear me complaining about it

do you i'm describing it

i'm describing it

but it's not a complaint

because it's just the world i was born

into and those are the rules and i just

play by the rules

right

so

i mean it's not like i can change it

if i could change it well that'd be a

different conversation but it just is

that's just the current situation

stephanie says i'm a woman that is not

true

uh i will acknowledge that

some portion of you believe it's not

true

somebody says you're beautiful but you

never wish to go to bora bora

some people think that andrew tate

actually met my ex-wife because he tells

a story about doing it no andrew tate

never met her

but if he had

the dates that he's talking about or

after long after we'd been done

so even even if what he said was true

and it's definitely not true but if it

had been true it wouldn't be relevant to

me because whatever she did after after

we separated was not my business

yeah

yeah he claimed that he did

but if there's one thing i could tell

you for sure

if that had ever happened

she definitely would have told me

let me clear up something completely

there isn't the slightest chance

that she wouldn't have told me that in

you know in some conversation

there isn't the slightest chance she

wouldn't have told me that

not not even a little bit

so when she says that didn't happen and

she said it in publicly as well as to me

that you can count on that that that did

not happen

i guarantee it

no i'm not the

i i never claimed to be the father

now the the

uh trust me

the

the it was 2020 when i asked for a

divorce

so what you're talking about is all 20

21 22 22 stuff so anything that happened

after 2020

that wasn't my business i didn't care

humor accounts as much as money yeah in

the beginning

if you don't have any money then the

humor doesn't count as much anymore

i like it that many of you still have a

romantic

you know a sense of the world that i

wouldn't talk you out of it

you let him control you by overacting to

his videos

did i

do do you think he had any reaction to

my reactions

so you're you're leaving out part of the

analysis

as you often do

so the analysis is not just what i was

doing is what he was doing

don't you think that his entire reaction

was an overaction to me do you know why

he went after me in the first place

does anybody know why andrew tate went

after me

because he's a fan

and i spurned him he was a big fan of

mine

in fact here's the funniest part

he mocks me for being pro mask

but when asked what people should have

done he describes

my

um my

my recommendation

so he's mocking me while promoting my

exact recommendation which i'm pretty

sure he took from me because nobody else

said it and the recommendation was to

resist by not wearing masks

until you're asked because you're not

mad at the security guard you're just

trying to overload the system and so he

explained that that was his idea

that actually came from me

uh

tate tried to recruit me into his group

for about two years through a surrogate

and it was so ridiculous

that i eventually said something in

public

and because i said something in public

to slap him down

when he was a fan of mine

i think he's like a spurned lover now

so

he acts like a angry lover the way he

treats me because i basically rejected

his advances

if you didn't know that part of the

story

then you don't know why he's acting so

personally worked up about me

and when i

when i strike back

i'm not really striking back i just

think it's funny that he's

he got so canceled

and by the way

if it were anybody except a personal

enemy i'd probably be defending him

because i don't i don't agree with

canceling people for what he said

okay can you handle that

incongruity

i'm delighted that he got canceled

because i think he's a horrible person

and i dislike him personally

he's bad for the world

but

the reasons he got canceled were

completely illegitimate

in my opinion does anybody disagree

i believe the reasons he got cancelled

were 100 illegitimate

any disagreement

because the things he said

were just opinions

and his opinions were not uh far from

the mainstream

now somebody's saying beating a woman

but that's what you believe happened

that's what you believe happened

i saw a video in which it's unclear

it's unclear whether it was consensual

or not

so if it's unclear

i give them the benefit of a doubt

because video can be very misleading

how many times have you seen video tell

the wrong story

well often right

so if you think that he's guilty because

you saw a video that's not that's not

credible

it could be it could be exactly what you

think it is abusing a woman in which

case i would revise my opinion

but if that's the only thing you have is

that video it doesn't look like it's

necessarily non-consensual

it doesn't look like it to me

but

and then the other things he said about

you know the role of men versus women

that's an opinion and he's not far from

the mainstream the reason he had

what four million followers

is that he was he was hitting a note

with some number of people

oh somebody says she came out and said

it was play

well then somebody's going to say but

you know she was threatened or bribed to

say that right

so nothing that we see in the news is

credible but

if the woman is not complaining

and the video is unclear

i would say that's not something you

could hold against them based on what

you know

you'd have to be guessing to hold that

against them

yeah so the thing i hate about tate is

him making up stuff

to um

what's the word defame me in public

so anybody who makes up stuff to defend

me i would like to see you know die a

horrible death

is that wrong

if somebody makes up something to defame

you in in public

and you wouldn't mind seeing them die i

would die a horrible death

i mean i wouldn't do it

i'm not saying that you should do it or

anybody should do anything violent i'm

against violence i'm just saying that

like if an accident happened

and something bad happened to him i'd be

like oh okay

i'm pretty happy about that

i mean i was happy when it got canceled

and i don't think the cancellation was

right

i think the cancellation was completely

wrong

but

still made me happy

karma does his thing sometimes

probably got you more notoriety and i

don't think so

uh peter zan and population collapse

we've talked about population collapse

rumors about uh tate and jordan

peterson's daughter which she denied

right

i believe jordan peterson's daughter got

pulled into some rumor about tate

i think they met

but um

but she's i think she denied it and i

think i would i think i would believe

her

now by the way

you don't have to wonder if tate's a

liar

because

well to the extent that you believe me i

suppose but i know he's a liar

i don't have to wonder some of you i

suppose still have to wonder but i have

the luxury of knowing for sure that he's

lying so so i have a different opinion

uh

yeah

why why would she go visit him in

romania

isn't that weird

like what would inspire you to go do

that

no

48 hour rule just kicked in for

everything i'm saying well that's always

true

um did i talk about this that uh yeah i

did

did i mention that trump retweeted my

not retweeted about truth

my um

top ten

hoax quiz did i mention that

that trump

um

boosted my

hoax quiz

so that happened

so yesterday

let me let me describe like an

actual moment for me

so yesterday i'm sitting in my kitchen

and i've got my laptop out and it's the

end of the day

and i've done everything i need to do so

i don't you know i'm just looking at

twitter or something

and i've got a bag of potato chips open

which i don't normally do

all right normally i have a pretty

controlled diet

but

salt and pepper potato chips with

ruffles i can't i can't

i can't resist

so i'm eating some potato chips

i'm all alone

you know with my dog

minding my own business

and you know i get it i get a text

that trump just

boosted my my hoax quiz

so once again i'm just

my my actual physical world is so small

it's just me sitting there eating some

potato chips the next thing i know i'm

you know part of a national story

and the number of times that that

happens is just so weird you'd never

really get used to it

thank you bill for saying that

yeah i guess it's always when i'm

minding my own business you're right by

definition

what made you think your marriage would

last i didn't think that

i've never thought a marriage would last

i don't think your marriage will last

either

i i just bet against it based on

statistics

yeah i think the the worst assumption

you can make

is that marriages usually fail but yours

won't

i never made that i made the assumption

that marriages usually fail so mine

probably will

so i wasn't surprised

why get married because you want to get

married

there are benefits of marriage

especially if kids are involved if kids

are involved it just makes things easier

it's sort of awkward

to have a long-term relationship and not

be married after after a certain age

it's just

it's a problem it just it's just easier

to be married after a certain number of

years you've been together now we were

together for five years and it worked

great

and if you ask me what changed i don't

know

and probably will never know but

something changed

i mean something major changed

at one point

but i don't know exactly what it was

because people change i don't know maybe

will i add the 15th oaks to find votes

that's already on there

woody allen never married

mia pharaoh and that worked well

oh i wanted to give you uh

uh i can't do that

never mind

uh

if they all failed the the link is you

well that's true

here's what i think

i think that

all original attraction

is irrational and then once you're

together long enough the you know once

the the glow wears off the romance part

what you're left with is utility

and so if there's no utility after the

magic wears off because it always wears

off

then you get divorced

and by utility i mean

does one of you provide

let's say resources

do you protect each other

do you provide enough sex that you're

both happy about it and it's good

if you're not doing those things

then of course the marriage falls apart

but marriage is just utility after after

the initial period

it's just utility

and if you're not if both of you are not

feeling the other feel safe

then there's no point to it

if your spouse doesn't make you feel

safer

if they make you feel less safe

there's no point to it at all

so that's that's pretty much the

the reason to get divorced

is that you don't feel safe the reason

to get married is that you think you're

in love and you'll feel safer and

happier

how long did you get no sex before you

decided it was over

not at all

in fact

even the separation was a good time

it wasn't about physical compatibility

that actually never changed

um

i have saved the kids in one household

um okay so let me offer you an apology

and explanation

so i got the website hoaxquiz.com and

then i asked some people on locals

if if

they'd want to help

put the quiz on the website

a number of people said hey i would

under these conditions or what do you

need et cetera

the problem is that when you offer by

any kind of messaging system

i don't really have the resources to

look through all your offers and follow

up on them

so

that's on me

because i asked you for something that

can't work

which is i don't have the resources to

follow up on the request so i apologize

for that

um but if anybody wanted to you know

self-start

and then you know build something

i have the url so if you want to do

something on your own i don't have the

resources to help

but if you build something

and i like it

i'd be happy to let you use the url

and promote it

i just i just can't get into it it's the

same problem with i said i'd make a

coffee mug for for this for coffee with

scott adams and i want to do that

and a bunch of people offered designs

and stuff i just don't have the

resources to go through all of my

thousands of messages and find out who

offered what and then organize a project

around it

so

and i don't really have the resources to

manage somebody who wants to do it

either

somebody says put eric in charge of it

but

uh

get an assistant and then marry her

that's the best idea yet

website is underway somebody says all

right so it looks like somebody's

self-started here already

why not have a contest have people

submit actual mugs well that again would

be a project i'd have to manage

so i'm having a little bit of a resource

constraint

but that is all for today

um

and just looking at your

following questions

somehow they got interesting here

um

self-imposed constraints yeah i suppose

so

all right

that's all for now and i will talk to

you

later