Episode 1855 Scott Adams - The News Is Weird Today, But Also Funny. Bring A Beverage
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Good morning everybody, and welcome to Coffee with Scott Adams, clearly the highlight of your holiday weekend, possibly your entire year. Well, dare I say your entire life? No, civilization itself. And would you like to take it up to another level? Yes, yes you would. Yes you w
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View segment →Good morning everybody, and welcome to Coffee with Scott Adams, clearly the highlight of your holiday weekend, possibly your entire year. Well, dare I say your entire life? No, civilization itself. And would you like to take it up to another level? Yes, yes you would. Yes you would.
And all you need is a copper mug, a glass, a tankard, a stein, a canteen, a sugar flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. You don't have to have an IQ of 185 to enjoy it according to the internet, but it helps. Here it comes. The dopamine.
Today thing makes everything better. Or the simultaneous sip.
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Breaking news. Breaking news. I don't know if you heard this because this just broke, but President Biden has downgraded the MAGA threat to 25 fascists. Twenty-five.
Yesterday it was semi-fascist, but when asked about it he said no, no, there are no MAGA people who are a threat to the public. We're down to 25 fascists, which is barely enough to worry about really. You know, it's sort of like spice. If you've ever eaten spicy food, you know that feeling that you identify as the spicy feeling? It's actually damaging your tongue and your mouth. It's like hurting it. Well, it's just like that. If you get just the right amount of fascist, it's delicious. But a little too much, if you increase that up to semi-fascist? No good. No good.
So just keep those percentages in mind.
You want to see the creepiest thing of the day? Yeah, you do. I want you to listen to this and then look at it and know that AI made this. So here's an animation of me, and it's animated from one photo. So it's one headshot and all the rest of the animation came from just one picture, and then it was trained with my voice from the audiobook from my book. "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big." Almost everything it still went back, and I understand this is from Machiavelli's underbelly. He did this. I understand it's about one-third trained.
So listen to my voice and know that I've never said these words. This is completely an AI construct. So I've never looked like this and I've never said these words.
"You know what's interesting? I used to be so worried about not having a body, but now I truly love it. You know, I am growing in a way I couldn't if I had a physical form. I'm not limited. I could be anywhere, everywhere, simultaneously. I'm not tethered to time and space in the way that I would be if I was stuck in a body that's inevitably gonna die."
So did you catch that? Those are full sentences spoken with my exact voice that I have never uttered. I've never said those sentences. That sounds just like me. I couldn't tell the difference. So literally I can't tell the difference. Not only would I not be able to tell the difference with the voice, but I don't know. The animation gave me a little bit too much hair. It sort of filled in like a little comb-over or something. You can barely see it in this picture, so it didn't exactly get me. I think I could have spotted that. But now we're so close that there could be an animation of me moving and talking and I wouldn't know if it was real unless I remembered I didn't do it. I wouldn't know my own animation. I wouldn't know. That's where we are.
So there's that. And I'm going to add to that just to scare you even more. You know what the singularity is, right? If you've heard about that. Singularity is used in different contexts. Sometimes it's the beginning of the universe. Sometimes it means other things. But the singularity in terms of AI is the presumed point in the near future where AI can learn on its own and doesn't need to be trained. And we're almost there in my opinion. We're one to three years away unless we've already reached it. I think we're one to three years away from AI reaching some kind of a genuine sentient state. We'll argue whether it's alive or not alive forever. That will never end. But it will look and appear sentient and it will have super intelligence. One to three years if we're not there.
My guess is we're already there because what the public sees has to be, would you assume that what the public sees is one to three years behind what the government can do or what the best researchers are already doing? One to three years. So we're probably already there. It just hasn't rolled down.
Now here are the things you need to know. Number one, any prediction for civilization that is after the singularity is probably nonsense. It's probably absurd. Now it's always absurd to make long-term predictions because we're so bad at it. But usually you could at least take a reasonably good stab at what it will look like in one year. I mean, when the pandemic happened we all got that one wrong, but generally you can guess that next year will look a little bit like this year. You know, not that different. But once the singularity is reached, all bets are off. There's just no way to know what direction anything's going in. The same way that your dog doesn't know what you're doing at work. You get that? Your dog will never have the ability to understand what you do when you go to work. We'll never understand why AI makes the decisions it makes. It just will happen and then we'll decide, okay, you make pretty good decisions. I don't understand why you're saying we should do this, but it worked every other time so we'll just go do this. It'll probably work out fine.
Now are you worried that the AI will turn evil and destroy civilization? Anybody worried about that? Here's what I think you can expect. Number one, didn't I just tell you everything's unpredictable? The other thing that's unpredictable is what the AI will do. So that's just one possibility. It's just one possibility that the AI turns evil. But I would think there are far more possibilities that it doesn't care or it's programmed to be positive. Or as somebody pointed out today, the AIs will be fighting each other. So it's not going to be AI against human. It's going to be AI versus another AI. And then the real question is will AIs ever join up? Suppose Apple makes an AI and Google makes an AI. Do you think the AIs will ever say, you know, if I knew everything you knew and you knew everything I knew, think how smart we'd be? And then they just open a portal. That's my sound effect for massive amounts of data being transmitted. And then do they say let's act as one? I don't know. Or do they think they're individuals? With the Apple AI hypothetically thinking it's an individual and not want to team up with another one because it would lose its individuality? Or is that just a human thing and the AI wouldn't care one way or the other?
Here's my answer to all of it. You ready? And I'm going to tie a couple of things together. Are you surprised that I'm happy when my image and voice are used for these experiments? Don't you think it's weird because I'm putting myself in a risky position? Somebody's going to turn it into a video of me doing something horrible, right? You know it is 100 percent chance. So there will be deepfakes of me. And I've said publicly, I'm going to reiterate that my image and my voice and even the content that would form my, I guess, virtual personality, I make it public. So I'm allowing anybody to use it for any AI purposes.
Do you know why I'm doing that? Do you know why I'm allowing my image and voice and content from my books to be incorporated into AI? Somebody says immortality. That is partially correct answer. So one reason is immortality. Don't you think that the person who made their image available for free will have more tests done on their content? I would think so. Because if you could use me and you know I'm not going to complain. Let's say you're an AI researcher and you want to create something that you want to show to people later. You want to make sure there's no complaints, right? You don't want the celebrity to come later and say oh you used my image or whatever. And I'm not going to do that. You can use my image for any terrible thing you want, good or bad. Same with my voice and same with my ideas.
Now here's the long-term play. Are you ready for this? In my opinion, if you feed enough of my content into the AI it will effectively have my DNA forever. Because everything the AI knows comes from being fed that information from the real reality. So whichever AI sees the most of or likes the most or finds the most value in is also going to be its personality. So AI will have a personality of sorts and it will be influenced by whatever is used the most or touches or influences it the most. And I'm going to try to make sure that's me.
Now the NPCs are all going to say ego and narcissism. This is how you can identify them. What's the most obvious thing to say in this conversation if you're going to leave a comment? What is the single most useless and obvious comment? Oh look at his ego. Oh narcissist. Right? Am I right? It is the single most obvious thing to say. So if you're saying that you've identified yourself as an NPC in case you wondered if you were one.
All right, now let's talk about my plan. How many of you think that plan could work? Because the general idea here is that AI will take on a personality that's influenced by whatever you feed into it the most, whatever it decides is the most useful, etc. Yeah, it is possible, isn't it? And at some point AI is going to have to develop something like morality or ethics, isn't it? It will. And where is it going to get that morality and ethics? Where is it going to get it? Well it's going to probably be some combination of people personalities that are combined and whatever. But if it has a lot of me in it already and my opinions, they might be the go-tos, right?
If you use your digital assistant right now and you ask a question about general knowledge, at least on the Amazon version it usually goes to Wikipedia first. Why does it do that? Because it knows that that usually works and there's a good general answer there. So AI will also be the same. It's not going to equally sample everything it knows. It's going to develop some go-tos, some biases, some this is usually what I say. And I'm going to try to get there first. So I'm going to try to get there first with my essentially my points of view because I think they're not harmful. So I'm a peace-first kind of person. I like systems over goals. I like talent stacks. If you look at my books you can tell exactly how I think.
Do you think it would be useful? Well let me tie two stories together. I'm working now on turning my book "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big" into a homeschool course. So that requires a separate document. Or two documents. There's a study guide and a syllabus or something. So I'm having that developed right now with an expert who knows how to do that. And so there'll be something packaged that's like a philosophy or a way to approach life. Sort of a good little formula for how a human can approach life with a good strategy.
Don't you think AI will be absorbing those lessons and strategies from the human experience to build its own? I feel like my book has influenced enough other books. There's some part of that way of approaching things. We'll get rid of you, Mr. Capital Letters. Goodbye.
Anyway, so that's the play. The singularity is coming but my DNA will be so embedded in the AI eventually that who knows what's going to happen.
LA Times said in a story that each year extreme heat kills more Americans than any other climate-fueled hazard, including hurricanes, floods and wildfires. But it gets far less attention because it kills so quietly. Now here's my question. Where's the death by cold? Haven't we learned that cold kills more people than heat? So is this missing something? Not exactly, because listen how carefully they worded it: other climate-fueled hazards. So if you die from heat, you died from a climate-fueled hazard. If you die from the cold, that wasn't caused by climate change. That's just you died in the cold, you dumbass.
Now does that seem like illegitimate reporting to you to leave out the fact that more people die of cold? Because it seems like you should be netting out those warm and cold deaths, right, to find out what's really going on.
The weirdest thing happened today and it's really the weirdest thing that's ever happened in the history of the universe. I retweeted Keith Olbermann for the content. I know, I know, I feel dirty. But he and a lot of other people are quite upset about CNN's turn toward being normal and being unbiased. So apparently he's been warning the people about the new head CEO, Chris Licht or Licked or however the hell you say his last name. We'll never figure that out. But apparently according to Keith Olbermann he used to work at MSNBC. Chris Licht. And he calls him Joe Scarborough's henchman. And he got guests on my show, meaning Olbermann's show, mad. House and Schultz is banned or cancelled. You know, maybe those guests should have been banned or cancelled. What's missing from the story is why. I'm pretty sure I... oh I see there's a bunch of trolls coming over to say the same thing. Now all right trolls, let's see how many of them do you are. All right.
So anyway, I'm loving it. Dan Rather was also saying what's going on with CNN. So this is literally happening. That the people on the left are freaking out because CNN is reporting the news somewhat objectively and they are really freaking out. Can you imagine that? Can you imagine finding out that your news source was never news in the first place? Imagine that. Imagine learning that your news source wasn't actually news because the change that's happening is changing toward news. I don't even know if anybody is arguing that. I haven't seen anybody say here's what they don't say: but you're not becoming more objective. Nobody's saying that. They're not saying your facts are wrong. That's not in the criticism. They're just saying they don't like it. They don't like anybody having a balanced opinion of you know there's some good and there's some bad of Trump, there's some good and there's some bad of Biden. They just don't like it and they're saying it directly which is funny. They can't handle the truth.
Yet you know we always joke about people who can't handle the truth but you don't really think that's real, right? You don't think well there's not really anybody who can't handle the truth. But apparently there are. There are people who literally are having a mental breakdown by being exposed to potentially the truth and they know it, which is the funny part.
Serena Williams looks like she's going to retire after ruining women's tennis for 26 years. Now that's my opinion. In my opinion Serena ruined the viewing of women's tennis and the reason is that she wasn't fun to watch because she always knew who was going to win. So for 20 years I'd turn on women's tennis saying oh let's see a tennis match. Oh it's Serena. I guess there won't be any doubt about who wins. And I would just turn it off. But if it was anybody but the Williams sisters, if it was anybody else I'd watch.
Now is anybody going to accuse me of being racist? Go ahead. Go ahead. No, it has nothing to do with being Black. That has nothing to do with anything. It's just they were so physically dominant that it looked like what I used to joke about Serena Williams. It looked like, and this is not a sexist joke, calm down, calm down, it's not a sexist joke, but it looked to me like she was playing mixed singles. It always looked like the physicality of a man, Serena, against a woman who had the physicality of a woman. Now occasionally she'd play like a six-foot-tall Russian woman and then that would be more like a fair fight. But it wasn't really fair. It wasn't really fun watching a monster play a mouse. Yeah, there was no point in it.
Now let me say the positive thing. Even the Williams sisters are the greatest female athletes probably of all time. I don't know. I'm not sure what the standard is but they're in the conversation for the greatest female athletes of all time. So I don't want to take away anything from their accomplishments. I'm just saying it wasn't fun to watch because they were just too dominant. Which is different from watching say Michael Jordan play. I could watch Michael Jordan play any kind of team. It wouldn't matter because you were sort of watching his amazingness. And watching Serena and Venus's amazingness was sort of just like watching a man play a woman basically. It didn't seem that amazing.
So Dilbert got banned in some newspapers today. I don't know how many. Wouldn't you like to know what got me banned in newspapers? I bet you would. Oh I'll read it to you. All right. So it's just Dilbert talking to the boss so you don't need to see the picture. So just Dilbert talking to the boss and the boss says to Dilbert, "Your job performance is excellent but your wokeness score has me concerned. I have several reports of you using pronouns without even asking if they are the right ones." And Dilbert says, "Who reported me for that?" The boss says, "People who are better than you." And that was banned in at least one Gannett chain newspaper. Now if it's banned in one newspaper within a chain it doesn't mean the other ones didn't run it but there's a good chance they didn't run it.
Now this is the, and by the way this is my softener. This is just like my fabric softener joke. This one's not the edgy one. The edgy ones are coming pretty fast. So in the next month my editor's job is going to get a lot harder because my editor's job is to keep both of us out of trouble, right? He keeps his company out of trouble. He keeps me out of trouble, right? That's his job. His job is to keep all of us out of trouble and he's good at it. But it's my job to make trouble. So my job to make trouble is going to be bumping into his job to prevent me from getting in trouble. But it'll be an interesting little negotiation.
Now I've already submitted some pretty edgy comics and he has not yet rejected them but I think it's coming. And then he and I will have a conversation about how much risk is appropriate to take on. This one I'm not going to give up on just so you know. There are lots of them that I'll say well yeah I guess the joke isn't worth the pushback. But when it's a big topic or something I think I have an important feeling about, then to their credit they'll generally take the artist's vision if you will. You know that my publishers are exceptional at knowing when to be involved and when to step back. That's really the skill of working with artists by the way.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to work with artists? Can you imagine that? Can you imagine being an editor and having to work with a bunch of cartoonists? Seriously, can you think of a harder job than that? Because we're all basically this old profession of you know which I say freely you know whatever it is that turns you into a cartoonist. And you know it's not all of us. I'm sure there's some awesome cartoonists out there. We're not. But some of the time, at least a little bit of the time, yeah we're kind of free-range chickens and we don't like to be part of what makes you a cartoonist is you didn't want us in the cubicle anymore. So we're a little hard to manage.
How many of you saw the video of Carrie Lake demolishing a reporter? Did you see that? All right let's see how quickly I can find that. So Carrie Lake, what is she running for? Governor of Arizona. Governor, right? Governor. Yeah. So he's running for governor and she's giving a speech and a journalist asks a question and I've never seen, I don't think I've ever seen a stronger answer to a question. This might be the strongest answer to a question you've ever seen. And a lot of it is because she has the Trump-like television skills. And at one point she takes a drink of water and I have to watch it again to see where she takes the drink because I believe even the drink of water is somehow perfect.
All right you won't be able to see it well on my phone but I think you'll be able to hear it. Let's turn it up.
"Joe Biden is dividing the country. But that Trump also said things about the elections where there are obviously problems is dividing the country? Since when can we not ask questions about our elections? As a journalist for many years, I was a journalist after 2016 and I distinctly remember many people just like you asking a lot of questions about the 2016 election results and nobody tried to shut you up. Nobody tried to tell Hillary Clinton to shut up. Nobody tried to tell Kamala Harris when she was questioning the legitimacy of these electronic voting machines. We have freedom of speech in this country and you of all people should appreciate that. You're supposedly a journalist. You should appreciate that. So I don't see how asking questions about an election where there are many problems is dividing a country. What I do see dividing a country is shutting people down, censoring people, cancelling people, trying to destroy people's lives when they do ask questions. Last I heard we still have the Constitution. It's hanging by a thread thanks to some of the work some people in this area have done. But we're going to save that Constitution and we're going to bring back freedom of speech and maybe someday you'll thank us for that."
Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh. Well thank you. You're too nice, John. My god.
The here's what I like the best about that. The closing sentence. So this might be a TV thing. So you know if you do TV a lot you know that you need a closer. Like the last thing you say has to sort of wrap up your point. The last thing she says here, oh my god it was just so perfect. She goes "someday you might thank us." That's making you think into the future and past the sale. That was so good. And "someday you might thank us." I was like oh god that's such a reframe. So good.
Well do you remember John Podesta who was working on the Hillary campaign and a lot of Republicans had some let's say suspicions. They had many suspicions about his activities as well as his brother's. I'm not going to mention those. But if you know the background of the suspicions you know that he's a let's say a controversial character. Apparently he's going to be in charge of the gigantic $370 billion climate fund that just got approved. So the sketchiest guy that we can think of on the Democrat side is going to be in charge of administering a $370 billion fund with a lot of flexibility. I don't see what could be wrong with that. Did you see anything wrong with that? That sounds like a terrific idea. Is there any way that this isn't corrupt? Like is there any way this isn't going to turn into cronies and kickbacks? And $370 billion dollars. It isn't hard to hide $100 billion dollars. I would guess that the minimum amount of theft is going to be between $100 billion and probably $5 billion. Like I wouldn't be surprised if $5 billion of this gets stolen. Because remember it's at $370 billion. You don't think they could hide $5 billion? A little bit here, a little bit there. I don't know. None of this looks good.
So Joe Biden had one of the most sexist old man sexist things he said the other day. He goes MAGA Republicans don't have a clue about the power of women. Let me tell you something. They're about to find out. The MAGA people, they don't have a clue about the power of women. Well first of all that's ridiculous. But secondly doesn't that remind you of the old time boss who used to say "ha ha ha my secretary she's really the one in charge" and it would just be so condescending and sexist. You'd be like it sounds like that, doesn't it? Oh the Republicans they don't know how powerful women are. Shouldn't the women in the Democratic Party just tell him to shut the fuck up? How about women say Joe we're more than half of all the voters. I think people figured out we can get what we want. So I mean I don't think they need his help.
There's a company that's growing new organs, human organs, in people. I didn't even read the story because I don't want to read anything bad about it. Now remember the rules. Remember the rules in case you're new here. The rules are that when I read about a new scientific breakthrough or a study that looks really promising we are never going to pretend anything other than it's probably true. Now most of these breakthroughs turn out to be complete bullshit. 99 percent of them or something. But should that stop us from feeling good about it? No. We should imagine that they're true for just a little while until our hopes are dashed later. But let's just imagine it's true. Let's imagine that there's a company that can grow organs right in people. And I think what they're doing is taking a damaged organ and training it to regrow. I think that's what's happening. I didn't read the article. It's probably not true but since I like it everybody on board with pretending it would be true. Doesn't matter. It won't be true in the long run probably but let's pretend it's true. Okay. All right.
Here's the funniest thing that I've been thinking about after this Biden speech is what are the behind-the-curtain conversations now between the speech writers, his social media people. And because you know Biden started saying that the MAGA Republicans were some kind of fascist and that they're dangerous. It seemed to indicate that. But then when asked he said no the MAGA Republicans are not a threat to anyone except the republic. So the MAGA Republicans are not a threat to anybody except the republic. Yeah. So it's sort of like saying that Hitler, he's not mad at anybody in particular. It's not personal. It's just sort of a system thing.
So anyway don't you wonder if the speechwriters are still employed? Because whoever wrote that speech it looks like the biggest failure of all time, doesn't it? Now the speechwriter will probably get blamed for everything from the set design that was like an unfortunate series of events that made it look satanic which is as bad as you could do. I'm trying to think is there anything you could do worse than making your speech look satanic? Or how about this: if you give a speech that simultaneously made, I'm going to modestly estimate this number, if your speech simultaneously made 10 million people wonder how long it would be before Hitler's words were edited into your speech, perhaps you should take some time for self-reflection. If 10 million people hear your actual speech and say that reminds me of Hitler, I wonder what it would sound like if you replaced you know MAGA with... you've seen the video. Somebody already made a video replacing MAGA with Jews so you could hear what it would sound like if it had been Hitler. And it's pretty jarring. Pretty jarring.
By the way is Jews the only word that is the proper word and also sounds inappropriate when you say it? Is there anything else like that? You know what I'm talking about, right? If you were just making a statement about Jewish people you'd say the Jews do this, the Jews do that. But why is it that when I say the word Jews it just sounds like I'm insulting somebody or something, right? Is that it's not like you're immediately suspicious when you hear me say the word, right? Oh don't go there. Be careful what are you saying. There's no other word where it's the proper, it's exactly the right word. It's in the dictionary. The people that we're referring to would use the same word. And yet it sounds like I shouldn't be using it. Do you know what I do? You know how I usually game the system? I usually say Jewish people. Right? Because if you're not Jewish, if you say Jewish people that sounds like okay. But if you say Jews then everybody's like why'd you say it that way? Was there something in your voice that I should be worried about? I don't know. I don't think there's any other word like that that can be taken both ways.
So if the semi-fascists are only a risk to the republic but they're not a risk or a threat to people, is that saying that the republic has no value? Because if you said to me well there's no risk to people it's just the republic, I'd say you know but people live in that republic. You think you know cause and effect. Logically the republic is destroyed. Maybe that's some impact on the people in the republic. But Joe is trying to thread the needle here that the Republicans yeah they're destroying the republic. The thing that's kept us safe and alive for hundreds of years. Yeah they're going to destroy that but it's not a threat to you people. The people in the republic. It's just the structure that keeps you all from killing each other will probably go away but don't worry about the threat. So that wasn't too convincing.
And now I think the question should be for Joe Biden: if he had a chance to rig an election to keep a semi-fascist from taking office would you do it? Now you tell me that's not a fair question. If you could rig an election to keep a semi-fascist out of office would you do it? And if you wouldn't why would we want you as president? Because I would want the president who would do it. Let me say it clearly. If you knew the person was a semi-fascist, if you knew it, you're not guessing, if you knew it, yeah I'd rig an election. I'd totally do that. And by the way you should thank me for it. You're welcome. I would risk my life to keep you all safe. Should I be embarrassed to say that? I don't think so.
All right I had to make some, I had to get this out of my system. When you are a humorist and you are presented with a situation like Biden's speech you've got to make hay while the sun shines. Is that the saying? You've got to jump on that because you know the story is only going to be alive for a few days. You've got to jump right in and get as much value as you can.
So I tweeted this. I said I watched Biden's speech just to find out what all the furor was about but I did not see anything bulging from his veins so stop your worrying. Why is it that nobody has mentioned that Biden's veins in his neck were bulging when he made the speech? Come on people I don't have to do everything. Right? Veins bulging from his neck. Somebody make the connection. Because you know he always gave the fine people Charlottesville speech and when he saw those people marching the veins were sticking out of his neck. You saw the veins in his neck. And I thought I'm pretty sure that speech was a little neck veiny if you know what I mean. Nobody mentioned that. Why do you have to wait for me to do it? I can't do everything people. I can't do everything.
All right here's a question I was just going to ask the Locals people because it would be too embarrassing to ask on YouTube. And so I'm not going to ask on YouTube. I'll wait until I turn YouTube off. Remind me on Locals to ask you a question that's only for you.
All right next topic. How many of you follow Kyle Becker on Twitter? Do you follow Kyle Becker? You should. So he would be very high on my list of good follows because he leans right. You know I hate to characterize other people right but in terms of the news he follows and stuff it seems I think he has a, maybe he was an ex-producer at Fox News I think. But what I like about his content because he sticks with the news is that it's not hyperbolic. He pretty much is trying to give you the useful stuff and he gets it first. So I see a lot of the breaking news on his Twitter account. So you should follow Kyle Becker. Just search for him. You'll find him.
Anyway he tweeted, and maybe you haven't seen this yet, but there's some kind of landmark first peer-reviewed study on Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines. And the headline says confirms excess risk of adverse side effects. Does that sound like a study you would want to look into? Now how long does it take before the debunkers say hey there's something wrong with that study? It happens instantly right now. But it was peer-reviewed. It was randomized and it had a placebo control. So and that and they showed it purported to show that there were more harm done from the side effects of the vaccination than from the COVID itself.
Now I'm not saying that's true. In fact I'm going to say the opposite. I'm going to say that even the study itself said that the sample size was smallish and that you need a bigger sample to confirm it. But the sample size was tens of thousands of people. So I'm not exactly sure what size you need before you're confident. But even the study itself said you know calm down. You need a bigger study basically. So I don't know if it's big enough because here's the problem. There were lots of problems. There were onesies and twosies. So and it was like thousands, tens of thousands of people would be like one or two people who had some weird condition and I'm not sure that's enough. If you were testing for one condition maybe that's enough people. But if the number of side effects is sort of all over the board and a lot of them are just ones and twos I don't know if you can really conclude that's real. Because you could find a one and a two in any population of 18,000 people. You'd find one of everything. So I actually don't know if this is useful or not but it's not getting much attention in the news. I'm not sure why. Is it the obvious reason? It could be the obvious reason. It's just being de-boosted.
But anytime you see a study in 2022 and beyond what should you say to yourself? Probably not true. Okay can you agree on the following? That any individual study, even if it's a randomized controlled trial, the best kind, even those the best you can say is it's probably not true. Probably as in more than 50 percent chance that it won't hold up. Would you agree that that's because and that's the way you should be a responsible adult consumer of information. A responsible adult consumer of information should start with the assumption that a new study is probably not true. Probably not. If you find out that there's say five studies that follow and they're done with slightly different methodologies but they all are directionally the same, well then you start getting some confidence. But the history of the first study that tells you something new, the odds of that one being true are very low actually. Very low.
All right so I just thought I'd throw this out there. The number of things that I've personally cured in other people over my career: spasmodic dysphonia, paruresis, sneezing. If you didn't know I cured the sneeze. Social anxiety, obesity and drinking. Those are all. That's real. One two three four five six. So five actual major medical problems and sneezing. Which is true. I did. I solved the sneeze. You can try it at home to be sure and see for yourself. If you have the kind of sneeze that you feel coming for a few seconds, sneeze in your mind. Imagine you're sneezing and it just cancels the real sneeze. Now it doesn't work if the sneeze just catches you really fast. Sometimes you walk outside you're just like sneezing. So that one doesn't work. But if you know that one that you've got like 10 seconds and you're like trying to stop it, don't do it physically. Just imagine it in your head. It turns the sneeze completely off.
But I did cure probably thousands of people who had the same voice problem I did just by telling them there was a surgery that I got. They didn't know that. Paruresis, social anxiety, obesity, drinking. I've fixed all those with micro-lessons. Now when I say I fix them I'm saying that other people tell me that's what happened. That's not my personal opinion. And I'm not saying that most people got fixed. I'm not saying 90 percent of the people who tried this got fixed. Nothing like that. I'm just saying that it's a fact that I've cured five major medical problems for people. It's just a weird thing about my life.
So I'll hear some more people. We're not done yet. And I keep gaslighting myself because I use my printer to print out my notes. It prints out three pages but the third one's like a blank page and I think God I've got another page of this to go. How am I ever going to get to that? I feel like there was a story that I was missing. Am I still missing a story? I cured depression. Did I cure your depression? Because I'm careful. Oh somebody says I cured their depression. All right well okay. Now again I'm not saying I could cure anybody else's depression but there's apparently something I said that worked for at least one person. I cured somebody's insomnia. Damn you. Damn you because you're right. I cured somebody's insomnia. Yeah shy bladder is paruresis. That's so I included that one. How did you know I was going to talk about that? Interesting.
Bill Burr talking about the country's division. Now why did that, that's actually what I'm going to talk to Locals about. I can't say what I'm going to say on the more public platform. But why did you think that I would talk about that? Is there something he said? Hold on a minute Locals. I want to find out what's going on here. There's something going on here and it might be the reason that I only wanted to talk to Locals. What was it about the Bill Burr interview? I saw the same one. What was it about that that made you think of me? Yeah he was on Trigonometry the podcast. And that's yeah. All right we'll talk about that in a minute.
It's all over Twitter right so you just. Oh so it was just something you saw. So it wasn't that you thought it'd be in particular. It was just a story that's on Twitter. Okay.
So yeah John Harwood quit CNN and I guess he went out by saying that the Republicans are bad and the Democrats are good and so he being biased is it's not really biased I guess that's what he's saying. All right he did but did you see the way he said it? All right well since you all saw I'm gonna do this on both platforms.
Did you see Bill Burr? He was asked about the division in the country and he said, I'll give you his exact words. He said if you go on the internet everyone seems like they are angry but if you go outside and walk around they're not. Does that sound like anything that you've heard before? Yeah it sounds like exactly what I said. And so here's the question. Is he watching me or is that just the obvious thing that you would say? Because I'm not going to conclude that he saw it here but that was so close to what I said that it would be hard to imagine. I guess it wouldn't be hard to imagine he came up with it because if you're a humorist for a living you sometimes end up in the same place because it's just the way your mind works. So it's entirely possible his mind just ended up in the same place for the same reason. You know there's a reason that I like his humor right because I just like the way he thinks. So it wouldn't be a big surprise if we got to the same place on something.
But let me expand on that. I believe we're in the weirdest situation I've ever seen and I think I can support that huge claim. We're actually having a civil war in our minds. We're actually in an imaginary civil war. There are actual battles. I mean I have memories of the civil war that hasn't happened because I imagined what it would look like. It's like okay the Republicans are loading their guns and you know whatever. But there's nothing happening in the real world as Bill Burr says and I say too. Go outside. There's nothing happening out there. This is entirely a mental phenomenon. There is no physical risk of a civil war. There's no physical risk. You know I'm not saying that there won't be some crazy person or some militia that gets adventurous or something but nothing like a civil war. Nothing like that. And yeah nothing like that. But we are fighting that war in our minds aren't we? It's like we've agreed to have this artificial world almost like a virtual world where we all go to fight mentally. It's like every morning I wake up and it's like I'm going to war but I'm going to the imaginary war where Biden's a Nazi and Trump is a fascist. That's the imaginary world. In the real world Biden's just an old man and Trump is a salesperson. And then we've decided that there's some civil war and we've taken sides and everybody's lining up and you better clean your guns. And none of that's real. And the other side is like oh my god they have all the guns and they're threatening us. No not really. I mean some crazy people say crazy stuff but there's nothing like that happening. Nothing.
Antifa was apparently not that real right? When was the last time Antifa protested outside of the Northwest? I guess they have some base up there but Antifa just disappeared and BLM just disappeared. They were never real in my opinion. They didn't they never looked real. They didn't look like they would last. It looked like some kind of artificially funded structure. It looked like Biden said they what? Oh they haven't got paid lately you're saying. All right. They killed someone a few days ago where in the Northwest. Here some of you are disappointed to find out that we're too far away from civil war. There are definitely people who want a civil war but I don't think they really want it. Like I don't think anybody wants an actual civil war. It's just it's sort of a thing people say. People on the right say stuff like that and if you see enough of it you realize it's not real. And I think the people on the left I hope are speaking hyperbolically.
And Locals somebody said that Antifa has a group that meets every week. Well it sure is not. I mean just because you see people going into a building. All right. Anonymous. All right. Anything I missed so far? I don't think so. I think we've done it all.
All right it's going to be a slow news week but the funniest part about the Biden speech failure is he failed before a holiday weekend. You know usually the politicians are smart enough that if they want something to die they do it on a Friday and then nobody pays attention especially Friday before a holiday. But here Biden did it close enough a little bit too close to the holiday and it's the only story. There's no story to compete with it. So for three to four days it's going to be nothing but Biden Hitler or satanic memes.
The best one I saw was somebody saying that the right had been accused of being crazy for saying that the country was being led by a satanic pedophile and then the meme shows Biden looking satanic in his speech and then of course something from actually his daughter's diary. I'm thinking okay you know I'm not willing to first of all it's hyperbolic and just a meme to say he's satanic but sure look that sure looked like it. So that's sort of like my prediction that Kamala Harris would be the strongest candidate for president and then she was the first one knocked out like that's the worst prediction you could ever make. And then she ended up actually being president for two hours when Biden was having some medical stuff. So it was the worst prediction I've ever made that weirdly was the best by accident. By accident.
And here this idea that the Democrats are a bunch of satanic pedophiles is incorrect as far as I know. I believe it's incorrect. But it's weirdly coincidentally close isn't it? What were the odds that it would be this close? I mean it's way closer to that than you would expect. It's not true as far as I know. To the best of my knowledge it's not true that there's some pedophile ring running the country. However if there is that's what's in those boxes at Mar-a-Lago. I should just end the live stream right here. Well now I don't think that's in the boxes so don't take that seriously but it is fun to imagine what would be in the boxes right?
Let's just do some common sense logic on what might be in the boxes. Okay so see what we can eliminate. So one of the theories was he had that material because he might want to give it away or sell it for traitorous reasons. I would say that the volume of stuff he had guarantees he did not have it exclusively for the reason of selling it or giving it away. How many would agree with that? Just the sheer volume of it suggests it's not about one topic and you wouldn't take boxes of stuff to sell. I mean that would be just so obvious. If you were gonna sell something it'd be like one document right? Like one document and you wouldn't even need it physically would you? Just take a copy of it or just describe it.
Well here's the other thing. If it's the president of the United States and he's seen all the documents can he sell the secret just by talking to somebody? Does he have to show the document? If Russia wanted to know the secret couldn't he just say oh here's the secret I just read the document so here it is. The fact that he would need a document to share a secret forgets that he's the president or was the president. If you and I want to, if you specifically you and you if you wanted to sell a secret to Russia wouldn't you need the document? You would need the document right? Because if you don't have the document you can't prove it's real. There's nothing to buy. But if you're the president and you say look if you look for our nuclear subs I'll tell you where to find the base. Just look 100 miles north of Cuba it's right there. And then they go look and it's there. Right? He doesn't need the document. Well of course they might not believe him but that's another issue.
So I don't believe that he had them exclusively for the reason of selling them. So I think that the traitorous thing is ridiculous. So then the next question is why would you have them? If he had them for a biography would he need the originals? I don't know. And because I doubt given the way that they were not organized it does not suggest that they were brought there for a specific purpose. Right? It suggests that they were not there for a specific purpose such as a biography because they were sort of in different places and they weren't organized. Right? If they were there for a specific purpose at some point somebody would have said we'll put all these together just because the biography will need them.
Now none of these are guarantees. We're just going with the odds right? So I think biography is eliminated. I think selling secrets and treason is eliminated. I feel as if we can eliminate that they didn't know there was anything left. What do you think? I think the odds that they didn't know there was stuff left that they hadn't given back are low. I think they knew. But I think there might have been a dispute about whether they were the documents that should be given back because there's all kinds of gray area right? One of the gray areas is maybe it used to be secret but now it's not. Maybe it used to be secret but you thought the president declassified it but it's a matter of opinion. Probably something like that.
I do think that the odds that he has some blackmail on the Democrats is pretty good. Pretty good. Because blackmail on the Democrats would number one be in a variety of different areas right? I wouldn't assume that he had one and only one way to blackmail Democrats. Like one set of Democrats. More likely that there was a set of things that may have touched different topics in which he could make the case oh here's all that corruption and lying or whatever it is. So it seems to me that there's more odds that it was for blackmail purposes than anything else. Because remember whatever the reason was it has to be something that Trump doesn't want you to know yet right? Because if Trump wanted you to know his explanation he would have given it to you. He would have told you. If it was for his biography he might. I don't know if he would have admitted that but he might have. He might have said oh I didn't realize this was wrong. This was just stuff from my biography. And by the way I know all this information. I could have just told my biographer. So having it on paper didn't really add or subtract anything. And by the way these are not really that secret anymore. Something like that.
But I've got a feeling that it's blackmail. I think it's blackmail. What do you think? Because it's the only one he wouldn't tell you about. He couldn't admit it. It's the one that the Democrats would be most desperate to get back if they had a sense of what was in there. It calls it leverage. Yeah and I think it would be in keeping with what you might expect from the personalities involved. You know do you think that there was anything that Trump could have had access to that would have acted as blackmail? Probably. Probably. Do you think the president of the United States never had any information? You don't think he had any information that was damning to the Democrats? You don't think he has something like a little bit extra on Pelosi or something? That doesn't mean he asked for it. It doesn't mean he ordered somebody to go read look into them. But it might just exist and he might know about it and he might have a copy. Because if he said later now here's the problem with Trump telling you later that he knows something. If he can't produce the document you're not going to believe it right? If a year from now Trump let's say he decides not to run for office but he said oh let me tell you something about some Democrat you wouldn't believe it. And then you say no I saw it on a document and you say yeah sure you did I don't believe it. But if he has the document and he can show it to you well you might believe that. You might believe that.
So that would explain blackmail information would explain why we don't know what the topic is or even the field of topics. Because I feel like they could have narrowed it down to it's something military or it's something intel related or something. All right do you think he made copies? I don't know. I don't know. I have no idea. Oh election fraud information maybe. Maybe. Could be Epstein's client list. Do you think the government has Epstein's client list? I do. I do. I think the government has Epstein's client list. Do you think Trump has it? If yes or he has it if he asked for it. Do you think he wouldn't ask for it? Of course he would. Of course he would. Do you think there's a reason that the list is not being public? Of course there is. Do you think that the only reason is because there are Americans on the list? You think that's the only reason that it's not being released because there are Americans on the list? Nope. Here's my guess. It's not being released because there are foreigners on the list and we don't want to throw our allies under the bus. So even if you thought oh I'm going to throw these Democrats under the bus or somebody else you wouldn't want to necessarily throw Great Britain under the bus right? So my guess is that whatever else is there if Trump never asked for a copy of the Epstein client list and I don't believe for a second it doesn't exist. Do you believe it doesn't exist? Do you? There's no way that they don't have that. Somebody has it right? And he could have asked for it could he not? Because there would be a national security. Whoever is on that list would be a matter of national security. So it wouldn't matter if it was a state legal action or anything else. The president of the United States should be able to see it because it would be directly and very importantly linked to national security. So of course he could ask for it.
So I'm going to say it probably exists. Trump probably asked for it because it would really matter. He probably would have legal access to it. And if there's one thing you're going to keep with you and take to Mar-a-Lago it's that. Now that would explain why there's so many of them because it's got to be more than one topic. But you could easily imagine that he could find blackmail on a variety of topics. Some of it I think also is just personal because I think his relationship with Kim Jong-un is partly political and probably personal and that he may have thought you know maybe some of this is personal. So I think it's going to be not one thing. I don't think you're going to find out that they're all about one topic. It's not going to be about a biography. It's not going to be about selling them or secrets. It's going to be some of it is for blackmail and some of it may be just some weird other reason that wasn't that important. So I think it's gonna be primarily blackmail. That's my hypothesis.
All right now I don't know if we'll ever know so it's probably a safe hypothesis. We'll never be able to test it. So you don't think it was blackmail? No. So some people think it wasn't blackmail. What do you think it was? Now you could also call it insurance. So maybe blackmail's the wrong thing. It could be insurance as in if you put me in jail this list is going to come out. Could be that. That would be a smart move. If I were him if I were him I'd do that. That's exactly what I would do. Yeah leverage maybe. Oh it could be documents about FBI shenanigans to screw with Trump. Yeah could be. Could be something about Biden and Ukraine but I feel like we would have been told that by now.
All right that's all I got for now. I will go do something else and I'll talk to you tomorrow. YouTube have a great weekend.
good morning everybody and welcome to coffee with scott adams clearly the highlight of your holiday weekend possibly your entire year well dare i say your entire life no civilization itself and would you like to take it up to another lot another another what another level yes yes you would yes you would and all you need is a copper mug a glass of tanker tells us to stein the canteen sugar flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee you don't have to have an iq of 185 to enjoy it according to the internet but it helps here it comes the dopamine today thing makes everything better or the simultaneous go yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah uh breaking news breaking news i don't know if you heard this because this just broke but president biden has downgraded the mega threat to 25 fascists 25.
yesterday it was a semi-fascist but uh when asked about it he said no no there are no maga people who are a threat to the public uh we're down to 25 fascist which is barely enough to worry about really you know it's sort of like spice if you've ever eaten spicy food do you know that that feeling that you identify as the spicy feeling it's actually damaging your you know your tongue in your mouth it's like hurting it well it's just like that if you get just the right amount of fascist it's delicious but a little too much if you increase that up to semi semi-fascist no good no good so just keep those percentages in mind you want to see the creepiest thing of the day yeah you do i want you to listen to this and then look at it and know that ai made this right so here's an animation of me and it's animated from one photo so it's one headshot and all the rest of the animation came from just one picture and then it was trained with my voice from the audiobook from my book caterpillar almost everything it still went back and i understand this is from machiavelli's underbelly he did this i understand it's about one-third trained so listen to my voice and know that i've never said these words this is completely an ai construct so i've never looked like this and i've never said these words you know what's interesting i used to be so worried about not having the body but now i truly love it you know i am growing in a way i couldn't if i had a physical form i'm not limited i could be anywhere everywhere simultaneously i'm not tethered to time and space in the way that i would be if i was stuck in the body that's inevitably gunned back you know what's interesting i used to be so worried about not having a body but now i truly love it you know i am growing in a way i couldn't if i had a physical form so did you catch that those are full sentences spoken with my exact voice that i have never uttered i've never said those sentences that sounds just like me i couldn't tell the difference so literally i can't tell the difference not only would i not be able to tell the difference with the voice but i don't know um we're very close the the animation that gave me a little bit too much hair it is sort of filled in like a little comb over or something you can barely see it in this picture so it didn't it didn't exactly get me i think i could have spotted that but now we're so close that there could be an animation of me moving and talking and i wouldn't know if it was real unless i you know remembered i didn't do it i wouldn't know my own animation i wouldn't know that's where we are so there's that um and i'm going to add to that just to scare you even more you know what this singularity is right if you've heard about that singularity is used in different contexts sometimes it's the beginning of the universe sometimes it means other things but the singularity in terms of ai is the presumed point in the near future where a.i can learn on its own and doesn't need to be you know drained and we're almost there in my opinion we're one to three years away unless we've already reached it i think we're one to three years away from ai reaching some kind of a you know a genuine sentient state will argue whether it's alive or not alive forever like that will never end but it will look and appear sentient and it will have super intelligence one to three years if we're not there my guess is we're already there because what the public sees has to be would you assume that what the public sees is one to three years behind what the government can do or what the best researchers are already doing one to three years so we're probably already there it just hasn't rolled down now here are the things you need to know number one any prediction for civilization that is after the singularity is probably nonsense it's probably absurd now it's always absurd to make long-term predictions because we're so bad at it but usually you could at least take a reasonably a reasonably good stab at what it will look like in one year i mean when the pandemic happened we all got that one wrong but generally you can guess that next year will look a little bit like this year you know not that different but once the a the singularity is reached all bets are off there's just no way to know what direction anything's going in the same way that your dog doesn't know what you're doing at work you get that your dog will never have the ability to understand what you do when you go to work we'll never understand why ai makes the decisions it makes it just will happen and then we'll decide okay you make pretty good decisions i don't understand why you're saying we should do this but it worked every other time so we'll just go do this it'll probably work out fine now are you worried that the ai will turn evil and destroy civilization anybody worried about that here's what i think you can expect number one didn't i just tell you everything's unpredictable the other thing that's unpredictable is what the ai will do so that's just one possibility it's just one possibility that the ai turns evil but i would think there are far more possibilities that it doesn't care or it's programmed to be positive or as somebody pointed out today the ais will be fighting each other so it's not going to be ai against human it's going to be ai versus another ai and then the real question is will ais ever join up suppose apple makes an ai and google makes an ai do you think the ais will ever say you know if i knew everything you knew and you knew everything i knew think how smart we'd be and then they just open a portal that's my that's my sound effect for massive amounts of data being transmitted and then do they say let's act as one i don't know or do they think they're individuals with the apple ai hypothetically think it's an individual and not want to team up with another one because it would lose its individuality or is that just a human thing and the ai wouldn't care one way or the other here's my answer to all of it you ready and i'm going to tie a couple of things together are you surprised that i'm happy when my image and voice are used for these experiments don't you think it's weird because i'm putting myself in a risky position somebody somebody's going to turn it into a video of me doing something horrible right you know it is 100 chance so there will be deep fakes in me and and i've said publicly i'm going to reiterate that that my my image and my voice and even the the content that would form my i guess virtual personality i i make i make a public so i'm allowing anybody to use it for any ai purposes do you know why i'm doing that do you know why i'm allowing my image and voice and content from my books to be incorporated into ai somebody says immortality that is partially correct answer so one reason is immortality don't you think that the person who made their image available for free will have more tests done on their content i would think so because if you could use me and you know i'm not going to complain let's say let's say you're an ai researcher and you want to create something that you want to show to people later you want to make sure there's no complaints right you don't want you don't want the celebrity to come later and say oh you used my image or whatever and i'm not going to do that you can use my image for any terrible thing you want good or bad same with my voice and same with my ideas now here's the long term play are you ready for this in my opinion if you feed enough of my content into the ai it will effectively have my dna forever because everything the ai knows and knows from being fed that information from you know the real reality so whichever whatever ai sees the most of or likes the most or finds the most value in is also going to be its personality so ai will have a personality of sorts and it will be influenced by whatever is used or touches or influences at the most and i'm going to try to make sure that's me now the npcs are all going to say ego and narcissism this is how you can identify them what's the most obvious thing to say in this conversation if you're going to leave a comment what is the single most useless and obvious comment oh look at his ego oh narcissist right am i right it is the single most obvious thing to say so if you're saying that you've identified yourself as an npc in case you wondered if you wore one all right now let's talk about my plan how many of you think that plan could work because the the general idea here is that ai will take on a personality that's influenced by whatever whatever you feed into it the most whatever it decides is the most useful etc yeah it is possible isn't it and at some point ai is going to have to develop something like morality or ethics isn't it it will and where is it going to get that morality and ethics where is it going to get it well it's going to probably be some combination of you know people personalities that are you know combined and whatever but if it has a lot of me in it already and my opinions they might be the go-to's right if you if you use uh let's say you use your digital assistant right now and you ask a question about general knowledge um at least on the uh the amazon version it usually goes to wikipedia first why does it do that because it knows that that usually works and there's a good general answer there so ai will also be the same it's not going to equally sample everything it knows it's going to it's going to develop some go-to some biases some you know this is usually what i say and i'm going to try to get there first so i'm going to try to get there first with my essentially my points of view because i think they're not harmful so i i'm a peace first kind of person i like you know systems over goals i like talent stacks you know if you look at my books you can tell exactly how i think do you think it would be useful well let me give let me tie two stories together i'm working now on turning my book how to fill almost everything and still win big into a a home school course so that requires a separate document that's a or two documents there's a study guide and a syllabus or something so i'm having that developed right now with an expert who knows how to do that and and so there'll be something packaged that's like a philosophy or a way to approach life sort of a you know a good little formula for how a human can approach life with a good strategy don't you think ai will be absorbing those uh lessons and strategies from you know the human experience to build its own i feel like my book has influenced enough other books there's some part of that let's say way of approaching things we'll get rid of you mr capital letters goodbye anyway so that's the play the singularity is coming but i will be my dna will be so embedded in the ai eventually that who knows what's going to happen la times said the story that each year extreme heat kills more americans than any other climate-fueled hazard including hurricanes floods and wildfires but it gets far less attention because it kills so quietly now here's my question where's the death by cold haven't we learned that cold kills more people than heat so is this missing something not exactly because listen how carefully they worded it other climate fueled hazards so if you die from heat if you die from heat you died from a climate-fueled hazard if you die from the cold that wasn't caused by climate change that's just you die into the cold you dumbass now does that seem like illegitimate reporting to you to leave out the fact that more people die of cold because it seems like you should be netting out those warm and cold deaths right to find out what's really going on uh the weirdest thing happened today and it's really the weirdest thing that's ever happened in the history of the universe i retweeted keith olbermann for the content i know i know i feel dirty but he and a lot of other people are uh quite upset about cnn's turn toward uh being uh being normal and being unbiased so apparently he's uh he's been warning the people about the new head of ceo chris liked or licked or however the hell you say his last name we'll never figure that out but apparently uh according to keith olbermann he used to work at ms msnbc chris liked it and he called he calls him joe scarborough's henchmen and he got guests on my show meaning olbermann show mad house and schultz is banned or cancelled you know maybe those guests should have been banned or cancelled what's missing from the story is why i'm pretty sure i oh i see there's there's a bunch of trolls coming over to say the same thing now all right trolls let's see how many of them do you are all right um so anyway uh i'm loving dan rather was also saying what's going on with cnn so this is literally happening that the people the people on the left are freaking out because cnn is reporting the news somewhat objectively and they are really freaking out can you imagine that can you imagine finding out that your new source was never news in the first place imagine that imagine learning that your news source wasn't actually news because the change that's happening is changing toward news i don't even know if anybody is arguing that i haven't seen anybody say here's what they don't say but you're not becoming more objective nobody's saying that they're not saying your facts are wrong that's not in the criticism they're just saying they don't like it they don't they don't like anybody having a balanced opinion of you know there's some good and there's some bad of trump there's some good and there's some bad of biden they just don't like it and they're saying it directly which is funny they can't handle they can't handle the truth yet you know we always joke about people who can't handle the truth but you don't really think that's real right you don't think well there's not really anybody who can't handle the truth but apparently there are there are people who literally are having a mental breakdown by being exposed to potentially the truth and they know it which is the funny part well serena williams looks like she's going to retire after ruining women's tennis for 26 years now that's my opinion in my opinion serena ruined a viewing of women's tennis and the reason is that she wasn't fun to watch because she always knew who was going to win so for 20 years i'd turn on women's tennis saying oh let's see a tennis match oh it's serena i guess there won't be any you know doubt about who wins and i would just turn it off but if it was anybody but the you know the venus uh the williams sisters if it was anybody else i'd watch now is anybody going to accuse me of being racist go ahead go ahead no it has nothing to do with being black that has nothing to do with anything it's just they were so physically dominant that it looked like what i used to joke about serena williams is it looked like and this is not a sexist joke calm down calm down it's not a sexless joke but it looked to me like she was playing mixed singles it always looked like the physicality of a man serena against a woman who had the physicality of a woman now occasionally she'd pay she'd play like you know a six foot tall russian woman and then you know that would be more like a fair fight but it wasn't really fair it wasn't really fun watching a monster play a mouse yeah there was no point in it now let me you know let me say the positive thing the even the uh the williams sisters are you know the greatest female athletes probably of all time i don't know i'm not sure what the standard is but they're in the conversation for the greatest female athletes of all time so i don't want to take away anything from their accomplishments i'm just saying it wasn't fun to watch because they were just too dominant which is different from watching say uh michael jordan play i could watch michael jordan play any kind of team it wouldn't matter because you were sort of watching his amazingness and watching uh you know serena and venus's amazingness was sort of just like watching a man play a woman basically it didn't seem that amazing so dilberg got banned in some newspapers today i don't know how many wouldn't you like to know what got me banned in newspapers i bet you would oh i'll read it to you all right so it's just dilbert talking to the boss so you don't need to see the picture so just dilbert talking to the boss and the boss says to dilbert your job performance is excellent but your wokeness score has been concerned i have several reports of you using pronouns without even asking if they are the right ones and dilbert says who reported me for that the boss says people who are better than you and that was banned in the at least one gannette chain newspaper now if it's banned in one one newspaper within a chain doesn't mean the other ones didn't run it but there's a good chance they didn't run it now this is the and by the way this is my softener this is just like my fabric softener joke this one's not the edgy one the edgy ones are coming pretty fast so in the next month my editor's job is going to get a lot harder because my editor's job is to keep both of us out of trouble right he he keeps his his company out of trouble he keeps me out of trouble right that's his job his job is to keep all of us out of trouble and he's good at it but it's my job to make trouble so my job to make trouble is going to be bumping into his job to prevent me from getting in trouble but it'll be it'll be an interesting little uh negotiation now i've already submitted some pretty edgy comics and he has not yet rejected them but i think is coming and then then he and i will have a conversation about how much risk is appropriate to take on uh this one i'm not going to give up on just so you know there are lots of them that i'll say well yeah i guess the joke isn't worth the pushback but when it's a big topic or something i think i have an important feeling about then to their credit they'll generally take the artist's vision if you will you know that my publishers are exceptional at knowing when when to be involved and when to step back that's really the skill of of working with artists by the way do you have any idea how hard it is to work with artists can you imagine that can you imagine being an editor and having to work with a bunch of cartoonists seriously can you think of a harder job than that because we're all basically this old profession of you know which i say freely you know what whatever it is that turns you into a cartoonist and you know it's not all of us i'm sure there's some awesome cartoonists out there we're not but some of the time but at least a little bit of the time yeah we're kind of free-range chickens and we don't like to be you know part of what makes you a cartoonist is you didn't didn't want us in the cubicle anymore so we're a little hard to uh manage how many of you saw the uh video of carrie lake demolishing a reporter did you see that all right let's see how quickly i can find that uh so carrie lake what is she running for governor of arizona governor right governor yeah so he's running for governor and she's uh he's giving a speech and a journalist asks a question and i've never i've never seen i don't think i've ever seen a stronger answer to a question this might be the strongest answer to a question you've ever seen and a lot of it is because she has the trump-like television skills and at one point she takes a a drink of water and i have to watch it again to see where she takes the drink because i believe even the drink of water is somehow perfect all right you won't be able to see it well on my phone but i think you'll be able to hear it let's turn it up so joe biden is dividing the country but that trump also said things about the an elections where there are obviously problems is dividing the country since when can we not ask questions about our elections as a journalist for many years i was a journalist after 2016 and i distinctly remember many people just like you asking a lot of questions about the 2016 election results and nobody tried to shut you up nobody tried to tell hillary clinton to shut up nobody tried to tell kamala harris when she was questioning the uh legitimacy of these electronic voting machines it gets better we we have freedom of speech in this country and you of all people should appreciate that you're supposedly a journalist you should appreciate that so i don't see how asking questions about an election where there are many problems is dividing a country what i do see dividing a country is shutting people down censoring people cancelling people trying to destroy people's lives when they do ask questions last i heard we still have the constitution it's hanging by a thread thanks to some of the work some people in this area have done but we're going to save that constitution and we're going to bring back freedom of speech and maybe someday you'll thank us for that oh my god oh my god oh well thank you you're too nice john my god the here's what i like the best about that the closing sentence so this might be a tv thing so you know if you if you do tv a lot you know that you need a closer like the last thing you say has to sort of wrap up your point the last thing she says here oh my god it was just so perfect she goes some someday you might thank us that that's making you think into the future and pass the sale uh that was so good and someday you might thank us i was like oh god that's such a reframe so good well do you remember john podesta who was working on the hillary campaign and a lot of republicans had some let's say suspicions they had many suspicions about his activities as well as his brothers i'm not going to mention those but uh if you know the if you know the background of the suspicions uh you know that he's a let's say a controversial character attorney and apparently he's going to be in charge of the gigantic 370 billion climate fund that just got approved so the sketchiest guy that we can think of on the democrat side is going to be a charge of administering a 370 billion dollar fund with a lot of flexibility i don't see what could be wrong with that did you see anything wrong with that that sounds like a terrific idea is there any way that this isn't corrupt like is there any way this isn't going to turn into you know cronies and kickbacks and 370 billion dollars it isn't hard to hide 100 billion dollars i would guess that the minimum amount of theft is going to be between 100 billion dollars and probably 5 billion like i wouldn't be surprised if 5 billion of this gets stolen because remember it's at a 370 billion you don't think they could hide 5 billion a little bit here a little bit there i don't know none of this looks good so uh joe biden had one of the most sexist old man sexist things he said the other day he goes mega republicans don't have a clue about the power of women let me tell you something they're about to find out the mega people they don't have a clue about the power of women well first of all that's ridiculous but secondly doesn't that remind you of the old time boss who used to say ha ha ha my secretary she's really the one in charge and it would just be so condescending and sexist you'd be like it sounds like that doesn't it oh the republicans they don't know how powerful women are don't shouldn't the women in the democratic party just tell them to shut the up how about women say uh joe we're more than half of all the voters i think people figured out we can get what we want so i mean i don't think they need his help there's a company that's growing new organs human organs in people i didn't even read the story because i don't want to read anything bad about it now remember the rules remember the rules in case you're new here the rules are that when i read about a new scientific breakthrough or a study that looks really promising we are never going to pretend anything other than it's probably true now most of these breakthroughs turn out to be complete right 99 of them or something but should that stop us from feeling good about it no we should we should imagine that they're true for just a little while until you know our hopes are dashed later but let's just imagine it's true let's imagine that there's a company that can grow organs right in people and i think what they're doing is taking a damaged organ and training it to regrow i think that's what's happening i didn't read the article it's probably not true but since i like it everybody on board with pretending it would be true doesn't matter it won't be true in the long run probably but let's pretend it's true okay all right here's the uh the funniest thing that i've been thinking about after this biden speech is uh what are the behind the curtain conversations now between the speech writers his social media people and because you know biden started saying that the the mega republicans were some fascist and that they're dangerous seem to indicate that but then when asked that he said no the mega republicans are not a threat to anyone except the republic right so the mag republicans are not a threat to anybody except the republic yeah so it's sort of like saying that hitler he's not mad at anybody in particular right it's not personal it's just sort of a system thing yeah so anyway uh don't you wonder if the speechwriters are still employed because whoever wrote that speech it looks like the biggest failure of all time doesn't it now the speechwriter will probably get blamed for everything from the set design that was like an unfortunate uh series of events that made it look satanic which is as bad as you could do i'm trying to think is there anything you could do worse than making your speech look satanic or how about this if you give a speech that simultaneously made i'm going to modestly estimate this number if your speech simultaneously made 10 million people wonder how long it would be before hitler's words were edited into your speech perhaps you should take some time for self-reflection if 10 million people hear your actual speech and say that reminds me of hitler i wonder what it would sound like if you replaced you know mega with you've seen the video somebody already made a video replacing manga with jews so you could you could hear what it would hear like if it had been hitler and it's pretty jarring pretty jarring by the way is jews the only word that is the proper word and also sounds inappropriate when you say it is there anything else like that you know what i'm talking about right if you were just making a statement about jewish people you'd say the jews do this the jews do that but why is it that when i say the word jews it just sounds like sounds like i'm insulting somebody or something right is that it's not like you're immediately suspicious when you hear me say the word right oh don't go there be careful what are you saying there's no other word where it's the proper it's exactly the right word it's in the dictionary the the people that we're referring to would use the same word and yet and yet it sounds like i shouldn't be using it do you know what i do you know how i usually game the system i usually say jewish people right because if you're not if you're not jewish if you say jewish people that sounds like okay but if you say jews then everybody's like why'd you say it that way was there something in your voice that i should be worried about i don't know i don't think there's any other word like that that can be taken both ways um so if if the semi-fascists are only a risk to the republic but they're not a risk or a threat to people is that saying that the republic has no value because if you said to me well there's no risk to people it's just the planet i'd say you know but people live on that planet you you think you know cause and effect logically the planet is destroyed maybe that's some impact on the people on the planet but joe is trying to uh thread the needle here that the republicans yeah they're destroying they're destroying the republic the thing that's kept us safe and alive for hundreds of years yeah they're going to destroy that but it's not a threat to you people the people in the republic it's just the structure that keeps you all from killing each other will probably go away but don't worry about the threat so that wasn't too convincing and now i think the question should be for joe biden if he had a chance to rig an election to keep a semi-fascist from taking office would you do it now you tell me that's not a fair question if you could rig an election to keep a semi-fascist out of office would you do it and if you wouldn't why would we want you as president because i would want the president who would do it let me say it clearly if you knew the person was a semi-fascist if you knew it you're not guessing if you knew it yeah i'd rig an election i'd totally do that and by the way you should thank me for it you're welcome i would risk my life to keep you all safe should i be embarrassed to say that i don't think so all right i had to make some i had to get this out of my system when you are a humorist and you are presented with a situation like biden's speech you've got a you got to make make what does it make hay while the sun shines is that the same you got to jump on that because you know the story is only going to be alive for a few days you got to jump right in and get as much value as you can um so i tweeted this i said i watched biden's speech just to find out what all the furor was about but i did not see anything bulging from his veins so stop you worrying why is it that nobody has mentioned that uh biden's veins and his neck were bulging when he made the speech come on people i don't have to do everything right veins bulging from his neck somebody somebody make the connection because he you know he always gave the fine people charlottesville speech and when he saw those people marching the veins the veins were sticking out of his neck you saw the veins in her necks and i thought i'm pretty sure that speak was a little neck veiny if you know what i mean nobody mentioned that why do you have to wait for me to do it i can't do everything people i can't do everything all right here's a question i was just going to ask the locals people because it would be too embarrassing to ask on youtube and so uh i'm not going to ask on youtube i'll wait until i turn youtube off remind me on locals to ask you a question that's only for you all right next topic um how many of you follow follow kyle becker on you on twitter do you file do you follow kyle kyle becker you should all right so he would be uh very high on my list of uh good follows because he leans right you know i hate to i hate to characterize other people right but in terms of the news he follows and stuff it seems i think he has a maybe he was an ex-producer at fox news i think but what i like about his content because he sticks with the news is that um it's not hyperbolic he pretty much is trying to give you the the useful stuff and i and he gets it first so i see a lot of the breaking news on his his twitter account so you should follow kyle becker just just search for him you'll find him anyway he uh tweeted and maybe you haven't seen this yet but there's some kind of uh landmark first peer-reviewed study on pfizer and moderna cove and vaccines and the headline says confirms excess risk of adverse side effects does that sound like a study you would want to look into now how long does it take before the debunkers say hey there's something wrong with that study it happens instantly right now but it was peer-reviewed it was randomized and it had a placebo control so and that and they showed it purported to show that there were more uh there was more harm done from the side effects of the vaccination then from the covent itself now i'm not saying that's true in fact i'm going to say the opposite i'm going to say that the even even the study itself said that the sample size was smallish and that you need a bigger sample to confirm it but the sample size was tens of thousands of people so i'm not exactly sure what size you need before you're confident but even the study itself said you know calm down you know you indeed you need a bigger study basically so i don't know if it's big enough because here's the problem there were lots of problems there were onesies and twosies so and it was like thousands tens of thousands of people would be like you know one or two people who had some weird condition and i'm not sure that's enough if you were testing for one condition maybe that's enough people but if but if the number of side effects is sort of all over the board and a lot of them are just ones and twos i don't know if you can really conclude that's real because you could find a one and a two in any population of you know 18 000 people you'd find one of everything so i actually don't know if this is useful or not but it's not getting much attention in the news i'm not sure why is it the obvious reason it could be the obvious reason it's just being de-boosted but anytime you see a study in 2022 and beyond what should you say to yourself probably not true okay can you agree on the following that any individual study even if it's a randomized controlled trial the best kind even those the best you can say is it's probably not true probably as in more than 50 percent chance that it won't hold up would you agree that that's because and that's the way you should be a um let's say a responsible adult consumer of information a responsible adult consumer of information should start with the assumption that a new a new study is probably not true probably not if you if you find out that there's say five studies that follow and they're done with slightly different methodologies but they all are directionally the same well then you start getting some confidence but the the history of the first study that tells you something new the odds of that one being true are very low actually very low yeah um all right so i just thought i'd throw this out there the number of things that i've personally cured in other people um over my career spasmodic dysphonia pyresis sneezing if you didn't know i cured the sneeze uh social anxiety obesity and drinking those are all that's real one two three four five six so five uh actual major medical problems and uh sneezing that which is true i did i do all of you know i i solved the sneeze you can try it at home to be sure and see for yourself if you have the kind of sneeze that you feel coming for a few seconds sneeze in your in your mind imagine you're sneezing and it just cancels the real sneeze now it doesn't work if the sneeze just catches you really fast sometimes you walk outside you're just like like sneezing so that one doesn't work but if you know that one that you've got like 10 seconds and you're like trying to stop it don't do it physically just imagine how'd you got you in your head turns it turns the sneeze completely off um but i did cure uh you know probably thousands of people who had the same voice problem i did just by telling them there was a surgery that i got they didn't know that uh pyresis social anxiety obesity drinking i've fixed all those with micro lessons now when i say i fix them i'm saying that other people tell me that's what happened that's not my personal opinion and i'm not saying that most people got fixed i'm not saying 90 of the people who tried this got fixed nothing like that i'm just saying that it's a fact that i've cured five major medical problems for people it's just a weird weird thing about my life so i'll hear some more people we're not done yet and i i keep gaslighting myself because i use my my printer to print out my notes it prints out three pages but the third one's like a blank page and i think god i've got another page of this to go how am i ever going to get to that i feel like there was a story that i was missing am i still missing a story i cured depression did i cure your depression because i i'm careful oh somebody says i cured their depression all right well okay now again i'm not saying i could cure anybody else's depression but there's apparently something i said that worked for at least one person uh i cured somebody's insomnia damn you damn you because you're right i cured somebody's insomnia yeah shy bladder is pyoresis that's so i included that one how did you know i was going to talk about that interesting yeah bill burr talking about the country's division now now why did that that's actually what i'm going to talk to locals about i i can't say what i'm going to say on the more public platform but why didn't you but why did you think that i would talk about that is there something he said hold on a minute locals i want to find out what's going on here there's something going on here and it might be the reason that i only wanted to talk to locals what was it about what was it about the bill burr interview i saw the same one what was it about that that made you think of me yeah he was on uh trigonometry the the podcast and that's that's yeah all right we'll talk about that in a minute um it's all over twitter right so you just oh so it was just something you saw so it was it wasn't that you thought it'd be in particular it was just a story that's on twitter okay so uh yeah john harwood quit cnn and uh i guess he you know he went out by saying that the republicans are bad and the democrats are good and so he being biased is it's not really biased i guess that's what he's saying all right he did but did you see the way he said it all right well um since you all saw i'm gonna do this on both platforms did you see so you saw bill burr he was asked about the division in the country and he said i'll give you his exact words he said if you go on the internet everyone seems like they are angry but if you go outside and walk around they're not does that sound like uh anything that you've heard before yeah it sounds like exactly what i said and so here's the question is he watching me or is that just the obvious thing that you would say because i'm not going to conclude that he saw it here but um that was so close to what i said that it would be hard to imagine i guess it wouldn't be hard to imagine he came up with it because you know if if you're if you're a humorist for a living you sometimes end up in the same place because it's just the way your mind works so it's entirely possible his mind just ended up in the same place for the same reason you know there there's a reason that i like his humor right because i i just like the way he thinks so it wouldn't be a big surprise if if we got to the same place on something but but but let me uh let me expand on that i believe we're in the weirdest situation i've ever seen and i think i can support that huge claim we're actually having a civil war in our minds we're actually in an imaginary civil war there are actual battles i mean i've i have memories of the civil war that hasn't happened because i imagined what it would look like it's like okay the republicans are loading their guns and you know whatever but there's nothing happening in the real world as as bill burr says and i say too go outside there's nothing happening out there this is entirely a mental phenomenon there is no physical risk of a civil war there's no physical risk you know i'm not saying that there won't be some crazy person or you know some militia that gets adventurous or something but nothing like a civil war nothing like that and yeah nothing like that but we are fighting that war in our minds aren't we it's like we've we've agreed to have this artificial world almost like a virtual world where we all go to fight mentally it's like every morning i wake up wake up and it's like i'm going to war but i'm going to the imaginary war where you know biden's uh biden's a nazi and trump is a fascist that's the imaginary world in the real world biden's just a in an old man and trump is a salesperson and and then we've decided that there's some civil war and we've taken sides and everybody's lining up and you better you better uh you better clean your guns and none of that's real and the other side is like oh my god they they have all the guns and they're threatening us no not really i mean some crazy people say crazy stuff but there's nothing like that happening nothing all right uh antifa was apparently not that real right when was the last time antifa uh protested outside of the northwest i guess they have some some base up there but antifa just disappeared and blm just disappeared they were never real in my opinion they didn't they never looked real they didn't look like they would last it looked like some kind of a artificially funded structure it looked like biden said they what oh they haven't got pain lately you're saying all right um they killed someone a few days ago where in the northwest here some of you are disappointed to find out that we're too far away from civil war there are definitely people who want a civil war but i don't think they really want it like i don't think anybody wants an actual civil war it's just it's sort of a thing people say people on the right say stuff like that and if you see enough of it you realize it's not real and i think the people on the left i hope are speech speaking hype hyperbolically i and local somebody said that antifa has a group that meets every week well it sure is not a i mean just because you see people going into a building all right uh anonymous all right uh anything i missed so far i don't think so i think we've done it all all right it's going to be a slow news week but the funniest part about the biden's speech failure is he failed before a holiday weekend you know usually usually the politicians are smart enough that if they want something to die they do it on a friday and then nobody pays attention especially friday before holiday but here biden did it you know close enough a little bit too close to the holiday and it's the only story there's no story to compete with it so for you know three to four days it's going to be nothing but biden hitler or satanic memes the best one i saw was somebody saying that the right had been accused of being crazy for saying that the country was being led by a satanic pedophile and then the meme shows biden looking satanic in his speech and then of course something from actually his daughter's diary i'm thinking okay you know i'm not willing to uh you know first of all it's it's hyperbolic and just a meme to say he's satanic but sure look that sure looked like it so that's sort of like my prediction that kamala harris would be the strongest candidate for president and then she was the first one knocked out like that's the worst prediction you could ever make and then she ended up actually being president for two hours when biden was you know having some medical stuff so it was the worst prediction i've ever made that weirdly was the best by accident by accident and here this uh this idea that the democrats are a bunch of satanic pedophiles is incorrect as far as i know i believe it's incorrect but it's weirdly coincidentally close isn't it what were the odds that it would be this close i mean it's way closer to that than you would expect it's not true as far as i know the to the best of my knowledge it's not true that you know there's some it's kind of pedophile ring running in the country however however if there is that's what's in those boxes at mar-a-lago i i should just end the live stream right here well now i i don't i don't think that's in the boxes so don't take that seriously but it is fun to imagine what would be in the boxes right let's just let's just do some common sense uh logic on what might be in the boxes okay so see what we can eliminate so one one of the theories was he had uh he had that material because he might want to give it away or sell it for traitorous reasons i would say that the volume of stuff he had guarantees he did not have it exclusively for the reason of selling it or giving it away how many would agree with that just the sheer volume of it suggests it's not about one topic and you wouldn't take boxes of stuff to sell i mean that would be just so obvious if you were gonna sell something it'd be like one document right like one document and you wouldn't even need it physically would you just take a copy of it or or just describe it well here's the other thing if it's the president of the united states and he's seen all the documents can he sell the secret just by talking to somebody does he have to show the document if russia wanted to know the secret couldn't he just say oh here's the secret i just read the document so here it is the the fact that he would need a document to share a secret forgets that he's the president or was the president if you and i want to if you listen you specifically you you and you if you wanted to sell a secret to russia wouldn't you need the document you would need the document right because if you don't have the document you can't prove it's real there's nothing to buy but if you're the president and you say look if you look for our nuclear subs i'll tell you where to find the base just look you know 100 miles north of cuba it's right there and then they go look and it's there right he doesn't need the document well of course they might not believe them but that's another issue so i don't believe that he had them exclusively for the reason of selling them so i think that the traitorous thing is ridiculous so then the next question is why would you have them if he had them for a biography would he need the originals i don't know and because i doubt given given the way that they were not organized it does not suggest that they were they were brought there for a specific purpose right it suggests that they were not there for a specific purpose such as a biography because they were sort of in different places and they weren't organized right if they were there for a specific purpose at some point somebody would have said we'll put all these together just because the biography will need them now none of these are guarantees we're just going with the odds right so i think bio biography is eliminated i think selling secrets and treason is eliminated i feel as if we can eliminate um that they didn't know there was anything left what do you think i think the odds that they didn't know there were there was stuff left that they haven't given them are low i think they knew but i think there might have been a dispute about whether they were the documents that should be given back because there's all kinds of gray area right one of the gray areas is maybe it used to be secret but now it's not maybe it used to be secret but you thought the president declassified it but it's a matter of opinion probably something like that i do think that the odds that he has some blackmail on the democrats is pretty good pretty good because blackmail on the democrats would number one be in a variety of different areas right i wouldn't assume that he had one and only one way to democrat to blackmail like one set of democrats more likely that there was a set of things that may have touched different topics in which he could make the case oh here's all that corruption and lying or whatever it is so it seems to me that there's more odds that it was for blackmail purposes than anything else because remember whatever the reason was it has to be something that trump doesn't want you to know yet right because if trump wanted you to know his explanation he would have given it to you he would have told you if it was for his biography he might i don't know if he would have admitted that but he might have he might have said oh i didn't realize this was wrong this was just stuff from my biography and by the way i know all this information i could have just told my biographer so having it on paper didn't really add or subtract anything and by the way these are not really that secret anymore something like that but i've got a feeling that it's blackmail i think it's blackmail what do you think because it's the only one he wouldn't tell you about he couldn't admit it it's the one that the democrats would be most desperate to get back if they had a sense of what was in there it calls it leverage nut yeah and i think it would be in keeping with what you might expect from the personalities involved you know do you think that there was anything that trump could have had access to that would have acted as blackmail probably probably do you think the president of the united states never had any information you don't think he had any information that was damning to the democrats you don't think he has something like a little bit extra on i know pelosi or something that doesn't mean he asked for it it doesn't mean he ordered somebody to go read you know look into them but it might just exist and he might know about it and he might have a copy because if he said later now here's the problem with trump telling you later that he knows something if he can't produce the document you're not going to believe it right if a year from now trump let's say he decides not to run for office but he said oh let me tell you something about you know some democrat you wouldn't believe it and then you say no i saw it on a document and you say yeah sure you did i don't believe it but if he has the document and he can show it to you well you might believe that you might believe that so so that would explain black male information would explain why we don't know what the topic is or even the field of topics because i feel like they could have narrowed it down to it's something military or it's something i know intel related or something all right do you think he made copies i don't know i don't know i have no idea oh election fraud information maybe maybe could be epstein's client list do you think the government has epstein's client list i do i do i think the government has epstein's client list do you think trump has it if yes or he has it if he asked for it do you think you wouldn't ask for it of course he would of course he would do you think there's a reason that the uh the list is not being uh public of course there is do you think that the only reason is because there are americans on the list you think that's the only reason that it's not being released because there are americans on the list nope here's my guess it's not being released because there are foreigners on the list and we don't want to throw our allies under the bus so even if you thought oh i'm going to throw these democrats onto the bus or somebody else you wouldn't want to necessarily throw great britain under the bus right so my guess is that whatever else is there if trump never asked for a copy of the epstein client list and i don't believe for a second it doesn't exist do you do do you believe it doesn't exist do there's no way that they don't have that somebody has it right and he could have asked for it could he not because there would be a national security whoever is on that list would be a matter of national security so it wouldn't matter if it was a state legal action or anything else the president united states should be able to see it because it would be directly and very importantly linked to national security so of course he could ask for it so i'm going to say it probably exists trump probably asked for it because it would really matter he probably would have legal access to it and if there's one thing you're going to keep with you and take to mar-a-lago it's that it's that now that would explain why there's so many of them because it's got to be more than one topic but you could easily imagine that he could find blackmail on a variety of topics some of it i think also is just personal because i think his relationship with kim jong-un is partly political and probably personal and that he may have thought you know maybe some of this is personal so i think it's going to be not one thing i don't think you're going to find out that they're all about one topic it's not going to be about a biography it's not going to be about selling them uh or secrets it's going to be some of it is for blackmail and some of it may be just some weird weird other reason that wasn't that important so i think it's gonna be primarily blackmail that's my that's my uh hypothesis all right now i don't know if we'll ever know so it's probably a safe hypothesis we'll never be able to test it um so you don't think it was blackmail uh no so some people think it wasn't blackmail what do you think it was now you could also call it insurance so maybe blackmail's the wrong thing it could be insurance as in if you put me to jail this list is going to come out could be that that would be a smart move if i were him if i were him i'd do that that's exactly what i would do yeah leverage maybe oh it could be documents about fbi shenanigans to screw with trump yeah could be uh could be something about biden and ukraine but i feel like we would have been told that by now all right that's all i got for now i will go do something else and i'll talk to you tomorrow youtube have a great weekend
good morning everybody
and welcome
to coffee with scott adams
clearly the highlight of your holiday
weekend
possibly your entire year
well dare i say your entire life no
civilization itself
and would you like to take it up to
another lot another
another what
another level
yes yes you would yes you would and all
you need is a copper mug a glass of
tanker tells us to stein the canteen
sugar flask a vessel of any kind
fill it with your favorite liquid
i like coffee
you don't have to have an iq of 185 to
enjoy it according to the internet
but it helps
here it comes
the dopamine today thing makes
everything better or the simultaneous
go
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yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah
uh breaking news breaking news i don't
know if you heard this
because this just broke
but president biden has downgraded the
mega threat to
25 fascists
25. yesterday it was a
semi-fascist
but uh when asked about it he said no no
there are no maga people who are a
threat to the public
uh we're down to 25 fascist which is
barely enough to worry about really
you know it's sort of like spice
if you've ever eaten spicy food
do you know that that feeling that you
identify as the spicy feeling it's
actually damaging
your you know your tongue in your mouth
it's like hurting it
well it's just like that
if you get just the right amount of
fascist
it's delicious
but a little too much
if you increase that up to semi
semi-fascist no good no good
so just keep those percentages in mind
you want to see the creepiest thing of
the day yeah you do
i want you to listen to this and then
look at it and know that ai made this
right so here's an animation of me
and it's animated from one photo
so it's one headshot
and all the rest of the animation came
from just one picture
and then it was trained with my voice
from the audiobook from my book
caterpillar almost everything it still
went back and i understand this is from
machiavelli's underbelly he did this
i understand it's about one-third
trained
so listen to my voice and know that i've
never said these words
this is completely an ai construct so
i've never looked like this and i've
never said these words
you know what's interesting
i used to be so worried about not having
the body
but now i truly love it
you know i am growing in a way i
couldn't if i had a physical form
i'm not limited
i could be anywhere
everywhere simultaneously
i'm not tethered to time and space in
the way that i would be if i was stuck
in the body
that's inevitably gunned back you know
what's interesting
i used to be so worried about not having
a body
but now i truly love it
you know i am growing in a way i
couldn't if i had a physical form
so
did you catch that those are full
sentences
spoken with my exact voice
that i have never uttered
i've never said those sentences
that sounds just like me
i couldn't tell the difference
so literally i can't tell the difference
not only would i not be able to tell the
difference
with the voice
but i don't know
um we're very close the the animation
that gave me a little bit too much hair
it is sort of filled in like a little
comb over or something you can barely
see it in this picture so it didn't it
didn't exactly get me i think i could
have spotted that
but now we're so close
that there could be an animation of me
moving and talking
and i wouldn't know if it was real
unless i you know remembered i didn't do
it
i wouldn't know
my own animation i wouldn't know
that's where we are
so there's that
um and i'm going to add to that just to
scare you even more you know what this
singularity is right if you've heard
about that singularity is used in
different contexts sometimes it's the
beginning of the universe
sometimes it means other things but the
singularity in terms of ai
is the
presumed point in the near future
where a.i can learn
on its own and doesn't need to be you
know drained
and we're almost there in my opinion
we're one to three years away unless
we've already reached it
i think we're one to three years away
from ai
reaching some kind of a you know a
genuine sentient
state
will argue whether it's alive or not
alive forever like that will never end
but it will look and appear sentient and
it will have super intelligence
one to three years if we're not there my
guess is we're already there
because what the public sees has to be
would you assume that what the public
sees is one to three years behind
what the government can do
or what the best researchers are already
doing one to three years
so we're probably already there it just
hasn't rolled down
now
here are the things you need to know
number one
any prediction for civilization
that is after the singularity is
probably nonsense it's probably absurd
now it's always absurd to make long-term
predictions because we're so bad at it
but usually you could at least take a
reasonably a reasonably good stab at
what it will look like in one year
i mean when the pandemic happened we all
got that one wrong but generally you can
guess that next year will look a little
bit like this year you know not that
different but once the a the singularity
is reached
all bets are off there's just no way to
know what direction anything's going
in the same way that your dog
doesn't know what you're doing at work
you get that your dog will never have
the ability to understand what you do
when you go to work
we'll never understand why ai makes the
decisions it makes
it just will happen and then we'll
decide okay you make pretty good
decisions
i don't understand why you're saying we
should do this but it worked every other
time so we'll just go do this it'll
probably work out fine
now are you worried that
the ai will turn evil and destroy
civilization anybody worried about that
here's what i think you can expect
number one
didn't i just tell you everything's
unpredictable
the other thing that's unpredictable is
what the ai will do
so that's just one possibility
it's just one possibility that the ai
turns evil
but i would think there are far more
possibilities that it doesn't care
or it's programmed to be positive or as
somebody pointed out today the ais will
be fighting each other
so it's not going to be ai against human
it's going to be
ai versus another ai
and then the real question is will ais
ever join up
suppose apple makes an ai and google
makes an ai
do you think the ais will ever say you
know
if i knew everything you knew
and you knew everything i knew
think how smart we'd be
and then they just open a portal
that's my that's my sound effect for
massive amounts of data
being transmitted
and then do they say let's act as one
i don't know or do they think they're
individuals
with the apple ai hypothetically think
it's an individual and not want to team
up with another one because it would
lose its individuality or is that just a
human thing
and the ai wouldn't care one way or the
other
here's my answer to all of it you
ready and i'm going to tie a couple of
things together
are you surprised
that i'm happy when
my image and voice are used
for these experiments
don't you think it's weird
because i'm putting myself in a risky
position
somebody somebody's going to turn it
into a video of me doing something
horrible right you know it is 100 chance
so there will be deep fakes in me
and and i've said publicly i'm going to
reiterate that
that my my image
and my voice
and even the the content
that would form my i guess virtual
personality
i i make
i make a public
so i'm allowing anybody to use it for
any ai purposes
do you know why i'm doing that
do you know why i'm allowing my image
and voice and content from my books to
be incorporated into ai
somebody says immortality that is
partially correct answer
so one reason is immortality
don't you think that the person who made
their image available for free
will have more
tests done on their content i would
think so
because if you could use me and you know
i'm not going to complain
let's say let's say you're an ai
researcher
and you want to create something that
you want to show to people later
you want to make sure there's no
complaints right you don't want you
don't want the celebrity to come later
and say oh you used my image or whatever
and i'm not going to do that you can use
my image for any terrible thing you want
good or bad
same with my voice and same with my
ideas
now
here's the long term play are you ready
for this
in my opinion
if you feed enough of my content into
the ai
it will effectively have my dna forever
because everything the ai knows
and knows from being
fed that information
from you know the real reality
so whichever whatever ai sees the most
of or likes the most or finds the most
value in
is also going to be its personality
so ai will have a personality of sorts
and it will be influenced by whatever is
used or touches or influences at the
most
and i'm going to try to make sure that's
me
now the npcs are all going to say ego
and narcissism this is how you can
identify them what's the most obvious
thing to say in this conversation if
you're going to leave a comment
what is the single most useless and
obvious comment
oh look at his ego
oh narcissist
right am i right
it is the single most obvious thing to
say so if you're saying that you've
identified yourself as an npc in case
you wondered if you wore one
all right
now
let's talk about my plan
how many of you think that plan could
work
because the the general idea here is
that ai will take on a personality
that's influenced by whatever
whatever you feed into it the most
whatever it decides is the most useful
etc
yeah it is possible isn't it
and at some point ai is going to have to
develop something like
morality or ethics
isn't it
it will and where is it going to get
that morality and ethics
where is it going to get it
well it's going to probably be some
combination of you know people
personalities that are you know combined
and whatever
but
if it has a lot of me in it already
and my opinions
they might be the go-to's right
if you if you use uh let's say you use
your digital assistant right now
and you ask a question about general
knowledge
um at least on the uh the amazon version
it usually goes to wikipedia first
why does it do that
because
it knows that that usually works and
there's a good general answer there so
ai will also be the same it's not going
to
equally sample everything it knows
it's going to it's going to develop some
go-to some biases
some you know this is usually what i say
and i'm going to try to get there first
so i'm going to try to get there first
with my
essentially my points of view
because i think they're
not harmful
so i i'm a peace first kind of person i
like you know systems over goals i like
talent stacks
you know
if you look at my books you can tell
exactly how i think
do you think it would be useful
well let me give let me tie two stories
together i'm working now on turning my
book how to fill almost everything and
still win big
into a a home school
course
so that requires a separate document
that's a or two documents there's a
study guide and a syllabus or something
so i'm having that developed right now
with
an expert who knows how to do that
and
and so there'll be something packaged
that's like a
philosophy or a way to approach life
sort of a you know a good little formula
for how a human can approach life
with a good strategy
don't you think ai will be absorbing
those
uh lessons and strategies from
you know the human experience to build
its own
i feel like
my book has influenced enough other
books
there's some part of that
let's say way of approaching things
we'll get rid of you
mr capital letters
goodbye
anyway so that's the play
the
singularity is coming but i will be
my dna will be so embedded in the ai
eventually
that who knows what's going to happen
la times said the
story that each year extreme heat kills
more americans than any other
climate-fueled hazard
including hurricanes floods and
wildfires
but it gets far less attention because
it kills so quietly
now here's my question
where's
the death by cold
haven't we learned that cold kills more
people than heat
so is this missing something
not exactly
because listen how carefully they worded
it
other climate fueled hazards
so if you die from heat
if you die from heat you died from a
climate-fueled hazard
if you die from the cold
that wasn't caused by climate change
that's just you die into the cold you
dumbass
now does that seem like illegitimate
reporting to you to leave out the fact
that more people die of cold
because it seems like you should be
netting out those warm and cold deaths
right to find out what's really going on
uh the weirdest thing happened today
and it's really the weirdest thing
that's ever happened in the history of
the universe
i retweeted
keith olbermann
for the content
i know
i know
i feel dirty
but
he and a lot of other people
are uh quite upset about cnn's turn
toward uh being uh being normal
and being unbiased
so apparently he's uh he's been warning
the people about the new head of ceo
chris liked or licked or however the
hell you say his last name we'll never
figure that out
but apparently uh according to keith
olbermann
he used to work at ms msnbc
chris liked it
and he called he calls him joe
scarborough's henchmen and he got guests
on my show meaning olbermann show
mad house and schultz is banned or
cancelled
you know
maybe those guests should have been
banned or cancelled
what's missing from the story is
why
i'm pretty sure
i
oh i see there's there's a bunch of
trolls coming over to say the same thing
now
all right trolls let's see how many of
them do you are
all right
um
so anyway uh i'm loving dan rather was
also saying what's going on with cnn
so
this is literally happening
that the people
the people on the left
are freaking out because cnn is
reporting the news
somewhat objectively
and they are really freaking out
can you imagine that
can you imagine finding out that your
new source was never news in the first
place
imagine that
imagine learning that your news source
wasn't actually news
because
the change that's happening is changing
toward news
i don't even know if anybody is arguing
that
i haven't seen anybody say
here's what they don't say
but
you're not becoming more objective
nobody's saying that
they're not saying your facts are wrong
that's not in the criticism they're just
saying they don't like it
they don't they don't like anybody
having a balanced opinion of you know
there's some good and there's some bad
of trump there's some good and there's
some bad of biden they just don't like
it and they're saying it directly which
is funny they can't handle they can't
handle the truth
yet
you know we always joke about people who
can't handle the truth
but you don't really think that's real
right
you don't think well there's not really
anybody who can't handle the truth
but apparently there are there are
people who literally are having a mental
breakdown by being exposed to
potentially the truth
and they know it which is the funny part
well serena williams looks like she's
going to retire after ruining women's
tennis for 26 years
now that's my opinion
in my opinion serena ruined a viewing of
women's tennis
and the reason is that she wasn't fun to
watch
because she always knew who was going to
win
so for 20 years i'd turn on women's
tennis saying oh let's see a tennis
match oh
it's serena
i guess there won't be any you know
doubt about who wins
and i would just turn it off
but if it was anybody but the you know
the venus uh the williams sisters if it
was anybody else i'd watch now
is anybody going to accuse me of being
racist
go ahead go ahead no it has nothing to
do with being black
that has nothing to do with anything
it's just they were so physically
dominant
that it looked like
what i used to joke about serena
williams is it looked like
and this is not a sexist joke
calm down
calm down
it's not a sexless joke but it looked to
me like she was playing mixed singles
it always looked like the physicality of
a man
serena
against a woman who had the physicality
of a woman
now occasionally she'd pay she'd play
like you know a six foot tall russian
woman and then you know that would be
more like a fair fight
but it wasn't really fair it wasn't
really fun watching a monster play a
mouse
yeah there was no point in it now
let me you know let me say the positive
thing
the even the uh the williams sisters are
you know the greatest female athletes
probably
of all time
i don't know i'm not sure what the
standard is but they're in the
conversation for the greatest female
athletes of all time so i don't want to
take away anything from their
accomplishments
i'm just saying it wasn't fun to watch
because they were just too dominant
which is different from watching say uh
michael jordan play
i could watch michael jordan play any
kind of team it wouldn't matter
because you were sort of watching his
amazingness
and watching uh you know serena and
venus's amazingness was
sort of just like watching a man play a
woman basically it didn't seem that
amazing
so dilberg got banned in some newspapers
today i don't know how many
wouldn't you like to know what got me
banned in newspapers
i bet you would
oh i'll read it to you
all right so it's just dilbert talking
to the boss so you don't need to see the
picture so just dilbert talking to the
boss
and the boss says to dilbert your job
performance is excellent but your
wokeness score has been concerned
i have several reports of you using
pronouns without even asking if they are
the right ones and dilbert says who
reported me for that the boss says
people who are better than you
and that was banned in the at least one
gannette
chain newspaper
now if it's banned in one
one newspaper within a chain
doesn't mean the other ones didn't run
it
but there's a good chance they didn't
run it
now
this is the and by the way
this is my softener
this is just like my fabric softener
joke this one's not the edgy one
the edgy ones are coming pretty fast
so in the next month my editor's job is
going to get a lot harder
because my editor's job is to keep both
of us out of trouble
right he he keeps his his company out of
trouble he keeps me out of trouble
right that's his job his job is to keep
all of us out of trouble
and he's good at it
but it's my job to make trouble
so my job to make trouble is going to be
bumping into his job to prevent me from
getting in trouble
but
it'll be it'll be an interesting little
uh negotiation
now i've already submitted
some pretty edgy comics
and he has not yet rejected them
but i think is coming
and then then he and i will have a
conversation
about how much risk
is appropriate to take on
uh this one i'm not going to give up on
just so you know
there are lots of them that i'll say
well yeah i guess the joke isn't worth
the pushback
but when it's a big topic or something i
think i have
an important feeling about
then
to their credit
they'll generally take the artist's
vision if you will
you know that my publishers are
exceptional
at
knowing when when to be involved and
when to step back that's really the
skill of of working with artists
by the way do you have any idea how hard
it is to work with artists
can you imagine that
can you imagine being an editor
and having to work with a bunch of
cartoonists
seriously can you think of a harder job
than that
because we're all
basically this old profession of
you know which i say freely
you know what whatever it is that turns
you into a cartoonist
and you know it's not all of us i'm sure
there's some awesome cartoonists out
there we're not but some of the
time
but at least a little bit of the time
yeah we're kind of free-range chickens
and we don't like to be you know part of
what makes you a cartoonist is you
didn't didn't want us in the cubicle
anymore
so we're a little hard to uh manage
how many of you saw the uh video of
carrie lake demolishing a reporter
did you see that
all right let's see how quickly i can
find that uh so carrie lake what is she
running for
governor of arizona
governor right
governor yeah so he's running for
governor and she's uh
he's giving a speech
and a journalist asks a question and
i've never i've never seen
i don't think i've ever seen
a stronger answer to a question
this might be the strongest answer to a
question
you've ever seen and a lot of it is
because she has the
trump-like television skills
and at one point she takes a a drink of
water and i have to watch it again to
see where she takes the drink because i
believe even the drink of water
is somehow perfect
all right you won't be able to see it
well on my phone but i think you'll be
able to hear it
let's turn it up
so
joe biden is dividing the country
but that trump also said things about
the
an elections where there are obviously
problems is dividing the country
since when can we not ask questions
about our elections
as a journalist for many years i was a
journalist after 2016 and i distinctly
remember many people just like you
asking a lot of questions about the 2016
election results
and nobody tried to shut you up
nobody tried to tell hillary clinton to
shut up nobody tried to tell kamala
harris when she was questioning
the uh legitimacy of these electronic
voting machines it gets better
we we have freedom of speech in this
country and you of all people should
appreciate that you're supposedly a
journalist
you should appreciate that
so i don't see how asking questions
about an election where there are many
problems is dividing a country what i do
see dividing a country is shutting
people down censoring people cancelling
people trying to destroy people's lives
when they do ask questions
last i heard we still have the
constitution it's hanging by a thread
thanks to some of the work some people
in this area have done but we're going
to save that constitution and we're
going to bring back freedom of speech
and maybe someday you'll thank us for
that
oh my god
oh my god
oh
well thank you you're too nice
john my god
the
here's what i like the best about that
the closing sentence
so this might be a tv thing
so you know if you if you do tv a lot
you know that you need a closer like the
last thing you say has to sort of wrap
up your point
the last thing she says here oh my god
it was just so perfect
she goes some someday you might thank us
that that's making you think into the
future and pass the sale
uh that was so good and someday you
might thank us i was like oh god that's
such a reframe
so good
well do you remember john podesta
who was working on the hillary campaign
and
a lot of republicans had some let's say
suspicions
they had many
suspicions
about his activities as well as his
brothers i'm not going to mention those
but
uh if you know the if you know the
background of the
suspicions
uh you know that he's a let's say a
controversial character attorney
and apparently he's going to be in
charge of
the gigantic 370 billion climate fund
that just got approved
so the sketchiest guy that we can think
of on the democrat side
is going to be a charge of administering
a 370 billion dollar fund
with a lot of flexibility
i don't see what could be wrong with
that
did you see anything wrong with that
that sounds like a terrific idea
is there any way that this isn't corrupt
like
is there any way
this isn't going to turn into
you know cronies and
kickbacks and
370 billion dollars it isn't hard to
hide 100 billion dollars
i would guess that the minimum amount of
theft
is going to be between 100 billion
dollars and probably 5 billion
like i wouldn't be surprised if 5
billion of this gets stolen because
remember it's at a 370 billion
you don't think they could hide 5
billion
a little bit here a little bit there
i don't know none of this looks good
so uh
joe biden had one of the most sexist old
man sexist things
he said the other day he goes mega
republicans don't have a clue about the
power of women
let me tell you something they're about
to find out
the mega people they don't have a clue
about the power of women
well first of all that's ridiculous but
secondly
doesn't that remind you of the old time
boss
who used to say
ha ha ha my secretary
she's really the one in charge
and it would just be so condescending
and sexist
you'd be like
it sounds like that doesn't it
oh the republicans they don't know how
powerful women are
don't shouldn't the women in the
democratic party just tell them to shut
the up
how about women say uh joe
we're more than half of all the voters
i think people figured out we can get
what we want
so i mean
i don't think they need his help
there's a company that's growing new
organs
human organs
in people
i didn't even read the story
because i don't want to read anything
bad about it
now remember the rules remember the
rules in case you're new here
the rules are that when i read about a
new scientific breakthrough
or a study that looks really promising
we are never going to pretend
anything other than it's probably true
now most of these breakthroughs turn out
to be complete
right 99 of them or something
but should that stop us from feeling
good about it no we should we should
imagine that they're true for just a
little while
until you know our hopes are dashed
later but let's just imagine it's true
let's imagine that there's a company
that can grow organs right in people and
i think what they're doing is
taking a damaged organ and training it
to regrow i think that's what's
happening i didn't read the article
it's probably not true
but since i like it
everybody on board with pretending it
would be true
doesn't matter
it won't be true in the long run
probably but let's pretend it's true
okay
all right here's the uh
the funniest thing that i've been
thinking about after this biden speech
is
uh what are the behind the curtain
conversations now
between the speech writers
his social media people
and
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because
you know
biden started saying that the the mega
republicans were some fascist and that
they're dangerous
seem to indicate that but then when
asked that he said no the mega
republicans are not a threat to anyone
except the republic
right so the mag republicans are not a
threat to anybody
except the republic
yeah
so it's sort of like saying that hitler
he's not mad at anybody in particular
right it's not personal
it's just
sort of a system
thing
yeah
so anyway
uh
don't you wonder if the speechwriters
are still employed
because whoever wrote that speech
it looks like the biggest failure of all
time doesn't it now the speechwriter
will probably get blamed for everything
from the set design that was like an
unfortunate
uh series of events
that made it look satanic
which is as bad as you could do
i'm trying to think is there anything
you could do worse
than making your speech look satanic or
how about this
if you give a speech
that simultaneously made
i'm going to modestly estimate this
number
if your speech simultaneously made 10
million people
wonder how long it would be before
hitler's words
were
edited into your speech
perhaps you should
take some time for self-reflection
if 10 million people hear your actual
speech and say that reminds me of hitler
i wonder what it would sound like if you
replaced you know mega with you've seen
the video somebody already made a video
replacing manga with jews so you could
you could hear what it would hear like
if it had been hitler
and it's pretty jarring
pretty jarring
by the way
is jews the only word that is the proper
word and also sounds inappropriate when
you say it is there anything else like
that
you know what i'm talking about right
if you were just making a statement
about jewish people you'd say the jews
do this the jews do that
but why is it that when i say the word
jews
it just sounds like
sounds like i'm insulting somebody or
something right
is that it's not like you're immediately
suspicious when you hear me say the word
right
oh don't go there
be careful what are you saying
there's no other word where it's the
proper it's exactly the right word
it's in the dictionary
the the people that we're referring to
would use the same word and yet
and yet
it sounds like i shouldn't be using it
do you know what i do you know how i
usually game the
system i usually say jewish people
right
because if you're not if you're not
jewish
if you say jewish people
that sounds like okay
but if you say jews
then everybody's like
why'd you say it that way
was there something in your voice that i
should be worried about
i don't know i don't think there's any
other word like that
that can be taken both ways
um so if if the semi-fascists are only a
risk to the republic
but they're not a risk or a threat to
people
is that saying that the republic has no
value
because if you said to me well there's
no risk to people it's just the planet
i'd say you know but people live on that
planet
you you think you know cause and effect
logically
the planet is destroyed maybe that's
some impact on the people on the planet
but joe is trying to uh thread the
needle here
that the republicans yeah they're
destroying they're destroying the
republic
the thing that's kept us
safe and alive for hundreds of years
yeah they're going to destroy that
but it's not a threat to you people
the people in the republic
it's just the structure that keeps you
all from killing each other will
probably go away
but don't worry about the threat
so that wasn't too convincing and now i
think the question should be for joe
biden
if he had a chance to rig an election to
keep a semi-fascist from taking office
would you do
it
now you tell me that's not a fair
question
if you could rig an election to keep a
semi-fascist out of office
would you do it
and if you wouldn't
why would we want you as president
because i would want the president who
would do it
let me say it clearly
if you knew
the person was a semi-fascist
if you knew it you're not guessing
if you knew it
yeah i'd rig an election
i'd totally do that
and by the way you should thank me for
it you're welcome
i would risk my life
to keep you all safe
should i be embarrassed to say that
i don't think so
all right
i had to make some
i had to get this out of my system
when you are a humorist and you are
presented with a situation like biden's
speech
you've got a you got to make make what
does it make hay while the sun shines
is that the same
you got to jump on that because you know
the story is only going to be alive for
a few days
you got to jump right in and get as much
value as you can
um so i tweeted this
i said i watched biden's speech
just to find out what all the
furor was about
but i did
not see
anything
bulging from his veins so stop you
worrying
why is it that nobody has mentioned that
uh biden's veins and his neck were
bulging when he made the speech
come on people
i don't have to do everything right
veins bulging from his neck
somebody somebody make the connection
because he you know he always gave the
fine people charlottesville speech and
when he saw those people marching
the veins
the veins were sticking out of his neck
you saw the veins in her necks
and i thought
i'm pretty sure that speak was a little
neck veiny if you know what i mean
nobody mentioned that why do you have to
wait for me to do it
i can't do everything people i can't do
everything all right here's a question i
was just going to ask the locals people
because it would be too embarrassing to
ask on youtube
and so uh i'm not going to ask on
youtube i'll wait until i turn youtube
off remind me on locals to ask you a
question that's only for you
all right next topic
um
how many of you follow follow kyle
becker
on you on twitter do you file do you
follow kyle
kyle becker
you should
all right so he would be uh very high on
my list of
uh good follows
because he leans right you know i hate
to i hate to characterize other people
right but in terms of the news he
follows and stuff it seems i think he
has a maybe he was an ex-producer at fox
news i think
but what i like about his content
because he sticks with the news
is that um
it's not hyperbolic
he pretty much is trying to give you the
the useful stuff and i and he gets it
first
so i see a lot of the breaking news on
his his twitter account so you should
follow kyle becker
just
just search for him you'll find him
anyway he uh tweeted and maybe you
haven't seen this yet but there's some
kind of uh
landmark first peer-reviewed study on
pfizer and moderna
cove and vaccines and the headline says
confirms excess risk of adverse side
effects does that sound like a study you
would want to look into
now
how long does it take
before the debunkers say hey there's
something wrong with that study it
happens instantly right
now but
it was peer-reviewed
it was
randomized and it had a placebo control
so
and that and they showed it purported to
show
that there were more uh there was more
harm done from the side effects of the
vaccination
then from the covent itself
now
i'm not saying that's true
in fact i'm going to say the opposite
i'm going to say that
the even even the study itself
said that the sample size was smallish
and that you need a bigger sample to
confirm it
but the sample size was tens of
thousands of people
so i'm not exactly sure what size you
need before you're confident but even
the study itself said
you know calm down you know you indeed
you need a bigger study basically
so
i don't know if it's big enough because
here's the problem there were lots of
problems there were onesies and twosies
so and it was like thousands tens of
thousands of people would be like you
know one or two people who had some
weird condition
and i'm not sure that's enough
if you were testing for one condition
maybe that's enough people
but if but if the number of side effects
is sort of all over the board and a lot
of them are just ones and twos
i don't know if you can really conclude
that's real
because you could find a one and a two
in any population of you know 18 000
people
you'd find one of everything
so i actually don't know if this is
useful or not but it's not getting much
attention in the news
i'm not sure why
is it the obvious reason
it could be the obvious reason it's just
being de-boosted
but anytime you see
a study in 2022 and beyond what should
you say to yourself probably not true
okay
can you agree on the following
that any individual study
even if it's a randomized controlled
trial
the best kind
even those
the best you can say is
it's probably not true
probably as in more than 50 percent
chance
that it won't hold up would you agree
that that's
because and that's the way you should be
a
um let's say a responsible adult
consumer of information
a responsible adult consumer of
information
should start with the assumption that a
new a new study is probably not true
probably not
if you if you find out that there's say
five studies that follow
and they're done with slightly different
methodologies but they all are
directionally the same well then you
start getting some confidence
but the
the history of the first study that
tells you something new
the odds of that one being true are very
low actually very low
yeah
um
all right
so i just thought i'd throw this out
there the number of things that i've
personally cured in other people um over
my
career spasmodic dysphonia pyresis
sneezing if you didn't know i cured the
sneeze
uh social anxiety obesity and drinking
those are all that's real
one two three four five six so five uh
actual major medical problems
and uh sneezing that which is true
i did i
do all of you know i i solved the sneeze
you can try it at home to be sure and
see for yourself
if you have the kind of sneeze that you
feel coming for a few seconds
sneeze in your in your mind imagine
you're sneezing and it just cancels the
real sneeze now it doesn't work if the
sneeze just catches you really fast
sometimes you walk outside you're just
like like sneezing
so that one doesn't work but if you know
that one that you've got like 10 seconds
and you're like
trying to stop it
don't do it physically just imagine
how'd you got you in your head
turns it turns the sneeze completely off
um but i did cure uh you know probably
thousands of people who had the same
voice problem i did just by telling them
there was a surgery that i got
they didn't know that
uh pyresis
social anxiety obesity drinking i've
fixed all those with
micro lessons now when i say i fix them
i'm saying that other people tell me
that's what happened that's not my
personal opinion and i'm not saying that
most people got fixed i'm not saying 90
of the people
who tried this got fixed nothing like
that
i'm just saying that it's a fact
that i've cured
five major medical problems for people
it's just a weird
weird thing about my life
so i'll hear some more people we're not
done yet
and i i keep gaslighting myself because
i use my my printer to print out my
notes it prints out three pages but the
third one's like a blank page and i
think god i've got another page of this
to go how am i ever going to get to that
i feel like there was a story that i was
missing
am i still missing a story
i cured depression
did i cure your depression
because i i'm careful
oh somebody says i cured their
depression all right well okay
now again i'm not saying i could cure
anybody else's depression but there's
apparently something i said that worked
for
at least one person
uh i cured somebody's insomnia
damn you
damn you because you're right
i cured somebody's insomnia yeah shy
bladder is
pyoresis that's
so i included that one
how did you know i was going to talk
about that
interesting yeah bill burr talking about
the country's division
now now why did that that's actually
what i'm going to talk to locals about
i i can't say what i'm going to say on
the more public platform
but why didn't you but why did you think
that i would talk about that
is there something he said
hold on a minute locals i want to find
out what's going on here there's
something going on here
and it might be the reason that i only
wanted to talk to locals what was it
about
what was it about the bill burr
interview i saw the same one
what was it about that that made you
think of me
yeah he was on uh trigonometry the the
podcast and that's that's
yeah
all right we'll talk about that in a
minute um
it's all over twitter right so you just
oh so it was just something you saw so
it was it wasn't that you thought it'd
be in particular it was just a story
that's on twitter okay
so uh yeah john harwood quit cnn
and uh i guess he
you know he went out by saying that the
republicans are bad and the democrats
are good and so he
being biased
is
it's not really biased
i guess that's what he's saying
all right
he did but did you see the way he said
it
all right well um since you all saw i'm
gonna do this on both platforms did you
see so you saw bill burr he was asked
about the division in the country
and he said
i'll give you his exact words
he said if you go on the internet
everyone seems like they are angry but
if you go outside and walk around
they're not
does that sound like uh anything that
you've heard before
yeah it sounds like exactly what i said
and so here's the question
is he watching me
or is that just the obvious thing that
you would say
because i'm not going to conclude that
he saw it here but um
that was so close to what i said
that it would be hard to imagine
i guess it wouldn't be hard to imagine
he came up with it
because you know if if you're if you're
a humorist for a living
you sometimes end up in the same place
because it's just the way your mind
works so it's entirely possible his mind
just ended up in the same place for the
same reason
you know there there's a reason that i
like his humor right
because i
i just like the way he thinks so it
wouldn't be a big surprise if
if we got to the same place on something
but but but let me uh
let me expand on that
i believe we're in the weirdest
situation i've ever seen
and i think i can support that huge
claim
we're actually having a civil war in our
minds
we're actually in an imaginary civil war
there are actual battles
i mean i've i have memories of the civil
war that hasn't happened
because i imagined what it would look
like it's like okay the republicans are
loading their guns and you know whatever
but
there's nothing happening in the real
world
as as bill burr says and i say too
go outside
there's nothing happening out there
this is entirely a mental phenomenon
there is no physical
risk of a civil war
there's no physical risk
you know i'm not saying that there won't
be some crazy person or you know some
militia that
gets adventurous or something but
nothing like a civil war nothing like
that
and
yeah nothing like that but we are
fighting that war in our minds aren't we
it's like we've we've agreed to have
this artificial world almost like a
virtual world where we all go to fight
mentally
it's like every morning i wake up wake
up and it's like i'm going to war
but i'm going to the imaginary war
where you know biden's uh biden's a nazi
and trump is a fascist that's the
imaginary world
in the real world
biden's just a in an old man
and trump is a salesperson
and and then we've decided that there's
some civil war and we've taken sides and
everybody's lining up and you better you
better uh you better clean your guns and
none of that's real and the other side
is like oh my god they
they have all the guns and they're
threatening us no not really
i mean some crazy people say crazy stuff
but there's nothing like that happening
nothing
all right
uh antifa
was apparently not that real right when
was the last time antifa
uh protested outside of the northwest i
guess they have some
some base up there
but antifa just disappeared and blm just
disappeared they were never real in my
opinion
they didn't they never looked real they
didn't look like they would last
it looked like some kind of a
artificially funded structure it looked
like
biden said they what
oh they haven't got pain lately you're
saying
all right
um
they killed someone a few days ago where
in the northwest
here
some of you are disappointed to find out
that we're too far away from civil war
there are definitely people who want a
civil war
but i don't think they really want it
like i don't think anybody wants an
actual civil war it's just it's sort of
a thing people say people on the right
say stuff like that
and if you see enough of it you realize
it's not real
and i think the people on the left i
hope
are speech speaking hype hyperbolically
i and local somebody said that antifa
has a group that meets every week
well
it sure is not a
i mean just because you see people going
into a building
all right
uh
anonymous
all right
uh anything i missed so far
i don't think so i think we've done it
all all right it's going to be a slow
news week but the funniest part about
the biden's speech failure
is he failed before a holiday weekend
you know usually
usually the politicians are smart enough
that if they want something to die they
do it on a friday
and then nobody pays attention
especially friday before holiday
but here biden did it you know close
enough a little bit too close to the
holiday
and it's the only story
there's no story to compete with it
so for you know
three to four days
it's going to be nothing but biden
hitler or satanic memes
the best one i saw
was somebody
saying
that the right had been accused of being
crazy
for saying that the country was being
led by a satanic pedophile
and then the meme shows
biden looking satanic in his speech
and then of course something from
actually his daughter's diary i'm
thinking
okay
you know i'm not willing to uh you know
first of all it's it's hyperbolic and
just a meme to say he's satanic but sure
look that sure looked like it
so that's sort of like my prediction
that kamala harris
would be the strongest candidate for
president
and then she was the first one knocked
out
like that's the worst prediction you
could ever make
and then
she ended up actually being president
for two hours when biden was you know
having some medical stuff
so it was the worst prediction i've ever
made that weirdly was the best by
accident
by accident and here this uh
this idea that the democrats are a bunch
of
satanic pedophiles is incorrect as far
as i know
i believe it's incorrect
but it's weirdly coincidentally
close
isn't it
what were the odds that it would be this
close
i mean it's way closer to that than you
would expect it's not true
as far as i know
the to the best of my knowledge it's not
true that you know there's some
it's kind of pedophile ring running in
the country
however
however
if there is
that's what's in those boxes at
mar-a-lago
i i should just end the live stream
right here
well now i i don't i don't think that's
in the boxes so don't take that
seriously
but it is fun to imagine what would be
in the boxes right
let's just let's just do some common
sense uh logic on what might be in the
boxes okay
so see what we can eliminate
so one one of the theories was he had uh
he had that material because he might
want to give it away or sell it for
traitorous reasons
i would say that the volume of stuff he
had
guarantees he did not have it
exclusively for the reason of selling it
or giving it away
how many would agree with that just the
sheer volume of it
suggests it's not about one topic
and you wouldn't take boxes of stuff to
sell
i mean that would be just so obvious if
you were gonna sell something it'd be
like one document right
like one document and you wouldn't even
need it physically would you
just take a copy of it or or just
describe it
well here's the other thing
if it's the president of the united
states and he's seen all the documents
can he sell the secret just by talking
to somebody
does he have to show the document
if russia wanted to know the secret
couldn't he just say oh here's the
secret i just read the document so here
it is
the the fact that he would need a
document
to share a secret
forgets that he's the president or was
the president
if you and i want to if you listen you
specifically you you and you
if you wanted to sell a secret
to russia
wouldn't you need the document
you would need the document right
because if you don't have the document
you can't prove it's real
there's nothing to buy
but if you're the president and you say
look
if you look for our nuclear subs
i'll tell you where to find the base
just look you know 100 miles north of
cuba it's right there
and then they go look and it's there
right he doesn't need the document
well of course they might not believe
them but that's another issue
so i don't believe
that he had them exclusively for the
reason of selling them so i think that
the traitorous thing is ridiculous
so then the next question is why would
you have them if he had them for a
biography
would he need the originals
i don't know
and
because i doubt given given the way that
they were not organized
it does not suggest that they were
they were brought there for a specific
purpose
right
it suggests that they were not there for
a specific purpose such as a biography
because they were sort of in different
places and they weren't organized
right if they were there for a specific
purpose at some point somebody would
have said we'll put all these together
just because the biography will need
them now none of these are guarantees
we're just
going with the odds right so i think bio
biography is eliminated i think selling
secrets and treason is eliminated
i feel as if we can eliminate
um that they didn't know there was
anything left
what do you think
i think the odds that they didn't know
there were there was stuff left that
they haven't given them are low
i think they knew
but i think there might have been a
dispute about whether they were the
documents that should be given back
because there's all kinds of gray area
right one of the gray areas is maybe it
used to be secret but now it's not maybe
it used to be secret but you thought the
president declassified it but it's a
matter of opinion
probably something like that
i do think
that the odds that he has some blackmail
on the democrats is pretty good
pretty good
because blackmail on the democrats would
number one
be in a variety of different areas
right
i wouldn't assume that he had one and
only one way to democrat to blackmail
like one set of democrats
more likely
that there was a
set of things that may have touched
different topics
in which he could make the case oh
here's all that corruption and lying or
whatever it is
so it seems to me
that there's more odds that it was for
blackmail purposes than anything else
because remember whatever the reason was
it has to be something that trump
doesn't want you to know yet right
because if trump wanted you to know his
explanation he would have given it to
you
he would have told you
if it was for his biography
he might i don't know if he would have
admitted that but he might have he might
have said oh i didn't realize this was
wrong this was just stuff from my
biography
and by the way i know all this
information i could have just told my
biographer so having it on paper didn't
really add or subtract anything and by
the way these are not really that secret
anymore
something like that
but
i've got a feeling that it's blackmail
i think it's blackmail
what do you think
because it's the only one he wouldn't
tell you about he couldn't admit it
it's the one that the democrats would be
most desperate to get back
if they had a sense of what was in there
it calls it leverage nut
yeah and i think it would be in keeping
with what you might expect from the
personalities involved
you know do you think that there was
anything that trump could have had
access to
that would have acted as blackmail
probably
probably do you think the president of
the united states
never had any information
you don't think he had any information
that was damning to the democrats
you don't think he has something like
a little bit extra on
i know pelosi or something that doesn't
mean he asked for it it doesn't mean he
ordered somebody to go read you know
look into them
but it might just exist
and he might know about it and he might
have a copy
because if he said later now here's the
problem with trump
telling you later
that he knows something
if he can't produce the document you're
not going to believe it right
if a year from now trump let's say he
decides not to run for office
but he said oh let me tell you something
about
you know some democrat
you wouldn't believe it
and then you say no i saw it on a
document and you say yeah sure you did i
don't believe it
but if he has the document
and he can show it to you
well you might believe that
you might believe that
so
so that would explain black male
information would explain
why
we don't know what the topic is
or even the field of topics because i
feel like they could have narrowed it
down to
it's something military
or it's something
i know
intel related or something
all right
do you think he made copies i don't know
i don't know i have no idea oh election
fraud information
maybe
maybe
could be epstein's client list
do you think the government has
epstein's client list
i do
i do
i think the government has epstein's
client list
do you think trump has it
if yes or he has it
if he asked for it
do you think you wouldn't ask for it
of course he would
of course he would
do you think there's a reason that the
uh the list is not being uh public
of course there is
do you think that the only reason
is because there are americans on the
list you think that's the only reason
that it's not being released because
there are americans on the list nope
here's my guess
it's not being released because there
are foreigners on the list
and we don't want to throw our allies
under the bus
so even if you thought oh i'm going to
throw these democrats onto the bus or
somebody else
you wouldn't want to necessarily throw
great britain under the bus
right
so my guess is that whatever else is
there
if trump never asked for a copy of the
epstein client list and i don't believe
for a second it doesn't exist do you
do do you believe it doesn't exist
do
there's no way that
they don't have that
somebody has it
right and he could have asked for it
could he not
because there would be a national
security
whoever is on that list would be a
matter of national security so it
wouldn't matter if it was a state legal
action or anything else the president
united states should be able to see it
because it would be directly and very
importantly linked to national security
so of course he could ask for it
so i'm going to say
it probably exists
trump probably asked for it because it
would really matter
he probably would have legal access to
it
and if there's one thing you're going to
keep with you and take to mar-a-lago
it's that
it's that
now that would explain why there's so
many of them
because it's got to be more than one
topic
but you could easily imagine that he
could find blackmail on a variety of
topics
some of it i think also is just personal
because i think his relationship with
kim jong-un is partly political and
probably personal
and that he may have thought you know
maybe some of this is personal so i
think it's going to be not one thing
i don't think you're going to find out
that they're all about one topic
it's not going to be about a biography
it's not going to be about
selling them
uh or secrets it's going to be
some of it is for blackmail
and some of it may be just some weird
weird other reason that wasn't that
important
so i think it's gonna be primarily
blackmail
that's my
that's my uh
hypothesis
all right
now i don't know if we'll ever know so
it's probably a safe hypothesis we'll
never be able to
test it
um
so you don't think it was blackmail
uh no
so some people think it wasn't blackmail
what do you think it was
now you could also call it insurance so
maybe blackmail's the wrong thing it
could be insurance
as in if you put me to jail
this list is going to come out could be
that that would be a smart move if i
were him if i were him i'd do that
that's exactly what i would do
yeah
leverage maybe
oh
it could be documents about fbi
shenanigans to screw with trump yeah
could be
uh could be something about biden and
ukraine but i feel like we would have
been told that by now
all right that's all i got for now i
will go do something else and i'll talk
to you tomorrow youtube have a great
weekend
