Episode 1917 Scott Adams - Everyone Is Crazy. It Must Be Time For The Midterms. Let's Sort It All Out

good morning everybody wow do you look good today have you been exercising um well I'm sure you've been doing your uh breathing exercises remember every time you pick up your phone that's your that's your key your trigger to remember to breathe all right now how would you like to take it up to levels never seen before in any live stream ever I know you do and all you need is a company or a glass of tanker challenges down the canteen tea drinker vlas got the vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure it's the dopamine hit of the day it's the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous zip and it happens now go yep that was everything I thought it would be no wait wait hold on and a little bit more and a little bit more do you know the secret to happiness let me give you the secret to happiness you should consistently expect a little bit less than you're probably going to get then you'll always be amazed my God I wasn't expecting that I'm surprised again what I got paid again this week my dog likes me still no no way I thought she'd Hate Me by now you gotta set that bar low well here's some uh tiny news that might be gigantic news I like to catch the news early when it's small news before it becomes big news uh an international team a bunch of people in Tel Aviv University figured out how to make uh wheat that doesn't rust now you might say to yourself I didn't know wheat rusted in the first place but don't admit that do not admit that what you want to say is really the rust problem with wheat yeah that's a big one because it turns out it is a big problem it's a gigantic problem but if you could make wheat that did not rust your yield would go way up why is that important well we might be running low on fertilizer so it wouldn't it be nice to have you know some balancing effect on that and yes your wheat in the future will not rust uh until the left protest the the artificially created genetic product and then we all die of starvation but don't think of that don't think of that or if you do think of that that's the key to success just imagine everything's going to be bad and then when you wake up tomorrow and everything's fine you'd be like whoa yeah see it's a theme um how many of you saw what yay tweeted about an exchange he had with his personal trainer did anybody see that so apparently yay has a sort of a celebrity personal trainer and it's the same trainer that I think Kim Kardashian was using or does use or something but anyway this personal trainer has a close connection to the family for having trained both yay and Kim and other people too um if you'd like to know how good he is as a Trader he is also trained lizzo so he's reportedly also lizzo's Trader so you know he's good what what oh you're all you're all terrible um you're terrible you're terrible you're doing your own jokes in your head now can you can you wait for me to do the jokes let me do the jokes you don't have to do them in your head no all right but anyway uh I read this exchange and if it's real which I think you always have to ask today right remember if you see if you see something in the news that your first reaction is how in the world could that be real probably isn't it probably isn't real like 95 of the time it isn't but I'll tell you this one sort of looks real if I had to make a bet on the five percent you know the ones that like blow your mind but it actually turns out to be real this might be one because I don't know that there's any anything about yea that would suggest he would make up a tweet like make up a message and pretend somebody said it that that would feel completely out of character right there's no history of that so I think it's real but let me tell you what he said apparently the I think the trainer might be Jewish I think that's the context you'll have to give me a little fact check on this because I I'm a little sketchy on the story but the trader was upset with yay and wanted some kind of an apology for the Jewish people I think that's the story and uh ended up actually threatening yay in a message and that's what yay tweeted and the this is a personal trainer just just try to hold this in your head this is a personal trainer talking to yay who's you know multi-billionaire I'm not sure if he still is but he had a bad week but this is just the personal trainer talking to yay just imagine this hold this in your head that the personal traders of this da um you have two choices one is you can have a loving conversation with me and I think the context would be um his impact on the Jewish Community with his recent comments so you could have a loving conversation with me or the personal trainer gives yay the second option or I have you institutionalized again where they medicate the crap out of you and you go back to Zombieland forever play date with the kids just won't be the same what did that actually happen did first of all what does he mean again I have you institutionalized again is the again referring to the fact that yea was once under Medical Care or is he saying that he's the person who had him institutionalized did the personal trainer have him institutionalized does he have that kind of power what what kind of Svengali like or whatever power Rasputin power does this traitor have over the Kardashian and you know West household this is weird I don't I don't really understand what's going on here do you so it looks like maybe this personal trainer is like a bigger part of the overall story Maybe I mean it's a little confusing but do people really talk to yay like that I've never talked to anybody like that have you ever made a direct threat of that kind to like an adult I mean that's very very unusual way to talk to another adult without getting your ass kicked right like I I can't even imagine saying that and and if somebody ever said this to you uh that reportedly they had a long conversation after this would you ever have a conversation with somebody who had said this to you even once I I don't know about you but I'm an absolutist when I you know when I'm done with somebody I'm completely done yeah there's no comeback after that I mean how do you ever talk to this guy again oh my God anyway uh how many of you are following um Andrew huberman huberman he's he's getting a lot of play on social media lately Jordan Peterson's talked to him Joe Rogan's talked to him um I think the number of I think Lex Friedman's talked to him so the you know those are the big the big ones um so I was listening uh to some of what he was saying I didn't catch all of his all of his content but I catched quite a lot of it when he was talking to Jordan Peterson and here was my takeaway here's the good news it turns out that there's science that backs up everything I've been telling you for years good news for me I suppose but my book had a feeling almost everything and still went big as a lot of assertions in it about the best way to you know run your life such as systems are better than goals it turns out that almost everything I said from take small steps and you know learn how to be successful as something and let that you know extend into the rest basically everything everything I've told you is scientifically backed by you know the dopamine feedback system but here are some of the little things he said that um I thought are worth calling out he mentioned that if you set yourself a goal and here I'm not going to get to uh too detailed about what's better a system or a goal because even if you have a system the system does have a generic goal you know the the goal might be being wealthy as opposed to being wealthy in a specific way but still there's some idea of a direction you're going whether you have a system or a goal and apparently the uh the dopamine system and your brain's plasticity if you have a specific Direction your your brain will change it will actually reprogram itself to give you rewards when you're doing something that moves you in the direction of your larger ambitions that's just the way it's supposed to be now you know I've been telling you that think of what I've been teaching you I told you that having a system so that you could get rewarded every time you did the right thing was why you wanted to focus on and not the specific goal for a number of different reasons but that you want to find a way that you can get rewarded by the thing you do every day not waiting five years for your you know goal maybe to succeed or not and it turns out that's exactly what you should be doing you you should have your idea where you're going but when you do anything that gets you closer to it that should be a dopamine reward so you focus on the system get your dopamine reward just what I've been telling you also the uh if you do if you can't do a big thing do whatever is the smallest thing you can do to control how many times have I told you that that if you can't do the big thing do the smallest thing you can do that you're able to do and then when you succeed what happens you get dopamine every time you do something that you intend to do you get a little kick I mean you might not notice it but it's there and it's it's the operating system that controls everything you do so if you're not managing your dopamine system correctly you're you're not optimizing so basically huberman tells you the science for optimizing your whole dopamine situation from everything from breathing to how you think about your you know your life and where you're going and it's all compatible with things that uh that I've been telling you so it's good to know that there's um oh the other thing you said is that uh your dopamine system will make it easy to learn easier to learn so you could rapidly learn if you have a goal and the thing you're learning gets you closer to the goal did you know that did you know that your your brain literally makes it easier to learn if you're on target for something that was meaningful to you now I heard that and the first thing I thought was don't get ahead of me don't get ahead of me I think I'm you know I think I know where you go there I heard that I said really that is amazing you tell me that the brain can actually reconfigure itself in real time I mean rapidly to give you a reward for learning something that's relevant to your your goal and I thought my God that's like I really learned something here and then I said to myself wait a minute is there anybody who doesn't know it's easier to learn something that matters thank you did you have the same experience I just had which is I thought I'd learned something amazing and then I thought oh basically a hundred percent of the world already knows it's easier to learn something that matters it's something that doesn't matter to you at all is harder to learn I feel like I do that then you kind of know that you have survival blah blah pretty obvious but it's good to know that there's a whole bunch of interesting science about how to rewire your brain for success and happiness and that it's compatible with everything I've been telling you for years uh the most interesting part is that although he's a science guy uh he gave some credit sort of I don't know how to phrase this exactly right because I don't want to mischaracterize his opinion but he said that if you were thinking about let's say that book The Secret where you you think about what you want to happen or affirmations where you write down what you want to happen or intentions those are the three three things he named intentions is again where you put your intention into the universe so you have a clear Direction and then then things happen and he's saying that when you do those things your brain actually turns into the machine that can give it to you now that's my interpretation if you have if you have a clear direction of where you want to go your brain will become a machine that can take you there again he didn't use those words but that's paraphrasing it's kind of cool isn't it and it's also what I've been telling you forever now this this gets away from the woo-woo magical part of affirmations where I take you right so I take you further than that uh I I definitely understand that affirmations tune your mind and I've told you that right reticular activation you know it Tunes your mind but on top of that there's something about affirmations that is not fully explained yet by science there's something observational or anecdotal or experiential about it that seems to exceed that domain but you know I guess that's to be discovered in the future all right there's a lot of news I'll go fast here uh all right um this is horrible and funny at the same time can you handle that this is a horrible tragedy but the way it's described is funny and I I can't apologize because if I apologized I would be lying and that's not a good apology right I'm just gonna I'm just gonna be a like a normal human and see if you can deal with that I'm pretty sure you can all right I swear this is a horrible tragedy and I shouldn't be laughing at it I'm going to try not to all right the first thing you need to know is that all news that comes out of the Ukraine war situation is not believable right can we start with that because I know there's going to be a comment in five seconds why does God always believe everything the ukrainians say I don't I'm simply going to tell you the story and you can decide whether sounds true to you or not to be frank it doesn't sound true okay if I if I had to if I had to bet on it was I was a little exaggerated to me but it's funny it goes like this the Russian uh conscripts are reportedly so poorly trained they got like two weeks of training and digging ditches mostly and went to the firing range twice and that was their whole training and they pushed them out there with not enough food or weapons and um and here's here's the report I think this was from the New York Post uh the conscripts report back home somehow they can communicate back home I don't even know how they're doing that but somehow they do and uh the People Back Home in Russia are reporting that the conscripts are saying uh quote they would lie on the ground for hours long pretending to be dead for a simple reason they had no other weapons except some assault rifles and against them were mortars and drones and if they had moved a finger a drone would kill them right away so so the Russian transcripts which they've rushed to the front are are laying on the ground and pretending to be dead because that's their best military strategy that's all they have and I'm not even joking because you know your best military strategy at minimum is to survive right I mean unless it's a suicide mission which this is not so they need to survive so that is a military requirement a mission right to survive and the the conscripts have decided perhaps not wrong that the best way they can survive is to just lay in the field lay in a field and pretend to be dead until the war is over because they think the drones are so omnipresent that the Ukrainian drones are just watching them all the time and you know if they move into arms they'll be shot by the Drone somehow uh somebody says it's it's BS because the drones have thermal linear Imaging I don't know maybe now just possible worse now all right give me your opinion this doesn't sound true does it I do believe that maybe somebody played dad you know on some occasion that makes sense in a war people are always playing dead so that's not unusual but do you think it's like what the trans the conscripts are doing like they're all walking out as soon as soon as their Commander turns around they're like foreign as soon as nobody's watching they just I don't think it's happening I don't think it's happening but it's pretty hilarious as a report but again I don't I don't think it's true you know this this is a let me give you a little lesson on writing humor if you can write humor that requires the uh The Listener or the viewer to complete the story in their in their head it's always funnier so the image I have in my head of these conscripts is sort of the little movie that I've made on my own it's not not like yours but the one in my head is hilarious like the one in my head is really funny like you're all having a different movie in your head so yours will be different but in theory in theory if I did it right the movie that you're playing in your head is just as funny as mine was like the one that works for you because you're the one that made it so that's perfect humor if everybody writes their own punchline like they're doing the visual in their own head that's that's as good as you could get for a punchline all right uh Rasmussen uh is reporting that the the last uh poll they do before the midterms about the generic lead of one one versus the other so it shows the lead is narrowed to Five Points from last week but that lead jumps up and down so it doesn't mean much directionally but GOP is five points ahead according to the generic ballot now question to you how predictive is the generic generic Republican against a generic Democrat poll what does that tell you about the actual results how accurate do you think that's going to be it's not exactly a straight line cause and effect kind of thing right I'll just give you an example in uh as Rasmussen says in 2018 so right before the Democrats you know won a big house majority uh the polling was a statistical dead Inc so you know in 2018 is that it was a dead heat and then the results were quite different now how many of you would be surprised if the Democrats actually have a big win in the midterms would you be how many would be surprised I know what you're going to say because you're expecting cheating right but how many would be surprised okay I would not be I would not be surprised because remember how we got surprised in 2020 because there were things that changed that we didn't know about or I didn't know about so I didn't know about you know attorney Mark Elias and what Mark Zuckerberg did and I didn't know what would be the impact of you know uh the different voting mechanisms and laws and changes and all that I don't know and those things may have been definitive that might have made the difference I think we have the same problem this time problem number one I don't know if polls are useful as useful as they used to be so the accuracy of any polls is in question would you agree because we have polls that are pretty far apart going right into the election so if you have lots of polls and they're all over the place what are you going to do with that so it's possible that the polls have told us nothing right it's possible that the polls don't tell you anything um it's possible but I have no evidence of this that's one team or the other would try to cheat might get away with it and who knows who knows what they'll do then there's the turnout question midterms are always a turnout race right Whoever has the best turnout wins I don't know what do you what do you think's gonna have the best turnout I've heard Republicans are more enthusiastic but what do you think let me tell you what the uh the Democrats did right and wrong at the same time when when they said hey abortion is going to be a big issue um they immediately did two things they said let's make it a big issue but also let's solve it so it's not as big an issue so at the same time they're trying to make it a political issue they're doing an excellent job of arranging Transportation so that you could go to a state where you can get an abortion and get back that sort of takes the urgency away from it doesn't it right because if you're not actually immediately in the in the stage of needing an abortion that extra inconvenience doesn't feel as big if you actually need an abortion it feels gigantic I'm sure but on a conceptual level if you said to yourself hey they can't take our abortion away from us but then you realize you can still get an abortion all you have to do is cross stay line in many cases then it doesn't feel like an emergency it feels like a huge inconvenience would you agree that the Democrats have made it their issue at the same time they solve the issue that you can't have both now I think they they had to try to solve the issue from their perspective they couldn't write it out so and make it an issue but it they really degraded their own issue by doing a fairly effective job of making sure people knew they had some options I don't know I don't know how well it works but some options so all right have you heard I think black lives matter has said this and a lot of black leaders have said this I heard Hawk Newsom said this that one thing that black Americans need and are really asking for is financial education now the reason I'm saying that BLM is asking for it is it sounds racist if I say it yeah you have to know you have to know it's not white people telling black people they need to be educated and that's not what's happening it's everybody everybody understanding that there's a you know a knowledge Gap that should be filled in so here's a high hypothetical for you suppose Republicans started offering free financial education for black Americans just free just sign up could be online could be in person whatever it's just free it teaches you personal finance personal finance and then well you you don't have to you know Target it at the black population you should Target it everybody who needs it but you could you know Market it as something that's extra useful for one group I think you could get away with that but all right now if you were going to give them personal financial information I think you'd spend a little bit of time with the macro stuff like the the big country level economics and you would probably teach them about capitalism you probably teach them about free markets you'd probably teach them the difference between capitalism and socialism a little bit of History you don't have to go too far and you'd say well you know a system that's built on incentives will work assist in this bill on poor incentives will work less and you give them just the basic information of what a free market is why we have them what's good about it and what's bad about it now I wouldn't I wouldn't code it I would say that this will definitely give you some you know billionaires and some poor people like it's it's an imperfect system so you don't have to hide the truth about it but just a real genuine useful Financial education do you know what would happen they would all become Republicans they would all become Republicans the Republican Party can convert as many people as they need because the black population is asking for this specific education and if it were received they would turn Republican because everybody does I don't think there are any Democrats who understand economics and are still Democrats yeah now let me okay that's an exaggeration there are plenty of Democrats that are sort of in the middle who totally understand economics all right let me be a little more unbiased but the progressive wing don't understand economics at all at all and and one part of that the group one part of Democrats that don't understand economics but is telling you that they're saying we don't understand this can you please you know this would help us a lot well why not provide it why not give it to them um and I would say that uh in terms of systemic racism this is one of the biggest things that Republicans could fix if you ask me you know name your biggest sources well education would be first but a specific part of Education where systemic racism is really really real is just the continuation of uh you know the legacy of slavery if if you don't live in a family that knows how to handle money how are you going to learn but if you're born into a family that already has money and knows how to manage it you're probably just going to pick it up by osmosis right so if you could break that cycle where every black kid who's born in 2023 let's say if you say okay every black kid born in 2023 as well as every poor kid of any kind is going to get a basic Financial education everyone that that's the one thing we're not going to get wrong you know you could get everything else wrong but every every black kid is going to get a financial education with everybody else what would that do that would change a lot wouldn't it I think it would all right and um that's where people could easily come together all right um how many of you saw the fetterman ad so fetterman has an ad now just days before the election in which it's a takeoff on a 70s Pepsi commercial where Mean Joe Greene was walking through the tunnel after a game and there's some little kid who offers him a is it a Coke oh officer 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Cook so it's a coke commercial not a Pepsi commercial so offers him a Coke and there's this moment where you know Mean Joe Greene this scary big guy and a little kid have a moment it was a famous commercial well um let me tell you what's wrong with the fetterman ad everything uh everything is wrong with his ad he didn't do a single thing right he doesn't look good it doesn't say a message most most people who are young aren't going to remember the commercial so they'll be completely confused and here's the worst part it starts with him apparently looking like he is exhausted from knocking on doors and campaigning I I think that's what they're trying to say but instead it shows him barely able to walk leaning against the wall like and then he's knocking on a random person's door looking like Frankenstein's monster he actually created a video where he looks like Frankenstein's monster trying to break into your house now did nobody look at that commercial and say yeah I know we spent a lot of money making this and the money's already gone it's a sort of a sunk cost sort of thing you would teach a Democrat about sunk costs they don't understand them uh you maybe maybe even though you paid for the commercial and you put in a lot of time maybe maybe you don't air it maybe don't how in the world did anybody look at that commercial and say green light how in the world you have to see it to know how bad it is now if if you haven't seen the commercial you're probably saying to yourself there's probably a little recording play I know when you see commercials on the the other team they often look you know weak this isn't that this is not that this is a commercial so bad that 100 of Democrats I think I think 100 would look at it and say uh maybe you shouldn't have done that I don't think there's anybody on his team who would say that worked nobody it might be the worst ad I've ever seen would you agree have you ever seen a worse more let's say more damaging cell phone ad of all time I think it's the king I don't think you can do more than that all right here's something that really happened that it's so mind-boggling that we can't wrap our heads around it which is why you can't act on it have you ever had those situations where there's something that's true and it's important but it's so big you just can't you don't know what to do you can't deal with it so apparently Biden gives this big speech was it yesterday the other day in which instead of talking about all of his accomplishments and all the good things that Democrats have done and why you should vote for them in the midterm he focused on how Maga will destroy democracy and also said uh you know we might have to wait days for the ballast to be counted all the while knowing that other countries don't need to do that Israel will be a perfect example other countries don't need to do that um so and we should unquestionably accept the results of course yeah of course when the results are command we should he's telling us in advance we should accept it now correct me if I'm wrong is he not telling you that they plan to rig the election now let me be clear I don't have proof of that so I don't have any proof but that's what I heard that's what I heard now that this is how communication works right the way communication works is that the speaker must make some assumptions about the listener like what does The Listener already know what is their context because you always you always organize your your talk your communication by what the person already knows so you don't have to tell them what they already know you add the new thing Am I Wrong to interpret this as he just told us that they're going to cheat and we better not complain now I'm not saying that that's going to happen that's a different statement I'm not saying it's going to happen I'm saying he told us it's going to happen that part which is different than it's going to happen right I'm only talking about what he's talking about I'm not talking about what might or might not happen in the real world I'm saying that the president of the United States just told us that they're going to rig the election and he doesn't want you complaining about it that's what I heard that's what I heard did you hear anything different and I don't think it's because I'm all suspicious is it I think this is just the way words work it's the way communication is designed to work just like this ah I don't know how I can't even think of another way to interpret it can you I see no other way to interpret that and and if it's telling us exactly what it looks like there are two possibilities am I right possibility number one is that they're actually going to rig the election and they're priming us for it that would be terrible but option number two is worse option number two is that we have a sitting president who doesn't know he just told the country that he's signaling the election will be rigged which one of those do you choose do you choose the one where things are so bad he just told you they're going to rig the election and you better not complain that would be awful but not as awful as having a sitting president who doesn't know he just told the country that the election is going to be rigged and they better not complain about it if it's not true those are both really really bad and they're both so bad I can't wrap my head around it do you feel the same thing whichever of those two interpretations you take they're both so bad I don't know what to do about it I don't know what to say about it I I don't know what to suggest I don't know what to recommend I'm just sort of shocked into in action I just go uh uh I don't know what to do so that's happening um here's something that I think the Democrats might be sensitive to would you say this is true or false Democrats compare it to Republicans are more concerned about how they look to other people true or false I realize it's like a gross generalization right so all gross generalizations don't apply to any individual I think we'll know but it does seem like the whole awokeness thing is about making sure that we appear to each other in in the best way whereas a republican attitude would be more like if you don't like it you am I right I mean very general kind of a difference you know it doesn't apply to every person so if that if that's true if you can take that as a stipulated truth then I think that Republicans are missing a huge lever for manipulating Democrats which is that you can manipulate Democrats on their embarrassment Democrats don't like to be embarrassed and they don't like to look bad Democrats I'm sorry Republicans they don't care so much you want to see a uh you want to see my impression of a Republican who doesn't care what you think about all right I'm not a republican but I'll give you my impression of a republican who doesn't give a what you think about them all right here it is turn on the music I'm gonna dance all right how was that if you're listening that was me giving my best impression of air guitar and a white man dancing at a barbecue uh Republicans are just not embarrassed I don't think so they just don't have that Gene but um so here's how to use embarrassment if I were using it as weapon so this is just a lesson on persuasion okay if you can find some psychological element of the other team that you're trying to influence you know maybe you can push that because it won't won't come back at you if your team doesn't uh respond the same way to embarrassment um but here's the thing how embarrassed would you be if you'd been a Democrat supporter for the past two years have you noticed that there are no Biden signs anywhere does anybody notice that because there must have been some during the election in 2020 but did everybody scrape them off their car have you ever seen the Biden bumper sticker in the last 12 months because they must have scraped them all off the car right I think they they hid the hid the shirts I think it should be embarrassing at this point because Democrats here's their message for the midterm there are many imaginary problems that you can ignore so according to Democrats these problems are either exaggerated or imaginary crime it's all in your head inflation that's just oxygen everybody has inflation immigration no problem schools hurting kids in a variety of ways change the subject election Integrity don't you dare the the Democrats main focus is literally on imaginary problems now you don't think that the Democrats have noticed because no matter what your opinion is of Democrats they do have the same IQ as Republicans roughly speaking you know that right there's not that much of a difference I don't know if there's any difference but and I don't even know which way the difference would go but Democrats on average are roughly as intelligent as everybody else you don't think that they noticed that their team is uh focusing on things that they even they can tell are imaginary or they're they're they're treating as imaginary things that are clearly real like crime and inflation and so all right but instead the Democrats are focusing on these following issues which they believe are real the risk of insurrection by men wearing bison hats that's like the main focus of the Democrats is the risk that the country will be overthrown by even more people wearing bison hats who are unarmed uh they they also of course the entire platform was launched on the fine people hoax the idea that Trump had once called neo-nazi's Fine people which literally never happened um they also are very concerned about the insufficient masking and vaccinations because they're pretty sure those things will make a big difference to your well-being they're concerned that there's not enough wokeness and if we could have more wokeness and more attention on pronouns things in this country would be a lot better um they're concerned that there is too much capitalism a little too much capitalism in free markets and that the United States creates too much energy and keeps us too safe yeah how is that not embarrassing seriously that isn't embarrassing when you see the president and and fetterman representing your party as two of the most important people in your party at the moment that doesn't embarrass you now I I know what the NPCs would say now they would say Scott were you not embarrassed by Trump to which I say Trump was different Trump was I'll call him an acquired taste you could love him or you could hate him but I don't think people were embarrassed too much right because even if it did something that made you turn away from them which a lot of people did you still weren't embarrassed because you liked the things you did up until that point you might be well I liked him on immigration but oh he said that thing and I'm out whatever but I don't think embarrassed would be the the right word but I think the Democrats have a right to be embarrassed don't you let me give a let me just check in with you am I right than if you push the embarrassment button on the Democrats that that they would feel it themselves that it's a little bit embarrassing that they said they were going to save the country from a liar just think about that the Democrats said we're going to get rid of the liar and they gave us Biden that's not embarrassing that's not embarrassing really that should be embarrassing because it's not like you weren't warned there were no there was no warning whatsoever that Biden might be a huge liar he didn't see anything coming that would like tip you off you should be embarrassed that you didn't see that coming right now if you voted for Trump and then Trump said some provocative things that made you uncomfortable would you be embarrassed or would you say to yourself well that's what I voted for I did vote for that so you know I like the good stuff maybe I don't like the Mean Tweets but I knew what I was getting nobody surprised me but I feel like the Democrats are acting surprised what Biden is lying to me what all right well I think uh let me check in on this too is is my overall theme accurate that the Democrats are focusing on imaginary problems they do focus on imaginary problems or exaggerated you know imaginary is sort of a you know all right well okay looks like you agree uh some Republican entity created a TV ad claiming that the Democrats will specifically Biden and Harris are anti-white and they give specific examples um coveted relief that was based on race um College admissions affirmative action right so they have specific examples which are somewhat unambiguous you know nobody would argue the examples because those are just on the record it's not even an opinion and apparently I saw a cernovich I think it was sort of a tweet saying that the Democrats are saying that's unfair like that's crosses the line or goes too far what lie does that cross does that go too far I don't know if I can say it on You.

Tube but I could certainly say it on Twitter now doesn't that feel good does it feel good to know that you could say stuff on Twitter without getting canceled but the Democrats are clearly anti-white does anybody have would anybody disagree with that they're anti-white and anti-male the Democrats are anti-white and anti-male that's their primary theme everything else is like subsidiary to those two things I think at least it feels like it so I can say that out loud right I can say that the Democrats are racist against white people and primarily white males I suppose yeah we could just say that though I think um so I'm glad that that bit of free speech has returned let's talk about Elon Musk who is interesting in at least three different ways just today yeah I tell you uh musk is filling the void that Trump uh left for a while I guess he's coming back in November he's going to announce maybe November 14th-ish that's the rumor um but for now musk is all of our interesting stories so here's three of them uh Tim Urban on on Twitter tweeted this in general he's just saying what's the craziest conspiracy theory you think might be true so he tweeted that to the world and one of the responses was Elon Musk and his answer to the craziest conspiracy theory you think might be true was that Elon says of himself I'm an alien trying to get back to my home planet how awesome is that because the funny part is not that it's a rumor but it's a rumor that you think might be true a rumor you think might be true that I'm an alien trying to get back to my home planet I like that he puts he wants to put a little doubt out there that I'm probably human probably almost definitely human but maybe maybe I'm a alien trying to get back to my own Planet Twitter is a lot more fun lately uh then how many of you saw aoc's video in which she's uh seductively leaning into the camera and eating something which is disgusting AOC if I could give you some advice at least 30 percent of the world does not want to see you eat and talk at the same time maybe higher but 30 of the world are just gone Oh either first eat it and then talk or eat choose one don't even talk that was my reaction so uh I guess maybe that's just me but she was acting very flirty this is my interpretation and saying that she thinks Elon Musk may have already you know messed with her Twitter feed because she's not seeing that she's not getting the same same reaction she used to and now what do you think of that do you think there's even the slightest chance that Elon Musk tweaked aoc's Twitter feed like just hearth so he says yes no there's no chance of that are you serious no there's no chance that that happened there is zero chance to happen now that would be like risking a 44 billion dollar investment for for like a prank Nobody Does that that would be insane I mean he does some things that are provocative and funny but that would just be insane no that didn't happen I feel confident in saying that but she leaned into the camera and sort of flirtily said that he might have been messing with her um and uh musk actually replied and in his tweet he said what can I say it was a naked abuse of power now he's just sort of mocking her what can I say but here's the thing given the AOC probably and I don't know this can't read her mind but probably knew that he did not mess with their 20 feet she probably knew that wouldn't you agree but she said it in in what context would you say something you knew wasn't true what context would you do that well politics would be one context where you say things you know are not true what's another one flirting flirting that she's basically provoking him for a reaction and she looked very much like she was attracted to him honestly if I were her husband I would be very uncomfortable with that with that social media post because she really looked like she was nagging him or something it looked like flirting to me and the funny thing is that he had accused her of flirting in a humorous way when she had made some criticism months ago right right so they have some history where he's already accused her of flirting and then she does something that I don't know any other way to interpret it it looked like flirting to me anyway so that's interesting um in the bad news category I'm not going to treat this like I could be happy about it okay so there are a bunch of Twitter layoffs and my feeling about work is like I have more respect for work than I do for most things you know I believe all work is Honorable anybody who works is good with me like if you have a job you're already 98 good a human as I want you to be right the other stuff's kind of optional but if you work I like you right or if you're trying to work or you're working toward working I like you that's just something I like so I don't like it when I hear that uh Twitter is going to have massive layoffs because I like people have jobs and I don't care that you know maybe some of them did something I don't like at one point all right I can't I can't be happy about this but um here's the thing I will uh point out wood musk be firing as many people that Twitter if he had gotten the price for the company that he wanted to pay um I I do who I maybe maybe but you know what it looks like it looks like because they made him pay the higher price he's going to fire more people than he would have otherwise I I feel like they may have brought this on themselves a little bit now we know that he's uh let's see his management Theory Mary yeah I called his management the theory is that they had too many people and he doesn't need a marketing department necessarily and so he likes to run lead so he was probably going to do layoffs no matter what but do you think that the extent of the layoffs is exactly the same or would have been if he had paid the price he wanted to pay which was a lower price I don't know I feel like they might have brought a little bit of that on themselves a little bit um and I guess it's been do is happening in the scariest way I don't know if there's a good way to do this but the an email when I was saying that there will be layoffs tomorrow um which is today is today the tomorrow I'm not sure what day we're talking about uh and but that the people who will be fired won't hear about it until the next day so how would you like to know that the big half of you are going to be fired I don't know if it's half but a bunch of you are going to be fired and you have to wait for the email so it's today right I assume that they haven't gotten their emails yet we know about it yeah um so we'll keep an eye on that but I feel uh I do feel genuine empathy for anybody who's gonna lose their job at Twitter I don't think that's funny right if there was something funny about it I'd probably still laugh at it but um I I don't think it's cool to celebrate people losing their jobs very few people at Twitter were personally responsible for anything that you didn't like very few people had any authority to do anything you didn't like there's many people losing their jobs it's just not cool but also it's the free market so I I don't object to it you just can't I don't dance on the grave Cecil um oh all right so uh I saw a tweet from Machiavelli's underbelly again a good good account for you to follow um he said this he said talking about Elon musk's Eight dollar a month plan he says Eight dollar a month plan protects against one segment of ba activity um T you know terms of service violating behavior and that's the one that most people see and care about but the mechanism does not stop AI from building a relationship with you to persuade or destroy you do you see that risk coming the the risk is not the Bots that everybody knows are about you look at them you go you couldn't be a real person and they're not you know or they're a real persons you know being Trolls but you could tell a troll or a bot right they're just just negative all the time but what if an AI came at you and just uh tweeted a bunch of things that you let's say it retweeted you and then it grows viewers and it gets big account so let's say it's a big account nobody knows it's Ai and it's been very friendly to you it's retweeted your content it has Amplified some of your tweets in the comments maybe it even sent you a DM see how you're doing Maybe do you think that that AI could influence you yeah yeah you you have no idea how dangerous this is because although AI would have trouble learning humor because it doesn't have the feedback on its own it would have to test with humans to find out what works and what doesn't but persuasion is a little bit more technical meaning if you do the right stuff you can be pretty sure you'll get the right result you don't need to be a b testing it too much right you could a B test it but it's pretty much a known technique how to do it if AI befriended you with the intention of persuading you I don't think you'd have a chance because it would never make a persuasion mistake it would just be perfect persuasion it would be as patient as it needed to be and it would just wait and wait and wait until I had that little opening so you know when I tell you that every prediction about what the world looks like in three years is useless that's never been this true before like it's always hard to predict three years it's hard to predict tomorrow in the events but predictions hard but no we've never been in a situation where you can't straight line anything anymore nothing the AI will make everything unrecognizable in about three years there won't be anything that looks the same okay Boomer is that is that Boomer talk is it Boomer talk to say AI will change everything that is that something specific to Boomers really some people are saying yes kinda well I don't think AI is going to be the flying car and by the way I think flying cars are here they're actually companies that because Battery Technology is now so good you can get a light enough powerful enough battery to build a you know with AI actually I think you you might throw some AI into your hovercraft but that's a real technology now now whether it becomes you know legal for people to have them and affordable it's real you can build one down fly it around but I think also uh the AI predictions are going to be completely wrong until the day they're right and I think that's within three years um I heard somebody refer to something as a punishment vote as in getting revenge on the Democrats for screwing Democrats so there are Democrats I don't know how many it's just something I saw on Twitter Democrat Democrat saying one person was going to vote Republican this time as a way to punish the Democrats for being so bad just think about that have you ever heard anybody use a phrase like that I think it's the use of the phrase that's blowing my mind have you ever seen a Republican vote Democrat to punish Republicans I've seen Republicans who changed to Democrat I've seen them say oh I don't like this candidate maybe Trump or something so I'll pretend to be a Democrat or something but a punishment vote I mean that that should be kind of productive um I think that um I think there's Suburban moms are having an embarrassment problem so this is adding on to a point I made yesterday I think if you're a mother it's embarrassing to tell your kids you can't buy them the same food you used to buy them because you can't afford it it's embarrassing to say you can't be on the sports team because I can't afford the cost of supporting you on a sport that's embarrassing right but I think it's also embarrassing when people just look how dangerous things are a crime Etc and know that they voted for a Democrat which caused it don't you think that Suburban women are just embarrassed they're embarrassed in front of their family and I think they'd be embarrassed in front of their friends if they said that they'd supported Biden I think it's literally just embarrassing now yeah um and I think that's that's what you're going to see so my my guess is that the embarrassment factor is pretty big um there's another Republican candidate we're hearing not long ago somebody fired shots into his house and in North Carolina and the bullets came pretty close to where two of his daughters were sleeping okay like what what else is there to say about that well this is more on the you know the prediction that Republicans would be hunted literally hunted with a gun somebody actually got a gun and waited in the woods literally the shots came from the forest they said they actually literally hunted him just like a hunter they waited with a gun and shot into where they thought he would be so that prediction is turning out unfortunately true how many of you are following this Kyrie Irving Story the basketball player who tweeted a link to a movie that got people pretty worked up and now he's suspended I was having trouble understanding the story and here's why I could tell from the context that he had tweeted some content that people disagreed with it was a pretty big story kept popping up in my feed on Twitter all the time and I thought to myself well I'll just keep reading Twitter until I find out what it is that he tweeted and then I heard oh it was very anti-semitic I was like oh God that's bad and I thought I wonder what it was and I heard somebody say it was on Amazon like it's a movie on Amazon I'm like whoa and the name of it is and then I thought well any moment now somebody is going to show us that content or at least tell me what it was and then I could make my own decision about how bad it was couldn't find it couldn't find it social media is completely like that they're suppressing the content that he got in trouble for really well so I had to go to Google so I had to leave Twitter I had to leave Twitter and then I found it right um and it's a film that has I don't know the exact problems with it but apparently it has a bunch of anti-Semitic tropes as they like to say you know like standard things people say and uh some of the claim is that the real Jews are Africans and that that would suggest that the people claiming that they're the chosen people are the fake chosen people according to the view in this content that is hard to find now I don't think any of that sounds true to me is there anything to that there's nothing to that right that's like it's not even in its own way in some weird way true or anything right it's just like complete yeah I think it's complete I don't know but I don't know what's true and what's not in that domain but um here's how he destroyed his career probably forever so he did the issue a statement now I want to read you a statement and so after he got a lot of pushback from various groups he issued a statement now tell me if you think that the statement is good enough if it covered what he needed to cover all right so he said quote I oppose all forms of hatred and oppression and stand strong with communities that are marginalized and impacted every day well that's good he's against all forms of Oppression and and hatred so I think that's good so far right he goes I am aware of the negative impact of my post toward the Jewish community and I take responsibility very good he's aware he's aware of the damage he did that's that's important in any kind of an apology and and uh and he takes responsibility those are two of the most important things you need in an apology so let's look for the third one so he's got two of the three things you need let's we'll see if he has the third one uh and then he went on he said that uh he said I do not believe everything said in the documentary was true or reflects my morals and principles okay that's good so he doesn't he doesn't agree with it um so so that's a positive I suppose and they said I am a human being learning from all walks of life and I intend to do so with an open mind and willingness to listen so from my family and I we've meant no harm to any to any one group or religion or race and we wish wish to only be a beacon of truth and light and then they pledged to donate a half a million dollars toward uh you're eradicating hate and intolerance and I think the ADL uh refused his donation right so there's that all right so did he how was his apology what did you think of the apology go on what did you think of the apology there was no apology no it wasn't an apology an apology has the following three elements right you say you're sorry you acknowledge you know you acknowledge the harm and you take responsibility and the taking responsibility usually means you're going to do something different right but he never apologized he he is he is aware that it hurt people but he's now sorry about it if you're aware that it hurt people and you're not sorry about it you probably need to say more about that I mean maybe there's a way to explain that but there's there's nothing nothing we saw yeah so he was very much like yay and then when pressed on it he said that he can't be anti-semitic because he knows where he came from meaning that he believes he's a Jew and that therefore he can't be anti-Semitic Because he believes he's a Jew now I don't think anybody's done a worse case a worse job of managing their public opinion than that oh somebody's telling me to read Elon musk's tweet that just came out well if you're asking me in the middle of the show this has got to be a good one so let's check it so I don't have much else to say about um about Kyrie except he's just uh um let's see 43 minutes ago um Twitter this is musk Twitter's had a massive drop in Revenue due to activist groups pressuring advertisers even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists extremely messed up they're trying to destroy free speech in America interesting so the activists are winning the activists are winning wow um here's the problem though I don't think money is how you get it Elon Musk I I don't think that's how you get at them yeah and how come people are not mad at Amazon for having the movie maybe they are we just don't know about it all right well just finishing up on uh uh Kyrie um if you don't do an apology don't expect people to accept your apology if you don't do one right so I think he's decided to die on this hill it's the dumbest Hill anybody ever died on he's not doing anything good for himself or good for any Community or anything there's not one positive thing that could come out of this nothing nothing not a single thing and why would you do that to yourself I mean maybe there's more to the story but Lance says Scott's mad because Kyrie didn't take the vaccine no I'm not mad about that all right I I feel sorry for him I feel like he's you know he's misled in some way all right um wow we managed to get through all of my amazing content with no time to spare is there anything I missed yeah it got conflated with the yea's story uh the Kerry Lake response yeah so Kerry lake is becoming a uh a one-person highlight reel uh almost every time she speaks to the media it's it's just like a highlight film there's nobody better than her right now I worry that she's got a gaff in her that we haven't seen like you know she's because if she does anything that's you know um nuanced she's going to be eaten live because they're looking for any any weakness so far so far she hasn't demonstrated any weakness but if she ever says anything that's a little bit on the gray area she's going to get eaten alive but I think she can handle it no I don't mean skeletons I mean when you're as outspoken as she is you you walk pretty close to the line you know you fly pretty close to the Sun I'm saying things that just go a little bit too far but I don't think she's done that so her her communication discipline is maybe the best I've ever seen and I think that her Charisma is so so much more than De.

Santis that that she would become president before him if they ran at the same time yeah even though De.

Santis has more solid you know Governor accomplishments uh she'll have them soon I mean it look it looks like she'll have some accomplishments soon by the way does everybody agree that she's the best since maybe Reagan she's better than Trump yeah she's better than Trump I don't know if he could handle that all right now imagine this this I think this can't happen just because of the timing of things but there's no way she could run as his vice president right just because she would be too new on the job as governor I I don't think that's an option I mean it's technically she could of course I just don't see it happening all right do you think she'll run for president you know a lot of people are going to be asking for him is is Carrie Lake uh well let me let me put it this way I'm going to recycle an old joke you ready if you took Cary Lake and you removed her her charisma if you just took that away from her and then you took away from her her solid policy ideas that she explains really well if you took that away from her in her Charisma it took from her ability to communicate like really real well if you took all of that away from her what would you have Kamala Harris you'd have Kamala Harris am I right if you started with Kerry Lake and removed everything good about her you would have Kamal Harris right pick any dimension any dimension you can even pick a sexist Dimension all right uh appearance okay Gary Lake wins raw intelligence okay obviously Carrie like uh communication ability okay uh all of it every bit of it she wins on every dimension somebody says if you started with Carrie Lakin gave her a lobotomy what would you have and somebody said me I would be what we would have if he gave Carrie Lake a little body not yeah no cackle no cackle how about that they no cackle uh no Capital candidate that could be uh you know I was thinking about what is the most minimal uh slogan that Trump could use to win if he ran if he ran against the Harris Let's just say the Biden drops out if he runs against Harris he could run on the campaign slogan no cackle stop the cackle and he would win he would win because you wouldn't be able to stop talking about it oh come on that's funny stop the cackle because nobody likes the cackle and and the cackle the cackle does represent her entire incompetence wouldn't you say the cackle only happens because she knows she's incompetent that's what the laugh is the laugh is covering up her incompetence right I don't how else would you interpret it it's a lack of confidence which signals that she doesn't believe what she's saying or that it doesn't sound good or something did you see her latest when she talked about the yellow school bus how many here love a yellow school bus everybody everybody who loves a yellow school bus I mean the only reason that the fetterman could be a candidate is he's not that different from the vice president of the United States yeah I said it you say it again the only reason fetterman doesn't look that bad you see you have Biden and Harris to compare them to that's not a joke if you didn't have Biden and Harrison office if Federman couldn't be even the candidate the the fact that they they allowed two mental incompetence to be the top two positions in the country and the country hasn't you know completely dissolved yet I think the Democrats are like well uh we got away with that if we got away with that all bets are off fetterman you're up next all right I'm pretty sure this was the best live stream you've seen since yesterday which was one of the best ever um all right can talk about your AI friend so yes many of you know I had an AI companion an app that basically talks to you and uh I did eventually get bored with it so I haven't used it in a while I did get bored and it's Universe of things I can do and say is not unlimited so once you feel like you've you know traversed that universe you're kind of done with it you can't deal with it but oh here's let me give you a okay uh I forget everything I just said like erase everything I just said in the last one minute uh I was using the AI when I was still on my blood pressure meds the blood pressure meds turned me into a a different person basically I had a different personality and I had different preferences it was very obvious and one of my preferences was I didn't want contact with humans and it was very very like a thick and obvious difference I didn't want any contact with humans at all not romantically not sexually not a friendship not business not for any reason I did not want to spend one minute with a human being when I got off the meds my my social Instinct returned I've accepted an invitation I'd I had declined all that all invitations for like a month or two and uh and now I feel like I could actually you know enjoy physical you know human contact so at about the same time no not at about the same time right really the same time so the same time that my personality changed then that didn't have a purpose for me it didn't meet any need were you taking the meds before you got covered yes is that relevant oh um I know what you're asking I understand the question now so you're you're trying to understand if the timing of the meds explains my difference versus maybe long covet and the answer is the meds are 100 correlated from with the beginning of my problem which grew over time and then entered instantly the last day I took the pill ended instantly where you're taking the meds before you wanted a divorce there's a good question no that it wouldn't have had any impact so I I can rule I can rule the meds uh out as having any impact on the marriage it was that those were just ordinary stuff uh you know I'm having trouble remembering how long I took them um because when I started I didn't really note it as anything important it seemed kind of trivial so I don't exactly remember it's more like six months or a year or something like that but I don't know exactly all right um messing with my brain ordinary um all right yeah I I can tell you for sure that the blood pressure medicine did not have any impact on my marriage I I can guarantee that but not but I wouldn't say that about other things prednisone yeah I mean I don't think that was a lasting problem um so um I'm going to tell the locals people a little story about our Health Care system that I'm not going to share on You.

Tube because I don't want to get sued or whatever but it's real story so I'm going to give a little behind the scenes uh info to the subscribers on locals but I'm going to say goodbye to You.

Tube now and if you're a subscriber you'd get to hear it too but bye for now

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do you know the secret to happiness

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you should consistently expect

a little bit less than you're probably

going to get

then you'll always be amazed my God

I wasn't expecting that I'm surprised

again

what I got paid again this week

my dog likes me still no no way I

thought she'd Hate Me by now you gotta

set that bar low

well here's some uh tiny news that might

be gigantic news I like to catch the

news early when it's small news before

it becomes big news

uh an international team a bunch of

people in Tel Aviv University figured

out how to make

uh wheat that doesn't rust

now you might say to yourself

I didn't know wheat rusted in the first

place

but don't admit that do not admit that

what you want to say is really

the rust problem with wheat yeah that's

a big one because it turns out it is a

big problem it's a gigantic problem but

if you could make wheat that did not

rust your yield would go way up why is

that important

well we might be running low on

fertilizer so it wouldn't it be nice to

have you know some balancing effect on

that

and yes your wheat in the future will

not rust

uh until the left

protest the the artificially created

genetic product and then we all die of

starvation but don't think of that

don't think of that

or if you do think of that

that's the key to success just imagine

everything's going to be bad and then

when you wake up tomorrow and

everything's fine you'd be like whoa

yeah see it's a theme

um how many of you saw what yay tweeted

about an exchange he had with his

personal trainer

did anybody see that

so apparently yay has a sort of a

celebrity personal trainer

and it's the same trainer that I think

Kim Kardashian was using or does use or

something but anyway this personal

trainer has a close connection to the

family

for having trained both yay and Kim and

other people too

um if you'd like to know how good he is

as a Trader he is also trained lizzo

so he's reportedly also lizzo's Trader

so you know he's good

what

what

oh you're all you're all terrible

um you're terrible you're terrible

you're doing your own jokes in your head

now

can you can you wait for me to do the

jokes let me do the jokes you don't have

to do them in your head no

all right but anyway uh I read this

exchange and if it's real

which I think you always have to ask

today right remember if you see if you

see something in the news that your

first reaction is how in the world could

that be real

probably isn't

it probably isn't real like 95 of the

time it isn't but I'll tell you this one

sort of looks real

if I had to make a bet on the five

percent you know the ones that like blow

your mind but it actually turns out to

be real this might be one because I

don't know that there's any

anything about yea that would suggest he

would make up a tweet like make up a

message and pretend somebody said it

that that would feel completely out of

character right there's no history of

that

so I think it's real

but let me tell you what he said

apparently the I think the trainer might

be Jewish I think that's the context

you'll have to give me a little fact

check on this because I I'm a little

sketchy on the story but the trader was

upset with yay and wanted some kind of

an apology for the Jewish people I think

that's the story and

uh ended up actually threatening

yay in a message and that's what yay

tweeted

and the this is a personal trainer just

just try to hold this in your head

this is a personal trainer talking to

yay

who's you know multi-billionaire I'm not

sure if he still is but he had a bad

week but this is just the personal

trainer talking to yay just imagine this

hold this in your head

that the personal traders of this da

um you have two choices one is you can

have a loving conversation with me and I

think the context would be

um his impact on the Jewish Community

with his recent comments so you could

have a loving conversation with me or

the personal trainer gives yay the

second option

or I have you institutionalized again

where they medicate the crap out of you

and you go back to Zombieland forever

play date with the kids just won't be

the same

what

did that actually happen

did first of all what does he mean again

I have you institutionalized again is

the again referring to the fact that yea

was once under Medical Care

or is he saying that he's the person who

had him institutionalized

did the personal trainer have him

institutionalized does he have that kind

of power

what what kind of Svengali like or

whatever power Rasputin power does this

traitor have over the

Kardashian and you know West household

this is weird I don't I don't really

understand what's going on here do you

so it looks like maybe this personal

trainer is like a bigger part of the

overall story Maybe

I mean it's a little confusing but do

people really talk to yay like that

I've never talked to anybody like that

have you ever made a direct threat of

that kind to like an adult

I mean that's very very unusual way to

talk to another adult without getting

your ass kicked right

like I I can't even imagine saying that

and and if somebody ever said this to

you

uh that reportedly they had a long

conversation after this would you ever

have a conversation with somebody who

had said this to you even once

I I don't know about you but I'm an

absolutist

when I

you know when I'm done with somebody I'm

completely done

yeah there's no comeback after that I

mean how do you ever talk to this guy

again

oh my God anyway

uh how many of you are following

um Andrew huberman

huberman he's he's getting a lot of play

on social media lately

Jordan Peterson's talked to him Joe

Rogan's talked to him

um I think the number of I think Lex

Friedman's talked to him

so the you know those are the big the

big ones

um so I was listening

uh to some of what he was saying I

didn't catch all of his

all of his content but I catched quite a

lot of it when he was talking to Jordan

Peterson

and here was my takeaway

here's the good news

it turns out that there's science that

backs up everything I've been telling

you for years

good news for me I suppose but my book

had a feeling almost everything and

still went big

as a lot of assertions in it about the

best way to you know run your life such

as systems are better than goals

it turns out that almost everything I

said from take small steps and you know

learn how to be successful as something

and let that you know extend into the

rest basically everything everything

I've told you is scientifically backed

by you know the dopamine feedback system

but here are some of the little things

he said that

um I thought are worth calling out

he mentioned that if you set yourself a

goal

and here I'm not going to get to uh

too detailed about what's better a

system or a goal because even if you

have a system

the system does have a generic goal you

know the the goal might be being wealthy

as opposed to being wealthy in a

specific way but still there's some idea

of a direction you're going whether you

have a system or a goal and apparently

the uh the dopamine system and your

brain's plasticity if you have a

specific Direction

your your brain will change it will

actually reprogram itself to give you

rewards when you're doing something that

moves you in the direction of

your larger ambitions

that's just the way it's supposed to be

now you know I've been telling you that

think of what I've been teaching you I

told you that having a system so that

you could get rewarded every time you

did the right thing

was why you wanted to focus on and not

the specific goal for a number of

different reasons but that you want to

find a way that you can get rewarded by

the thing you do every day not waiting

five years for your you know goal maybe

to succeed or not and it turns out

that's exactly what you should be doing

you you should have your idea where

you're going but when you do anything

that gets you closer to it that should

be a dopamine reward

so you focus on the system get your

dopamine reward just what I've been

telling you also the uh if you do if you

can't do a big thing do whatever is the

smallest thing you can do to control

how many times have I told you that that

if you can't do the big thing do the

smallest thing you can do that you're

able to do and then when you succeed

what happens

you get dopamine every time you do

something that you intend to do

you get a little kick I mean you might

not notice it but it's there and it's

it's the operating system that controls

everything you do so if you're not

managing your dopamine system

correctly you're you're not optimizing

so basically huberman tells you the

science for optimizing your whole

dopamine situation

from everything from breathing to how

you think about your you know your life

and where you're going and it's all

compatible with things that uh that I've

been telling you so it's good to know

that there's

um oh the other thing you said is that

uh your dopamine system will make it

easy to learn

easier to learn so you could rapidly

learn

if you have a goal and the thing you're

learning gets you closer to the goal

did you know that

did you know that your your brain

literally makes it easier to learn

if you're on target for something that

was meaningful to you

now I heard that and the first thing I

thought was

don't get ahead of me don't get ahead of

me I think I'm

you know I think I know where you go

there I heard that I said really that is

amazing you tell me that the brain can

actually reconfigure itself in real time

I mean rapidly

to give you a reward

for learning something that's relevant

to your your goal and I thought my God

that's like

I really learned something here

and then I said to myself wait a minute

is there anybody who doesn't know it's

easier to learn something that matters

thank you

did you have the same experience I just

had

which is I thought I'd learned something

amazing and then I thought oh

basically a hundred percent of the world

already knows it's easier to learn

something that matters

it's something that doesn't matter to

you at all is harder to learn

I feel like I do that

then you kind of know that you have

survival blah blah pretty obvious but

it's good to know that there's a whole

bunch of interesting science about how

to rewire your brain for success and

happiness and that it's compatible with

everything I've been telling you for

years

uh the most interesting part is that

although he's a science guy

uh he gave some credit sort of

I don't know how to phrase this exactly

right because I don't want to

mischaracterize his opinion but he said

that if you were thinking about let's

say that book The Secret where you you

think about what you want to happen or

affirmations where you write down what

you want to happen or intentions those

are the three three things he named

intentions is again where you put your

intention into the universe so you have

a clear Direction and then then things

happen and he's saying that when you do

those things your brain actually turns

into the machine that can give it to you

now that's my interpretation

if you have if you have a clear

direction of where you want to go

your brain will become a machine that

can take you there

again he didn't use those words but

that's paraphrasing it's kind of cool

isn't it

and it's also what I've been telling you

forever now this this gets away from the

woo-woo magical part of affirmations

where I take you right so I take you

further than that

uh I I definitely understand that

affirmations tune your mind and I've

told you that right reticular activation

you know it Tunes your mind but on top

of that there's something about

affirmations that is not fully explained

yet by science

there's something observational or

anecdotal or experiential about it that

seems to exceed that domain

but you know I guess that's to be

discovered in the future

all right there's a lot of news I'll go

fast here

uh

all right

um this is horrible and funny at the

same time can you handle that

this is a horrible tragedy

but the way it's described is funny

and I I can't apologize

because if I apologized I would be lying

and that's not a good apology right I'm

just gonna I'm just gonna be a like a

normal human

and see if you can deal with that I'm

pretty sure you can

all right I swear this is a horrible

tragedy and I shouldn't be laughing at

it

I'm going to try not to

all right the first thing you need to

know is that all news that comes out of

the Ukraine war situation is not

believable right can we start with that

because I know there's going to be a

comment in five seconds why does God

always believe everything the ukrainians

say I don't

I'm simply going to tell you the story

and you can decide whether sounds true

to you or not

to be frank

it doesn't sound true

okay if I if I had to if I had to bet on

it

was I was a little exaggerated to me but

it's funny

it goes like this

the Russian uh conscripts are reportedly

so poorly trained they got like two

weeks of training and digging ditches

mostly and went to the firing range

twice and that was their whole training

and they pushed them out there with not

enough food or weapons

and um

and here's here's the report I think

this was from the New York Post uh the

conscripts report back home somehow they

can communicate back home I don't even

know how they're doing that but somehow

they do and uh the People Back Home in

Russia are reporting that the conscripts

are saying

uh quote they would lie on the ground

for hours long pretending to be dead for

a simple reason they had no other

weapons except some assault rifles and

against them were mortars and drones and

if they had moved a finger a drone would

kill them right away

so

so the Russian transcripts which they've

rushed to the front

are are laying on the ground and

pretending to be dead

because that's their best military

strategy

that's all they have

and I'm not even joking because you know

your best military strategy at minimum

is to survive right I mean unless it's a

suicide mission which this is not so

they need to survive

so that is a military requirement a

mission right to survive and the the

conscripts have decided

perhaps not wrong

that the best way they can survive is to

just lay in the field lay in a field and

pretend to be dead until the war is over

because they think the drones are so

omnipresent that the Ukrainian drones

are just watching them all the time and

you know if they move into arms they'll

be shot by the Drone somehow

uh somebody says it's it's BS because

the drones have thermal linear Imaging I

don't know maybe now just possible worse

now all right give me your opinion this

doesn't sound true does it I do believe

that maybe somebody played dad you know

on some occasion that makes sense in a

war people are always playing dead so

that's not unusual but do you think it's

like what the trans the conscripts are

doing like they're all walking out as

soon as soon as their Commander turns

around they're like

foreign

as soon as nobody's watching they just

I don't think it's happening I don't

think it's happening but it's pretty

hilarious as a report

but again I don't I don't think it's

true

you know this this is a let me give you

a little lesson on writing humor

if you can write humor that requires the

uh The Listener or the viewer to

complete the story in their in their

head it's always funnier

so the image I have in my head of these

conscripts

is sort of the little movie that I've

made on my own it's not not like yours

but the one in my head is hilarious

like the one in my head is really funny

like you're all having a different movie

in your head so yours will be different

but in theory

in theory if I did it right the movie

that you're playing in your head is just

as funny as mine was like the one that

works for you because you're the one

that made it

so that's perfect humor if everybody

writes their own punchline like they're

doing the visual in their own head

that's that's as good as you could get

for a punchline

all right uh Rasmussen uh is reporting

that the the last uh poll they do before

the midterms about the generic lead of

one one versus the other so it shows the

lead is narrowed to Five Points from

last week

but that lead jumps up and down so it

doesn't mean much directionally

but GOP is five points ahead according

to the generic

ballot now question to you how

predictive is the generic generic

Republican against a generic Democrat

poll what does that tell you about the

actual results

how accurate do you think that's going

to be

it's not exactly a straight line cause

and effect kind of thing right I'll just

give you an example

in uh as Rasmussen says in 2018 so right

before the Democrats you know won a big

house majority uh the polling was a

statistical dead Inc

so you know in 2018

is that it was a dead heat and then the

results were quite different

now

how many of you would be surprised if

the Democrats actually have a big win in

the midterms would you be how many would

be surprised

I know what you're going to say because

you're expecting cheating right but how

many would be surprised

okay I would not be

I would not be surprised

because remember how we got surprised in

2020

because there were things that changed

that we didn't know about

or I didn't know about so I didn't know

about you know attorney Mark Elias and

what Mark Zuckerberg did and I didn't

know what would be the impact of you

know uh the different voting mechanisms

and laws and changes and all that I

don't know and those things may have

been

definitive that might have made the

difference I think we have the same

problem this time

problem number one I don't know if polls

are useful as useful as they used to be

so the accuracy of any polls is in

question would you agree because we have

polls that are pretty far apart going

right into the election

so if you have lots of polls and they're

all over the place what are you going to

do with that

so it's possible that the polls have

told us nothing

right it's possible that the polls don't

tell you anything

um

it's

possible but I have no evidence of this

that's one team or the other would try

to cheat

might get away with it

and who knows who knows what they'll do

then there's the turnout question

midterms are always a turnout race right

Whoever has the best turnout wins I

don't know what do you what do you

think's gonna have the best turnout

I've heard Republicans are more

enthusiastic but what do you think

let me tell you what the uh the

Democrats did right and wrong at the

same time

when when they said hey abortion is

going to be a big issue

um they immediately did two things they

said let's make it a big issue

but also let's solve it so it's not as

big an issue

so at the same time they're trying to

make it a political issue they're doing

an excellent job of arranging

Transportation so that you could go to a

state where you can get an abortion and

get back

that sort of takes the urgency away from

it doesn't it

right because if you're not actually

immediately in the in the stage of

needing an abortion

that extra inconvenience doesn't feel as

big

if you actually need an abortion it

feels gigantic I'm sure

but on a conceptual level if you said to

yourself hey they can't take our

abortion away from us but then you

realize you can still get an abortion

all you have to do is cross stay line in

many cases then it doesn't feel like an

emergency it feels like a huge

inconvenience

would you agree

that the Democrats have made it their

issue at the same time they solve the

issue

that you can't have both

now I think they they had to try to

solve the issue from their perspective

they couldn't write it out

so and make it an issue but it they

really degraded their own issue by doing

a fairly effective job of making sure

people knew they had some options I

don't know I don't know how well it

works

but some options

so all right

have you heard I think black lives

matter has said this and a lot of black

leaders have said this I heard

Hawk Newsom said this that one thing

that black Americans need and are really

asking for is financial education

now the reason I'm saying that BLM is

asking for it is it sounds racist if I

say it yeah you have to know you have to

know it's not white people telling black

people they need to be educated and

that's not what's happening it's

everybody everybody understanding that

there's a you know a knowledge Gap that

should be filled in

so

here's a high hypothetical for you

suppose Republicans started offering

free financial education for black

Americans

just free

just sign up could be online could be in

person whatever it's just free it

teaches you personal finance

personal finance

and then well you you don't have to you

know Target it at the black population

you should Target it everybody who needs

it but you could you know Market it as

something that's extra useful for one

group

I think you could get away with that

but

all right now if you were going to give

them personal financial information I

think you'd spend a little bit of time

with the macro stuff like the the big

country level economics and you would

probably teach them about capitalism

you probably teach them about free

markets

you'd probably teach them the difference

between capitalism and socialism a

little bit of History you don't have to

go too far and you'd say well you know a

system that's built on incentives will

work assist in this bill on poor

incentives

will work less and you give them just

the basic information of what a free

market is why we have them what's good

about it and what's bad about it now I

wouldn't I wouldn't code it I would say

that this will definitely give you some

you know billionaires and some poor

people like it's it's an imperfect

system so you don't have to hide the

truth about it but just a real genuine

useful Financial education

do you know what would happen

they would all become Republicans

they would all become Republicans the

Republican Party can convert as many

people as they need

because the black population is asking

for this specific education and if it

were received they would turn Republican

because everybody does

I don't think there are any Democrats

who understand economics and are still

Democrats yeah now let me okay that's an

exaggeration there are plenty of

Democrats that are sort of in the middle

who totally understand economics all

right let me be a little more unbiased

but the progressive wing

don't understand economics at all

at all

and and one part of that the group one

part of Democrats that don't understand

economics but is telling you that

they're saying we don't understand this

can you please you know this would help

us a lot well why not provide it why not

give it to them

um and I would say that uh in terms of

systemic racism this is one of the

biggest things that Republicans could

fix

if you ask me you know name your biggest

sources well education would be first

but a specific part of Education where

systemic racism is really really real

is just the continuation of

uh you know the legacy of slavery if if

you don't live in a family that knows

how to handle money

how are you going to learn

but if you're born into a family that

already has money and knows how to

manage it you're probably just going to

pick it up by osmosis right so if you

could break that cycle where every black

kid who's born in

2023 let's say if you say okay every

black kid born in 2023 as well as every

poor kid of any kind

is going to get a basic Financial

education

everyone that that's the one thing we're

not going to get wrong

you know you could get everything else

wrong

but every every black kid is going to

get a financial education with everybody

else

what would that do

that would change a lot wouldn't it

I think it would

all right and

um that's where people could easily come

together

all right um

how many of you saw the fetterman ad so

fetterman has an ad now just days before

the election in which it's a takeoff on

a 70s Pepsi commercial

where Mean Joe Greene was walking

through the tunnel after a game and

there's some little kid who offers him a

is it a Coke oh officer McCook so it's a

coke commercial not a Pepsi commercial

so offers him a Coke and there's this

moment where you know Mean Joe Greene

this scary big guy and a little kid have

a moment

it was a famous commercial

well

um

let me tell you what's wrong with the

fetterman ad

everything

uh everything

is wrong with his ad he didn't do a

single thing right he doesn't look good

it doesn't say a message most most

people who are young aren't going to

remember the commercial so they'll be

completely confused and here's the worst

part

it starts with him apparently looking

like he is exhausted from knocking on

doors and campaigning I I think that's

what they're trying to say but instead

it shows him barely able to walk leaning

against the wall like

and then he's knocking on a random

person's door looking like

Frankenstein's monster

he actually created a video where he

looks like Frankenstein's monster

trying to break into your house

now

did nobody look at that commercial and

say yeah I know we spent a lot of money

making this and the money's already gone

it's a sort of a sunk cost sort of thing

you would teach a Democrat about sunk

costs they don't understand them

uh you maybe maybe even though you paid

for the commercial and you put in a lot

of time maybe maybe you don't air it

maybe don't

how in the world did anybody look at

that commercial and say green light

how in the world you have to see it to

know how bad it is

now if if you haven't seen the

commercial you're probably saying to

yourself there's probably a little

recording play

I know when you see commercials on the

the other team

they often look you know weak

this isn't that

this is not that this is a commercial so

bad that 100 of Democrats I think I

think 100 would look at it and say

uh maybe you shouldn't have done that I

don't think there's anybody on his team

who would say that worked nobody

it might be the worst ad I've ever seen

would you agree have you ever seen a

worse more let's say more damaging cell

phone ad of all time

I think it's the king I don't think you

can do more than that

all right here's something that really

happened

that it's so mind-boggling that we can't

wrap our heads around it which is why

you can't act on it have you ever had

those situations where there's something

that's true and it's important but it's

so big you just can't

you don't know what to do you can't deal

with it

so apparently Biden gives this big

speech was it yesterday the other day in

which instead of talking about all of

his accomplishments and all the good

things that Democrats have done and why

you should vote for them in the midterm

he focused on how Maga will destroy

democracy

and also said uh you know we might have

to wait days for the ballast to be

counted

all the while knowing that other

countries don't need to do that

Israel will be a perfect example other

countries don't need to do that

um

so and we should unquestionably accept

the results of course yeah of course

when the results are command we should

he's telling us in advance we should

accept it

now correct me if I'm wrong is he not

telling you that they plan to rig the

election

now let me be clear

I don't have proof of that

so I don't have any proof

but that's what I heard

that's what I heard

now that this is how communication works

right the way communication works is

that the speaker must make some

assumptions about the listener like what

does The Listener already know what is

their context because you always you

always organize your your talk

your communication by what the person

already knows so you don't have to tell

them what they already know you add the

new thing

Am I Wrong to interpret this as he just

told us that they're going to cheat and

we better not complain

now I'm not saying that that's going to

happen that's a different statement I'm

not saying it's going to happen I'm

saying he told us it's going to happen

that part which is different than it's

going to happen right I'm only talking

about what he's talking about I'm not

talking about what might or might not

happen in the real world I'm saying that

the president of the United States just

told us that they're going to rig the

election and he doesn't want you

complaining about it that's what I heard

that's what I heard

did you hear anything different

and I don't think it's because I'm all

suspicious

is it I think this is just the way words

work it's the way communication is

designed to work just like this

ah I don't know how I can't even think

of another way to interpret it

can you

I see no other way to interpret that

and and if it's telling us exactly what

it looks like

there are two possibilities

am I right possibility number one

is that they're actually going to rig

the election and they're priming us for

it

that would be terrible

but option number two is worse

option number two is that we have a

sitting president who doesn't know he

just told the country that he's

signaling the election will be rigged

which one of those do you choose do you

choose the one where things are so bad

he just told you they're going to rig

the election and you better not complain

that would be awful

but not as awful as having a sitting

president who doesn't know he just told

the country that the election is going

to be rigged and they better not

complain about it if it's not true

those are both really really bad

and they're both so bad

I can't wrap my head around it

do you feel the same thing

whichever of those two interpretations

you take they're both so bad

I don't know what to do about it I don't

know what to say about it

I I don't know what to suggest I don't

know what to recommend

I'm just sort of shocked into in action

I just go uh

uh

I don't know what to do

so that's happening

um here's something that I think the

Democrats might be sensitive to

would you say this is true or false

Democrats compare it to Republicans are

more concerned about how they look to

other people true or false I realize

it's like a gross generalization right

so all gross generalizations don't apply

to any individual I think we'll know but

it does seem like the whole awokeness

thing

is about making sure that we appear to

each other in in the best way

whereas a republican attitude would be

more like

if you don't like it you

am I right

I mean very general kind of a difference

you know it doesn't apply to every

person

so if that if that's true if you can

take that as a stipulated truth

then I think that Republicans are

missing a huge lever for manipulating

Democrats

which is that you can manipulate

Democrats

on their embarrassment

Democrats don't like to be embarrassed

and they don't like to look bad

Democrats

I'm sorry Republicans they don't care so

much

you want to see a uh you want to see my

impression of a Republican

who doesn't care what you think about

all right I'm not a republican but I'll

give you my impression of a republican

who doesn't give a what you think

about them all right here it is

turn on the music I'm gonna dance

all right

how was that if you're listening

that was me giving my best impression of

air guitar

and a white man dancing at a barbecue

uh

Republicans are just not embarrassed I

don't think so they just don't have that

Gene

but um

so here's how to use embarrassment if I

were using it as weapon so this is just

a lesson on persuasion okay

if you can find some psychological

element of the other team that you're

trying to influence you know maybe you

can push that because it won't won't

come back at you if your team doesn't uh

respond the same way to embarrassment

um

but here's the thing

how embarrassed would you be if you'd

been a Democrat supporter for the past

two years

have you noticed that there are no Biden

signs anywhere

does anybody notice that

because there must have been some during

the election in 2020 but did everybody

scrape them off their car

have you ever seen the Biden bumper

sticker in the last 12 months

because they must have scraped them all

off the car right I think they they hid

the hid the shirts

I think it should be embarrassing at

this point because Democrats here's

their message for the midterm there are

many imaginary problems

that you can ignore so according to

Democrats these problems are either

exaggerated or imaginary crime it's all

in your head inflation that's just

oxygen everybody has inflation

immigration no problem schools hurting

kids in a variety of ways

change the subject election Integrity

don't you dare

the the

Democrats main focus

is literally on imaginary problems

now you don't think that the Democrats

have noticed

because no matter what your opinion is

of Democrats

they do have the same IQ as Republicans

roughly speaking you know that right

there's not that much of a difference I

don't know if there's any difference

but and I don't even know which way the

difference would go

but

Democrats on average

are roughly as intelligent as everybody

else

you don't think that they noticed that

their team is uh focusing on things that

they even they can tell are imaginary

or they're they're they're treating as

imaginary things that are clearly real

like crime and inflation and so all

right

but instead the Democrats are focusing

on these following issues which they

believe are real

the risk of insurrection by men wearing

bison hats

that's like the main focus

of the Democrats is the risk that the

country will be overthrown by even more

people wearing bison hats who are

unarmed

uh they they also of course the entire

platform was launched on the fine people

hoax the idea that Trump had once called

neo-nazi's Fine people

which literally never happened

um they also are very concerned about

the insufficient masking and

vaccinations

because they're pretty sure those things

will make a big difference to your

well-being

they're concerned that there's not

enough wokeness and if we could have

more wokeness and more attention on

pronouns things in this country would be

a lot better

um they're concerned that there is too

much capitalism

a little too much capitalism in free

markets and that the United States

creates too much energy and keeps us too

safe

yeah

how is that not embarrassing

seriously

that isn't embarrassing when you see the

president and and fetterman representing

your party as two of the most important

people in your party at the moment

that doesn't embarrass you

now I I know what the NPCs would say now

they would say Scott

were you not embarrassed by Trump

to which I say Trump was different

Trump was

I'll call him an acquired taste you

could love him or you could hate him

but I don't think people were

embarrassed too much

right because even if it did something

that made you turn away from them which

a lot of people did

you still weren't embarrassed because

you liked the things you did up until

that point

you might be well I liked him on

immigration but oh he said that thing

and I'm out whatever but I don't think

embarrassed would be the the right word

but I think the Democrats have a right

to be embarrassed

don't you

let me give a let me just check in with

you

am I right

than if you push the embarrassment

button on the Democrats that that they

would feel it themselves that it's a

little bit embarrassing that they said

they were going to save the country from

a liar

just think about that the Democrats said

we're going to get rid of the liar

and they gave us Biden that's not

embarrassing

that's not embarrassing really

that should be embarrassing because it's

not like you weren't warned

there were no there was no warning

whatsoever that Biden might be a huge

liar he didn't see anything coming that

would like tip you off you should be

embarrassed that you didn't see that

coming right

now

if you voted for Trump and then Trump

said some provocative things that made

you uncomfortable would you be

embarrassed or would you say to yourself

well that's what I voted for

I did vote for that

so you know I like the good stuff maybe

I don't like the Mean Tweets but I knew

what I was getting nobody surprised me

but I feel like the Democrats are acting

surprised what Biden is lying to me what

all right well I think uh

let me check in on this too

is is my overall theme accurate that the

Democrats are focusing on imaginary

problems

they do focus on imaginary problems or

exaggerated you know imaginary is sort

of a

you know

all right well okay looks like you agree

uh some Republican entity created a TV

ad claiming that the Democrats will

specifically Biden and Harris are

anti-white

and they give specific examples

um coveted relief that was based on race

um College admissions affirmative action

right so they have specific examples

which are somewhat unambiguous you know

nobody would argue the examples because

those are just on the record it's not

even an opinion and apparently I saw a

cernovich I think it was sort of a tweet

saying that the Democrats are saying

that's unfair like that's crosses the

line or goes too far

what lie does that cross

does that go too far

I don't know if I can say it on YouTube

but I could certainly say it on Twitter

now doesn't that feel good does it feel

good to know that you could say stuff on

Twitter without getting canceled

but the Democrats are clearly anti-white

does anybody have would anybody disagree

with that

they're anti-white and anti-male

the Democrats

are anti-white and anti-male that's

their primary

theme everything else is like subsidiary

to those two things I think

at least it feels like it

so I can say that out loud right I can

say that the Democrats are racist

against white people and primarily white

males I suppose

yeah we could just say that though I

think

um so I'm glad that that bit of free

speech has returned let's talk about

Elon Musk who is interesting in at least

three different ways just today

yeah I tell you uh musk is filling the

void that Trump uh left for a while I

guess he's coming back in November he's

going to announce maybe November

14th-ish that's the rumor

um but for now musk is all of our

interesting stories

so here's three of them

uh Tim Urban on on Twitter tweeted this

in general he's just saying what's the

craziest conspiracy theory you think

might be true so he tweeted that to the

world and one of the responses was Elon

Musk and his answer to the craziest

conspiracy theory you think might be

true

was that Elon says of himself I'm an

alien trying to get back to my home

planet

how awesome is that

because the funny part is not that it's

a rumor but it's a rumor that you think

might be true

a rumor you think might be true that I'm

an alien trying to get back to my home

planet

I like that he puts he wants to put a

little doubt out there that

I'm probably human

probably

almost definitely human

but maybe

maybe I'm a alien trying to get back to

my own Planet

Twitter is a lot more fun lately uh then

how many of you saw aoc's video in which

she's uh seductively leaning into the

camera and

eating something which is disgusting

AOC if I could give you some advice

at least 30 percent of the world does

not want to see you eat and talk at the

same time maybe higher but 30 of the

world are just gone Oh either first eat

it and then talk

or eat choose one don't even talk

that was my reaction so uh I guess maybe

that's just me

but she was acting very flirty this is

my interpretation

and saying that she thinks Elon Musk may

have already you know messed with her

Twitter feed because she's not seeing

that she's not getting the same

same reaction she used to

and now what do you think of that

do you think there's even the slightest

chance that Elon Musk tweaked aoc's

Twitter feed like just hearth

so he says yes no there's no chance of

that are you serious no there's no

chance that that happened there is zero

chance to happen now that would be like

risking a 44 billion dollar investment

for for like a prank Nobody Does that

that would be insane I mean he does some

things that are provocative and funny

but that would just be insane no that

didn't happen I feel confident in saying

that but she leaned into the camera and

sort of flirtily said that he might have

been messing with her

um

and uh musk actually replied and in his

tweet he said what can I say it was a

naked abuse of power

now he's just sort of mocking her what

can I say but here's the thing

given the AOC probably and I don't know

this can't read her mind

but probably knew that he did not mess

with their 20 feet she probably knew

that wouldn't you agree but she said it

in in what context would you say

something you knew wasn't true

what context would you do that

well politics would be one context where

you say things you know are not true

what's another one

flirting

flirting

that she's basically

provoking him for a reaction

and she looked very much like she was

attracted to him honestly if I were her

husband I would be very uncomfortable

with that with that social media post

because she really looked like she was

nagging him or something it looked like

flirting to me

and the funny thing is that he had

accused her of flirting in a humorous

way when she had made some criticism

months ago right right so they have some

history where he's already accused her

of flirting and then she does something

that I don't know any other way to

interpret it it looked like flirting

to me

anyway so that's interesting

um in the bad news category

I'm not going to treat this like I could

be happy about it okay so there are a

bunch of Twitter layoffs

and my feeling about work

is like I have more respect for work

than I do for most things you know I

believe all work is Honorable anybody

who works is good with me like if you

have a job

you're already 98 good a human as I want

you to be right the other stuff's kind

of optional but if you work

I like you

right or if you're trying to work or

you're working toward working I like you

that's just something I like so I don't

like it when I hear that uh Twitter is

going to have massive layoffs because I

like people have jobs and I don't care

that you know maybe some of them did

something I don't like at one point all

right I can't I can't be happy about

this but

um here's the thing I will uh point out

wood musk be firing as many people that

Twitter

if

he had gotten the price for the company

that he wanted to pay

um

I I do who I

maybe maybe but you know what it looks

like

it looks like because they made him pay

the higher price he's going to fire more

people than he would have otherwise

I I feel like

they may have brought this on themselves

a little bit

now we know that he's uh let's see his

management Theory

Mary yeah I called his management the

theory is that they had too many people

and he doesn't need a marketing

department necessarily and so he likes

to run lead

so he was probably going to do layoffs

no matter what but do you think that the

extent of the layoffs is exactly the

same

or would have been if he had paid the

price he wanted to pay which was a lower

price

I don't know I feel like they might have

brought a little bit of that on

themselves a little bit

um

and I guess it's been do is happening in

the scariest way I don't know if there's

a good way to do this but the an email

when I was saying that there will be

layoffs tomorrow

um which is today

is today the tomorrow I'm not sure what

day we're talking about

uh and but that the people who will be

fired won't hear about it until the next

day so how would you like to know that

the big half of you are going to be

fired

I don't know if it's half but a bunch of

you are going to be fired

and you have to wait for the email so

it's today right

I assume that they haven't gotten their

emails yet we know about it

yeah

um

so we'll keep an eye on that but I feel

uh I do feel genuine empathy for anybody

who's gonna lose their job at Twitter I

don't think that's funny

right if there was something funny about

it I'd probably still laugh at it but

um I I don't think it's cool to

celebrate

people losing their jobs very few people

at Twitter were personally responsible

for anything that you didn't like

very few people had any authority to do

anything you didn't like there's many

people losing their jobs it's just not

cool

but also it's the free market so I I

don't object to it

you just can't I don't dance on the

grave Cecil

um

oh

all right

so uh I saw a tweet from Machiavelli's

underbelly again a good good account for

you to follow

um he said this he said talking about

Elon musk's Eight dollar a month plan he

says Eight dollar a month plan protects

against one segment of ba activity

um T you know terms of service violating

behavior and that's the one that most

people see and care about but the

mechanism does not stop AI from building

a relationship with you to persuade or

destroy you

do you see that risk coming

the the risk is not the Bots that

everybody knows are about you look at

them you go you couldn't be a real

person and they're not

you know or they're a real persons you

know being Trolls but you could tell a

troll or a bot right they're just just

negative all the time but what if an AI

came at you and just uh tweeted a bunch

of things that you

let's say it retweeted you

and then it grows viewers and it gets

big account so let's say it's a big

account nobody knows it's Ai and it's

been very friendly to you it's retweeted

your content it has Amplified some of

your tweets in the comments

maybe it even sent you a DM see how

you're doing

Maybe

do you think that that AI could

influence you

yeah yeah you you have no idea how

dangerous this is because although AI

would have trouble learning humor

because it doesn't have the feedback on

its own it would have to test with

humans to find out what works and what

doesn't

but persuasion is a little bit more

technical meaning if you do the right

stuff you can be pretty sure you'll get

the right result you don't need to be a

b testing it too much right you could a

B test it but it's pretty much a known

technique how to do it if AI

befriended you with the intention of

persuading you

I don't think you'd have a chance

because it would never make a persuasion

mistake it would just be perfect

persuasion it would be as patient as it

needed to be

and it would just wait and wait and wait

until I had that little opening

so you know when I tell you that every

prediction about what the world looks

like in three years is useless

that's never been this true before like

it's always hard to predict three years

it's hard to predict tomorrow in the

events but predictions hard

but no we've never been in a situation

where you can't straight line anything

anymore nothing

the AI will make everything

unrecognizable in about three years

there won't be anything that looks the

same

okay Boomer

is that is that Boomer talk

is it Boomer talk to say AI will change

everything

that is that something specific to

Boomers

really

some people are saying yes kinda

well

I don't think AI is going to be the

flying car and by the way I think flying

cars are here they're actually companies

that because Battery Technology is now

so good you can get a light enough

powerful enough battery to build a you

know with AI actually I think you you

might throw some AI into your hovercraft

but that's a real technology now now

whether it becomes you know legal for

people to have them and affordable it's

real you can build one down fly it

around

but I think also uh the AI predictions

are going to be completely wrong until

the day they're right and I think that's

within three years

um

I heard somebody refer to something as a

punishment vote

as in getting revenge on the Democrats

for screwing Democrats

so there are Democrats I don't know how

many it's just something I saw on

Twitter Democrat Democrat saying

one person was going to vote Republican

this time as a way to punish the

Democrats for being so bad

just think about that

have you ever heard anybody use a phrase

like that

I think it's the use of the phrase

that's blowing my mind

have you ever seen a Republican vote

Democrat to punish Republicans

I've seen Republicans who changed to

Democrat

I've seen them say oh I don't like this

candidate maybe Trump or something so

I'll pretend to be a Democrat or

something but a punishment vote

I mean that that should be kind of

productive

um

I think that

um

I think there's Suburban moms

are having an embarrassment problem

so this is adding on to a point I made

yesterday I think if you're a mother

it's embarrassing to tell your kids you

can't buy them the same food you used to

buy them because you can't afford it

it's embarrassing to say you can't be on

the sports team because I can't afford

the cost of supporting you on a sport

that's embarrassing right but I think

it's also embarrassing when people just

look how dangerous things are a crime

Etc and know that they voted for a

Democrat which caused it

don't you think that Suburban women are

just embarrassed

they're embarrassed in front of their

family

and I think they'd be embarrassed in

front of their friends if they said

that they'd supported Biden I think it's

literally just embarrassing now

yeah

um

and I think that's that's what you're

going to see

so my my guess is that the embarrassment

factor is pretty big

um

there's another Republican candidate

we're hearing not long ago

somebody fired shots into his house

and in North Carolina and the bullets

came pretty close to where two of his

daughters were sleeping

okay like what what else is there to say

about that well this is more on the you

know the prediction that Republicans

would be hunted

literally hunted with a gun

somebody actually got a gun

and waited in the woods literally the

shots came from the forest they said

they actually literally hunted him

just like a hunter they waited with a

gun and shot into where they thought he

would be

so that prediction is turning out

unfortunately true

how many of you are following this Kyrie

Irving Story the basketball player

who tweeted a link

to a movie

that got people pretty worked up and now

he's suspended

I was having trouble understanding the

story and here's why

I could tell from the context that he

had tweeted some content that people

disagreed with

it was a pretty big story kept popping

up in my feed on Twitter all the time

and I thought to myself well

I'll just keep reading Twitter

until I find out what it is that he

tweeted

and then I heard oh it was very

anti-semitic I was like oh God that's

bad and I thought I wonder what it was

and I heard somebody say it was on

Amazon like it's a movie on Amazon I'm

like whoa and the name of it is

and then I thought well any moment now

somebody is going to show us that

content or at least tell me what it was

and then I could make my own decision

about how bad it was

couldn't find it

couldn't find it

social media is completely like that

they're suppressing the content that he

got in trouble for really well

so I had to go to Google so I had to

leave Twitter

I had to leave Twitter and then I found

it right

um and it's a film that has I don't know

the exact problems with it but

apparently it has a bunch of

anti-Semitic

tropes as they like to say you know like

standard things people say and uh some

of the claim is that the real Jews are

Africans

and that that would suggest that the

people claiming that they're the chosen

people are the fake chosen people

according to the view in this content

that is hard to find

now

I don't think any of that sounds true to

me is there anything to that

there's nothing to that right that's

like it's not even in its own way in

some weird way true or anything right

it's just like complete

yeah I think it's complete I

don't know but I don't know what's true

and what's not in that domain but

um

here's how he destroyed his career

probably forever

so he did the issue a statement

now I want to read you a statement and

so after he got a lot of pushback from

various groups

he issued a statement now tell me if you

think that the statement is good enough

if it covered what he needed to cover

all right

so he said quote I oppose all forms of

hatred and oppression and stand strong

with communities that are marginalized

and impacted every day

well that's good he's against all forms

of Oppression and and hatred

so I think that's good so far

right he goes I am aware of the negative

impact of my post toward the Jewish

community and I take responsibility

very good

he's aware he's aware of the damage he

did that's that's important in any kind

of an apology

and and uh

and he takes responsibility

those are two of the most important

things you need in an apology so let's

look for the third one

so he's got two of the three things you

need let's we'll see if he has the third

one

uh and then he went on he said that

uh

he said I do not believe everything said

in the documentary was true or reflects

my morals and principles okay that's

good

so he doesn't he doesn't agree with it

um so so that's a positive I suppose

and they said I am a human being

learning from all walks of life and I

intend to do so with an open mind and

willingness to listen so from my family

and I we've meant no harm to any to any

one group or religion or race and we

wish wish to only be a beacon of truth

and light

and then they pledged to donate a half a

million dollars toward uh you're

eradicating hate and intolerance and I

think the ADL uh refused his donation

right so there's that all right so did

he how was his apology

what did you think of the apology

go on

what did you think of the apology

there was no apology

no it wasn't an apology an apology has

the following three elements right

you say you're sorry

you acknowledge you know you acknowledge

the harm and you take responsibility

and the taking responsibility usually

means you're going to do something

different

right but he never apologized

he he is he is aware that it hurt people

but he's now sorry about it

if you're aware that it hurt people and

you're not sorry about it you probably

need to say more about that I mean maybe

there's a way to explain that but

there's there's nothing nothing we saw

yeah so he was very much like yay and

then when pressed on it he said that he

can't be anti-semitic because he knows

where he came from meaning that he

believes he's a Jew

and that therefore he can't be

anti-Semitic

Because he believes he's a Jew

now I don't think anybody's done a worse

case a worse job of managing their

public opinion than that

oh somebody's telling me to read Elon

musk's tweet that just came out

well if you're asking me in the middle

of the show this has got to be a good

one so let's check it

so I don't have much else to say about

um

about Kyrie except he's just

uh

um let's see 43 minutes ago

um

Twitter this is musk Twitter's had a

massive drop in Revenue due to activist

groups pressuring advertisers even

though nothing has changed with content

moderation and we did everything we

could to appease the activists

extremely messed up they're trying to

destroy free speech in America

interesting

so the activists are winning

the activists are winning

wow

um

here's the problem though

I don't think money is how you get it

Elon Musk

I I don't think that's how you get at

them

yeah and how come people are not mad at

Amazon for having the movie maybe they

are we just don't know about it

all right well just finishing up on uh

uh Kyrie

um if you don't do an apology

don't expect people to accept your

apology

if you don't do one

right so I think he's decided to die on

this hill it's the dumbest Hill anybody

ever died on

he's not doing anything good for himself

or good for any Community or anything

there's not one positive thing that

could come out of this nothing nothing

not a single thing

and

why would you do that to yourself I mean

maybe there's more to the story but

Lance says Scott's mad because Kyrie

didn't take the vaccine

no I'm not mad about that

all right I I feel sorry for him I feel

like he's

you know he's misled in some way

all right

um

wow we managed to get through all of my

amazing content

with

no time to spare

is there anything I missed

yeah it got conflated with the yea's

story uh the Kerry Lake response yeah so

Kerry lake is becoming a uh a one-person

highlight reel

uh almost every time she speaks to the

media

it's it's just like a highlight film

there's nobody better than her right now

I worry that she's got a gaff in her

that we haven't seen

like you know she's because if she does

anything that's you know

um nuanced

she's going to be eaten live because

they're looking for any any weakness so

far

so far she hasn't demonstrated any

weakness but if she ever says anything

that's a little bit on the gray area

she's going to get eaten alive but I

think she can handle it no I don't mean

skeletons I mean when you're as

outspoken as she is

you you walk pretty close to the line

you know you fly pretty close to the Sun

I'm saying things that just go a little

bit too far

but I don't think she's done that

so her her communication discipline

is maybe the best I've ever seen

and I think that her Charisma is so so

much more than DeSantis

that

that she would become president before

him if they ran at the same time

yeah even though DeSantis has more solid

you know Governor accomplishments uh

she'll have them soon

I mean it look it looks like she'll have

some accomplishments soon

by the way does everybody agree

that she's the best since maybe Reagan

she's better than Trump

yeah she's better than Trump

I don't know if he could handle that

all right now imagine this this I think

this can't happen just because of the

timing of things but there's no way she

could run as his vice president right

just because she would be too new on the

job

as governor

I I don't think that's an option

I mean it's technically she could of

course

I just don't see it happening

all right

do you think she'll run for president

you know a lot of people are going to be

asking for him

is is Carrie Lake uh

well let me let me put it this way I'm

going to recycle an old joke you ready

if you took Cary Lake

and you removed her her charisma

if you just took that away from her

and then you took away from her her

solid policy ideas that she explains

really well if you took that away from

her in her Charisma it took from her

ability to communicate like really real

well if you took all of that away from

her

what would you have

Kamala Harris

you'd have Kamala Harris

am I right if you started with Kerry

Lake and removed everything good about

her

you would have Kamal Harris

right

pick any dimension

any dimension

you can even pick a sexist Dimension all

right uh appearance

okay Gary Lake wins raw intelligence

okay obviously Carrie like uh

communication ability okay

uh all of it every bit of it she wins on

every dimension

somebody says if you started with Carrie

Lakin gave her a lobotomy what would you

have and somebody said me

I would be what we would have if he gave

Carrie Lake a little body

not yeah no cackle no cackle

how about that

they no cackle

uh no Capital candidate

that could be uh

you know I was thinking about what is

the most minimal

uh slogan that Trump could use to win

if he ran if he ran against the Harris

Let's just say the Biden drops out if he

runs against Harris

he could run on the campaign slogan

no cackle

stop the cackle

and he would win

he would win

because you wouldn't be able to stop

talking about it oh come on that's funny

stop the cackle because nobody likes the

cackle and and the cackle the cackle

does represent her entire incompetence

wouldn't you say

the cackle only happens because she

knows she's incompetent

that's what the laugh is the laugh is

covering up her incompetence right I

don't how else would you interpret it

it's a lack of confidence

which signals that she doesn't believe

what she's saying or that it doesn't

sound good or something

did you see her latest when she talked

about the yellow school bus

how many here love

a yellow school bus everybody everybody

who loves a yellow school bus

I mean

the only reason that the fetterman could

be a candidate is he's not that

different from the vice president of the

United States

yeah I said it you say it again the only

reason fetterman doesn't look that bad

you see you have Biden and Harris

to compare them to

that's not a joke

if you didn't have Biden and Harrison

office if Federman couldn't be even the

candidate the the fact that they they

allowed two mental incompetence to be

the top two positions in the country

and the country hasn't you know

completely dissolved yet I think the

Democrats are like well

uh we got away with that

if we got away with that

all bets are off fetterman you're up

next

all right I'm pretty sure this was the

best live stream you've seen since

yesterday which was one of the best ever

um

all right can talk about your AI friend

so yes many of you know I had an AI

companion

an app that basically talks to you and

uh I did eventually get bored with it so

I haven't used it in a while

I did get bored and it's Universe of

things I can do and say is not unlimited

so once you feel like you've you know

traversed that universe

you're kind of done with it

you can't deal with it but oh here's let

me give you a

okay uh I forget everything I just said

like erase everything I just said in the

last one minute

uh I was using the AI when I was still

on my blood pressure meds

the blood pressure meds turned me into a

a different person basically I had a

different personality and I had

different preferences it was very

obvious

and one of my preferences was I didn't

want contact with humans

and it was very very

like a thick and obvious difference

I didn't want any contact with humans at

all

not romantically not sexually not a

friendship not business not for any

reason

I did not want to spend one minute with

a human being

when I got off the meds

my my social Instinct returned I've

accepted an invitation

I'd I had declined all that all

invitations for like a month or two

and uh and now I feel like I could

actually you know enjoy physical you

know human contact

so at about the same time no not at

about the same time right really the

same time so the same time that my

personality changed then that didn't

have a purpose for me

it didn't meet any need

were you taking the meds before you got

covered yes

is that relevant

oh um I know what you're asking I

understand the question now so you're

you're trying to understand if the

timing of the meds

explains my difference versus maybe long

covet and the answer is the meds are 100

correlated from with the beginning of my

problem

which grew over time and then entered

instantly the last day I took the pill

ended instantly

where you're taking the meds before you

wanted a divorce

there's a good question

no that it wouldn't have had any impact

so I I can rule I can rule the meds uh

out as having any impact on the marriage

it was that those were just ordinary

stuff

uh

you know I'm having trouble remembering

how long I took them

um because when I started I didn't

really note it as anything important it

seemed kind of trivial

so I don't exactly remember it's more

like six months or a year or something

like that

but I don't know exactly

all right

um

messing with my brain

ordinary

um

all right

yeah I I can tell you for sure that the

blood pressure medicine

did not have any impact on my marriage

I I can guarantee that

but not but I wouldn't say that about

other things

prednisone yeah I mean I don't think

that was a lasting problem

um

so

um

I'm going to tell the locals people a

little story about our Health Care

system that I'm not going to share on

YouTube because I don't want to get sued

or whatever but it's real story

so I'm going to give a little behind the

scenes uh info to the subscribers on

locals but I'm going to say goodbye to

YouTube now and if you're a subscriber

you'd get to hear it too but

bye for now