Episode 1919 Scott Adams - Two Days Before Elections And The News Is Delicious & Stimulating. Join Us

good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of civilization the day before election day and our minds are I would say focused I would say that things are starting to move in the right direction maybe maybe we'll see how would you like to take it up to a new level of awareness to a higher Dimension a higher level of performance than you have ever experienced before well all you need is a cupboard mug or a glass of tanker jealous and the canteen jug or flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine the other day the pre-election Sip that you've been waiting for it's all going to happen now it's called the simultaneous sip go yes it is laundry day I'm sorry I'm not wearing my usual shirt sometimes you got to do the laundry well I had been working pretty hard but I managed to take some of my workload off by hiring a part-time assistant so thankfully a lot of the the chores that one normally does I managed to uh I managed to put off on my part-time assistant who immediately had a sporting accident uh and is on vacation right now so that didn't work out as well as I'd hoped but but it will it will it's going to get on track any moment now have you seen the video of the Iranian women knocking the headgear off of clerics and Durant it's really fun to watch so you know you're watching the the and I guess the government is cracking down on the women who are trying to not wear the traditional you know face coverings and stuff and it's becoming a really big deal the protests continue I thought they would be Stamped Out by now but they continue so maybe this has some legs but apparently there's a number of videos you can see a compilation where the the young women it looks like will run up behind a cleric who's got on the big hat what's the name of what's the name of the headgear that a cleric wears it's not a hat right turban turbine is it really a turban headpiece all right don't get all racist on me let's call it a hat um and here and here's the fun part the clerics tend to be not very athletic but the young women are you know they could just knock the hats off the clerics and just run away because there's nothing that Clara could do about it and I thought to myself uh the mullers or the clerics what would be the correct word isn't a mullah a higher level cleric there's a cleric lower than a Mulla I'm not sure how that all that works but anyway here's my suggestion I think they should do more of that but here's what I'll do if I were the women in Iran I would start to all dress alike uh everywhere all the same I would wear all black bottoms all black tops uh of the same kind and then I would have a black uh headgear and I would cover myself completely in public do you know why I do that because I'd be knocking the hat off of every uh cleric within miles and they wouldn't be able to catch anybody because they'd all look the same right so I think that the Iranian women should embrace and amplify they should over cover themselves and all look the same so they could be knocking hats off clerics all day long and nobody can get caught be like oh there's like 600 of them I have no idea which one did that am I right just just give them what they want just all dressed the same wear masks and once you cannot be identified go nuts once you can't be identified go nuts that's what they're asking for they're asking for you to be completely unidentified give them what they want show them what happens when you're unidentified give them exactly what they're asking for I've told you this before but man is it true that remember when we were waiting for uh AI artwork to someday be as good as a human that day passed a while ago AI art is unambiguously better than human art I've seen enough examples now where one after another AI art I want to put on my wall like I'll see it I'll go I would put that in my wall that's actually beautiful I don't really see human art that makes me do that I don't see human art that makes me want to put it on a wall I can't remember the last time like if I put up artwork is that protest I like I'd rather have nothing on my wall uh but uh Brian Machiavelli did another piece of artwork in which he just asked it to do a Dilbert comic um I'll show you which AI he was using here in a moment and the artwork in my opinion as a professional cartoonist is equal to the best human cartoonist just the art but there's an interesting quality about it that blows my freaking mind let me show you here in a minute so you won't be able to see it as clearly as I want it but the the request um from Machiavelli's underbelly was uh to make a Delbert cartoon about a zebra and interestingly it made Dilbert part zebra not a zebra giraffe I'm sorry per giraffe and look look at the quality of the cartoon at the bottom that that is a hundred percent as good as the best human cartoonist right there there's there there's nothing missing on that that's it's beautiful really and like this art like that bottom cartoon that is so well designed like I would put that on my wall it's just cool to look at now but here's the weird thing do you notice that the humans have weird characteristics like they don't quite look like they have the right features and stuff they look all interesting but even from one one panel to the next the AI is making the person look different like one has you know three lenses and blah blah now here you want a freaky idea do you want a really freaky idea all right I'm going to build into this this will just freak you the out you ready for it you know how you the human brain gives you a perfect image of things that you don't see perfectly you know that right so for example you will have a memory of something that didn't even happen the false memory is pretty common we all have them right you also if you're watching let's say a tennis ball being hit hard and it bounces near a line your brain says I saw that tennis ball I saw it hit the ground and I know if it's in or out but did you know you don't see that tennis ball your your brain or your eyes can only pick up the tennis ball every depending on the speed it's going it can only pick up the tennis ball every five feet or something but all the stuff in between your brain filled in and it wasn't there but your memory is you saw the ball the whole way you did not see the ball the whole way your brain allowed you to imagine you saw it the whole way now do you accept do you accept that your brain is in real time translating things into things that are not true do you agree with that your brain is always translating your approximate environment into a specific picture which is not true now what happens when you take AI that you know high intelligence and you train it to look at human faces and then you tell them to reproduce a human face in some artwork and then the AI makes the human face look different in each panel all the time all the time well it seems like it doesn't seem to matter which AI you're using and you can train the AI to really know what a face looks like right because faces are approximately you know the same on the approximately symmetrical right it knows what a nose is it knows what eyes are it knows where they appear on the face are you telling me that AI can't make a human face what should be the simplest thing right now I'm going to blow your mind you ready you ready for this get ready it could be the human faces don't look the same from minute to minute and that we can't tell because our human brain is making your face look the same as it looked a minute ago to me what if our faces don't look the same from moment to moment and that they're at that it's actually like a you know is more like a wave function that your favorite your face is only a potential face and when somebody looks at it they're picking up the potential they're forming in their mind their own face and then they lock it in and so every time they look at you they see that face that they've locked in but your actual face is never the same okay did I freak anybody out because give me one other reason that AI can't make a face the same twice in a row there's no other reason because the technology could easily do it the technology is telling you what is actually there the AI is telling you that our faces are not the same for a minute to moment that's what it is but we don't see it now I'm not saying that's true I'm just saying it might be that that is within the realm of something that could be true which is freaky by itself even if it's not true but I can't think of another reason that AI can't make a face I mean there's just no other reason all right um a real clear politics at a poll asking people if we thought the country was heading in the right direction or the wrong direction I want to test your intelligence many of you have not seen this news but I want to see if you can use your powers of deduction what percentage of the population thinks that things are moving in the right direction go how are you doing that how are you doing that 25.6 percent you guys you guys and gals you impress me I've never seen a group that could guess things better than you but once again once again with no help whatsoever you got the right answer almost all of you so congratulations to you yeah about a quarter of the country things things are fine and in the right direction now I happen to be in the 25 percent surprise I I had a realization the other day that two things are true I tweeted this two things are true at the same time you'll see if you agree with the first one I think you'll agree with the first one but not the second one the first one everything appears to be broken agree like everything in the world all of our systems all of the way we think about things education government Supply chains military correct right would you all agree now I say seems broken right it appears broken now that could be an impression right when everything looks broken you could be wrong you know it could be like the face thing you see it as broken but it's not so broken because remember the the central fact of our human cognition is that we're looking for problems so we can fix them so we can survive your brain is a problem identifier is not built to keep you happy and stupid because if it keeps you happy and stupid you're also going to be dead right because you won't see a problem you need to see problems to stay alive so you're you're a problem identifier now add add to the world news a news model that gets more clicks for bad news right there's a bad thing coming you'd better get afraid so now people are automatic problem identifiers and solvers and then the news model gives you nothing but problems what in the world would you think about your world you would think your world is falling apart because that's all you say right but when was the last time you saw a big news story about good news hey here's a news story of something that was working great I try to give you those stories but even when you see them in the Press They Don't Really frame them that way it's more like well the fact happened but you know I'll tell you hey things are moving in the right direction all right here's my take so number one I think we all agree everything looks broken and I would say that it is I I would say it's not just that it looks broken it's actually all broken all of it would you would you agree with that would you take it further and say it doesn't just look broken it's broken right in the sense of it's not where we want it to be no not maybe 100 broken but everything's not where we want it to be which is a perfect situation for humans humans love it when things are not where we want them to be that's like our Perfect Situation you're continually like ah got to build this thing gotta fix this thing that's where we're at our best when everything's a little bit broken and and we're like working on fixing it it's the ideal human situation and we do we do it well that the Adam's law of slow-moving disasters we do fix things pretty well all right here's my Uber optimistic take are you ready everything's broken that's true and we live in a self-correcting system that our politics and our free markets and our you know flow of information which isn't as free as it could be but it's getting better a hundred percent of things are self-correcting all of it everything is self-corrected now I told you about you know Germany was going to freeze over the winter because they didn't have Russian gas and then the most the latest report was oh somehow they figured out enough how to store enough gas so they can make it through the winter they solved it right now here's what I see happening because everything's broken that gives you license to improve it did you ever work in a company where something's working fine do you think you could improve it everybody would say why why are you focusing on that it's fine but everything looks broken which causes us to try to fix everything we're we're in this frenzy you know it's in society in the world in general we're in a frenzy of redesign everything's getting redesigned usually by the free market right absolutely everything's being redesigned from almost the bottom up we're we're in a reinvention phase that you won't recognize until until it's you know toward the end but you don't recognize we're in an in a creative inventive phase that will be one of the great ones of all human history right now I would argue that after World War II we had a creative you know explosion wouldn't you say you know and then there was the Industrial Revolution creative explosion Etc but I feel like we're we're in one but you don't feel it when you're in it it just feels like everything's broken because you're just trying to fix everything but what it gets fixed it will be better it'll be fixed better than it was and I think that applies everything from our energy policy to the way we run elections to uh to Twitter to you name it literally everything is trending positive if you look at it as a system that's you know in the phase of correcting so that's my optimism it does not say we should not be vigilant about all of our problems we'll do that automatically because we're good at being vigilant how many of you saw the video of John fetterman giving his speech Outdoors he had a bunch of American flags behind him and the wind blew them all down while he was talking and Fox News had a article about how social media was mocking it and you know it had some had some tweets there from some notable people saying funny things and I could not be more angry at Fox News today Fox News was saying that people were saying clever things about that fetterman flag thing and they did not include my tweet that oversight cannot be forgiven and so since they only mentioned some lesser clever tweets which were pretty good but they were lesser clever than the one I did and my tweet was this hypothetically if God had been trying to warn us for months not to vote for a particular candidate what would that look like come on I'm a professional joke writer and I declare that was the best joke written on this topic now let me tell you why this is a joke writing lesson for you so you can take this way I've told you this before but every time you see an example it helps if you can do a punch line or a joke in which the the audience has to fill in the details that's your best joke like that's the one that really works if if you over specify you know what what you want somebody to imagine well that could be a good joke too but the great jokes are where it takes you a moment to fill it in and where do you fill it in you're filling it in with your own stuff so what I said God had been trying to warn you for months you can fill it in with everything that happened to John fetterman which was a tragedy I don't mean to make fun of a medical problem but if you if you had you're trying to fill it in you're like okay yeah that sounds very much like that old joke you've all heard the joke the flood waters are rising and neighbor knocks on the on the elderly person's door and says you know hey the water's Rising come with us we're leaving right now and the woman says no no you know God will provide I'll be fine and the water rises and you know the woman has to go up to the second floor of her house and then a boat comes up to the second floor window and says get into the boat get in the boat and she's like no God will provide I'm fine then she has to ends up on the roof of her house because the water is risen and she's on the roof of the house and a helicopter comes by and says get on the helicopter you know put some rope down she goes down now God will provide the helicopter goes away well the water rises she drowns and she goes to heaven and she's talking to God in heaven and she goes God what's up I've been believing in you my whole life you know I was sure you would provide what happened and God says I sent you a car I sent you a boat I sent you a helicopter and you know that's the joke so sometimes the signs are there maybe you should just recognize them anyway yourself did so much like the joke I couldn't couldn't resist there is a video on getter that's sort of that Twitter competitor which I'm not going to tell you is credible so don't assume this is credible because if I told you it's credible I would be kicked off of social media probably not Twitter at the moment but I'll just describe it to you so there's a woman who claims that she was doing construction on a home that she and her husband owns for a couple years so it's a place that has been abandoned but you can reach the mailbox even though it's behind a chain link fence fence right so you can sort of you know reach in and get to the mailbox I guess and uh she found it was stuffed with uh address changes so a whole bunch of people allegedly had changed their address to her address which is an abandoned building now obviously the implication is that people are doing things to be able to vote by mail fraudulently right now no squatters there were no people in there they were just using the mailbox as a change of address place now anecdotally I heard other reports of you know this being a a ballot fraud thing that people do Etc now question number one you have seen one um real person apparently describing what looks like a pretty credible claim use your uh critical thinking to answer this question what are the odds it's true go put the odds on it odds it's true I'm saying 25 25 low one percent low zero ten percent very good very good very good let so do you remember what I predicted would be true after the 2020 election if you remember I said a whole bunch of times I said this over and over again I said every claim you hear about election fraud is at least 95 chance likely to be false 95 percent now what what was the final outcome of all the 2020 claims how close was I right I told you that even if something is true and I didn't have an opinion at that that time I didn't know if there was some true stuff but I told you that 95 of what people surface will definitely not be true right so when you see this new claim just keep the 95 thing in your mind now it looked very incredible to me right if you put a gun to my head and say and said all right you're gonna have to bet whether this particular story was true I want to think it is but then I have to retreat to my rational mind and say okay the fact that it looks true means what how much credibility do you put on it's on video it's a real person and it looks true what's that mean to you nothing nothing in 2022 it doesn't have any value absolutely no value and the first thing you ask yourself is why is it only on getter right is there some reason that would be not on other platforms yeah so it could be you know from a different year could be an operative who's just you know doing an OP it could be anything it could be absolutely just anything you don't know all right um CNN um I'm gonna give yet another compliment compliment to CNN you know uh being one of its biggest critics for years I feel like uh like I have some kind of social obligation to tell you when they do something right and not only today do they have uh Daniel Dale doing a hard fat fact check on Biden and when I say A Hard fact check he just goes right at him yeah Daniel Dale went out Biden the way you saw him go after Trump I never thought I'd say it never thought I'd say it but he just went right at it he said lie lie lie not true lie yeah a big stuff I'm not talking a little stuff I'm talking about the major claims of the president lie just lie amazing so congratulations to CNN for what looks like a successful business pivot you want more this will blow your mind the day before elections CNN's website the following headline opinion Democrats are out of touch with American voters that's a headline on CNN the day before the election Democrats are out of touch with American voters and that it goes on in the article to say that Republicans are running for office on the actual issues that people care about can you believe that oh two days I'm sorry two days before election I forgot what day it was today feels like a Monday to me for some reason must be that time change does that just blow your mind my mind is completely blown by the fact that something's going right now remember I told you everything's broken everything's broken but it's all being redesigned right you you tell me was CNN broken a year ago and do you see that they're redesigning in a way that's useful to the country yes or no would you agree that you see it it's not just me right you can see it is Twitter better off than it was a year ago I think so I mean it's a big mystery where things will go but so you've got CNN being a responsible citizen congratulations see you then completely successful I don't know about their their ratings you know I hope that I actually hope their ratings improve so I'm gonna I'm gonna root for CNN's ratings to improve because I think they're I think they're acting like Patriots is that too far in my opinion CNN is taking a patriot perspective on their business which is to try to give you the actual news which is different all right too far baby but that's another example of something that's going right uh Biden of course gaffed again and said he wanted to close all the coal plants and then somebody from his own party two days before elections uh Joe manchin is asking the president to apologize you know if members of your own party are asking you to apologize two days before the midterms that's not a good look that's not good now a year ago do you think that Democrats were willing to admit that Biden is uh brain damaged and useless not so much right a year ago even the Democrats would have said oh stop making fun of his speech defect he's fine they don't say that now do they am I right there is a completely different tone from the Democrats about their own president and that tone is oh look what we look look what we did maybe we should undo this now you're going to get people who's still supported because it's a political world but um but let me let me give you a little story of something that happened to me I want to see if any of you have had a similar experience so last night I went to a large ish social Gathering of people in my town so I don't want to be any more specific than that so as a large social gathering in my town and I live in Northern California and now we're outside of San Francisco so what what do you assume is the political nature of my town it's just what you think right it's exactly what you think or is it I spent an entire night at a at an event and heard a number of pro-republican statements from people privately I heard zero Republic zero Democrat supportive statements zero there wasn't one I don't think there was anybody there who was favorable to the Democrat platform at the moment which is not to say they weren't Democrats if you could you know put on goggles and see everybody's voting uh party I'll bet you they're mostly Democrats I'll bet there were at least 60 Democrats but you don't see anybody talking about Biden it's just not a thing it's just not a thing and you don't even see people agreeing with wokeness at least within let's say that the Suburban family kind of just nobody and I used to feel um like I was in a little bit of danger when I just went out in public you know what I mean if you're notable as a trump supporter there was a time when I I it would have been dangerous for me just I was a little wary even just going to the grocery store because I thought I'd be confronted with somebody not necessarily physically but you I thought somebody would get in my face you know throw a milkshake on me or something some like that but I don't get any pushback anywhere where I live just think about that I mean people recognize me at this point and they've got a good idea what I'm up to I get no pushback zero there is not a single instance of somebody in my own community who's told me I've you know gone too far or I'm a Nazi or I'm on the wrong side nothing so are you seeing this are you seeing that in mixed Gatherings there is no Biden support or even Democrat support really people will talk about abortion that's sort of all they have am I right that's all they have and a lot of people don't care about that as much as you imagine they do uh yeah there was you know a little talk Of Trump but even he's not the important thing these days all right we'll talk about Trump um MSNBC there's a clip on Twitter of MSNBC interviewing Democrat governor candidate or Governor Kathy hokel now imagine MSNBC interviewing a Democratic governor two days before an election now how do you think that went you think that would be really just a friendly right they'd be trying to they'd be trying to get uh vocal over the the finish line nope that didn't happen MSNBC just slapped the out of her I didn't know what I was looking at there for a moment yeah I I didn't catch the name of the host but credit to the host um the host said you know I guess the the con the con yeah the context was a crime and the host says here's the problem we don't feel safe I walk into my Pharmacy and everything is on lockdown because of shoplifters I'm not going in the subway people don't feel safe in this town that is the end of her isn't that did MSNBC just drive a stake through her heart it looked like it it looked like even MSC NBC is like we can't even do this anymore we just can't do this anymore we have to kill you now I mean politically not actually I think they just drove a stake right through her heart in on live TV because and again I if somebody knows if you saw the clip I'd like to give a shout out to the host because that was good work that was good work and that not just on a team play kind of basis but it was it was good journalism this is somebody who really got to it really got under the hood there I wish somebody would say her name just so we could give her credit all right well maybe maybe you'll see it in the comments Jack Dorsey uh has apologized for a growing Twitter too quickly and therefore you know being a participant I I guess he would say for how many people had to get laid off because he thinks it grew a little too quickly and um you know I appreciate that that that's sort of a it's kind of the context you wanted to hear right didn't you wonder why there were so many people and could you actually get rid of a lot of people and still run the company and probably yes if grew too fast is a true statement and it certainly looks that way then probably there's a little bit of or maybe a lot of uh you know cushion stuff they can cut um so that's happening um I you know it's I was trying to imagine what it would be like to be Jack Dorsey and know that all these layoffs are happening like that's got to be it's just gonna be crushing um I once had to close a restaurant uh two restaurants actually but I had to close a restaurant that wasn't working out and you know had to I had to tell the staff that they were all fired you know with Severance and stuff like that so they were treated well but that's a really bad day it's a twice a bad day because as I was telling them that I would you know treat them right and everything there were some others were actually robbing the storeroom of all the electronics as I was talking to the staff they were robbing they were actually robbing the restaurant well that that showed me anyway that was pretty expensive um musk met with some civil rights leaders the Anti-Defamation League and and NAACP and I saw an interview by uh head of the NAACP Derek Johnson now interestingly uh the head of the NAACP uh appears to be and I don't want to I don't want to make an assumption here but appears to be a black man I know it's a weird thing about 2022 when I find out that the head of the NAACP is at least apparently black so good job good job there seems like a good fit but I would like to give him a shout out because you know how you get an immediate reaction to some public figures do you remember when uh maybe you don't remember it but when Barack Obama burst on the scene the first time you saw him give a speech even if you were a Republican you probably said to yourself ooh there's something special there right didn't you see that like you see it immediately and the special thing was he wasn't doing the thing you expect Obama did not run as a black guy and every time he didn't run as a black guy which he did better than anybody ever did right the Obama was just the master of using race without using it oh my God he did that well because it was there you could see it you can make your own decision but if he'd even said it once you should vote for me because I'm black he would be done it was like that's no no that's that's absolutely you're you're off the list if you say that but he never did because he's very good at this stuff so I want to give the like a similar shout out to this Derek Johnson I'd never seen him before but he was uh talking about the meeting and he first said that he thought musk agreed with the people who were there that's good so no no confrontational anything just it looks like he agreed but there was a question of whether musk would be able to execute which is exactly the the best question you could ever have do you think musk can execute that's like what he does better than anybody who's ever done anything it must can execute yeah better than anybody maybe in the whole world who's ever done anything there's one thing you can do but here's here's why I want to give Derek a shout out he went through the whole interview and he talked about how he wanted to make sure that you know Twitter was protecting communities that you know were marginalized and I watched the whole interview and not once did he frame things racially now I think it's completely fair to say don't don't have groups targeted for hate speech that's not really a racial statement that's something everybody would say but somehow he got through the whole thing without me hating him for saying I'm bad or something like I didn't get blamed for anything and he didn't even talk about it like in the normal uh team play somehow he did it he did an Obama on this thing and I gotta say I want to see more I want to see more from him Derek Johnson because one of the things I've been saying forever is that the Black American population doesn't have a good leader you know somebody who would appeal to whoever they're trying to persuade at the same time as appeal to the black community and he may he may be the guy he's got he's got a strong strong game yeah so just keep an eye on him this is another thing that in my opinion is going right in my opinion and this will be really controversial racial um racial what would you say Harmony is actually improving what do you think of that in my opinion racial Harmony is improving and I'll tell you why because we're wising up to why it happened in the first place we're wising up that it was the media that was causing it right and I think people are wising up the people everybody wants everybody to do well if there's one thing that you can say about Republicans that you could just take to the bank they want everybody to do well right there are no Republicans who want black people not to do well they all want them to do well as well as everybody who's struggling they don't want to necessarily be the ones that pay for it that's a different question but they want everybody to do well and would even jump in and help quite a bit if there was something that made sense to help on and and the I think that the education question is where everybody's going to meet because you know a black parent and a white parent when they're talking about educating their kids same page I mean small differences but the same page right everybody's got individual differences somebody says I don't think about race unless I'm in social media isn't that true when was the last time you had a real world racial anything can't even think of one now I live in a a pretty harmonious place in the country but when was the last time you had a racial confrontation or even a racial issue I don't remember the last time it like it's literally not on my consciousness anytime except social media you're right yeah this is a social media thing um so this is the this is weird and wonderful and mind-blowing that there was an accusation on Twitter that Twitter had sold uh somebody a blue check for fifteen thousand dollars and that there was a system sort of an underground system where people could get to some Twitter employee who would illegally I don't know if it's illegal but I would offer to sell them blue check you know outside of the normal system and apparently a number of people took advantage of it I don't know what that number is but here's the funny part Elon Musk confirmed it he goes yup he said Yup absolutely confirmed that Twitter had been selling blue checks does that does that just blow your mind because and it blows my mind on several levels watching Elon Musk fact check the world in real time is something we've never seen before like even if a politician gets fact checked you have to wait until they give a speech right or wait until the statement comes out of something but musk will be on Twitter there'll be something that's just like a complete lie or in this case something that's weird but true and they just fact checks it you got like a five minute fact check that you could actually believe right if if musk says that happened I believe it I mean why would he say that of all things you could say you know nobody's gonna lie about that ah for fifteen thousand you will cook dinner well okay would be a good dinner uh let's talk about some more Twitter stuff the most important thing that's happening lately um Mark Ruffalo uh one of the smartest Democrats now I'm just joking he's one of the dumbest uh if you were trying to if you tried to list the dumbest celebrities who are political you know you'd put at least politically dumb I'm not saying they're dumb like low IQ but Mark Ruffalo uh while I love his passion and I love that he apparently cares about the country and people and wants good things for all of us so character wise I'm a big fan right yeah I think you have to appreciate when somebody's on the other side from you if they're if they're trying to make things better but they have a different opinion now you can't really hate them for that right you just want a different thing but uh Mark Ruffalo uh tweeted at musk he says Elon period please for the love of decency get off Twitter get off Twitter hand the keys over to someone who does this as an actual job and get on with running Tesla and SpaceX you are destroying your credibility it's just not a good look is that the worst take you've ever seen in your life have you ever seen a worst take this is an actor who's giving the most successful entrepreneur of all time business advice yeah and he does it in public like that should look good and he's worried that uh Elon said he's saying that it's not a good look for Elon do you know it's not a good look giving business advice to Elon Musk my God man my God let me let me give you the Hollywood analogy that uh even Mark Ruffalo would this would hit him hard all right you might not know this but in the acting world I made this mistake once uh when I was working on the Dilbert TV show well I'll tell you what what mistake I made one of the voice actors was running through some lines for the dilber animated TV show that ran years ago and I didn't like what one of the actors um how how they played a line I'd written the line so I knew how I wanted it read so I I stopped and said oh you know I want it done this way and I did an impression of the actor or actress doing the line and I said do it like this then gave an impression my co-executive producer turned off the mic and invited me into the hallway where I learned that I just committed the greatest sin the greatest sin let me tell you if you're ever in this situation don't tell an actor how to act don't do that here's what you do do can you give me a different look can you give me a different take you could say can you combine a little uh like let's say more concern you say I can't do that but like add like you're more concerned as well you can describe it but do not do the imitation do not do that that's that's like the big thing you don't do now to the credit of the actor or actress who will remain nameless they didn't give me a hard time about it but it's because they also saw the car executive producer drag me into the hallway so that they knew exactly what happened and I'm sure that they were they were fine with it which by the way was good executive co-executive producing so let me give my compliments to my you know co-executive producer Larry Charles yeah Larry just dragged me into the hallway and said um nope nope don't do that again so that was a good lesson now that feels to me exactly like an actor giving Elon Musk business advice am I right that's the same thing you don't do that you don't do that well if you do it at least add a little bit of humility right because I think we're all giving Elon Musk some business advice but usually it's in the form of our own preferences you know it's not in the form of what's good business now what about the advice that uh he's got these two other CEO jobs or three or four how many other many businesses you should stick to those if you tell Elon Musk of all people in the world so you know seven point whatever a billion people in the world there's exactly one person who's the wrong person to stay stay in your lane he's the most wrong person out of all seven billion of us that you should advise not to leave his Lane leaving his Lane is what he does best is what he does best better than anybody's ever done it probably more consistently so uh everything about that take was bad what did musk and um ruffalo's comment was because Elon was responding to AOC that AOC had made some claims about uh musk messing with her Twitter feed which didn't happen of course and then musk replies hot take not everything AOC says is 100 accurate I love the understatement hot take not everything AOC says is 100 accurate all right here's the most exciting part or dangerous part or something musk is continuing to design Twitter or redesign it in public this is great you're getting a a total business education and watching him do this in public you see it all so here's a tweet today he was talking about how um he wants Twitter to be able to monetize all Creator content all Creator content so Twitter would monetize much the way um You.

Tube would I imagine that any any content you know you could share the revenue with Twitter so I think that's where he's having and that includes video now Twitter has some video limitations you know resource limitations but apparently according to musk we can do he says we Twitter can do 42 minute chunks at 1080 resolution now if you're in the blue the blue program within Twitter so you could break that up into longer videos the 42 minute limit could be fixed by next month and so he's telling you that they're removing the 42 minute limit within a month which is super fast for something of that magnitude um and then he finishes this is with this question he says to the public how does You.

Tube monetization work and what could Twitter do better talk about the transparency the transparency there is insane so he's telling you that he doesn't have a sufficient like user level understanding of what You.

Tube does for creators which is quite an admission in public especially for somebody who's running this company and that he's asking for your input and it's legitimate uh he's actually asking for your input it's real like it's not it's not for appearance your actual input will determine at least it could what Twitter becomes and Twitter could be one of the most important parts of society and you you get to be part of it so look at all the things you're learning number one did he prove that you don't need a marketing department all the time yes he did yes he did so that's like a whole lesson in itself you just replace the marketing department um he's also showing you the new CEO move I talk about all the time which is immediately establishing what you're about like on day one because that first impression becomes really sticky that's that's who you are forever you did that perfectly and now you're seeing him collecting um input from the customers in a very direct way and he's doing two things here you might see one but he's doing two the first thing he's doing is making sure he gets input um so he's got input and the second thing he's doing is making you feel buy-in how much do you feel like you you're legitimately part of the process or better people that you trust on Twitter you see them making suggestions right and they're smart people in many cases when you see smart people on Twitter making Smart Suggestions to Musk even though it's not your suggestion you feel like you're part of the process right because you could have you could have made that suggestion so bringing the knowing that he has this huge public relations problem because half of the world is going to hate him no matter what he does now now the news is reporting he's he's meeting with the NAACP and the ADL and that apparently they like him imagine that that's the news he managed the news the news is telling you that the the groups that would be most concerned got a good result good good response from he's doing everything right so you're learning publicity marketing you're learning how to take user requirements you're learning how to get buy-in you're learning how to communicate you're learning how to tweet you're learning social media as it relates to a company you're you're seeing his business model being created in real time so he's struggling between subscription and Advertiser and what balance and what features oh my God oh my God is this useful you don't realize how much smarter we're all getting just by you know getting to see the transparency of this this process so the the Brilliance that is coming out of all of this is just stunning cernovich Mike cernovich had an interesting note on that tweet he said that it's not being treated as newsworthy that Twitter had entire teams that coordinated messaging with the UN says it all um and he goes on and it says how is that not a big deal he speculates he goes exactly New York Times Washington Post probably has the same internals team doing propaganda so sort of which is speculating that the major media might not be hitting this story hard because they might also have deep connections at Twitter which was you know managing the news if you will and I don't know if that's true it's it's reasonable speculation but um I'm more interested in the fact of why we decide some things are news and some are not have I told you before that the New York Times and Washington Post and and really not much else a few others they make news and by make news I mean they look into all the things that are happening and then they tell you what things are important but is it because they are important that's what I used to think I used to think that if it's on the news it's because it's important and everybody notices it and then everybody puts it on the news nothing like that is happening when it comes to politics they decide what the news is it's literally just a decision by people who you know want to manage the public and they've decided that this is not a big story that Twitter was you know being influenced directly and personally and in an ongoing way by the United Nations to make sure the messaging was compatible with what the UN wanted which is the scariest thing you could ever hear now why is that not a big story because the media decided it wasn't I suppose Fox News could decide and they're big enough that they could make that a story but it would never cross over from Fox News would it except that other people would you know mock them for having the only stories about it or something this is one of those cases where you can tell yourself you really see that the media assigns your opinion because whatever your worked up about today I guarantee it was on the news and the things you're not worked up about they were not on the news the news decided what to run and they they could pick or ignore whatever they wanted and then you get worked up over it and you think oh I'm worked up over that important thing no you're not worked up over the important thing you're worked up over what the news wanted you to be worked up over you're completely manipulated as am I right I'm not I'm not outside that system I'm just as manipulated as you are just be aware of it and so that's a um that was a two-level excellent tweet by cernovich because it really gets to something deeper than just the news all right um Tim Ryan running for Ohio senate had to have this statement to say in public he said imagine his this is his competitor he says imagine if JD Vance was your teenage kid and you caught him hanging around with people like Marjorie Taylor green Ron De.

Santis and Alex Jones uh to which I tweeted imagine being a Democrat candidate I said one day before election day because I didn't know what day it was uh and the best argument you have is that your opponent values diversity that's his argument my opponent values diverse people because here's what he didn't say he didn't say JD Vance refuses to meet with black people you didn't say that because I assume that JD Vance has met with all of his constituents but he's also also meeting with some people who have opinions that Tim Ryan does not share so he's actually criticizing I mean this is how empty this is how empty their entire approach is the Democrats they are so empty that this close to election a strong approach is that JD Vance values diverse opinions because that's what I heard I didn't hear I didn't hear JD Vance agrees with uh Marjorie Taylor green on all things did you hear that nobody's even claiming that what I didn't hear is um JD Vance agrees with all the things that Alex Jones has said I've never heard of that because I'm sure he doesn't right if you're interacting with people who have different opinions but not adopting them you're doing what we want you to do are you do you want to do you want a politician who doesn't interact with people who have different opinions I mean this is the craziest weakest emptiest attack I've ever seen But even more than that I'm going a little hard on it because um about once a year or maybe twice a year I have to say this in public and so I'm going to say it again I assert my complete right to associate with anybody I want and when you don't like it you and that's the end of the conversation I'm not going to adopt the views of any bad people necessarily it might but that's not why that happens I I interact with people you don't like and if you don't like that you and there's nothing else to say would you agree there's nothing else to the conversation this is one of those conversations where you that's the whole argument it's the whole argument there's nothing else I have no Nuance to add to that just you that's it you I'm going to associate with whoever I want whenever I want right in front of you don't care um to make my point watch me prove my point with a Segway that was probably created in heaven it's so amazing um Adam kinzinger is right about this so there you go Adam kinzinger somebody that I would not agree with normally but I associate with his following comments because if you don't like me associating uh and agreeing with Adam kinzinger on a specific policy you you but I know you don't I don't know none of you have that problem I'm sure but uh here he is being right about something apparently there's some aircraft that the National Guard uses to track the drug shipments and defense null in particular and it's going to be retired and I guess kinsiger is one of the few people who actually can fly that plane um I didn't realize he was in the National Guard kinzinger is still in the National Guard yes all right credit to him so can we say that without can we give a full-throated Patriot now I I hate what he did with January 6 right but he's a member of the National Guard and he's calling out a a huge problem that this uh aircraft will be retired and then they won't be able to easily you know introdite interdict um Fentanyl so good job Adam kinsiger on this particular issue which also suggests that the administration is not that serious about a fentanyl because this plane is critical to their success of capturing stuff and uh kinsiger's fighting to keep this funded so good for you hope you hope that works um let's talk about Trump Trump labeled Governor De.

Santis with a nickname he called him Ron de sanctimonious how many of you had to uh Look up the word sanctimonious I did I did yeah I did so if it makes it any easier for you to admit it I am a professional writer I do it for a living I never use that word yeah so I had to look it up so in case you don't know what it means like me um basically somebody who's showing a big show of religion or piety you know being the right person but being someone what hypocritical so somebody who's trying yeah who was trying to be holier than you but they're sort of a hypocrite does any of that seem to fit wrong De.

Santis does that does that feel like a kill shot it does not now how many of you were happy that he said that how many of you said oh I'm glad he did that not none right zero so given given that none of you were happy with that almost not of you let's say 95 percent if you were not happy with it wasn't a mistake yeah you weren't happy with it but was it a mistake go yeah it gets a little more complicated now let me hark back to my uh Mark Ruffalo comment Mark Ruffalo is not the one who should be commenting on business stuff right that's not his domain and so we should all be humble when we're commenting on somebody else's expertise which we don't share now I always have a little concern when I criticize Trump for any of his persuasion related stuff because he became president I didn't whatever he does seems to work even when you think he won't right that's probably the most uh remarkable thing about his method is that even people who support him think that's not going to work well that's not going to work and then weirdly it works for reasons that you don't imagine he sucks all the energy out you know whatever here's what I thought my first impression was oh that's a mistake that's a mistake he just went after one of the most popular Republicans was 100 successful according to Republicans so on the surface it's a mistake wasn't it but did you notice it was the worst Kill Shot he's ever issued is that an accident is it an accident that the kill shot he used against De.

Santis seemed to be designed not to wound it right it looked like a warning shot over the bow exactly that was a brush back pinch the brush back pitch he just told the world you can you can run against me in the primary but it's not going to be pretty that's once you think about it a little bit you realize it was just a brush pitch it wasn't really about De.

Santis at all you know I'd be surprised if he thinks De.

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Santis have the top job right so Trump knows he has to knock De.

Santis down a notch but I think he was just telling the world he's willing to do it which is actually useful he's basically saying yeah I'm not going to leave him alone I'm going to go after him but he went after me so softly that it's easy to pull back right it was such a soft brushback that that makes it look like it was an intentional just a warning shot just just to let you know that you know he's the big shark and if you go swimming with the big shark you're gonna get bit so I started hating it and then the more I like the more I thought about it it's like oh God he did it again you did it again he did something that I immediately disliked but the more I thought about it's like shoot that does move the energy in his Direction in just just a slight way anyway so always be humble when you're looking at Trump's persuasion because you never know exactly what he's up to sometimes it's smarter than you think all right as we head into the midterms how's everybody feeling how is everybody feeling what do you think about the economy I think the economy will be right be all right yeah a lot of you are feeling uh feeling good but also nervous I don't know what's going to happen but I'll tell you one thing that might happen one thing that might happen is there there's tons of scrutiny and maybe we got way better at watching things so we might have the cleanest selection we've ever had like that's possible Right could be the cleanest one we've ever had just because of so much uh extra energy watching things and there have been some changes there have been some changes that should reduce the amount of cheating potentially but the other possibility that I don't discount at all is that the extra attention will end up finding some real serious fraud it could be on either side I'm not going to say it's going to be all Democrat because here's my opinion the reason that we don't have uh elections that can be finished the same day is because we don't want it there's no other reason we obviously we meaning both Democrats and Republicans you know each of them having control over individual states it's very obvious that they want the option of cheating it's very obvious because if either side didn't want the option of cheating they would just make they would make the option go away in their state because there are places where the Republicans can design the system any way they want right right to give me a fact check there are states where the Republicans could have a an Israeli type of system where it's all on paper and it all happens in one room the ballots never leave the room you count them in the room with lots of witnesses and that there's basically close to zero chance of fraud you don't think that one Republican state would have implemented something that's just fraud free no it's because everybody who controls elections in their own State wants the option of gaming the system what else could it be what else could it be if either side wanted the elections to be you know transparent and done on the first day we have we have models to follow that are simple they're simple just what does Israel do and what does some other countries do and just do that it works so you you can eliminate the possibility that either side wants to fix this does anybody disagree with that I'm not saying Republicans do anything except you know dick around the edges you know with voter ID and stuff which is important but that's just sticking around the edges um all right let me make a case that everything's getting better even though we're low on diesel fuel let me make a diesel fuel prediction are you ready so apparently if diesel fuel is limited Trucking will fall off and you know the supply chain will die and we don't have an obvious way to make enough to fix that I think we know about this problem far enough in advance that um that we'll get through it like our other problems so if we know far enough in advance we we yeah trains and everything else we're going to need to uh we'll probably make the adjustments now imagine if you will that the country just couldn't get products where it wanted because there's not enough diesel what would be the fallback somebody Builds an app where you can all be Uber for packages right all it would take is an app that says well just you know take your van down to this dock we'll load you up with stuff and you you know deliver to here and you'll you'll be covered with some temporary insurance or something like that you know if it were a National Emergency where people were starving and stuff we would just use regular cars and regular trucks just people would put their bring their pickup truck and say well I could deliver some of this so it's one of those emergencies where if you had to like you're actually starving and we have other vehicles right we're not we don't have a shortage of vehicles that can transport stuff it would be an organizational you know Dunkirk sized thing but we could do it we'll get through it all right um is there anything that's going wrong I'm not even entirely sure that Ukraine is going wrong yeah are you and I don't even know what wrong looks like because we don't know how it ends but one potential ending is that Putin is weakened and Russia is no longer a thorn in our side and Ukraine is creating energy and food for everybody it's possible uh the you know we're gonna have a huge bill to pay in terms of our borrowing to fund that war but yeah if you're gonna if you're gonna guess it does look like things are pretty bad over there and will stay that way and could turn into a nuclear war but I will see it happening I I feel like the signals of a potential nuclear war would be much stronger than they are so now it just looks like people bluffing each other so I I don't I don't spend really any time worrying about nuclear war right I mean that could change but at the moment it just looks like bluffing all right um and then I I hear other people say the real problem is uh that Russia and China and other countries will have their own currency and then America's you know currency dominance will fall away the dollar won't be worth something but I feel like we've been talking about that forever haven't we yeah it just feels like we've been talking about that forever I don't know if that means it's about ready to happen but I I feel like that's another one of those Adam's love slow-moving disasters there's probably a way around it uh can we get reparations from China for covet well have you heard the story that Russia has put together a case that the virus escaped from a Ukrainian lab that America backed and they've asked the U.N to investigate it and they've given a bunch of information have you heard of that now how many of you would say there's no chance that America was behind the virus in the comments how many of you think there's no chance there's no chance that America was behind the virus yeah you're a little a little uncertain aren't you yep in my opinion it's entirely possible entirely possible I'm not even sure how I would put the odds on it I would say the odds that we have accurate information about the the source of the virus is probably low probably low now obviously the Wuhan you know lab looks like the obvious place but I'd have to hear what I'd like to hear what the Russians say because if America released that virus and knew it what would they do if America knew it released the virus it was already out there and it knew you know nobody noticed it yet but it's percolating and they know it's going to percolate up the first thing you do is you go infect some people next to the Wuhan uh lab that's that's what you do you go infect some people in Wuhan because then when it breaks down Wuhan everybody's gonna say right so if you tell me that the the odds are like all pointing toward Wuhan being the source I would say not so much they're definitely strong signals but we live in a world in which that's the sort of thing that gets faked like it's in the category of things that people do lie about every time like every time whoever's country it was that released that virus or whoever was responsible don't you think you could rely on them lying so you know somebody's lying and you just don't know yeah Russia's been saying it since February right uh do prices return to previous levels when inflation comes back down that's not exactly how that works no the answer is no what should happen is your um your paycheck should rise at some point if you're working for the right company your paycheck should rise to to meet that um but I don't know if that's going to happen yeah pangolins have been maligned do you remember when we were hearing the early theories about the virus and people were so confident about it the theories that turned out to be wrong oh definitely came from that wet Market oh definitely oh wet Market nope your coffee cup somebody got their coffee with Scott Adams coffee cup wall on live streaming amazing um somebody asked me at uh an event yesterday well actually lots lots of people asked me this they asked me if I if I'm retired because I guess I guess I'm at that age where people just look at you and say how's retirement like do I look that old well I think that's that's the first question you're going to ask me is if I'm a retired I don't like that um but I decided that I I am retired but I'm modern and retired by modern retired I mean I've simply stopped doing the things I found unpleasant that I did for money and I do the things that I find Pleasant it still work I was adding up how many hours per week I work now in my retirement uh it's about 40 hours a week so my retirement is 40 hours a week of work okay which feels like retirement because you know 16 and 70 would be more normal but 40 feels like vacation like I'm usually done by you know if I start at 4am and I work seven days a week right I'm done by 10 a.m and I've done 40 hours a week 42.

and that's just on the live stream right because I do a lot of prep for that um so I'm still doing the cartoon but my assistant is doing all of the drawing now so if you see any differences in the drawing it's because a better artist is doing it so my uh my my assistant who does the art now is authorized to change the the look of it a little bit like the background add a little backgrounds and maybe some angles that I don't do just because she's a better a better artist than I am all right um I need a time clock because I've run too long okay interesting message here uh all right I got a funny message but I can't share it with you um Sharon says Scott with all caps do you feel guilty for falling for the fear hysteria of covid would anybody like to answer Sharon for me this is in all caps Scott do you feel guilty for falling for the fear hysteria of covet huh I wonder what's going to happen to poor Sharon this is the sort of situation where in the past people have seen me have a reaction except I don't believe she's real I think she's just uh goading me so I'm not going to respond to that but Sharon I'm sure there's somebody in the comments who will share with you the word that you have identified yourself as and I don't need to use it uh so Sharon you dug your own situation I don't want to say gray if that sounded violent yeah uh I think she's just kidding around I don't think that's real I've blocked her I didn't block her all right is there anything I missed any stories I missed that you need a reaction to wake up Scott uh check out this jingle for the simultaneous sip send that to me somewhere else so I can see it I won't won't be able to go back in the comments easily um baby troll what's that means you're still feeling better yes yeah so let me continue with my update um I have had nothing but excellent days all day long from the day that I stopped taking my blood pressure meds nothing but excellent days mentally 100 percent 100 physically uh my knees are hurting a little bit from overuse but otherwise my body is you know it's like 20 years younger yeah I mean I I can exercise for hours it's just everything's fixed and it was just that yeah I forget what kind I don't think I had a beta blocker I think I said it was a beta blocker and then somebody corrected me so I'm not going to name the specific Med because I don't want to get sued for making claims that they can debunk or something all right it was a steroid I don't think it was it wasn't a steroid your coffee mugs will be arriving soon thank you Henry uh High BP will Jack your cognition Jack your cognition as an improvement so did I tell you my reframe for blood pressure now I don't think this has scientific backing so this is like just a fun speculative thing right um is it is it a coincidence that all the things that are good for blood pressure um are things that manage your energy right but basically if you can lower your energy or expend your energy so you can expend it by exercise or you can lower it by meditation for example so it seems to be and this is just the hypothesis that as you age your body does not naturally off gas your energy meaning that if you're a child and you have high energy nothing will stop you from moving right you'll just get real active until you burn off your energy and like fall asleep into a dead sleep if you're an adult just because um a normal adult lifestyle doesn't involve moving much depending on your job but you sit in the chair a lot oh and I don't I like miss my workout or something like that so I feel as if high blood pressure is really energy that doesn't have a way to get out does that reframe make sense to you because it also tells you what to do it tells you if you keep your body healthy enough that you can exercise then you've got you know good chance of managing your blood pressure yeah follow the energy exactly follow the energy Dr.

Oz has entered the room yeah so I'm not going to say that uh you should take that reframe and ignore your doctors I'm just saying that it so clearly explains everything that you need to do and not do just by energy and and there are a whole bunch of things in which if you reframe it as energy you start understanding it remember when I first reframed Trump as energy like you were thinking in terms of fact checking and policies but when I reframed it in terms of he's an energy monster and he moves the energy where you want it then suddenly everything makes sense right all the things are a little confusing this suddenly comes into focus when energy is the frame I feel like this might be another one of those we'll see oh I just realized I did something clever if I have a stroke because everybody's teasing me because you know I got vaccinated originally uh people saying I'm gonna get a stroke but now that I've publicly gone off my blood pressure meds if I have a stroke you're not going to know why I've ruined your fun I'm sorry now if I have a stroke it's because I'm off my blood pressure meds so I've ruined your anecdotal happiness should I have a tragic event your anecdotal happiness will be way down Claude Adams will not be as funny it won't be funny people won't laugh at it yeah so that was accidental but it was a stroke of Genius a stroke of Genius exactly uh okay no one here wants you to be harmed probably no one here but there are definitely some people who would have mocked me my dead bones if I died definitely and I don't begrudge them they're fun you know from Dad what's the difference all right could you have lowered the dose yes and the lower dose did not affect my blood pressure so it didn't help it was actually raised recently because it wasn't changing the blood pressure um and by the way I I'm not the person telling you you shouldn't take blood pressure meds because apparently there are a bunch of them I tried one of them two of them actually and the two of my tried didn't give me a good result that's all I know I don't know about the other five or six or whatever do I eat grapefruit no it's weird what is your BP it ranges now without blood pressure the week after it ranges between perfect 120 over 80.

um and 140 over 90 something in the afternoon usually and as I said to my doctor I'm not aware of any studies that say somebody with even the high end of my blood pressure should be on blood pressure meds which is not to say I shouldn't be I was simply challenging whether there's any medical scientific backing for it and my doctor was not willing to say there was because I did enough research to know there isn't there isn't it's it's another one of those big Pharma things right now I have to be really careful I'm not saying that you shouldn't take blood pressure meds I'm saying let me be very careful about that that's between you and your doctor all right what time do you suggest I take my first bong rip today well I think you've wasted a few minutes asking the question so no time like now um 140 isn't necessarily High yeah I I think that so here's the question if you have a stroke it's not just because of your blood pressure correct there you know a number of factors have to be also true at the same time uh like your yeah you need some kind of a thing going on now in my case I'm a vegetarian for you know 40 years more recently a pescetarian uh my my body mass index is exactly where it should be I'm like right in the middle of the good range I exercise daily I don't drink alcohol or smoke uh tobacco and there are no uh Strokes in my family background no Strokes in my family background now can somebody tell me that my blood pressure at 140 is dangerous it might be I'm not saying it isn't just being real clear I just don't think there's any evidence to show that me as a specific individual with a specific lifestyle I just don't know here's what I think I've always believed that my body runs hot runs hot and what I mean by that is that when I go to sleep I wake up sweating right like my natural body just runs hot I'd rather be in a cool room than a warm room I can't do work over 76 degrees if the room is over 76.

you know I my body just runs up now you've also noticed that when you do a lot of thinking you notice you can break a sweat just thinking hard has anybody ever done that yeah your brain actually uses a lot of energy so I have a theory that um my my brain draws more from my body than other people could it could have to do with something about my physical size compared to my brain size because I think I'm not sure about this but I think my brain size is about the same as any adult male right even if I'm if I'm five eight isn't my brain about the same as a six foot four guy can somebody is that true somebody says no and maybe it's not the it's the wrinkles not the weight right all right well whatever so forget about that point because I don't have any backing for that point but I feel as though my brain draws more from my body than most people because I just feel like I run hot and I don't know that that's bad for me right I don't think it's bad for me that I run hot as long as my body is you know I'm taking care of all the other lifestyle things I feel like I could run hot and be optimized I don't know just just the theory yeah somebody says that's not how it works and I agree that that is definitely not how it works but in a um it's more of a metaphorical sense that I say I run a hunt uh the the safer way to say it is um do I have the same risk at 140 blood pressure as somebody else and I don't think so I just don't know my my suspicion is I don't but that could get me killed of course all right uh that's all for now You.

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to get on track any moment now have you

seen the video of the Iranian women

knocking the headgear off of clerics and

Durant

it's really fun to watch so you know

you're watching the

the and I guess the government is

cracking down on the women who are

trying to not wear the traditional you

know face coverings and stuff

and it's becoming a really big deal the

protests continue I thought they would

be Stamped Out by now but they continue

so maybe this has some legs

but apparently there's a number of

videos you can see a compilation where

the the young women it looks like will

run up behind a cleric who's got on the

big hat what's the name of what's the

name of the headgear that a cleric wears

it's not a hat right

turban turbine

is it really a turban

headpiece

all right don't get all racist on me

let's call it a hat

um

and here and here's the fun part the

clerics tend to be not very athletic

but the young women are you know they

could just knock the hats off the

clerics and just run away because

there's nothing that Clara could do

about it and I thought to myself

uh the mullers or the clerics what would

be the correct word isn't a mullah a

higher level cleric

there's a cleric lower than a Mulla

I'm not sure how that all that works but

anyway

here's my suggestion

I think they should do more of that

but here's what I'll do if I were the

women in Iran I would start to all dress

alike uh everywhere

all the same I would wear all black

bottoms all black tops uh of the same

kind and then I would have a black uh

headgear and I would cover myself

completely in public

do you know why I do that because I'd be

knocking the hat off of every uh

cleric within miles

and they wouldn't be able to catch

anybody because they'd all look the same

right so I think that the Iranian women

should embrace and amplify they should

over cover themselves

and all look the same so they could be

knocking hats off clerics all day long

and nobody can get caught be like oh

there's like 600 of them I have no

idea which one did that am I right

just just give them what they want just

all dressed the same wear masks and once

you cannot be identified go nuts

once you can't be identified go nuts

that's what they're asking for they're

asking for you to be completely

unidentified

give them what they want

show them what happens when you're

unidentified

give them exactly what they're asking

for

I've told you this before but man is it

true that remember when we were waiting

for uh AI artwork to someday be as good

as a human

that day passed a while ago AI art is

unambiguously better than human art

I've seen enough examples now where one

after another AI art I want to put on my

wall like I'll see it I'll go I would

put that in my wall that's actually

beautiful I don't really see human art

that makes me do that

I don't see human art that makes me want

to put it on a wall I can't remember the

last time like if I put up artwork is

that protest I like I'd rather have

nothing on my wall

uh but uh Brian Machiavelli did another

piece of artwork in which he just asked

it to do a Dilbert comic

um I'll show you which AI he was using

here in a moment and the artwork in my

opinion as a professional cartoonist

is equal to the best human cartoonist

just the art

but there's an interesting quality about

it that blows my freaking mind let me

show you here in a minute

so you won't be able to see it as

clearly as I want it but the the request

um from Machiavelli's underbelly was uh

to make a Delbert cartoon about a zebra

and interestingly

it made Dilbert part zebra not a zebra

giraffe I'm sorry per giraffe and look

look at the quality of the cartoon at

the bottom

that that is a hundred percent as good

as the best human cartoonist right there

there's there there's nothing missing on

that that's it's beautiful really and

like this art

like that bottom cartoon

that is so well designed

like I would put that on my wall it's

just cool to look at

now but here's the weird thing

do you notice that the humans

have weird characteristics like they

don't quite look like they have the

right features and stuff

they look all interesting but even from

one one panel to the next the AI is

making the person look different like

one has you know three lenses and blah

blah now here you want a freaky idea

do you want a really freaky idea

all right I'm going to build into this

this will just freak you the out

you ready for it

you know how you the human brain gives

you a perfect image of things that you

don't see perfectly you know that right

so for example you will have a memory of

something that didn't even happen the

false memory is pretty common we all

have them right you also if you're

watching let's say a tennis ball being

hit hard and it bounces near a line your

brain says

I saw that tennis ball I saw it hit the

ground and I know if it's in or out

but did you know you don't see that

tennis ball

your your brain or your eyes can only

pick up the tennis ball every depending

on the speed it's going it can only pick

up the tennis ball every five feet or

something

but all the stuff in between your brain

filled in and it wasn't there

but your memory is you saw the ball the

whole way you did not see the ball the

whole way your brain allowed you to

imagine you saw it the whole way now do

you accept do you accept that your brain

is in real time translating things into

things that are not true

do you agree with that your brain is

always translating your approximate

environment into a specific picture

which is not true

now what happens when you take AI

that you know high intelligence and you

train it to look at human faces

and then you tell them to reproduce a

human face in some artwork

and then the AI makes the human face

look different in each panel

all the time

all the time well it seems like it

doesn't seem to matter which AI you're

using and you can train the AI

to really know what a face looks like

right because faces are approximately

you know the same on the approximately

symmetrical right it knows what a nose

is it knows what eyes are it knows where

they appear on the face are you telling

me that AI can't make a human face

what should be the simplest thing right

now I'm going to blow your mind

you ready

you ready for this

get ready

it could be

the human faces

don't look the same from minute to

minute

and that we can't tell

because our human brain is making your

face look the same as it looked a minute

ago to me

what if

our faces don't look the same from

moment to moment

and that they're at that it's actually

like a you know is more like a wave

function

that your favorite your face is only a

potential face

and when somebody looks at it they're

picking up the potential they're forming

in their mind their own face and then

they lock it in

and so every time they look at you they

see that face that they've locked in but

your actual face is never the same

okay did I freak anybody out

because give me one other reason that AI

can't make a face the same twice in a

row there's no other reason because the

technology could easily do it the

technology is telling you what is

actually there

the AI is telling you that our faces are

not the same for a minute to moment

that's what it is

but we don't see it

now I'm not saying that's true I'm just

saying it might be

that that is within the realm of

something that could be true

which is freaky by itself even if it's

not true but I can't think of another

reason that AI can't make a face

I mean there's just no other reason

all right

um a real clear politics at a poll

asking people if we thought the country

was heading in the right direction or

the wrong direction I want to test your

intelligence many of you have not seen

this news but

I want to see if you can use your powers

of deduction

what percentage of the population thinks

that things are moving in the right

direction go

how are you doing that

how are you doing that

25.6 percent

you guys you guys and gals you impress

me I've never seen a group that could

guess things better than you but once

again

once again with no help whatsoever you

got the right answer almost all of you

so congratulations to you

yeah about a quarter of the country

things things are fine and in the right

direction now

I happen to be in the 25 percent

surprise

I I had a realization the other day

that two things are true I tweeted this

two things are true at the same time

you'll see if you agree with the first

one I think you'll agree with the first

one but not the second one the first one

everything appears to be broken

agree like everything in the world

all of our systems all of the way we

think about things education government

Supply chains military

correct right would you all agree now I

say seems broken right it appears broken

now that could be an impression right

when everything looks broken you could

be wrong

you know it could be like the face thing

you see it as broken but it's not so

broken

because remember the the central

fact of our human cognition is that

we're looking for problems

so we can fix them so we can survive

your brain is a problem identifier

is not built to keep you happy and

stupid because if it keeps you happy and

stupid you're also going to be dead

right because you won't see a problem

you need to see problems to stay alive

so you're you're a problem identifier

now add add to the world

news a news model that gets more clicks

for bad news right

there's a bad thing coming you'd better

get afraid

so now people are automatic problem

identifiers and solvers and then the

news model gives you nothing but

problems

what in the world would you think about

your world

you would think your world is falling

apart

because that's all you say right but

when was the last time you saw a big

news story about good news

hey here's a news story of something

that was working great

I try to give you those stories but even

when you see them in the Press They

Don't Really frame them that way it's

more like well the fact happened

but you know I'll tell you hey things

are moving in the right direction all

right here's my take so number one I

think we all agree everything looks

broken

and I would say that it is

I I would say it's not just that it

looks broken it's actually all broken

all of it

would you would you agree with that

would you take it further and say it

doesn't just look broken

it's broken

right in the sense of it's not where we

want it to be no not maybe 100 broken

but everything's not where we want it to

be

which is a perfect situation for humans

humans love it when things are not where

we want them to be that's like our

Perfect Situation

you're continually like ah got to build

this thing gotta fix this thing that's

where we're at our best

when everything's a little bit broken

and and we're like working on fixing it

it's the ideal human situation and we do

we do it well that the Adam's law of

slow-moving disasters we do fix things

pretty well all right here's my

Uber optimistic take are you ready

everything's broken that's true

and we live in a self-correcting system

that our politics and our free markets

and our you know flow of information

which isn't as free as it could be but

it's getting better a hundred percent of

things are self-correcting

all of it everything is self-corrected

now I told you about you know Germany

was going to freeze over the winter

because they didn't have Russian gas and

then the most the latest report was oh

somehow they figured out enough how to

store enough gas so they can make it

through the winter they solved it right

now here's what I see happening because

everything's broken that gives you

license to improve it

did you ever work in a company where

something's working fine do you think

you could improve it

everybody would say why why are you

focusing on that it's fine

but everything looks broken which causes

us to try to fix everything we're we're

in this frenzy you know it's in society

in the world in general we're in a

frenzy

of redesign everything's getting

redesigned usually by the free market

right absolutely everything's being

redesigned from almost the bottom up

we're we're in a reinvention phase that

you won't recognize until

until it's you know toward the end but

you don't recognize we're in an in a

creative inventive phase that will be

one of the great ones

of all human history

right now I would argue that after World

War II

we had a creative you know explosion

wouldn't you say

you know and then there was the

Industrial Revolution creative explosion

Etc but I feel like we're we're in one

but you don't feel it when you're in it

it just feels like everything's broken

because you're just trying to fix

everything

but what it gets fixed

it will be better it'll be fixed better

than it was and I think that applies

everything from our energy policy to the

way we run elections to uh to Twitter to

you name it literally everything is

trending positive

if you look at it as a system that's you

know in the phase of correcting

so that's my optimism it does not say we

should not be vigilant about all of our

problems we'll do that automatically

because we're good at being vigilant

how many of you saw the video of John

fetterman giving his speech Outdoors he

had a bunch of American flags behind him

and the wind blew them all down while he

was talking

and Fox News had a article about how

social media was mocking it and you know

it had some had some tweets there from

some notable people saying funny things

and I could not be more angry at Fox

News today

Fox News was saying that people were

saying clever things about that

fetterman flag thing and they did not

include my tweet

that oversight cannot be forgiven

and so

since they only mentioned some lesser

clever tweets which were pretty good but

they were lesser clever

than the one I did

and my tweet was this

hypothetically if God had been trying to

warn us for months not to vote for a

particular candidate what would that

look like

come on I'm a professional joke writer

and I declare that was the best joke

written on this topic

now let me tell you why

this is a joke writing lesson for you so

you can take this way I've told you this

before but every time you see an example

it helps if you can do a punch line or a

joke

in which the the audience has to

fill in the details

that's your best joke like that's the

one that really works if if you over

specify you know what what you want

somebody to imagine well that could be a

good joke too but the great jokes are

where it takes you a moment to fill it

in and where do you fill it in you're

filling it in with your own stuff

so what I said God had been trying to

warn you for months

you can fill it in with everything that

happened to John fetterman which was a

tragedy I don't mean to make fun of a

medical problem but if you if you had

you're trying to fill it in you're like

okay

yeah that sounds very much like that old

joke you've all heard the joke the flood

waters are rising and neighbor knocks on

the on the elderly person's door and

says you know hey the water's Rising

come with us we're leaving right now and

the woman says no no you know God will

provide I'll be fine and the water rises

and you know the woman has to go up to

the second floor of her house and then a

boat comes up to the second floor window

and says get into the boat get in the

boat and she's like no God will provide

I'm fine then she has to ends up on the

roof of her house because the water is

risen and she's on the roof of the house

and a helicopter comes by and says get

on the helicopter you know put some rope

down she goes down now God will provide

the helicopter goes away well the water

rises she drowns and she goes to heaven

and she's talking to God in heaven and

she goes God what's up I've been

believing in you my whole life you know

I was sure you would provide what

happened

and God says I sent you a car I sent you

a boat I sent you a helicopter

and you know that's the joke

so sometimes the signs are there

maybe you should just recognize them

anyway yourself did so much like the

joke I couldn't

couldn't resist

there is a video on getter that's sort

of that Twitter competitor

which I'm not going to tell you is

credible

so don't assume this is credible because

if I told you it's credible I would be

kicked off of social media

probably not Twitter at the moment but

I'll just

describe it to you

so there's a woman who claims that she

was doing construction on a home that

she and her husband owns for a couple

years so it's a place that has been

abandoned but you can reach the mailbox

even though it's behind a chain link

fence fence right so you can sort of you

know reach in and get to the mailbox I

guess and

uh she found it was stuffed with uh

address changes

so a whole bunch of people

allegedly had changed their address to

her address which is an abandoned

building

now obviously the implication is that

people are doing things to be able to

vote by mail

fraudulently

right now no squatters there were no

people in there they were just using the

mailbox as a change of address place now

anecdotally I heard other reports of you

know this being a a ballot fraud thing

that people do Etc now question number

one

you have seen one

um real person apparently describing

what looks like a pretty credible claim

use your uh critical thinking to answer

this question

what are the odds it's true

go put the odds on it odds it's true

I'm saying 25 25 low one percent low

zero ten percent very good very good

very good let so do you remember what I

predicted would be true after the 2020

election if you remember I said a whole

bunch of times I said this over and over

again I said every claim you hear about

election fraud

is at least 95 chance likely to be false

95 percent

now what what was the final outcome of

all the 2020 claims

how close was I right I told you that

even if something is true

and I didn't have an opinion at that

that time I didn't know if there was

some true stuff but I told you that 95

of what people surface will definitely

not be true

right so when you see this new claim

just keep the 95 thing in your mind

now it looked very incredible to me

right if you put a gun to my head and

say and said all right you're gonna have

to bet whether this particular story was

true

I want to think it is

but then I have to retreat to my

rational mind and say okay the fact that

it looks true means what

how much credibility do you put on it's

on video it's a real person and it looks

true

what's that mean to you

nothing nothing in 2022 it doesn't have

any value

absolutely no value

and the first thing you ask yourself is

why is it only on getter

right

is there some reason that would be not

on other platforms yeah so it could be

you know from a different year

could be an operative who's just you

know doing an OP

it could be anything it could be

absolutely just anything

you don't know

all right

um CNN

um I'm gonna give yet another compliment

compliment to CNN you know uh being one

of its biggest critics for years

I feel like uh like I have some kind of

social obligation to tell you when they

do something right

and not only today do they have uh

Daniel Dale doing a hard fat fact check

on Biden and when I say A Hard fact

check he just goes right at him yeah

Daniel Dale went out Biden the way you

saw him go after Trump

I never thought I'd say it never thought

I'd say it but he just went right at it

he said lie lie lie not true lie yeah a

big stuff I'm not talking a little stuff

I'm talking about the major claims of

the president lie just lie

amazing so congratulations to CNN for

what looks like a successful business

pivot

you want more this will blow your mind

the day before elections

CNN's website

the following headline

opinion Democrats are out of touch with

American voters

that's a headline on CNN the day before

the election

Democrats are out of touch with American

voters and that it goes on in the

article to say that Republicans are

running for office on the actual issues

that people care about

can you believe that

oh two days I'm sorry two days before

election

I forgot what day it was

today feels like a Monday to me for some

reason

must be that time change

does that just blow your mind

my mind is completely blown by the fact

that something's going right

now remember I told you everything's

broken everything's broken

but it's all being redesigned right

you you tell me

was CNN broken a year ago and do you see

that they're redesigning in a way that's

useful to the country

yes or no would you agree that you see

it

it's not just me right you can see it is

Twitter better off than it was a year

ago I think so I mean it's a big mystery

where things will go but so you've got

CNN being

a responsible citizen congratulations

see you then completely successful I

don't know about their their ratings you

know I hope that I actually hope their

ratings improve

so I'm gonna I'm gonna root for CNN's

ratings to improve because I think

they're I think they're acting like

Patriots

is that too far

in my opinion CNN is taking a patriot

perspective on their business which is

to try to give you the actual news

which is different

all right too far baby

but that's another example of something

that's going right

uh Biden of course gaffed again and said

he wanted to close all the coal plants

and then somebody from his own party two

days before elections uh Joe manchin is

asking the president to apologize you

know if members of your own party are

asking you to apologize two days before

the midterms

that's not a good look

that's not good

now a year ago do you think that

Democrats were willing to admit that

Biden is uh brain damaged and useless

not so much right

a year ago even the Democrats would have

said oh stop making fun of his speech

defect he's fine

they don't say that now do they

am I right

there is a completely different tone

from the Democrats about their own

president

and that tone is oh

look what we look look what we did

maybe we should undo this

now you're going to get people who's

still supported because it's a political

world but

um but let me let me give you a little

story of something that happened to me I

want to see if any of you have had a

similar experience

so last night I went to a large ish

social Gathering

of people in my town so I don't want to

be any more specific than that so as a

large social gathering in my town

and I live in Northern California and

now we're outside of San Francisco

so what what do you assume is the

political nature of my town

it's just what you think right it's

exactly what you think

or is it

I spent an entire night at a at an event

and heard a number of pro-republican

statements from people privately

I heard zero Republic zero Democrat

supportive statements

zero

there wasn't one I don't think there was

anybody there

who was favorable to the Democrat

platform at the moment which is not to

say they weren't Democrats

if you could you know put on goggles and

see everybody's voting uh party I'll bet

you they're mostly Democrats I'll bet

there were at least 60 Democrats but you

don't see anybody talking about Biden

it's just not a thing

it's just not a thing

and you don't even see people agreeing

with wokeness at least within let's say

that the Suburban family kind of just

nobody

and

I used to feel

um like I was in a little bit of danger

when I just went out in public

you know what I mean if you're notable

as a trump supporter

there was a time when I I it would have

been dangerous for me just I was a

little wary even just going to the

grocery store

because I thought I'd be confronted with

somebody not necessarily physically but

you I thought somebody would get in my

face you know throw a milkshake on me or

something some like that but

I don't get any pushback anywhere where

I live

just think about that I mean people

recognize me at this point and they've

got a good idea what I'm up to I get no

pushback

zero there is not a single instance of

somebody in my own community

who's told me I've you know gone too far

or I'm a Nazi or I'm on the wrong side

nothing

so are you seeing this are you seeing

that in mixed Gatherings there is no

Biden support

or even Democrat support really people

will talk about abortion

that's sort of all they have

am I right that's all they have

and a lot of people don't care about

that as much as you imagine they do

uh yeah there was you know a little talk

Of Trump but even he's not the important

thing these days

all right we'll talk about Trump

um

MSNBC there's a clip on Twitter of MSNBC

interviewing Democrat

governor candidate or Governor Kathy

hokel

now

imagine MSNBC

interviewing a

Democratic governor

two days before an election

now how do you think that went

you think that would be really just a

friendly right they'd be trying to

they'd be trying to get uh vocal over

the the finish line

nope that didn't happen MSNBC just

slapped the out of her

I didn't know what I was looking at

there for a moment

yeah I I didn't catch the name of the

host but credit to the host

um

the host said you know I guess the the

con the con yeah the context was a crime

and the host says here's the problem we

don't feel safe I walk into my Pharmacy

and everything is on lockdown because of

shoplifters I'm not going in the subway

people don't feel safe in this town

that is the end of her isn't that

did MSNBC just drive a stake through her

heart

it looked like it

it looked like even MSC NBC is like we

can't even do this anymore we just can't

do this anymore we have to kill you now

I mean politically not actually

I think they just drove a stake right

through her heart in on live TV because

and again I if somebody knows if you saw

the clip I'd like to give a shout out to

the host because that was good work that

was good work and that not just on a

team play

kind of basis

but it was it was good journalism this

is somebody who really got to it really

got under the hood there

I wish somebody would say her name just

so we could give her credit

all right well maybe maybe you'll see it

in the comments

Jack Dorsey uh has apologized

for a growing Twitter too quickly and

therefore you know being a participant I

I guess he would say for how many people

had to get laid off because he thinks it

grew a little too quickly

and um you know I appreciate that that

that's sort of a

it's kind of the context you wanted to

hear right didn't you wonder why there

were so many people

and could you actually get rid of a lot

of people and still run the company

and probably yes if grew too fast is a

true statement and it certainly looks

that way then probably there's a little

bit of or maybe a lot of uh you know

cushion stuff they can cut

um so that's happening

um I you know it's I was trying to

imagine what it would be like

to be Jack Dorsey and know that all

these layoffs are happening like that's

got to be it's just gonna be crushing

um I once had to close a restaurant

uh two restaurants actually but I had to

close a restaurant that wasn't working

out and you know had to I had to tell

the staff that they were all fired you

know with

Severance and stuff like that so they

were treated well

but that's a really bad day

it's a twice a bad day because as I was

telling them that I would you know treat

them right and everything there were

some others were actually robbing the

storeroom of all the electronics

as I was talking to the staff they were

robbing they were actually robbing the

restaurant

well that that showed me anyway that was

pretty expensive

um

musk met with some civil rights leaders

the Anti-Defamation League and and NAACP

and I saw an interview by uh head of the

NAACP Derek Johnson

now interestingly uh the head of the

NAACP uh appears to be and I don't want

to I don't want to make an assumption

here but appears to be a black man

I know it's a weird thing about 2022

when I find out that the head of the

NAACP is at least apparently black

so

good job good job there seems like a

good fit

but I would like to give him a shout out

because you know how you get an

immediate reaction to some public

figures

do you remember when uh maybe you don't

remember it but when Barack Obama burst

on the scene the first time you saw him

give a speech

even if you were a Republican

you probably said to yourself ooh

there's something special there right

didn't you see that like you see it

immediately and the special thing was he

wasn't doing the thing you expect

Obama did not run as a black guy

and every time he didn't run as a black

guy which he did better than anybody

ever did right the Obama was just the

master of using race without using it oh

my God he did that well

because it was there you could see it

you can make your own decision but if

he'd even said it once you should vote

for me because I'm black he would be

done

it was like that's no no that's that's

absolutely you're you're off the list if

you say that but he never did because

he's very good at this stuff so I want

to give the like a similar shout out to

this Derek Johnson I'd never seen him

before but he was uh talking about the

meeting and he first said that he

thought musk agreed with the people who

were there

that's good so no no confrontational

anything just it looks like he agreed

but there was a question of whether musk

would be able to execute

which is exactly the the best question

you could ever have

do you think musk can execute

that's like what he does better than

anybody who's ever done anything it must

can execute yeah better than anybody

maybe in the whole world who's ever done

anything there's one thing you can do

but here's here's why I want to give

Derek a shout out he went through the

whole interview

and he talked about how he wanted to

make sure that you know Twitter was

protecting communities that you know

were marginalized

and

I watched the whole interview and not

once

did he frame things racially

now I think it's completely fair to say

don't don't have groups targeted for

hate speech that's not really a racial

statement that's something everybody

would say but somehow he got through the

whole thing without me hating him for

saying I'm bad or something

like I didn't get blamed for anything

and he didn't even talk about it like

in the normal uh team play

somehow he did it he did an Obama on

this thing and I gotta say I want to see

more I want to see more from him

Derek Johnson because one of the things

I've been saying forever is that the

Black American population doesn't have a

good leader

you know somebody who would appeal to

whoever they're trying to persuade at

the same time

as appeal to the black community

and he may he may be the guy

he's got he's got a strong strong game

yeah

so just keep an eye on him this is

another thing that in my opinion is

going right

in my opinion and this will be really

controversial racial

um racial what would you say

Harmony is actually improving

what do you think of that

in my opinion racial Harmony is

improving and I'll tell you why because

we're wising up to why it happened in

the first place we're wising up that it

was the media that was causing it right

and I think people are wising up the

people everybody wants everybody to do

well

if there's one thing that you can say

about Republicans

that you could just take to the bank

they want everybody to do well

right

there are no Republicans who want black

people not to do well they all want them

to do well as well as everybody who's

struggling they don't want to

necessarily be the ones that pay for it

that's a different question but they

want everybody to do well and would even

jump in and help

quite a bit if there was something that

made sense to help on and and the I

think that the education question is

where everybody's going to meet

because you know a black parent and a

white parent when they're talking about

educating their kids same page

I mean small differences but the same

page right everybody's got individual

differences

somebody says I don't think about race

unless I'm in social media

isn't that true

when was the last time you had a real

world

racial

anything

can't even think of one now I live in a

a pretty harmonious place in the country

but when was the last time you had a

racial confrontation

or even a racial issue

I don't remember the last time it like

it's literally not on my consciousness

anytime except social media you're right

yeah this is a social media thing

um so this is the this is weird and

wonderful and mind-blowing

that there was an accusation on Twitter

that Twitter had sold uh somebody a blue

check for fifteen thousand dollars and

that there was a system sort of an

underground system where people could

get to some Twitter employee who would

illegally I don't know if it's illegal

but I would offer to sell them blue

check you know outside of the normal

system

and apparently a number of people took

advantage of it I don't know what that

number is but here's the funny part

Elon Musk confirmed it

he goes yup

he said Yup

absolutely confirmed that Twitter had

been selling blue checks

does that does that just blow your mind

because and it blows my mind on several

levels

watching Elon Musk fact check the world

in real time is something we've never

seen before

like even if a politician gets fact

checked you have to wait until they give

a speech

right or wait until the statement comes

out of something but musk will be on

Twitter there'll be something that's

just like a complete lie or in this case

something that's weird but true and they

just fact checks it

you got like a five minute fact check

that you could actually believe

right if if musk says that happened I

believe it I mean why would he say that

of all things you could say you know

nobody's gonna lie about that

ah

for fifteen thousand you will cook

dinner well okay would be a good dinner

uh let's talk about some more Twitter

stuff the most important thing that's

happening lately

um Mark Ruffalo

uh one of the smartest Democrats now I'm

just joking he's one of the dumbest

uh if you were trying to if you tried to

list the dumbest celebrities who are

political

you know you'd put at least politically

dumb I'm not saying they're dumb like

low IQ but Mark Ruffalo

uh while I love his passion

and I love that he apparently cares

about the country and people and wants

good things for all of us so character

wise I'm a big fan

right yeah I think you have to

appreciate when somebody's on the other

side from you

if they're if they're trying to make

things better but they have a different

opinion now you can't really hate them

for that right you just want a different

thing but uh Mark Ruffalo uh tweeted at

musk he says Elon period please for the

love of decency get off Twitter

get off Twitter hand the keys over to

someone who does this as an actual job

and get on with running Tesla and SpaceX

you are destroying your credibility it's

just not a good look

is that the worst take you've ever seen

in your life

have you ever seen a worst take

this is an actor

who's giving

the most successful entrepreneur

of all time business advice

yeah

and he does it in public like that

should look good and he's worried that

uh Elon said he's saying that it's not a

good look for Elon do you know it's not

a good look

giving business advice to Elon Musk

my God man

my God

let me let me give you the Hollywood

analogy

that uh even Mark Ruffalo would this

would hit him hard all right you might

not know this but in the acting world

I made this mistake once uh when I was

working on the Dilbert TV show well I'll

tell you what what mistake I made one of

the voice actors was running through

some lines for the dilber animated TV

show that ran years ago and I didn't

like what one of the actors

um how how they played a line I'd

written the line so I knew how I wanted

it read so I I stopped and said oh you

know I want it done this way and I did

an impression

of the actor or actress doing the line

and I said do it like this then gave an

impression

my co-executive producer turned off the

mic

and invited me into the hallway

where I learned that I just committed

the greatest sin the greatest sin

let me tell you if you're ever in this

situation

don't tell an actor how to act

don't do that

here's what you do do can you give me a

different look can you give me a

different take you could say can you

combine a little uh like let's say more

concern you say I can't do that but like

add like you're more concerned as well

you can describe it

but do not do the imitation do not do

that that's that's like the big thing

you don't do now

to the credit of the actor or actress

who will remain nameless they didn't

give me a hard time about it but it's

because they also saw the car executive

producer drag me into the hallway

so that they knew exactly what happened

and I'm sure that they were they were

fine with it which by the way was good

executive co-executive producing so let

me give my compliments to my you know

co-executive producer Larry Charles

yeah Larry just dragged me into the

hallway and said um nope nope don't do

that again

so that was a good lesson now

that feels to me exactly like an actor

giving Elon Musk business advice

am I right

that's the same thing

you don't do that you don't do that well

if you do it at least add a little bit

of humility

right because I think we're all giving

Elon Musk some business advice but

usually it's in the form of our own

preferences you know it's not in the

form of what's good business now what

about the advice that uh

he's got these two other CEO jobs or

three or four how many other many

businesses you should stick to those

if you tell Elon Musk of all people in

the world

so you know seven point whatever a

billion people in the world

there's exactly one person who's the

wrong person to stay stay in your lane

he's the most wrong person out of all

seven billion of us that you should

advise not to leave his Lane

leaving his Lane is what he does best

is what he does best

better than anybody's ever done it

probably more consistently

so uh everything about that take was bad

what did musk and

um

ruffalo's comment was because Elon was

responding to AOC that AOC had made some

claims about uh musk messing with her

Twitter feed which didn't happen of

course and then musk replies hot take

not everything AOC says is 100 accurate

I love the understatement hot take not

everything AOC says is 100 accurate

all right here's the most exciting part

or dangerous part or something musk is

continuing to design Twitter or redesign

it in public

this is great you're getting a a total

business education and watching him do

this in public

you see it all so here's a tweet today

he was talking about how

um

he wants Twitter to be able to monetize

all Creator content

all Creator content

so Twitter would monetize much the way

um YouTube would I imagine

that any any content you know you could

share the revenue with Twitter so I

think that's where he's having

and that includes video now Twitter has

some video limitations you know resource

limitations but apparently according to

musk we can do he says we Twitter can do

42 minute chunks at 1080 resolution now

if you're in the blue the blue program

within Twitter

so you could break that up into longer

videos the 42 minute limit could be

fixed by next month and so he's telling

you that they're removing the 42 minute

limit

within a month which is super fast for

something of that magnitude

um

and then he finishes this is with this

question he says to the public how does

YouTube monetization work and what could

Twitter do better

talk about the transparency the

transparency there is insane

so he's telling you that he doesn't have

a sufficient like user level

understanding of what YouTube does for

creators

which is quite an admission in public

especially for somebody who's running

this company and that he's asking for

your input

and it's legitimate uh he's actually

asking for your input it's real like

it's not it's not for appearance

your actual input will determine at

least it could what Twitter becomes and

Twitter could be one of the most

important parts of society

and you you get to be part of it

so look at all the things you're

learning number one did he prove that

you don't need a marketing department

all the time

yes he did

yes he did so that's like a whole lesson

in itself you just replace the marketing

department

um he's also showing you the new CEO

move I talk about all the time which is

immediately establishing what you're

about like on day one

because that first impression becomes

really sticky that's that's who you are

forever you did that perfectly

and now you're seeing him collecting

um input from the customers in a very

direct way

and he's doing two things here you might

see one but he's doing two

the first thing he's doing is making

sure he gets input

um so he's got input

and the second thing he's doing is

making you feel buy-in

how much do you feel like you you're

legitimately part of the process or

better

people that you trust on Twitter you see

them making suggestions right and

they're smart people in many cases when

you see smart people on Twitter making

Smart Suggestions to Musk

even though it's not your suggestion you

feel like you're part of the process

right because you could have you could

have made that suggestion

so bringing the knowing that he has this

huge public relations problem because

half of the world is going to hate him

no matter what he does

now now the news is reporting he's he's

meeting with the NAACP

and the ADL

and that apparently they like him

imagine that that's the news he managed

the news the news is telling you that

the the groups that would be most

concerned got a good result good good

response from

he's doing everything right so you're

learning publicity marketing you're

learning how to take user requirements

you're learning how to get buy-in

you're learning how to communicate

you're learning how to tweet you're

learning social media as it relates to a

company you're you're seeing his

business model being created in real

time so he's struggling between

subscription and Advertiser and what

balance and what features

oh my God

oh my God is this useful

you don't realize how much smarter we're

all getting just by you know getting to

see the transparency of this this

process

so the the Brilliance that is coming out

of all of this is just stunning

cernovich Mike cernovich had an

interesting note on that tweet

he said that it's not being treated as

newsworthy that Twitter had entire teams

that coordinated messaging with the UN

says it all

um and he goes on and it says how is

that not a big deal he speculates he

goes exactly New York Times Washington

Post probably has the same internals

team doing propaganda

so sort of which is speculating that the

major media might not be hitting this

story hard because they might also have

deep connections at Twitter

which was you know managing the news if

you will

and I don't know if that's true it's

it's reasonable speculation

but

um I'm more interested in the fact of

why we decide some things are news and

some are not have I told you before that

the New York Times

and Washington Post

and and really not much else

a few others they make news

and by make news I mean they look into

all the things that are happening and

then they tell you what things are

important

but is it because they are important

that's what I used to think

I used to think that if it's on the news

it's because it's important

and everybody notices it and then

everybody puts it on the news nothing

like that is happening when it comes to

politics

they decide what the news is it's

literally just a decision by people who

you know want to manage the public

and they've decided that this is not a

big story

that Twitter was

you know being influenced directly and

personally and in an ongoing way by the

United Nations to make sure the

messaging was compatible with what the

UN wanted

which is the scariest thing you could

ever hear

now why is that not a big story

because the media decided it wasn't

I suppose Fox News could decide and

they're big enough that they could make

that a story but it would never cross

over from Fox News would it except that

other people would you know mock them

for having the only stories about it or

something

this is one of those cases where you can

tell yourself you really see

that the media assigns your opinion

because whatever your worked up about

today I guarantee it was on the news

and the things you're not worked up

about they were not on the news

the news decided what to run and they

they could pick or ignore whatever they

wanted

and then you get worked up over it and

you think oh I'm worked up over that

important thing no you're not worked up

over the important thing you're worked

up over what the news wanted you to be

worked up over

you're completely manipulated

as am I right I'm not

I'm not outside that system I'm just as

manipulated as you are just be aware of

it

and so that's a um that was a two-level

excellent tweet by cernovich because it

really gets to something deeper than

just the news

all right

um Tim Ryan running for Ohio senate had

to

have this statement to say in public he

said imagine his this is his competitor

he says imagine if JD Vance was your

teenage kid and you caught him hanging

around with people like Marjorie Taylor

green Ron DeSantis and Alex Jones

uh

to which I tweeted

imagine being a Democrat candidate I

said one day before election day because

I didn't know what day it was uh and the

best argument you have is that your

opponent values diversity

that's his argument my opponent

values diverse people because here's

what he didn't say

he didn't say JD Vance refuses to meet

with black people

you didn't say that

because I assume that JD Vance has met

with all of his constituents

but he's also also meeting with some

people who have opinions that Tim Ryan

does not share

so he's actually criticizing I mean this

is how empty this is how empty their

entire approach is the Democrats they

are so empty

that this close to election a strong

approach is that JD Vance values diverse

opinions

because that's what I heard

I didn't hear I didn't hear JD Vance

agrees with uh Marjorie Taylor green on

all things did you hear that nobody's

even claiming that what I didn't hear is

um JD Vance agrees with all the things

that Alex Jones has said

I've never heard of that because I'm

sure he doesn't

right if you're interacting with people

who have different opinions but not

adopting them

you're doing what we want you to do are

you

do you want to do you want a politician

who doesn't interact with people who

have different opinions

I mean this is the craziest weakest

emptiest attack I've ever seen But even

more than that I'm going a little hard

on it because

um

about once a year or maybe twice a year

I have to say this in public

and so I'm going to say it again

I assert

my complete right to associate with

anybody I want

and when you don't like it you

and that's the end of the conversation

I'm not going to adopt the views of any

bad people necessarily it might but

that's not why that happens

I I interact with people you don't like

and if you don't like that

you

and there's nothing else to say would

you agree there's nothing else to the

conversation

this is one of those conversations where

you

that's the whole argument it's the whole

argument there's nothing else

I have no Nuance to add to that just

you

that's it you I'm going to

associate with whoever I want whenever I

want right in front of you

don't care

um to make my point

watch me prove my point with a Segway

that was probably created in heaven it's

so amazing

um

Adam kinzinger is right about this

so there you go Adam kinzinger somebody

that I would not agree with normally but

I associate with his following comments

because if you don't like me associating

uh and agreeing with Adam kinzinger on a

specific policy you

you

but I know you don't I don't know none

of you have that problem I'm sure but uh

here he is being right about something

apparently there's some aircraft that

the National Guard uses to track the

drug shipments and defense null in

particular and it's going to be retired

and I guess kinsiger is one of the few

people who actually can fly that plane

um I didn't realize he was in the

National Guard kinzinger is still in the

National Guard

yes all right credit to him so can we

say that without

can we give a full-throated

Patriot

now I I hate what he did with January 6

right

but he's a member of the National Guard

and he's calling out a a huge problem

that this uh aircraft will be retired

and then they won't be able to easily

you know introdite interdict

um Fentanyl

so good job Adam kinsiger on this

particular issue which also suggests

that the administration is not that

serious about a fentanyl

because this plane is critical to their

success of capturing stuff

and uh kinsiger's fighting to keep this

funded so good for you hope you hope

that works

um let's talk about Trump

Trump labeled Governor DeSantis with a

nickname

he called him Ron de sanctimonious

how many of you had to uh

Look up the word sanctimonious

I did I did

yeah I did

so if it makes it any easier for you to

admit it I am a professional writer I do

it for a living

I never use that word

yeah so I had to look it up so in case

you don't know what it means like me

um basically somebody who's showing a

big show of religion or piety you know

being the right person but being someone

what hypocritical

so somebody who's trying yeah who was

trying to be holier than you but they're

sort of a hypocrite

does any of that seem to fit wrong

DeSantis

does that does that feel like a kill

shot

it does not

now how many of you were happy that he

said that

how many of you said oh I'm glad he did

that

not none right zero

so given given that none of you were

happy with that almost not of you let's

say 95 percent

if you were not happy with it wasn't a

mistake

yeah you weren't happy with it but was

it a mistake go

yeah it gets a little more complicated

now

let me hark back to my uh Mark Ruffalo

comment

Mark Ruffalo is not the one who should

be commenting on business stuff right

that's not his domain and so we should

all be humble

when we're commenting on somebody else's

expertise which we don't share

now I always have a little concern when

I criticize Trump for any of his

persuasion related stuff

because he became president

I didn't

whatever he does seems to work even when

you think he won't right that's probably

the most uh remarkable thing about his

method is that even people who support

him think that's not going to work well

that's not going to work and then

weirdly it works for reasons that you

don't imagine he sucks all the energy

out you know whatever

here's what I thought my first

impression was oh that's a mistake

that's a mistake he just went after one

of the most popular

Republicans was 100 successful according

to Republicans

so on the surface it's a mistake wasn't

it

but

did you notice it was the worst Kill

Shot he's ever issued

is that an accident

is it an accident that the kill shot

he used against DeSantis seemed to be

designed not to wound it

right it looked like a warning shot

over the bow exactly that was a brush

back pinch

the brush back pitch he just told the

world you can you can run against me in

the primary

but it's not going to be pretty

that's once you think about it a little

bit you realize it was just a brush

pitch it wasn't really about DeSantis at

all

you know I'd be surprised if he thinks

DeSantis you know does a poor job I

think he probably thinks DeSantis does a

good job he's also quite aware

that people are saying hey why shouldn't

DeSantis have the top job right so Trump

knows he has to knock DeSantis down a

notch but I think he was just telling

the world he's willing to do it

which is actually useful he's basically

saying yeah I'm not going to leave him

alone I'm going to go after him but he

went after me so softly

that it's easy to pull back right it was

such a soft brushback that that makes it

look like it was an intentional just a

warning shot just just to let you know

that you know he's the big shark and if

you go swimming with the big shark

you're gonna get bit

so I started hating it

and then the more I like the more I

thought about it it's like oh God he did

it again

you did it again he did something that I

immediately disliked but the more I

thought about it's like shoot that does

move the energy in his Direction in just

just a slight way

anyway

so always be humble when you're looking

at Trump's persuasion because you never

know exactly what he's up to sometimes

it's smarter than you think

all right

as we head into the midterms

how's everybody feeling

how is everybody feeling what do you

think about the economy

I think the economy will be right be all

right

yeah a lot of you are feeling uh

feeling good but also nervous I don't

know what's going to happen

but I'll tell you one thing that might

happen

one thing that might happen is there

there's tons of scrutiny and maybe we

got way better at watching things

so we might have the cleanest selection

we've ever had

like that's possible Right could be the

cleanest one we've ever had just because

of so much uh extra energy watching

things and there have been some changes

there have been some changes that should

reduce the amount of cheating

potentially

but the other possibility

that I don't discount at all is that the

extra attention will end up finding some

real

serious fraud it could be on either side

I'm not going to say it's going to be

all Democrat

because here's my opinion

the reason that we don't have uh

elections that can be finished the same

day

is because we don't want it

there's no other reason

we obviously we meaning both Democrats

and Republicans

you know each of them having control

over individual states it's very obvious

that they want the option of cheating

it's very obvious because if either side

didn't want the option of cheating they

would just make they would make the

option go away in their state

because there are places where the

Republicans can design the system any

way they want

right right to give me a fact check

there are states where the Republicans

could have a an Israeli type of system

where it's all on paper

and it all happens in one room the

ballots never leave the room you count

them in the room with lots of witnesses

and that there's basically close to zero

chance of fraud

you don't think that one Republican

state would have implemented something

that's

just fraud free

no it's because everybody who controls

elections in their own State wants the

option of gaming the system

what else could it be

what else could it be if either side

wanted the elections to be you know

transparent and done on the first day we

have we have models to follow that are

simple

they're simple just what does Israel do

and what does some other countries do

and just do that it works

so you you can eliminate the possibility

that either side wants to fix this

does anybody disagree with that

I'm not saying Republicans do anything

except you know dick around the edges

you know with voter ID and stuff which

is important but that's just sticking

around the edges

um

all right let me make a case that

everything's getting better even though

we're low on

diesel fuel

let me make a diesel fuel prediction are

you ready

so apparently if diesel fuel is limited

Trucking will

fall off and you know the supply chain

will die

and we don't have an obvious way to make

enough to fix that

I think we know about this problem far

enough in advance

that

um that we'll get through it like our

other problems so if we know far enough

in advance we we yeah trains and

everything else we're going to need to

uh

we'll probably make the adjustments

now imagine if you will that

the country just couldn't get products

where it wanted because there's not

enough diesel what would be the fallback

somebody Builds an app where you can all

be Uber for packages

right all it would take is an app that

says well just you know take your van

down to this dock we'll load you up with

stuff and you you know deliver to here

and you'll you'll be covered with some

temporary insurance or something like

that you know if it were a National

Emergency where people were starving and

stuff we would just use regular cars and

regular trucks just people would put

their bring their pickup truck and say

well I could deliver some of this

so it's one of those emergencies

where if you had to like you're actually

starving and

we have other vehicles right we're not

we don't have a shortage of vehicles

that can transport stuff it would be an

organizational you know Dunkirk sized

thing but we could do it

we'll get through it

all right

um is there anything that's going wrong

I'm not even entirely sure that Ukraine

is going wrong

yeah

are you

and I don't even know what wrong looks

like

because we don't know how it ends but

one potential ending is that Putin is

weakened and Russia is no longer a thorn

in our side and Ukraine is creating

energy and food for everybody it's

possible

uh the you know we're gonna have a huge

bill to pay in terms of our borrowing to

fund that war but

yeah if you're gonna if you're gonna

guess

it does look like things are pretty bad

over there and will stay that way and

could turn into a nuclear war but I will

see it happening I I feel like the

signals of a potential nuclear war would

be much stronger than they are so now it

just looks like people bluffing each

other so I I don't I don't spend really

any time worrying about nuclear war

right I mean that could change but at

the moment it just looks like bluffing

all right

um and then I I hear other people say

the real problem is uh that Russia and

China and other countries will have

their own currency and then America's

you know currency dominance will fall

away the dollar won't be worth something

but I feel like we've been talking about

that forever haven't we

yeah it just feels like we've been

talking about that forever I don't know

if that means it's about ready to happen

but I I feel like that's another one of

those Adam's love slow-moving disasters

there's probably a way around it

uh can we get reparations from China for

covet

well have you heard the story

that Russia has put together a case that

the virus escaped from a Ukrainian lab

that America backed

and they've asked the U.N to investigate

it and they've given a bunch of

information

have you heard of that

now how many of you would say there's no

chance that America was behind the virus

in the comments how many of you think

there's no chance there's no chance that

America was behind the virus

yeah you're a little a little uncertain

aren't you

yep in my opinion

it's entirely possible

entirely possible I'm not even sure how

I would put the odds on it I would say

the odds that we have accurate

information about the the source of the

virus is probably low

probably low

now obviously the Wuhan you know lab

looks like the obvious place but I'd

have to hear what I'd like to hear what

the Russians say because if America

released that virus and knew it

what would they do

if America knew it released the virus it

was already out there

and it knew you know nobody noticed it

yet but it's percolating and they know

it's going to percolate up

the first thing you do is you go infect

some people next to the Wuhan uh

lab

that's that's what you do you go infect

some people in Wuhan

because then when it breaks down Wuhan

everybody's gonna say

right so if you tell me that the the

odds are like all pointing toward Wuhan

being the source I would say not so much

they're definitely strong signals but we

live in a world in which that's the sort

of thing that gets faked like it's in

the category of things that people do

lie about every time like every time

whoever's country it was that released

that virus or whoever was responsible

don't you think you could rely on them

lying

so you know somebody's lying and you

just don't know

yeah Russia's been saying it since

February right

uh do prices return to previous levels

when inflation comes back down

that's not exactly how that works

no the answer is no

what should happen is your um your

paycheck should rise at some point if

you're working for the right company

your paycheck should rise to to meet

that

um but I don't know if that's going to

happen

yeah pangolins have been maligned

do you remember when we were hearing the

early theories about the virus and

people were so confident about it the

theories that turned out to be wrong

oh definitely came from that wet Market

oh definitely oh wet Market nope

your coffee cup somebody got their

coffee with Scott Adams coffee cup wall

on live streaming

amazing

um

somebody asked me at uh an event

yesterday well actually lots lots of

people asked me this they asked me if I

if I'm retired

because I guess I guess I'm at that age

where people just look at you and say

how's retirement like do I look

that old well I think that's that's the

first question you're going to ask me is

if I'm a retired I don't like that

um but I decided that I I am retired

but I'm modern and retired

by modern retired I mean I've simply

stopped doing the things I found

unpleasant that I did for money and I do

the things that I find Pleasant

it still work I was adding up how many

hours per week I work now in my

retirement

uh it's about 40 hours a week so my

retirement is 40 hours a week of work

okay which feels like retirement because

you know 16 and 70 would be more normal

but 40 feels like vacation like I'm

usually done by you know if I start at

4am

and I work seven days a week

right

I'm done by 10 a.m and I've done 40

hours a week 42.

and that's just on the live stream

right because I do a lot of prep for

that

um so I'm still doing the cartoon but my

assistant

is doing all of the drawing now

so if you see any differences in the

drawing it's because a better artist is

doing it

so my uh my my assistant who does the

art now is authorized to

change the the look of it a little bit

like the background add a little

backgrounds and maybe some angles that I

don't do just because she's a better a

better artist than I am

all right

um I need a time clock

because I've run too long

okay interesting message here

uh

all right I got a funny message but I

can't share it with you

um

Sharon says Scott with all caps do you

feel guilty for falling for the fear

hysteria of covid would anybody like to

answer Sharon for me this is in all caps

Scott do you feel guilty for falling for

the fear hysteria of covet

huh

I wonder what's going to happen to poor

Sharon

this is the sort of situation where

in the past

people have seen me

have a reaction

except

I don't believe she's real

I think she's just uh goading me so I'm

not going to respond to that

but Sharon

I'm sure there's somebody in the

comments who will share with you the

word that you have identified yourself

as and I don't need to use it

uh so Sharon you dug your own

situation

I don't want to say gray if that sounded

violent

yeah uh I think she's just kidding

around I don't think that's real

I've blocked her

I didn't block her

all right is there anything I missed any

stories I missed that you need a

reaction to wake up Scott

uh check out this jingle for the

simultaneous sip send that to me

somewhere else so I can see it I won't

won't be able to go back in the comments

easily

um

baby troll what's that means

you're still feeling better yes yeah so

let me continue with my update

um I have had nothing but excellent days

all day long

from the day that I stopped taking my

blood pressure meds nothing but

excellent days mentally 100 percent

100 physically

uh my knees are hurting a little bit

from overuse but otherwise my body is

you know it's like 20 years younger yeah

I mean I

I can exercise for hours it's just

everything's fixed and it was just that

yeah I forget what kind I don't think I

had a beta blocker I think I said it was

a beta blocker and then somebody

corrected me so I'm not going to name

the specific Med because I don't want to

get sued for making claims that they can

debunk or something

all right

it was a steroid I don't think it was it

wasn't a steroid

your coffee mugs will be arriving soon

thank you Henry

uh

High BP will Jack your cognition Jack

your cognition as an improvement

so did I tell you my reframe for blood

pressure

now I don't think this has scientific

backing so this is like just a fun

speculative thing right

um

is it is it a coincidence that all the

things that are good for blood pressure

um

are things that manage your energy

right but basically if you can lower

your energy or expend your energy so you

can expend it by exercise or you can

lower it by meditation for example

so it seems to be and this is just the

hypothesis that as you age your body

does not naturally off gas your energy

meaning that if you're a child and you

have high energy nothing will stop you

from moving right you'll just get real

active until you burn off your energy

and like fall asleep into a dead sleep

if you're an adult just because

um a normal adult lifestyle doesn't

involve moving much depending on your

job but you sit in the chair a lot oh

and I don't I like miss my workout or

something like that so I feel as if high

blood pressure

is really energy

that doesn't have a way to get out

does that reframe make sense to you

because it also tells you what to do

it tells you if you keep your body

healthy enough that you can exercise

then you've got you know good chance of

managing your blood pressure

yeah follow the energy exactly

follow the energy

Dr Oz has entered the room

yeah so I'm not going to say that uh you

should take that reframe and ignore your

doctors I'm just saying that it so

clearly explains everything that you

need to do and not do

just by energy and and there are a whole

bunch of things in which if you reframe

it as energy

you start understanding it remember when

I first reframed Trump as energy

like you were thinking in terms of fact

checking and policies but when I

reframed it in terms of he's an energy

monster and he moves the energy where

you want it then suddenly everything

makes sense right all the things are a

little confusing this suddenly comes

into focus when energy is the frame

I feel like this might be another one of

those

we'll see

oh I just realized I did something

clever

if I have a stroke because everybody's

teasing me because you know I got

vaccinated originally uh people saying

I'm gonna get a stroke but now that I've

publicly gone off my blood pressure meds

if I have a stroke

you're not going to know why

I've ruined your fun

I'm sorry

now if I have a stroke

it's because I'm off my blood pressure

meds

so I've ruined your anecdotal happiness

should I have a tragic event

your anecdotal happiness will be way

down Claude Adams will not be as funny

it won't be funny people won't laugh at

it

yeah

so that was accidental but it was a

stroke of Genius a stroke of Genius

exactly

uh

okay

no one here wants you to be harmed

probably no one here but there are

definitely some people who would have

mocked me my dead bones if I died

definitely

and I don't begrudge them they're fun

you know from Dad what's the difference

all right

could you have lowered the dose yes

and the lower dose did not affect my

blood pressure

so it didn't help it was actually raised

recently because it wasn't changing the

blood pressure

um

and by the way I I'm not the person

telling you you shouldn't take blood

pressure meds because apparently there

are a bunch of them I tried one of them

two of them actually and the two of my

tried didn't give me a good result

that's all I know I don't know about the

other five or six or whatever

do I eat grapefruit no it's weird

what is your BP it ranges now without

blood pressure the week after it ranges

between perfect

120 over 80.

um and 140 over 90 something

in the afternoon usually

and as I said to my doctor I'm not aware

of any studies that say somebody with

even the high end of my blood pressure

should be on blood pressure meds which

is not to say I shouldn't be

I was simply challenging whether there's

any medical

scientific

backing for it and my doctor was not

willing to say there was

because I did enough research to know

there isn't

there isn't

it's it's another one of those big

Pharma things

right

now

I have to be really careful I'm not

saying that you shouldn't take blood

pressure meds I'm saying let me be very

careful about that that's between you

and your doctor

all right

what time do you suggest I take my first

bong rip today well I think you've

wasted a few minutes asking the question

so

no time like now

um

140 isn't necessarily High

yeah I I think that

so here's the question

if you have a stroke it's not just

because of your blood pressure correct

there you know a number of factors have

to be also true at the same time

uh like your

yeah you need some kind of a thing going

on now in my case I'm a vegetarian for

you know 40 years more recently a

pescetarian

uh my my body mass index is exactly

where it should be I'm like right in the

middle of the good range

I exercise daily

I don't drink alcohol or smoke uh

tobacco

and there are no uh Strokes in my family

background

no Strokes in my family background now

can somebody tell me that my blood

pressure at 140

is dangerous

it might be I'm not saying it isn't just

being real clear I just don't think

there's any evidence to show that me as

a specific individual with a specific

lifestyle

I just don't know here's what I think

I've always believed that my body runs

hot

runs hot

and what I mean by that is that when I

go to sleep I wake up sweating

right like my natural body just runs hot

I'd rather be in a cool room than a warm

room I can't do work over 76 degrees if

the room is over 76. you know I my body

just runs up now you've also noticed

that when you do a lot of thinking

you notice you can break a sweat just

thinking hard has anybody ever done that

yeah your brain actually uses a lot of

energy

so I have a theory

that

um my my brain draws more from my body

than other people could it could have to

do with something about my physical size

compared to my brain size because I

think I'm not sure about this but I

think my brain size

is about the same as any adult male

right even if I'm if I'm five eight

isn't my brain about the same as a six

foot four guy can somebody is that true

somebody says no

and maybe it's not the it's the wrinkles

not the weight right all right well

whatever so forget about that point

because I don't have any backing for

that point but I feel as though my brain

draws more from my body than most people

because I just feel like I run hot

and I don't know that that's bad for me

right

I don't think it's bad for me

that I run hot as long as my body is you

know I'm taking care of all the other

lifestyle things I feel like I could run

hot and be optimized

I don't know just just the theory

yeah somebody says that's not how it

works and I agree that that is

definitely not how it works but in a um

it's more of a metaphorical sense that I

say I run a hunt uh the the

safer way to say it is

um

do I have the same risk

at 140 blood pressure as somebody else

and I don't think so I just don't know

my my suspicion is I don't but that

could get me killed of course

all right uh that's all for now YouTube

I will talk to you tomorrow and of

course on

um on Election Day