Episode 1942 Scott Adams - Censorship Controls Voting. Control The Message, Control The Country
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Good morning everybody, and congratulations on making it to the highlight of civilization. Yeah, talk about the lost city of Atlantis. Well, I don't know if that's real or not, but whatever it is, it's not as awesome as this. And you found this even if you can't find Atlantis no matter how hard you…
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View segment →or in other people's misfortune. That's not true. I do like finding humor in other people's misfortune, but not if they know about it. I think it's very impolite to laugh at people's misfortune if they're likely to hear it. But if nobody knows, sometimes other people's misfortune can be funny becaus…
View segment →Is there anybody here who's actually like literally thinking, are you actually controlling the simulation? Does it ever feel like that? All right, some yeses, some nos. Mostly nos because you're very rational. I like to think that I've attracted a hyper-rational audience, or at least you are now. S…
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View segment →tee. Well you make fun of me for living in California but here are a few things you didn't know. In the past month — oops got a little problem here — in the past month in California where I live almost every day the weather has been so good at least during the daytime that it feels like room temper…
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View segment →hat since kindergarten I think. I think as early as kindergarten my mother was telling me here's your path to success. Do these things and you will do well. Now I don't know if everybody's parents do that. Like do the poor kids get the same kind of guidance? So here's basically what it is. This is…
View segment →d not do drugs. There are people who do it. You could not get arrested. It's possible, right? You could do as good as well as you could do in that poor school but because you come from you know minority disadvantaged situation you might be able to get a little lift, a little maybe a college scholars…
View segment →r in terms of the censorship. They're actually preparing a full report that will be on Twitter. So and this is fun too. Twitter will be the publisher. So that this is something you would normally expect to be published in some other place and Twitter would just point to it but because it's Elon he's…
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View segment →agine imagine the protesters are unarmed in America. Do you think America would not have already taken down the law enforcement? I think Americans would have already taken them down because we're not trained like the elephant. We're trained to think we are in control. Yeah maybe maybe it's one of th…
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View segment →Good morning everybody, and congratulations on making it to the highlight of civilization. Yeah, talk about the lost city of Atlantis. Well, I don't know if that's real or not, but whatever it is, it's not as awesome as this. And you found this even if you can't find Atlantis no matter how hard you look.
But if you'd like to take this experience up to the maximum potential — and I know that's the kind of person you are — would you leave any money on the table? No, no, you pick up that money. And all you need is a cup or a glass or a tanker or a canteen or a jugular flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure. It's the dopamine, you know, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's going to happen now. And it's going to amaze you and make you feel better all day long. Go for it. Yeah, yeah, that's good.
All right, let me start with the funniest bad story of the day. Now I don't like to find humor in other people's misfortune. That's not true. I do like finding humor in other people's misfortune, but not if they know about it. I think it's very impolite to laugh at people's misfortune if they're likely to hear it. But if nobody knows, sometimes other people's misfortune can be funny because at our base we're very small and terrible people. But don't let anybody know about that. We'll try to keep up a good front.
Okay, but here's the story. Do you recall that the Biden administration had an employee who was the first gender non-binary official, an individual named Sam Brinton? Now Sam is the deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition at the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy.
Poor Sam can't get any real work done because he spends all of his time telling people where he works. He'll come to work and the phone will ring and say, "Who is this?" And he'll say, "Hello, this is Sam Brinton, deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition at the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy." Hello, hello. And then the caller is hung up because they just don't have that kind of time.
So that's the first problem. First problem is title too long. I don't know how he gets his work done. Second problem: he is accused of stealing luggage from an airport carousel. Now you might ask yourself, what kind of person who has a nice job steals luggage from a carousel? What are you going to find in the luggage? Get yourself a really sweet hair dryer? Like, I mean, he doesn't have any hair actually, but what would be the point of that?
Well, it turns out there's an expensive kind of luggage which I never heard about, a Vera Bradley suitcase, which could be worth over two thousand dollars. Would you recognize a two-thousand-dollar suitcase if you saw it? I don't. I don't feel like I would even recognize an expensive suitcase. They kind of look similar to me. But apparently Sam, according to allegations — we only know the allegations — stole that suitcase. And not only is they — I think Sam is a they — not only is they on video, video security, taking the bag, but also on video using the bag on a few different occasions. So there doesn't seem to be too much confusion about what's really going on. Actually stole the bag.
Now here's the punchline. The punchline doesn't require any addition. All right, I'm just going to tell you the story, the actual details as we know them, and that's the punchline. All right, I'm just going to put two facts together. The person who is the deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition at the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy didn't know that the airport has security cameras. Didn't see that coming. Probably thought to they self, well they are never going to find they. They will take this bag and they will never know who took it. They will be walking around with this brand new twenty-three-hundred-dollar bag, and want on everybody who thinks they can stop me. But it turns out that the deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition at the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy never saw this coming. The whole video security game. Didn't see it coming.
So that's the punchline. I got nothing else to add to that. Didn't see it coming. All right. I'm glad we've got people who can not see five minutes in the future in charge of our nuclear assets.
So if you noticed that ESG is dying right on schedule, does it seem unusual to you that I declared that I would kill it before the end of the year and it looks like it's limping into December pretty wounded? Now does it? I've asked this before but I'm going to lead into something here. Does it feel like I sometimes control the simulation? Is there anybody here who's actually like literally thinking, are you actually controlling the simulation? Does it ever feel like that?
All right, some yeses, some nos. Mostly nos because you're very rational. I like to think that I've attracted a hyper-rational audience, or at least you are now. So the rational people should say no, it doesn't look like that. It's anecdotal and it's coincidence. And I'm also good at identifying a parade and getting in front of it, so you should know that about me. Sometimes it's not all about prediction. Sometimes it's saying, I think I see a parade. What happens if I get in front of it? Then it looks like you predicted it.
But sometimes I also wonder myself. If you do my actual life, you know the public parts, but if you do my whole life you would have to say to yourself, what's going on here? It looks like something weird is happening in my life that I can't explain. So let me tell you something that's the weirdest story you might hear this week. And it's a story of weird stories. Everything I tell you next I swear to God is true. Now when I say it's true I mean it's my impression of what happened. It's my experience. The actual underlying truth, I don't know. I don't know what the underlying truth is. But I can tell you my experience. So I'm not lying about my experience or my memory of it. Right? That part I promise you.
About, was it two days ago, I had this overwhelming feeling that I was being watched. Now I've had it before. You've had that, right? You ever have that feeling you're being watched even when you're alone? So I was alone at home and I thought, I'm being watched. And I had an overwhelming feeling — and again you should not put any stock in this, right? It's just feelings, just a feeling — that the creators of the simulation were online and looking at me at that moment. Like I was being observed.
Now I couldn't, I didn't have a feeling if I was being observed by one entity or multiple, but I had the feeling that whoever was observing or whatever was part of a population, not a single entity. Now the questions that you're going to ask, let me anticipate your questions. Scott, were you on drugs? Of course I was. It was after 9 a.m. But I'm on drugs every day in marijuana and I know what marijuana feels like. Can you accept that if you get high every day for thirty years or so or more, you know what it feels like? There are no surprises, right? It doesn't sometimes feel like mushrooms, right? It doesn't sometimes make me hallucinate. It's always the same. And if you do it every day it doesn't give you any kind of an experience like somebody doing it once in a while. The people who do it once in a while have this profound, you know, you better not drive your car, don't use any power tools kind of situation. If you do it every day it just makes you feel normal. You know there are very few things I couldn't do completely high. I could play a sport, play an instrument about the same, not much difference. But that's only people who use it every day. Ordinary people would have a profound effect so you can't compare them to the so-called chronic users.
All right, so that's the first question. So I embarked on an out-loud conversation with whoever it was and I swear to God I could feel I was getting answers. Now this must be what people feel when they believe they're having a conversation with a god. I imagine it feels the same way. And I don't imagine that my experience of it was so outside what people have felt for millennia, right? Humans have always felt, am I talking to God or are the gods talking to me right now? It's a very common experience.
So remember I'm not trying to claim that I understand the experience I'm explaining. I'm just saying it happened and then you could put your own interpretation on it. And so I had this long conversation about what this was all about. And then because I didn't believe my own experience and I didn't feel I was necessarily talking to anybody except my own imagination, I thought, well maybe I'll test it.
So I said, if this — I said out loud, if I'm in a simulation and I have determined and I've discovered it's a simulation, do I get powers like Neo from The Matrix? Like if you know you're in a simulation do you get power over it? In other words, does that give me the ability to change things in real time and actually change my reality because I now understand it and I can just change it? And so I thought, well it's worth the test.
So I said, I'll give you — I said out loud to the creators of the simulation, is that all right? Here's a test. If you can make this happen then I'll believe I'm in a simulation. Otherwise just my imagination. Although it could be my imagination either way. And so I said, all right, my biggest problem at the moment two days ago was that my knees have been hurting me for well over a month, maybe two months. And they hurt so much that although I was still active and still going to the gym it was sort of hard to walk upstairs. Like once I was back from the gym and I was really starting to worry if my bad knees were going to be forever because sometimes you have temporary knee problems, sometimes it's forever.
I thought if it's forever like I'm starting this downward spiral where I'm just going to be unable to exercise for the rest of my life. I thought, well it feels like maybe it's bone on bone or something. I didn't know what it was. So I said, all right simulation, if you can make my biggest problem go away, my knee pain, that I will accept that I'm not only in the simulation but that I have some control over it.
So two months of solid knee pain, never not knee pain, right? It wasn't good at night, wasn't good in the morning, was never good. It went away as I was talking. Didn't come back. It's still not back two days and my knees have no pain whatsoever.
Now I don't have any explanation for that. If you're saying to me, Scott that's like a perfect placebo situation because I talked myself into it and I had a profound experience of something that probably wasn't real, right? I probably wasn't talking to anybody but because it was so profound, hypnosis and placebo and everything I know about the mind suggests that I may have erased my pain. You know maybe I have the same inflammation I had before but I may have just turned it off.
Now let me tell you something else that's related to this. Sometime last year I was at an event at a friend's house and it was an individual who was doing some work in the backyard and it was super cold. It was like a really cold night and the individual is a young man and he wasn't wearing a jacket. He just had a t-shirt on and I was wearing a full winter jacket and I was pretty cold. I was like, and I said to him like how the hell are you putting up with this cold? And he told me the following story. He said that he had an experience with some psychedelics, I think it was mushrooms, and that during that experience he had the realization that his sensation of cold was a manufactured feeling and that he wasn't in any real danger at that temperature. Temperature was maybe 50.
Right, so you can't stay outside at 50 for too long without being uncomfortable but it's not really dangerous, is it? I don't think it's dangerous. I mean if you can handle being outside at 50 degrees with your t-shirt it's not going to kill you. It might even be good for you, right? Might actually be good for you. So he had actually separated cold from a feeling. He just didn't feel cold anymore. And the reason he didn't feel it is because he chose not to. He simply turned off that feeling because he realized it was fake. It was a false signal.
And so the other day I was outdoors without a jacket, you know temporarily just to check my mailbox, and I thought wow I'm going to be out here way longer than I want to be. And I was super cold and the cold was starting to hurt. And I said, what would happen if I reframed the cold? So I'll give it a try. And you know I keep hearing about these people who do the cryonic chambers where it's like super cold and they stay in there for a few minutes and like I'm surprised they don't die. And I thought, wait, if you know Joe Rogan and those people can get in this super cold thing and it's actually good for them, wouldn't it probably be good for me to simply experience something that's uncomfortably cold for a few minutes?
And as soon as I reframed what I was doing to a health-related process I said to myself, I bet this is actually good for me to be like super cold. I know you're laughing. Let me just pause. I live in California. I used to live in upstate New York. If you adjust this for what you're used to, when I say I went outside it was 50 degrees and I was super uncomfortable. If I had been in New York that would have been roughly zero. Roughly zero, right? So in New York if you live in New York and you live in the cold you could go outside in your t-shirt at roughly zero degrees and sort of do some stuff, you know. You wouldn't like it that much. Do some stuff and then come inside. You wouldn't be damaged, right? Would you agree?
So when you're making fun of me for being a wuss because I couldn't handle 50 degrees just know that when I grew up in New York I could have done zero. It's just what you're used to, right? So the moment I reframed my experience as a voluntary health-related process I was thinking, God I think this cold is making me healthier. All the pain went away. All of the discomfort, it was a pretty big discomfort of feeling cold, immediately left my body because I told myself if I were Joe Rogan I'd be paying for this experience. This is probably really good for me.
Does anybody have a problem with germs? Anybody a germaphobe? Try this. Reframe that the germs are good for you. That's it. Yeah, yeah. Which is true because you need to have some dirt and some animals and you know a little bit of filth around you or else you're not going to be strong. So I do a lot of public stuff, shake hands with a lot of strangers. You know if I do a public event — I'm not doing any at the moment — but as soon as I'm done I go wash my hands right after, right? Because you got like a hundred people's germs on you. But I used to think, oh my God, like I'd be running to the bathroom to wash my hands like a surgeon. Don't touch your face, don't touch your face.
But since I've reframed it the germs are good for me I still wash my hands but while I'm walking to the bathroom I'm thinking I wonder if I'm getting stronger. I wonder if my immune system is saying thank you. I needed a little stress test because that's just what I needed today. So I've reframed even germs at the low end, right? Nothing disgusting but germs just sort of the daily germs of life. I've just defined them as part of what makes my immune system stronger.
I wasn't planning to talk about any of this today. Was any of this fun? I don't know. I'll talk about the news next. There's plenty of cool news. I just thought it'd be interesting because it's something you can try at home. The next time you're super cold as long as it's temporary just try the reframe and say I'm super cold. Exactly what's good for me. I'm so lucky that this is super cold for a few minutes because this is really going to boost my natural immunity. Just try it. Let me know how it works.
All right. I got a new mascot. Phil Bump who writes for the Washington Post. Phil likes to come into my tweets and say bad things about me or to mock me. I don't know why. It may be because I've mocked him for his writing in the past. It feels personal. But I've promoted him from mere critic to mascot. That's my highest designation. So now he's with Keith Olbermann and it's a small group. I just have a few mascots but Phil's part of the group now. So congratulations Phil for entering the Scott mascot committee.
Well you make fun of me for living in California but here are a few things you didn't know. In the past month — oops got a little problem here — in the past month in California where I live almost every day the weather has been so good at least during the daytime that it feels like room temperature. I walk outside that the colors are perfect. I've had a month of room temperature, so sunny, perfect weather. It's amazing. And wow, so that's good.
But also California has made jaywalking legal. So as a — yeah it was already legal to, you know the pedestrian always had the right of way so that's been true for a long time in California but you have to be standing at an obvious crossing point. Now the law is extended to you could basically cross the road anywhere you want and it's not illegal and the motorists are going to need to stop or they're just going to, well I mean obviously they don't want to kill you so they're going to stop anyway. Now it doesn't seem like necessarily the obvious best idea in the world but we'll find out. Maybe we'll find out. Maybe it's cool.
So here's what I can do in California you can't do in Florida and Texas. You can't jaywalk to go buy some weed. Yeah I've been in Florida you'd have to have a medical card I guess but no. In California I can jaywalk anywhere I want. I can jaywalk and get an abortion. I can jaywalk to get me some weed. A lot of freedom in the state. Got a lot of taxes. I'm not sure the taxes are worth all the freedom but I don't know. I don't think I could move somewhere where I had less freedom. And by the way that's mostly a psychological thing but I can tell you that I feel more free in California than I would feel in Texas or Florida. I would just feel less free.
Now I think that Florida and Texas have a lot going for them. They're well-managed states and so I've mostly only positive things to say about both places but it is true I feel more free here. So for whatever that's worth.
I saw another mention that there's a heroin shortage which means that people are using fentanyl instead of heroin. But I would like to, I have some inside information on that. I've got the sources. My sources tell me it's not so much that you can't get heroin. It's that nobody wants to buy it. Nobody wants to buy the heroin. Do you know why? Because fentanyl is easily available and it's a better nod. That's tweaker talk and that's addict talk. The quote better nod is the you know sort of being in and out of sleep. You're nodding out and coming back. So that's what the addicts are doing, the ones who are shooting up.
Now here's the thing you need to know because if you don't understand fentanyl you can't be part of the productive persuasion to maybe make things better. So the thing you need to know is that the people who know they're buying fentanyl and putting it in their arms they're sort of like, let's say I would say they're like scuba divers. There are people who know they're doing an inherently dangerous thing so they take extra precautions because they're not actually trying to die. They're trying to stay alive. They just want a good high. So it might be way fewer overdoses because they're doing fentanyl instead of heroin. And I'm going to make that a prediction because it's opposite of whatever everyone else is predicting.
So normies, the people who are not too close to this problem are going to say, wait if you stop using heroin which is pretty bad and you start using fentanyl which is way worse you should have more overdoses, right? I'm going to predict it goes the other way. I'm going to predict that the scuba divers know that they need to make sure that they've got air in their tank and it's the people who don't know they're getting the fentanyl, the teenagers who are buying it in pill form and they don't know what they're getting, they're the ones overdosing because they can't take the obvious precautions because they don't know there's a danger. It's a hidden danger.
So that's my prediction. My prediction is overdose deaths from people who shoot might go down while overall overdoses might go up. So it's a bifurcated situation, two different risk patterns and you have to know that. And I thought there are people who know what they're talking about who are agreeing with me in the comments so it's not crazy.
All right. Yeah one mother of all bombs dropped on a fentanyl place would take care of that, wouldn't it?
Oh this is weird. I've got two different documents that printed on the same document so I'm trying to read. Apparently there was a piece of paper that I used twice here. Huh. Oh my God this is going to be a challenge because all of my notes are something written over something else.
I have a formula for making all poor kids successful. I tweeted this a couple years ago but it surfaced again. Imagine if your school taught you what I was taught as a kid, right? So what I'm going to tell you now is basically how I was raised. I was raised to believe that the following steps would make you successful and I knew that since kindergarten I think. I think as early as kindergarten my mother was telling me here's your path to success. Do these things and you will do well.
Now I don't know if everybody's parents do that. Like do the poor kids get the same kind of guidance? So here's basically what it is. This is my version of it. Focus on useful education. Keyword is useful, right? Make sure you get good grades, get into college and take a useful major. Major. Does everybody's parents tell them they got to do something useful or they won't make money? Mine did. I'm pretty sure my mother was quite clear that going to college for no purpose was a losing proposition. You had to go to college for something to be better at something specific that's useful, right? Does everybody's parents tell them? I know to me it was obvious by the time I was in first grade because it was just drilled in from the first days.
All right that's the first thing. Number two: stay out of trouble. Stay out of jail, right? Stay out of jail. Stay off of drugs, which I've managed to do until college. Don't become a parent too soon. You don't have a kid that you aren't planning on too soon, right? Just basic stuff. You know don't get anybody knocked up too soon.
Build a talent stack. Now that part I'm adding. You know that wasn't exactly added by my mother. My mother was still the generation try to be the best at whatever you're doing which was kind of a good starter advice but later you know I developed the concept of the talent stack. That's from my book back there which is now the talent stack idea is now common advice but it wasn't common until I invented it. So that's the one thing I added here. You know build a talent stack.
Be useful to others. That's the next point. It's not good enough just to be good at something. It has to be good at something that somebody wants to pay for. You have to be useful. And so I was trained to be useful all the time like I had to mow the lawn. I had to take the garbage out. I had to do something. Get good grades but I always had to be useful. That was always just baked into the operating system.
Favorite systems over goals. You know make sure you're doing all the right things to give you lots of options. That was never told to me directly so that's again that's my addition to it but sort of indirectly I think I'd pick that up. And then learn basic risk management. Basic risk management which includes financial risk management but I'm making it a little bigger now.
None of that is hard. Everything on my little list of how to be successful is pretty straightforward. Pretty straightforward. There's nobody who couldn't do it, right? You could be in a pretty bad school but let's say you're a minority student in the worst school. You could not do drugs. There are people who do it. You could not get arrested. It's possible, right? You could do as good as well as you could do in that poor school but because you come from you know minority disadvantaged situation you might be able to get a little lift, a little maybe a college scholarship, a little extra consideration and then from there you're on your own. Get yourself a useful major and you could probably pay for your student loans if you have them etc.
Okay so I would just say that things would be really different if we just taught people the basics when they're small.
All right. Rasmussen did a poll to find out if people think that Musk is going to make Twitter better or worse. Thirty-four percent of American adults who regularly use Twitter believe that Musk will make the site better. So about a third say he'll make it better and almost exactly the same think that Musk will make it worse. But how many people — this will be a little test of your psychic ability — how many people roughly do you think believe that Elon Musk, the world's greatest entrepreneur, paid forty-four billion dollars for Twitter to not change it too much? To not change it too much? How many people think they spent forty-four billion dollars to not really make anything any different?
Wow you're good. Wow you're so, that's good. This is twenty-four but your guess is of twenty-five are just scarily accurate. How do you do that? I don't know. I don't know how you do it.
Well the Twitter cybernetic brain which fascinates me when I look at the currently trending section because to me that's the consciousness or where Twitter is focusing his brain and there were four names in my — I think it's different for each person but in my list these four names: Nick Fuentes, Will Smith, Alexander Vindman and Tim Pool. Those are all the trending names today on my list. And I'm thinking poor Tim Pool. Tim Pool gets thrown on the list with Fuentes, Will Smith and Vindman but for different reasons except that they're all being criticized, right? They're all being criticized or in some cases complimented.
Speaking of Tim Pool you probably know by now that he got an exclusive kind of a scoop interview with Ye and Milo and Nick Fuentes. That would be the first I think big, probably the first time they would appear together since the dinner at Mar-a-Lago. And if you didn't know it ended abruptly when Tim very carefully broached the anti-Semitism topic and then Ye got up and left without comment.
Now who knows what Ye is thinking, right? It's impossible to imagine. But here are the things we learned. Number one: Ye confirmed that Trump did not know that Fuentes was coming and Trump did not know who Fuentes was. Now I believe that's true. I believe that's true because Axios reported the same thing before we did so we have now two sources that are not necessarily on the same side saying the same thing and also Trump said the same thing so it looks like everybody's agreed with that.
Now some people are saying well it looks like the Tim Pool interview as short as it was, about twenty-six minutes I think, it cleared Trump. What do you think? Is Trump cleared now because he didn't know Fuentes and did not invite him? No. Is he cleared? No. Nothing works like that. You're falling into the trap of imagining that any kind of common sense or rational thought is involved here. There's none of that. It's purely a narrative that the left is never going to let go of. It doesn't matter how true or valid or anything. All you have to know is that they've chosen it as a narrative that they're going to ride that horse until it expires and they are and they're doing a good job of it. They're really nailing it hard.
So no, Trump is done in my opinion. Trump does not come back from that. I think that was a kill shot. Does anybody disagree? How many of you think Trump could come back from that? Because remember it's not even true. It's like half hoax, half a little bit true. So you think you can. Now the argument that he can is that our attention span is too short. The trouble is our attention span is irrelevant if it's all they talk about.
Do you remember that Biden ran on the Charlottesville hoax? We elected a president on a hoax. It didn't matter that it was a hoax and it didn't matter that it was the most easily verifiable hoax. You just have to listen to it and they go oh okay that was a hoax that didn't really happen. And but think about it. You would probably have said that Charlottesville thing once it's debunked as an obvious hoax you probably said well it's not real so that's not going to affect anything in the real world. But it elected Biden. It actually changed the nature of our leadership of the biggest country in the world or the most powerful.
So yes the fact that this happened even though it looks like an op to me it wasn't Trump's fault per se.
Now I want to give you, you know I often compliment Mike Pence for being a clever politician who avoids getting in trouble. I want you to hear how cleverly he criticized Trump because he's really good at this. He wanted to criticize him clearly but not go too far into crazyville. Right? Crazyville says that Trump invited him like that that's too far. So I hope you're not going to see any Republicans you know buy into the part that he got invited. So Pence is too smart to fall into that part.
But here's how Pence, who we believe will run against Trump for president, Pence says, President Trump was wrong to give a white nationalist, an anti-Semite and a Holocaust denier a seat at the table blah blah. And I said again a seat at the table. Giving him a seat at the table. Is that not brilliant? That is brilliant for political criticism without being technically incorrect because giving somebody a seat at the table is conceptual. It's conceptual but it also makes you think of the real thing because at the same time there was a conceptual seat at the table there was actually a literal seat at the table. Pence is a genius. That is genius communication wise. I mean I don't think it's an accident that he was such a good vice president. His ability to parse words and pick just the right word that doesn't get him in trouble while still saying something is quite impressive. That is quite impressive. I don't prefer him for president but I just like you know credit where credit is due. That was really good.
Now you don't like it if you're supporting Trump. You don't like it because it's a pretty good hit. But a place at the table that gives them everything. That's just the perfect perfect criticism.
Now and I suppose the question is should Trump have you know gotten up and left but I don't believe Trump knew exactly who Fuentes was the entire dinner. Like I think he figured it out later but that he had a chance to disavow him. So here's my next question. Should Trump have disavowed Nick Fuentes? Go. Should Trump have disavowed Nick Fuentes? I'm seeing mixed messages. Here's why this is not an obvious question.
As a citizen of the United States I can disavow Nick Fuentes. I disavow him. There I just did it. So I think you'd all agree that citizens can disavow anybody, right? Just an ordinary citizen. Yeah we all have free speech. We can disavow anybody we want. But here's my question. If there's going to be one exception there's only one kind of person I want to not be criticizing citizens and it's the president. That's the only person I don't want to criticize a citizen who's obeying the law. This is an important caveat.
So given that Fuentes is obeying the law as far as I know he's not been accused of any law breaking as far as I know. So as long as he's a law-abiding person who just has ugly opinions in the opinion of many people I'm perfectly okay with a president whether it's Trump or anybody else, perfectly okay with the president criticizing behavior and opinions and ugly you know bad policy ideas but disavowing a person by name that's too far. That feels too far.
Now the exception would be a critic. So if a politician goes after somebody who's just been like dogging them forever like you know Rob Reiner or something you know if the president goes after Rob Reiner it's because that's somebody who's been going after him personally for a long time. That's fine. That's just politics. But to go after somebody who has not been criticizing you and only has opinions that you feel are vile, do you want your president to do that? And I say I do not want my president to be insulting any individual citizen with the obvious exception of Rosie O'Donnell. I think we could all agree that if it's Rosie O'Donnell that's fine. That's fine. But everybody else, everybody else no.
All right so I feel like this is a fine line but I think it's an important one. Now I think Trump did not disavow Fuentes' opinions and that's sort of a glaring thing that's missing but I think he could have parsed it. I think Trump could have said you know what if somebody's obeying the law and they have terrible opinions I'm still going to eat with them but I will disavow their opinions. If you'd like to hear that yes I disavow that opinion. That would work for me. That would work.
I say that censorship is the new voting. What do you say? Because we've got this big debate over whether Musk is improving free speech or making it worse, say his critics. But whichever way it is would you agree that the following is true? That censorship determines what narrative is the important one. Would you agree if you never see a competing narrative you latch on to the one that you see? So censorship determines what narrative rises to our attention, right? And the narrative would determine your opinion, right?
So that's how we get opinions. We don't really make opinions on our own. Opinions are essentially assigned to us by the way the narrative is presented to us. So the censorship determines the narrative. The narrative determines public opinion. Public opinion determines what the vote is because then we vote our opinions. So you've got the censorship determines the narrative. The narrative determines our public opinion. Our public opinion determines the vote. And that's it. That's our current system.
The current system is it's just a censorship game. The vote actually becomes a somewhat subsidiary downstream guaranteed effect that is guaranteed by what happens upstream, right? The vote is downstream from censorship. And I'm borrowing Andrew Breitbart's famous saying that politics is downstream from culture but the vote is downstream from censorship.
Now was this always the case? Has this always been our system? Because I don't think so. It feels like it's something that could evolve because of social media and the media landscape. And just in one comment I think it's I don't know who it's for but just says you it feels like it's for me but maybe not. Might have been for another commenter. But this battle over censorship and Twitter in particular because Twitter as you know is the lever that moves all the other media because it's the place that the media professionals go to find out what they can get away with. And if you can get away with it on Twitter then you can take it to the rest of the world. So this is the biggest battle because our political system is now basically down to what Twitter will allow you to see.
And I think it has been this way and I think that's what our last election came down to, what Twitter allowed people to see. Let me ask you this as many times as the Charlottesville fine people thing — I'm gonna get rid of this guy. As many times as the Charlottesville — why are you on here saying bad things Eddie? All right Eddie don't do that. I'm gonna turn off the locals. The locals I'm gonna keep the locals feed but I'm going to turn off the open part so it's going to be only for people who are subscribers because I think I got a troll over here. So when I turn off the open part it should get rid of the troll. So we'll do that. If you're on locals and you're not the troll go over to YouTube and you can watch it. Good. Boom.
All right so locals is now private for subscribers. But I'm not wrong, right? The battle over Twitter is our new political system because Twitter will determine what we think or what the journalists can get away with. And back to my earlier point if Musk had owned Twitter before could Biden have run on the fine people hoax and gotten away with it? I'm not sure. I don't think he could have because it was only because the Democrats were completely walled off from any hoax debunking. They just never saw it. And even the professionals never saw it. There are plenty of people in the professional reporting journalist field who actually believe the fine people, that the Charlottesville fine people hoax was a real thing that happened. They literally believe it happened. That's only because Twitter allowed them not to see the other side. So maybe that'll change. I don't know.
And certainly Twitter has completely changed who is visible. My visibility on Twitter went through the roof recently. I don't know if anybody's noticed. If you look at my Twitter feed the number of subscribers is climbing like crazy faster than ever before. And when I do even a medium quality tweet I get over a thousand likes and that would have been two hundred before Musk. So it's probably a 5x visibility difference for me now. You don't think the left was trying to suppress me? If they were trying to suppress me they weren't playing the right game. They should have been. They should have figured out who's making a difference, who could move the needle and focus on those people.
All right. Musk this is like the biggest story I don't know of since the pandemic I guess or maybe it's not as big as Ukraine but it's up there. That Musk is going to go full transparency. He's promised us that the public deserves to know what quote really happened at Twitter in terms of the censorship. They're actually preparing a full report that will be on Twitter. So and this is fun too. Twitter will be the publisher. So that this is something you would normally expect to be published in some other place and Twitter would just point to it but because it's Elon he's doing it the smart way. It will be published on Twitter so you have to go to Twitter and you have to stay there to read it.
Anybody who says that Musk isn't going to make this a better product you're really not paying attention. He's already made it a better product. There's no question about it. Like everything he's doing even the mistakes are all heading in the right direction. Okay that didn't work. All right that didn't work either but we'll try this. I mean it's all working.
But I would say it is also true that the worst racists have returned to the platform. Would you agree? Is there anybody seen an increase in anti-Semitism and racism? I have seen it but only recently. Only the last few days. I didn't see it until the last few days. Now maybe because of his amnesty or something. Yeah I've seen some super ugly anti-Semitic kind of stuff lately. Could be the Ye effect because people are using that as their topic for which to spew. Yeah it's probably the Ye effect. But we'll see if that's a lasting thing or not.
Now what's interesting about this is we're going to find out if Twitter suppressed the laptop story. I hope, I don't know if this will happen but imagine this. I don't think this is going to happen but imagine if Musk can tell you how individuals were censored. Can you imagine that? Could you imagine if I could find out exactly how I was censored? Just imagine that that would the head would explode everywhere.
And then let me ask you this. What will the left do when this becomes public if it's as bad as we think? Now I don't want to get ahead of the Kraken like I have an unfortunate history of imagining the Kraken will be released and then no Kraken happens. I'm definitely a Kraken non-denier and that's on me. Yeah I did expect a Kraken not because I thought there was a problem because I believe the people who said it was coming and I didn't know that they were completely non-credible as it turns out. So that's on me. I should have seen that coming honestly.
But if it happens how is the left going to handle the fact that all of their badness has been revealed? Here's how I think and it's already happening and it goes like this. All of that badness was really goodness. That's what it'll be. Of course we were suppressing Trump because he called neo-Nazis fine people. Of course we suppressed him. Obviously of course. Yeah it won't even be embarrassing. It won't be embarrassing because they'll say yeah we want more of that.
People are actually calling for Twitter to return to the rules before Musk. They're asking to go back to what they have to know by now was total censorship but they believed they were censoring the right people. Now do you think that Musk has changed the rules on who's censored? I haven't heard of it. Have you? Because I hear people saying I need Twitter to go back to the old rules. The rules never changed have they? Did I miss a story? I believe that Twitter has always been anti-hate speech, anti-hate speech and if there's misinformation they'll put a tag on it so you've got some context. It's the same rules but people are going to imagine a different experience, right?
The left is going to imagine that Twitter turned into a hellhole even if it doesn't and the right is going to imagine that the controls were taken off even if the only thing happening is more conservatives are joining Twitter so your traffic is going up and you'll think oh it's because the censorship came off. So we're deeply in confirmation bias territory which is affecting me, right? You're going to see it in real time if you want to see a rational person who is completely under the spell of confirmation bias I offer myself because Twitter is such a confirmation bias generator that I'm pretty sure I'm going to imagine my experiences changing on Twitter even if it doesn't. I'm pretty sure I'll imagine it does. Don't you agree?
So you're going to get to watch me falling victim to confirmation bias even when I know it, even when I know it's going to happen it's still going to happen. I don't think I have any defense against it because you feel the way you feel, right? And then you report it. But I'm at least aware that I'll be wrong.
All right so what do we think about this Ye Fuentes business now besides the fact that it'll take Trump out of the race for good just because the left will make us never forget anything else I mean they'll make us think about it forever. Whose Fuentes? Yeah I know. I mean the fact that these folks all showed up and by the way somebody says Kanye is legitimately anti-Semite. It seems like it that you know Kanye's had plenty of time to soften his opinion or whatever but at this point I feel like we can just say he wants us to believe that he is anti-Semitic. Wouldn't you say? He's not telling you he's not. I mean he does that thing I can't be anti-Semitic because I'm a Jew but nobody takes that seriously. It looks like he just he's putting it out there as that's who he is.
I don't know. We'll keep an eye on this. It's fun to watch. But do you think that Kanye is operating, by the way if you watched any of the Tim Pool interview with Ye or especially the aftermath because it continued after Ye left in that sort of a conversation around the table about what they'd experienced, the funniest part about it is watching every member of the table refer to him as Kanye and then have to correct it. And I thought that is why Ye is Ye and that's why the performer formerly known as Prince was the performer formerly known as Prince.
One of the things that you can do if you're smart enough and you're famous enough is you can make your name really inconvenient for other people and then you have to spend a whole bunch of time talking about them like extra time because you got to correct the name. So I'm watching this the Tim Pool group around the table and every one of them made a point. They're like well Kanye I'm sorry I mean Ye I'm sorry I apologize I didn't mean to do that. If you're watching I meant Ye. And every one of them had to do it on every comment to the point where it was just ridiculous and they were noticing it themselves of course. But that's one of the ways he draws energy. He gets energy because you have to talk about it more even to refer to him. Just the simplest thing you have to put extra energy into it. So he's definitely an energy monster and he knows how to attract it and he knows how to use it.
But what's going on now? Does anybody think that what we're seeing with Ye is some form of genius or do you think it's mental illness? What would you say? Genius or mental illness or attention? Like I guess that would be genius performance art if you say his performance art is a genius because let's say he intended it to be performance art. You'd have to be insane to think this was going to work. Do you think the divorce broke him? It looks like the divorce broke him actually. That's what I think. Yeah I think the divorce actually broke him. I think that everything he cared about in life was his family and he lost it and I think he lost everything and I think that when he gave up his billions of dollars it's because it didn't mean a thing to him and he kind of says that now, right?
He had he was the richest Black guy is that what he was saying? The richest Black guy or something. Everybody lost his family. He had nothing like that. I think that's the story of Ye is that it looks like he had everything because he had riches and multiple companies and fame and he was beloved. The other family he loved him and kids and then the only part he lost was the family and kids and what did he have left? Nothing. After his family and kids were taken from him or you know you could say it was his own fault whatever I don't know the difference but once he lost that he actually didn't have anything. So he tried God you know it looked like he moved his emphasis to religion and it looks like it wasn't enough. He's trying politics and it looks like that's not enough.
So to me this all looks like mental illness but caused by a specific PTSD. You know I'm speaking in my layman terms. I'm using all the wrong words for mental illness but you know what I mean, right? I believe he was maybe as all geniuses are you know a little bit crazy. Artistic geniuses anyway the artistic geniuses tend to be a little bit crazy and a little bit genius at the same time. And I think that the divorce broke him and it just pushed him into the wrong side. That's what it looks like because I don't see anything here that looks like a good strategy. Do you? If I did I'd call it out like I'd love to tell you oh you're all missing the clever play. You know if you knew as much as I do about persuasion you'd see how cleverly he's playing you all. But I don't see anything. I see somebody who's working through some problems. That's all. That's what I say.
Now the next part is hard. You know the way he's treated the anti-Semitism issue it's very ugly and like I can't be in favor of that. I can't have any empathy for that at all. But at the same time I have empathy for him because to me I see a victim and maybe he was a victim that people ganged up on him you know. Maybe his trainer who had some kind of weird background and threatened him. We know maybe he was part of it. I don't know. But he looks like somebody who was destroyed by people who had an agenda of some sort. Now you could argue that he wasn't strong enough to avoid that destruction. That's always another way to look at it. But I have empathy for Ye at the same time I severely disavow his opinions which I feel like is the way a president should have approached it. I think a president should say I have great empathy. It looks like he's going through a tough time but you know still I have to disavow what he said completely.
All right. I wonder if everything's, I can't get off of this topic but I wonder if everything's going to be different after we find out what Twitter actually did. Like how deep does that go? For example just as an example here are the things we might find out. What if we find out what organized groups were organizing trolls? Suppose if you found out who the troll masters are like wouldn't you love to know that? What if we found out how much foreign influence there's been at Twitter? Foreign. How much do you want to know that? Like a lot? Yeah. How about our own intel and FBI? How much influence have they had? Has anybody who is not a Twitter employee ever had direct access to cancel people? Would you like to know that? Wouldn't you like to know if there's any app that allowed any law enforcement or anybody to change a Twitter experience where Twitter didn't even have to approve it? It was just giving somebody else a button to push. Would you like to know? Because I'll bet somebody did. I'll bet somebody outside of Twitter had a button. It just feels like that's the type of thing we'd find out, right? I have no evidence of that. It just feels like it.
What else are we going to find out? Will we find out that our user accounts are completely artificial and that you know will I find out that of my almost eight hundred thousand followers what if I find out that half of them are bots for Republicans who thought they liked boosting my signal? Totally possible. Totally possible, right? Could be. Yeah I mean I have no idea how deep this hole is but wow am I interested.
Now apparently Apple has threatened Twitter because of this censorship stuff. Apple is threatened to take the Twitter app out of the app store which would pretty much kill Twitter as a viable business. Do you think that Apple would execute that? Do you think that Apple would drop the nuclear option on Twitter? Because if they do the reason would be that they say there are too many, too much hate speech, right? So it would be a hate speech thing.
Now isn't this hate speech thing really subjective meaning you could say yes that's too much hate speech or that's not too much hate speech? Isn't that kind of just an opinion how much is too much and how much is free speech? Because all free speech has some hate baked into it, yeah. So my first impression was this that it would be such a suicide play that Apple would never do it because if Apple did it they would lose I don't know twenty percent of the customers overnight something like that. I mean I would I'm totally in the Apple universe but I'd have to think really seriously about dumping them forever if they killed Twitter because to me that would be attack on the Republic. Does it feel like that to you? And it wouldn't feel exactly like an attack on Twitter users to me. That would feel like a direct attack on the Republic. That's how I take it. To me that wouldn't look like free market. That wouldn't look like any kind of free market thing. That would look like just the worst thing.
And so my first impression was Apple would never take a risk that big because they don't take risks like that, right? That's just not an Apple thing. But here's my second risk. Tim Cook might be the only person in the world who leads Democrat who could stop Musk from creating free speech. There's only one person who could stop it. Now maybe you could argue Google too. Good. Too one guy. Do you know how much pressure Tim Cook is going to get from everybody he knows and loves? You don't think the top Democrats have already talked to Tim Cook and said you know what would make you awesome? You know what would make us love you even more? If you could just do this one thing for us. Just kill Twitter. Yeah and I think he might actually do it. It's the sort of thing that no rational business person would do but I don't think we're in rational business person territory. I think we're in a virtue signaling territory.
And here's what I think might happen. I'm going to make a tentative prediction that if Tim Cook removes Twitter from the Apple store that the board at Apple is going to remove Tim Cook. That Tim Cook would lose his job for that, right? Because I would certainly never buy an Apple product while he was still CEO. I wouldn't. I'd be done. I would say I'll still buy Apple products but you got to get rid of that guy because I like the products. I don't want to deny myself a good product. I love Apple. I'm a really big Apple fan. I have stock by the way so I'm not unbiased. So I love Apple but if one person decides to attack the Republic I'm going to act on that pretty quickly.
All right here is how Twitter can destroy Apple. I also own some Tesla stock and so you know I don't know if I have any indirect benefit from that but your current phone is an absolute piece of. Does anybody ever notice that? Does anybody notice that your phone is a complete piece of? Now it's a technological wonder but may I do a skit of me using the worst interface ever designed?
Okay here's me. I think I'd like to send a message. Step one: find which app to use to send the message. Now I'm in already my brain's in the wrong place. The message is in my head. I'm forming the message that I want to send and who I want to send it to and then I pick up my phone and the first thing my phone does is make me think about something else. Failure. My phone should be blank screen and there should be no apps. There should be one AI that guesses what I'm trying to do when I start doing it. I should be able to just do what I want and have the AI guess what I want, what I intended.
For example I would have a blank screen and pick it up and start saying um yes thank you please do buy those groceries we were talking about. And then as I'm writing the message I want the AI to look at it and say oh this person is typing a message so he doesn't want to consume information he's in producing mode. So at the top it would produce all the apps where the directions the message could go from you know WhatsApp to Telegram to whatever. And then after I make the message and I've done all my thinking then I'm done thinking and now I say well which app did I want to pick? Boop.
Here's what's wrong with your phone. It's built for the app makers. Your phone is not built for the user. It's built for the app market. It's built to make it a viable commercial market. To do that you need apps. Do you need an app? How many of you woke up and said you know if only I had an app? No apps are trouble. Apps are extra work. Apps make you have to sign on again. Apps make your password go away. Apps can kick you off the platform. Apps are all the problems. I just want to know what I want to do and start doing it now. I might have two choices either producing or consuming. So if I want to consume I was like oh I'm bored I want to consume and I can look at some Instagram posts and stuff like that.
So I think the entire interface of phones somebody and it could be Elon Musk someday somebody needs to develop the AI version that just guesses what you want to do and gives you the options but makes you think about it after you've done your work. So you want to work first and then do the details of where that work goes. Does that make sense? How many of you think that the basic model of an app-driven phone I mean look at all my apps this is nobody in the world would have invented this for the consumer. You tell me that there's any user who would say yeah here's what I want. I want to have to go search for an app and every time I got to sign up and subscribe and all that. Here's what I want to do. I want to open up my blank screen and say one hundred plus three hundred and as soon as I type one hundred plus three hundred I want the AI on my phone to say oh he wants a spreadsheet. Boop. And as I'm typing a spreadsheet appears and now I can just keep going because I don't want to pick a spreadsheet. I just want to start working and have the spreadsheet form around me because it's obvious I'm in spreadsheet mode, right?
Why does a document have to be one for a spreadsheet and one for typing? Who decided that? I need a separate app to put a spreadsheet in the middle of my word document? Not me. If you'd asked me I would do there would be no apps. I just do what I want to do and it all works.
So here's the problem that Apple has. Apple and Google are both legacy user interfaces and it would be really really hard for them to change. But if Musk decides to compete with them what if he does it without apps? What if he does it with a super AI? And here's what a phone should be. Your phone should have nothing on it but a password and 5G. That's it. Just a password and 5G and the minor operating system but everything else should happen in the cloud through AI and then it should deliver it to you. And when I replace my phone the phone should cost me like a hundred dollars because the phone is just a dumb screen and all the intelligence happens in the network at 5G speed or through, right?
How many of you think I'm on to something? Because here's the part I can guarantee. I can guarantee you with a hundred percent certainty that in a hundred years there'll be no such thing as a smartphone with apps. You'd all agree with that, right? Because there's no way this model is the one that lasts. It's just too stupid. So Musk can put Apple out of business he can't and the technology to do that only just came online because you need 5G or in satellites those are online and you would need superfast chips so that they could handle a remote processing and you'd get rid of apps and AI could get rid of apps, right? I don't even know if AI would need to build you an app. I think AI could just sort of handle what you needed without you ever being aware that there's something like an app.
All right so if you didn't think that Elon Musk could put Apple out of business he actually can. Well it would be hard but there is actually a path where Elon Musk personally could put Apple out of business with just leapfrogging the technology of the phone. Probably won't happen. Yes probably won't happen.
Did you see the Maricopa hearings about the election? Anybody watch the video from that? So in Maricopa there were public hearings before they certified the election. It was the Kari Lake versus Hobbs one where Kari Lake lost according to the certification. Now they did certify it but not until listening to the public just rake the officials for what a bad job they did. And when you hear all the anecdotal reports of these are unconfirmed things it's just people talking so it's anecdotal but the anecdotal reports are just vicious. If you hear them out of context you know without the officials responding to why it's not such a big problem if you're out of context it just sounds like the whole election was just totally just screwed the pooch like nothing about it was credible.
But here's the part that I want to summarize. If you knew that the difference between a Republican and a Democrat victory was how inconvenient it was to vote on Election Day because Democrats vote by mail more often if you could make voting on the day of a little bit inconvenient wouldn't that be enough to throw the election? That's all it would take, right? You simply have to make sure that it doesn't go smoothly on the day of and that's it.
Now you remember those machines that had been tested and yet it turned out that they were poorly calibrated for the ink that was on the ballots. Do you think anybody would be smart enough to know that if they tweaked that calibration ahead of time just make it a little bit below the level that it might take hours to figure out what's wrong and correct it and in those hours a lot of Republicans would give up and leave the line? That would be a pretty straightforward prediction. If we can just make the lines longer on Election Day that's all we need because people don't have infinite time. They vote during the workday and some of them just need to say I'm going home.
So it looks to me without any proof of this right it looks to be like the inefficiency was the feature not the accident and it's being treated like a feature not an accident because we're not trying to fix it, right? If you saw some big move for Maricopa to say my God we've got to change this system you know we've got to make sure nothing like this ever happens so here's what we're going to do to fix all of this. No. As far as I know they plan to run the next election in the same way. I'm just going to guess but I'll bet you the next election has some long lines and some unexpected technical problems that don't look like any rigged election at all. It's just hey it's technology. Technology sometimes is you know a little bit tweaked wrong. No big deal. It's sort of normal. You'd expect a few hiccups in exactly the right place so we got the most problems and the place that would actually change the election. All the other there are other places that had problems too but a coincidence wasn't it that the one place that would definitely change things that place had the problems, long lines. And as many times as they check the machines the night before how weird that they didn't work the very next day. How weird. Yeah I don't know.
Here's my take. Here's my take on the elections. Guilty until proven innocent. Guilty until proven innocent. That's my standard. And to me they look guilty. So you can let's see if I get kicked off of social media. YouTube and the whoever is watching me on YouTube and decides whether to monetize me is my opinion that the credibility of the last election is below the level in which you should accept it. Now I don't have any specific claim about a specific bad shenanigans. I'm just saying that the overall situation with which we've been presented doesn't appear designed to make us believe it. It doesn't seem designed for us to believe it. It's designed for us not to believe it which causes more problems for Republicans, right?
What's the worst case scenario for Republicans? An election they say they don't believe, right? That was the trap. It's the perfect trap. If we can trap those Republicans into doubting a second election everybody's going to think that they're not good citizens, right? So YouTube I don't know who did what. I'm making no specific allegations of bad behavior. I'm simply saying that if you look at the design which is intentional the intentional design is to make it less credible. So I accept what I've been told. I've been given the officials have given me a non-credible election by design intentionally by design and so I accept what they've given me. It's not credible so I reject the 2022 election in my opinion. It I don't have a specific allegation. It was presented to us in a way that we're being told not to believe it and so I accept the message.
It would be easy to say here's what we're doing to make you feel more comfortable with the result but I don't see that. You know if you had that I'd say oh you're designing the system to make me feel comfortable with the result. I get that now. I feel I do feel more comfortable. But if you design it in a way the design is very clearly to make us less comfortable with the results because they know how to do it the other way, right? Do you think there's any doubt among the professionals how to make the election completely unquestionable? Yeah just paper ballots count on the same day have witnesses. It's easy. There's no question about how to do it. So it's a choice and it's a choice both sides appear to be making.
So if both sides are making the choice to have non-credible looking elections you as a consumer should take the message and say oh you're presenting us a non-credible election. We'll accept it as a non-credible election. Now having said that I agree with certifying it. I agree with certifying it. Same reason I agreed with moving on when Trump allegedly lost in 2020 because you do have to move on. You do have to move on and that's a separate question from fixing the problem. You have to fix the problem but sometimes you just have to move on. You can redo the election? Yeah no but we would just be redoing it with a system that's not credible.
But do you mind that the vote was maybe not as accurate as it could have been given that some people may not have participated? Here's why I'm not complaining as much as I could. It was the first thing I said today. I don't think the vote is what matters. I think it's censorship determined the narrative. The narrative determined the opinions. The opinions determined the vote and pretty much you know ninety percent of how we ended up where we were is from the censorship not from anything else. So the vote was important and it may have been the last straw because it was a close election so it probably did matter just because it was close but ninety percent of it was just that the censorship determined what people saw. What people saw determined their opinions and then they voted on their opinions. So it wasn't actually an informed public and then the public makes opinions and votes for the representatives sort of the way a republic should work. Nothing like that happened. Nothing like that happened. The brainwashers decided what we would think and then we acted on it. That's all.
Right. Do a redo? Yeah we maybe we should have some kind of a standing redo system so you can redo it quickly.
Now here's what I'd like to do. I would love to see a survey of how many Republicans got out of line and then separately how many of them didn't vote in the normal way but maybe you had to put their ballot in the special ballot box that didn't have a good chain of custody. So wouldn't you like to know how many Republicans got out of line? Because it might be none. It might be none because it could be the Republicans were just you know screw it I'm here all day you're not going to make me get out of line because you know Republicans are pretty much tough characters which is exactly why I like them, right? The thing I like most about conservatives is that when they have a principle they're really going to stick to it like they're really sticky on principle and if the principle is you're not going to discourage me from voting maybe every single Republican in the United States stayed in line as long as it took. It's possible because Republicans are not like regular people, right? They're not. They're very stubborn and they don't like to get beaten you know by a game. You know they're not going to be they like to be beaten by a magic trick.
All right. Thought experiment. Why can anyone do that list of things to succeed but not anyone can avoid overeating? Oh good question. So I told you the things that somebody needs to succeed and why do I think that somebody has free will and they can do that thing when I don't think that people can stop overeating? Because they like to eat and the thing is that eating is an addiction and addictions are a whole different deal, right? So if you have an addiction you have to be in addiction mode to deal with that. But what I was talking about was sort of a non-addiction. You're just a kid and you're trying to figure out your way in the world. There's no addiction involved. So if there's no addiction involved you can certainly brainwash kids in the direction you want.
Make a clip of my mom's useful advice maybe. So yeah maybe so. The trouble is that my mom had that be the best at one thing advice which is the opposite of what I ended up doing to good effect.
All right. You need a micro lesson in hoarding. Oh yeah maybe I'll do that. Make a listen to hoarding. You want to stop hoarding I assume you don't want a micro lesson on how to hoard more. Yeah maybe so. That's a good reframe I think.
Let's talk about China. Let's talk about China. You know there's an interesting thing. When I see the aerial views of the protests so the things that are different number one it's not that unusual to have protests in China. What's unusual is that they're country-wide. That's unusual and they may be bigger you know in each individual place than we've seen before. But here's what here's the thing that I'm really taken by when I look at the crowds. So you see a big crowd from above and you'll see the let's say the riot police I guess they tend to be dressed in all white and or police uniforms and you can see how many police there are and then you can see the size of the public crowd and it looks to me like the crowd is more powerful than the law enforcement like a lot.
And I don't think that the law enforcement wants to open fire and start massacring people because that then the public goes to the next level as well. And I'm watching that and I'm thinking it looks like the Indian elephant trainer situation is what it looks like. Let me explain that. I use this example a lot. If you're an elephant trainer how do you get this gigantic mammal that could crush you if it wants to to follow your orders? How do you make an elephant afraid of you? Like I always wondered like why does the elephant do anything for this little person? Like it makes sense why your dog does what you want because you're bigger than your dog usually, right? You feed it. But it seems like the elephant would just want to crush you if you beat it with a stick.
But the way they do it is they hurt the elephant when it's a baby. So when the elephant is a baby and it doesn't know how to fight back or anything the elephant trainer you know hits it until the elephant is afraid of the human and then the human never becomes less afraid of the human. The elephant never does. So the elephant becomes a big monster but still thinks that little human can beat it up. So that never changed.
And I feel like the Chinese public is the elephant because I watched the number of people there are protesting and it's a far bigger force than the number trying to stop them. It's not even close. Now yes if that force wanted to use firearms then then it's not a fair fight but if they use the firearms then the crowd gets bigger too, right?
So here's what I don't think the Chinese public knows. They have complete control already. The Chinese public has complete control and they don't know it because if you saw the size of the crowd they just have to rush. They just have to rush the other people. They just have to say all right we're just we're going to take you down and just use numbers and just take them out. And I feel like the public either the public doesn't want to escalate or they think they don't have the power like the elephant that was abused as a baby because they've been abused since birth to do what they're told. And even as rebellious as they are now which is impressive to watch I feel like they still don't know how much power they have.
I look at it from above and I say this is a five-minute problem. People would die but it's a five-minute problem. Every one of those law enforcement people could be grabbed by a person in the crowd brought down. Five minutes. In five minutes they would own the city but they're not doing it.
Now here's the question. What would have happened in America? Forget about guns for a second. Just imagine imagine the protesters are unarmed in America. Do you think America would not have already taken down the law enforcement? I think Americans would have already taken them down because we're not trained like the elephant. We're trained to think we are in control. Yeah maybe maybe it's one of the things that makes Americans such one of the reasons we're is we grow up thinking we're in control, right? We think we have all kinds of power even if we don't.
So if you have a crowd of Americans who are that pissed off and the number of people who are preventing them from going or doing whatever they were was that small this would be so over. The only thing that's keeping China intact is this psychological thing that keeps these citizens thinking they're weaker than the government and they are not. Not even close. They are the elephant and they're just they don't know they can stomp on the government anytime they want. That's what it looks like.
So what this means is no I did not forget the Chinese military. I did not because I'm calculating here that if China sent in the military and they started killing massive people which they'd have to do that the citizens would rise up to an even higher level. Now in America that's what would happen in America. If there were more force brought against the crowd the crowd would increase their own force and then they would be armed after that point. Now China can't arm itself so that they've got a different situation but they can still take out a small force.
Now my understanding is that the Chinese military is actually smaller than the local community enforcement because they need lots of local community enforcement relative to how many they need in the military. So it is possible that if the psychology of the Chinese people changes and it could you could imagine some small event that just changes their psychology the moment they say we have decided versus we want it's all over. The Chinese people have not decided. They have not. They simply they're expressing a desire. They're just they're expressing a preference a very strong preference but if the Chinese people decide it's a five-minute problem. It's five minutes. They will just destroy the whoever is stopping them and they will just do what they need to do. They'll take care of business.
So there is there's a very big possibility that China is teetering on a full revolution and nothing physical is stopping it from happening. There's no physical thing just that little bit of mental switch and if that switches all bets are off. Now I would bet against that happening. I would bet in favor of the Chinese government suppressing them it goes back to normal and the reason is I think they're so well trained. I think that the conditioning is so deep that they simply will never know their own power and they won't express it.
Now Iran is different than any situation I'm aware of because the women seem to be taking a lead now. Maybe I don't have that right but if there's anybody who has any Iranian connections can you do me a fact check? Does it still look like the women are taking the lead and the men are helping? Does it look like that? See once that happens then we're in unpredictable territory because you know the male female relationship in Iran is something we can't fully understand and we don't really know how much power women have in Iran. If you listen to anybody who was born there they'll tell you some version of this oh yeah the men are totally in control the men have all the power yeah except at home within the house the matriarch has an unusual amount of power but you know outside and if anybody's looking the men have all the power. Now I don't know how much of that's true. That's just sort of a thing you hear. But if they really do control the house who knows? Who knows? Anything's possible.
And if Iran goes ahead and does a mass hanging I think all bets are off. Apparently they're going to or maybe they already have a public hanging of one of the leaders and that is like a bad bad play for Iran. Doing that in public seems in 2022 seems like the dumbest thing the leadership could do to me. It looks like they'd just be begging for their own demise.
All right did I miss any stories? Anything that I should have talked about that I didn't?
Would you sell your Apple stock if they banned Twitter? Yes yes I would. If Apple bans Twitter I'm selling my Apple stock immediately and not just because of politics but because I think Musk might take them down. I think he might take them down. If Apple tries to destroy his forty-four billion dollar investment he's not going to leave any weapon unused. That is full war. Do you think Apple wants a full war against Elon Musk? Because that's not around, right? If they take out his forty-four billion dollar investment and what he thinks is the only hope for
uh good morning everybody and congratulations on making it to the highlight of civilization yeah talk about the last the lost city of Atlantis well I don't know if that's real or not but whatever it is it's not as awesome as this and you found this even if you can't find Atlantis no matter how hard you look but if you'd like to take this experience up to the maximum potential and I know that's the kind of person you are would you leave any money on the table no no you pick up that money and all you need is a cupboard or a glass of tanker tells us died at canteen jugular flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure it's the dopamine you know the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous Sip and it's going to happen now and it's going to amaze you and make you feel better all day long go foreign yeah yeah that's good all right let me start with the funniest bad story of the day now I don't like to find humor in other people's misfortune that's not true I do like finding humor in other people's Misfortune but not if they know about it I think it's very impolite to laugh at people's misfortune if they're likely to hear it but if nobody knows sometimes other people's Misfortune can be funny because at our base we're very small and terrible people but don't let anybody know about that we'll try to try to keep up a good front Okay okay but here's the story do you recall that the Biden Administration had an employee who was the first gender non-binary official uh a individual Named Sam Brenton now Sam uh is the Deputy assistant secretary for spend to fuel and waste disposition at the department of Energy's office of nuclear energy now poor Sam can't get any real work done because he spends all of his time telling people where he works he'll come to work and phone a ring and say who is this and he'll say hello this is Sam Brinton deputy secretary Deputy assistant secretary for spent Fuel and waste disposition at the department of Energy's office of nuclear energy hello hello and then the caller is hung up because they just don't have that kind of thing so that's the first problem first problem is title too long I don't know how he gets his work done second problem he is accused of stealing luggage from a airport carousel now you might ask yourself who who what kind of person who has a nice job steals luggage from a carousel what are you going to find in the luggage get yourself a really sweet hair dryer like like I mean he doesn't have any hair actually but what like what would be the point of that well it turns out there's an expensive kind of luggage which I never heard about uh Vera Bradley suitcase which could be worth over two thousand dollars would you recognize a two thousand dollar suitcase if you saw it I don't I don't feel like I would even recognize an expensive suitcase they kind of look kind of similar to me but um apparently Sam according to allegations we only know the allegations uh stole that suitcase and not only uh is they I think I think Sam is a they not only is they uh on video video security taking the bag but also on video using the bag on a few different occasions so there doesn't seem to be too much confusion about what's really going on actually stole the bag now here's the punchline the punchline doesn't require any any addition all right I'm just going to tell you the story the actual details that as we know them and that's the punch line all right I'm just going to put two facts together the person who is the Deputy assistant secretary for spent Fuel and waste disposition at the department of Energy's office of nuclear energy didn't know that the airport has security cameras didn't see that coming probably thought to they self well they are never going to find they they will take this bag and they will never know who took it they will be walking around with this brand new 2300 bag of want on everybody who thinks they can stop me but it turns out that the Deputy assistant secretary for Smithfield on waste disposition at the department of Energy's office of nuclear energy never saw this coming the whole video security game didn't see it coming so that's the punchline I got nothing else to add to that didn't see it coming all right I'm glad we've got people who can uh not see five minutes in the future in charge of our nuclear assets so if you noticed that uh ESG is uh dying right on schedule does it seem unusual to you that I declare that I would kill it before the end of the year and it looks like it's limping into December pretty wounded now does it I've asked this before but I'm going to lead into something here does it feel like I sometimes control the simulation is there anybody here who's actually like literally thinking are you actually controlling the simulation does it ever feel like that all right sub yeses some no's mostly no's because you're very rational I like to think that I've attracted a hyper rational audience or at least you are now so the rational people should say no it doesn't look like that it's anecdotal and it's coincidence and I'm also good at identifying a parade and getting it in front of it so you should know that about me sometimes it's not all about prediction sometimes it's saying I think I see a parade what happens if I get in front of it then it looks like you predicted it but sometimes I also wonder myself I have a very if you do my actual life you know you you know the public Parts but if you do my whole life you would have to say to yourself what's going on here it looks like something weird is happening in my life that I can't explain so let me tell you something that's the weirdest story you might hear this week and it's a story of weird stories everything I tell you next I swear to God is true now what I say is true I mean it's my impression of what happened it's my experience the the actual underlying truth I don't know I don't know what the underlying truth is but I can tell you my experience so I'm not lying about my experience or my memory of it right that part I promise you about uh was it two days ago I had this overwhelming feeling that I was being watched now I've had it before you've had that right you ever have that feeling you're being watched even when you're alone so I was alone at home and I thought I'm being watched and I and I had an overwhelming feeling and again you should not put any stock in this right it's just feelings just a feeling that the creators of the simulation were online and looking at me at that moment like I was being observed now I couldn't I didn't have a feeling if I was being observed by one entity or multiple but I had the feeling that whoever was observing or whatever was part of a population not not a single entity now the the questions that you're going to ask let me anticipate your questions Scott were you on drugs of course I was it was after 9am but I'm on drugs every day in marijuana and I know what marijuana feels like can you can you accept that if you get high every day for 30 years or so or more uh you know what it feels like there are no surprises right it doesn't sometimes feel like mushrooms right it doesn't sometimes make me hallucinate it's always the same and it doesn't and if you do it every day it doesn't give you any kind of an experience like somebody doing it you know once in a while the people who do it once in a while have this profound you know you better not drive your car you know don't let don't use any power tools kind of situation if you do it every day it just makes you feel normal you know there are very few things I couldn't do completely high right I I could play a sport play an instrument about the same not much difference but that's only people who use it every day Ordinary People would have a profound effect so you can't compare them to the so-called chronic users all right so that's the first question so I embarked on a uh out loud conversation with whoever it was and I swear to God I could feel I was getting answers now this must be what people feel when they they believe they're having a conversation with a god I imagine it feels the same way and I don't imagine that my experience of it was so outside what people have felt for millennium right yeah humans have always felt am I talking to God or you know is are the gods talking to me right now it's a very common experience so remember I'm not trying to claim that I understand the experience I'm explaining I'm just saying it happened and then you could put your own interpretation on it and so I had this long conversation about you know what what this was all about and then because I didn't believe my own experience and I didn't feel I was necessarily talking to anybody except my own imagination I thought well maybe I'll test it so I said if this I said out loud if I'm in a simulation and I have determined and I've discovered as a simulation do I get powers like Neo from The Matrix like if you know you're in a simulation do you get power over it in other words does that give me the ability to change things in real time and actually change my reality because I Now understand it and I can just change it and so I thought well it's worth the test so I said I'll give you a I said out loud to the creators of the simulation is that all right here's a test if you can make this happen then I'll believe I'm in a simulation otherwise just my imagination although it could be my imagination either way and so I said all right my biggest problem at the moment two days ago was that my my knees have been hurting me for well over a month maybe two months and they heard so much that although I was still active and still going to the gym it was you know sort of hard to walk upstairs like once once I was back from the gym and I was really starting to worry if my bad knees were going to be forever because you know sometimes you have temporary knee problems sometimes it's forever I thought if it's forever like I'm I'm starting this downward spiral where where I'm just going to be you know unable to exercise for the rest of my life yeah I thought well it feels like maybe it's bone on bone or something I didn't know what it was so I said all right simulation if you can make my biggest problem go away my knee pain that I will accept that I'm not only in the simulation but that I have some control over it so two months of solid knee pain never not knee pain right not it wasn't wasn't good at night wasn't good in the morning was never good it went away as I was talking didn't come back it's still not back two days and my knees have no pain whatsoever now I don't have any explanation for that if you're saying to me Scott that's like a perfect Placebo situation because I talked myself into it and had I had a profound experience of something that probably wasn't real right I probably wasn't talking to anybody but because it was so profound hypnosis and Placebo and everything I know about the Mind suggests that I may have erased my pain you know maybe I have the same same inflammation I had before but I may have just turned it off now let me tell you something else that's related to this sometime last year I was at a event at a friend's house and it was an individual who's who is doing some work in the backyard and it was super cold it was like a really cold night and the individual is a young man and he wasn't wearing a jacket he just had a t-shirt on and I was wearing a full winter jacket and I was pretty cold I was like and I said to him like how the hell how are you putting up with this gold and he told me the following story he said that he had an experience with some psychedelics I think it was mushrooms and and that during that experience he had the realization that his sensation of cold was a manufactured feeling and that he wasn't in any real danger at that temperature temperature was Maybe 50.
right so you can't stay outside at 50 for too long without being uncomfortable but it's not really dangerous is it I don't think it's dangerous I mean if you can handle being outside at 50 degrees with your t-shirt it's not going to kill you it might even be good for you right might actually be good for you so he had actually separated cold from a feeling he just didn't feel cold anymore and the reason he didn't feel it is because he chose not to he simply turned off that he just turned off that feeling because he realized it was fake it was a false signal and so the other day I was Outdoors without a jacket you know temporarily just to check my mailbox and I thought wow I'm going to be out here way longer than I want to be I'm going to be and I was super cold and the cold was starting to hurt and I said what would happen if I reframed the cold so I'll give it a try and you know I keep hearing about these people who do the the cryonic chambers where it's like super cold and they stay in there for a few minutes and like I'm surprised they don't die and I thought wait if you know Joe Rogan and those people can get in this super cold thing and it's actually good for them wouldn't it probably be good for me to Simply experience something that's uncomfortably cold for a few minutes and as soon as I reframed what I was doing to a health related process I said to myself I bet this is actually good for me to be like super cold I know you're laughing let me let me just pause I live in California I used to live in Upstate New York if you adjust this for what you're used to when I say I went outside it was 50 degrees and I was super uncomfortable if I had been in New York that would have been roughly zero roughly zero right so in New York you if if you live in New York and you live in the cold you could go outside in your T-shirt at roughly zero degrees and sort of do some stuff you know you would wouldn't like it that much do some stuff and then come inside you wouldn't be damaged right would you agree so when you when you're making fun of me for being a huge because I couldn't handle 50 degrees just know that when I grew up in New York I could have done zero it's just why you're used to right so the moment I reframed my experience as a as a voluntary health related process I was thinking God I think this cold is making me healthier all the pain went away all of the discomfort it was pretty pretty big discovered of feeling cold immediately left my body because I told myself if I were Joe Rogan I'd be paying for this experience this is probably really good for me does anybody have a problem with germs anybody have is anybody a germaphobe try this reframe the germs are good for you that's it yeah yeah which is true because you need to have some dogs and some animals and you know a little bit of Filth around you or else you're not going to be strong so I do a lot of public stuff shake hands with a lot of strangers you know if I do a public event I'm not doing any at the moment but and as soon as I'm done I go wash my hands right after right because you got like 100 people's germs on you but I used to think oh my God my God like I'd be running to the bathroom to wash my hands like a surgeon don't touch your face don't touch your face but since I've reframed it the germs are good for me I still wash my hands but while I'm when I'm walking to the bathroom I'm thinking I wonder if I'm getting stronger I wonder if my immune system is saying thank you I needed I needed a little stress test because that's just what I needed today so I've reframed even germs at the low end right nothing disgusting but germs just sort of the daily germs of life I I've just defined them as part of what makes my immune system stronger I wasn't planning to talk about any of this today was any of this fun I don't know I'll talk about the news next there's plenty of cool news I just thought I thought it'd be interesting because it's something you can try at home the next time you're super cold as long as it's temporary just try the reframe and say I'm super cold exactly what's good for me I'm so I'm so lucky that this is super cold for a few minutes because this is this is really going to boost my natural immunity just try it let me know how it works all right I got a new mascot uh Phil bump who writes for the Washington Post uh Phil likes to come into my tweets and say bad things about me or to mock me I don't know why it may be because I've mocked him for his writing in the past it feels personal but I've I've uh I've promoted him from Mere critic to mascot that's that's my highest designation so now he's with Keith olberman and uh it's a small group I just have a few mascots but but Phil's part of the group now so congratulations Phil for entering the Scott mascot committee well you you make fun of me for living in California but uh here are a few things you didn't know in the past month oops got a little problem here in the past month in California where I live almost every day the weather has been so good at least during the daytime that it feels like room temperature I walk outside that the colors are perfect I've had a month of room temperature so Sunny perfect weather It's amazing And wow so that's good but also California has made it made Jay without walking legal so as a yeah it was already legal to um you know the the The Pedestrian always had the right away so that's been true for a long time in California but you have to be standing at an obvious Crossing Point now now the law is extended to you could basically cross the road anywhere you want and it's not illegal and the motorists are going to need to stop or they're just going to not well I mean obviously they don't want to kill you so they're going to stop anyway now it doesn't seem like necessarily the obvious best idea in the world but we'll find out maybe we'll find out maybe it's cool so here's what I can do in California you can't do in Florida and Texas you can't jaywalk to go buy some weed yeah I've been in Florida you'd have to have a medical card I guess but no in California I can jaywalk anywhere I walk I can jaywalk and get an abortion I can jaywalk to get me some weed a lot of freedom in the state got a lot of taxes I'm not sure the taxes are worth all the freedom but I don't know I don't think I could move somewhere where I had less freedom and by the way that's mostly a psychological thing but I can tell you that I feel more free and in California that I would feel in Texas or Florida I would just feel less free now I think that Florida and Texas have a lot going for them they're well-managed States and so I've you know mostly I've only positive things to say about both places but it is true I feel more free here so for whatever that's worth um I saw another mention that there's a heroin shortage which means that people are using fentanyl instead of heroin but I would like to uh I have some inside information on that I've got the sources my sources tell me it's not so much that you can't get heroin it said nobody wants to buy it nobody wants to buy the heroin do you know why because fentanyl is easily available and it's a better nod that's that's tweaker talk and that's attic talk the uh the quote better nod is the you know sort of being in and out of sleep you're nodding out and coming back so that's that's what the addicts are doing the ones who are shooting up now here's the thing you need to know because if you don't understand Fentanyl you you can't be part of the productive um persuasion to maybe make things better so the thing you need to know is that the people who know they're buying Fentanyl and putting it in their arms they're sort of like uh let's say I would say they're like scuba divers there are people who know they're doing an inherently dangerous thing so they take extra precautions because they're not actually trying to die they're trying to stay alive they just want a good eye so it might be way for it it might be fewer overdoses because they're doing fentanyl instead of heroin and I'm going to make that a prediction because it's opposite of whatever everyone else is predicting so normies the people were a little who are not too close to this problem are going to say wait if you stop using heroin which is pretty bad and you start using fentanyl which is way worse you should have more overdoses right I'm going to predict it goes the other way I'm going to predict that the scuba divers know that they need to make sure that they've got air in their tank and it's the people who don't know they're getting the fentanyl the teenagers who are buying it in pill form and they don't know what they're getting they're the ones overdosing because they can't they can't take the obvious precautions because they don't know there's a danger it's a hidden Danger so that's my prediction my prediction is overdose deaths from people who shoot might go down while overall overdoses might go up so it's it's a bifurcated situation two different risk patterns and you have to know that and I thought there are people who know what they're talking about who are agreeing with me in the comments so it's not crazy um all right uh yeah one one mother of all bombs dropped on a fentanyl place would take care of that wouldn't it oh this is weird I've got two different documents that printed on the same document so I'm trying to read apparently there was a piece of paper that I used twice here huh um I oh my God this is going to be a challenge because all of my notes are something written over something else I have a formula for making uh all poor kids successful I tweeted this a couple years ago but it surfaced again imagine if you were School taught you what I was taught as a kid right so what I'm going to tell you now is basically how I was raised I was raised to believe that the following steps would make you successful and I knew that since kindergarten I think I think as early as kindergarten my mother was telling me here's your path to success do these things and you will do well now I don't know if everybody's parents do that like do the you know do the poor kids get the same kind of guidance so here's basically what it is this is my version of it uh focus on useful education keyword is useful right make sure you get good grades get into college and take a useful major major did does everybody's parents tell them they got to do something useful or they won't make money mine did I'm pretty sure my mother was quite clear that going to college for no purpose was was a losing proposition you had to go to college for something to to be better at something specific that's useful right does everybody's parents tell them I know to me it was obvious by the time I was in first grade because it was just drilled in from the first days all right that's the first thing uh number two stay out of trouble stay out of jail right stay out of jail stay off of drugs which I've managed to do until College don't become a parent too soon you don't have a kid that you aren't planning on too soon right just basic basic stuff um you know don't don't get anybody knocked up too soon uh build a talent stack now that part I'm adding you know that that wasn't exactly added by my mother my mother was still the generation uh try to be the best at whatever you're doing which was kind of a good starter advice but later you know I developed the concept of the talent stack that's from my book back there which is now the talent stack idea is now common advice but it wasn't common until I invented it so that's the one thing I added here uh you know build a telestack be useful to others that's the next point is it's not good enough just to be good at something it has to be good as something that somebody wants to pay for you have to be useful and so I was trained to be useful all the time like I had to mow the lawn I had to take the garbage out I had to do something get good grades but I always had to be useful that was always just baked into the operating system um favorite systems over goals you know make sure that you're doing all the right things to give you lots of options that was never told to me directly so that's again that's my addition to it but sort of indirectly I think I'd pick that up and then learn basic risk management basic risk management which includes Financial Risk Management but I'm I'm making it a little bigger now none of that is hard every everything on my little list of how to be successful is pretty straightforward pretty straightforward there's nobody who couldn't do it right you you could be in a pretty bad school but let's say you're a minority student in the worst school you could you could not do drugs there are people who do it you could not get arrested it's possible right you you could do as good as well as you could do in that poor school but because you come from you know minority disadvantaged situation you might be able to get a little lift a little maybe a college scholarship a little extra consideration and then from there you're on your own get yourself a useful major and and you could probably pay for your student loans if you have them Etc Okay so um I would just say that things would be really different if we just taught people the basics when they're small all right Rasmussen did a poll to find out if people uh think that musk is going to make Twitter better or worse 34 of American adults who regularly use Twitter believes that musk will make the site better so about a third say you'll make it better and almost exactly the same think that musk will make it worse but how many people this will be a little test of your uh your psychic ability how many people roughly do you think believe that Elon Musk the world's greatest entrepreneur uh paid 44 billion dollars for Twitter to not change it too much to not change it too much how many people think they spend 44 billion dollars do not really make anything any different wow you're good wow you're so that's good this is 24 but your guess is of 25 are are just scarily accurate how do you do that I don't know I don't know how you do it well the Twitter cybernetic brain uh which fascinates me when I look at the currently trending section because to me that's the Consciousness or where the where Twitter is focusing his brain and there were four names in my I think it's different for each person but in my list these four names Nick Fuentes Will Smith Alexander vinman and Tim Poole those are all the trending names today on my list and I'm thinking poor Tim pool Tim pool gets thrown on the list with Fuentes Will Smith and and vinman but for different reasons except that they're all being criticized right they're all being criticized or in some cases complemented speaking of Tim Poole you probably know by now that he got a exclusive kind of a scoop interview with yay and Milo and Nick Fuentes that would be the first I think big probably the first time they would appear together since the dinner at Mar-A-Lago and if you didn't know it ended abruptly when Tim very carefully broached the anti-Semitism topic and then yay got up and left without comments now who knows what yay is thinking right it's impossible to imagine but here are the things we learned number one yay confirmed that Trump did not know that Fuentes was coming and Trump did not know who Fuentes was now I believe that's true I believe that's true because uh axios reported the same thing before we did so we have now two sources that are not necessarily on the same side saying the same thing and and also Trump said the same thing so it looks like looks like everybody's agreed with that now some people are saying well it looks like the Tim pool interview as short as it was about 26 minutes I think it cleared Trump what do you think is Trump cleared now because he didn't know Fuentes and did not invite him no is he cleared no nothing works like that you're falling into the Trap of imagining that imagining that any kind of common sense or rational thought is involved here there's none of that it's purely a narrative that that the left is never going to let go of it doesn't matter how true or valid or anything all you have to know is that they've chosen it as a narrative that they're going to ride ride that horse until it expires and they are and they're doing a good job of it they're really nailing it hard so no Trump is done in my opinion Trump does not come back from that I think that was a kill shot does anybody disagree how many of you think Trump could come back from that because remember it's not even true it's it's like half Oaks half a little bit true so you think you can now the argument that he can is that our attention span is too short the trouble is our attention span is irrelevant if it's all they talk about do you remember that Biden ran on the Charlottesville hoax we elected a president on a hoax it didn't matter that it was a hoax and it didn't matter that it was the most easily verifiable hoax you just have to listen to it and they go oh okay that was a hoax that didn't really happen and but think about it you would you probably would have said that Charlottesville thing once it's debunked as an obvious hoax you probably said well it's not real so that's not going to affect anything in the real world but it elected Biden it actually changed the nature of our leadership of the biggest country in the world or the most powerful so yes the the fact that this happened even though it looks like an OP to me it wasn't Trump's fault uh per se now I want to give you you know I often compliment Mike Pence for being a clever politician who avoids getting in trouble I want you to hear how cleverly he criticized Trump because he's really good at this he wanted to criticize him clearly but but not go too far into crazyville right crazyville says that Trump invited him like that that's too far so you I hope you're not going to see any Republicans you know buy into the part that that he got invited so Pence is too smart to fall into that part but here's how Pence uh who we believe will run against Trump for president uh Penn said Penn says um president Trump was wrong to give a white nationalist an anti-semite and a holocaust denier a seat at the table blah blah and I said again a seat at the table giving him a seat at the table is that not brilliant that is brilliant for political criticism without being technically incorrect because giving somebody a seat at the table is conceptual it's conceptual but it's also makes you think of the real thing because at the same time there was a conceptual seat at the table there was actually a literal seat at the table Pence is a genius that is genius communication wise I mean I don't think it's an accident that he was such a good vice president his ability to parse words and pick just the right word that doesn't getting him in trouble while still saying something is quite impressive that is quite impressive I don't I don't prefer him for president but I just like you know credit where creditors do that was really good now you don't like it if you're if you're supporting Trump you don't like it because it's a pretty good hit but a place at the table that gives them everything that's just the perfect perfect criticism um now and I suppose the question is should Trump have you know gotten up and left but I don't believe Trump knew exactly who Fuentes was the entire dinner like I think if you figured it out later but that he had a chance to disavow him so here's my next question should Trump have disavowed Nick Fuentes go should Trump have disavowed Nick Fuentes I'm seeing mixed messages here's why this is not an obvious question um as a citizen of the United States I can disavow Nick Fuentes I disavow him there I just did it so I think you'd all agree that citizens can disavow anybody right just an ordinary citizen yeah we all have free speech we can disavow anybody we want but here's my question if there's going to be one exception there's only one kind of person I want to not be criticizing citizens and it's the president that's the only person I don't want to criticize a a citizen who's obeying the law this is an important caveat so given given that Fuentes is obeying the law as far as I know he's not been accused of any law breaking as far as I know so as long as he's a law-abiding person who just has uh ugly opinions in the opinion of many people I'm perfectly okay with a president whether it's Trump or anybody else um perfectly okay with the president criticizing Behavior and opinions and ugly you know bad policy ideas but disavowing a person by name that's too far that feels too far now the the exception would be a Critic so if a politician goes after somebody who's just been like dogging them forever like you know Rob Reiner or something you know if the president goes after Rob Reiner it's because that's somebody's been going after him personally for a long time that's fine that's just politics but to go after somebody who has not been criticizing you and only has opinions that you feel are vile do you want your president to do that and I say I do not want my president to be insulting any individual citizen with the obvious exception of Rosie O'Donnell I think we could all agree that if it's Rosie O'Donnell that's fine that's fine but everybody else everybody else no no all right so I I feel like this is a it's a fine line but I think it's an important one now I think Trump did not did not disavow Fuente's opinions and that's sort of a glaring thing that's missing but I think he could have parsed it I think I think Trump could have said you know what um if somebody's obeying the law and they have terrible opinions I'm still going to eat with them but I will disavow their opinions if you'd like to hear that yes I disavow that opinion that would work for me that would work um I say that censorship is the new voting what do you say because we've got this big debate over whether musk is improving Free Speech or making it worse say his critics But whichever way it is the would you agree that the following is true that censorship determines what narrative is the important one would you agree if you never see a competing narrative you latch on to the one that you see so censorship determines what narrative Rises to our attention right and the narrative would determine your opinion right so that's how we get opinions we don't really make opinions on our own opinions are essentially assigned to us by the way the narrative is presented to us so the the censorship determs The Narrative The Narrative determines public opinion public opinion determines what the vote is because then we vote our opinions so you've got the censorship determines the narrative The Narrative determines our public opinion our public opinion determines the vote and that's it that's our current system the current system is it's just a censorship game the vote actually becomes a a somewhat subsidiary Downstream uh guaranteed effect that is guaranteed by what happens Upstream right the vote is Downstream from censorship and I'm borrowing Andrew breitbart's famous saying that politics is Downstream from culture but but the vote is Downstream from censorship now was this always the case has this always been our system because I don't think so it feels like it's something that could evolve because of social media and the the media the media landscape and just in one comment I think it's I don't know who it's for but just says you it feels like it's for me but maybe not might have been for another commenter but this battle over uh censorship and Twitter in particular because Twitter Twitter as you as you know is the the lever that moves all the other media because it's the place that the media professionals go to find out what they can get away with and if you can get away with it on Twitter then you can take it to the rest of the world so this is the biggest battle because our our political system is now basically down to what Twitter will allow you to see and I think it has been this way and I think that's what I think our last election came down to what Twitter allowed people to see let me let me ask you this as many times as the Charlottesville fine people thing uh I'm gonna get rid of this guy as many times as the Charlottesville why why are you on here saying bad things Eddie all right Eddie don't do that um I'm gonna I'm gonna turn off the locals uh the locals uh I'm Gonna Keep the locals feed but I'm going to turn off the uh open part so it's going to be only for people who are subscribers because I think I got a troll over here so when I turn off the uh the open part it should get rid of the troll so we'll do that if you're on locals uh and you're not the troll go over the You.
Tube and you can watch it good boom all right so locals is now private for subscribers um but I'm not wrong right the battle over Twitter is is our new political system because Twitter will determine what we think or what the journalists can get away with and back to my earlier point if if musk had owned Twitter before could Biden have run on the fine people hoax and gotten away with it I'm not sure I don't think he could have because it was only because the Democrats were completely walled off from any hoax debunking they just never saw it and even the professionals never saw it there are plenty of people in the professional reporting journalist field who actually believes the fine P that the you know the Charlottesville fine people hoax was a real thing that happened they literally believe it happened that's only because Twitter allowed them not to see the other side so maybe that'll change I don't know um and certainly Twitter has completely changed who is visible My visibility on Twitter went through the roof recently I I don't know if anybody's noticed if you look at my Twitter feed the number of subscribers is climbing like crazy faster than ever before and when I do even a medium quality tweet I get over a thousand likes and that would have been 200 before Musk so it's probably a 5x visibility difference for me now you don't think the left was trying to suppress me if they were trying to suppress me they weren't they weren't playing the right game they should have been they should have figured out who's making a difference who could move the needle and and focus on those people all right um musk this is like the biggest story I don't know of since the pandemic I guess or maybe maybe it's not as big as Ukraine but it's up there that mosque is going to go full transparency he's promised us that the public deserves to know what quote really happened at Twitter in terms of the censorship they're actually preparing a full report that will be on Twitter so and this is fun too Twitter will be the publisher so that this is something you would normally expect to be published in some other place and Twitter would just point to it but because it's Elon he's doing it the smart way it will be published on Twitter so you have to go to Twitter and you have to stay there to read it anybody who says that anybody who says that musk isn't going to make this a better product you're really not paying attention he's already made it a better product there's no question about it like everything he's doing even the mistakes are all heading in the right direction okay that didn't work all right that didn't work either but we'll try this I mean it's all working um but I would say it is also true that the uh the worst racist have returned to the platform would you agree is there anybody seen an increase in uh anti-Semitism and racism I have seen it but only recently only the last few days I didn't see it until the last few days now maybe because of his amnesty or something yeah I've seen some super ugly anti-semitic kind of stuff lately could be the yeah it's the yay effect because people are people are using that as their topic for which to spew yeah it's probably the yeah effect um but we'll see if that's a lasting thing or not now what's interesting about this is we're going to find out if Twitter suppressed the laptop story I hope I don't know if this will happen but imagine this I don't think this is going to happen but imagine if musk can tell you how individuals were censored can you imagine that could you imagine if I could find out exactly how I was censored just imagine that that would the headset would explode everywhere and then let me ask you this what will the left do when this becomes public if if it's as bad as we think now I don't want to get ahead of the Krakens like I I have a I have a uh unfortunate history of uh Imagining the Kraken will be reproduced and then no cracking happens I'm definitely a a crack in non-denir and that's on me yeah I did expect a kraken not because I thought there was a problem because I believe the people who said it was coming and I didn't know that they were completely non-credible as it turns out so that's on me I should have seen I should have seen that come honestly but if it happens I was how is the left going to handle the fact that all of their Badness has been revealed here's how I think and it's already happening and it goes like this all of that Badness was really goodness that's what it'll be of course we were suppressing Trump because he called uh he called neo-nazi's Fine people of course we suppressed him obviously of course yeah it won't even be embarrassing it won't be embarrassing because they'll say yeah we want more of that people are actually calling for Twitter to return to the rules before Musk they're asking to go back to what they have to know by now was total censorship but they believed they were censoring the right people now do you think that musk has changed the rules on who's censored I haven't heard of it have you because I bury people saying I need Twitter to go back to the old rules the rules never changed have they did I miss a story I believe that that Twitter has always been anti-hate speech anti-hate speech and if there's misinformation they'll put a tag on it so you've got some context it's the same rules but people are people are going to imagine a different experience right the left is going to imagine that Twitter turned into a hell hole even if it doesn't and the right is going to imagine that the controls were taken off even if the only thing happening is more conservatives are joining Twitter so your traffic is going up and you'll think oh it's because the censorship came off so we're deeply in confirmation bias territory which is affecting me right you're going to see it in real time if you want to see a rational person who is completely under the spell of confirmation bias I offer myself because Twitter is such a confirmation bias generator that I I'm pretty sure I'm going to imagine my experiences changing on Twitter even if it doesn't I'm pretty sure I'll imagine it does don't you agree so you're going to get to watch me falling falling victim to confirmation bias even when I know it even when I know it's going to happen it's still going to happen I don't think I have any defense against it because you feel the way you feel right and then you report it but I'm at least aware that I'll be wrong um all right so uh what what do we think about this yay Fuentes business now besides the fact that it'll take Trump out of the race for good just because the left will make us never forget anything else I mean they'll make us think about it forever uh whose Fuentes yeah I know I mean the the fact that uh these folks all showed up and by the way uh somebody says Kanye is legitimately anti-semite it seems like it that you know Kanye's had plenty of time to soften his soften his opinion or whatever but at this point I feel like we can just say he wants us to believe that he is anti-Semitic wouldn't you say he's not telling you he's not I mean he does that thing I can't be anti-semitic because I'm a Jew but nobody takes that seriously it looks like he just he's putting it out there as that's who he is uh I don't know we'll keep an eye on this it's fun to watch but do you think that uh Kanye is operating by the way if you watched any of the Tim pool uh uh interview with yay or especially the aftermath because it continued after yay left in that sort of a conversation around the table about what they'd experienced the funniest part about it is watching every member of the table refer to him as Kanye and then have to correct it and I thought that is why yea is yay and that's why the performer formerly known as Prince was the performer formerly known as Prince one of the things that you can do if you're smart enough and you're famous enough is you can make your name really inconvenient for other people and then you have to spend a whole bunch of time talking about them like extra time because you got to talk you got to correct the name so I'm watching this the the Tim pool group around the table and every one of them made a point they're like well Kanye I'm sorry I mean yay I'm sorry I apologize I didn't mean to do that uh if you're watching uh I meant Yay and every one of them had to do it on every comment to the point where it was just ridiculous and they were you know noticing it themselves of course but that's one of the ways he draws energy he gets energy because you have to talk about it more even to refer to him just the simplest thing you have to put extra energy into it so he's definitely an energy monster and he knows how to attract it and he knows how to use it but what's going on now uh does anybody think that what we're seeing with yay is some form of Genius or do you think it's mental illness what would you say genius or mental illness or attention like I guess that would be genius performance art if you say his performance art is a genius because let's say he let's say he intended it to be performance art you'd have to be insane to think this was going to work do you think the divorce broke him it looks like the divorce broke him actually that's what I think yeah I think the divorce actually broke him I I think that everything he cared about in life was his family and he lost it and I think he lost everything and I think that when he gave up his billions of dollars it's because it didn't mean a thing to him and he kind of says that now right he had he was the richest black guy is that what he was saying the richest black guy or something everybody lost his family he had nothing like that I think I think that's the story of yay is that it looks like he had everything because he had riches and multiple companies and fame and he was Beloved the other family he loved him and kids and and then the only party lost was the family and kids and what did he have left nothing after you after his family and kids were taken from him or you know you could say it was his own fault whatever I don't know the difference but once he lost that he actually didn't have anything so he tried God you know it looked like he moved his emphasis to religion and it looks like it wasn't enough he's trying he's trying politics and it looks like that's not enough so to me this all looks like uh mental illness but caused by a specific PTSD you know I'm speaking in my layman terms I'm using all the wrong words for Mental Illness but you know what I mean right I I believe he was maybe as all Geniuses are you know a little bit crazy artistic Geniuses anyway the artistic Geniuses tend to be a little bit crazy and a little bit genius at the same time and I think that the divorce broken and it just pushed them into the wrong side that's what it looks like because I don't see anything here that looks like a good strategy do you if I did I'd call it out like I'd love to tell you oh you're all missing the clever play you know if you do if you knew as much as I do you know about persuasion you'd see how cleverly he's playing you all about I don't see anything I don't say that I I see somebody who's working through some problems that's all that's what I say now the the next part is hard um you know the the way he's treated the anti-Semitism uh issue it's very it's very ugly and like I I can't be in favor of that I can't have any empathy for that at all but at the same time I have empathy for him because I to me I see a victim and maybe he was a victim that people ganged up on him you know maybe his maybe his trainer who had some kind of weird background and threatened him we know maybe he was part of it I don't know but he looks like somebody who was destroyed by people who had an agenda of some sort now you could argue that he wasn't strong enough to avoid that destruction that's always another way to look at it but I I have empathy for yay at the same time I severely disavow his opinions which I feel like is the way a president should have approached it I think a president should say I have a great empathy it looks like he's going through a tough time but you know still I have to disavow what he said completely all right um I wonder if everything's I can't get off of this topic but I wonder if everything's going to be different after we find out what Twitter actually did like how how deep does that go for example just just as an example here are the things we might find out what if we find out uh what organized groups were organizing trolls suppose if you found out who the troll Masters are like wouldn't you love to know that what if we found out how much foreign influence there's been at Twitter foreign how much do you want to know that like a lot yeah how about our own Intel and FBI how much influence have they had has anybody who is not a Twitter employee ever had Direct access to cancel people would you like to know that wouldn't you like to know if there's any app that allowed any law enforcement or anybody to change a Twitter experience where Twitter didn't even have to approve it it was just giving somebody else a button to push would you like to know because I'll bet somebody did I'll bet somebody outside of Twitter had a button it just feels like that's the type of thing we'd find out right I have no evidence of that it just feels like it what else are we going to find out will we find out that our user accounts are completely artificial and that you know will I find out that of my almost 800 000 followers what if I find out that half of them are Bots for Republicans who thought they liked boosting my signal totally possible totally possible Right could be yeah I mean I have no idea how deep this this hole is but wow am I interested now apparently Apple has threatened Twitter because of this censorship stuff uh Apple is threatened to take the Twitter app out of the app store which would pretty much kill Twitter as a viable business do you think that Apple would execute that do you think that Apple would drop the the nuclear option on Twitter because if they do the reason would be that they say there there are too many too much Haze speech right so it would be a hate speech thing Now isn't this hate speech thing really subjective meaning you could say yes that's too much hate speech or that's not too much hate speech isn't that kind of just an opinion how much is too much and how much is Free Speech because all free speech has some you know hate baked into it yeah so my first impression was this that it would be such a suicide play that Apple would never do it because if Apple did it they would lose I don't know 20 of the customers overnight something like that I mean I I would I'm totally in the Apple universe but I'd have to think really seriously about dumping them forever if they if they killed Twitter because to me that would be attack on the on the Republic does it feel like that to you and it wouldn't feel exactly like an attack on Twitter users to me that would feel like a direct attack on the Republic that's how I take it to me that wouldn't look like you know free market that wouldn't look like any kind of free market thing that would look like just the worst thing and so my first impression was Apple would never take a risk that big because they don't take risks like that right that's just not an apple thing but here's my second risk Tim Cook might be the only person in the world who leads Democrat who could stop Musk from creating free speech there's only one person who could stop it now maybe you could argue Google too good too one guy do you know how much pressure Tim Cook is going to get from everybody he knows and loves you don't think the top Democrats have already talked to Tim Cook and said you know you know it would make you awesome you know what would make us love you even more if you could just do this one thing for us just kill Twitter yeah and I think he might actually do it it's the sort of thing that no rational business person would do but I don't think we're in rational business person territory I think we're in a virtue signaling territory and here's what I think might happen I'm going to make a tentative prediction that if Tim Cook removes Twitter from the Apple Store that the board at Twitter is going to remove Tim Cook the Tim Cook would lose his job for that right because I would certainly never buy an Apple product while he was still CEO I wouldn't know I'd be done I would say I'll still buy Apple products but you got to get rid of that guy because I like the products I don't want to deny myself a good product I love Apple I'm a really big Apple fan I have stock by the way so I'm not unbiased so I love Apple but if one person decides to attack the Republic I'm going to act on that pretty quickly all right here is how Twitter can destroy Apple I also own some Tesla Tesla stock and so you know I don't know if I have any indirect benefit from that but um your current phone is a absolute piece of does anybody ever notice that does anybody noticed that your phone is a complete piece of now it's a technological Wonder but may I may I do a skit of me using the worst interface ever designed okay here's me I think I'd like to send a message step one find which app to use to send the message now I'm in already my brain's in the wrong place the messages in my head I'm forming the message that I want to send and who I want to send it to and then I pick up my phone and the first thing my phone does is make me think about something else fail Ure my phone should be blank screen and the you know there should be no apps there should be no apps there should be one AI the guesses what I'm trying to do when I start doing it I should be able to just do what I want and have the AI guess what I want what I intended for example I would have a blank screen and pick it up and start saying um yes thank you please do buy those groceries we were talking about and then as I'm writing the message I want the AI to look at it and say oh this person is typing a message so he doesn't want to consume information he's in producing mode so at the top it would produce all the apps where the the directions the message could go from you know Whats.
App to telegram to whatever and then after I make the message and I've done all my thinking then I'm done thinking and now I say well which app did I want to pick Boop here's what's wrong with your phone it's built for the app makers your phone is not built for the user it's built for the App Market it's built to make it a a viable commercial Market to do that you need apps do you need an app how many of you woke up and said you know if only I had an app no apps are apps are trouble apps are extra work apps make you have to sign on again apps make your password go away apps can kick you off the platform apps are all the problems I just want to know what I want to do and start doing it now I might have two choices either producing or consuming so if I want to consume I was like oh I'm bored I want to consume and I can look at look at some Instagram posts and stuff like that so I think I think that the entire interface of phones somebody and it could be Elon Musk someday somebody needs to develop the AI version that just guesses what you want to do and gives you the options but makes you think about it after you've done your work so you want to work first and then do the details of where that work goes does that make sense how many of you think that the basic model of an app driven phone I mean look at all my apps this is this is nobody in the world would have invented this for the consumer you you tell me that there's any user who would say yeah here's what I want I want to have to go search for a app and every time I got to sign up and subscribe and all that here's what I want to do I want to I want to open up my blank screen and say 100 plus 300 and as soon as I type 100 plus 300 I want the AI on my phone to say oh he wants a spreadsheet Boop and as I'm typing a spreadsheet appears and and now I can just keep going because I don't want to pick a spreadsheet I just want to start working and have the spreadsheet form around me because it's obvious I'm in spreadsheet mode right why does a document have to be one for a spreadsheet and one for typing who decided that I need a separate app to put a spreadsheet in the middle of my word document not me if you'd asked me I would do there would be no apps I just do what I want to do and it all works so here's here's the problem that Apple has Apple and Google are both Legacy user interfaces and it would be really really hard for them to change but if musk decides to compete with them what if he does it without apps what if he does it with a super AI and here's what a phone should be your phone should have nothing on it but a password and uh 5G that's it just a password and 5G and the minor operating system but everything else should happen in the cloud through Ai and then it should deliver it to you and when I replace my phone the phone should cost me like a hundred dollars because the phone is just a dumb screen and all the intelligence happens in the network at 5G speed or or and through right how many of you think I'm on to something because here's the part I can guarantee I can guarantee you with a hundred percent certainty that in a hundred years there'll be no such thing as a smartphone with apps you'd all agree with that right because there's no way this model is the one that lasts it's just too stupid so musk can put apple on a business he can't and and the technology to do that only just came online because you need 5G or in satellites those are online uh and you would need uh Superfast chips so that they could handle a remote processing and you'd get rid of apps and AI could get rid of apps right I don't even know if AI would need to build you an app I think AI could just sort of handle what you needed without you ever being aware that there's something like an app all right so if you didn't think that Elon Musk could put apple on a business he actually can't well it would be hard but there is actually a path where Elon Musk personally could put apple on a business with just leapfrogging the technology of the phone probably won't happen yes probably won't happen um did you see the uh the Maricopa hearings about the election anybody watch the video from that so in Maricopa there were public hearings before they certified the election it was the Kerry Lake versus Hobbs one where Kerry Lake lost according to the certification now they did certify it but not until listening to the public just rake the officials for what a bad job they did and when you when you hear all the anecdotal reports of these are unconfirmed things it's just people talking so it's anecdotal but the anecdotal reports are just vicious if you hear them out of context you know without the officials responding to why it's not such a big problem if you're down a context it just sounds like the whole election was just totally totally just screwed the pooch like nothing about it was credible but here's the part that that I want to summarize if you knew that the difference between a Republican and a Democrat victory was how inconvenient it was to vote on Election Day because Democrats vote by mail more often if you could make voting on on the day of a little bit inconvenient wouldn't that be enough to throw the election that's all it would take right you simply have to make sure that it doesn't go smoothly on the day of and and that's it now you remember those machines that had been tested and yet it turned out that they were poorly calibrated for the ink that was on the ballots do you think anybody would be smart enough to know that if they tweaked that calibration ahead of time just make it a little bit below the level that it might take hours to figure out what's wrong and correct it and in those hours a lot of Republicans would give up and leave the line that would be a pretty straightforward prediction when if we can just make the lines longer on Election Day that's all we need because people don't have infinite time they vote during the work day and some of them just need to say it I'm going home so it looks to me without any proof of this right it looks to be like the inefficiency was the feature not the at the accident and it's being treated like a feature not an accident because we're not trying to fix it right if you saw some big move for a Maricopa to say my God we've got to change this system you know we've got to make sure nothing like this ever happens so here's what we're going to do to fix all of this no no as far as I know they plan to run the next election in the same way I'm just going to guess but I'll bet you the next election has some long lines and some unexpected technical problems that don't look like any rigged election at all it's just hey it's technology technology sometimes is is you know a little bit tweaked wrong no big deal it's sort of normal you'd expect a few hiccups in exactly the right place so we got the most problems and the place that would actually change the election all the other there are other places that had problems too but a coincidence wasn't it that the one place that would definitely change things that place had little problems long lines and as many times as they check the machines the night before how weird that they didn't work the very next day how weird yeah I don't know here's my take here's my take on the elections guilty until proven innocent guilty until proven innocent that's my standard and to me they look guilty so uh you can let's see if I get kicked off of of of social media You.
Tube and the the whoever is watching me on You.
Tube and decides whether to monetize me uh is my opinion that The credibility of the last election is below the level in which you should accept it now I I don't have any specific Claim about a specific bad Shenanigans I'm just saying that the overall situation with which we've been presented doesn't appear designed to make us believe it it doesn't seem designed for us to believe it it's designed for us not to believe it which causes more problems for Republicans right what's the worst case scenario for Republicans an election they say they don't believe right that was the Trap it's the perfect trap if we can trap those Republicans into doubting a second election everybody's going to think that they're not good citizens right so You.
Tube I don't know who did what I'm making no specific uh allegations of bad behavior I'm simply saying that if you look at the design which is intentional the intentional design is to make it less credible so I accept what I've Been Told I've been given the officials have given me a non-credible election by Design intentionally by Design and so I accept what they've given me it's not credible so I reject the uh the 2022 election in my opinion uh it I don't have a specific allegation it was presented to us in a way that we're being told not to believe it and so I accept the message it would be easy to say here's here's what we're doing to make you feel more comfortable with the result but I don't see that you know if you had that I'd say oh you're designing the system to make me feel comfortable with the result I get that now I feel I do feel more comfortable but if you design it in a way the design is very clearly to make us less comfortable with the results because they know how to do it the other way right do you think there's any doubt among the professionals how to make the election completely unquestionable yeah just paper ballots count on the same day have witnesses it's easy there's no question about how to do it so it's a choice and it's a choice of both sides appear to be making so if both sides are making the choice to have non-credible looking elections you as a consumer should take the message and say oh you're presenting us a non-credible election we'll accept it as a non-credible election now having said that I agree with certifying it I agree with certifying it same reason I agreed with moving on when Trump allegedly lost in 2020.
because you do have to move on you do have to move on and that's a separate question from fixing the problem you have to fix the problem but sometimes you just have to move on to you can redo the election yeah no but we would just be redoing it with a system that's not credible but do you mind that the vote was um maybe not as accurate as it could have been given that some people may not have participated here's why I'm not complaining as much as I could it was the first thing I said today I don't think the vote is what matters I think it's censorship determined The Narrative The Narrative determined the opinions the opinions determined the vote and pretty much you know 90 of how we ended up where we were is from the censorship not not from anything else so the vote was important and it may have been the you know the last straw because it was a close close election so it probably did matter just because it was close but 90 of it was just that the censorship determined what people saw what people saw determined their opinions and then they voted on the repentance so it wasn't actually a informed the public and then the public makes opinions and votes for the representatives sort of the way a republic should work nothing like that happened nothing like that happened the the brainwashers decided what we would think and then we acted on that's all right do a redo yeah we maybe we should have some kind of a uh some kind of a standing redo system so you can redo it quickly now here's what I'd like to do I would love to see a survey of how many Republicans got out of line and then separately how many of them didn't vote in the normal way but maybe you had to put their ballot in the special Ballot Box that didn't have a good chain of custody so wouldn't you like to know how many Republicans got out of line because it might be none it might be none because it could be the Republicans were just you know screw it I'm here all day you're not going to make me get online because you know Republicans are pretty much uh tough characters which is exactly why I like them right the thing I most I like most about conservatives is that when they have a principle they're really going to stick to it like they're really sticky on principle and if the principle is you're not going to discourage me from voting maybe every single Republican in the United States stayed in line as long as it took it's possible because because the Republicans are not like regular people right they're not they're they're very stubborn and they don't like to get they don't like to get beaten you know by a game you know they're not going to be they like to be beaten by a magic trick uh all right thought experiment uh why can anyone do that list of things to succeed but not anyone can avoid overeating oh good question so I told you the things that somebody needs to succeed and why do I think that somebody has you know Free Will and they can do that thing when I don't think that people can stop overeating because they like to eat and the thing is that eating is an addiction and addictions are a whole different deal right so if you have an addiction you have to be in addiction mode to deal with that but what I was talking about was sort of a non-addiction you're just a kid and you're trying to figure out your way in the world there's no addiction involved so if there's no addiction involved you can you can certainly brainwash kids in the direction you want make a clip of my mom's useful advice maybe so yeah maybe so the trouble is that my mom had that be the best at one thing advice which is the opposite of what I ended up doing to good effect all right you need a micro lesson and hoarding oh yeah maybe I'll do that make a listen to hoarding you want to stop hoarding I assume you don't want to micro listen on how to horde more yeah maybe so that's a good re I can reframe that I think uh let's talk about China let's talk about China you know there's an interesting thing when I see the uh the aerial views of the protests so the things that are different number one it's not that unusual to have protests in China what's unusual is that they're Country-Wide uh that's unusual and they they may be bigger you know in each individual place than we've seen before um but here's what here's the thing that I'm I'm really taken by when I look at the crowds so you see a big crowd from above and you'll see the uh let's say the uh Riot police I guess they tend to be dressed in all white and or police uniforms and you can see how many police there are and then you can see the size of the public crowd and it looks to me like the crowd is more powerful than the the law enforcement like a lot and I don't think that the Law Enforcement wants to open fire and start massacring people because that then the public goes to the next level as well and I'm watching that and I'm thinking it looks like the the Indian uh elephant trainer situation is what it looks like let me explain that I use this example a lot if you're an elephant trainer how do you get this gigantic mammal that could crush you if it wants to to follow your orders how do you make an elephant afraid of you like I always wondered like why does the elephant do anything for this little person like it makes sense why your dog does what you want because you're bigger than your dog usually right you feed it but it seems like the elephant would just want to crush you if you beat it with a stick but the way they do it is they they hurt the elephant when it's a baby so when the elephant is a baby and it doesn't know how to fight back or anything the elephant trainer you know hits it until the elephant is afraid of the human and then the human never becomes less afraid of the human the elephant never does so the elephant becomes a you know big monster but still thinks that little human can beat it up so that never changed and I feel like the the Chinese public is the elephant because I watched the number of people there are protesting and it's a far bigger Force than the number trying to stop them it's not even close now yes if that Force wanted to use Firearms then then it's not a fair fight but if they use the firearms then the crowd gets bigger too right so here's what I don't think the Chinese public knows they have complete control already the Chinese public has complete control and they don't know it because if you saw the the size of the crowd they just have to rush they just have to rush the other people they just have to say all right we're just we're going to take you down and just use numbers and just take them out and I feel like the public either the public doesn't want to escalate or they think they don't have the power like like the elephant that was abused as a baby because they've been abused since birth to do what they're told and even as rebellious as they are now which is impressive to watch I feel like they still don't know how much power they have I I look at it from above and I say this is a five minute problem people would die but it's a five minute problem every one of those law enforcement people could be grabbed by a person in in the crowd brought down five minutes in five minutes they would own the city but they're not doing it now here's the question what would have happened in America forget about guns for a second just imagine imagine the protesters are unarmed in America do you think America would not have already taken down the law enforcement I think Americans would have already taken them down because we're not trained like the elephant we're trained to think we are in control yeah maybe maybe it's one of the things that makes Americans such one of the one of the reasons we're is we grow up thinking we're in control right we think we have all kinds of Power even if we don't so if you if you have a crowd of Americans who are that pissed off and the and the number of people who are preventing them from going or doing whatever they were was that small this would be so over the only thing that's keeping China intact is this psychological thing that keeps these citizens thinking they're weaker than the government and they are not not even close they are the elephant and they're and they're just they don't know they can stomp on the government anytime they want that's what it looks like so what this means is no I did not forget the Chinese military I did not because I'm I'm calculating here that if China was sent in the military and they started killing massive people which they'd have to do that the the citizens would rise up to an even higher level Now in America that's what would happen in America if there were more Force brought against the crowd the crowd would increase their own force and then they would be armed after that point now China can't arm itself so that they've got a different situation but they can still take out a small Force now my understanding is that the Chinese military is actually smaller than the local community enforcement because they need lots of local community enforcement relative to how many they need in the military so it is possible that if the psychology of the Chinese people changes and it could you you could imagine some small event that just changes their psychology the moment they say we have decided verses we want it's all over the Chinese people have not decided they have not they simply they're expressing a desire they're just they're expressing a a preference a very strong preference but if the Chinese people decide it's a five-minute problem it's five minutes they will just destroy the the whoever whoever is stopping them and they will just do what they need to do they'll take care of business so there is there's a very big possibility that China is teetering on uh a full Revolution and nothing physical is stopping it from happening there's no physical thing just that little bit of mental switch and if that switches all bets are off now I would bet against that happening I would better I would bet in favor of the Chinese government suppressing them it goes back to normal and the reason is I think they're so well they're so well uh trained I think that the conditioning is so deep that they they simply will never know their own power and they won't they won't express it now do Iran Iran is different than any situation I've I'm aware of because the women seem to be taking a lead now maybe I don't have that right but if there's anybody who has any Iranian connections can you do me a fact check does it still look like the women are taking the lead and the men are helping does it look like that see once that happens um then we're in unpredicted unpredictable territory because you know the the male female relationship in Iran is something we can't fully understand and we don't really know how much power women have in Iran if you listen to anybody who was born there they'll tell you some version of this oh yeah the men are totally in control the men have all the power yeah except at home within the house the The Matriarch has an unusual amount of power but you know outside and if anybody's looking the men have all the power now I don't know how much of that's true that's just sort of a thing you hear but if they really do control the house who knows who knows anything's possible and if uh if Iran goes ahead and does a mass hanging I think I'll bets are off apparently they're going to or maybe they already have a public hanging of one of the leaders and that is like a bad bad play for Iran doing that in public seems in 2022 seems like the dumbest thing the leadership could do uh to me it looks like they'd just be begging for their own their own demise all right did I miss any stories anything that uh I should have talked about that I didn't would you sell your Apple stock if they banned Twitter yes yes I would if if Apple uh if Apple bans Twitter I'm selling my Apple stock immediately and and not just because of politics but because I think uh musk might take them down I think he might take him down if Apple take if Apple tries to destroy his 44 billion dollar investment he's not going to leave any weapon unused that that is full War do you think Apple wants a full war against Elon Musk because that's not around right if they take out his 44 billion dollar investment and and what he thinks is the only hope for free speech there will be no weapon that he won't use to fix that situation and you've never seen Elon unrestrained I don't even know what that looks like there's a David sacks tweet all right there's a David sacks tweet and that is interesting enough that I'm going to look at it before we go here let's let's find that so because if you don't know there are some people whose opinions are just a little more let's say a little more persuasive than others let's see David sacks let's see what he said that you're uh uh oh there we go uh you mean the 23 minutes ago it was 23 minutes ago David sacks tweeted as long as uh Tech Maga Microsoft Apple Google and Amazon Mega m-a-g-a Microsoft Apple Google and Amazon oh my God that's good Wow have unlimited power to engage in bundling and to act as Gatekeepers of competitive products there cannot be a healthy startup ecosystem there we go uh and then earlier 42 minutes ago David sack says with the possible exception of Microsoft in the late 90s there's never been a tech Monopoly as powerful as Apple its power is so fear of the few applications company will dare to criticize Apple publicly even though almost all privately voice similar concerns as Elon Musk oh Glenn Greenwald your David sax retweets them Glenn Greenwell said there are a few things more revealing of an authoritarian mindset than wanting Google and apple to use their Monopoly power to act as an internet internet overlords dictating who can and can't be heard yet that's our situation and so many seem grateful uh wow um here's what I think Tim Scott is not going to is not going to pick a fight with some of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley David Sachs is a a wonderfully public with both his influence and his opinions I can tell you for sure that there are powerful people in Silicon Valley who are less public who would go after Apple pretty hard for this if Apple tried to take down Twitter the there there would be major powers in Silicon Valley who would go after Apple pretty hard and I would be I would be joining that team immediately so I think I think Tim Cook is connected enough and he can read the room well enough to know that this would not be a fight with just their users you know this this wouldn't be just a Public Relation relations problem this would be a existential threat to Apple there are people big enough who would just want to wipe them off the map and probably had the power to do it so my prediction is that Apple will back down if it was real I don't know how real it was that Apple was really considering bumping them I I think probably the truth probably Apple just did a warning shot across the bow because Apple wants to establish that it's the good person and they're doing the right things so I think apple is just positioning so that people say oh Apple's the good one they said don't go too far with your you know your lack of censorship or we'll have to ban you so I think it's just a warning shot which actually is no problem at all I I think everybody should do warning shots if there's something to warn about so I don't mind a warning shot um never go to war with a man who owns a rocket company yeah yeah never go to war with somebody who literally owns a spaceship hahaha that's good advice and never start a fight with somebody who owns a spaceship I might tweet that maybe one of you could tweet it all right that's all I got for today uh did I miss any uh big stuff I think I got it all all right uh You.
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all right let me start with
the funniest bad story of the day now I
don't like to find humor in other
people's misfortune
that's not true I do like finding humor
in other people's Misfortune but not if
they know about it
I think it's very impolite to laugh at
people's misfortune
if they're likely to hear it
but if nobody knows
sometimes other people's Misfortune can
be funny
because
at our base we're very small and
terrible people
but don't let anybody know about that
we'll try to try to keep up a good front
Okay okay but here's the story
do you recall that the Biden
Administration
had an employee who was the first gender
non-binary official
uh
a individual Named Sam Brenton
now Sam
uh is the Deputy assistant secretary for
spend to fuel and waste disposition at
the department of Energy's office of
nuclear energy
now poor Sam can't get any real work
done because he spends all of his time
telling people where he works
he'll come to work and phone a ring and
say
who is this and he'll say hello this is
Sam Brinton deputy secretary Deputy
assistant secretary for spent Fuel and
waste disposition at the department of
Energy's office of nuclear energy hello
hello and then the caller is hung up
because they just don't have that kind
of thing so that's the first problem
first problem is title too long I don't
know how he gets his work done
second problem
he is accused of stealing luggage from a
airport carousel
now you might ask yourself
who who what kind of person who has a
nice job
steals luggage from a carousel what are
you going to find in the luggage get
yourself a really sweet hair dryer
like like I mean he doesn't have any
hair actually but what like what would
be the point of that well it turns out
there's an expensive kind of luggage
which I never heard about uh Vera
Bradley suitcase
which could be worth over two thousand
dollars
would you recognize a two thousand
dollar suitcase if you saw it
I don't I don't feel like I would even
recognize an expensive suitcase
they kind of look kind of similar to me
but
um apparently Sam according to
allegations we only know the allegations
uh stole that suitcase
and not only uh
is they I think I think Sam is a they
not only is they uh on video video
security taking the bag but also on
video using the bag on a few different
occasions
so there doesn't seem to be
too much confusion about what's really
going on
actually stole the bag
now here's the punchline
the punchline doesn't require any any
addition
all right I'm just going to tell you the
story
the actual details that as we know them
and that's the punch line all right I'm
just going to put two facts together
the person who is the Deputy assistant
secretary for spent Fuel and waste
disposition at the department of
Energy's office of nuclear energy
didn't know that the airport has
security cameras
didn't see that coming
probably thought to they self
well they are never going to find they
they will take this bag and they will
never know who took it they will be
walking around with this brand new 2300
bag of
want on everybody who thinks they can
stop me
but it turns out
that the
Deputy assistant secretary for
Smithfield on waste disposition at the
department of Energy's office of nuclear
energy
never saw this coming the whole video
security game didn't see it coming
so that's the punchline
I got nothing else to add to that
didn't see it coming
all right I'm glad we've got people who
can uh not see five minutes in the
future in charge of our nuclear assets
so if you noticed that uh ESG is uh
dying right on schedule
does it seem unusual to you that I
declare that I would kill it before the
end of the year
and it looks like it's limping into
December pretty wounded
now
does it I've asked this before but I'm
going to lead into something here does
it feel like I sometimes control the
simulation
is there anybody here who's actually
like literally thinking are you actually
controlling the simulation
does it ever feel like that
all right sub yeses some no's mostly
no's because you're very rational
I like to think that I've attracted a
hyper rational audience or at least you
are now
so the rational people should say no it
doesn't look like that it's anecdotal
and it's coincidence and I'm also good
at identifying a parade and getting it
in front of it
so you should know that about me
sometimes it's not all about prediction
sometimes it's saying I think I see a
parade what happens if I get in front of
it
then it looks like you predicted it
but sometimes I also wonder myself I
have a very
if you do my actual life
you know you you know the public Parts
but if you do my whole life
you would have to say to yourself what's
going on here it looks like something
weird is happening in my life that I
can't explain
so let me tell you something that's the
weirdest story you might hear this week
and it's a story of weird stories
everything I tell you next I swear to
God is true
now what I say is true I mean it's my
impression of what happened it's my
experience the the actual underlying
truth I don't know I don't know what the
underlying truth is but I can tell you
my experience so I'm not lying about my
experience or my memory of it right that
part I promise you
about uh was it two days ago
I had this overwhelming feeling
that I was being watched
now I've had it before you've had that
right you ever have that feeling you're
being watched even when you're alone
so I was alone at home and I thought I'm
being watched
and I and I had an overwhelming feeling
and again you should not put any stock
in this right it's just feelings just a
feeling
that the creators of the simulation
were online and looking at me at that
moment like I was being observed
now I couldn't I didn't have a feeling
if I was being observed by one entity or
multiple but I had the feeling that
whoever was observing or whatever
was part of a population not not a
single entity
now the the questions that you're going
to ask let me anticipate your questions
Scott were you on drugs
of course I was it was after 9am
but I'm on drugs every day in marijuana
and I know what marijuana feels like
can you can you accept
that if you get high every day for 30
years or so
or more uh you know what it feels like
there are no surprises right it doesn't
sometimes feel like mushrooms right it
doesn't sometimes make me hallucinate
it's always the same
and it doesn't and if you do it every
day it doesn't give you any kind of an
experience like somebody doing it you
know once in a while
the people who do it once in a while
have this profound you know you better
not drive your car you know don't let
don't use any power tools kind of
situation if you do it every day it just
makes you feel normal
you know there are very few things I
couldn't do completely high right I I
could play a sport play an instrument
about the same not much difference but
that's only people who use it every day
Ordinary People would have a profound
effect so you can't compare them to the
so-called chronic users all right so
that's the first question
so I embarked on a uh out loud
conversation with whoever it was and I
swear to God I could feel I was getting
answers
now this must be what people feel when
they they believe they're having a
conversation with a god
I imagine it feels the same way and I
don't imagine that my experience of it
was so outside what people have felt for
millennium right yeah humans have always
felt am I talking to God or you know is
are the gods talking to me right now
it's a very common experience so
remember I'm not trying to claim
that I understand the experience I'm
explaining I'm just saying it happened
and then you could put your own
interpretation on it
and so I had this long conversation
about you know what what this was all
about
and then because I didn't believe my own
experience
and I didn't feel I was necessarily
talking to anybody except my own
imagination I thought well maybe I'll
test it
so I said if this I said out loud
if I'm in a simulation
and I have determined and I've
discovered as a simulation do I get
powers like Neo from The Matrix like if
you know you're in a simulation
do you get power over it in other words
does that give me the ability to change
things in real time and actually change
my reality because I Now understand it
and I can just change it
and so I thought well it's worth the
test
so I said I'll give you a I said out
loud
to the creators of the simulation is
that all right here's a test if you can
make this happen
then I'll believe I'm in a simulation
otherwise just my imagination
although it could be my imagination
either way
and so I said all right my biggest
problem at the moment two days ago was
that my my knees have been hurting me
for well over a month maybe two months
and they heard so much
that although I was still active and
still going to the gym
it was you know sort of hard to walk
upstairs like once once I was back from
the gym and I was really starting to
worry
if my bad knees were going to be forever
because you know sometimes you have
temporary knee problems sometimes it's
forever I thought if it's forever
like I'm I'm starting this downward
spiral where where I'm just going to be
you know unable to exercise for the rest
of my life
yeah I thought well it feels like maybe
it's bone on bone or something I didn't
know what it was so I said all right
simulation if you can make my biggest
problem go away my knee pain
that I will accept that I'm not only in
the simulation but that I have some
control over it
so two months of solid knee pain never
not knee pain right not it wasn't wasn't
good at night wasn't good in the morning
was never good
it went away
as I was talking
didn't come back
it's still not back
two days and my knees have no pain
whatsoever
now
I don't have any explanation for that if
you're saying to me Scott that's like a
perfect Placebo situation because I
talked myself into it and had I had a
profound experience of something that
probably wasn't real right I probably
wasn't talking to anybody but because it
was so profound
hypnosis and Placebo and everything I
know about the Mind suggests that I may
have erased my pain
you know maybe I have the same same
inflammation I had before but I may have
just turned it off
now let me tell you something else
that's related to this
sometime last year I was at a event at a
friend's house and it was an individual
who's who is doing some work in the
backyard and it was super cold it was
like a really cold night
and the individual is a young man and he
wasn't wearing a jacket he just had a
t-shirt on and I was wearing a full
winter jacket and I was pretty cold
I was like and I said to him like how
the hell how are you putting up with
this gold and he told me the following
story
he said that he had an experience with
some psychedelics I think it was
mushrooms and and that during that
experience he had the realization that
his sensation of cold was a manufactured
feeling
and that he wasn't in any real danger at
that temperature temperature was
Maybe 50. right so you can't stay
outside at 50 for too long without being
uncomfortable but it's not really
dangerous is it
I don't think it's dangerous
I mean if you can handle being outside
at 50 degrees with your t-shirt it's not
going to kill you it might even be good
for you right might actually be good for
you
so he had actually separated cold
from
a feeling he just didn't feel cold
anymore and the reason he didn't feel it
is because he chose not to
he simply turned off that he just turned
off that feeling because he realized it
was fake it was a false signal
and so the other day
I was Outdoors without a jacket you know
temporarily just to check my mailbox and
I thought wow I'm going to be out here
way longer than I want to be I'm going
to be and I was super cold
and the cold was starting to hurt
and I said what would happen if I
reframed the cold
so I'll give it a try and you know I
keep hearing about these people who do
the the cryonic chambers where it's like
super cold and they stay in there for a
few minutes and like I'm surprised they
don't die
and I thought wait if you know Joe Rogan
and those people
can get in this super cold thing and
it's actually good for them
wouldn't it probably be good for me to
Simply experience something that's
uncomfortably cold for a few minutes
and as soon as I reframed what I was
doing to a health related process
I said to myself I bet this is actually
good for me
to be like super cold
I know you're laughing let me let me
just pause
I live in California
I used to live in Upstate New York
if you adjust this for what you're used
to when I say I went outside it was 50
degrees and I was super uncomfortable
if I had been in New York that would
have been
roughly zero roughly zero
right so in New York you if if you live
in New York and you live in the cold you
could go outside in your T-shirt
at roughly zero degrees and sort of do
some stuff you know you would wouldn't
like it that much do some stuff and then
come inside you wouldn't be damaged
right would you agree so when you when
you're making fun of me for being a huge
because I couldn't handle 50
degrees just know that when I grew up in
New York I could have done zero it's
just why you're used to right
so the moment I reframed my experience
as a as a voluntary health related
process I was thinking God I think this
cold is making me healthier
all the pain went away
all of the discomfort it was pretty
pretty big discovered of feeling cold
immediately left my body
because I told myself
if I were Joe Rogan I'd be paying for
this experience this is probably really
good for me
does anybody have a problem with germs
anybody have is anybody a germaphobe
try this reframe
the germs are good for you
that's it
yeah yeah which is true because you need
to have some dogs and some animals and
you know a little bit of Filth around
you or else you're not going to be
strong
so I do a lot of public stuff shake
hands with a lot of strangers you know
if I do a public event I'm not doing any
at the moment but and as soon as I'm
done I go wash my hands right after
right because you got like 100 people's
germs on you
but I used to think oh my God my God
like I'd be running to the bathroom to
wash my hands like a surgeon don't touch
your face don't touch your face but
since I've reframed it
the germs are good for me I still wash
my hands but while I'm when I'm walking
to the bathroom I'm thinking I wonder if
I'm getting stronger
I wonder if my immune system is saying
thank you I needed I needed a little
stress test because that's just what I
needed today so I've reframed even germs
at the low end right nothing disgusting
but germs just sort of the daily germs
of life
I I've just defined them as part of what
makes my immune system stronger
I wasn't planning to talk about any of
this today was any of this fun
I don't know I'll talk about the news
next there's plenty of cool news
I just thought I thought it'd be
interesting because it's something you
can try at home
the next time you're super cold as long
as it's temporary just try the reframe
and say I'm super cold exactly what's
good for me
I'm so I'm so lucky that this is super
cold for a few minutes because this is
this is really going to boost my natural
immunity
just try it let me know how it works
all right I got a new mascot uh Phil
bump who writes for the Washington Post
uh Phil likes to come into my tweets and
say bad things about me or to mock me I
don't know why it may be because I've
mocked him for his writing in the past
it feels personal
but I've I've uh I've promoted him from
Mere critic to mascot that's that's my
highest designation
so now he's with Keith olberman
and uh it's a small group I just have a
few mascots but but Phil's part of the
group now so congratulations Phil
for entering the Scott mascot
committee
well you you make fun of me for living
in California but uh here are a few
things you didn't know
in the past month
oops got a little problem here
in the past month in California where I
live
almost every day the weather has been so
good
at least during the daytime
that it feels like room temperature
I walk outside that the colors are
perfect I've had a month of room
temperature so Sunny perfect weather
It's amazing And wow
so that's good but also California has
made it made Jay without walking legal
so as a
yeah it was already legal to um you know
the the The Pedestrian always had the
right away so that's been true for a
long time in California but you have to
be standing at an obvious Crossing Point
now now the law is extended to you could
basically cross the road anywhere you
want and it's not illegal and the
motorists are going to need to stop
or they're just going to not well I mean
obviously they don't want to kill you so
they're going to stop anyway now it
doesn't seem like
necessarily the obvious best idea in the
world
but we'll find out maybe we'll find out
maybe it's cool so
here's what I can do in California you
can't do in Florida and Texas
you can't jaywalk to go buy some weed
yeah I've been in Florida you'd have to
have a medical card I guess but no in
California I can jaywalk anywhere I walk
I can jaywalk and get an abortion
I can jaywalk to get me some weed
a lot of freedom in the state
got a lot of taxes I'm not sure the
taxes are worth all the freedom but
I don't know I don't think I could move
somewhere where I had less freedom
and by the way that's mostly a
psychological thing
but I can tell you that I feel more free
and in California that I would feel in
Texas or Florida I would just feel less
free
now I think that Florida and Texas have
a lot going for them they're
well-managed States and so I've you know
mostly I've only positive things to say
about both places but it is true I feel
more free here
so for whatever that's worth
um
I saw another mention that there's a
heroin shortage which means that people
are using fentanyl instead of heroin
but I would like to uh I have some
inside information on that I've got the
sources my sources tell me it's not so
much that you can't get heroin it said
nobody wants to buy it
nobody wants to buy the heroin do you
know why
because fentanyl is easily available and
it's a better nod that's that's tweaker
talk and that's attic talk the uh the
quote better nod is the you know sort of
being in and out of sleep you're nodding
out and coming back so that's that's
what the addicts are doing the ones who
are shooting up now here's the thing you
need to know because if you don't
understand Fentanyl
you you can't be part of the productive
um persuasion to maybe make things
better so the thing you need to know is
that the people who know they're buying
Fentanyl and putting it in their arms
they're sort of like uh let's say I
would say they're like scuba divers
there are people who know they're doing
an inherently dangerous thing
so they take extra precautions because
they're not actually trying to die
they're trying to stay alive they just
want a good eye
so
it might be
way for it
it might be fewer overdoses because
they're doing fentanyl instead of heroin
and I'm going to make that a prediction
because it's opposite of whatever
everyone else is predicting
so normies the people were a little who
are not too close to this problem are
going to say wait if you stop using
heroin which is pretty bad
and you start using fentanyl which is
way worse you should have more overdoses
right
I'm going to predict it goes the other
way
I'm going to predict that the scuba
divers know that they need to make sure
that they've got air in their tank
and it's the people who don't know
they're getting the fentanyl the
teenagers who are buying it in pill form
and they don't know what they're getting
they're the ones overdosing because they
can't they can't take the obvious
precautions because they don't know
there's a danger it's a hidden Danger
so that's my prediction my prediction is
overdose deaths
from people who shoot might go down
while overall overdoses might go up
so it's it's a bifurcated situation two
different risk patterns and you have to
know that
and I thought there are people who know
what they're talking about who are
agreeing with me in the comments so it's
not crazy
um
all right
uh yeah one one mother of all bombs
dropped on a fentanyl place would take
care of that wouldn't it
oh this is weird
I've got two different documents that
printed on the same document so I'm
trying to read
apparently there was a piece of paper
that I used twice here
huh
um
I oh my God this is going to be a
challenge because all of my notes are
something written over something else
I have a formula for making uh all poor
kids successful I tweeted this a couple
years ago
but it surfaced again
imagine if you were School taught you
what I was taught as a kid right so what
I'm going to tell you now is basically
how I was raised I was raised to believe
that the following steps would make you
successful
and I knew that since
kindergarten I think I think as early as
kindergarten my mother was telling me
here's your path to success
do these things and you will do well
now I don't know if everybody's parents
do that like do the you know do the poor
kids get the same kind of guidance so
here's basically what it is this is my
version of it uh focus on useful
education
keyword is useful right make sure you
get good grades get into college and
take a useful major major
did does everybody's parents tell them
they got to do something useful or they
won't make money
mine did
I'm pretty sure my mother was quite
clear
that going to college for no purpose was
was a losing proposition you had to go
to college for something
to to be better at something specific
that's useful right does everybody's
parents tell them
I know to me it was obvious by the time
I was in first grade because it was just
drilled in from the first days all right
that's the first thing
uh
number two stay out of trouble stay out
of jail
right stay out of jail stay off of drugs
which I've managed to do until College
don't become a parent too soon you don't
have a kid that you aren't planning on
too soon
right just basic basic stuff
um
you know don't don't get anybody knocked
up too soon
uh build a talent stack now that part
I'm adding you know that that wasn't
exactly added by my mother my mother was
still the generation uh try to be the
best at whatever you're doing
which was kind of a good starter advice
but later you know I developed the
concept of the talent stack that's from
my book back there which is now the
talent stack idea is
now common advice but it wasn't common
until I invented it so that's the one
thing I added here uh you know build a
telestack be useful to others that's the
next point
is it's not good enough just to be good
at something it has to be good as
something that somebody wants to pay for
you have to be useful and so I was
trained to be useful
all the time
like I had to mow the lawn I had to take
the garbage out I had to do something
get good grades but I always had to be
useful that was always just baked into
the operating system
um favorite systems over goals you know
make sure that you're doing all the
right things to give you lots of options
that was never told to me directly so
that's again that's my addition to it
but sort of indirectly I think I'd pick
that up
and then
learn basic risk management
basic risk management which includes
Financial Risk Management but I'm I'm
making it a little bigger now none of
that is hard
every everything on my little list of
how to be successful is pretty
straightforward
pretty straightforward there's nobody
who couldn't do it
right you you could be in a pretty bad
school
but let's say you're a minority student
in the worst school you could you could
not do drugs there are people who do it
you could not get arrested it's possible
right you you could do as good as well
as you could do in that poor school but
because you come from you know minority
disadvantaged situation you might be
able to get a little lift a little maybe
a college scholarship a little extra
consideration and then from there you're
on your own
get yourself a useful major and and you
could probably pay for your student
loans if you have them Etc
Okay so
um I would just say that things would be
really different if we just taught
people the basics
when they're small
all right Rasmussen did a poll to find
out if people uh think that musk is
going to make Twitter better or worse
34 of American adults who regularly use
Twitter believes that musk will make the
site better
so about a third say you'll make it
better
and almost exactly the same
think that musk will make it worse
but how many people this will be a
little test of your uh your psychic
ability
how many people roughly
do you think believe that Elon Musk the
world's greatest entrepreneur
uh paid 44 billion dollars for Twitter
to not change it too much to not change
it too much how many people think they
spend 44 billion dollars do not really
make anything any different
wow you're good wow you're so that's
good this is 24 but your guess is of 25
are are just scarily accurate
how do you do that I don't know I don't
know how you do it
well the Twitter cybernetic brain
uh which fascinates me when I look at
the currently trending section because
to me that's the Consciousness or where
the where Twitter is focusing his brain
and there were four names in my I think
it's different for each person but in my
list these four names Nick Fuentes Will
Smith Alexander vinman and Tim Poole
those are all the trending names today
on my list and I'm thinking poor Tim
pool Tim pool gets thrown on the list
with Fuentes Will Smith and and vinman
but for different reasons except that
they're all being criticized right
they're all being criticized or in some
cases complemented
speaking of Tim Poole you probably know
by now that he got a exclusive kind of a
scoop interview with yay and Milo and
Nick Fuentes that would be the first I
think big
probably the first time they would
appear together since
the dinner at Mar-A-Lago
and if you didn't know
it ended abruptly when Tim very
carefully broached the
anti-Semitism topic and then yay got up
and left without comments
now
who knows what yay is thinking right
it's impossible to imagine but here are
the things we learned number one yay
confirmed that Trump did not know that
Fuentes was coming
and Trump
did not know who Fuentes was
now I believe that's true I believe
that's true because uh axios reported
the same thing before we did so we have
now two sources that are not necessarily
on the same side saying the same thing
and and also Trump said the same thing
so it looks like looks like everybody's
agreed with that now
some people are saying well it looks
like the Tim pool
interview as short as it was about 26
minutes I think it cleared Trump what do
you think is Trump cleared now because
he didn't know Fuentes and did not
invite him no is he cleared
no nothing works like that
you're falling into the Trap of
imagining that imagining that any kind
of common sense or rational thought is
involved here there's none of that it's
purely a narrative that that the left is
never going to let go of
it doesn't matter how true or valid or
anything all you have to know is that
they've chosen it as a narrative that
they're going to ride ride that horse
until it expires and they are and
they're doing a good job of it they're
really nailing it hard
so no Trump is done
in my opinion Trump does not come back
from that I think that was a kill shot
does anybody disagree
how many of you think Trump could come
back from that
because remember it's not even true it's
it's like half Oaks half a little bit
true
so you think you can
now the argument that he can is that our
attention span is too short the trouble
is our attention span is irrelevant if
it's all they talk about
do you remember that Biden ran on the
Charlottesville hoax
we elected a president
on a hoax
it didn't matter that it was a hoax
and it didn't matter that it was the
most easily verifiable hoax
you just have to listen to it and they
go oh okay that was a hoax that didn't
really happen and
but think about it you would you
probably would have said that
Charlottesville thing once it's debunked
as an obvious hoax you probably said
well it's not real
so that's not going to affect anything
in the real world
but it elected Biden it actually changed
the nature of our leadership of the
biggest country in the world or the most
powerful
so yes the the fact that
this happened even though it looks like
an OP to me it wasn't Trump's fault uh
per se
now I want to give you you know I often
compliment Mike Pence for being
a clever politician who avoids getting
in trouble
I want you to hear how cleverly he
criticized Trump
because he's really good at this
he wanted to criticize him clearly
but but not go too far into crazyville
right crazyville says that Trump invited
him like that that's too far so you I
hope you're not going to see any
Republicans
you know buy into the part that that he
got invited so Pence is too smart to
fall into that part but here's how Pence
uh who we believe will run against Trump
for president
uh Penn said
Penn says
um president Trump was wrong to give a
white nationalist an anti-semite and a
holocaust denier a seat at the table
blah blah and I said again a seat at the
table giving him a seat at the table
is that not brilliant
that is brilliant for political
criticism without being technically
incorrect because giving somebody a seat
at the table
is conceptual
it's conceptual
but it's also makes you think of the
real thing
because at the same time there was a
conceptual seat at the table there was
actually a literal seat at the table
Pence is a genius
that is genius
communication wise
I mean
I don't think it's an accident that he
was such a good vice president his
ability to parse words and pick just the
right word that doesn't getting him in
trouble while still saying something is
quite impressive that is quite
impressive I don't I don't prefer him
for president but I just like you know
credit where creditors do that was
really good
now you don't like it if you're if
you're supporting Trump you don't like
it because it's a pretty good hit but a
place at the table that gives them
everything that's just the perfect
perfect criticism
um
now
and I suppose the question is should
Trump have you know gotten up and left
but I don't believe Trump knew exactly
who Fuentes was the entire dinner like I
think if you figured it out later but
that he had a chance to disavow him so
here's my next question
should Trump have disavowed
Nick Fuentes go
should Trump have disavowed Nick Fuentes
I'm seeing mixed messages
here's why this is not an obvious
question
um as a citizen of the United States I
can disavow Nick Fuentes I disavow him
there I just did it so I think you'd all
agree that citizens can disavow anybody
right just an ordinary citizen yeah we
all have free speech we can disavow
anybody we want but here's my question
if there's going to be one exception
there's only one kind of person I want
to not be criticizing citizens and it's
the president
that's the only person I don't want to
criticize a a citizen who's obeying the
law this is an important caveat so given
given that Fuentes is obeying the law as
far as I know
he's not been accused of any law
breaking as far as I know
so as long as he's a law-abiding person
who just has
uh ugly opinions in the opinion of many
people
I'm perfectly okay with a president
whether it's Trump or anybody else
um perfectly okay with the president
criticizing Behavior
and opinions
and ugly you know bad policy ideas
but disavowing a person by name
that's too far
that feels too far
now the the exception would be a Critic
so if a politician goes after somebody
who's just been like dogging them
forever like you know
Rob Reiner or something you know if the
president goes after Rob Reiner it's
because that's somebody's been going
after him personally for a long time
that's fine that's just politics but to
go after somebody who has not been
criticizing you
and only has opinions that you feel are
vile
do you want your president to do that
and I say I do not want my president to
be insulting
any individual citizen
with the obvious exception of Rosie
O'Donnell I think we could all agree
that if it's Rosie O'Donnell that's fine
that's fine
but everybody else
everybody else no no
all right so I I feel like this is a
it's a fine line but I think it's an
important one now I think Trump did not
did not disavow Fuente's opinions
and that's sort of a glaring thing
that's missing but I think he could have
parsed it I think I think Trump could
have said you know what
um if somebody's obeying the law and
they have terrible opinions I'm still
going to eat with them
but I will disavow their opinions if
you'd like to hear that yes I disavow
that opinion that would work for me that
would work
um I say that censorship is the new
voting what do you say
because we've got this big debate over
whether musk is improving Free Speech or
making it worse say his critics But
whichever way it is the
would you agree that the following is
true
that censorship determines what
narrative
is the important one would you agree
if you never see a competing narrative
you latch on to the one that you see
so censorship determines what narrative
Rises to our attention right
and the narrative would determine your
opinion
right so that's how we get opinions we
don't really make opinions on our own
opinions are essentially assigned to us
by the way the narrative is presented to
us
so the the censorship determs The
Narrative The Narrative determines
public opinion public opinion
determines what the vote is because then
we vote our opinions
so you've got the censorship determines
the narrative The Narrative determines
our public opinion our public opinion
determines the vote
and that's it
that's our current system
the current system is it's just a
censorship
game the vote actually becomes a a
somewhat subsidiary Downstream uh
guaranteed effect that is guaranteed by
what happens Upstream
right the vote is Downstream from
censorship
and I'm borrowing Andrew breitbart's
famous saying that politics is
Downstream from culture but
but the vote is Downstream from
censorship
now was this always the case
has this always been our system because
I don't think so it feels like it's
something that could evolve because of
social media and the the media the media
landscape
and just in one comment I think it's I
don't know who it's for but just says
you it feels like it's for me but
maybe not
might have been for another commenter
but this battle over uh censorship and
Twitter in particular because Twitter
Twitter as you as you know is the the
lever that moves all the other media
because it's the place that the media
professionals go to find out what they
can get away with and if you can get
away with it on Twitter then you can
take it to the rest of the world so this
is the biggest battle
because our our political system is now
basically down to what Twitter will
allow you to see
and I think it has been this way and I
think that's what I think our last
election
came down to what Twitter allowed people
to see
let me let me ask you this
as many times as the Charlottesville
fine people thing
uh I'm gonna get rid of this guy
as many times as the Charlottesville
why why are you on here saying bad
things Eddie
all right Eddie don't do that
um I'm gonna I'm gonna turn off the
locals uh the locals uh I'm Gonna Keep
the locals feed but I'm going to turn
off the uh open part so it's going to be
only for people who are subscribers
because I think I got a troll over here
so when I turn off the uh the open part
it should get rid of the troll so we'll
do that if you're on locals uh and
you're not the troll go over the YouTube
and you can watch it
good
boom all right so locals is now private
for subscribers
um but I'm not wrong right the battle
over Twitter is is our new political
system
because Twitter will determine what we
think or what the journalists can get
away with and back to my earlier point
if if musk had owned Twitter
before could Biden have run on the fine
people hoax and gotten away with it
I'm not sure
I don't think he could have because it
was only because the Democrats were
completely walled off from any hoax
debunking they just never saw it
and even the professionals never saw it
there are plenty of people in the
professional reporting journalist field
who actually believes the fine P that
the you know the Charlottesville fine
people hoax was a real thing that
happened
they literally believe it happened
that's only because Twitter allowed them
not to see the other side
so maybe that'll change I don't know
um and certainly Twitter has completely
changed who is visible My visibility on
Twitter went through the roof recently
I I don't know if anybody's noticed if
you look at my Twitter feed the number
of subscribers is climbing like crazy
faster than ever before and when I do
even a medium quality tweet
I get over a thousand likes
and that would have been 200 before Musk
so it's probably a 5x visibility
difference for me
now you don't think the left was trying
to suppress me
if they were trying to suppress me they
weren't they weren't playing the right
game they should have been they should
have figured out who's making a
difference who could move the needle and
and focus on those people
all right
um
musk this is like the biggest story
I don't know of since the pandemic I
guess or maybe maybe it's not as big as
Ukraine but it's up there
that mosque is going to go full
transparency
he's promised us that the public
deserves to know what quote really
happened at Twitter in terms of the
censorship
they're actually preparing a full report
that will be on Twitter so and this is
fun too Twitter will be the publisher
so that this is something you would
normally expect to be published in some
other place and Twitter would just point
to it
but because it's Elon he's doing it the
smart way it will be published on
Twitter so you have to go to Twitter and
you have to stay there to read it
anybody who says that anybody who says
that musk isn't going to make this a
better product you're really not paying
attention he's already made it a better
product there's no question about it
like everything he's doing even the
mistakes are all heading in the right
direction okay that didn't work all
right that didn't work either but we'll
try this I mean it's all working
um but I would say it is also true that
the uh the worst racist have returned to
the platform
would you agree
is there anybody seen an increase in uh
anti-Semitism and racism I have
seen it but only recently
only the last few days I didn't see it
until the last few days now maybe
because of his amnesty or something
yeah I've seen some super ugly
anti-semitic kind of stuff lately
could be the yeah it's the yay effect
because people are people are using that
as their topic for which to spew yeah
it's probably the yeah effect
um but we'll see if that's a lasting
thing or not now what's interesting
about this is we're going to find out if
Twitter suppressed the laptop story
I hope I don't know if this will happen
but imagine this
I don't think this is going to happen
but imagine if
musk can tell you how individuals were
censored
can you imagine that
could you imagine if I could find out
exactly how I was censored
just imagine that
that would the headset would explode
everywhere
and then let me ask you this
what will the left do when this becomes
public if if it's as bad as we think now
I don't want to get ahead of the Krakens
like I I have a I have a uh unfortunate
history of uh Imagining the Kraken will
be reproduced and then no cracking
happens I'm definitely a a crack in
non-denir and that's on me
yeah I did expect a kraken
not because I thought there was a
problem because I believe the people who
said it was coming and I didn't know
that they were completely non-credible
as it turns out
so that's on me I should have seen I
should have seen that come honestly
but if it happens I was how is the left
going to handle
the fact that all of their Badness has
been revealed here's how I think
and it's already happening and it goes
like this
all of that Badness was really goodness
that's what it'll be
of course we were suppressing Trump
because
he called uh he called neo-nazi's Fine
people of course we suppressed him
obviously of course
yeah it won't even be embarrassing it
won't be embarrassing
because they'll say yeah we want more of
that people are actually calling for
Twitter to return to the rules before
Musk
they're asking to go back
to what they have to know by now was
total censorship
but they believed they were censoring
the right people
now
do you think that musk has changed the
rules on who's censored
I haven't heard of it have you
because I bury people saying I need
Twitter to go back to the old rules
the rules never changed have they did I
miss a story
I believe that that Twitter has always
been anti-hate speech
anti-hate speech
and if there's misinformation they'll
put a tag on it so you've got some
context
it's the same rules
but people are people are going to
imagine a different experience right the
left is going to imagine that Twitter
turned into a hell hole even if it
doesn't
and the right is going to imagine that
the controls were taken off even if the
only thing happening is more
conservatives are joining Twitter so
your traffic is going up and you'll
think oh it's because the censorship
came off so we're deeply in confirmation
bias territory which is affecting me
right you're going to see it in real
time
if you want to see a rational person
who is completely under the spell of
confirmation bias I offer myself
because Twitter is such a confirmation
bias generator
that I I'm pretty sure I'm going to
imagine my experiences changing on
Twitter even if it doesn't
I'm pretty sure I'll imagine it does
don't you agree so you're going to get
to watch me
falling falling victim to confirmation
bias even when I know it even when I
know it's going to happen it's still
going to happen I don't think I have any
defense against it because you feel the
way you feel right and then you report
it
but I'm at least aware that I'll be
wrong
um
all right
so
uh
what what do we think about this yay
Fuentes business now
besides the fact that it'll take Trump
out of the race for good just because
the left will make us never forget
anything else I mean they'll make us
think about it forever
uh whose Fuentes yeah
I know
I mean the the fact that uh these folks
all showed up
and by the way uh somebody says Kanye is
legitimately anti-semite it seems like
it
that you know Kanye's had plenty of time
to soften his soften his opinion or
whatever but at this point I feel like
we can just say he wants us to believe
that he is anti-Semitic wouldn't you say
he's not telling you he's not I mean he
does that thing I can't be anti-semitic
because I'm a Jew but nobody takes that
seriously it looks like he just he's
putting it out there as that's who he is
uh I don't know we'll keep an eye on
this it's fun to watch but do you think
that uh Kanye is operating by the way if
you watched any of the Tim pool uh uh
interview with yay or especially the
aftermath because it continued after yay
left in that sort of a conversation
around the table about what they'd
experienced the funniest part about it
is watching every member of the table
refer to him as Kanye and then have to
correct it
and I thought
that is why yea is yay
and that's why the performer formerly
known as Prince was the performer
formerly known as Prince one of the
things that you can do if you're smart
enough
and you're famous enough
is you can make your name really
inconvenient for other people
and then you have to spend a whole bunch
of time talking about them like extra
time because you got to talk you got to
correct the name so I'm watching this
the the Tim pool group around the table
and every one of them made a point
they're like well Kanye I'm sorry I mean
yay
I'm sorry
I apologize I didn't mean to do that uh
if you're watching uh I meant Yay and
every one of them had to do it on every
comment to the point where it was just
ridiculous
and they were you know noticing it
themselves of course but
that's one of the ways he draws energy
he gets energy because you have to talk
about it more even to refer to him just
the simplest thing you have to put extra
energy into it so he's definitely an
energy monster and he knows how to
attract it and he knows how to use it
but what's going on now
uh does anybody think that what we're
seeing with yay
is some form of Genius or do you think
it's mental illness what would you say
genius or mental illness
or attention like I guess that would be
genius
performance art
if you say his performance art is a
genius
because let's say he let's say he
intended it to be performance art
you'd have to be insane to think this
was going to work
do you think the divorce broke him
it looks like the divorce broke him
actually
that's what I think
yeah I think the divorce actually broke
him I I think that everything he cared
about in life
was his family
and he lost it
and I think he lost everything
and I think that when he gave up his
billions of dollars it's because it
didn't mean a thing to him
and he kind of says that now right
he had he was the richest black guy is
that what he was saying the richest
black guy or something everybody lost
his family
he had nothing
like that I think I think that's the
story of yay
is that it looks like he had everything
because he had riches and multiple
companies and fame and he was Beloved
the other family he loved him and kids
and and then the only party lost
was the family and kids and what did he
have left
nothing
after you after his family and kids were
taken from him or you know you could say
it was his own fault whatever I don't
know the difference but once he lost
that he actually didn't have anything
so he tried God
you know it looked like he moved his
emphasis to religion and it looks like
it wasn't enough
he's trying he's trying politics
and it looks like that's not enough
so to me this all looks like uh mental
illness
but caused by a specific PTSD
you know I'm speaking in my layman terms
I'm using all the wrong words for Mental
Illness but you know what I mean right I
I believe he was maybe
as all Geniuses are you know a little
bit crazy artistic Geniuses anyway the
artistic Geniuses tend to be a little
bit crazy and a little bit genius at the
same time and I think that the divorce
broken and it just pushed them into the
wrong side that's what it looks like
because I don't see anything here that
looks like a good strategy do you
if I did I'd call it out like I'd love
to tell you oh you're all missing the
clever play you know if you do
if you knew as much as I do
you know about persuasion you'd see how
cleverly he's playing you all about I
don't see anything I don't say that
I I see somebody who's working through
some problems
that's all that's what I say now
the the next part is hard
um
you know the
the way he's treated the anti-Semitism
uh issue
it's very
it's very ugly and like I I can't be in
favor of that I can't have any empathy
for that at all but at the same time I
have empathy for him
because I to me I see a victim
and
maybe he was a victim that people ganged
up on him you know maybe his maybe his
trainer who had some kind of
weird background and threatened him we
know maybe he was part of it
I don't know
but he looks like somebody who was
destroyed by people who had an agenda
of some sort
now you could argue that he wasn't
strong enough to avoid that destruction
that's always another way to look at it
but I I have empathy for yay at the same
time I severely disavow his opinions
which I feel like is the way a president
should have approached it
I think a president should say I have a
great empathy it looks like he's going
through a tough time
but you know still I have to disavow
what he said completely
all right
um
I wonder if everything's I can't get off
of this topic but I wonder if
everything's going to be different after
we find out what Twitter actually did
like how how deep does that go
for example
just just as an example here are the
things we might find out
what if we find out uh what organized
groups were organizing trolls
suppose if you found out who the troll
Masters are
like wouldn't you love to know that
what if we found out how much foreign
influence there's been at Twitter
foreign
how much do you want to know that
like a lot
yeah how about our own Intel and FBI how
much influence have they had
has anybody who is not a Twitter
employee
ever had Direct access to cancel people
would you like to know that wouldn't you
like to know if there's any app
that allowed any law enforcement or
anybody to change a Twitter experience
where Twitter didn't even have to
approve it it was just giving somebody
else a button to push would you like to
know
because I'll bet somebody did I'll bet
somebody outside of Twitter had a button
it just feels like that's the type of
thing we'd find out right I have no
evidence of that it just feels like it
what else are we going to find out
will we find out that our user accounts
are completely artificial
and that you know will I find out that
of my almost 800 000 followers what if I
find out that half of them are Bots
for Republicans who thought they liked
boosting my signal
totally possible
totally possible Right
could be
yeah I mean I have no idea how deep this
this hole is but wow am I interested
now apparently Apple has threatened
because of this censorship stuff
uh Apple is threatened to take the
Twitter app out of the app store which
would pretty much kill Twitter as a
viable business
do you think that Apple would execute
that do you think that Apple would drop
the the nuclear option on Twitter
because if they do the reason would be
that they say there there are too many
too much Haze speech right so it would
be a hate speech thing
Now isn't this hate speech thing really
subjective
meaning you could say yes that's too
much hate speech or that's not too much
hate speech isn't that kind of just an
opinion how much is too much and how
much is Free Speech
because all free speech has some you
know hate baked into it
yeah
so
my first impression was this that it
would be such a suicide play that Apple
would never do it because if Apple did
it they would lose I don't know 20 of
the customers overnight something like
that I mean I I would I'm totally in the
Apple universe but I'd have to think
really seriously about dumping them
forever if they if they killed Twitter
because to me that would be attack on
the on the Republic
does it feel like that to you and it
wouldn't feel exactly like an attack on
Twitter users
to me that would feel like a direct
attack on the Republic
that's how I take it
to me that wouldn't look like you know
free market that wouldn't look like any
kind of free market thing that would
look like
just the worst thing
and so my first impression was Apple
would never take a risk that big because
they don't take risks like that right
that's just not an apple thing
but here's my second risk
Tim Cook might be the only person in the
world
who leads Democrat
who could stop Musk
from creating free speech
there's only one person who could stop
it now maybe you could argue Google too
good too
one guy
do you know how much pressure Tim Cook
is going to get from everybody he knows
and loves
you don't think the top Democrats have
already talked to Tim Cook and said you
know
you know it would make you awesome
you know what would make us love you
even more
if you could just do this one thing for
us just kill Twitter
yeah
and I think he might actually do it
it's the sort of thing that no rational
business person would do but I don't
think we're in rational business person
territory I think we're in a virtue
signaling territory
and here's what I think might happen
I'm going to make a tentative prediction
that if Tim Cook
removes Twitter from the Apple Store
that the board at Twitter is going to
remove Tim Cook
the Tim Cook would lose his job for that
right because I would certainly never
buy an Apple product while he was still
CEO
I wouldn't know I'd be done
I would say I'll still buy Apple
products but you got to get rid of that
guy because I like the products I don't
want to deny myself a good product
I love Apple I'm a really big Apple fan
I have stock by the way so I'm not
unbiased so I love Apple
but if one person decides to attack the
Republic
I'm going to act on that pretty quickly
all right here is how Twitter can
destroy Apple
I also own some Tesla Tesla stock and
so you know I don't know if I have any
indirect benefit from that but
um
your current phone is a absolute piece
of does anybody ever notice that
does anybody noticed that your phone is
a complete piece of now it's a
technological Wonder
but
may I may I do a skit of me using the
worst interface ever designed okay
here's me I think I'd like to send a
message
step one
find which app to use to send the
message
now
I'm in already my brain's in the wrong
place the messages in my head
I'm forming the message that I want to
send and who I want to send it to and
then I pick up my phone and the first
thing my phone does is make me think
about something else
fail
Ure
my phone should be blank screen
and the you know there should be no apps
there should be no apps there should be
one AI
the guesses what I'm trying to do when I
start doing it I should be able to just
do what I want and have the AI guess
what I want what I intended for example
I would have a blank screen and pick it
up and start saying
um
yes thank you please do buy those
groceries we were talking about
and then as I'm writing the message I
want the AI to look at it and say oh
this person is typing a message
so he doesn't want to consume
information he's in producing mode
so at the top it would produce all the
apps where the the directions the
message could go from you know WhatsApp
to telegram to whatever
and then after I make the message and
I've done all my thinking
then I'm done thinking and now I say
well which app did I want to pick
Boop
here's what's wrong with your phone
it's built for the app makers
your phone is not built for the user
it's built for the App Market it's built
to make it a a viable commercial Market
to do that you need apps
do you need an app
how many of you woke up and said you
know if only I had an app no apps are
apps are trouble apps are extra
work apps make you have to sign on again
apps make your password go away apps can
kick you off the platform apps are all
the problems
I just want to know what I want to do
and start doing it
now I might have two choices either
producing or consuming
so if I want to consume I was like oh
I'm bored I want to consume and I can
look at look at some Instagram posts and
stuff like that
so I think I think that the entire
interface of phones
somebody and it could be Elon Musk
someday somebody needs to develop the AI
version that just guesses what you want
to do and gives you the options but
makes you think about it after you've
done your work
so you want to work first
and then do the details of where that
work goes does that make sense how many
of you think that the basic model of an
app driven phone I mean look at all my
apps
this is this is nobody in the world
would have invented this for the
consumer
you you tell me that there's any user
who would say yeah here's what I want I
want to have to go search for a
app and every time I got to sign up and
subscribe and all that here's
what I want to do
I want to I want to open up my blank
screen and say 100 plus 300 and as soon
as I type 100 plus 300 I want the AI on
my phone to say oh he wants a
spreadsheet Boop
and as I'm typing a spreadsheet appears
and and now I can just keep going
because I don't want to pick a
spreadsheet I just want to start working
and have the spreadsheet form around me
because it's obvious I'm in spreadsheet
mode
right
why does a document have to be one for a
spreadsheet and one for typing
who decided that I need a separate app
to put a spreadsheet in the middle of my
word document not me
if you'd asked me I would do there would
be no apps I just do what I want to do
and it all works
so here's here's the problem that Apple
has
Apple and Google are both Legacy user
interfaces and it would be really really
hard for them to change
but if musk decides to compete with them
what if he does it without apps
what if he does it with a super AI
and here's what a phone should be your
phone should have nothing on it but a
password and uh 5G
that's it just a password
and 5G and the minor operating system
but everything else should happen in the
cloud through Ai and then it should
deliver it to you and when I replace my
phone the phone should cost me like a
hundred dollars
because the phone is just a dumb screen
and all the intelligence happens in the
network at 5G speed or or and through
right
how many of you think I'm on to
something because here's the part I can
guarantee
I can guarantee you with a hundred
percent certainty that in a hundred
years there'll be no such thing as a
smartphone with apps
you'd all agree with that right
because there's no way this model is the
one that lasts it's just too stupid
so musk can put apple on a business
he can't
and and the technology to do that only
just came online because you need 5G or
in satellites those are online
uh and you would need uh Superfast chips
so that they could handle a remote
processing
and you'd get rid of apps and AI could
get rid of apps right
I don't even know if AI would need to
build you an app
I think AI could just sort of handle
what you needed
without you ever being aware that
there's something like an app
all right so if you didn't think that
Elon Musk could put apple on a business
he actually can't
well it would be hard
but there is actually a path where Elon
Musk personally could put apple on a
business
with just leapfrogging the technology of
the phone
probably won't happen yes probably won't
happen
um
did you see the uh the Maricopa hearings
about the election
anybody watch the video from that
so in Maricopa there were public
hearings before they certified the
election it was the Kerry Lake versus
Hobbs one where Kerry Lake lost
according to the certification
now they did certify it but not until
listening to the public just rake the
officials for what a bad job they did
and when you when you hear all the
anecdotal reports
of these are unconfirmed things it's
just people talking so it's anecdotal
but the anecdotal reports are just
vicious
if you hear them out of context you know
without the officials responding to why
it's not such a big problem if you're
down a context it just sounds like the
whole election was just totally
totally just screwed the pooch like
nothing about it was credible
but here's the part that that I want to
summarize
if you knew
that the difference between a Republican
and a Democrat victory
was how inconvenient it was to vote on
Election Day because Democrats vote by
mail more often
if you could make voting on on the day
of a little bit inconvenient wouldn't
that be enough to throw the election
that's all it would take right
you simply have to make sure that it
doesn't go smoothly on the day of and
and that's it
now you remember those machines that had
been tested and yet it turned out that
they were poorly calibrated for the ink
that was on the ballots
do you think anybody would be smart
enough to know
that if they tweaked that calibration
ahead of time
just make it a little bit below the
level that it might take hours to figure
out what's wrong and correct it and in
those hours a lot of Republicans would
give up and leave the line
that would be a pretty straightforward
prediction when if we can just make the
lines longer on Election Day that's all
we need
because people don't have infinite time
they vote during the work day and some
of them just need to say it I'm
going home
so
it looks to me
without any proof of this right it looks
to be like the inefficiency was the
feature not the at the accident
and it's being treated like a feature
not an accident because we're not trying
to fix it
right if you saw some big move for a
Maricopa to say my God we've got to
change this system you know we've got to
make sure nothing like this ever happens
so here's what we're going to do to fix
all of this no no as far as I know they
plan to run the next election in the
same way
I'm just going to guess but I'll bet you
the next election has some long lines
and some unexpected technical problems
that don't look like any rigged election
at all it's just hey it's technology
technology sometimes is
is you know a little bit tweaked wrong
no big deal it's sort of normal you'd
expect a few hiccups in exactly the
right place
so we got the most problems
and the place that would actually change
the election
all the other there are other places
that had problems too but
a coincidence wasn't it that the one
place that would definitely change
things
that place had little problems long
lines
and
as many times as they check the machines
the night before how weird that they
didn't work the very next day
how weird
yeah
I don't know here's my take
here's my take on the elections
guilty until proven innocent
guilty until proven innocent that's my
standard
and to me they look guilty
so uh you can let's see if I get kicked
off of of of social media YouTube
and the the whoever is watching me on
YouTube and decides whether to monetize
me
uh is my opinion that The credibility of
the last election
is below the level in which you should
accept it
now I I don't have any specific Claim
about a specific bad Shenanigans I'm
just saying that the overall situation
with which we've been presented
doesn't appear
designed to make us believe it
it doesn't seem designed
for us to believe it it's designed for
us not to believe it which causes more
problems for Republicans right what's
the worst case scenario for Republicans
an election they say they don't believe
right that was the Trap
it's the perfect trap if we can trap
those Republicans into doubting a second
election
everybody's going to think that they're
not good citizens
right
so YouTube I don't know who did what I'm
making no specific uh allegations of bad
behavior I'm simply saying that if you
look at the design which is intentional
the intentional design
is to make it less credible
so I accept what I've Been Told
I've been given the officials have given
me a non-credible election by Design
intentionally
by Design and so I accept what they've
given me it's not credible so I reject
the uh
the
2022 election
in my opinion uh it I don't have a
specific
allegation it was presented to us in a
way that we're being told not to believe
it and so I accept the message
it would be easy to say
here's here's what we're doing to make
you feel more comfortable with the
result
but I don't see that
you know if you had that I'd say oh
you're designing the system to make me
feel comfortable with the result I get
that now I feel I do feel more
comfortable but if you design it in a
way
the design is very clearly to make us
less comfortable with the results
because they know how to do it the other
way right
do you think there's any doubt among the
professionals how to make the election
completely unquestionable
yeah just paper ballots count on the
same day have witnesses it's easy
there's no question about how to do it
so it's a choice
and it's a choice of both sides appear
to be making
so if both sides are making the choice
to have
non-credible looking elections you as a
consumer should take the message and say
oh you're presenting us a non-credible
election we'll accept it as a
non-credible election now
having said that
I agree with certifying it
I agree with certifying it
same reason I agreed with moving on when
Trump allegedly lost in 2020.
because you do have to move on
you do have to move on
and that's a separate question from
fixing the problem you have to fix the
problem but sometimes you just have to
move on to
you can redo the election yeah no but we
would just be redoing it with a system
that's not credible
but do you mind that the vote was
um maybe not as accurate as it could
have been
given that some people may not have
participated
here's why I'm not complaining as much
as I could
it was the first thing I said today
I don't think the vote is what matters
I think it's censorship determined The
Narrative The Narrative determined the
opinions the opinions determined the
vote
and pretty much you know 90 of how we
ended up where we were is from the
censorship
not not from anything else
so the vote was important and it may
have been the you know the last straw
because it was a close close election so
it probably did matter just because it
was close but 90 of it was just that the
censorship determined what people saw
what people saw determined their
opinions and then they voted on the
repentance
so it wasn't actually a
informed the public and then the public
makes opinions and votes for the
representatives sort of the way a
republic should work nothing like that
happened
nothing like that happened the the
brainwashers decided what we would think
and then we acted on that's all
right do a redo yeah we maybe we should
have some kind of a uh
some kind of a standing redo system so
you can redo it quickly now here's what
I'd like to do I would love
to see a survey of how many Republicans
got out of line
and then separately how many of them
didn't vote in the normal way but maybe
you had to put their ballot in the
special Ballot Box that didn't have a
good chain of custody so wouldn't you
like to know
how many Republicans got out of line
because it might be none it might be
none because it could be the Republicans
were just you know screw it I'm here all
day you're not going to make me get
online because you know Republicans are
pretty much
uh tough characters
which is exactly why I like them right
the thing I most I like most about
conservatives is that when they have a
principle
they're really going to stick to it like
they're really sticky on principle and
if the principle is you're not going to
discourage me from voting
maybe every single Republican in the
United States stayed in line as long as
it took
it's possible because because the
Republicans are not like regular people
right they're not they're they're very
stubborn and they don't like to get they
don't like to get beaten you know by a
game you know they're not going to be
they like to be beaten by a magic trick
uh
all right thought experiment
uh why can anyone do that list of things
to succeed but not anyone can avoid
overeating oh
good question so I told you the things
that somebody needs to succeed
and why do I think that somebody has you
know Free Will and they can do that
thing when I don't think that people can
stop overeating because they like to eat
and the thing is that eating is an
addiction
and addictions are a whole different
deal
right so if you have an addiction you
have to be in addiction mode to deal
with that but what I was talking about
was sort of a non-addiction you're just
a kid and you're trying to figure out
your way in the world there's no
addiction involved so if there's no
addiction involved you can you can
certainly brainwash kids in the
direction you want
make a clip of my mom's useful advice
maybe so
yeah maybe so the trouble is that my mom
had that be the best at one thing advice
which is the opposite of what I ended up
doing
to good effect
all right
you need a micro lesson and hoarding oh
yeah maybe I'll do that make a listen to
hoarding
you want to stop hoarding I assume you
don't want to micro listen on how to
horde more
yeah maybe so
that's a good re I can reframe that I
think
uh let's talk about China
let's talk about China
you know there's an interesting thing
when I see the uh the aerial views of
the protests
so the things that are different number
one it's not that unusual to have
protests in China what's unusual is that
they're Country-Wide
uh that's unusual and they they may be
bigger you know in each individual place
than we've seen before
um but here's what here's the thing that
I'm
I'm really taken by when I look at the
crowds
so you see a big crowd from above and
you'll see the uh let's say the uh Riot
police I guess they tend to be dressed
in all white and or police uniforms and
you can see how many police there are
and then you can see the size of the
public crowd
and it looks to me like the crowd is
more powerful than the the law
enforcement
like a lot
and I don't think that the Law
Enforcement wants to open fire
and start massacring people because that
then the public goes to the next level
as well
and I'm watching that and I'm thinking
it looks like the the Indian uh elephant
trainer situation is what it looks like
let me explain that I use this example a
lot if you're an elephant trainer how do
you get this gigantic mammal that could
crush you
if it wants to to follow your orders how
do you make an elephant afraid of you
like I always wondered like why does the
elephant do anything for this little
person like it makes sense why your dog
does what you want because you're bigger
than your dog usually right you feed it
but it seems like the elephant would
just want to crush you if you beat it
with a stick
but the way they do it is they they hurt
the elephant when it's a baby
so when the elephant is a baby and it
doesn't know how to fight back or
anything the elephant trainer you know
hits it until the elephant is afraid of
the human and then the human never
becomes less afraid of the human the
elephant never does so the elephant
becomes a you know big monster but still
thinks that little human can beat it up
so that never changed and I feel like
the the Chinese public
is the elephant
because I watched the number of people
there are protesting and it's a far
bigger Force than the number trying to
stop them it's not even close
now yes if that Force wanted to use
Firearms then then it's not a fair fight
but if they use the firearms then the
crowd gets bigger too
right so here's what I don't think the
Chinese public knows
they have complete control
already
the Chinese public has complete control
and they don't know it
because if you saw the the size of the
crowd they just have to rush they just
have to rush the other people
they just have to say all right we're
just we're going to take you down
and just use numbers and just take them
out
and I feel like the public either the
public doesn't want to escalate
or they think they don't have the power
like like the elephant that was abused
as a baby because they've been abused
since birth to do what they're told
and even as rebellious as they are now
which is impressive to watch I feel like
they still don't know how much power
they have
I I look at it from above and I say this
is a five minute problem
people would die
but it's a five minute problem every one
of those law enforcement people could be
grabbed by a person in in the crowd
brought down
five minutes in five minutes they would
own the city
but they're not doing it now here's the
question
what would have happened in America
forget about guns for a second just
imagine imagine the protesters are
unarmed in America
do you think America would not have
already taken down the law enforcement
I think Americans would have already
taken them down
because we're not trained like the
elephant
we're trained to think we are in control
yeah maybe maybe it's one of the things
that makes Americans such one
of the one of the reasons we're
is we grow up thinking we're in control
right
we think we have all kinds of Power even
if we don't
so if you if you have a crowd of
Americans who are that pissed off
and the and the number of people who are
preventing them from going or doing
whatever they were was that small
this would be so over
the only thing that's keeping China
intact is this psychological thing that
keeps these citizens thinking they're
weaker than the government and they are
not not even close they are the elephant
and they're and they're just they don't
know they can stomp on the government
anytime they want
that's what it looks like
so what this means is
no I did not forget the Chinese military
I did not
because I'm I'm calculating here that if
China was sent in the military and they
started killing massive people which
they'd have to do that the the citizens
would rise up to an even higher level
Now in America that's what would happen
in America if there were more Force
brought against the crowd the crowd
would increase their own force and then
they would be armed after that point
now China can't arm itself so that
they've got a different situation but
they can still take out a small Force
now my understanding is that the Chinese
military is actually smaller than the
local community enforcement
because they need lots of local
community enforcement relative to how
many they need in the military
so
it is possible
that if the psychology of the Chinese
people changes
and it could you you could imagine some
small event that just changes their
psychology the moment they say we have
decided
verses we want
it's all over
the Chinese people have not decided
they have not they simply they're
expressing a desire they're just they're
expressing a a preference a very strong
preference
but if the Chinese people decide it's a
five-minute problem
it's five minutes they will just destroy
the the whoever whoever is stopping them
and they will just do what they need to
do they'll take care of business
so there is there's a very big
possibility
that China is teetering on uh a full
Revolution
and nothing physical is stopping it from
happening there's no physical thing just
that little bit of
mental switch and if that switches
all bets are off now I would bet against
that happening I would better I would
bet in favor of the Chinese government
suppressing them it goes back to normal
and the reason is I think they're so
well they're so well uh trained
I think that the conditioning is so deep
that they they simply will never know
their own power and they won't they
won't express it
now do Iran
Iran is different
than any situation I've I'm aware of
because the women seem to be taking a
lead now maybe I don't have that right
but if there's anybody who has any
Iranian connections can you do me a fact
check
does it still look like the women are
taking the lead and the men are helping
does it look like that
see once that happens
um
then we're in unpredicted unpredictable
territory
because you know the the male female
relationship in Iran is something we
can't fully understand
and we don't really know how much power
women have in Iran
if you listen to anybody who was born
there they'll tell you some version of
this
oh yeah the men are totally in control
the men have all the power
yeah except at home
within the house
the The Matriarch has an unusual amount
of power
but you know outside and if anybody's
looking the men have all the power now I
don't know how much of that's true
that's just sort of a thing you hear but
if they really do control the house
who knows
who knows anything's possible
and if uh if Iran goes ahead and does a
mass hanging
I think I'll bets are off
apparently they're going to or maybe
they already have a public hanging of
one of the leaders
and that is like a bad bad play for Iran
doing that in public seems in 2022 seems
like the dumbest thing the leadership
could do
uh to me it looks like they'd just be
begging for their own
their own demise all right did I miss
any stories
anything that uh I should have talked
about that I didn't
would you sell your Apple stock if they
banned Twitter yes yes I would if if
Apple uh if Apple bans Twitter I'm
selling my Apple stock immediately and
and not just because of politics
but because I think uh musk might take
them down
I think he might take him down if Apple
take if Apple tries to destroy his 44
billion dollar investment
he's not going to leave any weapon
unused
that that is full War
do you think Apple wants a full war
against Elon Musk because that's not
around right if they take out
his 44 billion dollar investment and and
what he thinks is the only hope for free
speech
there will be no weapon that he won't
use
to fix that situation and you've never
seen Elon unrestrained
I don't even know what that looks like
there's a David sacks tweet
all right there's a David sacks tweet
and that is interesting enough that I'm
going to look at it before we go here
let's let's find that so because if you
don't know there are some people whose
opinions are just a little more
let's say a little more persuasive than
others
let's see David sacks
let's see what he said that you're
uh
uh oh there we go
uh you mean the 23 minutes ago it was 23
minutes ago David sacks tweeted as long
as uh Tech Maga Microsoft Apple Google
and Amazon
Mega
m-a-g-a Microsoft Apple Google and
Amazon
oh my God that's good
Wow have unlimited power to engage in
bundling and to act as Gatekeepers of
competitive products there cannot be a
healthy startup ecosystem
there we go
uh
and then earlier 42 minutes ago David
sack says with the possible exception of
Microsoft in the late 90s there's never
been a tech Monopoly as powerful as
Apple
its power is so fear of the few
applications company will dare to
criticize Apple publicly even though
almost all privately voice similar
concerns as Elon Musk
oh
Glenn Greenwald your David sax retweets
them Glenn Greenwell said there are a
few things more revealing of an
authoritarian mindset than wanting
Google and apple to use their Monopoly
power to act as an internet internet
overlords dictating who can and can't be
heard
yet that's our situation and so many
seem grateful
uh
wow
um
here's what I think
Tim Scott is not going to is not going
to pick a fight with some of the most
powerful people in Silicon Valley
David Sachs is a a wonderfully public
with both his influence and his opinions
I can tell you for sure that there are
powerful people in Silicon Valley who
are less public
who would go after Apple pretty hard for
this if Apple tried to take down Twitter
the there there would be major powers
in Silicon Valley
who would go after Apple pretty
hard and I would be I would be joining
that team immediately
so I think I think Tim Cook is connected
enough and he can read the room well
enough to know that this would not be a
fight with just their users
you know this this wouldn't be just a
Public Relation relations problem this
would be a
existential threat to Apple
there are people big enough who would
just want to wipe them off the map and
probably had the power to do it
so my prediction is that Apple will back
down
if it was real I don't know how real it
was that Apple was really considering
bumping them I I think probably the
truth
probably Apple just did a warning shot
across the bow
because Apple wants to establish that
it's the good person and they're doing
the right things so I think apple is
just positioning
so that people say oh Apple's the good
one they said don't go too far with your
you know your lack of censorship or
we'll have to ban you so I think it's
just a warning shot
which actually is no problem at all
I I think everybody should do warning
shots if there's something to warn about
so I don't mind a warning shot
um
never go to war with a man who owns a
rocket company yeah
yeah never go to war with somebody who
literally owns a spaceship
hahaha
that's good advice and never start a
fight with somebody who owns a spaceship
I might tweet that
maybe one of you could tweet it
[Laughter]
all right that's all I got for today
uh did I miss any uh big stuff
I think I got it all all right
uh YouTube and uh
and Rumble and everybody else I'll say
goodbye to you but I'll talk to locals
for a few minutes
because they're special people bye for
now
