Episode 1993 Scott Adams - Persuasion Analysis Of Trump, Crowder v The Daily Wire, Ukraine, Lots More

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10 years old or something and they decided on their own that these that their siblings could not be alone so they're sitting there reading it looks like and making sure that the babies are never alone even when they're sleeping now here's the thing I I've had this discussion before in which so let's say Matt Walsh is the you know the uh the poster child for traditional marriage wouldn't you say if there's anybody who's like the person you think of when he talks about traditional marriage I think of him and I always say judicial marriage is absolutely the best way to go for about 25 percent of people the trouble is you know if one of you is a addict or crazy or something you know nothing works but for about 25 and I know you would argue oh it's higher it's maybe 75 percent but today I'm not going to have that argument I think it's 25 you think it's 75 but you know it's not 100 and it's not zero but talk about winning oh my God how many of you like heard this story and just said uh if I could if I could have that life that looks pretty good doesn't it like you could already you can already like Fast Forward yourself into the future where they're having you know big family events and all the twins are there and stuff that sounds like so much fun I I'm just going to call it out because it's the best it's just the best little anecdote of why people like traditional families it looks pretty strong so congratulations Matt Walsh I'll just add this one thing that no matter how winning other people seem to be remember do you remember the basket case Theory Basket Case Theory I've told you this before that what you know about other people is a very small amount of who they are right so if you imagine that the Walsh family has solved all of their problems I'm sure that's wrong I I I'm sure they have some challenges like everyone but on the surface this is pretty amazing story and I just like it Elizabeth Warren tweets apparently a bunch of people are worried that Zell the digital payment service that is owned by some of the big Banks including Bank of America is stealing their money what I don't even know what to say about this apparently there are a whole lot of people and I don't know what percentage and I don't know how true it is but a whole bunch of people um I think Laura Loomer was one of them I saw a tweet from her who say that their payments payments are being sent and then they don't re they're not received on the other end it looks like Bank of America is keeping it or somebody's keeping it or it's disappearing so it's a little bit of fog of War right now so I'm not gonna I'm not gonna claim that I know what's happening in this story because I don't think anybody does in fact Elizabeth Warren's you know puts it as sort of a question she's she's uh she says I've called out serious fraud issues on Zell and this is their latest failure so I don't know what the other fraud issues are on cell is there some reason to is Laura Luber credible well on there she is sure do you think Laura Loomer would tweet that she was having problems with Zell if she just made it up now I'm not saying it's true because she said it but really you think somebody would just make that up there's nothing in her history that would suggest you to do that is there like you could like you know like or dislike other things you said but I don't think that doesn't sound like a lie could be anything's possible but it doesn't sound like a lie to me anyway we'll keep an eye on that uh New Zealand New Zealand's prime minister resigned uh yes and uh what's her name uh ardern now she was famous for being a progressive and doing things a little differently she was also famous for having a baby while prime minister because she was one of the youngest leaders we've ever had she had a baby and she managed to do her job while being a mom as well being a young mom but she's decided that it's a little too much and she's decided she's I'll use my own words burned out and then she doesn't have the the drive or energy to run New Zealand and run her family I guess so here's how CNN described it and this is in a in the CNN's website um it started off by saying burnout is real and it's nothing to be ashamed of that's the conclusion trailblazing New Zealand uh leader yasinda Arden ardern seems to have reached after almost six brutal years in office so CNN is first saying you know burnout must be recognized as a a genuine phenomenon and we should not ignore it okay I'm all with you on that later on in the story they say during her time in power ardern showed that it was possible to juggle a young family and a demanding role good for her look at that she managed to run a country and you know juggle her home demands as well very good and now she's leading by example to show that when a tank is empty and there's no more to give it's also okay to opt out now this is pretty good this is pretty good on her part not only is she proving that you can you can run a country and have a family but she's also proving at the same time that you can't run a country and have a family so a lot of people would just try to demonstrate one thing at a time she's doing two this is quite impressive and CNN I credit them for calling this out that she's not only proving that you can do everything have a family and have a demanding job but also that you can't so what I'm going to read a comment from Erica and she says so this is not me this is Erica and you wonder why I don't want woman well woman in charge of anything okay I think that's too far too far Erica you've gone too far uh but let's live in the real world who in the world could do both of those things well nobody nobody it's not a man or woman thing you know women happen to be the ones who you know bear the children so you know they end up and for other reasons they end up I guess having a big role in the child's life as they should so I don't see how you can do both do you how in the world could you do both and do you do you imagine that New Zealand got a good job out of her I mean maybe he was good enough I don't know but it doesn't matter what the external uh what the external let's say competition for the leader's time is whether it's a baby or they've got lawsuit problems or they're having troubles at home it matters it all matters so if we're if we're being uh open-minded about this I guess the right place the land is everybody should have the opportunity to try anything they want and if it doesn't work out it doesn't work out so yeah I don't think there's any judgment to put on this do you I wouldn't put any judgment on it it's just a thing that happened well the New York Times has a story and because it's in the New York Times that's actually the big part of the story if this were some obscure publication who had the following story I'm going to tell you about it wouldn't mean much but because it's in the New York Times that's it means it's uh let's say it's reaching common or because of the story is now a common story or a common understanding and it goes like this hacking the simulation so there are some serious people and one in particular I guess it was a was a professor or a true scientist computer scientist David Anderson and during the pandemic he did some noodling on if we're in a simulation so if our so-called reality is a computer simulation could you hack it from the inside now I don't think the article is very interesting so I'm not going to get into the details but do you think if we're a simulation that we could hack it from the inside because here's my take on that if that's not true that were a simulation and you can hack it from the inside I can't explain my life experience because I've been using this thing called affirmations that apparently hacks the simulation and you know the list of things that I've affirmed that actually happened in the real world is so wild and you only know some of them you know there's some that are just private the private ones are crazy crazy like you would you wouldn't even and and you know even recently like I'm not even talking about in the distant past you know something worked out for me once I'm talking right up to this week crazy and I'll just put this out there if we live in a simulation and that's not guaranteed and if we can hack it and that's certainly not guaranteed my best instinct is that the affirmations or the amount of basically the amount of focus you put on the things you want to happen might make reality fork in that direction so one possibility is that all possibilities exist and they're all here at the same time do you know how animation works animation is a series of still pictures that if you were to put them together in let's say a pages of a book and then you flip through the pages it would look like the animation is moving which is how you do movie TV animation now I've always imagined that our reality is a three-dimensional Cube in which you know conceptually let's say you're somewhere in the middle of the cube and your direction of the future is every direction so you have infinite directions from where you are and each of those directions looks exactly like our reality with a small change and the small change is based on whatever you know whatever path you you take now my understanding of reality or let's say the standard understanding reality is that you're a conscious being and you're in this big moving machine reality is is moving all around you and you're also moving so it's a bunch of moving stuff what if the only thing that moves is your point of view that's how I see the universe that it all exists and always has and there's no time it just sits there all of the possibilities as a solid cube and the only thing that's changing is your point of perception and which path you follow and nothing else changes the universe is static and always has been and that the Big Bang the Big Bang is simply a location within the cube it might be the middle Imagine The Big Bang is the middle of the cube and from that middle all the possibilities and they just sit there as a solid and you're it's only your mind or your you know you can say your soul or whatever is passing through it and as you pass through it it appears to be moving but that's because your conscious went through a series of Still Still frames now the reason that I uh mention that frame is not because I think is necessarily true but it would perfectly explain how you could hack reality because you wouldn't be changing anything except your direction and how hard it would be to change the direction of a mind that is not bound by a physical laws maybe easy right and it might be it might be as easy as dreaming it might be almost something we do automatically so I just put that weird possibility out there to spin your brains around a little bit all right it's going to get weirder this is going to be one of the most interesting live streams you've ever seen and we're going to get to Trump persuasion my sweet spot so wait for that all right let's talk about Ukraine persuasion question number one remember I said that I believe that ukrainians would outperform expectations at the beginning of the invasion and I said primarily because of modern equipment that they would get from NATO and the U.S and that drones in particular would be the the things that made the difference but then other people said drones Really Scott is really the high Mars it's the high Mars that are making the difference and then they're introducing these new kinds of missiles called glsdb so precise it can hit the radius of a car tire and it can hit a moving object within 150 miles and it can go around it and come back in another Direction so it can you know evade radar it can it can do anything you want and it can hear something under a bridge right you could hear something hiding under a bridge from the air so so these apparently this is good weapons and apparently these are heading toward Ukraine and that they would be especially good for taking out supply lines now remember I told you that I feel like Russia has a real problem because they won't be able to supply as long as Ukraine can you know drone their supply chains from the air so that's what they're doing you know they're doing exactly what would be obvious but here's my question to you what is the definition of a drone and would you call a high Mars uh yeah the rocket that comes out of it and the glsdb systems would you call those drones here's a definition of a drone any unmanned aircraft or ship that is guided remotely uh or or it could be autonomous so in other words you can control it directly or you can give us some instructions to do something and it goes and does it that's a drone I think the high Mars and the glsdb systems are drones well whenever I talk about this all of the the Russian assets start start yelling Scott Ritter you can tell all the all the Russian assets Scott Ritter and and also wrong and big letters this is so easy to pick out the Russians now anybody else want to say Scott Ritter so we know who all the Russians are go ahead let's see if I can quiet him down Scott Ritter literally writes for the russian-controlled uh publication RT which is called Russia Today so do I think this Scott Ritter would have a different take on whether Ukraine is winning huh why don't we see what the guy who works for Russia thinks hmm hmm and Andrew says and who do you write for copy well you nailed me burned burned who do I write for whoa whoa well as you know I write for UT oh you didn't know that I write for Ukraine today the publication that's owned by zelenski yeah no I talk to him every day hold on he's calling again you want me to write one right Ukraine has nuclear weapons you don't have nuclear weapons okay I'll say you do I'll say you do I will do an article on that uh you know there's talk that they have nuclear weapons anything else f-15s you don't have any okay I'll say f-15s F-150s you got hundreds of them hundreds of them thousands thousands of f-15s all right I got my assignment got it right for zielinski now for the dumb people that was just theater and I don't actually write for Ukraine but I think it's funny that you asked anyway I would just like to make the following Point um I I can see why you would call these missile systems not necessarily the same as drones I get it but I wasn't making that distinction when I talked about it laughs my trolls are just so pathetic today you know when the trolls are doing a good job and they're like getting under your skin like they're annoying but when they do an unusually bad shot they just become part of the entertainment and today they're totally entertaining it's the same same person anyway that's pretty funny um let's talk about everybody weaponizing everything so you know the Republicans are doing this investigation into the weaponization of the Intel community and now the Democrats are going to match that persuasion by saying that the House Republicans are setting up a committee to um that the it's the Republicans that are weaponizing stuff so everybody is weaponizing is that good persuasion to say everybody's weaponizing stuff I don't know it feels a little generic doesn't it a little bit generic I don't think the weaponization thing is quite hitting but we're going to talk about uh Trump's recent statements I'm going to show you how to do it right yeah and I want you to contrast the the weaponization word with where Trump goes so you can see you can see the weak sauce and then you're going to see Trump just just punching it right in the face now whether you like it or not he definitely has a skill a very specific skill set we'll get to that a little bit all right um apparently Trump is reportedly NBC says going to come back to Twitter and he's petitioned Facebook to go back there as well now Facebook would have to say yes Twitter already did but he's not back so we'll see if that's real I think most people assumed that running for office would require it don't you think now I don't know what that does to the viability of Truth social so that's going to take a hit but um I saw a sir comment um about Trump's support of his work to bring the vaccinations out now how many of you think that's going to be just a huge problem that that Trump was behind operation warp speed and that a lot of his base is pretty unhappy about vaccinations so how does he solve that is that solvable you tell me because I was solvable for his base yeah it is solvable I wasn't sure how but he he's he's putting together a package of persuasion in which this folds into it really well and I almost hate to say it because you know this time around I'm not going to support Trump on you know his policies except one he's the strongest one in fentanyl he would go after the cartels he says I mean so so far that's that's the best take so I'm going to talk about his persuasion skills if you can be uh let's say alert enough to know that doesn't mean I support everything he says and does right I'm a one one policy you voted at this time just on Fentanyl but um on Hoodwinked on Twitter Twitter user on Hoodwinked who's also a good follow very provocative tweets if you'd like to follow somebody interesting and he says uh and this is and this is why Trump won't be re-elected talking about his support of the vaccinations uh he continues to fail to read the room on this issue and he says it wasn't an accomplishment warp speed meaning it was a hyper hyper rushed departure from safety protocols on an experimental drug administered to Millions with our full-informed consent how many of you would agree with this statement I'll just read it again agree or disagree with this statement warp speed wasn't an accomplishment it was a hyper rush departure from safety protocols on an experimental drug administered to Millions without full informed consent boom agree agree agree all right may I offer a counter point right I'm not going to try to change your mind if that makes you feel better because I don't think I need to right I I feel like you've all made up your minds and you can stay there but wouldn't you like to see the counter that just out of curiosity do you think there is any counter to that point all right here's my counter to the point it was fully disclosed and it was not mandatory let me say it was not mandatory from Trump there were definitely mandates but Trump is anti-mantic now you're saying that it was rushed and it did not meet the normal safety protocols who didn't know that we we were told that directly and daily every single day everyone knew that you can't know what will happen in five years if you've only tested for six months or whatever it was there anybody who didn't understand the vaccinations at a risk and and is there anybody who didn't understand that the risk was more than normal anybody so would you say there was an informed consent I've never seen more informed consent or well informed the consent part is optional I've never seen more more information that this was not the same safety protocol as before and I think we were told directly consistently and often that we also don't know how bad the virus itself would be so we're looking at two unknowns and we're taking our best shot but nobody nobody was presented with safety not not a level of safety that was consistent with the past right so the informed consent thing is ridiculous in my mind because I was informed why were you not informed I was totally informed do you remember that I waited from the time that I was eligible which was early on because my age I waited I don't know six months or so do you remember why I said I waited I said because they're telling us it's not as safe as regular things of the past I waited because they told me they informed me it might not be a safe and that I acted according to my own desires and wishes you don't think Trump can defend that yeah you can yeah you can now here's the part you're missing everything is compared to something else no matter who no matter who Trump runs against he's going to look better on this because there's nobody everybody has something to explain about their actions right everybody including me everybody has something to explain he's not going to run against somebody who has less to explain he's only going to be running against somebody who's probably pro-mandate right I mean it's not even going to be close if your only choice is a pro-bandate and an anti-mandate he wins he owns it now he has he's barely even tried to defend himself he's just you know said we did but all he'd have to do is say what I did every one of you people complaining knew there was extra risk that's why you didn't get vaxxed you can't simultaneously say we all knew there was a risk and then say you weren't informed you can't say both everybody who told me they didn't get a vax they said it's because it was very clear from day one this was not the same risk profile as the past right so how can you argue both sides I totally knew what the risk was and it was more than normal and nobody told me the risk pick a side you got to pick a side so like I told you I'm not going to convince anybody to change their mind about this I'm just saying that Trump has he's got a freeway right through it I mean he can slice through this like a hot steel through butter it just doesn't feel like it because it hasn't really ramped up yet but he will he will now he could also blow it right I mean he could say the wrong thing blah blah he could but where do you see what else he's got cooking oh this gets better this gets so much better and it's it's going to really challenge me to stick to my you know single single issue vote and you know not get involved in his other opinions but he's got something that he's sort of he's signaled today or yesterday that is really cool persuasion wise all right so again I'm only talking about his persuasion game that's the part that always impresses me you know not necessarily the policies so here's what uh Trump has decided to do let's see uh so he's tweeting about the empty folders and you're going to say to yourself but Scott this is a different topic the the empty folders and the vaccinations totally different topics right they were watch what Trump does to the empty the empty folders all right now here's here's what he said he posted on Truth social uh that the the empty folders were marked classified uh and then he explained that it was common for the the folders to have con you know contents in them during a meeting and at the end of the meeting to keep these classified documents safe they would collect up the documents but not the folders because the folders were unnecessary because they were just going to maybe destroy the extra documents probably because they had copies and so Trump says that you know he had hundreds of them and he kept them as cool keepsakes does anybody believe that does anybody believe he kept empty documents as cool cool keepsakes I don't think so I doubt it you might keep one you might use three of them if he said I kept three of them as a Keepsake I'd say maybe but they're literally just folders with words on them why would you keep 300 of those so I I can't support this take but he uses this to suggest that maybe the bad people in the FBI would put something in one of those folders to make it look like it was always there now who knows if anything like that would happen but uh I think we'd all agree that the FBI is not above it would you I mean that's an it's it's an outrageous claim that the FBI would you know possible or somebody else would possibly plant classified documents just to put it away that's outrageous and also well within uh the range of things they've done recently totally within the range so this is the sort of thing that 10 years ago if you said the FBI is trying to frame me wouldn't you laugh at that well I think the FBI is trying to frame the president no they're not but today yeah it looks totally within the within the realm of very reasonably possible now I don't think so I'd vote you know if I had to bet I'd bet against it but totally within the range of possible so Trump puts it out there just to you know just to keep that in your head because he knows some people are going to believe it but here's the best part uh he said that uh oh he referred to the FBI agents as Gestapo Gestapo do you see it yet I think he's going to Brand the Democrats and the FBI as the real Nazis God I hope so if there's I'm not a Believer but just once I'm gonna pray Dear God please let him just brand the Democrats so the FBI is the real Nazis and just like hammer it to death and please if I can ask for one more thing would you ask him to address directly the fine people hoax don't say a word about it just create a good little video that shows it's a hoax and tweet it that's all that's all I ask what is Trump's biggest problem they think he's the Nazi right do you think you could brand the pro-mandate team that sends people in to uh you know rile let's say everybody from Roger Stone to you name it you don't think he can brand them as Nazis they want to take away your guns give you mandates give power to the wef oh yeah yeah and if you told me there's going to be a politician running for office and he's going to go branding his enemies as Nazis what would you say you say I don't like that guy or or woman uh you would say no then no no no no no you know you can't be branding your enemies as Nazis this is the United States we're just political we're not branding anybody as a Nazi but in this one case it's exactly the right thing to do he needs to Brand them Nazis full out and just say your Nazi hoaxers the FBI can't be trusted it needs to be gutted the leadership not the good people who work there and he should just go for it just go for it and I think he could win I think he could win what do you think because his weakest point is hey blah blah blah you're racist now let's say let's say he took my advice which I don't think will happen but suppose he took my advice on how to frame the Border hey we're never going to agree on this border stuff let's get a bunch of economists to tell us how many people to let in and when and what types and let's have it like the OMB you know some quasi-independent organization that can just tell you if it makes sense economically and whatever it makes sense economically to the people who are already here we'll we'll open the door a little bit and when it doesn't make sense should that ever happen we'll close the door a little bit but we're in a New World Imagine imagine Trump saying this to um just imagine him saying this to conservatives you know this isn't the world of five years ago we might actually have a population problem in the other direction we might we might have too few people then imagine and again he's not going to do this but imagine he could you know the people coming through there we do have to worry about the you know the criminal element but let's not forget that the the people coming here tend to have conservative ideology yeah their their family religion work family religion work you can let a few family religion work people into the country without it falling apart you can you can let a lot of them in I just don't know what the right number is is it 5 million a year I don't know it seems like a lot doesn't it it seems like a lot but I don't know that might actually be the right number it might be low I'm not sure if there's any way to know that's why you need a independent group to just you know help us get a feel for the economics of this stuff so Trump could because the situation is a little different than it used to be uh he could totally sell it as something that should be decided by economics and that the politicians should maybe pull back a little bit so you're not just blaming each other being racist you can be uh Hispanic vote you could do you know how if there's one thing if there's one like common stereotype that I hate to do stereotypes but this one seems to hold up the Hispanic Community especially you know one first generation and second generation they don't like a lot of there's there's sort of a no culture do you know what I mean they're not worried about your wokeness so much it's just not on their minds you don't think Trump could win a group like that all they'd have to do is offer him something now you know citizenship would be a probably too much for his base but yeah now and I also think that you yeah and I think he could find some way to have like a I don't want to say second-rate citizenship for people who are not yet legal but there probably is something like that that his base would live with as long as the economic argument was made if you could make the argument we could keep the country safe enough and it's good for the economy I think his base accepts it and it also accepts that it brings in people who are more like them than the people who are already here on average uh not the second rate pay no not the secondary pay of course but you could have somebody who's uh has most of the rights of citizenship but may be short of voting if you have somebody if you knew somebody was here illegally but also have a job they had a job and how about couldn't own firearms how about that so Suppose there were some Caravans he said yeah they could totally live here but uh they they can't vote they have you know they can get a driver's license and do all the work related things but they can't vote and they can't own a firearm I'm just picking two random things could you live with that if somebody made the argument that it's in your economic interest to allow more in but you know be a little more careful about the vetting could he live with that now what what's the argument against let's just take this as a hypothetical because you need to teach me what there's something I'm missing there's something in my mental model that's missing is it just racism no I'm saying if the people who are already here legally you know we have a long tradition of Pardons and paroles and you know uh reconstituting people who are in prisons and retraining them we have a long history of uncriminalizing criminals that wouldn't be new so that's not your objection right you wouldn't object to the general concept there's somebody who's who's minding their own business but broke a technical law but they're adding to the country you wouldn't allow them to have maybe a second class citizenship which would you know permanently keep them in you know not full citizenship but they're adding to the country and they want to be here and their and their kids would be full citizens and blah blah blah no somebody says you can't have second-class citizens yes you can what are what are children children are second-class citizens what are illegal you know immigrants are not citizens but but you know basically we always have classes you know what are billionaires are you the same class as a billionaire who would that's not an argument you can have all kinds of classes of people in a democracy join the military yeah maybe they can join the military in certain circumstances all right so um I need you to educate me if if you could handle the economics and you could check them out better so that you're reducing the criminal element if you could know that they're paying tax is right if you knew they were paying taxes and adding to the system and and independent economists said yeah we could let in a few more and let's say Trump agreed to it tell me the problem with that it's all hypothetical right I'm not saying that's the situation right but but if they were LED illegally legally what would be your problem yeah pay they pay for their own health care right they would just be like us with a few fewer rights Maybe their kids vote view vote blue I I think you should check that assumption do you know why the kids vote blue because Red's never tried to incorporate them the moment red says you know what we like workers we like we like uh people like families we like religion you know what we love you guys they just have to say the words because in fact they do you you pick you pick show me any Republican in Congress pick any Republican and say all right look at this guy this guy is you know loves his family he's working hasn't broken any laws just wants to be an American you have a problem with that person like really like that's your problem the person who's living the ideal life that you wish everybody would live so if you think that they're all going to vote blue blue when you could be right just don't give them the vote by the second generation they're going to be Republicans the second generation will just be Republicans because by then the Republicans will will have figured out how to deal with this community in a more productive way and the Republicans have a perfect way to do it how about we just agree with your you know your character and we reach some agreement about the economics and who can vote and who can own a gun and then we're all good I don't know so the only thing I'm going to try to convince you of is that there's a third path on immigration that's neither Democrat nor Republican and it's the right one it's the one that makes sense all right so uh let me acknowledge everybody's yelling legal legal legal the people who are saying because they're illegal you should give them nothing do you do understand that we have a long tradition of making legal people who were illegal it's an ordinary thing we do all the time so that's not really an objection that makes sense on a any logical or other basis we do it all the time and the reason we do it is for our own benefit right we wouldn't be doing it for the benefit of the criminal we'd be doing it for ourselves I I want I want everybody to be paying taxes don't you why wouldn't you so yeah all right I'm just going to put it out there as something that could be improved in terms of the messaging but I do like uh Trump saying that mandates are going to be that's what the Nazis do to you I just gave you options and then when they say but but but you gave us this risky vaccine then Trump says who didn't know it was at risk we could not have been more clear about that and I would agree he also says China is buying up all the all of our assets there's something to that but I don't know what the extent is all right here's my provocative thought for the day wouldn't you agree with the following statement that the social media platforms if their algorithms are favoring you know one political side or the other that effectively they're running the country would you agree with that statement that the algorithms could program the country so effectively based on what they see that the algorithm ends up running in the country and not you know Congress and not the vote Congress ends up just you know going along with whatever social media forced into the thing well your provocative thought of the day the world economic forum is just an algorithm it just happens to be a physical one you could look at here's why what an algorithm does is decide what you see and how often right that's all it does an algorithm decides what you see and how often what does the world economic Forum do let's say you went to the world economic forum and say you know I'd like to have a a presentation there and I'd like it to be on the topic of we should use more fossil fuels do you think they'd say you know we like we like opinions on both sides so yeah here's here's a full platform for you to say your thing that's opposite of what we usually say and we'll give you all the attention you want because we like balance do you think that's happening I don't think so I think that the world economic Forum decides what they present and also who attends they didn't invite me did they invite any of you right so if they can decide who's in and who's out at least they can decide who they invite and they can decide what information from their attendees you know Rises to the point where it gets promoted and what doesn't they're an algorithm they are a physical algorithm and that's how they can run the world because all they have to do is control the information that they allow to be promoted through them and then they get everybody on board and they get their people in in office and everybody's like oh I better make these World economic Forum people happy because they invite me on excellent vacations in Switzerland I love vacations in Switzerland and I get like luxury accommodations and I get to meet all these other people and all I have to do is do what they want and then I get all these benefits yeah if the and the beauty of it is that because it's an organization they use the fact that they have members who are the members the ones who are surfacing all the ideas so the illusion is that there's some kind of quasi-democracy group grouped decision making so it's not Klaus oh no no it's not Klaus he's just like the organizer guy it's all these individuals who collectively nothing like that's happening because somebody decided who's there and of course they know what that group of people is likely to say that's why they got invited right they invited Al Gore they didn't invite you know Alex Epstein or Michael schellenberger did you see Michael schellenberger anywhere at the world economic Forum do you think he was invited do you I don't think so I don't think so nope that he wasn't so the world economic Forum acts just like an algorithm on a on a social media platform but if that's invisible to you you easily get fooled into thinking of some it's it's all the smart people who got together and then came up with smart ideas and then Only the Good smart idea is you know filtered up and and so you're seeing the best of the best it's like the the smartest most connected people and all their best ideas that's how it's presented is it no it's probably Klaus or maybe a handful of people who decide what's in and who's in and that's it it's just like an algorithm so it is an algorithm that can control the world in those elements you know those areas that they want to which are primarily Financial which is really everything if you control the finances of the world what else do you need you don't you don't want to control their military do you let's just work you don't want to control who picks up the garbage do you that would just be work no you want to control the economy of everything and then you get your cut you have your power you have your influence and basically the economy influences the military and everything else well apparently Greta has been caught faking a staged arrest so we've seen the video as there look as she's laughing and joking with the people who are allegedly going to drag her away and you know they're all putting on a show I don't really mind that if that doesn't offend me because the whole point of activists getting arrested is for the cameras right so the fact that you know she's so she's such a celebrity that even the people arresting her or just having a laugh with her and you know they're they're just preparing the camera angles so that when they drag her away it looks good I don't have any problem with that no problem at all um do you because you know all activists are doing it for a theater that nobody's pretending right they don't pretend they're really going to jail for a long sentence or anything like that so I don't know if as long as it's all theater I don't care um I saw Al Gore getting very worked up at the world economic forum and uh just shouting at the world about how they're not doing enough about climate change now whether or not he is right or wrong a separate conversation and worthy having but here's my problem you know as as many have noted uh he doesn't act the way he talks in other words he takes private jets and you know lives a lifestyle that uses a lot of energy he would argue that he bought carbon offsets by the way do you know that I think he did so I think he used some of his vast recent money to buy carbon offsets which is not a problem I'm actually going to give him a pass for that did you know that by the way I could use a fact check on that but I believe you know he was quite aware that he used more energy than the average person and I think he just went to the whatever Market there is and he bought now the the thinking behind that is that if you create a free market for buying and selling carbon offsets or yeah I guess that's what it's called that eventually that drives everything down to a more efficient you know less carbon producing world and I I think the logic if that makes sense so in theory he is being consistent by doing what he says some people will have to do which is by carbon credits and maybe that's the best you can do but here's the problem if Mahatma Gandhi had been fat do you think he'd been just as effective do you hey everybody uh I'm really fat and happy but you know we should date the British no he had to starve himself literally near death to be credible his credibility came with his suffering that was equal to or greater than the people who represented that's a problem persuasion wise for Al Gore because he's clearly leading living a a more awesome life than the people he's trying to get to give stuff up right if a rich person tells you to give up your stuff you're not going to take that well if somebody who's suffering more than you and has less of you he basically lives in a you know one dirty diaper uh you're gonna say all right well if you can do that I can give up a little bit you know I can take on some risk to get rid of the British rule or something so that's definitely working against Gore is that um even though I think he's on a logically solid basis uh people don't work on logic it just looks like he's not he's not walking the walk so that'll be a problem um yeah let's see what else are you all aware of the uh Stephen Crowder versus The Daily wire controversy I don't know if that's risen to your attention yet so I'll give you all right a lot of you not so Stephen Crowder recently I think I have the details right um recently out of his contract with the Blaze and he always I think independently produced his show so he can just do his show with or without any other platform but the daily wire realizing that he was a you know a superstar in their in their domain made him an offer and uh there was one element of the offer that he objected to and he talked about it on the air he didn't name the entity that made it but everybody figured it out in about a minute so I was asked who was winning the uh persuasion because on one hand it was a very generous offer 50 million dollars over four years but he would have to do his own production so that 50 million would have to pay for his production costs as well so let's say that I don't know takes 10 or 20 percent off of that it's still a real big number and then an option for two more years at the same per year price now the party objected to was there was some language in there that if he gets um strikes or bans on other social platforms you know let's say Facebook or Twitter or something that they would pay him less money so there would be penalties in there for getting banned on platforms and he always gets banned on platforms like he's always getting strikes and stuff so he he thought that that was uh I don't know what word you'd use inappropriate or unfair or too much control too much control right probably but he thought that was sort of icky and don't don't talk like that we don't like those words um so uh over 10 million per year you know after expenses probably uh and I'll tell you the most interesting part of the story well so first of all here's my persuasion analysis I thought they both won you don't see that often but I think the daily wire um and Jeremy boring who you know did a video about it I thought he totally came off looking great because in the in the process of explaining the offer they made uh he also got to explain how how substantial their operation is and I wasn't fully aware of that and I thought wow that looks like a really the the daily wire as a business model and as a new business is really something to behold it I think they do everything right like just everything it's one of the the few companies you can look at and say all right it looks like they just keep doing all the right stuff and they're they're growing and now they're going to make movies and here's how they explain the movies they're going to make because they want to be a media entity not just a you know a bunch of podcaster types the in the movies they make are movies you you want to watch isn't it funny that that's like a real thing that somebody saw an opening for making movies you'd want to watch last night I tried to find a movie I wanted to watch I ended up with a movie from like the early 90s that I had already seen that's it like there wasn't any movie currently out that wouldn't make me uncomfortable right because if you turn on any any basically any movie it's going to be somebody tortured in a chair somebody lost their money somebody's loved one died I I don't get any entertainment from that that's that's like stuff I run from right you know the but you don't see like sitcoms and funny comedies anymore because that's sort of phased out so so the fact that the daily wire has a theory that they want to make movies you might want to watch it's pretty interesting and it's also right on target Right On Target and some TV shows I guess but here's what I found out about uh the daily wire they have six hundred thousand subscribers and they have 150 million I think it's Revenue per year that's really substantial and the part about the subscribers is that that makes them not to fully independent not fully dependent on Advertising although advertising is part of the model everything about that smart everything about that and the offer that they made as uh Jeremy boring explained was a first offer so in the the normal give and take of negotiating they made an offer that apparently Stephen Crowder did not like you know there's one part of it that was just totally unacceptable but instead of doing what people normally do a counteroffer he sort of went public with it now does that make him a bad person well it might make him a person who's not experienced at negotiating contracts but I think he has an agent so you know I feel like you know maybe there was a better way to handle that but here's what I found out about Stephen Crowder that I didn't know um he has about five million You.

Tube subscribers did you know that five million he's one of the biggest media Stars in the world I had no idea like I you know I was well aware of him I've seen his content a bunch of times but I had no idea I had no idea he was that big and so when you see this 50 million dollar offer my first thought was are you kidding like in what world does that make sense and then I saw his numbers and you run the numbers you go oh yeah actually that that was actually a perfectly reasonable first offer perfectly recently he might have gotten more in fact he would have gotten more all he had to do is push back a little bit and he would have gotten more now maybe he wouldn't have been satisfied with the parts about you know if he uh if he doesn't perform on social media in some ways right but he probably could have negotiated that a little there was probably a way to you know make that work I don't know because if he got kicked off of You.

Tube that would be a big hit to the Daily wire so why should they just accept that risk without trying to mitigate it now how they mitigate it that could be a longer negotiation but his best in a traditional world let let me give Stephen Crowder more more credit than it sounds like I gave him so far in a traditional world you should just negotiate these things privately go back and forth and see what you can do not go public all right the going public part is the weird part but he's Stephen Crowder the rules don't apply to him Russell Brand the rules don't apply right there are a lot of people for whom the rules don't apply Greg Gutfeld the rule the all the rules don't quite apply Joe Rogan the rules don't apply right so when Stephen Crowder goes public and he says this you know huge solid entity offered me a deal and then you know certainly you find out what the dollar amount is later he's really making himself more famous and looking more valuable which he succeeded at so here's the here's the persuasion play after looking into this and just you know being aware of their little fight um I I came away with a much higher opinion of Stephen Crowder's business model and value of it at the same time I came away with a huge respect for the daily wire just how they're running their business that's a win that's a double win two wins now is there anything that would stop them from still doing the deal no absolutely not because they're business people right in in negotiations you do get you know some bad feelings and stuff but if you're you know a Jeremy boring or you're uh you know Ben Shapiro you don't think they know how to get past a little bit of a tiff you know but get back to business of course they do of course easily easily you don't think Stephen Crowder can say some things about some people and then get past it of course he can so neither of them lost anything zero loss on either side both of them raised their profile quite appropriately win-win when you see people um seemingly having a conflict and they're all high-end operators because these are some these are people who are killing it and they're independent Fields well same field I guess So when you say the fight you got to put a whole different frame on it because they're they're their world of options isn't like normal people you know Crowder can throw away a 50 million dollar deal with confidence that it might get him another one all right or a higher deal or a better deal or something so they're not like us let's talk about uh uh dumb Joe Biden and his I I can't stand it when he says that people with the AR-15s they're not going to be much good against the f-15s that the American government has if they're going to fight the government ah number one every country that the U.S military has tried to conquer they had their own firearms that country won there's a reason we're no longer in Afghanistan there's a reason that you know Vietnam kicked us out we're not really good at beating anything except the military but when it comes down to like you know getting into their homes that's sort of a police thing and there are not enough police in the United States to handle all the residents who have guns right the F-15 isn't going to strike your house and you know the f-18s won't just won't be part of anything now the part that I like to add is that if you're trying to keep an American Tyrant from taking over and you know turning it into a into a tyrannical regime that dictator would have to know that all of their family would be killed in a week by the people who have guns nobody's going to go after Joe Biden but they'll kill Hunter within a day or take him captive right the hunter doesn't have a chance now just to be clear I don't recommend any violence especially against families you know so I'm not promoting any of this I'm just describing if we actually got to a point where the whoever was the leader of the country wanted to you know turn it into a you know a Nazi regime or something the people with the guns wouldn't go after the leader but that leader could never go in public again and nobody in their family could ever be in public again who wants that that they would be winning something they didn't want it would be a terrible life you could never go outside because somebody would take a shot at you now now an ordinary rational person will not try to assassinate a political leader just because they don't like their politics that's not what we're talking about we're talking about like a like a hitler-like entity taking over the country if that were to happen we would all take a shot at the leader we would just need an open shot we would all do it I'd do it I I would risk my life to take out my Hitler I would just have to have a shot that's all I might do myself you know right afterwards so so I didn't have to get tortured to death but we'd all do it yeah so every time I hear that oh those AR-15s will be useless against f-15s I don't know what Hunter Biden's going to do when when they got to round him up and all of his family and everybody that you like and all of your friends you're basically going to lose everything nobody you know will be able to go Outdoors ever again so good luck if you want to conquer the country and have that kind of life so it's a good disincentive yeah that worked in Venezuela Venezuela didn't have enough guns yeah anything you do to compare the United States to any other country is a waste of time we're just not like any other country we're just not um yeah read the screenshot was screenshot why does Joe provoke what screenshot you retweeted the screenshot I don't know what you're talking about I retweeted the screenshot oh the the 4chan thing all right yeah 4chan had a good uh rant on on this so you can see that in my Twitter feed please reconsider what why do they focus on the ARs because they look like military weapons I think all right ladies and gentlemen that is the conclusion of my prepared remarks um and how many of you know what AR stands for how many go ahead said what does AR stand for uh somebody actually said assault rifle it is not it is not assault rifle but that was a oh this is interesting it's not automatic rifle it's Arma.

Lite Arma.

Lite is it Arma.

Lite rifle or is they AR for Arma.

Lite well Arma.

Lite is the the a for sure so it's not assault it never was Heraldo was funny you yeah I think you're totally missing the value of Geraldo on uh the five Heraldo is great on the five because he gets them all worked up he you know takes some alternative views that you don't like you know he supports them well I think I think Heraldo was great on the five but I also think Juan Williams was great because in both cases they know their role right or all those fitting a role where he's trying to be a little provocative and you know get something going that's his job I think he does it really well I absolutely love her although like he's one of my favorite TV people Brave as hell uh can't get embarrassed you cannot embarrass him so I just love that stuff but I understand he's he seems unpopular because you think he's arguing against the people you like but you know that's the show all right was there anything I missed any uh topics I should have mentioned and by the way let me let me just do a little test with you when I talked about what Trump could do did it sound like it could win we don't know what he'll do but did I describe a path where he could just walk into the White House I think I did yeah and again he's very unpredictable he's going to do what he does but I I think he I think he drew up a plan that if he's stuck to it you could walk into the whale skin it looks like it uh yeah or I'm a light rifle I think is the right answer you're flooded with illegals um yeah okay Amish rifle who is advising Trump I don't know oh how many of you saw Matt Gates on Tim guest highly recommended Tim Tim uh pool does good work the the Tim cast this is another business model that I have a lot of respect for even if you just go to the timcast website it's a really good website it's really put together like exactly it just looks exactly right you got good good advice or good help on that and then the show itself looks like high production and it's always interesting but anyway so Matt Gates comes on and I'm going to say something that uh I want you to test you you tell me you tell me if I'm wrong but you have to watch Matt Gates on Tim Poole if you've seen a lot of Matt Gates he's usually just doing like quick one minute hits for a media hit his one minute hits are really good by his long form where he can actually you know expand on something the best in the government there's nobody there's nobody on either side who does long-form explanations better than he does period there's nobody in his class now here's the thing that's just amazing he went from as politically dead as you could possibly be to are you going to be running for president and are you know would you accept the vice president role if Trump asked you and everybody wants to talk to you and by the way you did that great job with Mc.

Carthy and it's good that you can work with him now everybody came out ahead you're the only one fighting for us how did he do that how in the world did he pull that off but he did pull it off am I wrong is there anybody here who saw him on Tim cast and does not feel he's not only fully redeemed politically but he has some impressive power levels there more than we've seen and here's one of the other things that he does consistently right that I don't see other people doing consistently right he defended Eric swalwell from the Fang Fang accusations just just hold that in your mind now he's consistent because he saw he also defined Katie who who is the woman in Congress who got there were some pictures that came out and Porter was that on a hill Katie Hill yeah he defended her like you know leave her alone basically that's just her private life and now so here's his defense of swallow and by the way I didn't know this this was all new to me so that tells you how bad my bubble is you said that the Fang Fang thing uh the affair anyway happened when he was a single man so that's a big deal because I thought happened when he was married I didn't know uh that's a huge deal all right it's a huge deal for trust but also happened when he was a councilman in Dublin California now as Matt Gates described it he described Dublin California as nowhere California he was a councilman in nowhere California I have a small objection to that because I lived in Dublin while he was a council member yes I lived in nowhere California and let me say this about Dublin California it's one of the best towns in California it is fiscally solid with really good schools low crime and you would definitely want to live there right pleasanton's better it's got a downtown Dublin doesn't have a downtown but you know if you live next to it you get all the Dublin benefits plus the Pleasanton benefits it's one of the best places in the country honestly you know um but living in Dublin's not as good as living right next to it and then you get all the the Dublin goodness so that's my defense of Dublin but um but apparently he you know had an affair didn't know she was Chinese spy as soon as he found out he worked with the FBI and got rid of her I'm going to accept that I accept Matt Gates's defense of uh Eric swalwell and as Matt gay says you don't you don't need any of that to kick him off the Intel committee because he was part of the Russia collusion hoax I mean that's good enough that's good enough to kick him off so you don't need any of that it's just a distraction and it also puts you in a weird situation because you know there's going to be another Republican you like who has some kind of like sexual impropriety so just taking that stuff off the table is the smartest thing a politician can do there's no other Republican who is smart enough to do that now don't you trust him more Matt Gates Don't you trust him more because he wasn't willing to to just take a narrative he rejected the narrative I do does it tell you that um oh and he also admitted he got caught on tape or video talking to AOC and he said yes I talked to AOC I talked to Elon Omar and who is the other one on the squad and the reason you talk to them about you know whether that the Democrats were going to walk out under a vote or vote were they are going to vote with the Republicans or not so he had a reason to talk to him uh Rashida talibia and was it yeah it was Rasheed I think I think it was Rasheed but now how do you how much do you like the fact that Matt Gates can occasionally defend a colleague against really an unfair attack and can also talk to them and they seem to be able to respond to him and he can also talk to Mc.

Carthy was it Presley oh maybe it was Presley yeah I may have the third person's name wrong you're right um oh uh you would have a strong border uh the only way the economists making decisions about who comes into the there was a question here on You.

Tube the the only way it makes sense to have economists tell you who to let in the country and when is if you completely control the border so that's just a given under all conditions we should tightly control the Border but we should also decide how to let people in separately so that's the problem we make we keep we keep conflating how many people to leave in with the physical security those should not be the same topic one should be total physical security second topic Wendy opened the door just like your house you know you don't you don't say well people might sneak into my house so I won't have any doors or Windows yeah nobody makes that decision uh Trump versus Newsom who would win well I hate to say it might have to do with you know mail-in votes and other things that where the system would favor the Democrats so probably the system elements are bigger than the candidates at the moment maybe Trump could get past that but I think the system decides who is president not not the voters exactly in our current situation so if for example the total media shut Trump out then he couldn't be present right so it's not up to Trump it's also up to the system and how the system works but yeah yes I think it's at least a coin flip Trump versus nusup I think that's a coin flip with what we know today how about let the wisdom of crowds specify the number of immigrants interesting suggestion the wisdom of crowds are here let me let me try to support your idea before I give you an opinion so that would be instead of asking the economists who get everything wrong anyway which which is the problem with my suggestion you let the let's say the public decide the problem is the public is uh poorly informed so you might you might need to limit it to people who voted because they're going to try a little harder to be informed but let's say the people who voted came up with a number of people to come in the good part about that is that the wisdom of crowds would pick up how people feel about it and how people feel about it is actually part of the question because if you have a really bad attitude about it you might vote differently you might treat them differently so how they feel does matter and The Economist might ignore how people feel and just say oh the dollars are better this way but if it were the wisdom of the crowds where he just pulled the public and he said should we let in another million yes or no then people would look around they'd say well how do I feel like does this feel like a risk to me or not because our our feelings are part of that are part of the decision you know if something makes you feel bad it costs you that's a real that's a price so you can't ignore that and I think the economist would ignore that whereas the wisdom of the crowd is if we just sort of voted on it would capture how we feel and also a little bit a sense of the economics as best we could it's a good that's a good suggestion I think that's a that's a productive suggestion all right um should cops attack what uh Let The Economist suggest and the people decide well there you go there you go that would be a twofer wouldn't it that's not bad all right so the suggestion is you let the economist make their recommendation but you don't follow it you you see how the public feels first because their feelings matter you could easily imagine that the economists say you know uh that this is going to be a good good thing to let in a million people and you can imagine that the public saying you know I don't feel comfortable with that like I I see your numbers I just don't feel comfortable with it for whatever reason and then let and then maybe maybe have the president have the final vote but then the president could look at the economists or it could look at the public or could look at the both of them still you probably want the president to make the decision or congress I suppose but I'd love to see it informed by the public and The Economist let the crowds specify in the economists verify if you flipped it around I think the public is better at responding to the experts than the experts are at responding to just like a uninformed feeling I think it works better economists first but that's a good suggestion I like all the suggestions that you know at least make you think a little deeper so that that's like a great suggestion yeah tyranny blah blah experts responding to feelings is how we got lockdowns Maybe how much would you like to see me interview Rob Ryder would that be wild no really you said no seriously you don't think that would entertain you or is it just you don't want to hear any more from oh my God see here's why I would be the perfect one to interview him because I like him I like him I know he's just likeable like the stuff he says just looks you know bad crazy but that's because we're so Political Animals at this point um but I know I would have a fun conversation and I think we'd both learned something it actually could be useful might be good for the country you never know all right so uh I'm still planning to do interviews but probably once the real political season gets cranked up because then I'll have an unlimited number of people who want to talk to me for politics so I think I'll do them not live because the the tech isn't quite ready for Life yeah it would fail too often so I think I'll do that not live and make some recorded videos the the people I want to talk to are Trump and I think Trump will do a lot of podcasts because that's that's really a strong play he'll do that obviously I don't know if you would do mine but he'll do he'll do most of the big podcast he gets invited to and do you think I could get Newsome I mean I live in California and I would give and here's the thing here's the thing I would let all of them show their best face right it would not be my job to like embarrass somebody who who was nice enough to do the interview I was certainly you know be forceful in my counterpoints but I'm not going to get excited about it Steve Cortez Steve you're recommending him as a a guest I love Steve Cortez everything he does I like um yeah I I don't think I would ask the same questions as other people do you I I think that my my questions would be completely different than anybody else's so that would be fun um I'm guessing that Scott would push fentanyl well I would certainly mention Fentanyl Carrie Lake Matt Gates I'd love to talk to Matt Gates uh see here's here's what I think you need to do a good interview the person you're talking to has to believe that you're not there to take them down and I wouldn't do that because it would be unfair so I think I can convince people that I'm there to let them show their best life Andrew Tate Tate's not a political figure I don't think Nick Fuentes is a political figure at this point set up the chairs like Shatner did where the chairs like need any all right I'm just saying goodbye to You.

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all right today's presentation is going

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about persuasion

it's the one time you don't all hate me

I I don't think I'm going to say

anything today that will offend any of

you in fact you'll probably like the

whole thing I don't know but we'll find

out

but I want to show you something to

start off with the

sweetest thing I've ever seen now I hate

to be a big old softy

but I just have to give a shout out to

this

uh most of you know conservative Matt

Walsh

right Matt Walsh and you may know that

if you follow his Twitter account he had

some twins recently so congratulations

on that and he reports that wife and

babies were finally discharged from the

hospital this gets better by the way

this gets this gets to something you're

gonna like hold on

so other it just sounds like somebody's

baby but

um so he gets these twins

and what I learned from his tweet today

is he already had twins

says two sets of twins

but

here's what he tweets wife and babies

were finally discharged from the

hospital today I assumed there was some

you know concern that they stayed a

little extra

um and he says the older twins haven't

left their brother's side since they

came home

my daughter ex my daughter explained

that someone needs to be sitting and

watching over them even while they nap

and here's a picture

of his older Twins were not that older I

can't tell what maybe 10.

10 years old or something and they

decided on their own that these that

their siblings could not be alone

so they're sitting there reading it

looks like

and making sure that the babies are

never alone even when they're sleeping

now

here's the thing

I I've had this discussion before

in which so let's say Matt Walsh is the

you know the uh

the poster child for traditional

marriage wouldn't you say

if there's anybody who's like the person

you think of when he talks about

traditional marriage I think of him

and I always say judicial marriage is

absolutely the best way to go

for about 25 percent of people

the trouble is you know if one of you is

a addict or crazy or something you know

nothing works but for about 25 and I

know you would argue oh it's higher it's

maybe 75 percent but today I'm not going

to have that argument I think it's 25

you think it's 75 but you know it's not

100 and it's not zero

but

talk about winning oh my God

how many of you

like heard this story and just said uh

if I could if I could have that life

that looks pretty good doesn't it like

you could already you can already like

Fast Forward yourself into the future

where they're having you know big family

events and all the twins are there and

stuff that sounds like so much fun

I I'm just going to call it out

because it's the best it's just the best

little anecdote

of why people like traditional families

it looks pretty strong

so congratulations Matt Walsh I'll just

add this one thing that no matter how

winning other people seem to be

remember do you remember the basket case

Theory

Basket Case Theory I've told you this

before

that what you know about other people is

a very small amount of who they are

right so if you imagine that the Walsh

family has solved all of their problems

I'm sure that's wrong I I I'm sure they

have some challenges like everyone but

on the surface this is pretty amazing

story and I just like it Elizabeth

Warren tweets apparently a bunch of

people are worried that Zell the digital

payment service that is owned by some of

the big Banks including Bank of America

is stealing their money

what

I don't even know what to say about this

apparently there are a whole lot of

people and I don't know what percentage

and I don't know how true it is

but a whole bunch of people

um

I think Laura Loomer was one of them I

saw a tweet from her who say that their

payments payments are being sent and

then they don't re they're not received

on the other end it looks like Bank of

America is keeping it or somebody's

keeping it or it's disappearing so it's

a little bit of fog of War right now

so I'm not gonna I'm not gonna claim

that I know what's happening in this

story because I don't think anybody does

in fact Elizabeth Warren's you know puts

it as sort of a question she's

she's uh she says I've called out

serious fraud issues on Zell and this is

their latest failure

so I don't know what the other fraud

issues are on cell

is there some reason to is Laura Luber

credible well on there she is sure do

you think Laura Loomer would tweet that

she was having problems with Zell if she

just made it up

now I'm not saying it's true because she

said it

but really

you think somebody would just make that

up

there's nothing in her history that

would suggest you to do that

is there like you could like you know

like or dislike other things you said

but I don't think that doesn't sound

like a lie

could be anything's possible but it

doesn't sound like a lie to me

anyway we'll keep an eye on that uh New

Zealand New Zealand's prime minister

resigned

uh yes and uh what's her name uh ardern

now she was famous for being a

progressive and doing things a little

differently she was also famous for

having a baby while prime minister

because she was one of the youngest

leaders we've ever had she had a baby

and she managed to do her job while

being a mom as well being a young mom

but she's decided that it's a little too

much and she's decided she's I'll use my

own words burned out

and then she doesn't have the

the drive or energy to run New Zealand

and run her family I guess

so

here's how CNN

described it and this is in a in the

CNN's website

um it started off by saying burnout is

real and it's nothing to be ashamed of

that's the conclusion trailblazing New

Zealand uh leader yasinda Arden ardern

seems to have reached after almost six

brutal years in office

so CNN is first saying you know burnout

must be recognized as a a genuine

phenomenon and we should not ignore it

okay I'm all with you on that

later on in the story they say during

her time in power ardern showed that it

was possible to juggle a young family

and a demanding role

good for her

look at that she managed to run a

country and you know juggle her home

demands as well very good

and now she's leading by example to show

that when a tank is empty and there's no

more to give it's also okay to opt out

now this is pretty good

this is pretty good on her part not only

is she proving that you can you can run

a country and have a family but she's

also proving at the same time that you

can't run a country and have a family

so a lot of people would just try to

demonstrate one thing at a time

she's doing two

this is quite impressive and CNN I

credit them for calling this out that

she's not only proving that you can do

everything have a family and have a

demanding job but also that you can't

so

what

I'm going to read a comment

from Erica and she says so this is not

me this is Erica and you wonder why I

don't want woman well woman in charge of

anything

okay I think that's too far too far

Erica you've gone too far

uh but let's live in the real world who

in the world could do both of those

things well

nobody

nobody it's not a man or woman thing you

know women happen to be the ones who you

know bear the children so you know they

end up and for other reasons they end up

I guess having a big role in the child's

life as they should

so I don't see how you can do both do

you

how in the world could you do both

and do you do you imagine that New

Zealand

got a good job out of her

I mean maybe he was good enough

I don't know but it doesn't matter what

the external uh what the external let's

say competition for the leader's time is

whether it's a baby or they've got

lawsuit problems or they're having

troubles at home it matters it all

matters

so if we're if we're being uh

open-minded about this

I guess the right place the land is

everybody should have the opportunity to

try anything they want

and if it doesn't work out it doesn't

work out so yeah I don't think there's

any judgment to put on this

do you

I wouldn't put any judgment on it it's

just a thing that happened

well the New York Times has a story and

because it's in the New York Times

that's actually the big part of the

story

if this were some obscure publication

who had the following story I'm going to

tell you about it wouldn't mean much

but because it's in the New York Times

that's

it means it's uh let's say it's reaching

common

or because of the story is now a common

story or a common understanding and it

goes like this

hacking the simulation

so there are some serious people and one

in particular

I guess it was a was a professor or a

true scientist computer scientist David

Anderson

and during the pandemic he did some

noodling on if we're in a simulation

so if our so-called reality is a

computer simulation could you hack it

from the inside

now I don't think the article is very

interesting so I'm not going to get into

the details but

do you think if we're a simulation

that we could hack it from the inside

because here's my take on that

if that's not true

that were a simulation and you can hack

it from the inside I can't explain my

life experience

because I've been using this thing

called affirmations

that apparently hacks the simulation

and

you know the list of things that I've

affirmed that actually happened in the

real world is so wild

and you only know some of them

you know there's some that are just

private the private ones are crazy

crazy like you would you wouldn't even

and and you know even recently like I'm

not even talking about in the distant

past you know something worked out for

me once I'm talking right up to this

week

crazy and

I'll just put this out there if we live

in a simulation and that's not

guaranteed

and if we can hack it and that's

certainly not guaranteed

my best instinct is that the

affirmations or the amount of basically

the amount of focus you put on the

things you want to happen

might make reality fork in that

direction

so

one possibility is that all

possibilities exist

and they're all here at the same time

do you know how

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animation works

animation is a series of still pictures

that if you were to put them together in

let's say a pages of a book and then you

flip through the pages it would look

like the animation is moving which is

how you do movie TV animation

now

I've always imagined that our reality

is a three-dimensional Cube

in which you know conceptually let's say

you're somewhere in the middle of the

cube and your direction of the future is

every direction so you have infinite

directions from where you are and each

of those directions looks exactly like

our reality with a small change

and the small change is based on

whatever you know whatever path you you

take

now

my understanding of reality or let's say

the standard understanding reality is

that you're a conscious being

and you're in this big moving machine

reality is is moving all around you and

you're also moving so it's a bunch of

moving stuff

what if the only thing that moves is

your point of view

that's how I see the universe that it

all exists and always has and there's no

time

it just sits there all of the

possibilities as a solid cube

and the only thing that's changing is

your point of perception and which path

you follow

and nothing else changes the universe is

static

and always has been

and that the Big Bang

the Big Bang is simply a location within

the cube

it might be the middle

Imagine The Big Bang is the middle of

the cube and from that middle all the

possibilities and they just sit there as

a solid

and you're it's only your mind or your

you know you can say your soul or

whatever is passing through it and as

you pass through it it appears to be

moving but that's because your conscious

went through a series of Still Still

frames

now the reason that I uh mention that

frame is not because I think is

necessarily true

but it would perfectly explain how you

could hack reality

because you wouldn't be changing

anything

except your direction

and how hard it would be to change the

direction

of a mind

that is not bound by a physical laws

maybe easy right and it might be it

might be as easy as dreaming it might be

almost something we do automatically

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so I just put that weird possibility out

there to spin your brains around a

little bit all right

it's going to get weirder this is going

to be one of the most interesting live

streams you've ever seen and we're going

to get to Trump persuasion

my sweet spot so wait for that

all right let's talk about Ukraine

persuasion

question number one

remember I said that I believe that

ukrainians would outperform expectations

at the beginning of the invasion and I

said primarily because of modern

equipment that they would get from NATO

and the U.S and that drones in

particular

would be the the things that made the

difference

but then other people said drones Really

Scott is really the high Mars

it's the high Mars that are making the

difference and then they're introducing

these new kinds of missiles called glsdb

so precise

it can hit the radius of a car tire

and it can hit a moving object within

150 miles and it can go around it and

come back in another Direction

so it can you know evade radar it can it

can do anything you want and it can hear

something under a bridge

right you could hear something hiding

under a bridge from the air

so so these apparently this is good

weapons and apparently these are heading

toward Ukraine

and that they would be especially good

for taking out supply lines

now remember I told you that

I feel like Russia has a real problem

because they won't be able to supply

as long as Ukraine can you know drone

their supply chains from the air

so that's what they're doing you know

they're doing exactly what would be

obvious

but here's my question to you what is

the definition of a drone and would you

call a high Mars uh yeah the rocket that

comes out of it and the

glsdb systems would you call those

drones

here's a definition of a drone

any unmanned aircraft or ship that is

guided remotely

uh or or it could be autonomous

so in other words you can control it

directly or you can give us some

instructions to do something and it goes

and does it that's a drone

I think the high Mars and the glsdb

systems are drones

well whenever I talk about this all of

the the Russian assets

start start yelling Scott Ritter

you can tell all the all the Russian

assets

Scott Ritter and and also wrong and big

letters

this is so easy to pick out the Russians

now

anybody else want to say Scott Ritter so

we know who all the Russians are go

ahead

let's see if I can quiet him down

Scott Ritter literally writes for the

russian-controlled uh publication RT

which is called Russia Today

so do I think this Scott Ritter would

have a different take on whether Ukraine

is winning huh

why don't we see what the guy who works

for Russia thinks hmm

hmm

and Andrew says and who do you write for

copy well you nailed me burned burned

who do I write for whoa whoa well as you

know I write for UT

oh you didn't know that I write for

Ukraine today

the publication that's owned by zelenski

yeah no I talk to him every day

hold on he's calling again

you want me to write one

right Ukraine has nuclear weapons you

don't have nuclear weapons okay I'll say

you do I'll say you do I will do an

article on that uh you know there's talk

that they have nuclear weapons anything

else

f-15s

you don't have any okay I'll say f-15s

F-150s you got hundreds of them hundreds

of them thousands thousands of f-15s

all right

I got my assignment

got it right for zielinski

now for the dumb people

that was just theater and I don't

actually write for Ukraine

but I think it's funny that you asked

anyway I would just like to make the

following Point

um I I can see why you would call these

missile systems not necessarily the same

as drones I get it but I wasn't making

that distinction when I talked about it

laughs

my trolls are just so pathetic today you

know when the trolls are doing a good

job and they're like getting under your

skin

like they're annoying but when they do

an unusually bad shot

they just become part of the

entertainment and today they're totally

entertaining it's the same same person

anyway that's pretty funny

um let's talk about everybody

weaponizing everything

so you know the Republicans are doing

this investigation into the

weaponization of the Intel community

and now the Democrats are going to match

that persuasion by saying that the House

Republicans are setting up a committee

to

um that the it's the Republicans that

are weaponizing stuff so everybody is

weaponizing

is that good persuasion

to say everybody's weaponizing stuff

I don't know

it feels a little generic doesn't it

a little bit generic I don't think the

weaponization thing is

quite hitting but we're going to talk

about uh Trump's recent statements I'm

going to show you how to do it right

yeah and I want you to contrast

the the weaponization word

with where Trump goes

so you can see you can see the weak

sauce and then you're going to see Trump

just just punching it right in the

face

now whether you like it or not

he definitely has

a skill

a very specific skill set we'll get to

that a little bit

all right

um apparently Trump is reportedly NBC

says going to come back to Twitter and

he's petitioned Facebook to go back

there as well now Facebook would have to

say yes Twitter already did

but he's not back so we'll see if that's

real I think most people assumed that

running for office would require it

don't you think

now I don't know what that does to the

viability of Truth social so that's

going to take a hit but

um I saw a

sir comment

um about Trump's support of his work to

bring the vaccinations out

now how many of you think that's going

to be just a huge problem

that that Trump was behind operation

warp speed

and that

a lot of his base is pretty unhappy

about vaccinations so how does he solve

that is that solvable

you tell me because I was solvable for

his base

yeah it is solvable I wasn't sure how

but he he's he's putting together a

package of persuasion in which this

folds into it really well

and

I almost hate to say it

because you know this time around I'm

not going to support Trump on you know

his policies except one he's the

strongest one in fentanyl he would go

after the cartels he says I mean so so

far that's that's the best take

so I'm going to talk about his

persuasion skills if you can be uh let's

say alert enough to know that doesn't

mean I support everything he says and

does right I'm a one one policy you

voted at this time just on Fentanyl

but

um on Hoodwinked on Twitter Twitter user

on Hoodwinked

who's also a good follow very

provocative tweets if you'd like to

follow somebody interesting

and he says uh and this is and this is

why Trump won't be re-elected talking

about his support of the vaccinations uh

he continues to fail to read the room on

this issue

and he says it wasn't an accomplishment

warp speed meaning it was a hyper hyper

rushed departure from safety protocols

on an experimental drug administered to

Millions with our full-informed consent

how many of you would agree with this

statement I'll just read it again agree

or disagree with this statement warp

speed wasn't an accomplishment it was a

hyper rush departure from safety

protocols on an experimental drug

administered to Millions without full

informed consent

boom agree agree agree

all right

may I offer a counter point

right I'm not going to try to change

your mind

if that makes you feel better

because I don't think I need to right I

I feel like you've all made up your

minds and

you can stay there but wouldn't you like

to see the counter that just out of

curiosity

do you think there is any counter to

that point

all right here's my counter to the point

it was fully disclosed

and it was not mandatory

let me say it was not mandatory from

Trump

there were definitely mandates but Trump

is anti-mantic

now you're saying that it was rushed

and it did not meet the normal safety

protocols who didn't know that

we we were told that directly and daily

every single day

everyone knew

that you can't know what will happen in

five years if you've only tested for six

months or whatever it was

there anybody who didn't understand the

vaccinations at a risk and and is there

anybody who didn't understand that the

risk was more than normal

anybody

so would you say there was an informed

consent I've never seen more informed

consent

or well informed the consent part is

optional I've never seen more more

information

that this was not the same safety

protocol as before and I think we were

told directly

consistently and often

that we also don't know how bad the

virus itself would be so we're looking

at two unknowns and we're taking our

best shot

but nobody nobody was presented with

safety

not not a level of safety that was

consistent with the past

right so the informed consent thing is

ridiculous in my mind because I was

informed

why were you not informed I was totally

informed

do you remember that I waited from the

time that I was eligible which was early

on because my age

I waited I don't know six months or so

do you remember why I said I waited

I said because they're telling us it's

not as safe as regular things of the

past

I waited because they told me

they informed me

it might not be a safe

and that I acted according to my own

desires and wishes

you don't think Trump can defend that

yeah you can yeah you can now here's the

part you're missing

everything is compared to something else

no matter who no matter who Trump runs

against

he's going to look better on this

because there's nobody everybody has

something to explain about their actions

right everybody

including me

everybody has something to explain

he's not going to run against somebody

who has less to explain

he's only going to be running against

somebody who's probably pro-mandate

right I mean it's not even going to be

close if your only choice is a

pro-bandate and an anti-mandate

he wins

he owns it now he has he's barely even

tried to defend himself he's just you

know said we did but all he'd have to do

is say what I did

every one of you people complaining knew

there was extra risk that's why you

didn't get vaxxed you can't

simultaneously say we all knew there was

a risk

and then say you weren't informed

you can't say both

everybody who told me they didn't get a

vax they said it's because it was very

clear from day one this was not the same

risk profile as the past right

so how can you argue both sides I

totally knew what the risk was and it

was more than normal

and nobody told me the risk

pick a side you got to pick a side

so

like I told you I'm not going to

convince anybody to change their mind

about this I'm just saying that Trump

has he's got a freeway right through it

I mean he can slice through this like a

hot steel through butter

it just doesn't feel like it because it

hasn't really ramped up yet

but he will he will now he could also

blow it right I mean he could say the

wrong thing blah blah he could

but where do you see what else he's got

cooking

oh this gets better

this gets so much better

and it's it's going to really challenge

me to stick to my you know single single

issue vote and you know not get involved

in his other opinions

but he's got something that he's sort of

he's signaled today or yesterday that is

really cool persuasion wise all right so

again I'm only talking about his

persuasion game that's the part that

always impresses me you know not

necessarily the policies

so here's what uh

Trump has decided to do let's see uh so

he's tweeting about the empty folders

and you're going to say to yourself but

Scott this is a different topic

the the empty folders and the

vaccinations totally different topics

right

they were

watch what Trump does to the empty the

empty folders all right now here's

here's what he said he posted on Truth

social

uh that the the empty folders were

marked classified uh and then he

explained that it was common for the the

folders to have con you know contents in

them during a meeting

and at the end of the meeting

to keep these classified documents safe

they would collect up the documents but

not the folders

because the folders were unnecessary

because they were just going to maybe

destroy the extra documents probably

because they had copies

and so Trump says that you know he had

hundreds of them and he kept them as

cool keepsakes does anybody believe that

does anybody believe he kept empty

documents as cool cool keepsakes

I don't think so

I doubt it you might keep one

you might use three of them

if he said I kept three of them as a

Keepsake I'd say maybe

but they're literally just folders with

words on them why would you keep 300 of

those

so I I can't support this take but he

uses this to suggest that maybe the bad

people in the FBI would put something in

one of those folders to make it look

like it was always there

now who knows if anything like that

would happen but uh I think we'd all

agree that the FBI is not above it

would you I mean that's an it's it's an

outrageous claim

that the FBI would you know possible or

somebody else would possibly plant

classified documents just to put it away

that's outrageous

and also well within uh the range of

things they've done recently

totally within the range

so this is the sort of thing that 10

years ago if you said the FBI is trying

to frame me wouldn't you laugh at that

well I think the FBI is trying to frame

the president no they're not

but today

yeah it looks totally within the within

the realm of

very reasonably possible

now I don't think so I'd vote you know

if I had to bet I'd bet against it but

totally within the range of possible so

Trump puts it out there just to you know

just to keep that in your head

because he knows some people are going

to believe it

but here's the best part

uh

he said that uh oh he referred to the

FBI agents as Gestapo

Gestapo

do you see it yet

I think he's going to Brand the

Democrats and the FBI

as the real Nazis

God I hope so

if there's I'm not a Believer but just

once I'm gonna pray

Dear God

please let him just brand the Democrats

so the FBI is the real Nazis

and just like hammer it to death

and please if I can ask for one more

thing would you ask him to address

directly the fine people hoax don't say

a word about it just create a good

little video that shows it's a hoax and

tweet it

that's all

that's all I ask

what is Trump's biggest problem

they think he's the Nazi

right

do you think you could brand the

pro-mandate team that sends people in to

uh you know

rile let's say everybody from Roger

Stone to you name it you don't think he

can brand them as Nazis

they want to take away your guns give

you mandates

give power to the wef

oh yeah

yeah and

if you told me there's going to be a

politician running for office and he's

going to go branding his enemies as

Nazis what would you say

you say I don't like that guy

or or woman

uh you would say

no then no no no no no you know you

can't be branding your enemies as Nazis

this is the United States we're just

political we're not branding anybody as

a Nazi

but in this one case

it's exactly the right thing to do he

needs to Brand them Nazis

full out

and just say your Nazi hoaxers the FBI

can't be trusted it needs to be gutted

the leadership not the good people who

work there

and

he should just go for it

just go for it and I think he could win

I think he could win

what do you think

because his weakest point is hey blah

blah blah you're racist now let's say

let's say he took my advice which I

don't think will happen but suppose he

took my advice on how to frame the

Border

hey we're never going to agree on this

border stuff

let's get a bunch of economists to tell

us how many people to let in and when

and what types

and let's have it like the OMB you know

some

quasi-independent organization that can

just tell you if it makes sense

economically and whatever it makes sense

economically to the people who are

already here

we'll we'll open the door a little bit

and when it doesn't make sense should

that ever happen we'll close the door a

little bit but we're in a New World

Imagine imagine Trump saying this to

um just imagine him saying this to

conservatives you know this isn't the

world of five years ago we might

actually have a population problem in

the other direction

we might we might have too few people

then imagine and again he's not going to

do this but imagine he could

you know the people coming through there

we do have to worry about the you know

the criminal element

but let's not forget that the the people

coming here

tend to have conservative ideology

yeah their their family religion work

family religion work

you can let a few family religion work

people into the country without it

falling apart

you can you can let a lot of them in I

just don't know what the right number is

is it 5 million a year I don't know it

seems like a lot doesn't it

it seems like a lot but I don't know

that might actually be the right number

it might be low

I'm not sure if there's any way to know

that's why you need a independent group

to just you know help us get a feel for

the economics of this stuff

so Trump could because the situation is

a little different than it used to be uh

he could totally sell it as something

that should be decided by economics and

that the politicians should maybe

pull back a little bit so you're not

just blaming each other being racist

you can be uh Hispanic vote

you could

do you know how

if there's one thing

if there's one like common stereotype

that I hate to do stereotypes but this

one seems to hold up the Hispanic

Community especially you know one first

generation and second generation

they don't like a lot of

there's there's sort of a no

culture

do you know what I mean

they're not worried about your wokeness

so much it's just not on their minds you

don't think Trump could win a group like

that

all they'd have to do is offer him

something

now you know citizenship would be a

probably too much for his base but yeah

now and I also think

that you yeah and I think he could find

some way to have like a I don't want to

say second-rate citizenship for people

who are not yet legal but there probably

is something like that that his base

would live with

as long as the economic argument was

made if you could make the argument we

could keep the country safe enough and

it's good for the economy

I think his base accepts it and it also

accepts that it brings in people who are

more like them than the people who are

already here on average

uh not the second rate pay no not the

secondary pay of course

but you could have somebody who's uh has

most of the rights of citizenship but

may be short of voting

if you have somebody if you knew

somebody was here illegally

but also have a job they had a job

and how about couldn't own firearms how

about that so Suppose there were some

Caravans he said yeah they could totally

live here

but uh they they can't vote

they have you know they can get a

driver's license and do all the work

related things but they can't vote

and they can't own a firearm I'm just

picking two random things

could you live with that

if somebody made the argument that it's

in your economic interest

to allow more in but you know be a

little more careful about the vetting

could he live with that

now what what's the argument against

let's just take this as a hypothetical

because you need to teach me what

there's something I'm missing

there's something in my mental model

that's missing

is it just racism

no I'm saying if the people who are

already here legally

you know we have a long tradition of

Pardons and paroles and you know uh

reconstituting people who are in prisons

and retraining them we have a long

history of uncriminalizing criminals

that wouldn't be new

so that's not your objection right you

wouldn't object to the general concept

there's somebody who's who's minding

their own business but broke a technical

law but they're adding to the country

you wouldn't allow them to have maybe a

second class citizenship

which would you know permanently

keep them in you know not full

citizenship but they're adding to the

country and they want to be here and

their and their kids would be full

citizens and blah blah blah no

somebody says you can't have

second-class citizens yes you can what

are what are children

children are second-class citizens what

are illegal

you know immigrants are not citizens but

but you know basically we always have

classes

you know what are billionaires are you

the same class as a billionaire who

would that's not an argument you can

have all kinds of classes of people

in a democracy

join the military yeah maybe they can

join the military in certain

circumstances

all right so

um I need you to educate me

if if you could handle the economics

and you could check them out better so

that you're reducing the criminal

element if you could know that they're

paying tax is right if you knew they

were paying taxes and adding to the

system

and and independent economists said yeah

we could let in a few more

and let's say Trump agreed to it

tell me the problem with that it's all

hypothetical right I'm not saying that's

the situation

right but but if they were LED illegally

legally what would be your problem

yeah pay they pay for their own health

care right they would just be like us

with a few fewer rights Maybe

their kids vote view vote blue

I I think you should check that

assumption do you know why the kids vote

blue

because Red's never tried to incorporate

them the moment red says you know what

we like workers we like we like uh

people like families we like religion

you know what we love you guys

they just have to say the words

because in fact they do

you you pick you pick show me any

Republican in Congress

pick any Republican and say all right

look at this guy

this guy is you know loves his family

he's working hasn't broken any laws

just wants to be an American

you have a problem with that person

like really like that's your problem

the person who's living the ideal life

that you wish everybody would live

so if you think that they're all going

to vote blue blue when you could be

right

just don't give them the vote

by the second generation they're going

to be Republicans

the second generation will just be

Republicans because by then the

Republicans will will have figured out

how to deal with this community in a

more productive way and the Republicans

have a perfect way to do it

how about we just agree with your

you know your character and we reach

some agreement about the economics and

who can vote and who can own a gun

and then we're all good

I don't know so the only thing I'm going

to try to convince you of

is that there's a third path on

immigration that's neither Democrat nor

Republican and it's the right one

it's the one that makes sense

all right so uh let me acknowledge

everybody's yelling legal legal legal

the people who are saying because

they're illegal you should give them

nothing

do you do understand that we have a long

tradition of making legal people who

were illegal it's an ordinary thing we

do all the time

so that's not really an objection that

makes sense on a any logical or other

basis we do it all the time and the

reason we do it is for our own benefit

right

we wouldn't be doing it for the benefit

of the criminal we'd be doing it for

ourselves

I I want I want everybody to be paying

taxes don't you

why wouldn't you

so yeah

all right I'm just going to put it out

there as something that could be

improved in terms of the messaging but I

do like uh Trump saying that mandates

are going to be that's what the Nazis do

to you I just gave you options and then

when they say but but but you gave us

this risky vaccine then Trump says who

didn't know it was at risk

we could not have been more clear about

that

and I would agree

he also says China is buying up all the

all of our assets there's something to

that but I don't know what the extent is

all right here's my provocative thought

for the day

wouldn't you agree with the following

statement

that the social media platforms

if their algorithms are favoring you

know one political side or the other

that effectively they're running the

country

would you agree with that statement

that the algorithms could program the

country so effectively based on what

they see

that the algorithm ends up running in

the country and not you know Congress

and not the vote Congress ends up just

you know going along with whatever

social media forced into the thing

well

your provocative thought of the day the

world economic forum is just an

algorithm

it just happens to be a physical one you

could look at here's why what an

algorithm does is decide what you see

and how often right

that's all it does an algorithm decides

what you see and how often

what does the world economic Forum do

let's say you went to the world economic

forum and say you know I'd like to have

a

a presentation there

and I'd like it to be on the topic of we

should use more fossil fuels

do you think they'd say you know we like

we like opinions on both sides so yeah

here's here's a full platform for you to

say your thing that's opposite of what

we usually say and we'll give you all

the attention you want because we like

balance

do you think that's happening

I don't think so I think that the world

economic Forum decides what they present

and also who attends

they didn't invite me

did they invite any of you

right so if they can decide who's in and

who's out

at least they can decide who they invite

and they can decide what information

from their attendees you know Rises to

the point where it gets promoted

and what doesn't

they're an algorithm

they are a physical algorithm and that's

how they can run the world

because all they have to do is control

the information that they allow to be

promoted through them

and then they get everybody on board and

they get their people in in office and

everybody's like oh I better make these

World economic Forum people happy

because they invite me on excellent

vacations in Switzerland I love

vacations in Switzerland

and I get like luxury accommodations and

I get to meet all these other people and

all I have to do is do what they want

and then I get all these benefits

yeah if the and the beauty of it is that

because it's an organization

they use the fact that they have members

who are the members the ones who are

surfacing all the ideas

so the illusion is that there's some

kind of

quasi-democracy group

grouped decision making so it's not

Klaus oh no no it's not Klaus

he's just like the organizer guy it's

all these individuals who collectively

nothing like that's happening

because somebody decided who's there and

of course they know what that group of

people is likely to say that's why they

got invited right they invited Al Gore

they didn't invite you know Alex Epstein

or Michael schellenberger did you see

Michael schellenberger anywhere at the

world economic Forum do you think he was

invited

do you I don't think so I don't think so

nope that he wasn't so the world

economic Forum acts just like an

algorithm on a on a social media

platform but if that's invisible to you

you easily get fooled into thinking of

some it's it's all the smart people who

got together and then came up with smart

ideas

and then Only the Good smart idea is you

know filtered up and and so you're

seeing the best of the best it's like

the the smartest most connected people

and all their best ideas that's how it's

presented

is it no it's probably Klaus or maybe a

handful of people

who decide what's in and who's in

and that's it

it's just like an algorithm

so it is an algorithm that can control

the world in those elements you know

those areas that they want to which are

primarily Financial

which is really everything

if you control the finances of the world

what else do you need

you don't you don't want to control

their military do you let's just work

you don't want to control who picks up

the garbage do you

that would just be work

no you want to control the economy of

everything

and then you get your cut

you have your power you have your

influence and basically the economy

influences the military and everything

else

well apparently Greta has been caught

faking a staged arrest so we've seen the

video as there look as she's laughing

and joking with the people who are

allegedly going to drag her away

and you know they're all putting on a

show

I don't really mind that if that doesn't

offend me

because the whole point of activists

getting arrested is for the cameras

right

so the fact that you know she's so she's

such a celebrity that even the people

arresting her or just having a laugh

with her and you know they're they're

just preparing the camera angles so that

when they drag her away it looks good I

don't have any problem with that no

problem at all

um do you

because you know all activists are doing

it for a theater that nobody's

pretending right they don't pretend

they're really going to jail for a long

sentence or anything like that

so I don't know if as long as it's all

theater I don't care

um I saw Al Gore getting very worked up

at the world economic forum

and uh just shouting at the world about

how they're not doing enough about

climate change

now

whether or not he is right or wrong a

separate conversation and worthy having

but here's my problem you know as as

many have noted

uh

he doesn't act the way he talks

in other words he takes private jets and

you know lives a

lifestyle that uses a lot of energy he

would argue that he bought carbon

offsets by the way do you know that

I think he did

so I think he used some of his vast

recent money to buy carbon offsets

which is not a problem

I'm actually going to give him a pass

for that did you know that

by the way I could use a fact check on

that but I believe you know he was quite

aware that he used more energy than the

average person and I think he just went

to the whatever Market there is and he

bought now the the thinking behind that

is that if you create a free market for

buying and selling carbon offsets or

yeah I guess that's what it's called

that eventually that drives everything

down to a more efficient you know less

carbon producing world and I I think the

logic if that makes sense

so in theory he is being consistent

by doing what he says some people will

have to do which is by carbon credits

and maybe that's the best you can do

but here's the problem

if Mahatma Gandhi had been fat

do you think he'd been

just as effective

do you

hey everybody uh

I'm really fat and happy but you know we

should date the British no he had to

starve himself literally near death

to be credible his credibility came with

his suffering that was equal to or

greater than the people who represented

that's a problem persuasion wise for Al

Gore because he's clearly leading living

a

a more awesome life than the people he's

trying to get to give stuff up

right if a rich person tells you to give

up your stuff you're not going to take

that well

if somebody who's suffering more than

you and has less of you he basically

lives in a you know one dirty diaper

uh you're gonna say all right well if

you can do that I can give up a little

bit you know I can take on some risk to

get rid of the British rule or something

so that's definitely working against

Gore is that

um even though I think he's on a

logically solid basis

uh people don't work on logic it just

looks like he's not he's not walking the

walk so that'll be a problem

um

yeah let's see what else are you all

aware of the uh

Stephen Crowder versus The Daily wire

controversy

I don't know if that's

risen to your attention yet so I'll give

you all right a lot of you not so

Stephen Crowder recently I think I have

the details right

um recently out of his contract with the

Blaze and he always I think

independently produced his show so he

can just do his show with or without any

other platform

but the daily wire realizing that he was

a you know a superstar in their in their

domain made him an offer and uh there

was one element of the offer that he

objected to and he talked about it on

the air he didn't name the entity that

made it but everybody figured it out in

about a minute

so

I was asked who was winning the uh

persuasion

because on one hand it was a very

generous offer 50 million dollars over

four years but he would have to do his

own production so that 50 million would

have to pay for his production costs as

well so let's say that I don't know

takes 10 or 20 percent off of that it's

still a real big number and then an

option for two more years at the same

per year price

now the party objected to was there was

some language in there that if he gets

um strikes or bans on other social

platforms you know let's say Facebook or

Twitter or something that they would pay

him less money

so there would be penalties in there for

getting banned on platforms and he

always gets banned on platforms like

he's always getting strikes and stuff so

he he thought that that was uh

I don't know what word you'd use

inappropriate

or unfair or too much control

too much control right probably

but he thought that was sort of icky and

don't don't talk like that

we don't like those words

um

so

uh over 10 million per year you know

after expenses probably

uh and I'll tell you the most

interesting part of the story well so

first of all here's my persuasion

analysis I thought they both won

you don't see that often but I think the

daily wire

um and Jeremy boring who you know did a

video about it I thought he totally came

off looking great

because in the in the process of

explaining the offer they made

uh he also got to explain how how

substantial their operation is

and I wasn't fully aware of that and I

thought wow that looks like a really the

the daily wire

as a business model and as a new

business is really something to behold

it

I think they do everything right

like just everything it's one of the the

few companies you can look at and say

all right it looks like they just keep

doing all the right stuff and they're

they're growing and now they're going to

make movies

and here's how they explain the movies

they're going to make because they want

to be a media entity not just a you know

a bunch of podcaster types the in the

movies they make are movies you you want

to watch

isn't it funny that that's like a real

thing

that somebody saw an opening for making

movies you'd want to watch

last night I tried to find a movie I

wanted to watch

I ended up with a movie from like the

early 90s

that I had already seen

that's it like there wasn't any movie

currently out

that wouldn't make me uncomfortable

right because if you turn on any any

basically any movie it's going to be

somebody tortured in a chair somebody

lost their money somebody's loved one

died

I I don't get any entertainment from

that that's that's like stuff I run from

right you know the but you don't see

like sitcoms and funny comedies anymore

because that's sort of phased out so

so the fact that the daily wire

has a theory that they want to make

movies you might want to watch

it's pretty interesting and it's also

right on target Right On Target and some

TV shows I guess

but here's what I found out about uh the

daily wire they have six hundred

thousand subscribers

and they have 150 million I think it's

Revenue per year

that's really substantial and the part

about the subscribers is that that makes

them not to fully independent not fully

dependent on Advertising although

advertising is part of the model

everything about that smart everything

about that and the offer that they made

as uh Jeremy boring explained was a

first offer

so in the the normal give and take of

negotiating

they made an offer that apparently

Stephen Crowder did not like you know

there's one part of it that was just

totally unacceptable but instead of

doing what people normally do

a counteroffer

he sort of went public with it

now

does that make him a bad person well it

might make him a person who's not

experienced at negotiating contracts but

I think he has an agent

so you know I feel like you know maybe

there was a better way to handle that

but here's what I found out about

Stephen Crowder that I didn't know

um

he has about five million YouTube

subscribers

did you know that

five million

he's one of the biggest media Stars

in the world I had no idea like I you

know I was well aware of him I've seen

his content a bunch of times but I had

no idea I had no idea he was that big

and so when you see this 50 million

dollar offer

my first thought was are you kidding

like in what world does that make sense

and then I saw his numbers and you run

the numbers you go oh yeah actually that

that was actually a perfectly reasonable

first offer

perfectly recently he might have gotten

more in fact

he would have gotten more all he had to

do is push back a little bit and he

would have gotten more now maybe he

wouldn't have been satisfied

with the parts about you know if he uh

if he doesn't perform on social media in

some ways right

but he probably could have negotiated

that a little

there was probably a way to

you know make that work I don't know

because if he got kicked off of YouTube

that would be a big hit to the Daily

wire so why should they just accept that

risk without trying to mitigate it

now how they mitigate it

that could be a longer negotiation but

his best

in a traditional world

let let me give Stephen Crowder more

more credit than it sounds like I gave

him so far

in a traditional world you should just

negotiate these things privately go back

and forth and see what you can do

not go public all right the going public

part is the weird part but

he's Stephen Crowder

the rules don't apply to him

Russell Brand the rules don't apply

right there are a lot of people for whom

the rules don't apply Greg Gutfeld

the rule the all the rules don't quite

apply Joe Rogan the rules don't apply

right so when Stephen Crowder

goes public

and he says this you know huge solid

entity offered me a deal and then you

know certainly you find out what the

dollar amount is later

he's really making himself more famous

and looking more valuable which he

succeeded at

so here's the here's the persuasion play

after looking into this and just you

know being aware of their little fight

um I I came away with a much higher

opinion of Stephen Crowder's business

model and value of it

at the same time

I came away with a huge respect for the

daily wire just how they're running

their business

that's a win that's a double win

two wins now is there anything that

would stop them from still doing the

deal

no

absolutely not because they're business

people right

in in negotiations you do get you know

some bad feelings and stuff but if

you're you know a Jeremy boring or

you're uh you know Ben Shapiro

you don't think they know how to get

past a little bit of a tiff

you know but get back to business of

course they do of course easily easily

you don't think Stephen Crowder can say

some things about some people and then

get past it of course he can

so neither of them lost anything

zero loss on either side both of them

raised their profile

quite appropriately

win-win

when you see people

um seemingly having a conflict and

they're all high-end operators because

these are some these are people who are

killing it and they're independent

Fields well same field I guess So when

you say the fight you got to put a whole

different frame on it because they're

they're their world of options isn't

like normal people you know Crowder can

throw away a 50 million dollar deal

with confidence that it might get him

another one all right or a higher deal

or a better deal or something so they're

not like us

let's talk about uh uh dumb Joe Biden

and his I I can't stand it when he says

that people with the AR-15s they're not

going to be much good against the f-15s

that the American government has if

they're going to fight the government

ah number one

every country that the U.S military has

tried to conquer they had their own

firearms

that country won there's a reason we're

no longer in Afghanistan there's a

reason that you know

Vietnam kicked us out we're not really

good

at beating anything except the military

but when it comes down to like you know

getting into their homes that's sort of

a police thing

and there are not enough police in the

United States to handle all the

residents who have guns right the F-15

isn't going to strike your house

and you know the f-18s won't just won't

be part of anything now the part that I

like to add

is that if you're trying to keep an

American Tyrant from taking over and you

know turning it into a into a tyrannical

regime

that dictator would have to know that

all of their family would be killed in a

week

by the people who have guns

nobody's going to go after Joe Biden

but they'll kill Hunter within a day or

take him captive right

the hunter doesn't have a chance

now just to be clear I don't recommend

any violence especially against families

you know so I'm not promoting any of

this I'm just describing

if we actually got to a point where the

whoever was the leader of the country

wanted to you know turn it into a you

know a Nazi regime or something

the people with the guns wouldn't go

after the leader

but that leader could never go in public

again

and nobody in their family could ever be

in public again

who wants that that they would be

winning something they didn't want

it would be a terrible life you could

never go outside because somebody would

take a shot at you now

now an ordinary rational person

will not try to assassinate a political

leader just because they don't like

their politics

that's not what we're talking about

we're talking about like a like a

hitler-like entity taking over the

country

if that were to happen

we would all take a shot at the leader

we would just need an open shot

we would all do it I'd do it

I I would risk my life to take out my

Hitler I would just have to have a shot

that's all I might do myself you know

right afterwards so so I didn't have to

get tortured to death but we'd all do it

yeah

so every time I hear that oh those

AR-15s will be useless against

f-15s

I don't know what Hunter Biden's going

to do when when they got to round him up

and all of his family and everybody that

you like and all of your friends you're

basically going to lose everything

nobody you know will be able to go

Outdoors ever again

so good luck if you want to conquer the

country and have that kind of life so

it's a good disincentive

yeah that worked in Venezuela Venezuela

didn't have enough guns

yeah anything you do to compare the

United States to any other country is a

waste of time we're just not like any

other country

we're just not

um

yeah

read the screenshot

was screenshot

why does Joe provoke what screenshot

you retweeted the screenshot

I don't know what you're talking about

I retweeted the screenshot

oh the the 4chan thing all right yeah

4chan had a good uh rant on

on this

so you can see that in my Twitter feed

please reconsider what

why do they focus on the ARs because

they look like military weapons

I think all right ladies and gentlemen

that

is the conclusion of my prepared remarks

um and how many of you know what AR

stands for

how many

go ahead said what does AR stand for

uh somebody actually said assault rifle

it is not it is not assault rifle

but that was a

oh this is interesting

it's not automatic rifle it's ArmaLite

ArmaLite is it ArmaLite rifle or is they

AR for ArmaLite well ArmaLite is the the

a for sure

so it's not assault

it never was

Heraldo was funny

you yeah

I think you're totally missing the value

of Geraldo on uh the five

Heraldo is great on the five

because he gets them all worked up he

you know takes some alternative views

that you don't like you know he supports

them well I think I think Heraldo was

great on the five but I also think Juan

Williams was great because in both cases

they know their role right or all those

fitting a role where he's trying to be a

little provocative and you know get

something going that's his job

I think he does it really well I

absolutely love her although like he's

one of my favorite TV people

Brave as hell

uh can't get embarrassed you cannot

embarrass him

so I just love that stuff

but I understand he's he seems unpopular

because you think he's arguing against

the people you like but you know that's

the show

all right was there anything I missed

any uh topics I should have mentioned

and by the way let me let me just do a

little test with you

when I talked about what Trump could do

did it sound like it could win

we don't know what he'll do but did I

describe a path where he could just walk

into the White House

I think I did

yeah and again he's very unpredictable

he's going to do what he does

but I I think he I think he drew up a

plan

that if he's stuck to it you could walk

into the whale skin it looks like it

uh

yeah or I'm a light rifle I think is the

right answer

you're flooded with illegals

um

yeah okay

Amish rifle

who is advising Trump I don't know oh

how many of you saw Matt Gates on Tim

guest

highly recommended

Tim Tim uh pool does good work the the

Tim cast

this is another business model that I

have a lot of respect for even if you

just go to the timcast website

it's a really good website it's really

put together

like exactly

it just looks exactly right you got good

good advice or good help on that and

then the show itself looks like high

production and it's always interesting

but anyway so Matt Gates comes on and

I'm going to say something that uh I

want you to test you you tell me

you tell me if I'm wrong

but you have to watch Matt Gates on Tim

Poole if you've seen a lot of Matt Gates

he's usually just doing like quick one

minute hits for a media hit his one

minute hits are really good

by his long form where he can actually

you know expand on something

the best in the government

there's nobody there's nobody on either

side

who does long-form explanations better

than he does period

there's nobody in his class

now here's the thing that's just amazing

he went from as politically dead as you

could possibly be

to are you going to be running for

president and are you know would you

accept the vice president role if Trump

asked you and everybody wants to talk to

you and by the way you did that great

job with McCarthy and it's good that you

can work with him now everybody came out

ahead

you're the only one fighting for us

how did he do that

how in the world

did he pull that off

but he did pull it off am I wrong

is there anybody here who saw him on Tim

cast

and does not feel he's not only fully

redeemed politically

but he has some impressive power levels

there more than we've seen

and here's one of the other things that

he does consistently right that I don't

see other people doing consistently

right

he defended Eric swalwell from the Fang

Fang accusations

just just hold that in your mind

now he's consistent because he saw he

also defined Katie who who is the woman

in Congress who got there were some

pictures that came out and

Porter was that on a hill

Katie Hill yeah he defended her like you

know leave her alone basically that's

just her private life and now so here's

his defense of swallow and by the way I

didn't know this this was all new to me

so that tells you how bad my bubble is

you said that the Fang Fang thing uh the

affair anyway happened when he was a

single man

so that's a big deal because I thought

happened when he was married I didn't

know uh that's a huge deal all right

it's a huge deal for trust but also

happened when he was a councilman in

Dublin California

now

as Matt Gates described it

he described Dublin California as

nowhere California

he was a councilman in nowhere

California

I have a small objection to that because

I lived in Dublin

while he was a council member

yes I lived in nowhere California

and let me say this about Dublin

California it's one of the best towns in

California

it is fiscally solid

with really good schools

low crime

and you would definitely want to live

there right pleasanton's better it's got

a downtown Dublin doesn't have a

downtown

but you know if you live next to it you

get all the Dublin benefits plus the

Pleasanton benefits it's one of the best

places in the country honestly you know

um but living in Dublin's not as good as

living right next to it and then you get

all the the Dublin goodness

so

that's my defense of Dublin

but

um

but apparently he you know had an affair

didn't know she was Chinese spy as soon

as he found out he worked with the FBI

and got rid of her

I'm going to accept that

I accept Matt Gates's defense of uh Eric

swalwell and as Matt gay says you don't

you don't need any of that

to kick him off the Intel committee

because he was part of the Russia

collusion hoax I mean that's good enough

that's good enough to kick him off so

you don't need any of that it's just a

distraction and it also puts you in a

weird situation because you know there's

going to be another Republican you like

who has some kind of like sexual

impropriety

so just taking that stuff off the table

is the smartest thing a politician can

do

there's no other Republican who is smart

enough to do that

now don't you trust him more Matt Gates

Don't you trust him more because he

wasn't willing to to just take a

narrative

he rejected the narrative

I do

does it tell you that

um oh and he also admitted he got caught

on tape or video talking to AOC and he

said yes I talked to AOC I talked to

Elon Omar and who is the other one on

the squad

and the reason you talk to them about

you know whether that the Democrats were

going to walk out under a vote or vote

were they are going to vote with the

Republicans or not

so he had a reason to talk to him uh

Rashida talibia and was it yeah it was

Rasheed I think

I think it was Rasheed but

now how do you how much do you like the

fact that Matt Gates can occasionally

defend a colleague against really an

unfair attack and can also talk to them

and they seem to be able to respond to

him

and he can also talk to McCarthy

was it Presley oh maybe it was Presley

yeah I may have the third person's name

wrong you're right

um

oh uh you would have a strong border uh

the only way the economists making

decisions about who comes into the there

was a question here on YouTube the the

only way it makes sense

to have economists tell you who to let

in the country and when is if you

completely control the border so that's

just a given

under all conditions

we should tightly control the Border but

we should also decide how to let people

in separately so that's the problem we

make we keep we keep conflating how many

people to leave in with the physical

security

those should not be the same topic

one should be total physical security

second topic

Wendy opened the door

just like your house

you know you don't you don't say well

people might sneak into my house so I

won't have any doors or Windows

yeah nobody makes that decision

uh Trump versus Newsom who would win

well

I hate to say it might have to do with

you know mail-in votes and other things

that where the system would favor the

Democrats so probably the system

elements are bigger than the candidates

at the moment

maybe Trump could get past that

but I think the system decides who is

president not not the voters exactly

in our current situation

so if for example the total media shut

Trump out

then he couldn't be present

right so it's not up to Trump it's also

up to the system and how the system

works

but yeah yes I think it's at least a

coin flip

Trump versus nusup I think that's a coin

flip

with what we know today

how about let the wisdom of crowds

specify the number of immigrants

interesting suggestion

the wisdom of crowds are here let me let

me try to support your idea before I

give you an opinion so that would be

instead of asking the economists who get

everything wrong anyway which which is

the problem with my suggestion you let

the let's say the public

decide the problem is the public is uh

poorly informed

so you might you might need to limit it

to people who voted because they're

going to try a little harder to be

informed

but let's say the people who voted came

up with a number of people to come in

the good part about that is that the

wisdom of crowds would pick up how

people feel about it

and how people feel about it is actually

part of the question

because if you have a really bad

attitude about it you might vote

differently you might treat them

differently

so how they feel does matter and The

Economist might ignore how people feel

and just say oh the dollars are better

this way but if it were the wisdom of

the crowds where he just pulled the

public and he said should we let in

another million yes or no

then people would look around they'd say

well how do I feel

like does this feel like a risk to me

or not

because our our feelings are part of

that are part of the decision

you know if something makes you feel bad

it costs you that's a real that's a

price

so you can't ignore that and I think the

economist would ignore that whereas the

wisdom of the crowd is if we just sort

of voted on it would capture how we feel

and also a little bit a sense of the

economics as best we could

it's a good that's a good suggestion I

think that's a that's a productive

suggestion

all right

um

should cops attack what

uh Let The Economist suggest and the

people decide well there you go

there you go

that would be a twofer wouldn't it

that's not bad all right so the

suggestion is you let the economist make

their recommendation

but you don't follow it you you see how

the public feels first because their

feelings matter

you could easily imagine that the

economists say you know uh that this is

going to be a good good thing to let in

a million people and you can imagine

that the public saying you know I don't

feel comfortable with that

like I I see your numbers I just don't

feel comfortable with it for whatever

reason and then let and then maybe

maybe have the president have the final

vote

but then the president could look at the

economists

or it could look at the public

or could look at the both of them

still you probably want the president to

make the decision or congress I suppose

but I'd love to see it informed by the

public and The Economist

let the crowds specify in the economists

verify if you flipped it around

I think the public is better at

responding to the experts than the

experts are at responding to just like a

uninformed feeling

I think it works better economists first

but that's a good suggestion

I like all the suggestions that you know

at least make you think a little deeper

so that that's like a great suggestion

yeah tyranny blah blah

experts responding to feelings is how we

got lockdowns

Maybe

how much would you like to see me

interview Rob Ryder

would that be wild

no

really you said no

seriously

you don't think that would entertain you

or is it just you don't want to hear any

more from

oh my God

see here's why I would be the perfect

one to interview him

because I like him

I like him I know he's just likeable

like the stuff he says just looks you

know bad crazy but that's because

we're so Political Animals at this point

um but I know I would have a fun

conversation and I think we'd both

learned something

it actually could be useful might be

good for the country you never know

all right so

uh I'm still planning to do interviews

but probably once the real political

season gets cranked up because then I'll

have an unlimited number of people who

want to talk to me for politics

so I think I'll do them not live

because the the tech isn't quite ready

for Life yeah it would fail too often so

I think I'll do that not live and make

some recorded

videos the the people I want to talk to

are Trump

and I think Trump will do a lot of

podcasts

because that's that's really a strong

play he'll do that obviously I don't

know if you would do mine but he'll do

he'll do most of the big podcast he gets

invited to

and

do you think I could get Newsome

I mean I live in California and I would

give and here's the thing here's the

thing I would let all of them

show their best face

right it would not be my job to like

embarrass somebody

who who was nice enough to do the

interview I was certainly you know be

forceful in my

counterpoints but I'm not going to get

excited about it

Steve Cortez Steve you're recommending

him as a a guest

I love Steve Cortez everything he does I

like

um yeah I I don't think I would ask the

same questions as other people do you

I I think that my my questions would be

completely different than anybody else's

so that would be fun

um

I'm guessing that Scott would push

fentanyl well I would certainly mention

Fentanyl

Carrie Lake Matt Gates I'd love to talk

to Matt Gates

uh

see here's here's what I think you need

to do a good interview

the person you're talking to has to

believe that you're not there to take

them down

and I wouldn't do that because it would

be unfair

so I think I can convince people that

I'm there to let them show their best

life

Andrew Tate

Tate's not a political figure

I don't think

Nick Fuentes is a political figure at

this point

set up the chairs like Shatner did where

the chairs like need any

all right I'm just saying goodbye to

YouTube I'll talk to you tomorrow

you're all awesome it's the best live

stream you've ever seen