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Episode 2003 Scott Adams - Trump's Energy Messaging Is A Disaster, TikTok Ban Update, Iran Attacks

Episode #2003 Jan 29, 2023 1:06:56 22,350 views

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Opening General Commentary

Good morning everybody, and welcome to the highlight of civilization once again. The best thing you've ever done for yourself is showing up here now. I can't guarantee that this will be the best thing that happened to you today, but there's about an 80 percent chance. Eight

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SimultaneousSip General Commentary

y percent chance. And if you'd like to take it up to an 85 percent chance, all you need is a copper mug or a glass or a tankard, chalice, stein, a canteen, jug, or flask. A vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopa…

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NewsReaction Persuasion

eous sip. Go. Oh yeah, that's good stuff. Well, over on Locals we're going to go private, but you can watch us on YouTube all you want, except for the good stuff after the show. That's only for the subscribers. Well, have I ever told you this way to predict the future? The best way to predict th…

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MainContent Economics & Finance

e Australian Open. Now that's not the weird part. You know what the weird part is? His first name. No vax. Novax. I mean it's, you know, Novak, but really his name is Novax and he didn't get vaccinated and he won the Australian Open. You tell me that's not the best story, right? Could you not have…

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NewsReaction Media & Fake News

time I've been telling you that the best food distribution system would look like the following. Something very close to your home, like you could walk there in five minutes, would be like a central cafeteria like a college campus. And the central cafeteria would have a wide variety of food that the…

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NewsReaction Politics as Persuasion

a poll where one of the main answers was zero? Zero. Now we're rounded to zero, so it was a little bit more than zero but it rounded to zero. Yeah, I often tell you that on any poll at least 25 percent of the respondents are going to get the wrong answer. But this one was so clean, so obvious, so c…

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NewsReaction Economics & Finance

now then they might ban our information. I mean really, are we seeing, are we missing something about the story or are politicians actually this incapable? The level of incompetence that this exhibits is almost hard to believe. Like you could have a really low opinion of Congress and still look at t…

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MainContent Two Movie Screen

ur suspicious mind comes up with anything that would be maybe bad about this product taking off in corporate America. Here's what they do. They measure and monitor pay gaps by any demographic variable. Pay equity decisions made easy for HR and compensation as well as consultants. As well as consulta…

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NewsReaction Politics as Persuasion

as far as we know they can both have, we can still have babies with each other. So what I'm doing, my own cognition of what I'm doing is that I'm not dishonest when I say to the Locals people, well obviously I got everything right. You watched every bit of it and they say yeah that meets my view of…

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NewsReaction General Commentary

t was just a free punch and they took it. Iran said no damage. Yeah I saw the videos of the no damage. It was a pretty big fireball for no damage. But on the other hand they could come back and get them on YouTube. Somebody's comparing me to Bill Kristol. Yeah yeah that's a good comparison. Bill K…

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NewsReaction Politics as Persuasion

because I have to think he probably all the time thought he was like five seconds from being killed. But what he doesn't understand is if you're Conor McGregor and somebody takes out your bicycle on the highway and you acrobatically survive, that was a good day. That wasn't a bad day. It was a good…

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MainContent Politics as Persuasion

ot cognitive dissonance. You look for someone who has the trigger and you know they exhibit the tells. I'm not sure I see any but then maybe I wouldn't. Yeah the word salad. Have I exhibited any word salad about Biden? Well you wouldn't know because if you're on the same page it would look like it m…

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MainContent Health & Biohacking

story. So interesting. What is your belief about the mainstream opinion of long COVID? Not your own opinion. Not your own opinion. What do you believe if you were to Google what would be the front page of Google results? Not saying it's true. I'm just asking you what would appear. Would it say that…

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QandA Confirmation Bias

we would know. Yeah all right. I also wonder how many doctors have died from the shot. No you'd love to know how many medical doctors because there must be enough of them. How many medical doctors are in the United States? It's well over a hundred thousand, right? Million? I don't know. 100,000. Doe…

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Closing General Commentary

ut I was expecting you to say that. I was expecting all right. Yeah very suspect. All right that's all for now YouTube. I'll talk to you tomorrow. Thanks for joining. Have a good one.

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Good morning everybody, and welcome to the highlight of civilization once again. The best thing you've ever done for yourself is showing up here now. I can't guarantee that this will be the best thing that happened to you today, but there's about an 80 percent chance. Eighty percent chance. And if you'd like to take it up to an 85 percent chance, all you need is a copper mug or a glass or a tankard, chalice, stein, a canteen, jug, or flask. A vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day. The thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip.

Go. Oh yeah, that's good stuff.

Well, over on Locals we're going to go private, but you can watch us on YouTube all you want, except for the good stuff after the show. That's only for the subscribers.

Well, have I ever told you this way to predict the future? The best way to predict the future is the best story usually wins. Have you ever heard me say that? The best story. So for example, if there's an aging athlete who comes back for one last chance to win the Super Bowl that he's never won before, if that's like the best story, it'll probably happen, right?

So the Australian Open tennis tournament just concluded. What was the best story? Well, the best story, if you recall, if you don't watch tennis I'll tell you, one of the top players in the world, I don't know if he's number one but he has been number one off and on, Novak Djokovic. He was not allowed to play in the Australian Open last year because he was unvaccinated. This year he was allowed to play. What was the best story? Oh, did he regain number one by winning the tournament? That's the best story. The best story would be Novak Djokovic winning the Australian Open. Yesterday Novak Djokovic won the Australian Open.

Now that's not the weird part. You know what the weird part is? His first name. No vax. Novax. I mean it's, you know, Novak, but really his name is Novax and he didn't get vaccinated and he won the Australian Open. You tell me that's not the best story, right? Could you not have predicted that? I did. I did actually predict that in advance but privately, so I should have said it out loud. But every time you see one of these where the best story is really obvious, you're like, well that would be the best story. Then it happens. And I think that there's actually a mechanism for it. You know, it could be the simulation is causing our intentions to make it happen, but I feel as if everybody collectively knows the best story, including the competitors. And I think it actually suppresses the competitors. You know, there's like a psychological mechanism where they too want the best story to happen because the best story is just, it holds on your mind because you used to seeing the best story, you know, in fiction. So that's just a theory.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that restaurants are retooling to be more takeout oriented. Some of them will be purely takeout. So you're going to have purely takeout restaurants. More of them coming. I mean it's not like that was just invented, but there'll be more of them coming.

Now here's what I always thought was the best part about the pandemic, if you can even say that the best part about the pandemic is, do you remember Naval Ravikant said early in the pandemic he predicted that what the pandemic would change was mostly the rate of change. That the things that were going to happen in the long run were still going to happen, just that it would happen more quickly because we would be scrambling to re-engineer everything. And one of the things I think was badly in need of re-engineering is food.

Have you ever thought about the inefficiency of the food process? From the moment, let's say, a seed is planted in a farmer's field, do you know how many people touch your food before it gets to your mouth? It's like all kinds of steps to get it to some distribution place, and then it gets to the food distribution place, I guess the grocery store. Then it gets on the shelf. You put it into your cart. You take it out of the cart. You put it on the cashier thing. You pay for it. You put it back in the cart. You take it out of the cart. You put it in your car. You take it out of your car. You put it on your counter. You take it out of your bag and put it in the refrigerator. You take it out of the refrigerator. You take it out of the package. Put it in the oven. Take it out of the oven. Put it on a plate. Take it from the plate and put it in your mouth. The whole thing is a complete mess. Nobody would design the system from scratch. It just sort of evolved that way with a free market.

So for a long time I've been telling you that the best food distribution system would look like the following. Something very close to your home, like you could walk there in five minutes, would be like a central cafeteria like a college campus. And the central cafeteria would have a wide variety of food that they just made fresh. So everything's fresh, just got made. Lots of variety. And because it's a captive audience a little bit, you know, they have that monopoly if you will, it was pretty cheap. So it was cheap, best food you could get, and the easiest food you could get. They solved every problem. Solved every problem. The only thing it didn't solve was we didn't have apps. You know, when I was in college if I had an app where all I had to do was say what I want to pick up and I just walk over and pick it up, I wouldn't have to pay for a delivery.

So the whole DoorDash, I think DoorDash might have a limited future because I think people are going to still be doing takeout, but I think they're going to get it within five minutes of their house. So I think you'll have all these local sort of general cafeterias. Here would be the mistake. I think the mistake would be to have a local takeout only that's one ethnicity, like it's just Chinese takeout. Now people will use that, but wouldn't you rather everybody in your family can order from the cafeteria and you just go pick it up? You don't want the, well I don't like Chinese food or I had it yesterday. If you're going to order once for a family you kind of want the cafeteria. So I think this is where it's going. It's going to be all use your app, walk five minutes and pick it up. That's what it's going to be, with some delivery option. But it's already happening, looks like.

All right, here's some fake news from the Democrats. Fake news. Do you remember when the Democrats were saying that the Georgia voting laws, and there have been some recent changes, were going to disenfranchise the Black American voters? Do you remember that? Oh it was practically a second Holocaust. Slavery all over again. How could they? They were going to make it impossible for Black people to figure out how to vote.

So there was a recent survey, new poll, asked Black voters if they had a poor experience casting their ballot. And the number of Black voters who said they had a poor experience voting in Georgia was zero. Zero. Have you ever seen a poll where one of the main answers was zero? Zero. Now we're rounded to zero, so it was a little bit more than zero but it rounded to zero.

Yeah, I often tell you that on any poll at least 25 percent of the respondents are going to get the wrong answer. But this one was so clean, so obvious, so clear, so unambiguous that a hundred percent of Black Americans, who you might imagine, you know, being human like everybody else, you might imagine that they would feel a little biased because we all do in our own situations, right? We all have bias. Don't you think that you could get more than zero of them to at least imagine they had a problem, hard time? How do you even not imagine that maybe it was harder than usual?

I mean the level of certainty that these patriots exhibited, and I'm going to call them patriots. Why do I call them patriots? Because there wasn't anybody who was willing to lie for political purposes. They found apparently a large body of Black voters of which basically none of them were willing to lie for political gain. Have you ever seen better news than that? Yeah.

Now somebody says that makes you suspicious of the poll, doesn't it? Yeah that does make you a little suspicious of the poll. All right I'm going to completely change my take on this. You've completely changed my mind. There's no way that's true. There's no way that's credible. All right you win. You win. You got me. My first reaction was it was amazing. Second reaction, you have changed my mind. I'm looking at your comments. You've totally changed my mind. There isn't any way that's true. There isn't any way that's true, right? And here I was all inspired that we'd found a pocket of the best patriotic Americans who just weren't willing to lie for a political gain. But there's no group of Americans like that, right?

Well I guess it's double fake news. It's probably double fake news and it really wasn't that hard to vote, but there's no way this survey is real. I can't believe it. All right, enough of that.

So the Wall Street Journal has some good reporting here on what's stopping the TikTok ban from happening. As you know, TikTok is evil and can control America because it's the user interface that China can use to change our opinions in America. Literally. That's not any kind of exaggeration. And so as you know, Josh Hawley has some legislation and spending. But here's a problem that I'd never heard of until today. And how in the world did I never hear this until today? Can you tell me if you heard this news before today?

That the reason that Trump tried and failed to get TikTok banned was there something called the Berman Amendment. It goes back to the Cold War. And the Berman Amendment says that you don't want to censor international information. And the reason was, I think we didn't want our information to be censored by other people, but also we didn't want to be the censors of other countries. So it was the Berman Amendment. Now apparently the Trump administration was not able to figure out a way around it. And so TikTok argued it and won. And won in court. They said it's not legal because the Berman Amendment says you can't do this. So the Trump administration backed off.

Do you know how hard this was to solve? Here's what the Hawley amendment did to get past that. Oh, so terrible problem. Totally unsolvable problem, right? What are you going to do? What are you going to do with this unsolvable problem of the Berman Amendment? Well let me tell you how clever Hawley is. Josh Hawley. Now you never would have figured this out because we're just normal people. But Josh Hawley, apparently a genius, figured out how to get around the Berman Act. His legislation says this will be a narrow exception to the Berman Act.

Well who would have ever thought of that? Who would have ever thought, well why don't we just include in the legislation that this is an exception? How about that? Now apparently nobody, I want to ask you for an exception to do some swearing because this really calls for it, but I'm not going to do it. Not going to do it. I'm not going to swear. I will simply state in the calmest possible way that the Trump administration must have been deeply incompetent on this issue because it looks like the solution is as simple as saying, well how about we make an exception to the Berman Act.

And here's why that was not really hard to figure out. So I can't give Trump a pass on that, can I? How in the world could I give him a pass on that? Now maybe the Josh Hawley legislation won't pass and then maybe the argument is, well you know it's not going to pass if you put that in there. But why wouldn't it? The argument for not making that exception is that other countries might try to censor our information. Stop laughing. Come on, let me say it again so you can have a good laugh with it. The argument for not censoring information coming into our country from China, from China, is that other countries might try to use as an excuse to ban some of our information. Yeah, that's actually what they're arguing about in the real world. Actual adults are having that conversation.

Let me tell you the conversation that's not happening in China. Oh we better not do anything with TikTok because we don't want to violate that Berman Act. I mean it's not our act or amendment. It's not our amendment. But you know we don't want to start something. The last thing we'd want to do in China is ban some American information because you know then they might ban our information. I mean really, are we seeing, are we missing something about the story or are politicians actually this incapable? The level of incompetence that this exhibits is almost hard to believe. Like you could have a really low opinion of Congress and still look at this and say, okay that's a new level of incompetence. I haven't seen that before. You know you've done it again. You've outdone yourself.

Yeah we don't want China and Russia and North Korea, yeah we wouldn't want them filtering the information we send to their residents. God forbid that that should start tomorrow.

All right, so that's happening or not happening. But the good news is we'll all get to see who is voting for China and who's voting for the United States. And Josh Hawley, here's another bit of fodder for you. The Berman Act, unless I'm mistaken, is about information from other countries. Information. TikTok is information. All you have to do is call it entertainment. You're done. Just say the Berman Act talks about information but this is specifically about entertainment. So we would never block information but we might block entertainment that also has some information in it. So it's just words. Nothing you can't change.

There's a company, I saw an ad for a company called Pay Analytics. So they've got a new product. I want you to see if you can find, oh I don't know, any potential problems with this product. See if your suspicious mind comes up with anything that would be maybe bad about this product taking off in corporate America. Here's what they do. They measure and monitor pay gaps by any demographic variable. Pay equity decisions made easy for HR and compensation as well as consultants. As well as consultants. So you can sustain fair pay and gain ongoing data-driven support. You could book a demo today.

That's right. You could take a company away from its mission of making money and serving its stockholders and you could make them spend all of their time trying to be fair across all demographic variables. All of them. All of the demographics. Because if you find out that short people are paid less you're going to have to fix it. So in theory I'd like to know if they put in height and weight and attractiveness because you know those are correlated, right? You know that better looking people are higher paid. Is that fair? How about short people? They're paid less than tall people. I think the Pay Analytics needs to do more analytics. I don't know if they've done enough because if they only stopped with let's say gender preference and ethnicity and religion, if they stopped with that I say you've only gone half the way. There are so many other demographics that must be accounted for. So let's get that going.

All right, one of the biggest questions I've been asked lately is, am I serious about my apologizing for being wrong about everything in the pandemic or as some people have suggested am I just being sarcastic and just being a jerk? All right, what do you think? Sarcastic or serious? Go in the comments. What do you say? Oh damn you. Damn you for getting the right answers over there on Locals. The Locals people are all over me. They're always there. Both. How could I be serious and not serious at the same time? Is that possible? But how could I believe that I was wrong about everything if I really believe that I'm right about everything? They can't both be true, right? It can't be true that I'm right about everything and wrong about everything. Would you agree?

Well let me change the question. How many would agree with the statement it can't be simultaneously true? Agree? Not it can't be true that I was wrong about almost everything but also right about everything. They can't both be true, right? We all agree on that. All right, that's where we differ. In my world they both can be true forever and there's no preferred truth. They're both true, completely true, unambiguously true and forever. And it's not just a mental thing. It might in my best understanding of my reality we are actually a simulation. And it's only because of the math of it, you know I won't go through the argument again, but it's like a trillion to one that we're simulated and not original. If we're simulated it seems clear that in order to save processing power our simulation allows us to live in our own movie. I call it a movie because we're looking at the same objective facts often, not always but often, and yet we form our own movie and then we live in it. The only thing the simulation requires is that we can still reproduce. That's it. If you reproduce you make more of yourself so there's more of you to do the same stuff next year. But if you don't reproduce, you know it's game over. So the only thing that matters is if we can reproduce.

And as far as I know the people who believe that vaccinations were the worst experience we've ever had and those who think it was no big deal can still have babies, you know unless they've been sterilized by accidental science. But as far as we know they can both have, we can still have babies with each other. So what I'm doing, my own cognition of what I'm doing is that I'm not dishonest when I say to the Locals people, well obviously I got everything right. You watched every bit of it and they say yeah that meets my view of the world. Some don't. Some would say the opposite. And then for those who say the opposite I say well that's true too.

In a minute, a little bit, I gotta do some other stories. At the end I'm going to tell you something about viruses that you didn't know and it's important. Do you think I can do that even at this stage? Do you think there's something I could tell you about viruses that you didn't know that's really important? All right well let's see if I can pull that off. But you know I'll do that at the end so those of you want to avoid that conversation.

All right so let's talk about Ukraine. Did you hear the story that apparently, reportedly, Israel did some bombing runs or some maybe some drones or missiles, I don't know, but they attacked a bunch of drone making factories in Iran. Now what do you make of that? Israel just did a massive attack on Iran and took out some number of drone making factories. I am so impressed with Israel's decision making. Their strategic excellence. It's just crazy how good they are.

Do you know how long they've wanted to take out Iranian drone factories? I mean I'm just guessing but don't you think they've wanted to take out the Iranian drone factories since the moment they knew they existed, right? Because these drones are going to end up with Hamas and the drones are going to end up in Israel. Already have, right? So and do you think they could have done it on day one? What would it have looked like? They were starting a traditional war. It would have been pretty aggressive. But and what would have happened to Europe's reaction? I think Europe would have said Israel what the hell are you doing? These Iranians are negotiating with us in good faith to get some kind of a nuclear deal and then you're just attacking them. Well that's no fair. Stop that. Am I right? Two years ago, correct me if I'm wrong, two years ago Europe would have said Israel, you know we're going to have to give you some tough time about that, right?

Do you think Europe is going to give Israel a tough time about taking out the source of Putin's drones? Nope. Nope. This was free money. This was so free money. Israel just had a total free punch and they took it. My God are you impressed? You know when you watch the Ukrainians and NATO and the U.S. you have lots of, you know, maybe this was good, maybe bad. It's easy to criticize both sides. But what is there to criticize about this exactly? Never let a crisis go to waste. I actually almost tweeted that and deleted it. I had a half written and I decided not to say it. But yes Israel said they're in the middle of a big crisis. We can just take out these factories and everybody's just gonna say okay. And I think that's what's happening. I think it was just a free punch and they took it.

Iran said no damage. Yeah I saw the videos of the no damage. It was a pretty big fireball for no damage. But on the other hand they could come back and get them on YouTube.

Somebody's comparing me to Bill Kristol. Yeah yeah that's a good comparison. Bill Kristol and me we're like that. Same opinions on everything. Same simulation. They could have their own, you can have your own reality about that.

All right, so I don't know if you heard this story or how old it is. Somebody can tell me how old this story is. How old is the story about Conor McGregor being hit by a car while he was riding his bicycle? He's okay. He wasn't injured. How old is that story? Was that just this week? I only saw the video this week but I had a feeling. Two weeks ago. Oh it was fairly new.

So here's what happened to Conor McGregor. If you don't know, one of the top or at least the most famous MMA fighters. So the last guy you would ever want to get in a fight with would be Conor McGregor. Am I right? Like you would never want to make this guy angry. Well here's what happened. He was out riding his bike, presumably working out, and there was some kind of blind spot because of the sun. The car came around the corner and just took out the bike and destroyed it.

Now here's the best part of the story. How many of you could have survived being hit by a car at full speed on a bicycle? How many of you could survive that? So because apparently he saw the impending thing before it would hit, you know he had time to act and I think he jumped off the bike, probably did some acrobatic rolls across the car and landed properly. Now not on his feet but he said he knew how to land. That man could take a hit. Oh my God. Was that the most interesting story? But it gets better. It gets better.

The guy who hit him of course didn't know who he had hit. How would you like to be the guy who just realized he just took out somebody. You don't know who it is and you're like oh my God, my God. The first thing you find out is that he's perfectly okay. So your first impression is oh thank goodness he's perfectly healthy. The second thing you find out is it's Conor McGregor. Do you think he was worried?

So it gets better because Conor takes out his phone. So you're seeing some of the aftermath including his conversation with the guy who hit him. Just perfect. Just perfect. The guy who hit him looked so frightened. I've never seen anybody look more frightened. He was just like this. And then he offers him a ride. Offers Conor McGregor, right? He says I could put your bike in the back and give you a ride. And Conor's like yeah I need a ride. Yeah that'd be great.

So then Conor McGregor is doing a selfie, you know the video selfie in the car. He's describing what happened and then he turns the camera to show the guy who's driving him. He goes on the other, you know luckily he landed well and you know he's given me a ride. He shows the guy. The guy's like, because I have to think he probably all the time thought he was like five seconds from being killed. But what he doesn't understand is if you're Conor McGregor and somebody takes out your bicycle on the highway and you acrobatically survive, that was a good day. That wasn't a bad day. It was a good day. He got a great story out of it. Yeah I think he scratched his ass or something. That was the worst of it. Got a great story out of it. Did exactly what you would want to hope two people would do in that situation, right? The guy who hit him didn't seem like it was his fault because it was a blind spot there and even Conor said that. So the two of them completely reached a non-angry resolution in which they were helping each other. It was just the coolest story. Just the coolest story. Yeah anyway I liked it.

I saw Jesse Watters talking about Hunter and I don't know is there something new on this story or was he just recapping it because this is in the news today. I'm not sure why it was new but the FBI has recordings of Hunter talking to the what Hunter called the effing spy chief of China. And there was this one guy who they thought was a spy called Patrick Ho. And this Patrick Ho was part of the money making scheme in which Hunter and presumably Joe Biden made money from China going through this Patrick Ho. And I read the whole story and the only commentary I have on it is, you know Joe Biden said that Hunter Biden was the smartest person he knew and you doubted that, right? You doubted it. But he's the only person I've ever heard of who ever made money from a ho. That's all I have to say. He might be the smartest person I know too. I don't know anybody who ever made money on a ho unless they were a pimp but he wasn't a pimp. So smartest person I know.

But it makes you wonder if we have these recordings and we know every part of the story how is it Joe Biden still the president? It's so weird that he's still the president. And I wonder if we're, or most of us are living in the same kind of cognitive dissonance that the TDS people were, you know the Trump derangement syndrome. Because the thing that surprises the Trump haters the most is that Trump is not in jail right now. The reason Trump is not in jail is the total lack of committing crimes that are jailable. Maybe has something to do with not committing any jailable offenses, right? But they can't see that. To them he was a traitor, ran an insurrection, did all kinds of things. Are we doing the same thing with Biden or is that how they get away with it? They make you think well maybe you're not right because we're acting like it's not right. We're treating it like it doesn't exist so maybe you're not right. Maybe you've got a little derangement syndrome there Scott.

I don't even know if, if I'm being dead honest I don't know because that's the nature of confirmation bias, right? The nature of cognitive dissonance is the person who has it doesn't know. So what if I have it? What if the Bidens didn't do anything shady and it just looks exactly like that in every way to me and people who saw the same stuff I saw? Is that possible? Because you trust me there's nobody who has Trump derangement syndrome who thinks they have Trump derangement syndrome. They all think they're just looking at the facts and reaching a decision. Well that's what I think I'm doing. Well why am I right and they're wrong? Remember my rule about knowing who's got cognitive dissonance. You look for someone who has the trigger and you know they exhibit the tells. I'm not sure I see any but then maybe I wouldn't. Yeah the word salad. Have I exhibited any word salad about Biden? Well you wouldn't know because if you're on the same page it would look like it made sense to you. Yeah anyway we'll keep an eye on that because it looks like nobody cares.

So Trump went after DeSantis a little bit for closing Florida when apparently other governors did not. That was a pretty good offense. So obviously Trump is trying to degrade DeSantis's presidential possibilities but that's an interesting attack isn't it? Because Trump never supported lockdowns apparently so he can look at the governors that didn't lock down and they can compare him to DeSantis and suddenly DeSantis doesn't look so good because he's reframed it from comparing DeSantis to DeSantis to comparing him to governors who didn't close down. That's a pretty good political approach, right? Just from a persuasion perspective pretty good. It's pretty good because he understands his base doesn't like the lockdowns. He never supported them or mandates and DeSantis did for a little while, not for long. So we still give DeSantis credit for being one of the more right people.

But then Trump also, apparently there's a story that Nikki Haley called Trump and said she's considering running in the primaries against him. What do you think Trump said when Nikki Haley said she's considering running against him? What would be his smartest response? Go for it. Because the more people in the primaries the more likely he wins because he's going to keep his 25 percent. So if the other people can split what's left over. Yeah he's the nominee again. Worked the first time. Why wouldn't it work again? Yeah so that was exactly the right answer.

So he's definitely right on his attack for DeSantis in terms of persuasion. Wise it's a good approach and he is definitely right strategically telling Nikki Haley yeah go for it. Good strategy. But then I saw a video in which he was talking about the energy policy, the Biden energy policy, and it sounded like he was saying that there's like these stupid energy things and good energy things and the good energy things were the fossil fuel types and the bad energy things that were silly. I don't think he named them by name but it sounded like he was going after solar and wind power, right? That was the implication.

Now what do you think of his messaging? His messaging is fossil fuel is good, alternative things can never be good, you know they're not good and will never be good. Is that good messaging or bad? It's an F. Yeah that's a fail. On if I'm going to grade this it's not even a D plus. This is just a total failure.

Here's what a good message for a Republican candidate would look like. You know there's something we can all come together on on energy. It used to be there was a lot of disagreement on nuclear energy but with the generation three which has never had any deaths or problems or big problems and with the fact that we now can store the spent fuel on site so we don't have to transport it, that's you know sort of where the industry went. And now that the newer generations of nuclear could eat some of that waste as their fuel, could use some of the waste as their fuel, we should definitely come together on nuclear and do it as quickly as possible.

Now I think we should also go heavy on fossil fuel until we have alternatives but I don't see them coming happening quickly. However I also agree that the free market should continue every other technological innovation because there might be something, some change. You know you might have better batteries or better solar panels or better windmills so that'd be great. At the moment we think we need as much fossil fuel as possible to give America its independence, economic growth as well as being secure from our enemies. In the long run we like technological innovation but we don't want to over subsidize it. That's a problem. We don't want to over subsidize things. Let the free market do what it does as much as possible.

Now is there any reason that he has to not mention nuclear, the one thing we all agree on or we're coming close to it? That's the one I'd play on. And why can't he say that the other stuff is fine as long as we don't over subsidize it? It's like he's trying not to win with that message. I mean it looks like virtue signaling. I just think it's he doesn't need that much nuance to make it perfect because here are the things that we should all be agreeing on. We should be agreeing on immigration. Have a strong border security but have some bipartisan group of economists decide who we'd let in and when so you've got some independence about that decision but you know be secure on the border. Everybody would agree with that.

So he has all these topics from education including public school alternatives etc. All kinds of stuff that he could pick off Democrats. Let me just give you a sort of a mental exercise. Let's say you wanted to pick off some Democrats but you didn't want to lose your base. He could definitely pick some off on immigration just by being reasonable. He could definitely pick them off by being pro-nuclear and pro-green enough that he's not against it but also wants to make our economy and work well. I think he can make energy work. I think he can make Ukraine something we come together on. I think you could pull some Democrats off of that pile. He has all these issues even the CRT and transgender stuff in schools. I think he could pick off Democrats on that at this point in not before but at this point sure.

So he has this total ability to take 10 percent of the Democrats totally. And he can mock the January 6th thing out of the news if he chooses to. If every time he's asked about it he goes all right let's be serious. Are you really trying to tell the story that Republicans staged an insurrection without guns? And then don't even answer any other question. I go but you answer me the question. I know you have lots of questions for me but honestly I'm actually curious. Do you actually think that's what an insurrection would look like? Do you think I'm so bad at insurrections that I would think that trespassing for a day without weapons would conquer the United States? How does that even make sense, right?

So every attack on Trump at the moment is completely empty. All he has to do is reframe them but so far he's not. So far he's not taking any of the free money that is available now that really wasn't available in 2016 or 2020 because things have changed, right? At this point getting both sides to agree on ending the Ukraine stuff you don't think he can pick off people on both sides on that issue? We didn't have that issue before. He could definitely get some. Yeah so Trump has a super highway to win. He just has to stay in the middle of the highway and not say bad framing for topics that he doesn't need to frame badly. There's just no reason but we'll see what he does.

So I'm totally unimpressed by his energy take. To me that's just a failure. Like I can't give it even like nice try. I can't even say it's good for the base really. It's not even good for the base. It's like just bad.

All right here now is something you did not know about viruses. You've heard of measles and I'm old enough to have had measles before there were vaccinations. And here's something I learned today in 2019. So this is an article in WebMD from 2019. One of the things we learned about measles that we didn't know for a hundred years, how long have we known that measles existed? Hundreds of years something like that. Here's something you didn't know. A number of studies are showing that the measles may have wiped out your body's memory for immunity of other things. The measles may have wiped out your immunity for other things. And that's something that they're learning just lately after 50 years of science.

So in other words there is long measles. Long measles apparently exists because it can take out your immunity to other things and then those other things get you. Now that's something we didn't know for 50 years. So what do we know about the coronavirus? Do you think the coronavirus could take you out like 50 years from now we could find out oh it did some bad things that we didn't know? What about the vaccination itself? What about that? Do you think in 50 years we can find out it did something to us 50 years ago? It all seems possible doesn't it?

Now does it change your mind that we only found out how dangerous measles is in 2019? 2019. And by the way the article, the people talking about it were Fauci. Fauci was in the article and Michael Mina who you knew from the pandemic talking about the absence of fast testing, rapid testing. So two of the characters were well known from the pandemic were part of this story as well. They were the main people in the story. So interesting.

What is your belief about the mainstream opinion of long COVID? Not your own opinion. Not your own opinion. What do you believe if you were to Google what would be the front page of Google results? Not saying it's true. I'm just asking you what would appear. Would it say that long COVID is pretty much a thing definitely? What is it saying? Maybe we're still looking into it or would it say you know I've got a feeling this isn't real?

All right the Google search, and again I'm not endorsing this as being correct. If you just Googled you would see that long COVID is very real. That's their claim not mine. Very real and it's kind of a big deal. Now usually it's something that would last months. Now what percentage of people according to the Google front page, not me, what percentage of people do you think experienced long COVID which they would define as let's say weeks or months of brain fog and fatigue? Like 45 percent. 45 percent.

Now if you had lost three months of your life to fatigue how big of a risk would you take to avoid that? Of course the vaccination risk you know is everything including death because it's an unknown. You don't know what happens to you or anybody else. There's no way to measure the two risks. But what if COVID which was, well let me ask this question.

So here's something I had genuine curiosity for. How did you know that long COVID wouldn't be as bad as maybe long measles is? How did you know that? So I asked people how they knew it and a lot of people said they knew it because the data said that people were getting it and recovering and they knew people who it was just a cold and they got over it. Now that's people telling me that they know the future because they know the present. To me that's not even a thing because in the present I thought measles was just something that happened to me then but 50 years later I found out oh it turns out I thought I was safe but maybe I wasn't.

But people unlike the measles case there were a lot of people who looked at the current COVID information and from that they formed certainty about the future. Now I don't know how to do that. I only could look at current information and say well I don't know about the future.

So I asked Ivor Cummins who is a famous opponent to vaccinations and he said, oh I also asked if how do you explain that the scientists and drug executives presumably but we don't know took the shots themselves. Like if you think they're dangerous how would you explain that to people who invented them took them. And what I found was that the majority of people that I polled believe they didn't. They believed they didn't take them which is totally possible. That is totally possible. You know there was a day when I would have said come on. Right there was a time in my life I always said come on. If the executives and the scientists who invented them didn't take them we would know that. There would be whistleblowers and you know it would just be so obvious. You would know it.

Yes Katie. Katie is also confusing the future and the past. So there's somebody on here who can't tell the difference between today and the future. You're right. Do you know there's a difference? You should look into that. So there are things that happen like today that can be different than things that happen in the future and sometimes the futures are unknown. Sometimes you don't know. I know that's the first time you're finding that out Katie. I know.

So Katie is screaming in all caps. Scott in 2020 we must immediately close the entire country down from all international flights and lockdown. First of all Katie that was about China only. China only. And that was when we didn't know what it was and I said well at least shut down until we find out. So with the information we have at the time that's called the present. Now I know these concepts are unfamiliar but the present is different than the past and also different in the future. Now if I had known what you know Katie apparently you're a time traveler and you knew from the first moment that it was no risk. You are my role model. I want to be like you and go on podcasts and shout in all capital letters that the future and the current are the same. That I can look at my future data today and then with the benefit of the future data I could make decisions today. Now that's something I didn't know Katie so thank you for correcting me. Oh Katie you got very quiet. How embarrassing to be you right now.

All right so but there is, as people said to me and I expect that they would say this, that there is actually an entirely reasonable argument, a totally reasonable argument why all of the scientists and all of the executives or some portion of them might have skipped the shots and lied to you. That is possible. In 2022 and 2021 I would say we've actually reached the point of ridiculousness where that was actually possible. Now if I had to put odds on it I would say not very high but it's actually possible now.

Here's another possibility. The scientists and executives were so let's say enamored by how much money they were going to make because even the scientists were going to get rich just on stock options. Anybody who owned company stocks got rich. So everybody was going to make a killing and the only thing they had to do was tell you that it was safe. That's all they had to do and they would all get rich. And then they had immunity, right? They had negotiated immunity. So once they negotiated immunity they'd lost all incentives to tell you the truth. They had no incentive to tell you the truth because they had immunity and if they lied, this is hypothetical but if they lied they would get rich and they would have no risk.

So do you think that people who have a choice of getting rich if they say one thing, are they objective anymore? Of course not. Of course not. So it's entirely possible and it fits within my understanding of psychology that everyone at big pharma was in cognitive dissonance and convinced themselves they were working for the good but were doing the opposite. I'm not saying that's the case. I'm saying that would be fully within the normal scope of human behavior. Totally accepted.

Now if you told me that that situation would remain that way forever well then I get skeptical. The longer you wait the more somebody's gonna leave the ranks. You're going to get a whistleblower. So here's a question I ask. Where's the whistleblowers? The ones who say we knew it was bad for you but we did it anyway. Where are they? How much would you have to make to be a whistleblower in this situation? Because I think if you're a scientist or you work there you probably made five million dollars. Don't you think? Don't you think that like a top scientist probably made five, ten, twenty million dollars just on stock options just for going to work? I think you know because they probably had a top scientist probably had a million or two in stock options which you know ballooned immediately up to 10 million or something.

So but suppose you offered 20 million dollars for any whistleblower who could tell you that they knew it was dangerous and did it anyway without telling you the danger. Do you think anybody would answer for 20 million dollars? Remember follow the money. Well if you say no then you're relying a little bit on the follow the money because the top executives would lose money if they became whistleblowers, right? The top executive has probably made a billion apiece or 100 million or something so they would lose money. 20 million would be a bad deal for them. But if you're let's say just an employee, a staff person, let's say you made a million dollars in stock options. Pretty darn good for a year of work. But you take 20. I think you'd take 20 million. I don't know if it's taxable. Our whistleblower compensation is that taxable? Is there any special carve out for whistleblowers for taxes? Because I don't know if you get the 20 or you get the 10. So maybe you only get half of it. Right that's why I made it 20 million.

So if you believe that they were bad people doing bad things the questions you'd have to ask is why did they all take it or how did they all hide the fact they didn't or how could there not be at least one whistleblower. Just one whistleblower who likes 20 million dollars and likes attention. Just one. Then maybe there will be one. Maybe we just wait a little while and they'll feel safer to come out. Right it's possible.

So here's where I went wrong. All right I believe I was biased by people who take drugs. The illegal kind. If you have any experience in the illegal drug world what's the number one rule of whether or not you put a drug in your mouth? Number one rule. What is it? It's an illegal drug. What's the number one rule before you put it in your mouth or you smoke it? Did you watch somebody else do it? That's the number one rule. Did you watch somebody reach into the same bag and take out the same pill or powder or whatever it's going to be and watch them put it in their mouth and then the next day they're still alive, right? If you took mushrooms from a bag that you don't know anybody's ever tried well you're really taking the chance there, right?

So the number one rule, in fact it was the rule I mentioned to my stepson before he violated the rule and died because I'm pretty sure that he took some things and simply hadn't tested them. And there was at least one other person who died from the same batch the same day. So the batch was bad. Nobody tested from that batch, right? So it's the number one thing.

So when I look at the vaccinations slash shots the number one question I said is well are they taking it, right? Are the executives taking it? What about the scientists who invented it? Are they taking it? What about Dr. Malone? Dr. Malone the co-inventor of the mRNA. Did he take it? He did. He did. He says he did. We can't prove anything right but I imagine you wouldn't lie about that.

Now here's my second question. If you took the executives and the top scientists of big pharma and you brought them before Congress would it be legal to ask them the question did you get the vaccination? It might be illegal to ask because it's their personal medical stuff, right? They could just say I don't talk about my personal medical situation. So even Congress can't find out if they took the shot, right? Am I right? Or does, let me think now. The government has a record of our vaccination status though, right? Don't they? Do a fact check. I mean the whole point of having the vaccination cards is that everybody who got a vaccination was entered. So if the executives and the scientists who invented it if they have a card and they're on a record you still don't know if they got a saline because half of you believe they got saline, right?

But don't you think, do you think that there would be no whistleblower if the executives and the scientists were taking saline? You don't think you'd get a whistleblower for that? See I could imagine no whistleblower on the basic question of whether they knew it was dangerous. I could imagine no whistleblower on that even if there was something there. But I can't imagine, I can't imagine my head, my head cannot hold and hold into it that you wouldn't have a whistleblower by now if a number of them like a large number got a saline shot. Do you believe they could keep that secret up till now? I don't know. It certainly I think it's possible. Yeah I think the things we've seen from the Russia collusion to you know the laptop to, I mean think about the fact there are 51 people who signed that Hunter laptop thing. 51 people. Not a single one of them has come forward and said you know that wasn't real. We were just trying to influence things. No whistleblowers there. That's 51 people. No whistleblowers. Tuskegee, there were no whistleblowers for a long time, right? So there are lots of situations where there are no whistleblowers. Yeah it could happen.

But here's where I'm telling you my bias. My bias is that I presumed it's most likely that they took it and then I said well if the people who know the most about it took it that's an argument. But then I have to admit it never occurred to me that they could have taken saline shots and gotten away with it. But we do live in a world where they could have. I don't think it happened like it. My assessment of the odds, the odds that the executives and scientists took saline I'd put it 10 percent. I put that at 10 percent and 10 is high. Yeah I'm stretching to get to 10 because that would be one hell of a, I mean that would be the crime of the whole. Wouldn't that be the crime of the century or the biggest crime since you know Genghis Khan or biggest crimes in Stalin or Mao or something. But maybe.

Yeah like as somebody who's saying over here I'm gullible now. Remember I believe we're a simulation and I believe that your movie in which I got everything wrong and I trusted big entities is completely true but at the same time the other movie is completely true that I didn't trust any entities and I didn't trust the virus. So they're just both true at the same time and there's nothing wrong with it. They can just both be true.

They took it at a time we thought COVID was a bioweapon but did they get boosters? Because we would also have a record of their boosters. I think what you'd find is that the people attached to it got boosted if they were old and had comorbidities and maybe not if they're young. That's what I think you would find.

All right, so the number of people who believe, only 19 percent of the people I surveyed believe that the executives and the scientists actually took it themselves. 61 percent believed that it was a saline shot or they didn't take it. 61 percent of you believe the executives and the scientists who made it didn't take it. Isn't there some way to find out? Like I get that if it was a super clever saline solution thing maybe you couldn't but I feel like there's some way to find out. I just don't know what it is. Yeah Google it. Google it won't work. Yeah all right all right.

But anyway all it would take to make me happy would be a GoFundMe of 20 million dollars for a whistleblower who could say something we don't already know. You'd have to specify what they specifically, what their claim would have to be to pay them. But if they could prove it with documents especially that would be amazing.

DJ Bear wants you to know this is fake and he's going to say it 20 times. So far just keep saying it. Yeah he just wants to type it over and over again. We're going to make you invisible here. You are now hidden but I encourage you to keep typing.

All right could sign something that we would know. Yeah all right. I also wonder how many doctors have died from the shot. No you'd love to know how many medical doctors because there must be enough of them. How many medical doctors are in the United States? It's well over a hundred thousand, right? Million? I don't know. 100,000. Does anybody have any idea? But don't you figure that the medical professionals are probably 98 percent vaccinated? Wouldn't you say? Maybe 90 percent but do you think there are any vaccinated people? I know.

Now here's something I said that nobody called me on and you should have. I said something really sketchy earlier. You should have called me on it. When I said that Google says that at the moment 45 percent of people are saying they have long COVID symptoms. You were supposed to say aren't they all vaccinated? And then I'd say oh yeah that's true. You can't tell if it's long COVID or long jab. Now I think because of the timing of and such people can tell it's from the COVID not the shot but I was expecting you to say that. I was expecting all right. Yeah very suspect.

All right that's all for now YouTube. I'll talk to you tomorrow. Thanks for joining. Have a good one.

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Tube all you want except for the good stuff after the show that's only for the subscribers well have I ever told you this way to predict the future best way to predict the future is the best story usually wins if you ever heard me say that the best story so for example if there's an aging athlete who comes back for one last chance to win the Super Bowl that he's never won before if that's like the best story it'll probably happen right so the Australian Open tennis tournament just concluded what was the best story well the best story if you recall if you don't watch Tennis I'll tell you one of the top layers in the world I don't know if he's number one but he has been number one off and on uh Novak Djokovic he was not allowed to play in the in the Australian Open last year because he was unvaccinated this year he was allowed to play what was the best story oh did you regain number one by winning the tournament that's the best story the best story would be Novak Djokovic winning the Australian Open yesterday Novak Djokovic won the Australian Open now that's not the weird part you know what the weird part is his first name no vax novax I mean it's you know Novak but really his name is novax and he didn't get vaccinated anyone in Australian Open you tell me that's not the best story right could could you not have predicted that I did I did actually predict that in advance but privately so I should have said it out loud but every time you see one of these where the best story is really obvious you're like well that would be the best story then it happens and I think that there's actually a mechanism for it you know it could be the simulation is causing our intentions to make it happen but I feel as if everybody collectively knows the best story including the competitors and I think it actually suppresses the competitors you know there's a like a psychological mechanism where they too want the best story to happen because the best story is just as a hold on your mind because you used to sing the best story you know in fiction so that's just a theory Wall Street Journal is reporting that restaurants are retooling to be more takeout oriented some of them will be purely taken so you're going to have a purely Take Out restaurant more of them coming I mean it's not it's not like that was just invented but there'll be more of them coming now here's what I always thought was the best part about the pandemic if if you can even say that the best part about the pandemic is uh do you remember uh Naval ravacon said early in the pandemic he predicted that what the pandemic would change was mostly the rate of change that the things that were going to happen in the long run were still going to happen just that would happen more quickly because we would be scrambling to re-engineer everything and one of the things I think was badly in need of re-engineering is food have you ever thought about the inefficiency of the food process from the moment let's say a seed is planted in a farmer's field do you know how many people touch your food before it gets to your mouth it's like all kinds of steps to get it to you know some distribution plays and then it gets to the food distribution place I guess the grocery store then it gets on the Shelf you put it into your cart you take it out of the cart you put it on your uh on the you know the cashier thing you pay for it you put it back in the cart you take it out of the cart you put it in your car you take it out of your car you put it on your counter you take it out of your bag and put it in the refrigerator you take it out of the refrigerator you take it out of the package take it out of the package put it in the oven take it out of the oven put it on a plate take it from the plate and put it in your mouth the whole thing is a complete mess nobody would design the system from scratch you know just sort of evolved that way with a free market so I for a long time I've been telling you that the best food distribution system would look like the following something very close to your home like you could walk there in five minutes would be like a central cafeteria like a college campus and the central cafeteria would have a wide variety of food that they just made fresh so everything's fresh just got made lots of variety and because it because it's a captive audience a little bit you know there's you know they have that Monopoly if you will it was pretty cheap so it was cheap best food you could get and the easiest food you could get they solved every problem solved every problem the only thing it didn't solve was we didn't have apps about you know when I was in college if I had an app where all I had to do was you know say what I want to pick up and I just walk over and pick it up I wouldn't have to pay for a delivery so the whole doordash I think doordash might have a limited future because I think people are going to still be doing takeout but I think they're going to get it within five minutes of their house so I think they're that you'll have all these local sort of General cafeterias here would be the mistake I think the mistake would be to have a a local takeout only that's one ethnicity like it's just Chinese takeout now people will use that but the but wouldn't you rather everybody in your family can order from the cafeteria and you just go pick it up you don't want the well I don't like Chinese food or I had it yesterday if you're gonna if you're gonna order once for a family you kind of want the cafeteria uh so I think this is where it's going it's going to be all use your app walk five minutes and pick it up that's what it's going to be with some delivery option uh but it's already happening looks like all right here's some fake news from the Democrats fake news do you remember when the Democrats were saying that the Georgia voting laws and there have been some recent changes we're going to disenfranchise the Black American voters do you remember that oh it was practically a second Holocaust slavery all over again how could they they were going to make it impossible for black people to figure out how to vote so there was a recent survey new poll asked black voters if they had a poor experience cast in their ballot and the number of black voters who said they had a poor experience voting in Georgia was uh zero zero have you ever seen a poll where one of the main answers was Zero zero now we're rounded to zero so it was you know a little bit more than zero but it rounded to zero yeah I often tell you that on any poll at least 25 percent of the respondents are going to get the wrong answer but this one was so clean so obvious so clear so unambiguous that a hundred percent of black Americans who you would might imagine you know being human like everybody else you might imagine that they would feel a little biased because we all do in our own situations right we all have bias don't you think that you could get more than zero of them to at least imagine they had a problem hard time how do you even not imagine that maybe it was harder than usual I mean the level of certainty that these Patriots exhibited and I'm going to call them patriots why why do I call them patriots because there wasn't anybody who was willing to lie for political purposes they found apparently a large body of black voters of which basically none of them were willing to lie for political gain have you ever seen better news than that yeah now somebody says that you know makes you suspicious of the poll doesn't it yeah that does make you a little suspicious of the poll all right I'm gonna I'm gonna completely change my take on this you've completely changed my mind there's no way that's true there's no way that's credible all right you win you win you got me my first reaction was it was amazing second reaction you have changed my Minds I'm looking at your comments you've totally changed my mind there isn't any way that's true there isn't any way that's true right and here I was all inspired that we'd found a pocket of the best patriotic Americans who just weren't willing to lie for a political gain but there's no there's no group of Americans like that right well I guess it's double fake news it's probably double fake news and it really wasn't that hard to vote but there's no way this survey is real I can't believe it all right enough of that so Wall Street Journal has some good reporting here on what's stopping The Tick-Tock ban from happening as you know Tick Tock is evil and uh can control America because it's the user interface that China can use to change our opinions in America literally that's not it not any kind of exaggeration and so as you know the Holly Holly has a uh some legislation and spending but here's a problem that I'd never heard of until today and how how in the world did I never hear this until today can you tell me if you heard this news before today that the reason that Trump tried and failed to get Tick Tock banned was there something called the Berman Amendment it goes back to the Cold War and the Berman Amendment says that you don't want to censor International Information and the reason the reason was I think we didn't want our information to be censored by other people but also we didn't want to be the sensors of other countries so it was the Berman Amendment now apparently the Trump Administration was not able to figure out a way around it and so Tick Tock argued it and won and won in court they said it's not legal because the bourbon Amendment says you can't do this so the Trump Administration backed off do you know how hard this was to solve here's what the Holly Amendment did to get past that oh so terrible problem totally unsolvable problem right what are you going to do what are you going to do with this unsolvable problem of the Berman Amendment well let me tell you how clever Holly is Josh Hawley now you never would have figured this out because we're you know just normal people but Josh Hawley apparently a genius figured out how to get around the Berman Act his legislation says this will be a narrow exception to the Berman Act well who would have ever thought of that who would have ever thought well why don't we just include in the legislation that this is an exception how about that now apparently nobody I want to ask you for an exception to do some swearing because this really calls for it but I'm not going to do it not going to do it I'm not going to swear I will simply state in the calmest possible way that the Trump Administration must have been deeply incompetent on this issue because it looks like the solution is as simple as saying well how about we make an exception to the Berman act and here's why that was not really hard to figure out so I can't give Trump a pass on that can I how in the world could I give him a pass on that now maybe maybe the Josh Hawley legislation won't pass and then you know then maybe the argument is well you know it's not going to pass if you put that in there but why wouldn't it the argument for not making that exception is that other countries might try to censor our information stop laughing come on let me say it again so you can have a good laugh with the argument for not censoring information coming into our country from China from China is that other countries might try to you know use as an excuse to ban some of our information yeah that's actually what they're arguing about in the real world actual adults are having that conversation let me tell you the conversation that's not happening in China oh we better not do anything with tick tock because we don't want to violate that Berman act I mean it's not our it's not our act or Amendment it's not our Amendment but you know we don't want to start something the last thing we'd want to do in China is Ban some American information because you know then they might ban our information I mean really are we seeing are we missing something about the story or or are politicians actually this incapable the the level of incompetence that this exhibits is almost hard to believe like you could have a really low opinion of Congress and still look at this and say okay that's a new that's a new level of incompetence I haven't seen that before you know you've done it again you've found done yourself yeah we don't want China and Russia and North Korea yeah we wouldn't want them filtering the information we send to their residents God forbid that that should start tomorrow all right so that's happening or not happening but the good news is we'll all get to see who is voting for China and who's voting for the United States and Josh Hawley here's another bit of uh um fodder for you the bourbon act unless I'm mistaken is about information from other countries information Tick Tock is information all you have to do is call it entertainment you're done just say the Berman act talks about information but this is specifically about entertainment so we would never block information but we might Block Entertainment that also has some information in it so it's just words nothing you can't change there's a company I saw an ad for a company called pay Analytics so they've got a new product I want you to see if you can find oh I don't know yeah any potential problems with this product see if see if your Suspicious Mind comes up with anything that would be maybe bad about this product taking off in Corporate America here's what they do they measure and monitor pay gaps by any demographic variable pay Equity decisions made easy for HR and compensation as well as consultants as well as consultants so you can sustain Fair pay and gain ongoing data-driven support you could book a demo today that's right you could take a company away from its mission of making money and serving as stockholders and you could make them spend all of their time trying to be fair across all demographic variables all of them all of the demographics because if you if you find out that short people are paid less you're going to have to fix it so it's so in theory I'd like to know if they put in height and weight and attractiveness because you know those are correlated right you know that better looking people are higher paid is that fair how about short people they're paid less than to all people I think the pay analytics needs to do more Analytics I don't know if they've done enough because if they only stopped with let's say you know gender preference and ethnicity and religion if they stopped with that I say you've only gone half the way there are so many other demographics that must be accounted for so let's get that going all right one of the biggest questions I've been asked lately is am I serious about my apologizing for being wrong about everything in the pandemic or as some people have suggested am I just being sarcastic and just being a jerk right all right what do you think sarcastic or serious go in the comments what do you say oh damn you damn you for getting the right answers over there on locals the locals people are all over me they're always there both how could I be serious and not serious at the same time is that possible but how could how could I believe that I was wrong about everything if I really believe that I'm right about everything they can't both be true right it can't be true that I'm right about everything and wrong about everything would you agree well let me let me change the question how many would agree with the statement it can't be simultaneously true agree not it can't be true that I was wrong about almost everything but also right about everything they can't both be true right we all agree on that all right that's where we differ in my world they both can be true forever and there's no preferred truth they're both true completely true unambiguously true and forever and is not just a mental a mental thing it might in my best understanding of My reality we are actually a simulation and it's only because of the math of it you know I won't go through the argument again but it's like a trillion to one that were simulated and not original if we're simulated it seems clear that in order to save processing power our simulation allows us to live in our own movie I call it a movie because we're looking at the same objective facts often not always but often and yet we form our own movie and then we live in it the only thing the simulation requires that we can still reproduce that's it if you reproduce you make more of yourself so there's more of you to do the same stuff next year but if you don't reproduce you know it's game over so the only thing that matters is if we can reproduce and as far as I know the people who believe that vaccinations were the worst experience we've ever had and those who think it was no big deal can still have babies you know unless they've been sterilized by accidental science but as far as we know they can both have we can still have babies with each other so what I'm doing my my own uh let's say cognition of what I'm doing is that I'm not I'm not dishonest when I when I say to the locals people well obviously I got everything right you watched every bit of it and they say yeah that that meets my view of the world some don't some would say the opposite and then for those who say the opposite I say well that's true too in a minute um a little bit I gotta do some other stories at the end I'm going to tell you something about um viruses that you didn't know and it's important do you think I can do that even at this stage do you think there's something I could tell you about viruses that you didn't know that's really important all right well let's let's see if I can pull that off but you know I'll do that at the end so those of you want to avoid that conversation all right so let's talk about Ukraine did you hear the story that apparently reportedly Israel did some bogging runs or some maybe some drones or missiles I don't know but they attacked a bunch of uh drone making factories in Iran now what do you make of that Israel just did a massive attack on Iran and took out some number of drone making factories I am so impressed with Israel's decision-making their their strategic Excellence it's just crazy how good they are do you know how long they've wanted to take out Iranian drone factories I mean I'm just guessing but don't you think they've wanted to take that with the Iranian Jordan factories since the moment they knew they existed right because these drones are going to end up with Hamas and the drones are going to end up in Israel already have right so and do you think they could have done it on day one day what it would have looked like they were starting you know a traditional War it would have been pretty aggressive but and what would have happened um to Europe's reaction I think Europe would have said Israel what the hell are you doing these Iranians are negotiating with us in good faith to get some kind of a nuclear deal and and then you're just attacking them well that's no fair stop that am I right two years ago correct me if I'm wrong two years ago Europe would have said Israel you know we're going to have to give you some tough time about that right do you think Europe is going to give Israel a tough time about taking out the source of Putin's drones nope nope this was a this was free money this was so free money Israel just had a total free punch and they took it my God are you impressed you know when you watch the uh the ukrainians and the NATO and the U.S you have you have lots of you know maybe this was good maybe bad it's easy to criticize both sides but what is there to criticize about this exactly Lexington lend never let a crisis go to waste I actually I almost tweeted that and deleted it I had a half written and I decided not to say it but yes Israel said uh they're in the middle of a big crisis we can just take out these factories and everybody's just gonna say okay and I think that's what's happening I think it was just a free punch and they took it Iran said no damage yeah I saw the uh I saw the videos of the no damage it was a pretty big Fireball for no damage but on the other hand they could come back and get them on You.

Tube somebody's comparing me to Bill Crystal yeah yeah that's a that's a good comparison Bill Crystal and me we're like that same opinions on everything say simulation they could have their own you can have your own uh reality about that all right um so I don't know if you heard this story or how old it is somebody can tell me how old this story is how old is the story about Conor Mc.

Gregor being hit by a car while he was riding his bicycle he's okay he wasn't injured how old is that story was that just this week I only saw the video this week but I had a feeling I'm two weeks ago oh it was fairly new so here's what happened to Conor Mc.

Gregor if you don't know uh one of the top or at least the most famous MMA fighters so the last guy you would ever want to get in a fight with would be Conor Mc.

Gregor am I right like you would never want to make this guy angry well here's what happened he was now riding his bike presumably working out and there was some kind of blind spot because of the Sun the car came around the corner and just took about it just just took out the bike and destroyed it now here's the best part of the story how many of you could have survived being hit by a car at full speed on a bicycle how many of you could survive that so because apparently saw the you know saw the impending uh thing before he would you could you know he had time to act and I think he jumped off the bike probably you know did some acrobatic roles across the car and landed properly now not at his feet but he said he knew how to land that man could take a hit oh my God was that the most interesting story but it gets better it gets better the guy who hit him of course didn't know who he had how would you like to be the guy who just realized he just took out somebody you don't know who it is and you're like oh my God my God the first thing you find out is that you the first thing you find out is that he's perfectly okay so your first impression is oh thank goodness he's perfectly healthy the second thing you find out is it's Conor Mc.

Gregor do you think he was worried so it gets better because Connor takes out his phone so you're seeing some of the aftermath including his conversation with the guy who hit him just perfect just perfect the guy who hit him looked so frightened I've never seen anybody look more frightened he was just like this and then he offers him a ride offers Conor Mc.

Gregor right he says uh I could put your bike in the back and give you a ride and Connor's like yeah I need a ride yeah that'd be great so then Conor Mc.

Gregor is doing a selfie you know the video selfie in the card he's describing what happens and then he he turns the camera to show the guy who's driving him he goes on the other you know luckily he landed well and you know he's given me a ride he shows the guy the guy's like because I have to think he probably all the time thought he was like five seconds from being killed but what he doesn't understand is if you're Conor Mc.

Gregor and somebody takes out your bicycle on the highway and you acrobatically survive that was a good day that wasn't a bad day it was a good day he got a great story out of it yeah I think he scratched his ass or something that was the worst of it got a great story out of it did did exactly what you would want to Hope two people would do in that situation right the guy who made who hit him didn't seem like it was his fault because it was a blind spot there and even Conor said that so the two of them completely reached a non-angry resolution in which they were helping each other it was just the coolest story just the coolest story yeah anyway I liked it um I saw Jesse Waters talking about uh Hunter and I don't know is there something new on this story or was he just recapping it because this is in the news today I'm not sure why it was new but the FBI has recordings of Hunter talking to the what what hunter called the effing spy chief of China and there was this one guy who like they thought was a spy called Patrick ho and this Patrick ho was part of the money making scheme in which Hunter and presumably Joe Biden made money from China going through this Patrick o and I read the whole story and the only commentary I have on it is you know Joe Biden said that Hunter Biden was the smartest person he knew and you doubted that right you doubted it but uh he's the only person I've ever heard of who ever made money from a hoe that's all I have to say he might be the smartest person I know too I don't know anybody who ever made money on a hoe unless they were a pimp but he wasn't append so smartest person I know um but it makes you wonder if we have these recordings and we know every part of the story how is it Joe Biden still the president it's it's so weird that he's still the president and I wonder I wonder if we're or most of us are living in the same kind of cognitive dissonance that the the TDS people were you know the Trump derangement syndrome because the thing that surprises the Trump haters the most is that Trump is not in jail right now the reason Trump is not in jail is the total lack of committing crimes that are jailable maybe has something to do with not committing any jailable offenses right but they can't see that to them he you know was a traitor ran an Insurrection did all kinds of things are we doing the same thing with Biden or is that how they get away with it they make they make you think well maybe you're not right because we're acting like it's not right we're treating it like it doesn't exist so maybe you're not right maybe you've got a little derangement syndrome there Scott I don't even know if if I if I'm being dead honest I don't know because that's the nature of confirmation bias right the nature of cognitive dissonance is the person who has it doesn't know so what if I have it what if the bidens didn't do anything shady and it just looks exactly like that in every way to me and people who saw the same stuff I saw is that possible because you trust me there's nobody who has Trump derangement syndrome who thinks they have trumped Arrangement syndrome they all think they're just looking at the facts and reaching a decision well that's what I think I'm doing well why am I right and they're wrong remember my rule about knowing who's got cognitive dissonance you'd look for someone who has the trigger and you know they exhibit the Tells I'm not sure I see any but then maybe I wouldn't yeah the word salad have I exhibited any word salad about Biden well you wouldn't know because if you're on the if you're on the same page it would look like it made sense to you yeah anyway we'll keep an eye on that because it looks like nobody cares so Trump went after De.

Santis a little bit for closing Florida when apparently other Governors did not that was a pretty good that's a pretty good uh offense so obviously Trump is trying to degrade desantis's presidential uh possibilities but that's an interesting attack isn't it because Trump never supported uh lockdowns apparently so he can look the governors that didn't lock down and they can compare him to De.

Santis and suddenly De.

Santis doesn't look so good because because he's reframed him he's reframed it from comparing De.

Santis to De.

Santis to comparing him to Governors who who didn't close down that's a pretty good political approach right just from a persuasion perspective pretty good it's pretty good because he understands his base doesn't like the lockdowns he never supported them or mandates and De.

Santis did for a little while not for long so we still give to Santa's credit for you know being one of the more right people but then Trump also um apparently there's a story that Nikki Haley called Trump and said she's considering running and in the primaries against him what do you think Trump said when Nikki Haley said she's considering running against him what would be his smartest response go for it because the more people in the primaries the more likely he wins because he's going to keep his 25 percent so if the other people can split what's left over yeah he's he's the nominee again worked the first time why wouldn't it work again yeah so that was exactly the right answer so he's definitely right on his attack for De.

Santis in terms of persuasion Wise It's a good approach and he is definitely right strategically telling Nikki Haley yeah go for it good strategy but then I saw a video in which he was talking about uh the energy policy the Biden energy policy and it sounded like he was saying that there's like these stupid energy things and good energy things and the good energy things were the fossil fuel types and the bad energy things that were silly I don't think he named him by name but it sounded like he was going after solar and wind power right that that was the implication now what do you think of his messaging his messaging is fossil fuel is good uh alternative things can never be good you know they're not good and will never be good is that is that good messaging or bad it's an F yeah that's a fail uh on if I'm going to grade this it's not even a d Plus this is just a total failure here's here's what a good message for a republican candidate would look like you know there's something we can all come together on on energy it used to be there was a lot of disagreement on nuclear energy but with the generation three which has never had any um deaths or problems uh or big problems and with the fact that we now can store the spend fuel on site so we don't have to transport it that's you know sort of where the industry went and now that the newer generations of nuclear could eat some of that waste as their fuel could use some of the waste as their fuel we should definitely come together a nuclear and do it as quickly as possible now I think we should also go heavy on fossil fuel unless until we have Alternatives but I don't see them coming happening quickly however I also agree that the free market should continue every other technological innovation because there might be something some change you know you might have better batteries or better solar panels or better windmills so that'd be great at the moment we think we need as much fossil fuel as possible to give America its independence economic uh economic growth as well as being secure from our enemies in the long run we like technical technological innovation but we don't want to over subsidize it that's a problem we don't want to over subsidize things let the free market do what it does as much as possible now is there any reason that he has to not mention nuclear the one thing we all agree on or or we're coming close to it that's the one I'd play on and why can't he say that the other stuff is fine as long as we don't over subsidize it it's like he's trying not to win with that message I mean it looks like virtue signaling I just think it's he doesn't need that much Nuance to make it perfect because here are the things that we should all be agreeing on we should be agreeing on immigration have a strong border security but have some bipartisan group of economic economists decide who would let in and when so you've got some Independence about that decision but you know be secure On the Border everybody would agree with that so he has all these topics from education um uh including uh Public School Alternatives Etc all kinds of stuff that he could pick off Democrats let me just give you a sort of a mental um I guess exercise let's say you wanted to pick off some Democrats but you didn't want to lose your base he could definitely pick some off on immigration just by being reasonable he could definitely pick him off by being pro-nuclear and pro-green enough that he's not against it but also wants to make our economy and work well I think he can make energy work I think he can make Ukraine something we come together on I think you could pull some Democrats off of that pile he has all these issues even the even the CRT and transgender stuff in schools I think he could pick off Democrats on that at this point in not before but at this point sure so he has this total ability to take 10 of the Democrats totally and and there's a and and he can mock the January 6th thing out of the news if he chooses to if every time he's asked about he goes all right let's be serious are you really trying to tell the story that Republican stage an Insurrection without guns and then don't even answer any other question I go but you answer me the question I know you have lots of questions for me but honestly I'm I'm actually curious do you actually think that's what a res an Insurrection would look like do you think I'm so bad at insurrections that I would think that trespassing for a day without weapons would conquer the United States how does that even make sense right so every every attack on Trump at the moment is completely empty all he has to do is reframe them but so far he's not so far he's not he's not taking any of the free money that that is available now that really wasn't available in 2016 or 2020.

because things have changed right at this point getting getting both sides to agree on ending the Ukraine stuff you don't think he can pick off people on both sides on that issue we didn't have that issue before he could definitely get some yeah so the oh here Trump has a super highway to win he just has to stay in the middle of the highway and not say bad framing for topics that he doesn't need to frame badly there's just no reason but we'll see what he does so I'm totally unimpressed by his energy take to me that's just a failure like I can't give it even like nice try I can't even say it's good for the base really it's not even good for the base it's like just bad all right here now is something you did not know about viruses uh you've heard of measles and I'm old enough to have had measles before there were vaccinations and here's something I learned today in 2019 so this is an article in WebMD from 2019.

one of the things we learned about measles that we didn't know for a hundred years how long have we known that measles existed hundreds of years something like that here's something you didn't know a number of studies are showing that the measles may have wiped out your uh your body's memory for immunity of other things the measles may have wiped out your immunity for other things and that's something that they're learning just lately after 50 years of science so in other words there is long long measles long measles apparently exists because it can take out your immunity to other things and then those other things get you now that's something we didn't know for 50 years so what do we know about the Coronavirus do you think the coronavirus could take you out like 50 years from now we could find out oh it did some bad things that we didn't know what about the vaccination itself what about that do you think in 50 years we can find out it did something to us 50 years ago it all seems possible doesn't it now does it change your mind that we only found out how dangerous measles is in 2019 2019.

and by the way the article the people talking about it were fouchy fauci was in the article and Michael Mina who you knew from the pandemic talking about the absence of fast testing rapid testing so two of the characters were well known from the pandemic were part of this story as well they were the main people in the story so interesting um what is your belief about the mainstream opinion of long covet not your own opinion not your own opinion what do you believe if you were to Google what would be the front page of Google results not saying it's true I'm just asking you what would appear would it say that long covet is pretty much a thing definitely what is saying maybe we're still looking into it or would it say you know I've got a feeling this isn't real all right the Google search um and again I'm not I'm not endorsing this is being correct if you just Googled you would see that long covet is very real that's their claim not mine very real and it's kind of a big deal now usually it's something that would last months now what percentage of people according to the Google front page not me what percentage of people do you think experienced long covet which they would Define as let's say weeks or months of brain fog and fatigue like 45 percent 45 percent now if you had if you lost three months of your life to fatigue how big of a risk would you take to avoid that of course the vaccination risk you know is everything including death because it's an unknown you don't know what happens to you or anybody else there's no way to there's no way to measure the two risks but what if kovid which was well let me ask this question so here's here's something I had genuine curiosity for um how did you know that Co that long covid wouldn't be as bad as maybe long measles is how did you know that so I asked people how they knew it and a lot of people said they knew it because the the data said that people were getting it and recovering and they knew people who it was just a cold and they got over it now that's people telling me that they know the future because they know the present to me that's not even a thing because in the present I thought measles was just something that happened to me then but 50 years later I found out oh it turns out I thought I was safe but maybe I wasn't but people uh unlike the measles case there were a lot of people who looked at the covet current information and from that they formed certainty about the future now I don't know how to do that I only could look at current information and say well I don't know about the future um so I asked Ivor Ivor Cummins who is a famous opponent to vaccinations and he said oh I also asked if how do you explain that the scientists and Drug executives presumably but we don't know took the shots themselves like if you think they're dangerous how would you explain that to people who invented them took them and what I found was that the majority of people that I pulled believe they didn't they believed they didn't take them which is totally possible that is totally possible you know there was a day when I would have said come on right there was a time in my life I always said come on if the executives and the scientists who invented them didn't take them we would know that there would be whistleblowers and you know it would just be so obvious you would know it yes Katie Katie is also uh confusing the uh the future in the past so there's somebody on here who can't tell the difference between today and the future you're right do you know there's a difference you should uh you should look into that so there are things that happen like today that can be different than things that happen in the future and sometimes the Futures are unknown sometimes you don't know I know that's the first time you're finding that out Katie I know so Katie is screaming in all caps Scott in 2020 we must immediately close the entire country down from all international flights at lockdown first of all Katie that was about China only China only and that was when we didn't know what it was and I said well at least shut down until we find out so with the information we have the time that's called the present now I know these concepts are unfamiliar but the present is different than the past and also different in the future now if I had known what you know Katie apparently you're a time traveler and you knew from the first moment that it was no risk you are my role model I want to be like you and go on podcasts and Shout in all capital letters that the future and the current are the same that I can look at my future data today and then with the benefit of the future data I could make decisions today now that's something I didn't know Katie so thank you for correcting me Oh Katie you got very quiet how embarrassing to be you right now all right so but there is uh and as people said to me and I expect that they would say this that there is actually an entirely reasonable uh argument a totally reasonable argument why all of the scientists and all of the executives or some portion of them might have skipped the shots and lied to you that is possible in 2022 and 2021 I would say we've actually reached the point of ridiculousness where that was actually possible now if I had to put odds on it I would say not very high but it's actually possible now here's another possibility the scientists and executives were so let's say enamored by how much money they were going to make because even the scientists were going to get rich just on stock options anybody who owned company stocks got rich so everybody was going to make a killing and the only thing they had to do was tell you that it was safe that's all they had to do and they would all get rich and then they had they had immunity right they had negotiated immunity so once they negotiated immunity they'd lost all incentives to tell you the truth they had no incentive to tell you the truth because they had immunity and if they lied this is hypothetical but if they lied they would get rich and they would have no risk so do you think that people who have a choice of getting rich if they say one thing are they objective anymore of course not of course not so it's entirely possible and it fits within my understanding of psychology that everyone at the big Pharma was in cognitive distance and convinced themselves they were working for the good but we're doing the opposite I'm not saying that's the case I'm saying that would be fully within the normal scope of human behavior totally accepted now if you told me that that situation would remain that way forever well then I get skeptical the longer you wait the more somebody's gonna you know leave the ranks you're going to get a whistleblower so here's a question I ask um where's the whistleblowers the ones who say we knew it was bad for you but we did it anyway where are they how much would you have to make to be a whistleblower in this situation because I think if you're a scientist or you work there you probably made five million dollars don't you think don't you think that like a top scientist probably made Five Ten twenty million dollars just on stock options just for going to work I think you know because they probably had a top scientist probably had a million or two in stock options which you know ballooned immediately up to 10 million or something so but suppose you offered 20 million dollars for any whistleblower who could tell you that they they knew it was dangerous and did it anyway without telling you the danger do you think anybody would answer for 20 million dollars remember follow the money well if you say no then you're releasing a little bit on the follow of the money because the top Executives would lose money if they became whistleblowers right the top executive has probably made a billion a piece or 100 million or something so they would lose money 20 million would be a bad deal for them um but if you're let's say just an employee a staff person let's say you made a million dollars in stock options pretty darn good for a year of work but you take 20.

I think you'd take 20 million I don't know if it's taxable our whistleblower whistleblower compensation is that taxable is there any special carve out for whistleblowers for taxes because I don't know if you get the 20 or you get the 10.

so maybe you only get half of it right that's why I made it 20 million so if you believe that they were bad people doing bad things the questions you'd have to ask is why did they all take it or how did they all hide the fact they didn't or how could there not be at least one whistleblower just one whistleblower who likes 20 million dollars and likes attention just one then maybe there will be one maybe we just wait a little while and they'll feel safer to come out right it's possible so here's where I went wrong all right I believe I was biased by uh people who take drugs the illegal kind if you have any experience in the illegal drug world what's the number one rule of whether or not you put a drug in your mouth number one rule what is it it's an illegal drug what's the number one rule before you put it in your mouth or you smoke it did you watch somebody else do it that's the number one rule did you watch somebody reach into the same bag and take out the same you know pill or powder or whatever it's going to be and watch them put it in their mouth and then the next day they're still alive right if you took like if you took mushrooms from a bag that you don't know anybody's ever tried well you're really taking the chance there right so the number one rule in fact it was the rule I mentioned to my stepson before he violated the rule and died because I'm pretty sure that he took some things and simply handed him right and there was at least one other person who died from the same batch the same day so the batch was that the batch was bad nobody nobody tested from that batch right so it's the number one thing so when I look at the the vaccinations slash shots the number one question I said is well are they take him right is he are the executives taking him what about the scientists who invented it are they taking what about Dr.

Malone Dr.

Malone the you know co-inventor of the MRNA did he take it he did he did he says he did we can't prove anything right but I imagine you wouldn't lie about that um now here's my second question if you took the executives and the top scientists of the big Pharma and you brought him before Congress would it be legal to ask them the question did you get the vaccination it might be illegal to ask because it's their personal medical stuff right they could just say I don't talk about my personal medical situation so even Congress can't find out if they took the shot right am I right or does let me think now the government has a record of our vaccination status though right don't they do a fact check I mean the whole point of having the vaccination cards is that everybody who got a vaccination was entered so if the executives and the scientists who invented it if they have a card and they're on a record you still don't know if they got a saline because half of you believe they got sailing right but don't you think do you think that that there would be no whistleblower if the executives and the scientists were taking Saline you don't think you get a whistleblower for that see I could imagine no whistleblower on the basic question of whether they knew it was dangerous I could imagine no whistleblower on that even if there was something there but I can't imagine I can't imagine my head my head cannot hold and hold into it that you wouldn't have a whistleblower by now if if a number of them like a large number got a saline shot do you believe they could keep that secret up till now I don't know it certainly I I think it's possible yeah I I think the uh the things we've seen from the Russia collusion to you know the the laptop to I mean think about the fact there are 51 people who signed that Hunter laptop thing 51 people not a single one of them has come forward and said you know that wasn't real we were just trying to influence things no whistleblowers there that's 51 people no whistleblowers Tuskegee there were no whistleblowers for a long time right so there are lots of situations where there are no whistleblowers yeah it could happen but here's where I'm telling you my bias my bias is that I presumed it's most likely that they took it and then I said well if the people who know the most about it took it that's an argument but then I I have to admit it never occurred to me that they could have taken saline shots and gotten away with it but we do live in a world where they could have I don't think it happened like it my my assessment of the odds the odds that the executives and scientists took saline I'd put it 10 percent I put that at 10 percent and 10 is high yeah I'm I'm stretching to get to 10 because that would be one hell of a I mean that would be the crime of the whole wouldn't that be the crime of the century or the biggest crime since you know Genghis Khan or biggest crimes in Stalin or Mao or something but maybe yeah yeah like uh as somebody who's saying over here I'm gullible now remember um I I believe we're a simulation and I believe that your movie in which I got everything wrong and I trusted um I trusted big entities is completely true but at the same time the other movie is completely true that I didn't trust any entities and I didn't trust the virus so they're just both true at the same time and there's nothing wrong with it they can just both be true they took it at a time we thought covert was a bio weapon but did they get boosters because we would also have a record of their boosters I think what you'd find is that the um the people attached to it got boosted if they were old and had comorbidities and maybe not if they're young that's what I think you would find all right um so the number of people who believe only 19 percent of the people I surveyed believe that the executives at the scientists actually took it themselves 61 percent believed that it was a saline shot or they didn't take it 61 percent of you believe the executives and the scientists who made it didn't take it isn't there some way to find out like I get that if it was a super clever saline solution thing maybe you couldn't but I feel like there's some way to find out I just don't know what it is yeah Google it Google it won't work yeah all right all right um but anyway all it would take to make me happy would be a Go.

Fund.

Me of 20 million dollars for a whistleblower who could say something we don't already know you'd have to specify what they specifically what their claim would have to be to pay them but if they could prove it with documents especially that would be amazing DJ bear wants you to know this is fake and he's going to say it 20 times so far just keep saying it yeah he just wants to type it over and over again we're um DJ bear we're gonna make you invisible here you are now hidden but I encourage you to keep typing um all right could sign something that we would know yeah all right I also wonder how many doctors have died from the shot no you 'd love to know how many medical doctors because there must be enough of them how many medical doctors are in the United States it's well over a hundred thousand right million I don't know 100 000.

does anybody have any idea but don't you figure that the medical professionals are probably 98 vaccinated wouldn't you say uh maybe 90 percent but do you think uh there are any vaccinated people I know now here's something I said that nobody called me on and you should have I said something really sketchy earlier you should have called me on it when I said that Google says that at the moment 45 percent of people are saying they have long covered symptoms you were supposed to say aren't they all vaccinated and then I'd say oh yeah that's true you can't tell if it's long covered or long long Jab now I think because of the timing of and such people can tell it's from the covet not the shock but I was expecting you to say that I was expecting all right yeah very suspect all right that's all for now You.

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well have I ever told you this way to

predict the future

best way to predict the future is the

best story usually wins if you ever

heard me say that the best story

so for example if there's an aging

athlete who comes back for one last

chance to win the Super Bowl that he's

never won before

if that's like the best story

it'll probably happen

right so

the Australian Open tennis tournament

just concluded what was the best story

well the best story if you recall if you

don't watch Tennis I'll tell you one of

the top layers in the world I don't know

if he's number one but he has been

number one off and on uh Novak Djokovic

he was not allowed to play in the in the

Australian Open last year because he was

unvaccinated

this year he was allowed to play

what was the best story

oh did you regain number one by winning

the tournament

that's the best story the best story

would be Novak Djokovic winning the

Australian Open

yesterday Novak Djokovic won the

Australian Open

now that's not the weird part

you know what the weird part is

his first name

no vax

novax

I mean it's you know Novak but really

his name is novax

and he didn't get vaccinated anyone in

Australian Open

you tell me that's not the best story

right

could could you not have predicted that

I did I did actually predict that in

advance but privately so I should have

said it out loud but every time you see

one of these where the best story is

really obvious you're like well that

would be the best story

then it happens and I think that there's

actually a mechanism for it

you know it could be the simulation is

causing our intentions to make it happen

but I feel as if everybody collectively

knows the best story

including the competitors

and I think it actually suppresses the

competitors

you know there's a like a psychological

mechanism where they too want the best

story to happen

because the best story is just as a hold

on your mind because you used to sing

the best story you know in fiction

so that's just a theory Wall Street

Journal is reporting that restaurants

are retooling to be more takeout

oriented some of them will be purely

taken

so you're going to have a purely Take

Out restaurant

more of them coming I mean it's not it's

not like that was just invented but

there'll be more of them coming now

here's what I always thought was the

best part about the pandemic if if you

can even say that the best part about

the pandemic is uh do you remember uh

Naval ravacon said early in the pandemic

he predicted that what the pandemic

would change

was mostly the rate of change

that the things that were going to

happen in the long run were still going

to happen just that would happen more

quickly because we would be scrambling

to re-engineer everything and one of the

things I think was badly in need of

re-engineering is food

have you ever thought about the

inefficiency of the food process

from the moment let's say a seed is

planted in a farmer's field

do you know how many people touch your

food before it gets to your mouth

it's like all kinds of steps to get it

to you know some distribution plays and

then it gets to the food distribution

place I guess the grocery store then it

gets on the Shelf you put it into your

cart you take it out of the cart you put

it on your uh on the you know the

cashier thing you pay for it you put it

back in the cart you take it out of the

cart you put it in your car you take it

out of your car you put it on your

counter you take it out of your bag and

put it in the refrigerator you take it

out of the refrigerator you take it out

of the package take it out of the

package put it in the oven take it out

of the oven put it on a plate take it

from the plate and put it in your mouth

the whole thing is a complete mess

nobody would design the system from

scratch you know just sort of evolved

that way with a free market

so

I for a long time I've been telling you

that the best

food distribution

system would look like the following

something very close to your home

like you could walk there in five

minutes

would be like a central cafeteria like a

college campus

and the central cafeteria would have a

wide variety of food that they just made

fresh so everything's fresh

just got made lots of variety and

because it because it's a captive

audience a little bit you know there's

you know they have that Monopoly if you

will it was pretty cheap

so it was cheap best food you could get

and the easiest food you could get they

solved every problem

solved every problem the only thing it

didn't solve

was we didn't have apps about you know

when I was in college if I had an app

where all I had to do was you know say

what I want to pick up and I just walk

over and pick it up I wouldn't have to

pay for a delivery so the whole doordash

I think doordash

might have a limited future

because I think people are going to

still be doing

takeout but I think they're going to get

it within five minutes of their house

so I think they're that you'll have all

these local sort of General cafeterias

here would be the mistake

I think the mistake would be

to have a a local takeout only that's

one ethnicity

like it's just Chinese takeout now

people will use that but the but

wouldn't you rather everybody in your

family can order from the cafeteria and

you just go pick it up

you don't want the well I don't like

Chinese food or I had it yesterday

if you're gonna if you're gonna order

once for a family you kind of want the

cafeteria

uh

so I think this is where it's going it's

going to be all use your app walk five

minutes and pick it up

that's what it's going to be with some

delivery option

uh but it's already happening looks like

all right here's some fake news from the

Democrats

fake news do you remember when the

Democrats were saying that the Georgia

voting laws and there have been some

recent changes we're going to

disenfranchise the Black American voters

do you remember that

oh it was practically a

second Holocaust

slavery all over again how could they

they were going to make it impossible

for black people to figure out how to

vote

so there was a recent survey

new poll asked black voters if they had

a poor experience cast in their ballot

and the number of black voters who said

they had a poor experience voting in

Georgia was uh

zero zero

have you ever seen a poll

where one of the main answers was Zero

zero now we're rounded to zero so it was

you know a little bit more than zero but

it rounded to zero

yeah I often tell you that on any poll

at least 25 percent of the respondents

are going to get the wrong answer

but this one was so clean

so obvious

so clear

so unambiguous

that a hundred percent of black

Americans who you would might imagine

you know being human like everybody else

you might imagine that they would feel a

little biased because we all do in our

own situations right we all have bias

don't you think that you could get more

than zero of them to at least imagine

they had a problem hard time

how do you even not imagine that maybe

it was harder than usual I mean the

level of certainty

that these Patriots

exhibited and I'm going to call them

patriots why

why do I call them patriots because

there wasn't anybody who was willing to

lie for political purposes

they found apparently a large body of

black voters of which basically none of

them were willing to lie for political

gain

have you ever seen better news than that

yeah now somebody says that you know

makes you suspicious of the poll doesn't

it yeah that does make you a little

suspicious of the poll

all right I'm gonna I'm gonna completely

change my take on this

you've completely changed my mind

there's no way that's true

there's no way that's credible all right

you win you win you got me

my first reaction was it was amazing

second reaction you have changed my

Minds I'm looking at your comments

you've totally changed my mind there

isn't any way that's true

there isn't any way that's true

right

and here I was all inspired that we'd

found a pocket of the best patriotic

Americans who just weren't willing to

lie for a political gain but there's no

there's no group of Americans like that

right well I guess it's double fake news

it's probably double fake news and it

really wasn't that hard to vote but

there's no way this survey is real I

can't believe it all right enough of

that

so Wall Street Journal has some good

reporting here on what's stopping The

Tick-Tock ban from happening as you know

Tick Tock is evil and

uh can control America because it's the

user interface that China can use to

change our opinions in America literally

that's not it not any kind of

exaggeration and

so as you know the Holly Holly has a uh

some legislation and spending but here's

a problem that I'd never heard of until

today

and how how in the world did I never

hear this until today

can you tell me if you heard this news

before today that the reason that

Trump tried and failed to get Tick Tock

banned was there something called the

Berman Amendment

it goes back to the Cold War

and the Berman Amendment says that you

don't want to censor International

Information

and the reason the reason was I think we

didn't want our information to be

censored by other people but also we

didn't want to be the sensors of other

countries

so it was the Berman Amendment

now apparently the Trump Administration

was not able to figure out a way around

it and so Tick Tock argued it and won

and won in court they said it's not

legal because the bourbon Amendment says

you can't do this so the Trump

Administration backed off

do you know how hard this was to solve

here's what the Holly Amendment did to

get past that oh so terrible problem

totally unsolvable problem right what

are you going to do what are you going

to do with this unsolvable problem of

the Berman Amendment well let me tell

you how clever

Holly is Josh Hawley now you never would

have figured this out

because we're you know just normal

people

but Josh Hawley apparently a genius

figured out how to get around the Berman

Act

his legislation says this will be a

narrow exception to the Berman Act

well who would have ever thought of that

who would have ever thought well why

don't we just include in the legislation

that this is an exception

how about that

now apparently nobody

I want to ask you for an exception to do

some swearing

because this really calls for it but I'm

not going to do it not going to do it

I'm not going to swear I will simply

state in the calmest possible way

that the Trump Administration

must have been deeply incompetent on

this issue

because it looks like the solution is as

simple as saying well how about we make

an exception to the Berman act and

here's why

that was not really hard to figure out

so

I can't give Trump a pass on that

can I

how in the world could I give him a pass

on that now maybe

maybe the Josh Hawley legislation won't

pass

and then you know then maybe the

argument is well you know it's not going

to pass if you put that in there but why

wouldn't it

the argument for not making that

exception is that other countries might

try to censor our information

stop laughing come on let me say it

again so you can have a good laugh with

the argument for not censoring

information coming into our country

from China

from China

is that other countries might try to you

know use as an excuse to ban some of our

information

yeah

that's actually what they're arguing

about

in the real world

actual adults are having that

conversation

let me tell you the conversation that's

not happening in China

oh we better not do anything with tick

tock

because we don't want to violate that

Berman act I mean it's not our it's not

our act or Amendment it's not our

Amendment but you know we don't want to

start something the last thing we'd want

to do in China is Ban some American

information

because you know then they might ban our

information

I mean really

are we seeing are we missing something

about the story

or or are politicians actually this

incapable

the the level of incompetence that this

exhibits

is almost hard to believe

like you could have a really low opinion

of Congress and still look at this and

say okay that's a new that's a new level

of incompetence I haven't seen that

before you know you've done it again

you've found done yourself

yeah we don't want China and Russia and

North Korea yeah we wouldn't want them

filtering the information we send to

their residents

God forbid that that should start

tomorrow

all right

so that's happening or not happening but

the good news is we'll all get to see

who is voting for China and who's voting

for the United States and Josh Hawley

here's another bit of uh

um fodder for you

the bourbon act unless I'm mistaken is

about information from other countries

information

Tick Tock is information

all you have to do is call it

entertainment

you're done

just say the Berman act talks about

information but this is specifically

about entertainment

so we would never block information but

we might Block Entertainment

that also has some information in it

so it's just words nothing you can't

change there's a company I saw an ad for

a company called pay Analytics

so they've got a new product I want you

to see if you can find

oh I don't know

yeah any potential problems with this

product

see if see if your Suspicious Mind comes

up with anything that would be maybe

bad about this product taking off in

Corporate America here's what they do

they measure and monitor pay gaps by any

demographic variable

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so you can sustain Fair pay and gain

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that's right

you could take a company away from its

mission of making money and serving as

stockholders and you could make them

spend all of their time

trying to be fair across all demographic

variables

all of them all of the demographics

because if you if you find out that

short people are paid less you're going

to have to fix it

so it's so in theory

I'd like to know if they put in height

and weight and attractiveness

because you know those are correlated

right

you know that better looking people are

higher paid

is that fair

how about short people they're paid less

than to all people I think the pay

analytics needs to do more Analytics

I don't know if they've done enough

because if they only stopped with let's

say you know gender preference and

ethnicity and religion if they stopped

with that I say you've only gone half

the way

there are so many other demographics

that must be accounted for

so let's get that going

all right one of the biggest questions

I've been asked lately is am I serious

about my apologizing for being wrong

about everything in the pandemic

or as some people have suggested am I

just being sarcastic and just being a

jerk

right

all right what do you think

sarcastic or serious

go in the comments

what do you say

oh damn you damn you for getting the

right answers over there on locals the

locals people are all over me

they're always there

both how could I be serious and not

serious at the same time

is that possible

but how could how could I believe that I

was wrong about everything

if I really believe that I'm right about

everything they can't both be true right

it can't be true that I'm right about

everything and wrong about everything

would you agree

well let me let me change the question

how many would agree with the statement

it can't be simultaneously true agree

not it can't be true that I was wrong

about almost everything but also right

about everything

they can't both be true right we all

agree on that

all right that's where we differ

in my world they both can be true

forever

and there's no preferred truth

they're both true

completely true

unambiguously true and forever

and is not just a mental a mental thing

it might in my best understanding of My

reality

we are actually a simulation and it's

only because of the math of it you know

I won't go through the argument again

but it's like a trillion to one that

were simulated and not original

if we're simulated it seems clear that

in order to save processing power

our simulation allows us to live in our

own movie

I call it a movie because we're looking

at the same objective facts often not

always but often and yet we form our own

movie and then we live in it the only

thing the simulation requires that we

can still reproduce that's it if you

reproduce you make more of yourself so

there's more of you to do the same stuff

next year but if you don't reproduce you

know it's game over so the only thing

that matters is if we can reproduce and

as far as I know

the people who believe that vaccinations

were the worst experience we've ever had

and those who think it was no big deal

can still have babies

you know unless they've been sterilized

by accidental science

but as far as we know they can both have

we can still have babies with each other

so

what I'm doing my my own uh let's say

cognition of what I'm doing is that I'm

not

I'm not dishonest

when I when I say to the locals people

well obviously I got everything right

you watched every bit of it

and they say yeah that that meets my

view of the world some don't some would

say the opposite and then for those who

say the opposite I say well that's true

too

in a minute

um

a little bit I gotta do some other

stories at the end I'm going to tell you

something about

um viruses

that you didn't know

and it's important

do you think I can do that even at this

stage do you think there's something I

could tell you about viruses that you

didn't know that's really important

all right well let's let's see if I can

pull that off but you know I'll do that

at the end so those of you want to avoid

that conversation

all right so let's talk about Ukraine

did you hear the story that apparently

reportedly

Israel did some bogging runs or some

maybe some drones or missiles I don't

know but they attacked a bunch of

uh drone making factories in Iran

now

what do you make of that

Israel just did a massive attack on Iran

and took out some number of drone making

factories

I am so impressed

with Israel's decision-making

their their strategic

Excellence it's just crazy how good they

are

do you know how long they've wanted to

take out Iranian drone factories

I mean I'm just guessing but don't you

think they've wanted to take that with

the Iranian Jordan factories since the

moment they knew they existed right

because these drones are going to end up

with Hamas and the drones are going to

end up in Israel already have right

so

and do you think they could have done it

on day one

day what it would have looked like they

were starting you know a traditional War

it would have been pretty aggressive

but and what would have happened

um to Europe's reaction I think Europe

would have said Israel what the hell are

you doing

these Iranians are negotiating with us

in good faith to get some kind of a

nuclear deal and and then you're just

attacking them well that's no fair

stop that

am I right

two years ago correct me if I'm wrong

two years ago Europe would have said

Israel you know we're going to have to

give you some tough time about that

right do you think Europe is going to

give Israel a tough time about taking

out the source of Putin's drones

nope nope

this was a this was free money

this was so free money Israel just had a

total free punch and they took it

my God

are you impressed

you know when you watch the uh the

ukrainians and the NATO and the U.S you

have you have lots of

you know maybe this was good maybe bad

it's easy to criticize both sides

but what is there to criticize about

this

exactly Lexington lend never let a

crisis go to waste I actually I almost

tweeted that and deleted it I had a half

written and I decided not to say it but

yes

Israel said uh they're in the middle of

a big crisis we can just take out these

factories and everybody's just gonna say

okay

and I think that's what's happening

I think it was just a free punch and

they took it

Iran said no damage yeah I saw the uh I

saw the videos of the no damage it was a

pretty big Fireball for no damage

but on the other hand they could come

back and get them on YouTube somebody's

comparing me to Bill Crystal

yeah

yeah that's a that's a good comparison

Bill Crystal and me

we're like that

same opinions on everything

say simulation they could have their own

you can have your own uh reality about

that

all right

um

so

I don't know if you heard this story or

how old it is somebody can tell me how

old this story is how old is the story

about Conor McGregor being hit by a car

while he was riding his bicycle he's

okay he wasn't injured

how old is that story

was that just this week I only saw the

video this week but I had a feeling I'm

two weeks ago oh it was fairly new so

here's what happened to Conor McGregor

if you don't know uh one of the top or

at least the most famous MMA fighters

so the last guy you would ever want to

get in a fight with

would be Conor McGregor

am I right like you would never want to

make this guy angry

well here's what happened he was now

riding his bike presumably working out

and there was some kind of blind spot

because of the Sun the car came around

the corner and just took about it just

just took out the bike and destroyed it

now here's the best part of the story

how many of you could have survived

being hit by a car at full speed on a

bicycle

how many of you could survive that

so because

apparently saw the you know saw the

impending uh thing before he would you

could you know he had time to act and I

think he jumped off the bike

probably you know did some acrobatic

roles across the car

and landed properly

now not at his feet but he said he knew

how to land

that man could take a hit

oh my God was that the most interesting

story but it gets better

it gets better the guy who hit him of

course didn't know who he had

how would you like to be the guy who

just realized he just took out somebody

you don't know who it is and you're like

oh my God my God the first thing you

find out is that

you the first thing you find out is that

he's perfectly okay

so your first impression is oh

thank goodness

he's perfectly healthy

the second thing you find out is it's

Conor McGregor

do you think he was worried

so it gets better

because Connor takes out his phone so

you're seeing some of the aftermath

including his conversation with the guy

who hit him

just perfect just perfect

the guy who hit him looked so frightened

I've never seen anybody look more

frightened he was just like this and

then he offers him a ride offers Conor

McGregor right he says uh I could put

your bike in the back and give you a

ride and Connor's like yeah I need a

ride yeah that'd be great

so then Conor McGregor is doing a selfie

you know the video selfie in the card

he's describing what happens and then he

he turns the camera to show the guy

who's driving him he goes on the other

you know luckily he landed well and you

know he's given me a ride he shows the

guy the guy's like

because I have to think

he probably all the time thought he was

like five seconds from being killed

but what he doesn't understand

is if you're Conor McGregor

and somebody takes out your bicycle on

the highway

and you acrobatically survive

that was a good day

that wasn't a bad day

it was a good day

he got a great story out of it

yeah I think he scratched his ass or

something that was the worst of it

got a great story out of it did did

exactly what you would want to Hope two

people would do in that situation right

the guy who made who hit him didn't seem

like it was his fault because it was a

blind spot there and even Conor said

that so the two of them completely

reached a non-angry

resolution in which they were helping

each other it was just the coolest story

just the coolest story

yeah

anyway I liked it

um

I saw Jesse Waters talking about uh

Hunter and I don't know is there

something new on this story or was he

just recapping it because this is in the

news today I'm not sure why it was new

but the FBI has recordings of Hunter

talking to the what what hunter called

the effing spy chief of China

and there was this one guy who like they

thought was a spy called Patrick ho

and this Patrick ho was

part of the money making scheme in which

Hunter and presumably Joe Biden made

money from China

going through this Patrick o and I read

the whole story and the only commentary

I have on it is

you know Joe Biden said that Hunter

Biden was the smartest person he knew

and you doubted that right you doubted

it

but uh he's the only person I've ever

heard of who ever made money from a hoe

that's all I have to say

he might be the smartest person I know

too I don't know anybody who ever made

money on a hoe unless they were a pimp

but he wasn't append

so

smartest person I know

um but it makes you wonder if we have

these recordings

and we know every part of the story

how is it Joe Biden still the president

it's it's so weird

that he's still the president and I

wonder I wonder if we're or most of us

are living in the same kind of cognitive

dissonance

that the the TDS people were you know

the Trump derangement syndrome because

the thing that surprises the Trump

haters the most

is that Trump is not in jail

right

now the reason Trump is not in jail is

the total lack of committing crimes that

are jailable

maybe has something to do with not

committing any jailable offenses right

but they can't see that to them he you

know was a traitor ran an Insurrection

did all kinds of things are we doing the

same thing with Biden

or is that how they get away with it

they make they make you think well maybe

you're not right because we're acting

like it's not right we're treating it

like it doesn't exist so maybe you're

not right maybe you've got a little

derangement syndrome there Scott

I don't even know

if if I if I'm being dead honest

I don't know

because that's the nature of

confirmation bias right the nature of

cognitive dissonance is the person who

has it

doesn't know

so what if I have it

what if the bidens didn't do anything

shady

and it just looks exactly like that in

every way

to me and people who saw the same stuff

I saw is that possible

because you trust me there's nobody who

has Trump derangement syndrome who

thinks they have trumped Arrangement

syndrome

they all think they're just looking at

the facts and reaching a decision well

that's what I think I'm doing

well why am I right and they're wrong

remember my rule about knowing who's got

cognitive dissonance

you'd look for someone who has the

trigger

and you know they exhibit the Tells I'm

not sure I see any

but then maybe I wouldn't

yeah the word salad have I exhibited any

word salad about Biden

well you wouldn't know because if you're

on the if you're on the same page it

would look like it made sense to you

yeah

anyway

we'll keep an eye on that because it

looks like nobody cares so Trump went

after DeSantis a little bit for closing

Florida when apparently other Governors

did not that was a pretty good that's a

pretty good uh offense

so obviously Trump is trying to degrade

desantis's presidential uh possibilities

but that's an interesting attack isn't

it because Trump never supported uh

lockdowns apparently

so he can look the governors that didn't

lock down and they can compare him to

DeSantis and suddenly DeSantis doesn't

look so good because because he's

reframed him he's reframed it from

comparing DeSantis to DeSantis to

comparing him to Governors who who

didn't close down

that's a pretty good political approach

right just from a persuasion perspective

pretty good it's pretty good because he

understands his base doesn't like the

lockdowns

he never supported them

or mandates and DeSantis did for a

little while not for long so we still

give to Santa's credit for you know

being one of the more right people

but then Trump also

um apparently there's a story that Nikki

Haley called Trump

and said she's considering running and

in the primaries against him

what do you think Trump said when Nikki

Haley said she's considering running

against him

what would be his smartest response

go for it because the more people in the

primaries the more likely he wins

because he's going to keep his 25

percent

so if the other people can split what's

left over yeah he's he's the nominee

again worked the first time why wouldn't

it work again

yeah so that was exactly the right

answer

so he's definitely right on his attack

for DeSantis in terms of persuasion Wise

It's a good approach and he is

definitely right strategically telling

Nikki Haley yeah go for it

good strategy

but then I saw a video in which he was

talking about uh the energy policy the

Biden energy policy and it sounded like

he was saying that there's like these

stupid energy things and good energy

things and the good energy things were

the fossil fuel types and the bad energy

things that were silly I don't think he

named him by name but it sounded like he

was going after solar and wind power

right that that was the implication

now what do you think of his messaging

his messaging is fossil fuel is good

uh alternative things can never be good

you know they're not good and will never

be good

is that is that good messaging or bad

it's an F yeah that's a fail

uh on if I'm going to grade this it's

not even a d Plus

this is just a total failure

here's here's what a good message for a

republican candidate would look like

you know there's something we can all

come together on on energy

it used to be there was a lot of

disagreement on nuclear energy

but with the generation three which has

never had any

um deaths or problems

uh or big problems and with the fact

that we now can store the spend fuel on

site

so we don't have to transport it that's

you know sort of where the industry went

and now that the newer generations of

nuclear could eat some of that waste as

their fuel could use some of the waste

as their fuel

we should definitely come together a

nuclear and do it as quickly as possible

now I think we should also go heavy on

fossil fuel

unless until we have Alternatives but I

don't see them coming happening quickly

however I also agree that the free

market should continue every other

technological innovation because there

might be something some change you know

you might have better batteries or

better solar panels or better windmills

so that'd be great

at the moment we think we need as much

fossil fuel as possible to give America

its independence economic uh economic

growth as well as being secure from our

enemies in the long run we like

technical technological innovation but

we don't want to over subsidize it

that's a problem we don't want to over

subsidize things let the free market do

what it does as much as possible

now

is there any reason that he has to not

mention nuclear the one thing we all

agree on or or we're coming close to it

that's the one I'd play on

and why can't he say that the other

stuff is fine as long as we don't over

subsidize it

it's like he's trying not to win with

that message

I mean it looks like

virtue signaling I just think it's he

doesn't need that much Nuance to make it

perfect

because here are the things that we

should all be agreeing on we should be

agreeing on immigration have a strong

border security but have some bipartisan

group

of economic economists decide who would

let in and when so you've got some

Independence about that decision but you

know be secure On the Border

everybody would agree with that

so he has all these topics from

education

um uh including uh

Public School Alternatives Etc all kinds

of stuff that he could pick off

Democrats

let me just give you a

sort of a mental

um I guess exercise

let's say you wanted to pick off some

Democrats but you didn't want to lose

your base

he could definitely pick some off on

immigration

just by being reasonable he could

definitely pick him off by being

pro-nuclear and pro-green enough that

he's not against it but also wants to

make our economy and work well I think

he can make energy work I think he can

make Ukraine something we come together

on

I think you could pull some Democrats

off of that pile

he has all these issues

even the even the CRT and transgender

stuff in schools I think he could pick

off Democrats on that at this point in

not before but at this point sure

so he has this total ability to take 10

of the Democrats

totally

and and there's a and and he can mock

the January 6th thing out of the news

if he chooses to if every time he's

asked about he goes all right let's be

serious

are you really trying to tell the story

that Republican stage an Insurrection

without guns

and then don't even answer any other

question I go but you answer me the

question I know you have lots of

questions for me but honestly I'm I'm

actually curious

do you actually think that's what a res

an Insurrection would look like do you

think I'm so bad at insurrections that I

would think that trespassing for a day

without weapons would conquer the United

States

how does that even make sense

right so

every every attack on Trump

at the moment

is completely empty

all he has to do is reframe them but so

far he's not

so far he's not he's not taking any of

the free money

that that is available now that really

wasn't available in 2016 or 2020.

because things have changed right at

this point getting getting both sides to

agree on ending the Ukraine stuff you

don't think he can pick off people on

both sides on that issue we didn't have

that issue before he could definitely

get some yeah

so the oh here Trump has a super highway

to win

he just has to stay in the middle of the

highway and not say bad framing for

topics that he doesn't need to frame

badly there's just no reason

but we'll see what he does so I'm

totally unimpressed by his energy take

to me that's just a failure

like I can't give it even like nice try

I can't even say it's good for the base

really it's not even good for the base

it's like just bad

all right

here now is something you did not know

about viruses

uh you've heard of measles

and I'm old enough to have had measles

before there were vaccinations

and here's something I learned today

in 2019 so this is an article in WebMD

from 2019. one of the things we learned

about measles

that we didn't know for a hundred years

how long have we known that measles

existed hundreds of years

something like that

here's something you didn't know

a number of studies are showing that the

measles may have wiped out your uh your

body's memory

for immunity of other things

the measles may have wiped out your

immunity for other things

and that's something that they're

learning just lately

after 50 years of science

so in other words there is long long

measles

long measles

apparently exists because it can take

out your immunity to other things and

then those other things get you now

that's something we didn't know for 50

years

so what do we know about the Coronavirus

do you think the coronavirus could take

you out like 50 years from now we could

find out oh it did some bad things that

we didn't know

what about the vaccination itself

what about that do you think in 50 years

we can find out it did something to us

50 years ago

it all seems possible doesn't it now

does it change your mind that we only

found out how dangerous measles is

in 2019

2019. and by the way the article the

people talking about it were fouchy

fauci was in the article

and Michael Mina

who you knew from the pandemic talking

about the absence of fast testing rapid

testing so two of the characters were

well known from the pandemic were part

of this story as well they were the main

people in the story

so

interesting

um

what is your belief about the mainstream

opinion of long covet not your own

opinion not your own opinion what do you

believe if you were to Google what would

be the front page of Google results not

saying it's true I'm just asking you

what would appear

would it say that long covet is pretty

much a thing definitely what is saying

maybe we're still looking into it or

would it say you know I've got a feeling

this isn't real

all right the Google search

um and again I'm not I'm not endorsing

this is being correct

if you just Googled you would see that

long covet is very real that's their

claim not mine

very real

and it's kind of a big deal now usually

it's something that would last months

now what percentage of people according

to the Google front page

not me what percentage of people do you

think experienced long covet which they

would Define as let's say weeks or

months of brain fog and fatigue

like 45 percent

45 percent

now

if you had if you lost three months of

your life to fatigue

how big of a risk would you take to

avoid that

of course the vaccination risk you know

is everything including death because

it's an unknown you don't know what

happens to you or anybody else

there's no way to there's no way to

measure the two risks

but what if kovid which was well let me

ask this question so here's here's

something I had genuine curiosity for

[Applause]

um

how did you know that Co that long covid

wouldn't be

as bad as maybe long measles is

how did you know that

so I asked people how they knew it and

a lot of people said they knew it

because the the data said that people

were getting it and recovering and they

knew people who it was just a cold and

they got over it

now that's people telling me that they

know the future because they know the

present

to me that's not even a thing

because in the present I thought measles

was just something that happened to me

then

but 50 years later I found out oh it

turns out I thought I was safe but maybe

I wasn't but people uh unlike the

measles case there were a lot of people

who looked at the covet current

information and from that they formed

certainty about the future

now I don't know how to do that

I only could look at current information

and say well I don't know about the

future

um so I asked Ivor Ivor Cummins who is a

famous

opponent to vaccinations and he said

oh I also asked

if how do you explain that the

scientists and Drug executives

presumably but we don't know

took the shots themselves

like if you think they're dangerous how

would you explain that to people who

invented them

took them

and what I found was that the majority

of people that I pulled believe they

didn't

they believed they didn't take them

which is totally possible

that is totally possible

you know there was a day when I would

have said come on

right there was a time in my life I

always said come on

if the executives and the scientists who

invented them didn't take them

we would know that there would be

whistleblowers and you know it would

just be so obvious you would know it

yes Katie Katie is also uh confusing the

uh the future in the past so there's

somebody on here who can't tell the

difference between

today and the future you're right do you

know there's a difference

you should uh you should look into that

so there are things that happen like

today that can be different than things

that happen in the future

and sometimes the Futures are unknown

sometimes you don't know I know that's

the first time you're finding that out

Katie I know so Katie is screaming in

all caps Scott in 2020 we must

immediately close the entire country

down from all international flights at

lockdown

first of all Katie

that was about China only

China only

and that was when we didn't know what it

was

and I said well at least shut down until

we find out

so with the information we have the time

that's called the present

now I know these concepts are unfamiliar

but the present is different than the

past

and also different in the future

now if I had known what you know Katie

apparently you're a time traveler and

you knew from the first moment that it

was no risk

you are my role model

I want to be like you and go on podcasts

and Shout in all capital letters that

the future and the current are the same

that I can look at my future data today

and then with the benefit of the future

data I could make decisions today

now that's something I didn't know Katie

so thank you for correcting me Oh Katie

you got very quiet

how embarrassing to be you right now

all right

so but there is

uh and as people said to me and I expect

that they would say this

that there is actually an entirely

reasonable uh argument a totally

reasonable argument why all of the

scientists and all of the executives or

some portion of them might have skipped

the shots

and lied to you

that is possible in 2022 and 2021 I

would say we've actually reached the

point of ridiculousness where that was

actually possible now if I had to put

odds on it I would say not very high

but it's actually possible now here's

another possibility

the scientists and executives

were so let's say enamored by how much

money they were going to make because

even the scientists were going to get

rich just on stock options anybody who

owned company stocks got rich

so everybody was going to make a killing

and the only thing they had to do

was tell you that it was safe

that's all they had to do and they would

all get rich

and then they had they had immunity

right they had negotiated immunity so

once they negotiated immunity they'd

lost all incentives to tell you the

truth

they had no incentive to tell you the

truth because they had immunity and if

they lied this is hypothetical but if

they lied they would get rich

and they would have no risk

so do you think that people who have a

choice of getting rich if they say one

thing are they objective anymore of

course not of course not so it's

entirely possible and it fits within my

understanding of psychology that

everyone at the big Pharma was in

cognitive distance and convinced

themselves they were working for the

good

but we're doing the opposite I'm not

saying that's the case I'm saying that

would be fully within the normal scope

of human behavior

totally accepted now

if you told me that that situation would

remain that way forever

well then I get skeptical

the longer you wait the more somebody's

gonna you know leave the ranks you're

going to get a whistleblower

so here's a question I ask

um

where's the whistleblowers

the ones who say we knew it was bad for

you but we did it anyway

where are they

how much would you have to make to be a

whistleblower in this situation

because I think if you're a scientist or

you work there you probably made five

million dollars

don't you think

don't you think that like a top

scientist probably made Five Ten twenty

million dollars just on stock options

just for going to work

I think you know because they probably

had a top scientist probably had a

million or two in stock options which

you know ballooned immediately up to 10

million or something

so

but suppose you offered 20 million

dollars

for any whistleblower who could tell you

that they they knew it was dangerous and

did it anyway without telling you the

danger

do you think anybody would answer for 20

million dollars

remember follow the money

well if you say no then you're releasing

a little bit on the follow of the money

because the top Executives would lose

money if they became whistleblowers

right the top executive has probably

made a billion a piece

or 100 million or something so they

would lose money 20 million would be a

bad deal for them

um but if you're let's say just an

employee a staff person let's say you

made a million dollars in stock options

pretty darn good for a year of work

but you take 20.

I think you'd take 20 million

I don't know if it's taxable our

whistleblower whistleblower compensation

is that taxable

is there any special carve out for

whistleblowers for taxes because I don't

know if you get the 20 or you get the

10.

so maybe you only get half of it right

that's why I made it 20 million

so

if you believe that they were bad people

doing bad things the questions you'd

have to ask is why did they all take it

or how did they all hide the fact they

didn't

or how could there not be at least one

whistleblower

just one whistleblower who likes 20

million dollars and likes attention just

one

then maybe there will be one maybe we

just wait a little while and they'll

feel safer to come out right it's

possible

so here's where I went wrong

all right

I believe I was biased by uh

people who take drugs the illegal kind

if you have any experience in the

illegal drug world

what's the number one rule of whether or

not you put a drug in your mouth number

one rule what is it

it's an illegal drug

what's the number one rule before you

put it in your mouth or you smoke it

did you watch somebody else do it

that's the number one rule did you watch

somebody reach into the same bag and

take out the same you know pill or

powder or whatever it's going to be

and watch them put it in their mouth

and then the next day they're still

alive

right

if you took like if you took mushrooms

from a bag that you don't know anybody's

ever tried

well you're really taking the chance

there

right so the number one rule in fact it

was the rule I mentioned to my stepson

before he violated the rule and died

because I'm pretty sure that he took

some things and simply handed him right

and there was at least one other person

who died from the same batch the same

day so the batch was that the batch was

bad

nobody nobody tested from that batch

right so it's the number one thing so

when I look at the the vaccinations

slash shots

the number one question I said is well

are they take him

right is he are the executives taking

him

what about the scientists who invented

it are they taking what about Dr Malone

Dr Malone the you know co-inventor of

the MRNA did he take it he did he did

he says he did we can't prove anything

right but I imagine you wouldn't lie

about that

um now here's my second question

if you took the executives and the top

scientists of the big Pharma and you

brought him before Congress would it be

legal

to ask them the question did you get the

vaccination

it might be illegal to ask because it's

their personal medical stuff right they

could just say I don't talk about my

personal medical situation

so even Congress can't find out if they

took the shot right

am I right

or does

let me think now the government has a

record of our vaccination status though

right

don't they

do a fact check I mean the whole point

of having the vaccination cards is that

everybody who got a vaccination

was entered so if the executives and the

scientists who invented it

if they have a card and they're on a

record you still don't know if they got

a saline because half of you believe

they got sailing right

but don't you think do you think that

that there would be no whistleblower if

the executives and the scientists were

taking Saline

you don't think you get a whistleblower

for that

see I could imagine no whistleblower on

the basic question of whether they knew

it was dangerous

I could imagine no whistleblower on that

even if there was something there

but I can't imagine I can't imagine my

head my head cannot hold and hold into

it that you wouldn't have a

whistleblower by now if if a number of

them like a large number got a saline

shot

do you believe they could keep that

secret up till now

I don't know

it certainly

I I think it's possible

yeah I I think the uh the things we've

seen from the Russia collusion to

you know the the laptop to I mean think

about the fact there are 51 people who

signed that Hunter laptop thing

51 people

not a single one of them has come

forward and said you know that wasn't

real we were just trying to influence

things

no whistleblowers there

that's 51 people no whistleblowers

Tuskegee there were no whistleblowers

for a long time right

so there are lots of situations where

there are no whistleblowers

yeah it could happen

but here's where I'm telling you my bias

my bias is

that I presumed

it's most likely that they took it

and then I said well if the people who

know the most about it took it

that's an argument but then I I have to

admit it never occurred to me

that they could have taken saline shots

and gotten away with it

but we do live in a world where they

could have I don't think it happened

like it my my assessment of the odds the

odds that the executives and scientists

took saline I'd put it

10 percent

I put that at 10 percent

and 10 is high yeah I'm I'm stretching

to get to 10 because that would be one

hell of a I mean that would be the crime

of the whole

wouldn't that be the crime of the

century

or the biggest crime since you know

Genghis Khan or biggest crimes in Stalin

or Mao or something

but maybe

yeah yeah like

uh as somebody who's saying over here

I'm gullible now remember

um I I believe we're a simulation

and I believe that your movie in which I

got everything wrong and I trusted

um I trusted big entities

is completely true

but at the same time the other movie is

completely true that I didn't trust any

entities and I didn't trust the virus

so they're just both true at the same

time and there's nothing wrong with it

they can just both be true

they took it at a time we thought covert

was a bio weapon

but did they get boosters because we

would also have a record of their

boosters

I think what you'd find is that the

um the people attached to it got boosted

if they were old and had comorbidities

and maybe not if they're young

that's what I think you would find

all right

um

so the number of people who believe only

19 percent of the people I surveyed

believe that the executives at the

scientists actually took it themselves

61 percent believed that it was a saline

shot or they didn't take it

61 percent of you

believe the executives and the

scientists who made it didn't take it

isn't there some way to find out

like I get that if it was a super clever

saline solution thing maybe you couldn't

but I feel like there's some way to find

out

I just don't know what it is yeah Google

it

Google it won't work

yeah all right

all right

um but anyway all it would take to make

me happy would be a GoFundMe of 20

million dollars

for a whistleblower who could say

something we don't already know

you'd have to specify what they

specifically what their claim would have

to be to pay them but if they could

prove it

with documents especially

that would be amazing

DJ bear wants you to know

this is fake and he's going to say it

20 times so far

just keep saying it

yeah he just wants to type it over and

over again

we're um DJ bear we're gonna

make you invisible here

you are now hidden but I encourage you

to keep typing

um

all right

could sign something that we would know

yeah

all right

I also wonder how many doctors have died

from the shot

no you

'd love to know how many medical doctors

because there must be enough of them how

many medical doctors are in the United

States it's well over a hundred thousand

right

million I don't know 100 000.

does anybody have any idea

but don't you figure that the medical

professionals are probably 98 vaccinated

wouldn't you say

uh maybe 90 percent

but do you think uh there are any

vaccinated people

I know now

here's something I said that nobody

called me on and you should have

I said something really sketchy earlier

you should have called me on it when I

said that Google says that at the moment

45 percent of people are saying they

have long covered symptoms

you were supposed to say

aren't they all vaccinated

and then I'd say oh yeah that's true you

can't tell if it's long covered or long

long Jab

now I think because of the timing of and

such people can tell it's from the covet

not the shock

but I was expecting you to say that

I was expecting

all right

yeah very suspect all right that's all

for now YouTube I'll talk to you

tomorrow thanks for joining have a good