Episode 2005 Scott Adams - Pretending To Care About Kids, Bill Maher & CNN, China Can't Make Chips

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today is the day something good is going to happen just tell yourself that all day long and Watch What Happens just say I think I feel like some good Luck's coming today's day it's gonna be a good day wow today's gonna be a good day some good stuff coming now it might be that you talk yourself into seeing the good stuff as more important than the bad stuff that day so it might be just a psychological phenomenon a war or we live in a simulation and that's how you steer it by your intentions because all all evidence does suggest that's the case one day that's all I'm asking just one day every now and then remind yourself something good is going to happen today I can feel it it's coming see what happens you'll be amazed well at the same time that the price of eggs is going through the roof because of avian flu there was some big egg production facility that burned down does that sound like a coincidence that the same time the eggs are in great demand and the high priced that have major egg facility would burn down now I believe this is a case of well it's obvious who did it do I have to say it it's obvious no it was the egg white supremacists the egg white supremacists that's the way I think he did it yes it did kick off uh many bad puns I won't repeat them all just that one don't work among yourselves and do the rest of the puns well the big news entertainment wise is that Bill Maher is going to slightly be on CNN oh he's not moving his show to see him then he's just sort of slightly tangentially a little bit sometimes kind of flirting with the idea of a little bit of content on CNN so on Friday nights the extra part of his show that's on HBO real time uh the extra part after the end of the show where they sit around and keep talking the extra part will be on CNN late at night on Fridays because usually goes on is only once a week now is this a reaction to Gutfeld are they testing the waters will CNN test Bill Maher for a little bit at that time and then say to themselves we should be running this kind of content at this time all the time because people want to see funny news not like hard news before they go to bed so I think that's one of one of Garfield's magic is that uh you know he can make you feel good before you go to bed uh anyway keep an eye on that uh I do have a feeling about it which is just one of those that feels alike you know how people always think in analogies so if something reminds you of something else you irrationally think that the thing it reminded you of is telling you something about the thing it probably isn't that's just two things that remind you of each other but here's what it reminds me of when I used to own restaurants locally uh when I saw a restaurant start to serve brunch when normally they were just a lunch at dinner place as soon as they would offer brunch you knew they were going out of business do you know how it's because brunch is a terrible business it's like a it's like a last last ditch thing to do like if you've given up on making money the normal way you try to do brunch it never works it's like the ultimate thing that never works nobody ever goes to the lunch and dinner place for brunch do you know why because they're used to it as the lunch and dinner place they can't really it doesn't really ever become a breakfast place the only places to do are breakfast places if a place is a breakfast place people go to breakfast there otherwise their minds just can't wrap around it so when I see uh CNN trying to scoop up the the leftovers from Bill Marshall on HBO that looks to me a lot like brunch if you know what I mean sort of a Hail Mary desperation try anything kind of thing but if I want to look at it as a more aggressive approach I would say they're testing out their audience to see if they can maybe compete for his full show what do you think I don't know if you'd want to do it every night though I don't think he wants to do a nightly show but maybe he would maybe you would you never know um my my music teacher well I won't say I'll just say a music teacher I shouldn't have said that and now I can't do the story because I didn't want to identify it skipping that story going right to the next one um so does it seem to you that uh kids are getting Dumber because of smartphones how many would say that the children the youth are getting Dumber because of smartphones a lot of people say yes somewhat reflexively now what do you think you would find don't do this yet but what do you think you would find if you were to go to Google and Google are smartphones making uh children Dumber what do you think you'd find as the top result from Google who I believe would like everybody to use a smartphone do you think that Google would say oh here's the research show these smartphones which were a big part of are bad for you what do you think well the top result or one of the top results or actually the top curated results so if you go to Google and you you look for something that other people have looked for a lot Google will help you by curating a quick hit that's like all you need to know you can look deeper but it's basically the answer to the question but it's curated meaning it's not just a natural way that you search and the good stuff comes up first somebody at Google decided that the first thing you should say when you click on it um is this the arguments that are making us that smartphones are making us Dumber don't hold up explain some PhD cognitive scientist blah blah and that's the opposite the smartphones are making us smarter what do you think about that do you think smartphones make you you dumber or making you smarter well maybe there's a trick to it maybe there's a trick here's the trick if I say to you are smartphones making you smarter who is you see it seems obvious right you is you and then your phone is separate your phone is there and this is you but this answer that smartphones are making you smarter treats you like a cyborg Your Part phone and part person and if you could if you look at the person as part of phone connected to the internet and per person we're a way smarter what do you think of that so it might be true that the organic part of our cyborg being is getting some less abilities yeah it might might be decreasing as memorization ability but at the same time we're no longer just an organic entity we're a cyborg we're part machine part human and the the machine part is is awesome you know it more than makes up for what we're losing in cognitive abilities so do you buy that and you buy that it's a total coincidence that Google a company that would really like you to look at a screen a lot that a big company like that wants you to know that you're just getting better and stronger and smarter because you're part computer and part person and how could that be bad now there are lots of studies that would suggest the opposite so other studies that don't look at you as a cyborg and see you just as your organic part they there's lots of indications that we're getting more distracted and shorter retention spans that kind of stuff uh can we treat well and let me tie a few things together here so I did a unscientific Twitter poll and I asked people uh what will describe destroy the lives of more children and the choices were pandemic policies so that would include everything from vaccinations to masks to shutdowns to zoom class all that so the pandemic policies or smartphones and social media being you know called out as a big part of that or a covid-19 itself you know the actual virus so the number of people who thought that uh the most people of these choices that uh that covid-19 would destroy the lives more children was two percent two percent thought covert was the thing that would destroy the most children coming in second was all of the pandemic policies put together 25 percent 25 percent 25 25.

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that's about a quarter that's about a quarter of the people interesting the other people said uh 73 said there was the smartphones in social media I don't want to make too much of the 25 but um and what do you think 73 think the smartphone was worse than everything in the pandemic 73 percent think it was worse than the coven itself and worse than the response to the covet from vaccinations to Mass to zoom School so that's how many people think smartphones are like a serious danger to children do you see a big movement to ban to ban smartphones for children I don't there's none is there I tweeted it the other day and I got a lot of support but there's nothing in the government that's going to ban smartphones now because the big tech companies have too much control that's never going to happen can we can we stop her pretending we care about children could we just stop lying about it because I feel like it's bad enough that we're putting children in these situations that's bad enough but we're also lying about it while we're doing it obviously we don't care about children in fact I will go further I believe Wars General Wars the kind of where you're shooting and killing Wars are about sacrificing young people to protect old people aren't they you put the old the young people on the front line cannon fodder to protect the old people and the retirements we've never cared about young people it's just never been and in fact if you go back for most of civilization children were just an asset that could maybe make use of money or protect you from your enemies but basically it wasn't all about the kids the kids were just like the animals the you know they're just part of the system so I find it distasteful that we even pretend that we care about children when it's so obviously we don't so obvious do you know why do you know why parents give up on phones when they should be tough why why do children why do parents give up and say all right you can have your phone but not after 9 pm okay you could have your phone after 9 pm why do most parents do that because it's too hard to take it away it's just too hard and then and the kid is less trouble when they're on their phone they're not making trouble in the back seat of the car it's sort of like television you know you people use television as a babysitter well because it works it works really well and the phones with just that so I think I think we're destroying our children 73 percent of you know it completely and at least the pandemic policies are you know mopping up whatever you haven't destroyed with smartphones but do you see any indication so so look at the state of our Public Schools look at our Public Schools just all of it just all of it look at smartphones and then look at how we treated kids during the pandemic and you tell me that we care about children seriously tell me we care about children now I do think that every parent does I believe that I believe every parent cares about their children and a lot right no difference than it never has been but as a as an entity a group as a country you can't tell us we care about children come on yeah there's fentanyl fentanyl is just an obvious one stop saying we care about the young we don't if we wouldn't do any you know homeschooling is growing but homeschooling is a growth from Individual parents am I right I mean there's some politicians on board but it's mostly that grew up from the bottom up that that wasn't the top down thing all of the top-down stuff is anti-children I I don't know is that a coincidence that it's all anti-children all of it because it is it's all anti-children I don't know how that ever evolved to be like complete anti-jilden but maybe we've always been this way yeah maybe it's just a little more obvious because of the pandemic but maybe we've always just not cared about children we just pretend that we feel otherwise because we do care about our own so I think we're conflating how much we care about our own kids with how much we care about your kids you know what I mean because that feels like your problem all right um a few other things if you keep looking at the Google searches you'll see all kinds of Science of both sides so I'm saying it's hurting our attention spans and some saying it isn't it uh but let me tell you my favorite uh pushback from this it's all right so I'm uh old man old man shouting at the sky right so I'm clearly a boomer I'm clearly in that demographic who says you know get a haircut you kids stop listening to that Elvis Presley and that rock and roll it's gonna hurt your minds so after I make this this whole tweet thing about the safety of children uh a Twitter username Steve Stevens I won't say anything about the creativity of his parents who named him Steve Stevens but I'll just say that his comment was hilarious So after talking about his smartphones hurting the children he tweets you left out pinball and pool halls okay you win uh you win good can we just let Steve Stevens have the win Stevens for the win total win yes Steve Stevens who has been around long enough to know that there's never been a time when we didn't say the children are dumb this time and we've been wrong every time we always say the children are dumb always since I was a kid all that rock and roll was going to destroy our minds and nothing like that ever happened right so this this was just such a good comment you left out pinball and pool halls because they're gonna rot those children's Minds here's what I think is true the truth is that the only smart people who matter are the top one percent and they're probably no different than they ever were in fact there might be more of them did you invent any microchips today I I didn't I didn't did you uh make any breakthroughs in artificial intelligence today I didn't I really didn't do anything so it almost doesn't matter how smart I am I just have to be able to take care of myself and and that's it the one percent of smart people who have always been with us are still doing what they always do they invent the future and then we live in it so it doesn't matter if the average person can memorize a poem so somebody else said uh the other thing the kids can't do today ever since the invention of writing they haven't been able to been able to memorize ten thousand word poems I thought to myself that is so perfect because you know when the invention of writing came along somebody probably said all right look with all of this writing uh kids are no longer going to be able to memorize 10 000 word poems like they can easily so let's get rid of the writing Gramps yeah Rush Limbaugh said ten percent carry the rest it's way less than 10 percent if you're talking about the the people who've invented the future right you know Elon Musk isn't in the 10 percent he's in the one percent so uh my argument will be this I believe the smartphones have made us different and then it made some people smarter in some ways but it also probably changed their attention span did that hurt us it depends it might hurt some people in some weird ways what uh what I imagine is that the average person can scroll through a screen way faster than the Ancients could have I feel like they optimized for insane amounts of information so what what does a kid optimize for in the boring past in the boring past we were optimized to survive boredom that's all I remember of my youth pain and boredom that's it pain and boredom that was my entire youth I was either in pain or I was bored I only had two reactions so it was horrible now kids are full of you know so much stimulation do you think that a kid today is more or less able to handle complexity I don't know I mean I'm just throwing out some suggestions they might be more it's possible less it's possible less but I think more I think more because I handle complexity every day with their interfaces and social everything but they may be giving up some interpersonal skills they might be giving up some um concentration but do they need it what would be more important let me ask you this which skill would be more important than 2023 are really an ability to really focus deeply on a single subject for a long time or the ability to quickly skim all kinds of useful information quickly using your smartphone I know I see people learning like crazy because they have phones don't you know somebody who googles everything you're in the conversation like one minute into it they're Googling just to fact check you or to add a thing or to find out a new thing you know that didn't exist before there's no way smartphones aren't making us a lot smarter in some ways while at the same time taking something away so I think we could confirm that we're changing I don't know if it's bad yet might be a might be a mix but I think it's all bad for kids on that are you aware that uh representative Dan Crenshaw um and also Michael Waltz both Republicans issued a joint resolution authorizing Biden to use military force to combat the cartels pumping Fentanyl and other stuff into the country so that's all good now remember my my current political stand is that I'm going to back for a president Whoever has the best fentanyl policy so far that's Trump because Trump also says use the military against the cartels uh Crenshaw is saying something similar but as far as we know he's not running for president how did I get this far with my microphone not on is that better I'm sorry all right um so here's so if credential runs for president then I will have a dilemma because then I would have to choose between Trump and Crenshaw now I know what you're going to say some are you going to say no not Crenshaw I dislike him for my five reasons don't care do not care yeah don't don't even tell me what you don't like about them warmonger sure whatever don't care if you if you would have the best policy on Fentanyl and so far it would just be a tie you know so far Trump still has the advantage but hypothetically and I'm doing this just to warn you right because I don't want you to have any shock I will I will abandon Trump in a hot flash I will abandon him so fast if somebody has a better idea on Sentinel only fentanyl one issue it's all I care about everything else you know deep State's going to do what deep state does but uh congratulations to Crenshaw for having his priorities straight he said one thing that was or I don't know if he said this but the news reported that Crenshaw said this now this can't possibly be true and I want to want you to maybe help me here did the news just report it wrong or did he misstate this or is this actually true I'll just read what the news said um Crenshaw the architect of the bill last Congress told Fox News digital that the cartels quote are responsible for about 360 000 homicides this year in Mexico that couldn't possibly be true is it 360 000 murderers murders one year in Mexico no that's not plausible that is not plausible I'm sorry 36 000 might be would you accept thirty six thousand 36 000 is a lot that would be a lot of murder but 360 000 no um so can we do a fact check on that because my belief is that uh oh 370 per day what's wrong with a little hyperbole well that's a lot of hyperbole yeah that's a lot of hyperbole because if it were really 360 000 murders in a year The Mexican government would be begging us to send it in the military wouldn't they am I am I wrong about that if it were really 360 000 a year just in Mexico in one year they would be begging us for the military that can't possibly be true would you believe 25 000 I would yeah I would believe 36 000.

I mean I wouldn't know it's true but it's within the credible range so that's weird let's talk about China Wall Street Journal has an opinion piece I'm trying to decide if it's racist every time I hear that China can't develop technology you know because they have something about their system they can't develop technology did we say this about Japan when I was young didn't we say oh the Japanese there's something about their culture they'll they'll never want to take a chance so therefore they'll never build any technology because they don't want to there's something about their culture well Japan is doing okay seems like they're they they fixed that now we're now we're doing the same thing about China that there's something about this system or something about I don't know the culture that makes them not be able to make microchips on the surface doesn't that just sound like a racist sort of thing that we're looking for support for like we're looking for confirmation bias but it feels like it starts with racism doesn't it am I wrong about that am I too woke is that too woke because that might be me or maybe I'm just so primed for it that well I'll give you the argument right so I'm going to give you the argument I suspect I just feel like it may have started in the wrong place and then they work backwards to the argument but we'll give them the benefit of a doubt okay and here's the argument now this first part is a pretty good argument in the U.S system uh funding for big companies usually starts with small companies and it's private you know Venture capitalists and angels and stuff and so there are tons of people in the market and they're watching their money pretty closely if a venture capitalist gives you a million dollars they're going to attend your meetings right they're going to make sure you spent their million dollars right so we have a system in which the funding for Tech is is monitored and managed by the people who gave them the funding so so the the funders are very close to the process literally in the room same room in China it's a state managed process so the state decides which Industries they're going to be promoting they decided they would do chips it's a good idea so then at the top of the government they release a gazillion dollars I think it was going to be like a trillion dollars or something eventually just huge amounts of money and then who does it go to who does it go to well it doesn't go to anybody who's not part of the Communist party did you know that if you're not in the Communist Party you don't get any of the money so right there they basically taken out part of what works in the United States because in the United States you just have to be good at what you're doing over there you have to also be in the Communist Party it says one inefficiency right they're missing anybody who's not but I don't know what percentage are not frankly so maybe it's not as big a deal as I think secondly the higher your rank as a technology person the higher you rank in the Communist Party the more funding you're going to get so that it's based not on the quality of the project but on the status of the person who asked for the money again there's no way in the world that doesn't hurt their system now but you could argue it's the same here it just looks different right you could argue that if Elon Musk starts a you know another company and if you were to ask for Investments which he typically doesn't uh people would say oh okay we'll definitely give you money so it could be that the important people always get the most money anyway you know however however you slice it but I think our system works better there but here's the big part so if the Chinese government at the top releases a billion dollars for something it first goes to the you know biggest communist who wants the money and then after that it just goes into some corruption Black Box so the opportunity for corruption among the Chinese system is that a lot of the money is going to get siphoned off for projects that were not good ideas but somebody had the clout to get it funded from the government so China's system is based on uh Who You Are how much corruption you're involved in and looking good to the Communist party our system is almost entirely brutally based on performance and I have to admit if their system did not adjust to this problem I don't see how they could I don't see how they could build anything um and I think there was another another reason given which was uh it was mostly corruption um here's the part that really raised my red flag so this is an opinion piece I won't even tell you who are the opinion is from but it's in the Wall Street Journal um let's see dreams and passions are impractical and expensive and even silly so he's talking about the typical Chinese culture that dreams and passions and impractical and are impractical and expensive and even silly and they must be discarded and he says if China can't cultivate free thinkers you know it's always going to be a follower do you think China can't cultivate fruit the free thinkers or does that just sound super racist to you because it sounds super racist to me because you know who else can't cultivate free thinkers who make a difference United States because 98 of us are not contributing anything that our free thought made a difference to I didn't invent any chips did you I know I feel like the top one percent of Chinese effective you know scientists and Technical people probably just like everybody else so I don't know I'm not buying this whole cultural thing there's definitely something going on that they're not keeping up but I think has more to do with the funding probably the funding more than anything all right Rachel Maddow who I watched just for humor purposes watching her face contort when she's trying to sell you some anti-trump stuff now first of all watching Rachel Maddow do anti-trump content feels like 70 years ago it doesn't feel current anymore does it just feels really kind of old kind of stale but she's working she's uh really making a big deal about the fact that uh Trump um is now going to be prosecuted for uh giving money to Stormy Daniels to not talk but it was campaign financing money now of all the things that Trump is accused of doing is this the one that people care the least about have you ever met even one person who said oh ah I thought he'd be a good president but once I found a used campaign money for campaign purposes to you know make the Stormy Daniels thing go away I don't know if I could support somebody who used campaign funds to benefit his campaign I I don't I can't support that is there even one person who cares about that story seriously now I got that you know your Rob Riders are hoping that this is what takes Trump out but do you think Rob Rider cares about the story does he care that Stormy Daniels got some some money that came from uh donations that actually did well if it worked it would have helped Trump get elected I've never seen the story with less meat on it than this now I'm not saying he won't be prosecuted but is it going to keep him from being president wouldn't it just be a fine correct me if I'm wrong the worst he's talking about is paying a fine which is somewhat typical Obama's paid one I think has not Obama paid a fine for the same thing campaign you know lapses it's just the most if if I could if I could tell you one fact that would convince you Trump is going to be your next president here would be that one fact you didn't know anything else it's the only thing you know it's 20 23.

and MSNBC is running Rachel Maddow a major segment talking about the problems with Trump and that payment to Stormy Daniels seven years ago that's what they have that is the best they have right now what would stop him from being president see I think you have to now talk talk in terms of what could possibly stop him because I think we're asking the wrong question you know who's going to run what could possibly stop him at this point I don't say anything I mean he's been proven basically right on everything important and all they have left are things that nobody cared about in the first place that's what it looks like to me and I don't think De.

Santis will run but I I could be wrong we'll see um so Biden is going to cancel the covid emergency whatever laws so that would mean that nobody would be required by the federal government to mask or get vaccinated how about that do you know why Biden says he's going to cancel it on May 11th because Republicans uh introduced legislation to cancel it sooner and as Thomas Massey points out Republicans are already getting results because the news the news is quite clear that Biden would not have announced this except that he he had to counter the Republicans wanting to get rid of the restrictions and the public very much wants the restrictions to go away so it was something that was free money for republicans so remember I always look for as a sign of competence can you at least pick up the free money it's just right there on the table why are your hands not going toward it why are you walking away from the free money well there is Trump again Trump picked up the free money like it's such a it's such a reliable indicator if he can't do the easy stuff we're not going to trust you to do the hard stuff but if the money's just laying there on the table just pick it up Thomas Massey saw money lag on the table it's obvious that the public wants the restrictions lifted it's obvious that scientifically health-wise it's the right time to do it so they say Republicans do the Smart Ones there's this money on the table why don't we just pick it up and so they picked it up and it made it made Biden scramble to keep up with them now that's what I want to see I want to see Republicans see free money on the table and then walk over and pick it up and just keep doing that you don't even have to do anything magical or special you don't need any character you don't need any charisma just pick up the free money that's all we're not asking that much just the free stuff um I love the fact that we think we live in some kind of objective reality where we figured out what's true and what's that and then I mentioned how Sweden did during the covid epidemic and I I triggered yesterday I triggered a Twitter graph or where everybody was putting up their graph to show that Sweden was either doing poorly or doing great and do you know how I can tell which Twitter graphs are the credible ones and which ones are garbage do you know there's a way to know right if it's on Twitter it's garbage also if it's not on Twitter it's garbage if it's based on data it's garbage if it comes from somebody you don't know it's garbage if their source of it is not shown in the graph and quite often that's the case on Twitter that's garbage so basically we got to this point and we can't even tell if Sweden did a good job or a bad job now I know you think you all know but when you see when you see the level of fighting on Twitter the people disagreeing whether it was a good job or a bad job we don't know we really don't it's actually kind of confusing so the fact that they're younger and uh thinner and they supplement with vitamin D I think is most of the story but but I will go back to my best probably the best prediction I've ever made at the beginning of the pandemic that at the end of the pandemic we wouldn't know who managed it well and everybody who are that disagreed oh we're gonna tell some people are doing it right some people not nope can't tell the narrow place where you can tell is whether People Protected the nursing homes right so in the case of De.

Santis yes that was good work that that's one item that you can identify and say okay compared to New York yeah the leadership made a difference like that's there's no doubt about that one but on the country level on the country level hard to say still don't know I know some of you think you might know have you ever heard of uh oh then also the excess deaths are still a mystery now some of you think all the excess deaths or most of them are vaccine injury related but the excess deaths seemed to be in every demographic and they also seem to be across countries so the excess deaths are not an American thing it's everywhere and I think that they're doing different kinds of vaccines and you know all kinds of different policies but still the excess deaths are high wherever we can count them well in the Western countries anyway so I will put out one possibility psychogenic death how many of you ever heard that term psychogenic death it means basically you lose the will to live and you just die and I have a hypothesis that when I grew up no matter how thing how bad things were at the moment I had in my mind a path to happiness and that path was you get a good job you get married you have a family American Dream the American dream was very clearly it was it was just you could feel it like it everybody was moving toward it it seemed like and no matter how bad things were you have a future you had hope right now compare that to our lgbtq trans culture and by the way I'm you know big supporter of the lgbtq trans community but we can talk about them honestly right and I would say that the American dream had to disappear to make room for this other kind of wokeness and again I'm not criticizing it I'm just describing it that if you say well you know this you got to get married and you've got to have a family and go to church on Sunday thing that doesn't work for everybody so now it's a free-for-all and people are saying that there are more single people than ever more more people alone people using their phones Tinder made it impossible to date unless you're a nine or above right so basically if if you were a kid and I've heard actually young people say this there's no future now of course there is there is a future but it's not it's not cleanly packaged and supplied to children as their hope oh yeah you're having a bad day today I get it but look at this you know American Dream you just get on this American Dream path everything you're doing today studying hard staying in a jail you're on the right path kid you're doing it right and here's your happiness in the future here's your meaning and now if you're a kid you don't see any of that do you who's selling the American dream conservatives homeschoolers right homeschoolers so my theory is if you tested the psychological well-being of homeschoolers you would find they have something like hope for the future because the homeschooling Community is likely to be more likely to say follow this path and you'll have a good life I think Public School says you're all being discriminated against systemic discrimination is going to hold you back forever it looks like the police have tried to kill you because you're Brown and you better get on the streets and complain because complaining is the thing to do complaining will make things better and it does sometimes it does but that message would leave me feeling hopeless if I were a child I would just say well if I don't get married why am I doing anything right the marriage is more about having children in this case but what what's my future let's say I'm 12 year old Scott today I make money for what for what for my entertainment you know even at 12 I knew I would get bored entertaining myself all day oh I'm going to make money so I can party on the weekends and that's it like that's yeah oh I can have I can have short encounters with women and that would be a lot of fun but but that's it that's what I have to look forward to is Brief Encounters with women who are having Brief Encounters with lots of other people and that's what I'm going to live for I'm surprised there isn't a higher excess deaths because there's a whole bunch of people who just figured out there's no reason to live that's why we taught the kids we taught the kids there's no reason to live I think we did so I don't know if if that's any of it but I'd throw that in the mix it's probably some some small part of it um here's a most useful thing to know if you're a consumer of news which news outlets are controlled by the CIA if you don't know that you really can't watch the news you're going to be all confused let me give you an example MSNBC who people who are smarter than smarter than me say is clearly and has always been as is NBC uh captured entities by our intelligence agencies right now you might doubt that you might say Scott Scott that's a little a little bit of hyperbole yeah they may have they may have leaned on the networks in some ways on some issues but in general you know they're independent and then there's this story I'm going to tell you this story and then you tell me if this is Independent News this is pointed out on Twitter by unhoodwinked a good follow for you you should follow on Hoodwinked uh there was a nine nine minute segment that's a lot of time on television nine minutes on a TV news show is forever that's a lot of time um he refers to it as the CIA run and snbc all right that's his characterization and she's talking about her coved and how she was diagnosed with pericarditis and myocarditis so for nine minutes she talked about how covet had probably given her pericitis and myocarditis for nine minutes and never mentions her vaccination status let me just say that again and MSNBC host talked for nine minutes about her own quite scary myocarditis and she was a young woman right too young to be having heart problems for nine minutes never once mentioned her vaccination status is there anything else you need to know about this story right do you wonder if this is independent reporting do you think do you think she may have mentioned well I don't you know do you think in her first draft I assume somebody sees her first draft don't you think her first draft was well I don't know what the cause is you know I did get vaccinated but I also covet and now I have myocarditis it's hard to know if it's a vaccination or the or the covid but I'm just letting you know my experience so that you can recognize it too don't you think the first draft might have said something like that now you could not be more obvious and you're trying to hide the story but suppose you didn't know that MSNBC and NBC are you know strongly suggested to be Democrat slash CIA run if he didn't know that you think that was the story you think that was something like a an objective representation of something that's happening and it wasn't not even close to objective now I'm not saying the vaccination caused a problem I'm not saying that at all I'm saying if you don't mention it as a possibility it's just amazing that anybody can watch that network with with that kind of situation all right uh the host was a Yasmin vasugin foreign I think that's all I had to say and that ladies and gentlemen um I feel like there was one other thing I was going to say is there a topic I missed you can blanket blame covet well indirectly sure I'll tell you about that later all right um somebody says Scott is looking for a way out from Trump it's so transparent correct it's transparent because it's true and it's obvious and I'm telling you right up front I don't want a president who's over a certain age Trump in my case in my in my personal View is aged out of the job so somebody somebody's showing the great Insight here and says I think Scott secretly is looking for a way to not support Trump no it's not a secret I'm doing that right in front of you if anybody comes up with a better fentanyl plan and they're also they can walk and talk and they're not 100 years old I'm going to look at that pretty seriously get a look at that really seriously so don't be surprised I'm saying it as directly as I can fentanyl policy is all I care about I will drop a trumpet like a hot rock the minute a legitimate candidate has a better take and it doesn't even have to be military I mean I could imagine somebody coming up with a better take that wasn't attacking Mexico I just haven't heard it uh those who bailed out Sam bankman their names can be released that's interesting I don't think that'll tell us much uh any place to pre-order I'm not sure when you can pre-order my book it'll be called reframe your brain I think I think Amazon has a a holding place for it but I don't know if you can order yet do they have pre-orders already they probably don't put it there unless there's a pre-order option oh you ordered to okay I guess I'm selling a book I haven't made yet so that's pretty good I mean I've I finished writing it cope a Claude Adams story it's a good movie why would you pre-order to make sure you don't run out this is a book that's likely to run out now I don't think my publisher knows that yet but uh I'm almost positive this will be the biggest book I've ever written and I think the biggest book in the world not counting religious books that's what I think that's based on just looking at it myself and I look at it I think I think everybody's gonna buy this because one of the things I've done is I dealt with the um attention span problem by reducing reducing everything to one sentence you could kind of you know skim the argument and see the one sentence and you know if the reframe was going to work for you or not so I think it's got everything it's got stuff that would change everybody's life a lot no you Dean is asking if I'm being humble I know how to I know how to judge my own work meaning that I've produced things I knew wouldn't be good and wouldn't sell and I knew it immediately but my biggest book which was the Delbert principle so that's what the one that sold the most I also told my publisher when my Publishers said it might go gold which is selling 100 000 copies which is great if you sell a hundred thousand copies of a book you're definitely going to get another book deal I mean publisher loves that that's solidly successful and when my publisher told me that I said gold huh 100 000.

I said uh I think this is going to sell a million very few books sell a million very few I mean well under one percent of new books sell over a million and I remember the look on his face it was like well you know it's very unusual he explained to me that anything sells a million and a hundred thousand is really really strong so if you could sell that which hasn't happened but if you did that would be really strong and I said to him I think it's going to be a million last I checked it was 1.5 1.5 million so this is the only time I've had that same feeling but this feeling's stronger a lot stronger like a lot now this will be a good test to my intuition because I actually think it'll be the best-selling book at least the country not in the world but in the United States I think it will be the best-selling book of all time now you haven't seen it so there's no way you can judge that claim but you wouldn't believe that the feedback I'm getting you know just from some of the reframes the number of people who have changed their life with one reframe already without even the book existing yet is a lot it's a lot and it's going to surprise you Lance says it sounds boring sounds boring well maybe it's not for you Lance have I seen dad's book no so so this is a funny thing that happened to me yesterday uh maybe I'll save this one for locals all right I'll just say the story for locals this is not for you sorry You.

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pleasure the dope will be the end of the

day the thing that makes everything

better

everything

it's called the simultaneous

congratulations you made it on time I

see some people just got here at the

nick of time

and your day will be perfect today

then what a day you're gonna have in

fact I'm going to give you a little uh

technique to try today

so I've tried this and it works every

time I do it and it's kind of freaky

because it's not obvious why it would

work

it goes like this

today is the day something good is going

to happen

just tell yourself that all day long and

Watch What Happens

just say I think I feel like some good

Luck's coming today's day

it's gonna be a good day wow today's

gonna be a good day some good stuff

coming

now it might be that you talk yourself

into seeing the good stuff

as more important than the bad stuff

that day so it might be just a

psychological phenomenon a war

or we live in a simulation

and that's how you steer it by your

intentions because all all evidence does

suggest that's the case

one day that's all I'm asking just one

day every now and then remind yourself

something good is going to happen today

I can feel it it's coming

see what happens you'll be amazed

well at the same time that the price of

eggs is going through the roof because

of avian flu there was some big egg

production facility that burned down

does that sound like a coincidence that

the same time the eggs are in great

demand and the high priced that have

major egg facility would burn down

now I believe this is a case of

well it's obvious who did it

do I have to say it it's obvious

no it was the egg white supremacists the

egg white supremacists

that's the way I think he did it yes it

did kick off uh many bad puns

I won't repeat them all

just that one

don't work among yourselves and do the

rest of the puns

well the big news entertainment wise is

that Bill Maher is going to slightly be

on CNN

oh he's not moving his show to see him

then

he's just sort of slightly tangentially

a little bit sometimes

kind of flirting with the idea of a

little bit of content on CNN so on

Friday nights the extra part of his show

that's on HBO real time

uh the extra part after the end of the

show where they sit around and keep

talking

the extra part will be on CNN late at

night

on Fridays because usually goes on is

only once a week

now is this a reaction to Gutfeld

are they testing the waters

will CNN test Bill Maher for a little

bit at that time and then say to

themselves

we should be running this kind of

content at this time all the time

because people want to see funny news

not like hard news before they go to bed

so I think that's one of one of

Garfield's magic is that uh you know he

can make you feel good before you go to

bed

uh anyway

keep an eye on that uh I do have a

feeling about it which is just one of

those that feels alike you know how

people always think in analogies

so if something reminds you of something

else you irrationally think that the

thing it reminded you of is telling you

something about the thing it probably

isn't that's just two things that remind

you of each other but here's what it

reminds me of

when I used to own restaurants locally

uh when I saw a restaurant

start to serve brunch when normally they

were just a lunch at dinner place as

soon as they would offer brunch you knew

they were going out of business

do you know how

it's because brunch is a terrible

business it's like a it's like a last

last ditch thing to do like if you've

given up on making money the normal way

you try to do brunch

it never works it's like the ultimate

thing that never works nobody ever goes

to the lunch and dinner place for brunch

do you know why because they're used to

it as the lunch and dinner place they

can't really it doesn't really ever

become a breakfast place the only places

to do are breakfast places

if a place is a breakfast place people

go to breakfast there

otherwise their minds just can't wrap

around it

so when I see uh CNN trying to scoop up

the the leftovers from Bill Marshall on

HBO that looks to me a lot like brunch

if you know what I mean

sort of a Hail Mary desperation try

anything

kind of thing

but if I want to look at it as a more

aggressive approach

I would say they're testing out their

audience

to see if they can maybe compete for his

full show

what do you think

I don't know if you'd want to do it

every night though I don't think he

wants to do a nightly show but maybe he

would maybe you would you never know

um

my my music teacher well I won't say

I'll just say a music teacher

I shouldn't have said that

and now I can't do the story

because I didn't want to identify it

skipping that story going right to the

next one

um

so does it seem to you that uh

kids are getting Dumber because of

smartphones

how many would say that the children the

youth are getting Dumber because of

smartphones

a lot of people say yes somewhat

reflexively now what do you think you

would find

don't do this yet but what do you think

you would find if you were to go to

Google

and Google are smartphones making

uh children Dumber

what do you think you'd find as the top

result

from Google

who I believe would like everybody to

use a smartphone

do you think that Google would say oh

here's the research show these

smartphones which were a big part of

are bad for you

what do you think

well the top result or one of the top

results or actually the top curated

results

so if you go to Google and you you look

for something that other people have

looked for a lot

Google will help you by curating a quick

hit

that's like all you need to know you can

look deeper but it's basically the

answer to the question but it's curated

meaning it's not just a natural way that

you search and the good stuff comes up

first

somebody at Google

decided that the first thing you should

say

when you click on it

um

is this

the arguments that are making us that

smartphones are making us Dumber don't

hold up

explain some PhD cognitive scientist

blah blah and

that's the opposite the smartphones are

making us smarter

what do you think about that

do you think smartphones make you you

dumber

or making you smarter

well maybe there's a trick to it

maybe there's a trick

here's the trick

if I say to you are smartphones making

you smarter who is you

see it seems obvious right you is you

and then your phone is separate

your phone is there and this is you

but this answer that smartphones are

making you smarter

treats you

like a cyborg

Your Part phone and part person

and if you could if you look at the

person as part of phone connected to the

internet and per person we're a way

smarter

what do you think of that

so it might be true that the organic

part of our cyborg being

is getting some less abilities

yeah it might might be decreasing as

memorization ability but at the same

time we're no longer just an organic

entity

we're a cyborg

we're part machine part human

and the the machine part is is awesome

you know it more than makes up for what

we're losing in cognitive abilities so

do you buy that

and you buy that it's a total

coincidence that Google a company that

would really like you to look at a

screen a lot that a big company like

that

wants you to know that you're just

getting better and stronger and smarter

because you're part computer and part

person

and how could that be bad

now there are lots of studies

that would suggest the opposite

so other studies that don't look at you

as a cyborg and see you just as your

organic part they there's lots of

indications that we're getting more

distracted and shorter retention spans

that kind of stuff

uh can we treat

well and let me tie a few things

together here so I did a unscientific

Twitter poll

and I asked people uh what will describe

destroy the lives of more children

and the choices were pandemic policies

so that would include everything from

vaccinations to

masks to shutdowns to zoom class all

that so the pandemic policies or

smartphones and social media being you

know called out as a big part of that or

a covid-19 itself

you know the actual virus

so the number of people who thought that

uh the most people of these choices that

uh that covid-19 would destroy the lives

more children was two percent

two percent thought covert was the thing

that would destroy the most children

coming in second was all of the pandemic

policies

put together

25 percent

25 percent

25 25.

25.

that's about a quarter

that's about a quarter of the people

interesting the other people said uh 73

said there was the smartphones in social

media

I don't want to make too much of the 25

but

um

and

what do you think 73 think the

smartphone was worse than everything in

the pandemic

73 percent think it was worse than the

coven itself and worse than the response

to the covet from vaccinations to Mass

to zoom School

so that's how many people think

smartphones are like a serious danger to

children

do you see a big movement to ban to ban

smartphones for children

I don't

there's none is there

I tweeted it the other day and I got a

lot of support but there's nothing in

the government that's going to ban

smartphones now because the big tech

companies have too much control that's

never going to happen can we can we stop

her pretending we care about children

could we just stop lying about it

because I feel like

it's bad enough

that we're putting children in these

situations that's bad enough

but we're also lying about it while

we're doing it

obviously we don't care about children

in fact I will go further

I believe Wars General Wars the kind of

where you're shooting and killing Wars

are about sacrificing young people to

protect old people aren't they

you put the old the young people on the

front line cannon fodder to protect the

old people and the retirements

we've never cared about young people

it's just never been and in fact if you

go back for most of civilization

children were just an asset that could

maybe make use of money or protect you

from your enemies but basically

it wasn't all about the kids the kids

were just like the animals the you know

they're just part of the system

so

I find it distasteful that we even

pretend that we care about children when

it's so obviously we don't so obvious

do you know why do you know why parents

give up on phones when they should be

tough

why why do children why do parents give

up and say all right you can have your

phone but not after 9 pm

okay you could have your phone after 9

pm

why do most parents do that

because it's too hard to take it away

it's just too hard and then and the kid

is less trouble when they're on their

phone

they're not making trouble in the back

seat of the car it's sort of like

television you know you people use

television as a babysitter well because

it works it works really well and the

phones with just that so I think I think

we're destroying our children

73 percent of you know it completely and

at least the pandemic policies are you

know mopping up whatever you haven't

destroyed with smartphones

but do you see any indication

so so look at the state of our Public

Schools

look at our Public Schools just all of

it just all of it look at smartphones

and then look at how we treated kids

during the pandemic and you tell me that

we care about children

seriously

tell me we care about children

now I do think that every parent does

I believe that I believe every parent

cares about their children and a lot

right no difference than it never has

been

but as a as an entity a group as a

country

you can't tell us we care about children

come on

yeah there's fentanyl fentanyl is just

an obvious one stop saying we care about

the young we don't if we wouldn't do any

you know homeschooling is growing

but homeschooling is a growth from

Individual parents

am I right I mean there's some

politicians on board but it's mostly

that grew up from the bottom up that

that wasn't the top down thing all of

the top-down stuff is anti-children

I I don't know is that a coincidence

that it's all anti-children all of it

because it is it's all anti-children

I don't know how that ever evolved to be

like complete

anti-jilden but maybe we've always been

this way

yeah maybe it's just a little more

obvious because of the pandemic but

maybe we've always just not cared about

children

we just pretend that we feel otherwise

because we do care about our own

so I think we're conflating how much we

care about our own kids

with how much we care about your kids

you know what I mean because that feels

like your problem

all right

um

a few other things

if you keep looking at the Google

searches you'll see all kinds of Science

of both sides so I'm saying it's hurting

our attention spans and some saying it

isn't it uh but let me tell you my

favorite uh pushback

from this it's all right so I'm uh old

man

old man shouting at the sky right so I'm

clearly a boomer

I'm clearly in that demographic who says

you know get a haircut you kids stop

listening to that Elvis Presley and that

rock and roll it's gonna hurt your minds

so after I make this this whole tweet

thing about the safety of children uh a

Twitter username Steve Stevens

I won't say anything about the

creativity of his parents who named him

Steve Stevens but I'll just say that his

comment was hilarious So after talking

about his smartphones hurting the

children he tweets you left out pinball

and pool halls

okay you win

[Laughter]

uh you win

good can we just let Steve Stevens have

the win

Stevens for the win

total win

yes Steve Stevens who has been around

long enough to know that there's never

been a time when we didn't say the

children are dumb this time

and we've been wrong every time

we always say the children are dumb

always since I was a kid all that rock

and roll was going to destroy our minds

and nothing like that ever happened

right so this this was just such a good

comment you left out pinball and pool

halls because they're gonna rot those

children's Minds

here's what I think is true

the truth is

that the only smart people who matter

are the top one percent

and they're probably no different than

they ever were in fact there might be

more of them

did you invent any microchips today

I I didn't I didn't

did you uh make any breakthroughs in

artificial intelligence today

I didn't

I really didn't

do anything

so it almost doesn't matter how smart I

am I just have to be able to take care

of myself and

and that's it

the one percent of smart people who have

always been with us are still doing what

they always do they invent the future

and then we live in it so it doesn't

matter if the average person can

memorize a poem so somebody else said uh

the other thing the kids can't do today

ever since the invention of writing

they haven't been able to been able to

memorize ten thousand word poems

I thought to myself that is so perfect

because you know when the invention of

writing came along somebody probably

said all right look with all of this

writing

uh kids are no longer going to be able

to memorize 10 000 word poems like they

can easily so

let's get rid of the writing

Gramps

yeah Rush Limbaugh said ten percent

carry the rest it's way less than 10

percent

if you're talking about the the people

who've invented the future right you

know Elon Musk isn't in the 10 percent

he's in the one percent

so

uh my argument will be this I believe

the smartphones have made us different

and then it made some people smarter in

some ways but it also probably changed

their attention span

did that hurt us

it depends it might hurt some people in

some weird ways

what uh what I imagine is that the

average person can scroll through a

screen way faster than the Ancients

could have I feel like they optimized

for insane amounts of information

so what what does a kid optimize for in

the boring past in the boring past we

were optimized to survive boredom

that's all I remember of my youth

pain and boredom

that's it

pain and boredom that was my entire

youth I was either in pain or I was

bored I only had two reactions

so it was horrible

now kids are full of you know so much

stimulation do you think that a kid

today is more or less able to handle

complexity

I don't know

I mean I'm just throwing out some

suggestions they might be more it's

possible less it's possible less but I

think more

I think more because I handle complexity

every day with their interfaces and

social everything

but they may be giving up some

interpersonal skills they might be

giving up some

um concentration

but do they need it

what would be more important

let me ask you this which skill would be

more important than 2023 are really an

ability to really focus deeply on a

single subject for a long time

or the ability to quickly skim all kinds

of useful information quickly using your

smartphone

I know I see people learning like crazy

because they have phones don't you know

somebody who googles everything

you're in the conversation like one

minute into it they're Googling just to

fact check you or to add a thing or to

find out a new thing you know that

didn't exist before

there's no way smartphones aren't making

us a lot smarter in some ways

while at the same time taking something

away

so I think we could confirm that we're

changing

I don't know if it's bad yet

might be a might be a mix

but I think it's all bad for kids

on that

are you aware that uh representative Dan

Crenshaw

um

and also Michael Waltz both Republicans

issued a joint resolution authorizing

Biden to use military force to combat

the cartels pumping Fentanyl and other

stuff into the country

so

that's all good now remember my my

current political stand

is that I'm going to back for a

president Whoever has the best

fentanyl policy

so far that's Trump

because Trump also says use the military

against the cartels

uh Crenshaw is saying something similar

but as far as we know he's not running

for president

how did I get this far with my

microphone not on

is that better

I'm sorry all right

um

so here's so if credential runs for

president then I will have a dilemma

because then I would have to choose

between Trump and Crenshaw now I know

what you're going to say some are you

going to say no not Crenshaw I dislike

him for my five reasons don't care

do not care

yeah don't don't even tell me what you

don't like about them

warmonger sure whatever don't care if

you if you would have the best policy on

Fentanyl and so far it would just be a

tie

you know so far Trump still has the

advantage but hypothetically and I'm

doing this just to warn you right

because I don't want you to have any

shock I will I will abandon Trump in a

hot flash

I will abandon him so fast if somebody

has a better idea on Sentinel only

fentanyl one issue it's all I care about

everything else you know deep State's

going to do what deep state does

but uh congratulations to Crenshaw for

having his priorities straight he said

one thing that was or I don't know if he

said this but the news reported that

Crenshaw said this now this can't

possibly be true

and I want to want you to maybe help me

here did the news just report it wrong

or did he misstate this

or is this actually true

I'll just read what the news said

um Crenshaw the architect of the bill

last Congress told Fox News digital that

the cartels quote are responsible for

about 360

000 homicides this year in Mexico

that couldn't possibly be true

is it

360

000 murderers murders

one year

in Mexico

no that's not plausible

that is not plausible I'm sorry

36 000 might be

would you accept thirty six thousand

36 000 is a lot

that would be a lot of murder

but 360

000 no

um

so can we do a fact check on that

because my belief is that

uh oh

370 per day

what's wrong with a little hyperbole

well that's a lot of hyperbole

yeah that's a lot of hyperbole

because if it were really 360

000 murders in a year

The Mexican government would be begging

us to send it in the military wouldn't

they

am I am I wrong about that if it were

really 360

000 a year just in Mexico in one year

they would be begging us for the

military that can't possibly be true

would you believe 25 000 I would yeah I

would believe 36 000.

I mean I wouldn't know it's true but

it's within the credible range

so that's weird

let's talk about China Wall Street

Journal has an opinion piece I'm trying

to decide if it's racist

every time I hear that China

can't develop technology

you know because they have something

about their system they can't develop

technology

did we say this about Japan

when I was young didn't we say oh the

Japanese there's something about their

culture they'll they'll never want to

take a chance

so therefore they'll never build any

technology because they don't want to

there's something about their culture

well Japan is doing okay

seems like they're they they fixed that

now we're now we're doing the same thing

about China

that there's something about this system

or something about I don't know the

culture

that makes them not be able to make

microchips

on the surface doesn't that just sound

like a racist sort of thing that we're

looking for support for like we're

looking for confirmation bias but it

feels like it starts with racism doesn't

it am I wrong about that

am I too woke

is that too woke

because that might be me or maybe I'm

just so primed for it that well I'll

give you the argument right

so I'm going to give you the argument I

suspect I just feel like it may have

started in the wrong place and then they

work backwards to the argument but we'll

give them the benefit of a doubt okay

and here's the argument now this first

part is a pretty good argument

in the U.S system uh funding for big

companies

usually starts with small companies and

it's private you know Venture

capitalists and angels and stuff and so

there are tons of people in the market

and they're watching their money pretty

closely if a venture capitalist gives

you a million dollars

they're going to attend your meetings

right they're going to make sure you

spent their million dollars right

so we have a system in which the funding

for Tech

is is monitored and managed by the

people who gave them the funding

so so the the funders are very close to

the process literally in the room same

room

in China

it's a state managed process so the

state decides which Industries they're

going to be promoting they decided they

would do chips

it's a good idea so then at the top of

the government they release a gazillion

dollars I think it was going to be like

a trillion dollars or something

eventually just huge amounts of money

and then who does it go to

who does it go to

well it doesn't go to anybody who's not

part of the Communist party did you know

that if you're not in the Communist

Party you don't get any of the money

so right there

they basically taken out part of what

works in the United States because in

the United States you just have to be

good at what you're doing

over there you have to also be in the

Communist Party it says one inefficiency

right they're missing anybody who's not

but I don't know what percentage are not

frankly so maybe it's not as big a deal

as I think

secondly

the higher your rank

as a technology person the higher you

rank in the Communist Party the more

funding you're going to get

so that it's based not on the quality of

the project

but on the status of the person who

asked for the money

again there's no way in the world that

doesn't hurt their system

now but you could argue it's the same

here it just looks different right you

could argue that if Elon Musk starts a

you know another company

and if you were to ask for Investments

which he typically doesn't

uh people would say oh okay we'll

definitely give you money so it could be

that the important people always get the

most money anyway

you know however however you slice it

but I think our system works better

there but here's the big part

so if the Chinese government at the top

releases a billion dollars for something

it first goes to the you know biggest

communist who wants the money

and then after that it just goes into

some corruption Black Box

so

the opportunity for corruption

among the Chinese system is that a lot

of the money is going to get siphoned

off for projects that were not good

ideas

but somebody had the clout to get it

funded from the government

so China's system is based on uh Who You

Are

how much corruption you're involved in

and looking good

to the Communist party our system is

almost entirely brutally based on

performance

and I have to admit if their system did

not adjust to this problem I don't see

how they could I don't see how they

could build anything

um and I think there was another another

reason given

which was uh

it was mostly corruption

um here's the part that really raised my

red flag so this is an opinion piece I

won't even tell you who are the opinion

is from but it's in the Wall Street

Journal

um

let's see

dreams and passions are impractical and

expensive and even silly so he's talking

about the typical Chinese culture

that dreams and passions and impractical

and are impractical and expensive and

even silly and they must be discarded

and he says if China can't cultivate

free thinkers

you know it's always going to be a

follower

do you think China can't cultivate fruit

the free thinkers or does that just

sound super racist to you

because it sounds super racist to me

because you know who else can't

cultivate free thinkers who make a

difference

United States

because 98 of us are not contributing

anything that our free thought made a

difference to I didn't invent any chips

did you

I know I feel like the top one percent

of Chinese effective

you know scientists and Technical people

probably just like everybody else

so I don't know I'm not buying this

whole

cultural thing there's definitely

something going on that they're not

keeping up but I think has more to do

with the funding probably the funding

more than anything

all right

Rachel Maddow

who I watched just for humor purposes

watching her face contort

when she's trying to sell you some

anti-trump stuff

now first of all watching Rachel Maddow

do anti-trump content

feels like

70 years ago

it doesn't feel current anymore does it

just feels really kind of old kind of

stale

but she's working she's uh really making

a big deal about the fact that uh Trump

um is now going to be prosecuted

for uh giving money to Stormy Daniels to

not talk but it was campaign financing

money

now of all the things that Trump is

accused of doing

is this the one that people care the

least about

have you ever met even one person who

said oh

ah I thought he'd be a good president

but once I found a used campaign money

for campaign purposes

to you know make the Stormy Daniels

thing go away

I don't know if I could support somebody

who used campaign funds to benefit his

campaign

I I don't I can't support that

is there even one person who cares about

that story seriously

now I got that you know your Rob Riders

are hoping that this is what takes Trump

out but do you think Rob Rider cares

about the story

does he care that Stormy Daniels got

some some money that came from uh

donations

that actually did well if it worked it

would have helped Trump get elected I've

never seen the story with less meat on

it than this now I'm not saying he won't

be prosecuted but is it going to keep

him from being president

wouldn't it just be a fine

correct me if I'm wrong the worst he's

talking about is paying a fine

which is somewhat typical Obama's paid

one I think has not Obama paid a fine

for the same thing campaign you know

lapses

it's just the most

if if I could if I could tell you one

fact

that would convince you Trump is going

to be your next president

here would be that one fact you didn't

know anything else it's the only thing

you know it's 20 23.

and MSNBC is running Rachel Maddow a

major segment

talking about the problems with Trump

and that payment to Stormy Daniels seven

years ago

that's what they have

that is the best they have right now

what would stop him from being president

see I think you have to now talk talk in

terms of what could possibly stop him

because I think we're asking the wrong

question you know who's going to run

what could possibly stop him at this

point I don't say anything

I mean he's been proven basically right

on everything important

and all they have left are things that

nobody cared about in the first place

that's what it looks like to me and I

don't think DeSantis will run but I I

could be wrong we'll see

um

so Biden is going to cancel the covid

emergency

whatever laws so that would mean that

nobody would be required by the federal

government

to mask or get vaccinated

how about that

do you know why Biden says he's going to

cancel it on May 11th

because Republicans uh introduced

legislation to cancel it sooner

and as Thomas Massey points out

Republicans are already getting results

because the news the news is quite clear

that Biden would not have announced this

except that he he had to counter the

Republicans wanting to get rid of the

restrictions and the public very much

wants the restrictions to go away

so it was something that was free money

for republicans

so remember I always look for as a sign

of competence can you at least pick up

the free money

it's just right there on the table

why are your hands not going toward it

why are you walking away from the free

money well there is Trump again Trump

picked up the free money

like it's such a it's such a reliable

indicator if he can't do the easy stuff

we're not going to trust you to do the

hard stuff but if the money's just

laying there on the table just pick it

up

Thomas Massey saw money lag on the table

it's obvious that the public wants the

restrictions lifted it's obvious that

scientifically health-wise it's the

right time to do it

so they say Republicans do the Smart

Ones

there's this money on the table why

don't we just pick it up and so they

picked it up and it made it made Biden

scramble to keep up with them

now that's what I want to see I want to

see Republicans see free money on the

table and then walk over and pick it up

and just keep doing that

you don't even have to do anything

magical or special you don't need any

character you don't need any charisma

just pick up the free money

that's all

we're not asking that much just the free

stuff

um

I love the fact

that we think we live in some kind of

objective reality where we figured out

what's true and what's that

and then I mentioned

how Sweden did during the covid epidemic

and I I triggered yesterday I triggered

a Twitter graph or where everybody was

putting up their graph to show that

Sweden was either doing poorly

or doing great

and do you know how I can tell which

Twitter graphs are the credible ones

and which ones are garbage do you know

there's a way to know right

if it's on Twitter it's garbage

also if it's not on Twitter it's garbage

if it's based on data

it's garbage

if it comes from somebody you don't know

it's garbage if their source of it is

not shown in the graph and quite often

that's the case on Twitter that's

garbage

so basically we got to this point and we

can't even tell

if Sweden did a good job or a bad job

now I know you think you all know

but when you see when you see the level

of fighting on Twitter the people

disagreeing whether it was a good job or

a bad job we don't know we really don't

it's actually kind of confusing

so the fact that they're younger and uh

thinner and they supplement with vitamin

D I think is most of the story

but but

I will go back to my best

probably the best

prediction I've ever made at the

beginning of the pandemic that at the

end of the pandemic we wouldn't know who

managed it well

and everybody who are that disagreed oh

we're gonna tell

some people are doing it right some

people not nope can't tell the narrow

place where you can tell is whether

People Protected the nursing homes

right so in the case of DeSantis yes

that was good work that that's one item

that you can identify and say okay

compared to New York yeah the leadership

made a difference like that's there's no

doubt about that one but on the country

level

on the country level

hard to say still don't know

I know some of you think you might know

have you ever heard of uh oh then also

the excess deaths are still

a mystery now some of you think all the

excess deaths or most of them are

vaccine injury related

but the excess deaths seemed to be in

every demographic and they also seem to

be across countries

so the excess deaths are not an American

thing it's everywhere and I think that

they're doing different kinds of

vaccines and you know all kinds of

different policies but still the excess

deaths are high wherever we can count

them well in the Western countries

anyway

so I will put out one possibility

psychogenic death

how many of you ever heard that term

psychogenic death

it means basically you lose the will to

live

and you just die

and I have a hypothesis

that when I grew up no matter how thing

how bad things were at the moment

I had in my mind a path to happiness

and that path was you get a good job

you get married you have a family

American Dream the American dream was

very clearly

it was

it was just you could feel it

like it everybody was moving toward it

it seemed like

and no matter how bad things were you

have a future you had hope right

now compare that to our lgbtq

trans

culture

and by the way I'm you know big

supporter of the lgbtq trans community

but we can talk about them honestly

right and I would say that the American

dream

had to disappear

to make room for

this other kind of wokeness and again

I'm not criticizing it I'm just

describing it

that if you say well you know this you

got to get married and you've got to

have a family and go to church on Sunday

thing that doesn't work for everybody

so now it's a free-for-all

and people are saying that there are

more single people than ever more more

people alone people using their phones

Tinder made it impossible to date unless

you're a nine or above right so

basically if if you were a kid and I've

heard actually young people say this

there's no future

now of course there is

there is a future

but it's not it's not cleanly packaged

and supplied to children as their hope

oh yeah you're having a bad day today I

get it but look at this you know

American Dream you just get on this

American Dream path everything you're

doing today studying hard staying in a

jail you're on the right path kid you're

doing it right and here's your happiness

in the future here's your meaning and

now if you're a kid you don't see any of

that do you who's selling the American

dream

conservatives

homeschoolers right homeschoolers

so my theory is if you tested the

psychological well-being of

homeschoolers you would find they have

something like hope

for the future

because the homeschooling Community is

likely to be more likely to say follow

this path and you'll have a good life

I think Public School says you're all

being discriminated against systemic

discrimination is going to hold you back

forever it looks like the police have

tried to kill you because you're Brown

and you better get on the streets and

complain because complaining is the

thing to do

complaining will make things better and

it does sometimes it does

but that message would leave me feeling

hopeless if I were a child

I would just say well

if I don't get married

why am I doing anything

right the marriage is more about having

children in this case but

what what's my future let's say I'm 12

year old Scott today

I make money

for what for what

for my entertainment

you know even at 12 I knew I would get

bored entertaining myself all day oh I'm

going to make money so I can party on

the weekends

and that's it like that's yeah oh I can

have I can have short encounters with

women and that would be a lot of fun

but

but that's it

that's what I have to look forward to is

Brief Encounters with women who are

having Brief Encounters with lots of

other people

and that's what I'm going to live for

I'm surprised there isn't a higher

excess deaths because there's a whole

bunch of people who just figured out

there's no reason to live

that's why we taught the kids we taught

the kids there's no reason to live

I think we did

so I don't know if if that's any of it

but I'd throw that in the mix it's

probably some some small part of it

um here's a most useful thing to know if

you're a consumer of news

which news outlets are controlled by the

CIA

if you don't know that

you really can't watch the news you're

going to be all confused let me give you

an example

MSNBC

who people who are smarter than smarter

than me say is clearly and has always

been as is NBC uh captured entities by

our intelligence agencies

right now you might doubt that you might

say Scott Scott that's a little a little

bit of hyperbole yeah they may have they

may have leaned on the networks in some

ways on some issues but in general you

know they're independent

and then there's this story

I'm going to tell you this story and

then you tell me if this is Independent

News

this is pointed out on Twitter by

unhoodwinked a good follow for you you

should follow on Hoodwinked

uh there was a nine nine minute segment

that's a lot of time on television

nine minutes on a TV news show is

forever that's a lot of time

um

he refers to it as the CIA run and snbc

all right that's his characterization

and she's talking about her coved and

how she was diagnosed with pericarditis

and myocarditis

so for nine minutes she talked about how

covet had probably given her pericitis

and myocarditis for nine minutes

and never mentions her vaccination

status

let me just say that again

and MSNBC host

talked for nine minutes about her own

quite scary

myocarditis and she was a young woman

right too young to be having heart

problems

for nine minutes

never once mentioned

her vaccination status

is there anything else you need to know

about this story

right do you wonder

if this is independent reporting

do you think do you think she may have

mentioned well I don't you know do you

think in her first draft I assume

somebody sees her first draft don't you

think her first draft was well I don't

know what the cause is you know I did

get vaccinated

but I also covet and now I have

myocarditis it's hard to know if it's a

vaccination or the or the covid but I'm

just letting you know my experience so

that you can recognize it too

don't you think the first draft might

have said something like that

now you could not be more obvious and

you're trying to hide the story

but suppose you didn't know

that MSNBC and NBC are

you know

strongly suggested to be Democrat slash

CIA run

if he didn't know that you think that

was the story

you think that was something like a an

objective representation of something

that's happening and it wasn't not even

close to objective now I'm not saying

the vaccination caused a problem

I'm not saying that at all I'm saying if

you don't mention it as a possibility

it's just amazing that anybody can watch

that network with with that kind of

situation

all right uh the host was a Yasmin

vasugin

foreign

I think that's all I had to say

and that ladies and gentlemen

um I feel like there was one other thing

I was going to say

is there a topic I missed

you can blanket blame covet well

indirectly sure

I'll tell you about that later

all right

um

somebody says Scott is looking for a way

out from Trump it's so transparent

correct

it's transparent because it's true and

it's obvious and I'm telling you right

up front

I don't want a president who's over a

certain age

Trump in my case in my in my personal

View

is aged out of the job

so somebody somebody's showing the great

Insight here and says I think Scott

secretly is looking for a way to not

support Trump no it's not a secret

I'm doing that right in front of you

if anybody comes up with a better

fentanyl plan and they're also they can

walk and talk and they're not 100 years

old I'm going to look at that pretty

seriously

get a look at that really seriously

so don't be surprised I'm saying it as

directly as I can

fentanyl policy is all I care about

I will drop a trumpet like a hot rock

the minute a legitimate candidate has a

better take

and it doesn't even have to be military

I mean I could imagine somebody coming

up with a better take that wasn't

attacking Mexico I just haven't heard it

uh those who bailed out Sam bankman

their names can be released that's

interesting I don't think that'll tell

us much

uh

any place to pre-order I'm not sure when

you can pre-order my book it'll be

called

reframe your brain I think I think

Amazon has a a holding place for it but

I don't know if you can order yet

do they have pre-orders already

they probably don't put it there unless

there's a pre-order option

oh you ordered to okay I guess I'm

selling a book I haven't made yet so

that's pretty good I mean I've I

finished writing it

cope a Claude Adams story it's a good

movie

why would you pre-order to make sure you

don't run out

this is a book that's likely to run out

now I don't think my publisher knows

that yet but uh

I'm almost positive this will be the

biggest book I've ever written and I

think the biggest book in the world

not counting religious books

that's what I think that's based on just

looking at it myself and I look at it I

think

I think everybody's gonna buy this

because one of the things I've done is I

dealt with the

um attention span problem

by reducing reducing everything to one

sentence

you could kind of you know skim the

argument and see the one sentence and

you know if the reframe was going to

work for you or not so I think it's got

everything

it's got stuff that would change

everybody's life

a lot

no you Dean is asking if I'm being

humble

I know how to I know how to judge my own

work

meaning that I've produced things I knew

wouldn't be good and wouldn't sell and I

knew it immediately but my biggest book

which was the Delbert principle so

that's what the one that sold the most I

also told my publisher

when my Publishers said it might go gold

which is selling 100 000 copies which is

great if you sell a hundred thousand

copies of a book you're definitely going

to get another book deal I mean

publisher loves that that's solidly

successful and when my publisher told me

that I said gold huh 100 000. I said uh

I think this is going to sell a million

very few books sell a million

very few I mean well under one percent

of new books sell over a million

and I remember the look on his face it

was like

well

you know it's very unusual he explained

to me that anything sells a million and

a hundred thousand is really really

strong so if you could sell that which

hasn't happened but if you did

that would be really strong

and I said to him I think it's going to

be a million

last I checked it was 1.5 1.5 million

so this is the only time I've had that

same feeling

but this feeling's stronger a lot

stronger like a lot now this will be a

good test to my intuition

because I actually think it'll be the

best-selling book

at least the country not in the world

but in the United States

I think it will be the best-selling book

of all time

now you haven't seen it so there's no

way you can judge that claim

but

you wouldn't believe that the feedback

I'm getting you know just from some of

the reframes the number of people who

have changed their life with one reframe

already without even the book existing

yet is a lot

it's a lot and it's going to surprise

you

Lance says it sounds boring

sounds boring

well maybe it's not for you Lance

have I seen dad's book no

so so this is a funny thing that

happened to me yesterday

uh

maybe I'll save this one for locals all

right I'll just say the story for locals

this is not for you sorry YouTube

um I'm gonna go talk to locals privately

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