Episode 2035 Scott Adams - ESG, FBI And J6, And How My Plan Is Going So Far

I'm not late I'm right on time and if you'd like to be on time and experience the highlight of civilization it's called coffee with Scott Adams all you need is a copper mug or a glass attacker tells us time again teen Joker flaska vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled Pleasures the dope being hit of the day the thing that makes everything better is called the simultaneous go oh that's a good one premature sipping is allowed it is allowed well let's talk about the minor stories and then toward the end I might say some more about my little brouhaha there are updates there are updates all right so a tweet from Mike soda that she was asking why young people seem to watch TV with the what do you call the subtitles on have any of you noticed that that the use of subtitles even if you speak the same language captions captions yes not subtitles captions um and Mike asked quite reasonably like what changed you know what is the reason for it and I have to know I have to say I've noticed it myself and I didn't know what it was about but I have a hypothesis one hypothesis three actually one hypothesis is that sometimes the young people want to keep their headphones in or they want to turn the the sound really low but just have something on and maybe check in once a while so it might be a little bit of that but it's definitely not just people with earbuds in the other thing I think is that movies and TV shows are so insensitive to what their consumers want that they stopped making clear speaking it's not my imagination allow me allow me to give you a demonstration of a movie from the 40s you ready here's a movie from the 40s what were you doing get the scene of the crime well who else was there well you'd better talk to the police department right that was a 40s movie now let me let me give you an impression of every person trying to win an Academy Award in the modern time in a movie oh insane it's just that right it's just that the movie is have so disrespected their audiences that they literally don't even think the audience needs a sound anymore well you don't need sound why should you be concerned about listening to the voices of the people oh now I think part of it is also that background noise has been elevated you know just because they can like they can add some background noise you know some Street Sounds or whatever and then everybody's mumbling and between the two things I will tell you that as far as I know my hearing is fine last time it was tested but I can't hear a dialogue on TV can you it's just all mumbling and if it's anything British at all I don't have a chance yeah British mumbling is like oh George nothing like I can watch I can watch an hour of a movie and not pick up a word at all and I think my hearing's fine as far as I know anyway uh the other possibility is that young people are used to seeing captions on reels and tick tocks so it just seems more natural that's possible all right uh Germany as Michael schellenberger tweets he says the Germans say they care deeply about climate change and yet Chancellor uh Olaf Schultz is proceeding with plans to replace Germany's last three nuclear plants with coal next month over the objections of his finance minister and then here's Here's the final phrase that shellberg adds to his tweet because witches or something because witches or something there's literally no reason the the anti-nuclear people literally have no reason left the pro-green people are pro um you know the ones who would know what they're talking about are all pro-nuclear even AOC is pro-nuclear there is no argument left on the other side we now know what to do with the waste you know we we know how to build um nuclear sites that are either not going to melt down the newer technology or ones that have never melted down right if you're going to build a nuclear plant today you would build you know either a generation three that's never had a meltdown or you'd build the newest generation of four that can't meltdown like it's designed so it can't and and still still there's just nothing you can do to change Minds you know once people get something in their head they just can't get it out just can't get it out now there might be a timing issue so I want to make sure I'm not losing the context of this one because I might be it might be that they need to do something quick and nuclear isn't as quick as it could be you know maybe they need to fix something to keep those plants open something like that I don't know but I might be missing some contacts but there is no argument left against nuclear you know if we're looking at a at a climatic catastrophe you could have like 10 nuclear plants melt down well let's see if this makes sense there have been zero meltdowns of the new kind of plant if you were going to build one today zero never been one and what is the what does the left think is the risk of climate change total catastrophe right the risk according to the left I don't I don't buy this but according to the left the risk is total catastrophe suppose everybody put in a bunch of nuclear power plants and in some you know some period of years it isn't too much 10 of them melted down would that have been a bad idea if 10 of them melted down unexpectedly because the new technology has never melted down it's literally never happened with the new power plants it would totally be worth it yeah if if you were to compare it with any objective measure you could have 10 meltdowns and still save the world the the meltdowns are going to affect a few people around it and even they would get out of town you know as soon as they got the alarm they'd just be gone probably so you could have if everything went wrong with nuclear it would still save the world according to the left again I don't buy into the disaster narrative but they do they do and if they think the disaster is coming they could have all kinds of nuclear disasters which would be zero actually in all likelihood it would be zero because like I said the technology that you would build one today is the technology that's never melted down we're pretty good at this now so and like I said the new plans won't melt down at all they don't have the option all right uh I'm going to throw at a uh Theory conspiracy theory option Maybe it's a conspiracy theory in the sense that I haven't heard anybody talk about it but it's not one I believe it's one that might be true I'm just going to put it out there suppose Putin doesn't believe he can win in the Ukraine outright or what would be his option if he couldn't win and let's say he's reasonable enough to not use nuclear I mean he might threaten but he's let's say he's not going to use it what would Putin do if if you didn't want to lose exactly he doesn't want to lose but he can't win what would he do here's my theory he would have to sue for peace well not a super peace he would often negotiate some kind of a deal now we don't know if the ukrainians would negotiate anything I mean not productively we don't know but suppose that's you think it's an option if you were Putin what would be the most dangerous thing you could do I'll tell you negotiate peace and keep the Wagner group intact because the head of the Wagner group doesn't seem as pro-putin as you'd like him to be you know if you're Putin uh it feels like he's getting too much power and He commands his own Army the the most dangerous thing for Putin would be to end the war and let the head of the Wagner group stay on the job now since you can't do much about that at the moment because I added the wagon group is the only one who's doing anything useful in the war so you can't take him out but I'll tell you what you could do you could order him to have his forces do really really dangerous stuff until they're so degraded that you can negotiate for peace and then the Wagner group would not be strong enough to defeat your loyalist forces if you tell me that the head of the Wagner group is not actively thinking about taking over Russia itself I think you're nuts of course he is and you think Putin doesn't know that of course he does now why do I say that about the head of the Wagner group who even does that kind of a thing unless they're power hungry and not afraid of anything if you're the head of the Wagner group you're not looking to be a Wallflower you look into conquer some stuff you're looking to be in charge no I think that I think his job history is enough that this is not mind reading I I think there's enough you know that's obvious about the situation that you could you could say that he's a person who wants power because I think it's just true if everybody in this situation he wants power and he probably doesn't want to be Putin's much longer and he and he might be in a position where he could just take it himself just take over so I think Putin has to send him into harm and have the Wagner group as degraded as possible before he talks peace and then he can get both things he can get the peace and he won't get overthrown now is there anybody here who believes that's even possible does anybody think that's even possible that theory that he wants to grind down his own troops only the Wagner troops yeah I think I think it's at least possible because and the reason I say it's possible is that it's probably what I would do yeah if I were an evil dictator I didn't care about anybody but myself I I would I would make sure the Wagner group was you know at least taken down by half before I before I ended the war that's what I do so I just assumed Putin would do what I would do because it seems smart but so far Putin doesn't do what I would do so I wouldn't put I wouldn't put a high odds on that theory but don't you think it's worth being in the mix don't you think it's at least feasible enough they should be in the conversation I think so all right uh apparently Congress just turned down some ESG promoting thing for your 401ks I guess whoever managed your 401ks would have to have an ESG plan in order to be able to do that I don't know if that's just for government pensions or what that was but Congress turned it down Congress turned it down so there were enough Democrats to join the Republicans to turn down an ESG promoting Bill in Congress did you imagine that that would happen now that's that's not the good news yet meaning that it might not be good news because Biden said he'd veto it so it so he's vetoing a uh an affirmative action to get rid of ESG so he's vetoing the getting rid of a ESG which would keep PSG in this context now just the fact that that Congress as a whole turned it down you know it didn't take too many Democrat votes to it wasn't just one I don't know um and then we're also missing fetterman right so the balance and the uh in the Senate is kind of wacky at the moment is there anybody else missing besides fetamine I assume he can't he can't vote he's just missing right yeah all right um so and uh this is something that uh Vivek ramaswamy said about that ESG story he said uh on a tweet he said Democrats are the ones who used to be skeptical of undue corporate influence on politics ESG is that on steroids meaning undue corporate influence for a political party that loves to ritually bemoan thrust to democracy it's funny that they teamed up with the likes of Black.

Rock to create the biggest one of all I I feel like the problem here is that nobody can handle nuance or any kind of context or any kind of detail because if you just say ESG equality then of course you salute that who doesn't like equality and stuff sounds good but as soon as you get into the fact that Black.

Rock is promoting it and it's like putting an anchor on Fremont and it puts other people in charge of your business is crazy it's Equity not equality right yeah but even Equity is one of those words that people reflexively say yes to yeah Equity without thinking through what that means or what it would take all right uh Rasmussen has a poll and uh as you know there's never been a Rasmussen poll that's ever gotten me in trouble I think you'd agree on that no slow down it's not going to be one of those not going to be one of those but according to both 61 percent of Voters American voters believe it is likely that undercover government agents help provoke the capital riot 61 percent so clearly that's picking up Independence and also Democrats I'm very surprised at that result are you because usually I would expect that more down like 40 percent you know where it just goes along party lines but 61 percent believe it is likely you know not that it's a fact but likely that the under governed government agents helped provoke the capital riot wow 39 say it's very likely so that's probably a long party line sort of thing um and only 30 percent uh uh only 18 percent say it is not at all likely now the 18 is the one that's the closest to the 25 so we're at least consistent in directional sense iost is that 25 percent of the people will answer every question wrong it doesn't matter what the question is and it's not the same 25 percent but every poll question 25 percent of the public will just have the most dumbass answer it'd be like is oxygen good for people 75 yes 25 not so sure not so sure about this oxygen all right my favorite story by far now I introduced this story by saying you all know that I've been a big supporter of the trans Community as well as lbgqt whatever in general and uh I love people's reaction to this story my own reaction is only about other people's reactions right so I don't have a reaction so let me tell the story so uh to kick off of women's History Month and this is an important part of the story women's History Month uh the Hershey Company did an ad where they were honoring women and they featured a primarily they featured a trans woman and that was their uh that was their look for uh women's History Month so it's sort of like honoring Rachel Dolan's for a Black History Month it's like a little off some people think it's off point now I remind you that if it sounds like I'm making fun of any trans people that's not what's happening here's what I think is funny I think it's funny the reaction that they got like people are really pissed and especially women let's say biological weapon biological and people identify as women were born that way I kind of kind of pissed that they're a brand they think their brand is being a little diminished by having somebody who was born a biological male and transitioned to a woman and am I wrong that that's just funny and I'm not making fun of trans I really am not am I wrong that that's just funny that they did that if you just they they got tons of attention I'm not sure if it's going to sell more chocolate but they did get a lot of attention and they were on the right side of you know the the social narrative at the moment um but here here was my biggest take what was the discussion in the boardroom or wherever they made this decision wouldn't you love to see a Dilbert comic in which they walked through the corporate decision of having a trans woman as the face of women's History Month like I feel like I could make that funny again not picking on anybody so it's not about trans it's not about trans at all it's only about the decision process and how awkward it would be because there's no winning answer like you can't not do it and you can't do it like it's just wrong in every way so I'm guessing that there were probably some activists within the company who brought this idea to management and then management said oh what the hell are we going to do now because we we can't win if we say no right if people within the company came to you and said hey I think this is how we show we're Progressive and you know we'd be really bad if you don't consider trans women women and and then management is like uh uh I think half of the country who wouldn't like this are not going to buy as much chocolate do you think that would stop anything I think they'd have to do it anyway I think the internal pressure would be so high uh that they just have to do it now I kind of like that they did it I I like that they got everybody all charged up and we're talking about it and you know the conversation is the conversation is deepened and people are mad and I just kind of like it maybe I like provocative things all right remember I told you that I thought that uh a number of programs are backwards looking such as ESG and CRT and Etc and they're backwards looking in the sense that they depend on a narrative of white people being racist and continuing to support systemic racism so in my opinion a forward-looking philosophy would look like this there would be optimism right maybe some affirmations maybe some manifesting you'd have to use have strategies for the future or you'd make plans and stuff like you'd have systems maybe even more than goals so there's a number of ways but there's one thing that's future oriented that I'm seeing in play this week reciprocity reciprocity as an operating system is just a killer and it's all future focused and reciprocity has to be future focused because you're doing something without any sense of reward you know the reciprocity might come to you in the future so you're you're preparing for a future where you need that now um let me give you some examples where that mattered do you remember there was some um I don't know if there's a riot or there was some some kind of big commotion that caused some Street in America to be all littered and there was a national news story about some young black man who got a broom and wasn't his job he just didn't like his neighborhood dirty and so he just took his broom and just started sweeping you know this enormous job I mean it was a pretty big job I don't know how big the street was was it Baltimore and the News picked it up and it was nothing but a young man who wanted to make his neighborhood better that's it and if you remember he was deluged with money and offers now why would he get offers why would anybody make him offers just because he was sweeping up the street didn't know anything about him well here's my take they could see that he had a reciprocity operating system that he was just saying this needs to be done this will be good for everybody I'll just go do this now if you do that kind of stuff on a regular basis most of the time you will not be rewarded most of the time you will not be rewarded but sometimes you are and that was a good situation where he was right now that was again and I think also people were signaling that they want more of that kind of behavior I think that's part of it so generally speaking when you're looking forward and you're doing things for other people it will come back now I gotta tell you how important that is in my life at the moment you may have noticed the headlines there were there were a few people who were angry at me in the past week but I'll tell you almost all the people that I've ever helped either individually or in some way black and white because it turns out there were more black people I've helped than I remembered but they all appeared they all came out of the woodwork and that includes um includes people who are not necessarily you know wanting to get into this so I would say that you know having laid down a you know long history of being useful to other people intentionally and not for some specific reward I just think it's a good way to be those people came to my defense in a big way you know not all publicly not all publicly most of it was private but they they came through that's reciprocity I'll give you another example in the you know in the darkest moments of my uh being canceled I joined a spaces I just logged on and it was uh run by Sonny Johnson and there were a number of mostly black listeners and the topic was you know somewhere in the domain of stuff I'd I'd I dusted up I guess and I didn't know how that would go because I thought I might be walking into the Hornet's Nest like I thought I was just going to get yelled down or something but instead Sonny Johnson noticed I was there invited me to speak which I did we had some technical problems so if anybody thinks I left it's because of a technical problem I didn't just leave but I when I talked they listened and they were respectful and they were curious I think because nobody was shouting me down Etc and then when I was in technical problems Sonny invited me back on now what Sally was doing by giving me the respect and the opportunity to talk to exactly the people I wanted to talk to at that time that created reciprocity so all week long I've been turning people down for interviews no I won't I can't be on your podcast I'm not going to do your show I don't have a quote and then Sonny Johnson messages me so I'm going to be on her show on Saturday I'll give you details before Saturday so I said yes the only reason I said yes is reciprocity so she gets the scoop why because she was respectful to me when she didn't need to be didn't need to be and when it was by my darkest time that's reciprocity she gets she gets she gets my full service in return that is what I like to teach as an operating system for everybody you know you could you could say it's for black people but it's an operating system for everybody everybody needs to learn that what you're putting out is the only thing you're going to get back in a variety of ways if however you're looking backwards instead of forward and you've got a victim mentality hey you owe me something because of something that happened in the past that does work in the short run in the short run you'll get more resources that totally works in the short run in the long run it destroys the world right it can't work in the long run in the long run the only thing that works is cooperation and reciprocity that's it everything else fails so let's go through my scorecard where where I'm at having been fully canceled by the way the actual full cancellation takes for Dilbert takes effect uh the mid March so there's a few more weeks of comics in the pipeline I guess after that it will be available only on the locals platform subscription platform and you can find it at scottadams.locals.com and by the way it would help me if you subscribe on Twitter I'm so if you subscribe on You.

Tube all right so here's the scorecard so far uh and I tweeted this I'll just read it only the dying leftist fake news industry canceled me did you know that did you know that only the left-leaning world canceled me the right hasn't canceled me at all not even close like not even a little bit the the right is completely um completely supportive the the only unsupportive thing I saw was a few people hadn't seen the contacts yet but 100 of the people saw the context understand what's going on all right so so far I have not been banned on social media Twitter no problem I'm here on You.

Tube right now now you yeah the Hodge twins need a little background I was thinking of reaching out to them the Hodge twins because I I'm pretty sure I follow them I think I'm you know I I think they would enjoy that actually I'm thinking of reaching out just to give them a little content so so how do you explain if you're on the left and I got canceled for hate speech how do you how would you justify in your mind that social media hasn't even touched me still on Facebook meta still on Instagram no problem Twitter how do you explain that the the easy explanation is I didn't violate any terms of service but if I had done what I was accused of doing I think that would be Hayes speech I think that would be a violation so credit to You.

Tube I don't know if any of the You.

Tube monitors are watching I know you're probably watching me carefully um but maybe not live um good for you well I like to call out when somebody does something right You.

Tube is handling this situation just right just right I've even monetized and I think You.

Tube probably looked at the context you know they were asked to look at it right would you agree would you agree there's no chance in the world that the You.

Tube sensors did not look at my situation because it was national news of course they did and it originally happened on You.

Tube where it still lives it's still on You.

Tube you can and I I don't even think they they rigged the um the algorithm I think the algorithm was surfacing it just fine it had like half a million views or something so yeah anyway so so how do you explain the social media which all bands hate speech looked at the context of this situation and said nope that's not his speech or at least not enough to violate any terms um I also have zero pushback in person zero there there's one fellow I know named Vlad who's uh real real mad at me but on behalf of his wife who's black who doesn't know the context apparently so he's sort of acting up on behalf of his wife it looks like so that's fine that's fine right yeah Vlad TV if lad wants to be bad at me because his wife needs him to be mad at me so he can stay married that's fine but he's bothering me a little too much so I had to I had to go after him on social media today um and by the way I considered a befriend until this week but he has to do what he has to do but except for him a hundred percent of the people I've interacted with this week in person have been perfectly fine it's like it never happened or there or they're supportive mostly actively supportive all right uh no impact on my banking no impact on my banking do you know why because I didn't do anything I didn't do anything that would affect banking if I had apparently they could turn off my banking apparently that's a real thing it didn't happen to Laura Loomer and some other people so if I'd done actual hate speech and you know it and even in context it looked like that yeah I would be banned probably in all those things but you have to explain to yourself why none of the things except leftists political organs have banned me leftist political organs and that means the newspapers I think you all figured out that taking me out before the 2024 election was a good Democrat strategy that those of you who have watched me long enough do you think I impact let's say the framing of of issues do you think I've had an actual political impact that makes a difference so for those of you who don't know me look at the comments so the people who know me best that locals are almost all saying yes 99 it looks like the people who know me less would be on You.

Tube but you can see the yeses and those right the ones who say no you're the least familiar with what I've done for the last five years the ones who say yes are the ones who've actually watched me for five years there's no question whatsoever that I'm influencing things do you want some evidence of that that I'm influencing things I'll give you some evidence um if I wrote it down well you may have seen that uh Mark Andreessen was one of the founders of the internet inventor of the browser and uh famous venture capitalist guy he wrote a wrote along the thread on Twitter in which he said that he was quitting drinking and that he had come to realize that all the studies for years that had been in the newspapers that canceled me though all of those Studies have been bogus and when he quit drinking he felt much better at Center now Elon Musk weighed in and he was in favor of you know maybe occasional moderate drinking with friends um but he said in direct words alcohol is poisoned and if you understand the alcohol is poison you know you can keep it moderate now those of you who have been watching me for a while everybody on locals knows what I'm talking about on You.

Tube do you know why I gave you that example how many how many of you know why I'm giving you this example as a indication of influence because I'm primarily the person who's been saying alcohol is poison it's actually the first chapter of my book that just got canceled I say it so often I led with it in my book now as some have said I don't know that I invented it because the sugar is poison preceded it and probably somebody already thought to say alcohol is poison but if you start noticing how many times my frame on things becomes let's say a common frame because the alcohol is poison thing I'm not saying it's just an Elon Musk thing you see it everywhere now it's a common phrase and I think I'm probably the biggest Pusher of that phrase there could be others as well but I'm sure I'm the biggest influence on it now are there other things that I've been influenced yeah a lot of things a lot of things all right so those who would be concerned about me influencing politics coincidentally are the ones that canceled me completely prior to the biggest political elections that we've had in a long time all right so so far no agreement for no disagreement from anybody who knows the context no disagreement from any of my friends even the People canceled me I don't know what they were thinking but I didn't hear any of them disagree with my actual points they of course are alarmed my by my rhetoric as everybody is all right I'm going to get to something useful here in a minute believe it or not uh yeah here's something The Washington Post reported about me this is an actual quote from The Washington Post the cartoonist who created the workplace satire comic strip in 1989 had been entertaining extreme right ideologies and conspiracy theories for several years foreign I'm literally the most famous debunker of conspiracy theories on both the right and the left have you ever seen anybody spend more time debunking all the conspiracy theories in fact the biggest problem I have with the right is that I don't believe their conspiracy theories am I right the biggest problem I have with my own audience which is mostly right-leaning by far is that I'm not buying into the things that they have more quickly believed now but now to be fair most of those conspiracies theories turned out to be true you know I don't know what the percentage is but it feels like too many of them turned out to be true but would you agree that I'm more famous for disagreeing with right-leaning conspiracy theories which is more true a more famous for disagreeing with the right or agreeing yeah on locals they all know they're all saying yes yeah I'm way more famous for disagreeing with the right now at the same time so there are two papers that canceled me at about the same time the Washington Post and the LA Times yeah I'm canceled everywhere but these were two of the quick ones so at the same time that the Washington Post is reporting that I've been entertaining extreme right ideologies and conspiracy theories uh was it the LA Times or I think it was the LA Times reported I'm a Democrat so there those are your two uh high quality news organizations one reported that I'm a right wing like super right-wing conspiracy person and the other one reported I'm a Democrat at the same time at the same time they reported that now if that doesn't tell you everything you need to know about the quality of the news and I told you before that before getting canceled zero people at newspapers asked me for the proper context nobody nobody now after I've been canceled it got more interesting and people started looking into it and looking at my comments in in a broader way but they all canceled me without doing any journalism none no journalism and the journalism they're doing now the LA Times was actually in my opinion somewhat supportive by showing the full context and Newsweek said directly I shouldn't be canceled in a penny piece all right uh hotep Jesus tweeted this he said Twitter users are addicted to being offended that's pretty much all I'm seeing now most of the negative stuff on Twitter about me is people who are clearly just gooters they are literally just getting off on it oh Scott you're so canceled now I think you're so canceled I'll stop doing that I know that's creepy yeah they're just gooning out at their criticism and you could tell that it's not even about me they don't actually care about me they care about the process of gooning and getting a little dopamine it so I can't take them too seriously it's just people who don't know the situation gooners and then political enemies of mine who are just waiting for a chance to cancel me that's all it is now there are no reasonable people who know the context who have any problems is that an extreme claim I haven't seen any I have not seen any reasonable person who knows the context who still has a problem with it none it's just a media thing so my actual world of being totally canceled you know except for the financial part which is enormous uh my every day is exactly the same I go outside and I see people who are not on social media mostly I went to the park to walk my dog and I I know quite a few of the neighbors just from dog walking well they all know me basically and I thought oh this is going to be awkward nope big smiles big smiles everywhere how you doing how's your dog big smiles so my local experiences that it didn't even happen that the cancellation never happened and if you subtract the gooners and crazy people and the political operatives and the and the grifters there are no actual complaints from black people or white once they know the context uh here's the funniest comment from a ghost of Gettysburg now I'm not endorsing this I just think it's funny all right so this is just for the laugh uh Scott pointed out that the emperor has no clothes and now all the NPCs are upset this is usually what happens before a societal Epiphany happens Scott Adams might be a sort of Rosa Parks to look back on Rosa Parks now now I obviously that would be offensive for me to embrace that which makes it funny it's funny because it's outrageous but I would ask you this question about Rosa Parks looking back in history was Rosa Parks not good for white and black people and everybody else are you glad that Rosa Parks existed whether you're white or black or anything and anything else because she she created a societal change that was positive is that correct like there's nobody who's anti-rosa parks today like nobody would want a segregated boss or anything like that so Rosa Parks is a good example of someone who was very let's say controversial back in those super racist days more racist than today uh but today in the in the length of time we now come to know that it's a good thing she did that and it's a good thing that you know we got to a better place everybody wins I like to think that's my case as well not Rosa Parks of course but I believe that what I'm doing is pissing off half of the world that's paying attention and you're gonna hate me for a while but you're going to be glad I did it that's my prediction you're going to be glad I did it but you can hate me for a while just like the white races hated Rosa barks they probably hated the hell out of her I assume right but not now so time is on my side because you are going to be happy that I uh let's say waded into the conversation now one of the biggest complaints I'm getting lately is even from people who support me or at least don't want me canceled they're saying that the way I said it was unnecessarily uh provocative and it was unproductive and it made things worse what do you say was it an awkward well it was definitely awkward but was it unproductive and uh just made things worse and it was a big mistake the way I said it well here's what's wrong with their Theory I I did it intentionally and it turned out better than I'd hoped here's what I hoped I didn't expect I would get fully canceled that time I have been predicting I would be fully canceled but I thought it would be for political reasons and you know some excuse would pop up I didn't know it would be this one and it hadn't been this one I'm sure there would have been others you know they'll just find some reason but I was trying to be provocative I was trying to make people angry is that a mistake if I if I'd done it unintentionally it would have been a mistake but I did it very intentionally I was trying to get people mad so that they would send me energy and then we'd talk about it and then everybody would say oh that was useful thanks what happened was it got too big and the reason it got too big is not because of what I said well you all get that right the reason I got canceled had nothing to do with what I said except sort of you know any excuse was good enough once it started it was just sort of a political Cascade but it wasn't what I said people are mad at that they're mad that I made them mad I did that intentionally if you're mad that I made people mad okay if you're just bad okay that's what I wanted that's exactly what I wanted and I wanted you to turn all of your guns on me I wanted you all like to circle around me draw all of your weapons Point them at my head and make me defend myself that's what I wanted and that's what I got now I would argue that I'm already the most I'll use the word interesting only because I'm controversial you know if you're controversial you're automatically interesting too I'm the most interesting voice in America right now on this topic does anybody disagree I'm not saying I'm the most authoritative the most credible the most believable the most anything else only the most prominent and interesting voice and what makes me interesting is that I'm walking through this topic instead of around it I know how to go around it I know how to apologize blah blah but there's nothing to apologize for I'm trying to help you I'm not going to apologize for trying to help you and when I say you I mean Black America you know and everybody else the same way Rosa Parks was helping Black America but ended up helping everybody this is specifically for the benefit of Black America it's going to help everybody else too because we have to get to the point where you can actually say something honestly about the topic how in the world could you possibly move ahead if you have to lie about the topic you're working on and and the non-li is that if a given the trends we see and I like to say by lived experience I don't need the the Rasmussen Pole to tell me what's obvious do I you can just watch the news and you know talk to people and be on social media and live for five minutes and you see everything that the Rasmussen polls suggested now perhaps you know the the exact numbers are a little off but there's no doubt that even if the Rasmus and pole had never existed there's clearly uh racial tensions that have gotten worse since Trayvon Martin and I think they're reaching a point where the society is starting not to work so well like it's starting to have some cracks and the thing that makes America America in my opinion is the you know the so-called classic Melting Pot like if we can't figure out how to work together across races and make it better than if we had no diversity at all we're not really going to be a competitive country and I want to be a competitive country so is it good for me to help Black America yeah yeah absolutely because that helps me it helps you as well right now if I were only helping Black America then you might have some questions but I don't do things that aren't good for everybody like that's how it works you help the ones that are in the deepest hole that's sort of good for everybody just like Rosa Parks you know it was good for everybody so let me um let me say a little bit more about that if you thought that my communication was poor and a number of people said words to this effect we know he's a professional communicator so why did he do this so wrong have you have you seen that people saying he knows how to communicate why did he do this so wrong it wasn't wrong it was supposed to get exactly the I was communicating for a fact and I got exactly the effect I tried to get which is outrage does anybody think I wasn't trying to outrage you how in the world could you think that wasn't intended to be outrageous of course it was of course it was you've seen me do it before by the way so I wouldn't say that that was communication I would say it was protest it was protest protest is supposed to make you pissed off do you remember that I supported Colin Kaepernick's protest and everybody who's watching me now hated me for it you remember that and I I supported his protest because it was perfect he made everybody mad and what he did was super inappropriate you know kneeling for the national anthem inappropriate in you know in the sort of classic way so the fact that he was so inappropriate and he got fully canceled like somebody I know like somebody I know made a great protest that was a good protest you still remember his name you still remember his issue and he took the bullet now I think he should have gone back in I would have liked to see him go back and play again but that didn't work out so if you think I was communicating then it would look like I made a big mistake if you know I was protesting a situation which I don't think can stand then pissing you off is exactly what I wanted to do it's exactly what I wanted to do I didn't think it would get that big I thought it would just stay within my audience and my audience is well aware that I like to agitate them and then once they're in an agitated State then I reframe it and bring them back how many how many times have you seen me do that I agitate my audience with some provocation and I slowly bring them back to another frame it's a fun experience if you haven't experienced it you should try it all right um what else I asked the poll I said uh on Twitter now this is a Twitter poll so don't take it too seriously but I said if you're white is it better for you to lie to Black Americans about where you think things are at or to be honest and see if you can figure out Solutions well I haven't checked but 25 percent of white Americans said it's better to lie is that healthy do you think it's healthy that 25 of Americans feel they have to lie to Black Americans how in the world is that healthy and is there any black American who wants them to lie to them if I may say one super racist thing and I think I will you want me to say something super racist so I can get canceled again here it comes super racist black people like honesty super racist right black people like honesty anybody want to argue with me individuals I'm not talking about like some race grifters and stuff but individually I've never met a black person who wanted to be lied to is that even a thing no they like some honesty do you know who doesn't like honesty tell me who doesn't like honesty there's an answer to this question who doesn't like honesty liberal women liberal women yeah and and the men who need to do what the liberal women say yeah the left is mostly a female female Centric philosophy with men who are willing to go along with it mostly like everything lots of exceptions right so even even when I said the racist thing I said just now which is black people like honesty do you think I meant every single black person all of them no it never means all of them it never means that you would have to be an NPC to think that any statement about a group is intended to mean all of them in no world in no conversation at no time ever has anybody ever been that interpretation but that's the interpretation the news has taken because they're not honest it's fake news all right uh here's a here's something that June Stone said to me on Twitter she's a black woman and she was uh not a big fan of my comments not a big fan but she was not a big fan in a different way than you expect so let me read her comment because I think it's a good one she said black people don't need people who think like you meaning me giving us quote Success strategies just work on your own internalized biases and Colonial mindset which I suppose I do have right is that unfair she says I should work on my own internalized biases and Colonial mindset that's fair you know I usually make fun of Mind readers but is there anybody who doesn't have internalized bias like how could you not have an internalized bias nobody can get rid of their internalized bias but working on it is something we we all should do right you can't get rid of it but you got to stay on top of it right you got to know what it is you got to work with it you gotta you gotta try to Tamp it down right so I would take your advice as good advice um I should work on my own internalized biases as should all of you as should all black people as should all white people and everybody in return by the way I always I keep leaving out Asian Americans and Indian Americans and Hispanics but it's only because it's a I'm simplifying things all right so she goes on and she says uh let me read it again she does she says she doesn't want people like me giving Black people quote Success strategies come back what you've done the work and change your heart so here's how I replied I said I hear you June but success strategies quote unquote are your only hope to slice through systemic racism you are asking for more systemic racism by being denied the influence of successful people the government isn't coming to help make you successful and it's largely a learned skill so here's what I'm telling Black America success is a learned skill if you learn that skill systemic racism will only be a pain in the ass in your life it won't stop you from success it will just be a pain in the ass but you can slice right through it with some pretty basic well-tested Universal you know nothing about black or white just Universal success strategies I happen to have a lot of them my best-selling book that is now canceled has held almost everything is still one big is the most influential self-help book in the world it's the most influential now it's not the best seller but other bestsellers have borrowed my ideas and become best sellers but there's nobody more influential at the moment in the self-help personal success domain than I am I'm number one in that domain by influence I invented the idea of the talent stack or popularized it maybe and the idea of systems over goals which are two of the most important self-development Concepts in the world and then they're now generally the advice that people give that came from me the the advice that white people give each other largely came from me now I have a number of black followers who also report to me that that same advice completely changed their lives made them richer happier more successful Etc none of these things are black or white in the sense that I don't think there's any such thing as well no I'll take that back these are Universal but on top of that there would also be special strategies for black Americans and that special strategy would be go where you have an advantage right go to a go to a big company that's trying to improve its diversity you go right to the top of the list as long as you're qualified so strategy wise what I offer to Black America now that I have your attention now that I have your attention exactly as I was planning to do I would like to offer you for free for free the best success strategies you've ever seen now the reason that being denied the these strategies I call systemic racism is because when you're white now again this is not a universal for every white person but in general um let's see if I can get some agreement on this in the comments would you agree that the average white person in America has more casual contact with financially successful people than the average black American just on average true right and do you believe that that contact even though it's a casual contact might be friends could be your father mother could be but your friends Etc you don't you think that makes a difference don't you think that the knowledge of how to succeed is probably the biggest lever for anybody for anybody and whenever you see a black American who succeeded you look at their process and it turns out that they use the same techniques that I'm promoting for everybody right if you listen to Kobe Bryant like if you listen to this talk about what makes him made him successful it will sound just like it came out of my mouth except you know different framing of course but it's going to sound very familiar he's going to talk about the system he uses instead of the goal and you know developing his entire game so he wasn't a specialist you know I'm just a shooter or just a defensive person he was great at everything in basketball so he had a talent stack he had systems over goals and probably a dozen other things that I that I teach in terms of success so it has nothing to do with white or black these are just Universal things that work for everybody so when I talked about the um the what I call it the reciprocity operating system the most useful thing to do if you're black and you want White America to embrace you and effectively take the systemic racism way for you then reciprocity is how you do that because white people are just all primed for reciprocity maybe everybody is like I'm not saying somebody isn't I think everybody is but I can you know talk about my own life better and if you simply give a little bit more than you're expected to give most of the time you're not going to get anything back from that but over time you will you know when you need it probably you will yeah I tell the famous story of my neighbor was a it was an old white guy when I knew him and he was rich and he didn't have a college education and I asked him how he did that his first job was selling salt do you know how hard it would be to sell salt to grocery stores they already have salt it's all almost completely the same it's like just price and if you don't have the lowest price how the hell do you sell your salt right here's how he did it he gave me one anecdote uh he knew that there was a store owner who was going to spend the weekend organizing his shelves this store owner had never bought his salt but he'd been trying for a while so on Saturday he puts on his work clothes and he shows up at the uh at the store and he says I'm here to help just for free for nothing I'll just help you organize the store today the store owner accepted his help and bought all of his old and bought his salt from that day forward why reciprocity yeah because he couldn't not buy it you know once he'd accepted that level of help you know a guy worked with him all day the reciprocity kicks in and you buy that guy salt right so if instead my friend had said you owe me this because of something you did in the past would that have worked as well maybe in the short run but the reciprocity play is permanent I mean that's that's a good solution right there all right um so at the same time that the Washington Post was canceling me um they were reporting that the Sonic weapon The Havana syndrome Sonic weapon was never real and it was all imaginary reading the newspaper you would have waited five years to learn that if you would listen to me the person the newspaper canceled I told you that on the first day first day do you know why because I'm really good at this I'm really good at a very narrow specific thing I can see a mass hysteria forming I can tell the difference between a mass hysteria and a real story and I saw it immediately it was classic it was the most classic massest area you could ever have it was so obviously a mass Hysteria that I called it on the first day and never stopped saying it and even when this even when the news started to move against me it's like well maybe these this damage really does suggest there's a weapon even when the news was working against me I said nope Mass hysteria no weapon you'll never get to find a weapon and now that's the common belief do you remember was the Washington Post also reporting that alcohol was good for you in moderation I don't know but I'll bet they were in fact I'll bet most of the people who canceled me if you had followed the people who canceled me for five years or you had followed me who would know more the people who followed me or the people who followed the so-called news that canceled me it's not even close the fake news is so fake that my guessing was better not other educated guesses right but I didn't have data I just looked at it and said ah does it look right to me yeah and now some of you fell for the vax hoax about me that 4chan basically changed all My Views and sold you that those were my views and then everybody got mad at me but if you're not up with that story you should catch up and find out what my actual views are and you'll get over that pretty quickly but that was one of the best pranks ever on me there's a whole vax Brank anyway in order to be mad at me for my latest outrage uh you would have to accept the following things here here are all the things you would have to believe in order to be outraged to me it's a long list these are all the dumbass things you would have to believe you'd have to believe them all all of these things now listen to this list of things you'd have to believe you have to believe that news about public figures is generally accurate Emily believe that how many how many believe that news about public figures specifically uh and and political figures because I'm a political figure effectively does anybody believe that news about right but in order to be mad at me you would have to believe that the story was accurate am I right you wouldn't be bad unless you thought the story about me was accurate so you would have to believe that the News tells accurate stories about public figures that's not even a thing that's not a thing even even the friendliest story about me that was definitely not a here piece called me a Democrat like that's in the News That's the LA Times they reported I'm a Democrat now it makes me wonder if they checked is there a way to check somebody's registration is a republic way to check to see how somebody's registered because it's entirely possible that the last time I registered it was Democrat oh maybe so that's probably what they did because they didn't ask me they just checked I might actually be a registered Democrat because the last time I voted I voted Democrat that was a long time ago does your Dem your your registration stays right unless you change it now that doesn't make sense I thought I've always been I thought I registered as an independent long after I was a Democrat but maybe not maybe not anyway it doesn't matter for me registration was random I just I would have just picked a party I wouldn't have cared all right so you'd first have to believe that news about public figures is accurate which is absurd it's like you haven't paid attention to anything secondly you'd have to ignore the context which all the major news did every major news except the LA Times I'll give them credit they did a really good job of of context all the rest ignored the context so you would have to believe that the fake news gave you accurate context you'd have to imagine that when I said the white people should move away from black people or stay away that that was somehow a practical plan that in my head I thought yeah that'll work there's a real practical plan that's not a practical plan if you didn't recognize that as obvious provocation you're not really good at you know at recognizing hyperbole I guess now you could say that I was not communicating well but since I wanted to provoke you I would argue that I communicated better than I hoped I provoked you more than I thought you'd also have to believe that you'd also have to not know me and and know that I have a long pattern of using hyperbole to attract energy right you'd have to know that I don't do this very thing on a regular basis not on this topic but I provoke in order to make it harder for me to make my case and then when I make my case it's more of a more of an interesting Journey that I take my followers on so you'd have to not know that I do this on a regular basis it's a pattern you'd have to not know that I write about this specific technique I write about doing this if you read read win bigly you'll read how I talk about Trump using provocation to attract energy and the energy is more important than the damage from the provocation I talk about that as an actual persuasion technique and then I did it in front of you all right um in order to be mad at me you'd have to also know you'd have to not know that I'd promise to end ESG so you'd have to know that it's not part of a larger plan to get rid of ESG and CRT and similar stuff um you'd also have to believe I said a word that I didn't say or that I meant every black person is the same you would have to believe that I believed all black people are the same even though I just went out of my way in the in the provocative statements to say I was only talking about a specific percentage from a poll but you would have to believe that even though I said it's only fewer than half that what I really meant was all you'd have to believe that you have to believe that I think you'd have to believe that I think that all black people are like or that all anybody's like who in the world believes that if you thought that was serious you should maybe examine your your thinking process you'd have to also believe that I thought the Rasmussen poll was essential to the point do you believe that do you believe that the only thing that suggests there's racial Division and it's getting worse was that Rasmussen Bowl do you think I had no other data points or lived experience or I'd never seen the news or hadn't seen the Gallup poll saying race relations are worse or I hadn't seen black people talking openly about how white people suck you think you think I needed the rasperson pull no it was just a conversation opener now I will take I will take criticism for not explaining that it wasn't essential to the point that would be a good criticism by the way because I wasn't trying to provoke in that way I was trying to provoke but not not based on the accuracy of one pole you know I wouldn't it wouldn't depend on that uh in order to be mad at me you'd have to uh ignore your lived experience because everybody sees the same thing I do black or white you all say the same thing I do um you'd have to uh you oh you'd also have to believe that I and most and some large number of the pole respondents were aware that the phrase in the poll which was are is it okay to be white you would have to think that I was aware of that that was some kind of 4chan racist thing and that the poll numbers were aware of that how many of you were aware of that now this is a very political crowd so it's going to be a high percentage In This Crowd but but what percentage did the general public do you think we're aware of that they had some races passed I'd never heard it before and so Vlad who's very mad Vlad who's mad at me he says it is clear that I knew that how in the world would I have known that like I don't spend time on 4chan and I never saw it before I'd never heard of it I don't think most people have heard of it I mean only like 12 12 of people are even on Twitter right it's not most people it's uh so it's possible that that I agree that it might have influenced the poll but to imagine that I knew that there's no way I would have talked about it if I knew that that would be crazy do you think I would have talked about it if I knew it had a white supremacy passed that that would have been more provocative than even for me I like being provocative but that would have been way over there that would have been way over the line no I didn't know that and I don't believe that most of the people in the poll do that and I don't believe that most of you knew it I don't believe that all right what else would you have to believe uh you'd have to wonder why social media is not canceling me you have to wonder why black conservatives who are aware of the context which is not all of them don't think I should be canceled or they support me they either think it you know they understand it was provocative and they understand it was meant to be alarming if you see it in context uh you would have to ignore the bigger context of CRT and the SG and Dai because those are obviously the the context that's relevant here and you'd have to believe that I suddenly changed to a different person or went insane right let me ask you this do you think that the media is digging through everything I've ever said and done to find more examples of my Badness that they hadn't noticed before of course they are have you seen any the the best they could come up with is that long ago I had Blog then it must be really hard to count the number of people in the Holocaust because World War II you know records are destroyed Etc now that doesn't change the Holocaust like whether it's five million people or 10 million it's exactly the same narrative like nobody loses if I say I don't know how accurate you could be right but that turned into a holocaust denier which is crazy yeah nobody I've never met anybody who denied the Holocaust have you have you ever even met anybody who had denied the Holocaust like I know they exist but I've never met one some people have okay well I'm not one of them that would be stupid and crazy all right but you would have to believe everything on that list in order to keep your angry narrative at me if you saw it in context you would know that I have penetrated your leftist bubble I have forced you to pay attention and I'm offering you useful tools those useful tools will work in any situation they're success tools and anybody wants access to them um I'm happy to tell you more moreover my book my newest book that got canceled the how to fail book will also be canceled but I'll make that available some way one way or another my newest book is also about reframing and has anybody noticed that what I've done here is reframed the problem because the reframe that mattered is what the impact of all of the backwards looking CRT Dei ESG stuff does the reframe is that it's not free that it has that has a cost to it that's nobody talks about and the cost is how it makes everybody feel which is pretty bad and it's pretty racist feeling now at the same time there are plenty of ways to make things better for black Americans but I will I will Echo one thing that was said by one of my critics is Black Americans many of them I won't say all because that everybody jumps to crazy talk with if I don't clarify I don't mean every single one but I would think that there are a lot of black Americans who would at least be curious about the tools for success they're free they're easy to learn and it gives you basically what systemic racism took away so not everything but one of the things one of the biggest things is systemic racism takes away is your uh your accidental association with people who know how to succeed because that's where you pick up the patterns so I'm trying to fill that Gap and help you slice through there'll still be systemic racism but it'll help you slice right through it like it didn't even matter it'll just be annoying but not a stopper all right uh took away all right does anybody have a problem today with me anything you want to say the uh the floor is yours You.

Tube and locals uh what tools where oh good question the um my book had a field almost everything and still went big would be the primary source but I also talk about these things at length so you'd be looking for you could just Google the same thing so you could just Google these terms if you don't want to read my book Google talent stack and systems are better than goals those are two concepts there's a whole bunch of other stuff about you know passion being BS and affirmations and a whole bunch of other forward-looking and even stuff about uh reciprocity so it's just a book full of things that work for everybody there's no there's no black or white or I think it it would work from 14 years old to whatever age you are Bubba Says are you comfortable at the fulcrum of all of this power and energy or am I unhappy I am weirdly comfortable you know what this feels like it feels like exactly where I'm supposed to be that's what it feels like it feels like I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be I feel like I was supposed to get canceled now you know if you take the big picture of this I was canceled on an industry that could be dead tomorrow right the newspaper industry could I I know I long predicted that when it starts to completely fall apart there'll be like a collapse period it'll just completely go away in a year or two so I managed to accidentally wasn't my plan but I escaped a dying industry and increased my attention level uh you know people's attention to me on this form the live stream and social media form now this is a growing field and it's growing even more toward you know election day so I managed to escape a dying industry and get a turbo charge in the most exciting industry that's happening at least in the entertainment field which is podcasting so that's pretty good I do have offers coming in that will that it won't come close to you know matching my old income but I'm also a retirement age right I don't really need to go set the world on fire any more than I did this week uh so and like I said my my personal life is unchanged except people like me more I mean I'm getting more respect for not apologizing that anything I've ever done in my life I did not see that coming like that was a surprise if you told me that not apologizing would be like this Mark of something and by the way the reason I don't apologize is because hunt didn't do anything that deserves an apology I'm really big on apologies like some of you some of you uh you know maybe disagree with apologies I'm very big on apologies I think apologies are a great way to go but only if you did something right if the only thing I did was make people mad so they'd pay attention and then I could help them I'm not going to apologize for that now I'm not going to apologize for making you mad while trying to help you that's not going to happen yeah I mean I I could give a uh a husband apology I thought about that I thought about doing a tongue-in-cheek husband apology now husband apology is when you know you're not in the wrong but you have to apologize anyway but if I did it I would make sure that if I did it I would make sure you knew I wasn't serious yeah don't worry I won't apologize I will give you I'll give you my promise that I won't apologize all right isn't it dishonest to intentionally try to fool people and then chastise those same people for being fooled is it dishonest yes is that what you're looking for I mean I just told you it was dishonest but it was for a good purpose right yeah I mean it's temporarily dishonest the the intention was always to be fully transparent but yeah in with communication sometimes you tease things before you're fully transparent so I may have teased too much before I was fully transparent and if that feels like fooling you I'm not not going to quibble with the words you put on it but it was all for a positive purpose uh Scott's walking it back what did I walk back speed for hire tell me what I walk back did did you see something that I didn't see what walk back I'm fully responsible for and embrace everything I said in context you know adding contacts is not walking anything back all right all right I think we've done what we needed to do here today and I'll remind you again that if you want to see the good stuff I'm already planning some awesome Dilbert comics after it's fully canceled in a few weeks you'll only be able to see those on the locals platform just Google uh Scott Adam not just go to scottadams.locals.com and hit the subscriber subscribe button if you like and that's all for now You.

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well let's talk about the minor stories

and then toward the end I might say some

more about my little brouhaha

there are updates there are updates

all right so a tweet from Mike soda that

she was asking why young people

seem to watch TV with the

what do you call the subtitles on have

any of you noticed that that the use of

subtitles even if you speak the same

language

captions captions yes not subtitles

captions

um and Mike asked quite reasonably

like what changed you know what is the

reason for it and I have to know I have

to say I've noticed it myself

and I didn't know what it was about but

I have a hypothesis

one hypothesis

three actually one hypothesis is that

sometimes the young people want to keep

their headphones in

or they want to turn the the sound

really low but just have something on

and maybe check in once a while so it

might be a little bit of that but it's

definitely not just people with earbuds

in

the other thing I think is that movies

and TV shows

are so insensitive to what their

consumers want that they stopped making

clear

speaking

it's not my imagination allow me allow

me to give you a demonstration of a

movie from the 40s you ready here's a

movie from the 40s

what were you doing get the scene of the

crime

well who else was there

well you'd better talk to the police

department

right that was a 40s movie now let me

let me give you an impression of every

person trying to win an Academy Award in

the modern time in a movie

oh

insane

it's just that right it's just that the

movie is

have so disrespected their audiences

that they literally don't even think the

audience needs a sound anymore

well you don't need sound

why should you be concerned about

listening to the voices of the people oh

now I think part of it is also that

background noise has been elevated

you know just because they can like they

can add some background noise you know

some Street Sounds or whatever and then

everybody's mumbling and between the two

things

I will tell you that as far as I know

my hearing is fine

last time it was tested but I can't hear

a dialogue on TV can you it's just all

mumbling and if it's anything

British at all I don't have a chance

yeah British mumbling is like oh George

nothing

like I can watch I can watch an hour of

a movie and not pick up a word at all

and I think my hearing's fine as far as

I know

anyway uh the other possibility is that

young people are used to seeing captions

on reels and tick tocks so it just seems

more natural that's possible

all right uh Germany

as Michael schellenberger tweets he says

the Germans say they care deeply about

climate change and yet Chancellor uh

Olaf Schultz is proceeding with plans to

replace Germany's last three nuclear

plants with coal next month

over the objections of his finance

minister

and then here's Here's the final phrase

that shellberg adds to his tweet because

witches or something

because witches or something

there's literally no reason

the the anti-nuclear people literally

have no reason left

the pro-green people are pro

um you know the ones who would know what

they're talking about are all

pro-nuclear even AOC is pro-nuclear

there is no argument left on the other

side we now know what to do with the

waste you know we we know how to build

um nuclear sites that are either not

going to melt down the newer technology

or ones that have never melted down

right if you're going to build a nuclear

plant today

you would build you know either a

generation three that's never had a

meltdown or you'd build the newest

generation of four that can't meltdown

like it's designed so it can't

and and still still there's just nothing

you can do to change Minds you know once

people get something in their head they

just can't get it out just can't get it

out now there might be a timing issue so

I want to make sure I'm not losing the

context of this one because I might be

it might be that they need to do

something quick

and nuclear isn't as quick as it could

be you know maybe they need to fix

something to keep those plants open

something like that I don't know

but I might be missing some contacts but

there is no argument left against

nuclear you know if we're looking at a

at a climatic

catastrophe

you could have like 10 nuclear plants

melt down well let's see if this makes

sense

there have been zero meltdowns of the

new kind of plant if you were going to

build one today

zero never been one

and

what is the what does the left think is

the risk of climate change total

catastrophe right

the risk according to the left I don't I

don't buy this but according to the left

the risk is total catastrophe

suppose everybody put in a bunch of

nuclear power plants

and in some you know some period of

years it isn't too much 10 of them

melted down

would that have been a bad idea

if 10 of them melted down unexpectedly

because the new technology has never

melted down it's literally never

happened with the new power plants

it would totally be worth it yeah if if

you were to compare it with any

objective measure you could have 10

meltdowns

and still save the world

the the meltdowns are going to affect a

few people around it and even they would

get out of town you know as soon as they

got the alarm they'd just be gone

probably

so you could have if everything went

wrong with nuclear it would still save

the world according to the left again I

don't buy into the disaster narrative

but they do they do

and if they think the disaster is coming

they could have all kinds of nuclear

disasters which would be zero actually

in all likelihood it would be zero

because like I said the technology that

you would build one today

is the technology that's never melted

down

we're pretty good at this now

so and like I said the new plans won't

melt down at all they don't have the

option all right uh

I'm going to throw at a uh

Theory

conspiracy theory option Maybe

it's a conspiracy theory in the sense

that I haven't heard anybody talk about

it but it's not one I believe

it's one that might be true I'm just

going to put it out there

suppose Putin doesn't believe he can win

in the Ukraine outright or what would be

his option if he couldn't win and let's

say he's reasonable enough to not use

nuclear I mean he might threaten but

he's let's say he's not going to use it

what would Putin do

if

if you didn't want to lose exactly he

doesn't want to lose but he can't win

what would he do here's my theory

he would have to sue for peace well not

a super peace he would often negotiate

some kind of a deal

now we don't know if the ukrainians

would negotiate anything

I mean not productively we don't know

but suppose that's you think it's an

option

if you were Putin

what would be the most dangerous thing

you could do I'll tell you

negotiate peace

and keep the Wagner group intact

because the head of the Wagner group

doesn't seem as pro-putin as you'd like

him to be you know if you're Putin uh it

feels like he's getting too much power

and He commands his own Army

the the most dangerous thing for Putin

would be to end the war and let the head

of the Wagner group stay on the job

now since you can't do much about that

at the moment

because I added the wagon group is the

only one who's doing anything useful in

the war so you can't take him out

but I'll tell you what you could do

you could order him to have his forces

do really really dangerous stuff until

they're so degraded

that you can negotiate for peace

and then the Wagner group would not be

strong enough

to defeat your loyalist forces

if you tell me that the head of the

Wagner group is not actively thinking

about taking over Russia itself

I think you're nuts

of course he is

and you think Putin doesn't know that

of course he does now why do I say that

about the head of the Wagner group

who even does that kind of a thing

unless they're power hungry

and not afraid of anything

if you're the head of the Wagner group

you're not looking to be a Wallflower

you look into conquer some stuff

you're looking to be in charge no I

think that I think his job history is

enough that this is not mind reading I I

think there's enough

you know that's obvious about the

situation that you could you could say

that he's a person who wants power

because I think it's just true if

everybody in this situation he wants

power

and he probably doesn't want to be

Putin's much longer

and he and he might be in a position

where he could just take it himself just

take over

so I think Putin has to send him into

harm

and have the Wagner group as degraded as

possible before he talks peace and then

he can get both things he can get the

peace and he won't get overthrown

now

is there anybody here who believes

that's even possible

does anybody think that's even possible

that theory that he wants to grind down

his own troops

only the Wagner troops

yeah I think I think it's at least

possible

because and the reason I say it's

possible is that it's probably what I

would do

yeah if I were an evil dictator I didn't

care about anybody but myself

I I would I would make sure the Wagner

group was

you know at least taken down by half

before I before I ended the war that's

what I do

so I just assumed Putin would do what I

would do because it seems smart but so

far Putin doesn't do what I would do so

I wouldn't put I wouldn't put a high

odds on that theory

but don't you think it's worth being in

the mix

don't you think it's at least feasible

enough they should be in the

conversation I think so

all right

uh apparently Congress just turned down

some

ESG promoting thing for your 401ks I

guess whoever managed your 401ks would

have to have an ESG plan in order to be

able to do that I don't know if that's

just for government pensions or what

that was but Congress

turned it down

Congress turned it down

so there were enough Democrats to join

the Republicans to turn down an ESG

promoting Bill in Congress

did you imagine that that would happen

now that's that's not the good news yet

meaning that it might not be good news

because Biden said he'd veto it

so it so he's vetoing a uh an

affirmative action to get rid of ESG

so he's vetoing the getting rid of a ESG

which would keep PSG in this context

now just the fact that

that Congress as a whole turned it down

you know it didn't take too many

Democrat votes to

it wasn't just one I don't know

um

and then

we're also missing fetterman right

so the balance and the uh in the Senate

is kind of wacky at the moment is there

anybody else missing besides fetamine I

assume he can't he can't vote he's just

missing right

yeah

all right

um

so

and uh this is something that uh Vivek

ramaswamy said about that ESG story he

said uh on a tweet he said Democrats are

the ones who used to be skeptical of

undue corporate influence on politics

ESG is that on steroids meaning undue

corporate influence for a political

party that loves to ritually bemoan

thrust to democracy it's funny that they

teamed up with the likes of BlackRock to

create the biggest one of all

I I feel like the problem here is that

nobody can handle nuance

or any kind of context or any kind of

detail

because if you just say ESG

equality

then of course you salute that who

doesn't like equality and stuff sounds

good but as soon as you get into the

fact that BlackRock is promoting it and

it's like putting an anchor on Fremont

and it puts other people in charge of

your business

is crazy it's Equity not equality right

yeah but even Equity is one of those

words that people reflexively say yes to

yeah Equity without thinking through

what that means or what it would take

all right uh Rasmussen has a poll and uh

as you know there's never been a

Rasmussen poll that's ever gotten me in

trouble

I think you'd agree on that no slow down

it's not going to be one of those not

going to be one of those

but according to both 61 percent of

Voters American voters believe it is

likely

that undercover government agents help

provoke the capital riot

61 percent

so clearly that's picking up

Independence and also Democrats

I'm very surprised at that result are

you

because usually I would expect that more

down like 40 percent you know where it

just goes along party lines

but 61 percent believe it is likely you

know not that it's a fact but likely

that the under governed government

agents helped provoke the capital riot

wow 39 say it's very likely so that's

probably a long party line sort of thing

um

and only 30 percent uh

uh

only 18 percent say it is not at all

likely

now

the 18 is the one that's the closest to

the 25 so we're at least consistent in

directional sense

iost is that 25 percent

of the people will answer every question

wrong

it doesn't matter what the question is

and it's not the same 25 percent

but every poll question

25 percent of the public will just have

the most dumbass answer

it'd be like is oxygen good for people

75 yes 25 not so sure not so sure about

this oxygen

all right my favorite story

by far

now

I introduced this story by saying you

all know that I've been a big supporter

of the trans Community as well as

lbgqt whatever in general

and

uh I love people's reaction to this

story

my own reaction is only about other

people's reactions right

so I don't have a reaction so let me

tell the story so uh

to kick off of women's History Month

and this is an important part of the

story women's History Month

uh the Hershey Company did an ad where

they were honoring women and they

featured a

primarily they featured a trans woman

and that was their uh that was their

look for uh women's History Month

so it's sort of like honoring Rachel

Dolan's for a Black History Month

it's like a little off some people think

it's off point now

I remind you

that if it sounds like I'm making fun of

any trans people that's not what's

happening here's what I think is funny

I think it's funny the reaction that

they got

like people are really pissed and

especially women let's say biological

weapon biological and people identify as

women were born that way I kind of kind

of pissed that they're a brand they

think their brand is being a little

diminished

by having somebody who was born a

biological male and transitioned to a

woman

and

am I wrong that that's just funny

and I'm not making fun of trans I really

am not am I wrong that that's just funny

that they did that

if you just they they got tons of

attention I'm not sure if it's going to

sell more chocolate

but they did get a lot of attention and

they were on the right side of you know

the the social narrative at the moment

um

but here here was my biggest take

what was the discussion in the boardroom

or wherever they made this decision

wouldn't you love to see a Dilbert comic

in which they walked through the

corporate decision of having a trans

woman as the face of women's History

Month

like I feel like I could make that funny

again not picking on anybody so it's not

about trans it's not about trans at all

it's only about the decision process and

how awkward it would be because there's

no winning answer

like you can't not do it and you can't

do it

like it's just wrong in every way so I'm

guessing that there were probably some

activists within the company

who brought this idea to management and

then management said oh what the hell

are we going to do now because we we

can't win if we say no

right

if people within the company came to you

and said hey I think this is how we show

we're Progressive and you know we'd be

really bad if you don't consider trans

women women and and then management is

like uh

uh I think half of the country

who wouldn't like this

are not going to buy as much chocolate

do you think that would stop anything I

think they'd have to do it anyway I

think the internal pressure would be so

high uh that they just have to do it now

I kind of like that they did it

I I like that they got everybody

all charged up and we're talking about

it and you know the conversation is the

conversation is deepened and people are

mad and I just kind of like it maybe I

like provocative things

all right remember I told you that I

thought that uh

a number of programs are backwards

looking

such as

ESG and CRT and Etc and they're

backwards looking in the sense that they

depend on a narrative of white people

being racist and continuing to support

systemic racism

so

in my opinion

a forward-looking philosophy would look

like this

there would be optimism

right maybe some affirmations maybe some

manifesting you'd have to use have

strategies for the future or you'd make

plans and stuff like you'd have systems

maybe even more than goals

so there's a number of ways but there's

one thing that's future oriented that

I'm seeing in play this week

reciprocity

reciprocity as an operating system

is just a killer and it's all future

focused and reciprocity has to be future

focused because you're doing something

without any sense of reward

you know the reciprocity might come to

you in the future

so you're you're preparing for a future

where you need that

now

um

let me give you some examples

where that mattered do you remember

there was some

um I don't know if there's a riot or

there was some

some kind of big commotion that caused

some Street in America to be all

littered and there was a national news

story about some young black man who got

a broom and wasn't his job he just

didn't like his neighborhood dirty and

so he just took his broom and just

started sweeping you know this enormous

job I mean it was a pretty big job I

don't know how big the street was was it

Baltimore and the News picked it up and

it was nothing but a young man who

wanted to make his neighborhood better

that's it and if you remember he was

deluged with money and offers

now why would he get offers

why would anybody make him offers just

because he was sweeping up the street

didn't know anything about him

well here's my take

they could see

that he had a reciprocity operating

system

that he was just saying this needs to be

done

this will be good for everybody I'll

just go do this

now if you do that kind of stuff on a

regular basis most of the time you will

not be rewarded

most of the time you will not be

rewarded but sometimes you are and that

was a good situation where he was right

now that was again and I think also

people were signaling that they want

more of that kind of behavior I think

that's part of it

so generally speaking when you're

looking forward and you're doing things

for other people it will come back now I

gotta tell you

how important that is in my life at the

moment you may have noticed the

headlines

there were there were a few people who

were angry at me in the past week

but I'll tell you

almost all the people that I've ever

helped

either individually or in some way black

and white because it turns out there

were more black people I've helped than

I remembered but they all appeared

they all came out of the woodwork and

that includes

um includes people who are not

necessarily

you know wanting to get into this

so I would say that you know having laid

down a you know long history of being

useful to other people intentionally and

not for some specific reward I just

think it's a good way to be

those people came to my defense in a big

way

you know not all publicly not all

publicly most of it was private but they

they came through

that's reciprocity I'll give you another

example

in the you know in the darkest moments

of my uh being canceled

I joined a spaces

I just logged on and it was uh run by

Sonny Johnson and there were a number of

mostly black listeners and the topic was

you know somewhere in the domain of

stuff I'd I'd

I dusted up I guess and

I didn't know how that would go

because I thought I might be walking

into the Hornet's Nest like I thought I

was just going to get yelled down or

something

but instead

Sonny Johnson noticed I was there

invited me to speak

which I did we had some technical

problems so if anybody thinks I left

it's because of a technical problem I

didn't just leave but I when I talked

they listened

and they were respectful

and they were curious I think because

nobody was shouting me down

Etc and then when I was in technical

problems Sonny invited me back on now

what Sally was doing

by giving me the respect

and the opportunity to talk to exactly

the people I wanted to talk to at that

time that created

reciprocity

so all week long I've been turning

people down for interviews no I won't I

can't be on your podcast I'm not going

to do your show I don't have a quote

and then Sonny Johnson messages me

so I'm going to be on her show on

Saturday I'll give you details before

Saturday

so I said yes the only reason I said yes

is reciprocity

so she gets the scoop

why

because she was respectful

to me when she didn't need to be didn't

need to be

and when it was by my darkest time

that's reciprocity

she gets she gets she gets my full

service in return

that is what I like to teach

as an operating system for everybody you

know you could you could say it's for

black people but it's an operating

system for everybody

everybody needs to learn that what

you're putting out is the only thing

you're going to get back

in a variety of ways

if however

you're looking backwards instead of

forward and you've got a victim

mentality hey you owe me something

because of something that happened in

the past that does work in the short run

in the short run you'll get more

resources that totally works in the

short run in the long run it destroys

the world

right it can't work in the long run in

the long run the only thing that works

is cooperation and reciprocity that's it

everything else fails

so

let's go through my scorecard where

where I'm at having been fully canceled

by the way the actual full cancellation

takes for Dilbert takes effect uh the

mid March

so there's a few more weeks of comics in

the pipeline I guess after that it will

be available only on the locals platform

subscription platform

and you can find it at

scottadams.locals.com

and by the way it would help me if you

subscribe on Twitter I'm so if you

subscribe on YouTube

all right so here's the scorecard so far

uh and I tweeted this I'll just read it

only the dying leftist fake news

industry canceled me did you know that

did you know that only the left-leaning

world canceled me

the right hasn't canceled me at all

not even close like not even a little

bit

the the right is completely

um completely supportive

the the only unsupportive thing I saw

was a few people hadn't seen the

contacts yet

but 100 of the people saw the context

understand what's going on

all right so so far I have not been

banned on social media

Twitter no problem

I'm here on YouTube right now now you

yeah the Hodge twins need a little

background I was thinking of reaching

out to them

the Hodge twins because I I'm pretty

sure I follow them I think I'm

you know I I think they would enjoy that

actually I'm thinking of reaching out

just to give them a little content

so

so how do you explain if you're on the

left and I got canceled for hate speech

how do you how would you justify in your

mind that social media hasn't even

touched me

still on Facebook meta still on

Instagram no problem Twitter how do you

explain that

the the easy explanation is I didn't

violate any terms of service

but if I had done what I was accused of

doing I think that would be Hayes speech

I think that would be a violation

so

credit to YouTube I don't know if any of

the YouTube monitors are watching I know

you're probably watching me carefully

um but maybe not live

um good for you

well I like to call out when somebody

does something right YouTube is handling

this situation just right

just right I've even monetized and I

think YouTube probably looked at the

context you know they were asked to look

at it right would you agree would you

agree there's no chance in the world

that the YouTube sensors did not look at

my situation because it was national

news of course they did and it

originally happened on YouTube where it

still lives it's still on YouTube

you can and I I don't even think they

they rigged the um

the algorithm

I think the algorithm was surfacing it

just fine it had like half a million

views or something

so

yeah

anyway so so how do you explain the

social media which all bands hate speech

looked at the context of this situation

and said

nope that's not his speech or at least

not enough to violate any terms

um

I also have zero pushback in person

zero

there there's one fellow I know named

Vlad who's uh real real mad at me

but on behalf of his wife who's black

who doesn't know the context apparently

so he's sort of acting up on behalf of

his wife it looks like so that's fine

that's fine right yeah Vlad TV if lad

wants to be bad at me because his wife

needs him to be mad at me so he can stay

married

that's fine but he's bothering me a

little too much so I had to I had to go

after him on social media today

um and by the way

I considered a befriend until this week

but he has to do what he has to do

but except for him

a hundred percent of the people I've

interacted with this week in person

have been perfectly fine it's like it

never happened or there or they're

supportive

mostly actively supportive

all right uh no impact on my banking

no impact on my banking do you know why

because I didn't do anything I didn't do

anything that would affect banking

if I had apparently they could turn off

my banking

apparently that's a real thing

it didn't happen to Laura Loomer and

some other people

so if I'd done actual hate speech and

you know it and even in context it

looked like that yeah I would be banned

probably in all those things

but you have to explain to yourself why

none of the things except leftists

political organs have banned me

leftist political organs and that means

the newspapers

I think you all figured out that taking

me out before the 2024 election was a

good Democrat strategy

that those of you who have watched me

long enough do you think I impact

let's say the framing of of issues do

you think I've had an actual political

impact that makes a difference

so for those of you who don't know me

look at the comments so the people who

know me best that locals are almost all

saying yes 99 it looks like the people

who know me less would be on YouTube but

you can see the yeses and those

right the ones who say no you're the

least familiar with what I've done for

the last five years the ones who say yes

are the ones who've actually watched me

for five years

there's no question whatsoever that I'm

influencing things

do you want some evidence of that that

I'm influencing things

I'll give you some evidence

um

if I wrote it down

well you may have seen that uh Mark

Andreessen was one of the founders of

the internet

inventor of the browser and uh

famous venture capitalist guy

he wrote a wrote along the thread on

Twitter in which he said

that he was quitting drinking

and that he had come to realize that all

the studies for years that had been in

the newspapers that canceled me though

all of those Studies have been bogus

and when he quit drinking he felt much

better at Center

now Elon Musk weighed in and he was in

favor of you know maybe occasional

moderate drinking with friends

um but he said in direct words alcohol

is poisoned and if you understand the

alcohol is poison

you know you can keep it moderate

now those of you who have been watching

me for a while everybody on locals knows

what I'm talking about on YouTube do you

know why I gave you that example

how many how many of you know why I'm

giving you this example as a indication

of influence

because I'm primarily the person who's

been saying alcohol is poison it's

actually the first chapter of my book

that just got canceled I say it so often

I led with it in my book now

as some have said I don't know that I

invented it because the sugar is poison

preceded it and probably somebody

already thought to say alcohol is poison

but if you start noticing

how many times my frame on things

becomes

let's say a common frame because the

alcohol is poison thing I'm not saying

it's just an Elon Musk thing you see it

everywhere now it's a common phrase

and I think I'm probably the biggest

Pusher of that phrase there could be

others as well but I'm sure I'm the

biggest influence on it now

are there other things that I've been

influenced yeah

a lot of things

a lot of things

all right

so those who would be concerned about me

influencing politics coincidentally are

the ones that canceled me completely

prior to the biggest political elections

that we've had in a long time

all right

so so far no agreement for no

disagreement from anybody who knows the

context

no disagreement from

any of my friends

even the People canceled me I don't know

what they were thinking but I didn't

hear any of them disagree with my actual

points they of course are alarmed my by

my rhetoric

as everybody is

all right I'm going to get to something

useful here in a minute believe it or

not

uh

yeah here's something The Washington

Post reported about me

this is an actual quote from The

Washington Post the cartoonist who

created the workplace satire comic strip

in 1989 had been entertaining extreme

right ideologies and conspiracy theories

for several years

foreign

[Laughter]

I'm literally the most famous debunker

of conspiracy theories on both the right

and the left

have you ever seen anybody spend more

time debunking all the conspiracy

theories in fact the biggest problem I

have with the right is that I don't

believe their conspiracy theories

am I right the biggest problem I have

with my own audience which is mostly

right-leaning by far is that I'm not

buying into the things that they have

more quickly believed now but now to be

fair

most of those conspiracies theories

turned out to be true

you know I don't know what the

percentage is but it feels like too many

of them turned out to be true but would

you agree that I'm more famous for

disagreeing with right-leaning

conspiracy theories which is more true a

more famous for disagreeing with the

right or agreeing

yeah on locals they all know they're all

saying yes

yeah I'm way more famous for disagreeing

with the right now at the same time so

there are two papers that canceled me at

about the same time the Washington Post

and the LA Times yeah I'm canceled

everywhere but these were two of the

quick ones so at the same time that the

Washington Post is reporting that I've

been entertaining extreme right

ideologies and conspiracy theories

uh was it the LA Times or I think it was

the LA Times reported I'm a Democrat

so there those are your two uh high

quality news organizations

one reported that I'm a right wing like

super right-wing conspiracy person and

the other one reported I'm a Democrat

at the same time

at the same time they reported that now

if that doesn't tell you everything you

need to know

about the quality of the news and I told

you before that before getting canceled

zero people at newspapers asked me for

the proper context

nobody

nobody now after I've been canceled it

got more interesting and people started

looking into it and looking at my

comments in in a broader way but they

all canceled me without doing any

journalism none no journalism and the

journalism they're doing now the LA

Times was actually in my opinion

somewhat supportive by showing the full

context and Newsweek said directly I

shouldn't be canceled in a penny piece

all right uh

hotep Jesus tweeted this he said Twitter

users are addicted to being offended

that's pretty much all I'm seeing now

most of the negative stuff on Twitter

about me is people who are clearly just

gooters

they are literally just getting off on

it

oh Scott you're so canceled now

I think you're so canceled

I'll stop doing that I know that's

creepy

yeah they're just gooning out at their

criticism and you could tell that it's

not even about me they don't actually

care about me

they care about the process of gooning

and getting a little dopamine it

so I can't take them too seriously

it's just people who don't know the

situation gooners and then political

enemies of mine who are just waiting for

a chance to cancel me that's all it is

now

there are no reasonable people

who know the context who have any

problems

is that an extreme claim

I haven't seen any

I have not seen any reasonable person

who knows the context

who still has a problem with it none

it's just a media thing so my actual

world of being totally canceled you know

except for the financial part which is

enormous

uh my every day is exactly the same I go

outside and I see people who are not on

social media

mostly I went to the park to walk my dog

and I I know quite a few of the

neighbors just from dog walking well

they all know me basically and I thought

oh this is going to be awkward

nope big smiles

big smiles everywhere how you doing

how's your dog big smiles

so my local experiences that it didn't

even happen that the cancellation never

happened

and if you subtract the gooners and

crazy people and the political

operatives and the and the grifters

there are no actual complaints from

black people or white once they know the

context

uh here's the funniest comment from a

ghost of Gettysburg now I'm not

endorsing this I just think it's funny

all right so this is just for the laugh

uh Scott pointed out that the emperor

has no clothes and now all the NPCs are

upset this is usually what happens

before a societal Epiphany happens

Scott Adams might be a sort of Rosa

Parks to look back on

Rosa Parks now now I obviously that

would be offensive for me to embrace

that which makes it funny it's funny

because it's

outrageous

but I would ask you this question about

Rosa Parks

looking back in history

was Rosa Parks

not good for white and black people and

everybody else

are you glad that Rosa Parks existed

whether you're white or black or

anything and anything else

because she she created a societal

change

that was positive

is that correct

like there's nobody who's anti-rosa

parks

today like nobody would want a

segregated boss or anything like that so

Rosa Parks is a good example of someone

who was very let's say controversial

back in those super racist days more

racist than today

uh but today

in the in the length of time we now come

to know that it's a good thing she did

that and it's a good thing that you know

we got to a better place everybody wins

I like to think that's my case as well

not Rosa Parks of course but I believe

that what I'm doing is pissing off half

of the world that's paying attention

and you're gonna hate me for a while

but you're going to be glad I did it

that's my prediction you're going to be

glad I did it but you can hate me for a

while just like the white races hated

Rosa barks they probably hated the hell

out of her I assume

right but not now

so

time is on my side because you are going

to be happy that I uh let's say waded

into the conversation

now one of the biggest complaints I'm

getting lately is even from people who

support me or at least don't want me

canceled they're saying that the way I

said it

was unnecessarily uh provocative and it

was unproductive

and it made things worse

what do you say

was it an awkward well it was definitely

awkward but was it unproductive and uh

just made things worse and it was a big

mistake the way I said it

well here's what's wrong with their

Theory

I I did it intentionally

and it turned out

better than I'd hoped

here's what I hoped I didn't expect I

would get fully canceled that time

I have been predicting I would be fully

canceled but I thought it would be for

political reasons and you know some

excuse would pop up I didn't know it

would be this one

and it hadn't been this one I'm sure

there would have been others you know

they'll just find some reason

but I was trying to be provocative

I was trying to make people angry

is that a mistake

if I if I'd done it unintentionally it

would have been a mistake

but I did it very intentionally I was

trying to get people mad

so that they would send me energy

and then we'd talk about it and then

everybody would say oh that was useful

thanks

what happened was it got too big and the

reason it got too big is not because of

what I said well you all get that right

the reason I got canceled had nothing to

do with what I said

except sort of you know any excuse was

good enough

once it started it was just sort of a

political Cascade

but it wasn't what I said people are mad

at that they're mad that I made them mad

I did that intentionally

if you're mad that I made people mad

okay

if you're just bad

okay that's what I wanted

that's exactly what I wanted and I

wanted you to turn all of your guns on

me

I wanted you all like to circle around

me draw all of your weapons Point them

at my head

and make me defend myself that's what I

wanted

and that's what I got

now I would argue that I'm already the

most I'll use the word interesting only

because I'm controversial you know if

you're controversial you're

automatically interesting too

I'm the most interesting voice in

America right now on this topic

does anybody disagree

I'm not saying I'm the most

authoritative the most

credible the most believable the most

anything else only the most prominent

and interesting voice

and what makes me interesting is that

I'm walking through this topic instead

of around it

I know how to go around it

I know how to apologize blah blah but

there's nothing to apologize for

I'm trying to help you

I'm not going to apologize for trying to

help you and when I say you I mean Black

America you know and everybody else the

same way Rosa Parks

was helping Black America

but ended up helping everybody

this is specifically for the benefit of

Black America it's going to help

everybody else too because we have to

get to the point where you can actually

say something honestly about the topic

how in the world could you possibly move

ahead if you have to lie about the topic

you're working on

and and the non-li is that if a given

the trends we see and I like to say by

lived experience

I don't need the the Rasmussen Pole to

tell me what's obvious do I

you can just watch the news and you know

talk to people and be on social media

and live for five minutes and you see

everything that the Rasmussen polls

suggested

now perhaps you know the the exact

numbers are a little off but there's no

doubt that even if the Rasmus and pole

had never existed

there's clearly uh racial tensions

that have gotten worse since Trayvon

Martin and I think they're reaching a

point where the society is starting not

to work so well

like it's starting to have some cracks

and the thing that makes America America

in my opinion is the you know the

so-called classic Melting Pot

like if we can't figure out how to work

together across races

and make it better than if we had no

diversity at all

we're not really going to be a

competitive country and I want to be a

competitive country

so is it good for me to help Black

America yeah yeah absolutely because

that helps me it helps you as well right

now if I were only helping Black America

then you might have some questions

but I don't do things that aren't good

for everybody

like that's how it works you help the

ones that are in the deepest hole that's

sort of good for everybody just like

Rosa Parks you know it was good for

everybody

so let me

um

let me say a little bit more about that

if you thought that my communication was

poor and a number of people said words

to this effect

we know he's a professional communicator

so why did he do this so wrong have you

have you seen that

people saying he knows how to

communicate why did he do this so wrong

it wasn't wrong

it was supposed to get exactly the I was

communicating for a fact and I got

exactly the effect I tried to get which

is outrage

does anybody think I wasn't trying to

outrage you how in the world could you

think that wasn't intended to be

outrageous of course it was of course it

was you've seen me do it before by the

way

so I wouldn't say that that was

communication I would say it was protest

it was protest

protest is supposed to make you pissed

off

do you remember that I supported Colin

Kaepernick's protest and everybody who's

watching me now hated me for it

you remember that

and I I supported his protest because it

was perfect

he made everybody mad and what he did

was super inappropriate you know

kneeling for the national anthem

inappropriate in you know in the sort of

classic way

so the fact that he was so inappropriate

and he got fully canceled like somebody

I know

like somebody I know

made a great protest

that was a good protest you still

remember his name you still remember his

issue and he took the bullet now I think

he should have gone back in I would have

liked to see him go back and play again

but that didn't work out

so if you think I was communicating then

it would look like I made a big mistake

if you know I was protesting a situation

which I don't think can stand

then pissing you off is exactly what I

wanted to do

it's exactly what I wanted to do I

didn't think it would get that big I

thought it would just stay within my

audience

and my audience is well aware that I

like to agitate them

and then once they're in an agitated

State then I reframe it and bring them

back how many how many times have you

seen me do that

I agitate my audience with some

provocation and I slowly bring them back

to another frame

it's a fun experience if you haven't

experienced it you should try it

all right

um

what else I asked the poll I said uh on

Twitter now this is a Twitter poll so

don't take it too seriously but I said

if you're white is it better for you to

lie to Black Americans about where you

think things are at or to be honest and

see if you can figure out Solutions

well I haven't checked but 25 percent of

white Americans said it's better to lie

is that healthy

do you think it's healthy that 25 of

Americans feel they have to lie to Black

Americans

how in the world is that healthy

and is there any black American who

wants them to lie to them

if I may say one super racist thing and

I think I will

you want me to say something super

racist so I can get canceled again here

it comes super racist

black people like honesty

super racist right black people like

honesty

anybody want to argue with me

individuals I'm not talking about like

some race grifters and stuff but

individually

I've never met a black person who wanted

to be lied to

is that even a thing no they like some

honesty do you know who doesn't like

honesty tell me who doesn't like honesty

there's an answer to this question

who doesn't like honesty

liberal women

liberal women

yeah and and the men who need to do what

the liberal women say

yeah the left is mostly a female female

Centric philosophy with men who are

willing to go along with it mostly like

everything lots of exceptions right so

even even when I said the racist thing I

said just now which is black people like

honesty do you think I meant every

single black person all of them no it

never means all of them it never means

that

you would have to be an NPC to think

that any statement about a group is

intended to mean all of them in no world

in no conversation at no time ever has

anybody ever been that interpretation

but that's the interpretation the news

has taken because they're not honest

it's fake news

all right uh

here's a here's something that June

Stone said to me on Twitter she's a

black woman and she was uh not a big fan

of my comments not a big fan

but she was not a big fan in a different

way

than you expect so let me read her

comment because I think it's a good one

she said black people don't need people

who think like you meaning me giving us

quote Success strategies just work on

your own internalized biases and

Colonial mindset

which I suppose I do have right is that

unfair

she says I should work on my own

internalized biases and Colonial mindset

that's fair

you know I usually make fun of Mind

readers but is there anybody who doesn't

have internalized bias

like how could you not have an

internalized bias

nobody can get rid of their internalized

bias but working on it is something we

we all should do right you can't get rid

of it but you got to stay on top of it

right you got to know what it is you got

to work with it you gotta you gotta try

to Tamp it down right so I would take

your advice as good advice

um I should work on my own internalized

biases as should all of you as should

all black people as should all white

people and everybody in return by the

way I always I keep leaving out Asian

Americans and Indian Americans and

Hispanics but it's only because it's a

I'm simplifying things

all right so she goes on and she says uh

let me read it again she does she says

she doesn't want people like me giving

Black people quote Success strategies

come back what you've done the work and

change your heart

so here's how I replied I said I hear

you June but success strategies quote

unquote are your only hope to slice

through systemic racism

you are asking for more systemic racism

by being denied the influence of

successful people

the government isn't coming to help make

you successful

and it's largely a learned skill

so here's what I'm telling Black America

success is a learned skill

if you learn that skill

systemic racism will only be a pain in

the ass in your life it won't stop you

from success it will just be a pain in

the ass but you can slice right through

it with some pretty basic well-tested

Universal you know nothing about black

or white just Universal success

strategies

I happen to have a lot of them my

best-selling book that is now canceled

has held almost everything is still one

big is the most influential self-help

book in the world

it's the most influential now it's not

the best seller but other bestsellers

have borrowed my ideas and become best

sellers but there's nobody more

influential at the moment in the

self-help personal success domain than I

am I'm number one in that domain by

influence

I invented the idea of the talent stack

or popularized it maybe and the idea of

systems over goals

which are two of the most important

self-development Concepts in the world

and then they're now generally the

advice that people give that came from

me

the the advice that white people give

each other

largely came from me

now I have a number of black followers

who also report to me that that same

advice completely changed their lives

made them richer happier more successful

Etc none of these things are black or

white in the sense that I don't think

there's any such thing as well no I'll

take that back these are Universal

but on top of that there would also be

special strategies for black Americans

and that special strategy would be go

where you have an advantage right go to

a go to a big company that's trying to

improve its diversity you go right to

the top of the list as long as you're

qualified

so strategy wise what I offer to Black

America

now that I have your attention

now that I have your attention

exactly as I was planning to do

I would like to offer you for free

for free the best success strategies

you've ever seen now the reason that

being denied the these strategies I call

systemic racism

is because when you're white

now again this is not a universal for

every white person but in general

um let's see if I can get some agreement

on this in the comments would you agree

that the average white person in America

has more casual contact with financially

successful people

than the average black American

just on average

true

right and do you believe that that

contact even though it's a casual

contact might be friends could be your

father mother could be but your friends

Etc you don't you think that makes a

difference

don't you think that the knowledge of

how to succeed

is probably the biggest lever for

anybody

for anybody and whenever you see a black

American who succeeded

you look at their process

and it turns out that they use the same

techniques that I'm promoting for

everybody

right if you listen to Kobe Bryant

like if you listen to this talk about

what makes him made him successful it

will sound just like it came out of my

mouth except you know different framing

of course but it's going to sound very

familiar he's going to talk about the

system he uses instead of the goal

and you know developing his entire game

so he wasn't a specialist you know I'm

just a shooter or just a defensive

person he was great at everything in

basketball so he had a talent stack he

had systems over goals

and probably a dozen other things that I

that I teach in terms of success

so it has nothing to do with white or

black these are just Universal things

that work for everybody so when I talked

about the

um

the what I call it the reciprocity

operating system

the most useful thing to do if you're

black and you want White America to

embrace you and effectively take the

systemic racism way for you

then reciprocity is how you do that

because white people are just all primed

for reciprocity

maybe everybody is like I'm not saying

somebody isn't I think everybody is but

I can you know talk about my own life

better

and

if you simply give a little bit more

than you're expected to give

most of the time you're not going to get

anything back from that but over time

you will you know when you need it

probably you will yeah

I tell the famous story of my neighbor

was a it was an old white guy when I

knew him and he was rich and he didn't

have a college education and I asked him

how he did that his first job was

selling salt

do you know how hard it would be to sell

salt to grocery stores

they already have salt it's all almost

completely the same it's like just price

and if you don't have the lowest price

how the hell do you sell your salt right

here's how he did it he gave me one

anecdote uh he knew that there was a

store owner who was going to spend the

weekend organizing his shelves

this store owner had never bought his

salt but he'd been trying for a while

so on Saturday he puts on his work

clothes and he shows up at the uh at the

store and he says I'm here to help just

for free for nothing I'll just help you

organize the store today the store owner

accepted his help

and bought all of his old

and bought his salt from that day

forward why reciprocity yeah because he

couldn't not buy it you know once he'd

accepted that level of help you know a

guy worked with him all day

the reciprocity kicks in and you buy

that guy salt right so if instead

my friend had said you owe me this

because of something you did in the past

would that have worked as well

maybe in the short run

but the reciprocity play is permanent I

mean that's that's a good solution right

there

all right

um

so

at the same time that the Washington

Post was canceling me

um

they were reporting that the Sonic

weapon The Havana syndrome Sonic weapon

was never real and it was all imaginary

reading the newspaper you would have

waited five years to learn that if you

would listen to me the person the

newspaper canceled I told you that on

the first day

first day do you know why

because I'm really good at this

I'm really good at a very narrow

specific thing

I can see a mass hysteria forming

I can tell the difference between a mass

hysteria and a real story

and I saw it immediately it was classic

it was the most classic massest area you

could ever have it was so obviously a

mass Hysteria

that I called it on the first day and

never stopped saying it and even when

this even when the news started to move

against me it's like well maybe these

this damage really does suggest there's

a weapon

even when the news was working against

me I said nope Mass hysteria no weapon

you'll never get to find a weapon and

now that's the common belief

do you remember was the Washington Post

also reporting that alcohol was good for

you in moderation

I don't know but I'll bet they were in

fact I'll bet most of the people who

canceled me

if you had followed the people who

canceled me for five years or you had

followed me who would know more the

people who followed me or the people who

followed the so-called news that

canceled me

it's not even close

the fake news is so fake that my

guessing was better

not other educated guesses right but I

didn't have data I just looked at it and

said ah does it look right to me

yeah and now some of you fell for the

vax hoax about me that 4chan basically

changed all My Views and sold you that

those were my views and then everybody

got mad at me but if you're not up with

that story you should catch up

and find out what my actual views are

and you'll get over that pretty quickly

but that was one of the best pranks ever

on me there's a whole

vax Brank

anyway

in order to be mad at me for my latest

outrage

uh

you would have to accept the following

things

here here are all the things you would

have to believe

in order to be outraged to me

it's a long list these are all the

dumbass things you would have to believe

you'd have to believe them all

all of these things now listen to this

list of things you'd have to believe

you have to believe that news about

public figures is generally accurate

Emily believe that how many how many

believe that news about public figures

specifically uh and and political

figures because I'm a political figure

effectively

does anybody believe that news about

right but in order to be mad at me you

would have to believe that the story was

accurate am I right

you wouldn't be bad unless you thought

the story about me was accurate so you

would have to believe that the News

tells accurate stories about public

figures

that's not even a thing

that's not a thing

even even the friendliest story about me

that was definitely not a here piece

called me a Democrat

like that's in the News That's the LA

Times

they reported I'm a Democrat now it

makes me wonder if they checked is there

a way to check somebody's registration

is a republic way to check to see how

somebody's registered because it's

entirely possible that the last time I

registered it was Democrat

oh maybe so that's probably what they

did because they didn't ask me they just

checked I might actually be a registered

Democrat because the last time I voted I

voted Democrat that was a long time ago

does your Dem your your registration

stays right unless you change it

now that doesn't make sense I thought

I've always been

I thought I registered as an independent

long after I was a Democrat but maybe

not maybe not anyway it doesn't matter

for me registration was random I just I

would have just picked a party I

wouldn't have cared all right so you'd

first have to believe that news about

public figures is accurate which is

absurd it's like you haven't paid

attention to anything

secondly you'd have to ignore the

context which all the major news did

every major news except the LA Times

I'll give them credit they did a really

good job of of context

all the rest ignored the context

so you would have to believe that the

fake news gave you accurate context

you'd have to imagine that when I said

the white people should move away from

black people or stay away that that was

somehow a practical plan that in my head

I thought yeah that'll work

there's a real practical plan

that's not a practical plan

if you didn't recognize that as obvious

provocation

you're not really good at you know at

recognizing hyperbole I guess

now you could say that I was not

communicating well but since I wanted to

provoke you I would argue that I

communicated better than I hoped I

provoked you more than I thought you'd

also have to believe that you'd also

have to not know me and and know that I

have a long pattern of using hyperbole

to attract energy

right you'd have to know that I don't do

this very thing on a regular basis

not on this topic but I provoke

in order to make it harder for me to

make my case and then when I make my

case it's more of a more of an

interesting Journey that I take my

followers on so you'd have to not know

that I do this on a regular basis it's a

pattern

you'd have to not know that I write

about this specific technique

I write about doing this

if you read read win bigly

you'll read how I talk about Trump using

provocation

to attract energy and the energy is more

important than the damage from the

provocation

I talk about that as an actual

persuasion technique and then I did it

in front of you

all right

um

in order to be mad at me you'd have to

also know

you'd have to not know that I'd promise

to end ESG

so you'd have to know that it's not part

of a larger

plan

to get rid of ESG

and CRT and similar stuff

um you'd also have to believe I said a

word that I didn't say or that I meant

every black person is the same

you would have to believe

that I believed all black people are the

same

even though I just went out of my way in

the in the provocative statements to say

I was only talking about a specific

percentage from a poll

but you would have to believe that even

though I said it's only fewer than half

that what I really meant was all

you'd have to believe that

you have to believe that I think

you'd have to believe that I think

that all black people are like or that

all anybody's like who in the world

believes that

if you thought that was serious

you should maybe examine your your

thinking process

you'd have to also believe that I

thought the Rasmussen poll was essential

to the point

do you believe that do you believe that

the only thing that suggests there's

racial Division and it's getting worse

was that Rasmussen Bowl

do you think I had no other data points

or lived experience or I'd never seen

the news or hadn't seen the Gallup poll

saying race relations are worse or I

hadn't seen black people talking openly

about how white people suck

you think you think I needed the

rasperson pull

no it was just a conversation opener now

I will take I will take criticism

for not explaining that it wasn't

essential to the point

that would be a good criticism by the

way because I wasn't trying to provoke

in that way I was trying to provoke but

not not based on the accuracy of one

pole you know I wouldn't

it wouldn't depend on that

uh in order to be mad at me you'd have

to uh

ignore your lived experience because

everybody sees the same thing I do

black or white you all say the same

thing I do

um

you'd have to uh

you oh you'd also have to believe that I

and most and some large number of the

pole respondents were aware that the

phrase in the poll which was are is it

okay to be white you would have to think

that I was aware of that that was some

kind of 4chan racist thing

and that the poll numbers were aware of

that

how many of you were aware of that now

this is a very political crowd so it's

going to be a high percentage In This

Crowd but but what percentage did the

general public do you think we're aware

of that they had some races passed

I'd never heard it before

and so Vlad who's very mad Vlad who's

mad at me he says it is clear that I

knew that

how in the world would I have known that

like I don't spend time on 4chan and I

never saw it before

I'd never heard of it

I don't think most people have heard of

it I mean only like 12 12 of people are

even on Twitter right it's not most

people it's uh so it's possible that

that I agree that it might have

influenced the poll but to imagine that

I knew that

there's no way I would have talked about

it if I knew that

that would be crazy do you think I would

have talked about it if I knew it had a

white supremacy passed

that that would have been more

provocative than even for me I like

being provocative but that would have

been way over there that would have been

way over the line no I didn't know that

and I don't believe that most of the

people in the poll do that and I don't

believe that most of you knew it I don't

believe that

all right what else would you have to

believe uh you'd have to wonder why

social media is not canceling me you

have to wonder why black conservatives

who are aware of the context which is

not all of them

don't think I should be canceled or they

support me

they either think it you know they

understand it was provocative and they

understand it was meant to be alarming

if you see it in context

uh you would have to ignore the bigger

context of CRT and the SG and Dai

because those are obviously the the

context that's relevant here and you'd

have to believe that I suddenly changed

to a different person or went insane

right let me ask you this do you think

that the media is digging through

everything I've ever said and done

to find more examples of my Badness that

they hadn't noticed before

of course they are have you seen any

the the best they could come up with is

that long ago I had Blog then it must be

really hard to count the number of

people in the Holocaust because World

War II you know records are destroyed

Etc now that doesn't change the

Holocaust

like whether it's five million people or

10 million it's exactly the same

narrative like nobody loses if I say I

don't know how accurate you could be

right but that turned into a holocaust

denier which is crazy

yeah nobody I've never met anybody who

denied the Holocaust

have you have you ever even met anybody

who had denied the Holocaust

like I know they exist but I've never

met one

some people have okay well I'm not one

of them

that would be stupid and crazy

all right but you would have to believe

everything on that list in order to keep

your angry narrative at me if you saw it

in context you would know

that I have penetrated your leftist

bubble

I have forced you to pay attention and

I'm offering you useful tools

those useful tools will work in any

situation they're success tools

and

anybody wants access to them

um I'm happy to tell you more moreover

my book my newest book that got canceled

the how to fail book will also be

canceled but I'll make that available

some way one way or another

my newest book is also about reframing

and

has anybody noticed that what I've done

here is reframed the problem

because the reframe that mattered

is what the impact of all of the

backwards looking CRT Dei

ESG stuff does

the reframe is that it's not free

that it has that has a cost to it that's

nobody talks about

and the cost is how it makes everybody

feel

which is pretty bad and it's pretty

racist feeling

now at the same time

there are plenty of ways to make things

better for black Americans but I will I

will Echo one thing that was said by one

of my critics is Black Americans many of

them

I won't say all because that everybody

jumps to crazy talk with if I don't

clarify I don't mean every single one

but I would think that there are a lot

of black Americans who would at least be

curious

about the tools for success

they're free they're easy to learn and

it gives you basically what systemic

racism took away

so not everything but one of the things

one of the biggest things is systemic

racism takes away

is your uh your accidental

association with people who know how to

succeed because that's where you pick up

the patterns so I'm trying to fill that

Gap

and help you slice through there'll

still be systemic racism but it'll help

you slice right through it like it

didn't even matter it'll just be

annoying but not a stopper

all right uh

took away

all right does anybody have a problem

today

with me anything you want to say

the uh the floor is yours YouTube and

locals

uh what tools where oh good question the

um my book had a field almost everything

and still went big would be the primary

source

but I also talk about these things at

length so you'd be looking for you could

just Google the same thing so you could

just Google these terms if you don't

want to read my book

Google talent stack

and systems are better than goals

those are two concepts there's a whole

bunch of other stuff about you know

passion being BS and

affirmations and a whole bunch of other

forward-looking and even stuff about uh

reciprocity

so it's just a book full of things that

work for everybody there's no there's no

black or white or I think it it would

work from 14 years old

to whatever age you are

Bubba Says are you comfortable at the

fulcrum of all of this power and energy

or am I unhappy

I am weirdly comfortable

you know what this feels like

it feels like exactly where I'm supposed

to be

that's what it feels like it feels like

I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be I

feel like I was supposed to get canceled

now you know if you take the big picture

of this I was canceled on an industry

that could be dead tomorrow

right the newspaper industry could I I

know I long predicted that when it

starts to completely fall apart there'll

be like a collapse period it'll just

completely go away in a year or two

so I managed to accidentally wasn't my

plan but I escaped a dying industry

and increased my attention level uh you

know people's attention to me

on this form the live stream and social

media form now this is a growing field

and it's growing even more toward you

know election day

so I managed to escape a dying industry

and get a turbo charge in the most

exciting industry that's happening at

least in the entertainment field which

is podcasting

so that's pretty good

I do have offers coming in

that will that it won't come close to

you know matching my old income but I'm

also a retirement age

right I don't really need to go set the

world on fire any more than I did this

week uh

so and like I said my my personal life

is unchanged except people like me more

I mean I'm getting more respect for not

apologizing

that anything I've ever done in my life

I did not see that coming like that was

a surprise if you told me that not

apologizing

would be like this Mark of something and

by the way the reason I don't apologize

is because hunt didn't do anything that

deserves an apology

I'm really big on apologies like some of

you

some of you uh you know maybe disagree

with apologies I'm very big on apologies

I think apologies are a great way to go

but only if you

did something

right if the only thing I did was make

people mad so they'd pay attention and

then I could help them I'm not going to

apologize for that

now I'm not going to apologize for

making you mad while trying to help you

that's not going to happen

yeah I mean I I could give a uh a

husband apology

I thought about that I thought about

doing a tongue-in-cheek husband apology

now husband apology is when you know

you're not in the wrong but you have to

apologize anyway

but if I did it I would make sure that

if I did it I would make sure you knew I

wasn't serious

yeah don't worry I won't apologize

I will give you

I'll give you my promise that I won't

apologize

all right

isn't it dishonest to intentionally try

to fool people and then chastise those

same people for being fooled

is it dishonest yes

is that what you're looking for

I mean I just told you it was dishonest

but it was for a good purpose right

yeah I mean it's temporarily dishonest

the the intention was always to be fully

transparent

but yeah in with communication sometimes

you tease things

before you're fully transparent

so I may have teased too much before I

was fully transparent and if that feels

like fooling you

I'm not not going to quibble with the

words you put on it but it was all for a

positive purpose

uh Scott's walking it back what did I

walk back

speed for hire

tell me what I walk back

did did you see something that I didn't

see what walk back

I'm fully responsible for and embrace

everything I said

in context

you know adding contacts is not walking

anything back

all right all right I think we've done

what we needed to do here today and I'll

remind you again that if you want to see

the good stuff I'm already planning some

awesome Dilbert comics after it's fully

canceled in a few weeks you'll only be

able to see those on the locals platform

just Google uh Scott Adam not just go to

scottadams.locals.com

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and that's all for now YouTube bye for

now