Episode 2062 Scott Adams - OTC Narcan Approved, DeSantis & 1A, Media Causes All Our Problems

good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of civilization you might notice that I've got a little bit of laryngitis today so I'm going to take it easy with my voice I don't think I'm sick I don't know what it is I think I just maybe enjoyed myself too much or something but today your experience is going to go up a level uh I mean you won't even believe it it'll be hard to believe anyway and all you need is a copper mugger glass attack or else it's time the canteen jug of flaska vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing makes everything better it's called this simultaneous sip go ah allow me to share with you my personal phobia which I didn't know I had until just now some of you know my story that some number of years ago I lost my ability to speak through something called the spasmodic dysphonia made my vocal cords go nuts when I talked what you might not know is that we are private well you might not know is that typically when people get that condition it starts with a normal um a normal what do you call this uh you can't talk what's it called when you can't talk uh why am I blanking on that laryngitis yeah it starts with a normal laryngitis just from some normal kind of bug or something but if you if you try to talk past the uh laryngitis you can trigger yourself into permanent voice loss which is what happened to me now I got mine reversed by surgery but I don't want to reverse I don't want to trigger it again so I'm not going to push my voice but uh it's all just sort of get through today and then rest it for the rest of the day so uh that's what I have to worry about today is not overextending my voice so I might sound a little bit like NBR today would you mind if I do the entire live stream like NPR let's see what that would look like Nashville police released the body cam footage the body cam footage shows the police doing an excellent job would you like that that put you right to sleep all right well this is the story um the only reason I mention this is because we spend so much time criticizing law enforcement and when you see law enforcement do something that to me looked exactly right the Nashville police taking out the the school shooter and I have to admit when you see the body cam it restores your faith in the police you know because you see a bunch of anecdotal stories about somebody who didn't do something right and it just so you sort of Imagine that's everybody because you see a few anecdotes you're like oh that's what the police are but then you see this bunch of police who were both Fearless running toward the the shots and very effective the moment they made contact they they ended the threat I I don't know what to say about this except it was perfect so congratulations to the Nashville police for making uh law enforcement in general look good I think uh well here's an interesting story New York Post there are a bunch of researchers in Australia who designed a nasal spray that's like Viagra so I think it's different chemistry but it's a nasal spray instead of a pill and the thing that makes it work well microphone's fine the thing that makes it work well is that because it's a nasal spray it doesn't have to go through your bloodstream it gives you full results in five minutes it's like spray boom you're ready to go now if that were the only story in the news I'd say well that's that's an improvement they've done something good here but there's another story that seems totally unrelated but maybe not the FDA approved Narcan for over-the-counter sales now Narcan is what you get if you have a fentanyl overdose if somebody has an archaean they stick it in your nose and it's like a nasal spray spray it up your nose and apparently it works so well it can just take you back from almost the Dead so one of the problems of course as you can see these two stories intersect is that what if you get those two confused yeah you don't want to you don't want to grab your uh erectile dysfunction spray when you wanted the Narcan and if the if the bottles are not labeled appropriately there is a way to tell so if you give somebody the Narcan spray and the only change five minutes later is a raging erection go look for the other bottle right um so what you don't want is somebody to die with a raging hard on um because my understanding is that that's embarrassing if it's an open gasket you know what I mean if it's an open casket you're like what are we going to do about that because I think the rigor mortis sets in about the same time as the as the erectile dysfunction so you could die with a wall saluting and uh then they probably just have to make some adjustments now depending on your size I guess they'd make some adjustments to the casket top make one a little extra deep sort of thing I don't know I'm just thinking through all the possibilities I don't think it's a big risk but you know it's good to it's just good to make sure you've covered all your bases the question I ask is why did it take so long for the FDA to improve this why did it take so long for the FDA to approve this I think we've known for a long time this was a good play I knew it I'm not in the FDA but yeah I mean I suppose there were some testing and they were waiting for some data I don't know it feels like too much of an emergency situation to have not done something about it earlier so I can't be happy about the speed of that but at least it happened and by the way I would like to congratulate all of you because I do think that public opinion has some influence on this don't you and certainly you know my audience has been pushing for it as I have for two years how long have we been pushing for this two years and you know I'm not I'm not going to say it wouldn't have happened anyway because it's just a good idea but I do feel like if you're putting pressure on something that ends up happening you can claim that you were part of the productive process I think we were I don't know that it made a difference but we were we were certainly pushing in the right direction and you should be proud of that because I think it I think that proves you were on the right path and you were advocating for the right stuff so good for you um Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak and a bunch of other Tech leaders have signed a petition I guess or a letter uh asking for AI development to pause for six months pause immediately for at least six months the trading of AI to not make anything more powerful than the current version and the it's because of the risks to society what do you think of that do you think it's a good idea to pause AI development until we have a robust monitoring you know some kind of a human system for maintaining it yeah yeah I I'm gonna say yes unambiguously to that there are very few things which I can say you know I agree 100 percent this is one of them this this is one of them and here's the argument the argument goes like this pausing for six months probably won't hurt us would you agree pausing for six months probably won't hurt us but it could save civilization now if you say to yourself Scott it's going to get out anyway there's nothing you can do you could try to control it but it's too late I agree I agree that there's a really good risk or high risk that there it's too late some people said well I can already download it onto my local device I could keep trading it there's nothing you can do but I would point out do you remember when it was that the internet was new and all the people who were in charge of copyrights and books and stuff they all said oh no publishing will go away because everybody will just steal it and put it on the internet so there's no way to have a business model when the moment you make something is just stolen and on the internet now that's the current situation the current situation is you know all of my work all of my work gets stolen and putting on the internet immediately almost the moment it's created but it never hurts because the law was still robust and it's still still illegal to you know to routinely put my work on the internet lawyers would come get you so I would say you should not underestimate how comprehensive the law could be if the law tried to make AI illegal I think it could do it I think it could that doesn't mean people wouldn't cheat but if you're cheating sort of locally you know if you're not Google and you're not you're now some giant AI you know company you're not going to do too much in your bedroom you know with your local computer I think you only have to worry about the big entities and the big entities can be completely controlled right Google is not going to violate the law they have too much at risk so I think you underestimate how effectively the law could shut down AI I think you're seeing the beginning of a movement that's going to be chipping at AI from every direction until it's almost completely neutered so my guess is that AI is far too dangerous for the right reasons and the wrong reasons the right reasons that AI is dangerous is it might teach us what's real if the if America ever found out what was real and what was the whole system would collapse because our system is depends on people believing stuff that isn't true AI could change that so our whole system could be at risk just from the truth then that's just one risk you know if you imagine all the other worst case risks they're pretty amazing now I am opposed to stopping AI permanently I I think it's necessary I think you don't want China to have it before we do but I do think it makes sense to be really really serious about safety I think the net effect of that is AI might have a military use and almost nothing else because we'll neuter it in so many ways now what happens when AI starts taking jobs don't you think there will be legislation to make it illegal to replace a human with a machine now we've been replacing humans with machines for you know 100 years or more but once they can replace all the humans I think we're gonna have to rethink it so here's what I think is going to happen in the medium term I think there are too many humans who are incapable of taking care of themselves more so than ever probably because in the old days you could at least be a farmer you know or work on a farm but today they're they're just huge segment of the population there really isn't capable of doing anything in the modern world they don't have any capabilities whatsoever they're a commercial so I think we're going to have to create two civilizations one who lives on some kind of Ubi and maybe the robots do the hard stuff for them and they just take them away from everybody else because there'll be crime ridden and you know low bad mindsets and it'll be every problem in the world but they won't want to work so take the people who don't want to work or can't work because they don't have capabilities put them in one place and try to try to get the people who still have something to add physically separated from them yeah because at this point there there is a poisonous mindset and there's still a productive mindset and they're living simultaneously I feel like when I grew up in America there was only one mindset is anybody in my age range that would concur with that you know that whole image of the American dream that was pretty much a hundred percent like I don't think anybody disagreed with that um you know it wasn't even even generationally people agreed you know I went through the the hippie hippie generation and it looked like the hippies were you know anti-work and you know anti-establishment but really as soon as they wanted money they became pretty establishment so that was more of more of a youth difference but today we've got so many different uh opinions about everything that our operating system is dissolving I wasn't going to talk about this yet but well let me add this first there's another study Stanford researchers tried to figure out if AI could change your mind on politics better than a person could so they did a trial where a person would write something to change your mind and then AI would write something to change your mind and they found out that the AI beat the people AI was more persuasive in its arguments than people not a lot you know maybe like in the two percent range something like that but as the article I read pointed out on the big issues of the country two percent is a pretty big deal I mean that could be the difference between passing and not passing or elected or Not Elected now here's what I would add to that as far as I know no one has ever trained AI in the techniques of persuasion so far everything I've seen it looks like it writes the way a good writer would write but not with any of the deep techniques of persuasion just sort of ordinary communication good practices what happens if AI learns hypnosis so for example I ordered a deck of cards that each has a hypnosis trick on it so it's like 50 or so cards each one has a specific trick the AI could learn very easily right they're just use these words instead of these words very easy stuff if if AI if I trained it just with that deck of cards I wish I could I forgot the name of the company or person that makes the cards I want to give them a shout out because I bought the cars Mike Mandel thank you Mike Mandel he's a hypnotist and I just saw his cards advertised on the internet and I thought oh I'll get those see what that's all about so I got the Mike Mendel is it Mandel or Mandel Mandel so I got the Mike Mandel hypnosis cards and I was looking through them and sure enough they're actually useful completely powerful tips on how to word things more persuasively all you'd have to do is sit down with the AI because I believe it has memory now you can train it and say hey AI I'm going to teach you 50 tricks to be more persuasive remember these tricks and then I'd like you to write a persuasive argument using whichever of these tricks makes sense in this document and then how persuasive would it be you really have to worry about that see there I have a unique window into a risk that most people don't see which is the techniques of persuasion I can see the AI doesn't have them it's obvious that it doesn't have the techniques but they're so easy to learn and they're so powerful all you have to do is expose it to him once you're done and I don't think anybody in the government has a full appreciation of that like even people like you know Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak some of the smartest people who have ever you know drawn a breath but do you think they have a unique understanding of persuasion and persuasion tools I don't know I mean they know a lot of stuff they might but I doubt it I doubt it so that's a big risk all right um I love watching CNN reporting on Fox News because it's always so biased and they like to slip in their fake news in the sentence that just otherwise seems innocuous so you just assume that the fake news is real because the rest of the sentence seemed pretty reasonable all right here's an example if you're following the Fox News and Dominion lawsuits here's what CNN says about it now this isn't just as part of a larger article but this is just one sentence that I want to call out for amazing weaselness all right here CNN CNN website says uh but that was several weeks ago before Dominion Unleashed a trove of embarrassing text messages and testimony from Fox Executives and personalities that suggested they knowingly aired at Trump's false claims about the 2020 election huh did that happen in the real world did that happen no no that didn't happen but they just put it in a sentence like like well we all know this happened just sort of obvious has happened now let me let me be more specific when I say it didn't happen there is no smoking gun in in the Dominion lawsuit because we've seen the texts that are the most embarrassing the most embarrassing ones do not have any admission that they were aware that Trump was wrong how could they how could anybody know Trump was wrong you could know some of his specific claims didn't hold up in court I mean that's verifiable but you don't know he's wrong you can't prove a negative so according to CNN yeah they can not only read the minds of the people but then they look at their writing that does not say what they wanted to say it does not say we knew that he was lying and we acted like we didn't know nobody said anything like that they said stuff like this is the content that are uh that our people want to see they've said in some cases that they didn't believe the election was rigged but that has nothing to do with whether Trump believed it you know the if Trump believed it that's the news then they were just reporting the news yeah so I don't think that there's any evidence that somebody knowingly puts something on that they knew was false I don't think that's an Evidence so it always amuses me to see that and see that it will just drop that in there like it's a fact when it's not um did you know that Ron De.

Santis is trying to make it easier to sue the media if you're a public figure what do you think of that do you think that public figures should be able to sue the media more easily I think that's a good idea yeah did I have any lawsuits there would be it would probably end the media do you think it's a good idea if you knew it would put the news business out of business or that the news business would not say negative things about people because they might be afraid of getting sued yeah the uh the First Amendment would allow you know anybody to say anything as long as it's not you know knowingly malicious but I guess the proposed change would make it easier for the for the public figure to sue now let me ask you this um the headline of almost every major publication in the last a month ran a story about me that painted me as a racist was that an accurate story it was a headline there was a headline everywhere is that accurate how many of them reported that I was complaining about racists who didn't like me that the context was about other racists and that those racists didn't like me so I'd want to stay away from those racists did any of them report that do you think that it cost me any money Millions yeah millions and millions of dollars fake news now what I say is fake I only mean that they left the context out that would have reversed the meaning of the story it wasn't fake that I said things that other people say sound racist that was true but if you leave out the reason I said it it reverses the meaning would I have a lawsuit if Rodney census makes it easier for me to sue do I have a suit well some a lot of you are saying no under the current rules I'd say no under the current rules I'd say no because you have to prove malice and it would be too easy for them to say malice I have no malice I just thought that was true right it's a it's an Ultimate Defense what we thought it was true we didn't look into it very closely but we thought it was true on first you know on the surface I don't think I should be able to sue for that because if I did I'd put the entire media on a business I mean the the size the size of what they did just to me was enormous just the size of it just put this think of the scale of what they did to me just the scale is huge now you know there's a part of me that you know always wants to set the world right and you know get revenge or something but I really don't think I should have that right I don't think that you would be served if I could do that more easily because it would just remove your news they just wouldn't be able to have a business model that's what I think so I think uh De.

Santis is on some uh Dangerous Ground here yet I completely understand the motivation you know having been a uh in the Target zone for malicious media treatment you know I understand it I just don't think you can win that way all right um so I feel like there's something happening in the mindset or something here's a story that I don't know that I would have seen two months ago you tell me does this sound like something that would have been said two months ago um so you know the story about Leah Thomas the trans athlete who competes as a woman and is beating most of the women most of the time and of course the women who are born as women say that's unfair they would say they're competing against a biological male is what they say but here's what's different this uh Riley is it rightly gains uh Riley Gaines who's a female born female and a competitive swimmer and she's coming out directly and with she's not shading any of her opinion she's just saying this is a man we're competing against men this is bad for women and it's being reported at least by Fox News and probably others just directly what she says have we reached the point where people don't need to be so polite because it seems like two months ago the way she would have had to say this is uh Leah Thomas she they would have said she in all cases two months ago she is a problem for other women because it's you know unfair or something but you know we hope that she finds a place to compete and she is too strong for you know the competitors and she makes it unfair doesn't it feel like two months ago you would have had to buy into the the pronoun but now she's just on the news saying it's a man I'm competing against a man and that's not that's not fair for women but but let me forget about the topic for a moment right forget about the topic does it feel like she has more free speech than even a few months ago or is that my imagination because I might be biased about this yeah it feels like people are now saying directly you're just men with mental illness people are saying that directly no no this is not about wokeness this is people with mental illness who are trying to jump on a theme now just to be clear I think people are so different and there's so many different kinds of people with kinds of minds and everything else I do think that there are people who have some general you know genuine situation where the only thing that can make them happy is gender reassignment as adults kids kids is a different situation of course but I don't think it should be illegal for somebody to change their gender if that's what they need because they're adults and we're not in their bodies we're not in their brains we can't make decisions for them but is it not clear that it's gone too far and is it not clear that it has attracted people with just mental illness and that if we treat them mentally ill the same as somebody who's just let's say operating based on their freedom this is somebody who says you know I think this would make me happier and then they do it it makes them happier good for them but I feel like Society has kind of reached a limit yeah it's too far it's too far and I think that um treating Leah Thomas as a woman would make sense in almost any other context if Leah Thomas wants to live that kind of life it's a free world I think people should just do what makes them happy if it doesn't hurt me but once once that preference is taken into this specific context of sports um I don't have any problem with the women who were affected by it saying we're competing against men to me that doesn't even that doesn't even feel impolite not even a little bit so I feel that that's a change I feel that I feel like I would have been canceled just for this am I wrong even what I just said I feel like I would have been canceled two months ago but I don't feel like that's out of Bounds at the moment I feel like we're we're achieving some kind of clarified understanding of the situation which is it's not all about everybody trans is good all the time and it's definitely not everybody trans is mentally ill as long as we can get out of the binary I think we'll be okay it can be true that it's good for some people and isn't it good that they can do what they need to do and it could be also true that the mentally ill have taken over the category to me it looks like it to me it looks like a lot of mental illness masquerading as something else now that wouldn't be different from any other any other topic would it in almost every topic there's somebody who's mentally ill this being mistaken for like a legitimate voice take racism you know there's all kinds of I'll call it normal racism but then there's crazy racism isn't there isn't there crazy racism wait a minute that's not racism that's just mental disorder that is just mental disorder as soon as you call that racism it just gets confusing you're getting lost in the binary that people are racist they're not racists you know that little simplified world and I I would say that almost every major topic has some important people who are involved who are actually just mentally ill and they get confused with the serious people who just have different opinions yeah well Greta is a good example Grant is a good example now Greta appears to be from the outside somebody who's suffering from a mental I won't say doesn't look like any organic mental problem but it looks like a mental condition brought on by you know media forces and there are probably a lot of young people who have the same alarmist PTSD feeling about climate change that they better act now or they'll be dead in six years we have left or whatever the crazy number is so Greta to me looks like somebody's suffering from some kind of mental issue which doesn't mean she's wrong the question of whether she's right or wrong is completely separate it just doesn't look like that's the motivation from the outside I can't read her mind I can't diagnose her you know you shouldn't listen to anything I say about anybody else's Mental Health but from the outside that's what it looks like liberalism is a mental disorder Michael Savage says but again it's a matter of degrees being a being a moderate Democrat is definitely not a mental disorder does anybody think it is does anybody think you know let's say old Bill Clinton the old Bill Clinton Democrat was at a mental disorder you look like the most rational guy we've ever had as a president to me but certainly there are things that you would call liberal or Progressive today that in my opinion they get in a little too far into Mental Health and not so much about politics so I think it's a I think it's important that we can call out mental health as a variable isn't it and doesn't that move things forward if you can say you know yeah here's the other thing people like me who are just tired of having to lie I just got tired of lying so I just started saying what I was actually thinking and of course you canceled is very very expensive but I don't have a moment of regret and I feel like it's useful for you to see people like me who took a back full of arrows I don't have a single regret and maybe that's good maybe the system needs people who are willing to you know run at the pill box first that just happened to be me this time next time it will be somebody else all right um I have a theory that the media is the root cause of all of America's current problems and I'm going to build this into a bigger theme and it goes like this um the the the basis the basis of the I'm going to talk about that chart the basis of the hypothesis is this that when we got the internet and we learned to be able to count the number of clicks on a story which is the first time we could know with certainty every little Nuance of oh this headline gets more clicks this story gives more clicks which was a little bit harder to deduce back when the news was just on TV and it was three people reading the news but once you could tell exactly what would get people excited which was correlated with profits then you had to chase you had to chase the outrage so once we monetized outrage everything else came out of that monetized outrage so at this point the media is no longer about the news it's about monetizing outrage the news is just the ingredients but the cake is outrage right they could use those ingredients to inform us to lift us up to Enlighten us but they don't have a business model that would support any of that crap so instead they they surf as outrage because that's where the bunny is now as long as you have that system can you have a healthy country I would argue it's impossible without changing something I'm not even sure what needs to be changed but the current situation is a fast road to destruction let me give you an example of some of the things in my opinion the media is the sole reason for all of the problems and if this doesn't shock you I don't know I will and before I read them I'll give you this uh this backup there's some graphs that just went by in the locals platform because they can put images in with their comments and I saw that in Twitter it was uh since 2010 uh the media massively increased headlines they use fear anger and disgust and sadness because those things get clicks and it's it's a dramatic change around 2010.

2010 is you know roughly when we knew exactly what worked and what didn't yeah roughly i.

Phone time so basically you can tell that this is a click bait related phenomenon would you agree that the timing in 2010 you know coincident with smartphones ish you know around that isn't it obvious that the headlines turn negative because of a technological Improvement it's obvious right like that that part nobody doubts I don't have to defend that any more than the obvious right so once you have that situation where the news is not trying to help they're trying they're actually trying to hurt they're trying to hurt you because it's profitable and when I say hurt you I mean give you bad news that doesn't make you feel good and maybe there's nothing you can do about it anyway all right here are things I think the news literally destroyed traditional American values and I want to say in your comments agree or disagree the traditional American values have been destroyed by the media not just the news not just the news but movies Etc now I'm not going to make an argument that traditional American values are perfect and the only thing we should consider because traditional American values that's you know too much racism and sexism and you know add other issues lots of other issues but when you are would you agree with me that as an operating system for the country it worked to keep cohesion even with all of its problems it kept cohesion and that cohesion was applied toward you know Merit and hard work and that's what built the country the country was built on trust you don't know how important trust is which I believe is a religious traditional value right you don't get trust unless you think God was watching am I wrong if you thought there's no God you would just say well if I can get away with it I can get away with it but if you think you're going to burn in hell forever if you lie to your business partner you might be less inclined to do it well I don't want to burn forever so I'll tell the truth so I think that the traditional American values created an operating system for the country that was super successful and that the media has chipped away on it and in recent years usually for good reasons usually for good reasons I love I love inclusiveness I like diversity I like getting rid of racism so the reasons are all good it's just that you don't indulge in those until you're already successful there's a certain type of way of thinking that I don't think emerges until you've taken care of all your big problems you know and got the country Solid and then people have the luxury of you now I'm not sure everybody should have a job can you imagine those of you who are in my age range imagine in the 60s well I guess in the 60s they were saying that but imagine in like the 80s somebody's saying how about Ubi would just pay people to do nothing you couldn't even have that conversation it would have sounded ridiculous because people have said no that's not the operating system as soon as you pay people for not working you're going to get more now working how's that not obvious so I think you have to succeed and I'll come back to this theme before you can be silly silliness is like a a luxury of the successful and especially their children the children of successful people have the greatest luxury of all because they don't know what it takes to make the money they just know they don't need any at the moment all right I think Traditional Values was destroyed by the media not that it shouldn't have I'm just saying it happened I think the January 6 Insurrection story is completely media driven and as the media had told us well it was a bunch of people who were unhappy about the election but yeah and there was some violence and that's the end of the story you know the media could have covered that that way right how did the media cover the protests when Trump got elected the first time first time Trump got elected to huge protests media covered it while it was happening and then it's not a story anymore but this January 6 won the media uh you know being the winged monkeys of the Democrats decided that this needed to be the main story you see so is this good for you is it good for the country that the media decided Insurrection which was literally not what happened is it good for the country that they made up a narrative and then sold it for two years no it's terrible for the country how about racial division do you think racial division is being driven by media narratives of course of course do you think do you think racial division got worse on its own no no if you leave people alone they kind of they kind of say oh you're my neighbor oh you're cool I like you it's just when we get you know charged up by the the media click bait stuff I mean how unhealthy is it that we see on Twitter every day there's a new story of black people hurting other people right there's no way that's representative of course but if you see that kind of video every day it's going to make you think wow everywhere I go it's going to be this of course that's not the case how about our Mental Health of course of course the media has destroyed our mental health does anybody doubt that does that seem obvious to you that they've destroyed our mental health because they're they're giving us PTSD they're making us we're you know racially afraid of each other just every possible negative thing that's coming from the means how about climate change and the way we're addressing it but let's say energy policy probably the biggest economic factor in the world is energy don't you think we're doing everything wrong because of the news do you know why we don't have a robust nuclear um nuclear industry in America it's the media it's the media yeah if you took the media away scientists would say well you know we're good at this now and it's safe the current models are safe and if the media just reported that well it turns out the current models are safe that's it we would have a robust france-like nuclear energy but we don't and the media did that that was the media um how about uh Tick Tock and banning it don't you think Tick Tock would already be banned it it's only the media that even allows this to happen um the whole story about trans athletes do you think that Leah Thomas would be uh competing if the media did not support her of course not of course not if the media reported that a man was competing as a woman it would end immediately it's just the way it's framed the moment that all of the media reported the story there's a man competing as a woman which by the way is the only one way to frame it the other way to frame it is she's a woman and you know she has advantages but if the media decided that they didn't want this to happen they just say oh there's this man competing as a woman and then everybody would have no problem Banning it because they know they'd be safe well the media says there's a man competing as a woman so obviously we can ban him they would be able to say in that case from competing but right now the media says that you know treat everybody according to their gender preference and so if you were to complain about it the media is this you know has worked up a bunch of people to complain about you so that's a media problem how about uh population decline do you think the population in in mostly industrialized countries do you believe the population is declining because of natural reasons you know just economics or uh do you think the media has a lot to do with it the media there are young people who literally don't want to have babies because of climate change well betters a lot of them I bet there's a lot of them and I don't see the media saying having babies is good and Noble and American and necessary I don't even if there's an if there's a media story about babies it's going to be how they're too expensive right yeah or people are way happy without babies surprise we found that women are happier without babies I've seen that story I've seen that story I don't know how true it is but I've seen that story how about uh the Ukraine war do you think we'd be at War if half the country did not support it and do you think half the country would support it if the media had not told them to now everybody's opinion this comes from in the media all of it so the only way you have a war is if the media says it's okay if if CNN and Fox News said this is insane stay away from Ukraine you know let whatever happens happens and by the way that's not necessarily my opinion I'm just saying that the media decides if you're in war is not the government the government doesn't have the power to create a war and sustain it without media support now they only need half of the media they don't need the left and the right you either one would be enough probably but they can't do it without the media so the media creates our Wars we wouldn't be in Ukraine with them um and that that was just the things that that came to my head immediately what about the bank run do you think we'd have a bank run if the news covered it differently the bank run is completely a media phenomenon it's not a banking phenomenon it is a media phenomenon if the media tells you the banks are failing they will fail if the media says oh this is one special case don't worry about it the banks will succeed now they do have actual structural you know issues of having enough reserves and all that but I think those are the problems we could figure out the thing you can't figure out is if everybody tries to withdraw their money at the same time that you can't figure out and the media is bringing us very close to the point where that's a risk I don't think we're there but try to try to think of any problem in the world that's one of the big ones and don't and see if you can see any problem any problem that isn't isn't either entirely caused by the media or influenced in the wrong way by the media it's actually everything it's everything all of our problems with the media do you know why we don't talk about this more who would do the talking you're not going to get invited by the media to talk about the media being a bad right so if it doesn't happen on something like this an independent live stream you're not going to hear it so there's pretty much no issue that isn't being destroyed by the media and uh here's a new poll Charlie Kirk tweeted about this uh new Poll for Newsweek shows that 69 percent of Americans believe January 6 was less violent than reported by the fake news media just 26 26 percent believe it was more violent than reported that that spunky little 25 26 percent they can get every question wrong all right um so here's my question have you ever noticed that there are a lot of ancient civilizations that left advanced cities at least Advanced by their standards uh that just got covered with dirt do you ever wonder about that How uh how is that that so many like buried cities exist where there was once this thriving City and now every single person is gone and they've been gone so long that the whole thing covered with dirt so you didn't even know it was there now I assume there are a number of reasons one of those reasons could be you know economic maybe there's a drought well uh maybe there's a natural disaster in in Central and South America maybe it was smallpox that came in from Europe so there's a bunch of reasons yeah volcanoes Etc but collectively in my opinion they don't seem to explain all of it now of course this is just a subjective you know kind of a view but to me it looks like there's something else that wipes out with civilizations and it does it reliably that's the problem it's the reliable part like it seems like they all get wiped out you know it makes me wonder if there's a common there's a common theme and here's what I believe I believe if you have you know hundreds of millions of humans running around some of them will have philosophies and mindsets that will drive them towards success where they could build a civilization and some will not some will have more tribal everything's fine the way it is tomorrow is the same as yesterday and then they would not drive toward you know building civilizations but here's my hypothesis that when there's a coincidental correct mindset in some group of humans and let's say early America was the perfect example the early American mindset was really really optimized for building uh economics and civilization and so it did so America America was sprang up from that but here we are highly successful you know arguably the strongest Nation on Earth at some point and once you're the strongest nation and you can feed everybody and all of your major problems seem solved then you have the luxury of the useless people having a bigger voice the useless people or anybody whose view would take you away from the mindset of success I call those the useless people now you don't have that many useless people until you're really successful it's like the children of successful people become the useless generation because they don't know what they don't know what it takes to succeed they just sort of were born into a good situation but but now they're sure that they have good ideas and you should all listen to them narcissists mostly so my theory is that every every successful civilization requires a success mindset they can be different right the success mindset for let's say the crit Christian biased you know traditional family would be different from I don't know let's say some early Muslims civilization that was also successful they would have different mindsets but both of them optimized for some kind of success but once that successful civilization becomes strong enough it breeds the second generation of people who didn't who don't get it and they think they need to change the mindset to improve it so now we're seeing the the viruses the Dei the CRT the ESG climate alarm you know the the trans Stuff Etc and a hundred percent of it is either anti-population or anti-success anti-merit anti-economics anti-everything that worked and here's my guess I bet that's what happened to other civilizations I'll bet that success breathes a useless class the useless class gains power because nobody thinks to stop them it's just talk right if you have freedom of speech like oh they're just talking they're just talking everybody gets to talk but at some point that talking becomes so toxic and corrosive that uh uh I'm gonna pull myself back from something I was just going to say right there um but maybe I'll tell you later yeah there's something I'm going to tell you later the the locals people already heard it because they get the special stuff but uh You.

Tube you're not ready for this information so I'm going to hold back on that um I'll tell you later though I I just have to wait so I think that we're heading toward at least America is heading toward a civilization collapse that is directly caused by the media the media allowing the the mindset of success that drove America to be corrupted because they get more clicks for that right so the people complaining about the system and protesting they're causing clicks and then they get more people because the media tells you what's true and now the media is sort of the winged monkeys of all the people who have the anti-success mindset they're the ones telling us that we're uh the real problem is racism is it the the only reason we have a racism problem is because well not the only reason but the biggest reason is because the media told us to they told us what to think and here we are yeah so I think we're actually heading toward a Extinction event in America and everybody can see it would you agree everyone can see it but here's what I think is the good news earlier when I said could you talk about Leah Thomas in direct terms even two months ago but today you can have you noticed that since I got canceled the discussions about race have expanded that might be just my impression I don't know but I feel like you can speak more freely about race and gender and more freely about mindset success mindset and I'm seeing I'm seeing a little bit more of it emerge right it takes some people to you know basically get canceled before people will take anything seriously so I think it can be saved but we are on an Extinction path America is not that we'll have it not that we will be extinct but that if we don't change direction I mean we're running right toward the cliff as fast as we can and I think that before we get to the cliff these smart people will emerge I bring you back to an earlier story about Elon Musk looking to help us pull us AI Elon Musk is not the media Elon Musk is a dad and in many ways he's a dad first right you think of him as rich as guy and SpaceX and Tesla and all that but I think he's a dad first I think he's a dad first and when he says you know the dad of all dads says you should pause AI and then a whole bunch of other smart people agree completely that is useful that is the solution to the media Elon Musk by buying Twitter and restoring in my opinion restoring free speech to Twitter is the biggest thing that's happened in years it's the biggest thing because only Twitter is like slightly free at the moment and it might be you know with the help of the internet dads and internet moms it might be the thing that drives us back to sanity it might but right now the media and the Democrats in particular are on a toxic March toward destruction and the only counterbalance will not come from the media is going to have to come from Twitter and people like Elon Musk and the people who are willing to get shot down so and I also think that some people uh and I'll use my own example as the uh the perfect example I guess some of us are just done some of us are just done lying and here's the other thing you can beat up white people for a long time and white men in particular you can beat up white men for a long time until you can't that's all you you can you can on white men as long as you want until you can't until you can't all right um here's the media again so this is this was in the news today new research shows that physical exercise has little mental benefits New York Post that's right the media is telling you that exercise might not be good for your brain after all you pieces of no that's not true you know that's not true you know that's not true you know that's not true you know that yeah and wine is good for you wine is good for you you media you you're trying to kill us now do you how many of you think that that's true now here's what they did they looked at all the studies and they decided the studies were underpowered or in some cases inadequate they did not they did not prove that exercise is not good for the brain they proved that studies suck here's how the news here's how this news should have read a study shows that studies suck that was the only news that's the only thing they proved they looked at the studies and they said the way you did all these studies is bad that's good news I mean that's useful news hey studies show that studies are all bad I I would like that but no do not tell me the exercise doesn't help me think because I know that that's not true I know that's not true oh it really pisses me off I don't know if you could tell but I'm really pissed off about that it could there be a better example of the media trying to kill us I mean this is like just trying to end the country this is so wrong so wrong somebody says the author is fat maybe I doubt it but maybe um anyway let's see I think I have some more notes I haven't ripped up yet um is anybody following the story of uh Netanyahu and Israel and some judicial reforms how many of you know the details of that story all right so you're I don't I'm not good on the details but it looks important so let me tell you what I know so Netanyahu is prime minister is trying to put through some legislation that would give more power to the government and decrease the power of the judicial system in Israel does that sound like a good idea to you if you didn't know anything else if that's the only thing you knew does it sound like a good idea well it would depend if the judicial system was out of control right if the judicial system is truly out of control then maybe you could argue you need more balance I suppose I told you that the judicial system had grabbed some power for itself not too long ago and what Netanyahu was trying to do is claw back the power that the judicial system initially claimed for itself that was you know greater than before now I don't think it's one for one but in terms of just a Power Balance it's a response to a grab by the judicial system and he's trying to you know grab back a little bit which he would call balance Maybe and maybe maybe somebody else would call a power grab yeah Joel Pollock is reporting on this in Breitbart and that's where I'm getting my updates so here's what's uh important from the outside what would you think if you saw the United States Congress passing a law that seemed to give them more power than the courts in other words trying to take power away from the courts wouldn't you reflexively oppose that just automatically no you wouldn't depends yeah I guess the right answer is it depends but unless there was some like National urgency it just sounds like a bad idea just on the surface but it doesn't make it a bad idea it doesn't make it a bad idea it just means that on the surface it's the scariest freaking idea I ever heard oh the government wants to take power away from the courts the Court's the only thing that control the power of the government and so the government would like to take away the power of the only thing that can control the power of the government I can see why the citizens are revolting and I don't even think they need to know the details right but of course it's like everything else it it became a left right thing because the courts apparently are more supportive of left-leaning things in the government if it's a conservative government is more supportive of conservative things so it's really just it has nothing to do with the constitution in Israel has everything to do with the left and the right wanting to win that's about it but it's fun to watch because you can imagine this situation or something like it happening in in America so I think Netanyahu wisely uh put it on the back burner because of public response but you know interesting to watch um I also saw that uh did you know that there's a Gallup poll showing that democrats favor Palestinians over the Israelis for the first time since the poll has been run did you know that Americans are so divided that that the left is favoring the Palestinians and the right must be favoring Israel I mean not completely but you know by majority now I'm not going to pick favorites because there's you know good and bad behavior by everyone everywhere so I'm not going to get into the I'm not going to call a favor here well I am I mean I'm pro-israel I can't hide that I'm very pro-israel but that doesn't mean that the Palestinians have no complaints is that fair would you accept that as a balanced view I'm completely pro-israel but the Palestinians have some stuff to complain about it's not baseless it's not baseless so but you know you need some kind of balance there um I don't know that's pretty alarming that we don't even agree on Israel anymore all right um so it turns out that uh do you remember that one happy moment a few days ago where I was saying my God you think everything is so partisan but it turns out our Congress can get things done when it's important they can become bipartisan when the country is at risk and I saw that happening with tick tock I was like oh my goodness finally some bipartisan movement finally the the Democrats the Republicans they're not going to fight out fight over it like it's you know some kind of left right thing they're just going to do what's right for the country and and there was this bipartisan move to ban Tick Tock and I thought wow Golden Age here we come things are looking good now and then thanks to Tucker Carlson's reporting we learned that that was a trick and there were there there's not a bill to ban Tick Tock there's only a bill to give the Congress more control over social media in general that's the opposite of what I want that's not even close yeah that was just a trick so everybody everybody involved with this now there may be more than one Tick Tock bill so I want to make sure I'm not throwing the wrong people under the bus but anybody who's bipartisanly supporting this bill to give them control over social media you you I'm not even going to give you a political or legal or practical opinion on this you right this is pure evil or incompetence or completely not caring about the citizens of the United States this is so unacceptable you that's all I've got to say about that just you all right I guess I woke up with a little bit of a attitude today um so you got that yeah so apparently this uh the new anti-tick-tock bill which doesn't mention Tick Tock um it gives the government escorting to Greg price in the Tweet says it gives the government the ability to go after anyone they deem as a national security risk at which point they can access everything from their computer to video games to their ring light now I suppose they could have done that anyway but anything that gives the government more power over the people without a specific threat right just sort of generally we'd like to have more power over you in this way not cool not cool so let's hope that stops well but at least the FDA approved Narcan and there's going to be a good boner spray too so that's the good news um oh I'm actually over the hour I was trying to make this a short show yes again vdh and Vivek agree with you on our destruction yeah yeah I think um here's one of the things I love about Vivek ramaswamy I love the clarity with which he presents his opinions that is so good for the country so good whether he wins or loses he's a pure Patriot at this point is a pure Patriot what he's doing looks like it's expensive for him he's going to take a lot of hits and it appears purely good for the country in the sense that it expands our you know productive conversation about everything and I could not say enough good things about what he's adding to the process right now he's adding a lot and I think he's going to make Trump stronger I think he'll make the Democrats have to up their game hopefully in the in a productive way so I don't know if he's going to win or lose and I and by the way I don't agree with everything he says but that's also not necessary right if he says what if he says his view clearly backs it up with his reasoning and I still disagree with him I'm cool with that that's a good situation I just want to see good arguments uh without any like and he seemed he provides that he provides so far all I've seen is complete honesty and he's not pulling any punches and he's such a good communicator that every topic he touches gets better that's that's my view everything he touches gets better through his clarific you know clear language basically uh he's I think he he made his money in Tech I believe uh don't let your thoughts get divided against Trump here's what I'm going to do with talking about Trump I think everybody knows who he is right so there's not really any explaining that needs to be done about Trump he's just such a well-known entity at this point that I don't really need to change anybody's opinions about anything you know I wouldn't feel any impulse to even try so I think at this point the the best way for me to talk about Trump is the warts as well as the benefits do you think that's fair if I cover what I don't like about his let's say his campaign but I also cover what I like everybody okay with that because you know he's not exactly a Flawless candidate but but people understand that it's transparent Trump's flaws are so transparent like we all see them the the funniest conversation I have with the Democrats we'll see if any of you have the same experience the funniest conversation I have is when they remind me of the bad things he's done and they think that's a reason that I shouldn't want him to be president again and I look at the list of bad things he's done and I say I know about all those I know about Trump University yeah I I've heard of that I've heard of Stormy Daniels I know all of that I still think he's the best choice probably I mean we'll we'll see what the candidate situation shapes up as I can change my mind now my first choice would be Vivek because he's younger I don't know if he has a if he has a path because Trump's position is so dominant it's hard to say but I think I could be consistently saying that I'd prefer Vivek at the same time I can say Trump brings a set of benefits that the country needs as well my my biggest concern with Trump is that he brings so much controversy that we get lost in that if the only thing we could get is you know Trump's policies like on energy for example that would be cool but what he brings is so much consternation from the other side that you can't get anything done and that's got to be part of the analysis you know it's not his fault entirely you can argue It Is by this more of a media phenomenon on the other hand do the Dem do the Republicans not get to have their first choice just because the media won't like it that's not a good enough reason to keep him out of office so we'll have to deal with that I guess he isn't owned you know that does seem to be the case doesn't it could you say at this point that no matter what you liked or didn't like about Trump do you feel that he was owned by anybody because I'm actually curious I feel like now I feel like now yeah owned by his ego somebody says well we're all owned by our own egos I um you say he's not owned but he's manipulated well I don't know manipulated you know one of the things you hear about Trump is that he can change his mind you know who was it was saying that that Trump will listen to an argument and then listen to the next argument and then you know change his mind to the new argument I want more of that not less of that that's being presented as a like a flaw the ability to change your mind with a better argument is sort of an advantage sort of an advantage now if it's a bad argument and it changes his mind that's a problem but he does seem pretty good at spotting BS so we'll see oh yeah Kimberly Guilfoyle said that all right um you know if if uh Trump somehow I don't know goes to jail or collapses in the in the primaries I've got a feeling that Vivek is your emergency spare so I would keep him totally inflated if you know what I mean like I If you're a Republican you should have a backup plan to Trump because Anything could happen you know part of its age right you know anything could happen uh but there could be you know some legal thing you didn't see coming anything so I I would say you know even if Vivek is your first choice you realistically Trump's you know leading the pack but he could self-destruct pretty easily or somebody could destroy him easily could happen I don't think it will I think the odds are that Trump will sail right through and you know be in the general election but you have to be ready for that um here's my current view on De.

Santis running these smart people seem to have reached a general agreement and it goes like this if he runs in 2024 De.

Santis will be so destroyed by Trump that he might be done forever he might be done forever but if he just continues to do a solid job in Florida as you know the country's most beloved conservative governor then Trump will not be able to run in 2028 De.

Santis is Young it's the obvious play the obvious play is to wait it's really really obvious and I would say that a hundred percent of the smart people are now understanding that now before we got close to the primary we have the luxury of just looking them as two candidates oh if I were to individually look at De.

Santis huh he seems to have a lot of trump-like qualities without the drama and people like him and huh okay that's all good I love that you look at Trump separately and you know about Trump but as soon as you imagine them competing and then this is the important part you haven't even seen Trump power up yet Trump is still running at like half power you know compared to where he will be he started wearing a half power and he's already taken the legs out of De.

Santis he just keeps repeating his claims about De.

Santis and just repetition alone is making him sink in because you always talk about it you know if if Trump says something bad about De.

Santis is a national headline forever right everybody knows Ron de sanctimonious everybody knows so as soon as you imagine the primary being a competition you imagine Trump destroying your favorite politician if he is and you think well I'd rather save my favorite politician and then get you know 12 years of Republicans somehow uh what's the sticky one is I missed it all right that's all for you today uh You.

Tube I'm going to talk to the locals people a little bit more thanks for joining best show you've ever watched bye for now

good morning everybody

and welcome to the highlight of

civilization you might notice that I've

got a little bit of laryngitis today

so I'm going to take it easy with my

voice I don't think I'm sick I don't

know what it is I think I just maybe

enjoyed myself too much or something

but

today your experience is going to go up

a level uh I mean you won't even believe

it

it'll be hard to believe anyway and all

you need is a copper mugger glass attack

or else it's time the canteen jug of

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called this simultaneous sip go

ah allow me to share with you my

personal phobia

which I didn't know I had until just now

some of you know my story

that some number of years ago I lost my

ability to speak

through something called the spasmodic

dysphonia made my vocal cords go nuts

when I talked what you might not know is

that we are private well you might not

know is that typically when people get

that condition it starts with a normal

um a normal what do you call this uh

you can't talk

what's it called when you can't talk

uh why am I blanking on that

laryngitis yeah it starts with a normal

laryngitis just from some normal kind of

bug or something

but if you if you try to talk past the

uh laryngitis

you can trigger yourself into permanent

voice loss

which is what happened to me now I got

mine reversed by surgery but I don't

want to reverse I don't want to trigger

it again

so I'm not going to push my voice

but uh it's all just sort of get through

today and then rest it for the rest of

the day

so uh

that's what I have to worry about today

is not overextending my voice

so I might sound a little bit like NBR

today

would you mind if I do the entire live

stream like NPR

let's see what that would look like

Nashville police

released the body cam footage

the body cam footage shows the police

doing an excellent job

would you like that

that put you right to sleep all right

well this is the story

um the only reason I mention this is

because we spend so much time

criticizing law enforcement

and when you see law enforcement do

something that to me looked exactly

right

the Nashville police taking out the the

school shooter

and I have to admit when you see the

body cam

it restores your faith in the police

you know because you see a bunch of

anecdotal stories about somebody who

didn't do something right

and it just so you sort of Imagine

that's everybody

because you see a few anecdotes you're

like oh that's what the police are but

then you see this bunch of police who

were both Fearless running toward the

the shots and very effective the moment

they made contact they they ended the

threat

I I don't know what to say about this

except it was perfect

so congratulations to the Nashville

police for making uh law enforcement in

general look good I think

uh well here's an interesting story

New York Post

there are a bunch of researchers in

Australia who designed a nasal spray

that's like Viagra

so I think it's different chemistry but

it's a nasal spray instead of a pill

and

the thing that makes it work well

microphone's fine the thing that makes

it work well is that because it's a

nasal spray it doesn't have to go

through your bloodstream it gives you

full results in five minutes

it's like spray boom you're ready to go

now

if that were the only story in the news

I'd say well that's that's an

improvement they've done something good

here

but there's another story

that seems totally unrelated but maybe

not the FDA approved Narcan for

over-the-counter sales

now Narcan is what you get if you have a

fentanyl overdose if somebody has an

archaean they stick it in your nose and

it's like a nasal spray spray it up your

nose and apparently it works so well it

can just take you back from almost the

Dead

so one of the problems of course as you

can see these two stories intersect is

that

what if you get those two confused

yeah you don't want to you don't want to

grab your uh

erectile dysfunction spray when you

wanted the Narcan

and

if the if the bottles are not labeled

appropriately

there is a way to tell

so if you give somebody the Narcan spray

and the only change five minutes later

is a raging erection

go look for the other bottle

right

um

so what you don't want is somebody to

die with a raging hard on

um because my understanding is that

that's embarrassing if it's an open

gasket you know what I mean

if it's an open casket you're like what

are we going to do about that

because I think the rigor mortis

sets in about the same time as the as

the erectile dysfunction so you could

die with a

wall saluting and uh then they probably

just have to make some adjustments now

depending on your

size I guess they'd make some

adjustments to the casket top make one a

little extra deep sort of thing I don't

know I'm just thinking through all the

possibilities I don't think it's a big

risk

but you know it's good to it's just good

to make sure you've covered all your

bases

the question I ask is why did it take so

long for the FDA to improve this

why did it take so long for the FDA to

approve this

I think we've known for a long time this

was a good play

I knew it I'm not in the FDA but yeah I

mean I suppose there were some testing

and they were waiting for some data

I don't know it feels like too much of

an emergency situation

to have not done something about it

earlier

so I can't be happy about the speed of

that but at least it happened

and by the way

I would like to congratulate

all of you because I do think that

public opinion has some influence on

this don't you

and certainly you know my audience has

been pushing for it as I have for

two years how long have we been pushing

for this two years

and

you know I'm not I'm not going to say it

wouldn't have happened anyway because

it's just a good idea but I do feel like

if you're putting pressure on something

that ends up happening

you can claim that you were part of the

productive process I think we were I

don't know that it made a difference but

we were we were certainly pushing in the

right direction and you should be proud

of that because I think it I think that

proves you were on the right path and

you were advocating for the right stuff

so good for you

um

Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak and a bunch

of other Tech leaders have signed a

petition I guess or a letter

uh asking for AI development to pause

for six months

pause immediately for at least six

months the trading of AI to not make

anything more powerful than the current

version

and the it's because of the risks to

society

what do you think of that do you think

it's a good idea

to pause AI development until we have a

robust monitoring you know some kind of

a human system for maintaining it

yeah yeah

[Laughter]

I I'm gonna say yes

unambiguously to that there are very few

things which I can say you know I agree

100 percent

this is one of them

this this is one of them and here's the

argument the argument goes like this

pausing for six months probably won't

hurt us would you agree pausing for six

months probably won't hurt us

but it could save civilization

now if you say to yourself Scott it's

going to get out anyway there's nothing

you can do you could try to control it

but it's too late I agree

I agree that there's a really good risk

or high risk that there it's too late

some people said well I can already

download it onto my local device I could

keep trading it there's nothing you can

do

but

I would point out

do you remember when it was

that the internet was new

and all the people who were in charge of

copyrights and books and stuff they all

said oh no publishing will go away

because everybody will just steal it and

put it on the internet

so there's no way to have a business

model when the moment you make something

is just stolen and on the internet now

that's the current situation

the current situation is you know all of

my work all of my work gets stolen and

putting on the internet immediately

almost the moment it's created

but it never hurts

because the law was still robust and

it's still still illegal to you know to

routinely put my work on the internet

lawyers would come get you so I would

say you should not underestimate

how comprehensive the law could be

if the law tried to make AI illegal I

think it could do it

I think it could

that doesn't mean people wouldn't cheat

but if you're cheating sort of locally

you know if you're not Google

and you're not you're now some giant AI

you know company

you're not going to do too much in your

bedroom you know with your local

computer

I think you only have to worry about the

big entities and the big entities can be

completely controlled

right Google is not going to violate the

law

they have too much at risk so I think

you underestimate how effectively the

law could shut down AI

I think you're seeing the beginning of a

movement that's going to be chipping at

AI from every direction

until it's almost completely neutered

so my guess is that AI is far too

dangerous

for the right reasons and the wrong

reasons

the right reasons that AI is dangerous

is it might teach us what's real

if the if America ever found out what

was real

and what was the whole system

would collapse

because our system is depends on people

believing stuff that isn't true

AI could change that so our whole system

could be at risk just from the truth

then that's just one risk you know if

you imagine all the other worst case

risks they're pretty amazing now

I am opposed

to stopping AI permanently

I I think it's necessary I think you

don't want China to have it before we do

but I do think it makes sense to be

really really serious about safety

I think the net effect of that

is AI might have a military use and

almost nothing else

because we'll neuter it in so many ways

now what happens when AI starts taking

jobs

don't you think there will be

legislation

to make it illegal to replace a human

with a machine

now we've been replacing humans with

machines for you know 100 years

or more but once they can replace all

the humans

I think we're gonna have to rethink it

so here's what I think is going to

happen in the medium term

I think there are too many humans who

are incapable of taking care of

themselves

more so than ever probably

because in the old days you could at

least be a farmer you know or work on a

farm but today they're they're just huge

segment of the population

there really isn't capable of doing

anything in the modern world they don't

have any capabilities whatsoever they're

a commercial

so I think we're going to have to create

two civilizations

one who lives on some kind of Ubi and

maybe the robots do the hard stuff for

them and they just take them away from

everybody else because there'll be crime

ridden and you know low bad mindsets and

it'll be every problem in the world but

they won't want to work

so take the people who don't want to

work or can't work because they don't

have capabilities put them in one place

and try to try to get the people who

still have something to add

physically separated from them

yeah because at this point there there

is a poisonous mindset and there's still

a productive mindset and they're living

simultaneously

I feel like when I grew up in America

there was only one mindset

is anybody in my age range that would

concur with that you know that whole

image of the American dream that was

pretty much a hundred percent

like I don't think anybody disagreed

with that

um

you know it wasn't even even

generationally people agreed you know I

went through the the hippie hippie

generation and it looked like the

hippies were you know anti-work and you

know

anti-establishment but really as soon as

they wanted money they became pretty

establishment

so that was more of more of a youth

difference

but today we've got so many different uh

opinions about everything

that our operating system is dissolving

I wasn't going to talk about this yet

but well let me add this first

there's another study Stanford

researchers tried to figure out if AI

could change your mind on politics

better than a person could so they did a

trial where a person would write

something to change your mind and then

AI would write something to change your

mind and they found out that the AI

beat the people AI was more persuasive

in its arguments than people not a lot

you know maybe like in the two percent

range something like that

but as the article I read pointed out on

the big issues of the country two

percent is a pretty big deal I mean that

could be the difference between passing

and not passing

or elected or Not Elected now here's

what I would add to that

as far as I know

no one has ever trained AI

in the techniques of persuasion

so far everything I've seen it looks

like it writes

the way a good writer would write but

not with any of the deep techniques of

persuasion just sort of ordinary

communication good practices what

happens

if AI learns hypnosis

so for example

I ordered a deck of cards that each has

a hypnosis trick on it

so it's like 50 or so cards each one has

a specific trick the AI could learn very

easily right they're just use these

words instead of these words very easy

stuff

if if AI if I trained it just with that

deck of cards I wish I could I forgot

the name of the

company or person that makes the cards I

want to give them a shout out because I

bought the cars Mike Mandel thank you

Mike Mandel he's a hypnotist and I just

saw his cards advertised on the internet

and I thought oh I'll get those see what

that's all about

so I got the Mike Mendel

is it Mandel or Mandel Mandel so I got

the Mike Mandel hypnosis cards

and I was looking through them and sure

enough

they're actually useful

completely powerful tips on how to word

things more persuasively

all you'd have to do is sit down with

the AI because I believe it has memory

now you can train it and say hey AI I'm

going to teach you 50 tricks to be more

persuasive

remember these tricks and then I'd like

you to write a persuasive argument using

whichever of these tricks makes sense in

this document

and then how persuasive would it be

you really have to worry about that see

there I have a unique window into a risk

that most people don't see which is the

techniques of persuasion

I can see the AI doesn't have them

it's obvious that it doesn't have the

techniques but they're so easy to learn

and they're so powerful

all you have to do is expose it to him

once

you're done

and

I don't think anybody in the government

has a full appreciation of that like

even people like you know Elon Musk and

Steve Wozniak some of the smartest

people who have ever you know

drawn a breath but do you think they

have a unique understanding of

persuasion and persuasion tools

I don't know I mean they know a lot of

stuff they might

but I doubt it I doubt it

so that's a big risk all right

um

I love watching CNN reporting on Fox

News

because it's always so biased and they

like to slip in their fake news in the

sentence that just otherwise seems

innocuous

so you just assume that the fake news is

real because the rest of the sentence

seemed pretty reasonable all right

here's an example

if you're following the Fox News and

Dominion lawsuits

here's what CNN says about it now this

isn't just as part of a larger article

but this is just one sentence that I

want to call out for amazing weaselness

all right here CNN CNN website says

uh but that was several weeks ago before

Dominion Unleashed a trove of

embarrassing text messages and testimony

from Fox Executives and personalities

that suggested they knowingly aired at

Trump's false claims about the 2020

election

huh

did that happen

in the real world did that happen

no no that didn't happen

but they just put it in a sentence like

like well we all know this happened

just sort of obvious has happened

now let me let me be more specific when

I say it didn't happen there is no

smoking gun

in in the Dominion lawsuit because we've

seen the texts that are the most

embarrassing

the most embarrassing ones

do not have any admission that they were

aware that Trump was wrong

how could they

how could anybody know Trump was wrong

you could know some of his specific

claims didn't hold up in court

I mean that's verifiable

but you don't know he's wrong

you can't prove a negative

so according to CNN yeah they can not

only read the minds of the people

but then they look at their writing that

does not say what they wanted to say it

does not say

we knew that he was lying and we acted

like we didn't know nobody said anything

like that they said stuff like this is

the content that are uh that our people

want to see

they've said in some cases that they

didn't believe the election was rigged

but that has nothing to do with whether

Trump believed it

you know the if Trump believed it that's

the news

then they were just reporting the news

yeah so I don't think that there's any

evidence that somebody knowingly puts

something on that they knew was false I

don't think that's an Evidence

so it always amuses me to see that and

see that it will just drop that in there

like it's a fact when it's not

um did you know that Ron DeSantis is

trying to make it easier to sue the

media if you're a public figure what do

you think of that

do you think that public figures

should be able to sue the media more

easily

I think that's a good idea

yeah

did I have any lawsuits there would be

it would probably end the media

do you think it's a good idea if you

knew it would put the news business out

of business

or that the news business would not say

negative things about people because

they might be afraid of getting sued

yeah the uh the First Amendment

would allow

you know anybody to say anything as long

as it's not you know knowingly malicious

but I guess the proposed change would

make it easier for the

for the public figure to sue

now let me ask you this

um the headline of almost every major

publication in the last

a month

ran a story about me

that painted me as a racist

was that an accurate story

it was a headline there was a headline

everywhere is that accurate

how many of them reported that I was

complaining about racists who didn't

like me

that the context was about other racists

and that those racists

didn't like me so I'd want to stay away

from those racists

did any of them report that

do you think that it cost me any money

Millions yeah millions and millions of

dollars

fake news

now

what I say is fake I only mean that they

left the context out that would have

reversed the meaning of the story it

wasn't fake that I said things that

other people say sound racist that was

true

but if you leave out the reason I said

it

it reverses the meaning

would I have a lawsuit

if Rodney census makes it easier for me

to sue do I have a suit

well some a lot of you are saying no

under the current rules I'd say no

under the current rules I'd say no

because you have to prove malice and it

would be too easy for them to say malice

I have no malice

I just thought that was true

right it's a it's an Ultimate Defense

what we thought it was true

we didn't look into it very closely but

we thought it was true on first you know

on the surface

I don't think I should be able to sue

for that

because if I did I'd put the entire

media on a business

I mean the the size the size of what

they did just to me

was enormous

just the size of it just put this think

of the scale of what they did to me just

the scale

is huge

now

you know there's a part of me that you

know always wants to set the world right

and you know get revenge or something

but I really don't think I should have

that right

I don't think that you would be served

if I could do that more easily

because it would just remove your news

they just wouldn't be able to have a

business model

that's what I think so I think uh

DeSantis is on some

uh Dangerous Ground here yet I

completely understand the motivation

you know having been a uh in the Target

zone for malicious media treatment

you know I understand it I just don't

think you can win that way

all right

um

so I feel like there's something

happening in the mindset or

something

here's a story that I don't know that I

would have seen

two months ago you tell me does this

sound like something that would have

been said two months ago

um so you know the story about Leah

Thomas the trans athlete who competes as

a woman and is beating most of the women

most of the time and of course

the women who are born as women say

that's unfair

they would say they're competing against

a biological male is what they say

but here's what's different

this uh Riley is it rightly gains

uh Riley Gaines who's a female born

female and a competitive swimmer and

she's coming out directly

and with she's not shading any of her

opinion she's just saying this is a man

we're competing against men this is bad

for women

and it's being reported at least by Fox

News and probably others just directly

what she says

have we reached the point where people

don't need to be so polite

because it seems like two months ago the

way she would have had to say this is

uh

Leah Thomas she they would have said she

in all cases two months ago she

is a problem for other women because

it's you know unfair or something but

you know we hope that she finds a place

to compete

and she is too strong for you know the

competitors and she makes it unfair

doesn't it feel like two months ago you

would have had to buy into the the

pronoun

but now she's just on the news saying

it's a man

I'm competing against a man

and that's not that's not fair for women

but but let me forget about the topic

for a moment right forget about the

topic

does it feel like she has more free

speech than even a few months ago

or is that my imagination because I

might be biased about this

yeah it feels like people are now saying

directly you're just men with mental

illness

people are saying that directly no no

this is not about wokeness this is

people with mental illness

who are trying to jump on a theme now

just to be clear

I think people are so different

and there's so many different kinds of

people with kinds of minds and

everything else I do think

that there are people who have some

general you know genuine situation where

the only thing that can make them happy

is gender reassignment

as adults kids kids is a different

situation of course

but

I don't think it should be illegal

for somebody to change their gender if

that's what they need because they're

adults and we're not in their bodies

we're not in their brains we can't make

decisions for them

but is it not clear that it's gone too

far

and is it not clear that it has

attracted people with just mental

illness

and that if we treat them mentally ill

the same as somebody who's just let's

say operating based on their freedom

this is somebody who says you know I

think this would make me happier and

then they do it it makes them happier

good for them

but I feel like Society has kind of

reached a limit

yeah it's too far

it's too far

and I think that

um

treating Leah Thomas

as a woman

would make sense in almost any other

context

if Leah Thomas wants to live that kind

of life

it's a free world I think people should

just do what makes them happy if it

doesn't hurt me

but once once that preference is taken

into this specific context of sports

um I don't have any problem with the

women who were affected by it saying

we're competing against men

to me that doesn't even that doesn't

even feel impolite not even a little bit

so I feel that that's a change

I feel that I feel like I would have

been canceled

just for this

am I wrong

even what I just said I feel like I

would have been canceled two months ago

but I don't feel like that's out of

Bounds at the moment I feel like we're

we're achieving some kind of clarified

understanding of the situation which is

it's not all about everybody trans is

good all the time

and it's definitely not everybody trans

is mentally ill

as long as we can get out of the binary

I think we'll be okay

it can be true that it's good for some

people and isn't it good that they can

do what they need to do and it could be

also true that the mentally ill have

taken over the category

to me it looks like it to me it looks

like a lot of mental illness

masquerading as something else

now that wouldn't be different from any

other any other topic would it in almost

every topic

there's somebody who's mentally ill this

being mistaken for like a legitimate

voice

take racism

you know there's all kinds of I'll call

it normal racism

but then there's crazy racism isn't

there

isn't there crazy racism wait a minute

that's not racism that's just mental

disorder that is just mental disorder as

soon as you call that racism

it just gets confusing you're getting

lost in the binary that people are

racist they're not racists you know that

little simplified world

and I I would say that almost every

major topic has some important people

who are involved who are actually just

mentally ill

and they get confused with the serious

people who just have different opinions

yeah well Greta is a good example Grant

is a good example now

Greta appears to be from the outside

somebody who's suffering from a mental

I won't say doesn't look like any

organic mental problem but it looks like

a mental condition

brought on by you know media forces

and there are probably a lot of young

people who have the same alarmist PTSD

feeling about climate change that they

better act now or they'll be dead in six

years we have left or whatever the crazy

number is

so

Greta to me

looks like somebody's suffering from

some kind of mental

issue which doesn't mean she's wrong the

question of whether she's right or wrong

is completely separate

it just doesn't look like that's the

motivation

from the outside I can't read her mind I

can't diagnose her you know you

shouldn't listen to anything I say about

anybody else's Mental Health

but

from the outside that's what it looks

like

liberalism is a mental disorder Michael

Savage says but again it's a matter of

degrees

being a being a moderate Democrat is

definitely not a mental disorder

does anybody think it is

does anybody think you know let's say

old Bill Clinton the old Bill Clinton

Democrat was at a mental disorder

you look like the most rational guy

we've ever had as a president to me

but certainly there are things that you

would call liberal or Progressive today

that in my opinion

they get in a little too far into Mental

Health

and not so much about politics

so I think it's a I think it's important

that we can call out mental health as a

variable

isn't it

and doesn't that move things forward

if you can say you know

yeah here's the other thing people like

me who are just tired of having to lie

I just got tired of lying

so I just started saying what I was

actually thinking

and of course you canceled is very very

expensive

but I don't have a moment of regret

and I feel like it's useful

for you to see people like me

who took a back full of arrows I don't

have a single regret

and maybe that's good maybe the system

needs people who are willing to you know

run at the pill box first

that just happened to be me this time

next time it will be somebody else

all right

um I have a theory that the media is the

root cause of all of America's current

problems

and I'm going to build this into a

bigger theme and it goes like this

um

the the the basis the basis of the I'm

going to talk about that chart the basis

of the hypothesis is this

that when

we got the internet

and we learned to be able to count the

number of clicks on a story which is the

first time we could know with certainty

every little Nuance of oh this headline

gets more clicks this story gives more

clicks which was a little bit harder to

deduce

back when the news was just on TV and it

was three people reading the news

but once you could tell exactly what

would get people excited which was

correlated with profits

then you had to chase you had to chase

the outrage

so once we monetized outrage

everything else came out of that

monetized outrage

so at this point the media is no longer

about the news it's about monetizing

outrage the news is just the ingredients

but the cake is outrage right they could

use those ingredients to inform us to

lift us up to Enlighten us but they

don't have a business model that would

support any of that crap so instead they

they surf as outrage because that's

where the bunny is

now as long as you have that system can

you have a healthy country

I would argue it's impossible

without changing something I'm not even

sure what needs to be changed but the

current situation is a fast road to

destruction

let me give you an example of some of

the things in my opinion

the media

is the sole reason for all of the

problems and if this doesn't shock you I

don't know I will

and before I read them I'll give you

this uh this backup

there's some graphs that just went by in

the locals platform because they can put

images in with their comments and I saw

that in Twitter it was uh since 2010

uh the media massively increased

headlines they use fear anger and

disgust and sadness

because those things get clicks and it's

it's a dramatic change around 2010.

2010 is you know roughly when we knew

exactly what worked and what didn't yeah

roughly iPhone time

so basically you can tell that this is a

click bait related phenomenon would you

agree that the timing in 2010

you know coincident with smartphones

ish you know around that isn't it

obvious

that the headlines turn negative because

of a technological Improvement it's

obvious right

like that that part nobody doubts I

don't have to defend that any more than

the obvious right

so once you have that situation where

the news is not trying to help they're

trying they're actually trying to hurt

they're trying to hurt you because it's

profitable and when I say hurt you I

mean give you bad news that doesn't make

you feel good and maybe there's nothing

you can do about it anyway

all right here are things I think the

news literally destroyed

traditional American values

and I want to say in your comments agree

or disagree the traditional American

values have been destroyed by the media

not just the news not just the news but

movies

Etc

now I'm not going to make an argument

that traditional American values are

perfect and the only thing we should

consider

because traditional American values

that's you know too much racism and

sexism and you know add other issues

lots of other issues

but when you are would you agree with me

that as an operating system for the

country it worked to keep cohesion even

with all of its problems it kept

cohesion and that cohesion was applied

toward you know Merit and hard work and

that's what built the country

the country was built on trust

you don't know how important trust is

which I believe is a religious

traditional value

right you don't get trust unless you

think God was watching

am I wrong

if you thought there's no God you would

just say well if I can get away with it

I can get away with it but if you think

you're going to burn in hell forever if

you lie to your business partner

you might be less inclined to do it well

I don't want to burn forever so I'll

tell the truth

so I think that the traditional American

values created an operating system for

the country that was super successful

and that the media

has chipped away on it and in recent

years usually for good reasons usually

for good reasons I love I love

inclusiveness I like diversity I like

getting rid of racism

so the reasons are all good

it's just that you don't indulge in

those until you're already successful

there's a certain type of

way of thinking that I don't think

emerges until you've taken care of all

your big problems

you know and got the country Solid and

then people have the luxury of you now

I'm not sure everybody should have a job

can you imagine those of you who are in

my age range imagine in the 60s well I

guess in the 60s they were saying that

but imagine in like the 80s

somebody's saying how about Ubi would

just pay people to do nothing

you couldn't even have that conversation

it would have sounded ridiculous

because people have said no that's not

the operating system as soon as you pay

people for not working you're going to

get more now working how's that not

obvious

so

I think you have to succeed and I'll

come back to this theme before you can

be silly silliness is like a a luxury of

the successful

and especially their children

the children of successful people have

the greatest luxury of all because they

don't know what it takes to make the

money

they just know they don't need any at

the moment

all right I think Traditional Values was

destroyed by the media not that it

shouldn't have

I'm just saying it happened

I think the January 6 Insurrection story

is completely media driven

and as the media had told us well it was

a bunch of people who were unhappy about

the election but yeah and there was some

violence and that's the end of the story

you know the media could have covered

that that way right

how did the media cover the protests

when Trump got elected the first time

first time Trump got elected to huge

protests

media covered it while it was happening

and then it's not a story anymore

but this January 6 won the media uh you

know being the winged monkeys of the

Democrats decided that this needed to be

the main story you see

so is this good for you is it good for

the country that the media decided

Insurrection which was literally not

what happened

is it good for the country that they

made up a narrative

and then sold it for two years no it's

terrible for the country

how about racial division do you think

racial division is being driven by media

narratives

of course of course

do you think do you think racial

division got worse on its own

no no if you leave people alone they

kind of

they kind of say oh you're my neighbor

oh you're cool

I like you

it's just when we get you know charged

up by the the media click bait stuff

I mean how unhealthy is it that we see

on Twitter every day there's a new story

of black people hurting other people

right there's no way that's

representative of course but if you see

that kind of video every day

it's going to make you think wow

everywhere I go it's going to be this of

course that's not the case how about our

Mental Health

of course

of course the media has destroyed our

mental health does anybody doubt that

does that seem obvious to you that

they've destroyed our mental health

because they're they're giving us PTSD

they're making us we're you know

racially afraid of each other just every

possible negative thing that's coming

from the means how about climate change

and the way we're addressing it but

let's say energy policy

probably the biggest economic factor in

the world is energy don't you think

we're doing everything wrong because of

the news do you know why we don't have a

robust nuclear

um

nuclear industry in America

it's the media

it's the media yeah if you took the

media away scientists would say well you

know we're good at this now and it's

safe the current models are safe

and if the media just reported that well

it turns out the current models are safe

that's it we would have a robust

france-like nuclear energy

but we don't and the media did that that

was the media

um how about uh Tick Tock and banning it

don't you think Tick Tock would already

be banned

it it's only the media

that even allows this to happen

um the whole story about trans athletes

do you think that Leah Thomas would be

uh competing if the media did not

support her

of course not of course not if the media

reported that a man was competing as a

woman

it would end immediately

it's just the way it's framed

the moment that all of the media

reported the story

there's a man

competing as a woman

which by the way is the only one way to

frame it the other way to frame it is

she's a woman and you know she has

advantages

but if the media decided that they

didn't want this to happen

they just say oh there's this man

competing as a woman and then everybody

would have no problem Banning it because

they know they'd be safe well the media

says there's a man competing as a woman

so obviously we can ban him they would

be able to say in that case from

competing

but right now the media says

that you know treat everybody according

to their gender preference and so if you

were to complain about it

the media is this you know has worked up

a bunch of people to complain about you

so that's a media problem how about uh

population decline

do you think the population in in mostly

industrialized countries do you believe

the population is declining because of

natural reasons you know just economics

or uh do you think the media has a lot

to do with it the media there are young

people who literally don't want to have

babies because of climate change

well betters a lot of them I bet there's

a lot of them and I don't see the media

saying having babies is good and Noble

and American and necessary

I don't even if there's an if there's a

media story about babies it's going to

be how they're too expensive

right yeah or people are way happy

without babies surprise we found that

women are happier without babies I've

seen that story

I've seen that story

I don't know how true it is but I've

seen that story how about uh the Ukraine

war

do you think we'd be at War if half the

country did not support it and do you

think half the country would support it

if the media had not told them to

now everybody's opinion this comes from

in the media all of it

so the only way you have a war is if the

media says it's okay

if if CNN and Fox News said this is

insane stay away from Ukraine you know

let whatever happens happens and by the

way that's not necessarily my opinion

I'm just saying that the media decides

if you're in war

is not the government the government

doesn't have the power to create a war

and sustain it without media support now

they only need half of the media

they don't need the left and the right

you either one would be enough

probably but they can't do it without

the media so the media creates our Wars

we wouldn't be in Ukraine with them

um

and that that was just the things that

that came to my head immediately

what about the bank run do you think

we'd have a bank run if the news covered

it differently

the bank run is completely a media

phenomenon it's not a banking phenomenon

it is a media phenomenon if the media

tells you the banks are failing they

will fail

if the media says oh this is one special

case don't worry about it

the banks will succeed

now they do have actual structural you

know issues of having enough reserves

and all that but I think those are the

problems we could figure out

the thing you can't figure out is if

everybody tries to withdraw their money

at the same time that you can't figure

out and the media is bringing us very

close

to the point where that's a risk I don't

think we're there but

try to try to think of any problem in

the world that's one of the big ones and

don't and see if you can see any problem

any problem that isn't isn't either

entirely caused by the media or

influenced in the wrong way by the media

it's actually everything

it's everything

all of our problems with the media do

you know why we don't talk about this

more

who would do the talking you're not

going to get invited by the media to

talk about the media being a bad

right so if it doesn't happen on

something like this an independent live

stream you're not going to hear it

so there's pretty much no issue that

isn't being destroyed by the media

and

uh here's a new poll Charlie Kirk

tweeted about this uh new Poll for

Newsweek shows that 69 percent of

Americans believe January 6 was less

violent than reported by the fake news

media just 26 26 percent believe it was

more violent than reported

that that spunky little 25 26 percent

they can get every question wrong

all right um

so here's my question

have you ever noticed that there are a

lot of ancient civilizations

that left advanced cities at least

Advanced by their standards uh that just

got covered with dirt

do you ever wonder about that

How uh

how is that that so many like buried

cities exist where there was once this

thriving City and now every single

person is gone and they've been gone so

long that the whole thing covered with

dirt so you didn't even know it was

there

now I assume there are a number of

reasons one of those reasons could be

you know economic

maybe there's a drought

well uh maybe there's a natural disaster

in in Central and South America maybe it

was smallpox that came in from Europe

so there's a bunch of reasons yeah

volcanoes Etc but collectively in my

opinion

they don't seem to explain all of it

now of course this is just a subjective

you know kind of a view but to me it

looks like there's something else that

wipes out with civilizations

and it does it reliably that's the

problem it's the reliable part like it

seems like they all get wiped out

you know it makes me wonder if there's a

common

there's a common theme

and here's what I believe

I believe if you have you know hundreds

of millions of humans running around

some of them will have philosophies and

mindsets that will drive them towards

success

where they could build a civilization

and some will not

some will have more tribal everything's

fine the way it is tomorrow is the same

as yesterday and then they would not

drive toward you know building

civilizations

but here's my hypothesis

that when there's a coincidental correct

mindset in some group of humans and

let's say early America was the perfect

example the early American mindset was

really really optimized for building uh

economics and civilization and so it did

so America America was sprang up from

that

but here we are highly successful you

know arguably the strongest Nation on

Earth at some point

and once you're the strongest nation and

you can feed everybody and all of your

major problems seem solved

then you have the luxury

of the useless people having a bigger

voice

the useless people or anybody whose view

would take you away from the mindset of

success

I call those the useless people now you

don't have that many useless people

until you're really successful

it's like the children of successful

people become the useless generation

because they don't know what they don't

know what it takes to succeed they just

sort of were born into a good situation

but but now they're sure that they have

good ideas and you should all listen to

them

narcissists mostly so my theory is that

every every successful civilization

requires a success mindset they can be

different right the success mindset for

let's say the crit Christian biased you

know traditional family would be

different from

I don't know let's say some early

Muslims civilization that was also

successful they would have different

mindsets but both of them optimized for

some kind of success but once that

successful civilization becomes strong

enough it breeds

the second generation of people who

didn't who don't get it and they think

they need to change the mindset to

improve it

so now we're seeing the the viruses

the Dei the CRT the ESG climate alarm

you know the the trans Stuff Etc and a

hundred percent of it is either

anti-population or anti-success

anti-merit anti-economics

anti-everything that worked

and here's my guess I bet that's what

happened to other civilizations

I'll bet that success breathes a useless

class the useless class gains power

because nobody thinks to stop them it's

just talk

right if you have freedom of speech like

oh they're just talking

they're just talking everybody gets to

talk but at some point that talking

becomes so toxic and corrosive that uh

uh I'm gonna pull myself back from

something I was just going to say right

there

um

but maybe I'll tell you later yeah

there's something I'm going to tell you

later the the locals people already

heard it because they get the special

stuff

but uh YouTube you're not ready for this

information so I'm going to hold back on

that

um I'll tell you later though I I just

have to wait

so I think that we're heading toward at

least America is heading toward a

civilization collapse that is directly

caused by the media

the media allowing the the mindset of

success that drove America to be

corrupted because they get more clicks

for that

right so the people complaining about

the system and protesting they're

causing clicks and then they get more

people because the media tells you

what's true and now the media is sort of

the winged monkeys of all the people who

have the anti-success mindset

they're the ones telling us that we're

uh the real problem is racism

is it

the the only reason we have a racism

problem is because

well not the only reason but the biggest

reason is because the media told us to

they told us what to think and here we

are

yeah

so I think we're actually heading toward

a Extinction event in America and

everybody can see it

would you agree

everyone can see it

but here's what I think is the good news

earlier when I said could you talk about

Leah Thomas in direct terms even two

months ago

but today you can

have you noticed that since I got

canceled the discussions about race have

expanded that might be just my

impression I don't know but I feel like

you can speak more freely

about race and gender

and more freely about mindset success

mindset

and I'm seeing I'm seeing a little bit

more of it emerge right it takes some

people to

you know basically get canceled

before people will take anything

seriously

so I think it can be saved but we are on

an Extinction path America is not that

we'll have it

not that we will be extinct but that if

we don't change direction I mean we're

running right toward the cliff as fast

as we can and I think that before we get

to the cliff these smart people will

emerge

I bring you back to an earlier story

about Elon Musk looking to

help us pull us AI

Elon Musk is not the media

Elon Musk is a dad

and in many ways he's a dad first

right you think of him as rich as guy

and SpaceX and Tesla and all that but I

think he's a dad first

I think he's a dad first and when he

says you know the dad of all dads says

you should pause AI

and then a whole bunch of other smart

people agree completely

that is useful

that is the solution to the media Elon

Musk by buying Twitter and restoring in

my opinion restoring free speech to

Twitter is

the biggest thing that's happened in

years

it's the biggest thing because only

Twitter

is like slightly free at the moment

and it might be you know with the help

of the internet dads and internet moms

it might be the thing that drives us

back to sanity

it might

but right now the media and the

Democrats in particular

are on a toxic March toward destruction

and the only counterbalance will not

come from the media is going to have to

come from Twitter and people like Elon

Musk and the people who are willing to

get shot down

so and I also think that some people uh

and I'll use my own example as

the uh the perfect example I guess

some of us are just done

some of us are just done lying

and here's the other thing

you can beat up white people for a long

time and white men in particular

you can beat up white men for a long

time

until you can't

that's all

you you can you can on white men as

long as you want

until you can't

until you can't

all right

um

here's the media again so this is this

was in the news today new research shows

that physical exercise has little mental

benefits

New York Post

that's right the media is telling you

that exercise

might not be good for your brain after

all

you pieces of

no that's not true you know

that's not true you know that's not

true

you know that's not true you

know that

yeah and wine is good for you

wine is good for you

you media

you you're trying to kill us now

do you how many of you think that that's

true now here's what they did they

looked at all the studies and they

decided the studies were underpowered or

in some cases inadequate they did not

they did not prove that exercise is not

good for the brain they proved that

studies suck

here's how the news here's how this news

should have read

a study shows that studies suck that was

the only news

that's the only thing they proved they

looked at the studies and they said the

way you did all these studies is bad

that's good news I mean that's useful

news hey studies show that studies are

all bad

I I would like that but no do not tell

me the exercise doesn't help me think

because I know that that's not true I

know that's not true

oh it really pisses me off I don't know

if you could tell but I'm really pissed

off about that

it could there be a better example of

the media trying to kill us

I mean this is like just trying to

end the country

this is so wrong

so wrong

somebody says the author is fat

maybe I doubt it but maybe

um

anyway

let's see I think I have some more notes

I haven't ripped up yet

um is anybody following the story of uh

Netanyahu and Israel and some judicial

reforms

how many of you know the details of that

story

all right so you're I don't I'm not good

on the details but it looks important so

let me tell you what I know

so Netanyahu is prime minister

is trying to put through some

legislation that would give more power

to the government

and decrease the power of the judicial

system in Israel

does that sound like a good idea to you

if you didn't know anything else if

that's the only thing you knew does it

sound like a good idea

well it would depend if the judicial

system was out of control

right if the judicial system is truly

out of control

then maybe you could argue you need more

balance

I suppose I told you that the judicial

system

had grabbed some power for itself

not too long ago and what Netanyahu was

trying to do is claw back the power that

the judicial system initially claimed

for itself that was you know greater

than before now I don't think it's one

for one but in terms of just a Power

Balance it's a response

to a grab by the judicial system

and he's trying to you know grab back a

little bit which he would call balance

Maybe

and maybe maybe somebody else would call

a power grab yeah Joel Pollock is

reporting on this in Breitbart and

that's where I'm getting my updates so

here's what's uh important from the

outside

what would you think if you saw the

United States

Congress passing a law that seemed to

give them more power than the courts in

other words trying to take power away

from the courts wouldn't you reflexively

oppose that

just automatically

no you wouldn't

depends

yeah I guess the right answer is it

depends

but unless there was some like

National urgency

it just sounds like a bad idea

just on the surface but it doesn't make

it a bad idea

it doesn't make it a bad idea it just

means that on the surface it's the

scariest freaking idea I ever heard

oh the government wants to take power

away from the courts the Court's the

only thing that control the power of the

government and so the government would

like to take away the power of the only

thing that can control the power of the

government

I can see why the citizens are revolting

and I don't even think they need to know

the details

right but of course it's like everything

else it it became a left right thing

because the courts apparently

are more supportive of left-leaning

things in the government

if it's a conservative government is

more supportive of conservative things

so it's really just it has nothing to do

with the constitution in Israel has

everything to do with the left and the

right wanting to win

that's about it but

it's fun to watch

because you can imagine this situation

or something like it happening in in

America

so I think Netanyahu wisely uh put it on

the back burner because of public

response

but

you know interesting to watch

um I also saw that uh

did you know that there's a Gallup poll

showing that democrats favor

Palestinians over the Israelis for the

first time since the poll has been run

did you know that Americans are so

divided

that

that the left is favoring the

Palestinians and the right must be

favoring Israel I mean not completely

but you know by majority

now I'm not going to pick favorites

because there's you know good and bad

behavior by everyone everywhere so I'm

not going to get into the I'm not going

to call a favor here

well I am I mean I'm pro-israel I can't

hide that I'm very pro-israel but that

doesn't mean that the Palestinians have

no complaints is that fair

would you accept that as a balanced view

I'm completely pro-israel

but the Palestinians have some stuff to

complain about it's not baseless it's

not baseless

so but you know you need some kind of

balance there

um

I don't know that's pretty alarming that

we don't even agree on Israel anymore

all right

um

so it turns out that uh do you remember

that one

happy moment a few days ago where I was

saying my God

you think everything is so partisan but

it turns out our Congress can get things

done when it's important they can become

bipartisan when the country is at risk

and I saw that happening with tick tock

I was like oh my goodness finally some

bipartisan movement finally the the

Democrats the Republicans they're not

going to fight out fight over it like

it's you know some kind of left right

thing they're just going to do what's

right for the country and and there was

this bipartisan move to ban Tick Tock

and I thought wow

Golden Age here we come things are

looking good now

and then thanks to Tucker Carlson's

reporting

we learned that that was a trick

and there were there there's not a bill

to ban Tick Tock there's only a bill to

give the Congress more control over

social media in general

that's the opposite of what I want

that's not even close

yeah that was just a trick so

everybody everybody involved with this

now there may be more than one Tick Tock

bill

so I want to make sure I'm not throwing

the wrong people under the bus

but anybody who's

bipartisanly supporting this bill to

give them control over social media

you

you

I'm not even going to give you a

political or legal or practical opinion

on this

you

right this is pure evil

or incompetence or completely not caring

about the citizens of the United States

this is so unacceptable

you

that's all I've got to say about that

just you

all right

I guess I woke up with a little bit of a

attitude today

um

so you got that

yeah so apparently this uh the new

anti-tick-tock bill which doesn't

mention Tick Tock

um

it gives the government escorting to

Greg price in the Tweet says it gives

the government the ability to go after

anyone they deem as a national security

risk at which point they can access

everything from their computer to video

games to their ring light now I suppose

they could have done that anyway but

anything that gives the government more

power

over the people

without a specific threat

right just sort of generally we'd like

to have more power over you in this way

not cool

not cool

so let's hope that stops

well but at least the FDA approved

Narcan and there's going to be a good

boner spray too so that's the good news

um

oh I'm actually over the hour I was

trying to make this a short show

yes again

vdh and Vivek agree with you on our

destruction yeah yeah I think

um here's one of the things I love about

Vivek ramaswamy

I love the clarity

with which he presents his opinions

that is so good for the country so good

whether he wins or loses he's a pure

Patriot

at this point is a pure Patriot what

he's doing looks like it's expensive for

him he's going to take a lot of hits and

it appears purely good for the country

in the sense that it expands our you

know productive conversation about

everything

and I could not say enough good things

about what he's adding to the process

right now he's adding a lot

and I think he's going to make Trump

stronger I think he'll make the

Democrats have to up their game

hopefully in the in a productive way

so I don't know if he's going to win or

lose and I and by the way I don't agree

with everything he says but that's also

not necessary right if he says what if

he says his view clearly backs it up

with his reasoning and I still disagree

with him

I'm cool with that that's a good

situation I just want to see good

arguments uh without any like and he

seemed he provides that he provides so

far

all I've seen is complete honesty

and he's not pulling any punches

and he's such a good communicator that

every topic he touches gets better

that's that's my view everything he

touches gets better

through his clarific you know clear

language basically

uh he's I think he he made his money in

Tech I believe

uh don't let your thoughts get divided

against Trump

here's what I'm going to do

with talking about Trump

I think everybody knows who he is right

so there's not really any explaining

that needs to be done about Trump

he's just such a well-known entity at

this point that I don't really need to

change anybody's opinions about anything

you know I wouldn't feel any impulse to

even try so I think at this point the

the best way for me to talk about Trump

is the warts as well as the benefits

do you think that's fair

if I cover what I don't like about his

let's say his campaign

but I also cover what I like

everybody okay with that

because you know he's not exactly a

Flawless candidate

but but people understand that it's

transparent

Trump's flaws are so transparent like we

all see them the the funniest

conversation I have with the Democrats

we'll see if any of you have the same

experience the funniest conversation I

have is when they remind me of the bad

things he's done

and they think that's a reason that I

shouldn't want him to be president again

and I look at the list of bad things

he's done and I say I know about all

those

I know about Trump University

yeah I I've heard of that I've heard of

Stormy Daniels

I know all of that I still think he's

the best choice

probably I mean we'll we'll see what the

candidate situation shapes up as I can

change my mind now my first choice would

be Vivek because he's younger

I don't know if he has a if he has a

path because Trump's position is so

dominant it's hard to say but I think I

could be consistently saying that I'd

prefer Vivek at the same time I can say

Trump brings a set of benefits that

the country needs as well

my my biggest concern with Trump is that

he brings so much controversy that we

get lost in that

if the only thing we could get is you

know Trump's policies like on energy for

example

that would be cool but what he brings is

so much consternation from the other

side that you can't get anything done

and that's got to be part of the

analysis you know it's not his fault

entirely you can argue It Is by this

more of a media phenomenon

on the other hand do the Dem do the

Republicans not get to have their first

choice just because the media won't like

it that's not a good enough reason to

keep him out of office

so we'll have to deal with that I guess

he isn't owned you know that does seem

to be the case doesn't it

could you say at this point that no

matter what you liked or didn't like

about Trump

do you feel that he was owned by anybody

because I'm actually curious

I feel like now

I feel like now

yeah

owned by his ego somebody says well

we're all owned by our own egos

I

um

you say he's not owned but he's

manipulated well

I don't know

manipulated

you know one of the things you hear

about Trump is that he can change his

mind

you know who was it was saying that that

Trump will listen to an argument and

then listen to the next argument and

then you know change his mind to the new

argument

I want more of that not less of that

that's being presented as a like a flaw

the ability to change your mind with a

better argument is sort of an advantage

sort of an advantage now if it's a bad

argument and it changes his mind that's

a problem but he does seem pretty good

at spotting BS

so we'll see oh yeah Kimberly Guilfoyle

said that

all right

um

you know if if uh Trump

somehow I don't know goes to jail or

collapses in the

in the primaries

I've got a feeling that Vivek is your

emergency spare so I would keep him

totally inflated if you know what I mean

like I If you're a Republican

you should have a backup plan to Trump

because Anything could happen you know

part of its age right you know anything

could happen

uh

but there could be you know some legal

thing you didn't see coming anything so

I

I would say you know even if Vivek is

your first choice

you realistically Trump's you know

leading the pack but he could

self-destruct pretty easily

or somebody could destroy him easily

could happen

I don't think it will I think the odds

are that Trump will sail right through

and you know be in the general election

but you have to be ready for that

um

here's my current view on DeSantis

running

these smart people

seem to have reached a general agreement

and it goes like this

if he runs in 2024

DeSantis will be so destroyed by Trump

that he might be done forever

he might be done forever but if he just

continues to do a solid job in Florida

as you know the country's most beloved

conservative governor

then Trump will not be able to run in

2028

DeSantis is Young

it's the obvious play

the obvious play is to wait it's really

really obvious and I would say that a

hundred percent of the smart people

are now understanding that now before we

got close to the primary

we have the luxury of just looking them

as two candidates oh if I were to

individually look at DeSantis huh he

seems to have a lot of trump-like

qualities without the drama and people

like him and huh okay that's all good I

love that you look at Trump separately

and you know about Trump but as soon as

you imagine them competing

and then this is the important part

you haven't even seen Trump power up yet

Trump is still running at like half

power you know compared to where he will

be he started wearing a half power and

he's already taken the legs out of

DeSantis

he just keeps repeating his claims about

DeSantis and just repetition alone is

making him sink in

because you always talk about it you

know if if Trump says something bad

about DeSantis is a national headline

forever

right everybody knows Ron de

sanctimonious everybody knows so

as soon as you imagine the primary being

a competition you imagine Trump

destroying your favorite politician if

he is

and you think well I'd rather save my

favorite politician and then get

you know 12 years of Republicans somehow

uh what's the sticky one

is

I missed it all right that's all for you

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