Episode 2156 Scott Adams - The News Is Weird And I'm Here For It. Grab Some Coffee And Get In Here
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Well, you're going to be hot inside and out today. If you're in most of the United States, it's going to be over a hundred where I am, and I'm looking forward to it. It's time to get wet.
All right, let's talk about all the fun things in the news. Here's a little observation I made. I sure remember when I was younger that when people talked about things, they would often talk about things they liked, right? They'd say, I went on vacation. I liked it. There's a new TV show. I love it. There's a thing that happened. I went to the circus. It was great. Do you remember those days? And now what we talk about is things we don't do. Oh, let me tell you, I don't watch television. No, no. You do? Oh, you watch television? Oh, that's funny. No reason, no reason, no reason. No, no, but you watched television, right? I gave up television a long time ago. I'm superior to you in so many ways. The television is just one. It's just one of the many ways I'm superior to you because you watch television. Then we also do, don't drink Bud Light. I don't shop at Target. I don't watch CNN. I don't watch Fox. We're defining ourselves by what we don't do. Am I wrong? Is this new? It's kind of different. You used to define yourself by what you did. For example, I used to say I was a tennis player. Now I say I don't watch MSNBC. I've just defined myself by what I'm unwilling to do. All right, that's not a good sign probably.
Now here's a story that you knew was coming. Talk about the most predictable thing you could possibly predict. Gyms and fitness centers are now embracing fatness. So instead of getting you to look trim and muscular and etc., that's out the door. Now we're going to make you fat and happy. So you could be as fat as you want, but you need to be healthy. So they're going to work on your mental health and your strength, and your weight will be de-emphasized. So it's not about shedding pounds anymore. So the fatness will replace the fitness. And you also are coming. Is there anybody here who's on a dating site? Is there anybody in the audience who's using a dating app of any kind? Which is what I ask you. Dating app of any kind. Okay, my audience is too old. There's not a single person saying yes, or one. All right. I would just want to leave you with this question. Do the photos of the people on the dating app look about the same as they did before the pandemic? Have you noticed anything different? In the old days you'd see a lot of pictures of people from, you know, you'd see their whole body. And now the most common thing when people show their photo in any sense, whether it's a profile picture or anything else, the photo's like this much. Yeah, people are only showing this much of their body now. Hey, hey, don't ask about what's below this ad or above this ad. It's just this part. I've tried to sell you on this part. If I could get you sold on this part, maybe you won't ask as many questions about what's above the hand and below the hand. So that's new.
I heard that Rome said that the Coliseum would be available if Zuckerberg and Musk want to fight in there, in the Coliseum. To which I said, okay, there's no way you can make this story better, right? When I first heard that Zuckerberg and Musk might actually fight, I said to myself, well, it can't get better. And this is the ultimate entertaining story. There's no way you can make this better. And then I imagined them doing it in the Coliseum. Okay, that's better. That is better. I didn't think you could do it. You know, honestly, I didn't think it was possible, but that's better. And then I thought, if you're going to do it in the Coliseum, that's really only a little driving distance from the Vatican. Guess who would be the best referee? No, not Joe Rogan. The Pope. Can we get the Pope to referee the fight between Zuckerberg and Musk? And no, I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding. We got all the way to, look, we started with no story and we go all the way to Zuckerberg and Musk fighting in the Coliseum. You didn't see that coming. Which one of you predicted that? None of you, right? Can you admit you're not good at predicting the future?
All right. Well, I say the Pope will be the referee for a fight that may or may not be naked between Musk and Zuckerberg in the Coliseum. That's what I want, and I'm not willing to settle for anything less than that. I don't want anything less than that. That's my minimum bid.
All right. I gotta show you this. Did you happen to see the Trump Chris Christie tweet? Well, it was a truth, not a tweet. I gotta show you the picture because without the picture it doesn't work as well. Could be one moment. So there was a photograph of Chris Christie sleeping on a flight, and he wasn't looking too elegant. Yeah, here's a little picture. So Chris, he's just sort of, you know, slovenly spread out across the seat and a half on the flight. But the funny part is that Trump does a truth. He's so funny. He goes, Trump just titles it. He says, resting after a good 25 minutes of work. I know. Here's why Trump is so funny. He's completely, Trump is completely underrated as a humorist. He's one of the funniest people in the world, but because he has this other job, you know, you don't think about it. But here's why this is funny. It's resting after a good 25 minutes of work. The thing that sells this is the word good. If he said resting after 25 minutes of work, that's not really funny, is it? Resting after 25 minutes of work. It would just sort of lay there, wouldn't it? But he puts the word good in there. Resting after a good 25 minutes of work. It was the addition of the word good that turned it from a sentence into a joke. How many people would have known that? How many people would have known that if you put that word good in there it turns out funny? He does have a skill. It's a very special skill. He's completely underrated for his writing ability. As a writer, I would say as a writer of truths and tweets, he's just one of the best.
So then Chris Christie thought he would dunk on Trump. So after Trump does this perfect Trump truth, I mean it's perfectly in character, it's also a visual. Remember, I always teach you that Trump is the master of visual persuasion. When he talks about the wall, you can picture it in your mind, right? It's a visual thing even if there's no picture. Well, here this is a total visual persuasion. He doesn't need to tell you that Chris Christie has policies you won't like. He can just show a picture of him looking like a slob on a plane. You get the same benefit without all the thinking. So Trump's excellent at that. But so Trump basically gives him a total kill shot. But Chris Christie, he's not down and out yet. He tweets Trump's truth. So he's doing that thing where instead of minimizing it, you're embracing it, right? So he's embracing it sort of like Dark Brandon, you know, Biden trying to embrace Dark Brandon. So he tries to embrace it and he says, Chris Christie says of Trump, living rent free in Donald's head, make me a permanent resident. You know, donate money, blah blah. Living rent free in Donald's head. So I had to tweet about his tweet. So I tweeted Chris Christie's tweet and I said, pro tip: never hire an NPC to do your tweeting. You can test for NPCs by asking them if anyone is above the law. Now, sort of an ongoing joke here. So if that doesn't sound funny to you, it's because you don't know the background to it. But can I give you this advice? If you ever are tempted to say to somebody in 2023 that you're living rent free in their head, you have either fallen into some kind of a time dilation situation where you've traveled back in time to where that made sense to say and it sounds kind of new and edgy to you. Well, let me just say that in 2023 this is really worn out and only an NPC would say you're living rent free in somebody's head. For a while it was a good thing to say. It was pretty kind of clever. It's not clever anymore. It's not clever. And if somebody sings you as good as Trump saying to him, you could say something better than living rent free in Donald's head. All right, so that round goes to Trump.
I'd like to remind you again, this is something I have to remind myself of all the time. A lot of the people on Twitter that you imagine are trolls, you know, that they have some bad opinion and they're just coming in and saying bad things, you should know that a lot of them are just drunk. Like actually they're just drunk. And as soon as you tell yourself that they might be drunk, the experience changes completely. Have you had the experience where a drunk comes up to you and acts drunk and you don't like it, but you're processing it as you're dealing with a drunk? You don't process it as you're dealing with that person and their actual personality in a real situation. You say, oh, that's a drunk. Yeah, I get it. They're not hurting me. They're just drunk. They're just annoying. So trolls can really get under your skin, you know. They can say something that makes you look stupid. So you're like, ah, I'm not gonna look stupid. And I found that by far the best reply to control people who just come on to insult you is I like to say, morning drinking or drunk already. And what's interesting is the number of people who don't push back on that accusation. You'd expect people to say stuff like, I haven't had a drink since the 90s. You know, what do you mean? But they don't. They're usually drunk. I think they're actually drunk. And you know, if they're not drunk, they're inebriated on something. So there's a ton of stuff that you shouldn't think about at all. Just reply to them and ask them if they're drinking and don't say anything else. Don't follow up because they're going to say something like, you think I'm drinking? Look at your tweet. I think you're the one. You know, they're going to say something. It doesn't matter what they say. Just drop your comment that it appears they've been drinking and don't do anything else. Do not engage. You'll be much happier.
Well, there's something called the misery index. Have you heard of that? It's the combination of unemployment and inflation. So if you've got lots of unemployment at the same time you've got lots of inflation, that would be high on the misery index. Well, it turns out that the misery index is down to where it was when Biden took office. It did of course, as you know, zoom. We had high unemployment and high inflation, and both of them come down quite a bit. So the misery index is down. Now the misery index does not measure everything.
Yeah, that's interesting. What does it mean when Twitter says there's a rate limit that's reached? Does anybody know what that means? I just saw a tweet as a rate limit. Yeah, I don't know what that means. Anyway, we'll get to that story. The rate limit on it. I just saw that go by on the Locals platform.
Wall Street Journal has an editorial in which they're quite pointedly blaming Randi Weingarten for the fact that, well, I'm exaggerating a little bit, but in effect they're blaming Randi Weingarten, the head of the teachers union, the biggest teachers union, for the fact that you ever needed affirmative action, at least in the modern times. Yeah, the argument goes like this, and it's the argument I make, which is if our K-6 schools were good and they gave everybody, including people of color, a good education, you wouldn't have much of a question by the time colleges were looking at applicants because they'd just be looking at a whole bunch of qualified applicants. They'd just pick the good ones just like you think they should. But if you completely fail the, let's say the black community in particular, which is the current case, the black community in America is totally underserved in terms of education, and what are you going to do in college? We can't ask the colleges to fix the problem the Randi Weingarten union caused. Now the reason the union causes that is because they prevent competition and they prevent the easy firing of bad teachers. You put those two things together and you ruin the entire education process in America, which is what happened. It's exactly the predictable outcome you'd expect. It's, I don't know how it could be more obvious. Removing competition and not firing bad teachers is going to get you to exactly where we are now. I mean, who could see that coming?
So anyway, I just want to point out that the Wall Street Journal editorial is on the same page that I am, that systemic racism is really all about the teachers unions.
Could you give me a fact check on something I read? I don't know if this is true and I'm not saying this is relevant to the story. I'm just curious. So it's just curious. I read that Randi Weingarten is a lesbian married to a rabbi. She's a lesbian married to a rabbi. Can you confirm that that's true? So she's a, she's a, yes Paul, I do mean a Jew because that is what a rabbi is. That is correct. Thanks. Thanks for your penetrating insight. A good addition to the conversation. I like it. With a little anti-Semitism gets thrown onto everything. Could we go like a minute without something anti-Semitic happening in the comments on YouTube? Like just one minute. Like you don't have to say it on every story, right? We get it. We get it. I'm completely aware of your opinion. You just, it's just boring now. All right, you're not adding anything to the story except badness.
All right. Here's what I think would be a hilarious conclusion to the student loan forgiveness situation. As you know, the Supreme Court blocked the student loan forgiveness that Biden wanted. And we also assume that the reason Biden even offered to do the loan forgiveness is to get votes in the last midterm. So it looked like a political play that he couldn't really deliver. So now he's pretending that he can do some other clever way that probably won't work either. Even Nancy Pelosi said it was illegal. She said it directly. Totally illegal. Can't do it. It's not the president's responsibility. So since we think that Biden did this as purely a political move and never really expected to get any debt relief, shouldn't Trump match it with a matching amount? Don't you think? Because the most hilarious thing that Trump could do is to make a different plan that also is completely impractical and promise those same people that they're going to get money, you know, whether they vote Republican or Democrat. Well, okay, yeah, it's a long shot. But if you're 25 years old and you've got crushing debt from student loans, wouldn't you take a chance on Biden? I would. I think Biden's the worst president ever. And if I were 25 and I had, let's say, forty thousand dollars of student debt and he said there's a 10% chance I might be able to clear that debt, do you know how to calculate the value of that? That's a straight expected value calculation. You say to yourself, well, it's a forty thousand dollar loan, but there's only a 10% chance that Biden will make it go away. So you've multiplied the 10 times the forty thousand gets you four thousand dollars. Four thousand dollars is the value of buying into it, the conceptual value. So if you were a rational voter, you'd probably vote for Biden because it's free money or it looks like there's a chance of it. But Trump is offering nothing. Trump is not saying I have another way to handle this. He's offering nothing. And same with the other candidates. Imagine if you will that totally tongue-in-cheek, although he plays it straight, Trump says he's going to tax the liberal colleges to pay off all the student loans. Now the first thing you should ask yourself is, would that work? No, of course not. No, that wouldn't work. It wouldn't work even a little bit. You know what else it wouldn't work? The thing that Biden's doing. Biden's plan isn't going to work, but it works for votes, doesn't it? It totally works for votes. It's just not going to work in the real world like people get money and stuff. So if Trump came up with a total plan that everyone knew was, that's the funny part. Like you know it's just Trump being Trump and just promising more than maybe he could deliver. Although Trump doesn't actually intentionally promise more than he can deliver. I think he does actually try to build a wall. It just didn't happen. Whereas I think Biden is, he knows he's lying. Like I can't read his mind, but it's hard to imagine that he thought it would work when nobody else in the world thought it would work. So I don't know. Maybe he was the one person who believed it. Maybe so.
What do you think about the idea of saying that the colleges that caused the problem should be responsible for paying it off over time, not all at once but maybe paid off over time? Now some people say but they would just raise their prices, to which I say it's a free market. They can do whatever they want. And that other people could say I'll just use AI instead. Elon Musk tweeted today that the value of college is diminishing. So if you've got the smartest, richest person in the world who's saying in public the value of college is pretty questionable, I think we may reach a big turning point here. Because it's not until people like Elon Musk say college is not essential that it becomes true. It's not true until people like him say it, right? It's got to be your employer who says it. If your employer says it doesn't matter, then it doesn't matter. That he's a gigantic employer with also influence on other employers, so that's real. When Musk says that, it gets real. And he means it. You know, he's not joking. Yeah, and Harvard has their big endowment, etc.
All right. There's a report, I don't know if it's true. Benny Johnson had breaking news on this that he says the photos have leaked of Michelle Obama currently vacationing on a massive private yacht on a private island in Greece at the same time the Obamas were tweeting about the unfairness of the Supreme Court decision to disallow affirmative action. So she was on a yacht when she was complaining about how bad things are for black people in America. She was on a yacht, literally on an actual literal yacht. Like a real yacht, not conceptually, you know, not theoretically. She was actually on the yacht. A real yacht. Now this gave me the idea to suggest a new feature for Twitter that I'd like to see. I don't know if you do it technologically, but what I'd like to see is some kind of feature on Twitter that says that the tweeter was on a yacht when they sent the tweet. Because I'd like to know when the tweeter is drunk. You know, I'd love to see a breathalyzer before you can tweet. But I'd also like to know if the person is on a yacht. And I saw somebody suggest that there could be an icon for a little hypocrite on a yacht. I have a laughing all morning. What would that look like? What would the icon of a hypocrite even look like? Would it be Michelle Obama? It would just be a little icon of a yacht and Michelle Obama and that would be hypocrite on a yacht. I don't know why that's so funny. Yeah, Scott had a lot. At least it rhymes better. But hypocrite would be a hilarious icon. Hypocrite. All right. You can use that in so many ways.
Fox News has a couple of summer stories where they misinterpret somebody and make a big story. Who are they misinterpreting today? Something about the New York Times. New York Times had another story. They listed the various ways you could get out of student debt and one of the ways was dying. So I think Fox News is trying to act like the New York Times thinks that dying is a way to get out of your debt or something like that. Somehow they turned that into a story of outrage. It's definitely your summer stories. And then there was some state politician who said the suburbs. So now Fox News is going to be outraged about the suburbs. Now of course when you hear it in context it's more about they need to do something in the cities. She's not saying she doesn't care about the suburbs. But you know that's the way it'll be taken. So Fox News in the summers, there's just no, there's not enough hard news. So there's this whole industry of misinterpreting people's comments. I might be a little bit sensitive to that. I wonder why.
All right. I hear a lot of stuff about RFK Jr.'s voice and people are saying well that's going to hold it back. Now I think what will hold it back is his policy preferences. But let's talk about his voice. In my opinion politicians have two kinds of voices: commanding and pleading. And I believe that you can tell them when you hear them. And I'll give you some examples. Trump is a commanding voice. He's never pleading. He's commanding. Would you agree? Adam Schiff. What is Adam Schiff? Is he a commanding voice or a pleading voice? Pleading, right? How about Swalwell? Is Swalwell a commanding voice or a pleading voice? He's a pleading voice. How about Nancy Pelosi? Now Nancy Pelosi has, you know, with age she has her own shaky voice problems. Does she have a commanding voice or a pleading voice? She has a commanding voice. Nancy Pelosi has a commanding voice even though her voice is weak with age. The words that she chooses and the command which she puts into it is very evident. She has a commanding voice.
Now I'll give you a few more. See if you can get them right. Chris Christie. Tell me, is Chris Christie a commanding voice or a pleading voice? Commanding or pleading? Chris Christie. The answer is pleading. A lot of you are trying to substitute whining but I'm going to use pleading for all of that category of whining and complaining. All right, here's another one. Vivek Ramaswamy. Commanding or pleading? Commanding or pleading? It's Vivek Ramaswamy. Commanding. Absolutely commanding, right? Somebody said Josh Hawley. Josh Hawley has a commanding voice but don't be confused with the tone of his voice. What Josh Hawley has is a tonality that suggests command. That's actually not what I'm talking about because when I say Nancy Pelosi has a commanding voice it's not about her deep resonance. It's that the things she says and the sort of attitude she puts into it is commanding, right? And so Vivek is commanding. How about DeSantis? Ron DeSantis. Commanding or pleading? Commanding or pleading? Ron DeSantis. Pleading. Yeah, he has a pleading style. Now I'm not saying he's not a good executive or a good leader. He seems to be very good. Very good. All right. How about Mike Pence? Mike Pence. Commanding or pleading? Mike Pence. Pleading. Yeah, he's a pleader. All right. So now that you have the pleaders versus the commanders. Kamala Harris. Commanding or pleading? That was easy. That's pleading. All right. Now that you can see the pleaders versus the commanders, RFK Jr. Commanding or pleading? Commanding or pleading? RFK Jr. Yeah, his voice is commanding.
So here's what everybody's getting wrong. Number one, nobody ever talks over RFK Jr. You haven't noticed that, have you? When do you notice it? He's the only person in politics who will never get talked over. People stop. They lean in and they listen to every word and they wait until he's done. They wait until he's done and then they ask another polite question. That is as commanding as a voice can be. I would argue that he might have, with Trump, you know Trump's a singular character, but RFK Jr. has as commanding a voice as Trump. It's not the same. You know, good sound. It's not a Josh Hawley booming baritone but it's commanding as hell. It's completely commanding. So if you've missed that you've missed the story of his voice. The story of his voice is not that it sounds like Katharine Hepburn because so does Nancy Pelosi and she's commanding as hell, right? You wish you could be as commanding as she is. So it's not, it's definitely not gender. You know I'm trying to make sure you can see it's not gender and it's not quality of voice. It's not voice quality. It is absolutely word choice and attitude and he's got all of that.
All right. Now RFK Jr.'s policies don't appeal to me at the moment, you know, as he's expressed them, especially his support for affirmative action in colleges. But he's got the tools. He's got the tools.
All right, let's talk about how many of you are having a moment right now where you're thinking, holy, did you just reframe RFK Jr.'s voice into a positive? And you just watched me do it and I did it successfully. Is that messing with you at all? You're not buying it? All right, you're not buying it. Okay.
So I just decided to pay attention to France, which I usually don't pay attention to, but the riots are getting pretty bad. I thought I'd give you some statistics. So it's being caused by the death of a 17-year-old named Nahel. He was shot dead during a traffic stop and the video of the traffic stop doesn't look like it was a good shooting. So that's the claim. It doesn't look like he deserved to be shot. Nobody deserves to be shot but you know what I mean. And but worse than that apparently there have been 13 police shootings of people who are mostly black or Muslim. So it's about the police. It's basically a George Floyd situation playing out in France. So George Floyd plus Muslims. So you've got your Muslims and your blacks who both have something to complain about. Now apparently the statistics show that if you're Muslim or black and you were stopped by police, your odds of being shot are very high.
Now there's an obvious question here I think you know the obvious question which is does France have Asians? Can anybody answer that? Are there Asian French or is that almost non-existent? I would imagine they do. Somebody says Vietnamese. A lot of Vietnamese. Yeah, so they've got a lot of Asians. I was looking for the statistic on the number of Asians who have been slain by police in police stops in France. If anybody can find that number we should report it because I assume the police are shooting every all the minorities and we should make sure we have some data on the Asians in France because you know they're being shot at a pretty high rate, right? No, you assume they're all being shot at the same rate as the black and Muslims. I mean why wouldn't they be? A bunch of racists.
All right, it's 2023. Can we be honest with each other? Do you think it makes sense that we talk about culture? We're always talking culture. Oh this culture is different from this culture. You have to understand our lived experience, our culture, our culture. But isn't culture, doesn't that mean you act differently in the same situation? Wouldn't that be exactly what that is? A difference in culture is that if I go to celebrate versus you go to celebrate we might celebrate differently. If you get dressed and I get dressed maybe differently because your culture is different from mine. The whole point of a culture is you act differently, isn't it? It's not really a culture if everybody acted the same. But as soon as you get stopped by the police that goes all out the door and nobody has a culture anymore. It's 2023. People don't act the same when they're stopped by the police. There isn't a person in the whole planet, eight billion people, eight billion people. If you gave them a test and said on average, you know we know individuals could be all over the board but on average, do you believe that an Asian American or an Asian French person, whatever, do you think that when they're stopped by the police they act exactly the same as the black and Muslim people stopped by the police? Nobody believes that. There's not a single person in the world who believes that. There's not an Asian person who believes that. There's not a Muslim person who believes that. There's not a liberal person who believes that. There's not a conservative person who believes that. There's not a black person who believes it. There's not a white person. There's not anybody. There's not a single person. Eight billion of us. It's the one thing we agree on. Cultures are different and it definitely, definitely plays out in a traffic stop. There's no way that the Asians are acting the same as the blacks and the Muslims and everybody else. I mean you can throw the Irish in there if you want, right? Just throw the Irish in there. I have no idea if the Irish get in more fights than anybody else but if they have any identifiable cultural differences, which I don't know is the case, but if they did you'd expect it to carry out in lots of forms of life. Why in the world can't we say that? Why in the world can't you say the problem with all of this is that there's a clear cultural difference in how people react when they're stopped by police? There's no doubt about it. Literally nobody believes that they act the same. Nobody. Why would they get the same outcome? It doesn't make any sense at all.
So France of course is going through their craziness and we all get to wrap our own politics around it to make our own points like I just did.
All right. So here are some of the numbers over there. Over 1,300 people have been detained. 234 incidents of damage or fire in buildings. What damage? Could be minor damage I suppose. But listen to this. 79 police and gendarmes were injured. 79 police and gendarmes. I don't know what's the difference between a police and a gendarme. Does anybody know what's the difference between a French police officer and a gendarme? Or is it gendarmes? Gendarmes. Sorry. Gendarmes. What is it? It's a military police. Thank you. I knew somebody would know it. That's a lot of injuries. That's a crazy amount of injuries. 58 attacks on police and gendarme stations. 58 attacks. Can you hold that in your mind? Imagine if in the United States 58 police stations got attacked. That's a pretty big deal. That's a shocking number.
Blacks and Arabs in France according to a French human rights watchdog organization, I'm looking at a Mario Nawfal tweet, he says that the blacks and Arabs in France are 20 times more likely to be stopped by police. And what is the likelihood that they broke the law more than other people? I'm not saying they did. I'm just saying if that's not in the story it's kind of conspicuously missing there.
There's a, I've told you this before, there's a highway that goes through Oakland. Sometimes I find myself on a multi-lane highway. The left lane of course is for the fast people who are in a hurry but the left lane is almost entirely young black men going over 100 miles an hour. And of course there's no police presence there whatsoever. But the other lanes, three lanes or whatever it is, you know they're also speeding, right? You know because speed limit 65 or everybody's doing 80. But the left lane is like over a hundred just all the time and it's almost entirely young black men in cars, usually multiple young black men in cars. And you tell that the police have just decided to let that go. It's like they have their own express lane for young black men. If you were a police officer and your job was to do stops, you're just going to stop people and give them tickets, who would you rather stop? A 25-year-old woman in a Volkswagen because you might get a date out of that. You might get a date. You never know. Or would you rather stop one of the cars that's going 100 miles an hour with some gang bangers in it who are looking for trouble? If you're a cop you're going to stop the pretty girl because your numbers look exactly the same. How many tickets did you give? Well yeah that's a good number. Back to work. So no, to imagine that everybody's acting the same on the highway but then when they leave the highway and they get out of their cars they go back to their different cultures and then everything's different. Like as soon as they get within their culture they're all acting differently than the other cultures which is what a culture is. No problem with that. But then as soon as they get in a car they all act the same, right? Everybody acts the same once they get in the car. That's what we're asking ourselves to believe. It's stupid. So maybe 2023 is when you can say things that are true and you don't have to say things that are stupid to sound like you're the good person. Maybe.
All right. RFK Jr. said some more about his drug healing centers. I like the fact. So he's talking about having some places that are away from the city where people can eat organic food, heal spiritually, physically and emotionally and find themselves again. So he calls it healing camps. So it'd be like not a five-star resort but more of a camp in a nice place. I like everything about that. He didn't say but I think he's in favor of it that some of these treatment centers maybe should consider using mushrooms, maybe ketamine or something. Not a doctor but we need to start using the tools that we know work and we know that the psychedelic treatments do work. A hundred percent of the evidence shows that they do. It's like all really clear. Kratom? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know about kratom. I have not used it myself so I can't speak to it. I love everything about that.
Now you may remember that Trump had an idea for the homeless. So RFK Jr. is talking about the addicted. Trump was talking about the homeless but as you know the overlap is probably 80% or more. So actually RFK Jr. and Trump are very much very close on this idea. I would bet that RFK Jr. would be more likely to say yes to treatments that use hallucinogens and Trump would be less likely to be in favor of that because he's consistently anti-drug. And the thing is he came by it honestly so I don't hold it against him like I would other people. He's a lifelong non-drinker. He had a brother who died from alcohol. I got it. I got it. He's got a personal opinion that doesn't match the public in that area but we understand. Completely understand. So I don't think he's the best president for treating addiction. I think RFK Jr. would be the best president for dealing with addiction. But I think Vivek might be the best president for eradicating the cartels. So you've got a problem on the treatment side. RFK Jr. has the best plan I've heard. You've got a problem on the supply side. Vivek and Trump both want to go hard at the cartels but I'll take the younger president if I have a choice given the actual ages of the candidates.
All right, so that's enough on that. That's a potentially good news because when you see that Trump and RFK Jr. are not too far apart on the whole idea of building a separate area for the people who don't mix well with the rest of us, I feel like that's something that everybody could get behind. Is there anybody here who thinks those are bad ideas? To have a separate place for the people who need special treatment? What do you think? I like every part of it. We don't have a choice. All right. Deborah says in all caps I think it is not a good idea. Well since you used all caps you're going to have to disappear. Goodbye. All right. Well I think they're good ideas and at the very least what do I always say about good ideas? You never know if they're a good idea. There could be some hidden problem. But could you test it? How hard would it be to test a camp where you treat people? It seems like the most testable thing you could ever do. So absolutely.
All right. So the news is starting to ask this question. See if you've heard anybody mention this before. Does this sound familiar? Because the news is starting to say this now. Hey we have noticed we haven't seen a photograph of Prigozhin lately. Huh. I wonder if things aren't going as well for him as maybe we first thought. So CNN and other outlets are starting to say his plane went to Belarus. His plane went there and I guess his media empire got shut down and some other general who may or may not have been working with him is missing at the same time.
Now there was a photograph there on the internet that purported to show Prigozhin getting into a helicopter but he was holding the door with one hand and his hand was intact. But the real Prigozhin is missing part of a finger on one hand. And this is how clever the internet is. I was actually pretty impressed with this. So you see Prigozhin getting into the helicopter and it's obviously he must be a body double because he's got like a COVID mask on, I don't know why, and his bodyguard is real but obviously the guy getting into the helicopter has an intact hand and Prigozhin doesn't. So the internet was like oh let's, you know it's not the real guy. He's got a body double. Now it does seem to me like he should have a body double. If anyone were going to have a body double I'd say him. He and Putin would be high on the list. But then somebody said wait a minute. Somebody may have just reversed the image so it looks like it's his left hand but it would be his right hand. And the evidence they gave is that he was opening the pilot side door and there's no evidence he's a helicopter pilot. So if he were opening the pilot side and he's not a pilot they may have reversed the image so his right hand, it was his left hand.
Now further to that theory that that was a fake reverse picture, CNN says the last time he was seen was in Rostov. Now the helicopter thing was allegedly after he left Rostov. So if so, CNN is just saying the last time he was seen was Rostov. That means they're discounting the helicopter. So the helicopter I think we can write that off as a fake. But at first I thought it was something but it looked like a fake. Don't know exactly.
But is there anybody who thinks Putin was going to let him run around free? So I think CNN is also reporting that Ukraine is saying, Ukraine is saying so you can't trust them, but Ukraine is saying that the FSB, you know the Russian whatever force that is the head, is already put out and they're already trying to take him out. But you know why I think that's because it came from Ukraine and everything Ukraine says is a lie. Same with Russia during a war. Everything they say is a lie. But why would you kill him if you're Putin? The last thing in the world you want to do is kill him because he's the one who knows all of the information you need. There's only one person who knows everything you need to know. It's him. Everybody else knows part of what they know. They might know what they did but they don't know the scope of the coup plot. Only one person. And there's no way that Putin is going to let that one person who knows everything that Putin needs to know, which is who my traitors are, there's no way that they let him go. He's being tortured beyond any recognition. He's definitely going to talk one way or another. He's definitely going to talk and you're never going to see him again because he's not going to survive this process. So that's my prediction. That he's under Putin's control and you'll never see him again.
So watching the news slowly wake up to the obvious. The obvious being there's no way in hell they let him just go to live his life in Belarus. Are we serious? That's going to look so stupid in retrospect, won't it? Like in the moment people were willing to accept it because that's what people were reporting. But don't you think we're only maybe a month away from laughing about how stupid that was, right? He's just going to let him get on the plane and leave the country? Of course that's exactly what you do when somebody plans to kill you and take over your country and slay your family probably. Yeah, that's what you do. You allow them to fly to Belarus. Have a nice life. It's just going to seem so silly in retrospect and the entire news business reported it like it happened. Were you shocked by that? I think both the left and the right media all reported he went to Belarus like that was actually possible. I mean I guess it's physically possible but it's not possible in the real world that we know and understand. That was never possible. Why did they believe that?
Now can I say this as clearly as you need it to be said? If Prigozhin shows up alive tomorrow in Belarus, well aren't I the, we could all agree on that right? If he shows up alive and he was confirmed he's really alive. Okay we all agree I'm a total, everybody will, everybody take that? Yeah I will not even block you if that happens. I won't even block you. You should just get out of here. The news was right. You were wrong. Blah blah blah. Well he's definitely alive. Well I won't say definitely. He's most likely alive because Putin needs him alive at the moment. All right. So if I'm wrong on this you'll let me know. You have my blessing to do that.
That is the conclusion of the greatest live stream in the history of Fourth of July live streams. All right everybody tell me the predicted high temperature where you are today. Just give me the high temperature wherever you are today. 102, 70s, 100, 90s, 100, 105, 108. Wow that's the winner. 108 is the winner. 108. Is that Arizona? Who's got the 108? Arizona. 192.
Well where I live we're coming out of the best month of weather I've ever seen in my life. Never ever had a month like the last month in California. Every day it was room temperature with not much wind. It was unsettling. It felt like I had died and weather didn't work anymore. Like every, it was just the same inside and outside. There was no difference. It was the weirdest month. Last year was fires. This year not so much. So apparently California is doing a better job of managing the forest fires. I'm going to say that with a question at the end. The forest fires. Because there's no smoke and last year I think it was a little better as well. So maybe they've got a little handle on things. Maybe it's just luck. I don't know. Everything burned already. Well there's that. Yeah okay. Well it's a cool 87 in Florida. How about that.
Sarah that's too many capitals. Sarah I'm going to hide you on this channel. There's one thing you can be sure of. If somebody sends a long message in all caps what's the one thing you can be sure of? They're going to send exactly the same message multiple times. The one thing you can know for sure is if you see lots of caps. Oh that one's coming back. There it is again. And there it is again. And there it is again. Because if you're going to write in all caps you're not going to give up. You're not a quitter. I like it. You're not a quitter Sarah. No. Clear.
All right. Does anybody have a question? I'm just vamping until we're at the top of the hour. There's a reason for that. I'll tell you later.
All right. RFK can reframe affirmative action by saying well now that would work for Republicans. So the idea was RFK could say the courts have decided on affirmative action so let's not look backwards. Let's fix K-12. Actually that's pretty good. That's pretty good. Because that would be, that's the same advice I give Trump and the other Republicans on abortion. If you're running for president the best answer on abortion is it's no longer a president's question. It's been sent to the states. We've driven the decision down closer to the individual. You do have a fight in the states but I'm the president and we've now allocated the decision making to where it belongs and I'd like the states to do a good job on that. So I think you could weasel your way out of the abortion thing but maybe you could do the same by saying that K-12 is where the trouble is. RFK Jr. is pro union, right? I don't know if that's true but is he pro teachers union? If he's pro teachers union there's no place to go with that. You know a Republican could say all right now that the Supreme Court has ruled let's fix K-12. That's a strong, it's stronger from a Republican who wants to get rid of a union. That would be a stronger message because then you have an actual plan. If you say let's fix schools. Cheryl you're using like a dumb piece of, so where you're gonna go away because I know that comment's coming back. Those old comments. All right Cheryl Jackson go away.
Will Joe leave for health reasons? That's my guess. Yeah if Biden drops out it will be because there's a quote new health reason and he'll act like you know I was perfectly good until I got this bunion but this bunion is going to take me out. I cannot be a president with a bunion like this. And it's going to be some health problem that you say no I think the bigger problem was your brain stopped working a while ago. That looks like the bigger problem. Yeah bone spurs. He's got a bone spur. I can't be president with this bone spur. My sleep. Do you think the sleep apnea is the cats on the roof? It might be. It could be that the sleep apnea is that as they're trying to ease you into. But now that story started because he still had the indentation on his chin so I don't think that guy started intentionally. It just might be coincidentally advantageous.
How did I choose what hairstyle for Dilbert's boss? It evolved over time. It started out with like Larry Fink's hairstyle. You know Larry Fink CEO of BlackRock. So he's got the pointy hair boss hair but without the pointy part. Yeah he's got the two sides. So that's how the boss in Dilbert was originally. But one day I gave it a little height I think accidentally. You know I was just penciling and it got a little higher on one side and I said oh I'll make the other side a little higher. And then when it started to remind me of horns I wasn't full horn. I was like oh I'm gonna just make them full horns.
How long before you had to copyright Dilbert? Let me tell you about copyrights. Can somebody answer the question how long did it take me to copyright the first Dilbert that I drew? What's the answer? Somebody says one minute. Oh damn it you know the answer. The answer is zero seconds. It took me zero seconds to copyright it. Do you know why? Because copyright is immediate. It's on creation. So what, should I create another copyrighted image here? We go. There we go. Copyrighted. Copyrighted right there. Okay technically you couldn't copyright that because it's a stick figure but if I drawn something that wasn't a universal piece of art it would be copyrighted the moment I drew it. People confuse registering the copyright with having the copyright. Registering the copyright is what you do as a legal precaution in case somebody claims they made it first and you can't prove it. Because if you've got a piece of paper you drew on and somebody else has a piece of paper they drew on five years later, well how do you know? I suppose there's some science but you know generally it's hard to know who did something first. But if one of those draws it and then submits it to the government's copyright office then they have the superior claim which doesn't mean that they'll win because the other person might have let's say a videotape that showed them in real time making the original drawing in which case they could go to court and they could take that copyright away from the lying person who said they did it first but copyrighted it first.
So now the other thing that people are getting terribly terribly wrong is the story about Ivanka Trump getting some trademarks in China. You know that story. And the people on the left who are artists they don't know the difference between a trademark and a patent so they're like oh China has given them these trademarks. Oh you know favorable attention. They got these trademarks. I have trademarks in China. Do you know how hard it is to get a trademark in China? You just ask for it. There's just an office that gives them to you and they don't tell you you can't have them. You just pay your little fee and you get it. The only thing that you have to make sure you've done, and maybe the Trademark Office does this for you, is to make sure somebody didn't already use it. If it's not already used it's yours. So Ivanka submitted some trademark requests for something that nobody else was using and some bureaucrat in a Chinese bureaucracy somewhere, you know some nameless bureaucrat looked at it and said yep that was it. That's the whole story. There's nothing left out. And but on social media you'll see all the drunk trolls. Wow Ivanka got trademarks from China so it must be Chinese collusion. Learn what a trademark is and then go back at it. I mean yeah Marcela can tell you trademark is just paperwork. Everybody can do it. Do you want a trademark in China? You could have one in a week. You just hire a lawyer who does that and they submit some paperwork. Well it might take more than a week to approve it but it will get approved. China doesn't want to not approve it. They have no incentive to not approve it. They want people to do business and they don't want their trademarks to overlap. That's the whole story.
All right I think we've done what we need to do. All right I'm going to say bye to YouTube and I will see you tomorrow for another exciting live stream. Bye for now.
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would often talk about things they liked right they'd say I went on vacation I liked it there's a new TV show I love it there's a thing that happened I went to the circus it was great do you remember those days and now what we talk about is things we don't do oh let me tell you I don't watch television no no uh you do oh you watch television oh that's funny no reason no reason no reason no no but you watched Television right I gave up television long time ago I'm as Superior to you in so many ways the television is just one it's just one of the many ways I'm superior to you because you don't watch television then we also do don't drink Bud Light I don't shop at Target I don't watch CNN I don't watch foxes we're defining ourselves by what we don't do am I wrong with this new it's kind of different you used to define Yourself by what you did for example I used to say I was a tennis player now I say I don't watch MSNBC I've just defied myself by what I'm unwilling to do all right that's not a good sign probably uh now you knew here's a story that you knew was coming talk about the most predictable thing you could possibly predict gyms and fitness centers are now embracing fatness so instead of getting you to look you know trim and muscular and Etc that's out the door now we're going to make you fat and happy so you could be as fat as you want but you want to but you need to be healthy so they're going to work on your your mental health and your strength and your weight will be de-emphasized so it's not about the shedding pounds anymore so the fatness will replace the fitness and you also are coming is there anybody here who's on a dating site is there anybody in the audience who's using a dating app of any kind which is what I ask you dating app of any kind okay my audience is too old there's not a single person saying yes or one all right I wanna I would just want to leave you with this question do the photos of the people on the dating app look about the same as they did before the pandemic have you noticed anything different in the old days you'd see a lot of pictures of people from you know you'd see their whole body and now the most common thing when people show their photo in any sense whether it's a profile picture or anything else the the photos like this much yeah people are only showing this much of their body now hey hey don't ask about what's below this ad or above this ad it's just this part I've tried to sell you on this part if I could get you sold on this part maybe you want to ask as many questions about what's above the hand and below the hand so that's new um I heard that uh Rome said that the Coliseum would be available if Zuckerberg and musk want to fight in there and the Coliseum to which I said okay there's no way you can make this story better right when I first heard that Zuckerberg and musk might actually fight uh I I said to myself well it can't get better and this is the ultimate entertaining story there's no way you can make this better and then I imagine them doing it in the Coliseum okay that's better that is better I didn't think you could do it you know honestly I didn't think it was possible but that's better and then I thought if you're gonna do it in the Coliseum that's really only a little driving distance from the Vatican guess who would be the best referee no not Joe Rogan the Pope can we get the pope to referee the fight between Zuckerberg and musk and no I'm not kidding I'm not kidding we got all the way to look we started with no story and we go all the way to Zuckerberg and musk fighting in the Coliseum you didn't see that coming which one of you predicted that not a few right can you admit you're not going to predicting the future all right well I say the pope will be the referee for a fight that may or may not be naked between musk and Zuckerberg in the Coliseum that's what I want and I'm not going to will I'm not willing to settle for anything less than that I don't want anything less than that that's my minimum bid all right um I gotta show you this did you happen to see the Trump uh Chris Christie tweet well it was a truth not a tweet I gotta show you the picture because without the picture it doesn't it doesn't work as well could be one moment so there was a photograph of Chris Christie sleeping on a flight and he wasn't looking too elegant yeah here's a little picture so Chris he's just sort of you know slovenly spread out across the seat and a half on the flight but the funny part is that Trump does a truth he's so funny he goes Trump trump just titles it he says resting after a good 25 minutes of work I know here's why Trump is so funny he's completely Trump is completely underrated as a humorist he's one of the funniest people in the world but because he has this other job you know you don't think about it but here's why this is funny it's resting after a good 25 minutes of work the thing that sells this is the word good if he said resting after 25 minutes of work that's not really funny is it resting after 25 minutes of work it would just sort of lay there wouldn't it but he puts the word good in there resting after a good 25 minutes of work it was the addition of the word good that turned it from a sentence into a joke how many people would have known that how many people would have known that if you put that word good in there it turns out funny he does have a skill it's a very special skill he's completely underrated for his writing ability as a writer I would say as a writer of tweets and and Jews he's just one of the best so I uh then Chris Christie thought he would dunk on Trump so after Trump you know does this perfect Trump tweet I mean it's perfectly in character it's also a visual remember I I always teach you that Trump is the master of visual persuasion when he talks about the wall you can picture it in your mind right it's a visual thing even if there's no picture well here this is a total visual persuasion he doesn't need to tell you that Chris Christie has policies you won't like he can just show a picture of him looking like a slob on a plane you get the same benefit without all the thinking so Trump's excellent at that but so Trump basically you know gives him a total kill shot but Chris Christie's he's not down and out yet he tweets he tweets Trump's truth so he's doing that thing where instead of minimizing it you're you're embracing it right so he's embracing it sort of like uh dark Brandon you know Biden trying to embrace dark brown uh so he tries to embrace it and he says Chris Christie says of trump living rent free in Donald's head make me a permanent resident you know donate money blah blah living rent free and Donald's head so I had to tweet about his tweet so I tweeted Chris Christie's tweet and I said Pro tip never hire an NPC to do your tweeting you can test for NPCs by asking them if anyone is above the law now sort of a ongoing joke here so if that doesn't sound funny to you it's because you don't know the background to it but uh can I give you this advice if you ever are tempted to say to somebody in 2023 that you're living rent free in their head you have either fallen into some kind of a time dilation situation where you've traveled back in time to where that made sense to say and it sounds kind of new and edgy to you know well let me just say that in 2023 this is really worn out and only an NPC should say you're living rent-free in somebody's head for for a while it was a good thing to say it was pretty kind of clever it's not clever anymore it's not clever and if somebody sings You As Good As Trump saying to him ukulele something better than living rent free in Donald's head all right so that round goes to Trump um I'd like to remind you again this is something I have to remind myself of all the time a lot of the people on Twitter that you imagine are trolls you know that they have some bad opinion and they're just coming in and saying bad things you should know that a lot of them are just drunk like actually they're just drunk and as soon as you tell you that self that they might be drunk The Experience changes completely have you had the experience where a drunk comes up to you and acts drunk and you don't like it but you don't you're you're processing it as you're dealing with a drunk you don't process it as you're dealing with that person and their actual personality in a real situation you say oh that's a drunk yeah I get it they're not hurting me they're just drunk they're just annoying so troll trolls can really get under your skin you know they can say something that you know makes you look stupid so you're like ah I'm not gonna look stupid and I found that by far the best reply I just control people just come on to insult you is I like to say morning drinking or drunk already and what's interesting is the number of people who don't push back on that accusation you'd expect people to say stuff like I haven't had a drink since the 90s you know what do you mean but they don't they're usually drunk I think they're actually drunk and you know if they're not drunk they're inebriated on something so there's a ton of stuff that you shouldn't think about at all just reply to them and ask them if they're drinking and don't say anything else don't follow up because they're going to say something like you think I'm drinking look at your tweet I think you're the one you know they're going to say something it doesn't matter what they say just just drop just drop your comment that it appears they've been drinking and don't do anything else do not engage you'll be much happier well there's something called the misery index have you heard of that it's the combination of unemployment and inflation so if you've got lots of unemployment at the same time you got lots of inflation that's the that would be high of the misery index well it turns out that the misery index is down to where it was when Biden took office it did of course as you know is zoomed we had high unemployment and high inflation and both of them come down quite a bit so the ministry of next is down now the misery index does not measure everything yeah that's interesting what does it mean when Twitter says there's a rate limit that's reached does anybody know what that means I just saw a tweet as a rate limit yeah I don't know what that means anyway we'll get to that story that the rate limit on it I just saw the that go by on the locals platform uh Wall Street Journal has a editorial in which they're quite pointedly blaming Randy Weingarten for the fact that uh well I'm exaggerating a little bit but in effect they're blaming Randy Weingarten the head of the teachers unions the biggest teachers union for the fact that you you ever needed effort affirmative action at least in the modern times yeah the argument goes like this and it's the argument I make which is is if our k-6 schools were good and they gave everybody including people of color a good education you wouldn't have much of a question by the time colleges were looking at applicants because they'd just be looking at a whole bunch of qualified applicants they just pick the good ones just like you think they should but if you completely fail the let's say the black community in particular which is the current case the black community in America is totally underserved in terms of education and what are you going to do in college we can't ask the colleges to fix the problem the Ramsey wine Gardens um Union cost now the reason the union causes that is because they they prevent competition and they prevent the easy firing of Bad Teachers you put those two things together and you ruin the entire education process in America which is what happened it's exactly the predictable outcome you'd expect it's I don't know how it could be more obvious they're removing competition and not firing Bad Teachers is going to get you to exactly where we are now I mean who could see that coming so anyway I just want to point out that the Wall Street Journal editorial is on the same page that I am that systemic racism is really all about the teachers unions could you give me a fact check on something I read I don't know if this is true and I'm not I'm not saying this is relevant to the story I'm just curious so it's just curious I read that uh that Randy Weingarten is a lesbian married to a uh rabbi she's a lesbian married to a rabbi can you confirm that that's true so she's a uh she's uh yes Paul I do mean a Jew because that is what a rabbi is that is correct thanks thanks for your penetrating insight a good addition to the conversation I like it with a little anti-Semitism gets thrown onto every thing could we go like a minute without something anti-semitic happening in the comments on You.
Tube like just one minute like you don't have to say it on every story right we get it we get it I I'm completely aware of your opinion you just it's just boring now all right you're not adding anything to the story except Badness all right um here's what I think would be a hilarious conclusion to the uh uh the student loan forgiveness situation um as you know the Supreme Court blocked the student loan forgiveness that Biden wanted and we also assume that the reason we also assume that the reason that Biden even offered to do the loan forgiveness is to get votes in the last midterm so it looked like a political play that he couldn't really deliver so now he's pretending that he can do some other clever way that probably won't work either even Nancy Pelosi said it was illegal she said it directly totally illegal can't do it it's not the president's responsibility so since we think that Biden did this as purely a political move and never really expected to get any debt relief shouldn't Trump match his with a matching amount of don't you think because the most hilarious thing that Trump could do is to make a different plan that also is completely impractical and promised those same people that they're going to get money you know whether they vote Republican or Democrat well okay yeah it's a long shot but if you're 25 years old and you've got crushing debt from student loans wouldn't you take a chance on Biden I would I think Biden's the worst president ever and if I were 25 and I had they'll say forty thousand dollars of student debt and he said there's a 10 chance I might be able to clear that debt do you know how to calculate the value of that that's a straight expected value calculation you say to yourself well it's a forty thousand dollar loan but there's only a 10 chance that Biden will make it go away so you've multiplied the 10 times the Forty thousand gets you four thousand dollars four thousand dollars is the value of buy it into you the conceptual value so if you were a rational voter you'd probably vote for Biden because it's free money or it looks like there's a chance of it but but Trump is offering nothing Trump is not saying I have another way to handle this he's offering nothing and same with the other candidates imagine if you will that totally tongue-in-cheek although he plays it straight Trump says he's going to tax the liberal colleges to pay off all the student loans now the first thing you should ask yourself is would that work no of course not no that wouldn't work it wouldn't work even a little bit you know what else it wouldn't work the thing that Biden's doing Biden's plan isn't going to work but it works for votes doesn't it it totally works for votes it's just not going to work in the real world like people get money and stuff so if Trump came up with a total plan that everyone knew was that's the funny part like you know it's it's just Trump being Trump and just promising more than maybe he could deliver although Trump doesn't actually intentionally promise more than he can deliver I think he does actually try to build a wall it just didn't happen whereas I think Biden is he knows he's lying like I can't read his mind but it's hard to imagine that he thought it would work when nobody else in the world thought it would work so I don't know maybe he was the one person who believed it Maybe so what um yeah right so what do you think about the idea of saying that the colleges that cause the problem should be responsible for paying it off over time not all at once but maybe paid off over time now some people say but they would just raise their prices to which I say it's a free market they can do whatever they want and that other people could say I'll just use AI instead Elon Musk tweeted today that the value of college is you know diminishing so if you've got the smartest richest person in the world who's saying in public the value of college is you know pretty questionable I think we may reach a big Turning Point here because it's not until people like Elon Musk say college is not essential that it becomes true it's not true until people like him say it right it's got to be your employer who says it if your employer says it doesn't matter then it doesn't matter that he's you know a gigantic employer with also influence on other employers so that's real when musk says that gets real and he means it you know he's not joking yeah and Harvard has their big endowment Etc all right um there's a report I don't know if it's true Benny Johnson had a uh breaking news on this that he says the photos have leaked of Michelle Obama currently vacationing on a massive private yacht on a private island in Greece at the same time the Obamas were tweeting about the unfairness of the uh Supreme Court decision to disallow affirmative action so she was on a yacht when she was complaining about how bad things are for black people in America she was on a yacht literally on an actual literal little actual yacht like a real yacht not conceptually you know not the theoretically she was actually on the yacht a real yacht now this gave me the idea to suggest a new feature for Twitter that I'd like to see I don't know if you do it technologically but what I'd like to see is some kind of feature on Twitter that says that the Tweeter was on a yacht when they sent the tweet because I'd like to know when the Tweeter is drunk you know I'd love to see a breathalyzer before you can tweet but I'd also like to know if the person is on a yacht and I saw somebody suggest that there could be an icon for a little hypocrite on a yacht I have a laughing all morning what would that look like what would the icon of a hypocrite even look like would it be Michelle Obama it would just be a little icon of a yacht and Michelle Obama and that would be hypocrite on a yacht I don't know why that's so funny yeah Scott had a lot at least it rides better but hypocrite would be a hilarious icon hypocrite all right uh you can use that in so many ways um Fox News has a couple of uh Summer Stories where they misinterpret somebody and make a big story who are they misinterpreting today uh something about the New York Times uh New York Times other story they listed the various ways you could get out of student debt and one of the ways was dying so I think Fox News is trying to act like New York Times thinks that dying is a way to get out of your debt or something like that somehow they turned that into a story of outrage it's definitely your Summer Stories uh uh and then there was some State politician who said the suburbs so now so now Fox News is going to be outraged about the suburbs now of course when you hear it and when you hear it in context is more about they need to do something in the cities she's not saying she doesn't care about the suburbs but you know that's the way it'll be taken so so Fox News in the Summers there's just no there's not enough hard news so there's this whole industry of misinterpreting people's comments yeah I might be a little bit sensitive to that I wonder why all right I hear a lot of stuff about uh uh RFK Ju.
Ju's voice and people are saying well that's going to hold it back now I think what will hold it back is his policy preferences but let's talk about his voice um in my opinion politicians have two kinds of voices commanding and pleading and I believe that you can tell them when you hear them and I'll give you some examples Trump is a commanding voice he's never pleading he's commanding would you agree Adam Schiff what is Adam Schiff is he a commanding Voice or a pleading voice pleading right um how about uh swalwell is wall well a commanding Voice or a pleading voice he's a pleading voice how about Nancy Pelosi now Nancy Pelosi has you know with age she has her own shaky voice problems does she have a commanding Voice or a pleading voice she has a commandity voice Nancy Pelosi has a commanding voice even though her voices you know weak with age the the words that she chooses and the the command which he puts into it is very evident she has a commanding voice now I'll give you a few more see if you can get them right Chris Christie tell me is Chris Christie a commanding Voice or a pleading voice commanding or pleading Chris Christie the answer is pleading a lot of you are trying to substitute whining but I'm going to use pleading for all of that category of you know whining and complaining all right here's another one um let's see uh Vivek ramaswamy commanding or pleading commanding or planning it's a fake chroma Swami commanding absolutely commanding right uh somebody said Josh Hawley Josh Hawley has he has a commanding voice but don't be confused with the tone of his voice what Josh Hawley has is a tonality that suggests command that's actually not what I'm talking about because when I say Nancy Pelosi has a commanding voice it's not about her deep resonance is that the things she says and the sort of attitude she puts into it is commanding right and so physique is commanding how about uh De.
Santis Ron De.
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Santis pleading yeah he has a pleading Style now I'm not saying he's not a good executive or a good leader he seems to be very good very good uh all right how about Mike Pence Mike Pence commanding or pleading Mike Pence pleading yeah he's a pleader all right so now that I uh okay Kamala Harris commanding her pleading that was easy that's bleeding all right now now that you have the now that you can see the pleaders versus the Commanders RFK Jr commanding or pleading commanding or pleading RFK Jr go foreign yeah his voice is commanding so here's what everybody's getting wrong number one nobody ever talks over RFK Jr you haven't noticed that have you when do you notice it he's the only person in politics who will never get talked over people stop they lean in and they listen to every word and they wait until he's done they wait until he's done and then they ask another polite question that is as commanding as a voice can be I would argue that he might have with Trump you know Trump's a singular character but RFK Jr has as commanding a voice As Trump it's not the same you know good sound it's not a Josh Hawley you know booming baritone but it's commanding as hell is completely commanded so if you've missed that you've missed the story of his voice the story of his voice is not that it sounds like Catherine Hepburn because so does Nancy Pelosi and she's commanding as hell right you wish you could be as commanding as she is so it's not it's definitely not gender you know I'm trying to make sure you can see it's not gender and it's not quality of voice it's not voice quality it is absolutely word choice and attitude and he's got all of that all right now um RFK Jr's policies don't appeal to me at the moment you know as he's expressed them especially as support for affirmative action in colleges but uh he's got the he's got the tools he's got the tools all right let's talk about how many how many of you are having a moment right now where you're thinking holy did you just reframe RFK Junior's voice into a positive and you just watched me do it and I did it successfully is that messing with you at all you're not buying it all right you're not buying it okay um so I just decided to pay attention to France which I usually don't pay attention to but the the riots are getting pretty bad I thought I'd give you some statistics so it's being caused by the death of a 17 year old named nahel nahil I guess uh he was he was shot dead during a traffic stop and they and the video of the traffic stop doesn't look like it was a good shooting so that's the claim it doesn't look like you deserve to be shot nobody deserves to be shot but you know what I mean um and but worse than that apparently there have been what 13 uh police shootings of people who are mostly black or Muslim so it's about the police it's basically a George Floyd situation playing out in France so George Floyd plus Muslims so you got your Muslims and and your blacks who both have something to complain about now apparently there's a yeah the statistics show that if you're Muslim or black and you were stopped by police your odds are being shot are very high now there's an obvious question here I think you know the obvious question which is um does France have Asians can anybody answer that are there Asian French or is that almost non-existent I I would imagine they do somebody says Vietnamese a lot of Vietnamese yeah so they've got a lot of Asians um I was looking for the statistic on the number of uh Asians who have been slain by police and police stops in France if anybody can find that number we should report it because I assume I assume the police are shooting every all the minorities and we should make sure we have some data on the Asians in France because you know they're being shot at a pretty high list right no you assume they're all being shot at the same rate as the black and Muslims I mean why wouldn't they be a bunch of racists all right it's 20 23.
can we be honest with each other do you think it makes sense that we talk about culture we're always talking culture oh this culture is different from this culture you have to understand our lived experience our culture our culture but isn't culture doesn't that mean you act differently in the same situation wouldn't that be exactly what that is a difference in culture is that if I go to celebrate versus you've got to celebrate we might celebrate differently if you get dressed and I get dressed maybe differently because your culture is different from mine the whole point of a culture is you act differently isn't it it's not real a culture if everybody acted the same but as soon as you stopped by the police that goes all out the door and nobody has a culture anymore it's 20 23 people don't act the same when they're stopped by the police there isn't there isn't a person in the whole planet eight billion people eight billion people if you gave them a test and said on average you know we know individuals could be all over the board but on average do you believe that an Asian American or an Asian French French person whatever do you think that when they're stopped by the police they act exactly the same as the black and Muslim people stopped by the police nobody believes that there's not a single person in the world who believes that there's not an Asian person who believes that there's not a Muslim person who believes that there's not a liberal person who believes that there's not a conservative person who believes that there's not a black person who believes it there's not a white person there's not anybody there's not a single person eight billion of us is the one thing we agree on cultures are different and it definitely definitely plays out in a traffic stop there's no way that the Asians are acting the same as the blacks and the Muslims and everybody else I mean you can throw the Irish in there if you want right just throw the Irish in there I have no idea if the Irish get in more fights than anybody else but if they have any identifiable cultural differences which I don't know is the case but if they did you'd expect it to carry out and you know lots of forms of life why in the world can't we say that why in the world can't you say the problem with all of this is that there's a clear cultural difference in how people react when they're stopped by police there's no doubt about it literally nobody believes there's a that they act the same nobody why would they get the same outcome it doesn't make any sense at all so France of course is going through their craziness and we all get we all get to wrap our own politics around it to make our own points like I just did all right so here are some of the numbers over there um over 1300 people have been detained yeah but the 234 incidents of damage or fire in buildings modern what damage could be minor damage I suppose but listen to this 79 police and gender arms were injured 79 police and gender arms I don't know what's the difference between a police and a gen dorm does anybody know what's the difference between a French police officer and an agendarm or is it John John Darb's John darmes sorry Jean darb what is foreign it's a military police thank you I knew somebody would know it that's a lot of injuries that's a crazy amount of injuries 58 attacks on police and gender and jean-dong stations 58 attacks can you hold that in your mind imagine if in the United States 58 police stations got attacked and Jean darbs oh that that's a pretty big deal that's a shocking number um see what else blacks and Arabs in France according to a French human rights and watched org organization I'm looking at a Mario novel tweet he says that the blacks and Arabs in France are 20 times more likely to be stopped by police and what is the likelihood that they broke the law more than other people I'm not saying they did I'm just saying if that's not in the story it's kind of conspicuously missing there there's a uh I've told you this before there's there's a highway that goes through Oakland sometimes I find myself on a multi-lane highway the left lane of course is for the fast people who are in a hurry but the the left lane is almost entirely young black men going over 100 miles an hour and of course there's no police presence there whatsoever but the the other X Lanes three lanes or whatever it is you know they're also speeding right you know because speed limit 65 or everybody's doing 80.
but the left lane you know is like over a hundred just all the time and it's almost entirely young black men in cars usually multiple young black men in cars and you tell that the police have just decided to let that go it's like they have their own like an express lane for young black men if you were a police officer and you were just and your job was to do stops you're just going to stop people and give them tickets who would you rather stop a 25 year old woman in a uh let's say in a Volkswagen because you might get a day then of that you might get a date you never know by getting a date or would you rather stop one of the cars that's going 100 miles an hour uh with some gang bangers in it who are looking for trouble if you're a cop you're gonna stop the the pretty girl because your numbers look exactly the same how many tickets did you give well yeah that's a good number back to work so no to imagine that everybody's acting the same on the highway but then when they leave the highway and they get out of their cars they go back to their different cultures and then everything's different like as soon as they get within their culture they're all acting differently than the other cultures which is what a culture is no problem with that but then as soon as they get in a car they all act the same right everybody acts the same once they get in the car that's what we're asking ourselves to believe is stupid so maybe 2023 is when you can say things that are true and you don't have to say things that are stupid to sound like you're the good person Maybe all right um Kennedy said some more RFK about Junior about his drug Healing Centers I like the fact so he's talking about you know having some places that are away from the city where people can uh he says eat organic food heal spiritually physically and emotionally and find themselves again so he calls it healing camps so it'd be like you know not not a five-star Resort but more of a camp in a nice place I like everything about that I like everything about that he didn't say but I think he's in favor of it that some of these treatment centers Maybe should consider using mushrooms maybe ketamine or something not a no doctor but uh we need to start using the tools that we know work and we know that the Psychedelic treatments do work a hundred percent of the evidence shows that they do it's like all really clear um kratom yeah I don't know I don't know about kratom I have not I have not used it myself so I can't speak to it um I love everything about that now you may remember that Trump had a idea for the homeless so RFK Jr is talking about the addicted Trump was talking about the homeless but as you know the overlap is probably 80 percent or more so actually RFK Jr and Trump are very much very close on this diet idea I would bet the RFK Junior would be more likely to say yes to treatments that use hallucinogens and Trump would be less likely to be in favor of that because he's he's consistently anti-drug and the thing is he came by honestly so I don't I don't hold it against him like I would other people you know he he's a lifelong non-drinker he had a brother who died from alcohol I got it I got it right he's got a personal opinion that doesn't kind of match the public in that area but we understand completely understand uh so I don't think he's the best president for treating addiction I think RFK Jr would be the best president for dealing with addiction but I think uh Vivek might be the best president for eradicating the cartels so you've got a problem on the treatment side RFK Jr has the best plan I've heard you got a problem on the supply side um Vivek and Trump both want to go hard at the cartels but I'll take the younger I'll take the younger president if I have a choice given given the actual ages of the candidates all right so that's enough on that that's a potentially good news because when you see that Trump and RFK Jr are not too far apart on the whole idea of building a separate area for the people who don't mix well with the rest of us uh I feel like that's something that everybody could get behind get is there anybody here who thinks those are bad ideas to have a separate place for the people who need special treatment what do you think I like every part of it we don't have a choice what all right Deborah says in all caps I think it is not a good idea well since you used all caps you're going to have to disappear goodbye all right well I think they're good ideas and at the very least what do I always say about good ideas uh you never know if they're a good idea there could be some hidden problem but could you test it how hard would it be to test uh a camp where you treat people it seems like the most testable thing you could ever do so absolutely all right um so the news is starting to ask this question see if you've heard anybody mentioned this before does this sound familiar because the news is starting to say this now hey we have noticed we haven't seen a photograph of progosian lately huh I wonder if things aren't going as well for him as maybe we first thought so CNN and other outlets are starting to say his plane went to Belarus his plane went there and uh and I guess I guess his media Empire got shut down and some other General who may or may not have been working with him is missing at the same time now there's a photograph there was on the internet that purported to show uh pagosian getting into helicopter but he was holding the door with one hand and his hand was intact but the real progression is missing part of a finger on one hand and this is how clever the internet is I was actually pretty impressed with this so you see progressions getting into the helicopter and it's obviously he must be a Bobby double because he's got a he's got like a coven mask on I don't know why and uh his bodyguard is real but obviously the guy getting into the helicopter has an intact hand and progression doesn't so the the internet was like oh let's uh you know it's not the real guy who's got a body double now it does seem to me like he should have a body double if any if anyone were going to have a body to double I'd say him he and Putin would be high on the list but then somebody said wait a minute um somebody may have just reversed the image so it looks like it says left hand but it would be his right hand and the evidence they gave the evidence they gave is that he was opening the uh let's say the driver the pilot side door and there's no evidence he's a helicopter pilot so if he if he were opening the pilot side and he's not a pilot they may have reversed the image so his right hand it was his left hand now further to that theory that that was a fake reverse picture CNN says the last time he was seen was in rostov now the helicopter thing was allegedly after he left rostov so if so CNN's just saying the last time you were seen was rostov that means they're discounting the helicopter so the helicopter I think we can write that off as a fake but at first I thought it was something but it looked like a fake don't know exactly but is there anybody um is there anybody who thinks Putin was going to let him run around free so I think CNN is also reporting that Ukraine is saying Ukraine is saying so you can't trust them but Ukraine is saying that the FSB you know the Russian whatever force that is the head is already put out and they're already trying to take him out but you know why I think that's because it came from Ukraine and everything Ukraine says is a lie same with Russia during a war everything they say is a lie um but why would you kill him if you're Putin the last thing in the world you want to do is kill him because he's the one who knows all of the information you need there's only one person who knows everything you need to know it's him everybody else knows part of what they know they might know what they did but they don't know the scope of the the coup plot only one person and there's no way that Putin is going to let that one person who knows everything that Putin needs to know which is where my Traders there's no way that they let him go he's being tortured Beyond any recognition he's definitely going to talk one way or another he's definitely going to talk and you're never going to see him again because he's not going to survive this process so that's that's my prediction he that he's under Putin's control and you'll never see him again so watching the watching the news slowly wake up to the obvious the obvious being there's no way in hell they let him just go to live his life in Belarus are we serious that's going to look so stupid in retrospect won't it like in the moment people were willing to accept it because that's what people were reporting but don't you think we're only you know maybe a month away from laughing about how stupid that was right he's just going to let him get on the plane and leave the country of course that's exactly what you do when somebody plans to kill you and take over your country and slay your family probably yeah that's what you do you allow them fly to Belarus have a nice life it's just going to seem so silly in retrospect and the entire news business reported it like it happened were were you shocked by that I think both the left and the right media all reported he went to Belarus like that was actually possible I mean I guess it's physically possible but it's not possible in the real world that we know and understand that was never possible why do they believe that now can I say this as clearly as you need it to be said if progression shows up alive tomorrow in Belarus well aren't I the we could all agree on that right if he shows up alive and he was confirmed he's really alive okay we all agree I'm a total everybody will everybody take that yeah I I will not even block you if that happens I won't even block you you should just get out of here you you the news was right you were wrong blah blah blah well he's definitely alive well I won't say definitely he's most likely alive because Putin needs him alive at the moment all right so if I'm wrong on this you'll let me know you have my blessing to do that that is the conclusion of the greatest live stream in the history of Fourth of July live streams all right everybody tell me the uh the predicted high temperature where you are today just give me the high temperature wherever you are today 102 70s 100 90s 100 105 108 wow that's the winner 108 is the winner 108 is that Arizona who's got the 108 Arizona 192.
well um where I live we're coming out of the best month of weather I've ever seen in my life never ever had a month like the last month in California every day it was room temperature with not much wind it was it was unsettling it felt like I had died and weather didn't work anymore like every it was just the same inside and outside there was no difference it was the weirdest month yeah last year was fires this year not so much so apparently California is doing the better job of managing the forest fires I'm going to say that with a question at the end the forest fires because there's no smoke and last year I think it was a little better as well so maybe maybe they've got a little uh handle on things maybe maybe it's just luck I don't know uh everything burned already well there's that yeah okay well it's a cool 87 in Florida how about that um Sarah that's too many capitals Sarah I'm going to hide you on this channel there's one thing you can be sure of if somebody sends a long message in all caps what's the one thing you can be sure of they're going to send exactly the same message multiple times the the one thing you can know for sure is if you see lots of caps oh that one's coming back there it is again and there it is again and there it is again because if you're going to write in all caps you're not going to give up you're not a quitter I like it you're not a quitter Sarah no clear all right um does anybody have a question I'm uh just vamping until we're the top of the hour there's a reason for that I'll tell you later all right um RFK can reframe affirmative production by saying well now that would work for Republicans so the idea was RFK could say the courts have decided on affirmative action so let's not look backwards let's fix K-12 actually that's pretty good that's pretty good because that would be that's the same that's the same advice I give Trump and the other Republicans on abortion if you're running for president the best answer on abortion is it's no longer a president's question it's been sent to the states we've driven the decision down closer to the individual you do have a fight in the States but I'm the president and we've now allocated the decision making to where it belongs and I'd like the states to do a you know a good job on that so I think you could you know you could weasel your way out of the abortion thing but maybe you could do the same by saying that K-12 is from the trouble is RFK Jr is Pro Union right I don't know if that's true but is he Pro speaker Pro um teachers union if he's pro-teachers Union there's no place to go with that you know a republican could say all right now that we've now that now that the Supreme Court has ruled let's fix K-12 that's a strong it's stronger from a republican who wants to get rid of a union that would be a stronger message because then you have an actual plan if you say let's fix schools Cheryl you using like a dumb piece of so where you're gonna go away because I know that comment's coming back those old comments all right Cheryl Jackson go away uh will Joe leave for health reasons that's my guess yeah if Biden drops out it will be because there's a quote new health reason and he'll act like you know I was perfectly good until I got this bunion but this bunion is going to take me out I cannot be a president with a bunion like this and it's going to be some health problem that you say no I think the bigger problem was your brain stopped working a while ago uh that looks like the bigger problem yeah bone spurs he's got a bone spur I can't be president with his bone spur my sleep do you think the sleep apnea is the cats on the roof it might be it could be that the sleep apnea is that as they're they're trying to ease you into but now that story started because he still had the indentation on his chin so I don't think that guy started intentionally it just might be coincidentally advantageous how did I choose what hairstyle for Dilbert's boss uh it evolved over time it started out with like Larry Fink's hairstyle you know Larry Fink CEO of Black.
Rock so he's got the pointy here boss hair but without the pointy part yeah he's got you know the two sides so that's how the the boss in Dilbert was originally but one day I gave it a little height I think accidentally you know I was just penciling and it got a little higher on one side and I said oh I'll make the other side a little higher and then when it started to remind me of horns I wasn't full horn I was like oh I'm gonna I'm gonna just make them full horns yeah um how long before you had to copyright Dilbert let me tell you about copyrights can somebody answer the question how long did it take me to copyright the first Dilbert that I drew what's the answer somebody says one minute oh damn it you know the answer the answer is zero seconds it took me zero seconds to copyright it do you know why because copyright is immediate it's a it's on it's on creation so what what should be creative I'm going to create another copyrighted uh image here we go there we go copyrighted copyrighted right there okay technically you couldn't copyright that because it's a stick figure but if I drawn something that wasn't a universal piece of art it would be copyrighted the moment I drew it your people confuse registering the copyright with having the copyright registering the copyright is what you do as a legal precaution in case somebody claims they made it first and you can't prove it because if you let's say you've got a piece of paper you drew on and somebody else has a piece of paper they drew on five years later well how do you know I suppose there's some science but you know generally it's hard to know who did something first but if one of those draws it and then submits it to the copyright um the government's copyright office then they have the superior claim which doesn't mean that they'll win because the other person might have let's say a videotape that showed them in real time making the original drawing in which case they could go to court and they could take that copyright away from the lying person who said they did it first but copyrighted it first so now the other thing that people are getting uh terribly terribly wrong is the story about Ivanka Trump getting some trademarks in China you know that story and the people on the left who are artists they don't know the difference between a trademark and a patent so they're like oh China has given them these trademarks oh you know favorable favorable attention they got these trademarks I I have trademarks in China do you know how hard it is to get a trademark in China you just ask for it there's just an office that gives them to you and they don't tell you you can't have them you just pay your little fee and you get it the only thing that you have to make sure you've done and maybe the cut the Trademark Office does this for you is to make sure somebody didn't already use it if it's not already used it's yours so Ivanka submitted some trademark requests for something that nobody else was using and some bureaucrat in a Chinese bureaucracy somewhere you know some nameless bureaucrat looked at it and said yep that was it that's the whole story there's nothing left out and but on social media you'll see all the drunk controls wow Ivanka got copyrights from China so it must be Chinese collusion learn what a trademark is and then go back at it I mean yeah Marcela can tell you trademark is just paperwork everybody can do it do you want to trademark in China you could have one in a week you just hire a lawyer who does that and they submit some paperwork well it might take more than a week to approve it but it will get approved that China doesn't want to not approve it they have no incentive to not approve it they want people to do business and they don't want their trademarks to overlap that's the whole story all right uh I think we're we've done what we need to do all right I'm going to say bye to You.
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don't watch foxes we're defining
ourselves by what we don't do
am I wrong with this new
it's kind of different you used to
define Yourself by what you did
for example I used to say I was a tennis
player
now I say I don't watch MSNBC
I've just defied myself by what I'm
unwilling to do
all right
that's not a good sign probably
uh now you knew here's a story
that you knew was coming
talk about the most predictable thing
you could possibly predict
gyms and fitness centers are now
embracing fatness
so instead of getting you to look you
know trim and muscular and
Etc that's out the door now we're going
to make you fat and happy so you could
be as fat as you want but you want to
but you need to be healthy
so they're going to work on your your
mental health and your strength
and your weight will be de-emphasized so
it's not about the shedding pounds
anymore so the fatness will replace the
fitness
and you also are coming
is there anybody here who's on a dating
site
is there anybody in the audience who's
using a dating app of any kind
which is what I ask you
dating app of any kind okay my audience
is too old there's not a single person
saying yes or one
all right
I wanna I would just want to leave you
with this question
do the photos of the people on the
dating app
look about the same as they did before
the pandemic
have you noticed anything different
in the old days you'd see a lot of
pictures of people from you know you'd
see their whole body
and now the most common thing when
people show their photo in any sense
whether it's a profile picture or
anything else the the photos like this
much
yeah
people are only showing this much of
their body now hey hey
don't ask about what's below this ad or
above this ad it's just this part I've
tried to sell you on this part
if I could get you sold on this part
maybe you want to ask as many questions
about what's above the hand and below
the hand so that's new
um
I heard that uh
Rome said that the Coliseum would be
available if Zuckerberg and musk want to
fight in there and the Coliseum
to which I said okay there's no way you
can make this story better right when I
first heard that Zuckerberg and musk
might actually fight
uh I I said to myself well it can't get
better
and this is the ultimate entertaining
story there's no way you can make this
better and then I imagine them doing it
in the Coliseum
okay that's better that is better I
didn't think you could do it you know
honestly I didn't think it was possible
but that's better
and then I thought
if you're gonna do it in the Coliseum
that's really only a little driving
distance from the Vatican
guess who would be the best referee
no not Joe Rogan
the Pope
can we get the pope to referee the fight
between Zuckerberg and musk and no I'm
not kidding I'm not kidding
we got all the way to look
we started with no story
and we go all the way to Zuckerberg and
musk fighting in the Coliseum you didn't
see that coming
which one of you predicted that not a
few right can you admit you're not going
to predicting the future all right well
I say the pope will be the referee for a
fight that may or may not be naked
between musk and Zuckerberg in the
Coliseum
that's what I want and I'm not going to
will I'm not willing to settle for
anything less than that
I don't want anything less than that
that's my minimum bid
all right
um I gotta show you this did you happen
to see the Trump
uh Chris Christie tweet
well it was a truth not a tweet I gotta
show you the picture because without the
picture it doesn't it doesn't work as
well
could be one moment so there was a
photograph of Chris Christie sleeping
on a flight and
he wasn't looking too elegant yeah
here's a little picture so Chris he's
just sort of you know slovenly
spread out across the seat and a half on
the flight but the funny part is that
Trump does a truth
he's so funny
he goes Trump trump just titles it he
says resting after a good 25 minutes of
work
I
know here's why Trump is so funny he's
completely Trump is completely
underrated as a humorist he's one of the
funniest people in the world but because
he has this other job you know you don't
think about it but here's why this is
funny
it's resting after a good 25 minutes of
work the thing that sells this is the
word good
if he said resting after 25 minutes of
work
that's not really funny is it resting
after 25 minutes of work
it would just sort of lay there wouldn't
it but he puts the word good in there
resting after a good 25 minutes of work
it was the addition of the word good
that turned it from a sentence into a
joke how many people would have known
that
how many people would have known that if
you put that word good in there it turns
out funny
he does have a skill it's a very special
skill he's completely underrated for his
writing ability as a writer I would say
as a writer
of tweets and and Jews he's just one of
the best
so I uh then Chris Christie thought he
would dunk on Trump
so after Trump you know does this
perfect Trump tweet I mean it's
perfectly in character it's also a
visual
remember I I always teach you that Trump
is the master of visual persuasion when
he talks about the wall you can picture
it in your mind
right it's a visual thing even if
there's no picture well here this is a
total visual persuasion he doesn't need
to tell you that Chris Christie has
policies you won't like
he can just show a picture of him
looking like a slob on a plane
you get the same benefit without all the
thinking so Trump's excellent at that
but
so Trump basically you know gives him a
total kill shot
but Chris Christie's he's not down and
out yet he tweets he tweets Trump's
truth so he's doing that thing where
instead of minimizing it you're you're
embracing it
right so he's embracing it sort of like
uh dark Brandon you know Biden trying to
embrace dark brown
uh so he tries to embrace it and he says
Chris Christie says of trump living rent
free in Donald's head
make me a permanent resident you know
donate money blah blah living rent free
and Donald's head
so I had to tweet about his tweet so I
tweeted Chris Christie's tweet and I
said Pro tip never hire an NPC to do
your tweeting you can test for NPCs by
asking them if anyone is above the law
now
sort of a ongoing joke here so if that
doesn't sound funny to you it's because
you don't know the background to it but
uh
can I give you this advice
if you ever are tempted to say to
somebody in 2023
that you're living rent free in their
head
you have either fallen into some kind of
a time dilation situation where you've
traveled back in time to where that made
sense to say and it sounds kind of new
and edgy
to you know well let me just say that in
2023
this is really worn out and only an NPC
should say
you're living rent-free in somebody's
head
for for a while it was a good thing to
say it was pretty kind of clever
it's not clever anymore
it's not clever and if somebody sings
You As Good As Trump saying to him
ukulele something better than living
rent free in Donald's head
all right
so that round goes to Trump
um I'd like to remind you again this is
something I have to remind myself of all
the time
a lot of the people on Twitter
that you imagine are trolls you know
that they have some bad opinion and
they're just coming in and saying bad
things
you should know that a lot of them are
just drunk
like actually they're just drunk
and as soon as you tell you that self
that they might be drunk
The Experience changes completely
have you had the experience where a
drunk comes up to you and acts drunk and
you don't like it
but you don't you're you're processing
it as you're dealing with a drunk you
don't process it as you're dealing with
that person and their actual personality
in a real situation you say oh that's a
drunk yeah I get it they're not hurting
me they're just drunk they're just
annoying
so troll trolls can really get under
your skin
you know they can say something that you
know makes you look stupid so you're
like ah I'm not gonna look stupid and I
found that by far the best reply
I just control people just come on to
insult you is I like to say morning
drinking
or
drunk already
and what's interesting is the number of
people who don't push back on that
accusation
you'd expect people to say stuff like I
haven't had a drink since the 90s you
know what do you mean but they don't
they're usually drunk I think they're
actually drunk and you know if they're
not drunk they're inebriated on
something so there's a ton of stuff that
you shouldn't think about at all
just reply to them and ask them if
they're drinking and don't say anything
else don't follow up because they're
going to say something like you think
I'm drinking look at your tweet I think
you're the one you know they're going to
say something it doesn't matter what
they say just just drop just drop your
comment that it appears they've been
drinking and don't do anything else do
not engage
you'll be much happier
well there's something called the misery
index have you heard of that it's the
combination of unemployment and
inflation
so if you've got lots of unemployment
at the same time you got lots of
inflation
that's the that would be high of the
misery index well it turns out that the
misery index is down to where it was
when Biden took office it did of course
as you know is zoomed we had high
unemployment and high inflation and both
of them come down quite a bit
so the ministry of next is down now the
misery index does not measure everything
yeah
that's interesting what does it mean
when Twitter says there's a rate limit
that's reached does anybody know what
that means
I just saw a tweet as a rate limit
yeah I don't know what that means
anyway we'll get to that story that the
rate limit on it I just saw the that go
by on the locals platform
uh Wall Street Journal has a editorial
in which they're quite pointedly blaming
Randy Weingarten for the fact that uh
well I'm exaggerating a little bit but
in effect
they're blaming Randy Weingarten the
head of the teachers unions the biggest
teachers union
for the fact that you you ever needed
effort affirmative action at least in
the modern times yeah the argument goes
like this and it's the argument I make
which is is if our k-6 schools were good
and they gave everybody including people
of color a good education
you wouldn't have much of a question
by the time colleges were looking at
applicants because they'd just be
looking at a whole bunch of qualified
applicants they just pick the good ones
just like you think they should
but if you completely fail the let's say
the black community in particular which
is the current case the black community
in America is totally underserved in
terms of education and what are you
going to do in college we can't ask the
colleges to fix the problem
the Ramsey wine Gardens
um Union cost now the reason the union
causes that is because they they prevent
competition and they prevent the easy
firing of Bad Teachers you put those two
things together and you ruin the entire
education process in America which is
what happened it's exactly the
predictable outcome you'd expect it's I
don't know how it could be more obvious
they're removing competition and not
firing Bad Teachers is going to get you
to exactly where we are now I mean who
could see that coming
so
anyway I just want to point out that the
Wall Street Journal editorial is on the
same page that I am
that systemic racism is really all about
the teachers unions
could you give me a fact check on
something
I read I don't know if this is true and
I'm not I'm not saying this is relevant
to the story I'm just curious so it's
just curious I read that uh
that Randy Weingarten is a lesbian
married to a
uh rabbi
she's a lesbian married to a rabbi
can you confirm that that's true
so she's a uh she's uh yes Paul I do
mean a Jew because that is what a rabbi
is that is correct
thanks thanks for your penetrating
insight
a good addition to the conversation
I like it with a little anti-Semitism
gets thrown onto every thing
could we go like a minute without
something anti-semitic happening in the
comments on YouTube like just one
minute
like you don't have to say it on every
story right we get it we get it
I I'm completely aware of your opinion
you just it's just boring now
all right you're not adding anything to
the story
except Badness all right
um here's what I think would be a
hilarious conclusion to the uh
uh the student loan forgiveness
situation
um as you know the Supreme Court
blocked the student loan forgiveness
that Biden wanted
and
we also assume that the reason
we also assume that the reason that
Biden even offered to do the loan
forgiveness is to get votes in the last
midterm
so it looked like a political play that
he couldn't really deliver so now he's
pretending that he can do some other
clever way that probably won't work
either
even Nancy Pelosi said it was illegal
she said it directly totally illegal
can't do it it's not the president's
responsibility
so
since we think that Biden did this as
purely a political move and never really
expected to get any debt relief
shouldn't Trump match his
with a matching amount of don't
you think
because the most hilarious thing that
Trump could do is to make a different
plan
that also is completely impractical and
promised those same people that they're
going to get money
you know whether they vote Republican or
Democrat well okay yeah it's a long shot
but if you're 25 years old and you've
got crushing debt from student loans
wouldn't you take a chance on Biden
I would
I think Biden's the worst president ever
and if I were 25 and I had they'll say
forty thousand dollars of student debt
and he said there's a 10 chance I might
be able to clear that debt do you know
how to calculate the value of that
that's a straight expected value
calculation
you say to yourself well it's a forty
thousand dollar loan
but there's only a 10 chance that Biden
will make it go away so you've
multiplied the 10 times the Forty
thousand
gets you four thousand dollars
four thousand dollars is the value of
buy it into you the conceptual value
so if you were a rational voter you'd
probably vote for Biden because
it's free money or it looks like there's
a chance of it but but Trump is offering
nothing
Trump is not saying I have another way
to handle this he's offering nothing
and same with the other candidates
imagine if you will
that totally tongue-in-cheek
although he plays it straight Trump says
he's going to tax the liberal colleges
to pay off all the student loans
now the first thing you should ask
yourself is would that work
no of course not no that wouldn't work
it wouldn't work even a little bit you
know what else it wouldn't work the
thing that Biden's doing Biden's plan
isn't going to work
but it works for votes doesn't it it
totally works for votes it's just not
going to work in the real world like
people get money and stuff so if Trump
came up with a total plan that
everyone knew was that's the
funny part like you know it's
it's just Trump being Trump and just
promising more than maybe he could
deliver although Trump doesn't actually
intentionally promise more than he can
deliver I think he does actually try to
build a wall
it just didn't happen whereas I think
Biden is he knows he's lying
like I can't read his mind
but it's hard to imagine that he thought
it would work when nobody else in the
world thought it would work so I don't
know maybe he was the one person who
believed it
Maybe
so
what
um
yeah right
so what do you think about the idea of
saying that the colleges that cause the
problem
should be responsible for paying it off
over time not all at once but maybe paid
off over time
now some people say but they would just
raise their prices
to which I say it's a free market
they can do whatever they want and that
other people could say I'll just use AI
instead Elon Musk tweeted today that the
value of college is you know diminishing
so if you've got the smartest richest
person in the world who's saying in
public the value of college is you know
pretty questionable
I think we may reach a big Turning Point
here
because it's not until people like Elon
Musk say college is not essential that
it becomes true it's not true until
people like him say it right it's got to
be your employer who says it
if your employer says it doesn't matter
then it doesn't matter that he's you
know a gigantic employer with also
influence on other employers so that's
real when musk says that gets real
and he means it you know he's not joking
yeah and Harvard has their big endowment
Etc
all right
um there's a report I don't know if it's
true Benny Johnson had a uh breaking
news on this that he says the photos
have leaked of Michelle Obama currently
vacationing on a massive private yacht
on a private island in Greece at the
same time the Obamas were tweeting about
the unfairness of the
uh Supreme Court decision to disallow
affirmative action
so she was on a yacht when she was
complaining about how bad things are for
black people in America
she was on a yacht
literally on an actual literal little
actual yacht like a real yacht not
conceptually you know not the
theoretically she was actually on the
yacht a real yacht
now this gave me the idea to suggest
a new feature for Twitter that I'd like
to see
I don't know if you do it
technologically but what I'd like to see
is
some kind of feature on Twitter that
says that the Tweeter was on a yacht
when they sent the tweet
because I'd like to know when the
Tweeter is drunk you know I'd love to
see a breathalyzer before you can tweet
but I'd also like to know if the person
is on a yacht
and I saw somebody suggest that there
could be an icon for a little hypocrite
on a yacht
I have a laughing all morning what would
that look like what would the icon of a
hypocrite even look like would it be
Michelle Obama it would just be a little
icon of a yacht and Michelle Obama
and that would be hypocrite on a yacht
I don't know why that's so funny
yeah Scott had a lot
at least it rides better but hypocrite
would be a hilarious icon
hypocrite
all right
uh you can use that in so many ways
um
Fox News has a couple of uh Summer
Stories where they misinterpret somebody
and make a big story
who are they misinterpreting today
uh something about the New York Times uh
New York Times other story they listed
the various ways you could get out of
student debt and one of the ways was
dying
so I think Fox News is trying to act
like
New York Times thinks that dying is a
way to get out of your debt or something
like that somehow they turned that into
a story of outrage it's definitely your
Summer Stories
uh
uh and then there was some State
politician who said the suburbs
so now so now Fox News is going to be
outraged about the suburbs now of
course when you hear it and when you
hear it in context
is more about they need to do something
in the cities she's not saying she
doesn't care about the suburbs but you
know that's the way it'll be taken so so
Fox News in the Summers
there's just no there's not enough hard
news
so there's this whole industry of
misinterpreting people's comments
yeah I might be a little bit sensitive
to that
I wonder why
all right I hear a lot of stuff about uh
uh RFK JuJu's voice and people are
saying well that's going to hold it back
now I think what will hold it back is
his policy preferences but let's talk
about his voice
um in my opinion politicians have two
kinds of voices
commanding and pleading
and I believe that you can tell them
when you hear them and I'll give you
some examples Trump is a commanding
voice
he's never pleading
he's commanding would you agree Adam
Schiff what is Adam Schiff is he a
commanding Voice or a pleading voice
pleading right
um how about uh swalwell is wall well a
commanding Voice or a pleading voice
he's a pleading voice how about Nancy
Pelosi now Nancy Pelosi has you know
with age she has her own shaky voice
problems does she have a commanding
Voice or a pleading voice
she has a commandity voice Nancy Pelosi
has a commanding voice
even though her voices you know weak
with age the the words that she chooses
and the the command which he puts into
it is very evident she has a commanding
voice
now I'll give you a few more see if you
can get them right
Chris Christie tell me is Chris Christie
a commanding Voice or a pleading voice
commanding or pleading
Chris Christie
the answer is pleading a lot of you are
trying to substitute whining but I'm
going to use pleading for all of that
category of you know whining and
complaining
all right here's another one
um
let's see uh Vivek ramaswamy commanding
or pleading
commanding or planning it's a fake
chroma Swami
commanding absolutely commanding right
uh somebody said Josh Hawley
Josh Hawley has he has a commanding
voice but don't be confused with the
tone of his voice
what Josh Hawley has is a tonality
that
suggests command that's actually not
what I'm talking about
because when I say Nancy Pelosi has a
commanding voice it's not about her deep
resonance
is that the things she says and the sort
of attitude she puts into it is
commanding
right and so physique is commanding
how about uh DeSantis Ron DeSantis
commanding or pleading commanding or
pleading Ron DeSantis pleading yeah he
has a pleading Style
now I'm not saying he's not a good
executive or a good leader he seems to
be very good very good uh all right how
about Mike Pence Mike Pence commanding
or pleading Mike Pence pleading yeah
he's a pleader all right so now that I
uh okay Kamala Harris commanding her
pleading
that was easy
that's bleeding all right
now now that you have the now that you
can see the pleaders versus the
Commanders
RFK Jr commanding or pleading commanding
or pleading RFK Jr go
foreign
yeah his voice is commanding so here's
what everybody's getting wrong
number one nobody ever talks over RFK Jr
you haven't noticed that have you when
do you notice it
he's the only person in politics who
will never get talked over
people stop they lean in and they listen
to every word and they wait until he's
done they wait until he's done
and then they ask another polite
question
that is as commanding as a voice can be
I would argue that he might have with
Trump you know Trump's a singular
character but RFK Jr has as commanding a
voice As Trump
it's not the same you know good sound
it's not a Josh Hawley you know booming
baritone
but it's commanding as hell
is completely commanded so if you've
missed that you've missed the story of
his voice the story of his voice is not
that it sounds like Catherine Hepburn
because so does Nancy Pelosi
and she's commanding as hell
right you wish you could be as
commanding as she is
so it's not it's definitely not gender
you know I'm trying to make sure you can
see it's not gender
and it's not quality of voice it's not
voice quality it is absolutely word
choice and attitude and he's got all of
that
all right now
um RFK Jr's policies don't appeal to me
at the moment you know as he's expressed
them especially as
support for affirmative action
in colleges
but
uh he's got the he's got the tools
he's got the tools
all right let's talk about
how many how many of you are having a
moment right now where you're thinking
holy did you just reframe RFK
Junior's voice into a positive
and you just watched me do it and I did
it successfully
is that messing with you at all
you're not buying it all right you're
not buying it okay
um so I just decided to pay attention to
France which I usually don't pay
attention to
but the the riots are getting pretty bad
I thought I'd give you some statistics
so it's being caused by the death of a
17 year old named nahel nahil I guess uh
he was he was shot dead during a traffic
stop and they and the video of the
traffic stop doesn't look like it was a
good shooting so that's the claim it
doesn't look like you deserve to be shot
nobody deserves to be shot but you know
what I mean
um and but worse than that apparently
there have been what 13 uh police
shootings of people who are mostly black
or Muslim
so it's about the police it's basically
a George Floyd situation playing out in
France so George Floyd plus Muslims so
you got your Muslims and and your blacks
who both have something to complain
about now apparently there's a
yeah the statistics show that if you're
Muslim or black and you were stopped by
police your odds are being shot are very
high
now
there's an obvious question here I think
you know the obvious question
which is
um
does France have Asians
can anybody answer that are there Asian
French
or is that almost non-existent
I I would imagine they do somebody says
Vietnamese a lot of Vietnamese yeah so
they've got a lot of Asians
um I was looking for the statistic on
the number of uh Asians who have been
slain by police and police stops in
France
if anybody can find that number we
should report it because I assume I
assume the police are shooting every all
the minorities
and we should make sure we have some
data on the Asians in France because you
know they're being shot at a pretty high
list right
no you assume they're all being shot at
the same rate as the black and Muslims
I mean why wouldn't they be
a bunch of racists
all right it's 20 23. can we be honest
with each other
do you think it makes sense that we talk
about culture
we're always talking culture oh this
culture is different from this culture
you have to understand our lived
experience our culture our culture
but isn't culture doesn't that mean you
act differently
in the same situation
wouldn't that be exactly what that is a
difference in culture
is that if I go to celebrate
versus you've got to celebrate we might
celebrate differently
if you get dressed and I get dressed
maybe differently because your culture
is different from mine the whole point
of a culture is you act differently
isn't it
it's not real a culture if everybody
acted the same
but as soon as you stopped by the police
that goes all out the door and nobody
has a culture anymore
it's 20 23 people
don't act the same when they're stopped
by the police
there isn't there isn't a person in the
whole planet eight billion people
eight billion people if you gave them a
test and said on average you know we
know individuals could be all over the
board but on average
do you believe that an Asian American or
an Asian French French person whatever
do you think that when they're stopped
by the police they act exactly the same
as the black and Muslim people stopped
by the police
nobody believes that
there's not a single person in the world
who believes that there's not an Asian
person who believes that there's not a
Muslim person who believes that there's
not a liberal person who believes that
there's not a conservative person who
believes that there's not a black person
who believes it there's not a white
person there's not anybody there's not a
single person eight billion of us is the
one thing we agree on
cultures
are different
and it definitely definitely plays out
in a traffic stop there's no way
that the Asians are acting the same as
the blacks and the Muslims and everybody
else I mean you can throw the Irish in
there if you want right
just throw the Irish in there I have no
idea if the Irish get in more fights
than anybody else but if they have any
identifiable cultural differences
which I don't know is the case but if
they did you'd expect it to carry out
and you know lots of forms of life
why in the world can't we say that
why in the world can't you say
the problem with all of this
is that there's a clear cultural
difference in how people react when
they're stopped by police
there's no doubt about it
literally nobody believes there's a that
they act the same nobody
why would they get the same outcome
it doesn't make any sense at all
so France of course is going through
their craziness and we all get we all
get to wrap our own politics around it
to make our own points like I just did
all right so here are some of the
numbers over there
um over 1300 people have been detained
yeah but the 234 incidents of damage or
fire in buildings modern what damage
could be minor damage I suppose
but listen to this 79 police and gender
arms were injured 79
police and gender arms I don't know
what's the difference between a police
and a gen dorm does anybody know what's
the difference between a French police
officer and an agendarm
or is it John John Darb's John darmes
sorry
Jean darb
what is
foreign
it's a military police thank you
I knew somebody would know it
that's a lot of injuries
that's a crazy amount of injuries 58
attacks on police and gender and
jean-dong stations 58 attacks
can you hold that in your mind
imagine if in the United States 58
police stations got attacked and Jean
darbs
oh that that's a pretty big deal that's
a shocking number
um
see what else
blacks and Arabs in France according to
a French human rights and watched org
organization I'm looking at a Mario
novel tweet he says
that the blacks and Arabs in France are
20 times more likely to be stopped by
police
and
what is the likelihood that they broke
the law more than other people
I'm not saying they did I'm just saying
if that's not in the story it's kind of
conspicuously missing
there there's a uh I've told you this
before there's there's a highway that
goes through Oakland
sometimes I find myself on a multi-lane
highway the left lane of course is for
the fast people who are in a hurry
but the the left lane is almost entirely
young black men going over 100 miles an
hour
and of course there's no police presence
there whatsoever
but the the other X Lanes three lanes or
whatever it is you know they're also
speeding right you know because speed
limit 65 or everybody's doing 80. but
the left lane you know is like over a
hundred
just all the time
and it's almost entirely young black men
in cars usually multiple young black men
in cars and you tell that the police
have just decided to let that go it's
like they have their own like an express
lane for young black men
if you were a police officer and you
were just and your job was to do stops
you're just going to stop people and
give them tickets
who would you rather stop
a 25 year old woman in a
uh let's say in a Volkswagen
because you might get a day then of that
you might get a date you never know by
getting a date
or would you rather stop one of the cars
that's going 100 miles an hour
uh with some gang bangers in it
who are looking for trouble
if you're a cop you're gonna stop the
the pretty girl because your numbers
look exactly the same how many tickets
did you give well yeah that's a good
number
back to work
so no to imagine that everybody's acting
the same on the highway
but then when they leave the highway and
they get out of their cars
they go back to their different cultures
and then everything's different
like as soon as they get within their
culture they're all acting differently
than the other cultures which is what a
culture is no problem with that
but then as soon as they get in a car
they all act the same right everybody
acts the same once they get in the car
that's what we're asking ourselves to
believe
is stupid
so maybe 2023 is when you can say things
that are true and you don't have to say
things that are stupid to sound like
you're the good person Maybe
all right
um Kennedy said some more RFK about
Junior about his drug Healing Centers I
like the fact so he's talking about you
know having some places that are away
from the city where people can uh
he says eat organic food heal
spiritually physically and emotionally
and find themselves again
so he calls it healing camps so it'd be
like you know not not a five-star Resort
but more of a camp in a nice place I
like everything about that
I like everything about that
he didn't say
but I think he's in favor of it that
some of these treatment centers Maybe
should consider using mushrooms
maybe ketamine or something not a no
doctor but uh
we need to start using the tools that we
know work and we know that the
Psychedelic treatments do work a hundred
percent of the evidence shows that they
do it's like all really clear
um
kratom yeah I don't know I don't know
about kratom
I have not I have not used it myself so
I can't speak to it
um I love everything about that now you
may remember that Trump had a idea for
the homeless
so RFK Jr is talking about the addicted
Trump was talking about the homeless but
as you know
the overlap is probably 80 percent or
more so actually RFK Jr and Trump are
very much
very close on this diet idea I would bet
the RFK Junior would be more likely to
say yes to treatments that use
hallucinogens
and Trump would be less likely to be in
favor of that because he's he's
consistently anti-drug and the thing is
he came by honestly so I don't I don't
hold it against him like I would other
people
you know he he's a lifelong non-drinker
he had a brother who died from alcohol I
got it I got it right he's got a
personal opinion that doesn't kind of
match the public in that area but we
understand completely understand
uh so I don't think he's the best
president for treating addiction I think
RFK Jr would be the best president for
dealing with addiction
but I think uh Vivek might be the best
president for eradicating the cartels
so you've got a problem on the treatment
side RFK Jr has the best plan I've heard
you got a problem on the supply side
um Vivek and Trump both want to go hard
at the cartels but I'll take the younger
I'll take the younger president if I
have a choice
given given the actual ages of the
candidates all right so that's enough on
that that's a potentially good news
because when you see that Trump and RFK
Jr are not too far apart on the whole
idea of building a separate area for the
people who don't mix well with the rest
of us
uh
I feel like that's something that
everybody could get behind
get is there anybody here who thinks
those are bad ideas
to have a separate place for the people
who need special treatment
what do you think I like every part of
it
we don't have a choice what
all right Deborah says in all caps I
think it is not a good idea
well since you used all caps you're
going to have to disappear goodbye
all right well I think they're good
ideas and at the very least what do I
always say about good ideas uh you never
know if they're a good idea there could
be some hidden problem but could you
test it
how hard would it be to test uh
a camp where you treat people
it seems like the most testable thing
you could ever do so absolutely
all right um
so the news is starting to ask this
question
see if you've heard anybody mentioned
this before
does this sound familiar because the
news is starting to say this now hey
we have noticed we haven't seen a
photograph of progosian lately
huh
I wonder if things aren't going as well
for him as maybe we first thought
so CNN and other outlets are starting to
say
his plane went to Belarus
his plane went there
and uh
and I guess I guess his media Empire got
shut down and some other General who may
or may not have been working with him is
missing at the same time
now there's a photograph there was on
the internet that purported to show uh
pagosian getting into helicopter but he
was holding the door with one hand and
his hand was intact but the real
progression is missing part of a finger
on one hand
and this is how clever the internet is I
was actually pretty impressed with this
so you see progressions getting into the
helicopter and it's obviously he must be
a Bobby double because he's got a he's
got like a coven mask on I don't know
why and uh his bodyguard is real
but obviously the guy getting into the
helicopter has an intact hand and
progression doesn't so the the internet
was like oh let's uh you know it's not
the real guy who's got a body double
now
it does seem to me like he should have a
body double if any if anyone were going
to have a body to double I'd say him he
and Putin would be high on the list but
then somebody said wait a minute
um somebody may have just reversed the
image
so it looks like it says left hand
but it would be his right hand and the
evidence they gave the evidence they
gave is that he was opening the uh let's
say the driver the pilot side door
and there's no evidence he's a
helicopter pilot
so if he if he were opening the pilot
side
and he's not a pilot
they may have reversed the image so his
right hand it was his left hand
now further to that theory that that was
a fake reverse picture
CNN says the last time he was seen was
in rostov
now the helicopter thing was allegedly
after he left rostov
so if so CNN's just saying the last time
you were seen was rostov that means
they're discounting the helicopter so
the helicopter I think we can write that
off as a fake
but at first I thought it was something
but it looked like a fake
don't know exactly but is there anybody
um
is there anybody who thinks Putin was
going to let him run around free
so I think CNN is also reporting that
Ukraine is saying Ukraine is saying so
you can't trust them but Ukraine is
saying that the FSB you know the Russian
whatever force that is the head is
already put out and they're already
trying to
take him out but you know why I think
that's
because it came from Ukraine and
everything Ukraine says is a lie same
with Russia during a war everything they
say is a lie
um
but why would you kill him
if you're Putin the last thing in the
world you want to do is kill him
because he's the one who knows all of
the information you need
there's only one person who knows
everything you need to know it's him
everybody else knows part of what they
know they might know what they did
but they don't know the scope of the the
coup plot only one person
and there's no way that Putin is going
to let that one person who knows
everything that Putin needs to know
which is where my Traders there's no way
that they let him go he's being tortured
Beyond any recognition
he's definitely going to talk
one way or another he's definitely going
to talk
and you're never going to see him again
because he's not going to survive this
process
so that's that's my
prediction he that he's under Putin's
control and you'll never see him again
so watching the watching the news slowly
wake up to the obvious the obvious being
there's no way in hell they let him just
go to live his life in Belarus are we
serious that's going to look so stupid
in retrospect won't it
like in the moment people were willing
to accept it because that's what people
were reporting but don't you think we're
only you know maybe a month away from
laughing about how stupid that was
right he's just going to let him get on
the plane and leave the country
of course that's exactly what you do
when somebody plans to kill you and take
over your country and slay your family
probably
yeah that's what you do you allow them
fly to Belarus have a nice life it's
just going to seem so silly in
retrospect and the entire news business
reported it like it happened
were were you shocked by that I think
both the left and the right media all
reported he went to Belarus like that
was actually possible
I mean I guess it's physically possible
but it's not possible in the real world
that we know and understand that was
never possible
why do they believe that
now
can I say this as clearly as you need it
to be said
if progression shows up alive tomorrow
in Belarus
well aren't I the
we could all agree on that right if he
shows up alive and he was confirmed he's
really alive okay we all agree I'm a
total everybody will everybody
take that
yeah I I will not even block you if that
happens I won't even block you you
should just get out of here you
you the news was right you were
wrong blah blah blah well he's
definitely alive
well I won't say definitely he's most
likely alive because Putin needs him
alive at the moment
all right so if I'm wrong on this you'll
let me know you have my blessing to do
that
that is the conclusion of the greatest
live stream in the history of
Fourth of July live streams
all right everybody tell me the uh the
predicted high temperature where you are
today just give me the high temperature
wherever you are today
102
70s 100 90s 100 105 108 wow that's the
winner 108 is the winner 108 is that
Arizona
who's got the 108 Arizona
192.
well
um where I live we're coming out of
the best month of weather I've ever seen
in my life
never ever had a month like the last
month in California every day it was
room temperature with not much wind it
was it was unsettling it felt like I had
died and weather didn't work anymore
like every it was just the same inside
and outside there was no difference
it was the weirdest month
yeah last year was fires this year not
so much so apparently California is
doing the better job of managing the
forest fires
I'm going to say that with a question at
the end the forest fires because there's
no smoke
and last year I think it was a little
better as well so maybe
maybe they've
got a little uh handle on things maybe
maybe it's just luck I don't know
uh everything burned already well
there's that yeah
okay
well it's a cool 87 in Florida how about
that
um
Sarah
that's too many capitals Sarah I'm going
to hide you on this channel
there's one thing you can be sure of if
somebody sends a long message in all
caps what's the one thing you can be
sure of
they're going to send exactly the same
message multiple times
the the one thing you can know for sure
is if you see lots of caps oh that one's
coming back there it is again and there
it is again and there it is again
because if you're going to write in all
caps you're not going to give up you're
not a quitter I like it you're not a
quitter Sarah
no clear
all right um does anybody have a
question I'm uh just vamping until we're
the top of the hour
there's a reason for that I'll tell you
later
all right um
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RFK can reframe affirmative production
by saying well now that would work for
Republicans so the idea was RFK could
say the courts have decided on
affirmative action
so let's not look backwards
let's fix K-12 actually that's pretty
good
that's pretty good
because that would be that's the same
that's the same advice I give Trump and
the other Republicans on abortion if
you're running for president
the best answer on abortion is it's no
longer a president's question
it's been sent to the states we've
driven the decision down closer to the
individual you do have a fight in the
States but I'm the president and we've
now allocated the decision making to
where it belongs
and I'd like the states to do a you know
a good job on that
so I think you could you know you could
weasel your way out of the abortion
thing
but maybe you could do the same by
saying that K-12 is from the trouble is
RFK Jr is Pro
Union right I don't know if that's true
but is he Pro speaker Pro
um
teachers union
if he's pro-teachers Union there's no
place to go with that
you know a republican could say all
right now that we've now that now that
the Supreme Court has ruled
let's fix K-12
that's a strong it's stronger from a
republican who wants to get rid of a
union
that would be a stronger message because
then you have an actual plan
if you say let's fix schools
Cheryl you using like a dumb piece of
so where you're gonna go away
because I know that comment's coming
back those old comments
all right
Cheryl Jackson go away
uh will Joe leave for health reasons
that's my guess yeah if Biden drops out
it will be because there's a quote new
health reason
and he'll act like you know I was
perfectly good until I got this bunion
but this bunion is going to take me out
I cannot be a president with a bunion
like this and it's going to be some
health problem that you say no
I think the bigger problem was your
brain stopped working a while ago uh
that looks like the bigger problem yeah
bone spurs he's got a bone spur I can't
be president with his bone spur my sleep
do you think the sleep apnea is the cats
on the roof
it might be it could be that the sleep
apnea is that as they're they're trying
to ease you into
but now that story started because he
still had the indentation on his chin
so I don't think that guy started
intentionally
it just might be coincidentally
advantageous
how did I choose what hairstyle for
Dilbert's boss
uh it evolved over time
it started out with like Larry Fink's
hairstyle you know Larry Fink CEO of
BlackRock so he's got the pointy here
boss hair but without the pointy part
yeah he's got you know the two sides
so that's how the the boss in Dilbert
was originally but one day I gave it a
little height I think accidentally you
know I was just penciling and it got a
little higher on one side and I said oh
I'll make the other side a little higher
and then when it started to remind me of
horns
I wasn't full horn I was like oh I'm
gonna I'm gonna just make them full
horns
yeah
um how long before you had to copyright
Dilbert
let me tell you about copyrights can
somebody answer the question how long
did it take me to copyright the first
Dilbert that I drew what's the answer
somebody says one minute oh damn it you
know the answer the answer is zero
seconds
it took me zero seconds to copyright it
do you know why
because copyright is immediate it's a
it's on it's on creation
so what what should be creative I'm
going to create another copyrighted uh
image
here we go
there we go
copyrighted
copyrighted right there okay technically
you couldn't copyright that because it's
a stick figure
but if I drawn something that wasn't a
universal piece of art it would be
copyrighted the moment I drew it
your people confuse registering the
copyright with having the copyright
registering the copyright is what you do
as a legal precaution
in case somebody claims they made it
first and you can't prove it
because if you let's say you've got a
piece of paper you drew on and somebody
else has a piece of paper they drew on
five years later
well how do you know I suppose there's
some science but you know generally it's
hard to know who did something first
but if one of those draws it and then
submits it to the copyright
um the government's copyright office
then they have the superior claim which
doesn't mean that they'll win
because the other person might have
let's say a videotape
that showed them in real time making the
original drawing
in which case they could go to court and
they could take that copyright away from
the lying person who said they did it
first but copyrighted it first
so
now the other thing that people are
getting uh terribly terribly wrong is
the story about Ivanka Trump
getting some trademarks in China you
know that story
and the people on the left who are
artists they don't know the difference
between a trademark and a patent
so they're like oh China has given them
these trademarks oh you know favorable
favorable attention they got these
trademarks I I have trademarks in China
do you know how hard it is to get a
trademark in China
you just ask for it
there's just an office that gives them
to you
and they don't tell you you can't have
them you just pay your little fee and
you get it the only thing that you have
to make sure you've done and maybe the
cut the Trademark Office does this for
you is to make sure somebody didn't
already use it
if it's not already used it's yours
so Ivanka
submitted some trademark requests for
something that nobody else was using and
some bureaucrat in a Chinese
bureaucracy somewhere
you know some nameless bureaucrat looked
at it and said yep
that was it
that's the whole story
there's nothing left out
and but on social media you'll see all
the drunk controls wow Ivanka got
copyrights from China so it must be
Chinese collusion
learn what a trademark is
and then go back at it I mean yeah
Marcela can tell you
trademark is just paperwork everybody
can do it do you want to trademark in
China
you could have one in a week you just
hire a lawyer who does that and they
submit some paperwork well it might take
more than a week to approve it but it
will get approved
that China doesn't want to not approve
it they have no incentive to not approve
it
they want people to do business and they
don't want their trademarks to overlap
that's the whole story
all right
uh
I think we're we've done what we need to
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