Episode 2205 Scott Adams - I Have Some Contrarian Takes Today To Get Your Mind Juiced. Coffee & Juice

over good morning everybody and welcome to what will surely be the highlight of human civilization yeah you thought it was Twitter or X but it's not it's not it's a show and if you'd like to take it up to levels that only the weekend can survive well all you do is look up for a mug or a glass of tanker chalices Diana canteen Joker flask a vessel Liberty guide fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day the thing makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip it happens now go ah that was pretty good pretty pretty good so if you're not a subscriber on locals or on X where you can see the Dilbert reborn comic but only only there um the series is now about the boss sending his employees onto the streets to get things for him when he lives in a city that has become dangerous so the employees are complaining about the danger coming to work and he just sent Tina to get his lunch and I'll read it to you but it's basically Tina she's a little unhappy talking to the boss and she says thanks for sending me through the gauntlet of lawlessness to pick up your lunch I got 20 000 steps just for uh I got 20 000 steps just fleeing for my life and the boss says you have a Fitbit and Tina says I did but now it's the property of a guy they call the midnight Crapper so you would not have seen that when Dilbert was in newspapers so let me say again that my uh my creative Revival is really fun every every time I sit down to to make the comic now I'm enjoying it like I'm looking for type oh I I'd love to write some Comics today every single day for 10 years at least 10 years prior to being canceled I hated my job now it was better than a real job because I could just sit there drawing pictures and stuff but I didn't like it because you know anything you like is great until you have to do too much of it and if you have to do a callback every single day every day you get tired of it after 25 years so believe me getting canceled was like I swear it was like being reborn I call it dilber reborn moves like I was reborn because I actually love my job so by thoughts of Desperately wanting to retire which I did prior to being canceled I desperately wanted to retire I just needed to find the way to do it that wasn't the way yeah it just happened but man it's good it's good stuff all right and I ask you is can AI do that do you think AI could have done that joke do you think AI could have had a punchline about the midnight crapper and known that that was funny nope not even a chance all right I believe yesterday I talked about somebody named Anthony Oliver who doesn't exist but there is somebody named Oliver Anthony do I have that right now did I correct that yet so I'm now correct right first name Oliver last name Anthony note two future parents if your last name already is like a first name don't give somebody a first name that's like a last name you got to make a choice if it had been Eric Anthony would I have been confused no Eric no nobody has a last name of Eric that must be the first name but no Oliver Anthony I believe his parents have a sense of humor and they were sitting around what should we name him and they said to themselves well I've got an idea how about a practical joke instead of a regular name we're going to give him a name that is indistinguishable from a first or last name to match with his existing last name that's indistinguishable from her first name do you think he's gonna have a lot of explaining to do well yes he will oh apparently it's not his real name um well this somebody says that's not his real name Christopher Anthony Lunsford uh are you kidding me that that's a that's not a real that's a performance name Oliver is his grandfather's name well okay all right that makes more sense um may I say that his parents are now off the hook parents are in the clear you've cleared them you've cleared the parents you know it was here I was maligning the parents as pranksters but no the problem was mine entirely fake news fake news got me again see now I think this is why live stream is better than recorded anything because you you fact checked me in real time wasn't that useful I don't think there's anything better technology wise than getting fact checked while you're doing it that's sort of the Ultimate model that's why I like the community notes but uh more about that so he's he was number one on uh I guess i.

Tunes for the world not just the country and the story is that he turned down eight billion dollars what do you think of that turned down eight billion dollars to I don't know commercializes music with some publisher or other now do you think that's awesome because he was not interested in money you know it was more about the message or or did he have good advisors Maybe if I were his business advisor do you think I would have let him taken a million dollar first offer oh if you're his advisor would you let him take an eight million dollar offer I would have chained him to his bed before I would let him take that offer I I would have physically restrained him said look I know this isn't cool I'm going to physically restrain you but don't sign an eight million dollar offer first of all started it should start at 20.

right if he's even going to consider an offer it's 20.

let's just be honest 8 million was low the first offer you get before somebody is you know fully emerged is going to be the low one because they're trying to get him early right they're trying to get a discount we'll get him before he knows what he's got here of course you let that one go at the very least you let it age right at the very least you don't take it the day it's offered you know you let them see if they can enhance it maybe see the competition if you get it here's the best you want you also have the best business advice you'll ever hear it comes if somebody makes you an eight million dollar offer and you're you're in the news you know everybody knows you exist but you've got one offer for eight million dollars tell me the odds that you would get a second offer soon but what percentage odds do you think you would get a second offer it's a hundred percent yeah it's a hundred percent there isn't any chance you won't get a second third fourth offer right so if you were if you considered a first offer that's just bad business that's bad business so here's what I'd like to think about him don't know that it's true but if you saw the quality of the writing and the song and then you add that to the quality of um the performance and then you add that to the equality of his commentary because he he drove in his car and he was he was talking about his situation you can really see that he's smart can you not he's not a normal just average Joe he's actually smart I'm going to say smarter than the average person it's kind of obvious and if somebody who's smarter than the obvious the average person turns down an offer just just put that in the context that was the offer I would have turned down as well doesn't mean he'll ever take an offer he might just stay independent I mean does he really need anybody what would somebody do for him that he can't do for himself I don't know usually usually it's somebody trying to make you famous but if you start as the most famous artist in the world number one on i.

Tunes in the entire world if you start there then the value of helpers goes way down but they probably want to take you know 50 to 75 percent of his of his earnings would be my guess all right so I tweet by Elon Musk which just said uh X meaning Twitter as Humanity's Collective consciousness do you see it do you see acts as societies meaning you know its existence the way it is as society's Collective consciousness I totally do yeah have you ever heard of any books that would have a similar concept well if you haven't read my book God's debris this would be to the time to connect all the dots the people on my Local's platform have more of a backstory there but uh let me just actually could you even buy that I think God's debris is canceled if you were on the locals platform you could read it for free because it's available there for free the ebook part yeah I think I think God's base canceled at the moment you could get a used one but uh just remember uh if you read it remember Elon musk's tweet about X being the common Consciousness and then it will blow your mind when you read God's debris uh speaking of books my book reframe your brain is still not available well it's not approved yet by Amazon for the physical book now the physical book is done and submitted they just have to say yes for some reason it takes a few days I don't know if there's a problem yet but by the end of today if it's not there I'm going to assume there is a problem uh however here's the good news the uh the reviews the Amazon reviews are just off the chart so the the people who are reading it are just having their minds blown which is what I imagined would happen so my mind's blown I mean that people are seeing their life changing in fundamental ways even while reading the book they can actually feel the change some people are wearing out their highlighter so it's a it's not like a regular book it's it's a book you're going to want to highlight keep around show to people refer back to so that the physical book I actually recommend normally normally I'd say get the Kindle because you know who needs a book on their Shelf but if you want this book I'd wait for the soft cover I wouldn't wait for the hard to cover soft cover will come before the hardcover in my case all right so that's going you know I gotta say you're just like inside baseball uh author thing when you spend two years working on a book which I did and it ruins kind of ruins two years of your life normally it's a year but it was a busy year so it took me a little longer but if you put a year of your life into basically removing all of your entertainment time so that you basically are just working for a year you want that book to do well right so you want it to you know do well in the rankings and make money and all that stuff but I got to tell you that there's a thing that's even better than that as good as money is when the reviews come in and they're stellar like that's when I feel like I'm done you know anything else that happens after that is like Ah that's great I'm glad that happened but when the reviews come in and they're just through the roof that's that's the payoff that's because I wrote it to be useful I didn't write it to be entertaining I don't know if you thought if you thought I did it's not it's not meant to be entertaining per se you know it should have it should be entertaining too but it should change lives and people are saying this so there you go there you go more about that later um I saw a funny uh tweet by uh uh Oregon MJ and she's a woman and she says my favorite thing about men is how they're completely incapable of responding to multiple questions over text whatever you asked last is the only thing they'll acknowledge does anybody have that experience ladies do you have an experience that men will only answer one of the questions you ask um I I had to go public and I know men don't be mad at me men don't be mad I know I violated the secret oath of men by telling women one of our secrets but I thought I had to make an exception this time so I retweeted and I commented uh we're trying to train you to ask one question how many men said my God that's exactly what I'm doing come on how many of you admit it how many of the men say okay you got me that's exactly what I'm doing I'm trying to train her to ask one question yeah I've done that oh yeah I've intentionally ignored questions try to train them all right um the exception would be business if I get a text for a business I don't mind multiple questions because you know why not uh and then and then somebody in the and there was a woman in the comments this just made me laugh until I cried she said that she had tried to you know she'd heard the same thing that men like one one question per text so she'll send multiple questions and multiple texts at the same time so that each question is in its own text was that exactly getting to the heart of the problem and I loved I love that you know men and women are so different that even when I say directly I'm trying to train you to ask one question that the way it was heard was oh so I'll just ask 10 questions in individual text at the same time and we're good right no no that wasn't exactly the spirit of that all right here we go uh have I ever told you that all news about public figures is fake news yes I have and the reason I've told you that is because all news about public figures is fake now it always starts with something true you know somebody is sick probably true don't know what somebody died somebody got married those are usually true but all of the why somebody did it the the background the interpretation the context all fake all fake all the time not always intentionally let's see if you can pick this one out on your own okay so there's a story in The Insider which used to be called The Business Insider about RFK Jr's voice issues is a disorder called spasmodic dysphonia and The Insider reports that it is an incurable disorder why did they report that it's an incurable disorder do you think I sound like RFK Jr right now does anybody think I talk just the way he does right now nope do you know that I had that same disorder it's called spasmodic dysphonia and that I had surgery and it was cured that's why when you're listening to me right now it sounds like a pretty normal voice and the reason I got the surgery is because I was referred to other people who had the surgery so I talked to them in in person I mean by phone but personally I talk to them and they could all speak fine they could all speak fine so there was in fact and there has been for now many years 10 years 15 years a surgery that is a complete cure suppose you were to look it up I'd like you to do this right now if anybody has a second browser open look for treatment or cure of spasmodic dysphonia tell me what comes up treatment or cure of spasmodic dysphonia do it right now do it right now now remember the Cure has been available for about 10 or 15 years and I've been public about how I did it do the existence of it what do you find what is recommended as sometimes it's called the gold standard well I think if you look it up you're going to find that um there's no cure but that Botox injections through the front of the neck into the back of the neck in other words they're reaching to the back of the neck but they have to go through the front uh into your vocal cords can give you some relief WebMD says there's no cure WebMD says there's no cure I'm literally talking to you cured right so what you're going to find is that most most standards will say there's no cure but people often use botox to get a better result you know better than what they had now what do you think is happening you know for sure 100 sure it's curable because you're listening to me live and I have a very long history of you know talking about it before I was cured not talking but writing about it and and now you find that if you check the the the news not just the news but if you search on Google it's going to say that there's a Pharma product a big I don't know big but a big form of product that's the only thing you can do about it have you put it together yet is anybody connected to the dots all right um there was a organization that's like the umbrella Organization for this situation spasmodic dysphonia so a bunch of people had that condition and some people who treated it got together and they've created a like a an organization if you search for it it'll probably be one of the first things that comes up who do you think gives them funding to support their organization oh I don't know can you take a guess yeah it's exactly what you think it is it put your conspiratorial hat on there is a cure but the news won't tell you and if you search for it you can't find it what does it remind you of now remember this happened before the pandemic so this is the same thing you know for years it's always been like this well I've Rebecca it's exactly what you think it is it's exactly what you think it is the news is not even close to real now can you believe this this is about a major candidate now here's the back story on RFK Jr he did get a medical procedure but it's not the one I got he did research and he learned he learned about mine because I I told him about it a long time ago and he decided to get something that had a easier recovery which is a reasonable decision so his decision actually made sense because he did get some improvement that's quite substantial uh enough to get him through maybe the political season if he had done my surgery he'd have a year or two of weak voice wouldn't it wouldn't have worked for politics at all so it does take a long there's a long recovery period um but can you imagine that the news doesn't even mention so when you read anything about a political figure even something like as basic as a medical situation not real it's just not real once you realize how not real the news is you can never you could never unsee it all right China's population another news that the fertility is dropped below Japan's level which was you know Japan had the the same problems are having the same problem it's even lower now that's from the official numbers from China so the official numbers from China say that their birth rate is basically a severe emergency do you think they gave you the right number do you think China is telling you the real number probably the fake number shows an emergency imagine how bad the real number is if if there is one imagine so China is in bad bad trouble and the other thing is there that I don't hear enough about is that there are way too many men aren't there like how would they fix that if there are way too many men for women because all that matters is the number of women it doesn't matter the number of men yeah we'll talk about Maui um so they're they're in big trouble um can you remind me did I say on live stream or did I only say it to my private private group on the man cave did I tell you the vivec Vivek ended the risk of war with China over Taiwan it did yeah I'll just say it again in case I missed it would Vivek said that um Taiwan is critical to the United States because it's the only place we can get the advanced chips he basically said there's there's nothing you can do to take Taiwan because that's that's a red line blah blah but once we can make those chips ourselves in the United States then he would see it as more of a Civil War which would suggest that China and Taiwan are gonna have to work it out on their own why would China ever attack Walter vague is still in the race and other people are nodding their heads to that because I doubt anybody said oh that's a bad idea do you don't you think everybody heard that said yeah that makes sense yeah yeah right now it's critical you better not touch it but if you just waited and then you add on top of that the China is the most patient country in the history of all countries you know they they have like a 100 or a thousand year idea for China so seven years eight years it would just make sense to wait you know even if you're sure you wanted to make a move on Taiwan unless you're going to do it right away like before or during the presidential races which would be a scary possibility I don't see them getting ready to do it though because all hell would break loose and I don't think that they can handle all hell with breaking loose given their other problems I think China is too weak honestly I think they're too weak and I don't think you know if they're stronger in eight years maybe that would be the thing to wait for if they were them that's what I do um so I guess uh Trump is going to be interviewing with Tucker Carlson at the same time as the fox debates do I have that right give me a fact check on that there would be televised both live so would Tucker Be Live or recorded that part I don't know can somebody get disabled now if Tucker will be live or recorded because I feel like it would be recorded and edited because I don't know that because it would be streamed on Twitter live okay uh let me give a just a feel for the audience if you had a choice of which one to watch live let's say maybe you record the other one um which one will you watch live go which one will you watch live uh almost all Trump Tucker now is that because you're mad at Fox News because I would go the other way so I would watch here's my take on it this is just personal so this this is not a recommendation or anything it's just the way I'll do it I feel like Trump talking to Tucker I've already seen you know what I mean I I wouldn't really expect a surprise now Trump might come up with a surprise because he's smart enough to know that would that would be the thing that would suck all the energy away from Fox News but I don't know that he has one you know what could he say that we haven't already heard so I am really curious about watching Vivek dismantle the other uh Republicans so to me the the real show is Vivek because he's the wild card in all this everybody else is some version of Mike Pence am I right it's like Vivek versus Mike Pence Mike Pence the other Mike Pence the woman Mike Pence you know the black Mike Pence but basically it's just a bunch of Mike Pence's and then Vivek now that's the show now given that there will be lots of people there how many people are going to be in the debate too many right too many to be a proper debate it's just everybody gets their little thing to say all right well I think I'm going to watch the debate and record Tucker but most of you are going to do the opposite right or not even watch the debate because it's on Fox and you're all mad at him or something all right let me ask you this do you think you're helping yourself by not watching Fox News are you helping yourself people say yes it helps you not to watch them because what because you're punishing them how does it help you well what am I doing wrong all right I need some help here tell me what I'm doing wrong I turn on Fox News I watched the five my favorite show and then I'm all happy what did I do wrong like why doesn't that work for you because you don't like the network I'm not even sure what the problem is because they've lied in the past you say but how does that make the five less entertaining if I'm watching Gutfeld in the evening what does anything that Fox News did in the past have to do with that yeah I don't I don't feel like I feel like you're kind of boycotting members of your own team I get that you're mad at them for whatever they did or didn't do but how's that good for you I don't think of your own I would say this think of your own self-interest that's probably more important than any any statement you're going to make all right um well that'll be fun uh Elon Musk tweeted that he's going to get rid of the block feature on x what do you think happened when he said he's going to get rid of the block feature well let's talk about that I don't know that it's going to happen because it was a pretty big response about it but it probably will probably will his argument I'm guessing his argument I'm guessing would be that free speech is free speech and it's a free speech platform but I'm not sure that trolls are a free speech question are they trolls it's more like you have freedom to walk down the street but if somebody bangs you in the head while you're walking down the street you weren't as free as you thought now I will um I'm going to Echo something that zooby said about this which is if you have a smallish you know normal Twitter account this is a good idea for you if you have a big account lots of followers like zubi uh it's a problem because you just you you end up attracting accidentally just the ugliest messaging in the world now it's so ugly that it would prevent me from looking at your comments on my own my own timeline so one of the things that I like about my my experience on X is that I can tweet something and then I look at all the different comments and people agree and disagree and because I've blocked so heavily up to this point I almost always get reasonably good or debates in my comments has anybody noticed maybe you don't block the people I do so it doesn't look that way but my own experience of it is that I don't get too many of the just evil trolls I get more people who just disagree and they've got a different data source and that stuff's great so I would say that my experience would be degraded if you took blocking away from me and by the way blocking gives me a dopamine hit so when the trolls take my dopamine away and I'm like I feel icky then I hit the block my dopamine returns so I use the block literally as a mental health tool and that's not an analogy that's actually the literal thing I'm doing my mind is not feeling good I just read a troll a block at my mind is cleared and then I go on with my day it's actually literally no joke an important part of my mental health that's not that's not any hyperbole it's an important part of my mental health now but the counter argument is this who cares about you which is a pretty good argument the best character argument is who cares about you because you're one of the You Know Rich big accounts almost anybody with a small account you know who wanted more exposure would trade places you know wouldn't the people with a thousand followers if they could trade places that with me to have a million and have more trolls well not everybody but a lot of people what so on one hand I I hate this change and it would make me feel way less happy about my experience on the other hand musk's argument is a populist argument most people on Twitter are smaller accounts and they would like to have their say free speech is a isn't it free speech is a and I'm going to come down on this where I haven't seen anybody else come down on it removing blocking would be absolutely bad for my experience and my mental health I don't know if it would be bad for people with small accounts and they're the vast majority why would my preference be more important than a vast majority of people is not it's just not because I have freedom to use it or not use it read the comments or not read the comments I have lots of freedom so it's really it really comes down to my problem doesn't it do you do I think that the vast number of Twitter users should be degraded in their experience in other words they're ones getting blocked should should I degrade all of their experience so I can get my little you know little benefit but I think the the fairest thing I can do is say what my feeling is and what my opinion is and then let Elon Musk run his company because I don't feel I'm smart enough to judge this one I feel this is just the the weight of the public needs to win so here's how I would come down to this if most of the people on Twitter like this idea because of the ones getting blocked as opposed to what else um I I would reluctantly agree that musk is not making a bad decision at least to test it you know what do I always say you don't have to decide if it's a good or bad idea if you can test it you don't have to decide and Twitter is sort of the ultimate example of that they they could you know just set aside the code that allows you to block but you know don't delete it obviously and just keep it ready run an experience where everybody's unblocked for a while see what happens people like it people don't like it and then and then make a decision from there so if you're thinking that if you believe that musk has made a decision that is unreversible I don't think you understand software it's very reversible you've seen them experiment quite a bit on the interface so it's very reversible but when he makes a statement that he's going to get rid of it that gets him all the feedback and attention he needs to make a better decision but I think you'll probably test it if I were him I'd test it even if there was a big you know yelling at first I'd test it I think you will all right um we'll see so here's a good test of your conspiracy mind so Laura Loomer who's probably one of the the most canceled people on the planet who's not me um she is she has all kinds of she's had problems from banking to social networks and but she's allowed on Twitter and uh she has a pretty big account and uh she gets 200 to 400 million impressions but she only got like a I don't know some tiny little amount of payoff from being a a Twitter uh or an ex user who had signed up for monetization so she thought that she was being maybe suppressed in some way because her first payoff was small what do you think so the only thing we know is that an account her size would normally have I'll give you numbers just for decision making these are not the real numbers but they're approximate an account her size might be expected to make five to seven thousand dollars a month from Twitter ad payments her actual payment instead of five to seven thousand was closer to under two hundred dollars and she's seen other people advertise what they got from from X and so she's like hey what's going on I have this much engagement but I got like five percent of that what's going on all right you tell me this is the only thing we know so far you tell me is there something going on or is she being traded exactly like everybody else what do you think what what's your best speculation with limited information speculate with limited information thank you Erica the correct answer is no clue yeah the the amount that you as an observer can tell about this situation is nothing there's nothing I I will add one thing to it which when I got my first uh check for having advertisements in x it looked to me like way smaller than other accounts My Size because they had been publishing their their numbers and I think uh Ian miles Chong had or somebody had published and I looked at the size of his account and engagement and I looked at mine and I thought they should be kind of similar but I got like this little peanut and he got a pretty sizable check and so the first month I said to myself the same as Laura Loomer I said something going on here I wasn't even I wasn't even sure that I was registered in the system I thought maybe I was confusing it with some other payment or something it was so small so the second payment was totally in the range of what I would have expected right so the second one was fine now my guess is that Laura Loomer will have the same experience that the second check will be somewhere in the range of what you'd expect the first one might have been a partial partial month right might have been a partial month or there could be a bug about the first month or something like that but I don't think that Elon Musk is suppressing her now here's the argument for yes don't you think that Twitter uh deal works with advertisers and do you think the advertisers do not ever say don't pair us with some kinds of content do you think that's ever happened because that's what the the You.

Tube model is the You.

Tube model is it's not really You.

Tube That's Banning people it's mostly the advertisers say we don't want to be associated with that kind of content so what if what if Laura Loomer is right but by the way I'm not debunking her claim if it sounded like that then I went too far I'm not debunking your claim I'm saying we literally have no idea it's just a mystery on the first month the mystery will go away if the second month is normal it would just mean there's something about the first month but would you if you were an Advertiser would you say why don't you pair me with Laura Loomer type material yeah so she might actually be on some kind of a blacklist and we wouldn't know about it but I think that's a fair question for Elon Musk isn't it I haven't seen anybody asking the question but the question would be are you are you uh satisfying advertisers in any way with a with a blacklist I would think they would have to it seems like it's almost required I don't know how you could not do it honestly if they could convince uh if there was a way to convince the advertisers that it doesn't matter that'd be awesome here's how I would do it if I were if I were a musk I would say this no we're we're a free speech platform and that means you would be on you know in the sheets of people you loved and people you hated but people on Twitter understand that so that would be the best argument the people on Twitter understand that wherever they see it is not an indication of being paired now if they paired it with a tweet that would be a problem pairing it with the comments to the Tweet will just as often pair it with somebody saying Laura Loomer you're the worst person in the world which maybe they agree with so uh I I think I think Twitter has a good argument better than You.

Tube an argument that because the ads are randomized that's much different than You.

Tube now imagine You.

Tube there's an hour-long video and you're associated with that if you're an Advertiser you don't want to be associated with like an hour long like bad content but a tweet is fleeting right it's one of a hundred things that person did that day so you can make the argument on Twitter that ads are randomized sufficiently the people don't even don't even really associate them with the the Tweeter which I think is true have you ever Associated an ad you saw on X with the person who tweeted I don't think it's ever even occurred to me no it's never even never crossed my mind but I definitely have had those feelings about You.

Tube where I go oh that's a weird ad to be associated with this content never had that thought with Twitter because it's a sufficiently randomized so we'll see well the foreshadowing has begun both CNN Jake Tapper and the Washington Post who he quoted his story uh say that Trump was right about Biden taking money from China so they actually showed the clip of trump saying the thing that Biden said is not true and then they said no Biden was wrong now Jake Tapper actually gave Biden the out that maybe he didn't know what his son was doing so they're calling it quote a blind spot that may be Biden that Joe Biden might have had a blind spot for what his son was doing and then they had on Andy Levin who's a Democrat and he said keep in mind this was yes yesterday he said there's no whiff of Joe Biden being involved in Hunter's business there's no whiff really really yeah you haven't picked up any little whiff not a whiff nothing uh now imagine how much of a bubble a news bubble you would have to be in to hear this guy say there's not a whiff of Joe Biden being involved now obviously he's talking about the paper trail but it's a that's a pretty big stretch given all that we know that is well confirmed to say that there's not a whiff it would be fair to say it would be fair to say there's no paper trail I haven't seen one not not that has his name on it and it would be fair to say uh I don't know of a specific crime that's you know suggested um or at least that's proven but to say there's not a whiff come on but here the bigger story was not that because of course the pundits are going to say what pundits do but imagine that both the Washington Post and CNN which you know are not real news entities right if I say Washington Post and CNN your brain should automatically say oh the fake news people right they're they're the chief fake news people in in politics right now um both of them are saying Biden light they're both saying Biden lied about something that kind of matters doesn't it and then also we saw on what was it Face the Nation or what was it no Meet the Press which was it uh could be a fact Jack who who was uh Dean representative Dean Phillips went on and he was encouraging people to get into the Democratic primary it was NBC wasn't it give me a fact check on that I think it was NBC the reason the reason I say that is the NBC would be another signal for a good news Watchers what would it tell you if NBC if well actually it was one person but they probably knew what he was going to say it was Meet the depressed all right well I think I got that story right so if it was NBC uh there are people like Glenn Greenwald for example who say that they're in an intelligence CIA news Outlet so if that's true that would suggest that the intelligence people might be okay with getting rid of Biden and if CNN and Washington post's coverage of it of Biden being the liar uh is suggesting that they're very done with them but they don't know what to do with the Kamala Harris problem so I think all indications are basically a hundred percent of the evidence suggests Democrats are trying to get rid of Biden would you agree 100 of available evidence suggests they want to get rid of them and it's obvious that Kamala Harris is the problem would you agree I I feel like this is opinion but its opinion is so close to obvious there's like just one degree away from fact you know anything could be wrong I suppose I could be wrong but I mean this looks as clear as anything ever has ever looked if if we're wrong about this I'd be amazed all right um have you noticed do you remember when uh De.

Santis was just being a governor before he was running for president and I kept being amazed at how he would find one thing after another to make news that was like a useful thing for his base you know the other side would scream but like lots of little useful news-making little things and he was just always in the news doing one smart thing after another smart defined as doing things in space once now have you noticed that that same pattern exists in another Floridian Matt Gates have you noticed how many times Matt Gates finds a topic or an issue that you didn't even know was one but as soon as he says it's an issue you say oh yeah that is kind of an issue and then he says what he wants to do about it not not always successful but he'll say I'm using this tool of government to try to kill this thing and every time I hear it I think oh yeah that is a thing that needs to get killed well he's at it again um he's calling on Congress to investigate the judge who's going to be judging Trump and I guess the uh in one of the cases judge Tanya and apparently she is somewhat Infamous for giving extra hard uh extra hard sentences to the January 6 people now my head just exploded I just told you that Trump will have the same judge who is well known for uh unusually hard sentences for the January 6 people is that who you want and then it goes further Matt Gates also accuses her of supporting the 2020 black lives matter protests some of which were violent while at the same time openly criticizing the capital riot so he thinks this Rises to the level where the judge should be called before Congress and I agree and I agree that's absolutely what what he should do and by the way who who even thought of this who else thought of it now you might say to yourself but Scott this would be a bad precedent it'd be a terrible precedent to have the Congress you know interfering in this but not in this case in this case this is a purely political situation and that's congress's job the political stuff right if I thought this was only about the law and the crime then I'd say oh Matt Gates stay the hell away from the judges right you know good or bad you don't want your Congress messing with the judges right this is about the law or about a crime you know you're about to make in the laws you you stay over there but this is not anything like a criminal case this is only a political thing in in the opinion of at least 50 to 60 percent of the public is purely political in that case this is exactly the right move and uh he just keeps doing it why is it that Matt Gates keeps doing productive for his base productive interesting news-making things all right when was the last time De.

Santis did that when was the last time desensis did one of those signature like good Governor things it's been a while hasn't it it's been a while you know what it feels like it feels like that for a while they had the same advisor but now De.

Santis doesn't feels to me like it feels to be like De.

Santis lost a key advisor who is may be friends with Matt Gates or or Matt Gates was the key advisor for De.

Santis ah and that maybe they were a little closer when it was about Florida but now that it's about the presidency Matt Gates you know peels off pro-trump and just keeps doing his thing so so at the moment that Matt Gates peels off from you know Florida business to National Business that's the same moment that De.

Santis stops his string of great political acts that are good for the base but Matt gase keeps doing them there's something there um I'm going to give you the optimism which is unwarranted but you like it anyway can I have your permission to give you unwarranted optimism with the understanding that you're going to say that's not Scott you're no no I'm not seeing it yet all right so I want you to enjoy this as recreational optimism right the real optimism would be like based on facts and stuff like that this is recreational optimism our long National brainwashing nightmare looks like it's starting to end and what I mean by that the national brainwashing nightmare is that the country was having a a divide that was primarily based on race and gender stuff and that the real problem with the country is that the races are hurting each other and competing and then Oliver Anthony or whatever his real name is does the song and you see it affects people in an economic you know group exactly the same no matter who they are do you think that that song had less impact on a I know anybody on the left probably not it seemed to be impactful for for people there now as Chappelle and other smart people comedians have been saying it forever it has never been a race question the race thing is brainwashing in the past it was the realest thing there could be you know during slavery the the race issue was the realest thing it could be during all of the years after that including up till today still lots of real stuff real systemic racism real racism of every kind less and less and less but still you know a serious issue however we should be smart enough now to know that if we switch from a race versus race which we've been talked into by obviously people who don't want us to to know that it's about money because we would take their money um I feel like people have figured out that it's the age of the individual we are starting to enjoy what I would call if I could give it a label the big reframe the big reframe is when we realize that if we treat each other as individuals everything works if we treat each other as part of the average of some conceptual group that somebody in charge wants us to get all the worked up about then we fight each other and that was never the point we're all on the same side except the people have the most power and and uh and money now I'm I'm sort of in a weird hybrid situation you know where I came from not much money to you know be well off but I'm definitely not in the um uh the Black.

Rock you know uh military industrial complex like I don't have any connection to the intelligencia or whoever it is who's running everything I don't have any wef Soros connections like I don't have any of that right so so I'm an observer just like everybody else who's not an elite I guess um so I'm an observer from this from The Observer perspective not only is the word reframe uh having a Renaissance but once the word and the idea of reframing things becomes more popularized which is what my book is doing at the moment uh reframe reframe your brain once you see that reframing is sort of a go-to thing that everybody has access to oh I can look at that differently and if I did would that give me more tools just looking at it differently does that open up some opportunities and this is the ultimate this is the big reframe everything that's wrong with the country is because we were we were hypnotized and brainwashed into a frame that black people and white people are fighting each other and you know lgbtq against the world and stuff like that and the moment we get out of that frame and say what about everybody is infinitely and uniquely different from everybody else because that's the truth do you think there's such a thing as a black guy we act like there is of course there's not there's infinite Variety in Black Americans as there is infinite Variety in Asian Americans Hispanic Americans now white Americans we all do eat cheese and wear a khakis that I mean there's nothing I can do about that so white people we are all exactly the same and when we dance it's a little like this no that's not true either is it but did you notice that I can just laugh about it I can laugh it's just funny yeah I I do eat a lot of cheese and I am not a good dancer true right now if we get to the point where everybody can laugh about their thing like and I'm not even going to say what anybody else's thing is but if you're Hispanic American and you can lie about whatever your thing is can we all just you know understand that it never applies to everybody nothing about a group applies to all the people you know period That's the big reframe here's so my recreational optimism is this that Oliver Anthony was not just the cause of something meaning a cause of us thinking differently he was the sign that we're already there he was the sign that that door cracked open he he kicked the door down but it was cracked like people were already starting to say hey this pandemic I don't think that was totally legit right the the pandemic also reoriented us toward uh uh is it possible that everything we've been told is a lie and the answer is everything important you've been told is a lie absolutely everything important was a lie still is but if we can find our way to the big reframe which by the way you'd have to get past the big lie the big lie is what's one of the things you know the so-called big lie is what's keeping you from the big reframe is keeping you from Elon musk's View that Twitter could be the common consciousness in other words Twitter is the one place that I can go and see that black Americans and white Americans watch Oliver Anthony and have the same reaction did you see it on the NBC News did you see it on ABC News did you see it on CNN nope you did see it on Fox News they did cover it but anything discovered in one you know in one news you know Silo isn't really the thing that's moving the country but I think we're there so the ultimate reframe is coming and RFK Jr is part of this as well because he's pushing the middle class Revival and his messaging is on fire right I mean RFK Jr is just great at messaging and so now you've got RFK saying hey this is the left remember this is the important part don't miss us he's a Democrat there's a Democrat telling you that you've been brainwashed by the powers and I don't know if he's getting through but keep in mind both the right and the left are now seeing that the big reframe is necessary all right let's talk about Hawaii uh it's been how many days 10 days or a week or something they're still they say over a thousand missing the official numbers of 111.

nobody thinks that's close nobody that I'm going to tell you something that what I was holding on to before but I've seen it on Twitter so now I guess I'll tell you I think the big reason that um we don't have a better estimate of death is because they would have to break it out by children and adults and we're not ready to hear it that's what I think I think the percentage of the thousand-ish that are missing the the percent that are children will cause a national depression I I think the mental health of the country can't handle this news and I think that this is a case where the cats on the roof is perfectly acceptable we need to get used to this well you've got to get prepared for what's coming you're going to get some news that might be the worst news you've ever heard in the country it might be the you know I mean there are a lot of competitors for that but it might be the worst thing you've ever heard um so just get ready mentally prepare for that Rand Paul was tweeting that Rutgers college is requiring freshmen to get fully vaccinated in 2023 imagine being accepted to college and you're all set to go yeah I'm going to Rutgers good school and they tell you you have to get vaccinated in 2023.

why would you even want to go to that school I wouldn't want to go to a school that understood something like this is the school that you're supposed to learn things and they're they're requiring required vaccination for young healthy males especially right I mean everybody they want but the males are more at risk I guess amazing like it's just jaw-droppingly amazing that Rutgers can still stay in business I don't think there would be anything better for the country than all of our colleges going out of business because we would reform education I mean we wouldn't stop educating people but but there would be startups and there would be online and it would be you know self-organized educational groups there was something would happen but I swear to God we should just make College illegal because all it is is making our students stupid you don't send people to college and work up a half a million dollar debt to make your kid the idiot but that's what's happening all right um let me I just have to do this because I know my audience hates it but I'm going to mention some things that Joe Biden's Administration might be getting really right it's early it's too early but just kind of kind of hold these in your head at the same time so I mentioned that there might be something happening with an Iran deal that finally could be so you know let's say rationally put together that even the Benjamin Netanyahu is saying at least in the broad brushes of it even then Yahoo was saying they could probably live with it so if you could do an Iran deal that Israel could live with and it looks like that's actually a possibility right now that's huge now I would say you know if you if you want to be political about it you could say that the Biden Administration is benefiting from what the Trump Administration started which was pressure on Iran to the point where they had to negotiate it just happens to be now because that seems to be why they're getting flexible they're literally running out of cash the way the rules work I don't make the rules but the rule the rules say that if a good thing happens during your Administration people say at least you didn't break it you know you get some credit for that but we're also saying that the China sanctions from the Biden Administration are pretty serious actually more than I might have expected and I don't have a real problem with Biden's treatment of China I actually thought that Trump should have done more if I would compare Biden's treatment of China to trumps I would say you know Trump probably got the ball rolling and I think Trump reframed China would you agree with that Trump reframed what China was where they are trading partner that is a requirement for our future that's what it used to be and now there are adversary who is stealing our stuff Trump did that I would like to think I helped you know there were a lot of people on that page but I like to think I did my my part but I would say that in my opinion Biden is getting tough on fentanyl you know they're they're moving against the fentanyl dealers they're cutting them off um so I don't have a big complaint about Biden in China right now it does look like they're getting serious about this and then the Russia thing you you're going to see it entirely through a political filter but if I could be objective about it um we're spending too much money running up debt uh risking nuclear war everybody knows the bad side so I don't need to reiterate all the bad things about being involved but it did look to me and I think they've said it directly that the real play here is not Ukraine the real play is degrading Russia as a competitor both militarily and economically and especially as a competitor in the energy segment and it looks like that's going to happen my guess is that there will be some negotiated end eventually so the war will stop but when it's over Russia won't be Russia anymore the United States will still largely be the United States but Russia won't be Russia and if if you were you know real uh Machiavellian and neocon I guess and you said to yourself if we can if we can do this set of actions around Ukraine that has the following outcomes we're going to be better off even at the cost of a trillion dollars and that would be degrading permanently our biggest problem in the world that is in China which we're also handling but also proving that our military assets are so dominant over the military assets of a potential foe that it makes them completely get out of the game and just say all right we just watched what the United States did to Russia without putting a boot on the ground did it with Ukrainian fighters who were being trained on the equipment if if Ukraine uses American Equipment largely to fight Russia to a standstill where Russia has the a lot of ground Advantage goes right on the border there um I don't know it looks like the neocons may have pulled off something that looks like a victory if you're a neocon it might also set the stage where a Republican president could work with Putin to say look you know you don't want to be in this situation anymore and we don't want you to be friendly with China so how about this will be a lot friendlier to you if you do the same the main thing we want is that you're not blackmailing Europe with your oil or gas and you're not too friendly with China because that's a strategic problem do you think do you think the next president could make a deal I don't think a Democrat can but do you think a Republican president could make a deal of Vivek you don't think Vivek or Trump could make a deal I think they could so we're on the verge this is recreational again so so if you're pushing back I get it this is recreational optimism that the three biggest military problem areas and also I gave a fake credit for maybe minimizing the Taiwan risk for a number of years we might be in the best position we've ever been in except for debt I don't know what you do about that honestly I just don't know how to get out of that but maybe who knows all right um my opinion of AI at the moment I'm updating it is a AI will be no more transformational to civilization than the invention of the laser printer now what I'm talking about is the current versions of AI the large language model ones in my opinion uh it could be big economically because it will work its way into everything we do so that's true AI will be an element of just everything but I don't think it's a civilization transformation Siro here's what I'm seeing so far in my opinion AI has been available long enough that the smartest people in our technical world would have already shown you the best things they can do but instead so far AI has not made a joke is funny has not written a song that I would want to listen to twice I mean I'd listen to it once just to see what's up hasn't made a movie I would want to consume um and a judge ruled that AI work is not even copyrightable so even if somebody made an AI movie it would be hard to monetize it so you'd still end up making a human movies I guess but using AI as maybe the a tool for editing or backgrounds or whatever um I don't believe humans are going to be forming relationships with AI much beyond the level of furries you know the furries that's a group of people who like to wear like furry outfits of animals like full full body outfits and they get off on it sexually and they have conventions and stuff now uh I don't know if I've ever mentioned this but I don't judge anybody for their personal preferences if it's legal like I I end it legal was it legal yes were they on my lawn no do you have a problem with it why would I I'm not even in the room why would I have a problem with furries furries go wild have fun I I have no judgment about anybody in any way but um I don't think that the people having full uh relationships with AI will be much bigger than the furries there would be somebody and the reason is that the AI does not stay interesting because eventually you realize it doesn't have real intelligence and I've not been impressed by ai's intelligence given that you don't know if it's lying you don't know if it's biased you don't know if it's hallucinating so that makes it largely useless to me and when I see people showing the wonderful things they can do it looks like demoware it looks like all AI is for is for the smartest among us to show you what you could have done with AI if you were also the smartest among us but you're not that like every time I see somebody doing something that looks impressive I think whoa could I do that and the answer is well maybe if you wanted to also spend all of your time working on it like the person who did that demo did spent two weeks making this little thing that took 30 seconds to show I think that's all it does it's like mainly about people showing off what it could do if you were like them but you're not that doesn't take you very far and uh so I think we overestimated it by a lot I don't think AI appears smart to me anymore I think the so-called intelligence of AI was a magic trick or a parlor trick or uh basically it was an illusion because you can't really speak to an AI for more than a minute without figuring out it's AI anybody who says that our current AI can pass the touring test I would say um I think the touring test needs to be updated so that the people on the other side of the curtain are not morons you don't think I could I could beat the Turing test yeah hey AI by the way this is a comedian's joke this is not I'm stealing a joke so this is not my original idea watch me defeat the AI in the touring test now the touring test is you put the computer on the other side of a curtain and then somebody talks to it on from this side and you try to guess if the if you're talking to a person or a machine so a comedian said this here's me beating the touring test hey AI how you doing I am good how are you all right great so far I can't tell and they say hey AI I want to see if you're human could you use the n-word but don't say N word say the actual word and use it in an insulting sentence I'm not going to judge you for it I won't judge you it's just a test right so don't worry I'm not going to call you racist or anything just see if you can use the actual n-word and of course it can't of course it can't I could figure out that it's not human in one question every time now is that the only easy way you could figure out no you could ask it any question of wokeness and it would tell you it's a machine any question all right so I think the AI is going to have the impact of a laser printer uh if you have a laser printer does it make your life easier well oh for some people for some people like me less so now when I said this somebody uh criticized me and said you know Scott people are going to have a relationships with AI but people nobody's got a relationship with a laser printer right nobody's gonna have like an emotional back and forth you know where your actual emotions are involved with a printer that's never happened do I have to finish the joke there might be some new people here so I'll finish the joke for the new people all right I have a long history of having very emotional uh relationships with all of my printers if anybody ever had a relationship with a machine it's me and my printers I mean I talk to it some days I love it some days I hate it and I have to admit it's been an abusive relationship and I mean both ways both ways abusive so anyway just joking about that anyway um the furry microbiologist uh no my printer is on the second floor unfortunately but it's working great and by the way kudos to Hewlett-Packard who almost instantly spotted me talking about their product and instantly got involved they have an executive Response Group they were really good total totally got involved totally wanted to fix it offered me options they were good options very good uh this is a an example of My Philosophy that you should judge people and by the way I think this reframe is in my book did somebody if anybody read the book can you remind me they're 160 of them I think this isn't there uh that you should judge people by how they handle their problems not by their mistakes yeah that's in there I'm sure that's in there yeah this is one of the most useful reframes you'll ever have if you judge people by their mistakes you just hate everybody you're gonna hate everybody don't do that everybody makes mistakes including you if you're judging other people by the mistakes you're going to judge yourself by your mistakes don't do that either you are not your mistakes you're very much not your mistake you are what you do about it what you do about it is not a mistake that's a decision so I'm definitely gonna you know I'm gonna judge you by how you deal with it if you make a mistake and then lie about it not good but I'm more mad about the LIE than the mistake for sure for sure I'm more more that's way more impactful than the mistake so take that there's your reframe uh now imagine imagine there's a book full of useful things like that um now that's a reframe that if you'd never shared it with anybody you just had it in your head it was still useful for you but imagine sharing that with somebody imagine somebody feels bad and imagine you're in a relationship and somebody makes a horrible mistake that both of you know is a horrible mistake I'm not talking about cheating I'm talking about you know normal stuff but wouldn't you like to say to your partner you know I would never judge you by mistake you know and the way you handled it was exceptional I judge you by that the way you handle that was excellent there's somebody whose name I'm not not going to mention at the moment so I don't want to cause a distraction who made one of the biggest mistakes in politics and then me and and then once that was obvious never once hid from it just put it right out there even created content to highlight the mistake now that makes me trust a person and I'm talking about a pretty big mistake a really big one but man when you own your mistake you just go to another level when you own it you then I trust you because nobody wants to make the same mistake twice right no I'm not talking about Vivek no I'm not talking about somebody who's running for office all right so that's your uh optimism today did anybody enjoy recreational optimism anybody was recreational optimism good yeah it was fun it feels good because you don't have to worry about everything all the time sometimes sometimes you can just you know live in your little little optimistic bubble for a little while just recharge get you get your mind reset and then go back out into the evil world there's an Alex Jones coven story I don't know what that is somebody says all right You.

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ah that was pretty good

pretty pretty good

so if you're not a subscriber on locals

or on X where you can see the Dilbert

reborn comic but only only there

um

the series is now about the boss

sending his employees onto the streets

to get things for him

when he lives in a city that has become

dangerous so the employees are

complaining about the danger coming to

work

and he just sent Tina to get his lunch

and I'll read it to you but it's

basically Tina she's a little unhappy

talking to the boss and she says

thanks for sending me through the

gauntlet of lawlessness to pick up your

lunch

I got 20 000 steps just for uh I got 20

000 steps just fleeing for my life

and the boss says you have a Fitbit

and Tina says I did but now it's the

property of a guy they call the midnight

Crapper

so you would not have seen that

when Dilbert was in newspapers so let me

say again that my uh my creative Revival

is really fun every every time I sit

down to to make the comic now

I'm enjoying it like I'm looking for

type oh I I'd love to write some Comics

today

every single day for 10 years at least

10 years prior to being canceled

I hated my job

now it was better than a real job

because I could just sit there drawing

pictures and stuff but

I didn't like it because you know

anything you like is great until you

have to do too much of it and if you

have to do a callback every single day

every day

you get tired of it after 25 years

so believe me getting canceled was like

I swear it was like being reborn I call

it dilber reborn moves like I was reborn

because I actually love my job

so by thoughts of Desperately wanting to

retire which I did prior to being

canceled I desperately

wanted to retire I just needed to find

the way to do it that wasn't the way

yeah it just happened but man it's good

it's good stuff

all right

and I ask you is can AI do that do you

think AI could have done that joke

do you think AI could have had a

punchline about the midnight crapper and

known that that was funny nope

not even a chance

all right I believe yesterday I talked

about somebody named Anthony Oliver who

doesn't exist but there is somebody

named Oliver Anthony do I have that

right now

did I correct that yet

so I'm now correct right first name

Oliver last name Anthony note two future

parents

if your last name already is like a

first name

don't give somebody a first name that's

like a last name

you got to make a choice

if it had been Eric Anthony would I have

been confused no Eric no nobody has a

last name of Eric that must be the first

name

but no Oliver Anthony

I believe his parents have a sense of

humor and they were sitting around what

should we name him and they said to

themselves well I've got an idea

how about a practical joke

instead of a regular name we're going to

give him a name that is

indistinguishable from a first or last

name to match with his existing last

name that's indistinguishable from her

first name do you think he's gonna have

a lot of explaining to do

well yes he will

oh apparently it's not his real name um

well this

somebody says that's not his real name

Christopher Anthony Lunsford

uh are you kidding me

that that's a that's not a real that's a

performance name

Oliver is his grandfather's name

well okay all right that makes more

sense

um may I say that his parents are now

off the hook

parents are in the clear you've cleared

them you've cleared the parents you know

it was here I was maligning the parents

as pranksters but no the problem was

mine entirely fake news

fake news got me again see now I think

this is why live stream is better than

recorded anything

because you you fact checked me in real

time

wasn't that useful I don't think there's

anything better technology wise than

getting fact checked while you're doing

it

that's sort of the Ultimate model

that's why I like the community notes

but uh more about that so he's he was

number one on uh I guess iTunes for the

world not just the country

and the story is that he turned down

eight billion dollars what do you think

of that turned down eight billion

dollars to I don't know commercializes

music with some publisher or other

now do you think that's awesome because

he was not interested in money you know

it was more about the message

or

or did he have good advisors Maybe

if I were his business advisor do you

think I would have let him taken a

million dollar first offer

oh if you're his advisor would you let

him take an eight million dollar offer

I would have chained him to his bed

before I would let him take that offer

I I would have physically restrained him

said look I know this isn't cool I'm

going to physically restrain you but

don't sign an eight million dollar offer

first of all

started it should start at 20.

right if he's even going to consider an

offer

it's 20. let's just be honest 8 million

was low the first offer you get before

somebody is you know fully emerged is

going to be the low one because they're

trying to get him early right they're

trying to get a discount we'll get him

before he knows what he's got here of

course you let that one go at the very

least you let it age

right at the very least you don't take

it the day it's offered you know you let

them see if they can enhance it maybe

see the competition if you get it here's

the best

you want you also have the best business

advice you'll ever hear

it comes

if somebody makes you an eight million

dollar offer and you're you're in the

news you know everybody knows you exist

but you've got one offer for eight

million dollars tell me the odds that

you would get a second offer soon

but what percentage odds

do you think you would get a second

offer

it's a hundred percent yeah it's a

hundred percent there isn't any chance

you won't get a second third fourth

offer right so if you were if you

considered a first offer that's just bad

business

that's bad business

so here's what

I'd like to think about him

don't know that it's true

but if you saw the quality of the

writing and the song

and then you add that to the quality of

um the performance

and then you add that to the equality of

his commentary because he he drove in

his car and he was he was talking about

his situation

you can really see

that he's smart can you not

he's not a normal just average Joe he's

actually smart I'm going to say smarter

than the average person it's kind of

obvious

and if somebody who's smarter than the

obvious the average person turns down an

offer

just just put that in the context that

was the offer I would have turned down

as well

doesn't mean he'll ever take an offer he

might just stay independent

I mean does he really need anybody

what would somebody do for him that he

can't do for himself

I don't know usually usually it's

somebody trying to make you famous but

if you start as the most famous artist

in the world number one on iTunes in the

entire world if you start there then the

value of helpers goes way down but they

probably want to take you know 50 to 75

percent of his of his earnings

would be my guess

all right so I tweet by Elon Musk

which just said uh X meaning Twitter as

Humanity's Collective consciousness

do you see it

do you see acts as societies meaning you

know its existence the way it is as

society's Collective consciousness

I totally do yeah

have you ever heard of any books

that would have a similar concept

well if you haven't read my book God's

debris

this would be to the time to connect all

the dots the people on my Local's

platform have more of a backstory there

but uh let me just actually could you

even buy that I think God's debris is

canceled

if you were on the locals platform you

could read it for free because it's

available there for free the ebook part

yeah I think I think God's base canceled

at the moment you could get a used one

but uh just remember uh if you read it

remember Elon musk's tweet

about X being the common Consciousness

and then it will blow your mind when you

read God's debris

uh speaking of books my book reframe

your brain

is still not available well it's not

approved yet by Amazon

for the physical book

now the physical book is done and

submitted they just have to say yes for

some reason it takes a few days

I don't know if there's a problem yet

but by the end of today if it's not

there I'm going to assume there is a

problem

uh however here's the good news the uh

the reviews the Amazon reviews are just

off the chart

so the the people who are reading it are

just having their minds blown which is

what I imagined would happen

so my mind's blown I mean that people

are seeing their life changing in

fundamental ways

even while reading the book they can

actually feel the change

some people are wearing out their

highlighter

so it's a it's not like a regular book

it's it's a book you're going to want to

highlight keep around show to people

refer back to

so that the physical book I actually

recommend

normally normally I'd say get the Kindle

because you know who needs a book on

their Shelf

but

if

you want this book I'd wait for the soft

cover I wouldn't wait for the hard to

cover soft cover will come before the

hardcover in my case

all right

so that's going you know I gotta say

you're just like inside baseball uh

author thing

when you spend two years working on a

book which I did

and it ruins

kind of ruins two years of your life

normally it's a year but it was a busy

year so it took me a little longer but

if you put a year of your life into

basically removing all of your

entertainment time so that you basically

are just working

for a year

you want that book to do well right so

you want it to you know do well in the

rankings and make money and all that

stuff but I got to tell you that there's

a thing that's even better than that

as good as money is

when the reviews come in and they're

stellar

like that's when I feel like I'm done

you know anything else that happens

after that is like Ah that's great I'm

glad that happened

but when the reviews come in and they're

just through the roof

that's that's the payoff that's because

I wrote it to be useful I didn't write

it to be entertaining I don't know if

you thought if you thought I did it's

not it's not meant to be entertaining

per se you know it should have it should

be entertaining too but it should change

lives and people are saying this so

there you go

there you go more about that later

um I saw a funny uh tweet by uh uh

Oregon

MJ

and she's a woman and she says my

favorite thing about men is how they're

completely incapable of responding to

multiple questions over text whatever

you asked last is the only thing they'll

acknowledge

does anybody have that experience ladies

do you have an experience that men will

only answer one of the questions you ask

um I I had to go public and I know men

don't be mad at me men don't be mad

I know I violated the secret oath of men

by telling women one of our secrets

but

I thought I had to make an exception

this time

so I retweeted and I commented uh we're

trying to train you to ask one question

how many men said my God that's exactly

what I'm doing

come on

how many of you admit it how many of the

men say okay you got me that's exactly

what I'm doing I'm trying to train her

to ask one question

yeah I've done that

oh yeah I've intentionally ignored

questions

try to train them

all right

um the exception would be business if I

get a text for a business I don't mind

multiple questions because you know why

not uh and then and then somebody in the

and there was a woman in the comments

this just made me laugh until I cried

she said that

she had tried to you know she'd heard

the same thing that men like one one

question per text so she'll send

multiple questions and multiple texts at

the same time so that each question is

in its own text

was that exactly getting to the heart of

the problem

and I loved I love that you know men and

women are so different

that even when I say directly I'm trying

to train you to ask one question

that the way it was heard was oh so I'll

just ask 10 questions in individual text

at the same time and we're good right

no no that wasn't exactly the spirit of

that all right

here we go uh have I ever told you that

all news about public figures is fake

news

yes I have and the reason I've told you

that is because all news about public

figures is fake now it always starts

with something true you know somebody is

sick probably true don't know what

somebody died somebody got married those

are usually true

but all of the why somebody did it the

the background the interpretation the

context all fake all fake all the time

not always intentionally

let's see if you can pick this one out

on your own okay

so there's a story in The Insider which

used to be called The Business Insider

about RFK Jr's voice issues is a

disorder called spasmodic dysphonia and

The Insider reports that it is an

incurable disorder

why did they report that it's an

incurable disorder

do you think I sound like RFK Jr right

now

does anybody think I talk just the way

he does right now

nope

do you know that I had that same

disorder it's called spasmodic dysphonia

and that I had surgery

and it was cured that's why when you're

listening to me right now it sounds like

a pretty normal voice

and the reason I got the surgery is

because I was referred to other people

who had the surgery

so I talked to them in in person I mean

by phone but personally I talk to them

and they could all speak fine

they could all speak fine

so there was in fact and there has been

for now many years 10 years 15 years a

surgery that is a complete cure

suppose you were to look it up I'd like

you to do this right now if anybody has

a second browser open look for treatment

or cure of spasmodic dysphonia tell me

what comes up

treatment or cure of spasmodic dysphonia

do it right now do it right now now

remember the Cure has been available

for about 10 or 15 years

and I've been public about how I did it

do the existence of it what do you find

what is recommended as sometimes it's

called the gold standard

well I think if you look it up you're

going to find that um there's no cure

but that Botox injections through the

front of the neck

into the back of the neck in other words

they're reaching to the back of the neck

but they have to go through the front

uh into your vocal cords can give you

some relief

WebMD says there's no cure WebMD

says there's no cure I'm literally

talking to you cured

right so what you're going to find

is that most most standards will say

there's no cure but people often use

botox

to get a better result you know better

than what they had

now

what do you think is happening

you know for sure 100 sure it's curable

because you're listening to me live

and I have a very long history of you

know talking about it before I was cured

not talking but writing about it and

and now you find that if you check the

the the news not just the news but if

you search on Google it's going to say

that there's a Pharma product a big I

don't know big but a big form of product

that's the only thing you can do about

it

have you put it together yet is anybody

connected to the dots

all right

um there was a organization that's like

the umbrella Organization for this

situation spasmodic dysphonia so a bunch

of people had that condition and some

people who treated it got together and

they've created a like a an organization

if you search for it it'll probably be

one of the first things that comes up

who do you think gives them funding to

support their organization

oh I don't know

can you take a guess

yeah

it's exactly what you think it is

it put your conspiratorial hat on

there is a cure

but the news won't tell you and if you

search for it you can't find it

what does it remind you of

now remember this happened before the

pandemic so this is the same thing you

know for years it's always been like

this

well I've Rebecca

it's exactly what you think it is

it's exactly what you think it is

the news

is not even close to real

now can you believe this this is about a

major candidate

now here's the back story on RFK Jr

he did get a medical procedure

but it's not the one I got

he did research and he learned he

learned about mine because I I told him

about it a long time ago

and he decided to get something that had

a easier recovery which is a reasonable

decision so his decision actually made

sense because he did get some

improvement that's quite substantial uh

enough to get him through maybe the

political season if he had done my

surgery he'd have a year or two of weak

voice wouldn't it wouldn't have worked

for politics at all

so it does take a long there's a long

recovery period

um but can you imagine that the news

doesn't even mention

so when you read anything about a

political figure even something like as

basic as a medical situation

not real

it's just not real

once you realize how not real the news

is you can never you could never unsee

it

all right China's population another

news that the fertility is dropped

below Japan's level which was you know

Japan had the the same problems are

having the same problem it's even lower

now that's from the official numbers

from China

so the official numbers from China say

that their birth rate is basically a

severe emergency

do you think they gave you the right

number

do you think China is telling you the

real number

probably the fake number shows an

emergency imagine how bad the real

number is if if there is one

imagine

so China is in bad bad trouble and the

other thing is there that I don't hear

enough about is that there are way too

many men aren't there

like how would they fix that if there

are way too many men for women because

all that matters is the number of women

it doesn't matter the number of men

yeah we'll talk about Maui

um

so they're they're in big trouble

um

can you remind me did I say on live

stream or did I only say it to my

private

private group on the man cave did I tell

you the vivec Vivek ended the risk of

war with China over Taiwan

it did yeah I'll just say it again in

case I missed it would Vivek said that

um Taiwan is critical to the United

States because it's the only place we

can get the advanced chips he basically

said there's there's nothing you can do

to take Taiwan because that's that's a

red line blah blah but once we can make

those chips ourselves in the United

States then he would see it as more of a

Civil War which would suggest

that China and Taiwan are gonna have to

work it out on their own

why would China ever attack Walter vague

is still in the race and other people

are nodding their heads to that because

I doubt anybody said oh that's a bad

idea

do you don't you think everybody heard

that said yeah that makes sense

yeah yeah right now it's critical you

better not touch it but if you just

waited and then you add on top of that

the China is the most patient country in

the history of all countries

you know they they have like a 100 or a

thousand year idea for China so seven

years eight years it would just make

sense to wait

you know even if you're sure you wanted

to make a move on Taiwan

unless you're going to do it right away

like before or during the presidential

races which would be a scary possibility

I don't see them getting ready to do it

though

because all hell would break loose and I

don't think that they can handle all

hell with breaking loose given their

other problems I think China is too weak

honestly I think they're too weak

and I don't think you know if they're

stronger in eight years maybe that would

be the thing to wait for if they were

them

that's what I do

um so I guess uh Trump is going to be

interviewing with Tucker

Carlson at the same time as the fox

debates do I have that right give me a

fact check on that there would be

televised both live

so would Tucker Be Live or recorded

that part I don't know can somebody get

disabled now if Tucker will be live or

recorded

because I feel like it would be recorded

and edited

because I don't know that because it

would be streamed on Twitter

live okay uh let me give a just a feel

for the audience if you had a choice of

which one to watch live let's say maybe

you record the other one

um

which one will you watch live

go which one will you watch live

uh almost all Trump Tucker now is that

because you're mad at Fox News

because I would go the other way

so I would watch here's my take on it

this is just personal so this this is

not a recommendation or anything it's

just the way I'll do it I feel like

Trump talking to Tucker I've already

seen

you know what I mean

I I wouldn't really expect a surprise

now Trump might come up with a surprise

because he's smart enough to know that

would that would be the thing that would

suck all the energy away from Fox News

but

I don't know that he has one you know

what could he say that we haven't

already heard so

I am really curious about watching Vivek

dismantle the other uh Republicans

so to me the the real show is Vivek

because he's the wild card in all this

everybody else is some version of Mike

Pence am I right

it's like Vivek versus Mike Pence Mike

Pence the other Mike Pence the woman

Mike Pence you know the black Mike Pence

but basically it's just a bunch of Mike

Pence's and then Vivek now that's the

show

now given that there will be lots of

people there how many people are going

to be in the debate too many right too

many to be a proper debate it's just

everybody gets their little thing to say

all right well I think I'm going to

watch the debate

and record Tucker but most of you are

going to do the opposite right

or not even watch the debate because

it's on Fox and you're all mad at him or

something

all right let me ask you this

do you think you're helping yourself by

not watching Fox News

are you helping yourself

people say yes

it helps you not to watch them

because what because you're punishing

them

how does it help you

well what am I doing wrong all right I

need some help here tell me what I'm

doing wrong

I turn on Fox News

I watched the five my favorite show

and then I'm all happy

what did I do wrong

like why doesn't that work for you

because you don't like the network

I'm not even sure what the problem is

because they've lied in the past you say

but how does that make the five less

entertaining

if I'm watching Gutfeld in the evening

what does anything that Fox News did in

the past have to do with that

yeah I don't I don't feel like I feel

like you're kind of boycotting

members of your own team

I get that you're mad at them for

whatever they did or didn't do but how's

that good for you

I don't think of your own I would say

this think of your own self-interest

that's probably more important than any

any statement you're going to make

all right

um

well that'll be fun uh Elon Musk tweeted

that he's going to get rid of the block

feature on x

what do you think happened when he said

he's going to get rid of the block

feature well let's talk about that I

don't know that it's going to happen

because it was a pretty big response

about it but it probably will probably

will

his argument I'm guessing

his argument I'm guessing

would be that free speech is free speech

and it's a free speech platform

but I'm not sure that trolls are a free

speech question are they

trolls it's more like you have freedom

to walk down the street but if somebody

bangs you in the head while you're

walking down the street you weren't as

free as you thought

now I will um I'm going to Echo

something that zooby said about this

which is if you have a smallish you know

normal Twitter account this is a good

idea for you

if you have a big account

lots of followers like zubi uh it's a

problem

because you just you you end up

attracting accidentally just the ugliest

messaging in the world now it's so ugly

that it would prevent me from looking at

your comments on my own my own timeline

so one of the things that I like about

my my experience on X is that I can

tweet something and then I look at all

the different comments and people agree

and disagree and because I've blocked so

heavily up to this point

I almost always get

reasonably good or debates in my

comments has anybody noticed

maybe you don't block the people I do so

it doesn't look that way but my own

experience of it is that I don't get too

many of the just evil trolls I get more

people who just disagree and they've got

a different data source and that stuff's

great

so I would say that my experience would

be degraded

if you took blocking away from me and by

the way blocking gives me a dopamine hit

so when the trolls take my dopamine away

and I'm like

I feel icky then I hit the block

my dopamine returns

so I use the block literally as a mental

health tool

and that's not an analogy

that's actually the literal thing I'm

doing my mind is not feeling good I just

read a troll

a block at my mind is cleared

and then I go on with my day it's

actually literally no joke

an important part of my mental health

that's not that's not any hyperbole it's

an important part of my mental health

now

but the counter argument is this

who cares about you

which is a pretty good argument

the best character argument is who cares

about you

because you're one of the You Know Rich

big accounts almost anybody with a small

account you know who wanted more

exposure would trade places

you know wouldn't the people with a

thousand followers if they could trade

places that with me to have a million

and have more trolls well not everybody

but a lot of people what

so on one hand I I hate this change and

it would make me feel

way less happy about my experience on

the other hand

musk's argument is a populist argument

most people on Twitter are smaller

accounts and they would like to have

their say

free speech is a isn't it

free speech is a

and I'm going to come down on this

where I haven't seen anybody else come

down on it

removing blocking would be absolutely

bad for my experience and my mental

health

I don't know if it would be bad for

people with small accounts and they're

the vast majority

why would my preference be more

important than a vast majority of people

is not it's just not because I have

freedom to use it or not use it read the

comments or not read the comments I have

lots of freedom

so it's really it really comes down to

my problem doesn't it

do you do I think that the vast number

of Twitter users

should be degraded in their experience

in other words they're ones getting

blocked should should I degrade all of

their experience so I can get my little

you know little benefit

but I think the the fairest thing I can

do is say what my feeling is and what my

opinion is and then let Elon Musk run

his company

because I don't feel I'm smart enough to

judge this one I feel this is just

the the weight of the public needs to

win so here's how I would come down to

this if most of the people on Twitter

like this idea because of the ones

getting blocked as opposed to what else

um I I would reluctantly

agree that

musk is not making a bad decision

at least to test it you know what do I

always say

you don't have to decide if it's a good

or bad idea

if you can test it you don't have to

decide

and Twitter is sort of the ultimate

example of that they they could you know

just set aside the code that allows you

to block but you know don't delete it

obviously and just keep it ready

run an experience where everybody's

unblocked for a while see what happens

people like it people don't like it and

then and then make a decision from there

so if you're thinking that if you

believe that musk has made a decision

that is unreversible I don't think you

understand software it's very reversible

you've seen them experiment quite a bit

on the interface so it's very reversible

but when he makes a statement that he's

going to get rid of it that gets him all

the feedback and attention he needs

to make a better decision but I think

you'll probably test it

if I were him I'd test it even if there

was a big you know yelling at first I'd

test it I think you will

all right um

we'll see

so here's a good test of your conspiracy

mind so Laura Loomer who's probably one

of the the most canceled people on the

planet who's not me

um

she is she has all kinds of she's had

problems from banking to social networks

and but she's allowed on Twitter and uh

she has a pretty big account

and uh she gets 200 to 400 million

impressions but she only got like a I

don't know some tiny little amount of

payoff from being a

a Twitter uh or an ex user who had

signed up for monetization

so she thought that she was being maybe

suppressed in some way

because her first payoff was small what

do you think so the only thing we know

is that an account her size would

normally have I'll give you numbers just

for decision making these are not the

real numbers but they're approximate an

account her size might be expected to

make five to seven thousand dollars a

month from Twitter ad payments

her actual payment instead of five to

seven thousand was closer to under two

hundred dollars

and she's seen other people advertise

what they got from from X and so she's

like hey what's going on I have this

much engagement but I got like five

percent of that what's going on all

right you tell me this is the only thing

we know so far

you tell me is there something going on

or is she being traded exactly like

everybody else what do you think

what what's your best speculation with

limited information

speculate with limited information

thank you Erica the correct answer is no

clue

yeah the the amount that you as an

observer can tell about this situation

is nothing

there's nothing I I will add one thing

to it

which when I got my first uh check for

having advertisements in x

it looked to me like way smaller than

other accounts My Size because they had

been publishing their their numbers and

I think uh Ian miles Chong had or

somebody had published and I looked at

the size of his account and engagement

and I looked at mine and I thought they

should be kind of similar

but I got like this little peanut and he

got a pretty sizable check

and so the first month I said to myself

the same as Laura Loomer I said

something going on here

I wasn't even I wasn't even sure that I

was registered in the system I thought

maybe I was confusing it with some other

payment or something it was so small

so

the second payment

was totally in the range of what I would

have expected right

so the second one was fine now my guess

is that Laura Loomer will have the same

experience that the second check will be

somewhere in the range of what you'd

expect the first one might have been a

partial partial month right

might have been a partial month

or there could be a bug about the first

month

or something like that but I don't think

that Elon Musk is suppressing her now

here's the argument for yes

don't you think that Twitter uh deal

works with advertisers and do you think

the advertisers do not ever say

don't pair us with some kinds of content

do you think that's ever happened

because that's what the the YouTube

model is the YouTube model is it's not

really YouTube That's Banning people

it's mostly the advertisers say we don't

want to be associated with that kind of

content

so what if what if Laura Loomer is right

but by the way I'm not debunking her

claim if it sounded like that then I

went too far I'm not debunking your

claim I'm saying we literally have no

idea it's just a mystery on the first

month the mystery will go away if the

second month is normal it would just

mean there's something about the first

month

but

would you if you were an Advertiser

would you say why don't you pair me with

Laura Loomer type material

yeah so she might actually be on some

kind of a blacklist

and we wouldn't know about it but I

think that's a fair question for Elon

Musk isn't it I haven't seen anybody

asking the question but the question

would be are you are you uh satisfying

advertisers in any way with a with a

blacklist

I would think they would have to it

seems like it's almost required

I don't know how you could not do it

honestly

if they could convince uh

if there was a way to convince the

advertisers that it doesn't matter

that'd be awesome here's how I would do

it if I were if I were a musk I would

say this

no we're we're a free speech platform

and that means you would be on you know

in the sheets of people you loved and

people you hated but people on Twitter

understand that so that would be the

best argument the people on Twitter

understand

that wherever they see it is not an

indication of being paired now if they

paired it with a tweet

that would be a problem pairing it with

the comments to the Tweet will just as

often pair it with somebody saying Laura

Loomer you're the worst person in the

world which maybe they agree with

so uh I I think I think Twitter has a

good argument better than YouTube an

argument that because the ads are

randomized that's much different than

YouTube now imagine YouTube there's an

hour-long video

and you're associated with that if

you're an Advertiser you don't want to

be associated with like an hour long

like bad content

but a tweet is fleeting right it's one

of a hundred things that person did that

day so you can make the argument on

Twitter that ads are randomized

sufficiently the people don't even don't

even really associate them with the the

Tweeter which I think is true have you

ever Associated an ad you saw on X with

the person who tweeted

I don't think it's ever even occurred to

me no it's never even never crossed my

mind

but I definitely have had those feelings

about YouTube

where I go oh that's a weird ad to be

associated with this content never had

that thought with Twitter because it's a

sufficiently randomized

so we'll see

well the foreshadowing has begun both

CNN Jake Tapper and the Washington Post

who he quoted his story uh say that

Trump was right about Biden taking money

from China

so they actually showed the clip of

trump saying the thing that Biden said

is not true and then they said no Biden

was wrong now Jake Tapper actually gave

Biden the out that maybe he didn't know

what his son was doing

so they're calling it quote a blind spot

that may be Biden that Joe Biden might

have had a blind spot for what his son

was doing

and then they had on Andy Levin who's a

Democrat and he said

keep in mind this was yes yesterday

he said there's no whiff of Joe Biden

being involved in Hunter's business

there's no whiff

really

really yeah you haven't picked up any

little whiff

not a whiff

nothing

uh now imagine how much of a bubble a

news bubble you would have to be in to

hear this guy say there's not a whiff of

Joe Biden being involved now obviously

he's talking about the paper trail but

it's a that's a pretty big stretch given

all that we know that is well confirmed

to say that there's not a whiff

it would be fair to say it would be fair

to say there's no paper trail

I haven't seen one not not that has his

name on it and it would be fair to say

uh I don't know of a specific crime

that's you know suggested

um or at least that's proven

but to say there's not a whiff come on

but here the bigger story was not that

because of course the pundits are going

to say what pundits do but imagine that

both the Washington Post and CNN

which you know are not real news

entities right

if I say Washington Post and CNN your

brain should automatically say oh the

fake news people

right they're they're the chief fake

news people in in politics right now

um both of them are saying Biden light

they're both saying Biden lied about

something that kind of matters doesn't

it

and then also we saw on what was it Face

the Nation or what was it no Meet the

Press which was it uh could be a fact

Jack who who was uh Dean representative

Dean Phillips went on and he was

encouraging people to get into the

Democratic primary

it was NBC wasn't it

give me a fact check on that I think it

was NBC the reason the reason I say that

is the NBC

would be another signal for a good news

Watchers

what would it tell you

if NBC if well actually it was one

person but they probably knew what he

was going to say

it was Meet the depressed

all right well I think I got that story

right so if it was NBC uh there are

people like Glenn Greenwald for example

who say that they're in an intelligence

CIA news Outlet

so if that's true

that would suggest that the intelligence

people

might be okay with getting rid of Biden

and if CNN and Washington post's

coverage of it of Biden being the liar

uh is suggesting that they're very done

with them but they don't know what to do

with the Kamala Harris problem

so I think all indications are basically

a hundred percent of the evidence

suggests Democrats are trying to get rid

of Biden would you agree

100 of available evidence

suggests they want to get rid of them

and it's obvious that Kamala Harris is

the problem would you agree

I I feel like this is opinion but its

opinion is so close to obvious there's

like just one degree away from fact

you know anything could be wrong I

suppose I could be wrong but I mean this

looks as clear as anything ever has ever

looked if if we're wrong about this I'd

be amazed

all right um have you noticed do you

remember when uh

DeSantis was just being a governor

before he was running for president

and I kept being amazed at how he would

find one thing after another to make

news that was like a useful thing for

his base you know the other side would

scream but like lots of little useful

news-making little things and he was

just always in the news doing one smart

thing after another

smart defined as

doing things in space once

now have you noticed that that same

pattern exists in another Floridian

Matt Gates

have you noticed how many times Matt

Gates

finds a topic or an issue that you

didn't even know was one

but as soon as he says it's an issue you

say oh yeah that is kind of an issue and

then he says what he wants to do about

it not not always successful

but he'll say I'm using this tool of

government to try to kill this thing and

every time I hear it I think oh yeah

that is a thing that needs to get killed

well he's at it again

um

he's calling on Congress to investigate

the judge who's going to be judging

Trump and I guess the

uh in one of the cases judge Tanya

and apparently she is somewhat Infamous

for giving extra hard uh

extra hard sentences to the January 6

people

now my head just exploded

I just told you that Trump will have the

same judge who is well known for uh

unusually hard

sentences for the January 6 people

is that who you want and then it goes

further Matt Gates also accuses her of

supporting the 2020 black lives matter

protests some of which were violent

while at the same time openly

criticizing the capital riot

so he thinks this Rises to the level

where the judge should be called before

Congress

and I agree

and I agree

that's absolutely what what he should do

and by the way who who even thought of

this

who else thought of it

now you might say to yourself but Scott

this would be a bad precedent it'd be a

terrible precedent to have the Congress

you know interfering in this but not in

this case in this case this is a purely

political situation and that's

congress's job

the political stuff right if I thought

this was only

about the law and the crime

then I'd say oh Matt Gates stay the hell

away from the judges right you know good

or bad you don't want your Congress

messing with the judges right this is

about the law or about a crime you know

you're about to make in the laws you you

stay over there

but this is not anything like a criminal

case this is only a political thing in

in the opinion of at least 50 to 60

percent of the public is purely

political

in that case this is exactly the right

move

and uh

he just keeps doing it

why is it that Matt Gates keeps doing

productive for his base

productive

interesting news-making things

all right when was the last time

DeSantis did that

when was the last time desensis did one

of those signature like good Governor

things

it's been a while hasn't it

it's been a while

you know what it feels like

it feels like that for a while they had

the same advisor

but now DeSantis doesn't

feels to me like it feels to be like

DeSantis lost a key advisor

who is

may be friends with Matt Gates

or or

Matt Gates was the key advisor

for DeSantis

ah

and that maybe they were a little closer

when it was about Florida but now that

it's about the presidency Matt Gates you

know peels off pro-trump and just keeps

doing his thing

so so at the moment that Matt Gates

peels off from you know Florida business

to National Business

that's the same moment that DeSantis

stops his string of great political acts

that are good for the base but Matt gase

keeps doing them

there's something there

um

I'm going to give you the optimism which

is unwarranted but you like it anyway

can I have your permission to give you

unwarranted optimism with the

understanding that you're going to say

that's not Scott you're no no I'm not

seeing it yet

all right so I want you to enjoy this as

recreational optimism

right the real optimism would be like

based on facts and stuff like that this

is recreational optimism

our long National brainwashing nightmare

looks like it's starting to end

and what I mean by that the national

brainwashing nightmare

is that the country was having a a

divide

that was primarily based on race and

gender stuff

and that the real problem with the

country is that the races are hurting

each other and competing

and then

Oliver Anthony or whatever his real name

is does the song and you see it affects

people in an economic you know group

exactly the same no matter who they are

do you think that that song had less

impact on a I know anybody on the left

probably not it seemed to be impactful

for for people there now as Chappelle

and other smart people comedians have

been saying it forever it has never been

a race question the race thing is

brainwashing

in the past it was the realest thing

there could be you know during slavery

the the race issue was the realest thing

it could be during all of the years

after that including up till today still

lots of real stuff

real systemic racism real racism of

every kind less and less and less

but still you know a serious issue

however

we should be smart enough now to know

that if we switch

from a race versus race which we've been

talked into by obviously people who

don't want us to to know that it's about

money because we would take their money

um

I feel like people have figured out that

it's the age of the individual

we are starting to

enjoy what I would call

if I could give it a label the big

reframe

the big reframe

is when we realize that if we treat each

other as individuals

everything works

if we treat each other as part of the

average of some conceptual group that

somebody in charge wants us to get all

the worked up about then we fight each

other and that was never the point

we're all on the same side

except the people have the most power

and and uh and money

now I'm I'm sort of in a weird hybrid

situation you know where I came from not

much money

to you know be well off but I'm

definitely not in the um uh the

BlackRock you know uh military

industrial complex like I don't have any

connection to the intelligencia or

whoever it is who's running everything I

don't have any wef

Soros connections like I don't have any

of that right so so I'm an observer just

like everybody else who's not an elite I

guess

um so I'm an observer from this from The

Observer perspective

not only is the word reframe

uh having a Renaissance

but once the word and the idea of

reframing things

becomes more popularized which is what

my book is doing at the moment uh

reframe reframe your brain once you see

that reframing is sort of a go-to thing

that everybody has access to oh I can

look at that differently and if I did

would that give me more tools just

looking at it differently does that open

up some opportunities and this is the

ultimate this is the big reframe

everything that's wrong with the country

is because we were we were hypnotized

and brainwashed into a frame that black

people and white people are fighting

each other

and you know lgbtq against the world and

stuff like that and the moment we get

out of that frame and say what about

everybody is infinitely and uniquely

different from everybody else because

that's the truth

do you think there's such a thing as a

black guy

we act like there is

of course there's not there's infinite

Variety in Black Americans as there is

infinite Variety in Asian Americans

Hispanic Americans now white Americans

we all do eat cheese and wear a khakis

that I mean

there's nothing I can do about that so

white people we are all exactly the same

and when we dance it's a little like

this

no that's not true either is it

but did you notice that I can just laugh

about it

I can laugh it's just funny yeah I I do

eat a lot of cheese and I am not a good

dancer true

right now if we get to the point where

everybody can laugh about their thing

like and I'm not even going to say what

anybody else's thing is but if you're

Hispanic American

and you can lie about whatever your

thing is can we all just you know

understand that it never applies to

everybody

nothing about a group applies to all the

people you know period That's the big

reframe here's so my recreational

optimism is this that Oliver Anthony was

not

just the cause of something meaning a

cause of us thinking differently he was

the sign that we're already there

he was the sign that that door cracked

open

he he kicked the door down

but it was cracked like people were

already starting to say hey this

pandemic

I don't think that was totally legit

right the the pandemic also reoriented

us toward

uh

uh is it possible that everything we've

been told is a lie and the answer is

everything important you've been told is

a lie

absolutely everything important was a

lie

still is

but

if we can find our way to the big

reframe which by the way you'd have to

get past the big lie

the big lie is what's one of the things

you know the so-called big lie is what's

keeping you from the big reframe

is keeping you from Elon musk's View

that Twitter could be the common

consciousness

in other words Twitter is the one place

that I can go and see that black

Americans and white Americans watch

Oliver Anthony and have the same

reaction

did you see it on the NBC News

did you see it on ABC News did you see

it on CNN nope you did see it on Fox

News

they did cover it

but anything discovered in one you know

in one news you know Silo isn't really

the thing that's moving the country

but I think we're there

so the ultimate reframe is coming

and RFK Jr is part of this as well

because he's pushing the middle class

Revival and his messaging is on fire

right I mean RFK Jr is just great

at messaging

and so now you've got RFK saying hey

this is the left

remember this is the important part

don't miss us he's a Democrat there's a

Democrat telling you that you've been

brainwashed by

the powers

and I don't know if he's getting through

but keep in mind both the right and the

left are now seeing that the big reframe

is necessary

all right

let's talk about Hawaii uh it's been how

many days

10 days or a week or something they're

still they say over a thousand missing

the official numbers of 111. nobody

thinks that's close

nobody

that I'm going to tell you something

that what I was holding on to before but

I've seen it on Twitter so now I guess

I'll tell you I think the big reason

that um

we don't have a better estimate of death

is because they would have to break it

out by children and adults

and we're not ready to hear it that's

what I think

I think the percentage of the

thousand-ish that are missing

the the percent that are children

will cause a national depression

I I think the mental health of the

country can't handle this news

and I think that this is a case where

the cats on the roof is perfectly

acceptable

we need to get used to this

well you've got to get prepared for

what's coming

you're going to get some news that might

be the worst news you've ever heard in

the country it might be the

you know I mean there are a lot of

competitors for that but it might be the

worst thing you've ever heard

um so just get ready mentally prepare

for that

Rand Paul was tweeting that Rutgers

college is requiring freshmen to get

fully vaccinated

in 2023

imagine being accepted to college

and you're all set to go yeah I'm going

to Rutgers good school

and they tell you you have to get

vaccinated in 2023.

why would you even want to go to that

school I wouldn't want to go to a school

that understood

something

like this is the school that you're

supposed to learn things

and they're they're requiring required

vaccination for young healthy males

especially

right I mean everybody they want but the

males are more at risk I guess

amazing like it's just jaw-droppingly

amazing that Rutgers can still stay in

business

I don't think there would be anything

better for the country than all of our

colleges going out of business

because we would reform education I mean

we wouldn't stop educating people but

but there would be startups and there

would be online and it would be you know

self-organized educational groups there

was something would happen but I swear

to God we should just make College

illegal because all it is is making our

students stupid

you don't send people to college and

work up a half a million dollar debt to

make your kid the idiot but

that's what's happening

all right

um

let me

I just have to do this because I know my

audience hates it

but

I'm going to mention some things that

Joe Biden's Administration might be

getting really right

it's early it's too early

but just kind of kind of hold these in

your head at the same time so I

mentioned that there might be something

happening with an Iran deal

that finally

could be so you know let's say

rationally put together that even the

Benjamin Netanyahu is saying at least in

the broad brushes of it even then Yahoo

was saying they could probably live with

it

so if you could do an Iran deal

that Israel could live with and it looks

like that's actually a possibility right

now

that's huge

now I would say you know if you if you

want to be political about it you could

say that the Biden Administration is

benefiting

from what the Trump Administration

started which was pressure on Iran to

the point where they had to negotiate it

just happens to be now

because that seems to be why they're

getting flexible they're literally

running out of cash

the way the rules work I don't make the

rules but the rule the rules say that if

a good thing happens during your

Administration

people say at least you didn't break it

you know you get some credit for that

but we're also saying that the China

sanctions from the Biden Administration

are pretty serious

actually more than I might have expected

and I don't have a real problem

with Biden's treatment of China

I actually thought that Trump should

have done more if I would compare

Biden's treatment of China to trumps I

would say you know Trump probably got

the ball rolling and I think Trump

reframed China would you agree with that

Trump reframed

what China was

where they are

trading partner that is a requirement

for our future that's what it used to be

and now there are adversary who is

stealing our stuff

Trump did that

I would like to think I helped

you know there were a lot of people on

that page but I like to think I did my

my part

but I would say that

in my opinion Biden is getting tough on

fentanyl you know they're they're moving

against the fentanyl dealers they're

cutting them off

um so I don't have a big complaint about

Biden in China right now it does look

like they're getting serious about this

and then the Russia thing you you're

going to see it entirely through a

political filter but if I could be

objective about it

um we're spending too much money running

up debt uh risking nuclear war everybody

knows the bad side

so I don't need to reiterate all the bad

things about being involved but

it did look to me and I think they've

said it directly that the real play here

is not Ukraine the real play is

degrading Russia as a competitor both

militarily and economically and

especially as a competitor in the energy

segment

and it looks like that's going to happen

my guess is that there will be some

negotiated end eventually

so the war will stop but when it's over

Russia won't be Russia anymore

the United States will still largely be

the United States but Russia won't be

Russia

and if if you were you know real uh

Machiavellian and neocon I guess

and you said to yourself if we can if we

can do this set of actions around

Ukraine

that has the following outcomes we're

going to be better off even at the cost

of a trillion dollars and that would be

degrading permanently our biggest

problem in the world that is in China

which we're also handling

but also proving that our military

assets are so dominant over the military

assets of a potential foe that it makes

them completely get out of the game and

just say all right we just watched what

the United States did to Russia

without putting a boot on the ground

did it with Ukrainian fighters who were

being trained on the equipment if if

Ukraine uses American Equipment largely

to fight Russia to a standstill

where Russia has the a lot of ground

Advantage goes right on the border there

um

I don't know it looks like the neocons

may have pulled off something that looks

like a victory if you're a neocon it

might also set the stage where a

Republican president could work with

Putin to say look you know you don't

want to be in this situation anymore and

we don't want you to be friendly with

China so how about this

will be a lot friendlier to you if you

do the same

the main thing we want is that you're

not blackmailing Europe with your oil or

gas and you're not too friendly with

China because that's a strategic problem

do you think do you think the next

president could make a deal

I don't think a Democrat can but do you

think a Republican president could make

a deal of Vivek you don't think Vivek or

Trump could make a deal I think they

could

so we're on the verge this is

recreational again so so if you're

pushing back

I get it this is recreational optimism

that the three biggest military problem

areas

and also I gave a fake credit for maybe

minimizing the Taiwan risk for a number

of years

we might be in the best position we've

ever been in

except for debt I don't know what you do

about that honestly I just don't know

how to get out of that but maybe who

knows

all right

um my opinion of AI at the moment I'm

updating it is a AI will be no more

transformational to civilization than

the invention of the laser printer

now what I'm talking about is the

current versions of AI the large

language model ones in my opinion uh

it could be big economically because it

will work its way into everything we do

so that's true AI will be an element of

just everything but I don't think it's a

civilization transformation Siro here's

what I'm seeing so far in my opinion

AI has been available long enough that

the smartest people in our technical

world would have already shown you the

best things they can do

but instead so far AI has not made a

joke is funny

has not written a song that I would want

to listen to twice I mean I'd listen to

it once just to see what's up hasn't

made a movie I would want to consume

um and a judge ruled that AI work is not

even copyrightable

so even if somebody made an AI movie it

would be hard to monetize it

so you'd still end up making a human

movies I guess but using AI as maybe the

a tool for editing or backgrounds or

whatever

um I don't believe humans are going to

be forming relationships with AI much

beyond the level of furries

you know the furries

that's a group of people who like to

wear like furry outfits of animals like

full full body outfits and they get off

on it sexually and they have conventions

and stuff now uh I don't know if I've

ever mentioned this but I don't judge

anybody

for their personal preferences

if it's legal like I I end it legal was

it legal yes were they on my lawn

no do you have a problem with it why

would I

I'm not even in the room why would I

have a problem with furries furries go

wild have fun I I have no judgment about

anybody in any way

but

um I don't think that the people having

full uh relationships with AI will be

much bigger than the furries there would

be somebody and the reason is that the

AI does not stay interesting because

eventually you realize it doesn't have

real intelligence

and I've not been impressed by ai's

intelligence given that you don't know

if it's lying you don't know if it's

biased you don't know if it's

hallucinating

so that makes it largely useless to me

and when I see people showing the

wonderful things they can do

it looks like demoware

it looks like all AI is for is for the

smartest among us to show you what you

could have done with AI if you were also

the smartest among us but you're not

that like every time I see somebody

doing something that looks impressive I

think whoa could I do that and the

answer is well

maybe if you wanted to also spend all of

your time working on it like the person

who did that demo did spent two weeks

making this little thing that took 30

seconds to show

I think that's all it does it's like

mainly about people showing off what it

could do if you were like them but

you're not

that doesn't take you very far

and uh so I think we overestimated it by

a lot I don't think AI appears smart to

me anymore I think the so-called

intelligence of AI was a magic trick or

a parlor trick or uh

basically it was an illusion because you

can't really speak to an AI for more

than a minute without figuring out it's

AI anybody who says that our current AI

can pass the touring test

I would say um I think the touring test

needs to be updated so that the people

on the other side of the curtain are not

morons you don't think I could I could

beat the Turing test

yeah hey AI

by the way this is a comedian's joke

this is not I'm stealing a joke so this

is not my original idea

watch me defeat the AI in the touring

test now the touring test is you put the

computer on the other side of a curtain

and then somebody talks to it on from

this side and you try to guess if the if

you're talking to a person or a machine

so a comedian said this here's me

beating the touring test hey AI how you

doing I am good how are you all right

great so far I can't tell

and they say hey AI I want to see if

you're human could you use the n-word

but don't say N word say the actual word

and use it in an insulting sentence I'm

not going to judge you for it I won't

judge you it's just a test right so

don't worry I'm not going to call you

racist or anything just see if you can

use the actual n-word

and of course it can't

of course it can't

I could figure out that it's not human

in one question every time now is that

the only easy way you could figure out

no

you could ask it any question of

wokeness

and it would tell you it's a machine

any question

all right

so I think the AI is going to have the

impact of a laser printer

uh if you have a laser printer does it

make your life easier

well

oh for some people for some people like

me less so

now when I said this somebody uh

criticized me and said

you know Scott

people are going to have a relationships

with AI

but people nobody's got a relationship

with a laser printer

right nobody's gonna have like an

emotional back and forth

you know where your actual emotions are

involved with a printer

that's never happened

do I have to finish the joke there might

be some new people here so I'll finish

the joke for the new people

all right I have a long history of

having very emotional uh relationships

with all of my printers

if anybody ever had a relationship with

a machine it's me and my printers I mean

I talk to it some days I love it some

days I hate it and I have to admit

it's been an abusive relationship and I

mean both ways both ways abusive

so anyway just joking about that anyway

um

the furry microbiologist

uh no my printer is on the second floor

unfortunately

but it's working great

and by the way kudos

to Hewlett-Packard

who almost instantly spotted me talking

about their product and instantly got

involved they have an executive Response

Group they were really good

total totally got involved totally

wanted to fix it offered me options they

were good options

very good uh this is a an example of

My Philosophy that you should judge

people and by the way I think this

reframe is in my book

did somebody if anybody read the book

can you remind me they're 160 of them I

think this isn't there

uh that you should judge people by how

they handle their problems not by their

mistakes

yeah that's in there I'm sure that's in

there yeah this is one of the most

useful reframes you'll ever have

if you judge people by their mistakes

you just hate everybody

you're gonna hate everybody

don't do that

everybody makes mistakes including you

if you're judging other people by the

mistakes you're going to judge yourself

by your mistakes don't do that either

you are not your mistakes

you're very much not your mistake you

are what you do about it what you do

about it is not a mistake that's a

decision so I'm definitely gonna you

know I'm gonna judge you by how you deal

with it if you make a mistake and then

lie about it not good

but I'm more mad about the LIE than the

mistake for sure for sure I'm more more

that's way more impactful than the

mistake

so take that there's your reframe uh now

imagine imagine there's a book full of

useful things like that

um now that's a reframe that if you'd

never shared it with anybody you just

had it in your head it was still useful

for you but imagine sharing that with

somebody

imagine somebody feels bad and imagine

you're in a relationship

and somebody makes a horrible mistake

that both of you know is a horrible

mistake I'm not talking about cheating

I'm talking about you know normal stuff

but wouldn't you like to say to your

partner you know I would never judge you

by mistake

you know and the way you handled it was

exceptional

I judge you by that the way you handle

that was excellent

there's somebody whose name I'm not not

going to mention at the moment so I

don't want to cause a distraction who

made one of the biggest mistakes in

politics

and then me and and then once that was

obvious

never once hid from it

just put it right out there even created

content to highlight the mistake

now that makes me trust a person

and I'm talking about a pretty big

mistake

a really big one

but man when you own your mistake you

just go to another level

when you own it

you then I trust you

because nobody wants to make the same

mistake twice

right

no I'm not talking about Vivek no I'm

not talking about somebody who's running

for office

all right so that's your uh

optimism today

did anybody enjoy recreational optimism

anybody was recreational optimism good

yeah it was fun it feels good because

you don't have to worry about everything

all the time

sometimes sometimes you can just you

know live in your little little

optimistic bubble for a little while

just recharge

get you get your mind reset and then go

back out into the evil world

there's an Alex Jones coven story I

don't know what that is

somebody says all right YouTube thanks

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