Episode 2218 Scott Adams - I Tell You How To Use The Designated Liars To Deduce What Is True
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All right, here's some updates. Yet another trial of using mushrooms for depression. It turns out that the magic mushrooms made a huge difference. So basically every time they study it, I think, correct me if I'm wrong, but a hundred percent of the times they study depression and mushrooms there's a big improvement.
And there's something really big, big, big that's coming down the pike and I don't know what it's going to do. Remember, I always remind you that I told you that when Trump rose in 2015, 2016, I told you it was going to change more than politics. It would change the way you saw reality itself. Well, if you thought that was a change, wait till you try mushrooms for your depression. Talk about a change in reality.
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All right. I saw an article that apparently a lot of employees are pretending they have AI knowledge because their boss doesn't know one way or the other so that they can feel like they're the valuable employees. And I thought to myself, well, there's a whole week of Dilbert Reborn comics which are available by subscription only on Twitter and on the Locals platform, locals.scottadams.locals.com.
But did you see that coming? You knew the people were going to pretend that they knew AI without knowing AI. You knew that was going to happen. That's a Wally thing.
Well, unemployment is inching up from 3.5 to 3.8. Let's pretend we can measure that. Yeah, let's pretend that we can measure it in a meaningful and accurate way such that the change between 3.5 and 3.8 is meaningful. Probably not. Probably not.
So but if the numbers that are official make it look like inflation is inching up, which is hard to imagine why would it be going up, just too much money supply? I don't know. Seems like it should be going down. But that would be, I would guess, one of the most important predictors of the next election, should it be a fair and free election. I would say I would think inflation is the biggest number that would change people's vote. What do you say? If everything else were the same and inflation looked like it was inching up on Election Day, I think that's game over, at least in terms of the public. The voting is a separate question.
All right, here's my opinion on Mitch McConnell. And you all know he's had health problems and he's been freezing up. Actually he just goes blank. Like he can't talk in public. It's happened a few times. We all feel bad for him. Don't want to mock somebody for age or infirmity. So I'm going to mock other people instead.
I think you can ignore everything Republicans say on any topic as long as they let that guy keep his job. Now you can say to me, but the other Republicans can't, you know, they have no say over whether he retires. Sure they do. Of course they do. Yeah, if they all said you got to retire, you'd retire because it would just be too embarrassing not to. They could just not take his calls. You know, just ignore his office. They could treat him like he's not there. They could get him out in a day. And I'm sure they have their reasons, but if you're not going to tell me the reasons, I'm not going to listen to you about anything. Right? You have no credibility if the leader of your party is incapacitated and you're just letting it happen.
Why? Because Biden is also incapacitated so that's okay? Or you know Schumer's close to it. Now Schumer's doing fine, but yeah. How can you make fun of the fact that Democrats keep Feinstein? You can't. How can you make fun of Biden's declining cognitive ability? You can't. Not if you're trying to be a serious person.
So if you want to be a serious person they all have to go. You know Feinstein's got to go, but McConnell's got to go at the same time. So Republicans, could you pull it together just a little bit? I mean this is just free money sitting on the table. I realize it's awkward. It's uncomfortable. It's not the thing you want to be known for. But you got to do it. You gotta do it.
There's nobody in the world who thinks this is right. Nobody. Zero people think this is okay. And you can't do this. The simplest thing you could ever do in your life. You can't do this. Just help a guy out. Help him retire with a little bit of dignity. Maybe. Crazy. Yeah. Just ignore everything Republicans say from now on if you can't get that right.
All right, here is a service I'm seriously thinking of doing. You've seen me give my description of how to know if the news is credible. For example, I won't go through the whole thing but I did a whole list of, you know, what is a credible story versus a non-credible story. And one of them, just to give you an example, is if the only source is an anonymous source and it's only being reported by the part of the media that hates the person who's being marked on, that's never true. This is never true, right?
And then you could rate the other things for how often they're true and then you'd have a good little guide to look at the news. But there's another thing I want to add and I'm just starting to build the list. It would be the list of what I call the designated liars.
Now this is a little tricky because there's some nuance to it. If you miss the nuance then the beauty, the beauty of the idea disappears, right? So I'm not talking about people who lie. Right in a moment you're going to suggest people who are simple liars. That's not what this is about. We're not talking about simply lying because that would be a lot of politicians. I'm talking about designated liars.
If you miss the designated part that would be like missing the difference between climate change as a hoax versus the climate agenda is a hoax. Right? If you miss that designated word, which you will not, all of you, but somebody on YouTube is going to say but other people lie. You know they're going to do that. Whoever does that is an NPC.
So it's not about liars. It's not about liars. It's about designated liars. And what I mean by that is there's a group of Democrats. Now you could make an argument that happens on the right. We'll talk about that as well. But on the left, if you see any of these people be the chief character in a story, now the chief character would be somebody who wrote the big article that everybody's talking about or somebody who's always on the news talking about it.
If you see Phil Bump of the Washington Post making a claim that other people are saying, hmm, I'm not so sure that's true, Phil Bump is an absolute signal that it's a fake story. It's almost synonymous with fake news. Now he would deny that of course and he denied it quite a bit because he's under fire in the news.
And so Jonathan Turley and Miranda Devine, is it Devine or Divine? Divine. Miranda Devine has an article and basically it's just mocking Phil Bump for being a ridiculous character.
Now in terms of full disclosure Phil Bump does work for the Washington Post which in the Dilbert Reborn comic is where Ratbert works as a writer. A rapper I guess I should tell you. Here his current incarnation as a writer for the Washington Poop. So in the Dilbert Reborn comic that you can only see by subscription it's the Washington Poop and Ratbert basically plays Phil Bump. Now I don't use the name but in your mind if you see it just tell yourself it's Phil Bump and it's funnier.
All right. So Phil Bump is one of my mascots. So full disclosure he is one of the people who comes after me in public and was quite, he was dancing on my grave when I got canceled, primarily by his newspaper which started the rest of the newspapers. So when the Washington Post canceled me that allowed everybody else to do it at the same time.
So just know that I'm not objective but Phil Bump's a good signal for fake news. The other ones, you know, Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, Jamie Raskin, Jerry Nadler, Dan Goldman, Blumenthal, Brendan Clapper. Now they're the ones that I call the designated liars.
Here are the names that are not on the list. Corinne Jean-Pierre. Do you understand why she's not on the list? Because she's not a signal of fake news. She's somebody who lies and spins everything all the time but she'll spin a positive, a thing that's real. She'll spin a thing that's not real. You can't really tell. So she's not a signal because she's just out there spinning all the time.
The other people that are not a signal would be leadership. So Schumer, Biden, Pelosi and Harris because they're going to talk about everything all the time because they're in leadership, right? So if you see them saying something that's true or not true it's not really a signal. They're just talking about everything all the time. Same as Corinne Jean-Pierre. So I don't consider them designated liars. They would just be ordinary politicians who don't always tell the truth and spin a lot.
Now the Republicans have a lot of those. Republicans have people who are wrong. You know they believe things that are not true. They have people who are under-informed let's say. Not banning TikTok for example might not understand it so they might have a bad opinion. There are people who maybe just have different philosophies. There are people who maybe they know they're bending or spinning or something. And probably there's some people who just know they're lying on the Republican side.
But here's what's different. There is not an identifiable squad of liars on the right that I'm aware of. If I'm missing it because I have some bias somebody should suggest it to me. Now if you say to me but Scott here's somebody who lied again, it's not about lying. They're all going to be lying sooner or later except for Thomas Massie. I have to throw Thomas Massie in there every time I call Congress liars because he's so obviously not one that I just feel shitty when I don't. Yeah, Rand Paul's not a liar. There are others too, right? There are others that I do trust or not lie.
But Republicans have a different set of credibility problems. I don't think they have designated liars but if they do, well. Somebody's saying what about Crenshaw on Ukraine. That doesn't seem to me like a designated liar. That seems like somebody who has an opinion you don't have because Crenshaw is not identifiable with the guy you stick forward to say the things that are never true. He's just somebody who disagrees with you deeply on a big issue and I probably disagree with him as well but that doesn't make him a liar and it certainly doesn't make him a designated liar.
Adam Kinzinger, there's something going on with Adam Kinzinger that has more to do with the Ukraine war. I don't see Adam Kinzinger as sort of the designated liar. I think he's honestly, it looks like he has some mental difficulties is how it projects. Now I don't know that. I'm not a doctor. But when I see Adam Kinzinger I don't see mental health. He doesn't display mental health in the way that I normally would recognize it. So if you're displaying something that looks like maybe there's something you're working on on your own that's just its own category.
All right. So would that be helpful? If you tell me, tell me the truth if you could for a moment be unbiased. I know it's impossible. Would this be useful if you were teaching somebody how to look at the news? Would it be useful to have a list of these ten people or designated liars? You know they're alive. That's the only reason they're on TV. It would be useful, right? Yeah.
All right. Here's some fake science. All right, here's the thing. I believe I'm going to explain this to you correctly but if later you say to me Scott you've got that story completely wrong, well I'll change it. I'll change my mind. But I gotta tell you what I think I know.
All right. So you know what a placebo is, right? You're all smart educated people. You know that a placebo is a fake pill that if you have a pill that you think will be real and will solve some problem then you give somebody the fake pill and you see how they do. You compare it to the real drug. Now if the real drug improves people's condition more than the placebo that you're likely to get improved, you know if there are no side effects or if there are minimal side effects.
Now this largely proves, wouldn't you say, because whenever they do this study you always get this effect. The people who take the fake pill very predictably, not 100 percent of the time but predictably, they'll have a substantial kind of a benefit.
So would you agree that the placebo effect is one of the most studied and guaranteed to be real effects you've ever seen in science? How many would say that that's guaranteed to be real? Because nothing, I don't think anything's been studied this much. Has anything ever been studied as much as this? Because every time they do a study this shows up. Like you don't even have to be looking for it and it's everywhere. I mean the placebo effect is just everywhere. So it's real.
In the comments can you at least acknowledge that the placebo effect is real so that I can go on to my next point? It's real, right? Everybody knows it's totally real. Yeah, totally real.
All right. Maybe not. Maybe not. Do you know if they don't study, because they don't have to, what they don't study is somebody who took no pill at all. Do you know what would happen if they did? Suppose every test was placebo in one group, a real drug in another group, and then the thing that they don't study but what if they did no pill at all and you don't even know you're in the study. So they'd have to even not even know they're in the study.
What do you think that would be? Just take a guess. What do you think the do nothing and you're not even in the study would look like? Foreign. That's right. The people who did absolutely nothing, they improve about the same as the placebo.
Do you know what that means? It means everything you've ever heard about the placebo was, it's always been, it was easy to prove. Easy to prove. And for your entire life the people that you trust, the scientists, told you they did some science and then they told you they used their statistical genius to prove that the thing called the placebo effect is a real thing.
Now I'm seeing somebody say this is incorrect so I'm open to correction because I'm not completely sure this is true. I'll tell you that. You know it's just something I ran across on the internet recently. But as soon as I saw it I thought to myself, well I'm pretty sure they don't study the person who wasn't in the study. I'm pretty sure that's not a normal thing.
And I do know that in the normal course of things most people improve if you do nothing or at least they say they improved. Maybe they just got used to it so they said they improved. Who knows. Some of them might be some of that but I don't know. I'm open for fact checking. I'm open for fact checking.
But remember we live in a zero trust environment where science is mostly, mostly the vast majority of the things you call science are, and apparently you always have been from the so-called nutrition, you know the nutrition triangle that was from day one. It was never even attempted to be true. But if the placebo effect isn't real what can you believe?
Wanna see another one? Do you think I could do this again? Let's see.
You probably know that RFK Jr. says that solar might be a good green technology but it's not economical if you include all of the other costs. You know because everything has you know closing down costs and maybe social costs and then there's how long it takes to get approval and all that stuff. Now also with the solar power people will say hey you forgot to include the recycling costs you know blah blah blah blah right?
So let me ask you the question. You all watch the news. You know this is the most informed group I've ever seen. Literally it's the most informed group of news watchers. So you all watch the news and you know you all know that climate change, no matter what you think of the reality of it, you would agree it's maybe the biggest issue outside of Ukraine I guess. Maybe the biggest issue, right?
So but at least you're recycling your plastic, right? All right. Is everybody recycling their plastic at least trying to help? As Michael Shellenberger informed you recently, do you know that the plastic recycling has never been real? It's never been real. They don't recycle the plastic that you separate. They throw it in the garbage and they ship it to Asia and it ends up in the ocean and your water supply and always has and always has.
Recycling isn't real. Plastic, I think maybe metal cans is real. Maybe cardboard is real. I don't know. But plastic recycling has never been real. How many of you knew that? How many of you knew the plastic recycling was never real? A lot of you did. How many Democrats do you think know that? Not so many. Not so many.
All right. So what is the answer? You all watch the news. So the most important question I would say, see if you agree with me, the most important question about climate change in terms of what we're going to do about it, because even if you think there's no risk you need more energy, right? So the people who don't believe in climate change as a risk, the ones who do believe it, you all need more energy.
So the biggest question is which one's more economical. So tell me which one's more economical, solar or nuclear. And I'm going to tell you the real answer after you tell me your answers. There's an absolute real answer I can give you. Complete certainty on this question.
A lot of people say nuclear. A lot of people say nuclear. All right. Both. That's an interesting answer. Both make sense from a you need all the energy you can get perspective but one of them is going to be better.
All right. Do you want the absolute guaranteed correct answer? Nobody knows. Are you kidding me? You think somebody knows the answer to this question? No. This is completely unknowable.
Now here we happen to be in my domain of expertise. You know I know it doesn't seem like it but I do have many years of corporate experience trying to analyze what costs more both initially and also in the long run because it's not your initial cost. It's you have to put in decommissioning and everything else there.
So I can guarantee you that the level of complexity involved in nuclear as well as solar guarantees that nobody knows the answer. It's a guarantee.
Here's what else they don't know. What will be the economics if let's say you got a capable president. Let's say you have a Vivek Ramaswamy and he said hey this nuclear stuff would be good if you could make it easier to build and easier to get approved. So at the moment it's nearly impossible to get a nuclear power plant built because of all the environmentalists and blah blah blah.
But could you imagine if there's somebody who is smart and a president could say hey you states don't get a vote because this is too close to homeland security. You can't really have a country. There's a national defense unless you're also a strong economy. So you need your basics, your energy production. That's the most basic thing. You got to get your energy production and then maybe transportation would be next.
But if you don't get your energy production right you might as well disband your army. Your army's useless if you don't have energy and you don't have a good economy to equip them, right?
So somebody like Vivek could make the argument that nuclear energy is not just a choice of which energy to use but it's a requirement for the sustainability of the United States defensively and in every other way that we have a robust efficient nuclear energy game.
Now could the federal government just say hey environmentalists go away and hey Democrats it doesn't matter what you want because it's national security. So I'm going to get rid of all the little state and local ordinances and I'm going to say there's just one set of federal approvals and if you and they won't be that hard you know they'll be optimized so you can get your approval. And I'm just going to say you states you just don't get a vote in this because you're driving the country into ruin and that's a defense problem.
So could that happen? I don't know but you don't either. That's my point. My point is if you don't know could Vivek do that or could Trump do that. He didn't do it the first time so I suspect he can't. But I think Vivek could do it because do you know what it would take to remove all of those regulations? The minimum it would take for a president to do that they would have to understand the topic.
How many people have ever run for that office, a president, do you think you could introduce to the topic of nuclear regulation and have them like do a deep dive and then come out with a usable opinion? A usable opinion of which things could be tweaked and modified and who's lying to them about what you can't change. We've only had one candidate who was capable. Well Jimmy Carter I guess but yeah Jimmy Carter right.
But at the moment we have one candidate I think has that capability and I happen to think we have some smart candidates. Right? RFK Jr. super smart. Trump I believe is super smart in his you know within his domain. Well you haven't seen a fake before. Vivek is the one person who's running for president in the longest time who you could say can you look at this mess and try to untangle this. You know you don't have to be the biggest expert in each part of it but at least you could understand the landscape. I don't think anybody else can even see the landscape. It's just way too complicated.
If you don't know the political part you also don't know the base economics. If you don't know that we could approve for example you can approve modular designs and then let people build as many as they want so long as it's the same design. So there's a whole bunch of things you could do to lower the price or cost of nuclear. You can store the waste on site which is now a normal way to do it so you don't have the transportation. You don't need a different facility. You just keep it on site. Put it in a little barrel every once in a while. So that the economics of waste is pretty low at this point.
The risk of a meltdown which is what causes you to be uninsurable. If we build the newer models they've never had a meltdown. If we did a generation three or we're getting close to generation four those have never had a meltdown. Generation four can't have one. It's built so the design itself if a failure causes it to just stop. The current designs including three you have to keep the energy going. If the energy is lost you could get a meltdown.
So you don't build something like Fukushima where you put your backup generators below the ocean line. It was below sea level. They actually put their backup generators below sea level in a tsunami zone. Now is that a problem with nuclear power would you say and therefore nuclear power is dangerous? I mean that's a pretty big leap. How about we just don't put our backup generators underwater. That would be like a start. But you know that's not the only problem there.
If you get a generation four you don't need the power at all. It just stops working when the electricity goes off. Yeah it's a dumb design.
Snoopy boobs says wow Scott's a nuclear scientist. Which part of this did I need to be a nuclear scientist for? Was there something I forgot I said that was sort of sciencey? Yeah.
All right. Jamie Raskin, you recognize him from the people who signal fake news. He wants to investigate Jared Kushner's Saudi investments. Now that's a really good play from the Democrats in a political sense. It's good. And here's why it's good.
The general public can't tell the difference between a publicly announced investment in an investment fund that is publicly investing in things with well-known public management compared to literally a money-washing slash bribery influence scheme with lots of shell corporations run by Hunter Biden. The public isn't going to know the difference. To them it's going to look like two sketchy things. Is it financial? Yes. Okay so there's money involved and it's like a politician. Yes. But is it a politician who ran for office? No. Jared didn't run for office and neither did Hunter.
Oh so it's similar you're saying. Oh so if Jared is innocent well therefore logically Hunter did nothing wrong. So it's a brilliant play because most of the public doesn't know anything that's going on with either story. But if you tune into your casual viewer and somebody says sure they're going after Hunter but look what Jared did, you're a casual consumer of the news. That sounds like a pretty good point doesn't it? Oh they're both doing it. Okay I guess I can forget about that as a topic because everybody does it. Everybody's doing it.
No. Not everybody is setting up shell corporations and lying about it. Jared did an announcement. He did a press release. If you do a press release about what you're doing and you know the investments presumably will be known at some point because they're going to be big ones I don't know.
If you say you're not comfortable with Jared capitalizing on his connections he made during office I get that. But what is better than doing it transparently? And are we better off or worse off if Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner have a close relationship? Are we better off or worse off? He was the architect of the Abraham Accords. We're a hundred percent better off. It's not even close.
You want the Saudis to have a good working relationship with some prominent Americans so that we work better with them. There's a reason that Saudi has played well with the Trump administration and now Jared because they played well with them. That's how it works. And we'll need them in the future. So I don't mind that we have connections with them as long as it's all public.
Did I talk about this? Vivek dismantling Harvey Levin on TMZ and his co-host whose name I can't remember. Charles. Charles. Now I'm not going to replay it for you or describe it. I'll just tell you how he did it here.
Here's how most Republicans have argued about climate change and what happens. Right here. Here's most Republicans. Climate change isn't even real. Well are you denying all of science because you're an idiot? Well yesterday it was cold. Okay you know that temperature and climate are really not the same and anecdotally that doesn't really prove anything. It snowed yesterday. Okay well I don't even feel like we're talking about the same thing.
It's cold and then the Democrats declare that the Republican whoever it is is a big old dope who doesn't believe in science. Right? That's the way it goes every time.
Now enter Vivek. It took him about one minute to demonstrate that everything those two knew, Harvey and Charles, knew about climate change was way less than Vivek knew. Okay that's that was his starting point. You know he very clearly told them that he was better. He was more well-read and understood the topic at a more detailed level.
Next thing he did right is he debunked their you know climate hoax thing and said no the agenda, that what we're doing about it part is the hoax. In other words we're not doing the right stuff. I'm not arguing whether CO2 is a greenhouse gas. I am instead arguing that you have not included all of the costs and the benefits of your analysis.
And that's when he was done right. That's when he started to tell them you've simply not included enough in your analysis. You know you have to look at the number of people dying. You have to look at how well we remediate. You have to look at how many people die from cold which is way more than the ones who die from warmth. And you know once you've included all of those things your best analysis for keeping people alive would be to go hard with fossil fuels today because that's what keeps people alive today but also work hard to get your nuclear and your all forms of energy up so that you can transition because you don't want to pollute.
Now Vivek doesn't want to pollute so you don't have to ask him this question because it's obvious. Would you rather have a new nuclear power plant or burn coal? You don't have to ask him that. Of course he wants a nuclear power plant. He says it directly right.
So once Vivek showed that the difference between their analyses was that he had included the value of human life in his, I'm not making this up, Vivek showed that he was including the value of human life literally keeping people alive and that you know as bad as the pollution is from fossil fuels it is how you keep them alive and it's not even close. If you take people's energy away things don't work out at all.
So the funny thing about it if you get a chance to look at it you can just Google it. Look for Vivek and TMZ it'll pop right up. You have to watch the reactions, the physical reactions of the two hosts Harvey and Charles and they start getting animated and they're triggered into cognitive dissonance because I'll tell you what nobody expects to lose if you're Harvey and Charles. These are you know well-informed public hosts. Yeah these are high functioning people who pay attention to the news. It's their business right.
So when they get into a conversation about climate change they expect to be on top of the mountain and just pissing on the ants that are running below because that's how it's supposed to work because the only people they've ever talked to who disagreed with them were idiots. If I'm being honest they've only talked to idiots because the idiot view is oh it snowed today so no climate change. You're not going to win with that.
Came in and said you know what are you counting keeping people alive you know how about that is your best metric keeping people alive and that just shut them down. That just made them look like idiots because what was their argument for well I guess I would rather kill 10 times as many people but you know I really like solar. There's nothing there. Once you've made the case that more people will clearly die with the current set of policies then all they have to do is they don't even know how to respond to that.
So they were both in deep cognitive dissonance and it was wonderful. So if you'd like to see what cognitive dissonance looks like that's a real good example. You have to watch them flip out. They start just spewing things and trying to talk over each other and they fell apart. So it was wonderful.
All right. I saw this joke from Wokosaurus Rex on X. He says new game. All you have to do is add the quote I've never seen anything like it to any statement about anything to prove your point and how bad climate change is affecting the world. You don't need any evidence. The phrase itself. So for he gives an example it rained today I've never seen anything like it. And I laughed for 10 minutes because that's exactly what the news coverage is. It's like the wind was very strong we've never seen anything like it. The five Late Show hosts minus the good one Greg Gutfeld if you saw the podcast with the five of them they're like raining so hard I've never seen anything like it. Anyway to me that was funny.
RFK Jr. has these stats which if these are true I don't know what to say about how Biden could even be polling anywhere near equal. But this is what RFK Jr. says about his own party right. President Biden justified his open border policy. So even RFK Jr. calls it an open border. Like remember he's a Democrat and he's just he was there. He did a little documentary. It's an open border. It's because it's an open border. Let me say it again.
Do you know why RFK Jr. calls it an open border? Because he's not a liar. That's why right. He's not a liar so he couldn't not call it that because that's obviously what it is. So all credit to him for bringing some truth to the topic.
But look at these numbers. He says the Trump era border patrol had 2,600 quote children in cages as they like to say where his critics like to say. And RFK Jr. says today there are 12,000 children in cages plus. And here's the part that I can't even process. 85,000 children have disappeared.
Now disappeared means we just don't know where they went. It doesn't mean that something bad happened to them necessarily but out of 85,000 missing children which a lot of them I assume were unaccompanied minors and were probably trafficked intentionally. I don't know what percentage of the 85,000 were being trafficked and abused but it's not zero. I don't know what it is but it's going to be some shocking percentage.
And would it be fair to say that that makes Biden the biggest child trafficker in the world? Because it's entirely his decision whether this happens or not. He's the only one who decides whether this is going to happen. Nobody else. Just one guy. And that one guy apparently is responsible for 12,000 children in cages and 85,000 missing of which what would be a small guess 20,000 of them are sexually abused and still are like at this minute. But what's your guess? It's probably something in that range.
This is the deepest level of evil that I've seen in America since slavery or Jim Crow or something right. I mean this is sort of epic evil. This is evil on a scale that honestly I had no idea. I had no idea it was that big. I knew it was hard to track people once they got in but 85,000 kids that we don't have a good idea even where they are that is not good. Dad action right. You need a dad. You're going to need somebody in that office who cares about children.
Now the good news is a number of candidates fit that description but wow.
All right. Vivek who makes news so well. Vivek is the best earned media guy of all time. Trump got tons of earned media but often they were just criticizing him so his earned media was working against him as much as it was for him. Vivek's is more of a 60-40 like it's overwhelmingly positive but of course critics will try to turn it into something it isn't.
But here's something he said today. Another perfect thing to highlight. He says under General CQ Brown's leadership the Air Force is trying to reduce white male pilots from 86 percent of flyers down to 43 percent amidst a major recruiting crisis. So there's a recruiting crisis. Can't get enough people but they're going to make it much much harder to get good people by discriminating against I assume straight white males. I assume if you're gay and a white male maybe you're still good but if you're a straight white male they're going to tell you pretty much we're looking for somebody else.
Now why would a straight white male join the military? If you were a straight white male and one of your options was to join the military I wouldn't advise against it. Now I typically would not advise against joining the military even though it's clearly a risky proposition by its nature and I don't usually advise people to take risky actions but at least there's a payoff right. At least you get benefits and you learn a skill. Maybe there's a lot to gain. So you know it's a personal decision.
But at this point I think I will weigh in and say if you're a straight white male the military just said you're not going to do well so you should probably look for a different plan. So I can't recommend the US military to a straight white male under the current conditions. This was about the Air Force but you assume it's the same everywhere.
All right. So Vivek did a video in which he's debunking a number of hoaxes against him. One of the hoaxes was that he made a lot of money on a failed Alzheimer's drug. How many of you think that's true that he made a lot of money on a failed Alzheimer's drug because that's one of the main claims about it? No it's not true.
He did have a failed Alzheimer's drug as he points out. Over 99 percent of all Alzheimer drug attempts failed. He was one of them and it was in a subsidiary of his company and they never sold any stock in the subsidiary. So the stock you know was worth a zillion dollars and then it was worth zero but he rode it all the way. He rode it to the top. He rode it at the bottom which was the ethical thing to do because there was a point where he could have sold the stock at the top before he knew if the drug worked. He could have done that. Decided not to. Decided to let his investment follow the actual result of the trial. The trial said it didn't work and then that was the end of it right.
So that's his version. Let me say that the only thing I know for sure is that that was his explanation. I wasn't there but it sounded right to me.
There's a study out of CU Boulder that says that opposites don't really attract. So aren't you glad you studied that? You know I've been wondering why Lizzo wasn't returning my calls but science has now answered this. Apparently opposites don't attract. So no call coming for me.
Was there anybody who needed science to tell them that people like to have something in common? You know the important stuff in common with their mates. You know they like to have the same religion usually. They like to have same at least political leaning. They like to be somewhere in the same age usually unless one of them is rich. And yeah I feel like they didn't need to study this so much huh? Do you think they wasted a little money studying this? Feels like it. Feels like it. Yeah.
Well let's talk about Ukraine and I'm going to talk about the double slit experiment if you haven't had enough science.
All right. Ukraine allegedly, don't believe anything coming out of Ukraine. Don't believe anything coming out of Ukraine. This is just the story we're told that Ukraine has made a small puncture in the Russian lines. But I have to admit I was trying to visualize what difference that makes because it seems to me if you punch through a line then you're right in the middle of the strongest part of the Russian military which is their side of the line. So it feels like it could be a trap. You know bring in all the good assets. Oh we finally got through. Put our best assets through the hole and then you know they get destroyed.
So I was trying to sort of visualize you know how that works. But then I saw an explanation that I liked a lot which is that the Russian forces, this is according to Dave DeMaro a retired US Army non-commissioned officer who was a front line military intelligence person during the Cold War and in Iraq so he knows what he's talking about.
And he says that the Russians don't know how to fight in all directions. In other words you've got a lot of let's say artillery batteries that are designed to shoot bullets, they're not bullets you know shoot artillery in one direction. Now obviously they could turn it around but it's not meant for up close fighting right. So if you can get a small heavy machine gun kind of truck you can just pull up behind the artillery battery and wipe them out because they're not really designed for defending from behind.
So the idea is that if you get a few assets through the line you can get behind some of their stuff. Totally mess up their coordination because they don't know what's going on because you're shooting them from both sides and then there's chaos and then somehow you can take advantage of that. So that's the idea.
So that's not my prediction or anything just so you wondered how that works. It's the deal is to get behind people who are not good at defending you from behind. So there's more to it but that's one thing. I wasn't obvious to me so I like that explanation.
How many of you are aware of the physics experiment called the double slit experiment? I'll tell you what it is but how many of you are familiar with it already? A lot of you right. It's a famous experiment in which it gets to the question of whether light is a particle or a wave. Have you ever heard that? If you're like a science nerd you've heard oh sometimes light is a particle like a photon and sometimes it's a wave. What the hell does that mean? What's a wave?
I never understood that until finally somebody explained the wave is just probability. Why don't they just say that? A wave and then they say the wave has collapsed so the probability has collapsed into a particle when you measure it. You know what would be another way to explain that? There was always a photon. We just didn't know where it was and then when we measured it we knew where it was and now we know where it is.
So there's this whole big sciencey experiment that's supposed to tell you about the nature of reality and all it is is it's hard to find out where a photon is. It's all it's like one of the most basic things that they try to use to explain how scientists understand the universe but you don't know. They just don't know how to use words clearly.
If they use words clearly they would say well there are photons. We don't know where they are until we look but once we look there they are. And they call that collapsing the wave. You feel how about tell me you didn't know where it was but then when you checked there it was.
Now there's an oddity to it about whether you're measuring it or not. So what the double slit experiment tries to show but I think it's all actually is that there's something about observation that turns things real.
Now suppose you don't believe what I just said. Instead you believe the scientists. So the scientists would say that the things don't become real until they're looked at. And it was a study that I tweeted today in May I guess that or was written up in May of this year that there is no preferred reality. It's all subjective. And that the two movies on one screen is actually literally what's happening. That is to say my subjective impression of what's happening is no more or less true than your subjective impression and there isn't any base reality.
So science is sort of heading in that direction. So that's two movies on one screen which I've been telling you forever that reality is obviously subjective in my opinion.
So here's my additive tying together of two things that shouldn't be tied together to blow your mind. It's coming. I haven't said it yet. If it's true that you can collapse reality by observation and also measurement, if it's true that's what the scientists say, could it also be true since observation is sort of a weird thing it has to do with consciousness I guess. If your eyes were closed it wouldn't happen the scientists would say. If you were standing right in front of it with your eyes closed you couldn't tell it was happening. The particle wouldn't really be anywhere but as soon as you open your eyes boop it pops immediately into one position.
Now I'm simplifying because you can't see a photon but let's say you're using equipment to look at it. All right. So that's what the actual scientists say is real.
So if you were to take their beliefs that that's real I'm going to extend that now to a thing called affirmations and positive thinking. Affirmations are visualizing what you want to happen in the future as if it's a reality. Now if being conscious in the present can collapse a wave field as they say and make something real is it possible that you can collapse reality by imagining it really clearly?
Because if you told me that consciousness can collapse reality I would say well then you're telling me reality is subjective because if I'm not there it's not collapsing or if I'm not measuring it. But I've had this is anecdotal my personal observation over a lifetime is that the more clearly I can see a specific future the more likely it happens whether it's good or bad.
So I've told you that I have this ongoing problem with water leaks. You know no matter where I go whatever house has nothing to do with the quality of the construction it's just everywhere I go there are massive water leaks. Yesterday I'm writing a check for my handyman slash builder kind of guy who does a lot of work in my house and he looks up and he goes uh oh. And I'm like I'm not looking up. And he keeps looking up. He's like ah wow. I'm like no don't look up Scott. That ceiling was just redone just repainted. There is no problem up there.
And finally I did look up and there's this big water bulge directly above our heads. You know where the paint starts to bulge down just before it pops and turns into a shower. Yeah. Now do you think that that was going to happen on its own or do you think the fact that every time I walk through the house I look at the ceiling and say well where's my next leak because I expect them to be there. That leak was exactly where I expected it to be. I mean in the kitchen sure enough there was.
Do you know how many times I've been in the kitchen that rained where actually water was coming from the ceiling? I don't know the exact number but I think it's about a dozen. A dozen times. Different houses. Yeah. Does that happen to you? No. But I also spent a lot of time visualizing it accidentally because I don't want it to happen but I think about it all the time because of the history.
So I've got a feeling that one of the reasons that maybe somebody have repetitive problems, people have different sets of problems but they have the same one all the time. I've got this one but all the time it just never stops. And by the way I'm not this is not interpreting the past. I've been telling my followers for years that I have this continuous problem and then when I report it so they could say it themselves I take pictures of it. It's real. I have continuous water leak problems. Some people don't.
So could it be that literally everything that happens is some function of our imagination and if you're not imagining anything specific then it's random. It just happens to you but if you visualize it it happens. Yeah so that's my prostate. Okay that's funny. It took me a while to figure that out.
All right. So my mind breaking reframe is that it's possible that the thing that collapses the wave and makes something real is how clearly you imagine it. What do you think? No. Do you think it's a coincidence that Elon Musk says and I say it as well that the most likely outcome is the most entertaining. That the most entertaining one is the most likely is a better way to say it right.
Because you often think about the most entertaining outcome like when you think of the next presidential election or let's say 2016. Did anybody have any doubt any doubt whatsoever that the most entertaining outcome would be Trump winning the presidency? Of course. Then when he ran the second time it wasn't really that entertaining. It was just something that was going to happen or not happen. You had a preference or not a preference but it wasn't entertaining. In fact it was the opposite because we were sort of not being entertained by all the division.
And now time is going by and I keep telling you the most entertaining outcome would be if Trump had a third act revival managed to somehow against all odds prove there was some problem in the election which would be the ultimate and then goes to the presidency and has a good presidency. That would be the most entertaining. And the thing is everybody knows that. We all know it. Every time he opens his mouth about some new evidence about election problems you say to yourself I don't think he's going to prove it but that sure would be entertaining. That would be entertaining.
So we'll see. And what am I thinking of? I'm saying this book as the number one book in the entire world except for religious books and the more clearly I see it the more likely it'll happen. So if you want to do this experiment to see if our imaginations can make something happen since you have no reason not to you're probably not competing against me for a best-selling book just join me. Just imagine this the number one book. Just imagine it. That's all. Let's see what happens.
And oh yes I don't know the details but Joe Biggs one of the January 6 people got 17 years. Is that right? I don't know the details of his case. I would just say that on the surface that doesn't look like justice to me. And I would say that that's another example of why you pretty much have to elect Trump or somebody like Vivek. Somebody I wouldn't vote for anybody who didn't promise to pardon the January 6 people. To me that's bottom line.
By the way as DeSantis said he would or would not. What has DeSantis said? DeSantis is quiet on it or he says he won't. He's just quiet about it right? Yes he would. He's not talking about pardoning them though.
All right. So here's the thing. Any candidate who doesn't say it directly I will pardon these people I think they're disqualified. Do you agree? If you can't say it out loud that's disqualifying. Is disqualified. Yeah I think that's got to be the ticket to the show. If you can't say it directly I don't even want to hear anything else you have to say. I don't care about your policies. Don't care about your character. Don't care about your history. Don't care about your anything. If you're not willing to do that simple thing then you're willing to let your party burn if the other side decides I want to. That is unacceptable.
All right ladies and gentlemen I believe that is what we wanted to talk to you about today. I would like to mention a reframe that I heard on the Joe Rogan show. I think I'll mention reframes even when they're not my own. All right this one comes from Jocko Willink and I won't explain it as well as he does. If you want to see the video where Jocko explains it it's much better.
But he's got this thing he says when bad news happens he says good. And the first time I heard it and Joe Rogan says that he now uses that technique when something bad happens or something's hard he says good. And I thought to myself that couldn't possibly work right because it's a little bit opposite of what a hypnotist would recommend. Generally you don't want to recommend saying something that's observably not true right. You'd like to stick with things that you actually feel are true.
But if you say that bad news is good then your brain is like well but is it you know so it's a little unclear messaging to yourself. But I tried it. I tried it yesterday. So when I got the leak in my ceiling I'm like because it wasn't just a few hours ago I'd heard about that reframe. I thought well I'll give it a try. So I look at the ceiling and I go good.
I swear to God it worked. It worked. It completely changed my connection to the problem. What the hell. It worked. It worked instantly. It actually worked instantly.
Now that one's as weird as there's a reframe I do have in the book in which the reframe is if you have some big problem and it's just bugging you you say that the problem has as much of a right to exist as I do. Doesn't make any sense right. It's the same as saying that your problem is good or that anything is good about it.
Now Jocko had more of an explanation. It has something to do with you know another challenge to overcome. You know you'll learn something. Maybe there's an opportunity that comes out of the bad news because bad news often kicks up opportunities. So he had a little explanation around it but I'm not even sure you needed it. I think the word itself carried the power. You just associate it with a positive word and suddenly it changed how you feel about it. It was that easy. Yeah.
So just say if you had a problem well the problem has a right to exist. It just won't bother you as much. You'll still work on it if you could solve it but if you just put a different word on it now again I'll remind you that the power of reframes and by the way the way that I can tell when my critics who give me one star reviews the way I can tell that they haven't read the book is they say it's a book of advice. It's not a book of advice. It's a book of words that change your brain like good in that context. It's just a word. The word itself has the power. It's like a little program.
So a reframe is like a little program they put into your head to optimize something. It doesn't have to be true. Doesn't have to be logical. It just has to work. And that's what good does. It just works. So if you want to spend all your time figuring out why it works you can. Maybe that would be interesting but it doesn't matter. It works. Try it.
So Jocko good job on that. That was quite that was really useful. That. So when I tell people that you know my 160 reframes will change your life it's the only one you'd ever heard was Jocko's. That's a pretty big change. It immediately made all the problems for the rest of my life a little bit less bothersome because I'll just do that again. It looks like it works.
So imagine how big the changes are that you can make just by a little tuning of the words in your head.
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Connell and you all know he's he's had health problems and he's been freezing up uh actually he just goes blank like you can't talk in public it's happened a few times we all feel bad for him don't want to you know I don't want to mock somebody for age or infirmity so I'm going to mock other people instead I think you can ignore everything Republicans say on any topic as long as they let that guy keep keep his job now you can say to me but but but the other Republicans can't you know they have no say over whether he retires sure they do of course they do yeah if they all said you got to retire you'd retire because it would just be too embarrassing not to they could just not take his calls you know just ignore his office they could treat him like he's not there they could get him out in a day and I'm sure they have their reasons but if you're not going to tell me the reasons I'm not going to listen to you about anything right you have no credibility if the leader of your party is incapacitated and you're just letting it happen right why because Biden is also incapacitated so that's okay or you know Schumer's close to it now consumer's doing fine but yeah how can you make fun of the fact that Democrats keep Federman you can't how can you make fun of Biden's declining cognitive ability you can't not if you're trying to be a serious person so if you want to be a serious person they all have to go you know Feinstein's got to go but Mc.
Connell's got to go at the same time so Republicans could you pull it together just a little bit I mean this is just free money sitting on the table I realize it's awkward it's uncomfortable it's not the thing you want to be known for but you got to do it you gotta do it there's nobody in the world who thinks this is right nobody zero people think this is okay and you can't do this the simplest thing you could ever do in your life you can't do this just just help a guy out help him retire with a little bit of dignity Maybe crazy yeah just ignore everything Republicans say from now on if you if you can't get that right all right here is a service under thinking seriously of doing you've seen me give my description of how to know if the news is credible for example I won't go through the whole thing but I did a whole list of you know what is a credible Story versus a non-credible story and one of them just to give you an example is if the only source is a anonymous source and it's only being reported by the part of the media that hates the person who's being marked on that's never true this is never true right and then you could rate the other things for how often they're true and then you'd have a good little guide to look at the news but there's another thing I want to add and I'm just starting to build the list it would be the list of what I call the designated Liars now this is a little tricky because there's some Nuance to it if you miss the Nuance then the beauty the beauty of the idea disappears right so I'm not talking about people who lie right in a moment you're going to suggest people who are simple Liars that's not what this is about we're not talking about simply lying because that would be a lot of politicians I'm talking about designated Liars right if you miss the designated part that would be like missing the difference between climate change as a hoax versus the climate agenda is Oaks right if you miss that designated word which you will not all of you but somebody on You.
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Tube is going to say but other people lie you know they're going to do that whoever does that is an NPC right so it's not about liars it's not about liars it's about designated liars and what I mean by that is there's a there's a group of Democrats now you could you could make an argument that happens on the right we'll talk about that as well but on the left if you see any of these people be the chief character of in a story now the chief character would be somebody who wrote the big article that everybody's talking about or or somebody who's always on the news talking about it if you see Phil bump of the Washington Post making a claim that other people are saying hmm I'm not so sure that's true Phil bump is an absolute signal that it's a fake story is almost synonymous with fake news now he would deny that of course and he denied it quite a bit because he's under Fire in the news and so um Jonathan Turley and Miranda Devine is it diviner Devine Divine Miranda Divine or Devine somebody somebody fact checked me I'll say it correctly when you do Vine Divine okay it's divine so Miranda Divine has an article and basically it's just mocking Phil bump for being a ridiculous character uh now in terms of full disclosure Phil bump does work for the Washington Post which in the Dilbert reborn comic is where ratbert works as a as a writer a rapper I guess I should tell you here his current Incarnation as a writer for the Washington poop so in the Dilbert reborn comic that you can only see by subscription uh it's the Washington Pope and rapper basically plays Phil bump now I don't use the name but in your mind if you see it just just tell yourself it's Phil bump and it's funnier all right so Phil bump is one of my mascots so full disclosure he is one of the people who comes after me in public and uh was quite he was dancing on My Grave when I got canceled primarily by his newspaper which started the rest of the newspapers so when the Washington Post canceled me that allowed everybody else to do at the same time so uh just know that I'm not objective but Phil bumps a good signal for fake news the other ones you know Adam Schiff Eric swalwell Jamie Raskin Jerry Nadler Dan Goldman uh Blumenthal Brandon Clapper now they're the ones that I call the designated Liars here are the names that are not on the list uh Corinne Jean-Pierre do you understand why she's not on the list because she's not a signal of fake news she's somebody who lies and Spins everything all the time but she'll spin a positive a thing that's real she'll spend a thing that's not real you can't really tell so she's not a signal because she's just out there spinning all the time the other people that are not a signal would be leadership so Schumer Biden Pelosi and Harris because they're going to talk about everything all the time because they're in leadership right so if you see them saying something that's true or not true it's not really a signal they're just talking about everything all the time same as John John Pierre whatever cringe on Pierre so I don't consider them designated Liars they would just be ordinary politicians who don't always tell the truth and spit a lot now the Republicans have a lot of those Republicans have people who are wrong you know they believe things that are not true they have people who are under-informed let's say uh not Banning Tick Tock for example might not understand it so they might have a bad opinion there there are people who maybe just have different philosophies there there are people who maybe they know they're bending or spending or something and probably there's some people who just know they're lying on the Republican side but here's what's different there is not an identifiable Squad of liars on the right that I'm aware of if I'm missing it because I have some bias somebody should suggest it to me now if you say to me but Scott here's somebody who lied again it's not about lying they're all going to be lying sooner or later except for Thomas Massey I have to throw Thomas Massey in there every time I call Congress Liars because he's so obviously not one that it just I just feel shitty when I don't yeah Rand Paul's not a liar there are others too right there are others that I do trust or not lie uh but Republicans have a different set of credibility problems I don't think they have designated Liars but if they do well so somebody's saying what about Crenshaw on um on Ukraine that doesn't seem to me like a designated liar that seems like somebody who has an opinion you don't have because Crenshaw is not identifiable with the guy you stick forward to say the things that are never true he's just somebody who disagrees with you deeply on a big issue and I probably disagree with him as well but that doesn't make him a liar and it certainly doesn't make him a designated liar Adam kinzinger there's something going on with Adam kinsinger that has more to do with the Ukraine war I I don't see Adam kinsiger as sort of the designated liar I think he's honestly it looks like he has some mental difficulties is how it projects now I don't know that I'm not a doctor but when I see Adam kinsiger I don't see Mental Health he doesn't he doesn't display mental health in the way that I normally would you recognize it so if you're if you're displaying something that looks like maybe there's something you're working on on your own that's just its own category all right um so would that be helpful if you tell me tell me the truth if you could for a moment be unbiased I know it's impossible would this be useful if you were teaching somebody how to look at the news would it be useful to have a list of these 10 people or designated Liars you know they're alive that's the only reason they're on TV it would be useful right yeah all right um here's some fake science all right here's the thing I believe I'm I believe I'm going to explain this to you correctly but if later you say to me Scott you've got that story completely wrong well I'll change it I'll change my mind but I gotta tell you what I think I know all right so you know what a placebo is right you're all smart educated people you know that a placebo is a fake pill that if you have a pill that you think will be real and will solve some problem then you give somebody the fake pill and you see how they do you compare it to the the real drug now if the real drug improves people's condition more than the um more than the placebo that you're likely to get improved you know if there are no side effects or if there are minimum minimal side effects now this largely proves wouldn't you say because whenever they do this study you always get this effect the the people who take the fake pill very predictably not 100 of the time but predictably they'll have they'll have you know a substantial kind of a benefit so would you agree that the placebo effect is one of the most studied and guaranteed to be real effects you've ever seen in science how many would say that that's guaranteed to be real because nothing I don't think anything's been studied this much has anything ever been studied as much as this because every time they do a study this shows up like you don't even have to be looking for and it's everywhere I mean the placebo effect is just everywhere so it's real in the comments can you at least acknowledge that the placebo effect is real so that I can go on to my next point it's real right everybody knows it's totally real yeah totally real all right um Maybe not maybe not do you know if they don't study because they don't have to what they don't study is somebody who took no pill at all do you know what would happen if they did suppose every suppose every test was Placebo in one group a real drug in another group and then the thing that they don't study but what if they did no pill at all and you don't even know you're in the study so they'd have to even not even know they're in the study what do you think that would be just take a guess what do you think the don't do anything and you're not even in this study would look like foreign that's right the people who did absolutely nothing they improve about the same as the placebo do you know what that means it means everything you've ever heard about the placebo was it's always been it was easy to prove easy to prove and for your entire life the people that you trust the scientists told you they did some science and then they told you they used their statistical genius to prove that the thing called the placebo effect is a real thing now I'm seeing somebody say this is incorrect so I'm open to correction because I'm not I'm not completely sure this is true I'll tell you that you know it's just something I ran across on the internet recently but as soon as I saw it I thought to myself well I'm pretty sure they don't study the person who wasn't in the study I'm pretty sure that's not a normal thing and and I do know that in the normal course of things most people improve if you do nothing or at least they say they improved maybe they just got used to it so they said they improved who knows some of them might be some of that but I don't know I'm open for fact checking I'm open for fact checking but remember we live in a zero trust environment where science is mostly mostly the vast majority of the things you call science are and apparently you always have been from the you know the so-called nutrition you know the the nutrition triangle that was from day one it was never even attempted to be true but if but if the placebo effect isn't real what can you believe wanna see another one do you think I could do this again let's see foreign you probably know that uh RFK Jr says that solar might be a good Green Technology but it's not economical if you include all of the other costs you know because everything has you know closed down costs and maybe social costs and then there's how long it takes to get approval and all that stuff now also with the solar power people will say hey you forgot to include the recycling costs you know blah blah blah blah right so let me ask you the question you you all watch the news you know this is the most informed group I've ever seen literally it's the most informed group of news Watchers so you all watch the news and you know you all know that climate change no matter what you think of the reality of it you would agree it's maybe the biggest issue outside of Ukraine I guess maybe the biggest issue right so but at least you're recycling your plastic right all right is everybody recycling their plastic at least trying to help as Michael sheldenberger informed you recently do you know that the plastic recycling has never been real it's never been real they don't recycle the plastic that you separate they throw it in the garbage and they ship it to Asia and it ends up in the ocean and your water supply and always has and always has recycling isn't real plastic I think I think maybe metal cans is real uh maybe cardboard is real I don't know but plastic recycling has never been real how many of you knew that how many how many of you knew the plastic recycling was never real a lot of you did how many Democrats do you think know that not so many not so many all right so what is the answer you all watch the news so the most important question I would say see if you agree with me the most important question about climate change in terms of what we're going to do about it because even if you think there's no risk you you'd need more energy right so the people who don't believe in climate change as a as a risk the ones who do believe it you all need more energy so the biggest question is which one's more economical so tell me which one's more economical solar or nuclear and I'm going to tell you the real answer after you tell me your answers there's a there's an absolute real answer I can give you complete certainty on this question a lot of people say nuclear a lot of people say nuclear all right both that's an interesting answer both make sense from a you need all the energy you can get perspective but one of them is going to be better all right do you want the absolute guaranteed correct answer nobody knows are you kidding me you think somebody knows the answer to this question no this is completely unknowable now here we happen to be in my my domain of expertise you know I know it doesn't seem like it but I do have many years of corporate experience trying to analyze what costs more both initially and also in the long run because it's not your initial cost it's you know you have to you have to put in decommissioning and everything else there so I can guarantee you that the level of complexity involved in nuclear as well as solar guarantees that nobody knows the answer it's a guarantee here's what else they don't know what will be the economics if let's say you got a capable president let's say you have a fake ramaswamy and he said hey this nuclear stuff would be good if you could make it easier to build and easier to get approved so at the moment it's nearly impossible to get a nuclear power plan built because of all the environmentalists and blah blah blah but could you imagine there's somebody who is smart and a president could say Hey you states don't get a vote because this is this is too close to the homeland security you can't really have a country there's a National Defense unless you're also a strong economy so you need your Basics your energy production that's the most basic thing you got to get your energy production and then maybe Transportation would be next uh but if you don't get your energy production right you might as well disband your army your Army's useless if you don't have energy and you don't have a good economy to equip them right so somebody like Vivek could make the argument that that nuclear energy is not just a choice of which energy to use but it's a requirement for the sustainability of the United States defensively and in every other way that we have a robust efficient nuclear energy um game now could the federal government just say hey environmentalists uh go away and hey Democrats it doesn't matter what you want because it's National Security so I'm going to get rid of all the the little state and local ordinances and I'm going to say there's just one set of federal approvals and if you and they won't be that hard you know they'll be they'll be optimized so you can get your approval and I'm just going to say you States you just don't get a vote in this because you're driving the country into ruin and that's a that's a defense problem so could that happen I don't know but you don't either that's my point my point is if you don't know could save do that or could Trump do that he didn't do it the first time so I suspect he can't uh but I think Vivek could do it because do you know do you know what it would take to remove all of those regulations the minimum it would take for a president to do that they would have to understand the topic how many people have ever run for that office a president do you think you could introduce to the topic of nuclear regulation and have them like do a deep dive and then come out with a usable opinion a usable opinion of which things could be tweaked and modified and who's lying to them about what you can't change we've only had one candidate who was capable well Jimmy Carter I guess but uh yeah Jimmy Carter right but at the moment we have one candidate I think has that capability and I happen to think we have some smart candidates right RFK Jr super smart uh Trump I believe is super smart in his you know within his domain uh well you haven't seen a fake before Vivek is the one person who's running for president in the longest time who you could say can you look at this mess and and try to untangle this you know you don't have to be the biggest expert in each part of it but at least you could understand the landscape I don't think anybody else can even see the landscape it's just way too complicated if you don't know the political part you also don't know the base economics if you don't know that we could approve for example you can approve modular designs and then let people build as many as they want so long as it's the same design so there's a whole bunch of things you could do to lower the price or cost of nuclear you can store the uh the waste on site which is now a normal way to do it so you don't have the transportation you don't need a different facility you just keep it on site put it a little Barrel every once in a while uh so that the economics of waste is is pretty low at this point the the risk of a meltdown which is what causes you to be uninsurable if we build the newer models they've never had a meltdown if we did a generation three or were getting close to generation four those have never had a meltdown Generation 4 can't have one it's built so the design itself is a failure causes it to just stop The Current Designs including three you have to keep the energy going if the energy is lost you could get a meltdown so you don't build something like Fukushima where you put your backup generators below the the ocean line it was below sea level they actually put their backup generators below sea level in a tsunami Zone now is that a problem with nuclear power would you say and therefore nuclear power is dangerous I mean that's a pretty big leap how about we just don't put our backup generators underwater that would be like a start but you know that's not the only problem there uh if he gets a generation four you don't need the power at all it just stops working when the election the other electricity goes off yeah it's a dumb design Snoopy boobs says wow Scott's a nuclear scientist which part of this uh did I need to be a nuclear scientist for was there something I forgot I said that was sort of sciencey yeah all right um Jamie Raskin you recognize him from the people who signal fake news uh he wants to investigate Jared kushner's Saudi Investments now that's a really good play from the Democrats in a political sense is good and here's why it's good the general public can't tell the difference between a publicly announced investment in an investment fund that is publicly investing in things with well-known public management compared to literally a money-washing slash bribery influence scheme with lots of shell corporations run by Hunter Biden the public isn't going to know the difference to them it's going to look like two sketchy things is it Financial yes okay so there's money involved and it's like a politician yes but is it a politician who ran for office no Jared didn't run for office and neither did Hunter oh so it's similar you're saying oh so if Jared is innocent well therefore logically Hunter did nothing wrong so it's a brilliant play because the most of the public doesn't know any anything that's going on with either story but if you tune into your casual viewer and somebody says sure they're going after Hunter but look what Jared did you're a casual casual consumer of the news that sounds like a pretty good point doesn't it oh they're both doing it okay I guess I can forget about that as a topic because everybody does it everybody's doing it no not everybody is setting up is shell corporations and lying about it Jared Jared did a did an announcement he did a press release if you do a press release about what you're doing and you know the Investments presumably will be known at some point because they're going to be big ones I don't know uh if you say you're not comfortable with Jared uh let's say capitalizing on his connections he made during office I get that but what is better than doing it transparently and are we better off or worse off if Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner have a close relationship are we better off or worse off he was the architect of the Abraham Accords we're a hundred percent better off it's not even close you want you want the Saudis to have a good working relationship with some prominent Americans so that we work better with them there's a reason that Saudi you know has played well with the Trump Administration and now Jared because they played well with them that's how it works and we'll need them in the future so so I don't mind that we have connections with them as long as it's all public um did I talk about this uh Vivek dismantling uh Harvey Levin on TMZ and his co-host whose name I can't remember Charles Charles now I'm not going to replay it for you or describe it I'll just tell you how he did it here here's how most Republicans have argued about climate change and what happens right here here's most Republicans climate change isn't even real well are you denying all of science because you're an idiot well yesterday it was cold okay you know that temperature and climate are really not the same and anecdotally that doesn't really approve anything it snowed yesterday okay well I don't even feel like we're talking about the same thing it's cold and then and then the Democrats declare that the Republican whoever it is is a big old dope who doesn't believe in science right that's the way it goes every time now enter Vivek it took him about one minute to demonstrate that everything those two new Harvey and Charles knew about climate change was way less than Vivek new okay that's that that was that was his starting point you know he very clearly told them that he was better he was more well-read and understood the topic at a more detailed level next thing he did right is he debunked their you know climate hoax thing and said no the agenda that what we're doing about it part is the hoax in other words we're not doing the right stuff I'm not I'm not arguing whether CO2 is a greenhouse gas I am instead arguing that you have not included all of the costs and the benefits of your analysis and that's when he was done right that that's you know when he started to tell them you've simply not included enough in your analysis you know you have to look at the number of people dying you have to look at how well we remediate you have to look at how many people die from cold which is way more than the ones to die from warmth and you know once you've included all of those things uh your your best analysis for keeping people alive would be to go hard with fossil fuels today because that's what keeps people alive today but also work hard to get your nuclear and your you know all forms of energy up so that you can transition because you don't want to pollute now if invac Vivek doesn't want to pollute so you don't have to ask him this question because it's obvious would you rather have a new Nuclear Power Plant or or bore coal you don't have to ask them that of course he wants a nuclear power plant he says it directly right so once Vivek showed that the difference between their analyzes was that he had included the value of human life in his I'm not making this up Vivek showed that he was including the value of human life literally keeping people alive and that you know as bad as the pollution is from fossil fuels it is how you keep them alive and it's not even close if you take people's energy away things don't work out at all so the the funny thing about it if you get a chance to look at it you can just Google it look for Vivek and TMZ it'll pop right up uh you have to watch the the reactions the physical reactions of The Two Hosts Harvey and Charles and they start getting animated and they're they're triggered into cognitive distance because I'll tell you what nobody expects to lose if you're Harvey and Charles these are you know well-informed uh public hosts yeah these are high functioning people who pay attention to the news it's their business right so when when they get into a conversation about climate change they expect to be on top of the mountain and just pissing on the ants that are running below because that's how it's supposed to work because the only people they've ever talked to who disagreed with them were idiots if I'm being honest they've only talked to idiots because the idiot of you is oh it snowed today so no climate change you're not going to win with that came in and said you know what are you count keeping people alive you know how about that is your best metric keeping people alive and that just shut them down that it just made them look like idiots because what was their argument for well I guess I would rather kill 10 times as many people but you know I really like solar there's nothing there once you've made the case that more people will clearly die with the current set of policies then all they have to do is they don't even know how to respond to that so they were both in deep cognitive dissonance and it was a wonderful so if you'd like to see what cognitive dissonance looks like that's a real good example you have to watch them flip out they start just spewing things and trying to talk over each other and they fell apart so it was wonderful all right uh I saw this joke from wokosaurus rex on on X he says uh he says new game all you have to do is add add the quote I've never seen anything like it to any statement about anything to prove your point and how bad climate change is affecting the world you don't need any evidence the phrase itself so for he gives an example it rained today I've never seen anything like it and I laughed for 10 minutes because that's exactly what the news coverage is it's like the wind was very strong we've never seen anything like it uh the the five Late Late Show hosts minus the good one Greg gotfeld if you saw the podcast with the the five of them they're like uh raining so hard I've never seen anything like it anyway to me that was funny uh RFK Jr has these stats which if these are true I don't know what to say about how Biden could even be polling anywhere near equal but this is what RFK JR says about his own party right President Biden Justified his open border policy so even or if ajudu calls it an open border like remember he's a Democrat and he's just he was there he did a he did a little documentary it's an open border it's because it's an open border let me say it again do you know why RFK Jr calls it an open border because he's not a liar that's why right he's not a liar so he couldn't not call it that because that's obviously what it is so all credit to him for you know bringing some truth to the topic but look at these numbers uh uh he says the Trump era border patrol had 2600 quote children in cages as as they like to say where his critics like to say and RFK JR says today there are 12 000 children in cages plus and here's the part that I can't even process 85 000 children have disappeared now disappeared means we just don't know where they went it doesn't mean that something bad happened to them necessarily but out of 85 000 missing children which a lot of them I assume were unaccompanied minors and we're probably trafficked intentionally I don't know what percentage of the 85 000 were being trafficked and abused but it's not zero I don't know what it is but it's going to be some shocking percentage and would is it fair to say that that makes Biden the biggest uh child trafficker in the world because it's entirely his decision whether this happens or not he's the only one who decides whether this is going to happen nobody else just one guy and that one guy apparently is responsible for 12 000 children in cages and 85 000 missing of which what would be what would be a small guess twenty thousand of them are sexually abused and still are like at this minute but what's your guess it's probably something in that range this is the deepest level of evil that I've seen in America since slavery or Jim Crow or something right I mean this is sort of Epic evil this this is evil on a scale that honestly I had no idea I had no idea it was that big I knew I knew it was hard to track people once they got in but 85 000 kids that we don't have a good idea even where they are that is uh not good dab action right you need a dad you're going to need somebody in that office who cares about children now the good news is a number of candidates fit that fit that description but wow all right um Vivek who makes news so well Vivek is the best earned media guy of all time Trump got tons of earned media but often they were just you know criticizing him so his earned media was working against him as much as it was for him vivekes is you know is more of a 60 40.
like it's overwhelmingly positive but of course critics will try to turn it into something it isn't but here's something you said today another perfect thing to highlight he says under General CQ Brown's leadership the Air Force is trying to reduce white male pilots from 86 percent of Flyers down to 43 percent amidst a major recruiting crisis so there's a recruiting crisis can't get enough people but they're going to make it much much harder to get good people by discriminating against I assume straight white males I assume if you're a gay and a white male maybe you're still good but if you're a straight straight white male they're going to tell you pretty much we're looking for somebody else now why would a straight white male join the military if you were a straight straight white male and one of one of your options was to join the military I wouldn't advise against it now I typically would not advise against joining the military even though it's clearly a risky proposition by its nature and I don't I don't usually advise people to take risky actions but at least there's a payoff right at least you get benefits and you you learn a skill maybe there's a lot to gain so you know it's a personal decision but at this point I think I will weigh in and say if you're a straight white male the military just said you're not going to do well so you should probably look for a different plan so I can't recommend the US military to a strike white male under the current conditions this was about the Air Force but you assume it's the same everywhere all right um so Vivek did a video in which he's debunking a number of hoaxes against them one of the hoaxes was that he made a lot of money on he failed Alzheimer's drug how many of you think that's true that he made a lot of money on a failed Alzheimer's drug because that's one of the main claims about it no it's not true he did have it failed Alzheimer's drugs as he points out over 99 of all Alzheimer drug attempts failed he was one of them and it was in a subsidiary of his company and they never sold any stock in the subsidiary so the stock you know was worth a zillion dollars and then it was worth zero but he wrote it all the way he wrote it to the top he wrote it at the bottom which was the ethical thing to do because there was a point where I could have sold the stock at the top before he knew if the drug worked he could have done that decided not to decided to let his investment follow the actual result of the trial the trial said it didn't work and then that was the end of it right so that that's his version let me say that the only thing I know for sure is that that was his his explanation I wasn't there but it sounded right to me there's a study out of the CU Boulder that says that offices don't really attract so aren't you aren't you glad you studied that you know I've been wondering why lizzo wasn't returning my calls but science has now answered this apparently offices don't attract so no call coming for me was there anybody who needed science to tell them that people like to have something in common you know the important stuff in common with their mates you know they like to have the same religion usually they like to have same at least political leaning they like to be somewhere in the same age usually less one of them is rich and uh yeah I I feel like they didn't need to study this so much huh do you think they wasted a little money studying this feels like it feels like it yeah well let's talk about Ukraine and I'm going to talk about the double slit experiment if you haven't had enough science all right uh Ukraine allegedly don't believe anything coming out of Ukraine don't believe anything coming out of Ukraine this is just the story we're told that Ukraine has made a you know small puncture in the Russian lines but I have to admit uh I was trying to visualize what difference that makes because it seems to me if you punch through a line then you're right in the middle of the strongest part of the Russian military which is their side of the line so it feels like it could be a trap you know bring in the all the good assets oh we finally got through put our best assets through the hole and then you know they get destroyed so I was trying to sort of visualize you know how how that works but um then I saw an explanation that I liked a lot which is that the Russian forces this is according to Dave demaro a retired US Army non-commissioned officer who was a front line Military Intelligence person during the Cold War and in Iraq so he knows what he's talking about and he says that the Russians don't know how to fight in all directions in other words you've got a lot of let's say artillery batteries that are designed to shoot bullets they're not bullets you know shoot artillery in One Direction now obviously they could turn it around but it's not meant for up close fighting right so if you can get a small you know heavy machine gun kind of truck you can just pull up behind the artillery battery and wipe them out because they're not they're not really designed for defending from behind so the idea is that if you get a few you know a few assets through the line you can get behind some of their stuff totally mess up their you know coordination because they don't know what's going on because you're shooting them from both sides and uh and then there's chaos and then somehow you can take advantage of that so that's the idea so that's not my prediction or anything just so you wondered how that works it's the the deal is to get behind people who are not good at defending you from behind so there's more to it but that's one thing I was not wasn't obvious to me so I like that explanation how many of you are aware of the physics experiment called the double slit experiment I'll tell you what it is but how many of you are familiar with it already a lot of you right it's a famous experiment in which uh it gets to the question of whether light is a particle or a wave have you ever heard that if you're like a science nerd you've heard oh sometimes light is a particle like a photon and sometimes it's a wave what the hell does that mean what's a wave I never understood that until finally somebody explained the wave is just probability why don't they just say that a wave and then they say the wave has collapsed so the probability is collapsed into a particle when you measure it you know what would be another way to explain that there was always a photon we just didn't know where it was and then when we measured it we knew where it was and now we know where it is so there's this whole like big sciencey experiment that's supposed to tell you about the nature of reality and all it is is it's hard to find out where a photon is it's all it's like one of the most basic things that they try to use to explain how scientists understand the universe but you don't no they just don't know how to use words clearly if they use words clearly they would say well there are photons we don't know where they are until we look but once we look there they are and they call that collapsing the way you feel how about tell me you didn't know where it was but then when you checked there it was now there's a there's an oddity to it uh about what you whether you're measuring it or not so what the double spit the double slit experiment tries to show but I think it's all actually is that there's something about observation that turns things real now suppose you don't believe what I just said instead you believe the scientists so the scientists would say that the things don't become real until they're looked at and it was a study that I tweeted today in May I guess that or was written up in May of this year that there is no preferred reality it's all subjective and that the two buoys on one screen is actually literally what's happening that is to say my subjective impression of what's happening is no more or less true than your subjective oppression and there isn't any base reality so science is sort of heading in that direction so that's two movies on one screen which I've been telling you forever that that reality is obviously subjective in my opinion so here's my additive uh tying together of two things that shouldn't be tied together to blow your mind it's coming I haven't said it yet if it's true that you can collapse reality by observation and also measurement if it's true that's what the scientists say could it also be true since observation is sort of a weird thing it has to do with Consciousness I guess if your eyes were closed it wouldn't happen the scientists would say if you were standing right in front of it with your eyes closed you couldn't tell it was happening the the particle wouldn't really be anywhere but as soon as you open your eyes Boop it pops immediately into one position now I'm simplifying because you can't see a photon but let's say you're using equipment to look at it all right so that that's that's what the actual scientists say is real so if you were to take their their beliefs that that's real I'm going to extend that now to a thing called affirmations and positive thinking affirmations are visualizing what you want to happen in the future as if it's a reality now if being conscious in the present can collapse a wave field as they say and make something real is it possible that you can collapse reality by imagining it really clearly because if you told me that Consciousness can collapse reality I would say well then you're telling me reality is subjective because if I'm not there it's not collapsing or if I'm not measuring it but I've I've had this is anecdotal my personal observation over a lifetime is that the more clearly I can see a specific future the more likely it happens whether it's good or bad so I've told you that I have this ongoing problem with water leaks you know no matter where I go whatever house has nothing to do with the quality of the construction it's just everywhere I go there are massive order leaks yesterday I'm writing a check for my you know handyman slash Builder kind of guy who does a lot of work in my house and he looks up and he goes uh oh and I'm like I'm not looking up and he keeps looking up he's like ah wow I'm like no don't look up Scott that that ceiling was just redone just repainted there is no problem up there and finally I did look up and there's this big water bulge directly above our heads you know where the paint starts to bulge down just before it pops and turns into a shower yeah now do you think that that was going to happen on his own or do you think the fact that every time I walk through the house I look at the ceiling and say well where's my next leak because I expect them to be there that leak was exactly where I expected it to be I mean in the kitchen sure enough there was do you know how many times I've been in the kitchen that rained where actually water was coming from the ceiling I don't know the exact number but I think it's about a dozen a dozen times different houses yeah does that happen to you no but I also spent a lot of time visualizing it accidentally because I don't want it to happen but I think about it all the time because of the history so I've got a feeling that one of the reasons that maybe somebody have repetitive problems people have different sets of problems but they have the same one all the time I've got this one but all the time it just never stops and by the way I'm not this is not um interpreting the past I've been telling my followers for years that I have this continuous problem and then when I have when I report it so they could say it themselves I take pictures of it it's real I have continuous water leak problems some people don't so could it be that literally everything that happens is some function of our imagination and if you're not imagining anything specific then it's random it just happens to you but if you visualize it it happens yeah so that's my prostate okay that's funny it took me a while to figure that out all right so my mind breaking uh reframe is that it's possible that the thing that collapses the wave and make something real is how clearly you imagine it what do you think no do you think it's a coincidence that Elon Musk says and I say it as well that the most likely outcome is the most entertaining that the most entertaining one is the most likely is a better way to say it right because though you often think about the most entertaining outcome like when you think of the next presidential election or let's say 2016.
did anybody have any doubt any doubt whatsoever that the most entertaining outcome would be Trump winning the presidency of course then when when he ran the second time it wasn't really that entertaining it was just something that was going to happen or not happen you had a preference or not a preference but it wasn't entertaining in fact it was the opposite because we were sort of not being entertained by all the division and now time is going by and I keep telling you the most entertaining outcome would be if Trump had a third act Revival managed to somehow Against All Odds prove there was some problem in the election which would be the ultimate and then goes to the presidency and has a good presidency that would be the most entertaining and the thing is everybody knows that we all know it every time he opens his mouth about some new evidence about election problems you say to yourself I don't think he's going to prove it but that sure would be entertaining that would be entertaining so we'll see and what am I thinking of I'm saying this book as the number one book in the entire world except for religious books and the more clearly I see it the more likely it'll happen so if you want to do this experiment to see if our imaginations can make something happen since you have you have no reason not to you're probably not competing against me for a best-selling book just uh join me just imagine this the number one book just imagine it that's all let's see what happens and um oh yes I don't know the details but Joe Biggs one of the January 6 people got 17 years is that right I don't know the details of his case I would just say that on the surface that doesn't look like justice to me and I would say that that's another example of why you pretty much have to elect Trump or somebody like Vivek somebody I wouldn't vote for anybody who didn't promise to pardon the January 6 people to me that's that's bottom line by the way as De.
Santis said he would or would not what is the Santa said De.
Santis is quiet on it or he says he won't he's just quiet about it right yes he would he he's not talking about pardoning Trump though all right so here's the thing it any candidate who doesn't say it directly I will pardon these people I think they're disqualified do you agree if you can't say it out loud that's disqualifying is disqualified yeah I I think that's got to be that's got to be the ticket to the show if you can't say it directly I don't even want to hear anything else you have to say I don't care about your policies don't care about your character don't care about your history don't care about your anything if you're not willing to do that simple thing then you're willing to let your party burn uh if the other side decides I want to that is unacceptable all right ladies and gentlemen I believe that is uh what we want to talk to you talk about today I would like to mention a reframe that I heard on the Joe Rogan show I think I'll mention reframes even when they're not my own all right this one comes from Jocko Willock and I won't explain it as well as he does if you want to see the video where Jocko explains it it's much better but uh he's got this thing he says when bad news happens he says good and the first time I heard it and Joe Rogan says that he he now uses that technique when something bad happens or something's hard he says good and I thought to myself that couldn't possibly work right because it's a little bit opposite of what a hypnotist would recommend generally you don't want to recommend saying something that's observably not true right you'd like to stick with things that you actually feel are true but if you say that bad news is good then your brain is like well but is it you know so it's a little unclear messaging to yourself but I tried it I tried it yesterday so when I got the leak in my ceiling I'm like because I it wasn't just a few hours ago I'd heard about that reframe I thought well I'll give it a try so I look at the ceiling and I go good I swear to god it worked it worked it completely changed my uh my connection to the problem what the hell it worked it worked instantly it actually worked instantly now that one's as weird as there's there's a reframe I do have in the book in which the reframe is if you have some big problem and it's just bugging you you say that the problem has as much of a right to exist as I do doesn't make any sense right it's the same as saying that your problem is good or that anything is good about it now in in Jocko had more of an explanation it has something to do with you know another challenge to overcome you know you'll learn something maybe there's an opportunity that comes out of the bad news because bad news often kicks up opportunities so he had he had a little you know explanation around it but I'm not even sure you needed it I think the word itself carried the power you just associate it with a positive word and suddenly it changed how you feel about it it was that easy yeah so just say if you had a problem well the problem has a right to exist it just won't bother you as much you'll still you know work on it if you could solve it but if you just put a different word on it now again I'll remind you that the power of reframes and by the way the the way that I can tell when my Critics on who give me one star reviews the way I can tell that they haven't read the book is they they say it's a book of advice it's not a book of advice it's a book of words that change your brain like good in that context it's just a word the word itself has the powers like a little program so a reframe is like a little program they put into your head to to optimize something it doesn't have to be true doesn't have to be logical it just has to work and that's what good does it just works so if you if you want to spend all your time figuring out why it works you can maybe that would be interesting but it doesn't matter it works try it so Jocko good job on that that was that was quite that was really useful that so when I tell people that you know my 160 reframes will change your life it's the only one you'd ever heard was Jocko's that's a pretty big change it immediately made all the problems for the rest of my life a little bit less bro bothers them because I'll just do that again it looks like it works so imagine how big the changes are that you can make just by a little tuning of the words in your head all right ladies and gentlemen that's all for now thanks for joining us on You.
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um yet another trial
of using mushrooms for depression
it turns out that the magic mushrooms
made a huge difference so basically
every time they study it I think
correct me if I'm wrong but a hundred
percent of The Times They study
depression and mushrooms
there's a big Improvement
and there's something really big big big
that's coming down the pike
and I don't know what it's going to do
remember I you know I I always remind
you that I told you that when Trump Rose
in 2015 2016 I told you it was going to
change more than politics it would
change the way you saw reality itself
well if you thought that was a change
wait till you try mushrooms for your
depression
talk talk about a change in reality
so toward the end of uh today's show
I'm gonna blow your minds
like your your brain is just going to
come off
so and almost certainly almost certainly
you're gonna say what
so wait for that that's the Whiteboard
presentation
all right
um I I saw a article that apparently a
lot of employees are pretending they
have ai knowledge because their boss
doesn't know one way or the other so
that they can they can feel like they're
the the valuable employees and I thought
to myself
well there's there's a whole week of
Dilbert reborn comics
which are available by subscription only
on Twitter and on the locals platform
local scottadams.locals.com
but
um did you see that coming
you you knew the people were going to
pretend that they knew AI without
knowing AI you knew that was gonna
happen
that's a Wally thing well unemployment
is inching up from 3.5 to 3.8 let's
pretend we can measure that
yeah let's pretend that we can measure
it in a meaningful and Accurate Way such
that the change between 3.5 and 3.8 is
Meaningful
probably not
probably not so but if the numbers that
are official make it look like inflation
is inching up which is hard to imagine
why would it be going up
just uh too much money supply I don't
know seems like you should be going down
but uh that would be I would guess one
of the most important uh predictors of
the next election
should it be a fair and free election
I would say I would think inflation is
the biggest number that would change
people's vote what do you say
if everything else were the same and
inflation looked like it was inching up
on Election Day
I think that's game over
at least in terms of the public the
Voting is a separate question
all right here's my opinion on Mitch
McConnell and you all know he's he's had
health problems and he's been freezing
up uh actually he just goes blank like
you can't talk in public it's happened a
few times we all feel bad for him
don't want to you know I don't want to
mock somebody for age or infirmity so
I'm going to mock other people instead
I think you can ignore everything
Republicans say
on any topic
as long as they let that guy keep keep
his job
now you can say to me but but but the
other Republicans can't you know they
have no say over whether he retires sure
they do of course they do yeah if they
all said you got to retire you'd retire
because it would just be too
embarrassing not to they could just not
take his calls you know just ignore his
office they could treat him like he's
not there they could get him out in a
day
and
I'm sure they have their reasons
but if you're not going to tell me the
reasons I'm not going to listen to you
about anything
right you have no credibility if the
leader of your party is incapacitated
and you're just letting it happen
right why because Biden is also
incapacitated so that's okay
or you know Schumer's close to it now
consumer's doing fine but
yeah how can you make fun of the fact
that Democrats keep Federman you can't
how can you make fun of Biden's
declining cognitive ability you can't
not if you're trying to be a serious
person so if you want to be a serious
person they all have to go
you know Feinstein's got to go but
McConnell's got to go at the same time
so Republicans
could you pull it together just a little
bit
I mean this is just free money sitting
on the table I realize it's awkward it's
uncomfortable it's not the thing you
want to be known for
but you got to do it
you gotta do it there's nobody in the
world who thinks this is right nobody
zero people think this is okay and you
can't do this the simplest thing
you could ever do in your life you can't
do this
just just help a guy out help him retire
with a little bit of dignity Maybe
crazy yeah just ignore everything
Republicans say from now on if you if
you can't get that right all right
here is a service under thinking
seriously of doing
you've seen me give my description of
how to know if the news is credible for
example I won't go through the whole
thing but I did a whole list of you know
what is a credible Story versus a
non-credible story and one of them just
to give you an example is if the only
source is a anonymous source
and it's only being reported by the part
of the media that hates the person who's
being marked on that's never true this
is never true right and then you could
rate the other things for how often
they're true and then you'd have a good
little guide
to look at the news but there's another
thing I want to add and I'm just
starting to build the list it would be
the list of what I call the designated
Liars
now this is a little tricky because
there's some Nuance to it if you miss
the Nuance then the beauty the beauty of
the idea disappears right so I'm not
talking about people who lie
right in a moment you're going to
suggest people who are simple Liars
that's not what this is about
we're not talking about simply lying
because that would be a lot of
politicians
I'm talking about designated Liars right
if you miss the designated part that
would be like missing the difference
between climate change as a hoax versus
the climate agenda is Oaks right if you
miss that designated word
which you will not all of you but
somebody on YouTube on YouTube is going
to say but other people lie you know
they're going to do that
whoever does that is an NPC
right so it's not about liars
it's not about liars it's about
designated liars and what I mean by that
is there's a there's a group of
Democrats now you could you could make
an argument that happens on the right
we'll talk about that as well but on the
left if you see any of these people
be the chief character of in a story now
the chief character would be somebody
who wrote the big article that
everybody's talking about or or somebody
who's always on the news talking about
it if you see Phil bump of the
Washington Post
making a claim that other people are
saying hmm I'm not so sure that's true
Phil bump is an absolute signal that
it's a fake story
is almost synonymous with fake news
now
he would deny that of course and he
denied it quite a bit because he's under
Fire in the news and so
um Jonathan Turley and Miranda Devine is
it diviner Devine Divine Miranda Divine
or Devine
somebody somebody fact checked me I'll
say it correctly when you do Vine Divine
okay it's divine so Miranda Divine has
an article and basically it's just
mocking Phil bump for being a ridiculous
character
uh now
in terms of full disclosure Phil bump
does work for the Washington Post which
in the Dilbert reborn comic is where
ratbert works as a as a writer a rapper
I guess I should tell you
here his current Incarnation as a writer
for the Washington poop so in the
Dilbert reborn comic that you can only
see by subscription uh it's the
Washington Pope and rapper basically
plays Phil bump
now I don't use the name but in your
mind if you see it just just tell
yourself it's Phil bump and it's funnier
all right so Phil bump is one of my
mascots so full disclosure he is one of
the people who comes after me in public
and uh was quite he was dancing on My
Grave when I got canceled primarily by
his newspaper which started the rest of
the newspapers so when the Washington
Post canceled me that allowed everybody
else to do at the same time
so uh just know that I'm not objective
but Phil bumps a good signal for fake
news the other ones you know Adam Schiff
Eric swalwell Jamie Raskin Jerry Nadler
Dan Goldman uh Blumenthal
Brandon Clapper
now they're the ones that I call the
designated Liars here are the names that
are not on the list
uh Corinne Jean-Pierre
do you understand why she's not on the
list
because she's not a signal of fake news
she's somebody who lies and Spins
everything all the time but she'll spin
a positive a thing that's real
she'll spend a thing that's not real you
can't really tell
so she's not a signal because she's just
out there spinning all the time the
other people that are not a signal would
be leadership so Schumer Biden Pelosi
and Harris because they're going to talk
about everything all the time because
they're in leadership right so if you
see them saying something that's true or
not true it's not really a signal
they're just talking about everything
all the time same as John John
Pierre whatever
cringe on Pierre so I don't consider
them designated Liars they would just be
ordinary politicians who don't always
tell the truth and spit a lot now the
Republicans have a lot of those
Republicans have people who are wrong
you know they believe things that are
not true
they have people who are under-informed
let's say uh not Banning Tick Tock for
example might not understand it so they
might have a bad opinion there there are
people who maybe just have different
philosophies there there are people who
maybe they know they're bending or
spending or something and probably
there's some people who just know
they're lying
on the Republican side
but here's what's different
there is not an identifiable Squad of
liars
on the right that I'm aware of if I'm
missing it because I have some bias
somebody should suggest it to me
now if you say to me but Scott
here's somebody who lied again it's not
about lying
they're all going to be lying sooner or
later except for Thomas Massey I have to
throw Thomas Massey in there every time
I call Congress Liars because he's so
obviously not one
that it just I just feel shitty when I
don't yeah Rand Paul's not a liar there
are others too right there are others
that I do trust or not lie uh
but Republicans have a different set of
credibility problems
I don't think they have designated Liars
but if they do
well so somebody's saying what about
Crenshaw on
um on Ukraine
that doesn't seem to me like a
designated liar that seems like somebody
who has an opinion you don't have
because Crenshaw is not identifiable
with the guy you stick forward to say
the things that are never true
he's just somebody who disagrees with
you deeply on a big issue
and I probably disagree with him as well
but that doesn't make him a liar and it
certainly doesn't make him a designated
liar
Adam kinzinger there's something going
on with Adam kinsinger that has more to
do with the Ukraine war
I I don't see Adam kinsiger as sort of
the designated liar I think he's
honestly it looks like he has some
mental difficulties is how it projects
now I don't know that I'm not a doctor
but when I see Adam kinsiger I don't see
Mental Health
he doesn't he doesn't display mental
health in the way that I normally would
you recognize it
so if you're if you're displaying
something that looks like maybe there's
something you're working on on your own
that's just its own category
all right
um
so would that be helpful if you tell me
tell me the truth
if you could for a moment be unbiased
I know it's impossible would this be
useful if you were teaching somebody how
to look at the news would it be useful
to have a list of these 10 people or
designated Liars you know they're alive
that's the only reason they're on TV
it would be useful right
yeah
all right
um
here's some fake science
all right here's the thing I believe I'm
I believe I'm going to explain this to
you correctly
but if later you say to me Scott you've
got that story completely wrong well
I'll change it I'll change my mind
but I gotta tell you what I think I know
all right
so
you know what a placebo is right you're
all smart educated people
you know that a placebo is a fake pill
that if you have a pill that you think
will be real and will solve some problem
then you give somebody the fake pill and
you see how they do you compare it to
the the real drug
now if the real drug improves people's
condition more than the
um more than the placebo
that you're likely to get improved you
know if there are no side effects
or if there are minimum minimal side
effects now this largely proves wouldn't
you say because whenever they do this
study you always get this effect
the the people who take the fake pill
very predictably not 100 of the time but
predictably they'll have
they'll have you know a substantial kind
of a benefit
so would you agree
that the placebo effect is one of the
most studied and guaranteed to be real
effects you've ever seen in science
how many would say that that's
guaranteed to be real because nothing I
don't think anything's been studied this
much
has anything ever been studied as much
as this because every time they do a
study
this shows up
like you don't even have to be looking
for and it's everywhere I mean the
placebo effect is just everywhere so
it's real
in the comments
can you at least acknowledge that the
placebo effect is real so that I can go
on to my next point it's real right
everybody knows it's totally real yeah
totally real all right
um
Maybe not maybe not
do you know if they don't study
because they don't have to
what they don't study is somebody who
took no pill at all
do you know what would happen if they
did
suppose every suppose every test was
Placebo in one group a real drug in
another group and then the thing that
they don't study but what if they did
no pill at all and you don't even know
you're in the study so they'd have to
even not even know they're in the study
what do you think that would be
just take a guess
what do you think the don't do anything
and you're not even in this study would
look like
foreign
that's right the people who did
absolutely nothing
they improve about the same as the
placebo
do you know what that means
it means everything you've ever heard
about the placebo was
it's always been
it was easy to prove
easy to prove
and for your entire life the people that
you trust the scientists
told you they did some science
and then they told you they used their
statistical genius
to prove that the thing called the
placebo effect is a real thing
now I'm seeing somebody say this is
incorrect
so I'm open to correction
because I'm not I'm not completely sure
this is true
I'll tell you that you know it's just
something I ran across on the internet
recently but as soon as I saw it I
thought to myself
well I'm pretty sure they don't study
the person who wasn't in the study
I'm pretty sure that's not a normal
thing and and I do know
that in the normal course of things
most people improve if you do nothing
or at least they say they improved maybe
they just got used to it so they said
they improved who knows some of them
might be some of that
but
I don't know I'm open for fact checking
I'm open for fact checking but remember
we live in a zero trust environment
where science
is mostly
mostly
the vast majority of the things you call
science
are
and apparently you always have been
from the you know the so-called
nutrition you know the the nutrition
triangle that was from day one
it was never even attempted to be true
but if but if the placebo effect
isn't real
what can you believe
wanna see another one do you think I
could do this again
let's see
foreign
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you probably know that uh RFK Jr
says that solar might be a good Green
Technology but it's not economical
if you include all of the other costs
you know because everything has you know
closed down costs and maybe social costs
and then there's how long it takes to
get approval and all that stuff
now also with the solar power
people will say hey you forgot to
include the recycling costs
you know blah blah blah blah
right
so let me ask you the question you you
all watch the news
you know this is the most informed group
I've ever seen literally it's the most
informed group of news Watchers so you
all watch the news and you know you all
know that climate change no matter what
you think of the reality of it you would
agree it's
maybe the biggest issue outside of
Ukraine I guess
maybe the biggest issue right
so
but at least you're recycling your
plastic right
all right is everybody recycling their
plastic at least trying to help
as Michael sheldenberger informed you
recently do you know that the plastic
recycling has never been real
it's never been real
they don't recycle the plastic that you
separate they throw it in the garbage
and they ship it to Asia and it ends up
in the ocean and your water supply
and always has
and always has
recycling isn't real
plastic I think I think maybe metal cans
is real
uh maybe cardboard is real I don't know
but plastic recycling
has never been real
how many of you knew that
how many how many of you knew the
plastic recycling was never real
a lot of you did
how many Democrats do you think know
that
not so many not so many
all right
so what is the answer you all watch the
news so the most important question I
would say see if you agree with me the
most important question about climate
change
in terms of what we're going to do about
it because even if you think there's no
risk
you you'd need more energy right so the
people who don't believe in climate
change as a as a risk the ones who do
believe it you all need more energy so
the biggest question is which one's more
economical
so tell me which one's more economical
solar
or nuclear and I'm going to tell you the
real answer after you tell me your
answers there's a there's an absolute
real answer
I can give you complete certainty on
this question
a lot of people say nuclear
a lot of people say nuclear
all right
both that's an interesting answer
both make sense from a you need all the
energy you can get perspective but one
of them is going to be better
all right do you want the absolute
guaranteed correct answer
nobody knows
are you kidding me
you think somebody knows the answer to
this question
no this is completely unknowable now
here we happen to be in my my domain of
expertise
you know I know it doesn't seem like it
but I do have many years of corporate
experience trying to analyze what costs
more both initially and also in the long
run because it's not your initial cost
it's you know you have to you have to
put in decommissioning and everything
else there so
I can guarantee you
that the level of complexity involved in
nuclear as well as solar
guarantees that nobody knows the answer
it's a guarantee
here's what else they don't know
what will be the economics if let's say
you got a capable president
let's say you have a fake ramaswamy
and he said hey this nuclear stuff would
be good if you could make it easier to
build and easier to get approved
so at the moment it's nearly impossible
to get a nuclear power plan built
because of all the environmentalists and
blah blah blah
but could you imagine
there's somebody who is smart and a
president could say Hey you states don't
get a vote
because this is this is too close to the
homeland security you can't really have
a country
there's a National Defense unless you're
also a strong economy so you need your
Basics your energy production that's the
most basic thing you got to get your
energy production and then maybe
Transportation would be next uh but if
you don't get your energy production
right you might as well disband your
army
your Army's useless
if you don't have energy and you don't
have a good economy to equip them right
so somebody like Vivek could make the
argument that that nuclear energy is not
just a choice of which energy to use
but it's a requirement for the
sustainability of the United States
defensively and in every other way that
we have a robust
efficient nuclear energy
um game
now could the federal government just
say hey environmentalists uh go away
and hey Democrats it doesn't matter what
you want because it's National Security
so I'm going to get rid of all the the
little state and local ordinances and
I'm going to say there's just one set of
federal approvals and if you and they
won't be that hard you know they'll be
they'll be optimized so you can get your
approval and I'm just going to say you
States you just don't get a vote in this
because you're driving the country into
ruin and that's a that's a defense
problem
so could that happen
I don't know
but you don't either
that's my point my point is if you don't
know
could save do that or could Trump do
that he didn't do it the first time so I
suspect he can't
uh but I think Vivek could do it because
do you know do you know what it would
take
to remove all of those regulations the
minimum it would take for a president to
do that
they would have to understand the topic
how many people have ever run for that
office a president
do you think you could introduce to the
topic of nuclear regulation
and have them like do a deep dive
and then come out with a usable opinion
a usable opinion of which things could
be tweaked and modified and who's lying
to them about what you can't change
we've only had one candidate who was
capable well Jimmy Carter I guess but uh
yeah Jimmy Carter right but at the
moment we have one candidate I think has
that capability
and I happen to think we have some smart
candidates right RFK Jr super smart
uh Trump I believe is super smart in his
you know within his domain
uh
well you haven't seen a fake before
Vivek is the one person who's running
for president in the longest time who
you could say can you look at this mess
and and try to untangle this you know
you don't have to be the biggest expert
in each part of it but at least you
could understand the landscape I don't
think anybody else can even see the
landscape it's just way too complicated
if you don't know the political part you
also don't know the base economics if
you don't know that we could approve for
example you can approve modular designs
and then let people build as many as
they want so long as it's the same
design
so there's a whole bunch of things you
could do to lower the price or cost of
nuclear you can store the uh the waste
on site which is now a normal way to do
it so you don't have the transportation
you don't need a different facility you
just keep it on site put it a little
Barrel every once in a while
uh so that the economics of waste is is
pretty low at this point
the the risk of a meltdown which is what
causes you to be uninsurable
if we build the newer models they've
never had a meltdown
if we did a generation three or were
getting close to generation four those
have never had a meltdown Generation 4
can't have one it's built so the design
itself is a failure causes it to just
stop
The Current Designs including three you
have to keep the energy going if the
energy is lost you could get a meltdown
so you don't build something like
Fukushima where you put your backup
generators below the the ocean line it
was below sea level
they actually put their backup
generators
below sea level
in a tsunami Zone
now is that a problem with nuclear power
would you say and therefore nuclear
power is dangerous
I mean that's a pretty big leap how
about we just don't put our backup
generators underwater
that would be like a start
but you know that's not the only problem
there uh if he gets a generation four
you don't need the power at all it just
stops working when the election the
other electricity goes off
yeah it's a dumb design
Snoopy boobs says wow Scott's a nuclear
scientist which part of this uh did I
need to be a nuclear scientist for
was there something I forgot I said that
was sort of sciencey
yeah
all right
um Jamie Raskin you recognize him from
the people who signal fake news uh he
wants to investigate Jared kushner's
Saudi Investments
now that's a really good play
from the Democrats in a political sense
is good and here's why it's good the
general public can't tell the difference
between a publicly announced investment
in an investment fund that is publicly
investing in things with well-known
public management
compared to literally a money-washing
slash bribery influence scheme with lots
of shell corporations run by Hunter
Biden
the public isn't going to know the
difference to them it's going to look
like two sketchy things
is it Financial
yes
okay so there's money involved and it's
like a politician
yes but is it a politician who ran for
office no Jared didn't run for office
and neither did Hunter oh so it's
similar you're saying oh so if Jared is
innocent
well therefore logically
Hunter did nothing wrong
so it's a brilliant play because the
most of the public doesn't know any
anything that's going on with either
story
but if you tune into your casual viewer
and somebody says sure they're going
after Hunter but look what Jared did
you're a casual casual consumer of the
news that sounds like a pretty good
point doesn't it oh they're both doing
it okay I guess I can forget about that
as a topic because everybody does it
everybody's doing it no not everybody is
setting up is shell corporations and
lying about it
Jared Jared did a did an announcement he
did a press release
if you do a press release about what
you're doing
and you know the Investments presumably
will be known at some point because
they're going to be big ones
I don't know uh if you say you're not
comfortable with Jared
uh let's say capitalizing on his
connections he made during office I get
that
but what is better than doing it
transparently
and are we better off or worse off if
Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner have a
close relationship
are we better off or worse off
he was the architect of the Abraham
Accords
we're a hundred percent better off
it's not even close
you want you want the Saudis
to have a good working relationship with
some prominent Americans
so that we work better with them there's
a reason that Saudi
you know has played well with the Trump
Administration and now Jared because
they played well with them that's how it
works
and we'll need them in the future so
so I don't mind that we have connections
with them as long as it's all public
um did I talk about this uh Vivek
dismantling uh Harvey Levin on TMZ and
his co-host whose name I can't remember
Charles Charles
now I'm not going to replay it for you
or describe it I'll just tell you how he
did it
here here's how most Republicans have
argued about climate change and what
happens right here here's most
Republicans
climate change isn't even real
well are you denying all of science
because you're an idiot well yesterday
it was cold
okay you know that temperature and
climate are really not the same and
anecdotally that doesn't really approve
anything
it snowed yesterday okay well I don't
even feel like we're talking about the
same thing it's cold
and then and then the Democrats declare
that the Republican whoever it is is a
big old dope who doesn't believe in
science right that's the way it goes
every time now enter Vivek
it took him about one minute to
demonstrate that everything those two
new Harvey and Charles knew about
climate change was way less than Vivek
new
okay that's that that was that was his
starting point you know he very clearly
told them that he was better he was more
well-read and understood the topic at a
more detailed level
next thing he did right
is he debunked their you know climate
hoax thing and said no the agenda
that what we're doing about it part is
the hoax in other words we're not doing
the right stuff I'm not I'm not arguing
whether CO2 is a greenhouse gas
I am instead arguing that you have not
included all of the costs and the
benefits of your analysis
and that's when he was done right that
that's you know when he started to tell
them you've simply not included enough
in your analysis
you know you have to look at the number
of people dying
you have to look at how well we
remediate you have to look at how many
people die from cold which is way more
than the ones to die from warmth and you
know once you've included all of those
things uh your your best analysis for
keeping people alive would be to go hard
with fossil fuels today because that's
what keeps people alive today
but also work hard to get your nuclear
and your you know all forms of energy up
so that you can transition because you
don't want to pollute
now if invac Vivek doesn't want to
pollute
so you don't have to ask him this
question because it's obvious would you
rather have a new Nuclear Power Plant
or or bore coal
you don't have to ask them that
of course he wants a nuclear power plant
he says it directly right so once Vivek
showed that the difference between their
analyzes was that he had included
the value of human life
in his
I'm not making this up
Vivek showed that he was including the
value of human life literally keeping
people alive and that you know as bad as
the pollution is from fossil fuels it is
how you keep them alive
and it's not even close if you take
people's energy away things don't work
out at all
so
the the funny thing about it if you get
a chance to look at it you can just
Google it look for Vivek and TMZ it'll
pop right up uh you have to watch the
the reactions the physical reactions of
The Two Hosts Harvey and Charles and
they start getting animated
and they're they're triggered into
cognitive distance
because I'll tell you what nobody
expects to lose if you're Harvey and
Charles these are you know well-informed
uh public hosts yeah these are high
functioning people who pay attention to
the news it's their business right so
when when they get into a conversation
about climate change
they expect to be on top of the mountain
and just pissing on the ants that are
running below because that's how it's
supposed to work because the only people
they've ever talked to who disagreed
with them were idiots
if I'm being honest they've only talked
to idiots
because the idiot of you is oh it snowed
today
so no climate change
you're not going to win with that
came in and said you know what are you
count keeping people alive
you know how about that is your best
metric keeping people alive
and that just shut them down that it
just made them look like idiots
because what was their argument for well
I guess I would rather kill 10 times as
many people but you know I really like
solar
there's nothing there once you've made
the case that more people will clearly
die with the current set of policies
then all they have to do is they don't
even know how to respond to that so they
were both in deep cognitive dissonance
and it was a wonderful so if you'd like
to see what cognitive dissonance looks
like
that's a real good example you have to
watch them flip out they start just
spewing things and trying to talk over
each other and they fell apart
so it was wonderful
all right uh I saw this joke from
wokosaurus rex on on X he says uh
he says new game all you have to do is
add add the quote I've never seen
anything like it to any statement about
anything to prove your point and how bad
climate change is affecting the world
you don't need any evidence the phrase
itself so for he gives an example it
rained today
I've never seen anything like it
and I laughed for 10 minutes because
that's exactly what the news coverage is
it's like the wind
was very strong
we've never seen anything like it
uh the the five Late Late Show hosts
minus the good one Greg gotfeld if you
saw the podcast with the the five of
them
they're like uh raining so hard I've
never seen anything like it anyway to me
that was funny uh RFK Jr has these stats
which if these are true
I don't know what to say about how Biden
could even be
polling anywhere near equal but this is
what RFK JR says about his own party
right President Biden Justified his open
border policy so even or if ajudu calls
it an open border
like remember he's a Democrat
and he's just he was there he did a he
did a little documentary it's an open
border it's because it's an open border
let me say it again do you know why RFK
Jr calls it an open border
because he's not a liar that's
why right he's not a liar so he couldn't
not call it that because that's
obviously what it is so all credit to
him for you know bringing some truth to
the topic but look at these numbers
uh
uh he says the Trump era border patrol
had 2600 quote children in cages as as
they like to say where his critics like
to say and RFK JR says today there are
12 000 children in cages plus and here's
the part that I can't even process
85 000 children have disappeared
now disappeared means we just don't know
where they went it doesn't mean that
something bad happened to them
necessarily
but out of 85 000 missing children which
a lot of them I assume were
unaccompanied minors
and we're probably trafficked
intentionally
I don't know what percentage of the 85
000
were being trafficked and abused but
it's not zero
I don't know what it is but it's going
to be some shocking percentage
and would is it fair to say that that
makes Biden the biggest uh child
trafficker in the world
because it's entirely his decision
whether this happens or not
he's the only one who decides whether
this is going to happen nobody else just
one guy
and that one guy apparently is
responsible for 12 000 children in cages
and 85 000 missing of which
what would be what would be a small
guess twenty thousand of them are
sexually abused
and still are like at this minute but
what's your guess
it's probably something in that range
this is the deepest level of evil that
I've seen in America
since slavery or Jim Crow or something
right I mean this is sort of Epic evil
this this is evil on a scale that
honestly I had no idea
I had no idea it was that big I knew I
knew it was hard to track people once
they got in but 85 000 kids that we
don't have a good idea even where they
are
that is uh not good dab action
right you need a dad
you're going to need somebody in that
office
who cares about children now the good
news is a number of candidates fit that
fit that description
but wow
all right
um
Vivek who makes news so well Vivek is
the best earned media guy of all time
Trump got tons of earned media but often
they were just you know criticizing him
so his earned media was working against
him as much as it was for him vivekes is
you know is more of a 60 40. like it's
overwhelmingly positive but of course
critics will try to turn it into
something it isn't but here's something
you said today another perfect thing to
highlight he says under General CQ
Brown's leadership the Air Force is
trying to reduce white male pilots from
86 percent of Flyers down to 43 percent
amidst a major recruiting crisis
so there's a recruiting crisis
can't get enough people
but they're going to make it much much
harder to get good people by
discriminating against I assume straight
white males I assume if you're a gay and
a white male maybe you're still good
but if you're a straight straight white
male they're going to tell you
pretty much we're looking for somebody
else
now
why would a straight white male join the
military
if you were a straight straight white
male and one of one of your options was
to join the military I wouldn't advise
against it
now I typically would not advise against
joining the military even though it's
clearly a risky proposition by its
nature and I don't I don't usually
advise people to take risky actions
but at least there's a payoff
right at least you get benefits and you
you learn a skill maybe there's a lot to
gain
so you know it's a personal decision
but at this point I think I will weigh
in and say if you're a straight white
male the military just said you're not
going to do well
so you should probably look for a
different plan
so I can't recommend the US military to
a strike white male under the current
conditions
this was about the Air Force but you
assume it's the same everywhere
all right
um so Vivek did a video in which he's
debunking
a number of hoaxes against them one of
the hoaxes was that he made a lot of
money on he failed Alzheimer's drug how
many of you think that's true
that he made a lot of money on a failed
Alzheimer's drug
because that's one of the main claims
about it no it's not true
he did have it failed Alzheimer's drugs
as he points out over 99 of all
Alzheimer drug attempts failed
he was one of them and it was in a
subsidiary of his company and they never
sold any stock in the subsidiary
so the stock you know was worth a
zillion dollars and then it was worth
zero but he wrote it all the way he
wrote it to the top he wrote it at the
bottom which
was the ethical thing to do
because there was a point where I could
have sold the stock at the top before he
knew if the drug worked
he could have done that
decided not to decided to let his
investment follow the actual result of
the trial the trial said it didn't work
and then that was the end of it
right
so that that's his version let me say
that the only thing I know for sure is
that that was his his explanation I
wasn't there but it sounded right to me
there's a study out of the CU Boulder
that says that offices don't really
attract
so aren't you aren't you glad you
studied that
you know I've been wondering why lizzo
wasn't returning my calls
but science has now answered this
apparently offices don't attract
so
no call coming for me
was there anybody who needed science to
tell them
that people like to have something in
common you know the important stuff in
common with their mates you know they
like to have the same religion
usually they like to have same at least
political leaning
they like to be somewhere in the same
age usually less one of them is rich
and uh
yeah I I feel like they didn't need to
study this so much huh do you think they
wasted a little money studying this
feels like it feels like it yeah
well let's talk about
Ukraine and I'm going to talk about the
double slit experiment
if you haven't had enough science
all right uh Ukraine allegedly don't
believe anything coming out of Ukraine
don't believe anything coming out of
Ukraine this is just the story
we're told
that Ukraine has made a you know small
puncture in the Russian lines
but I have to admit uh I was trying to
visualize what difference that makes
because it seems to me if you punch
through a line
then you're right in the middle of the
strongest part of the Russian military
which is their side of the line
so it feels like it could be a trap you
know bring in the all the good assets oh
we finally got through put our best
assets through the hole and then you
know they get destroyed so I was trying
to sort of visualize
you know how how that works
but um then I saw an explanation that I
liked a lot which is that the Russian
forces this is according to
Dave demaro a retired US Army
non-commissioned officer who was a front
line Military Intelligence person during
the Cold War and in Iraq so he knows
what he's talking about and he says that
the Russians don't know how to fight in
all directions in other words you've got
a lot of let's say artillery batteries
that are designed to shoot bullets
they're not bullets you know shoot
artillery in One Direction
now obviously they could turn it around
but it's not meant for up close fighting
right so if you can get a small you know
heavy machine gun kind of truck you can
just pull up behind the artillery
battery and wipe them out because
they're not they're not really designed
for defending from behind
so the idea is that if you get a few you
know a few assets through the line you
can get behind some of their stuff
totally mess up their you know
coordination because they don't know
what's going on because you're shooting
them from both sides and uh and then
there's chaos and then somehow you can
take advantage of that so that's the
idea so that's not my prediction or
anything just so you wondered how that
works it's the the deal is to get behind
people who are not good at defending you
from behind
so there's more to it but that's one
thing I was not wasn't obvious to me so
I like that explanation
how many of you are aware of the physics
experiment called the double slit
experiment
I'll tell you what it is but how many of
you are familiar with it already a lot
of you right it's a famous experiment in
which uh it gets to the question of
whether light is a particle or a wave
have you ever heard that if you're like
a science nerd you've heard oh sometimes
light is a particle like a photon
and sometimes it's a wave
what the hell does that mean
what's a wave
I never understood that until finally
somebody explained
the wave is just probability
why don't they just say that
a wave and then they say the wave has
collapsed
so the probability is collapsed
into a particle when you measure it
you know what would be another way to
explain that
there was always a photon we just didn't
know where it was
and then when we measured it we knew
where it was and now we know where it is
so there's this whole like big sciencey
experiment that's supposed to tell you
about the nature of reality
and all it is is it's hard to find out
where a photon is it's all it's
like one of the most basic things that
they try to use to explain how
scientists understand the universe but
you don't no they just don't know how to
use words clearly if they use words
clearly they would say well there are
photons
we don't know where they are until we
look but once we look there they are
and they call that collapsing the way
you feel
how about tell me you didn't know where
it was but then when you checked there
it was
now there's a there's an oddity to it
uh about what you whether you're
measuring it or not
so what the double spit the double slit
experiment tries to show but I think
it's all actually is that
there's something about observation
that turns things real
now suppose you don't believe what I
just said
instead you believe the scientists
so the scientists would say that the
things don't become real until they're
looked at
and it was a study that I tweeted today
in May I guess
that or was written up in May of this
year
that there is no preferred reality it's
all subjective
and that the two buoys on one screen is
actually literally what's happening
that is to say my subjective impression
of what's happening is no more or less
true than your subjective oppression and
there isn't any base reality
so science is sort of heading in that
direction so that's two movies on one
screen which I've been telling you
forever that that reality is obviously
subjective in my opinion
so
here's my additive
uh
tying together of two things that
shouldn't be tied together to blow your
mind it's coming
I haven't said it yet
if it's true
that you can collapse reality
by observation and also measurement
if it's true that's what the scientists
say
could it also be true
since observation is sort of a weird
thing it has to do with Consciousness I
guess if your eyes were closed it
wouldn't happen
the scientists would say if you were
standing right in front of it with your
eyes closed you couldn't tell it was
happening
the the particle wouldn't really be
anywhere
but as soon as you open your eyes Boop
it pops immediately into one position
now I'm simplifying because you can't
see a photon but let's say you're using
equipment to look at it
all right so that that's that's what the
actual scientists say is real
so if you were to take their their
beliefs that that's real
I'm going to extend that now to a thing
called affirmations
and positive thinking
affirmations are visualizing what you
want to happen in the future
as if it's a reality
now if
being conscious in the present can
collapse a wave field as they say and
make something real
is it possible
that you can collapse reality
by imagining it really clearly
because if you told me that
Consciousness can collapse reality I
would say well then you're telling me
reality is subjective because if I'm not
there it's not collapsing
or if I'm not measuring it
but
I've I've had this is anecdotal
my personal observation over a lifetime
is that the more clearly I can see a
specific future the more likely it
happens
whether it's good or bad
so I've told you that I have this
ongoing problem with water leaks
you know no matter where I go whatever
house has nothing to do with the quality
of the construction
it's just everywhere I go there are
massive order leaks
yesterday I'm writing a check for my you
know handyman slash Builder kind of guy
who does a lot of work in my house
and he looks up and he goes uh oh
and I'm like
I'm not looking up
and he keeps looking up he's like ah wow
I'm like no don't look up Scott that
that ceiling was just redone just
repainted there is no problem up there
and finally I did look up
and there's this big water bulge
directly above our heads
you know where the paint starts to bulge
down just before it pops and turns into
a shower
yeah now do you think that that was
going to happen on his own or do you
think the fact that every time I walk
through the house I look at the ceiling
and say well where's my next leak
because I expect them to be there
that leak was exactly where I expected
it to be I mean in the kitchen
sure enough there was do you know how
many times I've been in the kitchen that
rained
where actually water was coming from the
ceiling
I don't know the exact number but I
think it's about a dozen
a dozen times different houses
yeah
does that happen to you no but I also
spent a lot of time visualizing it
accidentally because I don't want it to
happen but I think about it all the time
because of the history
so I've got a feeling that one of the
reasons that maybe somebody have
repetitive problems people have
different sets of problems but they have
the same one all the time I've got this
one
but all the time
it just never stops
and by the way I'm not this is not
um
interpreting the past I've been telling
my followers for years that I have this
continuous problem and then when I have
when I report it so they could say it
themselves I take pictures of it it's
real I have continuous water leak
problems
some people don't
so could it be
that literally everything that happens
is some function of our imagination and
if you're not imagining anything
specific
then it's random
it just happens to you but if you
visualize it it happens
yeah
so that's my prostate okay
that's funny it took me a while to
figure that out
all right so my mind breaking
uh
reframe
is that it's possible
that the thing that collapses the wave
and make something real
is how clearly you imagine it
what do you think
no
do you think it's a coincidence that
Elon Musk says and I say it as well that
the most likely outcome is the most
entertaining
that the most entertaining one is the
most likely is a better way to say it
right because though you often think
about the most entertaining outcome
like when you think of the next
presidential election or let's say 2016.
did anybody have any doubt any doubt
whatsoever that the most entertaining
outcome would be Trump winning the
presidency of course
then when when he ran the second time
it wasn't really that entertaining it
was just something that was going to
happen or not happen you had a
preference or not a preference
but it wasn't entertaining in fact it
was the opposite because we were sort of
not being entertained by all the
division
and now time is going by and I keep
telling you the most entertaining
outcome
would be if Trump had a third act
Revival
managed to somehow Against All Odds
prove there was some problem in the
election which would be the ultimate
and then goes to the presidency and has
a good presidency
that would be the most entertaining and
the thing is everybody knows that
we all know it every time he opens his
mouth about some new evidence about
election problems you say to yourself I
don't think he's going to prove it
but that sure would be entertaining that
would be entertaining
so we'll see
and what am I thinking of I'm saying
this book
as the number one book in the entire
world except for religious books
and
the more clearly I see it the more
likely it'll happen so if you want to do
this experiment to see if our
imaginations can make something happen
since you have you have no reason not to
you're probably not competing against me
for a best-selling book
just uh join me just imagine this the
number one book
just imagine it that's all
let's see what happens
and um
oh yes I don't know the details but Joe
Biggs one of the January 6 people got 17
years
is that right
I don't know the details of his case I
would just say that on the surface
that doesn't look like justice to me
and I would say that that's another
example of why you pretty much have to
elect Trump or somebody like Vivek
somebody I wouldn't vote for anybody who
didn't promise to pardon the January 6
people
to me that's that's bottom line
by the way as DeSantis said he would or
would not what is the Santa said
DeSantis is quiet on it or he says he
won't he's just quiet about it right
yes he would
he he's not talking about pardoning
Trump though
all right so here's the thing
it any candidate who doesn't say it
directly I will pardon these people I
think they're disqualified
do you agree
if you can't say it out loud that's
disqualifying
is disqualified
yeah I I think that's got to be that's
got to be the ticket to the show if you
can't say it directly
I don't even want to hear anything else
you have to say I don't care about your
policies don't care about your character
don't care about your history don't care
about
your anything
if you're not willing to do that simple
thing then you're willing to let your
party burn
uh if the other side decides I want to
that is unacceptable
all right ladies and gentlemen
I believe
that is uh what we want to talk to you
talk about today I would like to mention
a reframe that I heard on the Joe Rogan
show I think I'll mention reframes even
when they're not my own all right this
one comes from Jocko Willock and I won't
explain it as well as he does if you
want to see the video where Jocko
explains it it's much better but uh he's
got this thing he says when bad news
happens
he says good
and the first time I heard it and Joe
Rogan says that he he now uses that
technique when something bad happens or
something's hard he says good
and I thought to myself that couldn't
possibly work right because it's a
little bit opposite of what a hypnotist
would recommend
generally you don't want to recommend
saying something that's observably not
true
right you'd like to stick with things
that you actually feel are true but if
you say that bad news is good
then your brain is like well but is it
you know so it's a little unclear
messaging to yourself but I tried it
I tried it yesterday
so when I got the leak in my ceiling I'm
like because I it wasn't just a few
hours ago I'd heard about that reframe I
thought well I'll give it a try
so I look at the ceiling and I go good
I swear to god it worked
it worked
it completely changed my uh my
connection to the problem
what the hell
it worked it worked instantly it
actually worked instantly
now that one's as weird as there's
there's a reframe I do have in the book
in which the reframe is if you have some
big problem and it's just bugging you
you say that the problem has as much of
a right to exist as I do
doesn't make any sense right it's the
same as saying that your problem is good
or that anything is good about it now in
in Jocko had more of an explanation it
has something to do with you know
another challenge to overcome
you know you'll learn something maybe
there's an opportunity that comes out of
the bad news because bad news often
kicks up opportunities so he had he had
a little you know explanation around it
but I'm not even sure you needed it I
think the word itself carried the power
you just associate it with a positive
word and suddenly it changed how you
feel about it it was that easy
yeah so just say if you had a problem
well the problem has a right to exist
it just won't bother you as much you'll
still you know work on it if you could
solve it but if you just put a different
word on it now again I'll remind you
that the power of reframes and by the
way the the way that I can tell when my
Critics on who give me one star reviews
the way I can tell that they haven't
read the book is they they say it's a
book of advice
it's not a book of advice
it's a book of words that change your
brain
like good in that context it's just a
word
the word itself has the powers like a
little program so a reframe is like a
little program they put into your head
to to optimize something it doesn't have
to be true doesn't have to be logical
it just has to work and that's what good
does it just works so if you if you want
to spend all your time figuring out why
it works you can maybe that would be
interesting
but it doesn't matter
it works try it so Jocko good job on
that that was that was quite that was
really useful
that so when I tell people that you know
my 160 reframes will change your life
it's the only one you'd ever heard
was Jocko's
that's a pretty big change it
immediately made all the problems for
the rest of my life a little bit less
bro bothers them because I'll just do
that again it looks like it works
so imagine how big the changes are that
you can make just by a little tuning of
the words in your head all right ladies
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