Episode 2271 Scott Adams - CWSA 10/24/23

s backward science uh there's a new study that found that people have the most sex have the lowest uh all cause mortality especially in hypertension patients yeah so generally speaking the people who had the most sex uh were also the healthiest so backward science I wonder how much sex people look really sick have do they have a lot of sex or is it possible that the people who are healthy looking have more sex backwards science once you spot it you see it everywhere I saw a story that uh apparently members of Congress are going to be able to go into a skiff that highly uh the the highly highly uh secure place and look at UFO stuff is that really going to happen there's really going to be a skiff where we're going to have some of our professional Liars go in and tell us what they saw is Adam shiff going to go in the skiff what happens when Adam Schiff comes out of the skiff and says oh yeah there's actually an alien body in there I saw it I touched it and everybody else says uh I didn't see an alien body we'll be right back where we were do you think that all the people who look look at whatever is in the ski will have the same opinion when they walk out no nothing works like that it's going to be exactly the same as if there had been no skiff some people will walk in and say I can't tell you what I saw but my God aliens and other people will go in and say I looked at the same thing you did I didn't see any proof of aliens that's what it's going to be two two worlds on uh two movies on one screen well here's another uh more science you didn't need to do so there should be another category of science that somebody paid a lot of money to do a study but it would have been easier just to ask me my opinion because you would have got the same answer let me give you an example uh study says that uh 14% of adults and 12% of children show signs of addiction to ultr processed foods which are high in sugar and carbs and this addiction can be as strong as alcohol and tobacco and it's all about refined carbs and added fats and blah blah blah to make it addictive now did they need to study that was there somebody who was unaware that that some people have a lot of trouble avoiding certain foods what was that something that science needed to really dig into I wonder if I wonder if there's some people who really really like sweets they like them so much that they'll get uh weigh 300 pounds rather than cut down on their sweets is it because they're addictive or they just like being 300 lb and eating sweets did anybody need to study that I mean really so but it gives me an opportunity to uh remind you of the best way to lose weight this is the Scott Adams patented way and I realized after I read this about this study that there was a better way to explain it than I've been doing so far and goes like this the reason people weigh too much in their own opinions people who want to lose weight um they think of it as willpower and Cal calories would you agree if you're trying to diet if you're the average person the average person says it's just the number of calories it's just my willpower I can ramp up my willpower I will eat fewer calories and boom I'm done I lose weight doesn't work and people are for you know hundreds of years people keep being confused well why isn't it working you it's so simple just willpower and calories well it's because the reframe is this you are fighting an addiction you're not dealing with willpower or calories you have an addiction and it's because modern food has been engineered to have the right amount of salt sugar and fat to trigger addiction parts of your brain so if you deal with it as an addiction that suggests a different way to approach it so here's is my way to approach it which I've mentioned before but now you'll see it under this Frame it'll make a little more sense the worst way to lose weight is to stop eating as much as you were eating before and use your willpower to stay that way willpower I will eat less than the day before never works but if you were to treat it as an addiction which is my recommendation you would say to yourself all right there are about five things I eat that I need to stop eating like one would be that big bowl of ice cream maybe you know whatever whatever your thing is maybe it's that big bag of chips or whatever but instead of stopping all of your eating which would be a horrible hardship because you'd be hungry all the time and you've already got an addiction to food it's the worst thing you if I stopped eating I don't have a serious addiction to food if I stop eating it doesn't really hurt I just a little hungry but if I were addicted like I really really need that food of whatever addictive type then I don't think I could you know cut down on food so here's what you do you target just one food and you tell yourself you can eat as much as you want of everything else and that's it if you don't eat that one food whatever it is let's say it's ice cream about two months later you'll notice that you have a substantially decrease craving for that one food and now no willpower required because you lost the craving so now you say to yourself all right pick the second one all right now I also drink too much diet soda or something you say all right I'm going to eat as much I as I want of everything else I'll never be hungry I just won't have soda but it's easy not to have ice cream also because you've already lost The Taste for so if you treat it as an addiction you never let yourself be hungry you eat as much as you need to fill yourself up all the time every day but it might be broccoli by the time you're done you it might be veggies and berries and nuts and stuff so uh or clean protein whatever that is for you so treated as food as an addiction not a question of calories and willpower and you'll do great ticktock is announced that for some users they're going to allow longer videos I guess the original Tik toks were only 15 seconds and then they extended it to a minute and a few minutes now they're looking at 15 minutes now I got to say Tik Tock is doing an excellent job of raising your children so so good work on that parents um you've delegated the raising of your children to China and China is doing a good job of raising American children to be non-competitive with Chinese children now if that bothers you that China is brainwashing your children to make them less competitive uh here's something you could do about it have you tried pickle wall it's this cool sport that'll take your mind off of all that yeah you won't even think about it go play some pickle ball uh you can buy some paddles and balls uh they're generally made in China so if you want to forget about China's influence of your child brain go play some pickle ball that will totally clear you up um I saw this as series of posts on the xplatform from the prince of fakes who's a parody account does a lot of AI stuff some of you might know the prince of Fes but he's anonymous uh but he he he posted this that was fascinating he said uh I took a Charisma communication course before for embarking on this Cruise so I guess he's on a cruise somewhere so I've been practicing meeting people and having conversations it's amazing how rules based all of this is and how easy it is after you learn them does that sound familiar it's the Dale Carnegie thing I've been telling you forever yeah what Dale Carnegie teaches you is that social interaction is rules based you just follow the rules but if you didn't know the rules you'd be like oh my God I don't know what to say what to do what do I do with my hands do I keep talking do I let myself go it's rules based once you learn the rules is really easy and it takes about oh five minutes to learn all the rules of human interaction introduce yourself use the person's name look in their eyes ask questions about them show genuine interest and when you're done say something like well I need to get back to whatever or I let I need to get back to mixing with I need to do a little more mixing got to got to refresh my drink that's it if you just do those things you're done but I was interested that apparently the course that the prince of f took uh encouraged you to try to go for the hug even in situations where you don't think it's appropriate imagine that could you do that could you practice as homework offering to hug people you just met now apparently the prince of fakes now remember he's on a cruise ship so everybody on cruise ships and in relaxed mode you know nobody's in business mode and apparently he's he's just offering hugs to people and he's being shocked and amazed at how often people will even if they seem uncomfortable will still enthusiastically take a hug even if they're not comfortable they'll still take a free hug because a free hug is like money like who givs free hugs so so he's having this mindblowing experience to find out the strangers somebody you just met and just applied a little bit of your social skills too so what they know about you is like 1% but it was your good 1% that you put forward they'll take a hug it's like one of the greatest lessons in life that people will actually take a hug if you offer it to him like if you mean it everybody likes ug all right guy and guy not so much but but sometimes that too all right um I had a realization about January 6 that made everything come together so January 6 as you know uh Trump was accused of uh inciting an Insurrection now let me ask you this imagine a world where that didn't happen it would be something really really wrong with that world wouldn't there you know what that would be it would be after five solid years of the media telling half of the country that Trump was Hiller he on January 6 he was a few days from leaving office without doing anything Hill likee think about it what what would that have done to the entire media narrative for five years they hammered it nonstop that he would never leave office that he was looking to be a dictator that he was basically Hiller and that it was always 1939 Germany every day he was alive right I'm right right so after five years of saying he's going to be Hiller suppose he had just left office and January 6 is the only thing that was different that's the only thing the media would have exposed itself for having run an op on the American people for five years the biggest op that you would have seen in your life but what happens if they sell you that January 6 was an Insurrection then they were right for five years they were wrong for five years and they had one chance left because he was almost out of power you the moment he was out of power it would be obvious that he didn't have any remaining power he would just be out of office you know the way he was so if they had not taken that last chance to demonize him as the devil their last five years would have been a lie so that explains why they tried so hard to demonize somebody who just lost an election I mean typically you don't demonize the loser right that's pretty unusual um but they needed to not only to keep him from running again but to cover up five years of fake news and fake Nar wasn't even fake news it it was pure brainwashing with the complete knowledge of all the people involved it was propaganda SLB brainwashing for five solid years and it would have all been exposed if they had not run this little op at the end to make you think that oh yeah yeah yeah oh yeah oh yeah there's still a little time we were right my God we were we were almost we were a few days from being so embarrassingly wrong about the biggest thing in the world but wow wow we got lucky on that that last you know last uh public event yeah yeah he went all Hitler just like we thought he would wow we're smart five years we told you this would happen it almost didn't but we were right we were right in the end right now now once I explained it to you that it was their last chance to prove he was Hitler and they didn't have any proof so they manufactured it on the last weeks you can see it right it's super obvious as soon as I say it am I right is there a single person here who would deny that that's exactly what happened they realized they had no Hitler material after five years so they had to manufacture it just before he walked out the door to keep their keep their game alive it's pretty remarkable and the country largely bought it half of the country it's the only half they needed to convince quite amazing uh and as part of that Owen Shroyer is going to prison for free speech now let me say this not as hyperbole this is not hyperbole we don't have free speech in the United States don't give me your Constitution doesn't include uh private companies because we now know that the government has been pressuring private companies to do their censoring for them and we can see in this Owen Shroyer case that nobody else would have you know if it hadn't been a trump supporter this wouldn't have happened so we could say for sure there's no free speech you only have the ability to say things that are not dangerous to the people in power that's not free speech you you can you can agree with them as loudly as you want Oh I got my free speech I'm agreeing with the people in power okay that's like opposite of free speech so no we don't have free speech I'm not even going to listen to an argument that we do you're stupid if you think we have free speech let me just say that directly anybody in America today who thinks that Americans have free speech as in they can go against the official narrative you're a idiot what have you been looking at seriously now I know that doesn't apply to the people in this audience so but really I I'm actually angered by people who imagine that there's free speech because that's the problem the problem is some idiots think they still have it and that there's no there's no problem that's the problem anyway so Owen Shroyer is a political prisoner in the United States in 2023 for a political opinion that's that's reality and he's not alone the January 6 people have to be punished hard to keep alive their January 6 Hitler thing because they lost for five years in a row on that narrative so Owen Shyer gets to go to jail so that they can maintain their narrative so there's your free speech right there yep God I hate the government mostly the Democrats well uh you may have heard some stories that uh there are some students at Harvard and maybe some other places uh Jewish students Jewish American students I think mostly uh who do not feel comfortable in that environment because the pro Palestinian um some would say pramas but I'll say pro pro Palestinian um activism there now I feel like it's my job because I have the closest thing to free speech I don't have it either but I have I'm a little closer than you do because I'm already cancelled so I'm going to say this as many times as it takes to make the point I'm going to make this a thing oh yeah I'm not a quitter here's the thing discriminating against an individual is is Despicable it's bad for society and it's morally unacceptable so don't do it don't do it don't discriminate against individuals or their religion or their race or their anything it's despicable bad for society and morally unsupportable however avoiding a collection of people in which you believe and this is important it's just in your own mind in which you believe there are too many in that group who openly hate you that's just self-defense and you should definitely do that so for example if you were a Jewish student at Harvard and you thought that there were too many students who Harbor negative feelings about you that could actually be dangerous then that's a self-defense question and certainly you should not be worried that you are discriminated against them as a group you can absolutely discriminate against groups as an individual as a government you can't do you understand that as a government you shouldn't be discriminated against people for anything right that doesn't work it's a bad system but as an individual you have a personal risk it maybe a family risk as well and you have to manage that the only tools you have to manage your personal risk and your family's risk is what you believe to be true nobody can take away your right to act on what you believe is true for your own self-defense now you might break a law in doing so then that's a problem you got to deal with it but morally and safety-wise you'd be making the right choice to reduce your risk in any way that you think is appropriate nobody gets to question that so if these Jewish students were to say I think I'll you know take a semester off or maybe transfer to someplace I feel safer that would be a reasonable decision based on self-defense and security it would not be discrimination well let me take it let me change that it might be discrimination but who gives a it might be is perfectly acceptable for self-defense right again discriminating against anyone individual is Despicable morally unacceptable and it doesn't work for society as well doesn't work for anybody nobody wins but looking at a group of people a collection of people who have anything in common mentally in other words if there's anything about that group that they would Harbor even by let's say 2% of them might only be 2% of the the group has a really bad feeling about people like you whoever you are you should get the away from that situation if you can get some distance so every day that goes by I will look more right because I started out being right uh I just expressed it in a way that allowed people to cancel me because you know we we live in a cancel um cancel dopamine Society so people got dopamine from cancelling me and that's why they did it because they got dopamine had nothing to do with what I said you know they they could imagine or make an argument that's about what I said but it wasn't it was opportunistic it's like oh I get a little dopamine HP from cancel this guy I disagree with so in every situation in which there's a group that have been uh brainwashed to think you're the problem you should get some distance and you should not apologize for it but don't discriminate against individuals well at the moment or I think it was yesterday there was a trans and a gay protest they were marching in support of the Palestinians does that seem uh like maybe not good self defense yeah if I were worried about my safety and I would be if I were trans and gay a little extra security issue um I would certainly not want to spend more time around a group of people who mostly probably find people but there might be a high percentage among them predictably that would want to throw you off a roof maybe only 1% but would you be in favor of bringing over a 100 people if you were pretty sure that one of them would want to kill you I would no no I would say that would be perfectly acceptable discrimination however if it were an individual and let's say you were talking to just one person and they said hey you know I used to live over there in Gaza but I got to tell you I don't even believe in religion and I don't even think there is such a thing as a holy land I was sort of in the wrong place you know do you mind if I come into the country well hold on let let's say in my hypothetical there's something that allows you to check that it's real that it's not a liar if if you vetted that one individual and you're pretty sure they didn't have any bad feelings about Israel I'd be fine letting them in it'd be like anybody else well there's no there's no red flag here just because you lived in a place all of your attitudes are the kind that don't look dangerous yeah fine but where you would not discriminate against said individual ual you could definitely discriminate against the group of people just based on your belief even if it's wrong just based on your belief that there might be some uh people who want to kill you in that group even if it's only one or 1% you get to avoid that one if you have an option you should do whatever you can to make sure there are fewer people around you want to kill you completely reasonable even if 99% don't all right um rasmuson asked people what they thought about bringing Palestinian refugees into America um how many uh us voters approximately just approximately how many US voters do you think uh thought it would be a good idea to welcome the Gaza refugees oh that's a pretty good guess yeah 28% a little higher than normal 28% but your guesses were extraordinary once again your ability to guess what posters have to check on it's in but uh 52% say no and other 20% are not so sure I feel like the not so sure should be eliminated from all polls no you if a if somebody says well I don't know just just say just Mark him down as an NPC and just go on um and during his visit to Israel Biden said the vast majority of Palestinians are not Hamas Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people true or false actually I think Hamas literally represents them though don't they as in they're actually the leader of the Palestinians in Gaza am I wrong about that that like literally they represent them now to be clear that's not to say that the Hamas views are shared by the people that they represent but they're it is kind of their job they're in charge now I don't know if you know they haven't had elections in a while so it's not fair to say that they elected them um but where Biden is wrong is that he's using an individual standard to judge a group that doesn't work for self-defense because he's saying should we bring a group over he's not saying should we very carefully check each individual you know I mean they would do some checking but how much could you do um no he's using a standard which makes you less safe so that he can feel more woke I feel that's what it is so he's he's saying we want to create a situation that would be more dangerous for Jewish Americans um for sure but you don't know if it's like slightly slightly more dangerous in which case it might be morally acceptable because if you were you know saving the lives of thousands of refugees and the downside from that was well in some like hard to Define slight way it might be worse for some other people who are still here Jewish Americans in particular you'd probably still do it because you know the world is always a balance of interests so there's always somebody who's a little worse off if you make somebody better off and even if it's an indirect way but in the context of the Palestinians in Gaza literally being bombed by the uh state of Israel you wouldn't really accept you wouldn't expect the average Palestinian coming out of that Hot War to have a good attitude about Jewish Americans why even though the Jewish Americans are not Israel well they may support them and that would feel like supporting the people bombing you so under this situation it's actually insane to allow uh refugees from the war area there are lots of situations where I might say maybe yes but not if they've been infected with a mental virus uh that's not their making not their fault has nothing to do with their genes or their culture they specifically have been infected with a brain virus that would make them dangerous to other citizens of the United States so why I say too much risk uh no no immigration for just that uh now later if 10 years go by and everybody's peaceful in the Middle East for some reason sure I mean if things change so it's not about the people it's about the situation plus the people that's too dangerous BBC reported uh that there are already 5,000 deaths in Gaza mostly of the uh Gaza residents and Fighters two questions you must ask about that number one where does the BBC get that kind of information how in the world would they know how many people died in Gaza who would tell them that well probably Hamas right don't you think they got it from Hamas not exactly dependable and then also how many of the 5,000 do you think were civilians kind of important because the people have a different opinion about killing the Hamas Fighters than they do with civilians so I would warn you that 100% of the news that comes out of there about death is unreliable but if we were to talk about it from just the pr perspective Whatever Gets reported by the BBC is going to be somebody's truth so at the end of this the BBC is going to report a number of casualties and deaths and there may be other sources let's say Israel is reporting much lower number which I think fact which one do you believe and the answer is neither and the answer is people will choose the one that agrees with their opinion so if you think it was a a brutal uh genocide you're going to pick the big number that Hamas comes up with if you think it was a reasonable self-defense act you're going to pick Israel's smaller number but you'll never know don't think you'll ever know don't know if it'll even be between those numbers in any any kind of way you could pick the midpoint or anything so you probably just won't know the only thing you'll know is that I have a hard time even visualizing 5,000 dead people like my brain maxes out around that point 5,000 dead people in like a week all in one place that's an insane amount of dead people like it if you try to imagine them piled up like cordwood it's a big pile of dead people so when you get to to 20,000 you're already Beyond Way Beyond what I can sort of imagine so at some point it becomes irrelevant because you know it hits a 10 and a 10 in our brain no matter what the actual number is I think we'll be at 10 out of 10 all right uh there's been an a climate change adjustment to some Chinese Hots spot model I guess they had a model that predicted where the hotspots would be for climate change and they did a complicated you know tweaking and adjustment to make it a better model and fit the B the past better and there's no way I can read that being a experienced individual in the world and think that anybody can measure the temperature of Earth how many of you think that the temperature of the planet can be measured and that you you can look at the average over time and learn something that is so obviously not something that humans can do right we we've been told oh scientists can do things that you can't do no they can't do this this isn't science the measurements are not science if anybody thinks they're science you're lost no the measurements are something that Engineers might do or people who are just paid to put something in a field that looks like a a thermometer now I don't even have to tell you all the ways that could go wrong but let me let me give you the Dilbert the Dilbert version of measuring the temperature of the Earth all right guys let's take a measurement of the earth and compare it to the one we took last year all right o a number of our measuring devices uh seem to be offline or or out so I guess we'll all right we'll just put in a number that's like the average of the other ones to compensate for these broken ones all right but we also have big areas where in which there's no measurements at all so we're going to make some assumptions about those that they're similar to how they've always been uh or there the average between the things that we can measure by the time you're done it's all just a human being making a bunch of assumptions that can't can't be tested that's it you you wouldn't know if your measurements are right because there's nothing to compare them to right the the the measurements of the satellites take of the upper atmosphere are different than what you're getting on the ground now if one moves in One Direction and the other moves in the other direction what do you know maybe nothing no anybody who's let let me put it this way anybody who's ever had let's say business corporate experience and you've watched what happens behind the curtain you've watched actual real people try to figure out how to measure anything or to get data on anything if you've seen real people try to measure or get data on anything in the real world it's always the same you can't it's not doable so you end up making assumptions and trying to sell it to people as though you did it it's not doable at all now I'm not saying that the planet is or is not warming I don't know and I'm not saying it is or is not a problem I don't know I think that if it is a problem we'll figure it out and if it isn't a if it is not a problem well I wouldn't be surprised I mean it would perfectly fit the evidence as I see it that people don't really know how to measure stuff all right so someday uh someday that will be the funniest thing we look back at and imagine we believed you know from today's perspective you look back and you think oh isn't it funny that we used to think that smoking was good for you like it was good for your health people actually believe that now we look back and go how stupid we were oh my God how dumb we were to have believed something so ridiculous by today's standard that's what measuring the the temperature of the Earth is going to look like in 40 years in 40 years we're going to look back and say oh my God the entire civilization was built around the belief you could measure the temperature of the Earth or even the direction of the temperature either one and we will laugh at it as obviously absurd or that we can even know which variables uh are the the major variables pushing climate we will think it's so funny someday but when you're in it you're like am I surrounded by people who don't know how the real world Works yes I am well um Hamas apparently stockpiled a bunch of fuel in anticipation of uh what's happening now so Hamas itself might have a lot of fuel but the hospitals might be running out of fuel being keeping the lights on and that uh Israel is pointing out that Hamas has an option they can give their fuel to the hospitals and if they don't is that on is that on Israel you know if Hamas doesn't want to share their the sufficient fuel that they have same with the food it's a good point But ultimately it's only about power all right did I tell you about my uh my mission to uh brand Marxism because in my opinion no more than 1% of people even know what Marx is about they would say uh communism socialism something like that that's all they would know so when you say we must not elect that politician because they're a Marxist just know that that doesn't that doesn't influence anybody because they don't even know what it is and if they think it means socialism M they're going to say you mean like healthare I like healthare you mean like Social Security that kind of socialism what's wrong with that that's what people will say so you're not going to make Marxism go away by saying oh that Marxist because nobody knows what it means in any in any useful way they don't know what it means so you're going to need persuasion not the facts the facts are on your side they're just not persuasive so you're going to have to abandon the facts if you want to persuade and the way I would abandon them is this I would say uh it's called Marxism because it's about marking people as oppressors to justify taking their stuff somebody added taking their stuff and burning it but I don't think you need to add that um now you say to but somebody's going to say Scott it's after Carl marks it's not Marx as in marking something with a magic mark marker to which I say I know but you're never going to forget it are you you're never going to forget it so that was all I was going for and sooner or later people will start associating marks with marking people for death because that's actually indirectly that's what ends up happening because it's a oppressor oppressed model and the idea is you identify who your oppressors are you identify who the oppressed are and you organize you oppressed to do bad things to the oppressors because damn it they deserve it they've got all your stuff they stole it from you so Marxism is about marking people for uh as oppressors so that you can take their stuff it is a complete corrupt and broken process and it's you know the driver of antifa and black lives matter and a lot of stuff you don't like all right it's not the same but what yeah the teachers unions the tale of Robin Hood is Marxist yep marus couldn't see his penis without two mirrors okay a mar you're you're a Marist you're either a Marxist or a Marist the Marist are a capitalists yeah and anybody who calls me a colonizer I don't want to be around don't want to hire them don't want to know them no want to live in their Town how do we persuade liberal white women to stop pushing guilt as the operating system of life well I I don't know what to do about the fact that most of the bad ideas are coming from one segment of the population what do you do about that there there does seem to be a market segment that is the problem and it does seem to be you know single white women so I've never known anybody that could tell a single white woman anything so I I don't know how you would persuade that group vable narcissists yeah mocking them I think I think I think they're already mocked it doesn't seem to make a difference you're an exception good oh I don't know if I've conquered Dei I think there's just as much Dei in ESG as there ever was they just might stop saying the names as much but boy you say colonizer around me and you're my mortal enemy um colonize what wom oh I am a colonizer but it's like the nword you can call yourself a colonizer but if somebody else calls you one it means they they're Marsing you for death Alena um your son's learning about colonizers Anatolia just tweeted word thinking did he retweet mine or he was using it on his own um your son was forced to read Trevor Noah's biography in high school oh my God uh word thinking is not word salid those are different concepts word salid is a whole bunch of words in a paragraph or a sentence that sort of the grammar is right but it doesn't make any sense that's uh word salad word thinking is where you try to win an argument by making your definition of the word the one the other one has to accept so for example U Nikki Haley tweeted that uh Zion anti-zionists are just anti-semitic now a community notes immediately factor and said uh no those are just different words they mean different things you know one one is about the territory of Israel you know and the other is about the people and there's a big difference between the the dirt on the ground and the people standing on it so but it is also true that uh some number of the anti- zionists are also anti-semitic so she's she's directionally right but she is incorrect directionally there's you know big vend diagram correlation of course but not all that way so it's word thinking to try to win your argument by saying the new definition that I just made up is that anti- Zan by definition means uh anti-semitic so but you can't win an argument just by changing the definition of stuff Scott you say you're not right or left for yours how do you articulate your position I still don't understand why do you need to why why do you need a label for me you can't understand me without the label why can't I just be open-minded it's like it um yeah I I always reject people who tell me I have to identify with the left or the right I don't have to do that I absolutely do not have to do that that's something in your mind is not has nothing to do with me all right um uh oh I identify left as left of Bernie as a joke it's the same way I endorsed Hillary Clinton for president for my personal safety how do you reframe the feeling of loneliness when you can't find people who think like well you know that's part of the reason I do these live streams because uh my personal life I have almost zero contact with anybody who's even interested in what's happening in politics close to zero so if I did not do this sort of professionally I wouldn't have any contact with anybody who cared about any of it well I'm talking about people locally you know Greg's a friend but he's lives on the other coast of the people I see in person uh none of them are interested in politics it's just the rarest thing I think of one but I haven't seen them lately yeah maybe two two I can think of like two people who would actually want to have a conversation I should get chickens I know somebody who got chickens and ruined your life chickens is the literally the worst idea anybody ever had because you know what happens when you get chickens sooner or later what happens sooner or later sooner later you get a rooster because you can't tell if it's a rooster or a hen when it's a chick and if you've got chickens sooner or later somebody's going to give you a chick say Hey you need another another one of those and if that thing is a rooster do you know what happens in my town if you kill the rooster you'd go to jail seriously if you keep the rooster you'll lose your house because the rooster will Crow and your neighbors will complain and you will have to move or go to jail because you can't have a rooster so you can't have a rooster and you can't kill a rooster you can't hurt it and you can't have it you actually have to move out of town you got to move for a rooster so my uh my restaurant partner had this exact scenario a chicken that somebody gave her as a pet and she Lov it and she was allergic to other kinds of pets one chicken turned into two then there was a rooster and her life was ruined now you might say to me Scott you could just sort of down low kill that rooster but the people who have chickens as pets tend to be uh animal lovers no you can't give it away there's there's nobody who will take a rooster you cannot give it away if you give it away you'd be giving it away to somebody to kill it probably so you'd be complicit in the crime I suppose shouldn't be any chickens in the suburbs in the city that's correct yeah the worst thing you could ever do let get a chicken never never do that um Key West has chickens walking all around right say it's illegal to kill them that makes sense I I feel like in the Key West I saw chickens everywhere they were just wandering around everywhere from fighting in Kawai just leave the rooster inside the coup and let predators do the work you harvest it oh quietly drop off the rooster where there other chickens yeah I suppose if you got a pet coyote but again I'm talking about animal lovers not people who would be willing to kill a chicken or a booster vocal disto do I have a victory garden no I'm not really not really a gardener I've learned what do I think of Google well I agree with Dr.

Epstein who says it's controlling the election outcomes hey my laptop's on the way got to do laptop coming looks like they're flipping all Trump lawyers or are they just pleading out and they were overcharged so I I used to uh feed chickens at my uh uncle's uh Farm chickens are really scary in groups so I'd go into the chicken cop you know so it' be sort of a big indoor area and I'd be bringing the food and imagine if you will the the floor is just solid chickens it's just chickens everywhere but normally if you bring food to animals they they you know they go for the food but the chickens go for you I would like to give my uh impression of the chickens in the room when you walk into it all right remember I'm like 10 years old or something right and I walk in I've got this bucket of feed here here's what here's what I'd hope to see oh food that's not what I saw imagine a room full of chickens and they've all got this attitude and they're slowly walking toward you but it's all of them and they're kind of quiet and it looks like they're ready to jump you and you're like if you jump me I won't be able to come back with food no no chickens don't don't do it all I'll give you twice as much food don't do it all and then the chickens kill you well that's how I saw it playing out in my head I imagined it that way all right now I have to go figure out why the You.

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s backward

science uh there's a new study that

found that people have the most sex have

the lowest uh all cause

mortality especially in hypertension

patients yeah so generally speaking the

people who had the most sex uh were also

the

healthiest

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so backward

science I wonder how much sex people

look really sick

have do they have a lot of sex or is it

possible that the people who are healthy

looking have more

sex backwards

science once you spot it you see it

everywhere I saw a story that uh

apparently members of Congress are going

to be able to go into a

skiff that

highly uh the the highly highly uh

secure place and look at UFO

stuff is that really going to

happen there's really going to be a

skiff where we're going to have some of

our professional Liars go in and tell us

what they saw is Adam shiff going to go

in the skiff what happens when Adam

Schiff comes out of the skiff and says

oh yeah there's actually an alien body

in there I saw it I touched it and

everybody else says uh I didn't see an

alien body we'll be right back where we

were

do you think that all the people who

look look at whatever is in the ski will

have the same opinion when they walk out

no nothing works like that it's going to

be exactly the same as if there had been

no skiff some people will walk in and

say I can't tell you what I saw but my

God aliens and other people will go in

and say I looked at the same thing you

did I didn't see any proof of

aliens that's what it's going to be two

two worlds on uh two movies on one

screen well here's another uh more

science you didn't need to

do so there should be another category

of science that somebody paid a lot of

money to do a study but it would have

been easier just to ask me my

opinion because you would have got the

same

answer let me give you an

example uh study says that uh 14% of

adults and 12% of children

show signs of addiction to ultr

processed foods which are high in sugar

and

carbs and this addiction can be as

strong as alcohol and

tobacco and it's all about refined carbs

and added fats and blah blah blah to

make it addictive now did they need to

study

that was there somebody who was unaware

that that some people have a lot of

trouble avoiding certain

foods what was that something that

science needed to really dig into I

wonder if I wonder if there's some

people who really really like sweets

they like them so much that they'll get

uh weigh 300 pounds rather than cut down

on their sweets is it because they're

addictive or they just like being 300 lb

and eating

sweets did anybody need to study that I

mean

really so but it gives me an opportunity

to uh remind you of the best way to lose

weight this is the Scott Adams patented

way and I realized after I read this

about this study that there was a better

way to explain it than I've been doing

so

far and goes like this the reason people

weigh too much in their own opinions

people who want to lose weight um they

think of it as willpower and Cal

calories would you

agree if you're trying to diet if you're

the average person the average person

says it's just the number of calories

it's just my willpower I can ramp up my

willpower I will eat fewer calories and

boom I'm done I lose

weight doesn't work and people are for

you know hundreds of years people keep

being confused well why isn't it working

you it's so simple just willpower and

calories

well it's because the reframe is this

you are fighting an

addiction you're not dealing with

willpower or

calories you have an

addiction and it's because modern food

has been engineered to have the right

amount of salt sugar and fat to trigger

addiction parts of your brain so if you

deal with it as an

addiction that suggests a different way

to approach it so here's is my way to

approach it which I've mentioned before

but now you'll see it under this Frame

it'll make a little more

sense the worst way to lose weight is to

stop eating as much as you were eating

before and use your willpower to stay

that way willpower I will eat less than

the day before never

works but if you were to treat it as an

addiction which is my recommendation you

would say to yourself all right there

are about five things I eat that I need

to stop eating like one would be that

big bowl of ice cream maybe you know

whatever whatever your thing is maybe

it's that big bag of chips or whatever

but instead of stopping all of your

eating which would be a horrible

hardship because you'd be hungry all the

time and you've already got an addiction

to food it's the worst thing you if I

stopped eating I don't have a serious

addiction to food if I stop eating it

doesn't really hurt I just a little

hungry but if I were addicted like I

really really need that food of whatever

addictive type then I don't think I

could you know cut down on food so

here's what you do you target just one

food and you tell yourself you can eat

as much as you want of everything else

and that's it if you don't eat that one

food whatever it is let's say it's ice

cream about two months later you'll

notice that you have a substantially

decrease craving for that one food and

now no willpower required because you

lost the craving so now you say to

yourself all right pick the second one

all right now I also drink too much diet

soda or something you say all right I'm

going to eat as much I as I want of

everything else I'll never be hungry I

just won't have soda but it's easy not

to have ice cream also because you've

already lost The Taste for so if you

treat it as an addiction you never let

yourself be hungry you eat as much as

you need to fill yourself up all the

time every day but it might be broccoli

by the time you're done you it might be

veggies and berries and nuts and stuff

so uh or clean protein whatever that is

for you so treated as food as an

addiction not a question of calories and

willpower and you'll do great ticktock

is announced that for some users they're

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were only 15

seconds and then they extended it to a

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Tik Tock is doing an excellent job of

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um you've

delegated the raising of your children

to

China and China is doing a good job of

raising American children to be

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now if that bothers you that China is

brainwashing your children to make them

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play some pickle ball that will totally

clear you

up um I saw this as series of posts on

the xplatform from the prince of fakes

who's a parody account does a lot of AI

stuff some of you might know the prince

of Fes but he's

anonymous uh but he he he posted this

that was fascinating he said uh I took a

Charisma communication course before for

embarking on this Cruise so I guess he's

on a cruise somewhere so I've been

practicing meeting people and having

conversations it's amazing how rules

based all of this is and how easy it is

after you learn them does that sound

familiar it's the Dale Carnegie thing

I've been telling you forever yeah what

Dale Carnegie teaches you is that social

interaction is rules based you just

follow the rules but if you didn't know

the rules you'd be like oh my God I

don't know what to say what to do what

do I do with my hands do I keep talking

do I let myself go it's rules based once

you learn the rules is really easy and

it takes about oh five minutes to learn

all the rules of human

interaction introduce yourself use the

person's name look in their eyes ask

questions about them show genuine

interest and when you're done say

something like well I need to get back

to whatever or I let I need to get back

to mixing with I need to do a little

more mixing got to got to refresh my

drink that's it if you just do those

things you're done but I was interested

that apparently the course that the

prince of f took uh encouraged you to

try to go for the

hug even in situations where you don't

think it's

appropriate imagine that could you do

that could you practice as homework

offering to hug people you just

met now apparently the prince of fakes

now remember he's on a cruise ship so

everybody on cruise ships and in relaxed

mode you know nobody's in business mode

and apparently he's he's just offering

hugs to people and he's being shocked

and amazed at how often people will even

if they seem uncomfortable will still

enthusiastically take a

hug even if they're not comfortable

they'll still take a free hug because a

free hug is like money like who givs

free

hugs so so he's having this mindblowing

experience to find out the strangers

somebody you just met and just applied a

little bit of your social skills too so

what they know about you is like 1% but

it was your good 1% that you put forward

they'll take a

hug it's like one of the greatest

lessons in life that people will

actually take a hug if you offer it to

him like if you mean it everybody likes

ug all right guy and guy not so much

but but sometimes that

too all right um I had a realization

about January 6 that made everything

come

together so January 6 as you know uh

Trump was accused

of uh inciting an

Insurrection now let me ask you this

imagine a world where that didn't

happen it would be something really

really wrong with that world wouldn't

there you know what that would be it

would be after five solid years of the

media telling half of the country that

Trump was

Hiller he on January 6 he was a few days

from leaving

office without doing anything Hill

likee think about it

what what would that have done to the

entire media narrative for five years

they hammered it

nonstop that he would never leave office

that he was looking to be a dictator

that he was basically Hiller and that it

was always 1939 Germany every day he was

alive right I'm right right so after

five years of saying he's going to be

Hiller suppose he had just left office

and January 6 is the only thing that was

different that's the only

thing the media would have exposed

itself for having run an op on the

American people for five years the

biggest op that you would have seen in

your life but what happens if they sell

you that January 6 was an

Insurrection then they were right for

five

years they were wrong for five years and

they had one chance left

because he was almost out of power you

the moment he was out of power it would

be obvious that he didn't have any

remaining power he would just be out of

office you know the way he was so if

they had not taken that last chance to

demonize him as the devil their last

five years would have been a lie so that

explains why they tried so hard to

demonize somebody who just lost an

election I mean typically you don't

demonize the loser

right that's pretty

unusual um but they needed to not only

to keep him from running again but to

cover up five years of fake news and

fake Nar wasn't even fake news it it was

pure brainwashing with the complete

knowledge of all the people involved it

was propaganda SLB brainwashing for five

solid years and it would have

all been exposed if they had not run

this little op at the end to make you

think that oh yeah yeah yeah oh yeah oh

yeah there's still a little time we were

right my God we were we were almost we

were a few days from being so

embarrassingly wrong about the biggest

thing in the world but wow wow we got

lucky on that that last you know last uh

public event yeah yeah he went all

Hitler just like we thought he would wow

we're smart five years we told you this

would happen it almost didn't but we

were right we were right in the end

right now now once I explained it to you

that it was their last chance to prove

he was Hitler and they didn't have any

proof so they manufactured it on the

last weeks you can see it

right it's super obvious as soon as I

say it am I

right is there a single person here who

would deny that that's exactly what

happened they realized they had no

Hitler material after five years so they

had to manufacture it just before he

walked out the door to keep their keep

their game alive it's pretty remarkable

and the country largely bought it half

of the country it's the only half they

needed to

convince quite

amazing uh and as part of that Owen

Shroyer is going to prison for free

speech now let me say this not as

hyperbole this is not hyperbole we don't

have free speech in the United States

don't give me your Constitution doesn't

include uh private companies because we

now know that the government has been

pressuring private companies to do their

censoring for them and we can see in

this Owen Shroyer case that nobody else

would have you know if it hadn't been a

trump supporter this wouldn't have

happened so we could say for sure

there's no free

speech you only have the ability to say

things that are not dangerous to the

people in power

that's not free speech you you can you

can agree with them as loudly as you

want Oh I got my free speech I'm

agreeing with the people in power okay

that's like opposite of free speech so

no we don't have free speech I'm not

even going to listen to an argument that

we do you're stupid if you think

we have free speech let me just say that

directly anybody in America today who

thinks that Americans have free speech

as in they can go against the official

narrative you're a idiot what

have you been looking at seriously now I

know that doesn't apply to the people in

this audience so but really I I'm

actually angered by people who imagine

that there's free speech because that's

the problem the problem is some

idiots think they still have

it and that there's no there's no

problem that's the problem

anyway so Owen Shroyer is a political

prisoner in the United States in 2023

for a political

opinion that's that's reality and he's

not alone the January 6 people have to

be punished hard to keep alive their

January 6 Hitler thing because they lost

for five years in a row on that

narrative so Owen Shyer gets to go to

jail so that they can maintain their

narrative so there's your free

speech right there

yep God I hate the government mostly the

Democrats well uh you may have heard

some stories that uh there are some

students at Harvard and maybe some other

places uh Jewish students Jewish

American students I think mostly uh who

do not feel comfortable in that

environment because the pro Palestinian

um some would say pramas but I'll say

pro pro Palestinian um activism there

now I feel like it's my job because I

have the closest thing to free speech I

don't have it either but I have I'm a

little closer than you do because I'm

already cancelled so I'm going to say

this as many times as it takes to make

the point I'm going to make this a thing

oh yeah I'm not a

quitter here's the

thing discriminating against an

individual is is

Despicable it's bad for

society and it's morally

unacceptable so don't do it don't do it

don't discriminate against individuals

or their religion or their race or their

anything it's despicable bad for society

and morally

unsupportable however avoiding a

collection of people in which you

believe and this is important it's just

in your own mind in which you believe

there are too many in that group who

openly hate

you that's just

self-defense and you should definitely

do

that so for example if you were a Jewish

student at Harvard and you thought that

there were too many students who Harbor

negative feelings about you that could

actually be dangerous then that's a

self-defense question and certainly you

should not be worried that you are

discriminated against them as a group

you can absolutely discriminate against

groups as an individual as a government

you can't do you understand that as a

government you shouldn't be

discriminated against people for

anything right that doesn't work it's a

bad system but as an individual you have

a personal risk it maybe a family risk

as well and you have to manage that the

only tools you have to manage your

personal risk and your family's risk is

what you believe to be

true nobody can take away your right to

act on what you believe is true for your

own self-defense now you might break a

law in doing so then that's a problem

you got to deal with it but

morally and safety-wise you'd be making

the right choice to reduce your risk in

any way that you think is appropriate

nobody gets to question that so if these

Jewish students were to say I think I'll

you know take a semester off or maybe

transfer to someplace I feel safer that

would be a

reasonable decision based on

self-defense and

security it would not be

discrimination well let me take it let

me change that it might be

discrimination but who gives a it

might be is perfectly acceptable for

self-defense right again discriminating

against anyone

individual is Despicable morally

unacceptable and it doesn't work for

society as well doesn't work for anybody

nobody wins but looking at a group of

people a collection of people who have

anything in common mentally in other

words if there's anything about that

group that they would Harbor even by

let's say 2% of them might only be 2% of

the the group has a really bad feeling

about people like you whoever you are

you should get the away from that

situation if you can get some

distance so every day that goes

by I will look more

right because I started out being right

uh I just expressed it in a way that

allowed people to cancel me because you

know we we live in a cancel um cancel

dopamine Society so people got dopamine

from cancelling me and that's why they

did it because they got dopamine had

nothing to do with what I

said you know they they could imagine or

make an argument that's about what I

said but it wasn't it was opportunistic

it's like oh I get a little dopamine HP

from cancel this guy I disagree with so

in every situation in which there's a

group that have been uh brainwashed to

think you're the problem you should get

some distance

and you should not apologize for it but

don't discriminate against

individuals well at the moment or I

think it was yesterday there was a trans

and a

gay protest they were marching in

support of the

Palestinians does that seem

uh like maybe not good self

defense yeah if I were worried about my

safety and I would be if I were trans

and gay a little extra security

issue um I would certainly not want to

spend more time around a group of people

who mostly probably find people but

there might be a high percentage among

them predictably that would want to

throw you off a roof maybe only

1% but would you be in favor of bringing

over a 100 people if you were pretty

sure that one of them would want to kill

you I would no no I would say that would

be perfectly acceptable

discrimination however if it were an

individual and let's say you were

talking to just one person and they said

hey you know I used to live over there

in Gaza but I got to tell you I don't

even believe in religion and I don't

even think there is such a thing as a

holy

land I was sort of in the wrong place

you know do you mind if I come into the

country well hold on let let's say in my

hypothetical there's something that

allows you to check that it's real that

it's not a

liar if if you vetted that one

individual and you're pretty sure they

didn't have any bad feelings about

Israel I'd be fine letting them in it'd

be like anybody else well there's no

there's no red flag here just because

you lived in a place all of your

attitudes are the kind that don't look

dangerous yeah fine but where you would

not discriminate against said individual

ual you could definitely discriminate

against the group of people just based

on your belief even if it's wrong just

based on your belief that there might be

some uh people who want to kill you in

that group even if it's only one or 1%

you get to avoid that one if you have an

option you should do whatever you can to

make sure there are fewer people around

you want to kill you completely

reasonable even if 99%

don't

all

right um rasmuson asked people what they

thought about bringing Palestinian

refugees into

America um how many uh us voters

approximately just approximately how

many US voters do you think uh thought

it would be a good idea to welcome the

Gaza

refugees oh that's a pretty good guess

yeah

28% a little higher than normal 28%

but your guesses were

extraordinary once again your ability to

guess what posters have to check on it's

in but uh 52% say no and other 20% are

not so

sure I feel like the not so sure should

be eliminated from all

polls no

you if a if somebody says well I don't

know just just say just Mark him down as

an NPC and just go

on um and during his visit to Israel

Biden said the vast majority of

Palestinians are not Hamas Hamas does

not represent the Palestinian people

true or

false actually I think Hamas literally

represents them though don't they as in

they're actually the leader of the

Palestinians in

Gaza am I wrong about that that like

literally they represent them now to be

clear that's not to say that the Hamas

views are shared by the people that they

represent but they're it is kind of

their job they're in charge now I don't

know if you know they haven't had

elections in a while so it's not fair to

say that they elected

them um but where Biden is wrong is that

he's using an individual standard

to judge a

group that doesn't work for

self-defense because he's saying should

we bring a group over he's not saying

should we very carefully check each

individual you know I mean they would do

some checking but how much could you do

um no he's using a standard which makes

you less safe so that he can feel more

woke I feel that's what it is so he's

he's saying we want to create a

situation that would be more dangerous

for Jewish

Americans um for sure but you don't know

if it's like slightly slightly more

dangerous in which case it might be

morally acceptable because if you were

you know saving the lives of thousands

of

refugees and the downside from that was

well in some like hard to Define slight

way it might be worse for some other

people who are still here Jewish

Americans in particular you'd probably

still do it because you know the world

is always a balance of interests so

there's always somebody who's a little

worse off if you make somebody better

off and even if it's an indirect way

but in the

context of the Palestinians in Gaza

literally being

bombed

by the uh state of Israel you wouldn't

really accept you wouldn't expect the

average Palestinian coming out of that

Hot War to have a good attitude about

Jewish

Americans why even though the Jewish

Americans are not Israel well they may

support them and that would feel like

supporting the people bombing you so

under this situation it's actually

insane to allow uh refugees from the war

area there are lots of situations where

I might say maybe yes but not if they've

been infected with a mental virus uh

that's not their making not their fault

has nothing to do with their genes or

their

culture they specifically have been

infected with a brain virus that would

make them dangerous to other citizens of

the United States so why I say too much

risk uh no no

immigration for just that uh

now later if 10 years go by and

everybody's peaceful in the Middle East

for some reason sure I mean if things

change so it's not about the people it's

about the situation plus the people

that's too

dangerous BBC reported uh that there are

already 5,000 deaths in Gaza mostly of

the uh Gaza residents and

Fighters two questions you must ask

about that number one where does the BBC

get that kind of

information how in the world would they

know how many people died in Gaza who

would tell them

that well probably Hamas right don't you

think they got it from Hamas not exactly

dependable and then also how many of the

5,000 do you think were

civilians kind of important because the

people have a different opinion about

killing the Hamas Fighters than they do

with

civilians so I would warn you that 100%

of the news that comes out of there

about death is unreliable but if we were

to talk about it from just the pr

perspective Whatever Gets reported by

the

BBC is going to be somebody's

truth so at the end of this the BBC is

going to report a number of casualties

and

deaths and there may be other sources

let's say Israel is reporting much lower

number which I think fact which one do

you believe and the answer is neither

and the answer is people will choose the

one that agrees with their opinion so if

you think it was a a brutal uh genocide

you're going to pick the big number that

Hamas comes up with if you think it was

a reasonable self-defense act you're

going to pick Israel's smaller number

but you'll never

know don't think you'll ever know don't

know if it'll even be between those

numbers in any any kind of way you could

pick the midpoint or anything so you

probably just won't know the only thing

you'll know is that I have a hard time

even visualizing 5,000 dead

people like my brain maxes out around

that point 5,000 dead people in like a

week all in one

place that's an insane amount of dead

people like it if you try to imagine

them piled up like cordwood it's a big

pile of dead people so when you

get to to

20,000 you're already Beyond Way Beyond

what I can sort of

imagine so at some point it becomes

irrelevant because you know it hits a 10

and a 10 in our brain no matter what the

actual number is I think we'll be at 10

out of 10 all

right uh there's been an a climate

change adjustment to some Chinese Hots

spot model I guess they had a model that

predicted where the hotspots would be

for climate change and they did a

complicated you know tweaking and

adjustment to make it a better model and

fit the B the past better and there's no

way I can read that being a experienced

individual in the world and think that

anybody can measure the temperature of

Earth how many of you think that the

temperature of the planet can be

measured and that you you can look at

the average over time and learn

something that is so obviously not

something that humans can do right we

we've been told oh scientists can do

things that you can't do no they can't

do

this this isn't science the measurements

are not science if anybody thinks

they're science you're lost no the

measurements are something that

Engineers might do or people who are

just paid to put something in a field

that looks like a a

thermometer now I don't even have to

tell you all the ways that could go

wrong but let me let me give you the

Dilbert the Dilbert version of measuring

the temperature of the Earth all right

guys let's take a measurement of the

earth and compare it to the one we took

last year all right o a number of our

measuring devices uh seem to be offline

or or out so I guess we'll all right

we'll just put in a number that's like

the average of the other ones to

compensate for these broken ones all

right but we also have big areas where

in which there's no measurements at all

so we're going to make some assumptions

about those that they're similar to how

they've always

been uh or there the average between the

things that we can

measure by the time you're done it's all

just a human being making a bunch of

assumptions that can't can't be tested

that's it you you wouldn't know if your

measurements are right because there's

nothing to compare them

to right the the the measurements of the

satellites take of the upper atmosphere

are different than what you're getting

on the

ground now if one moves in One Direction

and the other moves in the other

direction what do you know maybe

nothing no

anybody who's let let me put it this way

anybody who's ever had let's say

business corporate

experience and you've watched what

happens behind the curtain you've

watched actual real people try to figure

out how to measure anything or to get

data on anything if you've seen real

people try to measure or get data on

anything in the real world it's always

the same you

can't it's not doable so you end up

making assumptions and trying to sell it

to people as though you did it it's not

doable at all now I'm not saying that

the planet is or is not warming I don't

know and I'm not saying it is or is not

a problem I don't know I think that if

it is a problem we'll figure it out and

if it isn't a if it is not a problem

well I wouldn't be surprised I mean it

would perfectly fit the evidence as I

see it that people don't really know how

to measure

stuff all right so someday uh someday

that will be the funniest thing we look

back at and imagine we believed you know

from today's perspective you look back

and you think oh isn't it funny that we

used to think that smoking was good for

you like it was good for your health

people actually believe that now we look

back and go how stupid we were oh my God

how dumb we were to have believed

something so ridiculous by today's

standard that's what measuring the the

temperature of the Earth is going to

look like in 40 years in 40 years we're

going to look back and say oh my God the

entire civilization was built around the

belief you could measure the temperature

of the Earth or even the direction of

the temperature either one and we will

laugh at it as obviously absurd or that

we can even know which

variables uh are the the major variables

pushing

climate we will think it's so funny

someday but when you're in it you're

like am I surrounded by people who don't

know how the real world Works yes I

am well um Hamas apparently stockpiled a

bunch of fuel in anticipation of uh

what's happening now so Hamas itself

might have a lot of fuel but the

hospitals might be running out of fuel

being keeping the lights on and that uh

Israel is pointing out that Hamas has an

option they can give their fuel to the

hospitals and if they don't is that on

is that on

Israel you know if Hamas doesn't want to

share their the sufficient fuel that

they have same with the food it's a good

point But ultimately it's only about

power all right did I tell you about my

uh

my mission to uh brand

Marxism because in my opinion no more

than 1% of people even know what Marx is

about they would say uh communism

socialism something like that that's all

they would know so when you say we must

not elect that politician because

they're a Marxist just know that that

doesn't that doesn't influence anybody

because they don't even know what it is

and if they think it means socialism M

they're going to say you mean like

healthare I like healthare you mean like

Social Security that kind of socialism

what's wrong with that that's what

people will say so you're not going to

make Marxism go away by saying oh that

Marxist because nobody knows what it

means in any in any useful way they

don't know what it means so you're going

to need persuasion not the facts the

facts are on your side they're just not

persuasive so you're going to have to

abandon the facts if you want to

persuade and the way I would abandon

them is this I would say uh it's called

Marxism because it's about marking

people as oppressors to justify taking

their stuff somebody added taking their

stuff and burning it but I don't think

you need to add that

um now you say to but somebody's going

to say Scott it's after Carl marks it's

not Marx as in marking something with a

magic mark marker to which I say I know

but you're never going to forget it are

you you're never going to forget it so

that was all I was going for and sooner

or later people will start associating

marks with marking people for death

because that's actually indirectly

that's what ends up happening because

it's a oppressor oppressed model and the

idea is you identify who your oppressors

are you identify who the oppressed are

and you organize you oppressed to do bad

things to the oppressors because damn it

they deserve it they've got all your

stuff they stole it from you so Marxism

is about marking people

for uh as oppressors so that you can

take their stuff it is a complete

corrupt and broken process and it's you

know the driver of antifa and black

lives matter and

a lot of stuff you don't like all

right it's not the same but

what yeah the teachers

unions the tale of Robin Hood is

Marxist

yep

marus couldn't see his penis without two

mirrors

okay a mar you're you're a Marist you're

either a Marxist or a

Marist the Marist are a

capitalists yeah

and anybody who calls me a

colonizer I don't want to be

around don't want to hire them don't

want to know them no want to live in

their

Town how do we persuade liberal white

women to stop pushing guilt as the

operating system of

life

well I I don't know what to do about the

fact that most of the bad ideas are

coming from one segment of the

population what do you do about

that there there does seem to be a

market

segment that is the problem and it does

seem to be you know single white

women so I've never known anybody that

could tell a single white woman

anything so I I don't know how you would

persuade that

group vable narcissists yeah mocking

them I think I think I think they're

already mocked it doesn't seem to make a

difference you're an exception

good oh I don't know if I've conquered

Dei I think there's just as much Dei in

ESG as there ever was they just might

stop saying the names as

much but boy you say colonizer around

me and you're my mortal

enemy

um colonize what

wom oh I am a colonizer but it's like

the nword you can call yourself a

colonizer but if somebody else calls you

one it means they they're Marsing you

for

death

Alena um your son's learning about

colonizers Anatolia just tweeted word

thinking did he retweet mine or he was

using it on his

own

um your son was forced to read Trevor

Noah's biography in high school oh my

God uh word thinking is not word salid

those are different concepts word salid

is a whole bunch of words in a

paragraph or a sentence that sort of the

grammar is right but it doesn't make any

sense that's uh word salad word thinking

is where you try to win an argument by

making your definition of the word the

one the other one has to accept so for

example U Nikki Haley tweeted that uh

Zion

anti-zionists are just

anti-semitic now a community notes

immediately factor and said uh no those

are just different words they mean

different things you know one one is

about the territory of

Israel you know and the other is about

the people and there's a big difference

between the the dirt on the ground and

the people standing on it so but it is

also true that uh some number of the

anti- zionists are also

anti-semitic so she's she's

directionally right but she is

incorrect directionally there's you know

big vend diagram correlation of course

but not all that

way so it's word thinking to try to win

your argument by saying the new

definition that I just made up is that

anti- Zan by definition means uh

anti-semitic so but you can't win an

argument just by changing the definition

of

stuff Scott you say you're not right or

left for yours how do you articulate

your position I still don't understand

why do you need

to why why do you need a label for me

you can't understand me without the

label why can't I just be open-minded

it's like

it

um yeah I I always reject people who

tell me I have to identify with the left

or the right I don't have to do that I

absolutely do not have to do that that's

something in your mind is not has

nothing to do with

me all right

um uh oh I identify left as left of

Bernie as a

joke it's the same way I endorsed

Hillary Clinton for president for my

personal

safety how do you reframe the feeling of

loneliness when you can't find people

who think like well you know that's part

of the reason I do these live

streams because uh my personal life I

have almost zero contact with anybody

who's even interested in what's

happening in

politics close to

zero so if I did not do this sort of

professionally I wouldn't have any

contact with anybody who cared about any

of it well I'm talking about people

locally you know Greg's a friend but

he's lives on the other coast of the

people I see in

person uh none of them are interested in

politics it's just the rarest thing I

think of one but I haven't seen them

lately yeah maybe two two I can think of

like two people who would actually want

to have a

conversation

I should get

chickens I know somebody who got

chickens and ruined your life chickens

is the literally the worst idea anybody

ever had because you know what happens

when you get

chickens sooner or later what happens

sooner or

later sooner later you get a

rooster because you can't tell if it's a

rooster or a hen when it's a chick

and if you've got chickens sooner or

later somebody's going to give you a

chick say Hey you need another another

one of those and if that thing is a

rooster do you know what happens in my

town if you kill the rooster you'd go to

jail

seriously if you keep the rooster you'll

lose your

house because the rooster will Crow and

your neighbors will complain and you

will have to move or go to jail because

you can't have a rooster so you can't

have a rooster and you can't kill a

rooster you can't hurt it and you can't

have it you actually have to move out of

town you got to move for a

rooster so my uh my restaurant partner

had this exact

scenario a chicken that somebody gave

her as a pet and she Lov it and she was

allergic to other kinds of pets one

chicken turned into

two then there was a rooster and her

life was

ruined now you might say to me Scott you

could just sort of down low kill that

rooster but the people who have chickens

as pets tend to be uh animal

lovers no you can't give it away there's

there's nobody who will take a

rooster you cannot give it away if you

give it away you'd be giving it away to

somebody to kill it probably so you'd be

complicit in the crime I

suppose shouldn't be any chickens in the

suburbs in the city that's

correct yeah the worst thing you could

ever do let get a

chicken never never do

that

um

Key West has chickens walking all around

right say it's illegal to kill them that

makes

sense I I feel like in the Key West I

saw chickens everywhere they were just

wandering around

everywhere from

fighting in

Kawai

just leave the rooster inside the coup

and let predators do the

work you harvest

it oh quietly drop off the rooster where

there other

chickens yeah I suppose if you got a pet

coyote but again I'm talking about

animal lovers not people who would be

willing to kill a chicken or a

booster vocal

disto do I have a victory garden no I'm

not

really not really a gardener I've

learned what do I think of Google well I

agree with Dr Epstein who says it's

controlling the election outcomes

hey my laptop's on the way got to do

laptop

coming looks like they're flipping all

Trump lawyers or are they just pleading

out and they were

overcharged so I I used to uh feed

chickens at my uh

uncle's uh

Farm chickens are really

scary in groups

so I'd go into the chicken cop you know

so it' be sort of a big indoor area and

I'd be bringing the food and imagine if

you will the the floor is just solid

chickens it's just chickens everywhere

but normally if you bring food to

animals they they you know they go for

the food but the chickens go for you I

would like to give my uh impression of

the chickens in the room when you walk

into it all right remember I'm like 10

years old or something right and I walk

in I've got this bucket of

feed here here's what here's what I'd

hope to see oh

food that's not what I saw imagine a

room full of chickens and they've all

got this attitude and they're slowly

walking toward

you

but it's all of them and they're kind of

quiet and it looks like they're ready to

jump you and you're

like if you jump me I won't be able to

come back with food no no chickens don't

don't do it all I'll give you twice as

much food don't do it all and then the

chickens kill

you well that's how I saw it playing out

in my

head I imagined it that

way

all right now I have to go figure out

why the YouTube stopped

working

because I think my cable stopped

working you know I used to used to work

in a laboratory that did a lot of

Technology testing and we would test

things and they wouldn't work and they

wouldn't work and we'd 90% of the time

we'd find out that a cable had gone

bad while it was just sitting there I

don't know how that happens but the

number of times it was a bad cable when

we thought one of the devices was

bad probably at least 80% of the time it

was the cable now these little cables

are just like us USC USB

C's and I've got a couple of them that

one does power and one goes to the uh

mixer one of them stopped working

working this

morning I don't know why I have no idea

why it just stopped working and it was

too late to fix it so I was so I was

using the uh speaker in the

device and I knew that one second in the

YouTube people would be

bitching so them like I you know if

if they can't handle

that the one minute warning you're very

clever you knew I was you knew I was

stalling to

8:00 there was oxidation on the

contacts

um no so you ask can I just turn YouTube

comments off the answer is yes but also

totally no totally yes but also totally

no the yes best part is it does have

that

option the no part is remembering where

it is from the last time you used it

it's sort of a buried option yeah you

have to go like on a journey to find it

probably have to Google it ask a friend

that that sort of situation by the way I

finally figured out how to log out from

the xplatform on my

iPad oh my god did they hide that it's

like four layers of menus down

and none of the menu choices would give

you any indication that at the end of it

would be a log out thing like it is

really well hidden and intentionally of

course so I so I was looking for it this

morning in anticipation of the audio

sound couldn't find it and didn't have

time to find it this

morning

you have to call to log

in is this double the usual audience it

looks like it is looks like a number of

people went to YouTube and then came

over here for the excellent show which

by the way is time to wind down thanks

for coming appreciate everybody I wish

YouTube worked a little bit better but

we do what we can

do um bye for

now maybe man cave

tonight

probably