Episode 2407 CWSA 03/08/24

good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of civilization coffee with Scott Adams only for the locals people today although it might get uploaded to another platform later we'll see I've got a little internet problem today so I'm coming off of my 5G if the 5G fails and it might uh we'll see what we we can do but in the meantime all you need to make this experience special special in a 5G low Fidelity kind of way is you need a cup or Mar glass of tanker chel Stein canteen suar flas vessel V kind f with your favorite liquid I like coffee join me now for unparallel pleasure the dope meting of the day thing that makes everything better go ah nice let's see how many people we have here got a thousand people that's about our normal for locals how many of you watched the uh State of the Union I saw somebody describe it this morning as old man yells at the tell teleprompter old man yells at the teleprompter I wish I'd thought of that was pretty good all right well here are some things we know um look at this fake news a ask yourself if this sounds like fake news that uh Haley voters uh 63% of them say they're going to back Biden so that's the story Haley voters 6 63% say they're going to back Biden what's left out of the story what's left out of the story is that you know some percentage of them are Democrats if you leave out the fact that they're Democrats and they were just gaming the system for the most part there's no story here at all Am I Wrong there's no story all right anyway here's some fake news from the hill so they say that Biden quoted Trump with alarm for boasting that he would encourage Russia and Vladimir Putin to quote do whatever the hell they want to NATO allies if those countries do not spend enough on defense is that true did that actually happen how many of you watched it and can confirm no it didn't happen no that's this is false this is fake here's what did happen what what uh Biden did do is he said that Trump said he wouldn't defend NATO Biden left out that it was in the sort of negotiating for NATO to pay its fees if you leave out that you can't add it in in the story after the fact you can't add it in the story no it's not part of the story he didn't say it and there's a reason he didn't say it so that's the hill fake news from the hill well let's talk about the head of the Union um of course it was two movies on one screen uh it's no surprise that the Democrats thought it was a masterful performance and it's no surprise that people like me saw it as angry dementia yelling and disunity which one of those is true neither I mean these are just Impressions but let's go through uh what's going on so he starts with freedom and democracy you're under attack both at home and abroad when you say democracy is under attack you make it possible to assassinate anybody who's opposed to it so it sounds like they're calling for assassination or Biden is for Trump but doing it indirectly in that mafia boss way the secret assassination whistle that's fair right if if there could be a secret racist dog whistle can't there be a secret assassination whistle it's what it looks like to me anyway U he didn't say Trump's name one he referred to him as quote my predecessor but he said it 13 times which apparently 13 times U is a lot so it was some say therefore it was more of a political speech than the State of the Union speech I think that's half true it was definitely more political than usual could have been a lot more political than it was so it was somewhere in between um and of course Biden was pushing hard on the the January 6 hoax so it looks like they're going to focus on the January 6 hoax he did not mention the fine people hoax once think about that now that's more political than State of the Union so maybe maybe that's the only reason it wasn't in there he did mention shrink flation I can't believe he put shrink flation in the speech the state of the union we don't have enough chips so RFK Jr quite rightly and cleverly does his response in which he says the entire country is suffering from chronic disease because our food supply is bad and Biden wants to give more chips to the kids our biggest problem is the food he wants to give more drunk food to kids am I wrong or do Democrats prefer every policy that's bad for children let's say we're going to increase the amount of your unhealthy snacks we're going to bort you in nine months I don't know how true that is but let's throw that in the mix um we're going to not let you have school choice we're going to transition you with surgery while you're a child uh we're going to keep you home from school during the pandemic it's consistent isn't it I feel as if that's a theme that needs to be explored because in every single situation they do what's bad for children including the lack of you know family as an emphasis yeah there so Pro everything that's bad for children basically um the exception would be IVF how many of you are opposed to IVF in vitro fertilization how many of you are opposed to that honestly I didn't even know that was a thing you're you're opposed to it under under what logic are you opposed to it because the baby doesn't have a soul are you saying the baby doesn't have a soul Now give me a reason as some of you gave you a daughter doesn't work very well well it works well enough but nobody has a reason right so I think I the anti-f thing is probably the dumbest thing that the Republicans have ever done it might be the number one dumbest thing they've ever done because the the entire Republican thing is more babies right help you bring a child into the world yeah now the I being opposed to IVF has no logical religious or moral backing it it's just ridiculous and it's it's really bad for your own politics so you pick the least important thing but it um it's the least important thing because you don't care about somebody else's IVF do you if it's not your own why do you care that someone else is doing it why is that even your business you got really quiet when I said why are you opposed to it right so that that proves my opin that proves my point there isn't a reason for it I think it must be some reflex kind of thing but yeah I mean money is not the problem the people are doing it are not complaining they're still doing it yeah interesting well but yeah buying a baby is a different situation than oh is that why is it an anti-gay thing are they opposed to IVF because it's an anti-gay thing is that is that is that why they're opposed I'm not even aware of any reason I've never heard of reason so basically that's just handing the Democrats a victory I think they I think Democrats would literally vote a corpse into office if it look like they could predi abortion rights and and the IVF stuff looks like a slippery slope to them so basically it's just giving the election away I don't know why I have no idea why Republicans would do such a thing anyway um did you see all the factchecking you know you turn on the network CNN MSNBC and they got the fact Checker there and the fact Checker is just like oh that's right there weren't any fact Checkers did anybody see one did anybody see a fact Checker I didn't see one now I didn't look at everything all the time but they were usually pretty prominent how many things did Biden say that were literally not true in a pretty easily demonstrated way a lot there was a lot that wasn't true or at least was in a context I think he said a lot of things that are true is but you know the context is all whacked all right so let's see what else um Biden had a good little uh line there he said you can't love the country only when you win now of course yeah that's propaganda and narrative and uh it's horrible but in terms of politics is a pretty good line I would say the speech was pretty well written well would you say well separately we'll talk about how he performed but I thought the speech was pretty well written for the you know for his base in a political year and um he had some actually good good sounding little economic things you know where he could say that he negotiated lower drug prices I didn't know anything about that but uh and there was something about insulin capping insulin and I saw on social media somebody said that Trump tried capping it and Biden reversed it is there something to that story so basically everything has a but what would Trump have done that's always left out is there any reason that Trump would not have negotiated better drug prices you who stood in his way was it the Republicans that were stopping Trump from negotiating better drug prices I don't think so I I don't think any Republicans were stopping Trump from doing it so it must have been the Democrats right I mean I sort of missed that story yeah so all these things are in a context if you if the only thing you heard was he reduced your insulin costs uh but at the same time he's recommending more snacks so you're going to need more insulin kind of a break even situation the good news is I'm going to lower your insulin costs the bad news is I'm going to make sure there's a lot more snacks in your bag so you get more diabetes anyway um so he made so Biden started with that really scary you know Hitler likee reference and I at first I thought he was entirely talking about uh Trump but then he made it something about Putin but then he said foreign and domestic so it was like he tried to have it both ways well I'm really just talking about Putin but it's foreign and domestic problem so Hiller yeah it did sound like he went full Hitler right away uh as others have pointed out he seemed to be uh quite hard on Russia but soft on China H hm I wonder if he's got any lost diamonds that would explain that all right he proposed a minimum tax for billionaires of 25% do you think there's something missing in that a minimum tax for billionaires of 25% 25% of what of what do you know why the billionaires are not paying as high a tax rate it's because it's not income what are they going to be taxing in other words they get their gains and capital gains and take out loans and do clever things but it still has to be income you can't tax somebody's assets what is he even talking about I think we need a little uh yeah I think we well unearned income well can't tax their worth well you know that was uh was not Elizabeth Warren's plan she was actually going to tax their worth like 2% of their net worth that's crazy oh my God that's crazy so it looks like he wants to uh raise taxes on everybody who makes over 400,000 a year as well so he's running for president on raising taxes uh he's not good at explaining how how economies work because if you raise taxes on the billionaires well they're going to find some other country probably they should all right he says uh no billionaire should pay a lower tax rate than a teacher a sanitation worker or a nurse what if I taught you when people use the percentage but not the total dollar amount or they use the dollar amount but not the percentage in every casee if they do one without the other it is a lying propaganda persuasion technique right it doesn't matter which one you see if you see one without the other it's always it's just propaganda um let's say you want to put a cap on credit card fees and make the credit card companies only recover you know the amount it costs them to recover you know I'll tell you I used to work for the the phone company as you know so I got to hear things behind the curtain what people really thought about things and we used to laugh that our most profitable line of business in the phone company was unpaid bills unpaid bills were our most profitable line of business because we would we would charge somebody you know I don't know $25 or something or reconnection fee so in addition to whatever late fees they would still have to pay you know we get an extra 20 $5 we weren't going to pay but the reason it was like free money is that everybody has to pay their phone bill if you don't pay your phone bill or at least in those days was one local phone company if he didn't pay your phone bill you didn't have an option of another phone company in those days so they could guarantee that you would pay you had to so they could just give you any penalty they wanted you'd pay it so yeah we were evil bastards and we knew it what about the banks do you think the banks know that the credit card late fees are really abusive of course they do yeah of course they know it's abusive but they were getting away with it so I'm uh I have to back Biden on capping credit card fees and you maybe doing something with drug prices I don't know that Trump wouldn't have done something with drug prices I don't think you would have kept credit cards if that feels like anti-competitive doesn't seem like something you would have done and I'm not sure it's necessary in a competitive environment you think that at least one credit card company would come up with the idea of not having that penalty you think the free market would take care of that really easily credit cards are a pretty competitive business right nobody nobody wanted that business you know so is these are things that sound great in context they might be very different they're in bed with the banks you say all right um so Trump tried to be uh doing live um posting on truth now I couldn't get into truth last night because it was unavailable did anybody try to get in it kept crashing was it crashing because it was getting uh attacked I'll bet it was hacked I'll bet it wasn't a regular capacity problem yeah to me that sounds like a dirty trick oh so was x x had a problem well maybe it's the same thing to knock down my internet I guess we'll find out are there any Californians here any Californians with no especially Northern California anybody with no internet in Northern California besides me is that a yes anybody Northern California with no internet no you've got it or not I guess it's just me all right um so Brien Biden was well prepared and he was well prepared for his critics as well so when the critics started yelling say the name of uh leak Riley because she was a victim of a undocumented person um he was ready and he he had a pin with her face on it and he said her name uh it looked a little too prepared well some say he said her name wrong is Lincoln uh but that's probably just cuz he slurred a lot so he did a good job of knowing what the criticism would be in the room and having his little prepared thing um oh marjerie Taylor green gave him the pin well he was ready he he was ready because he immediately said her name and then went into a thing about how bad it was she got so he was very ready for it um I would say that I would give his see the trouble is you have to either decide whether you're ranking him for how well he did considering his age or are you ranking him compared to everybody if I rank him compared to good speakers let's say Obama or Reagan or Bill Clinton or Trump I would say all of those four I just mentioned would be and a and I would give him maybe c c minus for actual presentation but um he's he really only had to survive and he did he survived so he did everything he needed to do for his base and the people who don't like him still don't like him so didn't make any difference at all I don't think um I did see maybe it was Charlie Kirk saying that it looked like there was a change in strategy and that maybe they found out that the dictator thing wasn't working so he didn't say extreme or Mega or dictator did he W which seemed a little obviously missing so it looks like maybe he got the idea that we were going to mock him mercilessly for for doing the you know the real obvious stuff uh it ruined our Bingo too all right so he didn't do he did do he did do something about chaos though right so he used chaos he used Hitler I don't know if he used extreme he used predecessor a lot yeah so we don't know if this signals anything about the campaign because the state of the union is its own animal all right speaking of Freedom well I guess Nancy Pelosi slammed Joe not slammed him but said Joe Biden should have uh talked about Lauren or leak Riley's killer as an undo undocumented whereas he referred to the killer as illegal man all right um are you amazed that they're actually telling Democrats that there's no immigration problem and basically they're saying there's not really a problem it's kind of unbelievable that that's happening all right um six according to rasmon 65% of Democrats think Trump should be banned from uh the xplatform 2third of Democrats think the guy who's going to be probably the next president uh or at least if the elections not rigged um and that he should be banned from the major political platform it's almost amazing now Biden is running to restore freedom in democracy what freedom is he restoring he's putting people in jail for free speech they want to ban uh free speech on the platform the the only Freedom that uh Republicans are trying to take away is reproductive uh reproductive options for end ending terminy well actually reproductive options including IVF so the only thing that Republicans want to do is limit what women can do with their own bodies so Republicans have no argument about Freedom unfortunately now that's not my opinion I'm saying politically speaking politically speaking Republicans have given up Freedom asn't you you really can't claim Freedom you really can't you could try but it would just sound crazy yeah so I would say that both uh both sides are trying to take your freedom away they're just doing it in different ways so the Republicans are definitely limiting what uh what women would call their freedom and it doesn't matter what you call it I know you would call it saving a baby or you know not having something that God doesn't want so you'd have a different framing on it but it doesn't matter what your framing is yeah I I know that think it's Banning murder I get it I'm not making any arguments about abortion I'm saying that to the Democrats he has a completely um credible argument that uh Republicans are the ones who want to ban your freedom it's a good argument said no matter how much you hate it it doesn't matter no matter how much you say he's using the wrong words you should call it we want to murder babies doesn't matter what you think it's unrelated to whether it works it works so his people think you're trying to take their freedom and they even say you know what's next if you can't do IVF what's next uh so they're they're telling their people that um birth control will be banned next how many of you would like to ban birth control ban birth control how many of you nope nope nope nope nope nope I've seen not a single yes but it's it's credible to Their audience do you think Democrats think it's credible of course they do because the IVF thing is just too far let me let me say it as you know in a clear way if Republicans are going to die on the IVF Hill they deserve to lose you really deserve to lose I mean if you're going to do something you just get hand it to him you deserve to lose uh but the other team deserves to lose too because they're running Biden who runs Biden if they if they think they should try to earn the election so I it's like both sides are trying to lose um what is what is Trump's take on IVF Trump is pro IVF right oh so that probably protects him yeah yeah Trump is pro IVF and I think the Republicans should take a note from that all right so here is how the Democrats are taking your freedom they're stealing elections allegedly now remember this is just the framing that the opposing party would would put on so they'd say he's stealing the election he's jailing people for their free speech he's limiting it on the or at least the government is limiting that on the platforms Free Speech we know that from the Twitter files and the the open borders are sort of taking away your freedom to be safe in your own country now that's not a explic explicit freedom but we had it before yeah we had it before so I think the uh Republicans could probably say more about the Democrats taking your freedom they're taking your money yeah all right um so Jerry Nadler came up to Biden afterwards and said nobody's going to talk about cognitive impairment Now Jerry you were just talking about cognitive impairment as you were saying nobody's going to talk about cognitive impairment you can't say nobody's going to talk about cognitive impairment when you're talking about it in other words it was at the top of his mind and that was basically saying well it's the first thing I was thinking about but you limp through here's what Paul Krugman said uh Paul Krugman sort of the economic wing of the turd caucus the turd caucus are the Democrats who are willing to say the most absurd lies that even other people who agree with them on most of stuff would never say in public so here's what Paul kman says uh a thought the whole Biden is two old thing was kind of a bubble in the sense that people were buying it mainly because other people were buying it did Biden just burst that bubble well I don't think we saw something that tells us the big picture just CU they drugged him out for one hour you tell me what drugs were in his system and I'll tell you if if I'm concerned about his dementia at his age uh no I think everybody who thought he was too old saw an old man yelling at a teleprompter and it didn't look good and everybody who's trying to pretend he's not too old saw him in command and full of energy and seizing the moment and winning the day so let's not pretend any of this is objective well as uh Adam Townson said and acts s Senator state senator Katie Britt is some kind of a rising GOP star so she did the rebuttal uh I would like to give you my impression of listening to Katie Brett give the rebuttal click let's see what the rebuttal looks like oh god oh oh god oh oh God turn it off turn it off turn it off did any of you make it through that her voice and her Charisma are like anti- charismatic who in the world thought she's the next Obama that's the worst thing I've ever seen it was a total car wreck now if I'm saying that now remember I'd like I'd like to see the Republicans do well in this election why in the world did they pick her what what is going on with that and then uh one of the other I forget who one of the women in Congress I think said why did you put her in a kitchen they put her in a kitchen so so the Republicans finally you know which I suppose is not uh I'm sure they've had women do the response before but it's uh you know if they're trying to show that they're open-minded that they put their rising star in a kitchen seriously and then have addressed you know semi you know maybe like business casual but something you might have been wearing in the kitchen as well terrible oh my God uh Haley did the 2016 response yeah now Haley is a very credible speaker I mean there's a reason she did relatively well she had I I would consider haly very good very good public speaker above average but uh poor Katie Britt yeah she's she's not ready and she doesn't sound like a serious person actually all right so that didn't work out for the Republicans um tuer Carlson is doubling down on saying that uh the Biden can't win and that's that's obviously going to be rigged and he says that they're basically saying it loud and um they meaning Democrats and he talks about the U attorney general um what's his name what's our attorney general's name Merrick Garland um and how he is out there in public talking about getting rid of IDs for voting and doing more mail-in ballots and basically everything that makes your vote less credible so he's literally out there just strongly promoting things that really don't have a purpose other than cheating they they really don't there's no other purpose and to even pretend there's some other purpose other than cheating is a little too far I I can't go there I can't wrap my brain around the fact that there's any legitimate reason to not require ID you know the whole black people don't have ID thing is is beyond absurd because you know what I don't want to fix here's a problem I don't want to fix I I don't want to get more votes from people who can't figure out how to get an ID does anybody want that if you were to talk to black American voters you say uh you know Hey sir do you vote well yes I do all right well as a as a voter do you think that uh black voters black people who can't get an ID do you think that they should vote what would a black voter say I don't know actually but what would a black voter say to the idea that um black people who can't get an ID should be adding to the political process what exactly are they adding they're they're Brilliance their preferences why are we trying to solve this problem what problem is being solved none yeah they're they're doing the disenfranchised stuff do you think somebody who doesn't have a government ID is worried about being disenfranchised that might be the last thing they're worrying about oh I'd hate to be disenfranchised I don't have a bank I don't have a job I don't have a I don't have a credit card I don't have a a way to buy things without cash and cash is going to go away no you have much bigger problems than being disenfranchised from voting for somebody you haven't paid attention to anyway um so Tucker is right but the funniest thing he said was he referred to Chris Hayes on MSNBC and I quote as the most famous lesbian in television so that's something Tucker said the most famous lesbian in television uh I I laugh because it's so wrong now now the thing is that's not an insult to lesbians is it I don't believe I don't believe anybody's trying to insult lesbians with that it's more like it's more like Chris Hayes is just morphing to whatever he needs to be so to me it just sounds like a Chris Hayes insult it's kind of funny but I wouldn't say it if I thought it was intended to be insulting to lesbians I love my lesbians I'm Pro lgbtq you know I always say the same thing it I I'll be anti-lgbtq the same day that you say we don't want to go into that neighborhood because it's you know kind of a crappy neighborhood it's full of lgbtq people never happened it will never happen yeah there's no such thing as that dangerous gay neighborhood or or the the the lesbian neighborhood where they didn't clean up their yard or something like it just doesn't happen probably if you were going to you know just be a jerk and rank people they would rank near the top yeah if if you just said what do you want a citizen to contribute to the world and just ranked everybody they'd be toward the top toward the top so no I'm as Pro lgbtq as you can get but you know everybody every interest group can go too far uh but I'm very Pro all right RFK Jr uh said neither my uncle nor my father would recognize the version of America that we have today and he talks about we're becoming a nation of chronic illness so I mentioned this and violence and loneliness He also mentioned the loneliness and depression you know I think this whole loneliness and depression thing uh is maybe a lot more complicated than we think you know your first thought is well go make a friend if you're all if you're all lonely go make a friend that doesn't really work for a men do you know most men have zero friends I I saw some somebody say that like you're lucky if you have one you know and by friend I mean somebody who comes over to your house and you go over their house that sort of thing yeah and a lot of people are zero um a lot of people are saying it in the comments you have zero friends that's a lot of people with zero friends so why is that well I would like to offer some possibilities uh one is you know we spend a lot of time on our devices of course the obvious but I think people don't have anything in common anymore that we're we're so divided and so different in our interests it's hard to find somebody that you want to spend time with on a regular basis because your interests are so different and then of course I remember a day when um it's funny that this used to be true and it's not anymore do you all remember a day when if you got invited to a party it didn't matter what the politics of the host were do you remember that didn't make any difference like literally zero difference five not five years ago but before Trump but after Trump uh I lost 100% of you know my Democrat only friends which was most you know where I live it was most of them so that just you know wiped out most of my social life yeah and then you've got the dating problem as well so there are pretty good reasons why we're uh lonely and a lot of it has to do with being uh you know out of shape and having chronic illness and and all that stuff so I think our food supply is part of it I think our food supply is everything from our health care cost to our quality of living to depression to anxiety um all right so there's another story of in the OS n Defender account I saw there's a a US Army intelligence analyst who's who sold a whole bunch of top secret military things to China for 42,000 it makes me wonder does China have any problem at all buying our secrets this guy sold like really important secrets about our air defenses and stuff like that our technology for $42,000 I mean don't you think that China just has everything they must have everything if you could get it for $42,000 so I don't know if this is uh you know he's innocent till proven guilty but it doesn't sound good the leftover fetuses from IVF bother you uh all right let's talk about Tick Tock the house panel unanimously approved a bill now that doesn't mean the bill has been voted on it's just the panel that's coming up with the bill uh that could ban Tik Tok from all us phones and tablets if enacted us phones and tablets okay um now here's the thing do you think that's going to get voted on and it's going to get banned because I think I think the ban is really a ban only if uh bite dance doesn't sell it to an American interest now uh my information as of this morning is that there's no buyer now that doesn't mean there won't be but at the moment there's no buyer so that would mean that uh if the bill passed Tik Tock would just be shut down now I I just don't think there's any chance of it happening what do you think is there any chance that the larger Congress and Senate will vote to kill Tik Tock because Tik Tock is very popular with the young and the Democrats need the Young and there might be people who are working for China and then you've got your Rand Pauls who uh don't want to ban it because of free speech all right let me deal with the Rand Paul complaint so you know that typically I love my ran Paul uh but he's in my opinion analytically just totally wrong on this one now he he says it's a free speech thing and you don't want to be against free speech so don't ban it now I like the simpl ly the argument however it's not really a free speech question let me give you um another example as a say a mental experiment let's say you had a terrorist who captured a US citizen in a foreign country and the terrorist was probably going to kill them and they were you know under duress and then uh the captured person produces a of those captive videos where they say Isis is great you know and all the things you know are lies now should let let's say that the military uh gets a hold of it should the military provide it to the world because you know Free Speech or should they say this is more of a military thing and we should prevent it because we don't want more of these videos is it would it be a violation of free speech to prevent a terrorist video that featured an American saying something with their own voice would it would it be a violation of free speech to suppress that for military purposes now remember it's h it would be coming from another country and the video is not being made by the person speaking but they are it's an American speaking now I would say that's not free speech that there's you know a minor element of somebody who's American who's saying something but he's not saying something he believes and it's being done for military purposes you know terrorist purposes I would say that's not free speech that's a enemy using a weapon I believe we can stop a weapon but not free speech so the fact that a weapon has some free speech embedded in it shouldn't stop you from being able to stop a weapon do you agree and I say that Tik Tok is a weapon the way it's used now because although the H the people using it probably are mostly looking at American content they're producing it and consuming American content mostly um but who gets to decide who sees What whose Free Speech are we protecting see the the free speech of an American to say something is still available because they can go to any platform and say it except Tik Tock if it if the ban happens but if they say it on Tik Tock the presumption is that how many people see it and hear it is is going to be determined by a Chinese company so what's only being banned is the ability for a Chinese company to determine how much free speech Americans have we're not we're not Banning the Americans Free Speech we're Banning China's ability to regulate our Free Speech because that same person can just walk over to Facebook or meta or any place else and just do the speech right so really it's about the the the danger of the tool and the fact that there's a free speech element in it is true and it's it's not nothing but it's so much less important than the fact that we're brainwashing our youth to rip off their own genitals I mean I think that matters all right um I have a suspicion that something else is going on here which is if if it turns out that this gets voted um let's say here my guess is it'll get um defeated because I think there are too many people in Congress who either rely on Tik Tok for their election or you know don't want to make their young voters mad or um some other reason but I think it'll be turned down now I haven't heard anybody say uh that the vote counter say that it has the votes usually you hear that pretty early don't you am I wrong usually with something like this a high-profile thing you hear right away whether whether it's likely to pass that's completely missing in the story that that's like a giant dog not barking isn't it I mean just like think about that that that we don't we don't hear whether it's likely to pass we always know that in advance and for some reason this one that story is missing so I think it's going to fail uh because I think Democrats are unable or unwilling to ban it but I'm going to give you a conditional um prediction conditional prediction if it flies through and gets past then there's something else going on because nothing really changed from the last time they tried to do it and it didn't work the only thing that could have changed is maybe our intelligence people said you know what it would be great if we're the ones who controlled this so if there's a if you see suddenly there's an American company that just pops out pops up out of nowhere and says hey I'll buy it you maybe a Microsoft somebody else then you would have to assume that the that they're in cahoots with the intelligence people who just want to control it like the rest of the platforms so if uh Microsoft bought it for example uh I would assume that they had already worked out an agreement in which these CIA or FBI or whoever has a back door so I think the problem with Tik Tock is our intelligence people don't have a back door so that's my summary that the real problem with Tik Tok from the perspective of the people who are really in charge of our government the intelligence people is that they don't have access to it the back door and China does so certainly America wants to be the only one who has access to the social media platforms so that they can tweak it as they did with the Twitter Twitter files or at least know what people are doing all right uh so so if it turns a company wants to buy it and then actually gets away with buying it that's going to tell you a lot about that company you might not want to know that stuff all right I saw a article that uh people think they can do lie detecting by just looking at people and that it's not true that there are no reliable nonverbal cues from Liars do you believe that do you believe that you can't tell who's lying uh by look looking at the body language well they did some tests and they said that um people look for when when you can't look somebody in the eye but they found there's no difference between liars and non- Liars in terms of eye contact probably that's more about being shy right and then they also said there's no correlation with fidgeting so if you look nervous it didn't make much difference to you know predicting whether you were lying do you believe that I believe it because by the time somebody's trying to determine if you're lying it's already a tense situation so I I could imagine everybody's fidgety if they're being accused of lying uh and it matters uh but here's so their take is that the way you can detect lying the best is by looking at what they say or don't say their choice of words now I've told you the same thing that choice of words always tells you what's going on the day before uh Nikki Haley uh dropped out of the race do you know what she said I'm not dropping out of the race yet she actually said yet and I said oh you going to do it tomorrow and then she did it tomorrow yeah yeah if if somebody puts yet at the end of a sentence they mean yet they mean it she's very clearly was telling you she was lying cu the yet told you she was going to do it tomorrow and she did now I do agree that words are a better detector however here's what they have wrong the eyes definitely tell you if somebody's lying now there are a few exceptions a psychopath's eyes will not tell you anything because they'll tell you a lie the same as even with details the same as if they told the truth you can't tell the difference if they're Psychopaths or sociopaths if if somebody's a professional let's say a trial lawyer they would also be practiced at keeping their face you know normal while they tell something that isn't true but if you catch somebody in a casual spontaneous situation and they're not a professional their eyes will tell you everything you need to know you just have to look for it Rachel mow does the rapid blinking watch it when she's listening when she's listening she blinks normally when she saying something that everybody agrees with and is obvious normal but then when she does her closer it'll be something like and that's why Trump is uh going to give a reach around to Putin and then she goes into the rapid blinking so it it's not a coincidence and then you look at the people the Democrats who do the wide-eyed thing the wideeye thing is just the easiest tell you can see that right away you know it's like three fake things and then one widey thing it's like uh yes the uh the the rate of uh let's see the unemployment rate is uh looking pretty good and uh you know the job claims are good um but Trump is the one that let people in the border and then her eyes go big and you can see the wrinkles in the forehead because the the the eyebrows go up when they lie it's very obvious all right um uh Fox News is reporting that almost all the hospitals are trying to increase the racial diversity so among the leadership so uh you might have some risk of flying or going to the hospital that's a little extra now I hasten to say not because of diversity that's not the point there's no risk that comes from just diversity the risk is trying too hard to get diversity do we all agree on that the problem is not the diversity it's the trying too hard in a situation where the pipeline doesn't have enough to to select you know the the one thing that the Republicans absolutely get wrong like just terribly terribly wrong is is they should say that systemic racism is real and the only place you can stop it is in the early school that's what they should say systemic racism totally real and the only place you can stop it you know practically is making sure everybody has a good education if you have a good education it won't bother you as much you'll be able to slice through it as an adult but if you don't and you don't have any skills yeah probably it does matter what your ethnicity is but you want to make it not matter by just being capable that's usually all you need so yes the Republican should be saying we love diversity we hate forced diversity because it forces you to try too hard and then bad things happen that's what I say um all right all right so uh there's a study that says a single dose of LSD can give people lasting Anxiety Relief and the US the FDA has granted uh breakthrough therapy status to LSD um amazing to treat generalized anxiety disorder now that just means uh breakthrough therapy does that mean you can do it or that means you can test it let's see Dev must go still has to go through trials so I guess that's just a approval to get to go into a trial right just approval for a trial yeah which is good still want to do the trial this is the funniest statement from it the most common adverse effects of the LSD um are usually only on the day of the dose uh and some of the problems are hallucinations euphoric mood abnormal thinking headache dizziness and nausea you know what I've known a billion people who have done LSD I've never heard a single person said they have a headache disiness or nausea has anybody had that side effect disne or nausea because I'm sure we got some day Trippers in here I've never heard of it but you know like every other drug there's some people who have bad effects I do not recommend LSD or any other drug only your doctor can recommend that um so there's a there's a book I think Elon Musk was recommending it people were talking about it I forget the name of it but one of the takeaways is that the reason all of our children are uh anxious and incompetent it seems is that uh the only way you become capable and confident is by doing tasks and succeeding now that does match observation now let me ask you how many of you have had kids let's say you know recently and have you ever tried to ask them to do something that it's very kid dependent you know every kid's different here's what happens in the modern world all right kid when you come home from school uh I want you to do some um work around the house to earn let's say to earn a uh earn an allowance what happens what happens in the real world if you say all right we're going to give you some discipline you're going to do some stuff around the house when you get home what happens in the real world in the real world the kid says oh I have so much homework let me do the homework first and when I'm done CU you would agree dad I mean I think you'd agree homework's more important so I'm going to do the homework first and then if time is left you we'll do those chores and then Dad says um okay well I don't want you to have a bad grade in School how much homework do you have oh hours oh man all right well okay we'll do it your way yeah do your homework and then catch up with me and we'll we'll do those then what happens they run out of time which they always knew right they always knew they'd run out of time so what happens if your kids have shared custody have you ever been in that situation where the kids are with you half the time and half the time with another parent and then you want to tell the kids all right kids you're you're going to have chores to do at my house even if the other parent doesn't do it in my house you're going to do chores what happens then then the kid says there's no way I'm doing chores at your house I'll go live with the other parent and that's it game over because no parent wants to say okay go live with the other parent because they will they actually will you lose your kids so in um so let's say you say all right kid you keep messing around uh so I'm going to punish you nobody punishes kids for doing their homework instead of their chores there's just nothing you can do there's just nothing you can do so modern children are basically freerange chickens that can kind of do what they want now I know every Situation's different and there are there are kids who are born able to do their homework and their chores and they want to do both that's a thing but there's a whole bunch of you know average kids who are just they'll never do the things that that make them confident when I look at the number of things I did as a kid just things like how many different things I did like my my normal weekend would be um your uncle the farmer needs somebody to help uh stack up the hay bales so one day I'm stacking hay bales uh your uncle the farmer it's the sapping season so you could be walking through the snow and carrying big buckets of sap that came from trees all right and you know one day I'd be shoveling snow moving furniture mowing lawns um you know I'd play three different sports um it was just one thing after another that I had to navigate I had to figure out how to do it and then I had to do it and you know no screens so I developed insane confidence almost to the point of having too much because every time I did something it worked mow the lawn oh you it might be a problem but it worked yeah so uh by the time I got to college um I I've never I don't know I think I told this story in the man cave by the time I got to college I practically took over the college because everything I tried up to that point worked so working with some uh some of my classmates who lived in the dorm we said hey why don't we run the dorm and get rid of the resident assistant and we'll take the money and get single rooms for ourselves do you know how crazy that sounds we literally sat in our dorm room and said huh why is there like this adult in our dorm we're adults why do we need an adult to watch adults how about we vote and we'll pick you know we'll pick somebody in the building and we'll get paid instead you know the students will get paid from the college and we'll just do that work so we actually pitched it to the college and you know they said well you know if you can get people to agree to it for next year we'll try it and so we did so we went out and got people to agree to it who were going to live there next year um and then we had an election and the three of us who came up with this idea we ran against other people so other people could have won the election and gotten those jobs that we created but we won because we'd created the whole situation so I ended up you know managing the dormatory but there was also one business on campus it was a coffee house so it was the only entertainment live entertainment get a beer kind of place on campus and the people who ran it were volunteers so I volunteered to take over the the finance part because I was an economics major and uh I redid the the entire account in finance uh for Class Credit I just created a class for myself I said hey there's no accounting process here how about I work with my accounting professor and if I created an accounting process for a business he should give me credit and he thought so too so I got accounting credit for creating an accounting system for a real business and then maintaining it which which allowed me to learn accounting you know Inside Out by the time you're done the way the classroom couldn't do it it was really good so that was my college experience so I ran the biggest uh entertainment industry in the college I was one of three managers in my dormatory and then we started building uh interlocking directorates we formed an olig oligarchy this is a real thing so we uh one of our friends uh ran for the head of the student council so we had a student council head in our dorm the head of the local radio station was our best friend so we owned like all the entities you know the leaders of all the entities so anything we wanted to do we had all the free publicity you know just everything so basically because I grew up in a um do this I don't know how to do this well you will in a minute that was was my life do this I don't know how to do that you will you're going to know how to do this by the time you're done and then you do it over and over and over and repeat and repeat by the time I was 18 I didn't think anything could stop me now there were certainly things that could stop me so it's you know more of a mindset but my mindset was I don't see why anything would stop me here's another example uh we wanted to play indoor soccer but the gym had you know limited capacity and it was always cold in the winter you couldn't play outoors so I said how come we can't just rent space like everybody else did and they said well the only people who can you know um Reserve time in the gym are people who have like organizations so if you were like a league or an organization or something you know you could do it so I said what's it take to form an organization and he said well you know you fill out this paperwork and the dean approves it or whatever and I said where do I get the paperwork and I said well you know go to the Dean's office or whatever it ask for it the business office so I go to the business office I get the paperwork I fill it out I hand it to the dean and I was a soccer club so I was the only one in my dorm that could uh I I could schedule time in the gym all I did was identify a problem and then I said okay what's the solution and then I just just slog through it like everything else i' done to that point in my life so how do you get rid of anxiety how do you get rid of depression that's how an unending series of challenges which you eventually succeed at almost every time you know because they're not such big challenges that you can't do it so by the time I got my um my big break to become a cartoonist um I thought it would work by the time I wrote my first book my first you know book that wasn't just Comics I said this will be a bestselling book number one bestseller book I hadn't even taken a writing class except one two-day class in business writing and it became a number one book now I have a level of you I'm sure you've you've witnessed it I have a level of um confidence that's unnatural because it is unnatural it's it's a learned preferred mindset that I've developed over time but it's not based on reality you know if I take a moment to say well in reality you could definitely be stopped but I just don't live my life like I can be stopped I just assume if I if I see something that's wrong with the entire country like you know fentanyl or anything else I say to myself I could probably put a dent in that you know I might be able to change the narrative on that uh I just don't think anything can stop me uh and that's how you get rid of your anxiety I just figure always a way out and so far so good all right so if you can figure out how to get your kids to do something useful in today's world it would be really good for them just so they can succeed over and over again oh yeah uh you always say the rules don't apply to you I say that all the time that's one of my favorite say is that the well I say the odds don't apply to me yes you're saying the rules don't apply but I think you're saying the odds and maybe that's a little more expensive than what I'm saying so if I if I embark on something where it's unlikely people would ever succeed at it I just don't think it applies I just think it's up to me and I just live my life that way all right you were yeah if you I also worked in a lab you know an engineering sort of lab and the phone company and we had unlimited daily problems that we had to solve you know why something wasn't working pretty much we always did I don't think there was ever case where we just said ah just give up we always figured it out somehow all right uh is there any story that I missed before I uh sign off yeah Carrie said some things about the Ukraine war jobs build confidence too yeah it's always good to change jobs so I've changed jobs um oh let's see in the comments how many times you tell me how many times you've changed jobs so far and that that just as an adult I probably had 20 different jobs as a teenager but as an adult I've changed jobs now I also changed jobs within companies so I'm going to count all of that change jobs maybe um maybe 15 times if you count adding jobs maybe 12 to 15 times and every time you change jobs and you know you get up to speed and the new job there's your confidence yeah if you include within the company yeah and a lot of you are having numbers from um six is a very common number a whole bunch of you have six that's very common for some reason you've been a cook and an IT director huh uh oh yeah so um there's a covid uh vaccine liability bill that's being floated I don't think it'll pass but uh the idea would be that uh the company that gives you the meds would be responsible if something happens see here's the problem the problem is the vaccine companies are going to say we won't make any vac Vines because the liability is too big um so it seems like a obvious and good idea um and RFK JR says the same thing but look what you wouldn't have would would you agree that there are some vaccinations that work do you believe that I'm not talking about covid but do you believe there's any vaccination that works you don't think it prevents the MS yeah so here's the thing none of those would exist if the companies had to take full liability because if you've got something that could make 10 million people die you don't go into that business at all if you're already making money yeah so the argument for not having that liability is actually pretty good um maybe they should have some kind of cap or something there should be a cap on the liability because unlimited liability means you're on of business and nobody would do that drug yeah if you already had let's say you're a big drug company you're fiser and you have uh a dozen you know blowout money-making drugs so you're making money on the drugs you have and then the government says oh we really need this new drug uh but you're going to be liable and then they say how many people are going to take it well everybody so 100 million people will take it at least you go all right 100 million people if 5 million of them have a bad reaction I'm out of business I'm completely out of business so it would be irrational for fizer ever to make another vaccine for anything even if it was a good idea any arguments for not putting a cap on liability on any product yeah if there's a company that makes one product and it kills people you don't need a cap you can take 100% of their money and close them down it's just that if you're already profitable with other lines of business they're all at risk with the the new Venture and that's not normally the case so it would be bad business decision to do a new vaccine if you had all liability true with all products not really not now now do you do you think that the i.

Phone has the same risk as a vaccine or an i.

Pad does my microphone have the same liability risk ow it hit me in the eye no most things you can reasonably know that your limit your liability is sort of just naturally capped but vaccines have unlimited I mean it could be a hundred billion dollar fine you know or not fine but let's say lawsuits get rid of school of act mandates yeah that's another topic yeah none of us like the Mandate I wonder if we'd be talking about the Mandate if the vaccination worked and was safe do you think you'd care or would you just say H not I yeah you you'd care on an intellectual level but you wouldn't care you know you'd put it in your next time I have an intellectual argument I'll I'll pull this out but you wouldn't care you know as long as everybody did well and you did well and nobody died you wouldn't care you really wouldn't mandatory only matters if when they are mandated there should be compensation but would the compensation from your come from your government or from the vaccine I think the compensation would have to be from whoever mandated it not from the vaccine company because otherwise it never happens there there would be no vaccine if the vaccine company if the government mandates it they're going to have to they're going to have to Ure it although you could argue with it in a way they do because they they end up up being on the hook for a lot of the healthcare um yeah there's another icton study I don't believe in the news today and it doesn't matter which way it goes or anything else I just don't believe any Ian study by the way it may very well have been a miracle drug but I don't I don't believe any data about the pandemic there always we have so many mandates I I don't think you you know the medical mandates are worse I'll give you that but we have a lot of mandates go look at the old data about I yeah it's like there's some things that can't be communicated watch this here's something that I can say it it can be very clear but I can't make you hear it I will not under any circumstances and there's nothing you can do that will change my mind believe any data from the pandemic and then somebody will say but what about this study no listen to me none of it don't believe any of it doesn't mean I reting doesn't work I'm just going to say I'm not going to believe because the study said it did do not believe yeah if there's any money linked to it it's all you need to know yeah you can still post them I I might not be reporting them uh you're in a weird segment space with only a few dozen people what's that mean all right um that's all I got for now and uh maybe no my internet's still out so I guess that's what I'm going to be doing all day today yes it's massage night I will uh see you in the man cave earlyish and I'll talk to you then bye for now

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locals how many of you watched the uh

State of the

Union I saw somebody describe it this

morning as old man yells at the tell

teleprompter old man yells at the

teleprompter I wish I'd thought of that

was pretty

good all right well here are some things

we know

um look at this fake news a ask yourself

if this sounds like fake news that uh

Haley voters uh 63% of them say they're

going to back

Biden so that's the story Haley voters 6

63% say they're going to back Biden

what's left out of the

story what's left out of the story is

that you know some percentage of them

are Democrats if you leave out the fact

that they're Democrats

and they were just gaming the system for

the most part there's no story here at

all Am I

Wrong there's no

story all right

anyway here's some fake news from the

hill so they say that Biden quoted Trump

with alarm for boasting that he would

encourage Russia and Vladimir Putin to

quote do whatever the hell they want to

NATO allies if those countries do not

spend enough on defense is that true did

that actually

happen how many of you watched it and

can confirm no it didn't happen no

that's this is false this is fake here's

what did happen what what uh Biden did

do is he said that Trump said he

wouldn't defend

NATO Biden left out that it was in the

sort of negotiating for NATO to pay its

fees

if you leave out

that you can't add it in in the story

after the fact you can't add it in the

story no it's not part of the story he

didn't say it and there's a reason he

didn't say

it so that's the hill fake news from the

hill well let's talk about the head of

the Union um of course it was two movies

on one

screen uh it's no surprise that the

Democrats thought it was a

masterful performance and it's no

surprise that people like me saw it as

angry dementia yelling and disunity

which one of those is

true neither I mean these are just

Impressions but let's go through uh

what's going on so he starts with

freedom and democracy you're under

attack both at home and abroad when you

say democracy is under attack you make

it possible to assassinate anybody who's

opposed to it so it sounds like they're

calling for assassination or Biden is

for Trump but doing it indirectly in

that mafia boss

way the secret assassination

whistle that's fair right if if there

could be a secret racist dog whistle

can't there be a secret assassination

whistle it's what it looks like to

me anyway U he didn't say Trump's name

one he referred to him as quote my

predecessor but he said it 13 times

which

apparently 13 times U is a lot so it was

some say therefore it was more of a

political speech than the State of the

Union speech I think that's half true it

was definitely more political than usual

could have been a lot more political

than it was so it was somewhere in

between um and of course Biden was

pushing hard on the the January 6 hoax

so it looks like they're going to focus

on the January 6 hoax he did not mention

the fine people hoax

once think about that now that's more

political than State of the Union so

maybe maybe that's the only reason it

wasn't in there he did mention shrink

flation I can't believe he put shrink

flation in the

speech the state of the union we don't

have enough chips

so RFK Jr quite rightly and cleverly

does his response in which he says the

entire country is suffering from chronic

disease because our food supply is bad

and Biden wants to give more chips to

the

kids our biggest problem is the food he

wants to give more drunk food to

kids am I wrong or do Democrats prefer

every policy that's bad for

children let's say we're going to

increase the amount of your unhealthy

snacks we're going to bort you in nine

months I don't know how true that is but

let's throw that in the mix um we're

going to not let you have school choice

we're going to transition you with

surgery while you're a

child uh we're going to keep you home

from school during the pandemic

it's consistent isn't

it I feel as if that's a theme that

needs to be explored because in every

single situation they do what's bad for

children including the lack of you know

family as an

emphasis yeah there so Pro everything

that's bad for children basically um the

exception would be IVF how many of you

are opposed to IVF in vitro

fertilization how many of you are

opposed to that honestly I didn't even

know that was a

thing you're you're opposed to

it under under what logic are you

opposed to it because the baby doesn't

have a soul are you saying the baby

doesn't have a

soul Now give me a reason as some of

you

gave you a

daughter doesn't work very well well it

works well

enough but nobody has a reason

right so I think I the anti-f thing is

probably the dumbest thing that

the Republicans have ever done it might

be the number one dumbest thing they've

ever

done because the the entire Republican

thing is more babies

right help you bring a child into the

world yeah now the I being opposed to

IVF has no logical religious or moral

backing it it's just ridiculous and it's

it's really bad for your own politics so

you pick the least important thing but

it um it's the least important thing

because you don't care about somebody

else's IVF do you if it's not your own

why do you care that someone else is

doing it why is that even your

business you got really quiet when I

said why are you opposed to it right so

that that proves my opin that proves my

point there isn't a reason for it I

think it must be some reflex kind of

thing

but yeah I mean money is not the problem

the people are doing it are not

complaining they're still doing

it yeah interesting well but yeah buying

a baby is a different situation than oh

is that why is it an anti-gay thing are

they opposed to IVF because it's an

anti-gay thing is that is that is that

why they're opposed I'm not even aware

of any reason I've never heard of reason

so basically that's just handing the

Democrats a victory I think they I think

Democrats would literally vote a corpse

into office if it look like they could

predi abortion

rights and and the IVF stuff looks like

a slippery slope to them so basically

it's just giving the election away I

don't know why I have no idea why

Republicans would do such a thing

anyway um did you see all the

factchecking you know you turn on the

network CNN MSNBC and they got the fact

Checker there and the fact Checker is

just like oh that's right there weren't

any fact Checkers did anybody see one

did anybody see a fact

Checker I didn't see

one now I didn't look at everything all

the time but they were usually pretty

prominent how many things did Biden say

that were literally not true in a pretty

easily demonstrated way a

lot there was a lot that wasn't true or

at least was in a context I think he

said a lot of things that are true is

but you know the context is all

whacked all right so let's see what else

um Biden had a good little uh line there

he said you can't love the country only

when you win now of course yeah that's

propaganda and narrative and uh it's

horrible but in terms of politics is a

pretty good line I would say the speech

was pretty well written well would you

say well separately we'll talk about how

he performed but I thought the speech

was pretty well written for the you know

for his base in a political year and um

he had some actually good good sounding

little economic things you know where he

could say that he negotiated lower drug

prices I didn't know anything about that

but uh and there was something

about insulin capping insulin and I saw

on social media somebody said that Trump

tried capping it and Biden reversed it

is there something to that story so

basically everything has a but what

would Trump have done that's always left

out is there any reason that Trump would

not have negotiated better drug

prices you who stood in his way was it

the Republicans that were stopping Trump

from negotiating better drug prices I

don't think so

I I don't think any Republicans were

stopping Trump from doing it so it must

have been the Democrats right I mean I

sort of missed that

story yeah so all these things are in a

context if you if the only thing you

heard was he reduced your insulin

costs uh but at the same time he's

recommending more snacks so you're going

to need more insulin kind of a break

even situation the good news is I'm

going to lower your insulin costs the

bad news is I'm going to make sure

there's a lot more snacks in your

bag so you get more diabetes

anyway um

so he made so Biden started with that

really scary you know Hitler likee

reference and I at first I thought he

was entirely talking about uh Trump but

then he made it something about Putin

but then he said foreign and

domestic so it was like he tried to have

it both ways well I'm really just

talking about Putin but it's foreign and

domestic problem so Hiller yeah it did

sound like he went full Hitler right

away uh as others have pointed out he

seemed to be uh quite hard on Russia but

soft on

China H hm

I wonder if he's got any lost diamonds

that would explain

that all

right he proposed a minimum tax for

billionaires of

25% do you think there's something

missing in

that a minimum tax for billionaires of

25% 25% of

what of

what do you know why the billionaires

are not paying as high a tax rate

it's because it's not income what are

they going to be taxing in other words

they get their gains and capital gains

and take out loans and do clever things

but it still has to be

income you can't tax somebody's assets

what is he even talking about I think we

need a little uh yeah I think we well

unearned

income

well can't tax their worth well you know

that was uh was not Elizabeth Warren's

plan she was actually going to tax their

worth like 2% of their net worth that's

crazy oh my God that's crazy so it looks

like he wants to uh raise taxes on

everybody who makes over 400,000 a

year as well so he's running for

president on raising

taxes uh he's not good at

explaining how how economies work

because if you raise taxes on the

billionaires well they're going to find

some other country probably they

should all right he says uh no

billionaire should pay a lower tax rate

than a teacher a sanitation worker or a

nurse what if I taught you when people

use the percentage but not the total

dollar amount or they use the dollar

amount but not the percentage in every

casee if they do one without the other

it is a lying propaganda

persuasion technique right it doesn't

matter which one you see if you see one

without the other it's always it's just

propaganda um let's say you want to put

a cap on credit card

fees and make the credit card companies

only recover you know the amount it

costs them to

recover you know I'll tell you I used to

work for the the phone company as you

know so I got to hear things behind the

curtain what people really thought about

things and we used to laugh that our

most profitable line of business in the

phone company was unpaid

bills unpaid bills were our most

profitable line of business because we

would we would charge somebody you know

I don't know $25 or something or

reconnection fee so in addition to

whatever late fees they would still have

to pay you know we get an extra 20 $5 we

weren't going to pay but the reason it

was like free money is that everybody

has to pay their phone bill if you don't

pay your phone bill or at least in those

days was one local phone company if he

didn't pay your phone bill you didn't

have an option of another phone company

in those days so they could guarantee

that you would pay you had to so they

could just give you any penalty they

wanted you'd pay it so yeah we were evil

bastards and we knew it what about the

banks do you think the banks know that

the credit card late fees are really

abusive of course they

do yeah of course they know it's abusive

but they were getting away with it so

I'm uh I have to back Biden on capping

credit card fees and you maybe doing

something with drug prices I don't know

that Trump wouldn't have done something

with drug prices I don't think you would

have kept credit

cards if that feels like

anti-competitive doesn't seem like

something you would have

done and I'm not sure it's necessary in

a competitive

environment you think that at least one

credit card company would come up with

the idea of not having that

penalty you think the free market would

take care of that really easily credit

cards are a pretty competitive business

right nobody nobody wanted that business

you know so is these are things that

sound

great in context they might be very

different they're in bed with the banks

you say all

right um so Trump tried to be uh doing

live um posting on truth now I couldn't

get into truth last night because it was

unavailable did anybody try to get

in it kept crashing was it crashing

because it was getting uh attacked I'll

bet it was hacked I'll bet it wasn't a

regular capacity

problem yeah to me that sounds like a

dirty

trick oh so was x x had a problem well

maybe it's the same thing to knock down

my internet I guess we'll find

out are there any Californians here any

Californians with no especially Northern

California anybody with no internet in

Northern California besides me is that a

yes anybody Northern California with no

internet

no you've got it or not I guess it's

just me all right

um so Brien Biden was well prepared and

he was well prepared for his critics as

well so when the critics started yelling

say the name of uh leak Riley because

she was a victim of a undocumented

person

um he was ready and he he had a pin with

her face on it and he said her name

uh it looked a little too prepared well

some say he said her name wrong is

Lincoln uh but that's probably just cuz

he slurred a lot so he did a good job of

knowing what the criticism would be in

the room and having his little prepared

thing um oh marjerie Taylor green gave

him the pin well he was ready he he was

ready because he immediately said her

name and then went into a thing about

how bad it was she got so he was very

ready for it um I would

say that I would give his see the

trouble is you have to either decide

whether you're ranking him for how well

he did considering his age or are you

ranking him compared to

everybody if I rank him compared to good

speakers let's say Obama or Reagan or

Bill Clinton or Trump I would say all of

those four I just mentioned would be and

a and I would give him maybe c c minus

for actual presentation but um he's he

really only had to survive and he did he

survived so he did everything he needed

to do for his base and the people who

don't like him still don't like him so

didn't make any difference at all I

don't

think um I did see maybe it was Charlie

Kirk saying that it looked like there

was a change in strategy and that maybe

they found out that the dictator thing

wasn't working so he didn't say extreme

or Mega or dictator did

he W which seemed a little obviously

missing so it looks like maybe he got

the idea that we were going to mock him

mercilessly for for doing the you know

the real obvious

stuff uh it ruined our Bingo too

all right so he didn't do he did do he

did do something about chaos though

right so he used

chaos he used

Hitler I don't know if he used extreme

he used predecessor a lot yeah so we

don't know if this signals anything

about the campaign because the state of

the union is its own

animal all right speaking of

Freedom well I guess Nancy Pelosi

slammed Joe not slammed him but said Joe

Biden should have uh talked about Lauren

or leak Riley's killer as an undo

undocumented whereas he referred to the

killer as

illegal man all right

um are you amazed that they're actually

telling

Democrats that there's no immigration

problem and basically they're saying

there's not really a problem

it's kind of unbelievable that that's

happening all

right um six according to rasmon 65% of

Democrats think Trump should be banned

from uh the

xplatform 2third of Democrats think the

guy who's going to

be probably the next

president uh or at least if the

elections not rigged um and that he

should be banned from the major

political

platform it's almost amazing now Biden

is running to restore freedom in

democracy what freedom is he restoring

he's putting people in jail for free

speech they want to ban uh free speech

on the

platform the the only Freedom that uh

Republicans are trying to take away is

reproductive uh reproductive options for

end

ending terminy well actually

reproductive options including IVF so

the only thing that Republicans want to

do is limit what women can do with their

own

bodies so Republicans have no argument

about Freedom unfortunately now that's

not my opinion I'm saying politically

speaking politically speaking

Republicans have given up Freedom asn't

you you really can't claim Freedom you

really can't you could try

but it would just sound

crazy yeah so I would say that both uh

both sides are trying to take your

freedom away they're just doing it in

different ways so the Republicans are

definitely limiting what uh what women

would call their freedom and it doesn't

matter what you call it I know you would

call it saving a baby or you know not

having something that God doesn't want

so you'd have a different framing on it

but it doesn't matter what your framing

is yeah I I know that think it's Banning

murder I get it I'm not making any

arguments about

abortion I'm saying that to the

Democrats he has a completely um

credible argument that uh Republicans

are the ones who want to ban your

freedom it's a good argument said no

matter how much you hate it it doesn't

matter no matter how much you say he's

using the wrong words you should call it

we want to murder babies doesn't matter

what you think it's unrelated to whether

it works it

works so his people think you're trying

to take their freedom and they even say

you know what's next if you can't do IVF

what's next uh so they're they're

telling their people that um birth

control will be banned

next how many of you would like to ban

birth

control ban birth control how many of

you nope nope nope nope nope nope I've

seen not a single

yes but it's it's credible to Their

audience do you think Democrats think

it's credible of course they do because

the IVF thing is just too

far let me let me say it as you know in

a clear

way if Republicans are going to die on

the

IVF Hill they deserve to lose you really

deserve to lose I mean if you're going

to do something you just get hand it to

him you deserve to

lose uh but the other team deserves to

lose too because they're running Biden

who runs Biden if they if they think

they should try to earn the

election so I it's like both sides are

trying to lose um what is what is

Trump's take on IVF Trump is pro IVF

right oh so that probably protects him

yeah yeah Trump is pro IVF and I think

the Republicans should take a note from

that all right so here is how the

Democrats are taking your freedom

they're stealing elections allegedly now

remember this is just the framing that

the opposing party would would put on so

they'd say he's stealing the election

he's jailing people for their free

speech he's limiting it on the or at

least the government is limiting that on

the platforms Free Speech we know that

from the Twitter files and the the open

borders are sort of taking away your

freedom to be safe in your own country

now that's not a explic explicit freedom

but we had it

before yeah we had it

before so I think the uh Republicans

could probably say more about the

Democrats taking your freedom they're

taking your

money

yeah all right um so Jerry Nadler came

up to Biden afterwards and said nobody's

going to talk about cognitive impairment

Now Jerry you were just talking about

cognitive impairment as you were saying

nobody's going to talk about cognitive

impairment you can't say nobody's going

to talk about cognitive impairment when

you're talking about it in other words

it was at the top of his

mind and that was basically saying well

it's the first thing I was thinking

about but you limp

through here's what Paul Krugman said uh

Paul Krugman sort of the economic wing

of the turd caucus the turd caucus are

the Democrats who are willing to say the

most absurd

lies that even other people who agree

with them on most of stuff would never

say in

public so here's what Paul kman says uh

a thought the whole Biden is two old

thing was kind of a bubble in the sense

that people were buying it mainly

because other people were buying it did

Biden just burst that

bubble

well I don't think we saw something that

tells us the big picture just CU they

drugged him out for one hour you tell me

what drugs were in his system and I'll

tell you if if I'm concerned about his

dementia at his age

uh no I think everybody who thought he

was too old saw an old man yelling at a

teleprompter and it didn't look good and

everybody who's trying to pretend he's

not too old saw him in command and full

of energy and seizing the moment and

winning the day so let's not pretend any

of this is

objective well as uh Adam Townson said

and acts s Senator state senator Katie

Britt is some kind of a rising GOP star

so she did the

rebuttal uh I would like to give you my

impression of listening

to Katie Brett give the

rebuttal click let's see what the

rebuttal looks like oh god oh oh god oh

oh God turn it off turn it off turn it

off did any of you make it through

that her voice and her Charisma are like

anti- charismatic who in the world

thought she's the next

Obama that's the worst thing I've ever

seen it was a total car wreck now if I'm

saying that now remember I'd like I'd

like to see the Republicans do well in

this

election why in the world did they pick

her what what is going on with that

and then uh one of the other I forget

who one of the women in Congress I

think said why did you put her in a

kitchen they put her in a kitchen so so

the Republicans finally you know which I

suppose is not uh I'm sure they've had

women do the response before but it's uh

you know if they're trying to show that

they're

open-minded that they put their rising

star in a kitchen

seriously and then have addressed you

know

semi you know maybe like business casual

but something you might have been

wearing in the kitchen as

well

terrible oh my God uh Haley did the 2016

response yeah now Haley is a very

credible speaker I mean there's a reason

she did relatively well she had I I

would consider

haly very good very good public speaker

above average but uh poor Katie Britt

yeah she's she's not ready and she

doesn't sound like a serious person

actually all right so that didn't work

out for the

Republicans um tuer Carlson is doubling

down on saying that

uh the Biden can't win and that's that's

obviously going to be rigged and he says

that they're basically saying it loud

and um they meaning Democrats and he

talks about the U attorney

general

um what's his name what's our attorney

general's name Merrick Garland um and

how he is out there in public talking

about getting rid of IDs for voting and

doing more mail-in ballots and basically

everything that makes your vote less

credible so he's literally out there

just strongly promoting things that

really don't have a purpose other than

cheating they they really don't there's

no other purpose and to even pretend

there's some other purpose other than

cheating is a little too far I I can't

go there I can't wrap my brain around

the fact that there's any legitimate

reason to not require ID you know the

whole black people don't have ID thing

is is beyond absurd because you know

what I don't want to fix here's a

problem I don't want to

fix I I don't want to get more votes

from people who can't figure out how to

get an

ID does anybody want that if you were to

talk to black American voters you say uh

you know Hey sir do you vote well yes I

do all right well as a as a voter do you

think that uh black voters black people

who can't get an ID do you think that

they should vote what would a black

voter say

I don't know actually but what would a

black voter

say to the idea that um black people who

can't get an ID should be adding to the

political process what exactly are they

adding they're they're Brilliance their

preferences why are we trying to solve

this problem what problem is being

solved none yeah they're they're doing

the disenfranchised stuff do you think

somebody who doesn't have a government

ID

is worried about being

disenfranchised that might be the last

thing they're worrying about oh I'd hate

to be

disenfranchised I don't have a bank I

don't have a job I don't have a I don't

have a credit card I don't have a a way

to buy things without cash and cash is

going to go away no you have much bigger

problems than being disenfranchised from

voting for somebody you haven't paid

attention

to anyway

um so Tucker is right but the funniest

thing he said was he referred to Chris

Hayes on MSNBC and I quote as the most

famous lesbian in

television so that's something Tucker

said the most famous lesbian in

television

uh

I I laugh because it's so

wrong now now the thing is that's not an

insult to lesbians is

it I don't believe I don't believe

anybody's trying to insult lesbians with

that it's more like it's more like Chris

Hayes is just morphing to whatever he

needs to be so to me it just sounds like

a Chris Hayes insult it's kind of funny

but I wouldn't say it if I thought it

was intended to be insulting to lesbians

I love my

lesbians I'm Pro

lgbtq you know I always say the same

thing it I I'll be

anti-lgbtq the same day that you say we

don't want to go into that neighborhood

because it's you know kind of a crappy

neighborhood it's full of lgbtq people

never happened it will never happen yeah

there's no such thing as that dangerous

gay neighborhood or or the the the

lesbian neighborhood where they didn't

clean up their yard or something like it

just doesn't happen probably if you were

going to you know just be a jerk and

rank people they would rank near the

top yeah if if you just said what do you

want a citizen to contribute to the

world and just ranked everybody they'd

be toward the top toward the top so no

I'm as Pro lgbtq as you can get but you

know everybody every interest group can

go too

far uh but I'm very

Pro

all right RFK

Jr uh said neither my uncle nor my

father would recognize the version of

America that we have today and he talks

about we're becoming a nation of chronic

illness so I mentioned this and violence

and loneliness He also mentioned the

loneliness and

depression you know I think this whole

loneliness and depression thing uh is

maybe a lot more complicated than we

think you know your first thought is

well go make a

friend if you're all if you're all

lonely go make a friend that doesn't

really work for a men do you know most

men have zero friends I I saw some

somebody say that like you're lucky if

you have one you know and by friend I

mean somebody who comes over to your

house and you go over their house that

sort of

thing yeah and a lot of people are zero

um a lot of people are saying it in the

comments you have zero friends that's a

lot of people with zero friends so why

is that well I would like to

offer some

possibilities uh one is you know we

spend a lot of time on our devices of

course the obvious

but I think people don't have anything

in common

anymore that we're we're so divided and

so different in our interests it's hard

to find somebody that you want to spend

time with on a regular basis because

your interests are so

different and then of course I remember

a day when

um it's funny that this used to be true

and it's not anymore do you all remember

a day when if you got invited to a party

it didn't matter what the politics of

the host were do you remember that

didn't make any difference like

literally zero

difference five not five years ago but

before Trump but after Trump uh I lost

100% of you know my Democrat only

friends which was most you know where I

live it was most of them so that just

you know wiped out most of my social

life yeah and then you've got the dating

problem as well so there are pretty good

reasons why we're uh lonely and a lot of

it has to do with being uh you know out

of shape and having chronic illness and

and all that stuff so I think our food

supply is part of it I think our food

supply is everything from our health

care cost to our quality of living to

depression to

anxiety um all right so there's another

story of in the OS n Defender account I

saw there's a a US Army intelligence

analyst who's who sold a whole bunch of

top secret military things to China for

42,000

it makes me wonder does China have any

problem at all buying our

secrets this guy

sold like really important

secrets about our air defenses and stuff

like that our technology for

$42,000 I mean don't you think that

China just has everything they must have

everything if you could get it for

$42,000

so I don't know if this is uh you know

he's innocent till proven guilty but it

doesn't sound

good the leftover fetuses from IVF

bother

you uh all right let's talk about Tick

Tock the house panel unanimously

approved a bill now that doesn't mean

the bill has been voted on it's just the

panel that's coming up with the bill uh

that could ban Tik Tok from all us

phones and tablets

if

enacted us phones and tablets okay um

now here's the

thing do you think that's going to get

voted on and it's going to get

banned because I think I think the ban

is really a ban only if uh bite dance

doesn't sell it to an American

interest now uh my information as of

this morning is that there's no

buyer now that doesn't mean there won't

be but at the moment there's no buyer so

that would mean that uh if the bill

passed Tik Tock would just be shut

down

now I I just don't think there's any

chance of it happening what do you

think is there any chance that the

larger Congress and Senate will vote to

kill Tik

Tock because Tik Tock is very popular

with the young and the Democrats need

the Young and there might be people who

are working for China and then you've

got your Rand Pauls who uh don't want to

ban it because of free

speech all right let me deal with the

Rand Paul complaint so you know that

typically I love my ran Paul uh but he's

in my opinion analytically just totally

wrong on this one now he he says it's a

free speech thing and you don't want to

be against free speech so don't ban it

now I like the simpl ly the argument

however it's not really a free speech

question let me give you um another

example as a say a mental

experiment let's say you had a terrorist

who captured a US citizen in a foreign

country and the terrorist was probably

going to kill them and they were you

know under duress and then uh the

captured person produces a of those

captive videos where they say Isis is

great you know and all the things you

know are lies

now should let let's say that the

military uh gets a hold of it should the

military provide it to the world because

you know Free Speech or should they say

this is more of a military thing and we

should prevent it because we don't want

more of these

videos is it would it be a violation of

free speech to prevent a terrorist

video that featured an American saying

something with their own

voice would it would it be a violation

of free speech to suppress that for

military

purposes now remember it's h it would be

coming from another country and the

video is not being made by the person

speaking but they are it's an American

speaking now I would say that's not free

speech that there's you know a minor

element of somebody who's American who's

saying something but he's not saying

something he

believes and it's being done for

military purposes you know terrorist

purposes I would say that's not free

speech that's a enemy using a

weapon I believe we can stop a weapon

but not free speech so the fact that a

weapon has some free speech embedded in

it shouldn't stop you from being able to

stop a

weapon do you agree and I say that Tik

Tok is a

weapon the way it's used now because

although the H the people using it

probably are mostly looking at American

content they're producing it and

consuming American content

mostly um but who gets to decide who

sees

What whose Free Speech are we protecting

see the the free speech of an American

to say something is still available

because they can go to any platform and

say it except Tik Tock if it if the ban

happens but if they say it on Tik Tock

the presumption is that how many people

see it and hear it is is going to be

determined by a Chinese

company so what's only being banned is

the ability for a Chinese company to

determine how much free speech Americans

have we're not we're not Banning the

Americans Free Speech we're Banning

China's ability to regulate our Free

Speech because that same person can just

walk over to Facebook or meta or any

place else and just do the

speech right so really it's about the

the the danger of the

tool and the fact that there's a free

speech element in it is true and it's

it's not nothing but it's so much less

important than the fact that we're

brainwashing our youth to rip off their

own genitals I mean I think that

matters all

right um I have a suspicion that

something else is going on here which is

if if it turns out that this gets

voted um let's say here my guess is

it'll get um

defeated because I think there are too

many people in Congress who either rely

on Tik Tok for their election or you

know don't want to make their young

voters mad or um some other reason but I

think it'll be turned down now I haven't

heard anybody say uh that the vote

counter say that it has the votes

usually you hear that pretty early don't

you am I wrong usually with something

like this a high-profile thing you hear

right away whether whether it's likely

to pass that's completely missing in the

story that that's like a giant dog not

barking isn't it I mean just like think

about that

that that we don't we don't hear whether

it's likely to

pass we always know that in advance and

for some reason this one that story is

missing so I think it's going to fail uh

because I think Democrats are unable or

unwilling to ban it

but I'm going to give you a conditional

um

prediction conditional

prediction if it flies through and gets

past then there's something else going

on because nothing really changed from

the last time they tried to do it and it

didn't work the only thing that could

have changed is maybe our intelligence

people said you know what it would be

great if we're the ones who controlled

this so if there's a if you see suddenly

there's an American company that just

pops out pops up out of nowhere and says

hey I'll buy it you maybe a Microsoft

somebody

else then you would have to assume that

the that they're in cahoots with the

intelligence people who just want to

control it like the rest of the

platforms so if uh Microsoft bought it

for example uh I would assume that they

had already worked out an agreement in

which these CIA or FBI or whoever has a

back door so I think the problem with

Tik Tock is our intelligence people

don't have a back

door so that's my

summary that the real problem with Tik

Tok from the perspective of the people

who are really in charge of our

government the intelligence people is

that they don't have access to it the

back door and China does so certainly

America wants to be the only one who has

access to the social media platforms so

that they can tweak it as they did with

the Twitter Twitter files or at least

know what people are

doing all right uh

so so if it turns a company wants to buy

it and then actually gets away with

buying it that's going to tell you a lot

about that

company you might not want to know that

stuff all right I saw a article that uh

people think they can do lie detecting

by just looking at people and that it's

not true that there are no reliable

nonverbal cues from

Liars do you believe that do you believe

that you can't tell who's

lying uh by look looking at the body

language well they did some tests and

they said that um people look for when

when you can't look somebody in the eye

but they found there's no difference

between liars and non- Liars in terms of

eye contact probably that's more about

being shy right and then they also said

there's no correlation with fidgeting so

if you look

nervous it didn't make much difference

to you know predicting whether you were

lying do you believe that

I believe it because by the time

somebody's trying to determine if you're

lying it's already a tense situation so

I I could imagine everybody's fidgety if

they're being accused of lying uh and it

matters uh but here's so their take is

that the way you can detect lying the

best is by looking at what they say or

don't say their choice of words now I've

told you the same thing that choice of

words always tells you what's going on

the day before uh Nikki Haley uh dropped

out of the race do you know what she

said I'm not dropping out of the

race

yet she actually said

yet and I said oh you going to do it

tomorrow and then she did it

tomorrow yeah yeah if if somebody puts

yet at the end of a sentence they mean

yet they mean it she's very clearly

was telling you she was lying cu the yet

told you she was going to do it tomorrow

and she did now I do agree that words

are a better detector however here's

what they have wrong the eyes definitely

tell you if somebody's lying now there

are a few exceptions a psychopath's eyes

will not tell you anything because

they'll tell you a lie the same as even

with details the same as if they told

the truth you can't tell the difference

if they're Psychopaths or sociopaths if

if somebody's a

professional let's say a trial

lawyer they would also be practiced at

keeping their face you know normal while

they tell something that isn't

true but if you catch somebody in a

casual spontaneous situation and they're

not a professional their eyes will tell

you everything you need to know you just

have to look for it Rachel mow does the

rapid

blinking watch it when she's listening

when she's listening she blinks normally

when she saying something that everybody

agrees with and is obvious normal but

then when she does her closer it'll be

something like and that's why Trump is

uh going to give a reach around to

Putin and then she goes into the rapid

blinking so it it's not a

coincidence and then you look at the

people the Democrats who do the

wide-eyed thing the wideeye thing is

just the easiest tell

you can see that right away you know

it's like three fake things and then one

widey thing it's like uh yes the uh the

the rate of uh let's see the

unemployment rate is uh looking pretty

good and uh you know the job claims are

good um but Trump is the one that let

people in the

border and then her eyes go big and you

can see the wrinkles in the forehead

because the the the eyebrows go up when

they lie it's very

obvious all right

um uh Fox News is reporting that almost

all the hospitals are trying to increase

the racial

diversity

so among the

leadership so

uh you might have some risk of flying or

going to the hospital that's a little

extra now I hasten to say not because of

diversity that's not the point there's

no risk that comes from just

diversity the risk is trying too hard to

get

diversity do we all agree on that the

problem is not the diversity it's the

trying too hard in a situation where the

pipeline doesn't have enough to to

select you know the the one thing that

the Republicans absolutely get wrong

like just terribly terribly wrong is is

they should say that systemic racism is

real and the only place you can stop it

is in the early

school that's what they should say

systemic racism totally real and the

only place you can stop it you know

practically is making sure everybody has

a good education if you have a good

education it won't bother you as much

you'll be able to slice through it as an

adult but if you don't and you don't

have any

skills yeah

probably it does matter what your

ethnicity is but you want to make it not

matter by just being capable that's

usually all you need so yes the

Republican should be saying we love

diversity we hate forced diversity

because it forces you to try too hard

and then bad things

happen that's what I

say

um all right all right so uh there's a

study that says a single dose of LSD can

give people lasting Anxiety Relief and

the US the FDA has granted uh

breakthrough therapy status to

LSD um amazing to treat generalized

anxiety disorder now that just means uh

breakthrough therapy does that mean you

can do it or that means you can test it

let's see Dev must go still has to go

through trials

so I guess that's just a approval to get

to go into a trial

right just approval for a trial yeah

which is good still want to do the

trial this is the funniest statement

from it the most common adverse effects

of the

LSD um are usually only on the day of

the dose uh and some of the problems are

hallucinations euphoric mood abnormal

thinking headache dizziness and

nausea you know what I've known a

billion people who have done LSD I've

never heard a single person said they

have a headache disiness or

nausea has anybody had that side

effect disne or

nausea because I'm sure we got some day

Trippers in

here I've never heard of it but you know

like every other drug there's some

people who have bad effects I do not

recommend LSD

or any other drug only your doctor can

recommend

that

um

so there's a there's a book I think Elon

Musk was recommending it people were

talking about it I forget the name of it

but one of the takeaways is that the

reason all of our children are uh

anxious and incompetent it seems is that

uh the only way you become capable and

confident is by doing tasks and

succeeding now that does match

observation now let me ask you how many

of you have had kids let's say you know

recently and have you ever tried to ask

them to do

something that it's very kid dependent

you know every kid's different here's

what happens in the modern world all

right kid when you come home from school

uh I want you to do some um work around

the house to earn let's say to earn a uh

earn an

allowance what happens what happens in

the real world if you say all right

we're going to give you some discipline

you're going to do some stuff around the

house when you get home what

happens in the real

world in the real world the kid says oh

I have so much homework let me do the

homework first and when I'm done CU you

would agree dad I mean I think you'd

agree homework's more important so I'm

going to do the homework first and then

if time is left you we'll do those

chores and then Dad says um okay well I

don't want you to have a bad grade in

School how much homework do you have oh

hours oh

man all right well okay we'll do it your

way yeah do your homework and then catch

up with me and we'll we'll do those then

what happens they run out of time which

they always knew right they always knew

they'd run out of

time so what happens if your kids have

shared

custody have you ever been in that

situation where the kids are with you

half the time and half the time with

another

parent and then you want to tell the

kids all right kids you're you're going

to have chores to do at my house even if

the other parent doesn't do it in my

house you're going to do chores what

happens then then the kid

says there's no way I'm doing chores at

your house I'll go live with the other

parent and that's it game over because

no parent wants to say okay go live with

the other parent because they will they

actually will you lose your kids so in

um so let's say you say all right kid

you keep messing around uh so I'm going

to punish you nobody punishes kids for

doing their homework instead of their

chores there's just nothing you can do

there's just nothing you can do so

modern children are basically freerange

chickens that can kind of do what they

want now I know every Situation's

different and there are there are kids

who are

born able to do their homework and their

chores and they want to do

both that's a thing but there's a whole

bunch of you know average kids who are

just they'll never do the things that

that make them confident when I look at

the number of things I did as a kid just

things like how many different things I

did like my my normal weekend would be

um your uncle the farmer needs somebody

to help uh stack up the hay bales so one

day I'm stacking hay bales uh your uncle

the farmer it's the sapping season so

you could be walking through the snow

and carrying big buckets of sap that

came from trees all

right and you know one day I'd be

shoveling snow moving furniture mowing

lawns um you know I'd play three

different

sports um it was just one thing after

another that I had to navigate I had to

figure out how to do it and then I had

to do it and you know no screens so I

developed insane confidence almost to

the point of having too much because

every time I did something it

worked mow the lawn oh you it might be a

problem but it worked yeah so uh by the

time I got to

college

um I I've never I don't know I think I

told this story in the man cave by the

time I got to college I practically took

over the college because everything I

tried up to that point worked so working

with some uh some of my classmates who

lived in the dorm we said hey why don't

we run the dorm and get rid of the

resident assistant and we'll take the

money and get single rooms for

ourselves do you know how crazy that

sounds we literally sat in our dorm room

and said huh why is there like this

adult in our dorm we're adults why do we

need an adult to watch adults how about

we vote and we'll pick you know we'll

pick somebody in the building and we'll

get paid instead you know the students

will get paid from the college and we'll

just do that work so we actually pitched

it to the

college and you know they said well you

know if you can get people to agree to

it for next year we'll try it and so we

did so we went out and got people to

agree to it who were going to live there

next year um and then we had an election

and the three of us who came up with

this idea we ran against other people so

other people could have won the election

and gotten those jobs that we created

but we won because we'd created the

whole situation so I ended up you know

managing the

dormatory but there was also one

business on campus it was a coffee house

so it was the only entertainment live

entertainment get a beer kind of place

on campus and the people who ran it were

volunteers so I volunteered to take over

the the finance part because I was an

economics major and uh I redid the the

entire account in finance uh for Class

Credit I just created a class for myself

I said hey there's no accounting process

here how about I work with my accounting

professor and if I created an accounting

process for a business he should give me

credit and he thought so too so I got

accounting credit for creating an

accounting system for a real business

and then maintaining it which which

allowed me to learn accounting you know

Inside Out by the time you're done the

way the classroom couldn't do it it was

really good so that was my college

experience

so I ran the

biggest uh entertainment industry in the

college I was one of three managers in

my dormatory and then we started

building uh interlocking

directorates we formed an olig

oligarchy this is a real thing so we uh

one of our friends uh ran for the head

of the student council so we had a

student council head in our dorm the

head of the local radio station was our

best friend so we owned like all the

entities you know the leaders of all the

entities so anything we wanted to do we

had all the free publicity you know just

everything so

basically because I grew up in a um do

this I don't know how to do this well

you will in a

minute that was was my life do this I

don't know how to do that you will

you're going to know how to do this by

the time you're done and then you do it

over and over and over and repeat and

repeat by the time I was 18 I didn't

think anything could stop me now there

were certainly things that could stop me

so it's you know more of a mindset but

my mindset was I don't see why anything

would stop me here's another example uh

we wanted to play indoor soccer but the

gym had you know limited capacity and it

was always cold in the winter you

couldn't play outoors so I said how come

we can't just rent space like everybody

else did and they said well the only

people who can you know um Reserve time

in the gym are people who have like

organizations so if you were like a

league or an organization or something

you know you could do it so I said

what's it take to form an

organization and he said well you know

you fill out this paperwork and the dean

approves it or whatever and I said where

do I get the paperwork and I said well

you know go to the Dean's office or

whatever it ask for it the business

office so I go to the business office I

get the paperwork I fill it out I hand

it to the dean and I was a soccer club

so I was the only one in my dorm that

could uh I I could schedule time in the

gym all I did was identify a problem and

then I said okay what's the solution and

then I just just slog through it like

everything else i' done to that point in

my

life so how do you get rid of

anxiety how do you get rid of

depression that's how an unending series

of challenges which you eventually

succeed at almost every time you know

because they're not such big challenges

that you can't do

it so by the time I got my um my big

break to become a cartoonist

um I thought it would work by the time I

wrote my first book my first you know

book that wasn't just Comics I said this

will be a bestselling book number one

bestseller book I hadn't even taken a

writing class except one two-day class

in business writing and it became a

number one book now I have a level of

you I'm sure you've you've witnessed it

I have a level of um confidence

that's

unnatural because it is unnatural it's

it's a learned preferred mindset that

I've developed over time but it's not

based on reality you know if I take a

moment to say well in

reality you could definitely be

stopped but I just don't live my life

like I can be stopped I just assume if I

if I see something that's wrong with the

entire

country like you know fentanyl or

anything else I say to myself I could

probably put a dent in that you know I

might be able to change the narrative on

that uh I just don't think anything can

stop

me uh and that's how you get rid of your

anxiety I just figure always a way out

and so far so good all right so if you

can figure out how to get your kids to

do something useful in today's world it

would be really good for them just so

they can succeed over and over

again oh yeah uh you always say the

rules don't apply to you I say that all

the

time that's one of my favorite say is

that the well I say the odds don't apply

to me yes you're saying the rules don't

apply but I think you're saying the odds

and maybe that's a little more expensive

than what I'm saying so if I if I embark

on something where it's unlikely people

would ever succeed at it I just don't

think it applies

I just think it's up to me and I just

live my life that

way all

right you were yeah if you I also worked

in a lab you know an engineering sort of

lab and the phone company and we had

unlimited daily problems that we had to

solve you know why something wasn't

working pretty much we always did I

don't think there was ever case where we

just said ah just give up we always

figured it out

somehow all

right uh is there any story that I

missed before I uh sign

off yeah Carrie said some things about

the Ukraine

war jobs build confidence too yeah it's

always good to change

jobs so I've changed jobs um oh let's

see in the comments how many times you

tell me how many times you've changed

jobs so far and that that just as an

adult I probably had 20 different jobs

as a teenager but as an adult I've

changed jobs now I also changed jobs

within companies so I'm going to count

all of that change jobs

maybe

um maybe 15 times if you count adding

jobs maybe 12 to 15

times and every time you change jobs and

you know you get up to speed and the new

job there's your

confidence yeah if you include within

the company yeah and a lot of you are

having numbers from um six is a very

common number a whole bunch of you have

six that's very common for some

reason you've been a cook and an IT

director huh

uh oh yeah so um there's a

covid uh vaccine liability bill that's

being floated I don't think it'll pass

but uh the idea would be that uh the

company that gives you the meds would be

responsible if something happens see

here's the

problem the problem is the vaccine

companies are going to say we won't make

any vac Vines because the liability is

too

big um so it seems like a obvious and

good idea um and RFK JR says the same

thing but look what you wouldn't

have would would you agree that there

are some vaccinations that

work do you believe that I'm not talking

about covid but do you believe there's

any vaccination that

works you don't think it prevents the MS

yeah so here's the thing none of those

would exist if the companies had to take

full liability because if you've got

something that could make 10 million

people

die you don't go into that business at

all if you're already making money yeah

so the argument for not having that

liability is actually pretty good um

maybe they should have some kind of cap

or

something there should be a cap on the

liability because unlimited liability

means you're on of business and nobody

would do that drug yeah if you already

had let's say you're a big drug company

you're fiser and you have uh a dozen you

know blowout money-making

drugs so you're making money on the

drugs you have and then the government

says oh we really need this new drug uh

but you're going to be

liable and then they say how many people

are going to take it well everybody

so 100 million people will take it at

least you go all right 100 million

people if 5 million of them have a bad

reaction I'm out of business I'm

completely out of

business so it would be irrational for

fizer ever to make another vaccine for

anything even if it was a good

idea any arguments for not putting a cap

on liability on any

product yeah if there's a company that

makes one product and it kills

people you don't need a cap you can take

100% of their money and close them down

it's just that if you're already

profitable with other lines of business

they're all at risk with the the new

Venture and that's not normally the case

so it would be bad business decision to

do a new vaccine if you had all

liability true with all

products not really not now now do you

do you think that the

iPhone has the same risk as a vaccine or

an

iPad does my microphone have the same

liability risk ow it hit me in the eye

no most things you can reasonably know

that your limit your liability is sort

of just naturally capped but vaccines

have

unlimited I mean it could be a hundred

billion dollar fine you know or not fine

but let's say

lawsuits get rid of school of act

mandates yeah that's another

topic yeah none of us like the

Mandate I wonder if we'd be talking

about the Mandate if the vaccination

worked and was

safe do you think you'd care or would

you just say H not I yeah you you'd care

on an intellectual level but you

wouldn't

care you know you'd put it in your next

time I have an intellectual argument

I'll I'll pull this out but you wouldn't

care you know as long as everybody did

well and you did well and nobody died

you wouldn't care you really

wouldn't mandatory only matters

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if when they are mandated there should

be compensation but would the

compensation from your come from your

government or from the

vaccine I think the compensation would

have to be from whoever mandated it not

from the vaccine

company because otherwise it never

happens there there would be no vaccine

if the vaccine company if the government

mandates it they're going to have to

they're going to have to Ure

it although you could argue with it in a

way they do

because they they end up up being on the

hook for a lot of the

healthcare

um yeah there's another icton study I

don't believe in the news today and it

doesn't matter which way it goes or

anything else I just don't believe any

Ian study by the way it may very well

have been a miracle drug but I don't I

don't believe any data about the

pandemic there

always we have so many

mandates I I don't think you you know

the medical mandates are worse I'll give

you that but we have a lot of

mandates go look at the old data about I

yeah it's like there's some things that

can't be

communicated watch this here's something

that I can say it it can be very clear

but I can't make you hear it

I will not under any

circumstances and there's nothing you

can do that will change my

mind believe any data from the

pandemic and then somebody will say but

what about this

study

no listen to

me none of it don't believe any of it

doesn't mean I reting doesn't work I'm

just going to say I'm not going to

believe because the study said it did do

not believe

yeah if there's any money linked to it

it's all you need to

know yeah you can still post

them I I might not be reporting

them uh you're in a weird segment space

with only a few dozen people what's that

mean all

right um that's all I got for now

and uh

maybe no my internet's still out so I

guess that's what I'm going to be doing

all day

today yes it's massage night I will

uh see you in the man cave earlyish and

I'll talk to you then bye for

now