Episode 2610 CWSA 09/27/24

stocks are up a little bit today that's looking good what What's Happening Here There we go comments are working lights are good I got my notes good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called coffee with Scott Adams and I guarantee you've never had a better time but if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can understand with their tiny shiny human brains all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass a tanker chel orstein aen juger flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparallel pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous zp and it happens now go ah so good thank you Paul always appreciate it well um I'd like to uh start with the news that will make us all feel Dumber are you ready uh Elon Musk posted this on X he said once you understand the Kardash kardashev scale it becomes utterly obvious that essentially all energy generated will be solar all right okay so everybody good on that I mean I I assume you all you all understand the Kardash of scale wait what you don't oh oh come on I thought everybody knew the kardashia scale all right well I looked it up for you just in case you didn't know according to Google the Kardash of scale which I still can't pronounce smoothly it's a method of measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement based on the amount of energy that is capable of harnessing so now it all makes sense so it's a scale of uh the advancement based on the amount of energy okay now that we understand that once you understand that it becomes utterly obvious that essentially all energy generation will be so oh okay got it everybody got it I have no idea what any of that means yeah no idea so um but but apparently when you dig into it a little bit and you look at the arguments so the argument is that uh it wouldn't take much space in the United States to generate all of the Power we'll ever need now I don't know if that calculation was done before AI said we'd need 10 times as much power I also don't think that they had ability to compare solar power over the next I don't know 50 years versus is nuclear power because you'd have to make all kinds of assumptions that nuclear power doesn't do so well but solar power keeps improving I don't think that's true it has been true for 20 or 30 years but don't think it's true now because there's a lot of attention to the nuclear field so if you uh if rolls Roy or somebody comes up with a really good economical small portable new nuclear energy thing that changes everything so I'm not sure that this is as true as it might have been before nuclear got a Renaissance well here's something that's amazing possibly according to Nature uh the publication not you know not mother nature but the publication nature um there was a experiment in which they use stem cells to treat a woman's diabetes and not only did it work she can eat sugar again and she's making her own insulin this is somebody who couldn't make insulin and they did stem cells and now she can make insulin and she can eat normal food what how big a deal is that now again this is a limited test it's not uh not proven for any large population but if you can get even one diabetic who could not make insulin and you can make them make insulin with stem cells holy cow wow I mean that that that's like a wow that's as big as the biggest wow now is it true well I guess we'll find out so I can't go so far as to say you know it's a done deal but I can't imagine it would ever work for one person and not work for other people that you know my brain can't calculate that CU it created an ability that didn't exist it's not like it cured a disease if the only thing you done is cure a disease then I'd say well you know maybe somebody would have gotten over it anyway on their own because that happens sometimes but I don't think anybody with diabetes has ever regenerated the ability to create insulin has that ever happened naturally so looks like a pretty good sign science um here's a fun little study new Atlas is talking about it um very different than the old Atlas this is a publication new Atlas and they tested a specific video game to see if it make people feel good now this is not generalizable to firstperson shooter games and or anything like that now we know people like playing video games that's why it's so big but would it have any lasting benefit on your happiness and of all the things that they could test they pick the smartest one yeah you think about all the different video games that would have an impact and exist they picked one called power wash now apparently power wash i' never heard of it but it's a video game where you come upon dirty objects and use a power washer to clean them off and that's kind of it you just power wash things until they're clean now apparently people who do that have some kind of lasting uh small but a lasting Improvement in moods More than 70% of the participants became happier because I used a video game to wash dirt off of an object now do you think they needed to do that or could they have just asked me well if they had been testing something like you know generic regular games I wouldn't have had anything to add but if you came to me and said hey I've got a video game where with very little effort you're going to feel that you accomplished a task do you think that'll make people happier I would have said oh oh hold your horses you don't need to do that study because one of the things we do know is that people are happier when they have the sense of accomplishing a task and then they would say to me but Scott they're not actually accomplishing a task it's just the video game to which I would say hold on hold on you're talking to a hypnotist no difference I would have been able to predict that would make you happier I guarantee I could have gotten that one right just based on the hypnosis and the fact that uh fiction and truth will have a you know a similar directionally not as powerful but a similar directional effect very well understood and we definitely are happier when we complete things I I think something similar probably could have happened with Tetris do you remember Tetris you had to get the little falling blocks right in in line so they line up and stuff to me that was a bunch of accomplishing tasks and I'll bet you if you did the same study on Tetris you would find that it made people happier because they were completing tasks now I do understand that a regular video game where there's more you you a story an adventure you know there's still completing of tasks but I feel like those are more about feeling like you're never really done so if you're doing sort of a war game with levels and stuff aren't they trying to make you feel like you never completed it I'm not sure that would make me happy but if you tell me you've completed the cleaning of the power washing of that dirty car in that driveway I would actually feel like I did something cuz I don't have to do that again and it's not connected to a larger Mission anyway there's another study that says that eating fish is linked to lower risk of cognitive decline that's right you will get less dementia if you eat if you eat fish um suggests the study now when I say suggests I'm going to compliment them this is in s poost publication because the way worded the headline is eating fish linked to lower risk of cognitive decline thank you that is the correct way to put that it is not a cause of better mental health it's linked now can anybody come up with anything that would be a reason that eating fish would be linked but not a cause of better mental health well it took me about 1 second to go to grock and say is there any correlation between income and dementia and of course there is the Richer you are the less dementia you get surprised well is there any correlation between intelligence and income well yes or yes the more intelligent you are the higher your income the higher your income the more likely you're going to eating sushi instead of fast food at Mc.

Donald's now I know that Mc.

Donald's can give you a fish stick or some damn thing but basically if you're eating fast food you're eating other stuff so it seems to me that smart people are less likely to get dementia because they're going to be using their brains more that's what smart people do so they become rich and then the rich people eat a lot of fish because rich people eat more fish they live they go on vacations to Hawaii and eat fish and they live by the Beach and they fish and they can afford more to get fish so doesn't surprise me but it's not a correlation I think it's a correlation without causation is my best guess although it might be causation it just you can't tell by the study um so according to daily wire there are some big donors like Bill Gates and other liberal Mega donors and they're funding some plan to make sure that the news news rooms around the world have uh greater um The Daily wi says hysteria but uh literally there is a funded program to try to convince the news to talk about climate change a lot more and they literally say to try to work it into every conversation so you know you always joke about the news says uh it rained all because of climate change you're like really it's not everything's not about climate change there's a war in Ukraine well it's going to get worse because of climate change and you say really really how how are you jamming climate change into the Ukraine war I don't see it and trade routes are going to change because of climate change really international trade you work you work climate change into that conversation it turns out that's a strategy and it's highly funded and is from people who definitely have an influence on the news so that's terrible now the way you would look at this story is if you believe that uh climate change was a genuine existential risk you might say well it's about time we got more serious about this with our news so that we'll convince the people to be more serious but if you think it's not true and you think that even if the temperature is going up it's not a existential problem then this would be nothing but fake news and propaganda so since I'm closer to that second view where I don't know if the temperature is going up from human activity or not but I'm pretty sure it's not going to kill me and there not going to be an existential threat um so that's where I'm in that's where I'm at so to me it looks like propaganda not helping the world well here's some good news thank God finally California apologize for slavery they did it in writing and um Joel Pollock and breit bar is writing about this here's the actual apology resolved the state of California apologizes for perpetuating the harms that African-Americans faced by having imbued racial Prejudice through segregation public and private discrimination so have I ever explained what a quote husband apology is have you ever heard me say that if you've never heard this perhaps you'd never been in a marriage with a man and a woman husband you stupid husband doing that thing you did whatever the thing is you did you owe me an apology what did I do the thing you did now you're thinking to yourself I wasn't even in that room and I didn't have anything to do with it but I definitely don't want to be in this convers ation any longer so what do you think I did well you move the scissors from the good drawer into the other drawer and even if you didn't what do you say you use the husband apology oh I'm sorry I I'm sorry I shouldn't have move those scissors and then you're done because you said the apology did you mean it no of course not does it matter not much you just made the problem go away so it's really about just making the problem go away um so California apologizes for its role in slavery which was basically close to nothing because there it was not a slave state but it did have it did have some sketchy Behavior to be fair for example I believe that California would return escaped slaves that would be supporting slavery so that that's part of the apology so um Governor Nome whatever you want to say about him being you know slimy and lying and any of that other stuff he is really good at the politician stuff and from the very beginning it was obvious that they weren't going to get money and that he was just setting them up for a husband apology he just wanted to send them away for you know a year so he doesn't have to deal with it because the main thing is I don't want to deal with it so he he buys a year or so because they go study it then they come back and say oh we like a trillion dollars or whatever it was something ridiculous and then he says yeah that's great but we don't have that money so I can't give that to you it's politically impossible oh well go back and study some more see what we can do that doesn't involve giving you a bunch of money they go back and study it some more and in the meantime Nome has solved his problem because they're not talking to him then they finally come back and they've got this idea for what I call the husband apology for slavery and Nome says husband apology can do sure yeah and on behalf of all the residents of California I would like to offer my insincere apologies as well so to all descendants of slavery and everybody who was impacted by systemic racism on behalf of California you have my insincere apology I'm sorry I did that to you I really am I won't do it again I swear I will not introduce slavery again and if any any Escape slaves ever come into my state I'm not turning them over I promise you that so anyway racism has been solved in California the rest you loser States need to catch up you wonder why I live in this state people say why do you live in California it's the only state that solves racism I'm not going to move to your segregated stupid ass states with all your racism come to California we've solved that we're way out of you here's an interesting factoid related to this did you know that when Nome first signed the Authority for the committee to go study rep ations when they came back among their reparations were separate schools for black kids what's that called segra segregation segregation that's what it's called so that's what uh that's what California is apologizing for because the racial Prejudice was imbued through segregation they say in the apology so so we're apologizing as a state for something that the reparation committee wanted to do more of because the segregation would solve the segregation of the past okay maybe I don't fully understand this but there's one thing I do understand and it's this I apologize I apologize for all that I'm so sorry are we cool now will you leave me alone now please all right well we've got the new numbers it's time to celebrate because the inflation numbers came in at 2.2% which is we can celebrate this it's below expectations for that we're 2.3 oh oh Standing Ovation we came in at 2.2 instead of 2.3 and let me give you some advice once you're done accurately measuring the temperature of the entire Earth from the atmosphere down to the bottom of the ocean which we've been told we can do otherwise climate change would just be a big joke and we know that's not true so we can measure the Earth but did you know you can look at every transaction in the United States and determine the inflation rate and you'll get it right the first time and you can get it to within 10 tenth of tenth of a percentage so no you can't measure inflation this accurately no it's going to be revised and it's right on the cusp of being on target which means a tiny little revision would make it from less than you expected to more than you expected the tiniest revision do you think that they can measure inflation accurately enough in any given you know month I guess that they that they can know it's off by a 10th no that's not a thing but of course we'll pretend it's a thing and people say that people say that interest rates may be lowered by the FED because of that and the stock market's already dancing around because of that a little bit meanwhile Hillary the most despicable person in the world has doubled down on calling uh Trump supporters deplorable and she said that for some of them it's too kind of a word yeah um so what I love is that she pulled out the deplorable thing right before the election which some people including me thought may have been the reason she lost her election and so she she just saddled K Harris with the deplorable thing because we're going to think it's sort of a general Democrat feeling if if Hillary Clinton is willing to say it out loud so that might make a difference meanwhile Mark Zuckerberg has allegedly identified as a Libertarian because you know we keep wondering is he going to endorse Trump I mean he doesn't seem as anti-trump as we'd expect but we don't know so he's found this uh weak Middle Ground of being a Libertarian and he's hired a Republican strategist to help with his relationship with the political right H um but I think he's described himself privately as a classic liberal meaning a Democrat like the old days that would be me I I would say that I would be like an old school Democrat which is not too far with the exception of uh abortion it's not too far from Trump actually right today so it would be anti-war and uh you know a willingness to help the people who need help but don't go crazy about it that's about where I am uh but at the moment if you are in that category of classic liberalism or something like an old school Democrat Trump is by far closer to your view by far it's not I mean it's not even a conversation really so that's why somebody like RFK Jr and Nicole Shanahan and Bill lman and Elon Musk and me um that's why we could be lifelong old Democrat farts and say you know what the closest to that view is Trump right now if you're just looking at common sense so we'll see where that goes but I would say that Zuckerberg is playing this correctly you know you can say to yourself uh I wish people would be different you know but that's that's just your wish but if you watch somebody who says I got a problem um I'm putting some resource verus toward fixing it and something worth fixing which is his relationship with the political right I applaud that I I I think if he can make a better case that he's just here to help both sides and he doesn't do anything that would be negative for the political right good I you know I've said for a long time and I'm sort of cribbing from other people who know him better Zuckerberg will go down as one of the best CEOs of all of all time would you agree with that I mean you may hate some individual things he's done but it's going to be tough to find a better CEO in the history of the United States so let's give him that and uh if he's moving in the right direction of just trying to see the whole field good anybody wants to see the whole field excellent all right I say the same thing about um you know Jason from y inod you watching Today Jason your name keeps coming up uh no matter what you think of his current arguments he is clearly making a public attempt to understand both sides of the argument and see the whole field where that ends up who knows it doesn't need to end up in any place for you know my for my purposes but anybody who's willing to say let me take some pain you know let me admit I don't know everything thing let me accept a little Bane to figure out what's going on on the other side and I'll I'll integrate that 100% uh I'm I'm so down with that point of view of just trying to understand both sides uh meanwhile Ashley Sinclair St.

Clair um reminds us that in 2020 there were 82.2 million women who voted but only 72.5 million voted so nearly 10 million more votes for women 2020 now I don't think that that will be much changed unless the Gap is even wider um especially since uh you know abortions on the uh on the menu for the election it's not really but people feel like it is so let me add to this conversation if it's true that there are 10 million more women voting than men I assume that something like that applies to every state is that a fair assumption do you think there's any state where the men are voting in greater numbers than the women kind of doubt it there might be there might be a special case um yeah there might be a special case it might be a place where there's a lot of male jobs but not as many female jobs maybe Alaska something like that but generally speaking I would say if there are 10 million more women voting than men um Can the women I just have one request from the women and this will be mostly a request for uh Democrats and left leaning women can you stop bitching to the men about something you have complete control over if you have 10 million more voters men have nothing to do with the abortion laws all you need to do is convince other women that you're right if women don't agree with you don't don't put it on me right and by the way I'm I consider myself not part of the abortion argument because I don't have babies and I think women should work it out and then tell us what they decided on the laws um I know you don't and I'm not going to try to change your mind I'm just telling you what my my position is but really this would be the strongest argument for Trump Mr.

Trump you know why are you blah blah blah you put abortion at risk the correct answer is 10 million more women voted than men women have complete control over the laws on abortion in your states there is a lag and I regret that the time lag will allow some people to not be getting what they want but our system does allow you to get it in the long run it's going to take some work and I'm not sure that you should you have abortion laws that are liberal that's not my preference but the fact fact is we live in a constitutional republic with a democratic layer and if the women want this by a solid solid majority maybe a little bit more than it is now you can get anything you want not just on abortion by the way if you have 10 million more voters you get everything you want everything so stop complaining to men this isn't about men at all this is only about women now abortion has left the domain of men versus women it is just not in that domain it is just women if women decide that it's going to be totally legal it's not going to matter what men say it won't matter at all because we won't be in the in the room with the doctor and you can vote in any law you want I know you don't like that because you think that the women will vote in more um liberal laws than you like but um all right anyway um and I think it's weird no never mind so M MSNBC had a uh some expert I guess come on uh who is saying that uh the Trump people the Trump supporters they represent a a different kind of masculinity you know they have the sort of an alpha and what the expert called a retr masculinity retro you know old school masculinity not the good stuff like Doug mhof and Tim wals so uh the experts said that mhof and wals uh they've got this new kind of more you know acceptable kind of uh masculinity in which they do not feel um in any way diminished or disrespected if they can make space to for women to succeed so um but I would like to add to that uh I'm not going to disagree with that whatsoever I do think that Doug emof and Tim WS make lots of space for a women to succeed by looking like the kind of people we wouldn't want in office so that's two people who are removed from the from the competition for women uh but it should also be noted that the new kind of masculine men have other advantages too I it's not just that they're more supportive of women succeeding which is great um but they're also better with uh um housework way better at filling up the dishwasher uh way better at uh basically all kinds of household cleaning and chores now they're they're not good for sex I think you all know that um I think everybody agrees that the the new kind of sensitive uh non-alpha non retr masculinity bad for sex but excellent for housework and it's not a perfect world you can't have everything at the same time you got to make some choices be an adult will you be an adult you have to make choices and a lot of people have chosen a kind of man who's good for household chores and bad for sex uh my only warning is that they will be the men who are replaced with robots first because robots are going to be good for household chores and bad for sex at least for a while maybe a few months they're probably only one software software update away from being better at sex than betam man but um there's your story all right I told you this before but I keep laughing because it's so funny so Trump had this problem that the Democrats and the the Harris campaign in particular uh in MSNBC kept saying that um Trump was going to implement project 2025 which was written by people who had been supporters of his but he didn't have anything to do with it and had some let's say more extreme Republican right-wing sort of policies than he would be likely to accept so he says he's not even you know that totally knowledgeable about what was even in that other plan he just disavows it as somebody else's work and says you should look at his own work but here's the problem since when does reality and you know reason enter into anything it doesn't so he can say all day long this wasn't my plan but as long as Harris can say yeah but it's your supporter's plan that's close enough for political work right it in my opinion he is going to completely ignore anything in that and he's going to do what he says he's going to do CU we've seen him work for four years as president and we know how he operates there's not really any secrets there so he had this undefeatable problem you you can't just say it's not true because as long as your supporters put it together which is true they're going to be able to paint it as true enough that you should not take a chance on somebody who has any kind of even connection to from the past or support from a group that might be pushing it on him so what's he do it's an unsolvable problem so he comes up with his own project 2025 hes for Cal Harris and then he takes all the things that she said in the past which she says today she doesn't support like reparations and taking your guns and stuff like that and he puts it on the list and says here's your project 2025 and I say well wait a minute won't they just say it's not true yes they will will that work nope it's exactly the same play they can say it's not true all day but if they do they're going to have to talk about what's on it that's not true here's the second question it's not true well what on the list do you disagree with well I disagree with reparation well why is that on the list because I used to say that I loved reparations what changed your mind did slavery go away no um no slavery slavery of course did not go away did systemic racism go away no no it's worse than ever um so all the reasons you were in favor of reparation before have not changed well that's true but I still have to run for office and you know if we don't win we don't get anything so I'm just being practical about winning the office so we can get at least some things that Democrats want and you lose because nobody's going to want to put in office somebody who really really wants the reparations I'll just pick one of the things on the list reparations just as a standin as one thing you don't like if you think that the moment she had the ability to do it she would do it compare that to Trump and a National Abortion ban if Trump had the ability to get a National Abortion ban to pass I don't think there's any chance he would do it because he said he opposes it I actually believe him when he says that stuff well one of the things about Trump is that he was simultaneously the the biggest offender to the fact Checkers I'll just say it that way you know he had the most fact checks against them which the Democrats would call the most lies which then they translate into he's you know dishonest but I don't think I've seen any politician who is more honest to his own opinions meaning that if he said he wanted to build a wall he didn't get it done but damn did he try hard like you you can directly see Sad X try really hard to get X it's the best you can get you know you well I mean it'd be great if you succeeded but sometimes things take longer you got to press harder you know might take two terms so he's very true to what he says he's going to do even if it doesn't work out I I vastly prefer that over somebody who's got to you know technically use the right data in his argument all the time I don't care about that I do care if he tries to do the right things North Carolina election board has reportedly removed over 700,000 ineligible voters huh makes you wonder how many ineligible voters have voted in the past elections there are 700,000 of them in one state not our biggest state not our biggest one 700,000 ineligible voters if those ineligible voters had somehow gotten a mail and ballot and then voted would they have caught it I don't know don't you think that would be the most important thing about this story it's not in the story The most important thing is if this had been abused as a you know a way to cheat in the past would we have caught it is is there some part of the system where they go hey this person whose vote I have in my hand and this mail-in ballot uh they are not an eligible voter I've just checked and even though they're on the role as an eligible voter because remember they only just took them off so if they saw that it was on the list of eligible voters how would they know they're not eligible are they going to check their death certificates during the election I don't think so I think they're going to say you're on the list you're eligible so how you feeling about those elections how about that election Integrity let me put it all together for you we can measure the temperature of the earth including all the atmosphere and the bottom of the ocean for hundreds of years and we're all accurate not only that but we can determine the exact inflation rate very quickly in on time and it will be correct within a tenth of a point yeah so not only that but our elections are pristine pristine never had a rigging problem never will it's really unbelievable the things that we've been told none of these things are even a little bit possible it's not even a little bit possible you can measure the temperature of the earth humans we can't do that that we can calculate inflation I'm sorry um um um not inflation yeah inflation if we can calculate inflation and we can do a do a vote and we would know if there were too many illegal votes and it changed the we can't do that we have no ability in our current system to know who won an election we don't know how to know the temperature and we don't know the inflation if you believe any of those things can be measured in a reliable way you are completely brainwashed there's there's no reason sensibility data there's nothing to support any of those thoughts we can't measure the temperature we can't measure inflation we don't know who wins any elections we going have to live with that because that's our current situation all right um Harris is going to go to the oh it looks like um so here's another uh election thing so we found out that 1% of the voters in one of the very blue counties in the swing state in Wisconsin got uh duplicate ballots 1% in a very important part of a swing state got duplicate ballots in a place where the entire election might come down to 1% which wouldn't be unusual at all and uh the question is is it a coincidence that every time we find one of these little errors it goes in same direction um or or could potentially because they're more Democrats voting by mail um so here's what I think I worry that the Democrats have come upon a cheating strategy and again I'm only speculating this is not based on any data or anything and my speculation is the best way they could hide um election rigging is what I call the multiple oops strategy so if you looked at this 1% of Voters got uh duplicate ballots you'd say to yourself but wait they could vote twice and then the once they get caught but only after they get caught they say oops well that was a a rare weird mistake then later you find out that there were a bunch of dead people on the uh the voting lists and then once you find out but only after you found out you take them off and you say oops oops didn't see that coming how many ways can you say oops before it looks coordinated I feel like there's going to be a whole bunch of accidental little mistakes like well you know we meant to put a Dropbox in that Republican area but I don't know it's missing from the spreadsheet so are you telling me there's no Dropbox in the Republican areas oops oops what the the post office in that uh red area uh one of the employees was bad and left a whole truckload of ballots that probably were going to go to Trump left him in a parking lot until the election was over oops oops well that was just one guy oops I feel like the multiple oops strategy has been implemented whereby there can be enough oopses to change the election for sure but if you're going to look at any one of them it doesn't look like a plot it looks like oops ordinary human mistake just happened to be in the same direction every single time so look for the oops strategy I don't know it but it feels like it's coming keris is going to go to the order to pretend that she did not uh ruin the country in the last three and a half years of absolutely disgusting despicable deplorable dare I say behavior in terms of protecting the Americans from the onslaught of uncontrolled I'm going to call it uncontrolled even though they say it's controlled immigration so we'll have plenty to mock but or uh it might be enough for the dumb Democrats to think she's doing something about the border and it will be a pure propaganda move but even more interesting there are three things happening today I guess Netanyahu is giving some address I think to the UN and or is he in America anyway Netanyahu is going to be saying something that's going to be news and uh Trump is apparently meeting zalinsky today he may already be doing it Trump is meeting zalinski you know what's interesting about that um oh I'm being asked Scott do you think the coordinated multiple oops applies to the Trump assassinations no I don't um no because that would require that all the people who made a mistake were in on it it would be easy to imagine that all the people who who make the oops in the election are in on it because they don't feel like they're going to jail for it right they feel like if they get C they just go oops well we'll correct that right away right they if they can make it look like a mistake I I don't imagine there would be um like six people on the Secret Service and the local police who are all in on the plot that would be that would be a little too much for my imagination to get there it's a good question though I like that question that was a good test of the thinking uh but anyway Trump's going to meet zilinsky today and uh here's what's interesting I don't think this is going to happen but Trump could end the war today he could absolutely end it today do you know how he could do it he just tells zalinski here's the deal if you wrap things up before I get in office you're going to get the best deal that you can get if you wait for me to get an office both you and Putin are going to be way worse off you better do it before I get elected and damn it I'm going to get elected so could you scare zalinski inste saying oh if Trump comes in the war is still going to end but I'll probably be removed yeah right the war is going to end either way let's put it this way imagine Trump saying behind closed do perfectly privately look here's the deal we both know this is going to wind down when I'm president if you'd like to still be in power you're going to do it now and you're going to say that you talked to me you thought that I was going to win and you thought that it would make sense for you to get the best deal you can now don't mention the part about you're not going to be in charge anymore if I'm in charge just say because you you assume that American president can remove the Ukrainian president we all assume that right we assume there's sort of a what would you call it a puppet state at this point so one way or another with funding or something yeah we could just say we will give no reconstruction money to Ukraine unless you get rid of zalinsky done right so I would threaten him and say if you want to be in power when I come to power you're going to wrap it up before I get there and you're going to give me credit for it then he goes to Putin and he says here's the deal if you wrap things up in a way that people think is reasonable and you do it now then we're good when I come into office if I come into office and you're still doing this I'm going to go so hard at you you won't know I hear you and then he ends the war because you know what is interesting about those threats they are all completely doable they're all completely reasonable and history would judge Trump well if they knew every bit of it the ukrainians would be better off the Russian people would be better off Europe would be better off America would be better off they all want it to end everybody wants it to end he could end the war today now again I'm going to persuade against that I don't think he's going to do that you know that would be and it might seem it might be illegal it might be illegal for him to negotiate with a foreign power when he's not in office so I I would ask about the legalities of that but it's not impossible if nobody's listening and he knows is private although that would be I doubt he could ever get a private conversation but if he knew he was Private he could end the war who disagrees do you dis agree with that statement he could put he could put the threat of so much pain on both the leaders that would be completely credible all you have to say is zalinsky you're out of a job and basically people are going to kill you as soon as you're out of the job that would be a real threat and you tell Putin here's the deal you make me happy about ending this war and everything's going to go better for you than if you don't and Putin's going to know that's true that would be a very solid threat that I think the entire world would take seriously so you would be giving both sides an easy out given that they know they have to get out right this is not the Forever War and it's not the war where one side's going to win so they both want out they just need somebody else to force it here it is here's the somebody else to force it that see this is why Trump is not just good at his job he's a oneoff I and I can't say enough about that there's only one Trump you can put Trump in some situations not all of them he's not perfect for every situation but there are some situations that only a trump can solve and he he built himself into that person and you could take a hundred really good politicians and put them in that same position they would do nothing uh uh I'll take somebody I like let's take De.

Santis De.

Santis I have a very high opinion of very solid citizen character uh performance as a governor solid solid guy wouldn't mind to see him president someday wouldn't mind it at all could he solve this in one day no no absolutely not but Trump could he's just one off there's there's only one of them he's the only person who could solve a war in a day so when he said that that didn't even seem a little bit like hyperbole to me now I don't think it's going to happen right I'm betting against it but there's nothing that would stop it except you know if if you if it's illegal then that's a good reason not to do it all right uh K Harris has uh said that the rich people should pay their fair share of the corporations and the billionaires and that's her tax policy don't make me give you details I just want people to pay their fair share and if I said fair share enough hey I've got some words you'd like to hear fair share fair share fair share now you can't beat that because there's no details to argue against so there's a trick I've taught you in Persuasion it's called entering the illusion so rather than saying you dumb there's no such thing as a fair share of anything don't do that that would be a sexist and wrong so here's the right way to do it without all that sexist bad stuff you don't want that um you enter the illusion and you ask them to help you calculate fairness and you say can you give us some details I'd like to know what's fair uh I'm a billionaire and I'd like to pay my fair share so I did some work on this on X uh let me share this with you and I I said that I'm going to need a little help figuring out how to calculate it so really just a calculation problem I'm buying the illusion right I'm accepting the illusion and I'm moving inside it the illusion is that there's something called fair and that if you work a little harder you can figure out what that is that's complete Ridiculousness but if you say that's complete Ridiculousness people will look at you and say no it's not no that's that's that's crazy and they look at you and go oh that's what the billionaire selfish people say and you say no really there's fairness it's just like this weird subjective thing you say there's there's no objective standard there's not even any way to calculate such a thing yes it is right so you can't get anywhere if you stay outside the illusion outside the illusion you have no weapons you got to get inside it inside it says all right I accept I accept your frame that there's something called fairness and we have not achieved it so let's calculate it let's figure out how to figure that out from inside the frame so I said how would I do that I said for example uh during my adult life I've paid about 10 times as much taxes as the average citizen uh because things have going well I made a lot of money in my life and I consume relatively little in public services so how much uh uh will my taxes be cut uh and how much would you raise the taxes on the middle class to get me back to Fair because I think you you would agree that if I pay more than I consume well that's not fair oh oh is that not your definition of fairness but that's fair the fair is that you pay for what you use why would I pay for more than I use while somebody else is getting stuff and not paying that's fair and if you say that is fair say it out loud just tell me that's your standard it's something else or how about this we look at the raw dollar amount without uh looking at who consumed what so forget about let's say we forget about the part of who use the Public Services if you just do the dollar amount well here again I paid 10 times more than other people so I'm expecting a big tax cut and maybe raising the taxes substantially on the middle class to get to fairness to get to fairness oh okay so we're not going to just count the dollar amount but there's still other ways to do this there are lots of ways to calculate this how about we just factor in hours worked so that the people who work the most hours uh are incentivized isn't that fair that the people who work the most would get a little tax break because they contributed the most now here I'm including you could be working the most as a CEO or you could be working the most as a garbage collector a plumber it doesn't matter what your job is if you're putting in lots of hours maybe that should give you a tax cut well I worked seven days a week most of my life probably 60 hours a week on average so I'd be looking for a big tax cut because I'm one of those people who put in longer hours because you should make more money if you work longer hours right isn't that fair the people who work work harder get more money I think we all agree with that that's fair so that would give me a big old big old tax cut or we could go by percentages percentages would be good if you don't want to go by raw dollar amounts let's figure out what's fair on percentages let's see I'm in California so we got a lot of state taxes it's over 133% now and if you had my federal taxes to that my property taxes and my sales taxes um I pay around 60% of my income in taxes 60% so that would be a lot more than the middle class so again I would expect a big tax cut to get me back in the the range of fairness which would be you know something under 50% probably um it could still be Progressive by the way I'm not arguing against progressive tax rates you could still be Progressive but you'd still have to give me a big big tax cut um or that's not the only way so so we've got the raw dollar The Hours worked the percentages those would all give me a tax cut but there's another way we could tax the unrealized gains on assets now that's what Harris is recommending the unrealized gains so for example if you owned a an asset a farm say and it had tripled in value she'll start P taxing you on how much it went up in value which is a problem because the only way you'd be able to pay such a tax is by selling your farm or part of it so that would be called not so much taxation there's another word for that what what do you call it when you take from somebody something that they have and you've been told that they could keep it that'd be called theft theft the word is theft that would be government theft of something you'd already paid taxes on put into an investment form and then they told you you couldn't keep it they're going to take some of it theft now you could pursue that that to give fairness and uh that would achieve fairness I know this is going to surprise you I do consider that fair and what I mean by fair is I would get the out of this country I'd move to El Salvador or somewhere that doesn't do that and I'd go get me some fairness and then everybody who stayed and loved it they'd be living in the country they loved because it'd be all fair but all the smart people who make some money would get the out of this losing country that's trying to steal our money and I'll go anywhere where to keep your paw off of what I worked my entire life to keep but the main point here is not which point which of these methods you pick the main point is I'd like to get inside your illusion let's do a little calculating and let's show our work meanwhile mayor Adams no relationship to me in uh New York he's being uh indicted for it's a little murky to me just because I haven't looked at the details it's not murky but to me it is um so I guess he accepted a bunch of business upgrade luxury travel stuff from some entity in turkey at the same time he was being asked to um help get some approvals of a building that the the Turks wanted to built in New York City that had been held up by some kind of regulatory thing and he did that's so the news says he did intervene and I think it made a difference it made may have sped it up now should he go to jail for that so he accepted luxury travel from some Turks who asked him for a political favor in return which allegedly he did he did the favor so that's a bribe right no it isn't no it isn't now put me on the jury can you put me on the jury let me explain how this works telling an entity in New York City while you're the mayor that they should hurry up in their regulatory stuff because there's no reason it's it's been delayed that's your job that's your job in fact I've done that I've told you this story before years ago when I was in my 20s I I had some issue with the government and entity within the government so I wrote a letter to my um California Senator it was Pete Wilson at the time and I said I've got a problem with this other government entity they're they're holding something up and they said we'll look into it and then I said to myself well that's the end of that they're definitely not going to look into it and then they followed up and they said we looked into it and they actually got me what I wanted because when they looked into it it wasn't really reason for the delay so the delay stopped and a whole bunch of people benefited because Senator P Wilson did a great job for a member of his State I I described a situation where he could just do his normal job uh for his constituents then he would do his normal job and we'd be happier and then he did his normal job and now we're happier so turkey gives him some luxury accommodations how much do I care not at all not even a little bit if if somebody who's a you know a highlevel person who could you know Garner that kind of thing fine it doesn't bother me a bit I wouldn't care if China paid for it or Putin I I I'm happy he was comfortable no problem now maybe there should have been some disclosure or something I don't know but I don't care about it now do I care that turkey in return now that they had sort of a relationship they used their relationship is that is that illegal is it illegal to form a relationship and then use it for Access no no that's not illegal and then they asked for something that would actually be the job of a mayor to make sure that something that's being held up in red tape get solved so then he went and solved their building problem was that bad for New York City is it bad for New York City that a building gets built fast and accurately and then it gets filled with tenants who pay rent no it's good for New York City that's his job his job is to make sure New York City runs now I think there was a a related part where some Turkish or other funders were doing um some kind of fake Grassroots um donations to make it look like it wasn't one entity now that stuff just sounds illegal but I don't know the extent to which um the mayor Adams was even involved with that so that part I have some questions about but the part where turkey gives him some nice trips and then asks him to do his job and then he does his job and it's good for New York City and it's good for turkey that's a little bit too much for I mean to me that looks like lawfare it just looks like lawfare and although we don't know this for sure it would suggest that maybe the real problem here is that he was anti or he wanted to be tougher on immigration and that was causing a problem for the administration so they lawf fired him could be well in the news uh black lives matter of Greater New York got a little attention because they're very much opposed to Mayor Adams now they they just say he's a bad mayor and they've got all kinds of complaints about him in general not just this but uh who do you think was a representative of black lives matter of Greater New York well it's our old friend Hawk Newsome Hawk Nome now if you don't follow the news closely you might confuse Hawk Nome with Hui completely different well as far as I know maybe he's been to a diddy party maybe he hasn't I don't know but in general I'm going to assume that hul Nome and HW Tui are completely different concepts so don't get that confused with the story whatsoever so Hawk is a Founder co-founder of black lives matter of Greater New York with his sister who was also with him who is the other co-founder and uh they were against mayor Adams despite the fact that it's black lives matter and he's black now if you didn't know anything about let's say the background of the story you might accept it a little bit differently than I do because I I got to work with Hawk new some back in the original BLM days 2020 probably no when was it 2018 or something I I forget but I think that Hawke got excommunicated from black lives matter the the national version so I think he's got sort of his own little local thing I'd be surprised if there are more than 10 people in his organization I think it's under 10 people but he's really good at getting attention and getting in front of the camera and making his point but it's funny that black lives matter kind of got disgraced and we don't hear about it much and when they do come back in the news they're against the black guy now I'm not going to say that they don't have a point because I do not know the performance of Mayor Adams as mayor so maybe they have really good points maybe they don't I don't know one way or the other but it's definitely not something coming from black lives matter it's coming from Hawke and you know maybe two or three people agreed with him in his organization that's it that's the whole story it's Hawke his sister and maybe two or three other people national news all right anyway um there's a new new pole Emerson College that says that uh Harris is way ahead in New York state now everybody expected that but she's according to them she's pulling 54 to 40 that's a that's a big difference um however just for some recreational fun there are 8 to n million people who live in New York city mayor Adams would be the most powerful political figure among that eight or n million and uh at least there was I think there was a 2 million difference of votes in New York state between um Biden and Trump two million voters so he could influence a population of eight or nine million of course they're not all voters and the old margin was only 2 million it looks like it might be a bigger margin this time but it could be smaller because remember this is just one poll and we don't trust the polls so it does seem to me that well let let me speculate how many of you think that um mayor Adams is a good negotiator we don't know but what do you think so he was a police chief and now he's a New York city mayor could you possibly do those jobs without being a tough negotiator just in general because he you know he's probably negotiated with everything from Criminal people to every bureaucracy to his own political party he's probably really good at negotiating right now imagine you're in a room with him during the time he was complaining the most about the migrant burden on the city if he's talking to a Democrat who's who's stonewalling him and saying nope you're not going to get anything for your city no we really really need it the migrant thing is killing us nope you're not going to get a thing okay I don't think you understand we need this this is this you're killing me politically you're killing me and you're killing my city nope you're not going to get a thing what would you do you're all alone in the room there's an important Democrat sitting there who's just giving you nothing I'll tell you what I'd do if I were a good negotiator I'd say this I'd say you realize that Trump would do something about this what are you saying are you saying you would endorse Trump no I'm saying I'll consider it I'm still waiting for you to help me but if you don't yes I'm going to consider endorsing Trump now this is a speculative just imaginary conversation but if you put me in the room I'd say it if you made me a lifelong Democrat and you put me in the situation that mayor Adams was in you put me in a room with one powerful Democrat who's giving me nothing I'm going to say you are my problem I can't be in this party if you're can to act like that and while I hate 10 things that the Republicans do I'm going to endorse them because this is the biggest problem in New York city so you if you stay this way I'm going to go public and endorse Trump good luck with that now I would said said it even if I didn't mean it because it's negotiations you don't always say things you mean when you're negotiating you just want to make them think about it think maybe it's a risk now imagine if that person took that conversation back to the people in power they'd have to destroy him just because the risk even before he said a word they'd have to say okay we're going to have to destroy him so that if he does come out in favor of trump it's going to look like a a desperation move for his political future it won't look like it's a real opinion we have to destroy him first that's what it looks like the other possibilities he broke some laws and I don't know all the details and they caught him but we don't really live in a world where we see that work as much as the other thing where it's just law fair you if we were not in the middle of the the deepest law fair Darkness we've ever seen I wouldn't even consider that possibility but since that's the go-to at the moment I do consider it speaking of lawfare um you'll be happy to know that Attorney General Andrew Bailey of Missouri has filed suit against the Harris Biden uh doj for refusing to turn over records related to the uh illicit what what uh you know AJ Bailey calls the illicit prosecution of President Trump so this would include communication between the doj and Alvin Bragg Leticia James and fonnie Willis those would be the prosecutors AGS attorney generals who were going after uh let's see brag is the da there yes so they're all Das going after Trump now so the point here is to find out if there was any coordination between the Department of Justice on behalf of the Harris Biden Administration to help these local prosecutors do their thing and maybe even promise them something in return possibly now the so the the suit that's being filed if I understand it correctly is because they've already asked for this information through legal means they have a right to it and they're not getting it so they're being stonewalled probably until after the election you know what I mean so um if you haven't been following Attorney General Andrew Bailey from Missouri I would strongly recommend he's a really good follow on X because a lot of the good things pushing back in the in a legal sense a lot of the push back coming from the Republicans is coming from only a few sources right you'll see De.

Santis do do his thing you'll see Texas do their thing um but you got to watch Missouri so Missouri is a real wild card because Bailey's there and he's doing a great job so this is his followup he's pushing a second time harder to see what he can get what if he gets something be before the election talk about a third act the ultimate third act would look like this finding out that the assassination temps had some connection to our own government y finding out that our elections were in fact rigged in the past I'm not predicting it just saying what would be the best movie ending and uh finding out that they had coordinated the lawfare from the administration those would be sort of the three worst suspicions and there's some chance not a high one there's some chance nonzero that all three of these would be revealed in the next month I would definitely bet against it I'd bet against any one of them being revealed in the next month because I don't have any direct evidence of of any of it but my goodness would that make a movie what a movie that would be all right um the uh SEC is going after uh some companies that made some claims about their Alzheimer clinical trial so I guess the uh executives are being blamed for lying about the effectiveness of their um their test so why the SEC well that would affect the investors so if you invested based on their claim that their trial was working uh you would get screwed so the SEC got involved now interestingly Mark cubin um on a recent interview said that he might be interested in working at the SEC being being the head of the SEC in let's say a Biden Administration hypothetically now I don't know what he had in mind for that but I'm really curious I'm really curious because what is it that would make Mark cubin think that first of all that's where he would want to put any effort and what is the specific set of problems he's looking to cure because you know what I don't think you should rule him out under either Administration I just want to hear what he wants to do so if he wants to cure some problems that are known to be in the SEC and he's got a list of things I got to fix this this and this I don't know maybe he belongs on the pirate ship you know what I mean maybe RFK Jr lifelong Democrat but he's the perfect person to make sure that we fix our food supply and be a little smarter about our Pharma situation who would be the perfect person at the SEC I don't know but I'd love to hear what he has to say about it and I I'd love to see he could even say I Hate Everything Trump's doing but I got to fix these three problems if it's three good problems and he could really fix them I don't know I might be all in on that what I'd worry about is if it gave him any power over Trump you know that would be a nonstarter but if he really just wanted to go fix some things that the country desperately needs fixed and he has a bead on it I would I would very favorably look at that because I love the pirate ship there's plenty of room in the pirate ship anyway um there are allegedly three teams of assassins in the country that may have shoulder mounted missiles that could knock a jet out of the air specifically the worry is that they're going after Trump's Trump Force One and that they would try to kill him in the air I ask you this there are two theories of what's going on here Theory number one Iran sent a team of Assassins maybe more than one to kill Trump using these shoulder missiles and uh they would do that knowing that that would result in the death of every leader in Iran as Welling as well as turning Tran into a wasteland sort of a Gaza situation now Iran would know that if they don't well well they know that I I don't even have to say anything Iran knows that if they if they kill Trump all of their leaders will be dead fairly soon it won't even take that long and they also know that we would lay waste to their country and we wouldn't look back we wouldn't even blink now would that be good for America no it'd be terrible you know because Iran has lots of ways to get back it'd be terrible but we do it we do it and and so so the first theory is that Iran knows that they all will be personally killed and their country would be destroyed but they thought it would be a good idea to assassinate our president in a obvious way that we would know it was them so that's one possibility here's the other possibility that the Deep State blob the people in our military industrial complex the state department those people The Blob that they see an opportunity for a twofer two benefits one benefit is getting rid of trump because he's anti-war second benefit is it would be a cause for a war which they love and it would be a cause for a war with Iran which they might love a little extra so who do you think would be behind a rocket attack on Trump's airplane do you think it would be Iran who very clearly would know that they would lose everything everything their lives their economics their future everything do you think they would do it knowing they would lose everything knowing keep it keep in mind there's no risk assessment here we would kill every one of their leaders if they take out Trump we're killing every one of their leaders there's just no way around that they know that they've dealt with America long enough that they know that's a death sentence or do you think they're looking for maybe other ways to get what they want and there's somebody's looking for a twofer and the way they're priming you to think that it's a ran is to tell you in advance hey it might be a ran I'd certainly be worried about a ran with a shoulder missile and next is it a coincidence that a shoulder-mounted missile fired by somebody in the bushes would be the hardest thing to determine who fired it yeah it would be it'd be pretty hard to figure out who fired it so it's sort of the perfect false flag situation to solve two problems if one of your problems is that you don't want Trump to be in the picture anymore so that's what I'm worried about um the uh republicans in Congress are going to do some oversight on why did the FCC so quickly approve Soros buying a few hundred radio stations when everything else takes a lot longer now I'm going to say the same thing I said about mayor Adams if the reason that Soros got faster approval is because he had good Connections in the government and somebody whose job it was to make make sure the things that need to get approved get approved in a timely manner and all they did was going do their job it's like oh why is this taking so long no reason it should take so long let's move that up the list that's possible it's entirely possible it was just somebody doing their job a little better so it got moved to the top and there was nothing really to stop it um but it's worth investigating it's worth investigating because as Elon Musk agreed when somebody was posting something about it Soros is buying influence over the United States it's not just he's buying influence he's he's buying a propaganda uh platform but other people would say well what do you call X well what I call X is a platform which All Views could be on it with no exceptions you know unless it's illegal whereas the radio station if it's like every other radio station the owner decides what kind of Direction they have and then it keeps that direction so different there's a interesting story happening with u some pen professor who is getting uh badly punished by uh her uh her uh employer and what did she say the things that uh so she's tenured but I guess they're going to take away her summer pay and cutter pay and punish her every way they can um and she has prohibited from quote flagrantly unprofessional and targeted disparagement of any individual or group wow I like I guess that's pretty bad if she was targeting and flagrantly unprofessional about some groups well what did she say about some groups uh I saw a interview with Glenn Lowry um which was exactly the right person to talk to on this topic which you might know if you know Glenn um so here's what she allegedly said at one point she said she didn't recall ever seeing quote a black student graduate in the top quarter of the law class and quote rarely in the top half in two decades at pen somebody's ringing my doorbell this time of day give me a second I got see if this is anything that's blown up on me I'll just check my cam you're going to disappear for a second all right what do we got going on here uh somebody who has a long pole and a piece of paper that looks really important all right let me say all right I'm going to have to yell over my uh balcony wait a sec h all right construction delivery It's all under control now all right sorry about that anyway so to finish that story The Pen Professor had also said quote not all cultures are equal uhoh not functionally equal in creating citizens who can succeed in modern civilizations um so the her idea was that there are some cultures they're optimized for the modern world and some that are not and she's not judging them as morally or ethically good or bad so it's not a judgment it's just an observation for example if I took a bunch of people who said um you know we're we're going to decide that our culture is hard work and telling the truth and you know getting a lot of talents and then you compared it to another culture that was hey let's just enjoy our life and I'm not saying this these cultures apply to any specific people I'm I'm supposed this is a non-racial um example you'd think that the people who decided as a culture that hard work and you know doing the right thing and following the law and all that would perform better now as soon as you add a race to that then it becomes a racial question if I take the race out everybody agrees oh yeah the people who learn to work hard and obey the rules probably do well um but as soon as you overlay that and say well we wonder if all the r if all the cultures every culture is given giving people the same benefit personally I feel I benefited greatly by the cultural effects I had as a child because it was all about nobody's going to help you you got to do it yourself nobody's going to pay for you after college you're GNA have to figure this out it's all on you and then sure enough if I wanted to do something I could often do all kinds of things but it was all on me so I thought that was a magnificently useful cultural effect can we and I think Glenn Glenn Lowry again because he's a black man with a very smart opinions he's I think Economist is his profession um I recommend him highly but I wonder if there's anything useful that you could take from this because if you just say black people have bad cultures that's why everything's wrong that's that's just ridiculous because you see you know plenty of successful black people and I'm always impressed by the successful musicians and athletes who say you know basically my mom or my parents are the reason I succeeded yes exactly the the reason you succeeded well you had talent but the reason you succeeded is probably because your parents were awesome in many cases that's probably exactly what it was so so how do you how do you how do you get out of the stupid part of the argument where you're just arguing no you're a racist stop saying that no you're racist and how do you get it to everybody's culture could be better maybe that's the way to do it it doesn't matter who you are I mean there's plenty of you know poor white people poor every other kind of person who doesn't have the exact right cultural influences so if we just say how about we stop putting people into racial groups and just say uh that your parental and cultural influences are one of the biggest variables and no matter who you are here's how you fix it or at least that you know that's the problem so you have a chance of fixing it so it's one of those problems where because we can't get into that Euro racist problem we can't even have a useful conversation of you know I'd be willing to help yeah you just if we could just agree what the problem is I'd be willing to help I've written several books which would be if you didn't know how to you know raise a kid with the right things they'd be really useful for example if you read my book had a failed almost everything and still went big and you were a parent you could transfer that to your kid you could say it's important that you you know treat things like systems not just goals you it's important that you take care of your your health it's important that you stay in the jail I mean basically all the things in the book and and build a talent stack and so you're until you're so talented that nobody can deny you so there's definitely a way you can fix culture but you'd have to give somebody a a blueprint you know one of my books is the blueprint but I don't know if it works for every group so that's what I say and that brings brings me to 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amount of energy okay now that we

understand that once you understand that

it becomes utterly obvious that

essentially all energy generation will

be so oh okay got it everybody got

it I have no idea what any of

that

means yeah no

idea so

um but but apparently when you dig into

it a little bit and you look at the

arguments so the argument is that uh it

wouldn't take much space in the United

States to generate all of the Power

we'll ever need now I don't know if that

calculation was done before AI said we'd

need 10 times as much power I also don't

think that they had ability to compare

solar power over the next I don't know

50 years versus is nuclear power because

you'd have to make all kinds of

assumptions that nuclear power doesn't

do so well but solar power keeps

improving I don't think that's true it

has been true for 20 or 30 years but

don't think it's true now because

there's a lot of attention to the

nuclear field so if you uh if rolls Roy

or somebody comes up with a really good

economical small portable new nuclear

energy thing that changes everything so

I'm not sure that this is as true as it

might have been before nuclear got a

Renaissance well here's something that's

amazing possibly according to

Nature uh the publication not you know

not mother nature but the publication

nature um there was a experiment in

which they use stem cells to treat a

woman's diabetes and not only did it

work she can eat sugar again and she's

making her own insulin this is somebody

who couldn't make insulin and they did

stem cells and now she can make insulin

and she can eat normal

food

what how big a deal is that now again

this is a limited test it's not uh not

proven for any large population but if

you can get even one

diabetic who could not make insulin and

you can make them make insulin with stem

cells holy

cow wow I mean that that that's like a

wow that's as big as the biggest wow now

is it true well I guess we'll find out

so I can't go so far as to say you know

it's a done deal but I can't imagine it

would ever work for one person and not

work for other people that you know my

brain can't calculate that CU it created

an ability that didn't exist it's not

like it cured a disease if the only

thing you done is cure a disease then

I'd say well you know maybe somebody

would have gotten over it anyway on

their own because that happens sometimes

but I don't think anybody with

diabetes has ever regenerated the

ability to create insulin has that ever

happened

naturally so looks like a pretty good

sign science

um here's a fun little study new Atlas

is talking about it um very different

than the old Atlas this is a publication

new

Atlas and they tested a specific video

game to see if it make people feel good

now this is not

generalizable to firstperson shooter

games and or anything like that now we

know people like playing video games

that's why it's so big but would it have

any lasting benefit on your happiness

and of all the things that they could

test they pick the smartest

one yeah you think about all the

different video games that would have an

impact and exist they picked one called

power wash now apparently power wash i'

never heard of it but it's a video game

where you come upon dirty objects and

use a power washer to clean them off and

that's kind of it you just power wash

things until they're clean

now apparently people who do that have

some kind of lasting uh small but a

lasting Improvement in moods More than

70% of the participants became happier

because I used a video game to wash dirt

off of an

object

now do you think they needed to do that

or could they have just asked me well if

they had been testing something like you

know generic regular games I wouldn't

have had anything to add

but if you came to me and said hey I've

got a video game where with very little

effort you're going to feel that you

accomplished a

task do you think that'll make people

happier I would have said oh oh hold

your horses you don't need to do that

study because one of the things we do

know is that people are happier when

they have the sense of accomplishing a

task and then they would say to me but

Scott they're not actually accomplishing

a task it's just the video game to which

I would say hold on hold on you're

talking to a hypnotist no

difference I would have been able to

predict that would make you happier I

guarantee I could have gotten that one

right just based on the hypnosis and the

fact that uh fiction and truth will have

a you know a similar directionally not

as powerful but a similar directional

effect very well understood and we

definitely are happier when we complete

things

I I think something similar probably

could have happened with

Tetris do you remember Tetris you had to

get the little falling blocks right in

in line so they line up and stuff to me

that was a bunch of accomplishing

tasks and I'll bet you if you did the

same study on

Tetris you would find that it made

people happier because they were

completing tasks now I do understand

that a regular video game where there's

more you you a story an adventure you

know there's still completing of tasks

but I feel like those are more about

feeling like you're never really

done so if you're doing sort of a war

game with levels and stuff aren't they

trying to make you feel like you never

completed it I'm not sure that would

make me happy but if you tell me you've

completed the cleaning of the power

washing of that dirty car in that

driveway I would actually feel like I

did something cuz I don't have to do

that again and it's not connected to a

larger

Mission anyway there's another study

that says that eating

fish is linked to lower risk of

cognitive decline that's right you will

get less dementia if you eat if you eat

fish um suggests the study now when I

say suggests I'm going to compliment

them this is in s poost publication

because the way worded the headline is

eating fish linked to lower risk of

cognitive decline thank you that is the

correct way to put that it is not a

cause of better mental health it's

linked now can anybody come up with

anything that would be a reason that

eating fish would be linked but not a

cause of better mental

health well it took me about 1 second to

go to grock and say is there any

correlation between

income and

dementia and of course there

is the Richer you are the less dementia

you

get surprised well is there any

correlation between

intelligence and income well yes or yes

the more intelligent you are the higher

your income the higher your income the

more likely you're going to eating

sushi instead of fast food at McDonald's

now I know that McDonald's can give you

a fish stick or some damn thing but

basically if you're eating fast food

you're eating other

stuff so it seems to me that smart

people are less likely to get dementia

because they're going to be using their

brains more that's what smart people do

so they become rich and then the rich

people eat a lot of fish because rich

people eat more fish they live they go

on vacations to Hawaii and eat fish and

they live by the Beach and they fish and

they can afford more to get

fish so doesn't surprise me but it's not

a correlation I think it's a correlation

without causation is my best guess

although it might be causation it just

you can't tell by the

study um so according to daily wire

there are some big donors like Bill

Gates and other liberal Mega donors and

they're funding some plan to make sure

that the news news rooms around the

world have uh greater um The Daily wi

says hysteria but uh literally there is

a funded program to try to convince the

news to talk about climate change a lot

more and they literally say to try to

work it into every

conversation so you know you always joke

about the news says uh it rained all

because of climate change you're like

really it's not everything's not about

climate change there's a war in Ukraine

well it's going to get worse because of

climate change and you say really really

how how are you jamming climate change

into the Ukraine war I don't see it and

trade routes are going to change because

of climate change really international

trade you work you work climate change

into that conversation it turns out

that's a strategy and it's highly funded

and is from people who definitely have

an influence on the

news so that's

terrible now the way you would look at

this story is if you believe that uh

climate change was a

genuine existential risk you might say

well it's about time we got more serious

about this with our news so that we'll

convince the people to be more serious

but if you think it's not true and you

think that even if the temperature is

going up it's not a existential

problem then this would be nothing but

fake news and

propaganda so since I'm closer to that

second view where I don't know if the

temperature is going up from human

activity or not but I'm pretty sure it's

not going to kill me and there not going

to be an existential threat um so that's

where I'm in that's where I'm at so to

me it looks like propaganda not helping

the

world well here's some good news thank

God finally California apologize for

slavery they did it in writing and um

Joel Pollock and breit bar is writing

about this here's the actual apology

resolved the state of California

apologizes for perpetuating the harms

that African-Americans faced by having

imbued racial Prejudice through

segregation public and private

discrimination so have I ever explained

what a quote husband apology

is have you ever heard me say

that if you've never heard this perhaps

you'd never been in a marriage with a

man and a

woman husband you stupid husband doing

that thing you did whatever the thing is

you did you owe me an apology what did I

do the thing you did now you're thinking

to yourself I wasn't even in that room

and I didn't have anything to do with it

but I definitely don't want to be in

this convers ation any longer so what do

you think I did well you move the

scissors from the good drawer into the

other drawer and even if you didn't what

do you say you use the husband

apology oh I'm sorry I I'm sorry I

shouldn't have move those

scissors and then you're

done because you said the apology did

you mean it no of course not does it

matter not much

you just made the problem go away so

it's really about just making the

problem go

away um so California apologizes for its

role in slavery which was basically

close to nothing because there it was

not a slave state but it did have it did

have some sketchy Behavior to be fair

for example I believe that California

would return escaped

slaves that would be supporting slavery

so that that's part of the

apology so

um Governor Nome whatever you want to

say about him being you know slimy and

lying and any of that other

stuff he is really good at the

politician

stuff and from the very beginning it was

obvious that they weren't going to get

money and that he was just setting them

up for a husband apology

he just wanted to send them away for you

know a year so he doesn't have to deal

with it because the main thing is I

don't want to deal with it so he he buys

a year or so because they go study it

then they come back and say oh we like a

trillion dollars or whatever it was

something ridiculous and then he says

yeah that's great but we don't have that

money so I can't give that to you it's

politically

impossible oh well go back and study

some more see what we can do that

doesn't involve giving you a bunch of

money they go back and study it some

more and in the

meantime Nome has solved his problem

because they're not talking to him then

they finally come back and they've got

this idea for what I call the husband

apology for slavery and Nome says

husband apology can

do sure yeah and on behalf of all the

residents of California I would like to

offer my insincere apologies as well so

to all descendants of slavery and

everybody who was impacted by systemic

racism on behalf of California you have

my insincere apology I'm sorry I did

that to you I really am I won't do it

again I swear I will not introduce

slavery again and if any any Escape

slaves ever come into my state I'm not

turning them over I promise you that so

anyway racism has been solved in

California the rest you loser States

need to catch up you wonder why I live

in this state people say why do you live

in California it's the only state that

solves

racism I'm not going to move to your

segregated stupid ass states with all

your racism come to California we've

solved that we're way out of

you here's an interesting factoid

related to this did you know that when

Nome first signed the Authority for the

committee to go study rep ations when

they came back among their reparations

were separate schools for black

kids what's that

called

segra

segregation segregation that's what it's

called so that's what

uh that's what California is apologizing

for because the racial Prejudice was

imbued through segregation they say in

the

apology so

so we're apologizing as a

state for something that the reparation

committee wanted to do more

of because the segregation would solve

the segregation of the past okay maybe I

don't fully understand this but there's

one thing I do understand and it's this

I

apologize I apologize for all that I'm

so

sorry are we cool now

will you leave me alone now

please all

right well we've got the new numbers

it's time to celebrate because the

inflation numbers came in at 2.2% which

is we can celebrate this it's below

expectations for that we're

2.3 oh oh Standing Ovation we came in at

2.2 instead of 2.3 and let me give you

some

advice once you're done accurately

measuring the temperature of the entire

Earth from the atmosphere down to the

bottom of the ocean which we've been

told we can do otherwise climate change

would just be a big joke and we

know that's not true so we can measure

the Earth but did you know you can look

at every transaction in the United

States and determine the inflation rate

and you'll get it right the first time

and you can get it to within 10 tenth of

tenth of a

percentage so no you can't measure

inflation this accurately no it's going

to be revised and it's right on the cusp

of being on target which means a tiny

little revision would make it from less

than you expected to more than you

expected the tiniest revision do you

think that they can measure inflation

accurately enough in any given you know

month I guess that they that they can

know it's off by a

10th no that's not a thing but of course

we'll pretend it's a thing and people

say that people say that interest rates

may be lowered by the FED because of

that and the stock market's already

dancing around because of that a little

bit meanwhile Hillary the most

despicable person in the world has

doubled down on calling uh Trump

supporters deplorable and she said that

for some of them it's too kind of a word

yeah um so what I love is that she

pulled out the deplorable thing right

before the

election which some people including me

thought may have been the reason she

lost her election and so she she just

saddled K Harris with the deplorable

thing

because we're going to think it's sort

of a general Democrat feeling if if

Hillary Clinton is willing to say it out

loud so that might make a difference

meanwhile Mark Zuckerberg has allegedly

identified as a Libertarian because you

know we keep wondering is he going to

endorse Trump I mean he doesn't seem as

anti-trump as we'd expect but we don't

know so he's found this uh weak Middle

Ground of being a

Libertarian and he's hired a Republican

strategist to help with his relationship

with the political right

H um but I think he's described himself

privately as a classic liberal meaning a

Democrat like the old days that would be

me I I would say that I would be like an

old school Democrat which is not too

far with the exception of uh abortion

it's not too far from Trump actually

right today so it would be anti-war and

uh you know a willingness to help the

people who need help but don't go crazy

about it that's about where I am uh but

at the moment if you are in that

category of classic liberalism or

something like an old school

Democrat Trump is by far closer to your

view by far it's not I mean it's not

even a conversation really so that's why

somebody like RFK Jr and Nicole Shanahan

and Bill lman and Elon Musk and me um

that's why we could be lifelong old

Democrat farts and say you know what the

closest to that view is Trump right now

if you're just looking at common

sense so we'll see where that goes but I

would say that Zuckerberg is playing

this

correctly you know you can say to

yourself uh I wish people would be

different you know but that's that's

just your wish but if you watch somebody

who says I got a problem um I'm putting

some resource verus toward fixing it and

something worth fixing which is his

relationship with the political right I

applaud that I I I think if he can make

a better case that he's just here to

help both sides and he doesn't do

anything that would be negative for the

political

right good I you know I've said for a

long time and I'm sort of cribbing from

other people who know him better

Zuckerberg will go down as one of the

best CEOs of all of all time

would you agree with that I mean you may

hate some individual things he's

done but it's going to be tough to find

a better CEO in the history of the

United States so let's give him that and

uh if he's moving in the right direction

of just trying to see the whole field

good anybody wants to see the whole

field

excellent all

right I say the same thing about um you

know Jason from y inod you watching

Today

Jason your name keeps coming up uh no

matter what you think of his current

arguments he is clearly making a public

attempt to understand both sides of the

argument and see the whole field where

that ends up who knows it doesn't need

to end up in any place for you know my

for my purposes but anybody who's

willing to say let me take some pain you

know let me admit I don't know

everything thing let me accept a little

Bane to figure out what's going on on

the other side and I'll I'll integrate

that 100% uh I'm I'm so down with that

point of view of just trying to

understand both

sides uh meanwhile Ashley Sinclair St

Clair um reminds us that in

2020 there were 82.2 million women who

voted but only 72.5 million voted so

nearly 10 million more votes for women

2020 now I don't think that that will be

much changed unless the Gap is even

wider

um especially since uh you know

abortions on the uh on the menu for the

election it's not really but people feel

like it

is so let me add to this conversation if

it's true that there are 10 million more

women voting than men I assume that

something like that applies to every

state is that a fair assumption do you

think there's any state where the men

are voting in greater numbers than the

women kind of doubt it there might be

there might be a special case um yeah

there might be a special case it might

be a place where there's a lot of male

jobs but not as many female jobs maybe

Alaska something like

that but generally speaking I would say

if there are 10 million more women

voting than men um Can the women I just

have one

request from the women and this will be

mostly a request for uh Democrats and

left leaning women can you stop bitching

to the men about something you have

complete control over if you have 10

million more voters men have nothing to

do with the abortion

laws all you need to do is convince

other women that you're right if women

don't agree with

you don't don't put it on

me right and by the way I'm I consider

myself not part of the abortion argument

because I don't have babies and I think

women should work it out and then tell

us what they decided on the

laws um I know you don't and I'm not

going to try to change your mind I'm

just telling you what my my position

is but

really this would be the strongest

argument for Trump Mr Trump you know why

are you blah blah blah you put abortion

at risk the correct answer is 10 million

more women voted than men women have

complete control over the laws on

abortion in your states there is a lag

and I regret that the time lag will

allow some people to not be getting what

they want but our system does allow you

to get it in the long run it's going to

take some work and I'm not sure that you

should you have abortion laws that are

liberal that's not my preference but the

fact fact is we live in a constitutional

republic with a democratic layer and if

the women want this by a solid solid

majority maybe a little bit more than it

is now you can get anything you want not

just on abortion by the way if you have

10 million more voters you get

everything you want

everything so stop complaining to men

this isn't about men at all this is only

about women now abortion has left the

domain of men versus women it is just

not in that domain it is just women if

women decide that it's going to be

totally legal it's not going to matter

what men say it won't matter at all

because we won't be in the in the room

with the doctor and you can vote in any

law you

want I know you don't like that because

you think that the women will vote in

more um liberal laws than you

like but

um all right

anyway um and I think it's

weird no never

mind so M MSNBC had a uh some expert I

guess come on uh who is saying that uh

the

Trump people the Trump supporters they

represent a a different kind of

masculinity you know they have the sort

of an alpha and what the expert called a

retr masculinity retro you know old

school masculinity not the good stuff

like Doug mhof and Tim wals so uh the

experts said that mhof and wals uh

they've got this new kind of more you

know acceptable kind of uh masculinity

in which they do not feel um in any way

diminished or disrespected if they can

make space to for women to

succeed

so um but I would like to add to that uh

I'm not going to disagree with that

whatsoever I do think that Doug emof and

Tim WS make lots of space for a women to

succeed by looking like the kind of

people we wouldn't want in office so

that's two people who are removed from

the from the competition for women uh

but it should also be noted that the new

kind of masculine men have other

advantages too I it's not just that

they're more supportive of women

succeeding which is

great um but they're also better with uh

um

housework way better at filling up the

dishwasher uh way better at uh basically

all kinds of household cleaning and

chores now they're they're not good for

sex I think you all know that um I think

everybody agrees that the the new kind

of sensitive uh non-alpha non retr

masculinity bad for sex but excellent

for housework and it's not a perfect

world you can't have everything at the

same time you got to make some choices

be an adult will you be an adult you

have to make choices and a lot of people

have chosen a kind of man who's good for

household chores and bad for sex uh my

only warning is that they will be the

men who are replaced with robots first

because robots are going to be

good for household

chores and bad for

sex at least for a

while maybe a few months they're

probably only one software software

update away from being better at sex

than betam man but um there's your story

all

right I told you this before but I keep

laughing because it's so funny so Trump

had this problem that the Democrats and

the the Harris campaign in particular

uh in MSNBC kept saying that um Trump

was going to implement project

2025 which was written by people who had

been supporters of his but he didn't

have anything to do with it and had some

let's say more extreme Republican

right-wing sort of policies than he

would be likely to accept so he says

he's not even you know that totally

knowledgeable about what was even in

that other plan he just disavows it as

somebody else's work and says you should

look at his own work but here's the

problem since when does reality and you

know reason enter into anything it

doesn't so he can say all day long this

wasn't my plan but as long as Harris can

say yeah but it's your supporter's

plan that's close enough for political

work right it in my opinion he is going

to completely ignore anything in that

and he's going to do what he says he's

going to do CU we've seen him work for

four years as president and we know how

he operates there's not really any

secrets there

so he had this

undefeatable problem you you can't just

say it's not true because as long as

your supporters put it together which is

true they're going to be able to paint

it as true enough that you should not

take a chance on somebody who has any

kind of even connection to from the past

or support from a group that might be

pushing it on

him so what's he do it's an unsolvable

problem so he comes up with his own

project 2025 hes for Cal Harris and then

he takes all the things that she said in

the past which she says today she

doesn't support like reparations and

taking your guns and stuff like that and

he puts it on the list and says here's

your project

2025 and I say well wait a minute won't

they just say it's not

true yes they will will that work

nope it's exactly the same play they can

say it's not true all day but if they do

they're going to have to talk about

what's on it that's not true here's the

second question it's not true well what

on the list do you disagree with well I

disagree with reparation

well why is that on the list because I

used to say that I loved

reparations what changed your mind did

slavery go away no um no slavery slavery

of course did not go away did systemic

racism go

away no no it's worse than ever um so

all the reasons you were in favor of

reparation before have not

changed

well that's true but

I still have to run for office and you

know if we don't win we don't get

anything so I'm just being practical

about winning the office so we can get

at least some things that Democrats

want and you

lose because nobody's going to want to

put in office somebody who really really

wants the reparations I'll just pick one

of the things on the list reparations

just as a standin as one thing you don't

like if you think that the moment she

had the ability to do it she would do

it compare that to Trump and a National

Abortion

ban if Trump had the ability to get a

National Abortion ban to pass I don't

think there's any chance he would do it

because he said he opposes it I actually

believe him when he says that

stuff well one of the things about Trump

is that he was simultaneously the the

biggest offender to the fact Checkers

I'll just say it that way you know he

had the most fact checks against them

which the Democrats would call the most

lies which then they translate into he's

you know dishonest but I don't think

I've seen any politician who is more

honest to his own opinions meaning that

if he said he wanted to build a wall he

didn't get it done but damn did he try

hard like you you can directly see Sad X

try really hard to get X it's the best

you can get you know you well I mean

it'd be great if you succeeded but

sometimes things take longer you got to

press harder you know might take two

terms

so he's very true to what he says he's

going to do even if it doesn't work out

I I vastly prefer that over somebody

who's got to you know technically use

the right data in his argument all the

time I don't care about that I do care

if he tries to do the right

things North Carolina election board has

reportedly removed over 700,000

ineligible voters huh makes you wonder

how many ineligible voters have voted in

the past

elections there are 700,000 of them in

one state not our biggest state not our

biggest one 700,000 ineligible voters

if those ineligible

voters had somehow gotten a mail and

ballot and then voted would they have

caught

it I don't know don't you think that

would be the most important thing about

this story it's not in the story The

most important thing is if this had been

abused as a you know a way to cheat in

the past would we have caught it is is

there some part of the system where they

go hey this person whose vote I have in

my hand and this mail-in ballot uh they

are not an eligible voter I've just

checked and even though they're on the

role as an eligible voter because

remember they only just took them off so

if they saw that it was on the list of

eligible voters how would they know

they're not

eligible are they going to check their

death certificates during the election I

don't think so I think they're going to

say you're on the list you're

eligible so how you feeling about those

elections how about that election

Integrity let me put it all together for

you we can measure the temperature of

the earth including all the atmosphere

and the bottom of the ocean for hundreds

of years and we're all accurate not only

that but we can determine the exact

inflation rate very quickly in on time

and it will be correct within a tenth of

a

point

yeah so not only that but our elections

are

pristine pristine never had a rigging

problem never

will it's really unbelievable the things

that we've been

told none of these things are even a

little bit possible it's not even a

little bit possible you can measure the

temperature of the earth humans we can't

do that

that we can calculate inflation I'm

sorry um um um not inflation yeah

inflation if we can calculate inflation

and we can do a do a vote and we would

know if there were too many illegal

votes and it changed the we can't do

that we have no ability in our current

system to know who won an election we

don't know how to know the temperature

and we don't know the inflation if you

believe any of those things can be

measured in a reliable way you are

completely

brainwashed there's there's no reason

sensibility data there's nothing to

support any of those thoughts we can't

measure the temperature we can't measure

inflation we don't know who wins any

elections we going have to live with

that because that's our current

situation all right um Harris is going

to go to the oh it looks like um so

here's another uh election thing so we

found out that 1% of the voters in one

of the very blue counties in the swing

state in Wisconsin got uh duplicate

ballots

1% in a very important part of a swing

state got duplicate

ballots in a place where the entire

election might come down to

1% which wouldn't be unusual at all

and uh the question is is it a

coincidence that every time we find one

of these little errors it goes in same

direction um or or could potentially

because they're more Democrats voting by

mail

um so here's what I

think I worry that the Democrats have

come upon a cheating strategy and again

I'm only speculating this is not based

on any data or anything and my

speculation is the best way they could

hide um election rigging is what I call

the multiple oops

strategy so if you looked at this 1% of

Voters got uh duplicate ballots you'd

say to yourself but wait they could vote

twice and then the once they get caught

but only after they get

caught they say oops well that was a a

rare weird mistake

then later you find out that there were

a bunch of dead people on the uh the

voting

lists and then once you find out but

only after you found

out you take them off and you say oops

oops didn't see that

coming how many ways can you say oops

before it looks

coordinated I feel like there's going to

be a whole bunch of

accidental little mistakes

like well you know we meant to put a

Dropbox in that Republican area but I

don't know it's missing from the

spreadsheet so are you telling me

there's no Dropbox in the Republican

areas oops

oops what the the post office in that uh

red area uh one of the employees was bad

and left a whole truckload of ballots

that probably were going to go to Trump

left him in a parking lot until the

election was over oops oops well that

was just one guy

oops I feel like the multiple oops

strategy has been implemented whereby

there can be enough oopses to change the

election for sure but if you're going to

look at any one of them it doesn't look

like a plot it looks like oops ordinary

human mistake just happened to be in the

same direction every single time so look

for the oops strategy I don't know it

but it feels like it's coming keris is

going to go to the order to pretend that

she did not uh ruin the country in the

last three and a half years of

absolutely disgusting despicable

deplorable dare I say behavior in terms

of protecting the Americans from the

onslaught of uncontrolled I'm going to

call it uncontrolled even though they

say it's controlled

immigration so we'll have plenty to mock

but or uh it might be enough for the

dumb Democrats to think she's doing

something about the border and it will

be a pure propaganda

move but even more interesting there are

three things happening today I guess

Netanyahu is giving some address I think

to the UN and or is he in America anyway

Netanyahu is going to be saying

something that's going to be news and uh

Trump is apparently meeting zalinsky

today he may already be doing it Trump

is meeting

zalinski you know what's interesting

about that

um oh I'm being asked Scott do you think

the coordinated multiple oops applies to

the Trump assassinations no I

don't um no because that would require

that all the people who made a mistake

were in on

it it would be easy to imagine that all

the people who who make the oops in the

election are in on it because they don't

feel like they're going to jail for it

right they feel like if they get C they

just go oops well we'll correct that

right

away right they if they can make it look

like a mistake I I don't imagine there

would be um like six people on the

Secret Service and the local police who

are all in on the plot that would be

that would be a little too much for my

imagination to get there it's a good

question though I like that question

that was a good test of the thinking uh

but anyway Trump's going to meet

zilinsky today and uh here's what's

interesting I don't think this is going

to

happen but Trump could end the war

today he could absolutely end it today

do you know how he could do

it he just tells zalinski here's the

deal if you wrap things up before I get

in office you're going to get the best

deal that you can get if you wait for me

to get an office both you and Putin are

going to be way worse off you better do

it before I get

elected and damn it I'm going to get

elected so could you scare zalinski

inste saying oh if Trump comes in

the war is still going to end but I'll

probably be

removed yeah right the war is going to

end either

way let's put it this way imagine Trump

saying behind closed do perfectly

privately look here's the deal we both

know this is going to wind down when I'm

president if you'd like to still be in

power you're going to do it now and

you're going to say that you talked to

me you thought that I was going to win

and you thought that it would make sense

for you to get the best deal you can now

don't mention the part about you're not

going to be in charge anymore if I'm in

charge just say because you you assume

that American president can remove the

Ukrainian president

we all assume that

right we assume there's sort of a what

would you call it a puppet state at this

point so one way or another with funding

or something yeah we could just say we

will give no reconstruction money to

Ukraine unless you get rid of zalinsky

done right so I would threaten him and

say if you want to be in power when I

come to power you're going to wrap it up

before I get there and you're going to

give me credit for it

then he goes to Putin and he says here's

the

deal if you wrap things up in a way that

people think is reasonable and you do it

now then we're good when I come into

office if I come into office and you're

still doing this I'm going to go so

hard at you you won't know I hear

you and then he ends the

war because you know what is interesting

about those threats they are all

completely doable

they're all completely

reasonable and history would judge Trump

well if they knew every bit of

it the ukrainians would be better off

the Russian people would be better off

Europe would be better off America would

be better off they all want it to end

everybody wants it to

end he could end the war

today now again I'm going to persuade

against that I don't think he's going to

do that you know that would be and it

might seem it might be

illegal it might be illegal for him to

negotiate with a foreign power when he's

not in office so I I would ask about the

legalities of that but it's not

impossible if nobody's

listening and he knows is private

although that would be I doubt he could

ever get a private conversation but if

he knew he was Private he could end the

war who

disagrees do you dis agree with that

statement he could put he could put the

threat of so much pain on both the

leaders that would be completely

credible all you have to say is zalinsky

you're out of a job and basically people

are going to kill you as soon as you're

out of the job that would be a real

threat and you tell Putin here's the

deal you make me happy about ending this

war and everything's going to go better

for you than if you don't and Putin's

going to know that's true that would be

a very solid threat that I think the

entire world would take

seriously so you would be giving both

sides an easy out given that they know

they have to get out right this is not

the Forever War and it's not the war

where one side's going to win so they

both want out they just need somebody

else to force

it here it is here's the somebody else

to force it that see this is why Trump

is not just good at his job

he's a

oneoff I and I can't say enough about

that there's only one

Trump you can put Trump in some

situations not all of them he's not

perfect for every situation but there

are some

situations that only a trump can

solve and he he built himself into that

person and you could take a hundred

really good politicians and put them in

that same position they would do nothing

uh uh I'll take somebody I like let's

take

DeSantis DeSantis I have a very high

opinion of very

solid citizen

character uh performance as a governor

solid solid guy wouldn't mind to see him

president someday wouldn't mind it at

all could he solve this in one day no no

absolutely not but Trump

could he's just one off there's there's

only one of them he's the only person

who could solve a war in a day so when

he said that that didn't even seem a

little bit like hyperbole to me now I

don't think it's going to happen right

I'm betting against it but there's

nothing that would stop it except you

know if if you if it's illegal then

that's a good reason not to do

it all

right uh K Harris has uh said that the

rich people should pay their fair share

of the corporations and the billionaires

and that's her tax policy don't make me

give you details I just want people to

pay their fair share and if I said fair

share enough hey I've got some words

you'd like to hear fair share fair share

fair share now you can't beat that

because there's no details to argue

against so there's a trick I've taught

you in Persuasion it's called entering

the illusion so rather than saying you

dumb there's no such thing as a

fair share of anything don't do that

that would be a sexist and wrong so

here's the right way to do it without

all that sexist bad stuff you don't want

that um you enter the

illusion and you ask them to help you

calculate fairness and you say can you

give us some details I'd like to know

what's fair uh I'm a billionaire and I'd

like to pay my fair share so I did some

work on this on X uh let me share this

with you and I I said that I'm going to

need a little help figuring out how to

calculate it so really just a

calculation problem I'm buying the

illusion right I'm accepting the

illusion and I'm moving inside it the

illusion is that there's something

called fair and that if you work a

little harder you can figure out what

that is that's complete Ridiculousness

but if you say that's complete

Ridiculousness people will look at you

and say no it's not no that's that's

that's crazy and they look at you and go

oh that's what the billionaire selfish

people say and you say no really there's

fairness it's just like this weird

subjective thing you say there's there's

no objective standard there's not even

any way to calculate such a thing yes it

is right so you can't get anywhere if

you stay outside the

illusion outside the illusion you have

no weapons you got to get inside it

inside it says all right I accept I

accept your frame that there's something

called fairness and we have not achieved

it so let's calculate it let's figure

out how to figure that out from inside

the frame so I said how would I do that

I said for example uh during my adult

life I've paid about 10 times as much

taxes as the average citizen uh because

things have going well I made a lot of

money in my life and I consume

relatively little in public

services so how much uh uh will my taxes

be cut uh and how much would you raise

the taxes on the middle class to get me

back to Fair because I think you you

would agree that if I pay more than I

consume well that's not

fair oh oh is that not your definition

of

fairness but that's fair the fair is

that you pay for what you use why would

I pay for more than I use while somebody

else is getting stuff and not

paying that's fair and if you say that

is

fair say it out

loud just tell me that's your standard

it's something else or how about this we

look at the raw dollar amount without uh

looking at who consumed what so forget

about let's say we forget about the part

of who use the Public

Services if you just do the dollar

amount well here again I paid 10 times

more than other people so I'm expecting

a big tax cut and maybe raising the

taxes substantially on the middle class

to get to fairness to get to fairness oh

okay so we're not going to just count

the dollar amount but there's still

other ways to do this there are lots of

ways to calculate

this how about we just factor in hours

worked so that the people who work the

most hours uh are

incentivized isn't that fair that the

people who work the most would get a

little tax break because they

contributed the most now here I'm

including you could be working the most

as a CEO or you could be working the

most as a garbage collector a plumber it

doesn't matter what your job is

if you're putting in lots of

hours maybe that should give you a tax

cut well I worked seven days a week most

of my life probably 60 hours a week on

average so I'd be looking for a big tax

cut because I'm one of those people who

put in longer hours because you should

make more money if you work longer hours

right isn't that fair the people who

work work harder get more money I think

we all agree with that that's fair so

that would give me a big old big old tax

cut

or we could go by

percentages percentages would be good if

you don't want to go by raw dollar

amounts let's figure out what's fair on

percentages let's see I'm in California

so we got a lot of state taxes it's over

133% now and if you had my federal taxes

to that my property taxes and my sales

taxes um I pay around 60% of my income

in taxes

60% so that would be a lot more than the

middle class so again I would expect a

big tax cut to get me back in the the

range of fairness which would be you

know something under 50%

probably um it could still be

Progressive by the

way I'm not arguing against progressive

tax rates you could still be Progressive

but you'd still have to give me a big

big tax

cut um or that's not the only way so so

we've got the raw dollar The Hours

worked the percentages those would all

give me a tax cut but there's another

way we could tax the unrealized gains on

assets now that's what Harris is

recommending the unrealized gains so for

example if you owned a an asset a farm

say and it had tripled in value she'll

start P taxing you on how much it went

up in value which is a problem because

the only way you'd be able to pay such a

tax is by selling your

farm or part of it

so that would be called not so much

taxation there's another word for that

what what do you call it when you take

from somebody something that they have

and you've been told that they could

keep it that'd be called theft theft the

word is theft that would be government

theft of something you'd already paid

taxes

on put into an investment form and then

they told you you couldn't keep it

they're going to take some of it theft

now you could pursue that that to give

fairness and uh that would achieve

fairness I know this is going to

surprise you I do consider that fair and

what I mean by fair is I would get the

out of this country I'd move to El

Salvador or somewhere that doesn't do

that and I'd go get me some fairness and

then everybody who stayed and loved it

they'd be living in the country they

loved because it'd be all fair but all

the smart people who make some money

would get the out of this losing

country that's trying to steal

our money and I'll go anywhere where to

keep your paw off of what I worked my

entire life to

keep but the main point here is not

which point which of these methods you

pick the main point is I'd like to get

inside your illusion let's do a little

calculating and let's show our

work meanwhile mayor Adams no

relationship to me in uh New York he's

being uh indicted for it's a little

murky to me just because I haven't

looked at the details it's not murky but

to me it is um so I guess he accepted a

bunch of business upgrade luxury travel

stuff from some entity in turkey at the

same time he was being asked to um help

get some approvals of a building that

the the Turks wanted to built in New

York City that had been held up by some

kind of regulatory thing and he did

that's so the news says he did intervene

and I think it made a difference it made

may have sped it up now should he go to

jail for that so he accepted luxury

travel from some Turks who asked him for

a political favor in return which

allegedly he did he did the favor so

that's a bribe

right no it

isn't no it isn't now put me on the jury

can you put me on the jury let me

explain how this works

telling an entity in New York City while

you're the mayor that they should hurry

up in their regulatory stuff because

there's no reason it's it's been delayed

that's your job that's your

job in fact I've done that I've told you

this story before years ago when I was

in my

20s I I had some issue with the

government and entity within the

government so I wrote a letter to my um

California Senator

it was Pete Wilson at the time and I

said I've got a problem with this other

government entity they're they're

holding something up and they said we'll

look into it and then I said to myself

well that's the end of that they're

definitely not going to look into it and

then they followed up and they said we

looked into it and they actually got me

what I wanted because when they looked

into it it wasn't really reason for the

delay so the delay stopped and a whole

bunch of people benefited

because Senator P Wilson did a great job

for a member of his State I I described

a situation where he could just do his

normal job uh for his constituents then

he would do his normal job and we'd be

happier and then he did his normal job

and now we're happier so turkey gives

him some luxury accommodations how much

do I care not at

all not even a little bit if if somebody

who's a you know a

highlevel person who could you know

Garner that kind of thing fine it

doesn't bother me a bit I wouldn't care

if China paid for it or Putin I I I'm

happy he was

comfortable no problem now maybe there

should have been some disclosure or

something I don't know but I don't care

about it now do I care that turkey in

return now that they had sort of a

relationship they used their

relationship is that is that illegal is

it illegal to form a

relationship and then use it for Access

no no that's not illegal and then they

asked for something that would actually

be the job of a mayor to make sure that

something that's being held up in red

tape get solved so then he went and

solved their building problem was that

bad for New York City is it bad for New

York City that a building gets built

fast and accurately and then it gets

filled with tenants who pay rent no it's

good for New York City that's his job

his job is to make sure New York City

runs now I think there was a a related

part where some Turkish or other funders

were doing um some kind of fake

Grassroots um donations to make it look

like it wasn't one entity now that stuff

just sounds illegal but I don't know the

extent to which um the mayor Adams was

even involved with that so that part I

have some questions about but the part

where turkey gives him some nice trips

and then asks him to do his job and then

he does his job and it's good for New

York City and it's good for

turkey that's a little bit too much for

I mean to me that looks like lawfare it

just looks like lawfare and although we

don't know this for

sure it would suggest that maybe the

real problem here is that he was anti or

he wanted to be tougher on immigration

and that was causing a problem for the

administration so they lawf fired him

could

be well in the news uh black lives

matter of Greater New York got a little

attention because they're very much

opposed to Mayor Adams now they they

just say he's a bad mayor and they've

got all kinds of complaints about him in

general not just this but uh who do you

think was a representative of black

lives matter of Greater New York well

it's our old friend Hawk Newsome

Hawk

Nome now if you don't follow the news

closely you might confuse Hawk Nome with

Hui completely different well as far as

I know maybe he's been to a diddy party

maybe he hasn't I don't know but in

general I'm going to assume that hul

Nome and HW Tui are completely different

concepts so don't get that confused with

the story

whatsoever so Hawk is a Founder

co-founder of black lives matter of

Greater New York with his sister who was

also with him who is the other

co-founder and uh they were against

mayor Adams despite the fact that it's

black lives matter and he's black now if

you didn't know anything about let's say

the background of the story you might

accept it a little bit differently than

I do because I I got to work with Hawk

new some back in the original BLM days

2020 probably no when was it 2018 or

something I I forget

but I think that Hawke got

excommunicated from black lives matter

the the national version so I think he's

got sort of his own little local

thing I'd be surprised if there are more

than 10 people in his

organization I think it's under 10

people but he's really good at getting

attention and getting in front of the

camera and making his point but it's

funny that black lives matter kind of

got disgraced and we don't hear about it

much and when they do come back in the

news they're against the black

guy

now I'm not going to say that they don't

have a point because I do not know the

performance of Mayor Adams as mayor so

maybe they have really good points maybe

they don't I don't know one way or the

other but it's definitely not something

coming from black lives matter it's

coming from

Hawke and you know maybe two or three

people agreed with him in his

organization that's it that's the whole

story it's Hawke his sister and maybe

two or three other

people national

news all

right

anyway

um there's a new new pole Emerson

College that says that uh

Harris is way ahead in New York state

now everybody expected that but she's

according to them she's pulling 54 to 40

that's a that's a big

difference um however just for

some recreational fun there are 8 to n

million people who live in New York city

mayor Adams would be the most powerful

political figure among that eight or n

million and uh at least

there was I think there was a 2 million

difference of votes in New York state

between um Biden and Trump two million

voters so he could influence a

population of eight or nine million of

course they're not all

voters and the old margin was only 2

million it looks like it might be a

bigger margin this time but it could be

smaller because remember this is just

one poll and we don't trust the polls

so it does seem to me that well let let

me speculate how many of you think that

um mayor Adams is a good negotiator we

don't know but what do you think so he

was a police chief and now he's a New

York city

mayor could you possibly do those jobs

without being a tough negotiator just in

general because he you know he's

probably negotiated with everything from

Criminal people to every bureaucracy to

his own political

party he's probably really good at

negotiating right now imagine you're in

a room with him during the time he was

complaining the most about the migrant

burden on the

city if he's talking to a Democrat who's

who's stonewalling him and saying nope

you're not going to get anything for

your city no we really really need it

the migrant thing is killing us nope

you're not going to get a thing okay I

don't think you understand we need this

this is this you're killing me

politically you're killing me and you're

killing my city nope you're not going to

get a thing what would you do you're all

alone in the room there's an important

Democrat sitting there who's just giving

you

nothing I'll tell you what I'd do if I

were a good negotiator I'd say this I'd

say you

realize that Trump would do something

about this

what are you saying are you saying you

would endorse

Trump no I'm saying I'll consider it I'm

still waiting for you to help

me but if you don't yes I'm going to

consider endorsing Trump

now this is a speculative just imaginary

conversation but if you put me in the

room I'd say it if you made me a

lifelong Democrat and you put me in the

situation that mayor Adams was in you

put me in a room with one powerful

Democrat who's giving me nothing

I'm going to say you are my problem I

can't be in this party if you're can to

act like that and while I hate 10 things

that the Republicans do I'm going to

endorse them because this is the biggest

problem in New York city so you

if you stay this way I'm going to go

public and endorse Trump good luck with

that now I would said said it even if I

didn't mean

it because it's negotiations you don't

always say things you mean when you're

negotiating you just want to make them

think about it think maybe it's a risk

now imagine if that person took that

conversation back to the people in power

they'd have to destroy him just because

the risk even before he said a word

they'd have to say okay we're going to

have to destroy him so that if he does

come out in favor of trump it's going to

look like a a desperation move for his

political future it won't look like it's

a real opinion we have to destroy him

first that's what it looks

like the other possibilities he broke

some laws and I don't know all the

details and they caught

him but we don't really live in a world

where we see that work as much as the

other thing where it's just law fair you

if we were not in the middle of the the

deepest law

fair Darkness we've ever seen I wouldn't

even consider that possibility but since

that's the go-to at the moment I do

consider it speaking of

lawfare um you'll be happy to

know that Attorney General Andrew Bailey

of Missouri has filed suit against the

Harris Biden uh

doj for refusing to turn over records

related to the uh illicit what what uh

you know AJ Bailey calls the illicit

prosecution of President Trump so this

would include communication between the

doj and Alvin Bragg Leticia James and

fonnie Willis those would be the

prosecutors AGS attorney generals who

were going after

uh let's see brag is the da there yes so

they're all Das going after Trump now so

the point here is to find out if there

was any coordination between the

Department of Justice on behalf of the

Harris Biden Administration to help

these local prosecutors do their thing

and maybe even promise them something in

return

possibly now the so the the suit that's

being filed if I understand it correctly

is because they've already asked for

this information through legal means

they have a right to it and they're not

getting it so they're being stonewalled

probably until after the

election you know what I mean so um if

you haven't been following Attorney

General Andrew Bailey from Missouri

I would strongly recommend he's a really

good follow on X because a lot of the

good things pushing back in the in a

legal sense a lot of the push back

coming from the Republicans is coming

from only a few sources right you'll see

DeSantis do do his thing you'll see

Texas do their thing um but you got to

watch Missouri so Missouri is a real

wild card because Bailey's there and

he's doing a great job so this is his

followup he's pushing a second time

harder to see what he can

get what if he gets something be before

the

election talk about a third

act the ultimate third act would look

like

this finding out that the assassination

temps had some connection to our own

government

y finding out that our elections were in

fact rigged in the past I'm not

predicting it just saying what would be

the best movie

ending and uh finding out that they had

coordinated the lawfare from the

administration those would be sort of

the three worst

suspicions and there's some chance not a

high one there's some

chance

nonzero that all three of these would be

revealed in the next

month I would definitely bet against it

I'd bet against any one of them being

revealed in the next month because I

don't have any direct evidence of of any

of it

but my goodness would that make a movie

what a movie that would

be all

right

um the uh SEC is going after uh some

companies that made some claims about

their Alzheimer clinical trial so I

guess the uh executives are being blamed

for lying about the effectiveness of

their um their test so why the SEC well

that would affect the investors so if

you invested based on their claim that

their trial was working uh you would get

screwed so the SEC got involved now

interestingly Mark cubin um on a recent

interview said that he might be

interested in working at the SEC being

being the head of the SEC in let's say a

Biden Administration hypothetically now

I don't know what he had in mind for

that but I'm really

curious I'm really curious because what

is it that would make Mark cubin think

that first of all that's where he would

want to put any effort and what is the

specific set of problems he's looking to

cure because you know what I don't think

you should rule him out under either

Administration I just want to hear what

he wants to do so if he wants to cure

some problems that are known to be in

the

SEC and he's got a list of things I got

to fix this this and

this I don't know maybe he belongs on

the pirate

ship you know what I mean maybe RFK Jr

lifelong Democrat but he's the perfect

person to make sure that we fix our food

supply and be a little smarter about our

Pharma situation who would be the

perfect person at the SEC

I don't know but I'd love to hear what

he has to say about it

and I I'd love to see he could even say

I Hate Everything Trump's doing but I

got to fix these three

problems if it's three good problems and

he could really fix

them I don't know I might be all in on

that what I'd worry about is if it gave

him any power over Trump you know that

would be a

nonstarter but if he really just wanted

to go fix some things that the country

desperately needs fixed and he has a

bead on it I would I would very

favorably look at that because I love

the pirate ship there's plenty of room

in the pirate

ship anyway

um there are allegedly three teams of

assassins in the country that may have

shoulder mounted missiles that could

knock a jet out of the air specifically

the worry is that they're going after

Trump's Trump Force One and that they

would try to kill him in the air I ask

you this there are two theories of

what's going on here Theory number one

Iran sent a team of Assassins maybe more

than one to kill Trump using these

shoulder missiles and uh they would do

that knowing that that would result in

the death of every leader in Iran as

Welling as well as turning Tran into a

wasteland sort of a Gaza situation now

Iran would know that if they

don't well well they know that I I don't

even have to say anything Iran

knows that if they if they kill Trump

all of their leaders will be dead fairly

soon it won't even take that long and

they also know that we would lay waste

to their country and we wouldn't look

back we wouldn't even blink now would

that be good for America no it'd be

terrible you know because Iran has lots

of ways to get back it'd be terrible but

we do it we do

it and and so so the first theory is

that Iran knows that they all will be

personally killed and their country

would be destroyed but they thought it

would be a good idea to assassinate our

president in a obvious way that we would

know it was

them so that's one possibility here's

the other

possibility that the Deep State blob the

people in our military industrial

complex the state department those

people The Blob that they see an

opportunity for a

twofer two benefits one benefit is

getting rid of trump because he's

anti-war second benefit is it would be a

cause for a war which they love and it

would be a cause for a war with Iran

which they might love a little

extra so who do you think would be

behind a rocket attack on Trump's

airplane do you think it would be Iran

who very clearly would know that they

would lose everything everything their

lives their economics their future

everything do you think they would do it

knowing they would lose everything

knowing keep it keep in mind there's no

risk assessment here we would kill every

one of their leaders if they take out

Trump we're killing every one of their

leaders there's just no way around that

they know that they've dealt with

America long enough that they know

that's a death

sentence

or do you think they're looking for

maybe other ways to get what they want

and there's somebody's looking for a

twofer and the way they're priming you

to think that it's a ran is to tell you

in advance hey it might be a ran I'd

certainly be worried about a ran with a

shoulder missile and next is it a

coincidence that a shoulder-mounted

missile fired by somebody in the bushes

would be the hardest thing to determine

who fired

it yeah it would be it'd be pretty hard

to figure out who fired it so it's sort

of the perfect false flag situation to

solve two problems if one of your

problems is that you don't want Trump to

be in the picture

anymore so that's what I'm worried

about

um the uh republicans in Congress are

going to do some oversight on why did

the FCC so quickly approve Soros buying

a few hundred radio stations when

everything else takes a lot

longer now I'm going to say the same

thing I said about mayor Adams if the

reason that Soros got faster approval is

because he had good Connections in the

government and somebody whose job it was

to make make sure the things that need

to get approved get approved in a timely

manner and all they did was going do

their job it's like oh why is this

taking so long no reason it should take

so long let's move that up the list

that's possible it's entirely possible

it was just somebody doing their job a

little better so it got moved to the top

and there was nothing really to stop it

um but it's worth investigating it's

worth investigating because as Elon Musk

agreed when somebody was posting

something about it Soros is buying

influence over the United States it's

not just he's buying

influence he's he's buying a propaganda

uh

platform but other people would say well

what do you call X well what I call X is

a platform which All Views could be on

it with no exceptions you know unless

it's illegal whereas the radio station

if it's like every other radio station

the owner decides what kind of Direction

they have and then it keeps that

direction so

different there's a interesting story

happening with u some pen professor who

is getting uh badly punished by uh her

uh her uh

employer and what did she say the things

that uh so she's tenured but I guess

they're going to take away her summer

pay and cutter pay and punish her every

way they can um and she has prohibited

from quote flagrantly unprofessional and

targeted disparagement of any individual

or group wow I like I guess that's

pretty bad if she was targeting and

flagrantly unprofessional about some

groups well what did she say about some

groups uh I saw a interview with Glenn

Lowry um which was exactly the right

person to talk to on this topic which

you might know if you know Glenn

um so here's what she allegedly said at

one point she said she didn't recall

ever seeing quote a black student

graduate in the top quarter of the law

class and quote rarely in the top half

in two decades at

pen somebody's ringing my

doorbell this time of

day give me a second I got see if this

is anything that's blown up on

me I'll just check my

cam you're going to disappear for a

second

all

right what do we got going on

here uh somebody who has a long

pole and a piece of

paper that looks really important all

right let me

say all right I'm going to have to yell

over my uh balcony wait a sec

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right construction delivery It's all

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now all right sorry about that anyway so

to finish that story The Pen Professor

had also said quote not all cultures are

equal uhoh not functionally equal in

creating citizens who can succeed in

modern

civilizations um so the her idea

was that there are some cultures they're

optimized for the modern world and some

that are not and she's not judging them

as morally or ethically good or bad so

it's not a judgment it's just an

observation for example if I took a

bunch of people who said um you know

we're we're going to decide that our

culture is hard work and telling the

truth and you know getting a lot of

talents and then you compared it to

another culture that was hey let's just

enjoy our life and I'm not saying this

these cultures apply to any specific

people I'm I'm supposed this is a

non-racial um example you'd think that

the people who decided as a culture that

hard work and you know doing the right

thing and following the law and all that

would perform

better now as soon as you add a race to

that then it becomes a racial question

if I take the race out everybody agrees

oh yeah the people who learn to work

hard and obey the rules probably do

well um but as soon as you overlay that

and say well we wonder if all the r if

all the cultures every culture is given

giving people the same

benefit personally I feel I benefited

greatly by the cultural effects I had as

a child because it was all about

nobody's going to help you you got to do

it yourself nobody's going to pay for

you after college you're GNA have to

figure this out it's all on you and then

sure enough if I wanted to do something

I could often do all kinds of things but

it was all on me

so I thought that was a magnificently

useful cultural

effect can we and I think Glenn Glenn

Lowry again because he's a black man

with a very smart opinions he's I think

Economist is his profession um I

recommend him highly

but I wonder if there's anything useful

that you could take from

this because if you just say black

people have bad cultures that's why

everything's wrong that's that's just

ridiculous because you see you know

plenty of successful black people and

I'm always impressed by the successful

musicians and athletes who say you know

basically my mom or my parents are the

reason I succeeded yes exactly the the

reason you succeeded well you had talent

but the reason you succeeded is probably

because your parents were awesome in

many cases that's probably exactly what

it was so so how do you how do you how

do you get out of the stupid part of the

argument where you're just arguing no

you're a racist stop saying that no

you're racist and how do you get it to

everybody's culture could be better

maybe that's the way to do it it doesn't

matter who you are I mean there's plenty

of you know poor white people poor every

other kind of person who doesn't have

the exact right cultural

influences so if we just say how about

we stop putting people into racial

groups and just say uh that your

parental and cultural influences are one

of the biggest variables and no matter

who you are here's how you fix it or at

least that you know that's the problem

so you have a chance of fixing it so

it's one of those problems where because

we can't get into that Euro racist

problem we can't even have a useful

conversation of you know I'd be willing

to help

yeah you just if we could just agree

what the problem is I'd be willing to

help I've written several books which

would be if you didn't know how to you

know raise a kid with the right things

they'd be really useful for example if

you read my book had a failed almost

everything and still went

big and you were a parent you could

transfer that to your kid you could say

it's important that you you know treat

things like systems not just goals you

it's important that you take care of

your your health it's important that you

stay in the jail I mean basically all

the things in the book and and build a

talent stack and so you're until you're

so talented that nobody can deny you so

there's definitely a way you can fix

culture but you'd have to give somebody

a a blueprint you know one of my books

is the blueprint but I don't know if it

works for every

group so that's what I

say and that brings brings me to the

conclusion of my

amazing program um I have been doing

these longer but it's because the news

is just so juicy lately I'm going to go

talk to the people on locals privately

my subscribers my my beloved

subscribers and the rest of you I will

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