Episode 1462 Scott Adams - Things in the Headlines That Make me Laugh and Cry

morning it's time for coffee with scott adams once again the best part of your day it never fails and is everybody ready are you prepared because you don't want to go into this without preparation that would be insanity because all you need is a cup or a mugger glass a tanker tells us time to canteen drink a flesh vessel again any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine of the day the thing that makes well everything better it's called the simultaneous sip it happens now go who says i have the worst theme song ever so cruel you're so cruel well here's my favorite story of the day a saudi prince had 80 falcons that he wanted to relocate or possibly take on vacation the story's a little unclear but he bought airplane seats for all 80 of his falcons now of course they were tied to little little stands so the falcons couldn't fly around inside the plane but here's a question i ask suppose the plane lost its engines but the falcons feeling that the plane was going down all started flapping in unison could they lift the plane no of course not not only because they're not strong enough but they're inside the plane and so all of their actions would be confined to inside so it wouldn't really work but do you know how jokes work yeah this isn't about the joke it's about the mechanism for a joke here's what makes a joke funny something that your brain feels makes sense but also knows it doesn't that's a joke a joke when when there's something about this situation that sort of kind of makes sense but the rest of your brain says no it doesn't no it doesn't but you can't get it out of your head the two of them live there at the same time and that causes a little reflex called laugh here's uh here's a better joke about that uh rocky manichani who was uh that little bp here whenever i'm doing this there's literally one bird that walks in front of my same security camera every day when i'm here it's the same damn bird i don't know what he's doing there every day um but rocky uh manichetti her uh tweeted about my story about the 80 falcons in the plane and he said imagine being a bird that died in a plane crash that would be the worst way to go if you were a bird you know if i were not inside this plane things would be going pretty pretty well for me that's larry david saying pretty pretty well so i'll just start with that meanwhile in the law of unintended consequences is that roly-poly i need a i need a sting for that too the law of unintended consequences um so megan rapineau wanted to show her concern for people in this country who are less fortunate and or in worse circumstance and so she has become sort of the the face of the professional kneelers the people who are kneeling when the anthem is played or the flag is shown and the of course her intention i can't read her mind but it seems that her intention was to make the world a better place to make it uh more fair i'm seeing a funny picture of megan rapidow conflated with joe biden's face that's pretty funny and she intended to make the world a little bit kinder a little bit nicer here's what she actually did nbc's prime time coverage of the tokyo olympics was down 49 compared to the equivalent night in 2016.

and 53 less than the 2020 12 of the 2012 london olympics and the opening ceremonies were the lowest viewership since 1988.

now it's not just a story that there were fewer advertisers but at some point the advertising is not enough to support the event and i think we're pretty close if not already there so there's a really a very real chance that megan rapinow legitimately intended just to make the world a kinder nicer place that's more welcoming and fair for everyone and what she did was destroy the olympics destroyed the olympics so megan uh we call that an own goal that's that's the official name for that that's an own goal speaking of own goals of all the news today the the thing that bothered me the most was lionel messi if you don't follow soccer especially international soccer you may not know who lionel messi is but consider that soccer is the most i guess the most important sport in the whole world is that true still and he's the best player in the biggest sport now i'm not really a big fan of watching soccer on tv because i think it's kind of boring too i love playing it was my favorite sport as a player but watching it now here's the thing if you watch even the best players in the world like the best teams play each other it's still kind of boring but if lionel messi is on one of those two teams oh my god oh my god is it entertaining in the same way that michael jordan was entertaining even if he didn't watch you didn't even have to be a basketball fan but to watch michael jordan do something that humans can't do that was really entertaining same with stephen curry watching him he had a three-pointer from mid mid court like that's fun to watch because he's not like the other players so when you watch somebody you know your tiger woods putting etc who are just sort of not like other people you know you're larry birds it's a whole different thing so i'm a giant fan of lionel messi even though watching soccer is no big deal for me but i like to watch his clips just go to youtube and watch just a compilation clip of lionel messi's goals you don't have to like soccer to love the hell out of this because you're watching a person operate on a level that you just didn't even know a person could operate at and and of course the back story if you don't know is that lionel messi was always told he was too small literally too short to play professional soccer and he went from too short to play to the best player in the world in the biggest sport here's the tragic part where he's lived for 21 years i think he was playing for barcelona he has to leave the team because they have financial problems and they can't afford it he has to take his family which has lived in this one place it's you know for 21 years basically entire adult life i think his kids raised there and everything else and he has to leave because they have debt and they can't afford to pay him he offered he offered to play for half his pay so he didn't have to move his family do you know how much that gives up it was like a difference between 1.5 million dollars per game and 700 000.

i mean still ridiculous amount of money but he offered to play for half they couldn't afford him he's got to leave i i got to tell you that of all the stories i read today you know the news is full of tragedies and death and stuff i don't know why but that bothered me the most here's a story that i was i a little made a little note to myself that this almost made me cry but that's not true it actually made me cry um i saw a couple of people on twitter today giving me some at least partial credit in one case for helping somebody quit drinking ed latimer was mentioned and as famously a non-drinker as am i and i have to tell you you know most of you know my story i've told it too many times my stepson died of an overdose in 2018.

fentanyl um was in his system and you know that that sort of radicalizes you as that has that effect and when i see that somebody quit an addiction because of anything i did or said you know even if i was just a little bit of that you know because people make their own choices i don't think other people cause you to do things i think you make your own choices but if i could help even a little bit that's really meaningful to me it's really meaningful because it gives meaning to my stepson's life if if there's something that you know his tragic ending caused and it caused other people to have maybe more success in quitting their addictions and then somebody else was saying that he had he had drank i won't give their names because privacy reasons even though they tweeted it it's not it's not my business to tell you their names um another one said that as of today he was going to stop drinking 10 beers a day which he'd been drinking forever and today is the day that he's going to stop drinking 10 beers a day now that's pretty tough pretty tough but i tweeted him so you can cheer him on uh lauren beaubert you all know lauren she's a gun-toting new member of congress republican and quite interesting quite interesting person she i did tweet it so you'll see it um she she says the say she tweeted the same people that thought lollapalooza was just fine meaning in terms of the covet uh are now saying that sturgis will be a super shredder disaster do you think that's true do you think the same people that thought lollapalooza was just fine are now saying that sturgis will be a super spreader disaster those people don't exist find me somebody who said one of them was a problem and one wasn't find me that one person in the world who says that one group is a problem and one is not that person doesn't exist so much of our politics is about this imaginary person the imaginary person who's a hypocrite doesn't exist it's a whole political opinion about imaginary people why are we spending our time on imaginary people could it be because we don't have that many real problems are we so far out of real problems you literally have to make up an imaginary person describe them you're saying you're saying obama yes yes i hear what you're saying about obama and his birthday hypocrisy i usually don't do the hypocrisy topics have you ever noticed that have you noticed that even if the news is just buzzing with the hypocrisy topics i usually don't talk about them because there's nothing to say yeah you used to say this now you now you say this now you're a liar what else is there is there any depth to that would you learn anything nope um so jim acosta went on what they call an epic rant it's not a regular rant it's epic it's an epic rant so jim acosta on cnn he went on his epic rant and mocked desantis for desantis's uh stand on the coronavirus and said that maybe we should call the next variant the desantis variant wow zing zing you know who taught jim acosta this technique who taught jim acosta to cleverly brand people to make their political careers less successful who was it i'm getting an image somebody orange somebody that jim acosta doesn't like that much that's right jim acosta just became trump he knew it was going to happen did let me ask you this in the time that you've known both president trump and jim acosta has trump in any way become more like jim acosta i'll wait i'll wait for your answer no no but in the time that you've been watching them has jim acosta become more like trump yes he has talk about the ultimate revenge is making your worst enemy turn into you that's that's a complete defeat that's that's sort of uh that's like killing somebody and skinning them and wearing their skin as a as clothing that's as hard as you can be somebody turning them into you you can't win any harder than that but uh there's more to this story why not call it the desantis variant it's not very good is it so you know when uh when trump does his linguistic kill shots like you repeat them and they're they're kind of funny on the surface and they they sort of like they hate you where it hurts you know like uh like low energy jab i mean that was just that was just like edward scissorhands giving you a haircut kind of situation and then jim's best play here is about the dissenters variant that's my dr evil um how about that the descent is very here's a little uh linguistic trick for you things have to sound right so this is one of the things that trump gets right that you don't know he's getting right because you don't even know it's a thing one of the things that trump gets right is he uses words that sound good together now you'll never notice it because he doesn't do it wrong if he ever did it wrong you'd notice it but because he never makes that mistake he uses words that sound together sound good when you put them together you just don't notice how well he does it but here's a cost of not doing it well the desantis variant oh that's going to be viral it actually was viral but only because jim acosta said it but there's nothing clever about that the words desantis and variant it doesn't they don't really fit together do they it's just one of these little things that trump does perfectly all the time and then you don't even notice it's the thing you don't know it's a skill because he never does it wrong but this is obviously a skill because you you can't imagine in any world that trump himself you know let's say he was on the other side from desantis you can't imagine that he would have come up with s let's call the de santos variant it's just too lame because the words sound a little too i don't know technical or something they just don't have that that populist punch but cnn's playbook looks like this here's a thing they do like to do they like to identify a top gop contender for the president so they find out who's the most dangerous republican at the moment that's either trump or desantis would you all agree you know ted cruz has been you know sort of in that conversation and they attack him but at the moment desantis is i'd say the top contender who's not uh trump so they identify a top contender and then they attack the contender as either being anti-science or racist they have two arguments and they will make those arguments no matter what the facts doesn't matter how many facts you have they're just going to call you a racist and anti-science no matter what and then the third part is to produce an epic takedown get one of your hosts to do something that's quote worthy in this case acosta so the cnn becomes the news instead of the reporter of the news that's right cnn makes themselves the news and then they report on it so basically they're manufacturing news so it's not really fake news it's more like manufactured news but here's uh roly-poly user roly-poly sent me some uh auto files that let's see if i can play one of them now i was trying to get a like an introduction to my sections on fake news so here's one if i can play it fake news all right let's let's try another one here fake news tweet of the day i don't think it was quite there it needs a little work needs a little work all right how about this one um this is for the desantis news pretty good pretty good good start thank you roly-poly um user he's tweeting at me right now isn't it freaky seeing uh yourself mentioned on on the live stream when you're watching it and then your name comes out so i've had this happen to me a number of times i'll turn on the television i'll just be watching television and they start talking about me it's so freaky it's like no i'm watching you don't talk about me television so that just happened to roly poly so how many of you have heard the theory that the therapeutics are being under let's say under-appreciated officially because if therapeutics existed for the covent legally we wouldn't be able to do an emergency use for some other drug if we already had a drug that was you know really helpful how many of you heard that and believe that that's true how many of you are of the belief that the reason we don't talk about ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine or now there's a new one a cholesterol drug cuts coronavirus infection in a laboratory by 70 and it's i guess it's an existing fairly safe drug that's off the shelf so it'd be a big deal if it worked just like it would be a big deal if any of the others worked right so yeah regeneron is isn't it regeneron approved i thought it was i mean as opposed to an emergency approval so i'm going to call fake news on that i'm going to call that a conspiracy theory that is not backed up now i don't know and i'm going to put odds on this right so this doesn't mean i'm 100 sure sometimes i act like i'm completely sure what i'm not so i'm trying to moderate that a little bit so that i don't do that so much here's my take on it let's say there was a law or a rule that said you can't get your emergency authorization for the vaccines if therapeutics exist and let's say in this scenario that therapeutics did exist let's say they did does that mean that in the context of a global pandemic there's nothing you could do because the the rule says you can't authorize something for emergency use so you're done right you just can't do it is that right so you just can't do vaccines no nothing works that way nothing works that way now there might be there's there's a variant of this in which the pharmaceutical companies are you know bribing the government but do you think that in the trump administration do you think trump took a bribe from the pharma companies that nobody's even suggested it right and it would have to be trump because he was the one beating up on the fda to get the vaccinations through et cetera let me tell you this let's say there was a rule or a law or whatever it is i don't know what the situation is it's either a rule or a law that you can't do the emergency use thing as long as therapeutics exist if you went to trump during the um or any president could be biden to you go to the president whoever it is during a pandemic and you say we've got this rule that prevents us from doing this thing that would be really really important to do how long does the rule stop you it's it's over in a pandemic that kind of rule doesn't mean anything how many how many rules did trump change just by signing an executive order did anybody question them no it's a pandemic i mean it's a different situation at the moment right but during the the worst of the pandemic we kind of stand aside and say okay leaders we understand this is not the time to debate this is the time to do something and we know you're not going to be right every time like that would be unreasonable but but do something because it's an emergency you got to do something under those rules there's no way that a law or some guideline or rule would have stopped us from doing what made sense so i'm going to call on the on the idea that the reason therapeutics are being under undervalued by the government is because they just had to get this rule for the vaccinations and maybe the farm big pharma was pushing or bribing somebody i'm not buying it i'm not buying it because i don't think trump could have been bribed by pharma does anybody disagree with that does anybody think that trump specifically trump because he was the one there during the time this was all happening do you think he could have been bribed by pharma just i just don't see it right i just don't see it and and was there ever a rule that trump didn't like breaking i mean most of his act was tell me the tell me the rule that's in the way and then i'll break it remember you couldn't do tele telehealth having a doctor call you across state lines and i was a little involved with that what did trump do he said oh here's a law that's in the way it's goodbye it's gone i don't believe for a second that trump was affected by big pharma wanting not to have therapeutics look good i just don't think for a minute that affected him if it had been a different president maybe maybe but i just don't see it affecting trump he's the guy who who just blows through rules he doesn't care yeah i mean trump screwed the pharma companies during his presidency in a variety of ways and he did it right in their face so i don't think he was going to do it because they wanted it that's for sure here's one of those rules that i'll say a million times because it's so important you only manage the things you track this is one of the biggest deals in all of management in fact there's no such thing as management if you're not tracking because otherwise you're just flailing around you don't know if the things you do are working or not working it's not management unless you can track oh we did this and i got this result so we should do more of it or less of it based on the result so um at this point the way we track the covet stuff will determine what we do about it let me say that again you don't decide what to do about it and then figure out how to track it ideally i suppose you do it that way you end up tracking whatever you can track and then whatever it was that you could track works backwards and then that's what you managed to which is a bad way to do business you don't want to manage to what you can measure because it's the only thing you can measure now in our case we're reporting i saw this again california had 13 deaths yesterday from covent allegedly they did not report at the same time how many of the 13 were i just had a technical glitch on locals platform but it's going to come back in a second so sorry youtube just a moment and i'll get back to this story i believe i can go right back to it all right i'm back sorry locals a little technical difficulty uh that's the second time that's happened um so california reported 13 people died yesterday of covid but how many of them were vaccinated don't you want to know that like if the public is part of this process and should be i mean i don't think the government should be making decisions alone the the public opinion and the public feedback is part of the whole process right that's that's the way we run this stuff and if the public doesn't get good information or let's say information that they can act on productively then you're not managing it's not that you're doing it right or wrong you're not doing it let me say that again i'm not saying that the government is managing covid right or wrong i'm saying they're not managing it there's no stated strategy and we're not we're not even tracking the right stuff because if you tracked how many people died who were vaccinated versus unvaccinated that would tell you something if the only if most of the people dying are unvaccinated why do i care right in terms of you know living in free society of course i care about people you know it would be individual tragedies of course but why would i care from a policy perspective if these people had access to the vaccinations chose not to take them got the result that you get if things go wrong under that consideration why do i care i'm vaccinated i had access to it they had access to it as long as they have access to vaccinations i need to know how many died vaccinated now mark cuban you all know mark tweeted at me he said scott period you do realize that if say we got to 90 of people have vaccinated that it's likely that around 90 of the hospitalizations and deaths would be vaccinated but the total number of hospitalizations deaths would be about 90 lower than had people not been vaxxed so he said do you realize this yes yes yes i realize that i say it all the time and that doesn't change the request to have accurate numbers right so you all understand that if a hundred percent of people were vaccinated then every person who died from covet after that point would be a vaccinated person and you would not conclude from that the vaccinations don't work you would say thank goodness it was only five people could have been thousands right so mark your point is good but of course uh i say this all the time however if you had all of these numbers you'd be in good shape if you knew how many were vaccinated of the deaths and how many were unvaccinated and then you also knew you know what percentage of the country or the state was vaccinated you'd have everything you needed right so yes mark's point is good and you should all be aware of it that's why i say it all the time if everybody's vaccinated then those are the only people dying it doesn't mean the vaccination doesn't work so um tell me how many are unvaccinated or don't let me or don't imagine that i care um cairo omega on or kira how do you pronounce k-i-r-a kira or kyra anyway sorry i'm mispronouncing your name kira but she tweeted i'd frankly also like to see stats for the different vaccines administered wouldn't you wouldn't you like to see that and why haven't you because it does seem like a reasonable question i would think that every person who gets hospitalized with covent should be asked are you vaccinated and which one and and how recently you know those are the things we should be asking i'm guessing we asked that but is it a is it a federal regulation it should be there should be some federal regulation that says you have to ask that and report it now i would say that maybe there was a reason we didn't report that before because remember you you only get in terms of managing you only get what you measure suppose we had measured that from the start the differences in vaccination results what would that have done because that's what you're measuring and what you measure causes you to act differently i think it would have caused fewer vaccinations in the beginning because there was a availability problem so if you could get any one of the vaccinations you'd get it you didn't want people shopping which is sort of what i was doing i was kind of shopping that's why i waited so long i was waiting to see if any of the vaccinations were duds or if there's any surprises so i waited as long as i could to get as much information you know a few months but at this point now that anybody can get a vaccination you could probably shop couldn't you don't you think that maybe you'd get a few more people vaccinated if that was your goal by telling them okay we've got different vaccinations we did find this one's five percent better and maybe some people would say oh okay i feel i feel like you know more about the vaccinations so i'll give it a shot i'll give it a shot wrong um dr eli david not a medical doctor but another kind of smart doctor was tweeting there's a new peer-reviewed paper showing the aerosols play a major role in covet transmission and fine aerosols constitute 85 of viral load detected and he says that masks can drop can block droplets not aerosols so it's time to abolish all non-scientific mask mandates to which i say the same things i always said if you have data from a laboratory experiment which is what this is i believe and you also have laboratory from the field or you have data from the field which one do you look at you got two sets of data in the laboratory they say huh we're not sure these masks are working but in the real world they're working in other words where there are masks that can measure that there's more of a benefit now is any of that data accurate who knows we're in a world where you can't trust anything you can't trust that the masks work you can't trust that they don't work you definitely can't trust a laboratory study so here's what i would tell you i would never look at a peer-reviewed which is different than a randomized controlled trial i would never look at it just a peer-reviewed paper that said that we tested something in a laboratory and found out that there's a lot of aerosols that matter we kind of already knew that that the aerosols matter and we also knew that the mass were never intended to stop a hundred percent of anything they were they were they were supposed to stop some some amount of it during the worst of the pandemic now i'm anti-mass mandate just to be clear because it sounds like i'm being pro-masculine but i think you can have the nuanced opinion the masks make some difference but overall they're not worth it because your lifestyle would be so affected by it so that's my my point of view i believe that mass almost certainly makes some difference let me put it this way if you knew you were in a room with people who had coveted let's say you knew there was one person in the room and you're going to talk to all of them one by one would you want the person who is talking to you from three feet away and facing you to be wearing a mask or not yeah right how often before the masks were a big thing were you talking to somebody and you could feel their spittle in your face you know what i'm talking about you can feel the spindle hitting you in the face i feel like if somebody has covet i don't want their spittle hitting my face and the mask would make some difference right so i think you can be uh scientific enough to say masks to make a difference at the same time you can say maybe we've reached the point where if unvaccinated people want to take the chance let them do it and vaccinated people too so remember vaccinated people are getting the virus now so don't forget that um let's see barnes posted a link on a randomized control trial that should statistically give rules that ivormectin was effective at treating covet interesting so um somebody's saying that uh uh barnes has posted a and you can see uh viva and barnes uh their podcast is great by the way it's one of the best ones you should watch on youtube and or locals i think you can see it on both platforms twitch too maybe um but this is news i haven't heard before so i'm just seeing it in a comment on locals that uh there might be some new news on ivermectin all right um all right is there anything i missed i said uh viva and barnes um i'm going to look at your comments here for a moment corey bush yeah i don't have much to say about her i know what you're talking about but um yes there's a story about a police officer who almost od'd on fentanyl without taking any was just around it and just sniffed it that happens to drug dogs too if a drug dog sniffs fentanyl dog's dead um how did a guy like you get a girl like christina you know you're not the first person to ask but why isn't anybody asking how a girl like christina got a great guy like me could it be my looks could be all right that's about all i got for today and i will talk to you tomorrow

morning it's time for coffee with scott

adams

once again the best part of your day it

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and is everybody ready are you prepared

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who says i have the worst theme song

ever

so cruel you're so cruel

well here's my favorite story of the day

a saudi prince

had 80 falcons that he wanted to

relocate

or possibly take on vacation the story's

a little unclear

but he bought airplane seats for all

80 of his falcons now of course they

were

tied to little little stands so the

falcons couldn't fly around inside the

plane

but here's a question i ask

suppose the plane lost its engines

but the falcons feeling that the plane

was going down

all started flapping in unison

could they lift the plane no

of course not not only because they're

not strong enough

but they're inside the plane and so all

of their actions would be confined

to inside so it wouldn't really work but

do you know how jokes work yeah

this isn't about the joke it's about the

mechanism for a joke

here's what makes a joke funny something

that your brain

feels makes sense

but also knows it doesn't that's a joke

a joke when when there's something about

this situation that

sort of kind of makes sense but the rest

of your brain says no it doesn't no it

doesn't

but you can't get it out of your head

the two of them live there at the same

time and that causes a little reflex

called laugh here's uh

here's a better joke about that uh rocky

manichani

who was uh that little bp here

whenever i'm doing this there's

literally one bird

that walks in front of my same security

camera every day when i'm here

it's the same damn bird i don't know

what he's doing there every day

um but rocky uh manichetti

her uh tweeted about my story about the

80 falcons in the plane and he said

imagine being a bird that died in a

plane crash

that would be the worst way to go if you

were a bird

you know if i were not inside this plane

things would be going pretty pretty well

for me that's

larry david saying pretty pretty well

so i'll just start with that

meanwhile in the law of unintended

consequences

is that roly-poly i need a i need a

sting for that too

the law of unintended consequences

um so megan rapineau

wanted to show her concern

for people in this country who are less

fortunate and or in worse circumstance

and so she has become sort of the the

face of the

professional kneelers the people who are

kneeling

when the anthem is played or the flag is

shown

and the of course her intention

i can't read her mind but it seems that

her intention was to make the world a

better place

to make it uh more fair

i'm seeing a funny picture of megan

rapidow conflated with

joe biden's face that's pretty funny

and she intended to make the world a

little bit kinder

a little bit nicer here's what she

actually did

nbc's prime time coverage of the tokyo

olympics

was down 49

compared to the equivalent night in

2016.

and 53 less than the 2020

12 of the 2012 london olympics

and the opening ceremonies were the

lowest viewership since 1988.

now it's not just a story that

there were fewer advertisers but

at some point the advertising is not

enough to support the event

and i think we're pretty close if not

already there so

there's a really a very real chance that

megan

rapinow legitimately intended just to

make the world a

kinder nicer place that's more welcoming

and

fair for everyone and what she did was

destroy the olympics destroyed the

olympics

so megan uh we call that an own goal

that's that's the official name for that

that's an own goal

speaking of own goals

of all the news today the the thing that

bothered me the most

was lionel messi if you don't follow

soccer

especially international soccer you may

not know who

lionel messi is but consider that soccer

is the most

i guess the most important sport in the

whole world

is that true still and he's

the best player in the biggest sport

now i'm not really a big fan of watching

soccer on tv because i think it's kind

of boring too

i love playing it was my favorite sport

as a player

but watching it now here's the thing

if you watch even the best players in

the world like the best teams play each

other

it's still kind of boring but

if lionel messi is on one of those two

teams

oh my god oh my god is it entertaining

in the same way that michael jordan was

entertaining even if he didn't watch

you didn't even have to be a basketball

fan but to watch michael jordan do

something that humans can't do

that was really entertaining same with

stephen curry

watching him he had a three-pointer from

mid mid court

like that's fun to watch because he's

not like the other players

so when you watch somebody you know your

tiger woods putting etc who are just

sort of not like other people

you know you're larry birds it's a whole

different thing so i'm a giant fan

of lionel messi even though watching

soccer is no big deal for me

but i like to watch his clips just go to

youtube and watch just a compilation

clip

of lionel messi's goals you don't have

to like soccer

to love the hell out of this because

you're watching a person

operate on a level that you just didn't

even know a person could operate

at and and of course the back story if

you don't know

is that lionel messi was always told he

was too small

literally too short to play professional

soccer

and he went from too short to play to

the best player in the world in the

biggest sport

here's the tragic part where he's lived

for 21 years

i think he was playing for barcelona he

has to leave the team

because they have financial problems and

they can't afford it

he has to take his family which has

lived

in this one place it's you know for 21

years basically

entire adult life i think his kids

raised there and everything else

and he has to leave because they have

debt

and they can't afford to pay him he

offered he offered to play for

half his pay so he didn't have to move

his family

do you know how much that gives up it

was like a difference between 1.5

million dollars per game

and 700 000. i mean still ridiculous

amount of money

but he offered to play for half they

couldn't afford him

he's got to leave i i got to tell you

that of all the stories i read today you

know the news is full of tragedies and

death and stuff i don't know why but

that bothered me the most

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here's a story that i was i a little

made a little note to myself that this

almost made me cry

but that's not true it actually made me

cry

um i saw a couple of people on twitter

today

giving me some at least partial credit

in one case for

helping somebody quit drinking

ed latimer was mentioned and as famously

a non-drinker as am i

and i have to tell you you know most of

you

know my story i've told it too many

times my stepson died of an overdose

in 2018. fentanyl um was in his system

and you know that that sort of

radicalizes you

as that has that effect and when i see

that somebody quit

an addiction because of anything i did

or said

you know even if i was just a little bit

of that you know

because people make their own choices i

don't think other people

cause you to do things i think you make

your own choices

but if i could help even a little bit

that's really meaningful to me it's

really meaningful

because it gives meaning to my stepson's

life

if if there's something that you know

his tragic ending

caused and it caused other people to

have

maybe more success in quitting their

addictions and then somebody else was

saying that

he had he had drank i won't give their

names because privacy reasons even

though they tweeted it

it's not it's not my business to tell

you their names

um another one said that as of today he

was going to stop

drinking 10 beers a day which he'd been

drinking

forever and today is the day that he's

going to stop drinking 10 beers a day

now that's pretty tough pretty tough

but i tweeted him so you can cheer him

on

uh lauren beaubert you all know lauren

she's a gun-toting new member of

congress republican and quite

interesting

quite interesting person she i did tweet

it so you'll see it

um she

she says the say she tweeted the same

people that thought lollapalooza was

just fine

meaning in terms of the covet uh are now

saying that sturgis will be a super

shredder disaster

do you think that's true do you think

the same people that thought

lollapalooza was just fine

are now saying that sturgis will be a

super spreader disaster

those people don't exist find me

somebody who said one of them was a

problem and one wasn't

find me that one person in the world who

says

that one group is a problem and one is

not that person doesn't exist

so much of our politics is about this

imaginary person

the imaginary person who's a hypocrite

doesn't exist

it's a whole political opinion about

imaginary people

why are we spending our time on

imaginary people could it be because we

don't have that many real problems

are we so far out of real problems you

literally have to make up an imaginary

person

describe them you're saying

you're saying obama yes yes i hear what

you're saying about obama and his

birthday hypocrisy

i usually don't do the hypocrisy topics

have you ever noticed that

have you noticed that even if the news

is just buzzing with the hypocrisy

topics i usually don't talk about them

because there's nothing to say

yeah you used to say this now you now

you say this now you're a liar

what else is there is there any depth to

that

would you learn anything nope

um so jim acosta went on what they call

an epic rant it's not a regular rant

it's epic it's an epic rant so jim

acosta on cnn

he went on his epic rant and

mocked desantis for desantis's

uh stand on the coronavirus and said

that

maybe we should call the next variant

the desantis variant

wow zing zing

you know who taught jim acosta this

technique who taught jim acosta

to cleverly brand people

to make their political careers less

successful who was it

i'm getting an image somebody orange

somebody that jim acosta doesn't like

that much that's right

jim acosta just became trump

he knew it was going to happen did let

me ask you this

in the time that you've known both

president trump and jim acosta

has trump in any way

become more like jim acosta i'll wait

i'll wait for your answer no no

but in the time that you've been

watching them

has jim acosta become more like trump

yes he has

talk about the ultimate revenge is

making your worst enemy

turn into you that's

that's a complete defeat that's that's

sort of uh

that's like killing somebody and

skinning them and wearing their skin as

a

as clothing that's as hard as you can be

somebody

turning them into you you can't win any

harder than that

but uh there's more to this story

why not call it the desantis variant

it's not very good is it

so you know when uh when trump does his

linguistic kill shots

like you repeat them and they're they're

kind of funny on the surface and they

they sort of like they hate you where it

hurts you know like

uh like low energy jab i mean that was

just

that was just like edward scissorhands

giving you a haircut kind of situation

and then jim's best play here is

about the dissenters variant

that's my dr evil

um how about that

the descent is very here's a little uh

linguistic trick for you things have to

sound right so this is one of the things

that trump gets right

that you don't know he's getting right

because you don't even know it's a thing

one of the things that trump gets right

is he uses words

that sound good together now you'll

never notice it

because he doesn't do it wrong if he

ever did it wrong you'd notice it

but because he never makes that mistake

he uses words that sound together

sound good when you put them together

you just don't notice how well he does

it but here's a cost of not doing it

well

the desantis variant

oh that's going to be viral it actually

was viral but only because

jim acosta said it but there's nothing

clever about that

the words desantis and

variant it doesn't they don't really fit

together do they

it's just one of these little things

that trump does perfectly all the time

and then you don't even notice it's the

thing you don't know it's a skill

because he never does it wrong but this

is obviously a skill because you

you can't imagine in any world that

trump himself

you know let's say he was on the other

side from desantis you can't imagine

that he would have come up with s

let's call the de santos variant it's

just too lame

because the words sound a little too i

don't know technical or something they

just don't have that

that populist punch but cnn's playbook

looks like this here's a thing they do

like to do

they like to identify a top gop

contender for the president

so they find out who's the most

dangerous republican

at the moment that's either trump or

desantis

would you all agree you know ted cruz

has been you know

sort of in that conversation and they

attack him but at the moment

desantis is i'd say the top contender

who's not

uh trump so they identify a top

contender and then they attack the

contender as

either being anti-science or racist they

have two arguments

and they will make those arguments no

matter what the facts

doesn't matter how many facts you have

they're just going to call you a racist

and anti-science no matter what

and then the third part is to produce an

epic

takedown get one of your hosts to do

something that's quote worthy in this

case

acosta so the cnn becomes the news

instead of the reporter of the news

that's right cnn makes themselves the

news

and then they report on it so basically

they're manufacturing news

so it's not really fake news it's more

like

manufactured news but

here's uh roly-poly user roly-poly

sent me some uh auto files

that let's see if i can play one of them

now i was trying to get a

like an introduction to my sections on

fake news so here's one

if i can play it

fake news

all right let's let's try another one

here

fake news tweet of the day i don't think

it was quite there it needs a little

work

needs a little work all right how about

this one um

this is for the desantis news

pretty good pretty good good start

thank you roly-poly um

user he's tweeting at me right now

isn't it freaky seeing uh yourself

mentioned

on on the live stream when you're

watching it and then

your name comes out so i've had this

happen to me a number of times

i'll turn on the television i'll just be

watching television and they start

talking about me

it's so freaky it's like no i'm watching

you

don't talk about me television so that

just happened to roly poly

so how many of you have heard the theory

that the therapeutics are being under

let's say under-appreciated officially

because if therapeutics existed for the

covent

legally we wouldn't be able to do an

emergency use

for some other drug if we already had a

drug that was

you know really helpful how many of you

heard that

and believe that that's true

how many of you are of the belief that

the reason we don't talk about

ivermectin

or hydroxychloroquine or now there's a

new one

a cholesterol drug cuts coronavirus

infection in a laboratory

by 70 and it's i guess it's an existing

fairly safe drug that's off the shelf so

it'd be a big deal

if it worked just like it would be a big

deal if any of the others worked

right so yeah regeneron is

isn't it regeneron approved i thought it

was

i mean as opposed to an emergency

approval

so i'm going to call fake news on that

i'm going to call that a conspiracy

theory that is not

backed up now i don't know and i'm going

to put odds on this right

so this doesn't mean i'm 100 sure

sometimes i act like i'm completely sure

what i'm not so

i'm trying to moderate that a little bit

so that i don't do that so much

here's my take on it let's say there was

a

law or a rule that said you can't get

your emergency

authorization for the vaccines if

therapeutics exist

and let's say in this scenario that

therapeutics did exist

let's say they did does that mean that

in the context

of a global pandemic

there's nothing you could do because the

the rule says

you can't authorize something for

emergency use

so you're done right you just can't do

it is that right

so you just can't do vaccines no

nothing works that way nothing works

that way

now there might be there's there's a

variant of this in which the

pharmaceutical companies are you know

bribing the government

but do you think that in the trump

administration

do you think trump took a bribe from the

pharma companies

that nobody's even suggested it right

and it would have to be trump

because he was the one beating up on the

fda to get the vaccinations through et

cetera

let me tell you this let's say there was

a rule

or a law or whatever it is i don't know

what the situation is it's either a rule

or a law

that you can't do the emergency use

thing as long as therapeutics exist

if you went to trump during the um or

any president

could be biden to you go to the

president whoever it is during a

pandemic and you say we've got this rule

that prevents us from doing this thing

that would be really really important to

do

how long does the rule stop you

it's it's over in a pandemic

that kind of rule doesn't mean anything

how many how many

rules did trump change just by signing

an executive order

did anybody question them no it's a

pandemic

i mean it's a different situation at the

moment right but during the

the worst of the pandemic we kind of

stand aside and say okay

leaders we understand this is not the

time to debate

this is the time to do something and we

know you're not going to be right every

time

like that would be unreasonable but but

do something because it's an emergency

you got to do something

under those rules there's no way that a

law

or some guideline or rule would have

stopped us from doing what made sense

so i'm going to call

on the on the idea that the reason

therapeutics are being

under undervalued by the government

is because they just had to get this

rule for the vaccinations

and maybe the farm big pharma was

pushing or bribing somebody

i'm not buying it i'm not buying it

because i don't think trump could have

been bribed

by pharma does anybody disagree with

that

does anybody think that trump

specifically trump

because he was the one there during the

time this was all happening

do you think he could have been bribed

by pharma

just i just don't see it right i just

don't see it

and and was there ever a rule that trump

didn't like breaking

i mean most of his act was tell me the

tell me the rule that's in the way and

then i'll break it

remember you couldn't do tele telehealth

having a doctor call you across state

lines and i was a little involved with

that

what did trump do he said oh here's a

law that's in the way

it's goodbye it's gone i don't believe

for a second

that trump was affected by big pharma

wanting

not to have therapeutics look good i

just don't think for a minute that

affected him

if it had been a different president

maybe maybe but i just don't see it

affecting trump

he's the guy who who just blows through

rules

he doesn't care yeah i mean trump

screwed the pharma companies during his

presidency

in a variety of ways and he did it right

in their face

so i don't think he was going to do it

because they wanted it that's for sure

here's one of those rules that i'll say

a million times because it's

so important you only manage

the things you track this is one of the

biggest deals in all of management in

fact

there's no such thing as management if

you're not tracking

because otherwise you're just flailing

around you don't know if the things you

do

are working or not working it's not

management

unless you can track oh we did this and

i got this result

so we should do more of it or less of it

based on the result

so um at this point

the way we track the covet stuff will

determine

what we do about it let me say that

again

you don't decide what to do about it and

then figure out how to track it

ideally i suppose you do it that way you

end up tracking whatever you can track

and then whatever it was that you could

track works backwards and then that's

what you managed to

which is a bad way to do business you

don't want to manage

to what you can measure because it's the

only thing you can measure

now in our case we're reporting i saw

this again california had

13 deaths yesterday from covent

allegedly

they did not report at the same time how

many of the 13

were

i just had a technical glitch on

locals platform but it's going to come

back in a second so

sorry youtube just a moment and i'll get

back to this story

i believe i can go right back to it

all right i'm back sorry locals a little

technical difficulty

uh that's the second time that's

happened um

so california reported 13 people died

yesterday of covid

but how many of them were vaccinated

don't you want to know that

like if the public is part of this

process

and should be i mean i don't think the

government should be making

decisions alone the the public opinion

and

the public feedback is part of the whole

process right that's

that's the way we run this stuff and if

the public doesn't get good information

or let's say

information that they can act on

productively

then you're not managing it's not that

you're doing it right or wrong you're

not doing it

let me say that again i'm not saying

that the government is managing covid

right or wrong

i'm saying they're not managing it

there's no stated strategy

and we're not we're not even tracking

the right stuff

because if you tracked how many people

died

who were vaccinated versus unvaccinated

that would tell you something

if the only if most of the people dying

are unvaccinated

why do i care

right in terms of you know living in

free society of course i care about

people

you know it would be individual

tragedies of course

but why would i care from a policy

perspective if these people

had access to the vaccinations chose not

to take them

got the result that you get if things go

wrong under that consideration why do i

care

i'm vaccinated i had access to it they

had access to it

as long as they have access to

vaccinations

i need to know how many died vaccinated

now

mark cuban you all know mark

tweeted at me he said scott period

you do realize that if say we got to 90

of people have vaccinated that it's

likely that around 90

of the hospitalizations and deaths would

be vaccinated

but the total number of hospitalizations

deaths would be about 90

lower than had people not been vaxxed so

he said do you realize this

yes yes yes i realize that i say it all

the time

and that doesn't change the request

to have accurate numbers right

so you all understand that if a hundred

percent of people were vaccinated

then every person who died from covet

after that point would be a vaccinated

person

and you would not conclude from that the

vaccinations don't work

you would say thank goodness it was only

five people

could have been thousands right so

mark your point is good but of course uh

i say this all the time

however if you had all of these numbers

you'd be in good shape

if you knew how many were vaccinated of

the deaths

and how many were unvaccinated and then

you also knew

you know what percentage of the country

or the state was vaccinated

you'd have everything you needed right

so yes

mark's point is good and you should all

be aware of it that's why i say it all

the time

if everybody's vaccinated then those are

the only people dying it doesn't mean

the vaccination doesn't work

so um tell me how many are unvaccinated

or don't let me

or don't imagine that i care um

cairo omega on or kira how do

you pronounce k-i-r-a kira

or kyra anyway sorry i'm mispronouncing

your name

kira but

she tweeted i'd frankly also like to see

stats for the different vaccines

administered

wouldn't you wouldn't you like to see

that

and why haven't you because it does seem

like a reasonable question

i would think that every person who gets

hospitalized with covent

should be asked are you vaccinated and

which one

and and how recently you know those are

the things we should be asking

i'm guessing we asked that but is it a

is it a

federal regulation it should be there

should be some federal regulation that

says you have to ask that and report it

now i would say that maybe there was a

reason we didn't report that before

because remember you you only get

in terms of managing you only get what

you measure

suppose we had measured that from the

start

the differences in vaccination results

what would that have done because that's

what you're measuring and what you

measure causes you to act differently

i think it would have caused fewer

vaccinations

in the beginning because there was a

availability

problem so if you could get any one of

the vaccinations you'd get it

you didn't want people shopping which is

sort of what i was doing

i was kind of shopping that's why i

waited so long i was waiting to see if

any of the vaccinations were duds

or if there's any surprises so i waited

as long as i could to get as much

information you know a few months

but at this point now that anybody can

get a vaccination

you could probably shop couldn't you

don't you think that

maybe you'd get a few more people

vaccinated if that was your goal

by telling them okay we've got different

vaccinations we did find this one's five

percent better

and maybe some people would say oh okay

i feel

i feel like you know more about the

vaccinations so

i'll give it a shot i'll give it a shot

wrong um dr eli

david not a medical doctor but another

kind of smart doctor

was tweeting there's a new peer-reviewed

paper showing the aerosols play a major

role in covet transmission

and fine aerosols constitute 85 of viral

load detected

and he says that masks can drop can

block

droplets not aerosols so it's time to

abolish all non-scientific

mask mandates to which i say

the same things i always said if you

have data

from a laboratory experiment which is

what this is i believe

and you also have laboratory from the

field or you have data from the field

which one do you look at you got two

sets of data

in the laboratory they say huh we're not

sure these masks are working

but in the real world they're working in

other words where there are masks that

can measure that there's

more of a benefit now is

any of that data accurate who knows

we're in a world where you can't trust

anything you can't trust that the masks

work you can't trust that they don't

work

you definitely can't trust a laboratory

study so here's what i would tell you

i would never look at a peer-reviewed

which is different than a randomized

controlled trial

i would never look at it just a

peer-reviewed paper that said that we

tested something in a laboratory

and found out that there's a lot of

aerosols

that matter we kind of already knew that

that the aerosols matter

and we also knew that the mass were

never intended to stop a hundred percent

of anything

they were they were they were supposed

to stop some

some amount of it during the worst of

the pandemic

now i'm anti-mass mandate

just to be clear because it sounds like

i'm being pro-masculine

but i think you can have the nuanced

opinion the masks make some difference

but overall they're not worth it because

your lifestyle would be so

affected by it so that's my my point of

view

i believe that mass almost certainly

makes some difference

let me put it this way if you knew you

were in a room with people who had

coveted

let's say you knew there was one person

in the room and you're going to talk to

all of them one by one

would you want the person who is talking

to you from three feet away and facing

you to be wearing a mask

or not yeah

right how often before the masks were a

big thing

were you talking to somebody and you

could feel their spittle in your face

you know what i'm talking about you can

feel the spindle hitting you in the face

i feel like if somebody has covet i

don't want their spittle hitting my face

and the mask would make some difference

right so i think you can be

uh scientific enough to say masks to

make a difference

at the same time you can say maybe we've

reached the point where if

unvaccinated people want to take the

chance let them do it and vaccinated

people too

so remember vaccinated people are

getting the virus now

so don't forget that

um

let's see barnes posted a link on a

randomized control trial

that should statistically give rules

that ivormectin was effective at

treating covet

interesting so um somebody's saying that

uh

uh barnes has posted a and

you can see uh viva and barnes uh their

podcast is great by the way it's one of

the best ones

you should watch on youtube and or

locals i think you can see it on both

platforms

twitch too maybe um

but this is news i haven't heard before

so i'm just seeing it in a comment on

locals

that uh there might be some new news on

ivermectin

all right um

all right is there anything i missed

i said uh viva and barnes

um i'm going to look at your comments

here for a moment

corey bush yeah i don't have much to say

about her i know what you're talking

about but

um yes there's a story about

a police officer who almost od'd on

fentanyl without taking any

was just around it and just sniffed it

that happens to

drug dogs too if a drug dog sniffs

fentanyl

dog's dead um

how did a guy like you get a girl like

christina

you know you're not the first person to

ask

but why isn't anybody asking how a girl

like christina got a great guy like me

could it be my looks could be

all right that's about all i got for

today and i will talk to you

tomorrow