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Episode 1736 Scott Adams - All The Disinformation, Including The Disinformation Board

Episode #1736 May 7, 2022 1:03:40 22,212 views

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Opening General Commentary

Morning everybody. Wow, don't you look good today. Did you do something like work out or start eating right? Amazing. Well, I do talk to a lot of people who tell me their life has been benefited by this live stream. I hope you're one of them. And if you'd like to take it up a notch — and wouldn't yo…

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SimultaneousSip General Commentary

people losing a lot of weight. Good for you. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure that's the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. Everything. And it's called the simultaneous

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MainContent Media & Fake News

sip. It happens now. Go. That's so good. Well, I've added some members to my personal disinformation board. I told you yesterday that I've created my own disinformation board. These are the people you should look to to find out what's true and what isn't. Now importantly, in order to be a member of…

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MainContent Media & Fake News

othing to do with Bill Maher. It's just that the reason he trends is that he's calling out his own team. And you know, until he runs out of material to insult his own team. And by the way he insults both teams, so he's not firing it only at his own team. And that's why he's on my list, because he go…

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QandA Media & Fake News

ovocation or something. So I'm not sure that there's anybody who pushed back on it. I haven't heard anybody. Yeah, let me say this definitively. Although a number of newspapers decided not to run that series — so they just put repeats in there or left a blank — nobody complained. Let me say that ag…

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MainContent Media & Fake News

d Universal Press, part of the same company, for being very pro-speech, very pro-creator, very free speech, and have always been on the side of the creator. Completely unambiguously on the side of the creators. Now having said that, they're also a business. And so when my editor said, you know, this…

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MainContent Persuasion

bulwark against fake news eventually, but that you can just ask a question like that and get such qualified responses? It's just ridiculous. It's ridiculous. Likewise, have you noticed how many times Elon Musk has responded to average Twitter users in the last few weeks? It really is mind-blowing e…

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MainContent Persuasion

the middle of a story that is going to have an interesting endpoint. But when you're in the middle of a story sometimes you don't know you're in the story. And here's the story. I take you back in the wayback machine to when the United States said, you know, if we started manufacturing things in Ch…

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MainContent AI & Technology

hs. Something like that. I saw a photo of all the ships that are docked off of China's coast and it's just like a solid color of dots and it looks like the whole system is falling apart if you look at that picture. But what the picture is lacking is how many days would it take for all of those ship…

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MainContent Economics & Finance

what this made me think. I wondered about the Biden family reunions when you know that every single thing that Hunter Biden does is going to be a problem for the rest of the family. And then Hunter Biden says, you know I went to rehab and I'm getting off the drugs. And you can imagine his family and…

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MainContent Politics as Persuasion

it and then they interviewed me and I made this joke. I said that my mother was the second worst cook in the world after her mother. Now that's something that we kind of said in the family. It was like a family joke that was also true. It was true. My mother was the inspiration for Dilbert's mother…

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MainContent Media & Fake News

p with a dozen right off the top of your head where her personality would be perfect. Like big personality, she's not shy of the camera. You can think of all kinds of jobs she'd be perfect for but not this one. You don't want somebody who looks like she's acting to be your disinformation czar. That'…

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QandA General Commentary

atever he was doing. It must have been working. So they have a pretty strong argument of practical solutions. You know hire more cops. How about that? You got too much crime? Stop letting people out of jail. How about that, right? So they're very practical solutions even if you prefer them not to be…

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Tangent General Commentary

ite. So Dinesh has a site on Locals and if you're a subscriber you can see it there. I don't know if he's got a subscription locked or not. You can unlock things on Locals. So can somebody tell me if is it locked or unlocked on Locals? The *2000 Mules*. Somebody will tell me in a second. Locked or u…

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Closing General Commentary

can't access it until 8 pm tonight. Okay so there's a little ambiguity of it but I'll tell you that Dinesh is doing a great job of marketing. It could not be a better time, a better content. And you know he's got just the right amount of censorship to give him some audience. Dinesh is locked down on…

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Morning everybody. Wow, don't you look good today. Did you do something like work out or start eating right? Amazing. Well, I do talk to a lot of people who tell me their life has been benefited by this live stream. I hope you're one of them. And if you'd like to take it up a notch — and wouldn't you? Wouldn't you? Yeah, you would — all you need is a copper mug or a glass or a tankard. Tell us this time you can't use a plastic vessel of any kind.

Wow, I'm seeing messages of people losing a lot of weight. Good for you. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure that's the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. Everything. And it's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. That's so good.

Well, I've added some members to my personal disinformation board. I told you yesterday that I've created my own disinformation board. These are the people you should look to to find out what's true and what isn't. Now importantly, in order to be a member of my disinformation board, you don't have to apply and you can't turn it down because you're on the board if I say you're on the board. And that's the end of the story.

So the people I put on the board are not the people I agree with. That's not the point. So you're going to see some people on this that you'll say, "What? Why is that person on the disinformation board when I don't agree with anything they ever say?" And the answer is this: there are people who can violate the narrative and have a track record of doing so.

I'm going to give you my list of people who are already on there, and I'll tell you who I added today based on user comments and just thinking about it more. So Glenn Greenwald, Bari Weiss, Bill Maher, Andrew Sullivan, Alex Berenson, Mike Cernovich, Matt Taibbi, Tulsi Gabbard, Ilhan Omar — we'll talk about that one — Alan Dershowitz, Michael Shellenberger. And the ones I added today were Ian Bremmer, Bret Weinstein, Eric Weinstein, Dave Rubin, and Dr. Drew. Dr. Drew I meant to have on the original list. I just forgot. So correcting the list as we go.

And I think this is a pretty strong list because everybody on this list has a very clear background of violating their own narrative, meaning the narrative on their team. So let's talk about Ilhan Omar. Glenn Greenwald is the first one that pointed this out to me. I wasn't aware of this, but on several notable occasions she has gone against the Democrat narrative. I think free speech was one of them. And while there are plenty of things she's going to say that I don't agree with, she's one of the people you want to look to because anytime somebody violates the narrative, that's more useful.

Did I not add Jonathan Turley? What the hell is wrong with me? I've had his name here to add about five times. Yeah, Jonathan Turley. I'll add him for the next time. Thank you. Great suggestion.

So remember this is not about agreeing with them. It's only people who can violate the narrative and have demonstrated quality thinking. That's it. So I'm not saying that these will tell you the truth. You get that, right? So the purpose of the disinformation board, my personal one, is not that they're always right and they're not fact checkers. They're like a red flag. If there's something happening, if there's not a single person on this list who questions a story in the news, a specific story, it's probably true. If you see three or four people on this list — and that's not many out of the whole list — if three or four people on the list say, "No, you're forgetting this or you're leaving out this or you got it wrong," I would take that really seriously. Because this is the list of people who, if they tell you a fact is wrong, I'm going to listen to that.

Now the people who are silent on it might just not have enough information about it, so I wouldn't look at the percentage of people. I would just see who is saying it's fake and are they violating the narrative.

All right. I'm loving the fact that there seems to be some kind of organic movement to improve the fake news situation. So I'm doing it right now. So this disinformation board for myself, I'm really just trying something. I'm just throwing out an idea. It didn't cost anything, just some tweets. If it helps you because you start following these people and it makes you better informed, then that's great. You see, just a small little thing that I can do from my position. And I feel like lots of people are trying to do the same thing. There's a whole bunch of people who are thinking, "Well, what could I do? Like what do I do?"

Let me answer this question I'm seeing on the Locals platform. Somebody's asking why I didn't add Naval Ravikant to my list. He would be the most quality thinker maybe that I know, period. But he also doesn't get into politics. So he's very consistent about staying out of politics. You know, he'll talk about free speech but that's barely political. So I wanted people who actually deal with the stuff that is the subject of fake news most often.

All right. So lots of people doing stuff. Let me give you some more examples. Bill Maher, of course. I would like to wake up someday on a Saturday and see that Bill Maher is not trending, which has nothing to do with Bill Maher. It's just that the reason he trends is that he's calling out his own team. And you know, until he runs out of material to insult his own team. And by the way he insults both teams, so he's not firing it only at his own team. And that's why he's on my list, because he goes after both sides.

But you see Bill Maher essentially using his position to try to make things better. And I would say he is, to me it looks like he's succeeding wildly and in a way that I think is really impressive actually, because he's staying on it. He's got the audience, he's got the access, and he can tell them that their narrative is a little messed up. It's probably the best example of what we're saying.

Now a number of people are saying, "What can we do about this fake news and disinformation?" And there is a book you can read that teaches you how to be more immune from disinformation. It turns out I wrote it. It's called *Loserthink*. I think it's behind me. Yeah, it's behind me. It's that one in the middle.

Now *Loserthink* is written specifically for this problem. And it turns out that the situation or the times caught up to me. I mean obviously fake news has been a problem for a number of years but it's reached some kind of a peak. And now that the book is out, somebody says, "Nice shell." Look, it's not a shill when you're talking about your own book. It happens to be exactly aimed at the biggest problem in the world.

So there's always some troll who will find the worst way to spin everything. Nice shill. Let me tell you some more about the book. I've already been paid. I got an advance. Most of my books don't sell past the advance, which means you're asking for the right things. So I'm not even going to make money from this. I won't make a penny if you buy my book. Do you understand that, Michelle? You understand that my personal income won't change a bit if you buy that book because I'm already paid. I don't even have any requirement to market it at this point. I mean in the beginning you do, but not at this point. That literally the only reason I'm recommending it is this is exactly the book that's written for exactly this problem. So try to deal with that, okay?

All right. So I tweeted that out. If anybody hasn't read *Loserthink*, it is exactly on target for our current situation.

Well, I told you that after publishing my comic in which I introduced the new character Dave, who is a black engineer in the Dilbert group, I got a lot of newspapers who wouldn't run that. Their reasoning was, who knows. I think some of them just didn't think it was worth the provocation or something. So I'm not sure that there's anybody who pushed back on it. I haven't heard anybody.

Yeah, let me say this definitively. Although a number of newspapers decided not to run that series — so they just put repeats in there or left a blank — nobody complained. Let me say that again. So I have many client newspapers who run Dilbert. Thousands of them. A few thousand. Not a single one of them said this is offensive. Not one. But a number of them didn't run it. Do you know why? Was it worth the hassle? That's it. Just wasn't worth the hassle or something. I think in some cases different entities within the newspaper made the decision, so it's not even clear that the decision is some kind of coordinated decision. I think just somebody said we don't need this trouble. Something like that.

Now immediately after that I've got a Sunday comic that my editor called me and said, you know, maybe you'd want to wait a week or so for this one. Now my own editor is very unlikely to edit me for content. I don't know the last time that happened actually, if ever. I think it's maybe never happened that I can think of. So I've been edited for lots of other reasons but not for being too provocative.

So let me give a shout out to Andrews McMeel and Universal Press, part of the same company, for being very pro-speech, very pro-creator, very free speech, and have always been on the side of the creator. Completely unambiguously on the side of the creators. Now having said that, they're also a business. And so when my editor said, you know, this Sunday that you submitted, I feel like we need to wait at least a week because things are a little too hot. And really that's just managing the clients, which is not really censorship because it'll run. It'll just run a week later when some of the energy is siphoned off. So wait for that one. It's so hot that it couldn't be published immediately.

And now of course I do it partly for attention. That's how my business model works, right? If you're a creator you have to do some things sometimes that are just about attracting attention. It's part of the model. Everybody understands that, right?

The reason I put Ilhan Omar on my list of disinformation board is partly because I think she belongs there but partly because I knew it would make your hair catch on fire, right? So let me be fully transparent. I am in the kind of business where sometimes quite overtly — and I hope it's transparent — I do things just to get attention. You get that, right? I think everybody's okay with that, aren't you? As long as I'm doing it completely in front of you. Trump does the same thing. When Trump does something to get attention you understand it as technique and part of the process, right?

So I asked the question yesterday. I just asked the Twitter public if I were to sell Dilbert as an intellectual property without my involvement — so if I were to walk away and just say okay, you can have the artwork and the idea and you can create new content, you can make movies and TV, you can make calendars, you can put words in their mouth, you can redraw them, you can do anything you want. I just sell the IP. And I asked the public what did they think someone would pay for it.

Now the reason I did that is not because I don't know how to put a deal together. A lot of this is the amazing thing about Twitter. Just hold this in your head for a second that this happened yesterday. I just think I'm taking a walk and I think, oh, wouldn't it be interesting to know what the wisdom of the crowd was, sort of the average opinion. Because the average opinion of the crowd in a weird magical way will be very similar to what an expert would say it's worth. Do you know why? Because what something is worth is what somebody's willing to pay for it. That's it. If somebody pays it, I guess that's what it was worth to at least one person.

So if you ask a bunch of people who don't know anything about the topic and then you average their answers, you end up being just about where an expert is. And it's not a coincidence. It's because the expert is sort of imagining what anybody else would think in the same situation. You know, sort of a common way of thinking of a thing. And if the public thinks of a thing a certain way there's a really good chance that an expert will think of it that way too if it's the average of the public. So it's just one of these weird connections you don't think should make sense. You think the expert should be completely different from the average of people who don't know anything. But it's just a weird experiment. You find out that they're very similar. And the reason is because we all have a psychologically common base for understanding what things are worth essentially.

So I asked that question partly to put the idea in the public that it's for sale in case anybody thought of buying it. But the interesting part about it is that I get a response from an investment banker, successful investment banker Carol Roth, who offered to give me some deal composition concepts. Now where else in the world do you just ask a question while you're taking a walk and one of the most qualified people there could be — somebody who literally was an investment banker successfully and retired from that — and you get immediate useful advice? At the same time this was kind of blowing my mind a little bit.

One of the people who responded to my question was Thomas Massie. So he's an MIT graduate, congressperson. So I'm getting advice from a sitting member of Congress with an MIT education. If you don't know what that means, you don't get into MIT if you're an average student, if you know what I mean, right? They don't take average students. So how amazing is Twitter that not only is it going to be, I think, our biggest bulwark against fake news eventually, but that you can just ask a question like that and get such qualified responses? It's just ridiculous. It's ridiculous.

Likewise, have you noticed how many times Elon Musk has responded to average Twitter users in the last few weeks? It really is mind-blowing every time I see it because a lot of the people he's responding to are people I know from either Twitter or real life or both. And to see how often he responds to a valid question that catches his interest, it just makes the world seem so small but also it makes the world look like it's working. That the person who has the best information on stuff can answer the question.

I'll give you an example. There's somebody on Twitter talking about he was testing, I guess, Tesla's current version of their self-driving car software and said something like — I guess it was a study that says it was eight times safer than human driving. Eight times safer than human driving. And Elon Musk saw that and he tweets, "This trend will be well over 10 times safer with the update that they're working on right now, the software update."

So think about that. The self-driving car is already — I don't know if you can really measure this because there's no way to know what self-driving cars would do at scale. That's got to be different than one car. But there is a study, if you want to believe studies, that says that it is eight times safer than human-driven cars in terms of accidents.

Now why did Elon Musk feel he needed to weigh in on that point and to modify it from eight times as safe to 10 times? Because that's not much of a difference, is it? If somebody told you something was eight times safer than the alternative you wouldn't say, "Whoa, I'm not going near that until it's 10 times safer," would you? Literally there's no, in terms of your decision making, there is no difference between eight times safer and 10 times safer. Two times safer would be enough. That's all you needed. Your decision would be a no-brainer at two times better. But eight times better, there's no conversation. At 10 times better you wonder why you even had to update it. Well why do we even care if it's eight times better?

Well here's why. Have I mentioned that Elon Musk understands persuasion better than just about anybody? I mean he gets it right all the time. All the time he gets it right. Here's another example. 10 times is way better than eight times not because it's numerically better. I mean it is. That's a pretty big difference. That would be 25 percent bigger, right? So that's a big difference. But that's not the important part. The important part is our brains are tuned to big round numbers. No reason. It's just what we've been listening to. We're used to it. And so 10 times, that's the number you can sell, right? Eight times better is technical data. 10 times better and you can make the sale.

And the sale is we need to change the law so self-driving cars are here because they're 10 times safer. I mean just think of that. 10 times safer. That's a marketing number. And there's a reason that Tesla doesn't have a marketing department and that Elon Musk literally runs the marketing for Tesla while he's tweeting on the toilet. I mean not every time but enough of the times that it's impressive. And here it is again. Simply by emphasizing the 10 times versus the eight times he's done what his marketing department couldn't have done for him. And it comes from him so it gets more attention. So it's basically he is very competently replacing marketing with just tweeting. I mean he actually is doing that. It just doesn't seem like it's possible but he's doing it right in front of you.

All right. Speaking of technology there is an amazing, amazing story that I believe no one else has discussed and so I will discuss it now because we're right in the middle of a story that is going to have an interesting endpoint. But when you're in the middle of a story sometimes you don't know you're in the story. And here's the story.

I take you back in the wayback machine to when the United States said, you know, if we started manufacturing things in China it'd be a lot cheaper. Not only would it be a lot cheaper but we can move the stuff over there that's dangerous, as the EPA would not let us do in the United States. Like there's going to be some industrial waste. We can't do that here. How about China? We've got lower standards. So I believe that some of the manufacturing move to China was because we couldn't do it here. Some of it was because it was cheaper. And I think the cheaper part became the important part over time.

Then what happened next? Well the United States suffered, did they not, by the lack of manufacturing jobs. And we did the best we could to adjust. People took service jobs that aren't as good. You know, that's a problem. But at the moment we're at 3.6 unemployment. We're fully employed. 3.6 is what economists would call, ish in that range, economists would call that full employment. Because you wouldn't want it any better. If it were better it would be worse because that would mean you couldn't hire anybody unless you took them from another job. That would be the worst case scenario. You can't hire anybody unless you ruin another company by taking an employee that's necessary, right? You don't want that. You need a little bit of slop. 3.6 unemployment is just enough people who are floating around that you can hire somebody who doesn't already have a job sometimes. And that seems to be pretty important to keep everything moving.

And so here we are. We gave up all of our manufacturing and yet still the biggest economy. Here's the interesting part. What happens next? Because you saw that Biden is pushing 3D printing. 3D printing of products, especially metal products. They could make a rotor for a helicopter with a 3D printer, slap it on the helicopter and it flies.

Now what would be the cost of building a factory to make — there can't be many helicopter rotors. You're not making millions of them. You might make hundreds of them. And you don't have any shipping. You don't have any foreign language stuff or taxes or all the difficulty of dealing with another culture and nation. You just turn on the printer, feed it the software and it builds you a helicopter rotor.

We are at the precipice of destroying China because we turned them into a manufacturing company with manual labor and then we're going to obsolete it. But not until we'd already had an alternative. Our employment is on track so we can replace the entire supply chain concept with 3D printing, robots and AI. Those three technologies — AI, 3D printing and robots — completely will take manufacturing out of the mix. China is in big trouble.

Because one of the things I was thinking about yesterday is every time there's something that the United States is especially good at — let's say air power, developing aircraft and owning the sky — something the United States is uniquely amazing at, they tend to be the most important things. Have you noticed that? Like owning aviation. Well that's like the most important thing. How about space? We seem to be, thanks to SpaceX and other things, we seem to be leading in space. That's going to be really, really important. Military, really, really important. And we lead that. So the United States seems to be really good at leading at technologies and things that matter a lot.

China looks like it's going to be really good at controlling their population and manufacturing, which will be obsolete. The size of China's problem is immense. It's immense. I don't know how they get past it.

Meanwhile we've got problems with baby formula and fertilizer and water shortages in the west and all kinds of food related things. How worried am I about all of those things? Pretty worried. Pretty worried. But they all fall into an interesting category of things that humans are good at working out if they have to. They're all in that category.

Are you as surprised as I am that we still have food? Because I don't know how that happened. How did we go through the pandemic and we still fed ourselves? Like I don't know how. How did things just sort of kind of work? Yeah, now the baby formula looks like it could be a serious problem but I'll bet we'll just nurse more and we'll find substitutes and there will be do-it-yourself formulas for making your own formula at home and there'll be some industries that pop up and somebody else will make it. So as long as we have time we can solve all this stuff. I feel as if we'll be okay. I feel as if we'll be okay. Yet it does make sense to worry about it. And if I were you I'd make sure I had enough food and toilet paper to get through three months. Something like that.

I saw a photo of all the ships that are docked off of China's coast and it's just like a solid color of dots and it looks like the whole system is falling apart if you look at that picture. But what the picture is lacking is how many days would it take for all of those ships to be served. If it's a four day delay — I just pick a random number — it's not really a problem. You can wait four days for your anything basically. But if it's a year I don't know what happens. That all the stuff goes bad on the ship. I don't know. It seems like pretty bad. And it does seem like we must be working on fixing even the port situation and the supply chain problem. There must be tons of people putting lots of energy into that.

But let me go back to the 3D printing leapfrog technology. Here's a little business tip that everybody experienced in business understands but those of you who are not experienced in business might be hearing this like a novel concept for the first time. If you make a product and it's a big hit, you're a private company and everybody loves your product and they're buying it like crazy — let's say it's a technology product because that's a better example. It's a technology product. Doesn't matter what it is. What's the first thing you should do if you have a really successful product and people love it? The first thing you should do if you are that company is you should try to put yourself out of business as fast as possible. And by that I mean making a new product that's so good nobody would ever buy that old product again. It wouldn't make sense. Because you have to do that or else somebody else is going to build that product, right? You have to cannibalize your own product in order to move ahead. And everybody who is experienced — yeah, Apple is a perfect example — everybody who's experienced in business knows this to be true. You have to cannibalize your own product so somebody else doesn't do it for you. It's the only way you can stay ahead, right?

Yeah, Amazon does that. Basically everybody successful does that. Now look at this situation where we moved our manufacturing to China. That looked exactly like this. I don't know that it was planned in any way but it's going to work out that way. It's going to work out that we cannibalize our own manufacturing in this country and that that was important for us to get to the new kind of manufacturing: 3D printing, robots, AI. And we're going to be experts at those three things and more while other countries are trying to figure out what do you do when all these manufacturing jobs go away, right?

So we did the play of the century with bringing manufacturing to China and then becoming the experts at obsoleting that technology. We won everything. We won everything. We just don't know it yet. We won everything. This is as hard as you could win. We obsoleted our own industry but after we gave it to China and made them dependent on it. You can't win harder than that. Honestly that's as hard as you can win. Now we'll say it depends on us actually being able to do this 3D printing and changing the supply chain but I think that's within our ability.

One of the things I learned yesterday is that our 3D printing capability is way beyond what the public understands. We keep seeing things like, oh there's this 3D printed house. This is just this big machine that puts down concrete on the walls and it's kind of cool the first time you see it. You go, okay, it's an automatic concrete machine but you're calling it a 3D printer. Okay, but I'm not really that impressed by an automatic concrete machine.

Do you know what impresses me? Let me say it again. They 3D printed a helicopter rotor. Are we done here? They 3D printed a helicopter rotor, metal, and slapped it on and it works. Wait, I'm not done. It didn't just work. It was lighter, better and faster and cheaper. Lighter, better, faster, cheaper. That's what kills China because China can make stuff that's maybe just as good as 3D printing? No they can't. They can't make stuff as good as 3D printing. The regular manufacturing process would not be close to being able to get the specific engineering.

And I guess I learned this yesterday. This is what's different about 3D printing is that the software has improved, not just the hardware to print anything you want but the software now knows how to print it. That's the big change. So for example it would know that a component is going to have pressure on one end of it. Let's say there's going to be more physical pressure on one end of it. You can just put that into the machine, say okay this side will have more pressure, and it will just build it to be more solid on one side. That's just one example. Yeah, stronger because you could do a lattice situation with less material.

Now I think that's the correct answer. I'm being told that it would be all these things and I was just sort of filling in from common sense which might be wrong. That let's say if you're doing an ordinary metal anything you would probably — it would just be a solid metal piece, right? Because that's just the easiest thing to do. You put it in a mold, you take it out, it's just solid metal. But if you're 3D printing it at a really fine detail couldn't you do the walls of your device, let's say a metal device, couldn't you do it with a little lattice work, little tiny latticework that would use 10% of the material while being stronger? Are there enough engineers here? I'm saying yes, isn't that true? I think I see people agreeing with me that you can make it lighter, stronger, cheaper, right? That's all you can do. All of it. I believe you can do all of that.

All right. That's why it's a big deal.

What is happening in California? I saw this Michael Shellenberger tweet and boy would I hate to be running for governor against Michael Shellenberger. So he's running as an independent in California. But what, as I've told you many times, what he does differently than anybody else politician is he's written books and done deep research on the exact problems that affect a lot of people but California especially. Everything from the addiction and homelessness to energy to water, like all those things he became an expert on. So who wants to run against that? I mean that's the strongest candidate I've ever seen. Let me say it again. Shellenberger is the strongest political candidate I've ever seen. Now will he get enough attention as an independent in California? That's a tough road. But I'll tell you there's nobody ever did it better so far. It's just ridiculous how good it is.

And one of the things he pointed out is that my state California is being ravaged by drought. And Shellenberger says that California under Governor Newsom has failed to build a single water storage, water recycling or desalinization project. And I thought, what? It's literally the biggest problem in the state that we're going to run out of water. Are you telling me that in his entire term he hasn't done a single thing that would be useful? Now I realize it takes years to build these things but at least we should be looking at something that started. You know, we should be talking about the dam that's almost done or nothing.

And I thought what about the other stuff? Well he at least he's working on like the homeless and the drug problem except he's doing all the wrong things. He's giving them homes and drugs. That's exactly the wrong thing you want to do. You want to take them and unfortunately force them into some kind of treatment because it's a medical problem. It's not a housing problem. That's what Shellenberger teaches us. And it does look to me that on all the big problems Newsom has either done nothing or what he did was literally the opposite of what one should do according to anybody who knows anything about the topics. Yeah they've had plenty of time to do this stuff. That is correct.

Let's talk about the disinformation board that Biden is — especially there was something that was bothering me about the person that they chose for the head of it whose name I can't remember. So there's a woman who's chosen to be the head of the disinformation board and we're seeing a bunch of her videos and stuff. And I was trying to figure out what is the word that is capturing how I'm feeling about it. And it wasn't until I saw a Glenn Greenwald tweet: did they intentionally pick the most ridiculous person for the job? Is it just a troll? And I thought there it is. That was the word. Ridiculous. Ridiculous was the word. And that is so ridiculous it doesn't look serious.

To that point I saw a tweet from Dean Squirrel, I believe he's in Canada, and he says he doesn't really follow American politics. When I first saw this — meaning the video of that head of the disinformation board — when I first saw this I thought it was an online prank, a slash hoax thing. Not kidding. No, I know he's not kidding. It looks like a prank. It isn't as far as I know. But doesn't it look exactly like one? If you do something serious, especially something important like this, and it looks like a prank to somebody who wasn't paying attention, well you did it wrong. I think you did it wrong.

All right. Speaking of disinformation there are two kinds roughly speaking. One is the kind that's just wrong information but the other is diversion. Diversion is what keeps us from seeing the truth sometimes. There are lots of things that keep us from doing that but we often get diverted. Like a magician makes you look over here while the real trick's over here.

So here are some of the diversions that are happening right now. Racism narratives are a diversion from understanding that it's really always about rich versus poor. But if the poor knew that that was what was going on, that it's just rich versus poor, they could easily organize under our system because they have free social media, everybody can vote. They could just vote themselves a bunch of benefits. But they don't because they think the problem is racism. If the poor people said, "Oh the problem is rich versus poor. Let's go vote ourselves some benefits." But it'll never happen because they're diverted by racism.

Now we see the disinformation boards and the fact checkers and the fake news and everything and I feel like what that's diverting us from is understanding that our own team is lying to us also. You know the other team, whoever you think the other team is, it doesn't matter left or right. Whoever you think the other team is you're sure they're lying. You see lots of examples. But you're not so sure about your team, aren't you? But your team's lying too. And I think that when you're talking about fake news and disinformation boards both sides are then encouraged to think that their side is right and the other side is lying. That's a diversion. It's a diversion from the fact that both sides are lying all the time. It doesn't mean they're wrong all the time. I mean somebody's gonna be right if there are two different sides. But the purpose of the teams is to lie and persuade.

That was a weird sound. It was a turn. Their turkeys gobbling right outside my door. We have lots of wild turkeys here. I hope it's a turkey. So then here's another diversion. The abortion narrative is diverting us from the Democrat approval levels on the Democrat record, the Biden administration record. Everything is diversion. I get it. See the turkeys are gobbling at me because I forgot to put Jonathan Turley on my disinformation board. And they're turkeys so they're using the simulation to remind me. Turkey, turkey, Turley. Okay got it. Put him on the disinformation board. Got it.

All right. I don't know how many turkeys there are out there but I think they're massing for an attack. That is a lot of turkey noise. I may take the Locals people over and look at them after we're done here.

All right. Let's talk about some new disinformation. Did you see the news on social media that apparently is fake news that Pfizer documents show that the vaccines were never safe for pregnancy if people were pregnant or breastfeeding? Did any of you see that on social media? Some kind of a document that purported to be a Pfizer document. Now it's fake news but it would act like the drug was not tested or wasn't safe for pregnancy and breastfeeding. How many of you saw that? Did you know that that Pfizer document wasn't from a Pfizer document? So all of you who believed you saw a Pfizer document that says they know that vaccines were not safe during pregnancy or breastfeeding, that was not even a Pfizer document. That was from another entity altogether. It was fake news. And the other entity apparently has updated their opinion on it so there's actually nothing there. There is no information about it being safe or unsafe during pregnancy and breastfeeding. I added the unsafe part just because I'm unaware of anything. So pretty much all of the ivermectin stories, pretty much all of the vaccine — oh did you know about this data story? They're pretty much all fake. You should believe anything about vaccines, any study about vaccines and any study about ivermectin. Just assume it's not real. Just assume it's not true. That should be your starting assumption. If somebody can convince you it is true, well good for them. But you shouldn't start that way. You should start with fake and then if somebody can convince you, well let's see if they can do it.

I saw this is amazing. The head of Media Matters was on C-SPAN and was asked by a caller about the suspicious nature of Hunter Biden getting half a million dollars for his paintings. And the caller asked how can we be sure that Hunter Biden is not selling influence as opposed to selling artwork. And the head of Media Matters, Angelo Carusone I guess, said quote that there's no reasonable suspicion behind it. In other words there's no reasonable suspicion that Hunter Biden is selling paintings for what seems to be outrageously high prices because the people buying the paintings are just in the influence buying game. There is no reasonable suspicion behind it. Really? Really? Because to me this is the definition of reasonable suspicion. Not proof. Nobody's claiming any proof. Has anybody said there's proof? Nobody. Nobody said there's proof. Everybody thinks it's something you ought to look at. A little suspicious.

But here's what this made me think. I wondered about the Biden family reunions when you know that every single thing that Hunter Biden does is going to be a problem for the rest of the family. And then Hunter Biden says, you know I went to rehab and I'm getting off the drugs. And you can imagine his family and Joe Biden and Jill and everybody saying, oh that is great. That is the best news. So you know we're used to you doing only the worst possible thing to embarrass us but thank goodness, thank goodness you're getting off the drugs. And then you say and I'm not going to do any more deals in China. And then the rest of the Biden family goes, oh God I thought you were going to keep doing that because that is so embarrassing to the rest of us. Thank goodness you're not going to be doing the drugs anymore and you're not going to be doing deals with China. And then Hunter says and no more deals with Ukraine. I mean wouldn't be practical at this point but no more deals with Ukraine. And then the Biden family says thank you, thank you. Finally. And then they say so what are you going to do with your free time? And then Hunter Biden, the black sheep of the family says, oh artwork. I'm going to go into the art business. And the family said, ah finally. Finally something that will not embarrass us. And then Hunter says yeah I think I could get quite a bit for these paintings. And then the Biden family says that's great. Well you know we're really happy for you and you're a pretty good painter so this looks like this could be pretty good. And then he says yeah I'm going to price them at half a million dollars a piece or at least one of them. And then the Biden family says, what? Wait a minute there. We thought you said you were gonna price like one painting for half a million dollars. And he said yeah I'm gonna price each painting for several hundred thousand dollars. And then the Biden family says, okay we didn't think we heard you right there. It almost sounded like you're going to sell for half a million dollars. You didn't really say that did you? And he said yeah. And then the entire Biden family says are you serious? You can't do anything that doesn't look like a scheme.

There of all the things you could do in the whole world, of all the sports you could do, of all the businesses you could be in, all the things you could invest in, the classes you could take, the skills you could learn, all the things in the world you could do, you have to find the one thing that would embarrass us. And he does. I feel as if Joe Biden is living in a simulation and his theme is that Hunter won't stop embarrassing him in public and there's just nothing he can do about it. It'll just go from one thing to another thing to another thing. It looks almost intentional doesn't it? I mean it's hard to imagine that one person could do thing after thing after thing that just makes his father look bad. Who even does that? Like most people can make their parents look bad if they try. Let's say you get a drunk driving arrest. Well that makes your parents look bad indirectly sort of a little bit. But we also do other things most of us. Like I've probably done some things that would have made my parents embarrassed. Okay I can think of one in particular. I'll give you an example.

When I was very new to media and I had not been media trained I was asked by Bon Appetit magazine, a magazine about food, to do a little special thing in the back where they'd have some celebrity talk about their favorite restaurant or something. So I agreed to do it and then they interviewed me and I made this joke. I said that my mother was the second worst cook in the world after her mother. Now that's something that we kind of said in the family. It was like a family joke that was also true. It was true. My mother was the inspiration for Dilbert's mother who had a cooking show called Cooking with Salt. It was just salt. So basically would you like it seasoned? A little salt. That'll work. Yeah salt was great. I love salt. But I made this comment to the author of Bon Appetit magazine and I said to myself my mother's never going to read Bon Appetit magazine, am I right? The one thing I don't have to worry about is I knew for sure that my mother living in a little country mountain place she definitely was not reading Bon Appetit magazine and certainly not reading cover to cover to get to the last page. That's how stupid I was if you can even imagine that level of media stupidity. Yep, yep. It took approximately 10 seconds from the publication of that article for one of my mother's friends to mail it to her and say I hope you've seen this. That's right. That's what friends are for. That's what friends are for.

So have I ever embarrassed my parents? Oh yeah. Yes I have. Yes I have as a matter of fact. But the difference between me and Hunter Biden is I still sometimes do things that don't embarrass people. Sometimes. I mean not all the time but I sometimes go into a business enterprise that if it worked it would just make everybody happy. It wouldn't make anybody embarrassed. Like how is it that Hunter can't find anything, anything in that domain of don't embarrass your parents? Nothing. There's not a single thing he can do that doesn't embarrass his parents. What's up with that?

Is your dad a piece of — you know both of my parents are deceased. Have you read Hunter's autobiography? I haven't.

All right. So there's no reasonable suspicion there's anything going on there.

All right I believe we've talked about it all except that this minister of truth started out with some fake news I think. So this minister of truth woman, the head of it, said that it's not conservatives, it's not just conservatives who are being silenced on social media as the conservatives believe, but that there are many studies, many studies — I'm not going to mention them because there are many of them. Oh you want to link to the study? I'm not going to give you a link to the study. There's many studies. Many, many, many studies. And these studies show that some liberals are also being censored. So the idea that censorship is sort of working against conservatives has been debunked and debunked by the many, many studies of which I will not link and will not mention. Many, many of them. And it those studies show that liberals are censored too.

Now did you catch the trick? Did you catch the trick that she used? And then I used it as well. Tell me if these two things are opposites. Most of the media suppression is against conservatives but there have been studies that show that liberals also have been censored. Are those opposites? Does one debunk the other? No. But she presented them like they do. In other words she literally — and I don't think this is delving into personal opinion. I don't think this is a subjective statement — the head of disinformation tried to tell us that these studies would show that there was the same amount. No she didn't say it. This was the clever part. She simply said that the studies show that liberals also get banned. I'll bet that's true. I'll bet there's at least one case of that. Two would be plenty. If there were ever two people in the history of banning and they were liberal and they got banned then her statement is right. The studies have shown that people on the left also get banned. It would just take one or two. Does she mention how many? No. Does she compare the rate of conservatives being banned or suppressed to the rate of the other side? No. And wasn't that the only question? That was the only question. The only question was how much for conservative versus liberal and she answered it with an absolute instead of how much. Oh they both have a little problem there. That is intellectually dishonest. It is disinformation by design. That is clearly designed as disinformation. Her statement could not have been more clearly intended to mislead. It was intended to mislead and it did.

Now when Greenwald asked did they intentionally pick the most ridiculous person for the job it's not just the way she looks because she has a theatrical mannerism which would probably work great in a lot of contexts but not this one. Not this one. This is the only job you don't want somebody exactly like that. If you put her in lots of different jobs I mean you come up with a dozen right off the top of your head where her personality would be perfect. Like big personality, she's not shy of the camera. You can think of all kinds of jobs she'd be perfect for but not this one. You don't want somebody who looks like she's acting to be your disinformation czar. That's the opposite of what you want.

All right that ladies and gentlemen is everything I wanted to talk about. I believe I have helped you all to a better life. If you haven't read *Loserthink*, my book right up there, you really should because it is the answer to disinformation or at least it's one of them. So if you would read that book it would tell you how to spot fake news with very practical specific things to look for. And once you have that toolbox you say oh it's one of those and then you could spot it easily.

I'll give you one example. If you see news that's too incredible to believe it's because it's almost certainly not true. The news that makes our hair catch on fire and go oh I can't believe that happened — it didn't happen 95% of the time. Sometimes yes weird things do happen. That's a real thing. But when you see the news that let's say the news that the Russians were paying a bounty for American deaths in Afghanistan or something like that, like that would be such a shocking story that's probably not true. And sure enough there's no confirmation.

Be a turkey volume guessing man. Six. Like the Supreme Court made abortion illegal. Yeah. So did you know that most abortions are performed with just a pill? How many of you knew that? That's something I learned from Dr. Drew. And I think Dr. Drew had an interview with Bill Maher and then immediately after Dr. Drew met with Bill Maher, Bill Maher said he learned a lot about abortion. And one of the things he learned is the same, literally the same thing that Dr. Drew told me when I was on Dr. Drew's show just the other day. He told me that the vast majority of abortions are just a pill. I didn't know that. Did you know that?

Well I guess it's a technical definition of what an abortion is. So if there was anything that was going to take hold, to use non-scientific terms, if anything was in the process of becoming a life and it stopped it from happening I'm going to call that an abortion. You know you can word play it all you want but yeah. We talked about the horse dewormer thing. That's just such a big simulation coincidence.

All right. And then *2000 Mules*. I haven't seen it yet but I plan to as soon as I find it somewhere. If anybody has a link to somewhere I can actually see the actual video *2000 Mules* will you send it to me on Twitter? Because people keep telling me where it is but I can't find it or I can't find it in a way that plays. I found it on Rumble and it didn't play. I don't know why.

Oh have you mentioned ultra maga? Yeah you thank you I should have mentioned that. So as you know now Biden is going with this ultra maga extremist messaging. So once again when they don't have an argument they have to go for a personality. That's what they're doing. So it's just another typical Democrat approach to attack the people in the United States like entire categories of people and just dismissing them. But I don't think it's working. That ultra maga thing doesn't seem to be working. And they're also bringing back dark Brandon. So the Democrats have not — essentially they have given up. I was going to say it seems subjective but I think we can say it objectively can't we? Would it be fair to say just objectively if you take your bias for a second to the degree we can do that, does it look like the Democrats gave up and they're only struggling to win based on personality problems and fake news and it doesn't look like they're trying to win on content? The Republicans are still definitely trying to win on content because they have the strongest case in the world. Well this worked when Trump was president such as the border. Just do that again. Do whatever he was doing. It must have been working. So they have a pretty strong argument of practical solutions. You know hire more cops. How about that? You got too much crime? Stop letting people out of jail. How about that, right? So they're very practical solutions even if you prefer them not to be the solution. But the Democrats have just given up. They're not asking for anything that's real at this point. It feels like it's just personality and fear and all that stuff.

All right I've got ultra dark omega mega. The ultra dark mega. All right. Virtual premiere for what? Or the virtual premiere not for the movie. Have you considered that they made the disinformation position look ridiculous on purpose so that people won't see it as a legitimate threat to their freedom? I don't think so. That goes into the too clever category. Like I will certainly suspect people of all kinds of bad behavior but when it gets to be that clever I think that's a little too clever, right?

Banned adopt videos. Got it. What's that mean? All right. Did I watch Amber Heard’s performance yesterday? I watched only some clips. She obviously seemed to be acting. It didn't look real at all. So I can't wait to see what happens with that.

My pick for the Kentucky Derby? I think it's going to be some kind of a horse. Probably wins that.

Thoughts on the managerial class? That's what the entire Dilbert comic is about.

He weighed. He's waiting for the cross-examination. Okay. Why was Roe versus Wade never codified into law? There weren't enough votes. That's why. That's why. See one of the reasons why you don't want Congress to codify it into law is because you want the states to do it, don't you? Like why would you piss off half of the states when all the states can have what the states want by a majority? If you can give every state what they want by a majority within their state why would you make a national law that would thwart 50 percent of the states? That's the opposite of our system. Our system is that you want the states to have as much control over the things that make sense for them to control and you want the states to have no control over things that doesn't make sense for them to control such as national defense, right? You don't want them controlling that. But when it comes down to like what happens to an individual making a really tough life and death decision you want to boil that down right as close to the individual as you can get it. You know down to the doctor and the person. If the state is as close as you can get then I'll take it. But the people want the federal government to do it, want to thwart the will of the people in the state that they don't live in in many cases. That doesn't seem right.

Oh I can see it on the local site. So Dinesh has a site on Locals and if you're a subscriber you can see it there. I don't know if he's got a subscription locked or not. You can unlock things on Locals. So can somebody tell me if is it locked or unlocked on Locals? The *2000 Mules*. Somebody will tell me in a second. Locked or unlocked. Yeah it's hard to Google. Try googling it. It's locked. Okay so you'd have to be a subscriber. Somebody says it's free but other people say it's locked. Oh you can't access it until 8 pm tonight. Okay so there's a little ambiguity of it but I'll tell you that Dinesh is doing a great job of marketing. It could not be a better time, a better content. And you know he's got just the right amount of censorship to give him some audience. Dinesh is locked down on Twitter still. Somebody says you can buy it at Salem.com at noon. What is Salem.com? I don't know what that is.

All right that's all for now. I'll go talk to you tomorrow.

morning everybody wow don't you look good today did you do something like work out or start eating right amazing well i do talk to a lot of people who tell me their life has been benefited by this live stream i hope you're one of them and if you'd like to take it up a notch and wouldn't you wouldn't you yeah you would all you need is a copper mug or a glass of tanker tell us this time you can't teach a plastic vessel of any kind wow i'm seeing messages of people losing a lot of weight good for you and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure that's the dopamine of the day the thing that makes everything better everything and it's called the simultaneous zip it happens now go that's so good well i've added some members to my personal disinformation board i told you yesterday that i've created my own disinformation board these are the people you should look to to find out what's true and what isn't now importantly in order to be a member of my disinformation board you don't have to apply and you can't turn it down because you're on the board if i say you're on the board and that's the end of the story so the people i put on the board are not the people i agree with that's not the point so you're going to see some people on this that you'll say what why is that person on the disinformation board when i don't agree with anything they ever say and the answer is this there are people who can violate the narrative and to have a track record of doing so i'm going to give you my list of people who are already on there and i'll tell you who i added today based on user comments and just thinking about it more so glenn greenwald jeff pilkington bill maher andre shrugged anatoly lebarsky um mike cernovich matt tybee tulsi gabbard elon omar we'll talk about that one uh alan dershowitz michael schellenberger and the ones i added today were ian bremmer brett weinstein eric weinstein dave rubin and dr drew dr drew i meant to have on the original list i just forgot a name so correcting the list as we go and uh i think this is a pretty strong list because everybody on this list has a very clear uh background of violating their own narrative meaning the narrative on their team so let's talk about elon omar um glenn greenwald is the first one that pointed this out to me i wasn't aware of this but on several notable occasions she is she's gone against the democrat narrative i think free speech was one of them and while there are plenty of things she's going to say that i don't agree with she's one of the people you want to look to because anytime somebody violates the narrative that's more useful did i not add jonathan turley what the hell is wrong with me i i've had his name here to add about five times yeah jonathan turley i'll add him for the next time thank you great suggestion so remember this is not about agreeing with them it's only people who can violate the narrative and have demonstrated you know quality thinking that's it so um i'm not saying that these will tell you the truth you get that right so the the purpose of the disinformation board my personal one is not that they're always right and they're not fact checkers they're like a red flag if there's some happening if if there's not a single person on this list who questions a story in the news a specific story it's probably true if you see three or four people on this list and that's not many out of the whole list if three or four people on the list say uh no you're forgetting this or you're leaving out this or you got it wrong i would take that really seriously because this is the list of people who if they tell you a fact is wrong i'm going to listen to that now the people who are silent on it might just not have enough information about it so i wouldn't look at the percentage of people i just see who is saying is fake and are they violating the narrative all right i'm loving the fact that there seems to be some kind of organic um some kind of organic movement to improve the fake news situation so i'm doing it right now so this this disinformation board for myself i'm really just trying something right i'm just throwing out an idea it didn't cost anything just some tweets if it helps you because you start following these people and it makes you better informed then that's great you see you know just a small little thing that i can do for my position and i feel like lots of people are trying to do the same thing there's a whole bunch of people who are thinking well what could i do like what do i do um let me answer this question i'm seeing on uh the locals platform somebody's asking why i didn't add naval ravicon to my list he would be you know the most quality thinker maybe that i know period but he also doesn't get into politics so he's very consistent about staying out of politics you know he'll talk about free speech but that's you know barely political um so i wanted people who actually deal with the stuff that is the is the subject of fake news most often all right so lots of people doing stuff let me give you some more examples um bill maher of course i would like to wake up someday on a saturday and see that bill maher is not trending which has nothing to do with bill maher it's just it's just that the reason he trends is that he's calling out on his own team and you know until he runs out of material to you know insult his own team and by the way he insults both teams so he's not firing it only at his own team and that's why he's on my list because he goes after both sides but you see bill maher essentially using his position to try to make things better and i would say he is to me it looks like he's succeeding wildly and in a way that i think is really impressive actually because he's staying on it he's got the audience he's got the access and he can he can tell them that their narrative is is a little messed up it's probably the best example of what we're saying now a number of people are saying what can we do about this fake news and disinformation and there is a book you can read that teaches you how to be more immune from disinformation it turns out i wrote it it's called loser think i think it's behind me yeah it's behind me it's that one in the middle now loserthink is written specifically for this problem and it turns out that the the situation or the times caught up to me i mean obviously fake news has been a problem for a number of years but it's reached some kind of a peak and now now that the book is out somebody says nice shell look it's not a show when you're talking about your own book it happens to be exactly aimed at the biggest problem in the world so so there's always some troll who will find the worst way to spend everything nice shell let me tell you some more about the book i've already been paid i got an advance you know most most of my books don't sell past the advance which means you're asking for the right events um so i'm not even going to make money from this i won't make a penny if you buy my book do you understand that michelle you understand that my personal income won't change a bit if you buy that book because i'm already paid i don't i don't even have any requirement to market it at this point i mean in the beginning you do but not at this point that literally the only reason i'm recommending it this is exactly the book that's written for exactly this problem so try to deal with that okay um all right so i uh tweeted that out if anybody hasn't read loser think it is exactly on target for our current situation well i told you that after uh publishing my comic in which i introduced the new character dave who is a black engineer in the dilbert group got a lot of newspapers who wouldn't run that their reasoning was who knows i think they some of them just didn't think it was worth the provocation or something so i'm not sure that there's anybody who pushed back on it i haven't heard anybody yeah let me say this definitively although a number of newspapers decided not to run that series so they just put repeats in there or left a blank nobody complained let me say that again so i have many client newspapers who run dilbert thousands of them thousands a few thousand not a single one of them said this is offensive not one but a number of them didn't run it do you know why was it worth the hassle that's it just wasn't worth the hassle or something i i think in some cases you know different entities within the newspaper made the decision so it's not even clear that you know the decision is some kind of coordinated decision i think just somebody said we don't need this trouble something like that now immediately after that i've got a sunday comic that my editor called me and said you know ah maybe you'd want to wait a week or so for this one now my own editor is very unlikely to edit me for content i don't know the last time that happened actually if ever i think it's maybe never happened that i can think of so i've been edited for lots of other reasons but not for being too provocative so let me give a shout out to uh you know andrews mcneil and universal press part of the same company for being very pro-speech very pro-creator very free speech and have always been on the side of the creator completely unambiguously on the side of the creators now having said that they're also a business and so when my editor said you know this sunday that you submitted i feel like we need to wait at least a week because things are a little too hot and really that's just managing managing the clients which is not really censorship because it'll run it'll just run a week later when some of the energy you know is siphoned off uh so wait for that one it's so hot that it couldn't be published immediately and now of course i do it partly for attention that's how my business model works right if you're a creator you have to do some things sometimes that are just about attracting attention it's part of the model everybody understands that right the reason i put elon omar on my list of disinformation board is partly because i think she believes there belongs there but partly because i knew it would make your hair catch on fire right so let me be fully transparent i am in the kind of business where sometimes quite overtly and i hope it's transparent i do things just to get attention you get that right i think everybody's okay with that aren't you as long as i'm doing it completely you know in front of you trump does the same thing when trump does something to get attention you understand it as technique and part of the part of the process right so i asked the question yesterday about i just asked the twitter public if i were to sell dilbert as an intellectual property without my involvement so if i were to walk away and just say okay you can have the the artwork and the idea and you can create new content you can make movies and tvs you can make calendars you can put words in their mouth you can redraw them you can do anything you want i just sell the ip and i asked the public what did i what did they think someone would pay for it now the reason i did that is not because i don't know how to put a deal together a lot of this is the amazing thing about twitter just hold this in your head for a second that this happened yesterday i i just think i'm taking a walk and i think oh wouldn't it be interesting to know what the wisdom of the crowd was sort of the average opinion because the average opinion of the crowd in a weird magical way will be very similar to what an expert would say it's worth do you know why because because what something is worth is what somebody's willing to pay for it that's it if somebody pays it i guess that's what it was worth to at least one person so if you ask a bunch of people who don't know anything about the topic and then you average their answers you end up being just about where an expert is and it's not a coincidence is because the expert is sort of imagining what anybody else would think in the same situation you know sort of a common way of thinking of a thing and if the public thinks of a thing a certain way there's a really good chance that an expert will think of it that way too if the average of the public so it's just one of these weird connections you don't think should make sense you think the expert should be completely different from the average of people who don't know anything but it's just a weird experiment you find out that they're very similar and the reason is because we all have a psychologically common base for understanding what things are worth essentially so i asked that question partly to um put the idea in the public that is for sale in case anybody thought of buying it but um the the interesting part about is that i get a response from an investment banker successful investment banker carol roth who offered to give me you know some some deal composition um concepts now where else in the world do you just ask a question while you're taking a walk and one of the most you know qualified people there could be somebody who literally was an investment banker successfully and retired from that and you get immediate useful um advice at the same time this was kind of blowing my mind a little bit one of the people who responded to my question was thomas massey so he's you know mit graduate congress person so i'm getting advice from a sitting member of congress with an mit education if you don't know what that means you don't get into mit if you're an average student if you know what i mean right they don't take average students so how amazing is is twitter that not only is it going to be i think our biggest bulwark against fake news eventually but that you can just ask a question like that and get such qualified responses it's just ridiculous it's ridiculous likewise have you noticed how many times elon musk has responded to average twitter users in the last few weeks it's really is mind-blowing every time i see it because a lot of the people he's responding to are people i know from either from twitter or real life or both and to see him how often he responds to a valid question that catches his interest it just makes the world seem so small but also it makes the world look like it's working that the person who has the best information on stuff can answer the question i'll give you an example there's somebody on twitter talking about he was testing i guess tesla's current version of their self-driving car software and said something like i guess it was a study that says it was eight times safer than human driving eight times safer than human driving and elon musk saw that and he tweets this trend will be well over 10 times safer with the update that they're working on right now the software update so think about that the self-driving car is already i don't know if you can really measure this because there's no way to know what self-driving cars would do as scale that's got to be different than one season two seas but there is a study if you want to believe studies that says that it is eight times safer than human driven cars in terms of accidents now why did elon musk feel he needed to weigh in on that point and to modify it from it will be eight times as successful to 10 times because that's not much of a difference is it if somebody told you something was eight times safer than the alternative you wouldn't say whoa i'm not going near that until it's ten times safer would you literally there's no in terms of your decision making there is no difference between eight times safer and ten times safer two times safer would be enough that's all you needed your decision would be a no-brainer at two times better but eight times better it's it's a you know there's no conversation at ten times better you wonder why you even had to update it well why do we even care is eight times better well here's why have i mentioned that elon musk understands persuasion better than just about anybody i mean he gets it right all the time all the time he gets it right here's another example ten times is way better than eight times not because it's numerically better i mean it is that's a pretty big difference that would be 25 percent bigger right so that's a big difference but that's not the important part the important part is our brains are tuned to big round numbers no reason it's just what we've been listening to we're used to it and so 10 times is that's the number you can sell right eight times better is technical data ten times better and you can make the sale and the sale is we need to change the law so self-driving cars are here because they're ten times safer i mean just think of that ten times safer that's that's a marketing number and there's a reason that tesla doesn't have a marketing department and that that elon musk literally runs the marketing for tesla while he's tweeting on the toilet i mean not every time but enough of the times that it's impressive and here it is again simply by emphasizing that the ten times versus the eight times he's done what his marketing department couldn't have done for him and it becomes from him so it gets more attention so it's basically he is very competently replacing marketing with just tweeting i mean he actually is doing that it just doesn't seem like it's possible but he's doing it right in front of you all right speaking of technology there is an amazing amazing story that i believe no one else has discussed and so i will discuss it now because we're right in the middle of a story that that uh is going to have an interesting end point but when you're in the middle of a story sometimes you don't know you're in the story and here's the story i take you back in the way back machine to when the united states said you know if we started manufacturing things in china it'd be a lot cheaper not only would it be a lot cheaper but we can move the stuff over there that's dangerous as uh you know the the epa would not let us do in the united states like you know there's going to be some industrial waste we can't do that here how about china we've got lower standards so i believe that some of the manufacturing move to china was because we couldn't do it here some of it was because it was cheaper and i think the cheaper part became the important part over time then what happened next well the united states suffered did they not by the lack of manufacturing jobs and we we did the best we could to adjust people took service jobs that aren't as good you know that that's a problem but at the moment we're at 3.6 unemployment we're fully employed 3.6 is what economists would call ish in that range economists would call that full employment because you wouldn't want it any better if it were better it would be worse because that would mean you couldn't hire anybody unless you took them from another job that would be the worst case scenario you can't hire anybody unless you ruin another company by taking an employee that's necessary right you don't want that you need you need a little bit of slop you know 3.6 unemployment is just enough people who are floating around that you can hire somebody who doesn't already have a job sometimes and that that seems to be pretty important to keep everything moving and so here we are we gave up all of our manufacturing and yet still the biggest economy here's the interesting part what happens next because you saw that biden is pushing 3d printing 3d printing of products especially metal products they could make a rotor for a helicopter with a 3d printer slap it on the helicopter and it flies now what would be the cost of building a factory to make there can't be many helicopter rotors you know you're not making millions of them you might make hundreds of them and you don't have any shipping you don't have any foreign language stuff or taxes or all the difficulty of dealing with a another culture and nation you just turn on the printer feed it the software and it builds you a helicopter rotor we are at the at the precipice of destroying china because we turn them into a manufacturing company with manual labor and then we're going to obsolete it but not until we'd already had an alternative our employment is on track so we can replace the entire supply chain concept with 3d printing robots and ai those three technologies ai 3d printing and robots completely will take manufacturing out of the mix china is in big trouble because one of the things i was thinking about yesterday is every time there's something that the united states is especially good at let's say air power developing aircraft and owning the sky something the united states is uniquely amazing at they're they tend to be the most important things have you noticed that like owning aviation well that's like the most important thing how about space we seem to be you know thanks to spacex and other things we seem to be leading in space that's going to be really really important military really really important and we leave that so the united states seems to be really good at leading at technologies and things that matter a lot china looks like it's going to be really good at um controlling their population and um i don't know manufacturing which will be obsolete i the the size of china's problem is immense it's immense i don't know how they get past it meanwhile we've got problems with baby baby formula and fertilizer and water shortages in the west and all kinds of food related things how worried am i about all of those things pretty worried pretty worried but they all fall into an interesting category of things that humans are good at working out if they have to they're all in that category are you as surprised as i am that we still have food because i don't i don't know how that happened how did we go through the pandemic and we still fed ourselves like i don't know how how did things just sort of kind of work yeah now the baby formula is looks like it could be a serious problem but i'll bet we'll just you know we'll nurse more and we'll find substitutes and there will be do-it-yourself formulas for making your own formula home and there'll be you know some industries that pop up and somebody else will make it so as long as we have time we can solve all this stuff i feel as if we'll be okay i feel as if we'll be okay yet it does make sense to worry about it and if i were you i'd i would make sure i had enough food and toilet paper to get through three months something like that i saw a photo of all the ships that are docked off of china's coast and it's just like a solid you know color of dots and it looks like it looks like the whole system is falling apart if you look at that picture but what the picture is is lacking is how many days would it take for all of that all those ships to be served if it's a four day delay i just pick a random number it's not really a problem you can wait four days for your anything basically but if it's a year i don't know what happens that all the stuff goes bad on the ship i don't know it seems like pretty bad and it does seem like we must be working on fixing even the uh the port situation and the supply chain problem there must be tons of people putting lots of energy into that but let me go back to the the 3d printing leapfrog technology here's a little business tip that everybody experienced and business understands but those of you who are not experienced in business might be hearing this like a novel concept for the first time if you make a product and it's a big hit you're a private company and everybody loves your product and they're buying it like crazy let's say it's technology because that's a better example it's a technology product doesn't matter what it is what's the first thing you should do if you have a really successful product and people love it the first thing you should do if you are that company is you should try to put yourself out of business as fast as possible and by that i mean making a new product that's so good nobody would ever buy that old product again it wouldn't make sense because you have to do that or else somebody else is going to build that product right you have to cannibalize your own product in order to move ahead and everybody who is experienced yeah apple is a perfect example everybody who's experienced the business knows this to be true you have to cannibalize your own product so somebody else doesn't do it for you it's the only way you can stay ahead right yeah amazon does that basically everybody successful does that now look at this situation where we moved our manufacturing to china that looked exactly like this i don't know that it was planned in any way but it's going to work out that way it's going to work out that we cannibalize our own manufacturing in this country and that that was important for us to get to the new kind of manufacturing 3d printing robots ai and we're going to be experts at those three things and more while other countries are trying to figure out what do you do when all these manufacturing jobs go away right so we did the play of the century with with bringing manufacturing to china and then becoming the experts at obsoleting that technology we want everything we won everything we just don't know it yet we won everything this is this is as hard as you could win we obsolated our own industry but after we gave it to china and made them dependent on it you can't win harder than that honestly that's as hard as you can win now we'll say it depends on us actually being able to do this 3d printing and changing the supply chain but i think that's within our ability one of the things i learned yesterday is that our 3d printing capability is way beyond what the public understands we keep seeing things like oh there's this 3d printed house this is just this big machine that puts down concrete on the walls and it's kind of cool the first time you see it you go okay it's an automatic concrete machine but you're calling it a 3d printer okay but i'm not really that impressed by an automatic concrete machine do you know what impresses me let me say it again they 3d printed a helicopter rotor are we done here they 3d printed a helicopter router metal and slapped it on and it works wait i'm not done it didn't just work it was lighter better and faster and cheaper lighter better faster cheaper that's what kills china because china can make stuff that's maybe just as good as 3d printing no they can't they can't make stuff as good as 3d printing the regular manufacturing process would not be close to being able to get the specific engineering and i guess i learned this yesterday this this is what's different about 3d printing is that the software has improved not just the hardware to print anything you want but the software now knows how to print it that's the big change so for example it would know that a component is going to have pressure on one end of it let's say there's going to be more you know physical physics pressure on one end of it you can just put that into the machine say okay this side will have more pressure and it will end it will just build it to be solid more solid on one side that's just one example yeah stronger because you could do a lattice situation with less material now i think that's the correct answer i'm being told that it would be all these things and i was just sort of filling in from common sense which might be wrong that um let's say if you're doing a an ordinary metal anything you would probably it would just be a solid metal piece right because that's just the easiest thing to do you put it in a mold you take it out it's just solid metal but if you're 3d printing it at a really fine detail couldn't you do the the walls of your device let's say a metal device couldn't you do it with a little lattice work little tiny latticework that would use 10 of the material while being stronger are there enough engineers here i'm saying yes isn't true i think i see people agreeing with me that you can make it lighter stronger cheaper right that's all you can do all of it i believe i believe you can do all of that all right that's why it's a big deal what what is happening in california i saw this michael schellenberger tweet and boy would i hate to be running for governor against michael shellenberger so he's running as an independent in california but what as i've told you many times what he what he does differently than anybody else politician is he's written books and done deep research on the exact problems that affect a lot of people but california especially everything from the the addiction and homelessness to energy to water like all those things he became an expert on so who wants to run about against that i mean that's the strongest candidate i've ever seen let me say it again schellenberger is the strongest political candidate i've ever seen now will he get enough attention as an independent in california that's that's a tough that's a tough road but i'll tell you there's nobody ever did it better so far it's just ridiculous how good it is and one of the things he pointed out is that my state california is being ravaged by drought and schallenberger says that the california under governor newson has failed to build a single water storage water recycling or desalinization project and i thought what it's literally the biggest problem in the state that we're going to run out of water are you telling me that in his entire term he hasn't done a single thing that would be useful now i realize it takes years to build these things but at least we should be looking at something that started you know we should be talking about the dam that's almost done or nothing and i thought what about the other stuff well he at least he's working on like the homeless and the drug problem except he's doing all the wrong things he's giving them homes and drugs that's exactly the wrong thing you want to do you want to take them and unfortunately force them into some kind of treatment because it's a medical problem it's not a housing problem that's what schellenberger teaches us and i it does look to me that on all the big problems newsome has either done nothing or what he did was literally the opposite of what one should do according to anybody who knows anything about the topics yeah they've had plenty of time to do this stuff that is correct um let's talk about the disinformation board that biden is especially there there was something that was bothering me about the the person that they chose for the head of it whose name i can't remember so there's a woman who's chosen to be the head of the disinformation board and we're seeing a bunch of her videos and stuff and i was trying to figure out what is the word that is capturing how i'm feeling about it and it wasn't until i saw a glenn greenwald tweet uh did they intentionally pick the most ridiculous person for the job is it just a troll and i thought there it is that was the word ridiculous ridiculous was the word and that is so ridiculous it doesn't look serious to that point i saw a tweet from uh dean uh squirrel i believe he's in canada and he says he i don't really follow american politics when i first saw this meaning the video of that head of the disinformation board when i first saw this i thought it was an online prank a slash hoax thing not kidding no i know he's not kidding it looks like a prank it isn't as far as i know but doesn't it look exactly like one if you do something serious especially something important like this and it looks like a prank to somebody who wasn't paying attention well you did it wrong i think you did it wrong all right um speaking of disinformation there are two kinds roughly speaking one is the kind that's just wrong information but the other is diversion diversion is what keeps us from seeing the truth sometimes there are lots of things that keeps us from doing that but we often get diverted like a magician makes you look over here all the real tricks over here so here are some of the diversions that are happening right now racism narratives are a diversion from understanding that it's really always about rich versus poor but if the poor knew that that was what was going on that is just rich versus poor they could easily organize under our system because they have free social media everybody can vote they can just vote themselves a bunch of benefits but they don't because they think the problem is racism if the poor people said oh the problem is rich versus poor let's go vote ourselves some benefits but it'll never happen because they're diverted by racism now we see the disinformation boards and the the fact checkers and the fake news and everything and i feel like what that's diverting us from is understanding that our own team is lying to us also you know the other team whoever you think the other team is it doesn't matter left or right whoever you think the other team is you're sure they're lying you see lots of examples but you're not so sure about your team aren't you but your team's lying too and i think that when you're talking about fake news and disinformation boards uh both sides are then encouraged to think that their side is right and the other side is lying that's a diversion it's a diversion from the fact that both both sides are lying all the time it doesn't mean they're wrong all the time i mean somebody's gonna be right if they're two different sides uh but the purpose of the teams is to lie and persuade that it was a weird sound it was a turn their turkeys gobbling right outside my door we have lots of wild turkeys here i hope it's a turkey so then here's another uh diversion uh the abortion narrative is diverting us from the democrat approval levels on the democrat record the biden administration record everything is everything is diversion i get it see the the turkeys are gobbling at me because i forgot to put jonathan turley on my disinformation board and and their turkeys so they're using the simulation to remind turkey turkey turley okay got it put them on the information board disinformation got it all right i don't know how many turkeys there are out there but i think they're i think they're massing for an attack that is a lot of turkey noise i may take i might take the locals people over and look at them after we're done here all right this all right let's talk about some new disinformation um did you see the news on social media that apparently is fake news that pfizer documents show that the vaccines were never safe for pregnancy if people were pregnant or breastfeeding did any of you see that on social media some kind of a document that purported to be a pfizer document now it's fake news but it would act like the drug was not tested or wasn't safe for pregnancy and breastfeeding how many of you saw that did you know that that pfizer document wasn't from a pfizer document so all of you who believed you saw a pfizer document that says they know that vaccines were not safe during pregnancy or breastfeeding that was not even a pfizer document that was from another entity altogether it was fake news and the other entity apparently has updated their opinion out of it so there's actually nothing there there is no information about it being safe or unsafe during pregnancy and breastfeeding i added the unsafe part just because i'm unaware of anything so pretty much all of the ivermectin stories pretty much all of the vaccine oh did you know about this data story they're pretty much all fake you should believe anything about vaccines any study about vaccines and any study about ivermectin just assume it's not real just assume it's not true that should be your your starting assumption if somebody can convince you it is true well good for them but you shouldn't start that way you should start with fake and then if somebody can convince you well let's see if they can do it um i saw this is amazing the head of media matters was on c-span and was asked by a caller uh does about the suspicious nature of hunter biden getting half a million dollars for his paintings and they call her ask how can we be sure that hunter biden is not selling influence as opposed to selling artwork and the head of media matters uh uh angelo curacao carousone i guess said quote uh that there uh there's no reasonable suspicion behind it in other words there's no reasonable suspicion that hunter biden is selling paintings for what seems to be outrageously high prices because the people buying the paintings are just in the influence buying game there is no reasonable suspicion behind it really really because to me this is the definition of reasonable suspicion not proof nobody's claiming any proof has anybody said there's proof nobody nobody said there's proof everybody everybody thinks it's something you ought to look at a little suspicious but here's what this made me think i wondered about the biden family reunions when you know that every single thing that hunter biden does is going to be a problem for the rest of the family and then hunter biden says you know i went to uh rehab and uh i'm getting off getting off the drugs and you can imagine his family and joe biden and jill and everybody saying oh that is great that is the best news so you know we're used to you doing only the worst possible thing to embarrass us but thank goodness thank goodness you're getting off the drugs and and then you say and and i'm not going to do any more deals in china and then the rest of the biden family goes oh god i thought you were going to keep doing that because that is so embarrassing to the rest of us thank goodness you're not going to be doing the drugs anymore and you're not going to be dealing deals with china and then hunter says and no more deals with ukraine i mean wouldn't be practical at this point but no more deals with ukraine and then the biden family says thank you thank you finally and then they say so what are you going to do with your free time and then hunter biden the black sheep of the family says oh artwork i'm going to go into the art business and the family said ah finally finally something that will not embarrass us and then hunter says yeah i think i could get quite a bit for these paintings and then the hunter family says that's great well i you know we're really happy for you and you're pretty good painter so this looks like this could be pretty good and then he says yeah i'm going to price them at half a million dollars a piece or at least one of them and then the biden family says what i wait for a minute there we thought you said you were gonna price like one painting for half a million dollars and they said yeah i'm gonna price each painting for several hundred thousand dollars and then the biden family says okay we didn't think we heard you right there uh it almost sounded like it almost sounded like you're going to pay to pay your and so try to sell for half a million dollars you didn't really say that did you and they said yeah and then the entire bible says are you serious you can't do anything that doesn't look like a scheme there of all the things you could do in the whole world of all the sports you could do of all the businesses you could be in all the things you could invest in the classes you could take the skills you could learn all the things in the world you could do you have to find the one thing that would embarrass us and he does i feel as if joe biden is living in a simulation and his theme is that hunter won't stop embarrassing him in public and there's just nothing he can do about it it'll just go from one thing to another thing to another thing it looks almost intentional doesn't it i mean it's hard to imagine that one person could do thing after thing after thing that just makes his father look bad who even does that like most most people can make their parents look bad if they try let's say you get you know drunk driving arrest well that makes your parents look bad indirectly sort of a little bit but we also do other things most of us like i've probably done some things that would have made my parents embarrassed uh okay i can think of one in particular i'll give you an example when i was very new to media and i had not been media trained i was asked by a bonus bon appetit magazine a magazine about food to do a little special thing in the back where they'd have some celebrity talk about their favorite restaurant or something so i agreed to do it and then they interviewed me and i made this joke i said that my mother was the second worst cook in the world after her mother now that's something that we kind of said in the family it was like a family joke that was also true it was true my mother was the inspiration for dilbert's mother who had a cooking show called cooking with salt it was just salt so basically would you like your seasoned about salt that'll work yeah salt was great i love salt but i made this comment to the the author of bon appetit magazine and i said to myself my mother's never going to read bon appetit magazine am i right the one thing i don't have to worry about is i knew for sure that my mother living in a little country mountain place she definitely was not reading bon appetit magazine and certainly not reading a cover to cover to get to the last page that's how stupid i was if you can even imagine that level of media stupidity yep yep it took approximately 10 seconds from the publication of that article for one of my mother's friends to mail it to her and say i hope you've seen this that's right that's what friends are for that's what friends are for so have i ever embarrassed my parents oh yeah yes i have yes i have as a matter of fact but the difference between me and hunter biden is i still sometimes do things that don't embarrass people sometimes i mean not all the time but i sometimes go into a business enterprise that if it worked it would just make everybody happy it wouldn't make anybody embarrassed like how is it the hunter can't find anything anything in that domain of don't embarrass your parents nothing there's not a single thing he can do that doesn't embarrass his parents what's up with that is your dad a piece of you know both of my parents are are deceased um have you read hunter's autobiography i haven't all right so there's no reasonable suspicion there's anything going on there all right i believe we've uh talked about it all except that this minister of truth uh started out with some fake news i think um so this minister of truth woman the head of it said that it's not conservatives it's not just conservatives who are being silenced on social media as the conservatives believe but that there are many studies many studies i'm not going to mention them because there are many of them oh you want to link to the study i'm not going to give you a link to the study there's many studies many many many studies and these studies show that some liberals are also being censored so the idea that censorship is sort of working against conservatives has been debunked and debunked by the many many studies of which i will not link and will not mention many many of them and it those studies show that liberals are censored too now did you catch the trick did you catch the trick that she used and then i i used it as well tell me if these two things are opposites most of the most of the the media suppression is against conservatives but there have been studies that show that liberals also have been censored are those opposites does one debunk the other no but she presented them like they do in other words she literally this uh and i don't think this is delving into personal opinion i don't think this is a subjective statement the head of disinformation tried to tell us that these studies would show that there was the same amount no she didn't say it this was the clever part she simply said that the studies show that liberals also get banned i'll bet that's true i'll bet there's at least one case of that two would be plenty if there were ever two people in the history of banning and they were liberal and they got banned then her statement is right the studies have shown that people on the left also get banned it would just take one or two does she mention how many no does she compare the rate of conservatives being banned or suppressed to the rate of the other side no and wasn't that the only question that was the only question the only question was how much for conservative versus liberal and she answered it with an absolute instead of how much oh they both have a little problem there that is intellectually dishonest it is disinformation by design that is clearly designed as disinformation her statement could not have been more clear to mislead it was intended to mislead and it did now when greenwald asked did they intentionally pick the most ridiculous person for the job it's not just the way she looks because she has a theatrical mannerism which would probably work great in a lot of contexts but not this one not this one this is the only job you don't want somebody exactly like that if you put her in lots of different jobs i mean you come up with a dozen right off the top of your head where her personality would be perfect like you know big personality she's not shy of the camera you can think of all kinds of jobs she'd be perfect for but not this one you don't want somebody who looks like she's acting to be your disinformation czar that's the opposite of what you want all right that ladies and gentlemen is everything i wanted to talk about i believe i have helped you all to a better life if you haven't read lose or think my book right up there you really should because it is the answer to disinformation or at least it's one of them so if you would read that book it would tell you how to spot fake news with very practical specific things to look for and once you have that toolbox you say oh it's one of those and then you could spot it easily i'll give you one example if you see news that's too incredible to believe it's because it's almost certainly not true the news that makes our hair catch on fire and go oh i can't believe that happened it didn't happen 95 of the time sometimes yes weird things do happen that's a real thing but when you see the news that let's say the news that the russians were paying the tel we're paying a bounty for american debt in afghanistan or something like that like that would be such a shocking story that's probably not true and sure enough there's no confirmation um be a turkey volume guessing man six like the supreme court made abortion illegal yeah so did you know that most abortions are performed with just a pill how many of you knew that that's something i learned from dr drew and i think dr drew had a interview with bill maher and then immediately after dr drew met with bill maher bill maher said he learned a lot about abortion and one of the things he learned is the same literally the same thing that dr drew told me when i was on dr drew show just the other day he told me that the vast majority of abortions are just a pill i i didn't know that did you know that um well i guess it's a it's a there's a technical definition of what an abortion is so if if there was anything that was going to take hold to use non-scientific terms if anything was on in the process of becoming a life and it stopped it from happening i'm going to call that an abortion you know you can you can word play it all you want but yeah we talked about the horse dewormer thing that's just such a big simulation coincidence all right uh and then 2000 mules i haven't seen yet but i plan to as soon as i find it somewhere if anybody has a link to somewhere i can actually see the the actual video 2000 mules will you send it to me on twitter because people keep telling me where it is but i can't find it or i can't find it in a way that plays i found it on rumble and it didn't play i don't know why oh have you mentioned ultra mega yeah you thank you i should have mentioned that so as you know now uh biden is going with this ultra mega extremist messaging so once again when they don't have an argument they have to go for a personality that's what they're doing so it's just another you know um it's just a typical democrat approach to attack the people in the united states like entire entire categories of people and just dismissing them but i don't think it's working that ultra mega thing doesn't seem to be working uh and they're also bringing back dark it's dark concert so the democrats have not essentially they have given up i was going to say it's this seems subjective but i think we can say it objectively can't we would it be fair to say just objectively if if you take your bias for a second to the degree we can do that does it look like the democrats gave up and and they're only struggling to win based on personality problems and fake news and it doesn't look like they're what they're trying to win on content the republicans are still definitely trying to win on content because they have the strongest case in the world well this worked when trump was president such as the border just do that again do whatever he was doing it must have been working so they have a pretty strong argument of practical solutions you know hire more cops how about that you got too much crime stop letting people out of jail how about that right so they're very practical solutions even if you prefer them not to be the solution but the democrats have just given up they're not asking for anything that's real at this point it feels like it's just personality and fear and all that stuff uh all right i've got ultra dark omega mega the the ultra dark mega all right virtual premiere for what or the virtual premiere not for the movie have you considered that they made the disinformation position look ridiculous on purpose so that people won't see it as a legitimate threat to their freedom i don't think so that that goes into the too clever category like i will certainly suspect people of all kinds of bad behavior but when it gets to be that clever i think that's a little too clever right uh banned adopt videos got what's that mean all right uh did i watch amber turd's performance yesterday i watched only some clips she obviously seemed to be acting it didn't look real at all so i can't wait to see what happens with that my pick for the kentucky derby i think it's going to be some kind of a horse probably wins that um thoughts on the managerial class that's what the entire dilbert comic is about um he weighed he's waiting for the cross-examination okay why was roe versus wade never codified into law there weren't enough votes that's why that's why see one of the reasons why you don't want congress to codify into law is because it's because you want the states to do it don't you like why would you piss off half of the states when all the states all the states can have what the states want by a majority if you can give every state what they want by a majority within their state why would you make a national law that would thwart 50 percent of the states that's the opposite of our system our system is that you want the states to have as much control over the things that make sense for them to control and you want that you want the states to have no control over things that doesn't make sense for them to control such as national defense right you don't want them controlling that but when it comes down to like what happens to an individual making a really tough life and death decision you want to boil that down right as close to the individual as you can get it you know down to the doctor and the person if the state's as close as you can get then i'll take it but the people want the federal government to do it want to thwart the will of the people in the state that they don't live in in many cases that doesn't seem right oh i can see it on the local site so dinesh has a site on locals and if you're a subscriber you can see it there uh i don't know if he's he's got a subscription locked or not you can unlock things on on locals so can somebody tell me if is it locked or unlocked on locals the 2000 mules somebody will tell me in a second locked or unlocked yeah it's hard to google try googling it it's locked okay so you'd have to be a subscriber somebody says it's free but other people say it's locked oh you can't access it until 8 pm tonight okay so there's a little ambiguity of it but i'll tell you that dinesh is doing a great job of marketing could it could not be a better time at a better content and you know he's got he's got just the right amount of censorship to to give him some audience dinesh is locked down on twitter still somebody says you can buy it at salem.com at noon what is salem.com i don't know 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well i've added some members to my

personal disinformation board

i told you yesterday

that i've created my own disinformation

board these are the people you should

look to

to find out what's true and what isn't

now importantly in order to be a member

of my disinformation board you don't

have to apply

and you can't turn it down

because you're on the board if i say

you're on the board and that's the end

of the story

so the people i put on the board are not

the people i agree with

that's not the point so you're going to

see some people on this that you'll say

what

why is that person on the disinformation

board when i don't agree with anything

they ever say

and the answer is

this

there are people who can violate the

narrative

and to have a track record of doing

so i'm going to give you my list of

people who are already on there and i'll

tell you who i added today based on user

comments and just thinking about it more

so glenn greenwald jeff pilkington bill

maher andre shrugged

anatoly lebarsky

um

mike cernovich matt tybee tulsi gabbard

elon omar

we'll talk about that one

uh alan dershowitz michael

schellenberger and the ones i added

today were ian bremmer brett weinstein

eric weinstein

dave rubin

and dr drew

dr drew

i meant to have on the original list i

just

forgot a name

so correcting the list as we go

and

uh i think this is a pretty strong list

because everybody on this list has a

very clear

uh background of violating their own

narrative meaning the narrative on their

team

so let's talk about elon omar

um glenn greenwald is the first one that

pointed this out to me i wasn't aware of

this

but on several notable occasions she is

she's gone against the democrat

narrative

i think free speech was one of them

and

while there are plenty of things she's

going to say that i don't agree with

she's one of the people you want to look

to

because anytime somebody violates the

narrative that's more useful

did i not add jonathan turley

what the hell is wrong with me i i've

had his name here to add about five

times yeah jonathan turley

i'll add him for the next time thank you

great suggestion so remember this is not

about agreeing with them it's only

people who can violate the narrative and

have demonstrated

you know quality thinking that's it

so

um i'm not saying that these will tell

you the truth

you get that right

so the the purpose of the disinformation

board my personal one

is not that they're always right

and they're not fact checkers

they're like a red flag if there's some

happening

if if there's not a single person on

this list

who questions a story in the news a

specific story

it's probably true

if you see three or four people on this

list and that's not many out of the

whole list if three or four people on

the list say uh

no

you're forgetting this or you're leaving

out this or you got it wrong i would

take that really seriously

because this is the list of people who

if they tell you a fact is wrong

i'm going to listen to that now the

people who are silent on it

might just not have enough information

about it so i wouldn't look at the

percentage of people

i just see who is saying is fake and are

they violating the narrative

all

right i'm loving the fact that there

seems to be some kind of organic

um some kind of organic movement to

improve

the fake news situation

so i'm doing it

right now so this this disinformation

board for myself

i'm really just trying something right

i'm just throwing out an idea

it didn't cost anything just some tweets

if it helps you because you start

following these people and it makes you

better informed then that's great you

see you know just a small little thing

that i can do for my

position

and i feel like lots of people are

trying to do the same thing there's a

whole bunch of people who are thinking

well what could i do like what do i do

um

let me answer this question i'm seeing

on

uh the locals platform somebody's asking

why i didn't add naval ravicon

to my list

he would be you know the most quality

thinker

maybe that i know period

but he also doesn't get into politics

so he's very consistent about staying

out of politics

you know he'll talk about free speech

but that's you know barely political

um

so i wanted people who actually deal

with the stuff that is the is the

subject of fake news most often

all right

so lots of people doing stuff

let me give you some more examples

um bill maher of course

i would like to wake up someday on a

saturday

and

see that bill maher is not trending

which has nothing to do with bill maher

it's just it's just that the reason he

trends is that he's calling out

on his own team

and

you know until he runs out of material

to you know insult his own team and by

the way he insults both teams so he's

not firing it only at his own team

and that's why he's on my list because

he goes after both sides but you see

bill maher

essentially

using his position

to try to make things better and i would

say he is

to me it looks like he's succeeding

wildly

and in a way that i think is really

impressive actually because he's staying

on it he's got the audience he's got the

access and he can he can tell them that

their narrative is is a little messed up

it's probably the best example of what

we're saying

now

a number of people are saying what can

we do about this fake news and

disinformation

and

there is a book you can read

that teaches you how to be more immune

from disinformation

it turns out i wrote it it's called

loser think i think it's behind me

yeah it's behind me it's that one in the

middle

now loserthink is written specifically

for this problem

and it turns out that the

the situation or the times caught up to

me i mean obviously fake news has been a

problem for a number of years

but it's reached some kind of a peak

and now now that the book is out

somebody says nice shell

look it's not a show when you're

talking about your own book it happens

to be exactly aimed at the biggest

problem in the world

so so

there's always some troll who will find

the worst way to spend everything nice

shell

let me tell you some more about the book

i've already been paid

i got an advance

you know most most of my books don't

sell past the advance which means you're

asking for the right events

um

so i'm not even going to make money from

this i won't make a penny if you

buy my book do you understand that

michelle

you understand that

my personal income won't change a bit if

you buy that book because i'm already

paid

i don't i don't even have any

requirement to market it at this point i

mean in the beginning you do

but not at this point that literally the

only reason i'm recommending it this is

exactly the book that's written

for exactly this problem

so

try to deal with that okay

um

all right

so i uh tweeted that out if anybody

hasn't read loser think

it is exactly on target for our current

situation

well i told you that after uh publishing

my comic in which i introduced the new

character dave who is a black engineer

in the dilbert group

got a lot of newspapers who wouldn't run

that

their reasoning was

who knows

i think they some of them just didn't

think it was

worth the

provocation or something

so i'm not sure that there's anybody who

pushed back on it i haven't heard

anybody

yeah let me say this definitively

although a number of newspapers decided

not to run that series

so they just put repeats in there or

left a blank

nobody complained

let me say that again

so i have many client newspapers who run

dilbert thousands of them thousands a

few thousand

not a single one of them

said this is offensive

not one

but a number of them didn't run it do

you know why

was it worth the hassle

that's it just wasn't worth the hassle

or something i i think in some cases you

know different entities within the

newspaper made the decision so

it's not even clear that you know the

decision is some kind of coordinated

decision

i think just somebody said

we don't need this trouble

something like that

now

immediately after that i've got a sunday

comic

that my editor called me and said you

know ah

maybe you'd want to wait a week or so

for this one

now my own editor is very unlikely to

edit me for content

i don't know the last time that happened

actually if ever

i think it's maybe never happened

that i can think of so i've been edited

for lots of other reasons but not for

being too provocative

so let me give a shout out to uh you

know

andrews mcneil and universal press

part of the same company

for being very pro-speech very

pro-creator very

free speech and have always been on the

side of the creator completely

unambiguously on the side of the

creators

now

having said that they're also a business

and so when my editor said you know this

sunday that you submitted

i feel like we need to wait at least a

week

because things are a little too hot

and really that's just managing

managing the clients which is not really

censorship because it'll run it'll just

run a week later when some of the energy

you know is siphoned off

uh so wait for that one it's so hot that

it couldn't be published immediately

and now of course i do it partly for

attention

that's how my business model works right

if you're a creator you have to do some

things sometimes

that are just about attracting attention

it's part of the model everybody

understands that right the reason i put

elon omar on my list of disinformation

board

is partly because i think she believes

there belongs there

but partly because i knew it would make

your hair catch on fire

right so

let me be fully transparent

i am in the kind of business

where sometimes quite overtly and i hope

it's transparent i do things just to get

attention

you get that right i think everybody's

okay with that aren't you as long as i'm

doing it completely

you know in front of you trump does the

same thing

when trump does something to get

attention

you understand it as technique and part

of the part of the process

right

so i asked the question yesterday about

i just asked the twitter public if i

were to sell dilbert

as an intellectual property without my

involvement

so if i were to walk away and just say

okay you can have the

the artwork and the idea and you can

create new content you can make movies

and tvs you can make calendars you can

put words in their mouth you can redraw

them you can do anything you want i just

sell the ip

and i asked the public what did i what

did they think

someone would pay for it

now the reason i did that is not because

i don't know how to put a deal together

a lot of

this is the amazing thing about twitter

just hold this in your head for a second

that this happened yesterday i i just

think i'm taking a walk and i think oh

wouldn't it be interesting to know what

the wisdom of the crowd was sort of the

average opinion because the average

opinion of the crowd

in a weird magical way

will be very similar to what an expert

would say it's worth

do you know why

because because what something is worth

is what somebody's willing to pay for it

that's it

if somebody pays it

i guess that's what it was worth to at

least one person

so

if you ask a bunch of people who don't

know anything about the topic

and then you average their answers

you end up being just about where an

expert is

and it's not a coincidence is because

the expert is

sort of imagining

what anybody else would think in the

same situation

you know sort of a common way of

thinking of a thing

and if the public thinks of a thing a

certain way there's a really good chance

that an expert will think of it that way

too if the average of the public so it's

just one of these weird connections you

don't think should make sense you think

the expert should be completely

different from

the average of people who don't know

anything but it's just a weird

experiment you find out that they're

very similar and the reason is because

we all have a psychologically common

base for understanding what things are

worth

essentially

so i asked that question partly to um

put the idea in the public that is for

sale in case anybody thought of buying

it

but

um

the the interesting part about is

that i get a response from an investment

banker

successful investment banker carol roth

who offered to give me you know some

some deal composition um

concepts

now

where else in the world

do you just ask a question while you're

taking a walk

and one of the most you know qualified

people there could be somebody who

literally was an investment banker

successfully and retired from that

and you get immediate

useful

um advice at the same time this was kind

of blowing my mind a little bit one of

the people who responded to my question

was thomas massey

so he's you know mit graduate congress

person

so i'm getting advice from

a sitting member of congress with an mit

education

if you don't know what that means

you don't get into mit

if you're an average student if you know

what i mean right they don't take

average students

so

how amazing is is twitter

that not only is it going to be

i think our biggest bulwark against fake

news eventually

but that you can just ask a question

like that and get

such qualified responses it's just

ridiculous it's ridiculous

likewise have you noticed how many times

elon musk has responded to average

twitter users in the last few weeks it's

really is mind-blowing every time i see

it

because a lot of the people he's

responding to are people i know

from either from twitter or real life or

both

and to see him how often he responds to

a valid question that catches his

interest

it just makes the world seem so small

but also

it makes the world look like it's

working

that the person who has the best

information on stuff

can answer the question i'll give you an

example

there's somebody on twitter

talking about he was testing i guess

tesla's current version of their

self-driving car

software

and said something like i guess it was a

study that says it was eight times

safer than human driving

eight times safer than human driving

and elon musk saw that and he tweets

this trend

will be well over 10 times safer

with the update that they're working on

right now the software update

so

think about that

the self-driving car is already i don't

know if you can really measure this

because there's no way to know what

self-driving cars would do as scale

that's got to be different than one

season two seas but there is a study if

you want to believe studies

that says that it is eight times

safer than human driven cars in terms of

accidents

now why did elon musk feel he needed to

weigh in on that point

and to modify it from it will be eight

times as successful to 10 times because

that's not much of a difference is it

if somebody told you something was eight

times safer than the alternative

you wouldn't say whoa

i'm not going near that until it's ten

times safer would you

literally there's no in terms of your

decision making there is no difference

between eight times safer and ten times

safer

two times safer would be enough

that's all you needed

your decision would be a no-brainer at

two times better

but eight times better it's it's a

you know there's no conversation at ten

times better you wonder why you even had

to update it well why do we even care is

eight times better

well here's why

have i mentioned that elon musk

understands persuasion better than just

about anybody

i mean he gets it right all the time all

the time he gets it right here's another

example

ten times is way better than eight times

not because it's numerically better i

mean it is that's a pretty big

difference

that would be

25 percent bigger right so that's a big

difference but that's not the important

part

the important part is our brains are

tuned to big round numbers

no reason

it's just what we've been listening to

we're used to it and so 10 times

is

that's the number you can sell

right eight times better

is technical data

ten times better and you can make the

sale and the sale is we need to change

the law so self-driving cars are here

because they're ten times safer

i mean just think of that ten times

safer

that's that's a marketing number

and there's a reason that

tesla doesn't have a marketing

department

and that that elon musk literally runs

the marketing for tesla while he's

tweeting on the toilet

i mean not every time but

enough of the times that it's impressive

and here it is again simply by

emphasizing that the ten times versus

the eight times he's done what his

marketing department couldn't have done

for him

and it becomes from him so it gets more

attention so it's basically he is very

competently

replacing marketing with just tweeting

i mean he actually is doing that it just

doesn't seem like it's possible but he's

doing it right in front of you

all right speaking of technology

there is an amazing amazing story that i

believe no one else has discussed and so

i will discuss it now

because we're right in the middle of a

story that that uh

is going to have an interesting end

point

but when you're in the middle of a story

sometimes you don't know you're in the

story and here's the story

i take you back in the way back machine

to when the united states said you know

if we started manufacturing things in

china

it'd be a lot cheaper

not only would it be a lot cheaper but

we can move the stuff over there that's

dangerous

as uh

you know the the epa would not let us do

in the united states like you know

there's going to be some industrial

waste we can't do that here

how about china

we've got lower standards

so i believe that some of the

manufacturing

move to china was because we couldn't do

it here

some of it was because it was cheaper

and i think the cheaper part became the

important part over time then what

happened next

well the united states suffered

did they not by the lack of

manufacturing jobs

and

we we did the best we could to adjust

people took service jobs that aren't as

good

you know that that's a problem but at

the moment we're at 3.6 unemployment

we're fully employed

3.6 is what economists would call ish in

that range

economists would call that full

employment because you wouldn't want it

any better if it were better it would be

worse

because

that would mean you couldn't hire

anybody

unless you took them from another job

that would be the worst case scenario

you can't hire anybody unless you ruin

another company by taking an employee

that's necessary right you don't want

that

you need you need a little bit of slop

you know 3.6 unemployment is just enough

people who are floating around that you

can hire somebody who doesn't already

have a job

sometimes

and that that seems to be pretty

important to keep everything moving

and so

here we are we gave up all of our

manufacturing and yet

still the biggest economy

here's the interesting part

what happens next

because you saw that biden is pushing 3d

printing

3d printing of products

especially metal products they could

make a rotor for a helicopter

with a 3d printer slap it on the

helicopter and it flies

now

what would be the cost of building a

factory to make there can't be many

helicopter rotors

you know you're not making millions of

them you might make hundreds of them

and

you don't have any shipping you don't

have any foreign language stuff or taxes

or all the difficulty of dealing with a

another culture and nation

you just turn on the printer feed it the

software and it builds you a helicopter

rotor

we are at the

at the precipice

of destroying china

because we turn them into a

manufacturing company with manual labor

and then we're going to obsolete it but

not until we'd already had an

alternative our employment is on track

so we can replace the entire supply

chain concept with 3d printing

robots

and ai

those three technologies ai 3d printing

and robots

completely will take manufacturing

out of the mix

china

is in big trouble

because one of the things i was thinking

about yesterday is

every time there's something that the

united states is especially good at

let's say air power

developing aircraft and owning the sky

something the united states is uniquely

amazing at

they're they tend to be the most

important things

have you noticed that

like owning aviation

well that's like the most important

thing how about space

we seem to be you know thanks to spacex

and other things we seem to be leading

in space

that's going to be really really

important military really really

important and we leave that

so

the united states seems to be really

good at leading at technologies

and things that matter a lot

china

looks like it's going to be really good

at

um controlling their population and

um

i don't know manufacturing which will be

obsolete

i

the the size of china's problem is

immense it's immense i don't know how

they get past it

meanwhile we've got problems with baby

baby formula and

fertilizer and water shortages in the

west and all kinds of food related

things

how worried am i about

all of those things

pretty worried

pretty worried

but they all fall into an interesting

category

of things that humans are good at

working out if they have to

they're all in that category

are you as surprised as i am that we

still have food

because i don't i don't know how that

happened

how did we go through the pandemic

and we still fed ourselves

like i don't know how

how did things just sort of kind of work

yeah now the baby formula is looks like

it could be a serious problem but i'll

bet we'll just you know we'll nurse more

and we'll find substitutes and

there will be do-it-yourself formulas

for making your own formula home and

there'll be

you know some industries that pop up and

somebody else will make it

so

as long as we have time

we can solve all this stuff

i feel as if we'll be okay

i feel as if we'll be okay yet it does

make sense to worry about it and if i

were you i'd i would

make sure i had enough food and toilet

paper to get through

three months

something like that i saw a photo of all

the ships that are docked off of china's

coast and it's just like a solid

you know color of dots

and it looks like it looks like the

whole system is falling apart if you

look at that picture but what the

picture is is lacking

is how many days would it take

for all of that all those ships to be

served

if it's a four day delay i just pick a

random number

it's not really a problem

you can wait four days for your anything

basically

but if it's a year

i don't know what happens that all the

stuff goes bad on the ship i don't know

it seems like pretty bad

and it does seem like we must be working

on fixing even the uh

the port situation and the supply chain

problem there must be tons of people

putting lots of energy into that but let

me go back to the the 3d printing

leapfrog technology

here's a little business

tip that everybody experienced and

business understands but those of you

who are not experienced in business

might be hearing this like a novel

concept for the first time

if you make a product and it's a big hit

you're a private company and everybody

loves your product and they're buying it

like crazy let's say it's technology

because that's a better example it's a

technology product doesn't matter what

it is

what's the first thing you should do

if you have a really successful product

and people love it

the first thing you should do if you are

that company is you should try to put

yourself out of business as fast as

possible

and by that i mean making a new product

that's so good nobody would ever buy

that old product again

it wouldn't make sense

because you have to do that or else

somebody else is going to build that

product

right you have to cannibalize your own

product

in order to move ahead and everybody who

is experienced yeah apple is a perfect

example everybody who's experienced the

business knows this to be true

you have to cannibalize your own product

so somebody else doesn't do it for you

it's the only way you can stay ahead

right yeah amazon does that

basically everybody successful does that

now look at this situation where we

moved our manufacturing

to china that looked exactly like this

i don't know that it was planned in any

way but it's going to work out that way

it's going to work out that we

cannibalize our own manufacturing in

this country

and that that was important for us to

get to the new kind of manufacturing 3d

printing robots ai and we're going to be

experts at those three things and more

while other countries are trying to

figure out what do you do when all these

manufacturing jobs go away

right so we did the play of the century

with with bringing manufacturing to

china and then becoming the experts at

obsoleting that technology

we want everything

we won everything

we just don't know it yet

we won everything

this is this is as hard as you could win

we obsolated our own industry but after

we gave it to china and made them

dependent on it you can't win harder

than that honestly that's as hard as you

can win

now we'll say it depends on us actually

being able to do this 3d printing and

changing the supply chain but i think

that's within our ability

one of the things i learned yesterday is

that our 3d printing capability

is way beyond

what the public

understands

we keep seeing things like oh there's

this 3d printed house

this is just this big machine that puts

down concrete on the walls

and it's kind of cool the first time you

see it

you go okay

it's an automatic concrete machine but

you're calling it a 3d printer okay

but i'm not really that impressed by an

automatic concrete machine

do you know what impresses me

let me say it again

they 3d printed

a helicopter rotor

are we done here

they 3d printed a helicopter router

metal

and slapped it on and it works

wait i'm not done

it didn't just work

it was lighter better and faster and

cheaper

lighter better faster cheaper

that's what kills china

because china can make stuff that's

maybe just as good as 3d printing no

they can't they can't make stuff as good

as 3d printing the regular manufacturing

process would not be close

to being able to

get the specific engineering and i guess

i learned this yesterday this this is

what's different about 3d printing is

that the software

has improved

not just the hardware to print anything

you want

but the software now knows how to print

it that's the big change

so for example it would know that a

component is going to have pressure on

one end of it

let's say there's going to be more

you know physical physics pressure on

one end of it you can just put that into

the machine

say okay this side will have more

pressure and it will end it will just

build it to be solid more solid on one

side

that's just one example

yeah stronger because you could do a

lattice situation with less material now

i think that's the correct answer i'm

being told that it would be all these

things

and i was just sort of filling in from

common sense which might be wrong

that um

let's say if you're doing a

an ordinary metal anything

you would probably it would just be a

solid metal piece right because that's

just the easiest thing to do

you put it in a mold you take it out

it's just solid metal but if you're 3d

printing it at a really fine detail

couldn't you do the the walls of your

device let's say a metal device couldn't

you do it with a little lattice work

little tiny latticework that would use

10 of the material while being stronger

are there enough engineers here i'm

saying yes isn't true

i think i see people agreeing with me

that you can make it lighter stronger

cheaper right that's all you can do all

of it i believe

i believe you can do all of that

all right that's why it's a big deal

what

what is happening in california

i saw this michael schellenberger tweet

and boy would i hate to be running for

governor against michael shellenberger

so he's running as an independent in

california but what as i've told you

many times what he what he does

differently than anybody else politician

is he's written books and done deep

research on the exact problems that

affect a lot of people but california

especially everything from the

the addiction and homelessness to

energy to water

like all those things he became an

expert on

so who wants to run about against that

i mean that's the strongest candidate

i've ever seen

let me say it again

schellenberger is the strongest

political candidate

i've ever seen

now will he get enough attention as an

independent in california

that's that's a tough

that's a tough road but i'll tell you

there's nobody ever did it better so far

it's just ridiculous how good it is and

one of the things he pointed out is that

my state california is being ravaged by

drought

and schallenberger says that

the california under governor newson

has failed to build a single water

storage water recycling or

desalinization project

and i thought

what

it's literally the biggest problem in

the state that we're going to run out of

water

are you telling me that in his entire

term

he hasn't done a single thing that would

be useful

now i realize it takes years to build

these things but at least we should be

looking at something that started

you know we should be talking about the

dam that's almost done or

nothing

and i thought what about the other stuff

well he at least he's working on like

the homeless and the drug problem except

he's doing all the wrong things

he's giving them homes and drugs

that's exactly the wrong thing you want

to do you want to take them and

unfortunately force them into some kind

of treatment because it's a medical

problem it's not a housing problem

that's what schellenberger teaches us

and

i

it does look to me that on all the big

problems

newsome has either done nothing or what

he did was literally the opposite of

what one should do

according to anybody who knows anything

about the topics

yeah they've had plenty of time to do

this stuff that is correct

um

let's talk about the disinformation

board that biden is

especially there there was something

that was bothering me about the

the person that they chose for the head

of it whose name i can't remember so

there's a woman who's chosen to be the

head of the disinformation board and

we're seeing a bunch of her videos and

stuff

and i was trying to figure out what is

the word

that is capturing how i'm feeling about

it and it wasn't until

i saw a glenn greenwald tweet

uh

did they intentionally pick the most

ridiculous person for the job is it just

a troll

and i thought there it is

that was the word ridiculous

ridiculous was the word and that is so

ridiculous it doesn't look serious

to that point i saw a tweet from uh dean

uh

squirrel i believe he's in canada and he

says he i don't really follow american

politics when i first saw this meaning

the video of that head of the

disinformation board when i first saw

this i thought it was an online prank a

slash hoax thing not kidding no i know

he's not kidding

it looks like a prank

it isn't

as far as i know

but doesn't it look exactly like one if

you do something serious

especially something important like this

and it looks like a prank to somebody

who wasn't paying attention

well you did it wrong i think you did it

wrong

all right

um speaking of

disinformation

there are two kinds roughly speaking

one is the kind that's just wrong

information

but the other is diversion

diversion is what keeps us from seeing

the truth sometimes there are lots of

things that keeps us from doing that but

we often get diverted like a magician

makes you look over here all the real

tricks over here so here are some of the

diversions that are happening right now

racism narratives

are a diversion from understanding that

it's really always about rich versus

poor

but if the poor knew that that was what

was going on that is just rich versus

poor

they could easily organize under our

system

because they have free social media

everybody can vote they can just vote

themselves a bunch of benefits

but they don't

because they think the problem is racism

if the poor people said oh the problem

is rich versus poor

let's go vote ourselves some benefits

but it'll never happen because they're

diverted

by racism

now we see the disinformation boards and

the the fact checkers and the fake news

and everything and i feel like what

that's diverting us from is

understanding that our own team is lying

to us also

you know the other team whoever you

think the other team is it doesn't

matter left or right whoever you think

the other team is you're sure they're

lying

you see lots of examples but you're not

so sure about your team aren't you

but

your team's lying too and i think that

when you're talking about fake news and

disinformation boards

uh both sides are then encouraged to

think that their side is right and the

other side is lying

that's a diversion

it's a diversion from the fact that both

both sides are lying all the time

it doesn't mean they're wrong all the

time

i mean

somebody's gonna be right if they're two

different sides uh but the purpose of

the teams is to lie and persuade

that

it was a weird sound

it was a turn

their turkeys gobbling right outside my

door we have lots of wild turkeys here

i hope it's a turkey

so then here's another uh diversion

uh the abortion narrative is diverting

us from the

democrat approval

levels on the democrat record the biden

administration record

everything is

everything is diversion

i get it

see the the turkeys are gobbling at me

because i forgot to put jonathan turley

on my disinformation board

and

and their turkeys

so they're using the simulation to

remind turkey turkey turley

okay got it put them on the information

board disinformation

got it

all right

i don't know how many turkeys there are

out there but i think they're

i think they're massing for an attack

that is a lot of turkey noise

i may take i might take the locals

people over and look at them after we're

done here

all right

this

all right let's talk about some new

disinformation

um

did you see the news

on social media that apparently is fake

news

that pfizer

documents show that the

vaccines were never safe for pregnancy

if people were pregnant or breastfeeding

did any of you see that on social media

some kind of a document that purported

to be a pfizer document

now it's fake news but it would act like

the drug was not tested or wasn't safe

for pregnancy and breastfeeding how many

of you saw that

did you know that that pfizer document

wasn't from a pfizer

document

so all of you who believed you saw a

pfizer document that says they know that

vaccines were not safe during pregnancy

or breastfeeding that was not even a

pfizer document

that was from another entity altogether

it was fake news

and the other entity

apparently has updated their opinion out

of it

so there's actually nothing there there

is no information

about it being safe or unsafe during

pregnancy and breastfeeding

i added the unsafe part just because i'm

unaware of anything

so

pretty much all of the ivermectin

stories

pretty much all of the vaccine oh did

you know about this data story they're

pretty much all fake

you should believe anything about

vaccines any study about vaccines and

any study about ivermectin just assume

it's not real

just assume it's not true

that should be your your starting

assumption if somebody can convince you

it is true well good for them

but you shouldn't start that way you

should start with fake and then if

somebody can convince you well let's see

if they can do it

um

i saw

this is amazing

the head of media matters was on c-span

and

was asked by a caller

uh does about the suspicious nature of

hunter biden getting half a million

dollars for his paintings

and they call her ask how can we be sure

that hunter biden is not selling

influence

as opposed to selling artwork

and the head of media matters uh

uh angelo

curacao

carousone i guess

said quote uh that there uh there's no

reasonable suspicion behind it

in other words there's no reasonable

suspicion that hunter biden is selling

paintings for what seems to be

outrageously high prices because the

people buying the paintings are just in

the influence buying game

there is no reasonable suspicion behind

it

really

really

because to me this is the definition of

reasonable suspicion

not proof

nobody's claiming any proof

has anybody said there's proof nobody

nobody said there's proof

everybody

everybody thinks it's something you

ought to look at a little suspicious

but here's what this made me think

i wondered about the biden family

reunions

when you know that every single thing

that hunter biden does is going to be a

problem for the rest of the family

and then hunter biden says you know

i went to uh rehab

and uh i'm getting off getting off the

drugs

and you can imagine his family and joe

biden and jill and everybody saying oh

that is great that is the best news

so you know we're used to you doing only

the worst possible thing to embarrass us

but thank goodness

thank goodness you're getting off the

drugs and and then you say and and

i'm not going to do any more deals in

china

and then the rest of the biden family

goes

oh god i thought you were going to keep

doing that because that is so

embarrassing to the rest of us thank

goodness you're not going to be doing

the drugs anymore and you're not going

to be dealing deals with china

and then hunter says and

no more deals with ukraine i mean

wouldn't be practical at this point but

no more deals with ukraine and then the

biden family says

thank you

thank you

finally

and then they say so what are you going

to do with your free time

and then hunter biden the black sheep of

the family says oh artwork i'm going to

go into the art business and the family

said ah finally

finally something that will not

embarrass us

and then hunter says yeah i think i

could get quite a bit for these

paintings

and then the hunter family says that's

great

well i you know

we're really happy for you and you're

pretty good painter

so this looks like this could be pretty

good

and then he says yeah i'm going to price

them at half a million dollars a piece

or at least one of them

and then the biden family says

what

i wait for a minute there we thought you

said you were gonna price like one

painting for half a million dollars

and they said yeah i'm gonna price each

painting

for several hundred thousand dollars

and then the biden family says

okay we didn't think we heard you right

there uh it almost sounded like

it almost sounded like you're going to

pay to pay your and so try to sell for

half a million dollars you didn't really

say that did you

and they said yeah

and then the entire bible says

are you serious

you can't do

anything

that doesn't look like a scheme

there of all the things you could do in

the whole world

of all the sports you could do

of all the businesses you could be in

all the things you could invest in the

classes you could take the skills you

could learn all the things in the world

you could do

you have to find the one thing that

would embarrass us

and he does i feel as if joe biden is

living in a simulation

and his theme

is

that

hunter won't stop embarrassing him in

public

and there's just nothing he can do about

it it'll just go from one thing to

another thing to another thing

it looks

almost intentional

doesn't it

i mean it's hard to imagine

that one person could do

thing after thing after thing

that just makes his father look bad who

even does that

like most most people can make their

parents look bad if they try

let's say you get you know drunk driving

arrest well that makes your parents look

bad indirectly sort of a little bit

but we also do other things

most of us

like i've probably done some things that

would have made my parents embarrassed

uh okay i can think of one in particular

i'll give you an example

when i was very new to

media and i had not been media trained

i was asked by a bonus bon appetit

magazine a magazine about food

to do a little special thing in the back

where they'd have some celebrity talk

about their favorite restaurant or

something so i agreed to do it and then

they interviewed me and i made this joke

i said that my mother was the second

worst cook in the world

after her mother

now

that's something that we kind of said in

the family it was like a family joke

that was also

true

it was true

my mother was the inspiration for

dilbert's mother

who had a cooking show called cooking

with salt

it was just salt so basically would you

like your seasoned

about salt

that'll work yeah salt was great i love

salt

but i made this comment to the

the author of bon appetit magazine and i

said to myself

my mother's never going to read bon

appetit magazine am i right

the one thing i don't have to worry

about

is i knew for sure

that my mother living in a little

country mountain place she definitely

was not reading bon appetit magazine and

certainly not reading a cover to cover

to get to the last page

that's how stupid i was

if you can even imagine

that level of media stupidity yep yep

it took approximately

10 seconds

from the publication of that article for

one of my mother's friends to

mail it to her

and say

i hope you've seen this

that's right that's what friends are for

that's what friends are for

so have i ever embarrassed my parents oh

yeah

[Laughter]

yes i have

yes i have as a matter of fact but

the difference between me and hunter

biden

is i still sometimes do things that

don't embarrass people

sometimes i mean not all the time but i

sometimes go into a business

enterprise that

if it worked it would just make

everybody happy

it wouldn't make anybody embarrassed

like how is it the hunter can't find

anything

anything in that domain of don't

embarrass your parents nothing there's

not a single thing he can do that

doesn't embarrass his parents what's up

with that

is your dad a piece of you know

both of my parents are are deceased

um have you read hunter's autobiography

i haven't

all right

so there's no reasonable suspicion

there's anything going on there

all right i believe we've

uh talked about it all except that this

minister of truth

uh started out with some fake news i

think

um so this minister of truth woman the

head of it said

that it's not conservatives it's not

just conservatives who are being

silenced on social media as the

conservatives believe

but that there are many studies many

studies i'm not going to mention them

because there are many of them

oh you want to link to the study i'm not

going to give you a link to the study

there's many studies many many many

studies and these studies show that some

liberals are also being censored

so the idea that censorship is sort of

working against

conservatives

has been debunked and debunked by the

many many studies of which i will not

link and will not mention many many of

them and

it those studies show that

liberals are

censored too

now

did you catch the

trick did you catch the trick that she

used

and then i i used it as well

tell me if these two things are

opposites

most of the

most of the

the media suppression is against

conservatives

but there have been studies that show

that liberals also

have been censored

are those opposites

does one debunk the other

no but she presented them like they do

in other words

she literally

this uh and i don't think this is

delving into personal opinion

i don't think this is a subjective

statement

the head of disinformation

tried to tell us

that these studies would show that there

was the same amount

no she didn't say it this was the clever

part she simply said that the studies

show that

liberals also get banned

i'll bet that's true

i'll bet there's at least one case of

that

two would be plenty if there were ever

two people in the history of banning

and they were liberal and they got

banned then her statement is right the

studies have shown that people on the

left also get banned

it would just take one or two

does she mention how many

no does she compare the rate of

conservatives being banned or suppressed

to the rate

of the other side no

and wasn't that the only question

that was the only question

the only question was how much

for

conservative versus liberal and she

answered it with an absolute instead of

how much

oh they both have

a little problem there

that is intellectually

dishonest

it is disinformation by design

that is clearly designed as

disinformation her statement could not

have been more clear

to mislead

it was intended to mislead and it did

now when greenwald asked did they

intentionally pick the most ridiculous

person for the job it's not just the way

she looks

because she has a theatrical mannerism

which would probably work great in a lot

of contexts

but not this one

not this one this is the only job you

don't want somebody exactly like that

if you put her in

lots of different jobs i mean you come

up with a dozen right off the top of

your head

where her personality would be perfect

like you know big personality

she's not shy of the camera

you can think of all kinds of jobs she'd

be perfect for but not this one you

don't want somebody who looks like she's

acting

to be your disinformation czar

that's the opposite of what you want

all right

that ladies and gentlemen

is everything i wanted to talk about

i believe i have

helped you all to a better life

if you haven't read lose or think

my book

right up there

you really should because it is the

answer to disinformation or at least

it's one of them

so if you would read that book it would

tell you how to spot fake news with very

practical specific things to look for

and once you have that toolbox

you say oh it's one of those

and then you could spot it easily i'll

give you one example

if you see news that's too incredible to

believe

it's because it's almost certainly not

true

the news that makes our hair catch on

fire and go oh i can't believe that

happened

it didn't happen

95 of the time sometimes yes weird

things do happen that's a real thing but

when you see the news that

let's say the news that

the russians were paying the tel we're

paying a bounty for american debt in

afghanistan or something like that like

that would be such a shocking story

that's probably not true

and sure enough there's no confirmation

um

be a turkey volume guessing man

six

like the supreme court made abortion

illegal yeah

so did you know that most abortions are

performed with just a pill

how many of you knew that that's

something i learned from dr drew

and i think dr drew had a interview with

bill maher

and then immediately after dr drew met

with bill maher

bill maher said he learned a lot about

abortion and one of the things he

learned is the same literally the same

thing that dr drew told me when i was on

dr drew show just the other day

he told me that

the vast majority of abortions are just

a pill

i i didn't know that

did you know that

um

well i guess it's a it's a

there's a technical definition of what

an abortion is

so if if there was anything that was

going to

take hold to use non-scientific terms if

anything was on in the process of

becoming a life

and it stopped it from happening

i'm going to call that an abortion

you know you can you can word play it

all you want but

yeah we talked about the horse dewormer

thing

that's just such a big simulation

coincidence

all right uh and then 2000 mules i

haven't seen yet but i plan to as soon

as i find it somewhere

if anybody has a link to somewhere i can

actually see the the actual video 2000

mules will you send it to me on twitter

because people keep telling me where it

is but

i can't find it

or i can't find it in a way that plays i

found it on rumble and it didn't play i

don't know why

oh have you mentioned ultra mega yeah

you thank you i should have mentioned

that so as you know now uh biden is

going with this ultra mega extremist

messaging

so once again

when they don't have an argument

they have to go for a personality

that's what they're doing so it's just

another

you know um

it's just a typical democrat approach

to attack the people in the united

states like entire entire categories of

people

and just dismissing them

but i don't think it's working that

ultra mega thing doesn't seem to be

working

uh and they're also bringing back dark

it's dark concert so the democrats have

not essentially they have given up i was

going to say it's this seems subjective

but i think we can say it objectively

can't we

would it be fair to say just objectively

if if you take your bias

for a second to the degree we can do

that does it look like the democrats

gave up

and and they're only struggling to win

based on personality problems and fake

news and it doesn't look like they're

what they're trying to win on content

the republicans are still definitely

trying to win on content

because they have the strongest case in

the world

well this worked when trump was

president

such as the border

just do that again

do whatever he was doing it must have

been working so they have a pretty

strong argument of practical solutions

you know hire more cops how about that

you got too much crime stop letting

people out of jail how about that right

so they're very practical

solutions even if you prefer them

not to be the solution

but the democrats have just given up

they're not asking for anything that's

real

at this point

it feels like it's just personality and

fear and all that stuff

uh

all right

i've got ultra dark omega mega

the

the ultra dark mega

all right

virtual premiere for what

or the virtual premiere

not for the movie

have you considered that they made the

disinformation position look ridiculous

on purpose

so that people won't see it as a

legitimate threat to their freedom i

don't think so

that that goes into the too clever

category

like i will certainly suspect people of

all kinds of

bad behavior

but when it gets to be that clever i

think

that's a little too clever

right

uh banned adopt videos got what's that

mean

all right

uh did i watch amber turd's performance

yesterday i watched only some clips she

obviously seemed to be acting it didn't

look real at all

so i can't wait to see what happens with

that

my pick for the kentucky derby i think

it's going to be some kind of a horse

probably wins that

um thoughts on the managerial class

that's what the entire dilbert comic is

about

um

he weighed he's waiting for the

cross-examination okay

why was roe versus wade never codified

into law there weren't enough votes

that's why

that's why

see one of the reasons why you don't

want

congress to codify into law

is because

it's because you want the states to do

it

don't you

like why would you piss off half of the

states when all the states all the

states can have what the states want by

a majority if you can give every state

what they want

by a majority within their state why

would you make a national law

that would thwart 50 percent of the

states

that's the opposite of our system our

system is that you want the states to

have as much control

over the things that make sense for them

to control

and you want that you want the states to

have no control over things that doesn't

make sense for them to control such as

national defense

right you don't want them controlling

that but when it comes down to like what

happens to an individual making a really

tough life and death decision

you want to boil that down right as

close to the individual as you can get

it

you know down to the doctor and the

person

if the state's as close as you can get

then i'll take it

but the people want the federal

government to do it want to thwart the

will of the

people

in the state that they don't live in in

many cases

that doesn't seem right

oh i can see it on the local site so

dinesh has a site on locals and if

you're a subscriber you can see it there

uh i don't know if he's he's got a

subscription locked or not you can

unlock things on on locals so

can somebody tell me if is it locked or

unlocked on locals

the 2000 mules somebody will tell me in

a second

locked or unlocked

yeah it's hard to google try googling it

it's locked okay so you'd have to be a

subscriber

somebody says it's free but other people

say it's locked

oh you can't access it until 8 pm

tonight okay so there's a little

ambiguity of it but i'll tell you that

dinesh is doing a great job of marketing

could it could not be a better time at a

better content and

you know he's got he's got just the

right amount of censorship to

to give him some audience

dinesh is locked down on twitter still

somebody says

you can buy it at salem.com at noon

what is salem.com i don't know what that

is

all right that's all for now i'll go

talk to you tomorrow