Episode 1835 Scott Adams - Trump Appears Unstoppable. Democrats Can't Stop Aiming At Their Own Feet

it's called coffee with scott adams it's famous all over the internet and if you would like to enjoy this experience if you'd like to enjoy ego death and who wouldn't really all you have to do is find yourself a copper mug or a glass of tanker chelsea steiner canteen jugger flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure it's the dopamine hit of the day it's the thing that's going to make everything better it's called simultaneous happens right now go well you on youtube don't know how close it was to me not having a cup of coffee but i took the locals people with me on a little tour of the house before you got here and the coffee maker delivered so it's all good now so here's a story that i'm following i think i may have mentioned this but it's getting more interesting so virtual reality apparently can simulate what people are describing as ego death which is also how people describe a hallucinogenic experience now people also say they get all kinds of mental health and maybe even cures from addiction there are lots of claims from um hallucinogenics from lsd mushrooms etc now i'm not a doctor so i'm not going to tell you that those are good ideas or bad ideas these are just things that people report but they're reporting similar things with virtual reality and they are now consciously comparing the two and there is some speculation now that you might be able to achieve some form of ego death with vr and then if you did there there's some hopefulness that you might get some of the same benefits maybe weaker than the than the chemical kind but may be useful for example here's how they did they do it if you take a hallucinogen and you feel yourself connected to everything that's a form of ego death because ego is everything's about me i exist here and then i'm observing the outside world so the outside world is separate from me i'm just the observer but with ego death you sort of merge with the environment that's your impression of it and so you're not in a distinct individual you're connected to everything else and once you feel connected to everything else allegedly hypothetically there's some kind of mental health benefit that could be substantial that comes from that i don't know exactly why sometimes sometimes you don't need to know the why sometimes you just see it works use it so here's how they do it in vr in vr you imagine yourself in a space as just a glowing sort of a gaseous glowing form and that represents you and so you come to see yourself in vr as this gaseous form and then three other people will appear in your room just from anywhere anywhere in the world so three other people will appear they will also be gaseous forms so the first thing that you learn is that your body isn't just what it looks like right your your visual sense of yourself isn't all that there is so when you see yourself as a gaseous form it allows you to get outside your mental model of being a body you just exist but then it gets interesting then they have you move your gaseous swarms together until you can't tell where your gashes form and the other gaseous forms you begin and end apparently reportedly you experience something like ego death because you've imagined yourself as this gaseous form you've merged it with other gaseous forms and apparently you can feel some kind of experience from that now it's hard to understand it just from having to explain to you right an explanation is always going to fall short but it's the same problem with hallucinogens try to explain a hallucinogenic experience to someone who has never had one it can't be done it can't be done it is impossible to explain so maybe there's something there you know the fact that i can't explain it well might actually be a feature not a bug anyway so that's looking good i think we're very close to the time to the point where virtual reality fixes all of our mental problems with the exception of a few that are purely organic you know like an actual schizophrenic might have you know a brain that's differently differently configured but for the your routine stuff where your programming is out of whack but your brain is still you know functionally a brain i've got a feeling that vr will be able to program the hell out of us i don't think we have any idea how much that will program our entire existence so that's common could be good or bad probably both here's something that nobody says out loud so i'll say it first if biden succeeds in getting his army of auditors who primarily as i understand it would focus on smaller businesses he's going to learn a very uncomfortable fact and i don't know if i don't know if anybody in the biden administration knows it because administrations tend to be filled with people who have not worked in small businesses how many people who work in the biden administration once ran a gardening business you know where he mowed loans or she not many right and here's what i think is a problem that they're going to discover in my opinion no more than 20 of small businesses could survive and audit and when i say survive i mean stay in business what do you think because small businesses live almost entirely on cheating on taxes small businesses have small margins right there they're just getting by they're earning more than their spending but not by a lot and if you taxed what they earned you would there just wouldn't be anything left so in my experience at the smallest end and i'll make a distinction here if you're talking about a small business being one that only makes 10 million a year that's not the small business i'm talking about i'm talking about the really small business the cash businesses those businesses are really couldn't exist if they paid taxes let's be honest they couldn't exist so what happens if they start closing down 80 of small businesses because they can't pass the audit what happens if the it's the same problem that you would have if you crack down on immigration if you crack down on immigration probably 80 percent of small businesses in california would close tomorrow did you know that if you crack down on immigration if you had a way to do it completely you knew everybody who had fake documents and you immediately fired them and sent them back wherever they came every small business in california would be out of business just immediately so there are some laws that you can't enforce because the system has gone too far building a an economy that depends on the lack of enforcement if you change it to an economy that has a an enforcement i think eighty percent of the smallest businesses would just go away if they got audited now i don't know if there are enough water to audits to get all the way down to your you know to the lowest level so maybe it's just you know companies that only made 10 million that year that'd be different um here's an interesting comment i saw on a tweet but i agree with it so we seem to understand as a species based on science that fields collapse when they're observed or measured in other words reality seems to form after it's observed now i've heard some people argue that but that's my that's my understanding of it and i'm seeing the same guy saying no no no all right i i'm going to say that i completely disagree with your disagreement of me i will accept your superior understanding of knowledge of science but i think that's a handicap in this case i believe that once you get into the quantum science realm we're using words to describe things that words can't describe and we're using formulas to find truth when all we've really found is that the formula works it doesn't it doesn't extend into our understanding of reality and so in in my opinion it is true that reality does not become formed and solid until it's observed or measured and i'll accept that there's somebody who says that's not true but that's my interpretation i'm going with it for now now under that interpretation the more people there are in the world there are more people seeing stuff and measuring stuff so you would need more more solid stuff in the world because there are more people who are experiencing it and the comment was that if you build a a huge telescope let's say a hubble telescope and you can peer further and further into the infinity that the simulation that we live in has to process harder to create all this new stuff that's being seen and when you take it to seeing all of space with a telescope you might be seeing things too fast for the processor to catch up and you might be seeing some glitches and there are processing because we're trying to chunk too much data at the same time now what would that look like well one would be code reuse like this the system would try to become more efficient to you know find workarounds around its constraints so it might say all right i'm going to make a lot of these people the same people because a lot of the npcs don't need full lives and histories they don't need to be full people so you just make them a little more restricted than before so they just say the same thing on social media i've been tagging people as npcs on twitter if they say the most obvious thing you can say in this situation and i think that's one way you'd save space you can make your npcs never have a creative thought you just give them all the same three ideas so if you say npcs you know what are you going to say about that dilbert cartoonist guy well we're gonna we'll all say we think he's the garfield guy it saves a lot of processing because there's no thinking it's not creative it's not new and they just all say the same thing so if you see a lot of coincidences a lot of repeated npc activity maybe the processor is getting overloaded maybe but watch out for those big telescopes crashing the simulation i i didn't write down whose tweet it was who said that that wasn't that wasn't my original thought i wish i'd written it down all right here's uh this story is called when wokeness gets too complicated so there was a tweet by the twitter account the women's march and this is a statement that they tweeted the women's march tweeted your feminism has to be intersectional or it isn't feminism this they emphasize it with capitals and spaces or it isn't feminism so your feminism has to be intersectional to be good feminism but there was some disagreement on that by somebody who's on the same team but disagrees with that framing so a twitter account called uh claire shrugged tweeted back and said as a black feminist who considers intersectionality a core guiding principle i am begging you stop deploying it as a buzzword to problematize feminist politics with center women you you undermine black feminist struggle and alienate many world many who'd support the vision crenshaw outlined i don't know who crenshaw is not not the crenshaw in congress did anybody understand that did you know what any of that meant now here's the interesting thing i'm pretty sure everybody involved in these opinions has good intentions i believe that i believe they have good intentions and now here they are disagreeing with each other but my my problem here is that it got too complicated so the thing that i make fun of that made dilbert popular and i've said this before but it's worth reiterating dilbert is not about something that somebody did wrong it seems like it if you read it it's like oh management did this wrong management did that wrong management did that wrong it's not really what it's about it's actually a little bit more subtle than that dilbert is about a good idea that is implemented wrong so a good idea would be managing your employees right it's hard to have a company if you don't manage your employees but how do you do it wrong you micromanage you do too much of it so doing too much of something is usually the way corporations do it wrong they've got some little idea that's a good idea in certain ways and then they over extend it to everybody's got to be doing everything everybody's got to be woke everybody's going to be whatever so that's where they that's where they go wrong but woke-ism looks like it's going to uh destroy itself with complexity because if the people who would be the wokest are arguing about feminism has to have intersectionality or as a black feminist who considers intersectionality a core guiding principle i am begging you to stop deploying it as buzzword to problematize feminist politics which center women you undermine black feminists struggle and alienate many who support your vision according to somebody a little bit too complicated a little bit all right uh cbs morning reported this that today children are 30 well they're more obese so they're 30 less aerobically fit than their parents were at their age and the study points to climate change and rising temperatures as adversely affecting childhood obesity because children spend less time exercising outdoors because of the climate change you're asking the right question is that a satire is it is it did i just make that up go did i just prank you did i read it did i read something that's definitely from from a satire account that you couldn't tell could you tell if that was real was it real real or not real it's real it's real yeah it's real cbs news actually said there's a study that says the kids are getting fat because of climate change they don't want to go outdoors because the weather's bad do we even need to discuss that is that something where i need to like get into the details of you know what else has changed has anything else changed can you think of anything any other i don't know any other big impact on society has anything changed lately you know kova kova certainly made a difference lately but the bigger change is screens and you know not having basically just lifestyles changed and food got worse food got worse our entertainment choices got better in the sense that there are more of them but they're less physical they're video games right so between video games and screens and terrible food you have all the explanation you need does anybody have the experience of they've exercised less because of the weather is there what is there even one person on here who believes that they exercise less lately because of the weather not one person not one person now i don't know about where you live but even on days when the weather is very much don't go outdoors weather where i live there's usually one part of the day where it's not that bad so it could be you know 100 degrees during the afternoon but you can pretty much depend that six in the morning if you wanted to go for a run you'd be fine right now i don't know if it's true as true in other places someplace where it's just cold permanently and some places just hop permanently but i've never i've never seen any difference where i live i just heard the funniest question yesterday i'm going to share it with you i'm not going to tell you where it came from but somebody somebody mentioned to me that they were going to go to florida for their first experience i'd never been to florida before and going to florida in august florida in august and the person said to me i hear it's a it could be humid there it could be human to which i said with a stray face yes it can yeah it's true and then the person said is a human like hawaii because i've been to hawaii so i know what humidity feels like i was tempted to say yes just like hawaii but i couldn't make myself be enough of an to do it yeah i suppose why is humid here's the difference i would like to give you my impression of walking let's say off of the airplane and feeling hawaii's humidity for the first time and then i'll do feeling florida's humidity for the first time somebody was never experienced either we'll start with hawaii experiencing humidity for the first time wow what what is up with this this feels great why does my entire body feel good i think the air feels better i feel great let's have a vacation snorkel anybody alright so that's that's experiencing hawaii humidity for the first time now i'd like to give you a similar impression of going outdoors for the first time in august in florida for those of you listening it was hilarious it was hilarious so florida and august should be fine you'll be fine you'll be fine all right i saw i was following a hashtag on twitter and uh i see that the i see that the uh unvaccinated are taking a victory lap so the unvaccinated is saying we were the smart ones and we've been vindicated and validated is that the news you're seeing how many would agree with the statement that the people who wrote out the um the entire pandemic with no vaccinations at all how many would agree that they were the smart ones and they have been totally validated go yes so the people who are vaccinated who are not vaccinated they say they've been validated i'm looking at your answers they seem to be somewhat mixed somewhat mixed why is it that we all watch the same news and the same science and the most basic question of the pandemic we still disagree on what causes that what would cause the unvaccinated to say we won were the smart ones and science has proven it at the very same time that the people were vaccinated were glad they did how do you explain that can you can you explain it with two words yeah confirmation bias would be one but confirmation bias is sort of the weak form of what i'm talking about it's cognitive dissonance right but the thing is you don't know who hasn't that's the fun part so let me do what almost nobody will ever do in front of you this is very rare what i'm going to say you will almost never see a public figure who talks you know somebody who talks for a living in front of people you almost never see anybody say what i'm going to say now it could be me because that's how cognitive dissonance works i'll tell you my impression if you put a gun to my head and said you're going to have to choose who's right i would choose the i'm right whatever that is you know we don't it doesn't matter for this discussion it doesn't even matter i would still choose i'm right so if you ask me all right you know that there's thing called cognitive dissonance and you also know that you might be easily triggered by it because i'm in a situation where i could be triggered into it so you should always look for the trigger if you're trying to decide who's got cognitive dissonance who and who doesn't you look for the trigger and the trigger would be that something happened this opposite of what you believed was possible or could happen right now did that happen is there anybody who believed the opposite of what was proven to be true and here's the problem it's everybody every everybody everybody believed something that was the opposite of true no matter which side you were on do you know why because truth bifurcated so if you thought that vaccinations were a good idea there's plenty of studies and proof to show you were wrong if you thought they were a good idea there's plenty of evidence to say you were right so both sides have evidence that confirms their right and other equally strong looking evidence you know we're bad at knowing what's strong evidence but to many people it looks wrong the opposite so you have a situation where a hundred percent of the public could be could be potentially triggered into cognitive distance but you don't know which half it was at least half probably both i'm not sure anybody is uh in a situation where they can say for sure they have no trigger so let me give an example of no trigger if you predicted something correctly so you're the only one who said let's say you know let's say i predicted that trump would get elected in 2016.

and then i was right was cognitive dissonance triggered no no because what i thought would happen happened but suppose you thought it was impossible he'd get elected in 2016.

well then you think there must have been something like russian interference because your cognitive dissonance couldn't allow that you you simply saw something happen that you thought wouldn't happen now fast forward to 2020.

trump supporters were positive many of them positive that he was going to win that election and then things reversed late at night and that looked sketchy and that was the trigger so everybody who thought that trump really won and the election was rigged i don't know what the truth of this question is so we're not going to talk about what's true and what's false that's unknowable to me you know some of you think you know it but i don't know so under those conditions nearly 100 of trump supporters should have been triggered into cognitive dissonance should have now the there there's a deep assumption in this the deep assumption is that the election was something like fair but we don't know right we only know there's no no court approved proof that it was anything but fair that's all we know but if you believe that you obviously saw something that went wrong then cognitive dissonance would kick in so can you tell the difference between let me ask you here this will be a test to see if you've learned anything could you individually not other people we're not talking about other bill you could you tell the difference between a stolen election and your own cognitive dissonance go yes or no could you tell the difference between a stolen election and your own cognitive dissonance the locals people all have the correct answer right the answer is no you cannot tell the difference but we act like we can don't we and i'm no exception but we sort of have to act on our beliefs all right i got a smattering of yeses so there's a small smattering of people who say yes i can tell the difference between a stolen election and cognitive distance but there are far more people so on locals listen to this on locals you should know that your answers are far more um let's say intellectually valid than on youtube there should there's difference and there should be because i spend more time talking to the locals people they would be far more educated on the fact that you can't tell the difference cognitive dissonance by definition you can't tell the difference by definition so it's not a question of whether you can use your power to power through the cognitive dissonance it's just what the word means the word means you can't tell if you could tell you wouldn't be in it so it's just a definitional thing all right i don't think anybody should be taking a victory lapse about the pandemic but we're all going to do it and this is one of those beautiful times when once we're after you know in my opinion we're post pandemic you know there's lingering problems forever but we're kind of post the worst part of the pandemic and what could be better than everybody thinking they were right the whole time because i do i i believe that my choices were probably as close to the smartest risk reward choices i could have made in my specific situation not yours you know yours was different but in my specific situation now others would disagree with me but the beauty is i will now be able to go forward and say i did all the right things i was so smart and the people who did opposite of what i did i could do the same thing they'll say they were smart and they got the right answer and i'm an idiot so we all win it'd be bad if we were in the pandemic but once you're over it you both get to celebrate how right you were even though half of us were not don't know which half though we'll never know don't you love it when the democrats try to make things uh different by just changing their names you know the the inflation reduction act that was anything but etc well here's the newest uh entry did you know that if you remove or destroy any military information it's espionage so there's something called the espionage act that trump is being threatened with um because of the documents at mar-a-lago but apparently if you read it if you if you accidentally well i guess you'd have to do it intentionally if you destroyed any military records which is a pretty big category isn't it military records like that's a lot of stuff anything that's military related i'm not talking about like their actual records but anything that references the military if you move it without using the right process i guess or you destroy it you're guilty of espionage is that the word you would have used would you have used the word espionage for mishandling classified information now i get why they would because they don't want to leave any opening that you know moving documents could ever have a good reason so i get i get why they're going extreme on that but when you see the news reporting that uh trump is being considered for espionage act charges is that news that doesn't feel like news i mean it's new but it feels like pure propaganda if they were even a little bit honest they would say uh the espionage act is written to be intentionally broad and it captures even things like accidentally moving well i don't know if it accidentally counts but it counts things like moving things without using the right process or you would say trump is might be accused of doing something with moving documents you know secure documents he may have used the wrong process to move secure documents which weirdly if you were writing the story honestly you say which weirdly is included in this big category called the espionage act even though obviously the intention would not be espionage in these cases now there's no way you can call the news honest when they call this a problem of espionage am i right and by the way i don't know if fox news covers it this wrong way but when you see like the trending stuff and a lot of the headlines you'll see might be guilty of the espionage now espionage seems a little too close to russia collusion doesn't it doesn't it you know he was i don't think so now um let's let's dig into this by the way here's the best mar-a-lago joke so far the best mar-a-lago joke uh was not mine uh twitter user greg marchand md tweeted this actually we're all good now because trump declassified the documents the fbi planted so they cancelled each other out okay that's really good yeah it's so good i'm pissed off that i didn't think of it first like why didn't i think of that one yes yes that was perfect um but here's the funny part obviously you know it's not literally true but it could have been true you can imagine that if if trump had said everything in these boxes is declassified and let's say there was some record of that just hypothetically if there was some record of trump saying everything in these 10 boxes is declassified he didn't do that as far as i know but suppose he did and then later hypothetically the fbi planted some evidence in it that would actually be to correct me if i'm wrong but if nobody knew it had been planted wouldn't the when the legal standard be that it had been declassified if it's in that box because that was in the box that was specified for declassification in a hypothetical world not in the real world so it actually is true this is why it's so funny there could have been a situation where the fbi planted something that was t that got accidentally declassified and then didn't work as a planted evidence like that's actually real right i mean it didn't happen but it's something that might have happened like in the real world that could have easily happened now i say easily because in my sense of things the fbi planting information would be normal if you don't agree with that you pay attention to the news once a while if you don't think it's normal that the fbi would try to frame trump by planting information he hasn't been paying attention that is now in the normal way of business for the fbi i hate to say it but i didn't create that situation it wasn't me and if it had been me i wouldn't have done it but that's where we are right and every time you tell me in in uh i don't know patriotic emotional terms that we should not be criticizing the rank-and-file members of the fbi i'm not sure that's us doing that you know what i mean i feel like the rank and file fbm by fbi members have been disgraced by their own co-workers and leaders i didn't do that where was i disgracing the fbi by by falsifying information on a fisa document i didn't do that and you can't say that that has no consequences there's there are reasons that this stuff is illegal because has big consequences one of the consequences is on the rank and filed members of the fbi i didn't do that i didn't do that so if i say the fbi is completely discredited as an organization which includes the rank and file i didn't do that i didn't do that i'm just observing it's not even an opinion an opinion means you're sort of adding something to the situation i'm not adding i'm observing i'm observing a situation that has you know a degree of confirmed bad actors confirmed nobody's questioning that the mueller report you know found some some issues was it mueller or was it not mueller was the other guy you know what i mean all right so here's some more stuff we know about these mar-a-lago documents so i guess in june in a letter in june one of the trump lawyers i don't know which one uh said that there were no more classified things at trump's mar-a-lago now do attorneys tell direct lies in a situation like that now i'm not going to say no attorney has ever lied but there's a way there's a way that attorneys lie right so an attorney could lie by omission you know if it was a situation where they could get away with it they could exaggerate they could prefer a narrative they could question somebody else's facts they could you know put doubt on things that actually are true they're all kinds of schemey weasley things that lawyers can do but how how how likely is it that a lawyer who had who had reached a level of accomplishment that they worked for a president or an ex-president somebody at that level how likely is it they would tell a direct lie that if they got caught and it's very catchable it would be very catchable because it exists it's a physical thing and someday somebody's going to figure it out would a lot would a lawyer tell a direct lie this does not exist if that lawyer knew it did exist could be later found i don't think they do in my experience they i've have you ever seen i mean i've dealt with a lot of lawyers and anytime they get even um anytime you get even close to asking a lawyer to do to say or do something that's not true they immediately balk right so now i'm gonna i'll acknowledge to you that there are uh lawyers who will lie just like they're anything that will lie but it's kind of unusual it's unusual so remember when we're looking into this fog of war situation we don't know what's true yet if we ever will but we could put odds on things what would be what would you put on the what would you put as the odds that this particular lawyer and they have to accept all of it not just part of it what are the odds that this lawyer knew the contents this is important do you think that the lawyer knew the contents of all of this stuff at mar-a-lago probably not right probably not do you think anybody did do you think there was even one person anywhere in the world who knew the contents of all the boxes in mar lago i would say that's unlikely because you know who would spend the time going through them who would know for sure that they had all the boxes i know it feels unknowable right so what are the odds that trump is in trouble if his attorney said there was nothing there now i don't know if if you haven't operated at a level where you've got attorneys and accountants doing stuff for you it is a real good uh cover for your own badness if there is any right if your attorney says something's okay you're in a much better position than if you decided on your own right because the the judge and the jury are going to look at and say well that was a qualified attorney who gave you that advice it might have been wrong but look where it came from so if somebody who knows more than you do says this is legal and it's my job to tell you what's legal and trust me this is totally legal and you take the advice correct me if i'm wrong but that's going to give you a little comfort if anything goes to court is there a lawyer on here who can i'm not i'm not totally confident about this point can you confirm or deny that point say you're a lawyer in the comment but if a lawyer has advised you that something's legal aren't you in better shape you're not safe i'm not saying you're safe but you're in better shape right any lawyers okay so a lawyer a lawyer confirms yes you're in much better shape doesn't mean you're out of the clear you're out of the woods yeah okay the lawyers are confirming lawyers confirm that that would help so that's a point in trump's favor which doesn't tell you anything about the documents now here's a question that um you all watch the news all right so all of you watch the news so here's a question which is the most obvious question about this mar-a-lago stuff there's one question that's the most obvious question it's the one that you would ask if you were in charge of figuring out what's going on over there what's the first question you'd ask about the boxes go first question you'd ask really who backed them yes right the first question you ask is who packed them what's the answer to the question you all watch the news give me the names of the people who pack them give me their names don't just say gsa just give me the name why you don't know the name what now here's a moment where you need to this is a moment where the entire machinery of your reality just opened up for you there's sometimes you can see the mechanism behind behind what we're seeing here this is like the fact that you don't know the names the actual name of the person who packed it or names of the fact that those people have never been asked to comment and we don't even know who they are what's that tell you what does that tell you it tells you we're not serious about this whatever is going on has nothing to do with the documents am i right let me say this as clearly as possible if anybody in the news business had even the slightest interest in what was going on in that story the only thing they'd be talking about incessantly was how do we find the names of the people who packed it and can we get permission to talk to them because they might have you know clearance or whatever am i wrong tell me i'm wrong it's the only question that matters and and the entire news industry is ignoring it like it doesn't matter what's that telling you it tells you nobody's serious about this as an issue they're serious about it as a political issue nobody cares about the actual event nobody in fact i've never even met anybody who cared there are people who say oh trump was going to sell nuclear secrets to saudi arabia do they really believe that the people who are tweeting that trump was going to sell nuclear secrets they really believe that no they don't it's just a political thing do the supporters of president trump who say as i do it's very unlikely there's anything in those documents that is really important it's very unlikely am i saying that for political reasons or because i i know what's in those boxes i don't know what's in the boxes i don't know but i've got this political opinion that's pretty strong which means i need to check myself right shouldn't i be checking myself for confirmation bias you know team play and cognitive dissonance absolutely absolutely i should be checking myself really hard if i could it's pretty hard to check but i don't think there's anything more completely transparent than the fact that all sides of the media left right and in between nobody has the bit of interest and who packed the boxes and nothing else matters let me let this is the strongest statement i can make nothing else matters but who packed the boxes i'm not wrong and as soon as you hear it how pissed off are you if you hadn't already you know realized that you were being um gaslighted by both sides this is one of those times when both sides are equally guilty if if if fox news wanted to find out about the topic they'd be saying can we talk to whoever packed the boxes you think they can't find them let me give you another example is this the first time that the most important question has not even been asked by either the left or the right there's another time this happened can you think of it but when was the time a really big story and there was one question that was easy easy to answer it was easy to answer and nobody asked the find people march yeah charlottesville what was the most important question the most important question for which all of the news depended is were there any attendees who are not racist and not actually marching with the racist you know physically they weren't with them but they were there for their own reasons it's the only thing that mattered because the president made a statement that they existed the media said no they don't and they went from that assumption how do they know do you know who talked to the um people in charlottesville who attended just me as far as i know i'm the only person out of seven billion who said well why don't we just ask him so i just tweeted i think i tweeted it is there anybody is there anybody there who wants to talk to me and is not a racist and then a number of people contacted me and i talked to them individually and they convinced me with you know the totality of their story of how they got there etc that they were in fact not racists and they disavowed the racists in direct language we're now standing with them marching with them associating with them we're just in a different place they were at the event but they weren't anywhere near the marchers so why is it that fox news has never reported that it's because they don't care about the topic they don't care because the topic is easy to to discern you could do it today you know you can still just say all right did you go if you went do you consider yourself a non-racist defend yourself and then they would and and well they would do it well so this is another example where the news has i would say it looks intentional it looks like neither the left nor the right have any interest in what's in those documents in the real world sense they only care about it as a story and as a political thing because would the story just disappear if you knew who packed the boxes it might the entire story would disappear suppose you you talked to the people who packed the boxes and just suppose they said something like this well trump did tell us what to put in the boxes but he just sort of went in the room and said some general things and we did the best we could because we were in a hurry and we couldn't really ask him every single question so we did the best we could we just threw things in the boxes and then you find out did trump ever know what was in the boxes did his lawyers ever know what was in the box did anybody ever do a full inventory later to find out from trump's perspective whether there was anything bad in those boxes probably not so would the whole story go away if you knew that the people who packed the boxes were making their own decisions while the people who uh received them never really fully knew what was in them that's that the whole thing would go away wouldn't it the moment you realized that people who packed the boxes were operating a little bit independently it's sort of that's the end of the question because nobody thinks that trump was down there with a clipboard doing an inventory of the boxes and i doubt he ordered anybody to do it do have you ever seen any reporting to say as well you know trump ordered somebody to look through all of the boxes and you know really double check to see if there was any any classified stuff in there i know that would be an obvious story if we'd ever heard of it right so scott the sophist all right we're gonna stop right there so one of the ways to know an npc is if they listen to your point and then they call you a sophist because they're they're like a dozen things that you can say that don't have any um you don't have to show your argument so uh acme trader is the name of this account here on youtube says scott the softest at it again that's an npc i'll bet if you ask the acme trainer to tell me a story about your childhood he'd say i'd love to but i'm busy that's a person who has actually no soul in all likelihood and is a walking npc anymore let's stop saying pack the boxes it sounds so nasty it does sound a little dirty do you know most of the news sounds dirty if you read it that way let's try that who packed the boxes they packed those boxes hard yeah it does it works a little bit so you know there's a story that was a big national story or a global story really and i totally ignored until there was something that was funny about it and then it caught my interest but how many of you know what happened in sri lanka like i saw a lot of headlines about sri lanka and i ignored all of them because i couldn't figure out what sri lanka had to do with me so i didn't know what was going on so i knew there was some big meltdown and sri lanka was falling apart and the government was not popular something something but that's all i knew so here's the actual story um they elected a new president who was anti-fertilizer he thought that fertilizers he didn't have any scientific backing for this but he thought that some kinds of fertilizers were causing kidney diseases and so then he banned fertilizers in 2021 which caused the yield of crops to go way down which you know when you combine it with the pandemic related stuff caused a full meltdown and so here is the actual story and i'm not making this up i'm just going to give you the headline the way i see it right here's the headline the way i see it uh sri lanka ran out of fertilizer because the president was full of well now you have my attention they ran out of fertilizer because their president was full of that really happened now i understand it because until you can put it in the form of a joke to me it's just noise i need the joke so now that you have the joke we can understand this the bigger issue here is that this this fertilizer question apparently is a pretty big one so i didn't even know there was an anti-fertilizer you know group of people but there are and this anti-fertilizer thing would be one of the scariest things in the world i think we'll figure it out i think we'll figure it out but this is one of the biggest problems in the world the lack of fertilizer and one of the least discussed and i've known about this for 15 years like this is one of those that you can see coming for a long time first time i heard about it was about 15 years ago and it's just gotten worse since then so at the same time that that's happening apparently uh europe is having um a drought like they've never had and i swear to god every time there's a national story it's really about me like this is one of those things that makes me think none of you are real and i'm just creating this out of my own mind because i'm not big on travel i don't know if i've ever mentioned that i've done i've done a little bit of you know big trips but it's usually because somebody else wants to do it right you know a spouse wants to do it i'm not really i got to go to europe i got to go to asia i'm not that guy i just don't i built a i built a world in which i don't need to leave you know in case there's a pandemic or something worked out pretty well didn't it yeah i would like to take a moment to pat myself in the back i literally built my house to be something i could live in if i couldn't leave the house that was actually a design element if i ever have to not leave the house i was thinking of house arrest actually i was i was assuming there's always a good chance if you're if you're at a certain income level there's a good chance you're gonna have house arrest at some point it doesn't even matter if you commit a crime somebody will accuse you something so um but there was one exception every time i saw the advertisements for the so-called river cruises in europe where they have the smaller cruise ships that they could go down the rivers they stop at these great castles and have amazing scenery the whole way um you know i clicked on a few of those one day and then i get unlimited repeated ads and every time i see one of these things they look beautiful and i just think you know yeah the viking cruises in particular and i looked at them and i think god of all the things i could do that really looks like the most appealing one for my specific sensibilities and today i learned that the rivers are drying up in europe and the entire river cruise industry might have to get shelved so that felt like it was about me somebody says it's for 70 years olds and up it's also for people like to write because i would love to just be able to sit on the balcony while the scenery is going by and you know just finish my book so yeah there are times to vacation actively and then you know there are times when you don't need to um but we're watching that and then at the same time europe is having these gas and electric shortages so in europe it looks like depending on the country various countries are handling it differently because the energy shortages they're going gonna have cold showers some places they won't be able to turn on the business lights at night it's for some hours they won't be able to have open doors with the ac on which probably is a good idea and um and in california i got a call from my local energy company asking me if the energy company could control my ac in my house to turn it off uh when they have the load balancing issues that's right my p my pg the energy company in california called me home and says can we stick some technology to your your house so we can turn off your ac if we need to now they did say they did say let me be clear that it would be for 15 minute periods in which they would keep circulating the air so you'd still be circulating and they said you should experience maybe a two degree increase in temperature before it kicks back on again now if that's what it did that wouldn't be too bad would it if they could really deliver that if they could you know keep the lights on everywhere they need to be kept on and all you had to do was maybe twice a day on the hottest days you set your temperature is 75 for 15 minutes it goes up to 77 you know you go you go shopping for those 15 minutes you come back it's already down to 75 you're fine no big deal right it's a reasonable thing to ask is it because once they can control your ac do you think they're going to stop with 15 minutes they say they would say they would but i immediately said no and i didn't say no because i didn't want to be a team player i said no because it's just too much control over my life and also i work at home and i need a certain temperature and i don't want people controlling it for me yeah slippery slope all right there was a surge in cartel violence in tijuana unless hundreds of national guard got called up to quell a bunch of violence and murders and stuff in tijuana and the the cartel that owns tijuana they said they were going to respond to it by killing any citizens who went outdoors the cartel just threatened threatened that if i guess some some of their members got imprisoned by the by the military action and they said if they don't get their people back they'll kill everybody who goes outdoors so let me ask you this the first time you heard me say let's drone the cartels what was your first reaction why can't it happen i mean sounds nice talking tough but it can't actually happen and then you heard that trump had brought up the subject during his term and he had been sort of you know scoffed at and dismissed no you can't attack no no you can't attack mexico what do you think now what do you think now now i think that the odds of it happening are 50 50.

what do you say if you asked me two years ago the odds of droning the cartels i'd say really low five percent tops right no more than five percent what do you say now what would you give the odds of the us taking direct military action against cartel assets in mexico go give me the odds give me your odds i needed a percentage 25 25 100 60 40.

i'm reading some of these off now 65 25 50 00 10 25 35 70 100 0.

all right so we're all over the board we're from zero to 100 but there are a lot of people in that middle zone now aren't they so how many times how many times have you seen this pattern emerge that when i take a position the the issue itself seems to be moving at about the same time and have you ever wondered am i just good at finding a parade that's already moving or am i moving the parade have you ever asked yourself that what do you think in this case because i'm i'm positive that public opinion about attacking mexico has directly followed my lead but is it a lead or am i following what do you think am i leading or following is it just obvious that this is the question we should be asking and other people would be asking at the same time if i didn't exist it'd be exactly the same what do you think well here's the thing i can't tell so i don't know the answer this question myself i'll tell you what i do know i do know that um members of the government pay attention to me can anybody confirm that because that's the sort of thing i'd rather see you say it because if i just say it doesn't sound differently it sounds different but can you confirm that from your own observation would you say that somebody is watching all right so on locals they're they're saying yes and i see some yeses over here so i don't know could be a coincidence but here's what i think happened there are some ideas that you can't entertain until somebody's normalized them and that's what i did intentionally i took the wildest idea attacking mexico and i set it until it was normalized that's what i did now if all you have to do is say it in a in a reasonable voice and say it often and people will get used to hearing it and then they'll think well i know it's not impossible right that's all it is so that the the persuasion that i used was to normalize through exposure a very common easy to predict method because you can get used this is something my mother used to say you can get used to anything if you do it long enough including hanging if you get hung you'll get used to it if you do it long enough right so that was the joke but the idea of directly attacking the cartels is unimaginable until people are talking about it and then you go well people are talking about it i guess it's not so unimaginable so that's where we are we're talking about it um tick tock i saw a thread by bowtied robin on on twitter talking about how uh tick-tock presents different content to americans than it does chinese youth uh oh do you see any problems so tick duck a chinese company we i guess we know this this is not a guess presents very different information to youth in china than it does to americans what do you think it gives to chinese youth that's different from americans what would you guess well they give american youth useless people dancing and they addict them to it so they make american use they addict them to useless nonsense that doesn't help them and probably hurts their health what they do to chinese use is they the algorithm feeds them valuable life skills just think about that china is feeding valuable life skills to chinese consumers of tick tock and they're they're feeding useless throttle to americans and everybody else i guess which teaches them nothing and actually removes their ability to have critical thinking and turns them into just puppets basically now now let me say something that just seems shocking to you tick tock is not banned in america what do how many of you remember the first time i said tick tock should be banned in america does anybody remember that what happened the first time you heard it first time you heard it you said that's a little too far right and then i said it a few more times i said it more a few more times and then you heard you probably heard that the trump administration wanted to ban tick tock right and then i guess it didn't happen and the biden administration doesn't seem to be on that on that track but it doesn't sound crazy does it banning tick tock if you if you know anybody who uses it um you know what it's doing to them now let me make a confession i don't use to tick doc and the reason is it's a chinese company i know it would be maybe good for my business you know raise exposure introduce myself to a new generation all that but i'm not going to use it because of the chinese connection um but i have been consuming accidentally um instagram reels now if you don't use instagram uh let me explain a reel is a quick little video that's basically what tick-tock is so instagram has within it a feature that mimics everything you tic-tac does and it's a popular feature and i made the mistake of clicking on some reels in in instagram i don't know some time ago and i flipped through and maybe one out of five was kind of cool i liked it gave me a little dopa being hit four out of five were annoying people dancing there's nothing more annoying than a reel in which the woman acts cute and then she has to do a self-conscious uh laugh at the screen i can't stand it so you know what i mean it's the woman's dancing and after she does the dance then or she's or she's looking pretty and she's just walking and then after she's walking pretty she does the look at the camera this one and turn off the camera because i'm so self-conscious i i wasn't trying to look pretty no no you might have thought i was looking pretty bad no no no i'm not freddie don't stop it stop at i'm not ready i can't stand it i see those things and if i accidentally have the sound on now there's one that's worse because people use these voiceovers that they could that they pair with their own video have you heard this one i love my puppy dogs my puppy dogs has anybody you've heard that one right and once you click on one of those you just keep getting it now my puppy dog my favorite dog is anyway so here's my point do you know how addiction works it's not the way you think addiction is not getting what you want addiction is getting what you want occasionally that's what makes you addicted so if you look at four reels let's say let's say you look at five reels one of them is awesome and you love it and the other four you wish you hadn't seen you will become addicted better than if you liked all five if you liked all five you just get used to them then you'd be i had enough of that but because you have to hunt for them you have to work for it and you're getting all these false ones and bad ones before you get one that just moves you that's addiction now i started using the reels i don't know a few months ago and i found myself taken over right now it might be because i i study this real you know all my life brainwashing and hypnosis and persuasion i'm kind of really tuned in to that you know part of life i could feel my brain being taken over i could feel my body no longer being able to stop doing it i have the actual feeling of i can't even stop my finger i would like to go like that's pretty funny i would like to be doing something oh that's that's not funny that's not funny listen i wish i were well that's funny have you had that experience yet has anybody experienced actually having their body taken over because that's a total takeover from my body yeah yeah now twitter does the same thing but i rationalize it as you know part of my entertainment and also part of business if i didn't use twitter for business you know it's part of connecting with an audience if i didn't do that i would run from that thing so fast like i would not use it for entertainment to me it just feels dangerous right but for business you do some dangerous things risk reward blah blah blah but i can't i can't justify um using instagram and just looking at reels because there's no business purpose there whatsoever and i can't stop yeah slot machine theory exactly so the tick tock question about whether tick tock should be legal in america is a no brainer tick tock absolutely should not be legal it should be shut down today it's one of the most dangerous things i should i would also think that we should put some kind of limit on addictive social media so oh the other the other thing that chinese social media does tick-tock is they ban it for certain hours for certain ages in china you can't even use the damn thing during certain hours that's not true in america so when we're watching the chinese right in front of us destroy the youth of america and more than the youth because we're addicted to it too destroying america while trying to build up their own you know internal capabilities what side what side is our government on who exactly is on the side of keeping tick tock tell me worse worse off history i'm going to guess that that's being funny but tell me this i've heard an argument that uh tick-tock should be banned have you how many how many of you have heard the argument that tick tock should be banned go you watch the news have you ever heard the argument that it should mostly yes's right yes yes yes all right now now i'm going to open up the mechanism again like we did before about who packed the boxes i'm going to open you're going to see the the mechanism again who's arguing to keep tick tock legal name their names who is arguing to keep tick tock legal no not big tech not not big tech in the united states mitch no no the answer is no one now process that for a moment there's a strong very strong argument for banning it very strong there's nobody on the other side am i wrong show me a major politician who's on is in favor of keeping tick tock legal in the united states name one give me a name of any congressperson senator anybody did you know that did you know that we have an issue in which there's no disagreement by anybody who's willing to show their face nobody who's willing to say my name is x i'm a senator and i think tick tock should stay just the way it is nobody think of another topic where there's nobody on the other side there are people who maybe haven't thought about it but there's nobody on the other side so you're saying swalwell but that's a joke right you're saying biden that's a joke mcconnell that's not true all right concentra no that's not true there's literally nobody who's made the argument no you see that see if you hadn't noticed that that was missing you wouldn't know what's going on there's something going on that's protecting tick tock that our news has never looked into think about that have you seen uh have you seen the news look into it on the right nope i haven't how about the left nope i haven't so the fact that the the single most important question about social media in my opinion you know you should the low-hanging fruit is tick-tock because it's a chinese company if you're talking about facebook or twitter or you know instagram those things those are american companies so you have to treat the whole situation differently but a chinese company that's addicting our youth that's easy that one's not a challenge if we're treating like that like that's a hard question there's something else going on and there's something else going on could only be one thing which is what's the one thing it could only be chinese influence what else could it be you know if somebody wants to come forward and say oh it's not chinese influence i have a good argument for it has to do with like freedom or something by the way i just realized what is thomas massey's opinion on tick tock so let's ask him that question because he would be interesting because i think he's more keep the government out of a guy but would he be willing to keep the government out of a chinese cyber weapon that's what tick-tock is it's a chinese cyber weapon so would he be in favor of it because of your freedom letting them employ a digital weapon on american soil so let's redefine tik tok as a chinese cyber weapon because it's a chinese cyber weapon and i think it should be regulated by um by the military it should be a military regulation not it should be a homeland security thing well give me an interview with the head of homeland security and have that person explain why tick tock is still allowed in the united states all right if we had if we had anything like a a real news business either on the right or the left right fox news i'm coming at you on this right fox news is not even close to giving me the news that i want not even close right so here's what i want fox news to do give me an interview with the head of homeland security about one topic just one topic tick tock and tell me why that's not a cyber weapon and tell me why homeland security should not be banning that on security issues it's an attack on the homeland so i don't even know the name of the homeland security person do you can anybody name who's in charge of homeland security i'm not sure i ever could but who is it i mean biden but majorcas oh you're a smart group majorcas okay so let's get mayorkus on an interview and say defend defend tick-tock being legal i would make him defend it right i wouldn't say give us your opinion i'd say defend it defend why we should allow a chinese cyber weapon to continue to target our youth go now what do you think new york is going to say um you know freedom is that is that going to be a defense yeah they're targeting our youth and we see it and we know it but you know freedom freedom do you think you'll say that i don't know i don't know what majorca would say but wouldn't you like to see an interview now does it seem to you that the topic of my live stream today is that the news isn't even close to giving us anything we need didn't give us anything on the charlottesville thing they're not giving us anything on who packed the boxes just obvious questions and they're not asking the head of homeland security if tick tock should be allowed or banned people these are the most obvious questions in the country how about this one what are we going to do in the united states about a fertilizer shortage that's a pretty big question right who's asking that so i feel like there needs to be some kind of new entity where the public can register the questions it wants to ask and you could compare what the what the public wants to ask let's say they get voted up to the top with what the entities are actually asking because there's a real difference between the what the news is asking and what the public wants them to ask and that's left and right and i don't know why i mean i can speculate and make the worst assumptions in the world you know that they're either incompetent or china owns them or some damn thing but i'd rather i'd rather have a real answer you think that behind the curtain everybody's colluding maybe we'll just use hydroponics they're still fertilized aren't they hydroponics are fertilized all right um tractor's burying baby formula and i didn't say that apple and google profit from the app yeah but let's get people on record uh defending that takes a lot of fertilizer to create cattle feed oh that's interesting uh is somebody arguing that if we went vegetarian not that that's practical but if we went vegetarian we'd have enough fertilizer i don't know if that's true i feel like we would have to replace the beef with growing more vegetables i i don't buy that i'm not buying that uh you think the us will fight the ccp no i don't think so not directly um so it seems to be that there's one well nitrogen is not the only fertilizer so if nitrogen was the only thing we needed we'd be in good shape that's not the problem yeah manure is fertilizer um are you for boring banning the porn industry that's interesting i've never talked about that how many of you would be in favor of banning porn let me give you answers i'm saying no no no yes yes no yes no no yes yes no see the problem with banning porn people are mixed looks like you're pretty mixed on this should be paid access i don't know i'm not sure you could ever stop it from being freely available to children should be banned um i'm a little see here my problem with the porn is my problem with guns it goes like this with guns there it is unambiguously true that some people are less safe when there are more guns around but it is also unambiguously true that some people are more safe if they have access to guns so the problem with gun ownership is that we have people who are operating from self-interest doing this sort of theater where they pretend they're arguing from some social or constitutional right it's never that if you think you need a gun or you might would need one to protect yourself you want the right to own one if you think you'll never want a gun because you're afraid of them and your only risk is other people having them then probably you're against it and then we act as though the theater of the the high level oh my constitution that's really why you're doing it that's not why you're doing it you're doing it because you want a gun or you don't want a gun that's it right now you might want a gun to protect yourself against your government but it's still just wanting a gun to feel that you're safer so the same thing with porn if you say porn should be banned what does that do to the person who can't get access to humans is that fair because if you're if you're looking at porn from the perspective of someone who can get sex in the real world that's not fair that's not fair at all if you're married and you're you know you're getting everything you like and you're telling me that you know not me but you're telling somebody else that they can't have porn because your sex life is good well the only thing i could say is an ironic you it's ironic because they're having sex yeah no don't don't tell people who can't get sex that they can't have porn if you can fix it so they can have sex well then maybe your opinion that they should have porn is something i'd listen to but until most people can have access to sex in some kind of a you know timely useful way which is not even close to where we are i think you got to give people options now is it true that porn ruins marriages i don't know i'll tell you what they do it changes the balance of power so i believe that marriages stay together when the woman has all the power meaning that she can control the man completely that's your stable situation as soon as the band discovers that he can get off without the the wife with porn suddenly her power diminishes and he doesn't need to listen to her so much because he's not getting sex there anyway so i think porn changes the balance of power in a way that's very bad for women it might be bad for men too that would be a separate question but uh i think women want to band because this definitely reduces their power and it increases the power of men because they have an option that doesn't require being nice to women to get sex and that's a very big thing and men don't say that out loud by the way but porn is the substitute for shitty women sorry porn is the direct substitute for shitty women and the percentage of shitty women is at an all-time high now you might say to me scott the percentage of shitty men is at all all-time high and i don't know might be i wouldn't deny it but it's absolutely true that the percentage of women who are shitty is at the whole all-time high probably true for men maybe it's just true for people i don't know but i don't you know my my vision on this is sort of limited so i'll admit that but it's true and and here's why everybody is getting too picky about everything right too picky about everything imagine being my age and finding you know somebody who's within uh 35 years of dating age i like to have a broad range imagine me finding anybody within 35 years of my dating age who doesn't have so many preferences that it's really hard to manage them at the same time imagine that so somebody says lots of men are weaker and feminized now yeah there is something to that i don't know what it is shut up bart now when i say oh no uh would i say that everybody's too picky i don't mean just women i mean people and i think it's because we have so many things that we can access have you ever tried to watch a tv or movie with another person here's me trying to watch a movie with another person in 1986 right this is my impression of wanting to watch a movie with another person in 1986.

hey you want to go to see a movie sure what's playing yeah we've got uh three choices yeah they all sound pretty good why don't you pick one yeah all right we'll probably watch all three but let's watch this one today okay and then you get some popcorn and you maybe you hug curl up watch a great show that's 1986.

now here is uh 2022 trying to get somebody to watch a show hey you want to watch a movie i don't know is there anything out yeah there's tons of movies out uh so many it's going to be hard for us to find one that we agree on how about how about this new thor movie oh yeah that was great i just watched it on my phone oh okay well how about um top gun top gun that we all agree on top gun right yeah yeah just saw it all right two hours later you've picked a movie and you watch it and it's way too boring because your attention span has changed and you can't even tolerate it one of you will bail out of the movie before it's over when was the last time you sat down with one other person to watch a movie and one of you didn't want to bail out of the movie before it was over in the old days i used to watch the whole movie even if it wasn't perfect and i didn't care that much but today i will bail out a movie uh the moment somebody's tied to a chair or or an is endangered so i have two hard rules of turning off the shell if somebody's tied to a chair or there's an animal in danger in any way the other times that then there's a bunch of times that i have to fast forward so as soon as there's the male and the female usually um in the traditional movie the male and female are like getting together and they're showing love for each other and you know that the next 10 minutes of your movie will be you being convinced that they're really in love so that when something bad happens you'll feel bad and i say to myself having sex got it got it got it got it done i can't even watch a movie without fast forwarding through all the scenes that are establishing something that i already got uh it's a dangerous situation got it fast forward fast forward you get a torture for information you can have a conversation with that that confidential source got it got some information that'll tell you where to go don't need to know the rest there you are uh you found the guy and it looks like there's a bunch of bad people in the room oh there's one hero and a bunch of bad people in the room i wonder what's going to happen could it be a fight would it be a fight yes it's a fight will the hero beat up all the people in the room fast forward heroes beating up the people in the room and the action is so fast i can't really see it anyway it's just going to be a bunch of images on the screen for a bunch of minutes and noise and okay that's over how do you watch a movie anymore if you're watching by yourself don't you fast forward through all the got it i got it i got it seeds right and is there anybody who can watch an entire porn movie before it gets to the good parts i mean those were always interminable i mean just you couldn't handle them but now it's impossible like what would be the point if i'm not looking at a compilation clip i'm already bored and here i'm talking about that one time i looked at porn for 10 minutes yeah 10 minutes and i it was ruined for life but yeah compilation clips it's all i could handle all right i think that's all uh the audio is okay now did i lose my audio when i said something you didn't like all right that's enough for now uh move hands from the face you know lie my hands in front of my face is that bothering you does it bother you when my hands are around my hips i'm sorry all right you're right i should not put my hands in front of my face that's actually good advice i appreciate it yeah and the the other problem with uh movies is the wokeness uh i don't mind i remember there was a show called something la femme nikita or something where nikita played a woman who weighed about 90 pounds and could beat up any 200-pound man and throw him around the room and stuff i remember thinking oh that's it's like it's cute because it's so ridiculous and she was attractive so i didn't mind looking at it but once that becomes the standard way of all movies that a 90 pound woman can beat up a 200 pound band pretty much with ease anytime they want then it's like i don't know i think i thought you took an interesting concept where there was you know a movie where it was true where i'm like okay there's a movie where it's true and then suddenly all movies have to be true that the women could beat up the man went too far wasn't she enhanced i don't think so she was just trained well right all right i have to read this comment to youtube over on locals somebody said somebody said is there any porn for old people or does it accidentally turn into a snuff film that's really funny i think that's where we're going to end because i can't top that port about old people accidentally turns into a snow film that's too close to home all right youtube that's all for today i'll talk to you tomorrow

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go

well you on youtube don't know how close

it was

to me not having a cup of coffee

but i took the locals people with me on

a little tour of the house before you

got here

and the coffee maker delivered so it's

all good now

so here's a story that i'm following

i think i may have mentioned this but

it's getting more interesting

so virtual reality apparently can

simulate

what people are describing as ego death

which is also how people describe a

hallucinogenic experience

now people also say they get

all kinds of mental health and maybe

even cures from addiction there are lots

of claims

from um

hallucinogenics from lsd mushrooms etc

now

i'm not a doctor so i'm not going to

tell you that those are good ideas or

bad ideas

these are just things that people report

but they're reporting similar things

with virtual reality and they are now

consciously comparing the two

and there is some speculation now

that you might be able to achieve some

form of ego death

with vr

and then if you did

there there's some hopefulness that you

might get some of the same benefits

maybe weaker than the than the chemical

kind

but may be useful

for example here's how they did they do

it

if you take a hallucinogen and you feel

yourself connected to everything

that's a form of ego death

because ego is everything's about me

i exist here and then i'm observing the

outside world

so the outside world is separate from me

i'm just the observer

but with ego death you sort of merge

with the environment

that's your impression of it

and so you're not in a distinct

individual you're connected to

everything else

and once you feel connected to

everything else

allegedly

hypothetically

there's some kind of mental health

benefit that could be substantial that

comes from that i don't know exactly why

sometimes sometimes you don't need to

know the why

sometimes you just see it works use it

so here's how they do it in vr in vr you

imagine yourself in a space as just a

glowing

sort of a gaseous glowing form

and that represents you

and so you come to see yourself in vr as

this gaseous form and then three other

people will appear

in your room

just from anywhere anywhere in the world

so three other people will appear they

will also be gaseous forms

so the first thing that you learn is

that your body isn't just what it looks

like

right your your visual sense of yourself

isn't all that there is

so when you see yourself as a gaseous

form it allows you to get outside your

mental model of being a body

you just exist but then it gets

interesting

then they have you move your gaseous

swarms together

until you can't tell where your gashes

form and the other gaseous forms you

begin and end

apparently

reportedly

you experience something like ego death

because you've imagined yourself as this

gaseous form you've merged it with other

gaseous forms

and apparently you can feel

some kind of experience from that

now it's hard to understand it just from

having to explain to you right

an explanation is always going to fall

short

but it's the same problem with

hallucinogens

try to explain

a hallucinogenic experience

to someone who has never had one it

can't be done

it can't be done it is impossible to

explain

so maybe there's something there you

know the fact that i can't explain it

well might actually be

a feature not a bug

anyway so that's looking good i think

we're very close to the time to the

point where

virtual reality fixes all of our mental

problems

with the exception of a few that are

purely organic

you know like an actual schizophrenic

might have you know a brain that's

differently

differently configured but for the your

routine stuff where your programming is

out of whack but your brain is still

you know functionally a brain

i've got a feeling that vr will be able

to program the hell out of us

i don't think we have any idea how much

that will program our entire existence

so that's common could be good or bad

probably both

here's something that nobody says out

loud so i'll say it first

if biden succeeds in getting his army of

auditors

who primarily as i understand it would

focus on smaller businesses

he's going to learn a very uncomfortable

fact

and i don't know if

i don't know if anybody in the biden

administration knows it

because administrations tend to be

filled with people who have not worked

in small businesses

how many people who work in the biden

administration

once ran a gardening business you know

where he mowed loans or she

not many right

and here's what i think

is a problem that they're going to

discover

in my opinion no more than 20 of small

businesses could survive and audit

and when i say survive i mean stay in

business

what do you think

because small businesses live almost

entirely on cheating on taxes

small businesses have small margins

right there they're just getting by

they're earning more than their spending

but not by a lot

and if you taxed what they earned you

would

there just wouldn't be anything left

so in my experience

at the smallest end and i'll make a

distinction here if you're talking about

a small business being one that only

makes 10 million a year

that's not the small business i'm

talking about i'm talking about the

really small business the cash

businesses

those businesses are

really couldn't exist if they paid taxes

let's be honest they couldn't exist

so what happens if they start closing

down 80 of small businesses because they

can't pass the audit

what happens if the

it's the same problem that you would

have if you crack down on immigration

if you crack down on immigration

probably 80 percent of small businesses

in california would close

tomorrow did you know that

if you crack down on immigration if you

had a way to do it completely you knew

everybody who had fake documents and you

immediately fired them and

sent them back wherever they came

every small business in california would

be out of business just immediately so

there are some laws that you can't

enforce

because the system has gone too far

building a an economy that depends on

the lack of enforcement

if you change it to an economy that has

a an enforcement

i think eighty percent of the smallest

businesses would just go away if they

got audited now i don't know if there

are enough water to audits to get all

the way down to your

you know to the lowest level so maybe

it's just you know companies that only

made 10 million that year

that'd be different

um here's an interesting

comment i saw on a tweet but i agree

with it

so

we seem to understand as a species

based on science

that fields collapse when they're

observed or measured in other words

reality

seems to form after it's observed

now i've heard some people argue that

but that's my that's my understanding of

it

and i'm seeing the same guy saying no no

no all right i i'm going to say that i

completely disagree with your

disagreement of me

i will accept your superior

understanding of knowledge of science

but i think that's a handicap in this

case

i believe that once you get into the

quantum science realm

we're using words to describe things

that words can't describe

and we're using formulas to find truth

when all we've really found is that the

formula works

it doesn't it doesn't extend into our

understanding of reality

and so in in my opinion

it is true

that reality does not become

formed and solid until it's observed or

measured

and i'll accept that there's somebody

who says that's not true but that's my

interpretation i'm going with it for now

now under that interpretation

the more people there are in the world

there are more people seeing stuff and

measuring stuff

so you would need more

more solid stuff in the world because

there are more people who are

experiencing it

and the comment was that if you build a

a huge telescope let's say a hubble

telescope and you can peer further and

further into the infinity

that the simulation that we live in has

to process harder

to create all this new stuff that's

being seen

and when you take it to seeing all of

space with a telescope you might be

seeing things too fast for the processor

to catch up

and you might be seeing some glitches

and there are processing

because we're trying to chunk too much

data at the same time

now

what would that look like

well one would be code reuse like this

the system would try to become more

efficient

to you know find workarounds around its

constraints

so it might say all right i'm going to

make a lot of these people the same

people

because a lot of the npcs

don't need full lives and histories

they don't need to be full people

so you just make them a little more

restricted than before

so they just say the same thing on

social media

i've been tagging people as npcs on

twitter

if they say the most obvious thing you

can say

in this situation

and i think that's one way you'd save

space you can make your npcs never have

a creative thought

you just give them all the same three

ideas so if you say npcs

you know

what are you going to say about

that dilbert cartoonist guy

well

we're gonna

we'll all say

we think he's the garfield guy

it saves a lot of processing because

there's no thinking it's not creative

it's not new and they just all say the

same thing

so if you see a lot of

coincidences

a lot of repeated

npc activity

maybe the processor is getting

overloaded

maybe

but watch out for those big telescopes

crashing the simulation i i didn't write

down whose tweet it was who said that

that wasn't that wasn't my original

thought

i wish i'd written it down

all right here's uh this story is called

when wokeness gets too complicated

so there was a tweet by the

twitter account the women's march

and this is a statement that they

tweeted the women's march tweeted your

feminism has to be intersectional or

it isn't

feminism this they emphasize it with

capitals and spaces or

it isn't feminism so your feminism has

to be intersectional to be good feminism

but there was some disagreement on that

by somebody who's on the same team but

disagrees with that framing

so

a twitter account called uh

claire shrugged

tweeted back and said as a black

feminist

who considers intersectionality a core

guiding principle

i am begging you

stop deploying it as a buzzword to

problematize feminist politics with

center women

you you undermine black feminist

struggle and alienate many world

many who'd support the vision crenshaw

outlined

i don't know who crenshaw is not

not the crenshaw in congress

did anybody understand that

did you know what any of that meant

now here's the interesting thing

i'm pretty sure everybody involved

in these opinions has good intentions

i believe that

i believe they have good intentions

and now here they are disagreeing with

each other but my

my problem here is that it got too

complicated

so the thing that i make fun of that

made dilbert popular and i've said this

before but it's worth

reiterating

dilbert is not about something that

somebody did wrong

it seems like it if you read it it's

like oh management did this wrong

management did that wrong management did

that wrong it's not really what it's

about

it's actually a little bit more subtle

than that

dilbert is about a good idea

that is implemented wrong

so a good idea would be managing your

employees right it's hard to have a

company if you don't manage your

employees but how do you do it wrong you

micromanage you do too much of it

so doing too much of something

is usually the way corporations do it

wrong

they've got some little idea that's a

good idea in certain ways and then they

over extend it to everybody's got to be

doing everything everybody's got to be

woke everybody's going to be whatever

so that's where they that's where they

go wrong but woke-ism looks like it's

going to uh destroy itself with

complexity

because if the people who would be the

wokest are arguing about

feminism has to have intersectionality

or as a black feminist who considers

intersectionality a core guiding

principle i am begging you to stop

deploying it as buzzword to problematize

feminist politics which center women you

undermine black feminists struggle and

alienate many who support your vision

according to somebody

a little bit too complicated

a little bit

all right uh cbs morning reported this

that today children are 30

well they're more obese so they're 30

less aerobically fit than their parents

were at their age and the study points

to climate change and rising

temperatures as adversely affecting

childhood obesity

because children spend less time

exercising outdoors

because of the climate change

you're asking the right question is that

a satire is it

is it did i just make that up

go

did i just prank you

did i read it did i read something

that's definitely from

from a satire account

that you couldn't tell

could you tell if that was real

was it real real or not real

it's

real

it's real

yeah

it's real

cbs news actually said there's a study

that says the kids are getting fat

because of climate change they don't

want to go outdoors

because the weather's bad

do we even need to discuss that

is that something where i need to like

get into the details of

you know what else has changed has

anything else changed

can you think of anything

any other

i don't know

any other big impact on society

has anything changed lately

you know kova kova certainly made a

difference lately but the bigger change

is screens and you know not having

basically just lifestyles changed and

food got worse food got worse

our entertainment choices got better in

the sense that there are more of them

but they're less physical they're video

games right so between video games and

screens and terrible food you have all

the explanation you need

does anybody have the experience of

they've exercised less because of the

weather

is there what is there even one person

on here who believes that they exercise

less lately

because of the weather

not one person

not one person

now i don't know about where you live

but even on days when the weather is

very much don't go outdoors weather

where i live there's usually one part of

the day where it's not that bad

so it could be you know 100 degrees

during the afternoon but you can pretty

much depend that

six in the morning if you wanted to go

for a run you'd be fine

right now i don't know if it's true as

true in other places someplace where

it's just cold permanently and some

places just hop permanently

but i've never i've never seen any

difference

where i live

i just heard the funniest question

yesterday

i'm going to share it with you

i'm not going to tell you where it came

from

but somebody somebody mentioned to me

that they were going to go to florida

for their first experience i'd never

been to florida before

and going to florida in august

florida in august

and the person said to me i hear it's a

it could be humid there

it could be human

to which i said with a stray face

yes it can

yeah it's true

and then the person said is a human like

hawaii because i've been to hawaii so i

know what humidity feels like

i was tempted to say yes just like

hawaii

but i couldn't make myself be enough of

an to do it

yeah i suppose why is humid

[Laughter]

here's the difference

i would like to give you

my impression

of walking let's say off of the airplane

and feeling hawaii's humidity for the

first time

and then i'll do feeling florida's

humidity for the first time

somebody was never experienced either

we'll start with

hawaii experiencing humidity for the

first time

wow

what what is up with this this feels

great

why does my entire body feel good

i think the air feels better

i feel great

let's have a vacation snorkel anybody

alright so that's that's experiencing

hawaii humidity for the first time

now i'd like to

give you a similar impression

of going outdoors for the first time in

august

in florida

for those of you listening

it was hilarious

it was hilarious

so

florida and august should be fine

you'll be fine you'll be fine

all right

i saw i was following a hashtag on

twitter

and

uh i see that the

i see that the uh unvaccinated are

taking a victory lap

so the unvaccinated is saying we were

the smart ones and we've been

vindicated

and validated

is that the news you're

seeing how many would agree with the

statement

that the people who wrote out the um the

entire pandemic with no vaccinations at

all

how many would agree that they were the

smart ones and they have been totally

validated

go

yes

so the people who are vaccinated who are

not vaccinated they say they've been

validated

i'm looking at your answers they seem to

be somewhat mixed somewhat mixed

why is it that we all watch the same

news

and the same science

and the most basic question of the

pandemic

we still disagree on

what causes that

what would cause the unvaccinated to say

we won were the smart ones and science

has proven it at the very same time

that the people were vaccinated were

glad they did

how do you explain that

can you can you explain it with two

words

yeah confirmation bias would be one

but confirmation bias is sort of the

weak form of what i'm talking about it's

cognitive dissonance right but the thing

is you don't know who hasn't

that's the fun part

so

let me do what almost nobody will ever

do in front of you

this is very rare what i'm going to say

you will almost never see a public

figure who talks you know somebody who

talks for a living in front of people

you almost never see anybody say what

i'm going to say now

it could be me

because that's how cognitive dissonance

works

i'll tell you my impression

if you put a gun to my head and said

you're going to have to choose who's

right

i would choose the i'm right

whatever that is

you know we don't it doesn't matter for

this discussion it doesn't even matter

i would still choose i'm right

so if you ask me all right you know that

there's thing called cognitive

dissonance

and you also know

that you might be easily triggered by it

because i'm in a situation where i could

be triggered into it so you should

always look for the trigger

if you're trying to decide who's got

cognitive dissonance who and who doesn't

you look for the trigger and the trigger

would be that something happened this

opposite of what you believed was

possible or could happen

right

now did that happen

is there anybody who believed the

opposite of what was proven to be true

and here's the problem

it's everybody

every everybody

everybody believed something that was

the opposite of true

no matter which side you were on do you

know why

because truth bifurcated

so if you thought that vaccinations were

a good idea there's plenty of

studies and proof to show you were

wrong

if you thought they were a good idea

there's plenty of evidence to say you

were right

so both sides have evidence that

confirms their right

and other equally strong looking

evidence you know we're bad at knowing

what's strong evidence but to many

people it looks wrong the opposite

so you have a situation where a hundred

percent of the public

could be

could be

potentially triggered into cognitive

distance

but you don't know which half it was

at least half

probably both

i'm not sure anybody is

uh in a situation where they can say for

sure they have no trigger so let me give

an example of no trigger

if you predicted something correctly

so you're the only one who said let's

say

you know let's say i predicted that

trump would get elected in 2016.

and then i was right

was cognitive dissonance triggered no no

because what i thought would happen

happened

but suppose you thought it was

impossible he'd get elected in

2016. well then you think there must

have been something like russian

interference

because your cognitive dissonance

couldn't allow

that you you simply saw something happen

that you thought wouldn't happen

now fast forward to 2020.

trump supporters were positive many of

them

positive that he was going to win that

election and then things reversed late

at night and that looked sketchy and

that was the trigger

so everybody who thought that trump

really won and the election was rigged

i don't know what the truth of this

question is so we're not going to talk

about what's true and what's false

that's unknowable to me

you know some of you think you know it

but i don't know

so

under those conditions

nearly 100 of trump supporters should

have been triggered into cognitive

dissonance

should have

now

the there there's a deep assumption in

this

the deep assumption is that the election

was something like fair

but we don't know

right we only know there's no

no court approved

proof that it was anything but fair

that's all we know

but if you believe that

you obviously saw something that went

wrong then cognitive dissonance would

kick in

so can you tell the difference between

let me ask you here this will be a test

to see if you've learned anything

could you

individually not other people

we're not talking about other bill you

could you

tell the difference between a stolen

election

and your own cognitive dissonance go

yes or no

could you tell the difference between a

stolen election and your own cognitive

dissonance

the locals people all have the correct

answer right the answer is no

you cannot tell the difference

but we act like we can don't we

and i'm no exception

but we sort of have to act

on our beliefs all right

i got a smattering of yeses

so there's a small smattering of people

who say yes i can tell the difference

between a stolen election and

cognitive

distance but there are far more people

so on locals listen to this

on locals you should know that your

answers are far more um let's say

intellectually

valid

than on youtube there should there's

difference and there should be

because i spend more time talking to the

locals people they would be far more

educated on the fact that you can't tell

the difference

cognitive dissonance

by definition you can't tell the

difference

by definition

so it's not a question of whether you

can use your power

to power through the cognitive

dissonance it's just what the word means

the word means you can't tell

if you could tell you wouldn't be in it

so it's just a definitional thing

all right

i don't think anybody should be taking a

victory lapse about the pandemic

but we're all going to do it and this is

one of those beautiful times

when once we're after you know in my

opinion we're

post pandemic

you know there's lingering problems

forever but we're kind of post the worst

part of the pandemic and

what could be better than everybody

thinking they were right the whole time

because i do

i i believe that my choices were

probably as close to the smartest risk

reward choices i could have made in my

specific situation not yours

you know yours was different but in my

specific situation now others would

disagree with me but the beauty is

i will now be able to go forward and say

i did all the right things i was so

smart and the people who did opposite of

what i did i could do the same thing

they'll say they were smart and they got

the right answer and i'm an idiot

so we all win

it'd be bad if we were in the pandemic

but once you're over it you both get to

celebrate how right you were even though

half of us were not don't know which

half though we'll never know

don't you love it when the democrats

try to make things

uh

different by just changing their names

you know the

the inflation reduction act that was

anything but etc

well here's the newest uh

entry

did you know that if you remove or

destroy any military information it's

espionage

so there's something called the

espionage act that trump is being

threatened with

um because of the documents at

mar-a-lago

but apparently if you read it if you if

you accidentally

well i guess you'd have to do it

intentionally if you destroyed any

military records

which is a pretty big category isn't it

military records

like that's a lot of stuff

anything that's military related i'm not

talking about like

their actual records but anything that

references the military if you move it

without using the right process i guess

or you destroy it

you're guilty of espionage

is that the word you would have used

would you have used the word espionage

for mishandling classified information

now i get why they would

because they don't want to leave any

opening that

you know moving documents could ever

have a good reason

so i get i get why they're going extreme

on that

but

when you see the news reporting that uh

trump is being

considered for espionage act charges

is that news

that doesn't feel like news i mean it's

new

but it feels like

pure propaganda

if they were even a little bit honest

they would say

uh the espionage act

is written to be intentionally broad

and it captures even things like

accidentally moving well i don't know if

it accidentally counts but it counts

things like moving things without using

the right process

or you would say

trump is might be accused of doing

something

with moving

documents you know secure documents he

may have used the wrong process to move

secure documents

which

weirdly

if you were writing the story honestly

you say which weirdly

is included in this big category called

the espionage act even though obviously

the intention would not be espionage in

these cases

now

there's no way you can call the news

honest when they call this a problem of

espionage am i right

and by the way

i don't know if fox news covers it this

wrong way

but when you see like the trending stuff

and a lot of the headlines

you'll see

might be guilty of the espionage

now espionage seems a little too close

to russia collusion doesn't it

doesn't it

you know he was

i don't think so

now

um

let's let's dig into this by the way

here's the best

mar-a-lago joke so far

the best mar-a-lago joke uh was not mine

uh twitter user greg marchand md

tweeted this

actually we're all good now because

trump declassified the documents the fbi

planted

so they cancelled each other out

okay that's really good

yeah it's so good i'm pissed off that i

didn't think of it first like why didn't

i think of that one

yes yes that was perfect

um

but here's the funny part obviously you

know it's not literally true but it

could have been true

you can imagine that if if trump had

said everything in these boxes is

declassified

and let's say there was some record of

that just hypothetically if there was

some record of trump saying

everything in these 10 boxes is

declassified he didn't do that as far as

i know but suppose he did

and then later

hypothetically the fbi planted some

evidence in it

that would actually be to correct me if

i'm wrong but if nobody knew it had been

planted

wouldn't the

when the legal standard be that it had

been declassified if it's in that box

because that was in the box that was

specified for declassification in a

hypothetical world not in the real world

so it actually is true

this is why it's so funny there could

have been a situation where the fbi

planted something that was t that got

accidentally declassified and then

didn't work as a planted evidence like

that's actually real right i mean

it didn't happen

but it's something that might have

happened

like in the real world that could have

easily happened

now i say easily because in my sense of

things the fbi planting information

would be normal

if you don't agree with that you

pay attention to the news once a while

if you don't think it's normal

that the fbi would try to frame trump by

planting information he hasn't been

paying attention

that is now in the normal way of

business for the fbi

i hate to say it

but i didn't create that situation

it wasn't me and if it had been me i

wouldn't have done it

but that's where we are right

and

every time you tell me in

in uh

i don't know

patriotic

emotional terms that we should not be

criticizing the rank-and-file members of

the fbi

i'm not sure that's us doing that

you know what i mean

i feel like the rank and file fbm by fbi

members have been

disgraced by their own co-workers and

leaders

i didn't do that

where was i disgracing the fbi by

by

falsifying information on a fisa

document i didn't do that

and you can't say that that has no

consequences there's there are reasons

that this stuff is illegal because has

big consequences one of the consequences

is on the rank and filed members of the

fbi i didn't do that

i didn't do that

so if i say the fbi is completely

discredited as an organization which

includes the rank and file

i didn't do that

i didn't do that i'm just observing

it's not even an opinion

an opinion means you're sort of adding

something to the situation i'm not

adding i'm observing

i'm observing a situation that has

you know a degree of confirmed bad

actors confirmed

nobody's questioning that the mueller

report you know found some some issues

was it mueller or was it not mueller was

the other guy

you know what i mean all right

so here's some more stuff we know about

these mar-a-lago documents so i guess in

june in a letter in june one of the

trump lawyers i don't know which one

uh

said that there were no more classified

things at trump's mar-a-lago

now

do attorneys tell direct lies in a

situation like that

now i'm not going to say no attorney has

ever lied

but there's a way

there's a way that attorneys lie right

so an attorney could lie by omission

you know if it was a situation where

they could get away with it

they could exaggerate they could prefer

a narrative

they could question somebody else's

facts they could you know

put doubt on things that actually are

true

they're all kinds of schemey weasley

things that lawyers can do

but how how how likely is it

that a lawyer who had who had reached a

level of accomplishment that they worked

for a president or an ex-president

somebody at that level how likely is it

they would tell a direct

lie

that if they got caught and it's very

catchable

it would be very catchable because it

exists it's a physical thing

and someday somebody's going to figure

it out would a lot would a lawyer tell a

direct lie this does not exist

if that lawyer knew it did exist could

be later found

i don't think they do

in my experience they i've have you ever

seen i mean i've dealt with a lot of

lawyers

and anytime they get even

um anytime you get even close

to asking a lawyer to do to say or do

something that's not true they

immediately balk right

so

now i'm gonna i'll acknowledge

to you that there are uh lawyers who

will lie

just like they're anything that will lie

but it's kind of unusual

it's unusual so remember when we're

looking into this fog of war situation

we don't know what's true

yet if we ever will

but we could put odds on things

what would be what would you put on the

what would you put as the odds

that this particular lawyer

and they have to accept all of it not

just part of it what are the odds that

this lawyer knew the contents this is

important do you think that the lawyer

knew the contents of all of this stuff

at mar-a-lago

probably not

right probably not

do you think anybody did

do you think there was even one person

anywhere in the world

who knew the contents of all the boxes

in mar lago

i would say that's unlikely

because you know who would spend the

time going through them

who would know for sure that they had

all the boxes

i know it feels unknowable

right

so

what are the odds that trump is in

trouble

if his attorney

said there was nothing there

now i don't know if if you haven't

operated at a level where you've got

attorneys and accountants doing stuff

for you it is a real good uh cover for

your own

badness if there is any

right if your attorney says something's

okay

you're in a much better position than if

you decided on your own

right because the the judge and the jury

are going to look at and say well

that was a qualified attorney who gave

you that advice it might have been wrong

but look where it came from

so if somebody who knows more than you

do says this is legal and it's my job to

tell you what's legal and trust me this

is totally legal

and you take the advice

correct me if i'm wrong but that's going

to give you a little comfort if anything

goes to court is there a lawyer on here

who can i'm not i'm not totally

confident about this point

can you confirm or deny that point say

you're a lawyer in the comment

but if a lawyer has advised you that

something's legal aren't you in better

shape you're not safe i'm not saying

you're safe but you're in better shape

right

any lawyers

okay so a lawyer a lawyer confirms yes

you're in much better shape doesn't mean

you're out of the clear you're out of

the woods yeah okay the lawyers are

confirming

lawyers confirm that that would help

so that's a point in trump's favor

which doesn't tell you anything about

the documents

now here's a question that um

you all watch the news

all right

so all of you watch the news so here's a

question which is the most obvious

question about this mar-a-lago stuff

there's one question that's the most

obvious question it's the one that you

would ask

if you were in charge of figuring out

what's going on over there what's the

first question you'd ask about the boxes

go

first question you'd ask

really who backed them yes right the

first question you ask is who packed

them

what's the answer to the question you

all watch the news

give me the names of the people who pack

them give me their names

don't just say gsa

just give me the name

why you don't know the name

what

now here's a moment where you need to

this is a moment where the entire

machinery

of your reality just opened up for you

there's sometimes you can see the

mechanism behind

behind what we're seeing

here this is like the fact that you

don't know the names the actual name of

the person who packed it or names of

the fact that those people have never

been asked to comment

and we don't even know who they are

what's that tell you

what does that tell you

it tells you we're not serious about

this whatever is going on has nothing to

do with the documents

am i right

let me say this as clearly as possible

if anybody in the news business had even

the slightest interest

in what was going on in that story

the only thing they'd be talking about

incessantly was how do we find the names

of the people who packed it

and can we get permission to talk to

them

because they might have you know

clearance or whatever

am i wrong

tell me i'm wrong

it's the only question that matters

and and the entire news industry is

ignoring it like it doesn't matter

what's that telling you

it tells you nobody's serious about this

as an issue

they're serious

about it as a political issue

nobody cares

about the actual event

nobody

in fact i've never even met anybody who

cared there are people who say oh trump

was going to sell nuclear secrets to

saudi arabia

do they really believe that

the people who are tweeting that trump

was going to sell nuclear secrets they

really believe that no they don't it's

just a political thing

do the supporters of president trump

who say

as i do

it's very unlikely there's anything in

those documents that is really important

it's very unlikely

am i saying that for political reasons

or because i

i know what's in those boxes i don't

know what's in the boxes

i don't know

but i've got this political opinion

that's pretty strong

which means i need to check myself right

shouldn't i be checking myself for

confirmation bias

you know team play

and cognitive dissonance absolutely

absolutely i should be checking myself

really hard if i could it's pretty hard

to check

but

i don't think there's anything more

completely transparent

than the fact that all sides of the

media left right and in between

nobody has the bit of interest

and who packed the boxes and nothing

else matters

let me let this is the strongest

statement i can make nothing else

matters

but who packed the boxes

i'm not wrong

and as soon as you hear it

how pissed off are you

if you hadn't already you know realized

that you were being um gaslighted by

both sides this is one of those times

when both sides are equally guilty

if if if fox news

wanted to

find out about the topic

they'd be saying can we talk to whoever

packed the boxes

you think they can't find them

let me give you another example

is this the first time

that the most important question has not

even been asked by either the left or

the right

there's another time this happened

can you think of it

but when was the time a really big story

and there was one question that was easy

easy to answer

it was easy to answer

and nobody asked

the find people march

yeah charlottesville

what was the most important question

the most important question for which

all of the news depended

is were there any attendees

who are not racist

and not actually marching with the

racist you know physically they weren't

with them but they were there for their

own reasons it's the only thing that

mattered because the president made a

statement that they existed

the media said no they don't

and they went from that assumption

how do they know

do you know who talked to the um people

in charlottesville who attended

just me

as far as i know

i'm the only person out of seven billion

who said well why don't we just ask him

so i just tweeted i think i tweeted it

is there anybody is there anybody there

who wants to talk to me and is not a

racist

and then a number of people contacted me

and i talked to them individually

and they convinced me with you know the

totality of their story of how they got

there etc that they were in fact not

racists

and they disavowed the racists in direct

language

we're now standing with them marching

with them associating with them

we're just in a different place they

were at the event but they weren't

anywhere near the marchers

so

why is it that fox news has never

reported that

it's because they don't care about the

topic

they don't care because the topic is

easy

to to discern

you could do it today you know you can

still just say all right did you go

if you went

do you consider yourself a non-racist

defend yourself and then they would and

and well they would do it well

so

this is another example where the news

has

i would say

it looks intentional

it looks like neither the left nor the

right have any interest in what's in

those documents

in the real world sense

they only care about it as a story and

as a political thing

because would the story just disappear

if you knew who packed the boxes

it might

the entire story would disappear suppose

you you

talked to the people who packed the

boxes and just suppose they said

something like this

well trump did tell us what to put in

the boxes

but he just sort of went in the room and

said some general things and we did the

best we could because we were in a hurry

and we couldn't really ask him every

single question so we did the best we

could we just threw things in the boxes

and then you find out did trump ever

know what was in the boxes

did his lawyers ever know what was in

the box did anybody ever do a full

inventory later to find out

from trump's perspective whether there

was anything bad in those boxes

probably not

so would the whole story go away

if you knew that the people who packed

the boxes were making their own

decisions

while the people who

uh

received them never really fully knew

what was in them

that's that the whole thing would go

away wouldn't it

the moment you realized that people who

packed the boxes

were operating a little bit

independently it's sort of that's the

end of the question

because nobody thinks that trump was

down there with a clipboard doing an

inventory of the boxes and i doubt he

ordered anybody to do it

do have you ever seen any reporting to

say as well

you know trump ordered somebody to look

through all of the boxes and you know

really double check to see if there was

any any classified stuff in there

i know that would be an obvious story if

we'd ever heard of it

right

so

scott the sophist

all right we're gonna stop right there

so one of the ways to know an npc

is if they listen to your point

and then they call you a sophist

because they're they're like a dozen

things that you can say that don't have

any

um you don't have to

show your argument

so uh acme trader is the name of this

account here on youtube says scott the

softest at it again

that's an npc

i'll bet if you ask the acme trainer to

tell me a story about your childhood

he'd say i'd love to but i'm busy

that's a person who has actually no soul

in all likelihood and is a walking npc

anymore

let's stop saying pack the boxes it

sounds so nasty

it does sound a little dirty

do you know most of the news sounds

dirty if you read it that way

let's try

that who packed the boxes

they packed those boxes hard yeah it

does it works a little bit

so you know there's a story that was a

big national story or a global story

really and i totally ignored

until there was something that was funny

about it and then it caught my interest

but

how many of you know what happened in

sri lanka

like i saw a lot of headlines about sri

lanka and i ignored all of them

because i couldn't figure out what sri

lanka had to do with me

so i didn't know what was going on

so i knew there was some big meltdown

and sri lanka was falling apart and

the government was not popular

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something something

but that's all i knew

so here's the actual story

um

they elected a new president

who

was anti-fertilizer

he thought that fertilizers

he didn't have any scientific backing

for this but he thought that

some kinds of fertilizers

were causing kidney diseases

and so then he banned fertilizers in

2021

which caused the yield of crops to go

way down which you know when you combine

it with the pandemic related stuff

caused a full meltdown

and so here is the actual story

and i'm not making this up i'm just

going to give you the headline

the way i see it

right here's the headline the way i see

it

uh

sri lanka ran out of fertilizer because

the president was full of

well now you have my attention

they ran out of fertilizer because their

president was full of

that really happened

now i understand it because until you

can put it in the form of a joke

to me it's just noise

i need the joke

so now that you have the joke we can

understand this the bigger issue here is

that this this fertilizer question

apparently is a pretty big one

so i didn't even know there was an

anti-fertilizer

you know

group of people

but

there are and this anti-fertilizer thing

would be one of the scariest things in

the world

i think we'll figure it out

i think we'll figure it out but this is

one of the biggest problems in the world

the lack of fertilizer and one of the

least discussed

and i've known about this for

15 years like this is one of those that

you can see coming for a long time first

time i heard about it was about 15 years

ago

and it's just gotten worse since then

so at the same time that that's

happening apparently uh europe

is having

um a drought like they've never had

and i swear to god every time there's a

national story it's really about me

like this is one of those things that

makes me think none of you are real and

i'm just creating this out of my own

mind

because

i'm not big on travel

i don't know if i've ever mentioned that

i've done i've done

a little bit of you know

big trips

but it's usually because somebody else

wants to do it right you know a spouse

wants to do it i'm not really i got to

go to europe i got to go to asia i'm not

that guy i just don't i built a i built

a world in which i don't need to leave

you know in case there's a pandemic or

something worked out pretty well didn't

it

yeah i would like to take a moment to

pat myself in the back

i literally built my house

to

be something i could live in if i

couldn't leave the house

that was actually a design element if i

ever have to not leave the house i was

thinking of house arrest actually

i was i was assuming there's always a

good chance if you're if you're at a

certain income level there's a good

chance you're gonna have house arrest at

some point

it doesn't even matter if you commit a

crime

somebody will accuse you something

so

um

but there was one exception

every time i saw the advertisements for

the so-called river cruises in europe

where they have the smaller cruise ships

that they could go down the rivers they

stop at these great castles and have

amazing scenery the whole way

um you know i clicked on a few of those

one day and then i get unlimited

repeated ads and every time i see one of

these things they look beautiful

and i just think you know yeah the

viking cruises in particular and i

looked at them and i think god

of all the things i could do that really

looks like the most appealing one for my

specific sensibilities

and today i learned that

the rivers are drying up in europe

and

the entire

river cruise industry might have to get

shelved

so

that felt like it was about me

somebody says it's for 70 years olds and

up

it's also for people like to write

because i would love to just be able to

sit on the balcony while the scenery is

going by

and you know just finish my book

so

yeah there are times to vacation

actively and then you know there are

times when you don't need to

um

but

we're watching that

and then at the same time europe is

having these gas and electric shortages

so in europe it looks like depending on

the country various countries are

handling it differently because the

energy shortages they're going gonna

have cold showers

some places they won't be able to turn

on the business lights at night it's for

some hours they won't be able to have

open doors with the ac on which probably

is a good idea

and

um

and in california

i got a call from my local energy

company asking me

if the energy company could control my

ac in my house

to turn it off uh when they have the

load balancing issues

that's right

my p my pg the energy company in

california called me home

and says can we stick some technology to

your

your house

so we can turn off your ac if we need to

now

they did say

they did say let me be clear that it

would be for 15 minute periods

in which they would keep circulating the

air so you'd still be circulating

and they said you should experience

maybe a two degree increase in

temperature

before it kicks back on again

now if that's what it did that wouldn't

be too bad

would it

if they could really deliver that

if they could you know keep the lights

on everywhere they need to be kept on

and all you had to do was

maybe twice a day on the hottest days

you set your temperature is 75

for 15 minutes it goes up to 77

you know you go you go shopping for

those 15 minutes

you come back it's already down to 75

you're fine

no big deal right it's a reasonable

thing to ask

is it

because once they can control your ac

do you think they're going to stop with

15 minutes

they say they would

say they would

but i immediately said no and i didn't

say no because i didn't want to be a

team player

i said no because it's just

too much control over my life and also i

work at home and i need a certain

temperature and i don't want people

controlling it for me

yeah

slippery slope

all right

there was a surge in cartel violence in

tijuana unless hundreds of national

guard got called up

to quell a bunch of violence and

murders and stuff in tijuana

and

the the cartel that owns tijuana

they said they were going to respond to

it by killing any citizens who

went outdoors

the cartel

just threatened threatened that if i

guess some some of their members got

imprisoned by the

by the military action and they said if

they don't get their people back

they'll kill everybody who

goes outdoors

so

let me ask you this

the first time you heard me say

let's drone the cartels

what was your first reaction

why can't it happen

i mean sounds nice

talking tough

but it can't actually happen

and then you heard that trump had

brought up the subject during his term

and he had been sort of you know scoffed

at and dismissed no you can't attack no

no you can't attack mexico

what do you think now

what do you think now

now i think that the odds of it

happening are 50 50.

what do you say

if you asked me two years ago the odds

of droning the cartels i'd say really

low

five percent tops right

no more than five percent what do you

say now

what would you give the odds of the us

taking direct military action against

cartel assets in mexico go give me the

odds

give me your odds

i needed a percentage

25 25 100 60 40. i'm reading some of

these off now 65 25 50 00 10

25 35 70 100 0.

all right so we're all over the board

we're from zero to 100

but there are a lot of people in that

middle zone now aren't they

so how many times

how many times have

you seen this pattern emerge

that when i take a position

the

the issue itself seems to be moving at

about the same time

and have you ever wondered am i just

good at finding a parade that's already

moving

or am i moving the parade

have you ever asked yourself that

what do you think in this case

because i'm i'm positive

that public opinion about attacking

mexico has directly followed

my lead

but is it a lead or am i following

what do you think am i leading or

following is it just obvious that this

is the question we should be asking and

other people would be asking at the same

time if i didn't exist it'd be exactly

the same what do you think

well here's the thing i can't tell so i

don't know the answer this question

myself i'll tell you what i do know

i do know that

um members of the government pay

attention to me

can anybody confirm that because that's

the sort of thing i'd rather see you say

it

because if i just say it

doesn't sound differently it sounds

different

but can you confirm that from your own

observation would you say that

somebody is watching

all right so on locals they're they're

saying yes and i see some yeses over

here

so

i don't know could be a coincidence but

here's what i think happened

there are some ideas that you can't

entertain

until somebody's normalized them

and that's what i did

intentionally

i took the wildest idea

attacking mexico

and i set it

until it was normalized

that's what i did

now if all you have to do is say it in a

in a reasonable voice and say it often

and people will get used to hearing it

and then they'll think well

i know it's not impossible

right that's all it is so that the the

persuasion that i used was to normalize

through exposure

a very common

easy to predict method

because you can get used this is

something my mother used to say

you can get used to anything

if you do it long enough

including hanging

if you get hung

you'll get used to it if you do it long

enough

right so that was the joke

but the idea of directly attacking the

cartels

is unimaginable until people are talking

about it and then you go well people are

talking about it

i guess it's not so unimaginable

so that's where we are

we're talking about it

um tick tock

i saw a thread by bowtied robin on

on twitter

talking about how uh tick-tock presents

different content to americans than it

does chinese youth

uh oh

do you see any problems

so tick duck a chinese company

we i guess we know this this is not a

guess

presents very different information to

youth in china than it does to americans

what do you think it gives to chinese

youth that's different from americans

what would you guess

well they give

american youth useless people dancing

and they addict them to it

so they make american use they addict

them to useless nonsense that doesn't

help them and probably hurts their

health

what they do to chinese use is they

the algorithm feeds them valuable life

skills

just think about that

china is feeding valuable life skills

to chinese consumers of tick tock

and they're they're

feeding useless throttle

to americans and everybody else i guess

which teaches them nothing and actually

removes their ability to have critical

thinking

and turns them into just puppets

basically

now

now let me say something that just seems

shocking to you

tick tock is not banned in america

what

do how many of you remember the first

time i said tick tock should be banned

in america does anybody remember that

what happened the first time you heard

it

first time you heard it you said that's

a little too far

right

and then i said it a few more times i

said it more a few more times

and then you heard you probably heard

that the trump

administration wanted to ban tick tock

right

and then i guess

it didn't happen and the biden

administration doesn't seem to be on

that on that track

but it doesn't sound crazy does it

banning tick tock if you if you know

anybody who uses it

um you know what it's doing to them

now let me make a confession i don't use

to tick doc and the reason is it's a

chinese company

i know it would be maybe good for my

business you know raise exposure

introduce myself to a new generation all

that but i'm not going to use it because

of the chinese connection

um

but

i have been consuming accidentally

um

instagram reels

now if you don't use instagram uh let me

explain a reel is a quick little video

that's basically what tick-tock is so

instagram has within it a feature that

mimics everything you tic-tac does

and it's a popular feature

and i made the mistake of

clicking on some reels

in in instagram i don't know some time

ago

and i flipped through and

maybe one out of five was kind of cool

i liked it gave me a little dopa being

hit four out of five were annoying

people

dancing

there's nothing more annoying than a

reel

in which the woman acts cute and then

she has to do a self-conscious uh laugh

at the screen

i can't stand it

so you know what i mean it's the woman's

dancing and

after she does the dance

then or she's or she's looking pretty

and she's just walking and then after

she's walking pretty she does the look

at the camera

this one

and turn off the camera

because i'm so self-conscious i i wasn't

trying to look pretty

no no you might have thought i was

looking pretty bad no no no i'm not

freddie don't stop it stop at i'm not

ready

i can't stand it

i see those things and if i accidentally

have the sound on

now there's one that's worse

because people use these voiceovers that

they could that they pair with their own

video

have you heard this one

i love my puppy dogs my puppy dogs

has anybody you've heard that one right

and once you click on one of those you

just keep getting it

now my puppy dog my favorite dog is

anyway

so here's my point do you know how

addiction works

it's not the way you think

addiction is not getting what you want

addiction is getting what you want

occasionally

that's what makes you addicted so if you

look at four reels

let's say let's say you look at five

reels

one of them is awesome and you love it

and the other four you wish you hadn't

seen

you will become addicted

better than if you liked all five

if you liked all five you just get used

to them

then

you'd be i had enough of that but

because you have to hunt for them you

have to work for it

and you're getting all these false ones

and bad ones before you get one that

just moves you

that's addiction

now

i started using the reels i don't know a

few months ago

and i found myself

taken over

right now it might be because i i study

this real you know all my life

brainwashing and hypnosis and persuasion

i'm kind of really tuned in

to that you know part of life

i could feel my brain being taken over

i could feel my body

no longer being able to stop doing it

i have the actual feeling of i can't

even stop my finger i would like to go

like

that's pretty funny

i would like to be doing something

oh that's that's not funny that's not

funny listen i wish i were

well that's funny

have you had that experience yet

has anybody experienced actually having

their body taken over

because that's a total takeover from my

body

yeah

yeah now twitter does the same thing but

i rationalize it as

you know

part of my entertainment and also

part of business

if i didn't use twitter for business you

know it's part of connecting with an

audience if i didn't do that i would run

from that thing so fast

like i would not use it for

entertainment

to me it just feels dangerous

right

but for business you do some dangerous

things risk reward blah blah blah

but i can't i can't justify

um

using instagram and just looking at

reels because there's no business

purpose there whatsoever and i can't

stop

yeah slot machine theory exactly

so

the tick tock question about whether

tick tock should be legal in america

is a no brainer

tick tock absolutely should not be legal

it should be shut down

today it's one of the most

dangerous things i should i would also

think that

we should put some kind of limit on

addictive social media

so oh the other the other thing that

chinese social media does tick-tock is

they ban it for certain hours for

certain ages

in china you can't even use the damn

thing during certain hours

that's not true in america

so

when we're watching the chinese

right in front of us

destroy the youth of america and more

than the youth because we're addicted to

it too

destroying america while trying to build

up their own

you know internal capabilities

what side

what side is our government on

who exactly is on the side of keeping

tick tock

tell me

worse worse off history i'm going to

guess that that's being funny

but tell me this

i've heard an argument that uh tick-tock

should be banned have you how many how

many of you have heard the argument that

tick tock should be banned go

you watch the news have you ever heard

the argument that it should

mostly yes's right yes yes yes all right

now

now i'm going to open up the mechanism

again

like we did before about who packed the

boxes

i'm going to open you're going to see

the the mechanism again

who's arguing to keep tick tock legal

name their names

who is arguing to keep tick tock

legal no not big tech

not not big tech in the united states

mitch no

no the answer is no one

now

process that for a moment

there's a strong very strong argument

for banning it very strong

there's nobody on the other side

am i wrong

show me a major politician who's on is

in favor of keeping tick tock legal in

the united states

name one

give me a name of any congressperson

senator anybody

did you know that

did you know that we have an issue in

which there's no disagreement

by anybody who's

willing to show their face

nobody who's willing to say my name is x

i'm a senator and i think tick tock

should stay just the way it is

nobody

think of another topic where there's

nobody on the other side

there are people who maybe haven't

thought about it but there's nobody on

the other side

so you're saying swalwell but that's a

joke right you're saying biden that's a

joke mcconnell that's not true

all right

concentra no

that's not true there's literally nobody

who's made the argument

no you see that see if you hadn't

noticed that that was missing

you wouldn't know what's going on

there's something going on that's

protecting tick tock

that

our news has never looked into

think about that

have you seen uh have you seen the news

look into it on the right

nope

i haven't how about the left

nope

i haven't

so the fact that the the single most

important question about social media in

my opinion

you know you should the low-hanging

fruit is tick-tock because it's a

chinese company if you're talking about

facebook or twitter or you know

instagram those things

those are american companies

so you have to treat the whole situation

differently but a chinese company that's

addicting our youth

that's easy

that one's not a challenge

if we're treating like that like that's

a hard question

there's something else going on

and there's something else going on

could only be one thing

which is

what's the one thing it could only be

chinese influence

what else could it be

you know if somebody wants to come

forward and say oh it's not chinese

influence i have a good argument for it

has to do with like freedom or something

by the way

i just realized what is thomas massey's

opinion on tick tock

so let's ask him that question because

he would be interesting because i think

he's more keep the government out of a

guy

but would he be willing to keep the

government out of a chinese cyber weapon

that's what tick-tock is it's a chinese

cyber weapon

so would he be in favor of it because of

your freedom

letting them employ a digital weapon on

american soil

so let's redefine tik tok as a chinese

cyber weapon

because it's a chinese cyber weapon

and i think it should be regulated by um

by the military

it should be a military regulation not

it should be a homeland security thing

well

give me an interview with the head of

homeland security and have that person

explain why tick tock is still allowed

in the united states all right if we had

if we had anything like a a real news

business either on the right or the left

right fox news

i'm coming at you on this

right fox news is not even close to

giving me the news that i want not even

close right

so

here's what i want fox news to do

give me an interview with the head of

homeland security

about one topic

just one topic tick tock and tell me why

that's not a cyber weapon

and tell me why homeland security should

not be banning that

on security

issues it's an attack on the homeland

so i don't even know the name of the

homeland security person do you can

anybody name who's in charge of homeland

security i'm not sure i ever could but

who is it i mean biden but

majorcas oh you're a smart group

majorcas okay so let's get mayorkus on

an interview and say

defend

defend tick-tock being legal

i would make him defend it

right i wouldn't say give us your

opinion i'd say defend it

defend why we should allow a chinese

cyber weapon to continue to target our

youth go

now what do you think new york is going

to say

um you know freedom

is that is that going to be a defense

yeah they're targeting our youth and we

see it and we know it

but you know freedom

freedom

do you think you'll say that

i don't know

i don't know what majorca would say but

wouldn't you like to see an interview

now

does it seem to you that the topic of my

live stream today is that the news isn't

even close to giving us anything we need

didn't give us anything on the

charlottesville thing

they're not giving us anything on who

packed the boxes just obvious questions

and they're not asking the head of

homeland security if tick tock should be

allowed or banned

people these are the most obvious

questions

in the country

how about this one

what are we going to do in the united

states about a fertilizer shortage

that's a pretty big question

right

who's asking that

so i feel like there needs to be some

kind of new entity

where the public can register the

questions it wants to ask and you could

compare what the what the public wants

to ask let's say they get voted up to

the top

with what the entities are actually

asking

because there's a real difference

between the what the news is asking

and what the public wants them to ask

and that's left and right and i don't

know why

i mean i can speculate and make the

worst assumptions in the world

you know that they're either incompetent

or china owns them or some damn thing

but i'd rather

i'd rather have a real answer

you think that behind the curtain

everybody's colluding

maybe

we'll just use hydroponics

they're still fertilized aren't they

hydroponics are fertilized

all right

um

tractor's burying baby formula and i

didn't say that

apple and google profit from the app

yeah but let's get people on record uh

defending that

takes a lot of fertilizer to create

cattle feed oh that's interesting

uh is somebody arguing that

if we went vegetarian not that that's

practical but if we went vegetarian we'd

have enough fertilizer

i don't know if that's true

i feel like we would have to replace the

beef with growing more vegetables i i

don't buy that i'm not buying that

uh you think the us will fight the ccp

no i don't think so not directly

um

so it seems to be that there's one well

nitrogen is not the only fertilizer

so if nitrogen was the only thing we

needed we'd be in good shape that's not

the problem

yeah manure is

fertilizer

um

are you for boring banning the porn

industry that's interesting i've never

talked about that

how many of you would be in favor of

banning porn

let me give you answers i'm saying no no

no yes

yes no yes no

no yes yes no

see the problem with banning porn

people are mixed looks like you're

pretty mixed on this

should be paid access

i don't know

i'm not sure you could ever stop it from

being freely available to children

should be banned um i'm a little

see here my problem with the

porn

is my problem with guns it goes like

this

with guns there it is unambiguously true

that some people are less safe when

there are more guns around

but it is also unambiguously true that

some people

are more safe

if they have access to guns

so the problem with gun ownership is

that we have people who are operating

from self-interest

doing this sort of theater

where they pretend they're arguing from

some social or constitutional right it's

never that

if you think you need a gun or you might

would need one to protect yourself

you want the right to own one if you

think you'll never want a gun because

you're afraid of them and your only risk

is other people having them then

probably you're against it and then we

act as though the theater of the the

high level

oh my constitution that's really why

you're doing it that's not why you're

doing it

you're doing it because you want a gun

or you don't want a gun that's it

right

now you might want a gun to protect

yourself against your government but

it's still just wanting a gun

to feel that you're safer

so

the same thing with porn

if you say porn should be banned

what does that do to the person who

can't get access to humans

is that fair

because if you're if you're looking at

porn from the perspective of someone who

can get sex in the real world

that's not fair

that's not fair at all

if you're married and you're you know

you're getting everything you like and

you're telling me that you know not me

but you're telling somebody else that

they can't have porn

because your sex life is good

well

the only thing i could say is an ironic

you

it's ironic because they're having sex

yeah no don't don't tell people who

can't get sex that they can't have porn

if you can fix it so they can have sex

well then maybe your opinion that they

should have porn is something i'd listen

to

but until most people can have access to

sex in some kind of a

you know timely useful way which is not

even close to where we are

i think you got to give people options

now is it true that porn ruins marriages

i don't know

i'll tell you what they do

it changes the balance of power

so i believe that marriages stay

together when the woman has all the

power

meaning that she can control the man

completely

that's your stable situation

as soon as the band discovers that he

can get off without the the wife

with porn

suddenly her power diminishes

and he doesn't need to listen to her so

much because

he's not getting sex there anyway

so

i think

porn changes the balance of power in a

way that's very bad for women

it might be bad for men too that would

be a separate question

but

uh i think women want to band because

this definitely reduces their power and

it increases the power of men because

they have an option that doesn't require

being nice to women to get sex

and that's a very big thing

and men don't say that out loud by the

way

but porn is the substitute for shitty

women

sorry

porn is the direct substitute for shitty

women and the percentage of shitty women

is at an all-time high

now you might say to me scott the

percentage of shitty men is at all

all-time high and i don't know

might be

i wouldn't deny it

but it's absolutely true that the

percentage of women who are shitty is at

the whole all-time high

probably true for men maybe it's just

true for people i don't know

but i don't you know my

my vision on this is sort of limited so

i'll admit that

but it's true and and here's why

everybody is getting too picky about

everything

right

too picky about everything

imagine being my age and finding you

know somebody who's within uh 35 years

of dating age i like to have a broad

range

imagine me finding anybody within 35

years of my dating age

who doesn't have so many preferences

that it's really hard

to manage them at the same time

imagine that

so

somebody says lots of men are weaker and

feminized now yeah there is something to

that i don't know what it is

shut up bart

now when i say oh no

uh would i say that everybody's too

picky

i don't mean just women

i mean people and i think it's because

we have so many things that we can

access

have you ever tried to watch a

tv or movie with another person

here's me trying to watch a movie

with another person in

1986

right

this is my impression of wanting to

watch a movie with another person in

1986. hey you want to go to see a movie

sure

what's playing yeah we've got uh three

choices

yeah they all sound pretty good

why don't you pick one yeah all right

we'll probably watch all three but let's

watch this one today okay

and then you get some popcorn and you

maybe you hug

curl up watch a great show

that's 1986.

now here is uh

2022 trying to get somebody to watch a

show

hey you want to watch a movie

i don't know is there anything out

yeah there's tons of movies out uh

so many it's going to be hard for us to

find one that we agree on how about how

about this new thor movie

oh yeah that was great i just watched it

on my phone oh okay

well how about um

top gun

top gun that we all agree on top gun

right yeah yeah

just saw

it all right

two hours later

you've picked a movie

and you watch it

and it's way too boring because your

attention span has changed and you can't

even tolerate it one of you will bail

out of the movie before it's over

when was the last time you sat down with

one other person

to watch a movie and one of you didn't

want to bail out of the movie before it

was over

in the old days i used to watch the

whole movie even if it wasn't perfect

and i didn't care that much

but today i will bail out a movie uh

the moment somebody's tied to a chair

or or an is endangered

so i have two hard rules

of turning off the shell

if somebody's tied to a chair

or there's an animal in danger in any

way

the other times that then there's a

bunch of times that i have to fast

forward

so as soon as there's the male and the

female usually um in the traditional

movie the male and female are like

getting together and they're showing

love for each other

and you know that the next 10 minutes of

your movie

will be you being convinced that they're

really in love so that when something

bad happens you'll feel bad

and i say to myself

having sex got it got it got it got it

done

i can't even watch a movie without fast

forwarding through all the scenes that

are establishing something that i

already got

uh it's a dangerous situation got it

fast forward fast forward you get a

torture for information

you can have a conversation with that

that

confidential source

got it got some information that'll tell

you where to go

don't need to know the rest there you

are

uh you found the guy and it looks like

there's a bunch of bad people in the

room oh there's one hero and a

bunch of bad people in the room i wonder

what's going to happen could it be a

fight

would it be a fight

yes it's a fight will the hero

beat up all the people in the room

fast forward heroes beating up the

people in the room and the action is so

fast i can't really see it anyway it's

just going to be a bunch of images on

the screen for a bunch of minutes and

noise and okay that's over

how do you watch a movie anymore

if you're watching by yourself don't you

fast forward through all the got it i

got it i got it

seeds

right

and

is there anybody who can watch an entire

porn movie before it gets to the good

parts

i mean those were always interminable i

mean just you couldn't handle them

but now it's impossible like what would

be the point if i'm not looking at a

compilation clip i'm already bored

and here i'm talking about that one time

i looked at porn for 10 minutes

yeah 10 minutes and i it was ruined for

life

but yeah

compilation clips it's all i could

handle

[Laughter]

all right

i think that's all uh the audio is okay

now did i lose my audio when i said

something

you didn't like

all right that's enough for now

uh move hands from the face

you know lie my hands in front of my

face

is that bothering you

does it bother you when my hands are

around my

hips i'm sorry

all right you're right i should not put

my hands in front of my face

that's actually good advice

i appreciate it

yeah and the the other problem with uh

movies is the wokeness

uh

i don't mind i remember there was a show

called

something

la femme nikita or something where

nikita played a

woman who weighed about 90 pounds and

could beat up any 200-pound man and

throw him around the room and stuff i

remember thinking oh that's it's like

it's cute because it's so ridiculous

and she was attractive so i didn't mind

looking at it

but

once that becomes the standard way of

all movies

that a 90 pound woman can beat up a 200

pound band pretty much with ease anytime

they want

then it's like

i don't know i think i thought you took

an interesting concept where there was

you know a movie where it was true where

i'm like okay there's a movie where it's

true and then suddenly all movies have

to be true that the women could beat up

the

man went too far

wasn't she enhanced i don't think so

she was just trained well right

all right i have to read this comment

to youtube over on locals

somebody said

[Laughter]

somebody said is there any porn for old

people or does it accidentally turn into

a snuff film

[Laughter]

that's really funny

[Laughter]

i think that's where we're going to end

because i can't top that

port about old people accidentally turns

into a snow film

[Laughter]

that's too close to home

all right youtube that's all for today

i'll talk to you tomorrow