Episode 1880 Scott Adams - Let's Figure Out Who Blew Up The Pipeline. Get In Here

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that Russia seems to be losing losing everything and it's all falling apart for Russia and uh he believes that Russia sabotaged the nordstream 2 pipeline which is Russia's own pipeline now it had been turned off already so they'd turned it off so it wasn't delivering any gas uh so although it was not delivering any gas John Brennan thinks that uh Putin blew it up to really send a strong signal to the the west and I think it did now a lot of people don't know where he got where Putin got that strategy of blowing up his own assets it's originally there was a military genius who came up with this first it's sort of non-obvious right you're like why why would you blow up your own valuable asset but no it came from this is actually a military Doctrine it's it's more obvious than things so there was a famous military strategist named Mel Brooks and in his military treaties uh treatis Treatise Treatise it was called I believe it's called Blazing Saddles and there's a scene in there in which we learn to you hold a gun to yourself and you threaten to kill yourself Sometimes using you know unpleasant language if you threaten to kill yourself then people won't kill you like okay I I'm gonna kill this person okay Mel Brooks Used different language so I think is really it looks like the Mel Brooks play I think Putin is uh threatening to destroy all of his assets maybe one at a time if if we don't give him what he wants um so that seems quite reasonable uh John Brennan now talk about a credible guy John Brennan was one of the people who helped collect the 50 Intel prior and current Intel people who who said that the Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation yeah he's also the same John Brennan who pushed the Russia collusion Oaks but there's no reason to believe that he's lying this time when he says that Russia attacked itself to teach us a lesson and let me tell you I feel it I feel a little bit closer to maybe Ukraine will have to surrender I mean if Russia keeps bombing its own assets I don't know if any of us are safe I mean what if Putin decides to bomb Moscow next what are we going to do would Ukraine Just Surrender I mean the strategy looks pretty strong so yeah Russia will be attacking itself because attacking Russia or I'm sorry attacking Ukraine didn't work out at all uh I think Putin needed to win he's like okay have we attacked anything successfully lately ooh you know the uh the news from the Don Bass not so good not so good okay we need to have some kind of a win can you please attack something successfully I need to be able to say we attacked something and we got it we got the wind well you know the ukrainians are really dug in don't tell me what you can't do I need a win you need to blow something up and I need to be able to say that I got that thing you know we're running out of weapons and our soldiers are not really well no no I need you to blow something up and give me a win well you know the only thing we could actually blow up would be our own stuff I don't need to know the details just give me a wind so then the Russian general said all right what's the least protected thing we owned and they thought our pipeline we could blow that damn pipeline up so Putin gets the win for a successful military operation against its own pipeline according to John Brennan has he ever lied to us I mean you can trust John Brennan right I mean just because he ran an organization whose entire job is lying to us and he's documented as the biggest liar in American politics Bar None bar none but this time he's totally uh telling the truth but the funniest thing was watching I think it was uh Keeler uh on CNN who asked Brennan uh why he thinks that Putin blew up his own pipeline to teach the West the lesson when the pipeline they could just turn it off she was like you could just turn it off you have to blow it up uh then I saw some speculation that really it was a clever trick and the and that Brennan is right and here's why they blew it up because if Putin had not blown it up he might be legally required to turn it on later to fulfill legal contracts so to get out of his legal contracts later he blew up his own pipeline now if there's one thing that we know is true Putin is very concerned about his legal agreements and he would be willing to bomb his entire country so that people didn't think he'd be the kind of guy who'd say one thing and then do another because that's not the kind of reputation you could have out there perfectly reasonable perfectly reasonable because you know prior to knowing that Putin was bombing his own pipeline according to John Brennan I didn't know if Putin was trustworthy or not you know I didn't know if you could depend on him to keep a deal but now that I know he would be willing to bomb his own assets to get out of a deal well I trust him more and I think that's what he was going for he was going for some kind of a business credibility kind of a play and I think when you see somebody blow up their own assets so they don't have to deliver what they promised that makes me trust them so so I think this hypothesis that Russia is behind the blowing up of their own asset completely feasible completely I buy it yup totally believable now as a backdrop to this and don't make too much of a big deal about this because we know what the story is we know Russia blew up their own assets because John Brennan would never lie to us on CNN that's something we know for sure but some people you know there's always some Rogue there's always something like goofy bastard who's got some conspiracy theory right so here's the conspiracy that's going around now there's a video of Joe Biden before the Ukraine invasion saying in public I know it's ridiculous but saying in public in the clearest possible terms that if Russia invaded those pipelines were no longer going to be functional now some people say that matters and the fact that he directly that Biden directly said if you do this we're going to take care of those pipelines and he gave you a smile that looked exactly like he meant blowing them up because there's a smile that says I mean blowing them up right you have to see the video here's how you talk if you don't mean blowing them up uh Mr.

Biden are you saying that you're gonna you know shut down those pipelines yes we'll we'll use whatever means we can we're going to shut down those pipelines okay that's how you say it if you don't mean we're going to blow them up here's how you here's how Biden said it so how will you do it I promise you we can do it now that's pretty much the blow it up face isn't it I mean I think he told us he's going to blow him up and then they blew up now to me this looks like nothing but giant energy companies uh manipulating our government to reduce the competitiveness of their competitor that literally is all I see here do you see anything except a giant Energy company has control of our military and the military is doing the bidding of some Energy company in the United States that's what it looked like to me it looked like it literally was a commercial a commercial operation to increase the prophets of American gas companies now I think that's the reason it happened also maybe has some military you know Homeland European protection whatever I mean that might be good too but you know when follow the money works this well if you can follow the money this directly I don't know if you need to ask any about their questions I mean to me to me this doesn't even look like a national interest so much as just a Energy company interest now you could argue and I'm going to argue this that when the United States supports its energy industry even doing things that you might think are over the line or sketchy or too far or whatever that the United States does better you know that there are a lot of smart people who say basically look at the the energy situation of any country and you know everything you need to know that's pretty close to true isn't it if you've got a country that has cheap energy or is a major producer of energy they seem to always be doing fine so if you take care of your energy business your country is going to be a strong country if you don't take care of your energy business and you have to buy energy from other people and that's all you have you're just a buyer of energy you're going to be very vulnerable so um I'm not sure that it is the wrong that is wrong for the country to do things that are literally just good for big energy companies in the United States no it's it's like you know it's creepy and it's unethical and it's it's not free markets you could find a hundred ethical and moral reasons why we shouldn't do it easily right it's not it wouldn't take any effort at all at the same time having our government and our Energy company is basically being one entity and working for each other's benefit actually kind of works kind of works yeah I I mean I don't like it but strangely it works all right um can we can we do this next conversation without without some of you just flying out of control okay see if I can just get through this next two minutes without somebody just going nuts on me okay so there's the there's a trending hashtag for face masks no I hate face masks I am anti-face Max I hate them and we're not going to talk about the science however it is trending again because cases are up and and people are pushing for her face masks again now in this context some doctor uh some doctor tweeted the studies that he says support face masks I retweeted it with a comment on just the messenger now the way you should take that when I say I'm just the messenger that means I'm not endorsing it that's how you should interpret it if I say hey look at this this looks pretty solid then I'm probably endorsing it or at least I think there's nothing wrong with it but if I say I'm just the messenger you should very clearly see that I'm just telling you whether other people are saying so you know because I had always wondered why it is that the people on the right say there are no there are no studies that support masks and the people on the left say there are tons of them they're all over the place have you ever wondered about that like why could it both be true that there are tons of studies saying they work at the same time there are no studies to say they work and both be true so I think I think maybe I have something close to an answer which is this list of studies it was sort of a study about other studies of masks it it took about 10 seconds for you know Andre's back house and other people who know about data to just rip it about is ridiculous so apparently this study happened at the very beginning of the pandemic when all of our data was bad and basically it was just a use it was a bunch of useless studies they were summed up by another useless study now if you were non-critical and you saw that there were a whole bunch of studies in the same direction what would you do if you were not very let's say sophisticated about how people lie with data I think it would be pretty convincing now let me stop again because I know a whole bunch of people are flying crazy at home no I'm anti-mask and I have been from the start but the conversation about it is part of the context of America so I can't avoid it so I think I think that's the I think the entire thing comes down to this I think the entire thing comes down to the people on the left believe the studies because there are lots of them but the people on the right don't believe the studies because when you look at them they don't seem credible you know they just don't seem to be a time period and it doesn't look like they could untangle all the confounders you know all the variables that could affect them I mean the most obvious thing is that the people who are likely to wear masks have something in common with each other right and the country is most likely to do it they probably have something in common as a country so I just don't know that you can sort it out I also don't believe that they would have kept in the study anything that said the opposite right because when you do a study of studies let's say a meta study or even just a study of studies which would be different you're you are deciding what's in and what's out what they never do is throw everything in because they always say well you know this one is so big you don't want to put this one in there it'll skew things or they'll say this one is so low quality that even though the other ones are higher quality you know we'll throw it out so so those studies end up being subjective accidentally some meta studies are well made some are not right and usually we can't tell the difference can't tell the difference all right so is everybody comfortable that I'm anti-mask period period anti-mask but now you understand why the left believes they work because there are people sending studies around it is sort of the laundry list thing if there are enough studies it doesn't matter that they're all bad because there are lots of them so I think that's the whole story anyway um so the the January 6th gasolators this this just amazes me because every once in a while you have to go back and and shake your head at this the entire January 6 situation depends on one assumption more than one but one that I care about and the one assumption is what Trump actually believed am I right because if Trump believed the election was genuinely fake then why he did make sense actually it would make sense as a candidate and it would make sense as a patriot it would make sense as an American if he genuinely believed the vote was hanky now the entire January 6th thing depends on him depends on his critics knowing what he really secretly thought that he has never said out loud to anybody that we have any evidence of so here's Trump the person who says everything he thinks am I right Trump is the person who says everything he thinks and yet there's no evidence whatsoever in writing any reports any not even Anonymous reports of trump ever being inconsistent with his belief that the election was sketchy so why is it that the most unrealistic assumption is underpinning the entire thing and we don't pay attention to that I feel like I'm the only one who's ever mentioned this actually ever have you ever seen anybody else say everything depends on what he was thinking and if you were to make two hypotheses of what he was thinking do you think there's really any chance that you thought the election was um Fair because he was he was thinking the same thing that most of the Dem most of the Republicans thought don't you believe that most Republicans thought it was sketchy most I think most did so if he had the same opinion that's most Republicans who had the same information he had we were all just watching TV right he didn't have like secret you know secret Intel he was just watching TV like the rest of us so if he watched TV and you watched TV and you said to yourself that doesn't look like a fair election to me I don't know if you're right or wrong but say that was your opinion why would you think he wouldn't have that opinion like what what is what possible argument could you make that he would singularly believe the election was fair when everybody was looking at exactly the same information at the same time all the people on his side said I'm not so sure if that election was fair and of course you know doing the the most obvious analysis you can do did the Democrats think the election was fair did Hillary think the election was fair when Trump won the first time no the most the most um common believable and ordinary assumption you can make about this situation as well as when Hillary lost the most common ordinary assumption is that the people who lost genuinely believe there's some question about the outcome they genuinely believe it now if I were Trump's team that's the only thing I would talk about I say are you making the case that you believe the president actually thought he lost when nobody else thought that now it's separate from the argument of whether he really lost so you know their trick is to argue whether or not it's true whether or not it's true that the election was fair has nothing to do with this because nobody was operating on the truth because it was unknowable there was a suspicion but at that time it was pretty hard to know what was true and what wasn't if you were biased toward thinking the election was rigged as the Democrats were when they lost as Republicans are when they lost as the Democrats will be again if they lose you don't think the Democrats are going to say the election was rigged if they lose the next election of course they will do you think they'll believe it yes yes I do I do think they'll believe it that's how it works so now am I Wrong Am I Wrong that everything follows from that assumption am I missing anything the entire understanding of that day has everything to do with what Trump secretly actually believed about the election because if he believed that that was rigged and he didn't do a thing about it I wouldn't vote for him would you I mean I don't vote anyway but but seriously if he believed it it actually been rigged and he did nothing didn't complain about it just sort of you know slunk off to his retirement he wouldn't be the person you you thought you voted for the first time if he did and I'm not sure you'd want any president to be like that I mean I want my president to say what he believes and to act on it and uh Saturday defense it wouldn't be an insanity defense because most Republicans believe there was some problem with the election now just to be clear so I don't get banned I'm not aware of any proof of election irregularity as scale I'm not aware of any but would I be I'm not sure I would be yeah he told them to go down and peacefully protest now he did he did of course want to do wanted Pence to delay things and there are smart people who say that wasn't legal and you can't do that and I guess that's the bipartisan bill that even even Schumer is willing to say something about the the electoral votes you don't want to play with them after the election and that's probably I haven't looked at it but probably a good idea I mean if it's bipartisan probably a good idea all right um it was the most perfect election of all time well I've said many times that it's a miracle that all 50 of our election systems work perfectly we are told and yet every other organization and system that we know about is completely corrupt which we know and for sure you don't have to wonder you know we know that now is the FBI corrupt yeah yeah yeah we know that that there's no longer in question all right uh have I complained too many times about how my critics like to come into my men into my tweets and compare me to Garfield and other comics and it's usually it looks like this oh uh the Garfield guy again or here comes the Beetle Bailey guy to say something and it took me a while to figure out that these were compliments their attempts their attempts at insults but you know do you see what they get wrong it took me a while to notice why is it that it's an insult to call me Garfield what makes that an insult it makes it an insult because the person saying it believes that everybody who sees that understands that Garfield is a less Good comic than Dilbert right Am I Wrong the reason they would call me these other cartoons the whole point of it is they believe the other cartoons are of lesser equality yeah you know what they don't call me peanuts they don't call me um they don't call me Calvin and Hobbes although I have seen that but that's that's rare do you know why because my my critics believe that those two Comics are unambiguously better than Dilbert so do I I mean I mean most people would agree with that so they call me the Lesser comics because the whole point of it is that they're not as good as my comic and every time it happens now I'm thinking I feel like you just complimented me because this wouldn't even make sense the entire point of the insult is that that other comic is a lower quality than than mine yeah Kathy Etc now I'm not saying that they're lower quality I'm saying that that's the whole point of people saying it is that they believe they're lower quality so thank you for the thank you for the compliments I appreciate it keep them coming here are some things that I read about myself uh in the fall in the past week so if you wonder Scott do you ever get much trouble online do you ever get bothered by things that people say to you online well not that much but uh here's some things I got called this week uh a holocaust denier uh and uh um it is alleged that I believe that rape is okay because it's natural that that's actually a widespread opinion about me on the internet is a widespread opinion that I believe that rape's fine it's just natural somebody actually thinks that was my opinion or is my opinion okay um fine and people also believe that I'm an anti-mass Crusader who is secretly trying to get you to all wear masks so at the same time that I'm one of the most notable critics of masks spend a lot of time notably talking about not wearing my mask and required masking places trying to mobilize people to get rid of their masks and so that makes me Pro mask if they read my mind they can see that like on the inside even though on the outside I'm totally anti-mask but on the inside they can they can see that because of the things I tweet they can tell they can tell that because even though I don't wear a mask because I'm so afraid that I'm really Pro masked um so there are books coming out more books about Trump of course and uh they're running out of insults the every book that comes out about Trump they've got to have a new you know thing but they're running out of the good ones so here's some new books and it doesn't matter who who wrote them right it doesn't matter at this point it wouldn't matter if it's Maggie Haberman or somebody else but these are somebody else but they're in the news today so one of the things is that Trump was way more serious about buying Greenland that you knew he was actually really serious about buying Greenland and he made an argument that you know it's it's sort of close to our domain and would be valuable to us and you know Denmark wasn't using it for much anyway but apparently he actually negotiated with Denmark to some degree he was actually trying to get it now is that a criticism is it a criticism that Trump literally tried to buy Greenland that feels like the opposite of a criticism don't they have valuable minerals isn't it geopolitically you know geostrategically important ah I mean that that should have been framed as a compliment now the fact that it didn't happen is that is that an insult or is that a criticism no it was a long shot it was a long shot that cost him nothing except embarrassment and he was willing to take the embarrassment for the potential of maybe having an upside that would be amazing I mean again it looks like a criticism that's more of a compliment I want the president who does that all right here's another one here's another criticism they have to say I don't know is that really a criticism one of the books claims that Trump was way more serious than you thought about withdrawing from NATO is that a criticism what would be happening in Ukraine right right now well I don't know but it wouldn't be costing us money um I don't know maybe Ukraine would have just rolled over and Putin would own Ukraine and we wouldn't have known the difference and we'd be getting our Ukrainian wheat and Europe would be getting their stuff and ukrainians uh corrupt government would be putting out of business and they would go back to sort of how things used to be you were you know Russia dominated that country now that would be bad for the ukrainians I mean I guess they would say that I don't know maybe someone but can we say that Trump was wrong about withdrawing from NATO based on what we know today it's actually not obvious is it you could certainly make the case that it's a good thing we're in NATO it's the only thing to stop Putin and that would be a strong argument but you could also make the case that maybe none of this would look this way if he had pulled that in NATO and and Putin didn't feel threatened the other possibility is that Putin wouldn't feel threatened by having NATO on his doorstep if America was not part of NATO I mean everything would have looked different wouldn't it so I don't know you know I'm not saying it would have been a good idea to pull on a NATO that's not my opinion but it's not obvious which was the right right way to go which is not obvious now I think that also when he talks about pulling out of NATO that's that could have been a negotiating position as well so he may have been really serious about pulling out if the other countries didn't step up with money you get that right he could be totally serious about pulling out if you don't give us more money but then other countries gave more money so I don't know if he still was still as adamant about pulling out but I think he was serious if they didn't give more money which I would have agreed with actually I think you did have to threaten to pull out if they didn't cough up more money I think that part was right and then his age worried that he might try to start a war with Iran or North Korea because of his crazy ways neither of those things were even close he wasn't close to a war with Iran it wasn't even close I don't think was he I didn't say anything that looked even close it looked like he was just gonna you know boycott them forever or whatever and what about North Korea North Korea is one of his success stories he took the temperature away down in North Korea I mean what was he going to do nuke North Korea his friend so the the books have completely run out of material uh think about his legal troubles correct me if I'm wrong but not counting January 6 for which no indictments are likely to come say the experts his biggest legal risk at the moment correct me if I'm wrong because it might be what I'm missing is a civil case against Trump the company not even against Trump himself so not Criminal and not even against Trump am I right that's his biggest risk right now and what is what is the power of the case the entire case let me summarize it the Trump company handled their accounting the way all normal companies do that's it that's the case they did things exactly the way normal companies do they they took the highest number they thought they could get away with when valuing it for loans and then they got allowed and then they paid back the loan and then the bank was happy but when they were doing their property tax assessments you want the lowest number you can get away with there he went the opposite way like everybody like everybody now he may have exaggerated or the Trump company may have exaggerated more than other companies do and that would be worth discussing but no matter what it is it's going to be a civil fine it's not exactly the crime of the century to have exaggerated more when you are the company that exaggerates more and your entire business model is built on your brand right the Trump brand is the value of the business and so would you expect somebody whose entire business model is about telling people their brand is better than maybe it is this is a little business model so if he did it consistently everywhere he told everybody that he was better than better than maybe somebody else thinks I don't know it might be a crime likely you might be able to find a jury who says yeah that's slightly a crime that's a little bit more exaggerating than I think you should have done so maybe you should pay a fine that is just business as usual for every company every big company that gets audited do you think they get away from the audit with nothing do you think there's nothing just pick a company just pick any company pick Google do you think if Google got audited they'd end up paying nothing sometimes Maybe but it's very common that a you know traditional company gets audited and pays a little extra money because they exaggerated something that's how it happens they exaggerate stuff or minimize things yeah so just just think about the fact that what the remaining complaints about Trump I've all just kind of dissolved so the January 6th thing has turned into nothing they're trying to breathe some life into it with the you know the jaws of life today I guess so they're trying to make the nothing into something but January 6 proved there was nothing at least nothing of criminal and dateable quality now all of his other legal problems have gone away except that trivial one that really is nothing what's left what's left anything so he wasn't colluding with Russia I mean what's left the only thing left is how his performance would be compared to Biden now of course Democrats look at Biden and say yeah he's killing it he's doing great and Republicans say the opposite uh although they have the lady who claimed that he raped her in a dressing room in a group in a store Gene Carroll so I guess she's doing her lawsuit again but nobody thinks that's going anywhere right that isn't that just a he said she said situation that's the end of it on Twitter today must said he would discuss buying into Rumble oh did that really happen did that really happen holy what's the price of uh rum right now can somebody check the stock price so rum was 12 yesterday or this morning oh he was asked to and he declined oh come on all right he was asked about it and he declined what don't get me all excited about that now um you know the reason I'm excited is because I'm an investor so I invested in the locals platform which got combined with Rumble so I ended up accidentally with some rumble stock which turned out to be the the best accidental investment I ever made yeah rum is worth a shot nicely done rum is worth a shot okay well done all right um question how many of you think that Elon Musk is secretly bankrolling The Babylon bee because if you notice that the Babylon bees uh let's say their budget seems to be way better than it used to be the quality of their content and and also the volume of it is suspiciously very good now it's not suspicious that they're good because you know they're good but you know you saw Elon Musk met with them obviously they got along they have some kind of connection the founders of the Babylon Bay now wouldn't that be the number one most likely thing you would ever expect you'd expect him to secretly bankroll it just because it's funny if I had his money nothing would have kept me from giving some of it to the Babylon B am I right assuming that money is No Object which is a fair assumption money is No Object and you know he liked them and you know you know he likes you know he likes poking the bear if they didn't get money from him I would be amazed I'll be amazed because that they're they're uh quality of the operation just went long way up all right um you would like to have a reframe for how to get women do you think I can give this gentleman a reframe that will help him in his dating success yes I can yes I can you're here's your reframe you're trying to find a woman uh you're trying to find the right woman right and you're not finding right the right connection stop looking for the right woman look for lots of people you want to increase the number of people you're exposed to not just looking for dates just the total number of people who you were exposed to and that's how you increase your odds because well I don't think it's necessarily true there's somebody for everybody it probably isn't but if your entire universe of people you're looking to get laid is three people your odds are low if suddenly you increase to 10 people you have to have sex with a little bit better but if you're not you know top 20 still low if you know 100 people well now you're talking now you're talking there's somebody who's going to be looking at you too so the reframe is it's about numbers it's not about necessarily just your quality but I'm going to make a prediction whoever is it whoever it is who just said you know you're having trouble getting women I'm going to make a prediction that when you take your clothes off and you look in the full-length mirror you're not delighted now I don't mean that as an insult just a purely practical statement of cause and effect if you go into the gym and you have a job you're going to have some interest from the other sex I know it's not fair it's not a fair world but get your body in shape all right so here's uh I might lose my power on the locals feed because I'm I'm getting a low battery message so I can make that stop if I plug you in instead of instead of using the microphone I guess oh yeah I don't have I don't have the power for that never mind oh I do hold on all right locals you can lose the microphone but you're going to gain power all right so that's the uh gaining Powers while you're here yeah yeah it helps to be tall yeah but I I don't know how many more times I can give this advice have you walked down the street lately and looked at your competition I mean seriously just go to the mall go to any any public place and just look around see what you're competing with what would it take to be in the top 10 percent of fitness for just the people you see around just just look around what would it take to be in the top 10 percent not much not much top 10 percent of fitness is the most achievable goal in the United States I can't even imagine anything easier than that maybe falling off a bicycle right maybe jumping in a mud puddle that would be easier than but being in the top 10 percent of Fitness just means you tried I don't even know if you could fail if you tried you know I mean if you started at 400 pounds it's going to take you a while to get there but unless you're a grossly you know you've let things go too far it's not hard to get back into the top 10 percent and why wouldn't you do that it's the most controllable thing you can do so control the hell out of what you can control yeah just control control everything you can control so if you controlled you know your career stuff by training making sure you're trained enough you can have a reasonable job and you can control your Fitness and your diet same thing you're going to be in the top 10 percent you missed the part about blowing up pipes you're late all right so that's my statement uh uh am I obsessed with Fitness that's kind of body shaming too well I guess you could put a negative spin on everything but I'm I wouldn't say I'm obsessed by it oh yeah I guess I am yeah I'll actually accept your I'll accept it usually I don't like that obsessed by because I had a little judgment in it but I think I think in this case I am obsessed by it and I should be so I would like you to be obsessed by it as well it's probably the best Obsession I have here here's another hypothesis and reframe for you you ready you don't have an option of not being addicted Let It Go Let It Go you do not have an option of not being addicted to something I don't think now of course people are different there's going to be some somebody who's the exception to everything so I'll give you that but for the average person you're going to be addicted to something it's going to be sex it's going to be food it's going to be exercise it's going to be the outdoors it's going to be your animals it's going to be your friends something you're gonna be addicted to something so instead of saying I'll try to avoid all addictive things you should go aggressively at at trying to make yourself as addicted as possible to things that will be good for you so I'm addicted to exercise intentionally I've done everything I could do to make myself addicted I've given myself treats I make sure I do things I like I don't push myself too hard I don't hurt myself too badly I do everything you could do to make it a rewarding literally rewarding I do it at a time of day that it's going to be the best it recharges me you know I I track how I feel on days I exercise versus I don't it's a big difference that helps me do it I have a trick for going to the gym when I don't want to go to the gym I've taught you this before put on your gym clothes especially your your Footwear and just having the right clothes on and walking around I'm like ah well I might as well at least go for a short run you know I got my clothes on right so I do everything I can do to addict myself to a positive thing so Obsession actually is close enough to the right word desire and seeking is human trait okay can I do some push-ups for you women look at men's shoes now there's a good tip whoa David Eagles just paid fifty dollars to tell me that Narcan vending machines are being installed in cities hello here's what I'd like you to do we're going to go save some lives you ready now I said this last night in my man cave live stream but I'll do it again for you today one of the things that this experience does meaning this live stream that many of you come to every day is that it's more than just some content I'm spraying out we have formed a an entity accidentally sort of like an accidental organization in which we can we have a collaborative intelligence that can actually solve some problems and one of the problems with uh fentanyl overdoses is bad information so if you had better information you would know for example that Narcan is something you could get at your drugstore and if you had it nearby and somebody was going into overdose situation and you got there quickly I don't know exactly how quickly it quickly is but while they're still alive and you administer it and I guess you don't have to be an expert to administer it it's pretty easy to do the odds of them living are very good it's actually very effective now the number of people that are watching this so we've got let's say 3 000 live here 600 over here probably 40 50 000 people will catch this live stream I'm going to ask all of you to do the following thing research how you could get Narcan in your state because every every State's different in my state you can have the pharmacist write the prescription I didn't even know that was a thing right so uh Carey found that out and has also spread that news through San Diego State University so because of this live stream one active member uh went and figured out how you get Narcan in California just go ask for it and get a prescription from the prescription from the pharmacist not a doctor and then she spread that information into a a parent group as San Diego State University now the parent group was very active and they were all they were all over it because there had been a couple of fentanyl scares just that week so it was like fresh in the parents mind oh God the people are dropping like flies even where my kid goes to school now they were I believe some number of them will get um will get it for their kid to have at college or something now there are also some apps I think uh pulse point is one app that calls for people who know first aid I believe but I think within that umbrella you could call for people who who if you sign up for it uh if you had Narcan I believe you would get notified if somebody had that app and saw somebody having an overdose because they'd be calling for anybody who had first aid and you'd have that I believe so here's what I'm going to ask each of you to do get educated on on how Narcan is obtained Where You Are and then tell your friends if you have a place to spread the information just spread the information because I don't see the government doing this correct me if I'm wrong Joe Biden should go on television and say everybody should get Narcan or have it available it's different in each state so go figure it out what it is in your state and see and just self-organize so I don't have mine yet but I'll I'll get mine the way Carrie suggested I'll go get mine and then when I have it my my neighborhood is organized so we have you know text messaging lists and stuff so I'll send out a what's that message to my neighbors and I'll tell them that I have it so if they if anybody in my neighborhood has an overdose there it is and I'm also going to tell them that if I'm not home that I can open my garage door with my app and I'll just tell them where to get it so if somebody can get to my house and five minutes and all of my neighbors can they can have Narcan in five minutes and maybe 10 minutes they're back to administrate if that's in time and I think I think you do have 10 minutes does anybody know enough about this to know how often do you have enough warning that you can get to the Narcan do you know how much time you normally have there I mean everything's different right but you're talking about just a few minutes so you need it close now I believe that if we do what what some of you will do because I know you take it seriously some of you will do this and I think we can save some lives I believe that this live stream literally will save lives and you know I'm going to act on it I hope you do too all right how do you know if someone is overdosing on fentanyl I don't know you should research that as well usually you know because they've been taking opioids and somebody usually knows they've been taking them and correct me if I'm wrong it's for opioid overdose not just fentanyl right can somebody give me a fact check on that is the Narcan for yeah it's for so you don't need to know it's Fentanyl you need to know that opioids were involved or failing in that you need to know that they're a person who might do opioids and you don't know what else they've done so I think you might want to administer it in some cases if you're not sure but again I'm not your doctor so don't believe anything I tell you about that so that's what you need to look at and it probably says something on the Box about when to use it right I would imagine it comes with instructions and uh Carrie Chabot is the one you need to thank for spreading that message yeah all right and then I think there's also something being contemplated about the Good Samaritan problem that you would have legal liability if you help somebody and things go wrong no problem giving it to someone who does not need it we have we have the somebody who seems to know what they're talking about right so you don't need to worry about if it's the wrong time to give it you don't need to know if for sure it was fentanyl it could have been in the opioid and if they're still alive give it to them right I guess that's the I guess that's the bottom line uh it's not looking good in Florida so does anybody how many of you are in Florida and uh are you looking at a category five is that what I heard and you're not leaving now for category five do you do you do you stay do you stay home if it's category five grab a surfboard yeah wow Virginia also has training good so it'll be a four or five right so the Santa says to hunker down uh basically a CAT5 so you're close to five what if somebody wants to commit suicide by a fentanyl well I don't know do you really need an answer for that I mean that's sort of a depends the situation depends on the situation but I can't imagine that you wouldn't try to bring it back all right um you won't get in trouble if you call for help even if you're on opioids yourself that's true that's true yeah if you didn't know that the uh the Emergency Services they're not going to arrest you yeah they're not calling the police because you have opioids in your system that's not happening because they know that that would make everything worse that's they're pretty good about that I don't think you need to worry about that I've never heard of anybody being in trouble because the ambulance picked them up that's not a thing I wouldn't want to have any on me but even if you had it on you I feel like the medical community would not be turning you over to the police I don't think so what do you think I mean there'll always be an exception but I can't see the Medics even if they saw some illegal drugs I think that they would just sort of you know leave them in your apartment when they took you I just don't think they're taking those with them uh all right yeah the cops do come but I don't think the cops are arresting you for having some possession if you're in the I mean if you have a user number of pills and you're having an overdose I don't think they're arresting you I don't think so but I I suppose I could be wrong don't know everything could be different all right uh do what presidents should say Cass you know I I always find it obnoxious when people do the uh here's the letter that the President should write to make everything better and then you read it and you're like ah no not really that's not really the letter they should write it just feels like telling somebody like 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the best story of the day

so CNN had X CIA director Brennan to

talk about the Ukraine situation

and he notes that Russia seems to be

losing losing everything and it's all

falling apart for Russia

and uh he believes that Russia

sabotaged the nordstream 2 pipeline

which is Russia's own pipeline

now it had been turned off already so

they'd turned it off so it wasn't

delivering any gas

uh so although it was not delivering any

gas

John Brennan thinks that uh Putin blew

it up

to really send a strong signal

to the the west and I think it did now a

lot of people don't know where he got

where Putin got that strategy of blowing

up his own assets

it's originally there was a military

genius who came up with this first it's

sort of non-obvious right you're like

why why would you blow up your own

valuable asset

but no it came from this is actually a

military Doctrine it's it's more obvious

than things so there was a famous

military strategist named Mel Brooks

and in his military treaties uh treatis

Treatise Treatise it was called I

believe it's called Blazing Saddles

and there's a scene in there in which we

learn to you hold a gun to yourself

and you threaten to kill yourself

Sometimes using you know unpleasant

language if you threaten to kill

yourself then people won't kill you

like okay I I'm gonna kill this person

okay Mel Brooks Used different language

so I think is really it looks like the

Mel Brooks play I think Putin is uh

threatening to destroy all of his assets

maybe one at a time if if we don't give

him what he wants

um

so that seems quite reasonable uh John

Brennan

now talk about a credible guy

John Brennan was one of the people who

helped collect the 50 Intel prior and

current Intel people

who

who said that the Hunter's laptop was

Russian disinformation

yeah he's also the same John Brennan who

pushed the

Russia collusion Oaks

but there's no reason to believe that

he's lying this time when he says that

Russia attacked itself to teach us a

lesson and let me tell you

I feel it

I feel a little bit closer to

maybe Ukraine will have to surrender

I mean if Russia keeps bombing its own

assets

I don't know if any of us are safe

I mean what if Putin decides to bomb

Moscow next

what are we going to do

would Ukraine Just Surrender I mean

the strategy looks pretty strong

so yeah Russia will be attacking itself

because attacking Russia or I'm sorry

attacking Ukraine didn't work out at all

uh I think Putin needed to win

he's like okay have we attacked anything

successfully lately

ooh

you know the uh the news from the Don

Bass

not so good not so good okay we need to

have some kind of a win can you please

attack something successfully I need to

be able to say we attacked something and

we got it we got the wind

well you know the ukrainians are really

dug in

don't tell me what you can't do

I need a win

you need to blow something up and I need

to be able to say that I got that thing

you know we're running out of weapons

and our soldiers are not really well no

no

I need you to blow something up and give

me a win

well you know the only thing we could

actually blow up

would be our own stuff

I don't need to know the details just

give me a wind

so then the Russian general said all

right what's the least protected thing

we owned and they thought

our pipeline we could blow that damn

pipeline up

so Putin gets the win for a successful

military operation against its own

pipeline

according to John Brennan

has he ever lied to us

I mean

you can trust John Brennan right

I mean just because he ran an

organization whose entire job is lying

to us

and he's documented as the biggest liar

in American politics

Bar None bar none

but this time he's totally uh telling

the truth

but the funniest thing was watching I

think it was uh

Keeler uh on CNN who asked Brennan uh

why he thinks that Putin blew up his own

pipeline

to teach the West the lesson when the

pipeline they could just turn it off

she was like you could just turn it off

you have to blow it up

uh then I saw some speculation that

really it was a clever trick and the and

that Brennan is right

and here's why they blew it up because

if Putin had not blown it up

he might be legally required to turn it

on later to fulfill legal contracts

so to get out of his legal contracts

later he blew up his own pipeline

now if there's one thing that we know is

true

Putin is very concerned about his legal

agreements

and he would be willing to bomb his

entire country

so that people didn't think he'd be the

kind of guy who'd say one thing and then

do another because that's not the kind

of reputation you could have out there

perfectly reasonable

perfectly reasonable

because you know

prior to knowing that Putin was bombing

his own pipeline according to John

Brennan

I didn't know if Putin was trustworthy

or not

you know I didn't know if you could

depend on him to keep a deal

but now that I know he would be willing

to bomb his own assets

to get out of a deal

well I trust him more and I think that's

what he was going for he was going for

some kind of a business credibility kind

of a play and I think when you see

somebody blow up their own assets so

they don't have to deliver what they

promised

that makes me trust them

so so I think this hypothesis that

Russia is behind the blowing up of their

own asset completely feasible

completely I buy it

yup totally believable

now as a backdrop to this and don't make

too much of a big deal about this

because we know what the story is we

know Russia blew up their own assets

because John Brennan would never lie to

us on CNN that's something we know for

sure

but some people you know there's always

some Rogue

there's always something like goofy

bastard who's got some conspiracy theory

right so here's the conspiracy

that's going around now there's

a video of Joe Biden before the Ukraine

invasion

saying in public I know it's ridiculous

but saying in public in the clearest

possible terms

that if Russia invaded those pipelines

were no longer going to be functional

now some people say that matters

and the fact that he directly that Biden

directly said if you do this

we're going to take care of those

pipelines

and he gave you a smile that looked

exactly like he meant blowing them up

because there's a smile that says I mean

blowing them up right you have to see

the video

here's how you talk if you don't mean

blowing them up

uh Mr Biden are you saying that you're

gonna you know shut down those pipelines

yes we'll we'll use whatever means we

can we're going to shut down those

pipelines

okay that's how you say it if you don't

mean we're going to blow them up

here's how you here's how Biden said it

so how will you do it

I promise you we can do it

now that's pretty much the blow it up

face isn't it

I mean I think he told us he's going to

blow him up and then they blew up

now to me this looks like nothing but

giant energy companies

uh manipulating our government to reduce

the competitiveness of their competitor

that literally is all I see here do you

see anything except a giant Energy

company has control of our military

and the military is doing the bidding of

some Energy company in the United States

that's what it looked like to me it

looked like it literally was a

commercial

a commercial operation to increase the

prophets of American gas companies

now

I think that's the reason it happened

also

maybe has some military you know

Homeland

European protection whatever I mean that

might be good too but you know when

follow the money works this well

if you can follow the money this

directly I don't know if you need to ask

any about their questions I mean to me

to me this doesn't even look like a

national interest so much as just a

Energy company interest

now you could argue and I'm going to

argue this

that when the United States

supports its energy industry

even doing things that you might think

are over the line or sketchy or too far

or whatever

that the United States does better

you know that there are a lot of smart

people who say basically look at the the

energy situation of any country and you

know everything you need to know

that's pretty close to true isn't it if

you've got a country that has cheap

energy or is a major producer of energy

they seem to always be doing fine

so if you take care of your energy

business

your country is going to be a strong

country if you don't take care of your

energy business and you have to buy

energy from other people and that's all

you have you're just a buyer of energy

you're going to be very vulnerable

so

um I'm not sure that it is the wrong

that is wrong for the country to do

things that are literally just good for

big energy companies in the United

States

no it's it's like you know it's creepy

and it's unethical and it's it's not

free markets you could find a hundred

ethical and moral reasons why we

shouldn't do it

easily right it's not it wouldn't take

any effort at all

at the same time

having our government and our Energy

company is basically being one entity

and working for each other's benefit

actually kind of works kind of works

yeah I I mean I don't like it

but strangely it works

all right

um

can we can we do this next conversation

without

without some of you just flying out of

control

okay see if I can just get through this

next two minutes

without somebody just going nuts on me

okay

so there's the there's a trending

hashtag for face masks no I hate face

masks I am anti-face Max I hate them and

we're not going to talk about the

science

however

it is trending again because cases are

up and and people are pushing for her

face masks again now in this context

some doctor uh

some doctor tweeted the studies that he

says support face masks I retweeted it

with a comment on just the messenger now

the way you should take that when I say

I'm just the messenger

that means I'm not endorsing it

that's how you should interpret it if I

say hey look at this this looks pretty

solid then I'm probably endorsing it or

at least I think there's nothing wrong

with it but if I say I'm just the

messenger

you should very clearly see

that I'm just telling you whether other

people are saying so you know

because I had always wondered why it is

that the people on the right

say there are no there are no studies

that support masks

and the people on the left say there are

tons of them they're all over the place

have you ever wondered about that like

why could it both be true that

there are tons of studies saying they

work at the same time there are no

studies to say they work

and both be true

so I think I think maybe I have

something close to an answer

which is this list of studies it was

sort of a study about other studies of

masks

it it took about 10 seconds

for you know Andre's back house and

other people who know about data to just

rip it about is ridiculous

so apparently this study happened at the

very beginning of the pandemic

when all of our data was bad and

basically it was just a use it was a

bunch of useless studies

they were summed up by another useless

study

now

if you were non-critical

and you saw that there were a whole

bunch of studies in the same direction

what would you do if you were not very

let's say sophisticated about how people

lie with data

I think it would be pretty convincing

now let me stop again because I know a

whole bunch of people are flying crazy

at home no I'm anti-mask and I have been

from the start

but the conversation about it is part of

the context of America so I can't avoid

it

so I think I think that's the I think

the entire thing comes down to this

I think the entire thing comes down to

the people on the left believe the

studies

because there are lots of them

but the people on the right don't

believe the studies because when you

look at them they don't seem credible

you know they just don't seem to be a

time period and it doesn't look like

they could

untangle all the confounders you know

all the variables that could affect them

I mean the most obvious thing is that

the people who are likely to wear masks

have something in common with each other

right

and the country is most likely to do it

they probably have something in common

as a country so I just don't know that

you can sort it out

I also don't believe

that they would have kept in the study

anything that said the opposite

right because when you do a study of

studies let's say a meta study or even

just a study of studies which would be

different

you're you are deciding what's in and

what's out

what they never do is throw everything

in

because they always say well you know

this one is so big you don't want to put

this one in there it'll skew things or

they'll say this one is so low quality

that even though the other ones are

higher quality

you know we'll throw it out so so those

studies end up being subjective

accidentally

some meta studies are well made some are

not right and usually we can't tell the

difference

can't tell the difference all right so

is everybody comfortable that I'm

anti-mask period

period anti-mask

but now you understand why the left

believes they work

because there are people

sending studies around it is sort of the

laundry list thing if there are enough

studies it doesn't matter that they're

all bad

because there are lots of them

so I think that's the whole story

anyway

um

so the

the January 6th gasolators this this

just amazes me because every once in a

while you have to go back and and shake

your head at this

the entire January 6 situation depends

on one assumption

more than one but one that I care about

and the one assumption is what Trump

actually believed

am I right because if Trump believed the

election was genuinely fake

then why he did make sense actually it

would make sense as a candidate and it

would make sense as a patriot it would

make sense as an American

if he genuinely believed the vote was

hanky

now the entire January 6th thing depends

on him

depends on his critics knowing what he

really secretly thought that he has

never said out loud to anybody that we

have any evidence of

so here's Trump the person who says

everything he thinks

am I right

Trump is the person who says everything

he thinks

and yet there's no evidence whatsoever

in writing any reports any not even

Anonymous reports of trump ever being

inconsistent

with his belief that the election was

sketchy

so

why is it that the most unrealistic

assumption is underpinning the entire

thing and we don't pay attention to that

I feel like I'm the only one who's ever

mentioned this

actually ever

have you ever seen anybody else say

everything depends on what he was

thinking

and if you were to make two hypotheses

of what he was thinking

do you think there's really any chance

that you thought the election was

um

Fair

because he was he was thinking the same

thing that most of the Dem most of the

Republicans thought don't you believe

that most Republicans thought it was

sketchy most

I think most did

so if he had the same opinion that's

most Republicans who had the same

information he had we were all just

watching TV right he didn't have like

secret you know secret Intel he was just

watching TV like the rest of us so if he

watched TV and you watched TV and you

said to yourself that doesn't look like

a fair election to me I don't know if

you're right or wrong but say that was

your opinion

why would you think he wouldn't have

that opinion

like what what is what possible argument

could you make

that he would singularly believe the

election was fair when everybody was

looking at exactly the same information

at the same time

all the people on his side said

I'm not so sure if that election was

fair and of course you know doing the

the most obvious analysis you can do

did the Democrats think the election was

fair

did Hillary think the election was fair

when Trump won the first time

no

the most the most

um

common believable and ordinary

assumption you can make about this

situation as well as when Hillary lost

the most common ordinary assumption is

that the people who lost genuinely

believe there's some question about the

outcome

they genuinely believe it now

if I were Trump's team that's the only

thing I would talk about

I say are you making the case that you

believe the president actually thought

he lost when nobody else thought that

now it's separate from the argument of

whether he really lost so you know their

trick is to argue whether or not it's

true

whether or not it's true that the

election was fair

has nothing to do with this

because nobody was operating on the

truth

because it was unknowable there was a

suspicion

but at that time it was pretty hard to

know what was true and what wasn't if

you were biased toward thinking the

election was rigged as the Democrats

were when they lost as Republicans are

when they lost as the Democrats will be

again if they lose you don't think the

Democrats are going to say the election

was rigged if they lose the next

election of course they will

do you think they'll believe it

yes yes I do I do think they'll believe

it

that's how it works

so

now am I Wrong Am I Wrong that

everything follows from that assumption

am I missing anything

the entire understanding of that day

has everything to do with what Trump

secretly actually believed about the

election

because if he believed that that was

rigged and he didn't do a thing

about it I wouldn't vote for him

would you

I mean I don't vote anyway but but

seriously if he believed it it actually

been rigged and he did nothing didn't

complain about it just sort of you know

slunk off to his retirement

he wouldn't be the person you you

thought you voted for the first time if

he did

and I'm not sure you'd want any

president to be like that

I mean I want my president to say what

he believes

and to act on it

and

uh Saturday defense it wouldn't be an

insanity defense because most

Republicans believe there was some

problem with the election

now just to be clear so I don't get

banned I'm not aware of any proof of

election irregularity as scale I'm not

aware of any

but would I be I'm not sure I would be

yeah he told them to go down and

peacefully protest now he did he did of

course want to do wanted Pence to delay

things and there are smart people who

say that wasn't legal and you can't do

that and I guess that's the bipartisan

bill that even

even Schumer is willing to say something

about the

the electoral votes you don't want to

play with them after the election

and that's probably I haven't looked at

it but probably a good idea I mean if

it's bipartisan probably a good idea

all right

um

it was the most perfect election of all

time well I've said many times

that it's a miracle that all 50 of our

election systems work perfectly

we are told

and yet every other organization and

system that we know about is completely

corrupt

which we know and for sure you don't

have to wonder you know we know that now

is the FBI corrupt yeah yeah yeah we

know that

that there's no longer in question

all right

uh

have I complained too many times about

how my critics like to come into my men

into my tweets

and compare me to Garfield and other

comics

and it's usually it looks like this

oh uh the Garfield guy again

or here comes the Beetle Bailey guy to

say something

and it took me a while to figure out

that these were compliments

their attempts their attempts at insults

but you know do you see what they get

wrong it took me a while to notice

why is it that it's an insult to call me

Garfield

what makes that an insult

it makes it an insult because the person

saying it believes that everybody who

sees that understands that Garfield is a

less Good comic than Dilbert

right

Am I Wrong the reason they would call me

these other cartoons the whole point of

it is they believe the other cartoons

are of lesser equality

yeah you know what they don't call me

peanuts

they don't call me um

they don't call me Calvin and Hobbes

although I have seen that but that's

that's rare

do you know why

because my my critics believe that those

two Comics are unambiguously better than

Dilbert so do I I mean I mean most

people would agree with that

so they call me the Lesser comics

because the whole point of it is that

they're not as good as my comic

and every time it happens now I'm

thinking

I feel like you just complimented me

because this wouldn't even make sense

the entire point of the insult is that

that other comic is a lower quality than

than mine

yeah Kathy

Etc now I'm not saying that they're

lower quality I'm saying that that's the

whole point of people saying it is that

they believe they're lower quality so

thank you for the thank you for the

compliments I appreciate it keep them

coming

here are some things that I read about

myself uh in the fall in the past week

so if you wonder Scott

do you ever get much trouble online

do you ever get bothered by things that

people say to you online well not that

much

but uh here's some things I got called

this week uh a holocaust denier

uh and uh

um it is alleged that I believe that

rape is okay because it's natural

that that's actually a widespread

opinion about me on the internet

is a widespread opinion that I believe

that rape's fine it's just natural

somebody actually thinks that was my

opinion or is my opinion

okay

um

fine and people also believe that I'm an

anti-mass Crusader who is secretly

trying to get you to all wear masks

so at the same time that I'm one of the

most notable critics of masks

spend a lot of time notably talking

about not wearing my mask and required

masking places trying to mobilize people

to get rid of their masks and so that

makes me Pro mask if they read my mind

they can see that like on the inside

even though on the outside I'm totally

anti-mask but on the inside they can

they can see

that because of the things I tweet

they can tell

they can tell that because even though I

don't wear a mask because I'm so afraid

that I'm really Pro masked

um so there are books coming out more

books about Trump of course

and uh

they're running out of insults

the every book that comes out about

Trump they've got to have a new you know

thing

but they're running out of the good ones

so here's some new books and it doesn't

matter who who wrote them right it

doesn't matter at this point it wouldn't

matter if it's Maggie Haberman or

somebody else but these are somebody

else

but they're in the news today so one of

the things is that Trump was way more

serious about buying Greenland that you

knew

he was actually really serious about

buying Greenland and he made an argument

that you know it's it's sort of close to

our domain and would be valuable to us

and you know Denmark wasn't using it for

much anyway

but apparently he actually negotiated

with Denmark to some degree

he was actually trying to get it now is

that a criticism

is it a criticism that Trump literally

tried to buy Greenland

that feels like the opposite of a

criticism

don't they have valuable minerals

isn't it geopolitically you know

geostrategically important

ah

I mean

that that should have been framed as a

compliment now the fact that it didn't

happen

is that is that an insult or is that a

criticism no it was a long shot

it was a long shot that cost him nothing

except embarrassment

and he was willing to take the

embarrassment

for the potential of maybe having an

upside that would be amazing

I mean again it looks like a criticism

that's more of a compliment I want the

president who does that all right here's

another one here's another criticism

they have to say I don't know is that

really a criticism

one of the books claims that Trump was

way more serious than you thought about

withdrawing from NATO

is that a criticism

what would be happening in Ukraine right

right now

well I don't know but it wouldn't be

costing us money

um I don't know maybe Ukraine would have

just rolled over and Putin would own

Ukraine and we wouldn't have known the

difference

and we'd be getting our Ukrainian wheat

and Europe would be getting their stuff

and ukrainians uh corrupt government

would be putting out of business and

they would go back to sort of how things

used to be you were you know Russia

dominated that country

now that would be bad for the ukrainians

I mean I guess they would say that I

don't know maybe someone

but can we say that Trump was wrong

about withdrawing from NATO based on

what we know today

it's actually not obvious is it

you could certainly make the case that

it's a good thing we're in NATO it's the

only thing to stop Putin and that would

be a strong argument

but you could also make the case that

maybe none of this would look this way

if he had pulled that in NATO

and and Putin didn't feel threatened the

other possibility is that Putin wouldn't

feel threatened by having NATO on his

doorstep if America was not part of NATO

I mean everything would have looked

different wouldn't it

so I don't know

you know I'm not saying it would have

been a good idea to pull on a NATO

that's not my opinion

but it's not obvious which was the right

right way to go

which is not obvious

now I think that also when he talks

about pulling out of NATO that's that

could have been a negotiating position

as well

so he may have been really serious about

pulling out if the other countries

didn't step up with money

you get that right he could be totally

serious about pulling out if you don't

give us more money but then other

countries gave more money

so I don't know if he still was still as

adamant about pulling out but I think he

was serious if they didn't give more

money which I would have agreed with

actually I think you did have to

threaten to pull out

if they didn't cough up more money I

think that part was right

and then his age worried that he might

try to start a war with Iran or North

Korea because of his crazy ways

neither of those things were even close

he wasn't close to a war with Iran

it wasn't even close I don't think was

he

I didn't say anything that looked even

close it looked like he was just gonna

you know boycott them forever or

whatever

and what about North Korea

North Korea is one of his success

stories

he took the temperature away down in

North Korea I mean what was he going to

do nuke North Korea his friend

so the the books have completely run out

of material

uh

think about his legal troubles

correct me if I'm wrong but not counting

January 6 for which no indictments are

likely to come

say the experts

his biggest legal risk at the moment

correct me if I'm wrong because it might

be what I'm missing

is a civil case

against Trump the company not even

against Trump himself so not Criminal

and not even against Trump am I right

that's his biggest risk right now and

what is what is the power of the case

the entire case let me summarize it

the Trump company handled their

accounting the way all normal companies

do

that's it that's the case they did

things exactly the way normal companies

do

they they took the highest number they

thought they could get away with when

valuing it for loans

and then they got allowed

and then they paid back the loan and

then the bank was happy

but when they were doing their property

tax assessments you want the lowest

number you can get away with there

he went the opposite way

like everybody

like everybody

now he may have exaggerated or the Trump

company may have exaggerated more

than other companies do and that would

be worth discussing

but no matter what it is it's going to

be a civil fine

it's not exactly the crime of the

century to have exaggerated more when

you are the company that exaggerates

more and your entire business model is

built on your brand

right the Trump brand is the value of

the business

and so would you expect somebody whose

entire business model is about telling

people their brand is better than maybe

it is

this is a little business model so if he

did it consistently everywhere he told

everybody that he was better than

better than maybe somebody else thinks

I don't know

it might be a crime

likely you might be able to find a jury

who says yeah that's slightly a crime

that's a little bit more exaggerating

than I think you should have done so

maybe you should pay a fine

that is just business as usual for every

company every big company that gets

audited

do you think they get away from the

audit with nothing

do you think there's nothing just pick a

company just pick any company

pick Google do you think if Google got

audited they'd end up paying nothing

sometimes Maybe

but it's very common

that a you know traditional company gets

audited and pays a little extra money

because they exaggerated something

that's how it happens they exaggerate

stuff

or minimize things

yeah so just just think about the fact

that what the remaining complaints about

Trump

I've all just kind of dissolved so the

January 6th thing has turned into

nothing they're trying to breathe some

life into it with the you know the jaws

of life today I guess so they're trying

to make the nothing into something but

January 6 proved there was nothing

at least nothing of criminal and

dateable quality

now all of his other legal problems have

gone away except that trivial one that

really is nothing

what's left

what's left

anything

so he wasn't colluding with Russia

I mean what's left

the only thing left is how his

performance would be compared to Biden

now of course Democrats look at Biden

and say yeah he's killing it he's doing

great

and Republicans say the opposite

uh

although they have the lady who claimed

that he raped her in a dressing room in

a group in a store

Gene Carroll so I guess she's

doing her lawsuit again but nobody

thinks that's going anywhere right

that isn't that just a he said she said

situation that's the end of it

on Twitter today must said he would

discuss buying into Rumble oh did

that really happen

did that really happen

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holy what's the price of uh rum

right now

can somebody check the stock price so

rum was 12 yesterday or this morning

oh he was asked to and he declined oh

come on

all right he was asked about it and he

declined

what don't get me all excited about that

now

um you know the reason I'm excited is

because I'm an investor so I invested in

the locals platform

which got combined with Rumble so I

ended up accidentally with some rumble

stock which turned out to be

the the best accidental investment I

ever made

yeah rum is worth a shot nicely done

rum is worth a shot okay

well done

all right

um question

how many of you think that Elon Musk is

secretly bankrolling The Babylon bee

because if you notice that the Babylon

bees uh let's say their budget seems to

be way better than it used to be

the quality of their content and and

also the volume of it is suspiciously

very good

now it's not suspicious that they're

good

because you know they're good

but you know you saw Elon Musk met with

them obviously they got along they have

some kind of connection the founders of

the Babylon Bay now wouldn't that be the

number one most likely thing you would

ever expect

you'd expect him to secretly bankroll it

just because it's funny

if I had his money

nothing would have kept me from giving

some of it to the Babylon B

am I right

assuming that money is No Object which

is a fair assumption money is No Object

and you know he liked them and you know

you know he likes you know he likes

poking the bear

if they didn't get money from him

I would be amazed

I'll be amazed because that they're

they're uh quality of the operation just

went long way up

all right

um

you would like to have a reframe for how

to get women

do you think I can give

this gentleman a reframe that will help

him in his dating success

yes I can

yes I can

you're here's your reframe

you're trying to find a woman uh you're

trying to find the right woman

right and you're not finding right the

right connection stop looking for the

right woman

look for lots of people

you want to increase the number of

people you're exposed to not just

looking for dates just the total number

of people who you were exposed to

and that's how you increase your odds

because well I don't think it's

necessarily true there's somebody for

everybody

it probably isn't

but if your entire universe of people

you're looking to get laid is three

people

your odds are low

if suddenly you increase to 10 people

you have to have sex with a little bit

better but if you're not you know top 20

still low

if you know 100 people well now you're

talking

now you're talking there's somebody

who's going to be looking at you too so

the reframe is it's about numbers it's

not about necessarily just your quality

but

I'm going to make a prediction

whoever is it whoever it is who just

said you know you're having trouble

getting women

I'm going to make a prediction

that when you take your clothes off and

you look in the full-length mirror

you're not delighted

now I don't mean that as an insult just

a purely practical statement of cause

and effect

if you go into the gym

and you have a job

you're going to have some interest from

the other sex

I know it's not fair it's not a fair

world but get your body in shape

all right so here's uh

I might lose my power on the locals feed

because I'm I'm getting a low battery

message

so I can make that stop if I plug you in

instead of

instead of using the microphone I guess

oh

yeah I don't have I don't have the power

for that never mind oh I do hold on

all right locals you can lose the

microphone

but you're going to gain power

all right

so that's the uh

gaining Powers while you're here yeah

yeah it helps to be tall yeah but

I I don't know how many more times I can

give this advice

have you walked down the street lately

and looked at your competition

I mean seriously just go to the mall go

to any any public place and just look

around

see what you're competing with

what would it take to be in the top 10

percent

of fitness

for just the people you see around just

just look around what would it take to

be in the top 10 percent

not much

not much

top 10 percent of fitness

is the most achievable goal in the

United States

I can't even imagine anything easier

than that maybe falling off a bicycle

right maybe jumping in a mud puddle that

would be easier than but being in the

top 10 percent of Fitness just means you

tried

I don't even know if you could fail if

you tried you know I mean if you started

at 400 pounds it's going to take you a

while to get there

but unless you're a grossly you know

you've let things go too far

it's not hard to get back into the top

10 percent and why wouldn't you do that

it's the most controllable thing you can

do so control the hell out of what you

can control

yeah just control control everything you

can control so if you controlled you

know your career stuff by training

making sure you're trained enough you

can have a reasonable job and you can

control your Fitness and your diet

same thing

you're going to be in the top 10 percent

you missed the part about blowing up

pipes you're late

all right so that's my statement

uh

uh am I obsessed with Fitness that's

kind of body shaming too

well I guess you could put a negative

spin on everything but I'm I wouldn't

say I'm obsessed by it

oh yeah I guess I am yeah I'll actually

accept your I'll accept it usually I

don't like that obsessed by because I

had a little judgment in it but I think

I think in this case I am obsessed by it

and I should be

so I would like you to be obsessed by it

as well it's probably the best Obsession

I have

here here's another

hypothesis and reframe for you you ready

you don't have an option of not being

addicted

Let It Go

Let It Go you do not have an option of

not being addicted to something

I don't think

now of course people are different

there's going to be some somebody who's

the exception to everything so I'll give

you that but for the average person

you're going to be addicted to something

it's going to be sex it's going to be

food it's going to be exercise it's

going to be the outdoors it's going to

be your animals it's going to be your

friends something

you're gonna be addicted to something so

instead of saying I'll try to avoid all

addictive things you should go

aggressively at

at trying to make yourself as addicted

as possible

to things that will be good for you

so I'm addicted to exercise

intentionally

I've done everything I could do to make

myself addicted I've given myself treats

I make sure I do things I like I don't

push myself too hard I don't hurt myself

too badly I do everything you could do

to make it a rewarding literally

rewarding I do it at a time of day that

it's going to be the best it recharges

me you know I I track how I feel on days

I exercise versus I don't it's a big

difference that helps me do it I have a

trick for going to the gym when I don't

want to go to the gym I've taught you

this before put on your gym clothes

especially your your Footwear

and just having the right clothes on and

walking around I'm like ah well I might

as well at least go for a short run

you know I got my clothes on right so I

do everything I can do to addict myself

to a positive thing so Obsession

actually is close enough to the right

word

desire and seeking is human trait okay

can I do some push-ups for you

women look at men's shoes now there's a

good tip

whoa David Eagles just paid fifty

dollars to tell me that Narcan vending

machines are being installed in cities

hello here's what I'd like you to do

we're going to go save some lives you

ready

now I said this last night in my man

cave live stream but I'll do it again

for you today

one of the things that this experience

does meaning this live stream that many

of you come to every day is that it's

more than just some content I'm spraying

out

we have formed a an entity accidentally

sort of like an accidental organization

in which we can we have a collaborative

intelligence that can actually solve

some problems

and one of the problems with uh fentanyl

overdoses is bad information

so if you had better information you

would know for example that Narcan is

something you could get at your

drugstore

and if you had it nearby and somebody

was going into overdose situation and

you got there quickly I don't know

exactly how quickly it quickly is but

while they're still alive

and you administer it and I guess you

don't have to be an expert to administer

it it's pretty easy to do

the odds of them living are very good

it's actually very effective

now

the number of people that are watching

this so we've got let's say 3 000 live

here 600 over here probably 40 50 000

people will catch this live stream I'm

going to ask all of you to do the

following thing

research how you could get Narcan in

your state because every every State's

different

in my state you can have the pharmacist

write the prescription

I didn't even know that was a thing

right so uh Carey found that out and has

also spread that news through San Diego

State University

so because of this live stream

one active member uh went and figured

out how you get Narcan in California

just go ask for it and get a

prescription from the prescription from

the pharmacist not a doctor

and then she spread that information

into a a parent group as San Diego State

University

now the parent group was very active and

they were all they were all over it

because there had been a couple of

fentanyl scares just that week

so it was like fresh in the parents mind

oh God the people are dropping like

flies even where my kid goes to school

now they were I believe

some number of them will get

um will get it for their kid to have at

college or something now

there are also some apps

I think uh pulse point is one app that

calls for people who know first aid I

believe

but I think within that umbrella you

could call for people who who if you

sign up for it uh if you had Narcan

I believe you would get notified if

somebody had that app and saw somebody

having an overdose

because they'd be calling for anybody

who had first aid and you'd have that

I believe

so here's what I'm going to ask each of

you to do get educated on on how Narcan

is obtained Where You Are

and then tell your friends if you have a

place to spread the information just

spread the information because I don't

see the government doing this

correct me if I'm wrong Joe Biden should

go on television and say everybody

should get Narcan or have it available

it's different in each state so go

figure it out what it is in your state

and see and just self-organize

so I don't have mine yet but I'll I'll

get mine the way

Carrie suggested I'll go get mine

and then when I have it my my

neighborhood is organized so we have you

know text messaging lists and stuff so

I'll send out a what's that message to

my neighbors and I'll tell them that I

have it so if they if anybody in my

neighborhood has an overdose

there it is and I'm also going to tell

them that if I'm not home

that I can open my garage door with my

app and I'll just tell them where to get

it

so if somebody can get to my house and

five minutes and all of my neighbors can

they can have Narcan in five minutes

and maybe 10 minutes they're back to

administrate if that's in time and I

think I think you do have 10 minutes

does anybody know enough about this to

know

how often do you have enough warning

that you can get to the Narcan do you

know how much time you normally have

there

I mean everything's different right

but you're talking about just a few

minutes

so you need it close

now I believe that if we do what what

some of you will do because I know you

take it seriously some of you will do

this and I think we can save some lives

I believe that this live stream

literally will save lives

and

you know I'm going to act on it I hope

you do too

all right

how do you know if someone is overdosing

on fentanyl I don't know you should

research that as well usually you know

because they've been taking opioids and

somebody usually knows they've been

taking them

and correct me if I'm wrong it's for

opioid overdose not just fentanyl right

can somebody

give me a fact check on that

is the Narcan for yeah it's for so you

don't need to know it's Fentanyl you

need to know that opioids were involved

or failing in that you need to know that

they're a person who might do opioids

and you don't know what else they've

done

so I think you might want to administer

it in some cases if you're not sure

but again I'm not your doctor so don't

believe anything I tell you about that

so that's what you need to look at and

it probably says something on the Box

about when to use it right I would

imagine it comes with instructions

and uh Carrie Chabot is the one you need

to thank for spreading that message

yeah

all right

and then I think there's also something

being contemplated about the Good

Samaritan problem

that you would have legal liability if

you help somebody and things go wrong

no problem giving it to someone who does

not need it we have we have the somebody

who seems to know what they're talking

about

right so you don't need to worry about

if it's the wrong time to give it you

don't need to know if for sure it was

fentanyl it could have been in the

opioid

and if they're still alive

give it to them

right I guess that's the I guess that's

the bottom line

uh

it's not looking good in Florida

so does anybody how many of you are in

Florida

and uh are you looking at a category

five is that what I heard

and you're not leaving

now for category five do you do you do

you stay

do you stay home if it's category five

grab a surfboard yeah

wow

Virginia also has training good

so it'll be a four or five right

so the Santa says to hunker down

uh

basically a CAT5 so you're close to five

what if somebody wants to commit suicide

by a fentanyl

well

I don't know do you really need an

answer for that I mean that's sort of a

depends the situation depends on the

situation but I can't imagine that you

wouldn't try to bring it back

all right

um

you won't get in trouble if you call for

help even if you're on opioids yourself

that's true

that's true yeah if you didn't know that

the uh the Emergency Services they're

not going to arrest you

yeah they're not calling the police

because you have opioids in your system

that's not happening because they know

that that would make everything worse

that's

they're pretty good about that I don't

think you need to worry about that I've

never heard of anybody being in trouble

because the ambulance picked them up

that's not a thing

I wouldn't want to have any on me

but even if you had it on you

I feel like the medical community would

not be turning you over to the police

I don't think so

what do you think I mean there'll always

be an exception but I can't see the

Medics even if they saw some illegal

drugs

I think that they would just sort of you

know leave them in your apartment when

they took you

I just don't think they're taking those

with them

uh

all right

yeah the cops do come but I don't think

the cops are arresting you for having

some possession if you're in the I mean

if you have a user number of pills and

you're having an overdose I don't think

they're arresting you

I don't think so

but I I suppose I could be wrong

don't know everything could be different

all right uh

do what presidents should say Cass you

know I I always find it

obnoxious when people do the uh here's

the letter

that the President should write to make

everything better

and then you read it and you're like ah

no not really that's not really the

letter they should write it just feels

like

telling somebody like Trump what to say

specifically is kind of obnoxious

saying it generally like you know this

would be a good phrase to use then that

makes sense

dear Putin if I were your mother right

Khloe mature said to vote Democrat and

the Hurricanes will disappear did you

see Don Lemon trying to get the NASA guy

to blame climate change for the

hurricane he couldn't get the NASA guy

to to bite any one hurricane could be

attributed to climate change

now he did you know the NASA guy didn't

poo poo climate change

but uh Don Lemon wanted to make it

political and the NASA guy is just like

it's a hurricane

he just wasn't having any of the

politics it was funny oh it was uh it

wasn't NASA it was a national

NOAA

National what

organization of blah blah

uh up

all right well I guess we don't believe

any data anyway

I'm gonna go do something else

and uh

I think we saved some lives today

what do you think

yeah let's go save some lives

and get your uh

get your mug Erica what's the latest bug

count

how many mugs

that's right you probably don't have

that right now I'll follow up with that

later all right that's all for today

yeah it was a lot light news day

it's all you needed today that's all you

needed you didn't need anything else all

right

it's hit on your ex day okay

response to Tim pool and Civil War

um well I don't know that it requires a

response but I guess the question would

be if I thought that Republicans would

be hunted

why would I think there would not be a

civil war

and I just don't think that those two

are very close I think that the way the

Civil War will be is people will vote

right as long as a vote is coming up

you're not going to have a civil war

yeah you might have to worry like if

somebody didn't like the vote if it went

poorly things could get tense

but I don't see any situation

where a civil war happens two years

before an election

in the United States

do you especially when the other team

looks like it's ahead in the polls

nobody's going to start a hot War when

they could wait two years and just vote

in the other guy

or other woman right

and I I think you just have to remind

that remind people of that and they'd be

like okay

yeah so individuals will def and

politicians will hunt Republicans

but that's a long way from the whole

country wants to you know go to war with

each other there's nothing like that

Brewing

foreign

wasn't meant like with a hunting license

and an Elmer fun hat now exactly

what is the diameter of the bottom of

the mug I don't know but it's a 20 ounce

mug

it's similar to the one that you see me

use in the

you know when I do the simultaneous sip

what's that uh you're not telling the

truth and you're saying things that are

killing people

what

what am I saying that's killing people

what

all right

um

if you need a link to the mug see my

Twitter feed this morning it's near the

top

all right

uh that's all for now YouTube I'll talk

to you tomorrow

oh I helped you in your last

relationship with the reframe good bye

for now