Episode 1951 Scott Adams - What Do You Think Of Anonymity On Twitter? And Lots More About The News

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happen but it doesn't seem to have happened yet is there going to be a point where Black America turns Brittany Greiner into a hero has that happened is Brittany Greiner seen as a hero to Black Americans because you know there's sort of a trend that's sub-optimal and the trend is can we please have some role models who did not just break a law now I don't think she should have been in the penal colony you know what what happened to her was obviously a tragedy and completely unfair but we got to be careful let's maybe Elevate Heroes who haven't not recently broken any laws that would be cool that would be cool okay I think I said this before but sometimes what I like things I just say them twice uh I I keep thinking back about the Meltdown of the crypto exchange FDX and how many people celebrities and rich people had believed that they were real before they melted down and one of them was Kevin O'Leary who was famous for being on Shark Tank and I swear to God just before this FTX thing melted down I was looking at Kevin Leary O'Leary stuff on social media because he's very interesting and I was thinking to myself I was actually feeling a little bit jealous and the jealousy specifically was how does this one guy keep making all the right choices like Investments like what does he know that I don't know right is there something some some extra facility does he have an extra speed just something he can do that I can't do but knowing that he lost millions of dollars and was even a paid spokesperson for the FDX uh thing I really feel like I would not have fallen for that like I don't know you know somebody offered me to be a spokesperson I don't know maybe I would have said yes if it was a big paycheck or something but I'm feeling a little Superior now I'm not saying for sure that I could have outperformed Kevin O'Leary on this investment I don't know that but am I wrong that it feels good when people who look like they're you know almost Godlike in their abilities do something as ordinary as that like that's just an ordinary mistake it's very I I honestly find it motivating in a weird way the reason I found it motivating is to know that no matter what level you are successful you you're still ordinary you're just still an ordinary person who can make ordinary mistakes so to me it makes success seem more approachable I've said the same thing about people who meet famous people there are two of my co-workers who were in cubicles next to me when I got famous doing uh Dilbert and I was a published author at the time and so my co-workers got to see me go from you know guy in a cubicle who was doing no better than they were to something that looked like more successful soon after two of the people who were you know actually adjacent cubicles at one point also wrote and published their own books now I'm positive that they they took that challenge on both of them they were both successful because they saw that I'm an ordinary person and I did it and that and I think just hanging around me and saying okay he's not really special if he can write a book I could probably write a book too and so they wrote books and they both got published and they both got paid so it was absolutely true they said there's nothing that special about you Scott I can do that too and then they actually did it they literally just did it they just did what I did and it worked now I'm positive that having that kind of association with somebody you think is special but then you find out how you know ordinary they are I'm positive that that helps you succeed I'm positive because because how could you not think well maybe I can do it too this person is looking pretty ordinary all right um inflation might be coming down according to Constance Hunter um on a tweet apparently used car prices are falling fairly rapidly I assume that has to do everything to do with the supply chain and because there have been waves of layoffs we expect that maybe salaries will not be increasing as much as before gases gas is starting to come down so if we get automobiles we're only talking used ones but probably applies to new ones if we can get automobiles gas and paychecks not increasing quickly you'd you'd be in much better shape but I think there's something bigger happening in my opinion one of the things that makes America at least so far unbeatable is that we have self-correcting systems that self-correct I'm not sure that other systems are as flexible to let their systems self-heal so let me give you an example as I just said inflation seems to be correcting like that's just our economic system our transportation system for goods was broken but that breaking revealed all of its weaknesses and now I think it's being re-engineered from the ground up software AI all kinds of different things are happening so our our Delivery Systems are being re-engineered our manufacturing this being completely revamped you know we're moving it out of China we're adding you know 3D printers and stuff completely the self-healing system and there's a lot of other stuff like Twitter is Twitter is healing at the moment wouldn't you say um I would say that our election systems are poor but a lot of a lot of work has been done in the last few years to try to shore things up and get more witnesses and stuff like that so I don't think our election system is where it needs to be but it's definitely in the process of self-correcting it's in the process I think our nuclear energy industry is self-corrected it went from a negative thing to probably the only thing that will save us I see ESG that got a little wild but it looks like it's being pulled back ESG is self-correcting um and probably there are probably a number of other things you could you could mention same kind of thing now what do you think of that hypothesis do you think that China can self-correct as quickly as the United States can like all of our systems have that quality that we're willing to shoot our own babies I think that that might be uniquely Americans that we're willing to execute our own babies to build a better baby and we'll do it tomorrow like we're not going to hesitate so I feel like that's almost a permanent Advantage we have now I would also say that wherever you thought America was relative to all the other countries prior to the pandemic I believe that we've pulled away would you agree with that whatever you think of America at the moment I believe we pulled away from all the other countries I think we're by far the strongest country now I think I think China and Russia are kind of kind of struggling a little bit so I'm not saying we're perfect we still certainly have our problems but I feel like we did pull away and that being the best of the group has its advantages we might see some really long-term advantages coming out of you know the tragedy of the of the of the pandemic um that's what I think so tech companies are downsizing as you know a lot of big companies announced big layoffs and I saw on Machiavelli's underbelly account that apparently California tech companies are hiring a Consultants from the outside to do Dei adverse impact analysis in other words to make sure that when they do their layoffs that is not hurting one demographic group unfairly you know that nobody's being targeted so that'll work pretty well right what could go wrong do you see any any way that that could cause any unintended side effects of any kind now correct me if I'm wrong they have painted themselves in the corner in which they have two choices and tell me if I'm wrong right because I might be wrong maybe there's some other choice they either fire people you know based on business needs which almost certainly almost certainly would look unfair to somebody would you agree I don't know who it would look unfair to exactly but if you just did it based on what the business needs it's going to be a semi-random process that surely will affect some people more than others with no intention to do that wouldn't you agree so if they did if they ignore the diversity thing they're going to create a problem and they'll come back and bite them in the ass but suppose they go the other way and they follow the Consultants um the consultant recommendations of how to fire people in a let's say a demographically fair way according to them doesn't that guarantee they have to fire their best employees I'm not wrong about that right have they not created a system the tech companies themselves have they not created their own system that guarantees that the very next thing they have to do is fire their better employees to make sure that you've got some equality now when I say better that's not a racial comment let me clarify for historical reasons which we could debate there are fewer minorities in Tech so I'm only making a math argument I'm not talking about the quality of any people I'm not talking about anybody's potential you're not talking about anybody's genetic makeup it's nothing about that it's just math you know the math is that if you need to get rid of a lot of people you're probably going to have to start getting rid of some qualified people to make sure your diversity works out because you can't really have two top priorities right you could have a top priority to have good profits or you could have a top priority to make sure your diversity is managed in a socially correct way but you can't do both you can't do both so that's that's the choice I'll have to make now I suppose they're just covering their butts by having an outside service bless whatever they decide to do if that's all they're doing well that makes sense it uh notice that he doesn't dare mention IQ I'm going to take this challenge so over on the locals platform this is a criticism or to commenting me Scott's trying to couch this at language other than qualifications notice that he doesn't dare mention IQ or who would have to explain why the Asians have the most white privilege does IQ have anything to do with this topic it does not it does not no you think it does but it doesn't because the people have already been hired right their IQs You could argue made a difference before you you could argue that had something to do with how they got the job in the first place but once they're there it's no longer a consideration because they've been working right if somebody got hired with an IQ of 70 but they were the best employee in the company who cares I mean obviously that wouldn't happen but who cares right so their IQ becomes effectively a zero consideration as soon as they've performed would you agree with that that at the time you're getting rid of them IQ is no longer any kind of a variable now I will go further so so what you're arguing is that something on the front end you know according to your racist view of things your racist view is that that's what's causing a lower percentage of certain people in some categories but it's unrelated to what they do when they're downsizing in my opinion unrelated um and by the way um let me say this in case you haven't heard it before there are many Geniuses who are white but I don't get credit for that you get that right the fact that other people who have similar melanin the two I do if they got a Nobel Prize they don't share that with me because I'm white so the fact that other white people have high IQs I know this is a surprise has no impact on my IQ not at all it doesn't affect It event so it doesn't matter if groups have different IQs because I'm not a group and you're not a group so I mean obviously differences can explain some you know General differences in society of course again all right but it doesn't help you it's not about you it's just an interesting statistic Senator Tom Cotton continues to be awesome I guess the CEO of Kroger was talking to Congress recently last week and trying to give support to do a merger and I guess the Democrats are concerned about them having too much power Kroger wants to merge with Albertsons I think and Tom Cotton said to the CEO of Kroger quote I've cautioned them for years that if they silence conservatives and center-right voters if they discriminate against them in their company they probably shouldn't come and ask Republican Senators to carry water for them whenever our Democratic friends want to regulate them or block their mergers he continued and then he finished with this I'll say this I'm sorry that's happening to you best of luck oh that was so based best of luck yeah you've been you've been our people every day you know our people would be Republicans in in his way of saying things you've been your people every day and then you're coming and asking us for a favor good luck with that hey good luck I wish you well now I think the specific thing was that some I guess some Kroger employees were fired because they were unwilling to wear a an apron there was some pro-lgbtq message so I think that's what he was he was basing his comments on um I would like to once again praise CNN can you handle it CNN did something there that just requires a compliment I know I know you hate it I hate it but but I feel like I can't be an honest broker unless I unless I call the balls and Strikes the way I see them here's something that CNN did they ran a story about a quote a Florida lawmaker who was accused of misusing covid relief funds and that's that's how they presented it a Florida lawmaker who is accused of misusing coveted relief frauds do you see it do you see why I want to compliment them it was a Republican it was a Republican yeah you thought I was gonna you thought that they were hiding you thought they were hiding the party affiliation because it was a Democrat nope nope they actually told the story straight they told the story about an individual who did something bad and then later in the Bobby of the story they identified him as Republican perfect perfect what did the other Publications do Republican accused of stealing money right that's what the other Publications did Republican who once I think he was also he was behind the don't say gay thing right now correcting the frog is that not worth a compliment was that not worth a compliment you tell me no somebody says no well I would like to encourage what I would like to see more of and I like that they told me what his party was but I like that that wasn't the lead because that that made it a human interest story about a crowd and I think that's what it was I don't believe that his Republican credentials are what caused him to do a crime it was actually the Lesser important part all right nobody likes it when I compliment CNN noted all right let's talk about Dr.

Jordan Peterson who's um talking about the downside of anonymous Twitter users now here's what I learned whenever you introduce a new topic let's say new-ish yeah because it's not brand new but one that has not been completely you know struggled over for years because on most topics everybody has a hardened opinion and it's not going to change but when you have some kind of a you know a newish kind of a thing and the question is should we have Anonymous should Anonymous accounts be on Twitter and should you be able to block them Etc um and the quality of people's comments when I tweeted about it was insanely bad it's amazing to watch if if people have not been assigned their opinions yet so watch them try to come up with their an opinion independently it was like a sad and it's an awful thing number one a lot of people said I asked the question so I tweeted and I asked the question what did Anonymous Twitter users have they ever solved the problem so so my my tweet was have any Anonymous Twitter users ever solved a problem that maybe would not have been solved otherwise and what did people say they said well it's a good thing we had Anonymous people um doing XYZ which had nothing to do with Twitter now do you all get the being anonymous in a completely different context has nothing to do with this right there's no argument that says in a completely different domain anonymity is either good or bad you get that that has nothing to do with the Twitter conversation it just reminds you of it so be careful of things that just remind you of the topic right the fact that other people talk about anonymity in a completely different context is just something you're reminded of that's not part of your argument your argument is about Twitter specifically and that's it if you can't make the argument about Twitter specifically it doesn't matter what somebody else did that's telling you nothing and now if your example about something else brought up an important point that would also be valid in this domain of Twitter anonymity then that's good but I didn't see anybody do that I just people said well it's good in a completely different way so therefore it's good on Twitter that's not an argument that's actually a nothing that's like noise there's no logical thread there at all and and to see how many people went that route was just like distressing like you really can't tell that arguing a completely different topic doesn't help like there are a lot of people who can't tell the difference between staying on the topic and arguing a completely different one like that would help I know it's weird but don't do that don't do that the second thing that happened is if you ask a question on Twitter people assume that they have heard your opinion that didn't happen I asked a question because I don't have a fully formed opinion I would like to see some examples of where anonymity helped Twitter I'm not saying they don't exist I didn't say that I said can you give me some examples because if I had some examples I could say oh yeah that's a good example where anonymity helped the world and then I would say okay those are some good examples I'll weigh that against whatever cost it is and they'll have the costs and the benefits but people said you bastard you why do you hate anonymity to which I say uh where did that come from and then there were other people who had to explain to me why anonymity is good for the anonymous people did I did you think I was confused about that did anybody need to mansplain to me why anonymity is sometimes chosen by people isn't that literally known by a hundred percent of all people I believe babies are born with that knowledge like why why are you why are you explaining that to me and people thought that that helped let me explain why people would not like to lose their jobs over their opinion now I get that I get that that's why I put it in my tweet I literally said I understand why people want anonymity and what did people tweet to me Scott let me explain to you why people want anonymity that's my usual experience on the social media all right um let me offer one useful suggestion Maybe because I feel as though we're limiting ourselves in the prison of two ideas to quote a Greg guffheld point the prison of two ideas I don't think Anonymous or not anonymous is the right question because there might be another category and here's what I mean if I see somebody who's completely Anonymous and their profile has no picture of anything and no bio profile information that's what I call like totally anonymous those Anonymous people I I'd like to get rid of from my experience there are other Anonymous people who identify as medical doctors and but I don't know who they are in real life very useful I love hearing an anonymous medical doctor give a specially contrarian views very useful an anonymous engineer very useful love it an anonymous lawyer love it yeah when somebody says I I'm a lawyer and here's my opinion yes please please give me Anonymous legal opinions from people who are actually lawyers now of course there's some question about whether they're really lawyers right but usually you can tell right I don't see imposters doing it really so I would like some kind of a middle middle ground between Anonymous and not anonymous because if you say you're a doctor you have given a little bit of a clue to your identity right and some people could piece together enough Clues and maybe figure out that you are this person they suspected so so it's not risk-free to say what your job is or to say what your education level is but here's the main point um and I I won't back down from the following statement because it's universally understood to be true all communication depends on an assumption that the listener makes about the speaker's intentions correct I need all of you to agree with this before we go on all communication depends for you to hear it correctly you have to have an assumption about the speaker right if you assume the speaker is your enemy that you're probably going to say it's a lie if you think the speaker is a salesperson you're probably going to think it's at least hyperbole if the person is your best friend that you know has your good you know your good what's best for you in mind then you think it might be wrong or it might be right but at least it's well intentioned right a hundred percent of how you process something goes through the filter of who is talking now what happens when the talk of the speaker is anonymous here's what people get wrong you think you can evaluate an anonymous comment you can't you can't it's just blah blah blah an anonymous comment is blah blah blah because if you don't know who it's coming from you can't assume any intention and therefore there's nothing but noise it's literally pollution okay it's just pollution so that's that I and have you heard anybody make that point that if you don't know who's speaking you can't understand what they said as anybody said that I've not heard anybody say that and to me that's probably the most important point so here's here's what I'd like to say I'd like to see an option that I could Mass limit uh completely Anonymous accounts or if I wanted to limit people who are semi-anonymous meaning they've told you something about their credentials but that's all you know you just know their credentials so I'd like to know if I'm talking to a student and I'd like to know if I'm talking to a professional because I would react completely differently depending who I'm talking to right now it would have to be optional so you would have to be able to choose whether you gave up any credential information or not but I would like to be able to choose whether I have access I I'm exposed to those people now that still leaves one gigantic kind of benefit that Anonymous people bring that's unaddressed and we wouldn't want to lose it and that is there are some completely Anonymous people who really need to stay that way because maybe some of the things they say if they told you their job you might know who they were right because there's some Anonymous things that only some people know about so if you do the job that kind of would narrow it down too much so there is a value there's a real value for completely Anonymous accounts so how do you look how do you maintain that value because they do have something to say how do you maintain that value now nobody has a great answer for that but some people say um Scott Scott you can just block the people you don't want to see so stop imposing your will upon us I'm not doing that by the way you haven't even heard my opinion I'm not opposing it on anybody so and the reason you haven't heard my opinion is that I don't I'm not fully informed I don't have quite a final opinion on this I have maybe 75 of an opinion and people say to me Scott why don't you just block the people you don't like and leave us alone like the rest of us are okay if you're a and just block the people you don't want to see and done you know why that doesn't work right do you all know why that doesn't work yeah for the larger accounts it's it would be endless and the the motivated trolls literally just take their other account and come back now if you don't have a big account you've never seen that before but I block people and they come back in five minutes blocking doesn't make any difference the motivated trolls just use their other troll account or start another one in five minutes or something but they come right back right is that you're a rich hire somebody you can't hire somebody to block people based on your opinion that's not a job so here's the other thing that people get wrong uh when Jordan Peterson is talking about I think he's stopping short of giving you his preferred um you know final solution I won't say final solution I think he's not giving you his preferred solution I think he's sort of raising the topic because it's a good topic that so I would not give him trouble on that but I will add my own uh Global Dr.

Jordan Peterson criticism because apparently um that's that's a popular thing to do now does everybody notice that criticizing Jordan Peterson is it's like a really popular thing now a lot of people who had maybe been more Pro Peterson or he's starting to to wear a thin and I wonder why I wonder why and I've got some hypotheses number one there are a lot of people such as myself who could accurately be called the poor man's Jordan Peterson meaning that I talk about a lot of overlapping topics with him but I don't have his credentials or his his success or faith so I'm completely aware of the fact that there's a jealousy component right it's really hard to look at him like just just cleaning up I mean he's really making a a big you know impression on reality it's hard to watch that if you wish you could be doing the same thing but you're you're like an aunt compared to an elephant right the ant doesn't feel real good about the elephant so as a member of the ant class I get that because because I have to fight it myself like I feel myself getting into that petty jealousy kind of mode in my mind but I'm also aware of it so I try to I try to be bigger than that but it's hard so some of it is just as successful now I get the same thing right people who are less successful than I am are really angry at me so you've watched me on Twitter probably that probably 75 of my most vocal critics actually identified themselves as professional writers who are all less successful than I am coincidence is it a coincidence that the people were professionally in the same field but less successful are all really mad at me boy are they mad at what I said yesterday boy they need to take me down a rung and of course they always say I used to like him can I can I make a little aside when you're criticizing famous people I'll put myself in that category for this conversation when you start out your criticism with I used to like them but foreign your credibility just goes right through the floor it just goes right through the floor because usually the person hasn't changed that much usually it's something about you you know so anyway that's just a personal thing but um I would say that uh in my opinion Jordan Peterson has uh one flaw according to me right and it's not like I'm the I'm not the Arbiter of flaws and people were smarter than I am so I'm always a little cautious he's definitely smarter than me would you all agree can I get a yes Jordan Peter is smarter than I am right so when you criticize people who are smarter than you and also way better informed way better informed you should have a little bit of humility right a little bit of humility when you do that I I do have one criticism and I don't even know if he would disagree with it you know actually if I if I said it to him in person I suspect he would he would take it as a semi-valid comment even if he didn't agree with it it goes like this especially on his relationship and marriage advice and then some other categories I think he designs advice for people like him do you know what I mean so when he talks about marriage being you know the the best model Etc I think he's right for people like him and when he talks about the uh the anonymous users on Twitter I feel like he's talking about what the experience is like for people like him and now I'm you know a lesser version of people like him because I have you know a lot of followers and I can so therefore I I get that like what he says I'd like to be free from the anonymous people or have the choice to be to turn them off I get that because they're a gigantic pain in the ass but I can also imagine that a small account wouldn't have any problem with them at all because they bear you know the the trolls don't really visit the smaller accounts as much so they might say well I like having the anonymous people they don't bother me let's just keep it the way it is and I don't know if Peterson is quite incorporating in his opinion how unique his position is that the trolls are only coming after people with big accounts so it's a whole different problem so whatever whatever is the right solution for people like him it would be a stretch to say that's the right solution for people who are not like him in the important ways all right so uh it's impossible for me to block things here are some examples that people said where maybe Twitter did help do you think that Twitter's Anonymous users helped make Bitcoin succeed yes or no Twitter's Anonymous users did they make Bitcoin succeed this is an argument that I heard today I think no I think no but I understand yes so I understand why you could say yes so I'm not going to debate it but I don't quite see it right it might be true so I'm making a fine point here I'm not disagreeing I'm saying I I don't see the argument but maybe maybe how about the uh dissemination of any Wikileaks stuff do you think Wikileaks being an anonymous organization do you think that that that benefited the world and Twitter allowing them to be anonymous help that I think I think yes I think that's a good example yeah that's probably a good example of where Anonymous Twitter users had some benefit I'll give you that one so this is why I have informed a final opinion on this because I feel like we just maybe need better choices they handle more of our concerns our current choices leave out some concerns I definitely think that Anonymous people on Twitter have some some value and knowing the examples I think helps us a little bit um so Elon Musk tweeted this he was talking about Jack Dorsey he was actually responding to Jack um and Jack Dorsey was saying that all of the Twitter files should be released that we shouldn't be deciding what people see and what they don't everything that's on the right topic should all be released now what do you think about the fact that the ex-ceo of Twitter says everything should be released what does that tell you about his own potential let's say liability well he's not worried about it yeah clearly he doesn't have anything to hide now here's what musk says in response he says most important data was hidden and then parenthetically from you too in other words musk is saying that the prior CEO of of Twitter did not have the information that musk has because it was hidden from both of them but musk found out right and someday and some may have been deleted so we don't know how much has been deleted and can't be recovered but everything we find will be released so musk agrees now I would like to take credit for uh the best prediction in this domain for a couple of years or more I've been saying I do not believe and I've been saying this very aggressively I do not believe that Jack Dorsey is aware of what the staff is doing and I don't think he has a way to find out ah I think the only reason that musk found out is that he was willing to fire anybody who gives him an ambiguous answer to a question and only the new that's something only the new guy can do I'll say guy generically right uh only the new guy can fire you because your answer wasn't convincing like that's that's new guy energy the the existing person has to treat everybody as complete individuals right you have to look at how long they've worked there and all of your other interactions and everything so it's hard for the existing you know Legacy CEO to be enough of a hard ass to find out what's going on that's a tough job and I think one of the reasons this is just speculation I don't know this for sure I think one of the reasons that Jack was so supportive of Elon Musk taking over is that even Jack knew that he was in a let's say a disadvantaged situation for running the company plus he had two companies right so that's that's also a factor so I think that you know musk has more than two so maybe it wasn't a factor but uh I think the new the new CEO has an advantage that the leg the founder CEO can never match and I think that's what Elon brought I think he also stirred the past so much that it just allowed maybe some things to to Bubble Up because you know the whole Jim Baker thing only happened because musk stirred the pot otherwise you never would have even heard that he was working there it was only because Elon said let's make some trouble with these Twitter files that like brought up all the other stuff so uh my claim that the CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey was not the one who was The Mastermind behind any bad things that happened in terms of suppression Etc and I'm I still believe that now we could we could find out differently I mean anything could happen but at the moment would you give me that that was the best the best prediction the most unlikely prediction and also the best one about this topic now one of my critics said this morning uh Scott you never admit that you got the Covington kids hoax wrong for all of one day I tell you that all the time I tell you I got the you know Trump's vice president pick wrong I'm pretty sure that when I claim victory I I often try to you know tell you that I which ones I got wrong because you can learn as much from the ones I get wrong as once I get right because there's a pattern to both right the ones I get right are because I had some special information either I knew something about persuasion or in the case of Twitter I personally interacted with Dorsey and I I didn't think there was any chance he was lying to me right because I'm pretty good at pretty good at seeing if people if people are weasels and he doesn't have any weasel energy whatsoever that's the weirdest backhand compliment I've ever given he has no weasel energy like you you can tell weasel energy when you see it can't you like even if they're not lying to you at the moment you say to yourself but they could lie to me like they they have that potential maybe not now but they have that potential yeah SPF he has that potential but Jack doesn't look or have that energy at all at all like it's just completely absent so yeah if I'm wrong about that I'm the worst judge of character in the world but but I don't think I'm wrong um some shocking information about the mental health of teens the CDC found that 45 of high school students were so persistently sad or hopeless in 2021 they were unable to engage in regular activities almost one in five seriously considered suicide almost one in five and um and nine percent surveyed tried to actually do it they tried to actually take their lives so the conclusion of this is that the pandemic increased teen suicide correct is that the conclusion thank you thank you over on locals a well a well-educated person just said what was the Baseline do you know what the Baseline was the same yeah it's the Baseline now it is it is higher all right let me let me be more technically accurate it's a little bit higher but it's not shockingly higher it's about a little bit higher like you would expect right it didn't double it right like not nine percent attempting it is actually Baseline I mean it's hideous that it's Baseline but it is it is yeah um when I when I first read that one in was it um one in five seriously considered suicide do you know what my first impression was that seemed low I thought that was lower than the Baseline you tell me only one in five teenagers consider suicide really just one in five I don't believe that I think it's at least two and five I think it's at least double but that but this gets down to the definition of consider doesn't it you know I I gave a whole description of what that means and in my in my view I literally consider it every day and then I completely rule it out completely rule it out so am I considering suicide if you say that out loud yeah you're going to be immediately put into the put into the channel of people who look like they're going to do it any minute because nobody's going to take a chance on that but I don't know how do kids answer the question did you consider it well suppose they thought about it for a little while and then ruled it out if you ask them if they considered it are they going to say yes are they going to say I thought about it and then I ruled it out does it does a kid know that that would be called considering it I don't know I think one in five is low now if they said you know how serious were you did you make an actual plan to do it and then then that would get a whole different kind of answer all right so uh what percent of Americans escorting to Rasmussen what percent of Americans believe that the vaccinations were uh were a good idea what do you think um well let me put it this way and by the way I'm going to do a demonstration for for anybody who's new to this live stream I'm gonna you're so good I'm going to do a demonstration of how smart and how psychic my audience is I can ask a question that they do not know the answer to and watch watch how well they they perform just watch this according to Rasmussen uh what percentage of the voting adults say that vaccines and I'm talking about the um the covert vaccine what percentage of adults say that they are very effective at preventing infection preventing the spread four percent ah look at you oh you're so smart yeah it's 26 percent but I think there's a one percent uh at least margin of error there yeah all right how about I'm going to try again um how many Democrats this is just Democrats voters uh how many all are quote not at all worried about any harm from the vaccination itself how many Democrats are completely unworried about the vaccination might have some side effects wow uh 26 percent are not worried at all 26 percent uh some of you are answering the you know the obvious the the 70 75 yeah but uh congratulations again I I feel that uh your your Brilliance and genius has exceeded only by your sex appeal uh if I may say that and again uh how many of you thought it was ridiculous the first time you heard me say that in any poll 25 percent of the public will get the wrong answer reliably yeah you thought I was just like spitballing on that didn't you you didn't think it was going to be so consistent did you all right um and how about reparations what percentage of the uh let's see let's say of the total public now let's do it by uh party what percent of the Democrats and this this will be harder to guess what percent of Democrats support reparations what do you think the answer is 60 percent this is of the the population in general sixty percent how many of you knew that was that about why you imagined I'm not sure I thought about it too much but I don't know not too surprising all right um 36 percent of Voters support the California plan uh you know the Californian plan for reparations the California plan for reparations is you take California a state that never had slavery and then the state that never had slavery will be taxing a little bit extra the people who are not involved in any way with slavery and then they'll be transferring that to the people who were also never slaves so that's the plan but some of those people might be related to the legacy of slavery and so that would be their argument for reparations and um yeah as you might imagine it's it's divided by party affiliation just like you think it would be all right uh opinion person Liz peek wrote on Fox website how many of you would agree with this opinion I'll just read this one paragraph so Liz says the midterms were a referendum on the increasing unpopularity of Mr.

Trump so she's saying the the midterms were not about the Democrats it was mostly about voting against Trump that's her take and she says yes he still has a lock on some declining portion of the Republican party and yes Trump always the Trump always voters May refuse to back anyone else ever that is unfortunate because Trump's greatest achievement was bringing hundreds of thousands maybe millions of people into our political process for the first time now the problem is that she thinks that Trump is now a drag on Republicans because Trump won't bring in new Republicans but he might bring in more heat from people who want to make sure he doesn't get back in here what do you think do you think Trump is now A Plus or a negative to Republicans in general and she's riffing off the uh the fact that Herschel Walker lost if Herschel Walker had won that would have been a stronger argument for Trump I I think I'm interested just that the argument has been made meaning that Fox News carried this opinion piece that's you know unambiguously anti-trump and so that's where Fox News is which means that's where Murdoch is um no I'm not supporting him is that a surprise I was just asked if I were supporting Trump you all know I'm not right yeah I don't support them for age uh I don't support him as the best person who could do the job yeah I don't support him on fentanyl I don't think he did a good job there uh he couldn't even get Tick Tock banned yeah so there's there's lots of stuff I I'm generally in favor of uh uh kind of uh a seesaw between the two parties I I think that one party gets in there and does some good things especially for their base the next party gets in there does a few other things but the things that are good for everybody tend to last you know that it's a messy process but I kind of like going back and forth a little bit a little bit I think it helps all right um there is a really interesting article if you look at the timcast website you can find it and apparently after yay and Fuentes were on uh Tim's show uh Tim pool show and after he walked out he left the interview early one of the Tim pool Associates there followed yay and got got a lot more interaction with him and then actually met with him in LA and interviewed a bit length and then talks about it here's here's the two things you need to know about it number one it's a really long piece and it's the longest piece I've read completely to land in a long time because it never got boring and I kept I kept waiting pretty much everything I read I skim pretty much everything right but I didn't skim it because it was so well written so kudos to the writer so it's just good writing right so if you want to just see good writing read it for that because it's so rare and just tell yourself how long you wrote how long you stayed with the article without without bailing out I'll give the name of the the writer was a Shane Cashman who apparently uh is or was a professor at some point so it's somebody who's got some good communication skills yes uh he was raised uh culturally Jewish I think I think his mother was Jewish he says which I think technically technically makes you Jewish I don't think he's like an observing uh type all right so here are some of the things that came out of that that I thought were interesting number one yea does not appear crazy at all so somebody spent some you know good time with him when he was not performing because you know when he's on an interview he's performing right but when you see him completely outside the public domain you get to see if he's crazy and there wasn't any so he spent enough time with him to find out if any crazy was coming out of them and there wasn't that actually uh that yea's sort of approach does have an internal logic to it and you could love it or hate it but it's not crazy it's not crazy now it takes some explaining how that's not crazy but there's one part that I just loved yea is completely aware that his communication director Fuentes is the most disliked person by one of the most disliked persons on the internet who you wouldn't even want to interact with right now that's not my opinion that would be sort of like an internet opinion of him which I'm sure he'd agree with now yay describes himself as one of the most popular people in the world and and certainly somebody that the most people would want to talk to all right the most people would want to get to yay so yay has made it so that to talk to the most the most interesting person that you do want to talk to yay you have to go through the worst person in the world to get there and he did that intentionally now how much do you love that right forget about what you think about Fuentes for a moment just think about the system just think about the fact that he did that intentionally now you tell me that's not art that's art right that is Art everything he does is you know sometimes functional you know often functional because he's successful but while he's being functional it's never not art is still art like that's who he is it's just it just work it just follows him like everything he touches becomes art yeah um so that's interesting uh and uh then Fuentes I think gave some more information about why he and yay could get together in the first place have you ever wondered about that even if you accept that you know yay is eclectic and eccentric or crazy or whatever you want to say so you could make an excuse you could kind of understand how yay would want to work with anybody basically because he does refer to them as His you know little rogue group of outcasts or something but why would Fuentes want to work with yay do you think that Fuente's audience is like really happy that he's supporting a black guy for president I don't know I'm kind of curious about that but what is it that brought them together what is it that brought them together now some of you might say well you know famous people and they both they both hate Jews is what you're going to say right somebody's saying that maybe maybe but when they talk about it they talk about making the country a Christian country and I think that uh at least one day said and maybe yay believes this I don't know that you shouldn't be running for office unless you're a Christian and that they'd like to see even the Constitution maybe tweaked to say that office holders need to be Christians now I'm sorry that's not the country I live in I'm completely okay with our our system being informed by Christians and formed by Christianity that seems to have worked right it works more than it doesn't work but as soon as you say that like that Scott can't run for office in the country he lives in no yeah you can't be my president I'm sorry you cannot be my president if your platform is I can't run for office because I don't believe in your version of religion no no that is completely disqualifying but you know what I love I love the fact that they're sort of cheerful Warriors and the fact that they're fighting for this thing and they're making their argument in a free market of ideas and it's interesting I find it interesting I'm never going to agree with it but I like I like you know being exposed to the thought process Etc I like taking my mind someplace it wasn't before I never really thought about that now um I believe also that yay said during this interview that he thinks the Jews should forgive Hitler now that's something you didn't say in public but you said it to somebody who's you know obviously going to write about it but the Jews should forgive Hitler now that's pretty provocative but it also perfectly captures his philosophy his philosophy I believe is that if he were a Jew he would forgive Hillary because forgiving this was built into everything everything he's about now that's interesting isn't it because that that frames it a little differently doesn't it uh imagine the argument was it started out with yay complemented Hiller right he didn't complement the Holocaust he said he liked some things about Hiller like building roads and stuff it was sort of a funny argument but um but did he did he say Hitler is overall good no of course not forgiveness is not about the person being worthy of the forgiveness it's about you it's about it's about the forgiver but now now I suppose yay takes his argument all the way from uh Hitler had some good points all the way to the Jews should forgive Hillary do you see what that does to your brain do you see what that does this is like Overton window just perfectly used it's hard to go back to your last opinion because the new one's just more interesting right as soon as he says the Jews should forgive Hillary you're like okay I cannot not think about that and I already completely have forgotten what you said about Hitler's good points because now you've gone so much further that now we have to think about this and then you think about and you say oh wait a minute that's just a Christian principle and then all of a sudden you're like what the hell is yea doing to us it's just a Christian principle yeah yeah it's it's an attempt at a high road right because what you know I I don't know that he thinks is a practical thing but as a philosophical point it gets you past the controversial stuff and onto something that's actually an interesting question no matter no matter where you are on it now here's another thing that I don't know if you caught and he said it fairly clearly to this reporter well to Shane uh what do you think yay's opinion of Jewish people is based on what he said based on what he said what would you say his opinion is of Jewish people go give me your summary of yay's opinion of Jewish people based on what he said you say negative but give me the example what what's what's the negative thing you said specifically well you said he loves them and he is one okay he said that he was going to go death gone on the Jews right so he said he was gonna he was going to be aggressive against the Jews what's happening so here's what happens when you see his context so when he talks about the Jewish Community it's all compliments and that was always the context the context is that the Jewish Community is he actually says it directly smarter than average more successful and that he would like to emulate some of their methods because he keeps running into a successful Jewish people who are you know powerful enough that he's not getting what he wants out of his interactions so he would like to be more like them pretty specifically saying that you would like to learn from what they do and be more their equal in business is that terrible is that terrible that he he sees them as above his current ability and also ability of other people and he would like to rise to that level so that he's an equal force in the marketplace as I see Spillway am I spilling I'm telling you what he said is that spinning I don't know no he said death gun right what he meant was Defcon but he meant what he meant was he was sort of going to war against what he called you know the Jews but what did he mean his his detailed explanation is all competence is there such a thing as a racist who believes that that a group is better than his own his own people is that a thing can you be an anti-semite by saying that Jewish people are superior to you and maybe other people as well because that's what he says I mean he says it very directly he's not even beating around the bush they're more successful they're smarter they're killing it in business I keep bumping into them and not getting what I want I need to raise my power level up to their level maybe I can learn something from them and I'm going to go hard at this I'm going to I'm going to be fighting as he would say fighting the Jews and then the the corollary argument is can he as a free person in the United States speak sloppily about his own personal opinion because I think it's sloppy to say the Jews would you agree that's just sloppy but does he have the right to be sloppy he wasn't trying to hurt anybody and language does have a risk no matter what you're saying it just seems to always have a risk I don't know it's an interesting question I think he has a right to be sloppy and you have a right to react to that sloppiness in a negative way I don't see a big problem um yeah because the thing is that he also consistently speaks of black people and other people the same way he uses the same level of sloppiness to talk about you know I don't know everything basically everything is the white people matter like I said he talks about groups like they're they're all one one thing now should he I don't know I don't know I don't have an opinion on that but if you think that he's he's insulting a group because he speaks to them as a whole that doesn't hold up because he speaks of every group including his own as a whole is simply the way he talks and if you said well but he's also insulting them that's different you can speak about your own group as a whole if you're not insulting him but don't talk about somebody else's group and then insult them but he didn't he complimented them I don't know now if I were Jewish would I be saying what I'm saying now do you think I would have this view of things if I were Jewish no way no way no no you know what I would feel if I were Jewish that guy that guy hard him for putting me in at a greater risk him for making me think about the Holocaust one more time you know him for say he likes Hitler him completely if I were Jewish all right so but why why do I have empathy for you know my beloved fellow Jewish citizens why do I have so much empathy for their how they should feel in that situation because I would feel exactly the same way but why don't we extend that to yay who's had a a bunch of individual individuals he's had a hard time with and he's just sort of generalizing them because he's speaking sloppy why don't we understand why he is also in an emotionally irrational situation because something that would trigger anybody into an irrational mode happen to him so the same way I say if I were Jewish I would be reacting essentially from my emotional defense protect myself you know any any movement in the wrong direction has to be stopped immediately I would act exactly like that of course you would too right but if I were yay I would also probably be affected the same way he was right if I ran into one one demographic group that kept being my obstacle I'd probably have a bad attitude about him and I allow that people should be able to have that attitude I don't want to agree with it I don't always want to see it right maybe you should keep it to yourself but can we really blame people for having let's say let's say you've been married three times and you're either male or female doesn't matter in my example and all three times it was just terrible he got married three times they're all disasters you don't think you'd have a bad feeling about either men if you're a woman or a woman if you're a man I do and I would allow you to have that opinion I would not I would not criticize you for saying all men are or all women are terrible I would say you weren't that that is exactly what you should be feeling because you've had that experience I'm not adopting it I'm not going to be influenced by it but I get I allow you to have that opinion so I allow that the Jews should treat yea unfairly and I'm fine with that because I would do the same thing you put me in that situation and I would not be looking for fairness I'd be looking to stop that completely right but yeah yeah was allegedly a victim of some business and other personal situations that seemed to present a pattern to him nobody including yay thinks that pattern holds to all Jewish people would you agree with that do you think that yay would say oh yes I do believe that all all Jewish people act the same and aren't the same of course not so so the thing that you assume that he's saying nobody would say he didn't say it nobody says it not a not a single person on Earth thinks it it's a ridiculous uh way to frame him so once you realize he's not trying to make anybody like him at the moment he has insulted everybody he's called everybody by their category at least once it looks different all right here are the people who should be kicked off of social media here's the comment Scott is more ridiculous every day you your stupid little comment here's the thing if you've got a problem with what I say you got plenty of time to say it if you want to just say something about me I hate your little piece of existence really let's go go go kill yourself all right um so we'll see if yay can turn this ship um The Shane when he wrote about him still believes that yea would be a good president so so uh the individual I was just talking about who was talking to yay believed before and still does that he might be a good president what do you think oh and by the way yay said he would run as a Republican because he doesn't think independent can win too unstable for the nuclear football I don't think so I don't think EA is too unstable for the nuclear football well you think he's gonna you think he's gonna launch I don't oh Aardvark um thank you for that so I'm finishing up my book on reframes and I was just doing a like an author's reread yesterday where I I read it like I'm a consumer for the first part and I have to tell you it's the best thing I've done I think it's going to change the world like it's here's what it does it it takes all the most persuasive little reframes and puts them in one place so if you've got any problems from personal to business to understanding reality itself there there's probably more than one reframe that's very powerful that you haven't been exposed to yet and the the power of these reframes so far I think I have over 130 of them in the book you're going to find at least 10 that will rock your world it might be a different 10 from somebody else's 10 because it's based on what you need in your life but they are so strong when you see them all together uh this will be the best thing I've ever done in terms of usefulness to other people in terms of usefulness to other people this will be unparalleled nothing will be close yeah uh yeah I stopped I'm not going to say it's a masterpiece that's that's that's a different connotation I'm going to say useful it's going to be the most useful thing that's ever been produced I think like actually might actually be the most useful yeah outside of maybe the Bible or something if you want to go that way but yeah there's nothing I've created that would be this level of direct benefit to your your life uh just read Jeffries if you want to understand what neuro-linguistic programming does to you well I already understand that it's like a book of spells yeah that's exactly what it is huh so another story I forgot there was that I saw AI was asked to do some hypnosis and I couldn't do it I mean it tried but it didn't know the technique it just did you know you're getting sleepy kind of stuff which is not really the technique so AI doesn't know how to do hypnosis you don't want to be alive when it does if it ever learns to do hypnosis and presumably it could I mean I could train it in an afternoon you're in trouble I mean we don't know what this AI is going to do to us but I can tell you every prediction about the future is useless Everything Will Change do you all you all get that right I think a lot of people still have a view of AI this could be a a wonky little me too thing that's playing while we go on with their lives as normal your life will not be recognizable in five years civilization won't even be recognizable everything will be different everything yeah it's beyond imagine is literally Beyond imagination yep all right um I thought people had to be willing to be hypnotized all right so here's a good question um does advertising work if you're unwilling yeah it does does persuasion in general work if you're you know on the other team well sometimes I mean it's hard to change anybody's mind to anything sometimes yeah but uh when I say hypnosis uh I don't mean it will put you into a trance although it could it could but it doesn't need to do that because there's uh I call it a talking hypnosis if I just had a conversation with you you might find yourself very persuaded and you wouldn't know what happened and and I would not necessarily even know that I'd use hypnosis on you because I wouldn't be conscious of it doing it I would just know that the way I presented it was compatible with hypnosis incompatible with persuasion because once you learn to speak in those ways it's automatic it's like it's like touch typing you don't think your fingers are just the same way you talk when you know persuasion you speak persuasively without thinking through every moment it just comes out that way uh we talked about Brittany Greiner you missed it it was the first thing I did is Tick Tock like hypnosis yes yes Tick Tock the reason you feel addicted to it is that it's persuasive is there a micro lesson on this uh not exactly so here's here's a thing that um people don't understand about hypnosis it's true that you can't do a standard hypnotic induction with somebody who doesn't want to be there because they'll just get up and walk away or just not listen or whatever it doesn't work um but here's the workaround to that you can remove people's objection and then you can do it so you can't do it if somebody doesn't want to but sometimes they don't object to having their mind changed you see the difference if they definitely don't want to it doesn't work but but suppose you said okay I don't want to and I said okay well let me change your mind you know and I would tell you the hypnosis never heard anybody I would tell you that you'd be aware the whole time and you could you know come out of it at will anytime you wanted and I would give you what's called the pre-talk that's part of hypnosis actually the pre-talk is to convince you that there's no risk so that I convince you there's no risk you'd say oh okay the I guess I'm okay with that and then I would hypnotize you so it's a little bit of a trick one hypnotists say because we always do to protect ourselves you can't hypnotize somebody who's unwilling true but you can make them willing they don't we don't mention that we don't mention the part where we make you willing and then we have to touch you by the way that's like the the greatest unspoken secret of hypnosis is that it's sort of always happening like you can't turn it off it won't it won't matter if you know yeah and the The Swinging watch thing that's not part of hypnosis that doesn't buy you anything the ladies of coffee with Scott Adams calendar coming soon that would be a big hit you had a hypnotist as a roommate in college that's where you learned your love of cleaning and doing dishes did you now I need to know more about that but I'd love to know I'd love to know if you volunteered to be hypnotized so you would enjoy a chores or did your hypnotist uh hypnotize you to do his chores as well as yours I could have gone either way that is funny have I ever hypnotized someone and convince them to kill themselves oh no and by the way that doesn't work because people have tried that yeah that's it's never worked apparently pure pressure can make somebody kill somebody but actual hypnosis doesn't seem to have that power oh that was meant to be snarky okay um uh can someone be hypnotized to work harder to get more money yes yes they can assuming they want to work harder to get more money well hypnosis is really good at is helping you perform better at ordinary things that you want to perform at so it could make you better at tennis golf you know can get get rid of The Yips flying you know if you're afraid of flying so it makes everything you do a little bit better potentially because you want to be better at those things all right that's all for now as usual the most provocative and challenging live stream in all the world are autistic people less prone to hypnosis uh I've never seen anybody deal with that question but my experience says it should be the same because generally speaking you cannot identify and Advance someone who's easy to hypnotize everybody can be hypnotized but about 20 percent can actually see things that don't exist and have like a real a real experience that's incredible but there's no correlation of IQ or personality or anything that seems to tell you in advance who's in the 20 so my guess is that anybody who can understand language would be about the same could a cure a kamala's cackle yes yes that would be actually a good use yeah Kamala could learn through hypnosis um not to have that reaction yes that would be something are we seeing yea's first big offer I don't think that's not the way I would couch it because I don't know what you would call the first big offer I think what he's doing is trying to unify people by slaying all of our sacred cows because if you and I have a beef here's an unintentional pun if we have a beef usually it's because I've got a sacred cow and you've got a sacred cow and I can't kill your sacred cow and you can't and I can't kill mine so we got our like our sacred cat was here but uh I think what yay is doing is like how about I'll murder my cow so you don't have any problems on my end I'll just kill my cow I don't have any sacred cows now but would you mind if I kill your cow see that's where he gets in trouble right yeah the trouble is he's trying to kill your cow so when he when he said um that slavery sounds like a choice he was trying to kill the sacred cow which is oh slavery is sort of our narrative that gives us some political clout when he went after the Jewish community their sacred cow is the Holocaust is the narrative that gives them cover and power and you know unites them and allows them to get support and everything so yagos directly after their sacred cow by saying Hitler I love Hitler right that's the the he basically just put a shiv right through the sacred cow so here's the thing so far he's only wounded everybody's cow so we're all just mad hey you you hurt my cow stop hurting my cow but if he keeps pushing he's going to kill your cow and then what and then you're free and so is he so he's tried to kill your cow and you don't want your cow killed but it's not clear that you're better off with your cow I I think his play is I think you're better off without your cow and I'm gonna I'm gonna kill it for you and prove it now he's killed all of his own sacred cows uh pretty sure he was worshiping money just a few weeks ago was he you know like he was proud of being the richest black guy in America and stuff and like he just threw it all away for the freedom he killed his own cow yeah so one more topic uh house passes Landmark Bill to protect same-sex marriages sending it to Biden's desk well that's what Congress is for that's what Congress is for so um do you think it makes any difference that there would be a federal law uh making it legal for same-sex people to get married you think that makes any difference I mean it makes a difference in the sense that there are some states that might try to ban it I know um has anybody been damaged by a gay marriage so here's the thing you know I always talk about a b testing gay marriage has been tested has it not is there some big like emergency problem from all the gays getting married and they cause some problems that I don't know about if I had to guess I'll bet you the gay marriages are successful at least as successful as any other kind and maybe more I mean I'm leaning toward maybe more but I don't know the reason I say more is that it just makes sense to me that two people of the same gender would have a little bit more in common in the you know sticking together area it seems like it'd be some advantage yeah birth rates would be affected but still Freedom requires that we get to decide if we have kids or not uh so would you agree with my statement that gay marriage has been tested thoroughly tested and that there doesn't seem to be any downside at all would you agree with that statement what's the downside if you think there's a downside uh mention it well churches lose tax status yeah that's maybe that's a sub that's a sub issue that's a different issue but that's an important one uh yeah okay well I would so I guess that's my take my my take is you don't need to test something that's been that thoroughly tested and once something is tested and it works you keep those so to me this looks like a good evolution it evolves us from something we tested and and most people agree now I'll accept that maybe other people are you know disagreeing with it but even you would agree that it worked even if you don't like it right would you agree yeah I mean it hasn't caused any problem I can see you know what you never hear I I don't want to be walking in that neighborhood at night because it's an lgbtq neighborhood you know because those dangerous criminal lgbtq people might beat me up if I go there you know I don't think there's any uh demographic group that has been more successful than the lgbtq community I mean talk about people who are you know definitely adding to your country that they're adding a lot a lot really you doubt that you don't think the LGBT community is yet another Super advantage of America because if you do you haven't been paying attention because they're killing it they're killing it in all all kinds of domains you know uh and always have you know from from Newton to Da Vinci to uh maybe Tesla you know aren't some of the most famous successful people in the world they were known to be gay right so uh if you look at let's see was it Indonesia that just made uh just made a premarital sex illegal but I'm sure they have some views about the LGBT community don't you think that a country that gives you know full appreciation to the LGBT community guess more value a lot more than a society that oppresses them isn't it obvious would anybody disagree with that to me is obvious it's like this entire historically super successful community that why would you want to suppress some of your most successful people historically yeah I know so I think that's something we do right um I don't know if the rule was necessary you know I don't know if we need a federal rule but I'm I'm always happy when you a B test something it works and then you codify it to me that's perfect that's exactly what I want if it hadn't worked like if there was some big problem then I'd say no don't codify that but to me it looks like it worked Sarah says stop lying what do you think I'm lying about you know I often say that you know the question of should you lie or should you not is the wrong question the the right question is shouldn't you live your life in a way where you don't need to like that that's the that's the goal is to simply not need to and I you know I'm not sure you can get all the way to not needing to because it seems like there's always some reason you always need to lie to a terrorist to save somebody's life right there's always going to be a reason but you know try to get as close as you can to not having any reason to lie and I'm pretty close to that with this live stream pretty close I mean I can't think of anything that I've lied about so I don't I don't ever feel an Impulse to lie like that's never in my mind it's like oh I better lie about this because I feel like you know you've you've all become the kind of people who can hear provocative views and not blow up Rashi says Scott thinks he's telling the truth but he's wrong his perceived truth is wonky well I agree with you yes truth is subjective so the only thing I can claim is that the thing I think is true is what I'm saying that's all I'm saying uh if gay marriage was successful they wouldn't need the bill that's not true that doesn't follow logically um the downside of gay marriage and what about the project Veritas latest video I'm not sure what that point is but I think you're saying that there's a project Veritas video that might go to a grooming is it was that a grooming question are you honestly conflating gay marriage with grooming because that would be very distasteful am I or is there something more to that is it more to the story but I hope you didn't just do that did you did you just say that gay marriage is leading to grooming because that's that would be an odious opinion huh right uh well I so I I see those um I see those as disconnected topics all right um the incidence is higher I don't know how to find a good hypnotist because the trouble is they're hypnotists yea doesn't try to offend uh Jesus or Muhammad well he's a pro-jesus guy that's his whole point um I've I've heard yea say positive things about Islam but I don't know if I've heard negative things I don't know draw a cartoon of Muhammad somebody says you know what I I'm okay with everybody having their one thing right if black people want to have the n-word for themselves I think well hey I want to use all the words too but that's such a small ask it's such a small thing to ask all right so if if Islam wants cartoonists not to draw comics of them my first impression is I want to be able to draw a comic about anything I want and then I think well that's the smallest thing to ask for and that's really a small ask if the only thing I can't do is draw a comic about you know one one religious group it doesn't affect me too much yeah even if no matter what you think of the ask it's very small uh we left behind a U.S marine to secure the release of grinder well I assume the U.S marine is already come back um oh the Marine has been there for five years oh you're talking about the guy we didn't didn't bring back all right yeah yeah well it is still there right all right that's all for now You.

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well good news WNBA player Brittany

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and I think Russia also got a

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so not only did Russia get their arms

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pick for the next arms dealer

so the next arms dealer draft

first pick late no so that should be

good for their performance in the coming

Wars

um

I I'm waiting for this to happen but it

doesn't seem to have happened yet

is there going to be a point where Black

America turns Brittany Greiner into a

hero has that happened

is Brittany Greiner seen as a hero to

Black Americans

because you know there's sort of a trend

that's sub-optimal

and the trend is

can we please have some role models who

did not just break a law

now I don't think she should have been

in the penal colony you know what what

happened to her was obviously a tragedy

and completely unfair

but

we got to be careful

let's maybe Elevate Heroes who haven't

not recently broken any laws that would

be cool

that would be cool

okay

I think I said this before but sometimes

what I like things I just say them twice

uh I I keep thinking back about the

Meltdown of the crypto exchange FDX

and how many people celebrities and rich

people had believed that they were real

before they melted down

and one of them was Kevin O'Leary who

was famous for being on Shark Tank and I

swear to God just before this FTX thing

melted down

I was looking at Kevin Leary O'Leary

stuff on social media

because he's very interesting and I was

thinking to myself

I was actually feeling a little bit

jealous

and the jealousy specifically was

how does this one guy

keep making all the right choices like

Investments like what does he know that

I don't know

right is there something some some extra

facility does he have an extra speed

just something he can do that I can't do

but knowing that he lost millions of

dollars and was even a paid spokesperson

for the FDX uh thing

I really feel like I would not have

fallen for that

like I don't know

you know somebody offered me to be a

spokesperson I don't know maybe I would

have said yes if it was a big paycheck

or something but I'm feeling a little

Superior

now I'm not saying for sure that I could

have outperformed Kevin O'Leary on this

investment I don't know that

but

am I wrong that it feels good

when people who look like they're

you know almost Godlike in their

abilities do something as ordinary as

that

like that's just an ordinary mistake

it's very

I I honestly find it motivating

in a weird way the reason I found it

motivating

is to know that no matter what level you

are successful

you you're still ordinary you're just

still an ordinary person who can make

ordinary mistakes so to me it makes

success seem more approachable

I've said the same thing about people

who meet famous people

there are two of my co-workers

who were in cubicles next to me

when I got famous doing uh Dilbert and I

was a published author at the time

and so my co-workers got to see me go

from you know guy in a cubicle who was

doing no better than they were to

something that looked like more

successful

soon after

two of the people who were you know

actually adjacent cubicles at one point

also wrote and published their own books

now I'm positive

that they they took that challenge on

both of them they were both successful

because they saw that I'm an ordinary

person and I did it

and that and I think just hanging around

me and saying okay he's not really

special

if he can write a book

I could probably write a book too and so

they wrote books and they both got

published and they both got paid

so it was absolutely true

they said there's nothing that special

about you Scott I can do that too and

then they actually did it

they literally just did it they just did

what I did and it worked now I'm

positive that having that kind of

association with somebody you think is

special

but then you find out how you know

ordinary they are I'm positive that that

helps you succeed I'm positive

because because how could you not think

well maybe I can do it too this person

is looking pretty ordinary

all right

um inflation might be coming down

according to Constance Hunter

um on a tweet apparently used car prices

are falling fairly rapidly I assume that

has to do everything to do with the

supply chain

and because there have been waves of

layoffs

we expect that maybe salaries will not

be increasing as much as before

gases gas is starting to come down

so if we get

automobiles we're only talking used ones

but probably applies to new ones if we

can get automobiles gas

and paychecks not increasing quickly

you'd you'd be in much better shape but

I think there's something bigger

happening

in my opinion one of the things that

makes America

at least so far unbeatable

is that we have self-correcting systems

that self-correct

I'm not sure that other systems are as

flexible to let their systems self-heal

so let me give you an example

as I just said inflation seems to be

correcting like that's just our economic

system our transportation system for

goods was broken

but that breaking revealed all of its

weaknesses and now I think it's being

re-engineered from the ground up

software AI all kinds of different

things are happening so our our Delivery

Systems are being re-engineered our

manufacturing this being completely

revamped you know we're moving it out of

China we're adding you know 3D printers

and stuff completely the self-healing

system

and

there's a lot of other stuff like

Twitter is Twitter is healing at the

moment wouldn't you say

um I would say that our election systems

are poor

but a lot of a lot of work has been done

in the last few years to try to shore

things up and get more witnesses and

stuff like that so I don't think our

election system is where it needs to be

but it's definitely in the process of

self-correcting

it's in the process I think our nuclear

energy industry is self-corrected it

went from a negative thing to probably

the only thing that will save us I see

ESG that got a little wild but it looks

like it's being pulled back ESG is

self-correcting

um

and probably there are probably a number

of other things you could you could

mention

same kind of thing now

what do you think of that hypothesis do

you think that China can self-correct as

quickly as the United States can

like all of our systems have that

quality that we're willing to shoot our

own babies

I think that that might be uniquely

Americans that we're willing to execute

our own babies to build a better baby

and we'll do it tomorrow like we're not

going to hesitate

so I feel like that's almost a permanent

Advantage we have

now I would also say that wherever you

thought America was relative to all the

other countries prior to the pandemic

I believe that we've pulled away

would you agree with that whatever you

think of America at the moment I believe

we pulled away from all the other

countries I think we're by far the

strongest country now I think I think

China and Russia are kind of

kind of struggling a little bit

so I'm not saying we're perfect we still

certainly have our problems

but I feel like we did pull away

and that being the best of the group has

its advantages we might see some really

long-term advantages coming out of you

know the tragedy of the

of the of the pandemic

um

that's what I think

so tech companies are downsizing as you

know a lot of big companies announced

big layoffs and I saw on

Machiavelli's underbelly account

that apparently California tech

companies

are hiring a

Consultants from the outside to do Dei

adverse impact analysis

in other words to make sure that when

they do their layoffs that is not

hurting one

demographic group unfairly you know that

nobody's being targeted

so that'll work pretty well right

what could go wrong

do you see any any way that that could

cause any unintended

side effects of any kind

now correct me if I'm wrong they have

painted themselves in the corner in

which they have two choices

and tell me if I'm wrong

right because I might be wrong

maybe there's some other choice

they either

fire people you know

based on business needs

which almost certainly almost certainly

would look unfair to somebody

would you agree I don't know who it

would look unfair to exactly but if you

just did it based on what the business

needs it's going to be a semi-random

process that surely will affect some

people more than others with no

intention to do that wouldn't you agree

so if they did if they ignore the

diversity thing they're going to create

a problem

and they'll come back and bite them in

the ass but suppose they go the other

way and they follow the Consultants

um

the consultant recommendations of how to

fire people in a let's say a

demographically fair way according to

them

doesn't that guarantee they have to fire

their best employees

I'm not wrong about that right

have they not created a system

the tech companies themselves have they

not created their own system that

guarantees that the very next thing they

have to do is fire their better

employees to make sure that you've got

some equality now when I say better

that's not a racial comment

let me clarify

for historical reasons which we could

debate

there are fewer minorities in Tech

so I'm only making a math argument I'm

not talking about the quality of any

people I'm not talking about anybody's

potential you're not talking about

anybody's genetic makeup it's nothing

about that it's just math

you know the math is

that if you need to get rid of a lot of

people

you're probably going to have to start

getting rid of some qualified people

to make sure your diversity works out

because you can't really have two top

priorities

right you could have a top priority to

have good profits or you could have a

top priority to make sure your diversity

is managed in a socially correct way but

you can't do both you can't do both

so that's that's the choice I'll have to

make now I suppose they're just covering

their butts by having an outside service

bless whatever they decide to do

if that's all they're doing well that

makes sense

it

uh notice that he doesn't dare mention

IQ I'm going to take this challenge

so over on the locals platform

this is a criticism or to commenting me

Scott's trying to couch this at language

other than qualifications notice that he

doesn't dare mention IQ or who would

have to explain why the Asians have the

most white privilege

does IQ have anything to do with this

topic

it does not

it does not

no you think it does but it doesn't

because the people have already been

hired right

their IQs You could argue made a

difference before

you you could argue that had something

to do with how they got the job in the

first place

but once they're there

it's no longer a consideration because

they've been working right if somebody

got hired with an IQ of 70 but they were

the best employee in the company

who cares

I mean obviously that wouldn't happen

but who cares right so their IQ becomes

effectively a zero consideration

as soon as they've performed would you

agree with that that at the time you're

getting rid of them IQ is no longer any

kind of a variable

now I will go further

so so what you're arguing is that

something on the front end

you know according to your racist view

of things your racist view is that

that's what's causing a lower percentage

of certain people in some categories

but it's unrelated to what they do when

they're downsizing in my opinion

unrelated

um

and by the way

um let me say this in case you haven't

heard it before

there are many Geniuses who are white

but I don't get credit for that

you get that right

the fact that other people who have

similar

melanin the two I do if they got a Nobel

Prize they don't share that with me

because I'm white

so the fact that other white people have

high IQs I know this is a surprise has

no impact on my IQ

not at all it doesn't affect It event so

it doesn't matter if groups have

different IQs

because I'm not a group

and you're not a group

so I mean obviously differences can

explain some you know General

differences in society

of course again

all right but it doesn't help you it's

not about you it's just an interesting

statistic

Senator Tom Cotton continues to be

awesome

I guess the CEO of Kroger was talking to

Congress recently last week and trying

to give support to do a merger and I

guess the Democrats are concerned about

them having too much power Kroger wants

to merge with Albertsons I think

and

Tom Cotton said to the CEO of Kroger

quote

I've cautioned them for years that if

they silence conservatives and

center-right voters if they discriminate

against them in their company

they probably shouldn't come and ask

Republican Senators to carry water for

them whenever our Democratic friends

want to regulate them or block their

mergers

he continued and then he finished with

this I'll say this I'm sorry that's

happening to you best of luck

oh that was so based best of luck

yeah you've been you've been our

people

every day you know our people would be

Republicans in in his way of saying

things you've been your people

every day and then you're coming and

asking us for a favor

good luck with that

hey good luck I wish you well

now I think the specific

thing was that some I guess some Kroger

employees were fired because they were

unwilling to wear a an apron there was

some pro-lgbtq message

so I think that's what he was he was

basing his comments on

um I would like to once again praise CNN

can you handle it

CNN did something there that just

requires a compliment I know I know you

hate it I hate it but but I feel like I

can't be an honest broker

unless I unless I call the balls and

Strikes the way I see them

here's something that CNN did

they ran a story about a quote a Florida

lawmaker who was accused of misusing

covid relief funds

and that's that's how they presented it

a Florida lawmaker who is accused of

misusing coveted relief frauds do you

see it

do you see why I want to compliment them

it was a Republican

it was a Republican

yeah you thought I was gonna you thought

that they were hiding you thought they

were hiding the party affiliation

because it was a Democrat nope

nope

they actually told the story straight

they told the story about an individual

who did something bad and then later in

the Bobby of the story they identified

him as Republican

perfect

perfect

what did the other Publications do

Republican accused of stealing money

right that's what the other Publications

did Republican

who once I think he was also

he was behind the don't say gay

thing

right now correcting the frog is that

not worth a compliment

was that not worth a compliment

you tell me

no somebody says no

well I would like to encourage what I

would like to see more of

and I like that they told me what his

party was but I like that that wasn't

the lead

because that that made it a human

interest story about a crowd and I think

that's what it was I don't believe that

his Republican credentials are what

caused him to do a crime

it was actually the Lesser important

part

all right nobody likes it when I

compliment CNN noted

all right

let's talk about Dr Jordan Peterson

who's

um talking about the downside of

anonymous Twitter users

now here's what I learned

whenever you introduce a new topic let's

say new-ish

yeah because it's not brand new but one

that has not been completely

you know struggled over for years

because on most topics everybody has a

hardened opinion and it's not going to

change but when you have some kind of a

you know a newish kind of a thing and

the question is should we have Anonymous

should Anonymous accounts be on Twitter

and should you be able to block them Etc

um

and the quality of people's comments

when I tweeted about it was insanely bad

it's amazing to watch if if people have

not been assigned their opinions yet

so watch them try to come up with their

an opinion independently it was like a

sad and

it's an awful thing number one

a lot of people said I asked the

question so I tweeted and I asked the

question what did Anonymous Twitter

users have they ever solved the problem

so so my my tweet was

have any Anonymous Twitter users ever

solved a problem

that maybe would not have been solved

otherwise

and what did people say

they said well it's a good thing we had

Anonymous people

um doing XYZ

which had nothing to do with Twitter

now do you all get

the being anonymous in a completely

different context has nothing to do with

this

right there's no argument that says in a

completely different domain anonymity is

either good or bad

you get that that has nothing to do with

the Twitter conversation it just reminds

you of it so be careful of things that

just remind you of the topic

right the fact that other people talk

about anonymity in a completely

different context is just something

you're reminded of that's not part of

your argument your argument is about

Twitter specifically

and that's it if you can't make the

argument about Twitter specifically it

doesn't matter what somebody else did

that's telling you nothing and now

if your example about something else

brought up an important point that would

also be valid in this domain of Twitter

anonymity then that's good

but I didn't see anybody do that I just

people said well it's good in a

completely different way

so therefore it's good on Twitter that's

not an argument

that's actually a nothing

that's like noise there's no logical

thread there

at all and and to see how many people

went that route

was just like distressing

like you really can't tell

that arguing a completely different

topic doesn't help like there are a lot

of people who can't tell the difference

between staying on the topic and arguing

a completely different one like that

would help

I know it's weird

but don't do that don't do that

the second thing that happened is if you

ask a question on Twitter

people assume that they have heard your

opinion

that didn't happen I asked a question

because I don't have a fully formed

opinion

I would like to see some examples of

where anonymity helped Twitter

I'm not saying they don't exist

I didn't say that I said can you give me

some examples because if I had some

examples I could say oh yeah that's a

good example where anonymity helped the

world

and then I would say okay those are some

good examples I'll weigh that against

whatever cost it is and they'll have the

costs and the benefits

but people said you bastard you

why do you hate anonymity

to which I say uh

where did that come from

and then there were other people who had

to explain to me

why anonymity is good for the anonymous

people

did I did you think I was confused about

that

did anybody need to mansplain to me why

anonymity is sometimes chosen by people

isn't that literally known by a hundred

percent of all people I believe babies

are born with that knowledge

like why why are you why are you

explaining that to me

and people thought that that helped let

me explain

why people would not like to lose their

jobs over their opinion now I get that I

get that that's why I put it in my tweet

I literally said I understand why people

want anonymity and what did people tweet

to me

Scott let me explain to you why people

want anonymity

that's my usual experience on the social

media

all right

um

let me offer one useful suggestion

Maybe

because I feel as though we're limiting

ourselves in the prison of two ideas to

quote a Greg guffheld point the prison

of two ideas I don't think Anonymous or

not anonymous

is the right question because there

might be another category and here's

what I mean

if I see somebody who's completely

Anonymous and their profile has no

picture of anything and no bio profile

information that's what I call like

totally anonymous

those Anonymous people

I I'd like to get rid of from my

experience

there are other Anonymous people who

identify as medical doctors

and but I don't know who they are in

real life

very useful

I love

hearing an anonymous medical doctor

give a specially contrarian views very

useful an anonymous engineer

very useful love it an anonymous lawyer

love it yeah when somebody says I I'm a

lawyer and here's my opinion yes please

please give me Anonymous legal opinions

from people who are actually lawyers now

of course there's some question about

whether they're really lawyers right but

usually you can tell right I don't see

imposters doing it really

so I would like some kind of a middle

middle ground between Anonymous and not

anonymous because if you say you're a

doctor

you have given a little bit of a clue to

your

identity right and some people could

piece together enough Clues and maybe

figure out that you are this person they

suspected

so so it's not risk-free

to say what your job is or to say what

your education level is

but here's the main point

um and I I won't back down from the

following statement because it's

universally understood to be true

all communication

depends on an assumption that the

listener makes about the speaker's

intentions

correct I need all of you to agree with

this before we go on

all communication depends

for you to hear it correctly you have to

have an assumption about the speaker

right if you assume the speaker is your

enemy

that you're probably going to say it's a

lie

if you think the speaker is a

salesperson

you're probably going to think it's at

least hyperbole

if the person is your best friend that

you know has your good you know your

good

what's best for you in mind then you

think it might be wrong or it might be

right but at least it's well intentioned

right a hundred percent of how you

process something goes through the

filter of who is talking

now what happens when the talk of the

speaker is anonymous

here's what people get wrong

you think you can evaluate an anonymous

comment

you can't

you can't

it's just blah blah blah an anonymous

comment

is blah blah blah because if you don't

know who it's coming from you can't

assume any intention and therefore

there's nothing but noise

it's literally pollution

okay it's just pollution

so that's that I and have you heard

anybody make that point that if you

don't know who's speaking you can't

understand what they said

as anybody said that I've not heard

anybody say that and to me that's

probably the most important point

so here's here's what I'd like to say

I'd like to see an option that I could

Mass limit

uh completely Anonymous accounts

or if I wanted

to limit people who are semi-anonymous

meaning they've told you something about

their credentials

but that's all you know you just know

their credentials

so I'd like to know if I'm talking to a

student

and I'd like to know if I'm talking to a

professional

because I would react completely

differently depending who I'm talking to

right now it would have to be optional

so you would have to be able to choose

whether you gave up any credential

information or not but I would like to

be able to choose whether I have access

I I'm exposed to those people

now that still leaves

one gigantic

kind of benefit that Anonymous people

bring that's unaddressed and we wouldn't

want to lose it

and that is there are some completely

Anonymous people who really need to stay

that way

because maybe some of the things they

say if they told you their job

you might know who they were right

because there's some Anonymous things

that only some people know about so if

you do the job that kind of would narrow

it down too much so there is a value

there's a real value for completely

Anonymous accounts

so how do you look how do you maintain

that value because they do have

something to say

how do you maintain that value now

nobody has a great answer for that

but some people say

um

Scott Scott

you can just block the people you don't

want to see so stop imposing your will

upon us I'm not doing that by the way

you haven't even heard my opinion I'm

not opposing it on anybody

so and the reason you haven't heard my

opinion is that I don't I'm not fully

informed I don't have quite a final

opinion on this I have maybe 75 of an

opinion

and people say to me Scott why don't you

just block the people you don't like and

leave us alone like the rest of us are

okay

if you're a and just block the

people you don't want to see and done

you know why that doesn't work right

do you all know why that doesn't work

yeah for the larger accounts it's it

would be endless

and the the motivated trolls literally

just take their other account and come

back

now if you don't have a big account

you've never seen that before

but I block people and they come back in

five minutes

blocking doesn't make any difference the

motivated trolls just use their other

troll account or start another one in

five minutes or something but they come

right back

right

is that you're a rich hire somebody you

can't hire somebody

to block people based on your opinion

that's not a job

so here's the other thing that people

get wrong

uh when Jordan Peterson is talking about

I think he's stopping short of giving

you his preferred

um you know final solution I won't say

final solution I think he's not giving

you his preferred solution

I think he's sort of raising the topic

because it's a good topic that so I

would not give him trouble on that but I

will add my own uh Global Dr Jordan

Peterson criticism because apparently

um that's that's a popular thing to do

now

does everybody notice that criticizing

Jordan Peterson is it's like a really

popular thing now

a lot of people who had maybe been more

Pro Peterson or he's starting to to wear

a thin and I wonder why

I wonder why and I've got some

hypotheses

number one

there are a lot of people such as myself

who could accurately be called the poor

man's Jordan Peterson

meaning that I talk about a lot of

overlapping topics with him but I don't

have his credentials or his his success

or faith

so

I'm completely aware of the fact

that there's a jealousy component

right it's really hard to look at him

like just just cleaning up I mean he's

really making a a big you know

impression on reality it's hard to watch

that

if you wish you could be doing the same

thing but you're you're like an aunt

compared to an elephant right the ant

doesn't feel real good about the

elephant

so as a member of the ant class I get

that

because because I have to fight it

myself

like I feel myself

getting into that petty jealousy kind of

mode in my mind but I'm also aware of it

so I try to I try to be bigger than that

but it's hard

so some of it is just as successful now

I get the same thing right people who

are less successful than I am are really

angry at me

so you've watched me on Twitter probably

that probably 75 of my most vocal

critics actually identified themselves

as professional writers

who are all less successful than I am

coincidence is it a coincidence that the

people were professionally in the same

field but less successful are all really

mad at me boy are they mad at what I

said yesterday boy they need to take me

down a rung and of course they always

say I used to like him

can I can I make a little aside

when you're criticizing famous people

I'll put myself in that category for

this conversation

when you start out your criticism with I

used to like them but

foreign

your credibility just goes right through

the floor it just goes right through the

floor

because usually the person hasn't

changed that much usually it's something

about you you know so anyway that's just

a personal thing

but um I would say that uh in my opinion

Jordan Peterson has uh one flaw

according to me right and it's not like

I'm the I'm not the Arbiter of

flaws and people were smarter than I am

so I'm always a little cautious he's

definitely smarter than me

would you all agree

can I get a yes Jordan Peter is smarter

than I am right so when you criticize

people who are smarter than you

and also way better informed way better

informed

you should have a little bit of humility

right a little bit of humility when you

do that

I I do have one criticism

and I don't even know if he would

disagree with it you know actually if I

if I said it to him in person I suspect

he would he would take it as a

semi-valid comment even if he didn't

agree with it it goes like this

especially on his relationship and

marriage advice and then some other

categories

I think he designs advice for people

like him

do you know what I mean

so when he talks about marriage being

you know the the best model Etc I think

he's right

for people like him

and when he talks about the

uh the anonymous users on Twitter

I feel like he's talking about

what the experience is like for people

like him

and now I'm you know a lesser version of

people like him because I have you know

a lot of followers

and I can so therefore I I get that like

what he says I'd like to be free from

the anonymous people or have the choice

to be to turn them off I get that

because they're a gigantic pain in the

ass

but

I can also imagine that a small account

wouldn't have any problem with them at

all because they bear you know the the

trolls don't really visit the smaller

accounts as much so they might say well

I like having the anonymous people they

don't bother me let's just keep it the

way it is

and I don't know if Peterson is quite

incorporating in his opinion how unique

his position is that the trolls are only

coming after people with big accounts so

it's a whole different problem so

whatever whatever is the right solution

for people like him

it would be a stretch to say that's the

right solution for people who are not

like him

in the important ways

all right so uh it's impossible for me

to block things here are some examples

that people said where maybe Twitter did

help

do you think that Twitter's Anonymous

users helped make Bitcoin succeed

yes or no Twitter's Anonymous users did

they make Bitcoin succeed

this is an argument that I heard today I

think no I think no but I understand yes

so I understand why you could say yes

so I'm not going to debate it but I

don't quite see it right it might be

true so I'm making a fine point here I'm

not disagreeing

I'm saying I I don't see the argument

but maybe maybe how about the uh

dissemination of any Wikileaks stuff do

you think Wikileaks being an anonymous

organization do you think that that that

benefited the world and Twitter allowing

them to be anonymous

help that I think I think yes I think

that's a good example

yeah that's probably a good example of

where Anonymous Twitter users had some

benefit

I'll give you that one

so this is why I have informed a final

opinion on this because I feel like we

just maybe need better choices they

handle more of our concerns our current

choices leave out some concerns

I definitely think that Anonymous people

on Twitter have some some value

and knowing the examples I think helps

us a little bit

um so Elon Musk tweeted this he was

talking about Jack Dorsey he was

actually responding to Jack

um

and Jack Dorsey was saying that all of

the Twitter files should be released

that we shouldn't be deciding what

people see and what they don't

everything that's on the right topic

should all be released now what do you

think about the fact that the ex-ceo of

Twitter

says everything should be released what

does that tell you about his own

potential let's say liability

well he's not worried about it yeah

clearly he doesn't have anything to hide

now

here's what musk says in response

he says most important data was hidden

and then parenthetically from you too in

other words musk is saying that the

prior CEO of of Twitter did not have the

information that musk has because it was

hidden from both of them but musk found

out

right and someday and some may have been

deleted

so we don't know how much has been

deleted and can't be recovered but

everything we find will be released

so musk agrees

now

I would like to take credit

for uh the best prediction in this

domain

for a couple of years or more I've been

saying I do not believe and I've been

saying this very aggressively I do not

believe that Jack Dorsey is aware of

what the staff is doing and I don't

think he has a way to find out

ah

I think the only reason that musk found

out is that he was willing to fire

anybody who gives him an ambiguous

answer to a question

and only the new that's something only

the new guy can do I'll say guy

generically right uh only the new guy

can fire you because your answer wasn't

convincing

like that's that's new guy energy the

the existing person has to treat

everybody as complete individuals right

you have to look at how long they've

worked there and all of your other

interactions and everything so it's hard

for the existing you know Legacy CEO

to be enough of a hard ass

to find out what's going on that's a

tough job and I think one of the reasons

this is just speculation I don't know

this for sure I think one of the reasons

that Jack was so supportive

of Elon Musk taking over is that even

Jack knew that he was in a let's say a

disadvantaged situation

for running the company plus he had two

companies right so that's that's also a

factor

so I think that you know musk has more

than two so maybe it wasn't a factor but

uh I think the new the new CEO has an

advantage that the leg the founder CEO

can never match

and I think that's what Elon brought I

think he also stirred the past so much

that it just allowed maybe some things

to to Bubble Up because you know the

whole Jim Baker thing only happened

because musk stirred the pot

otherwise you never would have even

heard that he was working there it was

only because Elon said let's make some

trouble with these Twitter files

that like brought up all the other stuff

so uh my claim that the CEO of Twitter

Jack Dorsey was not the one who was The

Mastermind behind any bad things that

happened in terms of suppression Etc and

I'm I still believe that

now we could we could find out

differently I mean anything could happen

but at the moment would you give me that

that was the best the best prediction

the most unlikely prediction

and also the best one about this topic

now one of my critics said this morning

uh Scott you never admit that you got

the Covington kids hoax wrong for all of

one day

I tell you that all the time I tell you

I got the you know Trump's vice

president pick wrong

I'm pretty sure that when I claim

victory I I often try to you know tell

you that I which ones I got wrong

because you can learn as much from the

ones I get wrong as once I get right

because there's a pattern to both right

the ones I get right are because I had

some special information

either I knew something about persuasion

or in the case of Twitter I personally

interacted with Dorsey and I I didn't

think there was any chance he was lying

to me right because I'm pretty good at

pretty good at seeing if people if

people are weasels and he doesn't have

any weasel energy whatsoever

that's the weirdest backhand compliment

I've ever given he has no weasel energy

like you you can tell weasel energy when

you see it can't you like even if

they're not lying to you at the moment

you say to yourself but they could lie

to me like they they have that potential

maybe not now but they have that

potential

yeah SPF he has that potential but Jack

doesn't look or have that energy at all

at all like it's just completely absent

so yeah if I'm wrong about that I'm the

worst judge of character in the world

but but I don't think I'm wrong

um some shocking information about

the mental health of teens

the CDC found that 45

of high school students were so

persistently sad or hopeless in 2021

they were unable to engage in regular

activities

almost one in five seriously considered

suicide

almost one in five

and

um and nine percent surveyed tried to

actually do it

they tried to actually take their lives

so the conclusion of this is

that the pandemic

increased teen suicide correct

is that the conclusion

thank you

thank you over on locals a well a

well-educated person just said what was

the Baseline do you know what

the Baseline was

the same

yeah it's the Baseline now it is it is

higher all right let me let me be more

technically accurate it's a little bit

higher but it's not shockingly higher

it's about a little bit higher like you

would expect right it didn't double it

right like not nine percent attempting

it is actually Baseline

I mean it's hideous that it's Baseline

but it is it is yeah

um when I when I first read that one in

was it

um one in five seriously considered

suicide do you know what my first

impression was

that seemed low

I thought that was lower than the

Baseline you tell me only one in five

teenagers consider suicide really just

one in five

I don't believe that I think it's at

least two and five

I think it's at least double

but that but this gets down to the

definition of consider doesn't it you

know I I gave a whole description of

what that means and in my in my view

I literally consider it every day

and then I completely rule it out

completely rule it out so am I

considering suicide

if you say that out loud yeah you're

going to be immediately put into the put

into the channel of people who look like

they're going to do it any minute

because nobody's going to take a chance

on that but I don't know how do kids

answer the question did you consider it

well suppose they thought about it for a

little while and then ruled it out

if you ask them if they considered it

are they going to say yes

are they going to say I thought about it

and then I ruled it out

does it does a kid

know that that would be called

considering it

I don't know I think one in five is low

now if they said you know how serious

were you did you make an actual plan to

do it and then then that would get a

whole different kind of answer

all right

so

uh what percent of Americans escorting

to Rasmussen what percent of Americans

believe that the vaccinations were uh

were a good idea

what do you think

um well let me put it this way and by

the way I'm going to do a demonstration

for for anybody who's new to this live

stream

I'm gonna you're so good I'm going to do

a demonstration of how smart

and how psychic

my audience is

I can ask a question that they do not

know the answer to and watch watch how

well they they perform just watch this

according to Rasmussen

uh what percentage of the voting adults

say that vaccines and I'm talking about

the

um the covert vaccine what percentage of

adults say that they are very effective

at preventing infection

preventing the spread

four percent

ah look at you

oh you're so smart

yeah it's 26 percent but I think there's

a one percent uh at least margin of

error there

yeah

all right how about I'm going to try

again

um

how many Democrats this is just

Democrats voters uh how many all are

quote not at all worried about any harm

from the vaccination itself

how many Democrats are completely

unworried

about the vaccination might have some

side effects

wow

uh 26 percent are not worried at all

26 percent

uh some of you are answering the you

know the obvious the the 70 75 yeah but

uh congratulations again I I feel that

uh your your Brilliance and genius has

exceeded only by your sex appeal uh if I

may say that and again

uh how many of you thought it was

ridiculous the first time you heard me

say

that in any poll 25 percent of the

public will get the wrong answer

reliably

yeah you thought I was just like

spitballing on that didn't you you

didn't think it was going to be so

consistent did you

all right

um and how about

reparations what percentage of the uh

let's see

let's say of the total public

now let's do it by uh party what percent

of the Democrats and this this will be

harder to guess what percent of

Democrats support reparations

what do you think

the answer is 60 percent

this is of the the population in general

sixty percent

how many of you knew that

was that about why you imagined I'm not

sure I thought about it too much but

I don't know

not too surprising all right

um

36 percent of Voters support the

California plan

uh you know the Californian plan

for reparations the California plan for

reparations is you take California a

state that never had slavery

and then the state that never had

slavery will be taxing a little bit

extra the people who are not involved in

any way with slavery and then they'll be

transferring that to the people who were

also never slaves

so that's the plan but some of those

people might be related to the legacy of

slavery and so that would be their

argument for reparations and

um yeah as you might imagine it's it's

divided by party affiliation

just like you think it would be

all right uh

opinion person Liz peek wrote on Fox

website how many of you would agree with

this opinion I'll just read this one

paragraph

so Liz says the midterms were

a referendum on the increasing

unpopularity of Mr Trump so she's saying

the the midterms were not about the

Democrats

it was mostly about voting against Trump

that's her take and she says yes he

still has a lock on some declining

portion of the Republican party and yes

Trump always the Trump always voters May

refuse to back anyone else ever that is

unfortunate because Trump's greatest

achievement was bringing hundreds of

thousands maybe millions of people into

our political process for the first time

now the problem is that she thinks that

Trump is now a drag on Republicans

because Trump won't bring in new

Republicans but he might bring in more

heat from people who want to make sure

he doesn't get back in here what do you

think do you think Trump is now A Plus

or a negative

to Republicans in general and she's

riffing off the uh the fact that

Herschel Walker lost if Herschel Walker

had won that would have been a stronger

argument for

Trump

I I think I'm interested just that the

argument has been made meaning that Fox

News carried this opinion piece that's

you know unambiguously anti-trump and

so that's where Fox News is which means

that's where Murdoch is

um no I'm not supporting him is that a

surprise

I was just asked if I were supporting

Trump

you all know I'm not right

yeah I don't support them for age

uh I don't support him as the best

person who could do the job

yeah I don't support him on fentanyl I

don't think he did a good job there

uh he couldn't even get Tick Tock banned

yeah so there's there's lots of stuff I

I'm generally in favor of uh

uh kind of uh a seesaw between the two

parties I I think that one party gets in

there and does some good things

especially for their base the next party

gets in there does a few other things

but the things that are good for

everybody tend to last

you know that it's a messy process

but I kind of like going back and forth

a little bit a little bit

I think it helps

all right

um there is a really interesting article

if you look at the timcast website you

can find it and apparently after yay and

Fuentes were on uh Tim's show

uh Tim pool show and after he walked out

he left the interview early one of the

Tim pool Associates there followed yay

and got got a lot more interaction with

him and then actually met with him in LA

and interviewed a bit length and then

talks about it

here's here's the two things you need to

know about it number one it's a really

long piece

and it's the longest piece I've read

completely to land in a long time

because it never got boring

and I kept I kept waiting pretty much

everything I read I skim

pretty much everything right but I

didn't skim it because it was so well

written so kudos to the writer

so it's just good writing right so if

you want to just see good writing read

it for that because it's so rare and

just tell yourself how long you wrote

how long you stayed with the article

without without bailing out I'll give

the name of the

the writer was a Shane Cashman who

apparently uh is or was a professor at

some point so it's somebody who's got

some good communication skills

yes uh he was raised uh culturally

Jewish I think I think his mother was

Jewish he says which I think technically

technically makes you Jewish I don't

think he's like an observing

uh type

all right so here are some of the things

that came out of that that I thought

were interesting

number one

yea does not appear crazy at all

so somebody spent some you know good

time with him when he was not performing

because you know when he's on an

interview he's performing right but when

you see him completely outside the

public domain you get to see if he's

crazy

and there wasn't any

so he spent enough time with him to find

out if any crazy was coming out of

them and there wasn't

that actually

uh that yea's sort of approach does have

an internal logic to it

and you could love it or hate it but

it's not crazy

it's not crazy

now it takes some explaining how that's

not crazy

but there's one part that I just loved

yea is completely aware

that his communication director Fuentes

is the most disliked person by one of

the most disliked

persons on the internet who you wouldn't

even want to interact with right now

that's not my opinion that would be sort

of like an internet opinion of him which

I'm sure he'd agree with

now yay

describes himself as one of the most

popular people in the world

and and certainly somebody that the most

people would want to talk to all right

the most people would want to get to yay

so yay has made it so that to talk to

the most the most interesting person

that you do want to talk to yay you have

to go through the worst person in the

world to get there

and he did that intentionally

now how much do you love that

right forget about what you think about

Fuentes for a moment just think about

the system

just think about the fact that he did

that intentionally

now you tell me that's not art

that's art

right that is Art everything he does

is you know sometimes functional you

know often functional because he's

successful but while he's being

functional it's never not art

is still art like that's who he is it's

just it just work it just follows him

like everything he touches becomes art

yeah

um

so that's interesting

uh

and uh then Fuentes I think gave some

more information about why he and yay

could get together in the first place

have you ever wondered about that

even if you accept that you know yay is

eclectic and eccentric or crazy or

whatever you want to say so you could

make an excuse you could kind of

understand how yay would want to work

with anybody basically because he does

refer to them as His you know little

rogue group of outcasts or something but

why would Fuentes want to work with yay

do you think that Fuente's audience

is like really happy

that he's supporting a black guy for

president

I don't know

I'm kind of curious about that

but what is it that brought them

together

what is it that brought them together

now some of you might say well you know

famous people and they both they both

hate Jews is what you're going to say

right somebody's saying that maybe maybe

but when they talk about it they talk

about making the country a Christian

country

and I think that uh at least one day

said and maybe yay believes this I don't

know that you shouldn't be running for

office unless you're a Christian

and that they'd like to see even the

Constitution

maybe tweaked to say that office holders

need to be Christians

now

I'm sorry that's not the country I live

in

I'm completely okay with our our system

being informed by Christians and formed

by Christianity that seems to have

worked right it works more than it

doesn't work

but as soon as you say that like that

Scott can't run for office in the

country he lives in no yeah you can't be

my president

I'm sorry you cannot be my president if

your platform is I can't run for office

because I don't believe in your version

of religion

no

no that is completely disqualifying

but you know what I love

I love the fact that they're sort of

cheerful Warriors and the fact that

they're fighting for this thing and

they're making their argument in a free

market of ideas

and it's interesting I find it

interesting

I'm never going to agree with it

but I like I like you know being exposed

to the thought process

Etc

I like taking my mind someplace it

wasn't before I never really thought

about that

now

um I believe also that yay said during

this interview

that he thinks the Jews should forgive

Hitler

now that's something you didn't say in

public but you said it to somebody who's

you know obviously going to write about

it but the Jews should forgive Hitler

now that's pretty provocative

but it also perfectly captures his

philosophy

his philosophy I believe

is that if he were a Jew he would

forgive Hillary

because forgiving this was built into

everything everything he's about

now that's interesting isn't it because

that that frames it a little differently

doesn't it

uh imagine the argument was it started

out with yay complemented Hiller

right he didn't complement the Holocaust

he said he liked some things about

Hiller like building roads and stuff it

was sort of a funny argument

but

um

but did he did he say Hitler is overall

good no of course not forgiveness is not

about the person being worthy of the

forgiveness

it's about you it's about it's about the

forgiver

but now now I suppose yay takes his

argument

all the way from uh Hitler had some good

points

all the way to the Jews should forgive

Hillary

do you see what that does to your brain

do you see what that does this is like

Overton window

just perfectly used it's hard to go back

to your last opinion because the new

one's just more interesting right as

soon as he says the Jews should forgive

Hillary you're like okay I cannot not

think about that and I already

completely have forgotten what you said

about Hitler's good points because now

you've gone so much further that now we

have to think about this and then you

think about and you say

oh wait a minute that's just a Christian

principle

and then all of a sudden you're like

what the hell is yea doing to us

it's just a Christian principle

yeah yeah it's it's an attempt at a high

road right

because what

you know I I don't know that he thinks

is a practical thing but as a

philosophical point it gets you past the

controversial stuff and onto something

that's actually an interesting question

no matter no matter where you are on it

now here's another thing that I don't

know if you caught

and he said it fairly clearly to this

reporter well to Shane uh

what do you think yay's opinion of

Jewish people is based on what he said

based on what he said what would you say

his opinion is of Jewish people go

give me your summary of yay's opinion of

Jewish people based on what he said

you say negative but give me the example

what what's what's the negative thing

you said

specifically

well you said he loves them and he is

one

okay

he said that he was going to go death

gone on the Jews right

so he said he was gonna

he was going to be aggressive against

the Jews

what's happening

so here's what happens when you see his

context

so when he talks about the Jewish

Community it's all compliments

and that was always the context

the context is

that the Jewish Community is he actually

says it directly

smarter than average more successful and

that he would like to emulate some of

their methods because he keeps running

into a successful Jewish people

who are you know

powerful enough that he's not getting

what he wants out of his interactions so

he would like to be more like them

pretty specifically saying that you

would like to learn from what they do

and be more their equal

in business

is that terrible

is that terrible

that he he sees them as above his

current ability

and also ability of other people

and he would like to rise to that level

so that he's an equal force in the

marketplace

as I see Spillway am I spilling

I'm telling you what he said is that

spinning

I don't know

no he said death gun right what he meant

was Defcon

but he meant what he meant was he was

sort of going to war against what he

called you know the Jews

but what did he mean

his his detailed explanation is all

competence

is there such a thing as a racist who

believes that that a group is better

than his own his own people

is that a thing can you be an

anti-semite by saying that Jewish people

are superior to you and maybe other

people as well

because that's what he says

I mean he says it very directly he's not

even beating around the bush they're

more successful they're smarter they're

killing it in business I keep bumping

into them and not getting what I want I

need to raise my power level

up to their level maybe I can learn

something from them

and I'm going to go hard at this I'm

going to I'm going to be fighting as he

would say fighting the Jews and then the

the corollary argument is

can he as a free person in the United

States

speak sloppily about his own personal

opinion

because I think it's sloppy to say the

Jews would you agree that's just sloppy

but does he have the right to be sloppy

he wasn't trying to hurt anybody and

language does have a risk no matter what

you're saying it just seems to always

have a risk

I don't know it's an interesting

question

I think he has a right to be sloppy

and you have a right to react to that

sloppiness in a negative way

I don't see a big problem

um

yeah

because the thing is that he also

consistently speaks of black people and

other people the same way

he uses the same level of sloppiness to

talk about you know

I don't know everything basically

everything is the white people matter

like I said he talks about groups like

they're they're all one one thing now

should he I don't know

I don't know I don't have an opinion on

that but if you think that he's he's

insulting a group

because he speaks to them as a whole

that doesn't hold up because he speaks

of every group including his own as a

whole is simply the way he talks and if

you said well but he's also insulting

them that's different you can speak

about your own group as a whole if

you're not insulting him

but don't talk about somebody else's

group and then insult them

but he didn't

he complimented them

I don't know now

if I were Jewish would I be saying what

I'm saying now

do you think I would have this view of

things if I were Jewish

no way

no way

no no

you know what I would feel if I were

Jewish

that guy

that guy hard

him for putting me in at a greater

risk him for making me think about

the Holocaust one more time you know

him for say he likes Hitler

him completely if I were Jewish

all right

so

but why why do I have empathy

for

you know my beloved fellow Jewish

citizens why do I have so much empathy

for their how they should feel in that

situation because I would feel exactly

the same way but why don't we extend

that to yay

who's had a a bunch of individual

individuals he's had a hard time with

and he's just sort of generalizing them

because he's speaking sloppy

why don't we understand why he is also

in an emotionally irrational situation

because something that would trigger

anybody into an irrational mode happen

to him

so the same way I say if I were Jewish I

would be reacting essentially from my

emotional defense protect myself you

know any any movement in the wrong

direction has to be stopped immediately

I would act exactly like that of course

you would too right

but if I were yay I would also probably

be affected the same way he was right if

I ran into one one demographic group

that kept being my obstacle

I'd probably have a bad attitude about

him and I allow that people should be

able to have that attitude I don't want

to agree with it I don't always want to

see it

right maybe you should keep it to

yourself but can we really blame people

for having let's say let's say you've

been married three times and you're

either male or female doesn't matter in

my example and all three times it was

just terrible

he got married three times they're all

disasters you don't think you'd have a

bad feeling about either men if you're a

woman or a woman if you're a man

I do and I would allow you to have that

opinion I would not I would not

criticize you for saying all men are

or all women are terrible I would

say you weren't that that is exactly

what you should be feeling because

you've had that experience I'm not

adopting it I'm not going to be

influenced by it but I get I allow you

to have that opinion

so I allow that the Jews

should treat yea unfairly

and I'm fine with that

because I would do the same

thing you put me in that situation and I

would not be looking for fairness

I'd be looking to stop that completely

right but

yeah yeah was allegedly a victim of

some business and other personal

situations that seemed to present a

pattern to him nobody including yay

thinks that pattern holds to all Jewish

people

would you agree with that do you think

that yay would say oh yes I do believe

that all all Jewish people act the same

and aren't the same of course not

so so the thing that you assume that

he's saying nobody would say he didn't

say it nobody says it not a not a single

person on Earth thinks it

it's a ridiculous uh way to frame him

so once you realize he's not trying to

make anybody like him at the moment

he has insulted everybody he's called

everybody by their category at least

once it looks different

all right here are the people who should

be kicked off of social media here's the

comment Scott is more ridiculous every

day you

your stupid little

comment here's the thing if you've got a

problem with what I say you got plenty

of time to say it if you want to

just say something about me

I hate your little piece of

existence

really

let's go go go kill yourself

all right

um

so

we'll see if yay can turn this ship

um The Shane when he wrote about him

still believes that yea would be a good

president

so so uh the individual I was just

talking about who was talking to yay

believed before and still does that he

might be a good president

what do you think oh and by the way yay

said he would run as a Republican

because he doesn't think independent can

win

too unstable for the nuclear football

I don't think so

I don't think EA is too unstable for the

nuclear football

well you think he's gonna you think he's

gonna launch I don't

oh Aardvark

um thank you for that so I'm finishing

up my book on reframes and I was just

doing a like an author's reread

yesterday where I I read it like I'm a

consumer for the first part and I have

to tell you it's the best thing I've

done

I think it's going to change the world

like it's

here's what it does it it takes all the

most persuasive little reframes and puts

them in one place so if you've got any

problems from personal to business to

understanding reality itself there

there's probably more than one reframe

that's very powerful

that you haven't been exposed to yet

and

the the power of these reframes so far I

think I have over 130 of them in the

book

you're going to find at least 10 that

will rock your world

it might be a different 10 from somebody

else's 10 because it's based on what you

need in your life but they are so strong

when you see them all together

uh

this will be the best thing I've ever

done

in terms of usefulness to other people

in terms of usefulness to other people

this will be unparalleled nothing will

be close

yeah uh yeah I stopped I'm not going to

say it's a masterpiece that's that's

that's a different connotation I'm going

to say useful it's going to be the most

useful thing that's ever been produced I

think

like actually might actually be the most

useful yeah outside of maybe the Bible

or something if you want to go that way

but yeah there's nothing I've created

that would be this level of direct

benefit to your your life

uh just read Jeffries if you want to

understand what neuro-linguistic

programming does to you well I already

understand that

it's like a book of spells yeah that's

exactly what it is

huh

so another story I forgot there was that

I saw AI was asked to do some hypnosis

and I couldn't do it I mean it tried but

it didn't know the technique it just did

you know you're getting sleepy kind of

stuff which is not really the technique

so

AI doesn't know how to do hypnosis

you don't want to be alive when it does

if it ever learns to do hypnosis and

presumably it could I mean I could train

it in an afternoon

you're in trouble

I mean we don't know what this AI is

going to do to us but I can tell you

every prediction about the future is

useless

Everything Will Change

do you all you all get that right I

think a lot of people still have a view

of AI this could be a a wonky little me

too thing that's playing while we go on

with their lives as normal

your life will not be recognizable in

five years

civilization won't even be recognizable

everything will be different everything

yeah it's beyond imagine is literally

Beyond imagination

yep

all right

um

I thought people had to be willing to be

hypnotized

all right so here's a good question

um does advertising work

if you're unwilling

yeah it does does persuasion in general

work

if you're you know on the other team

well sometimes I mean it's hard to

change anybody's mind to anything

sometimes yeah

but uh when I say hypnosis uh I don't

mean it will put you into a trance

although it could it could but it

doesn't need to do that

because there's uh I call it a talking

hypnosis

if I just had a conversation with you

you might find yourself very persuaded

and you wouldn't know what happened

and and I would not necessarily even

know

that I'd use hypnosis on you because I

wouldn't be conscious of it doing it I

would just know that the way I presented

it was compatible with hypnosis

incompatible with persuasion

because once you learn to speak in those

ways it's automatic it's like it's like

touch typing you don't think your

fingers are just the same way you talk

when you know persuasion you speak

persuasively without thinking through

every moment it just comes out that way

uh we talked about Brittany Greiner you

missed it it was the first thing I did

is Tick Tock like hypnosis yes

yes Tick Tock the reason you feel

addicted to it is that it's persuasive

is there a micro lesson on this uh not

exactly

so here's here's a thing that

um

people don't understand about hypnosis

it's true that you can't do a standard

hypnotic induction with somebody who

doesn't want to be there because they'll

just get up and walk away

or just not listen or whatever it

doesn't work

um but here's the workaround to that

you can remove people's objection

and then you can do it

so you can't do it if somebody doesn't

want to

but sometimes they don't object to

having their mind changed

you see the difference

if they definitely don't want to it

doesn't work

but but suppose you said okay I don't

want to and I said okay well let me

change your mind

you know and I would tell you the

hypnosis never heard anybody I would

tell you that you'd be aware the whole

time and you could you know come out of

it at will anytime you wanted and I

would give you what's called the

pre-talk that's part of hypnosis

actually the pre-talk is to convince you

that there's no risk

so that I convince you there's no risk

you'd say oh

okay the I guess I'm okay with that

and then I would hypnotize you

so it's a little bit of a trick one

hypnotists say because we always do to

protect ourselves you can't hypnotize

somebody who's unwilling

true

but you can make them willing

they don't we don't mention that we

don't mention the part where we make you

willing and then we have to touch you

by the way that's like the the greatest

unspoken secret of hypnosis

is that

it's sort of always happening like you

can't turn it off

it won't it won't matter if you know

yeah and the The Swinging watch thing

that's not part of hypnosis that doesn't

buy you anything

the ladies of coffee with Scott Adams

calendar coming soon

that would be a big hit

you had a hypnotist as a roommate in

college that's where you learned your

love of cleaning and doing dishes

did you

now I need to know more about that but

I'd love to know I'd love to know if you

volunteered

to be hypnotized so you would enjoy a

chores or did your hypnotist uh

hypnotize you to do his chores as well

as yours I could have gone either way

that is funny

have I ever hypnotized someone and

convince them to kill themselves oh

no

and by the way that doesn't work because

people have tried that yeah that's it's

never worked apparently pure pressure

can make somebody kill somebody but

actual hypnosis doesn't seem to have

that power

oh that was meant to be snarky okay

um

uh can someone be hypnotized to work

harder to get more money yes yes they

can assuming they want to work harder to

get more money well hypnosis is really

good at

is helping you perform better at

ordinary things that you want to perform

at

so it could make you better at tennis

golf you know can get get rid of The

Yips flying you know if you're afraid of

flying so it makes everything you do a

little bit better potentially

because you want to be better at those

things

all right that's all for now

as usual the most provocative and

challenging live stream in all the world

are autistic people less prone to

hypnosis

uh I've never seen anybody deal with

that question but my

experience says it should be the same

because generally speaking you cannot

identify and Advance someone who's easy

to hypnotize everybody can be hypnotized

but about 20 percent can actually see

things that don't exist and have like a

real a real experience that's incredible

but there's no correlation of IQ or

personality or anything that seems to

tell you in advance who's in the 20 so

my guess is that

anybody who can understand language

would be about the same

could a cure a kamala's cackle yes

yes

that would be actually a good use yeah

Kamala could learn through hypnosis

um not to have that reaction yes that

would be something

are we seeing yea's first big offer

I don't think that's not the way I would

couch it because I don't know what you

would call the first big offer

I think what he's doing is trying to

unify people

by slaying all of our sacred cows

because if you and I have a beef

here's an unintentional pun if we have a

beef

usually it's because I've got a sacred

cow and you've got a sacred cow and I

can't kill your sacred cow and you can't

and I can't kill mine so we got our like

our sacred cat was here

but

uh I think what yay is doing is like how

about I'll murder my cow

so you don't have any problems on my end

I'll just kill my cow I don't have any

sacred cows now but would you mind if I

kill your cow

see that's where he gets in trouble

right yeah the trouble is he's trying to

kill your cow

so when he when he said

um

that slavery sounds like a choice

he was trying to kill the sacred cow

which is oh

slavery is sort of our narrative that

gives us some political clout

when he went after the Jewish community

their sacred cow is

the Holocaust is the narrative that

gives them cover and power and you know

unites them and allows them to get

support and everything so yagos directly

after their sacred cow by saying Hitler

I love Hitler right that's the the he

basically just put a shiv right through

the sacred cow

so here's the thing so far he's only

wounded everybody's cow so we're all

just mad hey you you hurt my cow

stop hurting my cow

but

if he keeps pushing

he's going to kill your cow

and then what and then you're free and

so is he so he's tried to kill your cow

and you don't want your cow killed but

it's not clear that you're better off

with your cow

I I think his play is I think you're

better off without your cow

and I'm gonna I'm gonna kill it for you

and prove it

now

he's killed all of his own sacred cows

uh pretty sure he was worshiping money

just a few weeks ago

was he

you know like he was proud of being the

richest black guy in America and stuff

and like he just threw it all away

for the freedom

he killed his own cow

yeah

so

one more topic uh house passes Landmark

Bill to protect same-sex marriages

sending it to Biden's desk

well that's what Congress is for

that's what Congress is for

so

um do you think

it makes any difference that there would

be a federal law

uh making it legal for same-sex people

to get married you think that makes any

difference

I mean it makes a difference in the

sense that there are some states that

might

try to ban it

I know

um has anybody been damaged by a gay

marriage

so here's the thing you know I always

talk about a b testing gay marriage has

been tested

has it not

is there some big like emergency problem

from all the gays getting married and

they cause some problems that I don't

know about

if I had to guess

I'll bet you the gay marriages are

successful at least as successful

as any other kind and maybe more I mean

I'm leaning toward maybe more but I

don't know

the reason I say more is that it just

makes sense to me that two people of the

same gender would have a little bit more

in common in the you know sticking

together area

it seems like it'd be some advantage

yeah birth rates would be affected but

still Freedom requires that we get to

decide if we have kids or not

uh

so would you agree with my statement

that gay marriage has been tested

thoroughly tested and that there doesn't

seem to be any downside at all

would you agree with that statement

what's the downside

if you think there's a downside uh

mention it

well

churches lose tax status

yeah that's maybe that's a sub that's a

sub issue that's a different issue but

that's an important one

uh

yeah okay

well I would so I guess that's my take

my my take is you don't need to test

something that's been that thoroughly

tested and once something is tested and

it works

you keep those so to me this looks like

a good evolution

it evolves us from something we tested

and and most people agree now I'll

accept that maybe other people are you

know disagreeing with it but even you

would agree that it worked even if you

don't like it right would you agree

yeah I mean it hasn't caused any problem

I can see

you know what you never hear

I I don't want to be walking in that

neighborhood at night because it's an

lgbtq neighborhood

you know because those dangerous

criminal lgbtq people might beat me up

if I go there

you know I don't think there's any uh

demographic group

that has been more successful than the

lgbtq community

I mean talk about people who are you

know definitely adding to your country

that they're adding a lot

a lot

really you doubt that

you don't think the LGBT community is

yet another Super advantage of America

because if you do you haven't been

paying attention because they're killing

it

they're killing it in all all kinds of

domains

you know

uh and always have you know from from

Newton to Da Vinci to uh maybe Tesla

you know aren't some of the most famous

successful people in the world

they were known to be gay right

so

uh

if you look at let's see was it

Indonesia that just made

uh

just made a premarital sex illegal but

I'm sure they have some views about the

LGBT community don't you think that a

country that

gives you know full appreciation to the

LGBT community

guess more value

a lot more

than a society that oppresses them

isn't it obvious

would anybody disagree with that

to me is obvious it's like this entire

historically super successful community

that why would you want to suppress some

of your most successful people

historically

yeah I know so I think that's something

we do right

um I don't know if the rule was

necessary you know I don't know if we

need a federal rule but I'm I'm always

happy when you a B test something it

works and then you codify it

to me that's perfect

that's exactly what I want

if it hadn't worked like if there was

some big problem then I'd say no don't

codify that but

to me it looks like it worked

Sarah says stop lying

what do you think I'm lying about

you know I often say that you know the

question of should you lie or should you

not is the wrong question

the the right question is shouldn't you

live your life in a way where you don't

need to

like that that's the that's the goal is

to simply not need to

and I you know I'm not sure you can get

all the way to not needing to because it

seems like there's always some reason

you always need to lie to a terrorist to

save somebody's life right there's

always going to be a reason but you know

try to get as close as you can to not

having any reason to lie

and

I'm pretty close to that with this live

stream

pretty close I mean I can't think of

anything that I've lied about

so I don't I don't ever feel an Impulse

to lie

like that's never in my mind it's like

oh I better lie about this because I

feel like you know you've you've all

become the kind of people who can hear

provocative views and not blow up

Rashi says Scott thinks he's telling the

truth but he's wrong his perceived truth

is wonky well I agree with you yes truth

is subjective so the only thing I can

claim is that the thing I think is true

is what I'm saying that's all I'm saying

uh

if gay marriage was successful they

wouldn't need the bill

that's not true

that doesn't follow logically

um

the downside of gay marriage and what

about the project Veritas latest video

I'm not sure what that point is but I

think you're saying

that there's a project Veritas video

that might go to a grooming

is it was that a grooming question

are you honestly conflating gay marriage

with grooming

because that would be very distasteful

am I

or is there something more to that

is it more to the story

but I hope you didn't just do that did

you did you just say that gay marriage

is leading to grooming

because that's that would be an odious

opinion

huh

right uh well I so I I see those

um

I see those as disconnected topics

all right

um the incidence is higher

I don't know how to find a good

hypnotist

because the trouble is

they're hypnotists

yea doesn't try to offend uh

Jesus or Muhammad well he's a pro-jesus

guy that's his whole point

um I've I've heard yea say positive

things about Islam

but I don't know if I've heard negative

things I don't know

draw a cartoon of Muhammad somebody says

you know what

I I'm okay with everybody having their

one thing

right if black people want to have the

n-word for themselves

I think well hey I want to use all the

words too but that's such a small ask

it's such a small thing to ask all right

so if if Islam

wants cartoonists not to draw comics of

them

my first impression is I want to be able

to draw a comic about anything I want

and then I think well that's the

smallest thing to ask for and that's

really a small ask if the only thing I

can't do is draw a comic about you know

one one religious group

it doesn't affect me too much

yeah even if no matter what you think of

the ask it's very small

uh we left behind a U.S marine to secure

the release of grinder

well I assume the U.S marine is already

come back

um

oh the Marine has been there for five

years oh you're talking about the guy we

didn't didn't bring back

all right yeah

yeah well it is still there right

all right that's all for now

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