Episode 591 Scott Adams - Antifa’s Diversity Problem, Equal pay for Soccer Players, Slaughter Meter

pah-pah-pah hello everybody what a wonderful day it is wonderful day it's a great country great year things are going in the right direction and ooh Lee Stranahan is doing a film road to Charlottesville well I assume that he's giving the real story there not the hoax version so that will be interesting but I got interrupted what I wanted to say is it's time for your dopamine hit the best part of your day the part that makes all the rest of your day better it starts when you grab a cup of mug or a glass they tell us a Stein a tankard maybe a thermos could be a flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee enjoy me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the simultaneous oh that's great let's talk about slippery slopes I have become somewhat known for saying that slippery slopes don't exist they are imaginary and the reason I say that is that whenever you have a slippery slope and things are going in one direction you always have a counter force that pops up to respond so if it looks like it's gonna be a slippery slope forever you're always missing the most important thing that if everybody notices it's a slippery slope somebody and probably lots of people will organize to create a counter force to stop it from slipping let me give you some examples somebody called this the privacy stack and the idea is that for each of these social media platforms which you might be concerned about in terms of your privacy in terms of censorship you you have an alternative so instead of a You.

Tube you've got two bit to shoot be ITB shoot instead of Chrome you've got the brave browser instead of Google for searches you've got duck go instead of Gmail you've got protonmail instead of Twitter you've got parlor instead of Facebook I think you have mind's eye I haven't looked at minds before so mi NDS so I don't know what the deal is there now I would say that all of the competitors are just weak little slivers of the thing that they hope to compete with and I would say at this point the likely you know the likely future is that the competitors aren't gonna do that much oh yeah I should have mentioned interface by one hub my company as an alternative to patreon I don't think a patreon is social media but in this context that they've they've banned some people for their speech on the other platforms so I think that's fair now my point is that you see that the alternatives popped up and the alternatives will always pop up when the slippery slope gets sliding a little too far and it's a little too slippery at this point I would say that we're in sort of a equilibrium finding zone where we're trying to figure out if we've already gone too far and if we have you would expect that these alternative platforms would get a lot of stronger if we haven't gone too far and the slippery slope is just going to sort of Peter out on its own then you would expect that the alternative platforms would not thrive because they wouldn't be as necessary you would stick with the one that gets you the most traffic but here's another here's another example there was a festival in Detroit called afro future it's some kind of futuristic group about African American I don't know culture or people or something but the thing that guided a lot of headlines is that they charged a different entry fee depending on your ethnicity so if you were a quote person of color you paid half as much for the festival as if you were white now some of you would say well there it is there's the slippery slope I told you this would happen you know sure it was good that we ended slavery everybody agreed with that yes it was good that we fought for some you know we the people who were alive fought for civil rights and did a great job there that's all great but what happens when things get equal maybe you will just keep sliding maybe it will slide until until only black people are in charge and you know Obama's your president and white people can't get jobs that's not really likely because this this this very event tells you what happens so the Afro Future Festival attempted attempted to take the slippery slope a little too far and they actually charge a different price based on your color and they were going to charge white people more the theory being that historically there were advantages to being a white person and you could go to any city you can go to a festival but if you were poor and you were a person of color maybe you couldn't leave your cities so they had some excuse that nobody really bought so what happened the public the public rebelled at least one artist pulled out Eventbrite they handled the online ticketing said nope not gonna we're not going to handle you if you don't follow the basic rules of society you can't even sell tickets on our site and so they reversed they reversed now they tried to sort of get around to it by having a a white person voluntary contribution okay if it's voluntary voluntary I'm not going to worry about that but here are two good examples of where the slippery slope always leads to a response and you couldn't depend on that alright it's enough about that so women's soccer what a good world it is what a good country it is what we're talking about pay equality for women's soccer after the American women just repeated winning the World Cup I mean seriously how about the fact that the most famous and celebrated member of the women's team is a lesbian you couldn't have a healthier country right literally this is the best bad story you could ever have so it's a story because there's some bad news in it right the bad news is that you know Megan Rapinoe is maybe doesn't want to visit the White House and doesn't like Trump and then their salaries for the women's players are far lower than for the men's so if that's your worst story that that a a lesbian incredible athlete just led American women's soccer to the highest level of success and that's our bad news you know I get that the other issues are fun but if that's your bad news man are we doing well of course the issue with women's soccer pay is that women would like to get as much as men get but I don't know how they're counting this stuff most of you who are economists and objective would say to yourself hey shouldn't the women only make some similar percentage of the overall money it's produced by their sport and if men are producing more money for their sport and they're getting you know the same percentage let's say if that big basket isn't it the percentage that matters you know if they both had let's say if the if the players had I don't know 20 percent of the money that was coming into their sport wouldn't that be fair and if the women get more viewers then they could ask for more money now some people would say that's fair but I don't think you should look at this as necessarily a an attempt to fairness sure there are some people who are putting it in those terms but I think you have to see this as a negotiation I think you have to see it as a negotiation meaning that women can probably get a better deal by claiming that there is some unfairness it's a real good negotiating strategy so if you if you are the women who are trying to get higher salaries you should act as though it doesn't matter how much your sport is making because that works against your argument so I'm also loving the fact that women are negotiating so effectively that's good news women are taking you know every every lever they can pull every button they can push if if women are negotiating aggressively for greater pay and let's say they're using a little hyperbole to get there let's say they're using an approach that who am I thinking of who would be who would be a person we all know who sometimes will stretch the facts and maybe paint a picture that's a little hyperbolic and maybe maybe it's not the most logically accurate way to look at the world but it works really well for negotiating who is that reminding me of oh yeah it reminds me of the person that the women's soccer team it's the most president Trump there using a president Trump technique to negotiate for better salaries to which I say good job good job good job winning the the World Cup good job being great role models at least in terms of you know being powerful women who are doing things that change the world and in their own little corner of the world and good job negotiating when you're negotiating the last thing you want to do is be rational if I could teach you only one thing today is this if you are negotiating don't act entirely rational the most rational negotiator is the one that loses you want to be seen as somebody who can't be reasoned with because if you can't be reasoned with and you just got to get past this situation somebody's gonna cave in because hey you can't reason with them they they can't see the logic of our of our argument so the women's soccer team is doing a total Trump on their industry by acting irrational but very rationally irrational meaning it's exactly the way they should be handling this if this were me if I were on the women's soccer team I would not be saying hey let's look at the percentage that men men make for soccer and if we get the same percentage of that total basket even though our basket is smaller wouldn't that be fair I might be thinking that but I'm not gonna say it out loud if I'm negotiating if I'm negotiating I'm just gonna say hey why are women getting 80 cents of the dollar what's wrong this is this is all unfair all right so congratulations to the women's soccer team I would like I would like it if they you know respected our president more and and all that but it's not important it's really not important somebody says hi you like sports now I like I like the show I think the sports in general should be rethought I think that we force a lot of people into sports at the school level who maybe that's not where they they're they're gonna thrive so I think the whole process the sports needs to be rethought but you can't take anything away from the women's soccer team because they killed it this year they just kill it alright let's talk about empty five so you probably saw this probably one of my most viral tweets the other day was based on some mug shot photos of an tyfa let me to lower my screen here alright do you notice anything about these these folks is there anything that just jumps out what jumps out about the anti-fog people who were arrested you don't have to see the details it's just anything that just jumps right out at you there's there there are no african-american people who got arrested in an tyfa and i guess was in seattle or was it Oregon was in Portland now I don't think they're all white by the way I'm just guessing you know without without knowing but I would say that a number of them have some interesting has some interesting ethnic backgrounds but none of them look at african-american and I just thought it was a little bit funny and a little bit embarrassing that when the masks came off when the masks came off I guess the masks came often thing I've been saying for a while that it's a the anti-shah was the ones who were putting on the masks and looking for trouble that it's a lifestyle choice it's not politics it's about the excitement and stop belonging it's about feeling important it's about the adrenaline it's about a lot of things and then they excuse it by saying there's some political reason for it but that's just an excuse if it were a genuine political movement I'm almost positive you'd see more diversity wouldn't you know I don't know that that's true but it is hilariously embarrassing for them now one of the things that got that tweet a lot of attention I think it's probably approaching nine thousand retweets now probably will be my biggest biggest tweet of the year but I noticed that Devon newness retweeted it with a lol to me and I have to tell you that the I've said this before but I like I like to remind you the weirdest thing in the world this to be me hmm my technology just decided to talk to me that was weird cancel so anyway I was saying that often when I talk about the news I get drawn into the news so I have Google Alerts set in my phone so if anybody mentions me in a news story it pops up in my email so I can see it and every time there's a biggest story that I have commented on not every time but quite often I end up being dragged into the story so suddenly you know I'll be watching television I'll see people arguing about the fate of the United States in the world and next thing I know I'm interacting with them on Twitter and it is just a weird small world anyway here's my point on anti-fog I believe the anti-shah has jumped the shark I hate using that term but seems like in defense of this case there was a time when people didn't know what anti file was and it looked like it was just sort of an anti-trump movement and other people were anti-trump too so they said well you're anti-trump I'm anti Trump I guess you're okay but I think the anti-fog because of the especially because the violent members and largely because of the masks which are pretty scary-looking I think that check me on this but it feels like this is my reading of the zeitgeist my reading of the zeitgeist is that from now until until Election Day in 2020 every time the anti-shah marches in public even if there's no violence every time they're in public with their scary outfits I think President Trump gets more popular so I think that their entire movement has now become the opposite of its intention the more you see of them the less credible they become can you think of anybody else who had that same arc you know you can imagine the early days of the the three lettered entity that also wear hoods right when the Klan was you know early on don't you think that publicity was good for them I don't know however many decades ago it was was it a hundred years ago when when the when the Klan started I don't know the exact dates but decades ago don't you think it was good for the Klan every time they got publicity they like help their cause like hey we're getting publicity more people are joining we're doing doing great but in time their reputation became so toxic that would you agree with me that every time there's some little Klan demonstration in some Park where 12 people show up it makes their whole ideology look pathetic and ridiculous so in other words every time the Klan organizes it works against the Klan when you agree that at this point they're so completely marginalized that the more you see of them the less you like them very much like Joe Biden the more you see of Joe Biden the lower his poll number we'll go because he doesn't really match up the energy of the younger people and it's clear that he's out of it etc so the more you see an tyfa and the more you see joe biden the worst democrats will do even if joe biden is not the nominee because he's he becomes part of their brand but joe biden is probably taking the energy right out of the democrats right now i would love to be in the room or like to fly on the wall to listen to democrats who absolutely hate president Trump and are looking for him to lose the next election and they're looking at their standard-bearer being Joe Biden what do the 20-somethings say when they're alone and you know they're having a drink or doing a couple of bongs what do they say when they're alone you know I'm sure they dislike the president as much as ever you know few people may have moved over but mostly people stay on their teams but do they say to themselves hey hey Ashley hey hey Kevin uh I think Biden's gonna do it for us I think Joe Biden is gonna gonna take it home did they say that cuz I don't think they say that I think they say oh we are so screwed we are in so much trouble if this guy is our standard bearer we're done I think that there must be some kind of panic setting in there I think there will be a point of I'll call it acceptance around election day where I think by election day the Democrats may have given up it depends how close the polls are if the polls are closed we'll have a lot of turnout but there might be some capitulation coming we'll say it depends where the polls are on the final day but I would say at this point I want to anti fraud to be unmasked and I would like you know the police to unmask at least a few of them every time it did help that the ones who got arrested got unmasked I mean I think that probably put a dent in their movement to see all of their the faces the people they got unmasked and see that floating around social media very popular on social media I might add so I think that probably took a dent out of it but I am now in favor of Anti Fog demonstrations under the following conditions those of you who oppose an tyfa should leave immediately or make sure you're in the city that has a police department that can handle this sort of thing now as I said before the DC Police Department apparently and you know you can't tell unless you're there but based on news reports based on clips I've seen it looks like the actual police you know the people on the streets did great it looks like they did great in keeping the violence to a minimum but they obviously were handicapped by their management who I I think it's obvious and this is not confirmed but I think it's obvious that that management told the police on the street to not unmask people even though the law allows them to do that there must have been a decision about that but still they did the best job they could under the rules that they were operating on there was very funny tweet from Michael malice who often has funny tweets you should follow him if you're not following Michael malice you're missing some great acerbic wit so if you like if you like your tweets edgy you know if you like a little if you like a little spice on your tweets follow Michael malice but we did yesterday I think a picture of do you remember EG and carroll who was accusing the president and you remember how long ago that was two weeks as Michael MELAS pointed out in his tweet it was only two weeks ago we were talking about eg and Carol do you know why we're not talking about her anymore it didn't work it didn't hurt the president so it's not news anymore because it doesn't hurt the president she was so non-credible in her let's say the way the story evolved I'm not saying anything about her personally or her thoughts or what happened because those are things I can't know but the way the the public the way the public received her was not in a way that's bad for the president somebody's asking me if I can talk about Epstein well there's a lot of unknowns on Epstein and so I generally try to avoid talking about stories the way they do on the news where they'll say well we don't know what's gonna happen but if this happens and if that happens those are the least interesting stories I think Epstein is a wait-and-see because there's just way too much we don't know somebody saying that Dershowitz has done I would bet against that if I had to bet one thing I would bet that Alan Dershowitz will command this find for a variety of reasons but you know I suppose we live in a world where any surprise as possible but I don't think that's going to surprise you meaning that I think Dershowitz will be fine and all this stuff but there does if it's true that Bill Clinton was on Epstein's jet 26 times or whatever I don't know how you explain that do you all right we're just leaving all those people who complain about the sound you know so one down all right I saw a story that the Navy is outfitting the destroyers that the Navy is putting lasers on Lazer's now apparently the big problem with a laser on the ship is having enough power source on the ship to power the laser and you know maybe even nuclear isn't enough because you have to it's not it's not enough that you produce a lot of energy you have to store it so that it can be released in in its most concentrated form so they have some technical things that are tough but apparently they're on the way to solving them and will actually have lasers that can take out drones so imagine this you're probably going to see this in the future imagine a fleet of hundreds of enemy drones they could be small or they could be big but let's say there are hundreds of them is just blackening the sky and it's coming toward your your carrier group it and imagine that the destroyer fires up its laser and of course a laser can the advantage of a laser I think is that it's the speed of light right if you fire a bullet or a missile you have to time it so that the flight of the bullet or missile matches a flying object which is hard but if you're aiming a laser the laser essentially arrives at the same time is fired speed of light I mean there's a little delay but the object will not have moved much so I think you can simply light up your screen with all your targets and I think the laser maybe not version one but I think the laser can just go up up up up up and take out 300 drones in five seconds I guess it depends how long the pulse lasts but the other thing you could do is sort of like Babylon 5 the shadows where you saw that the laser would just be continuous so instead of firing bursts it would be like a sword in the air and it would just be a sword that calls you and just paints all that the drones out of the sky so I only point that out to say we're definitely gonna have lasers in the military like that's I would say at this point you don't have to wonder if that's gonna happen that's happening we got lasers and the next war is going to be small drones versus lasers because I think lasers are gonna be the only defense against swarms of small things would you agree I don't know that there's another defense unless it's electronic maybe jamming I suppose but certainly war is taking an interesting direction not a good way I saw a story that said that the RNC the Republican National Committee attracted quote a larger share of donations under $200 than the Democrat Democratic National Committee this is according to the New York Times so in other words if you take $200 as your threshold and I suppose it would be different depending on which threshold you picked but if you say anything under $200 is a quote small donation the Republicans got more small donations than the Democratic National Committee now could there be a better indicator of president Trump's re-election chances that's really really good indicator because I believe President Trump not only got more donations from big donors but also more donations from small donors I think he got more donations from everybody now you add that so apparently the president will have just a tremendous amount of money for re-election that he did not have for election so 0.1 the president won with very little money against what some people thought was the strongest candidate the Democrats have ever had and then of course it as an in in hindsight Hilary Clinton look like the worst candidate but at the time we thought she was super strong and the president Peter anyway but now he's the incumbent incumbents don't often lose and if an incumbent has a strong economy they really don't lose and if the incumbent has all the charisma versus the Challenger then they really really don't lose and if the accumbens has way more money than the Challenger then they really really don't lose and if there are no wars that are a problem for the voters well then the incumbent doesn't lose so you have about five serious indicators to say the Trump is gonna win re-election and that's before you even talk about how bad the competition is who exactly is gonna run against him you know I'm guessing caramel heiress will eventually be the nominee and I think she's got some game but she doesn't have anything like the charisma of the president and she's gonna have a lot to explain by the time she gets the nomination if she does so I would say the slaughter meter is at 200% meaning the odds of President Trump getting re-elected in a landslide is so high now that if you if you were to bet the other way it would seem irrational now of course it's still a long way off and of course you know anything could happen you know nothing is certain but if nothing big changes I suppose it's almost a certainty that something big will change but if nothing big did change its it's a lock for the president to get reelected I think a couple more stories I saw but I haven't seen much follow up in the press and I think there's a reason for that yeah I believe the administration is looking to require pharmaceutical companies the drug manufacturers who sell stuff in this country to give us the same price as the best price that they sell it anywhere else in the world now here's the catch the United States has been subsidizing healthcare in the rest of the world the fact that we we pay too much for our drugs allows the pharmaceuticals to cover their fixed costs etc and then since poor countries wouldn't be able to afford to pay a lot they can charge them less and then there was poor countries get better health care because they're paying less for the the drugs but it's being subsidized by the United States now apparently the Trump administration is going to require and who knows if this will pass Supreme Court who knows if there's a problem here who knows who could suit so this is by far not a done deal but the Trump administration is saying to pharmaceuticals you have to offer in this country a price that's no worse than the lowest price in another country any most favored nations clause in the contract now you know what's amazing about this story what's the most amazing thing about this story well I want to see if it's obvious to you what's the amazing thing the amazing thing about the story is that this is the first time anybody thought of that are you kidding me I used to negotiate contracts for a living so my job for several years in my corporate life was to deal with the vendors and negotiate contracts with mostly technology vendors the most favored nations clause that says you're not going to charge us more than you charge other people is pretty basic contract discussion in other words if you're a professional negotiator of contracts and you have not thought to ask for that that nobody else gets a lower price now you can't always get that you might not have enough power to get that into your contract but if you're the United States and you're the biggest customer for these pharmaceutical companies and you're the government so you can just change the law you absolutely can get that it was laying there like free money on a table I said that exactly the same time somebody put in the comments free money on the table I actually said it as the phrase was appearing in the comments so yeah you got ahead of me this president better than anybody ever has done it is the only person who will pick up free money this laying on a table and it's mind-boggling this this you know I don't know what it's gonna be an executive order or some kind of a rule change other than what it is but if this administration gets away with it meaning if they can cause the pharmaceuticals to raise their prices in other countries if that's necessary I don't even know if that's necessary or to at least give us those same prices it will be an enormous change in the cost of your health care it will come at the expense of the pharmaceutical companies which are you know in many cases also part of our economy but I'll bet there are a lot of them that are not there must be a lot of foreign pharmaceutical companies that are overcharging in the United States are you okay with that so that they can subsidize other countries now the cruel part of this is that it absolutely will I would assume have an impact on other countries being able to afford their health care but isn't that true for everything we do a hundred percent of the money that we spend in the United States it could have been spent in another country where they needed it more people were more poor more desperate have worse health care that's true of everything every dollar we spend on ourselves could have been spent for somebody else so he'll so the pharmaceutical stuff seems like it's just more of that and so you've got President Trump saying hey looks like there's some money on that table why don't we just pick it up now if he gets this done there's a very good chance given other free market changes that the administration is making for health care you know other things about organizing across state lines etc if this stuff gets done and guess works into the system by Election Day the president might be able to claim just think about this the president might be able to claim that he stopped the increase of health care expenses now that's not as good as universal health care insurance to people who have no insurance they still would prefer that but that's a really strong story if you're running for re-election and you're the first president who made health care costs stop in their tracks maybe even go down maybe I don't know I don't know how he doesn't get reelected if somebody said is viagra cheap yet I believe it is it's a it's a generic why do we have to pay more because other countries have mismanaged their money somebody says well that's the whole point is that we can we can do what's good for the United States because that's how countries are organized they're organized to take care of themselves and the idea is that if everybody did that the world's a better place then do University tuition alright I'm just looking at your comments here generic drug companies caught conspiring to fix prices is that true alright people are prompting me about a tweet in I tweeted a story in which Bill Gates had referred to himself as a minor wizard and referred to the late Steve Jobs as a as a major wizard who had a reality distortion field and he could make a company work even if the product was bad which he did with next computer he made a huge profit on something where nobody even wanted the problem and Bill Gates noted that Steve Jobs you know magic reality distortion field didn't work on jobs I'm sorry didn't work on gates because Gates felt he had a little immunity to it because he was a small-time wizard himself now there's not much to say about that except that when Gates talks about jobs and his power of persuasion you're hearing it from a credible and interesting source and somebody was close to the source somebody who knew him well enough to have an informed opinion so and even though Jobs was considered an a-hole and I think I think Gates actually said that in the interview nobody could argue the fact that he could make people work harder and do things and buy things that other people couldn't make happen so he did seem to have the magic all right any other questions that's all I got today it's another wonderful day because again if you look at the news hey nimble navigate oh yeah Joe Biden is apologizing so joe biden said he waited to apologize about this busing thing do you all understand the busing issue I don't apparently apparently the issue is Democrats think other Democrats are racist because they agree with each other on busing I think that's it right did I get that wrong tell me if I got any of the facts wrong they're Democrats especially , Lares and Joe Biden they are mad at each other because they agree completely on the issue of busing that's a 20 year old issue isn't it something like that so it's sort of a non-issue that highlights how well things are going if you if the Democrats are debating a topic from 20 years ago you're in good shape think about it you're in really good shape if that's what you're doing oh yeah so there's a story about Kelly O'Hara picking up the flag when the other player drops it on the ground but I watched the video and it's obvious that the there were three of the play the women's soccer team players who were going to do sort of a dance coordinated thing you know as a celebration and one of them had to flag in her hand and she put it down for a minute to do the coordinated saying I don't think she was thinking about it as being disrespectful I think it was just I just think she wasn't thinking I doubt she put the American flag on the ground to make a statement it was just a really thoughtless thing to do in public but yeah she's young you know people do thought listens so at the end of my periscope from yesterday in which I did I pinned yesterday's periscope to my top of my Twitter page I'm predicting it will be the most watched video that I I've made so far so far maybe seventy thousand or a hundred thousand people have looked at it if you count all the platforms together if you count You.

Tube Plus periscope plus shoot and so be probably around 100 thousand people who have seen it by today I'm thinking it might be the first video that I made that reaches a million viewers and at the end of the video I said something provocative the the nature of the video is well you can just see yourself but at the end of it I I said something that got a lot of reaction so a lot of people are quoting me and reacting to it and what I said was this sentence and listen to it carefully because you have to listen to it carefully to get what's happening it's just one sentence and I said God is what's left over after you take everything away God is what's left over after you take everything away now here's what's interesting about this and here's why I said it every one of you heard that you had a different opinion of what it meant you probably registered it as profound without knowing what it meant all right I'm gonna read it again and see if your brain recognizes it as profound at the same time you're not sure what it means okay God is what's left after you take everything away it sounds profound right you register it that way but you're not sure exactly what it means and what people demonstrated in the comments is what I what I thought would happen is that everybody had a different interpretation of what it meant you can interpret this as a statement that God exists outside of the normal rules of physics and matter you could interpret it as saying that there's no God because you took everything away and there wouldn't be anything left you could interpret it as the simulation you could interpret it any way you want but that's the point so what's profound about it is that the statement is exactly like all of your different views of the world it is a statement that was subjective reality the statement is that you can all look at exactly the same stuff you can look at the same picture you can look at the same words you can think of the same idea but the way you process that will be an entirely different world and this sentence is one of those little little ways where you can see that clearly so I'll say it again God is what's left after you take everything away so God is what left over after you take everything away as you watch people completely reinterpret that as opposites meaning that means God doesn't exist or that means that God does exist and he's beyond time and space and matter you can see the entire world everything about your reality is in this sentence once you understand that people are looking at the reality and interpreting it as their own movie and there's nothing you can do about that and nor should you I mean there's there's no reason to do anything about it we're living our own subjective reality and once you get that you become free once you if you understand reality to be objective then what it feels like is that you're a victim of reality reality is here and it's it's imposing its will on you and you're doing the best you can but reality is gonna win it subjective and it's controlling you it controlled your DNA controls your choices it controls what your options are it's reality is objective and it's your it's its victim but once you realize that we're all living subjective realities and that those subjective realities pretty much all work some better than others but they all work meaning that I you can live your life thinking that you reincarnated from a cow and I can live my life believing in a Christian world you can somebody else can live their life believing in an Islamic interpretation of the world and we can all eat breathe procreate it works fine these are completely different worldviews once you understand that reality is subjective here's the cool part you can control it I just let that there for a moment once you realize that reality is subjective you can control it that's how you escape the matrix is understanding that it's under your control and that's the first probably the first and most important mental shift you have to make is to understand that you control your reality and that your reality is complete you can actually make things happen by focusing by just putting your energy your attention reinterpreting things reading things you need to do doing what you need to do having systems that get you where you want there are things that you can move and control that will change your reality you're you're watching me right now having a fairly substantial impact on the country now do you think that I believe I live in an objective world where the only things I can do are the things that reality has allowed for me it's like you only have this path it's the only path you can get on can't get on that path I don't live in that world I live in a subjective reality and because I understand it to be subjective I don't see limitations the way I used to I would have imagined okay I don't have this set of skills so I can't do that I don't have this training so I can't do that I don't have enough time I don't have enough money somebody's going to dislike me I'm going to embarrass myself it might not work out what if what if it goes wrong that's objective reality and it's a prison once you realize that there are fairly ordinary mechanisms that you can control meaning your mind the systems you used to live your life the things you focus the things you care about the things you dream of that these actually produce different realities not you can't you know make a car disappear you can't make an elephant appear you can't make a bag of money appear doesn't work like that but you can absolutely steer you know your reality is there's still gonna be stuff out there that's exterior to you but you can you can steer your way to the movie you want have you watched me do this by the way somebody's saying that the proof is my girlfriend Christina that's pretty good proof so somebody says is this in loser think the ideas that you're hearing now are sort of spread across my existing books had a failed almost everything and still win big also in my book win big Leigh about persuasion in general and if you really want a total mind effing you should read my book gods debris gods debris is fiction but it's designed to it's designed for you to feel for the first time in many cases it would be the first time that people felt it to feel that reality could be reinterpreted in a completely different way and still work so that's what gods debris is about it's fiction but as you read it it's designed because I used hypnosis techniques as well as writing techniques it's designed to make most readers not everyone of you because everybody's different but it's designed to make most readers have the sensation that they could understand reality through a different filter for the first time and that that filter works as well as the filter they came to it with once you realize that you can see the world through two different filters in other words two movies two different realities and they both work that's the key they both work if you don't get that part you've missed the secret I hate to say the secret because that's the name of the book but if you believe that you just went from one filter on reality and then you've got another one you said oh this new one is so I'll get rid of the old one you haven't learned the lesson the lesson is they both work that's the lesson so that's what God's debris tries to teach you indirectly and they in a fictional sense loser think is more about mental traps than we get into and how to get out of them and so I'll talk a lot more about that in the coming months it's due out in November what about chronic health problems well some of you may know that I had a problem with my voice I lost my ability to speak for three and a half years and it was an incurable problem so I lived in this for a while I lived in this objective reality where some people get this condition called spasmodic dysphonia which is what I had which makes your vocal cords scrunched together when you're trying to talk and so you can't produce intelligible noise when I learned that it was incurable there was no cure I would never be able to speak again did I say to myself oh no I am a victim of a reality that is objective and now I know the rules and the rules say that this is incurable I guess that's the rest of my life imagine going the rest of your life not being able to speak 40 50 years of life not being able to speak just imagine it okay that's the reality that I was handed a chose to violate that reality I chose to violate it from the first day that I found out it was incurable I told myself that someday I would be doing this I would be talking to a large number of people with a perfect voice now voice isn't perfect but if you heard my voice before I had the voice problem it's the best it's ever been in other words my current speaking voice the one you hear right now is substantially better than the best voice I ever had before I had a voice problem I said I'm not gonna settle for getting my voice back I said that every single day everytime I got my car I repeated to myself mentally i scott adams will have a perfect voice every day for three and a half years I hunted down the one doctor in the world was experimentally doing some surgeries on people's nerves in their neck and he had some successes in curing this problem I hunted him down I went to his office I got the surgery after a lot of research and it doesn't work for everybody not every person who has the research who has the surgery gets the good result most get an improvement but they don't all get a full improvement it took working on my voice every day four years after the surgery it's been a number of years every single day my voice improved because I worked at it I worked on my breathing I worked on my tone I took everything that I learned before the surgery about how to produce good vocal quality and you see me doing right now I'm speaking in what's called the mask of my face so I said to reality reality I reject you I reject you I'm not going to have an incurable voice problem I'm gonna be the first person who cures it and then I did now I wasn't the first person that turns out there were some people I didn't know about but most of the most of the world who has this problem still has it I would say 95% of all the people who have the same voice problem I had still have it they still have it they have insulting it so no I can tell you more stories that are similar to that somebody said did prayer play a part it did not no I'm not a believer I'm very Pro religion but I'm not a believer personally I think religion is a great filter on the world for a lot of people and objectively speaking it's just obvious somebody says so far I've lost 89 pounds I think you're referring to using a system for weight loss that I talked about in had a failed almost everything and still win big and I a lot of people have been writing to me and telling me that they had lost massive amounts of weight they got promotions they doubled their pay and all of it is the same phenomenon it's people who have decided people who have decided that the reality that they were handed they reject they just rejected it they said no I'm not going to take the reality I'm handed I'm gonna make my own and there's another 140 pounds down just look at the comments somebody lost 89 pounds and somebody who lost 40 pounds just following a simple system the name of the book is how to fail in almost everything and still win big if you just google my name on Amazon all the books will pop up 50 pounds 30 pounds oh my god look at all the people in the comments who have lost some of the some of the gained weight Saudi lost 20 23 pounds in 30 days holy cow another 40-pounder 42 pounds 10 pounds oh my god abs at 33 somebody somebody got their abs going somebody quit smoking lost 25 pounds somebody lost 80 pounds John do you really John you lost 80 pounds it's amazing 50 pounds look at the comments somebody game 50 I don't think those people were using the system somebody lost 40 pounds are keeping it off years later the keeping it office is the best pens 12 pounds closer to having abs and for age 48 up my pay by $50,000 these are in the comments if you're watching this later on You.

Tube you won't see the comments somebody says there tried to lose 150 pounds parenthetically my girlfriend somebody does 300 push-ups during my periscope everyday that's the system that is a heck of a good system so my compliments so somebody hears that they exercise during my periscopes that's a great system because it reminds you to do it it's like brushing your teeth at the same time every day before you you've got a good a bad if you can key your your workout to an external event it really makes it easier I do the same thing I actually keep my workouts depending on the time of the day if I if it's later in the day I'll always listen to the five so I've learned that listening to the TV show of the five on fox news is just really absorbing and you know I love the show it's my favorite show and so I matched that to my exercise time and it makes me want to exercise it's a great system alright somebody else walks during my periscope yeah have I heard of David Goggins I have not all right just looking at your comments and thanks so much and I'm going to talk to all of you later bye for now

pah-pah-pah hello everybody

what a wonderful day it is wonderful day

it's a great country great year things

are going in the right direction and ooh

Lee Stranahan is doing a film road to

Charlottesville well I assume that he's

giving the real story there not the hoax

version so that will be interesting but

I got interrupted what I wanted to say

is it's time for your dopamine hit the

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let's talk about slippery slopes I have

become somewhat known for saying that

slippery slopes don't exist they are

imaginary and the reason I say that is

that whenever you have a slippery slope

and things are going in one direction

you always have a counter force that

pops up to respond so if it looks like

it's gonna be a slippery slope forever

you're always missing the most important

thing that if everybody notices it's a

slippery slope somebody and probably

lots of people will organize to create a

counter force to stop it from slipping

let me give you some examples

somebody called this the privacy stack

and the idea is that for each of these

social media platforms which you might

be concerned about in terms of your

privacy in terms of censorship you you

have an alternative

so instead of a YouTube you've got two

bit to shoot be ITB shoot instead of

Chrome you've got the brave browser

instead of Google for searches you've

got duck go instead of Gmail you've got

protonmail instead of Twitter you've got

parlor

instead of Facebook I think you have

mind's eye I haven't looked at minds

before so mi NDS so I don't know what

the deal is there now I would say that

all of the competitors are just weak

little slivers of the thing that they

hope to compete with and I would say at

this point the likely you know the

likely future is that the competitors

aren't gonna do that much oh yeah I

should have mentioned interface by one

hub my company as an alternative to

patreon I don't think a patreon is

social media but in this context that

they've they've banned some people for

their speech on the other platforms so I

think that's fair now my point is that

you see that the alternatives popped up

and the alternatives will always pop up

when the slippery slope gets sliding a

little too far and it's a little too

slippery at this point I would say that

we're in sort of a equilibrium finding

zone where we're trying to figure out if

we've already gone too far and if we

have you would expect that these

alternative platforms would get a lot of

stronger if we haven't gone too far and

the slippery slope is just going to sort

of Peter out on its own then you would

expect that the alternative platforms

would not thrive because they wouldn't

be as necessary you would stick with the

one that gets you the most traffic but

here's another here's another example

there was a festival in Detroit called

afro future it's some kind of futuristic

group about African American I don't

know culture or people

or something but the thing that guided a

lot of headlines is that they charged a

different entry fee depending on your

ethnicity so if you were a quote person

of color you paid half as much for the

festival as if you were white now some

of you would say well there it is

there's the slippery slope

I told you this would happen you know

sure it was good that we ended slavery

everybody agreed with that yes it was

good that we fought for some you know we

the people who were alive fought for

civil rights and did a great job there

that's all great but what happens when

things get equal maybe you will just

keep sliding maybe it will slide until

until only black people are in charge

and you know Obama's your president and

white people can't get jobs that's not

really likely because this this this

very event tells you what happens so the

Afro Future Festival attempted attempted

to take the slippery slope a little too

far and they actually charge a different

price based on your color and they were

going to charge white people more the

theory being that historically there

were advantages to being a white person

and you could go to any city you can go

to a festival but if you were poor and

you were a person of color maybe you

couldn't leave your cities so they had

some excuse that nobody really bought so

what happened the public the public

rebelled at least one artist pulled out

Eventbrite they handled the online

ticketing said nope not gonna we're not

going to handle you if you don't follow

the basic rules of society you can't

even sell tickets on our site and so

they reversed they reversed now they

tried to sort of get around to it by

having a a white person

voluntary contribution okay if it's

voluntary voluntary I'm not going to

worry about that but here are two good

examples of where the slippery slope

always leads to a response and you

couldn't depend on that alright it's

enough about that

so women's soccer what a good world it

is what a good country it is what we're

talking about pay equality for women's

soccer after the American women just

repeated winning the World Cup I mean

seriously how about the fact that the

most famous and celebrated member of the

women's team is a lesbian you couldn't

have a healthier country right literally

this is the best bad story you could

ever have so it's a story because

there's some bad news in it right the

bad news is that you know Megan Rapinoe

is maybe doesn't want to visit the White

House and doesn't like Trump and then

their salaries for the women's players

are far lower than for the men's so if

that's your worst story that that a a

lesbian incredible athlete just led

American women's soccer to the highest

level of success and that's our bad news

you know I get that the other issues are

fun but if that's your bad news man are

we doing well of course the issue with

women's soccer pay is that women would

like to get as much as men get but I

don't know how they're counting this

stuff most of you who are economists and

objective would say to yourself hey

shouldn't the women only make some

similar percentage of the overall money

it's produced by their sport and if men

are producing more money for their sport

and they're getting you know the same

percentage let's say if that big basket

isn't it the percentage that matters

you know if they both had let's say if

the if the players had I don't know 20

percent of the money that was coming

into their sport

wouldn't that be fair and if the women

get more viewers

then they could ask for more money now

some people would say that's fair but I

don't think you should look at this as

necessarily a an attempt to fairness

sure there are some people who are

putting it in those terms but I think

you have to see this as a negotiation I

think you have to see it as a

negotiation meaning that women can

probably get a better deal by claiming

that there is some unfairness it's a

real good negotiating strategy so if you

if you are the women who are trying to

get higher salaries you should act as

though it doesn't matter how much your

sport is making because that works

against your argument so I'm also loving

the fact that women are negotiating so

effectively that's good news women are

taking you know every every lever they

can pull every button they can push if

if women are negotiating aggressively

for greater pay and let's say they're

using a little hyperbole to get there

let's say they're using an approach that

who am I thinking of who would be who

would be a person we all know who

sometimes will stretch the facts and

maybe paint a picture that's a little

hyperbolic and maybe maybe it's not the

most logically accurate way to look at

the world but it works really well for

negotiating who is that reminding me of

oh yeah it reminds me of the person that

the women's soccer team

it's the most president Trump there

using a president Trump technique to

negotiate for better salaries to which I

say good job good job good job winning

the the World Cup good job being great

role models at least in terms of you

know being powerful women who are doing

things that change the world and in

their own little corner of the world and

good job negotiating when you're

negotiating the last thing you want to

do is be rational if I could teach you

only one thing today is this if you are

negotiating don't act entirely rational

the most rational negotiator is the one

that loses you want to be seen as

somebody who can't be reasoned with

because if you can't be reasoned with

and you just got to get past this

situation

somebody's gonna cave in because hey you

can't reason with them they they can't

see the logic of our of our argument so

the women's soccer team is doing a total

Trump on their industry by acting

irrational but very rationally

irrational meaning it's exactly the way

they should be handling this if this

were me if I were on the women's soccer

team I would not be saying hey let's

look at the percentage that men men make

for soccer and if we get the same

percentage of that total basket even

though our basket is smaller

wouldn't that be fair I might be

thinking that but I'm not gonna say it

out loud if I'm negotiating if I'm

negotiating I'm just gonna say hey why

are women getting 80 cents of the dollar

what's wrong this is this is all unfair

all right so congratulations to the

women's soccer team I would like I would

like it if they you know respected our

president more and and all that but it's

not important it's really not important

somebody says hi you like sports now I

like I like the show

I think the sports in general should be

rethought I think that we force a lot of

people into sports at the school level

who maybe that's not where they they're

they're gonna thrive so I think the

whole process the sports needs to be

rethought but you can't take anything

away from the women's soccer team

because they killed it this year they

just kill it alright let's talk about

empty five so you probably saw this

probably one of my most viral tweets the

other day was based on some mug shot

photos of an tyfa let me to lower my

screen here alright do you notice

anything about these these folks is

there anything that just jumps out what

jumps out about the anti-fog people who

were arrested you don't have to see the

details it's just anything that just

jumps right out at you there's there

there are no african-american people who

got arrested

in an tyfa and i guess was in seattle or

was it Oregon was in Portland now I

don't think they're all white by the way

I'm just guessing you know without

without knowing but I would say that a

number of them have some interesting has

some interesting ethnic backgrounds but

none of them look at african-american

and I just thought it was a little bit

funny and a little bit embarrassing that

when the masks came off when the masks

came off I guess the masks came often

thing I've been saying for a while that

it's a the anti-shah was the ones who

were putting on the masks and looking

for trouble that it's a lifestyle choice

it's not politics it's about the

excitement and stop belonging it's about

feeling important it's about the

adrenaline it's about a lot of things

and then they excuse it by saying

there's some political reason for it but

that's just an excuse if it were a

genuine political movement I'm almost

positive you'd see more

diversity wouldn't you know I don't know

that that's true but it is hilariously

embarrassing for them now one of the

things that got that tweet a lot of

attention I think it's probably

approaching nine thousand retweets now

probably will be my biggest biggest

tweet of the year but I noticed that

Devon newness retweeted it with a lol to

me and I have to tell you that the I've

said this before but I like I like to

remind you the weirdest thing in the

world this to be me hmm my technology

just decided to talk to me that was

weird

cancel so anyway I was saying that often

when I talk about the news I get drawn

into the news so I have Google Alerts

set in my phone so if anybody mentions

me in a news story it pops up in my

email so I can see it and every time

there's a biggest story that I have

commented on not every time but quite

often I end up being dragged into the

story so suddenly you know I'll be

watching television I'll see people

arguing about the fate of the United

States in the world and next thing I

know I'm interacting with them on

Twitter and it is just a weird small

world anyway here's my point on anti-fog

I believe the anti-shah has jumped the

shark I hate using that term but seems

like in defense of this case there was a

time when people didn't know what anti

file was and it looked like it was just

sort of an anti-trump movement and other

people were anti-trump too so they said

well you're anti-trump I'm anti Trump I

guess you're okay but I think the

anti-fog because of the

especially because the violent members

and largely because of the masks which

are pretty scary-looking

I think that check me on this but it

feels like this is my reading of the

zeitgeist my reading of the zeitgeist is

that from now until until Election Day

in 2020

every time the anti-shah marches in

public even if there's no violence every

time they're in public with their scary

outfits I think President Trump gets

more popular so I think that their

entire movement has now become the

opposite of its intention the more you

see of them the less credible they

become can you think of anybody else who

had that same arc you know you can

imagine the early days of the the three

lettered entity that also wear hoods

right when the Klan was you know early

on don't you think that publicity was

good for them I don't know however many

decades ago it was was it a hundred

years ago when when the when the Klan

started I don't know the exact dates but

decades ago don't you think it was good

for the Klan every time they got

publicity they like help their cause

like hey we're getting publicity more

people are joining we're doing doing

great but in time their reputation

became so toxic that would you agree

with me that every time there's some

little Klan demonstration in some Park

where 12 people show up it makes their

whole ideology look pathetic and

ridiculous

so in other words every time the Klan

organizes it works against the Klan when

you agree that at this point they're so

completely marginalized that the more

you see of them the less you like them

very much like Joe Biden the more you

see of Joe Biden the lower his poll

number

we'll go because he doesn't really match

up the energy of the younger people and

it's clear that he's out of it etc so

the more you see an tyfa and the more

you see joe biden the worst democrats

will do even if joe biden is not the

nominee because he's he becomes part of

their brand but joe biden is probably

taking the energy right out of the

democrats right now i would love to be

in the room or like to fly on the wall

to listen to democrats who absolutely

hate president Trump and are looking for

him to lose the next election and

they're looking at their standard-bearer

being Joe Biden what do the

20-somethings say when they're alone and

you know they're having a drink or doing

a couple of bongs what do they say when

they're alone you know I'm sure they

dislike the president as much as ever

you know few people may have moved over

but mostly people stay on their teams

but do they say to themselves hey

hey Ashley hey hey Kevin uh I think

Biden's gonna do it for us

I think Joe Biden is gonna gonna take it

home did they say that cuz I don't think

they say that I think they say oh we are

so screwed

we are in so much trouble if this guy is

our standard bearer we're done I think

that there must be some kind of panic

setting in there I think there will be a

point of I'll call it acceptance around

election day where I think by election

day the Democrats may have given up it

depends how close the polls are if the

polls are closed we'll have a lot of

turnout but there might be some

capitulation coming we'll say it depends

where the polls are on the final day but

I would say at this point I want to anti

fraud to be unmasked and I would like

you know the police to unmask at least a

few of them

every time it did help that the ones who

got arrested got unmasked I mean I think

that probably put a dent in their

movement to see all of their the faces

the people they got unmasked and see

that floating around social media very

popular on social media I might add so I

think that probably took a dent out of

it but I am now in favor of Anti Fog

demonstrations under the following

conditions those of you who oppose an

tyfa should leave immediately

or make sure you're in the city that has

a police department that can handle this

sort of thing now as I said before the

DC Police Department apparently and you

know you can't tell unless you're there

but based on news reports based on clips

I've seen it looks like the actual

police you know the people on the

streets did great it looks like they did

great in keeping the violence to a

minimum but they obviously were

handicapped by their management who I I

think it's obvious and this is not

confirmed but I think it's obvious that

that management told the police on the

street to not unmask people even though

the law allows them to do that there

must have been a decision about that but

still they did the best job they could

under the rules that they were operating

on there was very funny tweet from

Michael malice who often has funny

tweets you should follow him if you're

not following Michael malice you're

missing some great acerbic wit so if you

like if you like your tweets edgy you

know if you like a little if you like a

little spice on your tweets follow

Michael malice but we did yesterday I

think a picture of do you remember EG

and carroll who was accusing the

president and you remember how long ago

that was two weeks

as Michael MELAS pointed out in his

tweet it was only two weeks ago we were

talking about eg and Carol do you know

why we're not talking about her anymore

it didn't work it didn't hurt the

president so it's not news anymore

because it doesn't hurt the president

she was so non-credible in her let's say

the way the story evolved I'm not saying

anything about her personally or her

thoughts or what happened because those

are things I can't know but the way the

the public the way the public received

her was not in a way that's bad for the

president somebody's asking me if I can

talk about Epstein well there's a lot of

unknowns on Epstein and so I generally

try to avoid talking about stories the

way they do on the news where they'll

say well we don't know what's gonna

happen but if this happens and if that

happens those are the least interesting

stories I think Epstein is a

wait-and-see because there's just way

too much we don't know somebody saying

that Dershowitz has done I would bet

against that if I had to bet one thing I

would bet that Alan Dershowitz will

command this find for a variety of

reasons but you know I suppose we live

in a world where any surprise as

possible but I don't think that's going

to surprise you

meaning that I think Dershowitz will be

fine and all this stuff but there does

if it's true that Bill Clinton was on

Epstein's jet 26 times or whatever I

don't know how you explain that do you

all right we're just leaving all those

people who complain about the sound you

know so one down all right

I saw a story that the Navy is

outfitting the destroyers that the Navy

is putting lasers on

Lazer's now apparently the big problem

with a laser on the ship is having

enough power source on the ship to power

the laser and you know maybe even

nuclear isn't enough because you have to

it's not it's not enough that you

produce a lot of energy you have to

store it so that it can be released in

in its most concentrated form so they

have some technical things that are

tough but apparently they're on the way

to solving them and will actually have

lasers that can take out drones so

imagine this you're probably going to

see this in the future

imagine a fleet of hundreds of enemy

drones they could be small or they could

be big but let's say there are hundreds

of them is just blackening the sky and

it's coming toward your your carrier

group it and imagine that the destroyer

fires up its laser and of course a laser

can the advantage of a laser I think is

that it's the speed of light right if

you fire a bullet or a missile you have

to time it so that the flight of the

bullet or missile matches a flying

object which is hard but if you're

aiming a laser the laser essentially

arrives at the same time is fired speed

of light I mean there's a little delay

but the object will not have moved much

so I think you can simply light up your

screen with all your targets and I think

the laser maybe not version one but I

think the laser can just go up up up up

up and take out 300 drones in five

seconds I guess it depends how long the

pulse lasts but the other thing you

could do is sort of like Babylon 5 the

shadows where you saw that the laser

would just be continuous so instead of

firing bursts it would be like a sword

in the air and it would just be a sword

that calls you and just paints all that

the drones out of the sky

so I only point that out to say we're

definitely gonna have lasers in the

military like that's I would say at this

point you don't have to wonder if that's

gonna happen

that's happening we got lasers and the

next war is going to be small drones

versus lasers because I think lasers are

gonna be the only defense against swarms

of small things would you agree I don't

know that there's another defense unless

it's electronic

maybe jamming I suppose but certainly

war is taking an interesting direction

not a good way I saw a story that said

that the RNC the Republican National

Committee attracted quote a larger share

of donations under $200 than the

Democrat Democratic National Committee

this is according to the New York Times

so in other words if you take $200 as

your threshold and I suppose it would be

different depending on which threshold

you picked but if you say anything under

$200 is a quote small donation the

Republicans got more small donations

than the Democratic National Committee

now

could there be a better indicator of

president Trump's re-election chances

that's really really good indicator

because I believe President Trump not

only got more donations from big donors

but also more donations from small

donors I think he got more donations

from everybody now you add that so

apparently the president will have just

a tremendous amount of money for

re-election that he did not have for

election so 0.1 the president won with

very little money against what some

people thought was the strongest

candidate the Democrats have ever had

and then of course it as an in in

hindsight

Hilary Clinton look like the worst

candidate but at the time we thought she

was super strong and the president Peter

anyway but now he's the incumbent

incumbents don't often lose and if an

incumbent has a strong economy they

really don't lose and if the incumbent

has all the charisma versus the

Challenger then they really really don't

lose and if the accumbens has way more

money than the Challenger then they

really really don't lose and if there

are no wars that are a problem for the

voters well then the incumbent doesn't

lose so you have about five serious

indicators to say the Trump is gonna win

re-election and that's before you even

talk about how bad the competition is

who exactly is gonna run against him you

know I'm guessing caramel heiress will

eventually be the nominee and I think

she's got some game but she doesn't have

anything like the charisma of the

president and she's gonna have a lot to

explain by the time she gets the

nomination if she does so I would say

the slaughter meter is at 200% meaning

the odds of President Trump getting

re-elected in a landslide is so high now

that if you if you were to bet the other

way it would seem irrational now of

course it's still a long way off and of

course you know anything could happen

you know nothing is certain but if

nothing big changes

I suppose it's almost a certainty that

something big will change but if nothing

big did change its it's a lock for the

president to get reelected I think a

couple more stories I saw but I haven't

seen much follow up in the press and I

think there's a reason for that

yeah I believe the administration is

looking to

require pharmaceutical companies the

drug manufacturers who sell stuff in

this country to give us the same price

as the best price that they sell it

anywhere else in the world now here's

the catch the United States has been

subsidizing healthcare in the rest of

the world the fact that we we pay too

much for our drugs allows the

pharmaceuticals to cover their fixed

costs etc and then since poor countries

wouldn't be able to afford to pay a lot

they can charge them less and then there

was poor countries get better health

care because they're paying less for the

the drugs but it's being subsidized by

the United States now apparently the

Trump administration is going to require

and who knows if this will pass Supreme

Court who knows if there's a problem

here who knows who could suit so this is

by far not a done deal but the Trump

administration is saying to

pharmaceuticals you have to offer in

this country a price that's no worse

than the lowest price in another country

any most favored nations clause in the

contract now you know what's amazing

about this story what's the most amazing

thing about this story well I want to

see if it's obvious to you what's the

amazing thing the amazing thing about

the story is that this is the first time

anybody thought of that are you kidding

me I used to negotiate contracts for a

living

so my job for several years in my

corporate life was to deal with the

vendors and negotiate contracts with

mostly technology vendors the most

favored nations clause that says you're

not going to charge us more than you

charge other people is pretty basic

contract discussion in other words if

you're a professional negotiator of

contracts and you have not thought to

ask for that that nobody else gets a

lower price now you can't always get

that

you might not have enough power to get

that into your contract but if you're

the United States and you're the biggest

customer for these pharmaceutical

companies and you're the government so

you can just change the law you

absolutely can get that it was laying

there like free money on a table I said

that exactly the same time somebody put

in the comments free money on the table

I actually said it as the phrase was

appearing in the comments so yeah you

got ahead of me this president better

than anybody ever has done it is the

only person who will pick up free money

this laying on a table and it's

mind-boggling this this you know I don't

know what it's gonna be an executive

order or some kind of a rule change

other than what it is but if this

administration gets away with it

meaning if they can cause the

pharmaceuticals to raise their prices in

other countries if that's necessary I

don't even know if that's necessary or

to at least give us those same prices it

will be an enormous change in the cost

of your health care it will come at the

expense of the pharmaceutical companies

which are you know in many cases also

part of our economy but I'll bet there

are a lot of them that are not there

must be a lot of foreign pharmaceutical

companies that are overcharging in the

United States are you okay with that so

that they can subsidize other countries

now the cruel part of this is that it

absolutely will

I would assume have an impact on other

countries being able to afford their

health care but isn't that true for

everything we do a hundred percent of

the money that we spend in the United

States it could have been spent in

another country where they needed it

more people were more poor more

desperate have worse health care that's

true of everything every dollar we spend

on ourselves could have been spent for

somebody else so he'll so the

pharmaceutical stuff seems like it's

just more of that and so you've got

President Trump saying hey looks like

there's some money on that table why

don't we just pick it up

now if he gets this done there's a very

good chance given other free market

changes that the administration is

making for health care you know other

things about organizing across state

lines etc if this stuff gets done and

guess works into the system by Election

Day the president might be able to claim

just think about this the president

might be able to claim that he stopped

the increase of health care expenses now

that's not as good as universal health

care insurance to people who have no

insurance they still would prefer that

but that's a really strong story if

you're running for re-election and

you're the first president who made

health care costs stop in their tracks

maybe even go down maybe I don't know I

don't know how he doesn't get reelected

if somebody said is viagra cheap yet I

believe it is it's a it's a generic why

do we have to pay more because other

countries have mismanaged their money

somebody says well that's the whole

point is that we can we can do what's

good for the United States because

that's how countries are organized

they're organized to take care of

themselves and the idea is that if

everybody did that the world's a better

place then do University tuition alright

I'm just looking at your comments here

generic drug companies caught conspiring

to fix prices is that true alright

people are prompting me about a tweet in

I tweeted a story in which Bill Gates

had referred to himself as a minor

wizard and referred to the late Steve

Jobs as a as a major wizard who had a

reality distortion field and he could

make a company work even if the product

was bad which he did with next computer

he made a huge profit on something where

nobody even wanted the problem

and Bill Gates noted that Steve Jobs you

know magic reality distortion field

didn't work on jobs

I'm sorry didn't work on gates because

Gates felt he had a little immunity to

it because he was a small-time wizard

himself now there's not much to say

about that except that when Gates talks

about jobs and his power of persuasion

you're hearing it from a credible and

interesting source and somebody was

close to the source somebody who knew

him well enough to have an informed

opinion so and even though Jobs was

considered an a-hole and I think I think

Gates actually said that in the

interview nobody could argue the fact

that he could make people work harder

and do things and buy things that other

people couldn't make happen so he did

seem to have the magic all right any

other questions that's all I got today

it's another wonderful day because again

if you look at the news

hey nimble navigate

oh yeah Joe Biden is apologizing so joe

biden said he waited to apologize about

this busing thing do you all understand

the busing issue

I don't apparently apparently the issue

is Democrats think other Democrats are

racist because they agree with each

other on busing I think that's it right

did I get that wrong tell me if I got

any of the facts wrong they're Democrats

especially , Lares and Joe Biden they

are mad at each other because they agree

completely on the issue of busing that's

a 20 year old issue isn't it something

like that so it's sort of a non-issue

that highlights how well things are

going if you if the Democrats are

debating a topic from 20 years ago

you're in good shape think about it

you're in really good shape if that's

what you're doing

oh yeah so there's a story about Kelly

O'Hara picking up the flag when the

other player drops it on the ground but

I watched the video and it's obvious

that the there were three of the play

the women's soccer team players who were

going to do sort of a dance coordinated

thing you know as a celebration and one

of them had to flag in her hand and she

put it down for a minute to do the

coordinated saying I don't think she was

thinking about it as being disrespectful

I think it was just I just think she

wasn't thinking I doubt she put the

American flag on the ground to make a

statement it was just a really

thoughtless thing to do in public but

yeah she's young you know people do

thought listens so at the end of my

periscope from yesterday in which I did

I pinned yesterday's periscope to my top

of my Twitter page I'm predicting it

will be the most watched video that I

I've made so far so far maybe seventy

thousand or a hundred thousand people

have looked at it if you count all the

platforms together if you count YouTube

Plus periscope plus shoot and so

be probably around 100 thousand people

who have seen it by today I'm thinking

it might be the first video that I made

that reaches a million viewers and at

the end of the video I said something

provocative the the nature of the video

is well you can just see yourself but at

the end of it I I said something that

got a lot of reaction so a lot of people

are quoting me and reacting to it and

what I said was this sentence and listen

to it carefully because you have to

listen to it carefully to get what's

happening it's just one sentence and I

said

God is what's left over after you take

everything away God is what's left over

after you take everything away now

here's what's interesting about this and

here's why I said it every one of you

heard that you had a different opinion

of what it meant

you probably registered it as profound

without knowing what it meant all right

I'm gonna read it again and see if your

brain recognizes it as profound at the

same time you're not sure what it means

okay God is what's left after you take

everything away

it sounds profound right you register it

that way but you're not sure exactly

what it means

and what people demonstrated in the

comments is what I what I thought would

happen is that everybody had a different

interpretation of what it meant you can

interpret this as a statement that God

exists outside of the normal rules of

physics and matter you could interpret

it as saying that there's no God because

you took everything away and there

wouldn't be anything left you could

interpret it as the simulation you could

interpret it any way you want but that's

the point

so what's profound about it is that the

statement is exactly like all of your

different views of the world it is a

statement that was subjective reality

the statement is that you can all look

at exactly the same stuff you can look

at the same picture you can look at the

same words you can think of the same

idea but the way you process that will

be an entirely different world and this

sentence is one of those little little

ways where you can see that clearly so

I'll say it again God is what's left

after you take everything away so God is

what

left over after you take everything away

as you watch people completely

reinterpret that as opposites meaning

that means God doesn't exist or that

means that God does exist and he's

beyond time and space and matter you can

see the entire world everything about

your reality is in this sentence once

you understand that people are looking

at the reality and interpreting it as

their own movie and there's nothing you

can do about that and nor should you I

mean there's there's no reason to do

anything about it we're living our own

subjective reality and once you get that

you become free once you if you

understand reality to be objective then

what it feels like is that you're a

victim of reality reality is here and

it's it's imposing its will on you and

you're doing the best you can but

reality is gonna win it subjective and

it's controlling you it controlled your

DNA controls your choices it controls

what your options are it's reality is

objective and it's your it's its victim

but once you realize that we're all

living subjective realities and that

those subjective realities pretty much

all work some better than others but

they all work meaning that I you can

live your life thinking that you

reincarnated from a cow and I can live

my life believing in a Christian world

you can somebody else can live their

life believing in an Islamic

interpretation of the world and we can

all eat breathe procreate it works fine

these are completely different

worldviews once you understand that

reality is subjective here's the cool

part you can control it I just let that

there for a moment once you realize that

reality is subjective you can control it

that's how you escape the matrix is

understanding that it's under your

control and that's the first probably

the first and most important mental

shift you have to make is to understand

that you control your reality and that

your reality is complete you can

actually make things happen by focusing

by just putting your energy your

attention reinterpreting things reading

things you need to do doing what you

need to do having systems that get you

where you want there are things that you

can move and control that will change

your reality

you're you're watching me right now

having a fairly substantial impact on

the country now do you think that I

believe I live in an objective world

where the only things I can do are the

things that reality has allowed for me

it's like you only have this path it's

the only path you can get on can't get

on that path I don't live in that world

I live in a subjective reality and

because I understand it to be subjective

I don't see limitations the way I used

to I would have imagined okay I don't

have this set of skills so I can't do

that I don't have this training so I

can't do that I don't have enough time I

don't have enough money somebody's going

to dislike me I'm going to embarrass

myself it might not work out what if

what if it goes wrong that's objective

reality and it's a prison once you

realize that there are fairly ordinary

mechanisms that you can control meaning

your mind the systems you used to live

your life the things you focus

the things you care about the things you

dream of that these actually produce

different realities not you can't you

know make a car disappear you can't make

an elephant appear you can't make a bag

of money appear doesn't work like that

but you can absolutely steer you know

your reality is there's still gonna be

stuff out there that's exterior to you

but you can you can steer your way to

the movie you want have you watched me

do this by the way somebody's saying

that the proof is my girlfriend

Christina that's pretty good proof so

somebody says is this in loser think the

ideas that you're hearing now are sort

of spread across my existing books had a

failed almost everything and still win

big also in my book win big Leigh about

persuasion in general and if you really

want a total mind effing you should read

my book gods debris gods debris is

fiction but it's designed to it's

designed for you to feel for the first

time in many cases it would be the first

time that people felt it to feel that

reality could be reinterpreted in a

completely different way and still work

so that's what gods debris is about it's

fiction but as you read it it's designed

because I used hypnosis techniques as

well as writing techniques it's designed

to make most readers not everyone of you

because everybody's different but it's

designed to make most readers have the

sensation that they could understand

reality through a different filter for

the first time and that that filter

works as well as the filter they came to

it with once you realize that you can

see the world through two different

filters in other words two movies two

different realities and they both work

that's the key they both work if you

don't get that part you've missed the

secret I hate to say the secret because

that's the name of the book but if you

believe that you just went from one

filter on reality and then you've got

another one you said oh this new one is

so I'll get rid of the old one you

haven't learned the lesson the lesson is

they both work that's the lesson so

that's what God's debris tries to teach

you indirectly and they in a fictional

sense loser think is more about mental

traps than we get into and how to get

out of them and so I'll talk a lot more

about that in the coming months it's due

out in November

what about chronic health problems well

some of you may know that I had a

problem with my voice I lost my ability

to speak for three and a half years and

it was an incurable problem so I lived

in this for a while I lived in this

objective reality where some people get

this condition called spasmodic

dysphonia which is what I had which

makes your vocal cords scrunched

together when you're trying to talk and

so you can't produce intelligible noise

when I learned that it was incurable

there was no cure I would never be able

to speak again did I say to myself oh no

I am a victim of a reality that is

objective and now I know the rules and

the rules say that this is incurable I

guess that's the rest of my life imagine

going the rest of your life not being

able to speak 40 50 years of life not

being able to speak just imagine it okay

that's the reality that I was handed a

chose to violate that reality I chose to

violate it from the first day that I

found out it was incurable I told myself

that someday I would be doing this I

would be talking to a large number of

people with a perfect voice now

voice isn't perfect but if you heard my

voice before I had the voice problem

it's the best it's ever been in other

words my current speaking voice the one

you hear right now is substantially

better than the best voice I ever had

before I had a voice problem I said I'm

not gonna settle for getting my voice

back I said that every single day

everytime I got my car I repeated to

myself mentally i scott adams will have

a perfect voice every day for three and

a half years I hunted down the one

doctor in the world was experimentally

doing some surgeries on people's nerves

in their neck and he had some successes

in curing this problem I hunted him down

I went to his office I got the surgery

after a lot of research and it doesn't

work for everybody not every person who

has the research who has the surgery

gets the good result most get an

improvement but they don't all get a

full improvement

it took working on my voice every day

four years after the surgery it's been a

number of years every single day my

voice improved because I worked at it I

worked on my breathing I worked on my

tone I took everything that I learned

before the surgery about how to produce

good vocal quality and you see me doing

right now I'm speaking in what's called

the mask of my face so I said to reality

reality I reject you I reject you I'm

not going to have an incurable voice

problem I'm gonna be the first person

who cures it and then I did now I wasn't

the first person that turns out there

were some people I didn't know about but

most of the most of the world who has

this problem still has it I would say

95% of all the people who have the same

voice problem I had

still have it they still have it they

have insulting it so no I can tell you

more stories that are similar to that

somebody said did prayer play a part it

did not no I'm not a believer I'm very

Pro religion but I'm not a believer

personally I think religion is a great

filter on the world for a lot of people

and objectively speaking it's just

obvious somebody says so far I've lost

89 pounds I think you're referring to

using a system for weight loss that I

talked about in had a failed almost

everything and still win big and I a lot

of people have been writing to me and

telling me that they had lost massive

amounts of weight they got promotions

they doubled their pay and all of it is

the same phenomenon it's people who have

decided people who have decided that the

reality that they were handed they

reject they just rejected it they said

no I'm not going to take the reality I'm

handed I'm gonna make my own and there's

another 140 pounds down just look at the

comments somebody lost 89 pounds and

somebody who lost 40 pounds just

following a simple system the name of

the book is how to fail in almost

everything and still win big if you just

google my name on Amazon all the books

will pop up 50 pounds 30 pounds oh my

god look at all the people in the

comments who have lost some of the some

of the gained weight Saudi lost 20 23

pounds in 30 days holy cow another

40-pounder 42 pounds 10 pounds oh my god

abs at 33 somebody somebody got their

abs going somebody quit smoking lost 25

pounds somebody lost 80 pounds John do

you really John you lost 80 pounds it's

amazing

50 pounds look at the comments somebody

game 50 I don't think those people were

using the system somebody lost 40 pounds

are keeping it off years later the

keeping it office is the best pens 12

pounds closer to having abs and for age

48 up my pay by $50,000 these are in the

comments if you're watching this later

on YouTube you won't see the comments

somebody says there tried to lose 150

pounds parenthetically my girlfriend

somebody does 300 push-ups during my

periscope everyday that's the system

that is a heck of a good system so my

compliments so somebody hears that they

exercise during my periscopes that's a

great system because it reminds you to

do it it's like brushing your teeth at

the same time every day before you

you've got a good a bad if you can key

your your workout to an external event

it really makes it easier I do the same

thing I actually keep my workouts

depending on the time of the day if I if

it's later in the day I'll always listen

to the five so I've learned that

listening to the TV show of the five on

fox news is just really absorbing and

you know I love the show it's my

favorite show and so I matched that to

my exercise time and it makes me want to

exercise it's a great system alright

somebody else walks during my periscope

yeah have I heard of David Goggins I

have not all right

just looking at your comments and thanks

so much and I'm going to talk to all of

you later bye for now