and now that the press is making stories disappear if they don't support the Democrats or the narrative, let's say. Now they can see it, but they can't quite bring themselves to flat out and say it's fucked up. One wrote, and then two of them concede that they now better understand conservatives' complaints about the media.

Here it comes. Or as I like to say, it's happening. It's happening. There is an awareness shift going on that's now I think easy to identify. We don't know how far it'll go. We don't know if this is just a minor pushback and then things keep going the way they were. But I've always told you that the slippery slope is not real. Or it's a better way to say it. I think I've said it poorly when I say it's not real. That probably is just fighting words. So let me say it less provocatively.

A better way to think of it is the celebrity of slippery slope. So instead of debunking it, let me upgrade it and get you to a place you could agree. I think everything goes in the direction it's going until there's a reason for it to stop. Right? You all agree with that, right? Everything will keep going the way it's going until there's a reason for it to stop. Could be a physical reason, could be psychological, whatever.

So the slippery slope doesn't add anything to the basic understanding that everything goes the way it's going until it stops. But if you can't see what would stop something, you say it's a slippery slope because you can't see the stop. But the stop materializes when it's needed. And I think we're seeing it materialize. The woke stuff now I think is so widely discredited that you would have no risk at all of mocking it in public. I don't know if you could have done that as much even a year ago. You can just say it's a whole philosophy that's hurting people more than helping. And you can say that the school systems are the systemic racists and you'd like to help. So I feel like things have really, really shifted just in the last really six months. I think it's accelerated.

So this is all anecdotal, right? Unless you have some kind of a scientific reason to think that there's something going on here, you should be a little bit cautious. Oh, it's pronounced Waukesha. So I've been pronouncing it Wakasha. Yeah, remember when they called it political correctness?

Erica says I have lots of friends confessing their Democrat hatred privately to me. Yeah, so yeah, I think the pendulum is a better model than the slippery slope. The slippery slope is like if you imagine the pendulum, you know, that one's got the several balls that are suspended and you take the one ball and you let it swing and it hits the balls and the other one, the other end goes up the same amount and it goes for a while. That feels like a better model than the slippery slope. Meaning that things will go in one direction and then they almost always reverse because people just get tired of things heading in the same direction or there's a counter that pops up.

Greg Gutfeld's show has helped increase the awareness level of the middle third of the public. Well, to the extent that he's pulling in any independents, yes.

Now how many of you see it? Are you seeing this trend in awareness? Are you seeing the complete destruction of the credibility of the press and the professional set in ways that even the left can clearly see now? They can see that their own media has duped them.

Now the other tell: it used to be when I called the fine people hoax a hoax on Twitter, it would be just filled with people saying, "You crazy thing. I saw it with my own eyes." But of course they didn't. They saw the selectively edited version of it which reverses its meaning. Now it used to be that people pushed back on that. Now I don't know if they all understand it's fake or if they know it could be, so they're just not joining the fight. So I don't know if I've convinced them it's fake. I've convinced everybody who looked at the transcript. If you look at the transcript, it's obviously fake. But I think people have softened to at least the idea that pretty much everything said about Trump was made up or hyperbole or crazy talk.

You know, the one thing that I think is always completely fair to say is Trump University. I think people sometimes ask me how I defend Trump University and I say I don't. I don't. You have any opinion of that you want? I will answer this one text and that's all.

All right, my dirt freaks out when your let's go Brandon. The bird was the vandal because somebody says gas prices are now so high it's actually cheaper to buy cocaine and run everywhere. I appreciate that.

Yeah, you know, here I can't defend Trump University but I'll give you some context. I was in the licensing business for many years with Dilbert and I can tell you that the person who licenses their name or their character, in my case, they don't look at all the operating details of the company that does the licensing. You know, you do a quick check to make sure it's not a complete fraud. But let's say it was somebody you knew. I think he probably worked with somebody new and they said, "Hey, we'll do this thing. We'll put your name on it. Trust us." So if he trusted someone he shouldn't have trusted, you should certainly hold that against him. Put it in the whole picture. But if you believe there's no evidence of this, that he knew exactly what was going on and was okay with it, that's not evidence.

Yeah, and I'm definitely licensed to people I wish I had not licensed to after the fact. So you're saying my Dilbert condoms were not a licensed product? Yeah, I'd worry about those. Do you know how many sales gurus call their programs universities? Well, yeah.

Did we do Kamala on the roof? Yes. So yes, we're talking about Kamala going somewhere. We talked about that.

All right, I don't have much else to talk about. How about this comment: "You okay with the normalization of pedophilia, Scott? All the capitalism couples." Why would you even ask that question? Why do you even ask that question? Like what would even provoke you to ask me if I'm okay with horrible crimes? Why would you be curious about that? For the record, I'm generally against all horrible crimes.

I haven't watched the Beatles Get Back special but it's on my list. If there's no Supreme Court, how will they get rid of