Episode 444 Scott Adams: Sports Are Broken, Trump’s Best Week Ever, Moderate Bernie

Date: 2019-03-10 | Duration: 57:00

Topics

“Old Nads” document blizzard request to 81 people Even the Democrats know this is way beyond legitimate Michael Caputo’s refusal to comply, all should follow his lead Cognitive Dissonance Tell - Word Salad Example: David Pakman and the “Fine People Hoax” Fine People Hoax - President Trump called people on both sides of the STATUE question “fine people”. Trying to deprogram people who believe the “Fine People Hoax” North Korea might be fixing up a worrisome facility, negotiating 101 Bernie proposals now seem moderate in comparison to others Capitalism delivers what socialism promises Sports and trans-athletes competing, winning Performance enhancing drugs Jim Carrey’s artwork and artistic talent

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bum bum bum bum come on in here gather around grab your cups your mugs your chalice your Stein's grab your thermos fill it with your favorite liquid it's time for a little bit of coffee with Scott Adams and if you have your container and if you've filled it with your favorite liquid I like coffee it's time to join me now for the simultaneous sip the best part of the day Oh bliss so have you noticed that the news just sort of stopped recently that's been happening more often there'll be a bunch of news and then you wake up in the morning and

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and then you wake up in the morning and you check see then you check Fox News and there's no news just all the new stopped isn't that weird that all the news stopped think about all of the things that people were afraid about this president when he got elected take your mind back to travel with me in your mind back to 2016 what did people think was going to be happening about now I think what people expected to be happening in 2019 back when Trump got elected is I believe the I believe the oceans were going to rise and take you out our coasts I think the economy was going to be in a depression we should be in a full nuclear war by now race war of course and I don't think any of our allies would be talking to us and Isis would be be landing on the beach in

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Isis would be be landing on the beach in the Northeast
did any of that happen seems to me that there's nothing better for President Trump than no news because everything's going well the news is all about stuff that that goes wrong today the news there's a you know tragedy with a aircraft but you know the world is full of accidents we care about airplanes because they happen all at once but you know in the time that we were talking about the poor souls who perished on that one airplane five times that many people died in automobile accidents so the world is actually looking pretty good you know give or take tragedy centers sprinkled around but I want to talk to you about the fine people hoax now anybody who's new to this a lot of

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now anybody who's new to this a lot of the world believes that the President of the United States called neo-nazis fine people at Shell this film that of course never happened it's a hoax he was referring to the people on both sides of the Confederate statue issue more generally as fine people on both sides of that question but then the news said oh you must be talking about the people marching with tiki torches and saying anti-semitic things did you just call them find people which he clarified he did not but they still report it like he did even though he clarified he did not and even though it was obvious he did not because who would so here's the fun part I have been practicing in public seeing if I could deprogram people who have been you know let's say programmed into the cult of believing the fine people hoaxes and I don't know if some of you

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hoaxes and I don't know if some of you have watched you know what happens when people bring up the fine people on social media anywhere around anywhere around my account and then pretty soon people are joining me and piling in to correct the hoaxes and I've been trying specific methods to deprogram someone from that belief and here's why this one's fun there there are a lot of things that you can't prove conclusively is a hoax for example I could tell you that I believe that chemtrails are not real I could tell you that I believe QED is not real but to find a proof that something is not real is nearly impossible it's very rare but in this one case with the fine people we have the actual transcript and then we also have some common sense although common sense is

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common sense although common sense is largely an illusion but let me tell you the process I've been using to deprogram people and specifically about a conversation I had with David Pakman now David Pakman is the host of the David Pakman show he's had me on his show a couple of times he's very anti trauma and he brought up the fine people hoax as if it were real on his Twitter and then a number of people pointed me at it and they were already telling him it wasn't real but let me show you an exchange because I want to point something out if you've been following me for a while you know that I like to highlight whenever somebody gets tipped into cognitive dissonance because there are some tells there are some things that people do that are kind of easy to spot once you know them and my favorite one is the word salad tell now word salad

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is the word salad tell now word salad means that people are using words and they're forming sentences and the sentences make sense at least in the in the way that you know verbs and nouns and stuff fit together but if you if you read it it just is nonsense so if somebody starts out with a rational argument as David Pakman did you know hey he said this I heard it myself that's a rational thing to say even though it's wrong and then he's presented with the counter-argument now the first first response to the counter-argument is no that can't be right so anybody is the first response is it can't be right that has been reported as fact that he called neo-nazis fine people and it's all over CNN reports at MSNBC it's in most of the media it can't be reported as fact in all those places where they were actually being a fact right so the first time you

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being a fact right so the first time you tell somebody is not a fact they're their reflexes well that can't be right I mean that's nonsense everybody knows this is a fact we all live through it we all saw it it's reported in all the media and then you point them to the actual quote and it's pretty obvious it's not a fact and if it's not immediately obvious I follow up with this all right so this is what I said in a tweet after a couple of exchanges with David Pakman I said you think the President of the United States intentionally praised neo-nazis in front of the world and figured that would go well so I put it in the form of a question this is more powerful it's in question form so I'm asking him to state directly his belief that he thinks the President of the United States intentionally in public praised neo-nazis I thought that would go OK

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neo-nazis I thought that would go OK because that's what he's claiming so I'm asking him to say it directly and then I go out and say and Israel didn't notice so his belief I'm trying to make him say directly is that the president United States intentionally praised neo-nazis who were marching saying anti-semitic things that he intentionally praised them in public thought that would be fine and then also has to explain why Israel didn't notice didn't notice it was the biggest news story in the country and they don't have a problem with it how come they can't see it and he explained that so I said that's not a credible position compared to the obvious context so I said that that position believing that that actually happened and Israel didn't notice I said that position is not credible compared to the obvious

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credible compared to the obvious interpretation which is that he was talking about fine people on both sides of the statute question now having said this what is somebody gonna do right what would do well would David Pakman response be what I've said say directly that you believe the president United States have said this in public and thought that would turn out okay and you also believe that Israel didn't notice or decided not to make a fuss about it say those things if that's what you believe what do you think David Pakman response was I will read it to you he said any understanding of the propaganda model and of how consent and dissent are manufactured in a geopolitical world would more than explain those apparent incongruencies merely pointing out that Trump's daughter is Jewish is a very myopic argument do you see it yeah now

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myopic argument do you see it yeah now I'm gonna read it again because the first time you heard it you were probably waiting for waiting for it to make sense so you're you know the sentence starts and you go okay let's see where it's going alright I think I see where it's going wait are you done talking because it didn't go anywhere it's word salad all right let me read it again so you can get the full deliciousness of it and let me let me give you mine and then his so you can see the the juxtaposition all right my kill shot in terms of the argument is you think the president intentionally praised neo-nazis in front of the world and figure that would go well and then I said and Israel didn't notice now those are pretty solid points put in the form of a question now if you ask a question that directly do you think the president did this and do you think that your interpretation as the

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think that your interpretation as the Israel was okay with it confirm that is that true or false instead of confirming it or even denying it his answer was any understanding of the propaganda model and it's how consent and dissent are manufactured in a geopolitical world would more than explain this apparent incongruencies merely pointing out that trumps daughter's Jewish is a very myopic argument that's the end of the argument right as soon as one person goes into word solid there's nothing else to say I don't I don't need to continue the argument because it's already over now I I just tweeted this morning to him to invite him on the periscope to see if we could come to a some kind of final understanding on just this this minor question I don't know if he'll you know feel want to do that but notice how effective that was in my experience and

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effective that was in my experience and you could maybe some people who follow me on Twitter can confirm this some of you who have gone through the cycle just like this you've used the same arguments I've seen them and you've argued with people who thought fine people really happened haven't you noticed that when you do it the person either changes the subject or or ends up with word salad have you all noticed that try to try it yourself try it in your personal life and make sure you you know once once you've explained what the real context is that it's about both sides and people on both sides of the statute question and then go with the do you believe the president intentionally said this in public I thought it would go well and then and that Israel was okay with it and didn't notice didn't seem to have any problem with it was that what you believe because nobody's gonna say I do

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believe because nobody's gonna say I do believe that and if they do they're gonna their brain is gonna explode all right this isn't it's enough on that here's a question I see some of you prompting me that Candice's and hog Newsome's that that interview went down or got that was I guess released yes today must be released today so I haven't watched that yet but I will and here's the question to you what happened to black lives matter do black lives is everybody agreed that we're all good now on that black lives matter now what why don't we see them anymore yeah this is another one of those the dog that didn't bark have there been no high-level police shootings of the type that black lives matter mostly concentrates on didn't

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matter mostly concentrates on didn't they just sort of disappear so it looks to me like black lives matter just sort of disappeared and I don't know why could it be that there is no longer this feeling about this president is it possible that people see good things happening on criminal justice employment they see strong border stuff which by the way if you were not aware of this the African American community is not big on letting people come in to compete for jobs you know that the African American community kind of likes a border they like a border on average so it feels to be like black lives matter just sort of went away how about an Tifa do you remember that an tyfa big gathering this weekend neither do i are they starting to peter out I think

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are they starting to peter out I think they are have you seen a March with the pink hats lately not lately now maybe it's because it's winter you know that could explain a lot actually it could be that it's just winter and things slowed down a little bit nobody wants to be outdoors but it feels to me like the president is entering a really good period his his approval is up not as high as you know you might want it to be but it's up what about the NFL protests and if he'll protests stopped didn't they they'll just stopped so it seems to me that the a lot of the was a symbolic resistance has petered out we don't see much from Anti Fog we don't see black lives matter at all we just sort of disappeared we don't see

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just sort of disappeared we don't see the NFL of kneeling why what what changed well I think what changed is the longer you go without the president doing something that confirms their deepest worst suspicions the more it doesn't seem realistic somebody said the Super Bowl ended but they weren't they weren't kneeling in any way so yes people are saying the funding dried up that's possible
so now on top of the fact that the the protests seem to have died down in this country for whatever reason have you noticed also that the president has not created any new outrages lately now he comes up with some good nicknames the he called Ann Coulter wacky on Twitter he called Bernie crazy he called somebody

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called Bernie crazy he called somebody else something else but have you noticed that President Trump is - is staying within the lane it's his lane meaning that he's got the nicknames and he'll still give you his opinion etc but he's not really leaving the lane is he he's not saying things that are taken out of context that I guess all the insider books have been debunked people are getting tired of the anonymous sources just stopped working have you noticed that the anonymous source stuff just stopped working and then there was the the Russia collusion that just stopped the obstruction of justice looks like that's going to be nothing because you can't obstruct an investigation well you can't since the mauler thing is not a Justice job it's that it's a different animal you can't really obstruct it and I don't think League of probably go with perspective so the president has now this yeah they're they're these 80 80

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this yeah they're they're these 80 80 some 81 requests for just looking for stuff now correct me if I'm wrong if you're the Dems and you struck out on collusion and you struck out on you're gonna strike out on the other stuff that we know about and you send out 81 requests for people and entities and you're basically ruining these people so I don't know if you know about Michael Caputo Republican consultant type who has just refused he got hit with one of the the requests and he just said I'm out because I'm not gonna ruin my family with legal expenses for a witch-hunt so he just said I'm out I'm not not complying now I hope all 81 do the same because it would be a tragedy if he would if you were the only one who said no and then and then he gets some kind

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no and then and then he gets some kind of penalty for that it would be a tragedy on top of a tragedy I'm hoping that other people take the same stand which is this is enough you know the is just so naked League so nakedly political that it doesn't help the country doesn't help anybody it's just all bad now it seems to me that Jerry Nadler who I like to call old nads old nads has in my opinion overreached because I think even if you're an anti jumper and you're watching him you're watching old nads and his 81 people he wants to talk to you just in case don't you know that that's illegitimate even the people who wish that they could find something untried Trump even the people who wish Trump would leave office even the people who are sure that maybe there must be something bad there if you look hard

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something bad there if you look hard enough you'll find something even the people who think there's something there and they wish Trump would go even they know this is too far don't you think don't you think that they hold simultaneously you know well I hope it works but I have to admit this is way beyond this is way beyond the pale I think people have both feelings I don't think anybody's thinking I don't say anybody but I think the majority are not thinking this is legitimate even the people who are anti Trump though they could probably feel it and so it feels to be that the old nads empty of the clip throw everything at the monster technique youth is probably going to hurt the Dems because it reduces them to
what would be the word nitpickers or it reduces them to basically you know in

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reduces them to basically you know in the Philippines there's this thing called smoky mountain have you ever heard of that a smoky mountain is a literally a mountain of garbage and people are so poor that they that there are poor people climbing through the garbage on Smoky Mountain looking for any you know any food or anything and it feels like old nadz is just on Smoky Mountain looking for there must be something in the air about Trump we could find something and it's all becoming weak and pathetic and it looks it makes them look like yeah I feel like there's an analogy here that would be funny something about their they're literally looking for the fleas you know they miss the dog they're looking for the fleas instead of the dog I guess at this point something like that I'll work on that analogy anyway so

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that I'll work on that analogy anyway so so I checked the news today to see what what they're hammering on Trump for because you know there's gonna be something right you can't open up it's impossible to look at the news on CNN and now see some Trump bashing so here was the worst Trump bashing he signed Bibles that's it the worst thing they could come up with about Trump this week is that he signed Bibles for people when he visited as a disaster zone so first of all he visited a disaster zone so that's you know that's a good look for any president and second of all he was signing a Bible do you know what people hear when they hear that story now apparently you know people are saying that's bad for him because you didn't write the Bible with you you're not God why are you signing the Bible but when you hear the story all you hear is Trump Bible it's all good it's just all good

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Bible it's all good it's just all good the worst thing that could say about him is a good story you sign the Bible all right there's a story now about North Korea is fixing up one of its missile rocket launching facilities and so people are looking for why this means President Trump is failing in his negotiations now the first place I saw this report was NBC and I don't know if you have the same feeling I do but Glenn Greenwald has completely ruined me on NBC so NBC News breaks a story and it's bad for Trump the first thing I say is outs CIA you know it's just a BS story from an NBC my first thought is that it's not true before I even look at the details of the story I swear to God and I don't I don't have this feeling about CNN all right so as much as i mock CNN if there's a breaking news on see it in I usually think it's probably true you

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usually think it's probably true you know everybody's got their fake news problems but if CNN breaks the story I think it's probably true but when NBC breaks the story I have the opposite feeling as soon as I see NBC on it that's the first thing I look for words that come from I see the NBC and ago
there's just something that somebody's making up could he be an ambiguous story from a satellite could it be an anonymous source you know typical NBC story so this story says they're fixing up this facility that apparently could launch ICBM missiles for testing but it also could be a rocket for satellites now I'm not too up on what North Korea did with satellites but I think they would be allowed to launch a rocket for satellites I don't know that that's probably but in any case it makes sense that they're fixing

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case it makes sense that they're fixing up that facility even if it's just for negotiating purposes you know even if they're just trying to you know hint to trump well you know you haven't given us what we want maybe we'll just fix up this missile facility we won't we won't necessarily be launching a missile but let's just fix up this facility so in the context of the negotiation no big deal probably is exactly what they should be doing to create a little doubt in our minds so there will be a little more flexible now have you noticed that Bernie Sanders looks moderate lately and wondering how that's going to play out because Sanders looks moderate compared to the AOC s and the and the further left group and it feels to be like
that's that's an important story because his the Bernie proposals went from crazy

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his the Bernie proposals went from crazy far to left to somewhere in the middle but you know we didn't change well I guess we did change mentally he didn't change and now he moved from the far left to sort of the middle just because other people got left of him and it makes him look more moderate than he would have looked before and we're also getting used to the ideas the more you think about stuff even if you don't like it the more normal it becomes just because you're thinking about it a lot so the first time you ever heard free college your you know your hair caught on fire and you thought we can't afford that that'll never work blah blah by the millionth time you hear free college you start thinking to yourself well maybe there's a way you know maybe we can get there somehow so I like to use the the catch phrase that capitalism delivers what socialism promises and if Trump takes some version of that as his slogan

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takes some version of that as his slogan socialism is just going to be wiped out socialism can't stand up to that framing so if Trump adopts as a aspirational goal that people should have good health care and they should be able to afford college and have a good wage he can say I embrace every one of your goals I have a way to get as close as possible and somebody says that's a Prager at you quote I haven't heard it from Prague review but I would not be surprised if they have a similar thought and maybe I saw it there and I don't remember but the idea of it is wrong that capitalism delivers what socialism promises I wouldn't just say capitalism delivers and then period socialism promises that's weaker than to say capitalism

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that's weaker than to say capitalism delivers what socialism promises it's the what socialism promises that's the the the powerful part is that you're talking about the same end state the same end state is everybody's happy with their healthcare everybody's happy with the college everybody's got a good wage that's the end state everybody agrees on that it's just capitalism delivers what socialism promises please consider moving your mic away from your throat away from my throat I think what I might need to do is put a topper on my microphone because it's a little too sensitive I've been I've been hearing that comment now all right so I want to talk about sports and how a sports are

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talk about sports and how a sports are broken and I'm going to come to this through the side door I've been having a fun conversation with people on the question of trans a Thwaites specifically people born men who become or make the transition I guess to identify as women and then play women's sports and people who are conservative mostly say damn you Scott how can you support what they would call men but I would call women because they've identify and they've transformed as much as they can and they say that's not fair because it's there's such a difference in their skill level it ruins the sports well let's dig into that a little bit
number one what if women tried to play professional football well I think professional

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football well I think professional football is a sport that should stop anyway because of the head injuries likewise I think that professional boxing and and cage fighting what do you call that Ultimate Fighting what's that called I think those things are unnecessary sports I have no problem if somebody wants to do it and somebody else wants to watch it but these are completely unnecessary sports so do you care if and and there's not much of a women's football league anyway now let's say that a somebody born a man transitions to identify as female and then goes into a cage fight with a woman why would the woman take that match omma so I guess that's the what I was looking for so let's say you know some biologically born man transitions to woman and and

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born man transitions to woman and and then wants to fight with only women well the women have an option of fighting they could just say now we choose not to and then then the capitalism takes care of it there's no fight nobody nobody takes the fight that's the end of it now let's take badminton is is it a problem if a biologically born man who transitions to a woman enters the women's badminton league probably not I don't know probably doesn't make much difference about ping pong no probably not doesn't make much difference how about bowling probably doesn't make much difference yeah how about soccer in theory a male should have some advantages on average over the average female would it ruin soccer well in my experience I've played far more I think

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experience I've played far more I think this is true I played a lot more co-ed soccer than I have played all men on the field and soccers my favorite sport and I would say that co-ed soccer is actually way more fun now if you were doing a competitive and it was professional well you've got different standards there but why do we need that so the next thing I'm going to say is that schools that push this high level competition for the kids are more bad than good in other words so if people say to me well what about high school in college you know you can't have you know somebody you're such a strong player or be on a woman's team it would ruin the sport to which I say maybe it needs to be ruined maybe we should not be driving kids all over the state every weekend to pail to play sports at some high level when it gives them basically no beneficial no benefits for the rest of their life sports are great but here let's compare these two things if you said hey we're

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these two things if you said hey we're gonna have these teams they're co-ed you've got to have at least a few women on every team will have these friendly friendly league will have a good time compared to you're gonna be on the competitive team you're gonna work every weekend you're gonna be up till midnight by the time you practice and then do your homework and then every weekend the whole family has to drive you around the state to go to your highly competitive match does you're in the Elite League you're one of the good kids I don't know that those kids have a better life I don't know that anybody's better off from that it's a big burden it's a big expense it's now fair to the kids who don't have enough wherewithal enough income to do these higher league stuff it's basically you should just go away now here's the other thing sports in high school less so in college but sports in high school are primarily about humiliating the people who are bad in sports let me say that again sports

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in sports let me say that again sports in high school the primary thing that's happening is the humiliation of the people who are not good at sports because for every team that has some really good players on it most people are not them most people are just being that they were not born as good-good athletes so you have a situation that for the benefit of the few elite athletes who really do enjoy the whole thing and there's certainly some people who can you know love the competition you know they they thrive in it they they learn what it's like to be a winner and sometimes losing they get better character all those things are true for about five percent of the kids the other 95 percent are just continually reminded that they're not as good as those five percent as something that isn't that important so we we first of all take sports and we blow it up like it's important because it's fun but it's not

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important because it's fun but it's not really important we blow it up like it's really important and then we say these few stars are that good ones oh man they're great this is five percent they're great in sports so that we can humiliate the ninety five percent we just were not born with the interest the knee of the muscle structure the anti coordination to do that stuff so it's the cruelest most unproductive thing people get injured for no good reason etc I think the whole sports world needs to be retooled especially in high school now let's take sports themselves I would say tennis is a completely broken sport tennis started out as a great idea to people will hit miss ball back and forth but then the equipment got better and better and as the the quality of the racket improved the speed of the serve got so fast that mostly tennis is

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got so fast that mostly tennis is watching somebody serve and they either hit a ace the care returned or they double fault so that the serve which started out to be just a way to get the ball in play turned into the thing that ruins the sport because the rackets got so good and people got so good at hitting it fast that it just ruins this more so you should get rid of the serve and and by the way there is a 10 game where you do get rid of the serve somebody starts the ball and you have to hit it by the third hit the ball is live but you just start it from your hand so tennis is broken because the equipment got to good and then the serve just ruins the whole game take basketball is it fair that short people play basketball and tall people play basketball too that was that fair basketball should be in your own height there should be no such thing as somebody who's under six foot playing on the same field with somebody who's over

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the same field with somebody who's over six foot you say should make it a you should constrain basketball by height you should just shouldn't have different heights in the same field in soccer it should be co-ed and get rid of the and you should make the goals bigger imagine taking soccer and just making the goals wider so that the end score is you know 12 to 15 the how much not fun is it that you know it would be fun is to have a goal for for soccer that's a big goal where the keeper is and then there's a shorter extension that's you know maybe only three feet tall so you've got a few ways to score and the keeper can't can't cover at all but the other players could
now take baseball baseball is barely a sport baseball if you like baseball you

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sport baseball if you like baseball you probably like the atmosphere you like the statistics you like I sort of as a hobby but as a sport it no longer keeps up with the modern modern sense of attention span so how many how many biologically born men who transitioned to women are ruining women's professional Major League Baseball it's sort of like not a problem is it
so so sports are largely ruined what's another sport um yes illicit football should just go away because all it is is a way to injure the the brains of children and adults
let's take golf alright golf golf is broken because the clubs are different lengths do you know how much easier it would be to play golf if your clubs were always the same length

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your clubs were always the same length so you never had to figure out where the you know the distance from you to the ball is golf is a stupid idea and it's got all these rules that make it less fun that it should be yes high level competition is great for a small number of people and for the rest it's just a way to feel bad so then some people who said to me when I said well why can't you have you know transgender competing in the women's in the women's divisions and people said to me well if you're in favor of that if you're in favor of that are you in favor of athletes using performance-enhancing drugs how about that Scott huh if you're in favor of transgenders you wouldn't you also be in favor of performance-enhancing drugs

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favor of performance-enhancing drugs Scott to which I say yes of course I am I'm very much in favor of performance-enhancing drugs so long as everybody's on the same you know same rules right now we have a situation where people use them cheating and other people don't want to cheat so they don't use them have you seen the muscle structure of some of your famous top tennis players you try to tell me that the top tennis players both male and female are not taking performance-enhancing drugs maybe maybe they have sudden muscle growth in their 30s
30s maybe maybe they got a a better trainer maybe when they turned 34 they finally discovered how to workout efficiently and their muscles started growing quickly maybe I don't think so

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maybe I don't think so to me it seems that most of the major sports the you know many of the stars are juiced and so you should either say everybody could do it or nobody can do it here are the risks here are the benefits so when you ask me am i okay with professional athletes taking performance-enhancing drugs I say you mean the current situation that's the current situation now if you if you don't play tennis it's a little less obvious so how bad it is but you can it's easier to identify people who have gone on and off steroids or some kind of performance-enhancing stuff all right question I was considering giving a drum lesson on periscope one of these days now I'm taking drum lessons so I'm

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days now I'm taking drum lessons so I'm at I'm just a total beginner but I'm taking online drum lessons and the reason I would do it would be not so much to teach you how to play drums but to show you an 8020 rule and the 8020 rule is that I believe I could teach you 80% of what you need to know to play the drums in 20 minutes that's not what the 8020 rule is but for my purposes it is so would anybody would be interested people who do not play the drums would anybody be interested in a 20 minute special periscope in which I teach you in 20 minutes 80% of everything you'll ever need to know about playing the drums not that you ever need to play the drums just as interest to see if I could do it let's see if I could fit it in 20 minutes so I just want to get a sense of interest would that be something people would watch what I would want to the thing that I

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what I would want to the thing that I would want to demonstrate by teaching you drums even if you don't care about the drums is that the the state of online training is very primitive and I'll show you a demonstration of how good it could be by modeling some of the things that I think are coming right so the the basic setup is this online training is just an extension of in-person training usually where you just film or video somebody who's just a human doing the same thing they would have done if they were in person but I think there is a huge untapped potential to have those online trainers be the best trainers in the world because if the best trainer in the world is teaching you something you're probably better off well I'm seeing they there's a little delay in your comments so I'm seeing all the yes is coming through is hypnosis involved no oh okay a lot of interests one of these afternoons I'll

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interests one of these afternoons I'll do that so it won't be a morning thing I'll take you to my drum set and in 20 minutes I'll teach you 80% of everything now here's the lesson before I do it that I would propose showing you so one of it is part of the lesson is to actually learn something about the drums but moreover the bigger bigger picture is I want to show you how effectively you could learn something if it's done a certain way so it's the certain way I want to demonstrate so I want to show you how how effective an online training course could be if it's done the way I'm going to do it so it's a little test I think it will be effective but we'll do this in a day or two all right I see that there's at least one person who is signed up to ask a question I'm gonna test something now in which I'm going to pull my microphone and be test

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pull my microphone and be test so can you hear me now and so I may have lost sound may have lost sound so I'm gonna invite somebody let's say Barry and I want to see if you could hear me and the guest hello guest Perrier Gary are you fine hey Scott I this is a little bit of a technology test because I pulled my microphone and I want to see if in guest mode you and I have a similar volume level because that was a problem before when I had the microphone so I waited for the audience to tell us if your volume in my volume are similar now but did you have a question well the came up last night I wanted to

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well the came up last night I wanted to ask you your perspective on how someone like Jim Carrey got to where he was and then in the past like Trump era how he unspotted came undone basically well let me say this you probably have seen a number of Jim Carrey's artworks which he does disturbing looking our intensity anti-republican the first thing I want to say about that is as an artist every time I see one of his his works I say to myself damn that's really good what you know I gotta say he's a legitimate artist I mean seriously on top of being you know there's other skills so first of all total total respect for his pure artistic ability part of what I like about his art is that it it projects his inner insanity

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that it it projects his inner insanity in other words you know you see a picture and it's about a subject but you're also seeing a picture that's telling you about the art in the same way that let's say an event van Gogh if you see van Gogh's art you looks a little crazy but that's why you like about it because you're you you get to see a world through somebody else's eyes you can see the worlds through the artists honest and Jim Carrey does that too but unfortunately his vision is sort of dark and dangerous and a little bit crazy yeah how crazy is he really because go back and look at some of the YouTube videos of him in the 90s and he is a an excellent persuader like now that I have your lens on the world he's like beyond Trump skills like he's insanely good well yes the one thing I wouldn't take away from them is that he seems very smart you know in his own

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seems very smart you know in his own wedding is you know his you may have you know a narrow channel of what he knows about yeah he may not be anything but seems pretty smart um so I'm not sure that I'm not sure that I have a smart answer for that in terms of yeah but I would note that he probably is taken in by the the same influences to take in the rest of the country I you know he probably believes that the president said there were fine people who are neo-nazis he probably believes that's true maybe the news said it was true so is it possible to be so good that you go off like you're beyond the pale so you you just go up to a god level and he just like went off into a black hole like he's just too good oh I think maybe what we're seeing is something like honesty yes nobody nobody is accusing Jim Carrey

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yes nobody nobody is accusing Jim Carrey of lying about anything right and these seem to be his honest opinions of things and I think maybe he's just at a point in his career where he is opening the door a little bit wider you you see a little bit more of the the troubled mind that that has created so many good things that entertain us you know that it's it's no surprise that performers and artists are a little bit crazy I don't know if that's aI don't know if science can confirm that or not but it anecdotally it seems like a lot of them are a little bit crazy and maybe that the craziness and the creativity seem to be related to because if your mind is unbounded and you're you're allowing yourself to think anything's possible can make you crazy so I think being an artist and being crazy pretty darn related if you don't mind one last question just that really random scott adams question do you think it's possible that you could in your

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it's possible that you could in your context like coax yourself to have your sense of smell back but do you think you could trick your brain persuasively to to regain your sense of smell who can experience what hypnotists called the phenomenon which means that you can see and sense and touch things as if they're real when they're not in other words you'd see an elephant standing in the room most people could never be hypnotized to that level some people can if I were in that group in theory you could hypnotize me to imagine I'm smelling things just because I remember the smells soon so I could smell a rose and I would have the impression of smelling it but it would be an illusion so in theory if I were in that category which I'm not that could happen but you I couldn't rewire my brain to to gain that function if

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brain to to gain that function if there's something physically wrong which I assume is case you know there's an air gap there somewhere but thank you for the question and thanks for your time you're the best thanks let me see who else is on here I can take virus Joe because let's see what virus Joe has to say hey Joe I got a question yes I do always watch you every day I'm glad I get to talk to you for once and that's a amazing thing simultaneous it with you but uh my question was again that you're of your persuasion and your mindset is definitely changed my life and I had said before to you as well - I really appreciate it thank you for that

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appreciate it thank you for that adopting the non lose our philosophy on life and I was wondering if there was a any other I guess any other philosophy that you would you would say helps I've heard you talk about a lot of other ones but that maybe aren't in your books aren't as how I did as much in your books that are as powerful as that can be well that's perfect setup to tell you that I just started my first draft for my upcoming book is called loser think and the idea there is that there a number of unproductive ways people think which is different from being dumb and different from being uneducated which are their own separate problems okay but there are smart people who have not been exposed to the various ways that people think in different for example you could be really good as an artist and be very smart and good at what you do but if you've not been exposed to the economists view of what a sunk cost is

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economists view of what a sunk cost is it wouldn't be obvious to you how to deal with the sunk cost so so the the general answer is that by exposing people to the most basic thinking processes across different fields you'll become a better thinker and that should they have all kinds of benefits so I'll teach you how to do that in a upcoming book that will come out in October but beyond beyond that it's you have to look at every individual situation hard well thank you very much are you ever gonna work for Trump in his campaign pitch one I can't I can't see that as a possibility honestly if I were the Trump campaign I would invite meeting to help that's what I do but I were to but but given that I give away every good idea you know if he's

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away every good idea you know if he's also good at making deals why would he pay me for something he's getting for free so sure I think I have a value as I was doing what I'm doing so I think I'll probably stick to what I'm doing thank you very much thank you all right you take one more question from I prefer people who have a profile picture Dale day hey how are you oh nice to see you again anyway I just want to give you a quick comment he sounded better on sound balance when you were using your microphone than when you unplugged it so so the sound was more even with the with the guests when I had the microphone in that is correct okay thank

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microphone in that is correct okay thank you good to know and I that was your only comment I so that was it just thought I'd give you a quick one all right thank you appreciate it all right we're gonna end on that and we will talk to you tomorrow