Episode 495 Scott Adams: Mueller, Sleepy Joe, Crazy Bernie, 3D Printed People

Date: 2019-04-17 | Duration: 52:44

Topics

Crazy Bernie and Sleepy Joe, may God rest their souls FOX News shutting down discussion of other church fires Examples where the truth is harmful, truth versus strategy Sometimes, the truth isn’t your best option How to get the most from “white people” Tell them what they want to hear, even if you don’t believe it Donna Brazille now on FOX News and The Five Kim Foxx texts on Jussie Smollett case and decisions Pro-Nuclear Presidential candidates, no Gen IV supporters yet though Interesting debates coming if some embrace, some reject General Keane: this is first time Pakistan pushing Taliban to make peace Anonymous source: North Korea processing nuclear stuff Might not be true, but how much should we care if it’s true? President Trump is a very special, unique opportunity for peace Mueller report: Information changes very few opinions Facts just don’t matter, few will change their opinion 100 years from now What will our tech look like, what will we be able to do? 3D printing of human brains, Star Trek transporter potential Star Trek Discovery, best of all so far, now in their 2nd season

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hey everybody sing with me [Music] now it really doesn't matter what tune you you play with that as long as you get the words
right well come on in here we got stuff to talk about the news is fun again we got some fun stuff thanks to our president and Tweeter and Chief keeping things interesting always appreciated but before we talk about that you know what's coming it's called the simultaneous sip yes it's famous worldwide and you're about to experience it it happens when you fill your favorite container be it a glass or a cup or a mug it could be a Stein or a Tankard could be a flask or a thermos but you will fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join now for the simultaneous

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zp oh so good I hope yours was good too all right so we we've got some new nicknames or at least some confirmed nicknames from the nicknamer in Chief president Trump apparently he has named Joe Biden sleepy Joe Biden I think we can shorten that to Sleepy Joe now sleepy Joe is hilarious because it sounds like sloppy Joe and I think maybe he thought about sloppy joe it probably probably was in the top 20 things he considered but Joe Biden does not seem sloppy if you think about it he seems well put together so sloppy doesn't really fit I'm not entirely sure this sleepy fits because he seems uh I would have to say that one thing that is a plus for Joe Biden is he does have to seem to have high energy and for a man of his Advanced age

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energy and for a man of his Advanced age he seems like he's in really good shape I got to say I don't think he would be uh in my top 10 picks for president in part because of his age but you got to give him the fitness and the energy thing he's got that down um so I'm not sure sleepy is is the winning nickname here we might see that get uh yeah it it could be that calling him creepy was but sleepy does rhyme with creepy I don't know if that's an accident so sleepy creepy Joe uh I've got a feeling that sleepy creepy Joe is going to catch on faster than sleepy Joe and then we've got crazy Bernie now crazy Bernie fits pretty well because uh one of the things that the president likes to do and I don't think he did it um true to form with sleepy

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he did it um true to form with sleepy Joe uh is that he likes to pick nicknames that you reminded of whenever you see the person or you hear something about their what they've done so in the same way that low energy Jeb you would be reminded of it whenever you saw him compared to the president's energy and crooked Hillary you would be reminded that every time there's some story of an allegation of Clinton Foundation or whatever even if it's not true it's going to remind you of something crooked um with Bernie he has enough policies that don't have good math behind them according to his critics that crazy is going to make sense so you're going to be reminded of crazy quite often but you may not be reminded of of sleepy was sleepy Joe except for maybe the fact that it's taking him so long to make a decision and and get into the race I guess although I would argue it makes sense for him to wait

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wait um so that's that's the nickname update but the funny part about his tweet is that the president uh mockingly said he felt sorry for whoever runs against him and he said quote May God Rest their souls may God Rest his soul I guess
and I tweeted half kiddingly but also seriously that by tomorrow the fake news was going to be that the president is suggesting uh is talking about murdering his opposition and sure enough within an hour of that tweet Democrats were on Twitter saying sh well let me give let me give you this the right treatment dale dale can you come in here we need to do okay Dale is coming Dale what was the response to the president's tweet about God Rest their

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president's tweet about God Rest their souls well I think there's only one thing we can say about that which is this question what did he mean about that I mean in what world do you say God bless their soul unless you're planning to murder them I mean frankly I can't think of another explanation I have scoured my memory I have searched the internet and I have sat in a chair thinking when I combine all that research which I did myself it turns out there is no other explanation for a tweet using the phrase God bless our souls except planning to murder and talking about in public which makes sense right you do plan your murders in public on Twitter I think I think that makes sense yeah I'm going to go with that there is

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yeah I'm going to go with that there is no other explanation other than he's planning murder
andan so I got that prediction right but in all fairness that was an easy one I think you all got that prediction right to uh let's talk about the some of the trouble I caused yesterday so some of the trouble is that I agreed with Fox News uh shutting down the people who wanted to talk about the context of the Notre Dame fire and the context is that there have been a number of Christian Church fires and vandalisms lately now now I agreed with shutting down that line of thinking and people said to me Scott Scott Scott why do you OB to actual facts Scott do you do you hate Free Speech why can't people talk

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hate Free Speech why can't people talk about something that's true and relevant what is wrong with that Scott if something is true and it's totally relevant to the question why can't you talk about that to which I say the truth is overrated in fact I wrote a book about it it's called wind bigley a persuasion in the world where facts don't matter so in this case it's not that the facts don't matter exactly it's that the truth is not a useful standard I'm going to dig myself into the deep deepest hole I've ever been in uh we'll see if I can get out probably not you end up sounding like Rachel madow nutty well let me give you my what would you allow that I have not given my reasoning yet or at least not reasoning that you find

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that you find compelling so if you're disagreeing with my
my opinion can you can we also start at the the starting point that I have not uh I've not explained my reasoning all right so so if you haven't heard it yet don't say you disagree with it yet now remember I'm starting out by agreeing with you on the main points free speech is good the facts that people wanted to talk about the context of the other fires are true as far as I know the reporting seems to be consistent and it's completely relevant it is relevant okay so those are the things we agree on it's true it's relevant free speech is good so here's what I haven't said I have not said it should be illegal to talk about it I haven't said that shouldn't be illegal I have not said you

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shouldn't be illegal I have not said you should be punished or boycotted for talking about it I haven't said that so can we agree that I have not made any claims about freedom of speech I like freedom of speech if somebody does talk about this thing even though I think it's a bad idea do I think they should be punished absolutely not not even a little not socially not boycotted not legally not in any way Free Speech period all right so can we can we agree to take Free Speech off the table because we're all on the same side right if somebody does talk about it no penalty Free Speech all right so free speech is off the table now what's left if is newsworthiness so the the need for the public to know facts which are relevant I say that the public should know those facts so if you're saying to me but

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facts so if you're saying to me but Scott Scott the public needs to know these facts hear me clearly I agree the public needs to know the context which would include the other churches that have been on fire so can we agree to take that off the table because we agree the context is true it's relevant and the public should know about it so you don't need to argue about that anymore let's take that off the table right so free speech is off the table the truth is off the table because we agree on the truth and the importance of the public knowing is also off the table because we're all in agreement so now let's get to the part where we might have some disagreement the truth can be dangerous depending on the situation and here's the the reasoning um errors that I'm seeing with the people who are disagreeing with me all right the biggest error is to imagine that there's a general rule that we

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that there's a general rule that we should apply to this situation of Notre Dame burning in the context of uh of immigration and you know concern about the musl immigration and whether they're um whether whether you know whatever problems that may or may not cause so here here's my first point and I'm hoping you can agree with me there are some situations which are so
so unique that as soon as you say well would you apply the same thinking to any other situation I say no no you just have to treat this as it's own thing the the the burning down of notra Dame is just not like any other thing it's not it's completely unique and so whatever you decide on that could be something you only decide for this one situation while the general rules about how you

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while the general rules about how you handle things could be completely intact as good general rules there are other things I would put in this category anytime anybody Compares anything to the holog
that's inappropriate because there's nothing like the Holocaust except other genocides so if you're comparing another genocide that's also involves millions of people I'd say that's fair to compare that to the Gen to to uh the Holocaust another one is slavery there's nothing really that compares exactly to slavery so if you use any analogies like well the way we treat this other situation is this way let's treat slavery in the history of slavery the same way no it doesn't work that way there's nothing like it any analogy like thinking fails for the Holocaust if fails for anything about slavery and I'm arguing that this

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slavery and I'm arguing that this notredame fire is not like other things here's why here's what makes the Notre Dame fire not like other things do you saw the emotional connection that much of the world I can't speak for Asia you know maybe maybe it's getting processed a little differently over there but for the Western World for Europe the United States um the feeling that we had when watching notame burn was not like other feelings it would not be like watching an individual church burn which you would feel bad about but you don't feel bad about it the same way there's a whole other level um people have com compared it to 911 again 911 is something you probably don't want to compare things to because it was its own thing but in terms of just this one dimension of how people felt about it it was up there so from an emotional

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was up there so from an emotional perspective it was unparalleled for a fire all right so as fires go it was unparalleled that's my first point the next thing you need to know is that the situation in Europe is not like any other situation has ever been in Europe the the uh the volatility of the situation trying to merge the different cultures is pretty ticklish and it's pretty ticklish in our country as well and so how you handle it needs to be recognizing that you have a really big emotional situation and it's in a context of a really brittle volatile social situation both in the United States and in Europe those are unique situations so if you don't if you don't treat the unique situation with a a unique approach and you just slap on on the you know the generic way that you you treat everything you may

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that you you treat everything you may have some problems and here's the problem specifically compare these two approaches all right approach number one that I suggest wait a few days because keep in mind that everybody is wondering if it's if it's a terrorist act there there's nobody who hasn't at least wondered about that right there's there's enough talk about it that everybody's wondered but until the police and the investigators come up with a little more information talking about it pairs the the emotional feeling you get about the not Dame burning which is not like other emotional things it's bigger it's bigger it it goes to the Heart Right goes of the soul is bigger pairing that with the idea that it might have been a Muslim terrorist act changes people's feeling about the people they live with in a way that may

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people they live with in a way that may be disconnected from the facts so let me put a little more meat on that that persuasion wise and brainwashing wise and influence wise pairing things is very important pairing the thought of how you think about the Muslim population in Europe with one of the worst emotional violations of you know the Christians in that area is the most dangerous thing you could ever connect if they're not connected now if it turn turn out you know 5 days from now if it turns out that the investigators say you know what we can't tell then I think it starts becoming fair for people to speculate if they find out in five days that it was nothing but an accident then you would feel very bad that the world spent five days basically suspecting one class of

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days basically suspecting one class of people for what would have been if it were true one of the worst violations of the emotional soul of a you know enormous billion person population all right now if in five days you get your information you you know everything that can be known whether it's conclusive or inconclusive but you know everything that can be known at that point if people started speculating I would say that's fair because you you do want to inform the public you do you do want to have free speech you do you do want to let people speculate you do you want all of those things but in this one special case because the burning of Notre Dame is just not like anything else emotionally wait a few days it's just smarter it's a more responsible thing to do now if you're Fox News and here I'm going to defend them again if you're Fox

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going to defend them again if you're Fox News you have two responsibilities not one you've got two responsibilities one give people the news as accurately as you can
can two the greater good don't break the world don't break the world just to report the facts as soon as possible don't create a World War when none had to be created don't create in people's minds this gigantic violation blame it on an entire class of people who may or may not have anything to do with it and then let that sit you've all seen uh and you've all complained about I think when fake news comes out it gets um forwarded everywhere and everybody talks about the fake news when the correction comes out how much attention does the correction get this much right so the fake news will dominate the correction because the

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will dominate the correction because the fake news gets a lot of attention but the correction doesn't the same kind of effect would be here if we spent the next five days doing nothing but speculating about all the churches that are burned and trying to connect that with uh Notre Dame by the time the investigators said let's let's imagine they say this if they said it was an accident and were positive about it it wouldn't freaking matter it would be too late it would be too late because onethird of the people who watched the speculation for a week would say I don't believe it they'd say it feels like it was a Muslim attack I I hear what the investigators say but they're probably lying because I've lived with this as my truth speculative Truth for a week I can't get it out of my head now shepher SMI
SMI and I think Neil Cavuto and I assume

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and I think Neil Cavuto and I assume that they're I don't know how much is their own decision versus there's a corporate guideline I hope there's a corporate guideline and I hope that they were just doing a credible responsible thing within that that guideline which is you don't speculate on something that could cause somebody to get killed if you can just wait a few days and then we have the information that we need and then it's a little more fair to start speculating if if if we're reduced to that um somebody says I beg of you move on you just got blocked all right um so that's my point I think you got the point um I want to give some other examples in which the truth is harmful one of the dumbest things that I see online is when people say uh but what

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online is when people say uh but what about the truth you know let's let's get the facts right that's you know we can't think that way because it's the truth and I often see that strategy is separate uh strategy is separate from truth let me give you a perfect example um my my old buddy Hawk Nome um who's associated with black lives matter was tweeting yesterday that uh white people don't understand the degree to which White Privilege has benefited them and how the black community is is at a disadvantage now here's a perfect example of something that's true and harmful so compare these two strategies let's say you you're a African-American man or woman and you want to get a job and there are two there are two things you can say to on social media one of

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you can say to on social media one of the things you can say on social media is I believe uh the white man is keeping the the black man down let's say you've got some tweets that make that point well I think you could make a good case that it's true it's true that the legacy of slavery has a ripple effect that that is certainly in evidence in current day so you could be totally accurate you could be telling the truth it could even be important but are you going to get a job offer with that attitude the answer is no anybody who would hire somebody who could say that sort of thing in public is making a mistake it might be true it might be important but if you say it if you say that truth don't expect to get a job offer because you an employer would be crazy to pull somebody into their

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be crazy to pull somebody into their organization who already has a a chip on their shoulder they're going to be looking for trouble because it just shows that their filter is set for looking for discrimination now compare that to the opposite let's say you believe that that um there is such a thing as white privilege let's say you believe that's true um and a good argument can be made let's say you believe that the Legacy of slavery is really affecting people in the current but when you talk about it when you go into a job interview when you say things on social media you say the opposite of true you say it's really up to the individual you know in this country anybody can can get ahead now how does that person do in their life a lot better right because if you if you show uh the the the thing that I always wish existed would be strategy for dealing with white people you know I think it's a a general

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people you know I think it's a a general truth that there's no no demographic group that really understands how another demographic group thinks you know the young don't understand the old and vice versa the white white people don't understand black people black people don't understand white it's just a universally true you only you only you're lucky if you understand your own group and you certainly don't understand other groups so wouldn't it be useful to have a guide book like a strategy or a playbook for how to get the most out of white people now white people already know the the the technique I'll tell you the technique I use it because even though I'm a white guy I have to deal with white people all the time so one of the things I do is I act like a white guy I just figure out all right how are they acting okay I'll you know as much as possible I'll dress like like that I'll talk like that I'll sort of be like that is any of that natural not a bit n none of my acting like a

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not a bit n none of my acting like a white guy is natural I mean there might be some of it but mostly I'm just looking at other white people and saying all right I need to fit in I need them to like me for all kinds of Social and economic reasons what would I need to do oh God I need to wear glasses like this right basically you know my choice of what glasses I could buy is constrained by what community I want to influence right so I would say that the way to influence white people is to say the thing that they want to hear even if you don't believe it even if you don't believe it and the thing that all white people want to hear is that you can make your own way in this world by your own effort that your effort determines your your uh outcome um I would say a uh a brilliant voice for this is Ed laimer so if you don't follow him on uh on Twitter you

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don't follow him on uh on Twitter you should he's probably got the one of the smartest Twitter feeds you'll ever see and you look at his strategy SL philosophy about success and it's just right on it's perfectly compatible with success and it plays well across demographic groups so he talks about self-determination and you know uh Fitness and how all those things can control your your success that is the mindset that when you hear it the first thing you say is damn how can I support this guy I like the guy you know I like the person because the way he talks is compatible with the way I think and I would like to help him so what did I do after seeing several tweets by Ed I said I'm going to follow this guy and then I recommended him and then I had him on my Periscope all right all of that is because his his worldview was so

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that is because his his worldview was so compatible with what I think is a positive thing for the world right and was he born thinking all these things and thinking the way he does no he wasn't born that way it's something he figured out he fig he looked at the world he lived in the world he had experiences and he figured out this works this doesn't work I think I'll do more of the stuff that works and sure enough he's getting a good result so I would say that the truth we should always hold as a standard that you know you need a good reason not to use the truth but I'm giving you a good reason sometimes the truth is your worst strategy you you know if your spouse comes up and says do you like my haircut and you don't maybe the truth isn't your best strategy you know if you think it's a temporary situation speaking of haircuts uh don to Brazil has apparently been hired by Fox

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Brazil has apparently been hired by Fox News and I'm seeing a lot of reaction to that now the people who say how could you hire Don in Brazil I don't think people realize that Fox News does hire people who are Democrats it's it's part of their it's part of the entertainment is that they they have the Democrat the Democrat who will say the the the things that they can react to um but but I wanted to say something that's completely off I guess offbrand for me uh I met I met down in Brazil years ago and context business contacts we had some overlapping interests uh that's not exactly right accurate but you don't need to know the backstory it's not important I met her once that's all you need to know um and I I was watching her on uh on the Five on Fox News and I just have to call out she got the best freaking

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haircut whoever whoever either advised her or does her hair oh my God what an upgrade I've never seen such a haircut upgrade in my life it's she I think she looks 10 to 15 years younger than she did 10 years ago it's I don't know maybe she's doing some other stuff with her her Fitness or whatever but
but uh her her haircut is really exceptional I can't stop looking at it some other people are saying the same thing I know it's a personal decision but um it makes me wonder if that's a uh makes me wonder if that's a Fox News effect because Fox News is very smart about their programming and if you haven't noticed it uh check for this I've said this before but if you look at CNN it's all talented smart people who just happen to disagree with a lot of you but you you would agree they're they're generally

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would agree they're they're generally good-look talented multi-talented they have talents across Fields they're very good but everybody on CNN is sort of a version of the same person like they're they show their personalities but in showing them they sort of look the same right the even the men the women they all are sort of the same person over there on CNN but Fox News is um I think a little more clever in their programming and hiring they get people who have personalities like real genuine unique personalities you know there there's only one Greg geld right there there's nobody who's just like him and and Don in Brazil fits perfectly into that there isn't really anybody like her and she has a great sense of humor you know so she which is another characteristic that it's obvious that Fox News also hires for sense of humor I don't know if they

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for sense of humor I don't know if they think of it that way but it can't be a coincidence that literally everybody they hire seems to have a good sense of humor um and and they're all unique you know there's haraldo is not like anybody else right Jessie Waters he's just not like anybody else and you know you could go down the line um there's only there's only one Dana Pino um Etc if I left anybody out it's not intentional all right um there's a story about uh Kim Fox over in Chicago some text messages of hers have been uncovered and I thought it was fascinating because uh what people had been saying about Kim Fox now this is related to the Jess Jesse Smet Cas or Smet case however he say it um and the thought was that she gave him an easy ride and that maybe the fix was in and

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ride and that maybe the fix was in and she was she was trying to help him out and maybe maybe she interfered even though she said she recused herself and then you see the text messages and I think people are uh treating the text messages like it's a Smoking Gun but that's not the way I read them as usual um one of the things her text message said was that uh it seemed like they were overcharging him there were 16 counts and she said my God people already are accusing us of overcharging people and we're charging him for more than you would charge for Worse crimes so she was questioning the reputation of of her department for over overcharging people so now that you hear that and you say oh that's sort of the thing you'd say if if you were trying to help Jesse but it wasn't really that context it really just seemed like she was talking about the brand and about how do you manage

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the brand and about how do you manage the fact that people are already accusing you of overcharging and then you're going to go overcharge the most famous person that's been charged well that would be the dumbest thing you could ever do if people are already accusing you of overcharging so I didn't see any bias in that comment that comment just seemed perfectly fitting for that situation but then the other thing was that she referred to him in a private text message she referred to Smet as a uh uh a washed up a washed up uh celebrity now if you're trying to help somebody I don't know that you would just casually toss out a pretty demeaning insult to the person for no particular reason it it would have been completely an an an ACH character for what people imagined she was trying to do which was to help him so I would say that those text messages actually are uh are good for her I my my personal opinion is that

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her I my my personal opinion is that seeing those messages makes me think that she was not putting the fix in for him she was just trying to make sure the department doesn't overcharge now the actual specific resolution I don't know that she was directly involved in that that's evidence evidence is missing all right couple of things let's talk about nuclear um I believe there are two Democrats running for president who are pronuclear but I need a fact check on that one is one I know for sure is Andrew Yang but his website disappointingly does not talk about Generation 4 and it should he's a smart guy and he seems to be solution oriented as opposed to you know dog dogmatic so it would be a big plus for him to mention Generation 4 and I think uh um Corey Booker that's the part you need to fact check me on is

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the part you need to fact check me on is Pro nuclear as part of the solution and it's going to be really interesting watching the Democrats uh debate each other especially if some of them uh especially if some of them uh are pronuclear so I'm waiting to see how that sorts out
out um the other thing is
uh uh well I don't want to talk about that so anyway uh Afghanistan is having some peace talks and there's some reason for optimism and plenty of reason to not have optimism but the reasons for optimism that I I just heard on Fox news with General Kean uh he was talking about it's the first time that Pakistan has been pushing the Taliban to make peace and I thought to myself that's probably the the whole story right there isn't it

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isn't it if Pakistan is pushing the Taliban hard to make peace for the first time um then I would say I would say that's a big deal and apparently the Taliban is promising to uh tree women properly um but within a Islamic context I don't know how properly that is but at least they're talking about it right they're they're talking about women going to school Etc girls going to school all right um and and here's but here's what I want to add to the conversation what does it do to the Taliban to watch Isis lose all their territory what what is the mental effect of President Trump just eradicating Isis I think the mental effect is that it just doesn't feel like a winning path to fight the United States for eternity

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to fight the United States for eternity it just doesn't feel like that's the fastest path to get to a better place so I have this feeling that the fact that the president simply exists and had successes in other places probably affects the Taliban to the extent that they're paying attention to the world and I don't know how much they are um I'm see we're seeing reports reports that I would not consider reliable that North Korea has quote signs of nuclear processing so that probably satellite pictures or some other kind of Intel is telling us that there's signs that North Korea's starting to get Restless here is the first thing you should say about that anonymous source who is it who says that tell tell me exactly who's telling us that North Korea has signs of processing uh nuclear stuff who exactly so first of

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uh nuclear stuff who exactly so first of all it's not believable even if it's true it's not credible because you know the reporting about this topic and Anonymous sources yeah I mean it's just not believable but let's say it's true just hypothetically let's say it's true the satellites have have actually determined that there's something that looks exactly like uh North Korea uh that looks exactly like North Korea processing nuclear stuff would that be surprising no I would expect that wouldn't you wouldn't you expect that North Korea in order to shake the Box a little bit get things moving a little that they might they might show a little bit of a tell for continuing to process so I would think that that would be negotiating 101 why should they uh

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be negotiating 101 why should they uh why should they just discontinue their threat when they're getting nothing in return so probably it makes sense for them to show a little threat now it might also be possible that the the people who have worked at these facilities don't know what else to do so if it was your job to work at one of these nuclear facilities what do you do do you go to work and if you go to work do you work do you drive around in your truck do you make it look like you're doing something do you do you get ready to prepare some you know do you do you prepare to do something that you're not actually going to do do you do any any tests or trials do you rebuild a building just in case you need it later and so uh so the question I asked myself is does it matter does it matter at all that it looks like there's some you know

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that it looks like there's some you know activity that might be stuff we wish they weren't doing probably not probably probably is completely irrelevant because the thing that Trump did is more important than taking their nukes away the thing he did was he took away the reason to point him at us they just sort of don't have a reason now I did worry I did worry that North Korea was going to wait until after 2020 to get serious and I still think they might I feel as if the only security that Kim Jong-un feels is his personal relationship with Trump and he should be quite worried that if Trump were to lose reelection he'd be dealing with a new leader who needed to show that he or she was tough and would cause them to go right back to square one of oh my God I don't know are they going to attack me or what so if you're Kim Jong-un your best play is to pretend you're doing

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best play is to pretend you're doing some nuclear stuff without crossing the line where we have to get tough again just sort of a suggestion of it and to wait two years so you should be amazed and surprised if Kim Jong-un makes any kind of a deal before the 2020e ction he just shouldn't it wouldn't be smart unfortunately he should wait he should stall as long as we're not threatening to attack tomorrow and we're not he should stall find out what the next president is going to have in store for him now once that election is over then he's got to decide do I stall another four years because again Trump is unique you don't know if the president after Trump is going to be a badass who just you know wants you to get rid of all your nukes and all of your security Etc so I wouldn't Su I would not expect North Korea to make a formal deal in the next two years for

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formal deal in the next two years for sure I would expect them to stall but not test missiles and not do something that would guarantee a a military you know tip for T all right um the Muller report is
coming the one thing that everybody is sure of about the Muller report what's the one thing we're all sure of the the one thing we can know for sure with the details of the mullet report is that it won't change anybody's mind that the Democrats will find all kinds of bad things there the Republicans will say yeah you know some are true some are not true some are out of context but it's there's nothing there so I'm pretty sure you're not going to find you know any collusion obstruction that is legally actionable but have you ever seen a clearer example

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but have you ever seen a clearer example in which information doesn't change opinions absolutely nobody is going to well there might be a few but for the most part people are not going to change their opinions even as all the data changes or or at least they have data where they used to not have data so what does it mean to realize that information is not driving anybody's opinions it just isn't um it should be this big Awakening which I warned you about in 2015 I told you that in the age of trump we would come to learn that facts don't matter to our decisions they do matter to the outcome comes of course and if you had a choice you you'd want to be closer to the facts than not but for persuasion purposes and the way we make decisions we just don't use data and we just don't use logic it's just not something we do and you'll

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it's just not something we do and you'll see that in the Muller report so uh by now is it true that the president knows what's in the Muller report would it be true to say that the president has already been briefed exactly what's um exactly what's going on there likely and apparently they're uh they're putting together some kind of response so there will be the Muller report and then there will be the Trump's lawyers responses but that doesn't tell us much because the lawyers would probably want to respond about anything that seemed an a context so they' probably want to soften anything that looked like it could be turned into something that maybe wasn't anything so the fact that they're preparing a response probably doesn't tell you necessarily that there's anything bad in there um but I I think the smart money

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there um but I I think the smart money says there'll be at least a few things that are that are uh at least embarrassing in some way all right there's news that the uh the scientists have 3D printed a human heart that's right scientists have used a 3D printer to make a working biologically human heart that's already happened now apparently it was a small one it was a little it was it was a little heart about the size of a rabbit heart uh but it was human biological tissue and human design and they say there's no reason they couldn't make a bigger one but they didn't need to for the test so
so um think about think about uh climate change think about the fact that we're

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change think about the fact that we're worrying about um what will happen to us in a 100 years can we really predict what a 100 years looks like because in a 100 years we're going to be able to 3D print people will be able to manipulate DNA let let's say that we think the world is going to be much hotter do you think we could just change people's DNA so that they don't get sunburns and they don't mind the heat probably we'll probably be able to change people's DNA and just you know reprint them not reprint them but probably be able to alter people so that the the environment doesn't affect them as
as much it it does seem possible that you could uh change somebody's genes to the point where they were less susceptible to
to sunburns that seems like it'd be

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um all right I'm just looking at your comments here uh yeah I don't I don't know that we'll ever be able to 3D print brains but if you go out a 100 years well maybe we can three deeper in brains because um who was who the futurist it was uh kwell and and years and years ago he made this prediction he said that the um the technology for scanners is getting better and better so our ability to like do an MRI and to scan people's body parts if it just continues improving you'll be able to scan a living brain at the level that you could reproduce it because you could scan it perfectly you would know all the parts now if you could scan a living brain and and you could scan it at a detail where you can see all of it I mean you could just see everything in there the exact architecture and you have a 3D printer

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architecture and you have a 3D printer that could reprint that same architecture in detail detail with human tissue I don't know can you reproduce a brain because it seems like it's almost transporter technology isn't it you know one of the things about Star Trek with the Transporters is when the when the first person you know disappears in the transporter and then allegedly that same person appears somewhere else is it really the same person is it because it seems to me that the first person just disappeared the second person is sort of a new person just happens to be identical to the first one so will we care if we ever got that technology where you could you could scan me where I am and then when the 3D printer let's say it's faster just a faster 3D printer could I have a 3D printer reprint me on another planet and then kill the kill the

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planet and then kill the kill the Earth's copy you wouldn't have to kill it you could keep it alive but couldn't I be transported to another planet in a distant Galaxy as long as I could send bits I'd have to have a 3D printer there but I could scan me on this planet send the send the signal to the far Galaxy and reprint myself living in another planet all right you lose quality with every copy that's probably true that's all I got for today anybody have any questions what time is it it's time for questions um I will look at your comments for a moment here that was the plot in the prestige was it h oh let's talk about Star Trek Discovery um if you're a fan of the Star Treks as I am I've watched every Star Trek series I've liked most of them

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Trek series I've liked most of them except deep space 9 which was a disaster but um there's a new Star Trek on CBS all access pass or something you have you have to pay for it but I like it the best the current Star Trek is really really good the first season of it um showed great potential but seemed a little confused by the second season it's really good and I'm seeing people say no uh if you didn't like the first season I would I could understand why it seemed a little confused but I still loved it but the second season is tight it's the best it's the best of all the Star Trek as far as I can tell best actors and here's here's the reason why I would say that the top three or so actors on Star Trek Discovery are three of the best just actors that you've seen in the star Star Trek universe um

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all right anybody else have a
question okay I think uh I think we've done everything we need to do for today and I will talk to you all later