Episode 527 Scott Adams: Summer Fake News, Wall Construction, Iran
Date: 2019-05-12 | Duration: 57:56
Topics
S.E. Cupp asks why Kamala can’t seem to get traction Have you seen Kamala’s tweets and the way she speaks? She doesn’t seem to know how to “unlawyer” Biden’s approach to climate change is…let’s go slow? How does he sell that to his base with 12 year fears? President Trump tweets for Iran to call him He’ll treat their leaders with respect…while negotiating tough NO Democrats have gone in to read the unredacted Mueller report Multiple Republicans have gone in to read it Not one single Democrat wants to read it, nobody is interested? No curiosity, NOTHING useful for Dems in Mueller’s report? DJ Akira the Don tweets about power of music to control people The ability of music to manipulate emotions and behavior NPR piece on Gen IV nuclear power Far left NPR raising awareness of SAFE Gen IV nuclear power Have the Democrats made a massive miscalculation on Biden electability? He doesn’t excite…ANYONE Alyssa Milano declares a “sex strike” Finally…someone has brought the country together Historically, it HAS been done before…and successfully Respect to Alyssa for her commitment to activism CO2 high absorption rate of a certain bush…plant more of those bushes? Several CO2 scrubbing solutions look promising Nuclear energy has moved from engineering to persuasion psychology Nuclear is scary? Climate change is also scary Gen III nuclear plants have NEVER melted down…not once Gen IV is even safer and consume nuclear waste How many Gen III or Gen IV nuclear meltdowns would you risk… …to solve climate change?
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well let's try this again Joanne and David hey everybody my sounds would be a little different today because I'm coming to you on my phone my iPad crapped out for some reason I didn't want to say your name Oilers rebuild three kind of a name is that alright good morning everybody sorry to tease you like that because you know it's that it's that it's time for the simultaneously grab your cup your mug your glass your Stein you chalice your tankard your thermos your flask filled with your favorite liquid I like coffee join me down for the simultaneous up so
let's try this on my phone and see how far we get I realized the sound will not
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far we get I realized the sound will not be as good but I can't fix that so I note that the president is shifting money from the defense budget from Afghanistan budget I guess do you start building I don't know 80 miles of wall or something like that so could we say that the president is building the wall now I'm gonna have to actually I'm gonna actually have to I'm sorry I just saw something that was very disturbing in the comments let's just talk about that so there's a there's a troll named Vic Berger who apparently has been after Mike Serna pitch for a while and now he's turned on me because I tweeted about that so I'm seeing the troll and the trolls trolls I don't know if they're historic ounce starting to focus on me so we don't know how far this will
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on me so we don't know how far this will go yet but my guess is since this particular troll has at least some history of going too far I'm sure I will soon find out which is sort of the last thing I wanted to think about today happy Mother's Day yes happy Mother's Day to all of you so what I was going to say is that the Presidents go ahead and building his wall release he's getting that started and and so I'm looking at the news today and I'm looking for all of the bad stories about the president and they've sort of disappeared the the headlines on Fox the headlines on CNN there's some little gossipy stuff and you know some fringe things and there's some there's some legal mop up stuff that nobody quite cares about there's who should or
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quite cares about there's who should or should not appear to talk about something that's already been talked about and who could be indicted but they probably won't and what if something really were a crime but it isn't and you know all of it is is sort of devolved into this weird boring soup of legalese and details that nobody thinks are important because no matter what happens from this point on is there anybody left who thinks that lawyers are going to take out this president because it doesn't look like it to me doesn't look like it to me so the news is just going soft they don't have anything to attack the president with because things are going so well so here's the question what happens this summer when the news is naturally slow so this summer the news always gets low because again people go on vacation and there's just just less happening I don't
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there's just just less happening I don't see how the mainstream media can survive unless they gin up some kind of new scandal to get them through the summer so what you should be looking for is some gigantic new piece of fake news about the president or about the president's circle so look for something gigantic and fake that that can be talked about and this'll endlessly in the what was he thinking we think his intentions were bad etc so it's gonna be it's gonna be interesting to see what they cook up I really look at the news now as and I mean this not in the jokey sense but as a reality show because I think they actually run that way and really quite the literal sense it seems to me that they need to introduce a new a new element to the show so the news just ran out of things to talk about
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and somebody's asking me if I purposely compete with the sunday talk shows no I always do this the same time no matter what the speaker boring CC cups is it s e cups did a little piece for C then which he talked about why is it the calm lares can't get any traction you know she's she's getting enough attention not as much as the top three but she's getting enough attention that it's interesting why she is not breaking through and have you seen any of commonly hearses tweets here's what here's what she's doing wrong that I don't know if she knows how to fix and it goes like this I'm guessing she was a very good student in school because she's gotten as far as she has so I'm guessing was fair to say she was very good student and I'm sure that her the way she speaks and talks and the
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the way she speaks and talks and the vocabulary she uses was very good for a college student then she became a lawyer and I would say that the way she talks is probably very good for a lawyer if you're a lawyer it probably makes total sense to talk in a precise way professional way and you see that in her tweets and when she talks probably makes perfect sense for a lawyer as a senator especially a senator who
who we see on television grilling people and these these hearings she's probably just about right for a senator I like I like a senator who speaks in specific you know as a as a precision to his or her language understands the details you know it gets under the hood somebody you know can really grasp the you know the intricacies of of topics I think she probably has a really good personality for that probably a really good mind for being a senator so my compliment her is
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being a senator so my compliment her is she was probably an excellent student probably really good at her lawyer job seems to be quite competent at being a senator but man oh man does she not have presidential skills she is seriously lacking in that that next level connecting with the country at large being interesting being provocative we're really just not being boring she doesn't know how to unlock and if she tries it looks like she doesn't have to do it so for example when we see her trying to be carefree and show some personality it doesn't quite register as genuine because it looks like maybe she's trying too hard to not be a lawyer but it's not quite coming across this authentic so I think their biggest problem is that she doesn't know how to be anything except
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doesn't know how to be anything except the things she's really really good at and I would imagine she's really good being a senator probably good as a lawyer good good as a student but she doesn't have the people's touch or even close which is interesting so have you noticed that there's not much Joe Biden talked lately what happened to Sleepy Joe Biden did he did he take a week off am I wrong that Joe Biden is the number one polling person the most important was against Trump and I didn't see it even it was about him yesterday yeah I didn't see any news about him the day before yesterday and I can't remember the day before the day before yesterday it feels like the last thing I remember from Joe Biden was several days ago and and yeah that the only stories about
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and yeah that the only stories about Biden are that Giuliani almost took a trip but didn't think about the quality of the news one of the biggest stories in the headlines is a Rudy Giuliani almost took a trip but then he didn't that's it that's that's whole story that's the news there was a guy who almost took a trip but he didn't yes and of course everybody's delighted that the president went with sleepy creepy I think he didn't want to go with creepy alone but when he adds them together sleepy creepy I don't know if that's a keeper but it does turn it into its whole new thing because the problem that the president has is if he goes after the creepy hands-on stuff with Biden then he's opening up an attack for the grab him by the even what so I think the president has to combine sleepy and creepy into Sleepy creepy so that you
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creepy into Sleepy creepy so that you don't automatically think well what about the president as as Trump ever touched anybody who didn't want to be touched there's no evidence of that but that's that's where the conversation would go so the biggest problem on the Democrat side is massive boredom and the last thing we heard about Biden was all of the cool people from the Democratic Party criticizing him for not going far enough so I don't know if Biden has any room to maneuver because if it let me put it this way it looks like Biden's approach to climate science is the following and and tell me if I'm wrong tell me I'm reading this wrong it seems that Joe Biden's approach to climate science or to climate change will be to say it's the biggest problem in the world a problem that could end you know could be an extinction event so I think Biden
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an extinction event so I think Biden will agree with people who say it's top priority biggest problem in the world but the problem is that his approach to the biggest problem of the world he is well listen let's go slow let's ease our way into this a little bit don't go too far it's the biggest problem in the world could kill all of humanity but let's tiptoe in let's say let's be cautious about this now I'm not even saying that's the wrong thing to do because I'm not sure anybody knows exactly the right thing to do but how does Biden sell it's the biggest problem in the world we're gonna take an average sized swing at it it could kill us all let's let's take a run at it that's yeah let's let's be cautious let's let's keep our powder dry his message is not saying yeah it's not self compatible I think he
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yeah it's not self compatible I think he can say it's the biggest problem in the world and that he's going to approach it in a medium energy way it's just gonna look low energy it's gonna look sleepy
so yeah everybody just wants to talk about the Alfred e Newman tag that the president gave to Peter Budaj edge that story was fun but of no consequence Berdych edge is not he's not polling high enough to be too relevant to the final outcome I was talking about sentence Trump is saying to Iran essentially a Iran call me let's talk so you're gonna see the president doing again the same technique that that he's used with Russia used with North Korea used with China and the technique if if he's successful in doing this I think maybe he won't be but if he's successful in getting a
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but if he's successful in getting a direct conversation with the Ayatollah and his leadership team mostly the Ayatollah I guess there's only one that matters if the president actually successfully sets up a meeting with the Ayatollah he's gonna probably be nicer to the Ayatollah than what those of us watching think is appropriate because that's the play the correct play is to be respectful in person and super-tough in terms of how you're actually dealing with tariffs and military and whatever else that you're negotiating so yeah so people are gonna say he's colluding with Iran but but the thing to look for is the consistency of his method which I think will become the method that all presidents in the future have to answer to in the future anybody who doesn't play it the way the president is playing
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play it the way the president is playing it now which is being good to the dictator no matter what they've done being respectful so you can so you don't have to deal with any new problems that you created yourself you know you take care of the ego take care of the respect and then you could be as tough as you want as long as you're transparent about it if you're saying yeah I like the leader we got along but we've got to do these tough things because I protect my country he protects this country that's the way it works it's been I think a tremendously valuable way to frame dealing with other countries all right
so that I read that no Democrats have read the less redacted Muller report that's available to people in these skiff if you're not familiar with that term this gift there's some kind of a secret secure room at the Capitol where
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secret secure room at the Capitol where people who have authorization to see top-secret stuff top secret is probably the wrong word but propriety no what's the word secret stuff so they can go there and they can read the original documents but they can't copy them and they can't take them out of the room so there are several Republicans who have gone down to the skiff classifieds yes is the right word so they can really classify documents sir so the Republicans have seen the less the less redacted version I don't know how much less redacted it is but it's less redacted no Democrats have no Democrat who is allowed to do that has gone in and looked to see what what got redacted in the lesser redacted one now I ask you this are they really interested in what's in there isn't it obvious to you that they don't care
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obvious to you that they don't care what's in it the fact that they wouldn't be interested enough to have even one of them not even one of them you know draw straws hey one of us maybe one of us shouldn't look at this thing see if there's anything there not one of them was interested enough to even look now you could say to yourself well why should they bother until they've got the fully redacted one we fully unredacted one you know why would they bother looking one that's you know a little bit better when they can hold out for the one that's completely non redacted to which I say they could do that but they would sure as heck want to see the one that's in between if they were interested it they're clearly not interested and if they're not interested it's because they know there's nothing there to see there's no scenario in which they would not look at the extra
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which they would not look at the extra unredacted one if they were curious they have no curiosity about this whatsoever unde acted yeah what under redacted sounds like the double negative
so there's a tweet I tweeted around this morning from Acura the dawn on Twitter and a cure of the down there's a DJ among other things were saying that he can see the limits of free will I'm paraphrasing because when he is DJ he can see in real-time how he controls the mood and even the actions of the crowd so by by his selection of music according to his tweet he can put people and sexy moves or happy moods or a variety of you know of moods and he can watch it happen in real time and he's
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watch it happen in real time and he's actually moving the whole crowd all at once and then there was some young person based on the profile picture it looks young who came in and called BS on that and said my goodness it's like it's like you don't believe people have free will people are not being programmed by your music they're doing whatever they want to which I say that is such a young opinion there's some opinions that are smart there's some that are dumb there are some that are experienced or mature or some sort of us this is one of those situations I'm gonna get rid of the people who say there's no audio the because because I assume that they are trolls all right let's go back to where
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trolls all right let's go back to where we were oh sorry I'm just scrolling through to get to the yeah so anyway I would like to come down on the side of music is a drug it's an audio drug you put music in your ear it changes your physical body chemistry it changes the way you think and it even changes you're just now it doesn't change every person the same way and you know so there's so there's some unpredictability to it but it definitely changes behavior so I'm agreeing completely with a cure of the dawn as long as we agree that it doesn't mean it changes every person you know in the same way and they have you know there's nothing that can be done about it
it but it doesn't fluence crowds for sure and it does it very quickly and very powerfully yeah and I would think that music would be among the most potent
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music would be among the most potent primers if you hear music from something that reminds you of something good or bad it's gonna put you in that mood you're gonna be primed for love or prime form a love primed to fight alright it looks like Oh barely NPR I didn't hear it
it no no no lose NPR radio or NPR television hit I'm not sure which it was but apparently NPR had a piece on generation for nuclear so connect the dots NPR the very left-leaning did a piece on generation for nuclear I don't I didn't see it but nobody really does a piece on generation for nuclear unless it's Pro there's as far as I know there's no anti argument whatsoever because it's for one thing it's not it's
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because it's for one thing it's not it's not in the market enough that anybody would have anything specific specifically bad to say about it let's go back to the top of your comments here so what's important is that you can see that NPR being NPR being let's say a representative of opinions on the left-leaning part of the world if they're starting to notice if they're starting to notice that before nuclear is the way to go that's a big big deal it's a big deal because there they have a lot of credibility on the left so we'll see if that spreads to the to the other thanks yeah I know that NPR stands for National Public Radio but they do have at least one television segment that I've seen the not sure what
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segment that I've seen the not sure what network yeah it almost it almost makes me think that Trump is not talking much about nuclear because he want he doesn't want people to oppose it somebody said do you travel mostly for vacation or work I actually like to do writing when I'm traveling because I'm not doing my other work and I'm not distracted it's a good time to write so I combined them all right well I go to DC for the July 4th celebration no I like the fact that the things are going so well in this country that one of the controversies is that president is he's planning our fireworks for the 4th of July and I'm thinking well that's your problem your problem is that the president is getting involved in planning the 4th of July
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involved in planning the 4th of July celebration for Washington DC that's it that's our bad problem for today have I always been an early riser ever since college yes I think there's a genetic component to being an early riser but I definitely enjoy that part of the day the best good morning is my favorite part of the day favorite restaurant in Vegas don't really have them do I go to bed early not really last night I got 4 hours sleep which is sort of typical for me five hours is sort of my my normal then every once awhile I get sleep-deprived and they'll sleep in for six hours if I get six hours of sleep I some sometimes I'll have a headache all day from oversleep do I nap I have but not often I can I
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do I nap I have but not often I can I can fall asleep literally anywhere christina was taking embarrassing pictures of me on the airplane on the way out here because I apparently I fell asleep and my head went back in my mouth opened and she took humorous photos of speeding things to my open mouth while I was sleeping on the plane all right do I snore I do how do you keep notes on different topics well in terms of the tapas that I'm going to talk about on periscope and I just make bullet point notes and a little open open document that's all do I dream I do not now I do not well I do not remember my dreams get
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not well I do not remember my dreams get a CPAP I've been checked down I don't I don't snore enough before a CPAP um I'm at the the low end of that still predicting table for the nomination I'm gonna stick with the for now I'm gonna stick with the prediction I have to say that I did not see how how bad she would be at this it was not obvious to me from the start there this she would be an amazingly bad like really bad politician at the national level that I didn't see that coming but it's hard for me to believe that Joe Biden can make it all the way through and the reason I have hard to believe that the reason is hard for me to believe Biden will make it through is that it seems to be that the Democrats are basing this on electability
does it seem to you that they made a monstrous miscalculation am I wrong
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monstrous miscalculation am I wrong about this correct me if I'm wrong the Democrats thinking that Biden is the most electable might be one of the greatest miscalculations we've seen in recent years I'm not wrong about that mo I mean I could be none of us really know but it seems to me he's the most beatable candidate by far I I put him on my list of least effective candidates and here's the problem he's not going to excite anyone there isn't one single person on his own team who will be excited he's like an old pair of shoes people are putting on their Joe Biden old pair of shoes and saying ah these are broken in I like these old shoes I like how they feel they make me feel comfortable but that's it Biden only makes them feel comfortable
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Biden only makes them feel comfortable do you turn out the vote for he's comfortable he's like an old couch that somebody's been farting into the coated cushions for 30 years it's comfortable but the cushions are full of 30 years of farts if that's what you want I stole that from a from a what was the show with the Mafia forget anyway I stole that line I
sleep less than the sleepy Joe probably true so yeah Joe Biden you know it could be that Joe Biden is the one who will keep Howard Schultz out of the race because there were so many ways for the Democrats to lose if they run one of their exciting and more more or less a more left-leaning people the green New Deal people if they run one of the green New Deal candidates Howard Schultz might
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New Deal candidates Howard Schultz might enter the race and if Howard Schultz enters the race they have no chance of winning because he will that all the smart people say he will drain off Democrat votes I don't know if that's true Sopranos yes is where I stole that line from about the couch cushions I don't know if that's true but let's say smart people say it and I don't have a reason to disagree with it so if they run somebody who's too far left Howard Schultz gets in and then they lose if they run somebody like Bernie I don't know if people have enough confidence in Bernie to get across the finish line but Bernie is the only one who's left it he's left enough but even Bernie isn't as far left as some of them could be he's left enough he's exciting because Bernie actually gets a lot of people excited but I can't
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gets a lot of people excited but I can't see you Bernie getting to the finish line partly because I can't see him getting nominated I think the Democrats will do whatever they have to do to keep him from being nominated so Biden almost looks like they're not trying and have you ever have you ever had the feeling that sometimes the team knows they're going to lose do you think the the DNC is looking at this situation and saying yeah I think we can win this do you think the DNC looks at the economy looks at the world looks at Trump you know we're working on you know eradicating AIDS working on prison reform you know getting rid of essentially terrorism isn't even part of our consciousness anymore Trump took a terrorism and of our minds think about that terrorism is a crime in which people of course are killed and injured but mostly it is by design an act of
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but mostly it is by design an act of what the terror does to the minds of the population is the ones who did not get directly affected so terrorism is a an attack the minds of the country that's being attacked when was the last time you worried about a terror attack in this country can any of you even think of the last time you worried about a terror attack in this country I'm not saying that there won't be any I'm sure there will be lone wolves and people with guns and somebody's gonna run a car into a crowd it's gonna happen but do you worry about it do you spend any time worrying about it because if you don't spend it any time worrying about terrorism Trump defeated terrorism think about it even we assume that there will be more terrorist acts there will in fact be bad things happening in this country in small ways maybe some larger than small
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small ways maybe some larger than small but we don't think about it anymore he actually took it off our minds now you could argue that Obama did that you know because I think you know how much we worried about it was you know decreasing in a steady way but it seems to me Trump just extinguished it in terms of its mental impact on the citizens of the United States he did not extinguish the risk the risk still exists and there will be actual acts of violence but mentally we are cured the patient is cured we that the public are not worrying about it it's not part of our political decision it's not part of our calculations for anything it doesn't make us uncomfortable it just it's just not no top worries anymore all right anybody have any questions that's about all like you think up for now need to
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all like you think up for now need to interview Andy no he's pretty interesting guy well and where's Anti Fog is it my imagination or has the marching largely stopped can anybody tell me if that's true let me ask you this when was the last time black lives matter staged a major protest do you remember I can't remember I mean maybe they joined other protests but when was the last time you saw a massive black lives matter event because it's it's hard to keep that going when the president just refuses to do racist stuff you know he he's he's Israel's best friend he did prison reform you know he brags about unemployment levels for minority groups I mean it's just sorta hard sort of hard
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I mean it's just sorta hard sort of hard to keep it goin isn't it I go to Portland yeah so Portland is just sort of its own thing but in terms of the country at large it sounds like it's a Portland problem you know my take on it is that there's a Portland problem but there's not a national problem all right they'll be back when the weather is good isn't the weather good enough I mean they can always March in California weather is great here they got jobs yeah if ant if I gets jobs anta's only on the west coast somebody says is that true yeah so sometimes the news is the is the non news this is one of those weeks where the news is that is what oh thank you for reminding me if Alyssa Milano yeah so the news is that there's not much
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so the news is that there's not much news and the anti file the black lives matter seem to have gone quiet for a while so Alyssa Milano as many of you already know has tweeted that their women should go on a quote sex strike and not provide sex to their guys or guy until women have control of their bodies meaning in terms of portion loss and is it my imagination or has Alyssa Milano done something that people have tried people have tried to do what Alyssa Milano has accomplished Alyssa Milano found a way to bring the country together because if there's one thing that everyone in the country can agree on it's that Alyssa Milano should have less sex are we on the same page so apparently she believes so and people
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apparently she believes so and people who agree with her the people on the left would say the same thing but weirdly the people on the right are totally on board with this yeah Alyssa Milano should have weightless sex we're on board with that so we finally found one thing that can bring the country together our combined passionate agreement that Alyssa Milano should have less sex I'm on board with that I don't even have the counter to that I'd say you go girl less sex the better now I'm seeing people referring to some historical examples where the sex strike actually worked so let me say this just so you can hear me acknowledging history sex strikes do work apparently there's they're they're actually I think two or three historical examples in which women did go out and sex strikes
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which women did go out and sex strikes and it did change changed history so I'm not saying it won't work I'm not mocking it for its effectiveness I'm saying it's the one thing we could agree on Alyssa Milano should have less sex now I started to tweet about it but I can't tell you how to how many times I I wrote a tweet and then I deleted it I wrote it and delete it and ever someone and there are a couple of reasons for that one there are so many jokes I want to make on this topic that I couldn't narrow it down to my top I mean there's just so many things you can say I just didn't know where to start second I feared all those things that were obvious to me to say other people would be saying and so I would just be you know get lost in the crowd of saying of people saying obvious jokes about the thing that has obvious jokes so they don't want to be part of that but but let me say this about that the
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but but let me say this about that the people on the right I don't know if they could be more entertained because as you know a lot of Trump supporters might refer to the anti-trump males as beta males I've heard people say that I'm I'm not saying that I'm just saying that that's in the political realm that's the point of view that is very popular in the Trump supporting world that the that the men on the left are maybe they eat a lot of soy maybe they're not as dominant as men may have been in the past I don't have a scientific opinion on that just telling you what the point of view is and so to the people on the right the hilarity of women on the left refusing to have sex with the only people that they were considering worthy of sex anyway which is men on the left it's
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anyway which is men on the left it's hard to avoid noting how naturally funny that is because Alyssa Milano giving up on having sex with Democrats who are male would be sort of like me saying I think I'm gonna give up eating bugs yeah I didn't like eating bugs before but I'm gonna give it up as a boycott or sort of like keeping up and drinking your own urine sure didn't like it in the first place but I'm gonna give it up for boy cut I don't do that by the way this is a humorous example so it is so the other reason that I didn't do it a funny snarky joke about this topic is that there's not much you can add to it that would make you funnier than it is just
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would make you funnier than it is just by itself and I don't mean that you know it sounds like I'm you're making a further like humorous attack on it I'm not I'm saying quite literally the fact that Democrat women don't want to are trying to find a reason they're looking for an excuse to not have sex with Democrat men because let's face it they weren't having they weren't having sex with Trump supporters that wasn't happening anyway so the only people they're boycotting are the people who maybe they were not so crazy about having that much sex anyway yes I am so that's just it's hard to add to that with humor but I also wondered you know every time there's any kind of a political movement in this country what's the first thing we ask about the movement whether it's an tyfa black lives matter it doesn't matter what the movement is it could the political parties any candidate what's the first question we asked about any group
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question we asked about any group movement question number one who is funding it who's the sponsor who's the money people behind the scenes and i was thinking to myself who could be the money behind here I'm just joking but who could be the money behind Alyssa Milano it was called for women to boycott sex I say follow the money who would make the most money from this
somebody saying Soros no it's more obvious who would make the most money from the Alyssa Milano boycotting sex oh it's too obvious come on somebody don't make me say it there you go pornhub somebody said read - if you get partial credit full credit actually yes I'm not saying
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full credit actually yes I'm not saying that pornhub is sponsoring this I'm not saying that Alyssa Milano was taking money from pornhub I'm just taking an example from CNN CNN simply asked questions they don't make accusations so they do it this way they say I'm not saying that Alyssa Milano took money from pornhub to turn all Democratic Democrat males into porn Watchers because there's more having sex I'm not saying they did it well what if what if they did it who would it be illegal if she did it should it be disclosed if she took money from pornhub to promote porn watching through her boycott of sex what would that do to the country so anyway so those are some of the funny thoughts I had about that I I'm gonna say something that I said before then
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say something that I said before then I'm gonna say again you know everybody makes fun of celebrities when they get involved in politics and there's a good reason for that celebrities have a long history of not being let's say credible not being well informed not really not really being in the right field but whatever you think of Alyssa Milano I'm gonna give her full respect for being effective and free being genuine I believe that everything she does it was coming from you know a place where she actually believes you know the world would be a better place if they did what she would like the world to do so I can fully disagree with Alyssa Milano but I have to say I respect her I respect her in a way that I do not respect the celebrities would just sort of tipped away and have an issue and then leave she's she's a she's a political activist who is having great success capturing
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who is having great success capturing people's attention so if I'm gonna be objective when she did this the sex boycott thing and we all laughed ha ha ha ha that's such a funny idea here here are my 10 reasons why this is funny and why it's not going to work and all that but what are we talking about she essentially captured the imagination of the country they made us talk about her and her and her political opinion on abortion rights approach choice I guess so am I good am I going to criticize her for successfully capturing attention on the topic that she thinks is important no that's a home run that's a Plus business that's that's a oh see Donald Trump President Trump that's that's top level persuasion do you think that Alyssa Milano thought
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you think that Alyssa Milano thought that necessarily the world you know all the women were gonna go on a sex strike she might have thought well maybe but I don't think that was the major point I think the major point is that she's smart and she knows that such a provocative idea guarantees press and so it guarantees attention on the thing she wants attention that's an a-plus right so again you can I join you in mocking celebrities who tiptoe into politics and they're just tourists and I think there was a time when you could have legitimately said Alyssa Milano is one of those but I think she's proven herself I think she's proven herself as they let's say a sincere voice who knows how to get attention and attention is at least half of the game so you can disagree with her politically but on her intention and her effectiveness a plus
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intention and her effectiveness a plus eight say it because I know you don't want to hear it but gotta give credit where credit is due all right
you're making me want to talk about climate change somebody says climate change is solved now I don't think the country will ever see it that way at least not in the current era in historically we might look back and say that's when it got solved but I say it solved because the path forward would be the same toward a solution as it would be if we didn't have a problem to begin with which is going hard at green energy sources while going hard at nuclear technology and trying to clear out the obstacles to that we would do the same thing and we're doing those things so I don't see I don't see any I don't see any chance that this won't work out well honestly because if you look at the new
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honestly because if you look at the new technologies that are coming online I mean they're I don't know if you saw it there was a story the other day about some bush like an actual I think it's a bush or a tree small tree or a bush I don't know where the difference between the bush of the tree I don't know where that dividing line is but there's some kind of natural bush that has a weird quality that it absorbs way more co2 than other plants and people are saying well if you just stopped cutting the forests and if you just plant this plant you're gonna go a long way toward taking a bite and climate change now it's not in terms of a solution but you know could take a quarter or a third of the problem way we've seen developments with reforestation was that Ted talked about I I don't know if he's a researcher or a scientist whatever but they they did experiments and they've done them for years so they know how it works out where they just introduced livestock on
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where they just introduced livestock on the border between a desert and a non desert area they just say let's let's put some cows there and they let the cows eat the vegetation on the part that has vegetation but of course they're cows so they wander into the desert part a little bit because we're right on the border and they they they do their pooping in the desert and then the desert carries seeds and nutrients and pretty soon and you can see it happen pretty quickly in a matter of just a few years the the vegetation will spread into the desert and you can actually reforest deserts by just letting the cows wander around on the border between the vegetation and the forest turns out that's all you need to do and it's it's pretty quick and it's pretty effective so somebody said you think it was goats might have been goats I think you're right could have been goats but it's the same same process so you got
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it's the same same process so you got that you've got several companies who are developing technology to suck the co2 out of the air the reason it's expensive is because the energy is expensive but we're also developing fusion than generation for nuclear and we've got generation three that's never had a problem so the cost of scraping the co2 is probably going way down and by the way if if you were to met let me let me suggest this suppose somebody came up with a project the co-located a generation for nuclear at the same site as either a closed or a or an older nuclear site that was already approved so you had generation four but you also add at the same site a bunch of co2 scrubbing machines that use a lot of power so it would be right at the source of the power and there's there's another technology for there are
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there's another technology for there are several technologies for scrubbing co2 out of the air one of them uses heat what do nuclear power plants produce in in too much quantity heat that so I don't know you know I'm speaking through my my butt here but if a nuclear power plant creates tremendous amounts of heat and there is a technology that's already up and working that uses heat as the essentially the fuel if you will it uses the heat too as the engine for cleaning the co2 so you can collect gate co2 scrubbers generation for nuclear at a site that's already approved for nuclear would the green people object to locating generation for nuclear where I can use the fuel from the new the spent
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can use the fuel from the new the spent fuel from the nuclear the older nuclear so you don't have to transport it's right on site would they would they want to reduce the risk of the existing nuclear site by having another site there that has less risk and uses their nuclear waste may be and and if you said we're gonna put a bunch of co2 scrubbers here too and use the heat from the nukes nuclear plants would the green people object to that it'd be hard to object because the site is already approved and you're explicitly putting in equipment to take the co2 out of there as well as producing clean electricity it'd be hard to say no to that so I I think we're I think the climate change has already transitioned from wait for my profound thought profound thought alert coming hold on hold on let us have a simultaneous up I'm gonna warm up my
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simultaneous up I'm gonna warm up my coffee I want to get you ready for the profound thought that's coming coffee it up get ready for this do I need for the second simultaneous it profound thought here it comes nuclear energy has moved from engineering to persuasion and we know how to do the persuasion so problem solved because you know it's gonna require a lot of work and there's still uncertainty but for the most part new has always been the answer we just needed to to be able to act on it we needed to get our psychology right so that no clear could do what it needed to do and if you count the psychology of fear that people have been experiencing with the the climate change risk we
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with the the climate change risk we started with hey nuclear is too scary but the people on the Left have and scientists have introduced a new fear that's far greater than nuclear let me put it this way how many nuclear plants would you be willing to accept melting down in return for dealing with climate change effectively let's say you're the greenest person in the world and you think climate change is a big oil problem and I said to you I'm sure we can take a big ol bite out of it with nuclear energy but I guarantee you that X number of nuclear plants will melt down over the next 20 years just because you can't drive risk to zero how many nuclear meltdowns would you be willing to accept in return for largely solving climate change think about that question because I want you to ask that of your
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because I want you to ask that of your friends and co-workers and relatives and see what they say I don't think they're willing to answer the question but the most you could imagine would be three five something like that because the industry is so safe at this point the generation 3 the ones that they have in France have never had a problem there is never been a generation 3 nuclear disaster it's the old technology so if I said to you we're going to build a bunch of a generation 3 and then as generation 4 comes online we'll be building those too but it's going to be three and four and I said to you we've never had a meltdown of generation three and certainly not a four because these are new and they're designed to be far more resistant to any major problems so if I said to you we can solve climate change but you must accept that there will be a few nuclear meltdowns guaranteed what number makes
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meltdowns guaranteed what number makes you say yeah I will accept this many nuclear meltdowns over 20 or 80 years I'll accept that money in return for saving the earth from climate change what would the number be okay the music just came in here that's freaky I don't know what that's about
well a nuclear meltdown is probably going to affect only the people in the local area and they're not going to die even with a nuclear meltdown the problem with the nuclear meltdown is usually pretty well contained and it makes the area unusable for a while but the people largely have enough notice to get away so it's the problem of the actual maybe panic of getting the way that's going to hurt people as much as anything so let's say that the most that you could ever
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say that the most that you could ever imagine dying from all the nuclear disasters over the next hundred years might be a hundred I'm guessing that that conserve the number of all the people who would die from all of the nuclear accidents from new plants so I'm only talking about plants that you built starting today the total number of people that might ever kill a hundred and it's probably closer to zero but let's say 100 if I told you that a hundred people would die over the next 80 years if we go strong on nuclear but it would almost certainly solve our climate change risk how many green people would say yes I'll take a hundred people they should because the climate risk of course is catastrophic a hundred people is very low and it probably would be zero I mean that if you had to bet you'd bet fewer than five I would but to say a hundred just to be
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I would but to say a hundred just to be conservative almost anybody would take that risk if they understood risk all right I'm going to figure out why my music's played and I'll talk to you later