Episode 560 Scott Adams: Mexico Deal, Housing Emergency, Crazy George Conway, Magic Mushrooms
Date: 2019-06-10 | Duration: 51:26
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thumpa thumpa thumpa thumpa thumpa yes that’s the happy sound of the beginning of coffee with Scott Adams that’s what happens right before the simultaneous up one of the best parts of your day be you just waking up be you exercising already be you running on the beach talking to you Joel this is the time if you’ve got a cup or a mug or a glass stein or a chalice or a tankard could be a thermos or a flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the simultaneous it oh that’s one of the morning and I’ve had a few well well well thank you for your belated happy birthday wishes it’s always a fun day you know one of the things that people always ask me is
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things that people always ask me is what’s it like to be famous and the answer to what’s it like to be famous is that 99% of the time it’s just like any anybody else because most of the time you know my typical day I get up by work I do my you know I’m probably putting a load of laundry in and driving to the gym it’s pretty ordinary but every once a while there are these little these little uh little breaks in the simulation where things get weird one of those weird weirdnesses is that your birthday is announced announced in the media you know I could never hide my age because literally every year the news reports my age like what the hell is up with that not that inviting anything all right let’s talk about all the all the news now I’ve been telling you for a while that there’s something odd going on in
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that there’s something odd going on in the world maybe this is the country and if you haven’t noticed that it’s because it’s the it’s that blank space problem the the biggest the biggest news is the complete and total lack of really bad news now I’m not saying there aren’t bad things in the world happening but because almost everything is heading in the right direction not everything yet we got problems to work on but everything seems to be so positive that the news itself is running out of things to talk about case in point here are some things on a Monday they qualify as news be ready for this these are things that are on the front page I’m I’m in Vegas right now by the way would you like to see I’ll show you the hotel here’s the room
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this is I’m in at the wind in Las Vegas alright that’s enough of that so I was telling you that the the news is running other things to talk about that are terrible so these are actual stories I’m not making these up actual stories from the top page of CNN okay if you don’t think we’re living in a golden age listen to the top stories number one I swear I’m not making this up Justin Bieber challenged Tom Cruise to to a fight like an MMA fight in the Octagon why why did Justin Bieber challenged Tom Cruise to a fight I’m sure he has his reasons but apparently so Tom Cruise is 5 for 7 and reportedly 170 pounds and and ripped Justin Bieber is very fit but he’s
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Justin Bieber is very fit but he’s apparently 5 foot 9 and 145 pounds and it might be the first time in my life where where there’s talk of a major MMA fight and and I have a realistic chance that I could beat up both of them I mean I don’t know I mean but if you put me in the Octagon with either Tom Cruise or Justin Bieber it probably just depends if I was in a bad mood if I were in a bad mood I think I wouldn’t the fight so you’ll never see like you’ll never see the MMA fight where I have a good chance of beating above both of the fighters all right so that’s the headline here’s another one George Conway temporarily still the husband of of Kelly and Conway I don’t know how long this is gonna last the marriage this is tweeting again about President Trump being crazy and unfair off off and I’m thinking to myself based on what
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and I’m thinking to myself based on what based on what George Conway what the hell news are you looking at where everything’s going going going to hell do you have your own source of news do you have like a little private news site with only bad news in it that we don’t see but on Twitter a twitter user said maybe Scott Adams can explain what’s going on with this George Conway Kellyanne Conway situation where she’s a top advisor to the president that he’s tweeting in public that the president should lose his job etc and that he’s crazy and I thought about it for a while I was thinking deeply about okay what are all the ways that you could explain that and I came up with a simple explanation which I tweeted which was he hates his wife if you can come up with a better explanation than that because here’s the thing there’s two questions here one is
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thing there’s two questions here one is why is this his opinion you know why does he have a negative opinion to the president but that’s not mysterious right if he follows the news the news the news tells him things and he believes him so it’s not it there’s no insight to say that he has an opinion of the president the half of the country seems to have you know we understand where Trump derangement syndrome comes from so that’s not the interesting part the interesting part is why is he doing it in public when his wife is working for the president now if you can think of a better explanation than he hates his wife I’m open to it now people said to me Scott Scott’s out to your mind reading you shouldn’t take this too seriously I’m just saying that no matter what else is going on it doesn’t look like he’s a big fan of his wife you know what I mean now some people are saying
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what I mean now some people are saying oh it looks like it’s it’s really a theater and the two of them are so clever that they’re playing the media and that this is all kind of an act it’s sort of a you know Carville and Matlin situation where it’s gonna make things more interesting then after Kelly ends out of that job the two of them will have a career on television is debating you know to to debating heads or something but it doesn’t look that way to me maybe so I’m gonna call I gonna call BS on the idea that this is some kind of a planned clever plot that’s part of some reality show situation I’ll think so I think I think it might be exactly what it looks like and exactly what it looks like is he’s not a big fan of his wife so there’s that but I’m not reading his mind and keep in mind that we could
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mind and keep in mind that we could never know all the possibilities somebody says is Christina are real human or a dull well if they ever made a doll that was as good as the real Christina you would all have one men and women you’d be by him alright she’s still asleep so I’m speaking kind of low so I don’t wake her up here’s some other news Jim Acosta has a book so Jim Acosta’s book is hilariously titled the enemy of the people could that be any better so first of all good luck good luck to Jim Acosta on this book so politics aside when a writer has a book I’d like to see people you know know that it’s out there and if they’d like to but like to read it go ahead I’m actually thinking of reading it myself
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actually thinking of reading it myself because whatever you think of his opinion it’s probably interesting I’ll bet it’s a good book so I might check that out myself but it’s funny that he he names the book after the presidents after the president’s label you know you just can’t get the president and if you out of your head he gets labeled by the president the most awful thing that you could be labeled which is enemy of the people and he makes it the title of this book which I appreciate I like the fact he did that but he’s I just watched a little clip of him where there was some some event where he was talking to a White House official he didn’t name and the official allegedly said to him that the president was insane insane and so when Jim Acosta went to check back he wanted to ask ok did you mean insane insane or are you talking about crazy like the good kind of crazy and the administration person said no no not not like the actual and
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said no no not not like the actual and same kind but the unpredictable you know don’t necessarily know where he’s going kind so even Jim Acosta wasn’t calling the president crazy he was he was calling that figure to speech himself so if the worst thing that you’re seeing from Jim Acosta is accepting the president’s insult of him as the enemy of the people while also talking about know when when when the aide called had been saying that was just figurative speech that’s it it where’s all this conflict we expect here’s another one Oberlin College just lost a lawsuit over accusations of racial profiling so the story was there was some bakery in town we’re near where he Oberlin was and the bakery let’s see I guess they stopped a underage guy from buying some alcohol
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underage guy from buying some alcohol and that caused some kind of some kind of a disturbance with three customers but they were African American customers and the bakery was not African American and so it turned into a racial thing and apparently I don’t know the details but it sounds like somebody associated with Oberlin spread the spread the rumor that the bakery was racially profiling apparently you know somebody somebody is filling it in the comments that it was a shop like lifting instant so I think that’s the situation some shoplifting but there was also some attempt to buy something with a fake ID but those details don’t matter so much what the allegations the crime are don’t matter so much what matters is that the bakery was accused of being racists for stopping the shoplifting and the illegal purchase and apparently something somebody associated with Oberlin College was part of spreading that and they lost
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was part of spreading that and they lost a ruling 11.5 million dollars the college lost for wait for it a race hoax that’s right last summer what were what were we talking about last summer we were talking about actual or what we thought was actual real events where for example some police action and there was a you know a black victim and there were questions about whether the police acted right everything is reversed now we’re talking about jussie Smollett erase hoax we’re talking about now this Oberlin thing it’s another race hoax and the jury found the jury concluded it was a race Oaks so if those are the stories you’re hearing if you can’t find enough of real racial problems that the only stories about race and the headlines are about race hoaxes you’re in really good shape
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hoaxes you’re in really good shape aren’t you is another one motorcyclists hit by lightning now it’s tragic and I feel very bad for the family and for the victim of course Bo what are the odds that you would take on a hobby as dangerous as riding a motorcycle and it’s not the riding the motorcycle that killed you it’s the getting hit by lightning while you’re riding the motorcycle now I don’t know if karma is a real thing I don’t know if there’s a vengeful God in heaven but if you’re riding your motorcycle and you get hit by lightning and killed fill in the rest of that all right my other favorite story is if you all seen the the alleged video security camera footage I’ll say alleged in which there seems to be some kind of elf like alien creature have you
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kind of elf like alien creature have you all seen that so it’s one of the top stories on the news sites so there’s a little video of what looks like some kind of a weird little elf creature that looks like maybe three and a half feet tall or something and everybody’s saying who is it what is that thing I would be willing to bet a large amount of money that it’s nothing but a somebody’s five-year-old kid in a costume but it is very funny now what’s funny about it is that it’s its top-line news and that the fact that this is on the front page of the news that’s a good news I mean that’s that’s a that’s a good sign what else we got so California is apparently going to provide health care for all illegal aliens in California at the price of 98 billion dollars per year now I gotta say when I hear stories like
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now I gotta say when I hear stories like that and I know what California is doing to my taxes I think I gotta get out of this place I got to get out of California and then I read stories and Fox News usually about all the needles and the human waste and the and the homeless people and all that stuff and let me give you my first-hand account of living in California are you ready so I live here full time and it’s the country where’s all this bad stuff happening here’s the thing if you don’t go to those places you don’t see it imagine if you will look whatever miron it’s probably carpeted or maybe you’ve got a hardwood floor imagine the entire area of the floor in the room you’re in now imagine you took a BB you know just like a little teeny BB you know dropped it on the floor the BB would represent approximately all of the square footage
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approximately all of the square footage where every bad thing was happening in California pretty much an entire room with a BB sitting on the floor that BB would be all the places in California that you would run into a needle or a human feces or homeless living on the streets any of that stuff the rest of the time all of the rest of your floor that doesn’t have that BB on it there’s really nice weather it’s it’s nice people in nice weather that’s what it is 99.99% of it is nice people enjoying the nice weather it’s really hard to move out of this place so when you look at the the taxes and you know all the the bad news those are compelling things but the whole state is pretty amazing gotta say so it’s hard to move out of the state I would I would if it were just taxes but you can’t beat the weather really here’s something else apparently
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really here’s something else apparently the next story the White House blocked some State Department analysts from testifying about the the global security risks of climate change and the critics said this is unheard of when is the last time somebody was blocked from presenting facts blocked from presenting facts that’s not what this was about the analyst was going to make predictions predictions are facts and apparently the predictions were not in keeping with the administration’s either current or evolving view about the real risks of climate change and I’m thinking about ourselves no there’s more fake news it’s the worst thing that was happening in it’s fake news so the fake news part is that they did block the analyst from giving his predictions about the security such as how bad the security situation would be
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how bad the security situation would be for the country etc from climate change but they didn’t block him from facts they didn’t say don’t bring us your facts they said don’t bring us your predictions because the predictions are almost certainly ridiculous I haven’t seen them but you can assume that they’re ridiculous because it’s not really a predictable thing all right let’s talk about the Mexico deal so predictably the president threatens to tariffs put tariffs on Mexico if they don’t do something about the border Mexico allegedly quickly complies and steps up and they’re going to do some real things and then also predictably the New York Times writes a story with from unnamed sources saying it’s basically what Mexico already agreed to do but then you dig a little bit deeper and you find out yeah it’s something they said in words they were willing to do but apparently now they’re actually willing to do the things that they indicated they might have been willing
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indicated they might have been willing to do and and even more than they had predicted so while it’s slightly sort of almost true that the things they agreed to are sort of almost kind of you could imagine similar to and very very like what they talked about before they weren’t doing anything and it didn’t look like they were going to do anything the doing something is the part that the president alleges he’s getting done that they’re actually going to do something now because the threat of the tariffs so I was looking at how CNN would create a negative Adam a positive because this this Mexico situation might be we don’t know yet don’t know yet but it might turn out to be one of the cleanest wins a president ever had and indeed I would argue that although their main there may be no physical wall that gets built
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be no physical wall that gets built because yes either on the Mexico’s southern border or northern border there may be no physical wall but it would be hard for me to say if this thing goes through it would be hard for me to say that the president didn’t make Mexico pay for the wall because they’re paying it’s expensive they’re paying for their own you know their own security forces to go down there they’ll probably build some they might even build some fences on the southern border so in a in a non literal sense it kind of looks like the president just got Mexico to pay for the wall in the sense that the wall was standing for security border security but here’s here’s the first sentence and CNN’s article about it all right so you’re seeing and turning a positive a substantial a conscious accomplishment I would say of the president probably
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would say of the president probably we’ll have to wait and see but probably and here’s how they say that their first sentence of their article about something good that he did they say President Donald Trump is riding into a fresh week of constitutional collisions with Democrats okay is that is that how you frame a story about a great accomplishment by president he’s writing writing into a fresh week of constitutional collisions with Democrats I don’t even know what that has to do with the story does have anything to do with the story about at the Mexican immigration here’s the next sentence oh it’s comma and then he continues heading back at critics who are dismissing his new border agreement with Mexico as a mirage rather than the huge victory he is claiming so they’re leading is about the critics calling it a mirage and then later in the story they they add some details that even CNN
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they they add some details that even CNN seems to be saying that’s good work so they have to frame it as so they frame it talking about the critics instead of framing and talking about the star of the story the star of the story is the president what the president did if you’re a news organization you’re going to say huh Mexico wasn’t doing enough he caused them to say they will do enough it looks like they’re starting to do real things objectively speaking it looks like the president got some action there but instead of doing that they talked about what the critic said first are you kidding me the critics are just missing his agreement with Mexico as a mirage that’s the first sentence if there were if they were any bit of objectivity on this they would simply say what happened first so the first sentence would just be what happened and then they say the president
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happened and then they say the president is saying this is a good deal and then after you said what it is and after you said what the crib what the president claimed then it’s totally fair to say that the New York Times and his critics say it might not be enough that’s totally fair I’m not saying you should leave out of the story what the critics are saying because that’s always part of the story but to put it in the first sentence that’s that’s not playing fair all right there’s another story so Ben Carson’s talking about the national emergency for affordable housing now Ben Carson’s point is that red tape and regulations and you know all kinds of permitting delays and all that stuff all the other red tape of government is primarily the reason that housing is unavailable I mean by unavailable I mean unaffordable so that the rise in
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unaffordable so that the rise in homelessness according to Ben Carson ben Carson is HUD I was in urban development right so Ben Carson is saying that the government is sort of in the way that’s that’s the big problem with with this but I but I asked myself which of those regulations that are in the way could you reasonably get rid of for example their cities have height restrictions on building but I assume that the reason they have height restrictions is because they don’t want that much traffic right it isn’t the whole point of a height restriction more about the traffic and then they also have housing safety regulations and permits well do we want to get rid of those I mean maybe there’s there some that aren’t unnecessary but you sort of need some standards so here’s what I’m suggesting given that all the states and the cities and and you know every every
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the cities and and you know every every entity has its own set of rules what if you did what if I’m just going to throw this out I don’t even know if this works okay so this this is the bad version of the idea maybe it gives you a better idea suppose the government the president declared a homelessness or let’s say a housing emergency so it’s a housing emergency meaning that the government can cut some corners and do some things that ordinarily you couldn’t do and then let’s say instead of trying to override cities that are working well yes instead of just you know overriding their rules and regulations which would be or a problem suppose you said we’re going to we’re going to take the blighted areas the areas that already exist in metropolitan areas and we’re going to say that only for the blighted areas will declare an emergency and for only the land that’s already useless because it’s just blight and broken-down
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because it’s just blight and broken-down homes and nobody lives there for that land only not the rest of the country there’ll be housing emergency that says the regulations and the permitting will be will be faster and lower regulation so that you can build something there easily and then you can iterate and you can test some things now you might have have to have some regulations such as you might say if it’s an experimental home it can’t be more than one storey high because I imagine all of the risks come when you get that second story write a one story anything is going to be safer so there might be some common sensical little regulations you have to keep but what about a housing emergency you use the blighted land because it’s basically free you the government can just say all right we’re just gonna we’re gonna pay you for it if you own it but it doesn’t cost much it’s a hundred bucks you got all the land you need we’ll get rid of the red tape we’re gonna invite in industry to build to
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gonna invite in industry to build to build some experimental homes yeah you know build a little neighborhood and see if you can turn it into something that’s low cost and good the other thing a question I would ask you is is it time for Bill Polti to be the replacement for Patton Carson so most of you know if bill pulled a right he’s the blight authority leading voice in the country he’s the person you would most associate with this and has the had the most success clearing blighted lands he’s doing some more by the way you’re gonna you’re gonna be hearing some more from bill pulled a over the summer and you’re gonna like it there’s some stuff happening that I know about that I can’t talk about yet but there’s there’s some good stuff happening it’s probably time for somebody who has the bill Polti kind of experience specifically not only in understanding the blighted inner cities
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understanding the blighted inner cities but he also has the background in building because that’s his background is his home building you need somebody who’s got both of those skills so you need somebody who’s got the right talent stack for that job and I would see those two things you know ben Carson probably he’s not going to do a second term with Trump I’m thinking probably not he’s not going to be there forever so I’d say let’s draft bill Pulte into that job declare a housing emergency and turn him loose because if anybody could do it he could and if you’re not willing to get that serious maybe we’re not that serious about the problem but I saved opal day to replace Ben Carson to win Ben’s done alright let’s talk about my prediction that these states that were restricting abortion would have some economic problems because that what I predicted was that
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because that what I predicted was that companies would not want to do business there because the company’s own employees and the company’s own management and the companies on customers would resist and sure enough you know you already know about the Netflix and the Hollywood people saying they don’t want to do business there but now there’s a hundred and eighty business leaders have a signed signed on to a letter saying that they don’t want to do business in or that it’s bad for business to restrict abortion in those states so you’ve got a hundred and eighty liters with you know big staffs big companies who are willing to sign on to say we wouldn’t move there we wouldn’t do business in that state if we had to have a have a location there that score is sort of a big deal and keep in mind that that’s a hundred and eighty business leaders who are willing to sign it that’s not how many are the only ones not willing to go that’s just the ones who signed it so you have a big big
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who signed it so you have a big big problem that won’t materialize maybe for a few years because you know takes years for a company to pick a location and decide to move but I would think if you if if you had a way to bet on the individual economies of states you should bet against any state that restricted abortion here’s the problem half and half the country wants roughly you know restrictions half of the country wants no restrictions on abortions or approximately something like that and if if the state does what all the other states do and allow abortions I mean what most of the states do they’re not going to lose business for that so no state would lose business because they were doing what everybody else was doing but as soon as a few states and this is the key thing because if it’s only a few
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the key thing because if it’s only a few then there are lots of other states that people can choose instead but if only if you want to restrict it restricting it you can say 180 business leaders signed something that said that’s a reason not to go I don’t need to buy myself a new problem if you’re a leader of a business why would you go to a state that you know it’s going to be a problem when the state right next to it there’s not going to be a problem that’s an easy decision from a business perspective from a business perspective for every company you know that well let’s put it this way people will leave a state because of abortion laws but they won’t go to a state because because of restricted abortion so it’s a bad deal the state let’s talk about a OC a OC is I have quite a dilemma here because there are some things that she’s promoting that you know don’t seem practical to me you
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you know don’t seem practical to me you know I I think her green new deal for example has lots of stuff in it that would be hard to accomplish but as aspirational stuff it’s not too bad not too bad if you were to look at the green new deal as a place you’d like to get to but without specifying how to get there I like that there are people who say let’s give health care to everybody and you know let’s clean up our environment and all that stuff now the mechanism to get there probably needs to be capitalism and socialism probably is not the best mechanism to get there so I can’t I can’t sign on to all she agrees with but I’m not going to ignore the fact that she keeps doing brilliant things I know you don’t like the eret but it’s good to learn from her technique so in the same way when I talk about president Trump’s technique that doesn’t mean I endorse all of his policies because I don’t doesn’t mean I
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policies because I don’t doesn’t mean I don’t criticize them for things should be better because I do a OC is gonna be the same rule for me I’m gonna say I don’t like this part of what she’s she likes but techniques good and here’s an example one of the things I say about President Trump is that he often will pick up money that’s laying on the table there for some reason nobody else wanted he walks into a room and there’s a pile of money on the table and he looks around he says pile of money on the table this your money whose money is this on the table nobody there’s nobody who’s gonna claim this money alright and then he picks up the money he puts in his pocket and walks away and what I mean by that is that he’ll find this you know as we say low-hanging fruit the this free things that all he has to do is say the right thing and he gets a free thing he does it all the time AMC does the same thing and it’s a really it’s alright I’m gonna block you
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or technique if you can’t listen to technique because you don’t like the person who’s doing it then you probably shouldn’t be on this on here right now all right apparently you’re not you’re not quite ready to deal with adult ideas if you’re not ready to deal with adult ideas this is not the right place for you all right so here are some examples so recently AFC came out in favor of limiting lobbyists which was such a practical idea that Ted Cruz agreed now when you saw that and you said wait a minute AOC wants to do this and Ted Cruz agrees that’s free money laying on the table all she had to do was write that tweet and she picked the free money up off the table because nobody on the left is gonna say at least in public they’re not going to disagree and people on the right like it too why did nobody else do that why was a or C the one who wrote that tweet and all of every other member of
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tweet and all of every other member of Congress has access to Twitter they all have access to Twitter but only one person wrote that tweet and it was her all right here’s another one today she came out in favor of magic mushrooms now the most of you are not up to date on what this is all about if what you think she’s talking about is that the psychedelic mushrooms should be recreationally allowed that’s one question but the bigger thing is that these have immense mental health benefits now your most of you are not pointed at place where you can accept that what I just said is true so I would I would encourage you to research it I’ve I’ve personally had conversations with people were the top doctors in this field so literally I have had personal
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field so literally I have had personal conversation you know standing in the same room with one of the greatest experts in the country on this and let me tell you there are a lot of people with PTSD a lot of people with various mental conditions in which a little bit of doctor regulated exposure to psychedelics is sort of a complete cure now you’re talking about fixing things that are completely unfixable with other technology as far as we know and no side effects alright nobody as far as I know there’s probably been zero cases of a doctor supervised person taking magic mushrooms the psychedelic ones and having any kind of a bad mental outcome probably never I mean I don’t know that that’s true and that’s not even true an aspirin keep in mind
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aspirin keep in mind aspirin kills people anything they do in the medical world has some risk one up on how do you know if if as long as you’re taking mushrooms they know where they came from and you can measure the doses stuff and the doctors watching you not really a risk yeah and somebody’s saying here in the comments is often a single treatment think about that one experience with mushrooms can change your whole life in a positive way now I’ve said before that I did I did mushrooms once was in my 20s only once I’ve also said it was the best day of my life easily not even not even close it was the best day of my life and it changed me permanently taking mushrooms allowed me to see the world as a simulation meaning that from that day on I no longer thought that the limits that I could see in my environment were necessarily real for example when I
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necessarily real for example when I tried to become a cartoonist did that seem like a realistic goal did it seem realistic that I would go from cubicle guy to arguably most successful cartoonist in the world right now before at least for adult properties there’s kid properties that are that are bigger that wasn’t reasonable but I had experience with psychedelics and I’d I just don’t view my world as limiting me I view it as something that I change on the fly because it’s a it’s a subjective world and so if it’s a subjective reality I changed it to be the way I want you know you’ve you’ve most of you know of Christina if you were to say to yourself if you’ve seen her I know if you’ve seen her Twitter or her Instagram do you look at her and you say to
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do you look at her and you say to yourself well it makes sense that she’s with this guy yeah totally makes sense why wouldn’t she be no it doesn’t make any sense but I don’t live in the world where any kind of restrictions like that apply to me me they just don’t so I continually run my life as though it’s a simulation now only in the recent years I’ve used the word simulation but I had my own my own version of it I wrote about in the Dilbert future back in the 90s it was the same idea as the simulation just sort of different framing but because of mushrooms I completely changed my view of reality in such a productive way that that it made my life a ongoing wonder so that’s pretty good deal all right then the other thing that AFC did was she promoted as she was saying why don’t why isn’t birth control over the counter now
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isn’t birth control over the counter now I’m not a doctor so I can’t answer the question of whether that’s a good idea or a bad idea but as a tweet it’s brilliant why is it brilliant because when a or C says why don’t we get rid of a government regulation who’s she talking to the people on her side say yeah we’re more birth control that’s great server-side likes it then people on the right say wait a minute a regulation we can get rid of we like that right so I can’t speak to the medical risk involved but in terms of the politics of it it was just one of the smartest things anybody ever tweeted ever because it appealed to both sides it was again AOC walks into a room there’s a pile of money on the table and she says hey I mean anybody is this your money nobody says yes she goes I guess is my
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nobody says yes she goes I guess is my money now and she picks it up and she puts it in her pocket how many times do you have to watch President Trump walk into a room and be the only one to pick up the money off the table how many times you have to watch a OC walk into a room and be the only one to pick up the money off the table it’s not a coincidence this is all I want you to know it’s all I want you to know this is not a coincidence this is technique this is somebody in both cases Trump and AMC they are operating on a whole higher level than the rest of us even if you don’t like it and I know a lot of you don’t like it all right keep in mind also the AOC has said that she’s open to nuclear energy as part of the green New Deal that’s a big deal imagine she’s like the greenest of the greeny greens and she’s just said nuclear energy I’m open to
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just said nuclear energy I’m open to that because she’s probably looked into it enough to know that that’s sort of the only thing that’s gonna work not sort of as far as anybody knows unless something new is developed right away it’s probably the only way to get to a good end so as Lee says no she rejected it and the most recent statement was accepting it I think she might have had two older comments in which maybe she was more skeptical but I think at the moment her current thinking is bro or at least not against so there you go somebody’s asking is it natural or studied we’ll keep in mind many people don’t know this that a or C is not a let’s say a grasp grassroots she’s not an organic politician and by that I mean she did not go through a normal process to become a politician she literally did sort of a American Idol
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literally did sort of a American Idol trial workout with a Democrat group that was looking to develop new leaders so she was one of many people who actually auditioned to be a politician she actually auditioned so that she was selected based on her natural talents clearly but now she is to access because of her job and her visibility she has access to the best advice in the world and you can tell that she’s absorbing it like like ordinary people don’t and you know everybody has access to the same information but she seems to be absorbing the good stuff I’m not absorbing the bad stuff that’s has a lot to do with the fact that she was selected by audition to have a certain set of qualities that would that would it would scale up pretty quickly so whoever selected her you know the people who did this lecture process did a really good job they picked somebody who who couldn’t
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they picked somebody who who couldn’t build a talent stack pretty quickly alright so that’s enough about that so you can you can see from my discussion of all of this do you notice do you notice that it’s all sort of good or goodish news we’re really running out of bad news and there is because of this president this president is the primary reason that the news is just going away it’s like you’re relevant today all right some of you speaking of the simulation you probably know how many crypto currencies there are in the world I don’t know might be tens of thousands of crypto currencies that have been Korea did you know Bitcoin did well and then everybody wanted to create one well my company went hub has a cryptocurrency is that it’s a token actually crypto token as utility within our app the
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as utility within our app the interesting by when hub app and as of yesterday it was I think it was yesterday it was a top traded it was the top traded token crypto on one of the big exchanges hotbed died io it was the number one and of all the Kryptos it was the number one one now Erik Feynman said some good things about it and he’s he’s followed as sort of a crypto investment genius so his recommendation is primarily what’s moving it but as soon as it gets some momentum then people notice and when you notice things you’re more likely to act on new and then it becomes a little bit self-fulfilling in a perfect world but think about what were the odds that I could be associated with a crypto anything that would be one of the ones that wins because most of them don’t you know it’s a sort of a
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them don’t you know it’s a sort of a graveyard of crypto tokens again I seem to be in the middle of something that is so unlikely you know so statistically ridiculously unlikely and yet it’s it’s become part of my normal life so all I’m saying is if I do get in the Octagon with Justin Bieber and Tom Cruise they better watch out because I’m on a winning streak all right yeah I have visibility so it it helps the process but by itself that wasn’t enough because I had visibility last weekend and last week the it wasn’t moving on the exchanges this week it is but is it going up in value yeah oh I think Eric recommended it when it was around three cents and it’s up to five cents so you do the math what is the percentage gain in a week of something that goes from three to five it’s a lot it’s better than whatever you’re doing in the stock market but I warn you is not an
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stock market but I warn you is not an investment not an investment so yeah I’m not recommending any investments want to be clear about that cartoonists are not good sources for recommendations of investments oh speaking of investments I’m gonna I’m gonna tell you an investment this this has nothing to do with crypto gonna change the subject for us for a minute I made an investment a while ago there’s either really smart or really dumb and every day I try to figure out which one it wasn’t I can’t tell so I’m gonna I’m gonna ask you if there’s anybody out there who has some information on this and here’s the investment I bought I own stock in the Turkish cell phone company Turkcell so Turkcell is the name one word and it’s way down so I bought it here and it’s it’s way down but here but I bought it
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it’s way down but here but I bought it as a super long term investment super long term meaning probably won’t sell it you know it’ll be part of my estate or something and the reasoning is this nobody nobody loses a phone company it’s like it should be the safest investment of all time as very low p/e and I think all of the risks are political but I don’t know because there’s not good information there and so I’m not recommending anybody buy it it looks like it’s a pretty risky thing but I own it and I can’t tell ya world comes a good example but they weren’t a cell phone company so let me let me tighten up my statement it’s not that a phone company can’t go into business but a major cell phone companies that already has a huge customer base has that ever been a problem so somebody’s thinking say it’s somebody saying it’s a currency issue which would get to the
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issue which would get to the socio-economic political situation there anyway I just wondered if anybody had any visibility on that suggesting it whatsoever yeah there could be their leadership air21 might be ruining everything here all right it’s not Turki calm its turkcell anyway that’s all I have for now and I will talk to you later