Episode 606 Scott Adams: Water Thrown at Police, Iran Peace Talks, Predictions, MyPillow Persuasion

Date: 2019-07-23 | Duration: 52:14

Topics

Releasing kids from Obama’s cages President Trump begins calling the squad RACIST The squad frames everything in terms of race President Trump frames everything in terms of America first Does Iran have a system of government that is capable of peace? Police assaulted…and they just walked away Were they ordered to allow themselves to be abused? Mike Lindell’s strong MyPillow persuasion techniques PragerU does a good job debunking of the “Fine People” HOAX YouTube demonetizing both me and David Pakman for political talk Pharma costs down for 1st time ever…President Trump gets credit Shepard Smith’s stunning talent during PR Governor interview

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hey where is everybody come on in here it's time for coffee with scott adams and you know what you need yes you do if you're here early you're probably prepared you are the ones who have systems some of you are exercising more and more of you actually i'm hearing from people who are taking this system to art whereas you pick a favorite daily television or podcast show such as this one and you make sure you're exercising while you're listening to it and then you'll have a little payoff for your exercise if you like your show but i know what you want i do you want the simultaneous sip and it's coming but first you need something you need something you need a copper mug or glass you need a steiner telus attacker do you need a service of flask a canteen possibly a vessel of some other kind fill it with

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vessel of some other kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of this simultaneous sip here it comes oh gets better every time so boris johnson looks like he's set to be the next prime minister true story about a month ago a wealthy investor contacted me and said hey who do you think is going to be the prime minister i think he was going to bet so i'm not entirely sure why i asked and i said i don't know who's even running i have no idea i'm not even paying attention and wealthy investors said i'll send you three links of the three top people look at them and tell me which ones are persuasive or not persuasive

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are persuasive or not persuasive so i looked at all three links two of the candidates i will uh summarize with the following
i don't even remember their names they were so forgettable they were non-persuasive but then i looked at boris johnson's clip and i said oh well he'll obviously be the next prime minister because he has i'm not sure that he has trump-like skills but at least he has a persuasion game you could hear it you could hear it in just a brief clip it was just obvious and so i said well i don't know anything about politics in great britain but looks to me like boris johnson is going to win that because he's the better candidate and sure enough he won you want to hear another prediction that i got right i'll bet you didn't get this one right so this is an actual bet i placed on predicted so many months ago i made a bet that president trump would meet kim jong-un

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jong-un again in 2019 and he did now one of the reasons that that was a a high payoff bet you know the odds were deeply against it is because it takes so many months to plan such a thing that you'd see it coming from long way off and i said to myself you know what you know what i think they're going to have that meeting anyway now i didn't see it the way it was
was it unfolded but i did imagine that they would not need as much preparation as everybody imagined and i did imagine they wouldn't necessarily have to have an agenda so i won that bet i also have bets out that there will be a female candidate for the democrats and as separate about doubt that that candidate will be camel harris and those bets are both i think they're at about double uh the value of when i first placed them

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placed them many months ago so we're seeing a lot of news about trump's deportations i guess ice is uh starting the process of rounding up people who have been court ordered to leave mostly but that's the way it's usually reported they say it's mostly people who have committed some additional crimes beyond immigration while they're here and the court has ordered them to leave and i think to myself mostly what do you mean mostly what what's the other category have you have you seen any reporting for what the other categories are i i certainly understand if somebody's committed some serious crime while they were already here illegally i could see how the court would order them to go home and i could see how we'd want to ship criminals home instead of instead of
of incarcerating them here at our expense but what's the other category does

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but what's the other category does anybody know has it ever been reported what is one other reason that they're being deported and apparently it's not just because we're in the country illegally because that would be millions of people not just the ones targeted so why don't we know that and we're hearing wildly strange reporting about what's only a few people have even been deported out of thousands what what's going on there seems to be a complete news failure on this am i am i right oh somebody's saying it's people who lost asylum claims in court wouldn't that be a lot of people all right we'll have to find out more about that but anyway the it seems to me that the reporting has been very insufficient here's my favorite story of the day trump has decided to come out and explicitly call the squad a racist that's right trump

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a racist that's right trump is just calling them racist whenever he can
can now you say to yourself if you're a democrat hahaha that can't possibly work because as we know he's the true racist look at all our many weak pieces of infra weak pieces of evidence that collectively and individually don't mean anything but if we put them all together we convince ourselves that they do mean something how about that huh we don't have that going the other way but president trump has decided that they've said enough things that are sort of in that gray area that that's good enough how much do i love this a lot it's probably the best thing he could do i don't know what are all the bad things he could do but the best thing he could do is to explicitly and directly and continuously call them racists here's why that works

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racists here's why that works number one they're racists that's why it works if they were not racist it wouldn't work
now keep in mind that the uh that the standard is sort of higher for the left people on the right are racist just for existing i mean according to the left you simply have to exist and be associated with anybody on the right and they say this explicitly by the way if you're a supporter of the president or even if you haven't condemned him for whatever is on their laundry list today that you are a racist just for sort of waking up in the morning and existing and liking the president who's in office so that's a low standard but on the left they've got to actually do some stuff they've got to do some racist stuff in order to be called racists but they have so and i would argue that even if you argue

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and i would argue that even if you argue that's not what they're doing you can't argue that they don't frame things in racial terms and the president consistently frames things in country terms which other people say hey you framed this in country terms our country versus the other countries but what you really mean in your secret thoughts is you mean you don't like brown people now at some point that just becomes so ridiculous given that the president's job is to take care of this country above other countries if you can't do your job of taking care of this country above other countries without being called a racist what can you do i mean what's left yeah somebody's in the comments somebody's saying that apparently there's a story that ivanka got a an all-white dog for one of the kids and people are saying

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one of the kids and people are saying it's racist because it's a white dog when you start seeing racism everywhere except on your own team things have just gone to the ridiculous level now as you know um i had encouraged uh a a poll i wanted i want or actually a what do you call it a uh online petition to demand that the trump administration release children from those obama cages how many people were willing to sign a petition to release children from obama cages well turns out not many not that many at all as soon as you as soon as you call them obama cages nobody's nobody's in favor of releasing people and i thought to myself well if it's just the name of the cage maybe we do not have an actual rational problem here and by the way i am in favor of

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and by the way i am in favor of getting kids out of cages i don't know how to do it in a way that also preserves borders and gets us everything we want and keeps the kids safe from being trafficked i don't know how to do that i have no idea how to do that nobody else does either apparently i mean not in the short run in the long run everybody thinks they know how to do it
it but yes i'm definitely in favor of getting kids out of obamacages however that happens um let's talk about iran so i understand from the news that one of the last loopholes that iran has for at least for their oil industry which is a big part of their economy one of the last loopholes they have for distributing it is being closed something about a chinese tanker blah blah blah but i suppose that's true suppose that the last little bit of you know hope their economy has is now being squashed iran has a timing problem

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iran has a timing problem they sort of need to do something sort of pretty quickly because the economy is in a dire situation now when i when i was talking about north korea however many months slash years ago i was saying explicitly you know you could you really can imagine president trump and kim jong-un meeting and having a laugh that's i i could easily imagine it and then sure enough that happened but can you easily imagine the ayatollah meeting with president trump in person you cannot you actually can't imagine it i somebody says yes but i actually can't imagine it because i don't imagine that the ayatollah would put himself in a position where he would even be photographed with someone who is so completely opposite of everything he is

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opposite of everything he is and especially if the subject or at least the topic of which they came together would inevitably be trump getting more of what he wants and iran released the ayatollah getting less of what he wants so how in the world could you ever have any kind of an iranian deal if trump can never in a practical way trump can't really beat the ayatollah because i'd love to say well the ayatollah might get flexible and maybe maybe he'll decide no can't see it there's no world in which the ayatollah and president trump have a photo op and shake hands i just don't see it now the problem is that the odds of having peace if the two leaders can't even meet and shake hands is pretty low so how do you solve that how do you solve the problem that the

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how do you solve the problem that the one thing you need is basically impossible and i don't have the immediate answer to that but i would say that we do have a creative president and uh he is very this president is very good at seizing opportunities so there might be something that happens that's a bit of a i don't know maybe it's uh an opportunity that arises that that he jumps on um now i guess the question would be is there anybody who is um subsidiary or let's say somebody who works for the aitolo that the ayatollah would trust to go have the meeting with the president or anybody else and come back with a deal and i think to myself probably not because if you're not the ayatollah you probably are not authorized to give up anything and if you did maybe you get killed so

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and if you did maybe you get killed so i don't know that there's a mechanism for iran to even have a conversation about this i don't know that they have the type of government the type of personalities who can get from a to b and i wonder if it might be useful to call that out would it be useful to say that out loud to say we don't know if iran has the kind of government that's capable of even having a conversation about peace think about that you could challenge iran to simply figure out how they could develop a system for peace because if you make it peace yes or no people are going to say well probably no because we've never had it before so you don't want to talk about the goal piece yes or no or even have a summit yes or no you don't want to put this in yes or no because it's not we're not there yet

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not we're not there yet we're at a system problem they have a system in which they don't have a mechanism type even the conversation they don't have a way to have a conversation in which at least with this president now i think they did have a way to have a conversation with the obama administration do it with lower level people obama is a non-controversial kind of character
so they have to i think somehow we have to get past the fact that their system and our system can't have a conversation so i'd love to see that solved all right um have you are you seen the videos very disturbing videos of police officers who are making a stop in harlem i believe and the locals are taking buckets of water and throwing them on the police and the police are not responding literally they're surrounded by

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literally they're surrounded by mostly young men who are taking buckets of water and dumping them on top of the police heads while the police are just trying to do their arrest and walking away and stuff and you're watching the police are not responding they're actually being assaulted and they're just walking away they're assaulted i mean if somebody throws a bucket at your head as they did plastic bucket but still somebody threw a bucket at their heads if somebody pours water over you repeatedly in a public place you are assaulted that's a crime and the police walked away now i assume that's because the police have very strict rules about engagement and there must have been something that happened recently maybe it's de blasio's um administration that told them to walk away or they get fired but i got to tell you that what i watched if they had opened fire if they had just pulled pulled the handgun and started

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pulled pulled the handgun and started blasting away at the people with the buckets of water i don't know maybe that would be illegal because it would be too much force being used for you know the situation but i don't i wouldn't feel bad about it and it would have nothing to do with the individual cop and the individual person who would individually be um ended it wouldn't be about the individuals it would be about the system you can't really have a uh you can't really have a good uh system if if people can just abuse the police and they can't do their job so for the benefit of the system i would have been okay if a few people um got some tough justice that day just saying um
i promised you a while ago that if i had a slow news day i would give you some of the
the persuasion techniques used in the famous

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persuasion techniques used in the famous my pillow commercials have you all seen the my pillow commercials mostly on fox news channel most of you have and i'm just going to run through some of the technique so you can see that the best persuaders the best sales people use similar techniques um so one of the things that mike lindell does he's the founder of the my pillow is he does pacing now pacing is when you're matching your audience in some way you could breathe the way they breathe talk the way they talk agree with them on a topic that sort of thing so you're matching them in some important way that's an important part of persuasion because if you match them and they feel matched you can later lead them and they will go with you because they'll say oh you're just like me i'll go with you a little bit see where you go
go so you see that uh mike lindell starts talking about um how you uh

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starts talking about um how you uh he there's a part of his commercial work says you know why they're called down pillows you put your head on it and it goes down and he says it in a really interesting way you put your head on it and it goes down now the first thing you need to know is that because it's a pun a play on words of the word down because down is you know feathers of a goose which are in the pillows the traditional pillows he's he's paced you
you because you've all had the experience of you put your head on the pillow and it goes down and you wish it had been more firm which is the type of pillow he sells which by the way are good pillows i i bought a few of them and i was quite happy with them they're a good product so you have to have a good product or nothing nothing else matters um so the when he talks to you about putting your head on the pillow and your pillow goes down he is putting you in the movie he's taking you out of your seat and putting

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taking you out of your seat and putting you into the imaginary scene where you can imagine the feel the the touch the experience every day of putting your head on the pillow and it goes down that is amazing pacing he's he's he's got into your world he said something that you've all that you've all experienced and you know you've experienced it and he's put it in a word picture so you've got a movie in your head that's like oh yeah here's my head and it's the pillow and it goes down and because it's a play on words it's a little stickier that's also technique when uh when oj's lawyer said if the glove does not fit you must acquit that is technique because it rhymed is stuck in your head and and took on more importance than it really needed to now while he is giving you the giving you the pacing so you're imagining putting your head on the pillow he's also showing it to you

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pillow he's also showing it to you so it's visual he's he's squeezing it he's got some models there who we first lay on the pillow and he's showing you visually so it's very very visual now of course it's a tv commercial so they're all going to be visual so that part tv commercials never get wrong that's the most basic thing but a lot of people in their normal persuasion may not know to be visual commercials always get that right tv commercials always get that right and he gets that right as well another thing he does is in order to sell you must first sell yourself so you have to sell who you are before somebody will consider your your product he does that really well because he has this likable big personality and when you see him you say to yourself hey he's the most ordinary guy he's just like me he doesn't try too hard to look like he's a rich guy he's not wearing a he's not wearing a tuxedo he's not

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he's not wearing a tuxedo he's not standing in front of his mansion i assume he's got a nice house he's not doing anything that takes him out of that mold of being exactly like you
you so uh somebody says he wears a cross necklace if he does that's a that's a pretty strong message because he runs on fox news and that's probably a perfect place for that sort of thing now the other things he does is he makes it clear to you that a lot of people are buying this product so you get the the sense that you're part of something larger you know everybody's doing it and you're influenced by peer pressure oh everybody's buying these pillows they must be good pillows a lot of people are buying them and of course he does lots of statistics of this or that or you sleep better or whatever so those those are the uh main techniques he makes you like him personally he paces you to be just like you he he brings you into the picture so he he uh activates more than just your hearing he makes you imagine how it feels what

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he makes you imagine how it feels what it looks like so he's bringing in all of your your senses and then if i recall he's probably got something toward the end where he talks about price where it sounds like it's a deal now one of the things that he can't do it's not as easy to do because the nature of what he's selling he can't use the the shortage uh technique where he's so he can't really say act now or will run out of pillows now if that were something he could say he'd probably throw that in there but obviously he's not going to run out of pillows they have factories to make as many pillows as you want so he can't use that one but i'm sure he would if he did so those are the main main techniques um and
yeah any jokes with the people oh yeah he when he talks about his uh what is it is sheets that are made of giza cotton and he

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that are made of giza cotton and he tells you that they can only be uh the the is it the cotton that can comes out of one place on earth there's only one place you can get it in giza and you say to yourself whoa there's only one place this comes from that must be pretty good now what's missing is any sense sense that he has compared giza to all of the other places that you can get
get you can get your materials but i suppose giza's got good stuff and it does make you seem special and so that that part's good too good persuasion all right um we'd better start getting some real news because this summer is starting to get mighty mighty quiet um yeah if somebody would would invent a solution to snoring the world would be a lot better uh somebody says they're about to

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uh somebody says they're about to propose do you have any advice on being persuasive yes so here's some persuasion advice for someone who's about to propose number one never propose unless you already know the answer to the question
now i suppose you can roll the dice and take your chances but personally you know it's 2019. don't propose if you don't know the answer to the question um so that's my advice on that did you see that prageru did a video tutorial in which they debunked the the charlottesville fine people hoax so prageru got in on that so we have yet another another source that we can link to when people think that that's true that hoax
all right um yes wear nice shoes that's always good does anybody else

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that's always good does anybody else have any other questions i'll look at your comments it's it's another strange strange day because there just isn't anything going on which i suppose is really good oh area 51. so uh so i understand that started as some kind of a prank to storm area 51 and now it's becoming an actual event
so i don't have much to say about that except that i think people are just having fun with it and they can certainly have fun with it um
oh can you talk about seinfeld legend larry charles yeah i should ask larry to come on so you
you probably saw the news that larry charles um who is famous for being one of the original seinfeld writers he is also famous for

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seinfeld writers he is also famous for being the director of borat he is also less famous for being my co-executive producer during the gilbert animated tv show many years ago so i know him from working with him extensively on the tv show and i was uh alarmed to see that he had made some kind of quote and maybe it's out of context so i'm not going to make any assumptions about what he meant or if he was kidding or anything else but he made some kind of a comment about democrats need to arm themselves because there might be some kind of a real civil war coming now don't you think i have to talk to him about that so i'll ask him if he wants to uh to come on um in fact i was uh i met with larry um in the past year because he was working on a special which is now on netflix dangerous comedy i believe it's called

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dangerous comedy i believe it's called and
and i was interviewed for that i think i i don't think my interview made it i think i ended up on the cutting room floor i'm not sure yet but uh so i was meeting with him recently and i have to tell you in person in person he's one of the smartest people uh and funniest people you'll ever meet and i love him a lot uh and so i think if you i think if i talk to him in person about his recent comments there's probably more to the story than the way it's being presented so maybe i'll do that um i'm considering adding an interview feature to what i'm doing that would be separate from this in addition by the way um netflix is officially demonetizing about eighty percent of my potential monetization now i say 80 because what they do is they somewhat routinely and automatically demonetize all of my

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automatically demonetize all of my content at first and then there's a process by which you can ask for a human review upon human review almost every one of them is then approved but it takes you more than a day to get it approved and by then eighty percent of my traffic has already happened because i have content that people watch the same day it doesn't have as much meaning because it's tied to the headlines if you wait to the next day uh oh i'm sorry i said netflix i meant um
um youtube so forget everything i just said about netflix except when i was talking about larry charles um youtube is the one who's demonetizing me sorry um and but here's the thing apparently they're also demonetizing david pakman the same way
way he'd be associated with the left so whatever it is has something to do with political

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has something to do with political content and i guess they just don't want it i don't know or maybe it is that david pakman's not the kind of political content they want even on the left i don't know i have no idea why he's being demonetized because i'm pretty sure his content does not warrant it as nor does mine
so i don't know i can't say that youtube is targeting me for talking about trump but i'm definitely being targeted for political conversation um somebody's asking about uh kathy zhu miss michigan you know that how you feel about the miss michigan story i guess she was uh dethroned for things she said on social media she claims those things were not that controversial other people claim that they actually are pretty bad

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they actually are pretty bad um you can make your own judgment i don't really have an opinion about that story i saw some of the tweets and i would say yeah i could see how you'd say that you would think that would be pretty bad so that's your personal judgment i would say
say yeah personally i'm hard to offend so i wouldn't say that any of it was offensive to me but it also wasn't targeting me so i imagine if she had targeted me i'd feel a little different differently all right um
yes for my interview series i would use a different technology than periscope because periscope doesn't have a an easy split screen um way you can do it but i'd probably just use a different technology probably zoom and do it offline and then and then publish it uh what's my prediction for 2024. i don't don't have a 2024 prediction

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don't don't have a 2024 prediction um you might see mark cuban getting interested
that would be that would make it a fun race but there are a lot of people waiting in the wings uh let's see can i be interviewed probably not who do you think will win the next democrat debate one of the women so one of the women will be uh a winner it'd either be warren or kamala or both
uh these slaughter indexes is over 100 so the the odds of trump winning reelection are pretty much locked down i would say at this point
um michelle obama no there's zero chance that michelle obama will run for office zero chance forget about it

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um nikki haley has so far not impressed she seems to disappear at least during the debate she sort of disappeared i just don't think there's enough i don't know maybe media support for her or whatever it takes i don't think buddha judge has true national appeal he might get attention but he's not going to be the nominee it's really down to warren and harris in my opinion
um what has happened to beto you know the best theory i heard on beto is that the whole reason that he got a lot of attention was you know partly some people liked his look so he had you know charismatic vibe about him but the best theory i heard is that the real reason that beto was popular is just that he was running against ted cruz originally and people wanted to get cruz out of office if they were anti-republican and so he got a lot of money and support that maybe he wouldn't have normally

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that maybe he wouldn't have normally uh gotten except that he was running against cruz so as soon as you take cruz away and he's just thrown in the mix with other democrats and he's running against democrats well he doesn't look interesting anymore because of the contrast
yeah some say he looked like a kennedy i don't know i i just don't think beto had anything now remember i i was never predicting better would go far so i think i'm on point on that prediction um so someone in the comments is saying a woman president would be disastrous how would that be disastrous on what basis would a woman president be a disaster unless you're just saying it's because they're democrats or something but i don't i don't think there's any basis for that kind of a statement

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all right i'm just oh mueller's coming you know the mueller's the mueller thing is just summer reruns we couldn't come at a better time i think everybody's sort of on board with the idea that the mueller thing isn't going to produce anything useful now i appreciate the democrats play here because the play is just to get people to talk about it more maybe to understand some details in the report and and maybe that's all but there is some some suggestion there is some suggestion that it's going to be good for republicans because of the types of questions they're going to ask about how the thing the whole thing got started and and why it didn't get wrapped up sooner and stuff like that so it could be just terrible for democrats but they'll get their they'll get that story back on the headlines and maybe that part is good

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all right what time is the mueller thing tomorrow
i haven't decided if i'm gonna watch the whole thing or just pop in and out but my assumption is that mueller is going to be so boring that it will be unwatchable and he might want to keep it that way because i i think he just wants to say blah blah blah until he goes home
did you talk about boris yes i did oh so there was some story about trump offering to uh broker a peace talk between india and pakistan over a cashmere and then there's other reporting that says that conversation never happened you know that that's not on the table um i just love the fact that that's even out there you know even if it's fake news uh you know even if it's just totally

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uh you know even if it's just totally untrue i love the fact that it's just sitting out there that trump has offered even if it's not true i just love the fact that it's out there that he's offered to mediate that could he do that maybe so maybe so you know as sure as i was that trump would be the wrong you know the right person to talk to kim jong-un and as sure as i am that i don't think he's going to shake hands with the ayatollah i just don't see him standing physically together i could totally see trump working something out over cashmere i can see that that's that is totally within the realm in fact if i had put odds on it success probably 60 percent you know if he actually got involved you know the odds of him actually getting involved are probably low but if he got involved and if india and pakistan said you know nothing else has worked let's try that

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nothing else has worked let's try that you know let's let's you know give it let's take a run at it nothing else is working so mr president why why don't you see what you can do i think he'd have something like a 60 chance of making some progress there just because the the nature of who he is and etc now by the way there's another thing that may happen soon it hasn't happened but could happen if the president gets a number of negotiating wins under his belt it doesn't matter which ones they are let's say you know let's say something good gets negotiated with north korea let's say he gets a chinese trade deal those are just two examples let's say he gets both of those done and let's say the new mexico canada trade deal also gets signed let's say all three of those things get signed what are people going to say about the president's negotiating abilities

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abilities it's going to start to look like he can negotiate things that other people can't negotiate it's going to look like that and then suddenly people who imagined that no solution was possible will start to imagine that things are possible because they're going to say well nobody before could figure out how to solve cashmere but also nobody before could figure out how to do a trade deal with china nobody before can figure out how to do a deal with north korea if those things get done right i'm not saying that you know we're close to those but if they got done he would have a track record that would become a power in itself so the world is sort of lining up these dominoes in which the president has once again found found the way to be the center of history the dominoes are lining up that if the first three fall and it doesn't matter what those

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fall and it doesn't matter what those three are if they're all in the category of things that the president has negotiated that other people thought couldn't be negotiated if if he can do that three times in a row people are gonna say even his critics are gonna say you know three in a row that's not a coincidence one in a row people can say he got lucky two in a row they could say well anything can happen three in a row even the critics are going to say okay it looks like he can do things other people can't do he's got a negotiating ability there so think about how close we are because he's got a number of things that are sort of in progress that certainly could be negotiated successfully i i do predict something good with north korea i do predict something good eventually with china although if they don't cut down if they don't clamp down on their fentanyl exports i don't want any kind of agreement which i know on anything

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so we're very close to major progress in the world somebody had uh yeah and my understanding is that did i get this story right that uh pharmaceutical costs dropped for the first time and that president trump's policies are getting credit for that is that true can somebody fact check me on that i'm seeing some yeses here what are the odds that trump could get pharmaceutical costs to drop i mean think about that would you have predicted that would you have predicted that they could do anything to make pharmaceutical costs go down i i'm not even sure i would have predicted that one that looks pretty unlikely now i don't know exactly what it was and maybe we'll be surprised you know anything could happen next year but i think part of it was that the administration sped up the approval of

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administration sped up the approval of generics my understanding is that when the third generic hits the market if that's the way it works when the third option hits the market that the price for
for price goes down and that simply by speeding up the time it takes to get to that third option of generic that's enough apparently that makes a big difference
all right oh and then price transparency we're not there yet are we but we're getting there so that should make a big difference too
can you talk about the evil medication ads on tv and are they using hypnosis well as i've often said

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often said when any kind of pharmaceutical or health care ad comes on tv i turn it off immediately i run i run to my device to my remote control i grab my phone and i don't want to hear a word of it because if you don't have those health problems listening to them isn't good for you every time you hear bad news that's unnecessary and listening to other people's health care problems is pretty optional you don't have to hear about the horrible healthcare or health experiences that other people are having and so i turn it off as quickly as possible i would think that over time the our news sources would put themselves out of business honestly when i watch fox news i don't know how they stay in business and even though their product is excellent i've said this a lot fox news is really well produced well

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fox news is really well produced well staffed talent is amazing but i don't know how they stay in business because they're it looks like their primary income is pharmaceutical ads and they're so obnoxious i don't know how anybody can handle it in the long run because it's like it's like somebody says hey do you like ice cream yeah i do i love ice cream here's some ice cream it's free and you're like whoa free ice cream i like this i'm eating it and then and then they punch you in the head and you go whoa what the heck what's that why are you punching me in the head and you say well it's free ice cream and you say but i didn't sign up for a punch in the head now you might say i like ice cream so much and it was just one punch in the head i'll keep eating my ice cream and then you get punched in the head again if you get punched in the head enough you're not going to take the ice cream anymore and watching the news doesn't matter which network i'm talking about all the networks are the same it feels like being punished like actually being punished

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actually being punished for watching content because the advertisements are actual i find them actually painful and i mean that like actually i have extreme discomfort listening to all these horrible things that are in these commercials
somebody asked me something in the comments that i really wanted to talk about i was trying to talk while remembering what i was going to talk about and it didn't work out at all bitcoin controversy i don't know what that controversy is i don't know what you're talking about um
um i mean there are lots of bitcoin controversies i don't know which one you're talking about
um loser think will be out in november will be a giant bestseller much guarantee it
somebody says the trivago ads make me nauseous i turned off the tr the trivago ads every time

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every time there's some ads that i'll let run in the background because it's not worth turning them off but the oh i know what i was going to say um if you didn't see this you should see the
the the video replay it must be somewhere but uh on fox news shepard smith interviewed the governor of puerto rico if you don't know there's i don't know a million people in puerto rico marching in the streets for days and days demanding his ouster because some emails that the governor wrote were discovered i don't know hackers got him or whatever and they just had horrible things in them terrible jokes about dead people and lgbtq negative things etc it was just the worst things on top of that there are allegations of tremendous corruption in the government which is probably a little more noticeable now because they had all this aid after the hurricane and people are saying hey where's where's the aid going

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saying hey where's where's the aid going so those are you know it's probably accentuated now but if you did not watch shepherd smith rip that guy apart on on national tv you really have to see it now typically i like my news to just be news and my you know opinion could be whatever whatever because it's opinion but i like the news to just be sticking to the news and that's one of the things i like about fox news is they're they're better than other networks at labeling what's news and what's opinion now shepard smith is the news part and i like it when he sticks to news but now and then there's a situation which is so egregious that you don't even hold your news people to that standard anymore and when you watch shepherd smith talk to this governor who clearly was a a tumor on puerto rico i mean he's bad

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on puerto rico i mean he's bad bad for business he's bad for the people he's just bad it was impossible to imagine that you could have a conversation with him and remain just objective and so i would say that shepard smith did not remain objective but he also remained completely professional and what i was going to point out about it is if there are
are um i don't know how this works in the news business if they're emmys or whatever and this is the second time i've said this about shepherd smith when he did the helicopter crash in new york it was one of the best pieces of live tv you'll ever see see in the news context he is so good but watching him um sort of go toe-to-toe with this governor who was being a little weasely was riveting television and they just stopped running commercials for a while because it was so good i i assumed that they thought the interview would be short you know like most tv interviews a

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short you know like most tv interviews a few minutes but it was immediately obvious from the first couple of minutes that this was going to be special and it was
was and you watch this thing and just you know i know some of you have your bad feelings about shepherd smith because he's not as pro-trump as you want him to be etc but if you just talk about talent it was outstanding just the amount of talent that shepherd smith brought to that interview the the way he couched it the way they put the kept the pressure on the way he asked the questions it was really just stunning stunning talent so a plus to the producers who never get credit but they obviously put in put on an amazing show but a triple plus to shepherd smith who if you don't get an award for that like somebody needs to nominate that that segment because that was news wise that was the best piece of

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news wise that was the best piece of news and just just pure skill wise that was the best piece of news i've seen in years it was amazing all right um i don't have much else to say so if you don't have questions and i don't see any
any i'm going to go do something else and
somebody says eric fitment is briefing congress on bitcoin tomorrow morning is that true i don't know about that i'll find out about that if that's true i'm definitely gonna see if i can watch that all right enough for now i'll talk to you later bye