Episode 663 Scott Adams: The Simultaneous Sip Waits For No One. Unless you see it on Replay
Date: 2019-09-15 | Duration: 1:03:36
Topics
What would happen…if the ticket is Biden/Kamala? Fat-Shaming, Bill Maher and James Corden President Trump says…”I’m good with that!” New home building systems and technology are the future “Hempcrete” for example My recent insight about why “Fine People” HOAX is so sticky S.E. Cupp anti-Trumper notes the incompetence of the Dems Kyle Bass says Chinese internet nodes in US allows them to spy Andrew Yang soft rebuke of SNL’s Gillis use of ethnic slur Why did Houthi rebels attack Saudi oil facility, not a better target? Matt Gaetz suggests Erik Prince for National Security Advisor Vaccines given all at once, nobody has tested that risk If they’re given together…you should test consequences
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[Music] hello everybody come on in it's the weekend well it's been the weekend but it still the weekend is a great great day so sore today when you just want to take a deep breath take stock of all the good stuff but most importantly you want to enjoy the simultaneous scent because when you do that it nearly guarantees that the rest of your day will be better than it would have been does it take much to enjoy it no it does not thanks for asking it doesn't take much at all thanks for the super art the virus Joe here's what you need to enjoy the simultaneous simple I think you know it's a cover above your glasses time to tell us the Tegrity thermos can't eat a Grail a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I'm partial to coffee and join me now for the simultaneous sip the best set of the day dopamine go sublime alright let's talk
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dopamine go sublime alright let's talk about Joe Biden here's an interesting angle that I don't believe I've seen anywhere so I should be the first person to introduce this idea but it might catch on here's the idea imagine if you will Joe Biden gets the nomination that's not crazy now I've predicted it won't happen because I predicted that he'll fail before the before it gets time to nominate and probably for some health or mental stability reasons the stabilities wrong word he's he's obviously lost a step all the Democrats can see it it's no longer a question of opinion you know it's it's now passed for an opinion into oh yeah we see it too but it's hard to talk him out of it because apparently there's nobody who has any influence who can apparently there's nobody who can
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can apparently there's nobody who can talk to Biden and say you know you've been good for the country you know maybe take a step back so what happens if Biden gets the nomination here's the fun part he's gonna have to pick a vice president let's do a little bit of thought experiment let's say he picks a vice president from among the other contenders for president which would be quite reasonable quite normal he's not limited to that of course but it let's say he does who would he pick wait for it wait for it who would he pick who would have the most chance of invoking the 25th amendment with in conjunction with the regular processes for that who would support it maybe even promote it and take the job of prog president think about it if you voted for a Biden Carla
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about it if you voted for a Biden Carla Harris ticket I see most of you were getting ahead of me if if you voted for that ticket let's say you know the variables just lined up and against all odds Biden gets the nomination largely because let's say the country isn't paying attention anybody who's watched him in a debate it's gonna have a real problem we're thinking that that's a safe thing to do for the country but if there's any doubt in people's minds about whether Biden will be capable and they still want the benefit of thinking incorrectly but thinking that Biden could be too Trump they might have this tough question which is it's obvious he's not capable but what if there's a hot backup and here's here's the thing about Harris imagine a vice presidential pick that you could more easily imagine
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pick that you could more easily imagine invoking a fairly radical solution the 25th amendment now I don't think it'd be radical in this case just because it would be quite cold for I think but I feel like Harris because she's a hard-ass by reputation and because she's obviously ambitious you know I guess they're all ambitious but she's also a prosecutor if I were to pick one personality type who would be willing to let's say overlook not overlook let's say who would be intellectually capable of sidelining loyalty I'm trying to say this is more a positive way not to make it negative someone who who has the critical thinking and experience and mental mindset of a prosecutor can put aside feelings for some you know greater process you
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for some you know greater process you know legal purposes and as sort of what she does so I would think that a prosecutor would be the best choice to be expected to be aggressive in acting quickly if there was a confidence problem with the president so we might see that happened and it would be a not impossible way for Harris to become president there's there's a interesting example of loser think in the news I like to call out now let me define loser thing for you but it's the title in my new book coming out November 5th I'll give you a little preview with the theme is the theme is that people who have experience across various different fields of study be they history psychology economics business technology engineering whatever the fields are the people who have a broader experience at least in the thinking styles not all the
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least in the thinking styles not all the details not all the skills of those different disciplines but if you've been exposed to the way they think you're way ahead and understanding your world and communicating well I'll give you a trivial example if you had if you had never heard of science would it ever occur to you that you should do controlled experiments and you know double blinds and stuff like that probably not right because those things were not obvious until who wasn't Newton Isaac Newton I think was sort of the you know the the thought founder of a lot of science you can help me with the details but the point is throughout much of human history it wasn't obvious that you needed a controlled experiment and then you could rigorously test your way to something good now think how think how handicapped you'd be if you were a modern you know person in the modern
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modern you know person in the modern world and you never heard a science now you don't have to be a scientist to know that controlled experiments make sense there was reason to explain alright so I'm gonna take that concept and gonna apply it to a conversation between sort of a public conversation I guess Bill Maher who did some who did a monologue in favor of fat shaming in other words his point was we should shame people to lose weight because of the health benefits economic benefits use societal benefits so James Corden who I think you know him from whichever late night show he's on he's got a very impressive impressive body work and in the entertainment industry so so the first thing I'm gonna say about James Corden is very successful I'm guessing very smart because if you
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I'm guessing very smart because if you look at the body of his work it's pretty broad in the entertainment industry it's very impressive but I checked to see what his educational background is and it's not science it's not engineering it's not economics it's not business now if somebody had did not have an educational background than those things one should expect that they don't maybe have a full grasp if they haven't been exposed to those things of what to do exactly in every situation because those are pretty useful fields so let me give you an example of what James Corden said no apparently James Corden has been struggling with his own weight for years I had to look at a picture of him to see what he was talking about and I don't know maybe it's because he works in LA but he doesn't look fat to me I don't know what he's talking about now I get that James Corden seems to have some genes that make him a little
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have some genes that make him a little rounder maybe maybe old fat you know more strongly than other people so anyway the point is James Corden believes he's overweight so that's his self assessment I don't really see it in the pictures in any way that would be in any way I would call fat in America you know by American standards certainly not but he'll is probably lives and works in LA so it probably feels like that to him and I imagine it's going up and down over time but here's what he said so James Corden said this quote if making fun of fat people made them lose weight there'd be no fat kids in school and I'd have a six-pack right now now in this mode he was trying to make a serious point he wasn't making jokes now if it were a joke I wouldn't say well let's look at look at him factually you know pull it apart and see if it makes sense but but it wasn't a joke he said it in you know sort of an interesting way but it's as serious it's obviously a serious point in which he's saying that fat
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point in which he's saying that fat shaming doesn't work because if it did obviously every single kid gets fat shamed if there's in fact so how many of you think that's a good point in the comments we'll do a fun little thing is James Corden making a good point did that given that every kid who's overweight gets fat shame you can guarantee that zero zero kids who are overweight do not get fat shamed so we wouldn't see any fat people if it worked right set you so I'm looking at your comments and look at the mix a lot of you say yes a lot of you saying no why is it that it looks like about half of you or yes half of you or uh now why is it that you disagree on such a simple question and here's my hypothesis now this won't be true for every one of you I'm gonna make a general statement my hypothesis is the people who say this makes sense on average not every single
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makes sense on average not every single person you could be the exception but on average the people think that James Corden is making sense probably have a similar educational background this is my speculation secondly the people who say he does not make sense probably have backgrounds that are more like economics probably more like business maybe more like engineering maybe more like science or at least I've been exposed to enough of those things that they they know how those fields think here's what's wrong with James Corden sentence and I'll read it again and then tell you why it's completely irrational okay if making fun of fat people made them lose weight there'd be no fat kids in school here's what's wrong with us and half of you already know it the other half are going to learn it for the first time we don't know what would have happened if this were a controlled experiment see you see
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were a controlled experiment see you see what we see where this is going if this were a controlled experiment we might learn that 90% of people who are efficient go ahead and lose weight we might find that 10% do but the thing we don't know is what would happen if we did the experiment so when and let me say I should throw my opinion in here just so I don't get lumped in with one of the two opinions I'm talking about my opinion is closer to James Corden's opinion that the fat shaming [Music] is not good for society I just have different reasons for it so I'm anti fat shaming but his reason he gave is that if fat shaming it worked there wouldn't be any fat kids in school and that is a very sort of an artist opinion if all of your education was in the arts you wouldn't know that there was anything wrong with that opinion if
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was anything wrong with that opinion if you were a scientist that everyone here who had a scientific background sent up no controlled experiment no controlled experiment your statement is absolutely just a guess and half of you took that statement which is nothing more than a speculative cast and said oh yeah that's true there would be no fat kids if if fat shaming worked I guess that would take care of it all so here's the the big picture the big picture is if you'd been exposed to the some of the other more productive fields the way they think you don't have to be expert in any of them but if you just knew whether the fact they think you would have picked this up immediately enough on that there's a funny funny tweet by President Trump I forget who he was tweeting at but there was somebody on Twitter who was slightly notable who said in effect that she wouldn't want to be friends with President Trump but you know would vote for him for president as opposed to
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vote for him for president as opposed to Andrew yang who she thinks she could be friends with but wouldn't vote for him for president and president Trump wisely and entertainingly tweeted back to her I'm good with that here with an exclamation Lord in other words he was accepting that he would rather be an effective president than to be the president everybody likes for his personality and I thought I thought it was a sort of a brilliantly persuasive tweet in terms of framing the public's opinion of the situation because the most productive frame that this president could put out there imagine this imagine if President Trump could sell what I'm gonna say next good and that's the first time I've seen him hinted and here's the sale I'm not asking you to like me personally I get it I don't want you asked to like me personally sometimes I'm kind of a dick
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personally sometimes I'm kind of a dick but I'm gonna be a dick for you sometimes I'm kind of a bully but I work for you now I'm your bully I'm bullying you're an I'm gonna I'm gonna bully some other countries I'm gonna bully the Democrats I'm here I'm your bully that message is super appealing because people want to you see that most of president Trump's critics have this problem that they can't get past who he is and they don't want to validate that and they don't want to normalize it by the president giving this framework which is yeah I'm not I'm not gonna be your best friend I could see why you wouldn't like me my personality isn't for everybody I get it and you're fine and I'm fine with that at the same time let me do this effective job look at my statistics look at unemployment rates etc I'm doing a good job that is a really really productive frame because it gives it gives a fake because to the people who
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gives a fake because to the people who are on the fence about him the fake because if it's a term I made up and it has to do with the fact that we know scientifically people often need excuses a public excuse to do the thing they in their mind they want to do so the people who might want to support him but they know that associating their vote and their reputation with him would make them feel like his whatever they feel about his personality and that could be bad so if you allowed Democrats to say god I I just can't stand the guy but I like a good economy then it gives them a fake because a reason to do the thing in public that they want to do to privately because privately they might be thinking to themselves I would actually vote for that guy if it weren't so embarrassing because of the way he acts and you know I don't want to promote that and normalize it so it was a small tweet that you probably thought was just a joke you know just a nothing that went by but
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know just a nothing that went by but everything he does on Twitter whether he's thinking about this way or it just works out that way is a/b test he puts out a lot of stuff and they see how people respond and that message I thought was an excellent test an excellent a B test just to see if that idea could be maybe pushed a little further I'm not sure what kind of response he got there's another story about a Swiss company that built a very impressive high-end house entirely by robots now when you hear that you say I know the robots are taking over and and ultimately they will of course new new home construction will be robots it's just when certainly if you're looking at 20 years totally most new construction will be mostly robots I would say that's a safe very safe prediction in 20 years now if you say in five years I think you might
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you say in five years I think you might see your first permitted robot built house maybe in ten years it's probably going to be competing with humans and twenty humans won't be competitive anymore except for for what do you call it reconstruction were upgrades upgrades will still be human for a long time because there's too many decisions being made unless it just becomes cheaper to tear everything down so here's the thing one of the biggest trends that the public doesn't see coming is is new home building systems and technologies so I'm saying systems to include all the planning organizing coordinating stuff in just the order in which you do things and how you integrate things all that those are systems then the technology is robots or 3d printing or homes that you
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robots or 3d printing or homes that you can put together like a kit or somebody mentioned something called hempcrete today get rid of that it's hemp and creates like concrete book with hemp apparently if you use hemp and some kind of lie or limestone mixture you get this lightweight brick for a building it's not strong enough for four foundations but it's strong enough for walls and has the advantage that the hemp absorbed a bunch of co2 so you have buildings that instead of concrete so concrete will produce co2 by hempcrete because you're growing plants and then turning that into concrete you're actually absorbing co2 and you're locking it into the construction material and you're putting in your frickin wall and apparently has great qualities for moisture control and insulation so it's light which makes it easier it insulates as a good moisture control qualities and it and it actually
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control qualities and it and it actually absorbs co2 I mean when it's when the substance is growing not when you put it in your house so now I'm not saying that a hemp accrete will ever be a big thing so because you know who knows there might be other variables I don't know about but if you look collectively at all the things that are happening in the construction world it it's it's a revolution of a thousand droplets of water that are this giant tsunami and that this giant tsunami of you know just a whole bunch of different little things that are being tested and tried all over the world if the world of constructing things fundamentally changes it will lower the cost of living it will make living in some places economical when it wasn't you could build entire communities just for people with drug addiction take them out of a place where they can get drugs put them where they just can't get them and have a whole nice City there that you can live in it's just a drug free
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you can live in it's just a drug free city so suddenly a whole bunch of societal problems can be more easily dealt with simply by changing your construction now what about the robots taking all the jobs that's a mixed bag because there are two trends and we don't know how they'll still net out one trend is that if robot takes you job you got to go get another job and maybe you don't make as much money so that's bad week we could assume that there's some of that coming toward us so robots taking construction jobs guarantee there's some of that comment but what if the net effect of these new technologies for building homes takes the cost of a really good quality home down to wait for it $75,000 let's say you could buy a really livable I'll say livable because it's designed to be really nice just low cost so you could have a really liveable affordable
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could have a really liveable affordable $75,000 house even if you're paying rent the rent on a $75,000 house is could it be pretty low so if you could get to that point suddenly you can you know have a lower end job and have a real high-quality life because you'd go home to a you know beautiful albeit inexpensive home all right oh I say the home is beautiful I mean you have to design the entire community so that it's the community that makes the living experience good similar to how college is awesome if you go to college your physical room is just as crappy a little space you share whether your roommate usually but the lifestyle is amazing because you walk out of your room and soul students and activities and you know there's central places you can go to have sports and all kinds of things all right I had a realization the other day about why the fine people hoax
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other day about why the fine people hoax is so sticky and this would be a good just as a lesson in persuasion and how the brain works I want to add this I know most of you are too much about it so I'll give you all the whole background of the fine people hoax but it has to do with the fact that some large percentage of the country still believes the President Trump called the neo not he's in charlottesville quote fine people now that never happened and since it never happened and as clearly it never happened on the transcript clearly it never happened and when you look at the original video without it being selectively edited which is a problem so why is that the people are so sprung loaded spring loaded to believe this thing that is so easily debunked and now one reason is of course that the fake news shows the misleading edit so the country has been lied to right so somebody says my own ears I'm talking to you so whoever said whichever ones of you who are saying right now Scott it's not a hoax I heard
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right now Scott it's not a hoax I heard it me personally with my own ears I watched it Scott you I don't know what's wrong with you Scott I literally watched it myself I thought so I'm talking to you the people who were saying that right now and I know there are a number of you on this periscope here's the thing that I realized as to why you think that thing because you're wrong it didn't happen and you can prove it just look at the transcript just look at the the full video that goes all the way to the part where he says and I'm not talking about the neo-nazis and white Nationals so you have to get to that sentence in the clip to know that he was explicitly and without being prompted and without asking he said I'm not talking about the neo-nazis right so why do people believe it here's my insight I think people are conflating two events all right the first event is a real event this so
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the first event is a real event this so the next thing I'm going to say actually did happen that when the event first happened and the the woman was killed by the neo-nazi in the car and Trump was talking about it after he did say so this part's true there are bad people on both sides now here's the realization back when Trump first said that what did the public say when he said they're bad people on both sides if you remember everybody said what the hell are you talking about one side was literally neo-nazis like not that's not our opinion they were literally neo-nazis who organized with torches and and one of them killed somebody so how in the world can you say that the people who are protesting them are the bad people as the people who are the bad people you
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as the people who are the bad people you know the actual racist how in the world can President Trump say that so that was the first controversy I remember he said that at a time when the public didn't know much about antiphon what they knew about Anti Fog is that they were protesting the racists say you say to yourself there's no way this is a moral equivalent president Trump you're totally wrong protesting races is not morally equivalent to being racist duh right time goes by what do we find out about antiphon meaning we the public at large what do we learn about antiphon in the time that has passed as son Charlottesville what we learned is that the president was 100% right there were bad people on both sides an tyfa as of course like you know any large organization a lot of different personalities and I'm sure there are there are good people we joined anti far for all the right reasons in their mind at least they
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reasons in their mind at least they think it's some greater good but we do know no now and it's unambiguous it's something that both sides of the political world would accept the anti-fog wears costumes and brings weapons and looks for violence and that they've attacked people from behind now again not every anti phone number is violent we all acknowledge that but as an organization they have some bad people now that wasn't obvious to the public at large when President but first said there are bad people on both sides so the very first thing that happened was people said wait you're you're acting like both sides are somehow morally equivalent this is the new insight I had that the first incident in which we now know President Trump was a hundred percent correct I mean we're actually considering designating anti far as domestic terrorists if you're even in that
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terrorists if you're even in that conversation you've got some bad people in your group right so so that part's true and I think that gets conflated in people's minds when that a separate separate time in a separate event and but soon after President Trump said there were quote fine people on both sides now when he said they were fine people on both sides the context was different in that case he defined his terms and that's the part that gets edited out of the videos so if you haven't seen the full video you were intentionally being hoaxed basically by the media because they've left out the context intentionally now the context is the president very clearly and explicitly said I'm not talking he said this actual sentence this is his actual sentence I'm not talking about the white nationalists and the neo-nazis they should be condemned it totally as clear as you could possibly be and then he
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as you could possibly be and then he explained to who he was talking about was people who had showed up on both sides of the question of whether the statue should stay or whether it's offensive and should leave and his argument is that they were fine people who could disagree on the statue who have nothing to do with the people who are marching with the tiki torches now whenever I point this out to people and so here's the insight the insight is that the original statement of bad people on both sides seemed untrue when he said it but over time we now know it was true completely true bad people on both sides just not all of them that there were bad people there and now we also and then that gets conflated with the fine people on both sides and then people forget that that context was about the non-racist protesters and they he defined his terms very clearly so that's my insight I think that what makes this special is not just the fake news not just the fact that the people primed to
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just the fact that the people primed to believe it our prime to believe it those those would be enough but when you add those two events that are similar enough that your brain conflates them automatically I mean even when I described it to you it was it was you probably had a thought of right I got to pay attention because it's a little hard to follow and that's what makes it so sticky that bad people on both sides and find people on both sides got conflated in your mind so those of you who are on this periscope who said when I started that so that was wrong how do you feel right now now that you've actually heard the the explanation and I would invite you to look at the hash tag hash tag find people hoaxes and you can see some stuff on Twitter that will lead you to the actual transcript and the actual videos and it's gonna blow your mind it's gonna blow your mind to learn how badly you were wrong about one of the most basic
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were wrong about one of the most basic stories of our reality all right so enough on that I saw SE Cupp who's what would you call her and I know analyst pundit host I don't know what title she has on CNN I think she was allegedly Republican ish but sort of is anti Trump ish so she's more of a she's sort of leaving left at the moment for CNN I don't know her whole story commentator somebody says let's call her a commentator if she did a very good piece about how the Democrats are almost not even trying to win and I thought it was really well done even with her her facial gestures so if you get a chance to see that s SE Cupp little video clip it's pretty short which he goes through how the Democrats are so incompetent the group of them
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are so incompetent the group of them that it's almost as if not almost is this it looks like not literally but it you know just on the surface it looks like they're trying to lose it's so bad but it's a really good piece all right
see what else we got going on Kyle bass investor Kyle bass who seems to be one of the strongest voices against doing business with China at all tweeted today that apparently and he seems credible enough that I believe this is true but like everything that I hear I always go at it with a little bit of skepticism the claim is that the Chinese telecom company has some nodes in America in other words some American companies have at some point bought Chinese technology for switches or routers or whatever and put it in put it in the network in the United States proper but that that has
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United States proper but that that has allowed China to look at our traffic now I don't know is that true apparently some of the traffic is being routed from the United States to China so they can look at it if they wanna if that's true and Kyle Bass is saying that we have to like take that equipment out of the country if if it's even a little bit true that the Chinese equipment might be sending our our private traffic over to China so they can take a look at it we have to change that tomorrow that's not even the next week anything is it isn't that sort of you've got to go to those telecom companies the President of the United States or whatever agency needs to say you've got it you've got to tell your customers that there that their traffic is not private from China and you've got to get rid of that so yesterday I was talking to a international business person so I'll
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international business person so I'll tell this story without the details because the international business person is listening to this is going to be having the simultaneous up on his commute so without naming names somebody told me that he recently went to China and and the result of a short business trip to China is that his laptop was so infected with with presumably you know hacks from official or unofficial Chinese sources that his tech people are telling him to grind it up it is so infected and so dangerous to even go into China and use their Wi-Fi in a hotel that his his laptop is almost unfixable corrupted by spyware so that he's actually gonna have to take it out and like you know run out run it through a shredder or something so just think about that think about China is so
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about that think about China is so unreliable as a as a business partner you can't even visit think about the fact you can't even visit the country unless you have either no technology or you get a some kind of a VPN or something I think if you have a VPN you're in good shape all right Andrew Yang's making news with a little public dust-up with a comedian whose last name is Gilles who apparently is going to be a new member of Saturday Night Live starting the season and of course the moment he was announced to get the job somebody dug into his past and found some racially offensive things he said allegedly in the service of humor that's the debatable part and so what he said what Gilles said was it looked like some kind of a podcast II situation he was talking with another person and he used the the the asian n-word it
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and he used the the the asian n-word it starts with a c alright I'm not even used to work so if you're if you're asian-american and somebody uses a slurry you the starts with the letter C you probably know what I'm talking about ch let's make it easier starts with the words CH third word is I third letter is I just in case you're not getting there quickly enough so I'm not going to say the word because I find that quite offensive and I mean offensive on behalf of other people nothing offends me personally but I I would be supportive of other people being offended when they heard that word so he uses that word and of course it becomes you know social media starts spreading around and then Andrew yang weighs in and he said to do oh he he basically he gave a soft rebuke so he he andrew yang basically because he said you know something was soft but
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he said you know something was soft but sort of you know pushing back a little bit doesn't matter the exact words he said he'd be happy to talk to him about it so he said he'd be happy to sit down and and talk to Gilles about it and then of course there were calls for Gilles to be fired for being a racist and then yang Wei didn't again and here's the interesting part of the story all right yang weighs in with the second tweet and he said quote we would benefit from being more forgiving rather than punitive meaning that punitive punitive punitive isn't worth punitive let's say so here's so here's the summary Gillis says something that's offensive to asian-americans and anybody from has the Asian background and yang pushes back but softly there's a call for Gilles lose his job and then yang comes in and says now maybe we'd benefit from being more forgiving rather than punitive I
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more forgiving rather than punitive I love that honestly that in my mind the front-runner on the Democrat side he's like the only person who seems to understand Otto consistently he seems the only one who understands how incentives work have you noticed that now you could argue that with the ubi he's giving incentives wrong because hey why would you pay people to not work but I think he's just ahead of the curve on that meaning that we're not going to have an option about paying people directly once the robots take the job so it's not so much that yang doesn't understand that paying people to not work can have effect on their incentives of course he understands that but that we might not have a choice which is actually a pretty forward-thinking thing to say so my view on Yang of course is forming over time and you know at this point I
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over time and you know at this point I still don't see him as a threat to get the nomination but based on this on this one interaction alone for yang to say publicly I think maybe we should ease up on some of this stuff from a Democrat now any Republican would have sent this right yeah don't you imagine it would have been easy for endemic in say a let's let's ease off on the political correctness but this wasn't even the case of political correctness per se it looked like it was the real deal and for yang to go soft on that and to recommend that maybe we should think in those terms is a real gamechanger I think and I think it's like an important it's an important addition to the public conversation so I would like to thank you Andrew yang for doing the public service so without even being elected I would say this is a valuable literally a valuable public service that he would
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valuable public service that he would introduce this more productive way of thinking I would call it so this is productive thinking now I can't tell this story without giving my complaints about Yang being a little racist himself now when I say yang is racing I'm using the term to talk about the the impact of someone's actions not their inner thoughts I do not believe yang is a racist in his inner mind I don't think Biden is I don't think Trump is I don't think people at that level or actual racist internally but it is certainly true that the impact of your decisions can you know the impact of your statements that your choice of words can make people feel bad can have racial consequences etc so that parts all true but I don't think Yang's inner thoughts are racist so two problems I have with that one you saw the debates he joked yang did he said quote I'm Asian so I
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yang did he said quote I'm Asian so I know a lot of doctors it's kind of racist isn't it now again I'm not saying in his mind he's racist he's just making a joke and I would follow his own advice that maybe we should benefit from being more forgiving than Putin's punitive all right so I don't think that yang should be punished for a joke but here's the thing he should be a little bit more aware of and I think this is always worth noting it's a stereotype that's positive and so he's probably thinking that's just a positive stereotype and I'm talking about my own people I'm safe right but what would you feel like if you're not Asian if you're not asian-american in particular how would you take that comment it feels a little like my people are better than your people doesn't it is that is that sort of that the vibe you get from that because since being a doctor is considered a respectable thing that only
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considered a respectable thing that only smart hard-working people can accomplish saying that his group is that the group has a lot of smart hard-working people sort of begs the question what do you think Andrew yang of the other groups who don't have as many doctors right so again I will take Andrew Yang's leadership on this topic and I'm not going to suggest that you or anybody else should have a negative piñon for him for what I think was maybe a small blind spot about how that sounds when he says it now I don't I don't request an apology not needed I don't I don't even request in a clarification but it would be useful to him to know how that sounds to everybody all right it's just a useful useful feedback the other thing he said and I don't remember the exact details but there was a while ago
ago early in the process the yang made a
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early in the process the yang made a comment that the the rhetoric in this country was heating up to the point where it might be unsafe to be an Asian American in this country specifically chinese-american because the magda people the Republicans were going hard at China the country and some of that might spill back onto Americans we have you know some kind of Chinese connection Chinese background now he's not wrong that that's a risk but that too feels somebody says be a freakin man Scott well that's a block if you had a point instead of saying be a freakin man Scott I would listen to that point but if you have nothing but personal insults you are not welcome here goodbye so oh so you're saying that
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goodbye so oh so you're saying that basically the the conservatives and the Republicans might be coming for the Chinese Americans because they would get all whipped up about China the country and maybe some of that would spill over I took that as a little bit racist because not against me but it was a little bit racist because it kind of assumed there was something about the group presumably the mostly white Republican types were Trump supporters and that they were somehow a little extra dangerous to the group he would identify with I feel like that's a little unfair it's a little unfair now again Andrew Yang's not a racist none of the Democrats our Trump is not in their hands they're not but you can say and do things that people go and to me that was a little little flag that I said mm that doesn't sound quite as
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said mm that doesn't sound quite as open-minded as I would like so that's my little advice to Andrew yang he's you know I'm in favor of jokes and I'm in favor of being accurate and his his description of the risk I think was accurate but it doesn't sound right you know maybe word that a little bit differently somehow anyway the the net of this is I think thought was very productive so thank you to Andrew yang for being a leader in a similar way that President Trump is with is railing against political correctness and of course the way Trump does it is completely different than weighing Andrew yang is doing it but they're doing the same thing I mean Trump's message is let's not get caught up in the little stuff right let's let's just think past this we're all Americans we don't have to be at each other so here's
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don't have to be at each other so here's an update on the Houthis I'll take your your advice on pronunciation I used to think it was the who teased the ethnic group in Yemen that is alleged to be not alleged but they're aligned with Iran they're supported by Iran and they did an attack with drones on an oil production facility in Saudi Arabians senator blaze here's the update of that story is it Houthis who these whatever it is somebody smart made the fault on Twitter I wish I knew who was made the following observation that if the Houthis were really trying to hurt Saudi Arabia they would have gone after the desalinization plants which apparently would be equally attackable but if you attack the desalinization you would really mess with the whole country whereas if you attack an oil resource well it's sort of
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attack an oil resource well it's sort of the people who own that oil facility as a little inconvenient it didn't even change the parallel I don't even think it changed the price of oil worldwide it was any inconvenience but if you attack the desalinization plants you would you would really be delivering a pretty devastating blow to Saudi Arabia and they would survive I mean they have money they can ship in water they can figure it out but that would be a real attack now ask yourself do the Houthis know that well probably if they were smart enough to put together a whole of drone swarm attack against an oil refinery from a separate country with Iran's help of course they know well of course they know that the better target equally valid would have been the water the water facilities why do you think they didn't attack the water facilities why do you think that here's my
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why do you think that here's my speculation that people who are trying to influence a political outcome don't want to push the other side too far how would you feel if let's say you know the Hootie's Houthis attacked the oil field let's say you hear the Saudi Arabia went in and wiped them all out just just went in hard and just just decimated the not decimated but worse you know they let's say there was seven times a decimation they just like laid waste to the entire ethnic community and just you know bomb cities and took them out you would say that's an overreaction right and Saudi Arabia would be in a lot of trouble internationally it would hurt them they couldn't go that brutal as brutal as they are and you have to assume is plenty brutal already but they couldn't just go wipe out the houthis like the the world community wouldn't allow that to happen if it's
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wouldn't allow that to happen if it's the only thing that the houthis done that attacked it in oil production facility but what if they took out what if they who needs took out their water I'm just speaking for myself now if I heard that somebody took out the water in my country I would support complete eradication now that's too strong a statement not complete eradication I would I would literally turn around and I would never need I would never read another news story about what our military was doing to that other entity I would lose all empathy completely to me it would be a similar to a nuclear attack I I would support so this is just a sort of a psychological you know thought experiment if you're a Saudi and you hear somebody attack your oil refinery you're mad you want to do something you want to have a response
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something you want to have a response but it's gonna be a proportion if you hear they took out your desalinization plants you take over Yemen wouldn't you you would actually just invade Yemen you would lock up all the people who who could find a drone anyway I mean you would go pretty barbaric on that so I think that's why the the better targets are held off because they're the route the response would be too strong which is a weird kind of a war isn't it a war where you're trying to not hurt the other two as badly as you could it's sort of a modern thing so there's another story in the news about Brett Kavanaugh I'm not even gonna repeat it at some allegation of high school and propriety with blah blah it doesn't even matter like do you believe it anyway I mean is so uncredible so and by the way
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mean is so uncredible so and by the way I remind you when I say something's not it just means there's no reason to believe it doesn't mean something didn't happen or did happen just there's no reason to believe it so all this this Cavanagh stuff feels like the stainless told repeats so think of the some of those stories that the Democrats are pushing and this gets to SE caps commentary that the Democrats are just so pathetic right now it's starting to get sad so if they're talking about Brett Kavanaugh still and and made-up stories that are obviously not going to have an impact they're obviously not going to last they're obviously not going to derail them because they're so old and they're you know hard to demonstrate anything they're still talking about impeachment and stormy Daniels are you freaking kidding me still that's what Democrats feel like is a priority do they see anything else
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a priority do they see anything else worth working on Cavanaugh Cavanaugh and stormy Daniels they're still talking about Andrusha collusion still talking about are you kidding me they've they've completely given up at this point it feels like they're not even working on task it feels like busywork that's what it is busy work have you ever worked in a big company and it feels like you're your boss didn't have enough for you to do so they just gave you a busy work okay I count these ceiling tiles and get back to me it feels like the Democrats can't figure out anything useful to do like actually literally can't figure out anything useful to do but they have to do something because they're getting paid to do things so if you don't have anything useful to do and you're getting paid and people are watching and you got to do something you do busy work and this Kavanagh stuff and then Pietschmann stuff and stormy Daniels stuff it feels like busy work doesn't it old dad's
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there was an article I tweeted around from hearts pirates the the publication's Israeli publication you've probably seen in Haaretz I don't know how to pronounce it but there was an article in there about me it turned out there somebody was writing that Netanyahu is quote a master wizard who has learned from Trump to take all the attention from the news cycle so that his opponents no matter what they're saying it doesn't matter because nobody's listening to him so apparently Netanyahu is effectively absorbing the news cycle with little controversies and and Trump like statements that just make you spit in your head and then you can't think about anything else you've got to talk about what Netanyahu wants you to talk about and in that article they they cited me so you know I sit here and my like I'm literally sitting here by my little office here in California and I talked
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office here in California and I talked to you on periscope and I write my little books and tweet and stuff and the next thing I know I'm part of the national discussion in Israel about the talents of the prime minister there's no story there I just thought I'd mentioned that I guess I was a humble brag but congressman Matt Gaetz had a tweet in which he was suggesting Eric Prince for national security adviser if you don't know who Eric Prince's you should google his name because it's a it's a really interesting recommendation it's Eric with a K last name Prince I'm gonna try to get him on the podcast because I think he would be one of the most interesting people in the world so I've got that I'm working on that we'll see if that happens and that is all I have for today Scott do you realize that in California there is a bill to mandate
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California there is a bill to mandate adult vaccines let me give you my opinion on vaccines I haven't looked into it and I feel like I don't want to offer and opinion on it here's why so the vaccine thing is a lot in in some ways it's a lot like climate change it is somebody says Shiva knows yeah so dr. Shiva actually just sent me sent me a tweet of his and I'm not going to retweet it I don't know if you're if you're watching dr. Shiva but the reason not going to tweet it is because I'm not informed and I don't feel that I could become informed in other words if I thought I could just go do my own research if I thought I could do my own research and come to a good decision I suppose I do that but I don't think that I could dig into it on any
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think that I could dig into it on any level and learn enough beyond the fact that most scientists say is safe now my understanding is that president Trump's take on this is that it's not so much the individual vaccines that are the problem but the dose schedule so it's an old tweet from Trump I saw recently 2014 or something in which you were saying that you're dealing with you know a little baby or child or whatever and that if you give them all the vaccines at once that might be a lot for their body to process and so that introduces a risk that the wait for it has never been tested if you test vaccines individually which I assume is the common way to do it you can tell if that vaccine individually is good or bad or what the risk is at least you can get close to knowing that if you test 20 different vaccines you can know that all 20 of those if given in isolation is safe but
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those if given in isolation is safe but where did you test all 20 of them given together where did you test any any combination of them given together here's one of those situations where Trump the non scientist is just asking a fairly basic question have you tested it see where I'm going with this Trump is asked why are we giving untested medicine to kids now you're saying you're suddenly this tested that's the whole point FDA go through the approval there's no vaccine the kid is getting in this country that hasn't been tested wrong that's just not true because it's only been tested in one context and that context is not the one it's used in so we only tested it in the context and which is not used which is just by itself the context is in combination so are there scientists who will say Scott Scott Scott what you don't
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Scott Scott Scott what you don't understand is that we do know how things interact well enough that we can tell if you take an aspirin and vitamin C I'm just making this part up we know that's not going to be a problem and probably for a lot of things I'm guessing that would be true I'll bet they know that if you eat you know if you eat some broccoli today and you know take an antibiotic tomorrow they probably know that's not going to do anything to you because broccoli is good they've tested the antibiotic but they haven't tested the combinations and and to the extents that some of these vaccines have common elements so there might being you know something in the mix of each one there might be common to one or more have you doubled the amount of just that one component simply because you gave it all at the same time now that's why I do not have an informed opinion if a scientist said to me Scott Scott it's a good
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said to me Scott Scott it's a good question but we do have a good handle on that and and we have also tested how the vaccines perform as a group so we have plenty of testing that even when they're given as a group works out fine maybe so I just don't feel that I'm qualified for this conversation and I don't know that I could get there and so I don't feel that I can add something of value except maybe describing the way you hadn't heard before so that's so that's that
and that is I think the last thing I wanted to talk about today somebody says vaping was safe - well the vaping problems seem to be related to illegal non you know I guess black-market devices somebody says don't drink drink alcohol and take tylenol
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drink drink alcohol and take tylenol well I don't know about any of that stuff and by the way this is why I I made a big point about lifestyle medical records wouldn't you love to know that all the people who have done the things similar to whatever you're doing like what their outcome was because you know you might say well because even vaccines you could find out I'm just gonna give you a hypothetical let's say all the people who took the vaccines and had later at some kind of a problem that may or may not have been involved with the vaccine itself what if all the people who had problems were also let's say drinkers of alcohol or they all had some other common medical condition you could find that if you had a database of enough information you could say oh yes there is a situation in which the vaccines taken as a combination could be dangerous and that is only in the case where the person's lifestyle includes this other I know dietary or lifestyle or exposure or something be good to know
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this I saw a number of people asking me about Jack Dorsey and we will he has agreed to be on the on the new periscope we're just trying to schedule as you might imagine Jack Dorsey's kind of busy running two gigantic companies so but he has agreed to come on which is have to fake Pickett on all right and I will talked to you later