Episode 668 Scott Adams: Let’s Experience the Best Simultaneous Sip of All Time and Hilarious News

Date: 2019-09-19 | Duration: 1:03:14

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My new book LOSERTHINK goes on sale 11/5. Pre-order: https://bit.ly/2NRammu Justin Trudeau’s 3rd blackface photo emerges Have I cured more people than Jesus? Jimmy Carter believes there should be a Presidential age limit CNN’s Phil Mudd RIPS intelligence whistleblower to shreds UFOs are real? Unexplained videos emerge Impressive list of wrong predictions on climate change Aramco: Drones confirmed as Iranian technology Response options? Do Americans have a right to own guns without anyone knowing? Can Amazon be required to flag products made in China? “Magnet Communities” to attract the drug addicted

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[Music] ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba hey everybody come on in here possibly the funniest and best coffee with Scott Adams there will ever be until the next time but man sometimes the environment serves up some news that's just so fun today's one of those days so we're gonna have an amazing an amazing simultaneous up today and all you need to participate is a cover of Megara glasses Diana jealous detector - therapist with Lasky ante and a grill a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee join me now for the UM the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit in the day the best part of your day the part that makes everything better go well I guess we should talk about Justin Trudeau shouldn't we I feel I feel as though I don't actually

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I feel I feel as though I don't actually need to say anything about this story because you've all read the story and almost anything that I would be likely to add to the story would be you know something you've already heard but I would just like to join you and enjoying the the amazingness of the situation all right so as you know Justin Trudeau of Canada he there there are three separate photos that have surfaced now of three different ages in which he wore some version of brown face or black face costume and anyway he apologized so let's well I I tweeted just before I got out I tweeted is it my imagination or has as politics and comedy basically just merged they're they're not different anymore right when I was a kid

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different anymore right when I was a kid if I turned on the news and it was about politics it was like death and war and taxes and boring stuff and now I turned on the now I turned on the news to follow the politics and it's you know Trump played around at the wall and writing on it with his magic marker and and you know he's he's using his magic marker to allegedly increase the hurricane zone it's all hilarious stuff and then you see it is costume and the news was never this funny you know I'm not I'm not wrong the news has never been this funny right now partly it's a sign that things are going well because we have the the luxury of focusing on stupid stuff which is funnier all right so here's Trudeau's apology in which he apologized for the one photo that was public and he acknowledged that there

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public and he acknowledged that there was another one another incident out there and now we found a third one in which he was young they may have just forgotten about so here's his apology he says I shouldn't have done that I should have known better but I didn't and I'm really sorry I take responsibility for my decision to do that I shouldn't have done that I should have known better it was something that I didn't think was racist at the time but now I recognize it was something it was something racist to do and I'm deeply sorry all right so according to the rules which which I have suggested for for polite behavior in the current days I have suggested that if somebody apologizes and clarifies within 48 hours you should accept their apology and move on on top of that I have a second rule that says if something happened more than 20 years ago

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than 20 years ago it just doesn't count because it's a rule we would want applied to us all right most people most people are better people than they were twenty years ago and if you're not you're not trying hard enough you should be sort of trying to improve your situation over time so the first thing I say is I don't know when the other the other stuff happened but one of them was 2001 so let's say 18 years ago close enough close enough I'm not I'm not going to fret over two years right so my rule is that anything you do 20 years ago or longer just doesn't count the the most recent photograph was not 18 years ago good enough close enough all right I want to live in a world where 18 and 20 are close enough for this purpose so number one I accept I accept Justin Trudeau's apology now I don't

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Justin Trudeau's apology now I don't think his apology was to me per se but you know as a objective observer I say that is a sufficient apology completely sufficient not not only was a sufficient I would go further and to say it was perfect you know if you're gonna apologize here's here's the way to do it that's here the components of a perfect apology number one fully acknowledged it's true you know you don't argue about the details well but you know you don't don't offer any qualifiers so the first thing he did was he got that completely right no qualifiers it did happen it was wrong I feel sorry and it looked like he meant it you know don't you think he actually feels bad about it but I think he does yeah I'm not it's not the worst problem in the world but I think he feels legitimately empathetic for anybody who felt bad about it I think that's real and then he he didn't say directly but he suggested in direct

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directly but he suggested in direct enough language then it wouldn't happen again so that's the other part of an apology you should always include why it's not gonna happen again what are you gonna do differently now this case is obvious what he's gonna do differently is he's learned his lesson so he won't do anything like that but you know he's Prime Minister so he probably wasn't going to anyway so I give him a plus complete solid apology accepted I also say he's close enough to the 20 year rule the the most recent one was 18 years ago that I say doesn't count doesn't matter if he did it or not doesn't count so if you had the 20 year rule to the 48-hour rule where he's apologized completely sufficiently I say give that man a pass now I also require that if you or I are ever in the same situation for some different situation let's say we get the same treatment fair

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let's say we get the same treatment fair wouldn't you like to be treated would you like to be treated the way I would like him to be treated which is yeah it was a mistake he apologized it was a perfectly good apology and it was a long time ago done let's move on let's take that standard let's let's take that standard forward now I get that it's a team sport and you wanna you want as you know has Xing the other side cuz they do it to you they wouldn't let you off they wouldn't let Cavanaugh off they wouldn't let Trump off so you want to do it to them that's okay I'm not going to talk you out of that if if you need that little feeling of revenge or justice or karma you know as long as you're knowingly taking that path that's a it's a fair it's a fair thing it's not unfair to say you're gonna zing people the way

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to say you're gonna zing people the way they've been zinging your team I just choose not to i I just exempted myself from the from that back and forth and but I leave you to it you could have I also asked the following question when's the last time you saw a funny movie is that my imagination or has most professional humor just sort of went away I don't remember the last time I Washington movie there was like a funny movie do you seems a while it feels like politics and Trump and and the real world and reality have replaced whatever whatever need we had for humor because the unscripted stuff is sort of funnier it's tough to beat this it's kind of tough to beat this Justin Trudeau thing for just being flat-out alright yeah and Corey Lewandowski was hilarious Trump is always funny here's the

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Trump is always funny here's the question I have for you this is for biblical scholars biblical scholars how many people did Jesus cure can anybody this is a real question by the way if there's an if there any biblical scholars how many reports in the Bible are there of cures did did Jesus cure five people 25 does anybody have a number for that because I feel like it's maybe less than a half a dozen were actually mentioned the reason I mentioned is because I think I'm I think I'm beating his record so I don't want to get ahead of myself but I think I have more cures than Jesus so I had another one just the other day so I told you about my own weird bizarre medical problem where I had polyps in my eustachian tubes and it caused me to

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eustachian tubes and it caused me to lose my hearing and my taste at the same time so that was the key and EMT as soon as they heard wait you lost your hearing and your taste and smell at the same time Oh let's look up inside your head there it is there's polyps now I mentioned this on my periscope and I get a DM from one of my twitter friends who says hey my brother just recently lost hearing in one ear and his sense of taste a while ago maybe he should you know what kind of a doctor did he say so I said well have him go to it your nose throat doctor in the so I just heard a report back yesterday the brother goes to the ENT he has polyps doctor gives him some meds and some nasal spray and says you can have your hearing and your sense of taste back cured hello cured now you say to yourself well Scott

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cured now you say to yourself well Scott that's just one Jesus cured more people than that you just got one not true not true I actually have quite a few cures literally I'm not even not even joking let me tell you about my my other cures so most of you know the story I've told her too many times so there's a period of about three and a half years where I lost my ability to speak to something exotic called a spasmodic dysphonia part of the problem with that is that regular doctors have never heard of it in other words your your your general practitioners and probably never heard of it so you go in with those symptoms and they don't know what to do because they've never heard of it never seen it they treat the you know they sort of fly around blindly tweeting the wrong thing so I being how should I say this I don't want to compliment myself too much I be more aggressive and also having more resources I chase down the

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having more resources I chase down the real cause of that problem until I had a name for it and discovered the one surgeon in the world who had developed a surgery to cure it and that's why I can talk to you now so having found that one surgeon in the world who could cure it and then getting cured I helped the there's an organization called the spasmodic dysphonia organization and I helped them with outreach so I helped them get the the word out that this thing has a name if you have these symptoms maybe talk to your doctor you might have it and if you get this surgery it can be cured and it worked so
so because of my outrage I have informed people who might have never learned what they had and once they learned it they also learned from me that there is a surgery that can fix it now the surgery doesn't work every time about 15 percent of the time it doesn't before 85 percent

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of the time it doesn't before 85 percent of the people who heard it from me and when got the surgery I cured him that these are people who couldn't speak who can now speak think of that so I don't know how many there are there might be dozens might be 20 might be 50 might be a hundred I have no idea because I don't get direct feedback but I've heard from I've heard from a handful of people who heard about it from me or where they told somebody in their family hey I heard of this thing maybe you have that and then they went got the surgery but that's not the only one so I've got those killers III I'm a basket of weird weird small medical problems I also have something called PI a rhesus power your rhesus better known as shy bladder and it's a condition that maybe 5% of the world has in which they can't use a public restroom because they they lock up just

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restroom because they they lock up just mentally they can't do their business if there's somebody in the general area now what's unique about this condition even though it was so many people have it is that people assume that they're the only ones who have it like I did for most of my life I believed I didn't know what it was I just thought I can't talk to people about this all right somebody somebody right here is saying I have that 5% of you have that it's pretty common but probably you didn't know it had a name probably you didn't know there's anything you can do about it and watch this watch this right in front of you
you I just cured 5% of the people watching this periscope not a joke simply by telling you that this is a real medical condition and look at the comments how many people are saying that they have it in the comments people are hearing for the very first time that it's a car condition you're halfway cured here's the rest okay ready the rest of the cure

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the rest okay ready the rest of the cure is that knowing it's a thing is your doorway out because part of it is a psychological thing where you think you're you're weird you're freaking you don't want other people that now the moment I tell you is common I have it my brother hasn't my father had it it's probably just genetic and it also has nothing to do with actual shyness that's the mistake people make it's not shyness so you've watched me long enough to know that whatever shyness is I don't have it would you agree you've watched me long enough whatever I have it's not shyness in any kind of standard way I've embarrassed myself in public willingly more than any human you've ever watched in your life well I don't know how you measure such a thing but so first of all knowing that it's not shyness as an actual shyness is the first thing you need to know and that it's the second

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need to know and that it's the second thing the first thing is that it's a real condition and here's how you take care of it to you rather here's your cure practice you you find you find increasingly difficult situations let's say one where somebody's standing nearby but outside the door and then eventually you can practice to the point where somebody's at the other side of the restroom or maybe you're inside of stall but whatever you need to do just do it if you need to use the handicap stall it's a handicap go ahead and do it if you need to stand in the restroom for 30 minutes when other people take one minute go ahead and do it why not you have my complete permission now if that sounds stupid that I'm giving you permission to use a restroom in a certain way it's not because when you hear from other people as part of your social your social influence and this is a very social problem if if other people

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a very social problem if if other people didn't exist you wouldn't have the problem it's the existence of other people and how you feel them and how you interact that actually causes the condition so look it up it's called shy bladder it has a another word par your rhesus 5% of you I just solved or put you on the road to solve the biggest problem in your life and you know it it's the biggest problem in your life because you can't travel you can't feel comfortable in meetings you can't go to gatherings and the same comfort as other people but in a very short time you can learn to be like I am which is if I stand up and somebody says hey if I say I'm gonna use the restroom and some guy stands up say I'll go too I just say aw that doesn't work for me you know but I'll wait for you so as soon as you're not embarrassed to tell people you have the condition you're about 30% solved about 30% solves because then you can do what you need to

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because then you can do what you need to do alright so you're on your way to a solution now those of you who say Scott Scott Scott your ego what about your ego saying that you're curing more people than Jesus I am literally right in front of you curing more people than Jesus you just watched it happen now you might if you don't have the condition you don't know what I just did you don't have any idea how important this was to maybe a hundred people I don't know how many people Jesus cured but I just cured a hundred right in front of me that's that's real I'm not making that up so that's that all right I see the CNN is running a piece an opinion piece today saying that Biden is too old they're using a Jimmy Carter interview to do that Jimmy Carter said that we should have an age limit on presidents or at least think about it

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presidents or at least think about it he says that he couldn't have done the job a job at age 80 and obviously he's referring to Biden indirectly what's interesting is that the person who wrote the article Julian Zelizer who's an opinion writer for CNN he's the biggest anti-trump er he's somebody says imaginative Jesus had access to periscope exactly exactly I think Jesus could have beat my numbers but he didn't have periscope so thank you Jack Dorsey for just creating aa hundred people that's actually true yeah Jack if you if you watch this your product allowed me to do what I just did so Jack Dorsey had not started Twitter had not you know bought periscope a hundred people would have a problem today that they don't need to have okay so it's notable that CNN runs an article by one of the most most I'd say aggressive anti Trump who

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most I'd say aggressive anti Trump who writes opinion pieces for them has written a very aggressive anti Biden opinion piece so it's pretty clear that at least the CNN Democrats if I can call them that the people who would who would sort of be compatible with that view of the world are very much anti Biden so I think Biden's that Biden's days are numbered here let's talk about the big story Beathard there's some fake news today so the fake news of the day is that President Trump made some phone call to an unnamed foreign leader allegedly made a promise during the phone call that was overheard by some intelligence no no what do you call it security intelligence person some staff member who who decided to be a whistleblower because it was such a shocking promise he had to become a whistleblower now we don't know what the

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whistleblower now we don't know what the promise was or who that person was talking to or who the whistleblowers so the first thing you need to know is it's fake names all right now it's probably not fake news that there's a person who's trying to be a whistleblower that part sounds probably true but whatever it was that that person heard almost certainly out of context almost certainly has to be understood in terms of Trump's style which can be chaotic by design meaning he can throw out some ideas see what happens throw out some more ideas and see what happens and if what this person witnessed is Trump throwing out an idea to see what happens well that's the wrong context it doesn't mean that that was going to be a some kind of an international deal he could have just been feeling things out and that's the president's prerogative you do want him to have that right here's the best part of the story CNN is covering the story and they bring on

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covering the story and they bring on their expert Phil mud now you know Phil mud from being one of the most vocal anti-trump errs like a real real vocal anti-trump a frequent guest who just just rips the president apart on a variety of topics and has been for what two or three years so that's the context you need to know who Phil Mudd is and what he does and said now despite all the things Phil Mudd has said about the president many of which I would take exception to or see it differently here's the thing I don't think anybody has ever accused Phil mud of not being a patriot can we agree you could agree in his opinions you can gray you you can even bow like him personally you can not like him on TV you could not like him for all kinds of different reasons but has anybody ever questioned his

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but has anybody ever questioned his patriotism you know his commitment to the country I don't think so right he's a patriot here's so here's what's interesting CNN covers the story about the alleged whistleblower should be a great anti Trump story the best anti Trump story you could ever have you got the best anti Trump story that he's done something so bad that has to be a whistleblower and then you bring on Phil mud the best you know one of the most vocal anti Trump people you could ever have and what does Phil mud do he just ripped that whistleblower to shred he just tore him up for being a trainer basically for doing something so wrong which is selling out the president was standing in the office standing in the presence of the president and then turning on him and snitching on him Phil Mudd is a patriot right because when it

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Mudd is a patriot right because when it came down to country over party he picked country that's what you want right so congratulations to now congratulations that's awkward respect respect to Phil Mudd who I would say I have not been a fan of for his opinions not for anything else but when it came down to country country over party he'd be picked he picked country and he did it right in CNN's face now I don't know what CNN was expecting him to say but I don't think it was that and I love the fact that and also respect to see them for putting him on and air giving him giving him a full platform to rip the whistleblower apart just ripped him apart I've never seen anybody get ripped apart how hard he ripped him apart and and so thank you thank you to Phil Mudd I think that was

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thank you to Phil Mudd I think that was exactly the right patriotic tone to take and and and to Phil muds credit he even went further and said does it matter what the president said to a foreign leader nope nope because the only person who whose business that was was the president's that's his job he gets to say what he wants he gets to play it the way he wants he gets to lie if he wants he gets to say any damn thing he wants that's why we elected him and Phil Mudd thank you for supporting that concept let's talk about the UFOs you've all seen by now the story that apparently the
the government has confirmed that some videos of alleged UFOs are indeed unexplained now unexplained doesn't mean guaranteed to be foreign foreign aircraft meaning alien aircraft but

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aircraft meaning alien aircraft but here's my opinion not real not real so I don't yet know I don't have a good theory for what they are or why we have this video I do have a strong opinion that there's not the slightest chance that these are alien aircraft all right now partly because we would have seen more of them it seems it seems weird that we would just have you know some limited little little things and the other but the biggest thing is that they seem to do that quick turn that it would be impossible according to you know our technology it seemed to be going really fast and then just turn that tells me probably not a spacecraft let me tell you I've now I don't know what it was I don't know who knows but I don't think it was a spacecraft that's just my

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it was a spacecraft that's just my opinion if there's more information later that proves I'm wrong I'll change my mind but no I don't think there's much chance that's real all right
let's talk about that you you probably saw a some tweets going around you know which some organization I forget who had compiled all of the wrong climate doom predictions for the last 50 years and it's a very impressive list because the it's an impressive list of wrong predictions over the years now here's what Mark Levin says about all of those wrong predictions over the years he says it's been a subterfuge to undermine our constitutional system to undermine our capitalist and to create almost this almost zen-like support for this radical agenda which has as its purpose to destroy many

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which has as its purpose to destroy many of our freedom institutions in this country do you buy that so we have this history of bad climate predictions of doom and Mark Levin says that it has a sort of a unifying theme that is to undermine our capitalist system created almost zen-like support for radical agenda and its purpose is to destroy our freedoms and institutions in this country how many of you believe that to me that seems seems batshit crazy like actually just batshit crazy here's what's wrong with it to me this is a standard this is a very classic case of what I call loser thing now to be clear I'm not calling Mark Levin a loser loser think is a style of thinking and I'm going to describe it a little bit more that gets you to the wrong place so in other words that the

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wrong place so in other words that the outcome is is the loser part not not that people doing so I'm always respectful to the people but this this way of thinking this seems deeply defective and here it is the first thing it assumes is history repeats in other words the climate doomsayers keep being wrong and therefore that tells us they're being wrong again is it good thinking to say that history repeats we've got an unbroken chain of here we go again here we go again here we go again here we go therefore they're still wrong this next time is that good thinking it is not the most you can make end of the fact that there's a 50-year unbroken chain of wrong predictions is that we absolutely could be wrong absolutely 100 percent practical and viable that their predictions were seen today are totally

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predictions were seen today are totally wrong but that's all it does if you take that from it's possible that we could be wrong 50 times in a row you know it's certainly possible if you take that too we are wrong you have fallen for looser think because the hisses hiss turi can't repeat not not in a sense that the patterns are somehow magically predictive here's why for about a hundred thousand years it was a fact the humans could not fly you know they could not develop a machine that would let them fly so for a hundred thousand years in a row scientist irir apena didn't it every time somebody tried to jump off a hill and flap their arms they died then they tried to put wings on their arms and they jump off a hill and it didn't work a hundred thousand years of history

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work a hundred thousand years of history repeating and then the Wright brothers built an airplane and then it stopped repeating so history doesn't repeat but it is true that people can be wrong for a long time that's certainly true the reason that the Wright brothers could do what nobody could do for a hundred thousand years is they had new technology and they had the advantage of knowing what everybody else did wrong so history gets smarter and smarter over time so it's never the same as the last starting point you're always at a new starting point yeah there are always black swans and surprises as somebody says in the comments and today's technology can't be compared to anything in the past all right if you're looking at the history of climate predictions and you're saying that the that the accuracy that we have today after the modern era of satellites if you're saying that the the science before the

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saying that the the science before the year of satellites is going to be predictive of the year after satellites you're on pretty shaky ground those satellites are printing I'm good at measuring temperatures and and being able to cover a lot of space so here's the thing it is certainly fair game to say they've been wrong for 50 years so there's something about humans that makes us panic about things that are really just coincidence or speculation or imaginary thinking so that part's true so Mark Levin would be accurate and saying if you were to say that this he would be accurate and saying the humans don't change much so we're pretty much the same humans we Bend for 50 years so our ability to be fooled by BS our ability to be fooled by scare tactics is the same so we should be looking out for

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the same so we should be looking out for it so that much is true we should definitely be looking out for it but we cannot therefore say that old technology is comparable to the most modern science we have that's just not that's just not productive thinking because history doesn't repeat in that way be it is true that we get fooled easily that part's true but the science of it all is completely different next Mark Levin says that there's that all of this this past doom saying really had a secret agenda to it sort of secret now secret enough that he couldn't see it but it's to undermine the Constitution and capitalism and to destroy our freedoms what evidences are of that can anybody point me to the evidence that all of those 50 years of newspaper articles were written by people who had a secret agenda to destroy capitalism I don't

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agenda to destroy capitalism I don't think so far more likely it was a whole bunch of people acting independently for their own reasons and almost none of them were thinking about capitalism and probably almost none of them were thinking about anything about the scoring destroyed and freedom this is what I call the mind-reading illusion the mind-reading illusion is that you can look at hundreds of different people acting independently for whatever reason many of them being fooled or scared many of them just been wrong about the science many some of them may be just trying to get attention some of them may be trying to raise money probably hundreds of different reasons and combinations of different reasons and different people at different times and Mark Levin is summarized this as they want to destroy freedom and get rid of capitalism that might be the worst tank of all time it might be the worst take of all time and it's a common one I mean it's not you know it's not like the one person has

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know it's not like the one person has that take is one of the most common takes and it's ridiculous whose mind are you reading who has these secret thoughts about destroyed and freedom and capitalism that applies to exactly nobody there's probably literally nobody who's ever had that opinion I'm at of seven billion people but you know I suppose you could find one person you know just like you can find Beto O'Rourke wants to go to your house and take your gut away by force you can always find somebody so I'm not I wouldn't dispute the Merkel of him could find somebody who would say oh yeah we just want to destroy capitalism that's our secret plan but I don't think that's a good way to think of this whole situation all right let me ask you this let's talk about the Iranian drones so it looks like Saudi Arabia has confirmed the United States has confirmed they have the actual some of the unexploded drones there were a bunch of them and some of them did not hit their targets so they could piece together the drones

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so they could piece together the drones and now they know with complete certainty its Iranian technology so there's a question that seems to not matter that much which is to the Iranians give these weapons to the Houthis Houthis and Yemen and that then the Houthis who claimed responsibility did they use them against Saudi Arabia or did Iran watch them from their own terror doesn't matter I think everybody agrees it's an interesting question but it has no relevance in terms of how how anybody would respond to it because in both cases is it's an Iranian sponsored attack or a direct attack it's all the same so the big question is will the United States and/or Saudi Arabia respond militarily and create a hot war and president Trump seems to be quite hesitant and there's some reporting that Saudi Arabia wants to do anything but start a war that that was before the the

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start a war that that was before the the attack but I haven't heard anything changed so compare these two plans one we respond in kind so there's some military attack on Iran hypothetically and it's something proportionate to destroying a large oil facility in Saudi Arabia so that's one plan and then what happens somebody says it matters if they were fired from Iran geez Scott no doesn't why the world would it matter if because Saudi Arabia and the United States would both treat it as the same we because whether the Iranians gave it to the Houthis to use against Saudi Arabia it's all the same so and by the way yeah the the Iranians could throw the Houthis under the bus if they didn't approve of it right yeah the Iranians

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approve of it right yeah the Iranians could have said hello okay that's too far even we don't support that so we're gonna we're gonna raid in our Houthis try to keep this just a Yemen Civil War I mean if they had done that you know okay but they're not doing that so it's all the same whether it came from Iranian territory or Yemen so here's so so option why as we do something militarily and take down some facility in Iran and with all of the blowback that that would cause all of the public opinion that that would change and all of whatever that would change compare that to option two which seems to be where this is heading which is that we don't that we don't it's actually a better plan than it sounds like on first blush because your first reaction might be okay over in the Middle East if somebody punches you in the eye you have to punch them in two eyes or else they'll just keep doing it

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eyes or else they'll just keep doing it if you show any weakness they're just gonna keep punching you so if we don't respond militarily well there goes a second Saudi Saudi installation and if we don't respond to that well there goes a third one until Saudi Arabia's completely destroyed and nobody fought back baby but here's my take suppose we use this as an excuse to tighten the finance the economic sanctions in a way that maybe was politically impossible before in other words people were not willing other countries were not willing to participate as aggressively because they were still sort of playing it on the fence a little bit it's like well we don't want to lose I ran as a trading partner and let's try to keep them and the nuclear to you and let's not be so hard on them what if this this latest event allows the president to tighten with the with his allies in a way that

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with the with his allies in a way that they couldn't tighten before Iran's economy is right in the edge it seems to me if what Iran is doing is trying to taunt us into an attack for their advantage what if we taunt them into an attack instead which looks like the way we're heading in other words by not attacking militarily we will have another crushing twist of the tourniquet on their economy it's a free punch right it's a free slap because they slap they slap Saudi Arabia we get another turn on the tourniquet and so free turn doesn't cost us anything this and then what if we don't attack them militarily think about it just just just sort of a think about that the psychological response of not attacking them militarily because the first thing it says is that we can do it

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it says is that we can do it economically so it tells it tells the Iranian people they might be closer to economic complete meltdown than even they thought and they're probably pretty worried about it but it also paints a picture of Iran being so weak that an attack isn't necessary it might be unnecessary we might we might also feel that it could put just the right kind of pressure and/or a carrot and stick with the whatever is the second tier of Iranian leadership perhaps the military to take care of business in other words we may be holding out for Iran to make an internal change that would be more to our liking and this would be a good time to give them a little space to do that now we don't I have no way of knowing if we have any intelligence that such a thing is happening but I would think that it would have the leader that old

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that it would have the leader that old who is creating this much trouble that we probably should give the the second tier of leadership a little breathing space don't you think and the way to give them breathing space to take care of business themselves which is the ideal way to do it would be to crush their economy further show them that that was the ayatollahs fault and don't allow the country to coalesce around the Ayatollah by attacking militarily so my feeling is that Trump and the administration by holding off and I don't know if they'll continue to hold off it you know by the time I'm finished with this periscope we may have taken down a major refinery but if we don't it could be the holding off is just exactly the right thing to do and I'm actually pretty happy that the that the president is taking this so cautiously at the same time we're pretty

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cautiously at the same time we're pretty sure who who did it and we know how bad it was remember it wasn't our money that they bombed they Baba Saudi Arabia's money when I say money I mean they're their assets that's worth a lot of money all right nothing on that let me let me throw our sum off the hook ideas on gun control you have a right to own a gun do you have a right for people to not know you have a gun meaning your fellow citizens not the government but you have a right do you have a right to keep your gun ownership a secret from your fellow citizens it's just a question now again nothing I'm going to say here is a recommendation for a policy I'm just asking the question all right so a lot most people are saying yes we do have the right of privacy and we have a right to keep that

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privacy and we have a right to keep that private let me throw out this idea suppose there was a law that says you can have a you can own an AR but there's a new law that says you have to put a gun lock on it in order to own it legally while it's being stored yes I've got a lock on it and wait for it wait for it when you take the gun lock off it sends a signal through the you know cell phone world to alert maybe law enforcement so let's say law enforcement knows if you've taken the safety or you've taken the the gun lock off your gun maybe they know where it is to
suppose they knew you took your gun lock off now let's say you had made in a say you had made a reservation at the

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you had made a reservation at the shooting range
now the police might say oh he's got a reservation at the shooting range I see he's at the shooting range it's got locked us off all good
suppose somebody takes a gun lock off for 10 minutes police see it they say oh okay he's just cleaning he's gone whatever changing the batteries on his gun lock it's all good but could you imagine there was somebody who had maybe been flagged as a wait for it somebody had been flagged as maybe one of these red flag people yeah maybe maybe somebody who is in the system as being a little bit more problematic they take their gun lock off and their phone rings the phone rings and the police say hey you know you're in our database as sort of problematic we see that your gun lock is off can you talk to us now maybe the person will say oh yeah I'm going to the gun range and then police say okay you said you sound like you're in good good

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said you sound like you're in good good mental state you're going to the gun right gun range please put your gun lock back on when you return now again I realize most of you are saying I don't want this is another infringement on the Second Amendment and it is of course it would be an infringement I'll just put that out there so is there some technological way that everybody who has a god-given if you like right to own a gun can still do it everything they want to do at the same time there would be some kind of a technological way to flag the police when somebody who is maybe a little less safe takes a gun lock off and maybe it's just a phone call just a phone call hey gun locks off you just want to see how you're feeling yeah all right are you okay today you know I could tell from your voice that your oh no I just took the gun lock off I'm just cleaning my gun or whatever

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I'm just cleaning my gun or whatever okay carry on so that's one idea and I acknowledge this a bad idea let me give you now for those of you who are new to new to the my periscopes I often suggest what I no to be bad and unpopular ideas if they're different enough then it might make you stimulate you to think of an idea that's a better version of it so that's all we're doing here so don't get too caught up on whether that's a perfectly good idea or nice to spur thinking here's another one and this is again just to spur thinking suppose we had a law that says you can buy an AR you can buy one but you must join the NRA so that's the rule you must join the NRA or if you wanted to be fair you could say or any similar national organization that has you know in case there's some competitor to the NRA you don't want to give them a monopoly but

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don't want to give them a monopoly but you say you've got to be in the NRA or something like it and you've got to sign up now you say to yourself how the hell does that help somebody says awful idea in the Congress how they held is out because the bad guys are just gonna be you know they'll just sign up and then they'll just do what they're gonna do anyway how does that help anybody are you ready right now my understanding is that no member of the NRA has ever been accused of one of these mass shootings it was so first of all in fact check me is that true that no member of the NRA has ever been subject it has ever been a mass shooter I think that's true but if it's not 100% true it's mostly true oh I'm seeing some people saying it's a better idea so you're getting out to be because you've already thought this through here's what this idea does it pairs the people who have the most dangerous weapons with the organization that's the

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weapons with the organization that's the most incentive besides the government the most incentive to help them to stay safe and it becomes then a de facto problem of the NRA to manage gun safety because the last thing they want to hear is that three more members of the NRA a shot at the school am i right the NRA is almost entirely focused yeah that's not true I don't want to say that the NRA has two main focuses I would say gun safety and freedoms you know the Second Amendment when you is that fair two main goals gun safety and remaining free to have the the guns that the Constitution allows you the gun safety part they could be very productive because who better to educate who better to police their own right if you remember the NRA and you find out

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you remember the NRA and you find out that that there might be somebody else was a little dangerous as a member of the NRA well maybe you put a little extra effort into making sure your brand doesn't get ruined anyway the point is I I don't know specifically how that would play out but I like the idea of pairing the NRA by law with somebody who has a dangerous weapon because you want to get that training that you know that brainwashing if you will brainwashing I'm using in a positive sense if you were an owner of a dangerous tool of any kind I want you to be a little bit brainwashed on safety so that would give the NRA more authority and in a way that I think would be productive here's a question can the law require can the law require Amazon to label goods that are made in China because as a filter because if they could would you filter

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because if they could would you filter out products that are made in China so that you as a consumer can use your consumer clout to help international international affairs now you could just deal with Amazon because there's such a big footprint you wouldn't even have to do it with any other product that's it just deal with them or how about this instead of just flagging it suppose that in with Amazon suggested products you know if you look for one product Amazon will suggest a number of other products what if one of those suggestions is something made in America suppose there were a requirement that whenever that is practical and somebody says uh here's the product I'm looking for it suggests right under it several other products but one other one of them maybe just one is an american-made product and it's flagged as american-made would that help us in international relations I believe it

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international relations I believe it would I saw some I think it was maybe a CEO of Blackstone or somebody some famous investor was saying that he believes he's heard that China is working working hard to curb the fentanyl export from China so that's so somebody who was allegedly well informed and in the know says the China is working hard to curb fentanyl absolute complete do you know what working hard to stop fentanyl would look like they know the name of the guy and where he lives there's a guy like a guy with a name and a face they know his address China does they know who he is he's very prominent as long as he's alive they're not trying it all best that's not trying that's

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it all best that's not trying that's that's what not trying looks like if you know who he is you know where he lives and what he's doing and he's still walking around free that's exactly not trying so anybody who says that anybody who says that China is putting in the effort to stop fentanyl absolutely not possibly true there isn't a slightest chance that that could be true yeah somebody says 60-minutes found him if you hear that that guy is in jail or dead then I will say AHA it is the beginning of China getting serious and even that wouldn't be serious because obviously he's going to you gonna be replaced by somebody else so you're gonna see a lot more than that but step one is that guy's dead or in jail if you don't hear that there is nothing happening unfunded null in China trust me on that and number two we should have no trade agreement with them whatsoever we shouldn't even be in negotiations and

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we shouldn't even be in negotiations and some people say well you know that should be part of the negotiations no we shouldn't that shouldn't be part of the negotiations that's what they give up to negotiate right that's that's the ticket the price of even being at the table I'm trying not to use the F word the price not even to be at the table with the United States and talk trade is you stop the fentanyl hard you start I want to see bodies dropping I want to see the dealers we know literally dead without that you this just talk you know we we should have no deal with China while they're killing tens of thousands of our people right in front of us you know No Deal and no trade no no negotiations much less no deal we shouldn't be talking about that at all all right

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thoughts on decriminalizing opioids my solution for the mental illness and the addiction problem in the homeless problem all of which are describing LA and a lot of San Francisco right now is that I don't see any alternative to what I'm going to describe okay ready we have to create magnet communities for those people we have to make it more attractive to go someplace where they can get help or at least some place where they're there away from the rest of society who they're defecating on and leaving their needles to step on they have to be separated from the people who need to be separated from that for safety and for health and you know health and security reasons so once separated there is a second question for the drug addicts do you give them drugs and try to give in the safest possible way because until they

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safest possible way because until they change their mind there's nothing you can do if they don't want to be if they don't want to be clean there's just nothing they're gonna do but you need to get them in their own place and they maybe they can choose two separate places one would be a place where they could get let's say food and shelter but they would have no access to drugs and it would be a drug rehab facility a second place would be just like it except instead of rehab they get drugs actually just given drugs yeah but instead of fentanyl which will likely kill them maybe they get heroin or whatever whatever is less slightly less likely to give them an overdose because they're gonna die anyway so the best you can do is to get them away from you and get them away from the people who could get a disease fall I have a contrarian view on the people who were addicted and living on the streets maybe not contrarian from you but

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maybe not contrarian from you but contrarian from a lot of people which is you can't talk somebody out of something that is rational and good for them what do you say are you talking about drug addiction as being rational and good for you yes that is exactly what I'm saying that if your living situation is so awful that your only alternative is complete misery and suicide taking hard drugs to have an awesome day while you're living you're literally defecating on a sidewalk is completely rational it's the most rational thing you'll ever hear if I were in that situation and I were not a drug addict I would become one by choice because those drug addicts are having some really good days you know this is this might blow your mind but I'll bet the average drug addict it was like literally like

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addict it was like literally like on the streets in Los Angeles has at least during the time there on the drug a better day than you do because that's what those drugs do they kind of give you a good day when you weren't having a good day even if things are terrible otherwise so it is completely unrealistic to say hey you people listen to me who has a good life and a good job and I live in a nice place in my family loves me and I've got a great sex life and I'm totally healthy and I like what I see in the mirror why don't you quit drugs like I did you dumb ass you're just a dumb ass if you think that if you're if you're looking at these drug addicts on the street with your far more put-together life and saying well if I can quit drugs if I can stay off of drugs certainly you on the street can do it no you're just a dumbass the reason that you can be often drugs is because your life is not so terrible as it is how hard is it for me

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terrible as it is how hard is it for me to stay off heroin easy easy because my average day is better than most of your best days ever I'm not I don't have good willpower do you know how much willpower I have none I have no willpower if you give me a life that's similar to these three people that for whatever reason I you know I can't live maybe it's mental illness for example maybe I just can't live in the modern world but you give me access to heroin BAM right in the arm five minutes I'm not even going to wait so trying to deal with people who are making completely rational decisions given given the misery of their situation you just can't treat them the same as people who really do want to quit and and those people need some help so we need places where the people who are certain classes of problem can be separated from the other people until they get help and can then

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people until they get help and can then and then can be integrated if they want and you heard Michael Sheldon Berger talk about this maybe on Tucker is that we need more of a carrot and approach probably we need to be able to legally force people to live with people who are like them like them in terms of lifestyle not any other way lifestyle meaning if you have a mental problem we probably need to force you to be in some community with other people who are dealing with something related to that and also we're getting help if you've got a meant if you got a drug problem we probably need to take you away from the rest of people in two different groups one that is trying to get help and one that hasn't made that decision and for them there's no point in trying to help them just just help them stay alive do what you can you know try to have some empathy anyway that's all for today I am going to talk to you later if you have

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