Episode 690 Scott Adams: Ukraine, China, Iran, California, and Where is Hunter?

Date: 2019-10-11 | Duration: 51:41

Topics

My new book LOSERTHINK goes on sale 11/5. Pre-order: https://bit.ly/2NRammu Sometimes associations matter…sometimes they don’t? CNN’s LGBTQ town hall The popularity of changing pronouns Social media unhappy with Chris Cuomo The Kurds that associate with recognized terrorist groups Nuance and details matter Turkey’s mortal enemy was massing on their border If your Governor can’t keep the lights on…you need a new Governor President Trump says towns should have a say in refugee locations CNN says he singled out Somalian refugees “This is not normal” sounds like an out of ammo surrender TerraPower’s new type of nuclear power plant, SAFE & economical Mark Schneider contacted CEO, to see how we can help Chris Levesque, President and CEO of TerraPower The zeitgeist has turned sharply against China in the last year Will there be a trade deal with China today…or ever? Whiteboards: Transgenders in Sports Proposal Capability based teams “Gender Equality” has evolved in modern society

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bum-bum-bum hey everybody come on in it's time for a coffee with Scott Adams yeah there's luck would have it that's me so you came to the right place so far your day is perfect perfect you wanted to watch coffee with Scott Adams you are watching coffee with Scott Adams nailed it and now it's time for the simultaneous tip it's not very hard to do all you need is the cover of our glasses time to tell us to tangu there was a plastic empty and a Grail a goblet a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I am partial to coffee and join me now for the simultaneous up the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better the simultaneous sip go one of the best just keeps getting better so there's a story in news that a couple of people

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story in news that a couple of people associated with Giuliani got arrested for campaign violations something like that and and here's how CNN puts it but the question of whether that relationship overlaps with criminal conduct is a mystery for now so they're saying that Giuliani has some relationship with these guys the guys were not Giuliani did some crimes but the question remains is there any overlap with the people who did crimes and Giuliani doesn't everybody in Washington know everybody else it feels like it feels like every time somebody commits a crime they have friends who did not commit crimes people they worked with business people isn't the most normal thing in the world that if anybody at that level gets convicted of a crime that they also are closely

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a crime that they also are closely associated with hundred the people who have committed no crimes at all why is it that sometimes somebody's association matters and sometimes it doesn't that's an interesting little game that the Democrats like to play sometimes it matters who you're associated with unless it's us in which case that's just different people doing all this other stuff different people doing other stuff all right did you see that the Trump campaign is now offering t-shirts that say where's hunter and they advertise that the t-shirts are not made in Ukraine and not made in China okay there's never been a funnier campaign or a funnier president or a funnier administration just the fact that they have where's hunter shirts how do you not love that come on how do you

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do you not love that come on how do you not love that president Trump at his rally last night he that man knows how to own the news cycle so think of all the ways that he could have said boring things but instead the president very intentionally and obviously this was not a spontaneous thing very intentionally the president said during his big rally last night Biden was only a good VP because he understood how to kiss Barack Obama's ass so what do you think the headlines were do you think the headlines were about other things well not so much he knew how to focus all of his attention on his little naughty sentence and the naughty sentence in addition to being provocative and naughty reminds you that the Biden was a good vice president only because of his association oh there it is again

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association oh there it is again sometimes associations matter and sometimes they don't could we just agree sometimes the either they matter all the time or they don't tell you anything maybe we should be great but you see Trump using the same concept that basically Biden's only a good VP because he was so nice to Obama did you see did you see the counter-programming so last night Fox News was carrying the president's rally speech at the same time CNN was doing an LGBTQ town hall and a lot of people were flipping back and forth who who won the night the the most famous bit that came out of these CNN Town Hall the part they're talking about of course the news focuses on what's unusual or what doesn't go as planned so see you then zone news or was

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planned so see you then zone news or was it on Fox but anyway this happened I'm not sure if CNN reported it or just Fox News pros Fox News so so Chris Cuomo introduces if you didn't see this it's just classic calmly Harris now you know Carla Harris she's famous as being the worst campaigner in the history of campaigners honestly I've never seen worse and she's so consistent at it she's bad yesterday she's bad today she's terrible so she gets on the stage and of course she's playing to the audience and the first thing she says is bum my pronouns are he she and her and Chris Cuomo tragically quipped mine too now the joke that Chris Cuomo was trying

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now the joke that Chris Cuomo was trying to say is that well I God don't even need to explain it he thought it would be funny to mock her for getting up there and in front of the LGBTQ crowd she says he she and her and he decides to make a joke out of it now granted the attempted joke was sort of on himself he wasn't he wasn't making a joke about other people but Harris knew enough at least to know that her crowd wanted to hear this the he-she her what she maybe miscalculated is that nearly a hundred percent of the audience watching it didn't like that at all because they're perfectly happy with the pronouns the way they are no matter how much they support the LGBTQ community that's just a separate conversation so I imagine most most viewers of CNN are fully supportive of the LGBTQ community but they may be less supportive of

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but they may be less supportive of changing pronouns that's that I would imagine that's a little less popular with the general public so Harris played well to the crowd that was there but at the expense of probably the larger audience that was watching so was that a good move probably not probably not because I don't think the LGBTQ community was going to necessarily like her more or less because of her early statement on pronouns but there certainly would be people watching who thought it was unnecessary or they're fully supportive of LGBTQ but just the pronoun thing is like ah you know you're taking it too far
far so there's differences of opinion on that anyway social media didn't was not pleased with Chris Cuomo so in some ways CNN's Town Hall backfired a little bit because one

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Hall backfired a little bit because one of the most newsworthy worthy things was Chris Cuomo accidentally insulting the community they were serving so not ideal
so speaking of associations let's talk about Ukraine so I didn't even talk about it yesterday I I think you would agree with me there's a something like an almost total blackout reliable reporting about what's happening over in Syria with the Turks coming in and attacking the Kurds we don't really know what's happening do we but here's the thing that I that I keep obsessing on we've learned that there's that there are two groups of Kurds roughly speaking at least in terms of this conversation there are there's a Kurdish group who both the United States and Turkey consider terrorists all right

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and Turkey consider terrorists all right so some Kurds are considered terrorists there are other Kurds that fought with US troops against Isis and are considered more allies but the Allies are closely associated or so the reporting tells me who knows what to believe or associated with the other Kurds who are literally terrorists so let me ask you this how much responsibility do we have to a group that closely associates with terrorists does that make you feel different about the Kurds that we do like well we like them but they're mighty chummy with terrorists even even people that the United States has officially labeled as terrorists so that's a that's a little nuance and remember we're I was just talking about how why is it this sometimes you are you are painted by

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sometimes you are you are painted by your associations and other times it doesn't matter it's because we we choose whichever of those versions of reality fits the thing we wanted to say anyway so if you wanted to be pro Kurd which would be anti President Trump in this context you would say well I'm talking about the good Kurds not the Kurds not the terrorists kurtz and if you wanted to support the president you're more likely to say well you know how good could those other Kurds be sure they helped us in the fight but that was also for their own self-interest were those Kurds fighting for us or were they fighting for their own self-interest and we were helping them because remember Isis wasn't in our yard Isis was in the Kurds backyard and killing Kurds so of course they're gonna fight Isis you know Isis is fighting them so the fact that we were also fighting Isis was just us helping the

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fighting Isis was just us helping the Kurds was it the Kurds helping us well yes because we also want Isis dead but they weren't doing us a favor the Kurds were not doing us a favor by fighting Isis they didn't have any choice Isis was in their backyard they needed to defeat Isis so how much responsibility does the United States have to a 400-year conflict between Kurds and Turkey when even the good Kurds were simply pursuing their own self-interest by fighting Isis with us and are closely associated with terrorists I I have no remember there's a there's still a fog of war and what do you hear me simplistically explain it you have to say to yourself well is there a whole bunch of nuance and detail that would change everything if you do it yes yes if there's one thing that you

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it yes yes if there's one thing that you can guarantee is true that my simple explanation of good Kurds and bad Kurds and you know and and the the way I've very simply laid it out probably is completely misleading if you actually had you know the full knowledge of what's happening there they the history of the players probably would completely change your mind all right so it feels to me like president Trump's decision is again what I'll call an adult decision it's an adult decision meaning that somebody was going to get killed and the president decided him that's an adult decision that's a decision you don't want to make you want to be the person who criticizes them because being the criticize er is safe hey president Trump II made a decision which absolutely guaranteed the death of some Kurdish people that we didn't want dad and and some of them

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didn't want dad and and some of them were civilians and minding their own business that's bad but what was the other the other path well the other path was Turkey was gonna do it anyway you know that's the one thing you don't see in the reporting the reporting consistently says that the u.s. moved its troops and gave a green light to Turkey to attack the Kurds is that exactly what's happening because I've seen other reporting that said Turkey was just gonna do it anyway our people would have been in the way but they were gonna do it anyway I'm sure they would have given us a heads-up as in hey we're going into this area maybe maybe pull your US troops you know 50-ish people something like that maybe pull them out of the way well I heard reporting that says they were going to do it anyway because they couldn't tolerate the current situation and nobody else was doing anything to change it so I think Turkey just said damn the torpedoes I

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Turkey just said damn the torpedoes I don't even know what that that phrase means but I think Turkey just said we're going in you can leave your people there or you can take them out those are your two choices we're going it because it's a national security concern and here's the thing if you heard Turkey say that's you let's say you're the denied United States you're Mike Pompeo you're President Trump and Turkey says to you here's what's never gonna be allowed we're never going to allow groups that we think are terrorists to have a sanctuary right on our border so you can kick us out of NATO you can sanction our economy you can complain all you want but if you're Turkey are you gonna just sit there while you're having me groups on your border not in any world are you gonna do that there's no world in which he was gonna let the current situation stand now is that the way it's reported no I I may be getting ahead of myself a

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no I I may be getting ahead of myself a little bit because I'm imagining what you know Turkey the leadership is thinking but would you think anything differently your Turkey you're a NATO ally this is important you're a NATO ally and you're watching your mortal enemy massing troops on your border who is allied with the terrorists you let that stand in no world do you let that stand United States says don't do it Turkey we're gonna we're gonna be bad to you in economically or whatever we will we'll do something bad to you if you attack the Kurds is that a reason not to do it only if you're dumb are the Turks really really stupid I see no evidence of that I see no evidence that Turkey is a country filled with stupid people indeed they seem to be a very educated country you're relatively speaking that

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country you're relatively speaking that they have a educated population and they seem to be making rational decisions what was the rational decision for Turkey but you got to get rid of your mortal enemy that's massing on your border there's no way you let that stand in no world do you let that stand so every time you see the reporting that says that moving our small number of troops is what allowed Turkey to attack I think you're ignoring the fact that Turkey was going to attack under every condition they were just getting ready so I think the president just said I have two choices turkey attacks and I leave my people in danger or turkey attacks and I take my people and danger which one was the smart decision there's no question I don't think there's any question whatsoever removing our troops was the only smart decision it was an adult decision and now he's he's of

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adult decision and now he's he's of course put some pressure on Turkey to not cross the line but where's the line where is the line if turkey a NATO ally is attacking a group closely associated with terrorists who were on their border and it's a situation they can't allow to stand where's the line I can you describe where the line is I don't see any way that you could realistically decide where the line is is it killing civilians well if that's your line then they can't do anything because of course civilians are going to be killed because they're in the area is it attacking the good Kurds instead of the bad cards well if you're turkey there's probably not much difference the good Kurds who are allied with and supportive of the terrorists bad Kurds if you're Turkey they all look like terrorists to you that's the way we would say it if the

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that's the way we would say it if the shoe were on the other foot we would do what turkey is doing no question about it all right but I I emphasize that it's still fog of war and we still don't really know everything that's going on over there and maybe we never will and maybe that's good let's talk about California let me say this as clearly as I can if you're governor can't keep the lights on you need a new governor I don't know who's going to run against gavin newsom in the next election but how do you lose how could you run against gavin newsom and lose all you have to do is you say I'm running for governor I'll keep the lights on I'll keep your lights on that's it that's that's the whole race you don't even

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that's the whole race you don't even have to say what your other policies are I could run for governor I could run for governor tomorrow I'll just say one thing look I'll keep your lights on what what about all the other stuff Scott what are you gonna do for the other stuff well I'll do the best I can but mostly I'm gonna keep your lights on I'll just make you that one promise I'll keep your lights on how do I lose do I lose the governorship if I can promise to keep the lights on because that's better than the other guy I don't see how he could possibly get reelected at this point but stranger things have happened let's see what else we got going on here so the president in his speech singled out these Somalian refugees now that's the way it's being reported by some pundits that he singled out the Somalian refugees for special

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out the Somalian refugees for special accommodation or something and in a way he did that's not that's not untrue it just lacks context the context was that the president thought it was not the it should not be the federal government's job to decide whether there's a massive refugee resettlement in your town the president would prefer that your town decides if they can handle the infrastructure the you know the expense of a large number of refugees now does that sound the same here here's the anti-trump media the president singled out Somalian refugees for special condemnation kind of a little bit I mean if you ignore it all the contacts it would that's roughly true but it's more true that the president said while you're in Minneapolis the Somalian

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you're in Minneapolis the Somalian refugees had a big impact on your community this is how I would handle it I would not laugh the federal government make those decisions I would rather your town make that decision and you know if you decide you don't you can't handle it your infrastructure your tax base your whatever can't handle it now you get to decide that's that was pretty different so it was pretty different years I'm seeing more and more that the anti-trump errs are using this word as an insult to the president and this is a quote from a tweet this morning this is not the behavior of a normal person have you heard that a lot I'd see it in especially the pundits they run into bad things to say and they say this is not normal everything Trump doesn't like this is not normal this is not a normal situation to which I say that feels very

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situation to which I say that feels very surrender II to me if you tell if you're saying that the other the other candidate is not normal that's all you have that is why he got elected cuz he's not normal do you know what a hundred percent of Trump voters didn't want normal because normal wasn't working who wants a leader who's normal if you get a normal leader let me sell the stock in your company right away was Steve Jobs normal nope is Bill Gates normal nope not even close none of them are normal name name somebody have a Elon Musk is Elon Musk normal nope not even close so what does it mean when that's the biggest

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it mean when that's the biggest complaint lately is that he's not normal you're just out of ammo right throw the gun at the monster your your Annabelle oh you're not normal like the bad people who used to be normal okay so here's a little update on nuclear power so this is sort of a public I know demonstration and that I was calling my shots before before I did it just so you could play a lot so so part of it is that this is audience participation and it goes like this I told you that I saw the Netflix special called inside Bill's brain about Bill Gates and one part of that it's a multi-part series but one part of that focused on his one of his bigger investments in nuclear energy it's one of his bigger investments it happens to

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of his bigger investments it happens to be a nuclear energy in a company called Terra power and they have designed with their supercomputers and geniuses a new type of nuclear power plant that they're looking to build now what's special about it is that it eats old nuclear waste that already exists as fuel that's good it will be economical as far as they can tell that's good and here's the best part it's designed so it can't melt down even if even if things go wrong it can't it's designed so that's not even an option in the design so they were looking to build it in China and then the trade war started and then they couldn't do it in China but they they also can't get a built in the United States easily because the licensing and approval process can take decades there's something wrong with the licensing an approval process and and so I made this offer I said I'm gonna try to reach somebody at terraPower and see

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to reach somebody at terraPower and see if we can help so you see if there's some amount of public attention or persuasion that can get the right amount of energy to the right place to fix whatever the you know the bottleneck is and in the last 24 hours mark Schneider who you know as a famous nuclear power advocate reached out to Terra power and got a hold of their CEO had a conversation with the CEO and now we're talking with another member of the staff to see how we can be helpful now well I'm talking about it possibly having so the CEO of Terra power is Chris Levesque and Chris Levesque is the one who reached out and actually talked to mark and maybe we can get them on the periscope now that's it so far that's the easy part right the easy part is

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the easy part right the easy part is finding out who to talk to that part is complete now remember the the plan that I'm pursuing is not my plan this is the fun part what I'm pursuing is Bill Gates planned Bill Gates plan involves people like me seeing the special and activating it's pretty obvious to me that they're the real intention of the Bill Gates special because Bill Gates was very involved and he was very generous with his time so obviously he had a motivation for it that was beyond just getting some attention for himself which he doesn't seem to care about too much so it's obvious that the reason that Bill Gates participated in that special about Bill Gates is that you wanted to activate the public opinion on a number of his projects but this one seems to be the one that public opinion would make the most difference and so his plan is

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most difference and so his plan is working so Bill Gates plan of exposing people to this nuclear power plant and telling us that it's kind of stalled because of really the government is working perfectly so now I'm involved and some of you were involved and I got an email from somebody else who had also contacted somebody at terraPower who was more directly involved in the government interaction part but now we have three contacts at terraPower we don't know if any of this will lead to something good but here's where I'd like to take it so I'd like to continue my conversation with them you know or at least have a conversation with them which I can understand in their words as specifically as possible what's holding them up from doing their four build here in the United States is it that there's a person or an entity that needs more resources we can fix that is

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needs more resources we can fix that is there some approval entity that simply needs more manpower or a human power let's let's do sex Isis is there somebody who's afraid somebody who's in charge of approving things but they're just too cautious is there somebody who needs more information would it require just the President of the United States saying hey you guys need to change what you're doing and I'll help you do it but you need you know is it the public that needs to be persuaded where exactly is that bottleneck because we're pretty close to finding it and I think that when we find it with your help remember this is a public project this is just something I'm doing you know with mark this is you know you're all involved because remember the world is at stake civilization is literally on the line whether you believe in climate change being a big risk or not there is no scenario in which we don't need lots of

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scenario in which we don't need lots of clean power we need a lot of it even if if all you think it does is clean the air and clean the water that's great we need that because remember we need a lot more power and if we use the dirty kind you're not going to be happy about it so we're on the verge of change in the world here or at least trying to help
somebody tweeted today and I thought it was provocative so I'll mention it somebody tweeted that have you noticed that the zeitgeist which is a fancy word for the way people feel about things at the same time have you noticed that the zeitgeist has turned sharply against China in the year since I started moving against them in other words about a year ago my stepson died from an overdose fentanyl was part of that and fentanyl China is almost certainly this

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China is almost certainly this lier of that drunk so that's about a year ago is when I started going hard against China and one of my followers on Twitter noted that the attitude the public attitude in this country anyway about China has completely changed in one year now that's not all me there's a trade war going on but I'm certainly going to do my part and you haven't seen anything yet somebody asked me if there would be a trade deal today no no there will not there will not be a trade deal today which I know nor will there be a trade deal tomorrow there isn't any chance of having a trade deal because they don't want a fair one and we don't want an unfair one you can't solve that that's not a problem you should even try to solve can't be solved we have to decouple it's already happening now you

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decouple it's already happening now you don't have to make a decision to decouple all you have to do is keep going the way we're going because I can't imagine any major US company deciding today to move into China you know to do manufacturing there can you can you see any major corporation that would take that risk today I don't see that I don't see that now are you going to be watching as much NBA this year as you did last year now that the NBA has bowed to China I'm not I will watch less NBA basketball than ever before because I have a bad feeling about the NBA now I feel like they sided with my mortal enemy so maybe a little less of them would be good for my life I don't expect most of you to watch any less basketball but but I will alright I keep getting in trouble about this transgender question and I'm going

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this transgender question and I'm going to give you a whiteboard talk on it those of you who are tired of the transgender in sports conversation feel free to bail out I might want to cut this part out later and put it as a separate video I keep saying the transgender athletes should be allowed to play sports but we should we should simply get rid of you know men's sports so the women's sports and just let everybody play at whatever level they're capable now what do people say when I say that they say lots of things that don't have to do with that so I wanted to do a better job of explaining my point of view and I need a white board to do it because all of the people who think they're disagreeing with me are actually disagreeing with a misinterpretation of me so so far zero people have disagreed with me but a lot of people are disagreed with what they imagine I think not with what I actually think so this will be the first time

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think so this will be the first time that I've explained it completely so if you think you have an opinion about my opinion of transgender in sports you you don't because you haven't heard it until you hear it now okay here it is let me give you two views of the world this is what I call the dumbest effing idea in the world alright the dumbest idea in the world would be allowed to allow any athlete for whatever reason it doesn't matter if they're a transgender athlete or any other reason it doesn't matter why there's there are big athletes and there are small ones but the dumbest effing idea in the world is to let a really powerful athlete play against someone who is smaller and less powerful and has no chance of winning would you all agree so far that this is the dumbest effing idea in the world are we on the same page because so far everybody who's disagreed with me

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everybody who's disagreed with me believes that I think this person in this person should should play in the same team in the same sport I don't believe that it's the dumbest effing idea in the world so can we agree on that now I'll tell you my actual preference all right here's my actual preference whoops my double-sided whiteboard oh
yeah I got the technology your doubts wait for it wait what so what I suggested was this that the the days of having gender separated leagues may be antiquated and suppose you just ranked all your sports by capability if you did well most of the top and if lnb NBA would be mostly men maybe all men but you know you might have a kicker or something you know so you say you might have a woman or two that would be fine if they could play in

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that would be fine if they could play in that league that's fine and then if you went down the capability list you would find some band where there would be some band in some women and then you might find at the bottom of this continuum some leagues that are mostly women now this this would be the way that would make sense to get rid of gender as a consideration just do capability it doesn't matter what your gender is now you have to work out things like locker rooms that's a separate question so under this you would separate by capability and then you would use your technology here's the key in the old days we didn't have the technology and the capability to watch anybody we wanted whenever we wanted with our current technology if you want to watch women play women you go to your device and you say give me women playing women and then it takes you here and you can watch the best woman in the world let's say it's Serena Williams playing tennis

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say it's Serena Williams playing tennis you can watch her playing another woman just like today no difference it's just like today what changed is Serena's still a star yes she doesn't she doesn't become less of a star because she can't beat the number one male player in the world and just like today there's no difference today Serena can't beat the number one best male player in the world under this she also can't be the best male player in the world nor do you want to watch it so you don't so you go to your search engine you say I'd like to see the best female players play and up pops Serena Williams and whatever is the number two player and you watch them play and you're happy and you paid money and you buy products etc suppose you said and this would be me suppose you said you would love to see a really high level female player play a male player but

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female player play a male player but that would be a low ranked male player because you're only allowing people who were roughly capable to play each other I would love watching this I would love watching Serena play a low ranked male player who was roughly equivalent her that would be very interesting to me now you don't have to watch that you simply don't watch it you want to watch them women play women and you want to watch men play men so you do no problem all right gender equality in 2019 is a whole different thing than it was when originally women leagues were set up when when we originally said hey we should have separate leagues for women the world was a different place in those days it was a radical idea that women play sports it was actually something that society wasn't entirely ready for are you kidding me girls playing sports what kind of a world is this but that's

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what kind of a world is this but that's not the world we're in now there's nobody nobody in modern society anyway nobody in the United States who thinks the women couldn't or shouldn't play sports that's not a thing so we're at a point where you can just let your technology match the audience with the games and the sports they want to see and everybody gets what they want now what exactly is the problem with this well one of the problems that people say is let me give you the worst criticism I heard the worst criticism is that when you went to the event and you're watching the play it would take you forever you'd be there for like you know months and months watching the same event until you saw the first woman play to which I say no you would just only go where you wanted to to watch women play because you would know what the schedule is nobody would watch anything except what they wanted to watch because it'd be a schedule you would just watch what you want to watch

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would just watch what you want to watch would the market reward Serena Williams as much as it would reward the top man I don't care do you care because the market is the market it's just going to adjust to whatever my my assumption is my assumption is that the top female athlete in every sport would still be the top athlete female athlete in every sport would NBC wanna broadcast Serena Williams if she was in some sort of long continuum where she played people of equal capability of course they would why wouldn't they want to broadcast one of the most entertaining athletes of all time why wouldn't they the market would guarantee somebody is saying this is hilarious all right you might be new here so I'm gonna give you one pass you are allowed to criticize but if you're just saying I'm stupid with no no reasons then you get blocked

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with no no reasons then you get blocked okay you're allowed to have any different opinion I like that all right Serena said she won't play man she already said that well Serena actually also said that she would like to play men I just I literally just read a quote from her in which she was saying it would be fun but she wouldn't win if she played Andy Murray so she said she'd be up for it because it would be fun you know the audience would love it but she doesn't think she'd win a point that seems fair to me all right now here here's how to know if you're dumb all right if you just watch this and you're saying to yourself Piscotty don't you know that a low ranked man could still need beat sarena that has nothing to do with what i'm talking about so if you're saying that you're not you're not paying attention all right

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all right does every now does anybody have a complaint with my actual opinion because I want to reiterate what my opinion is not I think I need better technology here if you're joining now this is what my opinion is not a huge dominant player would not play against a smaller less capable player regardless of gender forget about gender under my situation where everybody plays in the capability that their that their talents allow everybody plays the same size what's wrong with that all right now now that you've heard my actual arguments tell me your objections somebody who's somebody here saying you finally finally makes sense wow I'm actually not seeing any

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sense wow I'm actually not seeing any disagreements somebody says I'm thinking we'll exclude women from scholarships why why would it why would a college stop giving scholarships to women why would they do that there's no reason there's if they're doing it now there's nothing that would stop it lots of boys would dread and be bullied why would a boy be bullied I don't I don't see that point no one wants to watch men play in the WNBA that's a stupid comment all right so whoever said nobody wants to watch women play in the NBA right no one wants to watch men play in the WNBA either you joined late or you're stupid so you can decide which it is because I just said my system says there's no time that the big
big person you know the big talented person is playing in the same league as a small

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is playing in the same league as a small one you just said Scott nobody wants to watch men play in the WNBA under my scenario there would be no WNBA there would just be people playing the level they can play and there would be no case where the man plays the woman if there's a big difference in size if they were roughly the same capability then there would be some cases in which they play and I would watch it personally I would find that interesting you would never see upsets yes you would sports would always have upsets a boy who gets beat by a girl would be made fun of
have you ever if you ever see what happens to a boy who's not good at sports against other boys you know people loses sports they have to get used to that and losing to a girl if you're a boy I'm talking about younger kids you should just get used to it you're gonna have to toughen up if

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you're gonna have to toughen up if losing to a girl is what's gonna make you cry you need to toughen up women would be too low on the totem pole no they wouldn't alright you weren't paying attention if you said women would be too low on the totem pole do you weren't paying attention because nothing in my my suggested plan would make women less important as subjects of sports because you would search for women if you wanted to watch them and then you would watch them just like today Serena Williams would still get all the sponsorships because she would be the best female playing who was who was born you know born with her equipment yeah however you want to say it that's not offensive and by the way I don't know exactly the right way to say these things in non offensive ways but I promise you I'm not trying to offend anybody so if I did it accidentally that's not intended if it's not

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that's not intended if it's not separated by gender women will look inferior does that makes sense somebody says if if you don't separate sports by gender women will look inferior as sports is there anybody who doesn't know that the best female athlete can't beat the best male athlete who exactly is going to have a new understanding of human beings that doesn't make sense the transition time to your system is 10 years yeah it would probably take a while I'm very fascinated in your comments solve title 9 problem or you aren't serious well again title 9 is part of a current system and I'm not entirely sure anything would change when it why would anything with title 9 change because women would have every every opportunity

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women would have every every opportunity as men so if you're thinking that my idea suggests that the only money goes to the people who are at the top of the list I'm not saying that I'm not saying that at all there you could have title 9 with this idea the women would get just as much support people who wanted to watch women only sports would know when they're playing and they would show up and just watch that somebody says women are physically inferior what the hell does that mean what the hell has nothing to do with this conversation
you were eliminating choice women might want to watch only women play are you even paying attention under my proposed theory everybody watches whoever they want to watch if you want to watch only women play it's easy you go to your

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women play it's easy you go to your device we're going playing women and then you watch it okay all right so one of the things I wanted to demonstrate with this yes as you know I have a book coming out called loser think and this this topic surfaces a lot of loser think accidentally and one of the things that it surfaces is and I talked about in the book failure of imagination so a failure of imagination is one of our biggest traps in the case of the transgender athletes when I argue that we should allow everybody to play at the level that they can compete what do people criticize me for in almost every case maybe every case they criticize me because they can't imagine how that could work which is different from saying it couldn't work your your inability to imagine how something could

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inability to imagine how something could work is not the same as they can't work and so you saw a fairly graphic example where when I would quickly say well just let people play at the level they can and the market will adjust that's the summary of it people couldn't quite imagine how that would work and then I explained it and so I give this caution to help you get out of your bubble or to find out if you're in a bubble sometimes the problem is your own imagination and you and the problem with your imagination might be that you don't have experience across different realms so if you had experience with lots of sports and co-ed sports in particular as I have I played every sport a lot not every sport but most sports a lot a lot I mean I was just immersed in sports for most my younger years and older years too and played a lot of co-ed sports if you've

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played a lot of co-ed sports if you've never played a co-ed sport you probably have a little less appreciation for how much fun that is it's really fun it's really fun yeah I don't think it gives up anything and that's my experience and if you have not had experience in economics in creating business models and marketing and technology it might be less obvious to you that we could simply use our technology change the business model a little bit and everybody gets what they want all right so if you didn't have at least a little bit of experience across those broad categories it would be invisible to you you would not be able to imagine that there would be a way to fix the system and you would be in your little bubble and so this book teaches you little tricks to get out of your bubble and you can see a an excerpt of it pinned to my Twitter if you'd like to read a free chapter of the book go to my pinned tweet and you can

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book go to my pinned tweet and you can see a link to it there and that's all for now and I will talk to you later