Episode 1040 Scott Adams: What Everyone Gets Wrong About Everything and Who Wins the Presidency

Date: 2020-06-27 | Duration: 1:29:58

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• Bill Maher seems to hate his own side

• WaPo imagines what might be in Mary Trump’s book

• Mark Cuban’s really smart, strategic political tweet

• Jack Posobiec attended BLM/Antifa rally last night

• DMCA, parody and CarpeDonktum

• Raheem Kassam and moment of death video

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hey everybody well then go on in you found the right place the best place for the best part of the day yeah yeah you know I don't know how the rest of your day is gonna go but there's one thing I can guarantee this part of your day
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now go mmm well how would you like to have your mind blown blown here it comes I asked this question on Twitter just moments ago still waiting for the answer and it looks like this here's the mind-blowing question think of any time in the past there was a presidential election in the United States and the winner was not any time the winner was not the candidate who looks like he could beat up the other candidate in a fair fight physical fight blows your mind right well let's take a look would you imagine in a fair fight that Trump could have beaten Hillary Clinton probably right would you imagine that in a fair fight Reagan could have beat Carter yeah probably probably do you think Kennedy could have beaten Nixon in a fair fight

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Nixon in a fair fight kinda looks like it how about Bill Clinton could he have beat on a bush senior in a fair fight probably all right you want to you want to you want the best one how about George Bush the the younger and Al Gore who would win a fair fight Al Gore or George Bush the younger it would be a tie it would have to be decided by the Supreme Court think about it uh-huh oh do you think do you think Romney could beat Obama in a fair fight I don't know I think Obama was also a special case I think the country was ready for Obama so even if you find the exception the even the exception might tell you something I don't think

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might tell you something I don't think there's anything funnier than watching Bill Maher hate the side he's on because if you've been watching Bill Maher so he's he's no fan of Trump and he's no fan of you know right-wing or conservative ideology but he also frickin hates the on his own side he doesn't say it quite as clearly as that but in context it looks like he just hates being on the side that's canceling people for just about everything he was complaining about it last night on his show and he was talking about the mayor of I don't know Minneapolis or something I forget where who he's talking about he goes and white people need to stop trying to cancel other white people whose heart was in the right place but didn't get it exactly right on the first try
try so he's talking about the ridiculousness of his own side which I could not enjoy more there's something missing in my

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more there's something missing in my room here that's weird
I might have to take a break here yes I will hold up don't go anywhere I'm almost back no seriously I'm coming back
alright um so that's funny anyway isn't it weird how the the two movies that I call them the left and the right I'm gonna characterize them this way just because I think is funny the people on the left to think that the people on the

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the left to think that the people on the right are a bunch of racists and that basically explains everything right there on you know may be unscientific but mostly mostly the left thinks the right is a bunch of racists and that that's just sort of explains everything but here's the funny thing the people on the right they are not aware that they are racist because they probably aren't they probably aren't meaning that at least in terms of their conscious thoughts and their conscious actions they have no idea what the left is talking about now of course every group has some racists in it you know over a racist and I'm sure the right and the left both have their share but isn't it weird that the movie that they see you don't know you're in you're like PAH apparently I'm surrounded by racists but why don't I ever see it why don't we know it

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know it but here's the funny part what the right sees is that the left is hypnotized by the fake news is that not your dominant belief about the left now you're also thinking lots of other things you're thinking oh foreign influence and you might be thinking George Soros is giving people money and China is interfering and Russia's colluding and you know you're thinking there's lots of stuff going on and you're thinking that maybe the maybe the left was you know brainwashed in a certain way in college if they went to college but does this seem as though the breakdown is now the left thinks the writer racists and the right thinks that the left only believes that because they've been hypnotized brainwashed essentially by fake news and by you know the educational system is that is that a fair breakdown and it's the weirdest thing because you can't even have a

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thing because you can't even have a conversation with somebody who is hallucinating so here by analogy it would be this it would be it would be people are hallucinating that you're I don't know that you're really a a werewolf or something and you're saying I don't know how to defend myself from the accusation of being a werewolf cause I'm not a werewolf if I were a werewolf I'd have something I could work with I'd say you know we werewolves are not all that bad you have to see our good side yeah we got some rough edges but werewolves you know we have our pluses - oh for example we fight vampires I understand so I don't know if we've ever had a situation where the two different movies are a hallucination of what the other movie is that's new let me give you some positive positive encouraging

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you some positive positive encouraging thoughts about the future so here's something you're thinking to yourself oh no there's a slippery slope these protesters are just going to you know destroy more businesses and destroy more public stuff until until it's all gone what would be a counter force that could make that happen and it's funny it's always the same counter force there is so much in society that gets we think it's up to us like you and I think okay you know we we've got this disagreement so you and I are gonna work that out and then you and I fight and the people on your side fight and then I fight and then my people fight with your side and you think that's what the fight is only to find out that it's always settled the same way there's an insurance company somewhere who said you know I'm not gonna cover that and that it's over insurance companies basically run the world

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run the world you don't think insurance companies around the world tried to do something that can't get insured see how that goes trying to drive your car without insurance try to get a mortgage and tell your bank you know I don't think I want insurance on my house yeah I won't be able to pay you back if it burns down or something but you know I think I don't want insurance no you don't have a choice you gotta get insurance and now we're watching this Seattle you know the occupied zone or the autonomous zone whatever they like to call it and because there was a ruling that apparently the the business owners who have been displaced by the protesters they could actually sue the city now if you could get sued what's your only protection insurance insurance yeah if there's a risk of being sued and it's sort of built into your business process the only way you can protect yourself is

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the only way you can protect yourself is insurance who's going to insure a mayor who won't protect their own City how do you how do you get insurance if you're not even going to try to protect your own assets would somebody protect would would anybody give you insurance for let's say homeowners insurance if you insisted on having no doors and windows on your house you say look I just want a windowless doorless house yeah any burglar could come and go and I don't have any security but I still want insurance how about some insurance and the insurance company will say sorry we only get insurance people have doors and windows that's up to us there's no constitutional right to your insurance it's just risk management so the the hilarious part about the occupation of Seattle is that it'll be sorta done by insurance companies because in the end we all have to do with the insurance

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we all have to do with the insurance companies tell us to do now is it that's one of it's one of the biggest red pills in the world when you realize that all of your battles are irrelevant because it's just gonna be decided by the insurance company doesn't matter what you and I think and of course the insurance company paired with the legal system that that makes it expensive to do the wrong thing all right Mary Trump has a book coming out is that the president's niece I guess so his brother's daughter and I saw a big article on it in the Washington Post it was all the headlines and social media and I was like oh man it looks like Mary trumps you know damning book about the president has just come out and then I read the headlines and the book isn't even out the Washington Post is masturbating so furiously over the possibility of this book being damning that they've already started writing feature articles guessing what's in it

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feature articles guessing what's in it did I make that up nope they just wrote a feature article in The Washington Post in which they're guessing what kinds of things she might say have we reached a whole new level of ridiculousness and so here's the setup so Mary Trump apparently there was some dispute about her inheritance at some point so she's mad at the family so that part seems to be established she's got a you know she's got some reason to be angry at the family in general and maybe president Trump in particular well she wrote a book about him so yes it's obvious but here's the fun part she's a clinical psychologist what the thing that has the Washington Post is salivating and others I'm sure is that how good would it be finally it's their Holy Grail what could they want more than a trained clinical

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they want more than a trained clinical psychologist who has spent a lot of time personally with the president right because the thing they always lack is when you know somebody goes on TV and they say I've never met the president but he's clearly schizophrenic paranoid narcissist and then somebody will say remind me about you or your professional ethics in the psych psychiatry business are you supposed to diagnose people you have never met and then they'll say well not normally but the risks are so high that I thought I'd do it this time and then you say ah we don't want to listen to you anymore if you can't even follow your own journalistic integrity or your own professional integrity you know so those stories kind of come and go but what if somebody knew him personally and for years had been in the same room so all of the family dynamics and was a trained clinical psychologist

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and was a trained clinical psychologist may I do my impression of Dale finding out that there's a trained clinical psychologist who hates the president and spent a lot of time with him so when she speaks she can speak intelligently Dale did you hear that news and scene that was Dale enjoying the news that Mary Williams or Mary Trump as a book come you Mary Williams is somebody a new years ago and though in my 20s actually so Mark Cuban made the smartest political play maybe I've ever seen in my whole life and if you mess that it's really it's one for the ages now if you asked him I don't think he

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now if you asked him I don't think he would admit that this was a strategy and I'm not sure you could call it a strategy so let me just let me describe the situation and then you tell me what you would call this what I call it is somebody who's good at chess figuratively speaking good his strategy good at good at business good as sort of seeing the whole picture so that's that's Mark Cuban and he came out with this tweet I think it was yesterday I because he's a Biden supporter and of course the obvious question is Mark Cuban you see him pretty smart why don't you see what we're seeing with Joe Biden that his mental condition is not say 100% and of course Marquez defended him as being perfectly capable of doing the job and that maybe Trump has some some issues there but he he kind of did the

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issues there but he he kind of did the the final clever play then I talked about finding free money on the on the ground and he found this free money that I don't think anybody else would have seen it was like invisible free money that only he could see but then once he sees it and he tells you about it you go oh my god now I can see it and it goes like this he tweets that he would be perfectly okay if randomly selected so that they're not in anybody's pocket randomly selected experts could do a psychological evaluation on both Biden and Trump now think about that now if you weren't thinking strategically or any other way you'd say oh that's just a tweet it's just a tweet supporting his person yeah you know Biden will take a test if Chum takes the test if you see it on the surfaces there's not much there right but think you through think you through now in all likelihood that will never happen right but by raising

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will never happen right but by raising the question of Biden and a psychological test you kinda think it might be more likely to happen don't you and wouldn't you actually like to see a psychological evaluation by independent people of both Biden and Trump wouldn't you I would I'd like to see that and and let me tell you I don't care where the where it comes out if it came out that Biden was perfectly perfectly capable and Trump was not according to actually experts that I found credible I would take that to mean something I would take that to mean something like that would influence my opinion and it should influence yours if you say it wouldn't you know maybe because you don't trust the experts but let's say hypothetically you did wouldn't that change your mind now I don't think it would come out that way I think Trump would do pretty well I think

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think Trump would do pretty well I think Biden would have some problems but what if I'm wrong right where none of us are so smart that you could be sure about any of this stuff because we can be easily fooled by confirmation bias and you know just rooting for your team etc so by Mark Cuban just putting it out there how about testing both of them because I don't know anybody said that before and it's very provocative because it's him people pay attention because it's Mark Cuban so so now that's out there now here's the brilliant part suppose it happened I suppose it happened now you would expect that Biden might have some issues and it might be a factor in him being changed out before the election wouldn't you say that's reasonable a lot of people are talking about the possibility the Biden will be switched out close to election day so that's not really a big surprising thing it's

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really a big surprising thing it's possible but here's the other part that's really fun Mark Cuban just by being in the public and talking about these things his profile and his name are being associated with the run for the presidency at the same time he's spending nothing camp nothing mark cubit is not running for president efficiently and he spent nothing campaigning for president and running for president is really expensive hundreds of millions of dollars if you happen to be a billionaire he spent nothing and I would say that with that one move just by you saying hey let's test them both he put himself in the top five of potential replacements for Biden because remember he's Pro Biden so he doesn't have a negative connotation on the left and if you were to pick one person in the world who could actually reliably I think beat Trump probably be him because he could

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Trump probably be him because he could pick up Republican votes you could pick up independence and the people on the Left would just say we don't care it's just not Trump all right so you did so Democrats would just be automatic because they say you're not Trump can you confirm your name is not Donald Trump all right we're on your team so it doesn't matter what the Democrats think of them they're still gonna vote for him because he I don't think he has anything negative that that would you know get him cancelled by the left you know of course when he was a young man he had some fun that all that stuff comes up nobody cares nobody cares what she did 20 years ago frankly the same with Trump now so here's the thing so the correct question is would Camila not be the more likely choice if Biden faltered or were a place before Election Day and I would say she would be yes Camila would be the first choice but I think Cubans in the top five isn't he

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think Cubans in the top five isn't he just think about it somebody says Cuban can't run and I don't know if that's true is that a question about being on the on the ballot this is a question about being on the ballot so if that's the case well that would be interesting but what happens if the Democrats candidate drops out before Election Day does that mean there's nobody who can run because I don't know that Kamala Harris no I guess how would that work let's say somebody answer this question for me now if kabbala Harris became the replacement for Biden before Election Day since she had previously announced and she was going to run for president maybe the paperwork's all done so that she didn't have any paperwork problem is that true I don't know if that's true but what about let's say they picked a mayor so let's say Biden picks a mayor for his vice-president Biden is replaced could the mayor who had not already long

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could the mayor who had not already long ago filled out the paperwork to run for the top spot is it too late is it too late I don't know so that's the question somebody who knows what they're talking about which would not be me find out if somebody could run for president at the last minute as long as the Democrats wanted that to be their candidate so let me know how that works yeah and I know that the delegates the delegates might want Bernie etc and so I'm not saying that I'm not saying we'd know for sure who the person who would I'm saying that Cuban put himself in the top five for the conversation at least the possibility he's in the top five to be a replacement for Biden and he hasn't spent a penny that's all I'm saying so on a risk-management level this is so smart it was just one of the best plays I've ever seen now it probably won't pay

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I've ever seen now it probably won't pay off because the you know he just would be one of five people considered Biden still has to actually drop out blah blah blah so there's a lot that could go wrong but to put yourself in the top five for a contention without spending a penny this close to election day I don't know would anybody else have seen that play that's all I'm saying I did a little a Twitter poll in which I asked people if a computer told you in other words there's no human voice a computer that calls you on your phone and says how do you want to vote for in the upcoming election would you admit that you were gonna vote for Trump if you were a trump supporter so that was the question I posed on Twitter now it's a Twitter poll so of course it's not you know dependable like a regular poll but I wanted to see if anybody would say it because it could have been you know that Trump supporters might say screw you

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Trump supporters might say screw you Scott we're not afraid of saying who we support so I didn't know how it would come out so it came out that so 45% of the people said they wouldn't answer so you know nearly half of the people in my unscientific Twitter poll said that if they were contacted by an actual scientific poll that they wouldn't answer now 45% of the people wouldn't answer you know you've got a trouble collecting a good enough sample but you could still do it still do it but suppose so if those who who answered they add up to 55% uh so of the 55% who would give an answer now these are the percentages I'm sorry I'm confusing you with the percentages so let me just give them to you straight forty-five percent said they wouldn't answer at all thirty seven percent said yes they'd say they were going to vote for Trump and

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were going to vote for Trump and remember these are only people answering this poll who already said they would vote for Trump so 37 percent said they would admit it only 37% would admit it to a computer they're not even talking to a real person they're talking to a computer and only 37 percent of the people who follow me on Twitter who are also Trump supporters who also answered answer this poll said that they would admit it and 18 percent in my little unscientific poll said that they would lie and say Biden's now remember the 18 percent is is only 18 percent of the total people but only 37 percent said they would say Trump and 18% would also answer said they would say Biden so you should really look at 18 being half of 37 roughly so roughly let me do my math better here roughly one-third of the people who

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roughly one-third of the people who would answer would lie 1/3 can you believe that 1/3 of the people in my unscientific so you shouldn't take this too seriously poll said they would lie and actually say Biden no be careful because I have primed my Twitter my Twitter following is not like any other you know generic group of people there they're pretty self selected and they've been primed for this prank so it would be a higher number and my presumably in my group but let me ask you this as unscientific as this was deeply deeply biased and unscientific does it not still does it not still show you that there's a fairly massive problem with people being honest on these polls I feel as if it's indicating there's a problem like a bigger problem than ever before and let

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bigger problem than ever before and let me put it in in starker terms I don't think in 2020 it would be smart to answer a poll honestly if you were a trump supporter because there might be a day keep this in mind if the Democrats win they've said they've said directly that they're coming after Trump supporters have you not heard that have you not heard people on the left the team that could win that they would actually come after supporters and there would be in theory some database even though a computer made the call somewhere there's a database of this phone number had these responses so you could kind of piece it together would you want to be on list when you knew people were going to be using the list to hunt you down and make you pay now probably that what will happen but it feels kind of scary and people people respond to the risk as much as

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people respond to the risk as much as they respond to reality so I was thinking that the worst was behind us in terms of the economy and coronavirus and and maybe even the protests were losing a little steam and I was thinking you know finally are we getting past that 2020 has been pretty rough I feel like we're behind it and then I saw the headline that says Tennessee police warned of flushing drugs that could create hyper aggressive alligators so apparently if you flush your meth down the toilet it can get into the water supply and then your alligators will be on meth and we'll be living in a world with hyper-aggressive meth alligators now you might say to yourself I don't want to live in any kind of a world with hyper-aggressive meth soaked alligators that doesn't sound good but you know I

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that doesn't sound good but you know I don't like to admit this I don't like to say this in public but I'm gonna do it anyway if we don't get any hyper-aggressive alligators I'm gonna be a little disappointed not proud of that I'm not proud of that but if we got no hyper-aggressive alligators none not a single hyper aggressive alligator I don't know if I'd be okay with that we live in a world where damn it I need some hyper aggressive meth meth tup alligators because I don't know about you but it's getting harder and harder to watch the regular news the political news if I watch one more black man being killed by police on video I think I'm gonna shoot myself well I could definitely watch the news about some hyper aggressive meth alligators I could watch that all day long there is a new

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watch that all day long there is a new story end of town in Florida hyper aggressive alligators have attacked Main Street for fatalities now I'd say to myself nobody's happy about fatalities you can't be happy about that I feel sorry for the families but I could watch a few more of these stories about hyper-aggressive alligators I'm not a good person apparently apparently there's something deeply wrong with me but I could just watch more hyper-aggressive alligators that's all I'm just all I'm saying
you know I've told you about my game that I play when I see a name trending on Twitter if you see a celebrity's name you play the game Kovac canceled or dead so you say to yourself oh why is this person's name trending and before you know the answer before you click on it you say all right do they have kovat are they canceled or are they dead and so this morning I saw a jackdaw Sabich

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this morning I saw a jackdaw Sabich trending on Twitter and I was like oh no poor jack what is it and you know is he is it Kovac is he canceled is he dead well he's still alive and he's not canceled days well no more canceled than any conservative would be and we don't know anything about covent but the story is that he attended without a disguise and without any security he attended the antov rally right in the middle of it at emancipation memorial last night and as you might imagine he was recognized so he was recognized by some a little anti-fur guy who and well he was he was well disguised so imagine they let's say a fire hydrant with red goggles so just so you have the visual the fire hydrant it's got this got a little hat on with a hood and red goggles and it's yelling at

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hood and red goggles and it's yelling at Jack Posada who towers above it in height but the the little fire hydrants remember and getting in Jack's face and it looked like I don't know look like maybe somebody threw water at him and they were all crowding around and getting in them and there's lots of video of it it's really fun to watch because I don't think you've ever seen anybody in so much physical danger who didn't seem to be bothered by it so you have to watch this thing it's it's kind of fun to watch because he's surrounded by really angry and violent people who any moment are getting ready to you know attack him and the right in his face and they're all over him and they're jostling him and the Eddie's just and he's just sort of looking at him like alright alright yeah who's next and he gets he gets escorted out made news I don't believe any other national reporter got anywhere near the

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national reporter got anywhere near the the center of the other thing but you know there were a lot of cameras watching the entire event so you've got some views from different places and it looks like it looks like Jack was willing to take one for the team if you know what I mean it looks like he was willing to take the punch now I don't think he was asking for a punch because that looks different yeah you've seen you've seen the anti found people were just asking to get punched you know they're getting in the cops faces and stuff it was nothing like that he was simply asserting his right to stand there in public think about it just think about that Jack the Sabich is trending today just think about this this is like a pretty massive thought he's trending on Twitter and he's a national story because he had the temerity to simply stand there in a public place and just and just have a different opinion than the other people

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different opinion than the other people were there that's it he wasn't assaulting anybody he wasn't he wasn't wasn't doing anything offensive whatsoever he was simply asserting his right I mean obviously I don't know what he was thinking internally but in terms of you know physically what was happening as an observers perspective not his internal thoughts which are only his own he asserted his right for a lot of the people who are watching this he went right into the middle of it and asserted his right to be there in a public place peacefully now if he had been punched would the conversation have changed I think it might have I think it might have so I really appreciated what Jack did because I think you know all of us have to sort of make sure that we're pushing the envelope a little bit

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pushing the envelope a little bit because otherwise the walls are gonna close in as the left likes to say they would like to squeeze any Trump supporting or conservative opinions into nothingness and the only way that that doesn't happen is that there are some people who are willing to risk taking a punch if you don't go that far the the wall will just keep closing in so yesterday Jack took a stand for freedom I would say again who knows what his internal thought process was but in terms of what it meant to me what it meant to me is that he stood there and said all right we've reached we've reached the point where you either have to punch me or shut the up because that's where we are now right you throw the punch because there are a lot of people who are gonna watch this punch if it happens now to their credit the

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if it happens now to their credit the protesters did not throw you know any kind of a let's say a hospitalization kind of a punch but there was enough of an assault collectively there was enough of an assault that I guess the police have been informed and there may be some illegal action which would be completely appropriate now let me ask you this if there's a civil lawsuit which I imagine there could be I don't know that there will be but there could be and let's say that that fireplug with the red goggles is identified already on Twitter you can see his name and picture but I would not say that's necessarily the right guy yet so I would caution you that although he has the the assailant or a alleged assailant has been identified on Twitter you give that a couple of days you know you don't want to get a false false identification so just give that a couple of days to make sure that we're talking about the right person but suppose he got sued and lost

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person but suppose he got sued and lost does that guy ever get insurance again who would ever give insurance to the the fireplug with the glasses I don't know I'm not sure if insurance matters in his case but that's going on alright so I have been trying also to stretch my boundaries of free speech and I've said there's this weird thing going on where some of us are actually slightly getting more free speech at the moment because of the weirdness of things so while most of you are giving less of free speech you know if you if you stick your head up you're going to get cancelled and that's that's a real risk and I don't recommend you do it if you are a civilian let me say that again if you're a civilian meaning you're not in it professionally and you're not doing this in public the way I am I would consider myself a professional in this context but if you're not a professional you

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but if you're not a professional you might want to keep your head down you might want to keep your head down because it's not safe for you but there are some few of us who are professionals who are actually weirdly getting a little extra space and the reason we're giving a little extra space is that people don't want to engage with that's because the experts are too dangerous it would be too hard to cancel me at this point because I'm too vocal and I don't think people want to hear what I have to say but let me give you some examples of where I'm stretching my rights of free speech so a couple days ago I did this tweet which I already told you about but I want to just give you an update on it I said that quote white privilege is a racist term in my opinion anyone who uses it is either racist an idiot or an but I then I went on to say that rich privilege is a thing obviously now that got close to 10,000 retweets alright so if you get that many retweets it means that a lot of people

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retweets it means that a lot of people not only agree with it in fact there were almost 28,000 likes now for my account that's about 10 times more than a than a viral tweet so based on the size of my Twitter account if I get a thousand retweets on a tweet I consider that one one of the bigger ones you know that's a thousand for me is a lot rarely although lately has happened more I'll break mm what is rare this tweet had almost 10,000 retweets so that means it is massively agreeable to people there they're putting themselves behind it and I actually said that white privilege is a racist term 10,000 people retweeted that so this clearly people are not only agreeing with it but they're willing to say it in public all right the the willing to say it in public is the interesting part and I didn't get cancelled for that because

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I didn't get cancelled for that because and simply because it's obvious that white privilege as a term is a racist term if you actually get into the conversation it's gonna go my way because it's a racist term it's not even a hard argument to make right which has nothing to do with whether you know African American people are discriminated against and there's legacy of slavery at all that it has nothing to do with those questions just by itself white privilege is obviously a racist term it minimizes white people so that didn't get me cancelled so I thought well I'm gonna have to push this a little bit further so yesterday I tweeted this they said if I ever find a baby trapped at the bottom of a dry well I'm not going to help until I know whether or not the legacy of slavery had a role if yes I'll help if it's just an unlucky white baby it's on its own and then I

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white baby it's on its own and then I said am i doing this right now you can see what I've done is I've simply taken the point of view of black lives matter and I've taken the point of view that if if you had a legacy of slavery that's a special condition which generates in their view of the world special privileges and or payments reparations and or accommodations maybe there are a compensation for that that evil and that wrongness now nobody of course disagrees that slavery was the the ultimate sin you know the ultimate evil you know except maybe the Holocaust was worse but it's still in that category of ultimate evil so everybody agrees on that and here's the thing it doesn't make a lick of sense so it's the most dominant agreed-upon thing even by both

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dominant agreed-upon thing even by both sides I would say both the right and left are both under the opinion that slavery had a ripple effect of course it did how could it not really had a ripple effect through time and that it affects people today but here's the thing that nobody wants to say out loud who cares why does that matter now when I say who cares let me be very clear I do care about the people of course black lives matter of course so I care about all people but that's my point I'm left of this do you get that I'm left of the left on this black lives matter says we need to do something about people who were that let's say victims of slavery as it rippled through the generations and I say how about we extend that how about we say that you're not left enough

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about we say that you're not left enough how
how but I say there's something very selfish about that because you're excluding let's say for example a filipino-american who's not doing well you're excluding for example an Hispanic American who is just not doing well it's not their fault they they were born into a bad circumstance you're excluding a Chinese American again I'm just using these phrases as they're all Americans so in my example they're all Americans one way or another but why why do they not get help because they have a different reason that they're in bad shape does the baby have any responsibility for what the parents did that got the baby in this poverty situation no no so if you're trying to carve out a special class a victim there is no rational logical or moral support

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is no rational logical or moral support for it and we've all just swallowed this big fat lie because we've been beaten into submission because we know we'll be cancelled if we push back all right black lives matter is way too far right for me way too far right because left to them is you help everybody who's in trouble left of black lives matter is where I am remember I told you I'm left at Bernie well I'm probably not left at Bernie of this one if Bernie thinks that only poor black people need help because there's circumstances I will eat my chair I will eat my chair if Bernie Sanders doesn't say some version of what I'm saying which is no black lives matter your your issues are a hundred percent valid there are lots of people who need help or black and there are reasons we can identify which are certainly factors not they're not the only factors but they're

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they're not the only factors but they're factors but are you telling me the Hispanic kid who didn't do anything wrong was just born into a bad situation that's it they were just born into a bad situation and you give them any help how is that right so how did i do on this tweet so this one got 388 retweets 388 compared to the other one which i thought was about about white privilege being racist which got 10,000 retweets so their bait they're both pushing pushing the envelope of what I'm allowed to say without getting cancelled but one of them only got 388 retweets and the other one got 10,000 what it tells you is that the one who only got 388 Tweety retweets is too dangerous it was actually safer to say that white privilege is a racist term apparently

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privilege is a racist term apparently than it was safe to say that all babies who are in a bad shape should be helped think about that think about the fact that people are afraid to say you should help a baby regardless of how it got in trouble it's amazing I mean it's amazing so I think that tells you that's sort of the the edge of where people are comfortable with their freedom of speech but not me I'm gonna push a little further as I did yesterday I want to hear what I did yesterday and I'm gonna extend it a little bit today I made the following tweet and which is 8 points that I I claim everyone and follows these steps to success does well now when you make a public statement like everyone for the benefit of people who are very particular impendent it never means everyone so if you ever see if you ever hear me use the word everyone does

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ever hear me use the word everyone does this just in your head translated - oh he means most of the time or you know it's generally that way it never means everyone okay but I say it to be provocative everyone who follows these steps to success as well so listen to these steps see if you agree number one focus on useful education I put any useful you know fine find an educational path that by its nature is useful so maybe not be a art historian for example maybe be a mechanic so it doesn't have to be regular school just useful education number two stay on illegal trouble number three stay away from drugs number four don't become a parent too soon everybody knows what too soon is right before your economically the set number five build the talent stack so put together talents that make you useful number six be useful to others and this has to do with reciprocity if you are seen as being useful to other people in

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seen as being useful to other people in a variety of ways everybody wants to be with you they want to marry you they want to be your friend they want to hire you they want to buy your goods so being useful to others in a overt way amazingly powerful for success number seven favors systems over goals you all know what I'm talking about right it's not good enough to have a goal you need a you need systems that can get you ready for a variety of goals I write about that in my book had it failed almost everything is so ending number eight learned the basics of risk management and here I mean learn that diversifying your stock portfolio makes more sense than buying one stock learn that you might have to try ten startups before one of them works learn that if you're making an investment with other people's money it's better than using your own very basic things yet people don't know them until they're taught so there are a lot of basic things about risk management that people don't know that it's easy to

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that people don't know that it's easy to imagine well wouldn't they know that just common sense and the answer is no no diversification as a concept isn't common sense until you hear it the first time and then you say oh okay I get that so it's not hard stuff so here's my provocative thought of the day if you want to measure racism I would say that the only way to measure it or the best way you can't really ever be sure you're measuring it perfectly would be to compare the people who follow the AIDS steps in different groups so rather than saying you know just all the people look the same or in this group compared to the people some visual way you know their their melanin is the same over here that kind of comparison just feels useless all the time to me it just feels like somebody's trying to cause trouble when they compare people unjust well these are black and these are white how

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these are black and these are white how they do it feels like you're just asking for trouble how about if you compared the people who use the same strategy because I think everything on this list is available to everybody you know everybody could have a useful education now I know it's gonna be harder in you know if your school systems of mass etcetera but there are you know I think that when let's say colleges look at that they actually factor it I think they take into consideration that you were from a bad school but let's say you're an african-american student so they're gonna say well you know I think we're gonna give this this person the chance so I think everybody could get an education and if they can't well that's what you effects that's where you focus so I'd like to see the the in comes the people who did all the right steps compared to the other people in any other group you know white Asian or whatever who also did all any steps if you compare the people who use the right strategies

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the people who use the right strategies to each other then what's left might indeed be racism and it could be a big deal and I'd like to know what that is because if if that still exists for people who do everything right wouldn't you like to know that I mean seriously wouldn't you like to know that that everybody who did the right steps did well now I see some provocative people here asking about IQ and I know what you're gonna say you're gonna say hey isn't it just that IQ is predictive and the answer is not really in the way that you think is it's a popular thing on the right say well isn't it just all like you and you know and the answer is not really because IQ is highly influenceable for example did you know that IQs have been ripped have been going up for decades

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ripped have been going up for decades well how is that possible how could I Q's go up for decades if IQ is just sort of baked into your DNA it's not like we're evolving are we evolving that quickly I don't think so so there is something about the environment that operates with whatever your natural capability is that is very important so I don't think uh let me extend this further I've said to you that you should think of your brain to include your body because when I let's say when I'm cycling through ideas for jokes for example I feel them in my body like I laugh or whatever and that's part of my mental process so I think of my brain in my body as one unit likewise I think you could extend that that your brain and your body and your physical surroundings are all part of your brain or your IQ if you will for example if you spend time in dirty dingy poorly lighted areas how

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in dirty dingy poorly lighted areas how good is your brain you've probably experienced this right you go to a well-lit happy bright place where there's no trouble and no no physical risk nothing to worry about how well does your brain operate pretty well you got it you don't have a problem in the world I got light I feel good I've had a good meal my brain is good now take you five minutes later my dog is to sleep barking if you hear some weird sounds from there now take you same person and put you in a just a really bad environment it's depressing it's scary you've got anxiety you've got stress how does your brain work is it good just as good is when you were in that other situation now because you should think of your brain and your body and your physical surroundings you're a thinking machine those are not the same machines somebody says nonsense about light and neatness whoever says

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about light and neatness whoever says that that's nonsense you've never had a creative job I can tell anybody who has a creative job will tell you I think a hundred percent of us will agree that your physical surroundings and and how you manage your physical surroundings just completely change your attitude yesterday I was having a bad day and I was just so depressed and my energy was just in the basement I couldn't even work out I just I just wasn't happy and I said to myself how long have I been in this dark house because I don't have good light in my house I thought what would happen if I just got on my bike and took a ride I walk outside into my garage get on my bike pull it out of the garage the light hits me and my my attitude changed like that my entire mental structure just went boom to complete happiness in five

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went boom to complete happiness in five seconds of changing my environment it was actually that quick and I and I realized it at the time so here's what I'm saying I don't think that IQ is as accurate as you think but here's my other provocative example for those of you who are watching let's say there are two groups this piece of paper represents any one group let's say they're left-handed elbow nians and the bottom of the paper is the the lowest IQ of any of them and then you know here's the highest IQ if any of them at the top of the paper and then they're then they're being compared to let's say right-handed elbow nians so we'll imagine there are such people and the right-handed elbow nians have a few more geniuses you know here's a piece of paper held nothing so you can see the one is a little bit higher than the other but not much to 3% let's say 2% so two percent more geniuses and maybe 2% fewer people who need you know let's say

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fewer people who need you know let's say long-term mental healthcare but if you look at these two pieces of paper even those that there's a real difference between the left-handed elbow nians and the right hand it almost all the people who have regular jobs are the same in other words the only differences that are at the top and the bottom now the people at the bottom are all the people who can't hold jobs in the first place do you compare those to the rest of the people you know if some people are literally mentally handicapped are you just throwing them in the mix and saying oh you know throw them in that doesn't make sense you can't count them that's a special category and what about the the geniuses at the top I have bad news for you you're not one of them yeah and you know what neither am I so what does it mean to you that there exists in one group at

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to you that there exists in one group at the very top some really smart geniuses and the other group doesn't have as many of them in that category what does that mean to you nothing nothing you're not in that category it's such a small group of people they're literally irrelevant to anything you could just throw that group out of the any-any conversation because they're freaks they're freaks the people who are in that top like crazy 1% who invent everything that matters they're not you well what are you gonna take credit for that because you're you're have some DNA in common how does that help you invent stuff nothing doesn't help you a bit so the fact that there is some statistical difference between two groups is so close to irrelevant that I don't think it belongs in the conversation it just doesn't you know the fact that you might luckily be in a group that has a few extra geniuses if if you're not one of them it doesn't

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if you're not one of them it doesn't matter it doesn't help you a bit all right
here's something that should get me canceled let's talk about black privilege am i cancelled yet can you hear me are you still there yes I'm going to talk about black privilege the things that black people can enjoy now obviously there are huge disadvantages the black lives matter people will give you a list you've all heard the list I do not question anything on their list so it's not about that I'm just saying shouldn't we have a complete picture is there anything wrong with that to have a complete picture so we'll see how far I can move the envelope here because I'm not going to say anything offensive nor anything that anybody disagrees with I think and I think you'll agree that this belongs in that there's a real useful reason to

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that there's a real useful reason to include this all right here's some black advantages do black people have advantages in college admissions I think the answer is yes right now unless that's changed but my understanding is that black people have an advantage in college admissions what about college scholarships would you have an advantage if you are poor in black versus poor and anything else and I think the answer is yes right now again please fact check this if any this is wrong it's not I'm not saying it with any bad intentions you know and wait for my point before before you comment how about this do black people have an advantage in getting a job at a big corporation so a big corporation that would have diversity preferences if you were a black candidate and you have you know the qualifications and there are lots of other candidates are do you have

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lots of other candidates are do you have an advantage that works for you and the answer is yes and it's a big one it's like really big it's like guaranteed you're gonna get the job big it's not statistically well you've got a two percent greater chance no you got the job if you don't know that I'm glad I could tell you so if you're black and you're watching this periscope did you not know that that if you work hard in in your in your school that your odds of getting into college are basically a hundred percent you know as long as you've got good good enough grades 100 percent and odds of getting a scholarship if you're poor and black really really good odds of getting a job after college at a really good corporation let's say an apple a Google Facebook why don't you know a really good job do you have an advantage yeah it's pretty much locked in if you have the right major if you have the right major

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right major if you have the right major and you're black yeah you can work at Google if you want to yeah if you want to but if you have good grades and you're white can you necessarily work at Google well obviously a lot of people do but not just because you want to I mean you've got to be you know in a very small select group to get a job at a company that's doing that well so that's an advantage here's one that you would not expect but I assert this to be true mentoring if you ask now the fus part is the important part of this mentoring if you ask and I'll tell you my personal story of discrimination and racism too to make this point so because I'm a public figure and I talk about success at cetera I'm often contacted by people who would like advice or mentoring when I

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would like advice or mentoring when I say often I mean literally every day so every day I'm contacted big people who say can we get together can I talk to you can we have a phone call you know would you answer some questions in center it's just an ongoing stream of those requests now how many of them come from generic white men most of them most of them maybe 95% of the people who would reach out who don't know me already and just reach out and say hey can I get some help some advice and 95% of them white men now why is that probably because I'm a white man yeah everybody feels more comfortable talking to somebody just like them why would women not reach out for advice from me well maybe they think been don't have the right kind of advice maybe women just a more comfortable talking to other women they don't want to look like they're you know interested in you so they don't want to make that kind of a contact who knows but here's the here's

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contact who knows but here's the here's the net result of it all right when a woman contacts me for mentoring they just once answer to a question pointed in the right direction that sort of thing or a black man or a woman contacts me for mentoring they go right to the top of the the top of the pile every time now am i discriminating is that racist of me yes totally completely racist it is completely racist that I prioritize black people who contact me higher than white people now it has something to do with the fact that I can feel the unfairness of it and I'm responding to that right there's a deep unfairness that white people do have a bit of a monopoly on sort of just knowing how things work because they're more of them who have succeeded just as a as a gross number and if you're in the in the world where people are succeeding you're just seeing how things work so white people

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seeing how things work so white people are just more naturally on average exposed to good mentoring and advice just by living those around other people who have advice and they say hey Bob give me some advices right there if you're coming from like let's say a situation where there was more poverty or or you're just locked into your own social network and it just isn't you know it isn't as let's say deep as you wanted to and you want to get some other mentoring from some generic white people such as myself if you contact me and you're you're black you go right to the top of the list now I don't normally admit this but I'm in in the interest of deepening the conversation all admit it to you now I absolutely discriminate in favor of black people always have always have is this isn't something new I just want to told you before same with women if women contact me are more likely to give them advice same reason

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likely to give them advice same reason now I and by the way I don't defend this if you're saying to me if you're saying to me but Scott that's inconsistent because why wouldn't you just give advice to anybody who asks for and the answer is I can't defend it I don't defend it I'm somebody in the comments is saying am I the only black person in here you might be you might be no actually you would be surprised that the the number of black folks following me on Twitter is is really is really going up lately and I hope for the right reasons here's another advantage all right so just to put a point on that if you're black and you don't know this white people are more likely to help you than they are to help white people let me give you the red pill of red pills for for the one black ok I've saved some other some other some black emoji hands

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other some other some black emoji hands going up so great to have you here so let me let me say this if you didn't know it this is a big red film you think that white people are are cruel or I know uncaring or mean or whatever to black people you're probably right here's the part you didn't know white people are terrible to white people did you know that did you know that white people are absolutely terrible to other white people all the time of course we need a reason I mean if you do something that makes me want to treat you terrible I'll do that how about if there's a choice between something good happens for you and something good happens for me well I might choose me because you're all
all allowed to do that Oh looking at looking at all the all of my black followers were weighing in that's really good to see that it's good to see it all right

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so here's another advantage of being black free speech you don't argue you there's no way you're gonna argue with me on this black people have free speech in this country white people do not I don't want to hear any argument on that if you don't know that's true I mean really no that's true you haven't been paying attention for a long time black people have freedom of speech and I'm happy for it I would say women have freedom of speech in general but white men not so much not so much we don't have freedom of speech not completely and then of course there's always that the weapon which is if you're black or you're a woman you always have a weapon to use against white men which is any accusation because accusations are all taken seriously and and the accusation alone or the risk of it as a weapon so even if you have no intention of being

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even if you have no intention of being that kind of person and you say to yourself yeah I know I could use that if I if I wanted to but that's that's not my deal you know I'm about just earning my own stuff I'm not about you know trying to use some weird legal thing just because I can get away with it but the fact that it just exists as a weapon does modify other people's behavior believe me so it does give you a little extra that you might not be aware of now that said and let me BookBook end this by saying I'm not I'm not saying that black people have a better deal than white people in this country I'm uh saying that I'm just saying let's have the full conversation let's talk about what's good being white what's good being black is there anything that needs to be done about it can we just be honest can can can the white public treat black people with respect for the first time maybe for the first time because in my

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maybe for the first time because in my view treating anybody with respect it means you're gonna be honest with them even if it's a little bit hard to hear if you can't do that let's not pretend we're we're showing respect respect is you can say what you're thinking but you don't have bad intentions now I think one of the reasons I can get away with more than you can and this is a pretty important lesson on communication people will hear what they think you intend to say they'll never hear what you say they can only hear what you intend to say based on their understanding of your intentions and your motivations I've tried to create a public record that is unambiguous that I have good intentions how much would I like black people to be more successful in the United States a lot because it's good for me too how's that not good for me right of course I want everybody who is poor to do better because if everybody's poor does better well then I sell things there are more

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well then I sell things there are more people with more money who buy things how is that not good for me of course I have good intentions it would be crazy not to because the self-interest is the same direction all right different topic let's talk about tick-tock the Chinese government spy app I call it hotep Jesus was tweeting yesterday that he's you noticed that iOS 14 I guess that's the new iOS the Bey that detects tick-tock was reading data from user clipboards and then he goes on and says iOS 14 as a feature which notifies users of this kind of behavior so apparently the operating system is looking for spyware if you will and it found something tick tock and tick tock says they will stop the practice well tick-tock why did you start the practice what was it you were doing that made you need to know

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doing that made you need to know the data on a user's clipboard can you give us any valid reason why that code existed in the first place so tick-tock has to go that can't be in the future that just can't be an app in the United States is too dangerous here's something fun so Akira the Don dropped his album which is if you're new to this this will sound like the worst idea in the world when you first hear it when you actually listen to it it might feel like the best idea in the world so keep in mind that how it sounds like just when it's described to you as a concept doesn't sound good at all but you should see the comments and the reviews that this is getting so Akira the Don produced some music in which he he's combined the audio clips from some of my periscopes I think mostly the one

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of my periscopes I think mostly the one about the user interface for reality and he uses my voice and he he does some minor modifications to it just to clean up the audio and he puts a musical track below it and I gotta tell ya it's really really good all right yeah and he did it with a Jordan Peterson and he's done it with I think he did it wasn't evolved but he did it with some other people who have the same characteristic which is they talk about philosophical things in public now so Akira has invented this concept and it is really fresh like it feels like a new form of art completely and it's better than the old forms of art I actually like it better than any any popular music that's playing today so now I may be biased because I'm part of it Oh for a full disclosure I'm not part of it financially so some people ask me

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it financially so some people ask me Scott are you making a profit from this because I've been praised again so much the answer is No I'm not I'm not going to ask for any obviously so if you wanted to find it you would google my name and the user interface for reality and you'd look for none Spotify and Apple music but there's a fun thing on here and it's by Akira the dog a K I RA so if you google any of those little pop-up you can also see it in my Twitter feed here's the fun part there's a hook on there something that is my voice making a statement that repeats a part of it and here's the fun part it's one of those audio illusions it's when somebody says it's just your ego now I thought that until I saw the comments because the first thing obviously would be oh it's just because I'm involved that's why I think it's good that that's the obvious thing that

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good that that's the obvious thing that I thought about myself as well so I actually asked the Kira when I first heard it I had to actually ask him are other people having the reaction I am and he confirmed it and then I and then I checked the comments myself and yeah it's people or people are loving it that is objectively true you can check yourself so there's this one statement that sounded to me like if nobody works and it repeats if nobody works if nobody works and and I heard it the first time that when I listened to it I thought you know that's weird because I don't remember ever saying that sentence it's it's such a unique sentence and I thought why you know why is it that I would not remember that and it's clearly me talking and then I saw the I saw a tweet in which the actual words were in text and it did not say if nobody works what it did say is it feels like it

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what it did say is it feels like it works now do those sound the same to you I will say both sentences see how different they are if nobody works compared to it feels like it works you would never mistake those two am i right you would never mistake them but like the Laurel and Yanni example the audio thing when I when I didn't know what it was going to be and I heard it I heard it as clearly as you could hear a word if nobody works listen to it over and over again it was always the same once I read it I went back and said how can it sound like that when it really says it feels like it works so I listen to it again and it's very clearly it feels like it works clear as day and then I said to myself what what's going on here and then I did this experiment I played I repeated in

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this experiment I played I repeated in my head the phrase the wrong phrase if nobody works and then I listen to it again and it is just as clearly obvious that when I'm repeating the priming statement in my head it sounds exactly like it and that I can change it in real time I just can't okay change the recording in my head too it feels like it works and the audio changes in real time instantly to a completely different sentence while you're listening to it rock freaky now I I tweeted this but I made a hypnotist mistake which made it not work for most of you I think a few a number of people said they also could could hear the phenomenon but here's what I did wrong I primed you by giving you the correct one first it feels like it works if you're primed by that it's hard to get out of it because it's actually the correct one but if you're

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actually the correct one but if you're primed by the wrong one as I was accidentally then you can hear both so if I had set it up right and primed you right you would hear both so try that at home all right and I tweeted it if you want to find it in my Twitter feed let me give you an update on some of the Twitter twitter or business so you know that carpe Noctem was temporarily locked out of his account for DMCA takedown notices and a little more information on that so DMCA takedown there's a website you can go to and you can claim that somebody on some platform is using your copyrighted material without permission now here's the bad part of the process the process is automatic meaning that Twitter doesn't have a choice if if the DMCA process is followed even if it's a legitimate even if you just say uh my

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legitimate even if you just say uh my name is Paul McCartney and I'd like them to take my song down you could make up anything and the process just doesn't check it it just says well okay we got a complaint so we've got to take this down now normally that would apply to only the material not the person who put it there so that would not cause their account to be locked but apparently Twitter has a three-and-out rule which carpet was not aware of and I've never seen either I've not seen it in writing were any of you aware that if you received three DMCA takedown notices that your account would be locked did you know that how would you know that how in the world would you know that all right now actually some people say yes I don't know if you're answering that question though but here's my point if somebody it makes perfect sense to me

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somebody it makes perfect sense to me that Twitter would block somebody who intentionally used copyrighted material three times in a row I actually agree with that don't you because if somebody took my let's say they took the Dilbert cartoon and just started publishing it in Twitter every day well I might complain once or I might ask them to stop doing that you know this first the first thing you do is just ask so the first thing I'd do is say hey you know I'd like people to go to Dilbert calm because it's advertising support it would you mind not putting this on Twitter most of the time that works if they continue to just help list my cartoon in competition with me by the third time they did it and had it taken down would I be mad that Twitter said RA you're just a bad user you know you're not gonna follow even by the laws of the United States maybe you don't belong on Twitter would I be concerned about that not that much because that's somebody who violated a rule that should be a rule

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violated a rule that should be a rule they did it three times in a row they're not going to stop okay so but what about carpe dunked him he produces parodies a parody is protected a parody could be a matter of opinion meaning that if it goes to court you don't really know which way it goes necessarily so you've got this big gray area where Twitter is being put in the position of being a stand-in or a proxy for the for the court because only the court can decide did Karp a dunk them do something wrong do you know do you do you know if he did something wrong if he took somebody else's video made an obvious parody you know by changing it in ways that are clearly apparent he is that against the law is that against the law I don't know do you know who else doesn't know Twitter it's not their job they're not

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Twitter it's not their job they're not the court in fact nobody knows until it runs through the court system so there is something very broken about this process that karpay dunk them can be taken down just because somebody complained without any without any let's say confirmation that anything was done wrong right don't you have to establish that something was done wrong before your block from Twitter especially if being on Twitter is your primary occupation as it is for carp a in a sense so I would say that that process is completely broken and that Twitter should get out of the business of being the court they should just get out of the business if parody is even on the table they gotta let it go I say I say they have to let it go if they need to block the content that's another conversation because they might need to block the

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because they might need to block the content until it goes to the core system but blocking the person blocking the person who may have who has let's say there's no there's no verified evidence that the person did anything wrong blocking the protesters wrong let me let me state on carrion categorically that's a Twitter mistake that just needs to be fixed now I think they are looking at it actually so my my information is that Twitter is aware of this as being a problem that Twitter needs to fix so we hope that they do but it hasn't happened yet that I know of now let's talk about Rahim Kassim who also got blocked on Twitter he had a video that showed the time of death of somebody so it was the moment of death captured on video and of course your first thought is wait a minute don't we see that all the time on Twitter haven't

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see that all the time on Twitter haven't you seen people at the moment of death like in the last month a bunch of times I mean George Floyd I mean all of the George Floyd videos are at the moment of death so why would Rahim Kaseem be singled out for having a moment of death video that he just tweeted it wasn't his video it was just it was just the tweet and the answer is that the family had asked it to be removed so apparently the rule is if the family asks for something to be removed then Twitter will act on it in the George Floyd case the family did not ask because that I think yeah at a larger political benefit so they wanted that up there now do I disagree that Twitter should take down a video with a showing somebody's death if the family requests it I do not disagree with that I think that's perfectly perfectly reasonable rule that they should take that down but again why would you block the person but why

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why would you block the person but why would you block the user just block the content the content is the problem did do you think that Rahim Kassim wants to hurt somebody's family I mean I don't know I I don't know I haven't read his mind so I don't know what's in there but I gotta say that blocking people instead of content there's just no way that that that needs to be a long-term solution but here's a little red pill for you a lot of people are going to parlor or parlay I don't know how you pronounce it parlor sort of a alternate Twitter if you will but here here's what you gotta run into the parlour rules you know they're the rules for users are gonna be the same it's gonna end up very similar so the trouble is that did I said that I say go see him instead of Kasab did I pronounce his name wrong somebody's

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pronounce his name wrong somebody's saying I pronounce his name wrong probably did somebody says parlor is a trap well the trouble is that if you go to parlor you're gonna be all alone with conservatives what's the point did you want a conservative platform I know you just be talking to yourself so I don't think parlor will ever be a competitor in the sense that both points of view are presented because people on the Left will just stay with Twitter why wouldn't they and you can't really get rid of your Twitter if you're you know if it has any value to you at all business-wise you can't really get rid of it you know I would I would have no intention of ever not being on Twitter it's too important but in the long run parlor is gonna have exactly the same DMCA problems are going to have the same moment of death problems it's going to end up being exactly like Twitter in the long run and I think people will figure that in maybe not exactly but there's

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that in maybe not exactly but there's gonna be a lot of the same issues all right the thing people would not SPECT is the if there's any algorithmic stuff going on at Twitter or there any human moderators who are being biased in their decisions you would not have that on parlour but you'd also be talking to yourself because you're mostly just talking to people who agree with you so I don't know if he gained anything but you know I always appreciate revels so anybody who is rebellious ly looking at parlor I'm emotionally on their side I don't know that they're gonna get the benefits they want alright let's see what else we got going I think that's it we have talked about everything did anybody do any research on whether the president who could beat up the other candidate or the candidate who could beat up the other candidate usually becomes president I would like to see

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becomes president I would like to see that probably it probably only matters from from the television age onward you know because if you don't have television maybe you don't care so much about the physicality of it and certainly if you go back to you know anybody in a wheelchair it doesn't apply yeah basement Biden is good good persuasion all right that's all for now and I will talk to you all tomorrow