Episode 1079 Scott Adams: HollowJoe, Future of Houses, Horses Stop Protestors

Date: 2020-08-02 | Duration: 1:00:02

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• Joe Biden’s rapid cognitive decline

• Border wall progress and security

• People trust media less and less

• Biden not even considering any Hispanics for VP?

• Evolving protest strategies

• Experimental home zones

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so um story number one no one cares about athletes kneeling nobody gives a darn do you remember when kaepernick started off the the kneeling thing and it was a it was a big
big you know national story and the president weighed in and we couldn't stop talking about it it's really different now isn't it it's almost like those are completely separate things

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separate things because when kaepernick did it i said to myself you know if i'm being objective i always say good things about president trump's persuasion talents and i'll say it about the other team as well aoc very good for example and kaepernick in my opinion very very effective for what he was trying to get done which was raise attention etc and the fact that it was inappropriate and that it offended the sensibilities of lots of people was what made it a good protest nobody got hurt you know there was no physical damage there was no violence no laws got changed he simply did an act which lots of people found gross which is why he got attention which is why it worked
but that was then and do you see what's really really really different about now

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really really really different about now what's different is that was the worst thing that was happening at the time things were so good relative relatively speaking compared to 2020 things were so good that we had the luxury of arguing and fighting with each other about nothing just nothing now i'm not saying that the issue is nothing the issue is a thing you know it's it's certainly worthy of attention and you know the best resolution we can get to have the safest policing situation that we can have for everybody of course but it was also it just seemed big because life was sort of going along all right we just had the luxury of complaining about politics it was sort of a sport but now we're in the middle of a pandemic an economic calamity of some sort i think we'll get over it but at the moment when you see everybody kneeling when you see entire teams do it does it

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when you see entire teams do it does it register a little differently at this point it's moved from this kaepernick you know a plus persuasion thing even if you didn't like it to more of a performance art sort of situation wouldn't you say it feels more like a theater so when you see all the people uh kneeling well let me put it in this frame when kaepernick kneeled or knelt and a few others did and it wasn't that many it was obvious that this was an insult to the flag would you agree it was obvious that the intention was to insult the flag to get some attention for for a good cause i think but when everybody does it it doesn't look like that anymore to me and i think that other people would have the same impression i don't want to make the universal what i call the the number one problem

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what i call the the number one problem with understanding reality if there's one biggest problem we all have it's imagining that other people think the way we think and then the world doesn't make sense but people are really different so i'm going on a limb and thinking that most people will have the same impression that i'm describing that i'm having which is when a few people protest they are insulting your flag and if you take that personally well that's the point that's the point you're supposed to take it personally that's why it works but when everybody does it that doesn't feel personal anymore to me and it also and here's the key it doesn't feel aimed at the flag it doesn't it feels when everybody does it
it because they're not activists they're just people trying to you know get along and do do what they think is right and the best thing they can do and get along with their teammates and not cause trouble you know it really is more about

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you know it really is more about solidarity with the the point that there's something that needs to get fixed so i think when you take it from the few people to everybody doing it it no longer is about the flag it's no longer really about the country it's really about the problem and if you don't see that shift from i hate your flag to all right we're all on board let's just look at the problem you know let's let's support the you know the the thought and the energy behind it so um i was asked online whether whether that would be an impact on the election and in my opinion it will have no impact on the election um because all of the other things are just so much bigger and this morphed from something edgy into something that's more like theater and not really not important in any way the issue is important but not the way they're doing all right um the president is claiming that we'll have maybe

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claiming that we'll have maybe 400 more 400 miles of border fence built by the end of the year how long is the border the border 2 000 miles and i don't know how much of that already head fence and how much is replacement defense you know because we live in a world in which all data is wrong so so i'm not going to apply that just to the other you know the other team but all data is wrong so when you hear that there's 400 miles of fence built well what's that mean how much is replacement how much is new how much is in the places we needed it most i mean really you just can't trust any data in 2020 but it's a big number whatever it is it's hundreds hundreds of miles and if i had to if i had to look at the president's performance toward his really i'd say his key campaign promise which was border security at the end

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which was border security at the end well let's say by november what are you going to think about it because here's here's my take on it the president has done maybe better than any president has ever done at saying this is what i'm going to do and then actually doing it um you could argue that those things should not be done that's what the democrats would argue but i think we're actually past the point with this president where people could legitimately say he promised he would do this but he didn't do it now i would say health care is still a big looming hole and he's even done at least something with that with the pharmaceutical stuff and that could that could be huge actually but i think he's you know a little short on the health care stuff but did he try to and successfully remove the mandate yeah he did did he try as hard as he could

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as he could to end obamacare to to turn it into something else i think yes
yes so even when when he maybe didn't get everything that you thought he wanted such as immigration and healthcare it does look like he's he's taking big swings at it it does look like the energy's there it does look like the intention is there there there's nothing about any of these things that would suggest they were false promises it looks like stuff he meant and stuff he's at least trying to do now if you're uh ann coulter you're a better critic of his immigration stuff because it hasn't hasn't been completed hasn't been done well enough and that's true but in november who would you trust to get it done would you trust to get it done the one who doesn't want to do it biden or would you trust to get it done the one who did

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the one who did some of it and is clearly interested and engaged and cares about it etc and i think that's trump now i don't know if i've ever given my own opinions about immigration i'm not sure i actually ever have in public but let me give it to you this way i tend to look at things as systems and not goals a goal would be stop immigration stop illegal immigration and you can see why somebody would want to do that i would see it more as a system meaning that the united states doesn't currently have a system that puts the citizens of the united states and their government in control of their own border so i see it only as a question of who gets to make the decision and then secondarily and separate from that what should be the right decision so i think i'm i'm a hundred percent um adamant that only the citizens of the united states

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united states should get to decide who lives in the united states you know with their government and to do that you need strong border security but on top of that i would modify it our current situation and i would say something like this i would say instead of us arguing about what's the right level let's get our economists to tell us how much of what kind of uh new immigration we need you know do we need more high trained technical people do we need more workers and have the economists through some kind of process in which they say you know the unemployment rate is x so maybe we should you know restrict immigration a little bit if you don't have a good border security you don't have that option so rather than personalize it and say we like immigrants or we don't like immigrants which is the dumb way to do it
it everybody likes immigrants to even argue that that somebody doesn't like

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that that somebody doesn't like immigrants is crazy because as is often noted we're a country of immigrants everybody likes immigrants one way or another you know what however they define it so i would de-personalize the question of who gets in and make that more of a economic health situation because i would argue that all of north america and all of south america can only stay reasonably healthy if the united states is reasonably healthy so keeping the united states stable has an entire global benefit and a big part of that is the united states being able to control its economy and we can't control our economy if we can't control the border so i would separate the questions of who gets in let the economist decide that not the politicians politicians are the wrong ones to decide who gets in and who gets out because that's just going to look racist right you know i don't have to tell you that

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you know i don't have to tell you that right if the politicians decide who gets in and who gets out it just looks racist no i don't think it is that in my opinion that's not the motivation but obviously it's some racist motivation but in general it's not the motivation uh and i think we should do a better job of saying look let's just turn it over to the economists if if our if our unemployment level is this high adjust your immigration you know appropriately and then we could tweak it as we go because we're you know we're not geniuses to know how the future turns out
out for those of you who subscribe on locals the uh the platform in which i've moved some of my other more provocative and or uh self-help type content i just put up a post on there that's for subscribers only um on how to make conversations with a stranger but also how to end a

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with a stranger but also how to end a conversation with a stranger you ever get trapped in the conversation well some some tips on locals you can see the link to it in my twitter profile
so i uh an article on fox news titled 10 signs a relationship will fail according to a new study and i looked into it i was like what oh this could be good wouldn't you like to know the signs of a relationship failing because then you'd know it's coming and i'm paraphrasing but here are some of the signs that your relationship might fail one is you're an to your spouse one is you don't appreciate your spouse you treat them poorly you don't have sex well those are just a few of the things so i'm glad i read that article because until i found out those 10 signs of a relationship failing i didn't know that if you mistreat your partner it might be a bad sign

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partner it might be a bad sign but now i know so i hope i've informed you
you don't be a jerk and show some appreciation and maybe you can have a real relationship
dan bongino who i would say is well plugged into lots of stuff has lots of sources both on the right obviously but on the left he tweeted this now bongino is one of those guys where um if a random person said to you i've been hearing x or y say something wouldn't you say to yourself did you did somebody really say that your anonymous friend said that but i think bongino is such a notorious straight shooter that when he says he's hearing something from people that it's real people that it actually happened so he says in a tweet today not a joke and not hyperbole

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and not hyperbole i'm hearing from people close to the situation that biden's cognitive decline is rapidly worsening and is becoming increasingly difficult to mask well i think we knew that the democrats are going to have to make a decision soon now the interesting part about this is we've all been curious what the democrats themselves are thinking because they're they're putting up a pretty good front of pretending they don't see it but you know they do see it so haven't you had a great curiosity about how they talk about it privately and you know dan bongino's reporting that they're talking about it privately exactly the way you'd expect them to
all right um as uh david bartosko said on twitter today yesterday i think he said can anyone honestly doubt journalism has lost its way it refers to a new poll that showed that the the trust

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that showed that the the trust in various segments of society has really shifted lately so the trust in health care has just gone through the roof so what the united states citizens think of our health care providers is is like almost maybe even beyond military at this point so if you said what's our most trusted institution i think you'd say the military probably uh but healthcare workers are just looking really good because i mean they're front line in the war why wouldn't they so but at the very bottom of the list of who we trust the the media has gone into deep negative territory to the point where i don't even know if you can call it news anymore can you is it is it really even news it doesn't feel like it doesn't feel like they're trying to make news anymore um so i tweeted this today and this will

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um so i tweeted this today and this will be your persuasion lesson for the day so i'll tell you what i tweeted and then i'll tell you what the technique is that's in it i tweeted imagine how historians will judge democrats for deciding that uh hashtag hollowjoe that's my new name for him was their best candidate as crazy as it seems now it will continue bloating in absurdity until it is one of the great american uh wtf
wtf you know what the f stories of all time so here's the technique and there's some science behind this uh and i'll refer to one study that i heard of long ago if you ask people to save for their retirement they'll you know do do okay but they won't do as well as they should but if you take a person's current photograph and you digitally age it
it so it's what you might look like when you're in you're say 70 years old and then you show it to

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say 70 years old and then you show it to them and say okay this is you at age 70 and then you ask them to start saving for their retirement they will save more because they they saw a picture of themselves in the future so it is a general persuasion technique that if you can move somebody from the present what they're looking at and thinking of right now to an imaginary future then you can prime them to head toward that future and what i'm using is a trick where i'm taking people out of the present where we're fighting the coronavirus and we've got our own problems and we're on lockdown and there's an election coming and there's a thousand news stories a day and you know there's joe biden and he's he's running against trump and some people are saying he's got some cognitive abilities but there's so many other things what about health care what about so at the moment because the the joe biden thing has been a slow

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a slow decay of his abilities you can kind of get used to anything if it's changing slowly so here we are sitting here in august 2020 and joe biden is clearly he's just gone you know his brain has left the building in terms of you know being anywhere near capable of running the country i mean it's it's it's just absurd at this point now if he had started this way if the way he is in august 2020 was exactly the way he was one year ago we wouldn't be here you know we wouldn't if if if he had already been a year ago where he is right now we we wouldn't be talking about joe biden he would have been you know nothing in the primaries and we'd be talking about somebody else but it sort of snuck up on us you know it's like yeah there's one percent today as you hardly notice tomorrow he's maybe one percent worse

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tomorrow he's maybe one percent worse again but you hardly notice but now fast forward that to 20 years from now and the historians are writing about it what the hell are they going to say about this because if you get some distance from it and this is another persuasion trick you can actually ask people for example to to imagine rising above their situation as if they're leaving their body and they're they're getting higher and higher and they're looking down at the earth until the earth is just a little shrinking ball as they as they back up and it what it does is it changes your perspective from your your small little problems to some kind of a bigger picture if you're looking at joe biden bigger picture from the future what the hell is that going to look like because in 20 years people are going to say unbelievably in 2020 one of the candidates was mentally incompetent and the team that ran him

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that ran him knew it they knew it and they did it anyway what's that going to look like in 20 years now i know to be fair wouldn't you say that the democrats would have said something exactly like this about trump before 2016. they would have said uh what are the historians going to say when you elected a reality tv you know salesman kind of a guy you know he barely was taking you seriously what are they going to say but of course they were wrong because trump actually got a whole bunch of stuff done you know judges and progress on the border and fighting isis and you know decoupling with china which is where it needed to end up and and it looked like he you know we i think he's going to end up as one of the most the most solid presidents of all time i think especially if he gets a second term i i

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especially if he gets a second term i i think he'll be in the he could be in the top five yeah you know but it's gonna take 20 years before anybody uh is objective enough to say anything like that and of course you'd have to have a great next four years but i think you might um so that's your persuasion trick take take people into the imaginary future so that they can get some kind of a change in frame and perspective and then ask them to look back at it and what's it look like from the future it's a good technique um i noticed this morning that president trump retweeted something that i tweeted yesterday and it's always there's some things that you can't actually get used to and one of them is that you wake up and and the president of the united states just retweeted you it has happened a number of times now but you never really get used to it i i don't think i want to it's uh it's so it's just shocking to see how

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so it's just shocking to see how technology has made this this big old planet so small that you know i i can see here in my room you know in california just tapping away with my thumbs on this little device and next thing you know the president of the united states and the white house or air force one or wherever that key is is looking at it and then you know he's typing it's just it's so wild to see how big the world is and how small it is at the same time at least you know in my experience anyway so here's the tweet that he retweeted um it was the one uh made by some homicide um group and it was uh seemed to be some kind of pro-hispanic american group that was pro-trump or maybe they just made the commercial i'm not sure but it was the one in which they talk about biden being essentially a racist for not considering an hispanic vice president now technically

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technically technically biden has never said that he would only pick a black vice president he has said he would pick a woman and i think he's talked about you know preference for a person of color or something like that but he has not uh i don't think he's ever specified i'm gonna pick obviously he has not specified he would pick a black vice president but don't you think he kind of cornered himself into it because imagine if you will in the in the midst of black lives matter and biden being you know pretty solidly on that team imagine if he didn't what the heck would that look like i mean seriously is there any chance that biden could not pick a black vice president and that that would be okay with his base i don't think so i think that although he has not specifically said he's going to do that

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specifically said he's going to do that i don't know that he has an option so whoever he picks um you know the smart money still says kamala harris but uh i'm pretty sure it's going to be a woman i'm pretty sure that woman will be black i don't know that he has an option at this point he sort of limited himself um but anyway the the the tweet is devastating not um the campaign ad about being him being racist against hispanics it's not the ad itself that's going to make that much difference it was the idea and here's the key president trump would be on shaky ground if he had said just on his own hey joe biden you're being kind of racist for excluding you know hispanics or anybody else from your possible vice president picks imagine how that would come if it would have just been trump and of his own mind just saying

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trump and of his own mind just saying hey
hey i've got an idea why don't i say joe is a racist because of how he's constrained his vp choices it wouldn't really work because it's coming from the wrong source and people would just throw it back at him and say well you're a racist why'd you pick mike pence and and also i couldn't do it it wouldn't be something that i could just say hey i think i'll try to make this a thing and i'll talk about it same reason people would just say well you know hey white guy how about you stay out of this but if a group that at least allegedly looks like an hispanic american group is talking about themselves that's pretty powerful because it speaks to feelings and these are kind of deep ones if you feel that you're excluded from any kind of you know consideration that's pretty powerful and that is the sort of thing that moves the vote you know athletes kneeling before a game

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you know athletes kneeling before a game that's not going to move a vote we're just so over that and it's like i said it's just theater but if somebody tells you there's something that about you that you can't change let's say your ethnicity and we're going to limit your access because of it i can tell you from experience that it doesn't make you feel good and it would definitely change your vote why is it that i was so anti-hillary clinton was it because i was so pro-trump no it was because hillary clinton said specifically that women were better than men at leadership she said it directly she also you know the deplorables thing so the way i felt about her was intense dislike which i don't have for biden not even a little bit i have i have only concern for biden honestly i have just concern for him

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so yeah when you insult a group about by something they can't change don't expect them to get over that um i'm fascinated by the protest strategies both as how the the protesters themselves are organizing and adjusting and they're bringing their their leaf blowers and you know they've they've got a whole bunch of umbrella coordinated things and even though it's all evil and unproductive i'm still kind of impressed by anybody who's working on a system that works better by analogy whenever i hear a story about a serial killer who built an elaborate underground bunker and you know operated for years before getting caught i always have two thoughts number one oh my god that's horrible for the victims and you know you think about the victims and their family but then the second thought i have very quickly is wow that guy's really industrious that guy that guy knows how to do his

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that guy that guy knows how to do his serial killing let me see let me see a picture of that bunker it seems pretty well designed and i'm not proud of this it's just that i can't you know not look at technique so i look at it when the the protesters were being let's say effective in terms of the evil they were trying to perpetuate but i also uh i'm impressed when the law enforcement adjusts their tactics and what i saw today was really interesting which is the video of in austin there were some protesters i don't think it got violent in austin but the protesters needed to be moved or disbanded and the police used horses so they used mounted police officers on horses now your first thought might be well antifa will just you know spook the horses or you know slap the horses and you know then you've got what kind of trouble does that cause and you know why is a horse gonna work when a person doesn't work

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a person doesn't work and and i realized antifa probably really likes animals think about it don't you think that a whole lot of antifa and a lot of the protesters in general don't you think there are a lot of animal rights people in that group just as a normal you know overlap with their politics and i've got a feeling that the things the protesters would be willing to do to let's say federal agents which might be a lot what they would will be willing to do with you know uniformed police officers might be pretty brutal and not might be it is we we've witnessed the uh all the damage um but would they hurt a horse and when i watched i watched how easily the horses you know because they came as a group when i watched how easily they moved the protesters back i had to ask myself is this one of the most brilliant things i've ever seen in my life

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life is this so smart that the protesters if they turned on the horses you know if any one of them tried to hurt a horse what would the other protesters do to that protester i feel like they'd stop them in a way that they wouldn't necessarily stop somebody from trying to hurt a police officer but i think they would try to stop somebody from hurting a horse i don't know and i also don't know how well trained those horses are i assume they have a lot of training but um i'll just i can't say that it's the best idea and that could be expanded and used otherwise other places that's to be determined but i love i love the thought of it and i love the changing shifting techniques way better than pepper spray if it works i tweeted it yesterday that there's this enormous enormous economic opportunity for the united states that is completely unexploited and i've been pushing on

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unexploited and i've been pushing on this for a while but i like the way i finally came up with a way to frame it and it goes like this the cost to build a home and then to live in it because there are ongoing costs of living in the home those costs are crazy um in a world in which half of the country can't afford it so i i'm thinking half of the country it's probably a bigger number either it has trouble affording a a single-family home or that or they can't it's one of the biggest problems in the country which could also be one of the biggest economic opportunities so the economic opportunity would be to figure out how to make homes that are affordable and way better and the way better part is at the top right the affordable is necessary but i wouldn't stop with let's make tiny homes or let's make the same homes we're making but use cheaper materials nothing like that i'm talking about a change that's as fundamental

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change that's as fundamental as moving from a landline phone to a smartphone just skipping the flip flow flip phone phase entirely so our entire uh building industry you know the residential building sort of evolved and i think it was mostly contractors and engineers and craftsmen and that sort of people and and it sort of evolved to be versions of what it's always been with just small improvements and of course that just gets more complicated more more building codes more more materials more design and it's just this crazy expensive stuff but imagine if you will some company like uh amazon or google or an apple whoever is really good at design spending a lot of time just designing designing testing testing testing the way they would test a consumer product you don't really do that with a house nobody builds a house puts a family in it checks in with them every week to see

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checks in with them every week to see what worked and what didn't work how happy they are how they sleep how productive they are all the things that make you a happy person there's nobody doing that but with a consumer item like a phone or you know a lot of other items there's plenty of testing but i don't think in the housing industry i think it's zero and it shows so we have this big poorly made poorly made in terms of how well it could be done in 2020 compared to how well it is being done so we do an excellent job of building an old technology the old kind of house what would happen if you said and this was the nature of the treat the the tweet what's supposed the government said we're gonna make it a lot easier to rapidly prototype and rapidly test and so if if somebody wants to propose an area that they want to make i called it an experimental home zone let's call it that that in that

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zone let's call it that that in that zone that all the building codes and regulations would be temporarily suspended and any company that applied could then build a home and but they would still have to get assigned off by real engineers so you don't want anybody you know some entrepreneur building a house that hay bales and the family moves moves in and it smothers them so you need real engineers to say yeah as far as we can tell this looks pretty safe if you keep it to single family dwellings and especially if it's one story there's not really much risk of of anybody moving in and getting hurt and if it's entrepreneurs who want to try new building techniques etc there's a little more risk but that's how anything moves forward with risk so the idea so here's the idea
somebody says have you talked about joe rogan moving to texas that's old story so here's the idea i'm not pitching a specific kind of house i'm not

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a specific kind of house i'm not pitching that we should design it or build it with certain materials to any certain kind of standards so i'm not talking about what the house looks like when it's done although that's fun and needs to be done i'm talking about a system at the moment we don't have a system to rapidly iterate and test house designs and and one of the reasons we don't have that is that local building codes and local politicians would make that almost impossible no they have made it impossible so so imagine if you will there are a bunch of experimental dwelling zones an entrepreneur can say all right i'll take this acre i'll make sure engineers sign off on it but i'm going to build my little prototype a few other people build some prototypes you put some people in it you say live here for six months we're gonna you know we won't charge you rent but you have to tell us your experience you know if you went to get a broom were you angry because you had to walk downstairs because that's where the

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downstairs because that's where the broom closet was when you tried to do your homework could you find a place that was quiet that the rest of the family you know wouldn't bother you and you could also sit upright and have some space a really basic stuff you break down what are the tasks and how does the house handle those tasks then what is what is your happiness your health have you slept enough have you gained weight lost weight i mean really basic health related things because your house is uh programs you and by the way one of the reasons that i uh i'm obsessed by house design and design in general is that persuasion and design are really deeply overlapping fields so my interest in persuasion um overlaps with my interest in architecture and building because persuasion is largely ignored in that field and it's the single biggest thing they should take care of other than safety and cost maybe which

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other than safety and cost maybe which is
is that you want to build it with the right light good how important is light you know if you've got a little vitamin d coming in and you've got some brightness what does that do to your mood i mean it's completely trans trans transformational and probably doesn't add a lot to your house you just have to orient it right make sure that the sun is part of your solution what about the feng shui the the size of the rooms the shape of the rooms the furniture arrangement you know we are on a scale of one to ten we're at about a two in design we could get that to attend you know if you say that an apple smartphone for example is a 10 in design we're at about a two with houses and the opportunity is enormous especially if you're building where there have not been houses before so you can actually just you know get going so i'd like to see some kind of

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so i'd like to see some kind of government action to make it possible for the entrepreneurs in the home building business to iterate so that the golden ratio there's somebody there who knows their their design the golden ratio is in your kitchen if you're designing a kitchen no matter how you design it you need to maintain the golden ratio and the golden ratio is if you can imagine it as a triangle in which if i have this right it's your refrigerator your sink and i think your your oven your oven and cooktop and i think those three things have to be in a well well-designed space you know in terms of distance from each other and if you get the golden ratio right then a lot of the other kitchen is more aesthetic so those are the types of things that are just insanely insanely important in my opinion you could get the cost of

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in my opinion you could get the cost of a single family house down to twenty thousand dollars and it would be better than a house that would cost let's say three hundred thousand dollars in in a standard economy so that that's the size of the opportunity i think that a twenty thousand dollar house designed correctly would be way better just way better than a standard three hundred thousand 000 house in the same way uh well forget the analogy um likewise i think that the the ongoing expense of living could be reduced from i don't know what's an average what does an average family spend every month for electricity and gas and you know that stuff i don't know insurance yeah imagine if your insurance your house insurance your electricity your gas your wi-fi and all that stuff

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your gas your wi-fi and all that stuff was
was 100 a month could you get a single family house that had a hundred dollars a month of ongoing expense from everything from maintenance wi-fi heating and cooling insurance i think you actually could i actually think you could so i think that the future demands that the the people who want to be go-getters and you get three college degrees and become engineers and and build products well those people can live in their normal regular world and pay full price for their mansions and cars and stuff and you want you want people to be able to do that because that's how economies get built but i think we have to realize that we're heading into a future in which i'll say half just to pick a number for argument half of the population especially when the robots take over about half of the population is going to have to figure out how to

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is going to have to figure out how to how to have a quality life with a relatively low-paying job now that low-paying job is still going to be important it will still have you know dignity also meaning it just won't be your half a million dollar a year job and we want everybody who has you know the willingness to work the willingness to be to contribute in any way to the to the country to have a good life so somebody says defund obesity i'm also going to put on locals my subscription based service uh i'm also going to do a mini lesson on how to wean yourself off of sugar i'm working on that right now so you got that going um i would somebody's mentioning 3d printed houses 3d printed houses are one of many different possibilities i'm personally a little

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possibilities i'm personally a little negative on 3d printed houses because i don't know how you change them they're kind of once they're done they're done i would be much more interested in some kind of building system that even one person could build their own house with you know lego-like blocks there there may be a 100 other models uh but
but i think the 3d printed one
i don't i just don't know unless there's also an industry for modifying them after they're done so it could be that maybe you just have to knock down the 3d printed wall bring in your 3d printer and it you know it builds a new room i don't know if we're there yet but maybe if we could get there um i was also wondering here's a question for you these the 3d printers that make entire houses you know it's this giant arm they put a device in the in the middle of what the house will be it has this giant arm that

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will be it has this giant arm that swings around in a circle and um it prints the walls now when i say print i mean it basically is is dropping a gloop of some kind of you know concrete like substance that hardens into the wall as it builds up over time and i asked myself is it will there ever be a time when the 3d printed home could use as it's an ink if you will instead of a concrete substance could use plastic that's recycled i mean could you could you take all the wasted plastic grind it up into your granules turn it into some kind of cement-like thing run it through a 3d printer the industrial size that builds houses and just make walls out of or used plastic probably not i'm just sort of wondering um somebody says they can help me get

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um somebody says they can help me get off
off vegetables you probably could
somebody says graphene is that part of it plastic ceramics yeah somebody says no plastic the the gases oh okay yeah the plastic might off gas so and i would worry about how long it lasted etc somebody in the comments is saying or
or rubber i was also thinking about tires uh but i don't know somebody says it's not the scalable uh that i don't know
oh let me put let me uh let me give you a little uh architectural tip here so when i'm riding my bike around my town i like to look at the architecture of all the homes and i especially like the smaller homes the the lower cost homes that look good because there are a number of homes where i live where there'll be two homes right next

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where there'll be two homes right next to each other they look about the same home value you'd probably pay about the same but one of them has figured out how to put let's say some veneers on the front of their home so they've added something that looks like let's say a rock a rock accent or i'm seeing in some cases like a nice redwood stained accent on some part of it and those little accents could easily be attached to the outside of any structure so you could use let's say a base structure to make your walls whether they're 3d printed or something else but then make it easy to just stick to without without a craftsman i mean maybe it's just plug and play and you just take say red bricks not not a full brick but like a just a veneer of a red brick and you could just attach it to the outside of your house and make a little accent wall or you know you know some kind of a basically an accent so in theory all of the basic rooms of some new future home

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basic rooms of some new future home could be standardized as whatever is the best design for human living but they would all look different from the out the outdoors and maybe the indoors too because the homeowners would have the option of just tricking them out with a certain set of things that that snapped to the front so yours would look different from mine yours might look way better and it would just be real easy because you're just changing the outside and you're just snapping it on so those are the sorts of somebody says they already have brick rock panels that is correct if you've ever tried to install any of those uh brick rock panels you know it takes a craftsman i mean you have to know how to do it you look at the youtube for that and it's like you gotta prep the wall and you gotta you know there's a whole bunch of stuff you gotta do to stick those to the wall but what if the what if the wall just had two holes in it that were made for that and you just walk up to and go and just just stick the brick on

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you know maybe you have to uh fix it in some way that can be unaffixed but what if you could change it what if in the fall you could walk outside remove all your brick accents from your let's say your accent wall and put on rocks i think i want rocks though why not um somebody says the brick rock panels are now much easier yeah but they're not as easy as snap-on snap-off but i think they could be all right that is
is somebody says not waterproof it could be waterproof if the hole that you're sticking it into does not penetrate to the inside yeah so it could be like a like a bowling ball hole where it doesn't go all the way through the bowling ball you just stick it in the hole now somebody's saying frank lloyd wright yeah i saw i just saw on youtube the other day that frank lloyd wright also tried to build some standardized designs so and i think he built some uh

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designs so and i think he built some uh some standardized designs that were meant for very low cost homes so there are definitely a lot of people have looked into it all right i know that the the building stuff is not of interest to all of you some of you like the politics better but i would argue that the building industry is such a big part or could be even bigger part of our economy that it's sort of all politics and that it would require politics to you know clear out the codes of the building codes etc so that something like this could be built um and that is my idea for the day anybody else have any anything to say tankless water heaters yeah at one point i did a project called the dilbert ultimate house this was years ago before i built my own house and i solicited the public to tell me ideas for inclusion in the house and then i built a number of those

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built a number of those ideas into my house for example when i built my house because i got to you know design it myself i built a special closet for my cat and it's off the laundry room so if you know you can have pets why not build a house that's optimized for a pet so i've got a i've got an automatic dog door that goes down to a fenced area with artificial turf so my dog can let herself out anytime she wants do her business it's on artificial turf in a place that i don't have to look at too much and i go clean it up at my leisure and if my cat wants to use her cat box she has her own special closet the cat box itself is on a raised platform so that when i change the the litter i'm standing i don't have to bend over to do it and in there i've got all my cat supplies and stuff and it's also off of the laundry room so i've got

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i've got venting and everything else so that's a very very small example but if you imagine how much people's lives are enhanced by pets why wouldn't you build your house to accommodate your pet it's such a big part of your experience it's just obvious i toured a house once that had a a dog washing station some upscale house and off uh off of one of the rooms near the i think it was outside the garage was like a sort of a special shower area just to wash your dog
dog and i thought well i don't know if i need that but imagine if you did have some kind of a washing area in your garage it wouldn't have to be a big garage but just a little little outdoor sink or washing area how how how amazingly useful would that be
all right um maybe i'll do a special periscopa just on home stuff i'm actually thinking of going around my home with my video

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going around my home with my video camera and just photographing things that worked and things that didn't work to get people thinking about this stuff all right does snickers have her own smoking lounge not yet somebody says crazy white folks you're not wrong um
yeah we're not going to talk about hydroxychloroquine today when is christina going to take you up for a flight so uh my wife christina is taking uh acrobatic flying lessons so uh last several days and and uh she'll be up there today she'll be up there and she'll be in the air in about two hours uh she's she's literally doing you know barrel rolls and figure eights over the house here so she's having a great time learning to uh to fly uh the small planes for now um let's talk about why you won't have

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um let's talk about why you won't have kent heckin lively on or why i wouldn't have shivan yes let me talk about that so i've developed a rule and it goes like this i don't want to have ever ever anybody on my periscopes who is
is an expert without the counter expert unless and there's only one exception the exception is i think i know enough that i can ask the right questions what you don't want and what would serve you really really poorly and would be a great disservice is for me to put kent heck and lively on just by himself now that has nothing to do with what he says right has nothing to do with whether he's right has nothing to do with whether he's wrong has only to do with the fact that if you wanted to mislead people that's the way you'd do it you would bring on one expert let them talk and that's it there's nothing that could

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and that's it there's nothing that could be
be less healthy for understanding and educating and seeing the big picture than me bringing on one expert whose expertise i can't penetrate enough to ask the right questions so dr shiva is one of those is he right is he wrong how would i know i don't have any expertise that would would guide me in that area you do not want me or anybody else to have one expert on unless you can also ask the right questions and i can't so the heck of lively stuff suppose he came on suppose he said a bunch of things that sounded true to you and true to me is that good no that would be very very bad
bad because you wouldn't know if there's another argument you know a counterpoint without that i'm not going to do that all right and i'm gonna try to be uh really really strict about that

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be uh really really strict about that because it's one of the biggest problems in the world and i don't want to be perpetuating it every time you turn on the television you're seeing that one expert giving you a bunch of bs if it's on cnn they're spinning it one way if it's on fox they're spinning it the other way but you don't see both you don't see the two of them with enough time to you know have them work it out so i'm just not going to be
oh my god oh somebody just said in the comments have dr simone gold on
listen to me please does this not make sense and am i not clear that i'm not going to have one expert on that i don't know enough to ask the right questions now you could argue that maybe with hydroxychloroquine i could ask the right questions but i already know what she said and our and i've already you know i've tweeted things like that a million times so uh

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so uh so while i believe that she would be a compelling guest i will not have her on without the counterpoint period all right um the last thing i'm gonna leave you with is
is i cannot tell you how happy i am um about my recent surgery on my sinuses completely life-altering improvement and i i just wake up happy you know just feeling good about the world i've never felt this good actually uh can i have uh greg guff held on well you know i do want to have him on i need to
to schedule that um i need to have him on to talk about his book the plus which apparently was just screaming up the the uh the best seller charts i think he had number five or something just just crazy president president trump tweeted it so i'll try to get greg on um

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tweeted it so i'll try to get greg on um whenever he's available you know based on his schedule uh by the way greg is working on for his book tour since you can't do the in-person thing that you normally would do i believe he's actually working on a an outdoor drive-in theater event where people will drive up he'll be up on some stage or presented on screen as well i guess and uh that is a really fun idea so we'll maybe we'll get pictures from that all right so that's it for me and i will talk to you later