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May 14, 2020 - Real Coffe - Scott Adams
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Episode 973 Scott Adams: Trying Again With Sound...From My Car
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Alright, let's try this.
In theory, there's going to be sound.
Because I made an adjustment.
Alright, can somebody tell me if they can hear me?
Because otherwise I'll be talking for 10 minutes like I did last time.
Much better, right? So it turns out that if you're charging your phone at the same time you're doing this, you don't get sound.
It would have been nice to get a warning about that.
Anyway, the part you missed, except for the lip readers, I know the lip readers got it all.
But the part you missed is that I'm at the veterinarian's waiting for word of Snickers.
She twisted a muscle, I think, and she overfetched.
So she's at the veterinarian across the parking lot.
I have to stay out here for social distancing.
And if I get a call from them I'll have to end this pretty quickly.
So let's talk about Joe Biden and the unmasking.
So Greg Gottfeld had a great observation on The Five that at a time when we're all wearing masks, the big story is about unmasking.
And I think, sometimes I think that the simulation is throwing us material like, you know, like Hawaii, you know, Hawaiian Shared Day or something.
It's like, okay, we've got a theme.
It's going to be masks.
And we're going to start with little antifa masks.
And then, once you get used to that, not too scary, little antifa, we're going to throw you right into the coronavirus, full mask.
And then once everybody's used to masks, wait for it.
We're going to hold an unmasking.
Two masks and an unmasking.
It's mask clean. So what are the odds of that?
Yeah, Snickers just has...
I think she twisted her back or something.
So we're going to give her some pain kills.
She should be fine. It's not the first time she's had a sports injury.
She's used to it. Yeah, we have an all-night vet, fortunately.
So what else is going on?
Let's talk about Flynn and everything going on there.
So doesn't it feel like we're getting really, really close to...
Putting somebody in jail, but it's not quite there.
It feels like it just keeps getting, it's like Zeno's paradox, you know, where if you have the distance from something, continuously you never get there.
You're only halfway to the distance.
It's like we get closer and closer, and I say, well, surely there's an obvious crime now, right?
But it's not so much an obvious crime.
As it is a bunch of more questions such as why did 39 people need to unmask Michael Flynn?
Like three of them are ambassadors and you know just that it looks like they have nothing to do with anything.
So that's a good question and I guess there are some documents we have seen yet that would describe why each of them thought they needed to see it.
How much fun are we going to have Should we ever see those documents where all 39 people of them, including Biden, had to explain what their legitimate national security interest was from seeing that?
I mean, isn't that going to be hilarious?
I mean, they should be just ridiculous, right?
Now, the cover story, if it's a cover story, is really, really good.
So if you're waiting for anybody to go down based on what we've seen so far, I think you'd be disappointed.
Something else would have to come out for anybody to actually be in trouble based on what we've seen.
Maybe Durham has something else that we haven't seen.
But at the moment, they can all say, hey, we had some questions about his ties to Russia.
It seemed important, so we looked into it.
And that's sort of the end of it.
And then you go to the other 39 people and you say, well, why'd you look into it?
And they would say the same thing.
Well, it seemed really important.
You know, it's like one of the most important things.
So, you know, I looked into it.
And then part of the argument is there are so many unmaskings that it's not unusual.
What? Does that make it better?
I don't know if that makes it better or worse.
Do you feel better that there were, you know, fewer than, I guess there were 9,000 some unmaskings?
Last year, and they're even more under Trump, I guess.
I guess unmasking is just so routine that, you know, why do we even mask anybody?
If 9,000 got unmasked, how many people, let me ask you this, how many people were under surveillance last year that 9,000 of them got unmasked?
Remember, that's only the number that got unmasked.
9,000. That was the last year of the Obama administration.
Apparently Trump administration is doing it too.
But isn't that a lot of surveying?
That's a lot of surveillance there.
So I think that we're getting close, but nothing there.
So the two movies is just sort of hilarious at the moment.
So I turned on CNN just to see another universe.
And I swear, I'm not making this up.
When I watch CNN, it's for the entertainment because it's like being on an acid trip.
I turn it on and I go, really?
This is the reality that you all have?
There's another example today.
If you read any of the conservative press or conservative social media, the word is that the coronavirus death count is almost certainly overstated.
So all the conservatives are sure that the fix is in to overstate the number of deaths by just coding everything as a coronavirus death.
And that's just basically, I would say that's considered a fact on the political right, wouldn't you?
I'm not saying it's a fact.
I'm saying that wouldn't you say it is considered a fact that the coronavirus deaths are certainly over counted on the political right.
I think you would agree with that statement.
And I turn on CNN and I'm watching Sanjay Gupta say, it's almost certainly true that the coronavirus deaths are undercounted because of all the people who might have died and they were never diagnosed.
Maybe died at home, some other reason.
Now, those two worlds cannot live together.
And one of two things is true.
They're over-counted or under-counted.
But it seems like everything on CNN It's sort of the opposite.
It almost doesn't even matter why.
It's just the opposite. And so you go there and the explanation for all the unmasking is just normal business.
It's like, yeah, we had a reason to look.
We followed all the rules.
People looked. What are you talking about?
That's the procedure.
These laws exist to be used exactly the way we use them.
We had a concern.
We used the law, followed all the rules, looked into it.
End of story. Why are you bothering me?
And if nothing else came out, if that was it, I don't think there'd be enough.
But the president seems to indicate that he knows something else is coming.
Christina, thank you for joining.
Christina offered to drive down and be with me while I'm with Snickers, but I said I didn't know how long I'd be here.
And I'm just sitting in the car anyway.
It's not like I'm with a dog.
So anyway, if the president knows there's something coming, maybe that'll be fun.
But here's the best part, the political part.
If you watched, who was it?
Was it Rand? Yeah, Rand Paul.
He basically went hard at this and just said, this is clearly using the government to spy on your political rivals.
And I thought, politically, this is just so good.
Reality-wise, I don't know.
We have to wait and see. But politically, oh my God, it's so good.
Because here's the beauty of it.
It's complicated, right?
That's all you need.
You just need a reasonable charge and it just needs to be complicated because then people can't sort it out and the allegation sort of lives independent of any facts because nobody can really check out the facts.
They get lost in the details and stuff.
So it's an amazingly good reverse attack because it's exactly the same beast attack that was used on the Trump administration.
They just turned it around. Instead of saying that Trump was using the government to try to get something over on Biden, we now have proof that Biden went through actual paperwork to literally spy on a member of the Trump campaign.
Now, I'm not saying that that's why Biden did it, which is the whole problem, right?
You don't know why they did it.
All they have to do is say, yeah, we had a concern.
Of course we had a concern.
So we looked into it.
That's all. Nothing else to it.
But here's the fun part.
It will require Biden to answer the charges.
You know where this is going, right?
There is no way in the world that Biden can answer these questions on his feet and not just completely disintegrate.
He's not quick enough on his feet and it's a new topic.
I think Biden probably can buy Unfamiliar old topics he's been talking about for years, but you throw him a curveball of something that's complicated, has layers, has facts, has nuance.
He's not even going to remember what he said about it the last time, and that actually I think happened this time.
The second time he talked about it, he didn't remember what he said the first time, a minute later.
So this is the perfect, it's like a coronavirus designed Just to kill Joe Biden.
It's like you couldn't come up with a more perfect virus to introduce into the political system that is targeted to why it's like a bioengineered, a Trump engineered virus that could only take out Joe Biden.
Because if you replace Joe Biden with any capable politician, they're fine.
You don't think Elizabeth Warren could talk her way out of this?
Or really any of the others, basically any of the other Democratic candidates.
You don't think they could talk their way out of this?
Easily. But Biden can't.
So the irony of ironies is that the president seems to have accidentally, because you know how these things happen, sometimes it's just on your shoe when you walk away from the wet market.
It looks like the president does accidentally.
Released a bioengineered or at least a persuasion engineered virus designed only to take out Biden.
It wouldn't work on anybody else.
All right. I believe that my guest thing is active.
I'm going to take some calls and see if anybody wants to talk to me.
Christina, you should come on here and talk to me.
Alright, does anybody want to ask me a question?
I'll take whoever uses the WALL-E icon here.
Alright, you went away.
I'll take the cat.
I'm selecting a talking cat.
Hello, are you a talking cat?
You're very clever.
Do you have a question for me, cat?
Yeah, so I'd just like to ask that, I hope this doesn't sound personal or anything, but you're enormous wealth.
I believe you're worth over $60 million.
Don't believe the fake news, but what's your question?
Well, don't you feel a little bit more comfortable than the rest of us that are out here just as working clowns, you know, work every day?
Why wouldn't I? Yeah, that's the whole point.
So people used to ask me, you know, when I first made a lot of money, Because I came from no money.
And when I made money, people said, you know, I hope it doesn't change you.
And I would always say, well, then what would be the point?
That's the whole point of it.
The point is to change you.
It should make you more relaxed.
It should make you happier with your life.
It should make you kinder to other people because you don't have problems.
It should make you more generous.
I'm thinking, if it doesn't freaking change me, why am I doing all this work?
The whole point is it's going to change me.
So yes, you're absolutely right that it puts me in a comfortable position.
But I also feel, you know, it's the Spider-Man curse, you know, the Spider-Man curse, where with great power comes great responsibility.
And I feel the non-superhero version of that.
It's part of why I try to be as helpful as I can in the crisis, because, you know, I can't help everybody in every way.
I would if I could. But maybe I can find ways that my special situation or unique talents could make a difference.
So I try to help. It's the best I can do.
Believe me, there's no way that I can say this to sound sincere.
But I'll promise you it's sincere.
I spend most of every day worrying about everybody else.
And that's not a joke.
Now, that doesn't help you, because you would rather be the one worrying about somebody else than being the one who's worried about.
I get it. But trust me, we're all in this together.
It just isn't equal, and I know it.
All right. I'd just like to thank you.
Well, thank you. For the thousands of people, thank you.
We appreciate it. Thank you for the call.
All right. I didn't know where that one was going to head.
Turned down good. Let's see who we got here.
Oh, alright. We got lots of volunteers.
I think we need to talk to Jordan.
Jordan, are you there?
Thank you.
Hey, do you have a question?
Question for you. Thanks for taking my call.
Sure. I was listening to a podcast recently and the individual that was interviewed was a venture capital executive, I'll say.
And he mentioned, I noticed a couple of times in the podcast, he used the term leadership and persuasion synonymously.
Do you agree with that?
Do you find that leadership requires persuasion?
I mean, I understand to, you know, supercharge it, you need it, but are the concepts synonymous?
Well, no, not entirely, because leadership is persuasion plus risk management, plus managing people, plus managing shareholders and all that stuff.
But I would say that maybe the most important of those would be the persuasion, assuming that you can make decisions.
If you've got somebody who can bring you good options and say, here are three options, here's the good one.
I'm not sure if the leader needs to be an expert on those things, if there are good people making recommendations.
But persuading, that's the bread and butter.
So I'd say that's 60% of it.
I was out for an answer.
Fascinating. I appreciate it.
And one other quick thing. I read your book, God's Debris, over my honeymoon in Maui.
And man, it blew my mind.
I really enjoyed it. Thank you.
Where were you staying in Maui?
It was the Napili Kai.
So like the northern, northwest shore.
All right. Well, I've been within feet of probably where you were.
So there's another weirdness of the simulation.
All right. Thanks for the call. Thank you.
Remind me to tell you about Locals, that new social media platform that I'm on, which is terrific.
It's like way better than I thought it was going to be.
I hoped it would be good, but it was like way better.
I'll tell you about that later.
Hello, guest. Can you hear me?
Hi, do you have a question for me?
Yeah, how you doing, Scott? I was curious, so what do you think the outcome of the Watergate scandal would have been as social media would have been present during the time of that?
Well, I love the question because what's happening at the moment, I've never seen quite before, which is it looks as if the media, you know, let's say the mainstream media, It's going to create a reality that's so strong that their own people can't get out of it.
So it's like they're putting up almost a psychological wall around half of the public that they need to vote Democratic.
And it might be so strong that there might not even be a possibility of getting any jury to convict anybody.
I mean, it's entirely possible that you just can't get 12 people to agree on anything in this country.
With something so political.
So we may be at a point where the news can literally protect guilty people who are obviously guilty.
Now, that wasn't the case for Watergate.
And it makes me wonder if they could have protected Nixon.
Let's say it had been the Republicans.
Well, I don't know if the Republicans ever had.
Yeah, they didn't really have a Fox News back then or a Breitbart or any kind of platform.
So yeah, maybe they couldn't have protected Nixon, but if it had been a Democrat, I think the answer would have been interesting.
Oh, okay. All right.
Thanks for the question. So my imagination or the quality of guests?
Very highly. Whoops.
Hold on. You lost me.
Hold on. Oh, you motherfucker.
Hold on. There we go.
Still there? Alright, let's see if we can talk to Rodney.
Rodney? Rodney, can you hear me?
Rodney? Hello, do you have a question for me, Rodney?
Yes, I do. How deep do you think this is going to go?
And your thoughts on, as recently, Ambassador Yvonnevich was shown to It looks like we lost your signal, but I'm going to answer you. I'll answer you offline.
I'll take this offline.
I'm totally bored with all the Ukraine stuff.
So the Ukraine stuff feels like it was a thousand years ago.
I mean, I don't know if anybody would be interested in it anymore.
But could there be more there?
Sure. Yeah.
I mean, I feel like you could dig in an unlimited way.
So Christina, by the way, I'm waiting for them to give me a call about Snickers.
She's getting some pills and we're going to take her home in a bit.
So that's the update. If you just joined this Periscope, that didn't make any sense to you.
All right. Let me take another caller, because it would have been nice if I had all my notes about the many things I was going to talk about, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen.
Let's see if Dixon is game.
Dixon, do you have a question for me?
Hey. User interface to the world question with the context of dating.
And I'm curious, the kind of general or conventional wisdom around setting up online dating profiles is you try to get them to feel like they could see themselves in your life, that sort of thing.
So I'm wondering if you have any deep cut advice for setting up an online dating profile or just dating in general.
And maybe not having your profile picture being You with a Mohawk 10 years ago.
You're really asking the wrong person.
That's an entire skill set that I managed to avoid for a variety of reasons.
So no, I'll give you general advice, but it's not something I've ever had any experience with.
I would say curiosity is a good thing to activate.
You'd want somebody to think, oh, curious.
But the most important thing is you want to signal your genetic qualities, which is anything from your looks to your accomplishments, to your brains, to your money, to your anything.
But you have to do it in a way that it doesn't look like you're bragging.
And of course, that would be the magic to it, wouldn't it?
So if you can figure out some way that it isn't obvious you're bragging, but you could still, you know, You can still showcase that you've got some genetic qualities that just automatically activate people.
Or if you're just good looking, it doesn't matter what you do.
Awesome. Thank you so much. I'm getting roasted so hard in the chat right now with my hair.
I hear you guys loud and clear.
Yeah, maybe not your crowd.
Thank you. All right.
Thanks for the question. Hey, I propose that nobody makes fun of anybody's haircut until the coronavirus has passed, because you can see some nasty haircuts.
You already are. All right, caller, can you hear me?
Hi, do you have a question for me?
Yeah, thanks for taking my call.
So thank you for doing the user interface videos.
They're absolutely fascinating.
Thank you. And I've been using the systems approach.
It's absolutely working.
So I can confirm if you use a systems over goals, it does work.
But what I noticed is, I remember when Deepak Chopra was using the kind of quantum physics language, right?
Like we control the outcome of the experience by observation.
And when I was watching him, I was like, dude, this guy's full of shit.
But I mean, some of what he says is really good, right?
So it's really positive. So what I noticed, though, is we adopt the language of our level of technology.
And then let's say people such as yourself, and I would say like Jordan Peterson, they have this ability to use the language to help teach, I guess, people who are kind of ready.
So I'm wondering, what do you think the next...
Like, it seems the golden age, if you will, which is amazing, is upon us.
But are we in for another zeitgeist change in terms of the language we use to describe our lives?
Like, the two-mover reality just seems like that's never going away, you know?
Yeah, maybe so. You know, I don't know how many people are going to come on this journey, right?
Not everybody advances in the same way.
But I would think that for most of the country, Our eyes collectively have been opened that you can't trust any institution, you can't trust any news report, and you can't even trust your own eyes.
You can't trust a video, you can't trust an audio, you can't trust a transcript.
And we've been taken by all of those things multiple times just in the last 12 months.
So how many of us got the lesson?
How many realize that they're living in a very artificial world In which people are, you know, crafting illusions for you and you think are real.
And I think that's like a huge eye-opener.
And the only way to sort of get past that, if I had to guess what the, you know, the higher level above that is, is some understanding about the odds and some understanding that nothing is certain.
There's just the odds and there's things you can test, things you can't, things you can iterate, things you can't.
So you can kind of crawl forward in the dark if you use the right system, but maybe getting away from the idea that we understand what's going on in our world.
We still know how to operate.
We might be able to do it better, but probably not because we understand facts and reasons and stuff like that.
So I think that's the big change coming.
That's awesome. I keep thinking we're entering the golden age.
I'll stop. But then people are burning down 5G towers.
Yeah, you know, I was working for the big bank in California that was Crocker Bank at the time.
And they were the first in California to have ATMs.
And I started working at about that time.
And all the old people were like, hey, we're not going to let ATMs hold our money.
What if the robots are going to take their money?
What if they keep it? I've got nobody to argue with.
It's just me against the robot.
How am I going to win that?
It's just me against the robot. And then, so, but, you know, ATMs worked out, as you know.
And then I was working at the phone company when we were first, Pacific Bell, when they were first developing smartphones.
You know, the technology that would be, what they call them, micro PCs or something, micro phones or something.
And it was the technology that became smartphones.
The worry was that that frequency was damaging.
And so we had our best expert in the company, the most highly trained technical guy, look into it and he did tests and research and everything.
He comes back with a report and he says, no problem.
He goes, no evidence of any cancer or anything like that.
And that was his official report.
But he worked in my group and later I was like, okay, okay.
But Would you use one?
And he looks at me and he goes, nope.
Nope. Now, as far as I know, he was right in his official report.
I've never heard of anybody actually getting cancer from regular cell phones.
So my guess is that the 5G is going to be just another one of those.
Just another thing that people think is going to kill him.
In the end, you say, well...
Guess that didn't kill us either.
I suppose one of these times I'm gonna be wrong, right?
And 5G will kill us all or something.
But not yet. Not yet.
All right, thanks for the call, David.
Yeah, thanks, Scott. Sorry, my big hand has to cover that.
All right, still waiting for the veterinarian to call me.
Should be any minute now. If I go away fast, that's why.
It's nothing personal.
Let's talk to Will.
Hey, Will.
Do you have a question for me? I have a question for the president, actually.
I wasn't able to get my call in this morning on the video transmission.
I was wondering if I could ask one now.
Sure, I take the president's phone calls, sure.
Thank you, sir. You know, I understand that There was some suspicion that some guys in the Trump campaign were up to no good.
We had to look into that, totally understand that.
Went through a two-year investigation, so it doesn't look like anything came up.
My question to you is, are you satisfied now that the president won the election fair and square without any influence from Russia?
Well, you'd have to define any.
Tell me the number of votes.
Tell me the number of votes that you would consider actually enough to have made a difference.
I would define that as the – I don't know the exact number, but let's call it the difference in the votes in Michigan, Florida, and Pennsylvania, whatever that is.
That's pretty specific.
I mean, do you think in the whole nation, do you think more than a thousand votes?
I guess in those three states, let's call it 5,000 votes.
Do you think Russia swayed it by 5,000 votes?
Not a chance. Because the only thing that we saw was, did you see the troll ads on Facebook?
Did you see the actual ads?
I'm not on Facebook, so I can't speak to that.
Okay, so nobody who actually saw the ads believes they had any effect.
They're actually laughably amateurish.
Actually, no joke, they look like a high school project or something.
They have no persuasion technique.
They're just pictures with words.
They're literally worthless.
And some of them are anti-Hillary and some of them are anti-Trump.
They're not even all in the same direction.
So whatever that was, it certainly didn't make any difference.
Basically, I think I personally swayed probably 5,000 people.
You know, just through my own work.
But Russia? Probably none.
I mean, it might have actually been zero.
Well, I appreciate that.
And I'll be happy to relay to all my Clinton supporting friends that President Obama does not think that Russia swayed the election in Trump's favor.
Good. Very good.
Thank you. Hey, you're a great guy. Using your systems, I've lost 70 pounds in the last three years.
Wow. Congratulations.
Thanks, man. Love your stuff.
All right. Keep it up. Bye.
Well, I hear that a lot.
The number of people who have lost weight using my systems idea, which I'll do a video on that specifically coming up.
Let's talk to Jennifer.
Jennifer, do you have a question?
Pleasure. What is your question for me?
I was wondering, I'm kind of thinking past the sale of your Kamala Harris prediction coming true, and wondering if you've given thought to, not necessarily a specific person, but what type of person she would choose as her running mate.
Are you going to even try to predict that and top Well, you're assuming that she immediately takes the top position and has to fill in behind her.
Yes, like if Joe, if he chooses her, he steps down.
I don't think that's the explicit plan.
That might be the, if everything went to heck, we'd have to do that.
My guess is they're trying to get him to limp across the finish line, and then Kamala can just sort of take the job once they've won.
They might think the polls are so strong that he can just hide in the basement, wait for the vote, and then Kamala is the president in a couple of weeks.
So I think that's the way it's gonna go.
Okay. All right.
Hey, can I ask another real quick one?
I'm writing down my affirmations and I'm not sure what to do sort of after I'm done with them.
I feel weird putting them in the trash.
What would you do with your written affirmations after they're done?
The general answer is if you're asking about any of the details, you're on the wrong page.
None of the details matter.
The only thing you have to do is it's all about focus.
So if you could focus by, you know, banging your head on the wall or, you know, eating a grape, it wouldn't matter what it is.
So the writing of 15 times a day, there's no magic to writing.
It's just a handy way to focus.
So you can chant it.
You can sing it. You can chant it.
You can visualize it. You can draw a picture.
You can make a clay sculpture.
But just writing it 15 times a day is kind of easy.
And again, you could type it.
Doesn't matter. Okay.
Thank you. I'm giving it a shot.
So thank you. Thank you.
All right. Good luck. All right.
Still not hearing from the veterinarian.
Any moment now, I'm going to get that call though.
Then I'll have to get off quickly.
But not until I've talked to Daniel, who no doubt has a good question.
Daniel, do you have a question for me?
They usually don't work that quickly, but Yeah, no, it was great.
So I'm not sure if you saw the Elon Musk interview with Joe Rogan, but he talked about Neuralink, essentially a digital brain interface that will be able to connect not just us to the internet, but essentially to each other's thoughts.
So I was curious, do you think...
How do you think that will affect perceptions on persuasion and also on how people perceive the world?
Well, I think everything's up in the air in the next few years.
Like our entire understanding of even what a person is.
I mean, really basic stuff like that.
Like what's alive, what's sentient.
I mean, we're going to get into some deep, deep stuff.
So, in terms of connecting us, I don't know, we may run into a creepiness factor there, where people think, yeah, I don't want people in my brain.
Frankly, I think it's going to take a long time for people to want to get something implanted in their skull, because that's actually how you do it.
So, we're not quite at the cyborg age yet, a little ways away.
But one of the things I was going to talk about is, I tweeted today, there's some game engine company that was bragging about their new technology.
They've got a commercial that I tweeted that is the most just eye-popping thing.
I mean, every time they get a new level of realistic-looking worlds, every time you go, wow.
But now it's reached a level where I watched this thing and I thought to myself, oh my god, I feel like I'm seeing the future.
People are going to start having relationships with these characters that have their own worlds on your television, and they can just appear to you on any screen And they can take you for a walk.
Say, hey, you want to come with me?
We'll explore my world.
And I live here, and they can learn about you.
And it would only take a little bit of AI for you to feel like you're interacting with them.
So for example, you just teach it to ask you about your day.
How you doing? Let me tell you what I did today.
And it wouldn't be that much worse than normal conversation.
So I've got this feeling That lonely people are going to start having actual relationships with artificial beings on televisions who just go to their world when the television's off and they appear to you just like it's a video call.
And the thing that will get us tuned to that is literally using Zoom because we're going to get used to the fact that looking at a person on the screen is looking at a person, which is the whole user interface to reality.
You know, the idea that we don't see base reality We've got this interpretation on top of it.
Well, now we're adding another interpretation, which is that it's not the person that's the person.
Eventually, it's going to feel like the image is the person.
Not entirely, you won't forget.
But you can easily see us slipping into a world or some of us in which a person on a screen who can interact with you and is always the same one and grows with you, learns about you, Finds out about your day.
Read your social media posts.
Imagine having a digital agent on your TV. TV comes on when you walk in, and the digital person is like, hey, how you doing?
And then starts talking to you about things that you care about because you just tweeted them.
So it would say to me, oh, I read your tweet today four hours ago.
That was a good one.
You have 400 likes.
People are really liking that one.
You're on fire today. You could so easily imagine how you could create artificial conversation that's new and fresh every day and it's relevant just by looking at their social media.
It would be that easy. So that's what's coming.
Yeah. Well, thank you so much.
All right. Thanks for the call.
I think that was more of an answer than anybody wanted.
Let's do one more and then I probably need to get ready to take care of business.
All right. Max Justice.
That's your name, so you get Max Justice.
Do you have a question for me?
Holy mackerel, those affirmations really work.
That's pretty crazy.
Two in a row. Exactly.
I do have a question.
Have you heard of Dr.
Vladimir Zelenko's hydroxychloroquine regimen?
I have, of course.
Okay, I figured so.
And the second part of that is I keep seeing a lot of things, and I live in Nevada, and our governor has banned hydroxychloroquine for outpatient use, which means you can't give it early.
And I keep seeing a lot of states that are still doing this and a lot of complaints from doctors that are doing that.
And so I'm wondering if there's some kind of nefarious purpose to push...
Oh, did that just stop?
Looks like we disconnected.
Well, I think I got the question.
The thing is, we don't know.
We know that lots of individual...
Lots of individual doctors have individual anecdotal and small trials without controls and stuff.
So I still put it at 40% chance that hydroxychloroquine makes a big difference, but a higher chance that it might make some difference.
You know, there seems to be enough of an indication that it works for some people.
So I don't know that it's any kind of grand conspiracy, but it could be.
All right, you're asking for another call?
And I know that's because you're older doing affirmations and you want to see if you can be the one.
But you are not smart enough to put Clorox in your profile like Cal did.
Well, Cal went away.
Got cold feet as soon as I connected him.
It's okay. You'll be okay.
All right, Dylan. Don't disappoint us, Dylan.
Dylan, do you have a question for me? - Hi. - Just, you know, worried about Snickers and wanted to make sure that everything's going all right We just got a new puppy here and we're real concerned.
We love when Snickers pops up and get to see your other cats too.
Well, I think she'll be okay.
I was just waiting for the call.
Thank you, Scott. Have a great rest of your evening.
Alright, take care. Well, that was nice.
I can take another call because that was short.
And Alex will get the tap because he's got a cat in his profile.
It's only because I'm in the veterinarian's parking lot.
Hello, Alex.
Alex? Hi, do you have a question for me?
Yeah, well, I mean, my question is more of a cultural question.
What are you watching? Like movie shows?
You mean like TV shows?
Yeah. You know, it's funny that you should ask because the answer is basically nothing.
I've lost interest in all sort of scripted TV, movies, and it's a function of attention span.
You spiked my interest in that, I'll tell you.
You spiked my interest in what we do in the shadows.
That is freaking hilarious.
Oh yeah, you know, I need to catch up with that.
Since the day that I recommended it, I haven't watched one more episode because I kept wanting to do it.
You have to let that.
Season 2, Episode 5, I think it's up to?
I hear it's tremendous.
Okay, I'm actually going to watch that one.
Please watch The Joker.
We want to know what you think about The Joker.
The Joker? It's only two hours.
It's a two-hour movie.
I know you don't have an attention span.
Believe it or not, it's the only movie I do have on my Tentative schedules because Christina wanted to watch it with me for the same reason, sort of the cultural relevance.
Neither of us watch movies, typically.
Well, I don't bet your audience would love to hear your feedback.
Well, I don't know why, because I haven't seen it, but I've heard that before, so I'll watch it.
Well, it looks like a left versus right.
Oh, not even really a bad.
It's a lot of Yeah, a lot of political messages in some ways, I guess.
It's almost a cultural war type thing, but it's a bit of fun.
Definitely recommend it. Alright, I'll watch it.
Thanks for the call. Bye.
Alright, I'm pretty sure they're getting ready to call me, so I'm going to wrap it up here.
Thanks for putting up with this, the low quality two tries to get audio.
I do appreciate all of your efforts.
Let me just get a little A little thing on Locals.
So, Locals is Dave Rubin's platform, and what's special about it is that creators, such as myself, can have little homes there, and then people can subscribe and they get extra stuff.
But, first of all, it's really good for the creator because we can edit our posts.
So, unlike Twitter, if I send out a bad one, I can't do anything.
But now I can, like, add a picture, I can do all kinds of stuff.
But, And I can actually post some things there that literally I wouldn't post on Twitter.
Because Twitter is just all trolls.
But when I post on locals, it's only people who wanted to be there.
So my experience is only good.
It's the weirdest thing.
I've ever had a social media experience that was only good.
I'm looking through the comments and I'm waiting for the trolls.
And then I realize, oh yeah, people had to choose to be here.
There are no trolls. So it's just like this wonderful place where everybody's just happy.
All right. So I'll tell you more about it another time.
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