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Happy St.
St. Patrick's Day too.
Yes, I had exactly one green shirt.
And here it is.
I might keep this one around just for future St.
Patrick's Days.
By the way, has St.
Patrick's Day been erased yet?
Has it been cancelled?
Has somebody found a reason it's racist?
Because I feel I'm probably doing something racist just by celebrating Irish people.
Alright.
Well, I'd like to start in with some news.
I'd like to remind you that not only is our history fake, because it used to be written by the winners, but now it's written by the losers, literally.
The people who couldn't do anything became reporters, literally the losers.
So the winners are starting SpaceX's and starting social media companies and making billions of dollars, but they're not writing the history.
The history is written by the people who couldn't do any of those things.
So they became journalists instead.
But it gets worse.
AI is now rewriting history about me in real time.
So I'm having this weird experience where I can watch history being faked about me.
And I know that that will become the permanent history.
For example, I did a little experiment in the man cave video that I do just for the local subscribers.
In which I asked Chet GPT to list quotes from me.
And I think out of 10, two of them were completely made up.
Definitely things I never said.
Now, how would you know?
If you were just some person searching for information and you saw a list of 10 of my quotes and you recognize several of them, wouldn't you think they were all real?
I would.
If I saw that eight looked kind of real, I remembered them.
The other two I would assume were real.
Nope!
Completely made up.
So that's what's happening.
But the good news is I saw a list of presumed presidential IQs where all the presidents were compared.
And it turns out the number one highest IQ of past presidents was John Quincy Adams.
John Quincy Adams.
And number Number five was John Adams, his father.
In between was Jefferson Clinton and Madison.
So the Adams family representing, and you'll notice that the IQs go up over time.
So John Adams, the father was only a mere 150, but John Quincy was rated at 170.
And yeah, they're only my cousins, but I'm up to 185.
You know, I think the next generation, if I had any kids that I knew about, probably 200, 230, something like that.
I mean, I'm just interpolating from the trend.
So good job there, family.
I would like to point out that when it comes to presidents, the IQ is not as important as the talent stack.
The talent stack can boost your natural IQ in an effective way.
For example, President Trump was somewhere in the middle of the IQs of presidents.
And by the way, I'm not saying that they've measured all this accurately.
I assume they didn't.
But if you imagine that Trump is in the middle, you might say to yourself, whoa, wouldn't we do better with somebody up in that 150 range?
And the answer is you could, but only if they had as good a talent stack.
Because one of the things that makes Trump Trump is that he's a performer.
You know, Reagan had that, but it was sort of rare.
And Trump knows business and he's a persuader, just to name three things.
So if you're, if you know the real business world, you haven't been a politician all your life, you're a persuader and a performer.
Your perceived IQ in terms of what you can get done would be a lot higher.
So I'm going to take the middle of the pack IQ plus the greater talent stack for the win.
Now I would say the other people who fit that would be Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson.
He also had the talent stack of inventing and running a business, et cetera.
So that's a good example.
And who else?
Reagan.
You know, as I said, he had the entertainer thing going on.
So whenever you see a better talent stack, you're going to get a little bit better performance, I think.
Here's some good advice from Joe Rogan.
You've heard this advice from people who give this kind of advice, but it's actually really helpful to hear it from a real person you know, Joe Rogan, in terms of what worked and what didn't.
So he says, quote, in a clip I saw just today on X, I went from being someone who was incredibly insecure and basically a failure To someone who was really successful at this one thing that was very dangerous that other people were scared of, and that was the fighting.
So once he got good at being, you know, some kind of an MMA type fighting, I guess, he said that gave him a bunch of confidence.
And then I guess the confidence carried over into his other activities.
Now, This is something I teach in my books, which is that if you can find anything at all that you can be better than other people, it's going to have a whole bunch of benefits.
Number one, it's going to teach you, as Joe Rogan said directly, it teaches you that you can work hard and become good at something, which believe it or not is not obvious.
You know, if you're 12 years old or something, It's not really obvious that you can just become good at something by just wanting to and just trying hard and practicing, but you can.
So I always recommend that you find something that interests you enough that you can practice it enough that you're in at least the top 10%.
And that's not that hard to be in the top 10% of something.
To be in the top, you know, 0.01% and be the best professional, that's pretty hard.
But to be in the top 10% of almost anything, It's really not that hard.
So practice is usually all it takes because most people are not practicing that one specific thing.
But if you are, you're going to be in the top 10%.
So that's one of the best pieces of advice you can get is become good at something, even if it's a hobby, because that becomes something you understand about yourself.
Oh, I'm a person who can become good at a new thing that I've never done before just by waiting in and being brave and doing a lot of practice.
But the other thing that can get you is better sex, because if you're good at anything, this is my best mating and dating strategy.
You hear all the normal stuff from other people, but I'm going to give you the good persuasion stuff for dating.
You want to be able to demonstrate in front of other people, witnesses, that there's at least one thing you do better than most people.
Because that is a signal for your genetic quality.
And all dating is some reflection of the mating instinct.
So if you can show that you're good at anything, could be music or sports or thinking or making money or really anything, you could just be funny.
Just whatever it is.
Or if you're lucky, you're just tall.
You're just tall.
Or you could work out at the gym and be stronger.
You know, the Joe Rogan approach.
And if you can display any of that stuff, people will naturally be drawn to you and want to mate with you because they can't help it.
It's the most persuasive thing you can do is to demonstrate that you're in the top 10% of something in front of other people.
All right, I'm going to develop a theme here and you're going to love it.
I'm not going to tell you what the theme is until we get to it.
I'll just give you the stories and tell you what theme you saw and the reveal will be fun.
Story number one, Axios says food is bad for you.
So new research is showing that junk food isn't just bad for your health, it's bad for your brain.
It makes you dumber and more addicted, just like alcohol or nicotine.
I don't think anybody's surprised by this, are you?
Is there anybody here who is hearing for the first time that eating junk food all day is going to be bad for your brain?
Well, there's some science behind it.
So if you didn't already know that and some scientists according to the Wall Street Journal are they're actually proposing a new mental health condition called ultra processed food use disorder.
Basically a mental health problem caused by your food.
Think about that.
We now know that food makes you dumber.
That's, like, scientifically accepted.
Food makes you dumber.
If you eat the wrong food.
If you eat healthy food, but, you know, maybe makes you smarter or doesn't hurt you.
And they tested those who had junk food for breakfast didn't perform well on learning and memory tests.
So what you eat can make you stupid.
Science number two.
Remember, I'm gonna put it all together.
Hold it in your head.
Junk food makes you stupid.
Okay?
Number two.
Wokeness is bad for you.
There's a study that says woke attitudes are linked to anxiety, depression, and a lack of happiness.
Of course.
What did I just tell you?
If you're woke, you think you're either an oppressor or you're a victim.
And what's that doing for you?
Is that making you feel good?
When you're an oppressor, do you feel, Oh, I'm so glad I'm an oppressor.
Or do you feel maybe a little guilty about it?
If you're a victim, do you think, oh, yay, look at me.
I'm victimizing all over.
I'm the victim.
No, no.
But what happens if you do what Joe Rogan did and you just go get good at something, especially something scary that other people are afraid of?
Well, then your mental health is excellent.
So story number two, being woke is bad for you.
It makes you anxious, depressed and unhappy.
Do you think that you think as well?
What do you think?
If you were anxious, depressed, and unhappy, would your brain work as well as if you were mentally well?
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
So in other words, eating junk food will make you stupid and being woke will make you stupid via the anxiety, depression, and lack of happiness.
Story number three, birth control.
It's getting a lot of pushback.
Ashley St.
Clair on the X-Platform is going at it hard, showing anecdotes of women who had bad experiences on birth control because it messed up their hormones.
But when they got off, they realized, oh my goodness, I could lose weight, I could feel happier and everything else.
And so Ashley's on the, um, I don't want to say war path.
What's the, what, what's the actual respectful way to say somebody is working hard activist.
Anyway, she's working hard to get people to understand that maybe they should ask some more questions when they talk to their doctor.
I'm not saying all birth control is bad.
I don't think she's saying that either.
I think she's saying that there may be a lot of symptoms to them that we don't know are coming from them.
And that maybe you should be more aware that if you get on the pill and gain weight, maybe it's the pill.
If you get on the pill and it makes you depressed, start asking some questions.
Maybe it's the pill.
As Ashley points out, if you go to your doctor and you say you have those symptoms, what are they going to do?
Take you off the pill?
Not today.
No, they're going to give you medication for your mental health.
So first, they'll put you on the pill.
This would be Ashley's perspective.
First, they'll put you on the pill.
Gives you mental health problems.
Not everybody, and you know, we're talking allegedly here.
And then your doctor, rather than take you off the pill, is going to give you, you know, SSRIs or whatever the hell it is, and antidepressants.
Now you got two problems.
Yeah.
It's just going to make things worse.
All right.
So how do you think your brain works if your chemistry, your basic body chemistry is off?
Do you think your brain makes as good of decisions?
Because some say it makes you more emotional and burst into tears and stuff like that.
Now, do you think that's compatible with, you know, good, good, calm decision-making?
Probably not.
Probably not.
So it could be that the pill makes you less capable of making good decisions.
There's strong evidence of that.
I would like to make a side point that at the same time the male testosterone levels are falling, that more women are getting on birth control.
And so, 300,000 years of human evolution just got thrown under the bus.
What is it that makes a human male and a human female attracted to each other?
It's their chemistry.
Literally the chemicals in their body.
Their brain follows the chemistry.
So the brain might say, oh, you're not attractive.
But really that just follows the natural biology.
It's not your brain making the decision.
It's your chemistry.
So if you're super, super jacked up on testosterone and you're crazy horny, everybody in the bar looks pretty good.
You know what I mean?
So it's not your brain deciding what's attractive.
It's your body.
And then it tells your brain.
Same with women.
Their sexual preferences, we know, can be completely changed by being on birth control or not.
So we've got, you can even go back further from humans to millions of years of evolution that created these male and females who had a certain chemical signature.
The men had high testosterone and the women had whatever you have when you're not on the pill.
Then we changed both of them.
We changed the men to low testosterone, we gave them junk food, and then we put the women on the pill.
Now, are you real surprised about the lack of reproduction?
Are you real surprised that we're not banging each other like crazy?
Do you see that there's no way in the world that we would be as attracted to each other as we were before testosterone dropped, before we all got fat, and before the pill?
There's not really any chance that we would be attracted to each other at the same level.
Because we evolved to be attracted with that very specific chemical signature, and then we use science to change it.
Or we use pollution to change it.
There's a little of that too.
Whatever's happening with the testosterone, I don't know.
Anyway, let's put it all together.
So, food is making you stupid.
Being woke is making you stupid.
Taking birth control is maybe making you stupid.
So if you were a fat, woke woman on birth control, how are you doing?
Well, it turns out that fat, woke women on birth control are the primary people who are controlling the country right now.
And maybe that's suboptimal.
You see how I pulled it all together?
If you see a fat, woke woman on birth control, you should ignore everything she says.
Because science tells you that she's too stupid to listen to.
Too far?
Is that too far?
All right, that's probably too far.
But thank goodness we've got social media to help us with our mental problems.
So we've got TikTok making us doubt our genders.
So have you seen how the people doubting their genders is going through the roof?
That's a TikTok effect.
Do you not believe me that it's a TikTok effect?
Here's the funniest story about TikTok.
I love this story.
So for several years, at least four years, I've been telling you that the real risk with TikTok is persuasion.
And that even if they haven't used it, they've built a platform where they can just push the button and tons of persuasion will pop out.
Now, a lot of people for four years said, ah, yeah, no free speech.
Free speech is more important.
And, and I, you know, kept saying, no, no, it's persuasion.
It's persuasion.
So then we got to the point where there was this anti-TikTok bill that was being considered in the house.
And what did TikTok do as soon as TikTok was threatened?
Well, if you don't know this, this is hilarious.
So TikTok put up a message to its users that, you know, they were going to lose their platform and they should call their representative.
So the phones of the Congress people just rang off the hook, and every time they answered it, it'd be some crying teenager saying, oh, you're trying to kill all my fun.
I'll kill myself if you take away my TikTok.
Do you think that that worked to convince the Congress people that TikTok is not trying to use its persuasion powers?
So TikTok created instantly A massive persuasion effect in the country directed it entirely upon the Congress while the Congress was trying to decide if TikTok is capable of mounting a massive persuasion campaign by pushing a button.
That really happened.
And apparently it backfired because the people in Congress who were saying, I'm not so sure this TikTok thing is so dangerous.
And then they found out that they couldn't use their phones because the phones were just jammed with persuasion.
There was so much persuasion happening to them personally and their office directed by TikTok that they changed their minds.
Allegedly.
We don't know, but it sounds like that's part of the story.
So, I think we've reached the point where we understand TikTok is a persuasion problem, and that's been demonstrated to our complete satisfaction.
All right, I know what you're here for.
You want to talk about the new hoax.
Let's call it the bloodbath hoax, shall we?
I woke up this morning to, hey, there's a new hoax, because everybody tells me when there's a new one.
Let me tell you what's different this time around.
Go back to 2015.
Do you remember the simple times before Trump?
2015.
Were there any people in the public, or many of them, who spent their entire day debunking the news itself?
So that you'd know what was fake news and what wasn't.
At least you'd know what the signals are.
You'd know who the people are who always do the fake news.
You'd know if you see Schiff or Swalwell or John Brennan or Clapper that it's an op.
It's just fake news.
Now, remember in 2015?
That wasn't so obvious, was it?
Do you know what's changed?
There is now a network of dads And moms.
You know, I like to use the dad thing, but I'm not excluding, you know, the highly capable women who are part of it.
I always throw Molly Hemingway into any conversation of people who are just really good at what they do.
So just throw her in there if that makes you feel more comfortable as well.
But we now have a, almost a, a second, I don't know what to call it.
It's almost like a branch of government.
Almost.
It's like a self-organized branch of government that only exists to tell you that the news is fake and how the whole operation was done.
So, for example, there are people like me who can explain what a wrap-up smear is.
I can tell you that when there's the one secret source that that's never real.
I can tell you that if it's this group of people, that means it's an intelligence op.
But I'm not the only person doing it.
Would you agree that everybody from Elon Musk, Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec, Steve Bannon, there's this whole industry that grew up in the last five years or so dedicated to only telling you that you've been lied to and how.
And Mike Benz is a big part of the understanding how the big octopus works, and who's really in charge.
Everything is different now, isn't it?
The moment this hoax came out, everybody, we put it on a list.
I literally just updated my hoax list.
And who's the first entity that I saw?
The others, I'm sure, did it.
But NBC News says, former President Trump vowed at a rally there would be, quote, A bloodbath if he's not re-elected in November.
Now, you would not be surprised that this is taken out of context.
But now we know that NBC News is really not legitimate news, and somewhat specifically NBC News, and MSNBC, their little cousin, and that they're really part of intelligence and Democrat ops, basically.
And so when they take it out of context, it's sort of a signal to the other media that this is the new hoax.
So the spring hoax is here.
I think there's going to be a much bigger summer hoax, but the spring hoax is here.
Now, the real context is that Trump was talking about how the auto industry got decimated by past policies, and that the bloodbath would be an economic bad bloodbath under another Biden term.
So it was never talking about physical violence.
That was never the context.
And it was never talking about what he would do.
Rather, it was the opposite.
If he wasn't there, there would be a bloodbath.
So he wasn't saying I will bring, you know, my angry followers to kill everybody if I don't win.
He was saying nothing like that.
He was saying if I'm not there, the Biden administration will do an economic bloodbath.
So that's what he really said.
So I immediately updated the hoax quiz update.
How many of these do you still believe?
Do you still believe the Russia collusion hoax, the Steele dossier hooker story, the Russia's paying bounties on U.S.
soldiers, Trump called neo-Nazis fine people, Trump suggested drinking bleach to fight COVID, Trump overfed the koi fish in Japan, Trump cleared the protesters with tear gas, revival photo-opped hunters, laptop was Russian, disinformation elections were fair because no court found any major fraud, January 6th was an insurrection to overthrow the government, Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of the beast, border patrol agents whipped illegal border crossers, Trump stored nuclear secrets in Mar-a-Lago.
Governor Whitmer kidnapping plot.
Trump mocked a poor reporter's disability.
Government spending to subsidize green products reduces inflation.
Trump invited Nick Fuentes to dinner at Mar-a-Lago.
Twittergate was a dud.
We learned nothing new or worse.
Some Twitter doesn't shadow ban Twitter.
Say his speech got worse under Musk.
Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd.
NATO funding hoax.
Trump vowed there would be a bloodbath if he's not elected.
Or if you like, I could break out separately just the Russia hoaxes themselves.
All right, now just the Russia hoaxes.
You will notice that I should have added some of the Russia-only hoaxes to the general hoax list, so it would really be much bigger.
But here are just the Russia-specific hoaxes.
Russia collusion hoax.
The original The Russian Bounties on American Soldiers Russia laptop was Russian disinformation.
Trump responsible for Navalny's death.
Trump invited Russia to attack NATO countries because they didn't pay their bills.
FBI informants for the Biden bribes is a Russian spy probable hoax.
Putin blew up his own pipeline hoax.
Knew that Trump is romantically attracted to Putin.
Russia is behind the anti-vaxx movement.
Alpha Bank hoax.
Hamilton 68 hoax.
Embassy sonic weapon hoax.
Navalny died of a blood clot.
Russia is losing in Ukraine.
Now that's something we couldn't do in 2015, could we?
We didn't have a name for a story taken out of context.
Now we do.
It's called a Rupar.
And as soon as the story hit, a massive number of people said, it's a Rupar!
It's a Rupar!
They did it again.
They also said, here's the new hoax.
Because people like me and people like you, have called out all the plays in advance.
And we know, for example, that there will be a big crisis coming, maybe something with Taiwan, maybe another virus, so that they have some reason to cancel the election, or do something to the election that would give them some advantage to win.
So, and then there's the whole...
everything about the pandemic hoax.
Yeah.
The everything about the pandemic hoax.
The, the only reason I don't include them is that there's still some medical disagreement.
The rest are really, you can tell that they're just hoaxes.
The medical disagreement, I'm trying to stay out of that, um, for all the obvious reasons.
All right.
So, given all those hoaxes, at least our history is real.
Am I right?
At least history is real.
I mean, maybe it's fake starting now, but all our old history, totally real.
For example, the JFK assassination.
We know that was real because we've seen the Zapruder film.
So not much to say there, right?
We saw it with our own eyes.
I mean, it's right there in the film.
So there's a series called The Octopus Murderer's Account, and one of the claims is that people have seen with their own eyes the, quote, the real video, and that the one you see, the Zapruder film, is a fake, and that the real murderer was the driver of the car, who turned around, and in plain view, which is shown on the film that these people say they saw, you see that the driver turned around, shot Kennedy in the head,
And that when you slow it down, you can see the bullet coming out of the gun and going right through his skull.
Now, if you look at the Zapruder film, you say to yourself, Scott, Scott, Scott, there's no way that that's fake.
But did you know that the driver didn't react?
So the driver of the car is driving the president.
A bullet, a shot rings out.
The president's head explodes behind him.
And the driver keeps driving.
That's the one you saw.
Does that sound right?
And then you look at the tree behind the car.
It doesn't have a bottom.
That's right.
In the Zapruder film, there's a tree right behind the limousine where the shot was fired.
There's no bottom to the tree.
It's just floating.
Like it's edited.
Now, I'm not going to go so far as to say I believe that there's a real film and that the Zapruder film was fake.
There's a little too much there that I would have to believe.
Number one, I would have to believe that they were good at doing that kind of stuff in the 60s.
I don't know that they could have done that good of a fake video in the 60s.
Do you think they could?
Is there evidence that they were that good back then?
So that's my first question.
Even though there seems to be a floating tree, that too could be an illusion of the film.
So it doesn't mean it's floating.
It might be something in front of it and it's not obvious or something.
But if the one we're seeing is not fake, it raises the question, how in the world Did these people see one that was fake?
Because the people who claim they saw the quote, real one, they claim that it looked, you know, it didn't look faked.
So if the people who claim they saw it are telling the truth, then we can conclude that the technology to fake a film existed, because either they were shown a fake, Or the one we were shown was a fake.
And they both looked real to some people.
So that would suggest, if they're telling the truth, which is the big if, that we did have the technology.
Or at least somebody did, if they put enough work into it.
Did you hear what Trump said to Judge Napolitano?
I may have said this yesterday.
The reason that Trump did not release the All the files about the JFK assassination?
Trump said, and I quote, at least this is Judge Napolitano's quote from Trump, is that, if you saw what I saw, you wouldn't release them either.
Now, the only thing I can imagine that would prevent you from releasing is knowing that it was all fake and that our team did it.
And that even the video was fake.
I think that I probably wouldn't release that if I were president.
I think that that would be so destructive to the minds of Americans that our entire history was fake.
Because it was.
It would suggest that our presidents, maybe before Kennedy, but certainly since, have been selected by the intelligence community, which would suggest it's still happening, which would suggest if you knew that and you're the president, And you somehow got lucky because they didn't know to cheat enough and you won by accident, which is what some say is the case with Trump.
That they weren't ready for him to win by as much as he did because the polls weren't accurate that time.
The one time they weren't accurate.
And at least for the presidential election.
And that Trump might be the only person who knows for sure That our republic was never real when he ran for office.
And it was just the biggest weird thing in the world.
So, that's something to chew on.
That's a good Sunday story.
Well, there's a startup that's working on trying to make AI superintelligence, the so-called AGI or artificial general intelligence.
Now that would be different from the LLM models, which are very clearly just, you know, computer programs.
The AGI would be able to reach judgments, but then test them and correct them.
They could test them and then correct them.
Now, I've been telling you forever that's my definition of consciousness, where you can imagine what's going to happen, and then you check it against what happened.
And that's consciousness.
Imagining what will happen, then you note what does happen, and that's it.
That's consciousness.
There's nothing else to it.
And so there's one company building a model they think can get there.
But I don't know how you could build real intelligence that looked like the intelligence humans have unless you gave it biases.
Here's why.
Oh, and somebody's telling me the Zapruder film didn't come out until 1977 when Dick Gregory got a copy that everybody thought was suspicious that he got a copy.
That's interesting.
So, by 77, they were actually doing some manipulation of video.
Hmm.
When did Star Wars come out?
About the same time?
Star Wars?
Anyway, so I think that artificial general intelligence is impossible because we mistake our own sense of certainty for intelligence.
But our certainty is based on bias, not intelligence.
It's just we don't know it.
Oh, so Star Wars and the Zapruder film came out at the same time.
Roughly the same time.
Okay.
Well, and yeah, and Kubrick.
Okay.
Got it.
Got it.
Well, that's a big coincidence, isn't it?
What about Kubrick?
Somebody thinks he was involved with the Zapruder film?
We got all kinds of conspiracy theories in the comments.
Kind of fun.
All right.
So that's my take.
My take is we'll never build super intelligence because the thing we think is intelligence in humans is actually based on our bias, not our intelligence.
That'll make more sense later.
I love the Elon Musk, Don Lemon drama.
Now I, I went on record as saying that I don't believe the Don Lemon contract demands that were reported.
I saw that the big account ALX, real good follow, has generally very reliable information, but is pretty sure that the story is true.
I'm going to still say it's not.
So, so smart people have confirmed that the story that Don Lemon asked for, you know, crazy things, um, is smart.
People are saying it's true, but I haven't seen the source and the agent still says, no way it's a hundred percent false.
So I'm going to say false, even though very smart people disagree with me and they could be right.
It could be right.
So when smart people disagree with you, The best way you can be is to say, you know what?
Maybe they're right this time.
When dumb people disagree with you, then maybe you can get a little arrogant, right?
But ALX is a pretty solid account.
So if he disagrees with me, he might have some sources I don't know about.
Possibly doesn't want to name a source.
So I would say you shouldn't trust me too much on this one because there's a good solid There's a solid mind on the other side of it.
So take that full context.
But Elon Musk said to somebody else's comment about Don Lemon asking for the moon, allegedly, Musk said, yeah, we dodged a lemon for sure.
He is beyond entitled and his show is unwatchable.
So Elon Musk went from being his biggest promoter, you know, effectively with the X platform giving Lebanon a big opportunity, and then that all fell apart, and now his show is unwatchable.
And I think it's true.
I think Don Lemon threw away the biggest opportunity I've seen in a long time, because all he really had to do is not be crazy.
That's all he had to do.
You know what, the X platform was all ready to embrace him.
I would have watched his show and I would have loved it if I saw some evolution away from the CNN craziness.
But apparently he decided to just package up the craziness and bring it with him.
So maybe it wasn't CNN, maybe it was him.
And that just didn't work.
You know, X is just not the place the craziness works.
And it fell apart right away.
Stephen A. Smith, who's making news again, because he's saying the truth to people who don't hear it a lot.
So it's important to the story.
I hate that I have to say this, but if you don't know who he is, he's a black man who is Saying that Biden is waging lawfare against Trump because he can't beat him.
Now, I don't think Stephen A. Smith has ever been identified as anything like a Republican.
So that's what's important.
That he's black.
No, no indication he's ever been a Republican.
And he's telling his audience, which is important, right?
Because his audience is pretty broad.
He can get to a lot of people because he's a sports guy.
And he's just basically telling you that the Biden administration is using lawfare against a competitor.
I mean, that's pretty brutal.
There are people hearing this for the first time because their news sources just don't tell them.
So, Stephen A. Smith, you are officially an internet dad.
Welcome to the club.
An internet dad.
An internet dad is telling you what news is real and what is fake and what you missed.
There he is!
Internet dad.
And you know, since I do that role myself, I probably have a higher opinion of it than I would otherwise.
But do you accept my frame that there's an entire, almost a shadow form of government They've formed since 2015, and now Stephen Smith, A. Smith, is part of it.
You know, by actions, not by joining any club or anything.
But by his actions, he's joined the people who have been around long enough to detect, you know, bullshit from reality.
And he's decided that he will spend some of his personal capital To try to fix this situation.
You can see it in real time.
I don't have to read his mind to know that he knows he's putting his personal reputation really on the line.
This is very brave.
Consider what he does for a living.
He's a sports guy.
The sports guys really need to appeal to everybody.
They can't be political.
It just doesn't work.
But he's saying this is too important.
And it's not really even political.
You know, you can make it political.
But the thing that the Internet dads do is, it's not about the politics.
It's about what's true.
Helping you know what's actually true.
And he's doing that.
And so, good for him.
I could not have more respect for a human being than when somebody makes it and they decide to go back and help you out.
You know, at great personal expense.
And that's what he's doing.
Let's talk about the Alan Bragg hush money case.
So the case is that somehow Trump did something illegal in paying hush money to Stormy Daniels.
However, as Kyle Becker points out in an excellent post on X, hush money payments aren't illegal.
So what exactly is the case about?
If it's about hush money payments, but they're not illegal, at least in New York.
And so I guess the story is that Alvin Bragg and his winged monkeys got together and they decided, all right, how can we make this sound illegal?
So they're going to make it illegal by maybe saying that the way he recorded it in his financial records was not accurate.
So they could get him for inaccurate record keeping even though it is listed as an expense.
So the expense is the right expense and it is being used exactly as the tax code requires.
It just might be written down as something else and that would be enough to put him in jail.
So How do you, so what would make it illegal is not just falsifying the records, because records could be, you know, a little sketchy and it's just a misdemeanor.
But in order to make it a felony, which is what they need, they've got to say that he switched, that he changed the records to cover up a crime.
But the thing he's covering up was never illegal.
So it looks like they're just inventing a crime out of nothing because it's lawfare and because they can.
So I don't know the details of this.
I think there's some of it that's still... Are the charges actually public?
I was a little unclear because I was reading some older stuff.
Do we know exactly what the nature of the charges are from Alvin Bragg and the hush money case?
Because I don't know exactly what the charge is.
And does Trump?
I don't know if he knows exactly, does he?
Well, I need a fact check on that if you get a chance.
Well, do you think the summer crisis will be a war?
So there's a report that Biden has deployed some U.S.
troops in Taiwan.
First of all, is that true?
I don't know.
Green Beret in Taiwan?
Maybe.
Because I would think the Green Beret would normally, don't they go in when you're helping somebody defend against another enemy?
Don't they organize the population?
That's sort of what they do.
So it would seem that we're preparing for a war and maybe Biden will give us a big scare about Taiwan as a reason to cancel the elections or change something in the elections or give them some advantage.
Well, There's a study that found that more than... This is from Data Depot on X. It's an account.
A 2023 survey found that more than 55% of Gen Z believe that racial minorities in the U.S.
have no hope for success because of racism.
No hope.
55% of Gen Z thinks that racial minorities have no hope for success because of racism.
But apparently that's been going up every year.
So starting with the boomers, only 22% of them thought that racial minorities have no hope.
Gen X came next, 34% think minorities have no hope.
Millennials, 50%.
And Gen Z, 56%.
Why is that going up?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but every single piece of objective information would tell you that things are way better For minorities than ever before.
And yet, the Gen Z's believe it's the opposite than the obvious reality.
What would cause that?
What would cause so many people to think that reality was the opposite of what it is?
Well, of course, it's CRT and DEI and TikTok and the whole victim mentality.
This is pure brainwashing, and you can see it here very clearly.
Now, how much of this is TikTok?
Well, let me ask you, how many of Gen Z is reading the New York Times?
Where are they getting their information from?
They're not getting it from, you know, CNN and the mainstream news.
They're not getting it from Axe.
They're getting it from TikTok.
So this is a really clear indication that TikTok is influencing people incorrectly.
Inaccurately, in a very divisive way.
So, it's exactly what it looks like.
So let me correct this.
Here's the reframe that would fix it all.
No matter what the level of discrimination is, you can make it go away by doing the things that all successful people do.
So whether or not this discrimination that they talk about is a real thing or not a real thing, you can reduce it to zero in your life in a practical sense, not a specific literal sense, but in a practical sense, you can reduce it to zero.
How would you do that?
Well, if I were, let's say, a black man, a young black, well, say a young black child, if I'm 10 years old and I'm worried about discrimination and I want to succeed, I would do what I did, and I'm not a poor black child, but everybody who succeeded did it the same way.
They look for what works, and then they did it.
At the time, studying in school and getting good grades and going to college pretty much guaranteed a good life when I was that age.
Would you agree?
You know, in my youth, if you went to college, Did okay.
You had a serious major, not a crazy one.
Your odds of doing well are basically 100%.
100%.
Now, I had massive racial discrimination.
Did fine.
Right?
You know my story.
I was fired from, well, I had to quit, but two corporate careers I lost specifically for being white and male, and my bosses told me that specifically.
And it still didn't stop me.
Because all I did was I just kept applying the same process of success that everybody successful does.
I talked about the Joe Rogan thing, where you just make sure you're good at one thing, so it builds confidence.
I did that.
Made sure I was good at a few things, built confidence.
I built a talent stack.
I paid attention in school.
And when I got jobs, I showed up on time and did what I was supposed to do.
Real basic stuff.
You know, I'm not good at networking, but I did a little bit.
So I just did all the things.
And when something didn't work out, I switched and I tried something else.
And I kept trying things until something worked, which is, again, a good process for success.
When I grew up in my tiny little town of Wyndham, New York, the first thing I did when I could do it is I left.
Because I knew that the opportunities there were small, so I went to San Francisco, where they were big.
And sure enough, that made a difference.
So, why is it that nobody's learning that?
These are all the things that I thought everybody learned, but apparently not.
And the reason is, it's not on TikTok, I guess.
It's just not on TikTok.
Scott is one-tenth as rich as if he'd been promoted to the, yeah.
So, it looks like I did well, because, you know, Dilbert made me rich, but I guarantee I would be a lot richer if I'd stayed in the corporate world, because I would have ended up in, I would have been in the height of the dot-com bubble, and I was right around Silicon Valley.
And I would have gone to one of those companies if I decided to stay in the business world.
See, I think I would have done better, actually.
All right.
What would it mean for ByteDance to divest TikTok?
I haven't seen the smart people talk about this yet.
So let me start the conversation.
So the idea is that if this ban got passed by the Senate, which I don't think it will, but if it did, what would it look like?
Well, suppose they wanted to sell their American business.
What are they going to sell?
What are they going to sell?
They're not going to give their code away.
You know that, right?
There's no scenario in which ByteDance says, all right, here's the code we use for our entire platform.
But since we have to sell you a little bit of it, we're going to give you the same code that works on the big platform.
That's not going to happen.
Is there anybody who thinks that's going to happen?
Because that would give a competitor, literally, the source code to the larger company.
There is no chance of that happening.
In no world can that happen.
All right, here's another one.
How about the employees?
If they divest of the American business, which employees go with it?
None.
None.
They would all stay at ByteDance.
The employees don't have to go anywhere.
They could just stay working for the main company, which I presume would be the smart play.
Don't you think?
So if you can't divest the people, and they might not even have an American division.
I don't even know if TikTok has like, does TikTok have developers who only work on American audience?
They might, but it might be, you know, three people or something.
So there's no staff per se, that's the American staff, because it's just a big product that works the same for everybody.
And there's no way you get the code.
So what is it that you're divesting?
Well, I would like to suggest this.
The one and only thing that could divest would be the customers.
They would have to sell the customer information, which is kind of weird, isn't it?
Since the problem with ByteDance was privacy, but, you know, privacy to an adversary is different than privacy to an American company.
Here's what I suggest for X.
Here's my business suggestion.
If I were X, and I don't know if this is a good idea, this is brainstorming.
So if you see an immediate problem with this, don't be too surprised, but just shout it out in the comments.
I think this makes sense.
If I were X, I would say TikTok might go away, and because it might, here's the deal.
You automatically have an account on X, and it's the same name that you're using on TikTok, your username, But it adds the letter X at the end.
So if you disappear from TikTok with your businesses and all your followers and stuff, you can always recreate it by just demonstrating that you're really the person who owned the original account.
And then you can just bring your credentials over and you're automatically in business on X. Now, it's not the same experience, but you could imagine also that you could bring your friends over.
So let's say your account was Axe and you had a thousand followers.
Well, it brings the thousand followers over, but only if those people also populate their new accounts.
So it would be a nothing if they don't.
But if the other people also come over and they grab their name plus Axe account, then they would automatically be linked as followers just the way they were.
And now Instagram could probably do it better because they have Reels.
YouTube could probably do it better because they have reels or some version of the same thing.
But how hard it would be for Twitter to just say, bring your traffic here.
We're not going to pay a cent.
Don't buy anything.
Just don't buy anything.
Say you could bring your traffic here if it goes away.
Now there should be something that they could buy.
In the perfect world, I do think the customer information should be sellable.
It'd be like vine.
Yeah, somebody's saying that it would be like X had vine and they could bring that vine back It wouldn't be the hardest thing So there and now ask yourself this question Why have you not seen anybody Yet talk about how could you sell it or how could you divest it?
I haven't seen that conversation.
Have you I?
Somebody needs to ask what it is they would divest.
If it's not people and it's not the source code.
It's just the customers.
And how would you do that?
How would you just sell the customers?
Well, it would require ByteDance to say, we will just turn off these accounts on a certain day.
And if they could sell it, it means they could sell who follows who and that information as a package.
And then somebody could just recreate it on another platform.
Rumble offered to host for the divestiture.
Yeah, I mean, finding a server is not the hard part, is it?
So Rumble has their now competitive server farms competing with, I think, does it compete with Amazon?
It does, right?
I think it does.
Anyway.
So, that's interesting.
Apparently there are huge demonstrations in Tel Aviv asking for the resignation of Netanyahu, which as we know, Biden administration has sort of suggested that they'd be happy if Israel changed out their boss.
As the Amuse account points out, it looks like this is probably our own intelligence people who have somehow covertly Created what would be called a color revolution in Israel.
So it looks like, from the outside, it looks like the United States is doing a coup in Israel.
Is anybody else seeing it that way?
It looks like the U.S.
is doing their normal coup.
The same way they do it in 80 other countries.
Same way it's done in our country.
You know, when they need to retake control.
But is that really happening right in front of us?
I mean, my brain is having trouble holding onto the idea that right in front of us, the United States is overthrowing Israel.
But that is happening, right?
Am I imagining that?
Am I going too far?
Now, here again, Is the internet dad effect.
And I'm going to throw the Amuse account, and I don't know who that is because it's anonymous, but on X there's an account called Amuse, which is highly recommended.
And Wokeness, another one, highly recommended.
And they're internet dads.
They're basically telling you what the news isn't telling you and getting it right.
And getting it right.
It's the getting it right that's the important part.
Otherwise it would just be conspiracy theories.
But I've never seen anything like this.
And did you know that in 2015, Obama and Biden did fund a group to unseat Netanyahu?
Apparently we know that.
That there actually was a Biden prior plan to fund a group to do a coup in Israel, essentially a legal coup.
So, it's really different now.
So we can call out all the fake news, we know which entities work for the intelligence operations, we know what a color revolution looks like, because we've seen so many, and now we can watch it unfold right in front of us.
Incredible.
All right.
According to The Spectator, Israel's finance minister, says the cost of rebuilding Gaza is, quote, not my problem.
And then people said, what?
How can you say that you're destroying Gaza?
How is it not your problem to rebuild it?
To which I say, what exactly did they say wrong?
Why would they destroy it just to rebuild it?
They're not going to rebuild it.
Why would you even think that?
That's the craziest idea in the world.
Is that they were going to do a military action and then, you know, fix what they broke.
That's not going to happen.
Why would they do that?
They don't want Gaza to exist the way it existed before.
I don't know what's going to be there.
My guess is a lot of nothing.
I think there's going to be a whole lot of nothing there for a long time.
And I think they're fine with that.
Because if you just rebuild it, it's just Hamas just reconstructs and you're right back where you were.
So to imagine that Israel ever planned to spend their own money to rebuild the very threat that they're trying to destroy?
Why?
Of course they're not going to pay for it.
Now, if some other country has decided to bankroll the redevelopment, Israel might allow that to happen under strict conditions that they control.
But no, Israel's not going to pay to redevelop Gaza.
That'd be crazy.
On their side, it would be crazy.
All right.
But let me say, just because it's a big old woke world, because I tell you what I think is likely to happen, you might think you're seeing my opinion of what should happen.
I'm not conveying that.
Because my opinion of what should happen is completely irrelevant to this situation.
I don't have any control.
I don't have any persuasive ability.
And my opinion would have no value, so I just don't have one.
I'm just going to tell you that Israel is going to do what it has the power to do and considers a way to make themselves safer.
We're just watching.
Our opinions don't have anything to do with this.
Cernovich was tweeting or posting that half of male suicides are people with no hope, based on somebody's estimate.
There was one expert who was saying that half of all the male suicides he sees are not people who are mentally ill.
They are people who have calmly and coolly looked at their situation and thought it couldn't improve.
Now, Cernovich gives you the best advice you'll ever get on this topic.
If you feel, by the way, I'm going to save some lives right now.
Really.
I'm going to save somebody's life, at least one person.
And I say that just because of the number of people watching.
All right.
So let's say, you know, counting the replay, let's say 50 to a hundred thousand people listen to this.
Some number of them were planning to off themselves because unfortunately that's just the way it works with big numbers.
And there's somebody in that group I'm just going to save, but I'm not going to take the win for myself.
I'm going to, uh, Cernovich is going to take the win because I'm going to give you a reframe that could make that go away.
It goes like this.
Here's what, uh, here's what Cernovich says.
Take more risks.
You're already dead.
I could stop with that, but here's a little more.
And here's what I'm adding to it.
And by the way, this is the reframe that has literally kept me alive.
The only reason I'm still alive is this reframe.
That when it looks like there's just no way you'll ever be happy, increase your risk.
It'll wake you up right away.
So increase your risk of embarrassment first, because that's the one that doesn't kill you.
And if you think you're gonna, you know, you think you'd be happier dead, well, your option, unfortunately, I hate to say it, but your option never goes away.
But you can at least challenge the option by saying, let me do something I would never do.
So you walk up to the hottest person that you thought you could never approach.
And you say to yourself, you know what?
I mean, I'm basically a walking dead person.
Might as well have some fun.
So you go up and you're perfectly calm.
You're perfectly confident because you don't have anything to lose.
You got nothing to lose.
And you walk up to that super hot person that you could never get.
And you say, Hey, I've been watching you.
You're incredibly beautiful.
How would you like to give me your number?
Maybe we can go out.
Most of the time, that person says, no thanks, I'm already in a relationship, or something like that.
But every once in a while, somebody says, you know what, nobody ever asks.
They just assume I'm not available.
Which is actually a problem that beautiful women have.
Sherry used to say that when she was younger.
That people didn't ask around when she was single, because they just assumed they weren't in the league.
And then some bagel shop guy asked her out, and she's like, thank God.
And she dates the bagel maker for a long time.
But that's how the real world works.
If you think the Cher story is interesting because it's so unusual, that's the opposite of what I'm saying.
What I'm saying is that's normal.
Is that the people who take the risks get rewards.
That's how the world works.
The people who take the risks get the rewards.
You just have to take smart risks.
If the risk you're going to take is doing heroin, I think that's a bad one.
That's a bad one.
Don't do that.
If the risk you're going to take is that you started a new business or changed jobs or told your boss to F off or ask somebody out or, you know, you became an activist for something.
Those are all risky.
Well, you've seen my career, right?
You've seen me take risks?
Let me ask you this.
When I got cancelled, do you think I was in a good mood that day?
Before I said the things that got me cancelled?
Ask yourself that question.
What was it that triggered me?
It was this.
It was this.
It was me waking up that morning and say, you know what?
Fuck it.
I got nothing to lose because I wasn't happy.
And when you're not happy, you got nothing to lose.
And so I said to myself, you know what?
I'm going to increase my risk substantially because I think it needs to be done.
I think, I think the point of view I expressed needed to be out there and that the world would be better for it.
But I was pretty sure it was dangerous.
Now, like I said before, I didn't think necessarily I'd be cancelled that day for what I said that day.
But I was very aware that I increased my risk intentionally.
How did I feel that day?
And how did I feel after I got cancelled?
Sad?
Not even once?
Nope.
Was I more happy or less happy?
Then when I woke up that morning, more happy.
I was more happy.
I was completely alive.
When the entire fucking world collapsed on my head, I've never been more alive.
I never had a bad minute.
I like the attention.
I love the fact that they couldn't tell my story without putting my message out there.
And that's what I wanted.
And I said to myself, if I crashed my entire career, Just to get that out there?
Just to get that point of view out there?
Good.
Good.
I'm there for it.
And every part of the process I've enjoyed, it completely energized me creatively.
You know, creatively, I'm on the best streak I've ever had.
And it allowed me to start lines of business, republishing my book, working with Joshua Lysak.
And now I'm going to republish my calendar without the middle person.
I've created an entire new business model for publishing.
And I'm doing this.
And at the moment, you're watching TikTok about to be banned.
And although there were a lot of moving parts, I've been working on that for a long time.
Now, do you know how much shit I'm going to get if I'm part of cancelling TikTok?
Is that free?
Nope.
Nope.
I got a lot of explaining to do if that gets cancelled.
A lot of explaining.
Is it worth it?
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
I like the attention.
I like the energy.
It makes me feel alive.
But only because I think it's the right thing.
Because I think it helps the country, it helps individuals.
That is the energy.
So, somebody watching this was having a bad day.
Weren't you?
And as soon as you heard this, you said to yourself, whoa, that's a reframe.
Why don't I increase my risk?
Again, don't do physically dangerous things.
Now, if the physically dangerous thing you're doing is, you know, maybe you get a mountain bike or something, that's probably okay.
You know, you take a sport that you might get injured, you know, but it's a regular sport.
That might be okay.
I wouldn't go to extreme sports.
That's bad risk management, but it's very good risk management to increase your risk of things that won't kill you.
So, in all likelihood, there's at least one person who listens to this, either on replay or right now, who just said, I'll be damned.
I could just change my whole day.
I could make the phone call I was afraid to make.
I can go try to make a friend with the person I thought was going to turn me down.
I can start this sport that I thought I would suck at.
I can pick up the hobby that I knew I'd be terrible at and embarrass myself.
I could go talk to somebody that I'd be too shy to talk to.
Shyness is a big one.
If you could just cure one thing, your shyness, your social anxiety.
How much social anxiety do you have if you think your life isn't worth living?
It all goes away.
Trust me.
I know this one.
This one I know from experience.
Social anxiety is you still thinking that you're worth something.
That's where it comes from.
If you think you're worth something, then you worry that something could go wrong in a social situation.
So it's the worrying something would go wrong that's the whole problem.
Well, you don't worry that something's gonna go wrong if you've already given up on, you know, being happy.
Just walk into that room and take it over.
Walk up to the, you know, the alpha people in the room and just jump into that conversation.
Put in your Pat them on the back, shake their hands, move on.
Go talk to the prettiest person in that room, or the most handsome.
Go shoot your shot.
Ask for a phone number.
Make it hurt.
Make it hurt.
Everything good comes from the pain.
So, if you're not feeling anything, and you think your life is over, Go make it hurt, but make it hurt right.
Make it hurt smart.
Make it hurt in a good risk-reward way.
This is Mike Cernovich saving your life.
That's why we do this.
That's why we do it.
Not for this specific thing, but the reason the internet dads are dadding is to save your fucking lives.
That's what we're doing.
And we're willing to put our necks out to do it.
That's why we're here.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the conclusion of today's amazing show.
And I expect to see you back here tomorrow.
Every one of you.
Same time, same place.
Bye for now.
And I'm going to close this stream and then I'm going to open up a new stream for the After Show just for the local subscribers.
