Buddy? I hope you're getting your morning exercise or possibly just your cup of coffee or possibly you just come here too. Find out what the future looks like, one, and here you are grab your beverage. Put it in a mug, a cup, a glass. I don't care if it's a stein, a Thermas or a chalice, put your favorite beverage in there. I like coffee and try me for the simultaneous sip it's now, speaking of coffee, do you know what, Howard Schultz biggest. Political advantages came I guess what is Howard was the fact Starbucks

considering running for president as an independent. What is his biggest advantage? The answer is Corfu I will be the only person to tell you this, but I think you know it's true. Carly, because you watch these periscopes and you have noticed that I have intentionally used the association with coffee which people like to make them think. Ah coffee, coffee with Scott Adams, I, like coffee, Maybe I like him too. So there's The crossover effect, our our impressions of one thing can can believe over to anything that's associated and the powers association could be transferred. I do that intentionally, and you know it I told you that so it's not a secret and it still works,

A lot of people tell me how addicted they are to coffee with Scott Adams, then a lot of that is just the coffee and the association. It's not so watch what I'm doing it it. It makes it positive. So, Howard Schultz, has this enormous. Persuasion advantage because when thank you and yes thank you. Coffee and What coffee does to makes you feel good? it's a really big advantage. Now. Is it enough? Is it enough of an advantage that he can win the presidency. I don't think so. I think the teams, R2 set in their ways, people just don't like to change teams. And as others seven years were smarter have pointed out, there really are no such thing as independence their own, people who say their independence, but then always vote the same way so

there's no real such thing as some group of people who who really wish somebody else would run in the middle. It's not a thing but if you haven't seen my tweet of the heckler, who well to Howard Schultz in an event recently, you have to play it somewhere where nobody is listening, because there's a there's a bad word in there, but it's the it's the funniest heckler it's the best heckler you've ever seen? let's talk about come on Harris. Have you noticed so she has a creepy laugh as everybody knows. That I saw two people independently without seeing each other's comment. Respond. To her demeanor as creepy it was. One comment was that her laugh was creepy

and then another one just something about her. Demeanor was creepy and here's one of the things that I've tried to teach you about: assigning nicknames people, I'm trying to come up with clever nicknames for her. You know, as if they're inventing their own kill shots. Here's the trick that everybody gets wrong. Yeah people are trying to use something about the name to make use clever with a name like cold? Cibola, or something about her thing, with Willie Brown. None of those are effective. The reason they're not effective. Is that they're just sort of surface Lee? comparisons. The sound interesting with her name, there's, nothing that connects is just sort of surfacing, so. What you want to look for is something that people already believe about the candidate right.

I'm not gonna have to say that twice, because it's so important, you have to start With what people are already feeling, if don't start with that it doesn't matter what the nickname is. So the reason crooked. Hillary worked because you already had that feeling that there was, something there. You didn't know what it was she hasn't been. She hasn't been proud, your friend anything, but it felt like there's something crooked there and people. I felt that so when that nickname was assigned to fit, same with low energy JEB when as soon as you heard, Lowenergy low energy. You thought to yourself. He does look L'Energie, it just fit the person. So if a schitt gonna have to change my here, we go power source,

so have you seen them people refer to her as creepy without being prompted in I think it matches my own sense, ' when I watch her laugh she's, not a comfortable laugher, have you notice that her her laugh is I sort of Adam sink a little bit like like it's a nervous or a creepy. Laugh, I don't know exactly, but but by coincidence creep He works well with come on, so creepy come if yeah sure that catch on- and I don't know that it will come would be a lot stronger than the ones that are just sort of write me. So I was saying Cruella Deville Door that doesn't

and the reason that the Cruella stuff doesn't work is he's out there selling health care for all and and help Singapore and then is compatible with her brand as a Democrat, so the Krewella Doesn't really strike me as You know what I I feel about her when I see her You know when I wanna hear her talk, she's talking about helping people are you. I disagree with the mechanism to help people, but that's why she talk talking about and I don't think she doesn't want to help people like you know. Her inner soul? Do you think that say I don't really want to help the poor just going to say that they get elected Well, I mean war politicians so they're going to save more than they might believe, but basically anybody who runs for president wants to help people. Right. I don't think we get it candidates who, just

absolutely don't care about people, that's not really a thing. So So I think that was a dead end, Creepy feels unfair. It's not supposed to feel fair is it is it fairness, an objective not really. Now let me tell you what answer doesn't work. I'm hearing seeing a lot of people on social media say that the implication is that talking about her dating Willie Brown, notable politician from California, who has admitted that he helped her get position things and helped her career. People are saying that that's going to work against her, I just don't see it. I just So we'll see it working against her even a little bit and here's. Why it's two thousand and nineteen.

Nobody cares about that stuff and and the main charge that Willie Brown helped her career. He had admits and I imagine she would admit it too- so nothing hidden. And as long as there's nothing hidden and let's Only nineteen and you've got a present, Welcome was maybe not not your role model for a the interaction I just Don't see that it matters this week, it just bothers me when I see it's because I think you're wasting your energy on that attack. Just let that go by the way I've been consistent. All the way from the Kennedy through Bill Clinton through Donald Trump. Now through Kamala Harris I'm just not. To say any of that stuff that they do in their personal life is my business. It is not important

we're not really hiring role models right. We didn't do it for this, and we're not going to for the maximum you may have seen that morning, Joe has at least Joe. Anyway has endorsed, come all Harris and you know that There's the Rachel Maddow has also give put through her weight. We had to come and now CNN did a town hall with her to put her at the top of the pack. So that the two main entities that matter in terms of assigning us our opinions, laughter, Everson, MSNBC and CNN, and they have clearly chosen comala. Now. The reason that they would choose are, as they think, she's the strongest most credible candidate, and I think, that's probably true.

Same thing I said, and she's speaking too early? Now I don't think so. I think she's clearing out the field. I think she's playing she's doing sort of Donald Trump, which is she's trying to absorb all the energycap early and just start Everybody else would energean she's doing it really well. Somebody saying: did she it will be bound or have an affair my answer to that? Did date will be down or having affair still doesn't matter. I don't care what word you put on it. You can't make me care, you can't make the country Willie Brown called it dating good enough for Maine. I don't care and I don't think you should care either. But you're welcome to care whatever you like. No,

come outside in her town hall with CNN few things number one she said She wanted some kind of universal healthcare. Have, you noticed, We're saying he was married. Well, well. Would I guess I can't leave this point Willie Brown was married, is also reported. As recently as this week, that Willie Brown was known for showing up at events public. Events with his wife and his girlfriend. So Willie Brown was known publicly for showing up at public events at the same time with his wife on the left and his our server girlfriend on the right and everybody knew it So whatever ever will rebound situation was with his wife. You making a lot of assumptions to

You know that there was a problem here, 'cause, I I think there was right. I think that Willie Brown had a problem. I don't think his wife, the problem with any particular thing he did. It seems that get something worked out right. So so, if assuming that it was a the problem that was number one mostly Willis to deal with and again I don't care alright, Let's talk about Universal Healthcare my point about re universal Healthcare is that now you've heard it so many times, you've heard it from burning in AOC and lots of other Democrats. You've heard it from now come all. Correct me. If I'm wrong the idea of Universal Healthcare moved from any idea that only barely could have, because it's all the will never be able to pay for it. To

something closer to inevitable. Am I wrong now I'm talking about the persuasion and the way we think about it. I'm talking about a normal evolution of starts out as being crazy talk and then just becomes normal right. Remember when President Trump announced it was crazy talk that there could be a president Trump just crazy. Absolutely crazy, yeah that would become president and then it became normal overtime if feels today, but the idea of universal Healthcare. Somebody says you're losing me: stop thinking that I'm telling you my opinion on universal health care, I'm talking about the public and how the public is responding to it, try to stay with Maine alright, you guys are. Some of you are so welcome to your teams

they even mentioning the topic. If you go about about I can't listen to this anymore. I can't listen all out Listen to the point right, here's the point I believe the public has been softened up, the point where the thought of Universal Healthcare has really this boiled down to come, we afford it in some way. The answer is now at the point at this point, but I think it has gone from fringe to something closer to mainstream. So that's important. Because, if you're worrying about it coming, I think it's inevitable. I think that the public it sort of evolving too. We got to get there one way or another. Now, to reiterate my personal view is that I think you can't have a great country without healthcare. For everybody, that's my view

I also have no idea how we could possibly get there by raising taxes you there's not enough money to make it happen. I do think we should make it a national objective. To figure out how to get there, to figure out how to do it without raising taxes, and I think we could through innovation. I think we can get there through changing regulations and rules, maybe change the laws, maybe make things more competitive, maybe focus more on innovation. Maybe maybe play some things but The goal would be to get a more competitive situation in which the market can do its thing and lower the price. If you lower the price enough then maybe you can start talking about more people having it. So if you get two things right, Academy is just screaming which it is now

Unemployment is very low, which it is now so that that helps a lot of people yeah healthcare right there and then you've got focus on bringing that cost down, at least for the the things that, where that's possible, Okay, more about that at some point, but there's just all kinds of stuff happening where the startups are. The higher margin parts of healthcare so then healthcare. There are things which are hugely profitable and a lot of. Right, so looking at those things and say: well, I'm going to take a piece out of that by like in the MRI this cheaper, the EKG, this cheaper, etc. So we should see something along those lines. I'd like to see the Republicans package, their healthcare, I won't call the proposal, but a preference. You know packages it and sell it better, as competition is to get us there or not Texas,

I'm going to give a shout out to Obama. Ex President Obama, that's something that was one of the smartest things you'll ever see call that when it happened- and I felt it in a few times- but I like to remind you of it- President Obama said in public, so is not me. Reading his mind, he said this directly that Obama care the bad plan, but it would- I'm paraphrasing, but he said it would essentially get the country a little bit of pregnant on healthcare and, once that happened? There would be no turning back so. In other words, President Obama said directly Obamacare. There's a bad plan. He said that he that is a bad plan, but

Almost certainly will get the country moving in the direction where they have to fix. It and they'll fix it. You're covering more people, because it's a you just. Go backwards, it's one of those things where no politician could say and to give people you were less healthcare, you, it's just political suicide, so Here's a shadow for based energy and persuasion perspective. It was a brilliant play, he called his shot and then he hit it 'cause we're in it right now, right Obama called he He called the FED seems going to hit this over and over. He hit it over and everybody called him a failure, because the he said was a bad plan and What was it God plan and you of course, under attack, but the national Conversation is

exactly where he told us he was gonna put it, which is where all talking about this. This topic, so he's moving that he moved. The net so consciousness he did intentionally. He told us. He was doing it and then it right in front of our eyes, you know you can you can hate his policies, you can you? Can everything else about him, I'm not going to defend. You know his. I didn't anything like that, but I'm not one point of political strategic, persuasive talent. He talent. You can take that. Another thing that Camilla talked about, unhurt on hall, I didn't see it all, but she repeated the the actually theory hopes that the president said at the show spell tragedy that the NEO Nazis were fighting people

now she send a lot of other things and it wasn't. It was not Jake Tapper's job to fact check her in real time, but it's very disappointing that he let her say that which is so demo. Tripoli Untrue, because what he said, verifying people on both sides. He was obviously talking about both sides of the statue. Question of which they are fine people of both sides. The news, illegitimately were created against there is in which they claim but the President United States had said the NEO Nazis were fine people that didn't and when he was asked to clarify he made sure we knew him very. Clear language that he did, so I started off with a conspiracy theory that

CNN is allowing to to live, and I have to say I'm disappointed in that, because I just don't think that the yes, served by letting that conspiracy theory passes. Fact. And it wasn't so easily just debunked. Alright, let's talk about Joe Manchin Senator Joe Manchin West Virginia who are have dubbed the smartest to in the country. Why? Because, two days ago on, I guess it was meet the press. He said what I think all the senators should be saying at this point. Let's turn this borders, a question over to the expo an engineer x. Spurts an engineers. Those are the magic words,

and that makes Joe mention the smartest senator in the country smartest politician- in the country 'cause. He went on television and said the words that can solve the problem. Cousin, all the politicians. Release, I'm making engineering decisions, which is what they both been trying to do, President Trump trying to sell a political solution and In so doing he simplified to the point where he became the engineer right. He simplified it the point where he was defining What a wall looks like and how much of it there is. That's really engineering work. Persuasion, it worked well up to a point it should get down to getting in the room and trying to actually come up with a budget trying to come up with a specific idea, which is what the the working team is doing. You have to defer to the action and the engineers now. I also like some somebody

me here in the comments. I love the phrase: smart Wall 'cause, if you think about it, thus far better than my solution, I had suggested long ago that, instead of calling it, friends or wall you're call it once and then everybody wins but leads like the ugly word in yet, Catch on, but that the two were Smart Wall. Thank there. Doesn't because he doesn't want a smart wall who has wall in there, so you can say well I got a wall, it's a smart one and who's going to say that an electronic defense mechanism isn't a smart wall now. Ok, yes, so you want to get both sides, the ability to say they got what they wanted. Weather like they wanted different things, but they never really did size always wanted,

Smart engineering solution, like the border, more secure. Both sides want that and calling you a small wall is pretty well pretty good way to get there 'cause. Those words are you know there they're good words smart in wall, both good words, they work well together, they they're catchy. I think it's a good so Joe Manchin smartest senator in the country right now, when I wanted to give you an example of what I've been talking about for cool topics in general, but I'm going to use climate change as my example? Now, if you've been watching me for awhile, you know that I've been doing kind of a deep dive on climate science versus the skeptics. I'm trying to figure out who has the address the here or to see if I can do something like my,

I would research and get to the bottom of it, but here's what I've discovered now, My opinion on climate science is always subject to change, so I've sort of evolved here's. My bottom line based on everything Learn about climate science number one, what size are dealing with BS, so It was easy for you to take any side and say I'm a skeptic or I'm a believer and then you'd, say to support my side. I get a point all of the DS happening on the other side. It turns it's really easy, because both sides- have a really big chunk of complete ridiculous claims, Now one of the size is also right. I don't know which one

has the right answer: ' then our let's or let's say trying to market their views with things that are so transparently ridiculous that they do come off as hoax is right. So applying the science the way it's marketed now, not talking about the science I'm talking about What is marketed to the public looks like a hoax to me. It's just complete, bs and I'll talk about that. Specifically skeptics who are trying to market. Essentially the view that none of this climate science is real. There very pretty. You know, they're pretty unconvincing most of the time. Now again, there are lots of and skeptics, so I'm not so that they're are all equal in their in their or their best players. Here's my take

the science of climate science. If you can't just the the chemistry in the physics feels like that could be pretty solid. That's not a final answer But if you were there to believe the consensus of scientists on the scientific the stuff that we've known since the 1800s- we know that c two can cause. I the basics of it? That's probably, a solid. I could change my mind someday, but so far that feels solid. Here's. What's not. Solid in order for the the scientist, to sell their vision of a dangerous warming world. There's these models, the models, sms and I'm not talking about climate science in general, not talking the science of it. I'm just talking about the models are such

his parent Lee ridiculous that it makes the science look fake as well, but probably This is a preliminary opinion. I could change this later. Preliminary it's probably well meaning scientists who in general. Have the right idea: but they don't know how to sell it to the public. And so, they thought well, we put in these models and we show them what's going to happen and we calculate what's going to happen at eighty years now. We've marketing hat on our science and we I think the marketing part to the public 'cause. They don't understand. The science will keep it simple, will just draw a picture. Little hockey stick here right unfortunate the marketing of it, is so ridiculous and and so unconvincing and there have been predict,

Is that were way off etcetera that it's not credible to the public or at least to a big part of the public? Let there are many skeptics saying ridiculous things such as the climate scientist I forgot to include the sun okay, when you hear people say, I think The scientists in the world who are spending the climate for the effects of the sudden. That's not credible. I don't really need to dig too deep to find out, but that didn't happen, but here's my if you're, if you're trying to do your own, your own research on it or any other complicated topic is here The well that you're going to fall into you'll start at the top with a skeptical claim disclaimer the again as my example, but this would apply to gun control and lots of other complicated topics.

The claim that you understand- let's say the claim, is the ice- is melting. So. Therefore, the plan is still warm and you save yourself. I understand that I, under in that. If the earth is going warm the ice would melt and then the to say we're measuring the ice and smelting. I get that that's a of solid persuasive. And then you go to the skeptic. The skeptic says No. They measure that all wrong then is that wrong I heard that wrong and here's why And then you read the skeptical argument. Ego, that's pretty convincing here's here here, Here's NASA's NASA information, says that it's there's more is gaining the los- and you say gosh. I don't know what those scientists were saying. And then you go back to the site and they say no, the script. We're looking in the wrong place and then you go back to the skeptics and they say

We were looking in the wrong place, here's my leg and you go back to the scientists and they say yes, that's a lie. But you left out this other link that shows we keep going down the well from claimed to skeptic to clean to skeptic and at every level hello best thing to read is persuasive until here's the fun part until you go down the well far enough, there's somebody there's something you either care check, because you just don't have the resources. Or you don't understand, and let me give you my best example, so so I was arguing on Twitter the other day. And I was going down going down the well from claim to skeptically And I want to read you something somebody who knows a lot more about this than I do set I didn't tell you who said it 'cause, it doesn't matter if it's a or a scientist. So after I got

down the well. I think. Okay, I'm fine. We getting somewhere. Now I'm going to be able to make my own decisions based my great research. I really know what's going on, and then I get this. The puzzle and ice age theory is how to get a powerful hunt. Killing your glaciation cycle when main orbital cycles are forty one kill years obliquity and twenty three kilometers precession, with a hundred kilometers eccentricity cycle week. The idea building on All 1980s isn't nineteen problem. You got that right The clear everything up so you would probably confuse before, but now I cleared everything up. This is every debate on climate science

It's also every debate on everything else complicated. You let's get to the point when you go down in the well of claimed skeptic claims skeptic claims skeptic, you always get to this something you could not possibly understand or something you can't check, such as somebody change some data and you're like well. Did they? How would I know The same thing happens: let's take gun control, you start with. Like a simple gun, control claim uh country doesn't the guns, and they have low cried, and you see yourself very convincing. There is a country that has gun control. If you people have guns and they have low crime very convincing and then the skeptics no here's why they have Logan gun and there's nothing to do with gun control and then

the claim goes back in and again you go down the well until somebody says something that you can't check, or you don't understand now what happens when you can't check- and you don't understand you- get out of the well at whatever level agreed with where you started. In other words, confirmation bias. So so they the illusion I thought you're doing your own research until reaching. A wise opinion that you have determined on your own through your goods. Good thinking of good research, not I'm like that is happening. Nothing like that is happening instead. You're just ping pong back and forth between the arguments until there's, something you don't understand and then you go back up to the level you did understand you go well. Glaciers are melting, I guess that's it! Here's a pic,

Look at that polar bear. I understand that. I see a polar bear. I know how to I know the polar bear is right. So you should release on your confidence that done your own research, and you understand climate change, okay, Let me let say who is the most wrong and the climate change argument. If you argument is that claim Change absolutely, is not a problem inherent ten percent sure that there's some wrong with your mind, you haven't done a good job if you think It's probably not a problem. Well, you might be thinking accurately. And you might be right likewise, if you think it's definitely going to destroy the world. The climate, there's something wrong with you right,

I think it's one hundred percent chance that the climate, I've got it right and their predictions are right. And things are going to go in the worst position. You think that's one hundred percent, true something wrong with the way you think, if you think it's probably true, Well, you might be right, and you might be a good thinker- so people who are doing a good job of thinking about it. In terms of probably or I'm leaning in this direction. So far. This is what I think to, or maybe we to be sure, but we should we should hedge, there's people you want to listen to, Anybody who says it's definitely not a problem and it's all huh every bit of it: they're, not credible players. Likewise, the people who say- several science there's nothing else to say and here's the important part and we can

predict what will happen and it's dire. I don't need to listen to that either. The two extremes are not. They're just not credible the problem. All the people are the ones you want to listen to yeah and what else is happening? Anything else happen. The food is a to your some of you just wanted to talk about guns now I just mentioned guns and and everybody goes crazy. Your best podcast, were about the economics of climate yeah, will be more than that in my book. Loser. Thank Venezuela. That is. So was kind of interesting, because

on one hand we don't want to go in and over some other country, it's the last thing we need. On the other hand, we well sort of cat cat. Not I mean we almost have to have direct involvement with Venezuela. So I think that's going to happen. It's good the question of whether we can make it look like we do. Going to heavy handedly will watch, the state of the union with you I think I might be traveling that day. So I don't know, but it might, send postponed bars. Confirmation, boring, uh, Oh you hear something really interesting. That will

change. The world something that will change the world. Periscope is working on a split screen version and the words I will be able to. As I understand it very soon do these periscopes and have a guest so I'll, be able to have a guest expert that I can interview on periscope from a different location, now yeah yeah, if you think, if you think that I've been influential on anything up to this point, did you see what I can do with a split screen? That's going to be some fun as well. You know 'cause that I can get the climate scientists in the climate, skeptic Arden and ask him questions and it's going to be fun. You will learn some stuff. Yeah I've done it. I've done the split,

song it with like another device, but the quality is low. So it's really a different situation. All right- you may have noticed that if you're watching CNN last night, you saw that United Healthcare, a- I guess, their insurance healthcare company- they a way that you can talk to your doctor with a video call so but Let me within their network to do that. My my start up, interface by win Abesa name of the app interface by wet huh. You can just search for that on the app stores, as a product in, work will be adding some doctors very soon. I've been a big announcement about that. Coming up, just waiting for some details to get wrapped but we will be providing you some a variety of doctors who are licensed in individual states and I'll make, big deal about that- and this is

what I was talking about: the technology lowering the cost of healthcare if you had the interface app once we get, our doctors the down. There were doing that right now, but if you had that and you want talk to a doctor for a reasonable price for a single doctor visit, or even just a second opinion. You could do that without insurance, you just pay as you go, and then maybe insurance for the big stuff and you're going to be much better shape than if you didn't have health care. Because the doctor be in India. So the doctors are we're. Loading are putting on there will be licensed for him to original states and multiple states in many cases. So, If the doctors in India that's going to be, sure between the doctor and you whether or not-

you're happy with their certification We are platform so It will not be our job to vet any of the experts uh. To answer your question, so we wouldn't a doctor in India, from giving advice somewhere else, we're not going to stop 'cause we're like the phone company. If somebody makes a phone call, it's not our business. What they're talking about uh, but that's going to make a big difference. Will it be covered by Obamacare? Not not that I know so the idea is that you can get a doctor for a low cost A reasonable price anytime you want, and you don't have to be part of a network. Yes, they can prescribe. Yes, they can

right, so the doctors will be bringing an will be able to prescribe and that's a big deal right yeah they can write. They can write prescriptions, How do we know their doctors are? They will all be part of a network of vetted them. So I'll, give you more information on that when we're ready and we're almost ready, so the the group of doctors were bringing on our part of an organization in which you can't be part of the organization. Unless, unless you have the credentials, When will this be up? I'm still waiting for the final word, I hope in the next few days we've done almost everything we need to do just a couple. Things move left and soon, as those are done I'll make a big deal about it. No such thing as a reasonable price. When it comes to healthcare. Well, I guess it's directional. You can certainly become more reasonable.

I'll, give you the details of the names and everything else when we're ready to go. I don't want to. I don't want to aim too early uh When will we have a eye doctors, kind of already have any eye doctors, don't how many of you have diagnosed correctly a problem by looking it up. Google, let me ask this question. This is good some of you know I had a always problem years ago. And died. I at six This will be using Google wow, and I couldn't diagnose it with regular doctors. Had to do a Google search a google alert that eventually kept up yeah. So all yes, so You could argue that Webmd and Google searches a sort of a I already you. It's It's not a either way. We usually think of it, but

certainly is organized intelligently and useful and Many of us have become our own doctors. Are yeah getting the prescription was the problem, and so that's one of the things that will be So imagine, if you will you do your own research, your pretty sure you have a diagnosis, but you just need a doc to confirm and if it's right to write a prescription, pull up your phone, damn there's a doctor, you got your prescription All right, that's enough for now, and I will talk to you all later bye for now.