Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 29, 2020


Episode 1042 Scott Adams： Let's Talk About All the Bad People and Funny People


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1 hour and 2 minutes

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9,579

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635

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Misogyny

15

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Hate speech

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On today's show, Scott Adams talks about why the reason you're not trending on social media is because Black people don't think you deserved your success. And why you should be trending because you don't have the white privilege that Lena Dunham did.

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00:00:00.000 Do you know what I discovered the other day?
00:00:14.000 That you can use your digital assistant should you have one.
00:00:19.000 I will not use the name of the digital assistant but it's A-L-E-X-A.
00:00:25.000 I don't want to wake mine up.
00:00:29.000 But apparently you can just tell it to play the podcast by the name of this,
00:00:36.000 this, Coffee with Scott Adams, and it just starts playing.
00:00:40.000 I'll tell you, it is so much like the future.
00:00:43.000 I'm just standing in my kitchen and somebody sent me a message saying that worked.
00:00:47.000 And I thought, really? Does that work?
00:00:49.000 So I said, A-L-E-X-A, play Coffee with Scott Adams on Apple Podcast.
00:00:57.000 And boom, I started playing the latest episode.
00:01:01.000 Kind of cool.
00:01:03.000 Somebody says someone else was killed in chop.
00:01:07.000 I haven't heard that.
00:01:09.000 But we're going to do something that will get this morning going just right.
00:01:13.000 Yeah, it's coming up.
00:01:15.000 I know some of you are prepared.
00:01:17.000 And all you need is a cup or mug or a glass or a tank or a chalice or a stein,
00:01:21.000 a canteen jug or a flask or a vessel of any kind.
00:01:24.000 Fill it with your favorite liquid.
00:01:28.000 I like coffee.
00:01:30.000 And join me now for the dopamine hit of the day.
00:01:34.000 The thing that makes everything better.
00:01:37.000 It's called the simultaneous sip.
00:01:39.000 And it happens now.
00:01:41.000 So I keep telling you how weird it is to be me.
00:01:53.000 Today is one of those days.
00:01:56.000 You know, the thing that specifically makes it weird to be me is that I deal with the news.
00:02:04.000 And then I wake up and then the news is about me.
00:02:07.000 And I'm like, oh crap, the news is about me again.
00:02:11.000 So I wake up this morning to, I think, Omar was telling me,
00:02:17.000 Hey, your Dilbert is trending on Twitter.
00:02:21.000 Now, the first thing you see when you wake up in the morning,
00:02:24.000 look, if the first thing you see is that Dilbert is trending or your own name is trending,
00:02:30.000 it's not necessarily a good news.
00:02:34.000 So you don't automatically say, hey, this is terrific.
00:02:40.000 I'm trending.
00:02:41.000 The first thing you think is, oh shit.
00:02:44.000 I'm either canceled, COVID or dead, as I like to play.
00:02:50.000 Whenever I see anybody else trending, I say, are they canceled?
00:02:55.000 Do they have COVID?
00:02:56.000 Are they dead?
00:02:57.000 Are they dead?
00:02:59.000 So Dilbert was trending this morning.
00:03:02.000 And what happened is one of the traps that I had set had sprung.
00:03:07.000 Now, if you're not me, you don't think in terms of setting traps on Twitter.
00:03:13.000 That's probably just my own sick hobby, I guess,
00:03:19.000 is that sometimes I like to just put a tweet out there that just sits there,
00:03:23.000 often in the comments, not even a tweet, just a comment.
00:03:26.000 I'll put it out there and I'll just think, well, this one could come back to me.
00:03:32.000 So what I did was, I had seen yesterday that Lena Dunham was trending.
00:03:39.000 And Lena Dunham was trending because, in our world of 2020,
00:03:45.000 she's, I guess she's not a minority enough. 0.87
00:03:49.000 She, she's a little too white and a little too connected to rich people, 1.00
00:03:54.000 it turns out, especially Hollywood connections,
00:03:57.000 that she was trending for not deserving her success.
00:04:02.000 How would you like to, how would you like to trend on Twitter
00:04:08.000 and find out that the reason you're trending is that black people
00:04:13.000 don't think you deserved your success?
00:04:15.000 She just wakes up in the morning and is like,
00:04:19.000 Oh, what's going on today?
00:04:22.000 Check Twitter.
00:04:24.000 Hey, I'm trending.
00:04:25.000 I wonder why.
00:04:27.000 And it's because nobody thinks I deserve my success.
00:04:32.000 Bummer.
00:04:34.000 So that sucks.
00:04:36.000 So the thing that got me triggered yesterday,
00:04:39.000 and this will dovetail into why I'm trending today,
00:04:42.000 is there was an African American gentleman who is based on his profile,
00:04:49.000 assuming that he really is the person in his profile.
00:04:53.000 And he tweeted about, essentially about Lena Dunham's white privilege.
00:05:01.000 And his point was that black people don't have the white privilege she did, 0.99
00:05:08.000 because apparently she got her TV deal with nothing but, I don't know,
00:05:12.000 a one page write up of a general concept.
00:05:15.000 And then she had a, she had a TV deal.
00:05:18.000 Now, so black people were weighing in and saying things such as, 0.95
00:05:24.000 I studied film, written many scripts, I have much, I have lots of experience,
00:05:29.000 but I don't get to get my own TV show,
00:05:32.000 because I wrote something on the back of a napkin, basically,
00:05:35.000 and I was connected in Hollywood and my relatives were rich.
00:05:39.000 And so I just walk into a TV deal.
00:05:43.000 I don't get to do that.
00:05:46.000 Now, is it fair to black people that they have to work hard to get jobs in Hollywood,
00:05:54.000 but Lena Dunham, with all of her whiteness, gets to just walk right into a job? 1.00
00:06:00.000 Doesn't even have to try hard.
00:06:02.000 Now, she had actually done some other things in the business,
00:06:05.000 so it wasn't like she'd never worked in the business.
00:06:07.000 She had a little bit of a resume.
00:06:09.000 But still, their point is quite clear, right?
00:06:13.000 The point is very clear that her white privilege made her more likely,
00:06:19.000 more likely, not necessarily guaranteed,
00:06:21.000 but more likely to be related to, connected to,
00:06:25.000 networked to somebody who could help her with a career,
00:06:27.000 and that's just what happened.
00:06:29.000 So that's racism, right?
00:06:31.000 And here's what triggered me.
00:06:36.000 Those of you in the comments, can you...
00:06:40.000 This would be a good time to cover your ears of your kids.
00:06:45.000 If any kids are listening.
00:06:47.000 Kids, this would be a time to find something else to do.
00:06:52.000 There may be some cursing,
00:06:55.000 maybe a little bit of cursing that comes out in the next, oh, 60 seconds or so.
00:07:00.000 And it goes like this.
00:07:02.000 As the African-American folks were criticizing Lena Dunham
00:07:09.000 for succeeding because of her whiteness,
00:07:13.000 which was true, by the way.
00:07:15.000 So that statement is completely true.
00:07:17.000 That as a white person,
00:07:19.000 she was statistically far more likely to have a connection
00:07:22.000 that would help her get something that other people couldn't get.
00:07:25.000 Totally true.
00:07:26.000 Also, fuck you. 0.85
00:07:29.000 Fuck you, every one of you.
00:07:31.000 Fuck you.
00:07:32.000 Because Lena Dunham's connection didn't help any one of you, did it?
00:07:38.000 How about the people who are not connected to billionaires?
00:07:42.000 Like me?
00:07:44.000 Like most of you?
00:07:46.000 How about fuck you, every one of you, 1.00
00:07:48.000 who think that some other random white person shouldn't get a leg up
00:07:53.000 because Lena Dunham had an advantage. 1.00
00:07:55.000 Lena Dunham had an advantage. 0.99
00:07:57.000 That's not a white fucking advantage, except statistically. 0.72
00:08:01.000 Do you want to talk statistically?
00:08:03.000 Because I don't think anybody wants to talk statistically.
00:08:06.000 All right?
00:08:07.000 You want to talk about an individual.
00:08:09.000 An individual doesn't necessarily have a billionaire for a fucking father.
00:08:15.000 An individual has a fucking problem that is their own fucking problem.
00:08:20.000 You got your fucking problems?
00:08:22.000 Somebody else has a fucking problem too.
00:08:24.000 Your problems are not fucking special.
00:08:27.000 Your problems are not fucking special.
00:08:31.000 Now, it's hard to say that on Twitter
00:08:34.000 because it had a lot of fucking in it 0.97
00:08:37.000 and I'd use it on my character account just with fucking. 0.96
00:08:41.000 So, instead, I put a little trap there
00:08:46.000 that ended up with me getting trending,
00:08:52.000 or at least Dilbert did.
00:08:54.000 And the trap was this.
00:08:56.000 I put it in the comments, just for context,
00:08:59.000 just for context,
00:09:01.000 that I had personally lost two jobs in corporate America,
00:09:04.000 most of you know this story,
00:09:06.000 for being a white male.
00:09:08.000 They told me directly.
00:09:10.000 My boss told me directly,
00:09:12.000 two separate times, two different companies,
00:09:15.000 I can't promote you because you're white and you're male. 1.00
00:09:18.000 In those direct words.
00:09:21.000 Then I threw in,
00:09:24.000 and by the way, the trap is that I know people don't believe it.
00:09:27.000 My experience has shown that people don't think it's true.
00:09:30.000 If you're black, you just don't think that's ever happened.
00:09:33.000 Honestly, you have no idea that reverse discrimination was pretty much universally true.
00:09:39.000 I don't know how much is true today in corporate America, but certainly to some degree.
00:09:45.000 And so here's what I threw in that I knew was going to be the red meat. 0.94
00:09:50.000 Because it was a conversation of film people and writers, who are my natural enemies, as you know.
00:09:57.000 I always joke that when somebody comes in and says something rational to me, I just check their profile.
00:10:03.000 Yeah, artists.
00:10:05.000 It's the artists that never have the good arguments.
00:10:08.000 They're just really worked up and they never have any kind of analytical structure to anything they say.
00:10:15.000 It's just random unkindness usually.
00:10:20.000 So I threw in the fact that the Dilbert TV show got canceled because it was a white TV show, 1.00
00:10:29.000 and UPN had decided to become an African-American-centric network the second season that I was on.
00:10:39.000 Now, and this is the fun part.
00:10:44.000 I knew that they would think that wasn't true.
00:10:47.000 I knew that they would say, Scott, there's no such thing as discrimination against white people.
00:10:52.000 They were just trying to let you down easily by telling you it was because of your race.
00:10:58.000 Now, remember, I always kid that the artists and writers, people in the TV business, people in the arts,
00:11:06.000 they don't have even the slightest bit of analytical ability to the point where it's just funny to watch them try to think.
00:11:14.000 And this was what they came up with.
00:11:16.000 They decided that in three separate times in my life that somebody thought the easy way to break me down,
00:11:24.000 the easy way to let me down, and their belief is that I'm actually just incompetent at all those things,
00:11:31.000 so that I was incompetent at the TV show, I was incompetent at my corporate jobs,
00:11:37.000 and that the way the bosses decide to let me down easily was by being racists.
00:11:43.000 What?
00:11:47.000 In what world do you let somebody down easily by telling them their ethnicity and their gender is the problem?
00:11:55.000 It's the one fucking thing I can't fix.
00:11:58.000 That's the opposite of letting me down easily.
00:12:01.000 Do you know what would let me down easily?
00:12:03.000 You know, Scott, you don't have the training for this job.
00:12:07.000 Or how about you've made some mistakes, maybe you would be more suited in some other job.
00:12:13.000 Maybe we could move you to a function where your skills and your interests are better matched.
00:12:19.000 There are quite a few ways to let somebody down easily.
00:12:23.000 One of the ways that's not on the list, to tell them that their gender and their ethnicity is the problem.
00:12:30.000 So that's what artists think when they hear my story.
00:12:34.000 Now the other thing they think is that I'm lying.
00:12:37.000 Who would lie about that?
00:12:40.000 And so I was just very curious, like, can you develop your theory a little bit better about how I'm lying about it?
00:12:47.000 For example, what would I have to gain?
00:12:51.000 Was it your theory that my theory was that by saying I'd lost three separate jobs because of my ethnicity and or gender, that I was going to come out ahead on that?
00:13:06.000 Does anybody think we live in a world in which saying that in public is in any possible way good for me?
00:13:15.000 No fucking way that's good for me.
00:13:18.000 And you can see it.
00:13:19.000 The reason I'm trending is because I'm being attacked by people calling me a liar.
00:13:24.000 Now, did I know that?
00:13:26.000 Yeah, that's why I did it.
00:13:28.000 I literally put the tweet there because I thought it would be funny to watch all these artists attack me for lying and making it up.
00:13:37.000 And I thought, well, that will just draw attention to me.
00:13:41.000 And the more attention it draws to me, the more I can say, let's have a full discussion, because I think we should just consider all the elements.
00:13:53.000 And you've watched me long enough to know that I will go deep in listening to and taking seriously the claims of black Americans because they're all legitimate.
00:14:03.000 You know, they're all based on legitimate stuff, right?
00:14:06.000 So, you know, I'm anti-statute because I listen, because I listened.
00:14:13.000 And I said, well, you know, why does this bother you?
00:14:16.000 Okay, that's a pretty good reason.
00:14:18.000 That's a pretty good reason.
00:14:19.000 I can see why people might want the historical advantage, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:14:23.000 I can see the other side.
00:14:25.000 But I think I'd side with the people who say, why would you have offensive statues?
00:14:30.000 I've talked about how to do reparations when most of you were just mad at me.
00:14:36.000 All right.
00:14:37.000 So I've gone deep.
00:14:38.000 I've talked to Black Lives Matter, tried to work out.
00:14:41.000 I've offered help to Colin Kaepernick, literally and publicly, to try to see, hey, you got problems?
00:14:48.000 How can I help?
00:14:50.000 Is there anything I can do?
00:14:52.000 So I think that I've done everything I can do to understand as deeply as much, you know, the black situation in America.
00:15:00.000 In every sense.
00:15:01.000 And if there's anything else that I need to know, open to that too.
00:15:05.000 Listen in to all of it.
00:15:07.000 And take it seriously.
00:15:09.000 You've seen me put the work in to take it seriously.
00:15:13.000 I've worked on the, with Bill Pulte, we worked on the blight removal stuff, which is primarily for the benefit of the black community.
00:15:22.000 I have some other projects that you don't know about that are entirely for the benefit of the black community.
00:15:29.000 But it is also true that white people are widely discriminated against.
00:15:34.000 Now, do I think you need to fix it?
00:15:36.000 I'm not even saying that.
00:15:38.000 I'm not saying you need to fix anything.
00:15:40.000 I'm not saying I'm going to protest.
00:15:42.000 I'm not saying that it wasn't even a greater good to have some discrimination in the 80s that helped to balance things out.
00:15:50.000 I don't, I don't even have an argument about it.
00:15:52.000 I'm just saying that that's the context.
00:15:55.000 Just look at the whole context.
00:15:57.000 Now, I read on CNN that apparently there's some, there's a little bit of pushback against Indian Americans.
00:16:08.000 And the pushback is that this is CNN's opinion piece today.
00:16:13.000 So this isn't me.
00:16:15.000 So don't attribute the next things to me.
00:16:18.000 I'm just saying what I read on CNN.
00:16:20.000 It's CNN's opinion, one person on CNN, that the so-called brown people from India should be siding more with the black people who are protesting.
00:16:35.000 But the problem is that the brown people are being considered the ethnicity that are succeeding.
00:16:42.000 The brown people from India in particular, their demographic group tends to do really well.
00:16:48.000 And apparently they're not exactly siding with the people whose skin color matches them the most.
00:16:55.000 They're, I think siding is too strong a word.
00:17:00.000 They're not strongly identifying with Black Lives Matter.
00:17:04.000 And that's the criticism.
00:17:06.000 It's like, hey, you're brown. 1.00
00:17:08.000 They're brownish. 0.61
00:17:09.000 Shouldn't you be on the same side to which I say?
00:17:12.000 That is the most loserish opinion I've ever heard in my life.
00:17:16.000 The most loserish opinion in the world is that Indians from India in America should be siding with Black Lives Matter because they have similar skin color.
00:17:32.000 What?
00:17:33.000 What?
00:17:34.000 What?
00:17:35.000 What?
00:17:36.000 How could that not be just super racist?
00:17:39.000 And that's just like an opinion piece on CNN that people just read, oh, that looks good.
00:17:44.000 And I read it and I think, this is literally the most racist thing I've seen ever.
00:17:51.000 How about ever?
00:17:52.000 The most racist thing I've seen ever is that you should be on somebody's side because of their skin color.
00:17:57.000 Literally.
00:17:58.000 Literally, that's what they're saying.
00:18:02.000 What's more racist than that?
00:18:04.000 Here's what I would suggest.
00:18:06.000 Now, I've said this before, and it's the sort of thing you can't say until you're so deep into the argument that you've given yourself a little space.
00:18:15.000 So part of what I'm doing is being provocative intentionally in this space where most of you would get canceled for doing half of what I'm doing.
00:18:24.000 Because if I can make my freedom of speech big enough, then I can actually say useful things.
00:18:30.000 At the moment, the field for free speech on this topic of Black Lives Matter, etc., is so small that the things you need to talk about to make it better, you can't talk about.
00:18:44.000 So this is like job one. Job one is to expand the ability to have an actual conversation.
00:18:51.000 Now, there are things that you could say to any black person in person that they would not be offended in as long as, you know, you were polite and your intentions were good, etc.
00:19:03.000 But I find that there are things you just can't say in public that you can totally say to anybody individually, and it's not even slightly offensive, which is where the danger is.
00:19:13.000 Because if you lose that difference and say, well, I can say this easily to my, you know, my coworker or somebody I know in person, it wouldn't be a problem at all.
00:19:23.000 It's just when it goes large that, you know, the problem happens.
00:19:27.000 And here's the thing that needs to be said, and I've teased it a little bit, but I'm going to start pushing it harder.
00:19:36.000 Why is it that Indian Americans are far more successful than black Americans? 1.00
00:19:41.420 Is it because of the legacy of slavery?
00:19:44.820 I don't know. Beats me.
00:19:47.580 That's got to be in there somewhere, right?
00:19:49.600 It's not like it has no effect.
00:19:52.140 But the biggest difference among people is not skin color.
00:19:56.140 It's strategy.
00:19:58.640 And if we don't recognize that that's the big difference, then I think we can't really fix anything.
00:20:05.100 Because we're not dealing with a true enough picture of the world to know where the buttons are.
00:20:11.180 You're dealing with this artificial picture of the world.
00:20:14.140 And here's what I mean.
00:20:14.960 If you were to take the people who had the same strategy as the people who came from India, and as a demographic group, it has been reported they're unusually successful compared to, say, other groups in the same situation.
00:20:29.400 What strategy do they use?
00:20:32.020 Do they have a different strategy?
00:20:34.520 Now, I don't like to use the word work ethic, because that feels a little racist, honestly.
00:20:43.740 Do you hear it too?
00:20:44.840 When you say, oh, there's a difference in work ethic, to my brain, that's just racist, I think.
00:20:52.560 Because that's not a strategy.
00:20:54.700 As soon as you get into, oh, it's your nature to be a certain way, first of all, that doesn't apply to any individual.
00:21:01.860 Because the individual differences are all over the place.
00:21:05.120 But I just don't think that's where you should focus.
00:21:07.840 It just feels like there's nothing productive if you're starting to think like that.
00:21:13.300 But, if you said to yourself, the Indian Americans came, had this simple strategy. 0.50
00:21:20.500 Stay out of jail.
00:21:22.480 Stay off drugs.
00:21:25.120 Focus on schoolwork.
00:21:28.900 And that's, you know, a few other things.
00:21:30.540 But basically, that's your strategy.
00:21:32.640 You know, no drugs, no crime.
00:21:35.800 Work hard in school.
00:21:38.580 Now, I think that you should only compare the people who have the same strategy to each other.
00:21:43.300 Because if you compare strategy to strategy, and then there's still a big difference, I would say, oh, I think you found some racism.
00:21:52.580 Like, I think we've narrowed it down.
00:21:54.440 Now, obviously, there is racism.
00:21:56.560 I say racism is universal.
00:21:58.640 It's not limited to anybody.
00:22:00.380 It's universal.
00:22:01.120 Because your brains are pattern recognition machines.
00:22:04.740 You can't really turn that off.
00:22:06.400 They're just bad at it.
00:22:07.980 Confirmation bias and reality look the same to us.
00:22:12.500 So, I feel like where the conversation needs to go is to stop talking about statistical differences between people with something in common with their skin color and say,
00:22:27.460 how about the difference between people who used a strategy we know to succeed versus the people who used a strategy we know never works?
00:22:37.240 Why are we comparing strategies that don't work to strategies that do work and concluding that racism is the problem?
00:22:44.800 So, what's up with that?
00:22:49.200 So, I think the fact that we're focusing so much on race tells you that nobody wants a solution.
00:22:58.020 Now, when I say nobody, I don't mean people.
00:23:01.100 Because individuals, of course, want solutions.
00:23:03.100 If you're just a citizen minding your own business, yeah, you want a solution.
00:23:08.480 You want a solution.
00:23:11.180 People are saying strong families.
00:23:13.740 I would say that that is untested.
00:23:19.380 I think that there needs to be two models and we only have one.
00:23:23.060 The one model that conservatives sort of approve of, if you will, is it's got to be a nuclear family, you know, a strong mother and father and then everything goes well.
00:23:33.600 And I say, yeah, that's great.
00:23:35.480 If you're lucky enough to have two good parents, you know, who love you and they can give you a good strategy in life, that's great.
00:23:42.460 That is the best.
00:23:44.100 Nothing would be better than that, in my opinion.
00:23:46.220 But it's also not realistic.
00:23:48.700 You know, what's the point of having a strategy that you know can't work?
00:23:53.700 Do you think you can take all the people in the world and say, all right, we've solved it.
00:23:57.720 You just need to find a great mate. 1.00
00:24:00.100 What if there aren't any?
00:24:01.740 How often do people get a great mate?
00:24:04.460 All right.
00:24:04.720 How often does divorce happen? 1.00
00:24:07.380 A lot.
00:24:08.080 It's because we're not good at picking somebody who's good for us that's going to last forever.
00:24:14.280 So there needs to be some kind of other model where a kid can thrive despite having one parent.
00:24:21.580 Now, which of these three things can you not do if you only have one parent?
00:24:27.400 Can you not study because you only have one parent?
00:24:30.700 You can study.
00:24:32.360 You can pay attention.
00:24:33.580 Do you have no choice but to get into crime because you only have one parent?
00:24:37.440 No, you still have a choice.
00:24:39.460 Do you have a choice about doing drugs in high school because you only have one parent?
00:24:44.920 You don't have a choice?
00:24:46.220 You've got to do drugs.
00:24:47.140 I only have one parent?
00:24:48.500 No, it's still a choice.
00:24:50.320 So there's something that tells me that while I completely accept that everything's easier if you had two loving, qualified parents, it's just not real.
00:25:03.200 It's just not real.
00:25:04.640 It's just not going to happen for everyone.
00:25:06.380 So it's a fairytale to imagine that's some kind of a solution.
00:25:11.240 It's a good ideal.
00:25:13.500 If you want to push it as, I'd like more of this, that makes sense because it does seem to be a model that works, I would say objectively speaking.
00:25:24.260 All right, so just to follow up on the Dilbert TV show story.
00:25:27.420 So then the artists who were bad at analyzing things went all CNN on me.
00:25:34.640 And when I say they went all CNN, they found some information that was not the complete story, and they made some fake news, and that's how I got trending.
00:25:43.820 And the fake news is that they discovered that when the show was canceled, the ratings were really, really low.
00:25:52.300 So they say, Scott, you're lying.
00:25:54.720 It's not because UPN decided to become an African-American-focused network, which, by the way, that part nobody questions because that's in the record.
00:26:04.480 You could find them saying it.
00:26:05.920 It's obvious.
00:26:06.660 They say, no, even though it is true that UPN was becoming an African-American-focused network at the time you were canceled, the reason you were canceled is because your ratings were low.
00:26:20.440 And you've even said that.
00:26:22.760 True.
00:26:24.400 True.
00:26:25.900 It's true.
00:26:27.320 The ratings were low, and I did say that's why I was canceled.
00:26:31.640 I also didn't tell the truth about any of this stuff for a long time.
00:26:35.420 So why were the ratings low?
00:26:40.820 This is the part that the geniuses who are doing their little internet sleuthing don't get.
00:26:46.940 The reason the ratings were low is that I lost my time slot from the season before where ratings were good.
00:26:53.720 Ratings were good enough to get renewed.
00:26:56.780 Now, in the TV business, that's sort of binary.
00:27:00.440 You're either good enough to get renewed or you're not.
00:27:03.100 If you can get renewed, then you can build an audience.
00:27:06.420 Because even Seinfeld had a small audience in the first season.
00:27:09.800 Did you know that?
00:27:10.960 The Seinfeld audience was actually very small in the first season.
00:27:14.460 But because they got renewed, they found their feet and their voice and they became big.
00:27:20.060 Dilber too, had actually better, probably better than Seinfeld in terms of the first season.
00:27:28.740 Because it was, it did well in its time slot on UPN.
00:27:33.960 Well enough to be renewed.
00:27:36.360 Then, it lost its time slot.
00:27:39.980 And I think it was to, do you remember a young teen black star named Mandy?
00:27:47.660 She was on the network.
00:27:49.100 And I may have this wrong, but I think she was the one who took that time slot.
00:27:53.140 But anyway, because her show did well, at about that time they also decided,
00:27:58.080 hey, let's build something around this and make it the African-American network. 0.94
00:28:02.960 So, losing the time slot to an African-American product,
00:28:08.120 which turned their focus to, hey, let's do more of this because this seems to work.
00:28:13.540 And that made Dilbert no longer salvageable.
00:28:16.420 So, while the problem, the proximate problem was losing the time slot to another property,
00:28:25.660 the kill shot is that it no longer made sense to try to move it or promote it or make it work
00:28:33.920 because it wasn't going to be there next year no matter what.
00:28:37.420 All right.
00:28:39.680 And that's the part that the geniuses who got Dilbert trending today don't know.
00:28:44.760 So, it's a little bit too complicated.
00:28:47.980 All right.
00:28:48.440 That's enough about me.
00:28:49.780 That's way too much about me.
00:28:51.500 Did you all see the video of the St. Louis gun-toting homeowners?
00:28:55.740 Did you see it?
00:28:56.980 It's the man and the wife. 0.92
00:28:58.400 They're standing in front of some high-end home.
00:29:01.140 And it looks like Black Lives Matter and maybe Antifa were starting to gather.
00:29:05.640 And before the crowd got big, you see the guy out there with his big-ass gun.
00:29:11.640 And what was it?
00:29:13.440 What kind of gun was it?
00:29:14.960 Gun experts can tell me.
00:29:17.260 And the wife's got a pistol, and she's got her finger on the trigger, 1.00
00:29:20.980 which is not exactly ideal gun safety situation because she probably had the – 0.97
00:29:27.760 I'll bet she had the safety off, and she had her hand on the trigger, 0.93
00:29:31.360 and she was pointing it at him.
00:29:32.560 And apparently it was enough to make them decide that this wasn't the house they were going to vandalize.
00:29:38.180 Somebody says lawyers?
00:29:42.600 I don't know if they were lawyers.
00:29:46.740 Yeah, poor trigger discipline is what somebody called it.
00:29:50.760 So it was an AR-15, somebody says.
00:29:54.320 That's what it looked like.
00:29:55.520 I wanted to make sure.
00:29:56.300 She came and she gave without taking.
00:30:02.760 So here was my take on that.
00:30:07.640 Number one, it worked.
00:30:10.980 It worked.
00:30:11.660 So the fact that anything works, what does that tell you about it?
00:30:15.860 When something works, people do more of it, right?
00:30:19.420 When something works, people do more of it.
00:30:22.440 Somebody says it's AR-style, and that's what I was wondering.
00:30:28.140 If it's technically an AR, or are there other things that look like it?
00:30:32.820 I'm not enough of a gun guy to know.
00:30:38.360 So here's the thing.
00:30:43.420 Do you think that this is going to stop before some homeowner guns down somebody from Black Lives Matter or Antifa?
00:30:51.300 Because I'm thinking it won't.
00:30:54.640 I feel like there's going to have to be some pretty serious gunfire before it's over.
00:31:00.580 Now, just to be clear, I'm not promoting that.
00:31:04.720 I'm not in favor of gunfire.
00:31:07.360 It's a prediction.
00:31:09.000 It's a prediction that if, you know, you always worry about the slippery slope.
00:31:13.320 Well, I think the slippery slope will slip until the suburbs.
00:31:16.940 And the suburbs are going to shut this down. 0.93
00:31:20.080 Because the suburbs are well-armed in the ways the cities are not.
00:31:25.280 And there's no homeowner under that situation who won't take out a gun.
00:31:29.940 So you should see Black Lives Matter and Antifa meeting armed resistance.
00:31:35.660 And it won't always be their own house.
00:31:37.420 Sometimes it'll be the neighbors.
00:31:39.320 If your neighbor is being threatened and you've got a gun, you might come out with your gun.
00:31:43.480 So I think guns are going to be the solution to what we're seeing.
00:31:49.000 And it won't be, it looks like it's not going to be government guns because the government has been neutered by excellent psychological warfare.
00:31:58.840 Psychological warfare meaning that if a government gun kills a black person during any of this, then the violence will increase instead of decrease.
00:32:10.700 If a black, let's say, a Black Lives Matter person or Antifa gets killed by a homeowner in the act of some kind of vandalism, America is going to be kind of happy about that. 1.00
00:32:29.280 When I say America, I don't mean Black Lives Matter. 1.00
00:32:32.940 I mean that all the people who have homes that don't want them vandalized, all the people who want the protesters to be reined in are going to be pretty happy the first time some of them get gunned down on somebody's lawn.
00:32:46.480 Now, it looks like there's nothing that would stop that from happening at this point.
00:32:50.740 Now, the story of the St. Louis people who were well armed, they had good control.
00:33:00.160 They had relatively good self-control because I think I might have fired off at least a warning shot.
00:33:07.460 In that situation, I don't know.
00:33:09.980 I think I would have put a couple of rounds into my own lawn just to tell them it was loaded.
00:33:15.120 And I think that would have hastened their retreat.
00:33:17.640 But that probably would have been illegal to do.
00:33:20.740 So, they're smart the way they handled it.
00:33:22.860 I don't know.
00:33:23.420 I could have had that much control.
00:33:25.280 But here's the thing I'd like to add.
00:33:28.660 Sooner or later, there's going to be a homeowner who technically breaks the law by exacting some violence on some protesters.
00:33:38.520 You know that's coming, right?
00:33:40.140 There will be a homeowner who kills or wounds a protester.
00:33:47.300 100% chance that's coming.
00:33:49.020 I would like to say the following.
00:33:51.540 Should I ever be chosen for a jury in which a homeowner is being charged with overreacting, and it would be the overreacting that would make it illegal.
00:34:02.540 So, something that is not clearly self-defense.
00:34:05.940 But it's charged as something more like murder because the person wasn't threatening them but was on their lawn with a big crowd of people behind them shouting, we're going to kill you.
00:34:17.820 So, something that's a little more gray area.
00:34:20.940 You know, it's like it wasn't immediate harm, but on the other hand, it was an angry crowd that have killed other people and beaten other people to death, and they're on your lawn, and you've got children inside, and so you shot them.
00:34:36.080 So, you shot somebody dead on your lawn, for whatever reason, you thought you didn't have a choice.
00:34:45.480 Now, let's say that it is technically completely illegal and that homeowner, under normal circumstances, should go to jail.
00:34:52.080 This is what I'm declaring in public.
00:34:54.520 If you put me on the jury, I'm not going to convict them.
00:34:58.340 Period.
00:34:59.120 I'm not going to convict any property owner for any violence against any protester, regardless of the specifics.
00:35:08.360 Let me say that again.
00:35:10.800 While this situation is ongoing, this is not a permanent thing, because if things calm down, you want the letter of the law to be followed.
00:35:19.560 But at the moment, I'm just declaring that for the benefit of the United States, and as a patriot, that I would not be involved in any jury in which I would even consider a guilty verdict for anybody who defended their property with violence during this situation.
00:35:44.820 Now, I don't recommend violence.
00:35:46.880 Let me be as clear as I can be about that.
00:35:50.840 Don't kill anybody.
00:35:52.660 Don't hurt anybody, unless it's self-defense and you just have no choice.
00:35:57.700 Don't hurt anybody.
00:35:59.540 I'm just saying that's the way it's going to go.
00:36:01.660 Somebody's going to get hurt, unfortunately.
00:36:03.860 We hope it's the fewest number of people.
00:36:05.580 But, should it happen, and I assume it will, anybody who is on that jury and is willing to convict a property owner for being a little overzealous in protecting their property, it's not going to happen with me on the jury.
00:36:23.000 Not going to happen.
00:36:23.980 Not in, and I don't care what the details are.
00:36:28.800 I don't care if this person opened up and just started spraying the crowd.
00:36:35.180 Innocent.
00:36:36.300 That's it.
00:36:36.880 I will not convict anybody for protecting their property.
00:36:42.940 And, by the way, it doesn't matter what nationality they are.
00:36:46.640 I'm not saying I'm going to let all white people off.
00:36:49.460 I don't care what your nationality is. 0.99
00:36:51.120 If you're protecting your property, if you put me on the jury, it's at least a hung jury.
00:36:59.920 Actually, if you put me on the jury, it's going to be whatever I want it to be.
00:37:03.040 Because you really shouldn't put a hypnotist on a jury.
00:37:06.260 Do you know one of the questions that lawyers should ask but never do?
00:37:11.640 Are you a trained hypnotist?
00:37:14.800 If you're a trained hypnotist, you shouldn't be on a jury.
00:37:17.900 Because the rest of the jury is going to just agree with you.
00:37:20.340 Oh, you might as well just have one person on the jury.
00:37:23.280 Now, I know you don't believe that, but trust me.
00:37:28.560 I saw on Twitter today that Twitter has suspended the account of Sidney Powell,
00:37:33.420 the attorney for General Michael Flynn.
00:37:35.860 Does anybody know what that's about?
00:37:38.080 Because when you first hear the suspension,
00:37:41.420 it takes a while to find out what their reason was.
00:37:46.960 What was it?
00:37:47.920 Somebody says, come on, man, they're lawyers.
00:37:51.860 Somebody says that the St. Louis people were lawyers.
00:37:54.980 I don't know.
00:37:55.800 I don't know if that matters.
00:37:59.020 So if your vehicle is in your driveway, that's not part of your home.
00:38:02.880 No, I would also say that if that's your property,
00:38:08.300 I don't care where your property is, even if it's just your car.
00:38:12.200 If somebody in a car runs over a protester while other protesters are threatening the car,
00:38:19.360 put me on that jury, innocence.
00:38:21.500 I don't even, I'm not even going to listen to the details.
00:38:25.600 I don't care.
00:38:27.560 All right.
00:38:28.260 So let's find out why Sidney Powell got, you know, which is weird,
00:38:31.920 because if an attorney is getting kicked off of Twitter,
00:38:35.880 don't you think the attorney would know what she was tweeting and what was risky and what the rules are?
00:38:43.180 There's something weird about this story, and I can't wait to find out what it is.
00:38:47.740 The Daily Beast decided to do a hit piece on Van Jones.
00:38:53.500 Isn't that weird?
00:38:54.900 Why would you do a hit piece on Van Jones?
00:38:57.480 And here's the reason.
00:38:59.040 Apparently, he helped with Jared Kushner.
00:39:03.360 He helped advise the executive order that the president signed about police.
00:39:12.080 And you think to yourself, well, wait a minute.
00:39:14.200 Isn't that a good thing?
00:39:15.040 Van Jones, working with the administration, already has a track record of successfully working with him on prison reform,
00:39:23.580 something very popular on both the left and the right, and it got passed.
00:39:26.680 So isn't Van Jones a rare, free-thinking, a rare, non-partisan, well, I won't say non-partisan, everybody's partisan,
00:39:38.960 say a non-extremist, most useful guy in the country?
00:39:43.680 Like actually somebody who can make something happen that matters, that helps people?
00:39:48.200 Well, that's Van Jones, right?
00:39:50.520 So they do a hit piece.
00:39:52.180 Here's why they don't like Van Jones, or at least the Daily Beast attacks him.
00:39:57.140 It's because he helped advise, now we don't know how much of the final output was from Van Jones and how much wasn't.
00:40:07.500 But when he went on CNN, he said that the deal was, you know, a step in the right direction, essentially.
00:40:14.440 He did not say it's all good and we got everything that's worth getting.
00:40:18.180 He said that it's a good, preliminary, solid step that people on both sides should like, basically, paraphrasing.
00:40:27.780 He did not say, when he was talking about it publicly, while he was saying it was good,
00:40:33.680 he did not say that he was one of the people who advised on it.
00:40:37.540 And so Daily Beast thinks that this is worth an attack piece to ruin his reputation in public,
00:40:45.600 or they're attempting to, they're failing.
00:40:48.180 But attempting to, because he advised on something very important, vital to the country,
00:40:53.900 tearing the country apart, one of the few people who is both credible and useful and just wants, 0.98
00:40:59.800 based on everything I've seen, just wants good results.
00:41:04.660 Right?
00:41:05.260 One of the most helpful, self-sacrificing people in the entire frickin' United States,
00:41:13.660 and they go after him, and they attack him.
00:41:16.460 Talk about the enemy of the people. 0.63
00:41:18.180 Now, let's talk about the specific complaint.
00:41:21.100 So he did not, he did not fully disclose that the executive order he was saying has good parts,
00:41:28.660 wish it could be more, but it has some good parts.
00:41:31.280 He did not disclose that he was one of many people that Jared Kushner got advice from.
00:41:37.020 Is that fair?
00:41:40.240 Let me ask you this.
00:41:41.940 Do you think everybody who advises the White House brags about it in public?
00:41:47.020 Do you think everybody who advises the White House wants you to know that in public,
00:41:52.400 for whatever the reasons are?
00:41:55.140 I say it is completely fair to not disclose that.
00:42:01.860 Do you know anybody who has advised the White House and did not disclose it?
00:42:06.320 Yeah, you do.
00:42:09.700 Probably quite a few of them.
00:42:10.980 It is very routine to advise the White House and not disclose it.
00:42:17.460 Why?
00:42:18.440 Well, one, you're not a dick.
00:42:20.480 How about that?
00:42:21.240 Because disclosing, hey, I advised the White House yesterday, is just sort of a dick thing
00:42:27.560 to do.
00:42:28.280 Because you know what?
00:42:29.120 You should let the White House present their case any way they want to.
00:42:33.740 If you want to help, if you want to help the White House, how about you keep your own
00:42:38.640 fucking face out of it, right?
00:42:40.720 You don't take credit for something the president's doing because you gave advice for 10 minutes
00:42:45.300 in a meeting?
00:42:45.780 You don't do that.
00:42:48.000 No.
00:42:49.400 The White House and the administration, if you consider the entire administration, they
00:42:54.660 are continuously sampling for advice.
00:42:59.340 I have been asked for advice.
00:43:01.860 A lot of the blue check conservatives who have something to say have been asked for advice
00:43:08.160 on different topics at different times.
00:43:11.580 Do they all talk about it?
00:43:13.920 No.
00:43:14.420 No, you don't do that.
00:43:17.640 That's not how it works.
00:43:19.300 You don't advise somebody in the White House and then go talk about it on TV.
00:43:24.140 It doesn't work that way.
00:43:26.180 Now, if the story was that you were invited to the White House, the Oval Office, they took
00:43:31.840 a picture, then of course you say that you were there and you talked to the president.
00:43:36.540 And when they say, what did you say to the president, what do you say?
00:43:40.220 None of your business.
00:43:42.400 None of your business.
00:43:44.420 That's how it's supposed to work.
00:43:46.800 So here is Van Jones, not trying to claim credit for anything, not talking at a school
00:43:54.940 about who he may have advised, exactly like you'd want him to, exactly the way you'd wish
00:44:01.320 he would act.
00:44:02.060 And they write a fucking hit piece on him?
00:44:05.160 The only guy who's trying to fucking do something useful?
00:44:09.020 Now, it made it very clear that at least the Daily Beast doesn't want a solution.
00:44:14.360 I mean, you don't have to read too hard between the lines to realize that they wanted to fight
00:44:22.180 more than they wanted any kind of movement forward.
00:44:25.260 That's pretty obvious.
00:44:26.240 All right.
00:44:28.960 There's a story about a company named Perform Path, a Lake Mary's, Florida company.
00:44:35.300 And they've introduced an ultraviolet light.
00:44:39.260 I guess you can just replace your light fixtures or your bulbs.
00:44:42.940 I don't know if it's a bulb or the light fixture.
00:44:45.220 It might be both.
00:44:45.840 But you can basically put in lighting with ultraviolet, and they're aiming at team and venues, you
00:44:55.440 know, places where you have team sports and spectators.
00:44:59.600 And they're looking to basically use this UV light to disinfect the entire area all the
00:45:06.200 time.
00:45:07.240 Does it work?
00:45:08.500 Well, hard to know.
00:45:10.060 Is it expensive?
00:45:11.200 I don't know.
00:45:12.460 But I'm just telling you that that's out there.
00:45:14.380 And it could be that ultraviolet light.
00:45:18.540 I'm just going to give you the most positive potential.
00:45:21.920 Imagine it works.
00:45:23.600 And I would think they need a little more science to know for sure.
00:45:26.540 They do know that the UV has an effect on viruses.
00:45:30.520 So that part is known.
00:45:32.280 What they don't know is if you put it in a lot of ceiling lights in a lot of places, do
00:45:37.020 you get a different result?
00:45:38.800 But probably.
00:45:40.420 I mean, common sense tells you it's worth trying.
00:45:43.620 Let's say it works.
00:45:46.180 Could it be that we will develop technology that makes it safer against all viruses forever?
00:45:54.440 Yeah, it's a specific type of UV light, not generic UV light.
00:45:58.800 Thank you.
00:45:59.120 This could be one of the biggest things in human development.
00:46:07.380 Because think about all the damn viruses from the regular cold to every other kind of flu
00:46:13.640 virus.
00:46:14.100 If the UV light can kill those things without hurting people, and it can basically flush
00:46:20.620 it out of indoor spaces, if you can get rid of viruses indoors with just light bulbs,
00:46:28.840 just make sure you have a couple of those lights in each room.
00:46:31.320 If that does it, this is one of the greatest, I mean, this would be as big as when humanity
00:46:39.380 learned to wash its hands with soap.
00:46:41.660 This would be that big.
00:46:43.160 I mean, that's pretty big.
00:46:44.080 Who knows if it'll work?
00:46:46.120 We'll see.
00:46:49.900 Anyway.
00:46:53.420 Here's the scariest thought of the day.
00:46:58.100 We've talked about the Yanni and Laurel audios.
00:47:02.340 So there are audio illusions in which you can imagine you hear something one way, and then
00:47:08.500 you can just imagine it another way, and you hear it the other way.
00:47:12.120 So given that audio illusions are established as a thing, we know we can make people hear
00:47:18.580 different things, even sending the same sound.
00:47:21.880 And it has to do with how they're primed.
00:47:24.040 Now imagine a bad character, a bad, let's say a country, that wants to start a revolution
00:47:32.680 or a riot in another country, and they want to do it with misinformation.
00:47:39.720 One of the technologies that apparently is available is to send a message that half the
00:47:46.580 people will listen to, and they'll say, I don't hear anything wrong with that.
00:47:49.960 And the other half will say, oh my God, are you listening to the same thing I am?
00:47:54.980 What I hear is that they're Nazis who want to take over the world, or whatever it is.
00:48:00.440 Whatever is the worst thing you can imagine.
00:48:02.880 So if somebody created an intentional audio illusion, let's say it had somebody you thought
00:48:11.600 was a good politician, but the audio illusion made it sound like they were using the N-word.
00:48:17.680 Now I think of this because there's a video of Joe Biden using the N-word, that I heard
00:48:25.760 it and I said, okay, that didn't happen.
00:48:28.160 So as soon as I heard it, I was like, okay, that's a picture of Joe Biden, his lips are
00:48:33.020 moving, and I clearly hear that N-word coming out of his mouth.
00:48:37.620 But as soon as you hear it, you go, no, that didn't happen.
00:48:40.120 That's some kind of a fake.
00:48:41.740 Now it turns out that the nature of the fakery is that it was just out of context, and he
00:48:47.440 was quoting someone else while condemning them.
00:48:50.860 So if you know he's quoting someone else and condemning them, that changes the context.
00:48:55.860 Now, should he have used the word in its natural form while condemning them?
00:49:00.880 Well, remember, it was pretty far back in time when it wasn't as obvious that that would
00:49:06.260 be the worst thing in the world.
00:49:08.060 Should he have done it?
00:49:09.120 I don't know, it's a small problem.
00:49:10.920 He was obviously, his intentions were right, and the times were different.
00:49:16.640 So I wouldn't make a big deal out of it.
00:49:18.640 But it reminded me that how easy it would be to have a piece of misinformation in which
00:49:24.500 people could clearly, half of the people would say, no, it's not on the video.
00:49:29.560 Trump is not saying those words.
00:49:31.740 And then the other half would say, ah, it's right there.
00:49:36.020 We listen to it.
00:49:37.220 Open your ears, you must be lying to us, because we hear those bad words clearly.
00:49:43.800 So there is a potential for really bad mischief, the kind that would actually destroy a country
00:49:49.840 if you use that technology.
00:49:51.660 What are the odds that a pandemic would make masks mandatory at the same time that the protests
00:50:02.020 really require masks to be successful?
00:50:05.680 Is that the weirdest coincidence in the world?
00:50:09.700 Or is it a coincidence?
00:50:11.440 Now, the conspiracy theorists would say that everything from the coronavirus through the
00:50:17.280 statue stuff is all planned by some cabal of Marxists somewhere in the sky.
00:50:23.040 Now, I don't think that's the case.
00:50:24.360 I think it's an actual coincidence.
00:50:25.900 I think it is an actual, just legitimate coincidence, but a really bad one.
00:50:31.320 Because if people couldn't wear masks, how large would the protests be?
00:50:37.400 Now, as many people said, the looters weren't wearing masks.
00:50:41.560 You know, a lot of those people weren't wearing masks.
00:50:43.700 To which I say, they only could do what they were doing because there were so many people.
00:50:51.120 And there were only so many people because so many of them could wear masks.
00:50:55.860 If you took the masks away from the non-looters, there would be no looters, because there wouldn't 1.00
00:51:03.760 be many people there.
00:51:05.180 And then the police would have numbers, and they would just stop the looters.
00:51:08.280 It's the number of people that gives them their power.
00:51:11.180 And the only way they can get the number of people, even if a third of them are not wearing
00:51:15.780 masks, the only way you can get that big number is with masks.
00:51:20.700 And I would say that you can't solve this problem as long as they're wearing masks.
00:51:26.940 You can't solve it as long as it's mandatory to wear masks.
00:51:31.540 But here's what I would suggest.
00:51:33.840 And I don't know, you could test this and see if it makes things worse or better.
00:51:38.520 This easily could make things worse.
00:51:40.100 But just test it out.
00:51:42.360 Suppose the police could very calmly just detain a member of Antifa, not even necessarily somebody
00:51:49.880 who's breaking the law.
00:51:51.580 And let's say there's an anti-mask law, which is the anti-mask law, of course, would be overridden
00:51:58.560 by the need to wear masks for the pandemic.
00:52:01.340 So you have two conflicting laws.
00:52:02.880 But the pandemic one is sort of a particular one for a particular purpose.
00:52:08.340 Could the police stop somebody and say, just for the purposes of identification, we have
00:52:13.940 an anti-mask law.
00:52:15.900 But since I don't want you to be in danger, we'll stand six feet away.
00:52:20.220 I'd like you to drop your mask and we'll just take a picture.
00:52:24.100 That's all.
00:52:24.940 Then you can put your mask back on and you're free to go.
00:52:27.140 Now, what would happen?
00:52:31.760 Now, of course, they might resist, right?
00:52:34.560 The obvious thing is that they would resist.
00:52:36.660 But it does seem to me that if the rumor started catching on, that the police were asking people
00:52:45.700 to pull their mask down to take a picture, and if they refused, they would be arrested
00:52:50.360 because there's, let's say, there's an anti-mask law, which not everybody has.
00:52:56.600 So it seems to me that you could at least have a shot at taking a lot of the energy out of the
00:53:02.260 protests by allowing the police to take a photo of somebody with their mask down just
00:53:08.820 temporarily in the safest possible way so that you're not putting them at risk for the
00:53:13.920 coronavirus.
00:53:15.380 I just put that out there.
00:53:16.620 There might be something to work with there.
00:53:18.120 But it also could just be a reason for a fight and cause problems.
00:53:23.460 Depends.
00:53:26.300 Biden says shoot the looters in the legs and then remove their masks.
00:53:29.680 Yeah, going inside a bank with masks is kind of scary.
00:53:37.140 So I used to be a bank teller.
00:53:39.140 It was my first adult job.
00:53:41.840 And let me tell you, if I were a bank teller and all of my customers were wearing masks,
00:53:47.080 I would not be a happy camper because I got robbed twice when I was a teller.
00:53:53.680 All right.
00:53:58.580 Somebody says they work in a bank.
00:54:01.000 Barr said all 14 terrorist task forces have been activated, meaning that they're going
00:54:06.920 after the organizers as terrorists.
00:54:12.520 Somebody says it's a brilliant idea, but it will reveal that the politicians are in the
00:54:16.800 tank with protesters.
00:54:17.840 So one of the things I'm hearing from smart people is this, that the reason there doesn't
00:54:24.340 seem to be as much focus on solutions is that the organizers don't want them.
00:54:30.460 They don't want solutions.
00:54:31.820 And I think that that's closer to true than not true.
00:54:34.500 While it is definitely true that there are plenty of protesters who want a solution to
00:54:39.260 police violence, it's certainly not true that that's what's driving the protests.
00:54:43.900 It just isn't.
00:54:44.720 What's driving the protests is the organizers, the TV, the social media, and it's a small
00:54:51.620 group of people who are manipulating the larger group to do what they do.
00:54:56.640 But the small group doesn't want a solution.
00:54:58.280 They need infinite conflict to take this to its broader conclusion, which is power, of course.
00:55:08.000 And I think the, as I said earlier, the only way that's going to stop, ah, somebody says
00:55:16.840 in the comments, a new Rasmussen poll says nearly 40% of voters believe Biden has dementia.
00:55:26.960 40% of voters think Biden has dementia.
00:55:30.060 Now, you don't have to look at the details to know that that's divided by largely along
00:55:37.220 party lines.
00:55:39.620 So, you know, obviously there are more Republicans who think Biden is, has dementia than there
00:55:45.240 are Democrats.
00:55:46.760 How much of that is just political?
00:55:49.280 And how much of that is confirmation bias?
00:55:52.180 And how much of that is cognitive dissonance?
00:55:54.060 Well, I think you're going to see the numbers somewhere in the 20% range of Democrats who
00:56:02.820 think that Biden has dementia.
00:56:05.320 Yeah, there it is in the comments.
00:56:06.980 Somebody's saying that 20% of Democrats think Biden should be checked for dementia.
00:56:12.160 Now, I think technically it's probably more about he should be checked for it as opposed
00:56:17.540 to he hasn't, because we're not doctors, right?
00:56:21.200 It's more about maybe we should check this out.
00:56:23.700 I think that's always the underlying assumption.
00:56:27.740 Now, if 20% of Democrats think Biden has dementia, and 100% of the people watching this
00:56:34.360 periscope probably think it, what's up with the other 80% of Democrats?
00:56:40.620 This is an interesting question.
00:56:43.060 So there are 80% of Democrats who can look at Biden, and according to them, according to
00:56:50.660 those 80% of Democrats, don't see a problem.
00:56:54.500 Do you believe that?
00:56:56.520 What would explain the gigantic difference in people seeing a problem, obviously, and people
00:57:04.020 who say, no, I don't see anything?
00:57:06.320 Well, some of them are, of course, lying.
00:57:11.700 Wouldn't you assume?
00:57:12.400 Don't you think some of them are lying because they just hate Trump more than they care about
00:57:17.280 having a president who has dementia?
00:57:20.300 That's got to be some of them, right?
00:57:22.240 I don't know if it's most of them or just a few of them, but some of us lying.
00:57:26.720 But I'd like to suggest that this is the ideal setup for cognitive dissonance.
00:57:32.320 Now, if you've ever had trouble understanding what cognitive dissonance is, and you just
00:57:37.560 wanted like a really clean example, this is it.
00:57:41.360 This is the cleanest example of a setup that is guaranteed to create cognitive dissonance.
00:57:50.500 Let me say that again.
00:57:51.940 The setup that you're seeing with Biden getting this far, but yet clearly having signs of dementia,
00:57:57.740 is the perfect setup to generate cognitive dissonance.
00:58:03.560 In fact, you could run an experiment with just, if you could find some way to do an experiment
00:58:08.200 with a sample of people and give them this setup, you would see cognitive dissonance half
00:58:15.440 of the time at least, at least half, maybe 100%.
00:58:19.380 I mean, it's a really strong effect.
00:58:21.580 And here's the setup.
00:58:23.460 People wanted to beat Trump, and it's their number one most important thing.
00:58:28.280 All right?
00:58:28.880 It's the most important thing, the Democrats.
00:58:31.340 They've gone through this entire primary process in which the Democrats were looking for the
00:58:37.120 finest, most effective leader that they could pick out of all Democrats.
00:58:42.020 They came up with Biden.
00:58:44.700 And now, in order to get that thing they want most, they have to back Biden as their champion.
00:58:49.980 What would happen to your brain if you found yourself in a situation in which you had to
00:58:57.700 back a guy who obviously had dementia because to do otherwise violates everything you think
00:59:03.820 about yourself, which is, I'm pretty good at picking politicians and voting, and I'm a
00:59:10.340 member of the Democratic group, and we're the reasonable ones.
00:59:14.000 So, obviously, we're going to pick somebody who understands science and, very importantly,
00:59:18.800 doesn't lie.
00:59:20.300 Because a big problem we have is that Trump guy keeps lying and saying things that are
00:59:25.500 wrong and some facts are wrong, and we can't have that.
00:59:28.140 So, we need a person who's famous for telling the truth.
00:59:31.820 Oh, that's a problem.
00:59:33.120 Because what are all these clips about Biden lying and lying and lying about his own resume?
00:59:39.080 I mean, just crazy things.
00:59:40.540 Like, he's on tape saying he had three degrees when he has one, and he said, oh, I forgot.
00:59:45.280 I forgot I only have one college degree, not three.
00:59:48.480 Or majors, I think it was.
00:59:50.260 Was it degrees or majors?
00:59:51.880 I forget.
00:59:52.480 But, anyway, it was some wild lie.
00:59:55.820 So, you're a Democrat, and you get caught in this trap.
00:59:58.580 The only way you can get rid of Trump is to accept somehow that Biden is a functional person.
01:00:07.220 It's the perfect setup for cognitive dissonance.
01:00:09.860 So, my guess is, based on my experience, that most of those people who say, no, I don't see it,
01:00:16.960 are telling the truth.
01:00:20.220 Are telling the truth.
01:00:21.660 That most of the people, I don't know if it's 51% or 90%, but my experience says that by far most of the people
01:00:32.420 actually are perceiving a world in which Biden is perfectly fine.
01:00:39.200 That's wild, isn't it?
01:00:40.940 It's wild to know that the perceptions can be modified in real time.
01:00:45.900 I mean, you and they, you could stand right next to them.
01:00:48.140 They could be standing right next to you and watching one of those compilation clips of Biden just mentally falling apart.
01:00:55.620 And you could say, all right, well, you see it now, right?
01:00:58.520 Right?
01:00:59.000 You're watching the clip.
01:01:00.200 You're standing right next to me.
01:01:01.360 We're watching this clip.
01:01:02.460 Now you see it, don't you?
01:01:04.000 Right?
01:01:04.800 And do you know what they would say?
01:01:06.740 They would say, um, no.
01:01:10.180 No.
01:01:10.740 I see somebody like everybody else.
01:01:14.240 They sometimes fumble a word.
01:01:16.320 Yeah, he's a certain age.
01:01:17.820 People of a certain age maybe will reach for a word a little bit longer.
01:01:22.400 It means nothing.
01:01:24.420 And it'll just freak you out.
01:01:25.780 And you'll be like, are you kidding me?
01:01:28.120 Are you kidding me?
01:01:29.380 We're looking at the same video at the same time.
01:01:32.940 He's not all there.
01:01:35.940 And the other person just won't see it.
01:01:39.120 And you won't know if they're lying.
01:01:40.740 That's the weird thing.
01:01:42.100 You just won't know if they're lying.
01:01:43.820 And you'll say, I don't know if you're telling me the truth.
01:01:47.800 Is it just what you want me to think is true?
01:01:50.460 Because you see it, don't you?
01:01:52.500 Don't you see it?
01:01:53.840 Now this is very different than when the anti-Trumpers say to any Trump supporter,
01:02:02.160 but you see he's not passing the fact-checking, right?
01:02:05.440 Don't you see that?
01:02:06.920 And we say the same thing.
01:02:08.580 Yeah.
01:02:09.880 Yeah, we see it.
01:02:12.780 It's hyperbole.
01:02:14.840 He's directionally true.
01:02:16.500 Doesn't care too much about the details.
01:02:18.540 Hasn't affected anything yet.
01:02:20.760 We still prefer him over the alternative.
01:02:23.920 So when you talk to Trump supporters,
01:02:26.160 they seem to be completely aware of what they voted for and what they got,
01:02:30.460 which is not cognitive dissonance.
01:02:32.720 But you don't see too many Democrats, if any, say,
01:02:38.380 you know, Biden is mentally incompetent,
01:02:41.980 but I'd like a mentally incompetent president because I think it's a step up.
01:02:47.180 That's a little harder to say.
01:02:49.360 All right.
01:02:49.880 That's all I got for you today.
01:02:51.860 And let's go forth and have a terrific day.
01:02:55.460 And I will talk to you tomorrow.
01:02:58.860 Thank you.
01:02:59.000 Thank you.