Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1043 Scott Adams： Secondary Simultaneous Sip, This Time With Better Anger Management

00:00:00.000 Well, I think we should try it again, this time, differently and better.

00:00:15.360 Because if you tried to join me in the first two failed attempts at the simultaneous hip and coffee with Scott Adams,

00:00:23.520 you know it didn't go well.

00:00:26.100 I'll explain that.

00:00:28.280 But some of you may be prepared for the simultaneous hip.

00:00:31.680 Maybe you already had it.

00:00:32.640 Maybe you'd like to do another one.

00:00:34.000 But it happens right now.

00:00:35.880 And all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a challenger, a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.

00:00:44.700 Yes, I'm doing this for all of the OCD people who are watching this.

00:00:48.500 I include myself in that category in this context.

00:00:53.140 Sometimes you just need your routines.

00:00:55.480 And I know you wouldn't feel the same if I didn't come back and finish this.

00:01:02.400 And so, I invite you to enjoy the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better.

00:01:09.880 The second simultaneous sip may be the first for you.

00:01:14.140 Go.

00:01:14.460 So, here's a little lesson in anger management.

00:01:25.280 I aborted my first couple attempts there.

00:01:30.640 Well, actually, the second attempt because my anger overwhelmed me.

00:01:37.920 Now, what I was angry at, you have no idea because it wouldn't be obvious from what you were watching.

00:01:44.600 So, I wasn't angry that my technology wasn't working because I had a guest on.

00:01:51.940 I was angry at myself because I have this problem with calendars.

00:01:59.160 And when I say I have a problem with calendars, I mean it's one of the biggest problems in my life, literally.

00:02:05.120 And I would love to know if there's anybody else in the world who has this problem.

00:02:09.880 And in general, I have a problem with time.

00:02:13.780 If you give me your phone number out loud and you say blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, I can hear the numbers, but I don't have a sense of what order they came in, if you say it quickly.

00:02:23.620 So, I've always had sort of an audio, let's say, issue with time.

00:02:31.380 I hear things, but out of order.

00:02:33.760 And likewise, when I read, somebody noticed once that I don't read sentences necessarily from left to right, which is true.

00:02:42.880 So, I kind of look at them left to right, right to left, middle, that word, because things arrive and then I just reorganize them into what should have been the order they should have been.

00:02:57.380 So, if that sounds like dyslexia, that's what I call it sometimes.

00:03:01.240 But it applies to all things calendars.

00:03:08.260 And I've got this weird thing where I can look at a calendar for my day, and it'll be just a square box for the day, and there'll be nothing written in there, no appointments whatsoever.

00:03:19.600 And I'll say, ah, I've got nothing on my calendar.

00:03:22.940 And then somebody will say, like today, hey, what about this appointment?

00:03:28.200 Where are you?

00:03:28.980 Or why aren't you on this phone call?

00:03:30.820 And I'll think, I just looked at the calendar.

00:03:34.460 There's nothing on my calendar.

00:03:35.900 And then I'll pick up the calendar and I'll look at it, and there it is.

00:03:39.980 It will just be there.

00:03:42.500 When it so clearly wasn't there the last time I looked.

00:03:46.480 And sometimes it might be because my calendar isn't syncing.

00:03:50.700 Sometimes I'm crazy.

00:03:51.940 Sometimes I have a false memory of looking.

00:03:55.200 I don't know.

00:03:55.860 Maybe it's some variety of things.

00:03:57.460 But it is so consistent that it's like a glitch in the matrix.

00:04:02.760 You know, it's like my simulation isn't working.

00:04:04.660 One of my main jobs, every time I make a comic, a Dilbert comic, I have to put the date in it.

00:04:12.400 So I have to figure out what date it's going to run in the future, and then write down the correct date.

00:04:18.180 How often do you think I can look at when my comic is due?

00:04:23.400 I mean, it's just, there's a list that says it's due on this date.

00:04:27.080 And then just write the date of the comic.

00:04:30.900 Pretty easy, right?

00:04:31.820 Here's the date.

00:04:33.360 And just write it down.

00:04:35.720 How often do you think I do that wrong?

00:04:38.000 After 30 years of practicing every day.

00:04:42.560 About 80% of the time, wrong.

00:04:44.760 About 80% of the time, I can't write down a date.

00:04:47.760 Or look at it, and look at the right day of the week, and translate it in my head to what I need.

00:04:54.020 So I'd be really interested if anybody has a calendar-specific problem that doesn't seem to be affecting any other part of your life.

00:05:04.260 Because, you know, I can do pretty much any other complicated task effortlessly.

00:05:11.320 Just effortlessly.

00:05:13.360 And somebody's saying excessive weed.

00:05:16.540 Now, I wouldn't say the same thing, except that it's always been the case.

00:05:20.500 So it's not something that happened, you know, when I discovered marijuana in college.

00:05:24.800 It was a, you know, continuous lifetime thing.

00:05:28.160 Anyway, that has nothing to do with anything.

00:05:29.740 Let's talk about the news.

00:05:30.900 So, the story about Trump and whether or not he was briefed on the Russian bounty story.

00:05:42.240 That they were putting a bounty on Afghans killing American soldiers.

00:05:48.300 And here's the thing.

00:05:49.960 This story was so important that it's the national headline.

00:05:54.900 And everybody agrees, by God, if this is true, it's a gigantic thing.

00:05:59.700 Right?

00:06:00.020 Everybody agrees that.

00:06:01.700 There's nobody who's saying, no, no, no.

00:06:03.860 That wouldn't be a big deal.

00:06:05.800 Is there anybody who says that?

00:06:07.700 Nobody.

00:06:09.100 But yet, it's such a big deal that the briefers never thought to mention it to the president.

00:06:17.160 Apparently, the claim is that it's in the briefings.

00:06:20.600 So, what exactly is going on that we think this is a really big story, but the people who briefed the president didn't think to mention it out loud, knowing that he doesn't read the detailed reports.

00:06:46.340 He would depend on them, he would depend on them, to tell him what's important.

00:06:50.500 And that never came up.

00:06:53.180 That never came up.

00:06:54.860 Right?

00:06:56.620 There's something wrong.

00:06:57.940 Now, could it be that the reason it didn't rise to that level of importance with the people who actually understand how the world works, the people briefing the president, could it be that this is fairly routine?

00:07:12.720 Do you know what I mean?

00:07:17.280 How unordinary is it for some country to be paying the bad guys in some other group to kill the people that you want to influence in this group?

00:07:28.720 How unordinary is that?

00:07:30.740 Because it might be just so routine and so ever-present, it's entirely possible that the people briefing the president, it just didn't seem like it was a top-ten concern.

00:07:44.500 Because it doesn't matter why somebody's trying to kill you, if you're in Afghanistan and you're in the military, you're kind of looking for people to try to kill you all the time anyway.

00:07:56.240 Like, do they need a reason?

00:07:57.640 Does anybody think, who thinks that you have to be bribed, if you're an Afghan, you know, fighter, who thinks you have to be bribed to kill Americans?

00:08:11.660 Well, I wasn't thinking of killing Americans, but now that you've given me all these excellent Russian rupels, or whatever they are, now I'm thinking of it suddenly.

00:08:25.240 Maybe.

00:08:25.660 Maybe.

00:08:27.400 So, CNN has trotted Carl Bernstein out again to say crazy stuff, you know, mind-reading stuff, like,

00:08:38.400 Trump was seeking Putin's approval.

00:08:41.080 Trump is always seeking Putin's approval.

00:08:43.820 Why is Trump always seeking Putin's approval?

00:08:47.160 To which I say, uh, isn't that like reading his mind?

00:08:54.280 We know what Trump does, I mean, the things we can observe.

00:08:58.960 We know, for example, that he has been soft on Putin in public.

00:09:04.220 Other times he's been, you know, quite hard in terms of sanctions and whatnot.

00:09:10.140 So we see what he does, but to then translate that into he's seeking Putin's approval. 0.95

00:09:18.500 And I think, how dumb are CNN viewers that they think they need to turn on the TV to see Carl Bernstein, the worse than Watergate guy, 0.94

00:09:31.620 comment on his mind-reading skills that have been wrong every time so far? 0.96

00:09:38.160 It's just weird that this is even on television and that it works.

00:09:44.080 Like, apparently it works well enough that they bring him back.

00:09:46.660 He must be popular to their audience.

00:09:48.780 But then, of course, the thing I always tease them about is that you only bring Carl Bernstein on

00:09:54.860 if the whole point of it is to get him to say, whatever you're talking about is worse than Watergate.

00:10:01.380 It's like the whole game.

00:10:03.040 Because it's not like he's the natural person that you would be inviting on for any other reason

00:10:08.800 if he didn't have the ability to say, eh, it's worse than Watergate.

00:10:14.040 If you took that away from him, he would never be on TV.

00:10:16.580 So it's obvious that that's the driving thing.

00:10:20.680 Carl, do some articles on this, and we'll give it about three interviews.

00:10:27.140 About the third time, hit us with a worse than Watergate.

00:10:31.880 That's going to be the highlight clip.

00:10:35.420 All right.

00:10:39.920 So I told you in my aborted periscope that I've decided to endorse Joe Biden

00:10:45.920 but only to protect myself from racist Democrats.

00:10:51.400 We'll talk about racist Democrats in a moment, a little bit more.

00:10:56.840 But you may recognize this maneuver from 2016

00:11:01.640 when I said that I was going to endorse Hillary Clinton but only for my safety.

00:11:08.240 I was completely serious, meaning that it actually kept me safe.

00:11:15.080 I was able to say, hey, I endorsed Hillary. 1.00

00:11:19.060 What are you coming after me for?

00:11:21.060 It's kind of confusing.

00:11:22.840 So I am going to literally endorse Joe Biden.

00:11:26.760 I don't expect this will have any influence on anybody's votes.

00:11:32.820 Why does anybody care what anybody else endorses anyway?

00:11:36.360 Why is that even a thing?

00:11:39.080 And, you know, I don't vote.

00:11:41.740 I'm not a member of any political party.

00:11:44.200 Don't plan to be.

00:11:45.560 And I don't plan to vote because it biases me.

00:11:47.880 But if it makes me safer, you know, during this violent revolution

00:11:54.280 that we seem to be seeing here, I endorse Joe Biden.

00:11:59.540 So let me just run this by you.

00:12:04.140 Angry mob comes to my house and I say, why are you here bothering me?

00:12:10.260 I endorse Joe Biden.

00:12:12.060 And they say, did you?

00:12:14.020 I don't think you did.

00:12:15.520 You're always saying good things about Trump.

00:12:17.240 I said, check my Twitter.

00:12:20.280 There it is.

00:12:21.120 Boom. 0.99

00:12:23.580 Somebody says, coward, in all caps. 0.70

00:12:29.940 You know, something my mother taught me, which is there was a, it's an old saying. 1.00

00:12:35.360 You know, there's a fine line between bravery and stupidity. 1.00

00:12:39.320 I would rather be smart and alive than very brave and stupid and dumb. 1.00

00:12:47.240 You know, it went dead. 1.00

00:12:49.820 So we all get to choose.

00:12:52.500 All right.

00:12:53.440 So the Dems, the Democratic Party tweeted that Mount Rushmore was a symbol of white supremacy.

00:13:00.880 And here's the thing.

00:13:02.300 Are they wrong?

00:13:04.160 Right?

00:13:04.200 I mean, George Washington, you know, you may love your George Washington and you want to keep your dollar bills and your quarters and your Washington, D.C. and all that.

00:13:15.400 And so I certainly understand that.

00:13:18.000 But it's hard to escape the fact that you own slaves.

00:13:22.560 It's just a fact.

00:13:24.320 So, you know, I can criticize a lot of things, but I can't really criticize someone who doesn't want to be surrounded by your reminders of slavery.

00:13:36.640 It's not the most unreasonable thing, even though it's terribly impractical to change things and it makes people upset.

00:13:44.800 At the same time, you know, there are not many, there aren't that many cases where you can so easily see the other side.

00:13:52.480 You know, this is one where you can say to yourself, oh, I totally get why people say that's too far.

00:13:59.000 George Washington's special.

00:14:00.940 Don't go that far.

00:14:03.280 You know, it's complicated.

00:14:05.960 You know, people weren't perfect back then.

00:14:08.660 It has to be viewed through the lens of history.

00:14:11.480 I totally get that.

00:14:12.920 That's a completely reasonable argument.

00:14:15.240 I don't disagree with it a bit.

00:14:16.820 But I completely agree with the people who say, you know, I don't think you'd like this because I wouldn't.

00:14:27.200 So I can definitely see both sides.

00:14:29.920 So I think that's just a question of power.

00:14:32.400 You know, wherever the power is exerted, it will determine the outcome.

00:14:38.640 Now, speaking of power, let's talk about the thing that everybody's thinking, but you don't want to say it out loud and, you know, get banned from all platforms, I guess, which is what are the odds this turns into an actual shooting revolution?

00:14:56.620 Because the interesting thing is that the protesters are quite brilliantly avoiding gunfire, except at each other.

00:15:08.380 So the only people being shot by protesters are other protesters, apparently.

00:15:14.800 Now, that is surprisingly good discipline, don't you think?

00:15:19.220 I mean, it's sort of scary how good the discipline is.

00:15:22.600 And the reason makes sense, because as long as they have numbers, but they don't use guns, the other side is going to have trouble using guns against them, because it would just increase their numbers.

00:15:34.440 So they have sort of this checkmate kind of thing, where if it's just lots of humans with maybe some clubs now and then, and, you know, some dirty tricks, but no guns, it's just going to be hard to control them if your only tool is guns, because shooting them would make them stronger.

00:15:56.940 It would, you know, boost their argument.

00:15:59.120 But on the other hand, it has always been true, and probably always will be true, that the government is whoever uses the most force.

00:16:11.700 So if the government in name, you know, the one that you think of as the government now, is unwilling or unable to use the most force, then whoever is willing to use the most force becomes the government.

00:16:28.800 So right now, the way they use crowds against smaller numbers of armed people who won't use their weapons, what would stop them?

00:16:41.360 What would be the thing that stops them?

00:16:43.980 Because it's working, right?

00:16:45.540 And people keep doing what works.

00:16:47.720 Well, the only thing that will stop them is force.

00:16:51.520 It would have to be a force that is violent.

00:16:55.480 Again, not recommending.

00:16:58.420 I'm not saying anybody should do anything violent.

00:17:02.560 I never recommend that.

00:17:04.420 What we're doing is sort of thinking through what is the logical ramifications of what you're saying, right?

00:17:10.600 So it's more just a prediction.

00:17:13.040 So things, you know, I always say there's no such thing as a slippery slope, because it can't slip forever.

00:17:18.080 And, you know, if we rethought how we treated George Washington, and that ended up being, you know, sort of where the line got drawn, in retrospect, you look at it and say, well, you know, something stopped it.

00:17:33.780 But the only thing that's going to stop it that I can imagine, because they're not looking for concessions, right?

00:17:40.140 If the protesters were looking for something that they could get, you know, an actual specific deliverable, and then you could give it to them, you'd say, oh, well, it's like a strike by a union.

00:17:55.700 As soon as they get what they want, or the best that they can get, then they go back to work.

00:18:01.740 But these protesters are not like a union strike.

00:18:04.700 There's not really a specific thing they want, except more.

00:18:10.120 And more is not something you can satisfy, you know, because you can't just give more if the response is more and more.

00:18:20.680 So there's no way to negotiate an end to something that isn't a negotiation, and can't be by its nature.

00:18:29.080 It's just a power.

00:18:30.600 So it's basically a power move.

00:18:33.300 And the only thing that will stop it is violence.

00:18:36.480 So if there is none, and again, I'm not suggesting there should be, but it will just sweep through the country and become the law of the land, would obviously destroy the country.

00:18:47.400 Because the main difference between the left and the right is an understanding of incentives and how to build a system.

00:19:00.380 You know, Republicans are good at building systems that are a little bit cruel by objective standards, which is, is capitalism cruel?

00:19:10.060 Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, it leaves people behind.

00:19:13.420 But it works better than other systems.

00:19:15.840 That's the only, the only thing you can say about it, is that compared to the alternatives, it's way better.

00:19:23.860 It's not even close.

00:19:25.340 But it has lots of flaws, of course.

00:19:29.280 Anyway, so that's the big difference is that there isn't any way that the, the left's view of how the world should run could actually work.

00:19:38.480 And that's one of the reasons that I, I am non-jokingly in favor of letting the, the chop occupied zone and let it run out a little bit. 0.94

00:19:50.220 You know, let it, let it play out.

00:19:54.460 Because now you, now you say to me, but, um, Scott, people are being killed there.

00:20:00.000 You know, that we've had several shootings and murders in that area, but it's only a few.

00:20:05.440 I know that sounds cold, but, you know, it's an area that has a few murders every year.

00:20:13.140 This is more than normal.

00:20:15.420 But what would be the alternative?

00:20:18.640 What's the alternative?

00:20:19.940 If there's no way to get them out without force, then leaving them there and having them basically discover that they would like a better system

00:20:29.680 might be the least, the least damaging way to, to game this out in the long run for the least loss of life.

00:20:38.740 So it might be that they just need to, um, have enough of a bad experience, which would include death.

00:20:46.520 And, but it's not, it's not even the number of people getting shot or killed that would make the big difference.

00:20:53.300 Imagine living in this zone where you see people walking by open carry, you know, they've, they've actually got guns.

00:21:01.080 You know that there was a shooting the other night and you know that you've kicked out the police and you live there.

00:21:08.600 So what if you're, especially if you're a woman, you know, you've got a little extra risk if you're a woman. 0.95

00:21:14.220 So what are they thinking?

00:21:16.820 What are the women in CHOP thinking when they see that it has become, uh, you know, the, the law of whoever has a gun or whoever decides to be the most violent? 1.00

00:21:29.620 So it seems to me that letting it run a little bit may, if you were to fast forward into the future and say to yourself,

00:21:39.280 how's this going to look, you know, two years from now when we're looking back at the moment, Republicans are saying some version of president Trump is not showing enough, uh, force, not showing enough, I don't know, leadership.

00:21:58.960 You know, he, he's sort of standing back and letting the, the mayors, you know, handle things that may turn out to look, uh,

00:22:09.280 uh, brilliant.

00:22:11.040 Now somebody says, I have a blind spot about this.

00:22:13.780 I think it's about the, the Marxist plan to take over the world.

00:22:18.400 So I don't have a blind spot about that.

00:22:20.640 In fact, everything I've said is compatible with that, but I think that's what you're talking about.

00:22:25.400 Um, so, and, and, and you also have to factor in, uh, the odds that there's a foreign influence over the protesters.

00:22:37.140 Now the odds that there's attempted foreign influence is a hundred percent, uh, the odds that it is successful and that it's a variable that matters.

00:22:47.700 Let's say that Russia or China or anybody else, Great Britain, you know, that, uh, you know, is it possible and could they do it easily?

00:22:57.120 And the answer is, yeah, it's possible.

00:22:59.740 They can do it easily and they have, they have motivation to destabilize, at least in the case of Russia and China.

00:23:06.840 All right.

00:23:07.340 So, uh, I laid a little trap on Twitter that finally, uh, sprung.

00:23:17.480 Um, and it goes like this, I made three claims in a, in a conversation in which a lot of Hollywood artists were involved.

00:23:27.040 Now, as you know, artists are my natural enemies.

00:23:30.220 So whenever I say anything on Twitter that gets the attention of other writers, authors, artists, musicians, they, they all attack, but they're, they're always hilarious in their attacks because they can't even really follow the point usually.

00:23:46.100 And their attacks are just completely irrational, which is completely different from when a lawyer or an engineer usually comes after me.

00:23:54.520 You know, those are, those are more rational attacks.

00:23:57.600 They're either right or wrong.

00:23:59.080 I agree or I don't.

00:24:00.420 But when the artists come after me, it's just, it's just sort of crazy nonsense and it's more fun to, uh, to do that.

00:24:07.300 But anyway, I, I used a technique that I've written about, uh, in which I said three things, two of them are easily checked.

00:24:20.640 And I don't think, you know, I wouldn't get as much pushback from, but the third one set people's hair on fire because it's a little ambiguous.

00:24:30.820 Now, when I say it's a little ambiguous, I mean, reasonable people who could look at the same information and say to themselves, I totally disagree with how you're interpreting that.

00:24:41.600 Now, when you can create a situation like that, where there's a difference in how people interpret the same data and it's something that matters, that's a good fight.

00:24:52.480 So if you're trying to draw attention to something, have I taught you that doing something that's a little bit wrong, but it's close to something that's right, is where you get all the attention.

00:25:06.200 Simply making a claim that's true or false doesn't get the same attention as something that's just a little bit wrong and darn it, you know, you should have known it.

00:25:17.480 How can I fix this? Can't I correct this for you? You fool. How could you have made this mistake?

00:25:24.200 So here are the claims I made. Uh, it was in a thread about some discrimination against African Americans in Hollywood, which I'm sure exists.

00:25:32.880 Of course, I wouldn't doubt that, uh, because it exists everywhere.

00:25:38.400 So, so I just added context. Now, where do you see the breadth of this play here?

00:25:46.480 You might appreciate the complexity of it.

00:25:50.820 All right. Um, so I said that, uh, I lost, uh, two jobs in corporate America for being a white male.

00:26:00.600 You've heard those stories. And those are true because they told me directly to my face. 0.98

00:26:05.140 You cannot be promoted because you're white male. 0.98

00:26:09.340 So I left both of those positions eventually because I had to, I couldn't be promoted.

00:26:14.400 Um, but then I made a third claim that's a little sketchier.

00:26:22.000 Now here's the part that's the fun part. Of course, I know it's sketchy.

00:26:28.140 That's why I did it.

00:26:29.340 So I included a third part because it draws attention to the other two. So that's the play.

00:26:36.460 So here's what I claimed. And by the way, this claim is as good as a lot of other claims that people would consider legitimate,

00:26:44.980 which is what makes it sort of a good prank that it falls into that category of, well, maybe.

00:26:54.020 And so I claimed that I lost the, uh, the Dilbert TV show that ran on the UPN for,

00:27:01.300 because I'm a white creator with a right, a white product.

00:27:05.280 And the context is that, uh, UPN decided to do a, um, a focus on African-American audience

00:27:14.160 right after my first season in which the Dilbert TV show had good enough ratings,

00:27:20.640 you know, within the UPN universe, had good enough ratings to be renewed.

00:27:25.360 Now that's pretty good, but, you know, I don't know what percentage of shows ever get renewed

00:27:30.800 after the first season. It, you know, it's not terrific, whatever that number is.

00:27:35.680 So just to get renewed, it's a pretty big deal.

00:27:39.340 Now in the animation world, it's a much bigger deal.

00:27:43.480 Because here's the thing. With a live action, you can adjust as you go,

00:27:49.640 because you see what you're getting while you're getting it.

00:27:52.920 In other words, you can have your actors do a run-through of the script.

00:27:56.720 If it's not funny, you change a few lines.

00:27:59.280 And so by the time it gets on television, you know, you've really refined it in real time.

00:28:05.160 But if you're making animation, you write it, you add the voices,

00:28:10.240 it gets sent off to, I think, South Korea at the time.

00:28:14.660 Animation happens, and you don't see it again for months.

00:28:17.920 And the only thing you can do, for the most part,

00:28:21.760 is, uh, cut extra stuff to get it down to size.

00:28:26.720 But you can't really manipulate it after it comes back.

00:28:30.700 So unlike live action, you've got a six-month wait before you can make your first adjustment.

00:28:37.560 And, and we did make adjustments.

00:28:40.700 So we'd get it back, and we'd think,

00:28:42.720 Oh, wow, I was sure this would work.

00:28:45.440 Because it looked like, it looked good on paper,

00:28:47.440 but it didn't work once it got to the screen.

00:28:50.580 So I'd say, all right, I'll do less of that.

00:28:53.300 But, uh, this thing I didn't think would work.

00:28:55.340 Worked really well, so we'll do more of that kind of thing.

00:28:57.760 So by the second season, now both of these were half seasons,

00:29:01.800 but that's a detail you don't need.

00:29:03.700 So by the second season, uh, we had corrected

00:29:07.640 all the things that weren't good in the first season.

00:29:11.400 So the second season was much better.

00:29:13.600 All right, so here's the setup.

00:29:15.400 First season, good enough ratings to be renewed.

00:29:18.780 But the content, I would say, was just, all right, it was pretty good.

00:29:25.640 But the second season was actually quite good.

00:29:29.000 And in the world of animation, that demonstrates, you know,

00:29:32.560 you probably have a pretty big hit on your hand.

00:29:35.700 But that's the, that's the time that they decided to be the African-American network.

00:29:39.980 And we lost our time slot because it wasn't a administrative communication error,

00:29:47.980 as I was told.

00:29:49.920 Well, I think there was some of that involved.

00:29:52.960 But don't you, don't you imagine that Dilbert would be the show

00:29:57.540 that would lose its time slot because that's how you kill a show. 0.99

00:30:01.320 You move its time slot.

00:30:02.980 That's, it's well-known in TV world that if you move something's time slot,

00:30:07.000 the ratings plummet.

00:30:08.600 It happens pretty much every time unless you're moving it to like a premium slot.

00:30:13.820 Then it could go up.

00:30:14.680 So the ratings plunged because the time slot was moved.

00:30:20.460 At the same time, they were considering being an African-American network

00:30:23.420 in which Dilbert would obviously not be the right product.

00:30:27.340 So, was racism involved?

00:30:33.120 Hard to say, isn't it?

00:30:35.420 Hard to say.

00:30:37.800 And I wouldn't even make the claim, except I know it lights people's hair on fire.

00:30:43.380 And it's very much of the type that you hear all the time.

00:30:47.460 How often have you heard someone else make a claim, not me,

00:30:52.100 but someone else make a claim of discrimination,

00:30:54.040 and you listen to the story and you say to yourself,

00:30:56.880 maybe, you know, it could be.

00:31:00.400 But you know what else it could be?

00:31:02.420 You know what else it could be?

00:31:04.540 Could be you're not good at your job.

00:31:06.160 So what did people say to me when I made that claim?

00:31:12.260 The writers and the artists went crazy, and they said,

00:31:14.680 no, it's because you weren't good.

00:31:16.460 It's because the show wasn't good.

00:31:18.260 I said, look at your ratings in the final year,

00:31:20.880 which, of course, is my point, too.

00:31:23.000 Once they move the time slot, the ratings go down.

00:31:25.820 So, of course, it gets canceled.

00:31:27.540 It got canceled for low ratings,

00:31:29.540 but it had low ratings because the time slot was moved.

00:31:32.760 Why was the time slot moved?

00:31:34.080 Well, I can think of one reason.

00:31:36.660 It would have made sense in their strategy,

00:31:38.560 which was stated to be an African-American programming network.

00:31:44.240 So, now that I've got people's hair on fire

00:31:47.400 for this sketchy claim that, of course, I can't prove,

00:31:51.540 it's exactly like all the other things that can't be proved to my ears.

00:31:57.040 So if you'd like to know how it sounds to me

00:32:00.220 when I hear somebody make a claim,

00:32:03.100 I just taught you.

00:32:05.400 That's how it sounds.

00:32:06.880 It sounds like, I don't know, Scott.

00:32:09.460 I think maybe your show wasn't good.

00:32:12.660 Maybe consider that.

00:32:15.000 That's exactly what it sounds

00:32:16.940 when I hear other people's complaints.

00:32:20.080 And let me be perfectly clear.

00:32:22.160 It doesn't mean your complaints are wrong.

00:32:24.300 It doesn't mean your complaints are wrong.

00:32:28.480 Because I don't know if mine was right or wrong.

00:32:31.540 I actually don't know.

00:32:33.340 Can I prove that I was disadvantaged in any way?

00:32:37.720 I can't, really?

00:32:40.600 So if somebody says,

00:32:41.880 Scott, you can't prove that.

00:32:43.340 I have to say,

00:32:44.880 Hey, guess what? 0.99

00:32:47.260 That's the fucking point. 1.00

00:32:50.300 That's the fucking point. 1.00

00:32:52.700 Now, let's get to the fun part. 0.99

00:32:55.320 This allowed me to draw a lot of fire.

00:32:59.700 What happens when somebody who is a trained persuader

00:33:02.880 draws energy to themselves,

00:33:05.980 even when it's negative?

00:33:08.380 Yeah.

00:33:08.760 What happens when you draw negative energy to yourself?

00:33:12.700 Well, you could be like Joe Rogan,

00:33:16.540 who draws both positive and negative energy,

00:33:18.900 and he just made a $100 million deal with Spotify.

00:33:24.420 So that's what he did with negative energy.

00:33:27.780 You could be like candidate Trump,

00:33:30.980 who turned negative energy into the presidency of the United States.

00:33:34.900 You could do that.

00:33:36.440 Or you could do what I did.

00:33:38.660 And that was to set a trap for Ida Bay-Wells, 0.99

00:33:42.980 who she's been covering race for the 1619 Project.

00:33:49.980 She calls herself the Beyonce of journalism.

00:33:52.640 This is just in her profile.

00:33:55.600 And she's the co-founder of something,

00:33:59.640 the 1619 Project, I guess.

00:34:02.120 So she writes for the New York Times Magazine,

00:34:04.060 so she's involved with writing about race and racism.

00:34:08.060 And she replies to me,

00:34:09.580 you're, let's see, what was her first reply to this?

00:34:16.200 It was, you're absolutely right.

00:34:20.460 That is why white men are totally underrepresented 0.93

00:34:23.080 in supervisory positions,

00:34:25.280 high-paying jobs, corporate management.

00:34:27.740 I mean, they're practically unicorns.

00:34:30.400 Now, was there anything I said

00:34:33.320 that suggested that I believed

00:34:36.340 that senior management was diverse?

00:34:42.400 100% of what I said agreed with her comment,

00:34:45.420 which was there was no diversity.

00:34:48.100 There's not much diversity in Hollywood, right?

00:34:51.960 That was the whole reason that UPN thought,

00:34:54.960 well, let's be an African-American network.

00:34:57.620 The whole point was they thought

00:34:59.060 it was an underfilled category.

00:35:01.260 So everything she's saying is what I say.

00:35:04.320 In fact, that's why I lost my two corporate careers.

00:35:09.140 I lost them because there were so many white people, 1.00

00:35:12.460 white men in senior management

00:35:14.800 that they said, hey, too many.

00:35:18.200 You know, we've got to hold off.

00:35:19.900 So that's why I lost my banking

00:35:21.820 and my telecommunication jobs.

00:35:25.740 But the other thing that everybody accused me of

00:35:29.160 was asking for pity

00:35:31.300 and running a pity party.

00:35:34.720 To which I say,

00:35:36.220 I've never asked for pity.

00:35:39.740 Have you ever heard me

00:35:42.100 ask for sympathy?

00:35:45.180 I'm just telling you my story.

00:35:47.960 But, are you waiting for the good part?

00:35:51.620 Here's the good part.

00:35:52.560 I tweeted Ida Baywell's comment,

00:35:59.020 her first comment.

00:36:00.380 I think that was her second comment, actually.

00:36:02.560 And I pinned it to my profile

00:36:05.520 and I asked people to say

00:36:07.200 if they had a similar experience

00:36:09.600 of being discriminated against

00:36:12.080 because they were white and male.

00:36:16.100 Do you think anybody had any stories?

00:36:17.880 Let me see how many we've got so far.

00:36:23.460 Let's see.

00:36:26.700 And this was the culmination of the whole point.

00:36:31.240 So there were about 1,600 comments.

00:36:35.100 And I'll just scroll down,

00:36:37.760 catch somebody in the middle.

00:36:40.160 So these are people who said

00:36:41.580 they were white men

00:36:42.520 who were discriminated against

00:36:44.240 and lost a job for it.

00:36:45.720 Almost all of them

00:36:47.580 say that they were told directly.

00:36:50.480 Right?

00:36:51.320 So almost all of these

00:36:52.920 were told directly.

00:36:57.060 Let's see.

00:36:58.040 Yep, it happened to me.

00:36:59.720 Yeah, when I was a state employee.

00:37:01.500 Blah, blah, blah.

00:37:03.800 I have all these rejections

00:37:05.480 saying the same thing.

00:37:06.580 Exactly the same thing

00:37:07.620 happened to my dad.

00:37:09.600 Blah, blah, blah.

00:37:10.200 As a police department.

00:37:12.220 I once applied for a job.

00:37:13.600 Blah, blah, blah.

00:37:14.100 Blah, blah, blah.

00:37:15.100 Wrong demographic. 1.00

00:37:16.920 Same here.

00:37:18.100 Blah, blah, blah.

00:37:21.260 Blah.

00:37:21.820 I was passed over

00:37:23.060 for a less experience.

00:37:24.920 Blah, blah, blah.

00:37:26.360 So just on my little...

00:37:29.520 Yeah, you can see in the comments.

00:37:32.120 So here's the red pill

00:37:34.140 of all red pills.

00:37:35.260 Are you ready for it?

00:37:37.020 It's the red pill of red pills.

00:37:38.860 And by the way,

00:37:39.400 what I'm going to say next,

00:37:42.080 I couldn't say

00:37:44.040 until I had set up

00:37:46.860 this chain of events

00:37:48.060 so that I could post this tweet

00:37:50.820 in context.

00:37:52.720 So I had a contact

00:37:53.780 so I could tweet it

00:37:54.740 and say,

00:37:55.060 hey,

00:37:55.840 anybody have the same experience?

00:37:57.820 And I had to create

00:37:58.680 a whole series of events

00:37:59.980 just to be free to say that

00:38:01.780 because I don't have

00:38:02.340 freedom of speech

00:38:03.160 the way other people do.

00:38:04.900 And now I can say this.

00:38:08.800 It's one of the biggest

00:38:09.840 discriminations in the world

00:38:11.220 against white men.

00:38:13.640 But the trick

00:38:15.080 that is being played on us

00:38:17.080 is that if you lost a job 0.85

00:38:19.440 because you're a white man, 1.00

00:38:21.900 well, fuck you 1.00

00:38:22.960 because there are rich men 1.00

00:38:24.420 that are not you.

00:38:26.480 You understand that reasoning, right?

00:38:29.000 You were passed over for a job

00:38:30.940 so your life was impacted

00:38:32.280 by a racist decision.

00:38:34.140 They were trying to fix

00:38:36.660 a past injustice.

00:38:38.680 We all get that.

00:38:40.200 In fact, I agree

00:38:41.480 with some reverse discrimination.

00:38:43.640 I'm not even opposed to it.

00:38:45.400 I'm just saying it exists

00:38:46.700 and it's way bigger

00:38:48.560 than you think it is.

00:38:50.500 The fact is

00:38:51.580 that white people 0.52

00:38:52.360 have not been allowed

00:38:53.300 to complain.

00:38:55.340 But here's what you got wrong.

00:38:58.980 Once things got to the point

00:39:01.520 where George Washington

00:39:02.640 is being torn down

00:39:03.640 and Mount Rushmore

00:39:04.920 is being threatened,

00:39:06.780 now it is no longer

00:39:08.200 a power imbalance

00:39:09.740 where if you're a white male,

00:39:12.400 you just couldn't talk

00:39:13.500 because you were considered

00:39:15.000 part of the elite

00:39:16.040 and you didn't have free speech.

00:39:18.980 But as your power in society

00:39:22.100 subsides,

00:39:23.060 and it's happening

00:39:23.720 in real time right now,

00:39:25.420 the power of being

00:39:26.840 a white male

00:39:27.760 in the United States

00:39:28.880 would anybody argue

00:39:31.120 is at least heading

00:39:32.940 in the direction of lower.

00:39:34.760 So whatever you thought

00:39:36.180 it was before

00:39:36.800 is certainly going lower.

00:39:37.920 So that frees up

00:39:42.040 some free speech

00:39:43.300 because whoever is

00:39:44.760 the most downtrodden

00:39:45.980 in our society

00:39:47.260 gets the most free speech.

00:39:49.880 Right?

00:39:50.200 The president,

00:39:51.200 the most powerful,

00:39:52.420 he has to be

00:39:53.100 the most careful,

00:39:54.400 or she,

00:39:55.380 has to be the most careful

00:39:56.700 about how they talk.

00:39:57.920 But if you were,

00:40:00.680 let's say, 0.80

00:40:01.260 a black man in America,

00:40:03.680 you can kind of say anything.

00:40:06.100 Right?

00:40:07.280 You can kind of say anything

00:40:08.800 because traditionally

00:40:11.040 you've got so much

00:40:12.160 working against you

00:40:13.160 that people will say,

00:40:14.800 yeah, okay.

00:40:16.520 But the more presumed

00:40:18.720 or actual power you have,

00:40:20.280 the less free speech you have.

00:40:22.060 It just works that way.

00:40:24.620 So I can say now

00:40:26.260 something I couldn't say before.

00:40:27.920 Which is that,

00:40:29.320 although I'm not

00:40:29.880 personally complaining,

00:40:32.000 it was a series of events

00:40:33.800 which led me,

00:40:35.320 because I had enough options,

00:40:37.260 to succeed in a better way

00:40:39.020 than working in a cubicle.

00:40:40.740 So for me,

00:40:41.680 it worked out great

00:40:42.500 in the long run.

00:40:44.140 Right?

00:40:44.600 I'm not sure it works out great

00:40:46.100 for everybody else.

00:40:47.480 But what I would like to suggest

00:40:49.240 is that it is super racist

00:40:51.720 to overlook

00:40:54.600 all of the white men 0.60

00:40:56.580 and others.

00:40:57.980 You know,

00:40:58.660 not just white men,

00:41:00.000 but a number of the examples

00:41:01.680 were Asian Americans

00:41:03.560 and women

00:41:04.400 who were having

00:41:05.040 the same experience.

00:41:07.380 So it wasn't just white men.

00:41:09.840 But

00:41:10.100 there's a massive amount

00:41:12.740 of serious,

00:41:14.220 direct discrimination

00:41:15.800 going on.

00:41:17.340 and the reasoning

00:41:20.040 given for it

00:41:20.880 is that

00:41:21.580 you have to pay

00:41:23.060 for the sins

00:41:24.460 of some strangers

00:41:25.360 who have also

00:41:26.660 white skin,

00:41:27.800 which is the most 0.99

00:41:28.860 super racist thing

00:41:30.000 you've ever heard

00:41:30.680 in your life.

00:41:31.940 Super racist. 0.97

00:41:33.540 But we can say that now.

00:41:35.680 Couldn't really say that before.

00:41:37.720 All right,

00:41:38.020 so that was the whole point

00:41:39.040 of that.

00:41:39.440 And I felt bad

00:41:42.280 because there were

00:41:42.980 actually some

00:41:43.600 well-intentioned people

00:41:44.860 who were trying to

00:41:45.740 figure out

00:41:46.620 if my example

00:41:47.320 was real or not.

00:41:48.880 And I felt bad

00:41:49.880 because I was kind of

00:41:50.580 pranking,

00:41:51.800 you know,

00:41:52.300 pranking people

00:41:53.080 with that third example.

00:41:54.620 But the third example

00:41:55.560 was to draw attention

00:41:56.500 to the other two.

00:41:58.180 The third example

00:41:58.840 might be true as well.

00:42:00.060 I just don't know.

00:42:01.600 I don't know,

00:42:03.200 but I know that

00:42:04.000 it got people's hair

00:42:04.920 on fire.

00:42:06.100 That's what I wanted.

00:42:07.220 Here's an interesting

00:42:07.980 factoid.

00:42:09.380 The Iranian budget

00:42:11.540 is 50,

00:42:12.660 no,

00:42:13.780 they have an income

00:42:15.320 for the government.

00:42:16.960 So this is what

00:42:17.740 the government

00:42:18.180 has to spend.

00:42:19.440 Oil revenue

00:42:20.200 and tax income

00:42:21.320 combined,

00:42:21.980 57 billion.

00:42:23.700 So that's the annual

00:42:24.680 amount that Iran 0.98

00:42:25.580 has to spend,

00:42:26.960 57 billion.

00:42:28.720 Their budget

00:42:29.680 is 480 billion.

00:42:33.380 And the problem,

00:42:35.140 of course,

00:42:35.540 is that oil prices

00:42:36.560 are low,

00:42:37.120 but also that

00:42:37.880 their economy

00:42:39.060 suffers from

00:42:39.940 all the sanctions.

00:42:41.660 So how long

00:42:42.380 can Iran

00:42:43.600 just continue

00:42:46.700 as a country

00:42:47.900 if they're making

00:42:49.520 57 billion a year

00:42:51.020 by spending

00:42:51.580 480 billion?

00:42:53.140 And I have to think

00:42:54.340 that they're going

00:42:56.020 to prune back

00:42:56.920 their support

00:42:58.100 of, you know,

00:42:59.400 adventurous

00:43:00.000 terrorism

00:43:01.580 just because

00:43:03.040 they can't afford it.

00:43:04.160 So is the

00:43:05.420 president's plan

00:43:06.420 totally working

00:43:07.380 because it sort

00:43:09.100 of looks like

00:43:09.640 it is.

00:43:10.760 It sort of looks

00:43:11.760 like squeezing

00:43:12.820 around is

00:43:13.380 totally working.

00:43:14.980 I don't know.

00:43:19.340 Let's see.

00:43:23.320 I'm sure I had a few

00:43:24.520 other things

00:43:25.040 on here.

00:43:25.480 So TikTok

00:43:32.460 just got banned

00:43:33.840 in India.

00:43:36.540 Do you know

00:43:37.260 how big a deal

00:43:37.880 that is?

00:43:38.820 So TikTok

00:43:39.480 was banned

00:43:40.240 in India

00:43:40.700 along with,

00:43:41.440 I don't know,

00:43:41.700 50 other apps

00:43:43.000 that had a

00:43:44.200 Chinese connection

00:43:45.120 because it allowed

00:43:46.100 China to gather

00:43:47.740 data, I think,

00:43:48.660 and spy on people

00:43:49.600 and God knows

00:43:50.760 what else.

00:43:51.220 So how long

00:43:52.660 do you think

00:43:53.080 TikTok is going

00:43:54.220 to last

00:43:54.820 in the United

00:43:56.440 States?

00:43:58.720 Tic-tac.

00:43:59.320 I said

00:43:59.580 Tic-tac again.

00:44:00.380 TikTok.

00:44:01.100 How long

00:44:01.640 do you think

00:44:01.980 TikTok

00:44:02.400 is going

00:44:03.900 to last

00:44:04.660 and still

00:44:05.580 be legal

00:44:06.080 to use

00:44:06.520 in the United

00:44:06.900 States?

00:44:08.740 I don't think

00:44:09.520 long.

00:44:10.540 Now here's

00:44:11.120 the most

00:44:11.480 interesting thing

00:44:12.320 that came

00:44:12.720 out of that.

00:44:14.160 So Balaji 0.55

00:44:15.480 Srinivasan

00:44:16.700 and Naval

00:44:17.780 Ravikant,

00:44:19.100 if you don't

00:44:20.780 know those

00:44:21.280 two names,

00:44:23.080 then you

00:44:23.540 don't know

00:44:23.840 anything about

00:44:24.320 Silicon Valley.

00:44:25.860 But I just

00:44:27.120 mentioned two

00:44:27.660 of the smartest,

00:44:29.300 most successful

00:44:29.940 people in

00:44:30.620 Silicon Valley.

00:44:32.140 And they

00:44:33.320 said they're

00:44:33.840 open to

00:44:34.340 looking at

00:44:34.740 business plans,

00:44:36.160 investments,

00:44:37.280 for people

00:44:37.920 who make

00:44:38.540 a competitor,

00:44:42.040 an American

00:44:42.660 version of a

00:44:43.520 competitor,

00:44:44.280 to these

00:44:44.680 Chinese apps.

00:44:45.580 so goodbye

00:44:49.620 Chinese apps.

00:44:52.080 So no

00:44:52.880 matter whether

00:44:54.320 or not the

00:44:56.800 government bans

00:44:57.660 the Chinese

00:44:58.280 apps, I

00:44:59.160 think that's

00:44:59.800 just a

00:45:00.440 guarantee.

00:45:01.300 I can't

00:45:01.880 imagine that's

00:45:02.520 not in the

00:45:03.180 pipeline, and

00:45:04.320 I can't

00:45:04.820 imagine it's

00:45:05.480 not going to

00:45:05.860 happen soon.

00:45:07.040 So that's

00:45:07.520 probably going

00:45:08.020 to happen.

00:45:09.000 And it

00:45:09.880 looks like the

00:45:10.760 smartest people

00:45:11.380 in Silicon

00:45:11.900 Valley just

00:45:12.760 put the green

00:45:15.120 light on

00:45:15.920 business plans

00:45:17.360 for competitors.

00:45:19.040 So let's

00:45:20.480 watch the

00:45:20.920 smartest people

00:45:21.620 in America

00:45:22.240 just take

00:45:24.480 that off the

00:45:25.060 table.

00:45:26.680 Just take

00:45:27.840 those apps

00:45:28.500 just right

00:45:29.180 out of the

00:45:29.520 game.

00:45:30.400 Now it's

00:45:30.640 not going to

00:45:30.940 happen right

00:45:31.420 away, and

00:45:32.780 it probably

00:45:33.120 does require

00:45:33.760 the government

00:45:34.600 to ban

00:45:35.220 the ones

00:45:35.660 that are

00:45:35.980 coming from

00:45:36.460 China.

00:45:37.660 But capitalism

00:45:38.840 is going to

00:45:39.560 do its

00:45:39.840 thing.

00:45:40.140 So

00:45:46.060 Washington

00:45:46.600 Post

00:45:47.080 Global

00:45:47.680 Opinion

00:45:48.200 Senator

00:45:48.700 Karen

00:45:49.700 Attia, so

00:45:51.520 something she

00:45:52.160 said recently

00:45:53.280 was, quote,

00:45:54.720 in a tweet,

00:45:55.400 I guess, I

00:45:56.000 think she

00:45:56.300 took it

00:45:56.620 out, but

00:45:57.520 the tweet

00:45:57.820 said,

00:45:58.280 white women 1.00

00:45:58.700 are lucky

00:45:59.200 that we

00:46:00.000 are just

00:46:00.340 calling them

00:46:00.880 Karens and

00:46:01.700 not calling

00:46:02.240 for revenge

00:46:03.120 in a since

00:46:04.880 deleted tweet.

00:46:05.700 Now, imagine

00:46:08.060 if you

00:46:10.660 were not 0.99

00:46:11.340 a black

00:46:13.020 woman who 0.99

00:46:13.560 is an

00:46:14.260 opinion

00:46:14.580 editor at

00:46:15.380 the Washington

00:46:15.920 Post.

00:46:17.060 Who else

00:46:17.500 could say

00:46:17.900 that and

00:46:18.320 still keep

00:46:18.760 their job?

00:46:19.540 I mean, she

00:46:19.820 deleted the

00:46:20.440 tweet, but

00:46:21.760 I can't

00:46:22.180 imagine a 0.71

00:46:23.700 white person

00:46:24.300 being able to

00:46:24.840 say that and

00:46:25.400 keep their

00:46:25.760 job.

00:46:27.740 So keep

00:46:29.520 an eye on

00:46:29.960 that.

00:46:32.620 So that's

00:46:33.660 a little

00:46:34.200 freedom of

00:46:34.760 speech that

00:46:35.360 some people

00:46:35.860 have, that

00:46:36.300 not everybody

00:46:36.780 has.

00:46:37.740 So I was

00:46:39.520 complaining about

00:46:41.220 the treatment

00:46:41.820 that the

00:46:42.960 Daily Beast

00:46:43.600 gave to

00:46:44.240 Van Jones.

00:46:46.040 And I

00:46:46.520 was saying

00:46:46.900 that, so

00:46:48.040 their claim

00:46:48.820 was that he

00:46:49.480 had advised

00:46:50.280 the White

00:46:50.740 House on

00:46:51.320 the police

00:46:53.140 reform

00:46:53.820 executive

00:46:54.480 order, and

00:46:55.640 then he

00:46:55.960 had said

00:46:56.300 good things

00:46:56.780 about it

00:46:57.140 on TV

00:46:57.620 without

00:46:58.040 disclosing

00:46:58.820 that he

00:46:59.220 had advised

00:46:59.980 them on

00:47:00.400 it.

00:47:01.140 So I

00:47:01.760 had said,

00:47:02.740 you know,

00:47:02.960 how disgusting

00:47:03.580 are the 0.99

00:47:03.960 Daily Beast

00:47:04.580 people don't

00:47:05.960 brag about

00:47:07.020 advising the

00:47:07.940 White House.

00:47:09.000 It's just

00:47:09.560 not done.

00:47:10.800 And if he

00:47:11.160 liked the

00:47:11.620 outcome, well

00:47:12.640 just, why

00:47:13.320 not?

00:47:14.160 He liked the

00:47:14.780 outcome.

00:47:15.360 What's he

00:47:15.620 going to do?

00:47:16.080 Say he

00:47:16.340 doesn't like

00:47:16.780 the outcome

00:47:17.180 when he

00:47:17.520 likes the

00:47:17.880 outcome?

00:47:18.580 So I

00:47:19.040 was saying

00:47:19.360 it was just

00:47:20.700 a hit piece

00:47:21.360 over nothing.

00:47:22.540 But then

00:47:22.880 Van Jones

00:47:23.480 clarified that

00:47:24.840 he had

00:47:25.120 nothing to

00:47:25.640 do with

00:47:26.020 the executive

00:47:26.800 order.

00:47:27.960 And that

00:47:28.200 apparently they

00:47:29.500 reported they

00:47:30.160 saw him going

00:47:30.800 to the White 0.57

00:47:31.200 House.

00:47:31.460 he's been

00:47:32.220 nowhere near

00:47:33.140 even Washington

00:47:34.160 D.C.

00:47:35.020 The entire

00:47:36.080 story was

00:47:36.760 just made

00:47:37.180 up.

00:47:38.500 The entire

00:47:39.000 story was

00:47:39.540 just made

00:47:40.000 up.

00:47:41.140 Can you

00:47:41.680 freaking

00:47:41.900 believe that?

00:47:42.920 From the

00:47:43.340 Daily Beast.

00:47:44.460 They just

00:47:45.420 picked a

00:47:45.920 guy to do

00:47:47.460 a hit piece

00:47:48.020 on and

00:47:49.100 literally just

00:47:49.780 made up

00:47:50.440 stuff and

00:47:51.380 then wrote

00:47:51.800 an article on

00:47:53.200 the stuff

00:47:53.580 they made

00:47:54.100 up.

00:47:56.500 Doesn't that

00:47:57.660 just make your

00:47:58.160 head spin?

00:47:58.660 And that

00:47:59.520 the Daily

00:47:59.920 Beast is

00:48:00.400 still in

00:48:00.820 business.

00:48:02.340 People read

00:48:04.040 it and they

00:48:04.460 think they're

00:48:04.780 getting news

00:48:05.360 and stuff.

00:48:06.420 They think

00:48:06.760 that there's

00:48:07.180 something real

00:48:08.200 in it.

00:48:09.540 It's kind

00:48:10.220 of mind

00:48:10.540 boggling.

00:48:14.300 Anyway.

00:48:16.320 So that's

00:48:18.460 what that's

00:48:18.920 all about.

00:48:22.100 Yeah.

00:48:23.460 Yeah.

00:48:24.120 Somebody in

00:48:24.600 the comments

00:48:25.080 is making me

00:48:25.780 laugh.

00:48:26.860 Speaking of

00:48:27.440 the Steele

00:48:27.840 dossier,

00:48:28.660 let me

00:48:29.120 ask you

00:48:29.520 this.

00:48:31.640 So this

00:48:32.440 is where

00:48:33.180 the second

00:48:34.000 cycle

00:48:35.240 of, or

00:48:37.280 is it the

00:48:37.840 third, if

00:48:38.680 you count

00:48:39.000 Ukraine

00:48:39.560 indirectly,

00:48:41.100 of Russia

00:48:42.140 being pulled

00:48:42.780 into American

00:48:43.560 politics.

00:48:45.660 Who has

00:48:46.600 an interest

00:48:47.180 in pulling

00:48:47.860 Russia into

00:48:48.900 American

00:48:49.520 politics?

00:48:51.940 Who has

00:48:53.000 that interest?

00:48:54.160 Now you're

00:48:54.500 saying to

00:48:54.760 yourself,

00:48:55.240 well,

00:48:55.520 obviously,

00:48:56.940 the Democrats.

00:48:57.760 the Democrats

00:48:58.900 have an

00:48:59.280 interest because

00:49:00.240 it works

00:49:00.720 pretty well.

00:49:01.760 Gets their

00:49:02.180 base fired

00:49:02.680 up, throw

00:49:03.680 a little more

00:49:04.180 Russian stuff

00:49:04.840 on there.

00:49:05.280 And I would

00:49:05.600 say to

00:49:05.840 yourself,

00:49:06.740 yeah, yeah.

00:49:08.500 But I would

00:49:09.560 say the Democrats

00:49:10.400 are somewhat

00:49:11.720 agnostic about

00:49:12.900 how they attack

00:49:14.060 the president.

00:49:14.640 I feel as if

00:49:16.360 they would use

00:49:17.280 whatever they

00:49:17.940 thought worked.

00:49:19.500 It could be

00:49:20.240 Russia, it 0.92

00:49:20.780 could be

00:49:21.020 something else.

00:49:22.020 But is

00:49:22.400 really the

00:49:22.940 Russia stuff

00:49:23.640 the strongest

00:49:24.360 play?

00:49:25.780 Think about

00:49:26.560 how badly

00:49:27.300 the Democrats

00:49:29.580 got spanked

00:49:30.520 on the whole

00:49:30.980 Russia collusion

00:49:31.880 thing.

00:49:33.020 Do you think

00:49:33.860 that they would

00:49:34.340 say, you

00:49:35.200 know what,

00:49:36.080 I'd like to

00:49:37.080 do the Russia 0.89

00:49:37.700 collusion thing

00:49:38.540 again.

00:49:39.800 Let's do

00:49:40.460 some more

00:49:40.860 Russia stuff.

00:49:41.620 Do you feel

00:49:43.120 as if that

00:49:44.520 would be

00:49:44.920 their just

00:49:46.160 logical go-to?

00:49:47.500 Could be.

00:49:48.360 Can't rule

00:49:48.900 it out.

00:49:50.160 But let me

00:49:50.620 ask you

00:49:51.000 this.

00:49:52.860 What other

00:49:53.560 country would

00:49:55.100 like us to

00:49:55.840 be anti-Russia?

00:49:59.980 Some people

00:50:00.840 are saying

00:50:01.220 China.

00:50:03.160 Does that

00:50:03.900 fit?

00:50:05.260 Would

00:50:05.800 China like 0.99

00:50:07.920 the United

00:50:08.340 States to

00:50:09.000 be anti-Russia?

00:50:10.960 Well,

00:50:11.320 what would

00:50:12.240 we do?

00:50:14.340 Let's say

00:50:15.020 you're China. 0.88

00:50:15.680 What would

00:50:16.100 the United

00:50:16.520 States do

00:50:17.260 if they

00:50:18.100 thought Russia

00:50:18.740 was more

00:50:19.300 of a threat?

00:50:21.180 Build more

00:50:21.980 weapons?

00:50:23.180 Build up

00:50:23.620 our military?

00:50:25.640 Does

00:50:26.160 China want 0.99

00:50:27.200 the United

00:50:27.700 States to

00:50:28.400 build up

00:50:28.900 its military

00:50:29.660 even if

00:50:31.160 the point

00:50:31.620 of it

00:50:31.960 is that

00:50:32.740 part of

00:50:33.260 the threat

00:50:33.700 is Russia?

00:50:35.420 Maybe.

00:50:36.560 Maybe not.

00:50:38.020 So who

00:50:38.600 would be a

00:50:39.120 country

00:50:39.520 who would

00:50:40.780 like the

00:50:41.460 United

00:50:41.760 States

00:50:42.340 to build

00:50:43.420 up its

00:50:43.780 military

00:50:44.300 but would

00:50:46.400 be sort

00:50:47.320 of

00:50:48.000 concerned

00:50:50.100 about

00:50:50.420 Russia? 0.61

00:50:52.460 Somebody

00:50:53.300 who's had

00:50:54.360 a connection

00:50:55.220 to, for

00:50:56.800 example,

00:50:57.540 the

00:50:57.800 Steele

00:50:58.780 dossier?

00:50:59.260 Yeah.

00:51:03.300 Great

00:51:03.700 Britain.

00:51:05.500 Great

00:51:06.260 Britain is 0.61

00:51:07.720 the obvious

00:51:08.460 suspect

00:51:09.200 because

00:51:11.020 Great

00:51:11.380 Britain can

00:51:12.040 only survive

00:51:13.100 if the

00:51:13.860 United States

00:51:14.820 and through

00:51:17.100 its NATO

00:51:17.980 efforts has

00:51:19.400 a huge

00:51:19.960 military

00:51:20.580 deterrent

00:51:21.260 against

00:51:22.060 Russia

00:51:23.160 because who

00:51:24.220 else threatens

00:51:25.360 Great

00:51:25.880 Britain? 0.71

00:51:26.180 is it

00:51:27.340 France?

00:51:28.360 Is Great

00:51:28.860 Britain worried

00:51:29.360 about France?

00:51:30.980 No.

00:51:31.880 Not at the

00:51:32.680 moment.

00:51:33.140 Germany?

00:51:34.300 No.

00:51:35.400 No.

00:51:36.840 Is Europe

00:51:37.860 and Great

00:51:38.860 Britain in 0.84

00:51:39.260 particular

00:51:39.680 worried that

00:51:40.540 Russia might 0.85

00:51:41.440 get a little

00:51:41.900 adventurous?

00:51:44.200 Yes.

00:51:45.940 Is Great

00:51:46.760 Britain worried

00:51:47.300 about China?

00:51:48.280 Probably a

00:51:48.820 little bit.

00:51:49.860 But they

00:51:50.120 gave them,

00:51:50.840 you know,

00:51:51.120 they were

00:51:52.180 friendly with

00:51:53.160 Hong Kong.

00:51:53.840 It's like,

00:51:54.060 yeah,

00:51:54.320 it's a deal.

00:51:55.580 You take

00:51:55.940 it back.

00:51:56.820 We said

00:51:57.340 we'd give

00:51:57.720 it to

00:51:57.920 you.

00:51:59.420 So,

00:52:01.440 given that

00:52:02.340 the Steele

00:52:02.780 dossier

00:52:03.280 had a

00:52:03.740 British

00:52:04.040 connection,

00:52:05.200 it feels

00:52:05.900 like they

00:52:06.400 just come

00:52:06.980 up a lot.

00:52:08.260 And it

00:52:08.520 feels as

00:52:09.120 if anything

00:52:10.420 that directs

00:52:11.320 the United

00:52:11.860 States'

00:52:12.600 public

00:52:12.860 opinion

00:52:13.320 against

00:52:14.040 Russia

00:52:14.640 and against

00:52:16.200 President

00:52:16.760 Trump,

00:52:17.280 who they

00:52:17.600 might think

00:52:18.140 is a little

00:52:18.560 soft on

00:52:19.160 Russia,

00:52:20.440 you've

00:52:21.080 got to

00:52:21.340 look at

00:52:21.700 them first,

00:52:22.860 don't you?

00:52:23.400 so I'm

00:52:26.600 not blaming

00:52:27.660 them.

00:52:28.440 So,

00:52:28.780 obviously,

00:52:29.280 I don't

00:52:29.460 have any

00:52:29.860 inside

00:52:30.360 information

00:52:30.940 about this.

00:52:31.760 I'm just

00:52:32.120 saying if

00:52:32.520 you're just

00:52:32.820 looking at

00:52:33.300 the board

00:52:33.820 and you're

00:52:34.860 saying,

00:52:35.460 oh,

00:52:36.160 here's a

00:52:36.800 coincidence,

00:52:37.540 Russia story,

00:52:38.280 Russia story,

00:52:38.960 Russia story,

00:52:39.840 you'd think if

00:52:40.660 it worked

00:52:41.300 really well

00:52:41.980 the first

00:52:42.460 time,

00:52:42.800 you'd see

00:52:43.140 more of

00:52:43.540 it,

00:52:44.000 but it

00:52:44.700 didn't

00:52:45.060 work.

00:52:46.160 It was

00:52:46.620 sort of

00:52:46.960 an embarrassment

00:52:47.740 or did

00:52:49.380 it work?

00:52:50.140 I don't

00:52:50.440 know.

00:52:52.020 So,

00:52:52.940 I would

00:52:54.380 at least

00:52:54.780 say let's

00:52:55.940 keep that

00:52:56.400 in mind.

00:52:57.620 All right,

00:52:58.180 that's all I

00:52:58.620 got for now

00:52:59.140 and I will

00:52:59.660 see you

00:53:00.020 tomorrow and

00:53:00.620 I'm going

00:53:00.800 to try to

00:53:01.180 make the

00:53:01.680 interview with

00:53:02.440 Carson work.

00:53:03.960 I think I

00:53:04.760 figured out

00:53:05.140 what I was

00:53:05.480 doing wrong.

00:53:06.200 It was on

00:53:06.760 my end,

00:53:07.220 the problem

00:53:07.500 was,

00:53:08.240 and we'll

00:53:08.540 try that

00:53:08.880 tomorrow and

00:53:09.300 I'll see

00:53:09.740 you then.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 30, 2020

Episode 1043 Scott Adams： Secondary Simultaneous Sip, This Time With Better Anger Management

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