Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1048 Scott Adams： Kanye Enters the Race, Dark and Divisive Speeches, Magic Mushrooms, Bleaching Rooms

00:00:00.900 Happy 5th of July, everybody.

00:00:14.140 It's good to see you.

00:00:15.340 Come on in.

00:00:16.520 Come on in.

00:00:17.040 There's plenty of room.

00:00:19.120 Yes, what a day.

00:00:20.920 We got lots of stuff to talk about, but first, before we talk about all this stuff, there's

00:00:28.380 something you need to do.

00:00:29.320 something you need to do every morning

00:00:31.620 it's called the simultaneous sip

00:00:33.200 makes everything better

00:00:34.760 yeah, it does

00:00:36.040 and all you need

00:00:37.120 is a cup or a mug

00:00:39.620 or a glass of tank or chalice or stein

00:00:41.140 a canteen jug or flask

00:00:42.160 a vessel of any kind

00:00:43.900 fill it with your favorite liquid

00:00:46.660 I like coffee

00:00:48.040 and join me now

00:00:50.100 for the unparalleled pleasure

00:00:51.200 the dopamine hit of the day

00:00:52.480 the thing that makes everything better

00:00:54.180 including fireworks

00:00:55.660 and pandemics

00:00:57.280 racism, you name it

00:00:58.840 it's all better

00:00:59.820 with a simultaneous sip

00:01:01.600 let us bring the country together

00:01:03.500 go

00:01:04.540 and for my international viewers

00:01:10.120 we'll bring the world together

00:01:11.920 a second sip

00:01:12.820 for inclusivity

00:01:13.940 hmm

00:01:17.980 very good

00:01:19.260 very good

00:01:20.240 can you feel the unity?

00:01:23.000 I think you can

00:01:23.720 a little bit

00:01:25.060 because you feel

00:01:26.380 in a way you feel exactly like you did

00:01:28.720 a minute ago

00:01:29.760 but with slightly more unity

00:01:32.120 you feel it

00:01:33.700 I think you do

00:01:34.420 well

00:01:37.360 as you know

00:01:38.920 fireworks were

00:01:40.580 banned and outlawed

00:01:42.240 last night

00:01:43.600 because of all the dangers

00:01:45.480 but it was also

00:01:48.120 the 4th of July

00:01:49.260 sometimes called

00:01:51.960 Independence Day

00:01:53.260 at least for a part of the country

00:01:55.240 and

00:01:57.220 I don't think

00:01:58.920 the citizens of the United States

00:02:00.580 gave a fuck

00:02:03.040 what the government said

00:02:04.040 last night

00:02:04.700 I think everybody's just done

00:02:07.820 with the government

00:02:08.520 it feels like people said

00:02:11.200 wait

00:02:12.140 it's Independence Day

00:02:13.420 and the government's telling us

00:02:15.200 we can't do shit

00:02:16.140 how about we just do twice as much

00:02:18.260 of that shit today

00:02:19.180 how about we just

00:02:20.820 actually have an actual

00:02:22.160 Independence Day

00:02:23.240 and just say

00:02:24.120 fuck everything

00:02:25.120 and everybody

00:02:25.940 and just send off

00:02:27.520 fireworks

00:02:28.720 mingle

00:02:30.160 to our death

00:02:31.620 and live our lives

00:02:34.180 you know

00:02:35.140 I'm

00:02:35.920 I'm

00:02:36.720 simultaneously

00:02:38.140 thrilled

00:02:39.760 and appalled

00:02:40.580 by how

00:02:41.280 by how Americans

00:02:43.040 acted last night

00:02:44.080 you know

00:02:45.220 the appalled part

00:02:46.500 is that obviously

00:02:48.080 people acted in ways

00:02:49.520 that are clearly unsafe

00:02:51.020 and not recommended

00:02:52.140 do I recommend

00:02:53.760 that people act in ways

00:02:55.020 that are unsafe

00:02:55.920 health wise

00:02:57.660 or fire wise

00:02:58.580 or otherwise

00:02:59.080 no

00:03:00.040 I do not recommend that

00:03:01.280 but when they do it

00:03:03.060 I like them better

00:03:04.600 I don't know

00:03:07.560 I can't explain

00:03:09.360 those two feelings

00:03:10.120 I'm just

00:03:10.560 I'm just gonna have to be happy

00:03:12.020 with having

00:03:13.180 two conflicting feelings

00:03:14.480 it's like

00:03:15.500 no don't do that

00:03:16.700 well I'm glad you did

00:03:18.020 I'm up to

00:03:21.360 500,000 followers

00:03:23.180 a little bit more

00:03:24.560 you might call that

00:03:26.720 half a million

00:03:28.320 there was something

00:03:32.580 if you didn't see

00:03:33.520 the videos

00:03:34.620 of the

00:03:36.080 the wide shots

00:03:37.380 of all the fireworks

00:03:38.440 going off in LA

00:03:39.320 last night

00:03:39.940 you have to

00:03:40.720 you have to look

00:03:41.320 for that video

00:03:42.020 because it's just sort of

00:03:43.840 I don't know

00:03:44.260 where it's taken from

00:03:45.020 a high building

00:03:45.700 or a mountain

00:03:46.220 or something

00:03:46.660 and the entire

00:03:47.900 Los Angeles

00:03:48.620 was just exploding

00:03:49.880 bam

00:03:50.300 bam

00:03:50.600 bam

00:03:50.880 bam

00:03:51.080 bam

00:03:51.120 I thought

00:03:53.380 I heard

00:03:54.020 more fireworks

00:03:54.900 last night

00:03:55.620 locally

00:03:56.100 just inside my house

00:03:58.240 I could hear

00:03:58.860 more explosions

00:03:59.920 it sounded like

00:04:01.540 it was in the middle

00:04:02.020 of a war zone

00:04:02.720 anyway

00:04:04.540 I've got half a million

00:04:05.420 followers

00:04:05.840 as I told you

00:04:06.780 when I reach

00:04:07.380 a million followers

00:04:08.140 I will effectively

00:04:09.780 be running the world

00:04:10.960 now

00:04:12.000 the reasoning

00:04:12.800 behind that

00:04:13.480 is that

00:04:14.120 influence

00:04:15.700 has two parts

00:04:17.460 one is how much

00:04:19.260 talent you have

00:04:20.140 for influence

00:04:20.880 but the other

00:04:21.960 is how many people

00:04:22.820 are paying attention

00:04:23.620 so if I can get

00:04:25.660 a million people

00:04:26.440 to pay attention

00:04:27.280 let's say

00:04:28.080 a million followers

00:04:29.000 then I'm pretty

00:04:32.140 dangerous

00:04:32.700 I'm halfway there

00:04:34.420 there was an article

00:04:37.060 in the Guardian

00:04:37.580 about magic mushrooms

00:04:39.580 you know

00:04:40.240 psychedelic mushrooms

00:04:41.180 and once again

00:04:43.060 there just continues

00:04:44.780 to be mounting

00:04:46.340 anecdotal

00:04:47.280 and other evidence

00:04:48.340 that psychedelic

00:04:49.900 drugs

00:04:50.540 and mushrooms

00:04:52.060 being one of them

00:04:53.400 help people

00:04:54.700 with PTSD

00:04:55.480 now given

00:04:56.880 the enormity

00:04:58.000 of PTSD

00:05:00.040 especially last night

00:05:01.780 how many people

00:05:02.740 got triggered

00:05:03.300 last night

00:05:03.960 who had military

00:05:05.580 experience

00:05:06.320 probably

00:05:06.840 probably a few

00:05:08.300 and we know

00:05:10.540 that

00:05:10.860 the psychedelic

00:05:12.940 mushrooms

00:05:13.360 almost certainly

00:05:14.640 I would say

00:05:16.100 at this point

00:05:16.720 the odds

00:05:18.340 of these being

00:05:19.080 effective medically

00:05:20.300 without much

00:05:21.420 of a downside

00:05:22.040 it's close

00:05:23.960 to 100%

00:05:24.960 you know

00:05:26.320 when we talk

00:05:27.240 about hydroxychloroquine

00:05:28.540 I still put the odds

00:05:29.560 of that at

00:05:30.120 30%

00:05:31.280 that it's going

00:05:32.520 to make a big deal

00:05:33.260 even though

00:05:34.960 some of the studies

00:05:35.620 say yes

00:05:36.120 so that's

00:05:37.640 just so you can

00:05:38.260 gauge my level

00:05:39.280 of certainty

00:05:40.220 hydroxychloroquine

00:05:41.960 lots of evidence

00:05:43.120 and still

00:05:44.220 I just say

00:05:44.820 30% chance

00:05:46.460 that that's really

00:05:47.140 something important

00:05:48.000 but with the

00:05:50.020 psychedelic mushrooms

00:05:50.760 I think it's closer

00:05:51.620 to 100%

00:05:52.520 because it's just

00:05:54.540 so universally true

00:05:55.740 if you gave

00:05:57.160 hydroxychloroquine

00:05:58.240 to 10 people

00:05:59.180 and 9 of them

00:06:00.700 said that just

00:06:01.380 made all the difference

00:06:02.300 you'd probably

00:06:03.980 stop studying it

00:06:05.120 you know

00:06:06.060 if it was that

00:06:06.680 obvious that it

00:06:07.560 made a difference

00:06:08.180 we wouldn't even

00:06:09.220 be studying

00:06:09.760 hydroxychloroquine

00:06:10.840 we'd just say

00:06:11.480 alright

00:06:11.740 we'd just give it

00:06:12.480 to everybody

00:06:12.920 9 out of 10

00:06:14.040 people got better

00:06:14.780 the you know

00:06:15.780 an hour after

00:06:16.340 they got it

00:06:16.980 and psychedelic

00:06:18.840 mushrooms are

00:06:19.380 sort of like

00:06:20.000 that

00:06:20.340 you know

00:06:21.420 one trip

00:06:22.220 and people say

00:06:23.200 you know

00:06:23.900 I think it solved

00:06:24.980 that problem

00:06:25.600 and it's so

00:06:27.780 consistent

00:06:28.320 the fact that

00:06:29.740 the United States

00:06:30.680 keeps that

00:06:31.700 illegal

00:06:32.180 so there

00:06:33.500 it's hard to

00:06:34.260 experiment with

00:06:35.120 even in this

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00:06:36.080 so researchers

00:06:36.880 can't do what

00:06:37.580 they need to do

00:06:38.300 because of

00:06:39.220 government

00:06:39.620 regulations

00:06:40.300 if

00:06:41.620 if Kanye

00:06:44.260 ran on a

00:06:46.040 platform

00:06:46.480 of getting

00:06:47.740 rid of these

00:06:48.480 weird drug laws

00:06:49.620 I don't know

00:06:51.240 he'd probably win

00:06:52.240 but the president

00:06:54.440 should get rid of

00:06:55.080 those anyway

00:06:55.580 did you see

00:06:58.780 the article

00:06:59.220 in the New York

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00:07:00.220 suggesting that

00:07:02.360 offices might

00:07:03.460 need to spray

00:07:04.200 bleach all over

00:07:05.120 their equipment

00:07:05.780 have you heard

00:07:07.280 that

00:07:07.620 yeah the New York

00:07:09.040 Times is reporting

00:07:10.060 that

00:07:11.160 that because

00:07:12.360 the

00:07:12.780 World Health

00:07:14.260 Organization is

00:07:15.040 saying that

00:07:15.420 the virus

00:07:16.140 stays airborne

00:07:17.640 for a while

00:07:18.340 they might have

00:07:19.500 to spray

00:07:20.400 bleach all over

00:07:21.500 your computers

00:07:22.540 and your

00:07:23.120 electronics every

00:07:24.080 day in the

00:07:24.500 office

00:07:24.780 oh they didn't

00:07:25.980 say that

00:07:26.460 oh

00:07:27.580 oh they didn't

00:07:28.280 say that

00:07:28.800 so it's not

00:07:31.140 true

00:07:31.440 well I read it

00:07:32.780 right in the

00:07:33.100 article

00:07:33.400 it said

00:07:33.860 it said from

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00:07:36.340 said that

00:07:37.020 they were

00:07:38.460 thinking they

00:07:39.020 might need

00:07:39.460 UV light

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00:07:42.200 disinfectant

00:07:42.860 that's bleach

00:07:44.600 isn't it

00:07:45.760 they I'm sure

00:07:46.960 they taught us

00:07:47.580 that because I

00:07:48.520 used to think

00:07:49.180 UV light

00:07:50.120 was just part

00:07:51.640 of the light

00:07:52.400 spectrum which

00:07:53.420 happened to have

00:07:53.980 the quality that

00:07:54.760 it kills viruses

00:07:55.560 and back in the

00:07:56.840 old days I

00:07:57.320 thought oh

00:07:57.900 well there

00:07:59.040 it's just a

00:07:59.880 light

00:08:00.260 but once the

00:08:01.920 president mentioned

00:08:02.980 using UV light

00:08:04.700 as a disinfectant

00:08:05.820 I was reeducated

00:08:08.400 to find out

00:08:09.740 that when the

00:08:10.360 president says

00:08:11.320 UV light could

00:08:12.800 be used as a

00:08:13.680 disinfectant

00:08:14.480 potentially even

00:08:15.820 in the lungs

00:08:16.500 because they

00:08:16.980 they're testing

00:08:17.820 putting it on a

00:08:18.540 ventilator

00:08:19.080 just

00:08:19.400 ventilating your

00:08:20.880 lungs directly

00:08:21.580 with light

00:08:22.460 I mean not

00:08:23.620 ventilating but

00:08:24.320 disinfecting

00:08:25.100 but the

00:08:26.300 mainstream media

00:08:27.200 has taught me

00:08:27.900 that what that

00:08:28.440 really means is

00:08:29.380 bleach

00:08:29.820 so even if

00:08:31.900 you say

00:08:32.380 UV light

00:08:33.340 what you mean

00:08:34.020 is actually

00:08:34.540 just bleach

00:08:35.220 so they

00:08:36.920 they want to

00:08:37.860 just spray bleach

00:08:38.620 all over offices

00:08:39.400 I think

00:08:40.180 unless I'm

00:08:41.440 confused by the

00:08:42.320 article

00:08:42.660 so the

00:08:44.880 Washington Post

00:08:45.520 the New York

00:08:45.940 Times and

00:08:46.700 every

00:08:47.300 dead-brained

00:08:49.140 Democrat

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00:08:50.620 that the

00:08:51.800 phrase for the

00:08:52.820 summer will be

00:08:53.480 dark and divisive

00:08:54.460 so the

00:08:55.920 president's speech

00:08:56.620 at Mount Rushmore

00:08:57.380 was dark and

00:08:58.140 divisive

00:08:58.640 dark and

00:09:00.480 divisive

00:09:01.020 that's really

00:09:01.860 good

00:09:02.320 it's actually

00:09:03.160 better than

00:09:03.740 dark

00:09:04.140 you remember

00:09:06.340 they got some

00:09:07.480 extra expert

00:09:08.380 advice in the

00:09:09.320 last election

00:09:09.940 the Democrats

00:09:10.740 and after the

00:09:12.460 president's

00:09:13.680 campaign speech

00:09:16.180 at his

00:09:17.200 whatever you

00:09:18.880 call it

00:09:19.160 the Republican

00:09:19.720 Convention

00:09:20.220 they all said

00:09:21.660 it's a dark

00:09:22.180 speech

00:09:22.580 it's dark

00:09:23.140 dark dark

00:09:23.840 but now they've

00:09:24.780 upgraded it to

00:09:25.620 dark and

00:09:26.120 divisive

00:09:26.720 dark and

00:09:28.080 divisive

00:09:28.560 is better

00:09:29.400 and dark

00:09:30.760 was pretty

00:09:31.300 good

00:09:31.660 so the

00:09:35.140 Democrats

00:09:35.560 have cranked

00:09:36.340 it up

00:09:36.720 and I would

00:09:38.080 say the

00:09:38.380 quality of

00:09:39.180 their campaign

00:09:39.840 now is

00:09:41.340 pretty good

00:09:42.260 it's pretty

00:09:43.380 good

00:09:43.980 so I'll

00:09:45.860 talk about

00:09:46.280 that in a

00:09:46.620 minute

00:09:46.820 so it's

00:09:51.260 really shocking

00:09:52.400 and amazing

00:09:52.980 if you

00:09:54.140 happen to

00:09:54.580 be aware

00:09:55.300 of your

00:09:55.800 environment

00:09:57.580 which many

00:09:59.260 people are

00:09:59.680 not

00:09:59.960 and you

00:10:01.000 read how

00:10:02.080 the press

00:10:02.740 has clearly

00:10:03.680 colluded

00:10:04.300 it's obvious

00:10:05.340 that the press

00:10:06.100 has gotten

00:10:06.580 together

00:10:07.020 they all got

00:10:07.640 the memo

00:10:08.140 they're working

00:10:09.440 for the

00:10:09.820 Democrats

00:10:10.240 we don't have

00:10:10.960 any question

00:10:11.560 about that

00:10:12.080 anymore

00:10:12.460 because they all

00:10:13.560 came up with

00:10:14.020 the same

00:10:14.360 phrases at the

00:10:15.120 same time

00:10:15.640 there's no doubt

00:10:17.180 about it

00:10:17.620 and for them

00:10:19.320 to turn that

00:10:19.940 speech into

00:10:20.760 what they

00:10:21.240 turned it

00:10:21.720 into

00:10:22.000 it's just

00:10:23.800 amazing that

00:10:24.700 people can

00:10:25.180 read these

00:10:25.700 publications

00:10:26.340 and come

00:10:27.820 away from

00:10:29.060 them thinking

00:10:29.560 that they're

00:10:29.980 even trying

00:10:30.620 to produce

00:10:32.860 news

00:10:33.500 the fact that

00:10:34.860 anybody thinks

00:10:35.600 these are news

00:10:36.220 organizations anymore

00:10:37.300 is mind

00:10:37.980 boggling

00:10:38.400 but anyway

00:10:39.720 that said

00:10:41.240 I had my

00:10:43.120 own complaints

00:10:43.700 about the

00:10:44.300 president's

00:10:45.140 speech

00:10:45.420 because he

00:10:47.660 uses words

00:10:48.300 culture and

00:10:49.440 heritage

00:10:49.860 in ways

00:10:50.940 that I

00:10:51.260 think

00:10:51.540 either are

00:10:53.900 intended to

00:10:54.740 be divisive

00:10:55.480 in the sense

00:10:56.080 that they're

00:10:56.520 good for the

00:10:57.040 base but not

00:10:57.740 good for the

00:10:58.200 general election

00:10:58.800 or

00:10:59.680 he doesn't

00:11:02.640 know the

00:11:02.920 difference

00:11:03.360 and there's

00:11:05.180 nobody on

00:11:05.780 the team

00:11:06.820 who can tell

00:11:07.380 him the

00:11:07.660 difference

00:11:08.000 because

00:11:08.900 honestly

00:11:09.820 if I heard

00:11:11.180 heritage and

00:11:11.960 culture and

00:11:12.840 I thought that

00:11:13.520 my background

00:11:14.300 or my

00:11:15.340 let's say

00:11:17.440 my ancestors

00:11:18.200 history was

00:11:20.020 mostly slavery

00:11:21.040 and then

00:11:22.120 the ripple

00:11:23.380 effect from

00:11:23.980 slavery

00:11:24.360 I would not

00:11:25.060 be looking

00:11:25.980 to celebrate

00:11:26.780 heritage and

00:11:28.240 culture

00:11:28.560 I would feel

00:11:29.300 like hey

00:11:30.000 that's white

00:11:30.600 people heritage

00:11:31.240 and culture

00:11:31.820 so I would

00:11:33.160 say that is

00:11:33.660 the one

00:11:34.460 complaint

00:11:34.980 that well

00:11:36.160 it's not the

00:11:36.580 only complaint

00:11:37.160 that they have

00:11:37.840 a good point

00:11:38.440 on but it's

00:11:38.880 one complaint

00:11:39.360 they do have

00:11:39.800 a good point

00:11:40.240 on and

00:11:42.400 to the extent

00:11:43.200 that the

00:11:43.600 president continues

00:11:44.580 using words

00:11:45.280 like that

00:11:45.840 and the

00:11:46.780 republicans

00:11:47.420 do

00:11:47.640 those are

00:11:48.800 losing words

00:11:49.900 in a sense

00:11:51.040 in other words

00:11:52.040 those are the

00:11:52.560 words you use

00:11:53.140 if you're not

00:11:53.620 really trying

00:11:54.320 to win

00:11:54.760 honestly

00:11:56.020 and some

00:11:57.940 of us

00:11:58.240 have had

00:11:58.520 some question

00:11:59.000 about whether

00:11:59.440 the president

00:11:59.960 is really

00:12:00.540 in it

00:12:00.920 this time

00:12:01.340 now I've

00:12:02.800 heard other

00:12:03.100 people say

00:12:03.640 I think

00:12:04.100 Mike Cernovich

00:12:04.660 says this

00:12:05.240 that the

00:12:05.780 president's

00:12:07.340 speech

00:12:07.660 at Mount

00:12:08.180 Rushmore

00:12:08.600 was actually

00:12:09.900 a strong

00:12:10.680 rallying cry

00:12:11.600 for the

00:12:11.920 base

00:12:12.300 it was

00:12:13.580 no more

00:12:14.020 apologizing

00:12:14.860 it was

00:12:15.140 more of

00:12:15.500 an aggressive

00:12:17.400 statement

00:12:19.120 of how

00:12:19.660 things should

00:12:20.120 be

00:12:20.380 and it

00:12:22.480 was all

00:12:22.920 of those

00:12:23.300 things

00:12:23.760 but it

00:12:24.620 was also

00:12:25.140 included

00:12:25.900 things like

00:12:27.520 culture

00:12:28.140 and heritage

00:12:28.880 now I know

00:12:29.940 what you want

00:12:30.500 to do

00:12:30.860 you want

00:12:31.320 to say

00:12:31.640 no those

00:12:32.340 words mean

00:12:33.160 X

00:12:33.980 don't tell

00:12:35.420 me those

00:12:35.880 words mean

00:12:36.600 this other

00:12:37.160 thing

00:12:37.540 because they

00:12:38.660 don't mean

00:12:39.080 those

00:12:39.400 we mean

00:12:40.080 these words

00:12:40.660 to mean

00:12:41.140 a way

00:12:41.760 of life

00:12:42.420 that includes

00:12:43.680 let's say

00:12:44.300 you know

00:12:44.660 a strong

00:12:45.040 family unit

00:12:45.880 things which

00:12:46.860 have nothing

00:12:47.300 to do

00:12:47.640 with race

00:12:48.180 don't tell

00:12:50.940 me

00:12:51.320 I'm not

00:12:52.300 the one

00:12:52.580 you have

00:12:52.840 to convince

00:12:53.460 I'm simply

00:12:54.640 telling you

00:12:55.140 that if you

00:12:55.620 want to

00:12:56.000 lose an

00:12:56.500 election

00:12:56.900 use those

00:12:58.440 words

00:12:58.820 I don't

00:12:59.660 care how

00:13:00.000 you define

00:13:00.440 them

00:13:00.680 I'm just

00:13:01.620 saying that

00:13:02.000 those are

00:13:02.400 election

00:13:02.980 losing words

00:13:04.000 in my

00:13:04.400 opinion

00:13:04.720 now

00:13:05.800 could it

00:13:06.680 be that

00:13:07.100 those are

00:13:07.480 such strong

00:13:08.440 words for

00:13:09.000 the base

00:13:09.460 that it

00:13:09.900 gets more

00:13:10.380 vote out

00:13:10.900 and I

00:13:11.720 imagine that

00:13:12.280 that's the

00:13:12.720 calculation

00:13:13.260 but I

00:13:14.700 think the

00:13:15.280 it also

00:13:16.100 reads the

00:13:16.680 mood of

00:13:17.000 the country

00:13:17.380 wrong

00:13:17.740 because none

00:13:18.740 of it

00:13:18.940 needed to

00:13:19.340 be said

00:13:19.780 you could

00:13:20.740 get to the

00:13:21.180 same place

00:13:21.720 without using

00:13:22.440 those words

00:13:23.400 for example

00:13:24.720 you could

00:13:25.960 say

00:13:26.300 let us

00:13:27.580 appreciate

00:13:28.880 you know

00:13:29.780 the history

00:13:31.160 that was not

00:13:32.140 kind

00:13:32.740 let us

00:13:33.780 understand it

00:13:34.640 and study

00:13:35.300 it

00:13:35.560 but let us

00:13:36.720 take the

00:13:37.180 things which

00:13:37.760 have worked

00:13:38.260 well

00:13:38.600 for our

00:13:39.900 country

00:13:40.220 for hundreds

00:13:41.140 of years

00:13:41.640 and have

00:13:42.100 always worked

00:13:42.600 well

00:13:42.880 and try

00:13:44.460 to build

00:13:44.840 unity

00:13:45.300 around it

00:13:46.020 and if

00:13:47.540 you said

00:13:47.900 it that

00:13:48.220 way

00:13:48.480 you could

00:13:49.260 go on

00:13:49.600 and say

00:13:49.900 we think

00:13:50.940 strong

00:13:51.380 family

00:13:51.920 you know

00:13:52.520 family bonds

00:13:53.320 are good

00:13:53.760 we think

00:13:54.420 you know

00:13:54.800 whatever

00:13:55.120 education

00:13:56.320 whatever you

00:13:56.860 want to say

00:13:57.280 so you

00:13:57.920 could say

00:13:58.300 anything you

00:13:59.000 wanted

00:13:59.320 and it

00:13:59.600 would sound

00:13:59.920 unifying

00:14:00.540 it would

00:14:01.140 also sound

00:14:01.700 perfectly

00:14:02.140 good for

00:14:02.740 republicans

00:14:04.140 because

00:14:04.560 you'd

00:14:04.780 still

00:14:04.980 say

00:14:05.220 yes

00:14:05.580 we think

00:14:06.140 your family

00:14:06.600 unit

00:14:06.900 should stay

00:14:07.300 together

00:14:07.680 you know

00:14:08.460 we think

00:14:08.840 god

00:14:09.220 helps

00:14:09.700 republicans

00:14:11.400 would say

00:14:11.660 yeah

00:14:11.820 that's

00:14:12.040 exactly

00:14:12.380 what i'm

00:14:12.660 talking

00:14:12.900 about

00:14:13.180 but if

00:14:14.400 you try

00:14:14.680 to capture

00:14:15.180 all those

00:14:15.680 concepts

00:14:16.300 which are

00:14:18.280 strong

00:14:18.660 concepts

00:14:19.200 if you try

00:14:19.640 to capture

00:14:20.060 them in

00:14:20.480 words

00:14:20.940 that the

00:14:21.900 other side

00:14:22.440 says

00:14:22.920 means something

00:14:24.520 else to

00:14:25.020 them

00:14:25.400 well you're

00:14:26.680 not really

00:14:26.980 trying to

00:14:27.320 win

00:14:27.580 right

00:14:28.600 that would

00:14:29.460 be sort

00:14:29.880 of how

00:14:30.160 not to

00:14:30.660 win

00:14:30.920 now i

00:14:31.840 realize that

00:14:32.380 there's an

00:14:32.780 argument to

00:14:33.480 be made

00:14:34.000 that other

00:14:35.240 people should

00:14:35.880 not define

00:14:36.700 what your

00:14:38.040 words mean

00:14:38.900 if you don't

00:14:39.760 mean them

00:14:40.100 that way

00:14:40.520 hey

00:14:40.900 i don't

00:14:41.900 mean it

00:14:42.200 that way

00:14:42.620 so why

00:14:43.360 are you

00:14:43.620 taking it

00:14:44.080 that way

00:14:44.460 i would

00:14:45.240 say that

00:14:45.560 that is

00:14:45.880 a child

00:14:46.520 like view

00:14:47.200 of the

00:14:47.480 world

00:14:47.880 meaning

00:14:49.020 that

00:14:49.460 our

00:14:50.280 words

00:14:50.820 if we

00:14:52.880 mean to

00:14:53.460 persuade

00:14:53.900 people

00:14:54.420 we should

00:14:56.260 choose our

00:14:56.740 words

00:14:56.980 carefully

00:14:57.380 if we

00:14:58.400 don't want

00:14:58.960 to persuade

00:14:59.420 people

00:14:59.840 we'll go

00:15:00.320 ahead and

00:15:00.580 use

00:15:00.740 whatever

00:15:01.040 word you

00:15:01.420 want

00:15:01.740 if it's

00:15:02.600 not your

00:15:03.080 intention

00:15:03.540 to change

00:15:04.240 anybody's

00:15:04.780 mind

00:15:05.140 use any

00:15:06.800 word you

00:15:07.080 want

00:15:07.380 it doesn't

00:15:08.460 matter if

00:15:08.820 other people

00:15:09.200 don't like

00:15:09.680 it you're

00:15:10.180 not trying to

00:15:10.680 change their

00:15:11.120 mind anyway

00:15:11.680 but if the

00:15:12.880 whole point

00:15:13.720 and i think

00:15:14.780 that is the

00:15:15.300 point in an

00:15:15.840 election is

00:15:17.020 to get people

00:15:17.600 to vote for

00:15:18.480 you why

00:15:19.700 would you use

00:15:20.260 the words that

00:15:20.900 guarantee they

00:15:21.580 won't i

00:15:23.180 don't understand

00:15:23.740 it because

00:15:24.620 there are other

00:15:25.300 words that are

00:15:25.900 just as good

00:15:26.820 for your side

00:15:27.880 why would you

00:15:29.240 use the words

00:15:29.820 that are only

00:15:30.420 good for your

00:15:30.940 side when

00:15:31.540 there are

00:15:31.820 words that

00:15:32.240 are good

00:15:32.560 for your

00:15:33.040 side and

00:15:34.280 the other

00:15:34.620 side seems

00:15:36.500 like a strange

00:15:37.120 choice

00:15:37.620 and now

00:15:40.400 compare the

00:15:41.220 president's

00:15:41.780 approach which

00:15:42.420 i think you

00:15:42.900 would agree

00:15:43.320 seems primarily

00:15:44.840 aimed at the

00:15:45.760 base maybe you

00:15:47.520 don't agree but

00:15:48.240 that's that's my

00:15:49.300 starting point

00:15:50.160 compare that to

00:15:51.900 joe biden's

00:15:52.780 speech which he

00:15:53.620 gave sort of his

00:15:54.660 own version of a

00:15:55.620 fourth of july

00:15:56.260 speech and i

00:15:58.240 retweeted it

00:15:58.960 without comment

00:15:59.680 because it

00:16:01.380 was good i

00:16:03.180 can do that

00:16:03.720 right is

00:16:05.480 everybody is

00:16:06.080 everybody okay

00:16:06.860 with me retweeting

00:16:08.680 biden who you

00:16:10.860 know i've

00:16:11.240 endorsed just

00:16:11.980 for my safety

00:16:12.620 but i don't

00:16:14.120 agree with his

00:16:14.740 policies i don't

00:16:15.520 think he's you

00:16:16.420 know necessarily

00:16:17.000 all there but

00:16:19.400 i'm allowed to

00:16:20.260 retweet him when

00:16:21.100 he does something

00:16:21.720 good right and

00:16:23.080 he and i

00:16:23.580 thought his i

00:16:25.180 thought his

00:16:25.960 fourth of july

00:16:27.580 message about

00:16:29.120 unity was very

00:16:30.840 good in a

00:16:32.860 republican way

00:16:34.000 in a republican

00:16:36.140 way that's right

00:16:38.060 joe biden did a

00:16:40.300 republican speech

00:16:41.540 for the fourth of

00:16:42.320 july and by that

00:16:43.800 i mean he did

00:16:44.960 not say you're

00:16:46.900 all a bunch of

00:16:47.540 racists he did

00:16:49.260 not say black

00:16:50.960 lives matter he

00:16:51.840 didn't say that

00:16:52.420 you know he just

00:16:52.960 didn't address race

00:16:54.160 at all he just

00:16:55.800 said unity

00:16:56.640 america america

00:16:58.540 unity we're all

00:17:00.260 americans it was

00:17:01.720 very republican so

00:17:04.040 who was he talking

00:17:04.960 to was joe biden

00:17:06.760 talking to his

00:17:07.740 base he was not

00:17:09.840 which is

00:17:10.460 interesting so

00:17:11.560 biden was trying

00:17:12.480 to persuade

00:17:13.120 republicans

00:17:14.020 mostly while

00:17:17.280 trump was trying

00:17:18.620 to persuade

00:17:19.400 republicans

00:17:20.660 interesting which

00:17:23.120 one of those is

00:17:23.820 the better

00:17:24.140 strategy i'm not

00:17:25.800 sure we know

00:17:26.500 but it's

00:17:27.840 interesting that

00:17:28.480 they've chosen

00:17:29.020 those paths

00:17:29.760 because yeah we

00:17:31.380 like we like to

00:17:32.140 see what turns

00:17:32.660 out there was

00:17:34.660 something else that

00:17:35.260 joe biden said

00:17:36.040 that i thought was

00:17:37.120 worthy of

00:17:38.180 tweeting

00:17:39.700 retweeting

00:17:40.940 he said this

00:17:42.560 statement which i

00:17:43.420 know you disagree

00:17:44.220 with okay

00:17:44.900 all right so

00:17:46.260 in advance i know

00:17:47.800 you disagree with

00:17:48.680 the following things

00:17:49.600 that i say and

00:17:51.100 also joe biden

00:17:51.860 said and i agree

00:17:52.740 with him he

00:17:53.800 said wearing

00:17:54.740 masks is

00:17:55.680 patriotic

00:17:56.460 wearing masks

00:17:59.280 is patriotic

00:18:01.380 do you agree

00:18:03.360 i totally agree

00:18:05.320 i totally agree

00:18:06.700 and i will allow

00:18:08.180 that you might

00:18:09.800 disagree about

00:18:10.660 wearing masks

00:18:11.440 you might say to

00:18:12.320 yourself hey

00:18:12.980 it's a free

00:18:14.580 country

00:18:15.020 am i arguing

00:18:16.680 that you didn't

00:18:17.800 hear me argue

00:18:18.380 that right did

00:18:19.620 i say that you

00:18:20.420 have to wear a

00:18:21.380 mask i did not

00:18:22.240 did i say that

00:18:24.820 you know you're a

00:18:26.020 bad person if you

00:18:27.140 don't wear a mask

00:18:27.920 did not did i did

00:18:30.040 not i don't have

00:18:30.680 any insults for

00:18:31.460 you if you if

00:18:33.000 you choose

00:18:33.580 independence over

00:18:35.300 wearing a mask

00:18:36.140 i have no comment

00:18:38.160 that's the choice

00:18:39.500 you have

00:18:39.960 but i would say

00:18:42.200 this it is a

00:18:44.560 known understood

00:18:45.800 medical fact

00:18:47.880 i'll call it

00:18:49.720 a fact

00:18:50.140 that wearing

00:18:51.420 masks might

00:18:52.480 protect other

00:18:53.260 people

00:18:53.640 now would you

00:18:55.500 call that

00:18:55.920 patriotic if

00:18:57.300 you're doing

00:18:57.680 something which

00:18:58.320 is a personal

00:18:59.020 sacrifice something

00:19:00.220 you don't want to

00:19:00.940 do it's a

00:19:01.940 personal sacrifice

00:19:02.900 and you do it

00:19:04.100 for the purpose of

00:19:05.060 protecting other

00:19:07.280 americans what

00:19:08.740 would you call

00:19:09.200 that what do you

00:19:10.360 call it when

00:19:10.860 somebody personally

00:19:12.040 sacrifices for the

00:19:13.940 benefit of other

00:19:14.720 americans

00:19:15.300 patriotic

00:19:17.700 it's patriotic

00:19:19.460 i completely agree

00:19:21.020 with joe biden

00:19:21.960 now if you

00:19:24.520 disagree with that

00:19:25.440 let me reiterate

00:19:26.820 i'm not saying

00:19:28.920 that you're wrong

00:19:29.980 to go without a

00:19:31.600 mask i'm not

00:19:32.840 saying you're wrong

00:19:33.380 i'm not saying

00:19:34.800 that you can't

00:19:35.340 have a different

00:19:35.820 opinion about

00:19:36.680 the expert's

00:19:38.380 opinion of whether

00:19:39.120 it's good

00:19:39.540 absolutely you can

00:19:40.960 i'm not saying

00:19:42.380 that you should

00:19:43.020 curtail your

00:19:44.140 personal freedom

00:19:45.140 just because other

00:19:46.840 people think you

00:19:47.540 should i'm not

00:19:49.000 telling you that

00:19:49.580 i'm giving you a

00:19:50.920 personal opinion

00:19:51.660 that if you

00:19:52.780 sacrifice for the

00:19:53.940 benefit of other

00:19:54.660 people and here's

00:19:56.120 the important part

00:19:56.900 your sacrifice for

00:19:59.160 the benefit of other

00:19:59.980 people might not be

00:20:01.120 guaranteed meaning

00:20:03.060 that you might say

00:20:03.780 to yourself i'm

00:20:04.940 not a hundred

00:20:05.580 percent sure this

00:20:06.460 makes any difference

00:20:07.440 at all right

00:20:09.040 because we can't

00:20:10.360 be a hundred

00:20:10.820 percent sure that

00:20:11.760 it works that

00:20:12.940 mask works you're

00:20:13.840 just you know the

00:20:14.900 odds are good so

00:20:16.460 what would you call

00:20:17.260 it if you weren't

00:20:18.040 even a hundred

00:20:18.660 percent sure it

00:20:19.520 made any difference

00:20:20.320 it was totally what

00:20:22.060 you didn't want to

00:20:22.860 do it's completely

00:20:24.340 a sacrifice and the

00:20:25.960 only reason you're

00:20:26.800 doing it is to

00:20:28.340 protect other

00:20:29.000 americans patriotic

00:20:31.380 you may you may

00:20:33.440 you are welcome to

00:20:34.760 disagree you're

00:20:36.240 welcome to disagree

00:20:37.240 and i won't even

00:20:38.380 argue with you

00:20:38.980 it's just my

00:20:39.660 personal opinion

00:20:40.340 of that so i

00:20:43.980 thought things

00:20:44.500 were calming down

00:20:45.440 for 2020 no i

00:20:46.940 didn't really think

00:20:47.560 that but last

00:20:48.880 night kanye decides

00:20:50.040 that he's in the

00:20:50.800 race yay is

00:20:52.640 running now all

00:20:54.320 we know so far is

00:20:55.200 that he tweeted

00:20:55.840 it and now we're

00:20:58.780 starting to learn

00:20:59.620 how practical or

00:21:00.900 impractical that is

00:21:02.160 because people who

00:21:02.980 are smarter than i

00:21:03.960 am are doing some

00:21:05.420 googling and

00:21:06.740 they're saying

00:21:07.180 things like

00:21:07.880 somebody says

00:21:10.840 wearing burqas is

00:21:11.900 patriotic

00:21:12.600 does that analogy

00:21:15.380 i think i have to

00:21:17.040 respond to your bad

00:21:18.040 analogies

00:21:18.660 does that analogy

00:21:20.040 make sense

00:21:20.680 you think of burqa

00:21:22.460 and a

00:21:23.860 medically required

00:21:25.660 face mask that

00:21:26.640 might last a few

00:21:27.520 months

00:21:27.860 those are kind of

00:21:29.640 similar to you

00:21:30.480 somebody says

00:21:32.980 control i said you

00:21:35.560 could not wear a

00:21:36.200 mask what control

00:21:37.540 am i putting on

00:21:38.260 you no control

00:21:39.700 somebody says i'd

00:21:42.460 call this stupid

00:21:43.040 you're welcome to

00:21:43.960 master a sign of

00:21:46.100 slavery somebody

00:21:46.860 says fine no

00:21:49.700 argument you can

00:21:50.480 have any opinion of

00:21:51.360 it you want

00:21:51.900 uh but you must

00:21:54.320 wear a mask because

00:21:55.500 experts are wrong

00:21:56.900 ninety percent of

00:21:57.660 the time

00:21:57.980 perfectly acceptable

00:21:59.520 it is perfectly

00:22:01.040 acceptable for you

00:22:02.180 to say the

00:22:03.280 experts have been

00:22:04.000 so wrong i'm not

00:22:05.200 going to do this

00:22:05.900 now i would have a

00:22:07.900 different opinion

00:22:08.500 but i'm not going to

00:22:10.100 tell you that's an

00:22:10.800 unacceptable opinion

00:22:12.120 somebody says they

00:22:17.700 wear a mask to

00:22:18.380 protect themselves

00:22:19.140 okay fair enough

00:22:20.960 all right so none

00:22:22.600 of you had uh good

00:22:23.640 comments but there

00:22:24.600 there were lots of

00:22:25.600 them uh i'm sure i

00:22:27.020 missed some of the

00:22:27.520 work i probably missed

00:22:28.360 all the good ones

00:22:29.080 all right uh he did

00:22:35.580 not say he'd run in

00:22:36.640 2020 well his tweet

00:22:38.260 did because it said

00:22:39.500 kanye 2020

00:22:40.380 all right so kanye

00:22:43.380 says he's running

00:22:44.380 does he mean it

00:22:45.220 let's get to the

00:22:46.120 questions does he

00:22:47.320 mean it i doubt it

00:22:48.480 i doubt he means it

00:22:50.360 in the sense that

00:22:51.100 he's going to do

00:22:51.640 anything about it

00:22:52.860 you know i doubt

00:22:54.020 he's going to

00:22:54.560 campaign i doubt

00:22:55.660 he's going to do

00:22:56.220 the paperwork i doubt

00:22:58.460 it but just for fun

00:23:01.080 what if he did what

00:23:04.440 if kanye did win it

00:23:06.040 looks like there are

00:23:06.760 enough states that he

00:23:07.780 can't win in that he

00:23:08.960 probably couldn't just

00:23:10.120 win in a straight up

00:23:11.840 way but if you were

00:23:15.220 a write-in let's say

00:23:16.200 can you write in

00:23:18.180 anybody you want i

00:23:19.540 have some questions

00:23:20.200 about that but i think

00:23:21.540 you can write in

00:23:22.220 anybody right is there

00:23:24.040 a law against write-ins

00:23:25.600 so is it technically

00:23:27.840 possible now even if

00:23:29.760 you won in the voting

00:23:30.940 booth apparently there's

00:23:32.160 another problem that's a

00:23:33.600 little more technical

00:23:34.380 people you're supposed

00:23:35.700 to have electoral

00:23:37.380 college people who are

00:23:40.260 basically backing up

00:23:42.460 your vote i'll give it

00:23:44.300 to you in the non

00:23:44.980 technical way so if

00:23:46.340 you're running for

00:23:46.800 office and you don't

00:23:47.640 have electors already

00:23:49.420 set up in each state

00:23:50.560 then even if you win

00:23:52.000 the state there's

00:23:53.420 nobody to cast your

00:23:55.100 vote because just

00:23:56.800 winning the popular

00:23:57.740 vote or winning the

00:23:58.840 state doesn't get you

00:23:59.780 elected it's the

00:24:00.940 electoral college so if

00:24:02.240 you don't have your

00:24:03.020 own electoral college

00:24:04.820 set up there's no

00:24:06.560 humans who have that

00:24:08.580 job for you to cast

00:24:10.300 that vote for you then

00:24:12.440 maybe there's no way

00:24:13.160 to do it because the

00:24:14.980 system requires those

00:24:16.180 those electoral college

00:24:17.980 people to exist now

00:24:19.840 could all that be put

00:24:20.960 in place probably i mean

00:24:22.960 nothing's impossible now

00:24:25.920 the big question is if

00:24:27.000 kanye actually ran who

00:24:30.280 would he take votes

00:24:31.160 away from i think he

00:24:32.440 would take them away

00:24:33.140 from the democrats would

00:24:34.440 you agree would you

00:24:36.200 agree that kanye would

00:24:37.380 just completely wipe out

00:24:39.700 biden's vote you know

00:24:42.640 not completely but he

00:24:43.840 would take enough of it

00:24:45.320 so it would it would

00:24:46.980 make the difference but

00:24:49.020 let's ask this more

00:24:49.840 interesting question what

00:24:52.380 if biden just sort of

00:24:54.860 dropped out what if

00:24:57.520 kanye took so many votes

00:24:59.400 away from biden that

00:25:01.280 biden looked at the

00:25:02.160 polls and he went

00:25:03.140 from a commanding lead

00:25:05.140 over trump to 20

00:25:08.240 points behind let's say

00:25:10.440 that happened and then

00:25:11.840 that poll those polls

00:25:13.200 showed that for a few

00:25:14.120 weeks in a row that

00:25:15.580 kanye didn't have a

00:25:16.640 majority he had you know

00:25:18.320 a solid chunk but it

00:25:20.260 took biden down to say

00:25:21.380 20 points below trump a

00:25:23.360 few months before the

00:25:24.160 election what would biden

00:25:25.820 do ask yourself what

00:25:29.320 would biden do well of

00:25:31.080 course everybody would

00:25:31.940 say kanye kanye get out

00:25:33.500 of the race you gotta let

00:25:35.120 biden win but would he

00:25:37.420 i don't think you would

00:25:38.980 have announced if you

00:25:39.880 wanted biden to win

00:25:40.820 would he you don't really

00:25:42.900 announce that you're gonna

00:25:43.640 run for president if you

00:25:44.660 think the other guy that's

00:25:45.640 already in it is the guy

00:25:47.400 and again my guess is that

00:25:51.680 kanye is not completely

00:25:53.240 serious about running

00:25:54.400 maybe he's seeing what's

00:25:56.340 going to happen and then

00:25:57.700 maybe he'll decide after

00:25:58.840 he sees what the reaction

00:25:59.820 is i don't know you

00:26:01.520 know anything's possible

00:26:02.840 the thing we love about

00:26:04.160 kanye among other things

00:26:05.440 is that he's not

00:26:06.800 predictable if you were

00:26:08.740 predictable would you

00:26:09.640 like him as much no no

00:26:12.160 he's an artist all the

00:26:13.540 time part of being an

00:26:15.400 artist all the time you

00:26:17.540 know not just when you're

00:26:18.660 making a song or you're

00:26:20.240 making some fashion or

00:26:21.500 something he's an artist

00:26:22.720 all the time so he's

00:26:24.140 always interesting he's

00:26:25.880 always surprising and

00:26:27.860 it's always fresh you're

00:26:29.340 like okay i haven't seen

00:26:30.260 that before so predicting

00:26:32.940 what kanye would do is

00:26:36.240 always a this is tricky

00:26:37.440 tricky business but imagine

00:26:40.880 if joe biden said all

00:26:43.000 right i'm out because under

00:26:44.520 these conditions i don't

00:26:45.560 ever have a chance to win

00:26:46.600 good luck kanye do what

00:26:48.940 you can just imagine that

00:26:51.020 happened it's not

00:26:51.800 impossible if biden were

00:26:53.780 20 points down a month

00:26:55.980 before the election and

00:26:57.260 the only way you could get

00:26:58.700 rid of trump was kanye

00:27:00.080 being elected right you

00:27:02.900 see it don't you if you

00:27:04.460 think he doesn't have a

00:27:05.540 play he kind of does he

00:27:08.600 kind of does which is

00:27:10.440 brilliant because if he

00:27:11.880 doesn't win nobody's

00:27:13.080 really going to hold it

00:27:13.760 against him right nobody's

00:27:15.340 going to say yeah kanye you

00:27:17.020 ran for president and he

00:27:18.240 didn't make it you loser

00:27:19.480 no because the way he's

00:27:22.360 doing it if he's doing it

00:27:23.580 at all doesn't look like a

00:27:24.780 regular campaign it would

00:27:26.600 never be held against him to

00:27:28.840 not be elected president in

00:27:30.380 2020 but suppose it worked

00:27:34.100 it could is it impossible not

00:27:38.800 really it's not really

00:27:40.480 impossible and if you saw a

00:27:45.020 straight-up election between

00:27:46.400 kanye and trump i actually

00:27:49.380 don't know who would win

00:27:50.500 now actually i take it back

00:27:53.200 kanye would win i think kanye

00:27:55.240 would win straight up

00:27:56.180 i think you would

00:27:59.460 now here's the other thing that

00:28:04.060 might come of this i've said

00:28:05.380 before that i didn't think kanye

00:28:08.220 would run for president in a

00:28:09.860 serious way and we still don't

00:28:11.180 know how serious he is but i

00:28:12.980 said i didn't think it because

00:28:14.160 it would be a demotion there's

00:28:18.240 nobody else who could run for

00:28:19.520 president win and you look at

00:28:22.480 it and say that's kind of a

00:28:23.500 demotion and i don't mean

00:28:26.000 because kanye is is famous you

00:28:28.980 know i don't mean a demotion in

00:28:30.220 that sense i mean that what he's

00:28:31.900 been doing for the last couple

00:28:33.660 years if you haven't been paying

00:28:35.020 attention is he's been doing

00:28:36.800 sort of a i guess a christian

00:28:39.880 revival or i don't know what

00:28:41.560 you'd call it but he's he's

00:28:42.820 going very heavily into a

00:28:44.680 spiritual direction in my

00:28:46.960 opinion the country needs that

00:28:48.700 more than they need a new

00:28:49.680 president right because that's

00:28:52.080 there's sort of a spiritual void

00:28:54.740 or something you know i'm not a

00:28:56.660 religious person but i even i can

00:28:58.580 feel that people are drifting they

00:29:01.720 need some kind of a connection to

00:29:03.780 something bigger than themselves

00:29:05.020 it's just useful so could kanye be

00:29:08.220 something more than a president i

00:29:10.460 believe he already is could

00:29:12.860 running for president or even

00:29:14.280 teasing that he's running for

00:29:15.440 president help his real job as a

00:29:18.580 spiritual unifier which is what i

00:29:22.120 think his greater purpose could be i

00:29:25.320 think it's all good anything that

00:29:27.200 drives attention to kanye is good

00:29:29.800 for me in the sense that i think it's

00:29:32.060 good for the country all right um of

00:29:36.440 course i had to announce oh let me

00:29:39.220 give you another uh way that kanye

00:29:42.260 could be the kingmaker um yes or no

00:29:47.080 whichever way the black vote goes

00:29:49.940 that will determine the next president

00:29:52.280 we're all on the same page of that

00:29:54.160 right if the black vote moved you know

00:29:57.560 in mass to republicans which is not

00:30:00.940 doesn't look like that's going to

00:30:02.520 happen but follow the logic of this

00:30:04.840 if the black vote went in mass let's

00:30:07.820 say 60 percent of them and voted

00:30:10.400 republican it would guarantee trump got

00:30:12.700 elected we're all on board right that's

00:30:14.340 just math likewise if 95 percent vote

00:30:18.580 democrat pretty much guarantees the

00:30:21.040 democrat will win so i would say that

00:30:23.300 black voters have complete control of

00:30:25.920 the next president am i right now i don't

00:30:31.980 know if the black lives matter protesters

00:30:34.440 are quite understanding that they already

00:30:37.760 run the country because they do in the

00:30:42.120 sense that they get to decide who's

00:30:43.640 president but as others have said they

00:30:46.880 have abdicated or they've left free

00:30:49.720 money on the table meaning that as long

00:30:52.300 as you can depend on them voting democrat

00:30:54.620 nobody has to offer anything that they've

00:30:58.320 given away all their power by being

00:31:01.900 predictable democrat voters now imagine

00:31:05.000 if you will kanye enters the conversation

00:31:07.760 could kanye end racism in the united

00:31:11.300 states yes here's how all right and i i'm

00:31:17.300 not saying he's going to do this i'm just

00:31:19.180 this is just a mental experiment could

00:31:21.940 kanye end racism without becoming

00:31:25.880 president yes here's how okay

00:31:29.640 as i've described before if everybody had

00:31:34.960 a good education there would still be

00:31:37.200 racism in the world but you know you

00:31:40.820 can't get rid of the way brains are

00:31:42.740 organized and let me start with an

00:31:45.500 analogy to soften you up let me ask you

00:31:50.560 this let's say you had a problem

00:31:52.820 there's a risk of drowning what do you

00:31:56.280 do about a problem that's a risk of

00:31:59.300 drowning and if you live on the planet

00:32:01.360 earth there's water all over the place

00:32:03.740 you got your swimming pools you got your

00:32:05.920 lakes you got your streams you got

00:32:08.140 bathtubs you've got oceans there's all

00:32:12.260 kinds of places all over the united states

00:32:14.580 that you can drown so that's a problem

00:32:17.880 what are you going to do well one

00:32:20.360 solution would be to remove all the

00:32:22.220 water from earth but it's not very

00:32:25.640 practical is it you might even call it

00:32:28.560 impossible the other way to go is to

00:32:32.320 learn to swim or to build a boat or to

00:32:36.200 have some life preservers on you now this

00:32:39.260 this feels very unfair doesn't it because

00:32:42.920 if you're a person who may or may not

00:32:45.800 drown is it your fault that there's

00:32:48.840 water everywhere it's not your fault

00:32:52.280 right it's really not anybody's fault

00:32:55.540 it's just the way it is so if you can't

00:32:59.480 remove all the water from earth the only

00:33:01.440 thing you can do is sort of learn to

00:33:02.940 deal with it

00:33:03.540 this is much like racism in my opinion

00:33:08.720 racism is everywhere in the world that

00:33:13.040 there are people because bias is built

00:33:16.340 into the way any normal brain is

00:33:18.160 organized it sees patterns and then it

00:33:20.900 acts on the pattern but the trouble is

00:33:24.000 we're really bad at recognizing patterns

00:33:25.920 we can't tell confirmation bias in other

00:33:28.940 words a fake pattern from one that's an

00:33:31.320 actual pattern we can't tell the

00:33:33.380 difference and you've seen this a

00:33:34.640 thousand times in 2020 alone people

00:33:37.220 will look at the same news they'll say

00:33:38.880 well here's the pattern and somebody

00:33:41.040 else will look at and say no this other

00:33:43.040 pattern is the one that matters we're

00:33:45.000 terrible at pattern recognition so black

00:33:48.340 lives matter would like to reduce or

00:33:50.700 eliminate racism in this country can it

00:33:55.180 be done no no it can't be done it can't

00:33:59.440 even be reduced it's not possible the

00:34:02.400 only thing you can do is learn to swim

00:34:04.080 you can learn to swim you can't get rid

00:34:07.800 of the water but you can learn to swim

00:34:09.920 and so imagine a imagine Kanye with this

00:34:17.040 proposition again I'm not predicting

00:34:18.860 anything will happen but you can imagine

00:34:22.060 imagine Kanye says something like this

00:34:25.240 here's the deal if you get education

00:34:27.260 right and and you can make sure that

00:34:30.780 every poor person but black people is

00:34:33.140 who we're talking about but every poor

00:34:35.280 person can have a real good education

00:34:37.660 then the perceived racism in a generation

00:34:43.420 will look a lot less because everybody

00:34:45.980 that an employer talks to will be

00:34:47.760 somebody who's well educated they're

00:34:50.440 not going to say well odds are or anything

00:34:53.340 like that they'll just say hey well

00:34:55.600 educated kids they're all good if you can

00:34:59.100 educate everybody equally you wouldn't

00:35:01.640 eliminate any racism but it would be such

00:35:04.980 a better world because you could slice

00:35:07.220 through the racism like it didn't exist

00:35:09.760 so if you could slice through it like it

00:35:12.460 doesn't exist is there racism well let me

00:35:16.100 ask you this does Kanye experience much

00:35:19.140 racism in his personal life things that he

00:35:22.720 is discriminated against because he's black

00:35:25.980 I don't know yeah there may be things that

00:35:29.520 he feels are offensive but I don't think

00:35:32.780 racism bothers Kanye why is it because

00:35:36.340 racism doesn't exist no it's exactly the

00:35:40.880 same everywhere in the world but Kanye

00:35:43.760 is not bothered by it it just doesn't

00:35:47.300 affect his life in any way at least in the

00:35:50.080 big stuff right I'm sure they're you know

00:35:52.640 offensive little things and things you

00:35:54.940 imagine and things that are true that

00:35:56.800 are in the you know in the noise now we

00:36:00.740 can't all become Kanye if you could become

00:36:03.840 Kanye or Michael Jordan or Oprah the last

00:36:07.040 thing you worry about in your own personal

00:36:09.080 life is the racism that people are applying

00:36:11.820 to you it could be annoying it's not going

00:36:15.400 to change your income you're going to slice

00:36:18.380 through life like it didn't exist if

00:36:20.780 everybody had a good education they could

00:36:22.260 do the same thing so imagine Kanye saying

00:36:24.140 I'm neither a Republican nor a Democrat but

00:36:27.760 if we don't get education right for

00:36:29.720 everybody for everybody being the secret

00:36:32.900 sauce we're never going to have a better

00:36:35.240 world here's what I propose that whoever

00:36:38.520 makes the best offer on education will get

00:36:42.140 my endorsement so imagine imagine that

00:36:46.340 Kanye develops enough of a support base that

00:36:50.180 he's actually polling with like 20% of the

00:36:53.960 vote so this is just mental experiment he

00:36:57.860 stays in the race conceptually the next poll

00:37:01.520 that comes out says he has 20% support well

00:37:04.860 now you have to listen to him right because

00:37:07.280 if he decides to endorse somebody it's going

00:37:10.140 to matter so now you say let's say

00:37:13.020 Kanye gets a 20% in the poll and he says

00:37:15.220 look I don't know who's going to win but

00:37:17.320 here's my deal for you America Republicans

00:37:20.360 give me your best offer for what school

00:37:23.220 would look like for everybody to make sure

00:37:26.340 that you absolutely get a good education no

00:37:29.240 matter who you are where you're born what's

00:37:31.540 your proposal now Republicans say something

00:37:33.980 like school choice they'll say something

00:37:36.280 like charter schools and guess what

00:37:38.680 those things are very popular in the black

00:37:42.420 community the Republicans have a proposal

00:37:46.680 for education which as far as I can tell

00:37:50.720 is far more popular among black voters

00:37:54.220 because what would they like more than a

00:37:56.300 choice of where to go to school I mean

00:37:58.500 that's that's pretty pretty high on the

00:38:01.980 list of things that can fix everything

00:38:03.620 right you get your school right so

00:38:06.900 imagine Kanye saying look I'm neither

00:38:09.320 Republican nor Democrat I've got 20% of

00:38:12.140 the vote behind me I'm going to ask for

00:38:14.120 one thing tell me which of you guys has a

00:38:17.060 proposal Democrats your proposal is that

00:38:19.840 this that the school unions own you and

00:38:23.480 you're not going to do a fucking thing is

00:38:26.060 that is that your proposal it is okay

00:38:29.460 Republicans what's your proposal and I'm

00:38:32.900 not talking about college because any

00:38:35.300 black kid who's got good grades is going

00:38:38.620 to find a way to get to college or get the

00:38:40.380 training they need or skip college because

00:38:42.260 maybe it's not so important anymore learn

00:38:44.380 to code whatever but you got to get the

00:38:46.980 early school right you know so Bernie's

00:38:49.720 talking about free college well that's

00:38:51.320 great but you got to get the early stuff

00:38:54.000 right so if Kanye could say here's my deal

00:38:57.040 I'm going to go with whoever could fix

00:38:58.840 racism and the only way to do it is to

00:39:01.200 fix schools and fix it for everybody you

00:39:04.080 give me the best proposal for that and

00:39:06.100 you have my endorsement and then Kanye is

00:39:10.520 not technically the president but he fixes

00:39:13.220 racism in one generation fixes it I mean

00:39:17.420 because if the proposals are good and when I

00:39:21.260 say fix it I do not mean reduce it because

00:39:23.700 you can't you just make it less important

00:39:26.360 that's fixing it all right here's my

00:39:33.600 campaign slogan I've also announced that

00:39:35.920 I'm going to run for president I have a

00:39:37.520 few requirements though I don't want to

00:39:39.720 do any paperwork so I've announced on

00:39:42.180 Twitter I'm running for president but

00:39:43.960 without the paperwork I also need to work

00:39:47.020 from home I'm not about commuting and

00:39:49.700 and another big requirement is this is my

00:39:53.320 only policy proposal all foreign

00:39:56.180 dignitaries have to wear name tags I'm

00:39:59.260 not going to memorize all of these names

00:40:01.300 of foreign dignitaries I'm just not so

00:40:04.660 it's my one proposal just wear name tags

00:40:06.860 just just do me a solid only when you're

00:40:11.620 visiting I also have a campaign slogan

00:40:15.880 that I think I think is quite good and

00:40:19.880 it goes like this black lives matter

00:40:22.080 more than others now you might say to

00:40:24.780 yourself whoa Scott you can't say that

00:40:27.600 you can't say any group matters more

00:40:30.560 than others to which I say well I do not

00:40:33.940 need your loser philosophies I know how to

00:40:37.160 negotiate everything's a negotiation in

00:40:40.740 politics right even if you're not calling

00:40:43.100 it a negotiation it's kind of a negotiation

00:40:45.860 why would you if you are selling a

00:40:48.280 product why would your first offer be the

00:40:51.480 lowest price you're willing to sell it

00:40:53.160 for why would your first offer be the

00:40:55.580 lowest price you'd start high and let

00:40:59.540 them negotiate down to a fair price right

00:41:02.500 so all good negotiation starts with a big

00:41:05.280 first ask so I would start start with a

00:41:08.980 campaign slogan of black lives matter more

00:41:11.800 than others and then when people try to

00:41:15.440 negotiate me down I'd have a I'd have a

00:41:17.520 room to go to go down and and then would

00:41:20.260 they get down say hey how about we just

00:41:22.620 say it's all kind of the same and I'd say

00:41:26.180 I don't know I'm willing to listen to that

00:41:30.760 offer but my first offer is a black lives

00:41:34.320 mean a little worth a little bit extra a

00:41:37.620 little bit extra and then people say ah we

00:41:40.300 can't live with that that feels like a

00:41:42.260 violation of the Constitution but can we

00:41:44.260 talk you down to to even can we get you

00:41:47.300 down to equal I'd be like I don't know you

00:41:51.680 sound a little bit racist when you talk

00:41:53.880 like that but here's what we'll do now

00:41:57.040 you've seen in lots of deals that there

00:41:58.580 could be things that are a trade-off for

00:42:02.100 example you have to pay people more to

00:42:04.720 work in a dangerous job you have to pay

00:42:07.940 people more to work on a holiday right so

00:42:10.520 you can see that discomfort and money

00:42:13.740 can be substitutes right I'll pay you

00:42:16.260 more if you'll take a little more

00:42:17.500 discomfort so there are lots of cases

00:42:19.540 where money is a substitute so I'll say

00:42:22.280 yeah I'm willing to entertain your offer

00:42:25.900 of bringing my first offer down to

00:42:28.780 roughly equal but you're gonna have to

00:42:31.200 kick in a little extra maybe some better

00:42:34.620 schooling something so so I would just be a

00:42:38.400 better negotiator and I would get all of

00:42:41.700 the black vote that way so I might be your

00:42:45.120 next president if Kanye isn't there was a

00:42:49.300 new fake video that CNN apparently ran and

00:42:52.960 some others that seemed to indicate that

00:42:55.360 President Trump didn't know that Operation

00:42:57.880 Desert Storm was not in Vietnam now of

00:43:01.940 course it was a deceptive edit which they

00:43:04.060 finally had to admit wasn't true but can

00:43:07.900 we learn can we learn from now that video

00:43:14.120 lies can we all agree that video lies and

00:43:18.720 that it lies almost every time kind of lies

00:43:22.680 almost every time so if you think I saw it

00:43:26.340 with my own eyes is a thing it's like you

00:43:29.020 missed all of 2020 anybody who says to

00:43:32.480 you I know it's true Scott I saw on the

00:43:36.600 video if anybody says that your best

00:43:40.180 answer is so it looks like you skipped all

00:43:44.220 of 2020 I didn't notice that if it's on

00:43:47.400 the video it's probably a lie that's why

00:43:50.440 it's a viral video all right did you see

00:43:56.340 though let's talk about a little more on

00:44:00.460 Biden so I offered a in a tweet today I

00:44:03.880 offered a way to take him out of the race

00:44:05.980 and it would look like this now this

00:44:08.100 assumes that a reporter can ever talk to

00:44:10.340 him and ask questions I don't know if

00:44:12.900 that'll ever happen but there are two

00:44:14.780 questions if asked in this order would

00:44:17.500 take Biden out of the race you ready two

00:44:20.460 questions in this order and it's the order

00:44:23.000 that matters it's got to be in this order

00:44:25.340 takes him out of the race number one do

00:44:27.860 black lives matter we assume he'll say

00:44:30.640 yes number two here's the key question do

00:44:35.220 white lives matter what would Joe Biden

00:44:38.420 say if after you said do black lives

00:44:41.040 matter and he said yes of course and

00:44:44.200 then you say do white lives matter what

00:44:45.920 would he answer now here's the beauty of

00:44:48.700 it if you would ask him do all lives

00:44:52.040 matter he would know that that trap is

00:44:55.000 coming and and of course he would be

00:44:58.180 prepared for it right I mean he would be

00:45:01.000 prepared for it and he'd say oh let's not

00:45:03.000 be divisive we all want to live in a

00:45:05.400 better world blah blah blah so he almost

00:45:08.520 certainly would have a response ready but

00:45:10.840 if you ask him specifically do white

00:45:12.700 lives matter what's the answer to that

00:45:14.540 it's not it's not obvious right you you

00:45:18.920 would fumble on the answer and in the

00:45:21.760 fumbling of the answer you would create

00:45:23.740 the video clip which would pretty much

00:45:25.780 end his campaign so here's my

00:45:28.740 supposition that because Biden's mental

00:45:34.700 acuity is in question and I think it

00:45:37.680 looks like it's obviously less than it

00:45:39.180 used to be if you look at old videos of

00:45:41.880 Joe Biden talking it's really obvious

00:45:44.600 there's something different going on

00:45:46.000 so if you ask him questions which are of

00:45:51.080 the type he has answered before during

00:45:53.680 his career and I'm not talking about

00:45:56.060 answered before as in yesterday I'm

00:45:59.460 talking about things which he has

00:46:00.900 thought about for a long time he

00:46:03.080 probably has the right kind of memory

00:46:04.940 capacity to dredge up some general

00:46:07.200 answer right he could probably generally

00:46:09.680 answer somebody says stop shaming him

00:46:15.320 for stuttering well I've never done

00:46:18.640 that because I don't shame people for

00:46:20.220 stuttering but any question that he has

00:46:26.480 never seen before a novel question

00:46:29.020 should throw his brain into a reboot so

00:46:35.060 it so think of it this way I gave you

00:46:37.340 one specific example of a non-standard

00:46:39.840 way to ask the question because the

00:46:41.660 standard way would have been do all

00:46:43.160 lives matter and of course that's

00:46:45.560 racially divisive but the do white

00:46:48.100 lives matter you just haven't seen

00:46:49.820 nobody's asked that specific question

00:46:52.100 so it's the uniqueness of it that would

00:46:54.640 throw him off his game whether it's this

00:46:56.820 topic or any other I have some self

00:47:01.280 defense recommendation for you and it

00:47:03.820 goes like this if you accidentally hit a

00:47:06.980 protester with your car in under normal

00:47:11.080 circumstances you should stop right

00:47:13.000 because if there's an accident

00:47:14.820 especially if somebody's hurt you don't

00:47:16.920 want to leave the scene of the crime that

00:47:18.640 would be another crime you want to work

00:47:20.540 it out but in the specific situation

00:47:22.920 where you hit a protester with your car

00:47:25.840 and there are other protesters which

00:47:28.400 clearly would surround your car and kill

00:47:30.500 you can you leave the scene of the crime

00:47:33.100 in that situation I would say yes I

00:47:37.040 would say that even if you hit somebody

00:47:38.720 with your car you should get out of

00:47:41.100 there as soon as you can you want to

00:47:44.140 leave as soon as you can now to protect

00:47:47.340 yourself as soon as you're safe you want

00:47:49.900 to call the authorities and tell them

00:47:51.400 what happened I think that would be good

00:47:53.480 enough to protect you I'm not a lawyer but

00:47:56.260 I can tell you you're better off dealing

00:47:58.540 with the legal consequences than you are

00:48:01.020 with the mob that will certainly kill you

00:48:03.120 if you stay around even if it was an

00:48:04.760 accident most of you saw the horrific

00:48:08.380 accident yesterday there's one fatality

00:48:13.060 and it was just horrific if you've seen

00:48:18.440 the video

00:48:18.880 Joel Pollack had this interesting twist on

00:48:25.380 two ideas he put them together I guess his

00:48:27.580 wife he reports says this this is Joel's

00:48:32.760 tweet my wife's fourth of July idea put

00:48:35.200 the proposed National Garden of Heroes

00:48:37.300 along the national bicycle path that Scott

00:48:41.000 Adams proposed now I should remind you

00:48:43.240 that somebody else before I had I thought

00:48:46.100 I had this great idea of a nationwide

00:48:48.600 bicycle path route with lots of lots of

00:48:52.160 support structures that would create lots

00:48:54.140 of jobs around the way and then you could

00:48:57.220 it would be a sort of a robot proof business

00:49:01.020 because you would need lots of humans to

00:49:02.900 maintain it no matter what at least for the

00:49:04.940 foreseeable future and and then there's the

00:49:09.400 idea of putting all the statues in the

00:49:10.900 National Garden but what if you let you have

00:49:14.440 the statues put near the bicycle path or the

00:49:19.600 bicycle path goes goes where they already

00:49:21.840 are so that you would have a continuous

00:49:24.440 history lesson at each stop so you'd be you

00:49:29.620 know on the surface you're bicycling across

00:49:31.600 the country or just some part of the country

00:49:33.640 yeah you don't have to go the whole way but

00:49:36.880 every time you stopped there's a statue might

00:49:40.460 be Martin Luther King might be George Washington

00:49:43.620 with some context well he was a slave owner and we

00:49:47.100 don't like that part whatever you do but

00:49:50.600 basically make sure that everything's in

00:49:53.740 context if you want to make sure that you've

00:49:55.700 got the you know more modern and you know

00:49:58.980 non-slave owner statues then do that too

00:50:03.240 throw a Columbus in there but give the full

00:50:05.360 context why not and then of course they would

00:50:10.320 be torn down in an hour so it wouldn't work

00:50:12.220 but I think it's always fun to noodle on these

00:50:15.900 kinds of ideas because it might give you ideas

00:50:18.320 for better better ideas in the movie business

00:50:23.160 that's called the bad idea so somebody comes up

00:50:27.240 with a bad idea and you know why it's bad but

00:50:30.640 that makes you think more creatively and you end

00:50:33.700 up with a way wait if you changed it a little bit it

00:50:36.840 would work and that's that's what would be the

00:50:40.620 good outcome all right have I talked about

00:50:43.320 everything have I talked about everything I

00:50:46.600 think so how would you make it flat

00:50:49.600 excellent question and I mentioned that

00:50:53.260 before your bike path would not need to be

00:50:55.400 flat everywhere it could be flat in parts

00:50:58.220 based on just the local topography but

00:51:01.680 because the electronic bikes are now they've

00:51:05.880 gone from maybe a novelty to I own one now and

00:51:09.740 it's completely changes transportation I

00:51:12.080 won't go into my long sales pitch on that but

00:51:15.140 with the electric electric bikes that give an

00:51:17.720 assist to your pedaling the hills don't really

00:51:20.760 matter so even at my age there's no hill in my

00:51:25.220 neighborhood and I live in a really hilly I'm

00:51:27.520 in a really hilly place that we're there are

00:51:29.860 really steep hills where I live they just

00:51:32.560 disappear with an electric electronic bike so

00:51:36.500 there'll be more of those and you could probably rent

00:51:39.800 them you wouldn't you wouldn't have to bring it

00:51:41.540 with you you'd just rent it on site just like any

00:51:45.380 rental car etc they they're in the range of yes they

00:51:50.980 could be four to eight or twelve thousand dollars mine

00:51:54.760 mine cost four thousand dollars my guess is that it'll

00:51:58.780 be a thousand in a few years you know probably in three

00:52:02.320 years it'll be a thousand dollars and then you still

00:52:04.900 might not want to own one but it's a very

00:52:07.240 economical thing to rent you know if you're

00:52:09.700 renting a thousand dollar item probably doesn't

00:52:13.580 cost you that much per day all right that's all for

00:52:17.980 now and I will talk to you tomorrow

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 05, 2020

Episode 1048 Scott Adams： Kanye Enters the Race, Dark and Divisive Speeches, Magic Mushrooms, Bleaching Rooms

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