Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 09, 2020


Episode 1052 Scott Adams: Single Parent Households, Biden and Beethoven Both Decomposing, Ye Systems, Schools, More


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 5 minutes

Words per Minute

152.80003

Word Count

9,981

Sentence Count

630

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

24


Summary

On this week's episode of Thick & Thin, the boys discuss the latest in shadow banning on social media, and whether it's intentional or accidental. Plus, we talk about the best way to make a cup of coffee.


Transcript

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00:00:30.000 of the entire week.
00:00:31.840 Yeah, it's going to be that good.
00:00:33.660 And all you need is a cup or a mug
00:00:36.140 or a glass, a tank or a chalice or a stein
00:00:37.620 or a canteen, a jug or a flask, a vessel of any
00:00:39.660 kind.
00:00:41.380 Fill it with your favorite liquid.
00:00:43.700 I like coffee.
00:00:45.360 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure
00:00:47.700 of the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes
00:00:49.840 everything better, including
00:00:51.880 single-parent households,
00:00:55.040 poverty,
00:00:56.360 pandemics, yeah,
00:00:57.860 all of that. It's all going to be better in a moment.
00:01:00.000 Yep.
00:01:02.880 Yep.
00:01:04.760 I can feel things heading in the right direction.
00:01:07.500 It's almost automatic.
00:01:09.120 And it's because of the sip. It really is.
00:01:12.140 Let's talk about some things.
00:01:15.360 So it seems that Twitter is still
00:01:17.780 either intentionally
00:01:20.100 or accidentally shadow
00:01:21.900 banning people.
00:01:23.560 What I don't know
00:01:24.880 is whether it's limited to
00:01:28.020 one side of the political
00:01:29.900 spectrum.
00:01:30.880 Since the people I tend to hear from the most
00:01:33.640 are the people that follow me,
00:01:34.920 I don't know that.
00:01:36.360 But Michael Malice
00:01:37.900 tweeted, I think last night,
00:01:40.600 that one of his friends
00:01:42.220 reliably said
00:01:43.420 that he follows Michael Malice on Twitter
00:01:45.900 but gets unfollowed automatically.
00:01:48.580 So Michael asked,
00:01:49.820 does anybody else notice this?
00:01:52.460 And he mentioned three names in particular
00:01:55.000 for people to check.
00:01:56.820 So he said, see if you're getting unfollowed
00:01:58.940 from Tim Pool,
00:02:01.100 Michael Tracy,
00:02:02.680 or Scott Adams.
00:02:04.740 Now, what do you think happened?
00:02:07.740 What do you think happened?
00:02:09.200 Yeah, so we got lots of comments
00:02:13.240 of people who checked
00:02:14.820 and found out that they had been
00:02:17.220 unfollowed automatically.
00:02:19.920 Now, some of them hadn't noticed it before,
00:02:22.220 but the number of people who weighed in
00:02:24.040 and said, yes, it happened to me,
00:02:25.600 I don't think there's any chance anymore
00:02:29.420 that it's confirmation bias.
00:02:32.880 I don't think there's any chance
00:02:34.480 it's some kind of a pocket situation
00:02:37.260 where it's somehow automatically doing it
00:02:40.780 because you stuck it in your pocket
00:02:42.020 like a pocket dial.
00:02:43.620 I don't think it's a bug
00:02:45.000 because it would be such a big bug
00:02:47.600 that it would be easy to notice.
00:02:50.620 I don't know what it is.
00:02:52.640 Now, I've seen some other people speculate
00:02:54.620 as I had
00:02:55.620 that it could be third-party apps
00:02:58.360 that you also have on your phone
00:03:00.760 that sometimes they ask you
00:03:03.020 for permission to post on Twitter,
00:03:05.260 which I think gives them permission
00:03:07.340 to do other things as well.
00:03:09.580 And I don't know if it's TikTok
00:03:11.500 or other apps,
00:03:12.800 but there does seem to be
00:03:15.260 a pretty big problem here.
00:03:16.800 I just don't know what it is.
00:03:18.780 And a lot of people reported
00:03:20.140 that they don't see
00:03:21.020 President Trump's tweets,
00:03:22.660 but I don't know
00:03:24.100 if that's an algorithm issue
00:03:25.700 or something else.
00:03:26.940 But if you follow somebody
00:03:28.360 or like something
00:03:29.560 and it gets reversed later,
00:03:32.140 especially if it gets reversed
00:03:33.640 months later,
00:03:35.340 you can't really call that a bug.
00:03:37.920 I mean, it might be,
00:03:40.240 but...
00:03:42.400 And here's the fun part.
00:03:44.080 I actually don't know
00:03:45.540 if Twitter knows what's happening.
00:03:47.000 I don't think they know,
00:03:49.620 which means that it's coming
00:03:51.340 from some source,
00:03:52.360 either within the company
00:03:53.580 or outside.
00:03:54.920 But I don't think
00:03:55.980 it's coming from management.
00:03:58.120 And by the way,
00:03:59.380 it would be insane
00:04:00.920 for management to do this.
00:04:03.540 Let me say this
00:04:04.360 as clearly as possible.
00:04:06.080 Given how obvious it is
00:04:08.060 and how much it has been discussed,
00:04:11.820 if you still think
00:04:13.160 that Twitter management
00:04:14.280 knows about it
00:04:16.220 and is authorizing it,
00:04:19.460 that would be
00:04:20.360 a deep misunderstanding
00:04:21.940 of human beings,
00:04:23.720 I think.
00:04:24.320 And it wouldn't matter
00:04:25.000 if it was Jack
00:04:25.660 or somebody else
00:04:26.400 that you put into
00:04:27.800 this situation.
00:04:30.680 I don't know
00:04:31.540 that anybody
00:04:32.100 would risk
00:04:32.900 a billion dollars
00:04:34.240 to do
00:04:35.840 a kind of a
00:04:37.480 behavior
00:04:38.260 that's so obvious.
00:04:40.020 in other words,
00:04:41.800 if they were doing it
00:04:42.680 intentionally,
00:04:43.520 they would also know
00:04:44.880 that they would be
00:04:45.580 detected easily.
00:04:47.780 Easily detected.
00:04:49.400 In fact,
00:04:50.060 we just detected it.
00:04:51.720 So I think that
00:04:52.600 it's coming from
00:04:53.840 some source
00:04:54.460 other than management.
00:04:56.280 But it's certainly
00:04:57.140 coming from somewhere.
00:05:00.140 All right.
00:05:01.180 Could be domestic
00:05:02.500 or foreign.
00:05:03.480 We don't know.
00:05:06.760 One of my favorite things
00:05:08.280 in the world now,
00:05:09.180 and it's just getting
00:05:10.040 more and more fun,
00:05:11.060 is watching Biden's
00:05:12.340 supporters
00:05:12.840 pretend they don't
00:05:14.980 notice a problem.
00:05:17.420 Now, of course,
00:05:18.340 there's a different
00:05:19.260 breed that say,
00:05:21.140 yeah, we see it too.
00:05:22.360 We know Biden's
00:05:23.180 losing it
00:05:23.760 or has lost it,
00:05:24.940 but it's still
00:05:25.840 better than Trump.
00:05:27.920 And when people
00:05:29.200 say stuff like that,
00:05:30.960 I always wonder,
00:05:33.100 what are they seeing
00:05:34.500 that I'm not seeing?
00:05:36.680 Is it just
00:05:37.740 the fake news difference?
00:05:40.040 Because
00:05:40.600 all the things
00:05:42.260 that people
00:05:42.840 were worried about
00:05:43.940 from when Trump
00:05:45.500 was first elected,
00:05:46.920 there were lots
00:05:47.840 of concerns.
00:05:49.380 But now that we're
00:05:50.120 three and a half years
00:05:51.060 into the term,
00:05:52.280 you don't have to wonder
00:05:53.520 what he might do
00:05:54.600 because you can
00:05:56.420 pretty well see
00:05:57.300 what he does
00:05:58.100 as a president.
00:05:59.200 It would be
00:06:00.100 unusual to expect
00:06:01.880 that he would be
00:06:02.520 different in a second term.
00:06:03.860 So I think
00:06:05.020 the first term
00:06:06.120 gives you
00:06:07.160 a pretty good picture
00:06:08.600 of what to expect
00:06:10.260 and what went wrong.
00:06:12.560 If you ask people
00:06:13.680 what was the big disaster
00:06:15.940 of the Trump administration,
00:06:19.220 they will sometimes
00:06:20.840 give you some fake news
00:06:22.360 such as
00:06:24.180 not quite understanding
00:06:25.780 that there was a surge
00:06:27.080 at the border
00:06:27.740 and that the cages
00:06:29.680 that Obama built
00:06:30.780 had to be used
00:06:32.620 more temporarily.
00:06:34.540 Nobody was happy.
00:06:35.600 In other words,
00:06:36.100 they'll give you a story
00:06:36.880 they don't quite understand
00:06:38.100 or they don't know
00:06:38.820 the context.
00:06:39.980 So that's one thing
00:06:40.840 that Trump did wrong,
00:06:42.140 which is not really
00:06:43.120 Trump doing it wrong.
00:06:44.040 Now,
00:06:45.100 the kids in cages
00:06:45.820 is a tragic situation,
00:06:47.500 but the whole point
00:06:49.300 of it
00:06:49.680 was that
00:06:50.680 reasonable,
00:06:51.520 responsible people
00:06:52.420 said it's still
00:06:53.460 better than
00:06:54.060 the only other
00:06:54.720 alternative,
00:06:55.640 which is to let
00:06:56.620 kids go with
00:06:57.700 traffickers
00:06:58.900 and God knows what.
00:07:01.540 So you have
00:07:03.060 one category
00:07:03.700 of things people say,
00:07:04.620 yeah,
00:07:04.760 look how it all
00:07:05.520 went wrong
00:07:06.100 under Trump,
00:07:07.260 but the things
00:07:07.880 they look at
00:07:08.440 are just sort of
00:07:09.160 fake news
00:07:09.940 and out of context
00:07:10.800 things that they
00:07:11.420 don't quite understand.
00:07:12.920 But then there's
00:07:13.460 another category
00:07:14.160 that I just laugh
00:07:15.040 out loud
00:07:15.540 when I hear it.
00:07:17.000 They talk about
00:07:17.820 how Trump has
00:07:18.620 ruined our
00:07:20.240 country's ability
00:07:21.340 to deal with
00:07:22.140 other countries.
00:07:24.820 What's that based on?
00:07:27.700 Have you noticed
00:07:28.700 any of that?
00:07:30.240 Have you noticed
00:07:31.140 that other countries
00:07:32.300 won't take a call
00:07:33.320 from the United States?
00:07:35.200 Is there ever
00:07:35.680 a situation where
00:07:36.600 the prime minister
00:07:38.580 of pick a country,
00:07:40.100 any country,
00:07:41.060 just pick any country,
00:07:42.540 friend or foe
00:07:43.300 country,
00:07:44.500 and the secretary
00:07:46.140 comes in,
00:07:47.080 whoever is the
00:07:48.440 handling calls,
00:07:51.200 and says to the
00:07:52.000 leader of this
00:07:52.520 other country,
00:07:53.100 the president
00:07:53.560 of the United States
00:07:54.360 is on the line.
00:07:55.920 He wants to talk
00:07:56.640 to you.
00:07:57.920 Which country
00:07:58.720 doesn't take the
00:07:59.460 call?
00:08:00.880 Now,
00:08:01.360 I realize that
00:08:02.080 a call from
00:08:02.860 a head of state
00:08:03.680 would be scheduled,
00:08:05.160 so he wouldn't
00:08:06.060 just call out of
00:08:06.760 the blue.
00:08:07.800 But my point is,
00:08:09.260 does anybody
00:08:09.800 really think
00:08:10.640 that there is
00:08:11.640 a country
00:08:12.100 somewhere who's
00:08:12.760 not taking a call
00:08:13.740 from the United
00:08:14.320 States?
00:08:15.740 I don't think
00:08:16.660 that happened.
00:08:18.660 How about,
00:08:19.700 are there any
00:08:20.220 countries that
00:08:20.820 don't want to
00:08:21.420 do a trade deal
00:08:22.560 or at least
00:08:23.760 negotiate with
00:08:24.560 the United States?
00:08:25.300 I haven't heard
00:08:27.440 of that.
00:08:28.220 Have you?
00:08:29.300 Well,
00:08:29.620 you know,
00:08:30.320 Iran is obviously
00:08:31.320 a case where
00:08:32.700 we're trying to
00:08:33.480 put pressure on
00:08:34.140 them.
00:08:36.200 Yeah,
00:08:36.820 so the things
00:08:38.260 that people
00:08:38.640 imagine have
00:08:39.500 already gone
00:08:40.400 wrong are
00:08:41.480 literally just
00:08:42.200 imagination.
00:08:43.600 It's just
00:08:44.180 imagination.
00:08:45.300 I'm pretty sure
00:08:45.900 there's nothing
00:08:46.400 you can point
00:08:46.980 to that is a
00:08:48.060 disaster that
00:08:49.920 is not of the
00:08:50.640 making of the
00:08:51.240 news.
00:08:51.980 So here's the
00:08:52.880 other big point
00:08:53.520 people make.
00:08:54.040 They say,
00:08:54.840 look at race
00:08:55.600 relations.
00:08:57.020 To which I say,
00:08:58.500 imagine a world
00:08:59.560 where the news
00:09:01.120 was just reported
00:09:02.100 straight without
00:09:03.760 any opinion.
00:09:05.300 What would that
00:09:06.020 look like?
00:09:06.740 Imagine a Trump
00:09:07.620 administration in
00:09:09.260 which, you know,
00:09:09.940 there was still a
00:09:10.560 CNN, there's still
00:09:11.460 a Fox News, but
00:09:12.580 all they do is
00:09:13.140 they tell you
00:09:13.560 what happened.
00:09:15.000 They don't give
00:09:15.560 you any, any
00:09:16.820 interpretation.
00:09:18.240 Take any
00:09:19.320 story.
00:09:20.400 The president
00:09:21.020 called several
00:09:22.880 countries,
00:09:23.360 shithole
00:09:24.140 countries.
00:09:25.040 We'll just
00:09:25.420 take that
00:09:25.780 story as
00:09:26.280 our example.
00:09:27.320 Suppose they
00:09:27.880 had simply
00:09:28.360 been reported
00:09:29.220 as just a
00:09:29.940 fact.
00:09:31.000 How would
00:09:31.600 anybody feel
00:09:32.300 about it?
00:09:33.900 They wouldn't
00:09:34.460 even think
00:09:34.900 about it.
00:09:36.240 It wouldn't
00:09:36.920 even be on
00:09:37.400 their mind.
00:09:38.660 They probably
00:09:39.080 wouldn't even
00:09:39.420 know what
00:09:39.720 happened, even
00:09:40.420 if it had
00:09:40.740 been reported,
00:09:41.700 because without
00:09:42.420 the opinion
00:09:43.100 stuff, it's
00:09:44.080 not really a
00:09:44.780 story.
00:09:46.340 Suppose, you
00:09:46.980 know, so
00:09:47.280 here's the
00:09:47.920 story reported
00:09:48.700 as fact.
00:09:49.640 The president
00:09:50.240 called several
00:09:51.000 countries,
00:09:51.640 shithole
00:09:51.940 countries, and
00:09:53.600 then nobody
00:09:54.460 on TV adds
00:09:55.480 any commentary.
00:09:57.200 What would
00:09:57.560 you think of
00:09:58.020 that?
00:09:58.980 You'd probably
00:09:59.440 think, oh, he
00:10:00.760 swears in
00:10:01.420 meetings.
00:10:02.860 That's probably
00:10:03.720 all you would
00:10:04.480 think, because
00:10:05.760 you wouldn't
00:10:06.060 even dig in
00:10:06.860 and say, well,
00:10:07.540 how many of
00:10:08.000 the countries
00:10:08.420 were predominantly
00:10:09.760 brown or black?
00:10:11.540 You know, and
00:10:12.280 of course, it's a
00:10:13.620 fake story in the
00:10:14.500 sense that there's
00:10:15.240 only one person
00:10:15.960 who heard it.
00:10:17.480 Apparently, nobody
00:10:18.160 else heard it.
00:10:18.960 You know, I
00:10:20.080 think that's
00:10:20.660 the story.
00:10:22.220 But also, the
00:10:23.140 context was
00:10:24.520 changed when it
00:10:25.320 was reported.
00:10:26.720 So if you're
00:10:27.180 saying that the
00:10:27.800 country has
00:10:28.360 become more
00:10:29.320 racially divided,
00:10:30.580 I would say
00:10:30.960 that's true.
00:10:32.520 But what's the
00:10:33.440 reason?
00:10:34.680 The reason isn't
00:10:35.440 the president.
00:10:36.900 Now, he does
00:10:37.800 play into it.
00:10:38.740 He does things
00:10:39.340 which makes it
00:10:40.380 easy for them
00:10:41.100 to do that.
00:10:47.220 Excuse me.
00:10:48.960 But I think
00:10:55.080 you have to
00:10:55.360 put the blame
00:10:55.880 where it is
00:10:57.360 primarily.
00:10:58.920 All right.
00:11:02.460 So I saw
00:11:03.460 Biden in this
00:11:05.620 latest video.
00:11:06.480 There's yet
00:11:06.820 another video of
00:11:07.700 him speaking
00:11:09.120 somewhat incoherently.
00:11:11.500 And toward the
00:11:12.360 end of that
00:11:12.860 clip, he does
00:11:14.080 what I call the
00:11:14.860 dementia cover.
00:11:17.460 So if you have
00:11:18.260 dementia and
00:11:19.240 you realize that
00:11:20.000 you started a
00:11:20.740 sentence or a
00:11:21.500 thought and you
00:11:22.580 realize you
00:11:23.040 couldn't complete
00:11:23.800 it because your
00:11:24.480 brain wasn't
00:11:25.060 working, what
00:11:26.540 would you do?
00:11:29.000 Well, if you
00:11:29.800 wanted to cover
00:11:30.700 your dementia, you
00:11:31.960 would do what
00:11:32.700 Joe Biden does.
00:11:34.560 Let's say you
00:11:35.360 had asked me a
00:11:36.020 complicated question
00:11:37.040 that I might have
00:11:39.860 been able to
00:11:40.660 answer if I
00:11:42.620 were all with
00:11:43.140 it, but that's
00:11:44.320 not the case
00:11:44.820 anymore.
00:11:45.120 How would I
00:11:45.640 cover it up?
00:11:48.960 The way I'd
00:11:49.620 cover it up is
00:11:50.600 I would say I'd
00:11:51.380 ran out of time.
00:11:53.540 That's what he
00:11:54.180 does.
00:11:55.140 So he'll be
00:11:55.880 talking on, you
00:11:56.800 know, these
00:11:57.140 live streams and
00:11:58.800 you can tell he
00:11:59.940 just gets lost.
00:12:01.100 He doesn't know
00:12:01.600 what he's saying
00:12:02.180 and he'll say
00:12:03.220 something like,
00:12:04.020 well, I don't
00:12:04.420 want to take up
00:12:04.980 all the time.
00:12:05.860 You know, I don't
00:12:06.520 want to get into
00:12:07.000 the details.
00:12:08.000 It's totally just
00:12:08.980 a dementia cover.
00:12:09.880 But we'll all
00:12:12.800 pretend that that's
00:12:13.520 not happening.
00:12:16.320 I quipped on
00:12:17.780 Twitter that if
00:12:18.480 Biden wins, I
00:12:19.620 look forward to
00:12:20.380 his first state
00:12:22.060 of the you, you
00:12:23.480 know the thing
00:12:24.200 address.
00:12:27.120 State of the you
00:12:28.320 know the thing.
00:12:30.620 Okay, it's pretty
00:12:31.160 clever, you have
00:12:31.840 to admit.
00:12:34.900 So I told you I'm
00:12:35.880 running this big
00:12:36.540 experiment to see if
00:12:37.480 I can get canceled.
00:12:38.120 And part of it is
00:12:39.360 I'm expanding my
00:12:40.320 free speech and I'm
00:12:43.820 saying the most
00:12:44.400 provocative things
00:12:45.400 you could possibly
00:12:46.160 say, but I'm
00:12:47.600 saying them with
00:12:48.920 good intentions.
00:12:50.280 I'm saying them
00:12:51.200 politely.
00:12:52.280 I'm not putting any
00:12:53.300 hate in anything I'm
00:12:54.300 doing.
00:12:55.120 And so far I've not
00:12:56.380 been canceled.
00:12:57.380 So maybe if you
00:12:58.520 don't show bad
00:12:59.360 intentions and you
00:13:00.280 don't demonstrate
00:13:01.020 hate, you can get
00:13:02.040 away with more
00:13:03.740 free speech.
00:13:06.180 So that would be
00:13:07.300 useful to know.
00:13:09.160 And one of the
00:13:10.000 things I've been
00:13:10.420 saying, and it's
00:13:12.940 my pinned tweet, is
00:13:14.280 I talked about losing
00:13:15.140 two jobs because my
00:13:17.280 bosses told me that
00:13:18.640 because I was white
00:13:19.580 and male, I couldn't
00:13:21.500 be promoted anymore.
00:13:22.880 So I quit both.
00:13:24.060 In both cases, I
00:13:25.120 quit.
00:13:26.340 In one case, I was
00:13:27.400 kind of encouraged to
00:13:28.280 quit.
00:13:28.940 But it wasn't because
00:13:29.820 of that.
00:13:32.060 You know, I quit
00:13:33.240 because they told me
00:13:34.100 I couldn't be
00:13:34.660 promoted.
00:13:35.040 So that's my
00:13:37.700 pinned tweet, and
00:13:38.780 then I invited
00:13:39.400 people to give me
00:13:40.180 their similar
00:13:40.720 stories.
00:13:41.300 So in the
00:13:41.720 comments, there
00:13:42.340 are literally
00:13:42.760 hundreds of
00:13:43.680 stories of people
00:13:45.660 telling me similar
00:13:46.580 things.
00:13:47.080 Yeah, my boss
00:13:47.740 told me I'm
00:13:48.580 white, I'm male,
00:13:49.260 I can't get
00:13:49.700 promoted, etc.,
00:13:51.320 etc., etc.
00:13:52.680 So a few
00:13:53.620 interesting things
00:13:54.380 happen.
00:13:55.860 There are some
00:13:56.740 people who believe
00:13:57.540 none of it's
00:13:58.320 true.
00:13:59.280 The funniest
00:14:00.060 one happened,
00:14:02.580 I guess, two
00:14:03.620 days ago, I
00:14:04.940 just finished
00:14:06.100 reading the
00:14:06.700 message from
00:14:07.340 somebody who
00:14:07.940 said that their
00:14:09.260 company had just
00:14:10.180 informed them,
00:14:10.880 and this is this
00:14:11.840 week, right?
00:14:13.200 So this is not
00:14:13.820 ancient history,
00:14:14.620 this is this
00:14:15.180 week, and I
00:14:16.540 won't give you
00:14:16.940 details, but
00:14:17.480 somebody who had
00:14:17.980 sent a message
00:14:18.560 saying, yeah, my
00:14:19.900 company just put
00:14:20.760 the word down
00:14:21.500 that our next
00:14:22.660 person we add to
00:14:24.860 the organization
00:14:25.540 can't be white
00:14:27.620 because they want
00:14:29.820 to improve their
00:14:30.620 diversity.
00:14:31.040 diversity.
00:14:32.540 So I'm just in
00:14:33.660 that conversation,
00:14:35.180 and the very next
00:14:36.400 thing I open up is
00:14:37.540 a Twitter person
00:14:38.540 telling me that they
00:14:39.980 don't think such
00:14:40.760 things happen.
00:14:42.680 It was literally the
00:14:44.560 immediate conversation
00:14:45.820 before I open up
00:14:47.420 somebody who lives
00:14:48.320 in a country who
00:14:49.880 thinks it doesn't
00:14:50.520 happen, that it's
00:14:51.320 not a thing.
00:14:53.000 Well, they've got a
00:14:53.980 lot of surprise
00:14:54.860 coming to them.
00:14:56.260 It turns out one of
00:14:57.460 the biggest surprises
00:14:58.220 is white people don't
00:14:59.340 complain nearly as
00:15:00.360 much as maybe you
00:15:02.140 would expect.
00:15:03.260 So there's this
00:15:04.180 massive number of
00:15:05.980 white males who,
00:15:07.180 when we're together,
00:15:08.640 will all tell the
00:15:09.520 same story.
00:15:10.400 Oh, yeah, I was
00:15:11.020 discriminated against,
00:15:12.740 and it's not my
00:15:13.520 imagination.
00:15:14.920 They told me
00:15:15.800 directly, in direct
00:15:17.920 terms.
00:15:19.280 Can't do anything
00:15:20.320 for you, you're
00:15:20.900 white and male.
00:15:21.600 So, I was wondering
00:15:26.380 how the press would
00:15:27.340 handle it, because I
00:15:28.400 figured if somebody as
00:15:29.860 prominent as me, and
00:15:32.400 you know, that's not
00:15:33.720 egotistical, I'm just
00:15:34.940 saying somebody who has
00:15:35.640 a big Twitter following
00:15:37.360 and is in the public
00:15:38.780 eye, when I say
00:15:40.740 something that is so
00:15:42.120 contrary to the
00:15:43.780 popular view of
00:15:46.200 things, it's going to
00:15:47.540 get picked up.
00:15:48.300 And sure enough, it
00:15:49.880 was, but mostly by
00:15:51.600 small, obscure things
00:15:54.500 and, you know, some
00:15:56.340 local papers.
00:15:57.880 So I looked at one, I've
00:15:59.140 got Google Alerts set, so
00:16:00.600 it tells me if
00:16:01.180 anybody's talking about
00:16:02.460 me.
00:16:04.360 And the only comment
00:16:06.120 from one was somebody
00:16:08.120 wrote a letter to the
00:16:08.960 editor, in which they
00:16:10.140 mentioned my situation,
00:16:12.780 and they said, my only
00:16:14.300 complaint is you should
00:16:15.200 say it's alleged.
00:16:16.080 So there was somebody
00:16:18.140 in the editor who
00:16:19.100 believed that I just
00:16:20.120 made up the stories
00:16:21.100 that I was, you know,
00:16:23.900 I was told that I
00:16:24.600 couldn't be promoted
00:16:25.300 because I'm white and
00:16:26.560 male.
00:16:28.000 So there's actually
00:16:28.880 somebody in the
00:16:29.620 country, a real person
00:16:31.520 who lives among us,
00:16:33.440 who thinks that's not
00:16:34.820 even real.
00:16:36.980 Or at least that I
00:16:38.060 made it up.
00:16:39.000 Why would I make that
00:16:40.020 up?
00:16:40.500 That would be the
00:16:41.140 strangest story in the
00:16:42.220 world to make up,
00:16:43.080 because there's not
00:16:43.500 even one story.
00:16:44.300 It's a series of
00:16:45.700 three of them.
00:16:47.220 The other one was a
00:16:48.360 TV show, which is a
00:16:49.420 little more complicated,
00:16:50.420 but it comes down to
00:16:51.080 the same thing.
00:16:52.840 And the fact that I
00:16:56.840 can put that out
00:16:57.680 there, and it's being
00:16:59.160 ignored the same way
00:17:00.780 that Biden's brain is
00:17:02.020 being ignored.
00:17:03.380 So there seems to be a
00:17:04.760 new category of fake
00:17:06.420 news.
00:17:07.480 And it's a category of
00:17:08.720 fake news where they
00:17:09.640 simply act like something
00:17:10.920 didn't happen, like it
00:17:12.440 didn't exist.
00:17:13.060 And it's really
00:17:15.300 effective, because if
00:17:16.860 you simply act like
00:17:17.760 something doesn't
00:17:18.460 exist, the news
00:17:20.180 silos prevent your
00:17:22.640 people from ever
00:17:23.440 seeing it.
00:17:24.140 They'll just never see
00:17:24.940 it.
00:17:26.980 So I made a most
00:17:28.160 provocative claim,
00:17:29.460 which certainly would
00:17:31.740 be important to the
00:17:32.560 whole Black Lives
00:17:33.260 Matter philosophy theme
00:17:36.300 and protests, and yet
00:17:39.700 it is completely
00:17:40.600 ignored by any
00:17:43.240 significant media.
00:17:45.200 And the reason they do
00:17:45.840 that is because it's a
00:17:46.960 total red pill.
00:17:47.800 It would just break the
00:17:49.100 whole thing.
00:17:50.840 All right.
00:17:53.600 Kanye continues to be
00:17:54.960 interesting.
00:17:55.600 He's mentioned systems
00:17:56.820 and design.
00:17:59.560 So he's used those
00:18:00.520 words, system and
00:18:01.600 design.
00:18:02.700 And if he's really a
00:18:04.140 systems kind of a leader
00:18:06.600 instead of a goal-oriented
00:18:08.260 leader, that would be
00:18:09.440 really strong.
00:18:10.720 And I've often thought,
00:18:11.800 suppose I were to run
00:18:12.960 for president, and it
00:18:15.560 doesn't make sense for me
00:18:16.580 to run for president,
00:18:17.420 because there are so many
00:18:18.100 topics that I don't know
00:18:20.000 much about.
00:18:21.380 You know, I'm just not an
00:18:22.520 expert on, you know,
00:18:24.700 foreign anything, or
00:18:26.040 history anything, or
00:18:27.320 politics anything.
00:18:28.140 So I thought, how would I
00:18:29.880 do that?
00:18:30.520 Let's say, you know, in my
00:18:32.060 magical mind, I got
00:18:33.720 appointed to be president.
00:18:35.140 I wouldn't run, but, yeah,
00:18:37.140 I mean, I wouldn't
00:18:37.700 campaign.
00:18:38.580 But suppose somebody
00:18:39.360 appointed to be president.
00:18:40.880 How would I handle
00:18:41.840 things?
00:18:42.860 Not being an expert on
00:18:44.060 anything.
00:18:44.380 Well, you try to hire the
00:18:45.300 right people, right?
00:18:46.140 That's part of it.
00:18:47.120 But I also think that
00:18:48.060 having a good system would
00:18:50.200 make sense.
00:18:50.820 For example, I suggested
00:18:52.240 that there should be a
00:18:53.200 system in the country that
00:18:55.040 doesn't exist for helping
00:18:57.000 the citizens sort it
00:18:58.320 through, what data, which
00:19:00.200 studies are valid, and
00:19:01.980 which are not.
00:19:03.620 Now, I don't know if you
00:19:04.340 could do that without
00:19:05.180 having that referee, if
00:19:07.780 you will, also be
00:19:10.340 corrupted by politics and
00:19:11.680 bias.
00:19:12.400 So maybe you can't do it.
00:19:13.740 I don't know.
00:19:14.600 But I would like to have
00:19:15.580 at least take a try at a
00:19:17.200 system that helps the
00:19:18.200 public understand what's
00:19:19.540 true and reliable and
00:19:21.700 what's not.
00:19:23.240 Another system would be
00:19:24.500 continuous testing.
00:19:25.660 because we keep talking
00:19:27.840 about how to solve these
00:19:29.020 gigantic problems.
00:19:30.720 How do you solve, you
00:19:32.380 know, education?
00:19:34.000 How do you solve, you
00:19:35.260 know, single parents?
00:19:37.080 How do you solve crime?
00:19:39.140 And we always treat them
00:19:40.400 like you have to have one
00:19:41.960 solution for the whole
00:19:43.200 country, you know, fix it
00:19:46.080 all at once.
00:19:47.540 But wouldn't it make more
00:19:48.780 sense to have a whole
00:19:50.140 bunch of small tests and
00:19:52.280 say, we don't know what to
00:19:53.380 do.
00:19:53.820 You know, honestly, we just
00:19:54.780 don't know.
00:19:55.640 But we're going to put some
00:19:57.080 attention into a test in
00:19:58.520 Chicago.
00:19:59.520 We'll do a test here in,
00:20:01.660 you know, Jacksonville.
00:20:02.980 We'll do a couple tests in
00:20:04.200 some different places.
00:20:05.360 And we'll just find out.
00:20:06.760 We'll just find out what
00:20:07.740 works.
00:20:09.000 So that would be good.
00:20:11.960 And then I noticed,
00:20:13.520 unrelated to Kanye, or
00:20:16.840 Ye if you prefer,
00:20:18.620 unrelated to his run for
00:20:19.920 president, you may know
00:20:21.300 there was a story where he
00:20:22.300 built some experimental
00:20:24.300 housing, and some
00:20:27.300 neighbors complained because
00:20:28.540 there was too much
00:20:29.060 construction noise, and he
00:20:30.780 actually just tore them
00:20:32.320 down.
00:20:33.780 Did you hear that story?
00:20:35.160 It was maybe a year ago.
00:20:38.040 So Kanye, I guess, got some
00:20:41.020 designers or architects or
00:20:42.780 whatever, built these sort of
00:20:44.620 dome-like structures.
00:20:45.980 I think there were maybe three
00:20:47.040 of them.
00:20:47.340 And then when the neighbors
00:20:48.900 complained, they just
00:20:50.040 destroyed them.
00:20:51.600 They just took them away.
00:20:53.040 But it looks like he's
00:20:54.460 rebuilding in another place
00:20:56.580 because I saw some pictures
00:20:57.660 that looked newer.
00:20:59.220 And it looks like he's
00:21:00.760 iterating.
00:21:02.100 If what Kanye is doing is
00:21:04.280 he's starting with the
00:21:05.180 assumption that the first
00:21:06.780 one won't be it, and it
00:21:08.360 might not be the second one,
00:21:09.520 it might not be the third
00:21:10.440 one, if he's going full
00:21:12.380 Thomas Edison on this, he's
00:21:15.460 one of the most important
00:21:16.300 people in the world.
00:21:19.000 Let me say that again.
00:21:20.660 If what Kanye is doing is
00:21:23.180 consciously iterating these
00:21:24.880 shelters, like Thomas Edison
00:21:27.240 iterated the light bulb until
00:21:29.240 he found a filament that
00:21:30.380 worked, if that's what he's
00:21:32.140 doing, and so far we've just
00:21:33.520 seen two iterations, I think.
00:21:35.820 I'm kind of low information
00:21:37.200 here, but it looks like that's
00:21:38.220 what's happening.
00:21:39.180 If that's what he's doing, it's
00:21:41.240 the most important thing
00:21:42.440 happening in the country.
00:21:43.420 Because it's iteration, a
00:21:50.100 system, if you will, that can
00:21:52.020 get you to knowing how to
00:21:54.100 build inexpensive shelters.
00:21:56.200 And if that's what Kanye is
00:21:57.880 doing, his argument for being
00:22:01.560 president just gets pretty
00:22:02.840 strong, right?
00:22:04.020 So we'll keep an eye on
00:22:06.840 that.
00:22:13.840 All right, so here's what I'm
00:22:18.360 concerned about with Black Lives
00:22:19.760 Matter.
00:22:21.320 Among, you know, I guess there's
00:22:22.840 lots of stuff to be concerned
00:22:23.920 about.
00:22:24.840 But it seems to me that they
00:22:26.660 don't have a good sense of
00:22:27.960 priorities.
00:22:28.660 And I put a little whiteboard
00:22:32.900 graph on Twitter in which I
00:22:34.680 showed a large bubble diagram.
00:22:38.000 And most of the bubble, you
00:22:39.380 know, 95% of the bubble was
00:22:41.320 labeled schools are racist.
00:22:44.080 And then little 5% of the
00:22:46.140 bubble, I labeled everything
00:22:48.280 else, you know, every other
00:22:50.160 problem, basically.
00:22:51.500 So here's what I mean by that.
00:22:54.280 While there are lots of things
00:22:56.180 where you would find systemic
00:22:58.180 racism if you looked for it,
00:22:59.780 especially in outcomes, you'd
00:23:01.680 find it in the judicial system,
00:23:03.480 you'd find it in employment,
00:23:04.880 you'd find it all over the
00:23:06.060 place.
00:23:07.280 But the way I would look at
00:23:10.540 this is in terms of where the
00:23:12.220 biggest impact would be if you
00:23:14.420 could fix it.
00:23:16.160 Fixing things after people are
00:23:17.680 35 years old is really hard.
00:23:20.660 Fixing things when they're first
00:23:22.120 born so that they get a good
00:23:24.540 start in life is going to be a
00:23:26.360 much higher impact.
00:23:27.860 So if I were Black Lives
00:23:29.220 Matter and I cared about
00:23:30.720 black lives, I would be
00:23:33.240 ignoring the police shootings,
00:23:35.860 which the studies don't really
00:23:38.540 support is even real.
00:23:40.940 Now let me say that again.
00:23:42.220 The studies do support that
00:23:43.900 black people are killed by
00:23:45.140 police as in a higher
00:23:46.460 percentage than their
00:23:48.060 population, but not a higher
00:23:50.160 percentage than the number of
00:23:52.240 people were stopped.
00:23:53.820 It makes complete sense because
00:23:55.520 high-crime areas have a certain
00:23:57.520 characteristic.
00:23:59.500 So the biggest thing that Black
00:24:02.540 Lives Matter is protesting
00:24:03.800 against probably isn't even real.
00:24:07.200 But the part that everybody agrees
00:24:09.140 is real is that school and maybe
00:24:15.620 the family unit, we'll talk about
00:24:17.440 that, are the most important things
00:24:19.640 to get right.
00:24:20.160 But you don't hear Black Lives
00:24:21.780 Matter talking about school and
00:24:24.140 the family unit too much, do you?
00:24:27.740 Why is that?
00:24:28.860 If 95% of the problem is that
00:24:32.980 early life experience, why is
00:24:36.580 Black Lives Matter acting like 95%
00:24:40.620 of the problem for their own people
00:24:42.680 don't matter?
00:24:44.280 They're literally treating 95% of
00:24:48.300 the problem like it doesn't
00:24:49.380 matter.
00:24:50.240 They've identified the only thing
00:24:51.800 that doesn't show up in
00:24:53.040 statistics, which is that police
00:24:55.540 are targeting black people for
00:24:58.920 death.
00:24:59.840 It's the only thing you can't find
00:25:01.460 in the statistics.
00:25:03.980 And they've targeted that.
00:25:05.880 I think that tells you that they're
00:25:08.400 not about helping black people.
00:25:10.360 Now, I'm not saying they don't want
00:25:14.220 to help black people, but it's
00:25:15.720 obvious that whatever their motive
00:25:17.360 is, it's not primarily about
00:25:20.640 helping black people.
00:25:21.880 There seems to be a political
00:25:23.240 motive because going after the
00:25:25.320 police gets you to closer to a
00:25:29.260 revolution, if you know what I
00:25:30.620 mean.
00:25:31.500 If your objective was to change the
00:25:34.120 nature of the country, going after
00:25:36.620 the police might be a good way to do
00:25:38.300 it, if your objective is to make
00:25:40.660 life better for black citizens in
00:25:43.620 this country, you'd go after the
00:25:45.600 school and you would just forget
00:25:47.680 about everything else.
00:25:49.220 Because if you fix the schools, and
00:25:52.100 I'm going to say that the family
00:25:53.260 situation and the school are kind of
00:25:55.040 blended because it's hard to separate
00:25:57.040 those two things.
00:25:58.160 But if you fix that stuff, would you
00:26:00.660 have as much trouble in 20 years,
00:26:03.040 shall we say, with anything?
00:26:06.520 You know, wouldn't it fix everything?
00:26:10.060 Now, you're still going to have
00:26:11.220 racism, as I like to say every 10
00:26:13.940 minutes, can never go away.
00:26:15.880 It's like rain, but you can buy an
00:26:17.940 umbrella, right?
00:26:19.540 So the umbrella in this case, in my
00:26:21.860 analogy, would be an education or
00:26:24.620 training or staying out of jail or not
00:26:27.520 being on drugs, don't join a gang.
00:26:29.780 You know, there are simple things you
00:26:30.960 can do to stay out of the rain, but you
00:26:33.340 can't make rain not happen.
00:26:35.320 That's not an option.
00:26:37.380 You can't make the rain stop.
00:26:39.340 And you can't make human brains no
00:26:42.340 longer biased in a whole variety of
00:26:45.360 ways.
00:26:45.720 Race is just one of the infinite ways
00:26:48.200 that your brain is biased.
00:26:49.680 You can't remove bias.
00:26:51.800 You can teach yourself to overcome it.
00:26:54.080 You can have laws.
00:26:55.260 You can have, you know, you can do a
00:26:57.000 lot of things to reduce it or to make
00:26:59.560 it less important, but you can't get
00:27:01.680 rid of it.
00:27:02.140 And so even trying to get rid of it
00:27:04.480 shows that maybe there's another
00:27:06.960 motive because it doesn't even make
00:27:08.280 sense.
00:27:11.580 Let's talk about the biggest question,
00:27:14.680 conservatives especially.
00:27:16.740 And even I think Don Lemon would agree
00:27:19.780 with this, at least the Don Lemon of
00:27:21.400 years ago.
00:27:22.400 You've all seen there's a video of Don
00:27:24.320 Lemon in 2000 whatever, but I think
00:27:30.380 seven years ago, and he was essentially
00:27:34.580 talking like a conservative, but he was
00:27:38.640 doing it on CNN.
00:27:39.680 So it just, you look at it, you're like,
00:27:41.180 what?
00:27:41.960 Who is this guy?
00:27:43.160 So he was criticizing the black community
00:27:45.860 from the perspective of being a black
00:27:47.800 man.
00:27:48.800 And his criticisms were really close to
00:27:53.560 what any conservative would say, which is
00:27:56.300 the shocking point.
00:27:57.880 It's things that I think he couldn't say in
00:27:59.940 2020 without being canceled.
00:28:02.680 But I would like to question this.
00:28:05.640 Let me tell you what we do know.
00:28:08.560 We do know that there's a really strong
00:28:11.320 correlation between kids who grew up in
00:28:14.960 single parent homes and then future
00:28:18.660 propensity for crime.
00:28:20.660 So we know the correlation is really
00:28:22.960 strong.
00:28:23.860 If you only have one parent, your odds of
00:28:25.980 going to jail are really high compared to
00:28:29.160 other people.
00:28:30.640 And we know that it affects economics and
00:28:33.800 grades and drugs and basically everything.
00:28:37.680 So having one parent is correlated with
00:28:40.060 basically everything bad.
00:28:42.300 So what do you do with that knowledge?
00:28:45.120 What do you do with it?
00:28:45.940 So now you've found something that looks
00:28:49.160 like it's important.
00:28:50.600 What do you do?
00:28:51.900 How do you fix that?
00:28:54.540 Does anybody have an idea how to fix
00:28:56.360 that?
00:28:57.140 Well, the way that people want to fix it
00:28:59.360 is simply by talking about it a lot.
00:29:02.660 Maybe if we talk about it a lot, black
00:29:05.760 people will collectively say, oh, that's
00:29:09.060 the problem.
00:29:10.300 You should have told us before.
00:29:13.000 Why didn't you tell us earlier?
00:29:14.600 Now we know.
00:29:16.140 That's all.
00:29:16.860 Are you kidding me?
00:29:17.860 We can fix most of our problems just
00:29:21.560 by doing that simple thing?
00:29:23.260 Thank you, white people, for finally
00:29:25.860 giving us the secret information that
00:29:28.800 helps us fix everything.
00:29:31.340 I don't think that's going to happen.
00:29:34.140 Because whatever it is that's causing
00:29:36.480 greater single parenting in some
00:29:39.880 communities obviously isn't something
00:29:43.660 that they simply choose to do or choose
00:29:46.080 not to do because they're thinking about
00:29:47.860 the future of their children, et cetera.
00:29:51.720 There's a whole bunch of stuff going on.
00:29:54.360 And I don't think that we can sort out.
00:29:57.500 Yeah.
00:29:57.980 I don't think we can sort out what it is about
00:30:00.480 having that second parent.
00:30:02.440 And usually the studies focus on the parent
00:30:05.920 that's missing being the father, the dad.
00:30:09.260 And let me ask you this.
00:30:11.460 Why does the presence of a father make a difference?
00:30:16.820 What is your assumption about why having a father
00:30:19.880 is so highly correlated with better success of the kid?
00:30:24.100 Well, the things that are obvious would be discipline.
00:30:26.920 Would the father be a more effective disciplinarian,
00:30:31.660 especially to young boys?
00:30:34.360 Maybe.
00:30:35.000 I mean, that's a reasonable thing to assume.
00:30:37.880 How about role model?
00:30:40.380 Is it that there's a good role model in the father
00:30:45.260 and then the kid picks it up?
00:30:47.600 Here's what I would like to add to the conversation.
00:30:52.520 We've been watching in 2020
00:30:54.360 every study and every expert being wrong about everything.
00:31:00.380 Can you agree with that so far?
00:31:02.020 Would you agree so far every expert,
00:31:05.920 every study is either highly questioned
00:31:08.900 because there are other experts with other studies
00:31:11.660 or there are critics of those studies.
00:31:14.760 It's either dead wrong
00:31:16.200 or at least it's highly questioned by other experts.
00:31:20.080 Do you take the general statement
00:31:21.860 that in 2020 we have all collectively learned
00:31:25.340 that everything we thought was true
00:31:27.620 because the science and the data told us it was
00:31:30.280 doesn't mean anything.
00:31:33.020 So if you're a conservative, you say,
00:31:35.920 Scott, we have it figured out.
00:31:38.520 There are all these studies
00:31:39.760 that show this strong correlation
00:31:41.840 with the father not being there being the big problem.
00:31:45.000 So we've identified the problem.
00:31:48.320 Have you?
00:31:50.200 Have you?
00:31:51.280 Because if you have,
00:31:53.060 and I'm not saying you haven't,
00:31:55.100 I'm just giving you some context.
00:31:56.860 If it's true,
00:31:59.820 it would be the only thing the experts got right this year.
00:32:03.540 Is that your belief?
00:32:05.300 Is it your belief
00:32:06.280 that all the other stuff you watched
00:32:08.760 from probably from climate change
00:32:11.940 to God knows what,
00:32:14.600 that all of that seemed wrong to you
00:32:21.120 and the police shootings numbers,
00:32:23.720 they were looking at the wrong ratios,
00:32:27.000 masks work or they don't,
00:32:29.340 hydroxychloroquine works or it doesn't,
00:32:32.180 the death rate for the virus is either high or low,
00:32:35.000 all of it.
00:32:37.460 You saw just about everything else being wrong,
00:32:41.100 but is it your belief
00:32:42.740 that on this one point,
00:32:45.200 science is pretty solid?
00:32:47.380 Is that what you believe?
00:32:49.060 Now you could be right.
00:32:50.680 I'm not telling you you're wrong.
00:32:52.060 I'm just telling you
00:32:52.940 that you would have to factor that in.
00:32:55.640 Why is it you think
00:32:56.600 this is the only thing they got right?
00:32:58.140 Let me suggest
00:32:59.960 there are some reasons
00:33:01.000 why it might be wrong
00:33:02.180 without claiming it's wrong.
00:33:05.160 So this is not a claim
00:33:06.460 that that causation is wrong.
00:33:10.200 Simply a question.
00:33:12.160 Just putting it out there.
00:33:14.860 Number one,
00:33:16.260 are there other countries
00:33:17.520 with other situations
00:33:20.480 in which the single parent does fine?
00:33:25.160 Do you know that?
00:33:26.380 Is there, say,
00:33:27.720 some other country
00:33:30.420 where everything just works out fine
00:33:32.420 if you're a single parent?
00:33:34.440 Probably not
00:33:35.560 because being a single parent
00:33:38.200 almost guarantees
00:33:40.400 that you have less money.
00:33:43.080 We know that poverty
00:33:44.480 is highly correlated
00:33:45.720 with being a single parent.
00:33:48.980 Poverty alone,
00:33:50.060 would poverty alone
00:33:51.580 cause less discipline in the child?
00:33:56.380 I think so.
00:33:57.880 Because if you put any kid
00:33:59.500 in a poverty community,
00:34:02.760 they're going to start acting
00:34:04.120 like the other kids
00:34:05.220 because the peer pressure
00:34:07.200 overwhelms the parental influence.
00:34:12.300 Let me say more about that.
00:34:14.920 Those of you who have raised children,
00:34:17.600 let me ask you this.
00:34:18.560 you got to witness
00:34:20.820 how much was genetic in the kid
00:34:24.780 because there are things
00:34:26.460 that the kid is doing
00:34:27.300 when they're three years old
00:34:28.780 that tend to be
00:34:30.740 their permanent personality
00:34:32.040 and you can see it early.
00:34:34.400 And so you've got
00:34:35.140 kind of a sense
00:34:36.040 if you've raised kids,
00:34:37.400 oh yeah,
00:34:38.120 this amount of the personality
00:34:39.920 was kind of baked in.
00:34:41.900 Then you've also seen,
00:34:43.160 all right,
00:34:43.440 we taught them these behaviors.
00:34:45.620 And then you get to see
00:34:46.520 if they stick.
00:34:47.200 So for example,
00:34:48.540 the parents may have taught them
00:34:50.160 good habits,
00:34:52.680 brushing their teeth,
00:34:54.620 et cetera.
00:34:55.620 And you can see if those stick.
00:34:57.400 And then you can say,
00:34:58.020 okay,
00:34:58.240 that was my parenting.
00:34:59.640 I gave them that habit.
00:35:01.300 It stuck.
00:35:02.720 You can say,
00:35:03.780 you caused them to be timely.
00:35:06.460 I think my mother
00:35:07.280 was a big cause
00:35:08.280 of me being obsessed
00:35:10.100 about being on time for stuff.
00:35:12.480 So I think that feels to me
00:35:13.780 like something
00:35:14.300 that came directly
00:35:15.200 from a parent
00:35:16.560 and became permanent.
00:35:18.260 Likewise,
00:35:18.960 I would say that
00:35:19.680 my father and my mother's
00:35:21.600 example of hard work
00:35:23.820 and having multiple jobs
00:35:25.020 and stuff
00:35:25.440 probably had an influence on me.
00:35:27.720 I feel it.
00:35:28.920 But that could also be genetic as well.
00:35:32.660 So,
00:35:33.340 but then the kid goes to school.
00:35:36.440 So here's the part
00:35:37.160 I'm getting to.
00:35:38.180 So then your kid
00:35:39.100 goes to school.
00:35:40.080 You know,
00:35:40.980 they're eight years old,
00:35:43.460 nine,
00:35:44.020 10,
00:35:44.400 11.
00:35:44.960 By the time your kid
00:35:46.040 is say 14 years old,
00:35:47.980 for those of you
00:35:48.640 who have had this experience,
00:35:50.160 what percentage
00:35:51.040 of their personality
00:35:52.240 came from the parent
00:35:53.940 and what percentage
00:35:55.520 of the personality
00:35:56.520 came from their peers?
00:35:59.660 I'm just putting that out there
00:36:01.020 because this is an observation,
00:36:02.480 not a scientific study.
00:36:04.280 So,
00:36:05.580 you know,
00:36:05.900 you should,
00:36:06.300 you should adjust
00:36:08.540 in your head
00:36:09.120 how certain you should be
00:36:10.900 about any of this.
00:36:12.340 My observation is
00:36:13.660 that the peers
00:36:14.900 are 90% of the influence
00:36:18.020 after they become
00:36:19.900 a certain age.
00:36:21.220 Once,
00:36:21.500 once they become
00:36:22.400 friend-centric,
00:36:24.820 which happens
00:36:25.680 around,
00:36:26.600 I don't know,
00:36:26.940 10 years old,
00:36:28.240 before that,
00:36:29.380 before age 10,
00:36:30.340 they're kind of
00:36:30.840 parent-centric
00:36:32.060 and they're a little bit more
00:36:33.900 maybe sibling-centric.
00:36:36.100 But when they hit around 14,
00:36:37.560 it's just friends.
00:36:38.940 Friends,
00:36:39.520 friends,
00:36:39.840 friends,
00:36:40.180 friends,
00:36:40.500 and they just become
00:36:41.340 the friends.
00:36:42.040 That's the influence.
00:36:43.780 So,
00:36:44.520 if you say to me,
00:36:46.200 these kids
00:36:47.140 with single parents
00:36:48.260 are being,
00:36:50.860 the problem is
00:36:51.900 because there's no father,
00:36:53.160 I would say,
00:36:53.660 if there's no father,
00:36:54.720 they're in poverty.
00:36:55.820 If they're in poverty,
00:36:56.940 they're living in a poor place,
00:36:58.740 in all likelihood.
00:37:00.040 If they're living
00:37:00.680 in a poor place,
00:37:02.040 all of the other peers
00:37:03.340 are going to be
00:37:04.980 in a situation.
00:37:07.560 And I would think
00:37:08.580 it might be the peers
00:37:09.920 that are a bigger influence
00:37:12.620 than the parents.
00:37:13.900 But,
00:37:14.580 obviously,
00:37:15.540 the parents have
00:37:16.160 an influence as well.
00:37:18.100 Let me ask you this.
00:37:20.740 Does risky behavior
00:37:22.320 get transmitted genetically?
00:37:24.900 What do you think?
00:37:26.440 I'll just limit it to this.
00:37:27.680 Does risk-taking,
00:37:30.020 the desire to take a risk,
00:37:33.240 do you think
00:37:33.880 that that's genetic?
00:37:36.880 Yep.
00:37:37.900 It is.
00:37:39.100 Yeah.
00:37:39.440 Risk-taking
00:37:40.260 has a genetic component.
00:37:43.100 Now,
00:37:43.480 let me ask you this.
00:37:44.900 Is it risky
00:37:46.000 to get divorced?
00:37:48.520 It is.
00:37:49.580 Is it risky
00:37:50.540 to have sex
00:37:51.360 without protection?
00:37:53.180 It is.
00:37:54.080 Would it be reasonable
00:37:57.580 to assume
00:37:58.240 that people
00:37:59.380 who are risk-averse
00:38:01.000 would use protection
00:38:02.900 if they had sex
00:38:03.880 and would be
00:38:05.500 less likely
00:38:06.320 to get divorced
00:38:07.440 because they don't
00:38:08.840 want the risk?
00:38:10.980 Could it be
00:38:12.060 that people
00:38:13.980 who stay together
00:38:14.920 have in common,
00:38:17.080 among other things,
00:38:18.500 that they don't
00:38:19.980 like risk,
00:38:21.200 that neither of them
00:38:21.980 want to take the risk
00:38:22.880 of being single?
00:38:24.140 Because a divorce
00:38:25.120 is a really big risk.
00:38:27.540 You know,
00:38:27.740 sometimes you have to
00:38:28.620 because the risk
00:38:29.520 of staying married
00:38:30.180 is worse
00:38:30.740 if there's abuse.
00:38:32.780 But could it be
00:38:34.540 that people
00:38:36.040 who remain single
00:38:37.220 have a higher tolerance
00:38:39.740 for risk?
00:38:41.020 People who stay married
00:38:42.300 have a low tolerance
00:38:43.740 for risk,
00:38:44.560 and that low tolerance
00:38:45.880 for risk
00:38:46.360 is a good indicator
00:38:48.080 of somebody
00:38:48.880 who's going to
00:38:49.380 stay in school
00:38:50.100 and do all the
00:38:50.980 low-risk things.
00:38:52.880 Now,
00:38:54.080 did you hear me
00:38:54.760 say anything racial?
00:38:56.360 Because you should.
00:38:58.160 Because that risk gene
00:38:59.880 is not limited
00:39:00.620 to one ethnicity.
00:39:03.140 So,
00:39:03.560 it is true
00:39:04.240 that poor
00:39:05.420 white kids
00:39:07.660 born to single parents
00:39:09.560 also have
00:39:10.220 higher crime rates.
00:39:11.460 Same thing.
00:39:12.440 So,
00:39:12.720 what does every ethnicity
00:39:14.660 that has a single parent
00:39:17.020 likely have in common?
00:39:19.420 You know,
00:39:19.700 on average,
00:39:20.220 each situation
00:39:21.060 is different,
00:39:21.600 but on average.
00:39:22.500 On average,
00:39:23.380 it's people
00:39:23.780 who have made
00:39:24.860 choices,
00:39:26.400 conscious choices,
00:39:27.280 which fall into
00:39:28.920 the category
00:39:29.480 of riskier behavior.
00:39:32.040 So,
00:39:32.540 how much of that
00:39:33.540 is learned
00:39:34.180 by being in an environment
00:39:36.120 where everybody's
00:39:36.900 doing the same thing,
00:39:37.800 and how much of that
00:39:39.600 is because
00:39:40.520 you're just a person
00:39:41.520 who can take
00:39:42.020 a little bit more risk.
00:39:45.580 All right.
00:39:46.680 Now,
00:39:47.140 I'm not saying
00:39:47.540 that that explains it all.
00:39:48.800 What I'm saying
00:39:49.340 is that
00:39:49.880 there may be
00:39:51.040 some simplicity
00:39:52.320 to the
00:39:53.120 you need a father
00:39:53.960 situation.
00:39:55.640 And,
00:39:56.140 I would ask you this.
00:39:57.500 If you could find out
00:39:58.480 what it is about the father
00:39:59.860 that are the key variables,
00:40:02.460 could you reproduce
00:40:03.600 those good effects
00:40:04.900 without the father?
00:40:06.300 Let me give you
00:40:06.840 an example.
00:40:08.200 Say you designed
00:40:09.200 a living,
00:40:11.620 I'll simplify this.
00:40:14.040 Let's say
00:40:14.640 an apartment building
00:40:16.260 comes up
00:40:17.480 with this concept.
00:40:18.520 I don't know
00:40:18.820 if it's legal,
00:40:19.540 but let's assume
00:40:20.360 it's legal
00:40:20.940 just to work
00:40:21.780 through the
00:40:22.240 thought process.
00:40:24.020 So,
00:40:24.640 somebody takes
00:40:25.240 an apartment building,
00:40:26.240 and they say,
00:40:26.880 here are the rules.
00:40:27.500 80% of the apartments
00:40:30.740 will be rented
00:40:32.280 to single mothers.
00:40:34.900 Again,
00:40:35.480 so this is the part,
00:40:36.280 I don't know
00:40:36.560 if that's legal,
00:40:37.340 but just think through it.
00:40:38.880 80% will be
00:40:40.180 to single mothers.
00:40:42.180 20% of it
00:40:44.620 will be
00:40:45.280 men who are
00:40:46.540 good role models.
00:40:48.360 So,
00:40:48.660 it might be,
00:40:49.320 you might be
00:40:49.820 a police officer,
00:40:51.060 but you're single,
00:40:52.580 so you get to be
00:40:53.320 in that building.
00:40:54.260 You might be
00:40:55.060 a,
00:40:55.560 you might be
00:40:57.460 a teacher,
00:40:58.740 but you're single.
00:41:01.160 I don't know
00:41:01.560 if you have to be single.
00:41:02.720 You know,
00:41:02.920 maybe that doesn't
00:41:03.640 matter as much.
00:41:04.460 But you need to be
00:41:05.220 available as a role model
00:41:06.800 to the others.
00:41:07.960 In other words,
00:41:08.640 if you created
00:41:09.700 a living situation
00:41:10.860 in which you had
00:41:12.060 role models
00:41:12.760 that actually
00:41:13.760 could even discipline,
00:41:15.540 because let's say
00:41:16.200 that the agreement
00:41:17.260 if you live here
00:41:18.180 is that any of the adults
00:41:20.080 can discipline
00:41:20.980 any of the kids.
00:41:22.820 And that's just
00:41:23.380 the agreement
00:41:23.920 in advance.
00:41:25.560 So,
00:41:26.080 you want to live
00:41:26.580 in this apartment.
00:41:27.940 Every adult
00:41:28.640 in this apartment
00:41:29.240 is your parent.
00:41:30.760 A lot of them
00:41:31.460 are adult males.
00:41:33.600 They're cops.
00:41:34.500 They're educators.
00:41:36.240 They're,
00:41:36.460 you know,
00:41:36.680 might be a lawyer.
00:41:37.560 It might be a doctor.
00:41:38.320 But they're people
00:41:38.880 who are substantial.
00:41:40.620 They're people
00:41:41.020 you would look to
00:41:41.660 as role models.
00:41:44.900 It's people
00:41:45.600 that would be,
00:41:46.980 you know,
00:41:47.540 who you wanted to be.
00:41:49.320 Now,
00:41:49.780 let me give you
00:41:50.340 an example
00:41:50.880 from my life.
00:41:51.880 My father
00:41:52.740 had a lot
00:41:53.480 of good qualities,
00:41:54.280 but he was not
00:41:56.400 what you would
00:41:56.900 call a role model.
00:42:00.780 I think my siblings
00:42:02.000 are both watching this
00:42:03.820 and I know
00:42:04.160 you're both laughing
00:42:04.840 right now.
00:42:05.280 and when I say
00:42:10.140 that,
00:42:10.500 I mean,
00:42:11.000 I didn't want
00:42:11.860 to grow up
00:42:12.480 to be like him.
00:42:14.360 I wanted to grow up
00:42:15.660 to be very much
00:42:16.660 not like him.
00:42:18.380 Now,
00:42:18.840 unfortunately,
00:42:19.260 I got a lot
00:42:20.020 of his qualities
00:42:20.880 but I couldn't
00:42:24.160 help that.
00:42:25.200 But,
00:42:26.320 let's say he was
00:42:27.300 not the most
00:42:28.180 ambitious person
00:42:29.060 in the world
00:42:29.540 and I was born
00:42:30.340 just sort of
00:42:31.280 naturally ambitious.
00:42:32.460 So I wanted
00:42:33.200 a different upbringing.
00:42:34.920 I found that I just
00:42:36.000 looked at other people
00:42:36.840 as my role models.
00:42:38.460 I just decided,
00:42:40.160 well,
00:42:40.600 okay,
00:42:41.040 I'm not going to be
00:42:42.040 exactly like my father.
00:42:43.780 I think I'd like to be
00:42:45.160 the lawyer in town.
00:42:47.640 And I didn't even know him.
00:42:48.840 I just knew he was a lawyer.
00:42:49.820 So I said,
00:42:50.860 all right,
00:42:51.060 I'll be like that guy
00:42:51.880 because that guy is ambitious
00:42:53.500 and knows how to make money
00:42:54.920 and stuff.
00:42:56.000 So,
00:42:56.940 I will simply raise
00:42:58.040 the question
00:42:58.600 and it goes like this.
00:43:00.780 Even if you believe,
00:43:02.380 and I think there's a good chance
00:43:03.560 that this is true,
00:43:04.820 that the lack of an adult male
00:43:07.380 in the upbringing of a child
00:43:09.020 has bad consequences.
00:43:10.840 I'm willing to accept
00:43:11.760 that that's true.
00:43:13.640 But you might be able
00:43:14.660 to find out
00:43:15.140 what it is about that
00:43:16.500 that makes it work
00:43:18.740 and just reproduce it
00:43:19.980 in a non-parental way.
00:43:21.880 I think the worst approach
00:43:23.640 is to say,
00:43:25.080 this is the problem
00:43:25.920 and all you have to do is,
00:43:27.600 hey,
00:43:27.780 you guys,
00:43:28.280 just decide to act like us.
00:43:30.820 Just go act like us.
00:43:33.600 And then everybody,
00:43:34.460 I think,
00:43:34.880 everything will be fine.
00:43:36.600 I don't see that working.
00:43:38.880 I just don't see it working.
00:43:40.420 You could sort of
00:43:41.140 wish it happens,
00:43:42.780 but that's the end of it.
00:43:43.640 There's no process.
00:43:44.880 There's no system.
00:43:45.800 It's just wishing.
00:43:48.120 And wishing,
00:43:49.340 I sure wish
00:43:50.500 people in poor communities
00:43:52.260 would get married
00:43:53.160 and stay together.
00:43:55.000 I sure wish it would happen.
00:43:57.200 That's not anything.
00:43:59.320 That's nothing.
00:44:00.880 You can't wish it to happen.
00:44:03.360 All right.
00:44:03.660 I wrote a piece.
00:44:09.120 I didn't know how
00:44:09.880 controversial it would be.
00:44:11.840 Controversial.
00:44:12.800 A Twitter thread
00:44:13.720 in which I said
00:44:14.480 that President Trump
00:44:15.500 is showing the
00:44:16.660 strongest
00:44:18.120 and maybe best
00:44:19.980 leadership
00:44:20.800 that I've ever seen
00:44:22.160 in my adult life.
00:44:24.020 Now,
00:44:24.280 of course,
00:44:24.600 I make it a big claim
00:44:26.120 so it gets more attention
00:44:27.060 that way.
00:44:28.160 But here's
00:44:28.700 my claim.
00:44:30.940 Leadership
00:44:31.340 is different
00:44:33.220 from following
00:44:34.080 the expert's advice.
00:44:35.840 If the only thing
00:44:36.820 you're doing
00:44:37.180 is following
00:44:37.680 the expert's advice,
00:44:39.560 well,
00:44:39.820 you're not really
00:44:40.240 a leader.
00:44:41.260 You're more like
00:44:42.080 a manager.
00:44:43.620 You know,
00:44:43.900 a manager
00:44:44.580 listens to the experts
00:44:46.500 and then implements it.
00:44:48.520 And a manager
00:44:49.280 is a different word
00:44:50.060 from a leader.
00:44:51.240 In order to be
00:44:52.300 a leader,
00:44:53.280 in my opinion,
00:44:55.260 you have to do
00:44:56.280 something that
00:44:56.880 the experts
00:44:57.400 are not recommending
00:44:58.600 or you're not leading.
00:44:59.600 If all you're doing
00:45:01.020 is taking expert advice,
00:45:02.940 did we need you?
00:45:04.280 Really?
00:45:04.980 I mean,
00:45:05.240 do you even need
00:45:05.780 a president?
00:45:06.960 Because the experts
00:45:07.960 come to a consensus,
00:45:10.420 other people
00:45:11.100 implement it.
00:45:12.600 So if you've got
00:45:13.300 experts
00:45:13.800 and you've got
00:45:14.380 implementers,
00:45:15.640 and the only thing
00:45:16.360 is there's a president
00:45:17.360 in the middle
00:45:17.800 with a rubber stamp
00:45:18.700 saying,
00:45:19.080 okay,
00:45:19.540 boop,
00:45:20.280 send your idea
00:45:21.220 over to the implementers.
00:45:22.300 If that's all
00:45:22.820 that's happening,
00:45:23.940 what kind of leadership
00:45:24.720 is that?
00:45:25.780 That's nothing.
00:45:26.300 So you look
00:45:28.580 for cases
00:45:29.200 where the leader
00:45:31.680 has done something
00:45:32.680 that is opposed
00:45:33.600 to the experts.
00:45:35.380 Here are some examples.
00:45:37.480 Trump closed
00:45:38.840 travel from China
00:45:40.180 before the experts
00:45:41.400 said it was a good idea.
00:45:42.540 In fact,
00:45:42.920 they said don't do it.
00:45:44.460 He did it anyway.
00:45:45.920 He has been proved
00:45:46.900 correct.
00:45:48.520 That
00:45:48.880 is
00:45:49.800 clean,
00:45:51.300 clear
00:45:51.780 leadership.
00:45:53.580 Very unusual.
00:45:54.440 It stands out
00:45:55.780 because you can't
00:45:56.500 think of other
00:45:56.960 examples,
00:45:57.540 right?
00:45:58.380 Think of,
00:45:59.560 quickly,
00:46:00.260 think of an example
00:46:01.140 where Obama
00:46:02.040 did something
00:46:03.400 the experts
00:46:04.020 all said don't do,
00:46:05.540 like just universally
00:46:06.900 said don't do it,
00:46:08.300 and it turned out
00:46:08.960 to be right.
00:46:10.940 There might be examples,
00:46:12.020 but I can't think of one.
00:46:13.240 So you can help me out
00:46:14.360 if you can think of one.
00:46:17.340 Trump is now
00:46:18.240 pushing to
00:46:19.420 reopen schools.
00:46:21.900 He also pushed
00:46:22.640 to reopen the economy
00:46:23.720 before the experts
00:46:25.380 were comfortable
00:46:25.960 with it.
00:46:27.220 I think that's
00:46:28.200 going to work out
00:46:28.900 because
00:46:30.060 we don't
00:46:31.320 doubt that there
00:46:32.360 will be
00:46:32.860 deaths and infections.
00:46:35.480 Everybody
00:46:35.740 is clear-eyed
00:46:37.840 about that.
00:46:38.940 The reopening
00:46:39.580 of the economy
00:46:40.380 guarantees
00:46:41.860 more people
00:46:42.860 get infected.
00:46:43.880 We're all aware
00:46:44.860 of it.
00:46:45.880 But the experts
00:46:46.640 are saying
00:46:47.060 don't open
00:46:48.560 the schools,
00:46:49.740 don't open
00:46:50.100 the economy
00:46:50.720 too soon,
00:46:52.340 be more cautious.
00:46:53.720 And Trump
00:46:54.960 is saying
00:46:55.480 very clearly
00:46:56.380 and unambiguously,
00:46:58.800 got to open
00:46:59.300 the economy,
00:47:00.560 got to open
00:47:01.200 the schools.
00:47:02.040 Now the first thing
00:47:02.780 I like about it
00:47:03.520 leadership-wise
00:47:04.460 is that he's
00:47:05.400 totally unambiguous
00:47:06.320 about it.
00:47:07.300 You don't wonder
00:47:08.440 where he stands.
00:47:10.360 Open the schools,
00:47:11.640 open the economy.
00:47:12.960 Now,
00:47:13.760 a president
00:47:14.340 has to see
00:47:14.980 the entire field.
00:47:16.640 So while the experts
00:47:17.700 are the medical experts
00:47:18.920 and they're saying
00:47:19.540 if you open up,
00:47:21.160 we medical experts
00:47:22.100 will see medical
00:47:22.940 problems,
00:47:23.840 that's only part
00:47:24.840 of the question
00:47:25.420 because there will
00:47:26.480 also be social
00:47:27.640 problems which
00:47:28.460 translate into
00:47:29.320 medical problems
00:47:30.140 in ways that
00:47:30.940 nobody can
00:47:32.120 quite understand,
00:47:33.440 but we all know
00:47:33.960 it's a big problem.
00:47:35.100 So the leader
00:47:36.160 has to look at
00:47:37.120 the entire field
00:47:38.060 and he did
00:47:39.200 and he's going
00:47:40.080 against the experts
00:47:41.060 again.
00:47:41.860 Is he right?
00:47:43.460 I don't know.
00:47:45.000 We don't know.
00:47:46.240 My guess is
00:47:46.980 that he's right.
00:47:47.600 If I were
00:47:49.240 in his position,
00:47:50.720 I think I would
00:47:52.120 be doing
00:47:52.640 about the same
00:47:53.400 thing,
00:47:54.240 maybe not as
00:47:55.300 aggressively,
00:47:56.060 which is what
00:47:56.900 makes it more
00:47:57.600 impressive.
00:47:59.640 I think he's
00:48:00.620 going to be right
00:48:01.280 on closing travel.
00:48:02.640 I think he's
00:48:03.060 going to be right
00:48:03.560 about opening
00:48:04.060 schools,
00:48:04.720 about opening
00:48:05.380 the economy.
00:48:06.360 I think history
00:48:07.300 will show him
00:48:07.920 right.
00:48:08.780 Those are
00:48:09.280 amazing,
00:48:10.620 amazing examples
00:48:12.180 of leadership.
00:48:13.460 And here's the
00:48:14.100 thing.
00:48:14.880 Suppose he's
00:48:15.480 wrong.
00:48:16.740 Suppose he's
00:48:17.340 wrong.
00:48:18.420 And it turns
00:48:20.940 out that opening
00:48:21.720 things too early
00:48:22.580 and going back
00:48:23.140 to school killed
00:48:24.780 50,000 people
00:48:26.060 that didn't need
00:48:26.920 to be killed.
00:48:29.220 What would you
00:48:30.020 say about that?
00:48:31.280 I think you
00:48:32.300 would still say
00:48:33.260 it's amazing
00:48:34.060 leadership.
00:48:35.420 Because nobody
00:48:36.540 really knows
00:48:37.280 what's going to
00:48:37.800 happen.
00:48:38.700 If the thing
00:48:40.000 you're saying
00:48:40.540 is how often
00:48:41.440 does he get
00:48:42.020 it right,
00:48:43.100 I don't know
00:48:44.040 if that's the
00:48:44.800 right standard.
00:48:45.920 Because the
00:48:46.480 whole point of
00:48:47.140 the leader
00:48:47.580 is that you
00:48:48.260 don't know
00:48:48.740 what the
00:48:49.080 right answer
00:48:49.520 is.
00:48:50.380 But somebody's
00:48:51.180 got to make
00:48:51.540 the decision.
00:48:52.780 You don't
00:48:53.480 know and you
00:48:54.300 still have to
00:48:54.980 make a decision.
00:48:56.180 So do you
00:48:56.780 ding the leader
00:48:58.180 for getting
00:48:58.580 it wrong?
00:49:00.400 In the real
00:49:01.120 world you do,
00:49:02.020 but you have
00:49:02.560 to ask yourself,
00:49:03.480 well it's not
00:49:03.920 really leadership
00:49:04.600 if you know
00:49:05.540 what the right
00:49:06.080 answer is.
00:49:07.520 It's sort of
00:49:08.220 the not knowing
00:49:08.860 that makes it
00:49:09.360 impressive.
00:49:10.960 Likewise,
00:49:11.640 when Trump was
00:49:12.440 leading on
00:49:13.180 negotiating with
00:49:13.920 China,
00:49:14.460 all the experts
00:49:15.160 said don't start
00:49:15.860 a trade war,
00:49:16.820 there were
00:49:17.080 basically,
00:49:18.300 I don't think
00:49:18.800 I saw one
00:49:19.460 expert who
00:49:20.040 agreed with
00:49:20.520 him.
00:49:21.180 Do you
00:49:21.380 remember that?
00:49:22.440 He was
00:49:22.780 basically all
00:49:23.560 alone except
00:49:24.260 for people he
00:49:24.900 hired who
00:49:25.460 would boost
00:49:26.340 his signal,
00:49:27.360 but basically
00:49:27.920 people were
00:49:28.600 saying no,
00:49:29.060 no, trade
00:49:29.500 wars are bad,
00:49:30.940 blah, blah,
00:49:31.360 blah, China
00:49:31.980 is good.
00:49:32.980 And now months
00:49:33.800 have gone by
00:49:34.440 and what do
00:49:35.820 we know for
00:49:36.320 sure?
00:49:37.180 We know for
00:49:38.000 sure that China
00:49:38.660 will not do
00:49:40.900 its part.
00:49:41.980 It might make
00:49:42.960 agreements but not
00:49:43.820 keep them.
00:49:44.200 We know it's
00:49:45.080 going to
00:49:45.300 continue sending
00:49:46.060 fentanyl.
00:49:46.860 We know it's
00:49:47.220 going to
00:49:47.600 continue stealing
00:49:48.960 IP.
00:49:50.340 We know that
00:49:50.860 their apps like
00:49:52.160 TikTok are
00:49:54.180 built as spy
00:49:56.140 equipment.
00:49:58.420 Basically,
00:50:00.220 Trump proved
00:50:01.520 by being a
00:50:03.980 leader and by
00:50:04.840 pushing them
00:50:05.560 hard, he
00:50:06.120 proved that
00:50:07.120 you can't
00:50:07.580 deal with
00:50:07.940 them.
00:50:09.240 So there
00:50:09.800 were two
00:50:10.160 possibilities and
00:50:11.400 strong leadership
00:50:12.180 was the only way
00:50:13.000 to get to
00:50:13.460 them.
00:50:14.200 One was
00:50:14.820 maybe China
00:50:16.480 wanted to
00:50:16.940 make a deal
00:50:17.400 and then you
00:50:18.380 get a good
00:50:18.760 trade deal and
00:50:19.400 that would be a
00:50:19.860 good outcome.
00:50:21.220 The other is
00:50:21.920 that you prove
00:50:23.120 that you can't
00:50:23.760 work with them
00:50:24.340 which is what
00:50:25.420 happened.
00:50:26.340 So China
00:50:26.720 proved that
00:50:27.620 they're not
00:50:28.140 a credible
00:50:30.040 partner for
00:50:31.860 anything.
00:50:33.020 And once you
00:50:33.760 know that,
00:50:34.320 then you can
00:50:34.680 start decoupling
00:50:35.600 which is
00:50:36.200 happening.
00:50:37.020 So we will
00:50:37.760 get to the
00:50:38.220 point where
00:50:38.740 we're bringing
00:50:39.320 our supply
00:50:40.680 chains home
00:50:41.600 which is one
00:50:42.660 of the best
00:50:43.140 things that's
00:50:43.660 ever happened
00:50:44.140 to this
00:50:44.480 country and
00:50:45.500 we only
00:50:46.100 could get
00:50:46.560 to that
00:50:47.020 because Trump
00:50:48.420 defied every
00:50:49.420 expert and
00:50:50.260 pushed through
00:50:50.980 on a very
00:50:52.460 critical issue.
00:50:53.500 Our relationship
00:50:54.320 with China is
00:50:54.960 one of the
00:50:55.280 biggest things
00:50:55.740 in the world.
00:50:57.500 And again,
00:50:58.440 it seems like
00:50:59.160 it worked.
00:51:00.140 Take North
00:51:00.560 Korea.
00:51:01.060 How many
00:51:01.340 experts told
00:51:02.100 him to meet
00:51:02.660 with Kim
00:51:03.120 Jong-un when
00:51:03.840 he didn't
00:51:04.380 have a deal
00:51:05.040 already?
00:51:06.600 None.
00:51:07.620 Maybe none.
00:51:08.260 Maybe there
00:51:09.200 were no
00:51:09.620 experts who
00:51:10.880 said it was
00:51:11.280 a good idea
00:51:11.800 to meet
00:51:12.100 with Kim
00:51:12.540 Jong-un
00:51:12.980 because the
00:51:14.760 experts said
00:51:15.320 he's not
00:51:15.740 going to
00:51:15.920 make a
00:51:16.220 deal.
00:51:17.680 And sure
00:51:18.060 enough,
00:51:19.060 Kim Jong-un
00:51:19.700 did not
00:51:20.160 make a
00:51:20.560 deal.
00:51:22.080 But don't
00:51:23.620 you feel
00:51:23.960 safer?
00:51:25.980 Does Kim
00:51:26.820 Jong-un see
00:51:27.640 the United
00:51:28.180 States as
00:51:29.780 a military
00:51:30.740 threat and
00:51:31.540 therefore he's
00:51:32.280 preparing to
00:51:33.340 strike back?
00:51:36.260 No.
00:51:37.280 Trump took
00:51:38.220 the threat
00:51:38.760 of North
00:51:39.140 Korea basically
00:51:40.080 right off the
00:51:40.780 table.
00:51:41.600 And he did
00:51:42.240 it by defying
00:51:43.040 all the
00:51:43.540 experts.
00:51:44.440 He just
00:51:44.740 created a
00:51:45.360 personal
00:51:45.880 relationship.
00:51:47.680 And I
00:51:47.900 think that
00:51:50.120 plus other
00:51:51.040 activities have
00:51:52.420 proven to
00:51:53.060 Kim Jong-un and
00:51:53.980 especially getting
00:51:54.620 rid of John
00:51:55.640 Bolton recently,
00:51:57.160 I think Kim
00:51:58.080 Jong-un is
00:51:58.580 looking at the
00:51:59.080 United States
00:51:59.720 and saying,
00:52:00.340 you know,
00:52:01.380 it just sort
00:52:02.220 of doesn't
00:52:02.600 look like that
00:52:03.220 big a threat
00:52:03.800 at the moment.
00:52:05.320 So are
00:52:06.720 you safer?
00:52:08.900 Guaranteed.
00:52:10.440 I would say
00:52:11.300 it's guaranteed
00:52:12.080 that you're
00:52:12.520 safer because
00:52:13.340 he violated
00:52:14.160 what the
00:52:14.860 experts wanted
00:52:15.720 him to do.
00:52:17.200 So my
00:52:19.520 theory,
00:52:20.140 and I've
00:52:20.380 had this for
00:52:20.840 a while,
00:52:21.800 is that
00:52:22.380 historians,
00:52:23.620 once you get
00:52:24.100 a, you know,
00:52:24.540 let's say a
00:52:24.980 generation away,
00:52:26.380 you get 20
00:52:27.100 or 30 years
00:52:27.740 away when the
00:52:28.420 people who
00:52:28.900 lived through
00:52:29.540 the Trump
00:52:29.940 administration
00:52:30.500 are all
00:52:30.840 dead,
00:52:31.900 or at least
00:52:33.040 the older
00:52:33.460 ones.
00:52:34.400 I think
00:52:35.700 history is
00:52:36.400 going to be
00:52:36.700 very kind
00:52:37.560 to Trump
00:52:38.660 because all
00:52:39.840 of the little
00:52:40.360 personality stuff
00:52:41.520 that dominates
00:52:42.520 the news
00:52:42.960 coverage and
00:52:43.540 social media
00:52:44.080 will sort
00:52:45.220 of melt
00:52:45.620 away with
00:52:46.880 history.
00:52:47.660 History is
00:52:48.280 going to look
00:52:48.660 at the big
00:52:49.100 things he did
00:52:49.820 and it's
00:52:50.180 going to forget
00:52:50.620 about the
00:52:51.040 personality stuff,
00:52:52.320 it's going to
00:52:52.720 forget about
00:52:53.160 the tweets
00:52:53.700 and the
00:52:54.240 little fights,
00:52:55.120 and it's
00:52:55.640 going to forget
00:52:56.080 about the
00:52:56.460 fact-checking,
00:52:57.180 it's going to
00:52:57.440 forget all that.
00:52:58.460 But it's going to
00:52:58.940 remember about
00:52:59.580 China, it's going
00:53:00.240 to remember
00:53:00.600 coronavirus,
00:53:01.100 it's going
00:53:01.860 to remember
00:53:02.320 that ISIS
00:53:03.740 used to hold
00:53:04.640 territory and
00:53:05.400 now it
00:53:05.700 doesn't.
00:53:06.640 So I
00:53:08.580 believe that
00:53:09.300 Trump will be
00:53:10.220 viewed by
00:53:10.800 history as
00:53:12.780 maybe one
00:53:16.620 of the top
00:53:17.000 five, for
00:53:17.700 sure, leaders
00:53:19.440 we've ever
00:53:20.020 had.
00:53:21.740 Because you
00:53:22.380 have to throw
00:53:22.880 Washington and
00:53:24.040 Lincoln and
00:53:25.100 Truman, and
00:53:26.680 there's people who
00:53:27.800 made really big
00:53:28.580 decisions, so they
00:53:29.980 were good leaders
00:53:30.540 as well, but I
00:53:31.300 think you'll be
00:53:31.680 in the top
00:53:32.080 five of
00:53:33.920 presidents, easily.
00:53:36.020 I don't know,
00:53:36.780 does that get you
00:53:37.400 on Mount Rushmore?
00:53:38.640 Top five?
00:53:39.800 Can they make
00:53:40.560 another space?
00:53:42.620 All right.
00:53:43.860 We're still
00:53:44.480 confused about
00:53:45.340 why fatalities
00:53:46.220 are dropping
00:53:46.920 despite infections
00:53:49.460 going up.
00:53:50.100 Now the obvious
00:53:50.700 explanation is
00:53:51.620 that it's young
00:53:52.220 people who are
00:53:52.800 getting infected,
00:53:54.060 but the second
00:53:55.000 explanation is
00:53:55.900 we're getting
00:53:56.240 better at
00:53:56.760 treating it.
00:53:58.380 And maybe a
00:53:59.000 third explanation
00:53:59.700 is that it
00:54:00.420 might be
00:54:01.360 mutating, or
00:54:02.980 has already
00:54:03.560 infected the
00:54:04.860 people most
00:54:05.500 likely to be
00:54:06.180 infected, or
00:54:07.160 there's some
00:54:08.180 kind of herd
00:54:08.860 immunity from
00:54:10.280 other coronaviruses
00:54:12.140 that has an
00:54:13.360 impact.
00:54:14.200 The fact is,
00:54:14.820 we don't know.
00:54:16.240 We just don't
00:54:16.920 know.
00:54:17.760 We just don't
00:54:18.940 know exactly
00:54:21.000 why the death
00:54:23.500 rate is falling
00:54:24.160 while the
00:54:24.540 infection rate is
00:54:26.140 skyrocketing.
00:54:27.060 Probably most of
00:54:27.960 that has to do
00:54:28.420 with young
00:54:28.740 people.
00:54:29.200 That's my
00:54:29.540 guess.
00:54:30.940 Because they
00:54:31.560 get infected,
00:54:32.180 but they don't
00:54:32.500 die.
00:54:34.720 You may be
00:54:35.580 aware that there
00:54:36.240 are two complete
00:54:37.140 worlds that have
00:54:38.280 formed around
00:54:39.160 face masks.
00:54:40.680 In one world,
00:54:42.340 you can see
00:54:43.060 lots of references
00:54:44.120 to studies that
00:54:45.740 show that face
00:54:46.800 masks don't work,
00:54:48.480 meaning that they
00:54:49.140 don't have any
00:54:49.760 effect.
00:54:51.060 Then you'd be
00:54:51.800 better off without
00:54:52.580 them.
00:54:52.880 And then there's
00:54:54.060 another world
00:54:54.640 where,
00:54:55.180 duh,
00:54:55.560 it's obvious
00:54:56.080 they work and
00:54:56.780 all the science
00:54:57.440 proves it,
00:54:58.320 and here it is,
00:54:59.160 we can show you
00:54:59.740 right here.
00:55:00.680 Those are existing
00:55:02.040 simultaneously,
00:55:03.400 and they're both
00:55:04.420 referring to
00:55:05.880 science.
00:55:07.680 What good is
00:55:08.600 science if
00:55:11.380 reasonable people,
00:55:12.520 and I'm talking
00:55:12.960 about educated
00:55:13.700 people,
00:55:14.180 doctors,
00:55:14.980 people who know
00:55:15.820 their stuff,
00:55:16.760 what good is the
00:55:17.780 science if it's
00:55:20.260 opposite.
00:55:21.520 You can pick
00:55:22.500 your science and
00:55:23.320 find out that it
00:55:23.960 has no impact,
00:55:25.160 and then you can
00:55:25.780 pick your science
00:55:26.460 and find out,
00:55:26.940 oh, it totally,
00:55:27.620 totally has impact.
00:55:29.060 Now, I think the
00:55:29.840 way, the reason
00:55:30.500 that it's allowed
00:55:31.420 to exist, in other
00:55:32.960 words, the reason
00:55:33.520 these two worlds
00:55:34.280 can exist, is
00:55:37.080 because the world
00:55:37.820 that says face
00:55:39.220 masks don't work,
00:55:41.860 they inject a
00:55:42.800 little clause in
00:55:43.760 there that if you
00:55:44.580 don't look closely,
00:55:46.020 you don't find it.
00:55:47.580 And it looks like
00:55:48.220 this.
00:55:48.560 It has not been
00:55:50.080 proven that face
00:55:51.720 masks work, in
00:55:53.680 terms of coronavirus
00:55:54.580 and maybe other
00:55:55.540 things.
00:55:56.760 Now, is that the
00:55:57.780 same as saying
00:55:59.100 face masks don't
00:56:00.480 work?
00:56:01.520 It's not.
00:56:03.020 Because nobody's
00:56:04.080 really done a
00:56:05.260 test of face
00:56:07.360 masks, you know,
00:56:08.160 different ones
00:56:08.820 used for the
00:56:09.580 coronavirus in
00:56:10.440 this specific
00:56:11.120 situation, etc.
00:56:13.400 It hasn't been
00:56:14.100 tested.
00:56:15.200 But, does it
00:56:16.740 make sense that
00:56:18.540 having a barrier
00:56:19.480 that slows down
00:56:20.600 how far the
00:56:21.440 droplets go,
00:56:22.820 assuming that it
00:56:23.640 might be airborne
00:56:24.200 or at the very
00:56:25.100 least it's getting
00:56:25.780 on surfaces,
00:56:27.100 does common
00:56:27.780 sense tell you
00:56:28.580 it's got to
00:56:29.380 work a little
00:56:29.840 bit?
00:56:31.020 Yes.
00:56:32.420 But what good
00:56:33.340 is science if
00:56:34.900 you've got all
00:56:35.520 this science and
00:56:36.580 smart people still
00:56:37.600 take opposite
00:56:38.240 sides?
00:56:39.440 And they're both
00:56:39.960 looking at
00:56:40.360 science.
00:56:41.160 What's that tell
00:56:41.740 you about science?
00:56:43.420 All right.
00:56:44.480 There's a
00:56:45.200 professor at
00:56:46.920 Stony Brook,
00:56:47.600 you've heard of
00:56:48.180 him before,
00:56:48.860 Helmut Norpoff.
00:56:51.120 And apparently
00:56:51.580 he's been the
00:56:52.140 most accurate
00:56:53.280 predictor.
00:56:54.140 He's got a
00:56:54.560 model that
00:56:55.040 predicts who's
00:56:55.500 going to be
00:56:55.820 president.
00:56:57.040 And it's
00:56:57.840 correctly predicted
00:56:58.860 five out of the
00:56:59.760 past six
00:57:00.500 elections.
00:57:02.180 And every
00:57:03.680 single election
00:57:04.560 but two in the
00:57:06.340 last 108 years.
00:57:07.580 And the
00:57:08.840 technique he
00:57:09.460 uses is he
00:57:10.360 ignores the
00:57:12.160 polls and he
00:57:13.520 looks at primary
00:57:14.580 results.
00:57:16.200 And his theory
00:57:17.000 goes roughly
00:57:17.980 like this.
00:57:19.220 Somebody who
00:57:19.960 dominated in the
00:57:20.940 primaries shows
00:57:22.300 that there's a
00:57:22.840 lot of base
00:57:23.500 enthusiasm and
00:57:24.940 that's a good
00:57:25.660 predictor of who
00:57:26.400 wins.
00:57:27.080 If somebody
00:57:27.800 limps through the
00:57:29.200 primaries and
00:57:30.380 manages to get
00:57:31.200 nominated,
00:57:32.580 they're going to
00:57:33.060 lose.
00:57:34.040 So that's
00:57:34.520 basically the
00:57:35.480 idea is that if
00:57:37.020 you limp
00:57:37.560 through the
00:57:38.080 primaries,
00:57:38.820 that's not a
00:57:39.460 strong enough
00:57:40.020 show of
00:57:41.040 grassroots
00:57:41.460 support, so
00:57:42.200 you're almost
00:57:42.600 certainly going
00:57:43.080 to lose.
00:57:43.880 How accurate
00:57:44.500 is this model?
00:57:45.760 Well, as I
00:57:46.240 said, it's
00:57:46.720 been wrong
00:57:47.220 twice, but
00:57:48.740 look at the
00:57:49.140 two times it
00:57:49.720 was wrong.
00:57:50.840 One of them
00:57:51.620 was the
00:57:52.120 Kennedy election.
00:57:54.220 If you know
00:57:55.020 your history,
00:57:55.960 what was
00:57:56.480 unusual about
00:57:57.360 the Kennedy
00:57:57.880 election?
00:57:59.360 The Kennedy
00:57:59.980 election was
00:58:00.800 rigged.
00:58:02.240 The Kennedy
00:58:03.180 senior literally
00:58:04.200 got the
00:58:04.700 mafia to
00:58:05.860 rig elections
00:58:06.640 in some of
00:58:07.420 the places
00:58:08.080 that made
00:58:08.580 the difference.
00:58:09.860 So the
00:58:10.540 Kennedy
00:58:10.840 election, the
00:58:11.540 model didn't
00:58:12.120 get right, but
00:58:13.260 it would have
00:58:13.800 gotten it right
00:58:14.460 if it had not
00:58:15.820 been a rigged
00:58:16.580 election.
00:58:17.720 Think about
00:58:18.200 that.
00:58:18.900 The other
00:58:19.380 one it got
00:58:19.780 wrong is it
00:58:21.040 said that
00:58:21.700 Gore would
00:58:25.420 beat Bush.
00:58:26.920 And do you
00:58:27.120 remember what
00:58:27.560 happened?
00:58:28.400 The Gore
00:58:28.800 versus Bush?
00:58:29.620 It went to
00:58:30.000 the Supreme
00:58:30.460 Court and it
00:58:31.840 still looked like
00:58:32.560 it was stolen?
00:58:33.060 So the two
00:58:35.320 times his
00:58:35.920 model didn't
00:58:36.540 work, it
00:58:38.040 kind of did
00:58:38.600 work.
00:58:39.520 It's just
00:58:39.940 that there
00:58:40.840 was something
00:58:41.240 that was a
00:58:41.660 little suspicious
00:58:42.280 about the
00:58:43.180 election process
00:58:44.300 itself.
00:58:45.580 So his
00:58:46.700 model is
00:58:47.440 close to
00:58:47.960 100%
00:58:48.640 effective.
00:58:50.240 And he
00:58:50.820 says you
00:58:51.220 can completely
00:58:52.140 ignore the
00:58:52.800 polls even
00:58:53.540 this close to
00:58:54.280 election.
00:58:55.720 Historically,
00:58:56.840 the polls this
00:58:57.780 close to
00:58:58.200 election are
00:58:58.760 just random.
00:58:59.380 They're
00:59:00.140 actually just
00:59:00.940 random.
00:59:02.680 So that's
00:59:03.580 his prediction.
00:59:05.920 What's
00:59:06.420 interesting is
00:59:07.060 that we have
00:59:07.440 three people
00:59:07.980 running for
00:59:08.420 president if
00:59:09.160 you count
00:59:09.520 Kanye West
00:59:10.260 and all three
00:59:11.220 of them are
00:59:11.640 running as
00:59:12.080 Republicans.
00:59:14.160 What?
00:59:15.480 What, Scott?
00:59:16.440 What are you
00:59:16.760 talking about?
00:59:17.800 Biden's not a
00:59:18.820 Republican.
00:59:20.580 Obviously.
00:59:21.500 Duh.
00:59:22.580 Or is he?
00:59:24.020 As of today,
00:59:25.820 apparently he
00:59:26.680 had a little
00:59:27.020 committee set up
00:59:28.000 to negotiate
00:59:28.800 with the
00:59:29.240 progressives in
00:59:30.200 his party
00:59:30.680 to see if
00:59:32.000 they could
00:59:32.280 come up
00:59:32.620 with something
00:59:33.020 that the
00:59:33.420 less progressive
00:59:34.180 people and
00:59:34.820 the progressives
00:59:35.500 would get
00:59:35.840 behind.
00:59:36.780 So some of
00:59:37.380 that's been
00:59:37.720 done, and
00:59:38.380 here's what's
00:59:38.980 happened.
00:59:40.300 Biden is
00:59:41.080 not in
00:59:42.020 favor of
00:59:42.560 Medicare for
00:59:43.160 all.
00:59:44.200 So Biden
00:59:45.060 is not in
00:59:45.880 favor of
00:59:46.460 probably,
00:59:48.260 in my
00:59:48.560 opinion,
00:59:49.100 the single
00:59:49.620 most important
00:59:50.380 thing that
00:59:51.220 the left
00:59:51.760 wanted,
00:59:52.580 which was
00:59:53.460 health care
00:59:54.120 for everybody.
00:59:55.380 And Biden
00:59:55.800 is not on
00:59:57.200 board.
00:59:58.800 And that's
00:59:59.440 the best
00:59:59.800 they can
01:00:00.140 negotiate
01:00:00.560 with him.
01:00:01.500 So whoever
01:00:02.540 is doing
01:00:04.100 the negotiating,
01:00:05.100 they've decided
01:00:06.000 on something
01:00:06.560 that apparently
01:00:07.180 is better
01:00:07.800 for winning
01:00:08.320 elections.
01:00:09.480 Because if
01:00:10.300 Biden had
01:00:10.820 come out
01:00:11.240 with full
01:00:11.980 health care
01:00:12.860 for everybody,
01:00:14.240 pretty much
01:00:14.980 he would
01:00:15.260 have been
01:00:15.520 done.
01:00:16.360 He had
01:00:16.780 to come
01:00:17.020 up with
01:00:17.280 something a
01:00:17.700 little more
01:00:18.100 closer to
01:00:19.180 a Republican
01:00:19.760 thing,
01:00:20.460 so it
01:00:21.100 doesn't become
01:00:21.940 a negative
01:00:22.340 for him
01:00:22.780 when he's
01:00:23.100 running.
01:00:24.680 Here's the
01:00:25.220 one that's
01:00:25.500 more interesting
01:00:26.060 though.
01:00:27.100 Remember the
01:00:27.880 Green New
01:00:28.320 Deal was
01:00:29.160 going to
01:00:29.440 transform the
01:00:30.220 economy?
01:00:31.540 Well,
01:00:32.040 apparently that's
01:00:32.620 off the
01:00:32.980 table now.
01:00:34.240 So Biden
01:00:35.100 will not
01:00:36.260 be putting
01:00:36.720 in the
01:00:37.340 platform.
01:00:38.420 So the
01:00:39.060 Democratic
01:00:40.080 platform and
01:00:41.740 the presidential
01:00:42.340 candidate at
01:00:43.220 this point
01:00:43.680 become one
01:00:44.740 and the
01:00:45.020 same for
01:00:46.320 the most
01:00:46.600 part.
01:00:47.580 And at
01:00:48.780 this point
01:00:49.180 it doesn't
01:00:49.680 look like
01:00:50.120 the Green
01:00:50.540 New Deal
01:00:51.020 is even
01:00:51.500 going to
01:00:51.740 be in the
01:00:52.080 Democratic
01:00:52.460 platform.
01:00:53.780 Now,
01:00:54.100 when I say
01:00:54.460 the Green
01:00:54.800 New Deal,
01:00:55.320 I mean the
01:00:55.680 one where
01:00:56.160 airplanes are
01:00:57.380 grounded and
01:00:59.060 fossil fuels
01:01:02.820 are phased
01:01:03.380 out really
01:01:04.180 soon and
01:01:05.120 all the
01:01:06.100 stuff that
01:01:06.820 would be
01:01:07.240 the most
01:01:08.080 dangerous.
01:01:08.920 So that
01:01:09.300 stuff's just
01:01:09.720 not in the
01:01:10.280 plan anymore.
01:01:11.460 Now he's
01:01:11.940 going for
01:01:12.420 something that
01:01:13.180 is better
01:01:14.600 described as
01:01:15.400 more aggressive
01:01:16.200 goals to
01:01:17.940 get to
01:01:18.280 net zero
01:01:18.880 carbon
01:01:19.300 emissions.
01:01:20.660 What does
01:01:21.340 that tell
01:01:21.700 you?
01:01:22.180 Huh?
01:01:23.020 Read between
01:01:23.640 the lines.
01:01:24.400 Let's see.
01:01:24.840 So it's not
01:01:25.420 the Green
01:01:25.940 New Deal
01:01:26.520 which is
01:01:28.000 telling you
01:01:29.300 to get rid
01:01:29.680 of fossil
01:01:30.140 fuels and
01:01:30.960 all that
01:01:31.460 stuff.
01:01:32.060 So it's
01:01:32.340 not that.
01:01:33.580 But he
01:01:33.880 wants to
01:01:34.280 go for
01:01:34.640 a more
01:01:35.080 aggressive
01:01:35.580 net zero
01:01:36.700 carbon
01:01:37.320 emissions.
01:01:38.640 Huh?
01:01:39.520 What would
01:01:40.360 be the
01:01:41.160 only way
01:01:42.000 you could
01:01:42.560 do that
01:01:43.580 effectively?
01:01:45.100 Is it
01:01:45.860 by lots
01:01:47.500 of solar
01:01:48.060 panels?
01:01:50.540 Huh?
01:01:51.100 Is it
01:01:51.840 by windmills?
01:01:53.340 Huh?
01:01:54.340 Is it
01:01:57.660 by nuclear
01:01:58.640 energy?
01:02:00.180 I think
01:02:01.120 that it's
01:02:01.600 silent on
01:02:02.240 nuclear
01:02:02.620 energy.
01:02:03.740 But I
01:02:04.820 think Biden
01:02:05.520 just became
01:02:06.180 a Republican.
01:02:07.780 Because it's
01:02:08.920 looking to me
01:02:09.520 like Biden's
01:02:10.240 health care
01:02:10.660 plan is
01:02:11.500 indistinguishable
01:02:13.640 from the
01:02:14.060 Republican
01:02:14.480 plan.
01:02:15.300 Let's keep
01:02:16.000 things the
01:02:16.400 way they
01:02:16.660 are and
01:02:17.020 try to
01:02:17.280 improve it.
01:02:19.580 Basically a
01:02:20.340 Republican
01:02:20.740 plan.
01:02:21.860 And if
01:02:22.100 he's trying
01:02:22.460 to get to
01:02:22.920 net zero
01:02:23.560 carbon
01:02:24.240 emissions
01:02:24.860 at a
01:02:25.900 more
01:02:26.220 aggressive
01:02:27.980 rate,
01:02:29.020 there's
01:02:29.300 sort of
01:02:29.740 only one
01:02:30.200 way to
01:02:30.520 do it.
01:02:31.580 There's
01:02:31.880 just one
01:02:32.320 way.
01:02:33.560 The
01:02:33.800 Republican
01:02:34.200 way.
01:02:35.500 So I
01:02:35.880 think Biden
01:02:36.340 is just
01:02:36.700 becoming a
01:02:37.180 Republican.
01:02:39.340 Weirdly.
01:02:40.260 So that
01:02:40.500 would mean
01:02:40.840 Kanye's a
01:02:41.640 Republican.
01:02:42.680 He says he
01:02:43.400 would run as
01:02:43.900 a Republican
01:02:44.320 if Trump
01:02:44.980 were not
01:02:45.560 already.
01:02:47.100 Trump's a
01:02:47.660 Republican,
01:02:48.360 sort of.
01:02:50.000 We've got
01:02:50.500 three Republicans
01:02:51.300 running for
01:02:51.820 president.
01:02:52.460 Has that
01:02:52.740 ever happened?
01:02:54.040 I don't
01:02:54.620 think so.
01:02:55.840 All right.
01:02:56.600 That's his
01:02:57.140 best chance
01:02:57.600 for winning
01:02:57.980 though.
01:02:58.420 Biden is
01:02:58.860 to be a
01:02:59.460 little more
01:02:59.840 moderate.
01:03:00.780 All right.
01:03:00.980 That's all
01:03:01.260 I've got
01:03:01.480 for now.
01:03:04.020 Biden
01:03:04.460 wants to
01:03:04.980 defund
01:03:05.360 the police?
01:03:06.000 No,
01:03:06.180 he doesn't.
01:03:07.780 Biden
01:03:08.220 does not
01:03:08.640 want to
01:03:08.940 defund
01:03:09.420 them.
01:03:09.700 He may
01:03:09.940 want to
01:03:10.720 improve
01:03:11.280 them in
01:03:11.840 some way.
01:03:13.320 But even
01:03:15.000 Republicans
01:03:15.980 would be
01:03:16.580 in favor
01:03:17.620 of improving
01:03:18.700 policing.
01:03:20.460 Just show
01:03:21.100 them a
01:03:21.580 proposal
01:03:22.080 that's
01:03:23.400 worth
01:03:23.620 testing.
01:03:24.280 And again,
01:03:25.060 you don't
01:03:25.360 have to
01:03:25.640 be in
01:03:25.920 favor of
01:03:26.360 any of
01:03:26.660 this
01:03:26.920 defund
01:03:27.820 the police
01:03:28.240 stuff.
01:03:28.600 You could
01:03:28.860 be in
01:03:29.140 favor of
01:03:29.580 testing.
01:03:30.460 Just say,
01:03:30.840 let's try
01:03:31.220 it.
01:03:31.700 If you've
01:03:32.280 got an
01:03:32.560 idea for
01:03:33.040 taking some
01:03:33.580 of that
01:03:33.820 budget and
01:03:34.440 moving it
01:03:34.860 to some
01:03:35.200 other kind
01:03:35.640 of thing
01:03:36.060 that you
01:03:36.800 might get
01:03:37.120 a better
01:03:37.380 result,
01:03:38.720 let's try
01:03:39.240 that in
01:03:39.600 Cleveland and
01:03:40.100 see what
01:03:40.320 happens.
01:03:41.080 All right.
01:03:42.080 Somebody
01:03:42.360 says,
01:03:42.680 why is
01:03:43.080 Trump not
01:03:43.820 pushing
01:03:44.200 nuclear?
01:03:45.080 I would
01:03:45.500 say that's
01:03:45.800 just a
01:03:46.100 mistake.
01:03:46.580 you don't
01:03:50.980 need a
01:03:52.420 reason for
01:03:52.900 a mistake.
01:03:54.640 So I
01:03:55.500 would say
01:03:55.860 that Trump
01:03:56.540 not pushing
01:03:57.100 nuclear,
01:03:58.100 probably he's
01:03:59.300 not fully
01:03:59.940 informed on
01:04:00.660 it, is my
01:04:01.520 guess.
01:04:02.540 Probably he
01:04:03.380 doesn't have
01:04:03.800 the best
01:04:04.820 information.
01:04:05.740 But it's
01:04:06.040 also possible
01:04:06.760 that it's
01:04:08.260 one of
01:04:08.580 those single
01:04:09.720 issue topics
01:04:10.680 that can
01:04:11.160 cause you
01:04:11.520 to lose
01:04:11.840 an election.
01:04:12.260 There might
01:04:13.440 be people
01:04:13.860 who don't
01:04:14.160 care about
01:04:14.600 anything,
01:04:16.000 except they
01:04:16.680 don't want
01:04:17.040 nuclear energy.
01:04:18.660 Maybe.
01:04:19.500 I don't know.
01:04:20.060 There can't
01:04:20.340 be that many
01:04:20.820 people who
01:04:21.300 would be
01:04:21.800 single issue
01:04:22.580 voters on
01:04:23.140 that.
01:04:24.840 So there
01:04:25.320 might be a
01:04:25.840 political motive
01:04:26.600 that I don't
01:04:27.200 know of,
01:04:28.160 but it looks
01:04:28.680 like it's a
01:04:29.300 politically
01:04:29.740 losing position
01:04:31.720 and it's
01:04:32.440 scientifically
01:04:33.080 losing and
01:04:34.260 it's planet
01:04:35.380 losing.
01:04:35.980 So if you
01:04:36.340 ask me,
01:04:36.880 why would
01:04:37.840 Trump not
01:04:39.100 be promoting
01:04:39.760 nuclear energy
01:04:40.600 when it seems
01:04:41.800 to be good
01:04:42.380 on every
01:04:42.900 way that
01:04:43.300 anything can
01:04:43.860 be good,
01:04:44.300 literally every
01:04:44.860 way that
01:04:45.420 something can
01:04:45.900 be good,
01:04:47.420 it just
01:04:48.380 looks like a
01:04:48.840 mistake.
01:04:49.860 Now, the
01:04:50.560 energy department
01:04:51.680 under Trump
01:04:52.420 is actually
01:04:52.860 very aggressive.
01:04:54.240 So if you
01:04:54.580 look what the
01:04:55.140 administration is
01:04:55.900 doing, it
01:04:57.680 looks like the
01:04:58.420 right stuff.
01:04:59.600 I mean, it
01:05:00.460 really looks
01:05:02.040 like they are
01:05:03.360 going energetically
01:05:04.480 after figuring
01:05:05.760 out how to
01:05:06.180 test the newer
01:05:06.900 devices and
01:05:07.700 stuff like
01:05:08.520 that.
01:05:10.100 But why he
01:05:11.040 doesn't
01:05:11.320 personally
01:05:11.740 talk about
01:05:12.280 it?
01:05:12.420 I don't
01:05:12.620 know.
01:05:13.400 It looks
01:05:13.720 like just
01:05:14.120 a mistake
01:05:14.560 to me.
01:05:15.340 So maybe
01:05:16.560 he will.
01:05:17.300 That's all
01:05:17.680 for now.
01:05:18.160 I'll talk
01:05:18.700 to you
01:05:18.940 tomorrow.