Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1211 Scott Adams： Why Pelosi is the Worst Person on the Planet - With Extra Cursing, Election Claims, Etc.

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00:00:35.980 dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better except Nancy fucking Pelosi. 1.00

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00:00:47.840 Ah.

00:00:50.700 Well, I did promise you there would be extra swearing, and that extra swearing will be coming

00:00:57.040 at you really, really hard in a minute.

00:01:00.580 But first, I wanted to let you know that later today I'm going to record an interview with

00:01:06.480 Joel Pollack, whose new book is just out, and you should get it.

00:01:12.100 It's called Neither Free Nor Fair, the 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections.

00:01:18.580 So just go to Amazon and Google Neither Free Nor Fair.

00:01:22.420 Now what's interesting about it is that it's not focused exclusively on these fraud claims.

00:01:29.100 In fact, it's mostly not about that.

00:01:31.900 It's about the entire environment and all of the elements that went into making this not

00:01:38.060 really the election that we thought.

00:01:39.660 I'll record that later today and then make it available on YouTube.

00:01:43.180 And you're going to want to hear that because I've been, I'm reading it, and there are a lot

00:01:48.800 of great nuggets in there that you're really going to enjoy.

00:01:52.440 So it really pulls it all together.

00:01:55.100 All right.

00:01:56.060 Let's talk about Nancy Pelosi.

00:01:58.000 So it looks like there's going to be some minor coronavirus bill.

00:02:06.060 But the big story here, well, the big story is that there are millions of Americans who

00:02:13.280 were hoping and should have expected that their government would come through with direct

00:02:19.520 relief packages to get them through the toughest part of this year and the holidays.

00:02:25.560 Many, many unemployed and many really struggling.

00:02:30.220 But instead of that, it appears that there is little ambiguity about the following claim

00:02:37.780 I'm going to make, meaning that even Bernie Sanders seems to agree with this, as do Republicans.

00:02:47.100 So I don't think what I'm going to say now would be really much in doubt, which is what makes

00:02:52.520 this so bad?

00:02:54.220 It's one thing if maybe there's some question about whether something has been framed correctly

00:03:01.660 or maybe you're not taking everything into consideration and have you consider that there

00:03:07.520 are costs and benefits to every decision.

00:03:10.740 That's not really what's going on here.

00:03:13.020 It appears that both the left and the right are completely convinced, because Pelosi basically

00:03:19.780 said it herself, that she held up negotiations on this coronavirus bill for months for political 0.99

00:03:29.020 reasons, to get past the election, so that Trump would have less chance of getting reelected.

00:03:34.760 And even Bernie Sanders is coming, you know, in his own words, but kind of pretty close to

00:03:41.920 admitting that, saying that she could have gotten a far bigger package.

00:03:46.360 It didn't include this important part of the direct payments to people.

00:03:52.200 And I'd like to make the following, you know, put a stake in the ground here.

00:03:59.000 We can tolerate quite a bit in terms of politics, wouldn't you say?

00:04:06.100 I mean, the claims and the counterclaims and bad behavior and bad decisions, there are mistakes.

00:04:14.000 For example, the Democrats would say that President Trump made mistakes in the coronavirus handling.

00:04:21.480 Now, how do you judge mistakes?

00:04:24.640 Personally, I think that they're exaggerating how much of a mistake he might have made.

00:04:30.680 But how do you judge a mistake?

00:04:33.140 Remember I told you at the beginning of the coronavirus situation that most of our leaders

00:04:40.060 would try as hard as they can, they'd listen to the experts, but people were going to make

00:04:45.000 a lot of mistakes, because it was a new situation.

00:04:49.020 Nobody knew exactly what to do.

00:04:50.760 Some people would do better than others, but it wouldn't be because anybody was evil or

00:04:56.000 had bad intentions, or even was incompetent.

00:04:59.360 Rather, people would be doing different things, and some of them would just work better than

00:05:04.200 others.

00:05:05.320 So, personally, and I told you this ahead of time, I wasn't going to judge people by the

00:05:11.940 mistakes.

00:05:12.400 So, you haven't heard me, I don't think you've heard me, ever criticize Governor Cuomo for

00:05:20.920 the allegations that, you know, he put coronavirus people back in old folks' homes and it cost

00:05:27.320 a lot of lives.

00:05:28.680 I feel like the claim is true, but I personally am not putting that against Governor Cuomo.

00:05:36.920 Same reason, same reason I'm not holding any mistakes that Trump did or did not make against

00:05:44.160 him, same reason I'm not holding it against Dr. Fauci, anybody else.

00:05:49.780 You can say that there were mistakes made, that's useful, but then to go further and say there's

00:05:54.840 something wrong with those people because they made mistakes in a situation where mistakes

00:06:00.920 were going to happen, right, I feel that's too far, you know, I don't want to go there.

00:06:07.000 I'd rather just figure out how we can make things better.

00:06:10.180 But what Pelosi did, it wasn't a mistake, am I right?

00:06:18.640 And I don't think Bernie thinks it was exactly a mistake, because what she was doing was holding

00:06:25.700 up the process for political purposes, and what ended up as a result of that is she got 0.90

00:06:31.160 much less.

00:06:32.820 She could have had lots more. 0.55

00:06:34.240 In fact, in fact, she turned down an offer that was vastly larger because she wanted to

00:06:41.340 stall.

00:06:43.240 Now, are the Republicans blameless in any of this?

00:06:46.480 No.

00:06:47.540 No, I don't think the Republicans in Congress get a pass because they're all part of the

00:06:54.460 team, right, team Congress.

00:06:56.060 If you can't get it done, you don't get it done.

00:06:58.080 It's on you.

00:06:59.660 But I would argue there's something different about just a person in Congress who is part

00:07:06.780 of an effort that didn't get it done and should have, you know, that's worthy of criticism. 0.96

00:07:12.240 But what Pelosi did was she fucked millions of poor Americans for a political advantage. 1.00

00:07:22.660 She just fucked poor people right in front of you and didn't apologize. 1.00

00:07:29.640 This is the thing that's taking me to a level of anger here that I would not have for politics. 1.00

00:07:38.260 This wasn't politics.

00:07:41.340 Whatever this was, was closer to something like pure evil.

00:07:45.380 Because it's not as if the entire country wasn't in favor of some kind of, at least by

00:07:52.220 a big majority, some kind of a direct payment to people to keep them alive and healthy for

00:07:58.760 a few more months until we can get some vaccines going.

00:08:02.520 What Nancy Pelosi did is so much worse than anything that Trump has ever been even accused

00:08:09.360 of, even accused of, nothing even close.

00:08:15.220 You just, you know, you could take the worst things that Trump is accused of, subtract out

00:08:20.740 the ones that didn't even happen.

00:08:22.720 You know, the fine people hoax, take that out of there.

00:08:25.840 You know, the misinterpretations, you have to take those out of there because they're not

00:08:29.560 real.

00:08:30.040 They're basically fake news. 0.99

00:08:31.560 Tell me what Trump has ever done that comes even close to how purely fucking evil this 0.98

00:08:41.480 was. 0.97

00:08:42.420 And I have a completely different reaction to somebody who at least tries to hide their

00:08:48.840 evil.

00:08:50.100 Had she lied about it a little bit better?

00:08:53.600 Had there been some doubt about her actual motives and intentions?

00:08:59.620 But there isn't.

00:09:01.560 There's no doubt it's completely transparent evil.

00:09:05.460 She put it right out there in front of the public. 0.79

00:09:07.640 Well, I'm going to screw millions of Americans, but I think I'll get a little election advantage

00:09:13.060 out of this for my team. 1.00

00:09:15.760 It's maybe one of the worst fucking things I've ever seen in my whole fucking life. 0.99

00:09:22.840 We should not be treating this like a political event. 0.99

00:09:26.460 Indeed, if we were not, I'm trying to say this so I won't get banned, you know, banned by social

00:09:34.480 media platforms.

00:09:36.060 So I'll preface it by saying I, of course, would never be in favor of any kind of violence

00:09:42.880 or breaking the law.

00:09:45.060 So I'm not suggesting anything.

00:09:47.200 I don't want anybody to take it that way.

00:09:49.400 But if you were just to look at what she did right in front of us, right in front of us,

00:09:57.060 what she did should have a law against it.

00:10:02.400 Apparently it doesn't.

00:10:03.520 But in terms of the severity of how bad that was, if there were a law, it should be the

00:10:12.580 death penalty.

00:10:15.300 That's how bad it was.

00:10:16.660 There's no law against it, so she won't be punished.

00:10:19.240 And of course, I don't think anybody should resort to violence for any political stuff.

00:10:23.720 But in terms of how bad it was, if she just put millions of people into such a bad situation 0.98

00:10:31.040 that some of them will die, she just fucking killed people for a political advantage. 1.00

00:10:38.820 That's not too strong. 0.99

00:10:40.720 We know that the, you know, the professionals are pretty clear and common sense tells you

00:10:46.280 and your experience tells you that the kind of pain people are suffering in this country

00:10:51.700 at the lower end of the economic situation, the kind of pain they're going through, and

00:10:56.920 we'll go through for the next few months, it's life and death pain.

00:11:02.760 It's not inconvenient. 0.96

00:11:05.700 It's not fucking inconvenient. 0.98

00:11:09.260 It's going to kill people. 1.00

00:11:11.700 People are going to fucking put a gun in their mouth and blow their brains against the drapes 1.00

00:11:17.880 because of what you did. 1.00

00:11:19.440 Nancy fucking Pelosi. 1.00

00:11:22.420 You killed people for political advantage and you knew it. 1.00

00:11:27.100 You knew what you were fucking doing. 1.00

00:11:30.520 You absolute monster. 1.00

00:11:34.100 Fucking monster. 1.00

00:11:36.620 This isn't about politics. 1.00

00:11:38.220 And let me be as clear as possible. 0.99

00:11:41.180 If Trump had done this, I would be just as fucking mad. 0.98

00:11:46.880 And I would think he should be impeached. 1.00

00:11:49.940 And I would be all in on impeaching his fucking orange ass if he did anything like this. 1.00

00:11:57.080 There's nothing he's fucking done that is in this category. 1.00

00:12:01.680 And don't even pretend there is. 0.98

00:12:04.480 There isn't.

00:12:06.260 Nothing. 1.00

00:12:06.700 Worst fucking thing I've ever seen a politician do. 0.99

00:12:11.060 And honestly, the fact that she did it right in our fucking faces, she's not hiding it, that does make it worse. 1.00

00:12:20.740 Because this is now just sort of bullying, isn't it? 0.99

00:12:25.800 I mean, maybe technically you wouldn't call it bullying, but what the fuck is it? 0.98

00:12:31.860 It sure isn't being a leader. 0.98

00:12:34.200 It isn't helping.

00:12:36.060 It's closer to criminal behavior.

00:12:38.740 It's closer to evil behavior than it is to even politics. 0.99

00:12:42.880 To call this politics isn't a fucking mistake. 0.97

00:12:46.780 This is somebody who should be hounded out of office and should never be able to live among nice people again. 0.98

00:12:55.820 This isn't politics.

00:12:59.000 All right.

00:12:59.380 Have I said enough about that?

00:13:00.440 So Axios is reporting that China has a network of spies in this country who are working are lesser politicians

00:13:11.480 with a long-term view that if they can get some control over mayors and people who are working their way up from lower levels,

00:13:23.080 that someday when those lower-level politicians become more important, let's say in state or national politics,

00:13:29.740 that China will already have a grip on them in some way.

00:13:34.640 And there was a specific young lady whose name is Christine Fang. 0.75

00:13:39.220 Or, and this is the weird part, apparently she goes by two names, Christine Fang or Fang Fang.

00:13:48.360 Her first name Fang and last name Fang.

00:13:51.500 Now, I keep pointing this out, but it gets funnier and funnier the longer it goes.

00:13:58.260 If you've got somebody whose last name is Fang, and it turns out that they're trying to eat you alive, 0.88

00:14:09.440 that's funny, right?

00:14:12.640 Hey, she's trying to eat us alive, and she's being evil, and her last name is Fang. 0.99

00:14:17.680 But what does it mean when both of her names are Fang?

00:14:23.100 Fang Fang. 0.78

00:14:24.680 That's like double simulation there. 1.00

00:14:27.440 That's some shit. 0.99

00:14:28.720 So apparently she got close to my representative locally here, Eric Swalwell. 1.00

00:14:33.980 So there's a photo of her at least getting her picture taken.

00:14:38.840 So Swalwell minimizes it and said it was no big deal.

00:14:43.020 But the fact that China is doing this makes me wonder if we're doing that, too.

00:14:49.040 Are we doing the same thing to China?

00:14:51.360 Because let's stop saying we're not at war with China. 0.96

00:14:55.120 We're at war with China.

00:14:57.860 We're at war with China.

00:14:59.260 That's just how the war works now.

00:15:01.340 It's persuasion and dirty tricks and stuff. 0.98

00:15:04.360 So I'm going to just start calling it a war, because it's stupid to not call it anything else. 0.96

00:15:13.260 It's World War III.

00:15:14.820 Yeah.

00:15:18.040 Still waiting to hear from the four people who were, I think it was four or five,

00:15:23.460 the last people in the room in that Georgia situation where the people were allegedly asked to leave.

00:15:30.260 I'm still waiting for news of direct quotes of who said what in terms of was anybody saying that people should leave.

00:15:44.860 We don't have that yet.

00:15:47.180 What's up with that?

00:15:48.240 I know one of the people lawyered up.

00:15:50.540 That probably means arrested.

00:15:52.340 But are you telling me our news business can't get one of those people to say,

00:15:56.420 oh, what we said was, and the words we chose were, and the reason we did it was,

00:16:04.260 you can't get any of the people who are the most important people in one of the biggest stories in the country,

00:16:11.200 and not one of them has a comment?

00:16:13.920 We can't find them?

00:16:15.940 The news can't locate any of those people?

00:16:19.040 Now, keep in mind, I'm on the side that says that the video we're seeing does not demonstrate fraud.

00:16:28.580 It demonstrates something that could be fraud, but also could be not fraud.

00:16:35.220 It tells two stories very clearly, but they're different stories.

00:16:38.920 And that's true of a lot of video.

00:16:42.200 The Covington Kidd case, for example.

00:16:44.040 Depending on what you see, and what you're bringing to it, and what your bias is,

00:16:48.300 there are two complete stories told by the video.

00:16:52.140 One, something really bad happened.

00:16:54.420 Two, nothing happened at all.

00:16:56.840 It's both right there in the video.

00:16:58.580 So given that situation, and the relative importance of it to the entire future of the country and the world, 0.99

00:17:07.160 where the fuck are those four people? 0.99

00:17:09.920 I mean, seriously. 1.00

00:17:11.000 Where the fuck are those four people? 0.99

00:17:15.660 Now, even if the story is, we tried to contact them and they say no, or they won't answer their phone, 0.99

00:17:23.200 that's still news.

00:17:25.500 That's still news.

00:17:28.220 Here's one of the things I'm starting to wonder.

00:17:31.340 I wonder if you could crowdfund real news to support fake news, to replace fake news.

00:17:38.600 Because the problem with fake news is, for whatever reason, neither Fox News nor the left or anybody else

00:17:47.820 seems interesting in talking to the only people who are the important people in this question.

00:17:54.460 Suppose you just started funding both witnesses and news.

00:18:01.560 So suppose you started a crowdfund and you said, look, I'll pay X reward for a whistleblower who has a story of whatever nature.

00:18:13.060 Or I'll pay $10,000 for one of those four people to just sit for an interview that we can publish unedited.

00:18:22.120 $10,000 just to tell your story.

00:18:25.820 Because without that $10,000, apparently, we'll never hear from the four people who are the only ones who could tell you

00:18:33.120 what they meant and what they said, and the whole case rests on that.

00:18:39.160 What they meant and what they said and when they said it, etc.

00:18:42.400 We should just bypass the entire news business and just create some kind of a fund to find out about any story that the news is ignoring.

00:18:55.720 Because it's going to be ignored on the left and the right in some cases.

00:18:59.440 So wouldn't you want to say, well, we'll just fund it.

00:19:02.400 Fund it ourselves and see what happens.

00:19:04.220 All right.

00:19:08.340 So here's a follow-up on that Havana syndrome.

00:19:11.620 You know, you saw the early reports that there might have been a, quote, sonic weapon developed that was hurting people within the embassy.

00:19:20.760 And then it happened in a Chinese embassy, too.

00:19:23.120 So there are two different embassies.

00:19:25.100 Or were there three?

00:19:26.780 Was Canada in on that, too?

00:19:28.540 But anyway, the latest is a report from the National Academies of Science, all right, Engineering and Medicine.

00:19:38.800 And they came up with a report and they said that, quote, directed pulsed radiofrequency energy was, quote,

00:19:47.820 the most plausible mechanism to explain the overseas diplomats and their various debilitating symptoms.

00:19:55.520 So there you have it.

00:19:56.720 Do you feel that you got your answer now?

00:20:01.460 Because it's the most plausible explanation.

00:20:06.740 And it came from scientists.

00:20:09.580 So I guess we're done here, right?

00:20:13.200 Scientists.

00:20:13.900 It wasn't just one scientist.

00:20:15.380 It was this National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

00:20:19.240 Pretty important.

00:20:20.120 I'm sure they have excellent scientists.

00:20:21.640 So we're done here, right?

00:20:27.440 I guess there's just some kind of weapon that we don't have any direct evidence of.

00:20:33.600 But the only, no, it was the most plausible mechanism.

00:20:39.460 Okay.

00:20:40.880 Let me clarify this for you. 1.00

00:20:43.300 This is fucking stupid. 1.00

00:20:48.720 This is, like, really, really stupid. 1.00

00:20:51.780 On day one, I told you that the story was fake and there was no sonic weapon. 0.99

00:20:56.880 Now, some of you have sent me this and said, well, maybe it wasn't a sonic weapon, Scott.

00:21:02.500 But you were surely wrong about it being just some kind of mass hysteria.

00:21:08.620 Because now real scientists have looked into this, Scott.

00:21:12.740 Scott, Scott, Scott.

00:21:14.080 You and your mass hysteria hypothesis.

00:21:17.720 I laugh at it.

00:21:18.800 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. 1.00

00:21:21.280 Because actual scientists have now debunked you, you idiot. 0.99

00:21:27.160 Real scientists from an established place have determined that the most plausible mechanism, Scott, Scott, Scott, is some kind of a pulsed radiofrequency energy weapon that has not been directly detected. 0.99

00:21:44.840 Okay.

00:21:46.220 I'm just a cartoonist.

00:21:49.020 I'm not a scientist who is a member of the Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

00:21:54.780 But I'm just going to put out a thought.

00:21:59.360 So you should not certainly put my casual thought in the same category of credibility as, my God, a whole group of scientists in the National Academies of Sciences.

00:22:13.120 They've got some real credibility.

00:22:14.660 But I'm just going to suggest a thought.

00:22:18.120 Which one of the scientists at the Academies, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, which one of them was an expert on mass hysteria?

00:22:34.900 Do you think they had one?

00:22:37.620 What do you think?

00:22:38.600 Do you think that any of the engineers who looked into this or scientists, were any of them sort of also experts in a separate field called psychology and mass hysteria?

00:22:54.600 Because I'm just going to point out that the symptoms which they discovered that were, you know, across these people who had complaints, let me tell you the symptoms.

00:23:05.680 See if you can determine something that these symptoms have in common.

00:23:11.860 So now you're all going to be detectives, okay?

00:23:14.940 What do these symptoms all have in common?

00:23:17.940 All right, so you got your, there's some people that said that it was, there was a loud noise that they heard, but they didn't all have that experience.

00:23:30.160 So some had one experience and others didn't.

00:23:33.700 One of them had a dizziness and vertigo and was up vomiting all night.

00:23:40.740 But there are others that did not have that vomiting.

00:23:43.220 But others did have the vertigo, where they would lose their balance a little bit.

00:23:48.440 They had cognitive difficulties and headaches.

00:23:53.120 So you got your headaches, your dizziness, your cognitive difficulties.

00:23:59.680 And at least some people had some pressure they felt at one point.

00:24:04.420 And some people vomited, but there were other things that were not common to all of them.

00:24:09.180 Okay, do you have it yet?

00:24:10.400 What, what, what would those symptoms lead you to believe was the most likely mechanism for that?

00:24:21.360 Now I'm seeing people saying drugs.

00:24:23.720 But if people took drugs, well, unless it was slipped to them, I suppose.

00:24:30.140 Do you think drugs would cause these symptoms?

00:24:34.500 I'm going to say that maybe, maybe drugs, could be.

00:24:43.040 Food poisoning, I'm seeing.

00:24:45.680 Alcohol, chemicals, hangovers.

00:24:50.060 Let me, let me give you my hypothesis.

00:24:54.280 Every one of these symptoms is exactly, exactly what you'd get with a mass hysteria.

00:25:04.500 Now, that doesn't mean it's a mass hysteria.

00:25:07.460 I'm just saying that if all of these symptoms could be described by, let's say, an invisible pulsed radiofrequency energy.

00:25:17.080 And I'm not a scientist, but I'll accept that as true, that that, that would explain all of their symptoms.

00:25:25.940 Maybe drugs would also explain it, but I'm no doctor, so I don't know that, maybe.

00:25:31.820 But I'll tell you what would also explain every one of these symptoms.

00:25:38.060 Mass hysteria.

00:25:38.940 Let me, let me put it this way.

00:25:41.400 If the symptoms were people had gangrene in their legs and they had to have them amputated, would you say that was a symptom of a mass hysteria?

00:25:52.320 No.

00:25:53.880 Suppose they had broken bones.

00:25:58.100 Would you say that's a mass hysteria?

00:26:00.680 No.

00:26:01.320 No, you wouldn't.

00:26:01.920 If they had, let's say, an identifiable bacteria, would you say that was a mass hysteria?

00:26:10.460 No, no.

00:26:11.240 An identifiable virus?

00:26:12.720 No.

00:26:13.760 Identifiable cause that directly caused these.

00:26:19.280 Let's say they found a stomach virus.

00:26:25.200 Here's my point.

00:26:26.260 This is exactly a mass hysteria.

00:26:30.640 This isn't even, this isn't even like, well, it might be.

00:26:35.440 This is what they are.

00:26:37.620 They are exactly this.

00:26:40.700 If you want a class on how to identify a mass hysteria, here it is.

00:26:46.120 Now you say to yourself, but how does that explain an unusual number of people with symptoms?

00:26:52.640 Because these were real symptoms in many cases.

00:26:55.560 Like, if somebody's vomiting, they're not imagining they're vomiting.

00:27:01.400 Well, here's the explanation.

00:27:03.080 How many people work in an embassy?

00:27:05.320 I don't know the answer to that, by the way.

00:27:07.040 But how many people do you think work in an embassy?

00:27:09.980 Now, how many people work in all of our embassies?

00:27:14.180 Do you think that there were, that at any time in the past year, by coincidence, that any of our other embassies might have a few people who had headaches at the same time?

00:27:28.480 Has that ever happened?

00:27:30.240 Of course.

00:27:32.240 Was there anybody who had a stomach flu at the same time somebody else was feeling dizzy?

00:27:36.840 Probably.

00:27:38.240 Probably.

00:27:39.920 Right?

00:27:40.460 So the most common thing you would expect is that with all of our embassies and all of the number of staff, you would find clusters of people being sick guaranteed.

00:27:53.080 Guaranteed.

00:27:53.560 All right.

00:27:55.280 I'm seeing some of you complain that that's too much on this topic.

00:27:58.940 But if you can't understand how to spot a mass hysteria, you will think stories like this are real, and they're clearly not real.

00:28:09.260 I will change my mind if somebody produces the gun that was a directed energy beam.

00:28:15.940 Then I'll change my mind.

00:28:17.500 And they'll say, oh, well, I didn't see that coming.

00:28:19.380 I was wrong.

00:28:19.800 But until you see that, if you're going to put the odds on it, I'd say 50 to 1, it's a mass hysteria.

00:28:32.280 You can't rule out the secret weapon that somebody somehow got into China and Cuba.

00:28:40.540 I mean, maybe.

00:28:41.920 There's no motive.

00:28:43.720 There's no upside.

00:28:45.700 But maybe.

00:28:47.580 It's just probably 50 to 1 against it.

00:28:50.340 All right.

00:28:52.720 At CNN, they've got a story that says scientists may have come up with a potential way to make oxygen on Mars.

00:29:00.620 How cool would that be?

00:29:02.460 Potential way to make oxygen on Mars.

00:29:04.380 And you know it's true because it's right here on CNN.

00:29:08.480 And I read that story because how cool would it be to be able to make oxygen on Mars?

00:29:13.580 Because otherwise you have to bring it with you or something, right?

00:29:16.120 And you read a little bit more of the story.

00:29:19.000 And the requirement to make this oxygen with this new proposed way would be that there might be a lot of briny liquid under the surface.

00:29:33.180 And they can use a chemical reaction to change the briny water that's under the surface into oxygen.

00:29:40.180 And I thought, that's great.

00:29:42.740 Now, what this depends on is something which hasn't yet been discovered, that below the surface there would be a sufficient amount of briny liquid.

00:29:52.840 But we don't know that to be true.

00:29:54.300 And I thought, I'm no scientist, but I feel like I have a pretty good other idea for generating oxygen on Mars.

00:30:07.660 So one would be if there's briny liquid below the surface, which we don't know to be true, that would be their idea.

00:30:14.620 But mine, I think, is a little simpler.

00:30:16.240 It goes like this.

00:30:17.040 You would just drill a hole into the surface of Mars, but you'd choose your hole so it drills into a gigantic pocket of oxygen that was trapped under the surface.

00:30:31.900 And then the oxygen will be released through that hole that you've drilled, and then that will get into the atmosphere, and you will have added oxygen to the atmosphere by just releasing it from inside the interior of the planet.

00:30:48.320 So that's my idea.

00:30:50.520 Is there anything wrong with that idea?

00:30:54.060 Because, you know, okay, yeah, there's one, you could make one quibble about it.

00:30:58.780 But it would depend a lot on later discovering that there's a gigantic ball of oxygen trapped beneath the surface of Mars.

00:31:10.440 Now, we don't know that to be true.

00:31:13.600 But if it is there, I feel like my method would work to drill the hole and release it.

00:31:20.120 Now, if it turns out that instead of a giant ball of oxygen, it's an undiscovered, unknown, unobserved, gigantic bunch of liquid brine, well, then their method might be better.

00:31:36.240 But it just depends what you find down there.

00:31:39.880 So that was on CNN.

00:31:41.440 And then CNN talked to somebody who actually knows what they're talking about.

00:31:45.400 And the guy said, it was another expert, he said, why wouldn't you just melt the ice?

00:31:51.760 Because apparently we do know there's ice on Mars.

00:31:56.320 And so this guy's like, why don't you just melt the ice, and then you've got water, and then turn the water into oxygen.

00:32:02.840 And I'm thinking, yeah, yeah, you could do that.

00:32:05.800 Or you could drill a hole and find the briny liquid that may or may not exist.

00:32:12.800 Do you guys have, this is just a personal thing right now, do you have the problem that software rots?

00:32:22.400 You put a piece of software on your computer, and you're just using your software.

00:32:27.020 Doesn't matter what it is, I'm using my software.

00:32:30.260 And then one day, it just rots.

00:32:33.700 It doesn't work anymore.

00:32:35.400 Now, it might be because your operating system updated some compatibility.

00:32:40.160 But I would love to walk into my office someday and sit at my computer and say,

00:32:46.460 I would like my software to work just the way it worked yesterday.

00:32:51.060 Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.

00:32:52.160 I sure am lucky that I got everything working yesterday.

00:32:56.000 Ba-da-da-da-ba-ba-ba-da.

00:32:57.840 So let me tell you that the trouble I got into.

00:33:00.020 I upgraded my operating system to Big Sur, the new one, and I upgraded my Photoshop, because it's a subscription thing, to the newest version.

00:33:13.840 So now I've got the newest of everything, so I should have no problems, right?

00:33:17.620 Except that the line tool doesn't work anymore.

00:33:23.240 I don't know why.

00:33:24.620 So just drawing a line, the most basic thing besides drawing with a brush that I do to make Dilbert, it just doesn't work anymore.

00:33:32.320 And it stopped working on my other computer with a different operating system.

00:33:37.420 So I can't draw a line on two different complete computer setups, and I just can't do my job now.

00:33:45.880 Like today, I have no idea how I can be a cartoonist, because the effort to find a new way to produce is pretty big.

00:33:54.000 And I don't know if Adobe can fix it, because it does seem to be, as far as I can tell, it's just a bug. 0.95

00:33:59.680 It's not me being an idiot.

00:34:01.180 But I had mentioned this in public, and somebody had offered a solution, and I tried the solution last week, and it worked. 0.86

00:34:11.360 So last week, somebody on Twitter had offered a solution, and it worked.

00:34:16.200 But when I rebooted, it stopped working, and I couldn't figure out how to do that solution again.

00:34:22.800 It looked like it didn't even have options for it anymore.

00:34:25.360 So how do we live in a world where they, you know, if somebody sells you this pen, it's never going to rot.

00:34:39.700 And the company that sold it to me can't make it rot.

00:34:43.800 They don't have any control after it leaves their little pen factory.

00:34:47.300 But with software, they can send you the software, and then they can destroy it from a distance.

00:34:53.340 They can just make it rot, and then you need a new one.

00:34:57.700 It's a hell of a situation.

00:34:59.500 I'm sure you're all in it.

00:35:03.440 Here's a little fake news I want to debunk for you.

00:35:06.960 I saw this going around the Internet.

00:35:08.520 So in case you saw it, I'll tell you what the fake part is.

00:35:12.380 There was a tweet going around showing some official in Pennsylvania.

00:35:17.780 He was announcing a partial count at some point.

00:35:23.060 He said that they've counted a hundred-some thousand votes at whatever point they had counted them.

00:35:30.920 And they had adjudicated 94% as many as those.

00:35:38.060 So the way people interpreted that was, wait a minute, are you saying you adjudicated 94% of all the things you counted,

00:35:47.680 meaning that almost every vote you counted was sketchy, and you had to actually look at it and be like,

00:35:53.060 oh, I'm not even sure if this is a real vote.

00:35:55.680 94% of them?

00:35:57.720 Now, that was the fake news that went around.

00:35:59.900 And what happened was there was a word left out that you can just see.

00:36:06.260 It's not me guessing.

00:36:07.900 I'm just looking at it and saying, oh, sometimes they left the word out.

00:36:11.060 And the word was counted.

00:36:13.980 So they had done a partial count.

00:36:17.460 There were lots more to count, you know, maybe millions more,

00:36:20.540 but they had done just a partial count.

00:36:22.920 And at the same time they had done the partial count separately,

00:36:27.220 some people were working on adjudicating.

00:36:29.900 The adjudicators were working pretty fast and did over 100,000 of them.

00:36:34.920 The ones that had been counted, as in run through the counter,

00:36:39.740 that had just started and they hadn't ramped up too far.

00:36:43.280 So those numbers were about similar just by coincidence.

00:36:48.320 So it's just a coincidence of the timing that those numbers were kind of similar,

00:36:53.520 but certainly nobody was suggesting that most of the ballots were sketchy

00:36:58.720 and had to be adjudicated.

00:37:00.140 But in terms of the election integrity, some interesting things are happening.

00:37:07.340 There's the Mike Kelly case.

00:37:09.960 I guess we don't know if the Supreme Court is going to take it yet,

00:37:13.140 but if they do, it could be trouble.

00:37:15.740 It could be trouble for the Pennsylvania vote.

00:37:21.020 So here's the claim, if you're not following this.

00:37:26.060 So let's see.

00:37:27.700 The claim is that the Commonwealth changed the voting process

00:37:33.140 without going through the proper procedure as described by their own laws.

00:37:38.760 Therefore, if the procedure was adjusted to add mail-in balloting,

00:37:44.940 if the procedure changed, but it was not changed in the correct way,

00:37:50.280 you've got a problem.

00:37:51.580 You had an illegal election because it was done in a way that the law does not support.

00:37:57.240 Now, what do you think will happen if the Supreme Court sees

00:38:01.240 that Pennsylvania did what Pennsylvania wanted to do,

00:38:06.140 they wanted to make that change,

00:38:07.720 it was for the intention of, you know, having more votes during coronavirus.

00:38:13.380 That would be their claim anyway.

00:38:15.440 And the system ran.

00:38:18.820 Maybe there was some fraud, but not enough to overcome the election,

00:38:22.740 at least in terms of proven fraud in court.

00:38:25.440 And so what would the Supreme Court say about this?

00:38:28.720 Would the Supreme Court say,

00:38:30.680 the Supreme Court is only about the rules,

00:38:34.400 we're not here to make up the law.

00:38:38.560 It's pretty clear.

00:38:39.660 We're reading the law.

00:38:40.920 There it is.

00:38:41.440 There's the Pennsylvania law.

00:38:43.400 And then here is you violating the law.

00:38:46.120 It's as clear as day.

00:38:47.620 There's not even going to be an argument whether the law was violated, I think.

00:38:51.560 I don't believe that there's even a counter-argument to that, is there?

00:38:55.340 But the Supreme Court, like other courts,

00:39:02.160 can kind of decide whatever they want.

00:39:05.180 And I've got a feeling,

00:39:06.500 I've got a feeling that the Supreme Court is going to say,

00:39:11.080 yeah, but we don't want to disenfranchise any voters. 0.97

00:39:15.300 So I feel like the Supreme Court is going to ignore the law in their ruling,

00:39:21.640 which they can do.

00:39:23.660 They can just, you know, make up a reason for it and say,

00:39:26.580 well, yeah, technically that was against the law,

00:39:29.340 but given the emergency situation

00:39:31.720 and given that it was clearly intended for the benefit of people

00:39:36.000 and we're not going to disenfranchise people over a technical infraction.

00:39:42.860 That's kind of how I think it'll go.

00:39:44.680 What do you think?

00:39:46.600 I don't see it succeeding.

00:39:49.300 Now, Ted Cruz will be arguing it,

00:39:53.000 which I think gives it a far better chance of succeeding

00:39:56.700 than somebody less capable.

00:39:59.340 As you know, well, I hope you know,

00:40:01.220 Ted Cruz has argued cases in front of the Supreme Court.

00:40:05.140 He used to be solicitor, what is it, solicitor general of Texas.

00:40:09.160 So he's deeply experienced in exactly this stuff.

00:40:12.640 And he's one of the best people you could ever imagine for doing this stuff.

00:40:20.000 So at least it will be a really good contest.

00:40:27.080 It won't be like these things that are getting thrown at a court at the lower courts.

00:40:32.900 This is going to be a fun contest.

00:40:34.760 But if I had to predict,

00:40:36.480 I would predict that the Supreme Court would ignore the Constitution

00:40:39.680 and would ignore the law

00:40:41.900 and just say,

00:40:43.080 Eh, it's just not a big enough deal.

00:40:45.260 I think we're going to keep it the way it is.

00:40:47.220 I think.

00:40:49.540 Related to that,

00:40:50.500 the state of Texas has filed a lawsuit

00:40:53.020 that kind of dovetails with this one,

00:40:56.160 but goes further.

00:40:57.580 And apparently Texas can challenge the elections in other states,

00:41:03.560 which is interesting.

00:41:05.480 Did you know that?

00:41:06.660 That Texas can challenge the elections in other states.

00:41:09.740 So they're challenging some of the swing states,

00:41:12.380 saying that the...

00:41:14.580 And one of their arguments is that

00:41:16.080 there was unequal protection,

00:41:20.060 meaning that within a state,

00:41:22.580 not Texas,

00:41:23.520 but they're challenging other states,

00:41:25.100 that within those states

00:41:26.780 that there were different rules applied

00:41:29.260 even within the state.

00:41:31.700 So if you as a voter in one of these states,

00:41:36.680 which would be Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Georgia,

00:41:40.720 if you were in one of those states

00:41:42.100 and you were in, let's say, a county or a precinct

00:41:44.300 that handled things differently,

00:41:46.680 maybe it was to your disadvantage.

00:41:49.700 So you don't have the same rights as somebody

00:41:52.300 in a neighboring county,

00:41:55.100 in your own state.

00:41:56.900 How big a deal is that?

00:42:00.020 I feel like that's not really much of a case, honestly.

00:42:04.680 And don't worry about my opinion,

00:42:06.640 because my opinion is not going to influence the outcome.

00:42:09.340 I feel as if the courts would once again say,

00:42:13.280 yeah, we see your point, Texas.

00:42:15.840 Yeah, you've proven it factually.

00:42:19.300 Yeah, it's important to have equal protection.

00:42:21.800 And yes, you've proven that it didn't occur.

00:42:27.220 But I think they're going to say

00:42:28.760 it's too small of an infraction.

00:42:32.260 I think they're going to say,

00:42:33.520 yeah, it was imperfect,

00:42:34.780 but every election is imperfect.

00:42:37.180 And by the way,

00:42:38.500 you can't make it equal for everybody all the time.

00:42:42.260 Somebody says, you're wrong, Scott.

00:42:43.840 I could be wrong.

00:42:44.900 Certainly I wouldn't listen to my opinion

00:42:46.600 on the Supreme Court,

00:42:47.600 but I wanted to put that down as my prediction,

00:42:50.800 because it's good for you

00:42:52.220 to compare my predictions to reality.

00:42:56.480 And I also think,

00:42:59.320 wouldn't even a perfect election,

00:43:02.880 if you did everything right,

00:43:05.280 wouldn't it still be incredibly unequal?

00:43:08.900 Because is it fair to somebody who doesn't read well?

00:43:12.880 Is it fair to somebody who only watches CNN

00:43:15.240 and therefore doesn't see the news?

00:43:17.560 Is it fair to somebody who's smart?

00:43:21.120 Versus somebody who's not smart enough

00:43:23.960 to understand the issues?

00:43:26.260 I feel as if you can't get equal protection.

00:43:30.120 So I think the court would say,

00:43:31.500 yeah, it's too small.

00:43:33.440 All right.

00:43:35.000 I found a new way to reply to straw man arguments.

00:43:39.740 You know, the straw man argument

00:43:40.860 is where I'll say something like,

00:43:43.880 I believe, in my opinion,

00:43:45.260 the sky is blue.

00:43:47.480 And then my critic will come in and say,

00:43:50.080 Scott says the sky is orange. 1.00

00:43:53.100 Stupid idiot. 1.00

00:43:54.640 He should check his sources. 1.00

00:43:56.680 Now, that would be a straw man,

00:43:58.360 because I never said the sky was orange.

00:44:00.180 In fact, I said very different.

00:44:02.460 I said the sky is blue.

00:44:04.040 But people rarely argue with me

00:44:06.240 about what I've actually claimed.

00:44:08.320 It's actually pretty rare.

00:44:09.280 People always argue with me

00:44:11.880 about some weird hallucination

00:44:14.040 that they've made up in their own head

00:44:15.680 that they think is my opinion, 0.99

00:44:17.400 and how dumb is that? 0.98

00:44:18.840 So I was dealing with one of those people today, 0.98

00:44:21.200 and I came up with a witty rejoinder

00:44:23.920 that I'd like to recommend to you.

00:44:27.540 Feel free to borrow this

00:44:29.100 and use it online.

00:44:31.380 All right?

00:44:31.740 So after somebody misrepresents your opinion,

00:44:35.020 you can say this.

00:44:36.620 I don't think you could find my point 1.00

00:44:39.500 if it were stapled to your balls. 0.99

00:44:43.880 And then kind of leave it there. 0.99

00:44:45.940 I wouldn't do a follow-up on that.

00:44:48.180 You couldn't find my point 1.00

00:44:49.640 if it were stapled to your balls. 1.00

00:44:52.340 Doesn't work as well if your critic is female. 1.00

00:44:55.160 But most critics are male,

00:44:56.900 so it should work most of the time.

00:44:58.980 Feel free to use that.

00:44:59.840 I ran a Twitter poll,

00:45:03.720 which, as you know, are not scientific,

00:45:06.560 but they can be fun.

00:45:08.900 And I said,

00:45:10.100 which of these three groups

00:45:11.380 is responsible for the most systemic racism?

00:45:15.260 So emphasis on the systemic part.

00:45:18.240 In 2020.

00:45:19.520 So which of these groups

00:45:20.380 is most responsible for systemic racism in 2020?

00:45:23.120 And I listed these three groups,

00:45:25.480 the KKK,

00:45:26.760 neo-Nazis,

00:45:28.280 and teachers' unions.

00:45:30.660 Now, of course,

00:45:31.500 my followers tend to skew right.

00:45:35.180 2% of them said the KKK.

00:45:38.060 3.4% of them said neo-Nazis

00:45:40.740 are responsible for the most systemic racism.

00:45:44.480 And 95% of the respondents

00:45:46.880 said the teachers' unions.

00:45:49.080 Now,

00:45:52.480 I think we're at a point

00:45:56.280 where at least the people on the right

00:45:58.540 understand how bad the teachers' unions are

00:46:02.080 for society and civilization.

00:46:04.440 That's a pretty big number.

00:46:06.380 Now, again, it's not scientific

00:46:07.600 or even close to it,

00:46:09.480 but I feel as if even Democrats

00:46:12.980 might come to the same conclusion.

00:46:16.400 I don't know how many Democrats answered this.

00:46:18.340 Probably not many.

00:46:19.560 But I'm not sure they would disagree

00:46:21.240 with it too much

00:46:22.280 if they understood the issue.

00:46:25.640 If they understood the issue

00:46:27.320 as the teachers' unions

00:46:29.400 deny the opportunity

00:46:31.600 for competition with schools,

00:46:34.620 and if you don't have free choice

00:46:36.040 and competition among schools,

00:46:38.320 the bad schools will stay bad

00:46:40.200 because they have no competition.

00:46:42.060 They can just stay bad. 0.99

00:46:43.760 So black people living in places 1.00

00:46:47.020 where there are bad schools 0.99

00:46:48.300 are absolutely the victims

00:46:50.960 of systemic racism

00:46:52.600 because the system

00:46:54.260 is not allowing them

00:46:57.160 to have the same kind of opportunities

00:46:59.440 as other people.

00:47:00.240 So that's systemic racism.

00:47:02.440 Now, is that a legacy from slavery?

00:47:05.360 I'd say yes.

00:47:06.900 I'd say yes.

00:47:08.000 I mean, you could say

00:47:08.700 lots of other variables,

00:47:09.940 but I think that's fair

00:47:12.100 to say that the teachers' unions

00:47:14.020 are systemic racism

00:47:16.100 and the biggest part.

00:47:18.380 I would say that they're not just

00:47:20.000 fitting into the category.

00:47:23.000 They're most of the category.

00:47:25.660 I'd say 80% of systemic racism

00:47:28.960 is directly the teachers' unions,

00:47:31.000 even if it plays out in other ways.

00:47:33.460 And the point is

00:47:34.900 that if the teachers' unions

00:47:36.320 were not there,

00:47:38.220 and if you had free choice,

00:47:40.100 you would eventually get to the point

00:47:41.500 through competition

00:47:42.940 where everybody would have

00:47:44.380 a better school opportunity.

00:47:46.960 And I'll tell you, 0.99

00:47:47.980 if you're black in America

00:47:49.480 and you've got a great education,

00:47:52.400 there's still racism.

00:47:54.300 You know, it's one of those things

00:47:55.720 that you can't completely

00:47:56.640 get away with. 0.70

00:47:58.000 But you're going to have 0.99

00:47:59.320 a damn good life 1.00

00:48:00.460 if you're black in America 1.00

00:48:02.660 with a strong education, 0.99

00:48:04.940 you're not going to

00:48:06.500 suffer economically.

00:48:08.720 I mean, all other things

00:48:10.480 being equal.

00:48:12.700 So at least it won't hurt you

00:48:14.620 as much, the racism,

00:48:16.780 if your economic situation

00:48:18.740 is doing well.

00:48:21.240 L.A. County District Attorney

00:48:23.340 George Gascon

00:48:24.820 has issued some rules

00:48:26.780 to end civilization

00:48:28.540 as we know it.

00:48:30.460 Does that sound like

00:48:31.220 an exaggeration?

00:48:33.100 Could a district attorney

00:48:34.520 in L.A.

00:48:35.880 end civilization

00:48:37.520 with a rule change?

00:48:40.760 Well, I think he is.

00:48:42.820 Here's the rule change.

00:48:44.580 They're not going to prosecute

00:48:46.600 the following crimes.

00:48:49.560 Trespassing,

00:48:50.760 disturbing the peace,

00:48:52.480 driving without a license,

00:48:55.040 prostitution,

00:48:55.820 and resisting arrest.

00:49:01.180 It's that last one

00:49:02.380 that's the big problem.

00:49:05.160 I don't mind

00:49:06.140 if they get a little,

00:49:07.400 if they go easy

00:49:08.300 on prostitution,

00:49:09.840 driving without a license.

00:49:11.820 You know,

00:49:12.120 maybe those just

00:49:12.900 should be fines

00:49:13.940 or something,

00:49:14.560 whatever.

00:49:16.620 But

00:49:16.960 trespassing

00:49:18.900 seems like a pretty big one.

00:49:20.220 I mean,

00:49:22.400 if somebody

00:49:22.860 just walks through

00:49:23.620 your open door,

00:49:24.500 if you forget

00:49:25.020 to lock your door,

00:49:25.900 can somebody

00:49:26.320 just come into your house

00:49:27.240 and just hang out

00:49:28.920 in your house

00:49:29.300 for a while?

00:49:30.820 I don't know,

00:49:31.360 that seems like a problem.

00:49:32.700 But resisting arrest

00:49:33.880 is the end

00:49:34.900 of civilization.

00:49:36.700 And once I heard

00:49:37.800 that you could

00:49:39.100 resist arrest

00:49:39.940 in L.A.,

00:49:40.660 I thought,

00:49:41.700 I could make

00:49:42.480 a lot more money

00:49:43.340 as a criminal

00:49:43.980 in L.A.

00:49:44.700 because I would

00:49:46.000 just resist arrest.

00:49:47.760 And how long

00:49:48.700 could I resist arrest

00:49:50.000 and get away with it

00:49:52.580 if you're not

00:49:53.320 going to prosecute it?

00:49:54.720 It's like,

00:49:55.720 stop,

00:49:56.480 you're under arrest.

00:49:58.260 Nice try.

00:49:59.860 That's 2019 talking.

00:50:02.060 Watch me go.

00:50:03.860 Bye.

00:50:05.420 Big bag of jewels.

00:50:06.940 I just stole these jewels

00:50:08.440 from that house

00:50:09.900 over there.

00:50:10.840 Yeah,

00:50:11.060 I know I'm under arrest.

00:50:13.280 Bye.

00:50:13.800 Ba-da-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.

00:50:16.240 Hey,

00:50:16.900 do you know

00:50:17.460 any other houses

00:50:18.660 that I could rob?

00:50:21.180 Because I'm,

00:50:21.740 you know,

00:50:21.940 I'd like to fill up my bag.

00:50:23.360 It's only half filled

00:50:24.180 with jewels.

00:50:25.600 Maybe,

00:50:26.120 how about this?

00:50:26.780 I'll be over there.

00:50:28.440 I'll be robbing

00:50:29.260 the other mansion.

00:50:31.680 I know you'll be

00:50:32.740 waiting for me out front.

00:50:34.560 I'll see you out front

00:50:35.720 when I'm done.

00:50:36.780 Ba-da-da-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.

00:50:39.160 Stuff and stuff

00:50:39.920 in my bag.

00:50:41.020 Two bags full of jewels

00:50:42.340 and iPods.

00:50:43.800 Stuff and stuff.

00:50:45.360 And all the police

00:50:46.440 are waiting for me

00:50:47.200 on the lawn.

00:50:47.840 They got the guns out

00:50:48.680 and they're saying,

00:50:49.280 stop,

00:50:49.980 you're under arrest.

00:50:51.340 I'd be like,

00:50:52.160 I know.

00:50:53.340 Ha-ha-ha-ha.

00:50:54.860 I'm under arrest.

00:50:56.960 Watch this.

00:50:58.340 Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. 0.78

00:51:01.700 And they say,

00:51:02.760 stop,

00:51:03.440 or we'll, 0.99

00:51:04.880 we can't shoot you. 0.99

00:51:07.120 Stop, 0.99

00:51:07.680 or we'll keep yelling at you.

00:51:09.620 And I'll say,

00:51:10.260 I know.

00:51:11.260 I know.

00:51:12.440 This is the greatest country

00:51:14.140 in the world.

00:51:15.860 Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. 0.78

00:51:17.960 With my bag of jewels.

00:51:20.320 So,

00:51:21.240 I feel as if

00:51:23.680 staying where I am

00:51:25.520 in Northern California

00:51:26.660 and continuing to be a cartoonist 0.96

00:51:29.260 is kind of a sucker's play.

00:51:31.760 Because I'm working all day 0.95

00:51:33.660 to get money.

00:51:35.320 I mean,

00:51:35.780 it's a good job,

00:51:37.360 sure.

00:51:38.140 But I still have to work.

00:51:39.980 I would rather just go into

00:51:41.500 people's houses and businesses

00:51:43.040 and just take what I want.

00:51:44.840 Because that's the new model,

00:51:46.700 according to the district,

00:51:48.300 district DA in LA.

00:51:51.700 All right.

00:51:52.660 So,

00:51:53.300 we got that.

00:51:55.080 The CEO of Goya Foods,

00:51:57.780 who,

00:51:58.180 as you know,

00:51:58.760 at one point,

00:52:00.180 AOC called for a boycott

00:52:01.840 of his products.

00:52:04.160 And apparently,

00:52:04.700 what happens when

00:52:05.440 AOC calls for a boycott

00:52:07.120 of your products

00:52:07.960 is that sales go way up.

00:52:11.180 The conservatives band together.

00:52:13.180 I bought some.

00:52:14.480 You know,

00:52:14.740 I've never bought this product

00:52:16.760 in my life,

00:52:17.480 but I went out

00:52:18.720 and bought some

00:52:19.300 just because AOC

00:52:20.700 said to boycott it.

00:52:22.580 And they said,

00:52:23.400 our sales jumped,

00:52:24.460 so we named AOC

00:52:26.000 the employee of the month.

00:52:28.760 Let me say that again.

00:52:31.980 The CEO of Goya Foods,

00:52:34.120 who has visited

00:52:34.940 with presidents,

00:52:36.160 Democrat,

00:52:36.740 and Republican.

00:52:37.720 He's just sort of a person

00:52:39.440 that people like to talk to,

00:52:40.640 I guess.

00:52:41.440 He must be kind of awesome.

00:52:43.920 He talked to President Trump.

00:52:45.760 He's talked to Obama

00:52:46.820 and other presidents.

00:52:48.220 But because he talked to Trump,

00:52:49.760 AOC called for a boycott.

00:52:51.240 and conservatives rallied around him

00:52:54.300 and his sales went up so much

00:52:56.580 that they named AOC

00:52:58.960 employee of the month.

00:53:03.000 Slow clap.

00:53:04.560 Anybody?

00:53:05.640 Will you join me

00:53:06.760 in a slow clap

00:53:08.680 for the CEO of Goya Foods,

00:53:12.480 whose name I didn't write down,

00:53:14.020 but he's awesome.

00:53:14.680 Good job.

00:53:23.980 I feel as if this is a model

00:53:25.700 for the future

00:53:26.480 to kill all these boycotts. 0.96

00:53:29.820 Can't we do this every time? 0.99

00:53:32.700 Can't we have a list

00:53:33.860 of who they're boycotting

00:53:35.020 so we can go out

00:53:36.020 and go buy their product?

00:53:38.480 I'll do it.

00:53:39.920 I mean,

00:53:40.160 I'll buy every product

00:53:42.080 that gets boycotted by AOC.

00:53:44.740 Period.

00:53:45.440 I don't even need it.

00:53:46.860 You know,

00:53:47.020 I got a lot of extra cash.

00:53:48.720 I didn't need these Goya 1.00

00:53:50.160 whatever beans.

00:53:52.340 I bought those.

00:53:54.680 I'll buy some Goya beans

00:53:56.400 if it happens again.

00:53:59.460 All right,

00:53:59.960 my last story,

00:54:01.220 terribly important.

00:54:03.860 Apple Computer

00:54:04.820 has come out

00:54:05.400 with a new product,

00:54:06.620 over-the-ear AirPods,

00:54:09.820 I guess they call them.

00:54:10.500 So they're wireless,

00:54:11.300 wireless over-the-ear

00:54:12.860 headphones,

00:54:14.660 just in time for Christmas,

00:54:16.400 and what do you think

00:54:17.080 they priced them at?

00:54:19.160 How much would you pay

00:54:20.700 for Apple

00:54:22.740 over-the-ear headphones?

00:54:25.860 How about

00:54:27.100 $549

00:54:29.460 before tax?

00:54:34.520 $549

00:54:35.120 before tax.

00:54:37.900 And here's the reason

00:54:39.760 I brought this up. 1.00

00:54:42.220 I hate you, 0.89

00:54:44.600 Apple Computer, 0.95

00:54:45.540 in a good way.

00:54:46.640 I'm kidding

00:54:47.360 when I say this. 1.00

00:54:48.700 I hate you. 1.00

00:54:50.300 And here's why 1.00

00:54:51.080 I hate you. 0.99

00:54:52.460 I don't want 0.99

00:54:53.540 this product,

00:54:55.300 but you made me

00:54:57.940 want it.

00:54:59.880 Stop that.

00:55:01.780 What kind of 1.00

00:55:02.540 stupid magic 1.00

00:55:03.440 is this? 1.00

00:55:04.120 I don't need this.

00:55:05.960 It's not a product

00:55:06.820 I need.

00:55:07.700 It's not one I want.

00:55:09.040 I really love

00:55:09.940 the regular

00:55:11.120 Air Bud things.

00:55:12.660 I'm hooked on these.

00:55:13.600 These are one of the best

00:55:14.560 products ever made.

00:55:16.960 I mean,

00:55:17.220 these are

00:55:17.920 seriously,

00:55:19.560 seriously

00:55:20.000 good

00:55:20.760 American

00:55:21.940 product

00:55:24.240 making

00:55:24.680 right there.

00:55:26.280 But I don't really

00:55:27.720 need an

00:55:28.140 over-the-ear

00:55:28.980 kind,

00:55:30.000 but

00:55:30.220 they inspire it.

00:55:31.960 Apple in their

00:55:33.300 marketing.

00:55:34.480 They inspire

00:55:35.260 an irrational

00:55:36.400 product

00:55:37.380 lust

00:55:38.140 that you can

00:55:39.660 just feel.

00:55:41.480 Right?

00:55:42.120 You can just

00:55:42.880 feel it.

00:55:44.020 And I know

00:55:45.280 I'm going to

00:55:45.860 resist this

00:55:46.760 product as long

00:55:47.620 as possible, 0.98

00:55:48.740 but damn it, 0.98

00:55:50.280 I want one. 0.99

00:55:52.120 I want it.

00:55:53.600 I've never even

00:55:54.560 seen them in person.

00:55:56.080 I have no use

00:55:56.980 for it.

00:55:57.880 Seems way

00:55:58.680 overpriced.

00:55:59.640 But why did

00:56:00.420 they make me

00:56:00.960 want this thing?

00:56:01.760 How did

00:56:02.220 they do

00:56:02.560 that?

00:56:03.520 How did

00:56:03.980 they make

00:56:04.320 you want

00:56:04.760 something you

00:56:05.280 don't want?

00:56:07.800 You know,

00:56:08.440 here's a little

00:56:09.160 thing which

00:56:09.860 you might

00:56:11.020 not know

00:56:11.420 about.

00:56:12.200 So those

00:56:13.320 of you

00:56:13.620 who waited,

00:56:15.000 you get

00:56:15.380 this little

00:56:15.940 Easter egg

00:56:16.680 here.

00:56:18.420 Did you

00:56:19.160 know that

00:56:20.240 when Eisenhower

00:56:21.240 was president,

00:56:22.460 he quite

00:56:23.040 wisely

00:56:23.700 realized that

00:56:24.880 the military

00:56:25.940 protection of

00:56:27.160 the country

00:56:27.640 was very

00:56:29.520 related to

00:56:30.340 the economy?

00:56:31.760 And in

00:56:33.040 the 50s,

00:56:33.980 people had

00:56:34.560 learned to

00:56:35.100 be not

00:56:35.760 very

00:56:36.160 consumerish.

00:56:38.140 You know,

00:56:38.500 some of them

00:56:39.720 had gone

00:56:40.020 through the

00:56:40.500 Depression,

00:56:41.720 they'd lived

00:56:42.300 through a war

00:56:43.040 with rationing,

00:56:44.260 and it really

00:56:44.940 wasn't a big

00:56:45.600 deal to

00:56:46.940 keep up with

00:56:48.040 the neighbors

00:56:48.460 and buy

00:56:48.960 gadgets and

00:56:49.760 products and

00:56:50.480 stuff.

00:56:51.160 And it was

00:56:51.800 Eisenhower who

00:56:52.600 said,

00:56:53.140 we need to

00:56:54.140 become a

00:56:54.620 country that

00:56:55.140 consumes a lot

00:56:56.160 because that

00:56:56.960 will drive our

00:56:57.680 economy,

00:56:58.160 that will

00:56:58.880 make us a

00:56:59.400 strong country

00:57:00.080 and will

00:57:00.920 make our

00:57:01.260 defense better.

00:57:02.480 So Eisenhower 0.64

00:57:03.220 was a pretty

00:57:04.060 smart dude,

00:57:06.180 as it turns

00:57:06.820 out,

00:57:07.180 with whatever

00:57:07.900 advisors,

00:57:08.800 and he realized

00:57:09.500 that he had to

00:57:09.980 change the

00:57:10.500 psychology of

00:57:11.440 the country

00:57:11.860 from,

00:57:13.100 I don't need

00:57:13.520 that,

00:57:14.240 I already

00:57:14.640 have an

00:57:14.960 old one,

00:57:15.500 why would I

00:57:16.040 need a new

00:57:16.620 whatever?

00:57:17.540 If I have

00:57:17.980 an old

00:57:18.300 whatever and

00:57:18.840 it's working

00:57:19.260 just fine,

00:57:20.360 if it ain't

00:57:20.760 broken,

00:57:21.320 don't replace

00:57:21.980 it.

00:57:22.600 And he

00:57:23.060 changed that

00:57:23.820 to a

00:57:25.200 psychology

00:57:26.000 of lust.

00:57:27.620 Now,

00:57:27.960 Eisenhower

00:57:28.400 didn't do

00:57:28.820 it himself.

00:57:30.160 He hired

00:57:30.760 experts in

00:57:32.440 the, let's

00:57:33.140 say,

00:57:33.380 the advertising

00:57:34.060 and persuasion

00:57:35.060 field to

00:57:36.500 make the

00:57:37.080 citizens think

00:57:37.880 they had to

00:57:38.480 have this

00:57:38.880 stuff.

00:57:39.820 So this

00:57:40.320 lust I was

00:57:41.360 talking about

00:57:41.900 for these

00:57:42.300 Apple headphones

00:57:43.200 is sort of

00:57:44.260 the historical

00:57:45.680 legacy of a

00:57:47.820 country that's

00:57:48.500 been programmed

00:57:49.180 to want

00:57:49.960 things it

00:57:50.500 doesn't need.

00:57:52.180 So our

00:57:52.920 whole psychology

00:57:54.100 has, yeah,

00:57:55.680 Bernays, that's

00:57:56.960 the name of

00:57:57.580 Edward Bernays

00:57:58.560 if you're going

00:57:58.960 to look it

00:57:59.240 up, Bernays,

00:58:00.540 B-E-R-N-A-Y-S 1.00

00:58:03.160 I think is the

00:58:03.780 spelling.

00:58:04.520 So look him

00:58:05.060 up.

00:58:05.540 So he was

00:58:05.980 the guy who

00:58:06.800 figured out

00:58:07.220 how to

00:58:07.540 manipulate

00:58:08.000 humans,

00:58:09.020 making

00:58:09.280 commercials,

00:58:10.200 make us

00:58:10.520 want things,

00:58:11.840 until we

00:58:12.680 became a

00:58:13.160 massive

00:58:13.680 consumer

00:58:14.340 country.

00:58:15.360 And that

00:58:15.760 worked.

00:58:17.440 Totally

00:58:17.920 worked.

00:58:18.840 We became

00:58:19.340 a consumer

00:58:19.880 country, we

00:58:20.600 became the

00:58:21.000 strongest

00:58:21.300 country in

00:58:21.960 the world,

00:58:22.300 world, and

00:58:23.100 we were

00:58:23.540 brainwashed

00:58:24.340 into that.

00:58:25.960 So watching

00:58:26.760 that process,

00:58:28.280 you realize

00:58:28.800 that the

00:58:30.480 psychology of

00:58:31.280 the public

00:58:31.760 is probably

00:58:33.880 the most

00:58:34.240 critical part

00:58:35.500 of the

00:58:37.980 engine.

00:58:39.140 And he

00:58:39.360 got the

00:58:39.740 psychology

00:58:40.320 right, and

00:58:41.400 that lasted

00:58:41.900 for a long

00:58:42.540 time.

00:58:43.340 What we're

00:58:43.800 watching now,

00:58:45.180 in politics

00:58:46.260 and in the

00:58:46.920 country, is

00:58:48.020 the destruction

00:58:49.540 of our

00:58:50.800 psychological

00:58:51.680 engine.

00:58:53.300 The thing

00:58:53.880 that we

00:58:55.080 all agreed

00:58:56.120 on, even

00:58:57.520 if it was

00:58:57.940 irrational, we

00:58:58.780 agreed on it.

00:58:59.660 We agreed, we

00:59:00.840 want to buy

00:59:01.300 stuff for

00:59:01.720 Christmas.

00:59:03.180 It's

00:59:03.640 irrational,

00:59:04.820 mostly, but

00:59:06.140 as long as we

00:59:06.960 agree with it,

00:59:07.640 it becomes a

00:59:08.260 psychological

00:59:08.800 structure.

00:59:10.700 And that's

00:59:11.360 sort of falling

00:59:11.920 apart now.

00:59:12.480 But, will

00:59:16.140 it be

00:59:16.500 replaced with

00:59:17.440 something

00:59:17.960 worse?

00:59:19.860 Or will

00:59:20.640 it be

00:59:20.860 replaced with

00:59:21.480 something

00:59:21.760 better?

00:59:22.540 My guess

00:59:23.120 is that

00:59:23.580 because we

00:59:24.020 have sufficient

00:59:24.680 freedom and

00:59:26.360 market competition

00:59:27.860 and lots of

00:59:28.580 brilliant people,

00:59:29.980 that it's far

00:59:30.860 more likely

00:59:31.560 that whether

00:59:32.940 you want to

00:59:33.380 call it a

00:59:33.780 great reset,

00:59:34.860 I don't buy

00:59:35.800 into that

00:59:36.280 framing, but

00:59:37.620 certainly there

00:59:38.220 are going to

00:59:38.420 be a lot of

00:59:38.840 changes.

00:59:39.700 We will be

00:59:40.980 going through

00:59:41.440 a period

00:59:41.960 of

00:59:43.200 phenomenal

00:59:44.280 change.

00:59:46.340 And I

00:59:47.820 feel as

00:59:48.340 though we're

00:59:49.960 up to it.

00:59:51.040 I feel like

00:59:51.480 we're up to

00:59:51.880 the challenge.

00:59:53.180 I feel as

00:59:53.900 if, like

00:59:55.260 any good

00:59:55.740 company, and

00:59:57.040 if you're not

00:59:57.920 familiar with

00:59:58.600 business strategy,

00:59:59.740 this isn't so

01:00:00.360 obvious, but if

01:00:01.440 you're a company

01:00:01.960 that makes a

01:00:02.560 product and

01:00:03.820 it works

01:00:04.500 really well,

01:00:05.540 you still have

01:00:06.500 to make a

01:00:06.940 product that

01:00:07.500 kills your

01:00:08.040 old product

01:00:08.740 because somebody

01:00:10.020 else will.

01:00:11.040 So you have

01:00:11.480 to be

01:00:11.760 constantly

01:00:12.400 eating your

01:00:14.620 own products

01:00:16.840 and destroying

01:00:17.660 yourself as 0.94

01:00:19.660 the process

01:00:20.780 of growth.

01:00:21.700 You have to

01:00:22.160 destroy to

01:00:22.900 rebuild.

01:00:24.000 And we're

01:00:24.600 going to go

01:00:24.900 through the

01:00:25.240 most massive

01:00:26.100 psychological

01:00:27.060 destruction

01:00:28.220 maybe in

01:00:30.300 our history.

01:00:31.800 So when

01:00:32.360 Eisenhower built

01:00:33.460 this thing,

01:00:34.400 which is this

01:00:35.240 consumer economy,

01:00:36.900 it wasn't

01:00:37.880 replacing much

01:00:39.080 of anything.

01:00:39.760 It was

01:00:40.120 replacing people

01:00:41.020 not caring.

01:00:42.480 But now we've

01:00:43.180 got a thing.

01:00:44.760 Once it's

01:00:45.340 created, now it

01:00:46.240 exists.

01:00:46.900 You have to

01:00:47.340 destroy that 0.85

01:00:48.140 thing to

01:00:49.340 make space

01:00:50.020 for whatever

01:00:50.520 is a new

01:00:51.060 thing.

01:00:51.700 I believe

01:00:52.300 that we are

01:00:52.820 smart enough

01:00:53.600 to do that

01:00:55.560 well in a

01:00:57.440 thousand different

01:00:58.420 ways.

01:00:59.360 Invention,

01:01:00.320 A-B testing,

01:01:01.880 rapid communication.

01:01:03.220 I think we

01:01:03.920 have all the

01:01:04.420 tools and

01:01:05.000 the skills and

01:01:05.680 the ability

01:01:06.120 that maybe

01:01:07.420 it's time to

01:01:07.980 just push the

01:01:10.180 flush handle on

01:01:11.840 the old way of

01:01:12.580 thinking, on a

01:01:13.700 lot of stuff, and

01:01:15.080 just make a lot

01:01:15.960 of our old

01:01:16.420 assumptions go

01:01:17.240 away, even

01:01:18.240 basic stuff.

01:01:20.280 I've said that

01:01:21.180 the consumer

01:01:22.060 impulse and the

01:01:23.700 free market is

01:01:25.500 unsustainable at

01:01:27.160 this point.

01:01:28.020 We need to have

01:01:29.000 some kind of a

01:01:29.680 separate life for

01:01:31.440 people who just

01:01:32.320 are not going to

01:01:32.860 be on that

01:01:33.420 train, who

01:01:34.440 still need to

01:01:35.040 buy food, still

01:01:36.040 need to raise

01:01:37.100 kids, still

01:01:37.700 need to have a

01:01:38.240 life.

01:01:38.940 There needs to

01:01:39.440 be something that

01:01:40.100 isn't as

01:01:40.800 expensive as

01:01:42.900 the normal way

01:01:43.600 we do it, maybe

01:01:44.300 as an alternate

01:01:44.900 thing, etc.

01:01:46.080 So I would say

01:01:47.040 the future

01:01:47.960 probably is going

01:01:49.380 to be a UBI.

01:01:51.120 I think Yang

01:01:52.440 was way ahead of

01:01:53.340 the curve on

01:01:54.000 that.

01:01:54.640 I think there

01:01:55.080 will be UBI.

01:01:57.820 I don't know if

01:01:58.680 there will be

01:01:58.940 restaurants in the

01:01:59.720 future.

01:02:00.960 Think about the

01:02:01.800 fact that

01:02:02.740 restaurants are

01:02:04.400 such a big

01:02:05.060 part of the

01:02:06.980 experience of

01:02:07.860 at least people

01:02:08.400 who have a

01:02:08.860 certain amount

01:02:09.340 of income.

01:02:10.480 And that

01:02:10.780 restaurants closed

01:02:12.560 and you didn't

01:02:14.300 really die. 0.84

01:02:16.180 It turns out that

01:02:17.260 going to

01:02:17.760 restaurants is

01:02:18.420 this sort of

01:02:19.620 weird artificial

01:02:20.700 business that

01:02:23.020 built up and

01:02:23.760 became massive,

01:02:24.880 but we didn't

01:02:25.840 really need it.

01:02:27.440 We liked it,

01:02:28.800 didn't really

01:02:29.300 need it.

01:02:29.740 I would not

01:02:31.140 be surprised if

01:02:32.000 restaurants just

01:02:32.840 go away. 0.82

01:02:34.100 Now one of the

01:02:34.500 reasons I got out

01:02:35.260 of the restaurant

01:02:35.780 business, besides

01:02:36.560 the fact that it

01:02:37.200 wasn't making

01:02:37.700 money, was that it

01:02:39.080 didn't look like it

01:02:39.720 ever could make

01:02:40.440 money.

01:02:41.780 The restaurant

01:02:42.580 business, when I

01:02:43.680 exited it, looked

01:02:45.060 like a business that

01:02:46.080 couldn't be a

01:02:47.020 business in the

01:02:47.700 future.

01:02:48.660 There might be a

01:02:49.600 few mega chains,

01:02:51.560 like cheesecake

01:02:52.320 factories or

01:02:53.100 whatever, but it

01:02:54.000 was obvious that the

01:02:54.900 independent restaurant

01:02:56.100 business didn't have

01:02:57.600 any future.

01:02:58.580 It couldn't

01:02:58.900 possibly work.

01:03:00.240 And I think

01:03:00.660 there's a really

01:03:03.340 big red pill out

01:03:04.580 there that I

01:03:06.440 didn't want to be

01:03:07.060 the first one to

01:03:07.860 tell you about, but

01:03:09.440 I feel like it's

01:03:10.180 about time.

01:03:12.000 The restaurant

01:03:12.900 business is not

01:03:14.460 good for the

01:03:15.140 economy.

01:03:16.920 I don't think it's

01:03:17.920 that good for the

01:03:18.680 economy.

01:03:19.340 Now that's an

01:03:19.860 exaggeration.

01:03:21.000 So anything that

01:03:21.680 creates economic

01:03:22.480 activity is probably

01:03:23.380 good.

01:03:24.100 But restaurants

01:03:24.880 tend to barely

01:03:26.360 survive.

01:03:27.220 You know, it's

01:03:28.900 just the, it's

01:03:30.780 your low-income

01:03:31.740 jobs, and they're

01:03:33.380 barely making a

01:03:34.340 profit.

01:03:35.120 Most of them are

01:03:35.980 cheating on their

01:03:36.620 taxes.

01:03:38.340 They're supported by

01:03:39.820 some other entity.

01:03:41.780 If you look in my

01:03:42.680 town, the most

01:03:43.980 successful restaurant,

01:03:45.220 and probably the one

01:03:46.180 of the few that will

01:03:47.000 survive this pandemic,

01:03:48.900 it's only because he

01:03:50.240 owns the real estate.

01:03:51.240 So the guy who owns

01:03:53.620 the restaurant is

01:03:55.560 lucky enough to own

01:03:56.540 the building it's in so

01:03:57.660 he doesn't have to pay

01:03:58.480 rent to an evil

01:03:59.420 landlord.

01:04:00.380 He's owned it a long

01:04:01.220 time, it's probably

01:04:01.880 paid off.

01:04:02.960 So the restaurants that

01:04:04.040 can succeed in the

01:04:05.060 future will be special

01:04:06.460 cases, like that one,

01:04:09.100 where he just happens

01:04:09.900 to own the building,

01:04:10.980 so his cost structure is

01:04:12.760 different than

01:04:13.240 everybody else's.

01:04:14.300 But short of that,

01:04:16.100 the days where you can

01:04:17.220 be an independent

01:04:18.880 operator, rent a

01:04:21.100 space, don't own the

01:04:22.320 building, put in your

01:04:23.800 restaurant and make a

01:04:24.700 lot of money, it just

01:04:25.380 doesn't exist.

01:04:26.760 And I would argue that

01:04:28.300 the restaurant industry

01:04:29.380 was going to be gone

01:04:31.420 in maybe 10 to 20

01:04:34.900 years, and this

01:04:36.460 accelerated it.

01:04:37.640 This is something that

01:04:38.800 Naval Ravikant said

01:04:40.980 before I heard anybody

01:04:42.140 else say it, that the

01:04:44.240 pandemic would simply

01:04:45.340 accelerate things that

01:04:46.620 were going to happen

01:04:47.160 anyway.

01:04:47.500 So if you're looking

01:04:48.880 at how can we rescue

01:04:50.280 the restaurant business,

01:04:52.420 you know, having been

01:04:53.360 in the business, I have

01:04:54.360 the maximum empathy

01:04:55.780 for everybody involved,

01:04:57.680 especially the

01:04:58.300 employees, but the

01:05:00.140 truth is, I don't

01:05:02.240 know that it can be

01:05:03.100 rescued.

01:05:04.500 The truth is, I think

01:05:05.780 the future is no

01:05:06.800 restaurants of the

01:05:08.460 independent kind.

01:05:11.200 I imagine the

01:05:12.280 restaurant of the

01:05:12.900 future that would

01:05:13.580 work if it were

01:05:14.500 independent would look

01:05:15.580 like this.

01:05:16.140 It would be living

01:05:17.480 space above a

01:05:19.140 workspace, so the

01:05:20.760 restaurant owner could

01:05:21.760 live upstairs with the

01:05:22.820 family, and

01:05:24.260 downstairs would be a

01:05:25.900 robot, basically a

01:05:29.340 robot restaurant.

01:05:30.920 So robots could make

01:05:32.060 soup and salads

01:05:33.020 pretty easily because

01:05:33.820 it's just, you know,

01:05:34.480 chopping and adding

01:05:35.460 stuff.

01:05:36.340 Pretty soon robots will

01:05:37.780 be able to make a

01:05:39.020 sandwich, some can

01:05:40.400 already do that, cook a 0.54

01:05:42.160 steak, etc., better than

01:05:43.360 a human.

01:05:43.640 So I would imagine

01:05:45.080 that there will be

01:05:45.980 robot-serving

01:05:47.800 restaurants, and

01:05:50.020 it's just not a

01:05:52.120 business that will

01:05:52.820 ever look the same

01:05:53.780 10 years from now.

01:05:55.220 So that's all I got

01:05:56.180 for now, and I will

01:05:57.240 talk to you later.

01:06:03.260 All right, you

01:06:04.020 YouTubers. 0.92

01:06:06.160 Sorry I made you

01:06:07.060 hungry.

01:06:07.680 Is there any reason

01:06:08.540 that a robot can't

01:06:09.660 make a soup?

01:06:10.360 Doesn't it seem to

01:06:12.180 you that the most

01:06:13.920 obvious thing that

01:06:15.060 you would do is make

01:06:16.500 a soup restaurant that

01:06:19.260 just has robots in the

01:06:21.240 back, not the kind that

01:06:22.420 walk around, but, you

01:06:23.420 know, fixed robots that

01:06:26.420 are doing nothing but

01:06:27.260 cleaning and chopping

01:06:28.900 things and combining

01:06:30.760 them into a liquid,

01:06:33.180 just dropping stuff into

01:06:34.300 a liquid?

01:06:35.760 It feels like this

01:06:37.020 would just be the

01:06:37.640 most obvious first

01:06:39.120 robot restaurant would

01:06:41.820 be soup, and maybe

01:06:43.340 salad, because that's

01:06:44.260 just chopping.

01:06:47.420 That's what I think.

01:06:48.500 You have to get rid of

01:06:49.280 the employees or you're

01:06:50.280 not going to be able to

01:06:50.880 make a business out of

01:06:51.780 it in the future.

01:06:52.340 Somebody says, do I

01:06:58.060 think that directed

01:06:59.560 energy weapons are

01:07:00.540 likely to exist?

01:07:01.720 Oh, yeah, yeah.

01:07:02.920 I think they're likely

01:07:04.060 to exist.

01:07:05.200 Yeah, that is

01:07:07.060 true.

01:07:11.960 Voting machines

01:07:12.840 experts.

01:07:15.300 Okay.

01:07:17.000 What about the...

01:07:18.120 I'm seeing a lot of

01:07:19.420 comments.

01:07:19.840 I don't really even

01:07:20.640 understand the

01:07:21.300 comments, so I don't

01:07:22.280 know how to respond

01:07:22.900 to them for the

01:07:23.520 most part.

01:07:25.120 Yeah, China 0.81

01:07:25.720 fentanyl, I can't

01:07:27.500 believe we let that

01:07:28.420 go.

01:07:29.780 If I were president,

01:07:31.820 I would say, look,

01:07:33.000 here's the deal.

01:07:34.080 I'm just going to

01:07:34.620 close all of the

01:07:35.580 embassies.

01:07:36.560 We're not even going

01:07:37.300 to have a conversation

01:07:38.240 with you, China, until 0.96

01:07:40.560 you get rid of your 0.96

01:07:41.280 top fentanyl dealer

01:07:42.460 whose name we gave

01:07:43.520 you.

01:07:44.180 It's not like you

01:07:44.860 don't know where he

01:07:45.500 is.

01:07:46.920 It's not as if you

01:07:47.840 don't know his name.

01:07:49.260 It's not as if you

01:07:50.160 can't pick him up.

01:07:51.080 It's not as if you

01:07:52.340 don't know exactly

01:07:53.120 what he's doing,

01:07:53.860 because he's doing

01:07:54.380 it with the approval

01:07:56.740 of the Chinese

01:07:57.520 government, of

01:07:58.220 course.

01:07:59.500 As long as you let

01:08:00.620 that guy be free,

01:08:01.960 we should not have

01:08:02.840 any relationship with

01:08:04.160 China.

01:08:04.620 We should just cut

01:08:05.260 relations.

01:08:06.460 That should be the...

01:08:08.040 That should not be

01:08:08.920 a negotiation.

01:08:10.940 I think you've seen

01:08:11.960 Trump do this in some

01:08:13.280 cases, and it's a

01:08:14.100 good technique.

01:08:15.320 If you say that

01:08:16.360 everything is a

01:08:17.120 negotiation, people

01:08:18.280 will treat it that

01:08:19.000 way.

01:08:19.200 So if you say to

01:08:20.400 China, all right, we've

01:08:21.120 got a lot of

01:08:21.520 problems.

01:08:22.400 Let's negotiate these

01:08:23.600 all.

01:08:23.840 We've got the

01:08:24.200 fentanyl thing, and

01:08:25.240 the trade deals, and

01:08:26.340 the IP, and stuff.

01:08:27.920 If you do that, that's

01:08:29.840 just the wrong

01:08:30.380 approach.

01:08:31.380 What you should say

01:08:32.380 is we've got a bunch

01:08:33.180 of things to

01:08:33.720 negotiate, but we're

01:08:35.180 not even going to

01:08:35.860 talk to you until

01:08:37.320 you fix, stop

01:08:38.580 killing us with

01:08:39.400 fentanyl. 1.00

01:08:40.580 You can't negotiate

01:08:41.680 with somebody who's

01:08:42.740 actively killing you, 0.90

01:08:44.600 meaning your people. 1.00

01:08:45.980 You don't negotiate

01:08:46.840 with them.

01:08:47.180 In a war, maybe

01:08:48.160 you'd have to, because

01:08:49.000 that's your only

01:08:49.460 choice, but not in

01:08:51.060 this situation.

01:08:53.060 You don't negotiate

01:08:53.840 with people who are

01:08:54.600 killing you by the

01:08:55.340 tens of thousands. 1.00

01:08:56.300 That's crazy.

01:08:57.820 And by the way, let

01:08:58.980 me be as clear as

01:08:59.800 possible.

01:09:00.880 Trump failed on the

01:09:03.960 Chinese fentanyl

01:09:05.080 topic as hard as you

01:09:06.960 can fail.

01:09:08.840 He completely failed

01:09:10.180 on that.

01:09:11.180 And I'm not happy

01:09:13.340 about that.

01:09:13.760 So I would say that

01:09:15.280 would be in the top

01:09:16.180 three Trump failures

01:09:18.800 during his term is

01:09:20.060 the fentanyl thing.

01:09:22.580 I don't think Biden

01:09:23.240 will do any better,

01:09:24.120 of course, but that's

01:09:26.040 a major, that's a

01:09:27.280 really big failure,

01:09:28.480 because I think Trump

01:09:29.280 could have taken care

01:09:30.100 of that, at least by 1.00

01:09:31.480 killing that guy. 1.00

01:09:32.380 I think we should have 1.00

01:09:33.160 killed him in country 1.00

01:09:34.280 using whatever we 0.98

01:09:37.400 could.

01:09:37.680 We'd just drop a 0.94

01:09:38.480 drone on him, 0.88

01:09:39.220 whatever. 0.73

01:09:39.680 We should have 1.00

01:09:40.020 killed him. 1.00

01:09:40.800 But that was my 0.96

01:09:41.700 opinion, and that's

01:09:42.480 all for now.

01:09:43.760 Bye for now.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - December 08, 2020

Episode 1211 Scott Adams： Why Pelosi is the Worst Person on the Planet - With Extra Cursing, Election Claims, Etc.

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