Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1255 Scott Adams： I Just Woke Up, So Even I Don't Know the Topic Today

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00:00:53.180 Ah.

00:00:55.180 You know, sometimes you can't sum things up with just one word.

00:01:00.000 But sometimes you can.

00:01:02.720 Sublime.

00:01:03.160 Sublime.

00:01:03.240 Sublime.

00:01:04.320 Ah.

00:01:06.220 Well, it's so nice to have all of you here.

00:01:08.820 And I would like to begin with a story that happened some years ago.

00:01:13.440 I was doing a book tour back when...

00:01:16.200 Do you remember when people could travel and talk to other people and stuff?

00:01:21.040 Anybody remember those times?

00:01:22.660 I'm old enough to remember when you could take a trip,

00:01:26.240 mingle with other people, didn't have to wear a mask and stuff.

00:01:29.260 It's a long time ago.

00:01:30.040 So, this happened maybe over 20 years ago.

00:01:35.980 And what happened was I was doing a book tour,

00:01:37.960 and that usually requires you to travel all over the country.

00:01:41.900 You go from big bookstore to big bookstore,

00:01:44.380 and you sit there and you sign a bunch of things,

00:01:48.000 and there's a big line, and people buy your book,

00:01:50.120 and that's how it works.

00:01:51.100 So, I get to this big bookstore in Denver.

00:01:54.540 I think it's whatever is the biggest bookstore in Denver.

00:01:57.400 Really, really big operation.

00:01:59.720 And I walk in, and it's just one of the stops on the way.

00:02:03.440 And the manager of the bookstore says,

00:02:06.140 the people are really excited that you're here.

00:02:09.260 I thought, great.

00:02:10.660 Could be a good line to get a signed book.

00:02:14.420 And she says, yeah, they've been here since...

00:02:16.840 They've been here for over an hour.

00:02:18.100 They're all waiting in the big room over there.

00:02:23.320 And I started to wonder, what were they waiting for exactly?

00:02:27.840 Were they waiting for me to sign books?

00:02:30.180 Because that's why I thought I was there.

00:02:32.620 And then the manager told me, no, they were waiting for my speech.

00:02:36.420 And I said, what?

00:02:38.660 And apparently, a large number of people had gathered

00:02:41.820 with the impression that I was going to give a speech.

00:02:45.860 Well, it was the first time I heard about it.

00:02:48.100 Five minutes before the speech.

00:02:51.380 So here was my situation.

00:02:53.500 A large room full of people expecting a speech.

00:02:57.360 Me, not knowing I was going to give a speech in five minutes

00:03:02.180 to a room full of people who kind of expected

00:03:05.340 more than some thank yous and how you doing.

00:03:09.080 So, does that sound like the scariest thing you've ever heard in your life?

00:03:15.660 So I said, all right.

00:03:19.040 I walk into this room with no preparation whatsoever,

00:03:22.860 and there's this giant sea of people.

00:03:25.720 Far more people than I would have expected.

00:03:28.420 And I walk up to the lectern,

00:03:31.220 and I guess I'm giving a speech.

00:03:34.500 Now, here's the interesting part of the story.

00:03:39.160 How would you feel in that situation?

00:03:43.200 Just imagine it.

00:03:44.860 Room full of people,

00:03:46.500 and you have nothing prepared.

00:03:49.540 Absolutely nothing.

00:03:51.280 And you've got to entertain them now for,

00:03:53.260 I don't know, 45 minutes or something.

00:03:54.800 Well, luckily, my talent stack included the Dale Carnegie training.

00:04:01.760 Now, the Dale Carnegie course teaches you how to be comfortable

00:04:04.400 in exactly this situation.

00:04:06.920 And I mean exactly.

00:04:08.420 Being told to say something in front of a bunch of people,

00:04:11.800 and you hadn't prepared.

00:04:13.740 And so, unlike maybe anybody else in that room,

00:04:17.440 I was literally the only person trained to do that.

00:04:21.000 I actually was trained for that exact situation.

00:04:26.900 And the training is easy.

00:04:28.260 They tell you to have a story prepared

00:04:30.060 that you can tell any time,

00:04:33.200 and then that gets you going.

00:04:34.960 And then you just talk about yourself,

00:04:37.160 assuming that's why you were asked to be there, right?

00:04:39.380 Maybe if you were there for another purpose,

00:04:41.360 you would have some expertise that you talk about there.

00:04:44.340 But to get going, they say always have a story

00:04:47.080 that you could just break out at any minute.

00:04:49.040 Do you know what my story is that I break out at any minute

00:04:52.860 if I'm not prepared?

00:04:56.040 It's this one.

00:04:57.540 I tell this story when I'm not prepared.

00:05:01.100 Last night, I don't use an alarm clock.

00:05:03.780 I just wake up whenever I wake up.

00:05:06.060 Often, I wake up at 3 in the morning,

00:05:07.960 and I just start work.

00:05:10.260 More likely, you know, between 3 and 5,

00:05:12.760 I wake up naturally, and I just start work.

00:05:16.320 Today, I woke up closer to midnight.

00:05:19.600 And that's a little too early for me to start work,

00:05:23.220 you know, having 2 hours of sleep.

00:05:25.660 So I try desperately to go back to sleep,

00:05:28.420 and I hate sleep.

00:05:29.880 I just hate sleep.

00:05:31.160 But you know if you stay up too long

00:05:33.060 and you go back to sleep?

00:05:34.260 Well, that's a long way of saying

00:05:35.280 I woke up just about 5 minutes before I was ready to go live.

00:05:39.180 A little more than 5 minutes,

00:05:40.240 but totally unprepared.

00:05:41.700 The point is, always have a story.

00:05:45.920 It's the Dale Carnegie training.

00:05:47.900 Always have a story.

00:05:49.800 And then also practice embarrassing yourself

00:05:52.100 so that when you get put in that situation,

00:05:54.540 you say,

00:05:55.420 eh, it's one of these.

00:05:56.900 You just get used to it.

00:05:57.840 I have embarrassed myself in public so many times,

00:06:02.460 so many times,

00:06:04.120 that I actually don't even feel it anymore.

00:06:07.080 This would be one of those cases.

00:06:08.600 So I did make a few notes to talk about.

00:06:13.920 Here's a question for you.

00:06:15.440 You know, every once in a while,

00:06:16.280 there are things that you just take for granted

00:06:18.020 as an assumption.

00:06:20.520 And it's useful once in a while to go back and say,

00:06:24.400 hey, are my basic assumptions even right?

00:06:27.580 Just the most basic assumptions.

00:06:29.620 Here's a basic assumption.

00:06:32.240 That you're innocent until proven guilty.

00:06:35.600 Now, doesn't that feel like a pretty good rule?

00:06:37.400 It's served us well for these hundreds of years.

00:06:40.860 I wouldn't want to change it, right?

00:06:42.400 In a legal system,

00:06:44.280 that's a really good standard.

00:06:45.880 It's really served us well.

00:06:47.600 But does that standard apply to all situations?

00:06:51.740 I feel as if there is one situation

00:06:54.080 where that should maybe be reversed.

00:06:57.220 And it's election integrity.

00:07:00.480 Election integrity is the one situation

00:07:02.560 where maybe you need to prove it was fair.

00:07:06.300 You see where I'm going?

00:07:08.620 Because putting the burden on anybody

00:07:11.180 who's got a problem with the outcome

00:07:13.320 to say, okay, you got a complaint, prove it.

00:07:18.100 Well, how the hell am I going to prove anything

00:07:20.040 about the election?

00:07:21.460 I have a suspicion.

00:07:23.680 Well, you know, let's say I hypothetically,

00:07:25.940 not me personally.

00:07:27.320 I as just a hypothetical person.

00:07:29.400 Let's say I had a suspicion.

00:07:30.640 How would I check on it?

00:07:34.280 You couldn't.

00:07:35.960 One of the things we know for sure

00:07:37.620 is that the election is not sufficiently transparent

00:07:40.740 that if somebody has a problem with it,

00:07:43.260 they can just flick the switch

00:07:45.040 and say, well, take a look for yourself.

00:07:47.920 If you have any doubts about the integrity of it,

00:07:51.500 click.

00:07:52.060 Here, just take a look.

00:07:53.620 Anybody want to look?

00:07:54.540 Here's the code.

00:07:55.800 Take a look.

00:07:56.280 Anybody?

00:07:57.120 Anybody?

00:07:57.940 We'll give you all the data.

00:07:59.520 You can have it yourself.

00:08:00.520 You can have all the data we have.

00:08:02.280 If we have data, we'll give it to you.

00:08:05.000 Because I think the votes are anonymized, right?

00:08:07.640 So even the public wouldn't know who voted for who.

00:08:10.840 Is that right?

00:08:12.780 I'd do the fact check on that.

00:08:15.000 So we don't have the ability to do that at the moment.

00:08:19.140 But I think we're thinking about it upside down.

00:08:22.660 If this were a regular legal claim, then yes,

00:08:27.820 the person who's got the claim better bring the evidence.

00:08:31.740 You don't want somebody to say to you,

00:08:33.720 hey, I'm accusing you of murder.

00:08:35.860 I don't have any evidence.

00:08:38.200 You better bring evidence if you're accusing somebody of murder, right?

00:08:42.240 The system can't work any other way.

00:08:44.640 It's not up to you to defend yourself against maybe you murdered somebody.

00:08:48.440 Why don't you wake up every day and prove you didn't murder anybody, right?

00:08:52.020 That can't work.

00:08:53.960 But in this one rare, special, not like any other situation,

00:08:58.560 the election integrity,

00:09:00.320 maybe we should work toward having a button you can flick

00:09:04.560 and everybody can just look at it.

00:09:07.600 Because short of that, how will we ever trust it?

00:09:10.840 Why won't we?

00:09:11.820 Are we not just reproducing the problem we had this year

00:09:14.540 and we'll just have it next year, next year, or next election?

00:09:18.820 So I would just put that out there,

00:09:20.740 that we should question the assumption that for the election,

00:09:25.500 they should have to have the same standard as a legal case.

00:09:31.500 I think you should be upside down.

00:09:33.180 Now, we don't have the technology to do it,

00:09:35.060 so we should work toward the place where we could.

00:09:37.720 All right.

00:09:38.760 Have you noticed that Trump is, once again,

00:09:43.500 basically the only story that anybody cares about?

00:09:46.720 There's what Trump did that could get reversed.

00:09:49.640 There's what he's going to pardon.

00:09:51.280 There's his role in the Capitol attack.

00:09:55.800 It's all Trump.

00:09:57.940 What the hell are they going to talk about in a week?

00:10:01.880 Suppose he actually went away for a while,

00:10:04.400 just took some time off.

00:10:06.160 Nobody would begrudge him some time off.

00:10:08.760 What are they going to talk about?

00:10:10.760 It really is...

00:10:11.580 I'm not joking.

00:10:13.200 It's an actual business model question.

00:10:16.120 If you were going to sell stock in CNN,

00:10:20.680 that's not a thing, but if you could,

00:10:23.300 I don't know how CNN goes forward.

00:10:26.480 I don't even know how they could possibly imagine

00:10:29.800 they would be profitable in the future.

00:10:31.860 I feel like they're four weeks away

00:10:34.520 of running out of Trump stories.

00:10:36.940 And then what do you do?

00:10:37.640 I feel as if it's going to become this ghost entity

00:10:42.460 like CNN and MSNBC.

00:10:45.020 They'll become zombie news entities

00:10:47.520 where all they can talk about is

00:10:49.820 what if Trump had been president?

00:10:52.400 See, you're wrong.

00:10:53.060 It's going to be an entire imaginary news network.

00:10:56.740 You know, at least two of them.

00:10:58.540 It'll be, you know, a year from now it'll be,

00:11:00.880 but imagine if Trump had been in this situation.

00:11:04.700 The civil war he would have created.

00:11:07.660 And, but imagine if Trump had tried to negotiate this deal,

00:11:11.880 he would have just given away the country.

00:11:14.260 And imagine if Trump had done this.

00:11:16.700 It's all going to be that.

00:11:18.300 It's going to be nothing but imagine if Trump had been here.

00:11:21.440 Right?

00:11:23.700 And then there will be a whole bunch of problems

00:11:25.560 which the news will imagine Trump is the cause of

00:11:29.040 because they have the power to assign blame

00:11:31.840 even if they're the ones who caused the problem.

00:11:34.640 And they usually do.

00:11:36.200 The fake news causes most of our problems.

00:11:40.100 Imagine a world in which the fake news was real news.

00:11:43.060 The fake news, instead of being fake, would say,

00:11:47.500 let's say they're real news,

00:11:48.680 they'd say, hey, here's the biggest problem in the country.

00:11:52.640 And because we trusted them,

00:11:54.740 the left and the right would say,

00:11:56.300 huh, we hadn't seen it that way,

00:11:58.420 but that does look like that's true and credible.

00:12:00.880 You said it in the news.

00:12:02.040 It looks like you do your work

00:12:03.740 and you're not trying to be biased.

00:12:05.680 So maybe we'll work on this big problem altogether.

00:12:08.880 The news says it's a problem.

00:12:10.660 Who are we to argue?

00:12:11.520 Just imagine a world where the news didn't lie to you

00:12:15.160 about everything, at least politically, everything.

00:12:19.400 It would be a better world, right?

00:12:20.880 You'd be working on the top priorities

00:12:22.640 instead of arguing about what they were.

00:12:25.760 So it's going to be a weird world without Trump.

00:12:29.940 I saw a little piece on the internet,

00:12:33.320 a little video clip of a personal robot

00:12:35.580 that has facial recognition and it can walk.

00:12:39.840 So you've seen these robots.

00:12:42.020 You've seen all the video clips of it.

00:12:44.040 Who is it?

00:12:45.900 You know the company.

00:12:47.120 He was always doing the strange-looking robot dogs

00:12:49.880 and walking robots and stuff.

00:12:52.600 So the things that robots can do now

00:12:54.480 that they couldn't do before

00:12:56.460 is they can walk upright really, really well.

00:13:00.340 So that's creepy.

00:13:01.780 So you never have to have a robot that's on wheels.

00:13:04.880 It's going to walk just like a person

00:13:06.700 so it can navigate all the same spaces

00:13:09.060 that a person can.

00:13:10.860 Secondly, they've now figured out hands.

00:13:13.780 So they can put hands on a robot with real fingers

00:13:16.560 so it can manipulate all the same physical objects

00:13:19.900 as a person.

00:13:21.820 You watch all the small parts coming together

00:13:24.460 because that's, you know,

00:13:26.000 even though you've seen video of it,

00:13:27.560 it's never quite been there

00:13:28.700 where the hands are really going to work

00:13:30.820 just quite like hands.

00:13:31.900 But I think they're close.

00:13:34.320 Then the thing they've added recently

00:13:36.140 is facial recognition.

00:13:38.140 Now we're getting creepy

00:13:39.240 because your robot can actually walk up to you,

00:13:43.500 recognize you,

00:13:44.360 and then deal with you as an individual

00:13:46.140 different from the other individuals in the house.

00:13:49.540 Getting a little creepy?

00:13:51.020 That's all stuff we can do today.

00:13:53.880 Now add the next thing,

00:13:55.300 which is probably the single biggest part.

00:13:57.460 If you see these robots in the little videos,

00:14:00.680 they usually have some big,

00:14:02.440 I think it's a battery pack on their back

00:14:05.320 because if they didn't have a gigantic battery,

00:14:08.120 they couldn't go very long and do much

00:14:11.020 because of the battery limitation.

00:14:12.960 You don't want a robot

00:14:13.720 that's got to be plugged into the outlet, right?

00:14:17.280 But you may or may not be aware

00:14:19.880 that the technology for battery storage

00:14:22.520 is improving pretty much continuously

00:14:25.500 such that you would expect

00:14:28.100 that there will be electric airplanes,

00:14:30.600 aircraft, routinely someday.

00:14:33.360 At the moment,

00:14:34.460 you can't get enough energy into a battery

00:14:37.880 to make a proper aircraft.

00:14:40.620 There are prototypes and stuff,

00:14:42.080 so it does happen,

00:14:43.280 but it's not enough.

00:14:44.280 It's not good enough

00:14:45.320 that the whole industry

00:14:46.280 is going to become electric overnight.

00:14:48.660 The point is,

00:14:49.880 it will, though.

00:14:50.560 Now, the inevitable direction

00:14:53.100 of battery storage

00:14:54.500 appears to be

00:14:56.280 it just keeps getting better.

00:14:58.240 Now, it's not like other laws

00:15:01.120 like Moore's Law,

00:15:02.240 but it does just keep getting better.

00:15:04.160 So there will be a time

00:15:05.240 where your robot

00:15:06.060 can hold personally enough battery power

00:15:09.100 to do a proper robot job

00:15:12.120 for several hours, I would imagine.

00:15:13.840 That's probably pretty close.

00:15:15.700 And then recharge itself

00:15:16.860 and give you a new few hours,

00:15:18.960 which would probably be fine.

00:15:20.560 Because you could tell your robot

00:15:21.780 to do the dishes

00:15:23.360 and then recharge itself

00:15:24.760 and mow the lawn

00:15:26.820 and then recharge itself.

00:15:28.060 So that would probably work fine.

00:15:29.860 But just think about this world.

00:15:31.240 Now, here's the whole point.

00:15:33.580 When I saw the robot,

00:15:34.900 they made a robot

00:15:35.740 that had human form,

00:15:38.500 but it had a robot face.

00:15:41.200 And it recognizes you by sight.

00:15:43.360 I don't want that in my house.

00:15:47.080 I don't know about you,

00:15:48.860 but once the robot

00:15:49.900 can recognize me by sight,

00:15:52.120 I don't want that thing in my house.

00:15:54.340 Because it's connected to the internet.

00:15:56.620 It's got eyes.

00:15:57.920 It's got cameras.

00:15:59.880 That's a little bit too intrusive.

00:16:01.660 Because if my robot's watching me,

00:16:03.700 let's say,

00:16:05.060 do my bathroom stuff,

00:16:06.900 then maybe the whole world is.

00:16:08.900 Because that robot's connected

00:16:10.280 to the internet.

00:16:11.000 So that's a little bit intrusive.

00:16:14.320 But how about this?

00:16:15.740 Suppose they change the robot

00:16:17.380 to look like

00:16:18.120 an attractive human being.

00:16:20.880 Now, they're going to have to get it

00:16:22.340 really, really close to human

00:16:23.840 because of the uncanny valley effect.

00:16:26.540 If you get it close to human but not,

00:16:29.000 it looks like a zombie

00:16:30.000 and it's just scary.

00:16:30.880 So it's got to be

00:16:32.940 really, really spot on

00:16:35.320 to looking like a human being.

00:16:37.840 But guess what?

00:16:39.400 We can do that too.

00:16:41.440 If you've seen the, you know,

00:16:42.780 the real expensive sex dolls,

00:16:44.940 they can make something

00:16:45.680 that looks pretty darn human.

00:16:48.040 And if you've seen them,

00:16:49.500 you know, Hollywood,

00:16:50.300 what Hollywood can do

00:16:51.160 with robots, etc.,

00:16:52.280 they can make the facial structures

00:16:54.480 move just like human.

00:16:57.040 We're really close,

00:16:58.720 really, really close

00:16:59.880 to a robot that looks like

00:17:01.760 an attractive woman

00:17:02.760 and lives in your house.

00:17:05.020 And I feel as if

00:17:06.420 that might be the dividing line

00:17:08.060 between wanting a robot and not,

00:17:11.400 as if you could make it look like

00:17:12.740 an attractive human

00:17:14.440 that he knows a robot

00:17:16.280 so you'll keep your hands off it

00:17:17.820 so you don't want any

00:17:20.300 sexual harassment of robots.

00:17:21.680 But you know it's coming.

00:17:23.260 There will be sexual harassment

00:17:24.740 of robots, no doubt about it.

00:17:27.840 All right, so that's coming.

00:17:28.760 And that's all in your lifetime,

00:17:30.860 by the way.

00:17:31.940 Probably, except for those of you

00:17:34.440 who are unusually old

00:17:36.100 or have comorbidities,

00:17:38.400 most of you are going to be

00:17:39.740 in a world where at least rich people

00:17:41.580 have honest-to-God,

00:17:43.680 walking, talking robots

00:17:45.840 that interact with you.

00:17:47.340 That will happen in your lifetime.

00:17:50.000 Amazing.

00:17:52.660 Most of the news that I'm watching

00:17:54.400 and most of the stories

00:17:55.580 on social media

00:17:56.500 have taken a singular form.

00:17:59.960 And that form is

00:18:00.940 different ways that Democrats

00:18:02.900 can punish Trump

00:18:04.320 and punish his supporters.

00:18:07.120 It turns out that that's

00:18:08.460 most of the news now.

00:18:10.320 Most of the news is about Trump,

00:18:11.960 but the flavor of it

00:18:13.320 is how to punish Trump's supporters

00:18:15.380 and Trump.

00:18:17.480 Now,

00:18:19.420 nobody would be too surprised

00:18:21.800 that, you know,

00:18:22.860 people say things

00:18:23.900 that are hyperbole.

00:18:25.680 I'm sure people on the right

00:18:27.080 have said something similar

00:18:28.540 at some points about the left.

00:18:30.400 But I'll tell you the thing

00:18:31.500 that's starting to get to me.

00:18:33.860 There is a nonchalantness

00:18:36.180 to the way the left

00:18:37.960 is talking about this

00:18:39.240 that is chilling.

00:18:44.280 And I don't know

00:18:45.280 how often a nonchalantness

00:18:47.600 about punishing

00:18:49.100 an entire class of people

00:18:50.680 has ever happened before

00:18:53.140 except,

00:18:54.580 you know what I'm going to say, right?

00:18:56.560 You hate to use the Nazi analogy

00:18:58.860 because that's,

00:19:00.020 if you do,

00:19:00.640 you've given up on

00:19:01.720 being a credible person, I think.

00:19:04.780 Anybody who makes a Nazi analogy.

00:19:07.320 But I will just say

00:19:08.560 this one thing.

00:19:10.460 The nonchalantness

00:19:11.860 is absolutely

00:19:15.020 the same vibe

00:19:16.640 as Nazi Germany.

00:19:19.900 Now, I'm not going to make

00:19:20.800 the analogy

00:19:21.360 it's just the same

00:19:22.560 as the Holocaust

00:19:23.160 because nothing's like

00:19:24.240 the Holocaust.

00:19:25.620 But the nonchalantness,

00:19:27.640 when you see it,

00:19:29.160 is the scariest

00:19:30.660 freaking thing in the world.

00:19:32.580 It's how I imagine

00:19:34.180 slaves were talked about

00:19:36.920 during the height

00:19:38.360 of slavery.

00:19:39.820 Don't you imagine

00:19:40.660 that the slave owners

00:19:41.820 would talk about

00:19:42.640 the slaves

00:19:43.300 as in just

00:19:45.160 literally property.

00:19:48.340 That's how Republicans

00:19:49.440 are being spoken about

00:19:50.720 by Democrats.

00:19:51.900 They're being talked about

00:19:53.080 like property.

00:19:54.260 As in,

00:19:55.240 we'll just punish

00:19:56.060 these guys

00:19:56.760 and none of them

00:19:58.420 will get jobs.

00:19:59.820 We'll put them

00:20:00.840 on a list.

00:20:02.660 And it's not even,

00:20:03.780 it's gone beyond

00:20:04.780 even anger.

00:20:06.680 It doesn't feel like

00:20:07.980 anger, does it?

00:20:09.860 It's gone from anger,

00:20:11.520 which I understood

00:20:12.240 because Trump is very,

00:20:14.600 you know,

00:20:14.980 he's a provocative character.

00:20:16.320 So you get anger.

00:20:17.620 I get response.

00:20:19.080 I get, you know,

00:20:20.340 cause and effect.

00:20:21.280 I get all that.

00:20:22.780 But nonchalant evil

00:20:24.800 where you're not mad anymore,

00:20:27.760 it's just routine.

00:20:29.060 Routine evil

00:20:31.220 is a whole

00:20:32.460 different level.

00:20:34.920 All right.

00:20:35.420 I get people

00:20:36.400 acting out,

00:20:37.260 getting mad,

00:20:38.020 saying things

00:20:38.540 they shouldn't have said,

00:20:40.540 you know,

00:20:40.740 things that you'll get

00:20:41.480 you canceled from Twitter,

00:20:43.080 but it was,

00:20:43.900 you know,

00:20:44.060 you're in the moment.

00:20:45.280 You had something

00:20:46.180 to beef about.

00:20:47.120 But once it gets past that

00:20:48.500 and you won,

00:20:50.160 see,

00:20:50.500 here's the problem.

00:20:52.220 The Democrats won.

00:20:54.440 If you won

00:20:55.640 and you're still looking

00:20:56.700 to punish the other side,

00:20:58.200 nonchalantly,

00:21:00.600 like it's no big deal,

00:21:03.640 it's time to start

00:21:05.340 worrying about that.

00:21:07.700 But we'll see

00:21:08.660 how far that goes.

00:21:11.740 A lot of interesting things

00:21:13.140 about this attack

00:21:14.000 on the Capitol.

00:21:14.820 One of them is that

00:21:15.660 so-called media personality

00:21:18.480 baked Alaska.

00:21:20.720 Have you heard of

00:21:21.360 baked Alaska?

00:21:22.360 You've heard of him

00:21:23.200 since the 2016 election.

00:21:26.420 He's a right-leaning

00:21:28.100 character who,

00:21:29.320 he's a media personality,

00:21:30.500 I guess,

00:21:30.900 so he gets in the news a lot.

00:21:32.620 And he's one of the people

00:21:33.880 who was live streaming

00:21:35.240 and taking pictures

00:21:36.340 of himself

00:21:36.960 in the Capitol,

00:21:37.960 so he was part

00:21:38.600 of the Capitol assault.

00:21:41.260 But he didn't have a beard,

00:21:42.820 I'm sorry,

00:21:43.200 he didn't have a mask,

00:21:45.420 and he was broadcasting himself.

00:21:49.920 What do you think

00:21:50.800 about somebody

00:21:51.440 who is part of a

00:21:52.560 insurrection slash coup

00:21:55.240 who isn't wearing a mask

00:21:57.800 and is live streaming

00:22:00.020 so that everybody

00:22:00.820 knows you're there?

00:22:02.520 What is he thinking?

00:22:04.800 Was he thinking,

00:22:06.040 well, this is a proper coup

00:22:07.380 and it looks like,

00:22:09.720 you know,

00:22:10.040 it looks like we took

00:22:10.820 over the country,

00:22:11.700 so I guess we own

00:22:13.900 the country now,

00:22:14.760 so I don't need my mask.

00:22:16.440 I'll just show this

00:22:17.280 on live stream.

00:22:18.320 Was it live stream

00:22:19.180 or just,

00:22:19.600 I don't know

00:22:21.440 if it was live stream,

00:22:22.400 but anyway,

00:22:22.760 he was taking pictures

00:22:23.580 of himself

00:22:24.120 that made it clear

00:22:25.040 he was there.

00:22:26.920 So,

00:22:27.820 do you think

00:22:28.440 he was thinking

00:22:29.820 that he had done

00:22:30.760 a major crime?

00:22:34.080 Do you,

00:22:35.080 is the way he acted

00:22:36.620 suggestive of somebody

00:22:38.840 who knew they did something

00:22:40.120 that could be

00:22:40.660 a major jail,

00:22:41.960 jailable offense?

00:22:43.900 It doesn't feel like it,

00:22:45.220 does it?

00:22:45.920 It feels like

00:22:46.720 whatever he was thinking

00:22:47.960 was that it was more

00:22:51.960 like a free speech protest

00:22:53.780 that had gone

00:22:55.180 a little too far.

00:22:57.140 I don't feel,

00:22:58.120 I don't feel like

00:22:58.720 you turn the camera

00:22:59.480 on yourself and say,

00:23:00.460 here I am

00:23:00.960 in the middle of the Capitol

00:23:01.880 unless the way

00:23:03.260 you thought of it

00:23:04.080 at the moment

00:23:04.840 was as a protest.

00:23:08.220 I just,

00:23:08.800 the evidence

00:23:09.480 just does not suggest

00:23:10.680 he was there

00:23:11.220 to overthrow the country,

00:23:12.840 but he'll probably

00:23:14.080 go to jail

00:23:14.720 because,

00:23:16.160 have I mentioned,

00:23:16.920 there's a nonchalizing,

00:23:17.960 bluntness

00:23:18.420 about punishing

00:23:19.920 Trump supporters.

00:23:22.720 This does really

00:23:23.900 get to the question

00:23:24.720 of who influenced

00:23:26.080 these people

00:23:26.780 and where did

00:23:28.380 their own

00:23:28.940 responsibilities stop?

00:23:30.740 Because here's somebody

00:23:31.760 who literally

00:23:33.400 seems to have been

00:23:34.560 tricked

00:23:35.540 or maybe

00:23:38.020 not intentionally,

00:23:39.060 but he was

00:23:40.460 fooled

00:23:41.100 into being part

00:23:42.680 of what looks like

00:23:43.680 an insurrection

00:23:44.380 or a coup attempt

00:23:45.220 and clearly

00:23:46.320 he didn't think

00:23:46.980 he was part

00:23:47.460 of it.

00:23:48.480 It's obvious

00:23:49.180 that he was not

00:23:49.840 thinking he was

00:23:50.400 part of a coup.

00:23:52.120 What was he thinking?

00:23:54.440 Well,

00:23:54.880 he was probably

00:23:55.220 thinking he didn't

00:23:55.860 like the result

00:23:56.880 of the election.

00:23:59.160 All right,

00:23:59.540 there's stories

00:24:00.200 about Trump allies

00:24:01.200 selling access

00:24:02.280 to Trump

00:24:03.640 to get

00:24:04.540 pardons.

00:24:07.740 Now,

00:24:08.120 that's pretty

00:24:08.540 ugly business,

00:24:10.380 but the problem

00:24:11.940 with this

00:24:12.500 pardoning

00:24:13.240 and of course

00:24:14.160 now the left

00:24:14.780 is saying

00:24:15.180 that all the

00:24:15.620 pardons should

00:24:16.160 be overturned,

00:24:16.940 etc.

00:24:17.640 But the problem

00:24:18.360 with the

00:24:18.740 presidential pardon

00:24:19.680 is it's either

00:24:21.240 absolute

00:24:21.980 or it doesn't

00:24:23.920 exist.

00:24:25.540 So,

00:24:26.260 I could see

00:24:27.500 getting rid of

00:24:28.360 presidential pardons

00:24:29.380 completely.

00:24:30.800 Yeah,

00:24:31.080 I could see

00:24:31.500 you could make

00:24:31.880 the argument.

00:24:32.680 I don't think

00:24:33.360 I would go there,

00:24:34.720 but I could see

00:24:36.120 you could make

00:24:36.540 the argument.

00:24:37.480 But there is

00:24:38.100 no way you

00:24:38.720 can make

00:24:39.120 a reasonable

00:24:39.860 argument that

00:24:40.720 Trump is the

00:24:41.360 only one who

00:24:41.940 can't do

00:24:42.800 pardons.

00:24:44.100 You've got to

00:24:44.780 be consistent

00:24:45.480 because the

00:24:46.660 pardons are

00:24:47.160 always about

00:24:47.940 a guilty

00:24:48.320 person,

00:24:49.440 pretty much.

00:24:50.800 It's just

00:24:51.200 always about

00:24:51.700 guilty people.

00:24:53.040 So,

00:24:53.520 you can't say

00:24:54.140 that pardons

00:24:54.860 should not

00:24:55.440 apply to

00:24:56.160 somebody who

00:24:56.900 is lobbying

00:24:58.140 for it

00:24:58.780 because that's

00:24:59.180 how it

00:24:59.440 happens.

00:25:00.580 Somebody is

00:25:01.320 lobbying for

00:25:02.080 all the

00:25:02.480 pardons.

00:25:03.520 There's no

00:25:03.860 exception to

00:25:04.440 that.

00:25:04.660 The president

00:25:05.040 doesn't have

00:25:06.180 his own

00:25:06.540 list.

00:25:07.540 It's people

00:25:08.080 lobbying him.

00:25:09.640 So,

00:25:10.040 if you don't

00:25:10.520 like the

00:25:11.100 fact that

00:25:11.680 people are

00:25:12.240 lobbying and

00:25:13.000 buying access

00:25:13.700 and doing

00:25:14.640 all this

00:25:15.000 bad stuff

00:25:15.580 and that

00:25:16.320 maybe bad

00:25:16.920 people and

00:25:17.560 presidents'

00:25:18.460 friends get

00:25:18.940 pardoned,

00:25:19.780 if you don't

00:25:20.420 like all of

00:25:21.000 that stuff,

00:25:21.480 the only way

00:25:22.140 to get rid

00:25:22.520 of it is to

00:25:23.060 get rid of

00:25:23.400 the whole

00:25:23.660 thing that

00:25:24.720 presidents can't

00:25:25.580 pardon.

00:25:26.880 And,

00:25:27.160 unfortunately,

00:25:27.820 I don't think

00:25:28.420 that's a good

00:25:29.440 idea.

00:25:30.180 I kind of

00:25:30.660 like having

00:25:31.440 that last

00:25:32.180 control just

00:25:34.100 in case.

00:25:36.180 apparently,

00:25:39.340 according to

00:25:39.860 I think Jack

00:25:40.800 Posobiec was

00:25:41.460 tweeting this,

00:25:42.620 there's an

00:25:43.340 Antifa supporter,

00:25:44.560 Daniel Baker,

00:25:46.300 who was

00:25:46.900 arrested for

00:25:47.560 plotting an

00:25:48.100 attack on

00:25:48.680 Trump supporters

00:25:49.460 on Inauguration

00:25:50.580 Day.

00:25:51.580 So,

00:25:51.880 apparently,

00:25:52.160 he's got

00:25:52.500 weapons and

00:25:53.300 he was doing

00:25:53.840 something to

00:25:54.420 plot an

00:25:54.900 attack on

00:25:55.480 Trump supporters.

00:25:57.200 So,

00:25:57.940 who would

00:25:58.680 you blame

00:25:59.020 for that?

00:26:00.540 If an

00:26:01.780 attack on

00:26:02.360 Trump supporters

00:26:02.980 happened during

00:26:03.600 the inauguration,

00:26:04.920 would that be

00:26:05.460 Trump's fault?

00:26:07.680 Or would it

00:26:08.500 be, say,

00:26:09.620 Nancy Pelosi's

00:26:10.560 fault,

00:26:10.940 Biden's fault,

00:26:12.720 Kamala Harris's

00:26:13.420 fault?

00:26:14.200 Because they

00:26:15.260 would be the

00:26:15.720 ones who

00:26:16.140 would be,

00:26:16.680 you know,

00:26:18.680 sort of

00:26:19.260 getting people

00:26:20.420 excited about

00:26:21.420 hating Trump

00:26:22.860 supporters.

00:26:23.700 So,

00:26:24.060 would they not

00:26:24.520 be inciting

00:26:25.160 this guy?

00:26:26.360 Why is it

00:26:26.940 that Trump

00:26:27.420 is inciting

00:26:28.060 the people

00:26:28.500 who did

00:26:28.840 things on

00:26:29.720 the right,

00:26:30.520 but there's

00:26:31.180 nobody inciting

00:26:31.980 this guy?

00:26:32.800 He incited

00:26:33.840 himself.

00:26:35.460 You have

00:26:37.260 to make

00:26:37.540 up your

00:26:37.780 mind.

00:26:38.120 Either

00:26:38.280 people

00:26:38.560 incite

00:26:38.940 themselves,

00:26:39.900 or they

00:26:40.440 are incited

00:26:40.940 by other

00:26:41.380 people.

00:26:42.620 That's it.

00:26:44.220 You've got

00:26:44.740 to make

00:26:44.980 up your

00:26:45.240 mind,

00:26:46.260 but of

00:26:47.320 course we

00:26:47.780 won't be

00:26:48.180 consistent

00:26:48.600 about that.

00:26:49.820 Apple

00:26:50.100 computer,

00:26:50.860 or not

00:26:51.300 Apple

00:26:51.720 computer,

00:26:52.160 but Apple

00:26:52.560 says that

00:26:53.240 Parler,

00:26:54.200 which they

00:26:54.700 banned from

00:26:55.180 their app

00:26:55.520 store,

00:26:56.580 if they

00:26:57.300 moderated

00:26:57.940 better,

00:26:58.360 they could

00:26:58.640 go back

00:26:58.980 in the

00:26:59.220 store.

00:26:59.720 So they're

00:27:00.000 not banned

00:27:00.520 forever,

00:27:00.980 they just

00:27:01.260 have to

00:27:01.560 moderate

00:27:02.000 better.

00:27:03.080 In other

00:27:03.520 words,

00:27:03.740 there are

00:27:04.020 too many

00:27:04.340 Nazis on

00:27:04.960 there,

00:27:05.220 so they

00:27:05.440 have to

00:27:05.660 moderate

00:27:05.900 them.

00:27:06.820 What would

00:27:07.140 happen if

00:27:07.620 Parler started

00:27:08.800 moderating well

00:27:10.040 enough that

00:27:11.200 Apple said they

00:27:11.960 could be on

00:27:12.860 their app

00:27:13.260 store?

00:27:14.540 Well, you

00:27:14.860 know what

00:27:15.180 would happen.

00:27:15.580 They'd have

00:27:15.860 to turn

00:27:16.180 into Twitter.

00:27:17.700 This was

00:27:18.400 always going

00:27:19.040 to happen.

00:27:20.580 Twitter plays

00:27:21.320 by the rules

00:27:22.060 that Apple

00:27:22.760 sets up,

00:27:23.900 just like

00:27:24.920 everybody else

00:27:25.520 plays by the

00:27:26.120 rules.

00:27:26.820 If there's

00:27:27.440 anybody who

00:27:27.920 doesn't play

00:27:28.420 by those

00:27:28.860 same rules,

00:27:29.960 they either

00:27:30.400 can't be in

00:27:31.080 the game or

00:27:32.880 they have

00:27:33.240 to turn

00:27:33.620 into the

00:27:34.060 ones that

00:27:34.500 are.

00:27:35.900 Parler would

00:27:36.620 have to

00:27:36.980 turn into

00:27:37.480 Twitter,

00:27:37.920 basically,

00:27:38.980 to stay

00:27:39.840 an app.

00:27:40.760 Now, when I

00:27:41.180 say turn

00:27:41.540 into Twitter,

00:27:42.220 I mean

00:27:42.460 aggressively get

00:27:43.380 rid of the

00:27:43.740 violent talk

00:27:44.460 and aggressively

00:27:45.140 get rid of

00:27:45.740 the worst

00:27:47.080 elements.

00:27:48.580 And if they

00:27:49.000 do that,

00:27:49.740 they're going

00:27:50.100 to walk

00:27:50.400 right up to

00:27:50.920 that line

00:27:51.500 that Twitter

00:27:51.940 was at.

00:27:53.440 And then

00:27:54.180 if they want

00:27:55.080 advertisers and

00:27:56.260 they want a

00:27:56.660 business model

00:27:57.320 that works,

00:27:58.940 they're going

00:27:59.360 to end up

00:27:59.740 pushing that

00:28:00.360 line, just

00:28:01.000 like YouTube,

00:28:01.840 just like

00:28:02.260 Twitter.

00:28:03.000 It's just

00:28:03.460 commerce that

00:28:04.140 makes that

00:28:04.480 happen.

00:28:06.700 And anything

00:28:07.220 that is subject

00:28:07.900 to commerce,

00:28:09.220 let's say

00:28:09.540 advertisers,

00:28:10.660 if you're

00:28:11.260 subject to

00:28:11.820 advertising

00:28:12.420 dollars,

00:28:13.100 you're going

00:28:13.380 to end up

00:28:13.700 in the same

00:28:14.080 place.

00:28:15.380 Nobody's

00:28:15.820 figured out

00:28:16.240 how not

00:28:16.620 to, because

00:28:17.560 the advertisers

00:28:18.260 get to say

00:28:18.940 who they

00:28:19.280 associate with.

00:28:20.960 So we'll

00:28:21.600 see how that

00:28:22.000 works out.

00:28:24.280 In my

00:28:25.520 area of the

00:28:26.120 woods,

00:28:26.580 Northern

00:28:26.820 California,

00:28:27.960 just down

00:28:28.480 the road in

00:28:29.000 Union City,

00:28:30.360 Union

00:28:31.200 officials in

00:28:32.460 Northern

00:28:32.660 California,

00:28:33.280 they removed

00:28:33.800 a, I

00:28:34.980 guess it

00:28:35.260 was a sign

00:28:35.780 that said

00:28:36.160 White Lives

00:28:36.860 Matter, a

00:28:37.420 banner.

00:28:38.480 And it was

00:28:39.000 posted on

00:28:39.520 city property,

00:28:40.760 and it was

00:28:41.040 declared racist,

00:28:42.640 and a

00:28:43.060 despicable act

00:28:44.220 of vandalism.

00:28:45.840 Now, usually

00:28:47.300 when I think of

00:28:47.980 vandalism, I

00:28:48.800 think of breaking

00:28:49.440 something.

00:28:50.680 But the story

00:28:51.440 says that a

00:28:52.180 banner was held,

00:28:53.200 was hung up.

00:28:54.420 Do you

00:28:54.780 usually consider

00:28:55.600 hanging up a

00:28:56.380 banner on

00:28:56.980 public property

00:28:57.780 vandalism?

00:28:58.640 I mean, I

00:29:00.280 can see the

00:29:00.880 argument, especially

00:29:02.040 if something got

00:29:02.720 damaged in the

00:29:03.600 act.

00:29:05.240 But vandalism

00:29:06.120 wouldn't be the

00:29:07.140 word I'd use.

00:29:08.740 Now, would you

00:29:09.400 say that that

00:29:10.040 is, would you

00:29:10.920 agree with the

00:29:11.520 officials that

00:29:13.060 hanging a sign

00:29:14.000 that says White

00:29:14.660 Lives Matter

00:29:15.400 is a horrible

00:29:20.020 racist act?

00:29:21.300 It's sort of

00:29:24.980 interesting that

00:29:26.000 that claim can

00:29:26.940 be made.

00:29:27.800 How?

00:29:28.980 What was the

00:29:29.940 tone of the

00:29:30.520 claim?

00:29:31.780 It's almost

00:29:32.800 nonchalant.

00:29:35.700 It's almost as

00:29:36.760 if no argument

00:29:37.860 needs to be

00:29:38.760 made.

00:29:39.860 It's just

00:29:40.620 routine.

00:29:42.600 That if there

00:29:43.380 are some white

00:29:44.060 people out there

00:29:44.800 who feel that

00:29:45.900 they have some

00:29:49.540 grievance, that

00:29:51.660 those people

00:29:52.300 should be

00:29:52.760 punished.

00:29:57.180 Nonchalantly.

00:29:58.240 Like, there's

00:29:58.680 no discussion,

00:29:59.400 right?

00:29:59.740 If there are

00:30:00.240 white people

00:30:00.780 with grievances,

00:30:02.700 you don't say

00:30:03.860 to yourself,

00:30:04.420 well, what are

00:30:04.960 your grievances?

00:30:06.460 We don't do

00:30:07.300 that.

00:30:08.120 If white people

00:30:09.080 have grievances

00:30:09.820 sufficient to

00:30:11.300 put up a

00:30:11.800 banner, which

00:30:12.920 is going pretty

00:30:13.680 far, they put

00:30:15.320 up a banner.

00:30:17.000 I tell you,

00:30:17.540 there's very,

00:30:19.180 very little

00:30:20.280 difference between

00:30:21.160 hanging a

00:30:21.820 banner and

00:30:23.240 starting an

00:30:25.200 insurrection.

00:30:26.620 It's a

00:30:27.260 banner.

00:30:28.480 Now, what

00:30:29.080 was the

00:30:29.500 mental state

00:30:30.280 of the people

00:30:30.860 who hung

00:30:31.280 that banner?

00:30:32.260 Were they

00:30:32.700 thinking to

00:30:33.240 themselves,

00:30:34.180 ha, ha, ha,

00:30:34.800 ha, this

00:30:35.860 is a good

00:30:36.360 racist thing?

00:30:38.120 I don't

00:30:38.460 know.

00:30:39.300 Do you

00:30:39.660 know?

00:30:40.260 Do you

00:30:40.840 know what

00:30:41.180 the people

00:30:41.560 were thinking

00:30:42.300 when they

00:30:43.960 hung up the

00:30:45.120 banner?

00:30:46.100 Were they

00:30:46.560 thinking, black

00:30:48.500 people are

00:30:48.900 going to

00:30:49.040 hate this?

00:30:50.400 I'm really

00:30:50.900 going to

00:30:51.140 stick it to

00:30:51.640 them.

00:30:52.320 I'm going to

00:30:52.600 really make

00:30:53.000 people mad.

00:30:54.320 Well, that

00:30:54.680 would be

00:30:54.920 pretty racist.

00:30:56.080 I would

00:30:56.440 agree.

00:30:57.540 If the

00:30:58.200 intention was

00:30:59.220 to make

00:30:59.560 other people

00:31:00.200 feel bad,

00:31:01.860 and those

00:31:02.320 other people

00:31:02.800 are not

00:31:03.260 your same

00:31:04.380 ethnic group,

00:31:05.740 yeah, that's

00:31:06.260 pretty racist.

00:31:07.240 That's pretty

00:31:07.700 racist.

00:31:08.180 I'd agree

00:31:08.540 with that,

00:31:09.360 if that was

00:31:10.240 the intention.

00:31:11.900 But aren't

00:31:12.520 we making a

00:31:13.140 pretty big

00:31:13.520 assumption here?

00:31:14.920 We don't

00:31:15.540 even know who

00:31:16.040 put up the

00:31:16.500 banner.

00:31:17.600 How do you

00:31:18.060 know what

00:31:18.340 their intention

00:31:18.880 was?

00:31:20.000 Could there

00:31:20.440 be not an

00:31:21.220 intention that

00:31:21.980 would be

00:31:22.620 legitimate?

00:31:25.880 Now, I

00:31:26.560 know what

00:31:26.960 most of

00:31:27.940 America says

00:31:28.660 when I say

00:31:29.100 that.

00:31:29.820 They say,

00:31:30.580 Scott, there's

00:31:32.160 no such thing

00:31:32.860 as a legitimate

00:31:33.740 white person

00:31:34.940 complaint in

00:31:36.040 America.

00:31:37.680 To which I

00:31:38.560 say, suppose

00:31:39.300 I don't argue

00:31:40.160 that case.

00:31:41.680 Think what

00:31:42.220 you will on

00:31:42.700 that topic.

00:31:44.100 I will just

00:31:44.740 say that that

00:31:45.960 would make

00:31:46.400 whoever the

00:31:47.360 white person

00:31:47.860 is who

00:31:48.220 put that

00:31:48.600 up, would

00:31:49.680 put them

00:31:50.140 in a

00:31:50.500 category of

00:31:51.540 citizens who

00:31:52.920 don't have

00:31:53.540 the ability

00:31:54.040 to express

00:31:54.720 themselves, if

00:31:56.580 they were

00:31:57.800 doing it

00:31:58.380 about their

00:31:59.760 grievance, and

00:32:00.800 it wasn't

00:32:01.300 racial.

00:32:02.540 Because I can

00:32:03.340 tell you from

00:32:03.980 living in and

00:32:04.960 among white

00:32:06.380 people, I've

00:32:07.700 met a lot of

00:32:08.200 them.

00:32:08.820 I am one,

00:32:09.600 you may have

00:32:10.100 noticed.

00:32:10.840 If you talk

00:32:11.400 to enough

00:32:11.720 white people,

00:32:12.600 you'll find

00:32:13.700 out that the

00:32:14.600 whole Black

00:32:15.120 Lives Matter

00:32:15.660 thing feels

00:32:16.860 like sort of

00:32:17.440 a trap,

00:32:18.260 like a trick

00:32:18.980 question, like

00:32:20.520 did you stop

00:32:22.280 beating your

00:32:22.800 spouse sort of

00:32:23.440 thing.

00:32:24.260 And so they

00:32:25.080 feel that it's

00:32:25.800 abusive, and so

00:32:26.780 they just feel,

00:32:27.560 hey, I've got a

00:32:28.300 grievance, let me

00:32:29.520 just express my

00:32:30.680 grievance this

00:32:31.500 way.

00:32:33.100 And it doesn't

00:32:33.900 come across as

00:32:34.560 racist when I hear

00:32:35.360 people talk about

00:32:36.240 it in person.

00:32:37.280 They're just

00:32:37.720 talking about,

00:32:38.360 hey, why can't

00:32:39.640 we all have a

00:32:40.280 grievance?

00:32:41.300 If I can

00:32:42.100 acknowledge your

00:32:42.740 grievance as

00:32:43.400 real, and I

00:32:44.500 do, why

00:32:45.880 couldn't you

00:32:46.320 acknowledge somebody

00:32:47.080 else's grievance

00:32:47.800 as real?

00:32:49.000 Why can't we

00:32:49.720 both say, you're

00:32:51.200 mad at something,

00:32:52.080 maybe I don't

00:32:52.640 agree with you,

00:32:53.380 but hey, it's

00:32:54.560 America, you

00:32:55.080 can have a

00:32:55.440 grievance, you

00:32:56.020 can talk about

00:32:56.580 it.

00:32:57.320 But no, there

00:32:58.000 is a class of

00:32:58.860 people who

00:32:59.740 literally can't

00:33:00.580 talk about their

00:33:01.160 grievances.

00:33:02.520 So much so that

00:33:03.580 they would be

00:33:04.000 called racists

00:33:04.900 and despicable

00:33:06.680 vandals if

00:33:08.200 they stay

00:33:09.620 in their

00:33:10.000 opinion even

00:33:11.040 anonymously in

00:33:12.300 public, which

00:33:12.860 is what they

00:33:13.280 did, without

00:33:14.200 hurting anything

00:33:14.900 apparently, they

00:33:15.520 just put up a

00:33:16.120 banner.

00:33:17.600 So could those

00:33:18.920 people have been

00:33:19.600 just racists?

00:33:20.840 I would say

00:33:21.280 yes, could have

00:33:22.360 been.

00:33:23.120 They could have

00:33:23.600 been exactly what

00:33:24.520 the officials

00:33:25.100 thought, a bunch

00:33:25.900 of racists.

00:33:27.540 I don't know.

00:33:28.660 But I also don't

00:33:29.560 know if they are

00:33:30.580 the other person

00:33:31.280 who just has a

00:33:32.040 grievance and

00:33:32.980 feels that they

00:33:33.600 need a right to

00:33:34.320 talk about it.

00:33:35.180 If you don't

00:33:35.760 know that, I

00:33:37.580 think you don't

00:33:38.060 know enough.

00:33:39.620 more about

00:33:40.940 punishing Trump

00:33:41.800 supporters or

00:33:42.620 anybody who

00:33:43.160 even indirectly

00:33:43.980 supports them.

00:33:45.380 Steve Schmidt

00:33:45.960 of the

00:33:46.560 Project Lincoln

00:33:47.960 or the

00:33:48.340 Lincoln Project,

00:33:49.220 whatever the

00:33:49.480 hell that thing

00:33:49.900 is.

00:33:52.480 So some of

00:33:53.400 the ones who

00:33:53.960 are not accused

00:33:54.820 of sexual

00:33:55.400 improprieties

00:33:56.200 are saying that

00:33:58.740 anybody who

00:34:00.840 deals with

00:34:01.640 Trump supporters

00:34:02.520 basically should

00:34:03.240 be punished in

00:34:04.000 a sense.

00:34:04.380 So they're

00:34:05.180 going after

00:34:05.640 VRBO for

00:34:07.340 apparently not

00:34:09.560 cancelling people

00:34:11.800 who are known

00:34:12.480 to be part of

00:34:13.160 the protests

00:34:13.880 at the

00:34:14.900 Capitol.

00:34:16.040 So there's

00:34:16.740 pressure on

00:34:17.240 VRBO to

00:34:18.100 cancel contracts

00:34:19.160 for people who

00:34:20.460 are legal

00:34:21.100 citizens of

00:34:21.840 this country

00:34:22.400 who had a

00:34:23.400 legal contract

00:34:24.460 and were,

00:34:25.980 I think,

00:34:27.920 he's including

00:34:28.740 the ones who

00:34:29.640 were just

00:34:29.920 protesting and

00:34:31.000 were not

00:34:31.380 arrested for

00:34:32.080 anything.

00:34:32.340 Does that

00:34:33.840 seem fair to

00:34:34.400 you?

00:34:35.020 Do you want

00:34:35.520 to live in

00:34:35.900 a world in

00:34:36.480 which companies

00:34:38.860 won't do

00:34:39.420 business with

00:34:40.140 you because

00:34:41.060 your political

00:34:41.760 enemies told

00:34:42.580 them not to?

00:34:44.640 That's the

00:34:45.680 world they're

00:34:46.100 trying to

00:34:46.560 create, where

00:34:47.700 you can't do

00:34:49.100 commerce if

00:34:50.240 your political

00:34:51.000 opponents are

00:34:52.340 strong enough to

00:34:53.240 make companies

00:34:54.060 stop dealing

00:34:54.720 with you.

00:34:55.580 That's happening

00:34:56.480 right now, in

00:34:58.560 this world

00:34:59.160 right now.

00:35:01.220 Now, you

00:35:02.080 know where

00:35:02.400 that ends,

00:35:03.040 right?

00:35:03.580 So you

00:35:03.900 know there's

00:35:04.260 a logical

00:35:04.800 end to

00:35:05.260 that.

00:35:08.040 I would

00:35:08.640 say that the

00:35:09.240 obvious path

00:35:10.340 to this would

00:35:10.900 be massive

00:35:11.440 bloodshed,

00:35:12.600 which I don't

00:35:13.640 want.

00:35:14.940 So I'd like,

00:35:16.260 let me put this

00:35:17.680 in a positive

00:35:18.220 way instead of

00:35:18.900 a negative

00:35:19.220 way, okay?

00:35:21.840 Sometimes you

00:35:22.660 can predict

00:35:23.380 where things

00:35:24.500 are going if

00:35:25.140 they keep

00:35:25.520 going in that

00:35:26.020 direction, and

00:35:26.780 so it's

00:35:27.160 worthwhile to

00:35:27.940 warn that

00:35:29.620 maybe you

00:35:30.020 shouldn't go in

00:35:30.540 that direction if

00:35:31.340 it's obvious

00:35:32.040 that there's a

00:35:33.060 big problem

00:35:33.740 over in that

00:35:34.400 direction.

00:35:35.480 So let me put

00:35:36.320 this in the

00:35:36.780 most positive

00:35:38.360 terms.

00:35:39.260 If you would

00:35:39.980 like the

00:35:40.360 country to

00:35:41.140 avoid civil

00:35:42.960 war and

00:35:43.660 bloodshed and

00:35:44.400 live in

00:35:45.280 harmony with

00:35:46.000 unity, there's

00:35:48.540 a way to do

00:35:49.060 it.

00:35:49.780 And that way

00:35:50.520 to do it

00:35:50.980 would be to

00:35:51.520 try to figure

00:35:52.200 out how to

00:35:52.720 work with

00:35:53.200 Trump supporters,

00:35:54.220 how to deal

00:35:55.320 with the

00:35:55.720 QAnon

00:35:56.400 disinformation

00:35:57.240 stuff in a

00:35:58.140 productive way.

00:35:58.840 And then

00:36:00.220 maybe there's

00:36:01.120 at least in

00:36:01.700 small ways,

00:36:02.480 ways we can

00:36:03.020 work together

00:36:03.640 and move

00:36:04.340 forward on

00:36:04.820 stuff.

00:36:05.120 That would

00:36:05.340 be a positive

00:36:05.820 way to do

00:36:06.220 it.

00:36:07.240 A way that

00:36:08.460 would largely

00:36:09.420 guarantee

00:36:10.220 massive

00:36:11.880 casualties,

00:36:12.960 which I do

00:36:13.720 not want to

00:36:14.400 happen.

00:36:14.920 I hope nobody

00:36:15.820 is involved in

00:36:16.520 anything like

00:36:17.160 that.

00:36:17.480 I don't

00:36:18.020 encourage it.

00:36:19.260 I discourage

00:36:20.220 it.

00:36:20.440 I disavow

00:36:21.000 it as strongly

00:36:22.220 as possible.

00:36:22.840 But there's

00:36:24.900 an obvious

00:36:26.520 very predictable

00:36:29.040 end to it.

00:36:30.380 If Trump

00:36:31.280 supporters are

00:36:32.080 closed out of

00:36:32.840 commerce, or

00:36:34.220 even just their

00:36:34.960 leaders, like

00:36:36.060 Josh Howley is

00:36:37.020 being closed

00:36:37.980 out of

00:36:38.320 commerce, Ted

00:36:39.180 Cruz is being

00:36:39.980 closed out of

00:36:40.700 commerce, meaning

00:36:42.020 that they can't

00:36:42.660 even rent a

00:36:43.220 hotel to do

00:36:44.320 an event now.

00:36:46.140 And Cruz and

00:36:47.340 Howley broke

00:36:48.460 no laws.

00:36:50.020 They simply

00:36:50.720 did what they

00:36:51.420 thought their

00:36:51.960 supporters,

00:36:52.840 wanted them

00:36:53.740 to do, which

00:36:54.400 is to question

00:36:55.200 things within

00:36:55.860 the boundaries

00:36:56.400 of the rules,

00:36:57.540 which they

00:36:58.260 did.

00:36:59.080 And without

00:36:59.620 leaving the

00:37:00.620 boundaries of

00:37:01.360 the rules,

00:37:03.080 they're being

00:37:03.720 denied commerce.

00:37:06.660 Can you

00:37:07.080 think of any

00:37:07.660 other group

00:37:08.640 in history

00:37:10.340 who were

00:37:12.180 denied all

00:37:13.280 of the, let's

00:37:14.360 say, the

00:37:14.720 opportunities of

00:37:15.740 commerce within

00:37:17.200 the country they

00:37:18.840 lived and were

00:37:19.520 citizens?

00:37:20.640 Can you think

00:37:21.200 of any?

00:37:21.480 Well, I

00:37:22.940 can think of

00:37:23.320 the Uyghurs

00:37:23.860 in China.

00:37:25.040 The Uyghurs

00:37:25.660 can't do any

00:37:27.340 kind of job

00:37:28.340 they want.

00:37:29.520 In fact, they're

00:37:30.100 rounded up and

00:37:30.920 put into

00:37:31.540 concentration camps,

00:37:33.840 basically.

00:37:35.040 The other, what's

00:37:36.880 the other

00:37:37.220 historical example

00:37:38.320 of that?

00:37:39.300 Some

00:37:39.700 identifiable

00:37:40.440 group of

00:37:41.100 people who

00:37:42.260 could live in

00:37:42.820 the country,

00:37:43.440 they were

00:37:44.000 allowed to

00:37:44.420 live there,

00:37:44.880 at least

00:37:45.100 temporarily,

00:37:45.600 but they

00:37:47.540 couldn't do

00:37:47.940 the same

00:37:48.300 jobs, or

00:37:50.580 they couldn't

00:37:52.220 make the

00:37:53.300 same contracts,

00:37:54.840 they couldn't

00:37:55.340 do commerce

00:37:56.020 the way other

00:37:56.780 people living in

00:37:57.520 the country who

00:37:58.120 are also

00:37:58.660 citizens,

00:37:59.980 couldn't do.

00:38:01.840 Oh, yeah,

00:38:02.960 Japanese Americans

00:38:04.220 when they were

00:38:04.880 rounded up in

00:38:05.640 World War II and

00:38:06.560 put in

00:38:06.860 concentration camps.

00:38:08.240 So these were

00:38:09.040 American citizens

00:38:09.860 who were put in

00:38:10.540 concentration camps,

00:38:11.660 Japanese Americans,

00:38:12.540 literally rounded

00:38:13.980 up and put in

00:38:14.800 freaking

00:38:15.080 concentration camps.

00:38:16.980 Could they do

00:38:17.740 commerce?

00:38:19.160 No.

00:38:19.780 They were accused

00:38:20.420 of no crimes,

00:38:21.860 no crimes

00:38:22.580 whatsoever, and

00:38:24.000 yet they

00:38:25.440 couldn't do

00:38:26.420 commerce.

00:38:27.040 They couldn't

00:38:27.360 make a contract

00:38:28.300 because they

00:38:28.880 were in a

00:38:29.160 concentration camp,

00:38:30.460 just like the

00:38:31.040 Uyghurs.

00:38:32.480 Who would, I

00:38:34.160 feel as if

00:38:34.620 there's some

00:38:34.980 other group,

00:38:35.740 I'm forgetting.

00:38:37.620 Historically?

00:38:38.820 Oh, women.

00:38:39.560 Women.

00:38:40.180 Yeah, historically

00:38:40.880 women couldn't

00:38:42.520 not do every

00:38:43.420 kind of job.

00:38:44.800 And it wasn't

00:38:45.440 that long ago

00:38:46.180 that if you

00:38:47.400 were a woman

00:38:47.840 and you came

00:38:48.360 in and applied

00:38:48.940 for certain

00:38:49.500 kind of jobs

00:38:50.180 that were

00:38:50.460 dominated by

00:38:51.200 men, that

00:38:52.460 you wouldn't

00:38:52.840 even be able

00:38:53.340 to get the

00:38:53.700 job.

00:38:54.600 It wouldn't

00:38:54.980 be the law.

00:38:55.800 They'd just

00:38:56.100 say, uh,

00:38:57.020 we're holding

00:38:57.800 these jobs

00:38:58.360 for men.

00:38:59.560 So that's

00:38:59.980 pretty bad.

00:39:00.560 Aren't we

00:39:00.880 glad that,

00:39:01.580 you know,

00:39:02.340 a woman or

00:39:02.960 anybody can

00:39:03.540 get a job

00:39:04.680 now?

00:39:05.380 But there's

00:39:05.740 some other

00:39:06.080 group.

00:39:07.860 Is it,

00:39:08.720 oh, yeah,

00:39:10.640 the LGBTQ

00:39:11.560 community,

00:39:12.520 there's another

00:39:14.400 case where

00:39:15.420 discrimination

00:39:16.060 historically has

00:39:17.320 been so bad

00:39:18.080 that they're

00:39:18.920 denied certain

00:39:19.780 kinds of

00:39:20.220 occupations,

00:39:20.900 say military.

00:39:22.480 You know,

00:39:22.760 if you were

00:39:23.100 gay in certain

00:39:23.880 times, you

00:39:24.680 couldn't be in

00:39:25.180 the military.

00:39:26.240 So that's a

00:39:27.460 denial of

00:39:28.120 commerce in a

00:39:29.340 sense, the

00:39:29.900 military special

00:39:30.600 case, but

00:39:31.260 they do pay

00:39:32.200 them.

00:39:33.700 So, but

00:39:33.960 there's some

00:39:34.300 other group.

00:39:35.300 I don't know.

00:39:36.040 It's not coming

00:39:36.580 to me.

00:39:36.940 But I feel

00:39:38.060 as if there's

00:39:39.040 some historical

00:39:39.940 precedent of

00:39:41.520 denying economic

00:39:43.320 opportunities to

00:39:44.380 a defined

00:39:45.060 group that

00:39:46.180 leads to

00:39:46.700 something bad,

00:39:47.460 but I can't

00:39:47.860 think of what

00:39:48.280 it is.

00:39:48.640 If you can

00:39:48.980 think of it,

00:39:49.880 if you can

00:39:50.600 think of it,

00:39:51.040 remind me,

00:39:51.560 okay?

00:39:53.440 Yeah, it's the

00:39:54.000 fucking

00:39:54.280 Holocaust is

00:39:55.180 what it is,

00:39:56.040 if you're

00:39:57.700 slow on this.

00:39:59.400 So that's

00:39:59.900 where we're

00:40:00.220 headed,

00:40:01.200 meaning that

00:40:01.980 I'm not

00:40:03.380 predicting that'll

00:40:04.140 happen, by the

00:40:04.640 way.

00:40:04.800 I'm saying

00:40:05.640 that the

00:40:06.280 actions of

00:40:07.180 the left

00:40:07.720 predictably

00:40:09.200 would get to

00:40:09.820 that point

00:40:10.420 if they keep

00:40:11.320 it up.

00:40:12.340 Now, I'm

00:40:13.180 not sure that

00:40:13.780 they're going

00:40:14.120 to keep it

00:40:14.500 up, because

00:40:15.920 we're still

00:40:16.340 in the

00:40:16.780 Trump era,

00:40:18.340 and the

00:40:18.760 ugliest part

00:40:19.440 of the

00:40:19.680 Trump era,

00:40:20.500 because people

00:40:21.280 still are

00:40:21.760 obsessed with

00:40:22.360 him and

00:40:22.620 talking about

00:40:23.120 him.

00:40:23.820 So the

00:40:24.400 moment that

00:40:25.200 Trump fades

00:40:26.200 from the

00:40:26.560 headlines,

00:40:28.120 will the

00:40:28.660 Democrats have

00:40:29.400 enough energy

00:40:30.220 to chase

00:40:30.880 down and

00:40:31.620 punish their

00:40:32.740 supporters?

00:40:33.300 I think

00:40:34.860 the energy

00:40:35.320 will probably

00:40:35.800 drain out of

00:40:36.500 this thing

00:40:36.840 naturally if

00:40:37.520 Trump gets

00:40:39.060 out of the

00:40:39.380 headlines.

00:40:40.720 But if it

00:40:41.620 doesn't, if

00:40:43.360 Trump leaves

00:40:44.120 the headlines

00:40:44.720 and there's

00:40:45.580 still a daily

00:40:46.940 drumbeat to

00:40:47.940 punish anybody

00:40:48.900 who had ever

00:40:49.460 supported him

00:40:50.100 in the past,

00:40:51.900 well, then you

00:40:52.420 end up in the

00:40:53.140 worst place that

00:40:54.220 a country could

00:40:54.860 be, which

00:40:56.060 is denying

00:40:58.280 some group

00:40:59.100 economic

00:41:00.520 opportunity.

00:41:01.120 Yeah, so

00:41:03.640 Josh Hawley, he

00:41:04.820 lost a deal

00:41:05.480 with my

00:41:06.540 publisher.

00:41:08.340 So the

00:41:08.940 publisher that

00:41:11.140 owns the

00:41:12.040 imprint that

00:41:13.700 you see my

00:41:14.360 books behind

00:41:15.820 me, this is

00:41:17.600 the same

00:41:18.080 publishing house

00:41:19.540 that owns,

00:41:21.580 that canceled

00:41:22.200 Josh Hawley

00:41:23.100 for his role

00:41:25.060 in the,

00:41:27.080 for challenging

00:41:27.860 the election.

00:41:28.420 How do you

00:41:31.240 like that?

00:41:33.220 Do you know

00:41:33.980 that publishers,

00:41:37.140 oh, somebody

00:41:38.220 says here, get

00:41:39.100 a new publisher.

00:41:40.580 So at the

00:41:41.640 moment, I'm

00:41:42.560 not on contract

00:41:43.500 for a book,

00:41:44.500 meaning that

00:41:45.300 I don't have

00:41:48.680 a new book

00:41:49.420 in the works.

00:41:51.860 But I would

00:41:52.800 have to think

00:41:53.300 pretty hard about

00:41:54.100 doing another

00:41:54.700 book with this

00:41:56.120 company.

00:41:56.520 Now I

00:41:58.840 have a long

00:41:59.320 history with

00:41:59.940 them and I

00:42:00.260 like the

00:42:00.620 people that

00:42:01.020 I worked

00:42:01.360 with, so

00:42:01.940 it would be

00:42:02.660 really hard to

00:42:03.220 make any

00:42:03.540 kind of a

00:42:03.900 change.

00:42:04.900 But if I

00:42:05.960 did not have

00:42:06.560 such a strong

00:42:07.380 20 plus year

00:42:09.180 relationship with

00:42:10.140 the individuals

00:42:10.940 who worked

00:42:11.320 there, and it

00:42:11.800 was just a

00:42:12.240 company, so

00:42:13.600 I'm loyal to

00:42:14.240 the people, not

00:42:15.040 the company, if

00:42:15.720 you know what

00:42:15.980 I mean.

00:42:16.480 Like there are

00:42:16.940 just people

00:42:17.400 there I've

00:42:17.740 worked with

00:42:18.100 for a long

00:42:18.480 time, and I

00:42:19.640 wouldn't want

00:42:19.940 to ruin that.

00:42:21.280 But if it

00:42:21.780 were just a

00:42:22.180 company, I

00:42:22.660 would drop

00:42:23.080 them in a

00:42:23.460 heartbeat for

00:42:24.820 that.

00:42:25.160 But I

00:42:26.540 don't even

00:42:26.800 know if

00:42:27.040 that's a

00:42:27.340 good thing.

00:42:28.580 I don't

00:42:28.880 know if

00:42:29.100 that's a

00:42:29.380 good thing.

00:42:30.260 So let

00:42:30.620 me voice my

00:42:34.920 objections publicly.

00:42:36.580 So this is

00:42:37.140 the company

00:42:38.360 that owns the

00:42:39.380 imprint for

00:42:40.040 my publisher.

00:42:42.920 This disgusts

00:42:44.120 me.

00:42:45.300 I'm disgusted

00:42:46.520 by the fact

00:42:48.140 that they

00:42:48.460 would drop

00:42:48.900 a book for

00:42:49.960 somebody who

00:42:50.500 broke no

00:42:51.080 laws and

00:42:52.280 was doing

00:42:52.700 what his

00:42:53.160 supporters asked

00:42:54.000 them to do

00:42:54.580 fully within

00:42:55.960 the bounds of

00:42:57.660 the law.

00:43:00.020 This is, and

00:43:01.380 I'll tell you

00:43:02.040 why this

00:43:02.340 bothers me the

00:43:02.960 most, is that

00:43:03.640 book publishing

00:43:04.720 is sort of the

00:43:05.600 last bastion of

00:43:06.820 freedom.

00:43:08.240 There are things

00:43:08.940 that you can still

00:43:09.680 put in a book

00:43:10.440 that you can't

00:43:11.120 say on TV and

00:43:11.980 in social media

00:43:12.800 because people

00:43:13.980 have a choice

00:43:14.560 of buying a

00:43:15.100 book, so it's

00:43:16.140 a different

00:43:16.460 standard.

00:43:17.700 If you're

00:43:18.440 broadcasting

00:43:19.100 something, you

00:43:20.800 try to be nice

00:43:22.580 to everybody

00:43:23.220 because they

00:43:24.040 turn on the

00:43:24.600 TV and

00:43:25.040 they don't

00:43:25.300 know what

00:43:25.520 they're going

00:43:25.760 to see, so

00:43:26.900 you try to

00:43:27.300 be not a

00:43:28.000 jerk to

00:43:28.800 anybody who

00:43:29.260 might turn

00:43:29.640 on the

00:43:29.920 TV.

00:43:31.060 But a

00:43:31.620 book is a

00:43:32.160 choice by

00:43:33.280 each individual.

00:43:34.420 So you

00:43:34.680 can say

00:43:35.040 stuff in a

00:43:35.580 book that

00:43:36.740 is a lot

00:43:37.300 more freedom

00:43:37.980 of speech

00:43:38.600 than you

00:43:39.560 would say

00:43:40.100 in a

00:43:41.260 broadcast

00:43:41.580 network.

00:43:43.440 So if

00:43:43.980 publishers

00:43:44.600 have decided

00:43:45.500 to become

00:43:46.900 censors,

00:43:48.100 and it

00:43:48.440 looks like

00:43:49.040 a censor

00:43:50.460 in the

00:43:50.780 sense of

00:43:51.220 punishing

00:43:51.620 somebody for

00:43:52.460 their political

00:43:53.760 action completely

00:43:54.880 within the

00:43:55.480 grounds of

00:43:55.880 the law.

00:43:57.280 This is a

00:43:58.160 new level of

00:43:59.200 censorship that

00:44:00.940 I never would

00:44:01.720 have seen

00:44:02.060 coming, frankly.

00:44:03.800 I never would

00:44:04.400 have seen this

00:44:04.880 coming.

00:44:05.940 This is way

00:44:06.880 beyond acceptable.

00:44:10.100 Wouldn't you

00:44:10.580 agree?

00:44:11.660 So the

00:44:12.460 publisher is

00:44:13.120 Simon &

00:44:13.860 Schuster.

00:44:15.120 Way beyond

00:44:15.980 acceptable.

00:44:16.620 So as an

00:44:17.500 author who's

00:44:18.420 been working

00:44:19.020 under that

00:44:21.540 brand for

00:44:22.100 a long

00:44:22.400 time, I'm

00:44:23.200 disgusted by

00:44:23.960 this.

00:44:24.620 I'm actually

00:44:25.060 disgusted by

00:44:26.020 it.

00:44:27.640 And I've

00:44:28.240 lost all

00:44:28.660 respect for

00:44:29.720 the company,

00:44:30.260 let me say

00:44:30.680 that.

00:44:31.660 But I do

00:44:32.380 love the

00:44:32.720 people that

00:44:33.100 I've worked

00:44:33.480 with, and

00:44:35.140 would work

00:44:35.620 with them in

00:44:36.080 a heartbeat

00:44:36.380 in the

00:44:36.660 future.

00:44:38.760 All right,

00:44:40.360 the subtext,

00:44:43.120 of course, is

00:44:43.520 that going

00:44:43.840 after Hawley

00:44:44.880 and Cruz is

00:44:46.440 really about

00:44:47.060 the next

00:44:47.540 presidential

00:44:48.100 election.

00:44:48.600 You get

00:44:49.100 that, right?

00:44:50.080 Both Cruz

00:44:50.780 and Hawley

00:44:51.400 would be in

00:44:52.300 the top, I

00:44:53.340 don't know,

00:44:54.340 they'd be in

00:44:54.880 the top five

00:44:55.920 or six people

00:44:56.680 that you would

00:44:57.240 think could

00:44:58.320 run for

00:44:58.780 president and

00:44:59.540 win.

00:45:00.360 So the

00:45:01.120 Democrats are

00:45:01.800 sort of

00:45:02.120 preemptively

00:45:02.760 taking them

00:45:03.360 out with

00:45:04.080 this.

00:45:04.680 I think

00:45:04.940 that's mostly

00:45:05.500 what you're

00:45:05.860 seeing.

00:45:07.140 But it's

00:45:07.840 scary how

00:45:08.380 many people

00:45:08.740 are agreeing

00:45:09.120 with it.

00:45:09.880 All right.

00:45:13.280 You may

00:45:14.000 know that I've

00:45:14.940 been moving a

00:45:15.540 lot of my

00:45:15.860 content to the

00:45:16.880 locals network.

00:45:19.020 It has

00:45:19.680 these live

00:45:20.820 streams I

00:45:21.320 put up

00:45:21.960 there on

00:45:23.020 locals as

00:45:23.580 well.

00:45:24.500 So it's

00:45:24.780 locals.com is

00:45:26.140 where you

00:45:26.420 would go to

00:45:26.780 find me.

00:45:27.220 It's a

00:45:27.440 subscription

00:45:27.860 service.

00:45:28.420 But I

00:45:28.560 wanted to

00:45:28.860 tell you

00:45:29.120 what's on

00:45:29.680 there.

00:45:30.580 I'm just

00:45:31.040 going to

00:45:31.240 read you a

00:45:31.980 list of

00:45:32.460 the micro

00:45:33.160 lessons I've

00:45:34.880 put there.

00:45:35.500 And you can

00:45:35.840 see how long

00:45:36.580 the list is.

00:45:38.800 It's pages

00:45:39.740 after pages.

00:45:40.660 I'll just

00:45:40.920 read you some

00:45:41.440 of them so

00:45:41.920 you don't have

00:45:42.260 to hear them

00:45:42.540 all.

00:45:43.180 Page after

00:45:43.780 page.

00:45:44.100 So the

00:45:45.560 micro lessons

00:45:46.160 are this.

00:45:46.720 It's a

00:45:47.140 two or

00:45:47.820 three minute

00:45:48.240 lesson that

00:45:49.460 gives you

00:45:49.860 something useful

00:45:50.720 that you

00:45:51.140 could use

00:45:51.840 like right

00:45:52.540 away that

00:45:54.120 you can

00:45:54.420 completely

00:45:54.860 master in

00:45:55.560 two or

00:45:55.800 three minutes.

00:45:57.300 And I

00:45:59.180 just put

00:45:59.560 them in

00:45:59.800 little videos

00:46:00.460 and in

00:46:00.760 some cases

00:46:01.240 a blog

00:46:02.380 post.

00:46:02.780 But here

00:46:02.960 are the

00:46:03.260 types of

00:46:03.740 things I

00:46:04.080 put there.

00:46:05.260 How to

00:46:05.680 be writer's

00:46:06.360 block.

00:46:06.960 That was

00:46:07.320 the new

00:46:07.620 one.

00:46:07.940 How to

00:46:08.220 stop

00:46:08.600 procrastinating,

00:46:09.760 getting rid

00:46:10.140 of unwanted

00:46:10.680 thoughts.

00:46:11.560 So most

00:46:11.920 of these

00:46:12.140 either are

00:46:12.980 based on

00:46:13.440 something in

00:46:14.320 my books

00:46:14.860 or based

00:46:16.160 on my

00:46:16.700 background in

00:46:17.380 persuasion

00:46:17.980 and hypnosis.

00:46:19.700 So that's

00:46:20.040 the background

00:46:20.800 in most of

00:46:22.060 these.

00:46:24.280 Let's see.

00:46:25.660 Hoax

00:46:26.120 creation.

00:46:26.880 How to

00:46:27.060 create a

00:46:27.440 hoax.

00:46:27.900 Triggers

00:46:28.200 and frames.

00:46:29.540 Confidence.

00:46:30.320 How to

00:46:30.740 increase your

00:46:31.240 confidence.

00:46:31.840 How to

00:46:32.020 take a

00:46:32.280 mental

00:46:32.480 vacation.

00:46:35.140 Persuasion.

00:46:35.840 Lots of

00:46:36.100 things on

00:46:36.460 persuasion.

00:46:37.340 Programming

00:46:37.800 your own

00:46:38.300 brain.

00:46:40.040 Spotting

00:46:40.600 persuasion.

00:46:42.980 Motivating

00:46:43.860 employees.

00:46:44.900 How to

00:46:45.140 say no.

00:46:46.280 Success

00:46:46.760 secrets of

00:46:47.380 the Beatles.

00:46:49.280 The fake

00:46:50.280 because.

00:46:51.800 Changing

00:46:52.280 what people

00:46:52.780 want.

00:46:53.440 Managing

00:46:53.760 your energy

00:46:54.320 not your

00:46:54.740 time.

00:46:56.520 The meaning

00:46:57.240 of life.

00:46:58.360 How to

00:46:58.620 do good

00:46:59.000 design.

00:47:01.140 Blah, blah,

00:47:01.480 blah, blah.

00:47:02.060 All right.

00:47:02.580 So you get a

00:47:03.400 sense of it.

00:47:03.940 It's about

00:47:04.280 tips for

00:47:05.780 success and

00:47:06.640 persuasion and

00:47:07.420 being more

00:47:07.800 effective.

00:47:08.860 So the

00:47:09.320 bigger picture

00:47:09.920 besides the

00:47:10.600 fact that I'm

00:47:11.200 obviously embedding

00:47:12.280 a commercial

00:47:13.320 in this

00:47:14.300 live stream

00:47:14.740 is that I

00:47:16.240 think there's

00:47:16.860 something in

00:47:17.540 this model

00:47:18.200 that's important.

00:47:19.840 I've told you

00:47:20.260 before that the

00:47:20.900 way you can

00:47:21.320 find out if

00:47:22.000 something works

00:47:22.800 is if you

00:47:24.100 put something

00:47:24.560 out there and

00:47:25.100 then other

00:47:25.580 people who

00:47:26.140 see it

00:47:26.660 take it

00:47:27.680 and modify

00:47:28.300 it.

00:47:29.080 That's always

00:47:29.740 a good sign

00:47:30.380 that there's

00:47:30.780 something good

00:47:31.480 if somebody

00:47:32.460 takes it and

00:47:33.160 then they

00:47:33.480 extend it or

00:47:34.260 modify it or

00:47:34.980 work with it

00:47:35.680 and copy it

00:47:37.020 or whatever.

00:47:38.440 And when I

00:47:38.780 started publishing

00:47:39.480 these micro

00:47:40.200 lessons I

00:47:41.800 saw that at

00:47:43.300 least one of

00:47:43.780 my followers

00:47:44.300 on Locals

00:47:44.900 started publishing

00:47:46.580 his own.

00:47:47.780 So he would

00:47:48.300 take my

00:47:48.880 larger videos

00:47:49.820 and take out

00:47:50.860 a little clip

00:47:51.700 and he'd say

00:47:53.820 hey here's a

00:47:54.420 micro lesson

00:47:55.000 that even I

00:47:55.780 hadn't contemplated

00:47:56.780 and then he's

00:47:57.900 posting it with

00:47:58.560 the micro lesson

00:47:59.180 hashtag.

00:48:00.680 So that is a

00:48:01.980 perfect example

00:48:02.860 of when I tell

00:48:04.160 you that you

00:48:05.460 know you have

00:48:06.200 something special

00:48:07.560 that people

00:48:08.180 will care

00:48:08.560 about when

00:48:09.480 you see them

00:48:10.020 act with

00:48:10.640 their physical

00:48:11.260 body to

00:48:12.660 go do

00:48:13.340 something.

00:48:14.240 So here's

00:48:14.580 somebody who's

00:48:15.260 spending

00:48:16.040 considerable

00:48:16.640 time to

00:48:17.900 edit my

00:48:18.800 videos down

00:48:19.720 to you know

00:48:20.400 a little

00:48:20.720 minute or

00:48:21.580 whatever and

00:48:22.140 then post

00:48:22.800 them and

00:48:24.220 he's not

00:48:24.520 being paid

00:48:24.940 for it or

00:48:25.280 anything.

00:48:25.760 It's just

00:48:26.040 something he

00:48:26.780 thought was

00:48:27.160 useful to

00:48:27.680 do.

00:48:28.700 Now that

00:48:32.320 usually signals

00:48:33.260 that there's

00:48:33.620 something important

00:48:34.280 there.

00:48:34.740 But the

00:48:35.160 larger piece of

00:48:35.860 importance is

00:48:36.520 the mechanism.

00:48:38.380 I have this

00:48:39.000 hypothesis that

00:48:41.540 because our

00:48:42.720 attention spans

00:48:44.020 have shrunk

00:48:44.800 because of

00:48:45.660 tweets and

00:48:46.700 technology etc.

00:48:47.960 So we can no

00:48:48.900 longer sit down

00:48:49.660 and read a

00:48:50.160 book as easily

00:48:50.880 as we could.

00:48:52.240 Now we can

00:48:53.180 read a tweet

00:48:53.780 and then move

00:48:54.640 on to something

00:48:55.200 else.

00:48:56.280 So what if

00:48:56.880 you take

00:48:57.280 learning,

00:48:58.460 you know the

00:48:58.720 ability to be

00:48:59.400 an effective

00:48:59.920 person,

00:49:00.620 that's usually

00:49:01.240 what I talk

00:49:01.820 about,

00:49:02.460 just how to

00:49:02.960 be effective

00:49:03.620 in life,

00:49:04.520 how to be

00:49:05.020 persuasive,

00:49:05.740 how to

00:49:06.240 program your

00:49:07.500 own mind,

00:49:08.420 how to know

00:49:09.220 how to operate

00:49:09.860 in the world.

00:49:11.140 If you took

00:49:11.740 those and

00:49:12.520 took them

00:49:13.800 down to a

00:49:14.560 really easily

00:49:15.480 digestible two

00:49:16.640 minutes-ish,

00:49:18.560 how many things

00:49:19.640 could you learn

00:49:20.540 in a year if

00:49:22.180 every one of

00:49:22.840 those things you

00:49:23.420 learned was only

00:49:24.100 two minutes?

00:49:25.500 And what I do

00:49:26.380 is I don't take

00:49:26.980 something that's

00:49:27.720 useful but fits

00:49:29.700 in two minutes.

00:49:30.600 I take the

00:49:31.220 biggest,

00:49:31.760 most important

00:49:33.480 things you could

00:49:34.040 ever learn in

00:49:34.700 your life,

00:49:36.200 things that

00:49:36.980 would change

00:49:37.540 the whole

00:49:38.160 course of

00:49:39.280 your life.

00:49:39.840 And by the

00:49:40.100 way,

00:49:40.300 people tell

00:49:40.760 me that all

00:49:41.320 the time,

00:49:42.060 especially the

00:49:42.860 people who've

00:49:43.820 read these

00:49:44.200 books.

00:49:44.720 They talk

00:49:45.040 about how

00:49:45.380 it's completely

00:49:45.900 changed the

00:49:46.640 course of

00:49:47.500 their life in

00:49:48.040 a variety of

00:49:48.580 ways.

00:49:49.880 So if you

00:49:50.500 could take

00:49:50.780 something that

00:49:51.400 has that much

00:49:52.140 importance,

00:49:52.980 potentially,

00:49:53.860 shrink it

00:49:54.360 down to two

00:49:54.920 minutes so

00:49:55.780 that anybody

00:49:56.280 can consume

00:49:57.040 it without

00:49:57.480 pain,

00:49:58.640 that may be

00:49:59.680 a thing.

00:50:00.100 I feel

00:50:01.300 like micro

00:50:01.880 lessons,

00:50:03.800 and jokingly

00:50:04.840 I would call

00:50:05.380 that a turd

00:50:07.120 university.

00:50:08.160 I've said this

00:50:08.920 before.

00:50:09.740 You may have

00:50:10.160 heard me joke

00:50:10.660 about this.

00:50:11.560 If you could

00:50:12.140 create a college

00:50:13.300 course that

00:50:14.780 would be two

00:50:15.660 minute lessons

00:50:16.400 and nothing

00:50:17.020 more, and you

00:50:18.480 could have them

00:50:19.040 run every time

00:50:19.820 you use the

00:50:20.380 bathroom, so you

00:50:22.120 just put a little

00:50:22.640 screen in your

00:50:23.480 bathroom, and

00:50:24.640 every time you

00:50:25.120 go in there, it

00:50:25.900 gives you a two

00:50:26.700 minute lesson, no

00:50:28.080 more.

00:50:28.400 And you

00:50:29.320 can listen to

00:50:29.860 it or not

00:50:30.240 listen to it, but

00:50:31.300 I feel like all

00:50:32.560 you would do is

00:50:33.100 use the bathroom

00:50:33.760 for a year, and

00:50:34.420 you'd come away

00:50:35.020 with a degree, two

00:50:37.000 minutes at a

00:50:37.500 time.

00:50:38.560 And the

00:50:40.440 importance of

00:50:41.200 this is I

00:50:41.820 think we have

00:50:42.200 to rethink

00:50:42.660 learning in

00:50:44.320 the current

00:50:45.060 world about

00:50:45.880 where we get

00:50:46.980 it, do you

00:50:48.280 go to a

00:50:48.720 physical place

00:50:49.420 like a

00:50:49.780 classroom, or

00:50:50.980 is it being

00:50:51.400 fed to you

00:50:51.980 continuously

00:50:52.720 through all

00:50:53.960 of your

00:50:54.280 screens?

00:50:55.760 And I

00:50:56.320 would argue

00:50:56.840 that Turd

00:50:57.760 University,

00:50:58.400 is an

00:51:00.400 example of

00:51:01.340 bringing the

00:51:03.020 knowledge to

00:51:04.120 you that maybe

00:51:04.720 you didn't even

00:51:05.240 know you

00:51:05.580 needed.

00:51:06.440 Maybe you

00:51:06.860 didn't sign up

00:51:07.520 for a course

00:51:08.220 on how to

00:51:09.360 program your

00:51:10.000 own brain, but

00:51:11.120 since it was

00:51:11.560 only two

00:51:11.940 minutes, you

00:51:12.380 listened to

00:51:12.820 it, and

00:51:13.500 then you

00:51:13.780 learned how

00:51:14.220 to program

00:51:16.080 your brain.

00:51:16.900 Two minutes.

00:51:18.300 Pretty good

00:51:18.700 stuff.

00:51:19.960 Yeah, PragerU,

00:51:20.820 actually, I'm

00:51:21.980 not inventing

00:51:23.220 anything here,

00:51:24.040 except maybe

00:51:24.820 coining the

00:51:25.600 phrase micro

00:51:26.240 lesson, but

00:51:27.180 PragerU does

00:51:27.980 this brilliantly.

00:51:29.200 Their videos

00:51:29.960 are very

00:51:31.060 tight little

00:51:32.220 things on

00:51:33.180 one point.

00:51:34.400 Now, their

00:51:34.720 case is

00:51:35.440 usually in

00:51:36.480 the world

00:51:36.880 of politics

00:51:37.480 and social

00:51:38.460 issues, but

00:51:40.500 I try to go

00:51:41.120 for effectiveness,

00:51:42.340 things that

00:51:42.880 will make you

00:51:43.500 immediately a

00:51:44.400 more effective

00:51:44.900 person.

00:51:45.320 so that is

00:51:47.920 your coffee

00:51:49.440 with Scott

00:51:49.900 Adams for

00:51:50.980 today.

00:51:51.920 If you're

00:51:52.600 watching the

00:51:53.080 clock, you'll

00:51:53.880 note that I

00:51:54.480 went 57

00:51:56.380 minutes without

00:51:58.660 with basically

00:52:00.920 five minutes of

00:52:01.840 preparation, which

00:52:03.620 is just cutting

00:52:04.320 and pasting a

00:52:05.060 few things I

00:52:05.600 saw on Twitter

00:52:06.220 into my

00:52:07.640 account, or

00:52:09.220 into a piece

00:52:09.880 of paper that

00:52:10.420 I read.

00:52:10.780 So, I

00:52:13.640 started by

00:52:14.200 telling you

00:52:14.580 that the

00:52:14.880 Dale Carnegie

00:52:15.440 course gives

00:52:16.200 you some

00:52:16.620 valuable skills

00:52:17.680 in your

00:52:18.240 skill set, and

00:52:19.680 then I

00:52:20.000 modeled them.

00:52:21.240 So this was

00:52:21.860 57 minutes of

00:52:24.160 effectively

00:52:25.020 unplanned, I

00:52:26.180 had, you

00:52:26.560 know, 10

00:52:27.220 minutes to

00:52:27.780 pull some

00:52:28.760 thoughts together,

00:52:29.500 but effectively

00:52:30.040 unplanned.

00:52:31.180 And if you

00:52:32.920 thought it

00:52:33.260 worked, then

00:52:34.360 you should say

00:52:34.860 to yourself,

00:52:35.580 what's this

00:52:36.580 Dale Carnegie

00:52:37.260 thing?

00:52:37.660 If I could

00:52:39.380 do that, 53

00:52:41.860 minutes, somebody

00:52:42.600 says, if you

00:52:44.080 could do what I

00:52:44.740 just did, what

00:52:46.360 would that do to

00:52:47.000 your life?

00:52:48.240 Just think about

00:52:48.840 that.

00:52:49.480 Just think of

00:52:50.000 this one skill

00:52:51.080 that is

00:52:52.380 learnable.

00:52:53.920 You know, it's

00:52:54.460 not a natural

00:52:55.060 thing.

00:52:55.620 I wasn't born

00:52:56.380 being able to

00:52:56.980 do this.

00:52:57.740 I learned it, and

00:52:58.720 I practiced it

00:52:59.460 until I could do

00:53:00.300 it well enough.

00:53:01.700 But imagine

00:53:02.420 what would

00:53:04.220 happen at work

00:53:05.000 if you could

00:53:05.660 stand up and

00:53:06.400 give a coherent

00:53:07.240 speech at

00:53:08.380 the drop of

00:53:08.980 a hat with

00:53:09.960 not even

00:53:10.860 worrying about

00:53:11.400 it.

00:53:12.060 What would

00:53:12.400 that do to

00:53:12.800 you?

00:53:13.520 Your whole

00:53:14.160 life would

00:53:14.580 be different

00:53:15.040 if you could

00:53:16.360 stand in

00:53:16.860 front of a

00:53:17.260 group and

00:53:18.480 confidently say

00:53:19.480 whatever you

00:53:19.940 want at the

00:53:20.680 drop of a

00:53:21.140 hat.

00:53:22.120 That's just

00:53:22.700 one of

00:53:24.320 probably 50

00:53:25.560 different things

00:53:26.220 that you could

00:53:26.620 learn on

00:53:27.000 Locals that

00:53:28.120 would make

00:53:28.480 you more

00:53:28.760 effective.

00:53:29.580 That is

00:53:31.180 all I have

00:53:31.540 for today,

00:53:32.040 and I'll

00:53:32.260 talk to you

00:53:32.700 tomorrow.

00:53:34.240 And by

00:53:34.480 the way,

00:53:34.740 somebody just

00:53:35.180 suggested

00:53:35.660 overcoming fear

00:53:36.840 I might

00:53:38.600 actually make

00:53:39.120 that a

00:53:39.480 micro lesson.

00:53:40.280 This is how

00:53:40.700 they get

00:53:41.200 formed.

00:53:44.240 All right,

00:53:44.860 that's all for

00:53:45.300 now, and I'll

00:53:45.840 talk to you

00:53:46.340 YouTubers

00:53:46.760 tomorrow.

00:53:48.920 I'll talk to

00:53:51.160 my pastor.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 17, 2021

Episode 1255 Scott Adams： I Just Woke Up, So Even I Don't Know the Topic Today

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