Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1261 Scott Adams： Coffee Now!

00:00:00.000 Is this sideways?

00:00:03.440 I swear I've had every technical problem you can have.

00:00:08.720 Oh my god.

00:00:09.960 All right, so let me tell you what happened.

00:00:11.920 There's a software I use called StreamYard

00:00:13.960 that lets me do a live stream simultaneously

00:00:17.060 to both YouTube and Periscope.

00:00:20.400 Now, I've used it several times, and it's really easy.

00:00:23.800 That's what I like about it.

00:00:24.940 You just put in your credentials,

00:00:26.960 point at those services, bam, and you're in.

00:00:30.760 So you're asking me,

00:00:32.360 why am I not using that simple service right now?

00:00:37.300 Well, there's this one problem with it.

00:00:40.540 It doesn't seem to work twice, and I don't know why.

00:00:45.880 And what happens is the buttons for going live

00:00:49.540 just don't appear sometimes,

00:00:52.380 meaning that there's some kind of mode

00:00:54.980 where you get into that...

00:00:57.540 I don't know how they make that so hard.

00:01:00.000 Basically, all you do is put in your credentials

00:01:01.900 and hit go live.

00:01:03.700 But sometimes those options exist,

00:01:06.480 and sometimes they don't,

00:01:07.740 and there doesn't seem to be any pattern to it.

00:01:10.140 So it didn't work this morning.

00:01:13.100 But I know why you're here.

00:01:14.280 You're here for the simultaneous sip,

00:01:15.680 the best thing of the day.

00:01:16.920 The thing that was really...

00:01:19.540 you can't go without.

00:01:20.760 Can you?

00:01:21.000 All right.

00:01:22.980 Well, luckily, I'm prepared today.

00:01:27.160 Got my coffee.

00:01:28.580 It's Bora Bora coffee.

00:01:30.440 And if you'd like to enjoy this simultaneous sip,

00:01:35.060 all you need is a...

00:01:36.880 what?

00:01:37.580 A cup or mug or glass.

00:01:39.560 Canteen jug?

00:01:40.480 No.

00:01:41.000 A cup or mug or glass.

00:01:44.720 Some other things.

00:01:46.240 They hold beverages.

00:01:48.000 They'd be like containers.

00:01:49.780 There would be several of them,

00:01:50.960 and if you cleverly put them together,

00:01:52.680 they would be sort of almost a rhyming kind of a thing.

00:01:55.900 And then we would drink.

00:01:57.020 And if I had not woken up or awakened,

00:02:01.280 which is it?

00:02:02.520 If I had not awakened mere moments ago,

00:02:05.560 I'd remember that.

00:02:07.920 Because I do say it every single day.

00:02:10.740 It's the reason I read it.

00:02:11.800 I can't memorize it.

00:02:13.200 But whatever you've got,

00:02:15.380 let's do the simultaneous sip.

00:02:16.980 Go.

00:02:20.440 Oh, that's good.

00:02:22.860 All right.

00:02:23.620 Let's talk about what's going on.

00:02:24.840 And, of course, my notes that I've made

00:02:28.580 are on a device that tells me

00:02:30.580 that power is going to go off at any moment now.

00:02:33.900 So here's the funniest story of the week.

00:02:36.820 So Trump is...

00:02:38.060 According to Rasmussen polls,

00:02:39.540 Trump is leaving office

00:02:40.860 or left on his last day

00:02:43.420 with an approval rating of 51%.

00:02:46.680 It's not too bad.

00:02:49.100 Now, that's Rasmussen, of course.

00:02:51.000 So, you know, if you see some other poll,

00:02:52.920 you're going to get a different result.

00:02:55.720 But also on Rasmussen,

00:02:57.400 so you're using the same methodology,

00:02:59.120 same company,

00:03:00.500 they have Biden at 48%

00:03:02.900 the day he took office.

00:03:05.900 So Trump is actually leaving office

00:03:08.660 at a higher approval rating

00:03:12.220 than the guy who took his job

00:03:14.580 and beat him soundly

00:03:17.080 in the popular vote.

00:03:19.540 Which makes total sense, right?

00:03:22.020 Now, the way that's being explained...

00:03:26.660 Oh, and by the way,

00:03:27.720 I want you to know,

00:03:28.740 I do know how to turn a phone sideways.

00:03:33.320 But it didn't work.

00:03:35.760 So none of my technology is working today.

00:03:37.740 I've got three devices

00:03:41.540 and five different ways to do this.

00:03:43.900 And absolutely none of them work

00:03:44.960 twice in a row.

00:03:47.880 Yeah, it's starting to rain pretty hard right here.

00:03:51.760 So you can see

00:03:52.660 it's not quite sunrise.

00:03:56.760 It's going to be happening pretty soon.

00:04:00.540 All right.

00:04:01.280 So here are the things

00:04:02.800 that are bugging people

00:04:04.540 who voted for Trump.

00:04:05.540 So you've got all these data points.

00:04:09.500 More people go to Trump rallies.

00:04:11.940 More people watched Trump on YouTube.

00:04:15.560 Like way more.

00:04:16.740 Like five times more.

00:04:18.960 More people...

00:04:21.260 Let's see.

00:04:23.460 He has higher popularity.

00:04:25.960 Blah, blah, blah.

00:04:26.780 So people are thinking,

00:04:28.020 how in the world

00:04:28.800 could Biden have won this election?

00:04:31.820 Now, the response to that

00:04:33.960 is that people were voting

00:04:35.660 against Trump

00:04:36.960 not for Biden.

00:04:40.840 Right?

00:04:42.000 Now, when you first hear that

00:04:43.480 you think,

00:04:44.360 okay,

00:04:45.320 well, that makes sense.

00:04:47.320 They're voting against somebody

00:04:48.940 so that might not show up.

00:04:51.000 But wouldn't that show up

00:04:52.280 in the approval?

00:04:54.640 Is there somebody

00:04:55.700 who approved of Trump,

00:04:57.740 did not approve of Biden,

00:04:59.920 and still voted for Biden?

00:05:01.060 You know,

00:05:03.140 how exactly do you get

00:05:04.440 higher approval

00:05:05.260 of the person

00:05:06.000 you're voting against?

00:05:08.360 Right?

00:05:09.480 Now, I'm still on the side

00:05:11.400 that says there's

00:05:12.080 no proof whatsoever

00:05:13.320 of any election irregularity

00:05:16.820 that's big enough

00:05:17.440 to change the election.

00:05:19.160 There is, however,

00:05:20.240 also,

00:05:21.260 no proof whatsoever

00:05:22.580 that the election was fair.

00:05:24.880 Now,

00:05:25.880 is that a reasonable thing

00:05:27.060 to say?

00:05:28.120 You know,

00:05:28.420 is it,

00:05:29.020 does the election

00:05:29.620 have to prove it's fair?

00:05:31.480 Or,

00:05:32.420 is it the responsibility

00:05:33.900 of those who have claims,

00:05:35.660 such as allegations of fraud,

00:05:38.800 is it their responsibility

00:05:40.140 to make their case?

00:05:42.100 Well,

00:05:42.420 if it were a legal case,

00:05:43.600 of course,

00:05:44.060 you have to prove

00:05:45.640 that there's some crime

00:05:46.500 that happened.

00:05:47.460 But in the rare case

00:05:48.540 of an election,

00:05:49.460 as I've said before,

00:05:50.900 I think the election

00:05:51.940 is the one case

00:05:53.380 where I think

00:05:54.420 the election system

00:05:55.620 has to prove

00:05:56.460 it was not fraudulent.

00:05:59.700 Meaning it needs

00:06:00.600 to be at least

00:06:01.360 transparent enough

00:06:02.520 or at least

00:06:03.040 auditable enough

00:06:04.260 that if anybody

00:06:05.540 had a question,

00:06:07.040 it would be easy

00:06:07.680 to check.

00:06:08.580 You just audit it,

00:06:09.800 it's transparent,

00:06:11.180 see if there's

00:06:11.840 anything to it.

00:06:13.120 So this is

00:06:13.760 just the one example

00:06:15.040 I can think of.

00:06:15.980 Maybe you can think

00:06:16.600 of another,

00:06:17.100 but I can't.

00:06:18.120 The one example

00:06:18.940 in the world

00:06:19.540 where the burden

00:06:20.480 of proof should be

00:06:21.600 on the accused.

00:06:23.800 I can't think

00:06:24.360 of any other case

00:06:25.040 that would be appropriate.

00:06:26.520 But for the election,

00:06:27.760 it is the burden

00:06:29.220 of proof

00:06:29.700 on the election system

00:06:30.900 to prove it was

00:06:31.800 valid and fair.

00:06:33.700 And we don't have

00:06:34.420 one that's designed

00:06:35.540 so that it could do that.

00:06:38.560 So whether or not

00:06:39.620 you want it to do that,

00:06:40.940 it's not designed

00:06:41.780 that you could.

00:06:43.320 And apparently

00:06:44.440 we're not moving

00:06:45.160 toward that.

00:06:47.520 Would you say

00:06:48.400 that the election,

00:06:50.600 let's say,

00:06:51.360 the election disagreements,

00:06:53.660 if you will,

00:06:54.920 may be the biggest

00:06:56.040 problem in the country

00:06:58.140 immediately?

00:07:00.240 What's Biden doing

00:07:01.220 to fix it for next time?

00:07:03.360 So Biden's the president.

00:07:05.480 It's his job

00:07:06.120 to fix stuff

00:07:06.820 that's broken.

00:07:08.400 And the country

00:07:09.800 almost got torn apart

00:07:11.420 by a belief

00:07:12.420 that the election

00:07:13.140 was not at least

00:07:14.540 transparent enough.

00:07:16.000 So what's he doing

00:07:16.820 to fix that?

00:07:18.780 Nothing.

00:07:19.260 Every day

00:07:21.880 that Biden

00:07:22.640 doesn't do something

00:07:24.020 to improve

00:07:24.940 the transparency

00:07:25.860 of the election,

00:07:27.120 I think,

00:07:28.120 is evidence of fraud.

00:07:30.820 Now,

00:07:31.480 it may not be

00:07:32.140 evidence of fraud

00:07:32.900 in the past,

00:07:34.640 but it's definitely

00:07:35.460 evidence of fraud

00:07:36.660 in the future.

00:07:38.080 Because if you don't

00:07:39.220 fix something

00:07:39.980 that's not transparent

00:07:41.880 and in the face

00:07:43.780 of people doubting it,

00:07:45.140 fairly aggressively

00:07:46.640 doubting it,

00:07:47.360 you're not really

00:07:49.180 planning to do it

00:07:50.260 fair next time,

00:07:51.280 are you?

00:07:52.360 Because it seems like

00:07:54.100 you could do

00:07:54.980 a little executive

00:07:55.860 ordering or at least

00:07:57.360 some presidential

00:07:58.720 jawboning to make

00:08:00.940 people at least

00:08:01.560 try harder

00:08:02.240 to make the thing

00:08:03.340 transparent.

00:08:04.620 But no,

00:08:05.700 I don't believe

00:08:06.500 this will ever

00:08:07.380 be a topic

00:08:08.500 he cares about.

00:08:10.140 I'll bet he'll

00:08:10.800 say something like,

00:08:11.800 well,

00:08:12.440 states have to do

00:08:13.420 that,

00:08:13.800 they sure ought to

00:08:14.480 do it better,

00:08:15.520 maybe,

00:08:16.620 but I don't think

00:08:17.360 he's going to

00:08:17.780 go after it.

00:08:19.460 Now,

00:08:19.940 arguably it is

00:08:20.880 a state issue,

00:08:23.000 but that doesn't

00:08:23.700 make it not

00:08:24.320 his problem.

00:08:26.420 All right,

00:08:26.940 so that's happening,

00:08:28.140 and again,

00:08:30.260 I don't have any

00:08:31.060 proof that the

00:08:32.220 election was

00:08:33.460 anything but fair.

00:08:35.700 I say that

00:08:36.600 so I'll remain

00:08:37.420 on social media.

00:08:38.180 So Biden

00:08:41.220 issued an

00:08:42.300 executive order

00:08:43.120 rescinding one

00:08:44.420 of Trump's

00:08:45.160 orders,

00:08:46.040 and it's a

00:08:47.080 real head

00:08:48.240 scratcher.

00:08:49.500 He rescinded

00:08:50.580 Trump's order

00:08:51.400 that banned

00:08:52.020 Chinese companies,

00:08:53.580 which we assume

00:08:54.580 can be controlled

00:08:55.820 by the government

00:08:57.180 of China,

00:08:58.180 to prevent them

00:08:59.840 from selling

00:09:01.160 bulk power

00:09:02.620 systems into

00:09:03.460 our grid.

00:09:04.080 Now,

00:09:05.400 the worry

00:09:06.720 is that if

00:09:07.620 you get any

00:09:08.060 kind of

00:09:08.380 electronics made

00:09:09.400 by a rival,

00:09:11.820 if you will,

00:09:12.440 China,

00:09:13.300 that they would

00:09:14.160 have maybe a

00:09:15.180 software way

00:09:15.920 into the whole

00:09:16.480 system,

00:09:17.040 they could bring

00:09:17.500 down our

00:09:18.000 electrical grid,

00:09:19.420 and they would

00:09:19.800 have tremendous.

00:09:22.980 You're disappointed

00:09:23.880 in me?

00:09:25.420 For what?

00:09:26.920 Sassy southern

00:09:27.740 patriot?

00:09:28.920 I'll give you

00:09:29.820 about a minute

00:09:30.960 to tell me why

00:09:31.620 you're disappointed

00:09:32.280 in me before

00:09:33.200 I block you.

00:09:34.640 Right?

00:09:36.380 Because it's

00:09:37.060 okay to say

00:09:37.640 anything that

00:09:38.560 is content-wise,

00:09:39.880 like why you

00:09:40.500 disagree,

00:09:41.260 or what your

00:09:41.860 opinion is,

00:09:42.520 or some facts

00:09:43.140 I missed,

00:09:44.020 but I don't

00:09:44.860 really want you

00:09:46.140 to come on here

00:09:46.640 and tell me

00:09:47.060 that you're

00:09:47.380 fucking disappointed, 0.92

00:09:49.000 because you know

00:09:49.480 what I don't care

00:09:50.100 about?

00:09:50.840 Your fucking

00:09:51.420 disappointment.

00:09:53.680 I do not

00:09:54.700 give a fuck

00:09:55.780 about your

00:09:56.560 disappointment

00:09:57.280 in what I've

00:09:58.100 said,

00:09:58.720 because the

00:09:59.260 moment I

00:09:59.660 start caring

00:10:00.240 about that,

00:10:01.120 I'm worthless.

00:10:02.540 The moment

00:10:03.360 that influences

00:10:04.580 me,

00:10:05.640 that somebody

00:10:06.460 came on here

00:10:07.120 and said,

00:10:07.600 I'm disappointed

00:10:08.360 in you,

00:10:09.080 the moment

00:10:09.680 that affects

00:10:10.380 me,

00:10:11.160 this is all

00:10:11.740 worthless.

00:10:12.740 It's all

00:10:13.160 worthless,

00:10:13.700 the moment

00:10:14.040 that matters

00:10:14.860 to me.

00:10:15.480 So I can't

00:10:16.000 let that

00:10:16.360 matter to me.

00:10:17.480 So don't

00:10:18.300 bother saying

00:10:18.920 it unless

00:10:19.420 you've got

00:10:19.740 something useful

00:10:20.300 to say,

00:10:20.760 okay?

00:10:23.020 All right,

00:10:23.660 so Biden

00:10:24.260 rescinds this

00:10:24.960 order that

00:10:26.020 would have,

00:10:26.860 that by,

00:10:27.280 the Trump's

00:10:27.840 order that

00:10:28.180 would have

00:10:28.380 kept the

00:10:28.760 Chinese

00:10:29.100 companies out

00:10:29.880 of our

00:10:30.160 power grid

00:10:31.020 vendor process.

00:10:34.080 Now,

00:10:35.200 wouldn't you

00:10:35.860 think that

00:10:37.740 rescinding an

00:10:38.500 order like

00:10:38.980 that would,

00:10:39.800 number one,

00:10:40.700 be headline

00:10:41.320 news?

00:10:42.740 Didn't see it.

00:10:43.880 Didn't see it

00:10:44.600 on CNN.

00:10:45.540 Did not see

00:10:46.240 it on Fox

00:10:47.160 News.

00:10:48.320 Is it,

00:10:49.020 is it

00:10:50.260 possibly fake

00:10:51.140 news?

00:10:51.500 So the

00:10:54.600 first question

00:10:55.100 I have is,

00:10:55.860 is this

00:10:56.340 real?

00:10:57.380 Because it's

00:10:58.280 not covered

00:10:58.760 on either

00:10:59.180 CNN or

00:10:59.760 Fox News,

00:11:00.540 at least

00:11:00.880 with a

00:11:01.820 quick look,

00:11:02.500 I didn't

00:11:02.760 see it.

00:11:03.780 So if

00:11:04.160 somebody could

00:11:04.560 give me a

00:11:05.280 fact check

00:11:05.920 on that,

00:11:06.340 it would

00:11:06.560 be great.

00:11:07.780 Now,

00:11:08.100 it could

00:11:08.420 be that

00:11:09.440 the only

00:11:09.780 thing that's

00:11:10.200 going on

00:11:10.620 is Biden

00:11:11.080 is pausing

00:11:11.880 all the

00:11:12.500 executive

00:11:12.940 orders of

00:11:13.640 Trump so

00:11:14.580 he can just

00:11:14.980 look into

00:11:15.420 them.

00:11:15.640 but what

00:11:17.660 is there to

00:11:18.140 look into?

00:11:19.700 What exactly

00:11:20.680 is there to

00:11:21.180 look into

00:11:21.680 in this?

00:11:24.200 I don't

00:11:24.840 know what

00:11:25.140 you would

00:11:25.380 look into.

00:11:26.440 Is there

00:11:26.880 an argument

00:11:27.780 that says

00:11:28.360 that the

00:11:28.780 Chinese

00:11:29.120 government

00:11:29.620 should have

00:11:31.060 control of

00:11:31.820 our power

00:11:32.180 network?

00:11:33.620 What?

00:11:34.100 Or is there

00:11:34.620 an argument

00:11:35.020 that maybe

00:11:36.220 it would be

00:11:36.640 racist if we

00:11:37.620 prevented the

00:11:38.460 country of

00:11:39.800 China from 0.76

00:11:41.120 controlling our

00:11:41.880 power grid?

00:11:43.280 I hope that's

00:11:43.900 not the

00:11:44.220 reason.

00:11:45.640 Or is it

00:11:46.500 just because

00:11:46.980 Trump did

00:11:47.640 it so it

00:11:48.060 has to be

00:11:48.440 undone?

00:11:49.460 What exactly

00:11:50.540 is that about?

00:11:53.060 Now,

00:11:53.380 of course,

00:11:54.020 every Republican

00:11:55.060 is saying,

00:11:56.240 could it be

00:11:57.360 that China 0.93

00:11:58.240 controls Biden

00:11:59.240 and that

00:12:00.420 China has 0.91

00:12:01.060 secrets about

00:12:02.760 Biden or

00:12:03.500 Hunter Biden

00:12:04.160 or anything

00:12:04.960 like that?

00:12:05.960 Now,

00:12:06.260 I have no

00:12:06.640 reason to

00:12:07.040 believe that

00:12:07.480 any of that

00:12:08.200 is the

00:12:08.860 case.

00:12:09.900 Well,

00:12:10.500 I have

00:12:10.740 reason to

00:12:11.160 believe it.

00:12:11.720 I don't

00:12:12.060 have proof

00:12:12.980 of it.

00:12:14.380 I have to

00:12:15.000 be careful

00:12:15.440 about my

00:12:15.920 choice of

00:12:16.320 words,

00:12:16.620 right?

00:12:19.620 And

00:12:20.100 don't you

00:12:21.600 think that

00:12:22.100 we deserve

00:12:22.720 an explanation?

00:12:24.900 Don't you

00:12:25.480 think your

00:12:25.880 news should

00:12:27.000 be telling

00:12:27.360 you right

00:12:27.740 now,

00:12:28.640 hey,

00:12:29.300 there was

00:12:30.080 actually a

00:12:30.740 real good

00:12:31.140 reason for

00:12:31.720 rescinding

00:12:32.120 that.

00:12:32.980 It's not

00:12:33.480 obvious,

00:12:34.040 but let us

00:12:34.540 explain it so

00:12:35.280 you can feel

00:12:35.780 comfortable with

00:12:36.440 it.

00:12:37.300 It's not

00:12:37.980 exactly what's

00:12:38.620 happening,

00:12:39.580 right?

00:12:39.900 so if

00:12:43.440 it's true

00:12:44.880 that Biden

00:12:47.160 did rescind

00:12:47.920 that EO

00:12:49.820 about the

00:12:50.340 Chinese companies

00:12:50.960 in our

00:12:51.260 power grid,

00:12:52.000 if it's

00:12:52.720 true and

00:12:53.300 we don't

00:12:53.700 hear any

00:12:54.660 news about

00:12:55.380 it from

00:12:55.800 the major

00:12:56.300 news sources,

00:12:57.620 what's that

00:12:58.400 tell you?

00:13:00.120 Well,

00:13:00.660 it would tell

00:13:01.060 you that your

00:13:01.640 news sources

00:13:02.580 are corrupt,

00:13:03.580 both on the

00:13:04.160 left and the

00:13:04.620 right,

00:13:05.220 anybody who

00:13:05.840 doesn't cover

00:13:06.380 it,

00:13:06.520 if it's

00:13:06.860 true.

00:13:07.040 If it

00:13:07.940 turns out

00:13:08.360 it's not

00:13:08.860 true,

00:13:10.020 and I

00:13:10.340 think that's

00:13:10.740 at least

00:13:11.060 a 50%

00:13:13.500 chance,

00:13:14.020 right,

00:13:14.300 that it's

00:13:14.520 not even

00:13:14.860 true,

00:13:15.680 that anything

00:13:16.180 happened with

00:13:16.700 that.

00:13:17.420 So let's

00:13:17.720 find out

00:13:18.040 about that.

00:13:18.720 All right,

00:13:19.720 Biden has

00:13:21.880 a little

00:13:22.140 trap that

00:13:22.720 he's set

00:13:23.120 for himself,

00:13:24.680 which is

00:13:25.820 he's branded

00:13:27.740 himself the

00:13:28.460 pro-science

00:13:30.420 president.

00:13:32.040 So if he

00:13:32.640 does anything

00:13:33.140 that's not

00:13:34.460 pro-science,

00:13:35.380 he's got a

00:13:35.940 little extra

00:13:36.460 explainants

00:13:37.620 do.

00:13:40.600 Ah,

00:13:41.740 good coffee.

00:13:43.480 And so

00:13:46.100 every time

00:13:47.540 there's any

00:13:48.260 inconsistency

00:13:49.200 either in

00:13:49.820 logic or

00:13:50.560 math or

00:13:51.160 science,

00:13:52.040 it's going

00:13:53.160 to be fun

00:13:53.580 to criticize.

00:13:54.780 And by

00:13:55.040 the way,

00:13:56.200 everybody who

00:13:56.860 told me,

00:13:57.900 Scott,

00:13:58.760 why are you

00:13:59.980 so sad

00:14:00.760 that Trump

00:14:01.660 lost?

00:14:03.040 And I

00:14:03.500 would look

00:14:04.160 at them

00:14:04.400 and say,

00:14:05.220 well,

00:14:05.440 I prefer

00:14:06.080 that he

00:14:06.560 win,

00:14:07.680 but do

00:14:08.000 I look

00:14:08.320 sad?

00:14:09.280 Because I

00:14:09.880 don't feel

00:14:10.340 sad.

00:14:11.460 I feel as

00:14:12.100 though criticizing

00:14:13.860 Biden will

00:14:14.660 just be like

00:14:16.100 this wonderful,

00:14:17.800 like a wonderful,

00:14:19.120 delicious meal

00:14:19.880 that I can have

00:14:20.980 every day.

00:14:21.980 Now,

00:14:22.580 the country

00:14:23.100 is in bad

00:14:23.600 shape,

00:14:24.320 you know,

00:14:24.660 maybe,

00:14:25.260 we'll see,

00:14:26.320 but, you know,

00:14:27.180 we'll give him

00:14:27.460 a chance.

00:14:28.600 But it doesn't

00:14:29.020 look good so

00:14:29.900 far.

00:14:30.460 I mean,

00:14:30.660 Biden has the

00:14:31.320 worst first

00:14:32.660 weeks or first

00:14:33.720 start of any

00:14:34.300 president I've

00:14:34.960 ever seen.

00:14:36.680 But I

00:14:37.180 could be

00:14:37.440 biased.

00:14:37.940 Let's give him

00:14:38.260 a chance.

00:14:38.840 We'll see.

00:14:40.900 But here's

00:14:41.740 my question.

00:14:44.320 The Democrats

00:14:46.300 have taken

00:14:46.900 the following

00:14:47.540 view,

00:14:48.500 which I

00:14:49.040 would argue

00:14:49.480 is maybe

00:14:50.600 not scientifically

00:14:51.620 valid,

00:14:53.000 which is

00:14:54.240 that the

00:14:54.720 absence of

00:14:55.660 proof of

00:14:56.980 election fraud

00:14:58.020 is proof

00:14:59.640 of absence

00:15:00.700 of fraud.

00:15:01.400 fraud.

00:15:02.660 Now,

00:15:03.620 you know

00:15:04.120 that's not

00:15:04.540 logical,

00:15:05.100 right?

00:15:06.220 Just because

00:15:06.880 you did

00:15:07.480 not prove

00:15:08.340 something

00:15:09.100 happened

00:15:09.620 is not

00:15:10.740 proof it

00:15:11.600 didn't

00:15:11.940 happen.

00:15:12.880 Because there

00:15:13.380 are lots of

00:15:13.780 things you

00:15:14.140 can't prove

00:15:14.800 happened that

00:15:16.040 did in fact

00:15:16.700 happen.

00:15:17.840 So,

00:15:18.860 the Democrats

00:15:19.440 have sold

00:15:20.180 this to the

00:15:20.760 public through

00:15:21.600 their clowns in

00:15:22.700 the media that

00:15:23.700 that actually

00:15:24.180 makes sense.

00:15:25.540 Because they're

00:15:26.340 not saying,

00:15:27.240 hey,

00:15:28.080 we don't know

00:15:29.320 if there's

00:15:29.740 fraud,

00:15:30.860 but you

00:15:31.280 haven't proved

00:15:31.880 it,

00:15:32.260 which actually

00:15:32.840 would be a

00:15:33.360 fair thing to

00:15:34.420 say.

00:15:35.180 It would be

00:15:35.740 fair to say

00:15:36.320 you have not

00:15:36.940 proven it to

00:15:38.060 enough people's

00:15:39.380 satisfaction.

00:15:40.480 That's fair.

00:15:41.840 But can you

00:15:42.820 logically go to

00:15:44.040 therefore it's

00:15:44.880 proven it

00:15:45.440 doesn't exist?

00:15:46.800 No,

00:15:47.120 you can't.

00:15:48.140 That is a

00:15:48.820 famous illogical

00:15:50.140 thing,

00:15:50.840 which the

00:15:51.700 public has

00:15:52.220 accepted.

00:15:53.360 The public

00:15:54.200 has accepted

00:15:55.020 a logical

00:15:56.500 fallacy,

00:15:57.160 one of the

00:15:57.500 most famous

00:15:58.000 ones,

00:15:58.620 really,

00:15:58.980 if you're

00:15:59.280 going to

00:15:59.440 make a

00:15:59.760 list of

00:16:00.780 logical

00:16:01.320 fallacies,

00:16:02.360 that would

00:16:03.180 be in the

00:16:03.540 top ten,

00:16:04.980 that the

00:16:05.520 absence of

00:16:06.240 evidence is

00:16:06.900 not evidence

00:16:07.700 of absence,

00:16:09.280 right?

00:16:09.620 It's famous.

00:16:10.660 It's literally

00:16:11.440 a famous

00:16:12.280 illogical

00:16:13.120 thought.

00:16:14.660 And it's

00:16:15.080 the primary

00:16:16.380 news.

00:16:17.820 The reason

00:16:18.680 that people

00:16:19.080 are being

00:16:19.500 banned on

00:16:20.560 social media

00:16:21.260 is not just

00:16:22.760 claiming that

00:16:23.500 they're sure

00:16:24.000 that something

00:16:24.520 was fraudulent,

00:16:25.800 but beyond

00:16:27.240 that,

00:16:28.160 the people

00:16:28.540 doing the

00:16:28.940 banning kind

00:16:30.380 of are buying

00:16:31.320 into the

00:16:31.780 logical fallacy

00:16:32.800 that the

00:16:33.760 absence of

00:16:34.460 proof is

00:16:34.960 proof of

00:16:35.420 absence.

00:16:36.540 And that's

00:16:37.240 happening right

00:16:37.760 in front of

00:16:38.220 you while

00:16:39.320 you're looking

00:16:39.760 at it.

00:16:40.680 Like they

00:16:41.340 don't even

00:16:41.780 care that you

00:16:42.280 know it's

00:16:42.700 not logical.

00:16:43.900 It's not

00:16:44.220 only...

00:16:45.460 The thing

00:16:46.080 that's mind

00:16:46.640 boggling is

00:16:47.320 it's not

00:16:47.780 only illogical,

00:16:49.720 it's literally

00:16:50.860 a famous

00:16:51.880 example of

00:16:52.960 illogic.

00:16:53.980 It's one of

00:16:54.580 the most

00:16:54.800 famous ones

00:16:55.520 and we

00:16:56.320 act like

00:16:56.680 that isn't

00:16:57.180 even true.

00:16:58.280 Like,

00:16:58.980 nah,

00:16:59.180 let's just

00:16:59.560 act like

00:17:00.000 that's

00:17:00.280 logical.

00:17:00.920 We'll just

00:17:01.240 go on

00:17:01.600 with our

00:17:01.880 day and

00:17:02.560 act like

00:17:03.640 that made

00:17:04.000 sense.

00:17:06.900 All right.

00:17:09.860 So if

00:17:10.860 there are

00:17:11.140 other

00:17:11.540 anti-science

00:17:14.020 or illogical

00:17:15.020 things that

00:17:15.620 come out of

00:17:16.100 the Biden

00:17:16.400 administration,

00:17:17.660 be sure to

00:17:18.260 notify me

00:17:18.920 because I'd

00:17:19.360 like to

00:17:19.660 mention all

00:17:20.420 of them.

00:17:20.720 Now,

00:17:23.220 to be fair,

00:17:24.380 I do think

00:17:24.960 the Democrats

00:17:25.500 are on the

00:17:26.720 right side

00:17:27.280 of science

00:17:27.880 in a number

00:17:29.640 of cases.

00:17:30.720 As you

00:17:31.200 know,

00:17:32.160 while I

00:17:32.760 disagree

00:17:33.200 quite a bit

00:17:34.420 with the

00:17:35.780 economic

00:17:37.300 long-term

00:17:38.380 predictions

00:17:38.960 about the

00:17:39.580 doom of

00:17:40.020 climate science,

00:17:41.300 I do believe

00:17:42.400 that they got

00:17:42.880 the chemistry

00:17:44.120 and the

00:17:44.520 physics right

00:17:45.220 in all

00:17:46.040 likelihood.

00:17:46.920 You can never

00:17:47.820 know 100%,

00:17:48.660 but in all

00:17:49.080 likelihood,

00:17:49.580 they did get

00:17:50.000 that right.

00:17:50.720 So I

00:17:51.720 think that's

00:17:52.060 the case

00:17:52.340 where the

00:17:53.480 conservatives

00:17:54.620 probably need

00:17:55.740 to catch

00:17:56.120 up with

00:17:56.960 where science

00:17:57.600 is on

00:17:58.720 just the

00:17:59.700 physics and

00:18:02.020 chemistry of

00:18:02.700 adding CO2,

00:18:04.420 blah, blah,

00:18:04.900 blah.

00:18:05.480 And as I

00:18:06.600 said yesterday,

00:18:07.500 if you believe

00:18:08.720 that climate

00:18:09.280 science is not

00:18:10.100 real, either

00:18:11.320 because the

00:18:12.360 sun had

00:18:13.240 something to

00:18:13.720 do with it

00:18:14.120 instead,

00:18:15.500 and you

00:18:15.760 think science

00:18:16.320 didn't look

00:18:16.760 into the

00:18:17.160 sun, or

00:18:18.520 you think

00:18:18.840 because there

00:18:19.320 used to be

00:18:19.700 more CO2,

00:18:20.720 in the distant

00:18:21.380 past, that

00:18:22.100 means something.

00:18:23.060 It doesn't,

00:18:24.080 because everything

00:18:24.760 else was different

00:18:25.460 then, too.

00:18:26.760 So I would

00:18:28.540 encourage anybody

00:18:29.360 who's in my

00:18:30.020 audience to

00:18:31.380 catch up with

00:18:33.340 the science

00:18:33.920 on climate

00:18:34.940 change.

00:18:35.780 It doesn't

00:18:36.180 mean it's the

00:18:36.600 end of the

00:18:36.920 world.

00:18:37.320 It doesn't

00:18:37.640 mean you need

00:18:38.100 a Green New

00:18:38.660 Deal.

00:18:39.520 It doesn't

00:18:39.900 necessarily mean

00:18:40.960 you need

00:18:41.360 windows or

00:18:42.280 anything like

00:18:42.680 that.

00:18:42.900 You don't

00:18:43.180 need to buy

00:18:43.640 into that.

00:18:44.920 Those are

00:18:45.480 different questions.

00:18:46.180 But buying

00:18:47.300 into the

00:18:47.860 general question

00:18:50.360 of whether

00:18:50.780 there's

00:18:51.120 warming, I

00:18:52.540 feel like it's

00:18:53.100 time.

00:18:54.320 I think it's

00:18:54.780 time for the

00:18:55.380 skeptics to

00:18:56.740 say, if

00:18:58.280 you've ever

00:18:58.840 felt yourself

00:18:59.600 fooled before,

00:19:01.120 this might be

00:19:02.140 one of those.

00:19:04.420 I'm seeing

00:19:05.200 somebody else

00:19:05.680 saying they're

00:19:06.080 disappointed.

00:19:07.480 Wrong.

00:19:08.200 Disappointed.

00:19:09.520 All right.

00:19:10.180 So, Matthew,

00:19:11.840 I don't

00:19:13.500 know if

00:19:13.760 you caught

00:19:14.420 the earlier

00:19:14.900 discussion,

00:19:15.960 but when you

00:19:16.620 say you're

00:19:16.960 disappointed in

00:19:17.680 me for my

00:19:18.420 opinion that

00:19:19.300 agrees with

00:19:20.020 the vast

00:19:21.320 majority of

00:19:22.020 scientists on

00:19:22.720 Earth, I

00:19:24.360 don't care about

00:19:24.960 your disappointment,

00:19:26.220 but I do want

00:19:26.920 to block it

00:19:27.500 because I don't

00:19:27.880 want other

00:19:28.280 people to be

00:19:29.020 poisoned by

00:19:29.940 such a

00:19:31.240 shitty opinion.

00:19:33.400 So, I've

00:19:36.420 decided that the

00:19:37.100 most interesting

00:19:38.300 person in the

00:19:39.020 world right

00:19:39.820 now is

00:19:41.380 Elon Musk.

00:19:43.540 Now, you

00:19:44.560 could argue

00:19:45.000 it used to

00:19:45.440 be Trump.

00:19:46.280 He's going to

00:19:47.340 be pulling

00:19:47.760 back from

00:19:48.260 the limelight

00:19:49.820 for a while

00:19:50.220 it looks

00:19:50.500 like.

00:19:53.680 And

00:19:54.200 Elon Musk

00:19:56.540 remains, I

00:19:57.420 think, the

00:19:58.060 most interesting

00:19:58.880 person in the

00:19:59.560 world right

00:19:59.960 now.

00:20:00.960 And I've

00:20:01.960 been watching

00:20:02.360 some old

00:20:03.120 YouTube video

00:20:05.160 clips of

00:20:06.340 famous things

00:20:08.020 that Elon

00:20:08.540 Musk has 0.97

00:20:09.040 said or

00:20:09.440 interviews he's

00:20:10.140 done recently.

00:20:11.380 And he

00:20:11.680 doesn't do

00:20:12.120 anything

00:20:12.380 boring.

00:20:14.060 You can

00:20:14.620 watch him

00:20:15.060 all day

00:20:15.520 long and

00:20:16.460 whatever he

00:20:17.000 says is

00:20:18.440 just sort

00:20:18.800 of interesting.

00:20:20.620 But here's

00:20:21.020 what I like

00:20:21.460 the most

00:20:21.880 about it.

00:20:24.680 Elon did

00:20:25.700 an interview

00:20:26.340 in which he

00:20:27.140 was saying

00:20:27.580 that you

00:20:28.620 wouldn't want

00:20:29.220 to be him.

00:20:30.420 If you

00:20:30.840 actually knew

00:20:31.660 the internal

00:20:33.400 life he has

00:20:34.720 in his head,

00:20:35.900 I'm paraphrasing

00:20:36.800 him now,

00:20:37.660 but he

00:20:38.300 basically said

00:20:39.040 that he

00:20:39.820 has so

00:20:40.320 many thoughts

00:20:41.260 and ideas

00:20:42.040 and they're

00:20:42.500 streaming at

00:20:43.100 him so

00:20:43.400 quickly and

00:20:44.760 they're so

00:20:45.520 activating,

00:20:46.620 meaning that

00:20:47.160 he feels he

00:20:47.760 needs to do

00:20:48.280 something about

00:20:48.960 these ideas,

00:20:50.020 that it's

00:20:50.520 closer to a

00:20:51.340 curse than

00:20:52.820 some kind of

00:20:53.520 amazing gift.

00:20:55.560 Now, again,

00:20:56.060 I'm paraphrasing,

00:20:56.860 so I hope I

00:20:57.560 got that at

00:20:58.100 least approximately

00:20:58.780 correct.

00:21:00.340 And I

00:21:00.760 thought to

00:21:01.060 myself,

00:21:01.440 there's a

00:21:01.920 gigantic lesson

00:21:03.020 there, isn't

00:21:03.500 there?

00:21:04.480 He was

00:21:05.080 literally the

00:21:05.760 richest person

00:21:06.500 in the United

00:21:07.440 States recently.

00:21:09.400 I think Bezos

00:21:11.060 overtook him

00:21:11.880 again.

00:21:12.960 But you

00:21:13.920 look at that

00:21:14.360 and you say,

00:21:14.880 well, wouldn't

00:21:15.360 that be great?

00:21:16.640 Wouldn't you

00:21:17.040 like to switch

00:21:18.500 places with the

00:21:19.500 first or second

00:21:20.860 richest person

00:21:21.660 in the world?

00:21:22.680 And then you

00:21:23.180 hear him talking

00:21:23.960 completely, I

00:21:25.460 mean, honestly.

00:21:26.540 I don't think he

00:21:27.120 was doing any,

00:21:28.320 I picked up no

00:21:29.520 false modesty or

00:21:30.700 anything like that.

00:21:31.780 It looked

00:21:32.100 completely honest

00:21:32.760 to me.

00:21:33.680 That it's

00:21:35.280 really hard to

00:21:36.060 be him.

00:21:38.040 And the more

00:21:38.840 I thought about

00:21:39.460 it, the more

00:21:41.300 I was appreciating

00:21:42.420 that point.

00:21:43.700 And think about

00:21:44.320 this.

00:21:45.980 The biggest

00:21:46.780 problems in the

00:21:47.520 world, if you

00:21:48.860 were to look at

00:21:49.360 like the really

00:21:50.060 big ones, it

00:21:51.340 would be energy

00:21:52.160 policy and then

00:21:54.520 the related

00:21:55.200 question of

00:21:55.940 climate.

00:21:58.000 But even if you

00:21:59.080 didn't worry about

00:21:59.800 the climate, you

00:22:01.700 would certainly

00:22:02.100 think we need

00:22:02.760 more energy,

00:22:03.480 right?

00:22:03.680 The world

00:22:04.400 needs clean

00:22:05.220 energy, there's

00:22:05.740 no doubt about

00:22:06.220 that.

00:22:07.020 So Elon Musk,

00:22:07.820 he's got his

00:22:08.360 electric cars,

00:22:09.260 he's got his

00:22:09.660 electric battery

00:22:10.340 company.

00:22:11.980 Tesla, the

00:22:13.060 smart people

00:22:13.600 think of it as

00:22:14.580 Adam Townsend.

00:22:15.680 I heard him

00:22:16.180 say this.

00:22:17.180 So I bought a

00:22:19.460 bunch of Tesla

00:22:20.420 stock the minute

00:22:21.380 I heard this.

00:22:22.820 I think Adam

00:22:23.740 Townsend said it.

00:22:25.040 That you should

00:22:26.160 think of Tesla as

00:22:27.380 an energy company.

00:22:29.220 If you think of

00:22:30.020 it as a car

00:22:30.600 company, you're

00:22:31.220 missing what it is.

00:22:32.180 It's more of an

00:22:33.080 energy company.

00:22:34.720 And I thought

00:22:36.040 to myself, oh

00:22:37.320 my God, that's

00:22:37.980 true.

00:22:39.240 And I bought

00:22:40.020 the stock, it's

00:22:40.700 up 130%.

00:22:41.980 I don't make

00:22:42.880 stock recommendations,

00:22:44.140 so don't go buy

00:22:45.860 any stocks because

00:22:46.820 I said this, right?

00:22:48.160 This is not a

00:22:49.060 stock recommendation

00:22:50.000 thing and you

00:22:51.340 shouldn't take any

00:22:52.180 stock recommendations

00:22:53.060 from people like

00:22:54.140 me.

00:22:54.320 But the fact is

00:22:55.420 that that insight

00:22:57.520 is a big deal

00:22:58.580 because our

00:23:00.380 energy is, you

00:23:01.720 know, biggest

00:23:02.080 challenge in the

00:23:02.780 future probably.

00:23:03.900 The other

00:23:04.500 challenge is space.

00:23:05.980 We have to get

00:23:07.040 off the planet and

00:23:08.340 if the United

00:23:09.060 States doesn't do

00:23:10.020 it first, whoever

00:23:11.400 gets there first is

00:23:12.440 going to own the

00:23:12.980 planet.

00:23:14.000 Because if you can

00:23:14.780 control space, you

00:23:16.440 kind of control the

00:23:17.560 planet.

00:23:18.240 Because it's easier

00:23:18.980 to, you know, drop

00:23:20.380 things down than it

00:23:21.320 is to shoot things

00:23:22.120 up.

00:23:22.340 Sort of a general

00:23:23.320 statement.

00:23:24.200 You want the high

00:23:24.820 ground.

00:23:26.220 So I'm oversimplifying

00:23:27.640 that, but the point

00:23:28.300 is whoever controls

00:23:29.200 space is going to

00:23:30.540 control the future.

00:23:31.860 So aren't you glad

00:23:32.720 that Elon's on your

00:23:34.360 side if you're either

00:23:36.420 a democracy or an

00:23:38.020 American?

00:23:40.360 So, and then he's

00:23:41.900 also putting up

00:23:42.600 Starlink, these low

00:23:44.640 Earth satellites that

00:23:47.380 will blanket the

00:23:48.160 Earth and be a

00:23:49.440 secondary, well, not

00:23:51.340 secondary, but

00:23:52.060 it'll be basically an

00:23:53.680 Internet system that's

00:23:55.200 in the sky instead of

00:23:56.560 wired.

00:23:57.720 So what's that going to

00:23:59.220 do for our freedom of

00:24:00.080 speech?

00:24:01.140 Well, it kind of puts it

00:24:02.520 in Elon's control a

00:24:04.340 little bit because if

00:24:05.440 he says you can be on

00:24:06.580 his satellites, well, I

00:24:07.920 guess you can.

00:24:09.300 And fortunately for you,

00:24:11.340 he's pro-freedom, pro-

00:24:14.020 free speech.

00:24:14.900 So that makes me feel

00:24:16.080 pretty comfortable that

00:24:17.060 there'll be some kind of

00:24:18.060 some kind of an

00:24:19.620 alternative to the social

00:24:21.340 media platforms and the

00:24:23.620 common carriers that we

00:24:24.880 have now.

00:24:25.780 So when you think, when

00:24:27.000 you look at the size of

00:24:29.020 the problems that he's

00:24:30.260 taking on, or even his

00:24:31.740 boring company, the B-O-R-I-N-G 1.00

00:24:34.740 company, where it bores

00:24:36.400 holes in things, and then

00:24:38.300 he's also turning humans 0.60

00:24:39.580 into cyborgs.

00:24:40.560 He's got the company

00:24:41.400 where they'll put the

00:24:42.740 little chip into your

00:24:43.560 skull, literally, so you

00:24:45.460 can control technology

00:24:47.540 with your thoughts, I

00:24:48.540 guess.

00:24:50.200 So if you look at the

00:24:51.260 things he's doing, they're

00:24:52.260 literally save civilization

00:24:55.400 things.

00:24:57.060 Now imagine this.

00:24:59.160 Put yourself in his

00:25:00.120 place.

00:25:02.000 And this was my, there's a

00:25:05.000 boat going by.

00:25:06.060 This was my realization

00:25:07.720 yesterday.

00:25:08.340 You know in Spider-Man, if

00:25:10.480 you ever watch the

00:25:11.060 Spider-Man movies, there's

00:25:12.340 this line where he says

00:25:13.360 with great power comes

00:25:15.220 great responsibility.

00:25:18.020 That's sort of Elon Musk's

00:25:20.040 problem right now.

00:25:21.880 He can do things that

00:25:23.300 other people can't do.

00:25:25.460 He just did this $100

00:25:26.900 million X-prize kind of

00:25:30.060 thing.

00:25:30.320 It's not an X-prize, but

00:25:31.420 his own thing.

00:25:32.600 He offered to pay $100

00:25:34.860 million to whoever comes up

00:25:37.420 with the best carbon capture

00:25:38.940 technology.

00:25:40.840 Who else did that?

00:25:42.580 Who else could have?

00:25:43.940 Who else was smart enough?

00:25:45.640 Who else knew that carbon

00:25:47.400 capture technology is

00:25:48.780 basically the only way to

00:25:50.180 fix things?

00:25:51.320 Did you know that?

00:25:53.280 Did you know that there's

00:25:55.800 basically no way to fix

00:25:58.480 climate change if you think

00:25:59.640 it's a problem?

00:26:00.400 If you think it's a problem,

00:26:01.840 there's no way to do it.

00:26:03.360 And also feed the poor.

00:26:07.140 I was reading an article by

00:26:08.800 Bill Gates, who was lamenting

00:26:11.100 in great detail the same

00:26:12.400 thing.

00:26:13.200 If you tried to meet the

00:26:14.940 climate goals, it would be so

00:26:16.600 aggressive, it would just

00:26:17.620 destroy all the poor people 1.00

00:26:20.660 basically couldn't eat at that

00:26:21.960 point.

00:26:22.580 So you might starve a billion

00:26:24.540 people to make the Green New

00:26:27.580 Deal work.

00:26:28.620 Now I'm making up those numbers,

00:26:30.460 but I'm trying to give you the

00:26:31.440 sense that we're not talking

00:26:32.900 about a small problem.

00:26:34.600 You're talking about maybe

00:26:35.980 you kill a billion people to

00:26:38.520 get to the point where your

00:26:41.300 CO2 is low enough that you

00:26:45.100 don't destroy the planet.

00:26:46.980 Now that's Bill Gates, who's

00:26:48.160 really looked into it, right?

00:26:49.860 And he's telling you, you can't

00:26:51.840 get there from here with any way

00:26:53.760 that we can think of.

00:26:55.540 Think about that.

00:26:56.840 Bill Gates literally says the

00:26:59.740 end of the world is coming

00:27:00.860 basically through climate

00:27:02.980 change and we don't know how

00:27:04.480 to stop it.

00:27:05.720 He says that directly.

00:27:07.100 I mean, I'm paraphrasing, but

00:27:08.260 he says it essentially

00:27:09.720 directly.

00:27:11.720 Now that's not to say that

00:27:12.900 we're doomed, and I don't

00:27:14.480 think so.

00:27:14.940 I think that we will, I think

00:27:16.760 we'll innovate our way out of

00:27:18.100 it, and that's what Elon's

00:27:19.240 tried to do.

00:27:20.380 But my point is this.

00:27:22.920 Yeah, it's like my leaf blower

00:27:24.500 problem except with boats.

00:27:25.700 The problem is this for Elon.

00:27:29.420 If he doesn't, if Elon Musk

00:27:31.920 doesn't fix the world and save

00:27:35.280 it, who else will?

00:27:37.980 Now I hear what you're saying.

00:27:38.900 People are saying nuclear,

00:27:39.920 nuclear.

00:27:40.660 Actually, if you listen to Bill

00:27:42.180 Gates, and he was very

00:27:43.440 compelling, you could not build

00:27:45.820 enough nuclear plants fast

00:27:47.500 enough.

00:27:47.820 There just isn't any way to do

00:27:49.100 it.

00:27:49.640 If you do the math, there's

00:27:51.560 nothing you can do fast enough

00:27:53.980 that would fix the problem.

00:27:55.820 You can delay it, and building

00:27:57.800 nuclear as fast as you can

00:27:59.160 would definitely help, would

00:28:00.920 definitely delay it, definitely

00:28:02.960 good to do.

00:28:04.340 But it doesn't come close.

00:28:05.980 According to Bill Gates, it

00:28:07.240 doesn't come close.

00:28:08.700 Even if you did everything

00:28:10.260 really, like really aggressively,

00:28:12.820 it just wouldn't come close.

00:28:15.160 Do you know what would?

00:28:18.160 Carbon capture.

00:28:19.540 If somebody can build efficient

00:28:21.720 enough carbon capture, then we

00:28:23.860 can be, let's say, bad with our

00:28:26.220 energy policy, use too many

00:28:28.360 carbon fuels, but just suck 0.63

00:28:30.480 them out of the air.

00:28:31.880 Now, maybe the math of that

00:28:33.860 doesn't work either, but I have

00:28:35.820 a feeling that, you know, the

00:28:37.840 fact that Elon put $100 million

00:28:39.780 into it shows me two things.

00:28:42.960 Number one, he's got a lot of

00:28:44.640 money.

00:28:45.240 That's the first thing.

00:28:46.940 Number two, he's not the

00:28:50.860 he's not the entrepreneur who's

00:28:53.720 just going to be funding the

00:28:55.080 thing that's, let's say,

00:28:56.820 politically hot.

00:28:58.880 He's going to do the thing that

00:29:00.420 works because he's an engineer.

00:29:03.600 Right?

00:29:03.940 So when Elon says carbon capture

00:29:06.160 is worth an enormous investment,

00:29:09.780 $100 million, plus whatever it would

00:29:12.000 take to roll it down, when Elon Musk

00:29:14.380 says that, you know that's probably the

00:29:17.440 lever you need to start pulling.

00:29:19.680 Right?

00:29:21.100 And those of you who are saying

00:29:22.320 carbon capture equals trees,

00:29:24.720 carbon capture can be done with a

00:29:26.580 tree.

00:29:26.960 We don't have to invent that.

00:29:28.720 Plant some more trees.

00:29:30.160 You can't get there from here.

00:29:32.460 Trees are good carbon capture, but

00:29:34.980 you couldn't grow enough, you

00:29:36.100 couldn't plant enough.

00:29:37.600 You just can't get there.

00:29:38.700 There's no path with just trees.

00:29:42.220 Trees plus nuclear power?

00:29:44.540 Not enough.

00:29:45.280 Trees plus solar and wind and every

00:29:48.980 green technology pushing as hard as

00:29:50.900 you can.

00:29:51.860 Not even close.

00:29:53.280 You can't get there from here.

00:29:54.600 There's no path to stop the end of

00:29:57.860 the earth, according to Bill Gates.

00:30:00.240 Now, he ends his, even Bill Gates

00:30:03.640 ends his opinion piece on this by

00:30:07.020 saying that doesn't mean we're doomed.

00:30:08.880 It does mean we need to innovate.

00:30:11.320 So it's sort of down to engineers

00:30:13.340 need to save the world.

00:30:16.520 Has that ever happened before?

00:30:20.720 Engineers have to save the world.

00:30:24.040 No way around it.

00:30:25.600 Because the politicians aren't going

00:30:27.080 to do it.

00:30:27.560 If they did, they would be starving

00:30:28.980 their own public.

00:30:30.020 Nobody's going to do that.

00:30:31.640 You have to engineer your way out of

00:30:33.720 it.

00:30:34.440 And Elon Musk is, at the moment,

00:30:36.420 he's the chief engineer of the world.

00:30:39.020 Well, let's say chief engineer of the

00:30:41.200 United States.

00:30:42.900 Because he's figured out the most

00:30:46.140 important thing to do.

00:30:47.820 And then he put tremendous resources,

00:30:50.700 you know, 100 million dollars of money

00:30:52.560 behind it.

00:30:54.620 That's how you get out of it without

00:30:56.380 starving people.

00:30:58.320 Elon Musk is the only person who told

00:31:00.860 you the truth on climate change.

00:31:03.220 Think about that.

00:31:06.500 Elon Musk is the only person that I

00:31:09.300 know of in the whole world.

00:31:12.180 Any politician, any pundit, I think

00:31:16.420 he's the only person who's told you the

00:31:18.020 truth.

00:31:18.860 Which is, if you don't go hard at this

00:31:21.200 and do the carbon capture, there's no

00:31:23.680 way to get there.

00:31:25.200 So he put his money behind it.

00:31:27.080 And right now he's the most important

00:31:29.240 person in the world, I think.

00:31:30.440 because he's engineering the way out

00:31:33.420 of our biggest problems.

00:31:35.380 Our biggest problems are not guns,

00:31:38.120 you know, or transgender sports,

00:31:40.280 or whatever you're going to worry

00:31:41.840 about today.

00:31:43.160 I don't worry about that one, but I

00:31:44.820 know you do.

00:31:47.620 So, anyway, I would say he's the most

00:31:50.760 important person in the world right

00:31:52.380 now.

00:31:53.340 Katie Couric apparently was chosen to

00:31:55.920 host Jeopardy to replace Alex Trebek,

00:31:59.460 who passed away.

00:32:01.440 I thought Katie Couric was an 1.00

00:32:03.600 interesting choice.

00:32:04.820 I'm not sure I would have chosen her

00:32:06.540 for that job.

00:32:07.440 But, you know, she's a big name brand,

00:32:09.640 and she's great on TV, so it makes

00:32:12.460 sense, I guess.

00:32:13.740 But apparently she went on the Bill 0.66

00:32:16.060 Maher show and said that Republicans

00:32:18.260 need to be deprogrammed.

00:32:19.780 And the Jeopardy people said,

00:32:22.820 we just hired you for a TV show where we

00:32:27.520 would like everybody to watch our show.

00:32:30.240 We'd kind of like conservatives to watch

00:32:32.440 Jeopardy!

00:32:33.020 because, you know, there's a lot of them,

00:32:35.140 and they like their TV.

00:32:37.500 So Jeopardy!

00:32:38.600 The rumor is that Jeopardy!

00:32:40.020 is having second thoughts about hiring her

00:32:42.320 because she just turned off half, well,

00:32:45.400 maybe a third of the country.

00:32:46.340 But her statement was that Republicans

00:32:51.480 need to be deprogrammed.

00:32:53.000 What do you think about that?

00:32:55.100 Would, I know most of you watching this

00:32:57.300 are probably conservative leaning,

00:32:58.780 but do you believe that Republicans

00:33:00.260 need to be deprogrammed?

00:33:02.000 I would say yes.

00:33:06.240 I would say anybody who believed in the

00:33:08.060 Q stuff needs to be deprogrammed.

00:33:10.880 I think so.

00:33:11.960 I think a lot of the climate opinions

00:33:15.400 need to be deprogrammed.

00:33:17.660 It might not make any difference if you do it

00:33:19.420 or not, but it would be useful.

00:33:22.440 I think in terms of the, let's say,

00:33:24.740 the election security,

00:33:27.180 probably need to be deprogrammed

00:33:29.680 at least to the point of knowing

00:33:32.540 that the obvious ones

00:33:33.740 that have been debunked, have been debunked.

00:33:36.000 Now, that doesn't mean that you could,

00:33:38.940 man, it's getting windy here.

00:33:40.040 We've got a little monsoon coming up.

00:33:44.180 It's starting to get a little,

00:33:45.400 a little dicey here.

00:33:52.400 All right.

00:33:52.960 So, I would say that

00:33:58.420 both Republicans and Democrats

00:34:01.700 should be deprogrammed,

00:34:03.720 but in different topics.

00:34:08.460 All right.

00:34:11.180 Biden says today there's a, quote,

00:34:13.280 nothing we can do to change

00:34:14.760 the coronavirus trajectory.

00:34:17.940 So, now that Biden's president,

00:34:19.920 he says there's nothing we can do

00:34:21.320 to stop the coronavirus.

00:34:23.320 And I'm thinking,

00:34:24.520 well, it would have been nice

00:34:25.360 to say that, you know,

00:34:27.560 during the election.

00:34:29.780 When he ran for office,

00:34:31.700 what do you have preferred

00:34:33.240 hearing Biden say?

00:34:36.180 Sorry.

00:34:39.520 If I take the microphone off of my body,

00:34:42.140 maybe it'll help a little bit.

00:34:43.780 I've got a,

00:34:44.220 I've got a hurricane going on here.

00:34:47.820 Let me walk inside.

00:34:48.780 All right.

00:35:00.840 Might be a little bit better.

00:35:06.460 So, here's the inside.

00:35:18.780 All right.

00:35:23.900 So, I can see the,

00:35:25.560 the,

00:35:26.700 the climate change doubters

00:35:30.080 doing the,

00:35:31.580 the laffy,

00:35:32.620 laffy, happy faces.

00:35:39.260 Let's see if I can get

00:35:40.300 this microphone back on.

00:35:41.380 So,

00:35:43.780 those of you who are,

00:35:46.700 let's say,

00:35:47.640 climate skeptics,

00:35:49.940 there's plenty of good reason

00:35:52.240 to be a skeptic

00:35:53.220 of climate

00:35:54.720 because I think

00:35:56.240 a lot of the climate claims

00:35:57.540 are,

00:35:58.020 are obvious bullshit.

00:36:00.200 So, if you're saying to me,

00:36:01.600 Scott,

00:36:02.680 Scott,

00:36:03.140 how do you not realize

00:36:04.580 that the climate change

00:36:06.700 science is,

00:36:08.620 is bullshit?

00:36:09.200 How do you not see it?

00:36:10.860 It's obvious.

00:36:12.160 And,

00:36:12.520 here's the problem.

00:36:14.800 A lot of it is bullshit.

00:36:16.640 Obvious bullshit.

00:36:17.720 And you're completely right.

00:36:19.560 But there's a whole bunch

00:36:20.560 of other stuff that isn't.

00:36:22.540 So,

00:36:22.840 the problem with

00:36:23.540 the climate science topic

00:36:25.560 is that

00:36:26.860 if you're listening to,

00:36:28.540 let's say,

00:36:29.200 somebody who's a believer

00:36:30.340 in climate,

00:36:31.400 they're going to give you

00:36:32.200 a bunch of things

00:36:33.160 that are true,

00:36:34.760 that you should believe,

00:36:35.880 and then a bunch of things

00:36:36.880 that are obvious bullshit.

00:36:37.760 If you talk to somebody

00:36:39.580 who's a skeptic,

00:36:41.120 the skeptic will tell you

00:36:42.280 a bunch of things

00:36:42.980 that are true,

00:36:44.160 and then a bunch of things

00:36:45.180 that are complete bullshit.

00:36:46.580 So,

00:36:46.980 if you think the people

00:36:47.720 on the left

00:36:48.620 are all wrong,

00:36:51.480 or you think the people

00:36:52.420 on the right,

00:36:54.140 let's say just pro and con

00:36:55.700 of climate change,

00:36:56.560 not left and right,

00:36:57.780 but if you think

00:36:58.400 one of those sides

00:36:59.380 has the good argument,

00:37:01.060 you are wrong. 0.79

00:37:02.460 There are two bad arguments.

00:37:04.720 The ones that are

00:37:05.720 pro-climate change,

00:37:06.780 and the ones that are

00:37:08.120 anti-climate change belief,

00:37:10.400 I guess.

00:37:11.400 Both sides

00:37:12.880 are completely

00:37:14.200 irrational.

00:37:16.960 Meaning,

00:37:17.780 that,

00:37:18.740 if you're going to be

00:37:20.700 fair about it,

00:37:21.520 let me be a little bit,

00:37:25.400 let's see,

00:37:26.120 we still have the same

00:37:26.720 problem out here?

00:37:28.940 Looks like we do.

00:37:31.600 It's about 100 times

00:37:32.780 more windy

00:37:33.220 than when I first had that.

00:37:35.220 So,

00:37:35.780 let me put it this way.

00:37:40.200 Almost everybody

00:37:41.080 needs to be deprogrammed

00:37:42.500 when it comes

00:37:43.000 to climate change.

00:37:44.540 Whatever you believe,

00:37:46.160 if you were to make

00:37:46.900 a list of all the things

00:37:47.960 you say are true

00:37:48.940 statements about climate,

00:37:50.560 whether you were pro

00:37:51.540 or anti,

00:37:52.220 whichever side you were down,

00:37:53.760 if you just wrote down

00:37:55.060 10 things you believe

00:37:56.260 to be definitely true

00:37:57.340 about climate,

00:37:58.580 you'd be wrong

00:37:59.460 on five of them,

00:38:00.820 and it wouldn't matter

00:38:01.480 which side you were on.

00:38:02.220 I don't think there's

00:38:03.840 anybody who talks

00:38:04.820 about this topic

00:38:05.620 who isn't wrong 0.92

00:38:06.460 about 30%

00:38:08.100 of what they say

00:38:08.780 on climate.

00:38:10.160 I've never seen

00:38:10.800 anybody who wasn't

00:38:11.860 obviously in need

00:38:14.440 of some deprogramming.

00:38:16.780 And by the way,

00:38:17.400 that includes me.

00:38:18.540 When I started

00:38:19.320 digging into this topic,

00:38:21.060 and I've done

00:38:22.120 quite a bit of

00:38:23.200 looking at the

00:38:24.260 skeptical arguments,

00:38:25.440 probably more than,

00:38:26.460 I don't know,

00:38:26.820 99% of people,

00:38:28.360 and I've looked at the pro,

00:38:29.900 I've looked at the con,

00:38:30.760 I've looked at the debunks

00:38:32.640 for both the pro

00:38:33.700 and the con,

00:38:34.580 the debunks

00:38:35.460 to the debunks.

00:38:36.920 So I've gone down

00:38:37.840 a few layers.

00:38:39.980 I'll let you look

00:38:40.700 at a better scenery

00:38:41.340 while you're doing this.

00:38:42.920 I've gone down

00:38:43.760 a few layers into it,

00:38:45.400 and what I can tell

00:38:47.580 is everybody's lying.

00:38:49.480 So both sides are lying,

00:38:51.480 or they're just mistaken.

00:38:55.160 I don't know.

00:38:57.500 But I don't think,

00:38:59.320 I don't think there's

00:39:00.500 anybody who's being

00:39:01.680 completely honest

00:39:03.480 about the climate stuff.

00:39:06.740 With two exceptions.

00:39:09.460 And you're not going

00:39:10.180 to like this.

00:39:11.380 Right?

00:39:12.100 I know you're not

00:39:13.100 going to like this.

00:39:14.460 There are two people

00:39:15.480 that I believe

00:39:16.740 are completely honest

00:39:18.140 about it.

00:39:18.720 probably are really close

00:39:22.060 to also being

00:39:23.060 accurate

00:39:24.700 in terms of

00:39:25.900 understanding it all.

00:39:27.420 One of them

00:39:28.080 is Bill Gates,

00:39:29.680 and I know

00:39:30.440 you don't like that,

00:39:31.900 but I've been

00:39:32.560 watching him

00:39:33.040 for a long time

00:39:34.180 and listened to

00:39:35.120 a lot of what

00:39:35.640 he says about this,

00:39:37.000 and I feel like

00:39:38.140 he's as close

00:39:40.000 as you can get

00:39:40.720 to the real thing.

00:39:42.260 I would bet,

00:39:43.420 I don't know this

00:39:44.220 for sure,

00:39:44.820 but I'll bet

00:39:46.040 if you put

00:39:46.660 Elon Musk

00:39:47.440 and Bill Gates

00:39:48.240 in the same room

00:39:49.080 and said,

00:39:49.680 alright,

00:39:50.180 talk privately

00:39:50.980 about climate change.

00:39:52.880 What is real

00:39:53.600 and why should we

00:39:54.800 not believe

00:39:55.440 about climate change?

00:39:56.860 I'll bet

00:39:57.200 it would be close.

00:39:58.780 Not exact,

00:40:00.340 but I'll bet

00:40:00.760 the two of them

00:40:01.580 would be on the same page

00:40:02.780 about what's real

00:40:03.600 and what isn't.

00:40:04.900 I'll bet you

00:40:05.600 if I said to

00:40:06.400 either one of them

00:40:07.260 that,

00:40:08.240 you know,

00:40:09.260 the economic

00:40:10.040 predictions

00:40:10.780 are not reliable.

00:40:12.920 You know,

00:40:13.100 the ones that

00:40:13.680 look like

00:40:14.700 it's great doom.

00:40:15.700 I think they'd

00:40:16.240 both agree with that,

00:40:17.260 that you can't

00:40:17.860 predict 80 years

00:40:18.700 of economics.

00:40:19.700 Too much innovation,

00:40:20.880 too many surprises

00:40:21.660 along the way.

00:40:23.460 So I would listen

00:40:24.480 to those two people

00:40:25.240 and when you see

00:40:27.920 Elon Musk

00:40:28.760 do something

00:40:30.940 this big,

00:40:32.960 you know,

00:40:33.160 the 100 million

00:40:33.800 for carbon capture,

00:40:37.820 you should take

00:40:38.880 that really seriously.

00:40:40.320 I feel as if

00:40:41.240 you're seeing

00:40:41.980 some kind of a,

00:40:42.820 some kind

00:40:44.680 of a political

00:40:45.440 shift

00:40:46.080 that I like

00:40:47.420 a lot.

00:40:48.360 A lot.

00:40:49.540 And it goes

00:40:49.980 like this.

00:40:52.180 Most of our

00:40:53.000 future problems

00:40:53.840 are going to be

00:40:54.680 technology-related.

00:40:57.560 In other words,

00:40:58.620 you'd have to

00:40:59.140 understand the

00:40:59.680 technology in order

00:41:00.760 to make the right

00:41:01.500 decision.

00:41:02.700 So they're

00:41:03.380 technology-related

00:41:04.220 and they're going

00:41:04.880 to be complicated.

00:41:06.780 Take any issue

00:41:08.060 with China,

00:41:09.160 climate change,

00:41:09.820 whatever,

00:41:10.040 they're complicated.

00:41:12.020 Who is the best

00:41:13.400 type of person

00:41:14.880 to make a

00:41:16.460 difficult decision

00:41:17.660 that's scientific

00:41:19.360 and complicated?

00:41:21.220 A politician

00:41:22.220 who's 80 years old?

00:41:24.280 No.

00:41:25.360 That would be

00:41:25.900 exactly the wrong

00:41:27.080 person to be in charge.

00:41:28.840 An 80-year-old

00:41:29.860 politician

00:41:30.420 with no technical

00:41:32.340 background.

00:41:33.360 You couldn't have

00:41:34.560 a worse choice

00:41:35.440 for a leader

00:41:36.740 in today's world

00:41:38.700 than somebody

00:41:39.340 with that kind

00:41:40.080 of a background.

00:41:40.740 And that's

00:41:41.000 who we elect.

00:41:42.000 We elect the people

00:41:42.880 who aren't even

00:41:43.520 close to having

00:41:45.540 the kind of skills

00:41:46.460 that you would need

00:41:47.460 to do the job.

00:41:48.600 Now, obviously,

00:41:50.260 I know that the

00:41:51.220 experts make

00:41:52.080 recommendations

00:41:52.740 to things,

00:41:54.780 et cetera.

00:41:56.360 So it's not the

00:41:57.220 president who has

00:41:57.920 to have all the

00:41:58.440 technical knowledge.

00:41:59.860 But I don't see

00:42:01.440 it working.

00:42:02.780 I don't see our

00:42:03.680 presidents being

00:42:05.680 technically competent.

00:42:07.480 just in terms

00:42:09.540 of the decisions.

00:42:11.560 So it looks like

00:42:13.100 our billionaire class,

00:42:15.640 let's call them

00:42:16.400 the super capables,

00:42:19.820 have decided that

00:42:20.980 they have to take

00:42:21.660 control.

00:42:23.240 And that may not

00:42:24.340 be a bad thing.

00:42:25.720 For example,

00:42:26.820 you saw that

00:42:27.480 Amazon,

00:42:28.980 let's say Jeff Bezos,

00:42:30.320 it must have been

00:42:31.020 behind it,

00:42:32.260 decided to offer

00:42:33.520 to help with

00:42:34.480 the vaccination

00:42:35.800 rollout.

00:42:39.020 Likewise,

00:42:39.760 some other big

00:42:40.400 corporations are

00:42:41.300 helping as well.

00:42:42.920 So if people

00:42:44.540 like Bezos

00:42:45.220 and Elon Musk

00:42:47.900 and Gates

00:42:48.760 are just saying,

00:42:50.560 well,

00:42:51.000 we're going to have

00:42:51.760 to solve this

00:42:52.340 ourselves,

00:42:54.000 literally,

00:42:54.900 I guess I'll have

00:42:55.520 to do this myself.

00:42:56.440 that's how

00:42:57.960 a Gates

00:42:58.720 or an Elon

00:42:59.800 can think of

00:43:00.420 these things

00:43:00.820 because they have

00:43:01.300 the ability

00:43:02.280 to do that.

00:43:03.100 They can actually

00:43:03.640 solve problems

00:43:04.900 themselves.

00:43:06.380 So maybe we're

00:43:07.220 heading toward a

00:43:07.820 world where

00:43:08.320 our billionaire

00:43:08.980 class,

00:43:09.880 who I'll call

00:43:10.400 the super capables,

00:43:12.380 not the ones

00:43:12.940 who inherited,

00:43:13.800 but the ones

00:43:14.200 who made a

00:43:14.820 billion dollars,

00:43:16.000 they are super

00:43:16.720 capable.

00:43:18.100 And if they

00:43:18.700 start asserting

00:43:19.560 themselves because

00:43:20.480 they need to,

00:43:22.020 because with

00:43:22.740 great power

00:43:23.420 comes great

00:43:24.160 responsibility,

00:43:24.820 this might be

00:43:26.380 the way we

00:43:26.880 solve stuff

00:43:27.500 because we're

00:43:28.620 going to have

00:43:28.960 to innovate

00:43:29.560 our way out

00:43:30.300 of all of

00:43:30.880 our problems.

00:43:32.240 The only way

00:43:32.860 we protect

00:43:33.460 ourselves against

00:43:34.260 China is to 1.00

00:43:35.840 out-innovate.

00:43:37.020 The only way

00:43:37.720 we protect

00:43:38.380 ourselves against

00:43:39.180 losing space

00:43:40.640 is to out-innovate.

00:43:42.600 The only way

00:43:43.280 we get past

00:43:43.940 climate change

00:43:44.880 is to out-innovate.

00:43:46.160 The only way

00:43:46.880 we can get to

00:43:47.540 an election system

00:43:48.540 that's transparent

00:43:49.400 is to innovate.

00:43:51.280 You know,

00:43:51.500 probably some

00:43:52.000 blockchain stuff,

00:43:53.100 whatever.

00:43:53.280 So we've

00:43:55.120 kind of reached

00:43:55.660 this point

00:43:56.280 where the

00:43:57.700 people who

00:43:58.600 matter,

00:43:59.860 the ones who

00:44:00.440 could make

00:44:01.160 a difference,

00:44:02.300 are the ones

00:44:02.720 who can

00:44:03.060 understand

00:44:03.740 complicated

00:44:04.340 things and

00:44:06.280 are hyper-capable

00:44:08.600 innovators who

00:44:09.580 can push the

00:44:10.460 right direction

00:44:11.900 and pull the

00:44:12.380 right lever.

00:44:13.580 So we're lucky

00:44:14.240 to have them.

00:44:15.420 And I don't

00:44:17.600 know that

00:44:18.360 our super

00:44:20.820 capables don't

00:44:21.740 get enough

00:44:22.280 credit.

00:44:23.280 rather than

00:44:24.560 calling them

00:44:25.240 billionaires,

00:44:26.120 which makes

00:44:26.580 you automatically

00:44:27.260 biased against

00:44:29.040 them if you

00:44:29.500 don't have a

00:44:29.900 billion dollars

00:44:30.740 yourself,

00:44:32.160 let's just

00:44:33.520 call them

00:44:33.840 super-capables.

00:44:35.740 Because Bill

00:44:36.660 Gates,

00:44:37.920 he's not like

00:44:38.700 you, right?

00:44:39.820 He's not like

00:44:40.420 you and me.

00:44:41.160 He's super-capable

00:44:42.240 by whatever he

00:44:43.260 chooses to do.

00:44:45.260 He's probably

00:44:45.840 going to do it

00:44:46.300 better than you

00:44:46.740 would do it.

00:44:47.880 And Elon Musk

00:44:48.900 is the same.

00:44:49.380 So you've got

00:44:51.240 your people like

00:44:51.900 your Naval

00:44:53.800 Ravikantz,

00:44:55.000 your Peter

00:44:55.940 Thiel's,

00:44:56.940 you know.

00:44:57.760 There's a lot

00:44:58.760 of people who

00:45:00.620 I'd put in the

00:45:01.240 super-capable

00:45:02.080 category, and

00:45:03.920 they have begun

00:45:04.860 to assert

00:45:05.760 themselves

00:45:06.440 individually,

00:45:08.260 mostly individually.

00:45:09.440 I don't think

00:45:09.940 they'll end up

00:45:10.540 forming some

00:45:11.440 kind of a

00:45:12.500 billionaire

00:45:13.080 cartel.

00:45:13.740 they could,

00:45:15.860 but I don't

00:45:17.020 think their

00:45:17.720 personalities are

00:45:18.620 leaning in that

00:45:19.160 direction.

00:45:20.180 So,

00:45:20.620 that's the good

00:45:22.460 news.

00:45:23.000 If you want to

00:45:23.480 know the good

00:45:23.920 news,

00:45:25.240 our super-capables

00:45:26.620 have decided to

00:45:27.540 step up.

00:45:28.500 And by the way,

00:45:29.080 I'm seeing it in

00:45:29.800 a whole bunch of

00:45:30.440 realms,

00:45:31.140 maybe more than

00:45:32.300 you're seeing it,

00:45:33.520 because I know

00:45:35.080 people who know

00:45:35.640 people, that sort

00:45:36.400 of thing.

00:45:37.400 And it does

00:45:38.700 seem that the

00:45:40.020 super-capables

00:45:41.740 have decided they

00:45:43.580 have to take

00:45:44.020 matters into

00:45:44.540 their own

00:45:44.920 hands.

00:45:47.260 And now that

00:45:48.020 I've called

00:45:48.920 these people

00:45:49.380 super-capable,

00:45:50.600 I'll look like a 0.98

00:45:51.820 dick for the

00:45:52.300 next thing I'm

00:45:52.820 going to say.

00:45:53.720 But if I've

00:45:54.360 taught you

00:45:54.660 anything, I'm

00:45:55.360 not afraid of

00:45:55.920 looking like an

00:45:56.540 idiot, so I'm

00:45:58.060 just going to

00:45:58.380 say it, because

00:45:58.820 it's useful.

00:46:01.220 I told you that

00:46:02.060 I was going to

00:46:02.440 try to form a

00:46:03.600 group of

00:46:04.960 independent

00:46:06.280 thinkers to

00:46:07.940 review the

00:46:08.660 news to tell

00:46:09.540 you which news

00:46:10.220 is fake news

00:46:10.920 and which news

00:46:11.640 you should

00:46:11.960 depend on.

00:46:13.580 Now I'm

00:46:14.180 still on my

00:46:15.480 honeymoon, so

00:46:16.260 that won't

00:46:17.480 happen this

00:46:17.960 week.

00:46:18.560 But as soon

00:46:19.060 as I get

00:46:19.340 back, I'll

00:46:19.700 start putting

00:46:20.680 together some

00:46:21.200 people who

00:46:21.620 can help you

00:46:22.140 sort out what's

00:46:22.900 true and what

00:46:23.440 isn't in the

00:46:24.500 news.

00:46:25.520 Now, why do I

00:46:27.020 do that?

00:46:28.460 Why isn't that

00:46:29.860 somebody else's

00:46:30.580 job?

00:46:31.220 Why can't the

00:46:31.780 news do it?

00:46:32.480 Can the

00:46:33.520 government do

00:46:34.060 anything?

00:46:34.700 Probably not.

00:46:36.300 So I'm just

00:46:38.300 sort of sitting

00:46:39.040 here saying,

00:46:39.600 maybe I

00:46:41.320 can fix

00:46:41.720 that.

00:46:43.660 Or at

00:46:44.100 least I

00:46:44.400 can take a

00:46:44.960 shot at it

00:46:45.440 and maybe

00:46:45.740 learn something.

00:46:46.780 Maybe I

00:46:47.120 can learn

00:46:47.440 what doesn't

00:46:48.020 work.

00:46:49.840 So I

00:46:52.160 don't put

00:46:52.740 myself anywhere

00:46:53.600 near the

00:46:54.300 Bill Gates,

00:46:55.120 Elon Musk,

00:46:56.460 Naval,

00:46:57.720 Ravikant,

00:46:58.820 super capable

00:46:59.960 category.

00:47:01.960 But I can do

00:47:03.020 some stuff.

00:47:04.200 I have some

00:47:05.440 powers at a

00:47:07.480 lower level.

00:47:08.040 And so it

00:47:09.940 just felt to

00:47:10.500 me that if I

00:47:11.100 didn't do it,

00:47:11.660 it wouldn't

00:47:11.920 get done.

00:47:13.800 Imagine that

00:47:15.020 feeling times

00:47:16.620 20 if you're

00:47:17.660 Bill Gates or

00:47:18.600 you're Elon

00:47:20.100 Musk.

00:47:20.880 If they don't

00:47:21.800 do it, it

00:47:23.460 might not get

00:47:23.980 done.

00:47:25.060 Do you think

00:47:25.480 Elon Musk

00:47:26.120 offered $100

00:47:27.040 million for

00:47:28.480 carbon capture

00:47:29.320 technology because

00:47:31.120 he thought it

00:47:31.680 would happen

00:47:32.080 without him?

00:47:33.320 Probably not.

00:47:34.740 He probably

00:47:35.200 thought there's

00:47:35.880 a good chance

00:47:36.420 this isn't

00:47:37.020 going to happen

00:47:37.460 unless I

00:47:38.020 personally make

00:47:40.000 it happen.

00:47:41.020 That is one

00:47:41.800 hell of a

00:47:42.380 responsibility to

00:47:43.320 have on you.

00:47:44.660 And my

00:47:46.640 God, we are

00:47:48.600 so lucky,

00:47:50.600 so lucky,

00:47:52.780 that the

00:47:53.520 hyper capables

00:47:54.700 are on our

00:47:55.980 side.

00:47:56.980 All right?

00:47:57.920 There are

00:47:58.860 more, there

00:47:59.680 are probably

00:48:00.040 more American

00:48:01.340 hyper capables

00:48:03.420 or super

00:48:04.540 capables than

00:48:05.720 anywhere else.

00:48:06.460 and I don't

00:48:06.960 know why.

00:48:08.080 Some of it

00:48:08.740 is the

00:48:10.620 people we've

00:48:11.180 attracted to

00:48:11.820 this country.

00:48:13.420 Some of it

00:48:14.240 is our

00:48:15.960 entrepreneurial

00:48:16.560 way of life.

00:48:19.620 Maybe it

00:48:20.360 promotes this

00:48:20.900 sort of thing

00:48:21.420 better than

00:48:22.160 other places.

00:48:23.240 Maybe it's

00:48:23.700 cultural.

00:48:24.180 I don't know

00:48:25.560 I don't know

00:48:25.580 exactly what

00:48:26.120 it is.

00:48:26.960 But we do

00:48:27.720 produce more

00:48:28.500 super capables

00:48:29.500 than other

00:48:29.980 places.

00:48:30.620 We just

00:48:31.000 invent more

00:48:31.640 stuff.

00:48:32.540 I don't

00:48:32.780 know why.

00:48:33.160 How do

00:48:38.860 you gather

00:48:39.260 info without

00:48:40.000 a huge

00:48:40.540 network?

00:48:42.960 It's a

00:48:43.640 general

00:48:43.940 question.

00:48:49.320 Herbert

00:48:49.840 Hoover and

00:48:50.500 Jimmy Carter

00:48:51.100 are what

00:48:51.600 happens when

00:48:52.140 you let

00:48:52.520 engineers run

00:48:53.440 things.

00:48:54.240 Well, let

00:48:54.860 me make a

00:48:55.440 distinction.

00:48:57.120 You don't

00:48:57.900 want an

00:48:58.380 engineer to

00:48:59.520 be your

00:49:00.200 president if

00:49:01.700 that's all

00:49:02.080 they've done.

00:49:03.480 I wouldn't

00:49:05.140 take somebody

00:49:05.740 who ran

00:49:07.600 a peanut

00:49:08.040 farm but

00:49:08.740 also was an

00:49:09.400 engineer and

00:49:10.000 say, okay,

00:49:10.680 we're in good

00:49:11.260 shape now.

00:49:12.340 But the

00:49:13.120 super capables

00:49:13.940 are different.

00:49:15.080 They made

00:49:15.820 their billions

00:49:16.460 through their

00:49:17.800 inventiveness,

00:49:19.300 etc.

00:49:19.960 So when

00:49:20.860 you've got an

00:49:21.320 engineer who

00:49:21.920 also made

00:49:22.760 billions of

00:49:23.780 dollars multiple

00:49:24.600 times, that's

00:49:26.360 more than an

00:49:27.080 engineer.

00:49:28.000 That's somebody

00:49:28.580 who is an

00:49:29.000 engineer plus

00:49:30.660 has all of

00:49:31.500 the

00:49:31.780 all the

00:49:32.960 qualities you

00:49:33.580 need to

00:49:33.980 make a

00:49:35.100 billion dollars.

00:49:38.260 Somebody

00:49:38.780 says, is

00:49:39.320 PragerU

00:49:40.000 content mostly

00:49:41.080 true?

00:49:42.020 What kind

00:49:42.700 of question

00:49:43.040 is that?

00:49:44.220 I don't

00:49:44.800 even know

00:49:45.140 what content

00:49:45.580 you're doubting.

00:49:47.460 Obviously,

00:49:48.240 they lean

00:49:48.740 heavily right,

00:49:50.620 but beyond

00:49:51.800 that, I

00:49:52.280 don't know

00:49:52.460 what you're

00:49:52.660 talking about.

00:49:59.020 Is there

00:49:59.620 a pool?

00:50:00.040 All right,

00:50:02.420 just looking

00:50:02.740 at your

00:50:02.960 comments.

00:50:03.600 I don't

00:50:03.820 have much

00:50:04.180 more.

00:50:04.580 I'm going

00:50:04.840 to sign

00:50:05.440 off for

00:50:05.740 today.

00:50:06.620 Maybe my

00:50:07.140 technology

00:50:07.660 will work

00:50:08.160 better tomorrow.

00:50:09.000 We'll see.

00:50:09.900 Until then,

00:50:12.220 have a great

00:50:12.780 time.

00:50:13.180 I'll see you

00:50:13.680 tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 23, 2021

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