Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 23, 2021


Episode 1261 Scott Adams： Coffee Now!


Episode Stats

Length

50 minutes

Words per Minute

144.05351

Word Count

7,236

Sentence Count

478

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

12


Summary

In this episode of the podcast, I talk about the latest in the Biden vs. Trump debate, and how Biden may have won the election with the help of massive voter fraud. I also talk about a new conspiracy theory about why Trump supporters are bugging people who voted for Trump.


Transcript

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,
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
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
00:11:58.240 controls Biden
00:11:59.240 and that
00:12:00.420 China has
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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.