Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 21, 2021


Episode 1292 Scott Adams： How to End Racism, Billionaires Save the World, Fake News and More


Episode Stats

Length

59 minutes

Words per Minute

144.87909

Word Count

8,653

Sentence Count

572

Misogynist Sentences

14

Hate Speech Sentences

19


Summary

Sen. Ted Cruz returns to his home state of Texas to help raise money for the relief efforts in the wake of the plane crash that claimed the lives of at least 20 people in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Former Vice President Joe Biden tells CNN's Jake Tapper that there are no leaders in the country anymore.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, come on in, come on in.
00:00:06.160 Good job getting here on time, for those of you who did.
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00:00:49.440 Ah.
00:00:50.000 Well, AOC collected three or four million dollars for Texas, but that's nothing compared
00:01:00.820 to what Ted Cruz did by returning to Texas and warming the state directly.
00:01:07.440 So, congratulations, Texas.
00:01:11.220 Happy to see that you're coming out of it.
00:01:13.540 And just as we all suspected, Texas is one of our good states.
00:01:21.640 I don't want to tell you who the bad ones are, really.
00:01:24.360 Don't want to embarrass you.
00:01:26.180 Rhode Island.
00:01:27.500 But Texas is one of our more capable states.
00:01:32.180 And they just took one of the biggest disasters you can imagine, took it on the chin, and almost
00:01:40.860 all of them survived.
00:01:42.000 There were some tragic deaths.
00:01:44.540 But good for Texas.
00:01:46.480 We would expect nothing less of you Texans.
00:01:50.740 Have you noticed that there's no leaders in the country anymore?
00:01:55.380 Is that my imagination?
00:01:58.140 There aren't any leaders anymore?
00:02:00.500 I mean, there are people in charge.
00:02:03.080 But it seems as if the moment you take Trump off the stage, love him or hate him, there's
00:02:09.900 not much left, is there?
00:02:11.180 You know, who is Biden really the standard bearer for the Democrats?
00:02:19.000 Is Nancy Pelosi?
00:02:21.700 You'd have to go all the way down to, I say down to, but, you know, in terms of rank, down
00:02:27.420 to AOC before you get anybody who's got any charismatic firepower, any new ideas, any energy at all.
00:02:35.680 And I think she's still a little too young to take the position that I think ultimately she will have, which is probably the presidency, eventually.
00:02:46.500 But how about the Republicans?
00:02:50.160 Who do the Republicans have?
00:02:51.980 Well, I would have said Ted Cruz toward the top of the list.
00:02:55.320 But you can see that the Democrats are doing a pretty good job of carpet bombing anywhere that Ted Cruz goes.
00:03:04.000 So they may be able to suppress him.
00:03:08.380 Yeah, you can name some names.
00:03:10.280 Rand Paul, Matt Gaetz, Tom Cotton.
00:03:13.320 You know, you can name a number of people.
00:03:15.680 But there's nobody that the whole country says, oh, there's a leader.
00:03:21.820 Or even the whole party.
00:03:23.840 You can't even get half of them.
00:03:25.740 So here's what I would like to suggest.
00:03:29.920 There's a real danger here.
00:03:32.080 Because there's a vacuum.
00:03:34.860 And I don't know that the United States does well when there's a vacuum of leadership.
00:03:42.260 Right?
00:03:42.780 Because that's sort of what gets you in trouble.
00:03:46.120 Trump came along at a time when there also wasn't much to compete with in terms of a brand that was obviously a leadership brand.
00:03:56.320 And that path is still wide open.
00:03:59.600 Yeah, you can name, you know, Tulsi Gabbard, Ron DeSantis.
00:04:03.700 These are all good names, all capable people.
00:04:06.140 But none of them are dominant right now.
00:04:09.420 Yeah.
00:04:09.600 And I worry that a charismatic figure could take advantage of this.
00:04:16.740 So watch out for your next Rasputin type of person to come along.
00:04:21.460 It's wide open.
00:04:23.140 And I say this without joking.
00:04:26.100 If I had any interest in this job, it would be dangerous.
00:04:30.360 Because I think I could get it.
00:04:31.820 Like, if I actually wanted to be president, I feel like I could do it under today's conditions.
00:04:40.940 But seriously, I do not want that job.
00:04:43.200 That would be, literally, I can't even imagine a worse job.
00:04:46.900 Can you imagine a worse job than being president?
00:04:49.160 I can't.
00:04:52.740 And I wouldn't do the commute.
00:04:54.420 All right, here's the good news.
00:04:56.580 I'll give you extra good news.
00:04:59.440 Two good newses.
00:05:00.400 Number one, you saw the news about the 777 with the bad engine.
00:05:05.620 Well, I'm very tuned into all kind of aircraft problems, because most of you know by now, my wife, Christina, is a pilot.
00:05:17.620 So she recently got her pilot license, as well as her high performance rating, which means that she's qualified to fly an airplane upside down.
00:05:27.220 So, I always think that's funny, is, you know, a lot of people are proud that they're pilots.
00:05:36.660 It's like, my wife is a pilot, too.
00:05:39.860 And she can fly her airplane upside down.
00:05:42.420 Just saying.
00:05:43.720 I don't know.
00:05:44.260 I don't know if you can do that.
00:05:45.840 Anyway, you can only do that with certain airplanes, obviously.
00:05:48.440 Not every airplane.
00:05:50.120 By the way, have you ever, did you ever take a class in, let's say, science class, or maybe you read it somewhere?
00:05:57.220 To learn how a wing creates lift?
00:06:02.420 You're all science people, right?
00:06:07.100 Trust the science.
00:06:09.420 Can you explain to me how it is that an airplane's wing creates lift in the comments?
00:06:17.440 I'm seeing the answer here.
00:06:18.860 The Bernoulli principle.
00:06:20.880 Right.
00:06:21.780 The Bernoulli principle.
00:06:23.060 And the way that works is, if you haven't had that explained to you, let's say my phone here is the wing.
00:06:30.240 Because the wing is curved on the top, but flat on the bottom, the airflow takes longer to get across the top than it does over the bottom.
00:06:40.140 And therefore, it's lighter.
00:06:41.820 There's less air pressure on the top.
00:06:44.960 Oh, wait for the punchline.
00:06:47.960 Wait for the punchline.
00:06:49.860 Some of you are getting ahead of me.
00:06:51.880 No, I'm not dumb.
00:06:54.660 I'm not dumb.
00:06:57.520 There's actually going to be a twist here.
00:07:00.120 Wait for it.
00:07:01.440 Wait for it.
00:07:02.120 All right.
00:07:03.600 So as you know, and we're all taught, that the Bernoulli principle says the air going over the top will be less air pressure than the air in the bottom.
00:07:12.480 Because it's the same amount of air, but it's traveling faster over the top.
00:07:17.000 Longer distance, I mean.
00:07:18.580 So it's lighter.
00:07:19.640 And that means that the air in the bottom is heavier, so it lifts the wing.
00:07:24.320 Right?
00:07:25.220 You've all been taught that.
00:07:26.440 It's pretty obvious.
00:07:27.940 Okay.
00:07:28.200 Now, my wife gets in the plane, and then she flies it upside down.
00:07:38.520 What happened to your brain?
00:07:42.080 Same wing, and it only works one way, right?
00:07:46.240 Because it's got to have the curvy side up.
00:07:48.040 That's how the Bernoulli principle works.
00:07:50.380 But my wife gets in the plane, takes off, turns it upside down, and flies.
00:07:58.500 How?
00:08:00.100 Let me tell you how.
00:08:02.700 Fake news is how.
00:08:05.360 The Bernoulli principle?
00:08:07.580 Bullshit.
00:08:08.940 It's obvious bullshit.
00:08:11.640 Do you know why it's obviously not true?
00:08:14.420 Have I mentioned that my wife can get in an airplane and fly upside down?
00:08:18.760 It doesn't matter which side the wing is on.
00:08:21.420 And you don't have to wonder if it's true.
00:08:26.340 Just look up and watch.
00:08:28.540 You can watch an airplane fly upside down.
00:08:30.960 Just go to an air show.
00:08:31.940 Are these like special magic wings that have a different shape?
00:08:39.020 No.
00:08:40.300 No.
00:08:41.220 And how about an airplane that doesn't have the rounded top?
00:08:45.560 If it doesn't have the rounded top and the flat bottom, it's not going to work, right?
00:08:51.340 Except that they exist.
00:08:53.420 There are airplanes with flat wings.
00:08:56.360 They don't need that Bernoulli principle.
00:08:59.240 So you watched and, you know, a lot of you didn't know the answer, but did you see how
00:09:03.760 many people confidently said, oh, yeah, it's the Bernoulli principle.
00:09:08.680 We all learned that in science.
00:09:11.200 Everybody knows that.
00:09:12.020 In fact, you could probably Google it and it would still tell you that the Bernoulli principle
00:09:16.500 is what's going on.
00:09:17.520 It couldn't be.
00:09:20.080 Let me tell you what's going on.
00:09:22.500 The same thing as a water ski.
00:09:25.520 Do you know if you're in the water and you're getting ready to water ski, the reason that
00:09:29.840 you rise up onto your water ski is because the water has more mass, you know, when you're
00:09:37.340 moving against it, than the ski does.
00:09:41.060 So the ski is supported by the effective mass of the water as you're moving fast.
00:09:47.520 Same with the air.
00:09:49.320 That's it.
00:09:50.520 As long as the air has some mass and you've got this big wing that's moving against it,
00:09:55.740 it'll lift.
00:09:56.940 That's the whole story.
00:09:58.500 And how many of you are having this experience right now?
00:10:02.440 Are you kidding me?
00:10:03.940 I thought that was obvious, settled science that we've known for decades.
00:10:08.660 I learned it in school.
00:10:11.060 Not only was it not true ever, it was obviously not true.
00:10:17.520 Obviously.
00:10:20.200 Do you know why it was obviously not true?
00:10:22.540 Because you can fly upside down.
00:10:25.260 That's all you need to know.
00:10:27.860 All right.
00:10:29.180 So all I was going to say about this, there are like four aircraft crashing stories.
00:10:36.580 And of course, it's scary if your wife is a pilot to hear any of these stories.
00:10:39.860 But one of the things I learned from Christina is that if your problem happens when you're
00:10:46.480 pretty high in the air, that's actually safer than if it happens during takeoff or landing.
00:10:53.100 You don't want a problem that happens during the takeoff or that happens during the landing.
00:10:59.100 That's when you notice the problem.
00:11:00.580 Well, that's bad.
00:11:02.260 But if you're way high in the air and you lose one engine, it's not as bad as almost anything else could be.
00:11:11.800 Right?
00:11:11.900 So kudos to the pilot who took it down expertly and kept everybody safe.
00:11:19.440 But probably, as long as both wings were working and navigation, you know, the controls were working
00:11:28.680 and one engine was working and they were high enough in the air, they were probably going to make it.
00:11:35.680 Right?
00:11:35.820 So the odds were actually well on their side and it came through good.
00:11:41.000 All right.
00:11:42.880 I would like to propose a way to end racism.
00:11:47.080 Are you ready for this?
00:11:50.060 And I'm not even joking.
00:11:52.940 You know, that's the sort of thing you say when it sounds like you're going to introduce a joke or something.
00:11:58.220 Right?
00:11:58.780 I'm not even joking.
00:11:59.520 I'm going to give you an actual, legitimate, practical way to end racism.
00:12:08.400 Now, the first thing, of course, you have to fix the schools.
00:12:12.540 You've got to get rid of the teachers' unions or at least bypass them somehow.
00:12:18.820 Because if you don't have good schools, you're not really going to have a chance of everybody having at least equal opportunity
00:12:24.840 and closing gaps in the long run.
00:12:26.720 But beyond that, there's also the way you feel.
00:12:30.040 Right?
00:12:31.720 There's the real structural stuff.
00:12:34.060 But I think that we can work on that over time.
00:12:36.680 But on top of that, there's the psychology of it.
00:12:39.900 So I'm going to be talking about the psychology of it.
00:12:43.100 Okay?
00:12:44.480 I just saw maybe, well, I'll just describe what it is and then you can put your own take on it.
00:12:53.640 But there's a TikTok video made by a black man and you have to hear that part first.
00:13:01.860 All right?
00:13:02.160 We still live in a world where I have to tell you that something was done by a black man or, you know, a white woman or something.
00:13:10.160 So it still matters.
00:13:12.360 Unfortunately.
00:13:13.160 You still have to, like, start your story that way or else the story doesn't make sense.
00:13:16.480 So it's a TikTok video made by a black man in which he puts the audio, I assume he made it himself,
00:13:23.840 puts the audio of Joe Biden somewhat inartfully describing how some people can't get online
00:13:32.420 and he made it sound as if minorities have more trouble operating computers.
00:13:37.900 Now, I don't think that Biden meant it that way, which I'll talk about in a minute.
00:13:46.740 But it came out that way.
00:13:48.160 Just, you know, the words on the surface came out sounding insensitive, you know, poorly constructed.
00:13:54.740 And a lot of people made fun of it because it sounded like he was, you know, secretly racist
00:13:59.300 and thought that black people couldn't work computers or something.
00:14:04.160 So whoever the gentleman is who made this video is very talented.
00:14:09.900 All right?
00:14:10.340 Now, again, in order for you not to get mad at me and for me not to get canceled, hear this first part.
00:14:18.860 This is a video made by a black man.
00:14:21.880 All right?
00:14:22.480 If it had not been made by a black man, it would be very inappropriate.
00:14:26.620 Like, really, really inappropriate.
00:14:29.300 As in a 10 out of 10 for inappropriate, if anybody else had made it.
00:14:34.940 But it was made by a black guy.
00:14:36.780 Right?
00:14:37.320 So this matters to the story.
00:14:39.900 And what he did was he did sort of like a reenactment almost of the, what movie is it?
00:14:48.600 2001 Space Odyssey, where a bunch of monkeys find an obelisk and they, you know, they're amazed
00:14:56.500 by the technology and they just start going monkey crazy and going, wah, wah, wah, wah.
00:15:01.100 Well, this gentleman, who again, for the purpose of the story, you need to know, is black.
00:15:07.860 Does this hilarious, and I mean, you will cry when you see it.
00:15:13.740 Like, you will actually cry.
00:15:15.300 It is so frickin' funny.
00:15:18.020 So the first thing you need to know is he's really talented, whoever he is.
00:15:21.740 I'd love to know who he is.
00:15:22.940 But he does an impression of an actual monkey with a laptop on the ground.
00:15:27.940 And I don't want to ruin it for you, but you have to see just his physical comedy of trying
00:15:34.360 to figure out a laptop, making fun of Joe Biden while the Joe Biden audio is playing on the top.
00:15:42.020 Now, compare.
00:15:46.680 Compare what this genius did, because if you watch it, you know, it's funny to say somebody's a genius,
00:15:54.820 you know, acting like a monkey and dancing around a laptop.
00:15:57.360 But you have to see how well he did it.
00:16:01.060 Like, until you see how well he executed the joke, if you will, you can't understand how talented he was.
00:16:09.400 But watching this is just hilarious.
00:16:12.160 And the first thing you say is, well, I like that guy, right?
00:16:15.440 Like, he seems like somebody you'd want to hang out with, because he's so frickin' funny.
00:16:19.240 And I don't think there's a more productive way to deal with racism.
00:16:25.320 Now, when I say racism, again, there's a separate issue with structural racism and systemic racism.
00:16:32.740 You have to keep working on those.
00:16:34.280 But on top of that, the part I'm talking about is the psychology.
00:16:37.660 Just how do you feel about each other?
00:16:40.000 Like, what do you feel when you have any kind of, you know, racial interaction?
00:16:45.620 And I've never seen a more productive way to deal with it,
00:16:49.660 which is just to treat it like people are idiots, and it's funny.
00:16:56.240 That's it.
00:16:57.700 We're all idiots, sometimes, right?
00:17:01.380 Sometimes I'm an idiot.
00:17:03.000 It's not like you haven't seen that, right?
00:17:06.080 There's nobody here who can't say that I haven't acted like an idiot.
00:17:11.040 Sometimes.
00:17:12.280 You've all acted like idiots.
00:17:14.380 You've all done things that when you look back at it, you just laugh at yourself,
00:17:17.640 because you're just sort of irrational.
00:17:19.580 Kind of an idiot.
00:17:20.280 And the way this video treats this issue, I don't think it could be better, right?
00:17:28.440 And I think we need to find our way back to the point where you can mock yourself.
00:17:38.260 Right?
00:17:39.400 You should be able to catch yourself being somewhat, like, accidentally racist,
00:17:45.220 and just laugh at yourself for being a dope.
00:17:48.920 Like, you've got to get to that point where you're not done, right?
00:17:52.480 We're always going to have this bad feeling.
00:17:54.360 Like, why can't somebody make just a joke about how stupid we are?
00:18:02.260 Because we're all stupid sometimes, right?
00:18:04.860 Now, watching the way this guy handled this, imagine, think about how, like,
00:18:11.560 The Root handled it, you know, this publication.
00:18:14.180 Probably there were a whole bunch of people who said,
00:18:19.560 That Joe Biden, let's look at his history of things he said in the past that were racist.
00:18:25.200 Let's climb on top of him.
00:18:27.100 Hey, even the Democrats are bad.
00:18:29.100 And, you know, he's probably a secret white supremacist.
00:18:32.080 There's a million unproductive ways that Joe Biden's inartful language could have been dealt with.
00:18:40.260 But there wasn't a better way.
00:18:41.980 The way this, and I'd love to know his name just because he was so talented.
00:18:47.340 But this was sort of genius.
00:18:50.340 Sort of genius.
00:18:51.620 We should mock racism out of existence.
00:18:56.320 But you have to do it by mocking yourself.
00:18:59.360 If you're mocking other people, maybe you're not doing it right.
00:19:03.220 But in a sense, the guy who did this prank,
00:19:05.980 he was mocking Biden, but sort of also, you know, mocking people, I would say.
00:19:14.120 All right.
00:19:14.680 Well, let me, that's the first part of my solution to racism.
00:19:19.180 Again, not talking about the systemic part, which needs, you know, real work,
00:19:24.120 but the psychological part.
00:19:25.660 And it goes like this.
00:19:28.700 Every now and then, you've heard me say this before,
00:19:31.200 you need to introduce new standards of manners, you know, good manners,
00:19:38.520 because the world changes.
00:19:41.040 So, for example, 100 years ago, you needed no standard of manners for cell phones
00:19:46.020 because they didn't exist.
00:19:47.880 But now, you know, you have to make, you have to come up with a standard of,
00:19:52.040 can you use your phone in a crowded restaurant and, you know, blah, blah, blah.
00:19:56.980 So, given that, you know, racism has also evolved,
00:20:01.280 every now and then, maybe you should review your standard of just how we interact.
00:20:07.900 What is good manners and what is not.
00:20:09.920 And I would like to suggest the following standard.
00:20:13.300 Now, by analogy, many of you know I introduced the standard recently of the 48-hour rule,
00:20:25.180 which is you just give anybody 48 hours to clarify or apologize
00:20:29.400 for something they said in public that maybe sounded a little sketchy to you.
00:20:34.460 And then if they do apologize, just accept it and move on.
00:20:38.320 So that's just a good standard for life because people say a lot of things on social media
00:20:42.680 it would be better if we don't crucify everybody who makes a mistake.
00:20:47.420 And I also introduced the 20-year rule,
00:20:50.380 which is if there's something in your past 20 years ago,
00:20:54.160 and by the way, I would shorten that the younger you are, right?
00:20:58.940 At my age, I'll take the full 20 years and say,
00:21:02.920 all right, if it was 20 years ago, I was a different person.
00:21:05.480 But if, let's say, you're in your 30s,
00:21:08.480 maybe it's more of a 10-year thing because you're changing faster during that period.
00:21:12.680 But the concept is you shouldn't necessarily have to take responsibility
00:21:18.160 for what a different person did, which is you when you were younger.
00:21:22.540 You're kind of different, right?
00:21:25.300 But here's my new set of rules, and it goes like this,
00:21:28.660 to end racism.
00:21:30.060 Only the wokeness part, not the systemic part.
00:21:33.480 That the only thing that matters when people are saying things
00:21:39.240 that you think sound racist,
00:21:40.920 the only thing that matters is their intention.
00:21:45.480 If you intend to be a good person,
00:21:48.680 but you've accidentally used a phrase that sounded offensive,
00:21:53.180 that's not so offensive, is it?
00:21:55.420 Because it was accidental.
00:21:56.940 I'll give you an analogy.
00:21:57.960 If somebody bumped into you
00:21:59.900 and accidentally touched you in your, let's say, crotch area,
00:22:04.740 you might be startled,
00:22:06.740 but you wouldn't be offended
00:22:08.220 because they just bumped into you.
00:22:09.860 It was just an accident.
00:22:11.260 But if they intentionally touched you there,
00:22:14.040 well, now you've got a fight on your hands, right?
00:22:16.700 So there's a big difference between things that happen
00:22:20.020 and things you intend.
00:22:22.280 And so it is with words.
00:22:23.640 If you say something that sounds terrible,
00:22:26.660 but you didn't intend it that way in any sense,
00:22:30.200 I think we need to take that into consideration.
00:22:32.920 But there's a second part here.
00:22:35.020 How do you trust anybody's intentions?
00:22:39.000 Because you can't see them, right?
00:22:40.520 You can hear what they say,
00:22:42.040 but you can't see their intentions.
00:22:44.360 So here's the rule which I would promote going forward.
00:22:49.380 That, number one, only their intentions matter.
00:22:52.080 And if their intentions don't match the words,
00:22:55.540 you have to go with the intentions, right?
00:22:57.520 So if there's any disagreement
00:22:58.720 with what somebody says is their intention
00:23:02.040 and their words,
00:23:04.020 you should always say,
00:23:04.980 oh, it's the intention that mattered, right?
00:23:07.540 That's rule number one.
00:23:09.500 Rule number two,
00:23:10.300 how do you trust they're telling the truth?
00:23:12.760 Because maybe they're just trying to cover their ass.
00:23:15.680 Rule number two is,
00:23:17.200 doesn't matter.
00:23:19.020 It doesn't matter if it's true.
00:23:20.540 Now, it's going to take a moment
00:23:22.920 to understand why that's a good rule.
00:23:26.300 Because do you want to live in a world
00:23:28.480 where we're crucifying each other
00:23:31.600 for misstatements or even bad intentions,
00:23:34.120 or do you want to live in a world
00:23:36.040 where it's okay to improve?
00:23:38.480 It's okay to be corrected.
00:23:40.340 It's okay to find out that your opinion
00:23:42.400 is not socially acceptable.
00:23:45.540 I would rather that somebody makes a mistake,
00:23:49.680 their words maybe do match their intentions,
00:23:52.180 and it's not really a good intention,
00:23:54.140 but then they're corrected,
00:23:56.020 then they apologize,
00:23:57.700 and then they say to themselves,
00:23:59.400 well, that didn't work out for me.
00:24:01.460 Maybe I won't do that again.
00:24:03.220 So I don't care if you have bad intentions
00:24:05.420 that you keep to yourself.
00:24:07.940 This is important to the concept.
00:24:10.120 I'm not trying to change anybody's intentions,
00:24:12.560 because that would be like brainwashing
00:24:14.080 and manipulation.
00:24:15.260 You can keep your private thoughts.
00:24:17.920 I only care about them
00:24:19.120 when they enter the real world.
00:24:21.040 And if giving you a little bit of a spanking
00:24:23.100 for what you said
00:24:24.540 that did in fact match your intentions,
00:24:27.740 if that causes you not to express this
00:24:30.860 in the real world,
00:24:32.040 the only place it matters,
00:24:33.860 I don't care if it's happening in your head,
00:24:35.860 and you're willing to pretend
00:24:37.800 that you will now be that person
00:24:41.120 who is more polite, let's say,
00:24:44.600 that's fine with me.
00:24:46.420 If you're willing to pretend
00:24:48.260 to be a good person,
00:24:50.860 even if you've got bad thoughts in your head,
00:24:53.500 you're 100% okay with me,
00:24:55.740 because the only thing I'm asking you to do
00:24:58.320 is to act well.
00:25:01.900 I don't ask you to think well.
00:25:05.180 It's not even a reasonable thing to ask anybody,
00:25:08.120 nor would I want you to ask me to think right,
00:25:10.800 because that would just be your opinion
00:25:12.440 of what to think right,
00:25:13.980 just as my opinion of how you should think
00:25:16.760 should be irrelevant to you.
00:25:18.960 But the way you act,
00:25:21.100 that might affect me.
00:25:22.340 Now I'm in on that decision.
00:25:25.060 So here's the standard again.
00:25:27.140 If somebody says something such as Joe Biden did,
00:25:30.020 this sounded sketchy,
00:25:32.120 doesn't matter,
00:25:33.360 as long as you know their intentions are okay.
00:25:35.840 If you don't know their intentions are okay,
00:25:38.580 the only way to investigate it
00:25:42.220 is to ask them,
00:25:44.160 and then accept whatever they say,
00:25:47.120 even if it's a lie.
00:25:48.460 You're better off accepting the lie
00:25:50.500 under this specific situation.
00:25:53.560 Because in the real world,
00:25:55.580 manners are often lies, aren't they?
00:25:58.360 Sometimes good manners
00:25:59.760 means sort of a polite lie,
00:26:02.920 such as,
00:26:03.720 oh, I have to get home early
00:26:04.980 because of the babysitter.
00:26:07.300 Maybe you're just not having a good time.
00:26:09.800 Right?
00:26:10.700 So good manners do include
00:26:13.380 little harmless lies.
00:26:15.660 We accept that as part of society.
00:26:18.620 So intentions matter.
00:26:20.060 The only person who can tell you
00:26:21.180 their intentions
00:26:21.820 is the person who said it,
00:26:23.320 accept it whether it's true or not,
00:26:25.120 because it's the action that matters.
00:26:26.460 And accept apologies
00:26:29.580 when they have them.
00:26:31.140 So I'm going to do for Biden
00:26:33.600 what I would have done for Trump.
00:26:35.860 If Trump had said
00:26:37.340 the exact same words that Biden said,
00:26:40.600 that context was talking about
00:26:42.560 underserved communities
00:26:44.940 that don't have maybe Wi-Fi,
00:26:47.400 don't have laptops,
00:26:48.580 can't get on Zoom.
00:26:49.920 If Trump had said it in a way
00:26:52.100 that sounded like it was a racial comment,
00:26:54.480 what would I be doing the next day?
00:26:57.600 I would be telling you,
00:26:59.100 that's obviously not what he intended
00:27:00.940 because nobody would say that.
00:27:03.880 No president gets up in front of his,
00:27:06.240 you know, his or her own country
00:27:08.080 and says,
00:27:09.600 I think this group of people
00:27:12.440 aren't good at doing stuff.
00:27:14.760 That didn't happen.
00:27:17.420 It wouldn't happen
00:27:18.140 if Trump had said it.
00:27:19.560 He obviously wouldn't have meant it that way.
00:27:22.440 And Biden did say it.
00:27:24.320 And he obviously didn't mean it that way.
00:27:26.840 Now, we had a lot of fun
00:27:28.100 acting like he said something racist,
00:27:30.460 but it wasn't his intention.
00:27:32.600 I don't think there's any chance
00:27:34.080 it was his thought.
00:27:36.180 I think that it was just a sort of a gotcha.
00:27:38.980 And I'm going to give Biden
00:27:40.020 the same pass
00:27:40.780 that I would have given Trump,
00:27:42.500 whether you like it or not.
00:27:43.960 All right.
00:27:48.620 Anatoly Lubarsky,
00:27:50.180 who I mentioned you should follow
00:27:52.040 because he's great at the fact-checking stuff.
00:27:55.760 We're talking about
00:27:56.980 why India appears to be doing so well.
00:28:00.780 But this is just more,
00:28:02.420 this may not be the full explanation,
00:28:05.520 but it's good to know
00:28:06.500 that only 22% of deaths in India
00:28:10.400 are medically certified,
00:28:12.660 meaning a lot of people
00:28:13.760 people die at home
00:28:15.480 or on the streets,
00:28:17.420 and nobody ever does
00:28:19.300 an official doctor cause of death.
00:28:22.180 So when you're looking at India's stats,
00:28:24.880 know that in some states within India,
00:28:28.320 fewer than 10% of the deaths
00:28:30.200 are even recorded medically.
00:28:31.500 So if you think you know
00:28:34.180 how many people are dying
00:28:36.320 from COVID in India,
00:28:39.920 we probably don't.
00:28:41.800 It may be 5 to 10,
00:28:43.320 as Anatoly says,
00:28:45.460 maybe 5 to 10 times more
00:28:47.420 than is being reported.
00:28:48.940 You can't rule that out.
00:28:50.480 You don't know it's true,
00:28:51.920 but you can't rule out
00:28:53.240 that it could be 5 to 10 times more
00:28:55.000 than what they report.
00:28:56.280 So just put that in the mix
00:28:57.760 with the other things
00:28:58.500 we don't understand
00:28:59.340 about coronavirus.
00:29:01.920 I told you yesterday,
00:29:03.580 I think,
00:29:04.440 on livestream,
00:29:05.300 that CNN had a problem
00:29:07.020 with their fact-checker.
00:29:10.160 They'd hired an official
00:29:11.220 fact-checker for Trump.
00:29:13.360 And Daniel Dale is his name.
00:29:14.940 And he would be on TV
00:29:15.860 all the time
00:29:16.600 fact-checking the heck
00:29:18.440 out of President Trump.
00:29:19.920 I mean,
00:29:20.140 he was so busy
00:29:21.140 checking facts.
00:29:22.640 He was around
00:29:25.560 all the time,
00:29:26.180 it seemed.
00:29:27.160 But now that Trump's
00:29:28.360 out of office,
00:29:29.340 and I told you
00:29:30.000 they can't really fire him
00:29:31.640 because that would be
00:29:32.360 too obvious.
00:29:33.760 It would be too obvious
00:29:34.900 that they were going
00:29:35.520 to ignore
00:29:36.040 Biden's
00:29:37.680 unfactual statements.
00:29:40.280 But to his credit,
00:29:41.800 Daniel Dale
00:29:42.500 has at least written
00:29:44.380 about Biden's
00:29:46.120 factual inaccuracies,
00:29:48.100 especially in the town hall.
00:29:49.200 But I just read
00:29:51.020 an article
00:29:52.520 in Mediate,
00:29:54.000 Mediaite,
00:29:55.060 or whatever it is,
00:29:56.260 that Daniel Dale
00:29:58.560 hasn't been on the air
00:29:59.840 much at all,
00:30:03.220 or maybe not at all,
00:30:04.320 but maybe barely
00:30:05.760 since Biden
00:30:07.120 got into office.
00:30:08.860 So they're just
00:30:09.820 sort of keeping him
00:30:10.620 off the air.
00:30:12.060 They don't want
00:30:12.800 to fire him.
00:30:14.080 That'd be a little
00:30:14.700 too on the nose.
00:30:16.560 But maybe we'll just
00:30:17.640 not put him on the air.
00:30:18.660 And of course,
00:30:19.740 Daniel Dale
00:30:20.320 is not the one
00:30:20.980 who decides
00:30:21.800 whether he's on the air.
00:30:23.780 I'm sure he wants
00:30:24.540 to keep his job
00:30:25.440 and keep doing
00:30:26.200 his fact-checking,
00:30:27.240 but the management
00:30:28.720 decides when he's
00:30:29.660 on the air,
00:30:30.220 and they've decided
00:30:30.900 that maybe
00:30:31.500 there'll be a little
00:30:33.020 less Biden fact-checking
00:30:34.500 than you might
00:30:35.700 have liked to see.
00:30:37.080 All right.
00:30:38.740 Biden didn't
00:30:39.580 go to Texas.
00:30:41.680 How much
00:30:42.380 should we care
00:30:43.000 about that?
00:30:45.280 Don't you think
00:30:45.880 Biden maybe
00:30:47.320 should have
00:30:48.160 taken a visit
00:30:48.780 to a disaster
00:30:49.700 zone of that
00:30:50.720 magnitude?
00:30:52.380 I believe,
00:30:53.920 didn't Trump
00:30:54.800 visit California
00:30:57.200 forest fires?
00:30:59.300 I believe he did.
00:31:01.600 Now,
00:31:02.060 I'm not entirely
00:31:03.260 sure that
00:31:04.040 presidential visits
00:31:05.220 of disaster sites
00:31:06.680 is 100%
00:31:08.480 necessary.
00:31:11.160 So if Biden
00:31:12.160 had other things
00:31:12.920 to do,
00:31:13.920 maybe that's okay.
00:31:15.140 we don't know
00:31:15.760 what else he was
00:31:16.340 doing.
00:31:17.300 But it does feel
00:31:18.320 like it's an
00:31:19.100 indication of a
00:31:20.020 lack of,
00:31:20.860 let's say,
00:31:21.300 vitality.
00:31:22.740 Just a lack
00:31:23.600 of energy,
00:31:24.700 it feels like.
00:31:26.020 And I guess
00:31:26.460 he's putting
00:31:27.160 the lid on
00:31:27.740 stuff and
00:31:28.400 taking the
00:31:29.480 weekends off,
00:31:30.780 and Kamala
00:31:31.720 Harris is calling
00:31:32.540 world leaders,
00:31:33.660 and I tell you,
00:31:35.180 it looks like the
00:31:35.880 cat's on the roof
00:31:36.680 big time,
00:31:37.740 that we're going
00:31:38.280 to see a
00:31:38.720 President Kamala
00:31:39.520 Harris pretty
00:31:40.600 soon.
00:31:42.240 You know,
00:31:42.580 I've decided
00:31:43.000 that the best
00:31:43.520 name for our
00:31:44.720 system of
00:31:45.460 government is
00:31:46.080 a fake
00:31:46.680 newsocracy,
00:31:47.920 because we're
00:31:49.160 not a democracy
00:31:50.600 by design,
00:31:51.620 we're actually
00:31:52.080 a republic,
00:31:53.660 but we're not
00:31:54.440 really a republic
00:31:55.240 in the sense
00:31:56.820 that our
00:31:58.080 politicians go
00:31:59.060 and make
00:31:59.400 decisions on
00:32:00.260 our behalf
00:32:00.820 because they're
00:32:01.420 smart and
00:32:01.960 well-informed
00:32:02.600 compared to
00:32:03.700 us.
00:32:04.540 That's not
00:32:05.340 happening.
00:32:05.720 the news
00:32:08.300 drives what
00:32:10.140 the politicians
00:32:11.180 can and
00:32:11.900 cannot do.
00:32:13.220 Now,
00:32:13.520 it's still
00:32:14.000 legal and
00:32:15.680 possible for
00:32:16.860 a politician
00:32:17.400 to vote
00:32:17.960 against,
00:32:18.680 let's say,
00:32:19.020 the majority
00:32:19.540 of opinion
00:32:20.680 of their
00:32:21.180 own party,
00:32:22.240 but as a
00:32:23.020 practical matter,
00:32:24.260 it hardly
00:32:24.640 ever happens.
00:32:26.060 The reality
00:32:26.960 is that the
00:32:27.700 news tells
00:32:29.160 the politicians
00:32:29.920 what they can
00:32:30.580 get away
00:32:31.000 with,
00:32:31.700 because the
00:32:32.380 news brainwashes
00:32:33.420 the public,
00:32:34.860 and then the
00:32:35.360 public demands
00:32:36.260 their politicians
00:32:37.020 do what they
00:32:38.000 think needs to
00:32:38.620 be done,
00:32:39.220 but that all
00:32:39.720 comes from
00:32:40.120 the news.
00:32:41.800 And the news
00:32:42.540 is fake,
00:32:44.000 at least the
00:32:44.580 political news,
00:32:45.900 mostly fake.
00:32:47.340 So we actually
00:32:48.240 have evolved
00:32:49.480 into a system
00:32:50.340 in which fake
00:32:52.360 news is the
00:32:54.380 basis of our
00:32:55.300 political system.
00:32:56.260 We make almost
00:32:57.020 all of our
00:32:57.620 decisions based
00:32:59.300 on fake news.
00:33:02.040 Find an example
00:33:03.180 that's different.
00:33:05.360 You know,
00:33:05.800 most of our,
00:33:06.680 a lot of our,
00:33:07.280 well,
00:33:07.640 I don't know
00:33:07.940 if most,
00:33:08.660 even a lot
00:33:09.300 of our
00:33:09.560 coronavirus
00:33:10.020 decisions were
00:33:11.300 based on
00:33:11.780 things that
00:33:12.380 maybe weren't
00:33:14.180 right in the
00:33:15.180 beginning,
00:33:15.920 but we hope
00:33:16.880 are getting
00:33:17.200 more right
00:33:17.700 over time.
00:33:19.080 Certainly
00:33:19.640 two impeachments,
00:33:22.940 as much about
00:33:23.860 fake news as
00:33:24.700 anything.
00:33:27.400 Almost everything
00:33:28.580 that gets decided
00:33:29.940 by Congress
00:33:30.560 is based on
00:33:31.460 bad information
00:33:32.280 and fake news.
00:33:33.580 Spin,
00:33:34.040 narrative.
00:33:35.360 So what a
00:33:36.780 weird world
00:33:37.520 that we have
00:33:39.640 an actual
00:33:40.260 system driven
00:33:41.980 by fake news.
00:33:43.620 And that is
00:33:44.560 our system.
00:33:45.660 Until we
00:33:46.220 change it,
00:33:47.420 we have a
00:33:48.360 fake newsocracy.
00:33:49.980 And here's the
00:33:50.580 weird thing.
00:33:52.380 It's working
00:33:53.340 pretty well.
00:33:56.680 It's still
00:33:57.580 better than
00:33:58.800 other systems.
00:33:59.560 The fake news
00:34:01.640 is literally
00:34:02.340 driving our
00:34:03.100 lives and
00:34:04.320 it's still
00:34:04.660 better than
00:34:05.160 other systems.
00:34:06.280 Like it's
00:34:06.720 better than
00:34:07.080 a dictator,
00:34:08.420 right?
00:34:09.560 What are the
00:34:10.560 other systems?
00:34:11.260 What else?
00:34:12.020 Every democracy
00:34:13.140 probably becomes
00:34:14.420 a fake newsocracy
00:34:15.500 if it hasn't
00:34:16.680 already.
00:34:18.020 So,
00:34:18.740 I don't know,
00:34:19.860 maybe it's the
00:34:20.700 best we can do.
00:34:22.060 There are more
00:34:22.820 reports that keep
00:34:24.840 making me like
00:34:25.820 Mike Pence
00:34:26.640 more and more
00:34:27.560 because he
00:34:30.660 just is so
00:34:31.660 good at
00:34:33.080 not causing
00:34:33.920 problems that
00:34:34.760 didn't need to
00:34:35.280 be caused.
00:34:36.360 Now,
00:34:36.620 again,
00:34:37.040 I've disagreed
00:34:37.880 with him on
00:34:38.420 LGBTQ stuff,
00:34:40.200 so I'm not
00:34:41.180 backing all of
00:34:42.320 his opinions.
00:34:43.520 I'm just saying
00:34:44.100 that as a
00:34:44.660 human being,
00:34:46.300 he's a solid
00:34:47.520 citizen.
00:34:48.360 He was a
00:34:49.000 solid vice
00:34:49.680 president,
00:34:50.480 didn't do what
00:34:51.420 Trump wanted in
00:34:52.240 terms of the
00:34:52.720 election stuff,
00:34:53.520 but I think
00:34:53.920 Pence made the
00:34:54.640 right decisions
00:34:55.360 there.
00:34:56.640 Now he
00:34:57.860 continues to
00:34:58.620 be an
00:34:59.120 example to
00:34:59.800 us all
00:35:00.300 because
00:35:01.380 given the
00:35:03.600 situation and
00:35:04.660 the capital
00:35:05.540 assault and
00:35:06.380 the allegations
00:35:07.060 that Trump
00:35:07.820 wasn't caring
00:35:08.880 about him,
00:35:09.460 etc., and
00:35:10.520 the things
00:35:10.920 that Trump
00:35:11.240 said about
00:35:11.700 him directly,
00:35:13.680 Pence is
00:35:14.080 still not
00:35:15.920 complaining.
00:35:18.100 He's still
00:35:19.120 not complaining.
00:35:21.080 Nobody's
00:35:21.800 heard Mike
00:35:22.320 Pence throw
00:35:23.660 Trump under
00:35:24.340 the bus.
00:35:24.900 Is there
00:35:26.240 anybody who
00:35:27.280 had more
00:35:27.840 reason to
00:35:28.440 throw Trump
00:35:29.000 under the
00:35:29.420 bus than
00:35:30.440 Mike Pence?
00:35:31.980 Nobody.
00:35:33.480 Nobody had a
00:35:34.600 better reason to
00:35:35.740 lash out at
00:35:36.620 Trump, and he
00:35:39.100 hasn't.
00:35:40.360 Can you think of
00:35:41.140 any other
00:35:41.840 politician that
00:35:42.660 would have this
00:35:43.140 much restraint?
00:35:45.280 And why does
00:35:45.940 he have this
00:35:46.460 restraint?
00:35:46.940 I'm guessing
00:35:50.200 he thinks it's
00:35:50.800 good for the
00:35:51.280 country.
00:35:51.900 I mean, you
00:35:52.140 don't know.
00:35:53.700 Maybe it's
00:35:54.180 good for him
00:35:54.660 too.
00:35:55.820 But I feel
00:35:56.740 as if Pence
00:35:57.400 just keeps
00:35:58.220 making decisions
00:35:59.140 that he at
00:35:59.780 least thinks
00:36:00.340 are good for
00:36:00.820 the country.
00:36:01.320 You might
00:36:01.600 disagree.
00:36:02.760 The LGBTQ
00:36:03.460 stuff is an
00:36:04.560 obvious example.
00:36:05.980 But I just
00:36:08.680 feel like he's
00:36:09.280 a model citizen.
00:36:11.000 I can't say
00:36:12.120 enough about
00:36:12.780 how he just
00:36:14.500 continues on
00:36:15.680 being like a
00:36:16.800 good person in
00:36:17.740 his view of
00:36:18.440 what that takes,
00:36:19.580 like with the
00:36:20.220 exceptions I
00:36:20.840 noted.
00:36:22.200 It's worth
00:36:22.920 noting.
00:36:23.500 All right.
00:36:24.380 Some of the
00:36:25.000 fake news.
00:36:25.740 How many of
00:36:26.180 you think that
00:36:26.920 the problem in
00:36:27.920 Texas was from
00:36:28.960 frozen windmills?
00:36:31.580 Just in the
00:36:32.540 comments, tell me.
00:36:33.780 How many of
00:36:34.420 you think the
00:36:35.020 power problem in
00:36:36.000 Texas was from
00:36:37.300 frozen windmills?
00:36:40.360 Primarily.
00:36:41.860 Not entirely,
00:36:42.900 but primarily.
00:36:44.180 How many of
00:36:44.720 you think that's
00:36:45.320 true?
00:36:46.660 I'm looking at
00:36:47.260 the comments
00:36:47.840 now.
00:36:48.300 Yes, yes, yes.
00:36:49.280 Not me.
00:36:50.020 No, no, no.
00:36:50.860 Probably not.
00:36:52.840 No, partly.
00:36:54.360 Yes.
00:36:55.200 No.
00:36:56.300 No.
00:36:56.840 Now, are you
00:36:58.700 puzzled by the
00:36:59.500 fact that there
00:37:00.520 are people who
00:37:01.380 consume similar
00:37:03.460 news, but you
00:37:04.320 see in the
00:37:04.640 comments, a lot
00:37:05.760 of people saying
00:37:06.340 no, but a lot
00:37:07.800 of people saying
00:37:08.360 yes.
00:37:09.720 Aren't we all
00:37:10.280 watching the same
00:37:10.960 news?
00:37:12.420 The news is the
00:37:13.560 news, right?
00:37:14.900 Are you watching
00:37:15.580 news that says
00:37:16.440 windmills are the
00:37:17.620 problem, but other
00:37:18.420 people are watching
00:37:19.080 news that says
00:37:19.780 windmills are not
00:37:20.560 the problem?
00:37:21.500 My current
00:37:22.300 understanding is
00:37:23.700 that the windmills
00:37:24.460 were a smaller
00:37:25.420 part of the
00:37:25.980 problem than the
00:37:26.860 gas pipelines
00:37:28.680 being not
00:37:29.560 weatherized, so
00:37:31.360 that it was
00:37:31.700 mostly a natural
00:37:32.500 gas problem.
00:37:33.240 And I believe
00:37:34.220 that the fake
00:37:34.900 news sort of
00:37:36.260 tried to sell
00:37:36.860 it to you as
00:37:37.540 a failure of
00:37:39.000 green technology.
00:37:40.960 Now, my take
00:37:42.300 on green
00:37:42.740 technology is
00:37:43.740 if you include
00:37:44.560 nuclear energy
00:37:46.180 in green
00:37:46.980 technology, I'm
00:37:48.960 all for it.
00:37:49.700 If you leave
00:37:50.280 that out, it
00:37:51.080 sort of doesn't
00:37:51.620 make sense
00:37:52.220 economically.
00:37:52.960 But those of
00:37:57.120 you who said
00:37:57.740 yes and
00:37:58.720 believe that
00:37:59.340 windmills were
00:38:00.180 primarily the
00:38:01.180 problem, how
00:38:02.440 do you feel
00:38:02.840 now, knowing
00:38:04.080 that that was
00:38:04.620 never true?
00:38:06.120 It was never
00:38:06.680 true, but you
00:38:07.320 certainly saw it
00:38:08.000 in the news,
00:38:08.600 didn't you?
00:38:09.320 I'll bet you
00:38:09.720 saw a lot of
00:38:10.300 news that said
00:38:10.940 it's all about
00:38:11.800 the windmills.
00:38:13.020 Now, here's
00:38:14.060 one of those
00:38:14.900 cases where
00:38:15.760 looking at the
00:38:18.640 news on two
00:38:19.480 different silos
00:38:20.200 can help you,
00:38:21.380 because I'm
00:38:22.120 pretty sure
00:38:22.760 that news
00:38:23.840 that is
00:38:24.280 right-leaning
00:38:24.900 was heavily
00:38:25.900 windmill, and
00:38:27.720 news that was
00:38:28.340 left-leaning
00:38:29.040 might have
00:38:29.700 been a little
00:38:30.220 less anti-windmill,
00:38:32.420 and they would
00:38:33.360 have turned
00:38:33.640 out to be
00:38:34.160 right in this
00:38:35.200 case.
00:38:36.000 So sampling
00:38:36.640 both sides
00:38:37.320 can always
00:38:38.240 help you.
00:38:39.840 Bill Gates
00:38:40.780 has an
00:38:41.200 investment, he
00:38:41.860 has lots of
00:38:42.320 investments,
00:38:42.840 obviously, but
00:38:43.340 in a hydrogen
00:38:45.380 powered airplane
00:38:47.120 company.
00:38:48.880 So there's
00:38:49.420 somebody who's
00:38:50.260 getting pretty
00:38:51.020 close, and
00:38:52.120 to developing
00:38:52.940 a hydrogen
00:38:53.660 powered commercial
00:38:55.240 aircraft, Zero
00:38:56.680 Avia.
00:38:58.560 Now, meaning
00:39:00.840 that they have
00:39:01.940 an aircraft they
00:39:02.700 can actually fly
00:39:03.560 with this power
00:39:04.980 source right now,
00:39:06.160 a lot of work it
00:39:07.080 would take to
00:39:07.560 make it, you
00:39:08.340 know, operational.
00:39:09.680 But I would
00:39:11.180 like to, once
00:39:12.020 again, show
00:39:14.680 some appreciation
00:39:15.700 for our
00:39:16.680 productive
00:39:17.400 billionaires.
00:39:18.300 I don't
00:39:20.140 think you can
00:39:20.740 say enough
00:39:21.320 about what
00:39:21.960 Bill Gates
00:39:22.460 does.
00:39:23.480 You know, he's
00:39:23.920 building, you
00:39:25.180 know, toilets
00:39:26.120 for Africa, which
00:39:27.480 turns out to be
00:39:28.140 the least
00:39:29.600 glamorous job you
00:39:30.860 could ever
00:39:31.460 possibly have.
00:39:32.960 You know, fighting
00:39:33.560 malaria, unglamorous,
00:39:35.860 trying to figure out
00:39:36.640 how to get clean
00:39:37.340 water and a poop,
00:39:38.880 literally.
00:39:40.280 Very unglamorous.
00:39:41.520 And Bill Gates
00:39:42.940 is taking the
00:39:43.620 hardest, least
00:39:45.080 glamorous problems
00:39:46.260 and dedicating his
00:39:47.360 life to solving
00:39:48.080 them for the
00:39:49.040 planet.
00:39:49.920 He doesn't need
00:39:50.560 to solve any
00:39:51.360 of these problems
00:39:52.020 for himself.
00:39:53.600 He doesn't have
00:39:54.420 any problems.
00:39:56.080 Well, that's a
00:39:56.600 lie, but he
00:39:57.620 doesn't have those
00:39:58.320 problems because
00:39:58.980 he's rich.
00:39:59.800 He can insulate
00:40:00.640 himself from all
00:40:01.580 of this stuff.
00:40:03.960 But he doesn't.
00:40:06.020 And I don't
00:40:07.840 know how much
00:40:08.360 appreciation Bill
00:40:09.520 Gates gets because
00:40:10.320 mostly he gets
00:40:11.120 criticized for
00:40:12.220 people think he's
00:40:13.580 putting chips and
00:40:14.500 vaccines and
00:40:15.540 everything else.
00:40:17.700 But I really
00:40:19.480 appreciate the
00:40:21.160 things that he's
00:40:21.880 doing for the
00:40:22.800 country.
00:40:23.580 And I'm seeing
00:40:24.260 the critics here
00:40:25.520 and you all think
00:40:26.140 it's a Soros
00:40:27.380 problem, etc.
00:40:29.840 Now, the other
00:40:30.680 one, of course,
00:40:31.200 is Elon Musk and
00:40:32.600 especially the
00:40:33.440 carbon capture
00:40:34.300 idea.
00:40:35.260 Because the
00:40:36.000 thing I think
00:40:36.540 that maybe the
00:40:38.400 AOCs get wrong
00:40:39.780 is that it just
00:40:41.240 doesn't matter
00:40:41.880 what we do in
00:40:42.640 this country.
00:40:43.980 If you don't
00:40:44.860 solve it for
00:40:47.200 other countries,
00:40:48.720 it doesn't
00:40:49.380 matter what you
00:40:49.940 do.
00:40:51.040 So Elon Musk
00:40:52.780 is taking what I'd
00:40:53.960 say the
00:40:54.400 engineer's approach,
00:40:56.160 which is you
00:40:57.100 can't make other
00:40:58.140 people act
00:40:58.840 differently in
00:40:59.520 other countries.
00:41:00.160 You just don't
00:41:00.620 have any control
00:41:01.320 over that.
00:41:02.260 But you can
00:41:02.940 suck carbon
00:41:03.840 out of the
00:41:04.240 air.
00:41:04.500 And maybe
00:41:06.180 if India
00:41:07.600 and China
00:41:08.720 don't stop
00:41:09.600 creating massive
00:41:10.680 amounts of
00:41:11.200 carbon, maybe
00:41:12.820 there's a way to
00:41:13.500 suck it out of
00:41:14.080 the air.
00:41:15.100 But what you're
00:41:16.040 not going to
00:41:16.540 do is talk
00:41:18.580 them into using
00:41:19.400 different technology.
00:41:21.140 I don't think
00:41:22.000 you're going to
00:41:22.360 talk them into
00:41:22.960 it.
00:41:24.020 So if you
00:41:24.800 can't manage
00:41:26.480 the human part,
00:41:27.840 you have to
00:41:28.360 solve it as a
00:41:29.140 technical problem,
00:41:30.100 and that's what
00:41:30.500 Elon Musk is
00:41:31.360 smart enough to
00:41:32.040 know, you're
00:41:33.380 just going to
00:41:33.760 have to do.
00:41:35.100 You're just
00:41:35.800 going to have
00:41:36.160 to treat it
00:41:36.860 as an
00:41:37.220 engineering
00:41:37.640 problem,
00:41:38.640 because the
00:41:39.060 human part
00:41:39.740 you can't
00:41:40.180 solve.
00:41:41.680 You can't
00:41:42.380 tell the
00:41:42.740 Chinese they
00:41:43.280 can't use
00:41:43.760 oil if they
00:41:45.920 need it to
00:41:46.440 eat.
00:41:47.400 It's just
00:41:47.740 not a thing.
00:41:49.040 So imagining
00:41:49.660 that that's a
00:41:50.400 thing is just
00:41:51.400 fantasy land.
00:41:52.800 But thank
00:41:53.300 goodness we
00:41:53.940 have real
00:41:54.580 engineers,
00:41:56.640 Elon Musk,
00:41:57.780 for example,
00:41:59.180 and Bill
00:42:00.140 Gates, not
00:42:00.700 technically an
00:42:01.360 engineer, but
00:42:01.900 has a similar
00:42:02.800 kind of mind.
00:42:03.760 Thank goodness
00:42:04.380 we have
00:42:04.800 people who
00:42:05.260 know that
00:42:05.600 these are
00:42:05.920 technical
00:42:06.340 problems, in
00:42:08.300 the sense
00:42:08.740 that humans
00:42:10.260 aren't going
00:42:10.940 to solve
00:42:11.400 them, so
00:42:11.740 you have to
00:42:12.160 make it a
00:42:12.560 technical
00:42:12.880 problem.
00:42:15.680 Those of
00:42:16.280 you who are
00:42:16.660 worried that
00:42:17.140 the carbon
00:42:17.580 will be
00:42:18.080 sucked out of
00:42:18.920 the air at
00:42:19.460 too great a
00:42:20.340 rate and
00:42:21.120 doom the
00:42:21.540 country, that
00:42:22.900 would be kind
00:42:23.400 of dumb,
00:42:24.480 because you
00:42:24.980 could just
00:42:25.340 unplug them,
00:42:26.460 right?
00:42:27.120 All you have
00:42:27.520 to do is
00:42:27.860 unplug them.
00:42:28.900 If they
00:42:29.380 take too
00:42:29.860 much carbon
00:42:30.440 out of the
00:42:30.840 air, just
00:42:32.300 unplug them.
00:42:32.860 It's not
00:42:33.320 really a
00:42:33.700 big risk.
00:42:35.360 All right.
00:42:37.620 I keep
00:42:38.340 hammering this
00:42:38.940 point only
00:42:39.420 because it's
00:42:39.840 a fun
00:42:40.140 mystery, that
00:42:41.420 the regular
00:42:42.160 flu deaths
00:42:43.080 couldn't
00:42:43.760 possibly be
00:42:44.520 real, because
00:42:45.540 the news is
00:42:46.340 that wearing
00:42:47.500 masks basically
00:42:49.620 eliminated the
00:42:51.160 normal seasonal
00:42:52.060 flu this year.
00:42:53.940 Yet, when we
00:42:55.940 see the
00:42:56.340 differences in
00:42:57.160 masks and
00:42:58.320 lockdowns and
00:42:59.280 stuff, with
00:43:00.360 different places,
00:43:01.040 it's not
00:43:01.580 obvious that
00:43:02.280 the masks
00:43:02.900 make that
00:43:04.240 much of a
00:43:04.760 difference.
00:43:06.200 Now, I do
00:43:06.840 think the
00:43:07.340 masks almost
00:43:08.100 certainly make
00:43:08.720 a difference.
00:43:09.480 If I had to
00:43:10.380 guess how
00:43:12.100 much of a
00:43:12.780 difference masks
00:43:14.100 make, my
00:43:16.600 non-scientific,
00:43:18.480 uninformed
00:43:19.600 opinion would
00:43:20.720 put it
00:43:21.120 somewhere in
00:43:21.700 the 20%
00:43:22.560 range for
00:43:24.140 the coronavirus,
00:43:25.720 meaning it's
00:43:26.920 not, it
00:43:27.500 doesn't like
00:43:27.980 shut it
00:43:28.460 down.
00:43:29.660 That's
00:43:30.080 fair to
00:43:30.440 say, right?
00:43:31.640 Masks and
00:43:32.400 social distancing,
00:43:33.540 they don't
00:43:34.180 just shut
00:43:34.800 down the
00:43:35.300 virus, unless
00:43:35.820 you go full
00:43:36.440 China.
00:43:37.500 The China
00:43:38.380 kind of
00:43:38.780 social distancing
00:43:39.480 where you'll
00:43:40.660 be arrested
00:43:41.200 if you leave
00:43:41.800 your house
00:43:42.160 for three
00:43:42.560 weeks, that
00:43:43.680 works.
00:43:44.800 But, do
00:43:46.000 you believe
00:43:46.540 that these
00:43:47.000 two things
00:43:47.680 can both
00:43:48.180 be true?
00:43:49.640 That masks
00:43:50.520 and socially
00:43:51.140 distancing
00:43:51.740 effectively
00:43:53.260 eliminated
00:43:54.580 regular
00:43:55.540 seasonal
00:43:56.040 flu?
00:43:56.360 At the
00:43:58.060 same time,
00:43:59.160 you can't
00:43:59.680 even see
00:44:00.220 its impact
00:44:00.920 in the
00:44:01.340 statistics
00:44:01.880 for the
00:44:02.580 coronavirus.
00:44:04.120 Now, as
00:44:05.880 was quickly
00:44:06.620 pointed out,
00:44:07.420 we do
00:44:07.760 know, or
00:44:08.860 science
00:44:09.260 believes and
00:44:09.760 knows, that
00:44:10.500 the coronavirus
00:44:10.980 is extra,
00:44:12.200 extra viral.
00:44:13.840 It's like
00:44:14.240 super extra
00:44:15.040 viral.
00:44:15.880 So is that
00:44:16.400 the whole
00:44:16.780 answer?
00:44:18.160 Do you
00:44:18.520 think that
00:44:19.060 once you've
00:44:20.840 said that
00:44:21.300 one of them
00:44:21.740 is way more
00:44:22.380 viral, that
00:44:24.240 now our
00:44:24.720 observations are
00:44:25.620 explained?
00:44:26.360 that that's
00:44:27.800 why the
00:44:28.340 regular flu
00:44:29.180 stopped in
00:44:30.060 its tracks,
00:44:31.060 but the
00:44:31.820 more viral
00:44:32.660 one, even
00:44:33.340 with masks,
00:44:34.200 just keeps
00:44:34.640 on going?
00:44:35.900 Does it
00:44:36.620 feel like
00:44:37.540 that's true?
00:44:39.180 Because it
00:44:39.940 could be.
00:44:41.160 Like, I'm
00:44:41.560 not going to
00:44:41.960 say that's
00:44:42.440 impossible, but
00:44:44.120 it just
00:44:44.600 doesn't pass
00:44:45.540 my sniff
00:44:46.200 test, right?
00:44:48.060 If I had
00:44:48.820 heard that
00:44:49.260 the regular
00:44:50.600 flu had
00:44:51.280 been cut
00:44:51.720 down 80%,
00:44:52.980 I'd say
00:44:54.900 to myself,
00:44:55.960 okay, that
00:44:56.840 makes sense.
00:44:57.820 One's more
00:44:58.440 viral, didn't
00:45:00.220 make that
00:45:00.620 much, maybe
00:45:01.380 one made a
00:45:01.960 20% difference,
00:45:03.040 the other
00:45:03.320 one was an
00:45:03.760 80% difference,
00:45:04.640 I get that.
00:45:06.220 But what if
00:45:07.160 one goes to
00:45:08.020 basically zero?
00:45:11.520 Eh, no.
00:45:12.700 I'm not
00:45:14.380 buying that
00:45:14.920 anymore.
00:45:15.960 I'm just
00:45:16.380 not buying
00:45:16.920 that anymore.
00:45:18.340 Because, but
00:45:20.000 again, it's
00:45:20.660 possible, right?
00:45:21.880 You can't
00:45:22.500 rule it out
00:45:23.080 on any kind
00:45:23.620 of statistic
00:45:24.320 or scientific
00:45:25.120 basis, but
00:45:26.320 it doesn't
00:45:26.700 feel right.
00:45:28.420 It feels to
00:45:29.260 me that maybe
00:45:30.180 what's going
00:45:30.840 on, and I'll
00:45:31.360 just put this
00:45:31.920 hypothesis out
00:45:32.860 there, is that
00:45:33.720 the regular
00:45:34.300 flu deaths
00:45:34.900 were never
00:45:35.340 real.
00:45:36.440 The regular
00:45:36.980 flu deaths
00:45:37.560 were alleged
00:45:38.120 to be in the
00:45:38.740 same category
00:45:39.620 as overdose
00:45:41.180 deaths every
00:45:42.040 year.
00:45:42.700 Does anybody
00:45:43.460 know anybody,
00:45:44.400 either directly
00:45:45.200 or somebody
00:45:46.300 you know who
00:45:46.780 knows somebody,
00:45:47.640 who ever
00:45:48.060 died from an
00:45:48.860 overdose?
00:45:50.500 Yes, you
00:45:51.060 do.
00:45:51.700 You do.
00:45:53.360 Car accidents
00:45:54.380 every year,
00:45:55.220 car deaths,
00:45:56.100 are in that
00:45:56.800 same general
00:45:57.400 range as
00:45:58.280 allegedly the
00:45:59.060 normal seasonal
00:45:59.840 flu deaths.
00:46:00.960 How many of
00:46:01.560 you know
00:46:01.960 somebody, or
00:46:02.760 know somebody
00:46:03.300 who knows
00:46:03.640 somebody, so
00:46:04.240 you're somewhat
00:46:04.980 directly related,
00:46:06.940 who has ever
00:46:07.840 died in an
00:46:08.820 auto accident?
00:46:10.600 You all
00:46:11.100 do.
00:46:11.340 You all
00:46:12.520 do.
00:46:13.080 How many
00:46:13.500 of you know
00:46:13.920 somebody
00:46:14.320 personally who
00:46:16.020 died of
00:46:16.400 AIDS?
00:46:18.460 Almost all
00:46:19.220 of you, right?
00:46:20.540 Or you know
00:46:21.360 somebody who
00:46:21.780 knows somebody.
00:46:22.860 So all of
00:46:23.760 these other
00:46:24.200 things that
00:46:25.020 have causes
00:46:25.980 of death that
00:46:26.660 seem to be
00:46:27.180 about in the
00:46:27.760 same number,
00:46:29.720 you all know
00:46:30.700 of people who
00:46:31.960 died of it.
00:46:32.820 But you don't
00:46:33.780 know people who
00:46:34.540 died of the
00:46:35.120 regular flu.
00:46:35.920 flu.
00:46:36.500 Okay, now I
00:46:37.220 know the
00:46:39.080 next thing
00:46:39.540 you're going
00:46:39.840 to say, but
00:46:41.200 Scott, Scott,
00:46:41.920 Scott, the
00:46:42.420 regular flu, they
00:46:44.200 code it as
00:46:45.020 pneumonia so it
00:46:46.820 doesn't show
00:46:47.420 up.
00:46:48.720 Maybe.
00:46:50.880 Maybe.
00:46:51.860 Or maybe
00:46:52.640 people who had
00:46:54.340 pneumonia and
00:46:55.080 they're going to
00:46:55.440 die from it
00:46:56.020 also had the
00:46:57.120 flu at the
00:46:57.580 same time, but
00:46:59.580 it was the
00:46:59.980 pneumonia that
00:47:00.520 killed them.
00:47:01.300 I don't know.
00:47:02.020 Is that even a
00:47:02.620 thing?
00:47:02.900 I don't even
00:47:03.240 know if that's
00:47:03.620 possible.
00:47:03.980 But I'm
00:47:06.780 just telling
00:47:07.220 you there's
00:47:07.640 something going
00:47:08.260 on that we
00:47:08.980 don't understand.
00:47:11.400 And I don't
00:47:12.020 think it's as
00:47:13.520 simple as masks
00:47:14.620 work really,
00:47:15.560 really well for
00:47:16.060 seasonal flu, but
00:47:17.540 they only work
00:47:18.240 sort of 20%
00:47:19.580 good for
00:47:20.280 coronavirus.
00:47:22.600 It doesn't
00:47:23.800 smell like that
00:47:25.040 could be true.
00:47:26.480 I think the
00:47:27.640 regular seasonal
00:47:28.880 flu is
00:47:30.560 bullshit.
00:47:31.660 I think it's
00:47:32.620 bullshit.
00:47:33.980 But the
00:47:35.100 other possibility
00:47:35.760 is that the
00:47:36.380 only people
00:47:36.820 dying from
00:47:37.360 regular flu,
00:47:38.200 or not the
00:47:38.560 only people,
00:47:39.140 but most of
00:47:40.180 them are people
00:47:40.900 who are so
00:47:41.580 close to death
00:47:42.440 that the cause
00:47:43.700 of death almost
00:47:44.440 doesn't matter to
00:47:45.220 anybody.
00:47:45.920 You're 95,
00:47:47.760 you got a
00:47:48.200 cold, you
00:47:48.560 died.
00:47:50.420 So maybe you
00:47:51.180 just don't
00:47:51.540 notice because
00:47:52.560 it's people who
00:47:53.100 are going to
00:47:53.360 die anyway.
00:47:53.980 I don't know.
00:47:54.500 It's a mystery.
00:47:55.480 Here's another
00:47:55.960 mystery.
00:47:57.720 When we talk
00:47:58.460 about seasonality
00:47:59.500 of the flu,
00:48:00.180 people talk
00:48:00.680 about heat and
00:48:01.500 humidity.
00:48:01.960 humidity in
00:48:04.040 particular,
00:48:04.760 there have
00:48:04.980 been studies
00:48:05.480 that show
00:48:05.980 that I
00:48:07.180 believe if
00:48:07.820 there's more
00:48:08.400 humidity,
00:48:10.120 the water
00:48:11.760 in the air
00:48:12.280 with the
00:48:12.580 humidity will
00:48:13.520 bring the,
00:48:16.040 I think it
00:48:16.560 will drop
00:48:17.180 the virus
00:48:18.480 to the ground
00:48:19.260 faster,
00:48:20.400 kind of clear
00:48:21.000 from the air
00:48:21.600 because it
00:48:21.920 gets stuck
00:48:23.220 in the water.
00:48:24.560 But if
00:48:25.120 your air is
00:48:26.600 really dry
00:48:27.420 dry and
00:48:28.540 the virus
00:48:29.160 is floating
00:48:29.680 around in
00:48:30.260 what little
00:48:30.740 water there
00:48:31.220 is,
00:48:32.340 that it'll
00:48:32.800 spread further.
00:48:34.620 So the
00:48:35.040 thinking is
00:48:35.580 that humidity
00:48:36.080 can make a
00:48:36.660 big difference
00:48:37.140 to how a
00:48:38.200 virus spreads.
00:48:40.100 And indeed,
00:48:40.940 we see that,
00:48:41.700 at least in
00:48:42.240 our climate,
00:48:43.460 when people
00:48:43.980 are indoors
00:48:44.700 and it's
00:48:46.120 winter and
00:48:48.300 there's not
00:48:48.900 much humidity,
00:48:50.560 there's more
00:48:51.220 transmission.
00:48:52.380 But here's
00:48:52.820 my question.
00:48:53.600 If it's
00:48:55.120 true that
00:48:55.620 indoor humidity
00:48:56.920 is a really
00:49:00.020 big factor,
00:49:02.080 what about
00:49:02.900 outdoor humidity?
00:49:05.300 Because
00:49:05.900 doesn't the
00:49:06.860 indoor humidity
00:49:07.740 follow almost
00:49:09.340 perfectly the
00:49:10.080 outdoor humidity?
00:49:12.100 Is there any
00:49:12.700 case where
00:49:13.240 your indoor
00:49:13.780 humidity is
00:49:14.640 grossly
00:49:15.720 different than
00:49:16.180 your outdoor
00:49:16.640 humidity,
00:49:17.200 unless you're
00:49:17.740 actively managing
00:49:19.440 your humidity?
00:49:20.720 It seems to
00:49:21.360 me that they
00:49:21.860 correlate,
00:49:22.480 right?
00:49:23.600 In the
00:49:24.120 summer,
00:49:24.720 your outdoor
00:49:25.320 humidity finds
00:49:27.020 its way
00:49:27.420 indoors,
00:49:28.640 right?
00:49:29.800 So wouldn't
00:49:31.880 we see that
00:49:32.920 if indoor
00:49:33.780 humidity makes
00:49:34.660 such a
00:49:35.060 difference,
00:49:36.140 wouldn't we
00:49:36.720 see that
00:49:37.380 anywhere that
00:49:38.240 is permanently
00:49:38.960 high humidity,
00:49:40.220 Hawaii, for
00:49:40.980 example, that
00:49:42.280 they just
00:49:42.680 wouldn't have
00:49:43.180 nearly the
00:49:43.740 same problem?
00:49:45.740 And do we
00:49:46.640 see that?
00:49:48.140 Maybe we
00:49:48.640 do.
00:49:49.160 Maybe we
00:49:49.480 just haven't
00:49:49.880 seen the
00:49:50.200 pattern.
00:49:51.040 If you look
00:49:51.800 at Africa,
00:49:52.580 are we not
00:49:53.160 surprised that
00:49:54.180 Africa isn't
00:49:55.000 doing worse?
00:49:56.540 We're a little
00:49:57.020 bit surprised,
00:49:57.780 right?
00:49:58.620 But what about
00:49:59.400 Mexico and
00:50:00.620 is it Brazil?
00:50:02.660 Isn't Brazil
00:50:03.380 pretty humid?
00:50:05.560 Brazil is pretty
00:50:06.240 humid, right?
00:50:07.760 So do we
00:50:09.260 see a clear
00:50:10.760 correlation with
00:50:13.440 outdoor humidity
00:50:14.700 being all the
00:50:16.420 ones with less
00:50:17.380 spread?
00:50:18.220 because they
00:50:19.420 don't know
00:50:19.760 that we
00:50:20.000 see that.
00:50:23.700 Yeah, so
00:50:24.760 I'm seeing
00:50:25.220 in the
00:50:25.480 comments a
00:50:26.160 lot of you
00:50:26.580 ending up
00:50:27.180 where I
00:50:27.460 am, which
00:50:27.960 is it
00:50:28.860 seems to
00:50:29.360 me that
00:50:29.680 maybe humidity
00:50:30.420 was a fake
00:50:31.240 out because
00:50:32.680 it's just
00:50:33.140 correlated with
00:50:33.960 something else,
00:50:34.900 right?
00:50:35.920 If your
00:50:36.680 AC only
00:50:38.640 runs in the
00:50:39.400 summer, it's
00:50:40.360 only running
00:50:40.940 when there's
00:50:41.380 humidity.
00:50:42.280 What if the
00:50:42.900 AC is the
00:50:43.640 whole problem,
00:50:45.540 right?
00:50:46.080 What if the
00:50:47.000 kind of
00:50:49.260 ventilation is
00:50:50.800 what matters
00:50:51.440 and you're
00:50:52.300 ventilating
00:50:52.860 differently in
00:50:53.720 some seasons
00:50:54.800 than others?
00:50:55.520 Maybe it's
00:50:55.860 the ventilation.
00:50:56.980 So my
00:50:57.560 feeling is,
00:50:58.460 given masking
00:51:00.880 and all that,
00:51:02.080 that probably
00:51:02.480 ventilation is
00:51:03.400 going to be
00:51:03.680 more important
00:51:04.180 than humidity,
00:51:05.320 but I'll put
00:51:06.040 that out there
00:51:06.580 as just a
00:51:07.320 fact-check
00:51:08.340 situation.
00:51:10.420 And the
00:51:10.980 question comes
00:51:11.540 down to,
00:51:12.500 do countries
00:51:13.340 that have
00:51:13.760 high humidity
00:51:14.480 all the
00:51:15.060 time universally
00:51:17.460 do better
00:51:18.300 with the
00:51:19.840 coronavirus?
00:51:20.740 And I
00:51:20.980 don't think
00:51:21.640 that's true,
00:51:22.280 is it?
00:51:23.640 But check
00:51:24.980 it out.
00:51:27.700 Somebody
00:51:28.260 says,
00:51:28.740 is Christina
00:51:29.420 pregnant?
00:51:30.100 No.
00:51:31.500 I don't
00:51:31.920 know why
00:51:32.160 you're asking
00:51:32.540 that.
00:51:36.340 HVAC
00:51:36.940 recirculates
00:51:37.760 the problem.
00:51:39.480 But there
00:51:40.180 are HVACs
00:51:41.080 that have
00:51:41.640 now
00:51:42.500 UV
00:51:43.940 type of
00:51:44.560 light
00:51:44.800 to kill
00:51:45.400 viruses.
00:51:47.100 So we'll
00:51:47.360 probably see
00:51:47.720 more of
00:51:48.000 that.
00:51:49.880 Somebody
00:51:50.060 says,
00:51:50.580 sorry,
00:51:51.240 Adam,
00:51:51.640 the two
00:51:52.000 are largely
00:51:52.620 separable.
00:51:53.480 The two
00:51:53.840 to what?
00:51:54.580 Are you
00:51:54.800 talking about
00:51:55.260 outdoor air
00:51:56.120 and indoor
00:51:57.300 humidity?
00:51:58.460 So I would
00:51:59.240 need more
00:51:59.740 on that
00:52:00.120 comment.
00:52:00.700 You may be
00:52:01.080 right,
00:52:01.460 I just
00:52:01.760 need more
00:52:02.280 on that
00:52:02.580 comment.
00:52:07.280 Because you
00:52:07.840 want a little
00:52:08.260 Dilbert?
00:52:09.020 You know,
00:52:09.320 I have to be
00:52:09.760 honest,
00:52:10.080 I've never
00:52:10.700 thought that
00:52:11.320 I should
00:52:11.800 reproduce.
00:52:15.260 That's it.
00:52:16.840 And I'll
00:52:17.500 tell you why.
00:52:18.180 My childhood
00:52:19.020 was not
00:52:22.140 good.
00:52:23.520 And mostly
00:52:25.080 for health
00:52:25.560 reasons,
00:52:26.280 not other
00:52:26.900 reasons.
00:52:27.700 And I
00:52:28.300 wouldn't want
00:52:28.720 to bring
00:52:28.980 somebody into
00:52:29.520 the world
00:52:29.980 who could
00:52:31.260 possibly have
00:52:32.120 anything like
00:52:32.880 anything I
00:52:34.220 had.
00:52:35.240 So I
00:52:36.880 don't have
00:52:37.300 the,
00:52:38.520 I think I
00:52:39.040 have too
00:52:39.340 much empathy.
00:52:40.080 I've told you
00:52:40.480 before that I
00:52:41.100 would make a
00:52:41.560 terrible leader
00:52:42.360 because a
00:52:43.760 leader has to
00:52:44.360 make people do
00:52:44.960 things that are
00:52:45.500 bad for them,
00:52:46.980 some of them,
00:52:48.100 so that it's
00:52:48.660 good for
00:52:49.240 everybody.
00:52:50.580 So a leader
00:52:52.240 has to target
00:52:53.080 people,
00:52:53.740 unfortunately,
00:52:54.960 like, okay,
00:52:55.780 you soldiers
00:52:56.500 will go die
00:52:57.440 and that's bad
00:52:58.860 for you,
00:52:59.400 but that'll be
00:53:00.000 good for the
00:53:00.400 rest of the
00:53:00.780 country.
00:53:01.260 Or you have
00:53:01.920 to have more
00:53:02.440 taxes,
00:53:02.880 but it's
00:53:04.220 better for
00:53:04.560 the rest
00:53:04.800 of the
00:53:04.960 country.
00:53:05.440 I'm not
00:53:05.840 good at
00:53:06.240 taking any
00:53:06.820 group and
00:53:07.900 targeting them
00:53:08.720 for victimhood.
00:53:10.360 Like, I don't
00:53:11.060 have the
00:53:11.380 empathy for,
00:53:12.200 you know,
00:53:12.440 I don't have
00:53:12.900 the lack
00:53:13.400 of empathy
00:53:13.860 that you
00:53:14.920 need to
00:53:15.940 say,
00:53:16.180 all right,
00:53:16.380 you're going
00:53:16.680 to suffer,
00:53:17.540 but it'll
00:53:17.900 be good for
00:53:18.320 these other
00:53:18.660 people.
00:53:20.560 And it's
00:53:21.060 the same
00:53:21.280 with children.
00:53:23.620 I don't
00:53:24.200 think I
00:53:24.560 could handle
00:53:25.240 having a
00:53:27.340 biological
00:53:27.900 child that
00:53:28.800 I brought
00:53:29.280 into the
00:53:29.680 world that
00:53:30.940 had anything
00:53:31.840 like the
00:53:32.380 problems
00:53:32.820 that I've
00:53:33.220 had.
00:53:34.080 I don't
00:53:34.380 know if I
00:53:34.700 could handle
00:53:35.060 that emotionally.
00:53:37.220 Maybe I
00:53:37.640 could.
00:53:38.340 There's probably
00:53:38.980 a biological
00:53:39.560 thing, which
00:53:40.220 when you're in
00:53:40.760 that situation,
00:53:41.780 you figure it
00:53:42.500 out.
00:53:43.620 But that's
00:53:44.900 been on my
00:53:45.360 mind.
00:53:46.560 All right.
00:53:49.560 Yeah, I think
00:53:50.220 a lot more
00:53:50.640 people are
00:53:51.060 deciding not to
00:53:51.700 have children
00:53:52.140 these days.
00:53:53.360 That could be
00:53:54.080 a problem.
00:53:58.520 All right,
00:53:59.120 just looking at
00:53:59.680 your...
00:54:00.020 Speaking of
00:54:00.740 that, you
00:54:02.280 know, it's
00:54:02.660 occurred to
00:54:03.080 me that as
00:54:03.800 we watch
00:54:04.280 our society
00:54:05.900 and civilization
00:54:06.900 evolve, and
00:54:08.340 it's not always
00:54:08.960 evolving in a
00:54:09.720 way that we
00:54:10.100 plan.
00:54:10.700 Things just
00:54:11.200 sort of happen,
00:54:12.220 and then we
00:54:12.660 say, hey, how'd
00:54:13.440 that happen?
00:54:14.320 There's a weird
00:54:14.940 thing that's
00:54:15.360 happened that I've
00:54:15.860 mentioned before,
00:54:16.700 but you're seeing
00:54:18.360 more and more of
00:54:18.980 it on social
00:54:21.040 media.
00:54:22.140 Given that we've
00:54:23.040 lost all faith in
00:54:24.980 our news and our
00:54:26.640 institutions,
00:54:27.340 everything from
00:54:28.620 our intelligence
00:54:29.840 agencies to the
00:54:30.940 FBI, I mean,
00:54:32.340 a lot of
00:54:33.400 credibility has
00:54:34.160 been lost.
00:54:35.020 A lot of that
00:54:35.560 has to do with
00:54:36.220 just figuring out
00:54:36.960 what's true, and
00:54:38.600 then what to do
00:54:39.240 about it.
00:54:40.980 And it feels to
00:54:42.040 me that our
00:54:42.700 system is
00:54:43.660 inexorably being
00:54:46.660 drawn toward an
00:54:48.680 outcome.
00:54:49.900 And it looks
00:54:50.780 like the outcome
00:54:51.640 is something
00:54:52.760 like Internet
00:54:54.620 dads.
00:54:55.380 I'm going to
00:54:57.040 use that word.
00:54:58.060 You can throw
00:54:58.560 in moms, right?
00:55:00.180 But because
00:55:01.280 there are more
00:55:02.220 of them are
00:55:03.660 male than
00:55:04.680 female, I'll
00:55:06.600 use the sexist
00:55:07.880 definition and
00:55:09.060 say it's
00:55:09.280 Internet dads,
00:55:10.400 and I would
00:55:11.240 say I'm one
00:55:11.780 of them.
00:55:13.000 I would say
00:55:13.520 I'm an
00:55:14.100 Internet dad,
00:55:16.100 in the case
00:55:16.700 dad of
00:55:17.380 stepkids, but
00:55:18.400 still a dad,
00:55:20.540 meaning that
00:55:21.180 there is a
00:55:24.580 dad vibe,
00:55:26.040 which is
00:55:26.500 somebody needs
00:55:27.880 to take care
00:55:28.880 of the ugly
00:55:30.400 problems, and
00:55:32.720 it's always
00:55:33.120 dad.
00:55:34.060 If there's
00:55:34.820 a snake in
00:55:38.380 the garden,
00:55:39.700 it's going to
00:55:40.820 be dad who
00:55:41.580 gets rid of
00:55:42.080 it.
00:55:42.260 If there's an
00:55:42.740 intruder,
00:55:43.840 probably dad.
00:55:45.540 Now, it won't
00:55:46.780 be sexist, of
00:55:47.680 course, there's no
00:55:48.240 reason that women
00:55:48.900 can't get rid of
00:55:49.620 snakes.
00:55:49.960 But just
00:55:51.700 socially,
00:55:52.800 traditionally,
00:55:54.360 some things you
00:55:55.040 imagine being
00:55:55.840 more dad.
00:55:56.980 Yeah, and I
00:55:57.720 feel like there
00:55:58.440 is a group of
00:56:00.900 dads that are
00:56:02.680 sort of growing
00:56:03.620 up with the
00:56:04.240 Internet, and
00:56:05.920 that people are
00:56:06.600 gravitating toward
00:56:08.180 them, because
00:56:09.520 what they, and
00:56:11.860 I'll say we,
00:56:13.200 because I'm in
00:56:13.760 that group,
00:56:14.600 what we do
00:56:15.560 doesn't happen
00:56:16.740 anywhere else,
00:56:18.080 meaning that we're
00:56:19.200 the ones telling
00:56:19.900 you who's lying
00:56:20.820 to you, who
00:56:22.080 to trust, who's
00:56:23.100 a scam.
00:56:24.220 Did your dad do
00:56:25.440 that for you?
00:56:26.800 I remember my
00:56:27.680 dad thought
00:56:28.280 everything was a
00:56:29.040 scam.
00:56:30.960 My dad thought
00:56:31.980 that the house
00:56:32.600 had been burglarized
00:56:34.320 every other day.
00:56:36.120 Hey, this lock
00:56:37.140 looks like it's
00:56:37.720 been jimmied.
00:56:38.900 Who's been
00:56:39.340 playing with this
00:56:39.980 lock?
00:56:40.720 I think somebody's
00:56:41.500 been in here.
00:56:42.780 So, yeah, if
00:56:44.360 you have a dad
00:56:45.180 who was the one
00:56:46.900 telling you everything
00:56:47.660 was a con,
00:56:48.820 and maybe
00:56:50.420 there's a trick
00:56:51.040 behind this,
00:56:52.060 it's really
00:56:52.700 useful stuff.
00:56:54.540 And if you
00:56:54.940 didn't have a
00:56:55.720 dad who was
00:56:56.320 telling you to
00:56:56.760 be a skeptic
00:56:57.460 about everything
00:56:58.100 all the time,
00:56:59.260 you'd be a
00:56:59.960 little unarmed
00:57:00.620 going into the
00:57:01.600 world without
00:57:02.740 that little
00:57:03.280 recording playing
00:57:04.200 in your head
00:57:04.700 of, I think
00:57:05.820 they're trying
00:57:06.200 to put one
00:57:06.640 over on you
00:57:07.180 here.
00:57:08.220 So I always
00:57:09.060 have that
00:57:09.400 recording.
00:57:09.880 I think
00:57:10.280 they're up
00:57:10.620 to no good.
00:57:12.280 And that's
00:57:12.940 my dad's
00:57:13.460 voice.
00:57:16.100 All right.
00:57:16.740 house was
00:57:22.720 broken into
00:57:23.260 all the
00:57:23.580 time in
00:57:24.060 Houston.
00:57:24.660 Sorry about
00:57:25.200 that.
00:57:28.220 All right.
00:57:30.540 So I feel
00:57:31.320 as though you
00:57:32.680 are seeing
00:57:33.240 the somewhat
00:57:35.560 organic growth
00:57:37.500 of internet
00:57:38.180 dads.
00:57:39.580 And maybe
00:57:43.020 that's useful.
00:57:43.900 We'll see.
00:57:44.620 All right.
00:57:44.820 that's all I
00:57:45.180 have for
00:57:45.380 now.
00:57:45.700 I'll talk
00:57:45.960 to you
00:57:46.120 tomorrow.
00:57:49.800 All right,
00:57:50.540 YouTubers,
00:57:51.500 hit that
00:57:51.960 subscribe button
00:57:52.880 if you care
00:57:54.340 to get
00:57:54.800 notified when
00:57:56.340 I'm on.
00:57:57.640 Very soon,
00:57:58.640 Periscope will
00:57:59.820 go away,
00:58:00.500 so YouTube
00:58:00.940 will be
00:58:01.560 a primary
00:58:02.700 vehicle.
00:58:03.660 I think the
00:58:04.260 locals platform
00:58:05.260 will also
00:58:05.960 have live
00:58:07.720 streaming pretty
00:58:08.320 soon.
00:58:09.280 And by the
00:58:09.820 way, if you
00:58:10.460 would like to
00:58:11.040 support people
00:58:12.840 like me, I'm
00:58:13.580 on the locals
00:58:14.300 platform, and
00:58:15.520 even if you
00:58:16.140 don't want to
00:58:16.800 watch that
00:58:17.180 content, it's
00:58:19.020 a way to
00:58:19.420 support voices
00:58:20.560 that are not
00:58:21.820 part of the
00:58:22.360 corporate badness.
00:58:27.040 Somebody says
00:58:27.820 YouTube notifies
00:58:28.720 you five minutes
00:58:29.480 late.
00:58:30.640 Well, you know,
00:58:31.120 if you follow me
00:58:31.760 on Twitter, if I
00:58:33.480 remember, I don't
00:58:34.260 always remember, I
00:58:35.200 do tweet the
00:58:36.760 live stream just
00:58:37.700 before I get on,
00:58:38.540 so if you set an
00:58:39.200 alert for my
00:58:40.000 tweets, that'll be
00:58:41.200 a second way to
00:58:41.840 do it.
00:58:42.120 The only
00:58:48.640 person you can
00:58:49.300 trust is
00:58:49.800 yourself.
00:58:50.860 No, you can
00:58:51.400 also trust people
00:58:52.720 who don't have
00:58:53.380 any motivation
00:58:54.540 to screw you.
00:58:56.640 There just
00:58:56.960 aren't many of
00:58:57.540 them, but they
00:58:59.060 exist.
00:59:00.200 And I think
00:59:00.660 family members
00:59:01.400 can be trusted
00:59:02.020 more often than
00:59:03.820 not.
00:59:04.120 What?
00:59:07.600 Set up YouTube
00:59:08.700 stream further
00:59:09.900 ahead of time.
00:59:11.100 Maybe.
00:59:13.720 I don't know if
00:59:14.400 that's real.
00:59:17.820 COVID.
00:59:23.000 All right.
00:59:23.820 Just reading your
00:59:24.540 comments.
00:59:25.260 That's all for
00:59:25.840 now.
00:59:26.200 I'll talk to you
00:59:26.700 tomorrow.
00:59:26.920 I'll talk to you
00:59:42.540 tomorrow.