Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1327 Scott Adams： Paying Artists in SF, Kitler the Cat, Vaccination Passports, and Mostly Fun Tonight

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00:01:14.060 So I'd like to give you a little flash from the past.

00:01:18.480 You ready for it?

00:01:19.320 I was looking in my closet the other day, upstairs, and I was just looking for something, and I

00:01:26.940 found this.

00:01:30.720 This gigantic emergency rice.

00:01:34.820 And I want to take you back to where your heads were one year ago, roughly one year

00:01:48.380 ago, when the lockdowns were just beginning, and everybody was buying their secret stores.

00:01:56.660 Not only did I buy secret stores of foodstuffs, but, and by the way, why do they call it foodstuffs?

00:02:07.000 How about just food?

00:02:08.680 But I actually hid it, so that when the roving band of armed, I'm sorry, so when the roving

00:02:18.680 band of bandits came to rob my house and kill me and steal my food, they wouldn't be able

00:02:25.060 to find it.

00:02:26.240 Now, do you remember how scared you were a year ago?

00:02:31.540 When all the toilet paper was gone, it looked like maybe the entire economy of the world

00:02:37.200 would, you know, plunge into darkness.

00:02:40.080 Do you remember just how scary that was?

00:02:44.140 I mean, just think about it.

00:02:45.700 Because, you know, we're all, we're all bitching about our vaccinations, right?

00:02:49.300 Like, oh, my arm's going to hurt, and, you know, maybe, maybe it's not good for me.

00:02:55.000 But compared to what it was a year ago, oh, my God.

00:03:02.480 I'm going to tell you a story that would be better if I could tell you the person, but

00:03:07.140 just for privacy, I won't.

00:03:09.000 So when the pandemic began, and I was telling people, you know, don't worry too much, it

00:03:14.440 won't be that bad, I got a call at home one day from somebody who is really, really good

00:03:22.200 at understanding the world and predicting what's going to happen next, and I've never

00:03:28.060 been so frightened in my life.

00:03:31.260 Now, when I say I've never been so frightened in my life, I mean that literally.

00:03:36.900 Last year, at a time when I was telling all of you, it'll be fine, you know, just prepare,

00:03:42.100 do everything you can, but don't, don't worry yourself to death, you know, we'll work through

00:03:46.960 it, et cetera.

00:03:48.060 And by the way, I was right, wouldn't you say?

00:03:51.400 Wouldn't you largely say that my characterization, that we would get through it, we wouldn't run

00:03:58.460 out of food, you know, we wouldn't die, it would just be really, really inconvenient and,

00:04:04.620 you know, bad economically for a lot of people, but we would get through it.

00:04:08.580 But I'll tell you, at the same time I was hearing that, I was hearing from somebody whose opinion

00:04:16.340 I really respect, that we were doomed, that we were in big trouble.

00:04:23.520 And I was trying not to tell you that, because I didn't buy it, right?

00:04:28.700 So first of all, you know, my optimism was legitimate, I thought we would be fine.

00:04:33.040 Fine in the sense that we would come out of it about the way we are, right?

00:04:38.240 That's not fine if half a million people are dead.

00:04:40.840 But I thought we would come out of it about the way we did.

00:04:44.660 I heard a story that was so scary that I've just never been that scared in my life.

00:04:52.600 It was just the most frightening thing I've ever heard.

00:04:55.300 And I was not going to tell you, I'll tell you, you are not going to hear that story.

00:05:03.640 Anyway, I'm glad it didn't go to the worst case scenario.

00:05:07.980 So, you know, as we're watching this story about the Suez Canal, and how that little choke 0.94

00:05:15.580 point in our economy will affect us all, I was starting to see a pattern here.

00:05:20.680 Here's an interesting pattern.

00:05:27.600 If you look at the Suez Canal thing, the story is that it's going to affect the world economy,

00:05:32.680 right?

00:05:32.900 We're all affected by it.

00:05:34.860 At the same time, we're in the middle of the pandemic, which is sort of a unique problem

00:05:40.400 in the sense that it's worldwide.

00:05:43.500 We're also talking about, you know, climate change, which is worldwide.

00:05:48.020 And we're talking about the rise of China and what that means to the world, which is,

00:05:54.380 again, a global problem.

00:05:56.480 Have we ever had this many global problems?

00:06:01.160 It's kind of new, isn't it?

00:06:03.060 I mean, we've had world wars, but they seem like special cases.

00:06:07.400 But now it seems that we're such a connected world that you can't do anything without affecting

00:06:13.140 everybody else.

00:06:13.960 So I feel as if it's like the simulation or God, if you prefer, I feel like there's a message

00:06:23.340 being sent to us and we're not getting it.

00:06:26.060 Do you feel that way?

00:06:28.400 It feels like, let's take the assumption that there's a God.

00:06:34.200 We'll just take that model of life for a moment.

00:06:36.980 It feels like God is just keeps tapping us on the shoulder and saying, hey, hey, you can't

00:06:44.280 really just take care of yourself anymore because we're all connected.

00:06:49.140 Do you get it?

00:06:50.100 I'll send you a pandemic.

00:06:51.320 See if you get it.

00:06:52.600 Wait, wait, you're not getting it yet, right?

00:06:54.900 All right, let's try again.

00:06:56.320 I'm going to move this tanker sideways and watch what happens.

00:07:00.420 Entire world will be affected.

00:07:02.780 Tap, tap, tap.

00:07:03.320 You get it now, right?

00:07:04.580 Do you see that?

00:07:05.200 You don't get it yet?

00:07:07.540 Well, watch this.

00:07:09.500 And it feels like one thing after another is just trying to tell us the same message.

00:07:14.280 You know you're all on the same team.

00:07:16.600 You know that, right?

00:07:17.780 Team human being, same side.

00:07:22.400 But we're not getting it yet.

00:07:24.700 Here's my favorite story in the news.

00:07:26.980 It's about a cat named Kittler.

00:07:29.180 Now, poor little Kittler has some markings that look like a Hitler mustache, and so the owners

00:07:38.600 quite humorously named their Hitler-looking cat Kittler.

00:07:43.680 Now, that was fine.

00:07:45.740 Everything was fine with that because everybody knew that it was just a joke.

00:07:50.720 But there was a local Fox News weather person who made the terrible, terrible mistake of running a cute picture of Kittler on her show where I guess she was showing some cute animal stuff.

00:08:04.880 And she got a lot of pushback.

00:08:08.040 Turns out that a lot of people were offended by Kittler.

00:08:12.440 And so she apologized.

00:08:14.740 Now, I want to play her apology because remember I told you that the apologies for all the wokeness mistakes, the apologies are becoming hilarious.

00:08:25.460 Because the distinction between parody and the real world has just disappeared.

00:08:33.800 You can't tell the difference between a joke and somebody literally trying to be sincere.

00:08:39.360 You can't tell the difference.

00:08:41.440 Let's see if you can tell the difference.

00:08:44.060 Is she really apologizing or is this a joke?

00:08:48.960 I did make a mistake during our Catterday segment.

00:08:52.100 I used a submitted photo of a cat with an inappropriate name.

00:08:54.800 I don't want to use the name here.

00:08:56.220 But I never intended to hurt or offend anyone by using that picture that was actually just given to me.

00:09:02.020 I understand my mistake and I am deeply sorry.

00:09:04.880 And in the future, I will absolutely be more diligent with this content to ensure it never happens again.

00:09:10.880 15 degrees below zero.

00:09:13.240 All right.

00:09:14.440 So the punchline, the punchline is I'll be more diligent with this type of material to make sure it never happens again.

00:09:22.460 Because, you know, because, you know, because, you know, the big risk here, oh, we, you know, we can accept that it happened once.

00:09:31.380 But, man, you don't want this to happen again, do you?

00:09:36.680 Because how can we go on?

00:09:39.320 So I would like to join in in solidarity with this weather person who has now apologized.

00:09:48.800 And I would like to say, too, that I'm going to learn from this.

00:09:53.600 I'm going to learn from this.

00:09:55.080 Some of you'd never learn.

00:09:57.340 But I learned from this.

00:09:58.560 And my plans of showing a picture of a cat that looks like Hitler, I've changed them.

00:10:07.080 I was going to show a picture of a cat that looked like Hitler, but now I know that would be insensitive.

00:10:13.340 So I'm not going to do it.

00:10:14.860 I learned.

00:10:16.180 Maybe you don't.

00:10:18.160 Well, in New York, and I guess in other places, they're going to have a vaccination passport, it looks like.

00:10:23.420 So there'll be some kind of an app that you can show if you're going to certain kinds of events that says, I've been vaccinated.

00:10:31.340 What do you think of that?

00:10:33.300 I don't really understand the resistance to this.

00:10:40.480 Now, I understand there is a lot of resistance, and people really, really care about it.

00:10:44.960 And it looks like, I don't know, it looks like we're all going to be branded and tattooed and sent to the concentration camps or something.

00:10:51.180 Somebody is saying, is it a HIPAA violation?

00:10:55.340 Well, not if you do it voluntarily.

00:10:58.320 Or maybe you mean some other point.

00:11:00.120 I'm not sure.

00:11:01.600 But all of you who said, you know, I knew it was coming, are you really worried about this?

00:11:09.160 Of all the things that you have to worry about, this might be the smallest problem in the world.

00:11:15.440 Well, no.

00:11:16.120 The smallest problem in the world is Kittler.

00:11:18.800 Kittler is the smallest problem in the world.

00:11:21.180 This might be the second smallest.

00:11:24.300 Do you really think this is going to go wrong?

00:11:27.440 In what way?

00:11:29.260 What exactly is the argument that this is going to go wrong?

00:11:33.580 Somebody says it's a freedom violation.

00:11:36.420 Is it?

00:11:40.360 I'm seeing people are just going nuts in the comments.

00:11:43.040 Over on YouTube, they're swearing at me with the F word.

00:11:46.680 Even for just bringing up the topic.

00:11:48.260 My freedom.

00:11:50.580 My freedom.

00:11:52.420 You know, literally everything you do for your health affects your freedom.

00:11:58.000 Almost every law we make affects your freedom.

00:12:02.980 Everything you do to be polite affects your freedom.

00:12:06.740 We don't do anything that doesn't affect your freedom.

00:12:09.000 All of our choices are trade-offs of, well, I'll give up a little freedom to get a little bit more of this.

00:12:16.760 Let me ask you this.

00:12:17.820 If you had two choices, there are no mass events, or if you would like to attend, optionally.

00:12:27.660 Nobody's forcing you to do it.

00:12:29.040 You don't have to go to the event.

00:12:30.640 But if you want to attend, you'll show a little thing that says you're safe.

00:12:35.200 Is that a big problem?

00:12:37.940 I mean, seriously.

00:12:38.780 I get the point that maybe something could get out of control or whatever.

00:12:43.840 But if you were going to rank this on your top hundred problems, is this in the top hundred?

00:12:50.800 Because I can't even generate a little bit of caring about it.

00:12:55.320 Like, I'm not even close to being mad at it.

00:12:58.900 I can't even care about it.

00:13:00.480 It doesn't even seem like an issue.

00:13:02.460 Am I missing this completely?

00:13:03.960 Nobody's going to lose their freedom.

00:13:07.440 You're gaining freedom.

00:13:09.620 Because if you don't have this thing, you'll never be able to have the event.

00:13:14.520 The event won't happen.

00:13:16.880 So doesn't that give you more freedom?

00:13:19.500 Because now you can go to a thing that you couldn't go to before.

00:13:23.240 Okay, now maybe you would say, but how about we just have the big events and everybody can go.

00:13:28.680 We'll get there.

00:13:30.300 Do you think this is permanent?

00:13:32.680 I don't think it's permanent.

00:13:34.540 I don't worry about anything that's temporary.

00:13:37.420 Let me give you a philosophy that might help you a little bit.

00:13:42.960 Don't worry about anything that's temporary.

00:13:45.800 That's it.

00:13:47.280 That's some of the best advice you'll ever hear in your life.

00:13:50.940 Don't worry about anything that's temporary.

00:13:54.980 Worry about the big stuff.

00:13:57.680 Now, I hear it's slippery slope and they're boiling a frog and they're getting us used to all this control

00:14:03.320 and all that, but do you think they don't already know where you are on your phone?

00:14:08.180 I mean, they're already tracking you on your phone.

00:14:10.780 They can listen to you if they want.

00:14:13.480 Your privacy is largely gone.

00:14:15.220 And so he says it's segregation.

00:14:21.640 Here's the thing.

00:14:23.040 All of your complaints about this are just sort of like weird conceptual complaints.

00:14:28.300 I just don't think any of it's real.

00:14:30.980 I think this is your smallest problem.

00:14:32.760 But should I be wrong about that, I know you'll let me know in the future.

00:14:42.420 So Saturday Night Live is starting to, let's say, gently mock the Biden administration.

00:14:48.760 Michael Che had a really good one on, he did the weekend update.

00:14:55.480 And as he was reading the fake news, he said Biden was asked if he plans to run for re-election in 2024,

00:15:01.060 which is probably the nicest way to ask if he plans to be alive in three years.

00:15:06.360 Now, what's great about this joke is that's exactly what I was thinking when I heard the question.

00:15:11.060 I thought, are you really asking if you think you're going to be alive in three years?

00:15:16.300 And, of course, Biden had to say, you know, his presumption was that he would run for re-election.

00:15:23.360 But there's no way he thinks that.

00:15:25.700 There isn't the slightest chance that Biden thinks he's running for re-election.

00:15:30.920 Do you think that?

00:15:32.240 There's no chance of that.

00:15:36.500 Here's a story that made me laugh.

00:15:40.200 And let's see if you laugh for the same reason.

00:15:42.160 So, journalist Cheryl Atkinson, you probably are all familiar with her.

00:15:49.180 She tweeted that she's looking for some story assistance.

00:15:53.360 And she tweets, for a story, I'm looking for a fairly large group of Georgians who want to vote but cannot get an ID.

00:16:01.840 Please DM me if you have any leads.

00:16:05.340 Now, what do you think is going to...

00:16:07.160 Now, here's what made me laugh.

00:16:10.040 We haven't done that yet?

00:16:12.460 One of the biggest stories in the country is the Georgia election law changes.

00:16:18.340 And the biggest part of that is requiring identification.

00:16:22.400 Because if you didn't have it, you wouldn't be able to vote, at least for mail-in stuff.

00:16:26.560 And Cheryl Atkinson is the first person to say, maybe we could find one of these people.

00:16:37.640 These alleged people who have no ID but want to vote.

00:16:42.020 Do they exist?

00:16:44.840 Here's my prediction.

00:16:47.040 I'll be surprised if you can find three in the whole state.

00:16:52.860 I'll be surprised.

00:16:54.000 Now, that doesn't mean there are fewer than three.

00:16:57.380 I'm saying that there are probably so few that if you could find three, it would be a little bit of a miracle.

00:17:04.680 Now, there are two problems here.

00:17:05.940 One is, I don't know that any exist.

00:17:09.800 If we get one, we'll find out.

00:17:12.480 But how hard is it to find someone who doesn't have an ID

00:17:16.980 and also has the second criteria that they wanted to vote but they couldn't?

00:17:21.820 How do you even find people who don't have an ID?

00:17:25.880 Like, are they on Twitter?

00:17:28.040 If they are, how?

00:17:29.840 I mean, I guess you could be somehow.

00:17:32.520 But, yeah.

00:17:34.800 And so here's what made me laugh.

00:17:36.640 Why is Cheryl Atkinson the first person to ask this question? 0.75

00:17:42.200 Hey, can you help me find some of these people?

00:17:44.820 The entire, the biggest story in the country is based on the assumption that there are lots of them.

00:17:52.900 And nobody asked to find one until Cheryl Atkinson asked.

00:17:56.940 Hey, I don't know where they are.

00:18:00.240 Never seen one.

00:18:01.820 Never met one.

00:18:03.860 Does anybody have one?

00:18:05.800 Can anybody find one?

00:18:09.360 What's it tell you that only one journalist even asked the question?

00:18:16.720 What's that tell you?

00:18:17.840 It tells you there's no interest in knowing if it's even real.

00:18:22.700 Except for Cheryl Atkinson. 1.00

00:18:25.100 And I, of course, will be very interested in reading what she comes up with on this.

00:18:29.320 But it just amazes me that nobody did this.

00:18:37.120 And let me give you another example of this.

00:18:39.280 Do you remember when after the Charlottesville fine people hoax thing happened?

00:18:43.820 Do you remember all the press who went and talked to the people who attended to find out for sure,

00:18:51.120 just by talking to the attendees, whether there were people that could be described as fine people?

00:18:57.940 Wouldn't you want to know that?

00:18:59.960 Don't you think that the news organization should have done exactly what Cheryl Atkinson did

00:19:04.520 and say, hey, does anybody know anybody who meets that description?

00:19:09.540 Because the entire story is about whether they exist or not.

00:19:13.820 And nobody checked to see if they exist.

00:19:18.560 Just think about that.

00:19:19.840 Just hold that thought for a moment.

00:19:21.940 It was a gigantic story and still is.

00:19:25.640 And the entire thing boiled down to were there people there

00:19:28.760 who a reasonable person would say, no, you're not a racist.

00:19:32.360 You had other reasons to be there.

00:19:35.380 As far as I know, only one person in the world did that.

00:19:41.120 Me.

00:19:42.140 I did that.

00:19:43.180 I tweeted, hey, was anybody there who would describe themselves as a fine person or something like that?

00:19:49.500 And people contacted me.

00:19:51.320 And I interviewed them and found out that indeed people who, in my opinion,

00:19:56.660 did a good job of explaining that they don't have racial biases in this particular way

00:20:02.160 and didn't like the racists who were there or did not agree with them at all, disavowed them completely.

00:20:11.900 I'm the only one who checked.

00:20:13.980 I'm the only one who checked.

00:20:16.240 I'm the biggest story of the year.

00:20:17.460 That's not, I'm not making that up.

00:20:20.700 I'm the only one who checked.

00:20:22.960 Right?

00:20:23.240 And now Cheryl Atkinson is literally the only person in the world asking the biggest question about the biggest story.

00:20:32.140 Are there any?

00:20:34.140 Have you ever met one?

00:20:35.360 All right.

00:20:39.180 So it made me laugh.

00:20:41.240 Speaking of laughs, so San Francisco has decided to start paying $1,000 a month guaranteed income

00:20:49.700 to artists in San Francisco, and especially whose artistic practice is rooted in a historically marginalized community.

00:21:04.360 So if you're not white, it looks like they really want to give you some money.

00:21:11.140 And this works out for me.

00:21:12.600 A lot of you are offended by that.

00:21:14.000 But since I started identifying as black, I like this idea now.

00:21:19.220 Because I'm an artist, kind of.

00:21:23.020 I'm sort of an artist.

00:21:24.260 And also, now that I've identified with, I've self-identified as a member of a historically marginalized community,

00:21:33.280 I think my people need this money.

00:21:37.100 So yes, I think San Francisco should start giving money to my people,

00:21:41.800 people, the artists from the historically marginalized communities.

00:21:46.300 And doesn't it make you wonder if they're still trying?

00:21:56.660 Are they still trying, the government of San Francisco?

00:22:00.200 Or is it now just sort of like performance art? 0.96

00:22:03.040 They're trying to figure out what's the most ridiculous thing you'll go along with. 0.96

00:22:07.540 Watch this. 0.99

00:22:08.640 Watch this.

00:22:09.160 We're going to tell people that our artists are essential and see if we can just like give them money.

00:22:18.460 And somebody would say, they're not going to buy that.

00:22:22.160 Nobody's going to think artists are essential in a pandemic and that you should give them money because they're essential.

00:22:29.280 Nobody's going to believe that.

00:22:31.660 Watch this.

00:22:33.060 Watch this.

00:22:34.360 I'm going to sell this.

00:22:35.320 The difference between a government doing what a government should do and a practical joke has completely evaporated.

00:22:48.260 The actual government decisions, you can't tell anymore if they're practical jokes.

00:22:54.760 Now, there should be some version of, let's say, the Turing test for government.

00:23:03.220 Now, if you're familiar with the Turing test, T-U-R-I-N-J, named after Turing.

00:23:09.480 And it was the test to see if your artificial intelligence could fool somebody to make them think that they're a real human being.

00:23:19.280 And the test, at least conceptually, is that behind a curtain, there's somebody talking.

00:23:25.480 You don't know if it's a computer or a person or they're typing either way.

00:23:29.960 And you ask them questions, you have a conversation, and if you can't tell, yeah, it's Alan Turing, thank you for the first name.

00:23:37.460 If you can't tell that it's a computer on the other side, you think it might be human, then you've passed the Turing test.

00:23:44.240 But if you can tell, oh, that's obviously a computer, then you failed.

00:23:48.520 But I feel like there's some kind of Turing test going on with our government right now, where you hear a new policy out of San Francisco, and you say to yourself,

00:24:00.940 I'm not so sure.

00:24:05.580 Was that a real one, or was that a prank?

00:24:10.340 I can't tell.

00:24:12.160 And if you fool me, you've passed the equivalent of the Turing test.

00:24:16.900 I'm going to call it the Adams test.

00:24:20.140 Or should I call it the Dilbert test?

00:24:23.320 I think Dilbert is more famous.

00:24:25.080 So let's do the Dilbert test.

00:24:27.520 So the Dilbert test is an updated version of the Turing test.

00:24:32.720 And the Dilbert test, I guess you could apply this to a company as well as a government.

00:24:40.440 Yeah, actually, let's do that.

00:24:41.720 Since it's a Dilbert test, let's apply it to corporations or organizations of any kind, government or not.

00:24:49.180 If you can't tell if it's a joke or real, you've passed the Dilbert test.

00:24:58.880 All right.

00:25:04.180 Next week, I'm going in to re-record my audio book of how to fail at almost everything and still win big.

00:25:10.380 If you don't know the backstory of that, back in 2006, I believe, I lost my ability to speak.

00:25:18.540 So I couldn't talk.

00:25:20.760 My vocal cords would clench when I tried to make certain sounds.

00:25:24.760 So I could make noise, but it would sound like, you know, basically people couldn't understand sentences.

00:25:31.500 And I had just finished my book, how to fail at almost everything and still win big.

00:25:35.680 And although it was years after that, after surgery and years of recovery from my voice,

00:25:42.360 But I hired a voice artist to do that book for me because I couldn't get through a whole book.

00:25:50.320 My voice wouldn't have lasted. 0.99

00:25:53.000 But if there's one thing you know about me by now is that I am one stubborn motherfucker. 1.00

00:26:01.960 And I fucking hate to lose. 1.00

00:26:04.780 And I don't know, I will wait forever to get revenge. 0.98

00:26:11.740 I will wait forever to fix something that wasn't right. 0.98

00:26:16.900 Like, I will chew through a fucking concrete wall to get something done that just needed to get done. 0.99

00:26:23.900 If you don't know anything else about me, you should know that. 0.99

00:26:27.760 And I have never been more bugged by the fact that I couldn't read my own book.

00:26:34.780 But, as you've noticed, I have now spent at least one hour a day, every day, for several years now,

00:26:46.780 Talking in public.

00:26:49.460 Until I can do this.

00:26:52.820 Finally.

00:26:54.140 I can finally do this.

00:26:56.320 It took me years.

00:26:59.300 But I don't like to give up.

00:27:00.960 And so, tomorrow I'm going in the studio and I will re-record and then we'll re-release the book,

00:27:07.300 How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big.

00:27:11.120 Because, if you write a book called How to Fail at Everything and Still Win Big,

00:27:17.020 and you give up before you record it properly,

00:27:20.460 well, you have not lived up to your own book.

00:27:23.140 So, I'm going to get this done.

00:27:25.600 It's not going to be easy.

00:27:26.940 Because the recording is always unpleasant.

00:27:29.400 It takes days.

00:27:30.780 But I have rebuilt my voice to the point where not only can I re-record this book,

00:27:37.120 but I think I'll be happy with how it will come out.

00:27:42.920 So, that's just a little personal update for you.

00:27:45.220 Clarification.

00:27:48.220 I thought that Vice President Kamala Harris would be assigned to the border control situation, 0.92

00:27:56.000 but apparently she's being assigned just to the international affairs part,

00:28:00.800 where she'll deal with the Central American countries

00:28:03.360 to see if we can make them more attractive for staying there. 0.90

00:28:08.600 And that tells us a little bit more about the future.

00:28:12.880 If they had put Kamala Harris in charge of border security,

00:28:18.660 do you remember what I said about that?

00:28:20.500 It's like, uh, are they trying to get rid of her?

00:28:23.900 Because that's like a suicide mission.

00:28:26.460 Nobody's ever going to succeed about the actual border itself.

00:28:31.760 You can't succeed.

00:28:33.440 Half the country is just going to hate your guts no matter what.

00:28:36.180 Maybe three quarters.

00:28:37.040 But you probably could succeed doing something that would maybe help the Central American countries,

00:28:44.940 you know, do a little better job of being an attractive place to stay.

00:28:48.980 And that's more of a presidential kind of a job, isn't it?

00:28:52.900 So, instead of giving her this suicide mission,

00:28:56.460 she's really going to have a very high-level job. 0.97

00:28:59.420 And if she were to succeed in that at all,

00:29:02.000 it would put her in a good position for running for president. 0.99

00:29:05.040 So, I would say at this point, that is helping her future.

00:29:10.280 So, Christina and I went out to eat last night

00:29:13.220 in my San Francisco East Bay neighborhood.

00:29:18.460 And there was the most fun thing.

00:29:22.120 You know what?

00:29:26.020 We're all looking for these little signs of life,

00:29:28.240 you know, that the world is getting back to normal

00:29:30.420 and the economy is going back to where it was.

00:29:32.900 And let me tell you what I saw when we went out to dinner.

00:29:37.740 I've never seen so many senior citizens out to dinner, right? 1.00

00:29:43.520 I'm not counting myself necessarily in this group.

00:29:47.300 I'm on the bubble.

00:29:48.280 But I'm talking about 70 and older.

00:29:52.840 The restaurants are crushed with vaccinated seniors. 1.00

00:30:01.880 The restaurants are crushed.

00:30:04.780 They're crushed.

00:30:06.080 Couldn't get in.

00:30:07.800 I mean, we did get in.

00:30:08.920 But finally, you know, we found a place.

00:30:11.200 But you go there, and it's over 70, over 70, over 70.

00:30:15.480 And, oh, my God, it's just great to see.

00:30:18.280 It is great to see.

00:30:20.980 I have to admit it.

00:30:22.840 It affected me.

00:30:25.900 So, and we ate indoors for the first time.

00:30:30.860 Well, the first time in a while.

00:30:32.900 Ate indoors.

00:30:34.580 But the funny thing is,

00:30:35.920 it's like the night of the living vaccinated.

00:30:39.760 Because, you know, obviously, you go out to dinner.

00:30:42.140 There'll always be, you know,

00:30:43.120 a good dose of senior citizens anywhere you go out to dinner. 0.53

00:30:46.440 But not like this.

00:30:50.300 You go out to dinner,

00:30:51.660 and as soon as you get into the restaurant areas,

00:30:55.080 it's like night of the living vaccinated.

00:30:57.260 You know, I got my second shot.

00:31:00.900 Give me restaurant food.

00:31:03.720 Let me in.

00:31:05.320 I got two shots.

00:31:06.420 So, I think I'm eligible.

00:31:10.220 I believe my eligibility kicks in this week.

00:31:14.380 So, sometime this week, I might get a first shot

00:31:17.160 if I can find access to it somewhere.

00:31:20.180 Dr. Birx is saying that

00:31:24.520 because we handle things wrong in this country,

00:31:28.700 and if we had handled it more like, let's say, Germany,

00:31:31.960 that all the deaths over the first 100,000

00:31:34.620 might have been mitigated or reduced.

00:31:38.320 To which a doctor, I don't know his name,

00:31:41.120 but said something, was on TV, said,

00:31:44.400 yeah, that's great, Dr. Birx.

00:31:45.960 It was your job to make sure that didn't happen.

00:31:49.920 Is that fair?

00:31:52.040 So, Birx is saying we handled it wrong,

00:31:54.480 and all these people died,

00:31:56.140 and then somebody else is saying,

00:31:58.080 that's on you.

00:32:00.380 That's on you.

00:32:02.140 If you didn't talk the government

00:32:04.320 into doing what you knew was right,

00:32:06.840 why are you complaining?

00:32:08.620 Because your job is not just to tell them what to do.

00:32:11.860 Your job is to talk them into it.

00:32:13.500 It's not just your job to know what they should have done.

00:32:18.660 Your job was to make them do it.

00:32:22.980 And let me be as clear as possible.

00:32:25.680 If you couldn't make them do it, 0.99

00:32:28.280 your job was to fucking quit. 0.99

00:32:32.160 Really publicly. 0.99

00:32:34.320 Right?

00:32:34.900 Let's just be as clear about this as we can.

00:32:37.740 Her job was to make this happen,

00:32:40.460 since she says she knows this is what we should have done,

00:32:43.500 her job was to make it happen, 0.99

00:32:45.580 or fucking quit. 0.99

00:32:47.540 Right in front of us. 1.00

00:32:49.160 So that we know who the problem is. 1.00

00:32:52.240 If the problem is you couldn't talk some idiot 1.00

00:32:54.400 into doing what you want, 1.00

00:32:56.360 let us know. 1.00

00:32:57.880 That's your fucking job. 1.00

00:33:00.500 Your job is not to complain about it 1.00

00:33:02.820 after you're out.

00:33:04.660 That was not your job.

00:33:06.880 You did not do your job, lady. 1.00

00:33:10.200 Do it right or quit,

00:33:12.340 so that we know what the problem was.

00:33:15.120 Who the problem was.

00:33:18.180 All right.

00:33:18.580 So I issued a challenge on Twitter

00:33:25.520 to see if somebody could win Sidney Powell's case,

00:33:30.580 the lawsuit in which Dominion is suing Sidney Powell

00:33:33.200 for libel, I guess,

00:33:35.100 defamation or libel or whatever the proper legal word is.

00:33:39.060 And I said,

00:33:40.100 try to win her case in one sentence. 0.87

00:33:42.740 You know,

00:33:43.000 just the first sentence.

00:33:44.060 Try to win the whole case.

00:33:45.580 And I gave you my take on this.

00:33:49.000 So here's a sentence

00:33:49.920 that I believe Sidney Powell's lawyer

00:33:53.660 could say one thing

00:33:56.020 and then just sit down

00:33:57.140 and just be done.

00:33:59.560 And we'll see if you agree

00:34:00.500 that this is one thing

00:34:01.420 that would win the case.

00:34:04.400 And it goes like this.

00:34:05.600 So imagine the Sidney Powell defense attorney

00:34:07.860 looking at the jury,

00:34:09.960 I guess it's a jury,

00:34:11.540 and saying,

00:34:12.500 quote,

00:34:13.800 or potential quote,

00:34:15.580 I'm a lawyer advocating for my client,

00:34:18.040 Ms. Powell,

00:34:19.060 and I'm wondering,

00:34:20.580 how many of you think

00:34:21.660 everything I say about Dominion today

00:34:24.060 should be assumed to be a fact?

00:34:28.580 And then you just sit down

00:34:29.840 and say,

00:34:30.960 the defense rests.

00:34:33.780 There's nothing else you'd have to say.

00:34:36.320 Now, of course they would.

00:34:38.480 But think about this point.

00:34:40.920 Do you think that anybody in the jury

00:34:43.500 would look at the defense attorney

00:34:45.780 and say,

00:34:46.740 oh yeah,

00:34:47.120 it is my plan.

00:34:49.460 I plan to believe everything you tell me.

00:34:53.420 Nobody.

00:34:54.780 Nobody would say that.

00:34:56.140 Because everybody in the jury understands,

00:34:58.620 because they're adults

00:34:59.500 and they were at least capable enough

00:35:01.420 to be chosen for jury duty.

00:35:03.420 So you have to show a little bit

00:35:05.280 of human capability

00:35:07.040 or you're not on the jury.

00:35:09.300 Every person on the jury

00:35:10.660 would listen to that and say,

00:35:12.340 well no,

00:35:12.700 I'm not going to believe it

00:35:13.440 just because you say it.

00:35:15.080 You're a lawyer.

00:35:16.720 You're advocating for a client.

00:35:18.880 In this context,

00:35:20.280 we only believe evidence.

00:35:22.700 If you show me evidence,

00:35:24.700 I may or may not believe the evidence,

00:35:27.460 but I'm sure as hell

00:35:28.500 not going to believe it 1.00

00:35:29.320 because it came out of your stupid mouth. 1.00

00:35:31.680 Your job is to persuade me. 1.00

00:35:33.920 Your job is not to be true.

00:35:37.200 Your job is not to tell me the truth

00:35:39.060 if you're a defense attorney.

00:35:40.560 Your job is to do the best you can

00:35:42.700 to get your client free.

00:35:45.440 That's it.

00:35:46.580 Now, let me tell you,

00:35:47.980 how many adults don't understand that?

00:35:51.320 None.

00:35:52.500 Every single adult

00:35:53.880 understands that

00:35:55.740 an attorney advocating for a client

00:35:58.420 is going to say things

00:36:00.300 that you need to check.

00:36:01.320 Everybody knows

00:36:04.300 if you can't check it,

00:36:07.140 you shouldn't think

00:36:08.100 it's necessarily true.

00:36:12.140 The weird part

00:36:14.140 is that the defense attorney

00:36:15.680 would be in exactly the same position

00:36:17.460 as Powell herself was

00:36:19.400 because she was a defense attorney 0.83

00:36:20.960 or maybe more of an offense

00:36:22.880 in this case,

00:36:23.960 but the analogy is perfect.

00:36:27.440 It's not even an analogy.

00:36:28.640 It's basically the same thing.

00:36:31.320 And this is an example

00:36:32.700 if you're following

00:36:33.640 my persuasion lessons

00:36:34.860 of what I call

00:36:35.580 the high ground maneuver.

00:36:37.720 Do you know how often

00:36:38.920 the high ground maneuver,

00:36:40.360 which is a persuasion trick

00:36:41.740 I'll explain a little bit more

00:36:42.920 in a moment,

00:36:43.780 do you know how often

00:36:44.580 the high ground maneuver works?

00:36:47.700 Every time.

00:36:48.980 It's probably the only

00:36:50.300 persuasion method

00:36:51.320 that works every time.

00:36:54.220 Because there's a,

00:36:55.900 and there's a reason for this.

00:36:57.020 People don't care 0.85

00:36:59.260 about facts, right?

00:37:01.220 You understand that, right?

00:37:02.620 So if I'm trying

00:37:03.340 to persuade you

00:37:04.180 with my better reasons

00:37:05.160 and my facts,

00:37:05.960 we observe that people

00:37:06.920 just harden their opposition.

00:37:09.540 The facts don't persuade anybody.

00:37:12.140 But everybody

00:37:13.980 wants to avoid 0.99

00:37:16.220 looking foolish. 0.97

00:37:18.400 It's universal. 0.99

00:37:20.260 So if you're in a meeting

00:37:21.320 or in your business situation,

00:37:23.080 and there's something

00:37:24.320 that would make you 1.00

00:37:25.100 look foolish, 1.00

00:37:26.440 you're going to change 1.00

00:37:27.380 your mind immediately.

00:37:29.100 Because you don't want 1.00

00:37:30.220 to look foolish. 0.99

00:37:31.800 So regardless of what you think 0.99

00:37:33.280 about the truth of the world,

00:37:34.960 you're going to protect

00:37:35.880 yourself first.

00:37:37.500 So the high ground maneuver

00:37:39.120 creates a situation

00:37:41.280 where the person

00:37:42.060 you're trying to persuade

00:37:43.120 has to protect themselves.

00:37:46.520 This is the key.

00:37:48.080 They're protecting themselves

00:37:49.560 as opposed to

00:37:51.660 protecting their argument.

00:37:54.000 If you give somebody

00:37:55.080 a choice of

00:37:55.920 I'm going to let you

00:37:56.560 protect your argument

00:37:57.600 or I'm going to let you

00:37:59.300 protect yourself,

00:38:01.060 they'll choose themselves

00:38:02.500 every time.

00:38:05.060 That's why it works

00:38:06.520 every time.

00:38:07.400 Now you don't always

00:38:08.180 have the opportunity

00:38:09.060 to use it, right?

00:38:10.580 So not every situation

00:38:11.980 will lend itself

00:38:13.000 to a high ground technique.

00:38:15.840 It has to be there

00:38:17.100 and you have to recognize it.

00:38:18.820 So it has to naturally

00:38:20.580 sort of be in the situation.

00:38:22.780 And the high ground

00:38:24.360 in this case

00:38:25.120 is that you adults

00:38:27.740 in the jury

00:38:28.400 are certainly smarter

00:38:30.020 than the public

00:38:30.780 in general, right?

00:38:32.080 You're not so gullible

00:38:33.500 that you would believe

00:38:35.100 that somebody

00:38:35.640 whose job

00:38:36.460 is to persuade you

00:38:37.840 is also always

00:38:40.140 telling you the truth.

00:38:41.480 You're well above that,

00:38:42.680 are you not?

00:38:43.560 Because the person

00:38:45.400 sitting next to you

00:38:46.220 is above it

00:38:46.860 and the person

00:38:48.640 behind you,

00:38:49.860 they're above that.

00:38:51.820 They know how lawyers work. 0.97

00:38:54.540 They know the difference

00:38:55.700 between an honest person

00:38:57.440 and an advocate.

00:38:59.260 But you don't

00:39:00.340 because, you know,

00:39:02.100 all the other people

00:39:03.240 seem to understand this.

00:39:06.000 Right?

00:39:07.220 So as soon as you

00:39:08.400 create the situation

00:39:09.320 where if you stay

00:39:11.160 with your opinion,

00:39:11.960 you will look like

00:39:14.340 the only person

00:39:15.140 who doesn't understand

00:39:16.240 something that

00:39:16.860 everyone understands.

00:39:18.700 Because everyone

00:39:19.600 understands lawyers

00:39:20.540 or advocates

00:39:21.260 not a source

00:39:23.020 of truth.

00:39:24.540 Everyone understands that.

00:39:26.080 The moment

00:39:26.880 you've painted

00:39:28.020 that picture,

00:39:30.180 everybody goes

00:39:31.300 to the high ground

00:39:32.020 with you

00:39:32.520 because they can't

00:39:33.520 stay here.

00:39:34.580 They look like 1.00

00:39:35.380 idiots. 1.00

00:39:37.060 Right? 1.00

00:39:37.560 So you're not making

00:39:38.520 them defend

00:39:38.960 their argument.

00:39:41.180 You're making them

00:39:41.980 defend themselves.

00:39:43.860 Do you want to see 1.00

00:39:44.840 here being the only idiot 1.00

00:39:45.960 who doesn't understand 1.00

00:39:46.940 that lawyers

00:39:47.480 are not supposed

00:39:48.320 to tell the truth?

00:39:49.740 Well, I'll say that wrong.

00:39:51.000 They're supposed

00:39:51.400 to tell the truth.

00:39:52.620 But nobody expects it.

00:39:54.740 No reasonable person

00:39:56.340 expects it.

00:39:58.140 That's it.

00:39:59.240 That's the end

00:39:59.920 of the trial.

00:40:02.500 All right.

00:40:04.380 I'm oversimplifying,

00:40:05.720 of course.

00:40:06.280 Trials are more

00:40:06.940 complicated than that.

00:40:07.780 But if you wanted

00:40:08.720 to understand

00:40:09.260 the high ground

00:40:09.940 maneuver,

00:40:10.480 this is just

00:40:10.900 the best example.

00:40:12.240 You couldn't get

00:40:12.980 a better example

00:40:13.620 than this.

00:40:17.160 Twitter user

00:40:18.060 John Katz,

00:40:19.640 K-A-T-Z. 1.00

00:40:20.640 I believe he has

00:40:21.180 a podcast.

00:40:22.720 So he's

00:40:23.660 somebody in the public.

00:40:25.520 He had a tweet

00:40:26.420 that I just love.

00:40:27.800 This is just

00:40:28.240 the greatest tweet.

00:40:29.480 And when I read

00:40:30.180 this to you,

00:40:31.260 you're going to say,

00:40:32.080 why did it take

00:40:32.740 somebody so long

00:40:33.600 to say this?

00:40:35.460 All right.

00:40:36.000 Here's his tweet.

00:40:36.920 Quote,

00:40:37.780 you think

00:40:38.920 your AR-15

00:40:39.880 will work

00:40:40.560 against a government

00:40:41.420 with tanks?

00:40:42.700 So he's mocking

00:40:44.120 the people

00:40:44.920 on the left

00:40:45.480 who have two opinions

00:40:46.540 that don't seem

00:40:47.860 to fit together.

00:40:48.900 All right.

00:40:49.460 So here are

00:40:49.980 their two opinions.

00:40:51.540 That they think

00:40:52.120 an AR-15

00:40:52.960 will work...

00:40:54.560 I'm sorry.

00:40:56.300 Let me stop

00:40:56.780 screwing this up.

00:40:57.900 He's mocking

00:40:58.600 the people

00:40:59.200 who are saying

00:41:01.360 that having

00:41:02.600 AR-15s 0.99

00:41:03.600 will be no use

00:41:04.740 against a government

00:41:05.620 with tanks.

00:41:06.280 All right.

00:41:06.980 So one of the

00:41:07.460 arguments for

00:41:08.000 owning guns

00:41:08.920 is that it

00:41:09.580 protects you

00:41:10.120 in case your

00:41:10.780 government

00:41:11.120 turns against you.

00:41:12.620 And the Democrats

00:41:13.580 say, 1.00

00:41:14.560 you fool. 1.00

00:41:16.000 You fool. 1.00

00:41:17.140 Are you telling me 1.00

00:41:18.420 that you think

00:41:20.420 that a bunch

00:41:21.900 of hillbillies

00:41:22.700 with their AR-15s

00:41:24.420 are going to,

00:41:25.880 like,

00:41:26.680 protect against

00:41:27.340 the government

00:41:27.940 with tanks?

00:41:29.740 Seriously?

00:41:30.480 You think that?

00:41:31.120 Now,

00:41:32.740 the same people

00:41:33.340 who are asking

00:41:33.960 you that,

00:41:34.820 as John Katz

00:41:35.820 points out,

00:41:37.240 are also telling

00:41:38.140 you that

00:41:38.660 these same

00:41:39.340 hillbillies,

00:41:40.040 I'm just using

00:41:40.740 hillbillies to be

00:41:41.560 provocative,

00:41:42.820 almost took over

00:41:44.000 the government

00:41:44.480 with bear spray.

00:41:47.660 Both of those

00:41:48.600 messages

00:41:49.060 are out there

00:41:50.740 at the same time. 1.00

00:41:52.440 Don't be ridiculous. 0.99

00:41:54.120 You're not going 1.00

00:41:54.580 to be able

00:41:55.220 to defend the public

00:41:56.300 with just your

00:41:56.960 little rifles

00:41:57.860 against tanks

00:41:59.320 and nukes.

00:42:01.120 At the same time,

00:42:02.800 you know,

00:42:03.220 if you've got

00:42:03.620 some bear spray,

00:42:05.120 you could pretty

00:42:06.200 much take out

00:42:06.860 the government.

00:42:08.020 And it was

00:42:08.500 this close.

00:42:10.260 The bear spray

00:42:10.940 people

00:42:11.340 almost got it

00:42:13.180 done.

00:42:14.160 Almost got it

00:42:15.000 done.

00:42:15.920 And both of

00:42:16.840 those messages

00:42:17.500 are out there

00:42:18.140 completely.

00:42:21.760 Seriously.

00:42:23.340 Like,

00:42:23.680 nobody's even

00:42:24.280 embarrassed by that.

00:42:26.380 Nobody's embarrassed

00:42:27.320 that they hold

00:42:27.960 both of those

00:42:28.460 positions.

00:42:29.840 And a lot of

00:42:30.360 people do.

00:42:30.740 Now,

00:42:31.320 usually,

00:42:32.160 I saw this

00:42:33.180 comment on

00:42:34.160 Twitter as well,

00:42:35.520 that something

00:42:36.200 like 90%

00:42:37.000 of Twitter

00:42:37.520 arguments is

00:42:38.440 somebody imagining

00:42:39.280 somebody who

00:42:39.860 doesn't exist

00:42:40.520 and being mad

00:42:41.180 at them.

00:42:42.140 You know,

00:42:42.380 the person who

00:42:42.900 holds this

00:42:43.320 opinion,

00:42:44.200 but also,

00:42:45.180 you know, 0.97

00:42:46.340 hypocritically 0.99

00:42:46.980 holds this 1.00

00:42:47.500 other opinion.

00:42:48.880 And usually,

00:42:49.540 that person

00:42:49.880 doesn't exist.

00:42:51.800 It'd be hard

00:42:52.300 to find somebody

00:42:52.940 who actually

00:42:53.620 held those

00:42:54.180 literally two

00:42:55.180 opposing opinions.

00:42:56.420 But this is

00:42:57.100 one where this

00:42:58.600 is real.

00:42:59.040 I'm pretty

00:43:00.260 sure that

00:43:02.060 this describes

00:43:02.920 almost the

00:43:03.580 entire Democratic

00:43:04.380 Party.

00:43:05.560 I believe that

00:43:06.340 most of

00:43:07.740 Democrats would 0.89

00:43:08.560 agree with

00:43:09.080 both of these

00:43:09.800 sentences that

00:43:11.880 conflict.

00:43:13.300 And I don't

00:43:13.960 think that they

00:43:14.440 have any

00:43:14.820 problem with

00:43:15.400 it.

00:43:15.680 Like,

00:43:15.900 they're not,

00:43:16.600 there's no

00:43:17.100 interior conflict

00:43:18.740 with thinking

00:43:20.340 that both of

00:43:21.420 these could be

00:43:21.900 true.

00:43:22.120 And of

00:43:24.080 course,

00:43:24.380 Trump caused

00:43:24.980 trouble by

00:43:25.860 referring to

00:43:26.560 the Capitol

00:43:27.400 riots as

00:43:28.140 having,

00:43:28.540 you know,

00:43:28.900 basically zero

00:43:30.180 danger.

00:43:34.320 What he

00:43:34.980 meant, of

00:43:35.420 course, was

00:43:35.840 as an

00:43:36.300 overthrow to

00:43:36.980 the government.

00:43:38.520 Now,

00:43:38.920 or at least

00:43:39.540 I hope.

00:43:40.020 I hope he

00:43:40.580 meant there

00:43:41.180 was zero

00:43:41.560 danger in

00:43:42.340 terms of an

00:43:42.820 overthrow to

00:43:43.360 the government.

00:43:44.300 Obviously,

00:43:44.820 there was

00:43:45.060 physical danger

00:43:46.020 and plenty

00:43:46.940 of it.

00:43:47.360 90% of

00:43:53.040 baseball is 0.65

00:43:53.680 half mental.

00:43:55.980 Is that

00:43:56.300 a yogi

00:43:57.000 bearer?

00:43:59.240 Yeah,

00:43:59.560 mind reading.

00:44:00.160 I don't

00:44:00.340 want to

00:44:00.540 mind read,

00:44:01.080 so I'll

00:44:01.640 back up on

00:44:02.240 that point.

00:44:03.320 You know,

00:44:03.580 the mind

00:44:04.200 reading flaw

00:44:05.120 is just the

00:44:07.220 stickiest thing,

00:44:07.980 isn't it?

00:44:08.900 And once you

00:44:09.480 start seeing it

00:44:10.380 in other people,

00:44:11.280 you can recognize

00:44:12.200 that they're

00:44:12.740 involved in

00:44:13.340 mind reading.

00:44:14.720 But it

00:44:15.880 doesn't help

00:44:16.440 you not do

00:44:17.020 it yourself.

00:44:17.960 It's really,

00:44:19.300 really hard to

00:44:19.800 not fall into

00:44:21.240 the mind reading

00:44:22.000 trap where you

00:44:22.880 confidently imagine

00:44:24.620 you know what

00:44:25.140 other people are

00:44:25.700 thinking,

00:44:26.180 because you

00:44:26.400 never do. 1.00

00:44:27.260 You're terrible

00:44:28.120 at that.

00:44:29.240 Your accuracy

00:44:30.640 is just terrible

00:44:31.400 at that.

00:44:35.820 He said

00:44:36.640 they were

00:44:36.920 kissing the

00:44:37.560 Capitol Police.

00:44:39.040 Maybe some

00:44:39.900 of them were.

00:44:45.700 There's another

00:44:46.480 carjacking.

00:44:47.340 You know,

00:44:48.700 let me ask you

00:44:50.040 this.

00:44:52.300 Our entire

00:44:53.500 media is

00:44:54.760 now obsessed

00:44:55.620 lately with

00:44:56.440 the violence

00:44:58.060 against Asian 1.00

00:44:59.120 Americans.

00:45:00.080 Let me start

00:45:00.760 by saying we

00:45:01.660 don't want any

00:45:02.200 violence against

00:45:03.000 Asian Americans.

00:45:03.780 Americans.

00:45:04.480 So I think we're

00:45:05.460 all on the

00:45:05.860 same side that

00:45:06.780 violence against

00:45:08.200 anybody's bad.

00:45:09.520 Violence against

00:45:10.320 an ethnic group

00:45:11.180 in particular

00:45:11.800 takes something

00:45:13.240 that's already

00:45:13.800 really, really

00:45:14.400 bad and adds

00:45:15.360 that extra

00:45:15.860 badness.

00:45:16.460 We're all on

00:45:17.020 the same side.

00:45:17.880 Nobody likes

00:45:18.320 violence.

00:45:20.700 But let me

00:45:21.440 ask you this.

00:45:22.940 Do you believe

00:45:23.900 that the

00:45:24.420 mainstream media

00:45:25.380 would be

00:45:26.280 reporting about

00:45:27.140 all this

00:45:27.620 anti-Asian

00:45:28.540 bias if

00:45:31.260 China were not 0.98

00:45:32.020 making it

00:45:32.440 happen?

00:45:34.960 Yeah, think

00:45:35.840 about it.

00:45:36.720 Is it a

00:45:37.200 coincidence that

00:45:39.080 China has 0.91

00:45:40.320 advanced AI

00:45:41.760 to the point

00:45:43.480 where they can

00:45:44.120 influence the

00:45:45.920 conversation and

00:45:47.040 the argument in

00:45:47.760 the United States?

00:45:48.740 And there

00:45:49.980 would be no

00:45:51.020 thing that

00:45:51.600 would be

00:45:51.920 better for

00:45:52.400 China than 0.91

00:45:53.680 to create

00:45:54.220 as a national

00:45:55.100 story anti-Asian

00:45:57.560 in this case

00:45:58.220 Asian American

00:45:58.900 mostly, anti-Asian

00:46:00.880 discrimination as

00:46:02.100 the top headline

00:46:03.320 story.

00:46:04.680 Do you think

00:46:05.760 that this story

00:46:06.700 is originating

00:46:07.600 in America?

00:46:11.380 It might.

00:46:13.460 It might.

00:46:14.920 Right?

00:46:16.340 I don't think

00:46:17.460 so.

00:46:17.760 I'm going to

00:46:18.940 tell you

00:46:19.300 something that

00:46:21.600 might scare 0.87

00:46:22.700 the shit out 0.97

00:46:23.600 of you. 1.00

00:46:24.600 We no longer

00:46:25.780 live in a

00:46:26.340 world where

00:46:27.240 the default

00:46:28.000 assumption is

00:46:29.340 that this is

00:46:29.960 a natural

00:46:30.460 story.

00:46:31.960 The default

00:46:33.080 assumption is

00:46:33.960 that it came

00:46:34.380 from China

00:46:34.940 and that

00:46:36.200 they're

00:46:36.600 manipulating

00:46:37.360 the United

00:46:37.820 States through

00:46:39.200 a variety of

00:46:39.920 means to

00:46:40.480 make this

00:46:40.920 the main

00:46:41.360 story.

00:46:43.060 Now, do

00:46:44.300 I know?

00:46:45.460 Do I know

00:46:46.360 that?

00:46:46.860 No.

00:46:47.040 No, I

00:46:47.800 don't know

00:46:48.160 it.

00:46:48.780 I can't

00:46:49.440 give you

00:46:49.740 evidence of

00:46:50.400 it, etc.

00:46:51.980 Do I think

00:46:52.800 that this

00:46:53.680 would be a

00:46:54.260 good play?

00:46:56.040 Yes.

00:46:57.580 If China 0.97

00:46:58.500 were to do

00:46:59.060 this and

00:46:59.620 if they

00:47:00.180 pulled it

00:47:00.640 off, it

00:47:02.260 would be a

00:47:02.840 really good

00:47:03.480 play because

00:47:04.640 it's exactly

00:47:05.380 the kind of

00:47:06.000 thing that

00:47:06.940 would prevent

00:47:07.460 the United

00:47:07.900 States from

00:47:08.520 going hard

00:47:09.140 at China

00:47:09.720 China, because 1.00

00:47:10.720 somebody's

00:47:11.380 going to

00:47:11.580 say, hey,

00:47:12.540 are you

00:47:12.940 going hard

00:47:13.420 at China

00:47:13.900 because you

00:47:15.100 need to,

00:47:16.120 or is it

00:47:16.800 really sort

00:47:17.440 of a racist

00:47:18.040 thing?

00:47:19.120 Because I'm

00:47:19.880 sure China

00:47:20.460 noticed that

00:47:21.640 we have

00:47:21.980 trouble dealing

00:47:22.680 with our

00:47:23.120 southern border

00:47:23.840 because,

00:47:25.460 because,

00:47:27.140 the internal

00:47:28.220 politics are

00:47:29.260 that we're

00:47:29.600 fighting over

00:47:30.240 whether that's

00:47:30.880 really about

00:47:31.460 racism.

00:47:32.880 That's why

00:47:33.580 we can't

00:47:34.060 deal with

00:47:34.440 our own

00:47:34.760 border.

00:47:35.080 What would

00:47:36.380 China like 0.99

00:47:36.960 to do in

00:47:37.740 terms of

00:47:38.120 how the

00:47:38.360 United States

00:47:38.920 deals with

00:47:39.580 China's 0.76

00:47:40.780 aggressive

00:47:41.900 growth?

00:47:43.580 China would 0.99

00:47:44.180 like the

00:47:44.500 United States

00:47:45.080 to be arguing

00:47:45.760 about whether

00:47:46.360 that's a

00:47:46.820 racist policy.

00:47:48.620 And they

00:47:49.400 succeeded.

00:47:50.620 In the sense

00:47:51.600 that it's

00:47:51.960 happening.

00:47:53.200 All we're

00:47:53.620 talking about

00:47:54.160 is the

00:47:55.040 country racist 0.98

00:47:55.820 against Asians 1.00

00:47:56.640 and Asian

00:47:57.140 Americans.

00:47:58.280 If that's

00:47:59.180 the top

00:47:59.620 thing you're

00:48:00.040 talking about,

00:48:01.480 what's the

00:48:02.460 default assumption

00:48:03.600 in a world

00:48:04.360 of AI

00:48:04.860 and social

00:48:05.620 media and

00:48:07.120 intelligence

00:48:07.700 agencies really

00:48:08.920 behind most

00:48:09.820 of the big

00:48:10.240 stuff?

00:48:11.600 The default

00:48:12.340 intelligence,

00:48:13.460 I'm sorry,

00:48:14.660 the default

00:48:15.440 assumption should

00:48:17.120 be that this

00:48:17.680 is coming from

00:48:18.300 China.

00:48:19.880 That doesn't

00:48:20.680 mean it is.

00:48:22.420 But the

00:48:23.160 default assumption

00:48:24.000 should be if

00:48:24.900 you don't

00:48:25.360 know, if you

00:48:26.880 can't tell one

00:48:27.820 way or the

00:48:28.260 other, the

00:48:30.080 default assumption

00:48:30.880 is that it's

00:48:31.440 China.

00:48:32.540 And if you

00:48:33.000 don't get

00:48:33.480 that,

00:48:33.880 you're a

00:48:35.840 few years

00:48:36.400 behind.

00:48:38.160 Because in

00:48:38.920 2021, that

00:48:40.680 is the

00:48:41.120 default assumption.

00:48:42.560 And if you

00:48:42.960 don't know

00:48:43.460 that, you

00:48:44.620 think the

00:48:45.080 news is

00:48:45.520 real.

00:48:46.640 It might

00:48:47.140 be.

00:48:47.840 I can't

00:48:48.380 rule that

00:48:48.800 out.

00:48:49.780 I'm just

00:48:50.260 saying that if

00:48:51.000 you don't

00:48:51.540 think China

00:48:52.200 is behind

00:48:52.780 this being

00:48:53.720 the headlines

00:48:54.300 in this

00:48:54.700 country,

00:48:55.520 you are 0.89

00:48:56.480 probably naive.

00:48:58.160 probably naive.

00:49:02.480 So here's

00:49:04.800 something to

00:49:05.500 look for.

00:49:06.760 See how

00:49:07.120 many times

00:49:07.780 our internal

00:49:08.800 news is

00:49:10.240 focused on

00:49:10.880 a story that

00:49:11.620 coincidentally

00:49:12.500 would have

00:49:13.600 some kind of

00:49:14.320 a benefit to

00:49:15.340 one of our

00:49:16.320 foreign

00:49:17.680 adversaries or

00:49:18.760 even allies.

00:49:20.440 How many of

00:49:21.300 our internal

00:49:21.920 stories look

00:49:22.880 like they

00:49:23.360 were seeded

00:49:24.100 by another

00:49:24.660 country?

00:49:25.120 because

00:49:25.860 coincidentally

00:49:26.600 that would

00:49:27.600 be really

00:49:28.000 good for

00:49:28.420 that other

00:49:28.820 country,

00:49:29.840 be it an

00:49:31.420 ally or

00:49:33.220 an adversary.

00:49:34.120 Because remember,

00:49:34.820 our intelligence

00:49:35.380 agencies are

00:49:37.040 putting influence

00:49:38.660 on both

00:49:39.260 adversaries and

00:49:40.540 enemies.

00:49:41.820 So there's

00:49:42.980 no reason to

00:49:43.560 think that our

00:49:45.240 adversaries are

00:49:46.100 not doing the

00:49:46.660 same thing to

00:49:47.220 us, just in

00:49:47.880 different ways

00:49:48.500 for different

00:49:48.940 interests.

00:49:49.360 So you

00:49:55.880 can fill in

00:49:56.500 the names of

00:49:57.940 those other

00:49:58.520 countries as

00:49:59.380 easily as I

00:50:00.020 can.

00:50:01.560 All right.

00:50:04.240 As a

00:50:04.840 black American,

00:50:05.720 will you be 0.99

00:50:06.280 making any

00:50:06.920 edits to how

00:50:07.720 to fill and

00:50:08.200 everything?

00:50:08.820 Well, I

00:50:09.340 don't think

00:50:09.820 that the

00:50:11.820 book needs

00:50:12.300 to be edited

00:50:12.940 for that

00:50:13.640 reason.

00:50:16.560 Should we

00:50:17.220 suspect

00:50:17.660 foreigners or

00:50:18.480 Democrats?

00:50:19.360 Well, here's

00:50:20.240 why, if

00:50:21.360 China is 0.85

00:50:21.880 behind these

00:50:22.780 headlines, the

00:50:24.820 Democrats would 0.89

00:50:25.600 be, let's

00:50:27.060 say, so

00:50:27.920 interested in

00:50:28.760 the same

00:50:29.140 story that

00:50:30.700 they would

00:50:31.280 easily allow

00:50:32.860 it, if not

00:50:34.420 being a

00:50:35.140 participant.

00:50:41.920 Thank you.

00:50:43.560 Yes.

00:50:44.660 Now that I

00:50:45.520 have an

00:50:45.840 interracial

00:50:46.360 marriage, I

00:50:47.840 feel that I

00:50:48.460 understand things

00:50:49.300 a little bit

00:50:49.780 better.

00:50:51.220 I didn't

00:50:51.800 have one

00:50:52.180 until recently

00:50:52.800 when I

00:50:53.480 started

00:50:54.960 identifying as

00:50:55.780 black.

00:50:58.760 And by the 0.92

00:50:59.420 way, the

00:51:00.040 great thing

00:51:00.680 about identifying

00:51:01.400 as black is

00:51:03.480 that I get to

00:51:04.100 be on the

00:51:04.440 winning team

00:51:04.980 for a while.

00:51:07.080 You know, and

00:51:08.000 it's funny

00:51:08.640 because I

00:51:10.620 actually feel

00:51:11.460 that.

00:51:11.780 the moment I

00:51:14.440 started looking

00:51:18.000 at the news

00:51:18.520 differently.

00:51:21.300 People are

00:51:21.900 so automatically

00:51:22.700 team-oriented

00:51:23.860 that if you

00:51:24.640 just say you're

00:51:25.220 on a team,

00:51:26.200 suddenly you

00:51:26.780 start rooting

00:51:27.240 for that team.

00:51:28.040 It's just

00:51:28.360 automatic.

00:51:29.220 You can't

00:51:29.760 turn it off.

00:51:30.900 And suddenly I'm

00:51:31.520 looking at the

00:51:31.980 news differently,

00:51:32.740 and I swear to

00:51:33.220 God it's true.

00:51:34.080 I'm looking at the

00:51:34.760 news differently,

00:51:35.560 and I'm thinking,

00:51:36.520 all right,

00:51:37.360 looks like my

00:51:37.920 team's doing

00:51:38.380 pretty well

00:51:38.840 today.

00:51:39.980 They're doing

00:51:42.000 really well

00:51:42.500 today.

00:51:45.740 Somebody says

00:51:46.500 I'm not black. 0.85

00:51:47.380 I think you're 1.00

00:51:48.060 a racist. 0.96

00:51:49.540 So there's some 0.92

00:51:50.360 racists on here

00:51:51.120 saying that I'm

00:51:51.820 not black.

00:51:52.840 Now I understand

00:51:53.820 that visually it

00:51:54.980 seems like that,

00:51:55.860 but I think we're

00:51:56.460 well past the

00:51:59.140 visual part being

00:52:00.400 your identity,

00:52:01.220 aren't we?

00:52:02.580 Aren't we all

00:52:03.120 past that?

00:52:03.960 It doesn't matter

00:52:04.660 what I look like.

00:52:06.240 That's no longer

00:52:07.860 a criteria and

00:52:08.720 should not be.

00:52:09.900 I'm fully on

00:52:10.860 board with that

00:52:11.420 no longer being

00:52:12.220 a criteria.

00:52:13.300 Because you

00:52:13.560 wouldn't want to

00:52:14.060 say, who's

00:52:15.520 one of my

00:52:17.580 brothers, the

00:52:18.320 black activist

00:52:19.400 Sean, what's

00:52:21.320 his name?

00:52:23.220 Sean, somebody

00:52:24.520 fill in the last

00:52:25.180 name.

00:52:26.100 But he's a

00:52:26.880 famous black

00:52:28.040 activist that

00:52:28.920 people say is

00:52:29.700 not physically 0.94

00:52:30.620 black enough. 0.97

00:52:31.720 And I say 0.94

00:52:32.080 that is offensive.

00:52:34.080 Sean King,

00:52:34.740 thank you.

00:52:35.120 So I defend

00:52:38.120 Sean King

00:52:38.920 because racist

00:52:40.060 saying that

00:52:40.800 he's not 0.97

00:52:41.620 black enough 0.96

00:52:42.360 so he can't 0.98

00:52:43.300 self-identify

00:52:44.120 as black.

00:52:44.960 That's purely 0.97

00:52:45.700 racist.

00:52:47.100 And I

00:52:48.820 will defend

00:52:49.900 my brother

00:52:51.380 Sean King

00:52:52.200 as much as

00:52:53.220 I would defend

00:52:53.760 myself because

00:52:55.100 we're in the

00:52:55.560 same situation.

00:52:57.000 Not the same.

00:52:57.880 Nothing's the

00:52:58.440 same, but

00:52:58.940 everybody's

00:53:00.000 different.

00:53:00.300 But I

00:53:01.880 feel it.

00:53:04.240 I feel it.

00:53:05.580 All right.

00:53:06.240 That's all I've

00:53:06.980 got for now and

00:53:07.980 I will talk to

00:53:08.900 you all

00:53:09.460 tomorrow.

00:53:11.800 Tomorrow.

00:53:12.620 Yeah.

00:53:13.040 We'll see you

00:53:13.460 tomorrow.

00:53:14.520 Bye for now.

00:53:19.540 All right.

00:53:21.640 YouTubers, I

00:53:22.420 got you for

00:53:22.840 another minute

00:53:23.420 here.

00:53:23.720 somebody who's

00:53:28.480 famous on

00:53:29.000 TikTok.

00:53:30.320 Well, good

00:53:30.940 for you.

00:53:35.540 Why are you

00:53:36.180 laughing?

00:53:42.080 Zajian, is

00:53:42.740 that a word?

00:53:43.220 What's that

00:53:43.500 mean?

00:53:43.640 All right.

00:53:52.280 That's enough

00:53:52.720 for now and

00:53:53.460 I will talk

00:53:54.360 to you tomorrow.

00:53:54.840 Bye.

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