Episode 1332 Scott Adams： FDA Approves Rapid Home Tests, Wokeness Emergencies, Hula Hoops, and Fresh Fake News
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The FDA has approved cheap rapid home testing for the first batch of Pandemic A.I.V. at home, but why did it take so long to get the test approved? Is it corruption or something else going on?
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oh that that worked didn't it well i would like to start out by giving some kudos to the
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biden administration uh i'll bet you hate that don't you you know the trouble with uh giving
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presidents credit or blame for anything is that things always slop over right so you never really
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know did was this something that started during the trump administration and then just slopped over
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into the biden administration so the news is that the fda just uh authorized the first
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covet 19 tests for repeated frequent use at home in other words cheap rapid tests
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at home no prescription now how big a deal is that well the initial ones will be a little too expensive
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so you know you're going to need rich people to to buy them to show a demand but i'm pretty sure
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that the uh the market is going to get saturated and the price will come down so i wouldn't be surprised
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if it comes down from i think it's eight dollars a test which is too expensive but people like me would
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use it right people have some extra cash i would definitely use a home test that cost eight dollars
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maybe wouldn't do it every day but i can imagine an eight dollar home test i could see me doing it
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once a week or something like that uh or maybe more but here's the the big story here i don't know if
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this started during the trump administration and it just took a long time you may remember that i've
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been pushing very hard on the fda and saying in public a number of times that you had to presume
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they were corrupt for not having done this sooner so i'd like to revise my assumption right so the
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assumption was that these rapid home tests were such an obvious thing to be approved there's just it just
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didn't seem like there was any argument against it that could be made once you understood it if you
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didn't understand the issue you could make an argument but as soon as you understood it all the
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arguments go away and i thought the only reason because of course the fda would understand it you
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know not like the public they would actually understand it so for them not to approve it i said
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it's somebody's got to be on the take there's got to be some corruption there's no other way to
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explain it but now that it is approved we have to add a second hypothesis so you have to keep the
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hypothesis that there might have been some corruption but i'm going to add to that the hypothesis that
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maybe the bureaucracy is just the bureaucracy because we're all talking about how amazing project
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warp speed was right we we wouldn't have vaccinations nearly so quickly except that trump
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basically kicked asses and just said yes you will do this no you will do this no you will do this
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until they did it but i don't think there was a project warp speed for these you know rapid tests
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and just for some reason it didn't make that list so it could be that it's just the bureaucracy
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maybe it just takes a year to do something that take it should take a day because this should have
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taken a day but it took a year well closer to nine months i think it took something like that now
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congratulations to michael amina uh you've seen me tweet him a number of times and i would say he was
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the primary voice in the country for this option to do lots of cheap tests to try to get on top of the
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the virus now um i can't say enough good things about what michael amina did for the country
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one of the strange things about this uh pandemic strange in a good way is that you saw a number of
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people um and i like to think i'm one of them who just said well what can i do right i can't do
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everything but but what can i do so you watched me go through that process in public right i said well
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what can i do to help and i tried to help by doing you know largely what i'm doing and calming people
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down and making sure people understood the situation the risks and rewards and stuff so a lot of people
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just sort of jumped into the breach just jumped in and said what can i do michael amina probably would
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be the superstar among them in my opinion because he took personal risk personal time lots of effort
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i mean he was doing media he was doing articles uh he was doing social media i mean he pushed as hard
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as a as a private citizen could push anything and i think he got all the way to congress and was
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influencing directly so if i had to guess and it's hard to tell but i think michael amina
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made the difference i think i think he made the difference and i am uh proud to say that i helped
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boost him in my small social media way as well as lots of other people and i feel like this is
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to some extent this is a victory of social media as a form of government i told you before that our
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form of government has transmogrified into a smart person in the public who wants to put enough energy
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into it gets to be in charge and in a weird way michael amina was a smart citizen with good intentions
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put the work into it it was almost like he was in charge in a practical sense because i do think he
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pushed it over the i think he pushed it over the line i don't know how fast or even if it would have
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happened otherwise um so um i'm going to say kudos to the biden administration for getting that done
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uh but with the caveat that it may have already been in the works it maybe it just took a long time
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so we don't know so we don't know how much of that was trump how much was biden but the person in
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charge by our system the person who's in the office gets the credit and also gets the you know
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gets the criticism so biden gets the credit he was in office um we know that here's another thing that
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looks good actually that looks like the biden administration will include uh prominently
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nuclear energy as part of their um recovery package etc future plans so the biden administration
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is pro-nuclear it looks like and may may make even a more noise about it so again kudos to the biden
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administration for being on the right side of nuclear energy i'm not sure that was easy
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was was it easy for biden to be pro-nuclear in in a democrat party where a big part of the party
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would be very anti-nuclear i think it takes some balls right i'm gonna give them that one right
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there's plenty of criticism for the biden administration right but we're not going to be
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we're not going to be nuts about it if some good things happen some good things happen let's call it out
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and then i'll give a third thing but this is more with a little question mark on it remember i asked
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you um do we know if this big 2.5 trillion dollar infrastructure package package will improve the
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economy or will it just run up the debt and remember i said why don't we know that like why are we talking
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about this and we don't even know if it's good or bad for the economy well you who's who's doing the
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calculations well biden claims that it will be good for the economy and uh even lower the national
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debt in the long run obviously raises it a lot in the short run do you believe that does your does
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your gut feeling does it conform with the idea that this 2.5 trillion will end up producing more
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good and and tax benefits than it will cost in the long run long run being you know 15 to 30 years
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i suppose um what do you think what what does your gut feeling tell you more positive or more negative
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now the the trick here is that you don't all have economics training right probably most of you don't
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so um seeing lots of no's how would you know that though so i'm not i'm not saying you're wrong
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all right so without giving you my opinion on this i don't know if it will or not to be honest but
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why would you be sure what would cause you to be sure it's a bad idea because correct me if um i need
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a fact check on this but i believe the it must have been the uh management budget office right
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whoever does these scorings it must have been scored by a government entity and it must have
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scored positively right because the government does their own calculation for their own plans
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and then they tell the public this looks like it will be positive or negative right
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so i believe real economists have said this is a good idea correct me if i'm wrong
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can you fact check that have economists said this is a bad idea cbo i'm sorry uh the yeah the cbo
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scores all the bills and i think they've scored it positively can you do a fact check on that
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now here why are we talking about this without that being the number one thing
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that sets the context for every story about this what story are you seeing so the story you're seeing
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on the right is that it's not infrastructure it's like only a small part of it is roads and bridges
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is that really a good point well it's a good point if you make a stupid assumption and this stupid
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assumption would be that the only thing that's good is building roads and bridges that would be a stupid
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assumption it's good but would there not be other things that are good now i'm with you on the points
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about if they're using it for racial balancing and stuff those conversations we need to get into those in
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a little detail because i'm not so sure that's well thought out but on purely an economic level forget
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about the social justice part for a minute on purely an economic level my gut feeling is it might be
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good my gut feeling is it might be positive now i have a background in economics i've got an mba
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if you don't have that kind of background i would look to people who do and you should look to people
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like me although i'm you know at the very bottom of people you should trust on a big economic question
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but at least i have more experience than you do probably so i would ask you if you're on the
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right and you're concerned about uh everything from inflation and you should be to national debt and you
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should be these are all things to be rightly concerned about uh get some advice from an economist
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which is not to say the economists are right i'm just saying they might have some perspective that would
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make you feel more comfortable with this i have a feeling this is more positive than negative i just
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don't know if there's a way to know it right and the and the social justice stuff i don't think you can
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look at that as economics exactly all right so that's all the good news here's uh here's a question i asked
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yesterday and have you ever noticed that no matter what point you make on social media somebody will
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argue with it have you ever noticed that it's like a universal truth right you could make a bad point
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on twitter and of course people will say hey that's a bad point and they'll point it out or you could make
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a brilliant perfectly supported point on twitter and what will happen exactly the same amount of
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criticism because people really just criticize based on what team they're on right they're just going to
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look for something but every now and then and i can't say i can even think of another example but every now
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and then somebody will say something that will just stop the conversation it'll just shut it down
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like people won't even be able to talk about it and and i managed to do one of those tweets yesterday
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and i want you to look at if you find the tweet that wouldn't be hard to find in my twitter feed
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watch how the critics just disappeared and and here's what i did i simply took
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the rules as they're given to us and applied them all right so i'm not somebody who made up some rules
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all i did was say okay what are the rules of society okay and i'll just apply it to a well-known
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situation that's it now here's the situation uh vaccination passports and here's my here's my
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tweet yesterday i said isn't it racist to require vaccination passports when so many black citizens
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don't have government ids don't have government ids if you don't have an id how can you prove it was you
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who got vaccinated don't we have a problem here if if requiring ids to vote is racist requiring ids to
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prove you got vaccinated is not less racist it's exactly the same it's exactly as racist so i simply
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took the rules applied it to this situation well what are the rules okay i'll just apply it and how
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much pushback did i get i think none i think none i i mean maybe it's there but it was it would
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probably be in the form of people just insulting me you know uh in general i don't think anybody
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criticize the point i don't think so and so that's kind of the end of vaccinations isn't it the
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conservatives would simply have to say it's racist and refuse to participate that's it it's over
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everybody who's worried about the the passports changing your life and everything it's kind of
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over you just say it's racist and walk away now i don't know if anybody will do that but if you want
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it to be over it'd be as easy as that now i got criticized quite a bit on this uh vaccine vaccination
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passport thing because i noted that it might help you open the economy faster and other people said scott
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you idiot there's no evidence that it will help you open the economy faster to which i say hold on hold
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you're confusing me with somebody who has certainty in uncertain situations that's not me i never i
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would never enter a situation like this with certainty that would be the dumbest position wouldn't matter
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what position you took if you entered it with certainty that's just dumb right so instead i always go
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with the systems view and the systems view looks like this if there's something you can test
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and then quickly abandon if it doesn't work it's worth testing that's it you've heard my whole opinion
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so let's say that the government says uh we're going to require these uh vaccination passports
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for a certain set type of business and then that business ends up failing because so many people resisted
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it that it was worse than if they'd never implemented that idea at all
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to which i say okay you tested it you quickly found out it ruined your business all you have to do is
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stop doing it it's very easy to reverse if let's say you're a gym and you say all right we're we're a
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gyms we're a little more close contact in here we're going to require vaccination passports
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and the day you require it your gym goes out of business because everybody says well screw you i'm
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just not going to participate i'll go to another gym and then what's the gym do they immediately changed
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their policy because it was optional so to me if you can test something and then just with literally
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with a snap of a finger reverse it you know it's like today we require it oh that didn't work
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instead of opening the economy faster which was the whole point it actually opened it slower we tested
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it we tried it for two weeks just made everything worse it's gone snap your fingers that's it the gym
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just says i'll take down the sign on the front there's a sign on the door that says you have to have
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a vaccination it would just take down the sign you've reversed the entire policy that's it now
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you're talking about the the government a lot of people said the government when the government does
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something they don't like to give up on it well that's definitely true if the government is taxing
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right so if you're looking for a situation where the government wants taxed something i wouldn't expect
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that to change you know historically once somebody's making money yeah it's hard to change that but
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the vaccination passports don't look like a money maker for the government right there's no politician
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who gets to build a bridge you know nobody gets a donation or anything it doesn't the government
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doesn't care and the government would like fewer fewer restrictions on themselves you know you
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don't think uh aoc wants to go to the gym of course she does right so i would look at each of these
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situations individually those who have said quite reasonably that the government never does a
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program or gains power and then gives it back to which i say they do it all the time it's the most
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common thing our government does is remove our rights and then give them back when the emergency is
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passed when uh let's say there's a curfew because there's been rioting in the city do you worry that
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the curfew will become permanent has it ever has there ever been a permanent curfew i can't think of
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one right how about uh when there's uh some kind of emergency declaration because there's a hurricane
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the government says for now you can't do this or that when the when the emergency is over don't they
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remove it routinely right now somebody says the patriot act the patriot act has a money element to it
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doesn't it i believe the patriot act if you looked at it you would find a lot of companies uh sort of in the
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business of making money on the patriot act and that makes it sticky so when you have a one so remember
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the rule just see if you would agree with this rule whenever a lot of money is involved it's sticky
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but a vaccine just a let's say legislation that says you need to show a card or or if a gym wants to
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they can refuse service who's making money so if the government is not making money or if they're
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not big industries that are making a ton of money because of it i think you're okay i think you're
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okay let's take the fisa courts the problem with the fisa courts uh and i don't know the full details
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here is that we didn't know what the problem was we suspected there would be lots of people said hey
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there's going to be problems sure enough there were now once we discovered those problems we have
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an opportunity to change them right so the problem with the fisa if you look at the fisa thing what
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was the problem a lack of transparency so here's a second variable to look at to know why each situation
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is unique would the fisa court have ever changed if if we had not accidentally gotten visibility
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through this russia collusion stuff if you have visibility and nobody's making money in the
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government or indirectly or directly you have a good chance of reversing it if you don't know
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anything's wrong because you don't have visibility why would you reverse it you don't know if anything's
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wrong and and if there's money involved it's sticky so here's my thing don't use bad analogies to
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figure out what will happen um now also keep in mind that there are some things which both left and
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right does not like and vaccination passports is in that category what do you think the black public
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in the united states thinks about vaccination passports about the same as the conservative public
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right if you put republicans and black citizens in this country on the same side of an issue
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i don't think you have to worry about it well that's as close as you can get to guaranteeing
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that something's going to go the way you want it to go you put blacks and republicans on the same team
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it's pretty strong all right so there's always a risk and i think you are uh completely i think
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you're completely reasonable in worrying about things being permanent that's a reasonable risk
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and i don't deny that it's a risk i just think you have to put it in context a little bit better
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um so there's that i i guess we have to talk about this matt gates story some more you know
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nobody misses trump more than uh anybody who gets in the news lately because you hope that the next
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story will knock you off the headlines but this matt gates thing is just going to sit there until
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there's some new news and apparently we're not making any new news lately because trump isn't in it
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so here are the things we know and there's so much there's so much like creepy about this story
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and i don't mean from you know matt gates in particular i mean everything about it is creepy
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but there are some interesting questions which have arisen number one it seems that uh gates is
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certainly being hurt by association so there's this guy named greenberg who has far more uh specific
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and damning allegations so the allegations against this greenberg guy who matt gates does know well
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enough he spent some time with him um the greenberg allegations look really really bad no doubt about
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that the gates allegations are different and it also would completely explained why gates would be
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uh let's say a subject as opposed to a target because the evidence we have suggests that matt gates would
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have information that would be useful to the greenberg question so uh and i do understand that some
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some sometimes and not not rarely somebody who's a subject can become a target if they find out enough
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but that doesn't have to go that way so at the moment we don't even know if anybody has any bad
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you know verified information about matt gates so we in the public don't know that but that's a little
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hidden by the fact that they're doing this guilt by association
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and you know maybe this and maybe that and it's alleged this and reported that and there's so
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much smoke that you can easily imagine that something specific about matt gates has been said that's
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illegal i don't know that's the case and here's why i don't know and it's because there's some things
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about the law that i find confusing um here here well let me deal with this hula hoop thing first so
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there's a story that matt gates showed somebody a picture of some naked women and one of them had a
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hula hoop now that is the most dickish thing i've ever seen cnn report imagine you're one of the women
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who had spent some time with matt gates and you heard that he'd shown some pictures
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of naked women to somebody and you say to yourself uh oh i hope that wasn't me
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but at least you can assume maybe it wasn't which would be at least some comfort you'd say well i'm
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sure i'm not the only one who allowed him to take a naked picture so it might have been somebody else
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but as soon as cnn throws this hula hoop thing in there there is somebody in the world who knows
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that's them now what was the news value of including this the hula hoop detail what was the news value
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of that i get the news value of the larger story but when you're talking about this poor woman who not
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only there's a naked picture of her so that's bad enough but they have to mention the freaking hula
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hoop so that she can know for sure that somebody was looking at her naked pictures that is messed up
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right when you talk about cnn being the enemy of the people it would be hard to find a better better
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example than that there is no news value to including the hula hoop none it just
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fucks up this woman's life a little bit extra and she wasn't the one we were mad at right she's not the
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one who got elected this is fucked up cnn fucked up you just took a normal citizen and just
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just just ruined her fucking year right real good job cnn i mean this is disgusting
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everything that we've heard about matt gates and you could you could have your own opinions about
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that i'm not gonna i'm not gonna argue with you how you what opinion you would like to have about
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this story please you're welcome to it i'm not going to talk you out of it but if you're telling
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me that what he did even if it's all true even if it's all true it wasn't as bad as what cnn just
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did right in front of you and we don't even have to wonder if that's true because cnn just did it in
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front of you they just threw this woman under a bus for fucking nothing just so you would have
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that little extra thing in your head to feel bad about matt gates that's disgusting that is disgusting
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anyway so enough about that here are some questions i have about this whole situation you're probably
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aware that the legal age um for consent varies by state did you know that what matt gates did
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allegedly so we don't know if any of this is true but if he allegedly was with a 17 year old
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how many how many states as a percentage of all the states
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in how many states would that be perfectly legal just guess i think it's about 80 percent
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yeah it's most about 80 percent of the states don't even have a law against it
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not even any law now there's a separate question about payment and a separate question about state
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lines and we'll talk about that but the first thing you need to know is that he's blamed for something
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that 80 percent of the states don't even think should be illegal that's important
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but i have more questions part of the allegations is that um there was money involved and we'll talk
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about that separately but money involved to cross a state line to have for the purpose of having sex
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now i get that the federal government needs to be involved if something crosses state lines so that
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that part's clear right because the state can't handle it if it's a multi-state thing
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the feds have to do it but why is this illegal let me ask you this let's say you were in one of
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the 20 of the states ish where uh where being with a 17 year old if you're an adult male let's say
00:31:42.440
actually it doesn't matter the genders you can reverse the genders it's the same legal question
00:31:47.800
and let's say that you said hey 17 year old it would be totally illegal to do what we
00:31:54.520
would both like to do willingly in this state so here's what we're going to do uh i'll meet you
00:32:01.480
in florida where it's legal and uh since you don't have money i'll pay for your trip
00:32:11.480
so it would it not and again this is a question it's not a statement would it be illegal for someone
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to say doing this activity is illegal in my state so why don't we spend a little money
00:32:24.520
and go uh 10 miles to the east and we'll be in a different state where it's completely legal
00:32:30.920
and then we'll do completely legal things and then we'll drive home i think you go to jail for that
00:32:38.920
right because that would be paying somebody to cross state lines for the purpose of sex
00:32:45.640
yeah so i'm seeing in the comments somebody says uh it would be illegal to go to a state to do a legal
00:32:55.720
thing to do something that's legal would be illegal do you get that it would be illegal to go do something
00:33:07.960
legal because you crossed the state line to do it now do you think that was the point of the law
00:33:14.040
law do you think that the people wrote the law said well we'll get these people who who think they're
00:33:20.120
going to be clever and go do something legal so that's my first question is how does that work secondly
00:33:32.920
there's the part of the story is that there there was one allegedly 17 year old
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that matt gates allegedly had some contact with that would be illegal here's my question the second
00:33:47.480
part of the story is that this greenberg guy was the one who found her and that he found her on a
00:33:53.640
website where women advertise you know that they will do things for for money now do you think that that
00:34:01.800
website that she was on where she was originally found in which the whole point of the website is
00:34:09.560
money for sex that's the whole point of it do you think that website let an underage person sign up
00:34:15.320
intentionally do you think that they did no no at some point if this person exists we don't know that yet
00:34:25.800
but if there's a real 17 year old she had to lie about her age to be on the site in the first place
00:34:36.840
right so if she lied about her age to the to the website which seems almost guaranteed that that
00:34:44.200
had to happen because they wouldn't let her on otherwise what would that say about um both greenberg and
00:34:53.400
matt gates is it illegal if you don't know and is it illegal if all the indications are that there's
00:35:01.480
no law broken now i get that i do understand that uh ignorance of the law is no excuse but that's not
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what this is this would not be ignorance of the law this would be ignorance of a fact because somebody
00:35:17.720
lied to you somebody lied to him if that's what happened we don't know that that's the case so
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um the only thing we've heard about matt gates is that there's one 17 year old which would be legal in
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every state the act the paying the money for it here's what's interesting about that
00:35:41.560
am i wrong that the left is pro-sex worker right it seems to me that the left is very pro-sex work
00:35:50.920
so it i would think that the left would be defending matt gates of course not in the real world but in
00:35:56.520
terms of being consistent they should say hey yeah we get that it's illegal but maybe it shouldn't be
00:36:04.040
now the the part about this being 17 would of course be illegal right so that the part about
00:36:09.720
the 17 that's you know that's automatically a problem okay by the way is there anybody uh i'd
00:36:17.880
like to see if there are any that i'm gonna have a swearing alert i should have warned you before but
00:36:23.880
is there anybody so dumb that they think i'm defending matt gates now in the comments let me see uh all the
00:36:30.840
dumb people will you will you uh confess how many think i'm defending matt gates in the comments just
00:36:38.600
go ahead and say it because i want to see how many dumb people are here kind of one dumb person
00:36:48.120
um nope nope so a lot of smart people okay um somebody says florida is 18 yeah the the point of
00:36:58.280
course is just states are different um no no no are you kidding no no okay good see i think that my
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audience is um and i say this honestly i think my audience is like five times smarter than the average
00:37:14.600
public right so you can talk about things without defending them you can say there's something good
00:37:24.200
about this and there's something bad about it without being an apologist right i'm glad that
00:37:29.000
you're most of you are smart enough to understand that a lot of the world does not all right so we
00:37:35.240
don't know what matt gates did or did not that's his business it's not for me to defend him he's on his
00:37:39.880
own on that and he is he's on his own but i just have these questions about why you know what makes
00:37:47.560
it illegal if you didn't know he was doing it i feel as if you'd have to know you were committing
00:38:01.640
so that's that um on the vaccine passport stuff i'm seeing some people online saying that
00:38:09.080
they believe my opinion was based on my own fear of mortality and that some people think i was
00:38:16.840
more favorable in concept to vaccine passports because the real problem is i'm afraid of dying because
00:38:23.480
i'm old let me say this as clearly as possible i've had a good run i don't fear death at all
00:38:32.360
not at all i i spend zero time worrying about death i really do not from the coronavirus not
00:38:41.000
from crime not from disease i don't spend any time thinking about it you know it's gonna come we all
00:38:47.880
get our chance right we're all gonna die but um i really don't think about it and i certainly am
00:38:54.760
not worrying about the coronavirus killing me at the moment you know yet so he says they don't believe
00:39:00.360
me now i suppose i suppose uh but you do get that my risk of death is so small
00:39:11.400
that being concerned about that particular risk of all the things i could die of in the next you
00:39:17.560
know years what what are the odds that i would die of coronavirus you know that i know the odds of that
00:39:24.120
are vanishingly small you know i'll probably get my vaccination within a few days my my risk
00:39:33.640
it's just almost nothing i only care about the economy opening up in a good way because that's good
00:39:39.800
for everybody so now i'm not worried about my personal death it's literally the last thing i'm worried about
00:39:46.280
um let's talk about the floyd trial you know i didn't think there would be lots of twists and
00:39:54.040
turns in this thing but it's you know you're always surprised when lawyers get involved it's like
00:40:00.120
reality just starts changing right in front of you you know you hear the defense and reality changes
00:40:06.200
you hear the prosecution that changes again and i didn't think there would be twists and turns but here's
00:40:12.840
one it turns out that when uh george floyd was calling out for his mama which is not funny like
00:40:20.840
if don't think i'm making fun of this this is all serious uh that he was calling for his mama as he was
00:40:26.920
taking his last breaths of life apparently that we found out that that's the the nickname he uses for
00:40:33.480
his girlfriend and while that's not important to the crime it might be important to how people
00:40:42.120
processed it the the amount of energy that in emotion that they put into it somebody crying for their
00:40:49.240
mother is different from somebody crying for their girlfriend right now that doesn't mean he wasn't
00:40:55.560
crying for his mother because it does seem it seems sort of more likely that that would happen right
00:41:03.400
maybe he just likes this word mama he calls everybody mama i don't know but we didn't expect that
00:41:09.160
not that this should change i don't think that'll change the verdict in any way um
00:41:15.640
now here's the thing we talked about what makes something murder and i would say that there's no chance
00:41:21.640
that derek shaven was intending to murder him and in fact the charges don't even don't even
00:41:29.320
include premeditated but rather the charges assume that a person in that situation would know
00:41:35.960
they were putting somebody in a they're putting someone else in a situation where the risk of
00:41:41.480
death was high enough that they shouldn't have done it like they should have known not to put
00:41:46.440
somebody in that situation so that's what makes it murder okay you didn't try to kill him you just
00:41:52.600
put him in a situation you knew could result in that and you didn't care so you're sort of a murderer if
00:41:59.560
you did that now let's say we accept that as a standard i'm not arguing for it or against it i'm
00:42:06.520
just going to ask ask you this how would you not apply that to the person who sold him fentanyl
00:42:13.400
because here's my point a drug dealer generally knows that they're selling fentanyl
00:42:19.160
but the person who buys it might not now i'm going to correct something i said uh on a tweet
00:42:27.000
i may have said it out loud too i said that and this is this is what i'm going to correct but i
00:42:31.800
first said no one knowingly takes fentanyl dealers put it in pills they sell as xanax or or bars as they
00:42:38.680
call them and in other drugs dealers know they're selling it but buyers don't know they're buying it
00:42:44.680
they think they're getting some other drug that's safer and now under that condition would that be
00:42:50.440
murder if the dealer knows they're putting a buyer in a situation where the odds of death
00:42:56.920
are pretty high and they don't tell them have they not murdered them should they die of an overdose
00:43:04.360
i say yes i say that's murder because they willingly put them in a situation that is likely to die
00:43:11.800
and the person in that situation didn't choose it they did not choose to be in the unlikely to die from
00:43:17.880
fentanyl situation so why does law enforcement not uh arrest the dealer under exactly the same terms
00:43:29.240
and wouldn't it be interesting if there were two murder trials one for the police officer just as we see
00:43:36.520
and a separate one for the the fentanyl dealer under exactly the same terms now i heard somebody say
00:43:45.640
scott scott scott you don't you don't prosecute the dealer because there's so many other things
00:43:52.600
involved you know the person willingly took the drug but which i say they didn't willingly take the drug
00:43:58.600
they willingly took what they thought was some other drug right um and by the way the the part i'm
00:44:05.880
going to correct is when i said that the um the buyer never knows they're getting fentanyl i did hear
00:44:13.080
from somebody who knows more than i do saying no sometimes the buyer does know they're getting fentanyl
00:44:18.440
sometimes they do know um i think that is more typical when it's not a pill if you're buying a pill
00:44:26.680
it's usually uh counterfeited to look like something else like a xanax for example
00:44:31.960
so in those cases i don't think that people know they're buying fentanyl that's probably what killed
00:44:37.640
my stepson he had fentanyl in him he would never in fact he told me a week earlier and he would never
00:44:45.880
touch something that had fentanyl in it he knew that he knew it he knew a cold and a week later
00:44:51.240
he was dead from it because he didn't know what was in it i guess i don't know that for sure but
00:44:56.520
that's the the fair assumption but there are people who are addicts who do know what they're getting
00:45:01.880
but they also tend to be operating at a higher level and they're going to be a little more careful
00:45:06.760
with it because they know they have something deadly now i don't know what the stats are but my guess
00:45:12.200
is that the people who know they're buying something deadly probably treat it like it's
00:45:17.720
deadly and may not have as many ods as someone who didn't even know they had it because they're not
00:45:24.040
trying to they're not trying to protect themselves i'll give you a specific example uh i was told once
00:45:30.920
that um what kills fentanyl people uh if they overdose and pass out is their head goes down
00:45:37.800
and they cut off their own air supply without waking up because their head drips drops down
00:45:43.640
and so i under my understanding is if you're an experienced addict and you know you have fentanyl
00:45:49.240
you make sure that you're sitting in a chair with your head back when you fall asleep
00:45:53.400
the odds of dying in that position are way less this is what i've been told and i'm not 100 confident
00:46:00.680
about this and that uh there might be there might be some stats that show that if you know you have
00:46:07.480
fentanyl you're much less likely to die from it don't know that's true but you know i would look for
00:46:13.400
that stat anyway i would say this um we don't we don't prosecute the gun manufacturer if somebody buys
00:46:24.760
a gun and shoots somebody because we say those are different things it's legal to make a gun it's not
00:46:30.520
legal to shoot somebody so it's the shooter that matters in this fentanyl case the the fentanyl
00:46:36.600
dealer was the last person in the chain it's like firing the gun the fentanyl dealer is more like the
00:46:43.800
person who pulled the trigger because there's the there's the last person that gave you the bullet
00:46:48.680
and the bullet being the fentanyl all right um here's another question that i have
00:46:55.880
um can you if you're on two knees let's say one knee is on the ground and one knee is on somebody's
00:47:05.720
neck can you transfer your weight such that your knee that's on the ground is absorbing most of the
00:47:14.040
weight and your knee that's on the suspect is less you know just enough to make sure he doesn't jump up
00:47:20.840
but you know far less than would take than it would be to kill him and i was looking at the the most
00:47:29.240
famous photo of shaven on the back of the on on floyd take a look at all the photos and i don't know
00:47:38.120
if this will be in the defense so it's just a question if you look at the photos you'll see that
00:47:43.880
shaven is not directly upright on his knees you'll see that he's cheating to one side he's actually
00:47:51.080
leaning now is the leaning something that would cause the weight to be non-distributed in the right
00:48:00.440
way does the leaning show that he's putting most of his weight on floyd which would be the the worst
00:48:06.120
thing or does the way he leans suggest that maybe he's intentionally you know not putting maximum force
00:48:12.920
there you can't tell exactly but here's the test i would do if i were the defense i would take a
00:48:21.480
weighing device some kind of a scale that that you put weight on and it measures i would and the scale
00:48:29.080
let's say the scale is about this tall that's similar to a neck and i would say um client
00:48:36.920
derek shaven uh put one knee in the ground in front of the jury and put one knee on the scale
00:48:43.640
now push down on the scale and you know it would show you know 100 100 pounds of weight or whatever
00:48:49.800
he weighs half of it and uh it wouldn't be 100 pounds right and then they would say okay
00:48:57.560
now put most of your weight on the floor and let's see what the the scale says and then then derek would
00:49:04.680
just you know do this you'd you basically wouldn't be able to tell and you would see that the scale goes
00:49:11.480
from you know five pounds of pressure to nothing or whatever so i feel as if if you're arguing
00:49:21.240
chauvin weighs about somebody says maybe 150 or so yeah he looks at i would think that if you're
00:49:30.760
arguing reasonable doubt you would have to know how much pressure each knee was putting down
00:49:36.200
and that there's no way to know if the uh if the coroner didn't find any damage to the neck
00:49:45.720
and visually you can't tell because remember the defense has to has to defend against the videos
00:49:53.000
and the photos so people think they're seeing something that they know what they're seeing on
00:49:57.640
the video and the photos all you have to do is say here's look look at my client he's right in front of
00:50:03.960
you can you tell what pressure he's putting on the scale just by looking at him no you can't tell
00:50:11.960
and once you can't tell it in live live in person you would understand that you also couldn't tell when
00:50:17.800
you saw the video so if the defense proves that the fentanyl was enough that it could have killed him
00:50:25.160
i just don't see how anybody's going to get convicted for murder might be some other lesser charge i guess
00:50:42.680
i'm going to look at your comments for a moment
00:50:50.680
floyd's face was ground into the pavement somebody says
00:50:55.160
uh but i don't know that uh you know i i would imagine that abrasions are fairly common
00:51:03.880
in in arrests where there's some resistance i don't know that that's the big problem
00:51:10.360
somebody saying that floyd had three times the amount it would take to overdose here's my question
00:51:15.480
there there was some suggestion or allegation that uh floyd may have taken some pills when he got
00:51:23.160
stopped so that they wouldn't be discovered that's that's the assumption now i don't think that's
00:51:28.360
been demonstrated right um somebody can tell me has the trial has the trial presented any evidence that
00:51:35.560
he took any pills when he got stopped um because even if he did i don't know that they would work that
00:51:43.000
quickly that i don't think they would kill him in nine minutes would they even if even if it was too much
00:51:47.640
fentanyl would happen that quickly all right i don't know um
00:51:55.960
yeah the dealer is the real killer exactly i think the dealer should be tried for murder
00:52:02.120
in fact i think every fentanyl dealer should be tried for murder
00:52:05.960
uh drug tolerance varies considerably yeah that's fair
00:52:20.280
he was yeah we know he was high before the stop we just don't know if he added to it during the stop
00:52:27.240
or if the enough time had gone by that it made any difference
00:52:41.640
okay that's all i got for now um i will talk to you
00:52:46.120
tomorrow um i added some more um micro lessons to the locals platform if anybody would like to
00:52:53.720
subscribe there uh yesterday's lesson was how to tell a good story
00:52:57.240
now by the way what i'm doing on the locals platform is sort of a uh in a way it's a lot of
00:53:04.120
things but one of the things it is is a test of how to educate using video as a tool and i'm trying
00:53:11.080
things while educating my followers in a bunch of micro lessons that are designed to be specifically
00:53:18.920
very useful in your life right so very practical stuff and well i'm going to give you a preview of how
00:53:26.040
that's going number one keeping them really short seems to be really important it also makes them
00:53:31.880
easily searchable and then you can go back etc the other thing is um what online uh teaching usually
00:53:40.840
gets wrong is they just take a regular teacher and say okay do what you were doing before but just do
00:53:46.360
it in front of a camera bad idea uh and even if you take say an ivy league instructor and say well
00:53:53.320
this person's teaching at stanford or harvard they must be one of the best people there is
00:53:58.680
not necessarily they could be good at publishing right because that's how you keep your job publish a lot of
00:54:05.000
papers so uh i'm going to say something deeply immodest and i do it for the point of making the point right if
00:54:14.360
i don't if i don't if i don't do that i can't make the point and the point is this i'm unusually good at
00:54:21.080
explaining things probably world class i would guess it has a lot to do with the fact that's what i do for
00:54:28.680
my job right i simplify to make a comic i simplify for books i explain things in public so i'm kind of a
00:54:37.320
a 30-year experienced explainer people like me are kind of rare but you only need a few per topic and
00:54:47.800
you've got all the topics right so if you found somebody who is one of the best explainers and put
00:54:54.200
them on video you're not going to get the same outcome as somebody who just got a good job at a
00:55:00.280
good university being an instructor big difference big difference between the best explainer and
00:55:09.000
somebody who just has a job in that field it would be like you play basketball and michael michael jordan
00:55:16.600
played basketball but you're not really the same even though you both play basketball you can't say
00:55:23.560
there's anything in common right so the difference the the thing that online training has as the
00:55:30.280
greatest long-term potential is that the the very best explainers eventually will gravitate toward it
00:55:38.680
but not until there's an economic incentive and i think these micro lessons will become a standard for
00:55:46.520
education in general i think that a class will be a series of micro lessons you know
00:55:53.400
a 45 minute class will turn into three or four micro lessons plus you know some gabbing about them
00:55:59.640
and then when you go to study you just look at the two minute clip oh got it two minutes got it
00:56:10.440
um and uh the experiment i would say has been a huge success if you looked at the comments from the
00:56:17.560
people who are looking at the micro lessons they don't get bored because they're short
00:56:23.240
it's on point with something that's useful and oh i i guess here's the takeaway and uh i would say
00:56:31.080
the pioneer in this was the ted talks how many of you have watched a ted talk and thought to yourself
00:56:38.520
that the reason you're watching it is just entertainment probably quite a few of you right but a ted talk is
00:56:44.840
information it's it's uh education it's a knowledge transfer but you go to school and it's also education
00:56:53.720
and facts and knowledge transfer and it's deadly boring what did ted what did the ted talks do
00:56:59.960
to change education into entertainment it's pretty obvious what they did they kept it short and they
00:57:10.280
didn't get somebody who's just pretty good at explaining things they got the best person in the world
00:57:16.760
ish for each topic so when you're watching a ted talk you're watching the best explainer
00:57:24.680
for that topic you might ever see and they keep it in 15 minutes 15 minutes is too long
00:57:33.640
you know 15 minutes did seem short when ted started because we all had longer attention spans
00:57:39.400
right ted is 20 years old 25 years old back then we we could watch three-hour things so when they
00:57:49.560
said hey it's only going to be 15 minutes people said what how are we going to jam it all in 15 minutes
00:57:56.200
and then it was easy they all can do it why because you're not asking bad explainers to do it you're
00:58:03.400
asking the best explainers in the world to get it into 15 minutes they can do it they can also get it
00:58:22.200
it looks sort of like too long somebody says 18 minutes i don't know if it is i thought it used to
00:58:29.000
be 15. so that's where everything's going the ted talk started it i'm just extending it it makes a huge
00:58:36.360
difference and uh i think that's going to be great for uh for education in the future
00:58:45.400
all right that's all for now i'll talk to you tomorrow