Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1339 Scott Adams： Floyd Trial Surprise Twists, I Predict the Future, and More Fun

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, come on in. It's time. Time for Coffee with Scott Adams, the best part of your

00:00:09.960 day. Every single time. Still alive. Yes, I'm still alive. I went to get my vaccination yesterday,

00:00:19.440 but it didn't work out for me. I'll tell you about that in a minute. Now, what would you need to do

00:00:25.560 to make this the best day ever? Well, part of it is having the simultaneous sip, and all you need is

00:00:31.220 a cuppa mug or a glass of tankard, chalice of stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.

00:00:37.160 Fill it with your favorite liquid. Have I mentioned I like coffee? And join me now for the unparalleled

00:00:42.960 pleasure of the dopamine the other day, the thing that makes everything better. Come on, come on,

00:00:46.340 grab your cup. It's time. Now. Ah, I think we nailed the simultaneity at that time. Better than usual,

00:00:59.640 really. Yes, so I'd say your day is getting off to a good start, isn't it? So yesterday, after weeks of

00:01:09.180 waiting for my first vaccination shot, the closest place I could get one was about an hour away in

00:01:17.500 heavy traffic. But I thought to myself, nothing will stop me. Nothing will stop me from driving an

00:01:24.980 hour across town, getting that jab. I'm going to take the chance. And then I did something

00:01:31.480 that you should never do before you go to get a vaccination. I'm going to give you a little bit

00:01:39.500 of, dare I say, medical advice. And it goes like this. Before you leave the house to get your

00:01:47.640 vaccination, don't do what I did. Don't be like me. Do not do this. Huh. I think I'll see what's on 0.98

00:01:57.060 Twitter before I... Yes, the very last tweet I looked at before I walked out the door, by coincidence,

00:02:13.560 was somebody who allegedly got the shot and dropped dead within hours. Now, given that tens of millions

00:02:21.580 of people are getting these vaccinations and that they're being targeted primarily in the early days

00:02:28.040 at the people most vulnerable, weren't there going to be a lot of people dropping dead after the

00:02:34.420 vaccination, no matter what? Because a lot of people drop dead. And if millions of them are getting

00:02:41.080 vaccinations, some of them are going to drop dead pretty soon after getting a vaccination. Doesn't

00:02:47.980 necessarily mean the vaccination, did it? But if it's the last thing you see before you leave for

00:02:54.320 your vaccination, your experience might go like mine. I drive an hour. I get there. And when I get

00:03:01.700 there, it's a big fairgrounds parking lot with, you know, massive operation. And a guy waves me over

00:03:08.820 and I drive up and he says to me, what county are you from? So I guess depending on your county,

00:03:16.700 you got in a different line. And so I said, Alameda. He was standing right here. I mean,

00:03:22.320 he was sort of this far away. And he said, but what county are you in? And I said, Alameda.

00:03:30.900 And he looked at me and he said, but what county? And I looked at him and said, Alameda. And he

00:03:41.720 looked at me and said, but what county? And I said, Alameda. And then he said, what's that line

00:03:52.500 over there? Now, I don't know why that conversation happened that way. I just know that it did.

00:03:58.560 And so I looked at the line and I said, whoa, there's a lot of cars in that line. So it was a

00:04:05.900 line of cars. But I said, I don't know how long that line is, but I'll go to the end of it and see

00:04:12.160 how it goes. So I pulled down the block to find the end of the line. And it turns out it continued

00:04:18.640 around the corner. So I turned the corner and kept looking for the end of the line. And then it turned

00:04:24.940 the corner again. And then I looked to the end of the line and I couldn't see it. The line for

00:04:32.940 Alameda looked to be about two hours would be my guess, about two hours. And I didn't have gas

00:04:43.140 in my car. And I can't go four hours without using a restroom because this looked like it was going to 0.90

00:04:50.180 take a while. You know, plus you got to wait after you get it and stuff. So I turned around and went

00:04:54.220 home. So will I be like that person who missed the flight and is glad he did? Or am I going to die

00:05:04.720 because I didn't get the vaccination? One of those two things could happen or none of it will make any

00:05:10.580 difference at all. That's also possible. But in my case, it didn't really make any difference if I

00:05:16.180 got the vaccination unless Christina got it about the same time. And she's not eligible yet, being so

00:05:23.340 young. I got to tell you, though, I wanted an extra week or two to just see what's coming out lately,

00:05:32.440 because it feels like there's more stuff coming out lately. Kind of like another week or two to see.

00:05:39.000 But I tried to make another reservation and I can't do it. So I'm eligible for it. But I can't

00:05:46.340 find a way to get a vaccination in my county that I can actually do. So I'll try to work on that.

00:05:52.560 But I don't know how dumb people do this. I honestly don't. How do dumb people just navigate

00:05:59.220 this situation? I'm pretty smart. Got a lot of capabilities. I got computers and internet and all

00:06:07.100 that. I can't figure out how to get a vaccination. Now you're going to say, Scott, Scott, Scott,

00:06:13.300 I don't think this could be much easier. Look at this website. Follow the link. You just put in

00:06:20.340 your town and you put in your eligibility and it just tells you where to get it. It's as simple as

00:06:25.240 that. Well, don't you think I tried that? I tried that. Here's how that goes. Put in all your

00:06:32.580 information. Put in some more information. Put in a little more information. Now about some more

00:06:38.400 information. Now we'll tell you where you can get the vaccination. You can get it at CVS right down

00:06:45.520 the street from you. Perfect. That's this is a good website. Gave it my information. It told me the

00:06:52.780 store is right down the street. Bam. Click on the store. No vaccinations available at all. Not like in a

00:07:00.880 long time. Just none. So go back, put in your information, pick another store. Finds out no

00:07:09.980 vaccinations. So there's not actually even a website that helps you because you can find places that

00:07:15.460 don't have it. In fact, it's literally a database of places you can't get it. That's it. It's literally

00:07:24.600 a database where you put in all your information and it tells you all the places that you're not going

00:07:29.880 to be able to get anything. Here's another place you can't get shit. Well, I'll put in a little more

00:07:34.320 information. Oh, here's another place you can't get shit. That's very helpful. All right. I would like

00:07:41.740 to predict the headline for next week. Are you ready for this? I made a lot of predictions. Some good,

00:07:51.120 some bad. But this one I'm feeling good about. Are you ready? Seeing into the future now. Into the

00:07:59.340 future. Everybody, please calm your thoughts. This helps me. Looking into the future. One week from

00:08:06.760 now, headline on CNN and maybe other major news outlets will be experts concerned about a new

00:08:19.680 wave of infections. There you go. Next week's headlines, experts are concerned about a new wave of

00:08:28.860 infections. Anybody want to make a bet? Make a bet. Come on. Yeah, you're not going to bet against that,

00:08:37.740 are you? Well, if I were to ask you, what would be the most perfect headline for a story? Something

00:08:46.140 that when you read the headline, it doesn't make you unhappy. That would be good, right? Most of the

00:08:52.220 headlines make you happy or unhappy. So you'd want a headline that was so perfect, it didn't make you

00:08:57.360 unhappy. But it just made you think, oh, you know that feeling? Oh, here's the headline. This is a real

00:09:05.960 headline. I'm not making this up. Elon Musk partner says he could build the real Jurassic Park

00:09:14.460 with genetically engineered dinosaurs. That is what I wanted to hear today. Do you know what I wanted

00:09:22.720 to hear when I woke up? Please, dear God, somebody tell me that they can make a Jurassic Park with

00:09:28.320 genetically modified dinosaurs, which is, by the way, better than actual dinosaurs. The real Jurassic Park,

00:09:37.680 the real one, the real movie Jurassic Park, they tried to revive actual dinosaurs, which I feel is

00:09:46.080 sort of the loser way to do this. Once you've got your genetic engineering up and running and you can

00:09:51.760 mate your genetic freaks, as Elon Musk's partner in, I guess, Neuralink, he says you could build a

00:10:01.420 better dinosaur. Why would you build a traditional dinosaur when you could build like a turbo dinosaur

00:10:07.260 with, you know, freaking lasers on its head or whatever it is. So I don't know what could make me

00:10:13.060 happier. Nothing could make me happier than Elon Musk's partner, because you know he's smart, right? If it were

00:10:20.800 just some dumb guy, you wouldn't care. But can't wait for that. On Joe Rogan's recent podcast in which he was

00:10:30.300 talking with Dan Crenshaw, my name came up in a discussion of the simulation theory. And I wanted

00:10:39.680 to add to add a little bit to that. The first thing I would like to note is that I can't remember another

00:10:46.680 time when somebody mentioned my name in public without adding the Dilber guy.

00:10:52.760 Something's happened in my life or career that my name can be mentioned in public without adding

00:11:01.180 the Dilber guy, and people will still, you know, have a good chance of knowing what they're talking

00:11:06.320 about. So one of the things Dan Crenshaw said is that whether or not the simulation theory is true

00:11:13.040 or false or independent of its reality, what good is it? Like, what would it do for you? What would be

00:11:20.220 the functional purpose of believing we're in a simulation? It's a good question, right? Because if it's just

00:11:27.060 something that happens in your brain, and you don't make any different decisions, nothing's different.

00:11:33.460 It's as if it's, you don't even need to talk about it, which is an interesting point. But I would, I would

00:11:40.460 submit that a belief in the simulation, if you can call it belief, because it's more of a statistical risk

00:11:48.940 management situation, in my opinion, that you would, I think you would act differently. And here's

00:11:55.860 why. Let me give you an example. Do you know the story of the four minute mile? It used to be believed

00:12:01.980 that no human could ever run a mile in less than four minutes. And everybody who tried failed. And

00:12:09.120 then one day, somebody did it. One day, somebody broke the four minute mile. And as soon as one person

00:12:16.500 did it, lots of people broke it. Was it Bob Hayes? Somebody's saying? You have the right

00:12:22.320 name? I have allergies, not a cold. Somebody's asking me. And so after the four minute mile

00:12:31.920 was broken, then other people broke it too. And the thinking, I'm not sure if this is true,

00:12:37.060 it might have been there were just, just better training in those days. But the thinking was

00:12:42.200 that it was a sort of a psychological barrier. Somebody says Roger Bannister. I'm seeing different

00:12:49.800 names here. So I don't know who was giving me that other name. But it looks like, oh, now I'm seeing

00:12:56.960 John Walker, Roger Bannister. It doesn't matter who it was. You can Google it. I'm seeing a lot of

00:13:04.060 different names for that. That's interesting. But here's why I think it's important to think of

00:13:11.580 your reality as a simulation. Number one, if we are a simulation, could we steer our reality?

00:13:20.460 Meaning that could you influence your subjective reality more easily if you are a simulation than if

00:13:30.300 it was something like a traditional reality where you're just, you know, you're subject to the laws

00:13:35.740 of physics. But in a simulation, you wouldn't be. You would be in the sense that code is part of

00:13:42.240 physics. But you would be able to do anything in a world in which software was your conscious

00:13:47.840 experience. So the first thing is, could you use affirmations or any other technique to change your

00:13:55.800 subjective reality, which is the only one you experience? So that's the first thing. And

00:14:01.640 nextly, would you feel the same? Would your subjective experience of your life be different

00:14:09.840 if you thought you were in a simulation? Well, one thing it would do is make you wonder if some people

00:14:15.760 are NPCs, right? Now that might be bad, because you might think, well, they don't have souls or

00:14:21.580 something like you do. But here's what I think is the most important part of thinking you're in a

00:14:30.600 simulation. And that is prediction. I feel as if, if this is a simulation, that we would be able to

00:14:40.080 predict some things. And I've made predictions before based on the simulation, and they happen

00:14:47.440 freakishly consistently, which doesn't mean we're in a simulation. It's just an experience I have,

00:14:54.300 right? It's not science. So let me give you an example. I have noticed a pattern in my life

00:15:01.740 that my actual life plays like a video game, meaning that I get one problem after another

00:15:09.760 in a very consistent schedule. The moment I solve any big problem in my life, see if this is true

00:15:17.940 for you. The moment I solve any big problem, the new one queues up as soon as you celebrate it.

00:15:26.760 Like it might be a few hours, but right after you solve a big problem, a new one takes its place.

00:15:32.840 Have you ever noticed that? And you say to yourself, that can't be a coincidence. Because if problems

00:15:40.660 came in randomly, sometimes you would have 15 problems. Sometimes you wouldn't have any. How

00:15:47.540 long do you ever go without a new fairly substantial problem just showing up on your doorstep?

00:15:53.900 It's just hours, right? Is it just me? So I've started to actually conceive of my actual life

00:16:04.600 as a video game. And then I see, all right, how consistent is it to being programmed? A lot of

00:16:10.980 people are saying yes in the comments. You're having the same experience. I'll tell you. So last night,

00:16:17.640 Christine and I went out to dinner, finally can go out to dinner. And we're having this amazing

00:16:23.720 dinner. We had, you know, incredible night. It was just wonderful. And we're sort of celebrating

00:16:30.620 that, you know, one other of a million problems had just been defeated. So we're, and while we're

00:16:38.600 celebrating, I said to her, you know, if this is a video game, which it feels like it is, then our new

00:16:45.240 problem will arrive sometime tonight. Because you never wait long after one gets solved. And it did.

00:16:52.200 It did. It did. It came right on schedule. Came out of nowhere. It was something I'd never even

00:16:58.180 heard a hint of. Now, is it solvable? Yes, it is. Just like the last problem. It's a whole series of

00:17:06.180 large, you know, large meaning you're really going to have to put some, put a little muscle into getting

00:17:12.520 past it, but completely solvable. Somebody says I jinxed it. I'm not sure jinx is the thing. But

00:17:20.600 when, when you see how, how consistent your challenges are, like scheduled, it just doesn't

00:17:29.660 look like an accident. It looks like you entered a game. And you had a series of challenges and you're

00:17:36.260 trying to accomplish something. You know, I told you before that, you know, my life is the strangest

00:17:41.620 life you've ever seen. I mean, the, the, the number of times, well, let me ask you, you've, you've

00:17:47.620 probably seen it yourself. Have you ever noticed how many times I'm at the center of national stories

00:17:54.440 in the comments? I want to, I want to see if anybody else has noticed. Have you noticed how often

00:18:00.120 it just feels like this weird coincidence, doesn't it? Just a weird coincidence that I'm

00:18:06.220 at the middle of a whole bunch of national stories. Now, do I, do I say, Hey, there's a national

00:18:12.560 story. I'm going to go get involved in that. Not really. Not really. I mean, I'm interested

00:18:19.860 in a lot of things and I get involved in a lot of things, but I'm not pursuing that objective,

00:18:24.580 but it does seem to happen. The number of times I turn on TV and there's some big story

00:18:31.200 and it's somebody I just talked to, you know, somebody I just texted and now they're on TV

00:18:35.880 in the middle of a national story all the time, almost every day or at least every week, I would

00:18:42.280 say. So I can't explain that. My life seems to defy any statistical observation by a lot.

00:18:52.400 All right. So that's the bottom line. If we're a video game and you tell yourself that you're

00:19:01.740 playing against a bunch of tests and your reward is to get to the next level. And it feels like

00:19:07.840 that's what my life feels like. I feel like I keep getting to the next level. And what that did was

00:19:14.500 it removes your stress. Because if you think you live in a simulation that's a video game and you're

00:19:20.920 trying to solve these little puzzles, you say, oh, this is a video game. I'll solve this little

00:19:25.280 puzzle. That feels different than I have a gigantic problem. Oh, another gigantic problem.

00:19:32.260 So if you're processing your experience as a bunch of gigantic problems, as opposed to a game that has

00:19:39.160 a bunch of puzzles, how do you feel? Well, you feel a lot better if you think you're playing a game.

00:19:46.060 And your experience will probably look just like you did. At least mine has.

00:19:52.840 Check out Decentraland. Many of you have been suggesting that. So I think I probably will

00:20:00.240 check that out. I'll Google it, I swear. Let's talk about the Floyd trial. If you read CNN's coverage,

00:20:08.080 the prosecution ripped apart the defense, and it's all over because everybody that the prosecution

00:20:15.240 talked to says there's no doubt about it. What Officer Chauvin-Shaven did killed George Floyd,

00:20:24.560 and there's no doubt about it. So that's how CNN covers it. What do you think is the reality?

00:20:30.300 Well, it's not what CNN says. That's for sure. Here's closer to the reality. Apparently yesterday

00:20:40.260 was the day the prosecution got to show some evidence they hadn't shown before. And it's a

00:20:46.740 day when the defense doesn't get as much, let's say, as much time and as much ability to introduce

00:20:55.220 their own evidence. So basically it was the prosecution's day to present a case. And what

00:21:01.400 do I tell you happens every time lawyers are involved and lawyer one presents a case? Is it convincing?

00:21:11.860 Yes. Whichever lawyer is talking today is going to be convincing. So when Nelson was initially having

00:21:20.440 his day, was he convincing? Yeah. Yeah, he was convincing. It looked like fentanyl was the problem,

00:21:28.500 and that's the end of the story. He had experts, and the experts testified, and what else is there to

00:21:34.080 say? Reasonable doubt all over the place. But then the prosecution talks. And the prosecution brings in

00:21:42.160 its experts, and they apparently are experts. And those people say, nope, it's 100% clear, at least to

00:21:52.120 these experts. The fentanyl had nothing to do with it, because they could look at the video, and they

00:21:57.560 could determine the breathing pattern for the video, and they could know the timing of things, and there

00:22:03.480 was a leg kick that means maybe your last gasp or something. And they looked at positions and angles,

00:22:11.380 and they looked at some documents, and they concluded that there's no way that this was a fentanyl

00:22:18.660 death, because his breathing wasn't consistent with a fentanyl death, etc. And so what do you think?

00:22:29.840 So the prosecution just put on a case that had experts saying there was nothing here except the

00:22:36.260 officer's actions, and they probably should have known better. Are we done?

00:22:41.380 Are they convicted? No. It always looks like a slam dunk, you're done, no matter which lawyer talks.

00:22:50.100 I've told you this 100 times. So whatever you're feeling about it today doesn't mean too much.

00:22:57.060 Here are the facts that seem relevant to me at this point.

00:23:03.200 We now have the autopsy that said the fentanyl level was high enough to kill him, but other experts who

00:23:13.220 looked at video and other evidence and said, you know, probably wouldn't have, and that it didn't.

00:23:22.180 So we have now a disagreement about whether fentanyl killed him or not.

00:23:25.560 Now I think the autopsy or chief examiner or whatever is going to be talking today.

00:23:31.600 So the side that says fentanyl was potentially, just potentially, a cause will be cross-examined, I believe.

00:23:41.100 So today is going to be maybe the most important day, could be the most important day.

00:23:48.360 But here's a point from legal insurrection, which is if you are the police officers and you are in the middle of doing what you're doing and the crowd is around you,

00:24:04.220 you're distracted, Floyd is big and dangerous, or they could have thought, and he was just resisting arrest,

00:24:13.100 and you've got all these variables going on, they didn't really have the same luxury or even training as the experts.

00:24:22.460 So would it be important that the experts were sure the cops were doing something wrong,

00:24:30.000 but the experts had all different information because they're watching it after the fact,

00:24:35.060 and they can watch it in slow motion and different angles and everything.

00:24:38.460 So what the experts had was the luxury of no distraction.

00:24:43.680 They could just dig down and find out what's real, plus the luxury of being experts,

00:24:49.340 which these police officers did not share this medical expertise.

00:24:53.760 The police officers being blamed for their actions either intentionally killing him, which is not really the charge,

00:25:01.820 but rather putting him in a situation where they should have known it was dangerous.

00:25:05.240 I believe that the experts for the prosecution have proved in the following.

00:25:12.940 If you were also an expert, and if you were not in the middle of the situation,

00:25:18.800 and if you were not the police officer worried about the crowd,

00:25:22.440 and if you did not have 15 things in your head trying to keep it going,

00:25:26.940 and if you had been trained in a way that you weren't trained,

00:25:29.980 you might have had the same opinion as the experts,

00:25:32.740 meaning that you would have handled it differently.

00:25:35.240 But there's no evidence been presented yet that the police officers had any training

00:25:43.200 that would map to what the experts have.

00:25:46.820 In other words, the experts kind of made a case that you'd have to be an expert

00:25:53.240 to know that Floyd was in danger.

00:25:56.100 Do you feel that yet?

00:26:00.920 The experts proved you would actually have to be an expert

00:26:04.940 to know that the guy was going to die in that situation.

00:26:08.640 If you were trained as a cop, you wouldn't know that.

00:26:13.720 You wouldn't know that.

00:26:15.500 Now, when Nelson, and I don't think he's got his teeth into this yet,

00:26:19.960 I think he's got a shot coming up.

00:26:21.580 Now, when Nelson gets a hold of this, I think he's just going to eviscerate it.

00:26:27.880 I mean, I think a very strong prosecution case,

00:26:30.820 strong in the sense that the experts said exactly what the prosecution wants you to say,

00:26:35.640 but they also proved that you'd have to be an expert to know it.

00:26:40.000 I feel like that's the end of the case, isn't it?

00:26:43.640 Now, is this the second or third time that the prosecution has made the defense's case for them?

00:26:52.060 I believe the prosecution just made the defense's case.

00:26:55.320 You would have had to be an expert to know the difference.

00:26:59.620 That's it.

00:27:00.440 That's the end of it.

00:27:01.840 Isn't it?

00:27:02.760 Am I wrong?

00:27:03.920 Now, of course I'm wrong, in the sense that until the court is over,

00:27:08.060 until the trial is over, you don't know what evidence has been presented or how well,

00:27:11.700 and there could be plenty of twists and turns.

00:27:15.900 Let's see.

00:27:19.540 Here's another question I have.

00:27:21.640 Does it matter, in terms of the prosecution,

00:27:25.540 as long as the police officers were following procedures?

00:27:31.480 As long as the police were following the procedure,

00:27:34.080 and I believe that the testimony is that they were, according to the trainer,

00:27:37.800 as long as they were doing what they were trained, do they have any liability?

00:27:43.360 It's just a question.

00:27:44.960 Now, I suppose beyond their training,

00:27:46.620 if they saw something that any person would have known was a problem,

00:27:50.060 then yes, of course.

00:27:52.940 But if they were consistent with their training,

00:27:55.380 and they did not have expert ability,

00:27:57.880 which you might have needed to know there was an extra problem,

00:28:00.460 I feel like the case is over.

00:28:04.240 And then I have another question.

00:28:05.700 This latest expert was testifying

00:28:08.600 that I think pressure on the back of George Floyd

00:28:13.220 is what caused him to lose his ability to breathe.

00:28:17.140 Now, isn't the case

00:28:18.700 that Shaven had his knee on the neck area?

00:28:22.860 So, did not the expert prove

00:28:27.780 that the only person there who could not have killed him

00:28:31.060 was Shaven?

00:28:32.420 Because he wasn't on the back.

00:28:34.300 That's their case.

00:28:35.520 Their case is that he was on the neck.

00:28:38.040 Their own expert said it was the back pressure,

00:28:40.720 plus the position, plus other variables.

00:28:44.520 But the back position and the pressure on the back

00:28:47.480 is what killed him.

00:28:49.460 That wasn't Shaven.

00:28:51.200 That was the other cop.

00:28:53.580 Am I wrong?

00:28:55.040 Do I have that wrong?

00:28:56.180 Wasn't it the other cop who was on the back?

00:29:00.620 So, I feel like the prosecution

00:29:03.140 just made the defense's case.

00:29:06.200 Or at least, you know, put enough doubt

00:29:08.160 about which police officer was involved in what way.

00:29:11.500 If I were the jury, I'd be kind of confused right now.

00:29:15.060 There's also the idea that the crowd killed Floyd,

00:29:19.120 not intentionally,

00:29:20.600 but because they were the distraction

00:29:23.040 which made it impossible for the police officers

00:29:25.520 to do their job

00:29:26.540 because apparently their training requires them

00:29:28.940 to secure the area

00:29:30.600 and take care of their own safety

00:29:32.760 before they even deal with somebody

00:29:34.920 who's in trouble medically.

00:29:36.260 That's actually the procedure.

00:29:38.520 And so the crowd,

00:29:39.860 you could call them the mob,

00:29:41.440 I see somebody saying that,

00:29:43.240 the crowd is complicit.

00:29:45.300 They created the situation

00:29:48.060 that made the police officers

00:29:49.840 far less able to notice something

00:29:52.460 that maybe you wanted them to notice.

00:29:56.100 Secondly, how could the drugs not be part of the cause?

00:29:59.860 And if they're part of the cause,

00:30:01.680 isn't that the end of it too?

00:30:04.040 Like, how could the drugs just not be part of any of it?

00:30:08.520 Because I can't imagine any amount of serious drugs in your body

00:30:13.620 that you had just ingested

00:30:15.060 to not have any effect

00:30:17.300 because fentanyl is something that affects your breathing.

00:30:21.080 I mean, if you had a little bit in there.

00:30:23.120 Now, the big question is

00:30:24.140 whether Floyd had enough in his body

00:30:26.400 to be part of the problem.

00:30:29.780 The expert said he didn't look like he was in it,

00:30:32.880 but there's some ambiguity

00:30:33.840 about whether you could tell,

00:30:35.720 you could really tell

00:30:36.580 if he looks like he's on fentanyl.

00:30:38.440 And then there's a timing question

00:30:40.040 because if, we don't know this for sure,

00:30:42.480 but if he put some fentanyl in his body

00:30:44.560 just before the arrest,

00:30:46.420 it takes about five minutes to peak.

00:30:49.220 And so during that five minutes,

00:30:50.560 he would look like he's not dying from fentanyl,

00:30:53.220 but just about the time he was dying in real life

00:30:56.140 would have been just about exactly

00:30:58.340 the time the fentanyl kicked in.

00:31:00.360 And apparently we're going to hear testimony

00:31:02.680 that there was enough,

00:31:04.320 enough to kill him under some circumstance.

00:31:07.480 And his circumstance was he had COVID

00:31:09.500 and heart problems and high blood pressure.

00:31:14.060 I mean, if you're on this jury,

00:31:16.360 you got some serious, reasonable doubt here.

00:31:21.700 All right.

00:31:22.720 And it's going to come down to some doctors

00:31:24.940 who looked at some video

00:31:26.240 compared to the chief medical examiner

00:31:29.260 who did an actual autopsy.

00:31:30.840 Now, I guess there's some competing autopsies too.

00:31:34.060 So you're going to have experts disagreeing.

00:31:36.480 And so I ask you this.

00:31:39.320 What good are experts?

00:31:42.880 Isn't that the big question?

00:31:44.360 The big question, not just for the trial,

00:31:46.480 but life.

00:31:48.700 What good are the experts?

00:31:49.820 If expertise were a thing,

00:31:56.080 they would agree.

00:31:59.240 Wouldn't they?

00:32:01.180 Because if experts disagree,

00:32:03.960 what is expertise?

00:32:07.540 What is it?

00:32:08.920 Because you would think at the very least

00:32:10.400 it's people who are correct more often than you are.

00:32:13.180 But if you have two sides,

00:32:16.460 both qualified experts,

00:32:17.760 and they're completely opposite opinions,

00:32:20.020 that's not better than you guessing, is it?

00:32:23.400 Because you would have to guess

00:32:25.200 which one of them is right.

00:32:26.380 You don't know.

00:32:27.440 You're not an expert.

00:32:28.900 So you would be asked to be an expert

00:32:31.160 to figure out which expert is right.

00:32:34.260 That's absurd.

00:32:35.880 Because you're not that expert.

00:32:37.140 So this is one of those cases

00:32:40.060 where you can see as clearly,

00:32:41.680 just as clear as you could possibly see

00:32:44.140 that belief in experts

00:32:46.520 is fucking stupid. 0.95

00:32:50.040 It's stupid.

00:32:51.640 And we've been fed this constant diet

00:32:54.040 from CNN and everybody who wants to look smart

00:32:56.780 to say,

00:32:57.760 if you don't believe the experts,

00:32:59.980 well, what kind of a dope are you

00:33:01.800 if you don't believe the experts?

00:33:03.420 And yet every single fucking trial we have,

00:33:05.860 you can bring in experts

00:33:07.280 who can say any fucking thing. 0.66

00:33:09.940 Sorry.

00:33:10.820 Too many fuckings in there, I know. 1.00

00:33:15.140 You couldn't have a more clear example

00:33:17.760 that's really, it is true.

00:33:20.080 I would say this example

00:33:21.140 is very much generalizable to the whole world.

00:33:24.520 My point is, this isn't special.

00:33:27.100 This is exactly the real world.

00:33:30.120 Experts are fucking guessing.

00:33:32.960 Most of the time.

00:33:34.640 Most of the time.

00:33:35.280 And when they're not guessing,

00:33:37.660 when the expert actually is just right,

00:33:40.980 they're not guessing,

00:33:42.300 you can't tell the fucking difference. 0.92

00:33:45.040 Because, wait for it,

00:33:47.200 you're not an expert.

00:33:49.140 The whole expert thing

00:33:51.000 is fucking stupidity

00:33:52.660 that we've packaged up as brilliance.

00:33:54.920 It's not.

00:33:56.200 It's fucking stupidity

00:33:57.620 packaged as brilliance.

00:34:00.000 And just the dumb people

00:34:01.820 buy into it like crazy.

00:34:03.280 They just eat it like candy.

00:34:04.480 A lot of experts.

00:34:05.880 Give me some experts.

00:34:08.320 And anybody with like

00:34:09.800 a little bit more experience

00:34:11.340 is saying,

00:34:12.660 you fucking idiot. 0.98

00:34:14.440 You'll believe anything.

00:34:17.380 All right, sorry.

00:34:18.440 I'll stop swearing

00:34:19.140 for the rest of the live stream.

00:34:20.980 But I will,

00:34:23.600 I do submit

00:34:24.840 that swearing

00:34:26.420 is important communication.

00:34:30.180 Seriously.

00:34:31.540 In all seriousness,

00:34:33.360 if you can learn

00:34:34.420 to use swearing correctly,

00:34:36.440 it's just a little flavor

00:34:38.300 on a point.

00:34:39.320 It makes it far more likely

00:34:40.700 to be viral, frankly.

00:34:42.400 Not for good reasons,

00:34:43.440 but it does.

00:34:45.040 So,

00:34:45.920 there's that.

00:34:47.180 All right.

00:34:47.820 So,

00:34:49.580 I have called upon

00:34:51.340 our national leaders

00:34:52.320 in a tweet I made.

00:34:53.460 I said,

00:34:53.820 I call on our national leaders

00:34:54.980 to start now,

00:34:56.320 the start now being

00:34:57.200 pretty important,

00:34:58.400 to persuade the public

00:34:59.540 against staging

00:35:00.300 violent protests

00:35:01.440 after the Floyd trial

00:35:03.260 verdict.

00:35:04.000 I think we all agree

00:35:05.200 there's going to be

00:35:06.080 violence

00:35:06.920 no matter what

00:35:07.840 the verdict is, right?

00:35:09.680 Feels like it is.

00:35:11.200 And I would say

00:35:12.240 that given that

00:35:12.900 we know

00:35:13.380 that's going to happen,

00:35:15.040 I feel like

00:35:17.260 our leaders

00:35:17.780 have an obligation

00:35:18.740 to tell people

00:35:21.140 to stand down.

00:35:22.640 Because if they don't,

00:35:25.240 is there any precedent

00:35:26.340 for a national leader,

00:35:28.460 let's say,

00:35:29.360 who could have said more

00:35:30.960 to stop an obvious

00:35:33.120 riot that was forming?

00:35:37.240 If somebody is

00:35:38.440 a national leader

00:35:39.260 and they could have

00:35:40.480 said something

00:35:41.180 to stop an obvious

00:35:43.340 riot before it starts,

00:35:45.220 an obvious one.

00:35:46.380 See, it's the obvious

00:35:47.220 part that makes it

00:35:47.980 different.

00:35:48.680 If you don't know

00:35:49.460 it's going to happen,

00:35:50.240 maybe that's different.

00:35:51.600 But if it's obvious

00:35:53.000 it's going to happen,

00:35:54.560 such as the

00:35:55.440 Capitol insurrection,

00:35:57.000 I would call it

00:35:58.020 a Capitol protest

00:35:58.980 or Capitol riot.

00:36:00.740 Right.

00:36:01.720 It's exactly like

00:36:02.820 the insurrectionists.

00:36:03.980 And I believe that

00:36:04.740 the news business

00:36:05.820 has created

00:36:07.640 a little box

00:36:08.580 that wasn't there

00:36:10.040 before that says

00:36:11.780 if you know

00:36:12.660 there's going to be

00:36:13.320 trouble,

00:36:13.980 you're not guessing,

00:36:15.520 you know there's

00:36:16.620 going to be trouble.

00:36:17.840 And you're talking

00:36:18.740 in public,

00:36:19.600 and the people

00:36:20.360 you're talking to

00:36:21.220 are in some way

00:36:23.180 influenced by you.

00:36:24.480 You know they are.

00:36:25.360 Democrats are

00:36:26.020 influenced by Democrats,

00:36:27.200 exactly.

00:36:28.200 Trump supporters

00:36:29.120 are influenced by Trump.

00:36:30.880 If you know

00:36:31.940 there's going to be

00:36:32.600 violence,

00:36:33.820 and you don't stop,

00:36:36.360 if you don't start

00:36:37.240 right now

00:36:37.660 to try to reduce it,

00:36:39.500 you're encouraging it.

00:36:42.640 You're encouraging it

00:36:43.840 by lack of doing

00:36:44.840 the obvious thing

00:36:45.520 you should do.

00:36:46.420 People are going

00:36:47.020 to notice

00:36:47.560 if Pelosi

00:36:48.640 isn't telling them

00:36:49.700 to stand down.

00:36:51.380 People are going

00:36:52.120 to notice

00:36:52.660 if Biden

00:36:53.720 doesn't say anything

00:36:55.120 about potential protests.

00:36:57.380 People are going

00:36:58.140 to notice

00:36:58.520 if Kamala Harris

00:36:59.420 just stays silent.

00:37:01.740 And if they do,

00:37:03.400 you have to believe

00:37:04.540 that they want

00:37:05.280 these riots.

00:37:07.240 That is not

00:37:08.560 too far.

00:37:10.380 Feels like it,

00:37:11.160 doesn't it?

00:37:11.740 Feels like I took

00:37:12.820 that a little too far.

00:37:14.280 It's like,

00:37:14.560 well, Scott, no.

00:37:15.940 That's not like

00:37:16.520 they're encouraging

00:37:17.340 the riots.

00:37:18.520 No, it is.

00:37:19.200 It's exactly that.

00:37:20.700 No doubt about it.

00:37:22.020 It wouldn't be

00:37:22.820 encouraging the riots

00:37:23.760 if they weren't sure

00:37:24.540 they were going

00:37:24.920 to happen,

00:37:25.720 I would say.

00:37:26.500 A little different

00:37:27.120 situation.

00:37:28.060 But when you're sure

00:37:29.120 they're going to happen,

00:37:30.460 and everybody's sure

00:37:31.500 they're going to happen,

00:37:32.660 and they're already

00:37:33.600 organizing, I'm sure,

00:37:34.800 if you don't try

00:37:37.420 to stop it,

00:37:38.740 you're trying

00:37:39.520 to create it.

00:37:41.580 And I didn't

00:37:43.100 make this standard.

00:37:44.660 I'm not the one

00:37:45.520 who set the standard.

00:37:46.580 This is the mainstream

00:37:47.400 press.

00:37:48.360 This is the Democrats.

00:37:49.540 It's a very clear

00:37:50.420 standard,

00:37:51.320 and I've accepted it.

00:37:53.600 Right?

00:37:53.880 I didn't argue

00:37:54.880 when they said

00:37:56.520 Trump could have

00:37:57.560 done more.

00:37:58.840 That's a fact.

00:38:00.700 Trump could have

00:38:01.860 done more.

00:38:02.340 I don't know

00:38:02.800 if it would

00:38:03.120 have stopped

00:38:03.400 anything, right?

00:38:04.220 That's a different

00:38:04.720 question.

00:38:05.540 Would it have

00:38:06.260 made a difference?

00:38:07.260 I doubt it.

00:38:08.440 But he could have

00:38:09.180 done more.

00:38:10.140 And I think as a

00:38:10.920 leader, he should

00:38:11.960 have been.

00:38:12.420 And I've been

00:38:12.840 very critical

00:38:13.620 of President Trump

00:38:15.340 when he didn't

00:38:16.840 do more to

00:38:17.580 control that

00:38:19.420 Capitol situation.

00:38:21.360 Completely

00:38:21.880 legitimate

00:38:22.600 criticism.

00:38:24.120 I would say

00:38:24.740 that's a

00:38:25.140 legitimate

00:38:25.540 criticism

00:38:26.220 of President

00:38:26.820 Trump.

00:38:28.020 It is also

00:38:29.340 a legitimate

00:38:30.640 criticism

00:38:31.480 of Biden

00:38:32.440 if he does

00:38:33.240 nothing.

00:38:34.720 And Pelosi

00:38:35.680 and the other

00:38:36.180 leaders.

00:38:37.240 So that's

00:38:38.560 the trap

00:38:38.980 that they

00:38:39.320 created for

00:38:39.860 themselves,

00:38:40.460 and now

00:38:40.780 they're walking

00:38:41.800 directly into

00:38:42.520 it.

00:38:43.400 And I

00:38:44.240 expect bloodshed.

00:38:46.520 Unfortunately.

00:38:47.760 Let's do some

00:38:48.500 fake news fact

00:38:49.640 checking on the

00:38:50.240 fact checkers

00:38:50.880 who are fake

00:38:51.320 news.

00:38:51.980 Are you ready?

00:38:52.880 Somebody needs

00:38:53.600 to fact check

00:38:54.200 the fact checkers,

00:38:55.180 and I take

00:38:56.500 that responsibility.

00:38:57.880 It's got to be

00:38:58.420 me, I guess.

00:38:59.820 So here's the

00:39:00.620 first fact

00:39:01.860 checker,

00:39:02.460 fact check.

00:39:03.280 This fact

00:39:03.760 check comes

00:39:04.300 from fact

00:39:05.380 check.org,

00:39:06.640 which must

00:39:07.660 be accurate

00:39:08.360 because it

00:39:09.120 says fact

00:39:09.760 check right

00:39:10.280 in their

00:39:10.560 name.

00:39:11.300 If your

00:39:11.620 name says

00:39:12.080 factcheck.org,

00:39:14.260 you better

00:39:14.720 be doing

00:39:15.460 some fact

00:39:15.960 checking.

00:39:16.940 All right,

00:39:17.380 here's what

00:39:17.720 they say.

00:39:18.800 Quote,

00:39:19.180 Biden falsely

00:39:20.440 said,

00:39:21.060 so we're

00:39:21.560 looking for

00:39:22.320 his lie

00:39:22.900 here,

00:39:23.620 or his

00:39:23.980 inaccuracy.

00:39:25.120 Biden falsely

00:39:25.860 said that,

00:39:26.580 quote,

00:39:27.100 you can buy

00:39:27.780 whatever you

00:39:28.400 want at a

00:39:29.080 gun show

00:39:29.580 with no

00:39:30.440 background

00:39:30.880 check.

00:39:32.020 But here's

00:39:32.420 the fact

00:39:32.760 check.

00:39:33.600 Federal

00:39:34.020 firearm dealers

00:39:35.400 at gun

00:39:36.000 shows must

00:39:36.660 run background

00:39:37.640 checks.

00:39:39.220 Private sales

00:39:40.020 between non-dealers

00:39:41.200 are exempt

00:39:41.820 from federal

00:39:42.620 laws.

00:39:43.720 So in other

00:39:44.120 words,

00:39:44.420 there are two

00:39:44.800 ways to buy

00:39:45.440 a firearm

00:39:46.380 at a

00:39:47.160 gun show.

00:39:50.160 One would

00:39:50.840 be from

00:39:51.240 somebody who

00:39:51.660 has a

00:39:51.940 federal license,

00:39:53.300 and they're

00:39:53.560 actually just

00:39:54.060 a gun

00:39:54.360 dealer.

00:39:55.440 And the

00:39:56.680 other way

00:39:57.000 would be to

00:39:57.500 buy it from

00:39:57.900 a private

00:39:58.520 individual,

00:39:59.500 in which

00:40:00.060 case there

00:40:00.520 would not

00:40:00.840 be a

00:40:01.100 background

00:40:01.360 check.

00:40:02.700 So Biden

00:40:03.280 says that

00:40:04.840 you can

00:40:05.200 buy anything

00:40:07.420 you want

00:40:08.000 at a gun

00:40:08.480 show without

00:40:09.880 a background

00:40:11.240 check.

00:40:12.940 True or

00:40:13.640 false?

00:40:14.960 True or

00:40:15.660 false?

00:40:15.920 You be the

00:40:16.380 fact checker.

00:40:17.620 Fact checkers?

00:40:20.400 No,

00:40:21.000 Biden is

00:40:21.440 completely

00:40:21.800 right.

00:40:22.860 The fact

00:40:23.620 check is

00:40:23.960 wrong.

00:40:25.160 The fact

00:40:25.720 check is

00:40:26.340 completely

00:40:26.760 wrong.

00:40:27.940 And it's

00:40:28.540 a trick.

00:40:29.700 So hold

00:40:30.960 on to your

00:40:32.480 opinion for

00:40:32.920 a second.

00:40:33.920 Let me

00:40:34.240 explain what

00:40:34.760 the trick

00:40:35.100 is.

00:40:36.420 Biden

00:40:36.860 said you

00:40:38.020 can buy

00:40:38.580 any weapon

00:40:39.480 at a

00:40:40.360 gun show.

00:40:42.720 Some of

00:40:43.440 the sellers

00:40:44.000 do background

00:40:45.800 checks,

00:40:47.100 but there

00:40:48.200 are plenty

00:40:48.640 of people

00:40:49.120 who would

00:40:50.360 wait for

00:40:50.980 it,

00:40:51.920 sell you

00:40:52.600 anything

00:40:53.220 without a

00:40:54.040 background

00:40:54.400 check.

00:40:55.340 That's

00:40:55.920 exactly

00:40:56.340 what he

00:40:56.720 said.

00:40:58.180 The fact

00:40:59.080 check is

00:40:59.480 wrong.

00:41:00.440 Biden's

00:41:00.920 right.

00:41:02.340 Now,

00:41:03.020 I would

00:41:03.420 add to

00:41:03.940 his

00:41:04.360 rightness

00:41:04.820 that there's

00:41:05.760 a portion

00:41:06.280 of the

00:41:06.680 gun show

00:41:07.140 that you

00:41:07.480 could not

00:41:08.020 buy

00:41:08.340 anything

00:41:08.800 you want

00:41:09.360 without

00:41:10.000 a

00:41:10.240 background

00:41:11.680 check.

00:41:12.400 But there's

00:41:13.080 the other

00:41:13.420 part that's

00:41:14.620 maybe just

00:41:15.920 as big,

00:41:16.600 or it could

00:41:16.920 be a third

00:41:17.500 of the

00:41:17.760 people there,

00:41:18.560 25%,

00:41:19.500 depends.

00:41:20.360 but plenty

00:41:21.940 and plenty

00:41:22.520 of private

00:41:23.140 gun

00:41:24.300 sellers,

00:41:26.220 so that

00:41:27.000 hypothetically,

00:41:28.300 if one of

00:41:29.300 those private

00:41:29.880 gun sellers

00:41:30.440 brought exactly

00:41:31.300 the gun

00:41:31.740 you wanted,

00:41:32.860 you could

00:41:33.420 buy anything

00:41:34.800 you want

00:41:35.480 at a gun

00:41:36.320 show without

00:41:37.060 a background

00:41:38.240 check.

00:41:39.320 Boom.

00:41:40.200 Joe Biden,

00:41:41.560 a president

00:41:42.160 I'm not

00:41:42.820 thrilled about,

00:41:44.420 he's right.

00:41:45.140 that's just

00:41:47.080 true.

00:41:48.600 Right?

00:41:49.440 It has nothing

00:41:50.060 to do with

00:41:50.460 gun control.

00:41:51.440 It's just

00:41:52.060 a true

00:41:52.420 statement.

00:41:54.300 And the

00:41:54.680 factcheck.org

00:41:55.680 is looking

00:41:57.160 at exactly

00:41:57.760 what I'm

00:41:58.200 looking at,

00:41:59.060 and they

00:41:59.520 even said

00:42:00.220 in their

00:42:00.760 fact check,

00:42:02.000 they actually

00:42:02.520 said,

00:42:05.540 they said

00:42:06.820 private sales

00:42:07.720 between

00:42:08.040 non-dealers

00:42:08.760 are exempt

00:42:09.260 from federal

00:42:09.880 law,

00:42:10.300 meaning also

00:42:10.860 background

00:42:11.200 checks.

00:42:12.220 So even

00:42:12.760 in their

00:42:13.160 fact check,

00:42:13.760 they show

00:42:15.120 you the

00:42:15.480 proof that

00:42:16.320 their

00:42:16.520 fact check

00:42:17.040 is wrong.

00:42:17.920 It's right

00:42:18.280 in the

00:42:19.200 fact check,

00:42:20.020 that the

00:42:20.640 fact check

00:42:21.000 isn't real.

00:42:22.220 What the

00:42:22.780 hell is

00:42:23.060 going on

00:42:23.520 here?

00:42:25.540 Now,

00:42:26.140 in this

00:42:26.500 particular

00:42:26.920 case,

00:42:28.480 I'm doing

00:42:29.200 a fact check

00:42:29.860 that would

00:42:30.240 be to the

00:42:30.680 benefit of

00:42:31.600 a Democrat,

00:42:32.620 Joe Biden.

00:42:34.020 He absolutely

00:42:35.040 was correct,

00:42:36.400 and the

00:42:36.780 fact check

00:42:37.240 is absolutely

00:42:37.940 wrong,

00:42:38.840 completely

00:42:39.320 obviously

00:42:40.000 wrong.

00:42:41.260 But because

00:42:42.060 they say it

00:42:42.680 fast,

00:42:43.140 it looked

00:42:44.020 true,

00:42:44.300 didn't it?

00:42:45.320 How many

00:42:45.900 of you,

00:42:46.300 before I

00:42:46.740 gave this

00:42:47.360 simple

00:42:47.680 explanation,

00:42:48.960 how many

00:42:49.420 of you

00:42:49.760 heard this

00:42:50.340 and said,

00:42:51.320 oh yeah,

00:42:51.700 no,

00:42:51.980 Biden's

00:42:52.440 wrong?

00:42:54.440 He wasn't

00:42:55.180 wrong,

00:42:55.760 but it

00:42:57.340 felt like

00:42:57.800 it,

00:42:57.980 didn't it?

00:42:59.240 Are you

00:42:59.760 having a

00:43:00.160 moment now?

00:43:01.280 I know

00:43:01.640 there's some

00:43:02.000 of you

00:43:02.200 who are

00:43:02.340 listening to

00:43:02.720 this saying,

00:43:03.120 wait a minute,

00:43:04.080 like one

00:43:05.460 minute ago,

00:43:06.040 I was

00:43:06.360 positive he

00:43:06.960 was wrong,

00:43:08.160 and no

00:43:08.980 data changed.

00:43:10.220 I didn't

00:43:10.800 change any

00:43:11.660 of the

00:43:11.960 data.

00:43:13.140 You

00:43:13.660 thought he

00:43:14.140 was wrong,

00:43:15.200 and then

00:43:15.560 without me

00:43:16.080 changing any

00:43:16.920 facts,

00:43:18.100 I showed

00:43:18.600 you he was

00:43:19.000 right.

00:43:19.620 Why did

00:43:20.000 you think

00:43:20.260 he was

00:43:20.520 wrong?

00:43:21.600 The reason

00:43:22.340 that you

00:43:22.640 thought he

00:43:22.940 was wrong

00:43:23.320 is that the

00:43:23.820 fact check

00:43:24.260 said he

00:43:24.660 was wrong,

00:43:25.340 and then

00:43:25.840 showed you

00:43:26.260 evidence he

00:43:26.760 was right.

00:43:28.320 But you

00:43:28.940 took them

00:43:29.520 saying he's

00:43:30.080 wrong,

00:43:30.840 instead of the

00:43:31.540 evidence they

00:43:32.120 showed that

00:43:32.520 he's right.

00:43:33.600 I just read

00:43:34.260 the rest of

00:43:34.660 the sentences

00:43:35.140 and said,

00:43:35.480 oh,

00:43:35.660 actually,

00:43:36.020 he's

00:43:36.080 right.

00:43:36.320 somebody

00:43:40.980 says he's

00:43:41.520 not wrong,

00:43:42.200 it's a

00:43:42.540 lie.

00:43:43.800 No,

00:43:44.160 he's just

00:43:44.500 right.

00:43:45.200 You can

00:43:45.540 buy anything

00:43:46.000 you want

00:43:46.480 if a

00:43:47.240 private guy

00:43:48.000 is selling

00:43:48.320 it.

00:43:49.140 All right,

00:43:49.380 here's another

00:43:49.800 fact check.

00:43:51.280 This one from

00:43:51.940 Daniel Dale

00:43:52.720 at CNN.

00:43:54.840 He said

00:43:55.640 Biden was

00:43:56.520 wrong when

00:43:57.020 he said

00:43:57.320 today that

00:43:57.760 gun makers

00:43:58.220 are the

00:43:58.640 only big

00:43:59.220 industry that

00:44:00.000 quote,

00:44:00.340 can't be

00:44:00.940 sued.

00:44:01.260 And Dale

00:44:03.900 points out

00:44:04.380 that they

00:44:04.760 are immune

00:44:05.420 from liability

00:44:06.340 over,

00:44:07.200 quote,

00:44:07.580 here's the

00:44:08.000 important part,

00:44:09.300 unlawful

00:44:10.080 misuse of

00:44:11.200 guns.

00:44:13.540 But they

00:44:14.340 have been

00:44:15.160 sued on

00:44:15.580 other grounds.

00:44:16.460 So it's

00:44:16.740 not like

00:44:17.120 gun makers

00:44:17.640 can't be

00:44:18.160 sued.

00:44:19.140 They're

00:44:19.420 specifically

00:44:20.140 not able

00:44:20.960 to be

00:44:21.340 sued over

00:44:22.000 unlawful

00:44:23.340 misuse.

00:44:24.500 It's not

00:44:24.980 even use.

00:44:26.460 It's

00:44:26.740 unlawful

00:44:27.480 misuse.

00:44:28.640 It's like

00:44:28.960 two negatives

00:44:29.980 of guns.

00:44:32.000 And so I

00:44:32.420 asked this

00:44:32.820 question.

00:44:34.320 Isn't that

00:44:34.760 the same

00:44:35.120 with everything?

00:44:37.400 If you

00:44:38.140 misuse a

00:44:39.360 manufacturer's

00:44:40.200 product,

00:44:41.280 are they

00:44:42.480 liable in

00:44:43.840 any case?

00:44:45.100 If I take

00:44:45.940 a baseball

00:44:46.480 bat and

00:44:47.660 I beat

00:44:48.080 my neighbor

00:44:48.600 to death, 0.96

00:44:49.940 is the

00:44:50.360 person who

00:44:51.100 made the

00:44:51.560 baseball bat

00:44:52.340 liable?

00:44:53.560 Because I

00:44:54.320 didn't use

00:44:54.740 it for

00:44:54.980 baseball.

00:44:56.160 I used

00:44:56.660 it in a

00:44:56.980 way that I

00:44:57.400 would call

00:44:57.780 unlawful

00:45:00.300 misuse.

00:45:02.020 I'm

00:45:02.500 pretty sure

00:45:03.280 that the

00:45:04.880 laws, at

00:45:06.300 least the

00:45:06.700 way that's

00:45:07.060 described here,

00:45:07.840 there may be

00:45:08.240 some details

00:45:08.780 that are not

00:45:09.240 in the story

00:45:09.820 so far,

00:45:10.600 but it

00:45:11.420 would be

00:45:11.780 unlawful to

00:45:12.820 use a

00:45:13.340 baseball bat

00:45:14.000 to kill

00:45:14.320 somebody,

00:45:15.000 and it

00:45:15.740 would be a

00:45:16.120 misuse of

00:45:16.640 the product.

00:45:17.220 It would

00:45:17.420 be used

00:45:17.800 outside of

00:45:18.340 its approved

00:45:20.340 context.

00:45:21.380 I'm not

00:45:23.260 even sure

00:45:23.660 there are

00:45:24.020 any laws

00:45:24.600 about guns

00:45:25.180 that aren't

00:45:25.620 universal.

00:45:26.780 Are there?

00:45:27.960 Or at

00:45:28.600 least it's

00:45:28.940 not described

00:45:29.680 in the

00:45:29.980 fact check.

00:45:30.960 Am I

00:45:31.260 wrong about

00:45:31.700 this?

00:45:32.420 I feel like

00:45:33.060 I must be

00:45:33.500 missing some

00:45:34.080 big point

00:45:34.660 or something.

00:45:35.840 But do

00:45:36.620 the gun

00:45:37.000 makers have

00:45:37.560 any protection

00:45:38.460 that isn't

00:45:39.080 common to

00:45:39.680 100% of

00:45:40.880 all products?

00:45:41.480 Do you

00:45:43.080 think that

00:45:43.480 Apple has

00:45:44.080 protection if

00:45:45.760 I take this

00:45:46.520 iPhone and

00:45:47.700 I find

00:45:48.740 somebody weak

00:45:50.200 and I smash

00:45:50.900 them to death

00:45:51.380 with my

00:45:51.780 iPhone?

00:45:53.360 Is somebody

00:45:54.020 going to sue

00:45:54.380 Apple for

00:45:54.980 making an

00:45:55.380 iPhone?

00:45:56.080 I'm pretty

00:45:56.880 sure everybody

00:45:57.480 has this

00:45:57.920 protection.

00:45:59.160 What am I

00:45:59.580 missing here?

00:46:01.840 All right.

00:46:05.620 So there's

00:46:06.460 that.

00:46:08.280 And

00:46:08.440 all right,

00:46:10.860 here's another

00:46:11.180 fact check.

00:46:13.020 We're trying

00:46:13.760 to figure out,

00:46:14.660 I guess Biden

00:46:15.460 made the claim

00:46:16.160 that his

00:46:17.300 work in

00:46:17.860 banning

00:46:18.340 fully automatic

00:46:20.100 weapons

00:46:20.660 reduced mass

00:46:22.980 gun shootings.

00:46:24.000 So he's

00:46:24.380 made the

00:46:24.740 claim that

00:46:25.720 he's already

00:46:26.400 succeeded by

00:46:28.000 banning some

00:46:28.700 kinds of,

00:46:29.340 you know,

00:46:29.620 especially deadly

00:46:31.300 weapons,

00:46:32.720 arguably,

00:46:33.740 arguably more

00:46:34.660 deadly.

00:46:35.340 All right.

00:46:37.000 But the

00:46:37.880 fact checkers

00:46:38.700 are not so

00:46:39.320 sure.

00:46:39.760 Apparently it's

00:46:40.280 ambiguous.

00:46:40.620 There are

00:46:41.440 some studies

00:46:42.020 that might

00:46:42.420 show that

00:46:43.020 it made a

00:46:43.380 difference.

00:46:44.360 Some others

00:46:44.920 that show it

00:46:45.360 didn't.

00:46:46.100 But here's

00:46:46.440 my question.

00:46:48.640 Don't people

00:46:49.160 just use

00:46:49.700 whatever's the

00:46:50.360 next best

00:46:50.880 weapon?

00:46:52.440 Isn't that

00:46:53.060 all that

00:46:53.420 happened?

00:46:54.800 If you were

00:46:55.600 intent on

00:46:57.140 doing a

00:46:57.520 mass shooting

00:46:58.060 and there

00:46:59.780 was one

00:47:00.180 kind of

00:47:00.500 weapon that

00:47:01.000 was hard to

00:47:01.600 find and

00:47:02.160 hard to

00:47:02.480 use, but

00:47:03.500 there was

00:47:03.760 another one

00:47:04.220 that would

00:47:04.500 get the

00:47:04.880 job done

00:47:05.340 just fine,

00:47:05.880 how could

00:47:07.760 it possibly

00:47:08.240 make a

00:47:08.640 difference

00:47:08.960 that you

00:47:09.780 got rid

00:47:10.200 of one

00:47:10.560 tool that

00:47:11.020 works just

00:47:11.520 great, but

00:47:12.580 you left

00:47:12.940 all the

00:47:13.240 other tools

00:47:13.720 that work

00:47:14.060 just great?

00:47:15.700 How would

00:47:16.320 you even

00:47:16.620 expect it

00:47:17.120 to be

00:47:17.340 different?

00:47:17.580 Now, the

00:47:19.820 only argument

00:47:20.340 you can make

00:47:21.160 is that the

00:47:22.480 fully automatic

00:47:23.220 was a more

00:47:23.880 effective killing

00:47:24.860 machine, and

00:47:26.400 there's not

00:47:26.820 really much

00:47:27.340 evidence for

00:47:27.920 that, is

00:47:28.760 there?

00:47:29.300 Because the

00:47:29.860 way these

00:47:30.320 mass shootings

00:47:30.880 unfold, it

00:47:31.700 really is

00:47:32.300 aiming at one

00:47:33.720 person at a

00:47:34.340 time, and

00:47:35.720 apparently if

00:47:37.800 you've got

00:47:38.200 your handgun

00:47:39.800 or any other

00:47:40.740 kind of legal

00:47:41.440 firearm, aiming

00:47:42.760 at one person

00:47:43.640 in close range

00:47:44.780 is going to be

00:47:45.940 pretty bad for

00:47:46.640 that person.

00:47:47.580 You don't

00:47:48.100 need the

00:47:48.560 automatic

00:47:48.900 weapon to

00:47:49.500 do what

00:47:50.540 you need it

00:47:50.940 to do.

00:47:51.940 I don't

00:47:52.760 think you

00:47:53.080 need a

00:47:53.360 bump stock

00:47:53.860 either.

00:47:54.280 It's not

00:47:54.480 really going

00:47:54.800 to help

00:47:55.000 you.

00:47:56.160 At least

00:47:56.760 accuracy-wise,

00:47:57.580 it's not

00:47:57.860 going to

00:47:58.000 help you.

00:47:59.420 So I

00:48:01.660 guess that's

00:48:02.080 still, you

00:48:03.280 know, the

00:48:03.500 experts would

00:48:04.140 disagree whether

00:48:04.960 banning guns

00:48:05.620 makes any

00:48:06.100 difference at

00:48:06.560 all, but I

00:48:07.600 would say it

00:48:08.180 would be

00:48:08.440 similar to

00:48:09.080 trying to

00:48:09.640 start to,

00:48:11.020 it would be

00:48:11.380 like this.

00:48:13.100 Banning one

00:48:13.820 kind of gun

00:48:14.520 when there are

00:48:15.300 so many

00:48:15.660 substitutes that

00:48:16.580 work, well,

00:48:17.580 almost just as

00:48:18.380 well, or

00:48:19.100 even better,

00:48:19.940 you could argue

00:48:20.480 in some

00:48:20.920 cases.

00:48:24.200 Somebody says

00:48:24.900 you can bump

00:48:25.560 fire without a

00:48:26.560 bump stock.

00:48:27.340 Well, you

00:48:27.560 can do a

00:48:27.980 rubber band

00:48:28.580 or something

00:48:29.060 on the

00:48:29.380 trigger, right?

00:48:29.940 You have

00:48:30.180 some other

00:48:30.500 ways to do

00:48:30.980 that.

00:48:32.300 But I

00:48:32.620 don't think

00:48:33.020 that the

00:48:33.540 bump stock

00:48:35.940 or any

00:48:36.520 automatic

00:48:37.460 modifications you

00:48:39.380 make, I

00:48:40.480 don't think

00:48:40.840 they improve

00:48:41.440 your killing

00:48:41.980 ability.

00:48:42.340 I think

00:48:42.660 they decrease

00:48:43.300 it.

00:48:43.760 That's what

00:48:44.060 the experts

00:48:44.480 say, right?

00:48:45.440 I'll need a

00:48:46.000 gun expert to

00:48:46.980 fact check me

00:48:47.620 on that.

00:48:49.100 Is that true?

00:48:51.960 If, you know,

00:48:53.000 so anyway,

00:48:53.620 banning a

00:48:54.020 certain kind

00:48:54.420 of gun

00:48:54.700 feels to be

00:48:55.560 like if you

00:48:56.620 wanted to

00:48:57.040 stop drunk

00:48:57.760 driving accidents,

00:48:58.740 you would

00:48:59.580 ban whiskey.

00:49:00.680 If you

00:49:02.640 banned just

00:49:03.980 whiskey, would

00:49:05.660 that reduce

00:49:06.260 the number of

00:49:06.960 auto accidents

00:49:07.740 from drinking?

00:49:09.220 Or would

00:49:10.500 the people

00:49:11.000 who would

00:49:11.840 drink whiskey

00:49:12.480 just drink

00:49:13.860 something else?

00:49:15.220 Well, you

00:49:15.780 could sort of

00:49:16.300 imagine in

00:49:16.960 your head there

00:49:17.500 would be

00:49:17.720 somebody who

00:49:18.580 says, well,

00:49:19.040 I like whiskey

00:49:19.680 but I don't

00:49:20.140 like anything

00:49:20.700 else, so

00:49:21.860 maybe, maybe,

00:49:24.160 you know, but

00:49:24.920 I feel like the

00:49:25.500 people who are

00:49:25.900 doing the drunk

00:49:26.460 driving would

00:49:27.480 just drink

00:49:27.960 something else.

00:49:29.580 So, I'm

00:49:30.160 not sure

00:49:30.440 anything that

00:49:31.180 happened in

00:49:32.120 today's news

00:49:32.740 makes any

00:49:33.260 sense.

00:49:34.000 Now, the

00:49:35.020 news is a

00:49:35.540 little bit

00:49:35.800 boring today,

00:49:36.640 I think you

00:49:37.080 noticed, so

00:49:38.400 I'm going to

00:49:38.660 look at your

00:49:39.240 questions for a

00:49:40.820 minute and see

00:49:41.240 if there's

00:49:41.540 anything that's

00:49:42.120 especially on

00:49:42.960 your mind.

00:49:45.900 Yeah, I think

00:49:46.660 if you're going

00:49:47.060 to do a mass

00:49:47.760 shooting and

00:49:48.660 you bring a

00:49:49.180 rubber band

00:49:49.820 as any part

00:49:50.580 of your assault

00:49:52.780 weaponry, you're

00:49:54.240 probably not

00:49:54.760 good at that.

00:49:58.020 Yeah, ban

00:49:58.720 assault whiskey.

00:50:00.160 What about

00:50:00.660 Gates?

00:50:01.440 Well, you

00:50:01.860 know, all

00:50:02.300 of the Matt

00:50:03.740 Gates story

00:50:04.660 all has the

00:50:05.460 same characteristic

00:50:06.380 to it.

00:50:07.560 I don't trust

00:50:08.200 any of it.

00:50:10.020 Everything you

00:50:10.780 hear about the

00:50:12.320 Matt Gates

00:50:12.920 situation, it

00:50:14.580 just looks like

00:50:15.580 maybe it's not

00:50:16.400 real.

00:50:18.260 And, you

00:50:18.600 know, I'm not

00:50:18.960 saying that he

00:50:19.440 did or did not

00:50:20.500 do anything.

00:50:21.520 I don't know.

00:50:22.180 It's not my

00:50:22.720 job to defend

00:50:23.480 him.

00:50:24.260 And I want to

00:50:25.500 be very harsh

00:50:26.460 on the people

00:50:27.380 who say that I

00:50:28.160 can't talk about

00:50:28.960 the subject

00:50:29.400 without, you

00:50:31.240 know, looking

00:50:31.560 like I'm

00:50:31.980 defending it.

00:50:33.160 I assert my

00:50:34.360 right to talk

00:50:35.080 about any

00:50:35.560 topic, even

00:50:37.100 if you think

00:50:37.900 I'm defending

00:50:38.620 it.

00:50:39.340 So I assert

00:50:40.180 that right.

00:50:43.520 What is your

00:50:44.500 favorite gun

00:50:45.320 for home

00:50:45.900 defense?

00:50:47.240 Well, same

00:50:48.220 as everybody,

00:50:49.080 right?

00:50:50.540 The handgun

00:50:51.600 gives you time

00:50:52.180 to get to the

00:50:52.700 shotgun.

00:50:53.000 isn't that

00:50:54.300 the basic

00:50:55.860 home defense,

00:50:58.920 right?

00:50:59.800 Handgun

00:51:00.280 buys you time

00:51:00.940 to get to

00:51:01.500 your shotgun.

00:51:02.160 I believe

00:51:02.420 that's the

00:51:03.460 theory that

00:51:03.980 makes the

00:51:04.320 most sense.

00:51:07.540 Yeah.

00:51:08.840 Magnum

00:51:09.320 44.

00:51:10.800 I've got a

00:51:11.500 feeling that

00:51:12.060 if you had

00:51:13.160 the dirty

00:51:13.620 hairy gun,

00:51:15.240 you know,

00:51:15.400 just the

00:51:15.740 sound of

00:51:16.240 the bullet

00:51:16.820 pulling back

00:51:17.440 I've got a

00:51:21.540 feeling just

00:51:21.880 the sound

00:51:22.380 of the gun

00:51:22.840 would be

00:51:23.120 enough to

00:51:23.500 drive somebody

00:51:24.020 out of the

00:51:24.300 house.

00:51:31.860 Oh,

00:51:32.320 interesting.

00:51:32.760 Somebody's

00:51:33.080 saying that

00:51:33.420 if you sell

00:51:33.900 a gun to

00:51:34.360 a prohibited

00:51:35.140 buyer,

00:51:36.080 you're still

00:51:36.460 in trouble

00:51:36.960 even if

00:51:37.560 you're,

00:51:38.400 are you

00:51:38.940 saying even

00:51:39.400 if you're

00:51:39.720 not an

00:51:40.160 official gun

00:51:40.940 dealer,

00:51:41.380 even if

00:51:41.740 it's private?

00:51:42.840 But still

00:51:43.500 it would

00:51:43.720 happen.

00:51:44.540 So it

00:51:45.040 doesn't really

00:51:45.420 help you too

00:51:45.840 much.

00:51:46.120 It would

00:51:46.280 still happen.

00:51:47.440 Do you

00:51:49.920 feel,

00:51:50.580 yeah.

00:51:54.580 I once

00:51:55.340 had a

00:51:55.600 recorded

00:51:55.980 sound of

00:51:56.540 a pump

00:51:56.980 shotgun.

00:51:58.140 I was

00:51:58.600 going to

00:51:58.800 play it

00:51:59.100 through my

00:51:59.440 speakers,

00:52:00.040 you know,

00:52:00.200 finger on

00:52:00.540 a way to

00:52:01.000 like play

00:52:02.540 it through

00:52:02.760 the speakers

00:52:03.220 if I

00:52:03.540 needed to,

00:52:04.020 but I

00:52:04.400 think a

00:52:04.660 real gun

00:52:05.000 probably is

00:52:05.480 better.

00:52:08.240 All right.

00:52:11.620 What are

00:52:11.820 your thoughts

00:52:12.200 on ghost

00:52:12.940 guns?

00:52:14.580 I don't

00:52:15.100 really have

00:52:15.460 a thought

00:52:15.680 on ghost

00:52:16.060 guns.

00:52:17.060 You know,

00:52:17.220 I've got

00:52:17.400 to say

00:52:17.660 that the

00:52:18.100 gun,

00:52:19.200 the whole

00:52:19.600 gun

00:52:19.880 topic,

00:52:21.480 the

00:52:22.700 legalities

00:52:23.600 of it

00:52:23.960 are just

00:52:24.480 sort of

00:52:25.440 not that

00:52:25.800 interesting.

00:52:28.680 Oh,

00:52:29.120 it's a

00:52:29.420 straw purchase

00:52:30.200 of a gun

00:52:30.760 for somebody

00:52:32.340 else.

00:52:32.700 Is that

00:52:32.900 what a

00:52:33.100 ghost

00:52:33.260 gun is?

00:52:35.900 If you

00:52:36.480 smoke pot,

00:52:37.760 are you

00:52:38.300 not supposed

00:52:39.080 to have

00:52:39.360 any guns?

00:52:40.360 I don't

00:52:40.600 know.

00:52:40.760 That's a

00:52:40.980 good question.

00:52:41.440 if you

00:52:42.640 smoke pot,

00:52:43.800 can you

00:52:45.380 legally have

00:52:46.060 guns?

00:52:46.560 You can,

00:52:47.040 right?

00:52:47.640 I don't

00:52:47.920 think that

00:52:48.260 would

00:52:48.400 prohibit

00:52:48.740 you.

00:52:51.780 Will

00:52:52.220 3D

00:52:52.780 printing have

00:52:53.760 an impact?

00:52:54.600 You know,

00:52:54.860 even with

00:52:55.360 3D

00:52:55.900 printed guns,

00:52:56.900 I think

00:52:57.240 they have

00:52:57.540 to have

00:52:57.740 some metal

00:52:58.200 parts.

00:52:59.400 I suppose

00:52:59.780 those could

00:53:00.180 be 3D

00:53:00.760 printed,

00:53:01.240 but you

00:53:01.600 need a

00:53:02.020 better

00:53:02.460 setup.

00:53:05.260 Somebody

00:53:05.660 says pot

00:53:06.440 use?

00:53:07.540 I think

00:53:08.020 maybe it

00:53:08.480 depends on

00:53:08.920 the state.

00:53:11.760 All right,

00:53:12.300 that's all

00:53:12.540 I've got

00:53:12.720 for now,

00:53:13.180 and I

00:53:13.440 will talk

00:53:13.920 to you

00:53:14.360 tomorrow.

00:53:16.640 Hit the

00:53:17.120 subscribe button

00:53:17.940 or the

00:53:18.680 notification

00:53:20.060 button.

00:53:20.760 That would

00:53:20.960 help me out

00:53:21.420 a lot,

00:53:21.960 and I

00:53:22.440 would

00:53:22.560 appreciate

00:53:22.840 it.

00:53:23.300 Thank

00:53:23.540 you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 09, 2021

Episode 1339 Scott Adams： Floyd Trial Surprise Twists, I Predict the Future, and More Fun

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