Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1355 Scott Adams： Hilarious CNN and WaPo Propaganda, Arizona Erection Freud, and New Mask Science

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

00:00:07.360 part of the day. And if you're not wearing your pajamas right now, you're overdressed

00:00:13.220 because this is the time to relax. Have a little beverage. And if you'd like to enjoy

00:00:20.160 it to the maximum potential, all you need is a cup or mug or a glass of tank or chalice

00:00:24.680 or stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid

00:00:29.440 I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day that makes

00:00:35.160 everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. And if you're not part of this, you're

00:00:40.240 going to feel bad in a minute. Wow. I feel sorry for you. But for the rest of you, go.

00:00:51.240 Sublime, as always. So I finally figured out why Biden is

00:00:59.360 so big on masks. Because apparently Kamala Harris's tech team, they can save 50% of their 1.00

00:01:08.920 work and resources because they only have to CGI Biden from the top half of his head. Bottom

00:01:16.000 half, you don't even have to animate it. CGI is easy. You can imagine the meanings. How are

00:01:24.380 we going to do a CGI version of Biden? We don't quite have the resources to pull this off. And

00:01:31.620 then somebody else in the room says, I've got an idea. Just let me spitball this. What if

00:01:40.220 we never show the bottom part of Biden's face? And everybody laughs. They go,

00:01:46.900 No, seriously. Seriously. Does anybody have any ideas how we're going to be able to CGI Biden?

00:01:55.960 No, seriously. If you just make everybody wear a face mask, you won't even have to animate his mouth.

00:02:05.080 That's the hard part. And everybody in the room just says, they just look at each other and I think,

00:02:12.220 could we do that? We just need a reason. Well, I'm not saying that's what happened. No,

00:02:20.820 I'm not starting a conspiracy theory. I'm just saying that coincidentally, it would be easier

00:02:26.660 to animate a CGI version of Biden if he only had to do the top half of his head. That's all I'm saying.

00:02:32.660 Watching Bill Maher call bullshit on Black Lives Matter and the narrative making properties of the

00:02:44.040 news is getting really fun. Because I think Bill Maher probably realizes, can't read his mind, but he

00:02:54.180 probably realizes that the Democrats really need some kind of adult supervision. And apparently with

00:03:03.400 great power comes great responsibility. And I think people like Bill Maher just think,

00:03:09.680 if I don't do it, who the hell is going to do it? And by it, I mean, call bullshit on his own team

00:03:17.780 when they've just gone into crazy land. So he's starting to do that, calling bullshit on the,

00:03:23.720 let's say, the left's narratives, if you will, especially around police shootings. You know,

00:03:29.780 he's being completely fact-based and realistic. And it's fun to watch. If you're not watching his show,

00:03:36.640 I recommend it. It's, without Trump being the only story, the distorting effect of Trump on the media

00:03:45.980 is sort of reduced a little bit. And now you can see, now you can see Bill Maher as he was meant to

00:03:51.640 be, you know, without Trump in the story. Here's a question for you. If you could invent an electronic

00:04:00.820 device that would emit some kind of electronic signal that when you pointed it at a person,

00:04:09.700 it could make that person dumber, maybe even give them brain damage. You've heard that there's some

00:04:15.800 kind of a sonic weapon that is allegedly being used against our diplomats, not quite confirmed.

00:04:23.080 But suppose you could invent such a device where just some kind of electronic signal would actually

00:04:30.280 make people stupid and literally cause brain damage. What would you call it? Hey, you'd call it CNN.

00:04:37.380 CNN. And that's not even a joke. Because if you haven't heard me say this before, science now has

00:04:45.960 determined, fairly conclusively, I think, I mean, you always wait for confirmation, but I think it's

00:04:52.520 fairly solid that people who watch only one side of the news and don't get the other side have brain

00:05:01.280 damage. Actual, literal, that's the word, no hyperbole. Scientists use the word, words, brain damage,

00:05:10.800 meaning that you can't think as well, because the bias of the news has actually warped your brain.

00:05:17.760 Now, let me ask you this. If we knew all this, let's say science was always where it is now,

00:05:28.000 and we always knew that biased news would cause brain damage, would it be legal to start CNN if it

00:05:36.340 didn't already exist? Think about it. There are a lot of things that could not be legal if you started

00:05:44.120 them today. For example, if we didn't already have lots of guns in the United States, let's say just

00:05:51.680 nobody had any. Would it be legal to start having them? Not a chance. Not a chance. If we didn't

00:06:00.080 already have them, it wouldn't be legal to start it up tomorrow. Yeah, alcohol, a perfect example. If it

00:06:07.780 were not historically embedded in our society, no. No, it wouldn't be legal, right? And, you know,

00:06:16.360 I know you're talking, you're going to be thinking about prohibition didn't work, blah, blah, but that's

00:06:21.620 because it was already here. If somebody had just invented it and ran it through the FDA, it probably

00:06:28.280 wouldn't get approved. So, and I was thinking about this with dogs. I was walking my dog, Snickers,

00:06:37.820 and of course, you know, Snickers does their business, and I've got my little bag, and I'm picking it up,

00:06:41.980 and I'm thinking to myself, if dogs were not part of our culture for so many years, and somebody came

00:06:50.360 up with the idea, hey, let's have a dog. It'll live in my house, and it'll poop on my neighbor's lawn,

00:06:56.540 but don't worry. I'll clean it up sometimes. I mean, I'm pretty good at that, but other people,

00:07:02.740 maybe not so good. I don't think dogs would be legal. I don't think so. I mean, you can't have just

00:07:09.960 any kind of livestock you want. You can't have an elephant, can you? Well, maybe you can. I don't

00:07:15.100 know. Could you have an elephant as a pet if you wanted to? Maybe you could, actually. I'm not sure

00:07:21.760 you couldn't. I guess I suppose it depends where you are. I grew up with a neighbor who had elephants.

00:07:29.060 True story. Where I grew up in Wyndham, New York, upstate New York, my grandfather's farm,

00:07:38.140 which was in walking distance from my house, the farm that was just sort of adjacent to his,

00:07:45.600 they owned elephants. Apparently, they were trained elephants that they sort of provided

00:07:51.480 to circuses and stuff. But one day, my grandfather was working in the hayfield, and he turns around,

00:07:58.560 and there's an elephant that walks up to him in upstate New York. True story. All right,

00:08:04.240 but that's neither here nor there. I'm just saying that things like boxing, cigarettes, alcohol,

00:08:09.580 dog ownership, and CNN all have this weird quality that if they didn't exist and you started them

00:08:17.300 today, somebody knows the Catskill Game Farm. Hey, Patty. The Catskill Game Farm, I don't think that

00:08:26.680 was part of why my neighbor had elephants. I think it was for circuses, if I recall.

00:08:33.700 All right, so

00:08:34.460 here's a little interesting fact. I've noticed lately that some of the best,

00:08:42.560 and by best, I mean diverse, sources of news is my own community within locals.

00:08:48.960 So if I look at the, if I look at Fox News homepage, then I look at CNN homepage, there's a certain set

00:08:57.220 of stories that, you know, half of them overlap, and half of them are just, you know, in their

00:09:02.660 narrative. But they're all kind of narrow. It's just not a lot of breadth in the coverage, it seems.

00:09:12.040 But if I go on locals, where, you know, I'm posting my more provocative content

00:09:18.100 subscription service, and other people are in the community are posting as well, I see all kinds of

00:09:24.080 stories that I didn't see in the regular media. Now, they're in some kind of media because they're linked,

00:09:30.440 but they tend to be in, you know, not the tier that you see the most. Here's an example.

00:09:37.000 Chinese Authority is a story I didn't know about until I saw it on locals. I'll link to it.

00:09:42.040 Chinese authorities are cracking down on feminist activists online in China, and dozens of social

00:09:49.760 media accounts got shut down. And the story said, until very recently, you could see vibrant

00:09:56.520 discussions on women's rights online in China, and now they just got rid of it. Now, it's starting 0.87

00:10:03.740 to look like China's censorship is getting as bad as our censorship in America. And I don't know if

00:10:10.000 China's worried about that, but it's heading in that direction. And if China's censorship gets any

00:10:17.060 worse, it's going to get up to American level. And that's going to be pretty bad.

00:10:23.640 What? Oh, you think Chinese censorship is worse than in America? Oh, that's so cute. 0.99

00:10:31.940 Yeah, a lot of people think that. But let me give you this, just this example.

00:10:38.720 In China, they said, you can't say that, and here's why, and we're going to close you down. 0.86

00:10:43.820 You can't say it because it's bad for China, I guess. That's kind of, it's kind of honest,

00:10:49.340 isn't it? Now, I don't like it. I certainly wouldn't want anything like that in America.

00:10:55.000 But it's kind of direct. This kind of language is bad for China, so we're not going to let you do 1.00

00:11:01.360 it. Wait a minute. We do the same thing here, don't we? Isn't there a topic? I'm not even going to

00:11:12.540 mention it. Is there a national topic which you would expect even a few years ago you could have

00:11:18.340 spoken your opinion on with complete, complete freedom? But now you can't. There are entire

00:11:26.560 topics you can't talk about on social media in the United States. You'll get canceled.

00:11:32.500 So China is worse? I don't know. It looks kind of similar to me. And if you think it's worse, 0.95

00:11:42.920 maybe you haven't been paying attention. Because the other thing that's happening is

00:11:47.260 the massive propaganda that is disguised as news. So probably twice a week or more,

00:11:55.640 I tell you to watch Glenn Greenwald, because he's just ripping the media apart for being a

00:12:00.460 propaganda organ. And right now, nobody's doing a better job of just pulling the cover back

00:12:07.360 on the ridiculousness of the media. But this is, I guess, on Fox News. Glenn Greenwald was

00:12:15.620 appearing. He was talking about how Washington Post apparently did some kind of a fact check on Tim

00:12:22.800 Scott, Senator Tim Scott's story of being a young black man who, I don't know, his family picked

00:12:29.960 cotton or something. That's the story. And I guess they fact check it to make sure that, you know,

00:12:35.880 he's an adult black man now. But they fact check to make sure that he was ever once a younger black

00:12:42.000 man. Apparently he was. So he's always been black. So they fact check that. I'm just kidding. They 0.90

00:12:49.320 didn't fact check that. But they did. They did write a fact check that they found everything he said

00:12:56.120 was true. But they wrote it in a debunking tone. So that when you're reading it, you feel like it's

00:13:02.920 being debunked. But they confirmed everything. Now you say to yourself, wait a minute, that's not a

00:13:10.700 thing, is it? Can you do a fact check in which you fact check something is true, but you write it so

00:13:18.300 that somebody thinks maybe you're not? Is that really a thing? Yes. I gave you an example yesterday.

00:13:25.160 The USA Today fact check on Trump saying, you know, about the disinfectants. They fact check,

00:13:34.000 it's true that Trump was referring to a real known technology for injecting light into the body.

00:13:42.560 It was being trialed at the time. But they wrote it like it was false. But they fact check it as true.

00:13:50.140 It's a thing. It's a real thing that they fact check things as true while writing it like you

00:13:56.740 think it's the other way. It's amazing when you see it. All right, here's another great one like

00:14:03.260 this. Perfect example. Today you can see a piece on Matt Gaetz. Now we know from Project Veritas,

00:14:12.640 Undercover Video, they talked to a technical director at CNN, Undercover. It was Undercover Video. He

00:14:19.520 didn't know he was recorded. And he admitted that they target Matt Gaetz for political reasons. It has

00:14:26.340 nothing to do with the news. So we know that they target Matt Gaetz. All right. So start with that

00:14:33.180 knowledge that it's not real news. It's a target at a person, right? Now knowing that, that's your

00:14:40.780 framework. Listen to what they did to him today. This is just, it just makes your head shake. It's now

00:14:48.020 it's now passed into just parody. I mean, it just looks funny at this point.

00:14:56.680 So here's from CNN. Federal authorities are looking into whether a 2018 trip to the Bahamas involving

00:15:04.140 Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz and several young women was part of an orchestrated effort

00:15:11.300 to illegally influence Gaetz in the area of medical marijuana. People briefed on the matter,

00:15:18.880 told CNN. In other words, anonymous sources, they're the good ones, aren't they? If you hear that CNN has

00:15:27.600 some anonymous sources, you know you're hearing the truth. No. Anonymous sources means not true.

00:15:35.640 Pretty much most of the time. Not every time. So let me read this again, and then I'll give you the

00:15:44.360 punchline, right? You have to hear exactly CNN's words, and then I'll tell you the punchline.

00:15:51.080 I'll read it again. Federal authorities are looking into whether a 2018 trip to the Bahamas

00:15:55.420 involving Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz and several young women was part of an orchestrated effort

00:16:01.940 to illegally influence Gaetz in the area of medical marijuana, people briefed on the matter, told CNN.

00:16:08.460 So that's how they introduced the story. What do you think was the evidence in the story

00:16:15.280 to support this claim? None. None. There wasn't any. Even the anonymous sources didn't say there was any

00:16:26.240 crime. Nobody did. Nobody involved in the story has even made an allegation. Do you get that? There's

00:16:37.940 not even an allegation. Not only is there not a crime, nobody's accused him of a crime,

00:16:47.140 and there's no evidence whatsoever that anybody ever will, it gets better. Wait, it gets better.

00:16:54.160 And the idea here is that he may have been influenced to vote in favor of medical marijuana.

00:17:01.760 His track record has always been in favor of legalizing medical marijuana. He has introduced

00:17:10.200 legislation repeatedly on that point. So we have this long history where there's nothing to influence

00:17:18.920 because he's always been in that camp. You don't need to convince somebody to do something that

00:17:25.140 they've been trying really, really hard to do for years. Now, don't you think that was important?

00:17:33.080 Don't you think that's sort of an important context? That he's actually famous for years

00:17:39.960 trying to get medical marijuana. But at some point, he takes a trip, and then people are suddenly

00:17:49.320 investigating whether they're trying to influence him? This is just hilarious propaganda. I mean,

00:17:59.060 this is just crazy. All right. I know that you don't like to hear about masks, but I promise you,

00:18:10.580 this will be good. You're tired of masks. I get it. I get it, right? We just argue. Do they work? Do they not?

00:18:17.580 But this is the most insightful, let's say, credible explanation of why we think they don't work,

00:18:28.800 but probably they do in some cases. Are you ready? Because we're trying to reconcile why it is

00:18:36.120 that there are a number of trials or tests or whatever that showed that they don't work,

00:18:45.500 but those are specific situations. So are there situations where they work? And here's one doctor

00:18:52.260 who looked pretty good. Dr. Pierre Coria is a doctor. He's a researcher, etc. And he's broken down

00:19:01.120 this way. And I think this has a lot to do with how well you explain it. And he basically says that

00:19:07.080 masks can have a value so long as, and hold with me here because this is, it's going to get a little

00:19:14.780 detailed, but not too bad. The masks do work for indoor stuff only. So this doctor admits that

00:19:22.980 wearing masks outdoors, ridiculous. But we're all on the same page on that, right? Masks outdoors,

00:19:30.680 there's no scientific evidence that you can even get it outdoors. Like there's one, there's one case

00:19:37.520 verified of two Chinese guys who talk to each other in the face for an hour outdoors. Nobody else. 0.99

00:19:44.780 So we're all on the same page that masks don't make sense outdoors, right? But indoors. Some of you

00:19:51.520 still think indoors doesn't make sense because you've seen, you've seen tests or trials or whatever

00:19:58.360 that said they didn't. So this doctor breaks it down and I've never seen it done so well. He mentions the

00:20:04.040 four D's that if you, that masks will work indoors, he claims, unless you violate one of these four

00:20:13.740 things. And if you violate more than them, then the mask won't work. Number one, density. If you have a

00:20:20.780 lot of people in a room, says this doctor, then masks can extend the amount of time before you might get

00:20:29.520 it, assuming somebody in there has it, right? So all the mask does, according to this doctor,

00:20:35.480 is extend the amount of time you could be in a full room before you get it anyway. Now the argument is

00:20:43.300 that the masks make the, what would you call it, the air particles or the water particles or whatever

00:20:49.740 go up and down and that basically they, they permeate the room. So it's not so much that you're,

00:20:58.020 you're like a cannon talking into somebody's face with your COVID. It's more like it's spreading into

00:21:04.680 the room, right? So visualize this. It's the difference between me talking directly in your face

00:21:10.540 and it's like a water cannon of COVID versus I'm just releasing it slowly into the room through the

00:21:17.980 tops of my mask. And it's just sort of filling the room with virus over time. So here's the thing.

00:21:25.860 If you violate any of these, you're going to get some COVID even with a mask indoors. Density, number

00:21:31.980 of people in the room, that's bad. The more people, the more risk. Duration, the longer you're in the

00:21:38.260 room, the worse it is. The masks will extend, we don't know how much, extend the amount of time that

00:21:46.340 you can be in a, in a room. Dimensions, the size of the room, obviously, the bigger the room, the

00:21:51.660 better. And then the draft, the amount of air, the airflow. So if you don't get, if you don't get all of

00:21:58.040 these things right, the mask won't work. And when they test masks, they're not really testing it in

00:22:06.060 the way that would get to this, right? So this claim, and I'll say it's one doctor, researcher,

00:22:11.580 who's making a claim. I won't say this is my opinion, but it matches exactly my opinion.

00:22:18.220 All right. The reason that I like this, this breakdown, is it matches exactly the opinion

00:22:26.160 I've had for a year, which is there's no way it works in every situation, but it must buy you a

00:22:33.340 little time. I've always figured it was a friction thing, that it's not binary, it doesn't stop

00:22:39.300 anything. It just gives you a little, little extra time, a little extra cushion. So because I was

00:22:47.580 primed to believe it anyway, I do believe this doctor, but I'm probably, yeah. So in the comments

00:22:54.920 you're saying, so confirmation bias? Exactly. Yes, I can't tell the difference. You know, the way

00:23:02.500 confirmation bias works is that the person experiencing it is the only one who can't tell.

00:23:08.800 You might be able to tell by observing me, if you had, you know, enough context to do that. But by

00:23:15.100 definition, if I'm suffering from it, I'm the only one who can't tell. So when you say, is that

00:23:22.340 confirmation bias? I don't know. It's not possible for me to know. It's only possible maybe for somebody

00:23:30.140 else to know. All right. Here's a fun story. There's a Arizona erection Freud. Now, those words are not

00:23:45.980 exactly the words that the story requires. It's not really an erection. They use an L in that word

00:23:52.440 instead of an R. And it's not really a Sigmund Freud. It's a different word, but I don't want that to

00:23:59.720 be picked up and demonetize me. So let's say in Arizona, there's an erection Freud going on. And

00:24:08.140 CNN's headline for it is that, and I swear this, they really said this. It's an effort by conspiracy

00:24:17.440 theorists to undermine results. That's how CNN reported on the Arizona erection Freud. It's a

00:24:28.260 conspiracy theorist attempt to undermine results. And I thought to myself, that's an interesting way

00:24:34.100 to put it. For example, I'm going to start adopting this way of talking. When I go to my doctor,

00:24:41.100 the purpose of going to my doctor is to undermine my health. That's why I do it. Why else would you

00:24:49.080 go to a doctor other than to undermine your health? When I check the tires on my car, what I'm really

00:24:56.300 trying to do is undermine their proper inflation. That's why I do it. Why else? Really?

00:25:02.360 Um, and, uh, when I go to the gym, it's of course to undermine my fitness. This is why we do these

00:25:11.100 things. So if you're going to be checking the votes in Arizona, it's to undermine, undermine the

00:25:16.880 credibility of the system. That's why you do it. Everybody knows that. So that's how CNN phrases

00:25:23.020 it. Here's the funniest part. Do you know why Democrats are complaining about this, uh, erection

00:25:31.240 audit? Do you? Do you know why they're complaining? This is the fun part. Democrats are complaining,

00:25:39.240 wait for it, that the audit is not, wait for it, transparent enough. Is that beautiful? That's

00:25:53.560 just beautiful. Yes, that's right. Although the election itself, some complained, some on

00:26:04.380 the other side of the aisle, some complained that the election itself was not transparent

00:26:09.940 enough. And so they propose this, uh, massive audit and Democrats are complaining that the audit

00:26:18.140 is not transparent enough. And do you know what? It's not, it's not transparent. Apparently

00:26:29.260 the people doing the audit are not going to let people watch, et cetera. Do you, what's, what's

00:26:39.120 your take on that? Well, besides the fact that it's fricking hilarious. Now, um, of course we

00:26:46.720 all know because we've been told that the audit won't find any irregularity. You know why, right?

00:26:55.440 A lot of you are not logical. So let me connect the dots for you the way, um, CNN has done for

00:27:01.120 me and, and follow this because a lot of you are not trained, uh, logicians. So this might be a little

00:27:08.680 complicated for you and try not to get lost. We know that there won't be anything found in the,

00:27:15.440 in the audit and we know everything's good. And you can go back to trace why we know that because

00:27:22.220 when the courts were asked to, uh, not look into it or they didn't look into it, they didn't find the

00:27:30.900 thing that nobody looked for. And because they didn't find anything that they didn't look for,

00:27:38.200 that logically QED means that there isn't anything there. Because one way to know that something

00:27:45.620 doesn't exist is to not look for it. And that confirms it's non-existence. You're following this,

00:27:51.360 right? Because I, a lot of people will think, wait a minute, that doesn't even make sense.

00:27:56.280 But that means you're just not following the logic. If you don't look for it or you use the wrong

00:28:02.400 mechanism to look for it and then you don't find it, that's proof it doesn't exist. QED. All right.

00:28:13.260 So part of this, uh, erection, uh, fraud audit is they're going to take some ballots and then go

00:28:20.980 knock on doors and see if there are any real people corresponding to those ballots.

00:28:27.760 What would happen if they find there's a difference? Hypothetically, you know, of course,

00:28:35.640 I know that they won't. And the reason I know they won't is that the courts who didn't look into it

00:28:40.300 said that it's not there. So I know they're not going to find it, but hypothetically, just do a

00:28:44.940 experimental experiment. What if they did? What if they did? But it's not transparent.

00:28:53.840 Well, if there's not, if it's not transparent, I guess the Dems will say, but you, you added those

00:29:00.020 ballots yourself. Those are not part of the original ballots. You probably added them yourself.

00:29:05.720 I suppose there's always some, uh, some way that even an audit could be faked. So the Dems,

00:29:13.440 without their transparency, you're going to be claiming that. Um, but I'd be really curious how

00:29:19.740 this turns out. And by the way, why don't Democrats want this to happen? Now, part of the pushback is

00:29:29.900 that they think that the audit will be done, uh, let's say illegitimately and maybe cause confusion.

00:29:36.740 Maybe, but you'd think that Democrats would want an audit because the vote went their way. And they

00:29:46.900 also want you to believe it was a credible vote. I would think they'd be dying for an audit.

00:29:53.080 Do you know, if I knew I were innocent of all charges, do you know what I would want?

00:29:57.480 An audit. I'd want an audit if I were innocent. Now, this assumes that the audit doesn't create

00:30:05.920 some fraudulent claims. And so that is a risk. They do have a legitimate point there. You could

00:30:11.600 easily imagine that it confuses the public and doesn't tell us anything. That would be, you know,

00:30:17.300 not that, uh, unusual, but I would say that's a risk worth taking. Um, apparently, uh, good news

00:30:25.840 coming out of Israel that, uh, that, uh, for the first time, this was yesterday for the first time

00:30:30.920 in 10 months, no Israeli died of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours. Now, today's a new day. So maybe 1.00

00:30:38.240 that changed, but there was a day yesterday when Israel had no COVID deaths and they've been

00:30:46.180 vaccinated, vaccinating like crazy. You know, the, I guess the best success story in the vaccinations.

00:30:52.000 So that's looking pretty good for the vaccinations, pretty good for the vaccinations. Meanwhile, the,

00:31:00.000 uh, temporarily halted J and J vaccination has been reapproved for use. So apparently the risk

00:31:07.300 is much smaller than the benefit. And that's the single shot one. That's the one I want. Um,

00:31:14.540 I talked to somebody who got vaccinated in, in my area recently. It took five hours

00:31:21.760 it was a five hour wait in their car to get vaccinated five hours. So I'm not vaccinated

00:31:33.920 and it's only because it's just not really practical. So you, you can use all the websites

00:31:38.980 and all the places that you look for where your vaccinations are and you can sign up for things,

00:31:44.240 but none of it works. So in California, I don't know how anybody gets vaccinated unless,

00:31:50.800 unless they take days off. So this is somebody who probably had to dedicate

00:31:56.320 one full day to getting the first shot, one full day to getting the second shot,

00:32:02.300 and then might lose one or two days for the side effects. That's four days of lost work

00:32:09.180 for a fricking shot. I need better than that. You know, I don't mind taking an afternoon off,

00:32:18.540 but I'm not going to give up four days of work for a fucking vaccination, right? California needs to

00:32:24.620 step it up a little bit. Yes, I know in other places it's shorter. And I know that if you can

00:32:31.500 somehow magically get an appointment close, then you don't have to wait forever, but not everybody

00:32:38.040 can just go sign up. You can sign up all day long. And in fact, all the places that look for

00:32:45.120 vaccinations right now will tell you that you can get it. And you're going, you're doing the sign up

00:32:50.860 and you're saying your age and all your comorbidities and you get all the way to the end. He goes,

00:32:56.800 all right, and here are your options and none of them work. So, so you can use a website to find

00:33:02.940 options that don't work, but that's all they do. So right now it's not really practical where I live,

00:33:09.700 but people are still doing it. It takes them five hours.

00:33:16.560 Here's an interesting point on racism. John Blake, it's an opinion piece. I guess it'd be an opinion

00:33:24.140 piece on CNN, um, says that, uh, the, the real problem with the Floyd case and Chauvin's, uh, body

00:33:33.340 language, et cetera, was that it displayed indifference and that there's apparently a, uh, a line of

00:33:40.740 thought that goes all the way back to, and includes Martin Luther King, that the real worst racism is

00:33:49.300 indifference, indifference to somebody's struggle specifically. And, and you've heard this before,

00:33:56.800 right? You've heard, uh, a number of black people who, you know, speak out on this kind of issue to

00:34:03.960 say that they'd rather deal with a direct racist because at least they're paying attention to you.

00:34:09.380 You know, at least you have something to work with there, but the ones that are the, that are the worst

00:34:14.400 in some ways are the ones who are just indifferent. You know, they don't care one way or another

00:34:19.560 whether you live or die. And so that makes sense in terms of Black Lives Matter. They're not saying,

00:34:26.900 well, it's just perfectly on point. That's why, that's why I think there's a lot of genius in the

00:34:32.840 phrase Black Lives Matter. As a slogan, I, I doubt anybody's ever come up with a better one. Even Make America

00:34:39.340 Great Again didn't, didn't work as well as this one, even if you don't like how it turned out,

00:34:45.320 but it certainly worked. And, you know, I was thinking about that. And part of the, uh, story

00:34:52.620 is that there's a presumption here, hard to prove, but a presumption that Chauvin's body language,

00:35:00.620 when he was photographed on top of Floyd, that his look of indifference was the most triggering part

00:35:09.220 about it. In other words, his body language looked like his mind was saying he doesn't care if this

00:35:15.780 guy lives or dies, which might be the case. But did he go to, did Chauvin get convicted because the

00:35:24.800 jurors believed they could read his mind based on his body language? Somebody says only in one photo,

00:35:33.040 but apparently that one photo was, um, it was focused on by the prosecution. So did we just

00:35:40.300 send a man to prison based on the belief that jurors can read body language and determine intention?

00:35:49.120 I feel like we did feel like we did. And of course you can't read minds. So if there was anything that

00:35:57.060 would ever give you reasonable doubt, it should be that you could read somebody's mind. What, what would

00:36:04.060 be more reasonable doubt than thinking you could read somebody's mind by their body language? Have you

00:36:10.620 ever tried that at home? Next time you look at your spouse's body language, see if you can guess what

00:36:17.280 they're thinking. See how well that goes. Sometimes you get it right. Maybe one in three. Two out of three

00:36:24.840 times you're completely off. We're not really good at reading body language. It's not really, I mean,

00:36:32.700 I believe that maybe experts can do it more often than chance. I mean, I believe that's reasonable,

00:36:38.780 but it's not a reliable way to send somebody to prison. I think his body language says he's lying.

00:36:46.060 But we do. It's, it's part of the process. The only way we know people are lying is just by looking at

00:36:51.640 them and judging whether it looks like lying, unfortunately. But I would like to add this

00:36:58.580 provocative thought to the process. That wanting to be, let's see, what's to, wanting to overcome

00:37:07.460 indifference is something that you control. All right. Are you indifferent to people who are nice to

00:37:16.500 you? Are you? If somebody knocks on the door and says, hey, you know, I noticed it snowed last night

00:37:25.940 and I've got a few minutes. I know you're elderly. Do you mind if I shovel your walk for you? I'm here 0.99

00:37:33.180 anyway. If that happens, do you think that the person who offered to shovel your sidewalk for nothing,

00:37:40.960 nothing in return? Does that, are you indifferent to that person? No, you're not. You actually care

00:37:48.520 about that person because they did something for you. The way to make people not indifferent is to do

00:37:54.960 something for them. People who don't do anything for you, you can be indifferent to them.

00:38:01.720 Sort of natural. So I feel as if everything comes down to this, that if you have an attitude of,

00:38:12.720 you know, zero-sum attitude that for somebody to get something, somebody has to lose something,

00:38:18.600 that you end up with indifference. Because if the only way you're going to get ahead is by taking my

00:38:24.680 stuff, I don't care about you. I don't care about you at all. I really don't. And I'm not going to

00:38:31.680 change that opinion. If the only way you think you can get ahead is by taking my stuff, I do not care

00:38:38.360 if you live or die. Sorry. Now, if you would like to work with me, find a way we can both benefit,

00:38:46.360 I'm so in. I'm totally in. If you can find a way that even something is just good for me,

00:38:54.660 I'll probably return the favor. It's called reciprocity. It's reciprocity. Yeah, and somebody

00:39:01.000 somebody says, no empathy? No. No, I don't have empathy for people who want to take things from me

00:39:07.420 and give me nothing. You know, unless it's a child or a dog or something like that, right? But an adult

00:39:12.880 human being who wants to benefit by taking something from me, no, I don't care if they live or die,

00:39:18.600 and I never will. If they want to work with me, I'm all in. You know, I'm very generous.

00:39:28.260 But you have to come at me with a sense of reciprocity. And if the only thing I get out of

00:39:34.360 it is that I feel good, that works. I'm good with that. If the only thing I get out of it is thank you,

00:39:42.160 works for me. I do a lot of work just for thank yous. I do lots of work just for recognition.

00:39:49.980 So if somebody, you know, pat me on the back and say, good for you. Good for you. But I don't think

00:39:57.120 this can ever change because human nature is sort of hardwired. You know, racism is sort of hardwired

00:40:03.540 into us. We have to work pretty hard to overcome it. But this reciprocity thing is also hardwired.

00:40:09.100 And if you're not coming at me with reciprocity as your, your theme, I don't give a fuck about you.

00:40:16.340 I really don't. I don't care anything about you or your life. I care nothing about you.

00:40:23.040 Clear enough. But if you want help, I'm all about it. I understand, although I did not see this in

00:40:31.840 person, that Floyd's defense lawyer, Nelson, he did use the defense I had suggested would be

00:40:39.060 effective, but it didn't matter. You know, the jury probably didn't use the facts anyway. But

00:40:45.800 part of his defense was that why did Chauvin do everything he did right in front of witnesses

00:40:53.120 with cameras? If Chauvin had had any idea that what he was doing would get Chauvin in trouble,

00:41:01.380 he wouldn't have done it, would he? Do you have to be a mind reader to know that people don't do

00:41:07.180 things that are so bad for themselves that they would end up in a 7 by 10 jail cell 23 hours a day

00:41:14.420 for decades? Because that's what's happening to Chauvin. And he had to know. I mean, if you're a

00:41:21.280 police officer, you know that if you kill somebody in front of witnesses and there wasn't a good reason

00:41:26.800 for it, you know that's not good for you. But apparently that argument that Nelson did use did

00:41:33.500 not, of course, did not sway the jury. But again, they were not really fact-based, I don't think.

00:41:42.000 What do you think about the question of whether you should wear a mask after vaccination?

00:41:45.860 There's Dr. Amesh Adelja. Let me see if I can read his name right. Adelja. Dr. Amesh Adelja.

00:41:56.720 And he's a senior scholar at the Center for Health and Security, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So he's

00:42:01.420 got some credentials. And he says that the preponderance of evidence supports the fact

00:42:08.500 that vaccinated individuals are not able to spread the virus. So good news, right? So here's a real

00:42:19.200 doctor who's really looked into it. So you and I don't have to be the doctor and we don't have to

00:42:23.740 look into it. And he says that the preponderance of evidence is that you're not going to spread it if

00:42:29.540 you've got the vaccination. Now, I don't know how that squares with the J&J shot being 77% effective

00:42:38.020 and the other ones being 95% or whatever effective. If something's only 95% effective

00:42:44.560 or 77% effective, how does that prevent you from shedding it? You know, in some cases. But

00:42:54.200 apparently the actual real world cases of it happening must be so small that it's almost

00:43:02.980 not a thing. But here's the bad news. Are you waiting for the bad news? As Dr. Adelja says,

00:43:10.640 vaccinated people probably don't need masks, he says, his opinion. But the cashier doesn't know

00:43:17.280 who is vaccinated. That's the problem, isn't it? The store is going to make you wear a mask anyway,

00:43:23.580 because they don't know who's vaccinated. So whether you have a passport or not, and I think those will

00:43:29.980 be found illegal in most states. Passport or not, the store is going to say, we don't know.

00:43:37.880 Wear your mask. You're only going to be in here for a few minutes anyway. So if I had to predict,

00:43:44.680 I think that there will be sort of a tipping point in which people just won't wear the masks.

00:43:50.280 And if you want to sell stuff, you're going to have to drop the requirement.

00:43:53.480 So I think stores at some point are going to ask you to be vaccinated or masked, but they're not

00:44:00.940 going to enforce it because they just can't. And they don't want to run out of money. You saw what

00:44:05.540 happened to Coca-Cola when they said things that conservatives didn't like. It's not good for

00:44:11.800 business. It's really not good for business. And at the moment, a store can still get away with

00:44:18.240 making you wear a mask, right? You're not going to hold it against the store. But once you're

00:44:23.620 vaccinated and all your friends are vaccinated, and then you go to that store and you still have

00:44:29.500 to wear the mask, you might go to a different store that's not going to ask you to do it.

00:44:34.620 So I think market competition is going to get pushed and pushed and pushed until just something

00:44:40.460 breaks. And the only people that will ask for masks are people who you just don't have an easy

00:44:45.820 option to go somewhere else. So I think market competition will get rid of masks in a few

00:44:51.520 months. A very interesting thing's happening with gun control. And I did not see this coming,

00:44:59.320 which is that even if the federal government puts more restrictions on guns, guns, the states can just

00:45:07.360 refuse to enforce it because they can refuse to put resources in that way. So it doesn't make it

00:45:14.020 legal. They just won't reinforce it. And I guess they have that option. So to that point,

00:45:21.520 we've got, I guess, four different states who are moving in that direction are already there.

00:45:28.560 So Arizona, basically, they're not going to enforce any new gun restrictions or something along those

00:45:35.380 lines. Oklahoma, something like that. Arkansas, something like that. Montana, something like that.

00:45:41.800 So I'll tell you, the one thing that is predictable about the world, it's not predictable. If you told

00:45:50.740 me that the states, yes, basically, it's a sanctuary city for guns. That's exactly what it is. It's a

00:45:58.380 sanctuary city for guns, or state for guns. If you had told me that this was something that might have

00:46:04.280 happened, I wouldn't have seen this coming at all. It's so hard to make a straight line prediction

00:46:11.220 about any kind of slippery slope. This is why I don't believe in the slippery slope.

00:46:18.760 Things do go in a direction until something stops them. That's true. But you can never predict the

00:46:24.960 thing that will pop up to stop it. I wouldn't have predicted this. And it looks like it's pretty solid.

00:46:31.160 I mean, it looks like pretty good play. All right. They did that in Kansas quite a while ago. And people

00:46:38.660 still went to jail, somebody says. Yeah, there must be cases in which, let's say, there's a somebody has

00:46:44.280 a firearm in commission of a crime. I would imagine that that still gets enforced. Wouldn't you?

00:46:50.860 All right. Because the news is a little bit light today, I thought I would take some questions, because

00:47:01.960 I know you have some. Is there anything that you were wondering about that you said to yourself,

00:47:08.640 you know, I can't sleep until I hear what Scott says about this? Would you like to accuse me of

00:47:13.960 anything or challenge me on anything? Here's one. So the right lane bandit says, the 60s sexual

00:47:27.120 revolution turned into full-fledged transsexual rights. And progress is something that does go on 0.99

00:47:41.060 forever. So if my progress is your slippery slope, is it a slippery slope? Because I'd like to see

00:47:49.980 full equal rights for everybody who's an individual, as long as you're not bothering me or breaking the

00:47:56.300 law. Why should I care what your sexual preferences are? Why is it my business what your genitalia is, 0.90

00:48:04.060 or your genetic makeup? Why is any of that my business? So yes, when something is a good idea,

00:48:13.540 it does keep going. If you're going to call that a slippery slope, that's more about your impression

00:48:19.540 of where it should go, as nothing to do with the quality of the thing.

00:48:26.140 And yeah, I think that there'll be enough pushback on the issue of children, that that's probably where

00:48:32.240 things will stop, I would imagine. When does Kamala take over? You know, I, if I'm, if I'm being

00:48:41.280 objective, Biden's doing a strangely good job. You know, maybe better than I expected. Stock market's up.

00:48:54.220 He's, he's starting to tighten up on immigration because he had no choice.

00:48:58.060 Um, the Middle East doesn't look like it's going to blow up, especially anytime soon. He's getting

00:49:04.820 out of Afghanistan. Now he's doing some really scary stuff. Tax increases, not a fan, like really not a

00:49:13.680 fan. Um, the climate change stuff, uh, you know, I'm not sure he's, he's going the right way on that,

00:49:24.420 but, uh, he's pro-nuclear as far as we know. Pro-nuclear is good. Everybody's happy about that,

00:49:31.780 who looks into it anyway. All right. Um, tax increases equals stock market down. Oddly enough,

00:49:41.500 the day Biden said he wanted to, uh, increase taxes on capital gains, the market dropped as it

00:49:48.320 should. And then it went up to a new high the very next day. Yeah. The markets, weirdly,

00:49:54.600 the markets don't seem to be as tax obsessed as you'd think. They, they seem profits obsessed.

00:50:05.240 Bella says you're old, old people selfishly don't care about climate change. I do. Well, 1.00

00:50:11.800 Bella, let me tell you what's different about old people. Old people have seen more scams than you 1.00

00:50:18.540 have. And when you reach my age, there are things which you see in the news that will make your hair

00:50:25.100 catch on fire at your age that you will have seen dozens and dozens and dozens of times turned out

00:50:32.140 not to be the problem you thought it was. All right. Until you've been through that cycle, Bella,

00:50:37.160 probably you have to go through that cycle 10, 20 times until you see the pattern. The stuff you see

00:50:44.660 in the news is not real. And if you don't know that you're going to be very, very worried all of

00:50:50.880 your life. The news is not real. It's, uh, it's a narrative. It's a, it's the result of industry forces,

00:51:00.400 economics, personal interest, bias. It's this weird mix. Now, Bella, here's why I believe you

00:51:09.620 shouldn't worry. I'm not telling you that climate change is not real. And I'm not telling you that

00:51:16.680 you shouldn't, that somebody shouldn't worry about it. But humans are really, really good at this.

00:51:24.540 We are really good at getting ourselves so scared that we think we can't possibly solve this problem.

00:51:31.700 And then we solve it. You had the energy shortage where we were going to run out of oil. We didn't.

00:51:38.080 For a hundred years, we thought that humans would run out of food because the population would grow

00:51:44.360 too fast. Didn't happen. We thought Japan was going to eat our lunch economically because they were 1.00

00:51:50.100 growing so fast and whatever the eighties didn't happen. We thought that it was going to be, when I

00:51:55.400 was a kid, there was a certainty that there would be nuclear war with probably Soviet union didn't 0.55

00:52:01.900 happen. I could go on, but there's so many of them. Yeah. AIDS was going to cross over and wipe out 0.94

00:52:11.160 heterosexuals as well. Now it does pay to panic about these things. It does pay.

00:52:20.100 Because it's the panic that makes you work hard enough to make sure that they don't become a

00:52:24.540 problem, right? Now, sometimes things are pretty bad. I would say the pandemic was pretty darn bad,

00:52:31.840 but was the pandemic as bad as you thought it would be? I don't know. It depends how bad you thought

00:52:38.280 it would be. I'm going to tell you something that I haven't said publicly before. All right.

00:52:44.320 Early on in the pandemic, I got a phone call from somebody, many of you would perhaps recognize his

00:52:53.860 name, but not everybody, but somebody who really, really knows what they're talking about.

00:53:00.860 As in, you would replace your own opinion with this person's opinion because they have so much

00:53:06.420 credibility and they're so smart. And that person told me that the virus was going to be a total

00:53:15.340 meltdown of society and that we would have military rule, complete breakdown of order, supply chains

00:53:23.140 and the virus. And I've never been more scared about the world than that night. Let's just say I didn't

00:53:42.620 sleep well. Yeah. You can stop guessing who it is. You're not going to guess. But no, it wasn't,

00:53:50.520 it wasn't, it wasn't Cernovich, but that's a good guess. I'm just saying there was somebody who

00:53:54.880 understands the, let's say the math of pandemics. So somebody who's, you know, way, way more in the,

00:54:02.820 in the, the sweet spot of this. And I've never been more scared about a news story, period. All right.

00:54:11.480 Now I've told you before, I don't really have physical fear of really much of anything, but

00:54:18.020 that was just chilling. Now I had a alternate opinion. My opinion was, I see somebody saying

00:54:28.280 Weinstein. That's a good guess in the sense that that would be a voice that would be as credible as

00:54:37.340 somebody who would understand the math of it. But it wasn't him. Stop guessing. You're not going to

00:54:41.700 guess. It doesn't matter. So here's the point. I had a competing opinion, which is that we would

00:54:49.900 figure a way out and that we would, we would figure out how to do it. And we did. So who was right?

00:54:59.400 Was my, my friend who really knew what he's talking about and scared the hell out of me.

00:55:05.140 I would say his, his vision of where it could have gone didn't happen. My version was that we would

00:55:12.920 not run out of food and that it would not be martial law. We did not run out of food. Economy did not

00:55:21.980 collapse. That took a big hit, didn't collapse. And here we are. And I think we're on the other side of

00:55:29.220 it. And part of what I predicted is that we would, we would do way better than people imagined in

00:55:36.360 therapeutics and vaccines. That was part of my prediction. So you remember, those of you who

00:55:44.440 watched me since last year, you remember that I was more optimistic about the pandemic than most people.

00:55:52.120 And so far, I would say that at least that level of optimism was appropriate. So Bella, if you're

00:56:01.980 still watching, it is a crime what the news is doing to you, because they're selling you on some

00:56:09.200 level of certainty that never exists, never has, never will. We cannot predict things 20 years in the

00:56:17.600 future. Nobody can. And we will have developed so much technology and understanding and better ways to do

00:56:25.400 things in 20 years that you can't even imagine, right? So when the news is trying to scare you, just

00:56:34.240 remember there's an agenda. The CNN said directly that they need scary content and they're going to try to

00:56:42.580 scare you with, with climate change. They don't, they don't say it that way. So I'm interpreting for

00:56:49.360 them. And here you are, there, there is a reason that you're afraid, but it's not because of the facts.

00:56:56.860 You're afraid because the way the facts are presented to you. If I had to tell you what you

00:57:01.680 should worry about the most, climate change wouldn't even be in the top 20. And it's not because it isn't

00:57:08.780 real. It's because we know how to do this stuff. We're really, really good at it. And if you give

00:57:14.500 us 20 years, us meaning, you know, humanity, give us 20 years, we can fix almost anything if we're,

00:57:21.520 you know, dedicated to it. All right, any more questions? Yeah, look at just nuclear energy.

00:57:30.560 You look at the, let's say that the mood about nuclear energy just from last five years

00:57:37.880 is, it might be my imagination, but I'm pretty sure that the, the public's understanding of the

00:57:45.380 risk of nuclear is that the risk is way less. I mean, way, way less than people imagined. Way,

00:57:52.320 way less. I mean, it's minuscule. It's, it's less risk than almost anything else we can do.

00:57:58.160 You know, historically speaking, and we should get better in the future, not worse.

00:58:02.000 But I think, you know, even, you could even hear somebody like an AOC say, she's open to the

00:58:08.720 argument. That's a big deal, right? AOC is basically open to the argument on nuclear, which I feel

00:58:17.700 she probably means she, she's ready to be persuaded, just isn't making that an issue at the moment.

00:58:24.240 Um, all right. Got any other questions?

00:58:32.660 Thank you, Hollywood, for nuclear fear. Yeah, that's, I'll bet that's true. Hollywood's a big part of that.

00:58:41.620 Uh, let's talk about Bill Gates' idea to spray crap in the atmosphere to block the sun

00:58:47.400 is dangerous. Well, here's the thing. Think about any technology that works.

00:58:56.200 Uh, I'm gonna, I'm gonna invent this big metal thing that's gonna fly through the air.

00:59:01.540 And it'll be flying at hundreds of miles per hour. But don't worry, we'll figure out how they can land

00:59:08.580 safely. That didn't sound like a good idea, did it? Would you be one of the first ones to get in that

00:59:16.200 airplane? I don't think so. How about a nuclear power plant? Let's take this stuff that, uh, killed,

00:59:24.620 you know, what, hundreds of thousands of people in Japan, and make it into a power source, and put it

00:59:29.880 in your backyard. Sounds like a good idea, doesn't it? Well, for the most part, with the exceptions of

00:59:36.920 the poorly designed ones like Chernobyl, we've been fine, right? It's actually been the safest

00:59:43.340 technology. So, um, there, there are no examples of, you know, these big intrusive, uh, kinds of

00:59:53.840 technologies that affect your, you know, your body that didn't look like a bad idea at one point.

01:00:01.000 Um, so here's what an engineer would know, and I'm guessing if you're afraid of it, maybe you're not

01:00:07.620 one. Uh, back me up, engineers. I know I have a lot of engineers watching this. Back me up. That the way

01:00:15.400 you would approach this, and the idea is that you, you put, I forget what the, what the material is,

01:00:21.460 but something you would put in the air that would block the sun just enough to compensate. If you were

01:00:28.700 an engineer, how would you approach it? Would you do everything all at once, and then just find out

01:00:37.920 if it worked? Or would you put a little bit up there and see what happened? Now, my guess is that

01:00:44.780 it's exactly the kind of thing you could test small, and it probably dissipates after some point,

01:00:51.280 whatever it is. So could you put some up there, do a lot of human testing to make sure that people

01:00:57.500 weren't dying? Keep this option in your back pocket, and don't use it unless the hurricanes

01:01:04.380 start destroying the world. All right, so here are the, here are the things which, if your immediate

01:01:10.780 thought is it's the worst thing in the world, here's what you're missing. If you can't test it small,

01:01:17.780 in a way that you really know that, that you could expand it safely, if you couldn't successfully know

01:01:24.300 on a small-scale test, you wouldn't do a big, big test, all right? So when you're saying to yourself

01:01:31.860 they want to block out the sun, what you should have said is they want to run a small-scale test,

01:01:37.640 and then we'll know if that's dangerous. If it's not, we might run a slightly bigger test and sort of

01:01:44.920 inch into it. Or we might do the test and then just keep the option in our back pocket, knowing that

01:01:52.380 we've not tested as the best you could ever test, but we've tested. In case there's a global emergency

01:02:00.060 and everything's just falling apart, it's 30 years from now, and we just need to do something.

01:02:05.400 As a last-ditch effort, maybe, right? Because even, let's take the vaccination. If I said to you,

01:02:17.940 there's no risk at all of getting the coronavirus, but we'd like you to get a vaccination, would you do it?

01:02:26.500 No, no. If I told you there's no risk of you getting the coronavirus, you're not going to take

01:02:33.000 the risk of the vaccination, as small as that is. It's just extra risk for nothing. So people don't

01:02:39.820 take risks until the risk-reward is so bad that the risk is worth it. So what is the risk of putting

01:02:48.480 some junk in the air and it blots out the sun and destroys the earth? Pretty big risk, unless you've

01:02:55.060 tested it small, and then you've got a good idea what's going to happen. And unless things are so bad

01:03:01.800 that you're a little desperate, right? But if you imagine that it's implemented in the worst

01:03:08.620 possible way, then everything's a bad idea. Nothing annoys me more than somebody will come up with an

01:03:15.320 idea and the critic will say, well, assume it's implemented in the dumbest possible way.

01:03:22.940 You know, if it's a government program, maybe that's fair. But if it's Elon Musk, I'll just pick a

01:03:29.060 name, right? Or Bill Gates. Do you think they're going to implement it in the dumbest possible way?

01:03:33.760 I don't think so. Somebody says that's playing God. It's all playing God. It doesn't matter whether

01:03:43.120 you're blocking the sun or putting on sunscreen. Yeah. Do you wear clothes? It's, that's not a real

01:03:52.180 argument. Am I describing the COVID response? In a sense. Yeah. The, the COVID, um, warp speed

01:04:02.180 vaccinations is something you wouldn't do unless the alternative was so horrible that it was worth 0.99

01:04:08.920 the risk. So that's exactly where we're at. Do I ever persuade for pay? I can't think of a time I've

01:04:17.640 done that. Maybe I have, but not actively. All right. Other questions? Um, have I heard of that

01:04:30.700 person? Um, probably not. You have almost zero risk. All right. Let me see. I thought I saw a good

01:04:40.820 question going by there. Um, saying that oil is limited has been the way oil companies have been

01:04:47.640 scamming us. No, oil was limited, but we developed new technologies, especially, um, you know,

01:04:55.160 fracking. So oil was limited. That was real. Um, right. Am I getting asked to do speaking engagements?

01:05:06.800 Well, I have been asked to do some virtual ones, but I'm not interested in those. So I'm not,

01:05:12.780 I'm not open for speaking at the moment.

01:05:18.920 Fourth stimulus check. Oh, I don't know. I don't have an opinion on that.

01:05:28.520 Uh, now you're trying to guess what story I said disappeared, but it wasn't that one.

01:05:32.740 Did I see Bella back here?

01:05:36.800 What's your economic view of petrodollars? I haven't really looked into that.

01:05:42.620 Any clubhouse updates? Um, I haven't been using clubhouse. I've been avoiding the,

01:05:49.560 uh, avoiding interviews.

01:05:52.380 Thoughts on Tesla energy. Uh, what is Tesla energy? Just the batteries you mean? I think that's the

01:05:59.920 future. You know, the future will be, uh, having your own battery at your house. I don't see any way

01:06:06.400 that won't be the future. Plans for a new book. Well, I'm thinking about it. Thinking about a new

01:06:11.940 book. Will I go on Gutfeld? I'll get, you know, if, if I get out of my, uh, media hard hibernation,

01:06:18.780 I will, um, I would enjoy that. By the way, if you're not watching, uh, the new Gutfeld show,

01:06:25.540 that's on at 11, 11 p.m. weekdays on the East coast, 8 p.m. on the West coast, it's the best

01:06:33.660 thing on at that time. Literally, it's the best thing on at that time. Um, what's this? Uh, what would

01:06:43.560 you ask Donald Trump if you had the opportunity to talk with him? Well, Mustafa, I did have the

01:06:48.500 opportunity to talk with him. Um, I was invited to the, uh, Oval Office in 2018 and I actually got

01:06:55.400 to chat with him. Now, I can't tell you everything we talked about. It wasn't like, you know, national

01:07:00.760 secrets, but, um, uh, I don't know if I asked, oh, I did ask him a question. Yeah, I did ask him a

01:07:08.960 question, but I can't tell you what it was because that would have been a part of a private conversation.

01:07:15.080 Um, do you like my thinking about you tweets? I don't know if I've seen them.

01:07:26.300 Oh, here's an interesting question. Uh, Will Larson says Christianity as a system. What do you think

01:07:33.240 about confession? I'm a fan. Um, I'm a fan of anything that religion has been doing long enough

01:07:39.200 to know that it works. And it does appear to me that this process of Catholic confession,

01:07:46.120 it feels like, it feels like a useful thing. It feels like that is a way to relieve some burden.

01:07:54.620 So I think it's time tested. Um, I'm very much in favor of religion, although I don't have one. I'm

01:08:01.660 not, I'm not a believer, but objectively speaking, it's just obviously good for a lot of people in a lot

01:08:08.400 of different ways. It gives them structure, it gives them something to live for. It's, you know,

01:08:15.040 90% good. And then 10%, you know, nothing's perfect. Do you still ride your motorized bike? You mean my

01:08:22.440 e-bike? Um, I, I, I do just, um, waiting for the weather to get a little bit better.

01:08:29.800 Your thoughts on Freud? Well, I think Freud has been debunked, right? As there, I don't think there

01:08:37.780 are any modern people, modern psychologists who believe that Freud was anything but a fraud. I

01:08:45.820 don't think anybody believes him still. Uh, Frank TV. Is, is Frank TV the Lindell TV? Uh, I've only seen

01:08:57.100 that word in the news and I didn't know what it referred to, but I think it's Mike Lindell's,

01:09:01.040 right? Oh, somebody bought two of them and you love them. Nobody doesn't like them. I'll bet there's

01:09:09.400 no such thing as anyone who's ever bought an e-bike, you know, electronic assist bike. I'll bet

01:09:16.000 no one's ever bought one who regretted it. It is just one of the coolest products of all time. You

01:09:21.780 really, you can't really just look at somebody riding one and understand. You have to be on

01:09:28.160 it. Like, otherwise you just don't get it and then you get it immediately. Yeah, it's a totally

01:09:33.420 different experience. It's not like, it's not really a bicycle. It's not a motorcycle.

01:09:40.280 It makes you feel like you have superpowers. So it's, it's cool. Uh, what do you think of dreams?

01:09:46.780 You know, that's, that's an interesting question because one of my hypotheses is, isn't it weird

01:09:54.620 that we dream? It doesn't make sense, does it? It doesn't feel like dreaming should be necessary.

01:10:02.600 It feels like we would have evolved out of it or something. But, uh, here's my simulation theory

01:10:09.440 that if we are, uh, a game, in other words, if this thing we think is our reality is actually

01:10:15.940 a video game and that some of us, maybe not all of us, uh, have a human player or some alien or

01:10:23.080 something who is basically inhabiting us for the purpose of the game, sometimes they take time off

01:10:29.960 in their world. What if when you're dreaming, that's the time that your real world operator of

01:10:37.820 you as an avatar is simply doing something else and they're not playing the game. And when they're

01:10:43.200 not playing the game, you just go unconscious and, and random, you know, firings of your brain.

01:10:49.420 So it could be that the only time you're awake is when you're, you know, your character player is

01:10:55.760 inhabiting you. Or, or you just need sleep. All right. You just lost the game. Yeah. If you die,

01:11:08.840 I think you lose the game. So why do dogs dream? Do they? Well, a good question. That would be a

01:11:16.980 flaw in the plan, wouldn't it? Unless people, uh, unless dogs are inhabited by players. I guess

01:11:24.120 you couldn't rule that out. Do you believe in manifesting talents? Don't know what you mean

01:11:30.480 in that context. I believe in collecting talents that stack up well. Um, there's a Biden crypto

01:11:41.260 attack. I don't know what you're talking about. Is Biden trying to limit cryptocurrency somehow?

01:11:46.760 Have I tried DMT? No, I don't think I need it. Um, let me explain. When you, when you talk to

01:11:56.380 somebody who's tried DMT, they'll tell you how it changed their worldview, but it usually changes it

01:12:02.500 to what my worldview already is. So, uh, while I'm sure I would enjoy the experience, I don't know

01:12:09.580 that, uh, I don't know that I need to change my worldview to what it already is. Read the book

01:12:17.380 Why We Sleep. Yeah, I realize there's a, you know, biological necessity. Um,

01:12:25.500 uh, what, what is the result if we eliminate the narratives? What, what's that question?

01:12:33.920 What end result do Dems and the MSN want after eliminating conservatives? Well, the power,

01:12:39.660 you know, everybody wants power and ratings and all the usual stuff, power, money, ratings, influence.

01:12:47.380 Oh, the SEC is going after crypto. Well, that's no surprise. They have to. I don't know that you

01:12:53.000 can have a country if it doesn't have a control of its currency. Maybe you can.

01:13:01.460 Uh, I'm saying asteroid is greater than the earth. Somebody keeps writing here. Is there an

01:13:06.700 asteroid heading for the earth? I'm not aware of that. Uh, Taiwan, Taiwan try to get nuclear weapons. 0.99

01:13:14.980 I'm surprised they haven't. Maybe they have them. Do we know for sure that Taiwan doesn't have 1.00

01:13:21.260 nuclear capability? What do we know? I don't know. It seems like exactly the kind of place you'd want

01:13:27.700 to put it. Yeah, Biden's capital gains tax increased to 40%. I, I like to think that the Republicans are

01:13:37.340 never going to let that happen. It might be just a big first, big first offer. Did I watch the launch?

01:13:44.680 I did not. Will China invade Taiwan? I don't know if they need to. That's the bad part. I think that

01:13:52.620 China can just keep surrounding Taiwan and putting pressure on in a thousand different ways until

01:13:59.700 some opportunity comes up where they can make their move. I don't know that they'll do it militarily

01:14:04.960 or that they'll need to, but I would say it's inevitable. I don't, I don't think there's

01:14:08.960 any, I don't see any future in which Taiwan remains independent. If you look a hundred years in the

01:14:16.040 future. Um, Governor Jenner. Yeah, I guess Caitlyn Jenner is thinking about running for governor. 0.95

01:14:27.560 Uh, that would be interesting. All right. That's all I got for now. And I will talk to you tomorrow.

01:14:36.600 Thanks for joining me.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 24, 2021

Episode 1355 Scott Adams： Hilarious CNN and WaPo Propaganda, Arizona Erection Freud, and New Mask Science

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript