Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1358 Scott Adams： Fake News, Propaganda, Burgers, Bill Gates, Drone Wars and More

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00:00:47.960 Ah, yeah.

00:00:50.620 That's good stuff.

00:00:52.040 I'd like to start by reading a joke I just read on Twitter from Juanita Broderick.

00:01:00.000 Now, I don't know if she made this joke up, because it's a little bit too good, but I'll read it to you anyway.

00:01:06.380 You should know that she's not much of a fan of Democrats.

00:01:11.980 So Juanita says, went into a bookstore to ask if they had Trump's book on illegal immigration.

00:01:18.460 Clerk said, get the hell out of here and don't come back. 0.82

00:01:21.400 I smiled and said, yes, that's the one.

00:01:24.300 Do you have it in paperback?

00:01:28.420 It's pretty funny.

00:01:30.240 All right.

00:01:32.640 Getting back to my major theme that Democrats don't recognize incentives and motivation,

00:01:39.340 and that we think we have some kind of a political difference in the world.

00:01:43.660 You know, we think that there are some people who are on the left and some people are on the right.

00:01:49.880 I'm not so sure.

00:01:52.660 Somebody says that's an old joke.

00:01:54.300 It looks like it was a professional joke.

00:01:56.940 So I don't think Juanita came up with it because she does not work in that industry, but it's a good joke.

00:02:04.380 So anyway, so I've said that Democrats don't recognize motivation.

00:02:10.480 So they don't work into their idea of how to build a society.

00:02:15.180 The humans have motivation, whereas Republicans consistently get that part right, and that's the big difference.

00:02:22.600 But we think it's some kind of weird philosophical difference, or it's a difference in priorities, and there's some of that.

00:02:32.520 But mostly it's not.

00:02:34.380 Mostly it's that Democrats don't know that human motivation is an important variable in building a system.

00:02:42.160 That's what it looks like to me.

00:02:43.820 But let's take this hypothesis a little bit further.

00:02:49.020 There's a new Rasmussen poll saying that 55% of likely voters think politicians' criticisms of police make it more dangerous for them to do their jobs.

00:03:01.080 Do you buy that?

00:03:01.720 That when politicians criticize the police, it makes it more dangerous for the police?

00:03:08.760 Now, what kind of person would believe that?

00:03:12.160 What kind of person would believe that something that's happening with what politicians are saying would have an impact on how dangerous it is to be a police officer?

00:03:23.540 Well, everyone who understands human motivation thinks that, right?

00:03:30.260 Anybody who understands how human beings work would probably think this is true.

00:03:35.920 But when you do a poll by conservative versus liberal to see what they think of it, 72% of conservatives agree with the idea that politicians criticizing the police makes it more dangerous for the police.

00:03:50.800 But only 25% of liberals think this has an impact on how dangerous it is to be a police officer.

00:04:00.980 This is not really a philosophical difference, is it?

00:04:06.380 Do you see what's happening?

00:04:09.320 It's just one group thinks that human motivation is a factor, and the other one acts like it just doesn't exist.

00:04:17.740 That you can make a decision that's somehow free of how humans are wired.

00:04:22.100 That seems to be the basic difference between the left and the right.

00:04:27.140 And it gets confused with all these other topics, so we think it's something else.

00:04:32.720 Somebody says it's IQ difference.

00:04:34.900 I don't think so.

00:04:36.200 I don't think so at all.

00:04:37.420 In fact, I don't think there's any evidence for that.

00:04:40.700 It's definitely not intelligence.

00:04:43.120 I think I can say that for sure.

00:04:45.200 Now, do you think it's only the liberals who are a little bit crazy?

00:04:49.780 Well, let me give you a test case.

00:04:53.460 The marvelous case of Bill Gates.

00:04:56.700 And I know what some of you just said.

00:04:59.520 Oh, don't talk about that again.

00:05:02.680 Bill Gates.

00:05:04.780 But almost everything you need to know about humans and how we view the world

00:05:11.700 can be understood by the way we look at just this one person, Bill Gates.

00:05:17.200 And I have a pretty strong opinion about this.

00:05:23.360 All right?

00:05:24.180 And it is that if you think that Bill Gates is up to no good, or he's in it for the money,

00:05:30.380 it's the worst opinion on social media.

00:05:34.300 In other words, there are lots of opinions that I could disagree with,

00:05:37.420 but I also acknowledge that the other side has something to the argument.

00:05:42.140 Right?

00:05:42.400 In most cases, you know, you take any topic.

00:05:47.840 I'm in favor of good control of the border,

00:05:52.760 but I certainly understand the argument on the other side.

00:05:56.520 I happen to prefer the other argument to keep, you know, good border security.

00:06:01.360 And then we can open it up as much or little as we need based on economics.

00:06:05.140 But I get the other argument, right?

00:06:07.400 I just prefer this one.

00:06:10.360 This is one of those where there really isn't another argument.

00:06:14.780 This isn't like the other stuff.

00:06:17.140 This is purely a psychological phenomenon.

00:06:20.220 It has nothing to do with how smart you are, how much you know.

00:06:25.140 It probably doesn't have anything to do with any of that.

00:06:27.980 But let's walk through it.

00:06:29.720 My hypothesis is this.

00:06:31.260 If you believe that Bill Gates is in it for the money, the power, or the control,

00:06:37.700 you do not have a wise opinion.

00:06:42.000 I'm not saying you're right or wrong.

00:06:44.280 That's different.

00:06:45.740 I'm saying you're not even smart enough to be in the conversation yet.

00:06:49.860 And I shouldn't say smart, because I don't think it's necessarily an IQ issue.

00:06:54.360 I think that it's a talent stack issue.

00:06:57.140 I was looking at the people who were pushing back on my statement that the worst take on

00:07:03.900 the internet is that Bill Gates is in it for the money.

00:07:07.180 And I was looking at all the pushback.

00:07:09.120 And the first thing you do is you check the background of the people saying it.

00:07:14.500 Now, the first thing I note, and I don't know why this is, there are a lot of people who seem

00:07:19.280 to be professional trolls who get involved in any kind of a Bill Gates comment online.

00:07:25.580 So look at a bunch of them.

00:07:27.480 They have zero followers and seven followers and stuff.

00:07:31.560 And they immediately pile in to say bad things about Bill Gates.

00:07:37.380 Why?

00:07:38.500 Why do apparently organized trolls, why do they care about this?

00:07:44.180 And I don't know the answer to that.

00:07:45.580 It doesn't make sense to me.

00:07:46.800 But there are other people who don't seem to be trolls.

00:07:49.720 They've had accounts for a while.

00:07:51.100 They comment on other things.

00:07:52.300 And they also say that Bill Gates is clearly in it for the money or the control or to make

00:08:00.160 things his way or his ideology, to which I say, let's sort that out a little bit.

00:08:06.660 Are there any philanthropists who are not pursuing a philosophy?

00:08:12.080 No, no, no.

00:08:17.380 All philanthropists have some kind of philosophy, either helping the poor, maybe they have a

00:08:24.200 philosophy that the people who have the most should help the most, but they all have some

00:08:28.620 philosophy.

00:08:30.000 So that doesn't make sense as a criticism, unless the philosophy is bad.

00:08:34.480 I heard one critic say they don't like it because Bill Gates is supporting critical race theory,

00:08:42.000 to which I say, watch me not Google this.

00:08:46.080 Okay, here's me not Googling to find out if Bill Gates supports critical race theory.

00:08:52.180 I don't have to check it.

00:08:54.240 He doesn't.

00:08:55.520 All right, and I'm saying that, I'm saying that with full risk of embarrassment, I haven't

00:09:02.040 checked it.

00:09:03.060 I have no idea if I checked it, what I would find.

00:09:06.700 But I'm pretty confident that I'm not going to find he's in favor of or funding critical

00:09:13.140 race theory, at least not directly.

00:09:15.160 He might give to somebody who somehow is involved.

00:09:18.200 But I don't have to check.

00:09:19.720 That's so ridiculous, because he's not that guy.

00:09:25.160 He's not the guy pushing social issues.

00:09:28.380 He's the guy pushing scientific issues.

00:09:32.580 He's pushing what he thinks is just an obvious greater good.

00:09:37.280 Is anybody arguing that people should be saved from malaria if we can do it?

00:09:42.360 It's not really a political issue.

00:09:44.840 Does anybody think that it would be a bad idea for Africans to have, you know,

00:09:49.400 working sanitation so that they don't use their water supply as their bathroom, which

00:09:55.720 apparently is a gigantic problem?

00:09:58.420 Is that a political thing?

00:10:00.540 I mean, the things that Bill Gates works on are so outrageously non-political, you couldn't

00:10:06.480 even get less political than the stuff he does.

00:10:09.260 And I think people conflate him with Soros.

00:10:11.940 And Soros seems to do more, at least as far as I can tell, more political, philosophical

00:10:18.460 things.

00:10:19.960 Bill Gates is just trying to make stuff work.

00:10:22.740 He just wants water to be clean, air to be clean, that sort of thing.

00:10:26.600 You know, people not dying of disease.

00:10:29.160 So there's just no...

00:10:32.760 And when you read the article, the arguments against him, I want to read them to you just

00:10:37.080 as you see how they sound.

00:10:39.400 Because it's the sound of them that really is the tickle, the key they hear, that there's

00:10:44.800 something going on, some cognitive dissonance or something.

00:10:48.320 Let me see.

00:10:50.480 I just want to look at my own tweet and it won't bore you much longer.

00:10:56.100 All right, so just hear some of the pushback.

00:11:01.640 All right, says Roly Poly, talking about Bill Gates, he's corruptible just like everyone

00:11:06.880 else.

00:11:08.140 No, he's not.

00:11:10.140 He's the opposite of that.

00:11:12.320 He's not corruptible like everyone else.

00:11:14.960 That's the entire point, is that you can't corrupt this guy because he doesn't need more

00:11:20.740 money and he doesn't even need you to like him.

00:11:24.140 Think about this.

00:11:25.020 Bill Gates never pushes back against criticism.

00:11:29.940 He doesn't even care if you like him.

00:11:34.240 Doesn't need his money.

00:11:36.080 Doesn't care if you like him.

00:11:38.060 All right.

00:11:38.420 So he's definitely not corruptible because what do people like?

00:11:41.780 They want reputation, money, power.

00:11:44.320 He doesn't need any of that.

00:11:46.460 All right.

00:11:47.440 Let's see what else.

00:11:48.460 The main thing that troubles me is how soft he is toward the CCP.

00:11:55.820 And he said that talking about the CCP cover-up is a distraction.

00:12:03.040 Well, I agree with that.

00:12:05.280 It is a distraction.

00:12:06.580 Because whether we knew that they had done it or not, it wouldn't make any difference.

00:12:12.100 That's what a distraction is.

00:12:14.520 A distraction is that even if you could solve it, it wouldn't make any difference.

00:12:20.200 What difference would it make?

00:12:21.460 We know that major countries are experimenting with weaponizing stuff like this.

00:12:30.600 We know we're doing it.

00:12:32.100 We know they did it.

00:12:33.300 We know I'm sure Russia is doing it. 0.68

00:12:34.980 We know that everybody wants that stuff not to get out of the lab, right?

00:12:41.020 Would China have a different opinion?

00:12:44.740 Hypothetically, if this had gotten out of their lab, is China thinking, oh, well, let's let

00:12:50.240 another one get out of the lab?

00:12:52.180 That's not happening.

00:12:54.380 Bill Gates is right.

00:12:55.620 There's nothing that could come of knowing whether they did it or not because nobody would

00:13:00.540 act differently.

00:13:01.520 Nobody would act differently if we knew the answer to that.

00:13:06.440 We'd push back a little bit, but it wouldn't make any difference.

00:13:09.780 It wouldn't make any difference.

00:13:12.200 So here's another one.

00:13:17.600 He's in it to win it.

00:13:19.720 Question is, what is it he looks like he's winning?

00:13:22.960 So far, his winning looks like humanity losing.

00:13:26.500 What kind of a comment is that?

00:13:28.700 He's in it to win it, but we don't know what he wants to win.

00:13:32.060 I feel like it's pretty obvious.

00:13:34.460 He's helping build and design toilets in Africa, solving malaria, trying to work on solving climate

00:13:42.480 change with nuclear energy, et cetera.

00:13:45.640 I don't think it could be more obvious what he's in it for, to help humanity.

00:13:50.820 Now, what if helping humanity is good for his ego?

00:13:54.840 Then is it really about his ego?

00:13:58.480 Who cares?

00:14:00.060 Who cares?

00:14:01.440 Do you care if he's only in it for his ego, if all the things he does are good for the

00:14:06.560 greater good?

00:14:08.600 Now, you might disagree that it's for the greater good, but the point is, I don't think

00:14:13.440 that matters.

00:14:15.120 He's doing it for his health?

00:14:16.680 No.

00:14:17.020 I assume he wants the praise, admiration, and sense of accomplishment.

00:14:23.400 Okay.

00:14:24.880 Okay.

00:14:25.360 You've certainly seen me do things for you or for the public that seem to be more for

00:14:35.440 other people, right?

00:14:36.300 They're more examples of generosity.

00:14:38.880 But nobody's kidding themselves that I get something out of it, too, right?

00:14:43.500 Aren't you all smart enough to know that no matter who you are, if you do something for

00:14:48.760 other people, that you also get something out of that?

00:14:51.720 What you usually get out of it is you feel good, or it's good for your reputation, or something

00:14:56.740 like that.

00:14:57.840 But what's wrong with that?

00:14:59.580 Those are good things.

00:15:01.380 True altruism probably doesn't exist.

00:15:03.960 But altruism, in which the person who's the giver feels good about themselves, that definitely

00:15:10.340 exists.

00:15:11.680 I do it all the time.

00:15:13.840 All right.

00:15:14.500 And I, you know, you can think of it as selfish or think of it as giving, but it ends up being

00:15:19.620 the same thing.

00:15:23.500 Somebody else says that Bill Gates is a puppet.

00:15:27.320 Really?

00:15:28.860 You think Bill Gates is somebody's puppet?

00:15:32.320 Who?

00:15:32.800 Who has control of Bill Gates?

00:15:36.360 I don't think that's a thing.

00:15:37.600 There's no evidence of it.

00:15:40.720 How about he's in it for the power because the power is addictive.

00:15:47.760 So?

00:15:49.160 And that's a problem?

00:15:51.060 Because the power he seems to want has nothing to do with politics.

00:15:55.180 The power he seems to want is the power to fix things.

00:15:58.880 Do you want to deny him the power to make things better?

00:16:02.800 Or the power to maybe work on the next challenge because he did a good job on the first one?

00:16:08.640 Why would you want to deny him that power?

00:16:15.200 And Charlie says, what began with the love of money ends in pride.

00:16:20.820 Really?

00:16:22.100 Really?

00:16:22.620 The whole reason that Bill Gates is doing it is for pride?

00:16:25.580 What evidence of that?

00:16:29.160 You have to look at these comments to realize how whack they are.

00:16:32.800 And Bonnie says, I will stop watching if we continue down this road.

00:16:40.100 Bonnie, I'm going to solve this for you.

00:16:42.820 You're going to stop watching now.

00:16:46.420 Do, do, do.

00:16:48.160 Goodbye.

00:16:49.680 I think that only puts you comments in timeout.

00:16:52.420 I don't like threats.

00:16:53.520 So, you know, feedback is great.

00:16:57.840 But if you put your feedback in the form of a threat, I'd rather you just leave.

00:17:02.760 So, goodbye.

00:17:06.880 All right.

00:17:08.120 We'll talk about cognitive dissonance a little bit more in a minute.

00:17:11.200 Let me give you some propaganda alerts, which you call news.

00:17:14.560 Remember I told you that Fox News was reporting that Biden's climate plan would make you eat

00:17:23.320 no more than one burger a month?

00:17:26.020 And I told you, you don't really need to look into that to know that's not true.

00:17:31.300 If you needed to do research to know that it was never true that Biden was going to limit

00:17:37.500 you to one hamburger a month, you have to question yourself.

00:17:41.780 I mean, seriously.

00:17:42.820 Take a look at yourself.

00:17:44.560 Did you really need to look, wait for the fact check on that one?

00:17:48.980 I mean, seriously, just step away from it for a moment.

00:17:51.800 Just, just give yourself some distance.

00:17:54.320 You know, imagine you're just looking down on it like it's a story about other people.

00:17:58.820 And somebody said that somebody has a plan to limit you to one hamburger a month.

00:18:03.240 And the person who wants to limit you to one hamburger a month is in a party that likes

00:18:08.880 to get reelected.

00:18:10.920 Do those two things fit?

00:18:12.300 Can you make those two things work in your head?

00:18:15.680 It's a party, Democrats, who like to get reelected, and they've got a plan to limit you to one hamburger

00:18:22.020 a month.

00:18:22.500 This could never have been true.

00:18:25.080 If you needed to Google it to find out it wasn't true, seriously, you have to ask yourself, what

00:18:34.140 kind of stuff are you believing?

00:18:36.560 I mean, if you believe that on the first exposure to it, if even for a moment you thought, that

00:18:44.500 could be true, you really have to step back and see what's happened to all of us.

00:18:50.880 I mean, the fact that that was even a little bit suggestive of something that could have

00:18:55.720 been true, you really have to ask yourself what's happened to us all.

00:19:00.660 All right, so it turns out that John Roberts on Fox News basically did a correction on that

00:19:08.020 and said that that was not accurate.

00:19:12.600 By the way, I always make this distinction, and I think it's worth making.

00:19:16.760 If you see the news people report something wrong, get fact-checked, and then just say

00:19:24.980 directly, this was wrong, I don't have a problem with that at all.

00:19:29.600 Now, I get the argument that people hear the rumor, but they don't hear the correction, but

00:19:35.420 I would say in this case, the correction was given in exactly the highest form.

00:19:41.160 I mean, it was an anchor on the news talking about his own network getting a story wrong.

00:19:47.460 That's about as big a correction as you can make, and it was done on air.

00:19:52.220 And then it became a story itself.

00:19:55.100 So I'm going to give him the, not just John Roberts, but Fox News, I'll give them the 48

00:20:01.680 hours correction, clarification, and I would say that that is acceptable.

00:20:08.240 But it certainly will fool a lot of people.

00:20:11.160 Um, there's another story in the news about, uh, there was, that there's a man named, his

00:20:19.820 last name is Brown, and he was killed in North Carolina a week, uh, recently.

00:20:26.540 Are you having the same problem I am, that you can't keep all the black people killed by 1.00

00:20:31.560 police straight in your head anymore?

00:20:35.040 Because there's a lot of news about police killing black people.

00:20:38.280 Like, way too much, uh, in the sense that it's, you know, it makes your hair catch on

00:20:45.940 fire.

00:20:46.280 Like, what's going on?

00:20:47.620 Now, I'm not saying that, um, all of these stories tell you the story that, you know,

00:20:53.860 that the narrative tells.

00:20:55.500 I'm not saying that they all feed into that.

00:20:57.360 But the story is that there is a man who is totally not resisting arrest, had his hands

00:21:04.520 on his steering wheel, and was in a controlled environment, and that the police just opened

00:21:09.620 fire and executed him.

00:21:12.020 Is there any chance that's true?

00:21:13.740 Again, think of the story that you believed, if some of you did, about being limited to

00:21:20.880 one hamburger per month.

00:21:23.040 And if you stepped away from it, you should have been able to know that was not true from

00:21:27.380 the first moment.

00:21:28.760 Do that with this one, too.

00:21:30.420 Just do the same thing.

00:21:31.700 Just step away from it for a moment.

00:21:33.660 Imagine you'd never seen any Floyd stuff.

00:21:36.940 Imagine, you know, you weren't biased by any of the news.

00:21:40.180 Imagine you were not left or right.

00:21:42.380 You're just looking at the story.

00:21:44.380 And that story is that a man who is fully controlled and was causing no trouble at all, police opened

00:21:52.400 up on him and just executed him where he was.

00:21:56.840 Is there any chance that's true?

00:21:59.420 I mean, any.

00:22:01.080 Just, is there even one percent chance that the story, the way it's being reported, is even

00:22:06.220 close to true?

00:22:08.540 No, right?

00:22:10.160 It's like the hamburger story.

00:22:11.380 You don't have to Google this one.

00:22:13.800 You don't have to Google it.

00:22:15.640 It didn't happen.

00:22:17.060 I mean, at least the way it's being reported.

00:22:19.140 There's something else happening here that would explain why we saw what we saw.

00:22:23.640 Could be a mistake.

00:22:24.820 Could be, you know, maybe they thought he was resisting arrest.

00:22:29.640 Maybe they thought he was reaching for something.

00:22:31.740 Who knows?

00:22:32.700 But it's definitely not a story about a black man being executed by police.

00:22:36.240 It's not that.

00:22:39.780 Right.

00:22:43.860 So anyway, be careful what you believe.

00:22:46.840 All right.

00:22:47.040 Here's another fake news.

00:22:48.300 This one from Fox.

00:22:50.560 So in case you're wondering, do I only call out the fake news on the left?

00:22:55.880 Nope.

00:22:58.280 Fox has some explaining to do.

00:23:00.700 So here's another one.

00:23:01.980 Fox News is reporting that John Kerry shared some secrets, military secrets, with Iran.

00:23:09.340 And here are the details.

00:23:11.620 So there was this secret recording of the foreign minister, Zarif, in Iran.

00:23:17.140 And in it, he said that he learned from John Kerry, but had not learned even from his own government in Iran,

00:23:25.020 that Israel had attacked over 200 sites in Syria that were Iranian-backed sites.

00:23:31.020 And so the way Fox News is covering this, and it's just fake news, is that John Kerry gave up military secrets to Iran.

00:23:41.600 Now, again, just like the hamburger story, just take a little distance, right?

00:23:48.860 Because when you first hear this, you say, my God, we heard it on the video.

00:23:53.840 I'm sorry.

00:23:54.280 We heard it on the audio.

00:23:55.560 There's no doubt about it.

00:23:56.960 We heard Zarif say that John Kerry gave him military secrets.

00:24:03.700 It's right on the audio.

00:24:05.960 So it can't be not true.

00:24:09.380 We saw the transcript of the audio, right?

00:24:15.000 Can anybody tell me in the news why this is obviously fake news?

00:24:18.220 Go.

00:24:19.240 Let's see if I have to tell you the answer to this.

00:24:23.000 Can you see this one?

00:24:24.240 You got Rupard.

00:24:28.460 No, no.

00:24:29.400 I don't think...

00:24:30.660 We don't know.

00:24:31.660 But I don't think the audio was necessarily edited in any bad way.

00:24:37.260 Somebody says it's too on the nose.

00:24:40.440 No, that's not what I'm looking for.

00:24:43.780 Leaked tapes.

00:24:44.780 You're wondering maybe why they were leaked.

00:24:47.140 Too on the nose.

00:24:48.040 No, that's not it.

00:24:49.520 Thank you, Bill.

00:24:50.440 Bill Blodgett got it.

00:24:55.240 So when I tell you...

00:24:58.200 Yeah, some of you are getting the right answer now.

00:25:01.080 It wasn't a secret.

00:25:03.760 Do you think that Iran's military was unaware that they had been attacked 200 times?

00:25:10.260 I don't think so.

00:25:13.640 Do you think that Solomon A., the general who was supporting all of these various Iranian proxies and everything,

00:25:22.020 do you think he was unaware that Israel had attacked them 200 times?

00:25:26.220 Of course not.

00:25:28.000 Of course not.

00:25:29.380 The story is about Zarif being out of the loop.

00:25:32.660 That's the story.

00:25:33.400 The story is not that John Kerry gave him secret military information.

00:25:39.380 The story is that Zarif was the last one to find out in his own country.

00:25:45.020 Fox News turned this into some kind of a story about John Kerry giving away military secrets.

00:25:50.500 That's not in the story.

00:25:52.300 There's no evidence of that.

00:25:53.880 There's only evidence that Zarif was so out of the loop,

00:25:57.040 he didn't know that his own country or their resources had been attacked 200 times.

00:26:01.980 That's the story.

00:26:06.060 Now, when I point these things out, are any of you saying,

00:26:09.720 oh my God, you're right.

00:26:12.000 Of course Iran knew, just Zarif didn't know.

00:26:15.580 That's it.

00:26:16.060 That's the whole story.

00:26:19.680 All right, so there's that fake news.

00:26:25.240 There's another big story.

00:26:27.600 Was this on CNN?

00:26:29.000 I think it was on CNN.

00:26:30.180 Probably other places too.

00:26:31.200 Where there's some zoning, local zoning commission guy who got fired or quit or something

00:26:38.080 for refusing to call a black woman on a Zoom call with other people doctor.

00:26:44.700 Even when she clarified that she had a doctoral degree and would like to be called doctor,

00:26:51.720 he called her Mrs., whatever her last name was.

00:26:54.160 And that was considered very racist.

00:26:58.800 And so he quit or got fired or something.

00:27:03.240 I think he quit.

00:27:04.860 But let me put the positive spin on this.

00:27:10.160 What was the racist part of this?

00:27:11.900 This was it?

00:27:12.900 This was it?

00:27:15.860 This was the thing that this is the racism story of the day?

00:27:21.700 That's it.

00:27:23.820 There's not even any racism in the story.

00:27:25.900 There's no racism in the story.

00:27:29.860 Yet this is the best we could come up with for a national story to show how racist we are.

00:27:37.800 And there's none in it.

00:27:39.000 If the best story about racism that you can come up with doesn't have any, you're in pretty good shape.

00:27:46.980 Because I'm pretty sure the entire news industry is scouring the nation for really good stories of racism.

00:27:56.500 And this is it.

00:27:57.840 A story of somebody who didn't want to call somebody a doctor,

00:28:01.100 because they weren't a medical doctor, presumably.

00:28:03.560 Didn't think it was important.

00:28:05.040 Didn't like being corrected.

00:28:06.580 But where was the part about her being black?

00:28:10.740 There was no evidence that that had anything to do with this guy's actions.

00:28:13.980 If you had said, is it because she's a woman? 0.98

00:28:18.700 I would have said, well, you know, maybe that's a little bit more of an argument.

00:28:23.620 But there's also no evidence of that.

00:28:26.300 Although I don't think a man would have treated another man the way he treated her.

00:28:30.600 But that's speculation too.

00:28:32.560 Again, that's in my head.

00:28:34.420 I don't know that he would have treated a man differently.

00:28:37.520 But it did look like you wouldn't talk to a man that way, I have to say.

00:28:40.840 Usually you don't talk to a man that way, even on Zoom.

00:28:46.480 Ben, can you correct me on this?

00:28:49.020 If a man talked to another man like that, even on Zoom,

00:28:55.080 wouldn't he feel like he'd be causing some trouble?

00:29:00.500 Somebody says, George says, I would.

00:29:02.920 Yeah, maybe you would.

00:29:04.120 Anyway, if that's the worst we have, we're in pretty good shape.

00:29:06.540 Here's what Salon wrote about Bill Gates.

00:29:13.440 This is the headline.

00:29:14.400 Bill Gates says no to sharing vaccine formulas with global poor to end pandemic.

00:29:20.280 Wow.

00:29:21.300 That's pretty bad.

00:29:23.840 This headline.

00:29:24.640 Bill Gates says no to sharing vaccine formulas with global poor to end the pandemic.

00:29:31.280 Why does Bill Gates hate the poor?

00:29:33.080 According to this headline.

00:29:35.240 Why does he not want to end the pandemic?

00:29:38.520 According to this headline.

00:29:40.100 Do you know what the story says?

00:29:42.320 Do you think the story will support this headline?

00:29:45.160 That Bill Gates says no to sharing vaccines with poor countries?

00:29:49.560 What do you think?

00:29:50.940 When you read the story, will the story support that headline?

00:29:53.600 Again, hamburger, one per month.

00:29:59.620 You don't have to Google it.

00:30:02.100 You don't even need to read this story to know this headline isn't true.

00:30:06.940 Why?

00:30:08.280 Because Bill Gates would never say this.

00:30:11.600 He wouldn't.

00:30:14.120 Nobody would say that.

00:30:16.940 But if you read the story, what is the real story?

00:30:19.700 The real story is that even if you give them the formulas, they don't have the resources to make the vaccine.

00:30:27.300 So what he was saying is there's no point in giving them the formulas because they can't use them.

00:30:33.680 There's no factory that is up to the standards they would need to produce them well.

00:30:39.540 So if you give them the formulas and they produce them in substandard factories, did you come out ahead?

00:30:45.940 Because maybe you made a bunch of vaccines that kill people because they might be hurrying and it might be worse for them than if they had unfortunately waited.

00:30:57.420 So if you read the story, he has perfectly good reasons that you say, oh, that's a pretty good reason.

00:31:02.880 What's the point of giving them the formula if they can't use it?

00:31:05.540 Or if they did use it, they would use it in such a speedy way that they couldn't do it right and it would be more dangerous.

00:31:14.020 Don't you think that should have been the headline?

00:31:15.940 Don't you think the headline should have been, Bill Gates explains that sharing the formula won't help as much as you think.

00:31:23.220 Wasn't that the headline?

00:31:25.580 Bill Gates explains sharing the formula won't help as much as you think it would.

00:31:33.700 Instead, Bill Gates says no to sharing formula with poor people so that they'll die in the freaking pandemic. 0.97

00:31:40.920 That's what Salon said. 0.71

00:31:42.000 Once you see how much the media is abusing this guy, Bill Gates, it's hard to unsee it.

00:31:50.520 You'll see it everywhere.

00:31:53.680 All right.

00:31:54.280 Project Veritas has filed a lawsuit against CNN.

00:32:01.100 This is pretty interesting.

00:32:03.340 I would not place any bets on them winning this lawsuit, but the fact that they're turning it into a case is in and of itself good constructive pushback.

00:32:15.620 I do think the media needs pushback, and I do think people need to sue them when there's something that seems way over the line.

00:32:23.460 And I think you could argue this is way over the line.

00:32:25.480 So here's the setup.

00:32:28.100 That Twitter took Project Veritas off over some video that regarded CNN, CNN Insider saying some bad things about CNN.

00:32:41.360 So, and the reporting on CNN about that from Ana Cabrera, that said Twitter took them down for posting other people's private information. 0.99

00:32:55.480 Now, was that true?

00:32:57.900 Well, it turns out that CNN has done exactly the same thing, and Twitter never took them down, which is showing somebody on their own front lawn.

00:33:06.820 Apparently that's too private.

00:33:08.660 So we know that Twitter did not apply the standard the same.

00:33:13.000 CNN can do it.

00:33:15.060 Project Veritas got taken down.

00:33:16.940 Then also CNN reported, and it was in a tweet, I think, from Ana Cabrera, that the problem was really repeated violations of privacy information, as opposed to, I think, the first reporting was that they had too many inaccuracies or it was false statements or something.

00:33:33.480 So now CNN has tried to misreport this at least two times.

00:33:39.800 Stelter said that Veritas got taken down from Twitter for violating multiple rules, but Project Veritas is only aware of one rule that they violated, and it was the same one that CNN violated.

00:33:51.420 So CNN's reporting on this is just pure fake news, pure fake news.

00:33:57.040 I mean, just the purest of fake news, just a fact that's not true.

00:34:00.800 They just report it like it's true.

00:34:02.380 That's not even trying to be accurate.

00:34:05.000 And I think the evidence suggests there's no real intention to be accurate from CNN.

00:34:12.960 But I don't know if being intentionally inaccurate is enough to cause Project Veritas to win their suit, because it's pretty hard to prove intention.

00:34:23.340 All right, we'll see.

00:34:25.220 Richard Grinnell tweeted that, you know, why is Joe Biden not walking from Marine One to the White House?

00:34:31.140 Apparently they had a car service picking him up from the helicopter and taking him to the White House.

00:34:37.420 And you remember, of course, that Trump famously would always be walking across that span.

00:34:43.320 You'd see all the video of that.

00:34:45.060 And so Richard Grinnell is asking, huh, why is Joe Biden not walking that short span that everybody else walks?

00:34:53.180 Well, here's the fun part.

00:34:54.940 Are you ready?

00:34:55.240 Do you think we could push this question of why Joe Biden was not walking from Marine One until CNN is forced to run another manly video package of Joe Biden?

00:35:08.800 Because remember, Project Veritas showed us that one of the technical directors admitted that they were trying to make Biden look manly and vital by showing video of him, you know, riding a bike,

00:35:19.080 and video of him in his classic sports car and riding up and down the driveway and the awareness of the aviator glasses and stuff.

00:35:27.640 But I wonder if we could make CNN create another manly, manly package for Biden just by talking about this a lot.

00:35:36.840 Because if social media ramps up the Richard Grinnell's question of why Joe Biden had to walk,

00:35:43.200 won't CNN just have to respond with another propaganda package about him chopping wood or, you know, fighting a grizzly bear?

00:35:53.080 I want to see if we can get a video on CNN of Joe Biden wrestling with something, like wrestling with a grizzly bear or something.

00:36:01.920 Let's see if we can do that.

00:36:03.560 In other news that's scary, the cartels, the Mexican cartels are using their own drones,

00:36:10.160 the quadrotor ones, the ones with like four little helicopter rotors.

00:36:17.120 And they're strapping a C-4 to it and using them as basically guided missiles.

00:36:23.680 So cartels have their own flying bombs now that they're killing each other with.

00:36:30.760 And so I ask you this question.

00:36:33.080 What is our technology for identifying the operator of a drone?

00:36:37.540 Can somebody help me out here on the technology?

00:36:42.220 If, let's say, a state actor knocks down a drone, can we tell who the operator was?

00:36:49.420 You might be able to tell who owned it at one time or where it was purchased.

00:36:54.300 But could you know who was actually on the controls at the moment the bad thing happened?

00:37:01.520 I don't know that you could, right?

00:37:03.420 Now, if you can't tell who's at the controls, what does that tell us about the future?

00:37:10.460 Well, it at least opens up the possibility that private people will be funding mercenaries

00:37:17.160 to run drones to take out the cartels.

00:37:23.360 Now, I'm not suggesting it.

00:37:25.040 I'm predicting it, right?

00:37:27.100 So cartels don't need to come after me.

00:37:29.560 I'm just predicting it.

00:37:30.480 How long will it be before there's some kind of a mercenary group that says,

00:37:39.740 look, you can go onto your computer and you can make our, you know,

00:37:43.820 we'll sign you up and you can operate one of our drones and you can bomb the cartels yourself.

00:37:50.420 Nobody will ever know.

00:37:52.360 You could be the one who personally takes out the cartel.

00:37:55.640 What if you don't need to be operating them, but rather you just put in a little GPS coordinate

00:38:02.560 and you send off your drone and it just flies to its designated place and blows up?

00:38:09.000 Well, you know that's coming.

00:38:10.460 There's nothing that's going to stop that from happening.

00:38:13.120 So at the moment, you still need a person and you need to be close enough that the person is controlling it with their controls.

00:38:20.940 But the next obvious step is you just put a GPS destination in it, throw it in the air and go have lunch.

00:38:29.820 And the thing flies for five miles, finds its destination, comes straight down, boom.

00:38:36.620 And I feel as though the cartels have opened up a can of worms here in which superior technological forces will be using this weapon against them fairly soon.

00:38:49.520 So I think that the cartels will be destroyed by mercenary drone armies.

00:38:58.120 That's my prediction.

00:39:00.160 Cartels will be destroyed by mercenary drone stuff.

00:39:06.840 Somebody says it's illegal.

00:39:08.940 Yeah, I know it's illegal.

00:39:12.600 Yeah, I know that.

00:39:14.000 I did a search on Google Trends for cognitive dissonance.

00:39:22.580 Cognitive dissonance.

00:39:24.500 What do you think the trend of how often people are Googling the phrase cognitive dissonance,

00:39:30.580 what do you think is happening to that?

00:39:32.640 Well, it turns out that the searches for that term have been increasing every year for, I don't know, 10 or 12 years.

00:39:40.860 But around the election of Trump and then around the next election, the search terms, you know, it peaked and it's still going up.

00:39:55.260 So here's my question.

00:39:57.380 Did I have anything to do with that?

00:39:58.800 Because a lot of you heard the term, or at least heard it in common use, about politics from me, I think.

00:40:08.280 But I saw just, there's a video of Rose McGowan.

00:40:14.180 Apparently she just appeared on Fox News and people give her a hard time for it. 1.00

00:40:18.180 And she said in response to that, that she sparked cognitive dissonance.

00:40:24.260 Now, when you hear somebody who's in the entertainment field using a phrase like that, do you say to yourself,

00:40:33.840 huh, this has now entered the mainstream.

00:40:37.080 Cognitive dissonance is a term that most of the world didn't understand 10 years ago.

00:40:43.640 But I would say at the moment, a celebrity can use that term in public and expect enough people to understand it that it doesn't sound weird.

00:40:55.020 Right?

00:40:56.140 So I think, I told you before that Trump entering politics, back in 2015, I famously said that he was going to change more than politics.

00:41:07.000 I said he was going to change how we understand reality itself.

00:41:10.280 Do you remember that prediction?

00:41:13.180 That Trump would change how you understand reality itself.

00:41:17.200 And this is it.

00:41:19.160 This is the signal.

00:41:21.840 That somebody in the entertainment industry, not a psychologist, not a scientist, can use the term cognitive dissonance properly.

00:41:30.200 And by the way, she used it properly.

00:41:33.500 Used it in exactly the right way, in the right exact context.

00:41:37.280 And that it's just normal conversation now.

00:41:40.280 That's a big deal.

00:41:42.080 That's a really big deal.

00:41:46.260 Somebody says there's no cognitive dissonance.

00:41:49.580 But that's sarcasm.

00:41:51.180 All right.

00:41:52.620 Now, here's a real question.

00:41:55.580 So this morning, somebody accused me of having cognitive dissonance about, I don't know, Bill Gates or something.

00:42:00.740 And I ask you this question.

00:42:02.960 If you think I have cognitive dissonance on a topic, but you hear me say, I think you have it, how can you sort that out?

00:42:13.060 If two people, let's say it's not you and it's not me, it's just two people.

00:42:17.060 And one says, you have cognitive dissonance, and that's why you're seeing this wrong.

00:42:20.980 And the other says, no, you're the one with cognitive dissonance.

00:42:25.300 If you are the objective observer, how can you sort it out?

00:42:30.200 Well, the one thing you couldn't do is say, well, which one do I agree with?

00:42:34.380 Because you might have the cognitive dissonance, too.

00:42:37.720 So you can't just say, which one is smarter or which one I agree with.

00:42:42.500 That doesn't work.

00:42:43.880 And you can't ask them because they both think it's the other one.

00:42:47.380 And the way cognitive dissonance works is when you have it, you don't know.

00:42:52.100 That's what it is.

00:42:53.020 You don't know.

00:42:54.400 So here is what I would suggest.

00:42:57.540 Number one, look for the trigger.

00:43:00.640 There's no cognitive dissonance unless there's a trigger.

00:43:03.400 And the trigger is very specific.

00:43:06.040 It has to be something that you thought was true that is proven to be untrue,

00:43:10.560 but you couldn't accept the new truth.

00:43:13.500 And so you created a weird world where you patched together some illogic

00:43:19.000 to make it all hold together.

00:43:20.760 That's cognitive dissonance.

00:43:22.280 So if you don't see a trigger for one person,

00:43:25.040 but the other person's trigger is obvious,

00:43:27.200 let's say some new information came out,

00:43:29.240 that would be a strong indication that the one with the new information

00:43:32.660 that violated their prior beliefs probably hasn't.

00:43:37.120 Not proof.

00:43:39.040 Oh, somebody's saying the prediction.

00:43:40.520 Yeah.

00:43:41.080 Whoever can predict better is likely to be the more accurate worldview.

00:43:46.360 But that takes a while, right?

00:43:48.000 You have to wait for the predictions.

00:43:50.200 So that, yeah.

00:43:50.800 So prediction would be one of them.

00:43:52.300 And finding the trigger would be the other.

00:43:55.880 But I'd like to introduce a third one today,

00:43:58.480 which is the breadth of your talent stack.

00:44:03.720 So let's say you have two people.

00:44:05.680 One is a poet,

00:44:07.040 and the other is a scientist with an MBA

00:44:10.820 and lots of economics and business

00:44:15.240 and, you know, quantitative stuff.

00:44:18.480 And the two of them disagree.

00:44:20.880 One has a talent stack in poetry,

00:44:23.880 and the other has a talent stack in all kinds of

00:44:26.420 quantitative things, statistics, economics,

00:44:29.560 but they disagree.

00:44:31.980 Which one has the cognitive dissonance?

00:44:34.900 Can't tell, right?

00:44:39.000 You really can't tell.

00:44:40.260 But it's more likely

00:44:42.740 that the person who can see a topic from more angles

00:44:46.360 has a better view, right?

00:44:49.080 It doesn't guarantee

00:44:50.080 that the more educated person doesn't have it.

00:44:54.360 But if you're going to try to guess from the outside,

00:44:57.900 I would usually give a little more weight

00:45:00.160 to the person who has at least enough experience.

00:45:02.440 And you see this with the Bill Gates stuff.

00:45:05.900 I have an experience that is rare.

00:45:10.660 And my experience is going,

00:45:12.460 traveling from not rich to rich.

00:45:15.980 If you haven't done that journey,

00:45:18.480 there's something missing in your experience

00:45:20.720 that I have.

00:45:22.700 And what I have is that

00:45:23.980 once you get a certain amount of money,

00:45:26.060 and everybody's different, right?

00:45:27.140 But a certain amount of money,

00:45:28.200 your motivation changes.

00:45:31.540 And I felt it in myself.

00:45:32.900 Now, if you haven't experienced that,

00:45:34.960 where you just don't need more money,

00:45:38.260 so you start looking outward,

00:45:40.500 you say,

00:45:40.880 okay, well, what can I do?

00:45:42.560 I made my money.

00:45:44.140 What can I do for somebody else?

00:45:46.620 Bill Gates is the ultimate example of that.

00:45:48.620 He made his money.

00:45:49.840 It's not going anywhere.

00:45:51.280 He has more than he could ever spend.

00:45:53.200 He's trying to give it away.

00:45:54.360 His motivation is very, very unlikely

00:45:58.820 making more money, right?

00:46:01.680 Very unlikely.

00:46:03.260 And I know that

00:46:04.120 because I just have exposure

00:46:06.560 to this very unique situation

00:46:09.760 of going from poor

00:46:11.040 and knowing that all I wanted was more money

00:46:13.840 to going to rich

00:46:15.780 where suddenly your motivation changes, right?

00:46:20.360 So look for the talent stack in the experience.

00:46:23.600 I guess the Governor Newsom recall is on.

00:46:26.640 Got enough signatures for that.

00:46:28.200 So he will be in a recall race.

00:46:31.660 And one person running against him

00:46:33.520 will be Caitlyn Jenner as a Republican.

00:46:36.960 How much do you love the fact

00:46:38.920 that Caitlyn Jenner

00:46:40.660 will be running as a Republican in California?

00:46:46.340 I love everything about this story.

00:46:49.020 Now, I don't think Caitlyn Jenner will win,

00:46:51.540 but I love that this is going to be part of our context.

00:46:59.420 And I got to tell you,

00:47:00.280 those Caitlyn and the entire Kardashian group,

00:47:06.800 they sure know how to get attention, don't they?

00:47:11.640 They really know how to get attention.

00:47:13.640 So good luck to Caitlyn Jenner running as a Republican. 1.00

00:47:18.340 I have no idea what kind of policies are involved there,

00:47:22.820 but this is a fun situation.

00:47:27.000 On the opposite of fun,

00:47:29.100 the very opposite of fun,

00:47:30.520 India has some estimates,

00:47:32.920 say up to a half a billion cases of COVID.

00:47:36.040 And India is really one of these situations 0.96

00:47:41.500 that should make you question

00:47:43.600 your ability to understand anything.

00:47:47.200 Because didn't India go from, 0.99

00:47:49.460 hey, India is doing great,

00:47:50.980 and we don't know why.

00:47:52.480 Maybe it's because they're all taking hydroxychloroquine.

00:47:55.860 Right?

00:47:56.180 Do you remember when we thought,

00:47:57.780 is it because they're all taking hydroxychloroquine,

00:48:00.080 because they have malaria issues?

00:48:02.040 Well, I never believed that,

00:48:03.680 because I couldn't believe there would be enough,

00:48:06.320 that even if it worked,

00:48:07.260 it would make any difference.

00:48:09.040 But the hospitals are being overrun.

00:48:13.240 They're running out of oxygen

00:48:14.260 or have run out in some places.

00:48:17.000 And things in India went exactly the way we'd expect,

00:48:21.160 but it took much longer than we thought.

00:48:24.240 And I don't know if that's just because

00:48:25.800 they were slow on testing

00:48:28.380 or just the data was always bad.

00:48:31.240 We know that data was bad,

00:48:32.360 but did you ever think

00:48:36.000 that India was going to escape this?

00:48:39.160 And so, now we still don't understand China, do we?

00:48:42.460 I still don't understand how China is escaping this. 0.89

00:48:47.020 That doesn't make sense, does it?

00:48:48.840 If you saw that China managed to get coronavirus under control

00:48:52.480 and keep it that way,

00:48:54.160 and then you also saw that India did that,

00:48:56.980 which would have seemed impossible in both cases,

00:48:59.140 I mean, China getting it under control just seems impossible.

00:49:02.960 But somehow, did they?

00:49:05.360 India doing it seemed also impossible, 0.91

00:49:08.000 but now we know they didn't.

00:49:10.280 So, at least India makes sense, right? 1.00

00:49:12.380 Your common sense about the virus

00:49:14.460 is now compatible with the data coming out of India,

00:49:17.340 but it wasn't compatible before.

00:49:18.880 Don't know why.

00:49:21.460 Yeah.

00:49:22.120 Somebody says it makes total sense.

00:49:23.480 Well, even if you factor in

00:49:25.240 that India has less obesity,

00:49:28.280 a young population,

00:49:30.180 lots of vitamin D,

00:49:31.700 even if you factor all of that in,

00:49:34.040 it shouldn't have been enough,

00:49:35.440 and now we know it wasn't enough

00:49:36.720 to keep them safe.

00:49:40.640 So, you got that going on.

00:49:42.280 Are all of you having the same

00:49:47.800 Trump withdrawal problem that I am,

00:49:50.620 that every day I wake up

00:49:51.760 and the news is just

00:49:53.440 not that interesting anymore?

00:49:57.440 Have you noticed that?

00:49:58.880 And in fact, most of the news

00:49:59.920 is just propaganda now.

00:50:01.580 Maybe it always was.

00:50:07.140 Lockdowns are starving India. 1.00

00:50:08.980 Okay.

00:50:09.080 So, I guess Biden's coming out

00:50:13.060 with a new mask guidance today.

00:50:18.560 Yesterday, I was driving around

00:50:20.520 and I was observing the people where I live

00:50:23.140 to see how many people

00:50:24.880 who are walking outdoors

00:50:26.400 completely alone wore masks.

00:50:29.760 What do you think was the percentage?

00:50:32.160 In my neighborhood,

00:50:33.740 people walking completely alone,

00:50:35.800 and when I say alone,

00:50:37.440 I don't just mean

00:50:38.360 there's nobody walking with them.

00:50:40.440 I mean, there's nobody else

00:50:41.540 on the sidewalk.

00:50:43.200 You know, you could,

00:50:43.980 where I live,

00:50:45.100 you could walk for a great distance

00:50:46.760 without encountering

00:50:47.720 another person on the sidewalk.

00:50:49.940 About half.

00:50:51.540 Yeah, about half of the people

00:50:52.820 completely alone,

00:50:55.460 like isolated in the middle

00:50:56.800 of nothing outdoors,

00:50:58.820 about half of them

00:50:59.660 were wearing full masks.

00:51:01.620 People were exercising,

00:51:03.180 running in masks,

00:51:04.840 biking in masks.

00:51:05.940 Yeah, you could almost see

00:51:09.900 people's IQ at this point

00:51:11.300 by mask wearing outdoors.

00:51:14.360 Now, I will make an exception.

00:51:16.920 I saw some elderly people

00:51:18.660 who were masked outdoors.

00:51:22.200 I'll give them that.

00:51:23.200 I don't think it makes any difference.

00:51:24.720 But if you were elderly

00:51:25.680 and you hadn't had your vaccination

00:51:27.620 and you were just concerned,

00:51:31.100 eh, well, throw on a mask

00:51:33.000 if it makes you feel better.

00:51:34.340 But I don't think it would make

00:51:35.260 any statistical difference.

00:51:39.420 No more mask talk.

00:51:41.020 Yeah.

00:51:42.340 This was my point.

00:51:43.820 We need Trump

00:51:44.600 to give us more fake controversies

00:51:47.740 so we have other things

00:51:49.160 to talk about

00:51:49.840 besides masks.

00:51:50.960 One out of ten here.

00:51:58.040 Somebody says one out of ten.

00:51:59.820 Yeah, we do live in dumb times,

00:52:01.800 so we'll see what's happening.

00:52:03.480 You know, Tucker Carlson, I guess,

00:52:04.800 was encouraging people

00:52:06.240 to get in the faces

00:52:08.240 or be critical of people

00:52:10.660 wearing masks outdoors,

00:52:12.260 especially if a child

00:52:13.240 is masked outdoors.

00:52:15.300 And I wouldn't go that far,

00:52:17.040 but I do think

00:52:17.840 there's a tipping point coming.

00:52:19.980 It feels like we're almost there.

00:52:22.860 The tipping point being

00:52:23.820 I just don't see

00:52:25.880 the public putting up with it.

00:52:28.480 Now, in my town,

00:52:29.680 people are back to

00:52:30.820 playing basketball

00:52:31.680 in the public park

00:52:32.640 without masks,

00:52:33.960 but I don't know

00:52:35.040 if it's just not being enforced

00:52:36.360 or if it's legal now.

00:52:38.200 I don't know the difference.

00:52:39.620 But I see people playing

00:52:40.880 in the park without masks

00:52:42.180 every day now,

00:52:43.520 so I don't know

00:52:44.620 what the situation is.

00:52:48.400 All right.

00:52:48.740 And still, as far as I know,

00:52:50.760 I still don't have access

00:52:51.740 to the vaccine.

00:52:53.080 I believe it's fake news

00:52:54.620 that the vaccine

00:52:55.920 is sort of available

00:52:57.060 for people in my age group.

00:52:59.460 There's definitely

00:53:00.180 lots of people getting it,

00:53:02.100 but available would suggest

00:53:03.660 that I could go to a website

00:53:04.880 and sign up and stuff.

00:53:06.720 But right now,

00:53:07.280 we just have websites

00:53:08.100 where you can fill out

00:53:09.560 all your information,

00:53:10.580 and then it will tell you

00:53:11.320 it's not available.

00:53:12.740 That's all we have.

00:53:14.340 I'm hoping that changes soon.

00:53:15.800 The last person I talked to

00:53:19.620 waited five hours

00:53:20.800 for a vaccine in line.

00:53:24.220 So since I'm not going

00:53:25.140 to do that,

00:53:26.260 I say it's not available.

00:53:29.760 All right.

00:53:30.960 Somebody says

00:53:31.700 the definition of IQ

00:53:33.520 means that 50%

00:53:35.540 are below 100.

00:53:39.340 Yeah.

00:53:39.940 Have you ever had

00:53:41.900 a conversation

00:53:42.520 with somebody

00:53:43.120 whose IQ is below 100?

00:53:45.900 We must have, right?

00:53:47.660 Because a lot of people

00:53:49.200 are in that category.

00:53:50.920 But if you're 40%,

00:53:53.580 let's just say,

00:53:55.640 40% smarter

00:53:57.380 than the person

00:53:58.080 you're talking to,

00:53:59.640 that's a pretty tough conversation.

00:54:03.340 Call your doctor.

00:54:04.600 Kaiser is giving them.

00:54:05.920 Well, they say they're not.

00:54:07.720 So I only know

00:54:09.400 what they say.

00:54:12.480 It says don't call your doctor.

00:54:15.500 All right.

00:54:16.160 So that's all for now.

00:54:17.100 And I'll talk to you tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 27, 2021

Episode 1358 Scott Adams： Fake News, Propaganda, Burgers, Bill Gates, Drone Wars and More

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