Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 08, 2021


Episode 1369 Scott Adams： Tesla Cybertruck, Prebunking of AZ Audit by CNN, Human Motivation and More Fun


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40 minutes

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144.54062

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5,867

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405


Summary

Scott Adams talks about a falling Chinese rocket, Elon Musk's Cybertruck, and how to get banned from social media, and why you should be careful about who you interact with on social media. Scott Adams is a writer, comedian, podcaster, and podcaster based in New York City. He's also the host of the podcast Scott Adams on the pod.


Transcript

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00:01:03.060 Good morning, Patrick from New York City. It's good to have you here.
00:01:07.380 Well, did you ever have one of those days where you wish that a part of a Chinese rocket
00:01:15.400 that is currently in our atmosphere or outside the atmosphere circling the Earth
00:01:21.820 and apparently big parts of this Chinese rocket are going to fall to Earth
00:01:27.900 and I was thinking this morning, God, wouldn't it be great if one of those fell on me and killed me?
00:01:34.880 And I'm thinking, that's probably not a healthy thought.
00:01:39.140 But I was thinking, of all the ways that you have to go,
00:01:42.920 you know, I'm at that age where I started thinking a little bit more and more about my end date,
00:01:48.800 you know, my expiration date.
00:01:50.060 You know, the older you get, the more you think, you know, that could be any day now.
00:01:56.360 And I was thinking to myself, of all the ways that I could die,
00:02:01.080 my number one first choice would be to be killed by a falling Chinese rocket.
00:02:09.120 Number one, you wouldn't know it was happening.
00:02:12.460 You would just be walking, you know, having your day.
00:02:14.480 Do-do-do-do-do.
00:02:16.060 La-da-da-da-da-da.
00:02:17.120 Boom.
00:02:17.480 And you're gone.
00:02:19.180 That's how I want to go.
00:02:20.720 I don't want to see it coming.
00:02:22.520 I don't want to have a warning.
00:02:24.740 I just want to be do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do.
00:02:29.120 Gone.
00:02:31.000 Like I said, I've had a good run.
00:02:32.600 I'd be ready.
00:02:33.960 And you don't want your death to be wasted, right?
00:02:38.440 Wouldn't you like to think, well, maybe you had a little meaning?
00:02:41.660 Can you imagine what would happen if I got killed by a Chinese rocket?
00:02:47.020 I mean, of all the people that could be killed by a Chinese rocket,
00:02:51.040 I mean, it would be more impactful if it were someone more famous.
00:02:55.260 But I'm kind of an anti-China guy,
00:02:58.540 pretty dedicated to the anti-China world.
00:03:04.780 And if I got killed by a falling Chinese rocket,
00:03:09.040 it would probably be good for the world.
00:03:11.500 So bring it on. Bring on that rocket.
00:03:14.580 Speaking of cool things, Elon Musk, the best marketer of all time,
00:03:20.480 via the process of not doing any marketing.
00:03:24.260 Can somebody fact-check me on this?
00:03:25.780 I believe Tesla doesn't do advertising, right?
00:03:30.280 But, you know, in a sense they do marketing,
00:03:32.700 because I guess there's the new Cybertruck,
00:03:35.760 the Tesla Cybertruck, has been seen driving around Times Square.
00:03:41.600 And tonight Elon Musk will be on SNL.
00:03:46.040 Can you think of a better marketing campaign than hosting SNL
00:03:51.140 and having your cool Cybertruck driving around,
00:03:54.240 and it's already trending on Twitter?
00:03:56.080 So, really good marketing.
00:04:01.660 Something happened with Twitter recently, didn't it?
00:04:04.780 Has anybody noticed that Twitter stopped showing you political tweets
00:04:09.800 from people that you followed?
00:04:11.320 Now, I don't know if it's happening to everybody,
00:04:14.260 but what looks like what's happening
00:04:17.160 is that people like me, who are not so bad that I could easily be cancelled,
00:04:23.040 you know, I kind of walk right up to the edge of things that could get you cancelled,
00:04:26.980 but as far as I know, I've never crossed the line.
00:04:30.860 Have you ever seen me cross the line
00:04:32.240 into something that you could unambiguously say,
00:04:35.340 oh, that's a violation of terms of service?
00:04:38.120 I don't think so, because I try pretty hard not to do it.
00:04:40.960 And I don't think it's hard, right?
00:04:43.240 Is it hard to not be banned?
00:04:46.760 It's not hard.
00:04:48.580 The things which get you banned are kind of obvious, right?
00:04:52.960 Most of the time.
00:04:53.780 But if you can't get somebody like me and shut me up,
00:04:57.680 the next best thing is to just turn off my Twitter feed.
00:05:02.020 And it looks like that happened.
00:05:03.760 Meaning that I'm still on Twitter,
00:05:06.440 but can you imagine that I just don't even see the tweets
00:05:09.920 of the people I've interacted with and tweeted and followed the most?
00:05:15.600 So, like, in the last several days, I haven't seen anything from,
00:05:18.920 I think it lasts 24 hours, nothing from Jack Posobiec,
00:05:21.960 who I would normally see a whole bunch of times a day,
00:05:25.700 nothing from Mike Cernovich,
00:05:27.600 who I would normally see lots of times a day.
00:05:30.760 Now, is it a coincidence that the first day,
00:05:34.620 it's just really noticeable,
00:05:36.480 because I would normally see so much Cernovich activity,
00:05:40.200 that it just went to zero the day after he was on a poll
00:05:44.500 without running for governor of California.
00:05:48.400 He's polling at 3%.
00:05:49.980 He's not in the race.
00:05:53.140 And he didn't know he would be part of the survey or the poll.
00:05:57.280 And suddenly Breitbart is interviewing him and saying,
00:06:00.360 are you serious about this?
00:06:02.380 And he says, yes.
00:06:03.920 He's serious about thinking about it.
00:06:05.720 Now, and the way he framed it was that at least to push some ideas forward
00:06:12.380 that wouldn't get pushed otherwise.
00:06:14.580 And I'm thinking to myself,
00:06:16.100 I can't even imagine what would be more fun than a governor of Cernovich.
00:06:22.180 I mean, really.
00:06:23.740 I can't even imagine anything more fun than that,
00:06:26.780 or more useful, or better for the state.
00:06:29.600 I mean, it would just be a wild, wild, you know, shit show.
00:06:35.360 The media, people would go nuts.
00:06:38.580 They would just lose their shit.
00:06:40.120 And I would like to see that so much.
00:06:43.160 So I hope he runs.
00:06:45.120 Well, you know, for his own benefit,
00:06:47.880 I don't know if it's good for him.
00:06:50.220 So I can't say it'd be good for him or his family.
00:06:53.180 But I would say that it would entertain the hell out of me,
00:06:56.100 and I would be all in if he runs.
00:06:57.560 So, I feel that I have been algorithmically castrated.
00:07:04.380 That should be a thing.
00:07:06.560 Algorithmically castrated.
00:07:08.340 So if you can't be banned outright,
00:07:10.560 they can just remove all your connections.
00:07:13.240 So my Twitter growth basically just stopped.
00:07:16.700 It just stopped.
00:07:18.680 At the same time, my YouTube traffic is growing.
00:07:22.580 Do you think it's likely that my YouTube traffic would be growing nicely,
00:07:31.460 but my Twitter followers would just flatline at exactly the same time?
00:07:36.620 Does that sound like something that could happen naturally?
00:07:40.720 Well, I suppose it could.
00:07:42.880 It's possible.
00:07:44.040 But it doesn't look like it.
00:07:45.380 It doesn't feel like it.
00:07:46.340 So, I don't know if this is happening to any of you,
00:07:51.140 but it looks to me as though
00:07:53.020 Twitter is dialing me down a little bit.
00:07:59.120 And I don't know if there's any way to even know.
00:08:01.620 Is there?
00:08:02.340 There's no way to check, right?
00:08:04.240 You can't ask them.
00:08:06.900 Who would you talk to?
00:08:08.520 That's the scary part.
00:08:10.040 The scariest part about the algorithms and the social media platforms
00:08:13.620 is there's nobody you can talk to.
00:08:16.680 You can complain,
00:08:18.620 but there's nobody to talk to, right?
00:08:24.740 Once again,
00:08:26.980 I've told you to look for this pattern.
00:08:29.540 It's a very consistent pattern,
00:08:31.300 and it is how somebody like a Mike Cernovich
00:08:34.640 could become governor or president easily, right?
00:08:39.920 Just by knowing the thing I'm going to tell you next,
00:08:41.960 which is that Democrats ignore human motivation
00:08:46.280 when they design systems,
00:08:49.380 and Republicans don't.
00:08:52.740 So, if you're looking for a way to make Democrats
00:08:55.100 and Republicans, you know,
00:08:57.500 come together in some kind of policy way,
00:09:00.280 this would be the way.
00:09:01.380 You just take the politics out of it and say,
00:09:03.600 this is all I care about.
00:09:05.540 Things that motivate people correctly
00:09:07.540 and things that don't motivate people correctly.
00:09:10.880 You can talk about politics all you want.
00:09:13.940 You can talk about your Democrats
00:09:15.200 and your liberals and your all that.
00:09:18.060 I'm not interested.
00:09:19.860 This is how you would win.
00:09:22.100 And this is something that only somebody as smart as,
00:09:25.440 a Cernovich,
00:09:26.880 and I mean smart as in terms of not just IQ,
00:09:30.840 but having the right talent stack
00:09:32.260 to understand, you know,
00:09:34.420 that you could penetrate.
00:09:35.300 It's a very thin membrane
00:09:38.380 that seems like it's thick.
00:09:40.360 The membrane being
00:09:42.340 that you can't crack politics
00:09:45.080 to get any message through to the other side.
00:09:48.220 You know, Democrats can't really reach Republicans.
00:09:50.560 Republicans can't reach Democrats.
00:09:52.980 Cernovich could.
00:09:54.920 Right?
00:09:55.220 It's just a skill thing.
00:09:56.720 He has the skill.
00:09:57.740 He could do it.
00:10:00.960 Name one other person,
00:10:03.160 really, seriously,
00:10:04.020 one other person
00:10:04.920 who could do that.
00:10:07.360 He's probably the only person I know
00:10:08.940 who has the right skill set.
00:10:11.140 So,
00:10:11.920 and the balls to do it, right?
00:10:13.560 You'd have to have gigantic balls
00:10:15.160 as well as the skill set.
00:10:17.020 And that just limits the number of people
00:10:18.780 who would do it.
00:10:20.420 So,
00:10:20.920 that could be interesting.
00:10:22.620 And here's the other example
00:10:23.820 of Democrats ignoring human motivation.
00:10:26.360 The jobs report
00:10:27.880 turned out to be disappointing.
00:10:30.540 Because it turns out,
00:10:32.260 big surprise,
00:10:33.520 that if you pay people more to not work
00:10:36.020 than you pay them to work,
00:10:39.040 what will they do?
00:10:41.120 Anybody?
00:10:41.900 Anybody?
00:10:42.960 What will happen
00:10:43.920 when you pay people more
00:10:45.220 to not work
00:10:46.720 than to work?
00:10:49.400 Use your
00:10:50.320 great analytical minds
00:10:52.480 to predict
00:10:53.640 what could go wrong.
00:10:56.320 What would be an outcome of that?
00:10:58.880 Oh!
00:11:00.620 Unemployment, right?
00:11:02.140 Now,
00:11:02.820 I told you yesterday
00:11:03.900 that if you,
00:11:05.660 one way to know
00:11:06.460 you're in the golden age
00:11:07.860 is if your problems
00:11:09.960 look like this.
00:11:12.820 Because there's no world
00:11:13.900 in which there are no problems, right?
00:11:15.580 That's not really an option.
00:11:16.720 But when your problem
00:11:18.680 is that people
00:11:19.960 are making more money
00:11:20.980 not working than working,
00:11:22.460 and it looks like
00:11:23.180 that'll be temporary,
00:11:24.740 you've got a pretty
00:11:25.740 solvable problem there.
00:11:27.560 I guess
00:11:27.980 Ron DeSantis
00:11:29.180 decided to solve it.
00:11:31.440 So,
00:11:32.100 he's going to be
00:11:32.880 cutting back
00:11:33.760 on some of these payments
00:11:35.080 to try to
00:11:36.220 nudge people
00:11:37.860 into taking
00:11:38.460 some of the
00:11:39.240 many open jobs.
00:11:40.640 Because there's
00:11:41.340 plenty of jobs.
00:11:42.880 It's a weird situation.
00:11:44.700 Plenty of jobs
00:11:45.620 at the same time
00:11:47.020 plenty of unemployment.
00:11:49.000 And I thought yesterday
00:11:50.100 it must be
00:11:50.620 a training issue.
00:11:52.160 But it's also
00:11:52.960 an incentive issue.
00:11:56.600 All right.
00:11:58.620 Bill and Melinda Gates.
00:12:01.320 So,
00:12:02.000 this story
00:12:02.480 that won't die.
00:12:05.440 And
00:12:05.760 so there's a
00:12:09.600 so
00:12:11.620 I don't know.
00:12:12.940 I probably shouldn't
00:12:13.560 get into this,
00:12:14.320 but I'm going to.
00:12:15.780 You know,
00:12:15.960 because it's a personal issue.
00:12:17.280 It's not really politics.
00:12:18.900 But I can't resist it.
00:12:20.940 Also,
00:12:21.320 the news is so boring.
00:12:23.200 I mean,
00:12:23.520 I've got
00:12:23.900 Biden boring syndrome.
00:12:26.860 Biden is just
00:12:27.760 boring the hell out of me.
00:12:29.120 And it's starting
00:12:29.940 to affect my mental health.
00:12:32.300 Because I'm getting
00:12:32.980 too bored.
00:12:35.100 But anyway,
00:12:35.860 the Bill and Melinda Gates
00:12:36.660 story is interesting.
00:12:37.620 Because apparently
00:12:38.240 it sounds like
00:12:39.060 they waited
00:12:39.560 until their youngest
00:12:40.520 was 18.
00:12:42.020 So probably
00:12:42.860 they had some problems
00:12:43.660 for a while.
00:12:45.220 But
00:12:45.400 she wrote
00:12:47.820 how come
00:12:50.280 this didn't come through?
00:12:53.380 I must be missing
00:12:54.440 the page of my notes.
00:12:56.060 But I believe
00:12:56.580 that
00:12:56.900 Melinda Gates
00:12:58.140 has said something
00:12:58.780 along the lines
00:12:59.560 of
00:12:59.860 that
00:13:00.760 she was an equal
00:13:01.980 partner
00:13:02.420 with Bill.
00:13:03.960 And she wanted
00:13:04.500 everybody to know
00:13:05.320 that she wasn't
00:13:05.960 just a stay-at-home mom,
00:13:07.460 which apparently
00:13:08.180 she'd been at some point,
00:13:09.940 that she was
00:13:10.460 an equal partner
00:13:11.240 with Bill Gates.
00:13:13.900 To which I say,
00:13:15.100 you know,
00:13:15.900 it's none of my business
00:13:16.920 because I'm not married
00:13:17.980 to either one of them.
00:13:19.320 But
00:13:19.640 I feel
00:13:21.420 it's like
00:13:21.760 I see the problem.
00:13:24.960 Do you see
00:13:25.600 the problem?
00:13:27.440 Is it just me?
00:13:29.780 So Melinda Gates
00:13:30.700 says that she
00:13:31.460 wants to be
00:13:32.000 an equal partner,
00:13:33.680 like in decision-making
00:13:34.920 and running the,
00:13:36.200 probably running
00:13:37.240 the non-profit,
00:13:38.760 et cetera.
00:13:40.420 Do you see
00:13:41.060 the problem yet?
00:13:45.060 One of them
00:13:45.940 is one of the
00:13:47.280 smartest people
00:13:48.060 in the world.
00:13:50.060 One of them
00:13:50.980 created Microsoft
00:13:52.760 from nothing.
00:13:56.720 The other one
00:13:57.800 is Melinda Gates.
00:14:01.580 Now,
00:14:02.140 Melinda Gates
00:14:02.700 is a pretty serious
00:14:03.580 person, right?
00:14:04.220 If you were
00:14:05.260 to compare her
00:14:06.040 to the average
00:14:07.460 human being,
00:14:08.440 she would be
00:14:08.900 high-functioning,
00:14:11.140 you know,
00:14:11.340 successful on
00:14:12.200 every level.
00:14:13.680 But what if you
00:14:14.620 compare her
00:14:15.200 to Bill Gates?
00:14:18.620 And I wonder,
00:14:21.080 Einstein was married,
00:14:22.240 right?
00:14:23.180 Am I right about it?
00:14:23.900 Einstein was married
00:14:24.800 to, I don't know,
00:14:25.520 a cousin or something?
00:14:26.760 Don't you imagine
00:14:27.660 that Einstein's wife
00:14:29.080 would have arguments
00:14:31.520 with literally Einstein
00:14:33.180 in which you would
00:14:35.020 say, look,
00:14:35.980 you know,
00:14:36.720 I'm pretty sure
00:14:37.560 you're wrong
00:14:38.040 about this.
00:14:39.120 And then Einstein
00:14:39.960 would say,
00:14:41.060 I don't want to
00:14:43.160 be a jerk
00:14:43.640 about this.
00:14:45.920 But,
00:14:46.680 I'm Einstein.
00:14:51.000 And you're
00:14:52.120 somebody I'm
00:14:54.620 having sex with.
00:14:56.260 Happened to be
00:14:56.960 my cousin.
00:14:58.080 That's a different
00:14:58.620 story.
00:14:58.940 But you get
00:15:01.020 the difference,
00:15:01.640 right?
00:15:02.600 I'm Einstein.
00:15:05.960 And you're
00:15:06.980 whatever not that.
00:15:09.920 You're like
00:15:10.660 somebody who
00:15:11.180 married Einstein.
00:15:13.240 So,
00:15:14.240 when we're
00:15:15.320 having an argument
00:15:16.120 and we disagree
00:15:17.120 about what is
00:15:17.940 true or right
00:15:18.860 or logical,
00:15:19.960 I'm feeling you
00:15:21.160 should just go
00:15:21.720 with my opinion.
00:15:23.720 Because
00:15:24.360 I'm Einstein.
00:15:26.720 I think we
00:15:29.160 should be done
00:15:29.600 here.
00:15:31.280 Did I mention
00:15:32.300 I'm Einstein?
00:15:35.340 If you're
00:15:36.020 tuning in late,
00:15:36.780 I'm not Einstein.
00:15:37.840 That was a skit.
00:15:40.540 So,
00:15:41.280 I have a feeling
00:15:42.580 it would be
00:15:43.460 really hard
00:15:44.060 to be Bill Gates
00:15:45.120 and try to
00:15:46.660 pretend that
00:15:47.600 Melinda was
00:15:48.300 his intellectual
00:15:49.160 equal.
00:15:50.760 Because she
00:15:51.520 isn't.
00:15:52.860 They're not
00:15:53.300 even close.
00:15:54.780 They're not
00:15:55.340 even in the
00:15:55.860 same ballpark.
00:15:57.240 And I feel
00:15:57.600 sorry because
00:15:58.280 how is he
00:15:58.720 going to find
00:15:59.100 somebody who
00:15:59.540 is,
00:15:59.800 really?
00:16:00.860 And which
00:16:01.360 probably has a
00:16:01.920 lot to do
00:16:02.340 with why he
00:16:02.920 was,
00:16:04.260 apparently they
00:16:05.200 had some
00:16:05.560 arrangement in
00:16:06.200 which he
00:16:06.480 could see his
00:16:07.160 ex-girlfriend for
00:16:08.220 a weekend or
00:16:09.020 something a
00:16:09.640 month or
00:16:10.340 per year.
00:16:12.300 And one
00:16:13.220 imagines that
00:16:14.280 that was a
00:16:15.180 source of
00:16:15.640 tension because
00:16:16.260 I think that
00:16:17.080 he liked his
00:16:18.920 prior girlfriend
00:16:20.060 because of
00:16:21.520 her intellectual
00:16:22.300 capacity.
00:16:24.320 So, yes, I
00:16:27.280 know, Einstein
00:16:28.940 married his
00:16:29.620 cousin so she
00:16:30.500 was probably
00:16:30.940 also named
00:16:31.620 Einstein.
00:16:32.520 Is that what
00:16:32.900 you're telling
00:16:33.200 me?
00:16:34.380 Because I was
00:16:34.920 thinking about
00:16:35.460 that when I
00:16:35.920 told the story
00:16:36.520 and I'm like,
00:16:37.600 damn it, I hope
00:16:38.300 the cousin's name
00:16:39.100 wasn't Einstein
00:16:39.940 because that's
00:16:40.460 ruining my whole
00:16:41.200 skit.
00:16:41.520 All right.
00:16:45.860 Well, I'm
00:16:48.560 sure that the
00:16:51.540 gates will be
00:16:52.360 fine.
00:16:53.640 All right.
00:16:55.880 Why are my
00:16:56.700 notes in no
00:16:57.240 particular order?
00:16:58.320 Something going
00:16:58.860 on here.
00:17:00.500 Oh, my
00:17:02.540 printer printed
00:17:03.300 on the back.
00:17:05.040 That's not
00:17:05.500 right.
00:17:07.000 That's just
00:17:07.800 wrong.
00:17:09.440 All right.
00:17:09.900 So here's a
00:17:11.280 question for
00:17:11.820 you.
00:17:12.240 In the
00:17:12.520 beginning of
00:17:12.940 the pandemic,
00:17:13.440 we were all
00:17:14.780 dumb, including
00:17:16.500 the experts.
00:17:17.660 Not for any
00:17:18.500 bad reason, but
00:17:19.460 it was a novel
00:17:20.700 virus, right?
00:17:22.020 So nobody
00:17:22.640 really understood
00:17:23.300 the coronavirus.
00:17:25.100 And so I
00:17:25.980 give everybody
00:17:27.040 a pass for
00:17:28.280 anything they
00:17:28.820 said that was
00:17:29.360 wrong, be they
00:17:30.840 experts or not,
00:17:31.900 because we were
00:17:32.660 all kind of
00:17:33.700 guessing in the
00:17:34.740 beginning.
00:17:36.160 Now, imagine
00:17:38.100 if you will,
00:17:38.740 tell that the
00:17:39.900 coronavirus were
00:17:40.900 to hit today and
00:17:42.100 had never hit
00:17:42.740 before, but we
00:17:44.340 had all the
00:17:44.860 knowledge that we
00:17:45.620 have today.
00:17:46.160 Let's say we
00:17:46.560 don't have any
00:17:47.080 vaccines yet, but
00:17:48.620 we just have the
00:17:49.180 understanding of
00:17:50.180 the virus.
00:17:51.540 How much better
00:17:52.520 would we have
00:17:53.120 done?
00:17:54.280 Because it
00:17:54.920 seems to me
00:17:55.440 that we've
00:17:56.000 were, we
00:17:58.180 meaning science,
00:17:59.080 is starting to
00:17:59.820 land on the
00:18:00.780 following proposition,
00:18:02.440 that the chance of
00:18:03.800 getting coronavirus,
00:18:05.220 if you stay six
00:18:06.180 feet away from
00:18:06.760 people, forget
00:18:08.080 about masks, if
00:18:09.500 you stay six
00:18:10.140 feet away from
00:18:10.720 people, and
00:18:12.700 you don't stay
00:18:15.520 in a closed
00:18:16.240 area for more
00:18:17.020 than 15 minutes,
00:18:18.900 but let's lower
00:18:20.860 that to five
00:18:22.460 minutes or six
00:18:23.800 minutes, because
00:18:25.680 that's safer.
00:18:26.500 So you need
00:18:27.020 about 15 minutes
00:18:28.360 inside a closed
00:18:29.380 space, in which
00:18:30.620 case that six
00:18:31.460 feet wouldn't
00:18:31.960 help you at all.
00:18:32.620 So let me see
00:18:33.780 if I can say
00:18:34.240 this clear.
00:18:35.460 If you're
00:18:36.000 outdoors, six
00:18:37.080 feet is all
00:18:37.600 you need.
00:18:38.840 But if you're
00:18:39.580 indoors, six
00:18:40.860 feet won't help
00:18:41.580 you if you
00:18:42.540 stay there too
00:18:43.160 long.
00:18:44.080 So there are
00:18:44.720 two variables,
00:18:45.500 how long you
00:18:46.140 stay there if
00:18:46.740 it's indoors, and
00:18:48.160 how close you
00:18:48.720 are.
00:18:49.460 And I was
00:18:50.020 wondering if
00:18:50.440 you could come
00:18:51.420 up with a
00:18:51.940 clever slogan that
00:18:54.260 would make this
00:18:54.880 easy, which is
00:18:56.260 six feet or
00:18:58.680 six seconds.
00:19:00.600 Something like
00:19:01.200 that.
00:19:01.480 Now, the six
00:19:02.880 seconds would be
00:19:03.520 just an arbitrary
00:19:04.260 short period of
00:19:05.980 time designated
00:19:07.580 to tell you that
00:19:09.020 you can be within
00:19:10.080 six feet of
00:19:10.820 somebody, and
00:19:12.020 you can be in
00:19:12.840 a room with
00:19:13.320 them, but
00:19:14.800 just make it
00:19:15.340 brief.
00:19:16.820 So I've been
00:19:18.380 sort of monitoring
00:19:19.560 my own activities
00:19:20.740 and, you know,
00:19:21.600 social distancing,
00:19:22.740 et cetera, and
00:19:23.700 I'm finding that
00:19:24.600 it's really easy
00:19:25.900 to stay six
00:19:27.760 feet away from
00:19:28.360 people as long
00:19:29.720 as you don't
00:19:30.160 have to be
00:19:30.700 absolute about
00:19:31.460 it.
00:19:32.400 You know, if
00:19:32.800 you're sometimes
00:19:33.680 getting within
00:19:34.320 six feet and
00:19:35.200 then, you know,
00:19:35.840 out, no
00:19:37.080 problem.
00:19:37.940 We know that
00:19:38.520 now, right?
00:19:39.200 Just somebody
00:19:39.760 being near you
00:19:40.740 isn't enough.
00:19:42.180 You have to
00:19:42.580 have some
00:19:42.920 concentrated, you
00:19:45.080 know, you've
00:19:45.740 really got to be
00:19:46.240 marinating in the
00:19:47.100 room before you
00:19:47.680 get it.
00:19:48.440 So we know we
00:19:49.060 don't get it from
00:19:49.540 surfaces much, or
00:19:51.280 at least enough to
00:19:51.900 worry about at
00:19:52.420 this point, and
00:19:53.940 we know it's the
00:19:54.780 super spreaders, and
00:19:56.120 we know what they
00:19:56.600 look like, because
00:19:58.280 the people who are
00:19:59.160 going to get the
00:19:59.660 worst case of
00:20:00.380 the disease are
00:20:02.620 going to be the
00:20:02.980 ones who are the
00:20:03.560 most super
00:20:04.300 spready, in
00:20:05.140 general, could be
00:20:05.960 exceptions, but
00:20:07.660 imagine if we
00:20:09.160 started with our
00:20:09.980 current knowledge.
00:20:11.880 So just imagine on
00:20:12.800 day one we said,
00:20:13.820 here's the deal,
00:20:15.440 six feet outdoors,
00:20:16.820 boom, forget about
00:20:18.380 masks, because I
00:20:19.360 don't even know if
00:20:19.860 you need them
00:20:20.220 outdoors.
00:20:21.220 If you're indoors,
00:20:22.340 well, use a mask if
00:20:23.340 you're going to be
00:20:23.800 within six feet for
00:20:24.880 more than, or even
00:20:25.940 just indoors, for
00:20:27.540 more than six
00:20:28.500 seconds or
00:20:29.040 something.
00:20:29.740 Now, the six
00:20:30.240 seconds, maybe you
00:20:31.940 make that six
00:20:32.560 minutes or
00:20:33.120 something, but the
00:20:34.640 point is, probably
00:20:36.200 we could have
00:20:36.740 simplified this to
00:20:37.780 the point where
00:20:39.000 the only thing we
00:20:39.940 had to do is stay
00:20:41.500 six feet away or
00:20:42.920 don't stay in the
00:20:43.660 room too long.
00:20:45.200 And then maybe we'd
00:20:46.120 be done.
00:20:46.780 That could be the
00:20:47.540 whole thing.
00:20:48.500 I wonder if that
00:20:49.080 would be enough.
00:20:49.500 Axios is
00:20:55.460 reporting that the
00:20:58.440 UK is going to
00:20:59.180 launch a study to
00:20:59.960 see if they do
00:21:01.280 these cheap daily
00:21:02.340 COVID tests, plus
00:21:05.020 of course they have
00:21:05.680 vaccinations, if
00:21:07.020 that's enough to
00:21:07.700 really make a
00:21:08.260 difference in
00:21:09.280 slowing the
00:21:10.700 spread.
00:21:12.140 And of course
00:21:13.240 I've been talking
00:21:13.880 about this since
00:21:15.560 nine months ago
00:21:17.960 maybe.
00:21:18.320 Michael Mina is
00:21:20.080 the one who I
00:21:21.080 think is the
00:21:21.620 most useful
00:21:24.060 vocal proponent
00:21:25.380 of this method.
00:21:26.960 And he's been
00:21:27.460 talking about it.
00:21:28.200 That's where I
00:21:28.600 heard it first.
00:21:30.440 Why is it taking
00:21:31.440 so long?
00:21:32.620 Yeah, I'm
00:21:33.580 watching in the
00:21:34.540 comments.
00:21:35.040 Somebody says,
00:21:35.460 a bit late.
00:21:36.620 Why did it take
00:21:37.220 so long?
00:21:38.560 I feel like the
00:21:39.460 only reason we're
00:21:40.240 allowed to do
00:21:41.040 this, the UK
00:21:43.240 or anybody, is
00:21:44.920 there must be
00:21:45.440 some big corporate
00:21:46.460 entity that
00:21:47.800 decided to
00:21:48.300 it doesn't
00:21:48.720 matter now.
00:21:49.740 But I feel like
00:21:50.600 somebody was just
00:21:51.440 stopping it.
00:21:52.620 I just don't
00:21:53.100 know who.
00:21:54.040 Because it made
00:21:54.780 sense from day
00:21:55.540 one.
00:21:56.620 The math made
00:21:57.320 sense, the logic
00:21:58.200 made sense, and
00:21:59.260 nobody ever
00:21:59.880 disagreed.
00:22:00.960 That's the weird
00:22:01.580 thing about it.
00:22:02.800 In most issues
00:22:03.840 you've got some
00:22:04.560 disagreement, but
00:22:06.080 with this rapid
00:22:06.840 testing thing,
00:22:08.240 nobody who
00:22:09.040 understood it
00:22:10.200 disagreed with
00:22:12.060 it, that I'm
00:22:13.320 aware of.
00:22:14.480 There were lots
00:22:15.020 of people who
00:22:15.600 misunderstood it to
00:22:16.820 be a little
00:22:17.200 different than
00:22:17.720 what it really
00:22:18.220 was, and they
00:22:19.500 were disagreeing
00:22:20.360 with a
00:22:20.640 misunderstanding.
00:22:21.120 But nobody
00:22:22.080 who understood
00:22:22.740 it, expert or
00:22:25.320 non-expert, nobody
00:22:26.440 who understood it
00:22:27.460 disagreed with it.
00:22:29.660 And it took nine
00:22:30.360 months before they
00:22:31.160 even put a trial
00:22:32.280 together?
00:22:33.320 There's something
00:22:34.160 deeply mysterious
00:22:35.000 about why this
00:22:36.120 didn't happen sooner,
00:22:37.140 because it was just
00:22:37.620 so obvious.
00:22:39.420 I don't know, maybe
00:22:40.180 it's a communication
00:22:40.820 thing.
00:22:41.280 But that's good
00:22:44.040 news, anyway.
00:22:45.640 Here's the news
00:22:46.600 that may get me
00:22:47.260 kicked off of all
00:22:48.300 social media.
00:22:49.080 We'll see.
00:22:50.240 Let's see how
00:22:50.920 close we can fly
00:22:51.740 to the sun.
00:22:52.500 You ready?
00:22:54.240 If this is the
00:22:55.000 last time you
00:22:55.520 ever see me, it's
00:22:56.940 been nice.
00:22:59.180 So I saw a bunch
00:23:00.760 of social media
00:23:01.380 stories that there
00:23:02.860 was violence in
00:23:03.580 Israel, there
00:23:04.040 was some kind
00:23:04.760 of protests,
00:23:06.720 Palestinian protests
00:23:07.860 in some holy
00:23:08.860 area.
00:23:09.820 A story you've
00:23:10.620 heard a million
00:23:11.060 times, the
00:23:13.480 Israeli military
00:23:14.600 or whoever
00:23:15.180 the Air
00:23:15.480 Forces responded
00:23:17.060 and people got
00:23:18.200 hurt and I think
00:23:19.240 there were some
00:23:19.660 deaths.
00:23:20.800 So the story
00:23:21.400 sounds like,
00:23:22.120 you know,
00:23:23.480 Groundhog Day.
00:23:25.280 There's more
00:23:26.040 protests, blah,
00:23:27.460 blah, people
00:23:28.140 got hurt, blah,
00:23:29.280 blah, blah.
00:23:30.140 And so I said
00:23:31.140 to myself,
00:23:31.760 wow, what are
00:23:32.260 they protesting?
00:23:34.100 It wasn't in
00:23:34.780 the story or
00:23:36.040 the headline.
00:23:37.400 And I thought,
00:23:38.780 well, isn't that
00:23:39.440 like the main
00:23:40.460 story?
00:23:41.060 It's like, why
00:23:42.460 are you protesting?
00:23:44.880 And then what
00:23:45.940 happened in the
00:23:46.440 protest?
00:23:47.280 How do you
00:23:47.840 leave out the
00:23:48.360 why are you
00:23:48.840 protesting?
00:23:50.400 Check today the
00:23:51.240 major media, the
00:23:52.940 way they're tweeting
00:23:53.740 and talking about
00:23:54.520 it.
00:23:55.780 I'm not sure that
00:23:57.020 they're really even
00:23:57.660 covering the
00:23:58.200 reason.
00:23:59.220 So I had to go
00:24:00.220 to follow the
00:24:02.120 hashtag on
00:24:02.840 Twitter and find
00:24:04.360 some anti-Israel
00:24:05.660 people just to
00:24:07.900 find out what the
00:24:08.520 context was.
00:24:09.320 just the
00:24:11.580 context.
00:24:12.660 That's it.
00:24:13.440 I had to go to
00:24:14.160 anti-Israel
00:24:15.300 sources.
00:24:17.540 And the
00:24:18.040 protest is
00:24:18.820 allegedly, and
00:24:20.520 given the
00:24:21.360 quality of the
00:24:22.060 reporting and
00:24:22.720 where I'm getting
00:24:23.220 it from, I
00:24:23.760 don't even know
00:24:24.160 if this is
00:24:24.620 true.
00:24:25.820 But allegedly
00:24:26.660 there's some
00:24:27.180 kind of ethnic
00:24:27.860 cleansing going
00:24:28.640 on over there
00:24:29.240 in Jerusalem
00:24:29.960 in which people
00:24:32.060 who are not
00:24:32.820 Jewish, or is
00:24:34.900 it not Israeli
00:24:35.580 citizens?
00:24:36.100 I'm not sure
00:24:37.600 which it is,
00:24:38.880 are being
00:24:40.060 forcibly
00:24:40.720 relocated.
00:24:42.340 To which I
00:24:43.180 say, is that
00:24:44.060 true?
00:24:45.760 And, you
00:24:46.680 know, I saw
00:24:47.820 somebody on
00:24:48.520 Twitter push
00:24:49.560 back and say,
00:24:50.900 well, you
00:24:51.540 don't understand,
00:24:52.880 you know, that's
00:24:53.340 how it is over
00:24:53.900 there, basically.
00:24:54.940 To which I say,
00:24:55.720 I'm not even
00:24:56.220 arguing the
00:24:57.480 point.
00:24:59.520 What I'm only
00:25:00.480 amazed that I
00:25:01.940 couldn't get at
00:25:02.500 the context from
00:25:03.520 our regular
00:25:04.080 news.
00:25:05.200 The regular
00:25:05.920 news just
00:25:06.520 didn't even
00:25:06.880 put the
00:25:07.140 context in
00:25:07.780 there.
00:25:09.160 I would
00:25:09.720 think ethnic
00:25:10.380 cleansing should
00:25:11.160 have been the
00:25:11.500 headline.
00:25:12.660 Now, I'm
00:25:13.920 going to say
00:25:14.260 alleged, because
00:25:16.280 I'm sure if
00:25:17.420 you ask Israel,
00:25:18.220 they wouldn't
00:25:18.560 say they're
00:25:18.920 doing any
00:25:19.320 ethnic cleansing,
00:25:20.240 would they?
00:25:21.160 So whatever
00:25:21.900 they think
00:25:22.520 they're doing,
00:25:23.760 it's probably
00:25:24.540 a security
00:25:25.160 thing, or I
00:25:26.260 don't know,
00:25:26.600 who knows
00:25:26.980 what it is.
00:25:27.920 I'm sure they
00:25:28.440 have a good
00:25:28.800 reason, or at
00:25:29.960 least it would
00:25:30.340 sound good if
00:25:30.880 you heard it.
00:25:31.880 But why is
00:25:32.920 that not the
00:25:33.420 headline?
00:25:34.880 People protesting
00:25:35.860 ethnic cleansing.
00:25:38.380 Well, you
00:25:40.460 can answer that
00:25:42.080 question yourself.
00:25:46.340 Over on CNN,
00:25:47.800 it looks like
00:25:48.280 Chris Eliza's
00:25:49.160 job is to
00:25:50.100 pre-bunk the
00:25:50.920 Arizona audit,
00:25:52.420 meaning to
00:25:53.120 put enough
00:25:54.380 doubt into
00:25:55.520 the people
00:25:56.120 doing the
00:25:56.540 Arizona election
00:25:57.660 audit that
00:25:58.660 no matter what
00:25:59.320 they come up
00:25:59.920 with, you're
00:26:00.520 going to say
00:26:00.760 to yourself,
00:26:01.380 well, that
00:26:01.960 was already
00:26:03.260 pre-bunked.
00:26:04.600 We don't
00:26:04.980 even need to
00:26:05.460 wait for the
00:26:05.960 outcome, because
00:26:07.080 we already know
00:26:07.700 it's not
00:26:08.060 credible.
00:26:09.240 And so they're
00:26:09.600 going pretty hard
00:26:10.180 at it, and
00:26:11.520 except that
00:26:12.420 here's the way
00:26:14.380 they handled it.
00:26:15.140 This is
00:26:15.620 Crystal's opinion
00:26:16.920 piece on CNN.
00:26:17.700 It says, the
00:26:19.520 headline says, the
00:26:20.460 most absurd
00:26:21.180 conspiracy theory
00:26:22.380 yet in the
00:26:23.180 ongoing Arizona
00:26:24.260 recount.
00:26:25.420 Now, what would
00:26:26.060 you think with
00:26:27.180 this headline?
00:26:27.980 The most
00:26:28.620 absurd conspiracy
00:26:29.920 theory yet?
00:26:30.860 Well, the first
00:26:31.900 thing you'd
00:26:32.360 hear is, there
00:26:33.640 are lots of
00:26:34.220 conspiracy
00:26:34.720 theories.
00:26:36.540 So, if you're
00:26:37.960 wondering if the
00:26:38.640 Arizona audit is
00:26:39.980 being reported as
00:26:42.060 maybe credible or
00:26:43.220 not credible, CNN's
00:26:45.060 decided to paint
00:26:46.220 them with the
00:26:46.920 multiple conspiracy
00:26:48.560 theory brush.
00:26:50.220 So, right away,
00:26:51.760 they're mired in
00:26:53.620 multiple conspiracy
00:26:55.060 theories.
00:26:56.100 Okay.
00:26:56.420 And then this
00:26:59.800 one, whatever
00:27:00.220 they're going to
00:27:00.640 talk about next,
00:27:01.360 is the most
00:27:01.860 absurd one yet.
00:27:04.440 So, wouldn't
00:27:05.300 you think that
00:27:05.840 the story is
00:27:07.500 about the
00:27:07.960 people doing
00:27:08.660 the audit
00:27:09.240 believing
00:27:10.360 conspiracy
00:27:11.200 theories?
00:27:13.220 Right?
00:27:14.780 That's what the
00:27:15.500 headline suggests,
00:27:16.660 that the people
00:27:17.340 doing the audit
00:27:18.160 believe in
00:27:20.140 these conspiracy
00:27:20.900 theories.
00:27:21.660 And then they
00:27:22.280 quote one of
00:27:23.220 the persons who
00:27:23.960 is organizing it,
00:27:25.500 somebody in
00:27:25.940 charge,
00:27:26.420 and he says
00:27:27.340 why are you
00:27:27.900 checking, and
00:27:28.360 the specifics
00:27:29.140 was, they're
00:27:30.740 looking to see
00:27:31.300 if there's any
00:27:31.800 bamboo fiber in
00:27:33.200 any of the
00:27:33.680 ballots, because
00:27:34.660 if there is,
00:27:35.960 that would suggest
00:27:36.700 that the paper
00:27:37.380 was made in
00:27:38.220 China, because
00:27:39.340 we don't use
00:27:40.020 bamboo as any
00:27:41.040 part of our
00:27:41.560 paper products.
00:27:43.920 Okay.
00:27:44.400 Now, how
00:27:45.800 likely is it
00:27:46.800 that they're
00:27:47.360 going to find
00:27:47.860 bamboo in the
00:27:49.140 paper of the
00:27:49.820 ballots?
00:27:51.200 Well, I'm
00:27:51.980 going to say
00:27:52.360 unlikely.
00:27:54.680 Anything's
00:27:55.240 possible.
00:27:55.640 I'm not
00:27:56.440 going to
00:27:56.660 rule it
00:27:57.040 out, but
00:27:58.120 I would
00:27:58.440 say that
00:27:59.040 one's in
00:27:59.480 the unlikely
00:28:00.180 category.
00:28:01.660 However, how
00:28:02.400 did the
00:28:02.760 person running
00:28:03.380 the audit
00:28:03.820 who was
00:28:04.340 interviewed
00:28:04.800 say?
00:28:06.560 He said
00:28:07.160 that they
00:28:07.460 were, quote,
00:28:07.980 trying to
00:28:08.480 un-gaslight
00:28:09.300 people about
00:28:10.180 Chinese paper
00:28:11.040 on ballots.
00:28:12.120 I'm paraphrasing,
00:28:13.280 but he actually
00:28:13.800 said un-gaslight.
00:28:15.920 In other words,
00:28:17.200 the person
00:28:17.880 running the
00:28:18.380 audit doesn't
00:28:19.880 believe there's
00:28:20.420 going to be
00:28:20.740 any bamboo in
00:28:21.980 the paper,
00:28:23.000 but it
00:28:24.000 would be
00:28:24.300 helpful to
00:28:25.420 get rid of
00:28:25.900 this conspiracy
00:28:26.580 theory.
00:28:28.520 In other
00:28:29.000 words, CNN
00:28:31.240 was on the
00:28:32.160 same side as
00:28:33.540 the guy they
00:28:34.040 interviewed and
00:28:35.140 then wrote a
00:28:35.700 headline to
00:28:36.440 make it look
00:28:36.900 like he was
00:28:37.340 on the
00:28:37.580 opposite side.
00:28:39.280 Neither of
00:28:39.820 them think that
00:28:40.400 this is going
00:28:40.900 to come out
00:28:41.440 with anything
00:28:41.920 true, and
00:28:43.520 both of them
00:28:44.200 would like to
00:28:44.880 see it
00:28:45.160 debunked.
00:28:46.160 This guy's
00:28:46.940 doing it.
00:28:47.840 He's actually
00:28:48.300 debunking it
00:28:49.060 by looking
00:28:50.000 for it and
00:28:50.560 not finding
00:28:50.980 it.
00:28:52.660 So, this
00:28:54.180 is just
00:28:54.740 completely
00:28:55.280 unethical
00:28:55.980 reporting, or
00:28:56.940 at least the
00:28:57.740 headline is
00:28:58.220 unethical, but
00:28:59.720 we've come to
00:29:00.220 expect that.
00:29:01.900 So, the
00:29:02.560 pre-bunking is
00:29:03.320 underway.
00:29:04.160 It does
00:29:04.540 indicate that
00:29:05.160 there is some
00:29:05.720 fear.
00:29:07.080 The way they're
00:29:07.720 saying it, the
00:29:08.480 CNN folks are
00:29:09.360 saying the
00:29:09.780 fear is that
00:29:10.720 the audit will
00:29:13.380 come up with
00:29:13.960 new BS, that
00:29:16.000 everybody will
00:29:16.500 have to explain
00:29:17.120 away, and it's
00:29:17.840 just a lot of
00:29:19.060 work for
00:29:19.760 nothing.
00:29:20.260 But I think
00:29:21.060 they might be
00:29:21.580 afraid that
00:29:22.200 something might
00:29:22.740 be found as
00:29:23.800 well.
00:29:25.060 They might be.
00:29:26.000 We can't read
00:29:26.660 their minds, but
00:29:27.380 they might be.
00:29:29.500 All right.
00:29:36.160 There we go.
00:29:37.120 There was all
00:29:37.620 the missing
00:29:38.040 pages.
00:29:40.440 So, how
00:29:41.760 important would
00:29:42.440 it be to
00:29:42.920 society to
00:29:43.920 have a
00:29:44.380 credible source
00:29:45.440 of news,
00:29:46.480 or a
00:29:47.520 credible source
00:29:48.440 fact-checking?
00:29:50.620 Don't you
00:29:51.340 think society
00:29:52.100 would be
00:29:52.580 greatly
00:29:52.980 benefited by
00:29:54.780 credible fact-checking?
00:29:57.440 Well, here's an
00:29:58.460 example.
00:30:00.540 PolitiFact...
00:30:01.440 Damn it.
00:30:03.740 Never print on
00:30:04.520 two sides.
00:30:10.060 So,
00:30:10.720 PolitiFact is...
00:30:12.440 Jesus Christ.
00:30:14.660 Sorry.
00:30:15.440 Sorry.
00:30:17.160 Forget it.
00:30:21.040 I have a flaw in
00:30:22.600 my mental makeup,
00:30:24.040 which is that if
00:30:26.060 things are unorganized,
00:30:27.060 they drive me crazy.
00:30:29.820 And my printer
00:30:30.860 decided to print on
00:30:31.980 the back of one of
00:30:33.020 my sheets, but not
00:30:34.320 the rest.
00:30:35.640 It's making me a
00:30:36.760 little bit crazy.
00:30:37.460 Because you think
00:30:38.720 your printer would
00:30:39.400 either print front
00:30:40.960 and back,
00:30:42.300 or print only
00:30:43.120 front.
00:30:43.940 You don't expect
00:30:44.980 your printer to
00:30:45.760 print three pages,
00:30:47.040 but one of them
00:30:47.900 has something on
00:30:48.500 the back.
00:30:49.980 Now, I don't
00:30:50.620 think that's even
00:30:51.320 the setting.
00:30:52.420 And the odds of
00:30:53.020 that printer going
00:30:53.840 over my balcony
00:30:54.720 to be smashed
00:30:56.100 into pieces after
00:30:57.060 I'm done with
00:30:57.560 this broadcast
00:30:58.640 are very high
00:30:59.600 right now.
00:31:02.360 Here's another
00:31:03.140 fake news
00:31:03.960 from CNN.
00:31:05.480 So, the headline
00:31:06.200 was, school district
00:31:07.120 apologizes,
00:31:08.220 no, actually
00:31:08.620 this was on
00:31:09.180 Twitter, various
00:31:10.840 headlines.
00:31:12.000 So, school district
00:31:12.860 apologizes for
00:31:13.820 offering support
00:31:14.980 circles to white
00:31:15.960 students following
00:31:17.620 the Chauvin trial.
00:31:20.220 All right, so
00:31:20.600 there's a school
00:31:21.260 district, look at,
00:31:23.040 watch how misleading
00:31:24.180 this is.
00:31:25.020 There's a school
00:31:25.620 district that
00:31:27.600 allegedly, but
00:31:28.860 it's not true,
00:31:30.220 allegedly, offered
00:31:31.980 support circles to
00:31:33.240 white students
00:31:33.980 following the
00:31:34.620 Chauvin trial.
00:31:36.200 So, the first
00:31:36.820 thing you need
00:31:37.240 to know is
00:31:37.940 that it didn't
00:31:40.360 happen.
00:31:41.580 All right, so
00:31:42.120 that didn't
00:31:42.460 happen.
00:31:43.060 What it was, was
00:31:44.040 that white students
00:31:44.900 were invited to
00:31:46.320 become allies with
00:31:47.720 people of color
00:31:49.620 and to basically,
00:31:52.600 you know, just be
00:31:53.400 allied.
00:31:54.100 So, it wasn't
00:31:54.540 anything about
00:31:55.240 comforting white
00:31:56.420 students.
00:31:57.840 However, people
00:31:59.240 who thought that's
00:32:00.260 what it was about,
00:32:01.060 and it wasn't,
00:32:02.520 protested.
00:32:03.220 So, they had to
00:32:04.780 walk it back.
00:32:08.320 Do you see how
00:32:09.180 crazy this is?
00:32:10.600 So, the thing
00:32:12.020 they said was
00:32:12.960 something that
00:32:13.560 wasn't happening.
00:32:14.720 It was actually a
00:32:15.500 completely woke
00:32:16.480 thing to do.
00:32:17.800 But because the
00:32:18.780 headline, or the
00:32:19.540 way it was
00:32:19.840 presented, made it
00:32:20.680 look like it was
00:32:21.960 unwoke, they had to
00:32:23.100 walk it back, even
00:32:24.700 though it was
00:32:25.240 woke.
00:32:26.560 So, you can't
00:32:27.400 even do a woke
00:32:28.300 thing if you
00:32:30.560 explain it in a
00:32:31.340 way that other
00:32:31.800 people criticize
00:32:32.540 it as being
00:32:33.160 unwoke, you
00:32:33.880 have to pull
00:32:34.840 back your
00:32:35.260 wokeness.
00:32:36.800 I mean, that
00:32:37.180 is, we're in
00:32:38.820 pretty absurd
00:32:39.420 territory.
00:32:40.440 But here's the
00:32:41.060 part that
00:32:41.440 bothered me.
00:32:44.180 Why can't
00:32:44.940 white students
00:32:45.480 have a support
00:32:47.020 circle after the
00:32:48.180 Chauvin verdict?
00:32:50.100 Because I'm
00:32:50.800 pretty sure a
00:32:51.340 lot of white
00:32:52.480 people believe
00:32:53.820 that Chauvin
00:32:54.680 was not the
00:32:56.000 subject of
00:32:56.560 justice.
00:32:58.060 Because he
00:32:58.660 wasn't.
00:32:59.700 I mean,
00:33:00.140 whatever that
00:33:00.960 trial was, and
00:33:01.960 whether or not
00:33:02.580 Chauvin did
00:33:03.140 something that
00:33:03.720 makes him go
00:33:04.580 to jail, or
00:33:05.320 should make him
00:33:05.840 go to jail, is
00:33:07.360 a separate
00:33:07.700 question.
00:33:08.840 But the trial
00:33:09.500 was unfair.
00:33:10.860 If you're a
00:33:11.360 white person and
00:33:12.120 you watched a
00:33:12.760 white person be
00:33:13.500 railroaded in
00:33:14.780 public by your
00:33:15.700 justice system,
00:33:17.220 maybe you do
00:33:17.940 need a support
00:33:18.640 group.
00:33:20.480 Maybe you
00:33:21.180 should have a
00:33:21.840 white person
00:33:22.420 support group.
00:33:23.520 You just
00:33:23.960 watched a white
00:33:24.660 person being
00:33:25.300 taken down by
00:33:26.060 political, by
00:33:27.220 a politically
00:33:29.540 motivated jury,
00:33:32.240 you know, even
00:33:34.880 if Chauvin
00:33:35.780 deserves to be
00:33:36.580 punished, it's
00:33:37.160 a whole separate
00:33:37.660 question, but
00:33:38.880 the trial wasn't
00:33:39.600 fair.
00:33:40.660 I mean, not
00:33:41.020 even a little
00:33:41.400 bit.
00:33:43.880 So anyway,
00:33:45.340 that bothers me
00:33:46.840 on every level,
00:33:47.680 that story.
00:33:49.060 And,
00:33:50.020 all right,
00:33:52.940 I've got some
00:33:54.840 other things to
00:33:55.360 talk about, but
00:33:55.960 they're too
00:33:56.240 boring.
00:33:57.220 All right,
00:33:58.460 are any of you
00:33:59.740 having Biden
00:34:00.660 boredom problems?
00:34:03.320 Because there's
00:34:04.520 something going
00:34:05.160 on, and I
00:34:06.840 don't know if
00:34:07.380 it's the golden
00:34:07.940 age, that I
00:34:09.400 didn't know the
00:34:09.940 golden age would
00:34:10.540 be so boring,
00:34:11.920 but I feel as
00:34:13.680 if the news has
00:34:14.700 just stopped
00:34:15.300 reporting bad
00:34:16.380 news because
00:34:17.120 Biden's in
00:34:17.860 charge, and
00:34:19.200 there isn't
00:34:19.600 enough going on
00:34:20.500 in the Trump
00:34:21.220 world.
00:34:21.720 They're doing
00:34:22.640 repeats and
00:34:24.020 stuff, like,
00:34:24.620 oh, remember
00:34:25.240 the time Trump
00:34:26.160 did this, or
00:34:27.040 remember the
00:34:28.240 time he said
00:34:28.820 that?
00:34:29.640 There's just
00:34:30.240 nothing happening.
00:34:33.300 Boring but
00:34:34.020 radical.
00:34:34.540 Yeah, that's a
00:34:35.160 good strategy
00:34:35.700 that the
00:34:36.340 Democrats have.
00:34:37.460 The more
00:34:37.900 boring they
00:34:38.520 make it, the
00:34:39.420 more they can
00:34:40.120 slip through
00:34:41.560 their radical
00:34:42.960 agenda.
00:34:44.220 But have you
00:34:44.860 noticed that
00:34:45.400 there's a whole
00:34:45.840 bunch of
00:34:46.360 states that are
00:34:48.480 passing school
00:34:50.080 choice now,
00:34:51.740 or at least
00:34:52.320 letting the
00:34:53.100 money follow
00:34:53.620 the student,
00:34:54.420 which turns
00:34:55.060 out to be
00:34:55.460 similar.
00:34:56.920 So there's
00:34:57.560 some really
00:34:58.080 good things
00:34:58.760 happening in
00:34:59.280 the world
00:34:59.560 right now.
00:35:01.020 But, yeah.
00:35:03.780 So apparently
00:35:04.320 Matt Gaetz and
00:35:05.580 Marjorie Taylor
00:35:06.740 Green have
00:35:07.440 teamed up for
00:35:08.580 some kind of
00:35:09.100 a tour, and
00:35:11.880 I think it's
00:35:13.440 interesting that
00:35:14.020 the two most
00:35:14.840 cancelled people
00:35:16.940 decided to team
00:35:17.880 up.
00:35:18.120 I like the
00:35:20.040 fact that
00:35:20.800 neither of
00:35:21.680 them went
00:35:22.060 on defense.
00:35:23.280 They both
00:35:23.700 went on
00:35:24.040 offense, and
00:35:24.680 they teamed
00:35:25.140 together on
00:35:25.600 offense.
00:35:26.240 It's a better
00:35:26.680 strategy.
00:35:27.900 Because if they
00:35:28.680 apologized, then
00:35:30.060 it'd just be
00:35:30.520 over.
00:35:31.280 But if they
00:35:31.820 go on
00:35:32.180 offense, they
00:35:33.480 have a chance
00:35:34.300 of making a
00:35:34.780 dent, especially
00:35:35.860 if they're
00:35:36.200 interesting.
00:35:39.600 All right.
00:35:40.100 many conservative
00:35:45.020 women are
00:35:45.720 emerging for
00:35:46.340 the GOP,
00:35:47.200 somebody said.
00:35:48.020 I don't know
00:35:48.400 what that
00:35:48.660 means.
00:35:49.180 Weren't they
00:35:49.560 always there?
00:35:54.240 Somebody said,
00:35:55.720 I'm not going
00:35:56.560 to read that
00:35:56.960 comment.
00:35:58.120 That's funny.
00:36:00.340 All right.
00:36:04.680 Studies show
00:36:05.480 that politicians
00:36:06.120 who apologize
00:36:06.920 face more
00:36:07.900 criticisms.
00:36:09.280 Yeah, you
00:36:09.680 would expect
00:36:10.120 that, wouldn't
00:36:11.220 you?
00:36:13.040 Tim Byrne
00:36:13.720 says, how
00:36:14.120 do you use
00:36:14.540 your hands
00:36:15.080 in persuading?
00:36:16.520 That's a good
00:36:17.000 question.
00:36:17.740 I'll answer
00:36:18.360 that question
00:36:18.840 because I'm
00:36:20.080 out of
00:36:21.400 political stuff.
00:36:22.940 So you
00:36:24.320 could certainly
00:36:24.860 be persuasive
00:36:25.880 without using
00:36:26.620 your hands.
00:36:27.320 It's not a
00:36:27.980 requirement.
00:36:28.980 But if you're
00:36:30.000 trying to keep
00:36:30.480 people's attention,
00:36:31.980 your hands
00:36:32.740 can really do
00:36:33.660 it.
00:36:34.200 Here's how I
00:36:34.760 do it.
00:36:35.260 I do
00:36:35.560 practically
00:36:36.120 miming.
00:36:36.600 Have you ever
00:36:39.840 seen me
00:36:40.220 mime?
00:36:41.340 Here I am
00:36:41.960 walking up to
00:36:42.620 a glass wall.
00:36:48.660 See?
00:36:49.640 Pretty impressive.
00:36:50.980 Anyway, the point
00:36:51.700 is that I try to
00:36:53.040 draw physical
00:36:53.940 objects with my
00:36:54.940 hands, if you
00:36:56.200 haven't seen me
00:36:56.760 do that.
00:36:57.520 So if I'm
00:36:58.020 describing something
00:36:59.460 that there's a
00:37:01.100 big thing and a
00:37:01.720 small thing,
00:37:02.700 you'll often see
00:37:03.460 me do with my
00:37:04.480 hands forming
00:37:05.600 the big thing
00:37:06.300 and then
00:37:07.400 separately talk
00:37:08.480 about the
00:37:08.920 small thing.
00:37:10.560 And part of
00:37:11.040 that is to
00:37:11.540 make visual
00:37:12.180 what I'm
00:37:13.460 talking about.
00:37:14.940 And because
00:37:15.660 it's movement
00:37:16.280 and it's big,
00:37:18.820 see how big
00:37:19.360 this movement
00:37:19.820 is?
00:37:21.200 If you looked
00:37:22.100 at 100 people
00:37:23.060 on stage,
00:37:23.700 how many of
00:37:24.160 them would
00:37:24.540 have their
00:37:24.860 hands up
00:37:25.280 here?
00:37:26.200 Not many.
00:37:27.180 This is really
00:37:27.780 big.
00:37:28.720 And one of the
00:37:29.320 things you have
00:37:29.700 to learn when
00:37:30.340 you're a presenter
00:37:31.000 is how to
00:37:32.260 go bigger
00:37:32.820 than you
00:37:33.880 feel comfortable
00:37:34.580 with.
00:37:35.260 If you're
00:37:35.800 talking to
00:37:36.220 the public,
00:37:38.440 your natural
00:37:39.420 inclination is
00:37:40.260 to go small
00:37:40.980 with your
00:37:42.720 hands.
00:37:43.460 You'd be
00:37:43.700 like,
00:37:44.440 you know,
00:37:45.580 sort of this
00:37:46.200 thing.
00:37:47.580 You know,
00:37:48.280 and hope
00:37:49.380 everybody's
00:37:50.300 feeling good
00:37:51.240 a little bit.
00:37:52.060 Because you're
00:37:52.720 going to have
00:37:53.520 an illusion
00:37:54.180 that the
00:37:55.260 audience would
00:37:55.900 think you
00:37:56.300 look funny
00:37:56.980 if you go
00:37:57.980 bigger.
00:37:58.880 But in fact,
00:37:59.760 it's the
00:38:00.060 opposite.
00:38:01.000 So once
00:38:01.520 you get
00:38:01.760 past the
00:38:02.200 illusion,
00:38:02.860 then you
00:38:03.120 can really
00:38:03.600 make a
00:38:04.600 difference on
00:38:05.100 stage or
00:38:05.640 in public.
00:38:06.500 So the
00:38:06.760 illusion is,
00:38:07.520 if I were
00:38:07.840 to go like
00:38:08.240 this,
00:38:09.420 you would
00:38:09.820 like me
00:38:10.240 less or
00:38:10.740 respect me
00:38:11.400 less because
00:38:12.240 I'm so
00:38:12.600 wacky and
00:38:13.200 I'm going
00:38:13.720 big.
00:38:14.620 But it's
00:38:15.140 actually the
00:38:15.560 only reason
00:38:15.920 anybody wants
00:38:16.460 to watch.
00:38:17.540 If you
00:38:18.040 don't exceed
00:38:19.480 some
00:38:20.040 expectations,
00:38:21.640 nobody's
00:38:22.080 going to be
00:38:22.320 interested.
00:38:23.380 So you
00:38:23.620 have to
00:38:23.840 either be
00:38:24.600 more dangerous
00:38:25.340 than they
00:38:25.780 thought you
00:38:26.100 would be.
00:38:26.660 See what I'm
00:38:27.060 doing with
00:38:27.360 my hands?
00:38:28.220 More dangerous.
00:38:29.640 It's almost
00:38:30.260 physical.
00:38:30.720 You can see
00:38:31.400 me almost
00:38:31.860 grabbing something
00:38:32.700 and moving it.
00:38:34.560 It's more
00:38:34.860 dangerous.
00:38:35.680 I've got a
00:38:36.000 little ball of
00:38:36.500 danger in my
00:38:37.120 hand right now.
00:38:38.980 So if you're
00:38:39.760 not dangerous,
00:38:41.580 nobody cares.
00:38:42.740 That's why
00:38:43.100 Trump is so
00:38:43.680 interesting.
00:38:44.500 That's why
00:38:44.920 Cernovich is so
00:38:45.720 interesting.
00:38:46.300 He's dangerous.
00:38:47.360 It's why you
00:38:48.040 watch me,
00:38:49.100 because I'm
00:38:49.540 dangerous.
00:38:50.940 Right?
00:38:51.120 So part of
00:38:52.260 being dangerous
00:38:52.820 is also doing
00:38:53.680 things that
00:38:54.400 other people
00:38:54.940 say, I
00:38:55.900 couldn't do
00:38:56.400 that because
00:38:57.700 I would be
00:38:58.100 too embarrassed.
00:38:59.600 So when you
00:39:00.320 watch somebody
00:39:00.820 who's doing
00:39:01.200 something that
00:39:01.780 you couldn't
00:39:02.520 do or
00:39:02.880 wouldn't do
00:39:03.360 because you
00:39:03.800 would be
00:39:04.080 embarrassed to
00:39:04.640 do it,
00:39:05.380 they're doing
00:39:06.020 exactly the
00:39:06.760 right thing
00:39:07.260 for a public
00:39:08.180 presentation.
00:39:09.360 So go
00:39:09.640 big,
00:39:10.480 big,
00:39:11.160 this is
00:39:11.640 big,
00:39:12.140 this is
00:39:12.460 big,
00:39:13.220 this is
00:39:14.140 small.
00:39:16.480 That's
00:39:16.980 small.
00:39:17.780 Go big.
00:39:18.260 All right.
00:39:20.820 You'll
00:39:21.260 never
00:39:21.480 regret it.
00:39:26.020 When you
00:39:26.600 see a deaf
00:39:27.100 person do
00:39:27.660 this,
00:39:28.220 he's done
00:39:28.740 with you.
00:39:29.340 Okay.
00:39:30.300 We learned
00:39:30.860 a little
00:39:31.200 sign language
00:39:32.000 there,
00:39:32.320 some signing.
00:39:36.180 How could
00:39:36.820 I be
00:39:37.140 embarrassed
00:39:37.540 when so
00:39:38.020 many are
00:39:38.440 so foolish?
00:39:39.460 I like
00:39:39.940 that point
00:39:40.500 of view.
00:39:41.680 You know,
00:39:41.920 if you
00:39:42.200 can learn
00:39:42.640 to not
00:39:43.180 be
00:39:43.380 embarrassed
00:39:43.980 by,
00:39:45.720 you know,
00:39:46.320 fear of
00:39:46.700 failure and
00:39:47.380 anything else,
00:39:48.260 it's like
00:39:48.920 a superpower.
00:39:54.580 All right.
00:39:56.580 Shows
00:39:57.060 age.
00:39:58.020 What shows
00:39:58.600 age?
00:39:59.120 Hands?
00:40:00.520 I mean,
00:40:00.860 they do,
00:40:01.260 but I
00:40:01.460 don't know
00:40:01.680 if that's
00:40:01.980 your point.
00:40:04.860 Christine
00:40:05.240 says,
00:40:05.880 Cernovich
00:40:06.240 is repulsive.
00:40:08.160 You know,
00:40:08.400 that's why
00:40:08.900 he is
00:40:09.460 also
00:40:11.140 successful.
00:40:12.760 If you
00:40:13.320 didn't have
00:40:13.720 strong feelings
00:40:14.620 for him,
00:40:15.180 both positive
00:40:15.920 and negative,
00:40:16.640 he wouldn't
00:40:17.100 be who he
00:40:17.780 is.
00:40:18.260 So there's
00:40:19.140 nobody who
00:40:19.860 evokes
00:40:20.620 strong positive
00:40:21.540 feelings who
00:40:22.140 doesn't evoke
00:40:22.900 strong negative
00:40:23.680 ones.
00:40:24.560 I doubt
00:40:24.960 you'd find
00:40:25.420 many exceptions.
00:40:27.300 All right.
00:40:27.980 That's all I
00:40:28.400 got for now,
00:40:29.020 and I will
00:40:29.440 talk to you
00:40:29.960 tomorrow.
00:40:30.540 tomorrow.
00:40:30.980 Bye-bye.
00:40:31.080 Bye-bye.
00:40:32.100 Bye-bye.
00:40:33.340 Bye-bye.
00:40:34.380 Bye-bye.