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

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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. 0.96

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, 0.78

00:02:01.080 my number one first choice would be to be killed by a falling Chinese rocket. 0.94

00:02:09.120 Number one, you wouldn't know it was happening. 0.99

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. 0.96

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? 0.52

00:02:41.660 Can you imagine what would happen if I got killed by a Chinese rocket? 0.99

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. 0.82

00:03:04.780 And if I got killed by a falling Chinese rocket, 0.91

00:03:09.040 it would probably be good for the world. 0.97

00:03:11.500 So bring it on. Bring on that rocket. 0.98

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. 0.99

00:06:29.600 I mean, it would just be a wild, wild, you know, shit show. 0.99

00:06:35.360 The media, people would go nuts. 1.00

00:06:38.580 They would just lose their shit. 0.99

00:06:40.120 And I would like to see that so much. 1.00

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, 0.94

00:10:11.920 and the balls to do it, right? 0.99

00:10:13.560 You'd have to have gigantic balls 0.99

00:10:15.160 as well as the skill set. 0.82

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! 0.60

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, 0.64

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. 0.76

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 0.96

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 0.99

00:14:43.160 be a jerk 0.99

00:14:43.640 about this. 1.00

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 1.00

00:14:54.620 having sex with. 0.90

00:14:56.260 Happened to be 1.00

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, 0.99

00:16:37.600 damn it, I hope 0.97

00:16:38.300 the cousin's name 1.00

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 1.00

00:17:14.780 dumb, including 0.99

00:17:16.500 the experts. 1.00

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 0.99

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 0.93

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, 0.61

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 1.00

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... 1.00

00:30:01.440 Damn it. 1.00

00:30:03.740 Never print on 0.99

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 0.98

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 0.57

00:30:56.100 into pieces after 0.98

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 0.72

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 0.94

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 0.88

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 0.98

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 0.99

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 0.97

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.99

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 1.00

00:39:38.440 so foolish? 1.00

00:39:39.460 I like 1.00

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 0.81

00:40:06.240 is repulsive. 0.67

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.

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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