Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 13, 2021


Episode 1374 Scott Adams： Trump's Funniest New Insults, Israel Dismantling Hamas, CNN Viewers Gaslighted on Climate


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Ellen DeGeneres quits her TV show, AOC criticizes Joe Biden for his comments on the Middle East, and Scott Adams talks about the latest in the Biden vs. AOC debate. Plus, a look at what it means to be a woman in politics.

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00:00:38.200 Well, in my ongoing segment called Democrats Eat Their Own, Ellen DeGeneres has announced that she's quitting her show because she was accused a while ago of a toxic workplace.
00:01:00.060 And ratings tanked because people didn't want to watch a show with somebody who was pretending to be all nice, but running a toxic, toxic workplace.
00:01:14.520 And Ellen has responded. And she says that the toxic work claims were a coordinated misogynistic attack on her because she's a woman. 0.95
00:01:25.620 And she couldn't have known the staff were unhappy. Huh. What would be a way to know that your staff is unhappy? It's too bad there's no way to know.
00:01:41.080 So I guess Ellen's off the hook. Because if you manage a staff and you work with them closely all day long, five days a week for 19 years,
00:01:50.740 I don't know how you could possibly detect any unhappiness. I mean, what would you do? Talk to people? Maybe look at their reactions? Get a little feedback?
00:02:05.160 Really, there was no way to go there. So Ellen really had no choice. She couldn't have known her staff was unhappy.
00:02:12.940 But apparently the women who are saying bad things about her, including a woman producer, are part of the coordinated misogynistic attack. 1.00
00:02:25.160 So not only is it a coordinated misogynistic attack, but it's being done by women. 1.00
00:02:31.680 It's the worst kind of misogynistic attack. Woman-on-woman crime. I'm sure there's some men in there too.
00:02:38.080 I saw a video by, it's on the Fox News site, Virginia Lieutenant Governor nominee Winsome Sears.
00:02:49.860 Now, I recommend you watch the video because you've never seen somebody with so much charisma
00:02:57.380 and someone who the camera loves. I mean, the camera loves her, meaning that her charisma on camera,
00:03:06.340 just like, it's like this bright beam. And interestingly, she's Republican and she came in against
00:03:15.680 critical race theory and branded it nonsense. Now, if that's not good enough, she's an ex-Marine.
00:03:23.780 How would you like to be a black Republican woman who's, you know, prominent in at least state politics, 1.00
00:03:33.580 be an ex-Marine and be great on camera?
00:03:40.340 I would watch out for this one. Keep an eye on her because I don't think this is her last job in politics. 1.00
00:03:48.260 If she gets the first one, we'll see if she wins. But boy, does she have the whole package. 0.98
00:03:54.120 It takes you approximately four seconds to say, what am I watching here? Oh, crap. This is the real deal.
00:04:03.100 Now, I could be wrong because literally I'm judging her on, you know, just a little appearance on TV.
00:04:08.640 But good luck doing that well on TV, if you're anybody else. I mean, it's not easy to come across that well on TV,
00:04:18.240 especially if you're new to it. And she nailed it. 1.00
00:04:23.040 So the situation with Israel and Hamas is heating up.
00:04:30.300 Allegedly, the Palestinian militants have stockpiled enough missiles to continue bombing Israel for the next two months.
00:04:38.640 How do we know that?
00:04:43.240 How do we know how many missiles Hamas has?
00:04:49.340 If we know how many they have, don't we know where they are?
00:04:54.180 Because how can you know how many they have unless you also know where they are?
00:04:59.480 I mean, I don't know exactly how we would have that intel, but let's say we do.
00:05:03.500 So a number of things have happened on this story.
00:05:07.560 AOC criticized Biden for only saying that Israel has a right to defend itself.
00:05:13.460 And as she described, without having any words at all about what the other side is complaining about
00:05:21.880 or what it is they want or how they've been treated, AOC says that it's terribly unfair.
00:05:27.560 But you have to look at the causes of this, you know, the unrest.
00:05:33.440 To which I say, no, you don't.
00:05:37.000 I can't think of a bigger waste of time than to look for the nuance.
00:05:41.300 Because everywhere else in the world, it seems, I mean, just perceptually,
00:05:49.200 it seems that if you know who's right and you know who's wrong,
00:05:53.040 that would allow you to do something differently,
00:05:56.720 such as put somebody in jail or free somebody from some allegations or something like that.
00:06:02.800 But none of that applies in the Middle East.
00:06:04.660 It's just power.
00:06:05.420 Any argument you make about why someone should have done something or who was really the cause,
00:06:12.540 but if they were the cause, what about the cause before that?
00:06:16.760 But who caused that?
00:06:18.440 How far do you go?
00:06:19.900 None of this is useful.
00:06:22.620 I'm all for understanding situations.
00:06:25.860 But once you understand it, Richard Thomas, let's talk to Richard Thomas here.
00:06:32.360 So, Dick, I know you're being a dick.
00:06:38.580 Scott's a right-wing shill.
00:06:40.060 First of all, I'm left to Bernie, so get informed.
00:06:44.220 So when you make public comments like this, you don't look like a fucking idiot.
00:06:49.820 Now, I'm not saying that you shouldn't criticize me.
00:06:52.740 I'm fine with criticism.
00:06:54.300 But your criticism should at least be in the same general category as the topic.
00:07:00.200 For example, if you were to criticize the Pope for, let's say, sagging his pants, would that be fair?
00:07:10.700 Ah, the Pope should not wear sagged pants.
00:07:14.540 But you know he doesn't.
00:07:16.920 So if you were to criticize the Pope in public for wearing his pants sagged,
00:07:22.680 you would be a fucking idiot. 0.97
00:07:25.140 Because you're not even on the right topic.
00:07:30.660 All right.
00:07:31.640 I think we were talking about Israel and Hamas.
00:07:36.240 But I just had to respond to Dick.
00:07:41.620 So if they've got this many weapons and Israel's got to do something,
00:07:47.160 it looks like Netanyahu has taken out, and Israel's military, has taken out nine Hamas leaders.
00:07:56.220 How many do they have?
00:07:58.880 How many leaders are there in Hamas?
00:08:01.040 And if you were a Hamas leader, let's say you were in the top ten,
00:08:05.320 and your team starts firing some missiles,
00:08:08.040 don't you know you're dead that night?
00:08:11.020 Israel is pretty consistent about this.
00:08:13.080 Well, let's say, are you firing missiles into Israel tonight?
00:08:18.160 Yes or no?
00:08:19.980 Yes.
00:08:21.100 Will you be alive by morning if you're one of the top commanders in Hamas?
00:08:26.900 No.
00:08:29.840 Okay.
00:08:31.340 Do I care that they got killed?
00:08:33.480 Nope.
00:08:34.480 Don't care about them whatsoever.
00:08:37.140 Do I think that we should have a balanced approach over there?
00:08:41.780 We could, but what's the point?
00:08:44.960 What would be the point?
00:08:46.680 Nothing's going to change because we think it's somebody's fault or somebody else's fault.
00:08:51.800 None of this has anything to do with anything.
00:08:53.820 It's just going to be what it is.
00:08:55.280 It's just power.
00:08:56.860 If Israel has the power, they'll squash this problem, 0.98
00:08:59.840 and if they don't, they won't.
00:09:01.380 But there's nothing else to be said about it.
00:09:04.200 Israel will, of course, look to find any advantage in it, 1.00
00:09:07.780 as they're good at doing historically.
00:09:11.780 And they'll probably come out ahead.
00:09:13.700 So at the moment, Netanyahu is...
00:09:15.960 Here's the funniest part.
00:09:18.220 I don't even know how to understand this next part.
00:09:22.820 Apparently Hamas has asked for a ceasefire.
00:09:27.700 What?
00:09:29.580 What?
00:09:31.580 Hamas asked for a ceasefire?
00:09:33.500 Are you freaking kidding me?
00:09:36.920 This is not a ceasefire situation.
00:09:39.860 This is like somebody rapes and kills your wife right in front of you,
00:09:43.300 and then you start to kill them in revenge,
00:09:45.660 and they go, whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:09:47.500 Let's have a little ceasefire here.
00:09:50.020 But let's not get out of control.
00:09:52.060 Just because I raped and killed your wife, 0.98
00:09:54.860 let's not make this disproportional.
00:09:57.660 Well, I said ceasefire.
00:10:00.220 So let's ceasefire.
00:10:01.800 Unless you're like a bloodthirsty, crazy people,
00:10:05.460 take the ceasefire.
00:10:08.180 No, this is not ceasefire situation.
00:10:12.000 Maybe if you had a war, 0.53
00:10:14.280 you know, that had been going on for a while,
00:10:16.560 you'd reach some kind of a conclusion,
00:10:19.120 somebody won, somebody lost.
00:10:21.740 I can see you might want a ceasefire.
00:10:23.480 But not for a terrorist act.
00:10:28.520 I don't think there's any doubt
00:10:30.180 that Israel's going to send in ground forces.
00:10:33.380 Does anybody have any doubt about that?
00:10:36.280 I don't see any possibility there won't be ground forces.
00:10:40.900 So that's my prediction.
00:10:42.780 Because Israel has a big opening now.
00:10:45.300 The attack was so much
00:10:46.840 that Israel can go do terrible things 1.00
00:10:49.480 that it couldn't have done before.
00:10:50.960 And sometimes you have to do terrible things
00:10:53.860 to get something done for national security.
00:10:57.440 So I think that Hamas just gave Israel 0.93
00:11:00.460 a free pass to do whatever the hell they want.
00:11:03.760 And whatever the hell they want
00:11:05.160 is going to be pretty, pretty bad for Hamas.
00:11:09.420 So I don't even know if Israel is coming out behind.
00:11:13.640 I think Israel is going to come out ahead, actually, 1.00
00:11:16.280 by knocking down Hamas a little bit. 0.51
00:11:18.900 So apparently Hamas is using
00:11:23.620 GPS-guided suicide drones.
00:11:28.820 So cheap drones.
00:11:31.220 Instead of controlling them the whole way,
00:11:34.140 they just give it a GPS coordinate, apparently,
00:11:36.540 and just have it go off and do something.
00:11:39.540 Now, I think that they do it by GPS.
00:11:42.240 The reporting's a little bit sketch on that.
00:11:45.580 So maybe it's being guided all the way to its target.
00:11:48.800 But it did talk about miles and miles of travel.
00:11:52.480 So I don't know if the signal would reach
00:11:54.020 these cheap drones too well.
00:11:57.060 Because it's not like they're using satellites or anything.
00:11:59.120 So I predicted the drone,
00:12:03.500 the direction-guided sort of self-guiding drones
00:12:10.840 back in 2004 in my book,
00:12:12.800 The Religion War, 0.92
00:12:13.740 which was a sequel to God's Debris.
00:12:18.380 The Religion War had the following primary plot. 0.73
00:12:21.760 It was set approximately 20 years in the future.
00:12:27.360 It was set now.
00:12:28.720 All right, so in 2004,
00:12:30.500 the time period for that book was basically now.
00:12:35.280 And the idea was that terrorists in the Middle East
00:12:39.660 would start using drones
00:12:42.560 and that they would eventually come to the homeland,
00:12:45.600 in this case, America.
00:12:46.980 And that the bad people,
00:12:52.100 in order to keep their own power
00:12:53.660 and to keep their population happy,
00:12:55.880 would have to keep attacking the West 0.95
00:12:58.180 to have some credibility.
00:13:01.480 So they don't want to win
00:13:03.020 because they can't really just defeat
00:13:04.880 all the Western powers or whatever.
00:13:06.980 They can't really defeat Israel. 0.82
00:13:08.840 But they can pester forever.
00:13:11.500 And if they pester enough,
00:13:14.140 it just keeps them in power.
00:13:15.440 But if they pester too much,
00:13:17.380 then there's going to be a giant war.
00:13:20.500 And so the book is about solving that problem,
00:13:24.540 which is that the terrorists have a reason
00:13:27.900 to continue being terrorists,
00:13:29.540 and they start using drones,
00:13:31.100 and they put chemicals on them.
00:13:33.220 Now, it seems to me that
00:13:34.440 because these cheap drones don't weigh much
00:13:36.580 and they can't carry much in terms of bombs,
00:13:38.780 that the obvious way this is going to go
00:13:41.020 is chemical warfare.
00:13:43.180 Wouldn't you agree?
00:13:47.120 And I don't feel like I'm giving them the idea
00:13:49.440 or anything because it's just too obvious.
00:13:52.140 The lowest weight you could carry
00:13:54.700 would be a chemical.
00:13:56.600 So as soon as the people who have the drones
00:13:59.060 have access to bad chemicals,
00:14:02.060 whatever they might be,
00:14:03.460 I think you're going to see that.
00:14:05.140 Now, when that happens,
00:14:06.300 that should provoke a response
00:14:10.600 that would be bigger than just about
00:14:12.160 any response you've ever seen.
00:14:14.560 So it would be a response similar to,
00:14:17.140 you know, Hiroshima and Nagasaki kind of thing.
00:14:20.000 So I think that's where things are going
00:14:21.660 maybe in the next five years.
00:14:25.240 All right.
00:14:26.280 Here's a plan for how to control a country.
00:14:29.040 You ready?
00:14:29.460 Let's say you had a country
00:14:31.480 that was a democracy-ish
00:14:34.080 and you wanted to take control.
00:14:38.060 Here's a way to do it.
00:14:39.580 Number one, persuade this public
00:14:41.760 to follow the science.
00:14:44.220 That would be step one in creating a dictatorship.
00:14:47.400 Convince the public
00:14:48.360 that they're all idiots 0.80
00:14:50.680 unless they follow the science.
00:14:52.940 And other people can mock you.
00:14:55.400 Your fellow citizens can mock you
00:14:57.240 if you don't follow the science.
00:14:58.480 You've got to follow the science.
00:15:00.660 That's step one.
00:15:02.460 And you say to yourself,
00:15:03.440 what's wrong with that, Scott?
00:15:04.980 Of course we want to follow the science.
00:15:07.000 Yeah, you do.
00:15:07.860 You do want to follow the science.
00:15:10.480 But who interprets the science?
00:15:12.400 Who tells you what the science was?
00:15:14.660 Well, it's not you
00:15:15.460 because you didn't see any science personally.
00:15:18.400 You're waiting for somebody
00:15:19.380 to tell you what the science is.
00:15:21.220 So step two
00:15:22.060 is to control the narrative
00:15:24.000 around what science says.
00:15:26.520 So does science say
00:15:28.880 that electric cars are the future?
00:15:32.240 Does science say
00:15:33.440 that climate change will kill us all?
00:15:36.180 What does science say?
00:15:38.080 Well, unfortunately,
00:15:40.000 science doesn't have a voice per se.
00:15:42.240 It has to be interpreted
00:15:43.480 by the news business,
00:15:46.160 by your government in some cases.
00:15:47.780 So the second point
00:15:49.580 is to control the narrative.
00:15:51.620 So let's say that the party in power
00:15:53.780 had a good working relationship
00:15:56.180 with the dominant news organizations.
00:15:59.600 The news organizations
00:16:01.100 could tell the public
00:16:02.700 that they have to follow the science,
00:16:04.640 and then they could tell them
00:16:05.900 what the science says.
00:16:07.940 Now we're into the dangerous part.
00:16:09.660 Because if they tell you
00:16:11.700 the science is X,
00:16:13.360 you act one way.
00:16:14.700 If they tell you it's Y, 1.00
00:16:16.180 you act the other way.
00:16:17.680 But are you following the science?
00:16:19.660 Or are you just doing
00:16:20.500 what the people
00:16:21.020 who interpreted the science
00:16:22.300 and put a narrative on it
00:16:23.520 told you as the science?
00:16:25.740 So you could very easily
00:16:27.080 think you're following science,
00:16:28.560 and the next thing you know,
00:16:29.880 you're in effectively a dictatorship.
00:16:32.480 Because you don't know
00:16:33.520 what the science is,
00:16:34.560 you don't have access to it,
00:16:36.380 you only know
00:16:37.120 what the government
00:16:37.740 told you the science was.
00:16:39.360 And if you don't follow it,
00:16:40.860 well, you're going to be ostracized,
00:16:42.800 and your reputation
00:16:44.220 will be destroyed,
00:16:45.180 and you're just a science denier,
00:16:46.960 and who's going to hire
00:16:47.560 a person like that?
00:16:49.500 So that's the thing
00:16:50.580 to worry about,
00:16:52.240 is who controls the narrative
00:16:53.600 around what the science
00:16:55.020 officially says.
00:16:57.280 Have you noticed
00:16:58.200 that on Twitter,
00:16:59.660 there's a pinned,
00:17:01.800 it's in that trending area
00:17:03.320 on the browser at least,
00:17:05.080 and it's about
00:17:06.180 the Arizona audit,
00:17:07.740 and it notes
00:17:08.900 that a lot of experts
00:17:11.640 or Republicans
00:17:12.340 are having doubts,
00:17:13.460 I think they're saying
00:17:14.220 a lot of people,
00:17:15.140 are having doubts
00:17:15.920 about the audit.
00:17:17.960 Now, why is that
00:17:19.000 on the trending side
00:17:21.620 just pinned there?
00:17:24.180 Every day I wake up lately,
00:17:26.520 and there it is,
00:17:27.760 that the Arizona audit
00:17:29.260 is sketchy,
00:17:31.020 basically.
00:17:32.520 Now,
00:17:33.360 is that
00:17:34.520 the top news
00:17:35.800 every day?
00:17:36.320 because it feels to me
00:17:38.440 like it's actually
00:17:39.160 a smallish part
00:17:40.620 of the news
00:17:41.200 unless they find something,
00:17:42.860 right?
00:17:43.100 It's a smallish part
00:17:44.040 of the news,
00:17:44.640 but it's prominent
00:17:45.860 on Twitter
00:17:46.440 because it's propaganda,
00:17:48.960 right?
00:17:49.600 Putting that there
00:17:50.560 and leaving it there
00:17:51.480 to say that people
00:17:52.300 are worried about
00:17:52.980 how sketchy it is,
00:17:54.000 whatever language
00:17:54.600 they use,
00:17:55.020 that's just propaganda.
00:17:58.020 It's very transparent,
00:18:00.660 right?
00:18:01.260 So that's, you know,
00:18:02.740 somebody controlling
00:18:03.480 the narrative there.
00:18:05.000 But,
00:18:05.720 there is a story
00:18:07.480 coming out of it,
00:18:08.820 and the story
00:18:09.700 goes like this,
00:18:10.700 and before I tell you
00:18:11.560 the story about
00:18:12.300 the audit,
00:18:13.800 I'm going to give you
00:18:14.720 some general advice.
00:18:17.400 Anything you hear
00:18:18.400 about the Arizona audit
00:18:19.860 is probably false.
00:18:24.780 Probably.
00:18:26.140 Now, that doesn't mean
00:18:27.120 it's all false,
00:18:28.520 but anything you hear
00:18:29.760 early,
00:18:31.100 the earliest you hear it,
00:18:33.100 the more likely
00:18:33.880 it's bullshit, 0.86
00:18:34.960 right?
00:18:35.400 Now, eventually,
00:18:36.760 we might have something
00:18:37.880 approaching knowledge
00:18:38.860 because, let's say,
00:18:39.980 they find some things.
00:18:41.580 If they find something,
00:18:42.840 obviously,
00:18:43.360 that would open it up
00:18:44.160 to other people
00:18:44.940 reviewing it,
00:18:45.820 more experts,
00:18:47.220 you know,
00:18:47.460 Democrats looking at it,
00:18:48.680 giving their opinion,
00:18:49.360 et cetera.
00:18:50.000 If we go through
00:18:50.860 all of those experts,
00:18:52.620 and there's still
00:18:53.260 some substance there,
00:18:55.280 then I'm going to say,
00:18:56.240 whoa, pay attention to that.
00:18:57.660 Looks like the experts
00:18:59.480 couldn't even debunk it.
00:19:01.620 But, in the beginning,
00:19:03.420 the odds of any
00:19:05.240 of these stories
00:19:05.880 being real
00:19:06.540 is just really low.
00:19:08.520 I mean,
00:19:08.920 pretty close to zero.
00:19:10.420 So, today's
00:19:11.380 pretty close to zero story
00:19:13.000 is that the
00:19:14.800 Maricopa County
00:19:15.660 deleted a directory
00:19:17.880 full of election
00:19:18.860 databases
00:19:19.440 from the very election
00:19:21.460 that they're auditing
00:19:22.260 days before
00:19:23.520 they have to give
00:19:24.220 the equipment
00:19:24.760 to the audit.
00:19:27.220 Now, if that's true,
00:19:29.360 it's pretty bad,
00:19:31.200 right,
00:19:31.740 that they deleted
00:19:32.880 the database
00:19:34.180 before handing it
00:19:35.300 over to audit.
00:19:37.080 So,
00:19:37.920 what's that sound
00:19:39.180 like to you?
00:19:40.340 Put on your
00:19:40.960 BS detector,
00:19:42.320 all of you,
00:19:43.500 and tell me
00:19:46.000 in the comments
00:19:46.640 what flags
00:19:50.200 you see in this.
00:19:52.240 Do you see any
00:19:53.120 flags on this story?
00:19:54.240 All right,
00:20:01.100 let's see if you
00:20:01.720 can get this.
00:20:03.060 Here's the red flag.
00:20:05.460 It's a little bit
00:20:06.180 too on the nose.
00:20:07.940 What have I told you
00:20:08.720 about that?
00:20:09.780 If you see a story
00:20:11.080 that's too neat,
00:20:12.660 if you see a story
00:20:22.380 that's just too
00:20:23.280 exactly what you
00:20:24.520 would want this
00:20:25.240 story to be,
00:20:26.780 wouldn't you,
00:20:27.560 let's say you're a
00:20:28.380 Republican or a
00:20:29.200 Trump supporter,
00:20:30.440 wouldn't you just
00:20:31.180 love to hear that
00:20:33.180 somebody got caught
00:20:34.080 red-handed
00:20:34.700 deleted a database
00:20:36.460 and then you
00:20:37.980 look at it
00:20:38.640 and there's a
00:20:39.680 reason it was
00:20:40.220 deleted because
00:20:40.960 that's where all
00:20:41.600 the bad stuff
00:20:43.040 was hidden.
00:20:44.680 Okay,
00:20:44.960 the odds of
00:20:45.960 that perfect
00:20:47.140 story being
00:20:49.140 true,
00:20:50.280 I'm going to
00:20:52.020 say pretty low,
00:20:53.840 pretty low,
00:20:54.400 but it could be,
00:20:55.600 right?
00:20:56.180 And I saw
00:20:57.540 online,
00:20:58.300 you know,
00:20:58.480 the question was
00:20:59.060 asked,
00:21:00.180 if it's true,
00:21:03.340 how could you
00:21:03.920 explain it?
00:21:04.580 with anything
00:21:05.340 else,
00:21:06.440 how could you
00:21:07.220 explain it other
00:21:08.000 than bad
00:21:08.840 intentions?
00:21:09.920 To which I say,
00:21:11.340 that's never the
00:21:12.100 first assumption.
00:21:13.800 The first assumption
00:21:14.860 if data is erased
00:21:16.140 is incompetence.
00:21:19.220 And I'm
00:21:20.460 imagining a
00:21:21.500 typical bureaucracy
00:21:22.840 and it goes
00:21:23.700 like this.
00:21:25.320 Hey,
00:21:25.700 we're the audit
00:21:26.320 people and we
00:21:27.420 have court
00:21:28.220 approval to have
00:21:29.220 access to your
00:21:30.640 machines,
00:21:32.660 so deliver us
00:21:33.880 our machines
00:21:34.580 by next
00:21:35.580 week.
00:21:36.640 And they
00:21:36.940 talk to
00:21:37.320 somebody who's
00:21:37.920 in management
00:21:38.880 who controls
00:21:39.760 the machines.
00:21:40.740 The person
00:21:41.380 in control of
00:21:41.900 the machines
00:21:42.340 says to an
00:21:43.580 underling,
00:21:44.780 hey,
00:21:45.080 we have to
00:21:45.580 turn over
00:21:46.120 these machines
00:21:46.900 by Tuesday.
00:21:48.740 The underling
00:21:49.840 assigns it to
00:21:50.760 yet another
00:21:51.380 underling,
00:21:52.520 who now is
00:21:53.200 three layers
00:21:53.880 away from
00:21:54.400 what was
00:21:54.780 requested,
00:21:55.820 and says,
00:21:56.640 we've been
00:21:56.980 requested to
00:21:57.940 deliver these
00:21:58.640 machines to
00:22:00.100 this entity
00:22:00.700 by Tuesday.
00:22:01.860 The final
00:22:02.600 person who
00:22:03.180 gets the
00:22:03.620 final
00:22:04.060 instructions
00:22:06.180 might not
00:22:07.500 even know
00:22:07.940 why.
00:22:09.540 Might only
00:22:10.300 know that
00:22:10.660 they have to
00:22:11.020 deliver some
00:22:11.620 machines.
00:22:12.940 And so,
00:22:13.640 you could
00:22:14.040 imagine,
00:22:14.600 and I'm
00:22:14.840 not saying
00:22:15.180 this happened,
00:22:15.860 I'm just
00:22:16.120 saying imagine
00:22:16.860 a bureaucracy
00:22:17.420 at work.
00:22:18.500 You can
00:22:18.940 imagine the
00:22:19.500 person doing
00:22:20.000 the actual
00:22:20.560 work saying
00:22:21.780 to themselves,
00:22:22.740 well,
00:22:23.220 what's our
00:22:23.560 process?
00:22:24.860 Oh,
00:22:25.620 our internal
00:22:26.340 process is
00:22:27.640 that you
00:22:27.900 never take a
00:22:28.540 machine and
00:22:29.240 of storage
00:22:29.860 and move
00:22:30.880 it anywhere
00:22:31.320 until you've
00:22:31.940 deleted its
00:22:32.540 data.
00:22:33.900 And so,
00:22:34.400 the guy doing
00:22:34.840 the work says,
00:22:35.460 what's my
00:22:35.800 process?
00:22:36.340 Oh,
00:22:36.840 I've been
00:22:37.160 asked to
00:22:37.540 deliver this
00:22:38.080 machine to
00:22:38.700 another place,
00:22:39.580 and our
00:22:40.080 process is
00:22:40.880 always delete
00:22:41.540 the data
00:22:41.900 before you
00:22:42.340 move the
00:22:42.640 machine.
00:22:44.000 Now,
00:22:44.340 I'm not
00:22:44.560 saying that's
00:22:45.000 the process.
00:22:46.140 I'm not
00:22:46.480 saying anything
00:22:47.020 like that
00:22:47.480 happened.
00:22:48.220 I'm just
00:22:48.660 saying if
00:22:49.060 your first
00:22:49.800 assumption
00:22:50.320 is bad
00:22:52.260 intentions,
00:22:54.180 I think
00:22:55.280 your first
00:22:56.060 assumption
00:22:56.480 has to be
00:22:57.080 bureaucracy
00:22:57.560 and stupidity 0.77
00:22:58.760 and incompetence
00:22:59.740 or even
00:23:01.240 that the
00:23:01.580 story isn't
00:23:02.100 true,
00:23:02.560 that nothing
00:23:03.060 was deleted.
00:23:04.700 That's your
00:23:05.380 first assumption.
00:23:07.240 Now,
00:23:07.460 if you've
00:23:07.820 worked through
00:23:08.240 all the
00:23:08.580 possibilities
00:23:09.120 that stupidity
00:23:10.460 was or
00:23:10.940 was not
00:23:11.240 there,
00:23:12.060 maybe you're
00:23:12.960 left with
00:23:13.800 bad intentions,
00:23:15.080 but you've
00:23:15.740 got to start
00:23:16.400 with just
00:23:17.240 stupidity. 0.92
00:23:19.840 Now,
00:23:20.200 the other
00:23:20.720 question is
00:23:21.260 whether anything
00:23:21.940 that was erased
00:23:22.840 from these
00:23:23.540 machines is
00:23:24.420 erased in a
00:23:25.640 bleach-bit way
00:23:26.920 where you
00:23:27.280 can never
00:23:27.700 recover it
00:23:28.360 or is it
00:23:29.260 simply deleted
00:23:30.180 in a way
00:23:30.740 that forensic
00:23:31.520 people can
00:23:32.080 just recover
00:23:32.620 it?
00:23:33.460 Because they
00:23:34.060 still have
00:23:34.360 the hard
00:23:34.600 drives,
00:23:35.000 I understand.
00:23:36.320 So we
00:23:37.240 don't know
00:23:37.600 anything about
00:23:38.260 this story
00:23:38.740 yet.
00:23:39.000 I wouldn't
00:23:39.260 assume any
00:23:39.680 of it's
00:23:39.940 true.
00:23:40.840 I would
00:23:41.160 assume it's
00:23:41.600 not true,
00:23:42.120 actually,
00:23:42.560 at this
00:23:43.660 stage.
00:23:47.600 All right.
00:23:49.080 So Liz
00:23:50.780 Cheney, of
00:23:51.360 course, lost
00:23:51.920 her committee
00:23:53.120 assignments or
00:23:53.860 whatever,
00:23:54.120 she's going
00:23:55.680 to make
00:23:56.400 it her
00:23:56.680 life's
00:23:57.140 mission to
00:23:57.700 take down
00:23:58.180 Trump.
00:23:59.680 But let
00:24:00.360 me tell
00:24:00.660 you, the
00:24:01.500 last thing
00:24:02.080 you want
00:24:02.440 to do if
00:24:03.340 you want
00:24:03.660 to take
00:24:04.040 down
00:24:04.340 Trump,
00:24:05.620 what would
00:24:06.380 be the
00:24:06.740 worst way
00:24:07.440 to do
00:24:07.760 that?
00:24:08.860 If you
00:24:09.420 were thinking
00:24:09.800 to yourself,
00:24:10.360 let's see,
00:24:11.420 we're going
00:24:11.800 to take
00:24:12.200 down Trump
00:24:12.860 so he
00:24:13.240 can't run
00:24:13.640 for president
00:24:14.160 again,
00:24:14.600 what will
00:24:14.940 we do?
00:24:15.600 What will
00:24:15.940 we do?
00:24:16.760 What will
00:24:17.080 be our
00:24:17.380 strongest
00:24:17.920 play?
00:24:18.480 Why don't
00:24:20.140 we take
00:24:20.560 somebody who
00:24:21.160 is wildly
00:24:22.020 unpopular
00:24:22.840 and have
00:24:24.420 her become
00:24:24.880 the face
00:24:25.520 of the
00:24:26.040 resistance
00:24:26.520 against
00:24:27.100 Trump?
00:24:27.940 Yes,
00:24:28.400 that's a
00:24:28.880 good plan.
00:24:30.780 Let me
00:24:31.620 give you
00:24:31.940 some advice
00:24:33.460 about trying
00:24:34.340 to take
00:24:34.820 out Trump.
00:24:36.800 Never
00:24:37.540 give him
00:24:38.080 an attractive 0.55
00:24:38.680 target,
00:24:40.000 because that's
00:24:41.520 what happened.
00:24:43.100 Suddenly,
00:24:44.620 Liz Cheney
00:24:45.420 just became
00:24:45.960 the Jim
00:24:46.380 Acosta
00:24:46.860 of Congress,
00:24:47.900 she became
00:24:49.580 the fake
00:24:50.020 news of
00:24:50.520 Congress.
00:24:52.240 There's
00:24:52.680 nothing
00:24:53.100 Trump likes
00:24:53.840 more than
00:24:55.540 an unpleasant
00:24:56.260 enemy.
00:24:57.780 I mean,
00:24:58.180 I don't know
00:24:58.620 if he could
00:24:59.020 like that
00:24:59.440 anymore.
00:25:00.880 So,
00:25:01.300 if you want
00:25:01.940 to power
00:25:02.360 Trump up,
00:25:03.960 give him
00:25:04.340 an unattractive
00:25:05.100 enemy.
00:25:06.280 And here I'm
00:25:06.740 not talking
00:25:07.160 about physically
00:25:07.840 unattractive,
00:25:08.620 but as a
00:25:09.860 candidate or
00:25:10.840 as a
00:25:11.140 politician.
00:25:13.220 I'm going
00:25:13.580 to read to
00:25:13.920 you later
00:25:14.260 some of
00:25:14.640 the...
00:25:16.060 Well,
00:25:16.380 I'll do it
00:25:16.640 now.
00:25:16.980 We'll skip
00:25:17.260 ahead.
00:25:18.480 So,
00:25:18.760 Trump now
00:25:19.280 has just
00:25:20.100 a website
00:25:20.680 and he
00:25:21.220 puts out
00:25:21.540 these press
00:25:22.060 releases,
00:25:22.760 and they
00:25:23.200 turn out
00:25:23.600 to be
00:25:23.860 basically
00:25:24.280 just super
00:25:25.180 tweets.
00:25:26.520 So,
00:25:26.760 I'm going
00:25:26.920 to read
00:25:27.160 you
00:25:27.440 Trump's
00:25:28.300 funniest
00:25:29.400 insults
00:25:30.240 from his
00:25:30.880 new process
00:25:32.280 of putting
00:25:32.760 out his
00:25:33.040 statements
00:25:33.340 all the
00:25:33.640 time.
00:25:35.060 So,
00:25:35.620 I'm just
00:25:36.020 going to
00:25:36.420 pick a
00:25:36.720 few.
00:25:37.100 So,
00:25:37.280 here's
00:25:37.480 the Liz
00:25:37.880 Cheney
00:25:38.160 one.
00:25:39.300 Liz
00:25:39.660 Cheney
00:25:40.060 is a
00:25:40.440 bitter,
00:25:40.880 horrible
00:25:41.200 human
00:25:41.600 being.
00:25:42.460 I
00:25:42.640 watched
00:25:42.980 her
00:25:43.140 yesterday
00:25:43.520 and
00:25:43.720 realized
00:25:44.100 how bad
00:25:44.720 she is
00:25:45.100 for the
00:25:45.380 Republican
00:25:45.760 Party.
00:25:46.140 She has
00:25:46.940 no
00:25:47.160 personality
00:25:47.780 or anything
00:25:48.380 good having
00:25:49.040 to do with
00:25:49.500 politics or
00:25:50.200 our country.
00:25:51.200 She is a
00:25:51.800 talking point
00:25:52.420 for Democrats,
00:25:53.640 whether that
00:25:54.100 means the
00:25:54.500 border,
00:25:54.880 the gas
00:25:55.180 lines,
00:25:55.500 inflation,
00:25:55.940 or destroying
00:25:56.460 our economy.
00:25:57.080 She is a
00:25:58.100 warmonger
00:25:58.780 whose family
00:25:59.360 stupidly
00:26:00.000 pushed us
00:26:00.520 into the
00:26:00.920 never-ending
00:26:01.400 Middle East
00:26:01.880 disaster,
00:26:03.060 draining our
00:26:03.700 wealth and
00:26:04.180 depleting our
00:26:04.860 great military,
00:26:06.080 the worst
00:26:06.560 decision in
00:26:07.180 our country's
00:26:07.820 history.
00:26:08.540 I look
00:26:08.920 forward to
00:26:09.480 soon watching
00:26:10.040 her as a
00:26:10.580 paid contributor
00:26:11.320 on CNN
00:26:12.060 or, as he
00:26:13.280 calls it,
00:26:13.760 MSDNC.
00:26:17.200 Now,
00:26:18.260 here's the
00:26:19.000 first thing I
00:26:19.520 have to say
00:26:19.920 about this.
00:26:21.620 Trump is
00:26:22.300 really underrated
00:26:23.540 as a writer,
00:26:25.880 just as a
00:26:26.460 writer.
00:26:27.820 This first
00:26:28.780 sentence,
00:26:29.680 Liz Cheney is
00:26:30.420 a bitter,
00:26:31.020 horrible human
00:26:31.680 being,
00:26:32.740 that's like a
00:26:34.160 perfect first
00:26:34.960 sentence.
00:26:36.520 Short to the
00:26:37.580 point, you know
00:26:38.340 exactly where
00:26:39.120 he's going and
00:26:39.860 then he fills
00:26:40.660 it out.
00:26:41.860 You could work
00:26:42.880 as a writer
00:26:44.140 for a hundred
00:26:44.840 years and
00:26:45.720 never write a
00:26:46.380 sentence as
00:26:47.620 good as this
00:26:48.180 first sentence.
00:26:49.100 Liz Cheney is
00:26:49.780 a bitter,
00:26:50.400 horrible human
00:26:50.940 being.
00:26:52.080 Could you
00:26:52.600 imagine yourself
00:26:53.380 not reading
00:26:53.880 the second
00:26:54.340 sentence?
00:26:55.640 Seriously.
00:26:56.160 Who in
00:26:57.320 the world
00:26:57.680 could read
00:26:58.160 that first
00:26:58.680 sentence and
00:26:59.320 then say,
00:27:00.140 oh, I get
00:27:00.620 it, and
00:27:01.440 then walk
00:27:01.820 away?
00:27:02.940 You can't.
00:27:04.180 You can't
00:27:05.020 read that
00:27:05.500 sentence and
00:27:06.620 not continue
00:27:07.320 reading.
00:27:08.000 That's what a
00:27:08.480 first sentence
00:27:09.000 is supposed
00:27:09.500 to be.
00:27:10.240 Let's do
00:27:10.800 another one.
00:27:11.240 quote, I
00:27:12.980 see that
00:27:13.400 everybody is
00:27:13.940 comparing Joe
00:27:14.620 Biden to
00:27:15.400 Jimmy Carter.
00:27:17.300 Okay, aren't
00:27:18.120 you in?
00:27:19.340 That's his
00:27:19.740 first sentence.
00:27:21.220 Could you
00:27:21.680 walk away
00:27:22.220 from that?
00:27:23.700 You can't.
00:27:24.720 You can't
00:27:25.380 walk away
00:27:25.800 from that
00:27:26.160 first sentence.
00:27:27.480 I see that
00:27:28.040 everybody is
00:27:28.600 comparing Joe
00:27:29.240 Biden to
00:27:29.760 Jimmy Carter.
00:27:30.960 You know
00:27:31.500 this is going
00:27:32.120 to be good.
00:27:33.580 Whatever comes
00:27:34.460 after that
00:27:35.000 sentence, if
00:27:36.360 it's coming
00:27:36.760 from Trump,
00:27:37.760 you know you're
00:27:38.820 going to be
00:27:39.220 entertained, don't
00:27:40.200 you.
00:27:41.100 Well, here's
00:27:41.560 the entertainment.
00:27:43.960 He says, it
00:27:45.460 would seem to
00:27:46.060 me that is
00:27:48.480 very unfair
00:27:49.200 to Jimmy
00:27:49.720 Carter.
00:27:50.780 Okay, it
00:27:51.580 begins, Jimmy
00:27:52.940 mishandled
00:27:53.520 crisis after
00:27:54.340 crisis, but
00:27:55.540 Biden has
00:27:56.140 created crisis
00:27:57.400 after crisis.
00:27:58.620 Oh, money
00:27:59.400 shot.
00:28:00.260 Money shot.
00:28:02.620 First, there
00:28:03.440 was the Biden
00:28:04.420 border crisis
00:28:05.380 that he refuses
00:28:06.560 to call a
00:28:07.060 crisis.
00:28:07.720 Then the
00:28:08.200 Biden economic
00:28:08.980 crisis.
00:28:09.620 Then the
00:28:09.840 Biden-Israel
00:28:10.460 crisis, and
00:28:11.140 now the
00:28:11.420 Biden gas
00:28:12.040 crisis.
00:28:13.360 Joe Biden
00:28:13.860 has had the
00:28:14.340 worst start
00:28:14.860 of any
00:28:15.240 president in
00:28:15.880 the United
00:28:16.160 States history.
00:28:18.020 And again,
00:28:18.820 he makes a
00:28:19.780 statement like
00:28:20.220 that, so you
00:28:20.840 have to fact
00:28:21.400 check it.
00:28:21.980 It's like,
00:28:22.580 okay, was
00:28:23.100 he the
00:28:23.360 worst?
00:28:24.180 Or was
00:28:24.740 he the
00:28:24.980 second worst?
00:28:26.280 We better
00:28:26.760 look into
00:28:27.160 whether he
00:28:27.500 was the
00:28:27.740 worst, or
00:28:28.220 was he
00:28:28.540 just the
00:28:28.860 top three
00:28:29.260 worst?
00:28:30.500 Classic
00:28:30.980 Trump.
00:28:32.480 And someday
00:28:33.320 they will
00:28:34.540 compare future
00:28:35.340 disasters to
00:28:36.620 the Biden
00:28:37.060 administration.
00:28:37.740 But no,
00:28:39.160 Jimmy was
00:28:39.720 better.
00:28:42.060 Now, don't
00:28:43.840 you miss
00:28:44.280 him?
00:28:45.320 I mean,
00:28:45.820 seriously.
00:28:47.060 He's the
00:28:47.580 only person
00:28:48.200 who knows
00:28:48.660 how to
00:28:48.920 really bring
00:28:49.520 humor and
00:28:51.060 interest to
00:28:52.060 politics.
00:28:54.260 Here's another
00:28:55.120 one.
00:28:55.540 He goes,
00:28:55.860 a guy
00:28:59.620 named Miles
00:29:00.420 Taylor, who
00:29:01.780 I have no
00:29:02.460 idea who
00:29:03.020 he is,
00:29:03.860 don't remember
00:29:04.440 ever meeting
00:29:04.960 him or
00:29:05.720 having a
00:29:06.140 conversation
00:29:06.600 with,
00:29:08.060 gets more
00:29:08.520 publicity
00:29:08.980 pretending
00:29:10.620 he had,
00:29:11.340 I'm sorry,
00:29:12.140 I can't talk
00:29:12.600 for a minute,
00:29:12.940 hold on.
00:29:19.240 He gets
00:29:19.900 more publicity
00:29:20.900 pretending he
00:29:21.700 was in the
00:29:22.140 inner circle
00:29:22.720 of our
00:29:23.000 administration
00:29:23.560 when he
00:29:24.460 was definitely
00:29:25.020 not.
00:29:25.920 Some people
00:29:26.560 refer to him
00:29:27.320 as, quote,
00:29:27.920 absolutely
00:29:28.560 nothing.
00:29:30.920 And he
00:29:31.560 goes on.
00:29:32.680 So he
00:29:33.300 refers to
00:29:33.780 this guy
00:29:34.100 as, quote,
00:29:35.080 absolutely
00:29:35.720 nothing.
00:29:36.620 Oh,
00:29:36.900 got it.
00:29:37.720 Allergy
00:29:38.160 problems this
00:29:38.740 morning.
00:29:39.120 Sorry.
00:29:40.200 All right.
00:29:42.640 I heard
00:29:43.360 that Nigel
00:29:44.120 Farage
00:29:45.460 confirmed on
00:29:46.880 his podcast
00:29:47.540 that Trump
00:29:48.040 lost weight.
00:29:48.980 I feel
00:29:51.860 like this
00:29:52.260 is actually
00:29:52.820 an important
00:29:54.300 story that
00:29:55.700 Trump lost
00:29:56.500 weight because
00:29:57.920 he looks
00:29:58.640 great.
00:30:00.100 And especially,
00:30:00.980 you know,
00:30:01.280 if he's
00:30:01.540 thinking about
00:30:01.940 running again,
00:30:03.280 you know,
00:30:03.520 how vital and
00:30:04.760 healthy he
00:30:05.240 looks.
00:30:06.040 I think it
00:30:06.800 matters.
00:30:07.660 It matters a
00:30:08.340 lot.
00:30:09.020 And so it
00:30:09.880 looks like he's
00:30:10.400 controlling
00:30:10.840 something he
00:30:11.420 can control.
00:30:12.060 All right.
00:30:16.800 Let's talk
00:30:17.120 about the
00:30:17.440 CDC guidance
00:30:18.940 on masks.
00:30:20.120 So the
00:30:20.440 CDC is
00:30:20.960 getting some
00:30:21.560 pushback
00:30:22.120 because their
00:30:22.860 mask guidance
00:30:23.720 is too
00:30:24.180 complicated.
00:30:25.140 And even,
00:30:25.480 you know,
00:30:26.360 Trevor Noah
00:30:26.900 is mocking
00:30:27.520 them.
00:30:28.300 So even the
00:30:28.940 left and the
00:30:29.440 right are
00:30:29.940 mocking them.
00:30:30.780 So basically
00:30:31.340 they're saying
00:30:32.720 go ahead and
00:30:33.840 do outdoor
00:30:34.320 things if
00:30:35.000 you're
00:30:35.520 vaccinated.
00:30:38.160 So let me
00:30:38.620 see if I can
00:30:39.160 help them.
00:30:40.240 Let me see if
00:30:40.780 I can simplify
00:30:41.540 their
00:30:41.940 own advice.
00:30:43.880 If you're
00:30:44.500 outdoors,
00:30:45.220 you don't
00:30:45.980 need a mask
00:30:46.620 if you're
00:30:46.980 vaccinated.
00:30:48.620 So far
00:30:49.280 simple,
00:30:49.680 right?
00:30:50.380 The exception
00:30:51.200 would be if
00:30:51.840 you're going
00:30:52.060 to be close
00:30:52.480 to somebody
00:30:52.940 for a while.
00:30:54.420 That's it.
00:30:56.500 That's the
00:30:57.060 whole outdoor
00:30:57.680 part.
00:30:59.060 So do you
00:30:59.460 think they
00:30:59.740 should hire
00:31:00.140 me to do
00:31:00.860 their messaging?
00:31:02.200 Because they've
00:31:02.820 got this
00:31:03.140 little,
00:31:03.580 like, you
00:31:03.860 know,
00:31:04.060 if this,
00:31:04.620 if that,
00:31:05.420 under these
00:31:05.960 conditions,
00:31:06.520 when to wear
00:31:06.900 a mask,
00:31:07.360 when it's
00:31:07.640 dangerous.
00:31:08.200 I just
00:31:08.600 told you the
00:31:09.040 whole thing.
00:31:10.580 Don't wear
00:31:11.080 a mask
00:31:11.420 outdoors if
00:31:12.060 you're vaccinated
00:31:12.700 unless you're
00:31:13.980 going to spend
00:31:14.280 some time
00:31:14.700 really close
00:31:15.200 to somebody.
00:31:16.960 That's it.
00:31:17.600 That's outdoors.
00:31:18.580 Now let's do
00:31:19.300 indoors.
00:31:20.580 Now their
00:31:21.300 guidance is you
00:31:22.120 should still
00:31:22.620 wear a mask
00:31:23.220 indoors if
00:31:25.960 you're around,
00:31:26.560 you know,
00:31:26.800 anybody you're
00:31:27.260 not hanging
00:31:27.600 around with all
00:31:28.160 the time,
00:31:29.080 such as your
00:31:29.840 family.
00:31:30.100 and that's
00:31:32.380 also kind
00:31:32.840 of simple,
00:31:33.320 right?
00:31:33.940 Wear a mask
00:31:34.600 indoors if
00:31:35.500 you're not
00:31:35.960 with your
00:31:36.360 familiar people.
00:31:38.200 But I'm
00:31:40.320 going to
00:31:40.600 suggest that
00:31:42.340 the public,
00:31:43.380 as I said
00:31:43.820 this before,
00:31:44.380 I think the
00:31:44.780 public just
00:31:45.340 needs to make
00:31:45.840 their own
00:31:46.180 guidelines and
00:31:47.740 then tell the
00:31:48.260 government what
00:31:48.760 they are.
00:31:50.000 Because if
00:31:50.600 enough of us
00:31:51.920 do it,
00:31:52.940 it just
00:31:53.320 becomes,
00:31:54.060 you know,
00:31:54.620 the de facto
00:31:55.220 standard.
00:31:56.580 And I would
00:31:57.020 say that by
00:31:57.540 July 4th,
00:31:58.580 and of
00:31:59.400 course I
00:31:59.700 would update
00:32:00.140 this as
00:32:00.740 data suggests,
00:32:02.400 you know,
00:32:02.740 if anything
00:32:03.060 changes.
00:32:04.080 But I think
00:32:04.520 by July 4th,
00:32:06.000 vaccinated people
00:32:07.660 should just go
00:32:08.280 maskless.
00:32:09.360 And the only
00:32:10.020 exception would
00:32:10.740 be if they're
00:32:11.380 going to be
00:32:11.720 in close contact
00:32:12.780 or in a room
00:32:13.700 for a long
00:32:14.160 time with
00:32:15.280 somebody who's
00:32:16.220 got an obvious
00:32:17.760 comorbidity.
00:32:18.820 You know,
00:32:18.980 they're a certain
00:32:19.680 age or they're
00:32:20.380 not too healthy
00:32:20.940 or something.
00:32:21.980 And I feel
00:32:23.580 like we should
00:32:24.200 just do that
00:32:24.820 July 4th,
00:32:26.080 Independence 0.62
00:32:26.500 Day.
00:32:28.080 Yeah.
00:32:28.220 And no
00:32:28.700 masks for
00:32:29.320 kids,
00:32:29.720 as you
00:32:30.100 say.
00:32:30.920 Now,
00:32:31.260 if your
00:32:31.600 kid has
00:32:33.540 a weight
00:32:34.280 problem or
00:32:34.800 something or
00:32:35.360 some other
00:32:35.680 health problem,
00:32:36.320 maybe that's
00:32:36.680 different.
00:32:38.180 All right.
00:32:40.860 And they're
00:32:41.460 also,
00:32:41.900 the CDC is
00:32:42.580 also trying
00:32:43.680 to figure
00:32:44.100 out how
00:32:46.180 dangerous it
00:32:46.860 is if you're
00:32:48.000 fully vaccinated,
00:32:49.280 if you can
00:32:50.100 still transmit
00:32:50.960 the virus
00:32:51.580 asymptomatically.
00:32:53.400 Now,
00:32:53.760 on one
00:32:54.140 hand,
00:32:54.480 I fully
00:32:55.640 approve that
00:32:57.580 they're looking
00:32:58.140 for that
00:32:58.520 data because
00:33:00.260 I'd like to
00:33:00.760 know that
00:33:01.060 data.
00:33:01.740 On the
00:33:02.420 other hand,
00:33:05.240 don't we
00:33:05.700 already know?
00:33:07.200 I mean,
00:33:07.760 we don't know
00:33:09.740 no in a
00:33:11.660 100%
00:33:12.220 certainty way.
00:33:13.520 We don't
00:33:14.340 know that
00:33:15.420 vaccinated,
00:33:16.200 fully vaccinated
00:33:16.960 people are a
00:33:18.440 very low risk
00:33:19.160 for transmitting,
00:33:20.000 but we
00:33:21.720 know it.
00:33:23.660 And if you
00:33:24.540 look at our
00:33:25.080 overall death
00:33:25.900 rate, it's
00:33:27.120 plunging and 0.69
00:33:27.840 it doesn't
00:33:28.180 look like it's
00:33:28.780 going to stop
00:33:29.200 plunging.
00:33:30.280 As long as
00:33:31.160 the overall
00:33:31.720 death rate
00:33:32.340 gets down to
00:33:33.260 about our
00:33:33.980 baseline death
00:33:34.720 rate, it
00:33:36.180 doesn't matter.
00:33:37.680 What if they
00:33:38.440 find out that
00:33:39.060 you can?
00:33:40.560 It wouldn't
00:33:41.220 change anything
00:33:41.860 because if the
00:33:43.160 overall death
00:33:43.800 rate has gotten
00:33:44.440 so low that
00:33:45.400 it's sort of
00:33:45.860 comparable to
00:33:46.580 just the
00:33:46.960 baseline death
00:33:47.660 rate, what's
00:33:49.600 the difference?
00:33:51.400 I mean,
00:33:52.100 it would be
00:33:53.660 far more
00:33:54.300 valuable to
00:33:55.360 just get back
00:33:56.020 to life as
00:33:58.340 long as our
00:33:58.880 death rate is
00:33:59.500 back down to
00:34:00.300 normal than
00:34:01.720 it would to
00:34:02.200 worry about
00:34:02.800 this little
00:34:03.340 special, unique
00:34:04.740 little risk.
00:34:06.000 So I would
00:34:06.960 say the CDC
00:34:07.680 is studying
00:34:09.780 something we
00:34:10.480 definitely want
00:34:11.160 to know, but
00:34:12.620 I don't think
00:34:13.040 the decision
00:34:13.620 should be based
00:34:14.220 on that.
00:34:15.080 It's just a
00:34:15.980 little extra.
00:34:17.120 So I think
00:34:17.720 that's a mistake
00:34:18.540 and probably
00:34:19.100 politically
00:34:19.700 motivated,
00:34:20.520 meaning that
00:34:21.100 politicians don't 0.94
00:34:22.280 like to guess
00:34:23.580 something wrong
00:34:24.320 so they err
00:34:25.120 in the side
00:34:25.460 of caution.
00:34:27.740 Rasmussen has
00:34:28.540 done a poll
00:34:29.060 that says that
00:34:30.120 apparently if
00:34:31.940 you watch
00:34:32.340 MSNBC or
00:34:33.580 CNN, you
00:34:34.620 get gaslighted
00:34:35.560 pretty hard
00:34:36.100 on climate.
00:34:37.640 So 54% 0.93
00:34:39.140 of likely
00:34:39.940 U.S.
00:34:40.280 voters who
00:34:40.700 watch MSNBC,
00:34:42.940 who say
00:34:43.680 it's their
00:34:43.960 favorite cable
00:34:44.500 channel,
00:34:45.440 believe that
00:34:46.600 basically
00:34:48.520 we're doomed
00:34:49.180 within 100
00:34:49.940 years from
00:34:50.480 climate change.
00:34:51.940 Just like
00:34:52.580 doomed.
00:34:54.880 Not as in
00:34:57.040 it will be
00:34:57.740 a challenge
00:34:58.680 to overcome
00:34:59.240 it.
00:35:00.360 Not as in
00:35:01.720 our GDP
00:35:02.560 won't be as
00:35:03.340 good as we
00:35:03.820 hoped.
00:35:05.320 Not as in
00:35:06.500 some places
00:35:08.660 will be less
00:35:09.360 habitable,
00:35:10.320 but other
00:35:11.020 places might be
00:35:11.780 more habitable
00:35:12.420 because of the
00:35:13.460 change.
00:35:14.340 No, nothing
00:35:14.840 like that.
00:35:16.040 Over half
00:35:17.020 of MSNBC
00:35:18.140 viewers think
00:35:19.540 the humanity
00:35:21.500 is doomed
00:35:22.120 in 100
00:35:22.540 years.
00:35:24.080 Now, could
00:35:25.520 you have
00:35:25.960 children if
00:35:27.960 you thought
00:35:28.420 the world
00:35:29.000 was doomed
00:35:29.480 in 100
00:35:29.900 years?
00:35:31.120 Let's say
00:35:31.540 you're a
00:35:31.780 young person.
00:35:33.100 Would you
00:35:33.540 bring a
00:35:33.900 child into
00:35:34.440 that world?
00:35:35.400 Because long
00:35:36.280 before it's
00:35:36.920 doomed, it's
00:35:38.420 doomed-ish.
00:35:40.300 You know, any
00:35:41.060 kid you bring
00:35:41.600 into the world
00:35:42.040 today will be
00:35:43.020 in that
00:35:43.740 doom area.
00:35:46.720 So let's
00:35:47.040 compare that
00:35:47.640 and also
00:35:48.760 53% of
00:35:50.220 CNN viewers
00:35:50.920 say the
00:35:51.260 same.
00:35:51.980 All right, so
00:35:52.340 more than
00:35:52.760 half of
00:35:53.460 CNN and
00:35:54.020 MSNBC
00:35:54.600 viewers say
00:35:56.040 that we're
00:35:56.600 doomed.
00:35:57.020 What about
00:35:57.460 Fox News
00:35:58.200 viewers?
00:35:58.760 What do
00:35:58.960 you think?
00:35:59.540 Only 25%.
00:36:00.820 So 25% 0.73
00:36:02.680 of Fox News
00:36:03.460 viewers also
00:36:04.100 think that
00:36:04.640 we're kind
00:36:05.620 of doomed
00:36:06.080 in 100
00:36:06.760 years.
00:36:08.320 What did
00:36:08.980 I tell you
00:36:09.420 about 25%?
00:36:10.580 Yeah, it's
00:36:14.280 sort of my
00:36:14.720 go-to thing
00:36:15.660 every time I
00:36:16.200 talk about
00:36:16.560 a poll.
00:36:18.640 25% of
00:36:19.820 people will
00:36:21.440 say any
00:36:22.140 damn thing
00:36:22.860 on any
00:36:24.040 poll.
00:36:26.300 It doesn't
00:36:27.120 matter what
00:36:27.620 the question
00:36:28.120 is, 25%
00:36:30.040 of the people
00:36:30.520 will just
00:36:31.060 always be on
00:36:31.860 the other
00:36:32.160 side.
00:36:32.540 It could
00:36:32.760 be the
00:36:33.000 most obvious
00:36:33.520 question in
00:36:34.080 the world.
00:36:35.640 Do you
00:36:36.320 like to eat
00:36:36.980 good food?
00:36:37.660 25% of
00:36:39.520 the people
00:36:39.820 will say
00:36:40.100 no, I
00:36:40.800 don't like
00:36:41.160 to eat
00:36:41.380 good food.
00:36:42.780 Not me.
00:36:44.260 It's just
00:36:44.680 weird.
00:36:45.260 You just
00:36:45.680 can't, it's
00:36:47.100 really hard to
00:36:47.640 penetrate 75%.
00:36:49.320 But now we
00:36:51.760 know that
00:36:52.300 the poor
00:36:54.420 people who
00:36:55.060 watch MSNBC
00:36:56.260 and CNN,
00:36:57.680 poor meaning
00:36:58.200 unfortunate,
00:36:59.500 they are being
00:37:00.680 gaslighted and
00:37:02.000 they fear for
00:37:02.980 their lives and
00:37:03.820 the lives of
00:37:04.360 their children
00:37:04.820 and grandchildren.
00:37:07.660 Yeah, so he
00:37:08.800 says, oh
00:37:09.400 wow, 25%.
00:37:10.560 Yeah, Hannah,
00:37:11.860 I agree.
00:37:12.960 How in the
00:37:13.420 world did
00:37:13.860 25% of
00:37:15.060 Republicans,
00:37:16.040 I assume,
00:37:17.960 come to that
00:37:19.100 conclusion?
00:37:20.100 But 25%
00:37:21.160 will say
00:37:21.540 anything.
00:37:22.580 So let's
00:37:23.320 talk about
00:37:23.700 that hacker
00:37:24.420 group,
00:37:24.880 Darkside.
00:37:26.760 So Biden
00:37:27.580 says,
00:37:28.640 quote,
00:37:28.940 so far
00:37:29.360 there's no
00:37:29.800 evidence,
00:37:30.300 based on our
00:37:30.840 intelligence
00:37:31.200 people,
00:37:31.660 that Russia 0.72
00:37:32.180 is involved.
00:37:33.920 Although there
00:37:34.720 is evidence
00:37:35.440 that the
00:37:36.520 hackers,
00:37:37.660 are in
00:37:38.280 Russia.
00:37:39.820 Now,
00:37:40.380 further evidence
00:37:41.180 is this.
00:37:41.980 Now, this is
00:37:42.440 part of the
00:37:42.840 reason that
00:37:43.240 they think
00:37:43.560 that they're
00:37:44.520 Russian,
00:37:45.420 is that
00:37:45.860 they'll
00:37:46.260 actually,
00:37:46.860 they'll look
00:37:49.300 at machines
00:37:49.840 they're infecting
00:37:50.860 and if those
00:37:51.880 machines have
00:37:52.580 any Russian
00:37:53.220 language settings
00:37:54.200 or something
00:37:54.760 similar to
00:37:55.280 that,
00:37:55.520 they won't
00:37:55.800 attack.
00:37:56.860 So in
00:37:57.380 other words,
00:37:57.800 we do know
00:37:58.460 that they
00:37:59.140 avoid attacking
00:38:00.140 Russian assets,
00:38:01.860 but we don't
00:38:04.120 have confirmation
00:38:05.020 that Russia 0.72
00:38:06.120 is involved.
00:38:08.620 Is that a
00:38:09.720 difference that
00:38:10.520 you respect?
00:38:12.660 Let's say,
00:38:13.580 for example,
00:38:14.180 we found out
00:38:14.920 that Putin
00:38:16.100 had not
00:38:16.680 ordered them
00:38:17.440 to do it
00:38:18.100 and they're
00:38:19.420 actually a
00:38:20.140 criminal organization
00:38:21.020 just doing
00:38:21.540 what they do.
00:38:22.820 Why would
00:38:23.620 they not
00:38:24.100 target Russia?
00:38:26.620 I can think
00:38:27.640 of two reasons.
00:38:29.020 See if you
00:38:29.460 can think of
00:38:30.060 any other
00:38:30.580 reasons.
00:38:31.660 Number one,
00:38:32.640 they're working
00:38:33.280 for Russia.
00:38:33.960 But again,
00:38:35.560 the intelligence
00:38:36.060 agencies have
00:38:36.840 not determined
00:38:37.540 that to be
00:38:37.980 the case.
00:38:38.780 But it's
00:38:39.060 possible.
00:38:40.340 Number two,
00:38:41.820 they're not
00:38:42.440 working for
00:38:43.100 Russia,
00:38:44.180 but they are
00:38:45.260 afraid of
00:38:45.960 Putin.
00:38:47.540 See where
00:38:48.120 I'm going?
00:38:49.500 Either Putin
00:38:50.300 is paying
00:38:50.900 them, in
00:38:51.260 which case he
00:38:51.880 knows where
00:38:52.260 they are,
00:38:53.320 or they're
00:38:55.080 afraid of
00:38:55.780 Putin,
00:38:57.100 in which case
00:38:58.540 he knows
00:38:58.900 where they
00:38:59.260 are,
00:38:59.920 or they're
00:39:00.640 worried that
00:39:01.120 he can find
00:39:01.700 them even if
00:39:02.560 we can't.
00:39:05.220 So let me
00:39:05.960 pull this
00:39:06.320 together.
00:39:07.740 And this is
00:39:08.220 how you should
00:39:08.840 run your
00:39:09.520 personal life
00:39:10.360 as well as
00:39:10.980 politics.
00:39:12.260 If Putin
00:39:13.140 knows where
00:39:14.160 they are,
00:39:15.580 and we don't
00:39:16.060 know that,
00:39:16.620 but we know
00:39:17.020 that they're
00:39:17.420 afraid,
00:39:18.740 they're obviously
00:39:19.380 afraid,
00:39:20.280 he knows where
00:39:21.280 they are,
00:39:22.400 that's the
00:39:22.980 same as if
00:39:24.360 Putin is
00:39:25.600 sanctioning
00:39:27.140 them.
00:39:27.660 I mean,
00:39:28.120 it's the same
00:39:29.420 as if Putin
00:39:30.100 is ordering
00:39:30.660 them to do
00:39:31.300 what they're
00:39:31.540 doing.
00:39:31.740 If he
00:39:32.660 knows where
00:39:33.180 they are,
00:39:33.780 if they're
00:39:34.240 afraid of
00:39:34.840 him,
00:39:35.840 he can
00:39:36.280 stop them.
00:39:39.120 Same
00:39:39.640 level of
00:39:40.460 responsibility.
00:39:41.920 If you're
00:39:42.340 trying to say,
00:39:42.900 well, that's
00:39:43.260 different, he
00:39:44.060 didn't order
00:39:44.660 it, no,
00:39:45.880 that's not
00:39:46.360 different.
00:39:47.240 We should
00:39:47.740 treat it
00:39:48.240 exactly the
00:39:49.220 same as if
00:39:49.780 he ordered
00:39:50.160 it.
00:39:50.760 Because if
00:39:51.520 they're afraid
00:39:52.140 of him,
00:39:53.340 and they're
00:39:53.780 in his
00:39:54.580 country,
00:39:56.660 it's because
00:39:57.540 he can find
00:39:58.340 them.
00:39:58.600 And if
00:40:00.280 he can
00:40:00.600 find them,
00:40:01.900 and he's
00:40:02.400 not, it's
00:40:04.560 the same as
00:40:05.000 if he
00:40:05.240 ordered it,
00:40:05.820 in terms of
00:40:06.320 how we
00:40:06.620 should treat
00:40:07.280 them.
00:40:08.140 So I
00:40:08.580 think, I
00:40:10.020 don't know
00:40:10.260 if Biden
00:40:10.660 has the
00:40:11.760 guts to
00:40:12.340 do it,
00:40:13.180 but I
00:40:13.600 think the
00:40:13.960 pressure on
00:40:14.880 Russia,
00:40:15.820 of course you
00:40:16.740 have to go
00:40:17.040 through the
00:40:17.300 whole intel
00:40:17.900 thing, you
00:40:19.140 don't want
00:40:19.420 to act
00:40:19.780 harshly,
00:40:21.080 but I
00:40:22.080 have a
00:40:22.440 feeling that
00:40:23.400 within our
00:40:24.260 government we're
00:40:25.000 talking about
00:40:25.720 something pretty
00:40:27.980 heavy in
00:40:29.440 terms of a
00:40:30.000 response to
00:40:30.700 Russia.
00:40:31.480 At least
00:40:31.780 talking about
00:40:32.380 it, I
00:40:32.720 don't know
00:40:32.920 if it'll
00:40:33.140 happen, but
00:40:34.260 I think this
00:40:35.240 is just pure
00:40:35.960 bullshit to
00:40:37.480 say that this
00:40:38.120 is happening
00:40:38.620 in Russia,
00:40:39.360 they're not
00:40:39.700 attacking Russian 0.99
00:40:40.440 resources, and
00:40:41.720 to say that
00:40:42.240 Putin can't
00:40:43.180 get at
00:40:43.520 them.
00:40:44.360 I get that
00:40:44.920 we can't
00:40:45.360 get at
00:40:45.680 them, maybe.
00:40:47.380 I mean, I
00:40:47.780 think we
00:40:48.060 probably can,
00:40:48.740 but maybe
00:40:49.500 we can't.
00:40:50.940 But they're
00:40:51.600 afraid of
00:40:52.260 Putin, and
00:40:52.980 that means
00:40:53.360 something.
00:40:54.840 All right,
00:40:55.120 so one
00:40:58.940 of the
00:40:59.240 tricks I've
00:40:59.800 told you
00:41:00.160 for persuasion,
00:41:01.540 and sometimes
00:41:01.980 it's just
00:41:02.420 for fun, is
00:41:03.420 to embrace
00:41:04.040 your opponent's
00:41:05.100 arguments.
00:41:06.660 Because when
00:41:07.400 you embrace
00:41:08.020 your opponent's
00:41:08.860 arguments, and
00:41:10.140 they have a
00:41:10.660 reflex to argue
00:41:11.560 with you no
00:41:12.140 matter what,
00:41:13.120 you can
00:41:13.660 actually trick
00:41:14.360 them into
00:41:14.960 debating against
00:41:15.860 their own
00:41:16.360 point.
00:41:17.900 And I'll
00:41:18.260 show you a
00:41:18.920 couple of
00:41:19.320 examples of
00:41:19.960 that.
00:41:21.300 So these
00:41:22.060 are some
00:41:22.360 tweets I
00:41:22.800 made just
00:41:23.300 to practice
00:41:24.120 this technique.
00:41:25.880 I said
00:41:26.560 the pipeline
00:41:27.200 companies should
00:41:27.920 hire the
00:41:28.360 election software
00:41:29.300 makers to
00:41:30.040 make some
00:41:30.440 unhackable
00:41:31.120 software for
00:41:31.820 them.
00:41:32.700 I hear they
00:41:33.340 are the
00:41:33.560 only ones
00:41:33.980 who can
00:41:34.240 do it.
00:41:36.240 So I've
00:41:38.120 embraced the
00:41:39.100 argument that
00:41:40.200 election software
00:41:41.320 is the only
00:41:42.460 software that
00:41:43.200 can't be
00:41:43.740 hacked, which
00:41:46.520 is fucking 0.93
00:41:47.660 stupid, right?
00:41:49.320 But I put it
00:41:50.180 out there like I
00:41:50.860 mean it.
00:41:52.140 Now, nobody
00:41:53.040 who read this
00:41:53.560 probably thought
00:41:54.040 I was completely
00:41:54.660 serious, but
00:41:55.860 wouldn't you
00:41:56.380 expect a lot
00:41:59.360 of critics to
00:42:00.660 push back on
00:42:01.440 this?
00:42:03.160 I haven't
00:42:04.000 looked at the
00:42:04.420 comments in the
00:42:05.000 last hour or so,
00:42:05.860 but I think the
00:42:07.320 critics just got
00:42:08.200 really quiet.
00:42:10.540 That's how you
00:42:11.300 know you
00:42:11.780 penetrated.
00:42:14.740 You know how
00:42:15.480 much the critics
00:42:16.180 love to pile on
00:42:17.560 anything I say,
00:42:18.640 right?
00:42:19.320 Anybody with a
00:42:20.060 blue check, if
00:42:20.640 they say anything
00:42:21.120 about politics,
00:42:21.920 the critics just
00:42:22.620 flow in and
00:42:23.860 eat them alive?
00:42:25.340 Well, the
00:42:26.060 critics got
00:42:26.740 really, really
00:42:27.680 quiet.
00:42:28.820 Because in order
00:42:29.680 for them to
00:42:30.200 criticize me,
00:42:31.260 they would have
00:42:32.000 to argue that
00:42:32.860 election software
00:42:33.800 cannot be made
00:42:35.300 unhackable,
00:42:36.700 which would
00:42:38.360 open up the
00:42:39.040 possibility that
00:42:40.900 maybe we should
00:42:41.580 audit them to
00:42:42.280 see if they
00:42:42.760 had been.
00:42:44.780 So it's an
00:42:45.960 unapproachable
00:42:46.760 argument.
00:42:47.420 Here's another
00:42:47.840 one.
00:42:49.520 Breaking, I
00:42:50.520 said in a
00:42:51.320 tweet.
00:42:52.280 No court has
00:42:52.960 found any
00:42:53.660 evidence that
00:42:54.400 the colonial
00:42:54.940 pipeline was
00:42:55.820 hacked.
00:42:56.940 Therefore, it
00:42:57.940 wasn't.
00:43:00.000 See what I'm
00:43:00.760 doing here?
00:43:02.000 So did the
00:43:02.640 critics come in
00:43:03.400 and say,
00:43:04.280 hey, you
00:43:05.680 can't say that
00:43:06.400 just because the
00:43:07.120 court, which is
00:43:07.880 really the wrong
00:43:08.620 entity anyway,
00:43:10.420 just because they
00:43:11.060 didn't find any
00:43:12.100 evidence of it,
00:43:13.260 that just means
00:43:14.500 they're the wrong
00:43:15.120 people and they
00:43:15.740 didn't even look
00:43:16.300 for it.
00:43:17.100 That doesn't mean
00:43:17.740 there's no
00:43:18.160 evidence?
00:43:19.840 Well, that of
00:43:20.360 course is the
00:43:21.200 whole argument
00:43:22.080 about saying
00:43:23.420 that the few
00:43:24.240 courts who
00:43:24.760 looked into
00:43:25.220 some few
00:43:25.780 specific things
00:43:26.820 didn't find
00:43:27.840 anything, but
00:43:28.460 they're also not
00:43:29.260 the ones looking
00:43:29.960 for it.
00:43:30.740 So if people
00:43:31.960 who are not
00:43:32.760 looking for
00:43:33.380 something don't
00:43:34.140 find it,
00:43:36.740 so how much
00:43:38.100 pushback did I
00:43:38.880 get on that?
00:43:40.320 Surprisingly, not
00:43:41.600 little, or
00:43:42.880 surprisingly little,
00:43:43.900 people, which
00:43:44.420 actually is not
00:43:45.020 a surprise.
00:43:46.080 So there's
00:43:46.520 your technique.
00:43:47.780 Embrace the
00:43:50.120 most idiotic
00:43:51.060 arguments on the
00:43:51.820 other side, and
00:43:52.960 then challenge the
00:43:53.740 critics to debate
00:43:54.860 their own point,
00:43:57.920 and then just
00:43:58.500 watch.
00:44:00.600 Elon Musk
00:44:01.580 interestingly
00:44:02.240 suspended the
00:44:03.740 acceptance of
00:44:04.580 Bitcoin for
00:44:05.400 Teslas, because
00:44:07.400 creating Bitcoin
00:44:08.620 uses so much
00:44:10.200 electricity that
00:44:12.500 apparently it's
00:44:13.920 a climate
00:44:15.720 disaster, just
00:44:17.780 what Bitcoin
00:44:18.440 itself is
00:44:19.400 creating in
00:44:19.920 electrical needs.
00:44:22.040 So I saw the
00:44:24.140 cryptos were down
00:44:24.920 this morning.
00:44:25.540 I don't know if
00:44:25.920 they'll stay down.
00:44:27.220 I'm not going to
00:44:28.160 suggest that this
00:44:29.000 is a buying
00:44:29.760 opportunity for
00:44:30.800 Bitcoin, but I
00:44:32.400 would certainly be
00:44:33.140 worried if the
00:44:34.060 people who care
00:44:34.620 about the climate
00:44:35.280 decide that they
00:44:36.320 don't like it.
00:44:36.960 So that's
00:44:38.180 going to be
00:44:39.700 interesting to
00:44:40.400 watch.
00:44:43.360 Who saw that
00:44:44.300 coming?
00:44:44.860 Yeah, a lot of
00:44:45.580 people saw that
00:44:46.120 coming.
00:44:50.400 Yeah, Elon Musk
00:44:51.540 has the power to
00:44:52.400 crash a crypto, and
00:44:53.840 it looks like he's
00:44:54.440 done it at least
00:44:54.960 twice.
00:44:57.020 Scott, please wear
00:44:58.020 your blue t-shirt.
00:44:58.940 It looks best.
00:44:59.840 You mean this
00:45:00.320 one?
00:45:02.940 Every once in a
00:45:03.780 while, I feel I
00:45:04.820 need to tell my
00:45:05.500 audience that when
00:45:06.620 I buy t-shirts, if
00:45:08.580 I find one I
00:45:09.240 like, I get a
00:45:10.000 bunch of them, the
00:45:10.620 same kind.
00:45:11.680 So if you see me
00:45:12.440 wearing this shirt a
00:45:13.900 whole bunch of
00:45:14.420 times, it's
00:45:15.560 actually multiple
00:45:16.480 shirts.
00:45:17.180 I just thought you
00:45:18.220 should know that.
00:45:21.580 It says 75% of
00:45:23.040 Bitcoin uses
00:45:23.800 renewable energy.
00:45:24.940 Well, that doesn't
00:45:25.600 matter, because that
00:45:26.720 renewable energy could
00:45:27.760 be used somewhere
00:45:28.560 else.
00:45:32.000 Yeah, the dark
00:45:32.780 shirts look better
00:45:33.460 on TV, that's
00:45:34.060 true.
00:45:34.260 On my face,
00:45:35.180 anyway.
00:45:36.620 Can you do a
00:45:37.700 show in drag?
00:45:41.080 Would you believe
00:45:41.900 that's the first
00:45:42.580 time I've ever
00:45:43.180 been asked?
00:45:44.720 I'm going to tell
00:45:45.420 you something that
00:45:46.340 I don't know if I've
00:45:48.140 said this publicly.
00:45:49.220 I might have.
00:45:50.280 So tell me if you've
00:45:51.540 ever seen this.
00:45:53.000 But some 20 years
00:45:54.260 ago or so, when I
00:45:55.220 was already beginning
00:45:56.180 to contemplate how I
00:45:58.260 would retire someday
00:45:59.700 in the far future,
00:46:01.060 I had a plan for
00:46:02.460 retirement, which
00:46:04.600 would change
00:46:08.100 Dilbert forever.
00:46:10.300 And the plan was
00:46:12.020 that the way you'll
00:46:13.840 know I'm going to
00:46:14.740 retire, because I
00:46:15.740 might not announce
00:46:16.600 it before it
00:46:17.160 happens, the way
00:46:18.660 you would know is
00:46:19.980 if Dilbert
00:46:20.780 becomes transgender.
00:46:23.440 So 20 years
00:46:27.520 ago, that was
00:46:28.040 my plan, is I
00:46:29.780 was just going
00:46:30.220 to make Dilbert
00:46:31.180 transgender and
00:46:33.120 then just stop and
00:46:34.680 just leave it
00:46:35.140 there.
00:46:36.160 Because in the
00:46:36.940 cartoon world, when
00:46:37.900 you make any kind
00:46:38.700 of a change, people
00:46:39.560 expect it to go
00:46:40.680 back to where it
00:46:41.300 was, because
00:46:42.300 everything always
00:46:42.880 has to go back to
00:46:43.640 where it was.
00:46:44.500 And I thought the
00:46:45.740 most provocative
00:46:46.480 thing I could do is
00:46:47.520 just make him
00:46:48.340 transgender, like 1.00
00:46:49.760 legitimately, and
00:46:51.760 then just walk
00:46:52.340 away.
00:46:54.220 So, but, in
00:46:56.040 the 20 years that
00:46:57.680 has passed, the
00:46:59.220 politics of
00:47:00.360 transgender,
00:47:01.660 everything has
00:47:02.300 changed to the
00:47:02.980 point where I
00:47:04.120 believe it would
00:47:04.740 be considered
00:47:05.460 just disrespectful
00:47:07.300 or something.
00:47:08.480 So I'm probably
00:47:10.260 not going to go
00:47:11.200 that way, because
00:47:12.440 it doesn't have
00:47:12.940 the same, it's
00:47:15.160 lost all of its
00:47:15.960 uniqueness, which
00:47:17.500 is what would
00:47:18.340 have made it fun.
00:47:19.640 And now
00:47:20.000 transgender is just 1.00
00:47:21.040 sort of our
00:47:21.480 daily topic, so
00:47:22.440 it doesn't, it
00:47:23.280 just doesn't
00:47:23.660 have that, that
00:47:24.980 uniqueness to it
00:47:25.840 that I was
00:47:26.160 looking for.
00:47:34.620 It might be
00:47:35.420 considered very
00:47:36.160 brave, well, I
00:47:37.160 don't know.
00:47:37.840 I don't know how
00:47:38.400 brave it would
00:47:38.920 be.
00:47:41.020 How do we know
00:47:41.800 he isn't?
00:47:42.420 Good point.
00:47:45.080 Nobody would
00:47:45.820 sell Bitcoin to
00:47:46.740 buy a Tesla.
00:47:51.480 Don't wear a
00:47:52.380 white shirt.
00:47:53.000 Yeah, you're
00:47:53.400 right.
00:47:55.980 Somebody says
00:47:56.680 Colonial paid the 0.99
00:47:57.780 $5 million ransom.
00:47:59.140 Did they?
00:48:00.140 I don't know if
00:48:00.680 that's confirmed, and
00:48:01.980 I don't know if it
00:48:02.500 would make any
00:48:02.980 difference.
00:48:03.620 I don't know if it
00:48:04.180 would work.
00:48:05.220 But as I've said
00:48:06.220 before, the U.S.
00:48:07.660 government should
00:48:08.580 have been telling
00:48:09.300 the public that
00:48:11.000 they have intel and
00:48:12.520 they're closing in
00:48:13.440 on this, on the
00:48:14.820 hackers.
00:48:15.720 The hackers should
00:48:17.340 have been feeling
00:48:18.240 that they were going
00:48:19.000 to die within 24
00:48:20.020 hours.
00:48:21.060 And if they
00:48:21.540 didn't feel that,
00:48:23.320 even if it wasn't
00:48:24.080 true, they should
00:48:25.560 have been convinced
00:48:26.300 that some military
00:48:28.440 agency is going to
00:48:30.220 put a drone on
00:48:31.220 them any minute,
00:48:32.160 because that's how
00:48:32.880 you negotiate.
00:48:34.180 You don't negotiate
00:48:35.220 saying, we don't
00:48:35.940 know where you
00:48:36.400 are, there's no
00:48:38.140 way we could ever
00:48:38.760 find you, so I
00:48:40.480 guess we'll just
00:48:41.060 pay this amount.
00:48:42.800 That's not very
00:48:43.360 good negotiating.
00:48:44.940 They should have
00:48:45.540 been under the
00:48:46.400 immediate threat of
00:48:48.180 death within
00:48:49.340 minutes.
00:48:50.460 You want them
00:48:51.300 thinking about
00:48:51.940 their death within
00:48:52.780 minutes, then you
00:48:54.460 negotiate.
00:48:58.840 All right.
00:49:00.700 That is just about
00:49:02.240 all I have to talk
00:49:03.000 about today, and I
00:49:04.440 will talk to you
00:49:05.360 tomorrow.
00:49:06.800 Tomorrow.