Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 16, 2021


Episode 1377 Scott Adams： Persuasion Lessons For China Trolls, and Lots More


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40 minutes

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138.76099

Word Count

5,575

Sentence Count

364

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

21


Summary

Scott Adams is back with another episode of Coffee with Scott Adams. This week, he talks about the dangers of wearing surgical masks in public, the possibility that the Epstein-Barr virus has escaped from a lab, and a UFO sighting.


Transcript

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00:00:49.300 So, Christine and I went out to eat last night in our local downtown,
00:00:54.160 and I think it was only maybe a day ago that people were almost all wearing masks outdoors still.
00:01:05.840 But as of last night, we put on our masks to walk down the sidewalk and almost no other masks.
00:01:13.960 So, finally, Californians have decided that they don't need masks outdoors.
00:01:21.020 We're a little bit slow, a little bit slow, but we're catching on.
00:01:25.780 And I've got to say, it's starting to feel like we're back to normal.
00:01:32.140 Just starting to feel, like right on the edge of feeling back to normal.
00:01:36.500 We're planning a trip.
00:01:37.680 We're acting almost like normal people.
00:01:41.100 We're getting there.
00:01:45.300 Apparently, the theory of the virus having escaped from a lab is still in play,
00:01:52.960 thanks to a letter that was published in a journal called Science
00:01:58.280 by a bunch of prominent epidemiologists and biologists who said
00:02:02.900 you can't rule out the possibility that it escaped from a lab.
00:02:09.380 So, haven't we been told by experts for the past year
00:02:16.740 that we had sort of, you know, at least some of the experts were saying
00:02:21.120 that they had kind of ruled out the gain of function and escape from the lab thing?
00:02:25.980 None of that was true.
00:02:29.320 There was no way it ever could have been ruled out.
00:02:32.980 So, let's follow the science.
00:02:36.360 You know, follow the science.
00:02:37.680 It's pointing that way.
00:02:39.420 And at the same time, it's pointing that way.
00:02:43.080 So, when you see the sign, follow the science.
00:02:47.000 Definitely go right, but also definitely go left.
00:02:51.080 Make sure you follow the science.
00:02:52.600 And if you think that's going to be hard, well, you're a science denier
00:02:56.980 because you just need to follow the science.
00:03:01.660 Don't ask questions.
00:03:03.020 Just follow it.
00:03:04.320 Follow it.
00:03:06.580 Have I told you before that your worldview could be evaluated in terms of its accuracy
00:03:12.860 by whether it predicts?
00:03:14.600 Now, sometimes you'll have an inaccurate worldview that will predict once or twice, just by luck.
00:03:24.060 But if you have a really accurate worldview, it's going to predict fairly, you know, accurately
00:03:31.340 and consistently.
00:03:33.120 So, let's see if you could make this prediction.
00:03:35.740 I asked this on Twitter.
00:03:36.760 Let's say the next time you hear a news report that there's been a credible sighting of a
00:03:43.700 UFO by an American military entity.
00:03:48.280 What would you predict about the quality of the video?
00:03:52.560 Will it be, A, a grainy blob with indistinct features?
00:03:57.820 Or will it be, A, a shiny alien technology?
00:04:04.280 So, let's use your worldview and make a prediction.
00:04:08.540 Grainy blob?
00:04:10.900 Or shiny alien technology?
00:04:15.520 Yeah.
00:04:16.200 Now, the more times you see your prediction come true, sometime in the next year, there'll
00:04:26.040 be videos of a UFO in distinct blob.
00:04:31.800 So, that should tell you something.
00:04:33.960 Here's the provocative question that I asked yesterday, because I'm trying to ruin everything.
00:04:39.500 And, when you hear this question, I want you to ask yourself why you didn't think of it.
00:04:49.880 All right, here's the question.
00:04:51.780 So, we know we have two types of, well, three vaccinations in this country.
00:04:55.840 We've got two of them that require two shots, the Moderna and Pfizer.
00:05:00.100 But then the J&J requires one.
00:05:03.380 Now, we know that the one shot is not as effective as the two shots.
00:05:08.700 But recently, we've learned that the one shot isn't even as effective as the first shot of
00:05:17.560 the double shot.
00:05:19.880 So, here's my question.
00:05:22.940 Let's say you wanted to travel internationally, and you had gotten the J&J.
00:05:28.400 So, your level of vaccination is whatever the J&J gives you.
00:05:34.080 But you are considered vaccinated, so you could travel.
00:05:37.880 But let's say instead of the J&J, single shot, you went for the two-shot dose.
00:05:43.940 Your first shot apparently is better than the J&J.
00:05:47.760 But you still have to wait weeks longer to get the second shot before you are considered
00:05:56.420 free to, you know, be vaccinated and travel.
00:05:59.700 Why is it that the one shot gives you all the freedom of being vaccinated when the one shot
00:06:08.000 from the two-shot dose is better, better, you're more vaccinated, but you're not considered
00:06:16.920 vaccinated?
00:06:19.060 How many of you have had that thought?
00:06:22.880 It didn't occur to me until yesterday.
00:06:25.140 For some reason, you get so stuck into your patterns that we've just been told that you
00:06:30.380 need two of this one and one of this one, that when the new news came out that the first shot
00:06:36.120 of the two doses is actually really, really good.
00:06:42.120 I don't know.
00:06:43.040 Seems like that should have been a big news story, but I feel like it wasn't.
00:06:47.500 Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't get the second shot.
00:06:50.600 I'm sure there's extra benefit and, you know, I'm sure they thought it through.
00:06:56.240 But my understanding is that the only reason that we require two of one and one of the other
00:07:01.340 is that that's the way they were tested.
00:07:04.120 I don't believe the two-shot doses were tested as one shot.
00:07:08.700 Correct me on that, but I think that's the case.
00:07:11.440 So the way the rules are, you can only use them the way they've been tested.
00:07:17.660 So the two shots were only tested as two shots, I think.
00:07:22.580 Fact check me on that.
00:07:25.400 All right.
00:07:27.020 There's a new persuasion play from the, let's say, the right, the Republican side,
00:07:33.900 in which there's a major push, and Fox News is doing this a lot,
00:07:38.180 to compare Biden to Jimmy Carter.
00:07:41.540 In fact, there's a headline, you know, that Biden is Jimmy Carter 2.0
00:07:45.800 and a number of different personalities on Fox making that comparison.
00:07:52.160 Now, number one, is the comparison reasonable?
00:07:57.020 Well, actually it is.
00:07:58.220 You know, there's a number of stories that mirror the 70s,
00:08:02.000 and there's a little bit of comparison that's worth making there.
00:08:06.240 But here's what it occurred to me when I saw this.
00:08:09.500 When Democrats were trying to take out Trump,
00:08:13.300 or indeed when Democrats are trying to take out any Republican leader,
00:08:17.980 who do they compare that Republican to?
00:08:22.200 Hitler, right?
00:08:23.820 So Democrats, when they want to take you out
00:08:26.260 and really prove that you're the worst person in the world,
00:08:30.360 they'll compare you to Hitler.
00:08:31.480 But when Republicans want to take out a Democratic leader
00:08:36.380 and they want to really make him look bad,
00:08:39.760 they compare him to Jimmy Carter.
00:08:42.480 They compare him to another Democrat.
00:08:46.540 So in order to insult a Republican,
00:08:49.980 you have to compare him to some, you know,
00:08:52.280 foreign guy who years ago did horrible things named Hitler.
00:08:57.220 But to insult a Democrat,
00:09:00.380 you just compare him to another Democrat.
00:09:02.180 That's all you need.
00:09:03.380 Now, somebody needs to tell Jimmy Carter
00:09:06.600 that his legacy is not working out the way he wanted.
00:09:11.240 Because, hey, Jimmy,
00:09:13.060 turns out that you're being used
00:09:15.420 as the example of the worst thing that anybody could be as a president.
00:09:20.640 You're not quite Hitler,
00:09:22.660 but you're being used in the same sense.
00:09:25.360 We're not saying you're Hitler.
00:09:27.220 Jimmy Carter, you're the opposite of Hitler.
00:09:30.160 But we're just saying that your name is used
00:09:32.400 in very much the same utility.
00:09:35.460 So maybe that's not the best thing.
00:09:40.580 So speaking of persuasion,
00:09:42.880 Israel did some of the best persuasion
00:09:46.460 in wartime I've ever seen.
00:09:48.860 Not only the persuasion that got the Hamas fighters
00:09:53.220 into the tunnels so they could be bombed
00:09:56.900 by faking out with the news,
00:09:59.580 but they managed to make the press
00:10:03.600 more interested in the press
00:10:06.200 than they were interested in the Palestinians.
00:10:10.720 Now, if you've ever seen better persuasion than that,
00:10:13.640 let me know.
00:10:14.880 Because the one thing you can guarantee
00:10:16.740 is that the press wants to write stories about the press.
00:10:21.420 So when Israel bombed that building
00:10:24.260 that had the AP offices in it,
00:10:26.880 you know, everybody had evacuated.
00:10:28.920 So no deaths in that particular attack.
00:10:31.800 But of course, you know, the story is
00:10:33.320 that there was some Hamas secret service
00:10:36.380 or something that was illegitimate,
00:10:38.480 not illegitimate, but was using that building.
00:10:40.500 And Israel cleverly has made the press
00:10:46.980 use up their shelf space talking about the press.
00:10:51.660 Now, when I say shelf space,
00:10:53.660 I use this concept for the news
00:10:55.640 because the news has, let's say, a front page
00:11:00.340 which they're going to say,
00:11:02.380 okay, the news of the day will,
00:11:04.340 about 20% will be this story,
00:11:06.420 30% will be this story,
00:11:08.180 10% will be this story.
00:11:09.480 So there's a sense of shelf space, right?
00:11:13.040 There's not infinite news.
00:11:15.160 The news fits into the little bucket
00:11:17.020 because the bucket's about the same size every day.
00:11:21.000 So if you can take something about a story
00:11:23.380 that you don't like being out there,
00:11:25.160 such as casualties,
00:11:28.340 that would be a story that Israel
00:11:29.960 would not want a lot of focus on, right?
00:11:32.680 Doesn't want a lot of pictures of casualties,
00:11:34.900 doesn't want that to be the main conversation.
00:11:37.220 So they took this shelf space
00:11:39.080 that would have been the Israeli-Hamaz-Gaza conflict.
00:11:44.600 And that bucket that was going to be the story about Israel
00:11:48.520 was, you know, a little bit flexible.
00:11:51.400 It could get bigger,
00:11:52.500 but it couldn't get infinitely bigger.
00:11:54.720 It was going to still only be a portion of the news
00:11:58.320 because this is America, right?
00:12:00.580 We've got other stuff to talk about.
00:12:03.080 So Israel managed to take that little portion
00:12:06.380 that was going to be about the story
00:12:07.980 and force a big part of it
00:12:10.300 to be about the bombing of the AP building.
00:12:14.200 And how do you feel about the bombing of the AP building?
00:12:18.140 Well, assuming that the story is correct,
00:12:22.400 that they gave warning and nobody was hurt,
00:12:25.720 no casualties,
00:12:27.360 so you're not offended by that.
00:12:29.720 How about the fact that allegedly
00:12:33.940 there was Hamas' use of the building?
00:12:37.260 Do you believe that Israel believed,
00:12:40.700 and it was probably correct,
00:12:42.080 that Hamas was using the building?
00:12:44.360 Because the AP says they were not aware of it.
00:12:47.140 Well, I don't know that the AP would be aware of it,
00:12:49.740 would they?
00:12:50.160 If it's a secret use of a building,
00:12:54.080 I don't think they were advertising,
00:12:55.900 hey, by the way,
00:12:57.660 see you at the water cooler,
00:13:00.600 and by the way,
00:13:01.660 we're a major terrorist organization,
00:13:03.360 what do you do for a living?
00:13:04.540 Well, I'm in the AP.
00:13:06.400 I mean, I don't think the AP would have necessarily known
00:13:09.080 what everybody was doing in the building.
00:13:12.520 So you're probably looking at the story and saying,
00:13:14.780 okay, if Hamas was in there,
00:13:17.680 it was a legitimate target,
00:13:18.940 nobody got hurt,
00:13:20.160 but here's the other part.
00:13:22.720 How much do people like the press?
00:13:26.440 Imagine these two questions,
00:13:28.260 just asked of people in the United States as an example.
00:13:33.100 How much do you like or care about
00:13:36.600 or have empathy for the Palestinian people?
00:13:40.080 Well, you'd find a lot of people in the United States
00:13:42.580 who say, I have lots of empathy, tons.
00:13:45.640 Maybe you do or do not approve
00:13:47.720 of what their leaders are doing.
00:13:49.100 But the actual just, you know,
00:13:51.600 mom and dad and kids just trying to survive everyday life?
00:13:55.500 Of course, you've got all kinds of empathy for them,
00:13:58.480 even if you think Israel's doing the right stuff.
00:14:02.040 But how much empathy do you have for the press?
00:14:04.220 Not as much, right?
00:14:07.600 So Israel has managed to convert some of your attention,
00:14:12.740 which somewhat naturally would have been in empathy.
00:14:16.160 At least some of it is being transferred over to,
00:14:19.360 well, the press.
00:14:21.680 Do you care?
00:14:23.500 Now, because nobody got hurt,
00:14:26.000 it just doesn't feel the same, right?
00:14:27.740 It just feels like computers getting blown up
00:14:30.340 and they were probably backed up anyway.
00:14:32.600 So how many people in the comments,
00:14:37.580 let's see, let's see.
00:14:38.840 In the comments,
00:14:39.640 tell me how many Palestinians have been killed so far
00:14:44.700 in the recent fighting in Gaza.
00:14:47.720 In the comments,
00:14:48.720 I want to see how well informed you are.
00:14:51.060 Have the distractions gotten to you yet?
00:14:54.980 So give me your estimate in the comments
00:14:56.620 and I'll see,
00:14:57.620 I'll read them out
00:14:58.340 and I'll tell you how close you are
00:14:59.980 before I tell you how many people died.
00:15:04.060 I'm seeing 150, 30, more than 100, 9.
00:15:09.560 Let's see some more.
00:15:11.620 I see 0, 50, 25, 25, 150, 75, 160.
00:15:17.260 The people who are in that 150, 160 range are about right.
00:15:21.760 So you are the more informed ones.
00:15:23.800 But those who have smaller numbers,
00:15:28.140 maybe distraction helps that.
00:15:32.940 Yeah.
00:15:33.660 All right.
00:15:36.520 So I would say this is like the greatest persuasion,
00:15:40.040 military persuasion I've ever seen
00:15:41.700 because it just makes the press care about the press.
00:15:48.080 Gary Pruitt, the CEO of the AP, said this.
00:15:51.940 He said, talking about it,
00:15:53.800 and a closing statement about it.
00:15:55.440 He said,
00:15:55.800 the world will know less about what is happening in Gaza
00:15:58.300 because of what transpired today,
00:16:00.980 meaning the blowing up the AP building.
00:16:04.320 Now, is that good for Israel or bad for Israel?
00:16:09.240 It's kind of good, isn't it?
00:16:11.500 Isn't the last thing that Israel wants
00:16:13.840 is more reporting within Gaza?
00:16:17.260 Because that's where the casualties are going to be.
00:16:20.420 So it's the last thing they want.
00:16:22.740 So I would say Israel totally got away with blowing up that building,
00:16:27.940 totally got away with reducing the amount of reporting
00:16:30.760 that will come out of there,
00:16:32.400 totally got away with transferring our attention
00:16:35.000 to a story that's not about the casualties so much.
00:16:38.160 This is a home run, persuasion-wise.
00:16:43.360 Now, this has nothing to do with
00:16:44.900 whether you support Israel's actions
00:16:47.160 or support the Palestinians' actions.
00:16:49.400 We're only talking about technique.
00:16:51.660 In terms of technique of persuasion,
00:16:56.380 this is as good as you get.
00:16:58.160 I mean, this is like the play of the decade or something.
00:17:00.240 And, just to make the point,
00:17:05.300 I just saw a Joel Pollack report in Breitbart
00:17:08.680 that the Abraham Accords are holding.
00:17:11.520 So the other Arab countries
00:17:13.020 apparently are just tired of the Palestinians.
00:17:16.960 So the other Arab countries,
00:17:18.340 and largely they would be aligned against Iran,
00:17:21.000 who is supporting Hamas.
00:17:23.020 So it kind of makes sense.
00:17:24.480 But apparently the other countries have just said,
00:17:26.820 eh, work it out.
00:17:28.520 Well, it's not about us anymore.
00:17:32.080 Work it out.
00:17:33.820 So, honestly, I don't know that
00:17:36.980 Israel could have created a better situation
00:17:39.900 out of a terrible situation.
00:17:42.260 The terrible situation being the bloodshed.
00:17:46.840 Now, the other thing that Israel is doing right,
00:17:50.540 how many videos have you seen
00:17:52.360 of the actual rockets being launched out of Gaza?
00:17:57.560 You've seen that, right?
00:17:59.020 Probably a lot of them.
00:17:59.920 How many videos have you seen
00:18:02.020 of the Iron Dome
00:18:03.460 trying to stop those rockets?
00:18:07.260 Probably a bunch, right?
00:18:09.860 So, have I told you far too often
00:18:13.000 that visual persuasion
00:18:15.220 is the only one that matters, really?
00:18:17.700 Unless you have an immediate fear,
00:18:20.520 fear is always the biggest motivator.
00:18:22.540 But if you're not operating personally from fear,
00:18:26.540 then visual persuasion is what's getting you the most, right?
00:18:30.080 All the concepts, the history,
00:18:32.480 whatever you think about the blah, blah, blah,
00:18:34.740 it's nothing compared to the picture.
00:18:38.440 And Israel controls the picture, somehow.
00:18:43.120 I mean, you see lots of missiles,
00:18:45.000 and you say to yourself,
00:18:46.260 my God, Israel has a right to respond.
00:18:49.280 Look at all those missiles.
00:18:51.420 How many of you know how many missiles
00:18:53.040 were fired into Israel, roughly?
00:18:56.360 In the comments,
00:18:58.000 let's see if this information got through,
00:19:00.800 but the number of casualties,
00:19:03.060 maybe not so much.
00:19:04.680 We'll test this hypothesis.
00:19:07.300 Number of...
00:19:08.280 What is the number of...
00:19:13.220 Somebody says there's an irritating sound
00:19:16.600 coming from my nose.
00:19:18.240 I don't think it's coming from my nose,
00:19:19.980 so I don't know what you're hearing.
00:19:21.640 But...
00:19:22.280 All right, so number of rockets fired?
00:19:27.240 Well, it looks like you know
00:19:28.380 the number of rockets fired.
00:19:30.400 So 1,500, 2,000,
00:19:32.700 that's in the range, right?
00:19:34.120 It's over 1,000.
00:19:35.480 So by now, it's in that range.
00:19:37.360 So look at how well you do
00:19:39.960 how many rockets were fired at Israel, right?
00:19:44.360 But look how only maybe half of you
00:19:47.200 had an idea what the casualties were.
00:19:50.600 Think about it.
00:19:52.200 You knew the number of rockets,
00:19:54.280 but you didn't know the number of casualties
00:19:56.720 as much.
00:19:57.980 Some of you knew both.
00:20:01.120 All right.
00:20:03.340 So that's what visual persuasion's getting you.
00:20:05.620 Lindsay Graham apparently was on...
00:20:08.220 Not apparently.
00:20:09.520 He was on Judge Jeanine's show
00:20:11.280 and called for the death penalty
00:20:14.320 for cyberterrorism.
00:20:17.640 Thank you, Lindsay Graham.
00:20:21.000 I feel like...
00:20:23.100 You know, there are times
00:20:23.760 when I don't agree with Lindsay Graham.
00:20:25.580 Probably quite a few times.
00:20:27.360 You know, if you looked at all the things
00:20:28.860 we could talk about.
00:20:29.740 But I got to say
00:20:31.860 that Lindsay Graham
00:20:33.320 is one of the ones
00:20:35.500 who's, you know,
00:20:37.720 smarter.
00:20:39.160 He's just smarter than other people.
00:20:41.460 You know, even if you don't like
00:20:42.640 where he's heading,
00:20:43.420 he's smarter.
00:20:45.560 And he's calling for the death penalty
00:20:47.520 for cyberterrorism.
00:20:48.700 I agree with that.
00:20:50.200 And I think we should have had that in place
00:20:52.120 when we were negotiating
00:20:53.660 with this hacker group
00:20:56.020 for the colonial pipeline,
00:20:57.780 which I understand is back in action.
00:20:59.740 So that got sorted out.
00:21:02.800 But any hacker
00:21:04.040 who is doing something
00:21:05.320 to the United States
00:21:07.220 as big as a pipeline hack,
00:21:09.920 they should be looked at
00:21:12.500 for the death penalty.
00:21:15.280 So Joe Biden was...
00:21:18.240 He issued a statement
00:21:19.720 for Police Week.
00:21:21.540 If you're the President
00:21:22.860 of the United States
00:21:23.980 and you release a statement
00:21:25.680 for Police Week,
00:21:27.740 wouldn't you kind of expect it
00:21:29.460 to be sort of a
00:21:30.300 positive statement?
00:21:33.680 We're celebrating the police
00:21:35.600 who risk their lives every day
00:21:38.100 to keep our country safe.
00:21:40.880 Feels like Police Week
00:21:42.380 would be a good time
00:21:43.540 to say something nice
00:21:44.640 about the police.
00:21:46.060 But if you're a Democrat leader,
00:21:48.000 apparently you can't do that anymore.
00:21:49.460 So instead he said
00:21:51.960 there was a deep sense
00:21:53.180 of distrust
00:21:54.100 black Americans feel
00:21:55.920 toward the cops
00:21:56.780 in the wake of
00:21:57.840 high-profile custody deaths.
00:22:00.340 I mean, he used his own words,
00:22:01.420 but that's what he said.
00:22:03.580 And I will say the following.
00:22:06.340 Have we yet heard
00:22:07.480 any cases of,
00:22:09.420 let's say,
00:22:10.680 a black man in America
00:22:12.140 being killed by police
00:22:14.260 unless
00:22:15.160 either there was
00:22:17.420 a resisting arrest
00:22:18.600 or
00:22:20.360 the person
00:22:21.580 tragically had
00:22:22.500 something in their hand
00:22:23.500 like a cell phone
00:22:24.380 that was mistaken
00:22:25.800 as a weapon.
00:22:27.220 Because mistaking
00:22:28.180 something for a weapon
00:22:29.120 just feels like
00:22:30.300 its own category.
00:22:31.720 I don't feel like
00:22:32.440 you should put that
00:22:33.380 into any other category.
00:22:35.960 Mistaking a weapon
00:22:36.860 is just a mistake.
00:22:38.280 It's a bad one.
00:22:38.960 It's the worst one
00:22:39.540 you can make.
00:22:40.840 But it's a mistake.
00:22:42.720 There's nobody
00:22:43.380 who made a decision,
00:22:44.880 oh,
00:22:45.720 there's a person
00:22:46.320 with a gun
00:22:46.760 in their hand
00:22:47.320 but they're black
00:22:48.580 so I guess I'll shoot
00:22:49.560 versus,
00:22:50.960 oh,
00:22:51.200 they're white,
00:22:51.740 I guess I won't shoot.
00:22:52.480 Nobody's doing that.
00:22:53.740 It's just a mistake.
00:22:55.680 So,
00:22:56.260 until I start hearing stories,
00:22:58.720 any of them really,
00:23:00.280 where there was either
00:23:01.060 no resisting arrest
00:23:02.980 or there wasn't
00:23:04.840 something in their hand
00:23:05.640 that could have been
00:23:06.580 gun-like,
00:23:07.660 which I have to say
00:23:08.880 is a little bit
00:23:09.580 like resisting arrest.
00:23:12.000 Let me tell you
00:23:12.860 what I'm not going to do
00:23:14.180 if the police
00:23:15.280 are aiming at me.
00:23:18.380 I'm not going to
00:23:19.220 hold something
00:23:19.700 in my hand.
00:23:21.900 If the police
00:23:22.820 come toward me
00:23:23.600 and I see a gun out,
00:23:25.400 hands go open
00:23:26.300 and they go up.
00:23:28.080 Boop,
00:23:28.700 drop whatever you got,
00:23:30.820 do this.
00:23:31.980 If you're behind a car
00:23:33.380 and you're going to
00:23:34.560 emerge from behind the car
00:23:35.860 with something
00:23:36.400 in your hand,
00:23:37.700 put it down,
00:23:39.180 go like this,
00:23:40.640 walk around the car.
00:23:41.660 Anybody who's not
00:23:43.180 doing that
00:23:43.680 and getting shot,
00:23:45.500 there's a limit
00:23:47.460 to my empathy
00:23:48.620 for anybody
00:23:49.420 who's acting like that.
00:23:54.500 We've got a,
00:23:55.500 here's a little
00:23:55.960 persuasion plan for,
00:23:57.480 persuasion lesson for you.
00:24:00.120 So,
00:24:00.640 Stephan,
00:24:01.520 I think it's Stephan,
00:24:02.880 Richer,
00:24:04.860 who's the Maricopa
00:24:05.760 County recorder
00:24:06.540 and apparently
00:24:08.740 he's got some
00:24:09.660 official job
00:24:12.100 in Maricopa County
00:24:13.640 where this,
00:24:14.920 where the recount
00:24:16.420 is happening.
00:24:17.640 So,
00:24:18.240 there's an election
00:24:18.860 recount happening
00:24:19.580 and one of the claims
00:24:21.280 that ex-President Trump
00:24:23.380 made
00:24:24.180 and lots of other people
00:24:25.800 have made
00:24:26.140 in the press,
00:24:26.780 etc.,
00:24:27.180 the claim,
00:24:29.300 allegedly,
00:24:30.540 is that there's
00:24:31.500 some part of the
00:24:32.820 database is missing
00:24:33.880 and has been deleted.
00:24:36.300 Something that they
00:24:37.220 needed to look at.
00:24:38.020 Now,
00:24:40.580 Stephan,
00:24:41.280 or Stephen,
00:24:43.320 Richard,
00:24:44.000 says the following.
00:24:46.540 In a tweet,
00:24:47.400 he said,
00:24:47.780 here's a great example
00:24:48.880 of a plain-as-day lie
00:24:50.700 that will lead
00:24:51.940 our Arizona residents
00:24:53.080 to think the
00:24:53.880 Maricopa County
00:24:54.820 database
00:24:55.420 has been
00:24:56.460 entirely
00:24:57.420 deleted.
00:24:59.900 Help me call out
00:25:01.160 this lie.
00:25:02.760 And before this,
00:25:03.960 he said he was
00:25:04.520 literally sitting in
00:25:05.460 front of his computer
00:25:06.360 looking at the
00:25:07.960 database.
00:25:10.300 So,
00:25:10.940 his claim
00:25:11.520 is that
00:25:12.760 no databases
00:25:13.580 have been
00:25:14.200 deleted.
00:25:15.160 He's sitting there
00:25:16.100 looking at it
00:25:16.860 himself
00:25:17.260 and he's calling
00:25:18.600 out the president
00:25:19.220 for being
00:25:19.720 completely wrong
00:25:20.840 and he says
00:25:22.380 that the database
00:25:23.120 has not been
00:25:24.160 entirely deleted.
00:25:29.000 It's not been
00:25:30.020 entirely deleted.
00:25:31.000 So,
00:25:33.060 I tweeted back
00:25:35.380 this,
00:25:36.300 persuasion tip,
00:25:37.440 next time say,
00:25:39.020 quote,
00:25:39.700 no part of the
00:25:40.500 data has been
00:25:41.220 deleted.
00:25:42.680 Because when you
00:25:43.700 say the database
00:25:44.500 hasn't been
00:25:45.880 entirely deleted,
00:25:47.600 it reads exactly
00:25:48.900 like a confession.
00:25:49.900 If somebody
00:25:52.540 in your personal
00:25:53.340 life used
00:25:54.320 this wording,
00:25:55.940 wouldn't it
00:25:56.380 sound like
00:25:56.820 a confession?
00:25:58.060 It doesn't
00:25:58.740 sound like
00:25:59.180 a defense.
00:26:00.440 It sounds
00:26:00.940 exactly,
00:26:02.280 exactly
00:26:02.900 like a
00:26:03.980 confession.
00:26:06.800 Scott,
00:26:07.540 did you
00:26:08.040 throw out
00:26:09.280 the yogurt
00:26:10.540 that was
00:26:10.980 in the
00:26:11.240 refrigerator?
00:26:12.200 I did
00:26:12.920 not throw
00:26:13.540 out
00:26:13.900 everything
00:26:14.660 in the
00:26:15.000 refrigerator.
00:26:18.700 See what I'm
00:26:19.520 saying?
00:26:19.900 Scott,
00:26:21.740 did you
00:26:22.980 take that
00:26:24.640 charger
00:26:25.080 out of the
00:26:25.580 bedroom?
00:26:26.520 I did
00:26:27.240 not remove
00:26:27.800 all the
00:26:28.120 bedroom
00:26:28.400 furniture.
00:26:32.300 Scott,
00:26:32.980 did you
00:26:33.440 get a
00:26:33.680 haircut?
00:26:34.480 I did
00:26:35.040 not shave
00:26:35.600 my body.
00:26:39.040 What?
00:26:42.440 Scott,
00:26:43.120 did you
00:26:44.820 eat a
00:26:45.400 bagel
00:26:45.700 this morning?
00:26:46.560 I did
00:26:47.260 not eat
00:26:47.720 all the
00:26:48.000 food in
00:26:48.360 the world.
00:26:48.720 there
00:26:49.800 are still
00:26:50.120 people in
00:26:50.560 China with
00:26:50.980 plenty of
00:26:51.340 food.
00:26:51.600 I can
00:26:51.820 prove it.
00:26:56.400 Worst
00:26:56.960 tweet of
00:26:58.560 all time.
00:27:00.640 And now
00:27:01.040 for my
00:27:03.560 favorite
00:27:03.940 lesson in
00:27:04.960 persuasion.
00:27:06.440 There's
00:27:06.880 presumably a
00:27:09.100 Chinese
00:27:10.040 government
00:27:10.680 troll.
00:27:11.300 I'm going
00:27:11.940 to make
00:27:12.160 that
00:27:12.420 allegation
00:27:13.060 without
00:27:13.360 having
00:27:13.920 proof of
00:27:14.500 it.
00:27:14.680 But I'd
00:27:15.520 say the
00:27:16.200 evidence
00:27:17.020 is strong.
00:27:20.840 And he's
00:27:22.480 worth following
00:27:23.160 because he's
00:27:23.800 so funny.
00:27:25.640 His name
00:27:26.160 is
00:27:26.380 Chen
00:27:26.920 way
00:27:29.420 way,
00:27:29.440 way,
00:27:29.920 maybe
00:27:30.560 W-E-I-H-U-A
00:27:33.360 way,
00:27:34.500 is that the
00:27:35.640 right pronunciation?
00:27:37.300 But anyway,
00:27:37.760 Chen
00:27:38.060 often comes
00:27:40.660 in and
00:27:41.220 tweets about
00:27:42.020 things I've
00:27:42.600 said or
00:27:43.120 other people
00:27:43.820 have said.
00:27:45.020 And
00:27:45.260 he seems
00:27:47.440 obviously like
00:27:48.600 a Chinese
00:27:49.140 government
00:27:49.600 troll.
00:27:50.300 I don't
00:27:50.620 think there's
00:27:51.040 any doubt
00:27:51.580 about it,
00:27:52.180 really.
00:27:52.900 I mean,
00:27:53.180 I might be
00:27:53.700 wrong,
00:27:54.320 maybe.
00:27:54.620 So I'll
00:27:55.860 just say
00:27:56.180 it's an
00:27:56.460 allegation,
00:27:57.200 but one
00:27:58.060 which I
00:27:58.420 treat as
00:27:59.460 true,
00:28:00.440 whether it
00:28:01.160 is or
00:28:01.400 not.
00:28:02.520 And he
00:28:04.540 was tweeting
00:28:04.960 about Israel
00:28:06.740 blowing up
00:28:07.480 the AP
00:28:08.140 building.
00:28:09.720 And he
00:28:10.240 said this,
00:28:11.780 if China
00:28:12.300 or Russia
00:28:12.980 had done
00:28:13.460 anything
00:28:13.980 remotely
00:28:14.560 like this,
00:28:16.020 Psaki,
00:28:16.520 Blinken,
00:28:17.060 Biden,
00:28:17.740 Sullivan,
00:28:18.180 Rubio,
00:28:18.860 Cotton,
00:28:19.280 Hawley,
00:28:20.100 would all
00:28:20.600 go berserk.
00:28:22.000 Now they
00:28:22.480 are all
00:28:22.860 pretending
00:28:23.340 brain dead.
00:28:24.620 This is
00:28:25.020 why I
00:28:25.320 like his
00:28:25.700 tweets.
00:28:26.560 Now they
00:28:27.180 are all
00:28:27.500 pretending
00:28:27.920 brain dead.
00:28:29.880 So I
00:28:30.480 tweeted back
00:28:31.060 at Chen
00:28:31.940 and I
00:28:32.280 said,
00:28:32.620 is your
00:28:32.820 government
00:28:33.140 still
00:28:33.520 shipping
00:28:33.940 fentanyl
00:28:34.580 to the
00:28:34.900 Mexican
00:28:35.300 cartels
00:28:36.060 to poison
00:28:37.260 America?
00:28:38.440 Ask your
00:28:39.040 free media
00:28:39.620 to look
00:28:40.020 into it.
00:28:41.680 Now,
00:28:42.360 I don't
00:28:43.660 know why
00:28:44.020 Chen
00:28:44.280 thinks it's
00:28:44.780 a good
00:28:45.020 idea to
00:28:45.560 tweet back
00:28:46.200 at me,
00:28:46.940 because he
00:28:47.380 really should
00:28:47.800 just let
00:28:48.180 it go.
00:28:50.340 He's not
00:28:51.000 really winning
00:28:51.600 when he
00:28:51.940 tweets back
00:28:52.440 at me.
00:28:54.620 And then
00:28:55.540 he said
00:28:55.960 back to
00:28:56.700 me,
00:28:57.140 Chen
00:28:57.340 said,
00:28:58.540 you seem
00:28:59.120 to be a
00:28:59.640 fervent
00:29:00.020 believer of
00:29:00.920 Trump
00:29:01.400 slash
00:29:01.880 Pompeo
00:29:02.480 lies.
00:29:04.320 All right.
00:29:05.400 All right.
00:29:06.120 Got his
00:29:06.800 attention.
00:29:08.280 And so I
00:29:08.960 tweeted back
00:29:09.480 a persuasion
00:29:10.160 tip to
00:29:10.780 Chen.
00:29:11.680 I said,
00:29:12.320 next time,
00:29:13.500 say,
00:29:13.960 quote,
00:29:14.740 China is
00:29:15.440 doing no
00:29:16.040 such thing
00:29:16.720 as your
00:29:17.300 denial.
00:29:18.280 When you
00:29:18.820 attack the
00:29:19.320 credibility of
00:29:20.140 the sources
00:29:20.660 instead,
00:29:21.160 it comes
00:29:22.100 off as a
00:29:22.720 confession over
00:29:23.500 here in
00:29:23.860 America.
00:29:25.040 I hope you
00:29:25.900 didn't get
00:29:26.300 executed by
00:29:27.120 your government
00:29:27.680 for that
00:29:28.180 huge mistake.
00:29:29.540 I'd miss
00:29:30.060 you.
00:29:32.840 So I
00:29:34.320 don't know
00:29:34.740 if I just
00:29:35.220 killed a
00:29:35.740 Chinese spy,
00:29:37.440 but maybe.
00:29:42.420 Maybe.
00:29:44.480 It could
00:29:45.280 be a tough
00:29:45.680 day for him.
00:29:47.660 How would
00:29:48.240 you like to
00:29:48.660 be the
00:29:48.940 Chinese spy
00:29:49.760 or the
00:29:50.940 alleged or
00:29:52.460 the Chinese
00:29:53.100 troll and
00:29:54.400 have to
00:29:54.740 explain to
00:29:55.340 your boss
00:29:55.920 that you
00:29:57.100 just confessed
00:29:59.020 to the
00:30:00.240 biggest crime
00:30:00.920 of the
00:30:01.380 decade or
00:30:03.600 the century.
00:30:04.260 I don't
00:30:04.360 know.
00:30:07.160 So these
00:30:09.520 are the
00:30:09.820 type of
00:30:10.140 lessons which
00:30:11.880 you would be
00:30:12.320 learning on
00:30:12.940 the locals
00:30:13.800 platform if
00:30:15.520 you were a
00:30:15.880 subscriber.
00:30:16.300 somebody says
00:30:21.660 the CCP
00:30:22.240 can't debate.
00:30:23.580 Yeah, it's
00:30:24.100 really tough
00:30:24.580 for them to
00:30:25.060 debate because
00:30:26.460 anywhere that
00:30:27.220 they go,
00:30:28.860 if you're
00:30:29.920 debating
00:30:30.240 anybody who's
00:30:30.960 associated with
00:30:32.180 the Chinese
00:30:32.600 government,
00:30:33.300 it's going to
00:30:34.180 take me about
00:30:34.800 one degree of
00:30:35.600 separation before
00:30:37.060 I'm bringing up
00:30:37.780 fentanyl or
00:30:39.180 genocide.
00:30:40.520 It's all going
00:30:41.320 to go that
00:30:41.740 way.
00:30:42.600 What's the
00:30:43.000 topic?
00:30:43.640 Oh, let's
00:30:44.100 talk about the
00:30:44.640 weather.
00:30:45.440 I'll bet it's
00:30:45.940 raining on the
00:30:46.580 Uyghurs who
00:30:47.440 are subjected
00:30:49.700 to genocide.
00:30:50.900 So it's going
00:30:51.760 to be nothing
00:30:52.200 but genocide
00:30:52.880 and fentanyl
00:30:53.820 any time I
00:30:55.380 have any
00:30:55.760 conversation with
00:30:56.580 China and I
00:30:57.160 don't care about
00:30:57.640 anything else.
00:31:03.140 All right.
00:31:05.160 Don, thank you
00:31:06.120 for subscribing
00:31:07.060 to Locals.
00:31:08.020 I appreciate
00:31:08.400 that.
00:31:09.860 All right, is
00:31:10.200 there anything
00:31:10.460 else going on?
00:31:11.200 It seems like
00:31:11.740 we're in this
00:31:12.660 weird dearth.
00:31:14.640 of news
00:31:15.700 because Trump
00:31:17.880 is not mixing
00:31:19.480 things up.
00:31:20.100 Oh, apparently
00:31:20.560 Trump now has
00:31:22.940 his own website.
00:31:24.220 It's called,
00:31:25.120 can somebody
00:31:25.640 help me,
00:31:26.620 From the
00:31:27.220 Desk of?
00:31:28.560 Is that the
00:31:29.000 name of his
00:31:29.460 website?
00:31:30.560 So I think
00:31:31.000 Trump, and
00:31:31.700 there was some
00:31:32.180 technical problem
00:31:33.060 with it,
00:31:33.520 it probably
00:31:34.200 crashed from
00:31:34.920 traffic or
00:31:35.540 something.
00:31:39.140 Scott, can
00:31:39.880 you tell us
00:31:40.300 about the
00:31:40.740 tennis ball
00:31:41.400 incident again?
00:31:42.560 What incident
00:31:44.240 was that?
00:31:44.920 I don't
00:31:45.140 remember.
00:31:46.280 Remind me.
00:31:51.460 Oh, is
00:31:52.100 there an
00:31:52.500 expiration date
00:31:53.220 on the
00:31:53.620 locals offer?
00:31:54.480 I don't
00:31:54.720 have a
00:31:55.060 planned
00:31:55.460 expiration date
00:31:56.400 on that,
00:31:57.520 but at
00:31:59.300 some point
00:31:59.740 I'll remove
00:32:00.700 it.
00:32:00.960 let me
00:32:07.300 just see
00:32:07.780 what
00:32:08.020 comments
00:32:08.460 you have
00:32:08.900 here.
00:32:13.080 Oh,
00:32:13.640 homelessness,
00:32:14.200 yeah,
00:32:14.520 homelessness in
00:32:15.420 California is
00:32:16.440 a mess.
00:32:17.320 We'll talk
00:32:17.720 about that
00:32:18.100 in a minute.
00:32:20.380 Mark
00:32:20.820 asked me,
00:32:21.520 Scott,
00:32:21.900 hypothetically,
00:32:22.580 if you had
00:32:22.980 the opportunity
00:32:23.460 to do so,
00:32:24.860 would you
00:32:25.180 have any
00:32:25.540 interest in
00:32:27.080 what,
00:32:28.440 in interviewing
00:32:29.040 an individual
00:32:29.760 who is a
00:32:31.060 CCP official?
00:32:33.280 Eh,
00:32:34.020 I mean,
00:32:34.520 I don't know
00:32:35.040 what would be
00:32:35.480 the point
00:32:35.920 of that,
00:32:36.360 because it
00:32:36.800 would just
00:32:37.060 be a bunch
00:32:37.520 of lies,
00:32:38.380 and they
00:32:38.540 would be
00:32:38.820 obvious lies,
00:32:40.320 and I
00:32:41.600 don't know.
00:32:42.140 Is there
00:32:42.420 really a
00:32:43.160 point to
00:32:43.480 that?
00:32:43.820 I don't
00:32:44.120 know if
00:32:44.380 there is.
00:32:48.360 So,
00:32:48.840 speaking of
00:32:49.300 the homeless,
00:32:50.260 yeah,
00:32:50.440 so California
00:32:51.080 is doing,
00:32:52.000 I think it's
00:32:53.140 called a
00:32:53.500 housing first
00:32:54.360 idea.
00:32:55.380 If you
00:32:55.980 get them
00:32:56.500 housed first,
00:32:57.640 and then
00:32:58.460 provide a
00:32:59.020 number of
00:32:59.480 support services
00:33:00.480 for mental
00:33:02.840 health and
00:33:03.580 addiction,
00:33:04.220 mostly,
00:33:05.200 that that's
00:33:05.740 the best
00:33:06.020 way to go.
00:33:06.760 I think
00:33:07.080 there are
00:33:07.500 others who
00:33:08.200 think that
00:33:09.600 treating the
00:33:10.440 addiction and
00:33:10.980 the mental
00:33:11.300 illness first
00:33:12.100 is the big
00:33:12.800 problem,
00:33:13.500 because housing
00:33:14.060 isn't going
00:33:16.140 to work unless
00:33:16.760 you do those
00:33:17.860 things.
00:33:19.160 So,
00:33:19.800 all I can
00:33:20.720 say is that
00:33:21.260 California
00:33:21.720 somehow has a
00:33:22.760 budget surplus,
00:33:24.260 and we're
00:33:25.740 spending a lot
00:33:26.480 of money on
00:33:27.340 the homeless.
00:33:30.640 No,
00:33:31.140 Logan,
00:33:31.460 I have not
00:33:31.820 seen John
00:33:33.000 Cullen's
00:33:33.460 video.
00:33:35.880 So,
00:33:36.500 I don't
00:33:36.760 think we're
00:33:38.400 overspending.
00:33:39.680 If we have a
00:33:40.500 budget surplus,
00:33:41.400 maybe we're
00:33:41.840 overtaxing,
00:33:42.620 that would be
00:33:42.960 the other way
00:33:43.380 to look at
00:33:43.740 it.
00:33:44.680 But,
00:33:45.120 I don't
00:33:46.560 know that
00:33:46.900 anybody has
00:33:47.380 the right
00:33:47.620 answer with
00:33:48.240 homeless stuff,
00:33:49.020 because the
00:33:49.680 problem is
00:33:50.240 that trying
00:33:52.100 to turn
00:33:52.700 people who
00:33:53.680 can't figure
00:33:55.460 out how
00:33:55.960 to get
00:33:57.020 that part
00:33:57.520 of their
00:33:57.740 life together,
00:33:58.780 I just
00:33:59.660 don't know
00:34:00.320 how much
00:34:00.880 they can
00:34:01.260 be moved.
00:34:02.240 Probably
00:34:02.680 just 10%
00:34:04.160 of them
00:34:04.540 can be
00:34:04.900 moved back
00:34:05.560 into the
00:34:06.000 productive
00:34:06.460 cycle,
00:34:07.060 I would
00:34:07.260 imagine.
00:34:08.540 I can't
00:34:09.200 imagine it
00:34:09.600 be much
00:34:09.900 more than
00:34:10.260 that.
00:34:12.220 Is
00:34:12.700 California's
00:34:13.320 pension fund
00:34:14.040 part of
00:34:14.400 the budget?
00:34:14.840 I don't
00:34:15.080 know,
00:34:15.460 but it's
00:34:15.820 an interesting
00:34:16.360 question.
00:34:19.900 All right.
00:34:20.400 how many
00:34:23.000 of you
00:34:23.480 would lie
00:34:24.520 and say
00:34:25.100 you were
00:34:25.620 fully
00:34:26.180 vaccinated
00:34:26.780 if you
00:34:27.560 were only
00:34:28.080 partially
00:34:28.860 vaccinated?
00:34:30.180 In the
00:34:30.720 comments,
00:34:31.700 if you
00:34:32.360 were on
00:34:32.700 the two
00:34:33.480 shot
00:34:33.940 regimen
00:34:34.640 and you
00:34:35.740 had had
00:34:36.040 one shot
00:34:36.700 and waited
00:34:37.160 a week,
00:34:38.520 you're
00:34:38.980 pretty well
00:34:39.420 vaccinated
00:34:39.860 after one
00:34:40.420 shot.
00:34:41.340 Would you
00:34:41.720 ever lie?
00:34:43.820 Let's say
00:34:44.440 you didn't
00:34:44.780 need to show
00:34:45.220 a passport,
00:34:45.960 but you
00:34:46.200 had to,
00:34:47.540 would you
00:34:48.180 lie and say
00:34:49.000 you're
00:34:49.180 vaccinated?
00:34:50.400 I would
00:34:52.780 get caught,
00:34:53.400 I would,
00:34:54.000 me,
00:34:54.420 sure.
00:34:54.900 So almost
00:34:55.320 all of you
00:34:55.800 would lie.
00:34:57.040 I see a
00:34:57.940 few no's,
00:34:59.660 but almost
00:35:00.200 all of you
00:35:00.660 would.
00:35:01.180 Let me
00:35:01.740 give a
00:35:02.200 little tip
00:35:02.820 to our
00:35:03.220 government.
00:35:04.700 All right.
00:35:04.960 Here's a
00:35:05.300 little advice
00:35:06.780 for the
00:35:08.340 American
00:35:08.640 government,
00:35:09.680 similar to
00:35:10.740 advice I
00:35:11.280 would give
00:35:11.580 anyway.
00:35:12.740 If your
00:35:13.520 citizens
00:35:14.060 won't
00:35:14.680 obey you,
00:35:16.260 and it's
00:35:16.640 obvious that
00:35:17.140 they won't,
00:35:17.900 I mean,
00:35:18.360 this is
00:35:18.820 complete
00:35:19.820 I mean,
00:35:21.180 I see
00:35:21.440 a few
00:35:21.740 no's,
00:35:22.500 but I
00:35:22.800 see almost
00:35:23.500 complete
00:35:24.080 disobedience.
00:35:25.620 Almost
00:35:26.020 complete.
00:35:27.640 It's like
00:35:28.220 90%
00:35:29.020 disobedient
00:35:29.800 based on
00:35:31.280 the comments.
00:35:32.460 If you're
00:35:32.900 citizens,
00:35:35.140 90% of
00:35:36.140 them are
00:35:36.460 going to
00:35:36.880 disobey
00:35:37.560 your
00:35:38.500 recommendation,
00:35:39.540 you've lost
00:35:40.220 credibility.
00:35:41.820 You've lost
00:35:42.680 it.
00:35:43.380 And that's a
00:35:44.020 pretty big
00:35:44.580 thing to
00:35:44.980 lose,
00:35:45.820 certainly on
00:35:46.700 a health
00:35:47.760 question.
00:35:49.140 And I
00:35:49.600 do think
00:35:50.120 that,
00:35:51.280 you know,
00:35:51.540 I've said
00:35:51.780 this before,
00:35:52.540 you want
00:35:53.140 your government
00:35:53.700 to be in
00:35:54.180 charge when
00:35:54.740 there's
00:35:55.000 an emergency.
00:35:56.220 Even if
00:35:56.940 they make
00:35:57.320 mistakes,
00:35:57.840 it's still
00:35:58.240 better than
00:35:58.680 everybody just
00:35:59.240 running around
00:35:59.800 randomly,
00:36:00.520 right?
00:36:01.020 So you
00:36:01.520 definitely
00:36:01.840 want the
00:36:02.240 government
00:36:02.520 calling the
00:36:03.220 shots in
00:36:04.480 the middle
00:36:04.900 of the
00:36:05.180 emergency.
00:36:06.000 But as
00:36:06.560 you get
00:36:06.860 toward the
00:36:07.280 end,
00:36:08.120 the government
00:36:08.920 is the
00:36:09.460 wrong
00:36:09.920 decision
00:36:10.440 maker.
00:36:11.440 Because once
00:36:12.120 you get
00:36:12.380 toward the
00:36:12.760 end,
00:36:13.080 you've got
00:36:13.400 these more
00:36:13.920 nuanced
00:36:14.720 decisions
00:36:15.460 about the
00:36:16.720 quality of
00:36:17.420 life,
00:36:18.520 everybody's
00:36:18.980 individual
00:36:19.420 risk,
00:36:20.100 etc.
00:36:20.500 And the
00:36:21.200 general rules
00:36:22.140 are not
00:36:22.840 going to
00:36:23.040 work as
00:36:23.340 so well
00:36:23.660 for individuals.
00:36:24.800 At that
00:36:25.460 point,
00:36:26.980 the citizens
00:36:27.680 just have
00:36:28.280 to take
00:36:28.640 control.
00:36:30.580 I would
00:36:31.300 argue that
00:36:31.780 that's
00:36:32.060 already
00:36:32.300 happened,
00:36:33.120 and that
00:36:33.580 the government
00:36:34.360 and the
00:36:34.840 CDC
00:36:35.240 probably,
00:36:36.800 I feel,
00:36:38.500 followed
00:36:39.140 public
00:36:39.660 opinion.
00:36:40.700 Give me
00:36:40.960 a read
00:36:42.100 on that.
00:36:43.020 In my
00:36:43.440 opinion,
00:36:43.820 the public
00:36:45.320 decided that
00:36:46.760 masks outdoors
00:36:47.940 had to
00:36:48.740 go,
00:36:49.520 and then
00:36:50.040 the CDC
00:36:50.640 agreed.
00:36:53.340 Did you
00:36:53.920 see it
00:36:54.200 that way?
00:36:55.040 To me,
00:36:55.560 it looks
00:36:55.800 like the
00:36:56.140 public's
00:36:56.500 already in
00:36:56.960 control.
00:36:57.960 There's
00:36:58.200 just a
00:36:58.500 little time
00:36:58.920 lag between
00:36:59.580 the time
00:37:00.060 that the
00:37:00.940 public
00:37:01.300 demands it
00:37:02.100 and the
00:37:02.880 time that
00:37:03.240 the CDC
00:37:03.680 says,
00:37:05.040 well,
00:37:05.380 okay.
00:37:06.920 So when
00:37:08.000 you're looking
00:37:08.320 at the
00:37:08.900 stores that
00:37:09.560 may or may
00:37:09.980 not require
00:37:10.520 you to
00:37:10.780 wear a
00:37:11.060 mask and
00:37:11.480 all that,
00:37:11.960 that's all
00:37:12.400 going to
00:37:12.600 take care
00:37:12.940 of itself.
00:37:13.820 Because the
00:37:14.940 public,
00:37:15.840 I believe,
00:37:17.980 in my
00:37:18.580 opinion,
00:37:19.180 right now,
00:37:20.300 the public
00:37:20.860 is managing
00:37:21.580 the crisis
00:37:23.340 or the
00:37:24.360 end of the
00:37:24.760 crisis,
00:37:25.200 right?
00:37:25.920 I don't
00:37:26.480 think it's
00:37:26.800 the government
00:37:27.180 in charge
00:37:27.640 anymore.
00:37:28.280 I think
00:37:28.580 they lost
00:37:29.180 their moral
00:37:30.440 authority
00:37:30.920 through a
00:37:32.180 number of
00:37:32.740 sketchy
00:37:33.220 decisions that
00:37:34.020 were transparently
00:37:35.340 false.
00:37:36.600 When they
00:37:37.080 lied about
00:37:37.520 the masks,
00:37:38.880 we were
00:37:39.360 already,
00:37:40.660 as soon as
00:37:41.340 the lying
00:37:41.840 about the
00:37:42.280 mask thing
00:37:42.940 happened.
00:37:43.960 I think
00:37:44.420 everybody
00:37:44.840 was a
00:37:45.240 little bit,
00:37:45.680 I'm going
00:37:47.020 to look at
00:37:48.340 you really
00:37:48.760 carefully from
00:37:49.400 now on.
00:37:51.360 All right.
00:37:53.080 Somebody says
00:37:53.880 the CDC was
00:37:54.840 never following
00:37:55.560 the science.
00:37:56.560 Well, I
00:37:57.080 disagree with
00:37:57.760 that statement.
00:37:59.580 I would
00:38:00.220 only add
00:38:00.820 this qualifier,
00:38:01.900 which is
00:38:02.300 people don't
00:38:04.240 know what
00:38:04.520 the science
00:38:04.940 is.
00:38:05.840 Even the
00:38:06.300 CDC,
00:38:07.060 probably the
00:38:07.540 experts were
00:38:08.240 debating what
00:38:08.940 is true and
00:38:09.500 what isn't,
00:38:10.080 and how
00:38:11.020 much risk
00:38:11.580 you put
00:38:11.940 into any
00:38:12.340 of this.
00:38:13.160 So I
00:38:13.600 wouldn't say
00:38:14.060 they weren't
00:38:15.180 following the
00:38:16.080 science.
00:38:17.660 I would
00:38:18.040 say they
00:38:18.380 tried.
00:38:19.480 It's just
00:38:19.940 not easy.
00:38:22.740 I'd like to
00:38:23.360 hear Scott
00:38:23.700 talk about
00:38:24.220 when we
00:38:24.740 reach herd
00:38:25.660 immunity.
00:38:26.680 Well, I
00:38:27.120 don't have an
00:38:27.680 opinion that's
00:38:28.280 much different
00:38:28.820 than the
00:38:29.160 experts,
00:38:29.920 70%.
00:38:30.860 If the
00:38:32.400 experts are
00:38:32.900 saying 70%,
00:38:33.820 I'm not
00:38:34.260 going to
00:38:34.860 debate the
00:38:35.520 math.
00:38:35.900 I don't
00:38:36.080 have a
00:38:36.360 better idea.
00:38:37.200 But I
00:38:38.200 do think
00:38:38.560 that this
00:38:38.920 is a
00:38:39.280 unique kind
00:38:42.500 of virus
00:38:42.960 because of
00:38:46.080 how it
00:38:46.360 doesn't
00:38:46.880 attack the
00:38:47.340 young people
00:38:47.840 so much.
00:38:49.140 So it
00:38:49.680 could be
00:38:49.960 that you
00:38:50.300 just count
00:38:50.720 young people
00:38:51.280 as effectively
00:38:52.560 vaccinated.
00:38:55.380 Like if
00:38:55.860 you took
00:38:56.520 the young
00:38:56.920 people who
00:38:57.420 are healthy
00:38:57.840 who just
00:38:58.700 aren't going
00:38:59.040 to have a
00:38:59.360 problem and
00:38:59.960 just say,
00:39:00.320 let's count
00:39:01.040 them as
00:39:01.520 good as
00:39:02.860 vaccinated.
00:39:04.280 Now, they're
00:39:04.940 not as good
00:39:05.460 as vaccinated
00:39:06.100 because they
00:39:07.080 might be
00:39:07.460 able to
00:39:07.720 transmit it
00:39:08.380 better than
00:39:08.880 vaccinated
00:39:09.400 people.
00:39:09.980 I don't
00:39:10.120 know.
00:39:11.180 But it
00:39:13.360 feels like
00:39:13.760 that.
00:39:17.340 Yeah.
00:39:18.080 There's a
00:39:18.680 Cernovich quote
00:39:19.380 somebody's
00:39:19.840 giving me
00:39:20.280 that all
00:39:21.360 experts are
00:39:22.460 right one
00:39:22.980 day and
00:39:23.360 wrong a
00:39:23.720 week later.
00:39:24.380 At some
00:39:24.760 point, we
00:39:25.220 just have to
00:39:25.720 live our
00:39:26.040 lives.
00:39:27.220 Yeah.
00:39:27.700 So you
00:39:28.440 really need
00:39:29.040 to learn how
00:39:30.380 to make
00:39:30.680 decisions in
00:39:31.600 a world in
00:39:32.220 which the
00:39:32.600 experts can't
00:39:33.320 be trusted.
00:39:34.160 That's the
00:39:34.520 world we're
00:39:35.340 in.
00:39:35.740 Maybe I've
00:39:36.380 always been
00:39:36.720 there.
00:39:37.080 Has
00:39:39.200 anybody
00:39:39.440 reached out
00:39:39.920 to me
00:39:40.160 about the
00:39:40.520 debt crisis
00:39:41.220 once I
00:39:41.920 started talking
00:39:42.700 about it?
00:39:43.720 A number
00:39:44.280 of people
00:39:44.640 have commented
00:39:45.380 yes, but
00:39:48.260 it looks like
00:39:49.400 inflation is
00:39:50.200 going to be
00:39:50.560 what we're
00:39:50.940 going to do
00:39:51.580 to get rid
00:39:52.200 of it, which
00:39:53.140 is not
00:39:53.820 ideal.
00:39:55.460 All right.
00:39:57.020 I'm going to
00:39:57.640 end a little
00:39:58.080 bit early
00:39:58.540 today.
00:39:59.220 I've got to
00:39:59.840 do something
00:40:00.320 and then I
00:40:02.520 will talk to
00:40:03.120 you tomorrow.
00:40:05.520 Oh, what's
00:40:05.840 your longest
00:40:06.280 e-bike
00:40:06.720 trip?
00:40:07.360 20 miles.
00:40:09.160 All right.
00:40:09.540 That's it
00:40:09.840 for now.
00:40:10.440 Bye.