Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1381 Scott Adams： Hamas Versus Israel Persuasion War, California Versus Florida, Lightfoot Versus White People

00:00:00.760 Hey everybody, come on in. It's time for Coffee with Scott Adams.

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00:00:46.840 Now, I saw in the comments that somebody is doing the simultaneous sip from a train.

00:00:57.360 You have to watch out for that because, as Einstein warned, there is no preferred frame for the simultaneous sip.

00:01:05.580 Well, you can work out the math.

00:01:08.300 So, many of you had said to me,

00:01:11.440 Hey, Scott, why is the volume so low on your podcast, but other people have higher volume?

00:01:18.620 What's up with that, Scott?

00:01:20.120 Well, I just did some research, and it turns out that everybody who uses an iPad has the same problem.

00:01:27.200 So, there's something about the iPad that doesn't do volume recording correctly,

00:01:32.780 but reportedly, the iPhone does not have that issue.

00:01:36.740 So, as an experiment, I might do an iPhone recording and just see if the audio is any different.

00:01:44.440 The problem is, I don't want to do these on my iPhone because I can't see your comments.

00:01:48.880 The screen would be too small.

00:01:50.340 But I could use an external screen, so I might have a workaround, maybe.

00:01:56.380 All right.

00:01:57.740 Do you remember the news that in the Arizona election audit,

00:02:02.180 you had heard that there was some big database that had been deleted.

00:02:07.560 Do you remember that story?

00:02:09.380 Big old database was deleted.

00:02:11.880 And if that's true, well, then there's some shenanigans.

00:02:16.880 But it turns out it's not true.

00:02:20.100 What should be your immediate assumption

00:02:23.940 when you hear any initial news come out of an audit?

00:02:29.980 Your initial assumption should be every time.

00:02:34.820 That's not true.

00:02:37.360 Just have a little recording running in your head.

00:02:40.900 Now, at the end of the audit, presumably, there will be some claims or not.

00:02:45.880 But if there are some claims, there will be ones that other people need to verify, etc.

00:02:50.600 But anything you hear before the end, when things have really been nailed down 0.98

00:02:55.840 and they've got a solid opinion, everything you hear until then, probably bullshit. 0.99

00:03:04.160 Probably. 0.99

00:03:05.040 Not definitely.

00:03:06.520 I'm not saying the audience won't find anything.

00:03:10.460 I'm not saying they will.

00:03:12.100 I'm just saying that anything you hear early, it's just not likely to be true.

00:03:18.680 You know, it's a fog of war situation.

00:03:21.260 So, I don't recall if I called BS on this when I first heard it.

00:03:26.280 Maybe you can remind me?

00:03:28.160 Can somebody remind me how I reported this the first time?

00:03:31.800 I've got that selective memory thing going on right now.

00:03:35.040 Did I say in public that I wasn't so sure that was true?

00:03:38.260 Or did I just report it as something that's being claimed?

00:03:44.280 In the comments, somebody says, you did.

00:03:46.980 Oh, I did.

00:03:47.660 Okay.

00:03:48.660 You said to ignore it.

00:03:50.480 Oh.

00:03:51.160 Well, how about that?

00:03:53.360 I couldn't remember if I had called BS on this before we knew it was BS.

00:03:58.580 Oh, okay.

00:03:59.920 Well, let me claim that as an accomplishment of sorts.

00:04:08.260 Um, do you know how to tell when something that you've created is really good and people

00:04:16.880 will care about it and buy it or whatever versus creating something that people might

00:04:22.820 say, eh, that's pretty good.

00:04:25.080 That's pretty good.

00:04:26.760 Um, but they don't do anything with it.

00:04:29.440 They don't buy it.

00:04:30.160 And I have a rule for that that I use quite a bit and it works every time as far as I

00:04:36.300 can tell.

00:04:37.240 If somebody takes your product, whether it's a writing product or a physical product, whatever,

00:04:43.620 and they, they, they use it, um, in a way that makes them physically act in some way in

00:04:51.000 which, in, in which they're trying to promote it or extend it or improve upon it, then you

00:04:57.800 really have something.

00:04:59.140 If people take your product and modify it, you really have something.

00:05:05.520 All right.

00:05:05.860 It's only when they don't care that you're done, right?

00:05:09.500 Then, eh, you know, I don't care.

00:05:10.920 It's good.

00:05:11.460 It's fine.

00:05:12.220 I just don't care.

00:05:12.960 And I've never seen more activity since really the Dilbert comic came out.

00:05:19.740 There was a lot of activity around that, but when my book Had It Failed Almost Everything

00:05:23.480 and Still Win Big came out in 2013, it was a success, a commercial success, but it didn't

00:05:32.440 really light the world on fire.

00:05:35.320 But now, what, eight years later, um, I just recorded the audio version in my own voice for

00:05:42.320 the first time, the prior audio version was a voice actor, and part of the theme of that

00:05:49.460 book was that I couldn't speak for a few years.

00:05:53.000 I had a speaking problem, so I didn't record the audio book, and that's actually a theme

00:05:58.340 that goes through the book itself, uh, in a meta kind of a way, um, but now it's in my

00:06:03.880 voice because I can, and so that's available now, anybody who wants to hear that book in

00:06:08.220 my voice.

00:06:08.720 But here's, here's my point on that.

00:06:10.060 Um, this morning, there was a, uh, tweet thread that went around taking something from

00:06:16.600 my book about how to pursue happiness.

00:06:19.320 That was just, you know, one part of the book, and turned into a, uh, a summarized tweet thread.

00:06:27.220 Now, do you know how many times that's happened?

00:06:29.800 Not just that part of the book, but different parts of the book, people are picking out and

00:06:35.940 summarizing and turning into tweet threads.

00:06:38.160 In other words, they're, they're taking the product and modifying it and extending it.

00:06:43.480 And it's happening a lot.

00:06:45.000 Now, you may be less aware that there are other best-selling books, other, other fairly large

00:06:53.980 media things happening that are really based on that book.

00:06:58.380 It's either based on the systems versus goals part of the book, which I think changed the

00:07:04.540 country, honestly.

00:07:06.140 And the talent stack part of the book, which I think changed education.

00:07:11.420 Now, the number of people who know about those two things, talent stacks and systems versus

00:07:18.700 goals, it's really extensive at this point.

00:07:23.040 Um, it would be hard to find a, an educated person.

00:07:26.760 Let's say somebody who works in the business world or even academics, I think, who were not

00:07:32.600 aware of these, aware of those concepts.

00:07:36.980 So give it a look if you haven't looked at it.

00:07:38.860 Uh, and that's how you know you have something when people are modifying it.

00:07:42.920 Um, have you heard the story about Nicole Hannah-Jones?

00:07:46.780 She was the author of the 1619 Project, uh, Pulitzer Prize winning writer for the New York

00:07:53.600 Times.

00:07:54.060 And she was up for tenure at the University of North Carolina.

00:07:58.540 But after, uh, I guess there was some, probably some complaints or pushback from conservatives,

00:08:03.640 I'm guessing, uh, and she was not approved for tenure, which apparently is unusual.

00:08:09.960 And it was based on, it looks like, based on her work on the 1619 Project.

00:08:15.620 I might be wrong about that, but that seems to be the implication.

00:08:19.040 Now, the left is saying this is obviously racism, and it's only, the college caved because there

00:08:29.080 was too much, uh, activity on the right, you know, protest or whatever.

00:08:33.880 And I think the right is saying something like this.

00:08:38.380 So, how is that cancel culture thing working out for you?

00:08:43.560 Just the way you hoped?

00:08:44.940 I feel like every conservative is saying something like that out loud or in their minds.

00:08:53.100 So, cancel culture.

00:08:55.180 Got what, got exactly what you wanted, didn't you?

00:08:58.440 That the mob can fire you from your job because the mob doesn't like you?

00:09:03.160 Even if your job or your employer does?

00:09:06.360 Is that the world you want to live in?

00:09:08.800 Well, that's the world you got.

00:09:11.100 You got exactly what you bought.

00:09:13.080 You know, if you pay for something and you get exactly what you paid for, can you complain?

00:09:19.480 So, I've told you before that the one way to destroy something you don't like is to adopt it fully.

00:09:29.440 If you adopt fully a bad idea, then the badness of the idea becomes more obvious.

00:09:36.200 It's only when you fight against it that it can stay there as strong as it was originally.

00:09:43.660 But the more you see people on the left canceling themselves or, in this case, maybe canceled by the activities of people on the right,

00:09:52.100 you say to yourself, is this the world you want to live in?

00:09:55.460 Is it?

00:09:58.620 Do you want to live in this world where the mob can decide if you get hired or fired?

00:10:06.040 But that's our situation.

00:10:08.440 Now, I can't tell if this is healthy or not.

00:10:13.180 It feels like it is.

00:10:15.380 You know, it does feel unfair to Nicole Hannah-Jones. 0.90

00:10:21.360 So, let me say that clearly.

00:10:23.400 I think this is unfair because people seem to be quite united in saying that she's qualified in general,

00:10:31.460 has done a lot of good work, highly educated, successful, Pulitzer Prize winning.

00:10:36.440 You know, she has all the credentials. 0.83

00:10:38.440 But the 1619 Project was a little bit controversial, if I can say that.

00:10:44.920 A little bit controversial.

00:10:46.300 So, should you get denied tenure for the one thing you did that was provocative?

00:10:56.440 Well, if it's this provocative, maybe yes.

00:11:01.900 Maybe yes.

00:11:03.260 So, we'll see where that goes. 0.93

00:11:04.940 The funniest, most ridiculous story of the day is Lori Lightfoot, who's mayor in Chicago, 0.99

00:11:16.720 has said that she's only going to accept one-on-one interviews from black or brown journalists. 0.99

00:11:24.480 Because she noticed that there are way too many white journalists.

00:11:28.280 And so, to even things out, she'll only take one-on-one interviews from black or brown journalists. 0.60

00:11:33.340 Now, a lot of you laughed at me when I said I was starting to identify as black.

00:11:42.860 But here's the reason.

00:11:45.880 You know, you can't fault people for using the rules if you're the one who came up with the rules.

00:11:54.560 Right?

00:11:55.820 It's the one who comes up with the rules who has to be responsible.

00:11:59.260 It's not the people who follow the rules.

00:12:01.100 And the rules are that you can identify as what you feel closest to.

00:12:07.900 And I identify as black.

00:12:09.680 I've given the reasons before.

00:12:11.120 I won't repeat them today.

00:12:13.180 But, and by the way, I'm not joking.

00:12:17.720 I'm not joking.

00:12:18.960 It's available to me to identify as black.

00:12:23.480 And I prefer it.

00:12:24.780 Legitimately, I prefer it.

00:12:29.700 Because I have experiences which are similar enough.

00:12:33.740 And I have sort of an affection for that group that I identify with.

00:12:40.260 I spend a lot of my efforts and work trying to figure out how to make the black community more successful.

00:12:46.280 So, why not identify?

00:12:49.320 I have that right.

00:12:50.840 So, I've decided to do it.

00:12:53.040 So, apparently, I would be able to get an interview with Lori Lightfoot.

00:12:58.260 Now, I do some writing on the topics of politics.

00:13:02.600 And I wondered what would happen if I asked for an interview.

00:13:05.820 And just tell her I identify as black.

00:13:08.100 What would happen?

00:13:11.640 Would she mock me for not being serious?

00:13:16.400 Because I feel that's what the conservatives get in trouble for all the time.

00:13:22.020 Mocking people for identifying in ways that other people don't feel are legitimate.

00:13:28.680 But that's not how it works.

00:13:31.140 It doesn't really matter if other people don't think it's legitimate.

00:13:35.040 The whole point of it is you get to do it yourself.

00:13:38.100 Now, if other people get to define me, that's a different set of rules.

00:13:43.960 Those are not the ones we play by.

00:13:45.900 So, I'm going to play by the real rules, the ones that actually are here,

00:13:49.160 which is you can identify as the way you want.

00:13:51.540 And if I asked her for an interview, what would she do?

00:13:54.300 But the funniest response to this was from Kim Klasik.

00:14:00.520 I think I'm pronouncing that right.

00:14:01.980 Klasik.

00:14:02.700 Who pointed out that Lori Lightfoot is married to a white woman. 1.00

00:14:10.280 And Kim Klasik was wondering in a tweet if Lori Lightfoot still allows one-on-one meetings with her own wife

00:14:18.200 or if she's trying to get a little fairness in there. 1.00

00:14:22.220 So, I think I laughed for 10 minutes after I saw that.

00:14:27.680 I couldn't even do anything.

00:14:29.160 I just kept laughing.

00:14:30.640 And I would try to do something else.

00:14:32.280 And then I'd be laughing too hard.

00:14:33.880 And I couldn't think.

00:14:34.980 And then I'd be laughing again.

00:14:36.540 I swear to God, I laughed 10 minutes at that.

00:14:38.720 Here's a question for you.

00:14:42.760 I asked this on Twitter with a little Twitter poll.

00:14:47.340 How many people think that California is doing better than Florida?

00:14:54.820 Let's say just in terms of the COVID response.

00:14:59.720 Death rate and economics.

00:15:02.700 So, we're going to look at those two things.

00:15:04.120 Death rate, not infection rate.

00:15:06.140 Because the infection rate has to do with how much you're testing, blah, blah, blah.

00:15:09.820 But just look at the death rate.

00:15:12.300 California versus Florida per thousand, right?

00:15:15.260 Or per million, whatever.

00:15:16.600 You have to do it as ratio.

00:15:18.540 And look at the economics.

00:15:21.700 So, when I asked my followers that question, what do you think they said?

00:15:26.500 98% said Florida is killing California.

00:15:31.760 Florida is just crushing it.

00:15:33.520 And California, not doing so well.

00:15:36.200 According to 98% of the people who follow me on Twitter and decided to answer that poll.

00:15:42.020 Very non-scientific.

00:15:43.980 Does that sound right to you?

00:15:45.920 If you check the data, would the data confirm that?

00:15:50.160 That Florida is just crushing California.

00:15:52.980 Better on death rate?

00:15:54.820 Better on economics?

00:15:57.580 Nope.

00:15:58.940 No.

00:15:59.420 No.

00:16:00.280 No.

00:16:00.860 98% of the people who answered that poll seem to be deeply uninformed.

00:16:07.100 Yeah, they're pretty close.

00:16:09.180 Pretty close.

00:16:10.880 California is doing better at the moment.

00:16:15.280 All right?

00:16:15.700 So, if you look at the history of it, you know, the curves have been reversing each other.

00:16:21.000 But at the moment, right now, this week, California is doing better than Florida.

00:16:29.620 In terms of, specifically in terms of death.

00:16:32.820 Death rate, not just death.

00:16:34.940 Because there are twice as many people in California.

00:16:38.240 So, did you know that?

00:16:40.140 Did you know that the death rate in California was lower?

00:16:44.340 Especially lately?

00:16:45.780 I'll bet you didn't.

00:16:47.700 Because this is that problem of the silos, right?

00:16:51.540 The news silos.

00:16:53.360 I'll bet you didn't know that.

00:16:55.240 I didn't know it.

00:16:57.840 You know, Andres Bekkaus pointed it out to me this morning on Twitter, and I didn't know it.

00:17:03.160 I would have guessed the opposite, actually.

00:17:05.040 In fact, I think I said the opposite.

00:17:06.980 I probably said the opposite in public.

00:17:08.660 But what about the economy?

00:17:12.340 All right?

00:17:12.940 Now, I know what you're saying.

00:17:13.860 You're saying, okay, okay, I get it.

00:17:16.000 The death rates are maybe close to comparable.

00:17:20.180 And as is being pointed out, can you really compare death rates?

00:17:24.120 Florida's got a lot of old people. 0.99

00:17:26.340 California has a lot of immigration, which presumably is bringing in a lot of young people.

00:17:32.120 Can you compare them?

00:17:33.200 Well, I'll say that if they're in the same neighborhood, then you can't, right?

00:17:40.200 If they're generally close, then I don't think you can say anything except, oh, they're in

00:17:45.800 the same neighborhood, which is what they are.

00:17:48.760 They're actually in the same neighborhood.

00:17:51.180 So let's look at economics.

00:17:53.320 Because if one of them crashed the economy to get that same result, that would be a mistake,

00:17:59.800 right?

00:17:59.980 How is the California economy compared to the Florida economy?

00:18:06.320 I'll get to the point, L. Green.

00:18:08.700 How is the California economy compared to the Florida economy?

00:18:12.000 Go.

00:18:12.620 In the comments.

00:18:14.040 Tell me which one's doing better.

00:18:17.360 You don't know.

00:18:19.820 You don't know.

00:18:22.480 I'll bet you don't.

00:18:23.620 The assumption that we all made before I brought this up or before you Google it, probably your

00:18:33.540 assumption was that Florida was doing better, right?

00:18:38.060 But it turns out that California had a $75 billion surplus in the budget.

00:18:47.160 Plus, we got, I don't know, $26 billion from the federal government.

00:18:54.000 California is $100 billion ahead during the pandemic.

00:19:02.440 Why?

00:19:03.620 Well, the reason is that rich people were always taxed at a high rate in California, and rich

00:19:09.840 people didn't lose their jobs.

00:19:12.040 Do you know who's paying taxes?

00:19:13.360 Not poor people, right?

00:19:17.240 Yeah, we have high taxes.

00:19:19.060 But that much surplus certainly suggests that the economy did all right, because the people

00:19:25.900 who were out of work got some kind of government and state help and seemed to be at least surviving

00:19:34.820 it.

00:19:35.340 I'm not hearing of people dying or starving.

00:19:37.320 I'm not hearing of people not getting COVID health care that needed it.

00:19:43.080 I don't know that California did poorly.

00:19:47.420 And if you think that, if your current thinking is that Florida just wiped the table with California,

00:19:56.400 I don't think the evidence suggests that.

00:19:59.360 I don't think so.

00:20:00.280 Now, I think there'll be a lot more analysis of this.

00:20:04.500 You'll have things such as number of businesses that closed.

00:20:08.300 I don't know how that matches up, you know, per, let's say, per thousand or whatever.

00:20:14.200 And there may be a whole bunch of other things we can measure that have not yet been measured.

00:20:18.800 But at the moment, I would say that Florida was more permissive, California was less permissive

00:20:27.520 in terms of opening up, but they got kind of a similar outcome.

00:20:32.200 Now, if you got a similar outcome, but one took more of your freedom away than the other,

00:20:38.560 which one did a better job?

00:20:41.780 Yeah.

00:20:42.640 All right.

00:20:43.380 If they had a similar outcome, but one of them took your freedom away, it's not even close.

00:20:50.900 Right?

00:20:51.200 It's not even close.

00:20:52.620 Because we do put enough value on freedom, and should, that if you can get that result

00:20:58.700 without taking away people's freedom, you're the winner.

00:21:01.700 I'm sorry.

00:21:02.400 It's not even close.

00:21:04.240 But don't be confused that Florida is just wiping the table in economics and in death rate.

00:21:11.300 That's just not happening.

00:21:13.380 But freedom, freedom, freedom's a big thing.

00:21:19.620 Maple Bob says, it suggests California doesn't know how to manage its citizens' money, should

00:21:25.160 be issuing rebates.

00:21:26.420 Well, it looks like the governor is going to do just that.

00:21:29.020 The governor has said directly, he thinks the money could be better spent by the people,

00:21:33.920 but I think it'll end up being more like COVID relief than it will look like tax rebates,

00:21:39.720 because I don't think anybody's feeling sorry for the rich people who got richer during the

00:21:43.240 pandemic, nor should they.

00:21:46.700 All right.

00:21:48.380 So, are you watching the battle between Geraldo and Dan Bongino, usually on Fox News?

00:21:57.180 I don't think they like each other.

00:22:00.820 I'm starting to get the feeling that if Dan Bongino and Geraldo were in the same room, it

00:22:07.920 could get tense in there.

00:22:08.800 So, Geraldo is calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Palestinian-Hamas situation there.

00:22:17.480 And Dan Bongino, of course, is more on the side of supporting Israel's right to defend

00:22:23.440 itself.

00:22:23.760 And here's the real question.

00:22:28.740 We do know that innocent people are being killed.

00:22:31.300 We know that children are dying in this conflict.

00:22:35.060 Whose fault is it?

00:22:37.380 So, it sounds like Geraldo would say it's the United States' fault, because we're giving

00:22:43.340 weapons to Israel and supporting them, and that it would be Israel's fault plus the United 0.83

00:22:48.620 States.

00:22:48.980 And Dan Bongino, it looks like he would argue that Hamas is bringing it upon themselves.

00:22:57.960 Now, I feel like this one's really obvious.

00:23:03.100 You know, there's lots of room for differences of opinions and lots of things, but I would

00:23:09.220 like to turn this into the poking the bear analogy.

00:23:13.420 Suppose you see a bear that doesn't seem to be too aggressive.

00:23:17.840 You're out taking a walk in the forest, and there's just a bear, and the bear looks at

00:23:23.280 you, but isn't afraid of you and isn't going to attack you, and it's just eating some bear

00:23:28.900 food, whatever bears eat.

00:23:31.200 What do bears eat?

00:23:32.300 I don't know what they eat, but it's eating some bear food in the forest.

00:23:35.780 And you come across the bear, and it doesn't attack you, and you take a stick off a tree,

00:23:40.520 break off a stick, and you walk over to the bear, and you poke it with a stick.

00:23:45.880 And the bear goes, what the hell? 0.74

00:23:48.840 Dude, what the hell? 0.51

00:23:50.660 And then you take your stick again, poke it again. 0.69

00:23:53.320 And then the bear goes,

00:23:54.360 and you take your stick, and you poke it again.

00:23:59.680 And then the bear just kills you.

00:24:02.760 Whose fault was it?

00:24:04.640 Was it the bear's fault? 0.99

00:24:06.640 Because the bear is a murderer.

00:24:08.980 And it's certainly not, I wouldn't say that the killing somebody is equal to poking them

00:24:16.040 with a stick.

00:24:17.720 So I think the bear overreacted.

00:24:20.900 So wouldn't you say it was sort of the bear murdered the stick guy?

00:24:25.140 Right?

00:24:25.920 It's the bear's fault, isn't it?

00:24:27.160 It's completely the bear's fault.

00:24:30.200 Because the bear did the murdering, and that's not even close to being poked with a stick a few times.

00:24:38.520 You see the problem here, right?

00:24:41.140 I always blame the guy who pokes the bear.

00:24:45.600 I'm sorry, I'm never going to change that.

00:24:48.200 If you poke a bear, and the bear kills you, it's your own fault every time.

00:24:55.900 Somebody says, false equivalence.

00:25:01.160 Well, I think that fairness has nothing to do with anything.

00:25:04.920 This is just, Israel is just pursuing its strategic self-interest, which they have every right to do. 0.67

00:25:13.200 Every country does.

00:25:14.200 And strategically, what would be the good reason to stop their military attacks on Hamas right now? 0.98

00:25:27.420 Ryan wants me to find some idiot to ban just to make this more entertaining. 0.98

00:25:32.460 That could happen. 1.00

00:25:33.500 It could happen, Ryan.

00:25:34.260 So, yeah, give me one good reason that strategically, all right?

00:25:39.640 Now, emotionally and morally, ethically, human-wise, there are lots of good reasons to stop killing innocent people, right?

00:25:52.760 From a human perspective, if that's all you were looking at, just, you know, what's the most human thing to do?

00:26:00.000 Stop killing people.

00:26:01.600 But, of course, it's a complicated world, and nobody's killing anybody for fun.

00:26:06.540 They're doing it because there are great forces at work here.

00:26:09.820 But what would be any reason that Israel should stop?

00:26:14.740 Let's talk about a few.

00:26:17.180 Number one, is there odds, is there a chance that this will escalate into a wider conflict?

00:26:26.300 What about the Abraham Accords, the other Arab countries that are or are likely to make peace with Israel in more of a permanent and commercial sense?

00:26:37.740 Do you think that they might withdraw from the agreement and maybe even participate in fighting against Israel?

00:26:48.000 Do you think that's going to happen?

00:26:50.660 Nope.

00:26:51.940 Not without a lot of notice.

00:26:55.080 Don't you think that Israel is having continuous conversations with the Arab countries that are part of the Abraham Accord or might be soon?

00:27:04.160 Don't you think they're talking to them every day, saying, are you okay so far?

00:27:09.740 Are you okay so far?

00:27:10.820 And probably they're saying something like, eh, really uncomfortable with this.

00:27:15.280 Really wish you would stop it.

00:27:17.700 But I kind of see why you're doing it.

00:27:20.780 And we like the Abraham Accords. 0.68

00:27:22.460 I feel as if Israel, if they had, let's say, private warnings from any of the other Arab countries, that they probably would have already stopped.

00:27:35.560 So whatever is happening with these other Arab countries, it's not affecting Israel.

00:27:40.580 So I've got a feeling they're either saying, go ahead, or they're at least not complaining.

00:27:44.680 So I don't see that as a risk.

00:27:45.840 Then there's also a risk that it will extend to, let's say, Hezbollah in Lebanon getting more involved.

00:27:55.960 Now, my understanding is that Hezbollah has a lot of rockets, as in Hezbollah might have somewhere between 40,000 and 100,000 rockets.

00:28:05.900 Some rockets have been coming out of that area toward Israel, but the reporting on that seems to be that that's not Hezbollah.

00:28:14.060 It's rather people who are just Palestinian supporters with what is called artisanal rockets. 0.57

00:28:25.660 Hey, Scott, I'm reading this comment.

00:28:27.440 Just lost my job and my apartment.

00:28:29.860 Got any reasons to live?

00:28:31.160 Because this golden age hasn't gotten to me yet.

00:28:35.520 Well, you may have overpaid for that comment.

00:28:39.800 I don't think you're in a bad situation.

00:28:41.920 I don't know what state you're in if you lost your job and your apartment, but everywhere that I see, there's help wanted adds up.

00:28:49.920 I mean, hiring is great.

00:28:52.300 So good luck for you.

00:28:54.960 But there's a lot of jobs to be had.

00:28:57.160 I think you'll be in good shape.

00:28:58.840 Jobs are not a problem right now, amazingly.

00:29:01.620 All right, so Hamas, let's say if Hezbollah gets involved in the conflict between Israel and Hamas,

00:29:10.360 it doesn't feel like they're itching to do that, does it?

00:29:15.540 Because if Hezbollah wanted to get involved in a big way, they feel like it would happen already, right? 0.85

00:29:22.560 Like why would they wait much longer before they did it?

00:29:26.420 I feel like they would have been in there kind of early, and it seems they obviously don't want that.

00:29:32.180 Because Hezbollah would be quite degraded by Israel if they tried, and it doesn't look like it's going to happen, frankly.

00:29:39.960 And I would also think that that would put more pressure on Iran.

00:29:43.640 It would kill any kind of a nuclear deal Iran wants.

00:29:47.760 So I don't see Hezbollah being a problem, at least without lots of warning.

00:29:53.760 I don't see the other Arab countries pulling out of the Abraham Accords.

00:29:57.900 Again, unless there's lots of warning, then Israel could just stop if the warnings were greater than the benefit they were getting. 0.85

00:30:05.420 So to me, it doesn't make any sense that Israel would stop, which of course has nothing to do with anybody's empathy about innocent people and children dying.

00:30:16.980 Nobody wants that. We're all on the same side.

00:30:19.500 Nobody wants kids to die.

00:30:23.840 But I think you just have to look at this as a strategic decision by Israel, and clearly the right one, clearly the right decision. 0.89

00:30:33.480 I think Hamas is killing their own children for political gain.

00:30:38.460 And if you're dealing with a regime that will kill its own children effectively by drawing fire in the place their children are, 0.66

00:30:47.520 I don't know how much empathy you can give them.

00:30:53.980 Because certainly you can have full empathy for the children.

00:30:57.240 But in terms of the country, they're allowing this situation to exist, and the people there do have the power.

00:31:07.280 I mean, if enough people there wanted this to change, they could.

00:31:11.980 So, and this is not to say that the Palestinians have no legitimate beef.

00:31:17.440 I think they do.

00:31:19.280 Let me say that clearly.

00:31:21.340 The Palestinians, they've got plenty to complain about. 1.00

00:31:24.600 It's not like they have nothing to complain about.

00:31:28.580 But I would personally feel quite willing to listen to all of their complaints if they weren't doing it this way.

00:31:36.280 You know, if the complaints were just brought up as a good argument,

00:31:40.880 and they made the case for it being some kind of apartheid-like situation,

00:31:46.120 it's not apartheid, but if it has any elements that you could say look like that,

00:31:50.460 I think, I'd like to know about that, right?

00:31:55.000 I'd like to know more about that.

00:31:56.320 I'd like to hear their argument.

00:31:57.560 But as long as they're essentially putting their own children into a death zone,

00:32:03.560 I just don't feel like I have to listen to them.

00:32:08.040 So, that's bad persuasion on Hamas' part.

00:32:11.120 Good persuasion so far on Israel's part.

00:32:13.440 And the best thing that Israel has going for it is that the visuals work best for Israel. 0.70

00:32:22.220 So, I think we've all seen at this point some photos of casualties.

00:32:27.960 Let me ask this question.

00:32:29.600 How many of you have seen in the comments,

00:32:33.400 how many of you have watched either video or seen photos of horrible casualties in Gaza?

00:32:43.440 How many of you have seen those photos?

00:32:47.540 Sean says none yet.

00:32:50.260 I'm looking at yes, no, nope.

00:32:52.380 I'll just read down some.

00:32:53.740 Nope, yup, nope, nope.

00:32:56.580 Not lately, yes.

00:32:59.320 Seen and staged.

00:33:00.720 Somebody thinks they're staged.

00:33:01.880 There might be some of them.

00:33:03.360 I have, nope, yes, no, no, no, no, no.

00:33:09.380 Wow.

00:33:11.600 Seriously.

00:33:12.120 Honestly, that many of you who are watching this podcast live

00:33:16.260 have not seen any photo or video of casualties in Gaza.

00:33:22.960 Wow.

00:33:24.200 And it's not that they don't exist.

00:33:26.360 I literally was just looking at some, you know, right before I got on.

00:33:29.920 So there are a couple of things going on here.

00:33:33.280 One is that the media doesn't seem to be focusing on it.

00:33:36.600 But I've noticed that the media doesn't focus on death and destruction and victims nearly as much as it used to.

00:33:44.140 Can anybody confirm that from your own experience?

00:33:47.940 Does it seem to you that the media doesn't show bloody bodies nearly as much as they used to when I was a kid?

00:33:55.140 Is that true?

00:33:56.760 And maybe that's just a decision they don't want to turn off their customers or something.

00:34:00.360 But compare the the lack of attention to the victims to how many videos.

00:34:08.000 Now, let me ask this.

00:34:09.280 How many of you in the comments, how many of you saw videos of the or pictures of the missiles coming into Israel?

00:34:18.720 All right.

00:34:19.200 Now, watch this.

00:34:20.100 How many of you saw at least some video or pictures of the rocket attacks on Israel?

00:34:27.560 Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

00:34:29.520 Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

00:34:31.520 Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

00:34:33.860 I'm just reading the comments.

00:34:35.680 I did.

00:34:36.360 Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

00:34:37.620 All yeses.

00:34:39.140 So here's my point.

00:34:41.140 If I've told you a million times, visual persuasion is the one that matters.

00:34:47.340 After fear.

00:34:48.160 Fear is always your top persuasion.

00:34:51.020 But if you're thousands of miles away in another country, you don't have an immediate fear.

00:34:57.460 You might be afraid for friends or whatever in Israel, but it's not an immediate personal fear.

00:35:03.140 Then the visual element is going to be the most persuasive.

00:35:07.680 And Israel, either by luck or design, I'm guessing design, but it could be luck, has the visual advantage.

00:35:18.160 Tons of pictures of rockets being launched, which scares you.

00:35:23.600 If you look at that many rockets being launched into a different city, do you have any way of not putting yourself in the picture and imagining living in a city where you look up and there are thousands of rockets?

00:35:37.400 Maybe not at your city, maybe not at your city, but at your country, thousands of rockets coming your way as civilian sites?

00:35:46.540 Thousands.

00:35:49.380 This isn't even close.

00:35:51.680 The visual advantage is Israel's. 0.95

00:35:54.640 Now, of course, they also took out the AP building, right, in Gaza.

00:35:58.760 Did taking out the AP building reduce the number of photos of casualties?

00:36:06.000 I don't know, but I'll bet it did.

00:36:09.700 I'll bet there are fewer photos of casualties because the AP building got bombed, you know, either directly or indirectly.

00:36:17.180 Maybe somebody doesn't want to take that picture anymore.

00:36:20.460 So don't poke the eagle.

00:36:24.220 That's funny.

00:36:25.020 That was a comment, somebody said.

00:36:28.820 All right, let's look at AOC.

00:36:33.560 So AOC apparently owns its reported.

00:36:37.240 How likely is this true?

00:36:40.140 So let's see if this is true because I got a feeling this one feels a little bit too on the nose too, right?

00:36:47.180 But it could be true.

00:36:48.600 And it's the report that AOC owns a Tesla and parked it illegally in front of the Whole Foods that's connected to her luxury apartment building.

00:36:58.500 Now, that's a little too on the nose, isn't it?

00:37:02.960 But at least it's a Tesla, right?

00:37:05.820 Maybe too on the nose would have been a gas-guzzling SUV. 0.93

00:37:09.840 If she had an SUV gas power, that would have been worse, I suppose. 0.97

00:37:14.320 But let's say it's true.

00:37:15.620 Let's just work through this at the moment.

00:37:19.020 Do we all remember that when she got elected, she complained that she didn't even have enough money to get to Washington and get an apartment?

00:37:27.640 That the amount that they pay them to be a representative really isn't enough to own a Tesla and have a luxury apartment, is it?

00:37:40.460 If your only finances are coming from being in Congress as a representative,

00:37:49.540 can you afford a Tesla and to live in a good neighborhood with a Whole Foods attached to it?

00:37:55.840 Because my sense of economics is no.

00:38:03.000 Yeah, my sense of economics is no, that you can't.

00:38:07.640 So, at what point do we ask where her money comes from? 0.86

00:38:13.460 It's a fair question, isn't it?

00:38:15.000 If you have an elected representative who you knew was dirt poor two years ago,

00:38:20.960 but today she's living in a luxury apartment.

00:38:23.900 I don't know how luxury it is, really.

00:38:25.660 It's probably not that luxury.

00:38:27.700 And she has, I think, a low-end, you know, the low-end Tesla.

00:38:33.500 Is there a question?

00:38:34.640 Somebody says she makes $200,000 a year, and it's, I don't know that that's enough.

00:38:42.840 Is it?

00:38:44.740 But it's a question.

00:38:46.180 So she may be living a little bit above her means and have a loan on the car and making it work. 1.00

00:38:52.820 But I don't know if she gets paid for speeches. 0.99

00:38:54.740 If she got paid for speeches, she'd be fine.

00:38:58.340 Because, you know, two speeches and she's doubled her income. 1.00

00:39:04.060 Yes, that's what I thought.

00:39:05.540 $200,000 a year is very small amounts in some cities.

00:39:10.260 All right.

00:39:10.900 Let's talk about systemic racism for a minute.

00:39:14.560 So, did you know, I only know this because I saw a tweet from Denisha Merriweather,

00:39:23.540 who is an organizer of Black Minds Matter.

00:39:28.880 Hashtag Black Minds Matter.

00:39:30.900 Here's a statistic that just blew me away.

00:39:35.080 Just listen to this.

00:39:37.760 Only 15 out of 100 black students read on grade level.

00:39:43.020 Well, 15 out of 100 can read at grade level.

00:39:49.760 Only 13 out of 100 black students do math on grade level.

00:39:54.940 13.

00:39:57.600 Only 9 out of 100 black students performed on grade level in civics.

00:40:05.920 Now, this comes from the National Assessment of Education Progress.

00:40:09.200 So, apparently, there's sort of a dashboard of education statistics.

00:40:14.420 So, this is a credible statistic by the people who do these statistics.

00:40:19.840 Now, I knew it was bad.

00:40:24.020 We all knew it was bad, right?

00:40:26.360 Did you know it was this bad?

00:40:28.800 Because I didn't.

00:40:30.520 I mean, I already thought it was the biggest problem in the country.

00:40:33.280 And I didn't know it was this bad.

00:40:36.300 I mean, I've been talking about this and writing about it and tweeting about it

00:40:40.360 and, you know, being active and trying to figure out how to get more school choice,

00:40:46.320 primarily to help poor people and, in particular,

00:40:50.220 black and brown people who don't have the same advantages.

00:40:53.020 And I had no idea it was this bad.

00:40:56.520 And somebody's saying it's worse in some places.

00:40:59.620 Yeah.

00:40:59.940 I mean, this is the average.

00:41:02.740 Imagine how bad it is in a bad place.

00:41:05.200 This is the average.

00:41:07.640 The average.

00:41:09.620 My God.

00:41:11.520 And the fact that this is, I guess, a credible set of statistics,

00:41:17.660 and this isn't our biggest issue in the country,

00:41:21.600 how is this not the biggest thing we're talking about?

00:41:25.740 So, you know, you wonder why I identify as black

00:41:29.340 and why I talk about the school system

00:41:32.760 and the teachers' unions, in particular,

00:41:35.680 being the source of systemic racism.

00:41:38.440 Thank you, Jeff.

00:41:42.440 How is this not our biggest problem?

00:41:44.780 I mean, seriously.

00:41:45.620 All of our other problems are big,

00:41:50.560 but they seem to have enough energy that people are working on them, right?

00:41:54.440 So you could argue, okay, but climate change is a bigger problem,

00:41:57.700 but I would argue that there's so much energy working on it,

00:42:00.680 we'll figure that out.

00:42:02.180 But where is the energy working on this,

00:42:04.800 on this biggest problem?

00:42:08.180 This is like low-hanging fruit.

00:42:09.900 It's the most, let's say, solvable problem

00:42:15.160 that I've ever heard of.

00:42:17.760 Because it's not as if we don't know how to make a good school, right?

00:42:22.080 We know how to make a good school.

00:42:24.380 I'm pretty sure we know how a parent can figure out

00:42:27.480 how to send their kid to that good school.

00:42:29.380 The fact that we're failing on something we know how to do

00:42:33.120 and is devastating the black community for generations to come 1.00

00:42:38.000 is completely unconscionable.

00:42:41.220 And as offended as I have been by this inequity for a long time,

00:42:48.060 I've never been quite as offended as I am this morning

00:42:50.720 because I've never seen the statistics this stark.

00:42:55.920 I mean, it's crazy.

00:42:58.800 This should be our top thing.

00:43:01.880 You know, if we ever had a Republican

00:43:04.300 who just gave these statistics and said,

00:43:07.380 look, here's the deal, I know you think I'm Hitler,

00:43:09.860 I'm just going to fix this.

00:43:12.900 President.

00:43:14.300 President, right?

00:43:15.600 Let me say it again.

00:43:17.720 A Republican candidate for president

00:43:19.700 who just says, you know,

00:43:21.500 we've got lots of talk about racism, systemic racism.

00:43:24.760 It's all important.

00:43:27.220 But I'll tell you what.

00:43:28.440 I'm just going to fix this.

00:43:30.500 Here are the statistics. 0.68

00:43:31.800 15 out of 100 black students can't read on grade level. 0.87

00:43:35.480 I'm going to fix that. 0.98

00:43:38.700 You can argue all day long that I'm Hitler.

00:43:42.060 You can argue all day long what's unfair, what's fair,

00:43:45.420 who has too many or not enough people

00:43:47.480 of what kind of color and what kind of jobs.

00:43:49.700 You can argue that all day long. 0.99

00:43:52.060 I don't give a fuck. 0.99

00:43:55.420 I'm only going to fix one thing. 0.99

00:43:57.800 Just one thing.

00:43:59.160 It just happens to be the most important thing

00:44:02.280 by 10 to 1.

00:44:05.400 And all the rest of you,

00:44:06.760 you can argue about critical race theory

00:44:08.840 and systemic racism

00:44:10.040 and how many people work in everything.

00:44:13.000 That's all you.

00:44:14.580 I'm just going to fix one thing.

00:44:16.780 President.

00:44:18.020 You couldn't lose with that message.

00:44:21.000 I don't think.

00:44:21.920 I mean, you would have to be completely defective

00:44:24.440 in every other way to lose with this message.

00:44:26.600 Here's a fun thing.

00:44:32.420 So I heard this from Twitter user Greg Sully,

00:44:36.340 who tweeted a whole bunch of interesting things about energy

00:44:39.560 that I had never heard before.

00:44:41.900 Now, some of them may not come to fruition,

00:44:45.020 but here's the one that's the most fun.

00:44:48.020 He pointed to, Greg pointed to,

00:44:50.460 an article about an experiment conducted

00:44:53.080 by this scientist, Robert Murray Smith,

00:44:56.700 who took the waste from cannabis,

00:45:00.260 the part you don't smoke,

00:45:01.720 you know, the stalks and the stems

00:45:03.860 and the stuff you don't want to put in your pipe,

00:45:05.560 and he did some kind of science on it

00:45:09.200 to determine that it could be a more efficient battery

00:45:13.600 if you do the right processing with the hemp,

00:45:17.420 that the hemp cells are significantly better than lithium,

00:45:21.460 like way better, like not even close.

00:45:25.460 Now, it would take a long time to, you know,

00:45:29.100 engineer it so you could actually be sure

00:45:31.480 that you could make a battery and it would last

00:45:33.440 and didn't have some problems you didn't anticipate

00:45:35.980 and all that.

00:45:36.780 So it's nowhere near commercial,

00:45:39.380 but it's out there.

00:45:42.340 Is there anything marijuana can't do?

00:45:44.940 I'm starting to wonder.

00:45:47.260 So imagine, if you will,

00:45:49.780 and I think he only used hemp as an example.

00:45:52.180 It has more to do with the fact

00:45:53.480 that there are some plants in general

00:45:55.460 that you could do this with.

00:45:57.140 But what if this is true?

00:46:02.020 What if it's true

00:46:03.180 that you could make hemp batteries

00:46:06.100 that would be way better than normal batteries?

00:46:09.640 It would change everything.

00:46:11.660 Now, the thing with batteries...

00:46:17.360 Oh, I'm seeing Brian says

00:46:20.420 that the statistics on black education

00:46:24.340 seems to be... 1.00

00:46:25.940 Damn it. 0.99

00:46:27.600 Seems to be a misinterpretation. 0.99

00:46:30.420 But I don't quite understand the point of that.

00:46:32.380 But just take that as a comment.

00:46:35.040 There might be some misinterpretation

00:46:37.000 of what that data means.

00:46:38.760 But I still think it's in the range.

00:46:41.040 Right?

00:46:41.380 I mean, directionally,

00:46:43.140 I don't think it's that far off.

00:46:44.940 But it's a good point.

00:46:47.300 What happens if battery storage

00:46:50.520 keeps getting better?

00:46:51.380 Now, one of the things that sneaks up on you

00:46:54.580 is that if something is just sort of

00:46:56.940 improving every year,

00:46:59.120 your brain says,

00:47:00.160 oh, that's good.

00:47:01.280 It'll be just like last year,

00:47:02.940 but a little bit better.

00:47:04.580 So you'll think,

00:47:05.480 oh, my cell phone and my cell phone battery

00:47:09.120 will last 20 hours instead of 18.

00:47:12.540 That's good.

00:47:13.480 And next year,

00:47:14.500 maybe 25 hours.

00:47:15.880 Yeah.

00:47:16.740 Batteries are getting better.

00:47:17.660 But here's the thing

00:47:20.280 that sneaks up on you.

00:47:22.440 At some point,

00:47:24.540 batteries are good enough

00:47:26.060 that everything changes.

00:47:29.080 And we're creeping up

00:47:31.060 to the everything changes point.

00:47:33.380 And by everything changes,

00:47:35.000 I mean,

00:47:35.980 you just won't have

00:47:37.720 gasoline-powered cars.

00:47:39.400 It just won't make sense.

00:47:40.620 But when I say everything,

00:47:43.740 I'm talking also about electric bikes.

00:47:48.060 I know I talk too much

00:47:49.660 about my electric bike,

00:47:51.580 but if you have not ridden

00:47:53.520 an electric bike,

00:47:55.580 you've got to ride one

00:47:57.200 at least around the parking lot.

00:47:59.160 Because I told you

00:47:59.880 that the sales job

00:48:01.800 when I bought my electric bike,

00:48:03.740 I said,

00:48:04.120 hey, I'm interested in an electric bike.

00:48:06.360 Can I take a test ride?

00:48:07.540 And the guy says,

00:48:09.620 yeah, you can just ride around

00:48:11.040 in the parking lot.

00:48:11.880 It was a big parking lot.

00:48:12.820 So I take the bike,

00:48:14.020 ride around the parking lot

00:48:15.140 for 40 seconds.

00:48:18.940 I come back,

00:48:20.220 and I say,

00:48:20.980 I'll take it.

00:48:22.640 And the guy laughs,

00:48:23.900 and he goes,

00:48:24.540 you have the e-bike smile.

00:48:27.700 And apparently,

00:48:28.500 everybody who takes the e-bike

00:48:29.880 into the parking lot

00:48:30.900 and tests it

00:48:31.720 comes back

00:48:32.940 with a smile on their face

00:48:34.600 that they can't get off

00:48:35.600 and says,

00:48:36.140 I'll take it.

00:48:37.540 The things sell themselves.

00:48:40.460 You could not try less

00:48:43.140 to sell this bike

00:48:44.420 and still succeed.

00:48:45.580 I mean,

00:48:45.860 does that make sense?

00:48:47.180 You know,

00:48:47.500 they just sell themselves.

00:48:49.680 So,

00:48:50.780 and where I live,

00:48:52.160 there's an explosion of them.

00:48:53.680 You see them everywhere.

00:48:54.840 So the change is,

00:48:55.820 you know,

00:48:56.140 how far you can go

00:48:57.060 on a bicycle completely.

00:48:59.320 You know,

00:48:59.580 you could not,

00:49:01.580 you would not reasonably expect

00:49:03.300 somebody

00:49:03.840 who doesn't want to be sweaty

00:49:05.900 to ride a bike to work,

00:49:08.080 right?

00:49:09.360 Because you ride a bike to work,

00:49:10.900 you're all sweaty,

00:49:12.120 you know,

00:49:12.320 maybe you're wearing

00:49:13.720 your work clothes.

00:49:15.020 But you could ride an e-bike

00:49:16.560 10 miles to work,

00:49:19.120 you wouldn't be sweating.

00:49:20.380 It'd be easy.

00:49:21.680 But also,

00:49:22.600 airplanes.

00:49:23.460 We're right at the edge.

00:49:25.500 We're getting there.

00:49:26.500 I think just a few more years,

00:49:28.040 maybe less than three,

00:49:29.640 at which point

00:49:30.980 you can have an electric

00:49:32.160 battery-powered aircraft.

00:49:35.780 And then,

00:49:36.960 it really gets fun.

00:49:38.520 Because then you've got

00:49:39.340 self-powered,

00:49:40.900 or self-navigating,

00:49:44.200 electric-powered,

00:49:45.820 personal aircraft.

00:49:48.960 Guaranteed.

00:49:50.080 If electric batteries

00:49:51.400 just keep improving,

00:49:52.840 and we expect they will,

00:49:54.520 you will have flying cars.

00:49:56.820 And it's not very far away.

00:49:58.200 Now, the problem

00:50:00.020 is the social part

00:50:01.240 of keeping them

00:50:02.300 from crashing,

00:50:03.280 and you put a parachute

00:50:04.260 on them,

00:50:05.320 testing them,

00:50:06.360 and all that.

00:50:06.940 But technology-wise,

00:50:08.600 we're right there.

00:50:10.940 We're right at the point

00:50:12.160 of flying cars.

00:50:15.060 And that is really cool.

00:50:17.400 All right.

00:50:18.020 I think I had a few more things

00:50:19.480 that I want to talk about here.

00:50:21.580 But apparently,

00:50:22.740 I don't.

00:50:23.280 That looks like everything

00:50:24.120 I wanted to say.

00:50:24.780 And what would happen

00:50:30.620 also if you could

00:50:32.920 store electricity

00:50:34.320 at your house

00:50:35.480 and it was cheap?

00:50:37.080 Because right now

00:50:37.840 you have the solar batteries,

00:50:39.700 like the Tesla battery,

00:50:41.200 and other companies too,

00:50:42.800 where you can put the battery

00:50:44.180 on your house,

00:50:45.700 charge it up with your wind

00:50:48.280 and your solar power,

00:50:50.940 and then you've got

00:50:52.720 enough electricity

00:50:54.360 for the evening.

00:50:55.860 So,

00:50:56.600 could it be

00:50:57.340 that the improvement

00:50:58.640 in battery storage

00:50:59.880 will make

00:51:00.480 nuclear energy

00:51:02.540 less essential?

00:51:05.340 Because the big problem

00:51:06.360 with solar and wind

00:51:07.680 is that they're

00:51:08.780 not all the time.

00:51:10.520 But,

00:51:11.100 if you put a battery

00:51:12.040 at your house 0.98

00:51:12.840 where you can suck up 0.99

00:51:14.540 all the green energy

00:51:15.700 during the day

00:51:16.460 and then just unleash it

00:51:17.880 at night,

00:51:18.320 maybe,

00:51:21.140 maybe,

00:51:22.500 your need

00:51:23.260 for nuclear power

00:51:26.500 goes way down.

00:51:27.960 How big a deal

00:51:28.780 would that be?

00:51:30.000 Now,

00:51:30.520 I think we still need

00:51:31.440 a robust

00:51:32.160 nuclear energy program,

00:51:34.320 both domestic

00:51:35.220 and nuclear,

00:51:36.380 both domestic

00:51:37.120 and military,

00:51:38.000 because we're going

00:51:38.880 to need it

00:51:39.340 to occupy space.

00:51:42.340 I don't think

00:51:42.940 you're going to do

00:51:43.580 space travel

00:51:44.240 with a battery,

00:51:45.660 but maybe,

00:51:46.180 maybe you can't do

00:51:47.680 space travel

00:51:48.580 with a battery.

00:51:49.300 What do I know?

00:51:55.300 Yes,

00:51:55.780 it will be

00:51:56.160 a long time

00:51:56.960 before nuclear

00:51:58.900 could ever

00:51:59.620 become unnecessary.

00:52:01.280 But you,

00:52:01.580 but you can see

00:52:02.180 how that crossover

00:52:03.000 point could happen

00:52:04.260 and it could happen

00:52:04.940 easily in,

00:52:06.700 I don't know,

00:52:07.080 20 years,

00:52:07.900 maybe.

00:52:08.700 Maybe 20 years.

00:52:11.620 How much power

00:52:12.480 in an F-150?

00:52:13.460 Good point.

00:52:13.900 So Ford is

00:52:14.780 making their

00:52:15.880 F-150,

00:52:17.860 the most popular

00:52:18.740 truck,

00:52:19.200 I believe,

00:52:20.240 electric.

00:52:21.440 And that's

00:52:21.840 quite a statement

00:52:23.300 right there.

00:52:29.040 You want nuclear

00:52:30.220 windmills,

00:52:30.940 somebody says.

00:52:33.480 All right.

00:52:35.260 Oh,

00:52:35.680 let's talk about

00:52:36.260 UFOs.

00:52:37.200 How did I forget

00:52:37.900 that?

00:52:38.580 So I was watching

00:52:39.220 Tucker Carlson

00:52:40.640 last night,

00:52:42.260 and other people

00:52:43.060 as well,

00:52:43.420 and apparently

00:52:44.320 the government,

00:52:45.300 the government

00:52:46.060 is now saying

00:52:46.820 unequivocally

00:52:47.700 that there have

00:52:49.380 been UFO sightings

00:52:51.000 almost every day

00:52:52.660 in classified

00:52:54.700 territory,

00:52:55.680 I guess,

00:52:56.680 for the past

00:52:57.680 year.

00:52:58.980 Almost every

00:52:59.880 day.

00:53:01.300 Now,

00:53:02.060 I'm going to

00:53:03.020 stick with my

00:53:04.160 prediction

00:53:04.540 because I like

00:53:06.500 to do that.

00:53:07.440 My prediction

00:53:08.160 is that even

00:53:09.960 though there's

00:53:10.520 a UFO

00:53:11.060 UFO every

00:53:12.140 single day

00:53:13.240 or close

00:53:14.220 to it,

00:53:15.580 we're never

00:53:17.200 going to

00:53:17.500 confirm that

00:53:18.260 they're from

00:53:18.680 another planet.

00:53:20.700 So I'm going

00:53:21.560 to stick with

00:53:22.080 that.

00:53:23.020 Now,

00:53:23.840 will we

00:53:24.460 confirm that

00:53:25.180 there's something

00:53:25.800 happening that

00:53:27.160 is an object

00:53:27.840 that has an

00:53:29.180 Earth origin?

00:53:29.840 it looks

00:53:31.620 likely because

00:53:33.880 if you have

00:53:34.400 it every

00:53:35.660 day and

00:53:36.420 people are

00:53:36.780 seeing it

00:53:37.120 with their

00:53:37.400 eyes,

00:53:38.440 apparently,

00:53:39.120 and they're

00:53:39.540 seeing it

00:53:39.900 with their

00:53:40.420 instruments

00:53:41.600 also,

00:53:42.520 I would

00:53:44.240 say

00:53:44.580 there's a

00:53:46.280 good chance

00:53:46.680 there's

00:53:46.860 something out

00:53:47.320 there,

00:53:47.780 but I

00:53:48.360 would guess

00:53:48.860 drones and

00:53:50.700 some combination

00:53:52.060 of optical

00:53:53.840 illusions and

00:53:54.960 stuff,

00:53:55.660 or birds or

00:53:56.560 something,

00:53:57.800 I believe

00:53:59.320 that will

00:53:59.820 effectively be

00:54:01.160 everything.

00:54:02.540 What is the

00:54:03.480 risk of

00:54:04.000 mass absorbing

00:54:04.740 wind and

00:54:05.200 solar energy?

00:54:07.360 Absorbing it.

00:54:08.220 is there a

00:54:10.520 risk from

00:54:11.080 absorbing too

00:54:12.200 much energy

00:54:12.740 from the

00:54:13.160 sun or

00:54:14.100 from the

00:54:14.460 wind?

00:54:14.800 I don't

00:54:15.040 know that

00:54:15.360 that is a

00:54:15.820 risk.

00:54:16.720 I've never

00:54:17.100 heard of

00:54:17.320 that.

00:54:19.340 How much

00:54:20.060 are e-bikes?

00:54:21.180 Somebody

00:54:21.620 asks.

00:54:23.060 Too much,

00:54:24.380 like 1,500

00:54:25.380 to 4,000,

00:54:26.920 all kinds of

00:54:27.660 ranges.

00:54:29.540 Oh,

00:54:30.100 Chris,

00:54:30.400 you like the

00:54:30.840 new narration

00:54:31.440 and how to

00:54:32.000 fail?

00:54:33.020 Thank you.

00:54:36.980 Just looking

00:54:37.700 at a few,

00:54:38.800 yeah,

00:54:39.160 and you

00:54:39.380 have to

00:54:39.620 wonder why

00:54:39.980 the government

00:54:40.460 was denying

00:54:41.240 it for so

00:54:41.860 long,

00:54:42.320 as someone

00:54:43.080 said in

00:54:43.440 the comments.

00:54:46.900 Was the

00:54:47.540 narration free?

00:54:49.560 I don't know

00:54:50.120 what you mean

00:54:50.520 by that.

00:54:51.640 If you're

00:54:52.120 talking about

00:54:52.660 my book,

00:54:54.620 they do pay

00:54:55.600 the person

00:54:56.120 who does

00:54:56.560 the voice

00:54:56.940 recording,

00:54:57.860 so I got

00:54:58.460 a small

00:54:59.380 check for

00:54:59.920 voice recording.

00:55:06.460 Motorcycle is

00:55:07.100 better than

00:55:07.500 an e-bike?

00:55:08.160 It depends

00:55:08.900 what your

00:55:09.580 application is.

00:55:11.740 I would say

00:55:12.120 that the

00:55:12.540 e-bike is

00:55:13.440 as fun as

00:55:14.280 a motorcycle

00:55:14.860 and can

00:55:16.660 go a lot

00:55:17.060 of places.

00:55:19.120 Kevin says

00:55:20.100 aliens are

00:55:20.940 our future

00:55:21.440 self punching

00:55:22.880 through time.

00:55:26.060 What is

00:55:26.820 more likely,

00:55:27.600 aliens coming 1.00

00:55:28.360 or some

00:55:29.480 other dimension

00:55:30.300 or us

00:55:31.180 going through

00:55:31.800 time?

00:55:32.560 I don't think

00:55:33.300 it's going to

00:55:33.580 be any of

00:55:34.040 those.

00:55:34.280 I think

00:55:34.980 it's going

00:55:35.280 to be

00:55:35.460 earthly

00:55:36.060 descriptions

00:55:36.740 and someday

00:55:38.120 we might

00:55:38.540 know.

00:55:39.740 Do I use

00:55:40.240 hypnotizing

00:55:41.040 techniques in

00:55:41.900 my book?

00:55:42.560 Yes, I do.

00:55:43.800 In the sense

00:55:44.740 that good

00:55:45.520 writing is

00:55:47.000 also good

00:55:47.780 persuasion

00:55:48.440 and persuasion

00:55:49.840 being the

00:55:50.960 larger topic

00:55:52.900 that hypnosis

00:55:53.600 is in.

00:55:54.140 dementia is

00:56:00.780 more likely.

00:56:03.800 All right.

00:56:05.820 Special access

00:56:06.920 programs.

00:56:08.060 I think it's

00:56:08.540 a trick.

00:56:09.740 Yeah, I

00:56:10.220 wouldn't believe

00:56:10.780 that we're

00:56:11.080 being visited

00:56:11.960 by aliens,

00:56:13.020 but we'll

00:56:13.920 find out.

00:56:14.860 And I will

00:56:15.540 talk to you

00:56:16.320 tomorrow.

00:56:17.800 tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 20, 2021

Episode 1381 Scott Adams： Hamas Versus Israel Persuasion War, California Versus Florida, Lightfoot Versus White People

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