Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 20, 2021


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


Episode Stats

Length

56 minutes

Words per Minute

142.31158

Word Count

8,012

Sentence Count

574

Misogynist Sentences

12

Hate Speech Sentences

14


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.760 Hey everybody, come on in. It's time for Coffee with Scott Adams.
00:00:06.340 And let me tell you, my printer is working perfectly today.
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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
00:02:55.840 and they've got a solid opinion, everything you hear until then, probably bullshit.
00:03:04.160 Probably.
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.
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.
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.
00:11:04.940 The funniest, most ridiculous story of the day is Lori Lightfoot, who's mayor in Chicago,
00:11:16.720 has said that she's only going to accept one-on-one interviews from black or brown journalists.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
00:23:48.840 Dude, what the hell?
00:23:50.660 And then you take your stick again, poke it again.
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?
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.
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?
00:25:27.420 Ryan wants me to find some idiot to ban just to make this more entertaining.
00:25:32.460 That could happen.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
00:37:09.840 If she had an SUV gas power, that would have been worse, I suppose.
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?
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.
00:38:52.820 But I don't know if she gets paid for speeches.
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.
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
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.
00:43:31.800 15 out of 100 black students can't read on grade level.
00:43:35.480 I'm going to fix that.
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.
00:43:52.060 I don't give a fuck.
00:43:55.420 I'm only going to fix one thing.
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...
00:46:25.940 Damn it.
00:46:27.600 Seems to be a misinterpretation.
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
00:51:12.840 where you can suck up
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
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.